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

  1. PSA: Ignore the smirking dipsh*ts.
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  2. Trump's assertion he could declassify by fiat with no record of the action is 100% false. There's good reason Trump is accused of violating BOTH the U.S. Espionage Act and the Presidential Records Preservation Act. Additionally, no former President can declassify anything. Some of the material likely isn't able to be declassified by any President.
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  3.  @blacsteve  - Putin doesn't love you back.
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  4.  @fon9293  - All this is not relevant to whether there is a famine. There is. Denialism that there is a famine should be countered because it is disinformation with an immediate real human cost. There is a famine. Grain or not is a discussion that's outside of my assertion; there is a famine and Russia cynically worsened it for geopolitical gain.
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  5.  @MaLiArtworks186  - Okay. I am 100% for local, sustainable, and hunger alleviating farming anywhere and everywhere. That suggestion doesn't change the fact that Putin/Russia worsened this famine brought about mainly by drought, the pandemic, and climate change.
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  6.  @padredemishijos12  - Scott Ritter openly admitted his crimes.
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  7.  @ivanmcgreen491  - Good point.
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  8.  @thomashahn631  - Yeah, a stretch for sure. Being a Marine Intel officer specializing in nukes and how to hide them is not military tactics. Also, he's a Russia apologist. Here's a blurb from his own bio on Medium: “the rift between the CIA and Donald Trump…may not be such a bad thing” given that the president is “pushing a policy of reconciliation with Russia that the CIA neither supports nor is equipped to effectively advise him on.”
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  9.  @padredemishijos12  - Not my job, bub. Trust a liar at your own peril.
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  10.  @padredemishijos12  - You are working to peddle the same lies, Tahuan. Here's Ritter lying for Putin: "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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  11. The Border Patrol should be disbanded. Full stop. Frankly, it is a racist organization dominated by white nationalists.
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  12. “Putin’s give-me-my-sh**-back war” - Pete Hegseth (Incoming Republican U.S. Defense Secretary) This isn't going to be an anti-war administration, and if the Republicans in control have their way, both 🇺🇦 and 🇵🇸 are going to suffer unimaginably.
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  13.  @aymenliberta7351  - Israel is larger than the right-wing of Israel.
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  14.  @vzwodb17  - AIPAC is right-wing, though they bribe all takers. Likud benefits from AIPAC massively because they are ideologically aligned. It is my assertion that both Likud and AIPAC weaken Israel and Israeli democratic institutions.
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  15.  @vzwodb17  - AIPAC being right-wing and savvy means they are bipartisan in their political donations. That doesn't make them centrist, nonpartisan, or bipartisan in their political goals and ideals.
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  16.  @jmjfanss  - Ron Paul and Lyndon LaRouche thank you for keeping American politics zany. I would've gone with Vermin Supreme, if I were to play contrarian online.
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  17.  @Bonafide188  - Not supporting this bill means nothing done until the next Congress, which may mean nothing at all. Plus, if Republicans get control, worse than nothing will get done and we'll have passed up an opportunity to deal with both inflation, and the burgeoning climate crises that we know will only grow. I back this bill, and a better one in the next Congress. But, I personally see this as an both/and, not an either/or issue.
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  18.  @ericsuarez834  - Putinista in the house. BBN
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  19.  @turanamo  - Keep bailing the Kremlin's water. This fiasco is still sunk.
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  20.  @danielvalleduarte  - They might, but it's not about one bank or another, it's about attracting dirty money instead of building a state economy honestly, like Delaware attracted corporations dodging taxes. Articles like the one mentioned below cover the story: "The United States of Dirty Money: How landlocked South Dakota became one of the world’s hottest destinations for offshore funds." by Casey Michel - October 5, 2022 in The Atlantic
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  21. When what you export is "anti-terrorist hammers", eventually all targets of these militaries and militias will be cast as "terrorist nails" in need of a "merciless pounding".
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  22. I have no hesitation pointing out that if you vote for Cornel West in the General Election or if you don't vote in the 2024 Presidential Election -- you are helping Russia, not being neutral. Full stop. Without U.S. support for Ukraine, Ukraine will cease to exist and millions will die in the process.
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  23. Side note: Has anyone else noticed the degrading quality of the tankies and trolls on the DN site? They really are the bottom of the barrel now.
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  24. 4:53 - Elon Musk didn't "think" the Russians would attack, he was parroting what the Kremlin spokesman told him on the phone. Trump and Musk are putty in Putin's fingers.
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  25. 15:45 - 10% to 15% of the Republican party is Trump's base. However, they get outsize influence over the rhetoric because they distract all Americans -- but especially their voters -- from the actual policy decisions made by Republican leaders. The Republican party caters to white nationalists in order to get out the vote, but they govern for oligarchs -- just as in Russia and other ethno-nationalist ruled countries.
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  26.  @sunalwaysshinesonTVs  - Make no mistake, I am not mocking the threat -- I'm celebrating its debilitating narcissism. I have been calling Trump out as a threat and a fascist since 2014. It took 2 years before the experts I heard early made any headway with the left. It took 4 years for the rest of the Democratic party to recognize fascism. Now, as you point out, we await the awakening from the "perpetually undecideds" and politically disengaged blocs of the electorate and citizenry.
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  27. Hedges is a useful idiot for neo-nationalists because he's a progressive with a major dollop of lilywhite Puritan culture scolding. "The physical and moral decay of the United States and the malaise it has spawned have predictable results. We have seen in varying forms the consequences of social and political collapse during the twilight of the Greek and Roman empires, the Ottoman and Hapsburg empires, Tsarist Russia, Weimar Germany and the former Yugoslavia. Voices from the past, Aristotle, Cicero, Fyodor Dostoevsky, Joseph Roth and Milovan Djilas, warned us. But blinded by self-delusion and hubris, as if we are somehow exempt from human experience and human nature, we refuse to listen." - Chris Hedges, 2020
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  28. Not if Democrats and a few Republicans get their bill passed, they don't.
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  29. ADDENDUM: ...and in the anti-war and anti-nuclear proliferation movements, like the Plo[w]shares who courageously spread paint simulating blood on U.S. nukes and delivery systems and served prison time for it.
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  30. I'm worried when we adopt the euphemism of the CIA-run psychological warfare and targeted assassination program in the Vietnam war as how we talk about political activism. Please don't use "win hearts and minds" without knowing the bloody and cruel origins of it. "Hearts and Minds or winning hearts and minds refers to the strategy and programs used by the governments of Vietnam and the United States during the Vietnam War to win the popular support of the Vietnamese people and to help defeat the Viet Cong insurgency."
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  31. The Iranian trolls are upset with me. I must've gotten under their thin, thin skins.
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  32.  @veganjones8985  - The smell of 🐮💩wafting off your reply is contributing to climate change.
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  33.  noahpatterson5667  - "Biden" headline bot, or FOX pup yelping? Who knows? Who cares?
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  34.  @hankhill6707  - He wasn't asked to -- and he didn't -- surrender his ships. You would assuredly understand if you are suggesting the threat of the seizure [was the coercion used to seize the oil contents of the ships].
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  35.  @hankhill6707  - Your lickspittle regurgitation of Kremlin nonsense is soullessness incarnate. I hope you obtain the necessary skills required for you to have an opinion that's your own someday..
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  36.  @rickvervoort9536  - Israel is flattening Gaza, a part of Israeli territory, not Hamas. Israel is engaged in war crimes and crimes against humanity. Period. Hamas is not the Palestinian people (20% Christian, fwiw). Israel is not the Jewish people.
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  37. The Republican party is an extremist, white nationalist insurgency masquerading as a conservative party.
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  38.  @tmnt10000  - If only, dear Rafal.
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  39.  @jamesstokes2311  - No and no. Don't mistake the agitators from Boogaloo and other provocateur "wildcats" for either the rioters from within and outside the communities in turmoil because of police violence or the actual Black Lives Matter spokespeople, activists and organizers. Antifa is not run or organized anything like Patriot Front or the Proud Boys. It is is well established that they are a loose association of local protester groups, as evidenced by the Department of Homeland security's own description of Antifa as a "loose network of antiracist and anti-fascist" protesters without a consistent set of beliefs or ideological goals. BLM is a more centrally managed group of anti-violence protesters who have consistently condemned all violence, vandalism, and racial animus in their campaign to hold murderous police officers accountable when they use unnecessary deadly force.
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  40.  @jamesstokes2311  - No, aside from Portland, it wasn't. You have been misinformed. The police headquarters fire in Missouri was started by a Boogaloo Boi in an attempt to incite a race war. Most of the arson and vandalism was committed by rioters from both outside and inside the affected communities. The violence was primarily from the police, from the rioters using fireworks, bottles, and stones, and from skirmishes between pro-Trump and anti-racist agitators (sometimes including people associating themselves with Black Bloc, not Antifa) and all of whom have no connection to BLM.
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  41. Anti-government and white nationalist terrorism is the greatest terrorist threat to all Americans. Anti-government and white nationalist rhetoric has been the bread-and-butter of the Republican party's electoral strategies since Hoover. Since their coup d'etat attempt of January 6th, 2022, there's no denying that the controlling faction of the Republican party is engaged in an armed insurgency in collaboration with key domestic terror organizations. Trump and the majority of elected Republicans do not understand the rarified stuff this nation's founding was based upon with our unique place in history as the first nation founded -- as flawed as it is -- on the rule-of-law not the rule-of-man (whether under a mitre, or crown, or an awful hair transplant based combover).
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  42. Corbevax is a great accomplishment for humanity. The Democrats and Biden U.S. should help get it out to the world and, frankly, to the U.S. public. "We really need the G7 countries to step up in a big way." - Dr. Hotez The wisdom of Dr. Botazzi, Dr. Hotez and their team of 20 at Texas Children's Hospital when they adopted a coronavirus program ten (10) years ago is a generous gift to humanity made abundantly clear with their production of this new vaccine.
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  43. The Republican party is an insurrection now.
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  44. 6:00 - Falmata Taya is not merely a Nigerian resident, she is a leader in the M62 movement. They have a long history of protesting the colonial influence of France. It's not quite true that her group (M62) oppose foreign influence, they also chanted "Long live Russia!" and burned French and U.S. flags while waving the Russian flag.
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  45.  @truthviolatescommunityguid3019  - Tell me when Biden conducts a coup d'etat or threatens to nuke a hurricane, Mexico, or China (with the U.S. missiles "disguised" as Russian).
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  46.  @Eric-tj3tg  - I know the difference between a regular politician held to most of his promises by a functioning political party and a political chameleon white nationalist con-man with no consistent ideology ready to usher in dictatorship.
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  47.  @kx7500  - Vote, if you're able. If not, Wait and see.
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  48.  @kx7500  - You don't need to repeat yourself, I understand your view. Mine is, if you aren't organising against fascism -- no matter the political stripe -- and voting in every election you can, you are leaving "cards on the table" and the 2022 election is still an ongoing battle. Join the fight and complain, but don't cede the war before the final battles are even fought.
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  49.  @truthviolatescommunityguid3019  - Clean your own house of blatant lies. The proof is already documented, but you haven't watched a second outside what was spoon fed to you by right wing media.
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  50.  @safebans1369  - The beginning of the new error doesn't change that the "Johnson Error" has ended.
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