Comments by "Meh Pluribus Unum" (@pluribus_unum) on "Democracy Now!" channel.

  1. RE: Russia's demands. Their demands are to roll the clock back to 1997. It's a ridiculous and impossible wish, not a reasonable position to take.
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  2. Trump is a symptom, not the disease. 3/4ths of Republicans polled by Pew Research in September 2022 want the United States of America turned into a Christian nationalist state, despite knowing that it would be unconstitutional. The Republican party is not a conservative political party anymore, it is a white nationalist insurgency.
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  3. When you listen to Sargon of Akkad, you aren't a serious person when it comes to electoral politics and legislative priorities.
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  4. It applies only if you sign a state contract, thus the free speech issue is a matter of debate, not cut and dry.
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  5.  @humboldthammer  - Nope. Despite the fact that Gene Roddenberry was a humanist and wanted our culture to outgrow such outmoded (in his mind) concepts as religion and marriage, and wanted Star Trek to show that, his writers didn’t always agree with that.
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  6.  @susanmercurio1060  - An excellent tome indeed.
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  7.  @primusyshu941  - The democratic Republic whose true exceptionalism is that it's founded on shared values and ideals -- not a shared geography, history, an ethnicity, ideology, or religion. We, the people, in order to form a more perfect Union... Continuing to perfect, protect, and progress that Union is our unique inheritance and legacy. What we do in these times to protect the Union will determine whether we remain a democracy. We either support plutocratic and oligarchic white Christian nationalism ... OR We uphold the rule-of-law not the rule-of-man, educate future generations on the true meaning of the Great Melting Pot, the Separation of Church and State -- for the benefit and preservation of both -- as well as civic duties and common decency, and continue to perfect this 248yr old imperfect Union.
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  8.  @Matthew_Loutner  - Fanfic is fun, isn't it. Back on earth, no such Manichean binary exists.
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  9.  @Matthew_Loutner  - Get your Gos out of our government, or admit you hate American values.
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  10. Imaginary friends are great, but they aren't the foundation of human wisdom, knowledge, and compassion.
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  11. Funny who confesses their sin of constitutional ignorance by repeating their mumbling mantra of misinformed mumbo jumbo.
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  12.  @xjarheadjohnson  - Truth. Receipts. Lessons. A joy to my soul! Sadly, also wisdom whispered to a stone, it seems. 🍋⚖️ - [The U.S. Supreme Court] created what was called the Lemon Test, which created three criteria for evaluating whether the principle of separation of church and state were violated by a law: 1. The legislation must have a secular purpose. 2. The effect of the legislation must neither advance nor inhibit religion. 3. The legislation must not excessively entangle government and religion.
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  13. Coup d'etat is what it should've been called from January 6th, 2021 onward. Republican extremism obliterated the integrity of their party that day, and the entirety of the Republican leadership has been accomplices after the fact in the coverup by refusing to impeach Trump for it, destroying and withholding evidence, propping up the lies about election fraud, and in their passing of autocratic state laws making a coup more likely to succeed the next time they try one because state legislators and secretaries of state can simply ignore the results of any election, or just the vote from certain districts.
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  14. UPDATE: The U.S. ended the humanitarian parole program for Afghanistan on September 1st, 2022. "The date will mark the start of a new phase in the Biden administration's massive operation to evacuate and resettle Afghans following the Taliban takeover of Afghanistan in August 2021. Under the current phase, dubbed Operation Allies Welcome, the U.S. has resettled roughly 86,000 Afghans, 90% of whom were admitted through the parole process, Department of Homeland Security statistics show." - U.S. to discontinue quick humanitarian entry for Afghans and focus on permanent resettlement programs by Camilo Montoya-Galvez on September 1st, 2022 for CBS News
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  15. The Texas Children's Hospital team's not-for-profit vaccine, Corbevax, is a counterpoint to this kind of homicidal greed.
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  16. White nationalism defines the Republican party now. This isn't a political debate about immigration, it's a white nationalist hate crime.
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  17. Agreed. This smacks of 1,000 points of light with a healthy dollop of white savior psuedo-asceticism.
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  18.  @aurora571000  - Comments with links get scrubbed here to limit spammers. mondoweiss is a net, not com domain.
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  19. AIPAC is not controlled by the Israeli government and is not accountable to the Israeli people.
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  20.  @LastBruhStanding  - Keep peddling the IDF line. History and The Hague will continue to collect, compile, examine, and prosecute with evidence -- including first-hand accounts of atrocities by both warring parties. What is a matter of fact is that Israel is responsible for the maintenance of law-and-order in their occupied territories and for the welfare, protection, evacuation, and return of any civilians and non-combatants in their occupied territories. That responsibility is primary concerning the hospitals it is currently bombing and placing under siege. Then there's their obligations under international humanitarian law or the laws of war.
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  21. Wrong channel, bot.
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  22. Actually, science sent.
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  23.  @integratedboxingsystem8827  - Vaccines save lives, just as they were designed to do. You get vaccinated and boosted as needed if you want the best protection against hospitalization, disabling illness and death from COVID-19. The more unvaccinated people there are, the more mutations the virus can make, producing new, potentially more lethal, variants. Be kind. Get vaccinated. Save lives. Maybe your own.
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  24.  @hitreset0291  - Not what I said at all. "The more unvaccinated people there are, the more mutations the virus can make..." means just what it says. The reason is simple, if you limit spread, you reduce the number of mutations. The best way to limit the spread is to increase vaccination and boosting rates. "...in places where there are good vaccination rates, you're seeing that the virus isn't spreading as easily." HOW VIRUSES MUTATE AND WHAT CAN BE DONE ABOUT IT - Johns Hopkins news HUB, July 19, 2021
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  25.  @hitreset0291 - Infection by Omicron, a variant possible because of the wide spread caused by so many unvaccinated people in the world. Science, unlike religion, doesn't care if you believe it or not. That more spread means more mutations and that more unvaccinated people means more spread is simply what the science has shown.
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  26.  @hitreset0291  - Jim Jones used Flavor Aid, not Kool-Aid. Science is independently verifiable, unlike cult beliefs.
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  27. The highest level of journalists killed in a conflict in modern history -- by far. Israel military forces and the Likud administration are at war with the truth and humanity -- not engaged in the pursuit of justice or security.
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  28. There is no separating the white nationalism and theocratic fascism from the Republican party unless and until they first accept that separating the white nationalism and theocratic fascism is their goal. The insurgency is ongoing, and there will be more terrorist attacks from Republicans and right-wingers.
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  29.  @anthonymorris5084  - I fear the OP knows what it is and who peddles it.
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  30.  @Punande  - The imagination of a viewer says nothing about Democracy Now or Amy Goodman.
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  31.  @jonimoroni7475  - Not even a little. Lavrov provided no denial, or rebuttal nor justification. It's a logical fallacy used for millennia.
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  32.  @humboldthammer  - I wouldn't leap to conclusions about my erudition.
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  33. The cure for white nationalist theocratic dictatorship is U.S. reparations and a Truth and Reconciliation process led by Black Americans for the transatlantic slave trade.
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  34. It's too easy being white. Most Americans from both parties endorse the genocidal colonial settler mythos only semi-consciously when they back Israel's homicidal conduct reflexively. "Don't knock rationalization; where would we be without it? I don't know anyone who could get through the day without two or three juicy rationalizations. They're more important than sex." - Michael Gold (Jeff Goldblum) in the movie The Big Chill
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  35.  @jayleeper1512  - I know your paper thin argument now. Do you care to give me what her believable explanation is? I don't need to hear her rehash the BS she put up last time. I don't trust politicians that refuse to acknowledge they were the beneficiaries of an influence campaign by a foreign adversary directly connected to the Republican party's candidate.
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  36. Here's 30 years out-of-date military intelligence (not strategy) expert Scott Ritter peddling Putin's lies. "On March 1st, Russia’s “First Channel” aired a news story about the war in Ukraine, which featured interviews with Scott Ritter, the U.N. Weapons Inspector in Iraq from 1991-1998, and American writer Gonzalo Lira, who argue that Russia is not targeting the Ukrainian population, unlike Zelenskyy, who wants to create an artificial humanitarian crisis in Ukraine." Scott Ritter’s interview with Syrian journalist Richard Medhurst, featured in Russian “First Channel” story, was disseminated through [various Russian] platforms" "The aforementioned videos contain three pieces of disinformation: 1. Even a week after the start of hostilities in Ukraine, the city of Mariupol was not captured by Russian troops. 2. Disconnecting Russia from SWIFT has not had any severe impact on the United States, and while the ruble continues to depreciate, the value of the U.S. dollar has been rising. 3. As of March 2nd, Russian hostile actions in Ukraine resulted in more than 2000 civilian casualties."
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  37. Laws like the one Obama and Democrats had in place mandating emergency braking systems on hazardous trains when Trump and Republicans repealed it must be put back in place. Friends don't let friends vote Republican.
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  38. Netenyahu is definitely happy up work with any new Republican traitors in 2024. In other words, "watch this space" (DemocracyNow) for that developing story.
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  39. Purity regarding the path we take to single-payer healthcare cannot mean that path won't be beaten through the brambles grown by healthcare industry lobbying and corruption. Bernie Sanders and Ady Barkan both endorse making progress with the proposals Biden got elected with. Advocates should continue to demand the best healthcare system we can imagine, while legislators and leaders should continue to forge a path forward. More attention is deserved by what Democrats do to address the problem, against lockstep opposition for six decades from the GOP. For instance, the massive improvements and expansion of the Affordable Care Act in the Build Back Better package (blocked by the two Koch Dem Senators) and the bill put forth by Rep. Lauren Underwood (D-IL-14) in the House; the Health Care Affordability Act of 2021.
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  40. I don't support any organizations that actively denies the overwhelming consensus of scientific evidence showing human-induced climate change.
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  41. There is no conservative party in the United States of America anymore. The Republican party is a white nationalist insurgency masquerading as a political party.
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  42.  @tmnt10000  - Your inability to comprehend the meaning of conservative politics and the fact that it is wholly inapplicable to the current Republican party isn't about melanin deficiency.
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  43. Republicans welded shut the front door under Trump. Biden is attempting to remedy the problem and the radical activist Supreme Court forces their draconian edicts upon us.
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  44. If he's sincere, Joe Rogan should shut down the homicidal juggernaut he controls.
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  45.  @avae5343  - NATO isn't America and America isn't NATO. If you want the US out of NATO, lobby for that. It's more than NATO at issue, though. Since GW Bush, the US support for Ukraine had increased year over year under every President. Under Obama the US began supplying 90% of Ukraine's security, defense, intel, and military aid. Trump's extortion plot used an increase in the aid Obama was already delivering. Biden and Congress have recognized the threat and, especially post-invasion, have made it possible for Ukraine to fight as hard, as well, and as long as they have.
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  46.  @theciakilledjfk5973  - The foundational differences between those interventions and Russia's are undeniable and massive. You are peddling the Kremlin line, whether or not you know it or care.
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  47.  @theciakilledjfk5973  - You seem lonely.
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  48. "Black conservatism" in the Republican party has nothing to do with conservatism because the Republican party today has nothing to do with conservatism. The white nationalism of today's Republican party is extremism. Pure and simple.
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  49. A Global Climate Crisis and Sustainability Corps funded by the countries who produced and produce the most emissions and did and do the most extraction.
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  50.  @johnwattdotca  - I see a path to it with no court, just leadership, and public action on the funding side and a corps focused on preparedness, infrastructure resilience, and disaster response.
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