Comments by "0IIIIII" (@0IIIIII) on "NBC News" channel.

  1.  @NAVY-e8e Palestine is Hamas and Hamas is Palestine
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  2. nodinitiative Well why would anyone choose to reside in North Vietnam? It's a corrupt dictatorship and the US and West are objectively superior
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  3. Yeah but he can’t keep taking money from properties, if he does, then eventually he will lose the properties/portfolios that can’t cashflow. I don’t think you understand that landlords usually aren’t getting rich. Unless they’ve owned a place for a long time and it’s appreciated, or it’s paid off, rent is usually only a few hundred dollars a month in profit. While that is great, it’s not a lot of money, and it only works if the tenant pays. Otherwise, these properties don’t make money and are very expensive
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  4. Israel 🇮🇱
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  5.  @alf3926  republicans want corporations to exploit and poison people rather than the little guy fight back and sue them for breaking the law. Republicans are not above the law
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  6. Master Icarus South Vietnam was an American ally, and believe it or not, they were pretty pissed when the US abandoned them to the North Vietnamese. Because their fate was sealed.
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  7. True, but a lot of people, weak in English, poor, or just ignorant, are unaware these options exist
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  8. lol come on everyone knows that it’s basic biology, don’t act you’re saying something profound. An egg or sperm are each not a person
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  9.  @hibatica  study where the jobs are! STEM offers the most money, and biotech is growing, especially in a few urban hot spots like the Greater Boston Metropolitan Area, where I live. Engineering and computer science undergrads can make six figures in only a few years. I went to a modest state school in Massachusetts by the way, and was a mediocre student with a 2.7 GPA. Study majors which lead to jobs, and you’ll get a job that pays money. Some majors are bloated, like psychology and criminal justice. Choose wisely
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  10. J Skyler Russia also likes bombing Syrian civilians in Aleppo
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  11. Daddy Dana Leftists care about human rights and are not bigoted. US already has in place rigorous vetting. This racist fear mongering is not the solution.
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  12. Alex K 'official' We learned what happens when the US gets chickenshit afraid and pulls out, leaving an ally to die in its hour of need. South Vietnam could've flourished if it survived the war, just like Taiwan and South Korea. But the treacherous liars in the Anti-War Movement decided that South Vietnam should be left to die. Sad!
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  13. Việt Phạm But the war has a legacy worth scrutinizing
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  14. Go to school, and get educated. I make 75k a year and work in Biotech, I’m 25 too lol
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  15.  @shaft5 an acronym for “law enforcement”. Sometimes also “LEO”, or “law enforcement officer”.
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  16. That’s what happens when they start the wars
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  17. It’s not as simple as you make it seem. Think of all the generals and career bureaucrats and how much collective expertise they all have. Whatever decision they made, be assured it was made with intelligence and technique, even if it’s not obvious to you.
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  18. lol ok bro sure. We will never again have a market crash like in 2008. Everyone is dedicated to making sure of that. And you don’t want that either. It was bad for almost everyone
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  19. This is why you never rent. I bought my condo for $300k in Massachussets. This is why we don’t vote Republican here.
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  20. This is not true. The 2nd Amendment is no match for the police and military. If the US government goes authoritarian, civilian guns won’t matter
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  21. CheckMyKDbro if Taiwan and South Korea are any examples, South Vietnam could've flourished if the US stood by its ally. And as you can see from the current state of Vietnam, the North Vietnamese were terrible rulers with no vision for the future
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  22. Well there’s little he can do. It was virtually impossible to win. And when someone’s convicted and sentence to hard time, it’s awkward to say the least. A long goodbye is not always the comfort needed or wanted.
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  23. Ashton Fields So sad that Hippies do not understand. US was fighting to secure South Vietnam's sovereignty. South Vietnam could've become like South Korea, or Taiwan. But because of the treacherous Anti-War Movement, this never happened. They decided that the South Vietnamese did not deserve freedom.
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  24. Oh boo. Maybe they should surrender and stop fighting!
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  25. You’re just looking to validate your anti government and anti-Biden opinions. You wouldn’t be able to tell between a recession or not from a consumer’s perspective
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  26. Think1776 US involvement in the Vietnam War was approved and begged by South Vietnam.
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  27. Why do you assume he’s a migrant
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  28. Lisa Boliaris if Obama "started it" then why is Trump putting this into action right now?
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  29.  @andromedaspark2241 that’s a reach for sure. Isn’t it more likely that he, the legal expert, thought it was the correct verdict?
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  30.  @djdavisiscool  the owner could’ve retreated, or de escalated. This would never fly in the UK. His pride or violent mindset did not allow him to see any peaceful alternative. There was no imminent threat despite your baseless and paranoid claims.
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  31.  @LoveLife-oo9cz  also, jobs. And a social life. If you are ok as a man dying alone in the Midwest and working in fast food, or retail…then I guess this is acceptable
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  32. It’s not about discipline. It’s about poor parenting and education.
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  33.  @joexavier4070 why should the U.S. leave Iraq? Can you explain
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  34. Go to college and get educated. I am 25 and make 75k a year
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  35. He just said the investigation is ongoing. Watch the video
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  36.  @ridefree9160 because holding a ten year old child to the same standards as an adult makes sense. They have not the same maturities
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  37. Secession is wrong, we fought a little something called the Civil War and established that. Puerto Rico is as inseparable and important to the US as any other state or territory. This game by AOC and her cabal is dangerous populism, no different than Trump, it is appealing to peoples’ lower elements of nationalism and firebrand politics. Puerto Rico should remain in the US in some form. Ceding it forever would be a horrible loss of culture and assets for the US and Puerto Rico.
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  38.  @kadaltokek3953  you are uneducated. Anyone who resides in PR can’t vote for US President and get proper representation in Congress. If they become a state, or choose to reside in a state, then they can vote. That’s not colonialism, that’s an arrangement of being a Territory, which they can change anytime.
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  39.  @frankoramerez4536  government keeps secrets, who cares? Your SS Number is a secret, your mailing address is a secret known held by the government. So what?
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  40. So the Israelis saved his life even going outside the parameters of their mission? Even if they did it in a rough way.
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  41. What should the punishment be for releasing classified information for the world to see?
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  42. @Space Rock snowflake, it’s a fact that the Republicans have gutted or attempted to gut the Civil Justice System for decades. Watch the Hot Coffee documentary and observe the Republican corruption. Democrats are not to blame. It’s them
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  43. @Stay Free why does it matter? It’s a mass shooting, and they were able to get legal guns.
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  44.  @GusCraft460  you are wrong. Puerto Rico has great resources. You are only thinking of oil and minerals, but it offers beautiful nature, lovely local culture, a strong economy (relative to Latin America at least), and millions of Americans who contribute to the national identity and multiculturalism. Losing that would be tragic for the US and Puerto Ricans
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  45. Brian buettner worse part is that Americans are no Viet Cong. We’re living on the grid, we’re not rugged peasants. We can’t do what the VC were doing. 900,000 dead and they didn’t quit. Adjusting for our population that would mean millions of Americans would die...probably more since we’re all fat and untrained.
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  46.  @moemcarthur4228  but driving through dozens of people, most of whom were not even accosting her vehicle, is either reckless or homicidal thought. That should not be legal or ok.
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  47.  @Mrb1033  laws don’t go away just because you want them to. Even if this woman is found not guilty, it would be because a jury accepted her argument that her life was threatened. It would not be because, as you say, the protesters lost their rights. US laws still say that violence is only acceptable in self defense, not because you feel angry and the road is blocked. You seem happy to dish out pain and hurt people, why is that?
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  48. He’s a member of the enemy nation
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  49. They’re at risk of losing their job all the time lol. Each election
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  50. Mark Crawford why don’t you actually do research before spewing Trump propaganda
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  51.  @DingleBerry6969  you are looking for an excuse to hurt people.
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  52.  @faustinreeder1075 why would you move to Ohio? Ohio is poor and uneducated. You can buy a condo in Massachussets or California for the same money.
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  53.  @kadaltokek3953  globalism and unity is not colonialism. Puerto Ricans are Americans, Puerto Rico is American Territory, offering the US unique geography and position in the Caribbean. Ceding it would be a great waste for everyone.
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  54. It’s all pointless. They should be allowed to remain in the US and the GOP should stop bottlenecking legal immigration. So much more people could immigrate legally if not for Republican fears that the Sun Belt would turn blue
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  55.  @djdavisiscool  you are why we need laws and g** control. You think this is acceptable
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  56.  @Cruelsport347  so if you or someone you love opens the wrong car by mistake, would you be ok if they pay the ultimate price for that?
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  57.  @benb829  there are a lot of citizens in New York, who come from diverse backgrounds. And of course, most of them are law abiding and good people.
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  58. Tomes Smith Adolf Hitler and Saddam Hussein encouraged civilian gun ownership among their main population. Didn’t stop anything. Western nations like Japan have strict gun laws and low levels of corruption, proving that we don’t need the 2nd Amendment to stop tyranny.
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  59. HaskaMoosic South Vietnam repeatedly requested that the US intervene on its behalf in order to contain the communist threat, who had already attacked US allies in Asia such as South Korea, the Philippines, and Malaysia. South Vietnam and the US acted in self-defense.
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  60.  @Mrb1033  US is not run by the law of “they started it”. Force can only be applied for legitimate self defense. Doesn’t matter if the other party is wrong, nobody gets a free pass to hurt others
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  61.  @frankoramerez4536  I don’t understand your comments they are poorly written
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  62. The solution is make legal immigration more accessible, but without lowering standards for admission. Unfortunately the GOP is opposed to any increase in legal immigration from Latin America, they fear that this will import liberal voters who will turn the Sun Belt states from red to blue.
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  63. That is not true. You could’ve probably bought a condo or apartment with a down payment of way less than $80k
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  64. Hence the 15 years probation. I think it is lenient, but I also think it is fair. Five years for someone so young is not a small thing
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  65. You should not be charging rent for any other reason than what the market will bear. Not how wealthy you think the tenants are.
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  66.  @Austin-wz5xk  it’s hard for me to say about small towns since I live in Eastern Massachusetts, which is urban and densely populated. I think the best thing to do is to move to where the jobs are. I personally hate small towns, they exist in Massachusetts too but you’re at least never more than a 2 hour drive from an urban cluster.
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  67.  @leifanderson3487  I graduated at age 25 in Fall 2020, with a BS in Environmental Science, and 2.7 GPA. I was a better student my senior year. Employers usually don’t care about your GPA, or where you got your degree, except for the most competitive and best paying jobs. But if you are lucky and you hustle by talking to job recruiters, apply on websites like Indeed or Monster, build a good looking resume, and live in an area where the jobs are, then you can do well. My first job out of school was at a biotech company in Eastern Mass, at $24/hr. Then I hustled online with recruiters, and left after 5 months. Now I work for a big company in Cambridge, MA. I make $34/hr, but sadly it is the night shift. I will put in 6 months or so and then use that experience to bounce to a new job
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  68. It may seem ridiculous. But put yourself in the shoes of women and especially of young girls. With the hand groping, and jeers. It can be distressing. I don’t necessarily think it should be illegal to “virtually harass” people, but there should be something done.
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  69.  @justv2976 does “extreme inflation” exist, and how is Biden to blame for it? Are gas prices high, and is Biden to blame for that? Are the borders actually weak, how is Biden to blame for that, and how are you affected by “weak borders”? Does “corruption” exist? How are you able to decide what “overspending” is? And how does it negatively affect you?
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  70.  @2legit2Kwit  poor states are Republican that’s just a fact. Go to college you’ll see
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  71.  @Opeandaway  the reason we have a housing affordability crisis is not because landlords are buying properties. It’s because people can’t afford them. The two are not necessarily related believe it or not
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  72. duongminhphu you know that South Vietnam wanted Agent Orange? It was sprayed over areas where the VC were hiding. It was done as part of South Vietnam's wishes.
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  73.  @rolandthethompsongunner64  past polls have indicated most Puerto Ricans wish to remain a US Territory, but under different terms. A smaller but substantial group supports statehood. A small and fringe group supports being independent, by far the worst option for everyone, it does nothing but appeal to emotional and nostalgic dreams.
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  74.  @Slipthestrangewolf  PR has had many referendums over the years, most recently in 2017 and 2020. The voter turnout in Puerto Rico was 22% in 2017. In 2020, it was higher, but still only 54%. That’s pretty low. Are you comfortable with passing statehood onto a US Territory where a large minority is not in favor of statehood? This info is available on the Wikipedia article listing the Puerto Rico Plebiscites.
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  75. Gun control saves lives. It is why ALL other Western nations have tougher gun laws, lower rates of murders, and lower rates of murder and gun-murder
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  76.  @Mrb1033  the thing is, you seem indignant, and balk at the idea that people who are in the wrong, still have rights and protections that you must respect. Does this offend you?
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  77. That’s what they get for being bad neighbors.
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  78. It’s a drone who cares
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  79. Flynn plead guilty. He knew he was wrong. Later, Trump and Barr pressured the DOJ to drop charges
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  80.  @suegirouard917  why feed the troll
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  81.  @briankroger7879  how’s Biden to blame for your rent being high?
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  82. In what ways has your life been harmed by the border? And by migrants?
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  83.  @kristingallo2158 I support gun control because all other Western nations have it. And they have lower rates of murder and gun-murder
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  84.  @02Nawal nothing’s funny about it. But let’s remember who the good guys and bad guys in this war are
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  85. Laughable. Why would he get prosecuted for making a mistake as leader? The whole military and intelligence services made a mistake in underestimating the resolve and power of Hamas. That’s not criminal, secondly, his corruption trial is for a minor crime of gift giving, it is not grave concern for Netanyahu and he wouldn’t risk being prosecuted for the much graver crime of prolonging a war, which is high level corruption
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  86.  @huckleberryfinn6578 not true technically, US, along with British and various European special forces are in Ukraine, per the recent leaks from the Air National Guard
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  87. He’s a creep how? Judges are always impartial. Just because you don’t like his ruling doesn’t mean he’s wrong
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  88.  @SkaryGrrl  do you think it’s possible that the judge made his opinion soundly?
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  89.  @tc3383  so your appeal to authority is valid but mine is not? Where’s the logic in that?
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  90. @Stinkydonshatonawall and what indicates this legal expert is wrong or corrupt?
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  91. That’s just one nation, there are dozens of others in the West where they have tougher gun laws and lower rates of murder and gun-murder. Also in Switzerland everyone is expected to serve in the military and therefore everyone is basically screened for mental health before they can own guns. They have tough gun laws in another color
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  92. The US doesn’t deal narcotics. US government doesn’t make narcotics or sell them. Please either show proof or stop posting lies.
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  93. Gun control is proven to save lives. US has the most lax gun laws and the highest rate of murder and gun-murder in the developed world
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  94. Chicago is a wealthy city and economic powerhouse. It’s one of America’s most shining cities.
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  95.  mneisbaar I went to college and earned a bachelor’s of science in Environmental Science in 2020. I make $70 an hour. It’s all about not being poor and voting Democrat play being vegan.
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  96. This applies to the pro gun people very well. They ignore the dozens of other developed countries which have tougher gun laws and lower rates of murder and gun-murder
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  97.  @Wolfwarrior2024  the government tells people not to go to Russia. I feel bad for her and I hope we can rescue her. But what she did was reckless and wrong.
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  98.  @atiyarise4131  Massachussets is the most expensive state in the US. No excuse. Here in Boston rent is $3000 to even $4000 a month. No other city is that much
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  99.  @bryanmiller8604  bro it’s a mortage. I bought my condo with 20% down in 2021, I certainly didn’t have $300k lying around.
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  100. Tomes Smith it doesn’t matter what the CCP does. Civilian guns are no match for the police and military. They would never stop the roundups, how could they? And why aren’t Western nations with strict gun laws overrun with tyranny then?
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  101. What’s shameful? Israelis saved his life after completing their mission and brought him to an ambulance.
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  102. The Democrats are responsible for Massachusetts, having by far the best public schools in the country, and indeed, even among the world. That is what happens when you vote Democrat.
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  103. Site Bene North Vietnamese were despicable tyrants. VC were jungle hicks. South Vietnamese were the good guys.
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  104. ItsEganTime you are meme cancer
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  105. john meegan what's even more sad is that if the war continued, South Vietnam could've become a prosperous country like South Korea and Taiwan. But the treacherous Anti-War Movement decided that the South Vietnamese didn't deserve freedom. That's sad
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  106. Judges sometimes make decisions that are unpopular. It’s important that a judge is able to speak their mind freely, without bending to uneducated masses
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  107.  @AR-gu2no  Hawaii did not lose its culture and become expensive by becoming a state. What makes you think Hawaii would be cheaper and more native Hawaiian if it remained a territory? How?
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  108. spartansingham hello thank you for your insightful comment. Operators are standing by.
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  109. Hamas can certainly be defeated especially if Israel stops holding back in the interest of protecting Palestinian civilian lives
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  110.  @pineychristian  Australia’s murder and gun-murder rates are both multiple times lower than the US’s. So even with the alleged spike it’s moot
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  111.  @Mrb1033  it doesn’t matter what they were doing in the road, they didn’t deserve to get run over. Why are some people in the right so upset and indignant whenever they must restrain themselves?
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  112. Also Hamas is in the West Bank despite your claim. Everyone in your list is an acceptable casualty or a military target
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  113. ReformMsia US should apologize to what remains of the South Vietnamese, for abandoning them to the communists
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  114. Because people can be crazy and I don’t what them to get guns
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  115. Seems like a troll
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  116. Good guys with guns strike again!
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  117. The people moaning about Covid-19 are the same people who refuse vaccinations, refuse masks, refuse social distancing, and refuse science. We could’ve ended the lockdown months ago like Europe and Southeast Asia had, but conservatives under then-President Trump didn’t want to commit to a thorough lockdown. Conservatives are to blame for Covid-19
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  118.  @katwashere194 conspiracy theorist
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  119.  @snu3877 do you have proof?
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  120.  @Lana.Mari86 no proof, so you’re obviously wrong
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  121.  @الاماني-ف4خ  how did the occupation and settlers start this war
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  122.  @garebaregoof4226  well maybe when you are politician and a legal expert, you can share your opinion. Until then you should defer to experts and not hold opinions on this matter.
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  123. No it doesn’t, decisions are overturned by courts all the time.
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  124.  @ForsakenWar  how is this self defense? She smashed multiple people who weren’t even by her car. She has a right to defend herself but the others have a right to not get run over!
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  125. Offering independence is dangerous and idiotic. This is a terrible idea, because though unlikely, similar to Brexit vote, it may actually pass!
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  126.  @ShawnBurner-ur1os true, speeding is bad. But…the punishment should fit the crime, and a punishment that punishes poor people a lot more than those who can afford to pay means that it may be less than fair. Also, it is hostile to poor people who can’t afford to pay. Tickets might need to be adjusted for income.
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  127.  @mac533  well actually my parents paid for my college but it was cheap, only 33k USD for 4 years worth of schooling. I went to community college for the first two years at about 6k a year, then my state school for the last two years charged double, about 13k, but it is excluding housing and other bills by the way, something to think about. But I lived with my parents. Anyways, if I did take out loans I could’ve paid it all off comfortably in a year. College can be affordable, though my school lacked the glamor and prestige that other schools have and likely will be more expensive. But yes, I didn’t need to work to pay for college. I did have part time jobs in retail and landscaping, but I kept all the money for myself.
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  128. They’re not stupid. Military decisions are made public very selectively. If you’re considering it, they already have
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  129. Llib Mukred You don’t pay attention in school it seems.
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  130.  @200cdl what did NBC do? lol.
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  131.  @alexanderbrambila8274  is there proof that his decision here is wrong?
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  132.  @MDown4Minez3577M  why didn’t he call the cops? That way nobody had to get hurt
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  133. It was a charged time in the LA Race Riots. Black residents were fed up with the systematic abuse from government and society
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  134. Corruption. The government is more concerned with protecting Trump than doing their job.
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  135. Massachusetts has the best public schools in the country by far. So yes, it probably is a liberal board. a conservative board would be not effective hence why all conservative states are poor performing
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  136. TwistinFool where are your tears for the millions of others who die obscurely in the shadows? Where are your tears for the thousands who languished in communist gulags? Where are your tears for the millions of South Vietnamese, who will never know life outside of their dictatorship? You weep for a propaganda piece, a vile human who cost the lives of millions due to her "advocacy".
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  137. Do you have a college degree, relevant work experience, good character (no unreasonable debts, drug use, criminal record, etc.)?
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  138.  @jager4508  would it just be easier and better to stop bad behavior proactively rather than offload it to other people?
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  139.  @Sidharthavicious what war crimes did Assange expose?
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  140.  @simba6483 do you have proof judges in LA are lenient, the cops are corrupt, or that the borders are open/causing problems?
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  141. Just parsing his words in a foreign language
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  142. All the referendums were boycotted by Puerto Ricans frustrated by the lack of options for remaining a US Territory, but under different terms. Low voter turnout doomed the referendums, the boycotts were successful then. US federal government respected Puerto Rico and did not want to impose statehood on an unwilling populace.
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  143.  @kevinlam4550  explaining how law works to non-lawyers is not “talking down”. Maybe you are insecure and threatened by the idea that others know more than you?
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  144. Not how it works. If I rent a place out, it has to cashflow, otherwise it loses money and that means I pay the difference. Tenants not paying rent means I bear the full brunt of a second mortgage without offsetting.
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  145. pepperoni mascara the Soviets and Chinese had sponsored rebellions and wars in Southeast Asia and Korea before the Gulf of Tonkin Incident. South Vietnam repeatedly requested that the US intervene to save it from aggression. Obviously the Vietnam War was waged in defense of US allies and interests.
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  146.  @pcgamerz3081  Dude, if you really care about civil rights, then you should support the US effort to help South Vietnam.
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  147.  @Trungdo3502  that’s not true. If South Vietnam survived it would’ve prospered similar to South Korea or Taiwan. It also wouldn’t be a corrupt nation
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  148. Flynn pled guilty. He only got exonerated when it was apparent that Trump and Barr pressured the DOJ to drop the matter despite a guilty plea.
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  149. Bomb the Russian navy
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  150.  @GusCraft460  the comparison is poor and it shows your lack of education. Not all acts of secession are equal. Depends who and why. US had good reasons to secede from the British Empire, and Puerto Rico does not. Smart people in government must stop people like you from voting for poor policies that ruin the world.
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  151.  @GusCraft460  you are wrong. I put the cart back always because I care for smart people with valid concerns, PR independence is not a valid concern, it’s a bad idea piggybacking off the emotional appeal for nostalgia, that’s all. Your comparing PR to 13 Colonies is poor, Puerto Rico is not the same as the 13 Colonies, Puerto Ricans do not pay federal income tax, firstly, so your argument “taxation without representation” doesn’t apply here. The status of being a US Territory is not one made by exploitation for the US’s benefit, it’s an arrangement made for Puerto Rico’s benefit, it comes with trade offs like residents not being able to vote for Presidency or having regular representation in Congress, but statehood is a mechanism to remedy that, if Puerto Rican residents want to change their status. Even if it did apply, it still would be wrong. US is democratic, and there is no good reason for any secession from a democracy.
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  152.  @zainubumar that’s what they get for the wars they started
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  153.  @gemil9933  in your own words, how’s President Biden (praise him) to blame for things being worse and more depressed than ever?
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  154. This is just further proof that the right wingers are a lost cause
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  155. Greed? You mean basic economics? What do you want instead? Landlords to give you a discount for free?
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  156.  @Rowels_Darling  false equivalence fallacy. Neither eggs nor sperm are comparable to embryos
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  157. COSMICOM regrettable but that is what happens in war. Regardless the VC and NVA also killed a similar number of civilians and committed massacres as well. And as you can see, they have nothing to show for it, fifty years later Vietnam is no better.
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  158. Alexandra Geirsdóttir Germans aren't blamed for the Nazis. The German government, as the continuation of Nazi Germany, inherited its obligations. Germans are not villains, the country of Germany, being a successor state, merely inherited certain responsibilities.
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  159. todd wilmer You know that South Vietnam repeatedly requested that the US enter the war on its behalf?
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  160. james bond something people don’t get is that South Vietnam was an independent nation and had no wish to reunite under the North. Given that Chinese/Soviet alliance sponsored wars of aggression in Asia, and oppressed millions throughout Eastern Europe, aligning with the West was the rational choice for the South Vietnamese.
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  161. Chí Phèo nguyễn Yeah but I’m trying to explain what the US plan was for South Vietnam.
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  162. Chí Phèo nguyễn The US wasn’t invading South Vietnam wanted the US to enter
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  163. spartansingham it's true, I'm not making up. South Vietnam wanted US to intervene. Communist insurgencies had already taken hold in Malaysia and the Philippines, so there was cause for concern.
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  164. Miley L am I wrong? I thought South Vietnamese government wanted Agent Orange?
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  165. Miley L US would not be able to operate in South Vietnam without the consent of the South Vietnamese government. The US and South Vietnam were partners.
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  166. South Vietnam could've been like Taiwan, or South Korea. US was fighting for the prosperity of the South Vietnamese. But no, the Anti-War movement decided that the South Vietnamese were not a people worth fighting for. And the US abandoned them to their fate in a shameful pullout, left them to the North Vietnamese.
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  167. Gr8db8ter 2 veterans are likely homeless because of their own life choices. They were probably homeless before they became veterans. While that's sad, it's not an excuse to turn away refugees and civilian travelers. One doesn't even come at the expense of the other.
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  168. Loran Stephenson the problem with the Islamic World is not Islam. You honestly believe that if all the Muslims were replaced with Christians, the Middle East would become whole?
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  169.  @NoNo-ng9sl  you have no proof that statehood would lead to Puerto Ricans losing their culture. Explain how statehood has anything to do with sports like boxing vanishing?
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  170.  @ihave35cents95 they’re moving from California because they’re poor and can’t afford it. Those with means and money come to California. Those who are poor and can’t afford, live somewhere worse
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  171. Why do you assume that? Maybe he and his fellow party members and the public that supports them, want to see the terrorists that attacked them destroyed? Isn’t that also plausible?
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  172. Driving is a privilege but for many people it is something they need in order to make money and support themselves
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  173.  @jacobw446  your right is selfishly getting other people killed including children at school shootings
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  174. @Nonya Biz even if the UK has higher knife crime it is moot because their annual rates of murder overall are many times lower than the US. This holds true for dozens of other countries, each spanning many years (decades) of data. The correlation is clear and imposible to be a coincidence. Gun control saves lives
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  175.  Save 🇺🇸  that’s an arrogant and ignorant thing to say. Saying Puerto Rico has nothing to offer because the island is presently poor. It offers US great strategic advantages, firstly. Secondly, Puerto Rican people, culture, and geography are beautiful and that makes it an inseparable part of the US, no different than Texas
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  176. She’s seething with a sadistic desire to lord status over a black man
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  177.  @Mrb1033  imagine that instead of a car, she discharged a fire *rm, and in fear of her life, she peppers a whole crowd of protesters who weren’t even bothering her. And the protesters who surrounded her were not attacking her by the way. You tell me, is that legal?
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  178.  @hcrankin5923  I don’t know who you talked to, but you are wrong about both BLM and the people who support BLM. Nobody on the left, or in BLM said that crime is acceptable, most BLM protests are peaceful, and nobody has condoned violence. So the idea that liberals, BLM, etc tolerate or commit violence is wrong.
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  179. Homeland Security is not responsible for staffing mere buildings
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  180.  @nuclear_n3465 when has Israel ever treated Palestine unfairly? This cycle of violence is only Palestine acting aggressive and Israel taking steps to punish or contain them.
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  181.  @douglasduda9826 there is no tax increase when you make more money. Where does this ignorant lie come from? Only money past the previous tax bracket gets taxed at the higher rate
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  182. Etienne Smit I guess by your logic, we should ignore the success stories of Taiwan and South Korea as well, because they started out corrupt as well.
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  183. This is ignorant of you. US leaders don’t deal drugs like this guy did. Never.
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  184. I guess. But you gotta take everything in perspective. US destroyed Saddam Hussein. And halted the Kurdish Genocide. We’ll see how the Iraq War plays out long term.
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  185. Can you explain how closing the border would help you?
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  186.  @amayastrata4629  the legal opinion of a non-professional is not worth much isn’t it? Arguably it’s worth less than nothing becuase it is polluting the discussion
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  187.  @muninrob  firstly, you have committed a logical fallacy, you’ve shifted the burden of proof. You’ve declared without evidence that the judge is corrupt and not given reason or proof. Thus, there’s no indication you’re correct. Secondly, why would the judge be corrupt here? What does he stand to gain? There’s nothing to incentivize him to be corrupts. Thirdly, this unpopular verdict that enflames the public is not unheard of. Sometimes judges reach unpopular or controversial decisions, but they’re an important part of our democracy, a judge must be able to think and act freely without bowing to public pressure. the proof that the judge is being honest is multifold,
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  188.  @doctorsavage5925  probably not safe to drop him off there. Palestine is a dangerous place.
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  189.  @LadyRainbowUnicorn  it’s not me getting the boot buddy. It’s people like him
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  190.  @doctorsavage5925  I don’t think I ever implied it was in the Gaza Strip.
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  191. Brook Obama was not divisive
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  192. Lynette Scribner constant upheaval? Before the US arrived Afghanistan was divided with the monstrous Taliban and the Western-backed Northern Alliance. If the US leaves the Taliban will once again, upheave the government
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  193.  @christianpervert525  in the US, people have rights and we must always respect those rights. So no, it is not ok to act out if you’re angry
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  194.  @FreedomForAll1-  can you tell me in your own words what Netanyahu did that was wrong?
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  195. [citation needed]
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  196. Adam R Fu Iraq and Libya deserved to be invaded. They were dictatorships and dictatorships deserve to be dismantled
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  197. Lol go to school
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  198. The current laws are dumb. They should be allowed to stay here and become citizens. It’s not fair or productive to send them out of the US. Republicans are to blame as usual for keeping immigration bottlenecked since the Reagan years. They don’t want to see Hispanics settling and voting in the border states, which are vital constituencies. Unfortunately, the GOP is placing their corrupt ideals i above the immigrants and the US at large
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  199.  @Ghost960RedBull  animals would rather live in captivity
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  200. How do you know that California’s gun laws aren’t working? Just because there were some shootings doesn’t mean the gun laws are failing. It just means they’re imperfect, which is expected of any law. And as well, the state with the highest rates of murder and gun-murder is not California, it is conservative Louisiana, and the counties with the highest rates are in the Sun Belt, rural and conservative.
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  201.  @ainmon5875 obviously that is not true. Israeli troops are taking casualties in the Gaza Strip, meaning Hamas and the other militias are still active in the Gaza Strip. If the leaders are escaping, they won’t have a military or government left to lead.
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  202. How
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  203.  @johannebeerbaum1546  that is a very serious accusation, to say that a judge has engaged in bribery or corruption. Do you have proofv
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  204.  @kamiahbundy4972  why not flee the property? Why use violence? If they waited for police then nobody would get killed. He just wanted to be a hard guy and psychopath. Small man
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  205.  @yurmabeechaudits3522  you’re not interested in deescalation, you just want to hurt others who cross you. Small man, lethal force should be a last resort, not the first, second or third. They could’ve fled the property, they could’ve de-escalated, could’ve barricaded in a room, instead they took a life, from someone who was wrong, but didn’t deserve that.
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  206.  @Stumme-40203  he could’ve retreated first, he could’ve barricaded in a room, he could’ve deescalated. Instead he used lethal force unnecessarily.
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  207.  @slideshowgurl  the point is, he had moral a duty to retreat and not use lethal force, his life was not presently in danger. I’ve gotten into fights and scuffles before, worse than this, and I didn’t need lethal force to resolve it. Small man
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  208.  @natemangiapane4651  the homeowner could’ve run away, retreated, or barricaded a door. He chose lethal force when other options were not yet exhausted. He’s a bad guy, and a small man
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  209.  @natemangiapane4651  so now you admit that it’s not about self defense, it’s about pride. Small man with fragile ego should not be among us
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  210.  @natemangiapane4651  here’s a question for you, if you could leave your house to avoid killing anyone, would you do that?
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  211.  @Stumme-40203  your hypotheticals are not proof of anything. He could’ve fled the house out the backyard, instead of waiting to shoot him
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  212.  @slideshowgurl  doesn’t matter, if you can safely retreat (and they could) you should try to do that before resorting to lethal force. Otherwise you aren’t interested in self defense, you’re interested in hurting others who cross you
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  213.  @amenra6042  small men choose violence instead of avoiding conflict
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  214.  @bionicwoman9884  they should not have used violence before exhausting all other options. They could’ve retreated, fled the property, barricaded in a room, before using violence
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  215.  Ghost 3 Delta  that makes no sense
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  216.  @DaneReidVoiceOver  Reagan what?
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  217.  @100domathon  what proof is there that the US was complicit with his crimes?
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  218. Go to college and don’t be poor like these people
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  219.  @kimberlycornelius7911 maybe the waitresses should go to college and get a better job
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  220.  @Yandel21ableify  do you have proof for saying such a loaded statement?
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  221.  @Idancewithwolves  any misdemeanors? That might be it.
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  222. He’s saying don’t be a racist or you won’t get re-elected. It’s not a call to Jihad
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  223.  @jaketapper8910  cyber bullying is not a joke, it makes people upset and psychologically damages people, especially children.
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  224.  @JonSanders  they probably saw this coming. This is something sadly they’ve long prepared for and accepted.
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  225. Migrants just a form of population growth, just like babies being born. Actually migrants are even better than babies being born becuase they’re usually adults and usually are educated in some way, they don’t need the state to pay for their public schooling for 12+ years like American born citizens need. Anyways, given that population growth is essential for the economy, I don’t accept this argument that migrants are to blame for higher cost of living. That is the individual’s fault for being poor
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  226.  @hurtighansen1 what makes you think he’s paid off? By who? Makes no sense. There’s no proof he’s corrupt
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  227.  @collinhayle what are her wages?
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  228. Hamas is an organization with a military and command structure, it can indeed be dismantled and destroyed.
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  229.  @cibergypsy  the reason Congress ignored the referendums in the past is because voter turnout was low, due to Puerto Ricans strategically boycotting the vote in protest (most wanted a change in status but to remain as a US Territory, options were either statehood, no change, or independence). Congress didn’t want to inflict its power on an unwilling populace. They did Puerto Ricans a favor and respected their wishes, not “ignored them”.
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  230.  @Brooke3696 why care about the regime called Palestine?
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  231. Was it wrong to attack Korean shops? Perhaps, but people were angry and their earlier calls for change and dialogue were ignored. Blacks were treated as 2nd class citizens.
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  232.  @jpowers7320  that is a false argument. An egg and sperm cannot be a person. An embryo can be.
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  233.  @missandry2669  lol ok. I’m a 28 year old man just trying to be a good person here. I am not the one who hurt you, that’s probably a man with power and older than I.
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  234. Syria started the civil war by killing its own citizens. US is also invited by Syrian Rebels, some of whom are officially endorsed as the legitimate government, ex. SNC
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  235. Generic Tyrant are you smart? Or not? Afghanistan before US invasion was a pariah state, a haven for terrorists. US nationbuilding has brought the country to new heights
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  236. Dream Wolf this is because running from Afghanistan is selfish and idiotic
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  237. Yendy Vilma Nothing wrong with staying in Afghanistan for decades. US is in South Korea, Germany, and Japan for longer.
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  238. That’s an insincere question because sperm is not a fetus
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  239. One good thing the Trump Administration has done
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  240. Most innocent Palestinian
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  241.  @LadyRainbowUnicorn  human shields shield
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  242. Think1776 no :(
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  243. Chí Phèo nguyễn it’s not wrong Vietnam is a poor and corrupt nation because of North Vietnam winning
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  244. Chí Phèo nguyễn the NGO reports like the Democracy Index and HDI confirm that Vietnam is corrupt. If the US and South Vietnam won the war Vietnam would’ve become like Taiwan, Japan, or South Korea
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  245. Mika Levy because the US had a plan for South Vietnam, similar to Taiwan and South Korea. South Vietnam stood to become rich and democratic
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  246. It’s not an easy issue to fix. Also, why are you so opposed to Hispanic immigrants, just come out and say you are racist why don’t you?
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  247. THECITYHUNTER I didn't consider that. Pretty interesting.
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  248. COSMICOM if Ho Chi Minh was really so good, then why is Vietnam still a rotten country? There is no such thing as a good dictator
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  249. Trigger Bee The VC were destroyed after the Tet Offensive. Maintaining presence in South Vietnam longterm and giving more aid like in South Korea would've won the war, right?
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  250. You are ignorant. Most Puerto Ricans want to remain a US Territory. Past referendums have been boycotted by those frustrated by lack of options on being a territory. Saying that the status quo is colonial is ignorant and arrogant. You should not speak on matters you know nothing about.
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  251.  @kadaltokek3953  they shouldn’t be allowed to pick independence, it’s a bad option and does nobody any favors except fulfill immature fantasies.
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  252.  @beasley1232  by what logic is that? Who says that because Puerto Rico is a Territory it should decide to secede?
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  253. @David Alvarez false, you are wrong. Philippines was always going to become independent. Puerto Rico never was
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  254.  @its-_-foxgrrr6041  having judges that are not afraid to reach unpopular verdicts, and defy public pressure, is a strength of our democracy not a weakness. This judge looked at the evidence and made a decision of his professional interpretation. That’s good.
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  255.  @MrTom-kl7hy homes and rural areas are bad, they are antisocial and less sustainable than urban developments and dense housing.
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  256. @user-sj5ju4jb7trent control is not a a good idea. It is problematic especially long term
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  257. South Africa is not a failed state it ranks somewhat high on NGO reports. Economic problems, exacerbated by Covid-19, are hard in South Africa due to the legacy of Apartheid and colonialism. People are upset, they have no jobs, high poverty, some corruption, they have a right to be on edge.
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  258.  @thiagodasilvasantos  Why should US support dictatorships? Dictatorships aren’t good. Do you think US is wrong to oppress dictatorships?
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  259.  @thiagodasilvasantos  US has a right to overthrow Soviet allies near its borders. Look at the Cuban regime and the Cuban Missile Crisis as examples of how dangerous and derelict Soviet allies can be. If you didn’t want a coup, Brazil’s leaders shouldn’t have aligned themselves with the Soviets. Their fault.
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  260.  @thiagodasilvasantos  US was fighting the Cold War, not playing around with Brazil for fun. US wouldn’t have gotten involved if Soviets were not actively recruiting allies in Latin America. It was Brazil’s responsibility to be a good neighbor. Perhaps then the US would’ve seen no need to intervene.
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  261.  @thiagodasilvasantos  ask yourself this, what would happen if the US did nothing, how would Brazil be different?
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  262.  @thiagodasilvasantos  US is against dictatorships. South Korea and Taiwan were dictatorships that liberalized over years, under US guidance. Dictatorships like Saudi Arabia which can be turned into allies and eventually liberalized are not proof that the US supports dictatorships. In fact by waging wars against Baathist Iraq, for example, US is the only nation on Earth to hunt down and attack dictators.
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  263. Speeding is bad. Tickets are earned. However, if a ticket upends your life, prevents you from going to work, and forces you into desperate circumstances, then maybe that system is unfair.
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  264. Remember 9/11? You can’t just leave the terrorists will come back
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  265. Agatha Rogers what about 9/11
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  266.  @bryanmiller8604  yes, the average American is perfectly able to squirrel away $300k over their lifetime. Ten times as much in fact.
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  267.  @deezpleez3832  Andrew Yang is a Democrat
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  268.  @davidscher1620  false, he is a Democrat.
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  269.  @chiefrocka680  no they weren’t what?
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  270. sweat lord lol this is insane comparison. Americans are not like the Mujahideen. The US has a rule of law. The 2nd Amendment is pointless
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  271. Micah it’s true. If gun ownership really was a guard against tyranny, then why aren’t Japan, Canada, and all EU nations overrun with tyranny?
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  272. sweat lord Gun control is smart policy and saves lives
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  273. Most people in Boston don’t have an accent. The city is so gentrified it’s basically all new money
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  274. It is Republicans’ fault.
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  275. What would you call them then?
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  276.  @Rowels_Darling  you’re gonna have to explain how your comment was sarcastic, and what purpose sarcasm would serve here. Sarcasm does not advance your argument or counter mine in this instance. Sarcastically saying that eggs and sperm are like embryos does not advance your position.
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  277. America can help Israel and Ukraine very easily.
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  278.  @jeuby3695  no reason for China to send a balloon with a weapon on board. What would it be? What would be the point?
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  279.  @tf8187  yes, they did shoot it down after all, but the thing is, it’s important not to assume you know more than the experts. Also, they didn’t do exactly as you said. They waited a few days until it was off the coast of South Carolina. They didn’t shoot it as soon as they saw it/publicly acknowledged it over Montana.
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  280. Talking about issues and bringing them to light is not stoking tensions. Tensions are stoked by racist people doing racist things
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  281. Where is the proof?
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  282.  @unserkatzenland8884  False dilemma. If South Vietnam survived it would’ve been a rich and strong nation like Taiwan, or South Korea, instead they live in a petty poor dictatorship that hurts people. Vietnam should never have been left
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  283.  @unserkatzenland8884  Oh yeah? You want to educate me
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  284.  @unserkatzenland8884  confirm what? The fact that US allies like South Korea and Taiwan richer and less corrupt than communist Vietnam? This is easily observable and proven by NGO reports like the Democracy Index. NGO reports prove that the US is morally superior to its enemies
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  285.  @unserkatzenland8884  stalemate forever is what happened in Taiwan and South Korea. It’s what happened in Germany for decades until the Berlin Wall fell. So a stalemate forever is a good thing, despite your gloomy outlook
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  286. Democracy is dead
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  287. james bond it’s only one source and it doesn’t account for the millions of South Vietnamese who lived in the nation, who fled in fear of the invading North, or who served to defend their homes from communist aggression
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  288.  @Chipbar  clearly US had good intentions for South Korea as common sense history proves. Same would apply for South Vietnam. A transitionary period free of Soviet and Chinese influence was necessary.
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  289. mannyy_cx I think, we should just raise the immigration quotas, then vet them all like we do already, and then, there will be illegal immigrants working under the table. Competition therefore will be more fair.
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  290. LBJ Said 200 Years that's not the truth of the matter. Those countries do not openly support terrorism, the legitimate governments are fighting terrorism. Regardless, civilian caught in the crossfire are not enemies. They deserve sympathy.
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  291. Lisa speaks truth Clinton hasn't been convicted of a crime. Therefore she's not a criminal. If you have evidence of corruption, feel free to show it.
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  292. Donald L. That's not true
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  293. Donald L. My god you guys are idiots. The Constitution applies to everyone, not just citizens. If that were untrue, then tourists would not be protected by American laws. Secondly, there are provisions where the Constitution does not apply, one of them is when foreign troops invade and occupy the US. Thirdly, you are all racists. Come out and say you hate brown people. Otherwise you'd have no problems with them becoming naturalized.
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  294. Dank, Danker, yet Danker I think they are ultimately racist.  Islamophobia and fear of Middle Easterners is bigoted and racist.
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  295. John Smith Mexico is in the middle of a great drug war. The cartels are getting guns legally in the US, smuggling them back into Mexico. US citizens then buy drugs shipped in from Mexico. Mexico is not to blame for the drug war any more than the US is. By accepting Mexican immigrants, US is helping out Mexico.
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  296. Miley L The South did fight on their own, it didn’t matter though. You are saying nonsense
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  297. Andrew Lusty just because countries are dangerous does not mean that refugees and civilians are. Iraq and Afghanistan may be dangerous countries, but they are still US allies with relatively friendly populations.
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  298.  @backpackpepelon3867  being free from the US is nationalist and ignorant.
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  299.  @bboyfada2295  I am perplexed why AOC and her allies in Congress did not include an option for Puerto Rico to remain a Territory? Do they think there’s something wrong with remaining a US territory indefinitely? Or are they hoping to end this issue once and for all?
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  300.  @Slipthestrangewolf  how does it feel being wrong?
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  301. The jury acquitted OJ to get payback against the government for being racist. That is a natural, pushing back against corruption.
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  302.  @Tortilla.Reform  where in the video does it say I am wrong? The judge is an expert and he disputes the board’s decision. Could the board be right? Possibly. But could the judge be right? Also possible. Are you wrong to believe anything with certainty? Yes. You’re not an expert.
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  303.  @Tortilla.Reform  the only thing I’m saying is that we should refrain from criticizing the judge until we each go to law school and become legal experts ourselves
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  304.  @erikanders3343  wow, that’s a very serious allegation. If proven true this would be a major scandal. Do you have proof?
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  305.  @Tortilla.Reform  it’s silly how? Why does your opinion matter if you’re not an expert?
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  306.  @prometheus23c  check again, I don’t believe I ever said the board was wrong. I said the judge had a good reason for ruling as he did and it’s doubtful he’s corrupt. The board may well be right, but, the judge disputes it. My point is not the judge is right, the board is wrong, my point is that you, an amateur online, are not entitled to have opinions on complex matters, because you’re not an expert.
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  307.  @boomds5602  that is more credible evidence than alleging he is corrupt. Good for you for using an iota of your brain. 🧠
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  308.  @milescooper1339  yeah, you people who are not legal experts shouldn’t and don’t have any authority to comment on legal matters.
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  309.  @Tortilla.Reform  is there anything I said that is a legal opinion? No. I never said anything, you have.
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  310.  @NoNo-ng9sl  No, how will PR being a state lead to the dilution of its culture? That’s a big assumption you are making, with absolutely no evidence.
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  311.  @DVQSO  you are ignorant on this matter
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  312.  @NoNo-ng9sl  show proof how being a state will change Puerto Rico’s culture
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  313.  @jaynyce5923  think with your brain. How would native Puerto Ricans or Hawaiians be better if they remained a territory?
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  314.  @Elcabezon06onxbox  the Kingdom of Hawaii was weak and insignificant. It deserved to be conquered, US needed it and the greater good demanded it. US is democratic and is therefore morally superior and entitled to everything it needs
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  315. Brandon Young i actually knew that. It’s hard to see but the soldiers in the background are also South Vietnamese
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  316. WTFS WTFS this napalm strike was done by South Vietnam
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  317. ko có tên South Vietnam had an airforce too. https://www.google.com/amp/s/www.vanityfair.com/news/2015/04/vietnam-war-napalm-girl-photo-today/amp This article confirms it
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  318. Why do you think Trump is better than Hillary Clinton? Trump’s polices were controversial even before COVID-19. But when the pandemic hit, they were ruinous. The Lancet medical journal blames Trump and the Trump Administration for hundreds of thousands of preventable COVID-19 deaths in the US.
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  319.  @MooseKnuckleMike do you have proof for any of your claims? The poorest states in the US are conservative
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  320.  @Anonymous-me7wu  Assange will be fine. There’s no evidence that Epstein was killed by anyone, despite your implication
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  321.  @Anonymous-me7wu  where’s the evidence the cameras stopped recording the moment Epstein committed suicide. And who do you propose killed gun, and for what purpose?
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  322.  @Anonymous-me7wu  show proof from reliable sources only.
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  323. Your legal opinion is worth very little please delete your comment so you do not mislead others
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  324.  @dylantaylor251  the homeless should get jobs
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  325.  @vampirongosangronzon3165  the evidence from other developed nations year after year proves that when you take away guns the rates of murder and gun murder decrease. There are hundreds of data samples, being a year of data from any given developed country. They all prove that gun control reduces the murder and gun-murder rates
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  326.  @JRN5.0  criminals in the UK can’t get guns like handguns, etc, and the UK’s murder and gun-murder rates are many times lower than the US’s going back many years. Is that a coincidence? What about Japan? Or Canada? Or Poland? Or Czechia? Or Australia? Or dozens of other developed and comparable nations to the US. It can’t possibly be a coincidence that the US gun laws are lax, and the murder and gun-murder rates are many times higher year after year.
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  327.  @TexasTeaHTX  close I live in Massachusetts, the most educated, richest, and most liberal state
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  328.  @jacobw446  UK has gun control and has no school shootings, so do Japan, Canada, Czechia, South Korea, etc. The whole countries are “gun free zones” and yet their rates of murder and gun-murder are lower than the US. How can this be if according to you criminals will prey on gun free zones?
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  329.  @vampirongosangronzon3165  rate has nothing to do with total population. Hence why they are rates, like per 100,000 people. US has higher rates of murder and gun-murder than the UK
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  330.  @jacobw446  Canada, Australia, New Zealand, and the UK are diverse cultures with low rates of murder and gun-murder compared to the US, and have tougher gun laws. What do you say to that, assuming that your claim that multicultural societies have higher crime rates.
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  331.  @vampirongosangronzon3165  most guns/ammo used in crimes are bought legally because the would be shooter used a straw purchase in a store, or stole, bought, or borrowed it from a family member or friend, etc. what you propose will not affect these informal and personal acquisitions of firearms. The solution is to simply ban them all because there is no way to foresee whether a legal gun would become illegal in your proposed law.
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  332.  @pineychristian  Rates adjust for population. So for every ten people, more are killed by guns and killed by all means in the US versus Australia, for decades. It is proof that gun control saves lives
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  333.  @sliv_dawg  it is still many times lower than the US so it is still more effective than the US’s
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  334.  @pineychristian  regardless of why they went up, Australia still has murder and gun-murder rates many times lower than the US. As do dozens of other developed nations, all of whom have tougher gun laws. It’s hard to ignore the fact that gun control isn’t involved
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  335. @Nonya Biz you don’t need guns to live a good life. All other developed countries have tougher gun laws and rank similar to the US on NGO reports that measure wealth and other factors. Guns do not contribute to the US’s safety
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  336.  @vampirongosangronzon3165  maybe the solution is to prevent home/civilian ownership of guns and limit them to vendors who rent them out only on the range. The right to own a gun is not worth 10,000 US gun murders and hundreds of thousands gun injuries/incidents every year.
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  337.  @sethenewman4309  it is a fact that every other Western country has tougher gun laws and lower rates of murder and gun-murder. And your reasoning is that this is because the US is poorer than every single other developed nation? Nonsense
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  338.  @pineychristian  fact is that gun control is proven to save lives which is why US has the most lax gun laws and the highest rates of murder and gun-murder, year after year. If you want to stop people from dying, support gun control
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  339.  @sethenewman4309  correlation does indeed not prove causality. However, when you have hundreds of data samples (each Western country’s rates of annual murder and gun-murder, for the past 30 years or so). The trend is unlikely to be coincidence. The pvalue of the r number is very low
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  340. @Solstice of Snow every year, dozens of developed nations, all of which have tougher gun laws than the US, have lower rates of murder and gun-murder every year. Most shootings in the US are committed with legally acquired firearms, or illegally and enabled through lax gun laws, such as straw purchases or private person to person transactions. Is it really a coincidence year after year, across dozens of nations, that the US has the most lax gun laws, and the highest rates of murder and gun-murder?
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  341. Wtf man
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  342.  @kevinjohnson3521  George Bush didn’t break the law or hurt innocent people. Where’s the proof? And why would the US give Baathist Iraq, which no longer exists, George Bush? US had no treaty with Iraq.
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  343.  @IceAxe1940  US is not corrupt, stop posting lies online. Read NGO reports like the Democracy Index
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  344.  @IceAxe1940  NGO reports disagree with that. You are promoting conspiracy theories
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  345.  @Deadassbruhfrfr  you are wrong. The referendum has been held multiple times in the past few decades. Every time has been plagued by low voter turnout in protest of the options being not good enough. Independence is a horrible idea
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  346.  @irvingceron1016  you are racist. There are many poor Republican areas in the Sun Belt and the Midwest, are you in favor of cutting off aid to those places too? Have some empathy for Puerto Ricans, who are just as much American citizens as you. Secondly, Puerto Rico is a beautiful island with a lovely local culture, you should visit sometime before dismissing an entire people.
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  347.  @morewi  a large amount of Puerto Rican voters boycotted the referendums due to frustrations over the choices. Most want to remain a US Territory, but under different terms, which so far has not been offered as an option. A smaller amount want statehood. A fringe and uneducated amount supports independence.
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  348.  @da4127  Iraq and Afghanistan have improved since the US invaded, do you think those places were roses before the US arrived? Read history on Baathists and Taliban.
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  349.  @morewi  I don’t think it’s a stunt to stay relevant. What does that even mean? It’s a ploy to get talked about on tv or online? How is that useful for the Democrats or AOC? Secondly, I think it’s their honest opinion that Puerto Rico should be ceded, but I think that’s a populist and harmful plan.
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  350.  @morewi  Biden’s terrible administration? In your own words, explain please what about Biden’s administration is terrible. Biden is not taking multi-million dollar golf trips every week as Trump did, on the taxpayers’ dime no less. Biden extended and improved Trump’s Afghanistan pullout, averting further catastrophe and chaos. Biden oversaw mass vaccination and used the federal government to coordinate more even and consistent distribution of COVID-19 vaccines. Biden also didn’t do Trump’s policies of letting people die needlessly of COVID-19, the Lancet Medical Journal blames Trump for hundreds of thousands of preventable COVID-19 deaths in the US.
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  351.  @andrewgates8158  Saying US should kick out Puerto Rico is hateful and asinine, it’s like saying should cut West Virginia loose because the state is poor and uneducated.
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  352.  @andrewgates8158  Experts do not agree with your claim that West Virginia is “not a constitutionally valid state”.
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  353.  @deltahavoc1224  you are wrong. Puerto Rico has held multiple referendums in the past, all have been plagued by low voter turnout. 22% in 2017 and 54% in 2020. US Congress has never blocked Puerto Rico.
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  354.  @steveduffany2883  if you hack into classified information and release it to the world, that’s a crime.
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  355. Cryogenics market incoming
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  356.  @lugiasimply6054 Snowden is not a hero. He’s a traitor, revealed American secrets and personnel to hostile regimes like Russia and China.
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  357.  @thehinzee  she didn’t need to escape, she also didn’t need to drive that fast. Her life was not in danger
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  358.  @Sean_Connery  so? Impeding traffic does not mean she gets to hurt them
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  359.  @nyk3334  that doesn’t mean this was what happened here
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  360.  @himwhoisnottobenamed5427  so I open your car door, is that grounds to k*ll someone?
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  361.  @johnd6535  No, cars and guns are both lethal weapons and tools of self defense evidently. If it is acceptable to sh—t the protesters, then it is acceptable to run them over, because in both instances they would either be assault with a deadly weapon/attempted murder, etc, or self defense. I used the metaphor of the woman sh***ing other people to demonstrate how her claim of barreling through protestors was not self defense, as I see it.
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  362.  @dancegaming4463  you can only run people over if your life was in danger. Same with using a g*n. Ask yourself, was this woman in danger and justified to sh**t the protesters? If not-and I think she was not-then she is also not allowed to run them over.
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  363.  @thehinzee  if she discharged a fire*rm it would not necessarily be self defense, it would/may in this case be assault/attempted murder, etc. Therefore, she was also wrong to barrel through the protesters. She had no right to use lethal force, in my opinion.
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  364.  @thehinzee  false dilemma fallacy. Lethal force is justified when her life is threatened, not so here, the protesters weren’t violet. She can’t assume and act violent proactively, that is not self defense. She must observe a threat occurring. She was not being threatened lethally and so therefore had no right to bowl through dozens of people, most of whom were not involved with her car. She either panicked or was angry and homicidal, in my limited opinion.
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  365.  @thehinzee  did you see the video? She bowled through people who weren’t even near her vehicle or aware of her presence. How is that self defense? The protesters have a right not to get run over. As for the ones by her car, I see no evidence they were threatening her with violence, so where does she get the idea that it’s ok to hurt them with her car too?
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  366.  @thehinzee  so imagine she was on foot, and open carrying. Would she be justified in your opinion to mow down all the protesters “standing in her way, blocking her escape?”, even the ones NOT accosting her?
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  367.  @thehinzee  she had other options besides flooring it and running over people. Like for example, locking her doors, driving slowly, avoiding people, dialing 911, all sorts of options besides maiming innocent people
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  368.  @rickscott9375  this may be difficult to believe, but property damage is not reason for self defense, secondly, all the people she hit were not accosting her. So how’s it fair to them?
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  369.  @hcrankin5923  why? You being sarcastic? I don’t get it
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  370.  @hcrankin5923  what kind of logic is that? It’s not ok to hurt others unless you have no choice. She didn’t have a need to hurt all those people, most of whom weren’t even standing near her vehicle. Why do you support such cruel thinking?
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  371.  @hcrankin5923  uh no? I see what you’re trying to make a metaphor of, but the people who support racial justice don’t believe in using random violence.
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  372.  @subswithnovideos-oz4zo  you can’t just use fear as an excuse to maim people. The fear has to be reasonable. She hit people who weren’t near her car. She is wrong
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  373. @kd9457 maybe the evil is them? For participating in Jihad?
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  374.  @mercedescollins7456  physics is one of the most useless STEM degrees. There’s no industry for “physics”. People pay to make medicine, machines, or to build programs in code. Nobody cares about physics especially only with a bachelor’s. Why not study engineering instead?
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  375.  @nuclear_n3465  the Palestinians getting killed are being killed because they’re committing crimes of aggression. And they’re being occupied in the West Bank or blockaded in the Gaza Strip because of past hostilities that they also started.
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  376.  @nuclear_n3465  the entire nature of Palestinian resistance is misguided at best, hostile and malevolent at worst. Palestinians need to understand that Israel’s harsh treatment towards them is a natural consequence to their actions. There’d be no occupation, or blockade, if they committed to peace, instead of fighting. Also, a lot of their grievances are disingenuous. They’re being displaced or arrested, because of terrorism.
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  377.  @nourytime9804  that’s what they get for the wars they started. Secondly, Israel is democratic and thus morally superior
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  378.  @nourytime9804  they were “kicked out” because they were enemies and not Israelis, for losing a war they started. They rejected the partitions. This is what they get
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  379.  @nourytime9804  that’s what happens when they lose the war they started
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  380. Sure, but also we should ask what’s wrong with society that cause men/women to abuse others.
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  381.  @rack9458 truth hurts maybe but it’s still true. You gotta live with parents and then buy a cheap home like an apartment, or get roommates
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  382. Etienne Smit North Vietnam won, South Vietnam lost, they lost hard. It’s a shame in my opinion that North Vietnam won, that country was terrible and its legacy is crappy.
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  383. Ezra Labandeira it’s corruption. Trump defended his man and pressured the DOJ to drop it. Multiple interviews from officials confirm that Trump is using his authority as President to influence their job. He’s ignoring the rule of law. I see no evidence that the FBI cleared him. I see multiple articles damning Trump
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  384. quietman356 123455 interviews and articles from officials say that Trump pressured the DOJ to ignore Flynn. Are the articles and experts wrong and you right
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  385.  @blnunya6689  all other western countries have a similar arrangement and their murder rates are low, lower than the US’s. So yes, I want it. Do you have any awareness of it being bad?
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  386. @ look at other western countries bro
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  387. @ would far prefer crazy guys be armed only with knives and cars wouldn’t you
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  388. Why should we care about poor conservative Americans? Secondly, this is the Republicans’ fault. They are opposed to universal healthcare. Medicare premiums existing at all is because of them.
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  389.  Star Sojourner  Congress could pass new laws granting amnesty to DACA immigrants and raising immigration quotas to make legal immigration easier.
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  390.  @camiloardila2399  don’t you get it? This whole “wait in line” is pointless. It’s an artificial bottleneck caused by Republicans who are reluctant to see more Hispanics in the US. There’s no reason why a waitlist should be years and years, except to discourage and slow immigration from Latin America.
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  391.  @RuthB51  secession from a democracy is always horrible. We fought a Civil War to say so. And there are no benefits to independence other than emotional appeals to fantasy
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  392.  @Lana.Mari86  your legal opinions are worth very little, you lack the education and critical thinking skills necessary to hold opinions on legal affairs.
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  393.  @Lana.Mari86  your legal opinion is worth very little
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  394.  @janejones8672  lol you are arrogantly incorrect. There’s no proof judges are bribed beyond rare cases
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  395.  @mitchelline  who’s bribing a judge? And given how much money judges earn, and how much work and effort it takes to become a judge, and the high character judges and legal professionals have, and considering the risks involved of being caught, a bribe to a judge would have to be enormous, like millions of dollars. Who’s bribing a judge for this one little case?
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  396.  @chrism1503  to be a judge takes 8 years of schooling, passing a rigorous Bar Exam, hundreds of thousands of dollars in tuition, either campaigning for election or being appointed by the government, during which their whole career and integrity is scrutinized, and they’re constantly monitored by watchdogs. There is zero indication that this judge would stick his neck out for this case and act corrupt.
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  397.  @dawnsalois  being removed from the bench in no way means he’s corrupt or suspected to be corrupt.
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  398.  @snippetsordinarylife  being removed from the bench is not proof of corruption
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  399.  @LickMyBawsq  uh no, I’m saying to respect expert opinion. The other guy is not
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  400.  @kirst.  no I just believe in due process unlike you.
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  401.  @leslieloudermilk3876  how easy do you think it is to bribe a judge? Judges go to school for seven years, pay hundreds of thousands of dollars in tuition, are vetted by many government and institutional organizations, have a nice salary and job, and constantly monitored by watchdogs. Why on 🌍 would this small little case, involve a bribe? Use your 🧠 kid
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  402.  @doctorsavage5925  I knew it was in the West Bank when I typed that. Why would you assume I was discussing Gaza Strip? Yes, West Bank is a dangerous place and Israelis can’t stop wherever they want most likely. Lots of Palestinian militants in the West Bank including Hamas and PIJ.
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  403.  @doctorsavage5925  West Bank is dangerous
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  404.  @doctorsavage5925  why did you believe I thought this was in Gaza?
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  405.  @BobSacamano666  the West Bank is indeed dangerous
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  406. Which instances of corruption do you believe are to blame?
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  407. But what is 0.001 multiplied by 330,000,000+ Americans? 330,000 AMERICANS would die if Republicans get their way and say “who cares” to the Covid-19 Pandemic
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  408. He’s 97? He looks younger
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  409. It’s amazing. Biden is being impeached…and we don’t even know why!
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  410. Deterrence doesn’t matter if there’s no threat behind it. Iran needs to be reminded for years why this was a mistake
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  411. Lynette Scribner the Afghans are cooperating with the US so they do want the military there
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  412. Lynette Scribner the cost too high? How have you been affected? How is the cost too high? And where is the proof that the US exploits Afghanistan?
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  413. Chuck Ster can you explain how you and are affected by the War in Afghanistan? If not, then you have no right to tell the policy makers that their war is wrong.
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  414. Chuck Ster It doesn’t affect you at all. Why do you care? Why should you care?
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  415. Abdiel Grande I am inviting you to use your brain. Do you accept the invite?
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  416. Abdiel Grande dude says who? Do you dude?
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  417. Abdiel Grande wow very intelligent
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  418. amir sukhera where is the evidence for this absurd claim
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  419. What terrorism did AIPAC commit?
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  420.  @1236612  the US can and should take in more. The GOP are afraid of Hispanics coming to the US, that’s why they’re in favor of tougher immigration. But this racism and political fear is not a moral excuse
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  421. @Hi There what does Mexico have to with Republicans’ racist opposition to immigration
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  422.  @angelabolin1730  what examples do you have that the US is locally overpopulated?
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  423. @Hi Thereopposition to border jumpers as you say, IS racist. It doesn’t matter whether or not the Mexicans think so
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  424.  @angelabolin1730  that doesn’t mean the US is overpopulated. Cities and towns can grow. There’s no reason to be afraid.
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  425. US probably believes there’s more knowledge to be gained in observing it. Or rather, they don’t want to let China know what the US would do in a more critical scenario (such as during a much rumored and feared war), so they do nothing but watch.
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  426. Pass gun control and end this Republican genocide
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  427. What’s wrong with him?
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  428. You are uneducated and nationalistic. And you’re hung up on isolated incidents that happened decades ago, which though horrible no longer occur. Experts all agree that independence is bad for Puerto Rico. There’s no reason to support it other than nostalgia for a fantasy that never existed.
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  429. Poor people get very defensive over their money
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  430. Well what does that make you?
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  431. Ash If the US leaves the Taliban will come back in power. Then we’ll be back to before 9/11.
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  432. Ash you make no sense
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  433. hulk buster where is the proof? What about US nationbuilding like Iraqi Kurdistan
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  434.  @fireyfistoffire  why should corrupt dictatorships be allowed to arrive? The aren’t good countries.
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  435.  @dylanthepickle6428  the Biden administration does not agree, or see evidence that the border is a problem. Neither do I I am a wealthy liberal, and in Massachusetts.
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  436. It might be about the money. But I think it’s just a pretext. They want more of their prisoners back from the west.
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  437.  @morbidlyoppressed9038  xenophobia is not worth 40 billion USD. Why do you think the border is under attack?
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  438.  @morbidlyoppressed9038  migrants don’t need to be housed, at least not long term. They’re here to work jobs, make money, and often to send remittances to their families back in their home country.
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  439.  @morbidlyoppressed9038  Latin American migrants are not the enemies of America. They are not here to hurt us. Why do you think they are bad?
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  440.  @morbidlyoppressed9038  they shouldn’t have to wait in line for years to immigrate legally. The process is bottlenecked by Congress since Republican Ronald Reagan was President. They make it needlessly time consuming to limit legal immigration. This is bigotry. It’s morally wrong and creates the current illegal immigration crisis. Congress could raise legal immigration quotas and grant amnesty to illegal immigrants already here, then there wouldn’t be illegal immigration, as the vast majority of illegal immigrants would qualify for legal immigration if they could afford to wait years.
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  441. Barcelona Chair She was a treacherous piece of communist propaganda that cost the future of South Vietnam. Because of her tens of thousands of South Vietnamese were killed. And now millions of Vietnamese will never know of life outside a dictatorship. She's no hero, she's a useful idiot
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  442.  @joesiminson2356 well yes bro that is totally a legit reason. An 18 year old with no college degree or work experience likely can’t be a cop.
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  443. Pass gun control
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  444. You should go to college
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  445. Nothing has changed is good. Afghanistan was a Taliban nation before the US invaded
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  446. Why would NYC let him out of jail?
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  447. Really sad that Americans are so quick to use violence. What happened to communication or calling 911?
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  448.  @DingleBerry6969  he should’ve fled or retreated inside. No need for a gun, if this was in the UK nobody would be dead
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  449. More sacrifices for the 2nd Amendment. Thank you GOP for our 2nd Amendment rights
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  450.  @hcrankin5923  why do you judge all of BLM based on a few people that you don’t like
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  451.  @hcrankin5923  I’m not sure who you talked to, but most people who support BLM do not support any type of racism. Even if they did, it does not give you any reason generalize back
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  452.  @rightofherway  admitted to being driven by Israelis to a hospital after being caught in the crossfire against Palestinian terrorists
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  453. Absolutely maddening. How was a kid able to get a gun and shoot someone? I’m sure people in other countries are horrified and perplexed why this is normal in the US?
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  454. Do you guys remember 9/11? Or were you too young?
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  455. zizou ace the Taliban were terrorists who harbored al-Qaeda, other terrorists. AQ did 911, the Taliban refused to hand them over and also committed horrible crimes while in power, especially to women, and minorities. So the US invaded and aided the Northern Alliance, a progressive group of Afghans who were independent of the Taliban. The legacy of the NA remains in control of Afghanistan. The US mission is to stop the all terrorists in Afghanistan, and to support the Afghan government. Leaving would be bad for both
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  456.  @CraigScottFrost  makes no sense bro. Netanyahu’s corruption case is low level gift giving. If that came out, then you can bet him prolonging or starting a war based on October 7th would definitely come out, and result in far worse punishment than his minor scandal. The entire idea is not reasonable
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  457. The answer now we see is, the frozen embryos 🥶
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  458.  @kimp.dr.n2652 this is an old question I remember seeing this online like 10 years ago
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  459.  @purplemist7  the judge gave several statements, which you can find on Ballotopedia, explaining why he reached a not guilty verdict. Note this is a bench trial, so the judge acts as a jury.
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  460.  @bryandemore7486 it endangered the whole nation by enabling all of the US’s enemies like Russia and China
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  461. Do you think Trump was magically making rent cheaper? How so? The reason why is because the economy has changed globally, and it is not because of Trump or Biden.
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  462. Maybe you’re the problem. Why don’t you go to college and get a better job, instead of blaming Biden for your bills being expensive. Take some responsibility instead of blaming liberals for your life
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  463.  @jparity 1500 could be her net income not her gross income. Just for context
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  464.  @KatieBellino you’re poor I make $70hr and I’m a 27 year old man in biotech. Go to college and vote Democrat
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  465.  @PakiChick2010  Palestine is a dangerous place and perhaps it wasn’t safe to unload him there.
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  466.  @kinjunranger140  so how is this Biden‘s fault?
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  467. What makes military cities cheap?
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  468. A joke how? Strength is not always about being macho and aggressive. It’s about being smart too. Maybe as the Chinese balloon spies on the US, the US is in turn spying on it, seeing where it’s heading and what the Chinese are after. It’s a game of strategy.
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  469.  @mitronzongo the point is, is that he like other Russian elites send their wealth, children, and dependents to the West, while in Russia they continue to pillage the nation
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  470. Trump refused to read his daily briefings and he prioritized the economy over lives of ordinary people who got sick. Thousands are dead because of him
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  471. ztarfutsele Obama and Democrats ended the Recession that Bush started. The US had no choice but to borrow money.
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  472. You’d be so much better off if you buy, you should buy a condo, apartment, etc, instead
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  473.  @EricaChavira-on4oz  if you have money for rent you have money for a mortgage
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  474.  @EricaChavira-on4oz  instead of paying money and rent just pay money and mortgage instead
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  475. Don’t vote Republican
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  476.  @ioasisyumich  the Democratic Party is the party that wants to get productive and useful stuff done. They look at the success of Europe and think, “universal healthcare, tough gun laws and low murder rates, environmentalism, better-sometimes excellent-public schools, cheap college, and they ask, why can’t America have that too?
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  477.  @DeepDishPizza  lol $60k a month in rent yeah sure.
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  478.  @DeepDishPizza  why do you say too bad? I’m telling you that it is against your economic interest to charge rent based on anything else besides what the free market says to charge. How wealthy you think tenants are is not relevant.
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  479.  @pauld.b7129  someone making $150k a year before taxes is making about $2k a month week after taxes. So they can comfortably afford a mortgage payment between $2k and $3k. Source: I make a 150k a year at age 28.
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  480.  @pauld.b7129  not true, people have savings especially if they make $150k a year, which is not that uncommon. I’m 28 and I make that much in biotech currently. Properties that cost $2k to $3k a month are generally around $300k to $400k. I make $2k a week after taxes. I am fine. I have $30k in savings and want to buy an investment property to rent out. I already bought a condo for $300k a couple years ago when rates were low. Now rates are higher, ~6% vs ~4% when I bought, and I can afford around up to $3k a month for a mortgage, on the condition I rent out a property that at least almost breaks even. Point is, plenty of people can afford these prices, especially considering couples who have dual income.
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  481.  @pauld.b7129  lots of people especially couples with dual income can afford payments of $2k to $3k a month
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  482.  @lisykawaii  proof?
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  483.  @pauld.b7129  where’s the proof of this? Some people have money.
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  484.  @Brian1961-ep4bq  cap
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  485. They’re being sheltered because they can’t get a job, the government makes it illegal for them to work. Let them get a job and they won’t need support.
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  486. You are wrong about Puerto Rico. Most of them want to remain a US Territory, but under different terms than presently exist. All the past referendums were non-binding, but they could’ve been acted on, however they were plagued by low voter turnout, due to boycotts. The boycotts were from people who desired a different option than statehood, no change, and independence. Although statehood votes prevailed each time, US Congress refused to impose statehood on an unwilling populace, out of respect for Puerto Ricans desires.
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  487. What? The Democrats’ goal is gun control. Not to merely get re-elected. They want to pass gun control and have been trying for decades
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  488.  @puregameplay7916 pass gun control and end this right wing Genocide
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  489. Why are you happy? You take delight in seeing thousands of people becoming uprooted? This is why Congress should pass new laws granting amnesty and increasing the amount who can immigrate legally. But Republicans are against this, because of bigotry or concerns about their Sun Belt states turning blue from red.
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  490.  @Keeng9ine  the law can be changed, so that they can stay, if not for Republican opposition to legal immigration. Their commitment to barring access to Hispanics is racist corruption.
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  491. US is a democracy and China is a dictatorship
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  492. hendrsb33 US supports democracies and doesn’t buildup dictators since the Cold War. It also usually doesn’t act alone, but in concert with local allies.
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  493. hendrsb33 I watch mainstream news with journalistic integrity. A lot of British and American news. I also read Wikipedia as the many editors help screen against opinion pieces.
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  494. hendrsb33 I already get a wide and unbiased view. What else should I read? Something that tells me what you want me to hear? Like RT or the Global Times?
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  495. hendrsb33 Howard Zinn is cool and an expert historian but he’s only one man. The NGO reports are written by multiple experts. How does Zinn or others disprove the multiple NGOs?
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  496.  @TheTrueOnyxRose  what do you mean workers are stuck in jobs that they can’t get out of?
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  497.  @shawnwhitejr.4759  state schools are cheap, and I went to community college and got my associate’s first before my bachelor’s. So overall my parents paid 30k USD for my education. Well worth it, I’ve made 30k USD after taxes since graduating in Fall 2020, it is now July/Summer 2021,
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  498.  @TheTrueOnyxRose  what kinda job is one that you cannot leave? Name it
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  499.  @acolbymyers  anyone can go to community college and barely pass undergrad
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  500.  @archenemy6334  let someone else do the menial work for menial pay. Also, if you do like working those jobs, then you should support college education, because then demand for those jobs will increase as will the pay and speciality.
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  501.  @Jacen777  security what? Contractor? Like Academi/Blackwater?
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  502.  @Burnmaster10  dang, she should consider getting a 2 year or 1 year masters degree in something like computer science, there are some masters which don’t require a particular undergraduate degree
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  503.  @Jacen777  that’s interesting and a good idea. But I assume not all veterans can do this can they?
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  504.  @ryandexter8994  it’s why you take student loans and do it cheap by going to community college and/or state colleges. Some private colleges are also affordable. I would shop around online.
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  505.  @stevenbilodeau6697  you are presuming
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  506.  @Jacen777  sorta makes sense to me, thanks for sharing. It seems like an interesting job you have. You should write about it seems very interesting and unheard kf
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  507.  @ArchYeomans  quit and leave. If retail is all you’ve got then go to community college and study a STEM degree
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  508.  @Andrew-it7fb  you can take student loans, and I could’ve paid for everything myself, I had made about 20k USD working part time at a grocery store for 2 years while in college. Even if I didn’t have a job, I’d only be in debt for 30k, which I would’ve been able to pay off in less than a year.
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  509.  @Andrew-it7fb  I would not work full time while attending college, unless you’re comfortable going to school part time, but that will turn a 4 year degree into 6 or 7 years and divide your interest. People do it though, if you must or if your job is worth keeping, but I’d rather not. So first thing I would is try to get my expenses as close to zero, basically build a foundation. I would buy a condo or other cheap housing, or move back with my parents, family, etc. If you have car loans, etc, work to pay them off. Once you reduce your expenses you can afford to leave the workforce and be a student. Once your money is in order, I would apply to either state schools, or community colleges. A community college awards Associate Degrees, which are 2 years. They are also very cheap, less than 10k USD a year for tuition, often less than 5k. After your associate’s you can transfer to a 4 year school, like a cheap state school, and get your Bachelor’s Degree. Cheapest state schools tend to be around 15k a year, ideally under 30k. You can Google search schools and quickly find their annual tuition, taking into account your location, how far you’re willing to commute (or maybe you’re willing to live on campus and/or relocate), and what programs are attractive to you. I recommend STEM because it includes employable and lucrative majors. Once you have a list of good schools you like, call them and ask for help with applying. If you have to take out loans, so be it. You will make more money and have a more pleasant career after you earn your degree. The debt will be worth it. Or alternatively, if you have your finances in order you can pay out of pocket, and not go into debt. Some majors like Computer Science and Engineering pay the most but are very difficult, students risk getting discouraged and drop out of flunk. It’s important to know how hard a worker you are, or how skilled you are with the material, so that you can get sufficient grades to pass. Easier STEM majors like Biology and Chemistry like I did can still be useful and are easier. So that’s how you can attend college as a working adult. Either get a cheap place to live and pay it off, or move in with your parents again. Then attend community college and earn an associate’s, and later a bachelor’s. If you have to take loans, it’s still worthwhile if you go to budget friendly schools and get financial aid.
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  510.  @avpthegreat  that’s good. I’m graduated but I’m trying to get my GPA back to 3.0 and do a few calculus courses for grad school. My low GPA is hurting me, but it’s fixable. I would like to study biomedical engineering
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  511.  @Andrew-it7fb  dang, there’s NOBODY in your life you can sponge off of? No siblings? No friends? No roommates? And you have NO savings of any kind? No safety net? EVERY dollar you make goes into something other than your savings? If you are saving any money I think it’s doable to buy a cheap unit or to save up 10k or so for tuition at a community college. How much do you make? Do you own a home? If not, can you check on Zillow or Redfin how much the cheapest properties are in your area? I think this is a reasonable first step. I live in Massachusetts but I’ve seen units in Lincoln, Nebraska sell for 50k. Can you not make 50k in 5 years? A scant 10k in savings per year?
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  512.  @the_expidition427  lol
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  513.  @brynnplant  I know I’m lucky what about student loans? What about community college which is very cheap? Some technical degrees can be employable, like in healthcare or engineering technology
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  514.  @cliffkonkle3467  yes but most people have parents they can live with, if your family isn’t homeless, then it’s possible. Secondly, even if you have to take loans, if you go to community college and state schools you’d have less than 50k in debt. Very cheap. You can pay it off in about a year or less if you study STEM and get a job that pays fairly
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  515.  @Andrew-it7fb  anyone could do what I have outlined. Out of highschool, at the age of 18, you can take out student loans and go to college, and live on campus. If you don’t want the debt of a four year degree, even a cheap state school which is under 50k USD, and includes room and board, you can always go to community college for cheap, usually under 5k a year for in-state residents. If you are concerned about a job because of bills like housing, you can take classes at night and/or go to school part time. Or ask about financial aid offered by the state, in Massachusetts I know a city here which offers free rent to eligible students, who need the help. You CAN go to school, no excuses. Only quitter talk by salty people. I’m a vegan liberal by the way
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  516. US has the highest rate of murder and gun-murder in the developed world. This is long overdue. Gun control saves lives
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  517. Which crime did Netanyahu commit?
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  518.  @LadyRainbowUnicorn  that’s what they get for the wars they started. They are victims, victims of Israel. Justified ones too.
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  519. The health ministry run by Hamas? That one?
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  520. I was thinking about t bagging . However, this is a more graphic and distressing example, because in VR, coupled with voice chat, the experience is more scary
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  521. Flouride is safe
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  522.  @ironshoes1720  the trial determined that’s not what happened
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  523.  @theCommentDevil  at this time, a two state solution is impossible with Israel, especially on terms the Palestinians insist on such as ceding East Jerusalem and surrounding small cities like Ariel, and the right of return to Palestinians and their descendants, so called refugees. These people and their government have attacked Israel viscously over the decades and never once apologized. You can’t live in peace with these types
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  524. Haha you’re so poor. Why don’t you take responsibility and save money?
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  525. KyoKyoDisaster! I’m 24
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  526. fallout560 haha you are so poor. Lol go vegan and stop being poor
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  527. Zak Adoke go vegan
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  528.  @onatone  what do you think the US will do?
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  529. So you think the government should give handouts to poor American workers? I don’t think so. I’d rather help out friendly countries that need the help than Americans who aren’t able to live within their means
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  530.  @texas7983  I think Ukraine should be helped. I don’t think your struggles are as important as Ukraine or Israel or Taiwan.
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  531.  @dharmabum1925  why do you assume this? Why not instead assume that he just wants to destroy the military of the enemy nation?
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  532.  @nikushim6665  his corruption trial is for the very low level activities like gift giving, I think it’s silly to assume that he’s prolonging a war, which is much more serious and illegal, just to get out of a minor crime.
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  533.  @poochettino lol he’s lying? Says you?
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  534.  @tinasan3870  ok kid sure, he’s lying because someone else says so.
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  535. Thank you GOP for our 2nd Amendment rights
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  536. Jack Johnson I hope so. Guns are bad
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  537.  @billybandyk0720  what proof would you like me to provide? The burden of proof is on you, you are the ones making a loaded claim that the judge is corrupt
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  538. We need the Republican Party to do their jobs and pass gun control
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  539. Syrian regime is an evil Nazi lite nation. It deserves to be bombed
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  540.  @Phattyasmo  he could’ve called the cops. Could’ve done anything other than use lethal force. The right wing is looking for an excuse to hurt others. That’s what it looks like
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  541.  @Stumme-40203  why didn’t they flee?
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  542.  @RobertEmery  so, you would rather Mill someone than flee and let them be arrested? Are you so small of a man that you need to prove yourself and take a life instead of waiting for police?
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  543.  @KainMalice  so, you admit that you don’t care about self defense, you just want an excuse to act on your psychopathic fantasies, and hurt people who cross you?
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  544.  @Tactical-Black  why not retreat or deescalate before using lethal force? Do you have a violence fetish?
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  545.  @Stumme-40203  why couldn’t he run to the backyard or barricade in a bedroom? Why escalate when other options are available?
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  546. Assad’s Baathist regime has killed thousands of its own citizens during the Arab Spring. Prompting mass defections to the FSA and other rebel groups. Assad is an evil man
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  547. @Stinkydonshatonawall because, it’s a very serious accusation to say that an American judge is corrupt, or bribed to make a decision. It’s improbable and unprecedented. Facts are, sometimes judges have as you kids say “hot takes”, and they make decisions that are unpopular with regular people. But that doesn’t mean the judge is corrupt. There’s zero proof that he’s corrupt. Therefore, the only logical conclusion is that he made a decision in good faith, and you just don’t like it. Go read about the case too, on Ballotopedia. It contains statements and quotes from the judge explaining why he reached this not guilty verdict.
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  548.  @101Mant  the legal experts did not say he was corrupt so try again
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  549.  @writtenhousesecurity6499 gun control saves lives
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  550.  @writtenhousesecurity6499  the best way to save lives is to ban hanguns, handguns are used to commit almost all murders in the US.
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  551. You care way too much about guns. There’s more to life than guns
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  552. LIV2500 what about Japan and the UK?
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  553.  @MultiSmokeBomb  without classified information, the US would be much less safe. Hostile powers in the world would use this open info and conspire against the US or allied nations
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  554.  @postal7850  clearly it wasn’t legal if the UK is extraditing him
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  555. Time to pass gun control
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  556. Republican party is actively aiding Russia by withholding aid
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  557.  Ghost 3 Delta  no, just that tough gun laws are proven effective
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  558. Israel and Ukraine need our help. Me personally, I would rather help them than the poor conservative states who swallow the liberal states and cities taxes and reward them with complaints and right wing policies that damage our nation.
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  559. Because it is not border security, it is racism. Congress can easily fix this issue by giving the migrants work visas, or giving them and others a path to citizenship or permanent residency. But they won’t. Because this would hurt the Republican Party’s politics of weaponizing hate of migrants
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  560. That’s what he gets for hacking classified information and releasing it to the world, especially to hostile regimes like Russia and China.
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  561.  @gepo6882  US government does not traffic firearms. You didn’t learn anything in school!
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  562.  @MR-kt2zv  my solution would be, strict no phones, strict education, maybe pull back on stuff they won’t be doing anyways like homework, and raising salaries of teachers to make them happier, more productive, and more incentivized. On a national level, we need a conversation on what it is to be a parent, the dangers of tech addiction, and get parents more involved and into parenting plus their child’s education.
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  563.  @MR-kt2zv  well, kids who suffer aren’t doing homework anyways, and when they don’t, or even if they do, it often poisons their desire for learning, makes them stressed, makes them want to just give up completely. So, my solution, just remove homework. As for being strict, be strict in behavior and rigorous in classroom teaching, or classwork. Basically, make sure the teachers and curriculum are solid.
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  564. What will Israel do after all the hostages are released?
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  565. What can the world do? What can Israel do? What can anyone besides Hamas do? Hamas should surrender and stop using human shields
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  566. That’s what happens when you’re poor and uneducated
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  567.  @KILLCOLONIALISM ??
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  568. Federal crime doesn’t mean worse than state crime. Federal misdemeanors aren’t worse than state felonies
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  569. What do you think when guns are rampant?
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  570.  @jumpstreet2425  sounds like something a poor person might say
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  571.  @jumpstreet2425  why do you think college is a scam? Not all schools are expensive. My state school was only 13k USD a year for tuition
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  572.  @dakotareid1566  trades are fine, but, I’m 25, I graduated school in Fall 2020, and right now it’s less than 1 year later in July 2021. I’m making $34/hr. 75k USD a year. With the promise of growth. Do trades offer that? Maybe, but I’m not certain
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  573.  @allhopeabandon7831  I am a vegan and a liberal and I make 75k a year and I’m 25
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  574.  @beeshoney4945  what do you define as rich? Also, how old are your family members and what is their career? College grads in STEM like me make more money overall. Mind you I went to community college and then a modest state school
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  575.  @jumpstreet2425  books aren’t free, why should they be? And book costs are a relatively small piece of the tuition, so are negligible overall. College athletes may get a raw deal but their tuition is pretty much free right? So that’s something good.
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  576.  @jasonluis8895  ain’t no trade gonna make you as much money as STEM
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  577. He’s in trouble for hacking classified information with the help of Chelsea Manning. He deserves to suffer for this, his leaks empowered hostile enemies of the US, like Russia and China. He is also a stooge for dictatorships, releasing information selectively to influence public opinion, namely in 2016 Election when he tilted public opinion away from Hillary Clinton and towards Donald Trump.
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  578. cbeaulac US nationbuilding is the reason for Taiwan and South Korea, two of Asia's most prosperous countries. If South Vietnam survived the Vietnam War, it too would've received such treatment. But no, that didn't happen sadly
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  579. Much like the Brexit vote, or the election of Donald Trump in 2016, there’s a risk that the people will vote for the wrong outcome against their interests.
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  580.  @AlanZ684  why do you assume that Netanyahu wants power and doesn’t care about hostages? Many Israelis want to destroy Hamas and pacify Palestine, even if it means the hostages are not given priority. It doesn’t mean they don’t care, it means they want to maximize their safety and happiness for the future
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  581. @RC CRAWL that is erroneous thinking. In Chicago for example, it is close to nearby Indiana which has lax gun laws. The decades of years from dozens of Western nations comprise hundreds of data points on a country’s annual tally of murders and gun-murder. It is large proof that gun control saves lives and works well.
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  582. @RC CRAWL this is not proof that gun control doesn’t work. It’s natural that cities have more gun crime, cities usually have higher gross totals due to higher populations. Meanwhile this does not change the fact that ALL other developed nations have had tougher gun laws and lower rates of murder and gun-murder, for the past few decades. This is proof that gun control saves lives. Please delete your comment so you do not mislead others
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  583. @RC CRAWL the data doesn’t lie, it is proof gun control saves lives. I think gun registration should be tied to drivers’ license in order to force registration. Then, all handguns and auto/semiauto rifles should be confiscated.
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  584. @RC CRAWL the data is Gun Policy dot org, and government data from multiple Western nations like the UK, US, Canada, etc.
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  585. @RC CRAWL gun control has nothing to do with individual freedom. In fact, data from the CPI shows that nations with gun control rate similarly to the US, often better. So gun control does not correlate with tyranny
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  586. How is Joe Biden to blame for this? Does crime stop when Trump or a Republican is in office?
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  587.  @johannacox3267 pass gun control and end this Republican massacre
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  588. Republicans the party of self mutilation and wrecking our nation. Inhibit the government to do its job and complain that it doesn’t work well.
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  589.  @TruthB7Told  they should be charged for owning a gun with kids in the house
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  590. Or…we ban guns like every other Western country
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  591. So all the dumb fools who “sighted” Brian Laundrie are foolish
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  592. anna gray what about the Afghan soldiers who live in Afghanistan? They should just surrender to the Taliban?
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  593. Michael Morse the US should stay in Afghanistan for decades
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  594. How come the UK
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  595.  @new_kingdom8679  “the government tells us” was a direct reference to the Biden Administration, as they are largely “the government”.
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  596. Barcelona Chair She was a treacherous piece of communist propaganda that cost the future of South Vietnam. Because of her tens of thousands of South Vietnamese were killed. And now millions of Vietnamese will never know of life outside a dictatorship. She's no hero, she's a useful idiot
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  597. It may not be obvious to you. But, if all the generals and bureaucrats with their collective wisdom decided to let it continue, you can be sure they have their reasons for not shooting it down. They could be spying on the balloon itself for example.
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  598. Gulf Echo there is the threat of extra-legal consequences. This antagonistic and racist behavior could impact relations with voters and colleagues.
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  599.  @jaketapper8910  I’m glad we have your opinions to consider
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  600. @Christopher Odegard it’s not always that simple. The experts who run US government are very smart people. They have their reasons. For example, they were maybe spying on the balloon as the balloon spies on them.
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  601. @Christopher Odegard how do you know? What’s your explanation then?
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  602. Russia is the most imperialist nation in the Middle East. Putin kills Syrian civilians in Russian airstrikes. He supports Assad who used chemical weapons on his own people. These guys are like little Hitlers
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  603. Prussian Blue lol so funny 😂😂😂😂😂😂
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  604. Сергей sergey Wow so funny.
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  605.  @Sidharthavicious  so if I Wikipedia search collateral murder Julian Assange, I’m going to find proof of a war crime?
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  606.  @mindyourbizok why? He’s a traitor who enabled Russia and China plus other regimes
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  607.  @Suzanne-f4x  if the conservatives would let the illegal immigrants get legal jobs, then they wouldn’t need to be sheltered on the taxpayer’s dime.
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  608.  @applepie9576 what proof do you have that “them” don’t do enough to combat crime? Keep in mind that areas with the most crime are conservative areas, like the Sun Belt
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  609. @Stinkydonshatonawall unlike you, I have critical things I do not presume to know more than experts
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  610. @Stinkydonshatonawall thing is, you don’t have a legal education. Therefore, what you think about complex topics is not important. You’re not an expert and so your opinions don’t matter. Having an unsubstantiated opinion without proof is worse than having no opinion at all, and you lack the humility and respect for expertise to realize that.
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  611. @Stinkydonshatonawall unlike you, my assumptions are reasonable or supported by facts. I have said only 3 things. 1. There’s no proof the judge is corrupt. This is true. There is no proof. 2. You are not a legal expert and so your opinions don’t matter (also true, it takes years of schooling and a doctorate to practice law, I doubt your amateurish thoughts stand up). 3. Without evidence or educated speculation (you have neither), there is no indication to support your argument and thoughts that the judge is corrupt.
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  612. @Stinkydonshatonawall ok, so where am I contradicting myself? Am I behaving like you are? And making loaded and charged statements without proof, and questioning the legal experts without expertise of my own to match? Becuase that’s what you’re doing, and it’s not what I’m doing. You are Gen z
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  613. @Stinkydonshatonawall ok, what statement did I make that is unsupported by facts and evidence? You said he’s corrupt. I said, there’s no proof. And there is no proof the judge is corrupt.
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  614. That’s what he gets for hacking state secrets.
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  615.  @xx133  US had good reason to invade all those immoral authoritarian nations. Btw, US never invaded “Vietnam”.
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  616. Proof?
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  617. This is why we need gun control
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  618.  @Elver_Gon69  everyone who passes vetting should be allowed to be citizens. Republicans are putting strict quotas on immigrants from Latin America, because they fear that an influx of Hispanic citizens means that they will vote Democrat. It’s corrupt
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  619.  @KeepinItRealAllDay  They shouldn’t have to wait their turn. They should just come. Why do you think it’s ok for immigration to take years and years? It’s just Republicans trying to keep people of color out, because they fear that they will vote Democrat in the Sun Belt.
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  620.  @KeepinItRealAllDay  the laws are wrong and should be changed, entering legally from Latin America takes years and only exists because GOP is afraid of Hispanic immigrants voting blue in the Sun Belt. That is racism
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  621.  @suzannexie7373  where is your proof Biden told Cubans not to come because they vote Republican? Secondly, the laws are bad, quotas for legal immigration should be raised, but the GOP is racist and afraid of Hispanic voters, that’s the ONLY reason why legal immigrants from Latin America have to wait for years to enter. It’s a bottleneck
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  622.  @KeepinItRealAllDay  there should be NO lines, anyone who can pass vetting should become citizens. This artificial restriction by Republicans is racist.
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  623.  @suzannexie7373  where’s the proof?
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  624.  @Willow-p3s  the law can and should be changed to allow more people to immigrate legally. Republicans restricted legal immigration to bottleneck and discourage legal immigration. Racism
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  625. Pass gun control. End the right wing obsession with violence and ego
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  626. How well he’s handled this? He delayed in closing down flights to Europe and ignored his daily briefings. Thousands are dead because of Trump
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  627.  @cibergypsy  Puerto is in the UNITED States. Everyone works together for the greater good. And contrary to your claim, Puerto Rico gets a good deal by being in the US, as does any state or territory. All mainstream experts agree that independence is bad for PR. Independence is a nostalgic and juvenile fantasy.
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  628.  @cibergypsy  you are uneducated, you are hung up over events which happened hundreds of years ago as if they matter today. And you ignore the good Puerto Ricans get out of statehood, like being apart of a developed and wealthy nation. You should support statehood not independence.
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  629. lol how are Democrats to blame?
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  630. We could ban guns and stop people from robbing others?
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  631. Palestine is an authoritarian regime. It is not the good guy.
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  632.  @Slolo-s4h  Palestine is a regime and does not deserve to exist
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  633. Naive to assume that if Israel hands back all the territories there will peace. That wasn’t the case in 1967 during the Six Day War, and the enemy has many times since then made more wars and more terror campaigns. There’s no trust and love for non-Zionists
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  634.  @Mike-f1j5n  innocent even though their nation is run by terrorists?
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  635.  @awdobsession717 lol LA is ruined by Democrats? Why are property values there so high then? Wouldn’t that imply it’s a desirable place to live?
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  636. WAKE UP CONSERVATIVES Gun control is proven to work well in the dozens of other Western nations who have it. US has the highest rate of murder and gun-murder in the developed world and the most lax gun laws.
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  637.  @marsoelflaco5722  that doesn’t prove anything against years of data from the dozens of countries with gun control
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  638.  @marsoelflaco5722  that simply means that gun control is not being done properly in the US, perhaps due to inconsistent and narrow legislation ex. city wide bans are easier to circumvent by buying outside of the city
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  639.  @marsoelflaco5722  every country has crime. Yet not all developed nations have lax gun laws, nor have murder and gun-murder rates as high as in the US. The solution is gun control
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  640.  @Wanderlust1972 fools
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  641.  @Retrovorious *pushes
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  642. Pass gun control and end the right wing violence
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  643. Wait, who said that the War in Afghanistan was a lie?
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  644. Yahsgrace &mercy How is the War in Afghanistan a lie?
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  645. Sadly cops often attract the wrong people, especially in poor rural and uneducated populations found in conservative areas.
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  646. US got invited by Syrian Rebels
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  647. I Petrik SDF and FSA aren’t terrorists. Meanwhile Russian airstrikes are killing civilians in Aleppo. Putin and Assad are corrupt dictators so it makes sense that they are cruel and selfish
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  648. john torres I suggest you go to college. You might learn something. Stop watching RT
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  649. Darko Lengkeek only after Trump withdrew from the region and sided with Turkey. Russia has attacked civilians before and I doubt they’ve stopped
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  650.  @Thunderbyrd. why?
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  651. And in turn, the US is watching and learning from the Chinese. Seeing what they want, where they’re sending it, could be a game of counter spying
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  652.  @ec6052  we are learning the enemy’s tactics and motivations, not the weather balloon itself
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  653. You are dangerous. You are ceding American resources and citizens to satisfy your libertarian fetish.
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  654.  @teiomat5557  libertarianism is degenerate
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  655. Coward
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  656. Hmmm…defund the police?
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  657. Do not support a Palestinian state.
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  658. pin55head says you. And no one else.
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  659. thegr8rambino 15 people whose opinions don’t matter
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  660. thegr8rambino it’s not my opinion it’s the opinion shared by expert politicians. People who don’t listen to you and never will. Enjoy being poor and uneducated
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  661. thegr8rambino go to college before arguing with conventional wisdom
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  662. thegr8rambino what did you study? Liberal Arts? Lol
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  663. George Gorbatchev Go to school before trying to act smart
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  664. Patriot Act hasn’t hurt me and I see no reason why it should be scrapped. It’s foiled terrorist plots
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  665.  @sonofposeidon9450  the laws on immigration should be changed, Congress should act. The Patriot Act however is harmless
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  666.  @mr.buzaid9130 lost in Iraq? Why do you think the US lost in Iraq?
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  667.  @mr.buzaid9130  I can asure Iraq is not “controlled” by militants or Iran. Try reading Wikipedia for accurate sources of info. Because you are wrong. Or are greatly overestimating what you know
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  668.  @chandelier6811  the difference between an embryo and a fetus is somewhat arbitrary, it’s a term ascribed by humans to differentiate the gestation cycle. In common speak, they’re both the same
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  669.  @EliacimRodriguez  lol when are children shot at from tanks?
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  670.  @LP-ct9nk  so you think if Nelson was less patronizing to the jury, Chauvin would’ve been found not guilty?
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  671.  @LP-ct9nk  your legal opinion is not worth much please delete your comment
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  672.  @regworld1167  I agree such profoundness
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  673.  @Kevin_2435  you seem uneducated
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  674. Gentrification is happening not only around the whole US, but the whole Western World. Puerto Rico’s problems are not unique to Puerto Rico.
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  675. Airstrikes on NK
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  676.  @aurelie8220  rent is not “way more” than mortgage, unless the property has appreciated a lot in a short amount of time (as happened during the boom in 2021-2022 from after the COVID-19 Pandemic), or has appreciated a little each year for a long time, as happens normally. Anyways, how does me renting a property to someone who wants to rent it mean hurt them? Should I offer to sell it instead? Perhaps, but tell me what I should be doing differently
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  677. THECITYHUNTER I see
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  678. spartansingham eh what's up doc?
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  679. Chí Phèo nguyễn regardless all those nations have higher living standards and more human rights than Vietnam
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  680. Chí Phèo nguyễn Please show the evidence if you could. I am curious and I don’t know what it is like to live in Vietnam
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  681.  @soupman3285  that’s what they get for harboring VC terrorists. It’s no different than harboring al-Qaeda. Know better, there’s no sympathy for harboring terrorists like the VC, they are culpable
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  682.  @cancelanime1507  a few comments over four years is a small amount of time
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  683.  @rainforestsanctuary-sounds6489  Why do you post silly opinions online which are easily contested?
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  684.  @bwana3006  US is not a corrupt nation, the CPI says so as do other NGO reports
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  685.  @rainforestsanctuary-sounds6489  you are ignorant, most Americans don’t do drugs
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  686. The Chinese regime lilies
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  687. Fiddle As It Burns it’s not entrapment. It would be entrapment if they told Flynn to lie, and they never did. Flynn broke the law, but Trump doesn’t care. CORRUPTION
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  688. MrFelixphenom Obama is upset that Trump’s mismanagement is killing thousands of people. Trump ignored his daily security briefings and delayed emergency measures to protect the economy. So yeah, Obama is upset that Trump is killing people indirectly
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  689.  The boys upstairs.  racist to assume
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  690.  The boys upstairs.  you are promoting stereotypes
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  691. spartansingham hello thank you for posting
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  692. THECITYHUNTER Wait please explain I'm a little confused. What caused the US to lose the war? I was taught that it was because the war became unpopular, for better or worse, and that Nixon started withdrawing troops as part of his platform, and after Watergate when Ford became president, he pulled the plug entirely, seeing it as none of his concern.
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  693. Yusuf Omar Uh what?
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  694. pugilist102 lol
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  695. Just give them documents and let them get jobs
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  696.  @XPurpleVortex  so what does your problem solve exactly?
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  697.  @philspd473  so why are they “being brought in”?
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  698. It’s just a drone people who cares
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  699. lol
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  700.  @scoutdixie4412  with the US’s lax gun laws there’s no reason to believe they got them illegally, buying them legally is easy, or the weak laws are easy to defeat via straw purchases of gun shows.
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  701. Daniel Tchaikovski Why are you sad?
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  702. Daniel Tchaikovski Well sorry but who’s going to defend the innocent civilians that the Russian military is killing? Ex. Kurds, Georgians, Ukrainians?
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  703. Daniel Tchaikovski Russia is attacking the SDF
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  704.  @mrparts Russia does not care about helping other nations, the US does, US is democratic and morally superior to regimes like Venezuela or Russia
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  705.  @LadyRainbowUnicorn  human shields and collateral damage, plus some of those are Hamas members
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  706.  @salvyballacc  the Honduran President is a kingpin. It’s not unusual that he is wanted, it’s not corruption, it’s normal.
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  707.  @itsaaronlolz  why do you hate Biden so much?
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  708.  @MikeMalaysia  what land do you believe Israel stole?
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  709.  @g.i.520  Israel only occupied land after the 1967 Six Day War, launched unprovoked against Israel. Israel was not occupying any part of the Gaza Strip, the West Bank, they didn’t even have East Jerusalem, it was run by TransJordan.
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  710.  @Matthew-yw3oi  if some people walked up to you in VR, which often feels real, it can be distressing. Especially for children. Why don’t you have some empathy instead of arrogantly assuming others are wrong to complain?
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  711.  @Matthew-yw3oi  you wouldn’t be saying that if your daughter or wife had it happen to them
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  712.  @caseohllve  why not instead, we regulate bad behavior proactively
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  713.  @baratsxy1604  it affects people 16+ too, I don’t see the issue
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  714.  @GusCraft460  it’s not cruel to ignore the wishes of uneducated and unintelligent people. That’s what pro-independence people are, ignorant populists. They can and should be ignored by educated people in power. Hopefully, ignorant populists will remain out of power.
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  715. @David Alvarez what does being a state or territory have to do with anything?
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  716. @David Alvarez who says it’s a lot easier to let go of a territory than a state? According to who?
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  717.  @sinfinite7516  cap what? Explain yourself using words.
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  718.  @GusCraft460  thanks, but I wanted to hear what the lie was. Explain
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  719.  @GusCraft460  it was determined decades ago that the Philippines would eventually be independent, no such decision was made regarding Puerto Rico. Read Wikipedia, it is free. Your ignorance cannot be bought
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  720.  @GusCraft460  no, we should not let Puerto Ricans be apart of any decision that involves secession. They can be a part of decisions on statehood or remaining a territory, but that’s all. Because people are ignorant, in Puerto Rico and elsewhere. Ignorant people who make destructive choices should not be empowered.
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  721.  @GusCraft460  hello just wanted to say you’re very smart 😊
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  722.  @Wilson-ky30  Russia is authoritarian and the US is good.
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  723. She wanted to pull a power play over a black man to satisfy her racist agenda
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  724. Chinese politics are nothing like American politics
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  725. How does being a state affect Puerto Rico’s culture? What does investment from the government have to do with boxing or other sports? And do you have proof that being a state would lead to increased immigration from other nations? How? Why?
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  726.  @NoNo-ng9sl  PR being a state would lead to more federal investments in PR. Now, I’m asking you how being a state would lead to Puerto Ricans losing their culture, or their sports. Go on…in your own words please. Where’s the proof that refugees from Latin America will go to PR instead of Texas? What does being a state have to do with where refugees arrive? And how is this bad, even if true?
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  727.  @NoNo-ng9sl  I don’t like your argument that being a state will somehow dilute Puerto Rico’s culture. How do you know this will happen? And how do you know immigrants will flock to Puerto Rico in greater numbers if it becomes a state? How do you know this?
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  728.  @NoNo-ng9sl  so you think if Hawaii was a US territory instead of a state, Hawaiian culture would be more prominent? How do you know this? What evidence do you have besides speculation that Puerto Rico’s culture will change after it becomes a state? You didn’t even explain how it would happen. Do you think more Americans will move there once it becomes a state? They can already move there now, as it’s a territory. If anything, statehood will stop the brain drain and emigration Puerto Rico’s been having for the past few decades and help preserve the local culture. Secondly, how will Puerto Rico being a state or not change the amount of immigrants arriving in Puerto Rico? How?
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  729.  @NoNo-ng9sl  You make a lot of assumptions with zero proof. How do you know that Hawaii becoming a state is what triggered influx of immigrants? And how do you know this will happen to Puerto Rico? And how do you know that more Americans will retire in Puerto Rico if it becomes a state. Even if we assume that your baseless claims that being a state will standardize building codes, etc, and that they’re not standardized already, that doesn’t mean more Americans will retire there. And even if they do retire there in greater numbers, again that’s not proof it will dilute Puerto Rican culture or lead to any other negative effects. You’ve been making up statements without citing proof. You are playing pretend. If you want to make a convincing argument then you have to use reliable sources. But don’t post any links in the comments please, they’ll be blocked automatically.
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  730.  @NoNo-ng9sl  so you don’t have any evidence? Or even any reasoning which shows that once Hawaii became a state, immigration went up, and the reason why it went up, was because Hawaii became a state?
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  731.  @muggsyaxton8085 or maybe it’s the result of people not living in their means and not getting a good job? That’s not Biden’s fault they’re poor and uneducated
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  732. Poor people are indeed very defensive of their money. They lose sight of what’s really important, life and happiness
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  733.  @douglasduda9826 do you have proof from reliable sources that shows Democrats cause inflation and high gas prices?
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  734.  @perrywidhalm114  wrong how? Why don’t you explain why the GOP is against increasing the legal immigration from Latin America?
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  735.  @AnonYmous-tr4cu  what fool would pay high rents to live in a house?
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  736.  @John-hw3ds  what poor state do you live in?
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  737.  @jessicabixler1658  and?
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  738. Go to college and stop being poor
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  739.  @atranimecs  so how is that proof that the judge is wrong or corrupt?
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  740.  @atranimecs  changing a verdict is a normal part of the law and it doesn’t mean he’s corrupt. It’s not unheard of.
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  741. US has never started a conflict with Russia
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  742.  @djdavisiscool  your fear and cruel indifference are the reasons why US has murder and g** murder rates several times higher than the UK or other developed nations. You are wrong
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  743.  @donnyvandebeek6998  the right wingers in America are sadly a damaging force for the country. They choose violence very quickly and without thought.
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  744.  @ab8588  why should corrupt and cruel dictatorships be included? They shouldn’t be coddled
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  745.  @oscarpetersen6547  Engaging with some dictatorships doesn’t mean the US should engage with all dictatorships. If US can hurt Venezuela that’s good.
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  746.  @JoseFlores-xh5cj  where do you live? In the rural areas?
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  747. You want a handout
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  748. @user-sj5ju4jb7t that’s on them to get a good job and get educated
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  749. @user-sj5ju4jb7t this is on the individual to make their own money and provide for themselves independently
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  750.  @godbyone how is Biden responsible for Hamas attacking Israel?
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  751. Why would Israel be interested in attacking innocent and strategically unimportant Palestinian civilians?
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  752. The defense didn’t dispute the video, they disputed that what Chauvin did on video was illegal
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  753.  @Wongseifu548 that’s what they get for the wars they started
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  754. Gun control is proven to work well in dozens of other Western nations. It’s proof that gun control stops murders
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  755.  @thiagodasilvasantos  none of that is proof that China is better option. China which cares about its people so poorly surely won’t care about you
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  756.  @thiagodasilvasantos  secondly, I read the Wikipedia article on the 1964 Brazilian Coup. You are mistaken. US supported other Brazilians who saw the government of Goulart as dangerous. US merely helped them out. If Brazil is indeed prosperous today, then similar to Chile and the Chilean Miracle, you owe your success to the United States for putting better people in power.
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  757.  @thiagodasilvasantos  US didn’t see it that way. So who’s right? The entire US government, who felt Brazil was a threat, or you, who thinks Brazil was not a threat?
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  758.  @wanter9132  they should not have antagonized the US. Mobilizing to align Brazil with the Soviet Union is dangerous and they knew it. Not only that, I read the Wikipedia article on the 1964 Brazilian Coup, and there were legitimate domestic grievances Brazilians had against Goulart. Even if the US didn’t get involved the coup would still likely have occurred and succeeded. Blaming the US for Goulart’s unpopularity and antagonistic foreign policy seems misguided. As well the Brazilian military and their allies seemed happy to launch the coup, which to me suggests Brazilian society had chronic problems long before the US helped the coup in 1964, which makes me question how responsible the US can be. Seems like Brazilian society was inclined for a coup regardless of the US. All that cruelty and suffering could’ve been avoided if Brazil was a more liberal and democratic nation and shunned Soviet alignment.
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  759. Thank you GOP for our 2nd Amendment rights
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  760.  @BalakeHart-nh4xh rural red areas in Texas have the highest rates of murder in the state
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  761. Aurangzeb is there proof
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  762.  @melvinmck8158  US for all its problems does much better in terms of violence and human rights than pretty much all OAS nations, barring a few high performers like Chile and Argentina, Mexico to a lesser extent.
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  763.  @ab8588  source?
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  764.  @jenalatz3589  show proof cartels run Mexico and show proof Biden enables them.
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  765.  @apara2005  US is better than all of those other nations, the literacy, median income, and other metrics are better than most if not all OAS states.
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  766. Everyone knew about this two years ago. There just wasn’t hard proof. Go to college and vote Democrat
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  767.  @ezdzit5330  hahaha
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  768.  @JayTX. the gun laws are to blame, it enabled him to go on his spree. What did the liberals do?
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  769. Bad bot
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  770.  @AndSome625028  ok I’m sorry, but for real man why you gotta hate on Ukrainians? They didn’t ask to be invaded, for their cities and towns to be destroyed, or for their economy to be wrecked.
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  771.  @AndSome625028  you have no proof for any of your statements. What proof is there that the US helped cause the conflict? Or that Ukraine is an oligarchy? You seem narcissistic.
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  772.  @AndSome625028  you’re making it up then
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  773.  @AndSome625028  you’re exaggerating and being sarcastic, but aside from that, what you say is truthful. Ukraine should not surrender large chunks of land to Russia, this is appeasement and it endangers the whole world, it could cause WWIII as it caused WWII with the UK/France alliance appeasing the Germans. And yes, the US and Ukraine are morally superior to dictatorships like Russia, China, Iran, North Korea, Palestine, Venezuela, Cuba, and so on. NGO reports like the Democracy Index not only verify that these nations are democracies and authoritarian regimes respectively, but also that the democracies have greater civil rights. This is proof the US and Ukraine are morally superior to Russia.
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  774. Ok boomer
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  775.  @Anna_ep murderers don’t get out on bail. Where’s the proof?
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  776.  @davidscher1620  he is still a Democrat, just in denial
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  777.  @deezpleez3832  no, Yang is a democrat whether he knows it or not. This fake party he made is a farce
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  778. Why should we close the border with Mexico? Did you know that illegal and legal immigrants are each less likely than native born US citizens to commit crimes and use social services?
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  779. These are Americans, and why should we protect current citizens over immigrants who want to be citizens? They are both equal and identical
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  780.  @rack9458  Republicans have made it too difficult to come here legally. They bottlenecked it in Congress since the Reagan era, and haven’t changed since. They filibustered Democrats and stopped immigration reform and raising quotas, when Democrats had Congress during the Obama years.
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  781.  @viviviv7325  funny how conservatives want government handouts only when it suits them. If you lose your jobs to immigrants then that’s the free market saying you are worthless and you deserve to lose your job to competition. That’s fair and normal. Take responsibility and go to college like me, I’m 25 and make 75k a year
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  782.  @fran7781  you want big government to give you protectionist handouts because you can’t keep yourself employed?
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  783. Migrants don’t come here for handouts, they come here to work. We should give them work visas so they can get jobs and support themselves
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  784.  @ukayhemi6385  why am I the problem
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  785. independence would be horrible. It would be like losing Alaska. Or Texas. Horrible and a great loss for the US.
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  786.  @azax3813  The money in Texas comes from the Democratic led cities like Houston, Dallas, Austin, and San Antonio. Cease your arrogant bigotry please and vote Democrat.
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  787. No. This guy was totally wrong
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  788. Democrats do want to do these things. They have broad plans to make the US more like Western Europe. The opposition, the Republican Party, is to blame for the US’s gap between the rich and poor. I say this is a someone at 27 making $70/hr
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  789.  @henrikaugustsson4041  you have no evidence that the jury was corrupted
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  790.  @johnharris3335  how would Trump have stopped this lol. Russians have been holding Americans for years
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  791. McDonalds is an unlikely place to find angels lol
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  792. Yeah idk if that’s her gross or net (after tax) income though
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  793. Do you remember 9/11? It’s not over until all terrorists are neutralized
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  794. TheBagBalm US isn’t making money of Afghanistan. That is absurd there is no resources available there
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  795. #TRAVELBACKINTIMETOKILLEURONYMOUS Did you go to school? Or did you make all that up? What history books are you reading?
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  796. #TRAVELBACKINTIMETOKILLEURONYMOUS I suggest you go to college
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  797. #TRAVELBACKINTIMETOKILLEURONYMOUS The US isn’t taking them from the government
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  798. Random Kid The books and experts could be wrong. But I see no evidence that they are wrong. So I’ll keep believing the experts
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  799. Ash there is no oil in Afghanistan
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  800.  @HelenSinger I believe you are giving Trump credit for the strong economy built by Obama. Remember that it was Obama who put us out of the Great Recession that started under Bush. All Trump did was continue those policies, and then ruined them all by mishandling the COVID-19 pandemic started in 2019, under his leadership US suffered disproportionate casualties and Congress was forced to spend trillions on preventable damage control to save the economy. Even before COVID-19, Trump hurt the US greatly by withdrawing from the TPP, ceding control of East Asia to China, refused to pass gun control and universal healthcare, and exacerbated Climate Change. He’s a jerk
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  801.  @markpitchford7375 inflation is happening around the world. How can it possibly be Biden or anyone in the US’s fault? You can’t blame spending in 2020 for inflation, it’s a global event beyond the US.
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  802.  @bayoak liberal states are wealthy and poor states are conservative. Seems that the Republicans are the only problem. It’s why California and Massachussets are better than Alabama and West Virginia
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  803.  @genxx2724 it’s not that “no guy was treating you right” it’s that you weren’t looking for good men.
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  804.  @trey092001 Inflation has affected all countries. It was not US policy from Trump or Biden that created inflation, expert articles from NPR and BBC attribute inflation to the aftermath of COVID-19. Also, inflation has come down due to some policies enacted by the Biden Administration, such as raising interest rates. Maybe if you read the news you’d see this.
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  805.  @pamelalima5401 your fault for being poor. Should’ve gone to college
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  806.  @HumorousLOL do you have proof raising the minimum wage causes inflation? Would the opposite be true therefore, that it we slashed or eliminated minimum wage, stores will lower prices? And even if true, do we benefit from this system?
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  807.  @matthewrupp5526 how much money do you earn in the trades? You can’t just say “trades are good money” and then not explain how much money you make and with how many years of experience it took.
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  808. ⁠ @BrightWendigo the Democrats want to help the poor by improving America. It is the conservatives that are wholly to blame for the US’s unique struggles. High murder rate and gun-crime rate, lack of universal healthcare, expensive and deregulated Internet, Climate Change denialism, all the fault of conservative policies.
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  809.  @genxx2724 wrong, most women attract all men, meaning, men are typically content with whoever they can get. The choice is usually made by the woman. So…you elected to choose poorly. Or you’re attracted to something that’s harmful to you.
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  810.  @ishmikey24512  Gaza Strip is a terror state, just remember that
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  811.  @its-all-good why do you say the law has too much regard for thieves? How would you change it?
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  812. What do you mean? What’s so bad about statehood?
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  813.  @Rowels_Darling  you can’t just say something that makes no sense and is ill fitting and then blame me for not understanding it.
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  814.  @Rowels_Darling  i am 28 years old, make 150k a year as a quality assurance engineer for biotech. It’s unlikely you’re getting the better of me. More likely, you’re overestimating yourself, girly.
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  815.  @Rowels_Darling  humble yourself
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  816.  @Rowels_Darling  this is the difference between us. I have success, intelligence, and critical thinking. You will amount to nothing beyond what your husband or eventual husband provides you. You’re never going to be an independent adult.
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  817. If only Hillary Clinton were President
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  818.  @tf8187  give the government some credit, US didn’t become the strongest nation of all time because it was run by fools. Here’s my thought, maybe the US let the balloon in, to learn more about China’s tactics, see what they know, and what they are after. Shooting down the balloon would also be largely pointless. Not only would this prevent the US to learn about it, it would show China how the US responds to threats, which is helping them. Also, the risk posed by this spy balloon are minimal, satellite imagery has been free for decades like Google Earth, so no real risk in letting the balloon fly around, barring some hidden plan otherwise.
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  819.  @4316Rambo  implausible
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  820.  @Ch4rlz_ThA_Princ3 $7k a month is insane and I don’t believe you. They must’ve been renting a 3 or 4 bedroom or in a luxury building. Even in LA and other high cost of living cities like Boston that’s crazy for one person lol.
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  821.  @Reaper-cm4jr the state tax at 13% is not a flat tax for everyone, California has a progressive tax system.
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  822.  @Ch4rlz_ThA_Princ3 luxury is very nice but how many thousands of dollars and hours of hard work is it worth? I’d say, not that much.
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  823.  @nachc6459 why do you say they’re not being prosecuted? Sounds like you’re parroting a right wing platitude, trying to blame Democrats for being soft on crime and thus emboldening thieves. Do you have proof?
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  824.  @drowningpooralice5505  he was using sarcasm
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