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@happytwolaffs6454
The insurrection....LOL. This is the right, the supporters of the 2nd Amendment and open carry, who had an insurrection and NO ONE thought to bring their "sacred" guns with them. NOT one gun was brought into the Capitol Building during this "rebellion against democracy". It's been 6 months and there still has been no leadership or chain of command revealed, no real "battle" plan or methodology of a takeover....nothing at all. But they did find a lot of selfies and have arrested a lot of people, including little old ladies who were walking around, inside the building, honouring the velvet ropes that are there for tourists.
The current administration has used, the stupidity of a bunch of hotheads, to further whittle away the rights of people by increased surveillance of those who may have tweeted things or made Facebook comments which might indicate right wing or conservative support. Political surveillance to keep a lookout for political dissenters, including the police and the military, ostensibly to ensure loyalty to the party in the armed forces.
This was the lamest insurrection in history. To put it bluntly, the administration and the MSM used the actions of a bunch of upset and stupid people to spin a narrative to further their own agenda and YOU'RE falling for it.
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@ShadowKatt
And you WON'T debate it. YOU'RE correct and should never be questioned, challenged or disagreed with.
People are still individuals, EVEN your children. They will think, do and say what they will as part of their struggle to assert their newfound maturity. I know of a family where 6, out of 7, of the kids are all hard working, some a little religious and have raised wonderful kids. One daughter, the second child of the 7, has had drug and alcohol issues, been in and out of jail, worked as a hooker, has been in religious cults, and the rest of the family looks on in complete confusion and dismay. I know that they had good parents because those parents are my parents and that sister is MY sister.
One of the cruelest things that you can do when parents are going through hell, with their children, is to tell them that it's ALL their fault. It's a blanket assumption and doesn't look at individual situations.
It's so easy to sit in judgement of others, even when you don't know them.
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@shawnski001
When people find out that you're watching Rebel Media, they lose their minds. I don't agree with everything they say, on principle, but they show me things that I need to hear to get a full perspective. The regular media, in Canada, might be worse than the American media and it's awful. When a retired bartender, living in a basement apartment, in another country, can find the real clip of the Covington kids in ten minutes, proving that CNN and their ilk are lying.....NOT WRONG, but lying, that proves that the media, in both countries, are completely corrupt.
Thank God for sites like this and Rebel Media.
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You're just unbelievable. Beyond it. How is it possible that a person could be that intentionally obtuse as to call Andy Ngo a Fascist. You don't even know what it is.
Antifa stages riots, in Portland, for over 120 days in a row....that's FOUR MONTHS of continuous rioting. Patriot Prayer shows up for one day and it's the end of the world for people. You really don't have a clue.
Now, before you accuse ME of being Fascist, I'm not a big fan of either Patriot Prayer or the Proud Boys. They're playing silly games. However to equate them with Antifa and their violence is so stupid that you have to be lying about it. I have to add that REAL Fascists nearly starved my mother to death during WW2 and put my uncle in a Jewish detention camp, until they found out he wasn't Jewish and put him in a POW camp until the war ended. I have no love for Fascists.
Also, do you know what the East German government called the Berlin Wall? They called it the "Antifaschistischer Schutzwall" which translate to English as the "Anti-Fascist Protection Rampart". Antifa is short for "Anti-Fascist". The East Germans would stand on that "Rampart" and shoot to kill any East German that tried to leave East Germany. You see, they thought that EVERYONE in the west was a Fascist, exactly what the members of Antifa in the US believe. Everyone, that's not them or doesn't believe in their Marxist agenda, is a Fascist. That's almost EVERY American.
You're either a Marxist or you're as delusional as they get.
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@Henry James
It was an example. Don't be intentionally obtuse. It's NOT a good look.
When someone is allowed to speak, without interruption, that person is setting out his case, unfettered so their ideas are completely exposed, to all of us, in the best way that they know how. That is also an exchange of ideas. Ideas, born in their brain, verbally expressed, so I can allow it to enter into my brain. That's an exchange of ideas, too.
If I wanted to hear two people yelling over each other, and even see people stomping off in anger, I'll watch MSM where you hear nothing but anger and the only thing that enters your brain is a cacophony of noise. Not for me. I want the ideas to be expressed articulately, without interruption and rancour, just like this video was. I don't even have to agree with them but at least I know what I'm disagreeing with.
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@Mordalo
So what if the story of the Exodus isn't true? The story's setting was around 1250 BC. The Jews were known to be in Judah around 500 BC. It's known that exiled Jews were allowed to return to their homeland by the Persian King, Cyrus the great, in 538 BC. That implies that Cyrus KNEW that this was the Jewish homeland for quite awhile BEFORE that. Split the time of the Exodus, which may not be true to the time of the return from Persia and we're looking at a time of at least 900 BC in which the Jews lived in what is now known as Israel. After the Babylonian exile, the Jews were there from the time of Cyrus, 538 BC, to the Jewish diaspora that took place during Roman rule, from 70 to 135 AD.
Also, the modern Palestinian problem is ALL about religion. If the Jews all converted to Islam, the problem would be solved. All the other religions in the area, the Christians, the Druze and the Jews are all good with the state of Israel. It's only the Muslims that have a problem with it. That's how the lines of conflict are drawn.
You've skipped a HUGE part of their history.
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@LikeGod_ButBetterLooking
So, when Obama and Hillary Clinton claimed that there was election fraud, back in 2005, they were either Nazis or enablers of Nazis? When the Democrats claimed that the Russians and Trump, committed election fraud, they were being Nazis and Nazi enablers?
You can't have it both ways. By your logic, Obama is, at best, a Nazi enabler as is Hillary, Adam Schiff, Pelosi and Donald Trump. In fact, the majority of our government are all Nazis. A poorly thought out argument.
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You're now resorting to gossip, huh. Well, this historian you speak of, Niall Ferguson, separated from his wife in 2010. He then started dating Ali. One year later, they got married and they have a son that was born in December of 2011, long after Ferguson had split up with his wife. If you're a Muslim, divorce is perfectly acceptable and allowed as well as getting remarried. So, all you're doing is engaging in gossip, the activity of the small and mean minded.
As for being a coward. She spent years under threat of murder from Muslim radicals. She had to go into hiding and still has to be careful about making her whereabouts known to the general public. If she ever went back to Somalia, she'd be killed and YOU know it. That's not being a coward. That's being smart.
As for helping people, she's wrote books showing that a religion, culture, skin colour and gender shouldn't stop a person from becoming their own person, an individual with freedom of thought and expression. When she took an aptitude test in the Netherlands to see what she was best suited to work at, she was told that she should become an office worker. She didn't want that and said that she wanted to study political science. She was told that she would only get funding if she studied secretarial type jobs and if she wanted to study political science, she'd have to pay for it herself. So she did just that. She worked and studied and attained a degree in Political Science. Then she became a member of parliament in the Dutch government.
Your problem is rather obvious to see through. You're a Muslim and you're one of those who think that any criticism of Islam is blasphemy and should be punished, even killed. If not a Muslim, one of the extreme liberal left, who isn't much different. The kind that thinks that anyone who doesn't agree with them 100 percent is a despicable person and shouldn't be allowed to speak and you'll use any means possible to denigrate including childish gossip.
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@mantistoboggan5171
You just watched a video, hosted by a gay Jew and who is married to a man. He believes in abortion rights and equality and yet he's friends with many people who are Christian and Conservative, like Mike Huckabee. He's even been to his place for dinner, with his husband. Huckabee....a very conservative Christian.
Yet Dave Rubin isn't the only one. Charlie Kirk, another Conservative Christian, who said that his religion tells him that homosexual behaviour is wrong, yet he still loves and respects Dave Rubin as a human being.
Then there's Blair White, who's a trans Conservative. Broadcaster and lesbian, Tammy Bruce.....another Conservative and gets no flack for being a lesbian.
That's the big problem with people like you. You can't distinguish between an act and a person. I can believe that drinking, to excess, is wrong without hating someone who does just that. You're of the opinion that I have to hate the person and that there is no separation between the person and the act.
You do EXACTLY what James Lindsey said. You make assumptions based on what others have told and never have sat down and tried to have a conversation with those who you paint as demons. It's as if the left fears being contaminated with conservative words. Yet, all through human history, people have honoured the past and their ancestors. Now all we hear is how evil they are.
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@gevansmd1
Then FIX the political system that seemingly REFUSES to improve the quality of education of the inner city schools. Don't discriminate against those, the Asians as an example, who are not at fault for the discriminating attitudes of those who are in charge of education. Your plan is to fix discrimination, based on race, is to discriminate based on race.
Asians are wealthier because they study and work harder and make wise life decisions. Japanese Americans lost everything, during WW2, yet they worked their way back to success within a generation, even though other Americans hated them because of what Japan did. Now, people, like you, are chastising them for working hard for success. American students of Nigerian and Ghanaian heritage are doing extremely well. Should Harvard discriminate against them, too?
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That's the plea of the childish at heart. "How come Johnny has a bigger one than me?".
We live in an era where people are falling over one another to prove how oppressed they are. The oppressed are the heroes....not the strong, fearless and determined. Just prove your oppression and then insist that you need help.
It's time to grow up and grow a backbone. If you don't make enough an hour, work longer hours, cut back on expenses, plan a budget, DON'T DO DRUGS. There are ways to get out of it. The poorest people alive today are richer than more than 95% of the people that lived 150 years ago. They have better healthcare, better and more abundant food, even better shelter. What am I talking about. I have better healthcare, better and more abundant food and shelter and I make below the poverty level on a senior pension and that's it.
We're happier complaining than we are working towards solutions. Until we change that, as a society, things will get progressively worse. That's how progressivism works.
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@LovingPrinceTamayuki
Let me try this again, seeing as that you seem to relish in being as thick as you are.
Collectivism is about being of one mind, that we operate as metaphorical drones in a beehive. That our group identity defines who we are, how we think and what we believe.
People, like Haslam, are not collectivists. They believe in individual agency, that we CHOOSE to cooperate or even to opt out, as we choose as individuals. That our group identity is NOT who we are and it does NOT define us. We define ourselves. We work together, as individuals of our own free will, each one having the freedom to decide the depth of our cooperation or even to freely opt out, without recrimination BECAUSE we are individuals and not forced into being a part of the hive. The individual is the priority. In collectivism, the group supersedes the individual....ALWAYS.
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@mbnall
In 2005, Obama, Hillary Clinton and other Democrats, claimed that there were problems with the voting machines, helping the Republicans to the 2004 win. In 2016, Hillary and the Democrats claimed that Trump colluded with the Russians to get HIM the win, invoking the compromised computerised voting machines, again.
Now, with mail in voting and the lack of confidence is the voting machines not addressed, we have a large majority of Republicans claiming election fraud concerning those SAME voting machines and the enhanced mail-in voting process.
Now, we have the Democrats wanting to add Puerto Rico and Washington DC to count of the states in election and possibly doing away with the electoral college, something that has been in place since the beginning of the US. This isn't gerrymandering? Worse, the Democrats don't want voters to produce their IDs to vote, saying that it's racist. The entire free world is laughing at that nutty idea.
I'd say fix the entire system, including any appearance of gerrymandering, mail-in voting, the vote counting machines and the way votes are verified. If almost every election has claims of fraud, then have a thorough investigation those claims and propose ways to regain confidence in the system. The way it's being done now is ridiculous.
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@davidhowell1415
That applies to the band "Rage against the Machine", too. In the nineties, they were all about fighting the status quo. Now, they are the status quo, carrying water for the swamp. Weird how that happens. I saw the same thing happening to the hippies of the sixties. A lot of them came from upper class families, railing against the establishment, peace, love, drop out and tune in. In the eighties, a lot of them became the establishment, making big money working for the very corporations that they hated 15 years earlier. The Clintons are a great example of this shift. Activists in the sixties, while at college, bit in the swamp by the nineties.
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@briana.g.7412
It's so easy to judge the lives of those who lived almost 250 years ago. You can sit there on your moral high horse because there's no way that you'd ever be put in that position where your immediate family would ever have slaves.
It's like my dad. He grew up 20 miles west of the German border. When he was 8 years old, he hid in a ditch, along with his brother, and watched in terror as thousands of Nazi troops marched by singing battle hymns, in their invasion of the Netherlands. He's now 89 and still says the it was the scariest day of his life.
But what if he had been born 20 mile EAST of the German border, on the same road that the Germans used to march into the Netherlands. Would he have play marched alongside those soldiers, goose stepping along, dreaming of the day that he too, would be marching off to fight for the Fuehrer and the Fatherland.
That imaginary line was all that defined whether he was a bad guy, a goose stepping Hitler youth, and a good guy, the kid that would eventually see the Canadian soldiers, sleeping in his barn as his teenage idols.
You just don't know where and what life hands you. Except for you, of course. You'd be that 9 year old Berliner that would refuse to join the Hitler youth and be a hero, today. Don't be so morally self righteous.
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You really don't get it, do you? They're all Americans and she is an individual, a single entity that happens to be an Asian woman, just as you're a single entity that happens to be a white male. Affirmative action says that an Asian individual shouldn't have the same opportunity as another group of individuals and has assigned an hierarchy of opportunity based on group identity. It may be fair to the group (maybe) but definitely not fair for the individual.
Her argument INCLUDES you because you, as a white man, are also at the bottom of the opportunity hierarchy. If she proves that Affirmative Action is discriminatory, she is also speaking for you, because it is also discriminates AGAINST YOU. She is advocating against this type of discrimination and that we should be judged as individuals, not as Asian woman or white male. It's like two people trying out for a baseball team. Do you take the one who's the best baseball player or do you take the black guy because there are already too many white guys on the team.
I take the best ball player because I want the team to be the best it can be. When you apply for university, you take the application that shows the strongest potential, that manifests itself in previous achievements of scholarship and effort. You do that to prepare for the future of your society in the best possible manner. That the top minds are the ones doing the most complex tasks that are needed for a functioning society. I don't care what ethnicity my surgeon is, so long as he's the best, not because he's Latino and there isn't enough Latino surgeons. That's not only colossally stupid, it's just plain crazy.
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@minkman99
I'm afraid that you're not following this very well. The SJW stuff, the safe spaces and such, has been around for quite a few years. It was in the universities and any student who said things that establishment deemed inappropriate was called onto the carpet. It always seemed to be conservatives that were being censored and belittled. They weren't allowed to have their own speakers or their own conservative clubs. There were protests, sometimes even violent, directed against anyone that would say anything that went against the leftist dogma. This was going on before Trump became president. Books were beginning to be cancelled but they couldn't outright ban them. Not yet anyway, but some would love to do it. The rhetoric was always about race, gender, sexual preference and accusations were becoming more and more rampant. Every dissenting conversation ended with "You're racist" or "You're homophobic" or something to that effect.
Now, it's in the media. Critical race theory is the new thing. People, in the work place, are called to meetings and white employees have been required to "acknowledge their white privilege". Kids, starting schools, are taught that they may belong to the race that represents racism, colonialism and sexism, that there's something inherently evil in them. Everything has become racist. Mathematics, getting up on time, working hard, street lights, milk, camping, skiing, the list goes on and on and on. University professors have longed for the demise of the white race and done so publicly, without any sanctions from the MSM. BLM have rioted, burned, looted, injured and even killed people but the MSM says their protests are "mostly peaceful". Antifa, in Portland, rioted for over 120 days in a row, last summer, all chronicled by Andy Ngo, but to Nadler, a Democrat Congressman, it's all a myth and Biden says Antifa is an idea. You should google "Evergreen College" and read about the craziness there, a few years ago. Strangely, completely ignored by the MSM. Had a bunch of conservative students done this, they'd still be talking about it.
If you haven't noticed any of this, you really haven't been paying attention. The left have been taken over by a bunch of overt Marxists. A woman, who wore Chairman Mao's picture on her clothing almost won the election to become Mayor of Portland recently. You really have to start finding out what is going on with the left and how they're infiltrating the education system, the media, human resources of big corporations and the Democrat party. They will completely destroy the western world as we know it and we'll be left with a place where we won't have to worry about illegal immigrants or refugees. They won't want to come here.
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@babajaiy8246
The Muslims can practise their faith any way they wish. They have complete religious freedom. In fact, even though the Jews believe that Solomon's Temple, a very sacred Jewish site, stood where the Dome of the Rock is now, they allow Muslims to still use that site as a Mosque. The Israelis still allow it to be a place for Muslims. That's a concession that has been allowed Israeli Muslims. However, in Gaza, there is not ONE Jew....not a one and there's good reason for that. If someone didn't kill them, their life would be pure hell. Jews can't live in Gaza.
Why would they want to live as they did before? That area was extremely poor until the Jews came and started to turn it into an oasis in the desert. It was nothing but dirt and rock 100 years ago. If Hamas cared so much for the people of Gaza, maybe they'd do the same thing there....but they won't. Hamas is too filled with hatred for Israel to care about their own people.
You're asking me to explain the mind of those filled with hate? Why did Hitler want to kill all the Jews? Hatred....that's why. Why did Rome kill everyone in Carthage and then sow the fields with salt? Hatred...blind hatred. Why did the Hutu try to kill all the Tutsi in Rwanda? Same thing.
Why would Hamas, the leadership of the Palestinians, want to drive the Israelis into the sea? Because they refuse to live with them. They hate them because they're not Muslim.
"The Jews will fight against you and you will gain victory over them, till the stone says: ‘O Muslim! There is a Jew hiding behind me; so kill him.’” 2 This Hadith was reported by Ahmad and Al-Tirmidhy who said that it is a Hasan, Sahih Hadith.
This is a part of the Muslim faith. Islam says that they are a religion of peace but no one who values peace would attack innocent unarmed civilians. They defend themselves when attacked but they don't start shooting at people at a music festival and they would NEVER parade the naked body of a girl, that they killed and desecrated, so the people could spit on her. That's NOT the way of peace. If anything, those Palestinians are going against the will of Allah is Islam is indeed the religion of peace.
Hamas could take the money, that they've received over the last 70 years, and use it to make life better for the Palestinians. They could do that but they don't. They use it to buy guns and rockets so they could kill as many Jews as possible.
There is NO excuse for what just happened and you can't spin it to make it sound justified. It's not.
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@23wtb
I have a time machine. I call him "Dad". He's now 89 and both my parents grew up in war time Holland. They know what a real Nazi is and Dad talks about their reprehensible behaviour all the time. My mother, as she didn't have a father, nearly starved to death, near the end of the war, because Nazis confiscated as much food as they could get their hands on. 25,000 of the most poor, starved to death, and if hadn't been for the Allies air dropping food, the total would have been much worse.
When a political party enacts draconian measures, for an insurrection in which tens of thousands of people showed up, without guns....mind you and then go home....you're using a tactic that would make Hitler envious. Purging the military and other American services of dissenting voices is also autocratic and something that a Hitler would have done.
So....spare us the sarcasm.
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If I change my name, it's up to me to change my ID if that's how I want to be legally known. If I don't, then I can't vote using my new name. That's NOT a trans issue. It's just common sense.
I'm called Jack and everyone in my small town calls me that. If someone is looking for me around town and uses my real name, Jacob, they've made it extremely difficult to find me. When I go to vote, I use the name that no one uses because that's what's on my driver's licence, personal ID, my credit cards and my passport. There's a legal process that could change my name from Jacob to my nickname, Jack, and if I want to be legally known as Jack, I have to use that process.
What a bizarre way of looking at a voter ID mandates. If your new identity and name means so little to you, that you won't even take the time to change it legally, then you're creating your own problem. Also, no one cares about gender when voting, anymore. It's irrelevant to the voting process.
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@bipslone8880
Isn't it weird when the woke needs safe spaces because "words are violence", they're not crybabies but when banking information is passed to authorities, without warrants, people lose their jobs because of words, have their businesses burned and destroyed, they're the crybabies.
I'm not allowed to disagree with the woke culture, in any aspect, or the corporate media will censor you, and I'm the crybaby. My little sister used to running to mommy when I said bad words, too. I used to call her a crybaby. Funny how the world hasn't really changed. I still have that metaphoric little sister crying over my use of words and the ideas that they don't like.
Are you going to have me doxxed, now?
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@AllAboutMusicMovies
I never ONCE wrote a narrative. I said that this person could have made a good point and he MAY have, that's not a narrative, just a possibility, said this because it was a concern. He may have been screaming at people about it or he MAY have said something along the lines of "I've said this lots of time but I think...." I DON'T KNOW.....but apparently you know enough about this person to call him and extremist. I'm saying that you don't have enough information to do that.
Also, you've assumed that this person is American. It doesn't state where this person is from. You just assumed it for no real reason. Another narrative that you've wrote for yourself.
Then I said that I don't like to live in fear and then, somehow and incomprehensibly, you asked me if I was afraid and then made an assumption that I was American. Now 2 of us are American...or even possibly 3 of us and you did this without knowing any of us.
The commenter was responding to an original point about the psychological effects being worse than the disease. She says that she has a friend that says the same thing and this friend has said it multiple times. Then you come up with how afraid Americans are and how Sweden didn't have those crazy lockdowns, which kind of validates what she was talking about. That this fear CAN be psychologically worse than the disease like it is in the US. I didn't say that, YOU did. It seems as if you agree with him but I don't know. However, your statement does suggest that.
Then you go on about Trump letting it spread. So I asked a rhetorical question. Does Trump rule the world......meaning does he have that much influence that the entire world is gripped with Covid and it's all his fault? The disease was spreading in Italy before it started to spread in the US...like I've mentioned and I'm sure that Trump wasn't responsible for that. Also, you're the one that brought up Sweden and Europe and there's been some severe lockdowns in Europe and some awful riots in protest in England, France, Italy, the Netherlands and Germany. So the US isn't the only place that's living in fear. As a matter of fact, we are here in Canada, too.
Now the economy is hurting. I know people that have lost their businesses. The US is in even worse shape. Another area of our lives where the fear of Covid might have consequences that may make things worse than the disease. The point made is not exactly without merit.
I've not wrote any narrative about anyone else. I've laid out possibilities by using myself as an example. A possibility is NOT a narrative. It's laying out an idea. Yet, that prompted you to suggest that I must be an extremist as well. Nice leap of logic there.
I'm not the one that started calling people names. That's all I can say about the subject.
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@wickedwood04
Where did I say "election fraud". I mentioned an article about Hunter Biden's laptop in which his father, who is on the ticket, was implicated in some crooked dealings in China and Ukraine. That does have implications in an election. And do you really want Big Tech to curtail that information. To have the government, like Jen Psaki said, to work with Facebook to flag "misinformation"? Do we now have a governmental department called the "Ministry of Truth"? Since when is it up to anyone to tell me what is true or not? I'm not like you. I don't want to be TOLD what's true. I want to see the evidence, good and bad, even fake, so I can assess it for myself, like a free thinking adult.
Also, how is asking for ID making it harder to vote? Every western country requires ID to vote. Even a corrupt country like Mexico does. I know that Canada, France, the Netherlands, Belgium, Germany, Japan....I could go on and on, require voter ID when voting. It's so people can't jump from voting precinct to voting precinct to vote repeatedly. Funny how voter ID is racist but vaccine passports, that require ID isn't. Are we going to exempt certain people from showing vaccine passports because it's racist? Also, anyone can request a mail in ballot. That would give that ballot a chain of possession which is completely different than sending ballots, en masse, through the mail.
If you can explain how the Republicans are making voting harder, with EVIDENCE, I'll look at it but I have to warn you. I read the entire Georgia voting bill, the "Jim Crow 2.0" bill and found nothing. That entire claim was bogus.
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@shanecorning5222
Now you're just spouting talking points. They just didn't come in and start killing and raping. That would have been impossible as they were vastly outnumbered. What did happen was that tribes made alliances with the Europeans to help them in their wars with each other. For example, Cortez would never have defeated the Aztecs if it hadn't been for the help of their Tlaxcaltec allies. Many tribes hated the Aztec because they were the local powerhouse. It's the same in North America. Champlain encountered the Huron and upon seeing the French weapons, the Huron thought that they should try them out on their arch enemies, the Iroquois. This set the tone for the history of North East America for 150 years.
Also, the blanket thing is also a myth. There is only one verifiable time that it was used and that was at Fort Pitt, now Pittsburgh and they're not even sure if it worked or not as there was a smallpox outbreak already among the local settlers. If smallpox was already there, Natives could have gotten it from the settlers NOT from the blankets.
These are just points of contention that modern day identity politics play. It's not just with the natives either. Everything is about finding grievance and being offended. I have a good friend, who is native and he was taken, as a 6 year old, an placed in a government school. However, his family lived in a remote area and they were living in extreme poverty. As bad as this practise seemed, he may not have survived had they not taken him out of the area due to the changing environment. He also told me that his great great grandparents were cannibals and not too well liked by the other tribes in the area.
You see, the natives are people, just like us. No better and no worse. When you demonise a group of people, you engender hatred and that NEVER leads to anything good.
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@estherc.536
My point wasn't so much about election day. My point was that it was even rigged before that due to the propaganda tactics by and for the Democrats and against Trump. Part of that propaganda was to inculcate a voting public that believes EVERYTHING that they were told by the various media sources so when or if, the election itself, vote flipping as an example, a huge part of the population will automatically believe what the media sources are telling them.
In other words, they have the answers BEFORE the question is even raised. That's what I was talking about. They rigged the election by creating conditions where asking questions is pointless because the they're already answered. That's why, within the hour of the announcement of the discovery of Hunter Biden's laptop, the answer was already in place. Russian disinformation.
If we can bring back an honest media, all those other problems, including any real election fraud, will go away. The media, of today, is no different than Goebbels' media of Nazi Germany and the Democrats may be better at it than Goebbels It's a tool for the Democrats and that's why they are going to get away with any fraud. Democrat propaganda is the key. Any fraud is just a symptom of their controlled use of the media and propaganda.
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How did Trump fail us? This was a new disease that no one had ever dealt with before. He called on the CDC, even formed a medical task force to deal with it. They were supposed to be the experts and these "experts" were all over the place with their recommendations and ideas. How could Trump make medical recommendations. He's NOT a doctor.
Had the CDC and Fauci been more forthright and explained things as they knew them instead of playing games with the facts, we'd be better off. They were too proud to stand up and say that, in spite of being experts, they had no clue. That's why they failed us. They taught us not to trust them....the worst thing a doctor could do to their patients.
It was Trump that initiated Project Warp Speed, got ventilators built that were never used, sent hospital ships to LA and NY which were never used and it wasn't Trump that put Covid patients in old folks homes. Trump restricted travel, first from China which resulted in being called xenophobic and then from Europe which Biden, himself criticized, saying travel bans don't work. It was Pelosi and Mayor De Blasio that kept telling people to go to their favourite restaurants, take the subways and go to parades. Pelosi went to Chinatown and was hugging everyone urging people to come on down and it was Pelosi that ripped up the SOTU address, in which Trump talked about trying to work with China to fight this new disease.
Do you know what else failed us? China and their Gain of Function research....that's who and those in the American medical establishment that helped fund it....like Dr. Fauci.
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@carlaneal6532
Merit. Only the BEST players, in the world, get to play in the NFL.
YOU HAVE TO BE GOOD!!!!
Nothing else counts. Not your race. Not your sex, religion, home town......NOTHING ELSE....and they get paid millions to do it. Players, who call themselves minorities, will make more in 6 months work, than you will in your entire life.
We are now living in a time where there guilt is always assumed. No matter what, it's "that doesn't mean it's not a racists league". Guilt, always, continuous and no possible way to prove innocence. You don't have to show racism. All you have to do is accuse. The accusation is the proof.
It's become insane.
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@moestietabarnak
Where did I say that an unlawful shooting by a police officer isn't a problem? I never said that once. I can object to it but that does NOT give me the right to burn down YOUR business of home, steal YOUR stuff, because that's what looting is, or shoot your 9 year old daughter, like what happened in Atlanta. Why can't I be outraged about those things? That was a little black girl in Atlanta. I was in tears when I heard about that and it was a BLM supporter who shot her.
As long as there are criminals, committing major crimes in the world, and specifically in the US, and we want the police to stop them, there will be deaths. It's inevitable. In other words, you will always have reason to burn, loot and kill. It'll NEVER go away. It will be a perpetuating rage.
Also, if you really thought that HUNDREDS of riots, over 3 months, being justified by the media and certain politicians, wasn't going to finally get some pushback out of fear and frustration, you're still delusional.
Also, if you can't see that burning and looting is wrong, always and is NEVER justified, then you have no moral centre to guide you.
Also, I made it perfectly clear that I DID NOT ENDORSE what happened in Washington. It was wrong and they should be prosecuted. Also, the looters should be prosecuted and we shouldn't have politicians, like Kamala Harris, donating to a fund for their legal fees. That a politician, that would do that, is going to become the Vice President, scares people and they will be angry that this is happening.
If you can't see that then YOU are the problem. You don't want a middle ground nor would you accept an olive branch. You want YOUR ground and will take it by any means necessary.
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@sthubbins4038
Of course he wanted to "find" those votes. If they existed, he wanted to find them. Who wouldn't? Even you'd want to find them....if you thought that they existed, especially if those votes would help your cause.
Isn't it strange that when Trump questions the irregularities of the election, it shakes the entire foundation of the Republic. Yet, when Obama did it in 2005 and Hillary did it in 2016.....that's legit and no problem. Especially when there was absolutely NO proof of collusion, yet Hillary STILL carries on about it and Adam Schiff, even though he claimed that he has irrefutable proof, never presented the proof and STILL claims that there was Russian collusion. The riots in 2016, against Trump, was no big deal and only righteous but the riots on Jan 6th.....horrific. The inconsistency is remarkable. And before you tell me that I'm being a hypocrite, I think that the rioters were wrong in BOTH cases and should be prosecuted. Rioting is WRONG and I don't care who does it. We live in a land that is supposed to live by the rule of law. Everyone should honour that, at all times, not only when it suits their own agenda.
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I dug out my trusty calculator and started ciphering. Given that the average truck is 50 feet in length, 50,000 trucks would stretch, bumper to bumper with no space in between them, from New York City to 60 miles short of Columbus Ohio. For us Canadians, that's from Windsor Ontario to just short of Cornwall. That 50,000 number is ridiculous.
However, the Trudeau and the press went with the "fringe group" rhetoric and people believed it. Then when they found out that it was MORE than a "fringe group", they got all upset and the stories of how someone died because ER workers couldn't get to the hospital on time, started up on Facebook. In other words, they downplayed it and didn't prepare for it. Had this been an BLM rally, they would have been gloating over the size of it. Trudeau wouldn't have airlifted out and he'd be standing on the podium, beneficently smiling at the crowds who obviously (sarcasm) love him.
Also, it was between 15 and 20 degrees below 0, in the Fahrenheit scale, in Ottawa. It's quite the turnout in that kind of cold.
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@shanecorning5222
They have MORE, in many cases. There is Mohawk land about 30 miles from where I live and the natives there are quite prosperous. The things that the individual Mohawks have today, would boggle the minds of the Mohawks of 600 years ago.
Now if you're talking about power, no. At least not the political power they had after they joined the Iroquois Confederation. Then they were the most powerful influence of this area. If that kind of power is important to you, then you're correct. However, times change, just as it has for all of us around the world. 600 years ago, my ancestors were living as peasants, in the Netherlands, subservient to the nobility that was the way of life in Europe, of that time. They couldn't move, take part in trade or do anything that we can now, as free people.
Racial identity and its importance has changed. Now, we're more about nations as political units and we try to include all ethnicities as part of the nation state. That's life in the US and Canada, in spite of some of issues involved. A kid, growing up in squalor, can become a multi-millionaire overnight. It happens all the time. People become quite affluent through hard work and dedication and race isn't the determining factor. I've worked with Native construction workers, who have nice homes, drive big fancy trucks and have a good life. It's all relevant to where the native lives and what he/she wants in life.
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@thunderstruck1078
I AM an individual who is a product of my ancestral heritage and my culture. However, I'm an individual first....one who is in control of my own destiny. If they want to be collectivists first, that's their own business and it's a sad way to live. I'm not good to my family, friends, community or my culture unless I'm good for for myself, first. I can't change the world, for the better, but I can change my little corner of it. If my corner touches the corner of another who's looking after his corner, that better expands. That's how the west, especially in the US and Canada, grew into such prosperity. Individuals, working as such, cooperating and becoming the majority, building their tiny personal "kingdoms" into one, and uniting to become a society and a nation.
That's what took us into becoming the greatest societies in history.
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If you have a racist purity test which amounts to a witch trial, of course Trump is racist. So are you. So am I. There's no way anyone will pass that test. It's designed so that everyone tested will fail.
I'm not sure what your problem with herd immunity is all about. If we become immune once exposed to it, eventually, we'll all be immune. Pure logic.
What some people just don't get is that no matter what we do, there will be surges in the cases. It's highly contagious and it's the nature of the disease. If we lockdown until it's completely gone, we'll be locked down for good....for the rest of your life. Not a pleasant prospect.
What's important is the death rate in relationship to the case rate. At the end of April, the case rate was around 30,000 new cases per day. The death rate was around 2000 cases a day.
Now, the case rate is close to 70,000 new cases per day, yet the death rate is under 800 per day. Almost 2 1/2 cases more and yet a 60% DROP in deaths. That says that we're learning how to treat it and I'm going to assume that we'll get better at it in the future. Already, we have plenty respirators and fewer and fewer cases end up in the hospital in relationship to the number of cases.
Even now, the new case load per day seems to be a the peak. That means, we should start to see another dropping off in the next couple of weeks. Not a guarantee but that's the pattern of all infectious diseases. The south didn't peak back in April like NY York did. Now it's their turn. That'll be the pattern in most populated areas. You can't stop it. It will happen.
All you can do is try to protect the most vulnerable. I'm 68, considered to vulnerable. I take precautions. My dad is 88. I haven't seen him since late February.....to keep him safe. That should be the priority....everywhere and It seems as if we get it now. At least they're not putting Covid patients in nursing homes, anymore......a ridiculous move no matter how you look at it.
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@47f0
Did you EVER validate my point. You said EXACTLY what a person, who wasn't objective, would say. First, you deflected the conversation and then you flog the "business disasters" rhetoric, that's just plain false and demonstrably so. Trump net worth is 2.5 billion dollars. That's 2.5 with EIGHT zeros behind it. Over 99% of all the businessmen on the planet wish that their enterprises were that disastrous. We're all failures beside that number and business success is judged on their numbers. Also, I thought that his show was a joke and I never took Trump seriously, mainly because of that show.
Worse, you never answered my basic question. Would the media and Big Tech have covered that story had it been Don Trump juniors laptop, with all the implications of wrong doing, by the father, on that laptop, which were evident on Hunter's laptop? You never even ATTEMPTED to say yes or no to that. You went off on your own little tangent.
Incredibly, you don't even have the self awareness to see how you validated my point.
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@JohnSmith-sm7ez
FOX is the ONLY TV news channel that might have any appeal to a conservative. EVERY other one supports the Democrats. CNN, MSNBC, CBS, ABC, PBS....they ALL support the Democrats. One channel against ALL THE OTHER CHANNELS. Even FOX has been losing viewers because they're not as biased as you'd think. FOX news personality, Chris Wallace, at the presidential debates, asked Trump if would denounce white supremacy. He asked him the SAME question 4 years ago at the presidential debates and he didn't ask Biden that question. Biden, the guy who once came out in support of school segregation gets a pass on that. Why would he do that? Was it because he's part of the Trump propaganda machine? FOX didn't cover the laptop scandal like they should have either. It's a BIG reason why many viewers are critical of FOX. I'll bet you NEVER watch FOX, either. You're just repeating what you're hearing on CNN.
Why would anyone even trust those other channels. It took me ten minutes to find the full video, on the internet, of the Covington kids story. Every one of them, except FOX blasted those kids and everyone of them WERE WRONG. 10 minutes to find it and I'm just a retired bartender, living in a 1 room basement apartment. They couldn't do it? Is it because Nick Sandman was wearing a MAGA hat.
I don't know what you're talking about when you say that Saudis are shooting US soldiers. You'll have to enlighten more on that one.
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@godzillamegatron3590
Nothing is a guarantee....EVER. Your life isn't a guarantee. We've been spoiled into believing that it all has to be there FOR us, whenever we want it and we shouldn't be expected to set standards of excellence.
If you expect nothing but the best from yourself, and that applies to all the things that you've listed, skills, knowledge and experience, others will recognise that desire in you and it will eventually pay off. Not right away, maybe it never will in the way the you'd like it to, but no one finds success in waiting for it. You have to go for it and expect nothing but the best effort, in everything that you do. It's YOU that sets the standard, no one else.
It took me a long time to learn that and when I finally got it, it opened all kinds of doors for me that I never expected.
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@Orcinus1967
The Nazis serve as the ultimate example of how NOT to behave as a group or nation. That's why it's discussed ad nauseum. Other examples are the communists of the Soviet Union, China, Cambodia and today, the socialists of Venezuela.
Germany has moved on, as has those of us who lived under the shadow of the Nazis but we can't forget it. We can't forget it because we can't let it happen in our countries because that danger is just as real, today, in the rest of the world, as it was to the Germans 90 years ago.
When we use the Nazis as an example, it's not just an indictment of them, it's also an indictment of the potential in all of us to be exactly the same. The problem is that the "woke" generation refuse to believe it of themselves. They think themselves immune to the lure of social superiority. We try to show them, through Nazi Germany, that no one is immune.
It's not an indictment of Germans alone. It's an indictment of humanity.
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@moestietabarnak
Why is it that there were HUNDREDS of riots, all summer, and the MSM was either silent, or justifying the looting and burning? Almost 140 riots, in a row in Portland alone. 4 riots since Jan. 1st of this year. People killed, businesses burned to the ground. people losing their life savings.....and NO ONE in the MSM called out the violence. Why was that?
Also, if you seriously think that about 200 people, crashing through a door, in Washington, were going to take down the American government, you're delusional. Were these rioters in the wrong? You bet they were, but SO WAS EVERY ONE THAT RIOTED AND LOOTED LAST SUMMER. This "good cause" rhetoric is just that. Propaganda dressed up as rhetoric....and you're falling for it.
You want 2 sets of rules and you can't have it that way. Not if you want to live in a civilised country.
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I've been following this stuff for a couple of years. Listen to Jordan Peterson and the mess with Lindsay Shepherd, the craziness at Evergreen College, but I still I had no idea how bad it was. They are so filled with anger and hate and they don't see it of themselves.
Imagine, telling a Jewish gay man, whose lost family in the Holocaust that he doesn't understand, it just boggles the mind at the logic. That girl at the end saying that she might be shot because she was black, YES, it could happen, but the statistics says that she would be more likely to be shot by a black person. I'm not sure which one she'd prefer to shoot her, but I'd prefer not to be shot by anyone of them.
Dave....I don't know how you do it, but I'm grateful that you do. Kudos to you. You're a special person.
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@sthubbins4038
NO ONE invalidated this election. He was just as sure that there was fraud as Hillary was and he told that crowd to march "peacefully and patriotically", HIS words, to let the members of Congress know how he felt. He then told the audience to GO HOME and "primary" those Republicans that didn't question the integrity of the election. "Primary them"...that means for them to get ready for the NEXT election. It means to get Republican candidates that will support the president, no matter who it is. Does that REALLY sound like "storm the Capital Building" to you? Also, Trump was over a mile away, when he gave that speech. It was impossible for him to "watch" them storm the building. That's pure hyperbole on your part.
I gave TWO examples of VERY questionable events around this election...TWO examples that should have been investigated and ONE WAS and the person was charged. This woman bragged that she had control of over 7 thousand mail in ballots. MAIL IN BALLOTS....the very thing that Trump was worried about all along and this woman was charged for doing it. Hillary had NO evidence....AT ALL. The Mueller report turned up nothing and it cost the American taxpayers MILLIONS to do it. YOUR taxpayer money. Now the Democrats are spending even more. Thousands of troops around the Capital. Barbed wire fencing. Investigating military personnel for questionable tweets and reassigning them. Investigating government offices and purging all Republican supporters by going through their internet accounts.
Do you know who else did that? Who did it right after the "Night of the Long Knives"? They have NO right to investigate people that weren't even there or to question the loyalty of military personnel because a few jerks, out of tens of thousands that were in Washington that day, acted foolishly. Security even LET some of them in, if they promised not to damage anything. Then the Democrats had a state funeral for officer Sicknick, claiming he was killed fighting rioters, when he died the following day from a stroke which had nothing to do with the riots. Now they have some of them in solitary confinement, even though it was months ago. Yet, when Antifa barricaded the doors of a Federal Courthouse, in Portland, and tried to burn the place down with people inside it, they just let them go. Over 120 nights in a row of rioting in Portland and they're STILL rioting. They had violent protests AGAIN last night and over 2 dozen gunshots at the one year Memorial for George Floyd at the "autonomous" zone in Minneapolis. In the middle of the day, caught on video.
It's all political theatre and it's 2 sets of rules.
And to top it all off....I've already said that those who broke in should be arrested and charged. They're a bunch of idiots. The difference is....I want to apply the law equally to rioters. YOU only want to apply it to those you don't like.
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Your story is what social assistance is there for. I don't mind paying taxes to help a guy that has medical problems, still tries his best and feels bad about his situation. You don't sound as if you expect the help but accept it because you're stuck in a bad place that's out of your control.
What most of us resent is the lazy and the demanding types, the ones that can't hold down a job because they have to get up too early, it's too far away, they don't want to work nights, the boss is a jerk (they always are), it's too hot, too cold, too wet and the hours are too long. They don't want to work for "the MAN" to quote a lazy nephew who's never had a full time job in his entire adult life. They refuse to contribute and then criticise the rest of us for being that selfish with our money that we don't want to subsidise their life of video games, smoking weed and afternoon naps.
Keep doing the best you can and if you're being honest about it, we're only to happy to help you out.
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For most of my 71 years, on any form that asked for "gender" and that's what the category was for sex as the terms were interchangeable, people would mark "male" of "female"....nothing else. Then, out of the blue, less than 10 years ago, they separated the 2 terms, giving each word a new definition. My 1985 Webster's dictionary describes both words as meaning the same thing. Why SHOULD we separate bodily function from gender? Bodily functions has always been what defined your gender or sex. There has never been a child, born with a penis, that has ever given birth. There has never been a woman that has become pregnant from anything other than a man, who had a penis.... unless you count the Virgin Mary and I'll bet you don't want to go there. A woman needs a man, with a penis, to get pregnant. That's has always been the defining measure in determining both sex and gender.
To separate them is to artificially change the meaning of both words and then calling anyone, who doesn't want to do that, a bigot. It's as Orwellian as it gets.
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@wekurtz72
I'll give you an example. When Brett Kavanaugh was accused, with little to no evidence, of sexual assault, the Hollywood community was all about MeToo and women's rights. Alyssa Milano sat behind Christine Ford at the confirmation hearings to lend her support.
When Tara Reade accuse Joe Biden, with a lot more evidence, of sexual assault, Hollywood was strangely silent on it. The same people that went after Harvey Weinstein, never said a word about Biden. Selective MeToo beliefs. Alyssa Milano even endorsed Biden, in spite of the sexual assault.
These people don't care about sexual assault or the victims. They self serving, narcissistic hypocrites, spouting off whatever makes them look good or feel good at the time. Integrity isn't a word that you hear often coming out of Hollywood.
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@lilbarry1212
What you don't get is that those weapons have been within reach of Russia for decades. France and Britain have them. Germany, Italy and Turkey have American nukes installed in case of war. Turkey is only about 500 miles from Russia. How long do you think it would take to put nukes in Latvia or Estonia, NATO nations that are right on the border of Russia. It would be nothing for a nuclear armed sub to leave a German or Turkish port and approach Russia.
Besides, who said that they wanted to put nukes in Ukraine, anyway? Where did you get that? Ukraine isn't even a part of NATO yet and you're already putting nukes there. You're getting way ahead of yourself.
Weird that you don't think all of Europe isn't upset that Russia has nukes that could be pointed at them. That's where NATO is. Russia should be terrified but the European NATO nations aren't allowed to be? Kind of a double standard isn't it.
This nuclear rhetoric is just a rationalisation to justify the carnage in Ukraine. No one is putting nukes in Ukraine. Ukraine had the 3rd largest nuclear arsenal in the world after they were independent. They destroyed them. That was only 30 years ago. They did this after a 90% affirmative vote for independence. I wonder how much that loss sticks in the craw of Putin, a one time communist and KGB agent. Putin, at 69 years of age, spent more time as a Soviet citizen than he has a Russian. That has to influence his attitude and his paranoia.
So, who should be more afraid of the other. Ukraine, the smaller country with NO nukes or Russia, a MUCH larger country with all kinds of nukes and a leader who was a part of the very aggressively expansive USSR. Remember Putin was in his thirties when Russia was trying to hold onto Afghanistan. Old habits die hard.
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@spindoctor6385
The last election really exposed the media and big tech for what they are. They've become agents for for the political party that controls the government, not just elected officials but the bureaucracy as well. It's the bureaucrats that need the right party in power and they used the media and especially big tech to their advantage.
My dad is 89 years old and living on a fixed income. He's too proud to accept help from his kids. Over the last 10 years, all his friends are gone, except a few that live miles away. Phone costs are prohibitive, to keep in touch, so he joined Facebook, for free, and is now able to talk to his friends, some who live thousands of miles away, for nothing. This is how they control us. They lure us in with great deals and then use their platforms to control information. I've had to show him things, news items, that facebook won't allow him to see and the MSM won't cover.
When a monopoly becomes the government, they'll create conditions under which we feel forced to use them. Once they have that in place, they can advance their own agendas for financial gain and power. They go hand in hand. What we'll have, and it's happening quite rapidly, a political system run by corporate autocrats instead of elected representatives. They'll do it through the guise of a free market that's NOT free at all but controlled by a powerful few.
It's like religion. We took away the power of religious groups by limiting their influence on government. We have to do the same with the corporations or any other political group.
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@kalburgy2114
I wasn't too upset about it 50 years ago and, to be honest, I kinda pooh-poohed the idea that this was a gateway to increased sexual obsessions is schools. Man....was I wrong. We had a couple of classes of sex-ed in high school in the sixties but it was so basic and mechanical and, being in a farming community, it was stuff we all knew anyway. It was just applied to humans and, like I said, was rather innocuous. Now it's a cause, with flags, demonstrations, drag shows, class pride parades and even a month dedicated to sexual activities which should remain personal. Children, as young as 5 and 6 years old, are being exposed to the LGBTQ whatever stuff now.
I'm sorry to anyone, that I snickered at, who warned us about it ending this way.
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@overthenonsense4171
That's why I said, business owners have to start opening their businesses and we have to support them by frequenting their establishments. If most of them open up and we give them our business, they can't get us all. We don't have to burn down the very businesses that we're trying to save and destroy the jobs that produce the wealth that our country needs. However, we do have to stand up to them, not as a destructive force, but a united one, that, like Ghandi and Dr. King did what they believed to be the right thing to do. We must do it as a united front.
I'm not in a full lockdown but I do go to the local taverns to eat, at least twice a week and would continue to do it if the state ordered the them closed and they refused to listen. If every establishment, each restaurant, bowling alley, tavern and fitness club refused and we supported them, they'd be up against a wall and we don't have to destroy a thing. Ghandi showed us that passive resistance works and we don't have to destroy our country to succeed.
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@venicebeachsportsnetwork6677
Some of the poorest people, in the US, are women who are raising kids alone. They have a difficult time finding meaningful work because of the constraints of child rearing and end up living on welfare, government handouts that don't pay well at all.
Those who wait until marriage, or have a committed relationship, to have children, are those who take their responsibilities seriously. That includes a sexual life that isn't haphazard or off the cuff.
Children, who grow up without a father, are more likely to not finish high school, go on welfare, become addicts and end up in prison....BY FAR. The best gift that you can give your children is to provide them with a stable and dependable home life which increases both financially and emotionally, in a 2 parent home.
So, spare me your condescending attitude. The statistics support my contention.
Also, the idea that everyone will be making 10 bucks an hour is nonsense. 1 in 17 people, in the US, is a millionaire, right now. I can't give you the numbers of Americans that have a net worth between 100,000 and 1 million but there's a lot of them.
So spare me the intellectual angst and fears of a futuristic dystopia that doesn't exist and that you're creating in your mind. Get off your butt, get a job and then use the finances that you've made to your best advantage to create a future and stop your crying. Crybabies aren't doers and they accomplish very little.
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So, you're saying that in a road rage situation, the guy will find a way to kill the guy he's angry at no matter what? He won't react in a fit a rage by shooting the guy.....ever? You seriously believe that if he doesn't have a gun, he'll not stop until the guy is dead, that his fists will have the same result on a guy's head that 6 bullets will on that same head?
You've never heard of a person, in a drunken row, shooting an adversary in a fight? Never heard of gangs, inadvertently running into one another and start blasting away?
You're talking about pre-meditated murder. I'm talking about pulling a gun out of your pocket for a perceived slight, out of anger or fear and shooting someone as a reaction.
I'd say that you're making that up. Not all killings are pre-meditated and people have and do shoot each other in a fit of rage over something stupid all the time. That big reason that it happens is that the gun is right there, in his pocket, on the dresser and the blind rage is happening right now and it's all due to the availability of the weapon and the ease of use of the gun.
What's even more telling is that there is only one real use for a hand gun. That is to shoot human beings. To be able to carry it or store for ease of use to kill someone else. Even you know that this is true.
It explains the huge disparity in numbers for gun violence between the US and Canada. The number one reason is the availability and the attitude that comes with that availability that we don't see in Canada or any other Western country. Murder rates and gun violence is through the roof if you compare it to any other western country and most of it is due to the ease of acquiring a handgun.
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@Razorokc
My point is that because THEY consider theft, which we all think of as a crime, under $1000 bucks a misdemeanour, statistically no longer a crime. That's not ME saying that. It's a word game that they're playing. A misdemeanour is not considered a crime. So....when politicians do this, those crimes are no longer part of the crime statistics. That means, when compiling crime statistics, those thefts are no longer in those stats. They then claim that crime is going down. It's a sleight of hand, so to speak.
Read my comment, AGAIN. I NEVER said that theft under $950 was a crime I SAID, and I want you to understand that, that in California.....CALIFORNIA, not me, that theft under $950 is a misdemeanour which is NOT a crime. They've solved their crime problem by LYING, using word games. "Crime is going down. Look at the statistics" It becomes difficult to prove them wrong because THEY control how crime stats are being compiled. To show how ridiculous it is. NY governor Hochul claims that crime is down but has placed the National Guard in the subways to keep people safe. This has never been done before.
The Democrats are destroying this country through BS. THAT is my point.
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It's not often I disagree with Mr. Sowell but I have to disagree with one thing he said. The media isn't misinformed. They know the facts. They choose to ignore them to present their own version of the facts.
To wit.....When CNN first covered the story of the Covington kids, they ran that shortened clip that was designed and edited to give the narrative that these MAGA hat wearing kids were doing something despicable. They knew it wasn't true and it didn't matter to them. What makes me say that they didn't know? I'm a guy, not even American, sitting in my basement apartment, and it took me 10 minutes to find the original clip and it showed a completely different story. If some guy, living in a different country, could find this clip, I'm positive they knew of its existence before I did.
So, I'm sorry to say, Mr. Sowell, I think that the media, by and large, is flat out lying to us.
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"They all left and went home"
Exactly. No one was dragged out in handcuffs, the National Guard or the Marines didn't surround the Capitol building, no standoff or big shootout, hardly any weapons (if any) were to be seen, no tear gas.....nothing. The insurrectionists walked around the building and went home. They went home all on their own, believing that they had defeated the mightiest military the world has ever seen. LMAO. Some people are so delusional.
I have to wonder why nothing was done. Were they waiting for things to escalate? Waiting for the "traitors" to start burning down the Capital building and then fan out from there, by the tens of thousands, to "peacefully" burn the city of Washington down? Sort of like their favourite rioters, BLM, did? If that's what they were hoping for, they must have been severely disappointed.
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BS....Whoopi. Those rioters were NOT taking care of the people in their towns. They were damaging private property, looting stores, burning down buildings, physically attacking people with over 25 dead and thousands injured. A lot of them didn't even LIVE in those cities. When it was over, the people that lived in those cities had lost their businesses, their homes, jobs, had their cars smashed and burned, the places where they shopped were empty and gone, and a lot more. No one stopped what those rioters did to those towns or helped rebuild after the riots were over.
What Aldean was talking about was how small town folk wouldn't do that to their towns. They'd go after the person that hurt their neighbours, the ones that assaulted them, burnt their businesses and homes and took their jobs. It doesn't matter who they are that are doing those things. They have to stop and then they'll help their neighbours get back up on their feet.
Those George Floyd riots helped NO ONE. In fact, it destroyed a lot of the neighbourhoods that black Americans lived in and then no one came and helped them to rebuild. All it did was make those cities even more dangerous.
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Mongoose 1980
You still have to have kids. If no one has ANY kids, the 9 billion people will turn into 0 in a couple of generations.
Procreation is one of the prime motivators in life. It has to be. We can either do as you do, decry having children, or we can still embrace it but with some common sense thrown in. In fact, most areas of the world are seeing a very sharp downturn in birthrates and it's done voluntarily. World population growth has been slowing down and is expected to peak within 30 years. After that, we will see declines for many generations until we reach a point of stability.
Even now, we can support the world's population if we could only rid ourselves of government and corporate corruption. We must do one thing and there is a precedent. We need a full separation of corporation and state, just like we did with the church and state. How that would manifest itself has to be worked out but that marriage, that we're seeing between politicians, bureaucrats and the multinationals, will enslave us all and we're not going to like it when it does.
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Here's another fact. Until 1820, Europeans were afraid to spend time in sub-Saharan Africa, other than the very south, because of diseases, especially malaria. Most Europeans would be dead, within a year, in the interior. In 1820, the process to make quinine was perfected and Europeans were able to enter inland off the beaches. Had the African people not captured other Africans to sell for slavery, there would have been no trans-Atlantic slave trade, to speak of. It wasn't till quinine was readily available that the European nations started to conquer these African nations and real colonisation began.
Britain abolished the slave trade, all through its Empire, in 1807. In 1833, they abolished slavery, itself.
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@DickMotorman
It's a comparison. At one time, it was the punks who were reviled, who couldn't get an ordinary job, called all kinds of names. Now, it's the conservatives. Good luck getting a job at a university, if you declare yourself a Republican. Conservative students won't voice their opinions on campus in fear of reprisals, both socially and academically. Wear a MAGA hat in a public space, especially if you're black, you may well be attacked verbally and sometimes even physically.
This doesn't mean that punks and conservatives believe the same things. It's the stigmatisation that punks went through is similar, NOT EXACTLY, is similar to how the punks were treated in their day. Conservatives are the new hippies, too.
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@alanlampe7031
I'm in Canada, where distances are daunting. Yet, our ruling party has decided to charge us a carbon tax that keeps increasing and is eliminating the ability to travel for the poorest of Canadians. Then we have big city elites telling us rural types, who grow the food, work the mines and cut the timber for the big cities, that we don't need to get to where we're going. If it gets too expensive for us to operate, it will affect the urban centres, negatively until THEY have nothing as well. You want us to live in poverty and do it willingly.
Yes...when I went to school, we travelled by bus. I got on the bus at 7:40, in the morning, and arrived at school at 8:55. That's OUR reality. We had a small dairy and grew cash crops....food that people in the cities need and get from people like us. Now, you're telling us that we don't need to travel to get our work done. You're going to be for the shock of your life when your standard of living goes back to what it was 150 years ago because you refuse to allow us cheap energy. Cheap energy is the key to economic stability and growth and you want to kill it. You have no idea what it is you're advocating for or what the consequences will be.
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@garylivingston9052
My point is that the recovery from a world wide shutdown of the economy, rebounded 10X faster, while the shut down was on, than it did from the news of the election of Biden. Essential jobs and companies were still operating well, under the lockdowns and good investors knew how to manage it. However, when Biden was elected, those lockdowns were still in place but what really hurt the economy was the policies that Biden put into place, using executive orders, that impacted energy and the industries that relied on those energy jobs. That took away a lot of investment opportunities and it took over 3 years for investors to maneuver their way through it so we could make money.
I agree that things are a lot better than they were when Biden came to office but it's only because, after a downturn, things will get better. However, with record debt and the inflation that goes with it, things aren't as good as it seems. Until we start to control the debt, we're going to be in for a hard time. When a government prints money to cover spending, it's like they're chasing their tail. It accomplishes nothing but more and more debt. It has to catch up to us someday.
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@randym8393
What would the grounds of her lawsuit be? Truck horns were too loud and they scared her? LOL.
If she can get a settlement for this, from protesters that never threw one rock, frozen water bottle or Molotov Cocktail, never broke one window, didn't loot one store, never set one fire, didn't put ONE person in the hospital, let alone kill anyone, what could the victims of BLM protesters get in a lawsuit? Like the family of 8 year old Secoriea Turner, killed by BLM protesters...or the wife of David Dorn shot and killed during BLM riots by a "protester" wanting to rob a store. Man.....they should get a bank load for their losses.
You're outraged by noisy protesters, but I know that your types don't have the nerve to say a word about those RIOTS. I refuse to call them protests for obvious reasons to normal people, but not for the indoctrinated. It quite often seems that violence is acceptable when it's for their cause but making a bunch of noise is considered near fascist genocide when it's something that they disagree with.
I'm expecting one of 2 things from you. Either some weird rationalisation for the BLM riots, and I've heard some doozies, or complete SILENCE, the most common response.
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@fish profile?
Yet, every time that they've tried, on a national level, stop or control Capitalism, it has ended in disaster. The Soviet Union, China, Cambodia, Venezuela, Zimbabwe, North Korea, Germany (the Nazis were National Socialists, just like China is today) and Cuba, have all ended in famine, starvation, prison camps, poverty, authoritarianism and oppression. Not ONE has ended in a better life for the average citizen.
Capitalism does not pit one group against the other. In fact, people have to cooperate in order to make the economy work, on a voluntary level, with agreements that are bound by the rule of law. It's when the economy is overtly controlled, that's when we run into problems. Top down authority, over reaching control on what we buy, sell, trade and how we use the capital we earned through our own efforts has been the worst of all governing methods. It was in the old Monarchy system and it was in every government who tried to socially control its citizens through economic dominance. Show me the Socialist nation that has thrived...just one. The only one that I can think of is China and they've interred over 1 million Uyghurs because of their faith and have persecuted the Falun Gong, Tibetans and others.
The world isn't perfect but your Socialist dream has even been worse. Right now, it's tearing the US apart.
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@jhlfsc
Where did I say that minorities can't be bigots? I never said that ONCE. In fact, my entire message was that the idea that the original poster can't be black or gay and think this way is BIGOTED. That we're all individuals and that to assign characteristics based on race or minority status is as bigoted as it gets. That's why they had to act as if Larry Elder was the black face of white supremacy. They want to imply that he was bought off to say the things that he did and that, as a black man, he would NEVER believe these things on his own. That is as bigoted as it gets. It's saying that all I have to do is look at you, check off what demographic you belong to and I'll know everything about you.
That's what they did to Larry Elder and it was the LEFT that did that, NOT the right.
Also, Fascists are Socialists. Even that painter from Austria was a socialist.
"We are convinced that socialism in the right sense will only be possible in nations and races that are Aryan"
Adolf Hitler , August 15, 1920, speech in Munich at the Hofbräuhaus.
" In this respect I am a fanatical socialist, one who has ever in mind the interests of all his people.” – Adolf Hitler , February 24, 1941, speech on the 21st anniversary of the Nazi Party
That was 21 years AFTER he made that first quote I wrote.
“All the more so after the war, the German National Socialist state, which pursued this goal from the beginning, will tirelessly work for the realization of a program that will ultimately lead to a complete elimination of class differences and to the creation of a true socialist community.” – Adolf Hitler, March 21, 1943, speech for Heroes’ Memorial Day
So don't give me this BS about right wing Fascists. It's complete nonsense.
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There's no such thing as having it all. This idea is why the radical feminists are so miserable, so ready to do battle at every perceived slight. I'll give you an example.
I dated a girl, years ago, for a short time. We were talking on the phone and I was telling her that I had just made some homemade soup. I then said, as an afterthought, that she may not like it. Before I had a chance to explain why, she lost it on me, ranting on about how men always think women are nothing but complainers.
I calmly told her that she had told me, on our last date, that she didn't like cabbage rolls because she hated cabbage and that I had put cabbage in my soup. I then asked her why she felt it necessary to come out of the gate, both barrels blazing and that all she had to do was quietly ask why I thought that she may not like it. She sniffed and said I suppose so and that was it.
We stopped seeing each other a short time later. Didn't bother me a bit.
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@renaissancestatesman
First of all, look at my comments closely. I never ONCE mentioned the possibility of voter fraud. Why? Because it's pointless now. What we have to concentrate on NOW, is the next election and there are problems if Trump runs again.
First...it's his age. The next election is 4 years away which means that he'll be 8 years older when he's finally done. That'll make him 82. He's healthy right now, but that can change SO quickly. It may not change. My dad is 89 and he's 4 times as sharp as Biden....but that his health could change overnight is a consideration. Trump's age is a factor.
Also, we have to find a way to mitigate the outright hate that so many have for Trump. One way is to find a candidate, who has a similar outlook but is so articulate and presents such strong arguments, without being too combative, and has the charisma to win people over, that it's difficult to hate him. Difficult to hate him in spite of the manipulations of the press.
Third, we have to work on the highly suspect election process. Trump can't be that guy. Too many people will recoil when they here about "stealing the election" from him. We need someone that didn't have an issue in the last election. Someone who they can't claim is still whining about losing last election. We need someone who can lay out the case for reform and can make it appear as if he is standing up for this without bias.
The past is OVER. Accept that we lost and start up with a new strategy.
......And I repeat.....I didn't swallow any hook, line or sinker. I just think that there's no point in crying about the past. We can't change it but we can change the future if we go at it right. Unfortunately, I don't see it happening. Too many Rinos and swamp creatures in the Republican Party.
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@Registered User
I'm completely baffled on why you have to go to a camp to be quarantined when you're ill. Why can't you just quarantine in the comfort of your own home?
Oh, could it be that the government doesn't trust you? That if the government didn't watch over you, day and night, in a facility with locked doors and guards, Australians wouldn't be lost on how to look after themselves? What a wonderful idea. Let's incarcerate people for the crime of getting sick.
You can dress it up with pretty bows and sunshine, but once inside, try to leave without government permission. But, I guess you should be grateful that people, that you don't know, care so deeply about your well being that they'll lock you away from society.....but at least you're safe. "Protect me, oh great leaders. I don't have the brains or dedication to protect myself"
What will be the next reason that you'll need to be "protected". Maybe from "wrongspeak". Can't have people saying things that might upset the good people of Australia. Nothing is sadder than watching people willingly enslave themselves.
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@myronschabe
If he supports a party that wants to control our language, wants to suppress "misinformation", calls people who disagree with them "Fascists", racists, misogynists, homophobe....etc, in order to smear them, he's an authoritarian. When he holds up his intellectual prowess as evidence of a higher understanding that should carry more weight than that of a plumber, he's an authoritarian. He may say it in "nuanced" ways but, in the end, he's no different than the party that he supports. They're elitist snobs who think that they know better than the average Joe or Jill, who work serving tables, swinging hammers or other menial jobs. They think they're better because they have "careers" and can't figure out why people would shingle roofs when we should all aspire to be like him. That's why the Democrats lost and he doesn't get it because we should all think like him.
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@solveigvan808
In 2015, if I'd have told you that, by 2022, there would be members of Congress who were going to claim that men could get pregnant, you'd have told me that I'm nuts. That our president would even name a trans person to his cabinet. That men would claim to be women and insist on going to women's prisons and be allowed into women's sports. That's how quickly this nonsense took over. There was no such thing as affirmative gender care back then. We didn't even know that these TikTok teachers existed.
Remember, this started for Chloe in 2017. Her parents didn't know any of this and the most trusted people in society, our doctors, were telling them that this was SO serious that if the medical establishment did nothing, Chloe would die. They're just ordinary people....probably not even that bright. They believed those doctors....actually BELIEVED them. If a doctor tells you that you have cancer and that you need surgery, you believe them. We ALL know people that have died of cancer so we know how dangerous cancer can be. These doctors told them that their little girl was going to die because of this condition that was "rare" and it was back then. That terrified her parents. Her parents weren't going to ask YOU, some random guy on the internet, what YOU thought. They had nowhere to turn.
The doctors lied to them and they believed them. For that alone, those doctors should pay. They took a confused little girl, convinced her parents that their little girl was going to commit suicide and it would be THEIR fault and then made a fortune off it.
Remember, even though it's foolish for people to fall for the Nigerian Prince scam, that doesn't absolve those crook of their guilt. If her parents can show that they didn't know or understand what was happening and that this wasn't something that they wanted or pushed for, then they were being foolish and didn't act out of malice. Foolish mistakes shouldn't be punished through the courts. Malicious intent however, should be and this was as malicious as it comes by the medical establishment. They made money off of it and lots of it.
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@tanindunn8379
There will be over 2 million illegals entering America this year. Had DeSantis sent them back to their original country, although he may not have the ability to do that, you'd not hear a thing about it. However, by sending them to the cities that declared themselves sanctuary cities, everyone is now talking about it and the Democrats, who created the sanctuary city status, are going to have to deal with the consequences of their own actions. Remember, these are cities, that are a long way from the border, and didn't think that it would affect them.
It's the same thing with the homeless crisis. If they started pitching tents on the lawns and sidewalks of the Democrat elites, watch something get done about it. Having an addict do his business in front of his kids is sure to evoke a response from that "enlightened" governor.
It doesn't solve the migrant crisis, but it brings it to the attention of ALL Americans, so the starry eyed liberals can see what happens when they impose their weird policies on the country. When they start to see real world problems with it that affect them, they might do something about it.
I'd say it was a brilliant ploy.
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@isoakkfgy4462
You single out FOX? Have you ever listened to the other networks? They make up stuff ALL the time.
Why did the other networks completely ignore the Hunter Biden laptop story before the elections? Why would Big Tech, like Facebook and Twitter censor all references to the NY Post story surrounding that laptop? How is it that they ignored Biden, telling Ukraine that they would NOT get one billion dollars if they didn't fire a certain prosecutor? Why did they make up the entire story about the Covington kids? It took me, an old guy, living in a basement apartment, 15 minutes to find out the truth about that story. Billions of dollars worth of property damage, over 25 people dead and hundreds injured in the BLM riots last summer and all the MSM could say was that they were "mostly peaceful". An 8 year old little black girl was shot by BLM supporters and it was "by the way" story for them. Had that little girl been shot by a Republican, it would have news 24/7 on CNN and MSNBC and you know it. A BLM supporter and crickets.
As for Tucker, he obviously thinks getting vaccinated is a good idea or he wouldn't have done it. However, he has the right, no OBLIGATION, to talk about vaccines from all angles, all the information that is available. If he doesn't, if ANY news outlet doesn't, they're lying by omission.
We, as free citizens, have the right to hear all the news, get all the information available and not just what some bureaucrat or corporate news executive thinks we should be allowed to hear. If they tell us something that's not true, then go after the truth. However, when most of the news outlets only relay partisan news then we'll get pablum, their version of what the truth should be because, in their arrogance, they think that we're not mature or smart enough to handle conflicting news stories.
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Rich’s Pizza Party
People will always break the rules. What we have to determine is which one will be the best for the country and area that we live in. So far, the Republican states are doing better. California and New York, solidly Democrat, have the highest taxes, most rules, biggest homeless and crime problems, highest energy costs and their populations are going down. States like Florida, Tennessee South Dakota and Texas, Republican run, have the lowest taxes, best economic opportunities and their populations are going up. There's a reason for that.
Only a guy like Newsom would lock everyone in their homes and then claim that they're now freer. That's the true Owellian dystopia. "Slavery is freedom".....right out of his book.
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@eloiseharbeson2483
Because, in the end, it is up to all of us, all of us taxpayers, to decide through our actions and how we spend our money, that will decide on how serious we are about pollution. If we give the government the power to decide for us, you're not going to like what they decide.
First of all, pressure the government to allow us to get off the grid. Don't force us to go to big energy companies. For example, if I install solar panels or a small windmill, don't force me onto the grid. Give me the freedom to act alone. However, they don't allow that which gives many people the impression that this isn't about climate change at all. It's about power and their control over us, the minions of the state.
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@jaimhaas5170
I don't have a dog in this fight, either but I know hatred when I see it. There are almost 2 million Muslims living in Israel. I'm not talking about Gaza or the West Bank, but Israel itself. They have full citizenship, can vote, run for office, own property and a business. They are police officers and are in the Israeli military. In fact, a Muslim judge sentenced ex-Israeli Prime Minister, Ehud Olmert, to 6 years in jail for breach of trust and he went to jail. A Muslim man, one of the Palestinians, did this. It doesn't matter in Israel what religion you follow. Most Jews are secular.
However, in Gaza especially, it's ALL about Islam. Had the Jews, that migrated to this region, been Muslims, we wouldn't be having any issue in the Levant. It's because Hamas is a radical Islamist group, that will brook no other religion to be dominant, that's why there's a war going on. Hamas could have turned their country into a thriving community but they chose to prepare for war and crossed the border and did it.
The Levant has been ruled by outside powers for over 2000 years. In that time, people from all races and religions lived in the region. Now, the Israelis are dominating, another race and religion, but they've been willing to settle on a 2 state solution but it's the Palestinians who've turned it down, at least 5 times. They could have their own country, actually they have in Gaza, but they want it all. By that, I'm claiming Palestinianism, is MORE warlike and exclusive of others than Zionism is.
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@umpire29
I gave you the definition of the word "loan". However, I don't see how that takes away form the fact that we employ the Democratic process. You can, although it's about as cumbersome as it gets, have a direct Democracy in which EVERY issue is voted on by the people, but it's not the ONLY form of a Democracy. I gave you the Dictionary definition of a Democracy and a Republic. That's NOT my belief. Those are the facts. The definitions say that a Republic is governed by the people who commonly elect representatives to govern, by proxy so to speak. Nowhere did it say that a democracy is exclusively governed directly by the people. It explicitly says that it's through the election of representatives by the people.
You don't have to believe it but it's like saying that water isn't wet when all the evidence says that it is. To make it true, you have to change the definition of words which is what you're attempting to do. Go back to the definitions, from the dictionary, that I gave and read them carefully. It's very clear and the fact that you're insisting that democracy is only direct rule from the people shows that you're either not understanding what it says or you're changing what it says to suit what you want it to say. I can't help that. You either accept the definition, as we all understand it or you make up your own definition. Once you do that, there is no such thing as objective truth. It's all about how YOU see it.
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@mrt2this607
I think that if Trump had been more like Florida governor Ron DeSantis, he'd be president right now. DeSantis is just as firm but is a more likeable guy. Even if the Democrats had cheated, it would have been impossible for them to cheat enough to beat a nice guy Trump. I never liked Trump YEARS ago. He rubbed me, as a person, the wrong way. As he started to run for president, my feelings for him didn't change, as a person, but I agreed with most of his positions. So I picked him over Hillary and again over Biden. However, I know lots of people who just couldn't get past that personality flaw. They just couldn't be objective, no matter how right he was.
Right now, DeSantis is going through his smears but he's managing it better because he doesn't have that abrasive personality that Trump does. If Trump runs again, I'd back him but I'd rather see DeSantis run. DeSantis brings likeability to the table that Trump never could. That likeability, or lack of it, was Trump's downfall. The corporate establishment used it to create the narrative of Fascist monster and people believed it. Even my dad, who agrees with all of Trump's policies, if you don't tell him that their Trump's, thinks Trump is like Hitler.....and my dad lived through wartime Holland during WW2. That's how effective using Trump's personality has been for the corporate establishment.
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@undergrounddojokeyboardcag701
Florida had 99% of their votes counted, by midnight, on election day and they've over 4 times the population to count. Maricopa County, yes a county, took almost a week and that was the initial vote count. They're just counting and it shouldn't take any longer if it's close or not. I've said it before, this type of delay creates election deniers and division in the country. There's no reason, in the world, why the count wasn't completed by morning and we'd be talking about a recount by noon. We're not living in horse and buggy days.
If I were from a 3rd world country, looking around for a good election process, for my nation's first democratic election, Maricopa County....Arizona even......would be the LAST place I'd go. Efficiency inspires confidence and I would have no confidence in what I've seen in Maricopa County. This is just plain common sense.
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Yanni Ritsarntyios
How do you stop a disease? It isn't like Trump is going door to door, spreading the virus. You're blaming, like so many others and like so many others, you have NO suggestions to halt the spread.
In fact, right now, US cases are on the way down while many countries are seeing MAJOR spikes. Does that mean that Trump has the right ideas on halting the virus and the leaders of those countries are the screw-ups? Of course not. It's a disease and there will be ebbs and flows around the world. Living in a country that has done well (Canada) and where people have been quite smug about it, we're now experiencing a major spike. Does that mean that all the things that we've done, that we felt was SO great, are suddenly all wrong?
I'm going to say no. This is going to happen. I've said it all along. The disease will run its course and, in the end, there's little that can be done about it until someone comes up with a viable vaccine.
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@johnkladis4266
She does have the right to her opinion and to express what that opinion is. However, if I worked for a company and then posted, online, that I'd never purchase anything that my company produces and I will ALWAYS buy from our business rival....I can expect to be fired, terminated, let go and metaphorically kicked out the front door. I have the right to say it and my company has the right to fire me for what my free speech implies.
That's what this person did. She openly said that she supports a group that has been designated a terror group, an organisation who is supported by a Iran, who has openly stated that they wish to see the death of Israel and the United States. She's shown a strong possibility that she may act, as an ally of that group, known as Hamas, along with Iran and use her position to undermine her own nation and job.
She can say what she wants but that doesn't mean that she can't be fired from a job in which she is obligated to protect the interests of the country that she works for. My tax dollars should not go to a person who could potentially act against our nation. That would be like Roosevelt recruiting Goebbels. It makes no sense.
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@spindoctor6385
Do you really believe that a company, once it has grown extremely large, will use their market and financial power for goodness and niceness? Really?
Maybe you should look into the history of monopolies. Once a company corners a market, they will do anything to undermine any competition. Just as an example, they'll undercut prices so their competition can't compete price wise. They'll offer increased prices for raw materials so their competition can't afford to buy the things that they need. They'll invest in the companies that supply raw materials and control who can buy and who can't. They'll get exclusive rights to machinery and technology so the competition is squeezed out that way.
Throughout history, when any group, be it political, ideological, religious or financial, gets too much power, they'll wield it against the people to ensure and increase that power. It's human nature. It's why the American Constitution has attempted to put checks and balances on how it governs. It's also why it's enshrined religious freedoms AND restrictions, such as "no religious Test shall ever be required as a Qualification to any Office or public Trust" They even require that elected officials to give up any business connections so as to not give favour to their own business interests.
I don't believe, for one minute, that any large corporation will freely and cheerfully allow competition to exist. Look at the new Parler platform. It was a conservative platform and the Amazon computer server division, kicked them off their servers as soon as it appeared to have too much influence. A great way to manipulate the last election. Speaking of which, have you read the Time magazine article which outlines how Big Tech, the MSM, large corporations and the Democrats worked to "fortify the election to ensure a proper outcome". That's what happens when there's too much power in the hands of too few.
Give big tech the freedom and you'll NEVER have competition. They'll make it impossible for the little guy to operate. Don't trust them for a minute. Actually, I'm astounded that anyone would trust corporations as big as the Big Tech 5.
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@spindoctor6385
You're still not getting it. Facebook already owns 72 internet companies including Instagram, Oculus and Whatsapp. Twitter is one of the most prominent sites in the world. Amazon is huge and Alphabet, one of the most valuable companies in the world, owns Google, of which YouTube is a subsidiary. These companies make money selling their data and it is next to impossible for companies to make money through only advertising and membership fees. Advertisers will want to target their audiences so they'll insist on data collection, so that just leaves the fees to make money on. These companies will just grow and grow, leaving those little companies to operate in obscurity or go bankrupt.
WORSE, they'll become part of the political process as they grow. The Democrats LOVE that these big companies will run propaganda for them and won't allow them to lose their influence and will enact policies that will help the big ones and suppress the little ones. It's happening in Canada right now. The Canadian communications regulatory body, the CRTC, is trying to enact policies that favour Canadian media and squelch the little guys. The CRTC head was once an employee of Bell Canada, the the biggest communications corporation in the country. The Democrats will do the same for their big tech companies. They're WAY ahead of the Republicans in this.
Yet, you want to give these guys, including Facebook, the power to grow until nothing can touch them. Why would you want to do that? If you don't have regulations, they'll take advantage of their position to gain more power. It's how every monopoly has ever operated yet, for some reason you believe that Facebook will be good. They're censoring discussion now if it doesn't meet their political stance. EVERY one of those tech giants support the Democrats and censored stories that might help the Republicans.
All I can think is that you approved of all the censorship and allowing big corporations to become even bigger than the government. Once private companies can pick and choose the political leaders, we're living in an autocratic society. It will be the new age Feudal system.
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@venicebeachsportsnetwork6677
And it wasn't like it was 30 years before that. People, in the west, were pulling themselves out of poverty, because 30 years before that, almost everyone was poor. REALLY poor.....and 30 years before that, when my grandparents were born, they had no electricity, no phones, no running water, no cars, no planes....nothing. What we take for granted today, the richest people, 120 years ago, would see as miracles of affluence.
Your problem is that you, also, don't understand relative poverty. What's poor today, in the west, is affluence beyond measure 200 years ago. You just don't get that....at all. You're consumed with envy and are a living example of why "Thou shalt not covet" is one of the Big Ten of the Commandments. Whoever wrote them understood something that you don't and you'll never have peace of mind until you do.
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@csmidt2885
Homelessness has been a problem, forever. However, it has increased in population and in percentage of the population over the last 10 years. California is in the top five in homelessness, percentage of homelessness, and in the increase of the homeless in the US. Also, California has mandated that any theft under 900 dollars is now considered a misdemeanour, which is NOT a felony and means that it's NOT a crime. A cute way to reduce crime on paper but not in reality.
So many stores have closed due to crime and businesses have left the state for that same reason, also citing high taxes, high energy costs, high rents, recurring brownouts and too much red tape. You may not want to face these facts but a simple google search will validate those problems.
Also, state populations do NOT go down, even a little bit, if things are going well. You may not like it but that's the facts. Migrants aren't flocking to the border because their home countries are great places to live. Californians aren't leaving for Arizona, Texas, Florida and Tennessee because they love California. They're having issues in their home state and see a better future in those growing states. This has been the way of human migration throughout history.
That doesn't mean that California is the worst place ever. It means that they're facing severe problems which should be examined and solved before it really gets out of hand. Your head-in-the-sand approach isn't going to solve those problems. You have to face them, no matter how big or small, to find ways to improve. Things never improve by doing nothing.
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Kenny Bugh
Explain to us why the MSM refused to follow up on the Hunter Biden laptop story or why Big Tech companies would strike down any reference to the NY Post article. This HEAVILY implicated Joe Biden in crooked business deals, deals that would have been HUGE news had it been the Trump family, blanketing the news 24/7. Why was Steven Crowder given a YouTube strike for pointing out irregularities in addresses in Las Vegas? Why were mail in ballots allowed, for the FIRST time in American history, by executive command, bypassing the legislative process as demanded by law? Why wasn't the arrest of Rachel Rodriguez for election fraud, illegal voting, unlawfully assisting people voting by mail, and unlawfully possessing an official ballot a part of the MSM news cycle, proving that mail in voting could be manipulated? Why did the Democrats and the MSM do everything possible to refute and denigrate the Project Veritas revelation of mail in voter fraud in Minneapolis? Why isn't the Time magazine article about how the Democrats, Rinos, big tech, multinational corporations and the MSM worked together to "fortify" the elections a bigger story? This is unprecedented in American election history.
All you keep doing is repeating the same thing about recounts and ignoring all the other weirdness surrounding the elections. And WHAT THE HELL IS THIS RACIST NONSENSE ABOUT BLACKS BEING SO INEPT AS NOT BEING ABLE TO GET IDS ABOUT? Do you really think that blacks Americans are that incapable?
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@jaymudd2817
What do mean they didn't have sovereignty? They were independent nations who ruled themselves. That's what sovereignty is.
The Iroquois Confederation were, at one time, 5 different nations who were continuously bickering and at war with one another. They got together, in council meetings, and after extensive negotiations formed one nation, with a capital and rules on which to govern. The United States is loosely based on the model that the Iroquois developed. They had councils, just like they have in Congress and in state and municipal governments, today.
The natives weren't a bunch of clueless troglodytes. They were quite sophisticated and were destroyed by European diseases that they had no immunity against. Before that, they had huge civilisations. The Aztec, Mayans, the Mound Builders, Incas, Mississippians, the Cherokee and lots more. I've seen the ruins of the Mayans. They weren't primitive people. The ruins of Chichen Itza are a true marvel.
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@jaymudd2817
There is no such term or person known as an Early American. It's a term coined by German mapmaker, Martin Waldseemuller, who named, what we call South America, America, after explorer Amerigo Vespucci. What we now call North America, he named "Terra Ultra Incognita" because he had no idea what lay there. Now, we refer to the United States as America and the people who live there "Americans" when the term should actually refer to all who live in North and South America, not just one country.....but who cares?
We're not even calling India by it's correct name. That's a British and European appellation, that was derived from the Greek historian Herodotus, over 2000 years ago after the Indus River, which is in Pakistan. But really....who cares? Our maps and names for each other are filled with names and identifications that are completely WRONG when we consider the historical facts. It shows just how intertwined our history actually is....and who cares? It just becomes a way to detract people in a conversation, to deflect from the topic when things aren't going well for one of the conversants. We all know what's meant but it's a great method to show moral superiority, thinking that scorn is the same thing as making a solid point.
Who really cares.
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@Terralventhe
I will say that the Biden administration did arrest a journalist, named Steve Baker, who entered the Capitol Building on Jan 6th, as a reporter and did make reports on it as a reporter. It took 3 years to finally charge him and he received misdemeanour charges of parading in the Capitol building and trespassing. They actually put him in leg irons and chained the leg irons to his handcuffs even though he surrendered himself at FBI headquarters in Dallas. They chained him like this for misdemeanours, which isn't even a felony. He now works for Blaze as a reporter. This is strange as there were 2 NPR reporters in the Capitol Building that day, as well, and they have NEVER been charged.
CNN correspondent, Manu Raju, was also in the building and not arrested. NBC News’ Frank Thorp was also there and not arrested. There were others there but none were arrested. There is one thing that's different between those reporters and Steve Baker. All the reporters, not arrested, reported on the riot in a similar manner and from approved sources. The Blaze and Steve Baker are conservatives and are not approved.
Let's see if this comment makes it past the censors.
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I always use the example of the Oxycontin crisis. That drug was approved by the FDA and AMA and it killed tens of thousands and destroyed the lives and families of hundreds of thousands more. It took YEARS of disaster before Oxycontin was taken off the market. Too late for a couple of people that I knew and I say "knew" because they're gone now, victims of the "wisdom" of the experts of our medical establishment.
However, it wasn't before people made billions of the misery of others.
This time is ideology. A man cannot become a woman and there isn't enough doctors in existence to make that true. No human being, who has XY chromosomes, has EVER given birth. EVER. You can drug, detach, reattach, wear makeup and don a dress and, if you're a man, a being with XY chromosomes, you will never become pregnant. That's the science of it. You can't change it or negotiate with it or wish it different. The science says that it cannot happen. Period.
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@3MrNiceGuy15
Another person who equates circumcision with the amputation of breasts and genitals. I was circumcised at 6 years old due to a severe infection. The day after the surgery, I checked it out. A small scab, which fell off in a week, and then nothing. No pain, no difficulties, no nothing. That was 64 years ago. All that I noticed is that, when flaccid, there was no foreskin to cover the head. When erect, it looked no different than is always looked, in the morning. (yes, 6 year olds wake up with an erection, too). I fathered 3 children, have NEVER had any medical issues since the minor operation and have had a VERY vigorous sex life, over the years.
To compare male circumcision to sex change surgery is beyond ridiculous. One is a VERY minor operation that has little to no affect over a lifetime while the other is fraught with a lifetime of drugs, infections, takes away the ability to procreate and affects the body's natural functions.
You're using a tempest in a teapot to covertly validate gender reassignment surgery.
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@bluejay9235
Do you mean EVERY police officer? There's not a good one in the bunch. There all EXACTLY the same?
A spoiled rich kid, goes out, whining and complaining about his oppressed life, vandalises property and then gets mad, when he gets arrested, and assaults the cop that arrests him......and it's the cops fault??? Are you serious?
I'll bet that if I went to your home and started destroying your property, you'd be mad enough to do something about it. Then when you saw that I'm 6'4" and 255 lbs, what would you do then? I'll bet that you'd call the police.
You're another one that thinks that you should be allowed to do whatever you want and no one should take that away from you. Just a spoiled, entitled little monster that's trapped in an adult body. You're the kid, that was lying on the floor, screaming and kicking his feet in the grocery store, crying because you wanted a box of Fruit Loops.....and then got it.
The result is this grown man, who claims he's a girl, complaining about imaginary things, defacing property and still thinks he's a victim of some kind of oppression. Ridiculous.
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@bluejay9235
People, like you, just don't get it. You go after the symptom, NOT the problem. The cop arrests a rioter and 3 hours later, he's right back on the street, throwing bricks. You arrest him AGAIN and he's back out again the following night. How many times are you going to risk injury, to arrest someone, who's going to be let out by the Democrat establishment. YOU would even say "eff them if they're not going to prosecute". The rioter is applauded and the cop is vilified for doing his job....that's the way its handled on the MSM. ONE thing goes wrong and you're charged, your face is all over the news, you're vilified, your family is harassed, you lose EVERYTHING that you own, might see jail time and have to go into hiding to protect yourself and your family.
THAT'S why these officers are doing as instructed. It's pointless. You take a brick to the side of your face and the guy that does it gets off scot-free. See how "noble" you'd be after experiencing that or watching your fellow officers do the same.
The REAL problem are the left leaning politicians, their judges and District Attorneys. They're the generals in this phenomena, to use an analogy. You're going after the grunt instead of the general who's giving the orders. You ask the police to maintain order and then beat them submission when they do. It's no wonder that morale in the police departments are so low. No wonder so many are quitting and moving to places like Florida where they get the support they need to do their jobs.
If your bosses treated you that way, you'd quit too, or go to a work to rule attitude because it's just not worth doing your best. It's human nature. You're treating them the same way that the left wing over seers and the media treats them. If I were a cop I'd tell you to get lost when surrounded by a group of armed rioters. YOU got a gun...figure it out for yourself. You think that I'm a jerk anyway. Why would I help someone who feels that way?
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@venture_210
I'd say it's unravelling because we've accepted a pernicious ideology, based on Marxist principles, into the nation. This is an ideology that dismissed the massive violence in over 60 cities last year, with Billions of dollars of damage, looting and around 30 dead, all in the name of "justice". Adam Schiff teared up, a great display of political theatre, over what happened on Jan 6th but there was not a word, NOTHING, when 8 year old, Secoriea Turner, was shot by BLM supporters in Atlanta, Georgia. You'd think that an horrific thing like that would give the media and others pause to reflect on the idea that maybe these riots weren't the right way to go and that too many innocent people were getting hurt. But that didn't happen.
They don't care about that little girl's rights or of the rights of all those business owners that lost everything or their employees that lost their livelihood. They didn't care that Jacob Blake sexually assaulted a woman. They didn't care that our current Vice-President visited Blake and told him that she was proud of him. A RAPIST....and she was proud of him. Did Adam Schiff and Congress call her out for that? No....they picked her to be the next vice president and possibly the president.
If you can't see that as a breakdown of society's respect for the Constitution and the Rule of Law....there's not much more I can say to you.
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@rogerlopez4808
There are several reasons why Africa didn't expand like others did. For one, in spite of the size of that continent, there are very few natural harbours and the few that do exist don't come close to the harbours, for large ships, that other continents are blessed with. Also, much of Africa is situated on large plateaus. This means that the great rivers, unlike other great rivers in the world, are only navigable for a few miles inland. That seriously hampered the ability to set long distance trade routes, essential to economic growth. The Sahara is another major deterrent to establishing major trade routes and sub-Saharan Africa was cut off from the rest of the world for thousands of years. Even when the world started going to them, the navigators wouldn't enter into the country because of the limitations set by unnavigable rivers and the prevalence of diseases, especially malaria. It wasn't until the development of quinine, as an effective treatment for malaria, did European explorers venture inland, and that wasn't until the 1800s. There were some big kingdoms but they just didn't have the natural advantages that countries in Europe, the Middle east, North Africa and the Orient had.
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@smallfeet4581
Lenin never knew that he had Jewish heritage and Stalin, the most brutal of all the Bolsheviks and Lenin's muscle, was Georgian. When Stalin became the power, in the Soviet Union, Lavrently Beria was the most influential member of the secret police and was eventually named to head the NKVD. Beria was ALSO a Georgian.
Am I to surmise, from this, that maybe the Georgians are behind Marxism as well. Also, China is the largest Communist power in the world. There are only about 2,700 Jews in all of China. Are you seriously trying to tell me that this tiny population is the ruling force of over 1 billion people???
This is a lot of selective fact finding. Yes there were influential Jews who were involved in the Marxist movement. However, they're far from the driving force of Marxism today. Anyone who believes that is engaging in the same identitarian politics as the progressive woke left. In fact, the Marxist left are staunchly anti-Jewish right now. Look at their adamant stance against the Jewish state of Israel and how pro-Palestinian they are.
Definite selective facts.
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I agree with everything you say but they do come out with nuggets of facts that a conservative network, like Fox, may not think important. I'd never take either one at their word, ESPECIALLY CNN, because they are extremely toxic, but I listen and then do my own fact checking. However, if you only watch CNN and are committed to fact checking and the truth, you're going to be one frustrated human being.
I don't think that Trump should be impeached but he was on FOX this morning and I had to turn it off. Yet, considering the Democrat field of hopefuls, I'd probably vote for Trump. I've always said that if the Democrats could come up with a candidate that was doing the things that Trump was doing and was a likeable person, they'd win in a landslide......but they're too consumed with this new socialist and left progressive agenda to ever even consider that strategy. What's worse, they're too consumed with hate. Hate for Trump, for the white patriarchy and the rich. Hate has never been good for any society, ever, in human history.
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Sunny is asking "Where is the compassion?" That's right, Sunny. You're living in the liberal, compassionate, socialist state of New York and this state will NOT take Jordan Neeley in hand, place him where he can get medical and psychiatric care 24/7, give him a warm bed and good food so he can, hopefully, recover from his difficulties. Instead, they turn him loose on the world, where he can do as he will, inevitably, give in to the demons in his brain and end up ending his life. There is no compassion in those people who are claiming to care for Neeley, a minority. They don't care one bit about him, unless he can be used to further their own political agenda. The great socialist state of New York failed Jordan Neeley, the very state that YOU, Sunny Hostin, support.
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@mikegleghorn5437
I've said this earlier, what you've said about these guys may well have merit, however that doesn't take away from what's being presented in the video. You can't, in any future discussion on what is being talked about, in the video, deride the letter, written by Jefferson, because you first heard about it from Glenn Beck. That letter still exists, with or without Beck, and you have to deal with it, as if Beck doesn't exist.
A refusal to discuss it because of this one man, doesn't disprove or prove, what's being said. The only thing that does that is by using your intellect in a reasoned and logical manner. You're basically doing what an 8 year old does in a school yard. "You're stupid" might work at recess but not between supposedly intelligent adults.
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@kevintewey1157
"I am a fanatical socialist, one who has ever in mind the interests of all his people.” – Adolf Hitler , February 24, 1941, speech on the 21st anniversary of the Nazi Party
I have MORE quotes from Hitler in which he says similar things about his feelings on socialism.
"We are convinced that socialism in the right sense will only be possible in nations and races that are Aryan, and there in the first place we hope for our own people and are convinced that socialism is inseparable from nationalism.”
– Adolf Hitler , August 15, 1920, speech in Munich at the Hofbräuhaus.
Nazi is short for "National Socialist German Workers' Party." I don't care for socialism...AT ALL. I have even more disdain for National Socialism, a term coined by Mussolini and refined by Hitler. China is now closer to National Socialism than it is to Communism. Mao would be appalled at what's going on in China today with their move towards Capitalism and the "injustices" of accruing wealth on the backs of the common man. China has 607 billionaires at the moment, all business moguls yet they all must defer to the CCP (Chinese Communist Party). I think that they should call themselves "The Chinese National Socialist Party" That would be a lot more accurate.
China is a wonderful place alright, if you like one party rule.....kinda like Hitler did.
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@Zachary_Setzer
No they're not better. I bought a house in 1977, working as a labourer at a shoe factory which locals said wasn't even a well paying job. My wife didn't work and we 2 kids. We got married in 1974 and had nothing. 3 1/2 years later, I had the down payment for a house and both the wife and I had our own car. In the fall of 73, my radiator in my car, developed a bad leak and I phoned work and told them that I'd be a half hour late. My boss got angry and fired me. Half hour later, my car was repaired, I drove out to look for another job and found one a little over an hour later, at the aforementioned shoe factory. My boss called me that afternoon, apologised and asked me to return the following day. I told him that I'd found another job.
That's the way life was in those days. Now, my daughter and her husband have been together for 14 years. Both have always worked. They have 2 kids but do NOT have a car and believe that they will NEVER be able to buy a home. They don't drink or do drugs. They don't gamble or go out on weekends. When I was 25, when I bought my home, I could pay my mortgage with one weeks pay the same as I could when I was paying rent. It takes the both of them to pay their rent almost 3 weeks of their salary.
You weren't alive then. You have NO idea how things have gotten worse.
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@perihelion7798
It might work for the indigenous but they don't carry a lot of weight as far as economics and power goes. They can still control them because they're so small.
However, I doubt they're going to allow the rest of us to form our own autonomous zones. Like you've already implied, they own the military. The foot soldiers may not be aware of it but that's who's giving them their orders. They're already going through their private social media to see if they're supporting the right people and if they're not, they have dismissed some of them. It would be great if the constitutional zones worked but I'm afraid that it might be the tool that they want to finally take full power over the country. In fact, it might well what they've been working towards.
That's why the school board fiasco is such a help to stop the authoritarians. Suddenly, the average person is actually running into that brick wall called the establishment. That a soccer mom could be labelled a domestic terrorist, because she doesn't like the sexually graphic material in her kid's school library, has to be opening a few eyes. This is the type of thing that will defeat them. Most people don't know the depth of what is happening to our institutions. They're busy trying to make a living and it all sounds a little crazy to them....until they run into it first hand.
It won't be easy and it will frustrating but it's the best way to reverse the coarse and not destroy the country, completely. At least, that's my opinion, anyway. All I do know is that Civil war is a destroyer and the results might take decades or longer to fix....if ever.
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@perihelion7798
The left got this way because of the infiltration of socialists into every facet of society, starting at the universities. This started in the 30s. The socialists, in the universities took the socialist students under their wings and slowly placed them into positions where they could indoctrinate the next generation. First it was the schools that were the priority. Then the media and local governments. After that it was into human resources departments and the bureaucrats in governments. They did it all under the radar, cultivating a mindset that would put their ideology under a positive light. They've had a huge head start.
We have to start doing the same thing except show the positives of being a free human being. Actually using science and facts, again, instead of the Orwellian science of the left. It's not going to be easy, like I said but we have to start taking part in the community, especially our schools.
I'm 70 years old and had you told me in 1975 that our own citizens would be cheering on Marxism, I would have laughed at you. That's how insidious their program is.
Assuming that the last election was honest(?), 70 million Americans voted for Trump. You'd have been lucky to get 2 million people to vote for a this version of the Democrats back in '75. We can turn it around but we have to believe in ourselves and in our system. It's not the left that will defeat us. It's us and we'd better start realising it, soon.
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@spencerchudyk3390
Maybe he should have asked why there has been poor people in all of human history. Why the overwhelming majority of people were dirt poor, for thousands of years.
It's that old conundrum. Why aren't things perfect? If only things could always be EXACTLY as we want them to be.
When you look and expect perfection, you're going to be disappointed....very disappointed.
The poorest American, right now, has access to better health care than royalty did 200 years ago. As imperfect as the American health system, royalty of those times couldn't even begin to get the kind of medical attention that the poor, of America, get today. In 1935, Americans were living on bread lines and in shanty towns. Poverty didn't just exist, it was the norm for most Americans.....in fact around the world. My parents grew up without electricity or running water as did everyone of their neighbours, in the 20s and 30s. Did he really expect that within 25, every person in America would be affluent? The rise in the standard of living, in Canada and the United States, after the war, was the biggest gain in life styles, for the common man, in human history, up to that point.
Some people only dwell on the failures and refuse to see the successes. My parents, the same people without electricity or running water, in 1945, without a nickel in their pocket and not a square inch of property, managed to buy and pay off a small farm by 1967. My dad raised cash crops during the day, worked as a labourer, in a shoe factory, from 4:30 in the afternoon till 1:00 the next morning, 5 days a week. On weekends, he would play in local pubs and dance halls, as a musician. He worked his butt off and now he's in his nineties and has had a great retirement.
Why? Because the capitalist system allowed him the opportunity to make something of himself. He didn't cry that "Joe" down the road had more than him. He put his head down and went for it.
Now, he's got young folk, that are wailing that he's got white privilege and that he should share the wealth. They refuse to see that he worked 60 to 80 hours a week to find his success. They're too lazy and feel entitled to what he had to work so hard for.
So spare me the negative platitudes about capitalism. When I hear that negativity, I hear the ramblings of one that doesn't want to do what has to be done, that has no pride or self esteem. If you want it bad enough, in America, it's there for you if you're willing to sacrifice and work hard for it. If you wait for the state to do it for you, for that's what socialism is, you'll wait a lifetime.
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@spencerchudyk3390
It was capitalism that built the US in the 50s and 60s and into the 70s. It was international socialism that slowly destroyed it ever since. Then came the free trade deals and the beginnings of the world economy, a sort of international socialism. Suddenly, the rule of law, that governed the capitalist system here, no longer applied. Any autocratic country, which exploited workers, and they did, was allowed to dump their products in our country, wiping out our manufacturing facilities. Countries that allowed child labour, near slave labour with no labour laws, environmental standards or quality control requirements popped up all over the 3rd world. Workers, locked up in sweat shops with suicide nets around the buildings, allowed us to buy cheap products and those products filled our stores and we happily and greedily allowed it. Unscrupulous nations, some even communist like China, cajoled and bribed multinational executives, lobbyists and our state bureaucrats, to encourage them to shut down factories here and rebuild them in their nations, promising cheap labour and non-existent manufacturing standards. Our oligarchs grabbed that cash with both hands.
It's not Capitalism that eroded the middle class. It's the exploitation of the elites, who circumvented the rule of law, an implicit requirement of capitalism, that did it. The elites were forced to follow the rule of law, in this country, so they went elsewhere, where it no longer was an essential part of the system.
That's not capitalism at all. Capitalism requires a free market, FREE being the operative word. A free market system has one basic requirement. It requires that all within that system be free and that means a rule of law that is equally applied. When you allow child labour and lock workers in the place of employment, you're not applying the rule of law and freedom is thrown into the waste basket.
You may think the it's capitalism that did it, but it was actually the cooperation of state and the multinationals that did it, an evolved form of Fascism.
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That's why the progressive activists chased Riley Gaines into a locked room, threatened her, wouldn't allow her to leave and told her that she had to pay to be let out. She was in there for 3 hours, all because those progressives weren't being stupid, small, close minded and cruel like Dave Rubin. (sarcasm) No nuance, no educational discussions.....just violently reactionary and all because Riley doesn't think that it's fair that men, can claim to be women, and then compete in women's sports.
You complain about someone saying things that you don't like but if you say anything against progressive ideas, you can be physically attacked, lose your job and even have your kids taken away from you if you don't sign a consent form for trans surgery on your child. Where's the nuance in that? Go to your local university and wear a sign saying "Men can't get pregnant" as a social experiment. Then you'll see who the cruel ones really are.
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@KingFillip
I would bet that you'd be singing another tune if YouTube, Google, Facebook, Twitter and Amazon were telling Democrat supporting uploaders to kick rocks. Youtube invites, as its business platform, people to upload their videos on their platforms, EXCEPT those whose political views differ from theirs. What's next. Muslim Imams have to go because they Islam believes that homosexuality is a sin? The other 4 big tech companies do the same. When people say that there's only one political view point allowed on social media, they say "Start your own". So someone started Parler and guess what....Amazon won't let them use their server until recently. The left, to the everlasting joy and approval of the Democrats, control social media and the MSM.
There is only ONE major conservative news network and NO big tech conservative platforms. It's a near monopoly. This is EXACTLY how authoritarians take over a government. They control the media and then guys, like YOU, hide behind dubious interpretations of business laws to squelch all dissenting voices. YouTube calls itself a platform, a bulletin board, but it's colluding, just like Time Magazine said, with other big tech companies, big corporations, the Democrats and the MSM to make sure that ONLY their voice is heard...and you're good with that because it lines up with your voice.
YouTube is NOT the voice. It's customers and uploaders are. Their standards are that you don't break the law and that's all it should be. Having conservative views is NOT illegal.
Just be grateful that they weren't all lining up to squelch left wing voices. Then YOU'D be the one complaining.
It's easy to applaud when you're in the choir.
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@KingFillip
All you have to do is question the election results. Not just any election results. Only the 2020 results. You can complain about the 2016 results ALL you want?
Or maybe you could do what Crowder did to get a temporary ban. Look up addresses on voter lists and go to those addresses and find out that they don't exist. That got him suspended for one week. He looked at a Nevada voting list, went to the address given by voters, showed on video, with a current newspaper, where that certain addresses did NOT exist and for that, he's a piece of shit. HE SHOWED FACTS and that went against their policy and now, according to you, only a piece of shit would show facts that might make the election look bad. It doesn't even show that Trump won and Crowder, most emphatically, said that it didn't.....but he's still a piece of shit for exposing fake addresses.
I call that good journalism and it would have been recognised as such 30 years ago. Now, because it seems to hurt a certain political party, it's considered the work of a piece of shit.
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@alondramojico6838
That's true and Florida had a much greater case per million count, as well.
However, New York had EXACTLY the same death rate as Florida and a HIGHER case per million count than Florida. New York had just as strict a mandates as California.
This means that there are more at play here than just mandates. That strict mandates are not the only factor in the spread and death rates. It also means that we can play with statistics any way that we want so they end up to suit what we want to see.
One thing that has happened since Covid started is that for the first time in Californian history, its population went DOWN. People are leaving California and New York state is going through the same thing. Florida, however, is seeing an upsurge in population. The economy is growing. People are so happy with the situation that they voted, overwhelmingly, for the current administration, in the last election, an election that they barely won in the previous election. People, in Florida, are experiencing greater life satisfaction in Florida than in either California or New York.
Isn't that the point in life? Instead of living in perpetual fear, for the future, they live with an atmosphere of optimism and real personal and economic growth. That's what makes life worth living. Living to be safe is mere existence. Grabbing life by both horns and facing it with courage and determination is what makes life worth living. Hiding in your homes and viewing those around you as threats to your life is an awful way to live.
I've had Covid, in spite of 3 vaccines and living in a place where mandates were strict. It was no fun and I'm over 70 years old and should be afraid....but I'm not. I'd never want to go back to the mandates. It was a miserable time and Covid rates in my area are the highest, now, that they've ever been. I still go out, mask free, where ever and whenever I want and I am enjoying my life much more now than 2 years ago. If I catch it again, so be it. I'll deal with it but I refuse to live my life as in fear.....especially in fear of the people around me. I will NOT treat people that way.
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No, we don't have a faith in the non existence of God. What we're saying that there is no reason to believe in God and that the default position is the non-existence of God.
When you were born, you didn't know about God. You didn't believe or disbelieve in his existence and it stayed that way until you were informed of his existence. Non belief is the default, just like non belief in Thor or unicorns or leprechauns. All of it, including the belief is the default, how everyone starts their lives. It is the default until one is told and for whatever reason, accept it as fact. Sometimes, a person who began to believe, examines the reasons for belief and finds them wanting and he reverts to the state of unbelief.
One has to have reasons to believe in God. One doesn't need a reason to not believe. If you can't show his existence, like anything else without proof, I don't have to believe it.
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@grantfraser5430
Charging him with fraud, in NY, when there's no victim, everyone made money, no customer complaint against him and a State Attorney, who ran on a platform of "taking him down", her words, and it does give them impression of an harassment campaign. Only the most brainwashed Democrat honestly believes that Mar-a-Lago is only worth 18 million. That's so ridiculous that the only way that charge could stick is if the judge was biased, as well.
Having said this, if Trump is guilty of crimes, he should be prosecuted. However, that fraud charge is so repetitiously bad that it's only serving to recruit supporters for Trump. It's HURTING the Democrats. Don't allow your emotions, your hate, to dictate policy or your political stance. Use the facts.
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