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  1. Spends 8 years criticizing the Obama administration ... runs on MAGA, meaning America is not great at the time ... then suggests critics should leave. Moron.
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  2. Likud's bloody 100 year history ... In 1923, 100 years ago, Ze'ev Jabotinsky wrote, The Iron Wall, and a follow up, The Ethics of The Iron Wall (sooo racist towards Africans), in which he fully acknowledged that post Balfour Zionsim was colonialism, and that, based on the entirety of history, the native Palestinian population would resist being colonized until the bitter end. He directly compared it to the colonization of North America. He promoted doing it anyway, claiming Zionist colonialism was a "just" colonialism (he also thought North American colonialists were good guys, so not a great judge of morality), not caring what that meant for the native population. Ze'ev is important, because his Betar militant youth group helped found the Irgun terrorist group, along with other supporters of his, and the splinter Lehi terrorist group. The Irgun bombed numerous Palestinian markets and other public places, murdering many Palestinian civilians, including children, even including Palestinian Jews (who didn't support colonialist Zionsim). The Irgun are important, because they ended up being led by future Likud PM, Menachem Begin, who bombed the King David Hotel. The King David Hotel was bombed because the British had raided the Jewish Agency and seized numerous documents that may have shown that the terrorists were working with the JA and Haganah (JA liked to pretend that they didn't support the terrorism). The British then stored those documents at their base, in the hotel. That the Irgun terrorists responded to a JA raid, itself seems to prove the connection. That the thousands of Irgun (and Lehi) terrorists were also quickly merged into the new nation's military (IDF) and intelligence (Mossad) agencies, and are still celebrated as "heroes" by Israelis, to this day, also seems to support total collaboration between the groups. That other terrorist group mentioned, Lehi (also known as the Stern Gang), was considered even more extreme. They even tried to ally with the Nazis, against the British. Lehi ended up being led by Yitzhak Shamir, future Mossad agent, and another future Likud PM. They assassinated Lord Moyne, and others. In 1945, there was a major land and peoples survey done in Palestine. It showed that the Zionists only owned about 5% of the total land, 20% of the arable land, and owned a majority in zero districts. The partition was not only going to be forced on the native Palestinian majority, but Jews were still going to be a minority, in the part allocated to them. The only possible way to even become a "Jewish state" was going to require getting rid of the actual majority (at least enough so that there'd be a solid Jewish majority, so they could fake being democratic). This is also shown by the 1948, post Nakba, population of Israel. If there was 716,700 Jews, 156,000+ non-Jews, and approximately 700k non-Jews ethnically cleansed, that means the Jewish population, in the Zionist portion of partition, was originally over 100,000 less than the non-Jewish population. To believe that there was never any intent, by Zionists, to ethnically cleanse away the Palestinian majority would require believing that they never intended to create a "Jewish state". It's a nonsensical notion. Begin, and those terrorist groups, also opposed partition, but for the opposite reason Palestinians did. Palestinians didn't want to be colonized, at all. The terrorists wanted to colonize it all. "Moderate" Zionists were okay with colonizing half ... for now (what would happen in the future, after partition, was up to them, said Ben-Gurion). The Zionist terrorists were also involved in massacres, and assassinations, during the partition violence (colonialist war against the natives). Another notable future Likud PM, also started in the military, during the partition fighting. That was Ariel Sharon, war criminal, "Butcher of Beirut". Menachem Begin, and these other Zionist terrorists, are important because they became involved in Israeli politics, first forming Herut. That was the party that Albert Einstein, and other prominent American Jews, opposed, having a letter printed in the NYT, in December of 1948, when Begin came to visit the US. The letter opened ... "Among the most disturbing political phenomena of our times is the emergence in the newly created state of Israel of the "Freedom Party" (Tnuat Haherut), a political party closely akin in its organization, methods, political philosophy and social appeal to the Nazi and Fascist parties. It was formed out of the membership and following of the former Irgun Zvai Leumi, a terrorist, right-wing, chauvinist organization in Palestine." Herut merged with other extremist parties, over the years, and eventually became Likud, in the 70s. Now, people get upset over the slogan "From the river to the sea!", but it's the second part that's most important, "Palestine will be free!". Because "Palestine" isn't defined as an ethno-state, a free Palestine can be a single state, free for all to live in, and return to, free of continuing colonization, free of occupation, free of oppression, etc. Just like a Germany free of Nazism, an Italy free of fascism, a South Africa free of apartheid, or an America free of slavery from sea to shiny sea. It doesn't necessitate purging all the Jews. It just necessitates them giving up on the idea of an ethno-state. On the other hand, because "Israel" has been defined as an ethno-state, Likud's, "between the sea and the Jordan there will only be Israeli sovereignty", has no possible good interpretation. It is a declaration of intent to completely colonize, and ethnically cleanse, all Palestine territories. Not only that, but it also claims that they have a "right" to all of the "Land of Israel" (biblical borders that don't mesh with archaeological reality), which is an open declaration of future wars, against Jordan, Syria, Lebanon, and possibly even Iraq. Likud platform ... 1977: "The Right of the Jewish People to the Land of Israel (Eretz Israel) a. The right of the Jewish people to the land of Israel is eternal and indisputable and is linked with the right to security and peace; therefore, Judea and Samaria will not be handed to any foreign administration; between the Sea and the Jordan there will only be Israeli sovereignty. b. A plan which relinquishes parts of western Eretz Israel, undermines our right to the country, unavoidably leads to the establishment of a "Palestinian State," jeopardizes the security of the Jewish population, endangers the existence of the State of Israel. and frustrates any prospect of peace." "Settlement Settlement. both urban and rural. in all parts of the Land of Israel is the focal point of the Zionist effort to redeem the country, to maintain vital security areas and serves as a reservoir of strength and inspiration for the renewal of the pioneering spirit. The Likud government will call on the younger generation in Israel and the dispersions to settle and help every group and individual in the task of inhabiting and cultivating the wasteland, while taking care not to dispossess anyone." 1999: "The Government of Israel flatly rejects the establishment of a Palestinian Arab state west of the Jordan river. The Palestinians can run their lives freely in the framework of self-rule, but not as an independent and sovereign state. Thus, for example, in matters of foreign affairs, security, immigration, and ecology, their activity shall be limited in accordance with imperatives of Israel's existence, security and national needs." "The Jewish communities in Judea, Samaria, and Gaza are the realization of Zionist values. Settlement of the land is a clear expression of the unassailable right of the Jewish people to the Land of Israel and constitutes an important asset in the defense of the vital interests of the State of Israel. The Likud will continue to strengthen and develop these communities and will prevent their uprooting." All Palestine territories are officially considered occupied, by the International Court of Justice, the UN GA, the UN SC, and even in official documents of Israel's own allies. Likud is still using the blueprint for colonizing North America, in the West Bank. Move settlements out into native territory, piss off the natives, the natives retaliate, cry about poor "innocent" colonizing settlers being the "victims" of violent "Savages!", call in the cavalry to put down the native uprising, and eventually expand the borders to include those settlements. Rinse and repeat. In Gaza, Israel is operating an open air WWII style fascist ghetto. Them claiming a "right to defend themselves" would be like the Nazis claiming a "right to defend themselves " from the Warsaw ghetto uprising. There's no "war". That they're the occupiers means the "war" part is long over. Those people are actually supposed to be under the occupier's protection. That partition was forced upon the Palestinian majority, against their will ... that the Zionist portion still had to be forcefully ethnically cleansed of its non-Jewish majority, against their will ... that the millions of occupied Palestinians don't have a say in the government that truly rules over them, Israel's ... means Israel is about as democratic as Nazi Germany after Hitler purged his political opponents and then held elections.
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  3. Catching 10x more fish than you need to survive isn't "wealth inequality". It's depopulating your food source, like a moron, just so you can have a pile of rotten fish.
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  4. Odd how nobody complained about JLO as a boxer, for a magazine shoot and cover. Almost like they're only really pissed that Kristen isn't straight.
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  5. Likud's bloody 100 year history ... In 1923, 100 years ago, Ze'ev Jabotinsky wrote, The Iron Wall, and a follow up, The Ethics of The Iron Wall (sooo racist towards Africans), in which he fully acknowledged that post Balfour Zionsim was colonialism, and that, based on the entirety of history, the native Palestinian population would resist being colonized until the bitter end. He directly compared it to the colonization of North America. He promoted doing it anyway, claiming Zionist colonialism was a "just" colonialism (he also thought North American colonialists were good guys, so not a great judge of morality), not caring what that meant for the native population. Ze'ev is important, because his Betar militant youth group helped found the Irgun terrorist group, along with other supporters of his, and the splinter Lehi terrorist group. The Irgun bombed numerous Palestinian markets and other public places, murdering many Palestinian civilians, including children, even including Palestinian Jews (who didn't support colonialist Zionsim). The Irgun are important, because they ended up being led by future Likud PM, Menachem Begin, who bombed the King David Hotel. The King David Hotel was bombed because the British had raided the Jewish Agency and seized numerous documents that may have shown that the terrorists were working with the JA and Haganah (JA liked to pretend that they didn't support the terrorism). The British then stored those documents at their base, in the hotel. That the Irgun terrorists responded to a JA raid, itself seems to prove the connection. That the thousands of Irgun (and Lehi) terrorists were also quickly merged into the new nation's military (IDF) and intelligence (Mossad) agencies, and are still celebrated as "heroes" by Israelis, to this day, also seems to support total collaboration between the groups. That other terrorist group mentioned, Lehi (also known as the Stern Gang), was considered even more extreme. They even tried to ally with the Nazis, against the British. Lehi ended up being led by Yitzhak Shamir, future Mossad agent, and another future Likud PM. They assassinated Lord Moyne, and others. The two terrorist groups also operated outside of Palestine. The Irgun bombed the British Embassy at Porta Pia, in Rome. The Lehi bombed the British Colonial Club, in London. A timer failed in another bombing attempt, at the Colonial Office, in Whitehall. Two female Lehi operatives were arrested crossing from Belgium to France, with the ingredients for letter bombs. 21 letter bombs were found to be have sent, and were intercepted. They mined the Cairo-Haifa train, in Egypt, twice, killing dozens of civilians, as well as British soldiers. In 1945, there was a major land and peoples survey done in Palestine. It showed that the Zionists only owned about 5% of the total land, 20% of the arable land, and owned a majority in zero districts. The partition was not only going to be forced on the native Palestinian majority, but Jews were still going to be a minority, in the part allocated to them. The only possible way to even become a "Jewish state" was going to require getting rid of the actual majority (at least enough so that there'd be a solid Jewish majority, so they could fake being democratic). This is also shown by the 1948, post Nakba, population of Israel. If there was 716,700 Jews, 156,000+ non-Jews, and approximately 700k non-Jews ethnically cleansed, that means the Jewish population, in the Zionist portion of partition, was originally over 100,000 less than the non-Jewish population. To believe that there was never any intent, by Zionists, to ethnically cleanse away the Palestinian majority would require believing that they never intended to create a "Jewish state". It's a nonsensical notion. Begin, and those terrorist groups, also opposed partition, but for the opposite reason Palestinians did. Palestinians didn't want to be colonized, at all. The terrorists wanted to colonize it all. "Moderate" Zionists were okay with colonizing half ... for now (what would happen in the future, after partition, was up to them, said Ben-Gurion). The Zionist terrorists were also involved in massacres, and assassinations, during the partition violence (colonialist war against the natives). Another notable future Likud PM, also started in the military, during the partition fighting. That was Ariel Sharon, war criminal, "Butcher of Beirut". Menachem Begin, and these other Zionist terrorists, are important because they became involved in Israeli politics, first forming Herut. That was the party that Albert Einstein, and other prominent American Jews, opposed, having a letter printed in the NYT, in December of 1948, when Begin came to visit the US. The letter opened ... "Among the most disturbing political phenomena of our times is the emergence in the newly created state of Israel of the "Freedom Party" (Tnuat Haherut), a political party closely akin in its organization, methods, political philosophy and social appeal to the Nazi and Fascist parties. It was formed out of the membership and following of the former Irgun Zvai Leumi, a terrorist, right-wing, chauvinist organization in Palestine." Herut merged with other extremist parties, over the years, and eventually became Likud, in the 70s. Now, people get upset over the slogan "From the river to the sea!", but it's the second part that's most important, "Palestine will be free!". Because "Palestine" isn't defined as an ethno-state, a free Palestine can be a single state, free for all to live in, and return to, free of continuing colonization, free of occupation, free of oppression, etc. Just like a Germany free of Nazism, an Italy free of fascism, a South Africa free of apartheid, or an America free of slavery from sea to shiny sea. It doesn't necessitate purging all the Jews. It just necessitates them giving up on the idea of an ethno-state. On the other hand, because "Israel" has been defined as an ethno-state, Likud's, "between the sea and the Jordan there will only be Israeli sovereignty", has no possible good interpretation. It is a declaration of intent to completely colonize, and ethnically cleanse, all Palestine territories. Not only that, but it also claims that they have a "right" to all of the "Land of Israel" (biblical borders that don't mesh with archaeological reality), which is an open declaration of future wars, against Jordan, Syria, Lebanon, and possibly even Iraq. Likud platform ... 1977: "The Right of the Jewish People to the Land of Israel (Eretz Israel) a. The right of the Jewish people to the land of Israel is eternal and indisputable and is linked with the right to security and peace; therefore, Judea and Samaria will not be handed to any foreign administration; between the Sea and the Jordan there will only be Israeli sovereignty. b. A plan which relinquishes parts of western Eretz Israel, undermines our right to the country, unavoidably leads to the establishment of a "Palestinian State," jeopardizes the security of the Jewish population, endangers the existence of the State of Israel. and frustrates any prospect of peace." 1999: "The Government of Israel flatly rejects the establishment of a Palestinian Arab state west of the Jordan river. The Palestinians can run their lives freely in the framework of self-rule, but not as an independent and sovereign state. Thus, for example, in matters of foreign affairs, security, immigration, and ecology, their activity shall be limited in accordance with imperatives of Israel's existence, security and national needs." "The Jewish communities in Judea, Samaria, and Gaza are the realization of Zionist values. Settlement of the land is a clear expression of the unassailable right of the Jewish people to the Land of Israel and constitutes an important asset in the defense of the vital interests of the State of Israel. The Likud will continue to strengthen and develop these communities and will prevent their uprooting." All Palestine territories are officially considered occupied, by the International Court of Justice, the UN GA, the UN SC, and even in official documents of Israel's own allies. Likud is still using the blueprint for colonizing North America, in the West Bank. Move settlements out into native territory, piss off the natives, the natives retaliate, cry about poor "innocent" colonizing settlers being the "victims" of violent "Savages!", call in the cavalry to put down the native uprising, and eventually expand the borders to include those settlements. Rinse and repeat. In Gaza, Israel is operating an open air WWII style fascist ghetto. Them claiming a "right to defend themselves" would be like the Nazis claiming a "right to defend themselves " from the Warsaw ghetto uprising. There's no "war". That they're the occupiers means the "war" part is long over. Those people are actually supposed to be under the occupier's protection. That partition was forced upon the Palestinian majority, against their will ... that the Zionist portion still had to be forcefully ethnically cleansed of its non-Jewish majority, against their will ... that the millions of occupied Palestinians don't have a say in the government that truly rules over them, Israel's ... means Israel is about as democratic as Nazi Germany after Hitler purged his political opponents and then held elections.
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  6. Likud's bloody 100 year history ... In 1923, 100 years ago, Ze'ev Jabotinsky wrote, The Iron Wall, and a follow up, The Ethics of The Iron Wall (sooo racist towards Africans), in which he fully acknowledged that post Balfour Zionsim was colonialism, and that, based on the entirety of history, the native Palestinian population would resist being colonized until the bitter end. He directly compared it to the colonization of North America. He promoted doing it anyway, claiming Zionist colonialism was a "just" colonialism (he also thought North American colonialists were good guys, so not a great judge of morality), not caring what that meant for the native population. Ze'ev is important, because his Betar militant youth group helped found the Irgun terrorist group, along with other supporters of his, and the splinter Lehi terrorist group. The Irgun bombed numerous Palestinian markets and other public places, murdering many Palestinian civilians, including children, even including Palestinian Jews (who didn't support colonialist Zionsim). The Irgun are important, because they ended up being led by future Likud PM, Menachem Begin, who bombed the King David Hotel. The King David Hotel was bombed because the British had raided the Jewish Agency and seized numerous documents that may have shown that the terrorists were working with the JA and Haganah (JA liked to pretend that they didn't support the terrorism). The British then stored those documents at their base, in the hotel. That the Irgun terrorists responded to a JA raid, itself seems to prove the connection. That the thousands of Irgun (and Lehi) terrorists were also quickly merged into the new nation's military (IDF) and intelligence (Mossad) agencies, and are still celebrated as "heroes" by Israelis, to this day, also seems to support total collaboration between the groups. That other terrorist group mentioned, Lehi (also known as the Stern Gang), was considered even more extreme. They even tried to ally with the Nazis, against the British. Lehi ended up being led by Yitzhak Shamir, future Mossad agent, and another future Likud PM. They assassinated Lord Moyne, and others. In 1945, there was a major land and peoples survey done in Palestine. It showed that the Zionists only owned about 5% of the total land, 20% of the arable land, and owned a majority in zero districts. The partition was not only going to be forced on the native Palestinian majority, but Jews were still going to be a minority, in the part allocated to them. The only possible way to even become a "Jewish state" was going to require getting rid of the actual majority (at least enough so that there'd be a solid Jewish majority, so they could fake being democratic). This is also shown by the 1948, post Nakba, population of Israel. If there was 716,700 Jews, 156,000+ non-Jews, and approximately 700k non-Jews ethnically cleansed, that means the Jewish population, in the Zionist portion of partition, was originally over 100,000 less than the non-Jewish population. To believe that there was never any intent, by Zionists, to ethnically cleanse away the Palestinian majority would require believing that they never intended to create a "Jewish state". It's a nonsensical notion. Begin, and those terrorist groups, also opposed partition, but for the opposite reason Palestinians did. Palestinians didn't want to be colonized, at all. The terrorists wanted to colonize it all. "Moderate" Zionists were okay with colonizing half ... for now (what would happen in the future, after partition, was up to them, said Ben-Gurion). The Zionist terrorists were also involved in massacres, and assassinations, during the partition violence (colonialist war against the natives). Another notable future Likud PM, also started in the military, during the partition fighting. That was Ariel Sharon, war criminal, "Butcher of Beirut". Menachem Begin, and these other Zionist terrorists, are important because they became involved in Israeli politics, first forming Herut. That was the party that Albert Einstein, and other prominent American Jews, opposed, having a letter printed in the NYT, in December of 1948, when Begin came to visit the US. The letter opened ... "Among the most disturbing political phenomena of our times is the emergence in the newly created state of Israel of the "Freedom Party" (Tnuat Haherut), a political party closely akin in its organization, methods, political philosophy and social appeal to the Nazi and Fascist parties. It was formed out of the membership and following of the former Irgun Zvai Leumi, a terrorist, right-wing, chauvinist organization in Palestine." Herut merged with other extremist parties, over the years, and eventually became Likud, in the 70s. Now, people get upset over the slogan "From the river to the sea!", but it's the second part that's most important, "Palestine will be free!". Because "Palestine" isn't defined as an ethno-state, a free Palestine can be a single state, free for all to live in, and return to, free of continuing colonization, free of occupation, free of oppression, etc. Just like a Germany free of Nazism, an Italy free of fascism, a South Africa free of apartheid, or an America free of slavery from sea to shiny sea. It doesn't necessitate purging all the Jews. It just necessitates them giving up on the idea of an ethno-state. On the other hand, because "Israel" has been defined as an ethno-state, Likud's, "between the sea and the Jordan there will only be Israeli sovereignty", has no possible good interpretation. It is a declaration of intent to completely colonize, and ethnically cleanse, all Palestine territories. Not only that, but it also claims that they have a "right" to all of the "Land of Israel" (biblical borders that don't mesh with archaeological reality), which is an open declaration of future wars, against Jordan, Syria, Lebanon, and possibly even Iraq. Likud platform ... 1977: "The Right of the Jewish People to the Land of Israel (Eretz Israel) a. The right of the Jewish people to the land of Israel is eternal and indisputable and is linked with the right to security and peace; therefore, Judea and Samaria will not be handed to any foreign administration; between the Sea and the Jordan there will only be Israeli sovereignty. b. A plan which relinquishes parts of western Eretz Israel, undermines our right to the country, unavoidably leads to the establishment of a "Palestinian State," jeopardizes the security of the Jewish population, endangers the existence of the State of Israel. and frustrates any prospect of peace." "Settlement Settlement. both urban and rural. in all parts of the Land of Israel is the focal point of the Zionist effort to redeem the country, to maintain vital security areas and serves as a reservoir of strength and inspiration for the renewal of the pioneering spirit. The Likud government will call on the younger generation in Israel and the dispersions to settle and help every group and individual in the task of inhabiting and cultivating the wasteland, while taking care not to dispossess anyone." 1999: "The Government of Israel flatly rejects the establishment of a Palestinian Arab state west of the Jordan river. The Palestinians can run their lives freely in the framework of self-rule, but not as an independent and sovereign state. Thus, for example, in matters of foreign affairs, security, immigration, and ecology, their activity shall be limited in accordance with imperatives of Israel's existence, security and national needs." "The Jewish communities in Judea, Samaria, and Gaza are the realization of Zionist values. Settlement of the land is a clear expression of the unassailable right of the Jewish people to the Land of Israel and constitutes an important asset in the defense of the vital interests of the State of Israel. The Likud will continue to strengthen and develop these communities and will prevent their uprooting." All Palestine territories are officially considered occupied, by the International Court of Justice, the UN GA, the UN SC, and even in official documents of Israel's own allies. Likud is still using the blueprint for colonizing North America, in the West Bank. Move settlements out into native territory, piss off the natives, the natives retaliate, cry about poor "innocent" colonizing settlers being the "victims" of violent "Savages!", call in the cavalry to put down the native uprising, and eventually expand the borders to include those settlements. Rinse and repeat. In Gaza, Israel is operating an open air WWII style fascist ghetto. Them claiming a "right to defend themselves" would be like the Nazis claiming a "right to defend themselves " from the Warsaw ghetto uprising. There's no "war". That they're the occupiers means the "war" part is long over. Those people are actually supposed to be under the occupier's protection. That partition was forced upon the Palestinian majority, against their will ... that the Zionist portion still had to be forcefully ethnically cleansed of its non-Jewish majority, against their will ... that the millions of occupied Palestinians don't have a say in the government that truly rules over them, Israel's ... means Israel is about as democratic as Nazi Germany after Hitler purged his political opponents and then held elections.
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  7. People getting paid hundreds of thousands to sit on a couch and complain about things they don't like, complaining that people don't want to do actual work for peanuts.
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  8. These are the same people who think scientists have never thought of the planet heating and cooling in cycles and added that to their calculations. Only they thought of it, and owned the scientists!
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  9. "Fascism is the complete opposite of Marxian socialism." ~ Mussolini Marx's ideal was for a stateless, non-authoritarian, direct democracy, form of socialism. The complete opposite is an ultra-nationalistic, authoritarian, anti-democratic, form of crony capitalism.
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  10. Likud's bloody 100 year history ... In 1923, 100 years ago, Ze'ev Jabotinsky wrote, The Iron Wall, and a follow up, The Ethics of The Iron Wall (sooo racist towards Africans), in which he fully acknowledged that post Balfour Zionsim was colonialism, and that, based on the entirety of history, the native Palestinian population would resist being colonized until the bitter end. He directly compared it to the colonization of North America. He promoted doing it anyway, claiming Zionist colonialism was a "just" colonialism (he also thought North American colonialists were good guys, so not a great judge of morality), not caring what that meant for the native population. Ze'ev is important, because his Betar militant youth group helped found the Irgun terrorist group, along with other supporters of his, and the splinter Lehi terrorist group. The Irgun bombed numerous Palestinian markets and other public places, murdering many Palestinian civilians, including children, even including Palestinian Jews (who didn't support colonialist Zionsim). The Irgun are important, because they ended up being led by future Likud PM, Menachem Begin, who bombed the King David Hotel. The King David Hotel was bombed because the British had raided the Jewish Agency and seized numerous documents that may have shown that the terrorists were working with the JA and Haganah (JA liked to pretend that they didn't support the terrorism). The British then stored those documents at their base, in the hotel. That the Irgun terrorists responded to a JA raid, itself seems to prove the connection. That the thousands of Irgun (and Lehi) terrorists were also quickly merged into the new nation's military (IDF) and intelligence (Mossad) agencies, and are still celebrated as "heroes" by Israelis, to this day, also seems to support total collaboration between the groups. That other terrorist group mentioned, Lehi (also known as the Stern Gang), was considered even more extreme. They even tried to ally with the Nazis, against the British. Lehi ended up being led by Yitzhak Shamir, future Mossad agent, and another future Likud PM. They assassinated Lord Moyne, and others. In 1945, there was a major land and peoples survey done in Palestine. It showed that the Zionists only owned about 5% of the total land, 20% of the arable land, and owned a majority in zero districts. The partition was not only going to be forced on the native Palestinian majority, but Jews were still going to be a minority, in the part allocated to them. The only possible way to even become a "Jewish state" was going to require getting rid of the actual majority (at least enough so that there'd be a solid Jewish majority, so they could fake being democratic). This is also shown by the 1948, post Nakba, population of Israel. If there was 716,700 Jews, 156,000+ non-Jews, and approximately 700k non-Jews ethnically cleansed, that means the Jewish population, in the Zionist portion of partition, was originally over 100,000 less than the non-Jewish population. To believe that there was never any intent, by Zionists, to ethnically cleanse away the Palestinian majority would require believing that they never intended to create a "Jewish state". It's a nonsensical notion. Begin, and those terrorist groups, also opposed partition, but for the opposite reason Palestinians did. Palestinians didn't want to be colonized, at all. The terrorists wanted to colonize it all. "Moderate" Zionists were okay with colonizing half ... for now (what would happen in the future, after partition, was up to them, said Ben-Gurion). The Zionist terrorists were also involved in massacres, and assassinations, during the partition violence (colonialist war against the natives). Another notable future Likud PM, also started in the military, during the partition fighting. That was Ariel Sharon, war criminal, "Butcher of Beirut". Menachem Begin, and these other Zionist terrorists, are important because they became involved in Israeli politics, first forming Herut. That was the party that Albert Einstein, and other prominent American Jews, opposed, having a letter printed in the NYT, in December of 1948, when Begin came to visit the US. The letter opened ... "Among the most disturbing political phenomena of our times is the emergence in the newly created state of Israel of the "Freedom Party" (Tnuat Haherut), a political party closely akin in its organization, methods, political philosophy and social appeal to the Nazi and Fascist parties. It was formed out of the membership and following of the former Irgun Zvai Leumi, a terrorist, right-wing, chauvinist organization in Palestine." Herut merged with other extremist parties, over the years, and eventually became Likud, in the 70s. Now, people get upset over the slogan "From the river to the sea!", but it's the second part that's most important, "Palestine will be free!". Because "Palestine" isn't defined as an ethno-state, a free Palestine can be a single state, free for all to live in, and return to, free of continuing colonization, free of occupation, free of oppression, etc. Just like a Germany free of Nazism, an Italy free of fascism, a South Africa free of apartheid, or an America free of slavery from sea to shiny sea. It doesn't necessitate purging all the Jews. It just necessitates them giving up on the idea of an ethno-state. On the other hand, because "Israel" has been defined as an ethno-state, Likud's, "between the sea and the Jordan there will only be Israeli sovereignty", has no possible good interpretation. It is a declaration of intent to completely colonize, and ethnically cleanse, all Palestine territories. Not only that, but it also claims that they have a "right" to all of the "Land of Israel" (biblical borders that don't mesh with archaeological reality), which is an open declaration of future wars, against Jordan, Syria, Lebanon, and possibly even Iraq. Likud platform ... 1977: "The Right of the Jewish People to the Land of Israel (Eretz Israel) a. The right of the Jewish people to the land of Israel is eternal and indisputable and is linked with the right to security and peace; therefore, Judea and Samaria will not be handed to any foreign administration; between the Sea and the Jordan there will only be Israeli sovereignty. b. A plan which relinquishes parts of western Eretz Israel, undermines our right to the country, unavoidably leads to the establishment of a "Palestinian State," jeopardizes the security of the Jewish population, endangers the existence of the State of Israel. and frustrates any prospect of peace." "Settlement Settlement. both urban and rural. in all parts of the Land of Israel is the focal point of the Zionist effort to redeem the country, to maintain vital security areas and serves as a reservoir of strength and inspiration for the renewal of the pioneering spirit. The Likud government will call on the younger generation in Israel and the dispersions to settle and help every group and individual in the task of inhabiting and cultivating the wasteland, while taking care not to dispossess anyone." 1999: "The Government of Israel flatly rejects the establishment of a Palestinian Arab state west of the Jordan river. The Palestinians can run their lives freely in the framework of self-rule, but not as an independent and sovereign state. Thus, for example, in matters of foreign affairs, security, immigration, and ecology, their activity shall be limited in accordance with imperatives of Israel's existence, security and national needs." "The Jewish communities in Judea, Samaria, and Gaza are the realization of Zionist values. Settlement of the land is a clear expression of the unassailable right of the Jewish people to the Land of Israel and constitutes an important asset in the defense of the vital interests of the State of Israel. The Likud will continue to strengthen and develop these communities and will prevent their uprooting." All Palestine territories are officially considered occupied, by the International Court of Justice, the UN GA, the UN SC, and even in official documents of Israel's own allies. Likud is still using the blueprint for colonizing North America, in the West Bank. Move settlements out into native territory, piss off the natives, the natives retaliate, cry about poor "innocent" colonizing settlers being the "victims" of violent "Savages!", call in the cavalry to put down the native uprising, and eventually expand the borders to include those settlements. Rinse and repeat. In Gaza, Israel is operating an open air WWII style fascist ghetto. Them claiming a "right to defend themselves" would be like the Nazis claiming a "right to defend themselves " from the Warsaw ghetto uprising. There's no "war". That they're the occupiers means the "war" part is long over. Those people are actually supposed to be under the occupier's protection. That partition was forced upon the Palestinian majority, against their will ... that the Zionist portion still had to be forcefully ethnically cleansed of its non-Jewish majority, against their will ... that the millions of occupied Palestinians don't have a say in the government that truly rules over them, Israel's ... means Israel is about as democratic as Nazi Germany after Hitler purged his political opponents and then held elections.
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  11. Oh, they learned plenty from WWII. They just learned from the wrong people.
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  12. Yeah, Jimmy has become a wingnut. He might as well be a Republican, at this point, with how little he criticizes them.
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  13. If she thinks an older lady doesn't get a say, then she should agree that men don't get a say.
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  14. Likud's bloody 100 year history ... In 1923, 100 years ago, Ze'ev Jabotinsky wrote, The Iron Wall, and a follow up, The Ethics of The Iron Wall (sooo racist towards Africans), in which he fully acknowledged that post Balfour Zionsim was colonialism, and that, based on the entirety of history, the native Palestinian population would resist being colonized until the bitter end. He directly compared it to the colonization of North America. He promoted doing it anyway, claiming Zionist colonialism was a "just" colonialism (he also thought North American colonialists were good guys, so not a great judge of morality), not caring what that meant for the native population. Ze'ev is important, because his Betar militant youth group helped found the Irgun terrorist group, along with other supporters of his, and the splinter Lehi terrorist group. The Irgun bombed numerous Palestinian markets and other public places, murdering many Palestinian civilians, including children, even including Palestinian Jews (who didn't support colonialist Zionsim). The Irgun are important, because they ended up being led by future Likud PM, Menachem Begin, who bombed the King David Hotel. The King David Hotel was bombed because the British had raided the Jewish Agency and seized numerous documents that may have shown that the terrorists were working with the JA and Haganah (JA liked to pretend that they didn't support the terrorism). The British then stored those documents at their base, in the hotel. That the Irgun terrorists responded to a JA raid, itself seems to prove the connection. That the thousands of Irgun (and Lehi) terrorists were also quickly merged into the new nation's military (IDF) and intelligence (Mossad) agencies, and are still celebrated as "heroes" by Israelis, to this day, also seems to support total collaboration between the groups. That other terrorist group mentioned, Lehi (also known as the Stern Gang), was considered even more extreme. They even tried to ally with the Nazis, against the British. Lehi ended up being led by Yitzhak Shamir, future Mossad agent, and another future Likud PM. They assassinated Lord Moyne, and others. In 1945, there was a major land and peoples survey done in Palestine. It showed that the Zionists only owned about 5% of the total land, 20% of the arable land, and owned a majority in zero districts. The partition was not only going to be forced on the native Palestinian majority, but Jews were still going to be a minority, in the part allocated to them. The only possible way to even become a "Jewish state" was going to require getting rid of the actual majority (at least enough so that there'd be a solid Jewish majority, so they could fake being democratic). This is also shown by the 1948, post Nakba, population of Israel. If there was 716,700 Jews, 156,000+ non-Jews, and approximately 700k non-Jews ethnically cleansed, that means the Jewish population, in the Zionist portion of partition, was originally over 100,000 less than the non-Jewish population. To believe that there was never any intent, by Zionists, to ethnically cleanse away the Palestinian majority would require believing that they never intended to create a "Jewish state". It's a nonsensical notion. Begin, and those terrorist groups, also opposed partition, but for the opposite reason Palestinians did. Palestinians didn't want to be colonized, at all. The terrorists wanted to colonize it all. "Moderate" Zionists were okay with colonizing half ... for now (what would happen in the future, after partition, was up to them, said Ben-Gurion). The Zionist terrorists were also involved in massacres, and assassinations, during the partition violence (colonialist war against the natives). Another notable future Likud PM, also started in the military, during the partition fighting. That was Ariel Sharon, war criminal, "Butcher of Beirut". Menachem Begin, and these other Zionist terrorists, are important because they became involved in Israeli politics, first forming Herut. That was the party that Albert Einstein, and other prominent American Jews, opposed, having a letter printed in the NYT, in December of 1948, when Begin came to visit the US. The letter opened ... "Among the most disturbing political phenomena of our times is the emergence in the newly created state of Israel of the "Freedom Party" (Tnuat Haherut), a political party closely akin in its organization, methods, political philosophy and social appeal to the Nazi and Fascist parties. It was formed out of the membership and following of the former Irgun Zvai Leumi, a terrorist, right-wing, chauvinist organization in Palestine." Herut merged with other extremist parties, over the years, and eventually became Likud, in the 70s. Now, people get upset over the slogan "From the river to the sea!", but it's the second part that's most important, "Palestine will be free!". Because "Palestine" isn't defined as an ethno-state, a free Palestine can be a single state, free for all to live in, and return to, free of continuing colonization, free of occupation, free of oppression, etc. Just like a Germany free of Nazism, an Italy free of fascism, a South Africa free of apartheid, or an America free of slavery from sea to shiny sea. It doesn't necessitate purging all the Jews. It just necessitates them giving up on the idea of an ethno-state. On the other hand, because "Israel" has been defined as an ethno-state, Likud's, "between the sea and the Jordan there will only be Israeli sovereignty", has no possible good interpretation. It is a declaration of intent to completely colonize, and ethnically cleanse, all Palestine territories. Not only that, but it also claims that they have a "right" to all of the "Land of Israel" (biblical borders that don't mesh with archaeological reality), which is an open declaration of future wars, against Jordan, Syria, Lebanon, and possibly even Iraq. Likud platform ... 1977: "The Right of the Jewish People to the Land of Israel (Eretz Israel) a. The right of the Jewish people to the land of Israel is eternal and indisputable and is linked with the right to security and peace; therefore, Judea and Samaria will not be handed to any foreign administration; between the Sea and the Jordan there will only be Israeli sovereignty. b. A plan which relinquishes parts of western Eretz Israel, undermines our right to the country, unavoidably leads to the establishment of a "Palestinian State," jeopardizes the security of the Jewish population, endangers the existence of the State of Israel. and frustrates any prospect of peace." "Settlement Settlement. both urban and rural. in all parts of the Land of Israel is the focal point of the Zionist effort to redeem the country, to maintain vital security areas and serves as a reservoir of strength and inspiration for the renewal of the pioneering spirit. The Likud government will call on the younger generation in Israel and the dispersions to settle and help every group and individual in the task of inhabiting and cultivating the wasteland, while taking care not to dispossess anyone." 1999: "The Government of Israel flatly rejects the establishment of a Palestinian Arab state west of the Jordan river. The Palestinians can run their lives freely in the framework of self-rule, but not as an independent and sovereign state. Thus, for example, in matters of foreign affairs, security, immigration, and ecology, their activity shall be limited in accordance with imperatives of Israel's existence, security and national needs." "The Jewish communities in Judea, Samaria, and Gaza are the realization of Zionist values. Settlement of the land is a clear expression of the unassailable right of the Jewish people to the Land of Israel and constitutes an important asset in the defense of the vital interests of the State of Israel. The Likud will continue to strengthen and develop these communities and will prevent their uprooting." All Palestine territories are officially considered occupied, by the International Court of Justice, the UN GA, the UN SC, and even in official documents of Israel's own allies. Likud is still using the blueprint for colonizing North America, in the West Bank. Move settlements out into native territory, piss off the natives, the natives retaliate, cry about poor "innocent" colonizing settlers being the "victims" of violent "Savages!", call in the cavalry to put down the native uprising, and eventually expand the borders to include those settlements. Rinse and repeat. In Gaza, Israel is operating an open air WWII style fascist ghetto. Them claiming a "right to defend themselves" would be like the Nazis claiming a "right to defend themselves " from the Warsaw ghetto uprising. There's no "war". That they're the occupiers means the "war" part is long over. Those people are actually supposed to be under the occupier's protection. That partition was forced upon the Palestinian majority, against their will ... that the Zionist portion still had to be forcefully ethnically cleansed of its non-Jewish majority, against their will ... that the millions of occupied Palestinians don't have a say in the government that truly rules over them, Israel's ... means Israel is about as democratic as Nazi Germany after Hitler purged his political opponents and then held elections.
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  15.  @werihfbwl  No, it makes absolutely zero sense, because it still would have happened in front of the same H3 audience, with the same number of viewers. Crowder is a complete and utter coward.
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  16. ​ @EpicAlcatraz99  Because you're not actually "at war", when you're an occupier, which Israel is. International law actually gives those being occupied a right to resist. The occupier, on the other hand, is breaking the law, if they do collective punishment.
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  17. Like an open air WWII style fascist ghetto.
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  18. What are they blathering about? The laws apply to any race, any sex, or any religion. If they think they're being discriminated against, take it to court.
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  19. What the hell is he doing, going around the hospital meeting soldiers, when he's got a very contagious virus?
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  20. Didn't the US support religious extremists in Afghanistan, which led to Taliban rule?
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  21. Their Bible actually says to force quarantine people, who might have a contagious illness. Hell, it even says to quarantine women on their periods.
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  22. There's already a word for medical "segregation" ... quarantine ... and it has been a response to countless contagious outbreaks.
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  23. Likud's bloody 100 year history ... In 1923, 100 years ago, Ze'ev Jabotinsky wrote, The Iron Wall, and a follow up, The Ethics of The Iron Wall (sooo racist towards Africans), in which he fully acknowledged that post Balfour Zionsim was colonialism, and that, based on the entirety of history, the native Palestinian population would resist being colonized until the bitter end. He directly compared it to the colonization of North America. He promoted doing it anyway, claiming Zionist colonialism was a "just" colonialism (he also thought North American colonialists were good guys, so not a great judge of morality), not caring what that meant for the native population. Ze'ev is important, because his Betar militant youth group helped found the Irgun terrorist group, along with other supporters of his, and the splinter Lehi terrorist group. The Irgun bombed numerous Palestinian markets and other public places, murdering many Palestinian civilians, including children, even including Palestinian Jews (who didn't support colonialist Zionsim). The Irgun are important, because they ended up being led by future Likud PM, Menachem Begin, who bombed the King David Hotel. The King David Hotel was bombed because the British had raided the Jewish Agency and seized numerous documents that may have shown that the terrorists were working with the JA and Haganah (JA liked to pretend that they didn't support the terrorism). The British then stored those documents at their base, in the hotel. That the Irgun terrorists responded to a JA raid, itself seems to prove the connection. That the thousands of Irgun (and Lehi) terrorists were also quickly merged into the new nation's military (IDF) and intelligence (Mossad) agencies, and are still celebrated as "heroes" by Israelis, to this day, also seems to support total collaboration between the groups. That other terrorist group mentioned, Lehi (also known as the Stern Gang), was considered even more extreme. They even tried to ally with the Nazis, against the British. Lehi ended up being led by Yitzhak Shamir, future Mossad agent, and another future Likud PM. They assassinated Lord Moyne, and others. In 1945, there was a major land and peoples survey done in Palestine. It showed that the Zionists only owned about 5% of the total land, 20% of the arable land, and owned a majority in zero districts. The partition was not only going to be forced on the native Palestinian majority, but Jews were still going to be a minority, in the part allocated to them. The only possible way to even become a "Jewish state" was going to require getting rid of the actual majority (at least enough so that there'd be a solid Jewish majority, so they could fake being democratic). This is also shown by the 1948, post Nakba, population of Israel. If there was 716,700 Jews, 156,000+ non-Jews, and approximately 700k non-Jews ethnically cleansed, that means the Jewish population, in the Zionist portion of partition, was originally over 100,000 less than the non-Jewish population. To believe that there was never any intent, by Zionists, to ethnically cleanse away the Palestinian majority would require believing that they never intended to create a "Jewish state". It's a nonsensical notion. Begin, and those terrorist groups, also opposed partition, but for the opposite reason Palestinians did. Palestinians didn't want to be colonized, at all. The terrorists wanted to colonize it all. "Moderate" Zionists were okay with colonizing half ... for now (what would happen in the future, after partition, was up to them, said Ben-Gurion). The Zionist terrorists were also involved in massacres, and assassinations, during the partition violence (colonialist war against the natives). Another notable future Likud PM, also started in the military, during the partition fighting. That was Ariel Sharon, war criminal, "Butcher of Beirut". Menachem Begin, and these other Zionist terrorists, are important because they became involved in Israeli politics, first forming Herut. That was the party that Albert Einstein, and other prominent American Jews, opposed, having a letter printed in the NYT, in December of 1948, when Begin came to visit the US. The letter opened ... "Among the most disturbing political phenomena of our times is the emergence in the newly created state of Israel of the "Freedom Party" (Tnuat Haherut), a political party closely akin in its organization, methods, political philosophy and social appeal to the Nazi and Fascist parties. It was formed out of the membership and following of the former Irgun Zvai Leumi, a terrorist, right-wing, chauvinist organization in Palestine." Herut merged with other extremist parties, over the years, and eventually became Likud, in the 70s. Now, people get upset over the slogan "From the river to the sea!", but it's the second part that's most important, "Palestine will be free!". Because "Palestine" isn't defined as an ethno-state, a free Palestine can be a single state, free for all to live in, and return to, free of continuing colonization, free of occupation, free of oppression, etc. Just like a Germany free of Nazism, an Italy free of fascism, a South Africa free of apartheid, or an America free of slavery from sea to shiny sea. It doesn't necessitate purging all the Jews. It just necessitates them giving up on the idea of an ethno-state. On the other hand, because "Israel" has been defined as an ethno-state, Likud's, "between the sea and the Jordan there will only be Israeli sovereignty", has no possible good interpretation. It is a declaration of intent to completely colonize, and ethnically cleanse, all Palestine territories. Not only that, but it also claims that they have a "right" to all of the "Land of Israel" (biblical borders that don't mesh with archaeological reality), which is an open declaration of future wars, against Jordan, Syria, Lebanon, and possibly even Iraq. Likud platform ... 1977: "The Right of the Jewish People to the Land of Israel (Eretz Israel) a. The right of the Jewish people to the land of Israel is eternal and indisputable and is linked with the right to security and peace; therefore, Judea and Samaria will not be handed to any foreign administration; between the Sea and the Jordan there will only be Israeli sovereignty. b. A plan which relinquishes parts of western Eretz Israel, undermines our right to the country, unavoidably leads to the establishment of a "Palestinian State," jeopardizes the security of the Jewish population, endangers the existence of the State of Israel. and frustrates any prospect of peace." "Settlement Settlement. both urban and rural. in all parts of the Land of Israel is the focal point of the Zionist effort to redeem the country, to maintain vital security areas and serves as a reservoir of strength and inspiration for the renewal of the pioneering spirit. The Likud government will call on the younger generation in Israel and the dispersions to settle and help every group and individual in the task of inhabiting and cultivating the wasteland, while taking care not to dispossess anyone." 1999: "The Government of Israel flatly rejects the establishment of a Palestinian Arab state west of the Jordan river. The Palestinians can run their lives freely in the framework of self-rule, but not as an independent and sovereign state. Thus, for example, in matters of foreign affairs, security, immigration, and ecology, their activity shall be limited in accordance with imperatives of Israel's existence, security and national needs." "The Jewish communities in Judea, Samaria, and Gaza are the realization of Zionist values. Settlement of the land is a clear expression of the unassailable right of the Jewish people to the Land of Israel and constitutes an important asset in the defense of the vital interests of the State of Israel. The Likud will continue to strengthen and develop these communities and will prevent their uprooting." All Palestine territories are officially considered occupied, by the International Court of Justice, the UN GA, the UN SC, and even in official documents of Israel's own allies. Likud is still using the blueprint for colonizing North America, in the West Bank. Move settlements out into native territory, piss off the natives, the natives retaliate, cry about poor "innocent" colonizing settlers being the "victims" of violent "Savages!", call in the cavalry to put down the native uprising, and eventually expand the borders to include those settlements. Rinse and repeat. In Gaza, Israel is operating an open air WWII style fascist ghetto. Them claiming a "right to defend themselves" would be like the Nazis claiming a "right to defend themselves " from the Warsaw ghetto uprising. There's no "war". That they're the occupiers means the "war" part is long over. Those people are actually supposed to be under the occupier's protection. That partition was forced upon the Palestinian majority, against their will ... that the Zionist portion still had to be forcefully ethnically cleansed of its non-Jewish majority, against their will ... that the millions of occupied Palestinians don't have a say in the government that truly rules over them, Israel's ... means Israel is about as democratic as Nazi Germany after Hitler purged his political opponents and then held elections.
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  24. They also shrunk their sizes, while raising prices. At least here.
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  25.  @emblemedfate4270  Remember when Jimmy promoted Trump as the better option for progressives than Clinton, not caring if the ACA would get repealed and millions lost their healthcare, and argued that Trump filling multiple scotus seats was as likely as the moon falling into Lake Michigan? He vastly overestimates potential benefits and vast underestimates potential risks.
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  26. I thought Tucker previously said there weren't any weapons, and they were all just like tourists.
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  27. Hint: A number of other countries have had much better covid outcomes, by better following covid measures and getting more people vaccinated. So, whichever side is fighting those things are the ones politicizing it.
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  28. Like all the right wingers currently complaining about capitalism (over half of the inflation rate spike can be attributed to profit margins).
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  29.  @kyle6232  Like most dimwitted Dore knobs, the guy doesn't even know what was in the final bill, or what AOC's final vote was, when it came back to the house.
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  30. It doesn't even make sense. The debate still would have happened on the H3 channel, with the same number of H3 subs and viewers, just with a different opponent. If anything, Sam having his own 1m subs would increase the audience even more.
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  31. Divided the country by being a black president, making all the psychos crawl out of the woodwork, which the Republicans welcomed with open arms.
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  32. Canton police have said lifelong resident, natural born citizen.
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  33. Read Ze'ev Jabotinsky's The Iron Wall, 1923. There's a direct line of succession, from Ze'ev to Likud. They've considered their colonization comparable to the colonization of North America, for over 100 years. They simply consider their colonization "good".
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  34. Must be why Maher likes her. He's not funny anymore, either.
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  35.  @werihfbwl  If Crowder thought Ethan was so absolutely easy to dunk on, then wasn't that like a bigger kid picking on a little kid, to begin with? So, you're admitting Sam is the bigger, tougher, opponent.
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  36. Jimmy has a new video out, downplaying the risks of covid, called "Are COVID death rates WILDLY inflated?". In it, he takes hospitalization rates per total vaccinated (0.01%)and unvaccinated (0.89%) populations and compares it to a 3.4% "death rate", that is clearly a case fatality rate (fatalities per confirmed cases) from a year and a half ago. The case fatality rate is constantly changing, is different for each country, and different for the world. He claimed he couldn't find a newer rate. Only someone who is completely inept, wouldn't be able to find the current case fatality rate. But, somehow Jimmy managed not to. Only someone who failed grade school math couldn't figure it out themselves. 800k deaths is 1.6% of 50m confirmed cases, in the US. But, somehow Jimmy, or his team, couldn't. So, he compares these two sets of numbers, that are based on totally different math, to question whether covid deaths are being "WILDLY" inflated. You know, because a 3.4% "death rate" is so much higher than 0.9% hospitalization rate. The comparable "death rate" he should be using is the population mortality rate. 800k deaths is 0.24% of 330m total population. Again, something that's easy to find the latest numbers for, or figure out yourself, but the Dore knob team couldn't manage to do. There's nothing, at all, incompatible with a 0.24% total population mortality rate and a 0.9% total population hospitalization rate. But, he's using his false equivalency to make out like covid is a lot less harmful than doctors and scientists, worldwide, have stated, and there's some giant worldwide conspiracy to inflate numbers, by over 10x.
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  37. Nothing a capitalist can say will change the fact that trading, and owning, private property is capitalism. Not considering other human beings to actually be human beings, and trading them like cattle, other livestock, or other property, is capitalism.
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  38. ​ @Wheels36H3WM Fun fact: Nazis didn't actually live inside the Warsaw ghetto. The larger scale of Gaza doesn't change the fact that Israel controls the borders, ports, airspace, electricity, water, who goes in and out, what goes in and out, and Netanyahu even controlled the money from Qatar, having stopped and started it multiple times.
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  39. Likud's bloody 100 year history ... In 1923, 100 years ago, Ze'ev Jabotinsky wrote, The Iron Wall, and a follow up, The Ethics of The Iron Wall (sooo racist towards Africans), in which he fully acknowledged that post Balfour Zionsim was colonialism, and that, based on the entirety of history, the native Palestinian population would resist being colonized until the bitter end. He directly compared it to the colonization of North America. He promoted doing it anyway, claiming Zionist colonialism was a "just" colonialism (he also thought North American colonialists were good guys, so not a great judge of morality), not caring what that meant for the native population. Ze'ev is important, because his Betar militant youth group helped found the Irgun terrorist group, along with other supporters of his, and the splinter Lehi terrorist group. The Irgun bombed numerous Palestinian markets and other public places, murdering many Palestinian civilians, including children, even including Palestinian Jews (who didn't support colonialist Zionsim). The Irgun are important, because they ended up being led by future Likud PM, Menachem Begin, who bombed the King David Hotel. The King David Hotel was bombed because the British had raided the Jewish Agency and seized numerous documents that may have shown that the terrorists were working with the JA and Haganah (JA liked to pretend that they didn't support the terrorism). The British then stored those documents at their base, in the hotel. That the Irgun terrorists responded to a JA raid, itself seems to prove the connection. That the thousands of Irgun (and Lehi) terrorists were also quickly merged into the new nation's military (IDF) and intelligence (Mossad) agencies, and are still celebrated as "heroes" by Israelis, to this day, also seems to support total collaboration between the groups. That other terrorist group mentioned, Lehi (also known as the Stern Gang), was considered even more extreme. They even tried to ally with the Nazis, against the British. Lehi ended up being led by Yitzhak Shamir, future Mossad agent, and another future Likud PM. They assassinated Lord Moyne, and others. The two terrorist groups also operated outside of Palestine. The Irgun bombed the British Embassy at Porta Pia, in Rome. The Lehi bombed the British Colonial Club, in London. A timer failed in another bombing attempt, at the Colonial Office, in Whitehall. Two female Lehi operatives were arrested crossing from Belgium to France, with the ingredients for letter bombs. 21 letter bombs were found to be have sent, and were intercepted. They mined the Cairo-Haifa train, in Egypt, twice, killing dozens of civilians, as well as British soldiers. In 1945, there was a major land and peoples survey done in Palestine. It showed that the Zionists only owned about 5% of the total land, 20% of the arable land, and owned a majority in zero districts. The partition was not only going to be forced on the native Palestinian majority, but Jews were still going to be a minority, in the part allocated to them. The only possible way to even become a "Jewish state" was going to require getting rid of the actual majority (at least enough so that there'd be a solid Jewish majority, so they could fake being democratic). This is also shown by the 1948, post Nakba, population of Israel. If there was 716,700 Jews, 156,000+ non-Jews, and approximately 700k non-Jews ethnically cleansed, that means the Jewish population, in the Zionist portion of partition, was originally over 100,000 less than the non-Jewish population. To believe that there was never any intent, by Zionists, to ethnically cleanse away the Palestinian majority would require believing that they never intended to create a "Jewish state". It's a nonsensical notion. Begin, and those terrorist groups, also opposed partition, but for the opposite reason Palestinians did. Palestinians didn't want to be colonized, at all. The terrorists wanted to colonize it all. "Moderate" Zionists were okay with colonizing half ... for now (what would happen in the future, after partition, was up to them, said Ben-Gurion). The Zionist terrorists were also involved in massacres, and assassinations, during the partition violence (colonialist war against the natives). Another notable future Likud PM, also started in the military, during the partition fighting. That was Ariel Sharon, war criminal, "Butcher of Beirut". Menachem Begin, and these other Zionist terrorists, are important because they became involved in Israeli politics, first forming Herut. That was the party that Albert Einstein, and other prominent American Jews, opposed, having a letter printed in the NYT, in December of 1948, when Begin came to visit the US. The letter opened ... "Among the most disturbing political phenomena of our times is the emergence in the newly created state of Israel of the "Freedom Party" (Tnuat Haherut), a political party closely akin in its organization, methods, political philosophy and social appeal to the Nazi and Fascist parties. It was formed out of the membership and following of the former Irgun Zvai Leumi, a terrorist, right-wing, chauvinist organization in Palestine." Herut merged with other extremist parties, over the years, and eventually became Likud, in the 70s. Now, people get upset over the slogan "From the river to the sea!", but it's the second part that's most important, "Palestine will be free!". Because "Palestine" isn't defined as an ethno-state, a free Palestine can be a single state, free for all to live in, and return to, free of continuing colonization, free of occupation, free of oppression, etc. Just like a Germany free of Nazism, an Italy free of fascism, a South Africa free of apartheid, or an America free of slavery from sea to shiny sea. It doesn't necessitate purging all the Jews. It just necessitates them giving up on the idea of an ethno-state. On the other hand, because "Israel" has been defined as an ethno-state, Likud's, "between the sea and the Jordan there will only be Israeli sovereignty", has no possible good interpretation. It is a declaration of intent to completely colonize, and ethnically cleanse, all Palestine territories. Not only that, but it also claims that they have a "right" to all of the "Land of Israel" (biblical borders that don't mesh with archaeological reality), which is an open declaration of future wars, against Jordan, Syria, Lebanon, and possibly even Iraq. Likud platform ... 1977: "The Right of the Jewish People to the Land of Israel (Eretz Israel) a. The right of the Jewish people to the land of Israel is eternal and indisputable and is linked with the right to security and peace; therefore, Judea and Samaria will not be handed to any foreign administration; between the Sea and the Jordan there will only be Israeli sovereignty. b. A plan which relinquishes parts of western Eretz Israel, undermines our right to the country, unavoidably leads to the establishment of a "Palestinian State," jeopardizes the security of the Jewish population, endangers the existence of the State of Israel. and frustrates any prospect of peace." 1999: "The Government of Israel flatly rejects the establishment of a Palestinian Arab state west of the Jordan river. The Palestinians can run their lives freely in the framework of self-rule, but not as an independent and sovereign state. Thus, for example, in matters of foreign affairs, security, immigration, and ecology, their activity shall be limited in accordance with imperatives of Israel's existence, security and national needs." "The Jewish communities in Judea, Samaria, and Gaza are the realization of Zionist values. Settlement of the land is a clear expression of the unassailable right of the Jewish people to the Land of Israel and constitutes an important asset in the defense of the vital interests of the State of Israel. The Likud will continue to strengthen and develop these communities and will prevent their uprooting." All Palestine territories are officially considered occupied, by the International Court of Justice, the UN GA, the UN SC, and even in official documents of Israel's own allies. Likud is still using the blueprint for colonizing North America, in the West Bank. Move settlements out into native territory, piss off the natives, the natives retaliate, cry about poor "innocent" colonizing settlers being the "victims" of violent "Savages!", call in the cavalry to put down the native uprising, and eventually expand the borders to include those settlements. Rinse and repeat. In Gaza, Israel is operating an open air WWII style fascist ghetto. Them claiming a "right to defend themselves" would be like the Nazis claiming a "right to defend themselves " from the Warsaw ghetto uprising. There's no "war". That they're the occupiers means the "war" part is long over. Those people are actually supposed to be under the occupier's protection. That partition was forced upon the Palestinian majority, against their will ... that the Zionist portion still had to be forcefully ethnically cleansed of its non-Jewish majority, against their will ... that the millions of occupied Palestinians don't have a say in the government that truly rules over them, Israel's ... means Israel is about as democratic as Nazi Germany after Hitler purged his political opponents and then held elections.
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  40. There was also a larger increase in border crossings in 2019, that Republicans didn't seem to blame Trump for.
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  41.  @henyosdilly8999  Well, you know, when there were uprisings, led by resistance groups the Nazis considered terrorists, the Nazis totally had a "right to defend themselves". 🙄
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  42. New first amendment: everyone has a no terms of service right to a book deal, a gym membership, a Costco membership, and a Twitter membership.
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  43. Likud's bloody 100 year history ... In 1923, 100 years ago, Ze'ev Jabotinsky wrote, The Iron Wall, and a follow up, The Ethics of The Iron Wall (sooo racist towards Africans), in which he fully acknowledged that post Balfour Zionsim was colonialism, and that, based on the entirety of history, the native Palestinian population would resist being colonized until the bitter end. He directly compared it to the colonization of North America. He promoted doing it anyway, claiming Zionist colonialism was a "just" colonialism (he also thought North American colonialists were good guys, so not a great judge of morality), not caring what that meant for the native population. Ze'ev is important, because his Betar militant youth group helped found the Irgun terrorist group, along with other supporters of his, and the splinter Lehi terrorist group. The Irgun bombed numerous Palestinian markets and other public places, murdering many Palestinian civilians, including children, even including Palestinian Jews (who didn't support colonialist Zionsim). The Irgun are important, because they ended up being led by future Likud PM, Menachem Begin, who bombed the King David Hotel. The King David Hotel was bombed because the British had raided the Jewish Agency and seized numerous documents that may have shown that the terrorists were working with the JA and Haganah (JA liked to pretend that they didn't support the terrorism). The British then stored those documents at their base, in the hotel. That the Irgun terrorists responded to a JA raid, itself seems to prove the connection. That the thousands of Irgun (and Lehi) terrorists were also quickly merged into the new nation's military (IDF) and intelligence (Mossad) agencies, and are still celebrated as "heroes" by Israelis, to this day, also seems to support total collaboration between the groups. That other terrorist group mentioned, Lehi (also known as the Stern Gang), was considered even more extreme. They even tried to ally with the Nazis, against the British. Lehi ended up being led by Yitzhak Shamir, future Mossad agent, and another future Likud PM. They assassinated Lord Moyne, and others. In 1945, there was a major land and peoples survey done in Palestine. It showed that the Zionists only owned about 5% of the total land, 20% of the arable land, and owned a majority in zero districts. The partition was not only going to be forced on the native Palestinian majority, but Jews were still going to be a minority, in the part allocated to them. The only possible way to even become a "Jewish state" was going to require getting rid of the actual majority (at least enough so that there'd be a solid Jewish majority, so they could fake being democratic). This is also shown by the 1948, post Nakba, population of Israel. If there was 716,700 Jews, 156,000+ non-Jews, and approximately 700k non-Jews ethnically cleansed, that means the Jewish population, in the Zionist portion of partition, was originally over 100,000 less than the non-Jewish population. To believe that there was never any intent, by Zionists, to ethnically cleanse away the Palestinian majority would require believing that they never intended to create a "Jewish state". It's a nonsensical notion. Begin, and those terrorist groups, also opposed partition, but for the opposite reason Palestinians did. Palestinians didn't want to be colonized, at all. The terrorists wanted to colonize it all. "Moderate" Zionists were okay with colonizing half ... for now (what would happen in the future, after partition, was up to them, said Ben-Gurion). The Zionist terrorists were also involved in massacres, and assassinations, during the partition violence (colonialist war against the natives). Another notable future Likud PM, also started in the military, during the partition fighting. That was Ariel Sharon, war criminal, "Butcher of Beirut". Menachem Begin, and these other Zionist terrorists, are important because they became involved in Israeli politics, first forming Herut. That was the party that Albert Einstein, and other prominent American Jews, opposed, having a letter printed in the NYT, in December of 1948, when Begin came to visit the US. The letter opened ... "Among the most disturbing political phenomena of our times is the emergence in the newly created state of Israel of the "Freedom Party" (Tnuat Haherut), a political party closely akin in its organization, methods, political philosophy and social appeal to the Nazi and Fascist parties. It was formed out of the membership and following of the former Irgun Zvai Leumi, a terrorist, right-wing, chauvinist organization in Palestine." Herut merged with other extremist parties, over the years, and eventually became Likud, in the 70s. Now, people get upset over the slogan "From the river to the sea!", but it's the second part that's most important, "Palestine will be free!". Because "Palestine" isn't defined as an ethno-state, a free Palestine can be a single state, free for all to live in, and return to, free of continuing colonization, free of occupation, free of oppression, etc. Just like a Germany free of Nazism, an Italy free of fascism, a South Africa free of apartheid, or an America free of slavery from sea to shiny sea. It doesn't necessitate purging all the Jews. It just necessitates them giving up on the idea of an ethno-state. On the other hand, because "Israel" has been defined as an ethno-state, Likud's, "between the sea and the Jordan there will only be Israeli sovereignty", has no possible good interpretation. It is a declaration of intent to completely colonize, and ethnically cleanse, all Palestine territories. Not only that, but it also claims that they have a "right" to all of the "Land of Israel" (biblical borders that don't mesh with archaeological reality), which is an open declaration of future wars, against Jordan, Syria, Lebanon, and possibly even Iraq. Likud platform ... 1977: "The Right of the Jewish People to the Land of Israel (Eretz Israel) a. The right of the Jewish people to the land of Israel is eternal and indisputable and is linked with the right to security and peace; therefore, Judea and Samaria will not be handed to any foreign administration; between the Sea and the Jordan there will only be Israeli sovereignty. b. A plan which relinquishes parts of western Eretz Israel, undermines our right to the country, unavoidably leads to the establishment of a "Palestinian State," jeopardizes the security of the Jewish population, endangers the existence of the State of Israel. and frustrates any prospect of peace." "Settlement Settlement. both urban and rural. in all parts of the Land of Israel is the focal point of the Zionist effort to redeem the country, to maintain vital security areas and serves as a reservoir of strength and inspiration for the renewal of the pioneering spirit. The Likud government will call on the younger generation in Israel and the dispersions to settle and help every group and individual in the task of inhabiting and cultivating the wasteland, while taking care not to dispossess anyone." 1999: "The Government of Israel flatly rejects the establishment of a Palestinian Arab state west of the Jordan river. The Palestinians can run their lives freely in the framework of self-rule, but not as an independent and sovereign state. Thus, for example, in matters of foreign affairs, security, immigration, and ecology, their activity shall be limited in accordance with imperatives of Israel's existence, security and national needs." "The Jewish communities in Judea, Samaria, and Gaza are the realization of Zionist values. Settlement of the land is a clear expression of the unassailable right of the Jewish people to the Land of Israel and constitutes an important asset in the defense of the vital interests of the State of Israel. The Likud will continue to strengthen and develop these communities and will prevent their uprooting." All Palestine territories are officially considered occupied, by the International Court of Justice, the UN GA, the UN SC, and even in official documents of Israel's own allies. Likud is still using the blueprint for colonizing North America, in the West Bank. Move settlements out into native territory, piss off the natives, the natives retaliate, cry about poor "innocent" colonizing settlers being the "victims" of violent "Savages!", call in the cavalry to put down the native uprising, and eventually expand the borders to include those settlements. Rinse and repeat. In Gaza, Israel is operating an open air WWII style fascist ghetto. Them claiming a "right to defend themselves" would be like the Nazis claiming a "right to defend themselves " from the Warsaw ghetto uprising. There's no "war". That they're the occupiers means the "war" part is long over. Those people are actually supposed to be under the occupier's protection. That partition was forced upon the Palestinian majority, against their will ... that the Zionist portion still had to be forcefully ethnically cleansed of its non-Jewish majority, against their will ... that the millions of occupied Palestinians don't have a say in the government that truly rules over them, Israel's ... means Israel is about as democratic as Nazi Germany after Hitler purged his political opponents and then held elections.
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  44. Not really a "whim". Religion has a problem with free will and knowing the future. Those two things are incompatible. If their god knows the future, anything he creates can't actually choose to deviate from that known future. Furthermore, the god itself wouldn't be able to deviate from what it knows it will do. Knowing the future kills free will and omnipotence.
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  45.  @Flippy_Nips  Jesse Lee Peterson was brainwashed by his own grandfather, who was a plantation manager on the same plantation his family had been enslaved on.
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  46. Likud's bloody 100 year history ... In 1923, 100 years ago, Ze'ev Jabotinsky wrote, The Iron Wall, and a follow up, The Ethics of The Iron Wall (sooo racist towards Africans), in which he fully acknowledged that post Balfour Zionsim was colonialism, and that, based on the entirety of history, the native Palestinian population would resist being colonized until the bitter end. He directly compared it to the colonization of North America. He promoted doing it anyway, claiming Zionist colonialism was a "just" colonialism (he also thought North American colonialists were good guys, so not a great judge of morality), not caring what that meant for the native population. Ze'ev is important, because his Betar militant youth group helped found the Irgun terrorist group, along with other supporters of his, and the splinter Lehi terrorist group. The Irgun bombed numerous Palestinian markets and other public places, murdering many Palestinian civilians, including children, even including Palestinian Jews (who didn't support colonialist Zionsim). The Irgun are important, because they ended up being led by future Likud PM, Menachem Begin, who bombed the King David Hotel. The King David Hotel was bombed because the British had raided the Jewish Agency and seized numerous documents that may have shown that the terrorists were working with the JA and Haganah (JA liked to pretend that they didn't support the terrorism). The British then stored those documents at their base, in the hotel. That the Irgun terrorists responded to a JA raid, itself seems to prove the connection. That the thousands of Irgun (and Lehi) terrorists were also quickly merged into the new nation's military (IDF) and intelligence (Mossad) agencies, and are still celebrated as "heroes" by Israelis, to this day, also seems to support total collaboration between the groups. That other terrorist group mentioned, Lehi (also known as the Stern Gang), was considered even more extreme. They even tried to ally with the Nazis, against the British. Lehi ended up being led by Yitzhak Shamir, future Mossad agent, and another future Likud PM. They assassinated Lord Moyne, and others. In 1945, there was a major land and peoples survey done in Palestine. It showed that the Zionists only owned about 5% of the total land, 20% of the arable land, and owned a majority in zero districts. The partition was not only going to be forced on the native Palestinian majority, but Jews were still going to be a minority, in the part allocated to them. The only possible way to even become a "Jewish state" was going to require getting rid of the actual majority (at least enough so that there'd be a solid Jewish majority, so they could fake being democratic). This is also shown by the 1948, post Nakba, population of Israel. If there was 716,700 Jews, 156,000+ non-Jews, and approximately 700k non-Jews ethnically cleansed, that means the Jewish population, in the Zionist portion of partition, was originally over 100,000 less than the non-Jewish population. To believe that there was never any intent, by Zionists, to ethnically cleanse away the Palestinian majority would require believing that they never intended to create a "Jewish state". It's a nonsensical notion. Begin, and those terrorist groups, also opposed partition, but for the opposite reason Palestinians did. Palestinians didn't want to be colonized, at all. The terrorists wanted to colonize it all. "Moderate" Zionists were okay with colonizing half ... for now (what would happen in the future, after partition, was up to them, said Ben-Gurion). The Zionist terrorists were also involved in massacres, and assassinations, during the partition violence (colonialist war against the natives). Another notable future Likud PM, also started in the military, during the partition fighting. That was Ariel Sharon, war criminal, "Butcher of Beirut". Menachem Begin, and these other Zionist terrorists, are important because they became involved in Israeli politics, first forming Herut. That was the party that Albert Einstein, and other prominent American Jews, opposed, having a letter printed in the NYT, in December of 1948, when Begin came to visit the US. The letter opened ... "Among the most disturbing political phenomena of our times is the emergence in the newly created state of Israel of the "Freedom Party" (Tnuat Haherut), a political party closely akin in its organization, methods, political philosophy and social appeal to the Nazi and Fascist parties. It was formed out of the membership and following of the former Irgun Zvai Leumi, a terrorist, right-wing, chauvinist organization in Palestine." Herut merged with other extremist parties, over the years, and eventually became Likud, in the 70s. Now, people get upset over the slogan "From the river to the sea!", but it's the second part that's most important, "Palestine will be free!". Because "Palestine" isn't defined as an ethno-state, a free Palestine can be a single state, free for all to live in, and return to, free of continuing colonization, free of occupation, free of oppression, etc. Just like a Germany free of Nazism, an Italy free of fascism, a South Africa free of apartheid, or an America free of slavery from sea to shiny sea. It doesn't necessitate purging all the Jews. It just necessitates them giving up on the idea of an ethno-state. On the other hand, because "Israel" has been defined as an ethno-state, Likud's, "between the sea and the Jordan there will only be Israeli sovereignty", has no possible good interpretation. It is a declaration of intent to completely colonize, and ethnically cleanse, all Palestine territories. Not only that, but it also claims that they have a "right" to all of the "Land of Israel" (biblical borders that don't mesh with archaeological reality), which is an open declaration of future wars, against Jordan, Syria, Lebanon, and possibly even Iraq. Likud platform ... 1977: "The Right of the Jewish People to the Land of Israel (Eretz Israel) a. The right of the Jewish people to the land of Israel is eternal and indisputable and is linked with the right to security and peace; therefore, Judea and Samaria will not be handed to any foreign administration; between the Sea and the Jordan there will only be Israeli sovereignty. b. A plan which relinquishes parts of western Eretz Israel, undermines our right to the country, unavoidably leads to the establishment of a "Palestinian State," jeopardizes the security of the Jewish population, endangers the existence of the State of Israel. and frustrates any prospect of peace." "Settlement Settlement. both urban and rural. in all parts of the Land of Israel is the focal point of the Zionist effort to redeem the country, to maintain vital security areas and serves as a reservoir of strength and inspiration for the renewal of the pioneering spirit. The Likud government will call on the younger generation in Israel and the dispersions to settle and help every group and individual in the task of inhabiting and cultivating the wasteland, while taking care not to dispossess anyone." 1999: "The Government of Israel flatly rejects the establishment of a Palestinian Arab state west of the Jordan river. The Palestinians can run their lives freely in the framework of self-rule, but not as an independent and sovereign state. Thus, for example, in matters of foreign affairs, security, immigration, and ecology, their activity shall be limited in accordance with imperatives of Israel's existence, security and national needs." "The Jewish communities in Judea, Samaria, and Gaza are the realization of Zionist values. Settlement of the land is a clear expression of the unassailable right of the Jewish people to the Land of Israel and constitutes an important asset in the defense of the vital interests of the State of Israel. The Likud will continue to strengthen and develop these communities and will prevent their uprooting." All Palestine territories are officially considered occupied, by the International Court of Justice, the UN GA, the UN SC, and even in official documents of Israel's own allies. Likud is still using the blueprint for colonizing North America, in the West Bank. Move settlements out into native territory, piss off the natives, the natives retaliate, cry about poor "innocent" colonizing settlers being the "victims" of violent "Savages!", call in the cavalry to put down the native uprising, and eventually expand the borders to include those settlements. Rinse and repeat. In Gaza, Israel is operating an open air WWII style fascist ghetto. Them claiming a "right to defend themselves" would be like the Nazis claiming a "right to defend themselves " from the Warsaw ghetto uprising. There's no "war". That they're the occupiers means the "war" part is long over. Those people are actually supposed to be under the occupier's protection. That partition was forced upon the Palestinian majority, against their will ... that the Zionist portion still had to be forcefully ethnically cleansed of its non-Jewish majority, against their will ... that the millions of occupied Palestinians don't have a say in the government that truly rules over them, Israel's ... means Israel is about as democratic as Nazi Germany after Hitler purged his political opponents and then held elections.
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  47. She gets paid by the same person Vance does, Peter Thiel.
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  48. Those darn native Americans kept refusing to say yes to us taking their land, and kept attacking our poor settlers, that were innocently colonizing their land. It's all their fault, that they're now on small reserves.
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  49.  @evensteven1950  Einstein likened the Irgun and Lehi trrrst founders of Likud to Nzs and Fscsts, way back in 1948. It wasn't even considered "too soon", then.
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  50. Likewise, Orwell went to Spain to join the anarchists against Franco, and his authoritarians are based on fascists.
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  51. People of European descent crying about being "replaced" by people of largely Native American descent. They're insane.
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  52. When his editors asked for an editorial rewrite (something that has been happening since the beginning of newspapers), the last of his brain cells melted.
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  53. The Hill is owned by a close family friend to Trump. It isn't a progressive outlet.
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  54.  @latrinemarine826  Was it wrong when the Irgun and Lehi did it? Those terrorist groups were merged into Israel's military and intelligence agencies. Israelis, to this day, celebrate those terrorists and rapists as "heroes". Likud was founded by the leaders of those terrorist groups. Israelis elected both those terrorist leaders as PMs. All evidence suggests that Netanyahu is carrying on with those terrorists' Likud platform, "between the sea and the Jordan there will only be Israeli sovereignty", which promises to completely colonize and ethnically cleanse all Palestine territories. It further claims a "right" to all the "Land of Israel" (fictional biblical borders that don't mesh with archaeological reality), which is an open declaration of future wars, against Jordan, Syria, Lebanon, and possibly Iraq. Do you condemn the Irgun/Lehi/Likud terrorists and rapists, celebrated by Israelis?
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  55. ​ @roughhabit9085 Rofl! What's "diverse" about 16th century Puritan gobbledygook?
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  56. ​@@A_D_O_L_F__ What nedzed said, plus their stated willingness to let old people to die off from COVID.
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  57. It has been the Likud goal, for 100 years. Likud's bloody 100 year history ... In 1923, 100 years ago, Ze'ev Jabotinsky wrote, The Iron Wall, and a follow up, The Ethics of The Iron Wall (sooo racist towards Africans), in which he fully acknowledged that post Balfour Zionsim was colonialism, and that, based on the entirety of history, the native Palestinian population would resist being colonized until the bitter end. He directly compared it to the colonization of North America. He promoted doing it anyway, claiming Zionist colonialism was a "just" colonialism (he also thought North American colonialists were good guys, so not a great judge of morality), not caring what that meant for the native population. Ze'ev is important, because his Betar militant youth group helped found the Irgun terrorist group, along with other supporters of his, and the splinter Lehi terrorist group. The Irgun bombed numerous Palestinian markets and other public places, murdering many Palestinian civilians, including children, even including Palestinian Jews (who didn't support colonialist Zionsim). The Irgun are important, because they ended up being led by future Likud PM, Menachem Begin, who bombed the King David Hotel. The King David Hotel was bombed because the British had raided the Jewish Agency and seized numerous documents that may have shown that the terrorists were working with the JA and Haganah (JA liked to pretend that they didn't support the terrorism). The British then stored those documents at their base, in the hotel. That the Irgun terrorists responded to a JA raid, itself seems to prove the connection. That the thousands of Irgun (and Lehi) terrorists were also quickly merged into the new nation's military (IDF) and intelligence (Mossad) agencies, and are still celebrated as "heroes" by Israelis, to this day, also seems to support total collaboration between the groups. That other terrorist group mentioned, Lehi (also known as the Stern Gang), was considered even more extreme. They even tried to ally with the Nazis, against the British. Lehi ended up being led by Yitzhak Shamir, future Mossad agent, and another future Likud PM. In 1945, there was a major land and peoples survey done in Palestine. It showed that the Zionists only owned about 5% of the total land, 20% of the arable land, and owned a majority in zero districts. The partition was not only going to be forced on the native Palestinian majority, but Jews were still going to be a minority, in the part allocated to them. The only possible way to even become a "Jewish state" was going to require getting rid of the actual majority (at least enough so that there'd be a solid Jewish majority, so they could fake being democratic). This is also shown by the 1948, post Nakba, population of Israel. If there was 716,700 Jews, 156,000+ non-Jews, and approximately 700k non-Jews ethnically cleansed, that means the Jewish population, in the Zionist portion of partition, was originally over 100,000 less than the non-Jewish population. To believe that there was never any intent, by Zionists, to ethnically cleanse away the Palestinian majority would require believing that they never intended to create a "Jewish state". It's a nonsensical notion. Begin, and those terrorist groups, also opposed partition, but for the opposite reason Palestinians did. Palestinians didn't want to be colonized, at all. The terrorists wanted to colonize it all. "Moderate" Zionists were okay with colonizing half ... for now (what would happen in the future, after partition, was up to them, said Ben-Gurion). The Zionist terrorists were also involved in massacres, and assassinations, during the partition violence (colonialist war against the natives). Another notable future Likud PM, also started in the military, during the partition fighting. That was Ariel Sharon, war criminal, "Butcher of Beirut". Menachem Begin, and these other Zionist terrorists, are important because they became involved in Israeli politics, first forming Herut. That was the party that Albert Einstein, and other prominent American Jews, opposed, having a letter printed in the NYT, in December of 1948, when Begin came to visit the US. The letter opened ... "Among the most disturbing political phenomena of our times is the emergence in the newly created state of Israel of the "Freedom Party" (Tnuat Haherut), a political party closely akin in its organization, methods, political philosophy and social appeal to the Nazi and Fascist parties. It was formed out of the membership and following of the former Irgun Zvai Leumi, a terrorist, right-wing, chauvinist organization in Palestine." Herut merged with other extremist parties, over the years, and eventually became Likud, in the 70s. Now, people get upset over the slogan "From the river to the sea!", but it's the second part that's most important, "Palestine will be free!". Because "Palestine" isn't defined as an ethno-state, a free Palestine can be a single state, free for all to live in, and return to, free of continuing colonization, free of occupation, free of oppression, etc. Just like a Germany free of Nazism, an Italy free of fascism, a South Africa free of apartheid, or an America free of slavery from sea to shiny sea. It doesn't necessitate purging all the Jews. It just necessitates them giving up on the idea of an ethno-state. On the other hand, because "Israel" has been defined as an ethno-state, Likud's, "between the sea and the Jordan there will only be Israeli sovereignty", has no possible good interpretation. It is a declaration of intent to completely colonize, and ethnically cleanse, all Palestine territories. Not only that, but it also claims that they have a "right" to all of the "Land of Israel" (biblical borders that don't mesh with archaeological reality), which is an open declaration of future wars, against Jordan, Syria, Lebanon, and possibly even Iraq. Likud platform ... 1977: "The Right of the Jewish People to the Land of Israel (Eretz Israel) a. The right of the Jewish people to the land of Israel is eternal and indisputable and is linked with the right to security and peace; therefore, Judea and Samaria will not be handed to any foreign administration; between the Sea and the Jordan there will only be Israeli sovereignty. b. A plan which relinquishes parts of western Eretz Israel, undermines our right to the country, unavoidably leads to the establishment of a "Palestinian State," jeopardizes the security of the Jewish population, endangers the existence of the State of Israel. and frustrates any prospect of peace." "Settlement Settlement. both urban and rural. in all parts of the Land of Israel is the focal point of the Zionist effort to redeem the country, to maintain vital security areas and serves as a reservoir of strength and inspiration for the renewal of the pioneering spirit. The Likud government will call on the younger generation in Israel and the dispersions to settle and help every group and individual in the task of inhabiting and cultivating the wasteland, while taking care not to dispossess anyone." 1999: "The Government of Israel flatly rejects the establishment of a Palestinian Arab state west of the Jordan river. The Palestinians can run their lives freely in the framework of self-rule, but not as an independent and sovereign state. Thus, for example, in matters of foreign affairs, security, immigration, and ecology, their activity shall be limited in accordance with imperatives of Israel's existence, security and national needs." "The Jewish communities in Judea, Samaria, and Gaza are the realization of Zionist values. Settlement of the land is a clear expression of the unassailable right of the Jewish people to the Land of Israel and constitutes an important asset in the defense of the vital interests of the State of Israel. The Likud will continue to strengthen and develop these communities and will prevent their uprooting." All Palestine territories are officially considered occupied, by the International Court of Justice, the UN GA, the UN SC, and even in official documents of Israel's own allies. Likud is still using the blueprint for colonizing North America, in the West Bank. Move settlements out into native territory, piss off the natives, the natives retaliate, cry about poor "innocent" colonizing settlers being the "victims" of violent "Savages!", call in the cavalry to put down the native uprising, and eventually expand the borders to include those settlements. Rinse and repeat. In Gaza, Israel is operating an open air WWII style fascist ghetto. Them claiming a "right to defend themselves" would be like the Nazis claiming a "right to defend themselves " from the Warsaw ghetto uprising. There's no "war". That they're the occupiers means the "war" part is long over. Those people are actually supposed to be under the occupier's protection. That partition was forced upon the Palestinian majority, against their will ... that the Zionist portion still had to be forcefully ethnically cleansed of its non-Jewish majority, against their will ... that the millions of occupied Palestinians don't have a say in the government that truly rules over them, Israel's ... means Israel is about as democratic as Nazi Germany after Hitler purged his political opponents and then held elections.
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  58.  @keithmellon7592  That's like blaming both sides for the colonization of North America. Sometimes both sides-ing isn't rational.
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  59. And after about 40 yrs old, the odds of her getting pregnant drop drastically. I guess they'll stop then, or will he trade her in for a new model?
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  60. Jimmy's "punch up" philosophy tends to punch those closest to his position, first, and the most, as he's punching up.
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  61.  @werihfbwl  Let's be honest, "here" everyone knows who Sam is, because it's his comment section.
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  62. We'll now need to debunk the myth that we haven't had WWII, yet, thanks to Trump.
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  63. Taught her how to grift.
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  64. ​ @battlefield5826  He has promoted uselessly voting third party, or letting Trump win, since 2016. How does that benefit anyone, including Palestinians?
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  65.  @alabamaman9476  Your point was that progressives actually have evidence of Boogaloos being charged for inciting riots and plotting terrorism, at BLM rallies, while Republicans don't have any evidence, as usual?
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  66. But Trump, in the highest position of government, himself threatening to fire people, and actually firing people, if they said things he didn't like ... totally okay.
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  67. 1850s CNN ... Jayapal: "The US has been colonizing and ethnic cleansing the Native Americans, for about 250 years, and ..." Bash: "But do you condemn Cochise?!"
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  68. Obama did a bunch of things wrong, but Trump winning 2016 was the DNC's and Hillary's fault. Trump won with one of the lowest percentages of the vote in US history. He lost millions of Republican voters to the Libertarians. She lost to one of the most pathetic campaigns ever.
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  69. One of the saddest songs ever.
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  70. ​ @matt4887  Someone moving in next door to you isn't replacing you. Someone who lands on your shores and either kicks you off your land, or kills you, is replacing you.
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  71. For such a fan of "underrated" actor, Jimmy Stewart, Ben seems to have not seen the numerous serious rolls Jimmy has played.
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  72.  @mikebanks2176  I doubt it lady.
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  73. ​ @Elemenopi205  He has a proclivity towards incoherence and grifting.
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  74. "This land is your land, and this land is my land From California to the New York island From the Redwood Forest to the Gulf Stream waters This land was made for you and me" Terror!!!!
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  75.  @SSGTA440  A performance art vote isn't actually M4A. Jimmy slanders people who have done more for M4A in a few years than he has in his entire lifetime.
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  76.  @Evirthewarrior  Fact is he slanders the DSA and members of it. Fact is he slanders people who have done more for M4A in a few years than he has in his entire lifetime. Fact is he didn't give a crap if 10m of the poorest Americans were tossed off Medicaid expansion, and didn't care to try and add 40m older Americans to Medicare expansion, when he promoted Trump as a better option than Clinton. Fact is he didn't back the 2020 M4A candidate. Fact is the third party route hasn't won the most popular third party a single seat in congress in its near 50 year existence. Fact is, at best, you peel away enough progressive votes from the Democratic party to hand the party totally back to corporate Dems and let Republicans rule for decades to come. Fact is he's a complete ignoramus, to be shocked and surprised that ancappers agree on some non authoritarian policies, at his age, and a complete moron to suggest far right ancap Boogaloos, who disagree on basically all economic issues, as potential allies. Fact is he doesn't grasp the basic math behind political leverage.
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  77.  @mikebanks2176  You are.
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  78.  @MrNH718  Dore has spent weeks using FTV as a purity test, and then turns around and claims Libertarian Boogs can be allies, as is. I think that's the hypocrisy you were looking for.
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  79. Likud's bloody 100 year history ... In 1923, 100 years ago, Ze'ev Jabotinsky wrote, The Iron Wall, and a follow up, The Ethics of The Iron Wall (sooo racist towards Africans), in which he fully acknowledged that post Balfour Zionsim was colonialism, and that, based on the entirety of history, the native Palestinian population would resist being colonized until the bitter end. He directly compared it to the colonization of North America. He promoted doing it anyway, claiming Zionist colonialism was a "just" colonialism (he also thought North American colonialists were good guys, so not a great judge of morality), not caring what that meant for the native population. Ze'ev is important, because his Betar militant youth group helped found the Irgun terrorist group, along with other supporters of his, and the splinter Lehi terrorist group. The Irgun bombed numerous Palestinian markets and other public places, murdering many Palestinian civilians, including children, even including Palestinian Jews (who didn't support colonialist Zionsim). The Irgun are important, because they ended up being led by future Likud PM, Menachem Begin, who bombed the King David Hotel. The King David Hotel was bombed because the British had raided the Jewish Agency and seized numerous documents that may have shown that the terrorists were working with the JA and Haganah (JA liked to pretend that they didn't support the terrorism). The British then stored those documents at their base, in the hotel. That the Irgun terrorists responded to a JA raid, itself seems to prove the connection. That the thousands of Irgun (and Lehi) terrorists were also quickly merged into the new nation's military (IDF) and intelligence (Mossad) agencies, and are still celebrated as "heroes" by Israelis, to this day, also seems to support total collaboration between the groups. That other terrorist group mentioned, Lehi (also known as the Stern Gang), was considered even more extreme. They even tried to ally with the Nazis, against the British. Lehi ended up being led by Yitzhak Shamir, future Mossad agent, and another future Likud PM. They assassinated Lord Moyne, and others. In 1945, there was a major land and peoples survey done in Palestine. It showed that the Zionists only owned about 5% of the total land, 20% of the arable land, and owned a majority in zero districts. The partition was not only going to be forced on the native Palestinian majority, but Jews were still going to be a minority, in the part allocated to them. The only possible way to even become a "Jewish state" was going to require getting rid of the actual majority (at least enough so that there'd be a solid Jewish majority, so they could fake being democratic). This is also shown by the 1948, post Nakba, population of Israel. If there was 716,700 Jews, 156,000+ non-Jews, and approximately 700k non-Jews ethnically cleansed, that means the Jewish population, in the Zionist portion of partition, was originally over 100,000 less than the non-Jewish population. To believe that there was never any intent, by Zionists, to ethnically cleanse away the Palestinian majority would require believing that they never intended to create a "Jewish state". It's a nonsensical notion. Begin, and those terrorist groups, also opposed partition, but for the opposite reason Palestinians did. Palestinians didn't want to be colonized, at all. The terrorists wanted to colonize it all. "Moderate" Zionists were okay with colonizing half ... for now (what would happen in the future, after partition, was up to them, said Ben-Gurion). The Zionist terrorists were also involved in massacres, and assassinations, during the partition violence (colonialist war against the natives). Another notable future Likud PM, also started in the military, during the partition fighting. That was Ariel Sharon, war criminal, "Butcher of Beirut". Menachem Begin, and these other Zionist terrorists, are important because they became involved in Israeli politics, first forming Herut. That was the party that Albert Einstein, and other prominent American Jews, opposed, having a letter printed in the NYT, in December of 1948, when Begin came to visit the US. The letter opened ... "Among the most disturbing political phenomena of our times is the emergence in the newly created state of Israel of the "Freedom Party" (Tnuat Haherut), a political party closely akin in its organization, methods, political philosophy and social appeal to the Nazi and Fascist parties. It was formed out of the membership and following of the former Irgun Zvai Leumi, a terrorist, right-wing, chauvinist organization in Palestine." Herut merged with other extremist parties, over the years, and eventually became Likud, in the 70s. Now, people get upset over the slogan "From the river to the sea!", but it's the second part that's most important, "Palestine will be free!". Because "Palestine" isn't defined as an ethno-state, a free Palestine can be a single state, free for all to live in, and return to, free of continuing colonization, free of occupation, free of oppression, etc. Just like a Germany free of Nazism, an Italy free of fascism, a South Africa free of apartheid, or an America free of slavery from sea to shiny sea. It doesn't necessitate purging all the Jews. It just necessitates them giving up on the idea of an ethno-state. On the other hand, because "Israel" has been defined as an ethno-state, Likud's, "between the sea and the Jordan there will only be Israeli sovereignty", has no possible good interpretation. It is a declaration of intent to completely colonize, and ethnically cleanse, all Palestine territories. Not only that, but it also claims that they have a "right" to all of the "Land of Israel" (biblical borders that don't mesh with archaeological reality), which is an open declaration of future wars, against Jordan, Syria, Lebanon, and possibly even Iraq. Likud platform ... 1977: "The Right of the Jewish People to the Land of Israel (Eretz Israel) a. The right of the Jewish people to the land of Israel is eternal and indisputable and is linked with the right to security and peace; therefore, Judea and Samaria will not be handed to any foreign administration; between the Sea and the Jordan there will only be Israeli sovereignty. b. A plan which relinquishes parts of western Eretz Israel, undermines our right to the country, unavoidably leads to the establishment of a "Palestinian State," jeopardizes the security of the Jewish population, endangers the existence of the State of Israel. and frustrates any prospect of peace." "Settlement Settlement. both urban and rural. in all parts of the Land of Israel is the focal point of the Zionist effort to redeem the country, to maintain vital security areas and serves as a reservoir of strength and inspiration for the renewal of the pioneering spirit. The Likud government will call on the younger generation in Israel and the dispersions to settle and help every group and individual in the task of inhabiting and cultivating the wasteland, while taking care not to dispossess anyone." 1999: "The Government of Israel flatly rejects the establishment of a Palestinian Arab state west of the Jordan river. The Palestinians can run their lives freely in the framework of self-rule, but not as an independent and sovereign state. Thus, for example, in matters of foreign affairs, security, immigration, and ecology, their activity shall be limited in accordance with imperatives of Israel's existence, security and national needs." "The Jewish communities in Judea, Samaria, and Gaza are the realization of Zionist values. Settlement of the land is a clear expression of the unassailable right of the Jewish people to the Land of Israel and constitutes an important asset in the defense of the vital interests of the State of Israel. The Likud will continue to strengthen and develop these communities and will prevent their uprooting." All Palestine territories are officially considered occupied, by the International Court of Justice, the UN GA, the UN SC, and even in official documents of Israel's own allies. Likud is still using the blueprint for colonizing North America, in the West Bank. Move settlements out into native territory, piss off the natives, the natives retaliate, cry about poor "innocent" colonizing settlers being the "victims" of violent "Savages!", call in the cavalry to put down the native uprising, and eventually expand the borders to include those settlements. Rinse and repeat. In Gaza, Israel is operating an open air WWII style fascist ghetto. Them claiming a "right to defend themselves" would be like the Nazis claiming a "right to defend themselves " from the Warsaw ghetto uprising. There's no "war". That they're the occupiers means the "war" part is long over. Those people are actually supposed to be under the occupier's protection. That partition was forced upon the Palestinian majority, against their will ... that the Zionist portion still had to be forcefully ethnically cleansed of its non-Jewish majority, against their will ... that the millions of occupied Palestinians don't have a say in the government that truly rules over them, Israel's ... means Israel is about as democratic as Nazi Germany after Hitler purged his political opponents and then held elections.
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  80.  @ribbrascal  Were people whining about JLo as a boxer (with a cup), and I missed it?
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  81.  @noosphericaltarzan  That's like blaming the Jewish underground for attacking from the Warsaw ghetto.
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  82. Rofl ... My second attempt at replying ... Same. The algorithm has been hiding many of my posts, the past 6 months (can only be seen if the comment section is sorted by newest). And a few times, after posting to pro-IL (edited) channels, I haven't been able to post anything for a couple's days. Instant deleting. One of them must have reported, or something, because they don't like facts.
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  83.  @Evirthewarrior  Rofl. He pretty much just goes on and agrees with a bunch of right wing crap.
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  84. ​ @lawrence208  What if she does? XYs with Swyer Syndrome are born with female parts, can have monthlies, and can even give birth. Are you then going to agree there needs to be fem products in men's rooms and that men can give birth?
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  85.  @MRTN13  Hehe, I love RPGs, but most are ancap madness, when it comes to economics. "Please save our village hero!", "Oh, you need a magic sword?", "That'll be 1000000 gp."
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  86. ​ @Steamandstream  In this modern age, thinking colonialism is still cool, is the radical ideology. Do you celebrate the Irgun and Lehi terrorists as "heroes", as Likud still does (those terrorists founded Likud)?
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  87. The biggest failure, when it came to Yang, was American interviewers not looking into how a VAT actually works. He got away with repeatedly claiming it was a way to tax giant corporations, like Amazon. A VAT is actually specifically designed to not tax businesses, in order to avoid cascading taxes upon taxes. At every stage, the business gets to reclaim its input VAT (VAT paid on purchases), from its output VAT (VAT collected on sales). It's only the final consumer that doesn't get to reclaim their VAT paid, and ends up paying the entire tax. His VAT/UBI combo would have had money funneling to the very top, faster than ever before. Since corporations wouldn't actually pay into the UBI, as he claimed, they would have only benefitted from extra trillions being spent, making a corporation like Amazon extra tens of billions a year, and Bezos extra billions a year.
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  88. Which was itself the new "Iraqis are tossing babies out of incubators, we have a witness" (turned out to be the Kuwaiti ambassador's daughter, spewing a script from a pr firm)
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  89.  @mikebanks2176  I'm not confused. I can call you whatever I want, right, regardless of how you identify?
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  90. "As of 2021, he is managing director for the American venture capital firm Thiel Capital."
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  91. There's a difference between pointing at evidence of actual voting laws that restrict, hinder, or disenfranchise, voters vs pointing at non existent evidence of widespread voter fraud, isn't there?
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  92. Cmmnst Texas is currently suing Cal-Maine for price gouging.
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  93.  Illhan Omar's Brother  Only a complete and utter moron would believe a fed would go undercover running around football stadium parking lots, for years.
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  94. Likud's bloody 100 year history ... In 1923, 100 years ago, Ze'ev Jabotinsky wrote, The Iron Wall, and a follow up, The Ethics of The Iron Wall (sooo racist towards Africans), in which he fully acknowledged that post Balfour Zionsim was colonialism, and that, based on the entirety of history, the native Palestinian population would resist being colonized until the bitter end. He directly compared it to the colonization of North America. He promoted doing it anyway, claiming Zionist colonialism was a "just" colonialism (he also thought North American colonialists were good guys, so not a great judge of morality), not caring what that meant for the native population. Ze'ev is important, because his Betar militant youth group helped found the Irgun terrorist group, along with other supporters of his, and the splinter Lehi terrorist group. The Irgun bombed numerous Palestinian markets and other public places, murdering many Palestinian civilians, including children, even including Palestinian Jews (who didn't support colonialist Zionsim). The Irgun are important, because they ended up being led by future Likud PM, Menachem Begin, who bombed the King David Hotel. The King David Hotel was bombed because the British had raided the Jewish Agency and seized numerous documents that may have shown that the terrorists were working with the JA and Haganah (JA liked to pretend that they didn't support the terrorism). The British then stored those documents at their base, in the hotel. That the Irgun terrorists responded to a JA raid, itself seems to prove the connection. That the thousands of Irgun (and Lehi) terrorists were also quickly merged into the new nation's military (IDF) and intelligence (Mossad) agencies, and are still celebrated as "heroes" by Israelis, to this day, also seems to support total collaboration between the groups. That other terrorist group mentioned, Lehi (also known as the Stern Gang), was considered even more extreme. They even tried to ally with the Nazis, against the British. Lehi ended up being led by Yitzhak Shamir, future Mossad agent, and another future Likud PM. They assassinated Lord Moyne, and others. In 1945, there was a major land and peoples survey done in Palestine. It showed that the Zionists only owned about 5% of the total land, 20% of the arable land, and owned a majority in zero districts. The partition was not only going to be forced on the native Palestinian majority, but Jews were still going to be a minority, in the part allocated to them. The only possible way to even become a "Jewish state" was going to require getting rid of the actual majority (at least enough so that there'd be a solid Jewish majority, so they could fake being democratic). This is also shown by the 1948, post Nakba, population of Israel. If there was 716,700 Jews, 156,000+ non-Jews, and approximately 700k non-Jews ethnically cleansed, that means the Jewish population, in the Zionist portion of partition, was originally over 100,000 less than the non-Jewish population. To believe that there was never any intent, by Zionists, to ethnically cleanse away the Palestinian majority would require believing that they never intended to create a "Jewish state". It's a nonsensical notion. Begin, and those terrorist groups, also opposed partition, but for the opposite reason Palestinians did. Palestinians didn't want to be colonized, at all. The terrorists wanted to colonize it all. "Moderate" Zionists were okay with colonizing half ... for now (what would happen in the future, after partition, was up to them, said Ben-Gurion). The Zionist terrorists were also involved in massacres, and assassinations, during the partition violence (colonialist war against the natives). Another notable future Likud PM, also started in the military, during the partition fighting. That was Ariel Sharon, war criminal, "Butcher of Beirut". Menachem Begin, and these other Zionist terrorists, are important because they became involved in Israeli politics, first forming Herut. That was the party that Albert Einstein, and other prominent American Jews, opposed, having a letter printed in the NYT, in December of 1948, when Begin came to visit the US. The letter opened ... "Among the most disturbing political phenomena of our times is the emergence in the newly created state of Israel of the "Freedom Party" (Tnuat Haherut), a political party closely akin in its organization, methods, political philosophy and social appeal to the Nazi and Fascist parties. It was formed out of the membership and following of the former Irgun Zvai Leumi, a terrorist, right-wing, chauvinist organization in Palestine." Herut merged with other extremist parties, over the years, and eventually became Likud, in the 70s. Now, people get upset over the slogan "From the river to the sea!", but it's the second part that's most important, "Palestine will be free!". Because "Palestine" isn't defined as an ethno-state, a free Palestine can be a single state, free for all to live in, and return to, free of continuing colonization, free of occupation, free of oppression, etc. Just like a Germany free of Nazism, an Italy free of fascism, a South Africa free of apartheid, or an America free of slavery from sea to shiny sea. It doesn't necessitate purging all the Jews. It just necessitates them giving up on the idea of an ethno-state. On the other hand, because "Israel" has been defined as an ethno-state, Likud's, "between the sea and the Jordan there will only be Israeli sovereignty", has no possible good interpretation. It is a declaration of intent to completely colonize, and ethnically cleanse, all Palestine territories. Not only that, but it also claims that they have a "right" to all of the "Land of Israel" (biblical borders that don't mesh with archaeological reality), which is an open declaration of future wars, against Jordan, Syria, Lebanon, and possibly even Iraq. Likud platform ... 1977: "The Right of the Jewish People to the Land of Israel (Eretz Israel) a. The right of the Jewish people to the land of Israel is eternal and indisputable and is linked with the right to security and peace; therefore, Judea and Samaria will not be handed to any foreign administration; between the Sea and the Jordan there will only be Israeli sovereignty. b. A plan which relinquishes parts of western Eretz Israel, undermines our right to the country, unavoidably leads to the establishment of a "Palestinian State," jeopardizes the security of the Jewish population, endangers the existence of the State of Israel. and frustrates any prospect of peace." "Settlement Settlement. both urban and rural. in all parts of the Land of Israel is the focal point of the Zionist effort to redeem the country, to maintain vital security areas and serves as a reservoir of strength and inspiration for the renewal of the pioneering spirit. The Likud government will call on the younger generation in Israel and the dispersions to settle and help every group and individual in the task of inhabiting and cultivating the wasteland, while taking care not to dispossess anyone." 1999: "The Government of Israel flatly rejects the establishment of a Palestinian Arab state west of the Jordan river. The Palestinians can run their lives freely in the framework of self-rule, but not as an independent and sovereign state. Thus, for example, in matters of foreign affairs, security, immigration, and ecology, their activity shall be limited in accordance with imperatives of Israel's existence, security and national needs." "The Jewish communities in Judea, Samaria, and Gaza are the realization of Zionist values. Settlement of the land is a clear expression of the unassailable right of the Jewish people to the Land of Israel and constitutes an important asset in the defense of the vital interests of the State of Israel. The Likud will continue to strengthen and develop these communities and will prevent their uprooting." All Palestine territories are officially considered occupied, by the International Court of Justice, the UN GA, the UN SC, and even in official documents of Israel's own allies. Likud is still using the blueprint for colonizing North America, in the West Bank. Move settlements out into native territory, piss off the natives, the natives retaliate, cry about poor "innocent" colonizing settlers being the "victims" of violent "Savages!", call in the cavalry to put down the native uprising, and eventually expand the borders to include those settlements. Rinse and repeat. In Gaza, Israel is operating an open air WWII style fascist ghetto. Them claiming a "right to defend themselves" would be like the Nazis claiming a "right to defend themselves " from the Warsaw ghetto uprising. There's no "war". That they're the occupiers means the "war" part is long over. Those people are actually supposed to be under the occupier's protection. That partition was forced upon the Palestinian majority, against their will ... that the Zionist portion still had to be forcefully ethnically cleansed of its non-Jewish majority, against their will ... that the millions of occupied Palestinians don't have a say in the government that truly rules over them, Israel's ... means Israel is about as democratic as Nazi Germany after Hitler purged his political opponents and then held elections.
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  95.  @DdraigGoch84  Rofl. Why would you think that?
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  96. ​ @teranmm  Even though it's legal in Colorado, it doesn't quite fit with the Republican image.
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  97.  @sgtwrench69  What was it Jimmy "blew up"? Some stupid Steele dossier, that intelligence agencies, and the Mueller investigation, decided themselves wasn't reliable, and didn't base their investigations on? Multiple intelligence agencies, the house intelligence committee, the senate intelligence committee, and the Mueller investigation, all concluded Russia had interfered. Mueller indicted 19 Russians, and 3 Russian companies. The FBI, under Trump, said they were interfering again, in 2020. The Mueller report included some 200 pages outlining information sharing (collusion, which isn't a legal term) that didn't amount to criminal conspiracy, and stated Manafort, Kushner, and Jr, weren't charged with criminal conspiracy because it would be hard to prove they "willfully" broke the law, not because they didn't break the law. None of that has been debunked. They just couldn't get a supermajority, in the senate, to act on it.
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  98. Especially considering a large percentage of Latin Americans have native ancestry. Weird even calling them "immigrants".
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  99. Likud's bloody 100 year history ... In 1923, 100 years ago, Ze'ev Jabotinsky wrote, The Iron Wall, and a follow up, The Ethics of The Iron Wall (sooo racist towards Africans), in which he fully acknowledged that post Balfour Zionsim was colonialism, and that, based on the entirety of history, the native Palestinian population would resist being colonized until the bitter end. He directly compared it to the colonization of North America. He promoted doing it anyway, claiming Zionist colonialism was a "just" colonialism (he also thought North American colonialists were good guys, so not a great judge of morality), not caring what that meant for the native population. Ze'ev is important, because his Betar militant youth group helped found the Irgun terrorist group, along with other supporters of his, and the splinter Lehi terrorist group. The Irgun bombed numerous Palestinian markets and other public places, murdering many Palestinian civilians, including children, even including Palestinian Jews (who didn't support colonialist Zionsim). The Irgun are important, because they ended up being led by future Likud PM, Menachem Begin, who bombed the King David Hotel. The King David Hotel was bombed because the British had raided the Jewish Agency and seized numerous documents that may have shown that the terrorists were working with the JA and Haganah (JA liked to pretend that they didn't support the terrorism). The British then stored those documents at their base, in the hotel. That the Irgun terrorists responded to a JA raid, itself seems to prove the connection. That the thousands of Irgun (and Lehi) terrorists were also quickly merged into the new nation's military (IDF) and intelligence (Mossad) agencies, and are still celebrated as "heroes" by Israelis, to this day, also seems to support total collaboration between the groups. That other terrorist group mentioned, Lehi (also known as the Stern Gang), was considered even more extreme. They even tried to ally with the Nazis, against the British. Lehi ended up being led by Yitzhak Shamir, future Mossad agent, and another future Likud PM. They assassinated Lord Moyne, and others. In 1945, there was a major land and peoples survey done in Palestine. It showed that the Zionists only owned about 5% of the total land, 20% of the arable land, and owned a majority in zero districts. The partition was not only going to be forced on the native Palestinian majority, but Jews were still going to be a minority, in the part allocated to them. The only possible way to even become a "Jewish state" was going to require getting rid of the actual majority (at least enough so that there'd be a solid Jewish majority, so they could fake being democratic). This is also shown by the 1948, post Nakba, population of Israel. If there was 716,700 Jews, 156,000+ non-Jews, and approximately 700k non-Jews ethnically cleansed, that means the Jewish population, in the Zionist portion of partition, was originally over 100,000 less than the non-Jewish population. To believe that there was never any intent, by Zionists, to ethnically cleanse away the Palestinian majority would require believing that they never intended to create a "Jewish state". It's a nonsensical notion. Begin, and those terrorist groups, also opposed partition, but for the opposite reason Palestinians did. Palestinians didn't want to be colonized, at all. The terrorists wanted to colonize it all. "Moderate" Zionists were okay with colonizing half ... for now (what would happen in the future, after partition, was up to them, said Ben-Gurion). The Zionist terrorists were also involved in massacres, and assassinations, during the partition violence (colonialist war against the natives). Another notable future Likud PM, also started in the military, during the partition fighting. That was Ariel Sharon, war criminal, "Butcher of Beirut". Menachem Begin, and these other Zionist terrorists, are important because they became involved in Israeli politics, first forming Herut. That was the party that Albert Einstein, and other prominent American Jews, opposed, having a letter printed in the NYT, in December of 1948, when Begin came to visit the US. The letter opened ... "Among the most disturbing political phenomena of our times is the emergence in the newly created state of Israel of the "Freedom Party" (Tnuat Haherut), a political party closely akin in its organization, methods, political philosophy and social appeal to the Nazi and Fascist parties. It was formed out of the membership and following of the former Irgun Zvai Leumi, a terrorist, right-wing, chauvinist organization in Palestine." Herut merged with other extremist parties, over the years, and eventually became Likud, in the 70s. Now, people get upset over the slogan "From the river to the sea!", but it's the second part that's most important, "Palestine will be free!". Because "Palestine" isn't defined as an ethno-state, a free Palestine can be a single state, free for all to live in, and return to, free of continuing colonization, free of occupation, free of oppression, etc. Just like a Germany free of Nazism, an Italy free of fascism, a South Africa free of apartheid, or an America free of slavery from sea to shiny sea. It doesn't necessitate purging all the Jews. It just necessitates them giving up on the idea of an ethno-state. On the other hand, because "Israel" has been defined as an ethno-state, Likud's, "between the sea and the Jordan there will only be Israeli sovereignty", has no possible good interpretation. It is a declaration of intent to completely colonize, and ethnically cleanse, all Palestine territories. Not only that, but it also claims that they have a "right" to all of the "Land of Israel" (biblical borders that don't mesh with archaeological reality), which is an open declaration of future wars, against Jordan, Syria, Lebanon, and possibly even Iraq. Likud platform ... 1977: "The Right of the Jewish People to the Land of Israel (Eretz Israel) a. The right of the Jewish people to the land of Israel is eternal and indisputable and is linked with the right to security and peace; therefore, Judea and Samaria will not be handed to any foreign administration; between the Sea and the Jordan there will only be Israeli sovereignty. b. A plan which relinquishes parts of western Eretz Israel, undermines our right to the country, unavoidably leads to the establishment of a "Palestinian State," jeopardizes the security of the Jewish population, endangers the existence of the State of Israel. and frustrates any prospect of peace." 1999: "The Government of Israel flatly rejects the establishment of a Palestinian Arab state west of the Jordan river. The Palestinians can run their lives freely in the framework of self-rule, but not as an independent and sovereign state. Thus, for example, in matters of foreign affairs, security, immigration, and ecology, their activity shall be limited in accordance with imperatives of Israel's existence, security and national needs." "The Jewish communities in Judea, Samaria, and Gaza are the realization of Zionist values. Settlement of the land is a clear expression of the unassailable right of the Jewish people to the Land of Israel and constitutes an important asset in the defense of the vital interests of the State of Israel. The Likud will continue to strengthen and develop these communities and will prevent their uprooting." All Palestine territories are officially considered occupied, by the International Court of Justice, the UN GA, the UN SC, and even in official documents of Israel's own allies. Likud is still using the blueprint for colonizing North America, in the West Bank. Move settlements out into native territory, piss off the natives, the natives retaliate, cry about poor "innocent" colonizing settlers being the "victims" of violent "Savages!", call in the cavalry to put down the native uprising, and eventually expand the borders to include those settlements. Rinse and repeat. In Gaza, Israel is operating an open air WWII style fascist ghetto. Them claiming a "right to defend themselves" would be like the Nazis claiming a "right to defend themselves " from the Warsaw ghetto uprising. There's no "war". That they're the occupiers means the "war" part is long over. Those people are actually supposed to be under the occupier's protection. That partition was forced upon the Palestinian majority, against their will ... that the Zionist portion still had to be forcefully ethnically cleansed of its non-Jewish majority, against their will ... that the millions of occupied Palestinians don't have a say in the government that truly rules over them, Israel's ... means Israel is about as democratic as Nazi Germany after Hitler purged his political opponents and then held elections.
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  100. ​ @andyd568  What's "nonsense" about it? The early Znsts didn't shy away from acknowledging they were clnzrs. Read Ze'ev Jabotinsky's The Iron Wall, 1923.
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  101. ​ @rs72098  Jesus supposedly transitioned from being a sexless spirit being into a human male, and then transitioned back again. Adam transitioned from being sexless dust. Eve transitioned from being a male rib. So, what's the problem?
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  102. ​ @MrDandaman2000  If you're operating an open air WWII style fascist ghetto, and flattening it after an uprising, then its a fine comparison.
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  103. How is speaking your mind about traditional marriage "free speech" but speaking your mind about bigotry not "free speech"?
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  104. Isn't a "class war" and "left right war" the same thing? Authoritarian capitalists (fascists) argued against the class struggle. Libertarian capitalists, want to free capitalism, have no government interference with redistribution of wealth, no government safety nets, no minimum wages, etc. Where's the actual class warfare on the right?
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  105. What "both sides"? The corporate Dem side and the progressive side? He's an idiot, and most of his crap against progressives is just bullshit.
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  106.  @philmitchell91  You're delusional.
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  107. The right place to visit is some bushes in Ted's backyard.
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  108.  @highvolumepls  This is a condensed 100 years.
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  109. Likud's bloody 100 year history ... In 1923, 100 years ago, Ze'ev Jabotinsky wrote, The Iron Wall, and a follow up, The Ethics of The Iron Wall (sooo racist towards Africans), in which he fully acknowledged that post Balfour Zionsim was colonialism, and that, based on the entirety of history, the native Palestinian population would resist being colonized until the bitter end. He directly compared it to the colonization of North America. He promoted doing it anyway, claiming Zionist colonialism was a "just" colonialism (he also thought North American colonialists were good guys, so not a great judge of morality), not caring what that meant for the native population. Ze'ev is important, because his Betar militant youth group helped found the Irgun terrorist group, along with other supporters of his, and the splinter Lehi terrorist group. The Irgun bombed numerous Palestinian markets and other public places, murdering many Palestinian civilians, including children, even including Palestinian Jews (who didn't support colonialist Zionsim). The Irgun are important, because they ended up being led by future Likud PM, Menachem Begin, who bombed the King David Hotel. The King David Hotel was bombed because the British had raided the Jewish Agency and seized numerous documents that may have shown that the terrorists were working with the JA and Haganah (JA liked to pretend that they didn't support the terrorism). The British then stored those documents at their base, in the hotel. That the Irgun terrorists responded to a JA raid, itself seems to prove the connection. That the thousands of Irgun (and Lehi) terrorists were also quickly merged into the new nation's military (IDF) and intelligence (Mossad) agencies, and are still celebrated as "heroes" by Israelis, to this day, also seems to support total collaboration between the groups. That other terrorist group mentioned, Lehi (also known as the Stern Gang), was considered even more extreme. They even tried to ally with the Nazis, against the British. Lehi ended up being led by Yitzhak Shamir, future Mossad agent, and another future Likud PM. They assassinated Lord Moyne, and others. In 1945, there was a major land and peoples survey done in Palestine. It showed that the Zionists only owned about 5% of the total land, 20% of the arable land, and owned a majority in zero districts. The partition was not only going to be forced on the native Palestinian majority, but Jews were still going to be a minority, in the part allocated to them. The only possible way to even become a "Jewish state" was going to require getting rid of the actual majority (at least enough so that there'd be a solid Jewish majority, so they could fake being democratic). This is also shown by the 1948, post Nakba, population of Israel. If there was 716,700 Jews, 156,000+ non-Jews, and approximately 700k non-Jews ethnically cleansed, that means the Jewish population, in the Zionist portion of partition, was originally over 100,000 less than the non-Jewish population. To believe that there was never any intent, by Zionists, to ethnically cleanse away the Palestinian majority would require believing that they never intended to create a "Jewish state". It's a nonsensical notion. Begin, and those terrorist groups, also opposed partition, but for the opposite reason Palestinians did. Palestinians didn't want to be colonized, at all. The terrorists wanted to colonize it all. "Moderate" Zionists were okay with colonizing half ... for now (what would happen in the future, after partition, was up to them, said Ben-Gurion). The Zionist terrorists were also involved in massacres, and assassinations, during the partition violence (colonialist war against the natives). Another notable future Likud PM, also started in the military, during the partition fighting. That was Ariel Sharon, war criminal, "Butcher of Beirut". Menachem Begin, and these other Zionist terrorists, are important because they became involved in Israeli politics, first forming Herut. That was the party that Albert Einstein, and other prominent American Jews, opposed, having a letter printed in the NYT, in December of 1948, when Begin came to visit the US. The letter opened ... "Among the most disturbing political phenomena of our times is the emergence in the newly created state of Israel of the "Freedom Party" (Tnuat Haherut), a political party closely akin in its organization, methods, political philosophy and social appeal to the Nazi and Fascist parties. It was formed out of the membership and following of the former Irgun Zvai Leumi, a terrorist, right-wing, chauvinist organization in Palestine." Herut merged with other extremist parties, over the years, and eventually became Likud, in the 70s. Now, people get upset over the slogan "From the river to the sea!", but it's the second part that's most important, "Palestine will be free!". Because "Palestine" isn't defined as an ethno-state, a free Palestine can be a single state, free for all to live in, and return to, free of continuing colonization, free of occupation, free of oppression, etc. Just like a Germany free of Nazism, an Italy free of fascism, a South Africa free of apartheid, or an America free of slavery from sea to shiny sea. It doesn't necessitate purging all the Jews. It just necessitates them giving up on the idea of an ethno-state. On the other hand, because "Israel" has been defined as an ethno-state, Likud's, "between the sea and the Jordan there will only be Israeli sovereignty", has no possible good interpretation. It is a declaration of intent to completely colonize, and ethnically cleanse, all Palestine territories. Not only that, but it also claims that they have a "right" to all of the "Land of Israel" (biblical borders that don't mesh with archaeological reality), which is an open declaration of future wars, against Jordan, Syria, Lebanon, and possibly even Iraq. Likud platform ... 1977: "The Right of the Jewish People to the Land of Israel (Eretz Israel) a. The right of the Jewish people to the land of Israel is eternal and indisputable and is linked with the right to security and peace; therefore, Judea and Samaria will not be handed to any foreign administration; between the Sea and the Jordan there will only be Israeli sovereignty. b. A plan which relinquishes parts of western Eretz Israel, undermines our right to the country, unavoidably leads to the establishment of a "Palestinian State," jeopardizes the security of the Jewish population, endangers the existence of the State of Israel. and frustrates any prospect of peace." "Settlement Settlement. both urban and rural. in all parts of the Land of Israel is the focal point of the Zionist effort to redeem the country, to maintain vital security areas and serves as a reservoir of strength and inspiration for the renewal of the pioneering spirit. The Likud government will call on the younger generation in Israel and the dispersions to settle and help every group and individual in the task of inhabiting and cultivating the wasteland, while taking care not to dispossess anyone." 1999: "The Government of Israel flatly rejects the establishment of a Palestinian Arab state west of the Jordan river. The Palestinians can run their lives freely in the framework of self-rule, but not as an independent and sovereign state. Thus, for example, in matters of foreign affairs, security, immigration, and ecology, their activity shall be limited in accordance with imperatives of Israel's existence, security and national needs." "The Jewish communities in Judea, Samaria, and Gaza are the realization of Zionist values. Settlement of the land is a clear expression of the unassailable right of the Jewish people to the Land of Israel and constitutes an important asset in the defense of the vital interests of the State of Israel. The Likud will continue to strengthen and develop these communities and will prevent their uprooting." All Palestine territories are officially considered occupied, by the International Court of Justice, the UN GA, the UN SC, and even in official documents of Israel's own allies. Likud is still using the blueprint for colonizing North America, in the West Bank. Move settlements out into native territory, piss off the natives, the natives retaliate, cry about poor "innocent" colonizing settlers being the "victims" of violent "Savages!", call in the cavalry to put down the native uprising, and eventually expand the borders to include those settlements. Rinse and repeat. In Gaza, Israel is operating an open air WWII style fascist ghetto. Them claiming a "right to defend themselves" would be like the Nazis claiming a "right to defend themselves " from the Warsaw ghetto uprising. There's no "war". That they're the occupiers means the "war" part is long over. Those people are actually supposed to be under the occupier's protection. That partition was forced upon the Palestinian majority, against their will ... that the Zionist portion still had to be forcefully ethnically cleansed of its non-Jewish majority, against their will ... that the millions of occupied Palestinians don't have a say in the government that truly rules over them, Israel's ... means Israel is about as democratic as Nazi Germany after Hitler purged his political opponents and then held elections.
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  110. Some people claim fascism doesn't have an economic policy, but Mussolini literally defined it as the "complete opposite of Marxist socialism". Theoretically, you could have a "Christian nationalism" that's not the complete opposite of socialism, and just focuses on being Christian, not economics. But, they do tend to be right wing, as well.
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  111.  @ComradeCatpurrnicus  Not to mention that the vaccines have government negotiated prices, and are given out for free. That's a tiny slice of what M4A should be like, but he spreads all kinds of misinformation about covid and vaccines, plus doing his "big pharma" schtick, to make it seem like crap. He, and Max, also did a bullshit bit on myocarditis, and trashed the completely socialized UK healthcare system, while they were at it. And, Dore also peddled an unproven, more expensive, paid for out of pocket, vaccine alternative, on Rogan. The guy is selling the complete opposite of what he claims to be for.
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  112. His other video was called, "Are COVID death rates WILDLY inflated?". He cites a Gallup article, which very clearly states their hospitalization rates are based on the total population, 0.01% for the total vaccinated population, and 0.89% for the total unvaccinated population. Now, you'd think that maybe the unvaccinated being hospitalized at 89x the rate of the unvaccinated might be a big deal to talk about, but no. Jimmy claims to have looked for a comparable "death rate". The only comparable death rate, to total population hospitalization rates, is the covid crude mortality rate. That number is easy to find, all you have to do is take the deaths per million rate and move the decimal 4 spaces to the left, 0.27%. It's also easy to do the math yourself. Apparently, the crack Dore knob team wasn't capable of doing either. Instead, Jimmy says he couldn't find a "death rate" from the past year and a half, so uses one from a year and a half ago. The 3.4% he uses is clearly a case fatality rate, deaths per confirmed case. Aside from not being comparable to the total population hospitalization rates, a current case fatality rate is also easy to find, and also easy to work out the math yourself. Even using the wrong rate, the crack Dore knob team was too stupid to figure out the current one. So, he takes those incomparable rates, and since 3.4% is sooooo much higher than 0.89%, he makes out like covid deaths are being "WILDLY inflated". He's either completely ignorant, or completely dishonest, or both.
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  113. ​ @saagisharon8595  Who is "us"? You with Likud, founded by Irgun and Lehi trrrsts that Einstein likened to Fscsts and Nzs?
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  114. Code for ... Find the 1 in 100 dentists, doctors, or scientists, that are saying what you want to hear.
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  115.  Andrea MENDENHALL  Rofl. You prefer stupid, if it's more professional?
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  116. Why does it take a "massive investigation" if the perpetrator was caught in the act?
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  117.  @trevorchester4439  No.
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  118.  @headcrusher1966  Tell Jimmy to promote DSA (that AOC and Tlaib are members of) rallies for M4A. Try to increase support for it and put pressure on the the politicians opposed to it, rather than have a pointless vote and trash the politicians who have been supporting it for years.
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  119. ​ @CnCW453  Literally every other developed nation, with universal healthcare, has lower healthcare costs than the US. Layers and layers of for profit healthcare, is what raises costs.
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  120.  @bernlin2000  Better than Dore's right wing bargain bin.
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  121.  @waterandafter  You're missing the point. You're taking the equivalent roll of someone arguing how the electoral college works. Yes, we know how it works, but these same people were arguing against the electoral college, saying Hillary should have won with the popular vote. Now they're arguing against the popular vote.
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  122.  @bertthompson4748  Peterson rose to right wing fame by freaking out about the Canadian federal government adopting a policy that multiple provinces had already adopted years earlier, including the province he worked and lived in. From years of those policies being in effect, in multiple provinces, he had zero examples of what he fearmongered about. He's a wingnut.
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  123. It's because their grift doesn't actually play as well, and isn't as profitable, here at home. It's the opposite of the brain drain. It's the idiot drain.
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  124. He has the snake oil salesman schtick down pretty good. He'll say he supports the right things (he's selling you medicine), but then promotes taking paths that will never get you those things or get you the opposite (actually selling you useless garbage, or even something harmful).
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  125. Plenty of people were also right about Sam Harris.
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  126.  @PhilLesh69  Nobody, but you, is thinking "natural born citizen", refers to a medical procedure.
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  127.  @liamjones9115  How does constantly slandering those closest to your position, while ignoring those furthest from your position, enact change?
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  128. And that's how ancap devolves into feudalism.
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  129. It's also like saying Pootin is not a war criminal.
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  130.  @tilleryinnovations592  Rofl. That's not how the database works, Dore knob. They aren't "NIH studies". They are simply papers that have been published in various journals around the world. The NIH themselves have posted that there are no conclusive studies showing any benefit. No study that has shown ivermectin to be effective has actually passed peer review. The last big ivermectin "study" was pulled from its publication, because it was found to be completely fraudulent, with falsified data. Ivermectin is manufactured by the fifth largest pharma corporation in the world, and even they don't recommend it as a safe and effective covid remedy, even though it could make them billions, if it actually was.
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  131. ​​ @donald2665  Did she mention the part where she was paid to join Rumble, which is funded by MAGA donor by Peter Thiel?
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  132.  @bradleym.mcelroy139  Marxism isn't authoritarian communism. Why should they rail against it? The fact that he lumped it with fascism and Nazism means he's a complete and utter moron.
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  133.  Mari Jayne  You don't know what that word means.
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  134.  @Sugarman96  Dore knows what happened to himself, in 2016. Sam has kicked his ass before. Still waiting for the moon to fall into Lake Michigan.
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  135.  @ComradeCatpurrnicus  Some people don't seem to have a firm grasp on intent. But, revisionists have been openly declaring their intent, for over 100 years now. People should know that Likud has been, and still is, everything they claim Hms to be.
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  136.  @deanpappas8388  The algorithm takes a couple seconds. If you have the comment section sorted by Top, refresh the thread, and if your comment isn't there, then it's hidden (can now only be seen if the comment section is sorted by Newest). If you refind the thread, when sorted by Newest, and it's still not there, then it has been outright deleted.
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  137. Yes, he was deployed in the w on trrrsm. He's not the one who picked Italy. Retirees also don't get complete discharges. They get put on retirement reserve, until they're 60. From his retirement, up until his last birthday, if the military had desperately wanted him, they could have activated him anytime.
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  138. And yet, a fetus has no consciousness, and can't feel pain, until around 24 weeks. "Gruesome and painful" aren't a thing, without consciousness, or the ability to feel pain.
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  139. Likud's bloody 100 year history ... In 1923, 100 years ago, Ze'ev Jabotinsky wrote, The Iron Wall, and a follow up, The Ethics of The Iron Wall (sooo racist towards Africans), in which he fully acknowledged that post Balfour Zionsim was colonialism, and that, based on the entirety of history, the native Palestinian population would resist being colonized until the bitter end. He directly compared it to the colonization of North America. He promoted doing it anyway, claiming Zionist colonialism was a "just" colonialism (he also thought North American colonialists were good guys, so not a great judge of morality), not caring what that meant for the native population. Ze'ev is important, because his Betar militant youth group helped found the Irgun terrorist group, along with other supporters of his, and the splinter Lehi terrorist group. The Irgun bombed numerous Palestinian markets and other public places, murdering many Palestinian civilians, including children, even including Palestinian Jews (who didn't support colonialist Zionsim). The Irgun are important, because they ended up being led by future Likud PM, Menachem Begin, who bombed the King David Hotel. The King David Hotel was bombed because the British had raided the Jewish Agency and seized numerous documents that may have shown that the terrorists were working with the JA and Haganah (JA liked to pretend that they didn't support the terrorism). The British then stored those documents at their base, in the hotel. That the Irgun terrorists responded to a JA raid, itself seems to prove the connection. That the thousands of Irgun (and Lehi) terrorists were also quickly merged into the new nation's military (IDF) and intelligence (Mossad) agencies, and are still celebrated as "heroes" by Israelis, to this day, also seems to support total collaboration between the groups. That other terrorist group mentioned, Lehi (also known as the Stern Gang), was considered even more extreme. They even tried to ally with the Nazis, against the British. Lehi ended up being led by Yitzhak Shamir, future Mossad agent, and another future Likud PM. They assassinated Lord Moyne, and others. In 1945, there was a major land and peoples survey done in Palestine. It showed that the Zionists only owned about 5% of the total land, 20% of the arable land, and owned a majority in zero districts. The partition was not only going to be forced on the native Palestinian majority, but Jews were still going to be a minority, in the part allocated to them. The only possible way to even become a "Jewish state" was going to require getting rid of the actual majority (at least enough so that there'd be a solid Jewish majority, so they could fake being democratic). This is also shown by the 1948, post Nakba, population of Israel. If there was 716,700 Jews, 156,000+ non-Jews, and approximately 700k non-Jews ethnically cleansed, that means the Jewish population, in the Zionist portion of partition, was originally over 100,000 less than the non-Jewish population. To believe that there was never any intent, by Zionists, to ethnically cleanse away the Palestinian majority would require believing that they never intended to create a "Jewish state". It's a nonsensical notion. Begin, and those terrorist groups, also opposed partition, but for the opposite reason Palestinians did. Palestinians didn't want to be colonized, at all. The terrorists wanted to colonize it all. "Moderate" Zionists were okay with colonizing half ... for now (what would happen in the future, after partition, was up to them, said Ben-Gurion). The Zionist terrorists were also involved in massacres, and assassinations, during the partition violence (colonialist war against the natives). Another notable future Likud PM, also started in the military, during the partition fighting. That was Ariel Sharon, war criminal, "Butcher of Beirut". Menachem Begin, and these other Zionist terrorists, are important because they became involved in Israeli politics, first forming Herut. That was the party that Albert Einstein, and other prominent American Jews, opposed, having a letter printed in the NYT, in December of 1948, when Begin came to visit the US. The letter opened ... "Among the most disturbing political phenomena of our times is the emergence in the newly created state of Israel of the "Freedom Party" (Tnuat Haherut), a political party closely akin in its organization, methods, political philosophy and social appeal to the Nazi and Fascist parties. It was formed out of the membership and following of the former Irgun Zvai Leumi, a terrorist, right-wing, chauvinist organization in Palestine." Herut merged with other extremist parties, over the years, and eventually became Likud, in the 70s. Now, people get upset over the slogan "From the river to the sea!", but it's the second part that's most important, "Palestine will be free!". Because "Palestine" isn't defined as an ethno-state, a free Palestine can be a single state, free for all to live in, and return to, free of continuing colonization, free of occupation, free of oppression, etc. Just like a Germany free of Nazism, an Italy free of fascism, a South Africa free of apartheid, or an America free of slavery from sea to shiny sea. It doesn't necessitate purging all the Jews. It just necessitates them giving up on the idea of an ethno-state. On the other hand, because "Israel" has been defined as an ethno-state, Likud's, "between the sea and the Jordan there will only be Israeli sovereignty", has no possible good interpretation. It is a declaration of intent to completely colonize, and ethnically cleanse, all Palestine territories. Not only that, but it also claims that they have a "right" to all of the "Land of Israel" (biblical borders that don't mesh with archaeological reality), which is an open declaration of future wars, against Jordan, Syria, Lebanon, and possibly even Iraq. Likud platform ... 1977: "The Right of the Jewish People to the Land of Israel (Eretz Israel) a. The right of the Jewish people to the land of Israel is eternal and indisputable and is linked with the right to security and peace; therefore, Judea and Samaria will not be handed to any foreign administration; between the Sea and the Jordan there will only be Israeli sovereignty. b. A plan which relinquishes parts of western Eretz Israel, undermines our right to the country, unavoidably leads to the establishment of a "Palestinian State," jeopardizes the security of the Jewish population, endangers the existence of the State of Israel. and frustrates any prospect of peace." "Settlement Settlement. both urban and rural. in all parts of the Land of Israel is the focal point of the Zionist effort to redeem the country, to maintain vital security areas and serves as a reservoir of strength and inspiration for the renewal of the pioneering spirit. The Likud government will call on the younger generation in Israel and the dispersions to settle and help every group and individual in the task of inhabiting and cultivating the wasteland, while taking care not to dispossess anyone." 1999: "The Government of Israel flatly rejects the establishment of a Palestinian Arab state west of the Jordan river. The Palestinians can run their lives freely in the framework of self-rule, but not as an independent and sovereign state. Thus, for example, in matters of foreign affairs, security, immigration, and ecology, their activity shall be limited in accordance with imperatives of Israel's existence, security and national needs." "The Jewish communities in Judea, Samaria, and Gaza are the realization of Zionist values. Settlement of the land is a clear expression of the unassailable right of the Jewish people to the Land of Israel and constitutes an important asset in the defense of the vital interests of the State of Israel. The Likud will continue to strengthen and develop these communities and will prevent their uprooting." All Palestine territories are officially considered occupied, by the International Court of Justice, the UN GA, the UN SC, and even in official documents of Israel's own allies. Likud is still using the blueprint for colonizing North America, in the West Bank. Move settlements out into native territory, piss off the natives, the natives retaliate, cry about poor "innocent" colonizing settlers being the "victims" of violent "Savages!", call in the cavalry to put down the native uprising, and eventually expand the borders to include those settlements. Rinse and repeat. In Gaza, Israel is operating an open air WWII style fascist ghetto. Them claiming a "right to defend themselves" would be like the Nazis claiming a "right to defend themselves " from the Warsaw ghetto uprising. There's no "war". That they're the occupiers means the "war" part is long over. Those people are actually supposed to be under the occupier's protection. That partition was forced upon the Palestinian majority, against their will ... that the Zionist portion still had to be forcefully ethnically cleansed of its non-Jewish majority, against their will ... that the millions of occupied Palestinians don't have a say in the government that truly rules over them, Israel's ... means Israel is about as democratic as Nazi Germany after Hitler purged his political opponents and then held elections.
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  140. Even if the voice was AI modified, the guy did a great job with the improv.
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  141.  @joshuamccall8043  He played a role in Trump becoming the Republican nominee, but he wasn't the one who lost to an absolutely pathetic Republican showing. Trump got less of a percentage of the vote than Dubya. She ran a worse campaign than Gore.
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  142. Antifa somehow also got them to preplan and bring pipe bombs, flex cuffs, a working gallows, etc.?
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  143. How do luxury apartments at a superyacht marina help the black community, exactly?
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  144.  Alabama Man 2.0  Sure it is. You just pick something innocuous, like say CRT (which has been taught as a college legal theory for decades now, and which isn't taught in K-12), and you make a big political deal about it.
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  145. "Consistent antiimperialists" would be consistently attacking Trump for deciding to bomb Syria, instead of going on and on about an irrelevant UN report, that had absolutely nothing to do with anyone's decision to bomb Syria. Why try and defend Assad so hard, when it's possible to be both opposed to unilateral US interventions and acknowledge that Assad is a brutal dictator that has used chemical weapons?
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  146. ​ @barbiquearea  Would you rather live in the 100% privately owned and operated absolute monarchy, that is Saudi Arabia, 100% pure capitalism, or socialist Vietnam?
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  147.  @eriklunden5218  He did say the exponential growth part. I don't think they grasp that whatever growth there is in treatment will cap at however many people are affected, and believe that things will keep growing until everyone is gay and trans.
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  148.  @letsgobrandon9867  Crime and poverty go hand in hand, dumb dumb.
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  149.  @alabamaman9476  I said "Republicans", and they sure have.
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  150. "Centrist", only by American standards. In reality, Bernie is only slightly left of centre, promoting centrist European societies. The bulk of the Democratic politicians are right wing, and Republican politicians further right of them. If this guy is taking a position between Republicans and Democrats, then he's pretty right wing.
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  151.  Mari Jayne  Which isn't a thing.
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  152.  @nejc  When Dore promoted Trump as a better option than Clinton, he predicted it would result in a massive progressive backlash that would "for sure" lead to progressives taking the house (wrong), in 2018, the senate (wrong), in 2018, and the presidency (wrong), in 2020. He predicted that even Republicans would join the left in voting against a Trump agenda (wrong), instead of following him into all out fascism (wrong). And, in his debate with Sam, argued that Trump filling multiple scotus seats was as likely as the moon falling into Lake Michigan (wrong). He got nothing right. He has currently been blathering all kinds of incorrect nonsense about covid and vaccines. The guy is hardly ever right.
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  153. About the same stage of puberty, as well.
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  154.  @jdogdarkness  Things can be similar, but happen in different orders. This isn't Rvssia's first time in Ukrn. They've already done some gncdng (Hldmr). They've already done some ethnc clnsng (Tartars). They've already done some clnzng, repopulating places they depopulated, with Rvssns. They already did some Rvssiafication, frcng Ukrnns to speak Rvssian. Now, they've used the mere existence of Rvssian speakers, in Ukrn, people they previously put there, as justification for their return (like Htlr using Grmn speakers in Poland).
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  155. The only issue with bashing Justin, right now, is timing. I don't think Singh can gain enough of a following, by the next election, to win, and going back to Conservatives (who made that Saudi deal) is definitely worse.
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  156. She seems to have forgotten that he owns property outside NYC. Why can't he get another loan against his $1.8b Florida property?
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  157.  @jdowfleetwood  Whatabout that other person this video isn't about?!!?!!
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  158. If by "closely related", you mean "opposed to", sure.
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  159. ​ @user-op4ln2qj5p  It wasn't his "thoughts" making out like sticking a coin in a grocery cart was some new fangled thing? Which corporation did those "thoughts" belong to, and how did they make them come out of Tucker's mouth?
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  160. No clue how Harris got a philosophy degree, when he doesn't seem to grasp basics, like subjectivity and objectivity.
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  161. ​ @Gee-xb7rt  They aren't talking about lowercase "l" libertarianism, in general. They're talking about far right wing US Libertarianism/Objectivism (Any Rand), sometimes drifting into batshit crazy ancap land. Many on the Murican right, many Republicans, actually pretend to have Libertarian beliefs, and promote those beliefs, but are fascists, when push comes to shove.
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  162. ​ @Gee-xb7rt  And, there is nothing "perfectly good" about Libertarianism/Objectivism.
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  163. ​ @alexpkeaton4471  Which people should be. Israel has over 400k militant reservists, valid military targets, amongst their civilians, around 1 in 20 Israelis. Hamas probably has a better militant to civilian ratio than the IDF.
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  164. The number of Sam Harris fan(atic)s is astoundingly ironic.
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  165. He's used to being on stage in front of employees, and fanboys, that cheer everything he says.
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  166.  Alabama Man 2.0  Fascists ... totally known for wanting to vaccinate people with life saving medicine. There have been vaccine mandates, supported by both parties, for over a century, dimwit.
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  167. ​ @pro-choicemom  Netanyahu promoted, and helped fund, Hamas, to weaken the Palestinian Authority, to avoid peace, so he could continue his colonization project. He's Hamas' biggest fan. Also, UN Office of Genocide Prevention ... Ethnic cleansing: "The Commission of Experts added that these practices can “… constitute crimes against humanity and can be assimilated to specific war crimes. Furthermore, such acts could also fall within the meaning of the Genocide Convention.”"
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  168. The same guy currently going around claiming he's so great at making deals, that he never had to give up any prisoners or money to get deals done. Give or take 5k, I guess.
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  169. ​ @DolphinWithIgloo-fg3ow  As stated above you, the intent is for most of the implants to fail. So ...
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  170. ​ @Hooyahfish So you're saying every Israeli is a valid target for electing all their colonialist, and terrorist (Menachem Begin), leaders over the years.
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  171. Well ... unless it's within your own borders. She said Hitler was fine, until he expanded beyond his borders.
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  172. ​ @Desertdog282  Bill Burr is "woke" by MAGA standards.
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  173. *THE CIA
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  174. Likud's bloody 100 year history ... In 1923, 100 years ago, Ze'ev Jabotinsky wrote, The Iron Wall, and a follow up, The Ethics of The Iron Wall (sooo racist towards Africans), in which he fully acknowledged that post Balfour Zionsim was colonialism, and that, based on the entirety of history, the native Palestinian population would resist being colonized until the bitter end. He directly compared it to the colonization of North America. He promoted doing it anyway, claiming Zionist colonialism was a "just" colonialism (he also thought North American colonialists were good guys, so not a great judge of morality), not caring what that meant for the native population. Ze'ev is important, because his Betar militant youth group helped found the Irgun terrorist group, along with other supporters of his, and the splinter Lehi terrorist group. The Irgun bombed numerous Palestinian markets and other public places, murdering many Palestinian civilians, including children, even including Palestinian Jews (who didn't support colonialist Zionsim). The Irgun are important, because they ended up being led by future Likud PM, Menachem Begin, who bombed the King David Hotel. The King David Hotel was bombed because the British had raided the Jewish Agency and seized numerous documents that may have shown that the terrorists were working with the JA and Haganah (JA liked to pretend that they didn't support the terrorism). The British then stored those documents at their base, in the hotel. That the Irgun terrorists responded to a JA raid, itself seems to prove the connection. That the thousands of Irgun (and Lehi) terrorists were also quickly merged into the new nation's military (IDF) and intelligence (Mossad) agencies, and are still celebrated as "heroes" by Israelis, to this day, also seems to support total collaboration between the groups. That other terrorist group mentioned, Lehi (also known as the Stern Gang), was considered even more extreme. They even tried to ally with the Nazis, against the British. Lehi ended up being led by Yitzhak Shamir, future Mossad agent, and another future Likud PM. They assassinated Lord Moyne, and others. In 1945, there was a major land and peoples survey done in Palestine. It showed that the Zionists only owned about 5% of the total land, 20% of the arable land, and owned a majority in zero districts. The partition was not only going to be forced on the native Palestinian majority, but Jews were still going to be a minority, in the part allocated to them. The only possible way to even become a "Jewish state" was going to require getting rid of the actual majority (at least enough so that there'd be a solid Jewish majority, so they could fake being democratic). This is also shown by the 1948, post Nakba, population of Israel. If there was 716,700 Jews, 156,000+ non-Jews, and approximately 700k non-Jews ethnically cleansed, that means the Jewish population, in the Zionist portion of partition, was originally over 100,000 less than the non-Jewish population. To believe that there was never any intent, by Zionists, to ethnically cleanse away the Palestinian majority would require believing that they never intended to create a "Jewish state". It's a nonsensical notion. Begin, and those terrorist groups, also opposed partition, but for the opposite reason Palestinians did. Palestinians didn't want to be colonized, at all. The terrorists wanted to colonize it all. "Moderate" Zionists were okay with colonizing half ... for now (what would happen in the future, after partition, was up to them, said Ben-Gurion). The Zionist terrorists were also involved in massacres, and assassinations, during the partition violence (colonialist war against the natives). Another notable future Likud PM, also started in the military, during the partition fighting. That was Ariel Sharon, war criminal, "Butcher of Beirut". Menachem Begin, and these other Zionist terrorists, are important because they became involved in Israeli politics, first forming Herut. That was the party that Albert Einstein, and other prominent American Jews, opposed, having a letter printed in the NYT, in December of 1948, when Begin came to visit the US. The letter opened ... "Among the most disturbing political phenomena of our times is the emergence in the newly created state of Israel of the "Freedom Party" (Tnuat Haherut), a political party closely akin in its organization, methods, political philosophy and social appeal to the Nazi and Fascist parties. It was formed out of the membership and following of the former Irgun Zvai Leumi, a terrorist, right-wing, chauvinist organization in Palestine." Herut merged with other extremist parties, over the years, and eventually became Likud, in the 70s. Now, people get upset over the slogan "From the river to the sea!", but it's the second part that's most important, "Palestine will be free!". Because "Palestine" isn't defined as an ethno-state, a free Palestine can be a single state, free for all to live in, and return to, free of continuing colonization, free of occupation, free of oppression, etc. Just like a Germany free of Nazism, an Italy free of fascism, a South Africa free of apartheid, or an America free of slavery from sea to shiny sea. It doesn't necessitate purging all the Jews. It just necessitates them giving up on the idea of an ethno-state. On the other hand, because "Israel" has been defined as an ethno-state, Likud's, "between the sea and the Jordan there will only be Israeli sovereignty", has no possible good interpretation. It is a declaration of intent to completely colonize, and ethnically cleanse, all Palestine territories. Not only that, but it also claims that they have a "right" to all of the "Land of Israel" (biblical borders that don't mesh with archaeological reality), which is an open declaration of future wars, against Jordan, Syria, Lebanon, and possibly even Iraq. Likud platform ... 1977: "The Right of the Jewish People to the Land of Israel (Eretz Israel) a. The right of the Jewish people to the land of Israel is eternal and indisputable and is linked with the right to security and peace; therefore, Judea and Samaria will not be handed to any foreign administration; between the Sea and the Jordan there will only be Israeli sovereignty. b. A plan which relinquishes parts of western Eretz Israel, undermines our right to the country, unavoidably leads to the establishment of a "Palestinian State," jeopardizes the security of the Jewish population, endangers the existence of the State of Israel. and frustrates any prospect of peace." "Settlement Settlement. both urban and rural. in all parts of the Land of Israel is the focal point of the Zionist effort to redeem the country, to maintain vital security areas and serves as a reservoir of strength and inspiration for the renewal of the pioneering spirit. The Likud government will call on the younger generation in Israel and the dispersions to settle and help every group and individual in the task of inhabiting and cultivating the wasteland, while taking care not to dispossess anyone." 1999: "The Government of Israel flatly rejects the establishment of a Palestinian Arab state west of the Jordan river. The Palestinians can run their lives freely in the framework of self-rule, but not as an independent and sovereign state. Thus, for example, in matters of foreign affairs, security, immigration, and ecology, their activity shall be limited in accordance with imperatives of Israel's existence, security and national needs." "The Jewish communities in Judea, Samaria, and Gaza are the realization of Zionist values. Settlement of the land is a clear expression of the unassailable right of the Jewish people to the Land of Israel and constitutes an important asset in the defense of the vital interests of the State of Israel. The Likud will continue to strengthen and develop these communities and will prevent their uprooting." All Palestine territories are officially considered occupied, by the International Court of Justice, the UN GA, the UN SC, and even in official documents of Israel's own allies. Likud is still using the blueprint for colonizing North America, in the West Bank. Move settlements out into native territory, piss off the natives, the natives retaliate, cry about poor "innocent" colonizing settlers being the "victims" of violent "Savages!", call in the cavalry to put down the native uprising, and eventually expand the borders to include those settlements. Rinse and repeat. In Gaza, Israel is operating an open air WWII style fascist ghetto. Them claiming a "right to defend themselves" would be like the Nazis claiming a "right to defend themselves " from the Warsaw ghetto uprising. There's no "war". That they're the occupiers means the "war" part is long over. Those people are actually supposed to be under the occupier's protection. That partition was forced upon the Palestinian majority, against their will ... that the Zionist portion still had to be forcefully ethnically cleansed of its non-Jewish majority, against their will ... that the millions of occupied Palestinians don't have a say in the government that truly rules over them, Israel's ... means Israel is about as democratic as Nazi Germany after Hitler purged his political opponents and then held elections.
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  175.  Pro' se Kim  Rofl. Where you getting 133 from?
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  176. Ten years off the mark. More like the failed Beer Hall Putsch.
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  177. Small numbers? The US is now leading in new cases per day.
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  178. The founding fathers almost had a civil war out of the gate when a thousand armed anti-federalist Mainers marched on Providence, Rhode Island. Thomas Jefferson and Samuel Adams were opposed to the constitution, its centralized government, and presidential powers. Apparently they were right, that a president does have the power of a monarch and can do whatever the fuck he wants.
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  179.  @markguilfoyle1053  Mom worked full time (as a TV executive). Dad (a composer) raised him and his siblings (in Studio City, where the median income is about 50% higher than the national median).
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  180. ​ @bnwo  Rofl, he listed left wing shows, that no left winger would have a problem with. You know Archie and Ted were being made fun of, right?
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  181. They aren't just centre-right, most are just plain right. Even right wing conservatives in most other developed countries support universal healthcare and don't support the kind of military spending that US corporate Democrats do. Republicans are just bat shit crazy far right.
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  182. And, most likely, to Ben Shapiro's wife.
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  183. Likud's bloody 100 year history ... In 1923, 100 years ago, Ze'ev Jabotinsky wrote, The Iron Wall, and a follow up, The Ethics of The Iron Wall (sooo racist towards Africans), in which he fully acknowledged that post Balfour Zionsim was colonialism, and that, based on the entirety of history, the native Palestinian population would resist being colonized until the bitter end. He directly compared it to the colonization of North America. He promoted doing it anyway, claiming Zionist colonialism was a "just" colonialism (he also thought North American colonialists were good guys, so not a great judge of morality), not caring what that meant for the native population. Ze'ev is important, because his Betar militant youth group helped found the Irgun terrorist group, along with other supporters of his, and the splinter Lehi terrorist group. The Irgun bombed numerous Palestinian markets and other public places, murdering many Palestinian civilians, including children, even including Palestinian Jews (who didn't support colonialist Zionsim). The Irgun are important, because they ended up being led by future Likud PM, Menachem Begin, who bombed the King David Hotel. The King David Hotel was bombed because the British had raided the Jewish Agency and seized numerous documents that may have shown that the terrorists were working with the JA and Haganah (JA liked to pretend that they didn't support the terrorism). The British then stored those documents at their base, in the hotel. That the Irgun terrorists responded to a JA raid, itself seems to prove the connection. That the thousands of Irgun (and Lehi) terrorists were also quickly merged into the new nation's military (IDF) and intelligence (Mossad) agencies, and are still celebrated as "heroes" by Israelis, to this day, also seems to support total collaboration between the groups. That other terrorist group mentioned, Lehi (also known as the Stern Gang), was considered even more extreme. They even tried to ally with the Nazis, against the British. Lehi ended up being led by Yitzhak Shamir, future Mossad agent, and another future Likud PM. They assassinated Lord Moyne, and others. In 1945, there was a major land and peoples survey done in Palestine. It showed that the Zionists only owned about 5% of the total land, 20% of the arable land, and owned a majority in zero districts. The partition was not only going to be forced on the native Palestinian majority, but Jews were still going to be a minority, in the part allocated to them. The only possible way to even become a "Jewish state" was going to require getting rid of the actual majority (at least enough so that there'd be a solid Jewish majority, so they could fake being democratic). This is also shown by the 1948, post Nakba, population of Israel. If there was 716,700 Jews, 156,000+ non-Jews, and approximately 700k non-Jews ethnically cleansed, that means the Jewish population, in the Zionist portion of partition, was originally over 100,000 less than the non-Jewish population. To believe that there was never any intent, by Zionists, to ethnically cleanse away the Palestinian majority would require believing that they never intended to create a "Jewish state". It's a nonsensical notion. Begin, and those terrorist groups, also opposed partition, but for the opposite reason Palestinians did. Palestinians didn't want to be colonized, at all. The terrorists wanted to colonize it all. "Moderate" Zionists were okay with colonizing half ... for now (what would happen in the future, after partition, was up to them, said Ben-Gurion). The Zionist terrorists were also involved in massacres, and assassinations, during the partition violence (colonialist war against the natives). Another notable future Likud PM, also started in the military, during the partition fighting. That was Ariel Sharon, war criminal, "Butcher of Beirut". Menachem Begin, and these other Zionist terrorists, are important because they became involved in Israeli politics, first forming Herut. That was the party that Albert Einstein, and other prominent American Jews, opposed, having a letter printed in the NYT, in December of 1948, when Begin came to visit the US. The letter opened ... "Among the most disturbing political phenomena of our times is the emergence in the newly created state of Israel of the "Freedom Party" (Tnuat Haherut), a political party closely akin in its organization, methods, political philosophy and social appeal to the Nazi and Fascist parties. It was formed out of the membership and following of the former Irgun Zvai Leumi, a terrorist, right-wing, chauvinist organization in Palestine." Herut merged with other extremist parties, over the years, and eventually became Likud, in the 70s. Now, people get upset over the slogan "From the river to the sea!", but it's the second part that's most important, "Palestine will be free!". Because "Palestine" isn't defined as an ethno-state, a free Palestine can be a single state, free for all to live in, and return to, free of continuing colonization, free of occupation, free of oppression, etc. Just like a Germany free of Nazism, an Italy free of fascism, a South Africa free of apartheid, or an America free of slavery from sea to shiny sea. It doesn't necessitate purging all the Jews. It just necessitates them giving up on the idea of an ethno-state. On the other hand, because "Israel" has been defined as an ethno-state, Likud's, "between the sea and the Jordan there will only be Israeli sovereignty", has no possible good interpretation. It is a declaration of intent to completely colonize, and ethnically cleanse, all Palestine territories. Not only that, but it also claims that they have a "right" to all of the "Land of Israel" (biblical borders that don't mesh with archaeological reality), which is an open declaration of future wars, against Jordan, Syria, Lebanon, and possibly even Iraq. Likud platform ... 1977: "The Right of the Jewish People to the Land of Israel (Eretz Israel) a. The right of the Jewish people to the land of Israel is eternal and indisputable and is linked with the right to security and peace; therefore, Judea and Samaria will not be handed to any foreign administration; between the Sea and the Jordan there will only be Israeli sovereignty. b. A plan which relinquishes parts of western Eretz Israel, undermines our right to the country, unavoidably leads to the establishment of a "Palestinian State," jeopardizes the security of the Jewish population, endangers the existence of the State of Israel. and frustrates any prospect of peace." "Settlement Settlement. both urban and rural. in all parts of the Land of Israel is the focal point of the Zionist effort to redeem the country, to maintain vital security areas and serves as a reservoir of strength and inspiration for the renewal of the pioneering spirit. The Likud government will call on the younger generation in Israel and the dispersions to settle and help every group and individual in the task of inhabiting and cultivating the wasteland, while taking care not to dispossess anyone." 1999: "The Government of Israel flatly rejects the establishment of a Palestinian Arab state west of the Jordan river. The Palestinians can run their lives freely in the framework of self-rule, but not as an independent and sovereign state. Thus, for example, in matters of foreign affairs, security, immigration, and ecology, their activity shall be limited in accordance with imperatives of Israel's existence, security and national needs." "The Jewish communities in Judea, Samaria, and Gaza are the realization of Zionist values. Settlement of the land is a clear expression of the unassailable right of the Jewish people to the Land of Israel and constitutes an important asset in the defense of the vital interests of the State of Israel. The Likud will continue to strengthen and develop these communities and will prevent their uprooting." All Palestine territories are officially considered occupied, by the International Court of Justice, the UN GA, the UN SC, and even in official documents of Israel's own allies. Likud is still using the blueprint for colonizing North America, in the West Bank. Move settlements out into native territory, piss off the natives, the natives retaliate, cry about poor "innocent" colonizing settlers being the "victims" of violent "Savages!", call in the cavalry to put down the native uprising, and eventually expand the borders to include those settlements. Rinse and repeat. In Gaza, Israel is operating an open air WWII style fascist ghetto. Them claiming a "right to defend themselves" would be like the Nazis claiming a "right to defend themselves " from the Warsaw ghetto uprising. There's no "war". That they're the occupiers means the "war" part is long over. Those people are actually supposed to be under the occupier's protection. That partition was forced upon the Palestinian majority, against their will ... that the Zionist portion still had to be forcefully ethnically cleansed of its non-Jewish majority, against their will ... that the millions of occupied Palestinians don't have a say in the government that truly rules over them, Israel's ... means Israel is about as democratic as Nazi Germany after Hitler purged his political opponents and then held elections.
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  184. If the Intercept, or other news outlets, don't cover the NY Post's many Bigfoot and UFO stories, is that censorship?
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  185.  @gudmundursturluson7683  No progressives expect Biden to be awesome. No progressives are surprised that there are even more conservative Dems than Biden. The only real difference is that Dore's "strategy" was to let Trump win again, even though every single one of predictions turned out wrong, the first time he promotes Trump as the better option.
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  186. ​ @AlexChecho  Also around the time Trump defaulted on his loan from Deutsche Bank, and they were suing each other, until he got another loan, from an undisclosed sponsor, through the private banking side of Deutsche Bank, not the Bank itself.
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  187. @Tilip Muejark Dimwit Dore didn't care if Trump won again, the guy whose total ineptitude had a hand in hundreds of thousands of American deaths. That's not "sane".
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  188. Likud's bloody 100 year history ... In 1923, 100 years ago, Ze'ev Jabotinsky wrote, The Iron Wall, and a follow up, The Ethics of The Iron Wall (sooo racist towards Africans), in which he fully acknowledged that post Balfour Zionsim was colonialism, and that, based on the entirety of history, the native Palestinian population would resist being colonized until the bitter end. He directly compared it to the colonization of North America. He promoted doing it anyway, claiming Zionist colonialism was a "just" colonialism (he also thought North American colonialists were good guys, so not a great judge of morality), not caring what that meant for the native population. Ze'ev is important, because his Betar militant youth group helped found the Irgun terrorist group, along with other supporters of his, and the splinter Lehi terrorist group. The Irgun bombed numerous Palestinian markets and other public places, murdering many Palestinian civilians, including children, even including Palestinian Jews (who didn't support colonialist Zionsim). The Irgun are important, because they ended up being led by future Likud PM, Menachem Begin, who bombed the King David Hotel. The King David Hotel was bombed because the British had raided the Jewish Agency and seized numerous documents that may have shown that the terrorists were working with the JA and Haganah (JA liked to pretend that they didn't support the terrorism). The British then stored those documents at their base, in the hotel. That the Irgun terrorists responded to a JA raid, itself seems to prove the connection. That the thousands of Irgun (and Lehi) terrorists were also quickly merged into the new nation's military (IDF) and intelligence (Mossad) agencies, and are still celebrated as "heroes" by Israelis, to this day, also seems to support total collaboration between the groups. That other terrorist group mentioned, Lehi (also known as the Stern Gang), was considered even more extreme. They even tried to ally with the Nazis, against the British. Lehi ended up being led by Yitzhak Shamir, future Mossad agent, and another future Likud PM. They assassinated Lord Moyne, and others. The two terrorist groups also operated outside of Palestine. The Irgun bombed the British Embassy at Porta Pia, in Rome. The Lehi bombed the British Colonial Club, in London. A timer failed in another bombing attempt, at the Colonial Office, in Whitehall. Two female Lehi operatives were arrested crossing from Belgium to France, with the ingredients for letter bombs. 21 letter bombs were found to be have sent, and were intercepted. They mined the Cairo-Haifa train, in Egypt, twice, killing dozens of civilians, as well as British soldiers. In 1945, there was a major land and peoples survey done in Palestine. It showed that the Zionists only owned about 5% of the total land, 20% of the arable land, and owned a majority in zero districts. The partition was not only going to be forced on the native Palestinian majority, but Jews were still going to be a minority, in the part allocated to them. The only possible way to even become a "Jewish state" was going to require getting rid of the actual majority (at least enough so that there'd be a solid Jewish majority, so they could fake being democratic). This is also shown by the 1948, post Nakba, population of Israel. If there was 716,700 Jews, 156,000+ non-Jews, and approximately 700k non-Jews ethnically cleansed, that means the Jewish population, in the Zionist portion of partition, was originally over 100,000 less than the non-Jewish population. To believe that there was never any intent, by Zionists, to ethnically cleanse away the Palestinian majority would require believing that they never intended to create a "Jewish state". It's a nonsensical notion. Begin, and those terrorist groups, also opposed partition, but for the opposite reason Palestinians did. Palestinians didn't want to be colonized, at all. The terrorists wanted to colonize it all. "Moderate" Zionists were okay with colonizing half ... for now (what would happen in the future, after partition, was up to them, said Ben-Gurion). The Zionist terrorists were also involved in massacres, and assassinations, during the partition violence (colonialist war against the natives). Another notable future Likud PM, also started in the military, during the partition fighting. That was Ariel Sharon, war criminal, "Butcher of Beirut". Menachem Begin, and these other Zionist terrorists, are important because they became involved in Israeli politics, first forming Herut. That was the party that Albert Einstein, and other prominent American Jews, opposed, having a letter printed in the NYT, in December of 1948, when Begin came to visit the US. The letter opened ... "Among the most disturbing political phenomena of our times is the emergence in the newly created state of Israel of the "Freedom Party" (Tnuat Haherut), a political party closely akin in its organization, methods, political philosophy and social appeal to the Nazi and Fascist parties. It was formed out of the membership and following of the former Irgun Zvai Leumi, a terrorist, right-wing, chauvinist organization in Palestine." Herut merged with other extremist parties, over the years, and eventually became Likud, in the 70s. Now, people get upset over the slogan "From the river to the sea!", but it's the second part that's most important, "Palestine will be free!". Because "Palestine" isn't defined as an ethno-state, a free Palestine can be a single state, free for all to live in, and return to, free of continuing colonization, free of occupation, free of oppression, etc. Just like a Germany free of Nazism, an Italy free of fascism, a South Africa free of apartheid, or an America free of slavery from sea to shiny sea. It doesn't necessitate purging all the Jews. It just necessitates them giving up on the idea of an ethno-state. On the other hand, because "Israel" has been defined as an ethno-state, Likud's, "between the sea and the Jordan there will only be Israeli sovereignty", has no possible good interpretation. It is a declaration of intent to completely colonize, and ethnically cleanse, all Palestine territories. Not only that, but it also claims that they have a "right" to all of the "Land of Israel" (biblical borders that don't mesh with archaeological reality), which is an open declaration of future wars, against Jordan, Syria, Lebanon, and possibly even Iraq. Likud platform ... 1977: "The Right of the Jewish People to the Land of Israel (Eretz Israel) a. The right of the Jewish people to the land of Israel is eternal and indisputable and is linked with the right to security and peace; therefore, Judea and Samaria will not be handed to any foreign administration; between the Sea and the Jordan there will only be Israeli sovereignty. b. A plan which relinquishes parts of western Eretz Israel, undermines our right to the country, unavoidably leads to the establishment of a "Palestinian State," jeopardizes the security of the Jewish population, endangers the existence of the State of Israel. and frustrates any prospect of peace." 1999: "The Government of Israel flatly rejects the establishment of a Palestinian Arab state west of the Jordan river. The Palestinians can run their lives freely in the framework of self-rule, but not as an independent and sovereign state. Thus, for example, in matters of foreign affairs, security, immigration, and ecology, their activity shall be limited in accordance with imperatives of Israel's existence, security and national needs." "The Jewish communities in Judea, Samaria, and Gaza are the realization of Zionist values. Settlement of the land is a clear expression of the unassailable right of the Jewish people to the Land of Israel and constitutes an important asset in the defense of the vital interests of the State of Israel. The Likud will continue to strengthen and develop these communities and will prevent their uprooting." All Palestine territories are officially considered occupied, by the International Court of Justice, the UN GA, the UN SC, and even in official documents of Israel's own allies. Likud is still using the blueprint for colonizing North America, in the West Bank. Move settlements out into native territory, piss off the natives, the natives retaliate, cry about poor "innocent" colonizing settlers being the "victims" of violent "Savages!", call in the cavalry to put down the native uprising, and eventually expand the borders to include those settlements. Rinse and repeat. In Gaza, Israel is operating an open air WWII style fascist ghetto. Them claiming a "right to defend themselves" would be like the Nazis claiming a "right to defend themselves " from the Warsaw ghetto uprising. There's no "war". That they're the occupiers means the "war" part is long over. Those people are actually supposed to be under the occupier's protection. That partition was forced upon the Palestinian majority, against their will ... that the Zionist portion still had to be forcefully ethnically cleansed of its non-Jewish majority, against their will ... that the millions of occupied Palestinians don't have a say in the government that truly rules over them, Israel's ... means Israel is about as democratic as Nazi Germany after Hitler purged his political opponents and then held elections.
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  189.  @mikevi1629  Are you under some delusion that all Dems are progressive? Did Pelosi ask her to use her platform and PAC to back 20 pro-M4A progressives, help add a few more M4A yes votes to congress, and help remove a few more corporate Dems from congress? If yes, then Pelosi doesn't sound too bad. If no, then your full of crap. AOC has done more for M4A in 2 years than Dore has in his entire lifetime.
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  190. *pre-college boarding school, where his rich parents ditched him Walz went to public schools.
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  191. Yeah, they don't seem to grasp how anything works. Banks all doing their own bank notes didn't work well outside of local trade. They only had full redeemable value at the issuing bank. So, a bank in Montreal wouldn't take a note from a bank in Halifax, at least not at full value. Because, they'd have to take it to Halifax, to redeem it for actual currency (British pound). There's also the case of mining companies building their own little towns, and issuing their own currency to workers, as pay. Those workers then couldn't use the currency anywhere else, except the mining company shops. It allowed them to fully monopolize their workers.
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  192. My first reply was hidden, because I said I s r a e l, instead of IL.
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  193.  @dr.wolfstar1765  Jimmy Dore literally censored his own guest for mentioning Sam's name, because Sam kicked his ass in 2016. Tim Pool made up that he can't Skype, or whatever, a week before Skyping with Rogan.
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  194.  @0ldar  Tough to do, when they're openly embracing being ignorant, fighting against science, wanting to live according to a fairytale, etc.
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  195.  @jdowfleetwood  You're pointlessly whatabouting on the wrong channel, troll. Sam has compared Maddow to Glenn Beck, before, and criticizes MSNBC frequently. Most people here probably aren't fans of corporate MSM, dimwit.
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  196. That's how sting operations work. They get people totally on intent. Like a cop posing as a hit man and meeting with someone who wants to take out their spouse. Or, the guys who show up to meet a fake underage girl.
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  197. ​ @Scifi4life  Why not? They usually use multiple embryos, fully expecting most to fail. That's why they sometimes have multiple not fail.
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  198.  @barbiquearea  A blonde James Bond should have already ruined the franchise for you, or even every James Bond after Connery that didn't have his same accent, or build, if consistency was your only issue.
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  199.  @SuCKeRPunCH187  Conservative religious types have been cancelling things and people for centuries. They do it a ton.
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  200. ​ @hizzlemobizzle  I refer them to the UN Office of Genocide Prevention. Genocide: "The definition contained in Article II of the Convention describes genocide as a crime committed with the intent to destroy a national, ethnic, racial or religious group, in whole or in part." Ethnic cleansing: "The Commission of Experts added that these practices can “… constitute crimes against humanity and can be assimilated to specific war crimes. Furthermore, such acts could also fall within the meaning of the Genocide Convention.”"
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  201.  @glennjohn3824  And yet every vaccine mandate that has been challenged has been deemed constitutional.
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  202. What about the Dore knobs, who just invent strawman "promises", and claim she hasn't fulfilled them? Of course, they only represent a tiny fringe element, of less than 400k Tulsi and Green voters. Maybe they're too irrelevant for your generalized metric.
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  203. So Trump. Good for you.
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  204. ​ @paulkeiper1381  What are you talking about? Tips were taxed well before 2021.
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  205.  @aarondickson1898  If the US had a response similar to Vietnam or S Korea, it would translate into under 12k deaths total. Even a mediocre response, like Canada's, would translate into 300+k fewer deaths. US leaders, with the Big Cheeto at the top, are most definitely to blame for hundreds of thousands of covid deaths.
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  206.  @johnobrien1528  The $15 got a vote, even passed the house. What do Dore knobs do? Just keep bitching about those who got it to stay in for a round of voting and voted for it. They've proven that they're pathetic good for nothings, and would have likewise done nothing with an M4A vote. Trump dropped more bombs than Obama, including on Syria and Somalia. Weird how Dore knobs didn't give a crap if he was re-elected.
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  207. Nixon was the youngest member of the house un-American Activities Commission, and ran a brutal red scare campaign against his opponent for the California senate race. FDR voting, union leader, Reagan had been supporting Nixon's opponent, until Reagan and Nixon had some kind of meeting, when someone convinced Reagan to go to a Nixon rally. Reagan then dropped his support of Nixon's opponent, and started taking the oath to crazytown. On top of the extreme anti-socialists, Nixon then went after the racist vote, in 1972. He was the one who started collecting all the nuts into one basket, including Reagan.
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  208.  @TangoNevada  Facts don't care about your feelings. You clearly didn't pay attention to the fact that she didn't get away with the "they aren't the same" dodge.
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  209. MLK Jr did not simply criticize silence. He criticized trying to placate agitators, to silence a movement, telling them not to ruffle feathers. He criticized telling those rising up to calm down and sit down. Biden is exactly that ... "I agree with you in the goal you seek, but I cannot agree with your methods of direct action" ... and wants people without healthcare to sit their asses down, wants people not getting paid a living wage to sit their asses down, wants people facing racial injustice to sit their asses down, etc. Be patient. Unite behind doing nothing, or as little as possible, and be content to accept whatever you get. "I have almost reached the regrettable conclusion that the Negro's great stumbling block in his stride toward freedom is not the White Citizen's Counciler or the Ku Klux Klanner, but the white moderate, who is more devoted to "order" than to justice; who prefers a negative peace which is the absence of tension to a positive peace which is the presence of justice; who constantly says: "I agree with you in the goal you seek, but I cannot agree with your methods of direct action"; who paternalistically believes he can set the timetable for another man's freedom; who lives by a mythical concept of time and who constantly advises the Negro to wait for a "more convenient season." Shallow understanding from people of good will is more frustrating than absolute misunderstanding from people of ill will. Lukewarm acceptance is much more bewildering than outright rejection. I had hoped that the white moderate would understand that law and order exist for the purpose of establishing justice and that when they fail in this purpose they become the dangerously structured dams that block the flow of social progress. I had hoped that the white moderate would understand that the present tension in the South is a necessary phase of the transition from an obnoxious negative peace, in which the Negro passively accepted his unjust plight, to a substantive and positive peace, in which all men will respect the dignity and worth of human personality. Actually, we who engage in nonviolent direct action are not the creators of tension. We merely bring to the surface the hidden tension that is already alive. We bring it out in the open, where it can be seen and dealt with. Like a boil that can never be cured so long as it is covered up but must be opened with all its ugliness to the natural medicines of air and light, injustice must be exposed, with all the tension its exposure creates, to the light of human conscience and the air of national opinion before it can be cured."
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  210.  @Addamo  Dore has healthcare. That's why he doesn't give a crap about taking some third party route that hasn't won the most popular third party a single seat in congress in its near 50 year existence. That's why he didn't give a crap about promoting Tulsi instead of Bernie. That's why he didn't give a crap about promoting Trump, who was running on tossing 10m of the poorest Americans off of Medicaid expansion, as a better option than Clinton, who was running on adding 40m older Americans to Medicare expansion. That's why he doesn't give a crap about slandering M4A's most ardent congressional supporters, who have done more for M4A in a few years than he has in his entire lifetime. Dore doesn't actually give a crap.
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  211.  @Addamo  You're simply lying. Dore did back Tulsi in 2020 and did promote Trump as the better option in 2016. AOC used her platform and PAC to back 20 other pro-M4A progressives, helping to add a few more M4A yes votes to congress. The very thing that needs doing to ever pass the bill. She was just promoting M4A while campaigning for Nina. Dore knobs have nothing but slander. Whether Dore had money troubles, at some point, doesn't change the fact that he doesn't now, and only seems to care about himself. When the 30 year old broader progressive caucus is about 10 seats away from becoming the majority of house Dems ... when the 4 year old Justice Dems have replaced about a dozen corporate Dems ... when AOC who has been at it a couple years helps replace a few more corporate Dems ... that has to be about the dumbest time to give it up for zero seats, zero bills submitted, zero amendments submitted, zero votes on even a single bill, so you can take a third party route that hasn't won the most popular third party a single seat in congress in its near 50 year existence. It's nuts, and likely won't get you M4A in your lifetime.
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  212.  @whyamimrpink78  If you have to start up a hotline, or offer up to a million dollars, that's evidence you don't already have evidence of widespread voter fraud.
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  213.  @siddave549  “I have always regretted the dumb and offensive comments I made in my 20s, on atheism and homosexuality. They still embarrass me, but they haven’t been representative of my beliefs for over a decade,” he told TheWrap in an additional statement. “Rather than bury them, I chose to raise them myself in a Twitter thread over the weekend to try and urge us all to reckon with our prejudices and to challenge hate speech – whether witting or unwitting – wherever we find it.”
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  214.  @joshparsons7631  This. Government funded vaccines is like a tiny taste of universal healthcare, and you get right wingers and Dore knob types selling vaccine misinformation and unproven remedies that would cost you out of pocket. Plus, the average price of a bottle of 20 ivermectin pills is like $100. A Pfizer shot is about $15. J&J is even cheaper. Rogan's treatment was thousands more. They're also peddling the more expensive treatment.
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  215. ​ @DanNorton1  What smear? She, and her husband, collected social security and medicare.
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  216. ​ @DoctorBiobrain  Nazi Mickey vs Nazi Trump? Depends ... who/what does Nazi Mickey hate? Cats?
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  217. A flat tax could make sense, but only if it's on wealth, not income. But, I don't think they want that. The 3 wealthiest Americans own as much wealth as the bottom 50%. Those 3, alone, should be paying the same amount of total taxes, as the bottom 50%.
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  218.  @EpicAlcatraz99  That's like claiming Native Americans "started" wars against European colonialists, who had been ethnically cleansing them, from shortly after they arrived.
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  219.  @Evirthewarrior  "constantly attacks everyone from the left" No, he doesn't. He has currently been attacking a vaccine, with a government negotiated price, given to the public for free. That's, literally, a tiny taste of what M4A would be like. He, and Max, have also made a dishonest attack on the UK's completely socialized healthcare system. He has also peddled unproven, more expensive, paid for out of pocket, alternatives. None of that is, at all, leftist. Jimmy's voting advice benefits Republicans more than anyone else. That is not, at all, leftist. He promotes allying with "extreme free market" psycho Boogaloos, who want the complete opposite of socialism, and a civil war. They would be shooting you, if you tried to install M4A, after helping them overthrow the government. That's not, at all, leftist. Dore is the kind of "leftist" that ends up on the wrong side of a Night of the Long Knives. Dore is a grifter. Grifters claim to be selling you one thing, but they're actually selling you something else. He benefits the far right.
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  220. ​ @MyName-cw4yr  How so? Jordan has over 2m Palestinian refugees. That's equivalent to the US taking in over 60m.
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  221. ​ @JesusOrDestruction  The Southern racist majority, who abandoned both parties, in 1968, and voted for a third party resegregationist, winning 5 Southern states. Nixon then won that Southern racist majority over to the Republican party, in 1972.
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  222. No, no, his boss gets the extra 3/5 of the vote.
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  223. His entire religious worldview is based on feelings.
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  224.  @whyamimrpink78  Modern Nazis aren't openly in charge of any major countries, dumb dumb. The Republicans currently have 70m people ready to ditch democracy for officially becoming fascist.
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  225.  @tilleryinnovations592  Rofl, what false equivalency are you Dore knobs using now?
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  226.  @mr.minnesota6246  I'd like to use the democratic system to move towards an all out direct democracy, that extends to all aspects of the economy. I also don't want fascists taking over that democratic system.
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  227. Also with Canaanite DNA. They are Arab and Muslim the same way indigenous peoples of Central America are now Hispanic and Catholic. They were once the previous Christian majority, and the Jwish majority before that. Znsts have been slghtering the ancient Jws that never left and simply converted along the way.
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  228. Ok Goebbels. Likud's bloody 100 year history ... In 1923, 100 years ago, Ze'ev Jabotinsky wrote, The Iron Wall, and a follow up, The Ethics of The Iron Wall (sooo racist towards Africans), in which he fully acknowledged that post Balfour Zionsim was colonialism, and that, based on the entirety of history, the native Palestinian population would resist being colonized until the bitter end. He directly compared it to the colonization of North America. He promoted doing it anyway, claiming Zionist colonialism was a "just" colonialism (he also thought North American colonialists were good guys, so not a great judge of morality), not caring what that meant for the native population. Ze'ev is important, because his Betar militant youth group helped found the Irgun terrorist group, along with other supporters of his, and the splinter Lehi terrorist group. The Irgun bombed numerous Palestinian markets and other public places, murdering many Palestinian civilians, including children, even including Palestinian Jews (who didn't support colonialist Zionsim). The Irgun are important, because they ended up being led by future Likud PM, Menachem Begin, who bombed the King David Hotel. The King David Hotel was bombed because the British had raided the Jewish Agency and seized numerous documents that may have shown that the terrorists were working with the JA and Haganah (JA liked to pretend that they didn't support the terrorism). The British then stored those documents at their base, in the hotel. That the Irgun terrorists responded to a JA raid, itself seems to prove the connection. That the thousands of Irgun (and Lehi) terrorists were also quickly merged into the new nation's military (IDF) and intelligence (Mossad) agencies, and are still celebrated as "heroes" by Israelis, to this day, also seems to support total collaboration between the groups. That other terrorist group mentioned, Lehi (also known as the Stern Gang), was considered even more extreme. They even tried to ally with the Nazis, against the British. Lehi ended up being led by Yitzhak Shamir, future Mossad agent, and another future Likud PM. They assassinated Lord Moyne, and others. In 1945, there was a major land and peoples survey done in Palestine. It showed that the Zionists only owned about 5% of the total land, 20% of the arable land, and owned a majority in zero districts. The partition was not only going to be forced on the native Palestinian majority, but Jews were still going to be a minority, in the part allocated to them. The only possible way to even become a "Jewish state" was going to require getting rid of the actual majority (at least enough so that there'd be a solid Jewish majority, so they could fake being democratic). This is also shown by the 1948, post Nakba, population of Israel. If there was 716,700 Jews, 156,000+ non-Jews, and approximately 700k non-Jews ethnically cleansed, that means the Jewish population, in the Zionist portion of partition, was originally over 100,000 less than the non-Jewish population. To believe that there was never any intent, by Zionists, to ethnically cleanse away the Palestinian majority would require believing that they never intended to create a "Jewish state". It's a nonsensical notion. Begin, and those terrorist groups, also opposed partition, but for the opposite reason Palestinians did. Palestinians didn't want to be colonized, at all. The terrorists wanted to colonize it all. "Moderate" Zionists were okay with colonizing half ... for now (what would happen in the future, after partition, was up to them, said Ben-Gurion). The Zionist terrorists were also involved in massacres, and assassinations, during the partition violence (colonialist war against the natives). Another notable future Likud PM, also started in the military, during the partition fighting. That was Ariel Sharon, war criminal, "Butcher of Beirut". Menachem Begin, and these other Zionist terrorists, are important because they became involved in Israeli politics, first forming Herut. That was the party that Albert Einstein, and other prominent American Jews, opposed, having a letter printed in the NYT, in December of 1948, when Begin came to visit the US. The letter opened ... "Among the most disturbing political phenomena of our times is the emergence in the newly created state of Israel of the "Freedom Party" (Tnuat Haherut), a political party closely akin in its organization, methods, political philosophy and social appeal to the Nazi and Fascist parties. It was formed out of the membership and following of the former Irgun Zvai Leumi, a terrorist, right-wing, chauvinist organization in Palestine." Herut merged with other extremist parties, over the years, and eventually became Likud, in the 70s. Now, people get upset over the slogan "From the river to the sea!", but it's the second part that's most important, "Palestine will be free!". Because "Palestine" isn't defined as an ethno-state, a free Palestine can be a single state, free for all to live in, and return to, free of continuing colonization, free of occupation, free of oppression, etc. Just like a Germany free of Nazism, an Italy free of fascism, a South Africa free of apartheid, or an America free of slavery from sea to shiny sea. It doesn't necessitate purging all the Jews. It just necessitates them giving up on the idea of an ethno-state. On the other hand, because "Israel" has been defined as an ethno-state, Likud's, "between the sea and the Jordan there will only be Israeli sovereignty", has no possible good interpretation. It is a declaration of intent to completely colonize, and ethnically cleanse, all Palestine territories. Not only that, but it also claims that they have a "right" to all of the "Land of Israel" (biblical borders that don't mesh with archaeological reality), which is an open declaration of future wars, against Jordan, Syria, Lebanon, and possibly even Iraq. Likud platform ... 1977: "The Right of the Jewish People to the Land of Israel (Eretz Israel) a. The right of the Jewish people to the land of Israel is eternal and indisputable and is linked with the right to security and peace; therefore, Judea and Samaria will not be handed to any foreign administration; between the Sea and the Jordan there will only be Israeli sovereignty. b. A plan which relinquishes parts of western Eretz Israel, undermines our right to the country, unavoidably leads to the establishment of a "Palestinian State," jeopardizes the security of the Jewish population, endangers the existence of the State of Israel. and frustrates any prospect of peace." "Settlement Settlement. both urban and rural. in all parts of the Land of Israel is the focal point of the Zionist effort to redeem the country, to maintain vital security areas and serves as a reservoir of strength and inspiration for the renewal of the pioneering spirit. The Likud government will call on the younger generation in Israel and the dispersions to settle and help every group and individual in the task of inhabiting and cultivating the wasteland, while taking care not to dispossess anyone." 1999: "The Government of Israel flatly rejects the establishment of a Palestinian Arab state west of the Jordan river. The Palestinians can run their lives freely in the framework of self-rule, but not as an independent and sovereign state. Thus, for example, in matters of foreign affairs, security, immigration, and ecology, their activity shall be limited in accordance with imperatives of Israel's existence, security and national needs." "The Jewish communities in Judea, Samaria, and Gaza are the realization of Zionist values. Settlement of the land is a clear expression of the unassailable right of the Jewish people to the Land of Israel and constitutes an important asset in the defense of the vital interests of the State of Israel. The Likud will continue to strengthen and develop these communities and will prevent their uprooting." All Palestine territories are officially considered occupied, by the International Court of Justice, the UN GA, the UN SC, and even in official documents of Israel's own allies. Likud is still using the blueprint for colonizing North America, in the West Bank. Move settlements out into native territory, piss off the natives, the natives retaliate, cry about poor "innocent" colonizing settlers being the "victims" of violent "Savages!", call in the cavalry to put down the native uprising, and eventually expand the borders to include those settlements. Rinse and repeat. In Gaza, Israel is operating an open air WWII style fascist ghetto. Them claiming a "right to defend themselves" would be like the Nazis claiming a "right to defend themselves " from the Warsaw ghetto uprising. There's no "war". That they're the occupiers means the "war" part is long over. Those people are actually supposed to be under the occupier's protection. That partition was forced upon the Palestinian majority, against their will ... that the Zionist portion still had to be forcefully ethnically cleansed of its non-Jewish majority, against their will ... that the millions of occupied Palestinians don't have a say in the government that truly rules over them, Israel's ... means Israel is about as democratic as Nazi Germany after Hitler purged his political opponents and then held elections.
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  229. Hunter got some money from bad guys and then bought his dad a Christmas present, with that money! 😂
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  230. In Florida, workers under 20 can be paid a $4.25/hr "training wage", for 3 months. If they're simultaneously enrolled in school, they can be paid 85% of minimum wage, after that.
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  231. ​ @michaelknight2897  "Overall, the study found that female ultra runners are faster than their male counterparts for distances longer than 195 miles (314km). The data showed that as distances get longer, the gap in pacing between genders shrinks until women come out on top. In 5km runs men run 17.9% faster than women, at marathon distance the difference is just 11.1%, 100 mile (161km) races see the difference shrink to just .25%, and above 195 (314km) miles, women are actually 0.6% faster than men. Danish research from 2018 echoes these results, finding that women are 18.61% better than men at running with a controlled and consistent pace when comparing results for the first and the last part of the marathon."
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  232.  @JoeG2324  It was withheld for months, dimwit, and only released once he got caught. "Do us a favor though" is from the "transcript", that's not an actual transcript, dumb dumb.
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  233. Likud platform (since 1970s): "between the sea and the Jordan there will only be Israeli sovereignty"
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  234.  @KateBates22zabu  Oh, YouTube has been hiding half of my comments, for the past couple months (can only see them if sorted by newest). Even innocuous ones, like my reply to keirfarnum, above. Not sure why this particular post always gets a pass.
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  235. phobia: extreme or irrational fear or dislike of a specified thing or group.
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  236.  @trevorchester4439  Explain how Denmark is just as ignorant and insane as the US.
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  237.  @trevorchester4439  You made it sound like you knew exactly what things are like "everywhere else".
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  238. That event was also the 10th anniversary of RT. The same RT that was just paying Pool and Reuben for pro Rvssia content.
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  239. There is also the point of trying to destroy the largest of the few remaining unions, in the US ... the teachers' union.
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  240.  @CnCW453  Bullshit. I'm Canadian. I had a major medical issue, as a teen. It was handled great. My wife just had a major medical issue. It was handled great.
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  241.  @FerreusNRG  Right, and Trump is a loudmouth who calls any other Republicans who disagree with him, "fakes', "frauds", "sellouts", etc., based on absolutely nothing, kind of like Dore does to people who don't even take corporate donations, and simply disagree with him on tactics.
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  242. It expired way back in 1948, before Hms existed, when Lkd was founded by the Irgun and Lehi trrrst groups. Lkd has never had the moral high ground.
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  243.  @Evirthewarrior  The reverse is also true, Dore knob. Adding 55-64 year olds adds healthier people, than just the 65+ crowd, to the Medicare risk pool, people who would pay into it but need it less. Dore knobs don't grasp basic math. I'm stupid? Dore vastly underestimated the benefits, claiming it would lead to a progressive wave that would "for sure" take the house and senate in 2018 (didn't happen) and the presidency in 2020 (didn't happen). He vastly underestimated the risks, claiming even Republicans would vote against a Trump agenda rather than follow him into overt fascism (didn't happen) and that Trump filling multiple scotus seats was as likely as the moon falling into Lake Michigan (the moon still hasn't fallen). He's a complete and utter moron, living in some fantasy land. The progressive movement behind Bernie started after an Obama presidency, dimwit Dore knob. You don't need a psycho as the head of government. I know exactly what he said about the Boogaloo guy before he came on, and while he was on. Dore is an idiot. The dead peeps on the Night of the Long Knives were leftists, dumb dumb, that teamed up with right wingers. You're the one who brought them up, dimwit.
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  244. "I'm a competent lawyer" ... License suspended in NY ... Recommended for disbarment in DC just last month ...
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  245. Well, it's just an interim order, while they have an actual trial. They ruled to hear the case, and not throw it out, as Israel wanted.
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  246.  @seanking1775  "Holding accountable" doesn't equate to slander and bullshit.
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  247.  Mari Jayne  Because the last adminstration didn't okay Israel colonizing Palestinian lands, provide them military aid, and give them a big green light by recognizing Jerusalem as their capitol? Just like all the Republican majority congresses and presidents, before him, have taken Israel's side, unconditionally. What should be noticed is that only progressives seem to be calling out this shit, and US support for this shit.
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  248. ​ @cfrey1988  Ayn Rand was an ignoramus.
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  249. Being of Jewish heritage, she wrote her poem near the start of the large wave of 2 million Jewish immigrants, escaping pogroms in Russia. They were mostly poor.
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  250.  @mpgallogly  How is blathering on and on about a completely irrelevant report, that had nothing to do with anyone's decision to bomb Syria, instead of going after the one who decided to bomb Syria (Trump) anti-war, exactly?
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  251.  @kennybachman35  No, it's something about the order and length. I've tried a version opening with the Einstein quote, but then the word Nzi is at the start, and it gets hidden or deleted. When I make short arguments, I have to highly edit words. So, I think the algorithm reads so far, and then gives up. I've also had multiple 24hr time outs, over the past 7 months, and can't post a single word, on top of the shadow banning.
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  252.  @johnobrien1528  And, Trump dropped more bombs than that guy. Do you have reading comprehension problems? The $15 got a vote. What are pathetic useless Dore knobs doing with that list of no voters? Absolutely nothing, except slandering progressives who voted for it.
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  253. Pretty sure that, by the time Europeans came to the Americas, the Anglo-Saxons had been defeated by the Normans, and their culture had been largely wiped out for 400-500 years. The Normans reorganized, and reformed, much of everything.
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  254.  @arceusthomas2447  Rofl. a) You're moving your goalpost, dumb dumb. What you previously stated was that they didn't prevent infection, therefore they didn't work. They work by reducing infections, hospitalizations, and deaths, which is what other vaccines also do. b) How long antibodies are effective, and how effective they are to variants, has to do with the virus, not the vaccine. Just like how a flu vaccine, made the old fashioned way, is taken once a year. Yes, there are breakthrough cases every month, during flu season. It still reduces infections, hospitalizations, and deaths. That's what vaccines are supposed to do. And, if the flu was year round, you'd also probably need 2-3 shots a year, to maintain your level of protection. That's because flu antibodies don't last as long, the flu mutates a little regularly, and there are multiple strains floating around at the same time. Mumps antibodies last almost 30 years, but there are a fair number of variants. The vaccine is about 88% effective, and there are dozens, to thousands, of breakthroughs a year. 85% of people being hospitalized and dying are unvaccinated, and you're claiming they don't work, like a complete and utter moron.
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  255.  @spellman007  "Women" is gender terminology, and gender terminology has never been required to match sex. Gender terminology describes a persona, not the physical person. You're, objectively, wrong.
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  256. To be clear, a PhD in nursing practice. Totally valid for him to use "Dr", but he's not an MD, let alone any kind of specialist.
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  257.  @BloodMoneyLLC  They share the same insane idea of bringing down the government with another civil war, Dore knob. Dore knobs are the type of dimwit left wingers who wind up on the wrong end of a Night of the Long Knives.
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  258.  @richardp6461  What conviction? He peddled Tulsi (public option) over Bernie (M4A), for almost a year, outright working against the M4A candidate. Then, he peddled his pointless 100% guaranteed to fail performance art vote, and slandered anyone who didn't support it as "fakes", "frauds", "sellouts", or whatnot. Surely, outright working against M4A is worse than simply not supporting some pointless secondary tactic. Then, after making out like that was enough to write off other progressives, who agree with you on policy 99%, as allies, he promotes an "extreme free market" ancapper, who disagrees with you on most everything, including M4A, as a potential ally. Then, he abandoned Nina Turner, one of M4A's most ardent supporters ... abandoned adding another M4A yes vote to congress. The guy flips and flops all over the place, on a regular basis. He takes whatever contrarian position he thinks will sell best, at the time.
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  259. Kinda like how American colonialists described native attacks.
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  260. ​ @lightthatfire4012  Denmark is near the top in happiness, best places to live, etc. It represents real world centrism, outside the US bubble. What's a Dem policy that would move the US left of Denmark?
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  261.  @anacc3257  How? They're occupied. Israel controls the border, the coast, the airspace, electricity, water, what goes in and out (only people are usually allowed to cross at Rafah, goods go through Israel), and Bibi even controls the flow of money from Qatar, having turned it off and on multiple times.
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  262.  @robertreese1275  The grift is to sell yourself as something you're not. He promoted Trump as the better option than Clinton, for progressives. According to Jimmy, Trump being so bad, such a deranged fascist, a Trump presidency would lead to a massive progressive backlash that would "for sure" take the house (nope) and senate (nope), in 2018, and the presidency (nope), in 2020. He claimed even Republicans would vote against a Trump agenda (nope), rather than follow him into fascism (they did), and Trump filling multiple scotus seats was as likely as the moon falling into Lake Michigan (nope). All of his predictions were wrong so, ultimately, promoting Trump over Clinton only benefited Trump. Promoting Trump over Clinton was also promoting tossing 10m of the poorest Americans off of Medicaid expansion, over adding 40m older Americans to Medicare expansion. Then he promoted Tulsi (public option) over Bernie (M4A). Then he, again ... even after all his failed predictions ... even after Trump's incompetent leadership had a hand in the unnecessary deaths of hundreds of thousands of people ... he made out like Biden (public option + Medicare expansion) was worse than Trump (still trying to toss millions of poor Americans off of Medicaid expansion). Dore promoted the worst healthcare option, each time, and then tries passing himself off as the one true champion of healthcare, because he came up with a nonsense "plan" to have a performance art vote. He also abandoned Nina Turner (M4A), and now promotes never again voting for someone running as a Democrat. Going third party likely won't even get you a single seat in congress, in the next 5 decades, let alone get some kind of healthcare bill passed, in the next century. He uses slander, not "truth". AOC never ran on paralyzing, or threatening to paralyze, the house. She ran on what her own concept of a "ruckus" is, not Jimmy's. She backed 20 pro-M4A progressives, and helped add a few more M4A advocates to congress, which actually moves you closer to ever being able to pass the bill, while a performance art vote doesn't actually do that. She has done more for M4A in 2 years than Dore has in his entire lifetime. He made out like he didn't know where she was, on M4A march day, when it was public knowledge that she was at rallies for Nina Turner, promoting M4A and trying hard to add another M4A advocate to congress. Why weren't M4A marchers promoting and supporting Nina? Why did Dore promote abandoning Nina, on his show ... abandoning adding another M4A advocate to congress? Then, there's going on far right television, largely just to agree with far right talking points. There's promoting allying with far right ancap extremists, that are trying to start a civil war. How does Dore actually benefit the left? Almost everytime he proposes actions, they're actions that seem to benefit the right ... even extreme right ... no matter that he frames it as coming from the left. You're a sucker.
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  263.  @jdowfleetwood  Multiple intelligence agencies concluded Russia was interfering, in 2016. Republican Mueller indicted 19 Russians, and 3 Russian companies, for interfering. The FBI, under Trump, concluded Russia was interfering again, in 2020. I don't know what the f*ck Maddow is saying, but you sound like you're railing against reality, a bit.
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  264. ​ @8088I  Because, after Egypt warned Netanyahu that something was in the works, instead of beefing up the Gaza border, he moved Gaza border troops to the West Bank, to support his colonialism.
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  265.  @luckycatnip3667  Don't a percentage of all men and women behave in ways that are vile?
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  266.  Simon Farre  Sweden is 24th in deaths per million. Germany is 66th. Sweden's second wave is breaking its first wave case numbers by over 300%.
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  267.  @thomas2082  Dore and his wife literally said they stopped donating to her, and promoted never voting for anyone running as a Democrat. That's abandoning her. You know the M4A peeps could have gone to her and AOC, right? Instead of expecting them to abandon trying to get Nina elected.
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  268.  @Gaius_Julius_Caesar_Augustus  The same Mike Johnson also argues that more kids are needed, when talking abortion bans, to keep SS and Medicare afloat. So, he wants more people, just not a certain kind of people.
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  269.  @tilleryinnovations592  Stop spreading misinformation. It's not "per NIH". Learn how the database actually works. The publisher is listed at the top, and it's not the NIH themselves.
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  270.  @korhashamo  Stop trying to censor me!!!! lol
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  271.  @undergrounddojokeyboardcag701  Dore backed Tulsi, dumb dumb.
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  272. ​ @TheRedStateBlue  UN Office of Genocide Prevention: Ethnic Cleansing "The Commission of Experts added that these practices can “… constitute crimes against humanity and can be assimilated to specific war crimes. Furthermore, such acts could also fall within the meaning of the Genocide Convention.”"
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  273.  @sergeikhripun  BGJ and this guy are dishonest. The FTV "plan" out of Dore's mouth was for 15 progressives to simply "withhold their votes" or "not vote" for Pelosi. That's the way he worded it repeatedly. That does imply abstaining, which would have handed the speakership to McCarthy. Dore didn't say they needed to cast protest votes. In fact, Dore made it clear that he didn't know how things worked, and falsely claimed it was impossible for McCarthy to win, unless Democrats voted for him. Jimmy made perfectly clear that he had things so wrong, that he wouldn't think abstaining was a problem.
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  274. I knew an idiot going around claiming he was immune because he had had the virus. But, he had a cough that wasn't going away. Turned out he was going around with covid pneumonia, for months, which remains contagious until a couple days after starting antibiotics.
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  275.  @haywoodjablowme4945  Pew says 61/37. That doesn't seem close enough to say "very close to 50/50".
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  276. My grandfather was a "terrorist" with the Danish resistance.
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  277.  @arceusthomas2447  No vaccine is 100%, dumb dumb. By your "logic" none of them work.
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  278. ​ @danielmwattsjr3671  Do you not know when puberty starts?
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  279. ​ andresrojas7924  So, you're cool with endless wars over land. You must also be cool with how Hamas is fighting over it. Sounds like a great future.
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  280.  @robinsss  You are seriously arguing hard about this, in multiple threads. Are you the caller?
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  281.  Aaron Dickson  Literally was not built on the current lazy man's filibuster. You actually had to filibuster, so they didn't do it often, and most things passed by simple majority.
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  282.  Aaron Dickson  No. The science is not different everywhere. There is simply less incompetence and lower percentages of morons, elsewhere. Take your pick. Canada's covid deaths per million would translate into about 250k total US covid deaths, instead of 850k. Australia's covid deaths per million would translate into under 30k total US covid deaths, instead of 850k. There are numerous countries in that mediocre to excellent outcome range. Instead of wanting to emulate Peru, which had possibly the highest Ivermectin use in the world, and also has the highest covid deaths per million in the world, maybe look to countries that did much better.
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  283.  @Aeroneus1  Lol, I don't care about the Clintons, and neither are running for office.
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  284. ​ @Sloimer  I've heard that Native Americans reached a point where they wanted to push the Europeans back into the sea. I wonder if they had any reasons, for feeling that way.
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  285.  @Marbles471  Similar with his supposed anti-war stance. Never mentions that Trump dropped more bombs than Obama, doesn't spend months railing against Trump for deciding to bomb Syria over chemical weapons, nope, but he, and Mate, will spend months crying about a UN report that had absolutely nothing to do with anyone's decision to bomb Syria.
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  286.  @waterandafter  woosh
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  287. ​ @innova1335  Do tell.
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  288.  @thomas2082  Campaigning for Nina, trying to add another M4A yes vote to congress, because getting enough M4A yes votes is the only possible way to ever pass the bill. Dore, and M4A marchers, abandoned Nina, abandoned adding another M4A yes vote to congress.
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  289.  @i0li0il0i  You left out the "nuance" about Steven "the left won't debate me" Crowder, going around acting like he's some kind of pro debater, lying that nobody on the left will debate him, and only ever debating amateurs, because he's a complete and utter coward. Someone that cowardly and dishonest deserves to be set up.
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  290.  @coryddp7254  Dore promoted Trump (who ran on ACA repeal) as the better option than Clinton (who ran on lowering Medicare to 55), not caring if millions on Medicaid expansion and with preexisting conditions could lose their healthcare, not caring to get millions more on Medicare. He thought Republicans would join the left to stop the Trump agenda, rather than joining him in overt fascism. He thought Trump filling multiple scotus seats was as likely as the moon falling into Lake Michigan. During the 2020 primary he didn't back Bernie (M4A). During the general, he basically ran an attack ad campaign against Trump's only viable opponent, Biden (public option + lowering Medicare to 60), again not seeming to care if Trump won, not caring if millions lost their healthcare, not caring if Trump killed thousands more with incompetent covid response, and again not backing adding millions to Medicare. He didn't know how the speaker vote actually works. He promoted that 15 progressives should "withhold" their votes (he didn't say cast protest votes). 15 abstentions + 2 unfilled seats, would lower the threshold needed to win down to 210. If the 211 Republicans voted McCarthy, he'd win. He spouted strawman bullshit, as if AOC had campaigned on paralyzing the house, or even threatening to paralyze the house, when she didn't. He also promotes going third party. The Libertarian party is almost 50 without ever having won a seat in congress. Dore doesn't give a fuck about the reality that going third party won't get anyone healthcare, and could just split progressive voting enough to hand the Dem party totally back to corporate Dems and let Republicans rule for decades, destroying healthcare even more. He's an asshat, and doesn't actually give two shits about anyone else getting healthcare.
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  291. Just say "Hi, I'm stupid!", and save yourself some time.
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  292.  @DeniseWilliams-jr5xo  The level of British support for Likud baffles me the most. On top of all the Revisionist attacks inside Palestine, they also operated outside of Palestine. They bombed the British embassy in Rome. They bombed the British Colonial Club in London. A timer in a Whitehall truck bombing failed. 21 letter bombs were intercepted. They twice bombed the train from Cairo, killing dozens of British troops and civilians.
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  293.  @uncomfortabletruth5915  You basically just doubled down arguing denazification is "fascism", which is nonsensical. Zero democrats have promoted a 100% publicly owned and operated economy. None are promoting policies that would even move the US left of Denmark, which is centrism, at most. That's not even in the same universe as all out communism. Republicans, on the other hand, just tried to overthrow the democratic process to install an unelected dictator. Many of them do want all out fascism. If you think you're actually in the middle of two extremes, then you're pretty right wing, because the US Overton window really only goes from center to the extreme right.
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  294. And he was either completely ignorant, or completely dishonest, about how a VAT works ... who it actually taxes. A VAT is specifically designed to NOT tax businesses in order to avoid double taxation. Giant corporations would not have been paying for, or even paying partly for, his UBI, and would have only benefited from the extra trillions being spent. Yang would have had money flowing to the very top faster than ever before.
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  295. ​ @TheManinBlack9054  It's a sin to not want your country, or part of it, taken? Why did Russia fight back against Germany then? Why not let them have it?
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  296.  Andrew g  Poor people, left or right, may share being in similar situations, but the ones on the right have bought into certain beliefs, like: socialized anything is bad, capitalism rules, the rich provide jobs, the unemployed are simply lazy, bootstrap stories aren't complete outliers, minimum wage is bad, etc., etc. If they were to be convinced otherwise, did turn against the rich, and started supporting things that actually help poor people, then they'd no longer be on the right.
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  297. ​ @marklewen9384  Honey Boo Boo was popular television. It still failed at being good, just like Gutfeld fails at being funny.
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  298. Trump saying it wasn't him, that it was his fans, is semantics. He said love it or leave it ... saying she should leave ... go back.
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  299.  @spellman007  Religious folks have been calling their formless, sexless, penisless, "god" being "he", "him", and even "father", for millennia. They only want gender pronouns to match sex, when it comes to things they don't like. The Trinitarians even believe that sexless being transitioned into a human male, and worship a trans "god".
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  300.  @thewhiterabbit498  Rofl. They let one guy convince tens of millions of them not to believe any media, any politicians, any judges, any lawyers, any election officials, any police, any intelligence agencies, any scientists, any doctors, any nurses ... anyone ... even to not believe their own lying eyes, if any of them contradict Supreme Leader, Big Brother, Trumpty Dumpty. They aren't a savvy bunch.
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  301.  @valrymlexeous6091  He ran away.
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  302.  @RHINOTEJAS  What are you talking about? About 100k people immigrate to Denmark per year. Relative to their population, that's the equivalent of 5.5m going to the US per year.
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  303. Yes, it does. Pakman outright didn't want to hear about any kind of context, what Israel had done prior to Oct 7, what the US has done prior to Oct 7, and threw those people, just presenting objective facts, under the bus with open Hamas supporters. He put them all in the same box. He wanted things to be judged as if Oct 7 was the first thing to happen, that Hamas was the aggressor, and that Israel was the defender. This year alone, prior to Oct 7 ... Over 1200 Palestinian hostages, held indefinitely without charges, by Israel ... over 200 Palestinians killed by the IDF and settlers ... over 1000 Palestinians displaced due to the endless colonization of the West Bank ... and, the continued operation of an open air WWII style fascist ghetto. To make out like nothing happened, prior to Oct 7, and that Israel is a defender is just outright dishonest. It's just a fact that Israel is a colonialist state. Colonialists are never not the aggressors when it comes to the natives. It's just a fact that Israel is considered an occupier, and that it's against international law for the occupier to use collective punishment and settle occupied lands. On the other hand, the occupied actually have a right to resist occupation. By multiple measures, it is outright moronic, or biased, to make out like Israel is the one "responding".
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  304. The majority of Cubans that came to Florida, and came first, were Batista government officials, Batista military, Batista supporters, and those who got rich under Batista. They were pretty fascisty to begin with, and founded the communities later Cubans arrived into.
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  305.  @philmitchell91  You, you're the delusional one. I thought I already pointed that out.
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  306. Meh, that's indentured servitude.
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  307.  @whyamimrpink78  You realize that FOX is MSM, and Republicans are politicians, too, right?
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  308.  @shashasha1249  No, it's not. It's an empty shell on life support.
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  309. If I only donate money to poor people, then I'm discriminating against rich people?
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  310. Top 10 homicide rates ... Mississippi 23.70 Louisiana 21.30 Alabama 15.90 New Mexico 15.30 South Carolina 13.40 Missouri 12.40 Illinois 12.30 Maryland 12.20 Tennessee 12.20 Arkansas 11.70
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  311. ​ @michaelknight2897  "Overall, the study found that female ultra runners are faster than their male counterparts for distances longer than 195 miles (314km). The data showed that as distances get longer, the gap in pacing between genders shrinks until women come out on top. In 5km runs men run 17.9% faster than women, at marathon distance the difference is just 11.1%, 100 mile (161km) races see the difference shrink to just .25%, and above 195 (314km) miles, women are actually 0.6% faster than men. Danish research from 2018 echoes these results, finding that women are 18.61% better than men at running with a controlled and consistent pace when comparing results for the first and the last part of the marathon."
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  312.  Intelligent Design  There all just ballots, until they're counted, dumbo. It's only once they're counted that you know who they're going to. And, zero evidence of "fraudulent and illegal" ballots. The fact that Dumpty set up a hotline is actually evidence they have no evidence.
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  313. The native "Savages!" attacked our poor innocent colonialist settlement, for no apparent reason! Absolutely nothing happened, prior to that attack! That's when history began!
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  314. ... by Mestizos, who have native ancestry.
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  315. @Tilip Muejark The covid 1% mortality rate is 5x higher than the automobile accident mortality rate. Do you think street lights, speed limits, seatbelt laws, child seat laws, helmet laws, drinking and driving laws, licensing, vehicle safety standards, etc., are fascism? The polio paralysis rate is 2x lower, and the mortality rate 20x lower, than the covid mortality rate. Do you think mandating the polio vaccine for public school students and immigrants is fascism?
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  316. @IceOrwellian O'neel Pick one, or the other, dumb dumb. "Fascism is the complete opposite of Marxian socialism." ~ Mussolini Weird ... conservative religious types have been using the authority and laws to control people for centuries. When was it they supposedly stopped doing that?
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  317. "Developing" seems kind of accurate, at this point. The US is devolving.
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  318. Even if he honestly desperately wanted bipartisanship, the bipartisanship Manchin should be aiming for is what has bipartisan support amongst voters, not politicians.
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  319. ​ @bisiashley  He wasn't really the one to talk to. The Minnesota legislature passed an anti-bds law. It's currently illegal for him to divest. Need to get the legislature to drop the law, first.
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  320.  @tilleryinnovations592  I repeat ... motor vehicle deaths were down in the UK, dimwit. It wasn't inaccurate.
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  321. ​ @DolphinWithIgloo-fg3ow  What are you talking about? It's a crime to unalive children. The Alabama Supreme Court just decided that they are already "children". The IVF process intends for the majority of those "children" to be "unalived". What's unintended is when they have sextuplets, or something, and the majority of the "children" live.
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  322. "We cannot get re-elect, we cannot win this re-election, excuse me. We can only re-elect Donald Trump." ~ Joe Biden
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  323.  @sc6210  Whether they qualify for asylum is up to the courts. It's not illegal to seek asylum.
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  324. MLK was basically saying the same thing as JFK was saying at the time: "Those who make peaceful revolution impossible will make violent revolution inevitable."
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  325. The law office of Digenova & Toensing (Digenova's wife) also represented Scooter Libby. Toensing was Libby's personal lawyer and they owe Trump for pardoning him.
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  326. ​ @tjk9263  Just once, 6 months ago.
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  327. Weren't all of those accomplished through building mass vocal, and visible, support, outside of congress, and then pressuring those opposed (rather than those on the same side) until a majority of congressional support was achieved? I don't think any were achieved through congressional shenanigans.
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  328.  @haywoodjablowme4945  What are your definitions of "baby" and "murder"?
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  329.  @johnobrien1528  Wait ... are you under the delusion that M4A would have passed? If so, then you're living in a fantasy world. If not, then why are you having trouble grasping comparing a failed vote to what would also have been a failed vote? You're in the sack of Dore knobs, Dore knob.
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  330.  Aaron Dickson  The evidence is a Boogaloo being arrested, and confessing to starting a fire at a police station, and shooting it up, during a BLM protest. The evidence is another group of Boogaloos being arrested on their way to starting a fire, loaded with Molotov cocktails, they were going to try and frame BLM for, during a different BLM protest. The evidence is 2 Boogaloos using the cover of George Floyd protests to kill a security guard and a cop. ... You're clearly ignorant about the topic, as usual.
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  331.  Illhan Omar's Brother  No fed is going to run around a stadium for 10 years, dimwit.
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  332. ​ @gnubbiersh647  You don't seem to grasp what not caring means. If you "want" women to play, then you care.
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  333.  @NoName-lq6vw  Zionists thinking they have a right to "return" to that specific land, and accepting no other options presented to them, is definitely based on religion. There's no other explanation for picking that spot.
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  334.  @alabamaman5994  Alabama is bottom 10, for income per capita.
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  335.    Exactly. Celebs should shut their yaps ... also they elected Reagan president. Lefties are snowflakes ... also waaah he's kneeling! I'm not a racist, I'm an American expressing their free speech ... also hey, what you said is unAmerican, you Commie! If you don't like it, leave ... also we don't like it, things suck, and want to make it great again. Etc.
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  336. Likud's bloody 100 year history ... In 1923, 100 years ago, Ze'ev Jabotinsky wrote, The Iron Wall, and a follow up, The Ethics of The Iron Wall (sooo racist towards Africans), in which he fully acknowledged that post Balfour Zionsim was colonialism, and that, based on the entirety of history, the native Palestinian population would resist being colonized until the bitter end. He directly compared it to the colonization of North America. He promoted doing it anyway, claiming Zionist colonialism was a "just" colonialism (he also thought North American colonialists were good guys, so not a great judge of morality), not caring what that meant for the native population. Ze'ev is important, because his Betar militant youth group helped found the Irgun terrorist group, along with other supporters of his, and the splinter Lehi terrorist group. The Irgun bombed numerous Palestinian markets and other public places, murdering many Palestinian civilians, including children, even including Palestinian Jews (who didn't support colonialist Zionsim). The Irgun are important, because they ended up being led by future Likud PM, Menachem Begin, who bombed the King David Hotel. The King David Hotel was bombed because the British had raided the Jewish Agency and seized numerous documents that may have shown that the terrorists were working with the JA and Haganah (JA liked to pretend that they didn't support the terrorism). The British then stored those documents at their base, in the hotel. That the Irgun terrorists responded to a JA raid, itself seems to prove the connection. That the thousands of Irgun (and Lehi) terrorists were also quickly merged into the new nation's military (IDF) and intelligence (Mossad) agencies, and are still celebrated as "heroes" by Israelis, to this day, also seems to support total collaboration between the groups. That other terrorist group mentioned, Lehi (also known as the Stern Gang), was considered even more extreme. They even tried to ally with the Nazis, against the British. Lehi ended up being led by Yitzhak Shamir, future Mossad agent, and another future Likud PM. They assassinated Lord Moyne, and others. The two terrorist groups also operated outside of Palestine. The Irgun bombed the British Embassy at Porta Pia, in Rome. The Lehi bombed the British Colonial Club, in London. A timer failed in another bombing attempt, at the Colonial Office, in Whitehall. Two female Lehi operatives were arrested crossing from Belgium to France, with the ingredients for letter bombs. 21 letter bombs were found to be have sent, and were intercepted. They mined the Cairo-Haifa train, in Egypt, twice, killing dozens of civilians, as well as British soldiers. In 1945, there was a major land and peoples survey done in Palestine. It showed that the Zionists only owned about 5% of the total land, 20% of the arable land, and owned a majority in zero districts. The partition was not only going to be forced on the native Palestinian majority, but Jews were still going to be a minority, in the part allocated to them. The only possible way to even become a "Jewish state" was going to require getting rid of the actual majority (at least enough so that there'd be a solid Jewish majority, so they could fake being democratic). This is also shown by the 1948, post Nakba, population of Israel. If there was 716,700 Jews, 156,000+ non-Jews, and approximately 700k non-Jews ethnically cleansed, that means the Jewish population, in the Zionist portion of partition, was originally over 100,000 less than the non-Jewish population. To believe that there was never any intent, by Zionists, to ethnically cleanse away the Palestinian majority would require believing that they never intended to create a "Jewish state". It's a nonsensical notion. Begin, and those terrorist groups, also opposed partition, but for the opposite reason Palestinians did. Palestinians didn't want to be colonized, at all. The terrorists wanted to colonize it all. "Moderate" Zionists were okay with colonizing half ... for now (what would happen in the future, after partition, was up to them, said Ben-Gurion). The Zionist terrorists were also involved in massacres, and assassinations, during the partition violence (colonialist war against the natives). Another notable future Likud PM, also started in the military, during the partition fighting. That was Ariel Sharon, war criminal, "Butcher of Beirut". Menachem Begin, and these other Zionist terrorists, are important because they became involved in Israeli politics, first forming Herut. That was the party that Albert Einstein, and other prominent American Jews, opposed, having a letter printed in the NYT, in December of 1948, when Begin came to visit the US. The letter opened ... "Among the most disturbing political phenomena of our times is the emergence in the newly created state of Israel of the "Freedom Party" (Tnuat Haherut), a political party closely akin in its organization, methods, political philosophy and social appeal to the Nazi and Fascist parties. It was formed out of the membership and following of the former Irgun Zvai Leumi, a terrorist, right-wing, chauvinist organization in Palestine." Herut merged with other extremist parties, over the years, and eventually became Likud, in the 70s. Now, people get upset over the slogan "From the river to the sea!", but it's the second part that's most important, "Palestine will be free!". Because "Palestine" isn't defined as an ethno-state, a free Palestine can be a single state, free for all to live in, and return to, free of continuing colonization, free of occupation, free of oppression, etc. Just like a Germany free of Nazism, an Italy free of fascism, a South Africa free of apartheid, or an America free of slavery from sea to shiny sea. It doesn't necessitate purging all the Jews. It just necessitates them giving up on the idea of an ethno-state. On the other hand, because "Israel" has been defined as an ethno-state, Likud's, "between the sea and the Jordan there will only be Israeli sovereignty", has no possible good interpretation. It is a declaration of intent to completely colonize, and ethnically cleanse, all Palestine territories. Not only that, but it also claims that they have a "right" to all of the "Land of Israel" (biblical borders that don't mesh with archaeological reality), which is an open declaration of future wars, against Jordan, Syria, Lebanon, and possibly even Iraq. Likud platform ... 1977: "The Right of the Jewish People to the Land of Israel (Eretz Israel) a. The right of the Jewish people to the land of Israel is eternal and indisputable and is linked with the right to security and peace; therefore, Judea and Samaria will not be handed to any foreign administration; between the Sea and the Jordan there will only be Israeli sovereignty. b. A plan which relinquishes parts of western Eretz Israel, undermines our right to the country, unavoidably leads to the establishment of a "Palestinian State," jeopardizes the security of the Jewish population, endangers the existence of the State of Israel. and frustrates any prospect of peace." 1999: "The Government of Israel flatly rejects the establishment of a Palestinian Arab state west of the Jordan river. The Palestinians can run their lives freely in the framework of self-rule, but not as an independent and sovereign state. Thus, for example, in matters of foreign affairs, security, immigration, and ecology, their activity shall be limited in accordance with imperatives of Israel's existence, security and national needs." "The Jewish communities in Judea, Samaria, and Gaza are the realization of Zionist values. Settlement of the land is a clear expression of the unassailable right of the Jewish people to the Land of Israel and constitutes an important asset in the defense of the vital interests of the State of Israel. The Likud will continue to strengthen and develop these communities and will prevent their uprooting." All Palestine territories are officially considered occupied, by the International Court of Justice, the UN GA, the UN SC, and even in official documents of Israel's own allies. Likud is still using the blueprint for colonizing North America, in the West Bank. Move settlements out into native territory, piss off the natives, the natives retaliate, cry about poor "innocent" colonizing settlers being the "victims" of violent "Savages!", call in the cavalry to put down the native uprising, and eventually expand the borders to include those settlements. Rinse and repeat. In Gaza, Israel is operating an open air WWII style fascist ghetto. Them claiming a "right to defend themselves" would be like the Nazis claiming a "right to defend themselves " from the Warsaw ghetto uprising. There's no "war". That they're the occupiers means the "war" part is long over. Those people are actually supposed to be under the occupier's protection. That partition was forced upon the Palestinian majority, against their will ... that the Zionist portion still had to be forcefully ethnically cleansed of its non-Jewish majority, against their will ... that the millions of occupied Palestinians don't have a say in the government that truly rules over them, Israel's ... means Israel is about as democratic as Nazi Germany after Hitler purged his political opponents and then held elections.
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  337. ​ @jacktran7024  Israel was mentioned. They're the colonialists.
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  338.  @sandrafrancisco  Ironically, Glenn is now collecting cheques from Rumble, which is funded by Peter Thiel, whose company made spying software for the CIA, NSA, FBI, etc. Glenn is now basically being paid from money made from what Snowden exposed, and Glenn claims to be against.
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  339. Seems like Dominion included threatening to sue on air personalities along with the companies they work for, because he really wanted no part of that shit.
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  340.  @A_Derpy_NINJA  Sorry, how many seats has the Green party won again?
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  341. Because it's mainly a political commentary show?
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  342. So Trump's obsession with Obama, makes him a loser and Obama a winner?
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  343.  @barberwinning  The $15 got an ever so important vote, passed the house (which M4A wouldn't have), got an ever so important list of no voters, and all Dore does is keep sitting in his garage, bitching about those who kept it in for a round of voting and voted for it. That takes stupidity, not balls.
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  344.  @sjwslayer7403  You're an idiot. Explain how a fetus with an unformed brain that hasn't even developed pain sensors, emotions, consciousness, etc., can suffer liked an actual child, with a conscious, aware, developed brain, that can feel pain, discomfort, fear, sadness, etc.
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  345. @eddieisfiction Jones is a nut that benefits the right. Dore is a nut who also benefits the right.
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  346. ​ @michaelbeavis2632  Colonists in North America let some "friendly" natives live amongst them. So, that means they weren't ethnic cleansing occupiers? Nazis had some Jewish collaborators. So, that means they weren't actually racist?
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  347.  @poethepoetspoet  Dore, literally, promoted Trump as the better option, in 2016, and ran a constant attacked ad campaign against Trump's only remaining viable opponent, in 2020.
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  348.  @LadyMaeloraBeesbury  Mate wrote a Syrian "scandal" piece, that could have been written from anywhere in the world, using Wikipedia as a source, but leaving out the info that doesn't fit your narrative. He, and Dore, have repeatedly ranted about a report that doesn't actually assign blame, that didn't even come out until almost a year after the US, and others, had bombed Syria, so had absolutely nothing to do with anyone's decision to bomb Syria. He's being an idiot. Two dissenting opinions on a single investigation doesn't even debunk that investigation, let alone the dozens of previous investigations. In fact, there was another chemical weapons use, just the month before, which had a no blame investigation, and a follow up blame assigning investigation, with zero dissenting opinions. They have made a big todo about nothing.
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  349.  @whyamimrpink78  How is trying to overthrow the democratic process and install an unelected ruler, "limited government and giving people more freedom"?
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  350. ​ @82Jaster  They're acting like Ben Shapiro being interviewed by "lefty" Andrew Neil.
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  351.  @luckycatnip3667  Gender is a persona, and doesn't have to match biological sex. A penisless god can be called "he". A vaginaless car can be called "she".
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  352.  @ComradeCatpurrnicus  Well, a lot of the unconvinced people have possibly been exposed to decades of propaganda, that IL are the good guys. Anyone who thinks everything "started" on Oct 7, is lacking some kind of context. Anyone who thinks IL is "defending itself", is lacking some kind of context. Etc. Every pro-IL stance is either lacking some kind of context, or is simply a rcist/bgot who doesn't care and is likely unpersuadable. I'm aiming for the no context people.
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  353.  @alabamaman9476  The topic was agitators at protests. There's zero evidence of any left wing agitators at Jan 6. There has been evidence of right wing agitators at BLM protests. You: Samesies!!!!
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  354.  @tastytherrien5106  Not just a campaign donor, a fairly close family friend, as well as friend of the Giuliani family.
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  355.  @gnubbiersh647  The only one not grasping a concept, is you not grasping the contradiction between people both claiming they don't care, while clearly caring. Why do you keep showing up, just to prove you have reading problems?
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  356.  @treymitchell957  Jimmy doesn't support M4A. He outright peddled a non-M4A candidate, who said M4A was unAmerican, over Bernie. He outright abandoned Nina Turner. He peddles a non viable third party route, that hasn't won the most popular third party a single seat in congress in its near 50 year existence, that would just hand power to corporate Dems and Republicans for decades to come.
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  357.  @jop23ify  It's only pointless, to you, because you seem to have missed the point. Abortions and pregnancies aren't contagious deadly viruses. If you're against all vaccine mandates, then you're just not very bright, and considering it to be solely about the individual means you don't grasp how herd immunity works.
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  358.  @thinkoutsidethelines8265  The most popular third party hasn't won a single seat in congress in its near 50 year existence. The most popular progressive third party hasn't won a single seat in congress in its 20 year existence. The third party route is the longest route to your destination, next to teaming up with looney far right extremists that want to start a civil war, and would start shooting leftists once you help them overthrow the government. The broader progressive caucus is about 30 years old and is about 15 seats away from becoming the majority of house Dems. Justice Dems have been at it for about 4 years and have helped replace about a dozen corporate Dems. AOC has been at it 2 years, and has helped replace a few more. It's clearly the better strategy, even if you think it needs better progressive candidates. It's not like going third party is guaranteed to produce perfectly perfect incorruptible puritan progressive candidates. The Green party produced Kyrsten Sinema, ffs. Even if we imagine that you magically got a third party so popular, that every single member of the progressive caucus belonged to that party, instead of the Democrat party. What you'd have is Trump as president, due to vote splitting between Biden and Bernie in the general. You'd have Pence as the senate tie breaking vote. And, you'd have a Republican plurality, in the house, that would only have to work with a handful of the most conservative Dems, to pass whatever they wanted. They could completely ignore your third party. They wouldn't need your votes on anything. Taking over the Dem party is not only the more effective strategy, it gives you more power. If the progressive caucus can become the majority of Dems, they can pick the party speaker candidate, they can set the party agenda. If also the majority not the house, that speaker could assign committee seats, put forward whatever bills they wanted, and sideline whatever bills they didn't want. Third party is a fantasy. Dore is a grifter, who says he's for one thing, but then takes people down a direction that's never going to get you that thing.
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  359. Einstein considered Likud's Irgun and Lehi founders to be comparable to Fscsts and Nzs.
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  360. ​ @ChucksExotics  Except the context was "still alarming", not "still watching", dumb dumb.
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  361. ​ @mymonitor1348  Why would Israelis vote for Likud? Likud was founded by Irgun terrorist leader, Menachem Begin, murderer of Palestinian men, women, children, and even Palestinian Jews (who didn't support Zionism). He also bombed the King David Hotel. Israel merged those terrorists into the new nation's military and intelligence agencies. They elected Menachem Begin PM. To this day, they still celebrate those terrorists as "heroes". Likud's other founder was Ariel Sharon, war criminal, who massacred Palestinian villages. Israelis also elected him PM. Their original platform stated "between the sea and the Jordan there will only be Israeli sovereignty". There's zero indication that Netanyahu has deviated from that goal.
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  362. ​ @robertkelly6282  That's why he left out the Palestinians. They just wanted to normalize the ongoing colonization with other countries in the region.
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  363.  @emerald3331  Dore is calling the guy who has been fighting for it, for most of his political career a fraud. He's calling a young house member who has been fighting for it for, since before her own political career started, a shill. Dore is the equivalent to Dave Rubin, at this point ... claiming to be a lefty while constantly attacking the left most politicians.
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  364.  Aaron Dickson  Maybe from countries that have had much better covid outcomes?
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  365. ​ @drg8687  A Dem just won a previously Rep seat, by 63/37, in Alabama.
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  366. Never was a lefty. “The line I’ve always used is, I would be a Republican if they would. Which means that I like the Barry Goldwater Republican Party, even the Reagan Republican Party. I want a mean old man to watch my money… government is a sieve that takes as much money as it can and gives it away, usually needlessly,” - Bill Maher
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  367.  @antonyhanson4479  Rofl. Yeah, "charlatan" AOC helped add a few more M4A yes votes to congress, and was just trying to add one more, in Nina Turner. "True" leftist, Jimmy Dore, slandered AOC and abandoned Nina Turner ... abandoned adding another M4A yes vote to congress. What has he done for the left, exactly?
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  368.  @JoKo203  I know that Dore knobs don't grasp the words like "gaslighting" and "blackmail", but do you also not grasp the word "grifter"? Obviously, the grifter would claim to be for certain things, but the way they propose obtaining those things doesn't actually get you those things. The 30 year old broader progressive caucus is about 15 seats away from becoming the majority of house Dems. Justive Dems are 4 years old and have filled about a dozen seats. AOC has been at it 2 years and helped fill a few more seats. The most popular third party hasn't won a single seat in congress in its near 50 year existence. The most popular progressive third party hasn't won a single seat in congress in its 20 year existence. In what reality would going third party get you what you want, quicker? Even if you magically got the third party popular enough to get all the progressive votes, in the next 100 years, you'd split the Dem votes and let Republicans rule, for decades to come, after that. Trump, and Republicans, have been trying to toss 10m of the poorest Americans off of Medicaid expansion. They, literally, want to go in reverse. That moves you further away from ever getting M4A. The directions Dore often proposes going move you further away from getting the things he claims he supports. That's the grift. The grifter promoted Tulsi (public option) over Bernie (M4A), for months. Then he did an about face, and made out like not supporting a secondary tactic for a 100% guaranteed to fail performance art vote, on M4A, was enough to slander other progressives as "fakes", "frauds", "sellouts", and whatnot. Obviously, supporting a non-M4A candidate is worse than not supporting a secondary tactic, and moves votes away from the M4A candidate. Slandering M4A's most ardent congressional supporters, and getting people to follow some fantasy, moves you further away from ever getting M4A. Then, after making out like simply disagreeing over a single secondary tactic, was enough to no longer consider other progressives allies, then did another about face, and promoted allying with psycho far right ancap Boogaloos, who want to start a civil war, and agree on next to nothing, aside from a handful of anti-authoritarian issues ... including disagreeing on M4A, which they want no part of. M4A and ancap are incompatible. Allying with loons, like that, is how "leftists" wind up on the wrong side of a Night of the Long Knives. Who does he think they're going to be shooting, in their civil war? Ancap is all about private ownership. They'll be shooting any leftist that want public ownership. ...
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  369.  @whyamimrpink78  Rofl. Many anti-maskers and such obeyed their capitalist overlords, Trump cultists gathered at rallies, etc., and got screwed to death. Cases and deaths are currently highest in lower vaccinated areas, because you lot are so stupid.
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  370.  @elijahobviously1288  Try removing a 24 week fetus from life support, and see if it will "recover".
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  371.  @FerreusNRG  Hard to tell Dore knobs from Trumpists. The majority of Dore knobs even seem to be both. If someone calls a person who doesn't take corporate donations a "sellout", it's probably a good sign they're the looney cultist.
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  372. He doesn't even seem to grasp the basic concept that you don't have free speech rights on someone else's private property.
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  373.  @markzuckergecko621  So you're not one of those crazy fascist Trumpists who call other Republicans RINOs?
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  374. Well, Dore knobs show up, here, when Sam does Dore videos. Probably Matt fans and not regular TYT watchers.
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  375.  @sergeikhripun  What did Dore get right about "RussiaGate"? Dore promoted Trump as the better option than Clinton. He vastly overestimated the benefits, claiming it would lead to a progressive wave that would "for sure" take the house in 2018 (wrong), the senate in 2018 (wrong), and the presidency in 2020 (wrong). He vastly underestimated the risks, claiming even Republicans would join the left to vote against the Trump agenda (wrong), and claiming Trump filling multiple scotus seats was as likely as the moon falling into Lake Michigan (wrong). He's a complete and utter moron.
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  376. ​ @frankpalancio8471  You were rooting for the Third Reich, when you read about the Warsaw ghetto uprising?
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  377.  @Addamo  You're outright lying. Dore's argument was that because Trump was so much worse, that it would cause a massive progressive backlash, and that's why he was a better option. He was wrong on all of his predictions. AOC was, literally, just promoting M4A, dimwit Dore knob. You're still lying. Oh my, she wants Dems to remain the majority, and progressives to be in that majority, in a difficult midterm, in conservative areas where progressives got slaughtered, including ones she previously backed. I get it, you Dore knobs prefer a Republican majority. Just come out of the closet and say it already.
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  378. ​ @vipermad358  Firstly, that discussion was solely about the reunification of Germany, a year before the collapse of the USSR. Nobody was talking about any other countries, that didn't exist at the time. The USSR had multiple borders with NATO, at the time. Secondly, that wasn't added to any signed agreements. Thirdly, Rvssia itself almost immediately started trying to expand its borders back into those former SSR countries, towards NATO, starting with Georgia. Lastly, Pvtin himself, in his very first address to parliament, as PM, lamented at the loss of those former SSR countries. He also, personally, never wanted to NOT have borders with NATO. What he wants is for NATO to not be in countries he wants to try and reclaim.
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  379. There's also the fact that (on paper) the employer is paying half the FICA tax. "Moral" Libertarians should only be accepting half their Social Security and Medicare benefits, or sending half back to their old employer.
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  380.  @tilleryinnovations592  PhD in nursing practice. So, when Dore asks if he's a doctor ... if he means medical doctor, the answer is "No".
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  381.  @tilleryinnovations592  "There were an estimated 1,390 reported road deaths in the year ending June 2021, a decrease of 11% compared to the year ending June 2020. There was a decrease of 22% compared to the 3 rolling year average for 2017 to 2019 (prior to the coronavirus (COVID-19) pandemic)."
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  382.  Edward Gutierrez  What a load of crap. Nobody is forcing anyone to get abortions. Nobody is pro-abortion, trying to convince everyone to get abortions. People of all walks of life get abortions, most of them Christians, and most US Christians are conservatives. People are forcing these kids into camps. People are arguing that this is what should happen to all illegals ... even though crossing the border at a non-point of entry is a valid way to seek asylum ... even though they aren't being charged with crimes ... even though, if they were charged with crimes, that doesn't make the children criminals. You have no defense, just distraction and dishonesty.
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  383. English class, learning that should be "your life".
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  384. There's a giant Democrat conspiracy to permagrab the power to make people wear masks and stay home? Are they all getting paid off by UberEats, or something?
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  385. ​ @tscanz1994  You can't both want truth, and support Trump. He lies about everything. Pick one.
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  386.  @emblemedfate4270  The Tea Party didn't attack their own Tea Party politicians, dumb dumb.
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  387.  @uncomfortabletruth5915  By your "logic" denazification is fascism. That's nonsensical.
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  388. ​ @Zahaqiel  What he failed to tell all the ignorant Americans, who fell for his bullshit, was that it had basically been ruled law, in Ontario, where he worked, for 16 years, and officially in the Ontario Human Rights Code for 4 years. "In 2000, the Ontario Human Rights Commission (OHRC) released a policy on gender identity and human rights, taking the position that the ground of sex could be used to protect transgender people from discrimination and harassment." "In 2012 “gender identity” and “gender expression” were added as grounds of discrimination in the Ontario Human Rights Code." In all that time, he didn't rebel against the law, and didn't find a single example to support his bullshit slippery slope fear mongering.
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  389. Same argument they use for the existence of a god. Attempting to shift the burden of proof.
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  390. Netanyahu promoted, and helped fund, Hamas, to weaken the Palestinian Authority in Gaza, to avoid peace, so he could continue his colonization project in the West Bank. He's their biggest fan.
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  391.  @whyamimrpink78  Trump calls for people to be fired all the freaking time, dimwit. And that's if he doesn't fire them, himself. He wants entire civil rights movements to be labeled terrorist groups, by the fucking government, not just fired.
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  392.  @nassaubahamas8570  Nope. You're lying. "A recent study found that vaccinated people infected with the delta variant are 63 per cent less likely to infect people who are unvaccinated. This is only slightly lower than with the alpha variant, says Brechje de Gier at the National Institute for Public Health and the Environment in the Netherlands, who led the study. Her team had previously found that vaccinated people infected with alpha were 73 per cent less likely to infect unvaccinated people. What is important to realise, de Gier says, is that the full effect of vaccines on reducing transmission is even higher than 63 per cent, because most vaccinated people don’t become infected in the first place."
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  393.  @nebwachamp  Trump is establishment, you said. Ok.
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  394. Chomsky has always been suggesting fixes. You, don't know what you're talking about.
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  395.  @andersonlee2755  By "truly alive", and the rest of the statement, it sounds like the op is referring to when it should count as a full fledged human life. A mindless, unfeeling, "life" doesn't really count as a full fledged human any more than a "living" sperm is. Scientists can now trick sperm into turning into an embryo, without an egg. Unless you want to ban sex, and ban men from ejaculating anywhere except into test tubes, so you can preserve the "life" of every single sperm and it's potential to become a full fledged human, then being against anything except late term abortions is somewhat hypocritical. Scientists can also now create an embryo from an egg and stem cells taken from bone marrow. If you want to protect everything that has the potential to become a full fledged human, the list is growing. On another not, the IVF process ends up "killing" most of the embryos they creates for the process. Most don't take, or aren't used. Any anti-abortionists that aren't anti-ivf are also hypocrites. Actually, most are hypocrites, out of the gate, since they worship a being who'd be responsible for the majority of pregnancies ending in spontaneous abortion (miscarriage), if it existed. They worship a "baby" "murderer", by their own "logic".
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  396.  @outtarespecttomyfawtha1589  No. Sam understands Jimmy, just fine. I'm a former Jimmy viewer, and understand him, just fine. You clearly don't. He's a grifter, who sells himself as supporting one thing, but then promotes going in the worst possible direction, that doesn't ever get you said thing.
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  397. You would like The Iron Wall, written by Ze'ev Jabotinsky, in 1923. The early 20th century Zionists weren't shy about being colonialists, and what their end goal was.
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  398. Kids forced to get vaccines to go to public school ... immigrants forced to get vaccines to immigrate ... construction workers forced to wear hard hats ... drivers forced to wear seat belts ... biohazard workers forced to wear hazmat suits ... the warning signs of Nazism are all around us!!! Ignore the trying to overthrow democracy to keep an unelected ruler in power, though ... that's nothing like it!!! Ignore that one guy convinced tens of millions of people not to believe anyone that contradicts him ... that's also nothing like it!!!
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  399. @Tilip Muejark What, like the UK, with dimwit Boris, who didn't take it very seriously at first, either, and had covid testing rates (tests per confirmed case) lower than even the US' pathetically low testing rate, for months? Yes, he's responsible, as well.
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  400. ​ @ComradeCatpurrnicus  Right. Well then, technically, Glinda forced the shoes onto Dorothy's feet, with real life magic. So, Glinda is Satan?
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  401.  @arceusthomas2447  Are you moving the goalpost again? You asked if there were other vaccines with monthly breakthrough cases. Yes, there are.
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  402.  @TropicalPriest  Promoting that progressives should sit on the sidelines in some irrelevant third party, with zero seats, benefits the DNC, and the RNC. Telling people to abandon Nina Turner benefits the DNC backed candidate. Telling people not to vote for Bernie helps the DNC backed candidate. Telling people Trump is a better option than Clinton goes against the DNC, but benefits the RNC.
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  403.  @Lucasolvalou  Yes, the full letter is a good read. Just Google (NYT Einstein letter), for any others interested.
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  404.  @israelchavarri6562  Any government "profit" is called revenue, and doesn't just slide into some billionaire's pocket. It goes into paying for government funded things, like healthcare.
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  405. Multiple lines made little sense. "a bitter winter of Valley Forge", instead of "in" Valley Forge. "victory from Cornwallis of Yorktown", also should be "in", Cornwallis was either "of London", where he was born, or "of Culford", where his family properties were. "Our army manned the air" ... huh? "airports" ... derp "and at Fort McHenry, under the rockets’ red glare, it had nothing but victory", that was the War of 1812.
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  406.  Aaron Dickson  What does your blathering have to do with simply stating the fact that there is zero evidence of left wing agitators on Jan 6., and that there have been multiple arrests of right wing agitators at BLM protests?
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  407.  @jop23ify  Both parties support vaccine mandates in every single state. Both support federal vaccine mandates for the military and immigrants. Both have for decades. Pregnancies and abortions are not contagious.
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  408.  @thatguy2608  Also: give everyone an automated monthly deposit and put numerous social workers and administrators out of work. Also: don't actually tax Amazon (a VAT doesn't tax businesses) and give consumers $3t, which would make Amazon about $60b extra a year they can put towards automating faster.
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  409.  @SR-lh4rm  Yang is lucky nobody who knows how a VAT works has seriously interviewed him. He's outright clueless or lying about his key tax plan.
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  410.  Aaron Dickson  The senate itself goes against majority rule. You don't need to make an inherently undemocratic body even more undemocratic.
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  411. His version of UBI, through a VAT, was complete bullshit. A VAT is specifically designed NOT to tax the businesses. It pays back all input VAT on the next stage of sale, from the output VAT, and the final consumer ends up paying the entire tax. He kept falsely claiming a VAT would force corporations, like Amazon, to pay taxes. Completely the opposite. He had no clue what he was talking about. He would have had money flowing to those at the very top faster than ever before.
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  412.  @FacelessProphet1  Rofl. Under 400k people voted like Jimmy ... Tulsi in primary ... Green in general. The majority of his followers either don't vote or vote Republican.
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  413.  @ConsciusVeritasVids  Candace "The problem is he [Hitler] had dreams outside of Germany" Owens, is pretty close.
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  414. ​ @billyconnelly3568  Well, what that slogan actually means to someone, depends on what "free" means to them. That could just be a single state solution, where everyone lives free and equal. Likud's original platform, however ... "The Right of the Jewish People to the Land of Israel (Eretz Israel) a. The right of the Jewish people to the land of Israel is eternal and indisputable and is linked with the right to security and peace; therefore, Judea and Samaria will not be handed to any foreign administration; between the Sea and the Jordan there will only be Israeli sovereignty." ... is undeniably calling for the ethnic cleansing of Palestinians, since "Israel" = a Jewish state (which is only possible if they maintain a solid majority).
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  415.  Alabama Man 2.0  You still jealous of Sam?
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  416.  @meltedsnowman9637  Someone with a permanent disability can get $794 SSI and $204 SNAP. That's $998 (more than $1k, if they were a single parent). Yang was offering someone like that a whole $2 more a month (offering them less if they had kids), but then was adding a 10% tax on many things. "Luxury" items aren't categorized by cost. They're categorized by type of product. Their cheap flip phone, and cheap phone plan, would have a tax on them, just like an iPhone and the best smartphone plan. Their outing for a prepared meal at McDonalds would have a tax on it, just like the fanciest restaurant. Their dollar store Barbie knock off would have a tax, just like a top of the line collector Barbie. Etc. Etc. Etc.
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  417. They've been giving a home to crazy extremists, since the 50s, at least ... extreme anti-socialist McCarthy types, southern racists, religious extremists, Reaganomics spewing Neocons, gun nuts, Tea Party nutters, Trump cultists, Qanoners, ... it has become a party of lunatics.
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  418.  @markgamolka1045  Like the way he, and Mate, went on and on and on about an irrelevant UN inspector report, that had absolutely nothing to do with anyone's decision to bomb Syria, instead of constantly attacking Trump, the one who decided to bomb Syria? Yeah, really challenging the authoritarianism, there.
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  419.  @kennybachman35  Yiddish is Germanic.
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  420.  Tee X  The US hasn't had a left in power.
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  421. Again, it was a solid argument, for social media, which doesn't create its own content, and to point out that, if they want an actual public square, then it needs to be publicly owned. The argument does not apply to media that creates its own content. That's a whole other monster. There are all kinds of regulations for creating content ... language on certain airwaves at certain times, nudity, violence, etc., etc., etc. And, there used to be regulations for news being more unbiased. You repeatedly conflate two different things.
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  422. Yeah, it was like that from the get go. Basically the entire majority native population was opposed to being colonized, but were ignored. They created the state anyway, and then cleansed it of enough Palestinians to put them in the majority, in their part (they were a majority nowhere, in 1945, and only owned 5% of the land).
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  423.  @GlassesAndCoffeeMugs  Jimmy and AOC agree on what, 90% of issues? And yet Jimmy punches at her every chance he gets. Likewise with Bernie. In a room with Jimmy in the centre of the room, and everyone else distanced from him by political difference, he starts throwing punches at those closest to him, first, and as often as possible, and rarely gets to punching those around the edge of the room.
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  424.  @frankpalancio8471  You seem to be conveniently leaving out that all Palestinian territories are officially considered occupied, just like Poland was. And please don't say, "They left Gaza!" ... Germans didn't actually live inside ghettos. They had Jewish councils and police administer the interiors, while they controlled the perimeters.
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  425. There's a difference between the minority having input and the minority being able to dictate policy. The senate was not originally designed for the later.
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  426.  @Evirthewarrior  Uh huh, and was Trump going to add 18-36 year olds to Medicare? No. He was running on eliminating the ACA, which includes eliminating Medicaid expansion for 10m of the poorest Americans. So your options were possibly adding 40m healthier people to Medicare vs possibly having 10m poor people tossed off of Medicaid. Dore chose the later as the better option. Not sure what you're blathering about borders for. So you have Republicans and corporate Dems who both suck on the border issue, but one party voted to give people another round of covid relief and the other voted against it. Are they both 100% samesies in the mind of a Dore knob? Dore called him a fascist, himself, dimwit. That Trump was so much worse was the whole point of his argument, dimwit, and why it was supposed to cause a massive progressive backlash. Instead, it got people so desperate to be rid of him, that they fell for bullshit "more electable" propaganda.
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  427.  @tilleryinnovations592  You didn't give me which false equivalency you're working with, yet, dimwit.
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  428.  @tilleryinnovations592  Say which new false equivalency, you Dore knobs are working with.
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  429.  @tilleryinnovations592  Motor vehicle deaths, UK: 2019 ... 1,752 2020 ... 1,460
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  430. Bullshit, on both counts.
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  431.  @gudmundursturluson7683  Wtf does needing to be in congress have to do with Dore promoting Trump as the better option, and encouraging viewers to vote in such a way that could only benefit Trump? You seem to have reading comprehension problems. Are you arguing zero voters actually listen to Jimmy, that he has zero influence? Jimmy predicted a Trump presidency would result in a massive progressive backlash, that would "for sure" lead to progressives taking the house (wrong) and senate (wrong), in 2018, and the presidency (wrong), in 2020. He predicted that even Republicans would join the left to vote against a Trump agenda (wrong), instead of following Trump into all out fascism (wrong). In the debate where Sam stomped Jimmy, Dore claimed that Trump filling multiple scotus seats was as likely as the moon falling into Lake Michigan (wrong). He got everything wrong. What was he right about, regarding "Russiagate"? The investigation didn't rely on the Steele dossier, that he blathers about. Mueller still indicted 19 Russians, and 3 Russian companies. The report provided some 200 pages of information sharing (collusion) that didn't amount to criminal conspiracy, and said it didn't indict Jr and Kushner for criminal conspiracy because it would be hard to prove they "willfully" broke the law, not because they didn't break the law. What's Jimmy's take? That the DNC, the FBI (run by Republicans for 6 of the last 10 presidential terms), the Republican lead investigator, and Australian officials, were all in cahoots to make Pence president, or something? Rofl. What makes Fauci a "pathological" liar? "etc etc"? You didn't even give one good example to "etc etc" after.
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  432.  @newperson4889  Good for you.
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  433.  @whyamimrpink78  Trump, and many right wingers, wanted people fired just for kneeling. They want burning a flag to be considered a terrorist act, but it's okay to design it into a thong and rub your ass on it. They're hypocritical morons.
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  434. Bought off by who?
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  435.  @aliamjon4423  “We made our intentions as clear as we could ten years ago. Most of our fans got it. To those who didn’t, I suggest you look closer.” “There are hints about the why in that episode with the mermaid, and if you follow the entire Marcie arc, it seems as clear as we could make it 10 years ago,”
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  436.  @outtarespecttomyfawtha1589  How many times have you spammed this bullshit comment?
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  437.  Illhan Omars brother's wife is Illhan Omar  You've heard that the US population is higher than 73.5m people, right?
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  438.  @TheVFXbyArt  Dore knobs and their false equivalencies. Let's skip over the decades of protesting and gaining a strong majority of public support. Let's skip over that a fair number of states had already made it state law. Parties weren't as polorized, at the time. They weren't quite sure how everyone was going to vote. It was a constitutional amendment that needed a supermajority. They knew they had majority support, but didn't know exactly how far off they were from getting a supermajority. So, they had a vote, to see. It failed. The bill was literally held back, the next session, because they saw no point in having a guaranteed to fail vote. The next session, they thought they had the numbers, but it failed a supermajority vote, by 2. Both of those votes are quite a lot different than knowingly being 100+ votes short, in the house alone, but having one for performance art purposes anyway.
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  439. @Tilip Muejark France, Spain, and Italy, also had pretty shitty responses, especially early on. The covid deaths per capita of countries like Germany, Canada, Norway, Denmark, Finland, who had mediocre responses, would translate into 300k+ fewer covid deaths in the US. Better, but yes, they could have done even better. Those countries tended to quickly get their testing rates up to 15+ people per confirmed case (the US, UK, France, Italy, and Spain, had testing rates lower than 10 people, for some time). Countries like S Korea, Vietnam, New Zealand, and Australia, quickly got their testing rates over 50 people per confirmed case. Their covid deaths per capita rates would translate into under 20k total covid deaths in the US. Most of the US deaths, now, are people not listening to Biden, aren't they? The same folks Dumpty encouraged to not wear masks and rise up against lockdowns.
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  440.  @kyle6232  A 100% guaranteed to fail performance art vote doesn't get you any closer to being able to pass M4A. You know that, right? What get's you closer to being able to pass it are numbers. Justice Dems have added about a dozen M4A yes votes, in just 4 years. AOC helped add a few more, in just 2 years. She was on the ground campaigning for Nina Turner, fighting to add another. Dore, on the other hand, abandoned Nina Turner ... abandoned adding another M4A yes vote to congress. Pelosi actually introduced the M4A bill, just last session, where it died in committees, that Jimmy thinks are unimportant, where 90% of bills die. He could have been "pressuring" committee members throughout the pandemic, to take up the bill. Pelosi has already reintroduced the bill, this session, where it's again sitting in committees Jimmy doesn't think are important. He could be "pressuring" committee members, to take up the bill, right now. Instead, he's going after M4A's most ardent congressional supporters, who have done more for M4A, in just a few years, than Dore has in his entire lifetime.
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  441.  @brentnoury7626  How does being on a team that isn't even allowed in the stadium, "brave', or give you a voice? Even if you're unhappy with the current coach and players, trying to change the roster of the team on the field is clearly the better tactic, than being on an irrelevant team that's not even in the game.
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  442. ​ @CreatureColossus  And yet different countries have different societal norms. Odd, if they're all samesies.
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  443.  @barbiquearea  He wasn't a seditionist to the US. It would be kind of nonsensical for England to have statues of George Washington.
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  444.  @tilleryinnovations592  The actual NIH: "There is insufficient evidence for the COVID-19 Treatment Guidelines Panel (the Panel) to recommend either for or against the use of ivermectin for the treatment of COVID-19. Results from adequately powered, well-designed, and well-conducted clinical trials are needed to provide more specific, evidence-based guidance on the role of ivermectin in the treatment of COVID-19." "However, most of these studies had incomplete information and significant methodological limitations, which make it difficult to exclude common causes of bias." "Because most of these studies have significant limitations, the Panel cannot draw definitive conclusions on the clinical efficacy of ivermectin for the treatment of COVID-19. Results from adequately powered, well-designed, and well-conducted clinical trials are needed to provide further guidance on the role of ivermectin in the treatment of COVID-19."
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  445. @Aaron Dickson Ivermectin is manufactured by the fifth largest pharma corporation in the world, dimwit. Even they don't recommend it as an effective covid remedy, even though it would make them billions, if it was.
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  446.  @repolarrepolar9833  Cambridge dictionary includes both ... "an adult who lives and identifies as female though they may have been said to have a different sex at birth" "a wife or female sexual partner" But, you don't seem to like the older definition still being used, or the newer addition, right? You want it to mean a single thing, that you approve, correct?
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  447. He was watching Alf reruns.
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  448.  @Stress-Free-K  What are you even talking about? Sanders is popular with younger voters of all races. And, what does two people having similar voices have to do with racism?
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  449. ​ @TheScotsalan  Would that also explain the 10 year shorter life expectancy?
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  450.  @SoSoKayla  He's not being sarcastic. He's not very bright. I suspect he doesn't know the difference between an anarchism symbol and an ancap symbol.
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  451. If something is being considered a crime, being investigated like a crime, charging people like a crime, prosecuting people like a crime, and convicting people like a crime, what's to protest? Are people supposed to protest the local gang hideout, or what? On the other hand, if something isn't being treated like a crime, etc., should everyone just ignore the police corruption?
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  452. It was a judgement to have an actual trial, rather than have it thrown out, as Israel wanted. This was all just pre-trial, so far.
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  453. It's to weaken the largest of the little remaining unions, in the US ... the teachers' union. Private schools don't have to be unionized.
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  454. Jimmy was already supporting the fascist March on Rome (drive to Ottawa).
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  455.  @whyamimrpink78  The "software glitch" was found to be a user error (failed to update system), in a county where a Republican county clerk was running the show. So, either it was simply a mistake, or Republicans are committing fraud to give Biden votes.
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  456. He already is. The Dow has basically flatlined since his first budget (Oct 2017) and start of trade wars (Mar 2018). The Nasdaq and S&P 500 aren't much better. Even with all the buybacks propping it up, the stock market is doing shit.
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  457.  @michaelarmijo4112  At least two Republicans in the same building also barricaded themselves in their offices, dumb dumb. None of them knew exactly what was going on outside. Their building got evacuated, as well, so even security wasn't sure it was a completely safe building.
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  458. Might as well write in Mickey Mouse.
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  459. ​ @annfrancis6287  Not really cherry picking. The OT basically describes an early version of Nzsm. Superior race of chosen people, ordered to cleanse themselves of anyone with different beliefs, and ordered to gncd everyone around them. Only Htlr lives in the sky.
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  460. ​@@dooothedooo1102 Your one brain cell is overworked. Get some rest.
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  461. ​ @nebwachamp  Trump's buddy, Epstein?
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  462.  @outtarespecttomyfawtha1589  You respect complete ignorance, which is itself stupid.
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  463. ​ @mp22893  To be more clear, he is also a grifter. Like a snake oil salesman, they claim to be selling you something beneficial, but they're actually selling you something useless, or even harmful. Sure, he says he's in favor of universal healthcare, but the way he promotes trying to achieve it, is the opposite direction. He literally promoted not voting for Nina Turner, not voting to add a pro-m4a vote to congress, when adding enough votes to congress is the only way to ever pass it. He promotes going third party, when all that will do is help Republicans get elected, who want to go the opposite direction. He spent much of COVID trashing the UK's completely socialized healthcare system ... promoting over the counter, out of pocket, "alternatives" to a vaccine covered by the government (a little taste of socialized healthcare) ... he doesn't actually give a f*ck, if anyone ever gets healthcare coverage.
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  464.  @elijahobviously1288  A mother is life support, as much as an incubator is. If you haven't heard of a premature baby in an incubator, I don't know what to tell you. Get out more. You're totally justified in pulling the plug on someone brain dead. We do it all the time. Get out more.
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  465.  @Quaquadaqu  Can't stand a liar. He has been lying since he first ran for president.
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  466.  @gnubbiersh647  Oh, well then, I'm so glad he sticks to talking about what he's an "expert" in, and doesn't spread bullshit to millions of people.
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  467. Most media seems to be forgetting that mask wearing and distancing is for when you can't be 100% sure you don't have it or those around you don't have it. If you're 100% sure you've got it, or even if you've done something risky like travel, you're supposed to be quarantining for 2 weeks. Not only shouldn't Trump be taking off his mask, he shouldn't even be around anybody.
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  468. The Yang Gang seem like the closest to Trump supporters, to me. They will argue with alternative "facts" and alternative "math", deflect, and project, all day long.
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  469. ​ @philhiller-mn1gw  Both parties have the same rules, if someone drops out before the convention, dingus.
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  470. Matt Walsh chose option 1. The guy talks into a mic. No training necessary. He should be getting $7.25/hr.
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  471. ​ @jackprice1758  You think white Georgians are the best judges of rcsm?
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  472. @Jack Bennett Armstrong Do you regularly have to verify your gender, when traveling? I've never had mine verified.
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  473.  @stopwritingthatreplyjohnat6638  Dore knobs have proved that FTV was nothing but bullshit. The $15 minimum got a vote, and what did they do with it? They kept whining about those who voted for it, like the pathetic hypocrites they are. They weren't going to do anything with a list of M4A no voters. They're lazy whiners who want others to do everything for them.
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  474. @Tilip Muejark Yes, I compared covid's higher mortality rate to polio. You didn't actually provide an argument against it. Yes, those things separate you from being a legal driver and a non legal driver. Don't have a license, don't have insurance, and you can't legally participate in driving. Break enough rules of the road and you'll lose your license and can't legally participate in driving.
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  475.  @nathanconnors8427  "set as a republic and not a democracy" Those aren't mutually exclusive. It was set up as both. It's not a direct democracy, but it is, most definitely, a representative democracy, and always has been. A "republic" is basically any country that's not a monarchy. "Democracies" come in many forms, some more democratic than others, and pretty much all are representative democracies. The original Greek "democracy" only allowed land owning men to vote. It wasn't direct democracy for all.
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  476. Can we maybe also remind people that Castro did overthrow a fascist dictatorship ... a fascist dictatorship the US backed, as it killed thousands of political opponents. Many of those fascists fled to Florida, and they, or their descendants, are most of the pissed off Cuban-Americans. They, and the US, only dislike left-wing dictators, it seems.
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  477. That has to be one of the dumbest ways to decide something is better or correct, that I've heard of.
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  478.  @edwardrosser938  Dore knob?
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  479. ​ @DanNorton1  <- Lol, this guy doesn't like an actual debunking on his channel, and deletes or blocks them. I pointed out the fact that Ayn Rand wasn't an anarcho-capitalist, that she actually criticized them, and that she never argued for zero taxes ... She instead argued that it was an objective fact that everyone wanted a basic skeleton government, justice system, and military, so taxes for those basics weren't coercive. Clearly, she just made that up, because it was her subjective preference. Those very anarcho types prove her wrong. Plus, people who don't want to fund police, at least not as is. Plus, people who don't want to fund the military, at least as is. After the thread with that reply was deleted, I mentioned the deleting in another thread. He claimed he'd welcome a respectful debate about it, but now I can't reply at all. This mighty defender of Ayn Rand doesn't even know what she actually proposed. 😂
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  480. Yeah, if you're a "comedian" who has to explain their "jokes", or when you're being "funny", then you've got a problem.
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  481.  @michaelknight2897  Like the 80s? Conservative religious types have been cancelling things and people for millennia, and still do, or try to, and have never had a problem with using the law, or military, to do it. There's still a government agency protecting delicate conservative sensibilities from naughty words and nipples. It has only been 6 years since the Supreme Court uncancelled gay marriage across the country. Right wingers, including corporate Dems, have passed anti-bds laws. You lot have lost your marbles. Giant corporations, run by centibillionaires, aren't even left wing. The left would like to tax the living hell out of them They're being protected by the right. Giving giant corporations so much power, in the first place, was right wing. There being no such thing as free speech on someone else's private property is a long-standing part of private property ownership, which is right wing. If you don't have a right to be on their private property, then you don't have a right to be on their private property spewing whatever nonsense you want. They're the equivalent to private clubs, with memberships, and rules for membership. Private clubs have been revoking memberships since always. If Trump kept walking into the ladies change room at a golf club, got tons of warnings that the average person wouldn't get, and finally lost his membership, that would be totally his own fault. If you actually want free speech rights on social media, I'm pretty sure the left will back you on public ownership. Let's do it.
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  482.  @paulzoom489  Rofl. The senate is the least democratic part of the system, where 580k people get the same number of votes as 40m.
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  483. ​ @xlogx737x  Might be due to the fact that they cover the body so much that they hide all signs of lady bits.
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  484.  @emblemedfate4270  Rofl, only armchair general Jimmy Dore is right on tactics, is it?
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  485.  @CMA418  Well, Sam has open invitations to multiple people with different opinions. Jimmy Dore is censoring his own guests, if they mention Sam, and is pretending Sam doesn't exist. Dave Rubin's fee fees are too hurt, because Michael was a big meanie. Crowder is having nightmares, and lying, claiming nobody on the left is willing to debate him. Tim is lying that he can't Zoom, or something.
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  486.  Rion  Moron. Muslims tend not to vote with the anti-gay right wing parties, in Western countries, because the right wingers are also bigoted towards them.
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  487.  @sekulrtsnfnugg6126  Policies? Like promoting Trump as a better option than Clinton, promoting Tulsi over Bernie, or like abandoning Nina Turner ... abandoning adding another M4A yes vote to congress, when getting enough yes votes in congress is the only possible way to ever pass the bill.
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  488.  @whyamimrpink78  Idiot. The US was founded by people who didn't want to pay a tax that specifically funded the police/military. They protested, rioted, tarred and feathered, destroyed private property, and eventually resorted to all out war (killing). They got extra pissed, when the police/military, "fearing for their lives", shot violent protesters. So, the US was founded by terrorists? You agree with King George III then?
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  489.  @dcaseng  No. The entertainment value, provided by Dore knobs, pays the rent. And, no, he's wrong about most everything.
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  490.  @nassaubahamas8570  It is not the same "rate", dimwit. That's a lie. No vaccine has been found to have 0% efficacy.
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  491.  @sheraldhill2728  Bullshit. If you're too stupid to figure out how to stop participating in terrorism, then that's on you.
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  492.  Aaron Dickson  You know you're in a cult when, your cult leader convinces tens of millions of people not to believe any media, any judges, any lawyers, any law enforcement, any intelligence agencies, any other politicians, any election officials, any scientists, any doctors, any nurses ... anyone ... even to not believe their own lying eyes, if any contradict said cult leader.
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  493.  @alabamaman1684  Nope. Your mental telepathy has failed you (you probably don't actually have mental telepathy, just so you know).
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  494.  @aliamjon2550  Why would anyone trust a troll?
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  495.  @ComradeCatpurrnicus  I also debate people who post first, and address their specific context issues. This is me posting first. I don't know who will read it, so here's all the relevant context. Also, as I mentioned above, the algorithm gives me more problems with shorter posts. I have to remove half my vowels in some posts.
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  496. All while, ironically, worshipping a being who would be responsible for aborting the majority of pregnancies, if it existed.
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  497.  @aarondickson1898  You mean funded by a US agency, with multiple other US agencies signing off on working with that lab. Let me know when you actually prove the leak and that the US is liable. It'll be hilarious if the rest of the world can sue the pants off of the US, with Republican assistance. Bankrupt America to own the libs!!! I take it you'll be getting an award.
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  498. ​ @ComradeCatpurrnicus  Every rpg says you're wrong. lol
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  499. ​ @trekkiejunk  An extended family thanksgiving. Some relatives you only see the once a year, maybe less, or someone with a new partner you've never met.
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  500.  @e13kid  Dore didn't give a crap about M4A during the election cycle, when AOC was campaigning for Bernie, and used her platform and PAC to help add a few more M4A yes votes to congress. He's full of crap.
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  501. Yeah, the issue is that "Latino" isn't really an ethnic grouping. It's a geographical grouping. Latinos come in wt (predominantly Spanish ancestry), blk (predominantly African slv ancestry), native (predominantly indigenous ancestry), and mixes of those. Over half of the Cuban migrants came over in the first few waves of predominantly wt Batista family members, government members, mltry, and those who got rich under him. Can't get much wtr than Ted Cruz. The Spanish almost completely gncdd the islands, leaving almost only wt and blk on the islands. Meanwhile, Latinos from Central/South America are predominantly natives, or at least a mix.
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  502. His brain outright exploded when editors asked for editorial rewrites. Like that hasn't been going on since the beginning of newspapers.
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  503.  @twoshedsjohnson8540   Hrrrm, let's learn to count ... Koch is on the board of the Institute of Humane Studies, and funds it = zero degrees to Koch. Dave Rubin is in a partnership with Learn Liberty = zero degrees to Dave Rubin IHS funds LL = 1 degree from Koch and IHS to Rubin and LL.
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  504. The level of violence isn't what makes something an insurrection, or not, dumb dumb. Portland streets = not where the federal government is located, and not where sore losers tried to overthrow the democratic process.
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  505. Yeah, the early one room school houses were modeled after churches, or they even just used the church, during the week, if they didn't have a school house.
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  506.  @seanhovan7426  That there were slaves in Egypt, is taught in schools. Pretty sure they enslaved all kinds of people they conquered, though, and didn't single out white people.
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  507.  @masterofmashup1737  People who practice Abrahamic religions outright worship a formless, sexless, being that they use male gender pronouns to describe. Trinitarians believe that sexless being transitioned into a human male.
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  508. They're smearing me by showing what I said. Deflect. Whatabout. Hypocrisy. False Equivalency.
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  509. Either complete bullshit, or complete stupidity. Heart disease makes you high risk, and more important to get vaccinated, not avoid it. And, there's no major complications with the vaccine and Lupus.
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  510. Daddy even bought over $3 million in chips, and didn't cash them in, and Donny still went under.
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  511. ​ @AnnoyingCritic-is7rp  "Harris was born on Oct. 20, 1964, at the Kaiser Permanente Hospital in north Oakland." Born in Oakland. "For around six years, Harris lived above a daycare facility on Bancroft Way in West Berkeley, an area known as “the flatlands” that was a center for the city’s Black population. The home is about 2.5 miles away from Thousand Oaks Elementary School, where she was bused as part of the city’s desegregation program." A little apartment over a garage converted into a daycare, doesn't sound ritzy, to me. She, and her mom, both lived in Oakland, upon returning to the US, as well.
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  512. ​ @CoolHandLuke196  Palestinians have been reacting like pretty much every other colonized people in history. It's only Zionism that's based on some "god given" right to this specific land, as a god's chosen people.
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  513.  @rikirich2223  Sweden has 5-10x more covid deaths per million than its neighbors, and had weeks where it was the worst in Europe. "In Sweden, excess mortality was 3% without, and 8% with consideration of increasing life expectancy."
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  514. Ze'ev Jabotinsky literally spelled out that this was exactly how everything would happen, 100 years ago. The most common native response to colonialism will be to fight to the bitter end.
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  515.  @aliamjon2550  That's exactly how it works. If you were actually worried about being "replaced", then you'd want to end any and all immigration/refuge/asylum. But, you lot aren't actually worried about being "replaced".
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  516. He considered Dore to be a complete and utter maroon, so I doubt he'd have gone down the mrnc third party route.
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  517.  @FacelessProphet1  Rofl. No, he doesn't. He outright promoted the idea that Trump was a better option than Clinton. He's a grifter who benefits the far right.
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  518.  @antonyhanson4479  She hasn't changed her position, Dore knob. She was never a pacifist. “In short, when it comes to the war against terrorists, I’m a hawk. When it comes to counterproductive wars of regime change, I’m a dove.” - Tulsi Gabbard, Hawaii Tribune-Herald, 2016
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  519.  @cfrey1988  Aside from the point about variants, because no vaccine is 100%. The more you're passing the virus around, especially higher virul loads in the unvaccinated, the more you're challenging the efficacy of the vaccine.
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  520. ​ @tugsn.mccowan1634  Who's the leader of antifa?
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  521. Weird. I've noticed that most top models, musicians, actresses, and other entertainers, considered attractive by most, lean towards being liberal, inclusive, etc. In fact, I've also noticed Republicans going on and on about these "left wing" "Hollywood elite" types, all the freaking time. I've also noticed that more centrist countries (which are left of the US) have a lot more fit people, and much less obesity, on average, than the US. I've also noticed obesity maps of the US, and the most obese states tend to be red states. But hey, I'm sure he's onto something ... or on something.
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  522.  @CnCW453  Healthcare index ... 1 Taiwan 78.72 2 South Korea 77.7 3 Australia 74.11 4 Canada 71.32 5 Sweden 70.73 6 Ireland 67.99 7 Netherlands 65.38 8 Germany 64.66 9 Norway 64.63 10 Israel 61.73 11 Belgium 60.16 12 Switzerland 59.6 13 Japan 59.52 14 Singapore 57.96 15 United States 56.71
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  523. So, a pretty standard colonialist feeling about the "savage" natives.
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  524. Sent you guys an email stating he was a fraud, from day 1. I'm a Canadian who owned and operated a VAT registered business. A VAT is specifically designed to NOT tax businesses in order to avoid double taxation. Yang is either completely clueless, or completely dishonest, about major policies he wants to enact.
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  525.  @sjwslayer7403  Kids dying isn't worse than a misdemeanor invisible line crossing? You're a real prick.
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  526. So you've just watched this one video of theirs?
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  527.  @jackprice1758  Are you talking about Byron Donalds types, who think black Americans had it better under Jm Crw, and criticize going down the path of LBJ (Civil Rights Act of 1964, Voting Rights Act, Civil Rights Act of 1968)? Don't think they're great judges, either.
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  528.  @jackprice1758  He also literally criticized going down the path of LBJ. He also falsely claimed black Americans were voting more conservatively, at a time and place they couldn't even vote. Plus, he was still seemingly attributing the family togetherness to segregation.
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  529. ​ @jenniferpearce1052  You know boat engines have batteries, like car engines, right? And the larger the boat, the more electrical systems it likely has running all through it, no matter what the engine is running on? Do you think a yacht's lights, tvs, electrical outlets, stereos, etc., aren't electrical?
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  530. Sweden's economy was worse than Norway and Denmark, and no better than Finland, plus had 5-10x more covid deaths per capita than its neighbors. Doing next to nothing, and killing people to stay open, doesn't necessarily equate to a better economy.
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  531. @Tilip Muejark You do remember that your own initial point was about the mortality rate, right? Again, the covid mortality rate is 20x higher than polio, and 5x higher than automobile accidents. Why are you okay with mandating a vaccine (4 shots) for a much lower mortality rate? Why are you okay with so many rules of the road, that infringe on people's freedumbs, for a much lower mortality rate? Why not let anyone drive, in whatever condition, wherever they want, as fast as they want?
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  532.  @michaelbarquero6079  You know the images on the screen aren't real, right? Nobody is forcing you to associate with anyone. And, you can turn it off, or leave the theater, if you don't like a show, commercial, or movie.
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  533.  @michaelbarquero6079  It was a deflection, because the topic wasn't a gay marriage, nor was it about businesses considered public accommodations. A movie, commercial, or show, doesn't force you to associate with anyone. You're not even forced to watch them. And, it's absolutely moronic to suggest including warnings for racists, bigots, or sexists, that people they dislike might be portrayed in a positive light.
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  534. The UK hasn't been good at much, during the pandemic, themselves. They've also had one of the worst covid outcomes in the world. Their testing rate, for much of 2020, was as pathetically low as the US testing rate. Moron Boris didn't take it much more seriously than Trumpty Dumpty. Why not look at countries that have done well, or at least mediocre, instead of others that have done piss poorly?
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  535. This would have to apply worldwide. Doesn't making out like the vast majority of doctors, across the world, are all in on some global conspiracy to not treat people, and let them die, just to get more people vaccinated, sound somewhat insane, to you?
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  536.  @tilleryinnovations592  He was simply giving examples of things that could also possibly affect excess mortality, off the top of his head, dimwit, and they did go down, in the UK ... you know, the nation the numbers refer to.
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  537.  @markzuckergecko621  Isn't tens of thousands of people dying due to a lack of healthcare coverage, hundreds of thousands going bankrupt due to healthcare debt, and over a million seeking more affordable treatment in other countries, a problem? A problem solved by other developed nations, with universal healthcare?
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  538. Yeah, no such thing as Celtic, Greek, or Viking warrior women, no such thing as female pirates, etc. Never happened.
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  539.  @outtarespecttomyfawtha1589  Slandering progressives that have done more for M4A in a few years than he has in his entire lifetime, is not okay. Peddling vaccine misinformation, is not okay. Peddling right wing extremists that want a civil war, is not okay. Peddling fantasies that will never get you what you want, is not okay. Jimmy is not okay.
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  540. ​ @dontcensormebro3217  Shutting down wouldn't have been as big a deal, if the government actually supported businesses, and citizens, better. Canada ended up having a 30 year low, in business insolvency claims, because federal and provincial governments offered so much help.
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  541. It's one of the few shows where they regularly debate callers with different opinions.
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  542.  @chestervirgil7968  Rofl. Some 20 people showed up in DC for the ftv rally. During the latest M4A rallies, AOC was campaigning for Nina, trying to add another M4A yes vote to congress. Dore, and his Dore knobs, abandoned her ... abandoned actually moving you one vote closer to ever passing the bill. The $15 got a vote, even passed the house (M4A didn't have a chance in hell) and got a senate vote. Didn't you pathetic good for nothings pretend like just getting a vote on an important progressive policy would be great, pretend like getting a list of no voters would be great ... and now, what? Weren't you supposed to do something amazing with the optics and the list? Yet, you lot just keep whining and slandering those who got it to stay in for a round of voting and who voted for it. Lol, you Dore knobs can't seem to make up your little minds. A bunch of you ridiculously try and make comparisons to women's suffrage, or civil rights, and yet you're here whining that a politician should be doing all the work for you. So, you're nothing like the women's suffrage or civil rights movements. Dore benefits the far right more than the left and, either that's why you like him, because you're one of his many right wing fans, or you're being grifted and are the kind of "lefty" that ends up on the wrong end of a Night of the Long Knives.
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  543.  @Barskor1  The southern states, literally, said they were separating over slavery, and enshrined slavery into their constitution. The Civil War was always about slavery. The north still had segregated military units and widespread racism, even if they were anti-slavery. The nation still allowed Jim Crow laws, and all kinds of discrimination to take place, after the Civil War, for another century. Even immediately after Lincoln's assassination, Johnson stopped reparations and even gave any land that had been given to freed slaves back to the former slave owners. Anti-slavery doesn't necessarily equate to not a racist, or not a bigot.
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  544. Literally, the Stop being alert to racial prejudice and discrimination Act.
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  545. Progressive policies, or nonsense propaganda?
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  546.  @michaelpeyton5730  Genuinely lying, yes. He was a psychologist, promoting that diet to millions of listeners, claiming it cured anxiety and depression, all so his daughter could make a few bucks. That's called grifting. It's absolutely disgusting, considering his credentials. He should have lost his license, for that alone. Why you think everything else he does, isn't also a grift, I don't know.
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  547. ​ @foggylake  "Nov 17, 2020 — President Donald Trump, with two months left in office, last week asked for options on attckng Iran's main nclr site, ..." He was talked out of things, before, and is now installing people who won't say no.
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  548.  @donnyj5805  Yeah, Dore knob doesn't do that.
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  549.  @whyamimrpink78  Rofl, so you agree with "blacklisting", simply because they don't report what you want? BLM defaced and pulled down some statues. Trump called those that did it terrorists and Nazis. Giuliani called for BLM to be labeled terrorists. Jr called BLM animals and has also called for them to be labeled terrorists.
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  550. Before Iran, the US was also involved in a coup in Syria, when their democratically elected government voted against a pipeline. In Iraq, although it wasn't an election, a popular revolutionary leader had overthrown the UK's puppet monarchy, but the US backed a coup, when he talked about nationalizing the oil.
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  551.  @spanqueluv9er  Sorry that you have reading troubles.
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  552. That's like blaming Native Americans for wanting to send the European settlers back into the sea. There was a reason that they did.
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  553. "Get out more" Hrrrmmm... Top 10 obese states ... West Virginia Kentucky Alabama Oklahoma Mississippi Arkansas Louisiana South Dakota Ohio Missouri Bottom 10 obese states ... Hawaii Colorado Massachusetts California Florida New Jersey Washington Vermont New York Rhode Island
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  554.  @Evirthewarrior  No he's not. Grifters claim they're selling you something beneficial, but they're actually selling you something completely useless, or even harmful. All the directions Dore has proposed going, since 2016, actually get you no closer to, or further away from, M4A and socialism. Intentionally skipping all pro vaccine content in articles, and only focusing on the negatives, is intentionally portraying vaccines in a more negative light. Dishonestly comparing total population hospitalization rates to a year and a half old case fatality rate, to portray covid deaths as "WILDLY inflated", promotes that covid is far less deadly than it actually is, and that vaccines aren't as necessary as people think. Lying about an article on children and covid, and outright being against vaccinating children, is blatantly anti-vax for children. Making out like there's some big pharma conspiracy, regarding vaccines given out for free and prices negotiated by government (representing a tiny sliver of what M4A would be like) is both anti-vax (making out like it's a pure profit motive) and anti-M4A. He also not only dishonestly promoted that an unproven drug is an effective remedy, but also that it's an effective preventative, which promotes a false alternative to vaccines. Between that, and being fine with Rogan's $2000+ "kitchen sink", Dore is promoting more expensive, and paid for out of pocket, alternatives. Dore has harped on vaccine side effects, like tinnitus and myocarditis, while, like Rogan, ignoring that covid causes those far more often (myocarditis over 6x more, tinnitus thousands of times more). He and Max misrepresented what was going on with the UK healthcare system (a completely socialized system, even left of M4A) and vaccines for kids, promoting a negative light on both vaccines and socialized healthcare. He's a grifter, ffs. People have to be complete and utter morons, to not see it, by now. Or, are his numerous far right fans.
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  555.  @alabamaman1684  The only people I've seen "crying" are those who are afraid of a small piece of cloth and a needle.
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  556. Ummm, Venezuela has a mixed economy, just like almost every other country on the planet. They simply have an economy heavily dependent on one resource. Quality of electrical service went down, and costs went up, when our service went just semi-private. They do as little as possible, to keep costs down, but charge as much as they can get away with, to maximize profits.
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  557. Nazis were fascists. "Fascism is the complete opposite of Marxian socialism." ~ Mussolini
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  558.  @ComradeCatpurrnicus  Nothing arbitrary about picking the beginnings of clnlism. Clnzers in North America portrayed themselves as the poor innocent victims of native "Savages!", or "Heathens!", for centuries. People bought the propaganda and, in turn, thought what was done to the Natives was perfectly fine. If you don't step in and say, "Umm, no, you did your clnzing first", then they keep falsely claiming to be on defense. Americans were fed propaganda, about Iraq, and 80% were perfectly fine with invding another country and klling hundreds of thousands of its citizens. Look, if you don't want to read it, just don't. If you think it's not useful, then surely whining about its length is even less useful. Go debate a Znst somewhere.
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  559.  @mickelcsaszar3244  That's basically the definition of hypocrisy ... my people can do it, but you can't. A god's laws aren't objective. They're based on that god's subjectivity, and people just accept them as absolute. It's not all that different than any dictator .. anything they say is good is good, and anything they say is bad is bad. If they order genocide, it's good. If they say it's okay to own slaves, it's good. If they say those people are bad, they're bad. If they say doing X is bad, then doing X is bad. Etc. Etc. According to the book, he literally orders bashing people's heads in with rocks, if they do multiple other things wrong, and spits out over 600 laws about what to do, and what not to do. Ordering to bash someone's head in, for collecting firewood on a Saturday, but not ordering to bash someone's head in, for owning other people, seems morally bankrupt.
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  560.  @arceusthomas2447  That's the annual mumps outbreaks in just the US, dimwit. You know something fun to do with anecdotes? Gathering them all together together to make actual statistics. What source? Like every source, from multiple countries.
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  561.  @DonaldAJr  Apparently you're the one having a problem thinking. Simply asking for money isn't evidence of a grift. Charities have still been asking for money. A guy sitting in his garage with his wife and a couple friends can likely live quite comfortably off of just YouTube income. If you think that's equivalent to having 100+ employees, then you're not very bright. A requirement for being a grift is peddling a fraud, peddling bullshit. Who peddled the bullshit idea that those two completely not equivalent things are equivalent, to you? Dore actually brought up the Anna incident, first, in an earlier vid where he was making fun of an unnamed former female co-worker who wore short skirts. If he didn't want the actual details revealed, maybe he should have never mentioned it. Who peddled the bullshit idea that her simply making a statement equates to "blackmail"?
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  562. @Aaron Dickson US Census Bureau Household Pulse Survey: Disparities by education level remained, with adults holding a bachelor’s degree or higher continuing to have the highest vaccination rate at 90.8%, and adults without a high school diploma having the lowest vaccination rate at 68.6%.
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  563. @Aaron Dickson You said PhD graduates were amongst the lowest vaccinated group in America. The Census Bureau clearly puts them amongst the highest vaccinated group in America.
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  564. Why would he pick someone who makes out like 2 part time "inspectors" (one wasn't even an official inspector and the other never left home base because he didn't finish training), working on a single inspection at a single site, debunks hundreds of accounts of Syrian chemical weapons use, since 2012?
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  565. Lincoln too, and then Johnson reversed reparations for slaves, and instead gave reparations to slave owners, for their loss of "property".
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  566.  @ZooomaCW  You said a whole lot of nothing. You could have tried to list 10 good things Trump did, instead of blathering on, like that.
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  567. ​ @AndrewShepherdODAS  They don't know. They're all over the place. They say gender and visible biology must match, but they've been using masculine gender terminology to identify their sxlss g0d, for thousands of years. Alabama's SC rules life begins at fertilization. But that means we all start life sxlss (because no biological parts), or female (because only the mother's female X chromosome expresses for about the first 7 weeks). They say gender must match birth certificate sx, but then argue someone whose birth certificate says they're female is actually a male, because XY. They say men can't give birth, but then an XY Swyer Syndrome person, who can give birth, is then a woman. They say XY = man, but then some don't match birth certificates, are born with vjjs, can have monthlies, and can give birth.
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  568. Moron. Socialist or fascist? Pick one. "Fascism is the complete opposite of Marxian socialism." ~ Mussolini The complete opposite of non authoritarian stateless socialism is authoritarian ultra-nationalistic crony capitalism, dumb dumb.
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  569.  @valrymlexeous6091  The facts are that Steven ran away.
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  570.  @thomascross8339  AOC and Bernie were on the ground fighting to add another M4A yes vote to congress, in Nina Turner. Getting enough yes votes in congress is the only possible way to ever pass a bill. It's the most important thing. Dore, on the other hand, abandoned Nina ... abandoned adding another yes vote to congress. Pelosi introduced the bill, again (she did last session, as well). It's sitting in committees. Maybe pressure and protest the committee members sitting on the bill, instead of pressuring and protesting people who have done more for M4A in a few years than Dore has in his entire lifetime?
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  571.  @clintholmes2061  Shouldn't you be over on right wing Rumble, watching Jimmy Dore and Glenn Greenwald earning their Peter Thiel CIA money?
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  572.  @craigcrawford6595  The book, literally, describes him and his followers owning and sharing everything communally. They organized themselves as commies.
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  573.  @craigcrawford6595  It is a perfect example of what Marx considered primitive tribal communism, where everyone in the tribe equally owned and shared pretty much everything.
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  574. How the hell do you flip short term monetary gains into long term thinking, and the long term health of the planet into short term thinking? That's whack.
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  575. Your parents not have the talk with you, yet?
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  576. ​ @ph6794  Homosexuality has never been illegal in Turkey. It was decriminalized in the West Bank in 1950, under Jordan law, where it was also decriminalized. If you're talking strictly Gaza and Hamas, I'm sure all the dead closeted gays, and women, super appreciate their "liberation".
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  577.  @mpgallogly  And, on top of what @longliverocknroll5 said, also a protection that was already in place in multiple bigger provinces. He was making a big todo about it simply being extended to smaller provinces. He also lived and worked in one of those provinces that already had the protection, for a few years. From multiple provinces, over multiple years, he couldn't provide a single example of the slippery slope nonsense he blathered about.
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  578. Bernie also wants to require employers to convert their share of healthcare ($10k per employee on average) into wages or equivalent benefits.
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  579. ​ @joepeay6986  Senate: Nov 29, 2022 — Mitch McConnell and Ted Cruz are among the 36 senators who voted against a bill to protect interracial and same-sex marriage. House: Dec 8, 2022 — The Respect for Marriage Act seeks to protect same-sex and interracial marriage. 169 Republicans voted against.
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  580.  @AnnoyingCritic-is7rp  Toronto is nowhere near Montreal, dingus. They bussed because Berkley was segregated, dingus.
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  581. AOC, Omar, Bowman, Mondaire, and Jimmy Gomez, also took shifts keeping her company, and giving her little breaks.
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  582.  @2727rogers  That's how grifts work. They say they support one thing, but then what they propose doing about it actually doesn't get you that thing. There's no indication Dore actually cares about getting anyone healthcare coverage. When it gets down to it, he always seems to back the worst healthcare option. The most popular third party hasn't won a single seat in congress in its near 50 year existence. The most popular progressive third party hasn't won a single seat in its 20 year existence. There are actually some 50 third parties, nationwide. In what reality does going third party benefit progressives? At best, let's say you magically get the party popular enough to get all progressive votes. Now, you've split progressive and Dem votes in the general, and handed more seats in congress, and handed the presidency, to Republicans. How does that benefit progressives?
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  583. Likud's bloody 100 year history ... In 1923, 100 years ago, Ze'ev Jabotinsky wrote, The Iron Wall, and a follow up, The Ethics of The Iron Wall (sooo racist towards Africans), in which he fully acknowledged that post Balfour Zionsim was colonialism, and that, based on the entirety of history, the native Palestinian population would resist being colonized until the bitter end. He directly compared it to the colonization of North America. He promoted doing it anyway, claiming Zionist colonialism was a "just" colonialism (he also thought North American colonialists were good guys, so not a great judge of morality), not caring what that meant for the native population. Ze'ev is important, because his Betar militant youth group helped found the Irgun terrorist group, along with other supporters of his, and the splinter Lehi terrorist group. The Irgun bombed numerous Palestinian markets and other public places, murdering many Palestinian civilians, including children, even including Palestinian Jews (who didn't support colonialist Zionsim). The Irgun are important, because they ended up being led by future Likud PM, Menachem Begin, who bombed the King David Hotel. The King David Hotel was bombed because the British had raided the Jewish Agency and seized numerous documents that may have shown that the terrorists were working with the JA and Haganah (JA liked to pretend that they didn't support the terrorism). The British then stored those documents at their base, in the hotel. That the Irgun terrorists responded to a JA raid, itself seems to prove the connection. That the thousands of Irgun (and Lehi) terrorists were also quickly merged into the new nation's military (IDF) and intelligence (Mossad) agencies, and are still celebrated as "heroes" by Israelis, to this day, also seems to support total collaboration between the groups. That other terrorist group mentioned, Lehi (also known as the Stern Gang), was considered even more extreme. They even tried to ally with the Nazis, against the British. Lehi ended up being led by Yitzhak Shamir, future Mossad agent, and another future Likud PM. They assassinated Lord Moyne, and others. In 1945, there was a major land and peoples survey done in Palestine. It showed that the Zionists only owned about 5% of the total land, 20% of the arable land, and owned a majority in zero districts. The partition was not only going to be forced on the native Palestinian majority, but Jews were still going to be a minority, in the part allocated to them. The only possible way to even become a "Jewish state" was going to require getting rid of the actual majority (at least enough so that there'd be a solid Jewish majority, so they could fake being democratic). This is also shown by the 1948, post Nakba, population of Israel. If there was 716,700 Jews, 156,000+ non-Jews, and approximately 700k non-Jews ethnically cleansed, that means the Jewish population, in the Zionist portion of partition, was originally over 100,000 less than the non-Jewish population. To believe that there was never any intent, by Zionists, to ethnically cleanse away the Palestinian majority would require believing that they never intended to create a "Jewish state". It's a nonsensical notion. Begin, and those terrorist groups, also opposed partition, but for the opposite reason Palestinians did. Palestinians didn't want to be colonized, at all. The terrorists wanted to colonize it all. "Moderate" Zionists were okay with colonizing half ... for now (what would happen in the future, after partition, was up to them, said Ben-Gurion). The Zionist terrorists were also involved in massacres, and assassinations, during the partition violence (colonialist war against the natives). Another notable future Likud PM, also started in the military, during the partition fighting. That was Ariel Sharon, war criminal, "Butcher of Beirut". Menachem Begin, and these other Zionist terrorists, are important because they became involved in Israeli politics, first forming Herut. That was the party that Albert Einstein, and other prominent American Jews, opposed, having a letter printed in the NYT, in December of 1948, when Begin came to visit the US. The letter opened ... "Among the most disturbing political phenomena of our times is the emergence in the newly created state of Israel of the "Freedom Party" (Tnuat Haherut), a political party closely akin in its organization, methods, political philosophy and social appeal to the Nazi and Fascist parties. It was formed out of the membership and following of the former Irgun Zvai Leumi, a terrorist, right-wing, chauvinist organization in Palestine." Herut merged with other extremist parties, over the years, and eventually became Likud, in the 70s. Now, people get upset over the slogan "From the river to the sea!", but it's the second part that's most important, "Palestine will be free!". Because "Palestine" isn't defined as an ethno-state, a free Palestine can be a single state, free for all to live in, and return to, free of continuing colonization, free of occupation, free of oppression, etc. Just like a Germany free of Nazism, an Italy free of fascism, a South Africa free of apartheid, or an America free of slavery from sea to shiny sea. It doesn't necessitate purging all the Jews. It just necessitates them giving up on the idea of an ethno-state. On the other hand, because "Israel" has been defined as an ethno-state, Likud's, "between the sea and the Jordan there will only be Israeli sovereignty", has no possible good interpretation. It is a declaration of intent to completely colonize, and ethnically cleanse, all Palestine territories. Not only that, but it also claims that they have a "right" to all of the "Land of Israel" (biblical borders that don't mesh with archaeological reality), which is an open declaration of future wars, against Jordan, Syria, Lebanon, and possibly even Iraq. Likud platform ... 1977: "The Right of the Jewish People to the Land of Israel (Eretz Israel) a. The right of the Jewish people to the land of Israel is eternal and indisputable and is linked with the right to security and peace; therefore, Judea and Samaria will not be handed to any foreign administration; between the Sea and the Jordan there will only be Israeli sovereignty. b. A plan which relinquishes parts of western Eretz Israel, undermines our right to the country, unavoidably leads to the establishment of a "Palestinian State," jeopardizes the security of the Jewish population, endangers the existence of the State of Israel. and frustrates any prospect of peace." "Settlement Settlement. both urban and rural. in all parts of the Land of Israel is the focal point of the Zionist effort to redeem the country, to maintain vital security areas and serves as a reservoir of strength and inspiration for the renewal of the pioneering spirit. The Likud government will call on the younger generation in Israel and the dispersions to settle and help every group and individual in the task of inhabiting and cultivating the wasteland, while taking care not to dispossess anyone." 1999: "The Government of Israel flatly rejects the establishment of a Palestinian Arab state west of the Jordan river. The Palestinians can run their lives freely in the framework of self-rule, but not as an independent and sovereign state. Thus, for example, in matters of foreign affairs, security, immigration, and ecology, their activity shall be limited in accordance with imperatives of Israel's existence, security and national needs." "The Jewish communities in Judea, Samaria, and Gaza are the realization of Zionist values. Settlement of the land is a clear expression of the unassailable right of the Jewish people to the Land of Israel and constitutes an important asset in the defense of the vital interests of the State of Israel. The Likud will continue to strengthen and develop these communities and will prevent their uprooting." All Palestine territories are officially considered occupied, by the International Court of Justice, the UN GA, the UN SC, and even in official documents of Israel's own allies. Likud is still using the blueprint for colonizing North America, in the West Bank. Move settlements out into native territory, piss off the natives, the natives retaliate, cry about poor "innocent" colonizing settlers being the "victims" of violent "Savages!", call in the cavalry to put down the native uprising, and eventually expand the borders to include those settlements. Rinse and repeat. In Gaza, Israel is operating an open air WWII style fascist ghetto. Them claiming a "right to defend themselves" would be like the Nazis claiming a "right to defend themselves " from the Warsaw ghetto uprising. There's no "war". That they're the occupiers means the "war" part is long over. Those people are actually supposed to be under the occupier's protection. That partition was forced upon the Palestinian majority, against their will ... that the Zionist portion still had to be forcefully ethnically cleansed of its non-Jewish majority, against their will ... that the millions of occupied Palestinians don't have a say in the government that truly rules over them, Israel's ... means Israel is about as democratic as Nazi Germany after Hitler purged his political opponents and then held elections.
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  584.  @allhopeabandon7831  Pretty sure it was the 7th doctor who tanked the series. It went off the air for 16 years. Also pretty sure that the vast majority of developing and undeveloped countries are pretty capitalist, and pretty much every other developed country can, at least, pull off socialized health insurance, just fine. Some even pull off free college, massive unionization rates, nationalizing some resources, and more, all without tanking.
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  585.  @BeautifulEarthJa  Oh right, I forgot about the Soros funded homeless Antifa army. lol
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  586. Oh, Sam started in 2016. Still waiting for the moon to fall into Lake Michigan, which Dore claimed was as likely as Trump filling multiple scotus seats, in their 2016 debate.
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  587.  @aliamjon2550  If the issue is really being "replaced", then it shouldn't matter how or where they come from, you should be against it. Is that the issue, or not?
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  588. Joe Rogan "kitchen sink": $2000+ per dose monoclonal antibodies.
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  589.  @darkliter7  Don't worry, it will provide you with free mental health care.
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  590.  @alabamaman1684  Yeah, that's not true.
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  591. Luke Skywalker also wasn't a woman, in the latest Star Wars movies. I don't think he was relying on facts.
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  592.  @dickdrapper5491  Rofl. Conservative religious types have been cancelling things for centuries, ffs. You think the earth isn't the center of the universe?! Cancelled!!
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  593.  @Dylanbolton69  Jamie is great, but her timing is off, when it comes to cutting in on Sam. So often you see her about to say something, but she doesn't jump in fast enough, before Sam gets going again, and she stays quiet. Emma is good at jumping in.
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  594.  @cfrey1988  There's a fairly broad consensus that as many people as possible, including school kids, is needed to reach herd immunity. And, the counties that don't want to vaccinate school kids (or adults for that matter) are also anti-mask counties. They're nutbars.
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  595.  @aliamjon2550  Bullshit. Studies going back decades to when surgeons first started using cloth masks show they reduce the spread of germs. You morons keep thinking they're to protect the wearer, instead of to protect others from the wearer.
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  596.  @wvu05  Yang should have been absolutely trashed by all media. As someone who has been paying a VAT for 30 years and operated a VAT registered business, I can tell you that he has zero clue how a VAT actually works. Unfortunately, I don't think many Americans in the media, mainstream or independent, know themselves exactly how it works.
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  597.  @AG-lm5uf  Dore admitted to the harrassment, ffs, and you Dore knobs clearly don't know what "blackmail" is.
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  598.  @AG-lm5uf  Wrong. What he described, and admitted to, was harrassment.
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  599.  @gnubbiersh647  No clue how he got a philosophy degree. He doesn't have a very good grasp on basics, like objectivity vs subjectivity, or morals vs laws. The Bible is the best selling book of all time. Tucker Carlson was the most watched man on tv. Trump will likely be the Republican nominee. Jordan Peterson and Joe Rogan are popular. So, what's your point? There are a lot of stupid people out there, consuming moronic crap.
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  600.  @aliamjon2550  While lying about numbers, and lying about southern border crossings only now surging under Biden. They jumped back up to pre-Obama numbers in 2019.
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  601. I think he means needing to restore the action of having to filibuster. The US has now implemented a lazy man's filibuster, where you no longer need to do anything. Republicans couldn't block things forever, if they were required to actually talk forever.
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  602. Graham knows this is the inquiry/investigation phase, and not the trial phase. He's spouting pure bullshit, for their moron followers to eat up.
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  603. Making Shapiro look tough isn't a thing.
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  604. Do tell.
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  605.  @keithlilly6242  "more religious" contradicts "nothing wrong at all" Also, colonialists are never not the aggressors. They wouldn't be able to be "attacked" if they weren't there doing their own aggression (colonialism) first.
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  606. ​ @barbiquearea  That's like saying if I was good buds with Kim Jong Un, I'd get great treatment in North Korea, since that fund is used mainly for friends of the royal family. Assuming you're not best buds with the royal family, Saudi or Vietnam?
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  607. ​ @ryanhubbard1885  Why do you cite processes and rules, if someone doesn't have to follow any process or rules, and can do whatever they want?
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  608. And Donnie used to pretend he was Swedish ... then suddenly he was German.
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  609.  @markzuckergecko621  On top of not being very bright, and being a hypocrite, you seem to have severe reading comprehension problems. I didn't actually personally call you a fascist anywhere. I asked if you were one of them.
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  610.  @timtpr7104  Oh boy, a plan to get a 100% guaranteed to fail performance art vote, by paralyzing the house ... delaying new covid relief, new unemployment extension, new vaccine funding ... during a pandemic, if they don't do what you want. You Dore knobs know that Pelosi introduced the M4A bill just last session, right, and it died in the committees Jimmy doesn't think are important. Where was the pressure on committee members to take up the bill? She has already reintroduced the bill this session. Where is the pressure on committee members to take up the bill? Progressives did get the $15 to stay in for a round of voting, it actually passed the house (M4A didn't have a chance in hell) and also got a senate vote. Suddenly, just getting a vote on an important progressive policy wasn't worth anything to Dore knobs. Suddenly, getting a list of no voters wasn't worth anything to Dore knobs. Just keep bitching about, and slandering, the most progressive members of congress.
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  611. Ummm, those homes aren't, and were never, considered the "affordable housing" part of the project, ffs. And, the project now continues on, but defaulting to no property allocated for affordable housing. Chappelle didn't threaten to withdraw his money to stop the project altogether, only to stop the allocation of property to affordable housing.
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  612.  @shanabell8603  The video is called "Are COVID Death Rates WILDLY Inflated?", you dimwitted Dore knob, and he very clearly compares a total population hospitalization rate to a case fatality rate, instead of to the covid crude mortality rate. The only one lying here, is you.
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  613.  @brandonlehmann8899  Will learning any of your 'whatabout those other people' history change the fact that white men running federal, state, and local, governments, stripped black Americans of any rights? Will it change the fact that the majority of white citizens in slave owning states voted to keep slavery for almost 100 more years after independence? Will it change the fact that the Confederates enshrined owning black people into their constitution? Will it change the fact that the majority of white citizens in those former slave owning states then voted for segregation for another 100 years? Will it change the fact that all the politicians from those states voted against Civil Rights? Will it change the fact that all those majority racist voters, who had been voting for racism for almost 200 years, became disgruntled with Northern Democrats for passing Civil Rights and started voting for Republicans who were pandering to their racism? Will it change the fact that millions of black Americans migrated out of those majority racist states to less racist states, joined the Northern Democrats, have the most representation within that party? Will it change the fact that some of those former slave states still have Confederate 'Heroes" Days, still use Confederate symbols, still memorializing Confederate racists who were willing to kill and die for the "right" to own and abuse other human beings?
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  614.  @thewhiterabbit498  Rofl. PV are proven frauds, in court.
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  615.  @larshofler8298  Except they never were "public". They were always private clubs, with rules you agree to, to join the club. Simply being large doesn't magically make them "public". Who owns them is what makes them public, or not public. Would you like to see them publicly owned and operated, so they are actually "public"?
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  616. ​ @jaybeemhardscrote7466  Use the primaries to vote for what you want. If what you want makes it through, then great, do the same in the general. If not, use the general to vote for the least amount of damage.
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  617.  @powbobs  Ah, you doing the third party thing? The one that hasn't won a single seat in its 50 year existence, or the one that hasn't won a single seat in its 25 year existence? Such a noble deed, letting Dumpty win.
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  618.  @juliusebola9389  Are they calling to close the Southern boarder and not the Northern boarder? If so, then they're probably racist, just like when they don't attempt to round up illegal Canadians and toss them into prisons.
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  619. Trump has already admitted, in a round about way, that he's incompetent. He accused Biden and Obama of being incompetent, regarding their handling of the flu. Not only has Trump overseen the worst flu season in 40 years, himself, covid deaths are obviously many times higher than death rates he's claiming are evidence of others' incompetence.
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  620. ​ @TheRedStateBlue  History, and even current events, "started" on Oct 7!
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  621. Objectivity makes no decisions, has no opinions. It is subjectivity that forms opinions and makes decisions. No matter how much Shapiro wants to be a robot, or Harris wants to be permanently comatose, they can't change that fact.
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  622.  @Disaletteritis  These are far right loons, who represent less than 1% of Canada's hundreds of thousands of commercial freight vehicles. They have been denounced by the Canadian Trucking Alliance and the Canadian Teamsters. By blockading entry points, they caused shortages, that put thousands of people out of work, and will likely affect prices, both of which hurt the working class, and the poor, most. They're led by former picket line busters, who also harassed native protesters. They're pathetic losers "fighting" to have Canadians hospitalized and dying at a 3x higher rate, like the US. Workers fought for decades for health and safety standards, so the owners couldn't force them to take unnecessary risks. Nothing about this is for workers. It's purely about the self interests of lunatics. They're self centered spoiled brats, having a temper tantrum, because they're afraid of a little needle.
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  623.  @Starcrash6984  Treason is the only crime listed in the constitution. If it can be ignored, can other parts be ignored?
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  624. Trump did it. Did Ben make a video about it?
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  625.  @michaelbarquero6079  Deflecting to a baker, doesn't address what I said, about something you said.
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  626. Stop spouting bullshit. Influenza numbers are at normal levels, in the US, on top of covid numbers. You want to be like Sweden, do you? Sweden is in the top 20 for covid deaths per capita. Sweden has 5-10x more deaths per capita than its neighbours. Sweden is currently breaking its already shit daily records from the first wave. Seriously, why do you people want more deaths? Why not aim for being like Vietnam, rather than another stupid top 20 country?
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  627. ​@John-PaulHunt-wy7lf Sam Harris is an ignoramus.
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  628. If the shoe was on the other foot, I'd also like to see the court cases be based on actual evidence, and not just wasting time with nonsense. I mean, they took the stupid online sharpie conspiracy to court, like morons.
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  629. It's specifically this man, who claims traditional masculinity isn't toxic, and that traditional hierarchies are simply because men are better at some things, while crying about a social hierarchy created by such traditional masculinity.
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  630.  @aSimpleTailor  Because the majority wanted a single state solution, but that wasn't the Zionists.
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  631.  @alabamaman5994  I don't know. You not even addressing what was said, and thinking you made an intelligent reply, is pretty freaking hilarious.
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  632. He should take over The Daily Show.
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  633. He's talking about rounding up "leftists". Didn't the Nzs start with people they considered sclsts, cmmnsts, and unionists?
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  634. Right. They have to believe that the most racist states in the country ... where the majority of white voters voted in pro slavery, anti abolitionist, leaders, for about 90 years ... where they seceded and were willing to die and kill for the "right" to enslave, beat, rape, torture, and kill, other human beings ... where they then voted in pro segregation, anti desegregation, leaders, for another 100 years ... all suddenly up and became the least racist states in the country, electing the least racist party. It couldn't possibly be that racists from those same racist places started running as Republicans and all the same racists started voting Republican. Anyone who can't see the switch is insane.
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  635.  @rtorres4132  The Republican party has been giving a home to extremists, since at least the 50s ... extreme anti-socialist McCarthy types, southern racists, religious extremists, Reaganomics, gun nuts, Tea Party nutters, science deniers, Trump cultists, Qanoners ... it has become a party of lunatics. And there's as much, if not more, corruption amongst Republican politicians than corporate Dems. They'll take in any psycho, or criminal, if it gives them a chance to win. It doesn't really matter what Democrats or progressives do.
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  636. ​​ @hochmeisterr  Well, then all the Znsts are in the wrong place. The First Znst Congress wanted to create a home "in Plstn". The Znsts should all leave that place, that isn't Plstn, and go find it.
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  637.  @serioustalk6912  Aren't Dore, Glenn, and Tulsi, now taking Rumble and Peter Thiel money?
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  638.  @whyamimrpink78  Calling for people to be fired for kneeling, is blacklisting. What does it matter why they're kneeling? Blacklisting them because their freedom.of expression annoys you, is still blacklisting. Calling for reporters to be fired, who report facts you don't like, or criticize your politics, is blacklisting. Firing scientists for saying to follow the science, instead of your political bullshit, is blacklisting. Similarly, he has publicly threatened to fire Fauci for sticking with science and medicine, instead of supporting Trump's political agenda.
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  639. Because they're comical charlatans, who have spouted nonsense about a spiritual experience being the only way to cure addiction, and a meat only diet as a cure for both physical and mental health issues, amongst other things?
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  640.  @AdamtheRed-  No they don't, because voting Stein won't save a single life.
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  641.  @lights473  No you. "he more often than not encouraged violent protesting" ~ Crowder
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  642.  @-suphur  Just trying to think of the next "brilliant" Republican take.
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  643.  @CatotheE  Trump spent months brainwashing people into thinking that their democracy had been overthrown, leading to them ironically trying to take it back by overthrowing the democratic process. They came prepared. Pretending like it was all one speech, is a moronic take.
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  644. Some of the details of Oathkeeper communications indicate the weapons were for if they couldn't breach the Capitol. That the Capitol police had a piss poor outer defense may have saved some lives, in retrospect.
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  645.  calo10able  The op didn't even use the word "racists". You, apparently, thought of Alabama and thought "racists", all on your own (how nice of you).
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  646.  Mari Jayne  Maybe because BLM doesn't actually plan and organize riots, unlike the numerous insurrectionists who planned Jan 6.
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  647. ​ @Nick-o-time  She literally votes against the defense appropriation bill, every time. You want her to vote against the entire budget, including SNAP, Medicaid, Medicare, SS, education, housing, etc., etc., etc. She also votes against the State Department appropriation bill, that includes the annual aid to Israel.
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  648.  @mpgallogly  I talked policy, and you ignored me. Trump dropped more bombs than Obama, ffs, and they kept blathering on about some completely irrelevant UN report. That UN investigation didn't even start until after the US bombed Syria. It was a no fault finding investigation, so didn't even blame Syria. Plus, the final report didn't come out until almost a year later. It had absolutely nothing to do with anyone's decision to bomb Syria. Why weren't they spending all their time attacking Trump, for deciding to bomb Syria? Plus, they attack people for simply accepting that Assad is a brutal dictator that has used chemical weapons, as if that makes people CIA agents. In reality, it's quite possible to both accept that Assad is a brutal dictator, and think that the US shouldn't be unilaterally, or with tiny coalitions of the willing, intervening in other countries. You can criticize leaders of both countries, instead of going out of your way to kiss ass with a brutal dictator.
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  649. Israel is objectively the aggressor, by every relevant measure... Modern history: 100 years ago, in 1923, Ze'ev Jabotinsky fully acknowledged that Zionism is colonialism, and that, based on the entirety of history, the natives would fight it until the bitter end. He just didn't care what would happen to them, and promoted doing it anyway. Colonizers are never not the aggressors. On top of the colonialist nature of Zionism, the Zionists also formed terrorist organizations, like the Irgun and Lehi. They bombed many Palestinian markets and other public places, murdering many civilians, including children, even including Palestinian Jews (who opposed Zionism). Israel merged those terrorists into the new nation's military and intelligence agencies. Israelis elected Menachem Begin, leader of the Irgun, child murderer, Jew murderer, and bomber of the King David Hotel, as PM. Israelis, to this day, celebrate those terrorists as "heroes". Zionists literally taught their neighbours that terrorism is a valid path to independence and statehood, and that terrorists are to be celebrated. In 1945, it is well documented that Zionists owned just 5% of the land and were a majority nowhere. Israel was formed by actually going against the majority population. It's foundation is completely undemocratic. Then, becoming a majority, in "their" new nation, by ethnic cleansing the actual majority, and then claiming to be democratic, is utter nonsense. Law: Israel is considered an occupier by the International Court, the UN GA, and the UN SC. Occupiers are also never not the aggressors. Those occupied actually have a right to resist occupation. On the flip side, it is illegal for the occupier to settle occupied lands, and illegal to use collective punishment. Israel is a rogue nation, that doesn't abide by international law. What it has been doing, and is doing now, is illegal. Current events: This year, alone, prior to Oct 7 ... Israel held over 1200 Palestinian hostages without charges ... over 200 Palestinians had been killed by the IDF and settlers ... over 1000 Palestinians had been displaced by Israel's neverending colonization of the West Bank ... and, Israel continued to operate an open air WWII style fascist ghetto, in Gaza. Even ignoring modern history and law, in no reality did Hamas "start" anything.
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  650. Sounded like a young, moderate Republican/Democrat, Dave Rubin, just wanting to hear people's ideas.
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  651. Woke Lincoln.
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  652. David Doel is good, with a Canadian perspective. The American left should look at how Canada's Liberals and NDP (progressives) are split, and how that allows for the Conservatives to win pluralities far more often than they should. From a Canadian perspective, it's easy to see that someone like Dore is actually promoting Republican rule, for decades to come.
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  653. Still waiting for the moon to fall into Lake Michigan, like he told Sam, the last time they debated.
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  654.  @ludlowaloysius  I don't compare everything to ducks, but if it quacks like a duck ...
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  655. Yeah, I've been wheeled through a hospital basement, due to construction on main floor. It was the only other way to get from one wing to another. It's like a labyrinth.
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  656.  @p.chuckmoralesesquire3965  Dore is an anecdote. No need for him to turn that into hours of covid misinformation. Shaun only scratched the surface, and Dore has peddled more bullshit, since.
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  657. ​ @s1ler  Literally how the US was founded.
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  658.  @fighter4freedom  If they take that route, you can also point out that Palestinians have Canaanite DNA. They're Arab and Muslim the same way indigenous peoples of Central America are now Hispanic and Catholic. They were the previous Christian majority, the Jewish majority, before that, and the Canaanite mythology worshippers, before that.
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  659.  @SoundsSilver  Yes, coercion is force, or threat. The threat is me letting you fall to your death, if you don't hand over your money.
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  660.  @valkondarvalakev6377  The budget reconciliation bill is going to get a vote, and always was going to get a vote, one way or the other. This isn't forcing a vote. Do Dore knobs know how anything works?
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  661.  @andrewkowalow3794  What's the "truth" about "RussiaGate"? Were the DNC, the FBI (run by Republicans for 6 of the last 10 presidential terms), the Republican investigator, other Republicans like Romney, and Australian officials, all in cahoots to falsely frame Trump, to make Mike Pence president?
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  662.  @jamesjameson4303  Did. Can't find the ME enemies. The US and Ottomans didn't even declare war against each other, in WWI.
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  663.  @rtorres4132  There's nothing more incremental than sitting on the sidelines, in some irrelevant third party, for the next 50 years.
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  664.  @wvu05  I've asked 1 before, too, without getting many answers. A couple pointed at the 50s ... when the US was 40% unionized and there was a high marginal tax rate, lol. Oh, and they didn't mind the segregation. Yeah, Trumpets seem genuinely clueless as to things Obama did. They don't seem to know that the economy has been on the same trajectory it is now, since 2009. They don't seem to know there has been a negative net undocumented migration rate, for about a decade. They don't seem to know the ACA, which polls well with them, is "Obamacare", which polls badly with them. They try to claim their hate for him isn't just racism, but they don't actually know specifics policies, to hate.
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  665.  Aaron Dickson  Rofl, point at me saying you said that, dimwit. You can't, because I literally never said you did. Not once. I was repeating what I had said, which led to you blathering about moral judgments.
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  666. Because they have the most leverage. It's impossible to pass anything without them, because there are zero extra votes to be gained to the left of the party. Meanwhile, they could possibly pick up enough Republican votes to pass things without needing votes from the squad.
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  667.  Illhan Omar's Brother  Apparently not, since the very stable geniuses it is meant to fool, aren't buying it.
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  668. It is a modern day Warsaw ghetto.
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  669. I don't think they thought through judging the MLB, based on its past. They shouldn't want Georgia's past brought up.
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  670. 10 million civilians? Fuck you're a wingnut. The worst years of the Iraq War, under Bush, possibly killed around 1m. No US military actions have come anywhere close to that, since. And, Trump has been dropping more bombs than Obama.
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  671. Trying to re-enter the closet doesn't make you any less gay than someone who never came out. Simply not acting on urges doesn't make you ex-gay.
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  672.  @robinsss  All your blathering is off topic. The topic was things that have more value than Crowder, like shit and piss.
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  673.  @barbiquearea  So, you believe the exact same Bond can run around for 60 years, still look to be in his 30s, can be Scottish, English, Welsh, and Australian, and be both brunette and blonde ... but being black is too much?
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  674.  @deadmeat1471  So, you consider it completely rational to say gay marriage is a threat to America?
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  675.  @barbiquearea  Craig already doesn't have dark hair, dimwit. Plus, Connery was Scottish, and everyone after wasn't. You're incoherent.
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  676.  Aaron Dickson  Because 2 votes represent 600k people and 2 votes represent 40m people? Because it can block the more democratic house? I don't give a crap who uses it. The lazy man's filibuster is bullshit. Most things used to pass by simple majority. Go back, or ditch it. What they're using now is, not at all, what the country was "literally" founded on.
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  677. You know there's a 2hr show, with a "fun half", right? If you're only interested in the non fun half, then don't watch clips from the fun half.
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  678.  @oppsy2944  If you don't support the police being consistent, then you support their prejudices. They should either treat these anti-vax loons like they treat native, and other protesters, or vice versa.
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  679.  @Bramble451  For there to be a point of creation, there needs to be a point when there's no creation. At the point of no creation, if the god knows the future of everything he will create, then the creations can't deviate, from that, once created. At that point, he would also know how he will interact with the thing he hasn't created yet, and won't be able to change his mind, once it's created.
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  680.  @halinaqi2194  Was I replying to a theist? I don't really expect people brainwashed from birth to change their minds about much. So, the actual bits you said, relevant to what I said, is that there's no point to it all, because all choices are made? So, still no free will, because I've taken all the possible choices. And ... God has made all possible choices? So, still no free will, for him either.
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  681.  @thomasautonomousanonymous  Jimmy isn't "down", or "to the left".
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  682.  @thomasautonomousanonymous  His moronic 2016 take isn't a secret, which then led to a debate with Sam Seder, where he spewed more moronic nonsense, that also isn't a secret. You're just ignorant.
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  683.  @garyhamlin3299  What are you talking about? "Since May 2021, people living in counties that voted heavily for Donald Trump during the last presidential election have been nearly three times as likely to die from COVID-19 as those who live in areas that went for now-President Biden."
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  684.  @timekeeper2538  Peru had one of the highest, if not the highest, uses of ivermectin in the world. It also has the highest covid deaths per capita rate in the world.
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  685.  @kurtvanderberg7528  Dumbest take. Mussolini literally defined fascism as firstly anti-socialist. He outright denied class warfare, didn't want any divisions, and wanted everyone to accept their lot in life, to work together united in nationalism. The Nazis, too, blamed socialists for sowing divisions, and Jews for inventing socialism and for not integrating. They also wanted everyone united in a single nationalist goal.
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  686. @@Eet_Mia Why do I have to be in that state, to know the history of American wht sup, vs German wht sup?
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  687. ​ @lindarushton6502  "Oh no, the savages have risen up and left the reserve, to terrorize us! They're so aggressive!" ~ 19th century you, I assume
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  688. Call them out for what, exactly? AOC actually voted against the individual state department appropriation bill and voted against the individual defense appropriation bill. What morons, like Jackson, apparently want her to do is then vote against the entire budget, which includes healthcare, education, housing, veteran's benefits, SNAP, SSI, etc. She also voted against the final version of the Capitol Hill police bill. Dore knobs don't seem to know that it was heavily amended, in the senate, and sent back for a second house vote. That state department appropriation bill she voted against is what includes the annual offensive military aid to Israel. So what, if she didn't vote against a purely defensive system? She didn't vote for it, either, and it was a blowout vote. Her vote made no difference. Progressives have a bill to put conditions on the offensive military aid to Israel. They have an anti anti-BDS laws bill. They've been calling it out as an apartheid. Get a grip on reality and complain about the 400+ house members who voted for it, ffs. So what, if they didn't force a 100% guaranteed to fail performance art vote on M4A? The $15, dimwit Jackson was complaining they weren't getting a vote on, already did get a vote. It passed the house (M4A didn't have a shot in hell), and also got a senate vote. What have Dore knobs done with two precious lists of no voters? Just keep bitching and complaining about those who voted for it, like pathetic useless hypocrites. And, learn some basic math skills. There are zero extra votes to be gained to the left of progressives, which means it's impossible to pass a bill without Manchin. There is the entire Republican party to try and draw extra votes from, to the right of Manchin. Bring enough Republicans on board and you can easily pass bills without needing squad votes. The squad only have leverage if a bill is "must pass", to Manchin. If he doesn't care if a bill will die ... zero leverage. If he amends a bill to the right, to bring enough Republicans on board ... zero leverage. Which bill has been "must pass", to Manchin, which he couldn't get Republicans on board for?
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  689.  @outtarespecttomyfawtha1589  Sam tried to have a rational discussion with Jimmy, in 2016, when Jimmy was peddling Trump as the better option than Clinton. Jimmy wasn't having any of it. Every single one of Jimmy's predictions were wrong. Jimmy, himself, argues against simply believing what people say, and to look at what they do, to judge them. Looking at what he does, doesn't show "good intentions", at all.
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  690.  @whyamimrpink78  Because they're dead? You didn't say anything that debunks the fact that the unvaccinated now account for almost all hospitalizations and deaths.
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  691.  @whyamimrpink78  Yes, I get that Republicans don't give a crap about anyone with preconditions. Who you care, or don't care, about doesn't change the fact that hundreds of thousands of people are dead. Even a mediocre response, like Canada, Germany, Norway, Denmark, Finland ... would translate into about 400k fewer deaths.
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  692.  @aarondickson9573  "Greatest" can apply to anything, good or bad, and doesn't tell me anything. The US is not at the top of the freedom index. It is not at the top of the freedom of the press index. It has more citizens locked up, than any other country in the world. Etc. How is it the "greatest" at "liberation and freedom"?
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  693. Canada settled on 24 weeks, with exceptions for after. At around 25 weeks is when a fetus starts developing the parts required for any level of consciousness, and feeling pain. Prior to that, a fetus is basically equivalent to someone who is brain dead. If one is generally understood to be no longer truly alive, then the other should be understood to be not yet truly alive. 16 weeks is just arbitrary nonsense.
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  694.  @aliamjon2550  Whatabout penguins?
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  695.  @cfrey1988  That's nonsense. Covid's 1% mortality rate is actually 5x higher than the automobile accident mortality rate. Should we ditch street lights, speed limits, seatbelt laws, child seat laws, drinking and driving laws, vehicle safety standards, licensing, etc., because automobile accidents aren't deadly enough?
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  696. And his supporters are fine with tax payers funding fighting his private legal battles?
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  697. How is talking as if "Aristotelian" is Judeo-Christian, "on the money", when Aristotle was neither Jewish, nor Christian?
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  698. Basically, take democracy to its extreme. You could still have the bureaucracies required to run large countries, if you want to keep a nation together. Those bureaus would just take orders directly from the people, rather than untrustworthy and corruptible politicians. You'd keep jobs needed to run society ... legal system, police, regulatory bodies, public works, etc. ... all answering directly to the people, and abandon jobs not really needed in a moneyless society ... banking, marketing, advertising, insurance, stock market, etc. The later, and any unemployed people would help do the necessary work, meaning everyone could work less to keep society functioning. Any automation would also mean people could work less at the remaining jobs but still get equal benefits of a functioning society.
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  699. The Permanent Apportionment Act of 1929 froze the size of the house. If that were repealed, the house could be enlarged and become more representative. That, in turn, would distribute electorals in a more representative fashion. It would likely kill Republicans' chances of ever winning the house and presidency again, unless they found another Reagan. That would still leave the senate, though, which is more undemocratic than the electoral college. Worst part of the US system.
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  700.  @moe433  Plenty of men seem to have babies, or there wouldn't be any babies. Men also used to wear skirts and dresses. Should we go back to the good ol' masculine days of kilts, togas, and such?
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  701.  @TheBiggestSqueeze  She just got done taking on the DNC campaigning for Bernie, and backing pro-M4A progressives against the DCCC, dumb dumb. That's the exact reason committee voters said they didn't vote for her. They stabbed her in the front for fighting them and Dore stabbed her in the back for supposedly not fighting them. M4A is the kind of bill that goes through committees. Pelosi even introduced it last session, where it died in committees, just like 90% of bills do. The speaker can't even force a bill through committees, all on their own. She didn't tout "forcing" (threatening to paralyze the house) a vote. She touted having a vote.
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  702. Not quite what he stated and he did apologize for what he did say. So, you're going to post a daily reminder that you're dishonest?
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  703.  @roems6396  You don't have a right to be on someone else's private property, so how do you have a right to say whatever you want on property you don't have a right to be on?
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  704.  @dr-wz4gf  Digging what? People have had their memberships revoked since the dawn of memberships. People have been removed from private property since the dawn of private property. In what reality do you have a stated right to be on someone else's private property saying stuff.
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  705.  @moe433  Not too hard a concept. A grifter, like a snake oil salesman, claims to be selling you something beneficial, but is actually selling you something completely useless, or even harmful. So, for example, Dore claims to be for M4A. He promoted Trump (platform: toss 10+m of the poorest Americans off of Medicaid expansion) as a better option than Clinton (platform: add 40m older Americans to Medicare expansion), which is going outright backwards. He peddled Tulsi M4A is unAmerican Gabbard, over Bernie, outright campaigning against M4A. He peddles sitting on the sidelines in some irrelevant third party, and letting corporate Dems and Republicans rule for decades to come, which gets you no closer to passing M4A. He publicly abandoned Nina Turner, abandoned adding another M4A yes vote to congress, which gets you no closer to passing M4A. The government negotiated under $20 vaccines, that are then given out for free, is like a tiny taste of what M4A would look like, and he continuously sows distrust in the government and "big pharma", while peddling more expensive, paid for out of pocket, alternatives ... peddling the more privatized healthcare options. He, and Max, spewed misinformation about the UK's completely socialized healthcare system, sowing distrust in that system, which is even left of M4A. All the directions he leads people get you no closer to, or even further away from, M4A. Get it?
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  706.  @waterandafter  And, out of the gate, you weren't debating the actual point of the op ... commentator hypocrisy. You were having a strawman argument with yourself, and just haven't seemed to grasp the point, throughout, even when it's spelled out to you.
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  707.  @aliamjon2550  "then go if not vote" Can you make that make sense?
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  708.  @markzuckergecko621  So, yeah, you do call other Republicans fake Republicans, making you a hypocrite.
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  709.  @a-o-dumb3348  The average net worth of Americans over 55 is $1m+. What he has isn't ridiculously high. He leads by example by promoting policies that would tax him more. It's not in his best self interest, if his interest is to be as rich as possible. Millionaires that promote giving themselves, and billionaires, tax breaks have their own self interests in mind.
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  710.  @shanabell8603  You can also find another video, by Ryan Cooper, called "Unpacking Jimmy Dore's dishonest BS about child vaccination", that shows Jimmy lying about yet another article.
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  711.  @larshofler8298  Yeah, totally samesies .... well, except for the part where the government doesn't control social media. Are you asking for the government to step in, to stop private companies from moderating however they want?
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  712.  @harveymanfredsenjenson5417  So, McCain voting no to repeal Obamacare was Trump's fault?
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  713. Maybe because her mother and grandmother live in Florida? People often visit family over the xmas holidays, don't they?
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  714. The Tates will be teaching from a cell in Romania, hopefully.
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  715. Bullshit. The DoJ has found that numerous police departments use excessive violence and racial profiling.
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  716.  @myroslavprotsiv9925  Rofl, what an asinine argument. So, if you forget your driver's license, you expect a pass from the cops? If you forget a proof of age, you expect a pass from a bar, smoke shop, or lottery outlet? If you forget your normal passport, you expect a pass at the border? If you forget your Costco membership, gym membership, or whatnot, you expect a free pass, to get in? If you forget your bank card, you expect free access to your account? Forgetting an id sucks, but it happens all the time. Get a grip.
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  717.  @GlassesAndCoffeeMugs  Jimmy and AOC both want M4A. They simply disagree on what? Whether forcing a vote now, that is guaranteed to fail, will accomplish anything. And yet he calls her a fake progressive, baselessly claims she's a paid opposition shill, etc., etc. If you're looking for someone to tell not to make such a big deal over small differences, go to Jimmy's channel. And, the reverse should be that he make a bigger deal over bigger differences, so maybe most of his videos should be attacking Republicans.
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  718. @Tilip Muejark So, no argument. Got it. You mean like needing proof of age for certain things, a membership for certain things, a license for certain things, a vaccine passport to go to public school, a vaccine passport to immigrate, etc.? What reality are you living in, where you have unlimited freedom?
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  719.  @heidibenner1577  Action is AOC and Bernie on the ground campaigning for Nina Turner, promoting M4A, and trying to add another M4A yes vote to congress. Adding more yes votes to congress is the most important thing, when getting enough yes votes is the only possible way to ever pass a bill. AOC also helped add a few more in the general election. A 100% guaranteed to fail performance art vote, doesn't get you any closer to being able to pass the bill. Publicly abandoning Nina Turner ... abandoning adding another M4A yes vote to congress ... as Dore did, doesn't get you closer to being able to pass the bill. Sitting on the sidelines, in some irrelevant third party doesn't get you any closer to being able to pass the bill and, if you let Republicans win, or let a corporate Dem win back a progressive seat, could actually move you further away. Promoting Tulsi M4A is unAmerican Gabbard over Bernie doesn't get you any closer to being able to pass the bill ... in fact, voting against having an M4A president is actually the opposite. Trashing government negotiated under $20 prices on vaccines that are given out for free (a tiny taste of what M4A would be like) as some "big pharma" conspiracy, and spreading a general fear of the government, doesn't get you any closer to being able to pass the bill. Having your buddy Max on, so the two of you can misrepresent the UK's completely socialized healthcare system, doesn't get you any closer to being able to pass the bill. All the "action" Dore promotes gets you no closer, or even further away from, ever passing the bill. He's a grifter, who pretends he's selling you something beneficial, but is actually selling you something completely useless, or even harmful.
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  720.  @camelopardalis84  She went all covid isn't as bad as people make out, promoting herd immunity, promoting it'll be better when warm weather hits, etc. She has attracted a bunch of Trumpists, like Jimmy's constant Dem bashing has.
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  721. If Dave is finding religion, is he going to follow strict Jewish (OT) laws? He'll have a tough time recovering from a stone to the head.
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  722.  @w.iraheta3769  How a UBI is paid for matters. A VAT doesn't actually tax businesses. In fact, it's specifically designed not to. Giant corporations wouldn't have paid into Yang's UBI, and only received the benefit of extra trillions being spent, funneling money to the very top faster than ever before.
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  723. Yeah, she started peddling right wing covid misinformation, for some reason. It would be gone with warm weather (nope). Look at how great Sweden is doing (as it racked up a 5-10x higher covid death rate than Its neighbors). Her covid attitude was probably responsible for one of her own staff dying, but she powered on.
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  724. ​ @Greg-io1ip  Corrupt Trump pardon. Not that bizarre.
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  725.  @edwardrosser938  Rofl! Hilarious, coming from a Dore knob. Jimmy slanders anyone who disagrees with him a "fake", "fraud", "sellout", or whatnot. He's a grifting loudmouth, who slanders anyone who disagrees with him, peddles endless bullshit, who throws henchmen (anonymous producers) under the bus for his mistakes, has conned his followers into thinking he "tells it like it is", and it's almost entirely hopeless trying to have a conversation with them. Sound familiar? Case in point, I stated facts about Dore's dishonest take on numbers ... it's clearly just math ... and you still came here to try and defend him. Go ahead and argue against the reality of math. Make me laugh, Dore knob.
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  726.  @korhashamo  It's to point out that idiots, like Greenwald, and likely you, don't know what "censorship" is. A privately owned and operated news company picking and choosing which articles it wants to write/print, and which it doesn't, has nothing to do with "censorship". If the authorities were forcing them not to write/print something, then that would be censorship. Likewise, private companies picking and choosing what people can, and can't, post on their privately owned websites, or store on their privately owned servers, isn't censorship.
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  727.  @korhashamo  Me not letting you put posters up on my house, or Sam not letting you come talk on his show, or me not stocking the NY Post in my store newspaper section, aren't forms of censorship, dumbass.
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  728.  @will4us  He's basically arguing not to believe anyone who claims to have been raped, unless they're young and attractive.
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  729. Yep, unless she comes on as a guest, or something. The Damage Report has her jersey framed.
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  730.  @kcolonelx6181  Because they can't order a country to stop doing a thing, that may or may not be breaking the law, until they rule that thing is breaking the law. But they can say don't break the law, and provide us with details of how you're not breaking the law.
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  731. That came after Israelis forced Palestinians out of their homes, and attacked the mosque, where a protest was being organized. It was after that, that Hamas warned Israel to leave, or else, and Israel ignored them.
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  732.  @hazardousjazzgasm129  About Israel having non-Jews, as if that means something. Sure, but they ethnically cleansed the non-Jewish majority (there were over 100k fewer Jews, than non, in the Zionist portion of partition, prior to the Nakba), never letting them return, before being such "great" people and allowing about 20% to stay.
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  733. Morons, like Matt, don't seem to realize that colonialism was also done between nations of equal development (Romans against Greeks, Greeks against Persians), and even done by less developed peoples against more developed nations (Mongol and Viking conquests and colonization for example). Is he really a fan of the Roman colonization of Palestine? The Jews didn't seem to like it, at the time. The roads and aqueducts weren't enough.
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  734. ​ @Milimeteypetey  Yes, it is a spectrum. Even the original Greek democracy was similar to the original US version, in that only land owning men were eligible to vote, and no possible eligibility for women or slaves. Also why we have a democracy index, indicating just how democratic a nation is. Whoever does the index, however, seems to ignore things about IL. Partition was done against the will of the majority, the actual majority of what became Israel had been ethnically cleansed and never allowed to return, it is occupying all Palestine territories and not allowing them to vote for who actually rules over them. It's about as democratic as Germany, after mustached man purged his political opponents and then held elections.
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  735. Testing rates are one of the most overlooked covid measures. Total tests and tests per million are irrelevant numbers that are completely disconnected from the covid numbers. The number you want to look at is tests per confirmed case. The US spent much of 2020 testing at a pathetically low rate of about 5 people per confirmed case. Canada fairly quickly got up to about 15 people per confirmed case. Australia fairly quickly got up to about 50 people per confirmed case. The US is only up to about 13 people. Canada is now about 25. Australia is up about 150. There's a strong correlation between testing rates and covid outcomes.
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  736. The most popular third party hasn't won a single seat in congress in its near 50 year existence. The most popular progressive third party hasn't won a single seat in congress in its 20 year existence. There's nothing more incremental than going third party, other than sitting on your ass at home and not voting.
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  737.  @chestervirgil7968  The $15 passed the house in the covid relief bill, dimwit. It got an actual vote, and passed the house. It didn't pass the senate, then went back to the house for a second vote. It was after that, that Bernie tried to get it in reconciliation. If the house hadn't passed the senate bill that was sent back, do you even know what happens next? It goes to house-senate negotiation, where the squad can try and pull in zero extra votes by making concessions to the zero members of congress to the left of them, and Manchin can try and pull in extra votes by making concessions to the 50 senators and 212 house members to the right of the party. In a standoff, a bill will most likely move right, not left. That is all besides the point that Dore is a pathetic useless hypocrite, who did nothing with the optics of voting against raising the minimum during a pandemic and nothing with the list of no voters. He just keeps whining, bitching about, and slandering, those who voted for it. AOC endorsed Nina in March, you dishonest douchebag. She then campaigned for her in the final stretch. Meanwhile, Dore was slandering AOC, claiming she had abandoned M4A, while she was actively trying to add another M4A yes vote to congress. It was him who had publicly abandoned Nina and abandoned adding another M4A yes vote to congress. While he was stupidly wondering where AOC was on M4A march day, she was at Nina rallies. Oh my, Dore's comment section must have been in an uproar over Dore abandoning Nina and slandering AOC and Bernie, who was also campaigning with Nina. Was it? Did you all call him out as a lying grifter? Dore, and his knobs, benefit the far right. That's just a fact.
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  738.  @chestervirgil7968  Go learn some basic math, and how government actually works, Dore knob.
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  739. He's a quack who has claimed addiction can only be cured with a spiritual experience, and has claimed his daughter's meat only diet cured all his mental and physical ailments. Having quacks' bullshit proven false is funny.
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  740.  @whyamimrpink78  You didn't answer my question. How is trying to overthrow the democratic process and install an unelected ruler, "limited government and giving people more freedom"? You're telling people to cut the cord? Trump (the federal government), convinced tens of millions of stupid right wingers not to believe any media, any judges, any lawyers, any election officials, any law enforcement, any intelligence agencies, any scientists, any doctors, any nurses ... anyone ... even to not believe their own lying eyes, if they contradicted him (the federal government). He (the federal government) convinced millions to go against their local and state governments. He (the federal government) fired, or threatened to fire, any federal workers who contradicted him. How is the most Big Brother like government in US history, "limited government and giving people more freedom"?
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  741. Rofl. Because it makes so much sense to fight to pay more for absolutely no reason.
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  742. Mayanmar disagrees, that Buddhists are nonviolent. India disagrees that Hindus are nonviolent (ranked worse than Saudi, for its treatment of women).
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  743.  @whyamimrpink78  Like BLM, the Civil Rights movement in the 60s, wasn't some centrally organized movement, with an official leader, or anything. MLK Jr wasn't Malcolm X who wasn't Huey Newton, etc. And nobody actually had any control over spontaneous protests and riots, over police brutality, or what not. So, whether MLK Jr spoke against violence is irrelevant to whether the entire movement should be considered a terrorist group, because some rioted in some places. Over 90% of BLM protests are peaceful. Various different BLM leaders have spoken out against rioting and looting. And, yet, you're still calling the entire movement a terrorist group. You seem to be heading towards an argument where being a "terrorist" isn't necessarily a bad thing ... one man's terrorist is another man's freedom fighter ... and you simply don't like the BLM cause.
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  744. It's funny how so many man babies took offense to her saying a diverse tween chick flick wasn't really made for 45 year old white men, and that they needed more female, minority, and youth, reviewers. I guess all those alpha males are just really into tween chick flicks.
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  745.  @TheManinBlack9054  Would Putin completely pull out of all parts of Ukraine, peacefully? The doesn't seem to mesh with what he says.
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  746.  @FontaineDerby  Uh huh, by Irgun and Lehi terrorists.
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  747. ​ @jds614  So, like Germany represents a large percentage of the global German population, but being anti-Nazi didn't equate to being anti-German. Better?
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  748. The Hindutva (used by the Sangh Parivar) founder literally modelled it on Italian fascism and Nazism.
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  749. Except Gaza is an open air WWII style fascist ghetto. This is closer to a German getting arrested for saying to stop bombing a ghetto, after an uprising.
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  750. ​ @picturesLondon  You can thank the likes of RFK Jr for increasing numbers of Measles outbreaks. He's a loon.
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  751.  @Evirthewarrior  Dore will spend months blathering about an irrelevant UN inspector report, that had absolutely nothing to do with anyone's decision to bomb Syria, instead of attacking Trump for deciding to bomb Syria. Instead of trying to undermine the UN, he should be attacking the decision to unilaterally bomb another country, rather than going through the UN. If he actually cared about anti-war, he could have totally been reporting on the fact that Trump was dropping more bombs than Obama. Not many were reporting on it. He could have been different, while actually attacking the person in power, instead of rambling about bullshit.
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  752.  @randyosborne310  Trumpists claim Trump "tells it like it is", ignoring the tens of thousands of documented lies.
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  753. What do you think of the Irgun and Lehi?
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  754.  @RealRougarou  Even Democrats elected the public option guy, not the M4A guy, after the pandemic had already hit. Jimmy was pushing Tulsi, who had moved to a public option, at the time. Where were the 100 pro-M4A progressive candidates Jimmy has in his back pocket? Where were Briahna's M4A protests throughout the pandemic pressuring candidates running? I'm sure AOC's PAC would have supported them. I'm sure the DSA would have coordinated rallies with them. Where were these champions of M4A? Keep in mind that these people now want to start over, from scratch, with a People's Party. They don't actually seem to care if you get M4A in their lifetime.
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  755.  @kennybachman35  If you load YouTube in a browser, you can try copying my post, and see if you can post it somewhere yourself.
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  756.  @leviashanken2506  There are a few different versions, in the OT/Tanakh, one being ... Exodus 23:31 “I will establish your borders from the Red Sea to the Mediterranean Sea, and from the desert to the Euphrates River. I will give into your hands the people who live in the land, and you will drive them out before you."
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  757.  @ComradeCatpurrnicus  You don't seem to grasp how propaganda works. Americans were fed propaganda about Iraq, making it falsely seem like they were a threat to Americans, and 80% of Americans decided it was cool to go end hundreds of thousands of Iraqi lives. Just pointing at the amount of people being ended doesn't phase people who think they're on the defensive side. You have to point out how they're on the offensive side.
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  758.  @ComradeCatpurrnicus  I have to say, you're actions make your argument somewhat incoherent, since you're arguing it's pointless to try and change minds, while trying to change my mind.
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  759.  @ComradeCatpurrnicus  Oh sorry. Anyway, you enjoy doing nothing, and hoping people simply get tired of it in yet another 20 years, since that has worked so well for the past 76 years. I'll keep doing my little part to try and combat all the BS.
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  760.  @wheelchairjoe70  Miscarriages are natural "spontaneous abortions". Shapiro worships a "baby killer".
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  761.  @aarondickson1898  The grant doesn't come out of his bank account, dumb dumb. It's a grant from the US.
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  762.  @alexandrasymeon5893  What a load of nonsense. Russia has been violently interfering in former SSR countries, since 1991. They never wanted their borders to not be bordering NATO countries.
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  763.  @kyle6232  What was in the final version of the Capitol Hill bill, and what was AOC's final vote?
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  764.  @kyle6232  What was in the final Capitol Hill police bill, and what was AOC's final vote?
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  765. Did the DNC, and "mamma bear", get AOC to help remove a few more corporate Dems from congress, and help add a few more M4A yes votes to congress, and get her to campaign for Nina to try and add one more? If so, maybe they aren't so bad. If not, then you're likely spewing nonsense.
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  766.  @pbpp2904  And that would be with about 20 mil total cases. Coronavirus has 2x the contagion rate, 2x the serious cases rate, lasts 2x longer, and is 10x deadlier. Plus, ongoing observations of recovered patients are showing possible long term lung damage.
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  767. ​ @geraldperyman6535  It's wierd if you wear eyeliner while arguing men shouldn't wear makeup, and suchlike.
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  768. Didn't watch the video?
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  769.  @bpdmf2798  Anyone can become a parent. The topic is becoming pregnant.
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  770.  @personanongrata2045  It's not that anyone can't figure it out, dumb dumb, it's that limiting the ID allowed to ones poorer people are less likely to have, is forcing them to go out and get something they don't already have, just to vote. And, in case you didn't know, black and Hispanic Americans are overrepresented in poverty. It's directly classist, and indirectly racist.
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  771. Trump brags about everything he possibly can, including even other people's accomplishments. You know his grades have to horrible, for him to threaten people if they show them.
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  772.  @BloodMoneyLLC  If you think Jimmy is Zen, then you don't know what "Zen" means.
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  773. Right (close to conservatives in other countries) and far right (openly fascist since trying to overthrow the democratic process).
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  774. ​ @smileydavis73  So you don't know what "communism" means, is what you're saying.
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  775. ​ @TheRedStateBlue  Was it you I asked, if I could have half of your state/province, to start a new Scientology nation, for Tom Cruise? Is it a deal?
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  776.  @zeeone4492  Assange isn't a leftist issue. Tucker was having pro Assange segments starting a year before Dore ever went on his show, simply to agree with Tucker's right wing takes. How does peddling a public option candidate over the M4A candidate, support M4A? How does abandoning Nina Turner, abandoning adding another M4A yes vote to congress, support M4A? How does peddling "extreme free market" loons as allies, ones that want to start a civil war and will shoot you if you try to implement M4A, once you help them overthrow the government, support M4A?
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  777.  @danielmwattsjr3671  So, why would anyone need a puberty blocker, aged 5-10, unless they had early onset puberty (another use for puberty blockers, to delay it until a normal age)?
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  778.  @ericfugal6648  Is ditching the tens of billions a year to farmers on the Republican platform? That should be public knowledge, if it is.
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  779.  @alabamaman9476  You're literally using a list of only cities over a certain population, dimwit, which weeds out a bunch of cities. You're cheating to make them top 10. In other words ... lying. Chicago isn't even top 20.
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  780.  @alabamaman9476  The fact is that state law determines more than city law, dimwit. Not too baffling as to why a rate would still be high, if you can buy a gun at the edge of town. Yeah, I get it, you don't want to count all the cities in red states, because you're dishonest.
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  781.  @alabamaman9476  Chicago has literally traced guns to being purchased outside the city and neighboring states, dimwit. It's just a fact ... something you're allergic to.
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  782.  @ericfugal6648  Australia's covid deaths per million would translate into about 30k total US covid deaths, instead of 850k. Mocking Australia is moronic.
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  783.  @ZooomaCW  They tried to overthrow the democratic process to keep an unelected ruler in power. That's a dictatorship. What fascist boxes do you think still need checking, that haven't been?
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  784.  Aaron Dickson  Nope. I clearly just gave examples of the evidence, dimwit, and it's nothing like that. Do you have severe reading comprehension problems?
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  785.  @b.d.a.8719  Wasn't it Dore who attacked and slandered anyone who didn't support his performance art vote idea?
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  786.  @Gee-xb7rt  Yeah. The fact that she actually opposed lowercase "l" right libertarians (ancappers), and argued that there needed to be a government, with minimal services ... "the police, the armed forces, the law courts" ... leads to her defeating herself. She just asserts that everyone would voluntarily pay taxes for those "necessities", so it wouldn't be involuntary taxes. But, we see, all the time, that people would love to not fund the police, the military, and probably wouldn't want to fund racist or bigoted courts, especially ones that constantly side with the rich, or the prison system, if they had the option. Definitely not some universal truth, that everyone would voluntarily fund those things. The rich would, and would use it to oppress the poor, is what would likely happen ... like calling in the military to bust strikes, or whatnot, like the good ol' days. That's why those things are a "necessity", in her mind ... to protect people with property and wealth. I might argue that capitalism can exist without a "government", but likely not without some kind of force, unless everyone is magically voluntarily following the same belief system. Feudalism, and absolute monarchies, are less "governments" and are more a form of governance, like a major company. They're private property owners, with their hired private armies, enforcing whatever rules they want on their private property, and charging people whatever they want for the use of their property, resources, etc. I don't consider privately owned and operated "governments" to be real governments.
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  787.  @Name-jw4sj  Just because a higher percentage of the population voted, that doesn't equate to base expansion. It just means more people voted. He only went from 46.1% of voters to 46.9% of voters, while the opposition went from 48.2% of voters to 51.4% of voters. So, yeah, he created more opposed to him than he gained.
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  788.  @harveymanfredsenjenson5417  By that "logic", Tucker is in love with Democrats and Biden.
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  789.  @GeLowBrando  In September 2021? Just how stpd are you?
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  790. Isn't that exactly how Trump got elected ... totally trashed every Republican, became the party leader, and sort of won the election? Bernie's criticisms are pretty mild, in comparison.
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  791.  Proud Class Reductionist  Son of a small city lawyer vs son of a bank VP/diplomat and stepson of a Swanson heiress. One of these things is not like the other, but yet the one with less manages to recognize privilege, while the one with more does not.
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  792.  @thinkoutsidethelines8265  Pretty sure that the progressive caucus, and even the house Dems, passed the $15 minimum wage. An important progressive policy got a vote. It even passed (M4A didn't have a hope in hell) and got a senate vote. There's lists of no voters from both chambers. Jimmy, and his Dore knobs, have surely done something with those lists of no voters, right? No? They just keep bitching about those who got it to stay in for a round of voting and who voted for it. Pathetic. Progressives regularly vote against the annual defense appropriation bill. They do support the Green New Deal. Do you understand basic math, and how bills are passed? M4A is on the progressive caucus platform. They're the ones that have all co-signed the bill. Did you not grasp the effectiveness and power arguments? Even if you're not fond of the current progressives, it is still more effective to run within the party than running third party, and will get you more power quicker.
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  793.  @masterofmashup1737  It is literally a Catholic catechism, that God is sexless, and yet they still call it "he", "him", and even "Father". Catholics are still the majority of Christians. Orthodox teachings are basically the same as Catholicism. That is the standard teachings of Judaism and Islam, as well. It is also what most Protestants teach. It is basically only some evangelicals and Mormons who teach God has a form. These people know there's a difference between gender and sex. Plenty of them probably also call their sexless cars and boats "her" and "she", regularly assigning genders, and using gender pronouns, that don't match a being's, or an object's, sex. In cases of referring to some unknown person, that they don't know the sex of, they know perfectly well how to use "they" and "them" in the singular (Someone left me flowers. I wish I knew who they were, so I could thank them). They know gender and sex are different. They know how to use the English language. They're simply bigoted hypocrites who only get upset when the LGBT community does it.
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  794.  @spanqueluv9er  7 months says you're wrong, dingus.
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  795. Forcethevote was stupid. And Dore's version, before others amended it, would have handed the speakership to McCarthy.
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  796. Ontario, Canada, should be having constant blackouts, throughout the winter, by US Republican and FOX "logic".
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  797.  @VMVarga-zg4cl  Rofl, and f*cking Dore just did an ftv anniversary special, as if it was some big deal. He can't get over it.
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  798.  @aliamjon2550  Did you even watch the video, ffs?
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  799.  @tomservo5007  Apparently your mom did.
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  800.  @giantsr1eva  Peddling unproven alternatives, constantly casting vaccines in a negative light, lying about about how deadly covid is, etc., is most definitely not pro-vaccine. He panders to all kinds of anti-vax bullshit arguments.
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  801.  @davidmeadows5627  Not every insult is an "ad hominem". You should learn what it means, before tossing it around so wildly. The religious right has been cancelling people, and things, for millennia, and have used the law, and authorities, to do it. A private company deciding what people can, and can't, say, on their platform, doesn't violate any American values. People protesting those they don't agree with, doesn't violate American values. The US was founded on protesting against companies that supported the crown, or vice versa, even destroying their property. Meanwhile, you have actual Republican lawmakers, tossing books and dictating language. If you know how the first amendment works, then you should know which is more of an infringement on American values, and rights. There's a difference between "voter ID laws" and strict voter ID laws. Canada is one of those "other countries", with "voter ID laws", but they aren't strict. You can bring in household bills, student IDs, and all kinds of things, to indicate who you are. Nobody really has a problem with having to provide some way of identifying yourself. The problem is if you narrow it down to a few very specific forms of ID, that some demographics are less likely to already have, in some states very significantly less likely.
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  802.  calo10able  You're right. Tlaib was born in the US ... "whose governments are a complete and total catastrophe, the worst, most corrupt and inept anywhere in the world" ... so Dump got that part right.
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  803.  @Stickyfingers420  Dore was arguing to "withhold" votes for Pelosi, not arguing to cast protest votes against Pelosi, and he misinformed people, claiming it would be impossible for McCarthy to win because 218 votes are needed to get the majority of the house. But, it's actually the majority of votes cast, and for every 2 abstentions, "present", absentees, or unfilled seats, it lowers the threshold needed to win by 1, because those don't count as votes. Pelosi just won with 216, even though Jimmy claimed 218 was needed, and slandered anyone who said otherwise. If the 15 progressives Dore named, simply "withheld" their votes, then the threshold needed to win would be lowered to 210 (one unfilled seat makes 16, 218 - 8 = 210). That would give McCarthy (212) more votes than Pelosi (209), and the majority of votes cast. He'd win.
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  804.  @fgsaramago  They're right. You don't know what an ad hom fallacy is.
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  805.  @deadmeat1471  Considering gay marriage to be a "threat", is having a fear of gay marriage. This shouldn't be that hard.
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  806.  @deadmeat1471  You: "Prager doesn't have an irrational fear of gays" Prager: "I don't think that the press covers always what's most important. Because, honestly, whatever side you're on, I can't think frankly of a more important issue even including the economy, than the definition of marriage." Prager: "America is engaged in two wars for the survival of its civilization. The war over same-sex marriage and the war against Islamic totalitarianism are actually two fronts in the same war — a war for the preservation of the unique American creation known as Judeo-Christian civilization." For your statement to be compatible with Prager's statements, you must think his are rational. Your claim of a strawman is bullshit.
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  807.  @deadmeat1471  Don't argue. Just keep asserting bullshit.
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  808.  @SR-lh4rm  Bullshit. I didn't say it doesn't generate revenue. I said he's clueless. It doesn't tax businesses, as Yang falsely claims. What Scandinavian countries do to make the rich and businesses pay in: very high unionization, higher wages, paid parental leave, more paid vacations, higher income tax on the wealthy, having them pay for retraining, having oil companies with majority state ownership, etc. ... and then they tax their better paid, higher standard of living, consumers, for more social benefits. Yang skips most of that, and doesn't have businesses paying in. If you want a VAT, do Bernie's stuff first.
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  809.  Alabama Man 2.0  Just the person the op was referring to.
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  810.  Alabama Man 2.0  There is a big world out there, dimwit. There are doctors, across the globe ... scientists, across the globe ... drug approval processes, across the globe ... Seems to me your type ends up feeding a lot of money to big pharma, as you're laying in hospital beds, for weeks, even months. Or, by taking a $2000+ per dose Rogan "kitchen sink".
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  811.  @dustinsindledecker154  He was born in Michigan. We get to double send him back to the US.
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  812. ​​ @AnnoyingCritic-is7rp  Why don't you go concern troll over Trump, and daddy, claiming they were from Sweden, for decades? There's the Baltic Sea, between it and Germany, rather than a city block.
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  813.  @clintonbaird5465  Vote for a nice Green party candidate, like Kyrsten Sinema was, or an independent, like Joe Lieberman was. Third party, and non party, candidates can never be corrupted! Their souls are pure!
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  814.  @Addamo  Dore has been slandering people who have done more for M4A in a few years than he has in his entire lifetime. He promotes the third party route, that hasn't won the most popular third party a single seat in congress in its near 50 year existence, peddling some fantasy where third parties are incorruptible and will only produce perfectly perfect candidates ... you know, like Kyrsten Sinema. He did, in fact, promote Tulsi over Bernie, which you're just lying about. He didn't care if 10m of the poorest Americans were thrown off Medicaid expansion, didn't care to try and add 40m older Americans to Medicare expansion, did support the "medicare choice" candidate over the M4A candidate, and then turned around and made himself out to be the one true champion of healthcare, because he came up with a stupid way to get a 100% guaranteed to fail performance art vote. He argued that Trump filling multiple scotus seats was as likely as the moon falling into Lake Michigan (wrong). He promoted Trump as the better option than Clinton, vastly overestimating the benefits, claiming it would lead to progressives "for sure" taking the house and senate in 2018 (wrong) and the presidency in 2020 (wrong), and vastly underestimating the risks, claiming even Republicans would join the left and vote against a Trump agenda rather than follow him into all out fascism (wrong). If he's not a grifter, then he's a complete and utter moron. Either way, he benefits the far right more than the left.
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  815.  @matthewwolfe9417  Well, those are mostly pretenders. I mean the actual Libertarians that debate whether driver's licenses are a good idea.
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  816.  @thomasautonomousanonymous  You seem to have severe reading comprehension problems. I said he promoted Trump as the better option for progressives, than Clinton. You get that promoting Clinton as the worse option, than Trump, is exactly the same thing, right?
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  817.  @thomasautonomousanonymous  A link to the video, a couple comments back, wasn't good enough for you, you dimwitted Dore knob?
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  818.  @thomasautonomousanonymous  Also, you Dore knobs seriously need to learn what "gaslighting" actually means. It's a specific form of deception that attempts to make someone feel, or appear, insane. You know, like when Jimmy made out like Trump filling multiple scotus seats was as likely as the moon falling into Lake Michigan, and that Sam Seder was crazy for suggesting otherwise. Turned out Sam was entirely correct, and Jimmy is the one living in some alternate reality.
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  819. ​ @the_mini_axe2817  That "chunk" might be a lot smaller than you think, though. Many of his detractors don't think he's extreme enough. Likud was founded by Irgun and Lehi terrorists. Israelis, to this day, celebrate those terrorists as "heroes".
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  820.  @terryarcona3254  Who'd ensure it wouldn't be like that, at all? On the Western frontier, before the government and law had much of a presence, private property owning cattle barons, with their privately hired cowboy armies, threw their weight around, slaughtering thousands of sheep, ripping down fences, and even killing herders and their supporters. Feudalism is just a bunch of private property owners, with their private armies, charging rent on their private property, and making rules for living on their private property. With no authority above those private property owners, they resolved their property disputes privately.
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  821.  @garyhamlin3299  Except they did work. Australia's covid deaths per million would translate into about 850k fewer US covid deaths. Even Canada's more mediocre response would translate into about 600k fewer US covid deaths. The US covid response was utterly pathetic.
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  822.  @Daneelro  Yeah, that's why I like the 2D political compass, for authoritarian vs anti-authoritarian takes. Being authoritarian, or anti-authoritarian, isn't necessarily left, or right. You can like someone's takes on some anti-authoritarian issues, but people shouldn't let that fool them, that they're on the same side, when it comes to a majority of political issues. Glenn's (and Dore's) recent "free speech" rantings have been very much the kind you hear from right wingers, even if they are seemingly anti-authoritarian. They never propose public ownership, which would give people free speech rights. They pretend like people are losing "free speech" righs, when nobody ever had such rights on someone else's private property, to begin with. They just seem to expect to be able to say whatever they want on someone else's private property, even expecting to dodge editors, whose jobs it is to literally edit your work before publication. And, if Glenn's take on Trump is similar to Dore's, Dore simply agreed with Tucker about how problematic it was for Trump to be removed from social media. Aside from what I mentioned above, Dore also never pointed out that incitement isn't even protected speech. If Glenn also doesn't point that out, then they're just defending far right wing insurrectionists, who wanted to overthrow the democratic process to install Dumpty as an unelected dictator.
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  823.  @ribbrascal  Alabama ruled that we're all female, since life begins at fertilization. Only the X (female) chromosomes are active, for the first 5-6 weeks.
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  824.  Ohio State  ... that can't do math.
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  825. Pretty sure that 90% of non-fast food restaurants would fall somewhere between ultra-fine dining and fast food, don't tend to hire teenagers, and don't make waiters/waitresses a fortune.
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  826.  @christianfascist7281  They aren't "united". They represent less than 1% of Canada's 420k commercial freight trucks. The united workers are working.
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  827.  @texajp1946  By backing Tulsi Gabbard? “In short, when it comes to the war against terrorists, I’m a hawk. When it comes to counterproductive wars of regime change, I’m a dove.” - Tulsi Gabbard, Hawaii Tribune-Herald, 2016 The war on terrorism has basically been used as grounds for all US interventions, since 9/11, ffs.
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  828.  @churchofthelambofsat  The problem is that the Zs keep claiming they're the same thing.
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  829. ​ @doubletap1663  Likud's platform: "The Right of the Jewish People to the Land of Israel (Eretz Israel) a. The right of the Jewish people to the land of Israel is eternal and indisputable and is linked with the right to security and peace; therefore, Judea and Samaria will not be handed to any foreign administration; between the Sea and the Jordan there will only be Israeli sovereignty. b. A plan which relinquishes parts of western Eretz Israel, undermines our right to the country, unavoidably leads to the establishment of a "Palestinian State," jeopardizes the security of the Jewish population, endangers the existence of the State of Israel. and frustrates any prospect of peace."
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  830.  @whyamimrpink78  Nonsense. The countries with excellent responses had fewer lockdowns. Letting it constantly be out of control leads to having to lockdown more.
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  831.  @aarondickson9573  Based on ... ?
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  832. So, you can't freely state that you don't want to share the same platform with someone, and give the platform an option to choose?
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  833. "Fscsm is the complete opposite of Marxian sclsm." ~ Mussolini I guess DT is a Mrxst, now.
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  834.  @michelbisson6645  Trump was not the first in the world to ban travel from China. He did not even ban travel from China. He stopped foreigners from coming from China, and let thousands of Americans to come back from China. As is clearly obvious, a travel ban alone isn't overly effective. Canada is in the middle of the road, for covid responses, but had 700 fewer deaths per million, which is about 230k extra deaths in the US. All the other countries had the same info out of China. You're spewing bullshit straight from the mouth of your Supreme Leader. You're in a cult. Wake up.
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  835.  @aarondickson9573  Dimwit. There was also a southern Republican amongst those filibustering, and 6 Republicans that voted against it. Do you think 27 Republicans passed the bill alone? Democrats introduced it, and the majority of them voted for it, dumb dumb.
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  836. The crud that led to Republican Mueller indicting 29 Russians and 3 Russian companies, some 200 pages of documented information sharing (collusion) that didn't amount to illegal conspiracy, and only not indicting Jr and Kushner for conspiracy because it would be hard to prove they "willfully" broke the law, not because they didn't break the law ... that crud?
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  837. Was going to say ... Our Canadian Trailer Park Boys comedy was to laugh at, not emulate.
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  838. Right? His question back, to avoid simply answering the initial question, was the deflection.
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  839. ​ @khersonskiyarbuzkhersonski2460  Incorrect. Ukrn was trying to join the EU, not NATO. Yanukovych was elected stating he supported joining the EU. Pvtin then implemented an Eastern blockade on Ukrn trade, until Yanukovych folded, and backed out of joining the EU. That's when the protests started. The US had no reason to be planning the protests, or a coup, because Yanukovych had been saying he'd join the EU. People were just pissed. Yanukovych then fled the country. Pvtin then invdd, took Crimea, and started supplying manpower, wpns, and money, to rbls in Donbass.
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  840.  @barbiquearea  South Korea isn't fully capitalist. They have socialized healthcare for those who can't afford it, publicly funded post secondary education, ... So why did you pick them as "true" capitalism?
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  841.  @asamanthinketh1937  Why not pick one of the happier countries than Switzerland, like centrist Denmark? Top 10 happiness index ... Finland 7.80 Denmark 7.59 Iceland 7.53 Israel 7.47 Netherlands 7.40 Sweden 7.39 Norway 7.32 Switzerland 7.24 Luxembourg 7.23 New Zealand 7.12
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  842.  @tripvic7629  You can both, accept that Assad is a brutal dictator that used chemical weapons, and believe that the US shouldn't be unilaterally intervening in other countries, dimwit. What is lefty about defending a brutal dictator so hard? Dore went so anti-Clinton, he promoted Trump as the better option. What the f*ck is lefty about promoting Republicans as the better option?
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  843. We are willing to work with Biden, if he's willing to do things exactly the way we want.
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  844. @Harry Moorehouse So has everyone at FOX. Doesn't stop them from spewing bullshit.
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  845. How about asking a president to not only stop mocking guidelines, but to encourage people to follow guidelines? Asking a president to support states trying contain the virus, rather than fighting them? Asking a president to increase testing from its pathetically low rate? You know ... asking them to do their job.
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  846.  @alowry2002  It's not a "war", when you're already officially occupied. Nazis weren't at "war" with the Warsaw ghetto uprising.
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  847. Bad ugly behaviour is impeachable.
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  848. ​ @Whoyouwishyouwere  How about you take a look at reality. Their 2022 profits are 3x that of 2019. They raised prices purely for more profit.
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  849.  @shanabell8603  Jimmy has had a video, since the Shaun video, about covid deaths. In it, he starts with vaccinated and unvaccinated hospitalization rates, 0.01% and 0.89%, that are based on the total vaccinated and unvaccinated populations, which is clearly stated in the Gallup article he cites. Jimmy instead uses the numbers as if they're based on only the infected population, and immediately makes out like the hospitalization rates are crazy low. He then compares those hospitalization rates to a "death rate" that is obviously a year and a half old case fatality rate, 3.4%. Then ... you know, since 3.4% is so much higher than 0.9% ... he makes out like covid deaths have been "WILDLY inflated". If you're using total population hospitalization rates, then the "death rate" you want is the covid crude mortality rate, which is about 0.25%. There's nothing incompatible with 0.9% and 0.25%. Jimmy was falsely making out like hospitalization rates were much lower than they actually are, for those infected, and that people were being lied to about death rates, all of which panders to the anti-maskers and anti-vaxxers, who have been claiming covid is no worse than a cold or flu. Plus, he basically completely ignores that he has just shown numbers indicating that the unvaccinated are being hospitalized at 89x the rate of the vaccinated. Either Jimmy didn't read the Gallup article, himself, to know what kind of hospitalization rates he was using, or he's a complete and utter moron who, himself, decided to use the incorrect "death rate" ... a complete and utter moron who couldn't find a "death rate" that's newer than a year and a half old (case fatality rates change constantly) ... a complete and utter moron who couldn't do the simple math to find out the latest case fatality rate, or crude mortality rate, himself. He's either completely ignorant or completely dishonest. Take your pick.
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  850. Was he right, when he claimed letting Trump win would cause such a massive progressive backlash, that progressives would take the house, senate, and presidency, in 2020? Was he right that a Trump presidency would have little effect on the Supreme Court? He isn't "spot on" about much, that I've seen.
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  851. Likud's, "between the sea and the Jordan", platform ... 1977: "The Right of the Jewish People to the Land of Israel (Eretz Israel) a. The right of the Jewish people to the land of Israel is eternal and indisputable and is linked with the right to security and peace; therefore, Judea and Samaria will not be handed to any foreign administration; between the Sea and the Jordan there will only be Israeli sovereignty. b. A plan which relinquishes parts of western Eretz Israel, undermines our right to the country, unavoidably leads to the establishment of a "Palestinian State," jeopardizes the security of the Jewish population, endangers the existence of the State of Israel. and frustrates any prospect of peace." "Settlement Settlement. both urban and rural. in all parts of the Land of Israel is the focal point of the Zionist effort to redeem the country, to maintain vital security areas and serves as a reservoir of strength and inspiration for the renewal of the pioneering spirit. The Likud government will call on the younger generation in Israel and the dispersions to settle and help every group and individual in the task of inhabiting and cultivating the wasteland, while taking care not to dispossess anyone." 1999: "The Government of Israel flatly rejects the establishment of a Palestinian Arab state west of the Jordan river. The Palestinians can run their lives freely in the framework of self-rule, but not as an independent and sovereign state. Thus, for example, in matters of foreign affairs, security, immigration, and ecology, their activity shall be limited in accordance with imperatives of Israel's existence, security and national needs." "The Jewish communities in Judea, Samaria, and Gaza are the realization of Zionist values. Settlement of the land is a clear expression of the unassailable right of the Jewish people to the Land of Israel and constitutes an important asset in the defense of the vital interests of the State of Israel. The Likud will continue to strengthen and develop these communities and will prevent their uprooting."
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  852.  @Disaletteritis  Rofl. Conservatives can't get a majority of votes anywhere but Alberta and Saskatchewan, and only win pluralities due to Liberal and NDP vote splitting. And the extreme right wing loons, from the People's Party, and the like, that are leading this shit show, are even far less popular.
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  853.  @SSGTA440  Dore hasn't done anything and keeps going after M4A's most ardent congressional supporters. Dore knobs have already proved that ftv was pure bullshit. The $15 got a vote, actually passed the house (which M4A wouldn't have), and produced a list of no voters from both the house and senate. All Dore and his knobs do is keep bitching about those who got it to stay in for a round of voting, and voted for it.
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  854.  @daniellove162  Every Republican voted against the $15, in congress. Whatever the hell is going on at the state level is irrelevant. NYC and Washington DC already have $15 minimums, not 5 years from now. Multiple states already have minimums above Florida's current minimum, and it'll take Florida a few years to even catch up to them. Wouldn't your "logic" mean that all the Democratic places that are out in front of Florida, are evidence they can pass minimum wage bills, and do it sooner? Wouldn't the fact that almost all of them voted for it in congress be evidence they're ahead of Republicans on the issue? The $15 would be an important progressive policy, that got a vote in the house, actually passed (M4A didn't have a chance in hell), and also got a senate vote. Weren't you Dore knobs supposed to be doing something with lists of no voters, instead of bitching about, and slandering, those who voted for it?
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  855.  Major Nelson  You so don't know what "communist" means.
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  856.  @EnviousNV_  Not really. On top of him not knowing how the vote works. None of them thought of other options than Pelosi simply bending over. She could have just let them paralyze the house, and let the corporate media have a field day blaming progressives for no new covid relief, no new unemployment extensions, no new vaccine funding, etc., during a pandemic. She could have made a deal with Republicans, and give them something in exchange for enough of them abstaining or being absent to lower the threshold needed to win. A couple times in the past, the house also simply adopted a temporary plurality wins rule, to end the house being paralyzed. They have overestimated just how much leverage progressives actually have, based on only considering one possible outcome.
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  857. 42 is the sacred number.
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  858.  @michaelbarquero6079  You get an F on analogies. You're concept of reality is completely backwards. It's you and Shapiro that are, literally, telling the NFL to shut up and play football. And, I'm the one telling you how to protest ... turn the channel, don't see the movie, or whatever, if you don't like it. Again, a tangent of deflection, from you, and ironically strawmanning me, with something someone else may have said, while complaining about strawmanning. You're clearly not very bright, and me saying so is just a statement of fact.
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  859.  @professormeow7432  Going on Rogan, pretending like you're some kind of pro debater, claiming the left is afraid to debate you, all the while avoiding debating anybody but amateurs, makes you the coward who deserves to be set up. Your boy took his ball and ran home to daddy, when presented with a player he couldn't get an "easy layup" on.
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  860.  @secularsocialist  Rofl. Aren't Jimmy, Glenn, and Tulsi, now getting money from Peter Thiel, to be on Rumble, ffs? Peter Thiel also sells software to the CIA, and other intelligence agencies. Coincidence? lol
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  861.  @MsPope1010  Me too.
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  862.  @BB-mq9qk  The fact that he thinks there's a global conspiracy, amongst the vast majority of doctors, to let people die, is proof he's a quack, dimwit.
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  863. Israel has colonized too much, and the 2 state solution has failed. I think it needs a one state solution, Lebanon style government, and a right of return for Palestinians.
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  864.  @edwardrosser938  Jimmy promoted Trump (platform: toss 10m of the poorest Americans off of Medicaid expansion) over Clinton (platform: add 40m older Americans to Medicare expansion). He peddled Tulsi (public option) over Bernie (M4A). He slanders progressives who have done more for M4A in a few years than he has in his entire lifetime. He slandered Bernie and AOC, claiming they had abandoned M4A, at the exact time they were on the ground campaigning for Nina Turner, promoting M4A, and trying to add another M4A advocate to congress. Dore, on the other hand, publicly abandoned Nina ... abandoned adding another M4A advocate to congress. He peddles the third party route, that hasn't won the most popular third party a single seat in congress in its near 50 year existence. He has peddled allying with "extreme free market" nutjobs that want to start a civil war, who would outright shoot any leftists trying to enact M4A, after you help them topple the government. Do you know what "grifter" means? It means they're selling themselves as one thing, but they're actually selling you something else. The directions Jimmy proposes going provide zero evidence he actually wants M4A. What he says doesn't match what he does.
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  865.  @edwardrosser938  That wasn't Dore's argument for Trump over Clinton. He argued Trump was far worse. His claim was that a Trump presidency would cause a massive progressive backlash, exactly because he was so much worse. He claimed it would "for sure" lead to progressives taking the house (wrong) and senate (wrong), in 2018, and the presidency (wrong), in 2020. He claimed even Republicans would join the left and vote against a Trump presidency (wrong) rather than follow him into fascism (wrong). In his debate with Sam over it, he claimed Trump filling multiple scotus seats was as likely as the moon falling into Lake Michigan (wrong). He was wrong about everything. The very basis of his argument, that things had to get worse to have a bigger progressive movement, wasn't based on any kind of reality. Bernie had just created a progressive movement right after an Obama presidency. “In short, when it comes to the war against terrorists, I’m a hawk. When it comes to counterproductive wars of regime change, I’m a dove.” - Tulsi Gabbard, Hawaii Tribune-Herald, 2016 Pretty much every US intervention, since 9/11 used the war on terrorism as grounds. She was always a grifter, and Jimmy grifter for her. He spent months backing a public option candidate against the M4A candidate, then turned around and made out like not supporting some secondary tactic to get a performance art vote, was the end all and be all, slandering anyone who didn't jump onboard as "fakes", "frauds", "sellouts". All those labels should apply to him, for outright going against the M4A candidate. Yes, he and his wife publicly announced they had stopped donating to Nina, and then promoted never supporting anyone running as a Democrat ever again. The Trump presidency actually hurt Bernie's progressive movement. People went screaming into Joe Biden's "more electable" arms. They didn't want to risk having Trump around another term. It did the opposite of what Dore fantasized. Jimmy is a fringe "progressive". He represents only a few hundred thousand people that voted for Tulsi, and Green party, in the last election. The vast majority of progressives vote for, and support, all the progressives he keeps trashing. His audience has become more and more packed with right wing loons.
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  866. @W Shiflet "She" is a well known Russian troll.
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  867.  @Stegibbon  Yeah, and that's just the tip of the iceberg. They've cancelled, or attempted to cancel ... the non religious, pagans, other religions, other denominations, women's rights, women in pants, women's ankles, then knees, then thighs, they've cancelled books and movies, they still have a government agency protecting delicate conservative sensibilities from naughty words and nipples, religious grounds were used to cancel blacks being treated like human beings, ... and they've used the actual government, "justice" system, and military, to do it. Their psycho right wing president was firing, or threatening to fire, any federal workers who contradicted him, and they were fine with that. But, then express horror, if private companies (that they wanted to have rights like people and have given so much power to) decide for themselves to cancel crap. They're insanely hypocritical.
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  868.  @jonathanlubarsky2782  Banks consider stocks to have current value. They can take out lines of credit, against their stock, to live on. Money in hand, without paying taxes on it.
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  869. ​ @iamyoda66  Bullshit. Both Palestinians and Jews have Canaanite DNA. The Palestinians simply didn't go wandering for 1500 years.
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  870. Do they grasp that, even if all VAERS deaths were confirmed as being caused by the vaccine, that the 0.0018% in brackets there, is a lot lower than the 1% virus mortality rate?
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  871.  @jonm7888  Who's "you guys"? I had no thoughts about her, until bgts started in on her.
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  872.  @thomasfisher8793  Does having an IQ above 90 allow for nuance? For example: Although neither is M4A, trying to toss 10m of the poorest Americans off of Medicaid expansion isn't exactly samesies as not doing that and possibly adding tens of millions more through further Medicaid and Medicare expansion.
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  873. Everyone wearing seatbelts, following speed limits, not drinking and driving, heeding traffic lights, maintaining safe vehicles, etc., help reduce the frequency of automobile accidents, and how deadly they are. Everyone ignoring those things help increase the frequency and how deadly they are. And, the second group can have an effect on the first group, dimwit, which doesn't make what the first group is doing ineffective.
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  874. ​ @Matty-o9p  She doesn't get money from AIPAC. Try again.
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  875.  @MK-hw2ir  Rofl. It's mocking Jordan's own inconsistencies, dumb dumb.
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  876.  @michaelknight2897  You're not living in reality. All this medical stuff, surrounding covid, has nothing actually to do with left-right. Washington mandated vaccines. Quarantines are a centuries old response to outbreaks. A not completely insane right wing government in Australia has had an excellent covid response. Incompetent "freedom" cancelled numerous lives, and right wingers have been throwing old people, overweight people, and those with other health issues, under the bus. What is the left doing that's even on par with anti-BDS laws? The New York Times could have an effect on an election, depending on the article. Doesn't mean everyone and anyone should have a right to have their letters to the editor published. Each edition would be a book.
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  877.  @michaelknight2897  Rofl! You are a complete loon. The Republican party's leader encouraged overthrowing the democratic process to install an unelected dictator, himself. The majority of Republican lawmakers in congress supported trying to overthrow the democratic process to install an unelected dictator. Tens of millions of Republican voters supported overthrowing the democratic process to install an unelected dictator. Hundreds of Republicans stormed the capitol to overthrow the democratic process and install an unelected dictator. Get a grip on reality, ffs. That is fascism, and it's not coming from the left (no such thing as left wing fascism, btw).
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  878.  @robinsss  Landlords, laying claim to entire countries, oppressing the majority and leaving them destitute, ending with revolutions and some landlords losing their heads. Allowing for the ownership of other human beings, ending with the most deadly and destructive war on US soil. The Gilded Age ending with massive labor riots, a great depression, and having to introduce socialistic policies to fix things a bit. Little, to no, oversight on the western frontier, allowing for private property owning cattle barons to hire their own private armies, and resolve things privately ... slaughtering tens of thousands of sheep, destroying property, and even killing those who put up a fight against them (basically the beginnings of feudalism). It is currently failing hundreds of thousands of homeless, tens of millions in poverty, hundreds of thousands with medical debt, etc., in the US alone.
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  879.  @tripvic7629  You already know who is openly not supporting M4A. What's Jimmy doing with that ammo? Oh right, trashing those who openly support it.
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  880.  @uncomfortabletruth5915  Seems like you have severe reading comprehension problems, on top of being illogical. I said that your "logic" equates to calling denazification "fascism", which is nonsensical. Banning things, even a political ideology, doesn't equate to fascism. I didn't call you a Nazi, but you are obviously pretty right wing. You're the one claiming people who don't agree with you are fascists, here.
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  881.  @uncomfortabletruth5915  Nope. Also not what I said. You said a poster sounded like a fascist because they said outlawing behavior stopped it from being normalized. Denazification outlawed certain behavior. Your generalization is nonsensical. Then you doubled down, by saying your issue is outlawing political ideologies, which Nazism is, and which denazification did. Your generalization was still nonsensical.
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  882.  @uncomfortabletruth5915  You seem confused. Are they fascists or authoritarian communists? Make up your mind. Btw, isn't it Republicans that are trying to rewrite textbooks?
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  883.  @uncomfortabletruth5915  So you would be fine with outlawing a political ideology you personally agreed was extreme? What is it you don't consider extreme about tens of millions of Republicans, the majority of Republican lawmakers in congress, and the Republican president (who is still the Republican frontrunner for 2024, along with his equally nutjob son), trying to overthrow the democratic process to keep an unelected ruler in power?
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  884. Having a bias isn't the same as peddling complete bullshit. Bullshit, btw, that is being peddled by basically everyone on the right ... California bad, booo!
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  885. What's the "dark" state? A Freudian slip?
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  886.  @michaelpeyton5730  Was he "genuine", when he was on Rogan, and claimed his daughter's all meat diet had cured his anxiety and depression, and that he hadn't needed drugs, for six months? Just months before having to be sent to Russia, and put in a coma, to break his addiction to those very same drugs?
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  887. School choice is a war on the teacher's union, the largest of the remaining unions in the US. If they can pit poor people against unions, all the better. Oh, Jamie hit on it.
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  888. ​ @badguy5554  Do you think that Geronimo, and those like him, were the big problem, to finding peace with colonialists, in North America? Not the colonialists?
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  889. Omg, they want to feminize America!!!! Omg, they're protesting, rioting, and fighting!!!! Omg, they want everyone to cowtow to the government!!!! Omg, they aren't following law and order!!!!
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  890. You've gone and proven yourself wrong.
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  891.  @footballfan5462  The establishment wanted Bernie to win? The establishment wanted Nina to win? Are you arguing the establishment isn't that bad, or something?
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  892.  @baconcerberus  In the UK motor vehicle deaths were down. Plus, the US is different, in that the excess mortality is higher than their covid death count. You really can't apply one country's excess mortality to other countries, as the doctor of nursing practice stated. They have to be worked out individually, to try and figure out how all the thousands of pluses and minuses add up.
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  893.  Rion  Where are Americans slaughtering gay people? Just how dumb are you?
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  894.  @boxybrown6900  Physical jobs, like mining, drywalling, spray painting, chemical plant, firemen, etc., etc.?
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  895.  @brandonlouderback4408  What's the supposed strawman? They played exactly what he said, as they dissected it. Which part did they get wrong? Einstein considered Likud's founders to be on par with Fscsts and Nzs. Sam, uninterested in any of that history, equates the people living inside the open air ghetto, to Nzs ... worse than Nzs ... rather than the people operating it.
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  896.  @whyamimrpink78  Right, and those colonists were Loyalists, and on the side of King George III, like I said. So you agree that the US was founded by terrorists? What does it matter why they were kneeling? Not sure who you're quoting, and debating about rights, but it's not me.
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  897.  @whyamimrpink78  You've been presented with multiple examples of right wingers wanting people blacklisted. You've even agreed with blacklisting people. Why are you even arguing this point, anymore?
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  898.  @whyamimrpink78  Do you consider the 60s Civil Rights movement to have been a terrorist group?
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  899.  @whyamimrpink78  How violent were they?! That's just sad man. Go do some googling on us race riots. The point being that it would have been stupid to label MLK Jr a terrorist, or all the peaceful protesters terrorists, just because they were part of a movement which included some other people who rioted and whatnot.
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  900.  @ricnaldoserrant6375  Yes , she did. She tried to walk it back later, but that's what she said.
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  901.  @nathanconnors8427  Absolutely nothing about the word "republic" says you can't have a highly representative system, that better reflects the majority of voters.
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  902.  @omnibus5359  Whatever he claimed, the girls claimed otherwise, and he pled guilty. So, no, not an "allegation", a crime that got him 2 years probation. The youngest girl was 16, and he was 27. Girlfriend Boebert was only 17.
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  903.  @Aeroneus1  From my notepad.
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  904.  @Evirthewarrior  Rofl! Sam Harris is an idiot. No clue how he even got a philosophy degree. He doesn't seem to grasp the very basics.
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  905. ​ @Byakurenfan  The early Zionists were pretty honest about what they were doing. They were all calling it colonialism. Especially the Revisionists, who were the founders of Likud. Read The Iron Wall, by their founder Ze'ev Jabotinsky. Revisionist newspaper Hazit Ha'am, on "Hitlerism": "the anti-Semitic husk should be discarded, but not its anti-Marxist inside" Basically the same thing.
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  906.  @sjwslayer7403  You're an idiot. It costs more to keep someone in jail, provide guards, etc., than have them go on welfare. Don't pretend it's about money.
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  907.  @robinsss  No, the caller wasn't right. Coercion is by force, or threat. The threat is me letting you drop to your death, if you don't hand me your money.
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  908.  @alabamaman9476  Clearly someone who hate watches channels has their panties in a bunch.
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  909. ​ @zenbear9952  "Fascism is the complete opposite of Marxian socialism." ~ Mussolini Fascism is a form of crony capitalism. Not the same as authoritarian communism. While there are some similarities, because they're both authoritarian, it's the difference between a government take over of business (communism) and a business takeover of government (fascism).
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  910.  @robertreese1275  Imagine thinking this, here, is mainstream media.
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  911.  @selfishcapitalist3523  The US is, and always has been, a representative democracy, dumb dumb. "Democracy" and "republic" aren't mutually exclusive terms. Basically everything that's not a monarchy is a republic. The US government has both handed out free land to people and intervened to not let capitalists own other human beings, in the past. Its most popular, 3+ term, president was FDR, who most definitely wasn't some capitalist puritan. Just how far back do you want to revert to, exactly?
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  912.  @aheroictaxidriver3180  Then stop disagreeing with me, and dictionaries, dmwt.
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  913. ​ @ChathurkaMadhushan So, everyone should shut up about politicians, and their policies, unless that politician is in front of them and can respond?
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  914. The Hill is owned by a close Trump family friend. They're a gateway drug.
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  915.  @Dan0TheMano  You get that a midterm and presidential year elections are different, right? AOC backed progressives in purple districts, last election, that got creamed in the primaries, by a more conservative Dem that managed to win the general. Any little scrap of leverage you think house progressives have, completely depends on keeping the majority in the house, and it's going to be a helluva fight in those purple districts to try and hang on. I get it ... Dore knobs don't care if fascists that tried to overthrow the democratic process win, like the "real" leftists you are.
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  916.  @dan91121  So, how does someone reinterpret a passage describing non-debt slavery, blatantly saying it's okay to buy foreign slaves, and own them for life? Leviticus 25:44 “‘Your male and female slaves are to come from the nations around you; from them you may buy slaves. 45 You may also buy some of the temporary residents living among you and members of their clans born in your country, and they will become your property. 46 You can bequeath them to your children as inherited property and can make them slaves for life, but you must not rule over your fellow Israelites ruthlessly."
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  917.  @mikevi1629  Do you not grasp basic math? Are progressives the majority in congress?
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  918. His dad also told him not to tell anyone they're Grmn. They pretended to be Swedish. As late as Art of the Deal, DT was still calling himself Swedish.
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  919. ​ @PUREBOILINGRAGE55  What's that got to do with breaking the law, and shoving an employee?
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  920.  @thewhiterabbit498  Lol, sure it is. I'm not watching MSM media, for a reason. So, if you get zero information from any media at all, how do you stay so incredibly well informed?
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  921. The Ottomans gave refuge to Jews fleeing Spain, when Christians were offering conversion, death, or exile. The Ottomans okayed the earliest form of Zionsim, which was closer to immigration. The Balfour declaration itself, and Zionism converting to colonialism, caused the rift between Muslims and Jews.
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  922. @Aaron Dickson Are PhDs not in the bachelors and above group, dumb dumb?
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  923.  @ultramaga813  Tim Apple should have the 6G network built by then. Should be interesting times.
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  924.  @alabamaman9476  32. South Bend, Indiana > Murder rate: 27.4 per 100,000 people Just 4 spots down from Chicago.
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  925.  @mickswagger6086  Unless you want public ownership, that's how private property works.
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  926.  @ZooomaCW  You can't "demonstrate" anything, if you don't provide any evidence to support your case. Without it, you're just blathering. The "they" would be Trump and over 100 Republican members of congress trying to overthrow the democratic process, based on bullshit. The "they" would be the 28% of Republican voters surveyed stating they didn't want Trump to concede under any circumstances. The "they" would be the right wing media that have had to backtrack due to defamation lawsuit threats, and the psycho lawyers being sued for defamation, for spouting bullshit. And, yes, the "they" would also include those who physically tried to stop the process by storming the Capitol after they were incited by being fed said bullshit for weeks. Rofl. Trump outright fires people who don't tow the party line, or state truths that don't match his lies. He has called for voters to cancel Republican politicians who didn't support his lies. He wanted to cancel funding to states and cities that didn't do as he said. He has called for plenty of other people to be fired, as well, from reporters to athletes. He convinced tens of millions of people not to believe any media, any judges, any election officials, any politicians (even Republicans), if they contradicted him. He totally just convinced a ton of people to cancel FOX for not being psycho enough anymore. Gaetz just held a cancel Liz Cheney rally. What rock do you live under? You also seem to have reading comprehension problems, and misunderstood wanting a dictator and dictatorship, as meaning currently is a dictator and dictatorship. The dictatorship part would be after you've kept the unelected ruler in power, and thrown the democratic process out the window. Yeah, no, that doesn't equate to fascism. "Fascism is the complete opposite of Marxian socialism" ~ Mussolini The complete opposite of the Marxian ideal of stateless non-authoritarian democratic socialism, is an ultra-nationalistic authoritarian undemocratic crony capitalism. Which box do Republicans, who take the extra step of trying to end the democratic process, still need to fill?
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  927. But, but, but ... AOC voted yes on the entire budget, which included funding the state department (please ignore that she voted against the individual state department appropriation bill)!!!
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  928.  @thehappyclam3942  The economy has been on the same trajectory since about 2009. Trump hasn't done anything but increase the deficit with tax cuts and shock the stock market a few times with tariffs.
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  929.  @ccpj0eyb319  The inflation problem started in 2020, when demand and supply dropped. Handing money to corporations, instead of people, gave money to corporations to not sell anything, and no money to people so they could keep buying things at the same levels. So, demand dropped, and then supply dropped. Now, demand is rising faster than supply. Nothing much to do with government spending.
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  930. There's the simple fact that Australia's covid deaths per million would translate into under 30k total US covid deaths, instead of over 830k. They seem to be doing a much much better job at reducing the spread.
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  931.  @aarondickson1898  My grandpa was an antifa "terrorist" in the Danish resistance.
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  932.  @JaseekaRawr  His grift is pretty solid. His words make him sound far left, but if you actually follow his advice, his suggested course of action, it ends up benefitting the far right.
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  933. Well, the Republican party has been giving a home to nutters for decades ... taking in the anti-communist, anti-socialist, McCarthy types; taking in the racists angry about civil rights; taking in religious extremists; taking in the crony capitalists; taking in Tea Party nutters; taking in the anti-science anti-intellectuals; and then taking that last step towards fascism with a wannabe dictator. Not that the Democrats don't have many issues, but the Republicans have been giving a home to the worst of the worst.
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  934. ​ @GeLowBrando  Then registering as a Republican, when he turned 18, doesn't count?
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  935. 90% of drugs come through points of entry. 80% of drug traffickers are Americans. Cartels aren't stupid, like MAGA. They pick people least likely to be stopped, not the most likely, and don't want their product swept downriver, lying in a desert, or tossed into detention. Undocumented immigrants commit crimes at half the rate of natural born citizens. Republicans think there is plenty of romm for hundreds of thousands of extra unwanted babies per year. Nothing right wingers whine about makes sense. They're just racist and, ironically, don't want to be "replaced" by what are largely people with Native American ancestry.
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  936. ​ @avenuePad  It's his job to turn "we would have died" to "you would have been killed"?
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  937.  @moe433  Sam promoted voting for Bernie for as long as Bernie was still running, you dimwitted Dore knob. So, the reason you couldn't vote for Bernie, at the time Sam was saying vote Biden, is because Bernie was no longer in the race. Jimmy told people to vote Tulsi "I'm a hawk" Gabbard (public option) over Bernie (M4A), is what he told people to do.
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  938.  @moe433  Because Bernie was no longer in the race. Because Trump is even further away from the progressive position. I get it. Jimmy, and his Dore knobs, prefer Trump. Just straight up admit it already.
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  939.  @craigcrawford6595  What does that have to do with him identifying early tribal societies as being communistic? Did he not know what "communism" means? It's the Bible, itself, that then states Jesus and his little community/tribe of followers was sharing ownership of everything, pooling all their money into one bag, etc. How are those two things not similar?
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  940.  @BlazingOwnager  Republicans are banning things that aren't even taught in public schools. They're banning abortions and putting bounties on people who get abortions. Calling for the death penalty for getting an abortion. They're banning taking safety measures against a deadly virus. They're banning bds. They're making it more difficult and dangerous to protest. They're making it more difficult to vote. Their leader outright called to overthrow the democratic process to keep himself on as an unelected dictator. The majority of Republican lawmakers tried to overthrow the democratic process to keep him on as an unelected dictator. The majority of Republican voters believe the lies that led some of them to try and violently overthrow the democratic process. They defend police that kill their own citizens at hundreds of times the rate of numerous other developed countries. They defend having the largest prison population in the world. They defend charging, and convicting, certain people at higher rates, for similar crimes. They defend sentencing certain people for longer periods of time, for similar crimes. Etc. Etc. Etc. All of which uses government power. And, you're whining about some on the left using public pressure? It's, literally, akin to something ancappers actually promote, leaving bad Yelp reviews to fight racism, sexism, bigotry, and other forms of discrimination, instead of using the government. Give me a break. If you have to ""walk on eggshells" to not say something racist, or whatnot, then the problem is you.
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  941.  @frederickfarias9515  Weird. Western civilizations installed theocratic monarchs, as well as trained and armed Muslim extremists to fight against less religious lefties in Muslim majority countries.
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  942.  @Evirthewarrior  Getting a 100% guaranteed to fail performance art vote, isn't actually doing something that moves you closer to ever passing M4A. Using your platform and PAC to back 20 other pro-M4A progressives, helping to remove a few more corporate Dems, and helping to add a few more M4A yes votes to congress, actually does move you closer to ever being able to pass the bill. AOC was just trying to add another M4A yes vote to congress, in Nina Turner. Dore, on the other hand, abandoned Nina ... abandoned adding another M4A yes vote to congress. You're living outside reality, as to who is actually doing more to pass the bill. AOC has done more for M4A in 2 years than Dore has in his entire lifetime. Firstly, you Dore knobs don't seem to know that that wasn't the final vote on the bill, or the final version of the bill. Secondly, the Capitol police don't have a mandate to charge people for any and all crimes, outside Capitol grounds. Outside Capitol grounds, their only mandate is to protect members of congress. What is it you're afraid having a couple in the field, in California and Florida, investigating threats on congress members, is going to lead to?
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  943.  @RHINOTEJAS  What's that got to do with whether their policies work, or not?
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  944.  @RHINOTEJAS  So, you're saying the "diverse" thinking of Republicans is the problem.
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  945.  Captain J  FTVers have proven that to be a fact. The $15 got a vote, even passed the house (M4A wouldn't), and all they keep doing is bitch about those who got it to stay in for a round of voting and voted for it. They spent weeks making out like just getting a vote on an important policy was a big deal, making out like getting a list of no voters was a big deal. They've proven they're a bunch of pathetic useless bullshit spewing hypocrites.
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  946. ​ @gr8fulnbama59  Are you seriously trying to imply that 2 extra years of him picking committees, and setting the legislative agenda, would have made no difference?
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  947. No. It's a good argument for social media, because the only way out is to make it public ownership. So, if those right wingers desperately want free speech, they'd have to support public ownership. Media that creates its own content is somewhat different, and is not a platform anyone expects to be free speech. There used to be broadcasting standards for news. There still should be. If you're advertising yourself as news, then it should be as unbiased as possible, or it should be considered false advertising. Or, create one state sponsored public news outlet ... make sure that no bias is in the charter ... and have it operated by a diverse group.
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  948.  @rickduval2025  You, Hinkle, and pretty much every Dore knob, are dishonest twits. Each department has their own individual appropriation bill, before the budget vote. She voted no on the state department appropriation bill. She voted no on the defense appropriation bill. Then, the budget is based on all the appropriation bills. You idiots are shitting on her for not voting against the budget, which includes Medicaid, affordable housing, education, veteran's benefits, SNAP, SSI, etc.
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  949.  @giantsr1eva  Sure. Sam kicked his ass in 2016. That's why Dore censors his own guests for mentioning Sam's name.
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  950.  @giantsr1eva  Still waiting for the moon to fall into Lake Michigan, from their last debate.
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  951.  @Lurch685  Sometimes you have to make very clear to some people, that certain groups are also "human", or they might say something like "all men are created equal", and not include women or non-white people.
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  952.  calo10able  Dumbass, that's what Dump said about the country she's originally from, and she's originally from the US. You're such a moron, you don't know how quotes work?
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  953. That makes no sense. He's now promoting having a pledge of allegiance to Israel to get in the country.
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  954. ​ @Djockzone  He started spouting this in Feb, along with Marge and Rafael. Her office came out in Mar, to quash the nonsense, and said she won't run. And yet, he continued to peddle it as a possibility, on multiple occasions.
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  955.  @joepeay6986  You know when people talk about reducing inflation, they're talking about the rate, right? You don't actually get deflation without a major recession or depression. So, yeah, the inflation rate went down. Do you have a different stpd example?
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  956.  @AnnoyingCritic-is7rp  "Redlining: The history of Berkeley's segregated neighborhoods Sep 20, 2018 — The segregation can be traced to government-supported racist housing practices, a pattern seen also in Oakland and across Alameda County."
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  957.  @prabesh8277  The medical term is called quarantine. It has been a goto response since the dawn of civilization. And the "camps" in Australia, Canada, and other countries, are for travellers to quarantine. They aren't rounding people up off the streets and tossing them into camps.
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  958.  @alabamaman9476  For example?
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  959.  @harveymanfredsenjenson5417  Why are you still knocking religious studies, after arguing half of them make more than multi millionaires? Noxinfluencer also says about the same amount of views in the last 30 days. Are you counting his thousands of videos by hand, or something? What's your total? Can you even count over double digits, since you failed grade school?
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  960.  @GrantAugustus1  It does mean it is the democratic thing to do. Do you prefer something other than a democratic system?
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  961. ​ @joeb134  But Sam is right. An AI doesn't have its own subjective goals. It's not actually thinking for itself. It's thinking for whoever is programming it. It's the programmers, and their goals, that you really have to worry about. There is no indication we will ever be able to create an AI, that has its own top level subjectivity.
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  962.  @albertcovington9942  Nope. And it's the FDA that approves drugs. Neither consider ivermectin a COVID treatment.
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  963.  @thehappyclam3942  You're "free speech" can't be limited on private property, because it doesn't exist on private property. Kicking an apocalypse preacher out of my restaurant, for screaming at my customers, isn't limiting his "free speech". Same goes for privately owned servers and web pages.
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  964. ​ @owRekssjfjxjxuurrpqpqss  In what reality is Trump less racist? He was talking making a pledge of allegiance to Israel to get in the country.
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  965. ​@@Eet_Mia Can you explain how you missed who the American version tends to go after, or that the German version also targeted other people?
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  966.  @alanblanes2876  And yet the majority population didn't want partition, the early Z-nists weren't shy about calling it colonialism, the Revisionists even outright approved an early plan to become the 7th Dominion of the British Empire, and Ze'ev outright compared it to other col-nialist projects.
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  967. Umm, he has the nickname "Butcher of Grozny", for a reason, dingus.
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  968.  @jashshah5049  Fascists often come to power in democracies, so mentioning India is a democracy doesn't mean Modi isn't a fascist. He's an Hindutva nutter. Tulsi opposed denying Modi a visa after Gujarat riots. She opposed religious freedom and human rights being included in dialogue with Indian national and state officials. She vocally supported Modi being elected. She brought him a gift, when he came to the US. She hobnobbed with him, and other Hindutva members on her visit to India. India, representing almost the entirety of the "Hindu world", is ranked worse than Saudi, for the treatment of women.
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  969.  @aliamjon2550  So, you're agreeing with the OP. What's your issue then?
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  970. ​ @LePedant  Are people considered to be 1 year old, 3 months after birth? Or do we go by "birthday"?
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  971.  @alabamaman1684  Nope. It reduced the life expectancy for 2020 by 1+ years for white Americans and 3-4x that for Hispanic and black Americans.
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  972. He was a capitalist utilitarian though. A commie utilitarian would have snapped infinite resources.
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  973.  @2727rogers  You're lying. A handful of Canadian parliament members do not have the power to paralyze parliament, did not paralyze parliament, did not threaten to paralyze parliament. Canada's healthcare system is more like Medicaid for all, and is a province/federal partnership, with the provinces actually running it. It was started by one province, others followed, and then the federal government got involved and made it nationwide. Progressive politicians, TYT, Packman, MJ, and others were just heavily promoting, or campaigning for, Nina Turner, trying to add another M4A yes vote to congress, because getting enough yes votes in congress is the only possible way to ever pass M4A. Dore, on the other hand, abandoned Nina, abandoned adding another M4A yes vote to congress. He's a grifter. He doesn't actually care if anyone else ever gets healthcare.
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  974.  @youtubemoderationtaskforce5583  You're really trying your best to defend your white supremacist friends. You downplay number of attempts, and numbers of people involved, in favor of total deaths, which could just show others are better at it, or that white supremacists are stupid. You downplay intent, as if a desire to kill one other person is totally the samesies as a desire to get rid of another race. You downplay targets, with a number of white supremacists just being involved in trying to overthrow the government.
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  975.  @youtubemoderationtaskforce5583  Not assuming anything. It's pretty clear, that you're making a defense. I was talking attempts, or thwarted attempts, not simply violence that doesn't lead to deaths, nor simply thinking without acting. White supremacists make far more attempts than Muslim extremists. Attempting, but failing, to murder is still trying to kill someone, and isn't simply an assault, or whatnot. Getting caught plotting to murder people is planning to kill people, not simply having a praiseworthy thought crime. And, again, a terrorist threat would be more of a threat to the nation, and not simply the individuals living in it. Targetting a governor, targetting the Capitol, etc., are more of a threat to keeping the government functioning. "Terrorism" isn't simply about causing terror, it includes doing it to achieve a political outcome. Gangs fighting, or a spouse killing their spouse, aren't trying to achieve political outcomes.
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  976.  @outtarespecttomyfawtha1589  Which perspective? First he's supporting a public option candidate against the M4A candidate ... then he's acting like a simply not supporting a single secondary tactic to get a pointless performance art vote on M4A is enough to consider other progressives no longer allies ... then he's peddling a far right "extreme free market" nutter, who is opposed to M4A, and disagrees on most everything, as an ally ... then he slanders AOC and Bernie (not the first time) for abandoning M4A, while they're campaigning for Nina Turner, promoting M4A, and trying to add another M4A advocate to congress ... then he abandons Nina Turner, abandoning adding another M4A yes vote to congress ... he's all over the place.
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  977. Is he wearing fake muscles? When he points up, it looks like there's a layer of something under his shirt, that ends just before his shirt sleeve ends.
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  978. They know that most presidents have had "record high" DOW numbers, at the time of their presidencies, since the stock market began, right? Obama had "record high" stock market numbers, at the end of his presidency, with lower unemployment, yet they were saying the economy sucked, then.
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  979.  @whyamimrpink78  How many people die, and whether it is successful or not, is irrelevant to whether something is an insurrection or not. Did they want to overthrow the democratic process to keep an unelected ruler in power? Yes. Insurrection.
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  980.  @guiagaston7273  Jimmy outright promoted Trump as the better option than Clinton, which only benefits Trump. He peddled Tulsi over Bernie, outright working against Bernie and M4A. He ran a constant attack ad campaign against Trump's only remaining viable opponent, Biden, which only benefits Trump. He slanders progressives that have done more for M4A in a few years than he has in his entire lifetime, which only benefits corporate Dems and Republicans. He peddles a third party fantasy, which only benefits corporate Dems and Republicans. He publicly abandoned Nina Turner ... abandoned adding another M4A yes vote to congress ... and promoted never voting for anyone running as a Dem ever again, which only benefits corporate Dems and Republicans. He peddled allying with "extreme free market" psycho Boogaloos, who want to start a civil war, overthrow the government, and have society run on pure capitalism. He goes on white nationalist television just to largely agree with right wing talking points, which only benefits right wing propaganda tv, and their audience. Government negotiated prices on vaccines, and then giving them out for free, is a tiny taste of universal healthcare. Dore and Max also lied about the completely socialized UK healthcare system. Dore has also peddled more expensive, and paid for out of pocket, vaccine alternatives. Dore pandering to anti-vaxxers is also anti-universal healthcare. Like all grifters, he claims to be selling you something beneficial, but is actually selling you something completely useless, or even harmful (Trump was running on tossing 10m of the poorest Americans off of Medicaid expansion, ffs).
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  981.  @mp22893  How is letting wars happen, without resistance, anti-war? My stance is that I was fine with Russia helping Syria defend itself, and I'm fine with the US helping Ukraine defend itself. And, I was against the US invading Iraq, and am against Russia invading Ukraine. Your "anti-war" stance also seems to allow Russia to war all it wants, like Dore. Doesn't sound very "anti-war".
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  982.  @michelbisson6645  You're an insane person, who thinks Trump was chosen by God. Get help.
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  983.  @samuelmerkel2888  I didn't state an income. It's pretty easy to look up the median income for the area. Do you think TV executives would be below median?
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  984.  @samuelmerkel2888  You seem have severe reading comprehension problems, on top of everything else. I simply included the fact that the working mother was a tv executive, included the fact that his father was a composer on top of raising the kids, and included the fact that they lived in an area with a 50% higher median income than the national median. Those facts don't care about your feelings. You, desperately trying to reinvent meanings of words, to make it sound like she could have been mopping floors, for all we know, look ridiculous.
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  985.  @samuelmerkel2888  Bahahaha!!!!! I got sick of your bullshit, and looked up Shapiro on public records on Ancestry. Benjamin A Shapiro & Mor Shapiro, MD (she is a doctor) lived at 5700 Rhodes Ave, Valley Village (which is the neighborhood just north of Studio City, where he went to Middle School). Ben's previous address listed, for 1996 (when he was 12) is 12407 Hartsook St, Valley Village. It's an almost $2m home with 4 bedrooms, 3.5 bathrooms, and 2719 sq ft. ... with a pool. Can we be done now?
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  986. Sarcasm, I hope.
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  987.  @Gilgaemesh  Left libertarian, or anarchism, can still maintain the social concept of society through direct democracy. A direct democracy can still vote to have rights and social contracts, that protect minors. It's the further right libertarian you go, that ditches democracy, ditches rights, and ditches social contracts. Somehow society will magically keep itself together on pure free market capitalism.
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  988. ​ @Sloimer  Israel has killed hundreds of Palestinians, including dozens and dozens of children, over the past couple years, alone. What are you even talking about? By your own uninformed logic, you're arguing it's okay for Hamas to respond with excessive force, and collective punishment.
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  989. The broader progressive caucus is about 15 seats away from becoming the majority of house Dems. At that point, they'll be able to pick the party speaker candidate, and set the party agenda, for the house. If also the majority of the house, that speaker could also pick committee seats, pick which bills to introduce, pick which bills to not introduce, etc. In an alternate reality, where the progressive caucus was an entirely different party, what you'd have is a Trump presidency (due to vote splitting between Dem voters and progressives), Pence as the senate tie breaker, and a Republican plurality in the house. Republicans would only have to work with a few of the most conservative Dems, to pass whatever they wanted, and could completely ignore the progressive party, altogether. There is more power in getting 15 more seats within the Democratic party, than getting 115 seats outside the Democratic party. Plus, the reality is that most popular third party hasn't won a single seat in congress in its near 50 year existence. Also, the "vote blue" strategy works both ways. Those who vote against progressives in the primaries tend to turn around and vote for them in the generals. Any hope of Bernie actually winning a general election, if he got through the primary, would have rested entirely upon those who voted against him turning around and voting for him. If you split the voters, you'd pretty much be handing any tight districts, and the presidency, to Republicans, for decades to come.
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  990.  @sergeikhripun  A 100% guaranteed to fail performance art vote doesn't actually get you M4A, during a pandemic, Dore knob. Adding more M4A yes votes to congress, which the justice Dems and AOC just helped do, is what needs doing to ever pass the bill. You just got a new list of names of people who won't co-sign either M4A bill. How about protesting, and bitching about, them, instead of progressives who support it?
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  991.  @giantsr1eva  Rofl. You think every Democrat voter would have voted Bernie? That's delusional.
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  992. No he doesn't. He didn't give two craps if 10m of the poorest Americans lost their Medicaid expansion. He didn't care to add 40m Americans to Medicare. He's promoting a third party route that hasn't won the most popular third party a single seat in congress in going on 50 years, and won't get anyone healthcare in the next century.
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  993.  @Planeman516  "Fascism is the complete opposite of Marxian socialism." ~ Mussolini Marx's ideal is a stateless, non-authoritarian, direct democracy, socialism. The complete opposite is an ultra nationalistic, authoritarian, anti-democratic, capitalism.
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  994.  @moe433  You've obviously assigned genders to inanimate objects, and do seem to care. You care enough to be here blathering about it. Rich men also used to powder their faces, wear makeup, and wear girdles. Punk guys, goth guys, etc., have worn makeup. Trump appears to have worn makeup almost everyday. I don't think you know what "feminism" means, because I'm pretty sure it doesn't mean "trying to look feminine".
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  995. Sam's problem though, was that he defined religions, especially Islam, as if there was one true interpretation, and then argued that those who didn't believe exactly what he claimed the one true Islam to be, were less religious, were "nominal" Muslims. He was, basically, making the same argument the likes of ISIS makes, that anyone who doesn't believe what they believe isn't a "true" Muslim. The actual fact is that people interpret things, cherry pick, give weight to, include additional writings and rulings, differently. Even people in the same church, temple, synagogue, or mosque, can have somewhat different beliefs. A pacifist Muslim isn't necessarily less religious, anymore than a Quaker is less religious than some hate filled Southern Baptist spewing that all gays should be stoned to death. If you portray Islam as a singular, horrible, "motherlode of bad ideas", and every single Muslim on the planet practices Islam, by definition, then you've said something about what every single Muslim on the planet believes and practices. Broad brushing, like that, generally makes you wrong, out of the gate.
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  996. He could see New Jersey from his window, as well.
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  997. His daughter, or one of the even dumber sons.
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  998. Look at photos of the Warsaw ghetto, after it was flattened. Looks like Gaza.
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  999.  @DubhghlasMacDubhghlas  You think chunky American cosplayers are ready to go hide in the mountains for years, hide in a neighboring country for years, find assistance there, etc.?
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  1000. Whatever you think of any of the Democrats in congress, running as a Democrat is very clearly the more effective way to win a seat in congress. The most popular third party hasn't won a single seat in its 50 year existence. The broader progressive caucus is 30 years old, and about 15 seats away from becoming the majority of house Dems, when they can set the party agenda and pick the party speaker candidate. Justice Dems have replaced about a dozen corporate Dems in 4 years. AOC helped replace a few more in just 2 years. There's nothing more incremental that sitting on the sidelines for 50 years. It's the slowest possible route to your destination.
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  1001.  @cosimawagner7831  What do you think they did with all the homes and property belonging to people they rounded up and sent to camps?
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  1002. Yeah, was going to say ... The fighting had started in Apr of 1775, and Britain had declared the American colonies to be in a state of rebellion by Aug of 1775. 1776 was the Declaration of Independence.
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  1003. ​ @Whoyouwishyouwere  You literally saw how low they could sell gas for, and still make a profit, during COVID. They've basically doubled the price, for profit.
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  1004.  @EyeLabPNiece  The WWE gets more views than actual wrestling. More views doesn't magically make it real.
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  1005.  @markzuckergecko621  But I do.
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  1006. Who does Nina slander?
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  1007.  @barbiquearea  "British" applies to citizens in N Ireland, Scotland, Wales, and England, of all races. "British" and "black" are not mutually exclusive.
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  1008.  @jojojoe1904  She just helped replace some of her "mama's" DCCC backed corporate buddies, Dore knob.
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  1009.  @jeffspicolli593  The trrrst groups existed before that, dingus. They were forming the current ruling political party, in 1948. Einstein likened them to Fscsts and Nzs.
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  1010. You think it has gotten better since FDR? That seems pretty ignorant, to me. And leaving workers and unions behind seems pretty privileged.
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  1011.  @thinkhector  We've known this all along. This is not new information. And, no, that is not Dore's point. He also did another dishonest video, where he falsely claimed that covid deaths were "WILDLY inflated". Dore is a disgusting human being, who has repeatedly trled to minimize the risk of covid, while repeatedly overexaggerating the risk of vaccines.
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  1012.  @juliusebola9389  Rofl, while lowering the refugee cap (also a legal process), and fighting tooth and nail to keep certain feet out of the country so they can't ask for asylum (also a legal process). Yeah, he's a peach.
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  1013.  @juliusebola9389  Moron. It's you, who seemed to miss the point of the op. It's about shouting lies during an emergency. Undocumented workers driving down wages is an argument for documenting them, in some way, and make them conform to wage laws ... and to actually have wage laws ... dumbass. And wtf does that have to do with documented refugees and asylum seekers?
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  1014.  @whyamimrpink78  The electoral college simply adds a middleman. The majority in a state are actually democratically picking electors, not the president. The majority of electors then democratically pick the president. It is a two step process rather than a single step process. The imbalance of electors makes it less democratic from start to finish, but it doesn't make it not democratic. The US is a representative democracy. Fascist: ultra-nationalistic; authoritarian (pro military expansion, pro police expansion, pro militarization of police); anti-union; anti-socialism; anti-communism; anti-feminism; backed by crony capitalists; backed by religious nuts; anti-democratic (gerrymandering, disenfranchising; and the added step of the electoral college is already somewhat anti-democratic, but armed nutters waiting outside the capital for the president's word, Bannon calling for heads, Jones calling for a revolution, against the election outcome is heading for all out fascism).
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  1015.  @whyamimrpink78  The presidential election is decided by the majority of elector voters, dumb dumb. The totality is fascism, dumb dumb. Fascists are anti-communist, which isn't the same thing as saying all anti-communists are fascists.
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  1016.  @whyamimrpink78  You just proved you have reading comprehension problems.
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  1017.  @whyamimrpink78  Because I already answered both of those questions.
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  1018.  @barbiedahl  If you load YouTube in browser, you can copy comments.
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  1019.  @jackprice1758  The passage of 4 whole years? Whose v o t e s did Trump/Reps try to erase?
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  1020.    Rogan has a larger viewership than some "mainstream media", which kind of makes him "mainstream media".
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  1021. By increasing the amount of affordable housing, having a federal jobs guarantee, making college tuition free (some kids go through college living in a car), M4A (some families lose everything due to healthcare debt), ...
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  1022.  @MeChoonChannel  Denazification wasn't itself fascism, dumb dumb. And Nazis "peacefully" spread their "ideas" throughout the country, won elections, etc., first, before gaining full power.
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  1023.  @frankpalancio8471  Pretty sure Japan wasn't occupied by the US, in 1941. Try again. It's like you're blaming Geronimo for "starting" the 300 years of warring and colonization against Native Americans.
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  1024. @Packster Mosk Life is force. Nobody gets to choose to be born, let alone choose to be born in a specific geographic region, with a specific economic system. Life then forces you to find food, water, and shelter, or die. But the natural state of affairs, was that nobody owned anything. You're the one creating the artificial state, where property is privately owned. And, if all the property that is currently publicly owned by governments were also privately owned, I'd be forced to make money to pay someone else to own my property or to rent property, pay someone else for building materials, pay someone else for water, pay someone else for food, pay someone else for electricity, etc., or rot on the streets and die. With that, comes most people being forced to make that money by working for someone else. All those someones would have some power over my life, my ability to survive, and could set the prices for what I need to survive, and set the wage I get to try and survive on. History has shown that large landowners, and major business owners, often treat their renters and employees like shit. Sure, people have risen up and chopped off the heads of large landowners. Sure, workers have risen up in massive strikes and riots. You can blather about them using "force", but they were already being forced to work for next to nothing, barely being able to pay for all their costs. Making out like they freely entered into agreements with their employers and landlords, when the other option was to "freely" rot and die, is absolutely moronic.
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  1025.  @Simon.the.Likeable  True, but Ze'ev is the name you can find his writings under, and the name you can find on British reports of him inciting trouble, when looking back at old documents.
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  1026. ​ @Dr.EgonCholakian  So, if they both walked into your hospital room, you'd want her treating you, even if she was the fresh out of school, sharply dressed, new resident, and he was the dishevelled doctor, with years of experience, training her?
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  1027.  @nathanconnors8427  Right wingers don't seem to know much about the electoral college, either. The electoral college didn't use to have such a drastic imbalance. That was caused by freezing the number of seats in the house, in the 30s I believe it was. It's not simply being an "electoral college" that causes an imbalance of votes. It would still be an "electoral college", if you assigned electorals proportionally to the population. Nothing about "electoral college" says it needs to be imbalanced. The only truly undemocratic, by its very nature, part of the US system, is the senate.
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  1028.  @Historia.Magistra.Vitae.   @Historia.Magistra.Vitae.  You want to rehash your ignorance in a second thread? Ok. The Harzburg Front weren't leftists. Emil Kirdorf, and other leading German industrialist backers, weren't leftists. Both owning a business and being a party member doesn't equate to the party owning the business, let alone the government owning the business. You think an absolute monarchy, where one person owns everything, is socialism. You effectively argued Republicans who own businesses, are leftists.
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  1029.  boris boris  Well, the "public accomodation" category was created to protect people from not being able to find food, shelter, and other necessities. If you think Twitter is a necessity, then you likely have an addiction problem. If not, then it's not samesies.
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  1030.  @robertjenkins6132  There's no such thing as "free speech" on someone else's private property. Their right to boot you off their private property trumps your non right to be on their private property blathering about whatever you like. Instead of going on Tucker and simply agreeing with the right wing take on Trump being booted from social media, Dore should have let them know that public ownership is the only real way to get "free speech". He also should have let them know that inciting an insurrection isn't even protected "free speech", as well.
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  1031. Nobody dropped M4A. A guaranteed to fail vote isn't itself M4A. Dore left the people that have done more for M4A in a few years than he has in his entire lifetime.
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  1032. Alberta and Saskatchewan are the only provinces where Conservatives get the majority of the vote. Ford only wins due to vote splitting between Liberals and the NDP. Ontario is about the same as BC ... only about 1% more conservative. Manitoba is about 6% more.
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  1033.  @baddie1shoe  What the hell kinds of seasons do you have to worry about, when you're inside your house, dumb dumb?
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  1034.  @baddie1shoe  How does being baffled by your level of stupidity count as being "triggered"?
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  1035.  @baddie1shoe  Lol. I mean, you are sooooo stupid, that you don't seem to even grasp the irony of you posting about how annoyed you are about seeing arms, and then accusing others of being "triggered". It's hilarious.
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  1036. Oh? Which cities?
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  1037.  @edwardrosser938  How does him lying about how deadly it is, lying about children and covid, lying about vaccine effectiveness, lying about who a vaccine protects, lying about alternate treatments, etc., help anyone? If it's going to be around forever, all that does is help more people die. There have been vaccine mandates for over a century. Many businesses have had dress codes since forever. Isn't the "hysteria" making out like measures to save lives are some kind of "fascism"?
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  1038.  @jamesbarton1757  AOC helped add a few more M4A yes votes to congress during the last election cycle, and was just promoting M4A while campaigning for Nina, trying to help add another. Is there another option for how to pass an M4A bill, other than increasing the number of yes votes?
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  1039.  @muserwood  Rofl. He went on Carlson, agreed with Carlson that banning someone who incited an insurrection was troublesome. He then threw in the off topic bone that he considered the first impeachment to be based on bullshit ... this, right before the second impeachment. And, only then talked about Assange, who Carlson never talked about again, because he didn't actually give a crap. Dore had already given him everything he wanted.
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  1040.  @johnchavez9001  Nice. Then she won't be too young.
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  1041. There's no such thing as a singular "white" culture.
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  1042. ​ @TheRedStateBlue  Okay, let's examine the history. Ze'ev Jabotinsky, in 1923, fully acknowledged that Zionism is colonialism, and predicted that the natives would fight it until the bitter end. They went ahead with their colonialism anyway. How are people doing colonialism not perpetually the aggressors?
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  1043.  @DumbAssSpeakingWithMansVoice  There are already over a dozen vaccine mandates for school children and immigrants. There are already government mandates, and extra business mandates, on dress codes. Who the hell is giving away "all freedoms"? The "freedom" to spread a deadly virus around, unhindered, already isn't a thing.
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  1044.  @TubiTuesdays  1. No evidence from the ABI either. 2. Swyers is a thing, with or without her, so you can already do that.
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  1045.  @whyamimrpink78  Nope. You're lying. The efficacy range is 60-92%. That's reducing the odds of getting it and dying from covid, just like rules of the road reduce the odds of being in and dying from automobile accidents.
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  1046.  @whyamimrpink78  You're lying and deflecting. You can alternatively work from home and have what you need delivered. Other forms of transportation are irrelevant to the point. We do X, Y, and Z, to reduce the numbers of automobile accidents, and reduce the mortality rate. We do X, Y, and Z, to reduce the numbers of covid cases, and reduce the mortality rate. Vaccines are not 100% effective. You idiots spreading it around continue to challenge efficacy rates, plus create variants that could pose even more of a challenge. You're arguing that your drinking, speeding, ignoring signs and lights, and lack of a seatbelt won't harm anyone who follows the rules of the road ... while increasing the odds of you crashing into them, flying through your window, and impaling them with your broken bones.
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  1047.  @MK-hw2ir  Do you think constantly weeping is compatible with traditional masculinity? Doesn't traditional masculinity go hand in hand with keeping certain emotions bottled up?
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  1048. @Bill Brasky Unless you're also anti IVF, then you're picking and choosing which fertilized eggs you consider "babies". The majority of them don't take, or aren't used, and "die".
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  1049. Why can't I laugh at the fact that this proves he's pseudoscientific charlatan, who promoted his daughter's meat only diet, claiming it had cured all his mental and physical ailments?
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  1050.  @ENDURANCELAND  Nothing you said is an argument against the op. Native Americans have always been in America. In fact, unlike the majority of Israel's population, they never left for 1000+ years. There's no nation with a Native American religion as it's foundation ... as if a religion needs its own country (should we carve out a Scientologist country?). There's a sea of Christian countries, so no big deal shoving a Christian American off their property, giving it back to natives, and telling them to move to Italy, or somewhere.
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  1051.  @sergeikhripun  You get that all the times Jimmy was going on about Russiagate, Russiagate, Russiagate, he wasn't talking about any of those things, either, right?
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  1052.  @CMfuell  Jimmy made very clear that he didn't know how the vote actually worked, and made very clear that he didn't think abstaining could lead to McCarthy winning, when it could. There's no strawman, dimwit. That you're a dimwit is simply an objective fact. You keep deflecting to what didn't come out of Jimmy's mouth. Stick to what he said.
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  1053.  @robinsss  So, you mean unfettered capitalism, with a lack of oversight. They are all the result of private property ownership, so how are they not capitalistic?
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  1054.  @robinsss  Didn't say it was. Capitalism comes in varieties from anarcho to fascism (a variety which has also repeatedly failed). I simply gave examples of capitalism failing many times over. And, many of the fixes for those failures have been moves away from capitalism by introducing socialistic concepts. The happiest countries on the planet are fairly centrist, rather than all out capitalistic, because all out capitalism fails many.
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  1055.  @headcrusher1966  Destroying confidence in the most progressive politians in congress, by calling them sellouts, fakes, shills, or whatnot, is a fucking problem. For what? For a vote guaranteed to fail. And, since there is no danger in it passing, there's no reason why those who have signed on for it wouldn't vote for it ... exposing nobody, and leaving you with the same names you have now. Plus, running the risk of them using the excuse that it was just voted on to put off voting for it again, for years. Attack the people against M4A, ffs, not those in favor of M4A.
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  1056. ​ @ComradeCatpurrnicus  Yes, she was also paid to join Rumble, which is funded by Peter Thiel.
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  1057.  @zelenskysboot361  Rofl. A private option =/= a public option.
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  1058.  @HavokBWR  You seem to be changing the definition. Which races do progressives consider superior or inferior?
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  1059.  @Mageroeth  That's just a lie. Numerous studies have shown no difference. And, as many people have pointed out ... there are more kids in the system than families who want to adopt them. Even if you were right about heterosexual couples, you'd be wrong to say kids are better off in the system than being adopted by a homosexual couple. Any which way you look at it, you and Ben are wrong.
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  1060. I mean, wasn't the whole point of revolting and founding the United States, because people were denied the "privilege" to vote? You guys should have just stuck it out a few more years ... avoided that war, possibly avoided the civil war, and now every Canadian has a guaranteed right to vote.
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  1061.  @brandonlehmann8899  Are you attempting to ironically defend Jimmy all my critics are CIA Dore, with that comment?
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  1062.  calo10able  It was released by a FOX "reporter", dumbass.
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  1063.  @ENDURANCELAND  Wow, you are so ignorant. When the Roman Empire converted, they forced Christianity on their population, persecuting pagans, and spreading it, as they conquered. There were Northern crusades force converting Northern Europeans. Crusades weren't a defense. They were an offense. One of the deadliest wars in history, was Chinese Christians trying to force Christianity on the rest of China, led by Jesus's Chinese brother. Muslims didn't tend to force convert the population, either, which is why the Spanish population was still almost all Christians, when it was reconquered. The Christians who reconquered it, on the other hand, offered the Muslim and Jewish population the options of conversion, exile, or death. Jews fled with Muslims to the Ottoman Empire, where they were safer. Israel's colonization is also the ethnic cleansing kind, like in the Americas. Muslims typically used the standard conquer and rule method, rather than the remove and replace method. Most "Arabs" are linguistically Arab, and don't actually originate from Arabia. Palestinian "Arabs", for example, are most closely related, genetically, to other peoples of the Levant, including the Jewish population, than they are to Arabian Arabs. They're the same peoples who have been ruled over by pagans, Jews, Christians, and Muslims, and not colonizers from the Arabian peninsula. They simply converted at some point, along the way.
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  1064. Go back to watching cowardly Crowder "debate" amateurs. He couldn't step up and debate a pro.
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  1065.  @LastBref  The thing is that his current tirade is not good on civil liberties. It's utter nonsense. Ranting about editors asking for editorial rewrites, something that's been happening since the dawn of newspapers and literally part of their job, as if your "free speech" has been violated, is total trash. Ranting as if private companies cancelling memberships, something that has been going on since the dawn of memberships, is some violation of "free speech", is total trash. A private property owner's right to have you removed from their private property has always trumped the non right to be on their property saying whatever you want. There's no such thing as "free speech" on private property. If he, Dore, or anyone else, actually wanted "free speech", were actually leftists, then they should not just whine about the lack of "free speech" on private property, as if that's something that ever existed. They should argue how it doesn't exist, how it can't be protected on private property, and make an argument for public ownership.
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  1066.  @whyamimrpink78  He hasn't progressed? Wealth disparity has regressed to Gilded Age levels. That ended with labour riots, race riots, and a great depression. Why wouldn't he keep talking about it, as long as things keep regressing, when he's the one advocating progression?
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  1067. So, freedom loving DeSantis wouldn't say threaten to blacklist Ben & Jerry's for their stance on Israel?
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  1068.  @brandonlouderback4408  What kind of flex is that? Trump has PR. Doesn't make him more of an intellectual, or more correct about anything.
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  1069.  @brandonlouderback4408  Is there some part, they missed, where he doesn't put his complete ignorance and bigotry on display? It's not the first episode he has done on the topic, in the last 6 months, and his other takes were complete and utter garbage. Completely ignoring the first couple centuries of the colonization of North America, might have you blaming Crazy Horse, or Geronimo, as extremists.
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  1070. He's acting like Trump, slandering anyone who doesn't back his election tactics.
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  1071.  @mehrshadvr4  Andrew Yang is an idiot who would have had money flowing to the very top faster than ever before, if he were in power. And, one capitalist being nice still wouldn't change the fact that buying and selling human beings is capitalism, anyway.
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  1072.  @oliviakahlo1  You can find a bunch of early documents at the Jewish Virtual Library, the Balfour Project, and British Hansard.
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  1073. ​ @nebwachamp  Rofl, they're untrustworthy, as well. Don't think it was them correcting her Civil War take.
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  1074.  @CatotheE  Trump had been calling for months for the democratic process to be overturned, so he could become an unelected dictator. The majority of Republican lawmakers tried to overturn the democratic process, so he could become an unelected dictator. Tens of millions of Republicans believe the bullshit lies, that led hundreds of them to try and forcefully overthrow the democratic process, so he could become an unelected dictator. Ummm, there were stun guns, baseball bats, flagpoles, bear spray, pipe bombs, a working gallows, and, yes, some guns, you dimwit. How well armed, how successful, how many, etc., are all irrelevant to whether something is an insurrection, or not. It's the goal that makes it an insurrection, or not.
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  1075.  @CatotheE  It has to be remotely the same to be hypocrisy, dumb dumb. Trying to save lives and trying to overthrow the democratic process aren't remotely the same, from the get go.
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  1076. So there was a massive wave of progressive politicians that took the house and senate in 2018, and the presidency in 2020? Republicans joined the left in voting against a fascist Trump agenda, instead of following him into overt fascism? And the moon fell into Lake Michigan when Trump filled multiple scotus seats?
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  1077. Even the most popular third party hasn't won a single seat in congress in its near 50 year existence. That's reality. Even if you magically got a third party so popular that you had as many seats as the current progressive caucus, you'd have a Trump second term, a republican senate with Pence as tie breaker, and a Republican plurality in the house. Republicans would only need a handful of conservative Dems to pass whatever they wanted, and could completely ignore the progressive party. That's the reality of math.
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  1078.  @MiguelCruz-oz7km  Most of his Dore knob talking points were also bullshit, as is usually the case. There's a difference between voting for the budget and voting for the state department appropriation bill. AOC voted against the appropriation bill. A vote against the budget is also a vote against Medicaid, Medicare, education, affordable housing, etc., etc., etc. She also voted against the military appropriation bill. These departments have their own individual budget request bills, before the budget vote. Haven't run across a Dore knob, yet, that knows the Capitol Hill police bill was heavily amended in the senate, nor that she voted against it, on the final house vote. The guy didn't even seem to know that the $15 got a vote already. It passed the house (M4A didn't have a shot in hell), and also got a senate vote. Instead of doing something with the two precious lists of no voters, they just keep bitching about those who got it to stay in for a round of voting and who voted for it. While Dore was claiming AOC had abandoned M4A, she was literally on the ground campaigning for Nina Turner, promoting M4A, and fighting to add another M4A yes vote to congress. Adding yes votes to congress gets you closer to being able to pass the bill. Forcing a 100% guaranteed to fail performance art vote, doesn't. AOC used her platform and PAC to back 20 other pro-M4A progressives, in the last election. Some of those were in purple districts, and the progressive got absolutely creamed in the primaries, but the more conservative Dem managed to win the district. This midterm election is a whole other animal, and it's going to be a helluva fight to hang on to those purple district seats. Any leverage the guy thinks progressives have, rests entirely on Democrats being in the majority, and yet he sees no benefit in her helping to retain that majority. They'd prefer seeing Republicans become the majority. They just look for any little thing to attack progressives over, while not seeming to care if fascists, that tried to overthrow the democratic process to keep Dumpty on as an unelected dictator, regain power. They're the kind of "leftists" that wind up on the wrong side of a Night of the Long Knives, when their psycho extreme right allies no longer consider them useful.
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  1079.  @nevermorebouquet3681  So, the "liberal order" wanted AOC to back 20 other progressives, help add a few more to congress, and help remove a few more corporate Dems? They wanted her on the ground campaigning for Nina Turner, fighting to add another? They wanted her campaigning for Bernie instead of Biden? The argument that she doesn't oppose them, makes the "liberal order" sound not too bad, if that's what they support.
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  1080.  @nevermorebouquet3681  You're basically incoherent. You first said they wouldn't give a committee seat to someone who opposes their power. That would mesh with those who voted against AOC, for a committee seat, saying they voted against her because she backed primary challengers against them. But, then you say they haven't opposed those in power. It makes no sense.
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  1081.  Aaron Dickson  With red counties dying at 3x the rate of blue counties, the coping will get easier and easier, as this goes on.
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  1082.  @alabamaman9476  Oh, sorry, I didn't know you didn't know what a "county" was. You go figure that out, and get back to me.
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  1083.  @robinsss  Just how stupid are you? Are you going to get pulled up, if you don't pay?
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  1084. Bribing officials, with "democracy dollars" isn't quite how democracy is supposed to work, is it?
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  1085. He promoted the March on Rome (Drive to Ottawa), as left wing. It was organized and led by a bunch of fascists.
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  1086.  @pluckyduck11y  "95% of those killed didn't even have slaves" Did the majority of southerners keep electing officials who maintained slavery laws? Did the majority of southerners elect anti-abolitionist officials? Did the majority of southerners elect officials who seceded over slavery and enshrined slavery into their new constitution? Did the majority of southerners fight for the "right" to enslave, abuse, rape, torture, and kill other human beings? After the war, did the majority of southerners then start voting for officials who adopted segregation and Jim Crow laws? Did the majority of southerners continue to vote that way for another 100 years? Did the majority of southerners vote for officials who fought against desegregation and Civil Rights? Piss off with your nonsense narrative, trying to portray only a minority of white southerners as racists.
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  1087. ​@@tennishack Just say you have no clue how hate speech laws work, and call it a day.
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  1088.  @handofgod9386  Just like Bernie? Rofl. That's $20 more per person on average, and that average definitely is from only small donars. You're spouting bullshit. Views? He's the sitting president. All kinds of people are viewing his crap who don't necessarily support him. You sound like a Trump supporter pretending to be a Dem.
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  1089. Are you on the wrong channel?
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  1090. That would make Pelosi president, if they both got ousted.
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  1091. If they simply paid all that hoarded wealth to their employees, then you wouldn't have to blame the system for not taxing their wealth.
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  1092.  @ThomasSMuhn  Not a direct democracy, but it is supposed to be a form of representational democracy.
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  1093.  @aheroictaxidriver3180  And? "Materialist" and "spiritual" aren't compatible. You seem to be explaining that he suggested abandoning the "spiritual", for the "material", not that he was himself spewing spiritual gobbledygook. You're an oxymoron, hold the oxy.
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  1094.  @michaelknight2897  You think people who started settling on farms and in cities, inventing things like beer and cheese, and riding around on horses and carts, remained just as physically fit as hunter gatherers? That humans didn't lose fitness, first, before athletes improving performance? The modern Olympics started during the Victorian Age. The vast majority of people never had to run anywhere, for any length of time, then. What we've done is recorded performances improving from an already relatively sedentary lifestyle, after starting to settle about 10k years earlier, not right back to hunter gatherers.
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  1095. @Aaron Dickson The AZ (only about $2 each in the EU) and J&J vaccines are a few bucks each. How many ivermectin pills do you have to take to fight off covid? You can't grasp why you'd be getting different numbers for something with different prices in different places, or different prices per pill vs multiple packaged pills?
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  1096.  @pbpp2904  And about 30m total cases that year. 30m total coronavirus cases would be 300k+ dead.
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  1097.  @mickelcsaszar3244  The supposed exodus, and all the plagues on Egypt, to let them go? Doesn't ring a bell?
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  1098.  @dcaseng  When did she advocate paralyzing, or threatening to paralyze, the house?
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  1099.  @arceusthomas2447  Like I said, dozens to thousands. Over 3000, in 2019. Over 6000, in 2017. Are you moving the goalpost again, that it now needs to be over a certain number of breakthroughs? Rofl. No. The covid vaccine efficacy rates are pretty high. Over 90% of kids are vaccinated for the mumps. There are still some 40% unvaccinated for covid. The vaccination rate is the bigger issue, than efficacy rates. CDC report: "Unvaccinated patients accounted for 84.2% (1669/1983) of COVID-19 hospitalizations." CDC: Unvaccinated seniors 50 times more likely to be hospitalized than those with boosters PHMDC: COVID-19 hospitalization, death rates ~60x higher for unvaccinated vs. boosted UCD Health: 85 percent of hospitalized COVID patients are unvaccinated About 90% of COVID-19 patients in some of Pa.’s hardest-hit hospitals are unvaccinated Houston: 85% OF PEOPLE HOSPITALIZED WITH COVID-19'S OMICRON VARIANT ARE UNVACCINATED, DOCTORS SAY DHMC officials say 85% of COVID-19 patients in intensive care in NH are unvaccinated NCDHHS: COVID-19 patients, most unvaccinated, occupy 85% of ICU hospital beds statewide Michigan hospital data: 87% of COVID ICU patients are unvaccinated How do you miss this stuff?
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  1100.  @brentnoury7626  People have been giving up on Dems, and letting Republicans win, for decades. The only change it caused was moving the country further right. Everytime Republicans win they jump further right, then the "moderate" Dems go meet them in the new "middle". What hasn't been done is keep fighting hard in the primaries but, no matter what, vote to keep Republicans out of the majority, and out of the presidency, for good. Vote to say conservative Dems is a far right as you want the country to go. Vote to say you don't want to keep heading into all out fascism. Vote to make the Republican party irrelevant and the primaries the main battleground.
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  1101.  @brentnoury7626  What does a 100% guaranteed to fail performance art vote change?
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  1102.  @brentnoury7626  How does a failed vote do that? No. Actually passing a bill is all about numbers, not performance art.
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  1103.  @MorarLa  That was against the Commonwealth of Virginia. Do you think self, or other, defense, is a double standard, when it comes to assault or murder? Or, is it a different standard?
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  1104.  @spellman007  Yeah, why not? Why aren't you concerned about everyone who doesn't match sex and gender? You're not a bigoted hypocrite, who only cares when certain people do it, are you?
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  1105. ​ @radaro.9682  Voting comes down to math. Here in Canada, the Conservative party only gets a majority of the votes in 2 provinces. Yet, they manage to win a majority of seats, in multiple provinces and federally, with little more than a third of the vote, exactly because 60+% of the other votes are split between our Liberal party and the NDP (and BQ in Quebec). All you're promoting is to let Trump, and Republicans, rule. You're not actually promoting voting against Trump, by promoting someone who can't beat him.
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  1106.  @timothyo718  Aaron is an idiot. Besides what I mentioned above, Israel, the US, France, and the UK, had started bombing Syria, before UN inspectors even made it to the site, to start their investigation. The final report didn't come out until months later. And, that final report, as per Russian security council demands, didn't assign blame to any party. It had no real bearing on anyone's decision to bomb Syria.
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  1107.  @repolarrepolar9833  So, you're cool with meanings of words changing?
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  1108.  @SoundsSilver  There doesn't even have to be a physical threat. Scenario 1: A student writes an A grade paper. The teacher threatens to give them a C if the student doesn't have sex with them. Scenario 2: A student writes a C grade paper. The teacher threatens to let the C stand, if the student doesn't have sex with them, and will upgrade it to an A, if they do. It's moronic to argue that scenario 2 isn't coercion, simply because the student isn't entitled to an A. Being entitled is also irrelevant to whether something is coercion, or not. You clearly don't understand the meaning of the word.
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  1109. ​ @MatthewMortensen1  It already has a basic definition. "Fascism is the complete opposite of Marxian socialism." ~ Mussolini Marx's ideal was for a stateless, non-authoritarian, direct democracy, form of socialism. The complete opposite is an ultra-nationalistic, authoritarian, anti-democratic, form of crony capitalism. Democrats may have some undemocratic moments, and some flag waving here and there, but they are not outright anti-democratic and ultra-nationalistic. They aren't humping flagpoles, or trying to install an unelected dictator, aren't in a constant state of "patriotism" or constantly arguing "it's not a democracy, it's a republic", etc. Republicans are far more likely to justify police brutality, or "good guys" shooting people ... more likely to call for harsher laws and punishments. And, Republicans are all worse than the most conservative Dem, when it comes to lining the pockets of corporations, and fighting against workers. The "Samesies!" argument is moronic.
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  1110. Americans aren't going to the doctor for human prescriptions. American doctors aren't prescribing Ivermectin for covid. Stupid conservatives have been using horse medicine.
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  1111. Because there's still no science on how long, exactly, antibodies will last. The longer he goes without the vaccine, the higher the chance of them reducing, most likely.
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  1112. ​ @jamesjameson4303  Do tell.
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  1113.  @LEP021085  It's not, at all, hard to compare. Just use per capita rates. That's how you always compare places with different sized populations. Chicago isn't even top 10 worst.
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  1114.  @alabamaman9476  Top 20 cities, 12 in red states ... 1. St. Louis, Missouri > Murder rate: 88.1 per 100,000 people 2. Petersburg, Virginia > Murder rate: 76.9 per 100,000 people 3. Pine Bluff, Arkansas > Murder rate: 56.5 per 100,000 people 4. New Orleans, Louisiana > Murder rate: 51.0 per 100,000 people 5. Saginaw, Michigan > Murder rate: 50.2 per 100,000 people 6. Detroit, Michigan > Murder rate: 49.7 per 100,000 people 7. Trenton, New Jersey > Murder rate: 48.2 per 100,000 people 8. Harrisburg, Pennsylvania > Murder rate: 46.7 per 100,000 people 9. Baton Rouge, Louisiana > Murder rate: 46.5 per 100,000 people 10. Flint, Michigan > Murder rate: 46.4 per 100,000 people 11. Riviera Beach, Florida > Murder rate: 44.7 per 100,000 people 12. Memphis, Tennessee > Murder rate: 44.4 13. Wilmington, Delaware > Murder rate: 44.2 per 100,000 people 14. Cleveland, Ohio > Murder rate: 42.2 per 100,000 people 15. Alexandria, Louisiana > Murder rate: 41.3 per 100,000 people 16. Monroe, Louisiana > Murder rate: 40.3 per 100,000 people 17. Shreveport, Louisiana > Murder rate: 37.2 per 100,000 people 18. Portsmouth, Virginia > Murder rate: 36.1 per 100,000 people 19. Kansas City, Missouri > Murder rate: 35.2 per 100,000 people 20. Dayton, Ohio > Murder rate: 32.8 per 100,000 people Top 20 states, 12 red states ... Louisiana 12.8 Maryland 10.4 Alabama 9.6 Mississippi 9 Arizona 9 Tennessee 8.3 Arkansas 8 South Carolina 7.9 New Mexico 7.9 Nevada 7.8 North Carolina 7.6 Missouri 7.3 Georgia 7.1 Michigan 6.9 California 6.9 Illinois 6.8 Delaware 6.6 Texas 6.5 Virginia 6.4 Pennsylvania 6.3
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  1115. Seems lame to go around pretending like you're some kind of pro debater, and saying the left is afraid to debate you, all while avoiding debating the left yourself. That's a cowardly liar who deserves to be set up.
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  1116.  @mickswagger6086  Nope. It's run like a private club, with terms of service you agree to, when you sign up and get a membership. No such thing as the right to free speech on someone else's private property. You don't have a right to be on their private property, to begin with, so you don't have a right to be on their private property spewing whatever nonsense you want.
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  1117.  @rtorres4132  Except passing non public information along to others is itself illegal, whereas simply knowing the information isn't itself illegal.
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  1118. To be great "again" means you didn't think it is great, hate America, and should be packing your bags.
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  1119. An coordinated enterprise, to break the law, should be another RICO charge.
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  1120. ​ @MyThoughtsImJustSaying  Reading comprehension is your friend. "Most people" =\= all people.
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  1121. Most of the economic gains were in the first year, when Obama's last budget was still in effect. Trump's favorite measure is the stock market, and that almost flatlined, after Trump's first budget came out.
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  1122.  @twmax6525  Promoting Trump as a better option for progressives than Clinton.
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  1123. Genesis tells the story of a formless, sexless, penisless, god being, that is called "he", "him", and "father". And the trinity belief is a belief that that being transitioned into a human male.
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  1124.  @StasCherkassky  Even if Gazans did, IL still celebrates the Irgun and Lehi trrrist founders of Likud as "heroes". So, what's the issue, if IL considers celebrating trrrism and trrrists okay?
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  1125. @John Dew No, there's no sense to it. China has lower emissions per capita. Combined, all the countries with higher emissions per capita have a similar total population but much higher total emissions. China isn't the biggest problem. Plus, they do have a zero emissions plan.
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  1126. ​ @jasonfuller1001  But, Palestinians aren't supposed to respond to the mass murder, of their people? 200+ killed this year, before the Hamas attack, dozens of children. Last year was bad, too. Your argument makes no sense.
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  1127. ​ @laskji  If it was a failure, explain why studies consistently find higher COVID death rates in Republican counties, where people were less likely to get it, and less likely to follow other guidelines.
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  1128. Lol @ all the bullshit, don't contribute to society, answers. Poor people tend to spend every penny they have, putting it all entirely back into the society. Hoarders of money put less back into the economy, per dollar, if they aren't spending every penny they've got. By that measure, it's the hoarders who contribute less. Producers also tend to pass all costs onto consumers. Even if a corporation can't dodge all its taxes, they'll pass along the cost of what they can't dodge onto consumers. Those costs also include salaries and health care. By that measure, it's the consumers, including poor ones, who contribute more than the producers. Producers provide a method for moving the money around, while taking a cut for themselves. An okay system with small businesses, where the producer is also the labourer, and they aren't hoarding vast amounts. A terrible system the more that is skimmed off the top, and not recirculated back into the economy. Might as well be a lord, living off the labour of his peasants, and hoarding vast amounts gold in the process. So, it's because the system is looked at backwards, that people at the top are praised. You can not get the capitalism ball rolling without the capital in the hands of consumers. They are the ones providing.
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  1129. So, blindly "love" someone, no matter what they say? Sounds kinda dumb.
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  1130. What's the murder rate of a state vs a city? Lol Why not state vs state? State homicide rates ... West Virginia 6.9 California 6.4 New York 4.8
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  1131. Also, India, representing almost the entirety of the Hindu world, is ranked worse than Saudi for the treatment of women. Thousands of yearly bride burnings, tens of thousands of yearly kidnappings of women and girls for sex slavery, a third of the world's child brides, ... plus Hindutva crackpots.
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  1132.  @robinsss  "Since the trough of the COVID-19 recession in the second quarter of 2020, overall prices in the NFC sector have risen at an annualized rate of 6.1%—a pronounced acceleration over the 1.8% price growth that characterized the pre-pandemic business cycle of 2007–2019. Strikingly, over half of this increase (53.9%) can be attributed to fatter profit margins, with labor costs contributing less than 8% of this increase. This is not normal. From 1979 to 2019, profits only contributed about 11% to price growth and labor costs over 60%"
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  1133.  @thinkoutsidethelines8265  Pretty sure I responded with more than a few sentences about Dore. So, you don't grasp basic math.
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  1134.  @SuburbanConan  Ummm, the big pharma monoclonal antibodies they took are $2000+ a pop, and effective, dimwit. Ivermectin didn't save them.
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  1135. You're making an analogy between inanimate objects and living beings, and between owning and being owned? Shouldn't the analogy, at least, be from the owner perspective? If a law takes away your right to own slaves, but you keep slaves anyway, then you're a criminal, and then you threaten civil war to keep your slaves ... sounds somewhat familiar.
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  1136.  @robertfines7501  "rate" (per 100k). You compare states of different sizes by rates, not totals.
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  1137.  @BlazingOwnager  woke: alert to racial prejudice and discrimination What's the issue with being "ultra woke"?
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  1138. ​ @woodyhitya  Uh huh, and native Americans actually sometimes attacked colonialists, and were painted as the "savages". What's your point?
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  1139.  @RHINOTEJAS  The type of thinking that ranks it near the top of the best places in the world to live. So?
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  1140.  @roberttelford745  The progressives who backed Bernie and M4A during the last primaries, instead of Tulsi and a public option. The progressives who helped add a few more M4A yes votes to congress, which gets you closer to being able to pass the bill. The progressives who were just trying help add another M4A yes vote to congress, in Nina Turner, who Dore abandoned. The progressives who did vote against the stand alone rearming Israel bill, and introduced bills to put conditions on aid to Israel. You Dore knob dimwits wanted them to vote against the entire foreign aid budget, that included aid to Palestinians, as well as non military aid around the world? And what is it with your stupid obsession with Syria? There have been hundreds of accounts of Syrian chemical weapons use, hundreds of victim witnesses, dozens of healthcare worker witnesses, multiple NGO witnesses, independent investigations, legal human rights groups investigating on behalf of victims, on top of the numerous UN investigations that had zero dissenting opinions, since 2013, plus tons of other human rights violations. Two dissenting opinions on a single investigation doesn't even debunk that investigation, let alone all the others. The investigation you dimwits keep blathering about didn't even start until after the US, and others, were already bombing Syria, and the final report didn't come out until almost a year later, plus it didn't even assign blame as per Russian security council demands. It wasn't used as grounds for the bombing, ffs. You're being played by a grifter, Dore knob.
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  1141. It's a joke, ya dimwit.
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  1142.  @benh580  Are you saying it's nearly impossible to run a business in Western European countries, Japan, Australia, Canada ... more progressive countries than the US? That would seem to be patently false.
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  1143.  @beardedrogue4282  Oh. My bad. Tim's "studio" can't work out a latency issue that countless podcasts, radio and TV shows, and even kids playing live music together, have figured out.
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  1144.  @andrewkent650  Well, they supposedly crucified the first coming for blasphemy. Let's hope they're consistent.
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  1145.  @DesignerDave  Dore has a video where he makes out like covid deaths are "WILDLY inflated". In it, he starts with total population hospitalization rates (vaccinated 0.01%, unvaccinated 0.89%), taken from a Gallup article. The proper "death rate", to compare to a total population hospitalization rate, would be the covid crude mortality rate (currently about 0.26%). That number is easy to find, and it's even easy to do the math yourself (take total population, total covid deaths, and work out the percentage). There's nothing incompatible with a 0.9% total population hospitalization rate and a 0.26% total population "death rate". Instead, Jimmy claims he can't find a current "death rate", or even one within the past year and a half ... and is apparently also too stupid to figure out any rates himself ... so uses a year and a half old "death rate", that is clearly a case fatality rate (3.4%), based on deaths per confirmed case (the hospitalizations rates weren't per confirmed case). Then he dishonestly compares those two rates, that are based on completely different math, to make out like covid deaths are being "WILDLY inflated" ... you know, because 3.4% is so much higher than 0.9%. Many anti-maskers/anti-vaxxers types have long argued that covid isn't any worse than a cold or flu, making it unnecessary to take precautions, masks or vaccines. Jimmy's dishonest video panders to that anti-mask/anti-vax bullshit.
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  1146.  @ilikebells  Basically every single one of his "anti-mandate" videos peddles misinformation about covid and vaccines, and then uses that as grounds for why vaccines shouldn't be mandated. They're both anti-mandate and anti-vax.
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  1147.  Mike W  Was it Sam scouring the internet, looking for Crowder standup, and monitoring Crowder's shows?
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  1148. 6 Republican presidential terms and 4 Democrat presidential terms, over the past 40 years. 10 R and 10 D house majorities. 11 R and 9 D senate majorities. Totally the Democrats fault.
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  1149.  @inspectortanzi  Rofl, are you a Jackson Hinkle MAGA "communist"?
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  1150. Animals can't consent, dumb dumb. This is like if a racist prick still wanted interracial marriages to be illegal, defended discrimination against interracial couples, claimed his Bible/Tanakh was against interracial couples and that the couple were evil wicked sinners. That's intolerance, and to be intolerant of that intolerance is to be opposed to it. To say being intolerant of that intolerance is the "most intolerant" would be beyond moronic.
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  1151.  @deadmeat1471  Nope. You exactly said he wasn't irrational, which means you must consider his arguments rational.
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  1152.  @dirkdiggler7277  Biden didn't shut down any functioning pipelines, so didn't reduce delivery. OPEC prices have been historically cheaper. They kept oil prices pretty steady in the $15-30 a barrel range, for years. It was American oil companies that wanted prices higher, because oil production in N America costs more. Bush broke having lower, and fairly steady, gas prices. Gas prices dropped during the height of the pandemic, and are now back up to pre pandemic levels. They were lower because so much was shut down ... so lower no thanks to Trump, who argued against shutdowns, and higher thanks to all the states opening up. Trump could have avoided having as many shutdowns by not having a completely incompetent covid response. He could also have had better oversight for businesses that took covid money to keep paying employees, but instead took covid money and fired employees. Countries with excellent to mediocre covid responses also weren't as negatively impacted economically. Trump was a xenophobe for only stopping foreigners coming from China. He let a ton of Americans return from China, and keep traveling to and from China, as if Americans were immune. The first vaccine out of the gate had nothing to do with Trump's "operation warp speed". Vaccines in other countries, that had nothing to do with ows, also came out at similar times to ones that did. There's no evidence that Trump did anything that actually sped up the vaccine rollout.
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  1153.  @aliamjon2550  The US was kind of built on letting in millions of uneducated, unskilled, people without a job or a home, and handing out plots of land to them. So, the virus isn't a hoax, isn't equivalent to a cold, or whatever the going right wing bullshit is?
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  1154.  @Djockzone  I'm not reading that. "Biden will not be the Democratic nominee. Get ready for Michelle Obama." ~ Vivek tweet, Feb 8 2024
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  1155. Greenwald, literally, doesn't know what "censorship" means, in this case, or is intentionally misrepresenting its meaning. I'm sure he has been in the news business long enough to know that asking for edits, or even scrapping a story, doesn't equate to "censorship". That's just a fact, not propaganda. Censorship would be if the authorities forced them to edit, or scrap, a story.
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  1156.  @zippydodahquirk9039  Peru has used it most. They have the most covid deaths per capita on the planet. American doctors aren't prescribing it for covid, so right wing morons, who have been encouraged by right wing morons like Prager and Dore, have been taking over the counter horse medicine. That's why people are talking about horse medicine.
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  1157.  @emblemedfate4270  Editors have been asking for editorial rewrites since the beginning of newspapers. It's one thing to claim your editors are partisan. It's a completely different thing to have a tantrum, being a moron and making out like your free speech rights have been violated, going on multiple shows and also making out like private companies with TOS violate people's free speech rights, etc. His editors asking for a rewrite drove him off the deep end. He's spewing nonsense all over the place.
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  1158.  @bkbland1626  And wood floats on water. What else floats on water?
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  1159.  Bryzz Lull   Ummm, you should read a history book, or two. There was no American founding in the 16th century. Jamestown wasn't even settled until 1607, the beginning of the 17th century. Plymouth was settled in 1620. Then came waves of Puritans, who basically created a theocracy. They enslaved or killed natives that didn't convert. They banished, persecuted, or killed other Christians who didn't conform, including Quakers. They banished, persecuted, or killed non-Christians. They killed people for "witchcraft". They forced church attendance. They forced a dress code. They outlawed PDAs. Etc. There was no liberty, at all. By the time the later 18th century rolled around, when the 1775 revolution occurred, British parliamentarians had already fought three civil wars against royalists, and chopped off a king's head, over a hundred years earlier. They had also already enacted a number of bills outlining subject rights (petition of right, habeas corpus act, and bill of rights), during that time, as well. What American revolutionaries originally wanted was the same rights and freedoms as those in the motherland, where those things had already existed for over a century. British common law was so much better than colonial laws at protecting individual rights, slavery couldn't survive it. When Americans created their own constitution and bill of rights, they used the British one as a model. But, their rights didn't protect everyone's liberty, and they still conserved chattel slavery, and only managed to get rid of it by fighting a bloody civil war against those willing to kill and die to conserve it forever, decades after the British Empire had abolished it in all the other colonies it still owned, and everyone said okay, without a fight. Those millions of freed American slaves, and their descendants, were still stripped of rights, discriminated against, persecuted, and even killed, for another hundred years, before the US came up with a civil rights act, after a great struggle against those trying to conserve those lack of rights, that finally protected everyone. Americans are actually a slow bunch, when it comes to freedoms, compared to many other countries, due to so many of them trying to conserve the exact opposite of liberty. They are not at the forefront, at all. America "created" so much, for so many, because it had a ton of open land (well, once the natives were cleared out), and people were given free land ... government handouts. This also happened in Canada and Australia, both of which rank better than the US on the freedom index, on the happiness index, on quality of life, on healthcare, on education, etc., etc. Conservatives do not believe in smaller government. They love a big military and expanded policing, both of which are expanding government. Conservatives do not believe in a free market, and work towards helping monopolies, all the time, as well as support corporate welfare. So, all you basically said was ... conservatives believe in pure bullshit and propaganda.
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  1160.  @harveymanfredsenjenson5417  Oh lol, it's the grade school dropout, who doesn't know how median income works. 6.952 million views in the past 30 days, according to socialblade. Seems like a few.
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  1161.  @harveymanfredsenjenson5417  Rofl. How is citing a second source "moving the goalpost", dumb dumb? Seems like another term you don't comprehend.
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  1162.  @JamesMorgan-ne8qu  More specifically, that because they would be able to achieve anything, working together, implying the tower to Heaven was possible. Heaven should be hovering about 500' over Iraq somewhere.
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  1163.  @midwesternmann6290  Are you trying, and failing, to say "anecdotal"?
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  1164.  @thomasautonomousanonymous  Seems like you have reading comprehension problems, and are ignorant about Jimmy's 2016 take.
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  1165. ​ @barbiquearea  A dry doctor.
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  1166. Thinking there'd be some massive uprising over a guaranteed to fail vote is moronic and naive. It's a fantasy, just like Dore's fantasy that a Trump presidency would cause a massive progressive uprising, that would "for sure" take the house and senate in 2018, and the presidency in 2020. Thinking you need to go to all out war with the party, just to get a list of names to primary, is moronic. You get a new list of people who won't sign onto the M4A bills each new session. Pelosi even introduced M4A, just last session, where it died in committee. The speaker, alone, can't even force a bill through committees to the floor.
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  1167.  @prabesh8277  Their leader calling to overthrow the democratic process. The majority of their lawmakers trying to overthrow the democratic process. The majority of their followers believing the fascist propaganda, leading to some of them trying to violently overthrow the democratic process. What's not fascist about them?
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  1168.  @prabesh8277  Have the US, and many other developed countries, been "fascist" for over a century, since they've been mandating vaccinations (something supported by both US parties) for over a century?
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  1169.  @robinsss  Well, simply saying "anarchists", tends to imply anarcho-socialists, who the "anarchist" label is generally applied to, when used alone. Capital "L" US Libertarians do range from Ayn Rand Objectivist types (Gary) to anarcho-capitalist types (Darryl).
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  1170. @Badatallthis Stuff Who the f*ck ever argued EVERYONE was going to die from covid? Shove your strawman. Per capita is how you compare things in countries with different populations. Norway's rate would translate into about 2500 total Sweden covid deaths, instead of 15k. That's about 12500 preventable deaths Sweden didn't bother to try and prevent. All for what? Their economy didn't even do better. So, they died just so people wouldn't be inconvenienced by a mask, or something?
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  1171. @Anurag Chakraborty You know it's mostly red states that top both those lists, right?
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  1172.  @Historia.Magistra.Vitae.  Wrong again. "And above all Fascism denies that class-war can be the preponderant force in the transformation of society." ~ Mussolini Classes accepting their lot in life, and just working together for the country, is, in no reality, socialism or communism.
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  1173.  @raonaveen90  The corporate Dem majority could keep picking Pelosi over and over and over, or someone worse, as the party speaker candidate. Paralyzing the house and picking the party speaker candidate are two different things. And, if you go to all out war with the party, what do you think they'll do, when the progressive caucus does become the majority and picks the party speaker candidate? The most popular third party hasn't won a single seat in congress in its near 50 year existence. That's the longest road you could take.
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  1174. ​ @jds614  You know Likud is founded by the Irgun and Lehi, yeah?
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  1175. To be fair to the "moron", it's your question that's pretty stupid.
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  1176. Bernie also needs keep progressives in the house and senate, and not take them all out and put them in his cabinet. Nina's great, and isn't currently serving.
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  1177.  @davidadams2395  Rofl. How are Democrats responsible, when it's Trump's policies causing the problem? The majority now coming across aren't Mexicans, so why is it Mexico's responsibility to not let them get to the US? And why does how you came to have children in your custody, matter to how you then treat them?
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  1178.  @jojojoe1904  There's a new list of people that don't sign onto it every time it's reintroduced in a new session, dumb dumb. If you and Jimmy had an extra 100 pro-M4A candidates in your back pockets, why didn't you run them in the election that just happened?
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  1179.  @jeremiahbachmann3901  When weren't conservatives authoritarian?
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  1180.  @ItsAllison-ub3vx  There were also other "loans", after the initial $1m, as well. They got fined for illegal loans to Donnie boy's failing casino. Through a lawyer, Fred purchased $3.5m in chips, and then didn't cash them in. The casino still went bankrupt a year later.
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  1181.  @2727rogers  No. The bill was actually passed by St Laurent's majority Liberal parliament (its second in a row majority Liberal parliament). It simply wasn't implemented until the following year, under a minority government. There's a difference between an actually viable third party in a parliamentary system, and no viable third parties in the current US system. The 30 year old broader progressive caucus is about 10 seats away from becoming the majority of house Dems. Justice Dems have replaced about a dozen corporate Dems in 4 years. AOC has helped replace a few in just 2 years. The most popular third party hasn't won a single seat in congress in its near 50 year existence. The most popular progressive third party hasn't won a single seat in congress in its 20 year existence, and that party has produced beautiful candidates like Kyrsten Sinema. It's a fantasy to think a third party has a shot in the US, and will get you M4A in the next century. It's a fantasy to think they'll produce perfectly perfect progressive puritan candidates, far beyond progressive Dems. Even if you somehow magically peeled away a significant number of progressive votes, to win a handful of seats, the most likely political outcome would be a Republican majority or minority government. They would most likely work with the most conservative Dems, to pass legislation, and completely ignore your insignificant number of seats.
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  1182.  Alabama Man 2.0  You're jealous. He has more views than you, therefore jealous, by your own "logic".
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  1183.  @stopwritingthatreplyjohnat6638  Only a complete idiot, like Dore, would be shocked that ancappers will agree with you on some anti-authoritarian issues. Old news. They're still the complete opposite on economics, unless you're also a far right capitalist.
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  1184.    He proved he was objectively delusional to think a Trump presidency would be better for progressives ... that it would lead to a progressive wave which would "for sure" take the house and senate in 2018, and the presidency in 2020 ... that Republicans would join with the left to obstruct a Trump agenda ... that Trump filling multiple scotus seats was as likely as the moon falling into Lake Michigan. He proved he was operating outside of reality when he claimed Stein, who was only on the ballot in like 10 states, had a shot. AOC just got done campaigning for Bernie and backed 20 other progressives, helping to remove a few more corporate Dems and add a few more M4A yes votes to congress. To make out like that's a worse ally than ancap Boogaloos is actually insane. Getting a guaranteed to fail vote on M4A was supposedly supposed to be useful in pressuring or replacing those opposed. Progressives get the $15 to stay in for a round of voting, and suddenly that's not useful in going after those opposed, but instead useful in continuing to shit on progressives. There's gaslighting, and then there's actually being delusional. Sam was right on the mark, predicting the reality of multiple scotus seats being filled. So, obviously Jimmy was gaslighting. Jimmy has been proven to be delusional, and is therefore actually delusional.
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  1185. Yeah, great choice. "We cannot get re-elect, we cannot win this re-election, excuse me. We can only re-elect Donald Trump." ~ Joe Biden
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  1186.  @Anxh007  Yeah, that's a load of crap. Turkey is the last remnant of the Ottoman Empire, not Saudi. Women there are fighting to keep abortion rights, like in the US, and homosexuality was never illegal, because they carried over Ottoman laws, which had already decriminalized it. Jews had lived in relative peace in Muslim nations, for 1300 years, been given refuge when Christian nations offered conversion, death, or exile. Plenty of accounts of Christian crusaders being the most bigoted, ruthless, and fanatic, during the Crusades. Etc. Most of the current Muslim nations were created by the Christian west. Carving up the Ottoman Empire was as if nations conquered the US, with the help of far right Christian militia groups, and then handed those religious nuts some of the states to rule over, like theocracies, after. And then, if any more moderate leftist Muslims rose up, those same Christian nations helped overthrow them, with coups, or again backing religious extremists. So, yeah, the West wanting to keep the current socio-economic status, in those countries, has been tied to more extremism. Just like how they supported fascists, in Central/South America, to try and keep the status quo, keep people down, and keep the money flowing in the direction they wanted.
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  1187.  @redrick8900  Rofl! The USSR put the first object into space, the first man into space, the first space station into space, put the first unmanned rover on the moon ... Wtf, does anything you said have to do with freedom, dumb dumb?
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  1188.  @anderseckstrand7033  Shouldn't an "outstanding journalist" know basics, like ... that you don't have, and never did have, "free speech" on someone else's private property, and that you can't lose something you never had?
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  1189.  @guiagaston7273  Despite your denial, you're clearly a dimwitted Dore knob. You idiots don't get that "vote blue" works both ways. If a progressive can make it through the primaries, those who voted against them will turn around and vote for them in the general. It's how progressives can have a chance in purple districts. Splitting Democrat voters in those districts is just handing it to Republicans. Any hope in hell of Bernie becoming president would have relied on Clinton or Biden voters turning around and voting for him in the general. You "real" leftists seem to prefer Republican rule for decades to come. Even if the current progressives aren't perfectly perfect puritan enough for you, running as a Dem is very clearly the more effective way to ever win a seat. The most popular third party hasn't won a single seat in congress in its near 50 year existence. Find better candidates, if you think they're so bad. You might want to try and remove more corporate Dems and Republicans, first, before worrying about purifying the progressives, though.
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  1190.  @guiagaston7273  No. Dore outright promoted the idea that letting 10 people be executed, or 5 be run over by a trolley, was the better option. You just argued he's stupid. I thought that was the one thing we had agreed on.
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  1191. ​ @mp22893 As for "anti-war", he is only anti-US. He is completely fine with Russia invading other countries, starting wars.
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  1192.  @shinystarmiestudios4179  And they think that somehow absolves the US response, which doesn't make sense. Even if it was a bioweapon, countries still responded to it differently, and the US response was still shit.
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  1193.  @heavydny86  Huckster Jordan claimed his huckster daughter's meat only diet had cured his anxiety and depression, so why did he need drugs? Huckster Jordan has also claimed that only a spiritual experience will break an addiction, so why the medically induced coma?
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  1194.  @feathersigil2048  But they don't have laws about going elsewhere, to get one. They aren't hunting down women, and trying to charge them with murder. They even offer help, PEI: "If a physician is unavailable OR pregnancy is beyond 15 weeks 6 days, Sexual Health, Options & Reproductive Services staff can assist with out-of-province options."
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  1195.  @samuelmerkel2888  You seem to be reinventing the definition of the word "executive". executive: a person with senior managerial responsibility in a business organization.
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  1196. It's not an issue that can be resolved with a single vote. It's going to take public pressure. So, would you like people who make laws okaying driving over protesters, or almost outlawing protests, and who call for movements (blm) to be categorized as terrorist organizations, etc., in charge, as your protesting?
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  1197.  @laqueefa8509  What have FTVers done with the ever so precious list of no voters on the $15 minimum wage? Oh right, they've continued to bitch about those who voted for it. They're just a pathetic bunch of lazy hypocrites, that would have likewise done absolutely nothing with a list of M4A no voters. Just like they've done nothing with the list of those who won't cosponsor M4A.
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  1198.  @bjornjorgenbjorgenhoogenbo2954  Increasing his right wing audience, and subscribers, increases his profits. And his webpage is still advertising memberships and merch. You Dore knobs buy all his bullshit, hook, line, and sinker. The Trumpists of the "left" (who still somehow benefit the right most).
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  1199.  Alabama Man 2.0  You: NFL gets more views than Discovery Atlas, therefore it's more informative!!!
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  1200.  @biokido575  “We made our intentions as clear as we could ten years ago. Most of our fans got it. To those who didn’t, I suggest you look closer.”
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  1201.  @hikelfin  The idiot shouldn't even have a philosophy degree, he's so bad at it. "Well being" and utilitarianism are nothing new. He regurgitated old shit, and morons ate it up. His moral "analogies", used for his foundation, aren't even analogous. He's a dolt, and never actually got his moral argument beyond what he already stated was a given.
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  1202.  @tonybanks1035  You're the fucking moron. He outright said that people didn't do science, for the sake of science, before Judeo-Christians, and then said the scientific method was Aristotelian, you dumb shit.
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  1203.  @ZooomaCW  So, when Dore made out like covid deaths were "WILDLY inflated", by dishonestly comparing a total population hospitalization rate to a year and a half old case fatality rate (he should have been using a covid crude mortality rate), what did you think to yourself?
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  1204.  @blargh3428  The difference being that Alex Jones benefits the far right, the side he claims to be on, while Jimmy Dore also benefits the far right, the opposite side he claims to be on.
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  1205.  @mfbobyle6771  Sam has had Jaime with him for years. He likes her just fine.
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  1206.  @invisiblek5783  Jaime has moved from the background, where she used to only make the odd comment, like Matt. Emma has moved from being a reporter and co-anchor on other progressive news networks. Emma is better at jumping into the discussion with Sam, like Michael used to, than Jaime. Jaime kind of had her shot, after Michael passed, and many shows were just her and Sam, but she did the same thing, didn't jump into the discussion enough, and barely said anything.
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  1207.  @vsalukir7019  Ah. Trump supporters are either rich, stupid, or racist. Thanks for letting us know which type you are.
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  1208. ​ @anitamurkes9511  Your math is way off. Isrl's 2024 budget is $155b. Their mltry budget is $15b (10% of budget). The US has given them $12.5b, since Oct. They've covered almost all of Isrl's mltry budget. Even the annual $3.8b is over 3% of Isrl's budget, or a quarter of their mltry budget.
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  1209.  @mimked  Something doesn't have to be illegal to be a concerted effort to overthrow the democratic process. All of 7 house Dems objected to Trump, in 2017, and since none of them had a senator's backing, none of them actually counted as an official objection. Zero official objections, in total. That's quite a lot different than the majority of Republicans, with multiple senators backing, objecting to Biden, based on zero evidence of voter fraud, just because they didn't like the result.
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  1210. No it's not. RSS outright pushes Hindutva. Point at Democrats pushing Jim Crow laws and slavery.
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  1211.  @mfflscotty2095  No. You're the one implying that, if they take a large chunk of the pie, it's not their fault if there's little left for anyone else ... that others can still make choices, that will make more pie magically appear.
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  1212. ​ @robinsss  Kids are the next generation of consumers. Capitalism would die, without them, and the more successful they are, the more stuff they can buy! They are also the next generation of workers, who will be paying for his Social Security and Medicare, when he's old, but while they aren't old, and have no individual guarantee of getting old.
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  1213.  @asamanthinketh1937  Lol, why isn't happiness the ultimate goal?
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  1214.  @thehappyclam3942  Did it show that Joe suddenly made $17m in China while being president in 2017 and withdrawing $15m of that, or that he has made millions leasing to a government bank of China while being president, or that he made millions selling Ivanka's condo to a Chinese woman whose business it is to connect American businessmen with the Chinese government while being president, or that his daughter received 40+ expedited trademarks from China while he was president, of that his US companies import tons of Chinese goods in just a month, or that he pays more taxes to China than the US? What, exactly, did the laptop show about Joe, who has released 22 years of tax returns and nobody has found a single payment from foreign entities?
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  1215.  Ghost Yuki  He already called himself Obiden.
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  1216.  I only use this account when I get put in time out  The op didn't imply anyone was calling for her arrest, dumb dumb. The op referred to their supposed love for free speech. FOX has repeatedly simply argued for people to shut up (shut up and dribble), instead of addressing their actual arguments. That's simply criticizing them for exercising their free speech, criticizing that they're saying something, rather than what they're saying.
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  1217. Nope. The rent is having a laugh, at their expense.
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  1218.  @A_Derpy_NINJA  Do you even know what a "grift" is? Sure, he says stuff, but the whole point is that he's selling himself as something he's not. In 2016, Dore promoted Trump (platform: kick 10m of the poorest Americans off of Medicaid expansion) as the better option than Clinton (platform: add 40m older Americans to Medicare expansion). He also promoted the idea that Stein had a shot. If he convinced even a single swing state voter not to bother going out to vote against Trump, or to vote Stein, then he helped Trump win. For the 2020 primaries, he promoted Tulsi (public option) over Bernie (M4A). If he convinced even a single person not to vote Bernie, then he helped Bernie lose. Then, he spent the general running a constant attack ad campaign against Trump's only remaining viable opponent, again trying to help Trump win. A disagreement over a performance art vote was enough for him to portray other progressives as enemies, and then he turns around and promotes allying with far right nutty ancap Boogaloos, that want a civil war. That's the kind of idiot move that lands you on the wrong side of a Night of the Long Knives. He goes on Tucker mainly to agree with him. He abandoned Nina Turner ... abandoned adding another M4A advocate to congress. He, again, is promoting third party fantasies, to draw off progressive votes, and hand power to Republicans, just as the broader progressive caucus is about 15 seats away from becoming the majority of house Dems. He slanders progressives that have done more for M4A in a few years than he has in his entire lifetime, to try and get people to lose confidence in them. He, at least, benefits the right more than the left.
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  1219. ​@velvet1865 The Hindutva founder wasn't even religious. He redefined what it meant to be "Hindu". His definition did not include Muslims, Christians, or Jews. "As World War II become imminent, Savarkar had initially advocated a policy of neutralism centered on India's geostrategic equations but his rhetoric grew coarser with time and he expressed consistent support for Hitler's policy about Jews.[107][108] In a speech on 14 October, it was suggested that Hitler's ways be adopted for dealing with Indian Muslims.[107] On 11 December, he characterized the Jews as a communal force.[107] Next March, Savarkar would welcome Germany's revival of Aryan culture, their glorification of Swastika, and the "crusade" against Aryan enemies — it was hoped that German victory would finally invigorate the Hindus of India.[107] On 5 August 1939, Savarkar highlighted how a common strand of "thought, religion, language, and culture" was essential to nationality thus preventing the Germans and Jews from being considerable as one nation.[107] By the year end, he was directly equating the Muslims of India with German Jews — in the words of Chetan Bhatt, both were suspected of harboring extra-national loyalties and became illegitimate presences in an organic nation.[107][108][109] These speeches circulated in German newspapers with Nazi Germany even allotting a point-of-contact person for engaging with Savarkar, who was making sincere efforts to forge a working relationship with the Nazis. Eventually, Savarkar would be gifted with a copy of Mein Kampf.[107]"
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  1220.  @waterandafter  Nobody is debating the facts of how a caucus works, with you. You're having a strawman argument of your own making ... which you're doing a great job of winning, I might add. The exact facts of how a caucus works or the exact facts of how an electoral college works are irrelevant to the fact that hypocrites who were once arguing for the popular vote indicating a win are now arguing against the popular vote indicating a win.
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  1221.  @republica13  All Palestine territories are officially considered occupied, dumb dumb. The Nazis weren't at "war" with resistance groups. They had already won the "war" part in places they occupied.
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  1222.  @nobrkes  Wrong.
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  1223.  @nobrkes  Except crt says the problems are in laws. You're the one saying it's "racial realism".
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  1224.  @whyamimrpink78  Well, that's easily debunked stupidity.
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  1225. ​ @stevensica5918  If they're dodging taxes, then they're living off what should be tax dollars.
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  1226. ​ @thepolarphantasm2319  Likud's Irgun and Lehi trrrst founders would be proud.
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  1227. Nope.
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  1228.  @tmsphere  It's a fundraising event for a museum, ffs, that then allows NY residents go for free.
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  1229.  @timtpr7104  The only possible solution is to get enough M4A yes votes in congress to pass the bill. It's what you'd still have to do, even after a 100% guaranteed to fail performance art vote. Sam and co. were promoting adding another M4A yes vote to congress in Nina Turner, exactly what needs doing. Dore promoted not donating to her and to never vote for someone running as a Democrat.
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  1230. ​ @L0kias1  It's racist to operate an open air WWII style fascist ghetto.
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  1231. Hey, you even beat the bots. 🎉
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  1232. The science for when you know you definitely have the virus is to totally isolate yourself, quarantine, not just wear a mask. He's a complete idiot.
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  1233.  @paulsmith7579  But they don't attribute deaths with covid as deaths due to covid. That bullshit has been debunked numerous times over. Now you're not just questioning how to count covid hospitalizations, you're questioning the competence of doctors across the world in being able to determine what killed someone. Nothing Fauci said affects death rates, dimwit. And, again, you can't fix Dore's dishonest math, any which way you try.
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  1234. George Orwell was an anarchist/socialist, who went to Spain in hopes to fight fascists. Right wing fascists were the leaders, and media, in his book. He wrote about the kind of leaders, and media, who might, for example, make morons believe there has been an effective pandemic response, when the numbers clearly indicate the exact opposite. Or, make morons believe that propping up corporations is good for the little guy, that money will trickle down. Etc.
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  1235.  @antipositivism3128  hierarchy: a system or organization in which people or groups are ranked one above the other according to status or authority. What reality has capitalism without a hierarchy of status? You're describing something never before seen in the history of private property ownership. How would that work? I didn't say "necessarily", I said "could". There's no guard against monopolies. The op is pointing out terms were hijacked. It's circular to point at different definitions, which stem from that hijacking of terms. The point is that it shouldn't be compatible with the isms in question. It should be called feudalism or neo-feudalism.
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  1236.  @t-swizzle8102  A "ruckus" is a subjective term. It means different things to different people. She has her own idea of what a "ruckus" is. She didn't run on Jimmy's idea of what a "ruckus" is. That's him strawmanning. She was on the ground, promoting M4A, while campaigning for Nina Turner, against the heavily backed DNC candidate. In the last election, she used her platform and PAC to back 20 other pro-M4A progressives, and helped add a few more M4A yes votes to congress. She also didn't run on getting a floor vote on M4A. She mentioned in an interview, that they couldn't get a floor vote on M4A, and I doubt she was thinking along the lines of paralyzing the house, something that hadn't happened in 100 years. She most definitely never ran on paralyzing, or threatening to paralyze, the house. Why would she want to start an all out intra party war, over a 100% guaranteed to fail performance art vote? The broader progressive caucus is about 15 seats away from becoming the majority of house Dems. Then what happens, if you've started an all out war? You'll never have a progressive speaker, until progressives become the majority of the house, instead of just the majority of the party. Shouldn't you Dore knobs be migrating over to right wing Rumble, where Glenn and Dore signed on to get them some Peter Thiel CIA money? You're all just right wingers, trying to tank progressives.
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  1237.  @evolvedape3341  Bernie vs the DNC actually went to court. The judge agreed that the DNC hadn't been neutral, but also ruled they weren't legally bound to being neutral. The DNC interfering in the primaries is as much a "conspiracy" as Russians interfering in the general.
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  1238.  @jimbob3030  Nah, been going 7 months. YouTube has given me a lot of time outs though. Most often happens after posting to a more pro IL channel, so Znists that don't like facts are probably reporting, or something.
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  1239.  @rikirich2223  Are you really comparing underdeveloped countries with life expectancies as low as 55, to developed countries? Hrrrm, I wonder why they have fewer people dying? Think. Think.
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  1240.  @brentnoury7626  What are some things AOC has lied about (not made up Dore things)?
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  1241.  @dumpsternimrod9927  BJG spewed some bullshit. It is actually true that Jimmy's "plan" would have handed the speakership to McCarthy. Without anyone else amending his plan, what he kept saying was for 15 progressives to simply "withhold their votes for", or "not vote for", Pelosi. That implies abstaining. He never said they should cast protest votes for someone else. For every 2 empty seats, absentees, or abstentions, the threshold needed to win drops by 1. There were already 2 empty seats. 2 empty seats + 15 abstentions = -8 to the threshold, lowering it to 210. If every Dem voted Pelosi, she'd get 207. If every Republican voted McCarthy, he'd get 211, and win. The very fact that Pelosi just won with less than 218 is proof Jimmy saying it needed to be 218, is false. The very fact that Boehner won with less than 218 is proof Jimmy's 218 claims were false.The very fact that you can have a voting quarum with only 218 members present, and only need to win a majority of voting members present is evidence you don't need anywhere close to 218, to win.
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  1242. ​ @DNYLNY  All Palestine territories are officially considered occupied. Likud's own platform states that the Palestinian territories are not, and never will be, independent. Do Palestinians, in those territories, get to vote for the actual authority over them, which is the Israeli government?
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  1243. Ben's entire worldview is based on a fairytale (feelings).
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  1244. They think they're like the founders, but they've completely flipped reality. The founders protested, rioted, and even went to war, over extra taxes that specifically funded the police/military and a lack of representation, disenfranchisement. Their opponents backed the police/military, and fought against democracy to keep an unelected ruler in power. No clue how their brains think they're like the former and not the later.
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  1245.  @AsifKhan-hf9zy  You are dmbr than a stump, or a Trump. It a) still has a battery, for starting, and b) is still producing electricity for electrical systems (or tell me how a boat radio runs solely on gasoline).
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  1246.  @ryand76  She didn't pay for the ticket or dress. Even if she did, what would that have to do with campaign donations that couldn't be used for a personal event? If you donated to her, didn't you get someone who helped add a few more M4A yes votes to congress and helped remove a few more corporate Dems from congress? Didn't you get someone who campaigned for Nina, trying to add one more? Didn't you get someone whose office has helped tens of thousands of her constituents get disaster and rent relief? Someone who draws attention to strikes? Someone who raises money for freezing Texans and women's choice activists in Texas? Someone who helped draw attention to the eviction moratorium running out? Someone who has been talking about unemployment running out and introducing a bill to reinstate it? Etc. Etc. What is it you expect one person to do, exactly, that she isn't?
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  1247.  @GlassesAndCoffeeMugs  The conversation has been moving in that direction for 5 years, thanks to Bernie, not thanks to a pointless vote.
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  1248.  @frankpalancio8471  To continuously make out like Ham "started" something, means you have to ignore everything that happened before. By Oct 6, in 2023 alone, the IDF and settlers had offed dozens of Plstinians, including minors; had taken hostage indefinitely, without charges, hundreds of Plstinians; and had displaced over 1000, to make room for new illegal settlements. You're distorting who is the actual aggressor. Clnizers are never not the aggressors. It would be impossible for natives to do anything to them, if they weren't there doing their aggressor clnizing, first.
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  1249.  @aarondickson9573  Not sanctioning them is simply doing nothing. It doesn't prop them up or support them. Didn't the US trade with the USSR, itself? Why is supporting and propping up fascist dictators, or monarchies, any different?
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  1250.  @aarondickson9573  No, it doesn't, if the US government itself doesn't make any trade deals with them. There's a difference between the US government not trading with Cuba, and the US government not allowing US companies, or other countries or foreign companies, to trade with Cuba. Yeah, it's not the "dictatorship" part they have a problem with. They'll even overthrow democratically elected politicians, who aren't communists, for simply trying to nationalize a single resource. And, they'll support and prop up the likes of Saudi, or Batista.
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  1251. Clearly his daughter's meat diet didn't cure all his mental and physical health issues, as he claimed, either.
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  1252. @Jash Shah If they're religious, point out that means they're hypocrites for worshipping a "baby killer". Studies have now shown that the majority of pregnancies end in miscarriage. Most women just don't know they're pregnant before it happens. Meaning, their "god" is aborting the majority of pregnancies ... killing the majority of "babies". You can also point out that tons of fertilized eggs, "babies", aren't used (often destroyed, buried, or used for science), or don't take and die, in the IVF industry, and ask if they're also opposed to IVF. If they aren't also anti-IVF, then they're hypocrites. You can try a trolley experiment, and ask them: If there's a newborn baby on one track, a petri dish of 10 fertilized eggs on the other, and the trolley is heading for the petri dish, would they pull the lever to make the trolley run over the newborn or let it run over the petri dish? If they'd let it run over the petri dish, then they don't really consider it to be full of 10 "babies". If they make it run over the newborn, tell them how disgusting that choice is, with baby guts and brains splattered everywhere, and then tell them the petri dish was on its way for IVF disposal anyway.
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  1253.  @LancesArmorStriking  I only mentioned the one thing. What's to like about violently interfering in former SSRs or ASSRs, that didn't sign on to be part of the new federation? Capitalist? You spelled "fascist" wrong.
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  1254.  @area51sea  "Challenge" =/= slander. Change her to what? She can't pass shit on her own. You still need to convert or replace enough to get a majority vote on bills, and now you're simply slandering someone who just helped do exactly that, replace a few more corporate Dems, in the last election cycle.
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  1255.  @aureliodeprimus8018  You can find a bunch of early documents, and accounts of what happened, on the Jewish Virtual Library, the Balfour Project, and the British Hansard (old parliament debates). You can Wiki some of it, and follow the source link. I'd link everything, but tried that once and YouTube deleted it.
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  1256. @Packster Mosk Ownership power, dumb dumb. The power to fire you. The power to not hire you, if you don't accept the owner's conditions. The power to make all the decisions, which could affect your job. You've spent this thread blathering about crap that's irrelevant to the op. If you can't grasp that an employer has some power over their employees, then you're not very bright.
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  1257.  @ChristianThePagan  Exactly. The word "pundit" shouldn't be used for 90% of the people it's used to describe. A "pundit" is supposed to be an informed expert on a subject.
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  1258. ​ @TheJackjack From the Sinai desert?
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  1259.  @TheSkryptik  Not too difficult ... if you see that, yes, it's insane to peddle the idea that there's a worldwide conspiracy amongst the vast majority of doctors, to intentionally kill people, then there shouldn't be an issue with calling him a "quack". He wasn't a doctor with a practice. He worked for pharma companies. He doesn't appear to be doing anything but spreading insanity and repeatedly debunked crap, since he resigned from his last pharma company. Why are you so confused? Do you think it's like 50/50, what the majority of doctors around the world recommend? It's not.
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  1260.  @samiamrg7  McCullough was fired from the hospital he worked at, for spreading misinformation.
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  1261.  @TheSkryptik  Why are they labelling him a "quack"? Because he's peddling some absolutely insane bullshit, that the vast majority of doctors around the world are intentionally trying to kill people. Why doesn't that qualify someone as a "quack"?
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  1262. And making out like "most places" did just move on is a blatant lie. After hundreds of years, the Irish won back most of their island, before moving on. In India, the people didn't move on until, almost 100 years later, after the British left. In South Africa, people didn't move on until apartheid was over. Native Americans resisted for hundreds of years, and only moved on when they were on the brink of being completely eradicated, and had no hope left. Etc.
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  1263.  @anderseckstrand7033  A lot of people know about US interventions. Well, having someone like Aaron Mate blather on and on about an irrelevant UN inspector report, that had nothing to do with anyone's decision to bomb Syria, instead of relentlessly attacking the Trump administration, which made the decision to bomb Syria, doesn't help their reputation.
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  1264.  @Justme-rt4gj  Wow, Marx really ruled over a lot of people. When did he do that?
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  1265. By them and their businesses not paying their share. Bezos is a billionaire douchebag who only claims $80k in income, while making billions a year. These billionaires live on loans or lines of credit, which don't count as taxable income, taken out against their stock values, to avoid paying for the infrastructure that helped make them rich, to avoid paying for the military that protects shipping lanes and corporate interests abroad, and to avoid helping pay for healthcare and social security for the elderly. Musk is a billionaire douchebag who has a 50k salary, that he hasn't even taken. Zuckerberg is a billionaire douchebag who gets paid $1. The few times they do sell off some stock is generally tied to a stock option purchase, where they can sell off current stock at full price, pay the taxes on that, and then buy more stocks at a fraction of the value, that are then worth full value, making money out of the whole deal. Then, they can use that year of paying taxes to get tax credits against years they don't. They're leeches. If Amazon transports a million items over US roads and highways to a million customers, Amazon has benefited from those roads and highways a million times more than each of those customers. If Apple ships a million phones from its sweat shops in China to a million US customers, they have benefited a million times more from the military than each of those customers. Etc.
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  1266.  @johnmatthews3427  No. He likely pays someone tens of thousands a year, and then deducts it from his taxes.
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  1267.  @FerdEdits  Right wingers want to constantly hear that Democrats suck, they want to constantly hear that progressives suck, they want to hear left wing third parties promoted to split votes, ... if you think he's converting people en masse, then you're delusional. His right wing audience is just there to hear him shit on people they don't like. There are Trumpists using Dore talking points to trash progressives in the comment sections of multiple progressive channels.
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  1268.  @hayvern  You have it backwards. He is being treated with the traditional masculinity he promotes. Is it toxic, or not?
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  1269. Top 10 "democratic run hell holes", by state homicide rate: Mississippi Louisiana Alabama Missouri New Mexico South Carolina Maryland Tennessee Arkansas Top 10 "democratic run hell holes", by state poverty rate: Mississippi New Mexico Louisiana Kentucky West Virginia Arkansas Alabama Tennessee Arizona Georgia It's mostly Southern States that are the worst of the worst. Since when have Democrats been running them?
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  1270. ​ @DemocratsAgentsOfCarnage  Marxist or fscst ... Pick one. Can't be both. "Fscsm is the complete opposite of Marxian sclsm." ~ Mussolini
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  1271.  @mattsheldon8671  Peterson is legit? 😂
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  1272.  @andrewkowalow3794  What is it you think he got right, about it?
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  1273.  @jojojoe1904  Jimmy doesn't give a fuck about starting from scratch, maybe splitting the progressive vote, and letting Republicans rule for decades, as a third party tries to win even a single seat. He doesn't care if anyone has healthcare.
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  1274.  @KrisH-px2jk  Yeah, I posted a link to it in a comment above. Is it not showing because it includes a link, or something?
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  1275.  @edwardrosser938  That's two big hypotheticals in one ... that he's still in office ... and that he wouldn't be on the ban all mandates Desantis side of things, pushing anti-vax nonsense while being vaxxed, like FOX ... and Dore. I'm for getting as many people vaccinated as possible, and taking measures that have worked in countries amongst those with the best covid outcomes. I don't care if Australia's government is conservative, that the leader was a dufus and incompetent when it came to the fires ... when it comes to covid, their response has been great, and should be emulated. Australia's covid death rate would translate into 26k total US covid deaths, instead of 800k. They've done what should have been done. Whoever is in charge of the US, do those things that would have saved 750+k lives.
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  1276.  @edwardrosser938  Oh geez, missed this nonsense "fascism" comment. Tons of people warred against fascism to out an end to, and silence fascism. Denazification tried to silence fascism. To strip down the definition of "fascism", to simply mean silencing a political opponent, turns everyone who fought against fascism, fascists. It's a ridiculous use of the word. Plenty of businesses require shirts and shoes, others require suits and ties. Governments pretty much everywhere require you to, at least, cover your junk. Are they all "fascists There have been vaccine mandates for over a century. There are dozens of vaccine mandates for public school kids and immigrants. If that's fascism, then pretty much every developed country is already "fascist". You should, seriously, read up on what fascism actually is. It's a totality of characteristics, not a single characteristic.
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  1277.  @edwardrosser938  Now you're going full blown stupid. Cancer and heart disease aren't contagious. Something that is a leading cause of those things though, smoking, is treated much the same. Countries have extra healthcare taxes on cigarettes. Insurance companies charge more for smokers. Pretty much all public places have banned smoking. Want to smoke? Step outside. Don't want to wear a mask, or be vaccinated? Step outside. Multiple places are also trying junk food taxes, to discourage, and help pay for, things that lead to obesity and diabetes. A 1% covid infection fatality rate is 2x the polio paralysis rate, and 20x the polio infection fatality rate. Plus, it is far more contagious than polio. I assume you want to ditch polio vaccine mandates. There are about 6m reported automobile accidents, per year, in the US. There are also an estimated 10m unreported accidents. There are about 40k deaths. Covid's 1% death rate is 4x that of automobile accidents. Plus, again, far more frequent. I assume you want to ditch licensing mandates, insurance mandates, speeding laws, seatbelt laws, all signs and lights, etc., because it's far less deadly than covid.
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  1278.  @edwardrosser938  Good for you. We should run society based totally on anecdotes from your life.
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  1279.  @patrickriarchy1976  See. Yang Gangers reply about something completely different than what I'm talking about. You're so clueless about the VAT, you addressed a completely different problem with the VAT, pulled out of a Yang Gang copy and paste playbook. Bezos could pay $100m on a brand new $1b yacht, every single year, and he still could have made billions extra a year, with Yang's VAT/UBI combo. Mass amounts of money constantly funneling to the very top, where it's hoarded, is unsustainable. It's already why things are failing. Progressive taxes are definitely better, if done properly. Loopholes should be closed. The way Yang explains how a tax/ubi combo should work, is correct. It should be corporations paying for the UBI, like in Alaska, which he repeatedly, and dishonestly, compared his plan to. The problem is he dishonestly, or moronically, picked a tax that doesn't do what he says. If you want a $4t UBI, it just so happens that the top US corporations are hoarding about $4t. That's what should be taxed to pay for it. In a future, where you predict ever increasing unemployment, as robots take over, you can't depend on a tax paid by increasingly unemployed consumers. The corporations need to pay for it.
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  1280. @W Shiflet Lol. Check out "her" about page.
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  1281.  @koyaanisqatsi78  Ironic, that you stalled out your op, and finished in a reply. 😄
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  1282.  @alex_macieira  AOC, alone, has done more for M4A in 2 years than Dore has in his entire lifetime. She used her platform and PAC to back 20 other pro-M4A progressives, helped add a few more M4A yes votes to congress, and helped remove a few more corporate Dems. That's exactly what needs doing to ever pass the bill. It's exactly what would still need doing even if there had been a guaranteed to fail performance art vote. It's exactly what still needs doing after any amount of protests.
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  1283.  @2727rogers  Jimmy would be bitching about Tommy not being able to pass the bill, calling him a sellout, and telling people to vote for a new party.
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  1284.  @inspectortanzi  It's 100+ votes short in the house alone, it has less support as a percentage of the senate, and a president who said they'd veto it. Why do you think that's the time for a piece of performance art?
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  1285. She'll turn 35 a month before the election. Do you have to be 35 before you start running, or before the election?
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  1286.  @CCJJ160Channels  @whyami soretarded78 is actually mocking @whyamimrpink78.
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  1287.  @tonystark4292  Sargon is kind of all over the place, but Daily Stormer and Richard Spencer have both said that Sargon is a great gateway to their position. If the Nazis think what you say helps them, then it probably helps them. If you're helping Nazis, then what does that make you?
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  1288. Should have done it to block the scotus vote, on the grounds of negligent homicide.
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  1289. ​ @SabeerAbdulla  Being logical has nothing to do with being ethical. Objectivity doesn't give a crap if people live or die. The entire point of objectivity is that it is without biases, likes, dislikes, caring, desires, etc. (all the things that make up subjectivity), and sticks to facts.
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  1290. @eddieisfiction Rofl. Ironic. Dore has just spent weeks bashing other progressives as "fakes", "frauds", "shills", "sellouts", etc. He made not just being pro-M4A a purity test, but his FTV tactic and use of slander as a purity test, writing off any progressives who disagreed, even if they only disagreed on the slander use. Then he turns around and welcomes far right Libertarian/ancap Boogs as allies, simply because they agree on a few anti-authoritarian issues, even though they have completely opposite economic goals, including M4A. He's a hypocritical moron. You know who is the only one who can benefit, when you claim Trump is the better option than Clinton? Trump. You know who is the only one who can benefit from running an attack ad campaign against Trump's only viable opponent, Biden? Trump. You know who can only benefit from possibly peeling off progressive voters from Dem progressives? Corporate Dems and Republicans.
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  1291.  @jon.wilson  When did he roast congress members or media that backed civil rights? When did he roast those who had introduced and co-signed the bill?
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  1292.  @CMfuell  Dimwit, Dore implied 15 progressives should simply abstain.
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  1293.  @CMfuell  I don't give two craps what members of congress know. I'm talking about Jimmy's plan, out of Jimmy's mouth. His plan was to hand the speakership to McCarthy, you dimwitted Dore knob.
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  1294.  @Addamo  A performance art vote isn't itself M4A, Dore knob. If you already know you need to convert or replace 100+ people in the house alone, trying to ferret out a few more fakers, who can still vote for it knowing it has zero chance of passing, is a waste of everyone's time. The party's speaker candidate is chosen by simple majority in the party caucus. Even the broader progressive caucus doesn't have enough votes to block Pelosi being the party's speaker candidate. The corporate Dems don't have to pick someone new, if you paralyze the house. They can keep picking her over and over and over, if they want. So, how long do you paralyze the house for, during a pandemic ... no new covid relief, no new unemployment extension, no new vaccine funding, etc.?
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  1295. Before that, Russia promised to never invade Ukraine, in 1997, but did. Why would anyone agree to anything else, with Russia?
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  1296.  @Sharper714  She backed 20 other pro-M4A progressives with her platform and PAC, helped remove a few more M4A no votes from congress, helped add a few more M4A yes votes to congress. She was just on the ground campaigning for Nina, promoting M4A, and trying to help add another M4A yes vote to congress. You know that getting enough yes votes is the only way to ever pass a bill, right?
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  1297. Capitalism has failed, on a large scale, numerous times over, and fails hundreds of millions, daily. Sticking with it, or going back to it, doesn't equate to success.
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  1298.  @user-nc9pc3gr4c  Ironic, claiming others are ignorant, while also claiming humans have been around, and worshipping, for a million years. You know that ancient gods were worshipped for thousands of years longer than current ones, right? If you think length of time worshipped is evidence a religion is correct, then you should be worshipping one of those gods.
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  1299. Probably agrees with those Louisiana Republicans who just voted to keep spanking, paddling, in schools.
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  1300. What are you even referring to? She has supported women's rights, including abortion, LGBT rights, seems to support the separation of church and state, supports climate and virus science, ...
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  1301.  @uncomfortabletruth5915  You didn't really answer my question. The majority of the Republican voices are now wingnuts that would be happy overthrowing the democratic process. If they're extreme, then what's extreme about banning them? If they're not extreme, then how so?
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  1302.  @uncomfortabletruth5915  So, lock up all the Republican politicians that tried to overthrow the democratic process, instead of banning their bullshit from social media, and such? Ok.
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  1303.  @sergeikhripun  There are already records of who won't cosign, and committee members who sat on the bill, during a pandemic. For both last session and this session. If Dore cared so much, he'd be "pressuring" committee members, rather than those who actually added M4A yes votes to congress, and have done more for M4A in a few years than he has in his entire lifetime. Seder promoted Nina Turner, promoted adding another M4A yes vote to congress. Dore publicly abandoned Nina Turner, abandoned adding another M4A yes vote to congress.
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  1304.  @johnsmith92704  Bringing right wing nut jobs to your viewership and comment section, so they can join in on the progressive bashing, doesn't actually count as bringing them over to the left, ffs.
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  1305.  @zoobrizz  Yeah, BLM doesn't want people's rights violated, so organizes protests. Meanwhile, 2nd amendment nuts argue cops can't be trusted to be the only ones with guns and that they'll shoot them, if they try to take their guns away. Real cop lovers.
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  1306.  @unitedfools3493  The US is a lot more puritan than a fair number of other countries. Also, the guy publicly chastised a woman for simply asking, indicating the direction they want to take society.
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  1307.  @aliamjon2550  If lying takes so much effort, then props to you, for all your hard work.
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  1308. Right wingers are really nailing the doublespeak.
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  1309.  Trumps A. Traitor  How the hell can they force rules on you, unless they're forcing you to use their service? Is there a Google guy with a gun to your head, or something? Plenty of businesses will kick you out if you're disturbing other customers.
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  1310.  @iamcosma7065  You get something for the money he wants to spend (public healthcare is cheaper than private healthcare, btw). It's more ridiculous to fund a candidate who is going to hand trillions to corporations and their shareholders.
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  1311.  @footballfan5462  So then, MR, TYT, and others, backing Bernie and Nina (Dore worked against Bernie and publicly abandoned Nina) was them going against what the establishment wanted?
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  1312. Give us a break. It's hard to make the stupid and ridiculous things the right does and says even more ridiculous and stupid. You guys are killing satire. Stop it.
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  1313. ​ @Tom-zp1rp  Who is she racist against?
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  1314.  Alabama Man 2.0  You still peddling that Gallup article, you didn't actually read?
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  1315.  Alabama Man 2.0  With Republicans dying at over 3x the rate, purple districts might be closer than you think.
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  1316.  Alabama Man Special Edition  Already did. You're just not very bright.
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  1317.  @dabblerdeluxe775  Yeah, those $300+k houses weren't the "affordable housing" part of the equation. Those will still be built, and will now be the only ones built. He didn't show up to block the entire development. That had already been passed, before. He only showed up to block a proposal to allocate some of the property to affordable housing. He apparently didn't show up to argue the land sucked, and that they should donate better land for affordable housing. Just to stop it.
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  1318. Yeah, whenever I see folks waving Confederate flags, defending monuments to Confederate "heroes", and shooting themselves with their own guns like idiots, my first thought is "They must be Democrats".
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  1319.  @Poeticfloetic  Remedial is thinking "the problem" with moustache man, was simply his desire to expand beyond Germany.
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  1320.  @ToxicAudri  To be fair, Yang aslo had no clue, or was lying, about how a VAT works, and would have had money flowing up to those at the very top faster than ever before.
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  1321.  @biokido575  You're obviously a moron who doesn't understand how insurance works. Yes, you are paying for any smokers, drinkers, etc., using your same insurance company. People who aren't currently needing healthcare are paying for those who do, plus insurance company profit, as well.
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  1322. Nice strawman. Nobody is saying private insurance will be eradicated overnight. Also, nobody is saying private insurers can't still exist to cover extras, like chiropractors, massages, acupuncture, etc. They just won't be able to sell people what they can already get through M4A. The "public option" route isn't simply letting private insurers exist, or weeding them out slowly. The "public option" route makes paying into public healthcare optional, and has public insurance compete with private insurance, just hoping everyone will switch to public. It's not Medicare for all. It's Medicare for all who opt in. And, having everyone pay in with equal premiums, even if they are lower priced than private, is regressive compared to it being paid for with a progressive tax.
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  1323.  @craigkidd9524  Do you have reading comprehension problems?
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  1324.  @bartjargengarblbargeler1980  Never watch Maddow. Did you have a point?
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  1325.  Aaron Dickson  Oh yeah? Who's my cult leader?
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  1326.  @bartjargengarblbargeler1980  FOX, themselves, used a similar defense for Tucker. What's your point? I'm getting the feeling you just like talking about Rachel. Do you have a thing for her?
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  1327.  @bartjargengarblbargeler1980  Still can't come up with a point? I guess you do just like talking about Rachel. Have you tried sending her a letter, to let her know how you feel?
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  1328.  @bartjargengarblbargeler1980  Spewing a random fact isn't making a point, dumb dumb. Guiness is an Irish beer.
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  1329.  @RB-ns2nn  Honey Boo Boo was popular. What's your point?
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  1330.  @nevermorebouquet3681  Doesn't removing them from power, even if it's one seat at a time, "oppose their power"?
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  1331. What's Sam's excuse? That Crowder won't debate him.
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  1332. ​ @ToxicAudri  Well, elections boil down to math, and there are only two viable candidates. I hope your conscience is cool with Trump.
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  1333.  @zombiesoul-eater741  Native Americans resisted colonialism for some 300 years. The Irish took back most of their island after some 800 years. You're still colonialists, if you never stop doing it. What is it, over 700k in the West Bank now?
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  1334.  @zombiesoul-eater741   Even the Jwsh Virtual Library will tell you Stern tried to ally with them, Revi. Try peddling your Revisionist propaganda elsewhere. If you never stop clnizing, then you never stop being a clnizer, Revi. What is it ... 700k in the West Bank now?
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  1335.  @zombiesoul-eater741  The only one doing citizenship, by DNA test, is Israel. If you have Jewish DNA, a couple generations back, then you can come, from anywhere in the world, help colonize more land, and have more rights than the native population. I think it should all be turned into one Israel-Palestine. So weird how the West Bank, still being colonized and ethnically cleansed, and the Gaza ghetto, aren't as peacefully inclined. Ever read contemporary accounts of the Kitos War?
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  1336.  @mensspace9519  No vaccine is 100%, dimwit. Not sure where I lost you, in showing how herd immunity works, and everyone being vaccinated helps others.
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  1337.  Capo Di capo  How many times have you copied and pasted this nonsense? Sam released the audio of him being told exactly that by Politicon.
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  1338. ​ @nbeizaie  Einstein, and others, also identified who the founders of Likud truly were, in a 1948 letter to the NYT. "Among the most disturbing political phenomena of our times is the emergence in the newly created state of Israel of the "Freedom Party" (Tnuat Haherut), a political party closely akin in its organization, methods, political philosophy and social appeal to the Nazi and Fascist parties. It was formed out of the membership and following of the former Irgun Zvai Leumi, a terrorist, right-wing, chauvinist organization in Palestine."
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  1339.  @lookatmepleasesir  During McCarthyism, it was bigoted. During the Civil Rights movement, it was bigoted and racist. Seeing as how he hasn't used it on any white male progressives, seeing as how he thought it was perfectly fine for his white male ass to bitch and complain about his president and country for a decade, it could be bigoted, racist, and sexist. Any which way, it's most definitely hypocritical and moronic.
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  1340.  @StasCherkassky  1. Palestinians have Canaanite DNA. They're Arab and Muslim the same way indigenous peoples of Central America are now Hispanic and Catholic. The non-Jwsh population increase was on par with reproduction rates of the time and place. It doubled in the 32 years from 1882 to 1914. It doubled again in the 32 years from 1914 to 1946. In those same 32 year periods, the Jwsh population quadrupled, then quintupled. 2. Weird thing to say, since they started before the Brits even left and independence was announced.
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  1341.  @gj1234567899999  My grandmother needed a vaccine passport to immigrate as a war bride. She didn't whine like you bitches.
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  1342. ​ @aheroictaxidriver3180  What "mystical" goals would those be?
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  1343.  @aheroictaxidriver3180  Nope. Just new to your mrnc uses of words.
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  1344.  @aheroictaxidriver3180  Try stating the "mystical" goals again, using the actual definition. mystical: having spiritual powers or qualities that are difficult to understand or to explain mystical: having a spiritual meaning or reality that is neither apparent to the senses nor obvious to the intelligence mystical: Something that is mystical involves spiritual powers and influences that most people do not understand.
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  1345.  @aheroictaxidriver3180  *people who use dictionaries
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  1346.  @aheroictaxidriver3180  😂 Logic very much requires sticking to definitions, Mr "Reason" (aka dmwt). What's "mystical" about "peace, brotherhood, justice"? People seem to understand what those things are. There are no spiritual or magical processes required.
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  1347.  @aheroictaxidriver3180  What does "the world", and its tangible, objectively existing, problems, and suggesting real world, tangible, fairly easy to comprehend, solutions, have to do with the "mystical"? You make little sense, Mr "Reason" (aka dmwt).
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  1348. Do "they" all have shares in UberEats?
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  1349. Seems to get all his ideas, from this guy ... "Adolf Hitler Schools (AHS) were 12 day schools run by the Schutzstaffel in Nazi Germany from 1937 to 1945. Their aim was to indoctrinate young people into the ideologies of the Nazi Party. They were for young people aged 14 to 18 years old and were single sex, with three schools for girls and the rest for boys.[1] Selection for admission to the schools was rigorous; pupils were chosen for their political dedication and physical fitness, as opposed to their academic prowess.[1] Activities focused on political indoctrination rather than academic studies. The SS often selected future officers from the schools.[1]"
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  1350.  @michaelvanderwal7390  Do you know the difference between crowds getting out of hand, and going with an intent? Crowds of people leaving sporting events sometimes get out of hand, and turn into riots, but they didn't go with that intent. A protest doesn't intend to turn into a riot, which is why over 90% of them don't. These people weren't holding a protest. They were there intending to destroy Palestinian property.
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  1351.  @Dan0TheMano  Rofl. A Republican Dore knob.
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  1352.  @Dan0TheMano  Kinda the topic, dingleberry. Jackson Dore knob, spewing all the Dore knob talking points. Why are you even here, if you don't care about the topic so much? The trying to overthrow the democratic process to install an unelected dictator really sold ya, did it?
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  1353.  @loverainthunder  Ftv was a "plan" to get a pointless 100% guaranteed to fail performance art vote. There's nothing essential about it. Dore, and his knobs, have proved that they're pathetic useless hypocrites, who would have done absolutely nothing with a list of no voters. The $15 minimum got a vote, even passed the house (M4A didn't have a chance in hell) and also got a senate vote. All Dore, and his knobs, have done with lists of no voters is continue to slander those who voted for it.
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  1354. @Aaron Dickson Who is telling you to get a Pfizer vaccine, and only a Pfizer vaccine? Go get an AZ or J&J, if you don't like Pfizer. They've both committed to no profit vaccines, and their prices per dose are on par with an ivermectin pill. But, how many doses of ivermectin do you need to take to fight off covid, exactly? A few pills and you're up at the price of a dose of Pfizer.
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  1355. Go to a riot. Be afraid of being at a riot. Point his gun at someone and then shoot them in "self defense" when they grab for it. Then shoot someone else in "self defense" for pointing a gun at him.
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  1356.  @mickelcsaszar3244  So, governments are better at ending slavery, than a god.
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  1357.  @mickelcsaszar3244  I didn't say "you" can do this and "you" can't do that. I said "you" can't do that but "we" can do that. Hypocrisy: a feigning to be what one is not or to believe what one does not : behavior that contradicts what one claims to believe or feel No slavery for thee, but slavery for me, is hypocrisy.
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  1358.  @mickelcsaszar3244  I most definitely am. You're just trying to justify the hypocrisy.
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  1359. Give them the coordinates for Doug Ford's house.
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  1360.  @somejuanidk7674  Is he leaning towards the "f*cking dangerous" "bunch of morons", Trump camp?
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  1361. Claiming his daughter's all meat diet got him off drugs, not long before having to be put into a coma to get him off drugs, really stood up well.
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  1362. Rogan "kitchen sink": monoclonal antibodies, $2000+ per dose. Also supposed to be rationed for high risk people. He's either lying about how healthy he is, or he used money to get something that should have gone to a higher risk person.
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  1363.  @emblemedfate4270  Jimmy read the Dave Rubin handbook of how to pretend you're a lefty while constantly attacking the most left leaning politicians, and largely ignoring Republicans.
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  1364.  @emblemedfate4270  So, you agree that's what he does? Rofl. Acknowledging the fact that Biden isn't Trump (someone who has pushed 28+% of Republicans to give up on democracy and be in favor of overt fascism) doesn't equate to thinking he's an angel. That's just some strawman bullshit, that is.
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  1365.  @emblemedfate4270  Jimmy hasn't even done a single video on Trumpists going outright fascist, I don't think. He's more worried that Colbert gave Obama a weak interview.
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  1366.  @whyamimrpink78  Justify having one of the most pathetic responses in the world?
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  1367. If some minority vaccination rates are lagging, then they're the ones who have received a lower share of vaccines, so far, not whites.
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  1368.  @AutismGaming489  You know Mussolini and Hitler were popular, right?
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  1369.  @aarondickson9573  You think a significant number of people who test positive are getting multiple tests?
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  1370.  Robert Hunt  Rofl. Trump lost his home state twice. Trump has been divorced twice. What are you even talking about?
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  1371.  @alabamaman1684  And most of them won't be voting for him, anyway, because he's a Democrat.
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  1372.  @SaraphDarklaw  He had some pretty looney takes, even in 2016, like promoting Trump as a better option than Clinton.
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  1373.  @RealKull  Go away Tim.
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  1374.  @SoundsSilver  You're clearly the one demonstrating that you don't know what coercion means.
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  1375.  @SoundsSilver  There's also a difference of proportion between threatening to punch someone and threatening to kill someone. There both still threats and, if there's a demand involved, coercion. You're blathering about irrelevant nonsense, that doesn't change the definition.
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  1376.  @SoundsSilver  All on their own, the student wrote a C grade paper (all on their own, someone fell off a cliff edge). The "rescuer" is offering them an A, for a reward (offering to help them up for a reward), threatening to let the C stand, if they don't (threatening to leave them hanging, if they don't). You're clearly not very bright, if you can't grasp simple analogies.
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  1377.  @KARKAT420  Doh, mixed up my Andrews.
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  1378.  @jaialaiwarrior  What are you on about? Do you think the British colonization of India, and the forced partition, was a good thing? Gandhi and Abdul Ghaffar Khan were opposed to partition. Hindutva was literally founded on Italian fascism and German N-zism. Those were the partition supporters. That's the current Indian government. You realize the Germany analogy would be more comparable to defeating the invading Z-nists, and then removing all Jews, right? You sure you want to promote that, as a good thing?
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  1379. People that are nuanced, would grasp that there's largely no "far left" media, or viable politicians. A true "far left" would be proposing all out socialism, and a complete end to capitalism. Single payer healthcare, for example, would just makes you like every other largely capitalist developed country ... still right of the center.
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  1380. ​ @GeteMachine  It has literally been Likud's platform, since it was formed, in the 70s, from earlier parties, but nobody bats an eye. "Between the sea and the Jordan there will only be Israeli sovereignty", has promised to completely colonize and ethnically cleanse all Palestine territories, for decades. It even further claims a "right" to all the "Land of Israel" (fictional biblical borders that don't mesh with archaeological reality), which is also an open declaration of future wars, against Jordan, Syria, and Lebanon.
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  1381.  Aaron Dickson  Red states, with more liberal gun laws, tend to have both higher firearm mortality rates and higher homicide rates. Hard to have proper gun control, if someone can easily hit a gun shop just outside of town.
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  1382.  Aaron Dickson  Chicago doesn't have the highest murder "rate". You're lying.
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  1383.  @alabamaman9476  Rofl. You cheat by using a list of only cities over a certain population, and you still get over half in red states, where it's easier to get guns.
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  1384.  Alabama Man Special Edition  Rofl. She never said that voting present was always a cop out. She said it was a cop out for very important, even historical, things. Do you think a Capitol police bill that was going to the senate, to be altered, before coming back to the house, was very important, or historical? Do you know what her vote was on the final version of the bill was?
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  1385.  @twoshedsjohnson8540  Not really obvious, when there are plenty of dismissive right wing idiots in TMR comments. I thought learning to count was quite funny, from my end ... so right back atcha.
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  1386.  @mickswagger6086  Penguins!
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  1387.  @aliamjon2550  Rofl, the virus was a deliberate attempt to derail Trump?! All he had to do was not be completely incompetent, dimwit. A mediocre response, like Canada's, would translate into 400+k fewer US covid deaths.
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  1388.  @adaminfinity1733  Piss off. "Of Americans surveyed from Sept. 13-22, 72% of adults 18 and older had been vaccinated, including 71% of white Americans, 70% of Black Americans, and 73% of Hispanics. Contrast these converging figures with disparities based on politics: 90% of Democrats had been vaccinated, compared with 68% of Independents and just 58% of Republicans. A Gallup survey released on Sept. 29 confirmed the KFF findings. As of mid-September, 75% of adult Americans have been vaccinated, including 73% of non-Hispanic white adults and 78% of non-whites. Along party lines, however, the breakdown was 92% of Democrats, 68% of Independents, and 56% of Republicans."
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  1389. This is a midterm fight, and Dems will have a problem trying to hang on in those purple districts. Any ounce of leverage Hinkle believes AOC to have, entirely rests on Dems maintaining a majority. Without that, Republicans will just do whatever they want, without needing any corporate Dem or progressive votes. She already tried backing progressives in some of those districts, and they got creamed, but the more conservative Dem, who beat them, managed to also beat the Republican in the general. For the midterm, she should be backing new progressives in blue districts, that have an incumbent corporate Dem, where there's no worry in the general, and doing whatever to help everyone else hang on to their seats. You may not like that she broke some supposed promise, but it's smart.
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  1390. It's an Onion joke.
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  1391.  @stopwritingthatreplyjohnat6638  It's when you sell yourself as a lefty but you benefit the right the most ... like promoting Trump as the better option in 2016; running an attack ad campaign against Trump's only viable opponent in 2020; slandering people who have done more for M4A in a few years than you have in your entire lifetime; promoting the third party route that hasn't won the most popular third party a single seat in congress in its near 50 year existence and would, at best, peel off enough progressive votes to hand the Dem party totally back to corporate Dems and let Republicans rule for decades; after writing off the most progressive politicians as allies, promote making allies with far right ancap Boogaloos with completely opposite economics; go on far right television only to agree with them; etc.
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  1392. What is something important and new that Harris has done?
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  1393.  @jeffrunge6427  Not even remotely true.
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  1394.  @thinkoutsidethelines8265  I already understood that you don't grasp basic math. But, thanks for reiterating.
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  1395.  @jeffrunge6427  1200 dead is not even remotely true.
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  1396.  @mimked  Yeah, I'm not reading all that, after such a rubbish start. Many countries didn't treat patients the way he wants. Tens of millions of doctors and nurses, worldwide, didn't treat patients the way he wants. The vast majority of doctors and nurses, worldwide, advocate being vaccinated. Trying to make out like what he's saying would only apply to the US, is bullshit. Even if it did only apply to the US, that's still millions of doctors and nurses. Making out like they intentionally didn't treat people, so they would die, to boost demand for vaccines, is still psychotic. He's a loon.
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  1397.  @clintholmes2061  Sam was telling people to vote for Bernie and M4A, instead of telling them to vote for Tulsi "I'm a hawk" Gabbard and her public option. Sam was telling people to vote Nina, instead of telling them to abandon Nina ... telling them to abandon adding another M4A yes vote to congress. So what if he doesn't support casting an irrelevant vote, or possibly a spoiler vote, for a third party candidate? "Vote blue" works both ways. Those who vote against progressives in the primaries tend to turn around and vote for them in the general. That's how progressives can win more purple districts. Any hope in hell of Bernie becoming president would have relied totally on Clinton or Biden voters turning around and voting for him in the general. "Vote blue" benefits progressives, you dimwitted Dore knob. Whatever you think of the current progressives in congress, running as blue is clearly the more effective way to win a seat ... by a mile ... by a hundred miles. The most popular third party hasn't won a single seat in congress in its near 50 year existence. At least Sam wasn't promoting Trump as the better option, like Dore did. Almost every direction Dore proposes taking seems to benefit the extreme right, more than anyone else. Weird, for a "real" leftist.
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  1398.  @clintholmes2061  Long story short, he's not a moron, like your grifter cult leader.
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  1399.  @aliamjon2550  Yeah, no shit. You seem to have missed the point.
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  1400. COVID death rates by state ... Arizona 455 Oklahoma 454 Mississippi 449 West Virginia 444 New Mexico 432 Arkansas 431 Alabama 429 Tennessee 428 Michigan 423 Kentucky 406 New Jersey 405 Florida 404 Louisiana 404 Georgia 400 New York 397 Pennsylvania 394 Indiana 388 Nevada 387 South Carolina 381 Missouri 373 Rhode Island 365 South Dakota 361 Ohio 358 Massachusetts 353 Wyoming 346 Kansas 346 Connecticut 343 Montana 342 Delaware 341 Iowa 340 Illinois 327 North Dakota 324 Texas 322 Idaho 303 Wisconsin 281 Virginia 277 Maryland 274 North Carolina 271 Minnesota 264 California 256 Nebraska 255 Colorado 246 Oregon 222 New Hampshire 221 Maine 218 Washington 206 Alaska 203 District of Columbia 203 Puerto Rico 182 Utah 165 Vermont 149 Hawaii 130 "New York murdered people!" ... Florida rate is higher.
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  1401. In all its previous forms, it has always been Revisionist Zionsim's goal to colonize and ethnically cleanse all Palestine territories, and more. Likud's bloody 100 year history ... In 1923, 100 years ago, Ze'ev Jabotinsky wrote, The Iron Wall, and a follow up, The Ethics of The Iron Wall (sooo racist towards Africans), in which he fully acknowledged that post Balfour Zionsim was colonialism, and that, based on the entirety of history, the native Palestinian population would resist being colonized until the bitter end. He directly compared it to the colonization of North America. He promoted doing it anyway, claiming Zionist colonialism was a "just" colonialism (he also thought North American colonialists were good guys, so not a great judge of morality), not caring what that meant for the native population. Ze'ev is important, because his Betar militant youth group helped found the Irgun terrorist group, along with other supporters of his, and the splinter Lehi terrorist group. The Irgun bombed numerous Palestinian markets and other public places, murdering many Palestinian civilians, including children, even including Palestinian Jews (who didn't support colonialist Zionsim). The Irgun are important, because they ended up being led by future Likud PM, Menachem Begin, who bombed the King David Hotel. The King David Hotel was bombed because the British had raided the Jewish Agency and seized numerous documents that may have shown that the terrorists were working with the JA and Haganah (JA liked to pretend that they didn't support the terrorism). The British then stored those documents at their base, in the hotel. That the Irgun terrorists responded to a JA raid, itself seems to prove the connection. That the thousands of Irgun (and Lehi) terrorists were also quickly merged into the new nation's military (IDF) and intelligence (Mossad) agencies, and are still celebrated as "heroes" by Israelis, to this day, also seems to support total collaboration between the groups. That other terrorist group mentioned, Lehi (also known as the Stern Gang), was considered even more extreme. They even tried to ally with the Nazis, against the British. Lehi ended up being led by Yitzhak Shamir, future Mossad agent, and another future Likud PM. They assassinated Lord Moyne, and others. In 1945, there was a major land and peoples survey done in Palestine. It showed that the Zionists only owned about 5% of the total land, 20% of the arable land, and owned a majority in zero districts. The partition was not only going to be forced on the native Palestinian majority, but Jews were still going to be a minority, in the part allocated to them. The only possible way to even become a "Jewish state" was going to require getting rid of the actual majority (at least enough so that there'd be a solid Jewish majority, so they could fake being democratic). This is also shown by the 1948, post Nakba, population of Israel. If there was 716,700 Jews, 156,000+ non-Jews, and approximately 700k non-Jews ethnically cleansed, that means the Jewish population, in the Zionist portion of partition, was originally over 100,000 less than the non-Jewish population. To believe that there was never any intent, by Zionists, to ethnically cleanse away the Palestinian majority would require believing that they never intended to create a "Jewish state". It's a nonsensical notion. Begin, and those terrorist groups, also opposed partition, but for the opposite reason Palestinians did. Palestinians didn't want to be colonized, at all. The terrorists wanted to colonize it all. "Moderate" Zionists were okay with colonizing half ... for now (what would happen in the future, after partition, was up to them, said Ben-Gurion). The Zionist terrorists were also involved in massacres, and assassinations, during the partition violence (colonialist war against the natives). Another notable future Likud PM, also started in the military, during the partition fighting. That was Ariel Sharon, war criminal, "Butcher of Beirut". Menachem Begin, and these other Zionist terrorists, are important because they became involved in Israeli politics, first forming Herut. That was the party that Albert Einstein, and other prominent American Jews, opposed, having a letter printed in the NYT, in December of 1948, when Begin came to visit the US. The letter opened ... "Among the most disturbing political phenomena of our times is the emergence in the newly created state of Israel of the "Freedom Party" (Tnuat Haherut), a political party closely akin in its organization, methods, political philosophy and social appeal to the Nazi and Fascist parties. It was formed out of the membership and following of the former Irgun Zvai Leumi, a terrorist, right-wing, chauvinist organization in Palestine." Herut merged with other extremist parties, over the years, and eventually became Likud, in the 70s. Now, people get upset over the slogan "From the river to the sea!", but it's the second part that's most important, "Palestine will be free!". Because "Palestine" isn't defined as an ethno-state, a free Palestine can be a single state, free for all to live in, and return to, free of continuing colonization, free of occupation, free of oppression, etc. Just like a Germany free of Nazism, an Italy free of fascism, a South Africa free of apartheid, or an America free of slavery from sea to shiny sea. It doesn't necessitate purging all the Jews. It just necessitates them giving up on the idea of an ethno-state. On the other hand, because "Israel" has been defined as an ethno-state, Likud's, "between the sea and the Jordan there will only be Israeli sovereignty", has no possible good interpretation. It is a declaration of intent to completely colonize, and ethnically cleanse, all Palestine territories. Not only that, but it also claims that they have a "right" to all of the "Land of Israel" (biblical borders that don't mesh with archaeological reality), which is an open declaration of future wars, against Jordan, Syria, Lebanon, and possibly even Iraq. Likud platform ... 1977: "The Right of the Jewish People to the Land of Israel (Eretz Israel) a. The right of the Jewish people to the land of Israel is eternal and indisputable and is linked with the right to security and peace; therefore, Judea and Samaria will not be handed to any foreign administration; between the Sea and the Jordan there will only be Israeli sovereignty. b. A plan which relinquishes parts of western Eretz Israel, undermines our right to the country, unavoidably leads to the establishment of a "Palestinian State," jeopardizes the security of the Jewish population, endangers the existence of the State of Israel. and frustrates any prospect of peace." "Settlement Settlement. both urban and rural. in all parts of the Land of Israel is the focal point of the Zionist effort to redeem the country, to maintain vital security areas and serves as a reservoir of strength and inspiration for the renewal of the pioneering spirit. The Likud government will call on the younger generation in Israel and the dispersions to settle and help every group and individual in the task of inhabiting and cultivating the wasteland, while taking care not to dispossess anyone." 1999: "The Government of Israel flatly rejects the establishment of a Palestinian Arab state west of the Jordan river. The Palestinians can run their lives freely in the framework of self-rule, but not as an independent and sovereign state. Thus, for example, in matters of foreign affairs, security, immigration, and ecology, their activity shall be limited in accordance with imperatives of Israel's existence, security and national needs." "The Jewish communities in Judea, Samaria, and Gaza are the realization of Zionist values. Settlement of the land is a clear expression of the unassailable right of the Jewish people to the Land of Israel and constitutes an important asset in the defense of the vital interests of the State of Israel. The Likud will continue to strengthen and develop these communities and will prevent their uprooting." All Palestine territories are officially considered occupied, by the International Court of Justice, the UN GA, the UN SC, and even in official documents of Israel's own allies. Likud is still using the blueprint for colonizing North America, in the West Bank. Move settlements out into native territory, piss off the natives, the natives retaliate, cry about poor "innocent" colonizing settlers being the "victims" of violent "Savages!", call in the cavalry to put down the native uprising, and eventually expand the borders to include those settlements. Rinse and repeat. In Gaza, Israel is operating an open air WWII style fascist ghetto. Them claiming a "right to defend themselves" would be like the Nazis claiming a "right to defend themselves " from the Warsaw ghetto uprising. There's no "war". That they're the occupiers means the "war" part is long over. Those people are actually supposed to be under the occupier's protection. That partition was forced upon the Palestinian majority, against their will ... that the Zionist portion still had to be forcefully ethnically cleansed of its non-Jewish majority, against their will ... that the millions of occupied Palestinians don't have a say in the government that truly rules over them, Israel's ... means Israel is about as democratic as Nazi Germany after Hitler purged his political opponents and then held elections.
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  1402. I don't think FOX News has reported on the NY Post's many Bigfoot articles. They must be commie leftist censors.
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  1403. "We hold these truths to be self-evident, that all men are created equal, that they are endowed by their Creator with certain unalienable Rights, that among these are Life, Liberty and the pursuit of Happiness" How can someone be equal, but not have an equal right to vote? How can someone have liberty, in some kind of oligarchy, where they have no voice?
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  1404.  @snakedoctor6969  Her salary puts her in the upper middle class quintile, not the rich. Plus, members of congress have to maintain two households, and DC and NYC aren't exactly cheap. She's nowhere close to the 1% who actually pay for those tickets.
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  1405.  @aarondickson9573  Capitalism already failed in Cuba. What should they do now?
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  1406.  @RHINOTEJAS  You lot are currently claiming a boxer, born with a vjj, is a man. You're arguing, yourselves, that vjj products are needed in men's rooms.
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  1407.  @NikhilVandanapu  The US was built on free government handouts of land. They weren't Libertarians back then.
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  1408. The poorest of the poor, on maximum unstackable government assistance, will be worse off with Yang. He's lying about a VAT being a way to make corporations like Amazon "pay their fair share". His plan, as is, will hurt some economically vulnerable people, and make Amazon and Bezos richer. That's not a good plan.
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  1409.  @briandfox16  Rofl, every international body that has any authority to rule on whether Palestine is, or isn't, occupied, has ruled it is. The Nazis weren't "at war" with the Warsaw ghetto uprising.
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  1410. Test ... Aaand I just had a day's detention. :(
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  1411. It was Hillary or bust that lost the last election, and it'll be corporate Dem or bust that loses this one, if it goes the same way again. If that's what you're rooting for, then you are the problem.
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  1412. Peru was one of if not the biggest users of ivermectin. They have the most covid deaths per capita on the planet.
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  1413.  @Sean-gg4ns  Intent matters, dumb dumb, not level of violence or success. They intended to stop the democratic process to keep an unelected ruler in power. That's authoritarianism, like when the Loyalists wanted to keep King George in power. Protesting, and sometimes rioting, against funding the police, police brutality, and a lack of representation, is anti-authoritarianism, and more like what the Patriots did, before they outright went to war. You loons have reality backwards.
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  1414.  @Nick1994H  Everyone at FOX is literally vaccinated. Doesn't mean you can't peddle misinformation, pandering to anti-vaxxers.
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  1415. Ivermectin is manufactured by the 5th largest pharma company in the world, ffs. Peru is a top user of ivermectin and has the most covid deaths per capita on the planet. Everything you're spewing is nonsense.
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  1416. Seriously? I didn't know he had Canadian supporters. I thought they were all right wing American fans of his moronic transphobic nonsense.
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  1417.  @cortext36  Rofl. AOC, alone, has done more for M4A in 2 years than he has in his entire lifetime.
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  1418.  @inquisitive.lurker  His proposal was a public option, that he argued would turn into universal coverage. Freaking Biden, and Obama before him, promoted a public option. It's not all that progressive a proposal, and LA county attempted just that. It hasn't gotten them anywhere close to universal coverage.
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  1419.  @inquisitive.lurker  No other developed country, that I know of, has a public option. Private options are totally different things, if that's what you're thinking of.
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  1420.  Alabama Man 2.0  Health System Tracker: Unvaccinated COVID-19 hospitalizations cost billions of dollars "From June through November 2021, preventable COVID-19 hospitalizations among unvaccinated adults cost over $13 Billion"
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  1421.  @investmotivation1014  Don't you know the definition of the word "grift"? Dore says he's for things like that, but the directions he proposes taking don't get you any closer to getting them, or even take you in the opposite direction. How does sitting on the sidelines, in some irrelevant third party, get you M4A in the next century? How does a 100% guaranteed to fail performance art vote get you any closer to getting M4A? When adding M4A yes votes to congress is the very thing that gets you closer to ever being able to pass it, how does slandering those like Justice Dems and AOC, who have added yes votes to congress, not mean you're outright fighting against M4A? When you publicly abandon Nina Turner ... abandon adding another M4A yes vote to congress ... and promote never voting for someone running as a Dem ever again, not mean you're outright fighting against M4A? How is literally peddling someone against the M4A candidate, not mean you're outright fighting against M4A? How is trashing government negotiated vaccine prices, for vaccines that are then given out for free (a tiny slice of what M4A would be), not mean you're fighting against M4A? How is misrepresenting and attacking the completely socialized UK healthcare system, not mean you're fighting against socialized healthcare? How is peddling more expensive, privately paid for, alternatives, not promoting the opposite of M4A? How is peddling Trump (platform: toss 10m of the poorest Americans off of Medicaid expansion), as the better option, not going outright backwards? What has Jimmy proposed doing, since 2016, that actually gets you closer to getting M4A?
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  1422. So, Trump is copying China? Good to know.
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  1423. He needs to clean his own room, before telling the world what to do.
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  1424.  @williameverett3136  "Legal" by whose measure? The native inhabitants?
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  1425. ​ @Silver_Something  You might want to look up the paradox of freedom. It's what the paradox of tolerance is based on.
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  1426.  @squatch545  I'm subscribed, dimwit, and a former regular watcher.
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  1427.  @alabamaman9476  Stop with a specific example.
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  1428.  Phantom Alpha  What's something you understand? Do you understand that there's actually been a negative overall migration rate with Mexico, for about a decade? Do you understand that the majority of undocumented aliens are actually visa overstays? Do you understand that the majority of visa overstays are Canadians? Do you understand that the economy was on the exact same upward trend, before Trump came along, and that his first year in office was still Obama's final budget? Do you understand that trickle down is a proven failure? Do you understand that the wealth disparity of the Gilded Age ended with labour riots, race riots, and a great depression, and that you have the opportunity to avoid any of that by jumping right to backing a new New Deal? Do you understand that the "free" healthcare in other developed countries costs less? Do you understand that it also gets better results, overall? Seriously, what is it you think you understand?
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  1429.  @matthewwolfe9417  Yeah, everytime the Republicans have jumped right, the "moderates" have met them in the new "middle".
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  1430.  @harveymanfredsenjenson5417  Awww, poor baby, did he "smear" someone you have feelings for? Who was it?
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  1431.  @halinaqi2194  Sadly, no coherent theists, so far.
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  1432.  @hardwork3053  Ancaps rule. Ancap is feudalism. Libertarians did a nice job of screwing Trump out of some states, though.
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  1433.  @whyamimrpink78  Moron. If she was saying she was in her office, then she was saying, herself, that she was in a different building. It was still a building that ended up being evacuated, due to the threat to members of congress. In the moment, she wouldn't know if her building had been breached, as well, or not.
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  1434.  @whyamimrpink78  There are billions of religious people who call a formless, sexless, penisless, being they believe in, "he", "him", and even "father", but still can't seem to grasp the difference between sex and gender.
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  1435.  @t-swizzle8102  How does sitting on the sidelines, in some irrelevant third party, and letting corporate Dems and Republicans rule for decades to come, help poor and working class Americans, exactly? And sitting on the sidelines, in some irrelevant third party, is based on what ... some fantasy, that a third party will only produce perfectly perfect puritan progressives, rather than another Kyrsten Sinema, like the Green party produced? When adding M4A yes votes to congress is the most important thing to do, because the only possible way to ever pass the bill is to get enough yes votes in congress, how does abandoning Nina Turner ... abandoning adding another M4A yes vote to congress ... help poor and working class Americans? How does promoting Trump (platform: toss 10m of the poorest Americans off of Medicaid expansion) as the better option than Clinton (platform: add 40m older Americans to Medicare expansion), help poor and working class Americans?
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  1436. Part of the problem is having 3 viable parties, plus a large party dedicated to a single province. Conservatives wouldn't actually win at the federal level, or win any provinces, except Alberta and Saskatchewan, if the Liberal and NDP parties were united and the BQ didn't exist. Multiple parties is only a good thing if the right wing is also divided up. If not, then they're going to win far more often than they should. It would be like if the standard Dems and Progressives split. If the progressive caucus was its own party, Trump would be president again, Pence would be the senate tie breaker (if progressive caucus Bernie voted with Dems), and Rs would have a plurality in the house. Rs would only have to work with the most conservative Ds, to pass pretty much whatever they wanted.
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  1437.  @johannuys7914  Fascism is a totality of characteristics, not a single characteristic. Which "liberals" called for overthrowing the democratic process?
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  1438.  @ima4916  How are "extreme free market" Boogaloos, that want to start a civil war, not the lunatic right?
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  1439.  @thehappyclam3942  Nope.
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  1440.  @thehappyclam3942  Individual privately owned web pages and servers don't equate to the "internet".
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  1441.  @whyamimrpink78  The vaccine was largely developed faster because it used a totally new method for creating vaccines, that didn't require years of growing virus cultures to be used in the vaccine itself. The vaccines all went through the same 3 trial phases the government required before. Trial phases ... safety testing ... that Libertarians wouldn't want. The government did provide funding for some of them, which they do for a lot of R&D. R&D funding that Libertarians wouldn't want. The government has also paid for producing and distributing enough to vaccinate every American. Payments Libertarians wouldn't want. The Libertarian way would be to have a vaccine, with no enforced safety testing, distributed and paid for privately. Maybe hope that some charity would vaccinate poor people.
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  1442.  @garyhamlin3299  What, like the UK, where moron Boris also didn't take things very seriously? Testing rates (tests per confirmed case) is one of those covid measures, and the UK was testing at a pathetically low rate, just like the US. They weren't even trying to get ahead of the virus.
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  1443.  @garyhamlin3299  Yeah, give me an example of a country that followed covid measures pretty good, and things still got as out of hand as the US. WHO advises at minimum testing should be in the range of 10-30 people per confirmed case. The UK, France, US, Spain, and Italy, were testing under 10 people for months of 2020, as things got out of hand. Canada, Germany, Norway, Denmark, Finland, got within that range fairly quickly. Australia, New Zealand, S Korea, Vietnam, got to testing over 50 people fairly quickly.
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  1444.  Illhan Omars brother's wife is Illhan Omar  You are completely full of shit.
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  1445.  @unitedfools3493  The Tea Party was astroturffed by billionaire donors, who were pressuring Republican lawmakers. The donor pressure consistently increased their numbers. Republicans have a natural tendency to want to move right, anyway. And, the only reason they could block any votes was because the other Republicans were unwilling to simply make compromises with Dems and pass things without needing Tea Party votes. Are there large billionaire donors pressuring corporate Dems to join progressives? Do corporate Dems have a natural tendency to move left? Are corporate Dems unwilling to compromise and work with Republicans? The situations aren't samesies.
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  1446.  @smokedbeefandcheese4144  Try replacing 15 more corporate Dems, first. That's about how many more seats the progressive caucus needs to become the majority of house Dems, and then have enough to pick the party speaker candidate. If Dems are also the majority in the house, that speaker can then pick committee members, introduce whatever bills they want, sideline whatever bills they want, etc.
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  1447.  @mellow_badger8585  Why aren't you advising people to head on over to right wing Rumble, where Glenn and Jimmy have signed on to get themselves some Peter Thiel CIA money? Or, go find them on FOX?
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  1448.  @mellow_badger8585  And yet you were just advising people they could supposedly find similar content elsewhere. If you go on to mainly just to agree with the other side of the aisle, then you're not actually on the other side of the aisle.
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  1449.  @mellow_badger8585  Rofl. Tucker had pro Assange segments going back a year before Dore was on, you dimwitted Dore knob. He didn't move Tucker's position on anything. Dore went on, agreed with Tucker that it was problematic that Dumpty had been banned from social media, and using the bullshit first amendment argument. There's no such thing as free speech on someone else's private property. A leftist should be pointing that out, and pointing out the way to get free speech rights is through public ownership. Someone whose not sucking on Tucker's far right white nationalist balls, might also point out that things like inciting insurrections and defamation aren't protected speech anyway. He played right along with the right wing framing of "cancel culture", not pointing out that conservative religious folks have been cancelling things and people for millennia, still do, and often even use the government to do it, not just public pressure. Then, and this was right as the second impeachment was beginning, Jimmy threw Tucker and his audience the off topic bone that he too considered the first impeachment to be a sham. Then, he finally got to Assange, who Tucker didn't show any indication of disagreeing with Jimmy on. Right wingers love WikiLeaks. Assange isn't a right/left issue, in the least. The issue isn't common ground, dingleberry. The issue is priorities. Right wing morons care more about bullshit, like CRT that isn't even taught in K-12, than they do about getting themselves healthcare. If they prioritized healthcare, they wouldn't be right wingers. An "extreme free market" Boogaloo psycho, that wants to start a civil war, isn't going to vote for the same people you are, just because you both agree an a handful of anti-authoritarian issues. They'll be shooting you, if you try and implement M4A, after you help them bring down the government.
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  1450.  @InternetMameluq  Rofl. Trump saying a homelessan was more fortunate than him was bullshit is what it was. Even so, simply stating someone is more fortunate than you doesn't imply jealousy.
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  1451.  @themassage6534  I hear people wanting to be more like Denmark, but is anyone today pushing USSR style communism?
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  1452. Exactly. He's a moron who regurgitates old philosophies. The only people dumber are those who buy his bullshit.
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  1453.  @joethethunder4906  Imagine that everyone in the progressive caucus had run as the people's party, and magically won the exact same number of seats. What you'd have is a Republican minority house, that would only have to work with the 16 most conservative Dems, to pass anything, and could completely ignore the people's party. You'd have a Trump presidency (because Dem and progressive votes would have split between Biden and Bernie in the general). And, you'd have 1 people's party senator, Bernie, with Republicans in control of the senate and Pence as tie breaker. No, you're not going to win over significant numbers of right wingers. If they cared about things like M4A more than hate abortions and immigrants, they'd already be voting for progressives.
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  1454.  @joethethunder4906  No. I clearly talked about an alternate reality, where some third party actually won seats, a lot of seats, 94 in the house and 1 in the senate. It would lead to Republican rule, and they could work with a handful of corporate Dems and completely ignore progressives. What are you talking about? Texas and Florida indicate Republicans are batshit crazy. Trump is batshit crazy.
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  1455.  @joethethunder4906  Getting even 100 seats as a third party would allow for Republicans and corporate Dems to almost completely ignore a progressive third party. The broader progressive caucus is currently 10-15 seats away from becoming the majority of house Dems. They could then pick the party speaker candidate and set the party agenda. If the party were in the majority, that progressive speaker could pick committee members and introduce whatever bills they wanted. Getting 10-15 more seats taking over the Democrat party would give you more power than 100 seats as a third party.
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  1456.  @joethethunder4906  The most popular third party hasn't won a single seat in congress in its near 50 year existence. And, as I pointed out, winning even 100 seats wouldn't give progressives any power as a third party. There's no indication what you're aiming for would benefit progressives in the next century. Progressives could be the majority of the Dem party within an election, or two, if progressives got out and voted heavily in the primaries.
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  1457.  @thehappyclam3942  Who were the Harzburg Front?
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  1458.  @Historia.Magistra.Vitae.  Wrong. Emil Kirdorf had pulled his backing, and started backing another far right party. He only returned after certain people were eliminated.
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  1459.  @Historia.Magistra.Vitae.  The Harzburg Front wasn't leftist. Grow another brain cell.
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  1460.  @Historia.Magistra.Vitae.  Wrong
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  1461. *Django The D is silent.
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  1462.  @stanleymiller9977  Please tell me you're not referring to Benghazi.
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  1463. Still waiting for the moon to fall into Lake Michigan.
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  1464.  @X2LR8  Did you want to keep the tradition of slavery?
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  1465. @Badatallthis Stuff It's a vaccine. It's an "immunization" the same way other vaccines, and "natural immunity", are "immunizations". None mean literally 100% immune.
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  1466.  @jashshah5049  So mentioning it was a democracy was pointless. Got it.
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  1467. Who has this agenda?
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  1468. ​ @mikeg2306  Yeah, remember that time they traveled to Russia, to do the pogroms? Horrible. 🙄
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  1469.  @kyledehaven394  Also, Yang is spouting nonsense about how a VAT will force the likes of Amazon to pay taxes. A VAT is specifically designed to pay businesses back for any input VAT. If you don't actually tax Amazon, then hand consumers trillions a year, you're only making Amazon tens of billions extra a year, while still not making them pay a dime.
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  1470.  @semi-consciousamerican-joe2481  Yeah, like I get a road in exchange for paying X amount in taxes. Having less money and that money being worth less are two different things.
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  1471. ​ @Newton-Reuther  Guess you did.
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  1472. All it would take to essentially end homelessness is to give HUD an annual budget of $20b instead of $2b. Instead, Trump chose to give corporations and the rich a $1.4 trillion tax cut. So, why isn't the continuing homeless problem his fault?
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  1473. What does the right have to offer, to solve the up and down problem?
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  1474. That's quite the strawman, making out like anyone has ever claimed using fossil fuels has caused bad weather. It speeding up global warming, is a totally different thing.
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  1475.  @aliamjon2550  Getting yourself in the country is actually the only legal way to seek asylum.
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  1476. Let me guess ... a Dore knob.
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  1477.  @2727rogers  Rofl. Not what I said, at all. I clearly indicated that progressive Dems are gaining seats, adding M4A yes votes to congress, whereas third parties aren't. The "vote blue" works both ways. The vast majority of those who vote against progressives in the primaries vote for them in the general. If you split those voting groups in two, math says Republicans are then more likely to win. Dore often promotes "strategies" that benefit Republicans most, and actually move you further from the goal.
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  1478.  @olorin1710  What's that got to do with the point about not counting people with comorbidities as covid deaths?
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  1479.  @khbgkh  The popular vote has matched the electoral vote in the vast majority of elections. All but something like 5 elections would have turned out exactly the same. Also, simply being an "electoral college" doesn't require electorals to be distributed unevenly. It would still be an "electoral college", if they were distributed evenly. It was the freezing of the number of house seats, in the 1930s, that has increased the imbalance, making it less democratic.
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  1480. Lol, you're stupid.
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  1481.    So, you've learned how to use the term "gaslighting" incorrectly, from Dore? "Gaslighting" is a specific form of manipulation and deception designed to make someone feel, or look, crazy. "Gaslighting" is more like claiming Trump filling multiple scotus seats is as likely as the moon falling into Lake Michigan, making out like whoever says otherwise is batshit crazy.
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  1482.  @fomori2  It should be titled "Who's dumber, Trumpists or Dore knobs?" AOC was just campaigning for Nina, trying to add another M4A yes vote to congress. Dore, on the other hand, abandoned Nina ... abandoned trying to add another M4A yes vote to congress. Which one do you morons think is the "real" progressive?
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  1483.  @fomori2  You might want to educate yourself on what an ad hominem actually is, you ignoramus. Also educate yourself on Aldous' grandfather.
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  1484.  @DrJellyFanguzzz  Hey now, Cruz was born to an American that was passing through, and never grew up here. He's all yours.
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  1485.  @operationstack  And that's a lie. The Bible includes the OT/Tanakh, which is the absolute worst of the trilogy, by many mi​les.
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  1486.  @Anxh007  Netanyahu also followed the Christian West's example. He promoted, and helped fund, Hamas, to weaken the more secular Palestinian Authority, to avoid possible peace, and an officially recognized independent Palestine, which he would then have to leave, and give up on his colonization project. It's kind of nonsensical to cry about how extreme Muslims are, when you're the one putting down moderates and propping up extremists.
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  1487.  @zarius6363  That's what they need in a co-host. Michael would jump in all the time. If someone doesn't jump in on Sam, he just keeps going and going.
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  1488. VW has already overtaken Tesla in Europe. They'll be outselling Tesla in the next year.
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  1489.  @guidinglight2116  Colonialism actually flooded white Europeans into numerous places around the world. The difference being that they did so using violence and claimed said places for their own nations.
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  1490.  @guidinglight2116  You don't know what "genocide" means. Plus, you seem to be insane.
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  1491.  @fredsanford1437  Did you make Trump fear the people, or did you follow him around like sheep?
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  1492.  @guiagaston7273  It's literally how trolley problems work.
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  1493.  @guiagaston7273  You're the kind of person who looks at a trolley problem and thinks if you pull the lever you've had a hand in killing one person, instead of seeing it as having a hand in saving 4, and that if you do nothing, then it's not your fault if 5 people die.
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  1494.  @guiagaston7273  So, like the trolley problem, except your solution is to pick up a few stones from the track gravel, and throw them at the trolley, to try and stop it altogether ... as it runs over 5 people. Would I be stupid for thinking you did nothing to stop the trolley? Or would you be stupid for thinking you had? Point being that, thinking you're doing something seems to be part of the idiotic delusion.
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  1495. All the polls said Hillary would have a tougher time against Trump. Hillary or bust-ers were the ones who picked her anyway, got the closer race they wanted, and busted.
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  1496.  @DubhghlasMacDubhghlas  I'll stick with statistics, rather than your anecdotes. They're going to get blood pressure medicine from where, exactly, while on the run in large numbers?
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  1497.  @aliamjon2550  The open wounds belong to someone else, dimwit. Cloth masks, and standard disposable masks, are to protect others from the wearer, and do so.
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  1498.  @wvu05  And it's not just that. A VAT is specifically designed to not tax businesses, in order to avoid double taxation. It's basically a sales tax, collected in stages, with all the business stages getting paid back. It's only the final consumer that doesn't get paid back. Yang even posted a pass through rate study, that he didn't understand. It outright said that there was a near 100% pass through on standard rated goods and services. It was only by including lesser rated and zero rated goods and services that the pass through rate lowered. Yang mistakenly thought the lower pass through rate meant that businesses were paying half or more of the tax, when it actually meant that nobody was paying a tax on about half the stuff. That means his VAT/UBI combo wouldn't actually have giant corporations paying into the UBI, like he claimed, and they'd only get the benefit of trillions extra being spent. Money would flow to corporations and those at the very top faster than ever before. His plan was nothing like the Alaskan dividend, which he kept comparing his dividend to. They have giant corporations paying the people, which is how a UBI should also be paid for to be sustainable.
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  1499.  @laqueefa8509  Dore knobs? No, they want to hand power to Republicans, and go backwards for decades to come..
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  1500.  @BrockObama2016  He trashed anyone and everyone who'd vote for M4A in congress, and wants to start primarying them instead of the hundreds of M4A opponents.
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  1501.  Alabama Man 2.0  You: Honey Boo Boo gets more views than Cosmos, therefore it's better!!!!
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  1502.  @bloui1033  How does giving money to poor people, equate to "the practice of unfairly treating a person or group of people differently from other people or groups of people" (def of discrimination)? What's unfair about not giving money to rich people that already have money?
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  1503.  @bloui1033  So, what's wrong with simply recognizing a difference, if you're using that definition, and not using the unfair treatment definition?
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  1504.  @bloui1033  You literally said "(which it IS unfair)", to someone else. As long as she's qualified, what difference does it make? It would be nice, if the law were more objective, but isn't it a reality that scotus picks are already chosen based on political discrimination, irregardless if they're the most qualified candidate amongst every legal expert in the country? The fact that political points of view on certain topics is considered in the process of picking a scotus nominee, is evidence law isn't purely objective. Subjective opinions, subjective political or religious beliefs, matter, which would mean different life experiences, and different race and gender points of view, are also important. In that sense, yes, women are more qualified to give an opinion on women's issues. Your "analogies" aren't very analogous. People's subjective beliefs also factor into creating laws, would be a more analogous example. So, yes, you'd also want a more diverse group of people creating laws, as well.
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  1505.  @uncomfortabletruth5915  Except it doesn't actually have a price tag worked out. People have made a range of estimates. Weird how you "enlightened centrist" types use the same high end estimate as the far right, instead of giving a range, or an estimate in the middle.
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  1506.  Aaron Dickson  Rofl. Aren't you a.poser ancapper, that doesn't know the difference between an ancap symbol and an anarchist symbol, who constantly bootlicks for the Republican party?
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  1507.  @zeeone4492  Exactly. You getting some feeling that they're "controlled opposition" doesn't make it so. Glad we're on the same page, now.
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  1508. ​ @NothingIsKnown00  Unfortunately, for Dave, Harris isn't very bright either.
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  1509.  @gnubbiersh647  Harris argued it was already a given that, if you set a subjective goal, science can help you achieve that goal. Meaning, if you subjectively define "well being", and subjectively set that as your goal, then science can help you reach that goal. Or, for example, if you set reaching the moon as your subjective goal, then science can help you achieve that goal, and everything you do then objectively gets you closer to achieving that goal, or it doesn't. What people didn't believe was that science could itself set the goal, so that the goal was objective. By saying he wanted to prove that wrong, Sam had to show that the goal, "well being", is itself objective, to give us something beyond what he already acknowledged was a given. He argued all concepts of morality are about "well being". If that is actually the case, that would mean they all have different concepts of "well being" (a Christian's, for example, would be measured not by how healthy and happy you are, but instead measured by how closely you are following God's will, so your soul can have ultimate happiness in the afterlife). Sam set aside their beliefs in an afterlife, or any other concepts, and began arguing as if there was only one concept of "well being" ... his ... and that it is only measured by his standards. He had basically defeated himself, at this point, and is exactly at what he said was a given, at the outset. He also tried to support his concept, by arguing morality is only about sentient creatures, and that we don't value the "well being" of rocks. Problem there is ... we do. If we deem that a structure or sculpture, made of rocks, has historical value, we consider it immoral to harm or destroy it. Same with any rocks deemed to have artistic value. We also deem some environments to have value, including any rocks within, and provide them protection. We also deem many shiny rocks to have value, and some people will kill each other over them, considering that value to be worth more than another human being's life. He also made out like that also applies to lesser life forms, and yet some people's concept of morality includes all life forms. He didn't provide any real "objective" demarcation line. Are cows, pigs, and chickens, below the line? Most people's concepts of morality okay slaughtering them. Plenty of people think the world would be better off without humans. Plenty value certain animals over other human beings. Hedonists value simply fulfilling your desires. All these concepts of morals and values aren't samesies. Even ignoring that many concepts of "well being" include an afterlife, the various moral concepts aren't all using the exact same concept of "well being", that Sam puts forward, for this life. He goes completely deranged, and argues that an objective fact can change. He gives as an example, the distance of the Earth to the Sun. The problem there is that he's leaving out that any measurement to the Sun would be made at an exact moment in time. It will forever be true that, at that exact moment in time, we were exactly that distance from the Sun. If something is truly an objective fact, it will always be true. To support his "moral landscape" argument, he provides chess, as an "analogy". He claims it is a game of "perfect objectivity", where a move is objectively better or worse. No. Someone subjectively decided to create a game, subjectively decided on the board, the pieces, how those pieces would move, and how to win (back to what he said was already a given at the start). People have also subjectively come up with alternate rules. People have subjectively come up with alternate boards (3D Star Trek chess). Chess, and any game with rules, is more akin to laws, than morality. Once you've subjectively decided something is a rule/law, then you are objectively following the rule/law, or you aren't. Sometimes we decide laws are themselves immoral, and change them. Even when you're within the game, with the rules in place, nothing says it's wrong to maybe let your kid beat you once in a while. If that's your subjective goal, then what is "objectively" a better or worse move could become completely flipped, and there'd be nothing wrong with that, even though it would appear to be an "objectively" horrible move, by Sam's singular (and subjective) way to measure things. He also tries using healthy vs unhealthy, as an analogy to moral vs immoral. The problem there is that healthy/unhealthy don't include oughts. Eating a Big Mac might be unhealthy, but there's nothing really saying it's wrong to do something unhealthy (unless maybe it forces something unhealthy on others, against their will). Technically, skydiving increases your odds of dying, or being injured. So? People do it for kicks. Being healthy, or unhealthy, depends totally on your own subjectivity. If you subjectively want to be healthy, only then you ought not do X. If you subjectively don't care about being healthy, then you ought to do X, if you want. This is nothing like morality. We don't say go ahead and randomly kill someone, if you want. We'll call it "immoral", but that no longer means it's behavior/actions you ought not do. Sam paraded around like a peacock, making out like he was a genius, making out like Hume wasn't all that, and that he was the one to have finally filled, or dodged, the is/ought gap .... Nope. He is a complete and utter moron, who never got beyond what he said was a given, from the outset, and was just too stupid to see it. He had filled the gap with subjectivity, just like everyone before him. He also showed his limited grasp on objectivity vs subjectivity, when fear mongering about AI. He didn't take the angle that people would be able to greatly misuse it (as is possible). No, he took the Terminator angle, that it would rise up against us! Except, it doesn't matter how "intelligent" a computer is, there's zero indication that one can set its own subjective goals. That's because they care about nothing. Any goals one has, has been programmed in. An AI would be following at least one human's goals. A super intelligent computer, knowing a lot of facts (objectivity), would still make none of its own decisions (subjectivity), because it just doesn't care about outcomes. Humans have to program in all the decision making. They might give it a little room to learn the most efficient route, between point A and point B, for example, but once it learns the most efficient route, that's the one it will stick with. It will never, in a billion years, decide to take the scenic route, all on its own, because it just doesn't care. It feels nothing, good or bad, when "seeing" things. Sam has been taking sci-fi way too seriously.
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  1510.  @AG-xc5ni  Rofl. Tucker loved everything Jimmy was saying. He didn't even try to jump in. Because, when Dore phrases it as they'd rather be doing an impeachment, it doesn't sound, at all, like he's talking about Republicans, who didn't want an impeachment. It sounds like he's just ripping Democrats. If a 2 min rant that makes Carlson glow with delight, then you've done something wrong.
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  1511.  @AG-xc5ni  Uh huh. And he spewed stuff Tucker and his audience liked last time, as well, dumb dumb.
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  1512.  @AG-xc5ni  He agreed with Tucker and his audience that it was wrong for Twitter to ban Trump and his cultists. He threw them the off topic bone that he also considered the first impeachment a fraud. And only then did he get to Assange, who they don't really give a crap about.
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  1513.  @happyprogressivepoop1422  She should. You're the one arguing she's not so bad, if AOC helping to remove corporate Dems is Pelosi's bidding. Or, is AOC not doing her bidding?
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  1514.  @SacClass650  The problem with your comparison is that "socialism" (publicly owned and operated) is a broad category, opposing the broad category "capitalism" (privately owned and operated), that comes in non-authoritarian (anarcho, direct democracy), representative democracy, and authoritarian, flavours. Meanwhile, "fascism" is a narrow category. It is authoritarian capitalism. So, no, fascism doesn't have much in common, with about 2/3rds of the socialism spectrum, and is the complete opposite of the anarcho variety. Authoritarians having similarities is no revelation.
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  1515. You answered your own question there.
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  1516.  @fredsanford1437  Rofl. DNC is left?
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  1517.  @mimked  There are 261 Republicans in the house and senate. 147 objected to the election results.
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  1518. Jimmy Dore recently cited the vaccinated (0.01%) and unvaccinated (0.89%) hospitalization rates (based on total population). Of course, he ignored that the unvaccinated were being hospitalized at 89x the rate of the vaccinated. Instead, he dishonestly compared those rates to the incorrect "death rate", to make out like covid deaths were being "WILDLY inflated".
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  1519. Yeah, damn fake progressive AOC just helped get more M4A yes votes in congress. How horrible.
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  1520.  @aliamjon2550  Pay less for it. Nope. Nope.
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  1521.  @mfflscotty2095  Holy hell. How do they make their billions? By people buying stuff, right? That's people handing them their money, and having less money, and the billionaires gaining more money, right? And, if those billionaires don't pay their workers an even share of that, then the money is mostly going one direction, right? Again, you seem to be implying that you can hand your money to them, and more will just magically appear, from somewhere.
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  1522. Rofl, are you some Dore knob, or something?
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  1523.  @TheBiggestSqueeze  Committee voters outright admitted to not voting for her because she backed progressives against them and other party incumbents. Are you claiming she didn't use her platform and PAC to back 20 other progressives?
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  1524. Ancap is feudalism. A bunch of private property owners running around doing what they want with no governing body of the people, laws, or justice system, above them.
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  1525. The only "claim" that Zionism had to this specific land, was based on a fairy tale book. After living relatively peacefully in Muslim countries for 1300 years ... being given refuge when Christian nations offered conversion, death, or exile ... the Ottoman Empire even okaying the earliest form of Zionsim, which was more like immigration ... Zionist religious extremism, the switch to colonialism, changed everything. Jewish extremists believe in the OT/Tanakh, which is the worst book in the trilogy, by many miles. India represents almost the entirety of the Hindu world. It ranks lower than Saudi, for the treatment of women. And, now there are Hindutva fascists, running the country, persecuting Sikhs, Muslims, and Christians. Christian nuts, in Africa, actually campaigned against wearing protection, even telling people that condoms cause AIDS, as tens of millions of people died. Plus, there are plenty of other Christian extremists around. Europe and North America no longer represents the majority of the Christian world. The majority is represented by Central/South America, Africa, and Asia. The US likes to say "Mexican cartel", but there are some you could also describe as a "Christian cartel", that worship a saint of death, and chop off more body parts than ISIS did. Christian Brazil is also the deadliest place on the planet, to be gay. They also challenge Buddhist Thailand for the child sex tourism capital of the world. Psycho Buddhist monks have also been doing very bad things. Most suck pretty bad, if you actually take a hard look, and don't just focus on the one you've already predetermined is the worst. Ancestral spirit worship doesn't seem too fanatic.
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  1526.  @theTeflonDon1  Trump is one of the biggest popular vote losers to ever get elected, and barely scraped out electoral college wins in a handful of states, by less than 1%. I have no clue how you lot manage to be so cocky.
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  1527.  @MrNH718  Dore went on Tucker's show, agreed that Twitter deplatforming Trump and his cult was troublesome, threw Trump the off topic bone that he also considered "Russiagate" a hoax, and then made an argument, that has nothing to do with "left wing policy", for Assange to be pardoned.
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  1528. What are some examples of not BS?
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  1529.  Simon Farre  That is, not at all, "logical". Having a law against drinking and driving doesn't guarantee no accidents, but it does reduce the odds of accidents. And, even with a drinking and driving law, a busy highway is going to end up having more accidents than a less busy highway. That's why multiple safety measures are suggested, including distancing and not gathering in large numbers, rather than a just wear a mask mandate. Businesses dodge those measures by claiming they're essential, not by claiming masks will 100% protect their workers. Nobody should be taking covid advice from Sweden.
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  1530. ​ @darrenallen8215  Lol, there are about as many vehicles owned, as guns. They have an alternate purpose, to travel from point A to point B. They are used an average of 2 hrs a day. The vast majority of the time, they simply do get safely from point A to point B. Do you think there is no point, to all the vehicle regulations (licensing, registration, insurance, speed limits, seatbelts, no driving zones, certain vehicles not allowed on the road, safety standards, etc.), because criminals will just ignore them anyway? Guns have no alternative use, other than to shoot things. Relative to vehicles, guns are rarely used, but they still kill as many people. They are clearly the far more dangerous item, and yet they're far less regulated. Why is it, do you think, that states with less regulations tend to have higher firearm mortality, and homicide, rates? Why is it that other developed countries, with tougher gun laws, tend to have lower firearm mortality, and homicide, rates (and, in turn, cops that shoot citizens 3 to 100s of times lower rates, per capita)?
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  1531. ​​ @Brentford704  The OT/Tanakh is the absolute worst of the trilogy. Ironically, it basically describes a tribe of early Nzs, who are told they are a superior race of chosen people, and ordered to gncd everyone around them, after cleansing some of their own people ... Only their Htlr is up in the sky, according to Moses. Other stories, of Nzs being nice to each other, aren't of much importance.
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  1532. @velvet1865 Ooo, he must have been very powerful. What incredibly powerful position did he hold, and what massive support did he provide? Was there a political movement started by him, and those beliefs? The current leader of India, 1.5b people, is Hindutva.
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  1533.  @justapatsy8601  Lol, Hillary is only "left" in the US, where centre is "far left".
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  1534.  @t-swizzle8102  Which campaign promises would those be?
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  1535.  @nobrkes  "unobtainable in a perilously racist America" What race realism? Are you arguing white people are inherently racist?
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  1536. Israel controls the borders, airspace, and ports. There were no Nazis living in the Warsaw ghetto, either, so nothing you said actually debunks anything. All Palestinian territories are considered occupied by the International Court, the UN GA, and the UN SC. Under international law, the occupied actually have a right to resist. The occupiers, on the other hand, don't have a right to use collective punishment.
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  1537.  @Whoyouwishyouwere  A few cents? The big oil companies make most of their money on the oil side, ffs. They've jacked the price of a barrel by $20, since 2019. The US, and Canada for that matter, are both net oil exporters. Neither has to meet the global market price, if they don't want to, to supply inside the two countries. Whatever the f*ck Russia or Saudi is doing, doesn't affect supply, so shouldn't affect in country prices, but they act like it does anyway, and blame what's going on elsewhere in the world, for the price increase, as if it just magically makes their prices go up, and wasn't them intentionally raising their prices. They didn't need the extra $20 a barrel. They just did it ... to increase profits.
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  1538.  @_lil_lil  2016 is when he started spewing utter nonsense, like promoting Trump as the better option than Clinton, for progressives, or that Stein had a shot.
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  1539.  @thepolarphantasm2319  Ummm, no, I said Likud's trrrst founders would be proud of their trrrsm.
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  1540. The broader progressive caucus, which has M4A on their platform, is about 10 seats away from becoming the majority of house Dems. How many third party votes are there for M4A in congress?
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  1541. ​ @chrisrushton3994  The Puritans weren't "rational".
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  1542.  @justrodriguez21  His message is that they're no longer allies, and he talks about primarying them more than he talks about primarying Manchin, or taking out Republicans. His message is shit.
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  1543.  @nobrkes  You, apparently, don't know the definition of fascism. The way you're using the term so loosely, everyone who fought fascists were themselves fascists, just for trying to force the fascists to not be fascists. Denazification is fascism, by your "logic".
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  1544.  @crafty1096  Bernie has been the most followed member of congress on Twitter, for 6 years straight.
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  1545. Repealing and replacing the Permanent Apportionment Act of 1929 would be easier.
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  1546.  @SSJFACPACIFIST  So, he was watching the majority report while his wife was in the hospital?
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  1547.  @amber2583  Dimwit. He cancelled the WEEK before, claiming his wife had to go to hospital ... but was still monitoring the Majority Report, at the same time?
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  1548. You idiots, fighting to stay on course with this new Gilded Age, are the lunatics. The last one ended with labour riots, race riots, a great depression, etc. It wasn't pretty. You have the opportunity, this time, to jump straight to a new New Deal, without having to go through the rough patch again. It will need to happen.
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  1549.  quadir1  Shove the strawman, dummy.
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  1550.  @paulsmith7579  Again, he said hospitalization rates, not "covid rates", dumb dumb. He didn't question the covid rate, which means that doesn't change the death rate. If the hospitalization rate, alone, is overstated, then the death rate would be higher compared to the hospitalization rate, not lower, and make Jimmy's argument even more incorrect. Btw, nothing you can say will ever change the fact that Dore used mismatched rates, couldn't properly use Google, and couldn't do grade school level math.
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  1551. ChucksExotics: "Home of the reading comprehension problems."
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  1552. It's the perfect example. Absolutely nobody has died from AIDS, by Jimmy's "logic".
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  1553. So is Ben Carson. There are probably better doctors driving cabs, because they got their degrees in other countries.
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  1554.  @sargentpilcher  Rofl. Who is going to enforce that one right, one rule, so that things don't devolve into feudalism? You'd build yourself a house or live in an RV on whose property?
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  1555.  @antipositivism3128  Anarchism is, basically, taking democracy to the extreme, with everyone having an equal voice in economic, social, and political, matters. No hierarchies, at all. How is that truly compatible with a zero democracy system, that could allow for giant monopolies?
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  1556.  @antipositivism3128  hijack: take over (something) and use it for a different purpose. I didn't argue your definitions don't exist. I argued it was a hijacking. Apparently, you don't understand English very well. Is it your second language? Explain how capitalism without a hierarchy would work?
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  1557. There already is a right wing third party, Libertarian. It's the most popular third party and hasn't won a single seat in congress in its near 50 year existence.
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  1558.  @larshofler8298  Oh, you did answer, 3 replies later. If it's not state owned, then you can't take them to court for violating your first amendment rights. If it's run by direct democracy, then the majority get to decide what gets banned, what doesn't, and can't violate your rights. That would still be considered privately owned, by the government, and when it comes to rights.
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  1559. That way, if it proves to be false, they can simply claim they were reporting what another "news" outlet was reporting.
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  1560. AOC had donated to a number of progressives in conservative districts, in the last election. A bunch got creamed in the primaries, but a more conservative Dem did manage to win the district. The midterms are a totally different animal, and there will be a helluva fight to just try and hang on to their majority. Purple districts will be the hardest ones to try and hang on to. Dore knobs just don't care if Republicans get the majority, and don't care if progressives have even less power being in a minority party. Hell, they don't even care if progressives sit on the sidelines, in some irrelevant third party, for the next century. I've yet to run across a Dore knob that actually knows what was in the final version of the Capitol police bill, and what AOC's final vote was. All the first house vote actually did was send it to the senate, to have the shit amended out of it, just to be sent back to the house. AOC voted against it, when it came back. Her vote was irrelevant, because it had been amended enough to Republicans' liking to bring them onboard. The $15 did get a vote. It even passed the house, and got a senate vote. There's an ever so precious list of no voters. Weren't Dore knobs making out like they were going to do big things, with a list of no voters on an important policy? How come all they've done with this one is bitch about those who got the $15 to stay in for a round of voting and voted for it? The FTV "plan", out of Jimmy's mouth, before anyone else amended it, was for 15 progressives to simply "withhold their votes" or "not vote" for Pelosi. It's wording he used repeatedly. That wording implied abstaining, which would have given the speakership to McCarthy. Jimmy incorrectly thought it was impossible for McCarthy to win, because he thought you outright needed 218 votes to win. Drone strikes have dropped to almost nothing. Shouldn't Dore knobs be praising Biden, for that? They are such all or nothing puritan dimwits.
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  1561.  @Aaron-ju2gp  Piss off with the "tone" strawman. Dore was using it to outright slander the most progressive politicians in congress. Whatever "tone" it's said in, slander is just bullshit.
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  1562.  Lanzy Fabian  Oh, she has taken some shots at Rubin on her Twitter, and on Brooks' show. She has also been on Brooks' show drinking beer while trashing Shapiro.
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  1563.  Illhan Omars brother's wife is Illhan Omar  Gallup does a monthly poll ... 2021 Dec 1-16 ... 26% Rep ... 42% Ind ... 30% Dem
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  1564. They're getting tossed aside, like Liz Cheney.
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  1565.  @mohammadshami1718  Yep :)
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  1566.  @jimbob3030  Yeah, it's weird. Somehow this gets by, written in this order (I tried a different order before that was immediately deleted), but then sometimes the YouTube algorithm gets after me, and I find it hard to post even the littlest thing, or can't post anything for a day.
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  1567.  @dumpsternimrod9927  Holy crap. You have severe reading comprehension problems, as well. Can any of you Dore knobs read? "Without anyone else amending his plan, what he kept saying was for 15 progressives to simply "withhold their votes for", or "not vote for", Pelosi. That implies abstaining. He never said they should cast protest votes for someone else."
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  1568.  @themassage6534  Well, a) NYC has been found to use racial profiling, before, with their stop and frisk policy; b) you dodged the question about how the majority can be considered good cops if they're defending bad cops.
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  1569.  @chrisolivo6591  So, it's just a coincidence that the lowest vaccination rates, and higher current covid rates, tend to be in red counties?
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  1570.  @JoKo203  How can you say someone supports M4A, when they repeatedly promote taking a path that will never lead to getting it?
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  1571. ​ @SkazwalkerMusic  It's the same division, either way. The furthest right (or the highest top) have morons convinced they are good for them.
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  1572.  @jaketaylor3129  You seem to have zero grasp on what the bill he opposed was actually about. It was about discrimination, hate crimes, and hate speech. Pronoun use isn't even mentioned. It is only mentioned by the Ontario Human Rights Commission, if refusing to use someone's chosen pronoun can be shown rising to the level of discrimination and harrassment. You think it's okay for your boss to call you Jacqueline, girly, she, her, or whatever they feel like?
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  1573.  @GlassesAndCoffeeMugs  The conversation hasn't ended. The DSA (you know, the socialist organization AOC is an actual member of, not just democratic socialist in name, and not simply endorsed by them) has been having M4A rallies. Jimmy could be reporting about those, encouraging people to get out to those, instead of attacking those who are his best shot in the House of being fakes and shills. Jimmy could be letting everyone and anyone know about the latest CBO report, instead of arguing over a pointless vote. People are just arguing about a vote, and best procedures, not actually discussing the benefits of M4A, convincing others of the benefits, etc. If anyone is a capitalist shill, it's Jimmy. He seems to be going the way of Dave Rubin, finding it's good money to claim to be a lefty, while constantly attacking the politicians that are the most left leaning.
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  1574.  @pachamamarecords  Exactly. We're 107 years into a clnization project, and he's blaming the natives for "starting" trouble, by leaving the reserve and going after some nearby settlers. Yeah, no, it started 107 years ago.
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  1575.  @dickdrapper5491  So, fire sticks and hand cannons weren't types of guns/firearms?
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  1576. Authoritarianism doesn't have much to do with right and left.
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  1577.  @aarondickson9573  Uh huh, and, again, simply not imposing sanctions doesn't support or prop up anyone. And, again, why are they okay with supporting and propping up fascists and absolute monarchs?
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  1578.  Jay McDanieL  Right. He's hurdling over Hume's gap from fact to value, acting as if the value is purely objective, based on the fact, but that's just simply not the case. He's not admitting that the value, and his decision/judgement, is actually based on his own subjective caring about that "life". Depending on the definition of "life", I'd even give him his fact. That still doesn't give it the same value as an infant. Every pro-lifer I've run across would save an infant over 10 fertilized eggs in a petri dish, in a trolley problem. They don't truly think they have the same value, as they claim.
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  1579.  @knukkaboom4491  Nonsense. Cattle were simply currency, in early forms of feudalism. Capitalism has absolutely nothing against claiming land, claiming resources, hiring private armies, and settling disputes privately. It has absolutely nothing against making whatever rules you want for living on that private property. It has absolutely nothing against setting whatever rents you want for living on that private property.
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  1580.  @zoobrizz  Hilarious, that you think CNN and MSNBC aren't themselves right wing to various degrees.
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  1581. The opposite. No nuance is making out like Israel is some poor innocent victim.
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  1582. ​ @TheManinBlack9054  Yes, they worked very hard to keep Chechnya as part of Russia.
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  1583.  @secularsocialist  No. Glenn and Tulsi outright signed a deal with Rumble. They aren't simply getting ad revenue. Not positive about Jimmy, but he followed Glenn just a couple months later.
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  1584.  @secularsocialist  Has Dore addressed why he took total population hospitalization rates and compared them to a year and a half old case fatality rate, to dishonestly portray covid deaths as "WILDLY inflated"? Has Dore addressed why he'd take government negotiated vaccine prices, for vaccines given out for free (a tiny taste of what M4A would be like), and spin some "big pharma" conspiracy ... which both creates vaccine hesitancy and criticizes a universal healthcare measure ... all while he peddles unproven, more expensive, and privately paid for, alternatives? Has he addressed why he, and Max, dishonestly misrepresented what was happening with the completely socialized UK healthcare system, regarding vaccines and kids ... which, again, causes both vaccine hesitancy and attacks a socialized healthcare system?
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  1585.  @secularsocialist  Oh, yeah, here ... let me spend 15 min telling you how bad the side effects of the vaccine can be, without telling you the same side effects are caused by covid, at much higher rates, and then pretend I've sent a pro-vaccine message. Here, let me lie about effective alternatives, leading people to believe they don't need the vaccine, and then pretend I've sent a pro-vaccine message. Here, let me lie about covid and children, making it seem like vaccines don't help them, and then pretend like I've sent a pro-vaccine message. Etc. F*cking bullshit.
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  1586.  @secularsocialist  But he barely ever blamed Trump for deciding to bomb Syria. He did, however, blather on, for months, about an irrelevant UN inspector report that had absolutely nothing to do with anyone's decision to bomb Syria.
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  1587.  @secularsocialist  No, that's not what he did. You're lying.
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  1588.  @secularsocialist  He barely ever mentioned Trump by name, the way he does Obama or Biden. You're completely delusional, if you think he did.
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  1589.  @secularsocialist  What right winger, critiquing from the right, has been called a leftist? How is lying about a more socialized healthcare system, critiquing from the left? How is constantly portraying a tiny taste of socialized healthcare, in a negative light, critiquing from the left? How is peddling privately paid for, more expensive, "healthcare" alternatives, critiquing from the left? How is peddling Trump as the better option than Clinton, critiquing from the left? How is peddling Tulsi over Bernie, critiquing from the left? How is peddling allying with "extreme free market" psycho Boogaloos, critiquing from the left? How is going on white nationalist television, just to largely agree with every right wing talking point, critiquing from the left? How is slandering progressives who have done more for M4A in a few years than he has in his entire lifetime, critiquing from the left? How is promoting sitting on the sidelines, in some irrelevant third party, and letting Republicans rule for decades to come, critiquing from the left?
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  1590.  @secularsocialist  As a Dore knob, you should know that Dore himself argues to not just listen to people's words. A grifter will claim to be selling you one thing, but is actually selling you something completely different. Just pointing at things he claims to be for, isn't evidence of anything. What directions does he actually propose taking? On Rogan's show, Dore not only dishonestly peddled Ivermectin as a proven effective remedy, he peddled the further dishonesty that it's a proven effective preventative. The average price of a bottle of 20 Ivermectin pills is $100. If you take 1 a month, as a preventative, that's worth 3+ shots a year, if you take 1 a week, that's worth like 15 shots a year, and it's paid for out of pocket instead of free from the government. He also seemed fine with Rogan's $2000+ out of pocket "kitchen sink", as an alternative to getting the vaccine. He, and Max, also lied about the completely socialized UK healthcare system, while pandering to anti-vaxxers, making it also anti-socialized healthcare pandering. His anti-vax schtick has also been anti-socialized healthcare, and pro handing "big pharma" even more money out of pocket. Everyone at FOX is vaxxed. Being vaxxed doesn't mean you can't peddle anti-vax propaganda. He has been caught peddling misinformation, multiple times. If I spend hours telling people that skydiving is really really really dangerous, and then wrap the conversation up by saying you should try it. That wasn't a pro-skydiving conversation, dimwit. You're lying. He has a video called "Hillary Presidency Worse For Progressives & America Than Trump". That's just the reverse wording of Trump is better than Clinton. He outright peddled Trump as the better option. Tulsi was never to the left of Bernie on anything. He just didn't do his homework. “In short, when it comes to the war against terrorists, I’m a hawk. When it comes to counterproductive wars of regime change, I’m a dove.” - Tulsi Gabbard, Hawaii Tribune-Herald, 2016 Pretty much every US intervention, since 9/11, has used the war on terror as justification. You're the one lying. Dore's Boogaloo buddy clearly stated he was for an "extreme free market". Jimmy was fine with that, and promoted allying with that. Jimmy is the kind of "leftist" that winds up on the wrong side of a Night of the Long Knives. I didn't criticize simply going on FOX, dimwit. Dore went on and agreed with Tucker's right wing framing of free speech and Trump being tossed off of social media. Dore, and Glenn, generally take the right wing framing. They don't point out that there's no such thing as free speech rights on someone else's private property. They don't point out that, if you want free speech, then public ownership is the way to get it. They don't point out that inciting an insurrection isn't even protected speech in public. Then, and this was right as the second impeachment was beginning, Dore threw in the off topic bone that he considered the first impeachment bogus, to help cast a shadow on the second impeachment. Then, he finally got to Assange, but plenty of right wingers like WikiLeaks, and Tucker has some pro Assange videos going back to a year before Dore was even on. Even that wasn't even a left wing issue. "Pressuring" and slandering are two different things. Dore slanders those who have been helping to add M4A yes votes to congress. Getting enough yes votes in congress is the only possible way to ever pass the bill. Pelosi has already reintroduced M4A again, this session (she also did last session), and it's sitting in committees again. Dore should be pressuring those currently sitting on the bill, instead of those who have co-signed it, and have been increasing the congressional vote count. Pretty much every direction Dore peddles benefits corporate Dems, or Republicans. At best, a third party gets you less than 400k voters and you're sitting in an irrelevant party. At worst, you convince enough progressives to split off their votes, to hand seats back to corporate Dems, or Republicans. All for some fantasy, that your perfectly perfect puritan progressive party won't produce another Kyrsten Sinema. You're bending so far backwards, to defend a grifter, that your head is up your ass.
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  1591. @Packster Mosk What difference does it make how the employer got their wealth and power? How they got it won't change the fact that there's an imbalance in wealth and power.
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  1592. @Packster Mosk What does political power have to do with the op? Ok, take away political power ... there's still a power and wealth imbalance between them and their employees, right?
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  1593. @Packster Mosk You're just a bag of endless deflection. So, you're agreeing one has more power over the other?
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  1594. ​ @ykm257  They are already operating an open air WWII style fascist ghetto, so doesn't take much.
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  1595.  @samiamrg7  Not to mention profiting massively from a $2000+ per dose Rogan "kitchen sink".
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  1596.  @BB-mq9qk  And, yet, you presented zero facts. Weird. It's a fact that he's spewing an insane conspiracy supposedly perpetrated by the vast majority of doctors, worldwide, to intentionally kill millions of people. There's no "fact" that debunks that fact.
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  1597.  @TheSkryptik  Rofl, you're trying to keep so open minded that your brain falls out, is that it? He's spewing insane bullshit. And, yes, I have answered that he's not working, atm, and that McCullough was fired from the hospital he was working at. You're definitely not asking questions in good faith. You're concern trolling.
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  1598.  @Historia.Magistra.Vitae.  Nope. He routinely just said "socialism". A "socialism" that repudiates the class struggle isn't socialism.
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  1599.  @Historia.Magistra.Vitae.  Nope. No such thing as a "socialism" that wants to keep class hierarchies as is.
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  1600.  @Historia.Magistra.Vitae.  You think when one person owns everything, that's socialism. You have no credibility.
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  1601.  @fredsanford1437  You forgot to include having violent enemies on almost every front and a switch to defense in depth.
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  1602. Pence promoting the ACA (Obamacare) Medicaid expansion as a good thing. Donny won't be happy.
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  1603.  @Nick-gx4oc  Uh huh. And that's how a number of supposed "leftists" get themselves a mostly right wing audience.
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  1604. She said she was a "dove" on regime change wars but a "hawk" on the war on terrorism. Every f*cking war, since 9/11, used the war on terrorism as its justification. So, that's not being anti any wars.
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  1605. ​ @mattsheldon8671  By writing "philosophical" garbage, for cash. He's not all that different from Deepak Chopra, or Jordan Peterson.
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  1606. Speaking of grifters ... Jimmy has a new video out, downplaying the risks of covid, called "Are COVID death rates WILDLY inflated?". I could only make it through a few minutes of his stupidity, or dishonesty ... It's very clear that the 3.4% "death rate" is the case fatality rate ... deaths per confirmed case. This number is always changing, and can be found all over the place. Only someone who is completely inept, wouldn't be able to find the current case fatality rate. But, somehow Jimmy couldn't. Only someone who failed grade school math couldn't figure it out themselves. 750k deaths is 1.5% of 50m confirmed cases. But, somehow Jimmy couldn't. He apparently didn't actually read the Gallup article, he's referencing, or skipped the parts he didn't like. The hospitalization rates he's citing are based on the total vaccinated and unvaccinated populations, not just those who contract covid. This isn't comparable to the case fatality rate. It's based on totally different math. The comparable "death rate" would be the population mortality rate. 750k deaths is 0.23% of 330m total population. So, now he's making out like covid is a lot less harmful than doctors and scientists, worldwide, have stated, and there's some giant worldwide conspiracy to inflate numbers.
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  1607.  @unitedfools3493  Yes, overt fascism and kissing corporate ass ... total samesies.
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  1608.  @MyName-cw4yr  Peterson had already been living under that law, at the provincial level, for years. Other provinces also had similar laws, for years. And yet, he had zero examples to support his slippery slope claims, which were pure bullshit. Canada has hate speech laws, and yet he wasn't attacking the hate speech laws, hadn't had a history of attacking Canada's hate speech laws, in general. He was only attacking including protection for transgender people. He lied that someone could get thrown in jail for mistakenly saying the wrong pronoun. The bill is tied to the hate speech laws, so whatever is said would need to include threats, or said repeatedly to rise to the level of harassment, to violate the law.
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  1609.  @mikeceebo8611  So, you'd be cool with an employer, or teacher, calling you "douchebag", daily?
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  1610.  @MrBeardedgelfling  "courage to consider new ideas" What the ... ? Pretty sure the idea of enforced marriages is an ancient idea. What countries are you talking about? India, rated one of the worst places on the planet, for women? Saudi? Congo?
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  1611.  @edwardrosser938  You want to question and resist life saving measures, just for the sake of resisting? Should we stop treating unconscious people brought into emergency rooms, in case they want to resist the "fascist" attempts to save their lives, without their permission?
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  1612.  @jakes658  Nope. You failed math.
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  1613.  @edwardrosser938  No. You are being extremely hyperbolic, comparing health safety measures to fascism, ffs. Australia's covid death rate would translate into about 26k total US covid deaths, instead of 800k. Their style of "fascism" would have saved 750+k lives.
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  1614.  @jakes658  Nope. No "or". You clearly tried to argue the numbers showed something they don't, and failed at math.
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  1615.  @edwardrosser938  It's called an argument absurdum, not "hyperbole". If you're argument doesn't hold up, that means it was garbage to begin with. "Hyperbole" is equating the government doing stuff to "fascism".
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  1616.  @edwardrosser938  I did. I questioned Dore's math, and he clearly failed at it. At best, it shows he's a complete and utter moron. At worst, it shows he's a dishonest grifter, who's encouraging people to die, by intentionally spreading misinformation, for money.
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  1617.  @edwardrosser938  Yeah, and pneumonia is caused by other things ... like covid. Reducing covid is reducing pneumonia.
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  1618.  @edwardrosser938  Are reading comprehension problems a requirement to be a Dore knob? "Cases" are up.
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  1619.  @knob3887  No, you dimwitted Dore knob. The Gallup article clearly stated it was using hospitalizations per total vaccinated and unvaccinated populations (how many people hospitalized for covid in the total population). The comparative "death rate" would be the covid population mortality rate (how many covid deaths in the total population).
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  1620.  @edwardrosser938  That "authority" being the advisories of the vast majority of doctors and scientists, from around the world? That "authority" being the evidence of vaccines working, worldwide, and 75-90% of those dying being unvaccinated? That "authority" being the evidence of covid measures working in countries with the best covid responses, that could have saved hundreds of thousands of American lives? Much better than hanging on the words of a complete and utter moron "comedian", sitting his garage, I would think. A moron, btw, who isn't simply "questioning", but who is spreading misinformation that could kill people.
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  1621.  @edwardrosser938  For the same f*cking reason it is hard to get patent wavers on all kinds of life saving drugs. Seriously, how did that question stump you?
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  1622.  @edwardrosser938  Isn't corporate power and greed exactly why patent exemptions aren't supported for all life saving drugs, dumb dumb? Exact same reason, exactly like I said. Some idiot corporation marking up insulin 1000%, and the government doing nothing about it, has zero bearing on whether insulin is effective and saves lives.
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  1623.  @edwardrosser938  You: Strawman. Strawman. Strawman.
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  1624.  @edwardrosser938  Already answered, long ago.
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  1625.  @edwardrosser938  Btw, not only has Dore dishonestly promoted ivermectin as an effective remedy, he dishonestly promoted it as an effective preventative. The average price of a bottle of 20 ivermectin pills is $100, that you'd have to pay for yourself. The Pfizer vaccine, on the other hand, is $15 a shot, paid for by the government. J&J is even cheaper. Dore is the one peddling a more expensive, and more privatized, route for dealing with covid. He's clearly a grifter.
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  1626.  @GregorRenkoMusic  He called Trump a piece of shit so, by Republican standards, that equates to socialist.
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  1627.  @tulsacaupain2882  Because The Daily Show viewership has dropped below his. It could be a win-win.
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  1628.  @jamesmurray6753  Ignorant to the fact that the average NFL career is only about 3 years? So, even the $800k only works out to about $60k a year over the next 40 years of their life, until they can collect social security. The $150k works out to a whole $11.25k a year.
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  1629.  @2727rogers  It actually passed under Tommy's successor. Tommy had troubles passing it. But, good effort.
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  1630.  @inspectortanzi  That's the best time to possibly paralyze the house ... no new covid relief, no new unemployment extension, no new vaccine funding, etc. ... for a piece of performance art?
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  1631.  @jamesbarton1757  Name a single progressive who ran on paralyzing the house. You're adding a strawman to their platform, and then claiming they aren't doing what they said they'd do.
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  1632.  @inspectortanzi  That made no sense, as a reply to my question.
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  1633.  David Winehouse  Fact is you're delusional if you think AOC is corrupt and don't think anyone in a third party can be corrupt (Sinema is a former Green party candidate).
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  1634.  David Winehouse  How many times ... she helped add more M4A yes votes to congress. She's helping to try and add one more, right now, in Nina Turner. Getting enough yes votes in congress is the only way to ever pass the f*cking bill. If doing the very thing that needs doing to ever pass it, doesn't count as fighting for it, then nothing does. Biden isn't as nuts as Trump. What was the other viable option? Hawkins? I get it. Dore knobs prefer Republicans winning. Just admit it already.
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  1635.  @jamesbarton1757  The house has been paralyzed for 2 months, before, over a speakership vote, and eerything on the schedule would get pushed. What's your point? The house has simply adopted plurality wins to get over a paralyzed house, before, as well.
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  1636.  David Winehouse  Trump dropped more bombs than Obama, including on Somalia.
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  1637.  @davidhughes4089  A big part of covid numbers has to do with the initial outbreak. Unfortunately, Boris didn't take things seriously enough, right out of the gate. There's a strong correlation between trace testing rates (tests per confirmed case) and covid spread. The UK's testing rate was even lower than the US' pathetic rate, early on. Both countries were testing 5 or less people per confirmed case, for months. Italy, Spain, and France, weren't much better, testing under 10 people per confirmed case. All of them had a pretty bad 2020. Once the cats were out of the bag, it was hard to try and gain control, and get ahead of the virus. Canada and Germany got up to 15+ fairly quickly. Denmark, Norway, and Finland, got up to 20+. They all had medium results. Canada's covid deaths per million rate, for example, would translate into 54k total UK covid deaths, instead of 150k, and would translate into about 250k total US covid deaths, instead of 850k. Countries like S Korea, Vietnam, Australia, and New Zealand, got their testing rates up to over 50 people per confirmed case, early on. They all had excellent results. Australia's deaths per million rate would translate into about 6k total UK covid deaths, and about 36k total US covid deaths. You just can't get ahead of the virus spread, testing only 5 people per confirmed case. If the infected person has been in the vicinity of 50 people, before testing positive, and you only test 5 of those people, then you only have a 10% chance of finding who they infected. If you aren't actively looking for asymptomatic carriers, then they'll just keep spreading it wildly. The UK is now up to almost 29, ahead of Canada at 22. Germany has dropped to 13. Australia is up to 71. New Zealand and others are testing in the hundreds per confirmed case. The US is up to 13, but things are so politically divided, you know that's going to be a lot higher with some people and a lot lower with others, who are just letting it spread now, and who are even legislating to oppose attempts to contain the virus anymore.
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  1638. ​ osamabinladenssecondgirlfr4241  But, the original version was somewhat more similar to immigration. It wasn't carving out a new nation, or the Ottomans wouldn't have agreed to it. The OP does skip the earlier exodus from Russia, though, who is also to blame. And the British, who came up with the batshit crazy plan of carving out a new colonialist nation.
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  1639. Talking on a Bluetooth while he's doing stuff, walking somewhere?
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  1640.  @davidm1926  He's no anarchist.
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  1641. ​ @Matty-o9p  So, she didn't provide a yes vote to it? So?
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  1642. ​ @danielwebster8019  They don't wish for any of that. They're MAGA, just using dmwt Dore type criticisms.
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  1643. Lol, are you one of Dore knob's Booger friends?
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  1644.  @barbiquearea  There's a difference between depressed consciousness and subconsciousness vs zero consciousness. People recount dreams, after coming out of comas. We pull the plug on brain dead people all the time, even though their bodies could be sustained on life support (like a fetus requires life support). A fetus doesn't even start developing the parts required, for any of the above, until 24 weeks. If we can consider someone brain dead no longer really "alive", then why can't we consider a pre 24 week fetus, not yet "alive"?
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  1645. Nobody is talking about a cold, dumb dumb.
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  1646.  @whyamimrpink78  20-30% are not scared of a cold, second dumb dumb.
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  1647.  @whyamimrpink78  Nope. Not afraid of a "cold".
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  1648.  fa q  Rofl! Dore promoted Trump as the better option than Clinton, claiming Trump being so awful would cause a massive progressive backlash (wrong). He vastly overestimated the benefits, claiming that it would "for sure" lead to progressives taking the house (wrong), and senate (wrong), in 2018, and the presidency (wrong), in 2020. He vastly underestimated the risks, claiming even Republicans would join the left and vote against a Trump agenda (wrong) and claiming Trump filling multiple scotus seats was as likely as the moon falling into Lake Michigan (wrong). He was wrong about Tulsi. He was wrong about Boogaloos. He was wrong about AOC and Bernie, who were just campaigning for Nina Turner, still fighting to add another M4A yes vote to congress (It was Dore who abandoned fighting to add another M4A yes vote to congress). He's wrong about third party viability. He's wrong about almost everything.
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  1649.  @TWENTYFO5  Weird how "actual lefty", Jimmy Dore, benefits the far right more than the left.
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  1650. What even would be recognized as Palestine, if it was.
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  1651.  @kcolonelx6181  The ICJ has previously ruled that Israel didn't have a right to defend itself, as an occupier. Why wouldn't they have the votes?
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  1652.  @kcolonelx6181  Because they have to have a trial, and judge that the thing Israel is currently doing is illegal, like I said?
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  1653. Well, it's not a private company making decisions about what to allow on their own private property, it's the actual government, so ... they probably won't, because neither of them seem to know how free speech rights actually work.
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  1654.  @CMfuell  Rofl! For every 2 empty seats, absentees, or abstentions, the threshold needed to win is lowered by 1, you dimwitted Dore knob. At the time, there were 2 empty seats. 2 empty seats, plus 15 abstentions, lowers the threshold needed to win by 8, down to 210. If every other Dem voted Pelosi, she'd get 207. If every Republican voted McCarthy, he'd get 211. He'd win the speakership.
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  1655.  @CMfuell  Where am I losing you? Dore made it clear that he thought it was "impossible" for McCarthy to become speaker, without Dems voting for him. He made it clear that he didn't think abstaining could lead to McCarthy winning. He didn't say his 15 progressives needed to cast protest votes. He repeatedly used the wording to simply "withhold votes" or "not vote" for Pelosi, which implies abstaining. If 15 progressives abstained, McCarthy would win the speakership. The "plan", out of Dore's mouth, would have handed the speakership to McCarthy.
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  1656.  @herbertcamacho1461  What are you blathering about? The majority in congress supported Civil Rights, by the time it came up for a vote. A minority filibustered. As soon as the filibuster ended, the majority passed it.
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  1657.  @gattaca5911  Yeah, I've been waiting, should be dropping any day now ...
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  1658.  @poethepoetspoet  But, I do.
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  1659.  @poethepoetspoet  Recent evidence suggests that you're a Dore knob who either doesn't know what Dore, literally, did, or is lying for him.
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  1660.  @robinsss  How the f*ck is being allowed to buy, sell, and own, another human being, not also an economic issue, especially so you can make a bigger profit rather than hire people and pay wages? How is having a monopoly on land also not an economic issue? How is money funneling to the very top, and leaving millions destitute, also not an economic issue? Etc. What, about capitalism, says that I, as a landlord, can't charge tenants whatever I want, can't set whatever rules I want for living on my property, and can't hire my own security to enforce those rules and collect those fees?
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  1661.  Zoom Boom  You mean strategies like using that massive social media platform of hers, and her PAC, to help take out the chair of the foreign affairs committee, by backing Jamaal Bowman, and helping to add other pro-M4A progressives to congress, as well? Or using that platform to spotlight striking union workers? Or using it to raise money for Texans, putting their Republican representatives to shame? Only a complete moron, like Dore, would both think he's accomplishing things, think he's fighting, using his relatively small social media platform, while making out like using a much larger social media platform doesn't accomplish anything, and doesn't amount to fighting for anything. Bernie, AOC, and other progressives, have used their platforms to spread progressive ideas, have used them to make ideas like M4A and GND part of mainstream discussion, have used them to increase public support for said ideas ... oh no, make them stop! On top of that platform, that you're criticizing, being a valuable tool for the progressive cause, she is accomplishing more than any third party, just by having a seat in congress, that allows her to put forward bills, cast votes on bills, join committees, etc. The most popular third party hasn't even won a single seat in congress in its near 50 year existence.
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  1662.  @sydberetta4649  You Dore knobs don't even know what "gaslighting" means.
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  1663. Don't worry. Her team is on standby, in case they have to put a stop to the naming of a post office!
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  1664.  @zelenskysboot361  A "public option" is making it optional to sign up for, and pay into, the public health insurance plan. Can Australians simply opt out of paying into the public plan?
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  1665.  @HavokBWR  What was it you considered "prejudice" to mean? You think trying to achieve a better balance is driven purely by a hate, rather than a desire for equal rights, equal opportunities, equal treatment, equal pay, or whatnot? That doesn't sound quite right. Was the US founded on hatred, because they didn't want to pay taxes without equal representation? Ugh. The division was then property owners vs non property owners, and non property owners were denied the right to vote. It was classist. Denying black Americans rights was racist. Denying women rights was sexist. Denying non Christians rights was bigoted (indirectly racist, since it applied mainly to blacks and natives, at the time). Rofl. Conscription? That's your big beef? Have you asked women if they support conscription? I think you're just pulling a load out of your ass, there. So, should undocumented males be given the right to vote, since they can be conscripted?
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  1666. ​ @barbaraklein3944 Likud's bloody 100 year history ... In 1923, 100 years ago, Ze'ev Jabotinsky wrote, The Iron Wall, and a follow up, The Ethics of The Iron Wall (sooo racist towards Africans), in which he fully acknowledged that post Balfour Zionsim was colonialism, and that, based on the entirety of history, the native Palestinian population would resist being colonized until the bitter end. He directly compared it to the colonization of North America. He promoted doing it anyway, claiming Zionist colonialism was a "just" colonialism (he also thought North American colonialists were good guys, so not a great judge of morality), not caring what that meant for the native population. Ze'ev is important, because his Betar militant youth group helped found the Irgun terrorist group, along with other supporters of his, and the splinter Lehi terrorist group. The Irgun bombed numerous Palestinian markets and other public places, murdering many Palestinian civilians, including children, even including Palestinian Jews (who didn't support colonialist Zionsim). The Irgun are important, because they ended up being led by future Likud PM, Menachem Begin, who bombed the King David Hotel. The King David Hotel was bombed because the British had raided the Jewish Agency and seized numerous documents that may have shown that the terrorists were working with the JA and Haganah (JA liked to pretend that they didn't support the terrorism). The British then stored those documents at their base, in the hotel. That the Irgun terrorists responded to a JA raid, itself seems to prove the connection. That the thousands of Irgun (and Lehi) terrorists were also quickly merged into the new nation's military (IDF) and intelligence (Mossad) agencies, and are still celebrated as "heroes" by Israelis, to this day, also seems to support total collaboration between the groups. That other terrorist group mentioned, Lehi (also known as the Stern Gang), was considered even more extreme. They even tried to ally with the Nazis, against the British. Lehi ended up being led by Yitzhak Shamir, future Mossad agent, and another future Likud PM. In 1945, there was a major land and peoples survey done in Palestine. It showed that the Zionists only owned about 5% of the total land, 20% of the arable land, and owned a majority in zero districts. The partition was not only going to be forced on the native Palestinian majority, but Jews were still going to be a minority, in the part allocated to them. The only possible way to even become a "Jewish state" was going to require getting rid of the actual majority (at least enough so that there'd be a solid Jewish majority, so they could fake being democratic). This is also shown by the 1948, post Nakba, population of Israel. If there was 716,700 Jews, 156,000+ non-Jews, and approximately 700k non-Jews ethnically cleansed, that means the Jewish population, in the Zionist portion of partition, was originally over 100,000 less than the non-Jewish population. To believe that there was never any intent, by Zionists, to ethnically cleanse away the Palestinian majority would require believing that they never intended to create a "Jewish state". It's a nonsensical notion. Begin, and those terrorist groups, also opposed partition, but for the opposite reason Palestinians did. Palestinians didn't want to be colonized, at all. The terrorists wanted to colonize it all. "Moderate" Zionists were okay with colonizing half ... for now (what would happen in the future, after partition, was up to them, said Ben-Gurion). The Zionist terrorists were also involved in massacres, and assassinations, during the partition violence (colonialist war against the natives). Another notable future Likud PM, also started in the military, during the partition fighting. That was Ariel Sharon, war criminal, "Butcher of Beirut". Menachem Begin, and these other Zionist terrorists, are important because they also later founded Likud. Now, people get upset over the slogan "From the river to the sea!", but it's the second part that's most important, "Palestine will be free!". Because "Palestine" isn't defined as an ethno-state, a free Palestine can be a single state, free for all to live in, and return to, free of continuing colonization, free of occupation, free of oppression, etc. Just like a Germany free of Nazism, an Italy free of fascism, a South Africa free of apartheid, or an America free of slavery from sea to shiny sea. It doesn't necessitate purging all the Jews. It just necessitates them giving up on the idea of an ethno-state. On the other hand, because "Israel" has been defined as an ethno-state, Likud's, "between the sea and the Jordan there will only be Israeli sovereignty", has no possible good interpretation. It is a declaration of intent to completely colonize, and ethnically cleanse, all Palestine territories. Not only that, but it also claims that they have a "right" to all of the "Land of Israel" (biblical borders that don't mesh with archaeological reality), which is an open declaration of future wars, against Jordan, Syria, Lebanon, and possibly even Iraq. Likud platform ... 1977: "The Right of the Jewish People to the Land of Israel (Eretz Israel) a. The right of the Jewish people to the land of Israel is eternal and indisputable and is linked with the right to security and peace; therefore, Judea and Samaria will not be handed to any foreign administration; between the Sea and the Jordan there will only be Israeli sovereignty. b. A plan which relinquishes parts of western Eretz Israel, undermines our right to the country, unavoidably leads to the establishment of a "Palestinian State," jeopardizes the security of the Jewish population, endangers the existence of the State of Israel. and frustrates any prospect of peace." "Settlement Settlement. both urban and rural. in all parts of the Land of Israel is the focal point of the Zionist effort to redeem the country, to maintain vital security areas and serves as a reservoir of strength and inspiration for the renewal of the pioneering spirit. The Likud government will call on the younger generation in Israel and the dispersions to settle and help every group and individual in the task of inhabiting and cultivating the wasteland, while taking care not to dispossess anyone." 1999: "The Government of Israel flatly rejects the establishment of a Palestinian Arab state west of the Jordan river. The Palestinians can run their lives freely in the framework of self-rule, but not as an independent and sovereign state. Thus, for example, in matters of foreign affairs, security, immigration, and ecology, their activity shall be limited in accordance with imperatives of Israel's existence, security and national needs." "The Jewish communities in Judea, Samaria, and Gaza are the realization of Zionist values. Settlement of the land is a clear expression of the unassailable right of the Jewish people to the Land of Israel and constitutes an important asset in the defense of the vital interests of the State of Israel. The Likud will continue to strengthen and develop these communities and will prevent their uprooting." All Palestine territories are officially considered occupied, by the International Court of Justice, the UN GA, the UN SC, and even in official documents of Israel's own allies. Likud is still using the blueprint for colonizing North America, in the West Bank. Move settlements out into native territory, piss off the natives, the natives retaliate, cry about poor "innocent" colonizing settlers being the "victims" of violent "Savages!", call in the cavalry to put down the native uprising, and eventually expand the borders to include those settlements. Rinse and repeat. In Gaza, they are operating an open air WWII style fascist ghetto. Them claiming a "right to defend themselves" would be like the Nazis claiming a "right to defend themselves " from the Warsaw ghetto uprising. There's no "war". That they're the occupiers means the "war" part is long over. That partition was forced upon the Palestinian majority, against their will ... that the Zionist portion still had to be forcefully ethnically cleansed of its non-Jewish majority, against their will ... that the millions of occupied Palestinians don't have a say in the government that truly rules over them, Israel's ... means Israel is about as democratic as Nazi Germany after Hitler purged his political opponents and then held elections. Hamas is basically just a poor man's Likud, only fighting against colonialism, instead of for colonialism.
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  1667. WalletHub bottom 10 ... Arizona 50 Louisiana 49 Nevada 48 New Mexico 47 Alabama 46 South Carolina 45 Oklahoma 44 North Carolina 43 Florida 42 Tennessee 41 Top 10 ... New Jersey 1 New Hampshire 2 Connecticut 3 Vermont 4 Massachusetts 5 New York 6 Maine 7 Colorado 8 Pennsylvania 9 Virginia 10
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  1668.  @Barskor1  That's why I said "after the Civil War", dumb dumb.
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  1669. He has. Jimmy got creamed. Still waiting for the moon to fall into Lake Michigan.
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  1670.  @robertferguson6827  Progressives in the house have been working on trying to increase the number of M4A yes votes in congress, which moves you closer to ever passing the bill, because getting enough M4A yes votes in congress is the only possible way to ever pass the bill. A 100% guaranteed to fail performance art vote doesn't actually get you any closer to actually passing M4A. Progressives tried to add another M4A yes vote to congress, in Nina Turner. Dore, on the other hand, abandoned her ... he abandoned adding another M4A yes vote to congress. He's a grifter.
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  1671. ​ @SuperWolfkin  This guy likes talking about things that have nothing to do with each other.
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  1672.  @estherc.5559  I stopped reading at your first sentence. A VAT does not tax businesses. That is a blatant lie. A VAT is specifically designed to NOT tax businesses in order to avoid double taxation (which would be f*cking worse anyway!!!). While Yang was claiming a VAT would force Amazon to pay its fair share in taxes, Amazon UK has tutorial pages on how a VAT doesn't end up taxing businesses. You're clearly a cultist who has no idea what they're talking about.
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  1673.  @estherc.5559  You are completely ignorant, and have no clue how a VAT actually works. Take being clueless as a compliment all you want. This is the basic VAT formula for businesses ... x = output VAT y = input VAT x - y = z If z > 0, then the business reclaims y from x and sends z to the government, having paid no tax in the end. If z < 0, then the business keeps all of x and can reclaim z from the government, having paid no tax in the end. Neither has the business paying any taxes.
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  1674.  @whyamimrpink78  Rofl. Trump wasn't a threat to the elites. He gave giant corporations, and the super rich, all kinds of handouts. He had the same old Republicans in his administration. The same old Republicans in congress supported him. How the hell are local election officials elites relative Trump (the head of the federal government ... the head of the elites)? How are judges elites relative to Trump? Even ones he appointed (was the supposed threat to elites packing the courts with elites?) ruled against his garbage lawsuits. How the hell are scientists, doctors, and nurses, "elites"? Yes, Trump did want people to ignore what the vast majority of scientists, doctors, and nurses, across the world, were saying, if they contradicted him. No, he was not right about anything important. Trusting a broad consensus of scientists, doctors, and nurses, across the world, is not bowing to the elites, dumb dumb. Looking for the 1 in 1000 specialists, peddling misinformation for corporations, is trusting the elites. Trump, literally, went backwards on the environment, against a ton of science, all for giant corporations. Again, he fought against state and local governments, which you argue better represent the people. Again, he fought against the voice of the people, tried to overthrow the democratic process, and rule as an unelected dictator. But, hey, you keep pretending you aren't the one attached to the elites by a cord. Remember that your Big Brother speaks in doublespeak.
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  1675.  @victoriarichardson1471  Apparently they're there to steal food from the homeless, piss on war memorials, and defile Terry Fox.
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  1676.  @ENDURANCELAND  Stop lying. Europeans from Catholic states were attacking the Orthodox Byzantine Empire, just as much as Muslims. They conquered almost the entire Western half of the Byzantine Empire. Even Crusaders sometimes sacked Byzantine cities, as they were passing through, including Constantinople. You're a dishonest bigot. Aside from a tiny number of Baltic boys, relative to the entire Empire's population, there's no account of Ottomans force converting the population. No account of mass genocide committed against the Byzantines. Just standard medieval warfare. There are first hand accounts of Crusaders slaughtering men, women, and children, until they were up to their ankles in blood? Crusaders slaughtering women and children hiding on rooftops? Are you confusing them for Muslims?
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  1677. ​ @ryanhubbard1885  If he was a smart stock seller, then why didn't he sell between 2016 and 2020, when the stock actually tanked? 2023 was a tiny dip, in comparison.
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  1678.  @whyamimrpink78  Liar
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  1679.  @whyamimrpink78  Wait, are you counting independent Lieberman, who forced them to ditch the public option, and ditch having a 55 year old Medicare buy in, to pass the ACA, as a guaranteed vote? Rofl!
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  1680.  @whyamimrpink78  So there was a 4 month window, where Kennedy's replacement was a Democrat, and you had to count Lieberman as a guaranteed vote, to say Obama had a supermajority. Rofl, okay.
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  1681. It was spelled "hypocrasy", on the board.
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  1682.  @whyamimrpink78  So, you're good with the way things ended, last time there was this much disparity? Or, you have baseless faith, that things will just magically end differently, if allowed to play out, this time around? Just ignore the countless times in history when those on the bottom got fed up, and rose up ... things will magically be different this time!
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  1683.  @squatch545  The tea party was backed by the Koch brothers. Major right wing donors were also pressuring Republican lawmakers to make another jump to the right ... a direction they already have a tendency to move. The tea party numbers were increasing. And, the only reason they could block anything was because even the other Republicans were so far right that they were unwilling to simply make deals with enough Democrats to get the numbers to pass bills without needing tea party votes. There are no major donors helping progressives push the party left. Other party members aren't joining progressives regularly. Corporate Dems do not have a tendency to move left. Corporate Dems are willing to simply work with Republicans to try and pass bills without needing progressives' votes. The two scenarios are not at all samesies.
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  1684.  @doctorbatman8520  Can you give an example of Bernie Sanders fearmongering about everyone on the right, specific religious groups, or such like? He has complained about the super rich and corporations. Have his followers been out violently attacking the super rich?
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  1685.  Alabama Man 2.0  I'm understating, if anything ... "Fully vaccinated people are 93% less likely to die of COVID compared to unvaccinated people" "PHMDC: COVID-19 hospitalization, death rates ~60x higher for unvaccinated vs. boosted" "Unvaccinated in Wisconsin hospitalized at 10x higher rate, died at 14x higher rate in December" "Unvaccinated New Yorkers 26 Times More Likely to Die of COVID at Omicron Peak" "Unvaccinated were over 3 times more likely to be hospitalized or die of COVID, Oklahoma study shows" "Unvaccinated 97 times more likely to die from COVID than those with boosters, CDC data shows"
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  1686.  Alabama Man 2.0  And, who are the unvaccinated? "A Gallup survey released on Sept. 29 confirmed the KFF findings. As of mid-September, 75% of adult Americans have been vaccinated, including 73% of non-Hispanic white adults and 78% of non-whites. Along party lines, however, the breakdown was 92% of Democrats, 68% of Independents, and 56% of Republicans." You dimwits are killing off your own voting base. lol
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  1687.  Alabama Man Special Edition  Literally gave you 6 recent articles about the unvaccinated dying at higher rates, and the data on who is the least vaccinated by party. You've provided nothing. You apparently don't know what "data" means, not to mention "gaslighting".
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  1688.  @nassaubahamas8570  A different variant is plenty of an excuse for lower efficacy, dimwit. The Salk polio vaccine was only 60-70% effective against PV1, while over 90% againat the other variants. The influenza vaccine is more effective against B and H1N1, than H3N2.
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  1689. What are you talking about? They've always criticized Bibi. And, the problem is bigger than just Bibi. Likud's bloody 100 year history ... In 1923, 100 years ago, Ze'ev Jabotinsky wrote, The Iron Wall, and a follow up, The Ethics of The Iron Wall (sooo racist towards Africans), in which he fully acknowledged that post Balfour Zionsim was colonialism, and that, based on the entirety of history, the native Palestinian population would resist being colonized until the bitter end. He directly compared it to the colonization of North America. He promoted doing it anyway, claiming Zionist colonialism was a "just" colonialism (he also thought North American colonialists were good guys, so not a great judge of morality), not caring what that meant for the native population. Ze'ev is important, because his Betar militant youth group helped found the Irgun terrorist group, along with other supporters of his, and the splinter Lehi terrorist group. The Irgun bombed numerous Palestinian markets and other public places, murdering many Palestinian civilians, including children, even including Palestinian Jews (who didn't support colonialist Zionsim). The Irgun are important, because they ended up being led by future Likud PM, Menachem Begin, who bombed the King David Hotel. The King David Hotel was bombed because the British had raided the Jewish Agency and seized numerous documents that may have shown that the terrorists were working with the JA and Haganah (JA liked to pretend that they didn't support the terrorism). The British then stored those documents at their base, in the hotel. That the Irgun terrorists responded to a JA raid, itself seems to prove the connection. That the thousands of Irgun (and Lehi) terrorists were also quickly merged into the new nation's military (IDF) and intelligence (Mossad) agencies, and are still celebrated as "heroes" by Israelis, to this day, also seems to support total collaboration between the groups. That other terrorist group mentioned, Lehi (also known as the Stern Gang), was considered even more extreme. They even tried to ally with the Nazis, against the British. Lehi ended up being led by Yitzhak Shamir, future Mossad agent, and another future Likud PM. They assassinated Lord Moyne, and others. In 1945, there was a major land and peoples survey done in Palestine. It showed that the Zionists only owned about 5% of the total land, 20% of the arable land, and owned a majority in zero districts. The partition was not only going to be forced on the native Palestinian majority, but Jews were still going to be a minority, in the part allocated to them. The only possible way to even become a "Jewish state" was going to require getting rid of the actual majority (at least enough so that there'd be a solid Jewish majority, so they could fake being democratic). This is also shown by the 1948, post Nakba, population of Israel. If there was 716,700 Jews, 156,000+ non-Jews, and approximately 700k non-Jews ethnically cleansed, that means the Jewish population, in the Zionist portion of partition, was originally over 100,000 less than the non-Jewish population. To believe that there was never any intent, by Zionists, to ethnically cleanse away the Palestinian majority would require believing that they never intended to create a "Jewish state". It's a nonsensical notion. Begin, and those terrorist groups, also opposed partition, but for the opposite reason Palestinians did. Palestinians didn't want to be colonized, at all. The terrorists wanted to colonize it all. "Moderate" Zionists were okay with colonizing half ... for now (what would happen in the future, after partition, was up to them, said Ben-Gurion). The Zionist terrorists were also involved in massacres, and assassinations, during the partition violence (colonialist war against the natives). Another notable future Likud PM, also started in the military, during the partition fighting. That was Ariel Sharon, war criminal, "Butcher of Beirut". Menachem Begin, and these other Zionist terrorists, are important because they became involved in Israeli politics, first forming Herut. That was the party that Albert Einstein, and other prominent American Jews, opposed, having a letter printed in the NYT, in December of 1948, when Begin came to visit the US. The letter opened ... "Among the most disturbing political phenomena of our times is the emergence in the newly created state of Israel of the "Freedom Party" (Tnuat Haherut), a political party closely akin in its organization, methods, political philosophy and social appeal to the Nazi and Fascist parties. It was formed out of the membership and following of the former Irgun Zvai Leumi, a terrorist, right-wing, chauvinist organization in Palestine." Herut merged with other extremist parties, over the years, and eventually became Likud, in the 70s. Now, people get upset over the slogan "From the river to the sea!", but it's the second part that's most important, "Palestine will be free!". Because "Palestine" isn't defined as an ethno-state, a free Palestine can be a single state, free for all to live in, and return to, free of continuing colonization, free of occupation, free of oppression, etc. Just like a Germany free of Nazism, an Italy free of fascism, a South Africa free of apartheid, or an America free of slavery from sea to shiny sea. It doesn't necessitate purging all the Jews. It just necessitates them giving up on the idea of an ethno-state. On the other hand, because "Israel" has been defined as an ethno-state, Likud's, "between the sea and the Jordan there will only be Israeli sovereignty", has no possible good interpretation. It is a declaration of intent to completely colonize, and ethnically cleanse, all Palestine territories. Not only that, but it also claims that they have a "right" to all of the "Land of Israel" (biblical borders that don't mesh with archaeological reality), which is an open declaration of future wars, against Jordan, Syria, Lebanon, and possibly even Iraq. Likud platform ... 1977: "The Right of the Jewish People to the Land of Israel (Eretz Israel) a. The right of the Jewish people to the land of Israel is eternal and indisputable and is linked with the right to security and peace; therefore, Judea and Samaria will not be handed to any foreign administration; between the Sea and the Jordan there will only be Israeli sovereignty. b. A plan which relinquishes parts of western Eretz Israel, undermines our right to the country, unavoidably leads to the establishment of a "Palestinian State," jeopardizes the security of the Jewish population, endangers the existence of the State of Israel. and frustrates any prospect of peace." 1999: "The Government of Israel flatly rejects the establishment of a Palestinian Arab state west of the Jordan river. The Palestinians can run their lives freely in the framework of self-rule, but not as an independent and sovereign state. Thus, for example, in matters of foreign affairs, security, immigration, and ecology, their activity shall be limited in accordance with imperatives of Israel's existence, security and national needs." "The Jewish communities in Judea, Samaria, and Gaza are the realization of Zionist values. Settlement of the land is a clear expression of the unassailable right of the Jewish people to the Land of Israel and constitutes an important asset in the defense of the vital interests of the State of Israel. The Likud will continue to strengthen and develop these communities and will prevent their uprooting." All Palestine territories are officially considered occupied, by the International Court of Justice, the UN GA, the UN SC, and even in official documents of Israel's own allies. Likud is still using the blueprint for colonizing North America, in the West Bank. Move settlements out into native territory, piss off the natives, the natives retaliate, cry about poor "innocent" colonizing settlers being the "victims" of violent "Savages!", call in the cavalry to put down the native uprising, and eventually expand the borders to include those settlements. Rinse and repeat. In Gaza, Israel is operating an open air WWII style fascist ghetto. Them claiming a "right to defend themselves" would be like the Nazis claiming a "right to defend themselves " from the Warsaw ghetto uprising. There's no "war". That they're the occupiers means the "war" part is long over. Those people are actually supposed to be under the occupier's protection. That partition was forced upon the Palestinian majority, against their will ... that the Zionist portion still had to be forcefully ethnically cleansed of its non-Jewish majority, against their will ... that the millions of occupied Palestinians don't have a say in the government that truly rules over them, Israel's ... means Israel is about as democratic as Nazi Germany after Hitler purged his political opponents and then held elections.
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  1690.  @omarlocke9446  Whether it "reads nice", or not, it's just a fact that AOC used her platform and PAC to back 20 other pro-M4A progressives, helped add a few more M4A yes votes to congress, and helped remove a few more corporate Dems. That's exactly what needs doing, to ever pass the bill.
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  1691.  @biokido575  Where did I lose you? Car insurance ... all the lucky and good drivers are paying for the unlucky and bad drivers, plus profit. House insurance ... all the lucky and good homeowners are paying for the unlucky and bad homeowners, plus profit. Health insurance ... all the lucky and health conscious people are paying for the unlucky and non health conscious people, plus profit. If you were simply paying for yourself, there's no reason to have insurance. Insurance is a pool.
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  1692.  @biokido575  Rofl. It doesn't matter what provider you choose, dumbass, that's how insurance works. That's a great idea. Don't have any insurance, of any kind, your entire life.
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  1693. The USSR did this 60 years ago.
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  1694.  @seanhovan7426  If you ignore that they said to him, "I think it’s totally right to point out the haste with which some journalists and experts are talking about Russia’s hand.", and didn't ask him to say that it was Russian disinformation, I guess.
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  1695.  @outtarespecttomyfawtha1589  Stop spamming bullshit.
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  1696.  @wizzalamaru8794  Paralyzing the house during a pandemic ... no new covid relief, no new unemployment extensions, no new vaccine funding, etc., also not very progressive. Just to get a vote guaranteed to fail. Not sure most people would support suffering to try and get a show vote. The progressive caucus doesn't yet have the majority of the Dem caucus, and can't actually pick a different party speaker. Corporate Dems could keep picking Pelosi over and over and over again, or someone worse. If progressives can make a good showing in 2022, they might get the majority, could pick the speaker, and could put progressive bills up for votes as often as they like.
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  1697.  @Leviathan762-zh4lq  Ones that don't want to be Republican betas, who get their marching orders from a whiny spoiled brat "alpha" narcissist, who can't take an L like a man. Bunch of man babies, following the biggest man baby.
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  1698.  @craigkidd9524  Which makes it a far better strategy to get the 15 more seats needed for the broader progressive caucus to become the majority of house Dems, which would allow them to set the party agenda and pick the party speaker candidate. Plus, if the majority in the house, that means picking committee members (Pelosi actually introduced M4A last session and it died in committees. She has already reintroduced it this session and it's sitting in committees. Weird how puritan progressives aren't constantly harassing committee members to take up the bill instead of slandering M4A' s congressional supporters.) and introducing whatever bills progressives want.
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  1699.  @craigkidd9524  You're clearly the one with reading comprehension problems, if you think I said wait for corporate Dems. I promoted to keep replacing them. How is that working out? The broader progressive caucus is about 30 years old and is about 15 seats away from becoming the majority of house Dems. The Justice Dems have been at it 4 years and have replaced about a dozen corporate Dems. AOC has been at it 2 years and helped replace a few more corporate Dems. You're the dimwit choosing the route that hasn't won even a single seat in decades.
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  1700.  @sergeikhripun  Dore's 2016 argument was that, because Trump was so awful, he would be a better option for progressives than Clinton. He vastly overestimated the benefits, claiming it would lead to a massive progressive wave that would "for sure" take the house and senate in 2018 (didn't happen), and the presidency in 2020 (didn't happen). He vastly underestimated the risks, claiming even Republicans would join the left and vote against a Trump agenda, instead of following him into overt fascism (wrong). And, he argued that Trump filling multiple scotus seats was as likely as the moon falling into Lake Michigan (still waiting for it to drop).
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  1701.  @greggerypeccary88  Mein Kampf is a best seller. Why do you think that achievement is necessarily something good?
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  1702.  @MyName-cw4yr  You seem to be confusing Sam and Ethan. Ethan mentioned Spartans and the gun holster. And, Sam was invited, by Ethan. Steven "the left won't debate me" Crowder, deserved to be set up, for pretending like he's some kind of pro debater the left is afraid to debate, while himself avoiding debates.
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  1703.  @MyName-cw4yr  Rofl. A guy who goes around acting like they're some pro debater, claiming the left is afraid to debate him, but avoids debates, is the dickhead who deserved to be set up. He was the lying coward before there was even a plan to debate.
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  1704. ​ @claydoerste2939  Why? According to anti-abortionists, there is plenty of room in the US for hundreds of thousands of extra people per year.
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  1705. @Anurag Chakraborty Shame on you for being in favour of trashing the politicians that actually support and promote M4A, rather than trashing those opposed to it, just like wingnut right wingers do.
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  1706.  @bartjargengarblbargeler1980  Nope. Don't watch any of the cable news. Did you have a point?
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  1707.  @alabamaman9476  You seem to be doing the wrong math. Can you grasp the math of vaccination rates and deaths? If another 400k people die by election day, and 85% of deaths continue to be the unvaccinated, with the vast majority of those being Republicans, then you're looking at 300+k fewer Republican voters, come election day. That'll be great for all the purplish areas.
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  1708. Lowercase libertarians can be either. The term, as well as anarchism, was initially used by non authoritarian leftists. Uppercase Libertarians (Ayn Rand Objectivists, "classical liberals", or whatever they call themselves) are economically about as far right as you can get. Aside from a very minimal government, justice system, and military, they want the economy 100% privately owned and operated. They're just supposed to be less authoritarian than Republican types. Ancappers don't even want that minimalist government.
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  1709.  @ToxicAudri  So, if you're taking the protest route, would you rather be up against people who legalize driving over protesters, and have wanted to categorize protesters (BLM) as trrrists?
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  1710.  Alabama Man Special Edition  Point out who organized a riot, calling for everyone to come out and commit violence and property damage. I can point to these organizers as organizing border blockades that have caused shortages, causing job losses and which could drive up prices on goods for ordinary people.
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  1711. Stop making insanity so financially rewarding. You're attracting grifters from all over.
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  1712.  @zombiesoul-eater741  Btw ... How many hundreds of years of Assyrian, Babylonian, Persian, and Greek rule, when the Jewish population rebelled against what they still considered to be rule by colonizers/occupiers? Such hypocrisy.
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  1713.  @justingaines207  Fascism: anti-socialist; anti-communist; anti-unionist; anti-liberal; anti-globalist; anti-democratic; backed by big business, large landowners, and religious nuts; ultra-nationalist; pro police expansion; pro military expansion; leaders in privatization; etc. You know, based on the definition of the guy who defined it, and all the stuff they actually did, and do.
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  1714. And? Found any extra votes yet?
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  1715.  @dr.wolfstar1765  What does minority vs majority have to do with what you're attempting to do? You're giving conservative religious types a pass on centuries worth of cancelling people and things, while the majority.
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  1716.  @baconjam5815  Simply having a vote, and blackmailing the speaker your party has chosen to get a vote, or paralyzing the house to get a vote, aren't exactly the same thing.
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  1717.  @JamesThomas-pj2lx  If you've ever watched, or read, any kind of story where there's some kind of "tough guy" combatant villain who only targets non combatants he thinks he can easily defeat, but then one of his targets finds and brings in a combatant for their side, you should be able to grasp what cowardice is, and who the actual coward is. Even those cowardly story villains tend to fight the story hero, at least once. Crowder just ran for it.
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  1718.  @normaaliihminen722  A "pro" basketball player who only agrees to play against amateurs, so he can get his "easy layup" to stroke his ego, is the coward from the get go. From, that point, I don't give a crap if someone tricks that coward into coming face to face with an actual pro. And then he proved he won't play an actual pro, took his ball, and ran home to daddy.
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  1719.  @zmiller1840  But I don't support a coward going around claiming "the left won't debate me", acting like some debate master, while only ever debating amateurs, because he is such a coward.
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  1720.  @llm7013  No, as Kenny said, it doesn't take hate speech. I have issues writing Znst, trrrist, and other words, in shorter posts. Also with Ukraine wr stuff, just discussing vlnce, RU, Ptin. It's annoying.
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  1721.  @thehappyclam3942  "Fascism is the complete opposite of Marxian socialism" ~ Mussolini Fascist governments were leaders in privatization, pre-war. All governments took more control of production and distribution, during the war.
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  1722.  @lisbondiaries9212  It's just a fact of reality, that there are only two viable candidates. It is just a fact of math, that if you don't vote for one, then you're helping the other. Go ahead and not feel shame, but accept the objective facts, that you'd be helping Trump win.
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  1723. ​ @patrick9445  Even smaller than the 1%. There are people in the 1% that get paid in salaries, and pay taxes on those salaries. The assholes getting paid in, and living on, stocks, paying little to no taxes, are screwing over even those big salary earners.
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  1724.  @isasooner5  Blah, blah, gish gallop. Try to focus. I replied about the "geocentric model". First you made the claim it had a "geocentric model". Then, you changed your mind, claimed you wrote it down incorrectly, and that it has a "heliocentric model". Now, you're claiming it doesn't have any model. Lol, is that your final answer?
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  1725. Not only a Holocaust denier, but someone who promotes the idea that white culture is a thing, and a thing to be proud of. There's no such thing as white culture. But, even if you buy his claim that he's not racist, that he's simply "alt-right without the racism" ... that would still make him a fascist. Nazism without the racism is basic fascism.
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  1726.  @UncleRicoOSU  Because seatbelts really only protect the wearer, while masks and vaccines also protect those around the wearer/vaccinated?
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  1727.  jcorb  There have been hundreds of victim witnesses, dozens of healthcare worker witnesses, multiple NGO witnesses, dozens of UN inspectors, multiple independent investigations, legal human rights groups putting together cases for victims, since 2013. You think two part time investigators, on a single investigation, at a single site, debunks all of that? F*cking Dore knobs are complete idiots.
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  1728. Dore. Jones is a nut, but he backs the right. Dore is a nut who claims to back the left but benefits the right.
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  1729. Bernie would be a centrist in Sweden. Why are you calling it "radical left"? Especially if you're supposedly left of that?
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  1730.  @harveymanfredsenjenson5417  Ummm, the median income for a religious studies degree is about $15k above the national, with unemployment rates about 4x lower than the national average and 2x lower than the graduate average.
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  1731.  @loverainthunder  The dynamics of power is that, on bills, there are zero extra votes to be gained to the left of progressives. That makes it absolutely impossible to pass bills without the likes of Manchin. On the flip side, there is the entire Republican party to the right of Manchin, to try and draw extra votes from. If enough Republicans can be brought onboard a bill, then you can pass it without needing progressive votes. A standoff between the left end and right end, of the party, is far more likely to move a bill even further right, rather than left. With regard to the speakership vote, the house hasn't been paralyzed over a speakership vote in about a century. It's not some business as usual tactic. Starting an all out intra party war could have consequences. The broader progressive caucus is about 15 seats away from becoming the majority of house Dems. At that point, they could pick the party speaker candidate, at the Dem caucus. If there's an all out war, with corporate Dems, then they'll likely do the same thing right back at you, and you'll need them, and their votes, more than they need you, and your votes, to be able to pass anything. Okay, you've started a war, for what, exactly? A purely performance art vote. You get a new list of names of congress members that won't sign onto the bill every new session of congress. You have a list of names of politicians who wouldn't sign on, during a pandemic, for 2020. You have a list of names of congress members who haven't signed on, during a pandemic, for 2021. Surely, Dore, and his knobs, are pestering and pressuring every single one of the members of congress who haven't signed on, and organizing protests against them ... wait, what, Dore, and his knobs just keep harrassing and slandering M4A's most ardent congressional supporters? Pathetic. Pelosi actually introduced the M4A bill last session, where it died in committees. She has also already reintroduced the bill, this session, and it's sitting in committees. So, on top of the first two lists, you also have a list of committee members, who let the bill die, during a pandemic, and a list of committee members, who are currently sitting on the bill, during a pandemic. This ... this must be the group of people Dore, and his knobs, are pestering and pressuring, and organizing protests against, to get them to take up the bill ... wait, what, Dore, and his knobs just keep harrassing and slandering M4A's most ardent congressional supporters? Pathetic. Dore is a grifter. What he actually promotes is having progressives sit on the sidelines, in some irrelevant third party, handing the Dem party totally back to corporate Dems, and letting Republicans rule for decades to come.
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  1732.  @loverainthunder  People were pretty freaking energized to get rid of Trump. People like Dore promoted the idea of letting Trump win ... that he was a better option for progressives than Clinton. He had a fantasy that it would result in a massive progressive backlash, that would "for sure" lead to progressives taking the house (wrong) and senate (wrong), in 2018, and the presidency (wrong), in 2020. He claimed that even Republicans would join the left to vote against a Trump agenda (wrong), instead of following him into outright fascism (wrong). He claimed that Trump filling multiple scotus seats was as likely as the moon falling into Lake Michigan (wrong). Letting Trump win was stupid. If those are the only two viable options, still get your asses out and vote the conservative Dem as a vote for that being the worst you want the country to go, instead of letting things get even worse under Republicans. Letting Trump win actually sent voters screaming into Biden's "more electable" arms. It hurt the progressive movement. Bernie started a movement immediately after an Obama presidency. The very premise of the argument, that you need to go backwards to go forwards is idiotic, and has no basis in reality. Going backwards, with Republicans, has shifted the country further and further right. If progressives actually want to move forward, then they should energetically vote to not go backwards, even if the primary doesn't go our way. Progressive candidates, themselves, are highly reliant on "vote blue". If they win the primary, the vast majority of Dems who voted against them in those primaries, will turn around and vote for them in the general. Any hope of Bernie becoming president, rested entirely on all Dems voting for him, in the general. We do need a blue team, that may not be entirely comprised of perfectly perfect puritan progressives, for things to go the progressives' way. I get being jaded, and disappointed, but stop the cycle of madness, and keep f*cking Republicans out of power, forever. They've gone completely bat shit crazy fascist, ffs. Trying to completely overthrow, and end, the democratic process, is the last box that needed checking, to move them from being undemocratic to anti-democratic. Worry about getting even more of them out of office, worry about getting more conservative Dems out of office, before flipping out on, abandoning, and wanting to replace, progressives who have done more for M4A in a few years than Dore has in his entire lifetime. You don't think AOC used what little leverage she had effectively, so be it. But the reality is still that she helped add a few more M4A advocates to congress, in just 2 years. That's more than any third party has done in 50 years. That is going against the DNC candidates. Recently backing Nina was AOC still going against the DNC candidate. That's not the "status quo". And, that is infinitely better than going outright backwards, with Republicans. Get a grip on reality and focus the jaded anger where it should be. This getting angriest with those most aligned to your own views, is nonsensical. Slandering the vast majority of progressives, and the vast majority of progressive voters who vote for them, as "fakes", "frauds", "sellouts", and writing them all off as no longer allies, because of some stupid secondary tactic, is lunacy. Getting so jaded and angry, because you didn't get your way, and not voting, or casting a useless vote, and letting Republicans back in power ... THAT is the "status quo". That is what has been happening for decades. All the covid misinformation is even more dangerous lunacy. Jimmy should be shut down, at this point. He is now making money off of encouraging people to die.
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  1733.  @johnobrien1528  I get that it's tough to defend being pathetic useless hypocrites, but you really gave up even trying surprisingly quick.
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  1734.  @scoogsy  Harris agreed it was already a given that, if you set a subjective goal, science can help you achieve that goal. If I want to go to the moon, science can tell me if something I do objectively moves me closer or further from that goal. Likewise, if you insert your own subjective idea of "well being" as your subjective goal, then science can also help achieve that goal. If Harris doesn't provide anything that gets you beyond that given, then he completely failed at showing how science can tell us what our goal should be ... a purely objective goal. He failed. He defeated his own hierarchy nonsense in a seperate article, where he fearmongers about AI that is as advanced beyond us as we are to ants. If his hierarchy was actually objective, then he should be arguing that we should do whatever the AI wants, that it has objectively more value than us, as we supposedly have objectively more value than ants. He then claims that all moral systems are about the "well being" of conscious creatures. If that's the case, then there are as many concepts of "well being" as there are concepts of moral systems. But, Harris moves on as if there is a singular concept of "well being" ... his own subjective one ... by which he can then "scientifically" judge all other moral systems. He can't seem to make an analogous analogy to save his life: Chess is a game with rules. It's not analogous to morality. It's analogous to laws (rules). Laws may be a reflection of a society's current morals, but they aren't themselves morality. People can come along and argue a law is itself immoral, just like they can come along and change game rules, if they want, and play a new way. "Healthy" and "unhealthy" don't include oughts. "Moral", on the other hand, is how we ought to behave, and "immoral" is how we ought not behave. He seems to be totally clueless as to what "poisoning" actually is, claiming some totally objective difference between "poison" and "food". "Poisoning" is simply too much of something in your system. We eat cyanide in apples. We can get poisoned from too much water. Most "poisonings" are overdoses of medications that are supposed to make us healthier. Harris failed, and never provided anything beyond what he agreed was already a given. He also failed at some pretty basic philosophy.
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  1735.  @scoogsy  Holy crap. You can't even keep the words in front of your face straight. I didn't mention both is-ought. I mentioned only "ought". The words "moral" and "immoral" have oughts in them ... how we ought and ought not behave. If it's okay to behave immorally, then the word has no meaning. It is okay to eat an unhealthy Big Mac, if you feel like it. There's no "ought not" in "unhealthy". It's just a fact it's "unhealthy". It's okay to go skydiving and unhealthily increase your odds of dying. If you likewise take the "ought not" out of "immoral", then immorality no longer refers to wrong behaviour. It's a shite analogy. I know full well the arrogant idiot thinks he solved the is-ought problem. He didn't, because his argument is based totally on subjectivity, not objectivity. He didn't get beyond his starting point. His hierarchy, which he does include, is subjective. Without it, he'd have to argue for veganism. His personal concept of "well being" is also subjective. The difference between cyanide, water, and being "poisoned" has more to do with amounts. A drop of cyanide won't "poison" you. A ton of water will. A bunch of alcohol will. A bunch of medication will. Etc. Etc. Yet, we willingly ingest all the time. Poisoning isn't even always a bad thing to do. We intentionally poison people to cure cancer. Another shite analogy. I think you're the one that needs to reread the book, without your fanboy glasses on.
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  1736. A "classical liberal" is someone who forgets that Adam Smith promoted the government handling public works and education, forgets that much of the US was founded on the government handing free land to illiterate immigrants, forgets that the US founders violated the "natural" rights of Africans, Natives, and women, etc.
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  1737.  @stuckin80  The OP didn't say your birth zip code was where you'd always live. Some of you have reading comprehension problems.
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  1738. ​ @lawrence208  You're a woman.
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  1739.  @dan91121  Reparations are still plenty talked about, for example. How would thinking it's perfectly moral to own foreigners, for life, and pass them on as inheritance, not come into play, if considering whether reparations would be valid, or not?
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  1740.  @mickelcsaszar3244  So, god is a hypocrite. It should have been fine for Egypt to have foreign slaves.
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  1741.  @mickelcsaszar3244  God could have killed every firstborn sons of the Israelites, brought plagues, ordered stonings (like he did for numerous other things), etc., etc., etc., until they stopped slavery. Not like he wasn't willing to genocide the world, to end "evil", or anything. Could have just started yet a third time, and say "Oh, and extra rule, this time, that I forgot to tell Noah ... no slavery."
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  1742.  @mickelcsaszar3244  Seriously, all you're saying is that it's okay for your sky dictator to be a hypocrite, because whatever he says is right is right, and whatever he says is wrong is wrong.
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  1743.  @railroadtrash09  AOC, literally, just used her platform and PAC to back 20 other pro-M4A progressives, helped remove a few more corporate Dems from office, and helped add a few more progressives to congress. If that's called backing corporate Dems, I'm all for it.
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  1744.  @cosimfre2651  So, you saw them make a clear distinction between museums and a private hoarder, and you still asked this question?
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  1745. Sam crushed Jimmy, when Jimmy promoted letting Trump win in 2016. He won't debate again.
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  1746. MLK Jr didn't include the word "liberal", just "white moderate".
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  1747.  @barbiquearea  States had already negotiated new treaty lines with natives, opening up plenty of land for settlement, before the American Revolution. Washington had also been personally given tens of thousands of acres, as a reward for his service in the French Indian War. There's no indication the proclamation line was a major factor leading into the revolution. American colonists largely did protest over new tax policies, to pay for debts from the war, and against being taxed without representation (and then they later went on to enacted their own taxes to pay for debts from the revolutionary war). Expanding voting to white male landowners, is still a much more democratic system, then nobody voting, and an appointed governor making decisions. Most white male colonists did own property, so it was almost all of them. Later expanding the system to include non landowners, then minority males, then women, were all also steps that made things more democratic, even if there are still undemocratic aspects to the system.
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  1748.  @MorarLa  John Brown didn't separate from and go to war with the United States, itself, and your imagined course of events never happened. Being anti-slavery is equivalent to being anti-American or anti-Virginian? I was considering all the kidnapping, abusing, raping, torturing, and even killing, of other human beings to be the initial violence. You think slave owners can "just as well" argue they were innocent victims being attacked, and any violence started with John Brown?
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  1749.  @MorarLa  Absolutely anyone who breaks laws is anti-American? It doesn't actually require trying to overthrow the government, or going to war against the nation? Like the underground railroad, sitting on the back of the bus, or whatnot? All anti-American, because they broke the laws of the times, in protest of the laws of the times? Give me a break. Everything I mentioned was commonplace. Plenty of research has led to the consensus that maybe 10% of slaves were treated decently, and they were still considered property, and had no rights. Slaves couldn't testify against white people (very undemocratic), even if there were a law against doing any of those things. Who was going to? The other white guys doing the same stuff? The senate going against the house is undemocratic. The very concept of the senate is undemocratic. Gerrymandering is undemocratic. Freezing the number of seats in the house, and therefore the number of electorals, is undemocratic. Women not being allowed to vote was undemocratic. Blacks and other minorities not being allowed to vote was undemocratic. By the time Brown came along, the Northern states had already abolished slavery. Are you sure, with over half the population not being allowed to vote, and the voting majorities in the North having already abolished slavery, that slavery was supported by the majority of Americans, and he was going against that?
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  1750. ​ @LabGoats  Ty
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  1751.  @spellman007  There are countless people who think cars and boats have vaginas, if gender terminology and sex are the same thing. Ben Shapiro is currently crying that vaginaless Barbie's and penisless GI Joes, might be in gender neutral toy sections. Republicans were crying about a penisless potato not being called "Mr".
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  1752.  @spellman007  Why not? You seem to have strong feelings when others don't match sex and gender. So, why not him, the billions of Abrahamic religious followers, or the maybe hundreds of millions that call their cars or boats "she" or "her"?
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  1753.  @Netem1  YouTube hid my reply. You can see it if you sort the comment section by newest and then refind this thread. They've been hiding or deleting half of my replies, the past few months, since I started posting this.
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  1754. Thing is that you need a working clock to tell when those two times are.
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  1755.  @zeusmasterson4117  If the DNC and their chosen candidate know progressives will fall in line and vote blue no matter who, why would they ever think they need to change?
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  1756. Weird, since his religious buddies worship a formless, sexless, being they still call "father" or "he" or "him". They seemed to know sex and gender terminology are two different things, all along.
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  1757. ​ @davidwilliamson9333  Averaged out, Trump had more border crossings per year than Obama. In 2019, he had the most border crossings in a year, since 2005. He sucked at the one thing you racists voted for him for.
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  1758.  @SoundsSilver  Again, the level of threat is irrelevant to whether something is coercion, or not. There is a threat of a negative outcome, in both cases. There is a power imbalance in both cases. The rescuer is in the position of power. There are duty to rescue laws in multiple countries. Just spouting that something is illegal, or not, is also irrelevant to whether something is coercion, or not. You clearly can't grasp even a simple analogy.
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  1759. ​ @qa377  I already posted a reply, listing some sources, but YouTube has been hiding or deleting half my posts, recently. You can see it if you sort comments by newest, and then refind this thread.
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  1760. @Quartinium The US judicial branch kinda sucks, too. The president shouldn't be picking the judicial branch.
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  1761.  @resir9807  With respect to things Harris has said about Islam or race, or any other things Seder has specifically commented on, how has Seder misrepresented Harris?
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  1762.  @Euthyphro  I thought if someone pointed a gun at you, you had a right to self defense. The argument is that Kyle gets to both point his gun at someone, plus shoot them if they grab at it, and that if someone points a gun at him, he can outright try to kill them.
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  1763.  @robbiemedica2652  Learn Liberty is a "project of IHS". Says it right in their banner, and elaborates on their about page. There's nothing hidden.
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  1764.  @beastmasterx7091  Funding the government totally through sales tax would break the poorest people, first. It's a regressive tax. The super rich are sitting on most of their millions and billions, not buying stuff with it.
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  1765.  @beastmasterx7091  Nothing you said changes the fact that a sales tax is a regressive tax, that would hurt the poorest people most. It would be a terrible way to try and totally fund the government. I think giant corporations and the super rich have proven, beyond any shadow of a doubt, that they'll do anything and everything to avoid paying their fair share in taxes. I'd totally ditch sales taxes, VATs, or anything of the sort, plus ditch corporate taxes and switch to making corporations pay progressive shares to the public to operate in that country and make money off that public. Something like ... small businesses that do $1m and under business get a pass, $1-10m business the public gets a 10% share in the company, $10-100m the public gets a 20% share, $100m-$1b the public gets a 30% share, $1-10b the public gets a 40% share, $10-100b the public gets a 50% share, $100+b the public gets a 60% share. Or, maybe scale it based on a business's percent of GDP so it works in any size economy. Kind of like how Norway has a majority share of its major oil company ... only do that with all businesses, scaling down the share based in the size of the business.
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  1766.  @vanessacallahan3515  Exactly. If it's so hard for him to get mortgages/loans, then it seems like he doesn't actually own much equity in his properties. Which means he's not actually worth much.
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  1767.  @adamcramm  The 1% covid mortality rate is 5x higher than the automobile accident mortality rate. Should we do away with street lights, speed limits, seatbelt laws, child seat laws, helmet laws, drinking and driving laws, vehicle safety standards, licensing, etc., because automobile accidents aren't deadly enough for you?
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  1768.  @adamcramm  There are tons of laws and regulations based on that philosophy. Even if the majority of the population isn't getting raped, but many are, we take away the individual's freedom to rape people ... or murder, assault, etc. The majority of people might not be getting food poisoning, but many are, so we take away a business' freedom to not wash, wear gloves, sell past expiration dates, etc. And on and on and on ... there are tons. Your slippery slope isn't as slippery as you think. It's a slow roll, that can be stopped wherever we want.
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  1769.  @adamcramm  No it's not. There are the rare cases where malfunctioning lights, some issue with a vehicle that got through safety testing but later is recalled, a shitty driver got through licensing, or whatnot. That's equivalent to your vaccine "risk" right ... that something dangerous has got through testing, or malfunctions when it comes to you, as an individual?
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  1770.  @adamcramm  Polio has a 0.5% paralysis rate and 0.05% mortality rate. Do you want to ditch the polio vaccine?
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  1771. ​ @AB-zl4nh  Like a children's discount, or a seniors' discount? What age you are is a characteristic based on when you were born.
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  1772. ​ @populuxe1  Pretty sure the colonizing of Palestine, is still happening, as we speak. Not exactly samesies. Who is talking genocide? Wanting to end Nazi Germany wasn't wanting to genocide Germans. Wanting to end Apartheid South Africa wasn't wanting to genocide white South Africans. Wanting to end Fascist Italy wasn't wanting to genocide Italians. Wanting to end colonial India wasn't wanting to genocide the British.
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  1773.  @beezusHrist  Nobody knows what the price of the affordable housing would have been, only that property would have been allocated to it. The only prices given were for the non affordable units.
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  1774.  Illhan Omars brother's wife is Illhan Omar  What a load of crap. A bunch of vaccines are mandated. There are a miriad of laws and regulations that people are mandated to follow. You're talking out your ass ... again.
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  1775.  @adaminfinity1733  No, that doesn't happen every year. 2018 had a spike. Seriously? You can't grasp why people are more likely to blame the unvaccinated for something 10x worse than the flu, that lasts much of the year, and has a free vaccine for all?
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  1776.  @sentaukrai  Ever hear of a toddler pulling their mom's pepper spray, knife, or stun device, out of her purse, and killing her with it?
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  1777. The richer people are, the more they tend to hoard and hoarded wealth isn't affected by a VAT. The VAT is also not a way to make corporations like Amazon "pay their fair share". Mixed with the UBI, it will actually make them richer and, in turn, hand Bezos more money to hoard. Opting out of UBI won't change your electric bill, or phone bill, etc., going up 10%. Some people will be worse off under Yang's plan.
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  1778.  @seanhovan7426  No vaccine is 100%. Nobody said the vaccines had 100% efficacy. There are dozens to thousands of measles and mumps breakthroughs every year, in the US. The vaccines are still considered to work, with about 88% efficacy and a 90% vaccination rate.
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  1779. ​ andresrojas7924  Wtf are you blathering about? The British conquered the South, then conquered the North, and created a single country out of the Christian Southern and Muslim Northern Nigerian protectorates. The ancestry of Nigerian Muslims is within the borders of Nigeria, created by the British. The only thing similar to Israel/Palestine is that the British had a hand in creating a shit show.
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  1780. Who has signed onto HR 40, in the house and senate?
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  1781.  Googlag Inmate #666  AOC, Pressley, Omar, Bowman, were also there in shifts, dumb dumb. AOC was also just campaigning for Nina, trying to increase the M4A yes vote count by one.
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  1782.  @Name-jw4sj  Then the other side had an even greater expansion, more likely due them hating Trump than loving Joe, and your argument still makes no sense.
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  1783.  @sullen2420  It's not smart to have progressives in a majority party? It's smart to let Republicans win the majority? Why do Dore knobs always seem to think the smartest route is to let Republicans rule? Weird, and totally contradictory to wanting them to use whatever leverage they have, because they wouldn't have any in that case.
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  1784.  @sullen2420  You have reading comprehension problems.
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  1785.  @sullen2420  Why don't you learn to read, and answer my questions, first.
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  1786.  @sullen2420  Do you still have reading comprehension problems? Learn to read, and go back and answer my questions, first.
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  1787.  @sullen2420  I understood, just fine, and replied that they'd lose whatever leverage they have, being in a minority. YOU, keep dodging my questions. I don't give a crap, if you think it is, or isn't, their job. The entire argument that they have some little amount of leverage, entirely rests on them being in the majority party. So, is it smart for them to try and retain a majority, and retain any leverage they have? Or, is it smart to let Republicans win the majority, and lose any leverage they have?
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  1788.  @whyamimrpink78  Hrrrmmm ... One guy convinces tens of millions of people not to believe any media, any other politicians, any judges, any lawyers, any law enforcement, any scientists, any doctors, any nurses ... anybody ... even to not believe their own lying eyes, if they contradict Fuehrer Trumpty Dumpty. He incites his cult into trying to overthrow the democratic process, and even got further than getting stuck at a beer hall. If you're at a rally marching with Nazi flag wavers, Confederate flag wavers, other white supremacist symbol wavers, a bunch of Tiki torch carrying anti-Semites, organized by white supremacists, with white supremacist speakers, defending a statue of a racist who was willing to kill and die to keep black people enslaved ... in what reality are you "very fine people"? How are you not a racist? How are you not a racist, thinking there were "very fine people" at a white supremacist rally?
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  1789.  @10tothebigguy25  Which progressives say the second thing?
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  1790.  @runrafarunthebestintheworld  Doel didn't mind the FTV idea, but he didn't follow along with bashing progressives, going third party, or other Dore nonsense.
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  1791.  @therussiantrollnetwork7464  W graduated Harvard. Carson was a brain surgeon. Ancient fairy tales, accepted as truth, and which Ben accepts as truth, are the most printed books in the world. What's your point?
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  1792. Libertarian and ancap are extreme, have been done before, and failed for most people. An ancap environment just leads to feudalism. A Libertarian environment leaves the poor uneducated and without healthcare, unless they can find a sponsor, and/or tossed into some kind of workhouse (Gilded Age, Victorian Age).
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  1793.  @ballz4kidz  Voters keep letting Republicans win, over and over. Those Republicans take a jump to the right and the "moderate" Dems go meet them in the new "middle", which is further right. Vote in the primaries, to try and get what you really want. Vote in the general to try and keep Republicans out of power, forever, no matter what the primary outcome. Force the Overton window in the opposite direction, by making the primaries the main battleground and making Republicans irrelevant.
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  1794. Read Ze'ev Jabotinsky's The Iron Wall, 1923. He fully acknowledged that Znsm is clnlsm, and that the native population would resist it until the bitter end. He still argued it was a good idea. His followers became the Irgun and Lehi trrrst groups, whose leaders ended up founding Likud. Einstein likened them to Fscsts and Nzs. Things started over 100 years ago now.
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  1795. The biggest issue, for me, is that if you basically drop criticizing Republicans to spend all your time bashing Democrats, even the most progressive ones, then you've effectively become a Republican media outlet, not a progressive one.
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  1796.  @gnubbiersh647  No. Your memory is as bad as your processing. OP: guys who care about women's sports so much they made a movie, in which they say they don't care about women's sports Some reply: load of concern troll Your reply to that reply: What's so hard to understand, blah, blah, blah ... Rambling on, introducing a completely different premise, where you care but just don't watch ... Effectively strawmanning people your accusing of not understanding.
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  1797.  @redrick8900  Rofl. Fool, who misread what I said, claims I'm the fool. You're as bright as the other one.
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  1798. By that "logic" Israelis are responsible for Netanyahu. This year, alone, prior to Oct 7 ... Israel held over 1200 Palestinian hostages without charges ... over 200 Palestinians had been killed by the IDF and settlers ... over 1000 Palestinians had been displaced by Israel's neverending colonization of the West Bank ... and, Israel continued to operate an open air WWII style fascist ghetto. Congratulations, you justified the Hamas attack.
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  1799.  @BerndSchnabl  You justified it, by claiming the population is also responsible.
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  1800.  @jop23ify  He still kept peddling her over Bernie, dimwit, exactly like I stated. But, thanks for making it very clear, that he knew full well, her plan wasn't M4A, and he still kept backing her.
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  1801.  @treymitchell957  The Libertarian party is doing even less. The Green party is doing even less. Whatever you think of current progressives in office, running as a Dem is very clearly the more effective way to win a seat. One of the worst Dems, right now, was a product of the Green party, Kyrsten Sinema. It's not like you're guaranteed perfectly perfect puritan progressives, going third party, anyway.
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  1802.  @jop23ify  No vaccine is 100%, dimwit. There are dozens to thousands of measles and mumps breakthroughs every year, in the US. Say you've been vaccinated with a vaccine that has a 50% efficacy rate. That's 50%, if the virus carrier comes in contact with you. If there's another vaccinated person between you and the carrier, that's 75% protection. Another, and that's 87.5% protection. Another, and that's 93.75% protection. That's the whole point of herd immunity. It's not solely about the individual.
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  1803.  @MrNH718  Have you Dore knobs only just discovered Libertarians and ancappers? What rock have you been living under? Sure, they don't want the government telling consenting adults who they can and can't sleep with, or who they can and can't marry, but they also don't want the government telling businesses who they can't discriminate against. He wasn't "pro M4A".
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  1804.  @SnakeWasRight  What are you talking about? Peterson says masculinity isn't toxic, so how can someone spread toxic masculinity?
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  1805.  @DaVizzle_Bro  Try to grasp why people are mocking him. It's because of who he is, and the ideas he promotes. It is traditional masculinity, the very thing he promotes, that considers men crying a bad thing. You Peterson fans need to make up your minds. Is that toxic, or not? If not, then suck it up. If it is, then Peterson is wrong.
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  1806.  @AvatarFanUno  Yeah, he has his blinders on, when it comes to other religions. He also doesn't judge Christians globally, like he does with Muslims. He straw mans, pretending like the WBC are the worst of modern Christians, meanwhile tens of thousands of people are persecuted, even killed, for being "witches", in Christian parts of Africa, and Brazil has become the most dangerous place on the planet to be gay.
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  1807. @V His accusation was that they were intentionally not treating people, and letting them die, dimwit. Nothing to do with "researching" the vaccines.
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  1808.  @mimked  You think tens of millions of doctors and nurses, across the world, have no clue if they're treating someone, or not, unless they're told by some administrator? And, that administrators, across the world, are all in cahoots?
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  1809.  @mimked  What aren't you grasping, here? You're arguing that tens of millions of doctors and nurses are completely clueless, as to whether they're treating someone, or not, without a Fauci telling them. It's a moronic argument.
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  1810.  @mimked  You're going in circles. Now we're back to where we started, with tens of millions of doctors and nurses, who "know there's some better effective treatment", but are intentionally letting people die. Whether someone higher up ordered, or not, is irrelevant. It's one or the other. Either that, or they're completely clueless as to what's an effective treatment, without some higher up telling them what is, or isn't. Pick one. Both are insane.
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  1811.  @clintholmes2061  Every single Republican voted against the last round of covid stimulus. You'd have to have severe brain damage to think they're still not worse, even if it's only a little. Sam would support someone primarying Manchin. But, you'd have to have severe brain damage to think there are enough progressive votes to beat both him, and the Republican, in the general, in that district. Do you have severe brain damage?
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  1812.  @clintholmes2061  Yes, we were talking about harm reduction, you dimwitted Dore knob, which is a comparison of which is the more harmful outcome. Catch up.
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  1813.  @clintholmes2061  Trump cultists follow a loud mouth who spews endless bullshit, but still claim he tells it like it is; who calls any right winger who doesn't do as he says "fakes", "frauds", and "sellouts"; who is pals with Tucker Carlson; who also promoted himself as the better option than Clinton or Biden; who also spouted covid misinformation; who also allies with right wing extremists; who also partnered with Rumble; who also prefers seeing Republicans win than Democrats; who also blathers about "Russiagate"; who also whines about "free speech" rights, when that has nothing to do with private corporations; who also throws subordinates under the bus, when he looks bad; etc. Hard to tell a Trumpist from a Dore knob.
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  1814.  @jeanneeber  It reminds me of the Puritans. They were persecuted in England, many exiled, somewhat a people without a home, but then the British government used them to colonize the "New World". There, they turned around and persecuted everyone and anyone that wasn't just like them, and went about ethnic cleansing the native population.
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  1815.  @BlazingOwnager  Because morons who don't know what crt really is, will be trying to ban, and sue teachers over, basic history.
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  1816.  @anticom6099  Stopped reading after your "Show me" sentence. "Moms for Liberty" are using a CRT ban to try and ban an MLK Jr book.
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  1817.  @anticom6099  Because, exactly as the example I just gave, morons who don't know what crt is, will use it to try and ban standard history.
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  1818.  @anticom6099  Ironic, you talking about propaganda, when you're straight up lying. "Inside the complaint, “Moms for Liberty” take issue with several books in the school’s offered curriculum, including Frances Ruffin’s Martin Luther King Jr. and the March on Washington, and the autobiographical Ruby Bridges Goes to School: My True Story. The complaint also cites “photographs of white firemen blasting Black children to the point of ‘bruising their bodies and ripping off their clothes.’”"
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  1819.  @anticom6099  Nothing you blathered about showed that anyone was teaching a college law class to kids in grade 2. Simply teaching that something is/was racist isn't crt, you ignoramus. On top of being completely ignorant, you also seem to have severe reading comprehension problems. The complaint clearly lays out that they take issue with multiple pages in the books themselves.
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  1820.  @travisrhodus1362  I try to keep it simple, when talking to simpletons.
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  1821.  @anticom6099  No, dimwit, the complaint lays out problems they have with both the books and with teacher's manuals. You definitely have reading comprehension problems. They even state clearly that they have a problem with the books, as well ... "The classroom books and teacher manuals reveal both explicit and implicit Anti-American, Anti-White, and Anti-Mexican teaching." They even state clearly that they're attacking history ... "historical mistakes". Ummm, Christians are constantly wanting their morality to be law of the land, and taught. I've never considered them wanting abstinence taught in sex ed, or whatever, to be the same as them wanting to outright teach Christianity, though. Likewise, simply teaching that something was racist isn't teaching CRT. Your propaganda rants are quite ironic.
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  1822.  @anticom6099  "And" doesn't suggest a combination is the problem. It suggests they're both a problem. They didn't say "with', or "combined with". What a coincidence ... I find your natural obtuseness amusing, as well. Oh my, teaching an anti-racist worldview? Better fight against that, since that apparently works against Republicans. I wonder why.
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  1823.  @anticom6099  No, "and" simply suggests both things you're complaining about are problematic to you. You're inventing an argument they didn't actually make. Rofl! Don't teach people to be anti-racist, because that'll cause more reprisals from racists? Oh geezus, you have to be brain dead to think anti-fascists are fascists.
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  1824.  @anticom6099  No. I didn't say the books alone are the problem. I said they have a problem with the books. You're the one trying to pretend that they don't actually have a problem with the books, that it's only the books in combination with the teacher manuals that they have a problem with. It's you that's trying to make out like, if the teacher manuals weren't involved, they wouldn't have a problem with the books, when there's zero indication they wouldn't still have a problem with the books. The fact they they include "Anti-Mexican" in their complaint, because one of the books also shows examples of racism directed towards Mexicans, is another indicator they have a problem with the books. It's also an indicator that they're dishonest, because they're arguing the examples of racism towards black Americans is instead Anti-White, not Anti-Black. Examples of racism directed towards Mexicans should likewise be Anti-White, rather than Anti-Mexican. Anti-racism can only be Anti-White, if you're arguing white people are all racists. Is that what you're arguing? Is that what you're claiming the teachers' are saying? They don't teach that there were any white Americans involved in fighting against slavery, fighting to end segregation, or whatnot? That would be weird, if that were the case. But I highly doubt that is the case. How the f*ck is being against government authoritarianism itself authoritarianism? Have antifa stormed the Capitol to try and overthrow the democratic process, and install themselves an unelected dictator, or something? You're basically arguing American revolutionists were themselves authoritarians, just by fighting against authoritarianism. That's moronic. You're turning much of history into "fascism".
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  1825.  @anticom6099  That sounds like bullshit, to me, is what it sounds like.
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  1826.  @anticom6099  Again, you're making up an argument for them. Their complaint takes issue with both books and manuals. You are completely inventing that they don't actually have a problem with the books. You're a dishonest hypocrite, creating your own propaganda. Rofl. You're seriously arguing that teachers either don't teach how slavery or the civil rights ended, or they never mention the likes of Lincoln or JFK? Give me a break. One of the images they're complaining about is one of a black girl being protected by white bodyguards, ffs. You're spewing nonsense. Yes, the founding fathers rioted, destroyed private property, attacked the police/military, got even angrier when those police/military shot violent protesters, and then outright declared war ... killing plenty of their own countrymen, and destroying a ton of their property. Are you completely brain-dead, or what? What authoritarians? Cops that kill their own citizens at hundreds of times the rate of some other developed countries. In what reality is wanting cops to be less brutal, being more authoritarian? Again, they are not the ones trying to completely overthrow the democratic process to install themselves an unelected dictator. I don't watch mainstream media. Your mental telepathy is as bad as your takes.
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  1827.  @anticom6099  No. They clearly state that they have a problem with the books and the manuals. They have a problem with the books. They have a problem with the manuals. Take away the books, and there's zero indication they wouldn't still have a problem with the manuals. Take away the manuals, and there's zero indication they wouldn't still have a problem with the books. You're the one clearly inventing a position for them, straight from your imagination. Rofl, did you go to PragerU, where they teach John Brown and Lincoln were bad guys, or something? Oh, and now you've gone and protected your own unsupported claim with another unsupported claim. There seem to be plenty of online lesson plans, and curriculum outlines, about abolitionists, Lincoln, and the Civil War. I think it's you, who should be the one showing the some teachers are teaching that emancipation came about with zero white people involved. Umm, it was a British colony, and they were British subjects, at the time, dimwit. They were fighting against their own Empire's police/military and their own government (including attacking people in positions filled by their own neighbors), and the Loyalists most definitely lived on the same land they did. You're nothing but projection, clearly being the one inventing a position for the complaining "moms", and clearly being the one reinventing history. How is a system that has police killing citens at 50x the rate of the UK, 150x the rate of Japan, an immeasurable hundreds of times more than the rate of Denmark, not authoritarian? US citizens are only killing each other at 4-5x the rate of those countries, while the police are killing citizens at 50-hundreds times more than they are. How is imprisoning more of the population than any other country in the world, including all the dictatorships, not authoritarian? Again ... when was it antifa stormed the Capitol to try and install their leader as an unelected dictator? Rofl. I like the way you say "over our republic". The R in USSR stands for Republics. The R in PRC stands for Republic. The important part is the US being a representative democracy, not being a republic. Basically every country that's not a monarchy is a republic. It's moron Republicans who constantly argue for a more undemocratic society, now even arguing for a completely anti-democratic society. Right wing loons: Communism/socialism never succeeds! Also right wing loons: China is killing us economically! Give it a rest, dimwit. If you think you sound any different than a million other right wing nutters, you're wrong. And, you're proving to be just as ignorant as the rest of them, as well.
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  1828.  @anticom6099  Nope. What is explicitly stated is that they have a problem with books and manuals. You have only provided evidence that you have severe reading comprehension problems and a vivid imagination. Nothing you blathered changes the absolute fact that they were British subjects, living in a British colony ... a colony, btw, that had recently needed protection during the French-Indian War. They were fighting against their own King, not someone else's King. They were fighting against their own parliament, not someone else's. They were fighting their own police/military, not someone else's. Their neighbors were amongst those in appointed positions. Their neighbors were the Loyalists. There are loyalists whose ancestry traces to the Mayflower, and even before the Mayflower. You saying their was a clear difference is just you providing more evidence that you are a complete ignoramus. Oh geez, now you're bringing out the evidence that you're an absolute loon. So, you believe that the most racist states ... where the majority voted against abolitionists and voted for slavery, for decades, where the majority voted for secessionists, where the majority was willing to kill and die for the "right" to own and abuse other human beings (which is what their new constitution was largely about) ... states where the majority (from both parties) then continued to vote for Jim Crow and segregationists for another hundred years, states where folks were perfectly fine with lynchings and the KKK ... just magically up and became the least racist voters, now representing the least racist states, voting for the least racist party, almost overnight. Rofl! The fact that all the Republicans, in those states, also voted against Civil Rights, indicated Republicans were just as racist, in those states. The fact that the Democrat president created the bill ... the fact that the majority of Democrats passed the bill ... didn't, at all, push all those racists in those more racist states to start simply voting for the racist Republican candidates instead of the racist Democrat candidates, from their racist states? Nope, they just magically stopped being racists, according to lunatic right wingers, like you. And the vast majority of the millions of black Americans ... who left those more racist states during the great migration, and moved to those less racist states, and started voting for those Northern Democrats (which represented the majority of Democrats that voted for Civil Rights, just like Northern Republicans did), and have become a significant percentage of Democrat representatives ... must be completely clueless as to which party is more racist. By your own standards, you've provided evidence you're a racist, by portraying black Americans as violent and stupid. Red states, where it tends to be easier to get a gun, actually tend to have both higher firearm mortality rates and higher homicide rates. The per capita gun violence capital of the US is St Louis Missouri, not Chicago. Chicago, the place right wingers keep blathering about, isn't even top 10. Don't pretend like you care if people shoot each other, as you're providing them the environment it's easiest to get a gun in. US civilians are killing each other at 4-5x the rate of those countries, while the police are killing civilians at over 50x the rate of those countries. That's just a fact. US police are the most violent gang on the streets. Rofl!! Aaaaand, now you've provided evidence you're a cultists. There is zero evidence the election was rigged, you nutbar. Did you ask Santa for a JFK Jr, for Christmas? No. Trying to save lives is not the dictionary definition of "fascism". And, yes, it saves lives. Australia's covid death rate would translate into about 26k total US covid deaths, instead of 826k. 75-90% of those dying are unvaccinated. The hospitalization rate for the unvaccinated is 89x that of the vaccinated. Smoking has been pretty much banned indoors everywhere. Smokers have to pay higher insurance rates. Smokers have to pay extra taxes. Every single state already has vaccine mandates for public school kids. The federal government already has vaccine mandates for the military and immigrants. That's the kind of thing you're whining and crying about. Literally, NOT the definition of fascism, but instead health and safety measures, the likes of which have been around for over a century. At this rate, there will be about a million fewer Republican voters, by 2024, due purely to stupidity. Dumpty was doing business in China, he leases property to the bank of China, he sold Ivanka's condo to a Chinese lobbyist ... Mitch is married into a family that runs a Chinese company, that buys government made boats, that gets government loans, and that has another daughter on the board at the bank of China ... Republicans are kissing plenty of China ass. Dumpty did no real damage to China, but he did do some significant damage to American farmers. Good thing Trump was still able to have wealth redistributed to those according to their need, from those according to their ability, and help those farmers out, considering it's such a terrible philosophy, that will soon fail. Yes, I did rebut your plainly bullshit statement by calling it bullshit. That's the only rebuttal a bullshit strawman deserves. Just the fact that you think overemphasizing anti-racism could possibly be the "most racist", when you've got states that still have Confederate "Heroes" Days, when you've got hate crimes rising, when you've got unite the right rallies with people marching with Confederate and Nazi flags, anti-Semitic tiki torch marchers, a "leader" telling citizens (even ones born in the US) to go back where they came from, a "leader" that likes to reminisce about the good ol' civil rights era when you could beat protesters, when you've got PragerU making out like slavery was good, when you've got Tucker peddling replacement propaganda, etc., etc., etc. You: But, but, but ... that teacher pointed out there was racism one too many times! They are the most racist!!!!!!!!! F*ck off, with that bullshit. You don't know what "evidence" means. The only evidence you've provided is evidence that you're an ignorant, idiotic, lunatic, death cultist, that's living in some alternate reality.
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  1829.  @tmsphere  The top 1% own about 30% of wealth and pay about 30% of taxes, a 1:1 ratio. The bottom 50% own about 1.5% of the wealth and pay about 3% of taxes, a 2:1 ratio. As a percentage of their wealth, the top 1% pay less than the bottom 50%. As pointed out already, amongst the 1% are the super rich who pay next to nothing relative to their wealth owned, who are screwing the lesser rich along with everyone else.
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  1830.  @firewithfire848  She was just with Bernie supporting striking workers trying to get a $15 minimum. The two were also campaigning with Nina, trying to add another M4A yes vote to congress. She had already helped add a few more M4A yes votes to congress and helped remove a few more corporate Dems. If those are the kinds of things the Democratic establishment has "co-opted" her to do, maybe they aren't so bad.
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  1831. Could go 1 per million, or fraction thereof, which gives 337, I think. And then merge the senate to the house, giving each state an extra 2 votes, but no more senate blocking crap the house passes. That'd be 437.
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  1832. And if you stand up and fight, the guy beside you might stand up and fight ... but he might not, depends on what you're fighting ... but, if he does stand up and fight, then the lady beside him might stand up and fight ... but, she might not ... likely not, because women tend to do less random stupid shit, like fighting ... but, at minimum, you'll be fighting ... what, we don't know, but it will be a royally grand fight!
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  1833.  @based3998  Yes, setting a laptop in front of Pool sounds like it would be tough.
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  1834.  @daniel-bg5nq  How did they debate the first time? How was Ben Shapiro on Tim's show, the week after Sam was supposed to be on? Why could Tim pull it off both before and after that day, but not that specific day?
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  1835.  @daniel-bg5nq  All I keep hearing you argue is that Tim and his team are inept.
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  1836.  @daniel-bg5nq  What are you talking about, "isn't required"? They're on a computer, using the internet, showing things from the internet, and talking about those things, all the time, aren't they? They have the ability to put Tim in a window, and show another window of internet videos, or whatnot. How they can't figure out how to put a guest in a seperate zoom window, I have no clue. The only answer is that they're inept, or full of shit.
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  1837.  @daniel-bg5nq  You might want to look at your original argument, dumb dumb. You're making an entirely different one, now. Based on your original argument, Pool is inept. Based on your current argument, the original argument was bullshit.
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  1838.  @hylomorpher  I'm saying that "they're a private company and can do what they want" was a good argument, for social media, against the cries of right wing "free speech" advocates. Because, their only way out would be to advocate for public ownership. It cornered them, between their capitalism and their "free speech". They have to pick one. Social media platforms don't create their own content, so it's not exactly the same thing as media that creates its own content. The "free speech" advocates were wanting social media, something that isn't a public square, to be treated as a public square. Nobody expects content creating news media to be a public square. It's a different animal, and can be argued differently.
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  1839.  @DavidBrown-ps3vn  243 deaths per million vs 608 deaths per million. 3696 cases per million vs 20603 cases per million.
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  1840.  @rickduval2025  AOC has done more for M4A in 2 years than Dore has in his entire lifetime. The only way to ever pass the bill is to get enough yes votes in congress. She used her platform and PAC to back 20 other pro-M4A progressives, helped remove a few more corporate Dems, and add a few more M4A yes votes to congress. While Dore was slandering AOC for abandoning M4A, she was on the ground campaigning for Nina Turner, promoting M4A, and fighting to add another M4A yes vote to congress. Dore, on the other hand, publicly abandoned Nina ... abandoned adding another M4A yes vote to congress ... and promoted never voting for anyone running as a Democrat ever again. He's a grifter, who leads people in the opposite direction he claims to be going.
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  1841.  @aliamjon2550  There are people more dangerous than Iran with nuclear weapons, who the right has made out to be a major threat ... people that outright hate America, and are trying to destroy it ... and does he suggest exactly how to deal with them peacefully, or does he leave it open how to deal with them?
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  1842.  @Silvashoots  Trump and Fauci had nothing to do with BioNtech. You're a nutbar.
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  1843.  @davidmeadows5627  Picture ID? You're basically claiming everyone without a driver's license, is unemployed, which is total bullshit. Social insurance number, for taxes, and bank info, for direct deposits, is pretty much all you need from an employee, unless it's a driving job.
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  1844.  @davidmeadows5627  Funny thing is you use non photo ID to get the photo ID. To get the photo voter ID, that you're oh so concerned about, you have to accept that the person in front of you matches their birth certificate, or whatnot. Only allowing photo ID should lead to infinite regression.
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  1845. Freed slave: I worked really hard, did absolutely everything and anything master said, and he gave me my freedom when he died. Every slave should have to do that.
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  1846.  Sock Cucka  What's this "fundamental level", that isn't "homophobic"? Try explaining it.
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  1847.  Sock Cucka  And the Bible, especially the OT, isn't anti-gay?
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  1848. ​ Sock Cucka  People who have thought Bible passages support slavery, and not mixing the races, weren't really racists, then?
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  1849.  @SR-lh4rm  Learn to read. I didn't criticize him proposing a VAT. I criticized him for bullshitting about who a VAT actually taxes. Fuck you gangers are morons.
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  1850.  @muserwood  What issues has Tucker changed his mind on?
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  1851. @Aaron Dickson Oh, do tell, what did I get wrong?
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  1852.  @whyamimrpink78  A surge in demand can cause inflation, which happens when you reopen. Your argument against Biden is incoherent, if you actually wanted Trump to provide more covid relief, as well. The house had already passed two different HEROES Acts. All the senate had to do was vote either through. McConnell didn't even allow a vote on either. You're spewing nonsense. Countries with much better pandemic responses also tended to have better economies, and it wasn't because they did nothing and simply stayed open no matter what. Almost all of the best response countries quickly had very high testing rates (tests per confirmed case), testing 50+ people pcc. The mediocre response countries, were testing 15+ people pcc. The US, on the other hand, had a pathetic covid testing rate, testing about 5 people pcc, for months, that Trump did nothing about. The US had pathetic mask use, encouraged by Trump. If things were getting out of control, in some areas, and more severe measures were taken, Trump encouraged defying them. Nothing you blathered about states, or your politician anecdotes, was an actual argument that they had better economies or better health responses. Just a big nothingburger. Nope. There's no evidence ows actually sped up the development of vaccines. Again, the first one out of the gate had nothing to do with ows, and others that had nothing to do with ows were coming out at similar times to those that did. At most ows was about ordering enough supply and distributing it. Trump didn't order as much as he could, didn't leave enough of a supply, and wasn't prepared to distribute as much as he possibly could.
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  1853. ​@@Dukiehouse Likes help the algorithm, to spread views. Without them, your argument amounts to tons of non conservatives actively looking for those channels to view, and hate reply on, making them money. Rather than the simple premise, that their conservative viewers are hating on Swift, right along with them.
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  1854. @IceOrwellian O'neel Do you argue against all vaccines, so we can have "healthy" dirty children? And, maybe, the op was referring to deranged psycho parents, rather than than kids?
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  1855.  @thejuniorseas7683  I know.
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  1856. "You know how to stop abortion? Require that each one occur with a gun." ~ Rush Limbaugh
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  1857. What was the right side of history during the Indian Massacre of 1622?
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  1858.  Alabama Man Special Edition  Pretty sure Dumpty was criticized for illegally withholding military aid from the Ukraine, not for finally releasing it to them.
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  1859.  @BonzoKilbourn  Then don't watch it in the middle of the day, dumb dumb. It's not a requirement to watch it live.
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  1860.  just saying  Fuck you're a lying twat. Sanders' employees were paid a salary, not an hourly wage. The issue was working extended hours making that set salary worth less per hour, so he cut the hours. They're paid just fine, dumb dumb.
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  1861.  @squatch545  I stopped watching for a reason, dumb dumb, when that was the direction he was heading. Which show was it?
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  1862. @UCy9d4PdVUo2g4EwmwgFwfcg Buddy, I'm a Canadian. Our politics are almost entirely left of US politics and, personally, I almost can't score any further left, or further libertarian, on a political compass test. Economically, most US Democrats are to the right of our Conservative party. I think both the US parties suck ass, and I struggle with not believing that the US is a majority of morons, for not voting Bernie, and for not joining the rest of the developed world. I also understand the benefit of having a viable third party (NDP, which I vote for) and, under normal circumstances, might support not voting Democrat, letting an average Republican be president, let the Democrat party fall apart, and pushing for a third party to rise up. Having said that, it's not normal times. US Republicans are outright cookoo for cocopuffs insane. They're letting hundreds of thousands of people die, and you've got 70m people who look like they'd be willing to close the door on democracy, and check the final box for outright fascism, just to keep Trumpty Dumpty in office. That's not the time to be bashing the most progressive people you've got. Whether you're a full blown USSR style communist, an underground anarchist, or a US crony capitalist (all totally not in the same tribe) you team up and take out the damn fucking fascists ... pronto. The enemy of my enemy is my friend, and the fucking psychos should be your biggest enemy. Have your cold war with the corporate Dems later, or on the side, but stay focused on who the biggest threat is. Bannon is calling for heads. Jones is calling for a revolution. Oath keepers are saying they're armed and ready, when Trump gives the word. Proud Boys are standing by. But, hey, let's take this time to bash AOC and make baseless bullshit claims that progressives are just there for appearances, as if the corporate Dems actually wanted progressives to win instead of fighting them tooth and nail. That's getting into some conspiracy crap and, whatever the case, they should be the last people on your hit list. That's if you actually want to move the US left, which I'm no longer sure Jimmy does. I stopped watching because Jimmy was seeming more and more like a Sam Harris type, claiming to be more liberal than the liberals he was constantly bashing, while spouting all kinds of crap far right nutters would lap up. And, no, the odd swing at a Republican, every blue moon, doesn't balance things out.
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  1863.  @squatch545  If you don't give a crap about all the excess deaths, you must be one of the morons. Repeatedly talking about subjects, can change opinions, dumb dumb. Her, Bernie, and other progressives, have increased American support for the things Jimmy claims to be in favour of. Are you one of his right wing followers, or something?
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  1864. ​ @jimandskittum  Both are constitutional monarchies. They're considered democracies, because the monarch/governor-general generally just agrees with whatever parliament wants, now. Technically, they don't have to, and can just dictate some things themselves, but doing so would likely lead to them being ousted completely.
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  1865. Shouldn't he be arguing that sexless candies shouldn't have genders, at all?
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  1866.  @zippydodahquirk9039  I associate anti-vax morons in Mississippi, taking horse medicine instead of vaccines, with being right wing. Your anecdote isn't how science works.
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  1867.  @unitedfools3493  8 wars and 10 fucking million deaths?!!! Holy crap, list those, please, if you can.
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  1868.  @matthewwolfe9417  Capital L Libertarians.
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  1869.  @halinaqi2194  No. I do it to see if there's any good answers out there (like constantly trying to falsify a claim, to see if it holds), and for anyone reading, that's possibly unsure (so they don't dive into something crazy, without giving it some thought first).
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  1870.  calo10able  Lol, coming from a brainwashed twit, who didn't even Google who first reported the letter, before declaring it fake.
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  1871.  @LeShawnTho  What "truth" is there in claiming a woman, who just used her platform and PAC to help get more pro-M4A progressives elected to congress, going against DCCC backed corporate Dems, is a "fake", "shill", "wimp", "sellout", etc.? Especially when adding more yes votes to congress is the only way to ever pass a bill, and it's what you'd still have to do even after a failed vote.
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  1872.  @2727rogers  There is only one possible solution to passing M4A, and that is to convert or replace enough members of congress to pass the bill. AOC, Justice Dems, a Bernie PAC, have been working on doing just that. They added a few more M4A yes votes to congress in the last election. AOC and Bernie were campaigning to add one more M4A yes vote, in Nina Turner, while Jimmy opposed adding one more. There's already a list of members of congress that won't sign onto the bill. Go protest them. Pelosi actually introduced the M4A bill last session, where it died in committees that didn't do anything with it. It has already been reintroduced, and is in committees again. Look who is on the committees and go protest them to take up the bill. Endlessly bitching about, and slandering, the most progressive members of congress, M4A's most ardent congressional supporters, people who have done more for M4A in a few years than Dore has in his entire lifetime, is moronic and insane.
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  1873.  @bradleym.mcelroy139  That was my point, so maybe you missed mine?
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  1874. There's a difference between open borders and decriminalized borders. It would be cheaper to put asylum seekers up in a HoJo than it is to keep them in guarded prisons.
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  1875.  @joeb134  Well, Sam Harris has argued that, so some people do. Plus, that's the impression programmers have tried to give. The UN demonstration, for example, had the AI saying it "believed", was "very happy", etc. You should definitely worry about a programmer who has its AI say it could rule the world better. But hey, lets instead worry about a wonky image creator. And, don't worry about the extra arms, legs, or digits, they sometimes produce ... just that they had a skin tone issue.
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  1876.  @t-swizzle8102  Rofl! Do you know what a false equivalency is? The Tea Party was backed by leading Republican donors, like the Koch brothers, who were also pressuring Republican members of congress to move further right. Are there any major Democratic donors pressuring Democrats to move left? No? Republicans have a natural predisposition to moving right, anyway. Do corporate Dems have a natural predisposition to moving left? No? With that pressure on congress members Tea Party numbers were regularly increasing, as members converted. Are corporate Dems converting to being progressives? No? And, the only thing that gave Tea Party members the power to block any bills, was the other Republicans' unwillingness to work with Democrats, instead. All they had to do was make some concessions to Democrats, bring enough Democrats on board, and pass the bill without needing Tea Party votes. Do corporate Dems have a complete unwillingness to work with Republicans? No? There's no equivalence to the Tea Party's situation. It's math, dimwit. There are zero extra votes to the left of progressives. It is absolutely impossible to pass a bill without Manchin. On the other end, there is the entire Republican party to try and draw extra votes from. Bring one Republican on board, and it's entirely possible to pass a bill without Bernie. Bring enough house Republicans on board and it's entirely possible to pass a bill without the squad. If corporate Dems are willing to work with Republicans, a stand off will more likely end up pushing a bill further right, not left. Empty virtue signalling is going on and on, for a f*cking year about a missed chance to get a 100% guaranteed to fail performance art vote, ffs. A performance art vote would get you no closer to getting M4A. Fighting to increase numbers in congress actually does move you closer to being able to pass the bill. You dimwitted Dore knobs have things completely backwards. Dore is sitting in his $2m garage and not giving a shit if anyone ever gets healthcare. That's why he doesn't care if the country goes outright backwards, and 10m of the poorest Americans are thrown off of Medicaid expansion. That's why he doesn't care if you sit on the sidelines for the next century. That's what he doesn't care, when he helps another grifter campaign against Bernie. That's why he didn't care, when he abandoned Nina. He's a grifter, dimwit. His increasing right wing audience should have clued you in. Or, maybe you're one of them, just pretending. You're more upset at Democrats, that you only got $1400, than you are at Republicans, every one of which voted against giving you anything? $1400 and $0, is totally samesies, to you? No difference? Just how dumb are you? Plus the unemployment extension they all voted against. Plus the eviction moratorium they all voted against. Plus repeatedly extending the freeze on student loan payments and interest (How are you still having to make student loan payments?), that they're all opposed to. Rescinding numerous Trump executive orders is totally samesies as Trump signing those orders. Signing a.number of new beneficial executive orders is totally samesies as not signing those orders. A near end to drone strikes is totally samesies as Trump dropping more bombs than Obama. Oh, oh, but I'm a brain dead Dore knob ... look at this thing that hasn't changed ... they're totally samesies!!! You're obviously the one that doesn't care, dimwit, if you have the luxury to let Republicans, and corporate Dems, rule for decades to come. Whatever you think of current progressives, running as a Dem is clearly the more effective way for a progressive to win a seat in congress, and remove a corporate Dem.
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  1877. What did he lie about?
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  1878.  @prabesh8277  Well, you obviously can't do basic math. The first vaccine mandate was in Massachusetts, in 1809. Pretty sure that's over a century ago. Covid's 1% infection fatality rate is 2x the polio paralysis rate, and 20x the polio infection fatality rate. Plus, it's a lot more contagious, and contagion rates can be far more important than how likely it will kill a single individual. Yeah, not interested in what some fringe "experts" are saying. There is a pretty solid worldwide consensus, amongst doctors and scientists. There is no question the vaccines are effective. 85% of Americans dying are unvaccinated. The flu vaccine needs a shot yearly. It's still effective against the flu.
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  1879. I'll address it. There's no such thing as natural "rights". Hope that helps.
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  1880. There's still a math problem. There are zero extra votes to be gained to the left of progressives, so it's impossible to pass anything without Manchin, Sinema, or others at the right end of the party. On the other end, there is the entire Republican party to try and draw extra votes from. If Manchin actually does get enough Republicans on board, they can pass their "bipartisan" bill without progressives.
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  1881.  @thehappyclam3942  Even if you incorrectly believe the government owns the "internet", that would be like the government owning a highway or road to travel upon. But, when you get off at my rest stop, or come into my store, that no longer applies. Web pages and servers are privately owned property, dumbass.
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  1882.  @robinsss  An Ayn Rand style Objectivist government isn't a "strong" government. It's a minimalist government. These guys are all just disagreeing on how minimalist to go.
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  1883.  @whyamimrpink78  They haven't had this specific virus for years, dumb dumb. They didn't pop out some generic coronavirus vaccine. It's specifically a covid 19 vaccine. They were able to do it so quickly because the method, that they've been researching for years, that was used is much quicker than previous vaccines. They went through all 3 trials phases. Nothing was sped up except the formality of waiting for approval, which came after development and the trials. You're just lying. A 1% mortality rate is 10x deadlier than the flu, dumb dumb. Letting it spread to 300m people would be 3m dead. All states already have some vaccine mandates, so wtf are you even talking about? It's not some new power.
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  1884.  @garyhamlin3299  Testing is a "covid measure", which is what my op was talking about. You might want to look up "Human Studies of Masking and SARS-CoV-2 Transmission".
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  1885.  Alabama Man 2.0  What a load of bullshit.
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  1886.  @jaccl4539  There you go again, not grasping math.
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  1887.  @mellow_badger8585  What's a right wing policy that benefits the lower class?
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  1888.  @stringmonkey568  There's only a billion people in all of the Americas, and most of them already get universal healthcare, dumb dumb. Where are you expecting everyone to walk from?
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  1889.  @themassage6534  There are people pushing actual fascism/Nazism. Who is pushing USSR style communism?
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  1890.  @helluvastart  Like I said, according to himself. "It's thought that science can help us get what we value, but it can never tell us what we ought to value." So, if we pick our own subjective definition of "well being", like Sam does, then science can help us achieve that goal. End of "thesis". He never actually makes it beyond what he says is already a given. His "analogies" are moronic. Take his chess "analogy". Rules of chess are analogous to laws, not morality. To get rules for a game, first you have to subjectively decide to make them up and then subjectivity decide to play that game. There's no science telling you that "you ought to play chess". Even if you do subjectively choose to play, there's nothing saying it's objectively wrong to lose, if you want to say lose to your child, or something. His "healthy" and "unhealthy" "analogy" is equally moronic. Those terms don't include oughts. Eating Big Macs may be "unhealthy", but so what? That only matters if I subjectively care about being healthy. Skydiving may be "unhealthy", because it increases your chance of dying but, again, so what? People enjoy skydiving. Comparing terms that don't include oughts to terms that do (moral: how you ought to behave; immoral: how you ought not behave) is completely idiotic. Harris is a moron.
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  1891. Why "can't" they perform as editors? Couldn't a golf club remove Trump's club membership, if he walked into the women's change room one too many times, if they felt like it?
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  1892.  @mayorofmotown  A bookstore (which has to do with previous laws 230 was based on) can still pick and choose which books it wants to sell, and which it doesn't, without being considered an editor. It can selectively not sell porn, but sell nude photography books, and decide exactly what content crosses the line for them. Deciding not to host someone's content, doesn't make you an editor, or publisher.
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  1893.  @robertneil65  Isn't trying to pass off clerical errors as election fraud, fishing for views from the psycho Trump cult? Who, posting regular content to YouTube, isn't looking for views? Crowder must suck at it, since Ethan has half the subs, but double the views. Crowder's views to subs ratio is similar to Sam's.
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  1894.  @robertneil65  Are you Both, or something?
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  1895.  @mjchakos1  That's a far right Libertarian, not a "moderate", and they already have a third party.
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  1896.  @joethethunder4906  As a third party? You're dreaming.
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  1897.  @aarondickson9573  Both candidates increased total numbers in all demographics, dumb dumb. It's a pointless "point". Trump picked up a whole 1.6 percentage points, amongst black voters, with a total percentage that was less than Reagan's. There was no massive, unprecedented, shift, or anything.
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  1898. ​ @thehappyclam3942  Hitler was backed by leading German industrialists. He promised his backers that he wouldn't be redistributing wealth. Nazis allied with other far right parties, to form the Harzburg Front. They literally killed off any prominent left leaning members, on the Night of the Long Knives. They went after communists, socialists, and unionists, first, for "illegal socialist activity". Hitler blamed Jews for creating socialism, because Marx was of Jewish descent. He blamed the Communist Party for the Reichstag fire, claimed they were "terrorists", outlawed them, and rounded them up. Mussolini denied the class struggle, that is the very foundation of socialism/communism. He promoted accepting your lot in life, and just working hard, for the betterment of the nation, in an "Ask not what your country can do for you - ask what you can do for your country", kind of way. The Nazis were a little more, "For God and country!" ... People simply working together, towards a goal, doesn't equate to communism/socialism.
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  1899.  @thehappyclam3942   @thehappyclam3942   @thehappyclam3942  YouTube not liking some word here ... @thehappyclam3942 Htler was backed by leading Grman industrialists. He promised his backers that he wouldn't be redistributing wealth. Nzis allied with other far right parties, to form the Harzburg Front. They literally klled off any prominent left leaning members, on the Night of the Long Knives. They went after cmmunists, scialists, and unionists, first, for "illegal scialist activity". Htler blamed Jws for creating scialism, because Mrx was of Jwish descent. He blamed the Cmmunist Party for the Reichstag fire, claimed they were "trrorists", outlawed them, and rounded them up. Mssolini denied the class struggle, that is the very foundation of scialism/cmmunism. He promoted accepting your lot in life, and just working hard, for the betterment of the nation, in an "Ask not what your country can do for you - ask what you can do for your country", kind of way. People simply working together, towards a goal, doesn't equate to cmmunism/scialism.
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  1900.  @thehappyclam3942  Who was Emil Kirdorf?
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  1901.  @Historia.Magistra.Vitae.  Wrong
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  1902.  @Historia.Magistra.Vitae.  Wrong
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  1903.  @Historia.Magistra.Vitae.  Wrong. Prior to wartime economies fascists were leaders in privatization.
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  1904.  @Historia.Magistra.Vitae.  You've argued Trump is a communist. You've lost. Give up.
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  1905.  @Historia.Magistra.Vitae.  Yes you did. He owns businesses, and is a party member.
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  1906.  @Historia.Magistra.Vitae.  "Fascism is the complete opposite of Marxian socialism." ~ Mussolini
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  1907.  @Historia.Magistra.Vitae.  Trump owns businesses, and is a party member. You've, at minimum, argued he's a leftist, socialism based, collectivist. By your "logic", if any party member owns a business, then the entire party owns the business.
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  1908.  @Historia.Magistra.Vitae.  The "complete opposite" of anarcho-capitalism is not some other form of capitalism.
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  1909.  @Historia.Magistra.Vitae.  You either don't know what "complete" means, or "opposite" means. Which is it?
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  1910.  @Historia.Magistra.Vitae.  Rofl!!! One person owns everything, and you call that "socialism". You've proven yourself insane.
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  1911.  @nfb4027  Lol, you likely think a guy with his own healthcare, and non public garage job, flinging slander, is political action.
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  1912.  @Brodyshalecomedy  Jimmy said the moon falling into Lake Michigan was more likely than Trump filling multiple scotus seats.
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  1913.  @X2LR8  Why are you anti-white traditions? You must be a progressive.
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  1914.  @X2LR8  Where is, and was, race based chattel slavery practiced?
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  1915. @Badatallthis Stuff All you said was that you're ignorant, and don't grasp how herd immunity works. Say you've been vaccinated with a 50% efficacy vaccine. That added 50% protection applies when you come in direct contact with a virus carrier. For every other vaccinated person, between you and the carrier, it adds another layer of 50% protection. 1 person = 75% protection. 2 people = 87.5% protection. 3 people = 93.75% protection. Etc. It's the whole point of trying to vaccinate as many people as possible, with any vaccine. It's not just about individual protection.
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  1916. @Badatallthis Stuff No. You were the one who just moved a public health measure into the politics column. That's stupid.
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  1917.  @raonaveen90  You: "They are called fraud squad because when the time came to rid of Pelosi they didn't." Also, AOC didn't vote for the CARES Act. You're spouting bullshit, as well as contradicting yourself.
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  1918.  @raonaveen90  Her corporate Dem primary opponent literally tried to use the fact that she didn't vote for it as a negative in the primaries.
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  1919. Dore would be arguing that hopping in a cop car would be better in the long run.
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  1920. How they're pissing on war memorials and trashing Terry Fox?
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  1921. Apparently Ben doesn't know that Israel has over 400k Israeli militants (reservists), valid military targets, hiding amongat its civilians, using them as human shields.
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  1922. @Aaron Dickson Honey Boo Boo was popular. What's your point?
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  1923.  @jashshah5049  Are you flagging my posts providing facts and sources for how horrible India is for women?
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  1924. I wouldn't let off the "average Joe", too much. The majority of them voted for pro slavery candidates, pro Jim Crow candidates, anti civil rights candidates, at both state and federal levels. They voted for racist sheriffs, judges, and other local officials.
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  1925. Jack isn't even shorter than John. I don't get that one.
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  1926.  @driftboat945  No, they've been working to wipe them out. The US was 40% unionized in the early 50s. It's now down to 10% unionized. They're currently working against the largest of the remaining unions ... the teacher's union ... with their privatized schools bullshit.
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  1927. The "public option" makes paying into the government healthcare optional, not simply giving you the option for private extras. That would be a "private option". If the rich can opt out, then you can't have progressive payments into M4A.
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  1928. Yeah, Dem voters should treat the primaries as the more important battle, between progressive and conservative Dems, but then still vote en masse for whoever wins to keep out the batshit crazy party.
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  1929.  @semi-consciousamerican-joe2481  You know that, if "their" money is worth more, then your money is worth more, right? And that the "destroyed" money gets counted as credits against government debits, and overall debt, which is how all paying for things works?
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  1930.  @strongbone9471  Same thing. Dore benefits the far right.
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  1931.  @alabamaman1684  Yeah, that's not at all true. The life expectancy dropped by 1+ years in 2020, for white Americans, and by 2-3x that for black and Hispanic Americans.
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  1932.  @zelenskysboot361  But they want to shoot lefties with them, not the super rich.
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  1933. It is pronounced wine-steen.
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  1934. Religion?
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  1935.  @railroadtrash09  Dore knobs aren't a tribe. They're a cult.
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  1936.  @ruppelspoopels  Disney just bought 20th Century Fox.
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  1937. Yeah, I'm sure they'd trade a couple percentage points in lower unemployment for a return to no voting rights and segregation.
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  1938.  @GM-db4bv  Rofl, all Dore does is trash people more popular than him.
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  1939.  @GM-db4bv  Every public figure is a legit target, if they're giving their opinions on crap. Dore has bitched about Maher, Chomsky, Bill Gates, Mark Ruffalo, Zuckerberg, and many other more popular public figures than him, along with the politicians that are far more popular than him. It's all Dore does.
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  1940.  @2727rogers  If they actually wanted M4A more than they wanted to end abortion, and other stupid shit, they'd already be voting for progressives.
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  1941.  @2727rogers  Jimmy Dore actions: promoted Trump (running on kicking 10m of the poorest Americans off of Medicaid expansion) as the better option to Clinton (running on adding 40m older Americans to Medicare expansion); promoted Tulsi (public option) over Bernie (M4A); ran an attack ad campaign against Trump's (still running on kicking over 10m of the poorest Americans off of Medicaid expansion) only remaining viable opponent, Biden (running on Medicare expansion and a public option); slanders progressives that have done more for M4A in a few years than he has in his entire lifetime; promotes allying with extreme right Boogaloos who will be shooting leftists once they start the civil war they want; goes on Tucker mainly to agree with him; promotes a third party route that would benefit Republicans most; abandoned Nina and abandoned adding another M4A yes vote to congress ... In what reality are those the actions of someone who makes out like they're the one true champion of healthcare?
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  1942.  @2727rogers  Imagine if everyone in the progressive caucus was third party (which includes only 1 senator, Bernie). What you'd have is a Republican minority house, a republican senate with Pence as tie breaker, and Trump as president (because Dems and progressives split votes between Biden and Bernie). Republicans would be basically in control of everything. How would a third party even having 94 seats in the house, and 1 seat in the senate, get you closer to M4A? On the other hand, if progressives get the 10 or so more seats in the house needed to become the majority of the Democrat party, they can then pick the speaker candidate for the party and set the party agenda. If the party is in the majority, that speaker could pick committee members and introduce whatever bills they wanted. Getting 10-15 more seats within the party would seem to get you a lot closer to your goal than even 100 seats as a third party. No? What Jimmy is suggesting would benefit Republicans most. Many things he does benefits Republicans most. You're listening to his words and not paying attention to who his actions actually benefit.
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  1943.  @2727rogers  Anyone who voted Republican, because Democrats let them down, sure as hell didn't have M4A as a priority. And it wouldn't be enough to add significantly more progressive seats. Plenty came back, or came out of the non voter woodwork, to vote psycho Dumpty out of office, to get the current seating, which is what I used as my example. Yeah, the senate shouldn't exist, and the 1930s bill that froze the number of house seats also froze the number of electorals, which has made the electoral college increasingly disproportionate, all of which benefits the right, already giving them more power than they deserve. Drastically splitting the votes, while they remain united and have those added benefits (as well as gerrymandering), would be political suicide. Canada also shouldn't have a senate, btw. It's like still having an unelected house of lords.
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  1944.  @SuperweedmanGrows  According to socialblade, Sam's channel has had 9.57m views over the past 30 days, while Dore's has had 5.01m. Sam also has more subscribers. As usual, a Dore knob spewing bullshit.
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  1945.  @iheartlreoy8134  Yeah, I know.
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  1946. Just like voting, this year's exit polls are heavily skewed.
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  1947. Yang's plan to not actually tax giant corporations, and making them and the super rich even richer? Why?
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  1948.  @ken-nf2eg  Peru has the most covid deaths per capita on the planet, and one of the highest ivermectin uses.
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  1949. Who the hell is Yaqub?
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  1950.  @sergeikhripun  Idiot. It was Republicans Jimmy predicted were less corrupt than they are, claiming that they'd join Democrats in voting against the Trump agenda, and wouldn't follow him into overt fascism.
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  1951.  @NeveauRock  Can't get much further right than promoting far right ancap Boogaloos.
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  1952.  @DemocratsAgentsOfCarnage  He didn't say there were "fine people" at a rally held by David Duke, and the like?
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  1953.  @DemocratsAgentsOfCarnage  Then who were the "fine people", on the other side, attending a wt sprmcst rally (that's what it was)?
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  1954.  @Quonjack  There is so much bipartisan support for Isrl in congress, that they could pass whatever aid they wanted and overrule any presidential vetoes. Third parties trying for the top position, with no presence in congress, are pointless.
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  1955.  @Psykroids  Cultists can't change their mind.
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  1956.  @outtarespecttomyfawtha1589  Stop spamming bullshit.
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  1957.  @gnubbiersh647  He called chess a game of "perfect objectivity". Someone subjectively decided to make a game, decided on the pieces, decided how they'd move, decided on the board, and on any special moves. There is nothing objectively wrong with using alternate rules, or an alternate board (Star Trek chess). Even once all that is decided, there's nothing objectively wrong with letting your opponent beat you (maybe let your kid win once in awhile so they don't get frustrated). Harris has a very slim grasp on philosophy basics, like objectivity and subjectivity. A game, with a book of rules, is analogous to laws (book of laws), not morality. And, sometimes we decide laws themselves are immoral/wrong.
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  1958.  @gnubbiersh647  He again doesn't seem to grasp subjectivity vs objectivity, when fear mongering about AI. While there are definitely things to worry about, when it comes to AI, Sam completely misses the mark. He prattled on about how a far superior AI might set its own goals, that conflict with human goals. He has watched too much sci-fi, and isn't talking reality. There's absolutely zero evidence we can ever create an AI, with its own top tier subjectivity. AI can only operate within the parameters set by its human programmers, so can't possibly deviate from all human goals. We do need to worry about those programmers' goals, however.
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  1959. That is not a "solid point", from anyone who worships a sexless god being, who identifies with masculine pronouns. The Abrahamic religions have basically been saying, for thousands of years, that gender terminology doesn't have to match biological sex.
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  1960.  @justapatsy8601  Native Brits have likely been a minority in London since the Anglo-Saxons moved in, followed by Vikings and Normans. Wales is where you find people who are more genetically native Brit. South East is the least native Brit.
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  1961. Lol, congress has always had the power to impeach. Was Clinton's impeachment Republican "cancel culture"? Were 10 Benghazi investigations, looking for wrongdoing to blame on Obama and Clinton, "cancel culture"? It's a stupid point.
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  1962.  @ragingbull94mtx  Trump ran on fixing the economy, as well as his other bullshit, and "they" (FOX and guests), jumped on the Trump bandwagon. Instead of pointing at the "record high", a mostly meaningless statement, they'd point at the slow recovery rate. Obama's last budget ran through most of Trump"s first year in office. Since Trump's first budget, his tax cuts kicking in, and the start of his trade wars, the stock market has almost flatlined, but now they go on about the "record high". They're partisan hacks, not newspeople.
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  1963. The US has one of the worst deaths to confirmed cases ratios in the world. You're currently at about a 7% death rate, twice the 3.4% average.
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  1964.  @Addamo  Really? A dozen seditious conspiracy charges, and you're still playing the ... but was it an insurrection ... game? What's ironic about the Dems passing their own budget? Isn't that what tends to happen? AOC voted against the individual state department and defense department appropriation bills. She didn't vote against funding healthcare, housing, education, veteran's benefits, SNAP, SSI, etc., if that's what you're moronically looking for. The Capitol Hill police bill was amended in the senate and made bipartisan. It passed with large bipartisan support, and came back for a house vote. AOC actually voted against the final version of that bill, as well, but it passed with overwhelming support.
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  1965.  @guiagaston7273  Oh right, right, you were doing that super effective zero probability of succeeding thing, rather than doing nothing.
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  1966.  @guiagaston7273  I said promoted as the better option. Jimmy Dore video: "Hillary Presidency Worse For Progressives & America Than Trump" I don't have to explain that saying Hillary is worse is just the reverse wording of saying Trump is better, do I?
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  1967. Don't remember her making any solid points after. I do remember her getting paid to join Rumble, which is funded by Peter Thiel, mega MAGA donor and spy software billionaire.
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  1968.  @mp22893  Where has he criticized Russia aiding in Syria's defense, or criticized Russia invading Ukraine (or any of the other former Soviet states it has been f*cking around in, since 1991)? He has criticized helping those former Soviet states, which would allow Russia to do whatever it wanted.
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  1969.  @mp22893  Trying to make sense of it, in my head, but I still don't understand how criticizing fighting against Russian aggression, isn't a defense of Russian aggression. If everyone listens to you, and nobody helps fight against it, that allows them to do it all they want, no?
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  1970.  @jakes658  Rogan is now getting paid by a large corporation, whose largest shareholders are even larger corporations. He is MSM, at this point. He didn't actually say it was a mistake to have repeatedly debunked people on. He literally argued it was just fine, and spewed a bunch of bullshit to try and support platforming them. Plenty of other MSM people should also be deplatformed. Who said they shouldn't?
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  1971.  @DubhghlasMacDubhghlas  American cosplayers, who have been plumped up on McDonalds, aren't the Taliban.
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  1972. ​ @Ebikelover  No. You're brainwashed by the right wing media, dumb dumb. "A small number of Capitol riot defendants — at least three charged in the federal criminal investigation — have been accused of carrying firearms. But guns weren't the only threat. According to court documents reviewed by CBS News, 39 defendants have been accused of wielding "deadly or dangerous" weapons that weren't firearms, including Tasers, tomahawk axes, crowbars, flagpoles, a knife, an ice axe, a firecracker, a stun gun, baseball bats, fire extinguishers, a wooden club and chemical spray." "The right-wing Oath Keepers militia group was prepared to move a stash of firearms and equipment from a Virginia hotel to rioters on Jan. 6 last year, federal prosecutors said, painting the most detailed portrait yet of the planning the group’s members allegedly undertook as they tried to stop the certification of Joe Biden’s 2020 presidential election win."
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  1973.  @samuelmerkel2888  Isn't it "sandwich artists"? And isn't it Shapiro that has said what his mother's job was, not her employer? If you want to argue he's making up a title for his mom, that doesn't actually apply, all the power to you. I'll concede that he's dishonest.
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  1974.  @samuelmerkel2888  And you get that "expert" is a description of skill, not your position in a company, right? An "executive" signifies you're in upper management. You seem to be getting dumber, as we go.
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  1975.  @samuelmerkel2888  That you reading those simple facts and getting the impression that means someone is wealthy, means you do actually know the meaning of the words. You're apparently just trying to be deceitful.
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  1976.  @samuelmerkel2888  Ironic opening, considering your severe reading comprehension problems. I haven't actually stated anywhere that they were wealthy, swimming in money, or anything of the sort. I simply stated facts that don't care about your feelings, and you then started to argue against the meaning of a word that you, yourself, obviously read as meaning a certain position.
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  1977.  @samuelmerkel2888  I simply added factual details, that the other poster left out. You clearly seem to have read those basic facts to mean they were wealthier than the other poster was making out. Why is that? Is it because the word "executive" actually does have meaning, and you were being dishonest to suggest it doesn't?
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  1978.  @samuelmerkel2888  Sure, man. You find out all the details on those things, and then we'll compare it to their incomes. Oh wait, we don't know their incomes, so you're blathering about pointless bullshit. What we do know is that she was a tv executive, he was a composer, and they lived in an area with an above average median income. All simply facts, that still don't care about your feelings.
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  1979.  @samuelmerkel2888  What I replied to was meaningless, without some context of what the full time working mom did, that the stay at home father did also work, and where their house was. Someone might imagine them living in a shack in the poorest part of the country, with his mom mopping floors full time, and his dad providing zero other income.
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  1980.  @shoveI  The next guy in line supports Israel, supports letting Russia do to Ukraine what Israel is doing to Palestine, has stated he wants a pledge of allegiance to Israel, has stated he wants to reinstate and expand his Muslim ban, Republican politicians have said Palestine supporters (Omar) who aren't natural born citizens should be deported, etc. You might want to choose a form of public pressure that leads in a different direction.
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  1981.  @shoveI  You're going to get one, or the other, whether you like it, or not. If you think otherwise, then you're not living in reality.
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  1982.  @sergeikhripun  If she told them to campaign for Nina Turner, to try and add another M4A yes vote to congress, then you're arguing Pelosi isn't that bad, dimwit.
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  1983.  @sergeikhripun  How many times have you spammed that other bullshit comment?
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  1984.  @brentnoury7626  But, that wasn't the annual military aid to Israel. That was to rearm what is purely a defensive system. The Iron Dome doesn't kill Palestinians. The annual military aid to Israel is in the State department appropriation bill. Unlike Hinkle dishonestly made out, AOC actually voted against the State Department appropriation bill. What she voted for was the entire annual budget, which includes things like healthcare, education, housing, veteran's benefits, SNAP, SSI, etc. He wasn't really asking her to vote solely against the state department, which she had already done. He was asking her to vote against everything. She also voted against the defense appropriation bill. She also voted against the final version of the Capitol Hill police bill (it was amended in the senate and came back). She has actually voted against most of the things he wanted her to vote against. Dore knobs are dishonest.
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  1985.  @jaccl4539  You keep spouting the garbage in multiple threads. Name a single thing Manchin has done, that the squad hasn't done. Be specific, not your falling on a sword abstract gibberish.
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  1986.  @AG-lm5uf  She wasn't his boss, dimwitted Dore knob.
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  1987.  @Deepstatedebate  Aren't you Dore knobs the ones watching someone who fabricates sections of articles? Might want to check which one is living in a distorted reality.
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  1988.  Illhan Omar's Brother  Sam has more views than you, you being here means your jealous.
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  1989.  @nobrkes  Feudalism is a bunch of private property owners running around doing whatever the hell they liked. It fits in anarcho-capitalism, completely unfettered capitalism.
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  1990.  @nobrkes  That was gibberish.
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  1991.  @mattl7424  Seriously, this sex vs gender thing isn't that hard to grasp, dumb dumb. Have you ever said something like "Isn't she a beaut!", about a car or boat? Or, do you believe in a formless, penisless, super being, and still refer to it as "he" or "father"?
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  1992.  @bloui1033  You're kind of incoherent. You told me you weren't using the unfair treatment definition, but then told others it's unfair treatment. If it's simply recognizing a difference, what's wrong with, at minimum, recognizing that women have been drastically underrepresented in the supreme court, for over two centuries, and are currently underrepresented, 6-3. There will be legal cases, that specifically deal with women's issues. In fact, odds are, there will be more legal cases dealing specifically with women's issues than specifically with men's issues.
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  1993. Early 20th century Zionists weren't shy about calling themselves colonialists, and the Palestinians natives. Colonialists are never not the aggressors, when it comes to the natives. They just argued their colonialism was "just". Modern Zionists are simply cowards, about who they are.
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  1994. All well and good in a void, but the US has an even further right party of outright fascists, that tried to overthrow the democratic process to install themselves an unelected dictator. Vote for progressives in the primaries. If they don't make it, vote to keep the fascists out in the general. Splitting the progressive voters from more conservative Dem voters, in the general, would just let Republicans rule for decades to come, and wouldn't give progressives any more power. In fact, it would give them less power. As is, progressives only need to become the majority of the party, to pick the party speaker candidate, and take the party in the direction they want. As a third party, they'd have to win the majority of congress, to have any power.
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  1995.  @zeeone4492  If the broader progressive caucus isn't puritan enough for you, Justice Dems, who have been at it only 4 years, have replaced about a dozen corporate Dems. Even starting with that low number is extremely better than the third party route, which hasn't won the most popular third party a single seat in 50 years.
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  1996.  @zeeone4492  Bullshit
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  1997.  @Maxmaxmax63  Yes, I do. Is a game, with a rulebook (chess), analogous to morality or laws (hint: laws are rules to live by)?
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  1998.  @Maxmaxmax63  The maid. Care to answer my question? Sam got it wrong.
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  1999.  @gnubbiersh647  Well, I gave my tl:dr answer, first, and you asked again. No, I fault Sam for spewing absolute nonsense.
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  2000. Oh fuck off. Peterson is a pseudoscientific prick. He claimed his daughter's meat only diet got rid of all his mental and physical health problems. Either he was lying then or he's lying now. Peterson is the joke, not the mental health or addiction problems.
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  2001.  @jpbm1873  M4A is, literally, 100+ votes short in the house alone, has even less support as a percentage of the senate, and a president who said he'd veto it. Any of you Dore knobs who thought it had even the slightest chance of passing are completely delusional.
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  2002.  @namename-qb5xe  The "credible journalist" who has joined Jimmy's anti-vax grift, and spewed bullshit about the completely socialized UK healthcare system, that "real" lefties, like him and Jimmy, are supposed to be in favor of?
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  2003. He made some of his own mistakes, if that's what they are. One country's excess mortality rate can't be used to deduce anything about other countries. The US' excess mortality rate, for example, is higher than recorded covid deaths. That's the reverse of the UK, so something completely different is going on, in the US. That third number, on the paper says died "with covid", not that covid was necessarily a contributing factor, as he said. That second number is the one the government and media report as deaths due to covid. That simply means some 20k people have died "with covid", but not due to covid.
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  2004.  @ChesaFreakBoyzFishingVideos  She wouldn't still be there if he didn't like her. She wouldn't have moved to an on camera position if he didn't like her. She and Matt also seem to get along great, and also do the Antifada podcast together. On shows without Sam, when Jamie interacts more directly with Emma, they also seem to get along just fine. People who generally get along just fine can have disagreements and get annoyed with each other, now and then.
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  2005.  Bob Smith  Every single law and regulation is a mandate, ffs. Having laws and regulations =/= fascism.
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  2006.  @AG-xc5ni  Just a warning ... I may watch a show, have a shit, do something else, or maybe even go to sleep for many hours, and not give minute by minute responses, dumb dumb. Don't be sitting on the edge of your seat the whole time.
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  2007.  @happyprogressivepoop1422  If Pelosi wanted AOC to help replace a few corporate Dems, and campaign for Nina Turner to try and keep out another, then maybe Pelosi isn't so bad. Or ... maybe AOC doesn't actually do what Pelosi wants her to.
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  2008.  @sailingthevic3966  You know they first have an appropriation bill, like the military, right? AOC voted no on the state department appropriation bill, and military. You're just giving her shit for voting yes on the entire budget? So, you want her to vote no to funding healthcare, no to funding veteran's benefits, no to funding housing, no to funding education, etc., over the state department budget?
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  2009.  @fredsanford1437  You're making no sense. If the DNC's undemocratic practices go against Bernie and other progressives, then they're working against the left, but you're saying they are the left.
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  2010.  @fredsanford1437  If even the most progressive members are extreme right wingers, then you're making even less sense.
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  2011.  @fredsanford1437  Again, then you're arguing even the most left leaning politicians aren't actually left, which would seem to agree that the DNC isn't left.
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  2012.  @fredsanford1437  Soooo, you're also arguing that the DNC isn't left, now. Bernie and AOC would be centrists out in the real world, outside the US Overton window.
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  2013.  @thehappyclam3942  Japan disagrees with your "science".
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  2014.  @yourrealdad816  Oh lookie, an "enlightened centrist", peddling bullshit. Clearly, the majority of conservatives voted for Trump, and vote for an anti-abortion party. Clearly, the majority of liberals didn't vote for Bernie or progressives (who haven't even proposed any policies that would move the US left of Denmark, a centrist country).
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  2015.  @mimked  Ahhh no. This was at a time when there was already plenty of video of those people being destructive and violent. Tucker chose to show videos of them looking at statues, instead.
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  2016.  @mimked  Hitler's insurrection didn't make it past a beer hall. Being one hallway away from making it to the house floor, while members were still there, is quite a bit closer. They were going to stop the certification of the election, and not keep Trump in power? That makes zero sense. Weird how "enlightened centrists" are always defending right wing insanity. The entirety is that there were people trying to overthrow the democratic process, and a few people looking at statues. Why are people looking at statues relevant to trying to overthrowing the democratic process? Who the f*ck cares if a few dingbats were looking at some statues? Why is that news?
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  2017.  @mimked  You get that, on top of the people who stormed the Capitol to try and overthrow the democratic process, the majority of Republican lawmakers also tried to overthrow the democratic process, and the Republican leader was repeatedly calling to overthrow the democratic process, right?
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  2018. Yeah, he's going the Dave Rubin route, claiming to be a lefty but finding there's money to be made in relentlessly attacking progressives and Dems, instead of the cult that has turned openly fascist.
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  2019.  @candidbowyer4625  Yeah, Dave is ahead of Jimmy in evolving to a right winger. Jimmy is Rubin a year ago.
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  2020.  @aliamjon2550  Are you telling me you have reading comprehension problems?
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  2021.  @mfflscotty2095  And what good is equipment and policies, without workers, to work that equipment, and implement those policies? No, we want to give more money to "workers", because they're the ones doing the work. The clue is in their name. Every measure they use, to increase profits, and their personal wealth, either takes more money from consumers (which are mostly workers), or gives less money to workers. To pretend like one side doesn't get less, when another side gets more, is nonsensical.
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  2022.  @mfflscotty2095  Rofl! So, you think Canada, and other countries ranked higher than the US, have less regulations and taxes? You're living in some alternate reality.
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  2023.  @mfflscotty2095  An individual has more economic freedom, if they don't have to worry about healthcare costs, for example. The opposite of your "free market" bullsh*t.
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  2024.  @mfflscotty2095  It's bullshit, because you're implying they're more free market than the US, and that the US needs to be more free market, to move up the ranks. The UK literally has a socialized healthcare system.
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  2025.  @mfflscotty2095  What are you even talking about, when you say "less restrictions", or "less regulations"? You know they all use highly regulated VAT systems, right, that basically track everything being bought and sold? They all have more environmental restrictions. Government negotiated drug prices. More gun control. More regulations on employment. What do you even mean?
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  2026.  @TheBiggestSqueeze  She just helped add more M4A yes votes to congress, the very thing you need to do to ever pass the bill, the very thing you'd still need to do after a guaranteed to fail vote. Saying adding yes votes to congress isn't fighting turns FTV itself into have a failed vote and then don't fight. You already get a brand new list of hundreds of people who won't even cosponser the bill, every new session it's reintroduced. Where were the 100+ viable pro-M4A candidates you have laying around during the election that just happened?
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  2027. "No individuals or groups (political parties, cultural associations, economic unions, social classes) outside the State. Fascism is therefore opposed to Socialism to which unity within the State (which amalgamates classes into a single economic and ethical reality) is unknown, and which sees in history nothing but the class struggle." ~ Mussolini, The Doctrine of Fascism They also like to complain about celebrities, telling them to shut up, or that their opinions don't matter, but they'll sure pull one out quick, if they've got one. Hell, they've elected two as presidents, now.
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  2028. If there's no possibility it will pass, then someone who claims to be for it but is secretly against it can vote for it without worry. It has to have a chance of passing to force their hand.
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  2029.  @itsajob12  You already know who is for it, on the surface, and who isn't. Forcing a vote won't necessarily show anything different, unless it has a chance of passing. If it's voted on and fails, then the corporate Dems and Republicans could use that failure as an excuse to put off voting on it again for years.
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  2030. How is Mueller actually finding collusion, but saying Jr, and others, were too stupid to know they were breaking the law to charge them with "knowingly" committing a crime, biased? How is Mueller actually finding multiple instances of obstruction, biased? The bias would seem to be towards letting them get away with it, atm.
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  2031.  @freedomlover9196   Lol, I know exactly what feudalism is. It started with a bunch of medieval cattle (fihu) barons with no laws or regulations above them. When they'd have property disputes, they'd settle them privately. Eventually some expanded their private property claims. They'd form family alliances expanding private property claims. Expansion. Expansion. Until one claimed to personally own a large enough region to declare themselves king of a kingdom. Again, at that level, there were also multiple other private property owning kings, with no law or regulation above them, who claimed ownership of entire kingdoms. You simply referenced the highest level private property owner, the highest feudal lord, making whatever rules they wanted for living on their private property, enforcing those rules with their private army, and charging whatever they wanted for living and working on their private property. It was only a parliament, and the removal of a monarch's power, that created a governing body above the highest private property owner, and an end to their monopoly on land and power.
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  2032.  @freedomlover9196  It's not even ancient history. The same thing was happening on the Western frontiers, where there was little in the way of consistent law and order. Cattle barons, feeling like they could do what they want, hired private armies of cowboys, attacked sheep herders, and others. They were stopped by the law moving in, but still lasted into the 20th century. The early medieval feudal lords used livestock as currency, mainly cattle, long before they ever started minting currency. They were medieval cattle barons, usually starting out as a growing family clans, with a head of the family. A King being nervous of a possible peasant uprising isn't the same as the peasants being in control of a government of the people for the people, and being able to make laws over the king and other nobles.
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  2033.  @freedomlover9196  But you're describing an armed citizenry defending a parliament, a government of the people for the people, against a private property owner with a monopoly. The people became the government. Like I said. Private property owners with no authority above them gave them that King. A democratic government of the people for the people should be able to be toppled with voting. Republicans have shown the US maybe made that too hard to do. Many countries can simply have a no confidence vote, and don't make a big to do over ditching a shit leader.
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  2034.  @freedomlover9196  It's a democratic republic, dumbass.
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  2035.  @thepracticalinvestor2386  Sounds like you need a school that teaches basic facts, like how red states tend to have higher firearm mortality rates, higher homicide rates, higher poverty rates, lower education outcomes, lower healthcare outcomes, etc.
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  2036.  @lizardking5711  Says the guy bullshitting about shrinkage.
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  2037.  @lizardking5711  States voting differently, and where he's getting votes and not getting votes, has more to do with delegates. He's still up 1.7m votes from 2016, while Biden is only up 1.4m votes more than Hillary. Not enough growth, and not in the right places, for sure, but 1.7 is still more than 1.4. So, your shrinkage bullshit is exactly that ... bullshit.
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  2038.  @asamanthinketh1937  "Social programs" = socialized sectors of the economy. Centrism = the center, between capitalism and socialism. Denmark has something like 30% of the population working the public sector, 70% unionization (not ownership, but far more of a say in what your labor is worth), universal healthcare, not just free post secondary but other expenses covered as well, etc., etc., etc. You'd take that over the lovely 100% privately owned and operated absolute monarchies we have remaining?
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  2039.  @asamanthinketh1937  Yeah, almost like shopping for healthcare and education isn't really an important factor.
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  2040.  @thehappyclam3942  If those laptops actually had evidence of any wrongdoing by Joe, Rudy would have handed it to the investigation he's been promoting since Trump's impeachment. Instead, he didn't, and the investigation went nowhere. You want another billion Benghazi investigations?
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  2041.  @thehappyclam3942  Investigation? You mean investigation(s) ... 10 of them, and 33 hearings. Kind of overkill. I hope you support at least one investigation into Trump letting thousands of Americans die.
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  2042. ​ @jazzip  Better an old coot that shakes hands with the air, than an old coot who wants to nuke the air (hurricane).
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  2043.  @jazzip  Apparently fairly competent people, unlike the incompetent criminals surrounding Trumpty Dumpty.
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  2044.  @markzuckergecko621  Homicide rates ... NYC, NY 6.0 Chicago, IL 25.8 St Louis, MO 68.2 New Orleans, LA 74.3
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  2045. The only problem is with his conclusion and response. It's the federal government that can afford to pay people to stay home but doesn't. It's the state government trying to get a grip on the virus. He's rebelling against the state government, and potentially spreading a deadly disease, possibly killing people, because of the failures of the federal government. His aim is off.
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  2046.  @waterandafter  I see you having reading comprehension problems out of the gate, and having a different conversation than everyone else is.
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  2047. Except they literally don't. They've always considered Russia the bad guy, when it comes to its imperialism, and consider the US to be on the right side, in Ukraine. But, do go on strawmanning.
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  2048.  @jdogdarkness  Nothing you just said supports your nonsense, "they assume every other actor is the good guy & did nothing wrong", statement. When did they say Russia has done no wrong, and is the good guy? And, now you're strawmanning me. I never said you said they "loved Russia". Do you have reading comprehension problems? Disputes over the South China Sea have been going on for over a century. Indonesia has been the most aggressive towards other fishing boats, in disputed territory, destroying hundreds in a matter of years. Vietnam has built the most outposts in disputed territory, dozens compared to other countries' handfuls. What has China suddenly done, exactly, that you think warrants US involvement?
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  2049.  @t-swizzle8102  You didn't answer my question, you dimwitted Dore knob. Give an example, that's not one of those strawmen you were building in the other thread.
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  2050. 2 morons in body armor and armed with semi rifles, trying to rob a bank in California, helped create the modern police state. It was after that the government started selling police military surplus. Police will always try to be better armed than what they think is out there and can be used against them. The best way to not have a police state is to have fewer guns, then downgrade the police to gunless bobbies, like in the UK.
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  2051.  msalem7729  Uh huh. What's that got to do with Yiddish being Germanic?
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  2052.  @divasbraidz  Moron. He's opposed to undocumented immigrants being exploited and paid shit wages, which American workers then can't compete with. Document them, pay them fair wages, and then it's even competition. Same reason he's opposed to a trade agreement that has US workers competing against $2/hr workers in Mexico.
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  2053.  @rev.chuckshingledecker  Likud's Revisionist Zionsim founders were around though. Ze'ev Jabotinsky literally had some of his Betar militant youth movement train with fascists, in Italy. They became the Irgun and Lehi. The Lehi also tried to ally with the Italians, Germans, and Vichy, during WWII, and kept fighting against the British. Here's what Einstein, and other prominent Jews, thought of Likud's founders ... "Among the most disturbing political phenomena of our times is the emergence in the newly created state of Israel of the "Freedom Party" (Tnuat Haherut), a political party closely akin in its organization, methods, political philosophy and social appeal to the Nazi and Fascist parties. It was formed out of the membership and following of the former Irgun Zvai Leumi, a terrorist, right-wing, chauvinist organization in Palestine."
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  2054. Rofl. The tea party was backed by the Koch brothers, and the natural Republican tendancy is to move right. If you think the natural tendency is for corporate Dems to move left, and that massive corporate Dem donors are pushing them left, then you're living in a fantasy.
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  2055.  @joshboston2323  Well, there's his nonsensical morality argument, that includes him using completely garbage "analogies". One being using chess as an "analogy" to morality, and calls it a game of pure objectivity. But, chess has rules, which is an analogy to having laws, not to morality. And, those rules were created by the subjective decisions of its creator, people make the subjective decision to play or not, people make the subjective decision whether they actually want to win or not (might want to let their kid win), people make the subjective decision whether they want to use alternative rules or not, ... He also argues against himself, first claiming all variations of morality are about "well being". If true, that would mean everyone has a different idea of what "well being" entails, everyone has a different subjective concept of "well being". But then he makes out like his version of "well being" is objective and uses it to judge other versions of "well being" as worse. He doesn't ever actually get beyond his initial statement about the consensus being that science/objectivity, can't tell you what main goal to set, but once you subjectively decide on a main goal, science/objectivity can tell you, objectively, whether a course of action will bring you closer to, or further from, reaching that goal. All he did was stick in his own subjective version of "well being", as the main goal. It was complete nonsense, by a dimwit who thinks he's smarter than Hume. There's also his fearmongering about AI, as if an AI having more knowledge (objectivity), giving an example of an AI that's more intelligent to us than we are to ants, will somehow lead to it turning against us (subjectivity). There's zero indication we can even create an AI with its own subjectivity, its own ability for primary goal setting. You have to worry about the programmers who are programming in the primary goals, not an AI suddenly up and deciding it wants to organize paperclips, one day. An AI has no personal desires.
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  2056.  Danny Saigal  How does it eradicate poverty, when it's under half the poverty line, and doesn't account for children? There are even some very poor people on full benefits, like SSI disability and SNAP, already getting $1000+ a month. All they'll get from Yang is higher consumption taxes on plenty of goods and services, leaving them worse off.
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  2057.  @dianalee1589  Give me a break. NATO turned down Ukrn's application. Ukrn was only trying to join the EU, when Pvtin hit them with an Eastern trade blckd.
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  2058. The kind of anarcho-capitalism he's pushing has been done before. Beyond the borders of the Roman Empire, cattle was currency. Large land owners sprung up with their own private armies and no government above them. They did whatever they wanted. The same happened on the Western frontier, where rich cattle barons hired their own private armies of Cowboys and threw their weight around. Only governments of the people, with their own militaries and law enforcement, put an end to it. Anarcho-capitalism is feudalism.
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  2059.  @Name-jw4sj  You didn't take a neutral position. You made a counter claim, which needs its own citations.
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  2060. The legal asylum process accepts anyone who gets themselves inside the country, any which way. Also, citizens and "legal" immigrants, are more than twice as likely to commit crimes. Plus, a "legal" immigrant would just as likely be "replacing" a current citizen as an "illegal" one. Plus, 90% of drugs come across points of entry, and 86% of drug traffickers are American. So, what's the actual major gripe you have with "illegal" immigrants, if it's not simply racism?
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  2061.  @dave4deputyZX  Someone with a club? We evolved physically in ways beyond earlier bipeds, that is only really explained by becoming long distance runners, persistence hunters. Starting with homo-erectus.
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  2062.  @justrodriguez21  Uh huh, corporate Dems come after all progressives. How does slandering other progressives help with that?
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  2063. So, only centrism? Is that real world centrism, or US centrism?
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  2064.  quadir1  If some people think not wearing a seatbelt, speeding, and drinking and driving, are some kind of glorious fight for their rights, then they're idiots. Absolutely zero people are claiming we're all going to die, or even a majority will die. That's just a stupid strawman, spouted by someone with shit for brains.
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  2065.  @paulsmith7579  No, dumb dumb. He said child covid hospitalization rates are overblown, and that kids are being admitted for other things, before testing positive. He did not say that same thing was happening in any significant way, with adults. And, how is it you think that would affect the death rate, exactly?
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  2066. ​ @chillywilly3102  These are the same kind of people who support authoritarian police, defend police shootings, and make out like protests and property destruction are unAmerican, while they glorify the people involved in the American revolution, who participated in protests, riots, property destruction, and see authoritarian red coats shooting protesters as a bad thing. They don't live in a coherent reality.
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  2067.  @antipositivism3128  That's your definition of direct democracy ... mob rule?
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  2068.  mike Michel  35 people charged. Jr and Kushner only not charged because they're morons. Obstruction laid out, but couldn't charge a sitting president. That "hoax"?
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  2069.  @1MarkKeller  Yeah, it reads like an open declaration of future war, against Jordan, Syria, and Lebanon, at least. "Land of Israel" refers to the Biblical borders, not the current Israel.
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  2070.  @moe433  No you aren't.
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  2071. ​ @rafaelpena4269  Letting Trump win is also part of the moral dilemma.
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  2072. ​ @jasonpk2267  Ironic, since the people right wingers call "commies", haven't put forward any policies that would move the US left of Denmark. Meanwhile, they've supported overthrowing the democratic process, in the US at least, to try and install an unelected dictator ... making them objectively fascist.
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  2073.  @jj947  Divorce!
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  2074.  @sauravjha3262  "MAGA" literally says that America isn't currently great. The entire cult says they don't like America.
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  2075.  @xLuis89x  Sam has debated numerous people. One anecdote, that you don't like, isn't evidence of the norm. Plus, he didn't bring co-hosts, unless you count Ethan, and Crowder had his own sidekick.
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  2076.  @jacobwright6195  The guy was sitting to Crowder's left, and moved over to Crowder's right. How the hell is that being "by himself". You're the one lying. Seder has been an MSNBC co-host, his firing and rehiring was covered by MSM in the US and even in Canada, he has guested on shows with much higher viewership than Crowder's, he has been on Carlson and debated with Carlson and more prominent right wingers than Crowder, he has a syndicated radio show on stations across the country, the MR is on Peacock ... this making out like Crowder is much better known is bullshit, based simply on what ... YouTube subs?
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  2077.  Alabama Man 2.0  Right from the Gallup page.
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  2078.  Alabama Man 2.0  Latest data.
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  2079.  @henrywallace2257  Sure as hell not by actually promoting Trump over Clinton, like Dore did.
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  2080.  @henrywallace2257  Nope. He said Trump was far worse, and then used that to argue he was the better option for progressives. He vastly overestimated the benefits, claiming it would result in a massive progressive backlash, that would "for sure" lead to progressives taking the house (didn't happen) and senate (didn't happen), in 2018, and the presidency (didn't happen), in 2020. He vastly underestimated the risks, claiming even Republicans would join the left to vote against a Trump agenda (didn't happen), rather than follow him into all out fascism (did happen), and that Trump filling multiple scotus seats (did happen) was as likely as the moon falling into Lake Michigan (hasn't happened, still waiting).
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  2081.  @Gaius_Julius_Caesar_Augustus  Mike Johnson: "As a result, the lives of more than 63 million American children have been lost… You think about the implications of that on the economy. We’re all struggling here to cover the bases of Social Security and Medicare and Medicaid and all the rest. If we had all those able-bodied workers in the economy, we wouldn’t be going upside down and toppling over like this." : Able bodied workers cross the border. Mike Johnson: Not those kind!
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  2082.  Stimulus Dragon  Think the "you guys" meant Americans, the US, in general.
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  2083.  @cometclear  But, if the US was siding with the more secular Afghanis, and the Taliban are the religious extremists, then isn't it most likely that the more religious Afghanis want to stay and the more secular ones want to leave? Seems stupid to use a survey of all Afghanis, rather than a survey of just the ones who want to leave. The entire 40% they referred to could be amongst the Taliban, and none amongst refugees.
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  2084.  @biokido575  If gender = sex, then how come people call cars and boats "she"? How come billions of people call a formless, penisless, invisible god friend "he"?
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  2085.  @Thedemotivator  They aren't against M4A. Stop conflating being opposed to a tactic with being opposed to the goal. When the vote fails, then you'll have to do the hard work of getting more progressives in congress ... exactly what AOC's PAC just helped do. Just skip the pointless vote and backstabbing, and help her get more progressives elected.
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  2086. @Ralph Reilly J&J always triggered a much lower antibody response. As does catching a mild case of covid. And whether antibodies are long lasting, or not, has to do with the virus, not the vaccine. Both "natural immunity" and vaccine "immunity", wear off, with this virus. So, you're good with letting 1% of the population die off, to get a temporary "natural immunity", yeah?
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  2087. @Ralph Reilly It's the whole point of herd immunity. For every vaccinated person between a higher risk person (say born with asthma) and a virus carrier, it adds an extra layer of defense. Whether the person in between is fit, or not, they help protect the herd, if they're vaccinated. Being unvaccinated just makes you the easiest path to others.
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  2088.  @sergeikhripun  Yeah, the reason is that Malone is a disgruntled narcissist, who has already been debunked multiple times. You loons are the ones peddling things like a $2000+ Rogan "kitchen sink", paid for out of pocket, over a government negotiated under $20 price for vaccines given out for free. Plus, the hospitalized unvaccinated have cost about $13b, which is worth 650+m vaccines. You loons are pumping tons of money into "big pharma".
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  2089. Support Russia? Their government is actually led by fascists, and the Russian backed interim government leaders, in Donbas, were from white supremacist groups. That's a magnitude worse than having a minority of racists, with no government power, and some 90 year old Nazi, like Ukraine.
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  2090. But hey, that's not private companies deciding for themselves who they want, or don't want, on their private property ... that's only the government.
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  2091. What was the other viable option?
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  2092.  @mattbebe2555  Who's that?
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  2093.  @ERMAC4482  It's the ratio. It's like right wing media having 1 anti climate change person on, and 1 climate change person on, and making out like it's completely up in the air, 50/50, what the science indicates ... purely just two equal "opinions". If you're going to have a Malone on, then you should be having 99 other doctors and scientists on, to actually balance out his bullshit properly. Joe has an audience larger than many news media shows. He is now getting paid by a large corporation, whose largest shareholders are even larger corporations. Joe is MSM.
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  2094.  @ERMAC4482  Health Feedback: Robert Malone made multiple misleading or unsubstantiated claims about COVID-19 and vaccines on The Joe Rogan Experience
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  2095.  @ERMAC4482  Go look. They actually have multiple articles on his misinformation, besides just that one. And, they aren't the only ones.
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  2096.  @ERMAC4482  Yes I have. There's a helluva lot of debunking. It would be easier if you just go read the articles.
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  2097.  @themassage6534  The NYPD union, representing the majority of NYPD cops, is currently fighting to not even fire anyone, for killing a man. How is the majority good and decent, if they hide and protect the very bad?
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  2098.  @themassage6534  The police work for them. Their neighbors don't. If they don't like how their employees are operating, they have every right to let them know.
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  2099.  @themassage6534  Eric Garner.
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  2100.  @themassage6534  The disciplinary ruling advised the department to fire him. You, and the fucking NYPD, won't even accept a disciplinary ruling, when improper methods led to someone's death. Fuck you both. You're obviously blue no matter what, whose opinion is worthless.
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  2101. @West Park You've described some crap that a lot of extremely authoritarian regimes have done, most of which weren't communist. The difference being economics. Republicans are fascists, not communists. The USSR was actually the first country to allow abortions for whatever reason.
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  2102. @West Park Blah, blah, blah, the difference is economics, ffs. Ancappers and anarchists are not samesies, just because they both don't want governments. Neither are authoritarian communists and authoritarian capitalists samesies, just because they're both authoritarian. Ummm, one bunch of nuts did just try to overthrow democracy and install an unelected dictator, supported by a majority of Republican members of congress, and Republican lawmakers across the country. You know, aiming for all out fascism. On the flip side, absolutely no Democrats have promoted a 100% publicly owned and operated economy. There are zero communist politicians in power.
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  2103. ​ @barbaraklein3944 Likud's bloody 100 year history ... In 1923, 100 years ago, Ze'ev Jabotinsky wrote, The Iron Wall, and a follow up, The Ethics of The Iron Wall (sooo racist towards Africans), in which he fully acknowledged that post Balfour Zionsim was colonialism, and that, based on the entirety of history, the native Palestinian population would resist being colonized until the bitter end. He directly compared it to the colonization of North America. He promoted doing it anyway, claiming Zionist colonialism was a "just" colonialism (he also thought North American colonialists were good guys, so not a great judge of morality), not caring what that meant for the native population. Ze'ev is important, because his Betar militant youth group helped found the Irgun terrorist group, along with other supporters of his, and the splinter Lehi terrorist group. The Irgun bombed numerous Palestinian markets and other public places, murdering many Palestinian civilians, including children, even including Palestinian Jews (who didn't support colonialist Zionsim). The Irgun are important, because they ended up being led by future Likud PM, Menachem Begin, who bombed the King David Hotel. The King David Hotel was bombed because the British had raided the Jewish Agency and seized numerous documents that may have shown that the terrorists were working with the JA and Haganah (JA liked to pretend that they didn't support the terrorism). The British then stored those documents at their base, in the hotel. That the Irgun terrorists responded to a JA raid, itself seems to prove the connection. That the thousands of Irgun (and Lehi) terrorists were also quickly merged into the new nation's military (IDF) and intelligence (Mossad) agencies, and are still celebrated as "heroes" by Israelis, to this day, also seems to support total collaboration between the groups. That other terrorist group mentioned, Lehi (also known as the Stern Gang), was considered even more extreme. They even tried to ally with the Nazis, against the British. Lehi ended up being led by Yitzhak Shamir, future Mossad agent, and another future Likud PM. In 1945, there was a major land and peoples survey done in Palestine. It showed that the Zionists only owned about 5% of the total land, 20% of the arable land, and owned a majority in zero districts. The partition was not only going to be forced on the native Palestinian majority, but Jews were still going to be a minority, in the part allocated to them. The only possible way to even become a "Jewish state" was going to require getting rid of the actual majority (at least enough so that there'd be a solid Jewish majority, so they could fake being democratic). This is also shown by the 1948, post Nakba, population of Israel. If there was 716,700 Jews, 156,000+ non-Jews, and approximately 700k non-Jews ethnically cleansed, that means the Jewish population, in the Zionist portion of partition, was originally over 100,000 less than the non-Jewish population. To believe that there was never any intent, by Zionists, to ethnically cleanse away the Palestinian majority would require believing that they never intended to create a "Jewish state". It's a nonsensical notion. Begin, and those terrorist groups, also opposed partition, but for the opposite reason Palestinians did. Palestinians didn't want to be colonized, at all. The terrorists wanted to colonize it all. "Moderate" Zionists were okay with colonizing half ... for now (what would happen in the future, after partition, was up to them, said Ben-Gurion). The Zionist terrorists were also involved in massacres, and assassinations, during the partition violence (colonialist war against the natives). Another notable future Likud PM, also started in the military, during the partition fighting. That was Ariel Sharon, war criminal, "Butcher of Beirut". Menachem Begin, and these other Zionist terrorists, are important because they also later founded Likud. Now, people get upset over the slogan "From the river to the sea!", but it's the second part that's most important, "Palestine will be free!". Because "Palestine" isn't defined as an ethno-state, a free Palestine can be a single state, free for all to live in, and return to, free of continuing colonization, free of occupation, free of oppression, etc. Just like a Germany free of Nazism, an Italy free of fascism, a South Africa free of apartheid, or an America free of slavery from sea to shiny sea. It doesn't necessitate purging all the Jews. It just necessitates them giving up on the idea of an ethno-state. On the other hand, because "Israel" has been defined as an ethno-state, Likud's, "between the sea and the Jordan there will only be Israeli sovereignty", has no possible good interpretation. It is a declaration of intent to completely colonize, and ethnically cleanse, all Palestine territories. Not only that, but it also claims that they have a "right" to all of the "Land of Israel" (biblical borders that don't mesh with archaeological reality), which is an open declaration of future wars, against Jordan, Syria, Lebanon, and possibly even Iraq. Likud platform ... 1977: "The Right of the Jewish People to the Land of Israel (Eretz Israel) a. The right of the Jewish people to the land of Israel is eternal and indisputable and is linked with the right to security and peace; therefore, Judea and Samaria will not be handed to any foreign administration; between the Sea and the Jordan there will only be Israeli sovereignty. b. A plan which relinquishes parts of western Eretz Israel, undermines our right to the country, unavoidably leads to the establishment of a "Palestinian State," jeopardizes the security of the Jewish population, endangers the existence of the State of Israel. and frustrates any prospect of peace." "Settlement Settlement. both urban and rural. in all parts of the Land of Israel is the focal point of the Zionist effort to redeem the country, to maintain vital security areas and serves as a reservoir of strength and inspiration for the renewal of the pioneering spirit. The Likud government will call on the younger generation in Israel and the dispersions to settle and help every group and individual in the task of inhabiting and cultivating the wasteland, while taking care not to dispossess anyone." 1999: "The Government of Israel flatly rejects the establishment of a Palestinian Arab state west of the Jordan river. The Palestinians can run their lives freely in the framework of self-rule, but not as an independent and sovereign state. Thus, for example, in matters of foreign affairs, security, immigration, and ecology, their activity shall be limited in accordance with imperatives of Israel's existence, security and national needs." "The Jewish communities in Judea, Samaria, and Gaza are the realization of Zionist values. Settlement of the land is a clear expression of the unassailable right of the Jewish people to the Land of Israel and constitutes an important asset in the defense of the vital interests of the State of Israel. The Likud will continue to strengthen and develop these communities and will prevent their uprooting." All Palestine territories are officially considered occupied, by the International Court of Justice, the UN GA, the UN SC, and even in official documents of Israel's own allies. Likud is still using the blueprint for colonizing North America, in the West Bank. Move settlements out into native territory, piss off the natives, the natives retaliate, cry about poor "innocent" colonizing settlers being the "victims" of violent "Savages!", call in the cavalry to put down the native uprising, and eventually expand the borders to include those settlements. Rinse and repeat. In Gaza, they are operating an open air WWII style fascist ghetto. Them claiming a "right to defend themselves" would be like the Nazis claiming a "right to defend themselves " from the Warsaw ghetto uprising. There's no "war". That they're the occupiers means the "war" part is long over. That partition was forced upon the Palestinian majority, against their will ... that the Zionist portion still had to be forcefully ethnically cleansed of its non-Jewish majority, against their will ... that the millions of occupied Palestinians don't have a say in the government that truly rules over them, Israel's ... means Israel is about as democratic as Nazi Germany after Hitler purged his political opponents and then held elections. Hamas is basically just a poor man's Likud, only fighting against colonialism, instead of for colonialism.
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  2104. @Jack Bennett Armstrong So, as long as someone looks like a man, or a woman, without making sure, then that's what gender they are?
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  2105. Partition was anti-democratic. Ethnic cleansing away the actual majority was anti-democratic. Occupation is anti-democratic. Not allowing potential voters the right of return is anti-democratic. Not much of a democracy, and never was.
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  2106.  @tonymccann7445  Are there people who don't understand that the super rich don't live on taxable incomes?
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  2107.  @tonymccann7445  Is this the first time you've ever heard of her?
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  2108.  @tonymccann7445  So you've heard her say to tax wealth many times? What are you bitching about, then? That she wasn't specific on a fucking dress slogan? Are you a complete moron? A girl thinking she can become pm, or president, because of Margaret Thatcher, doesn't equate to having the same politics.
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  2109.  @marciamakesmusic  No, he said it showed perversions that had already been realized in both Communism and fascism. He already had a Stalinist country represented in the 3 totalitarian regimes, exactly where the USSR already was. He also already had an Imperialist regime based on Japan, their divine emperor, and suicidal devotion. Why would he include yet another Stalinist supernation, when he repeatedly stated he considered fascists to be the worst of the totalitarians, and not have them represented, at all? That the Ingsoc claimed to be socialists, then quickly abandoned it, and are described in the forbidden book Winston reads as being outright opposed to socialism, suggests they're fascists. Much like Hitler's "national socialists", who weren't really socialists, and quickly killed off their own left leaning members on the road to power. Doublespeak would suggest they're the opposite of what they claim to be.
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  2110. Yeah, treat the primaries as the main battleground, for getting what you actually want. But, if you lose, still vote in the general to say corporate Dems is as bad you want things to get, to try and keep Republicans out of power, forever. Driving 1 mph towards your destination is still better than going in the opposite direction.
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  2111.  @AmbyJeans  Yeah, "concentration camps" isn't PC enough, and you know how they're so pro-PC, aren't snowflakes, don't care about feelings, and such.
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  2112. The Nashville "manifesto" was literally described by authorities as the incoherent ramblings of someone with mental health issues. Meanwhile, the Florida manifesto, clearly laid out that the guy was a white supremacist. Vivek, trying to make out like they're reversed.
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  2113.  Jay McDanieL  Say we take Mr facts don't care about your feelings statement that life begins at conception. So what? Make that matter without any subjective caring.
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  2114.  @putinpuppet2063   Sure, empirical senses can be flawed, which is why we have more and more people make observations for things like science, to minimize the chance of flawed observations. Assuming parts are working properly, they're fairly objective, and what one person sees another person sees. Flawed parts doesn't make for a "subjective" observation, it just makes for an incorrect observation. Even a camera could be out of focus, have a scratch, or a microphone could be glitching, etc. Doesn't make their observations "subjective", just incorrect, or flawed. What would be an example of a purely objective wrong decision? Right, Ben is full of all kinds of crap, and is quite dishonest about his facts over feelings mantra. There's no factual evidence to support his religious beliefs. I said make it matter, not make it a fact. I also outright said above that objectivity, facts, truth ... should be independent of any subjectivity. Him simply stating that life begins at conception, isn't actually an argument for action, one way or the other. He states that fact like there's then an automatic objective, emotionless, jump right to anti-abortion, simply because it's "life". So it's "life". So what? That doesn't actually matter without subjectivity. Ben subjectively cares about that zigot and doesn't want it harmed. His feelings are his actual argument, not his fact. Right, an action can't be taken without subjectivity. Not helping someone? Either A, you don't care either way, which means you didn't actually make a decision (like I said above, a robot would sit there observing ... that's not "deciding" not to act, it just doesn't give a crap, so doesn't act ... neither would a vacuum cleaner). B, you subjectively have a desire to see what happens if you don't help, so decide not to. C, you subjectively fear more for your own safety if you try to help, than you do theirs, so decide not to. Or, some other subjective reason to actually decide not to. How could you actually decide not to act without subjectivity?
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  2115. Nina Turner
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  2116. Also a Canadian, here ... Yeah, the US still hasn't fully recovered from McCarthyism and the Cold War. They've gone from being 40% unionization and a 90% marginal tax bracket, at the top, to 10% unionized and people, and corporations, at the top, getting away with paying no taxes. During that time, both parties tried to avoid any hint of being left leaning, as far as economics go. The Republicans moved way right, and Democrats moved right of centre. There are zero politicians proposing complete economic equality and an end to capitalism. There is no "far left" in US politics. On the other hand, there are numerous politicians spouting far right Ayn Rand type politics. Bernie, and new progressives, are pointing at centrist European countries to emulate. They're centre-left, at most. US politics ranges from far right to centre-left, but many politicians, and the media, have pushed this "far left" nonsense, when "far left" doesn't really exist in US politics.
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  2117.  @knukkaboom4491  So how the hell can it be the "opposite" of feudalism?
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  2118.  @xq8152  She just used her platform and PAC to back 20 pro-M4A progressives, and helped add a few more M4A yes votes to congress. Not a fast process, to be sure, but better than the third party route that hasn't won the most popular third party a single seat in congress in its near 50 year existence.
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  2119.  @zoobrizz  Rofl. Half, or more, of Dore's audience are right wingers, and a bunch of others are third party voters or non voters, none of which voted Democrat anyway.
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  2120.  @secularsocialist  Completely false, you dimwitted Dore knob. Firstly, the Gallup article he cited clearly stated their hospitalization rates were for the total unvaccinated and vaccinated populations, together a hospitalization rate for the entire population. Secondly, there are 3 different covid "death rates". 1 is the infection fatality rate, which has been estimated at about 1%, since the beginning, and multiple studies since then have supported about a 1% infection fatality rate, in developed countries. 2 is the case fatality rate, which changes constantly, which you can easily find the current rate, and which is even easy to do the math to figure out yourself. 3 is the crude mortality rate, which is covid deaths per the total population, which is also easy to find the current rate, or do the math to figure out yourself. A 3.4% "death rate", from a year and a half ago, is clearly a case fatality rate. Only a complete and utter moron, couldn't find the current rate, or simply do the math. Even then, it's the wrong rate. If you're using a total population hospitalization rate, then the comparable "death rate" is the crude mortality rate. Comparing total population hospitalization rates to a case fatality rate is completely dishonest. You must be completely ignorant to think he made a valid comparison. Dumber than a stump.
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  2121.  @secularsocialist  Just how slow are you? I didn't claim simply giving opinions on YouTube and making money was grifting. I clearly spelled out what I meant by grifting. A grifter, like a snake oil salesman, claims to be selling you something beneficial, but is actually selling you something completely useless, or even harmful. Incredibly ironic, you claiming others are lying and strawmanning. Nope, you're lying. He claimed Ivermectin was both an effective remedy and an effective preventative, on Rogan's show. He got caught in that lie with his first video on his new right wing platform, Rumble. Probably signed a deal, like his grifter friend Glenn did, for some of that Peter Thiel money ... made from working with the CIA, btw. By Jimmy's own "logic", he himself is both a grifter and a CIA agent. You also lied about what he did with his dishonest comparison of rates based on totally different math. Nope. He outright promoted Trump as the better option than Clinton, and made up some delusional fantasy to justify what he was saying, none of which came true. Promoting voting for Stein is also promoting letting Trump win. In no reality was she going to win, right. So you're just promoting not voting for the only viable alternative to Trump. I know what actual anti-vax people say. They say covid is like a cold or flu, isn't that bad, so isn't worth getting vaccinated. Dore lying that covid deaths are "WILDLY inflated", by over 10x, supports their position. They claim there are alternatives to vaccines, and Dore promoting Ivermectin, and other unproven crap, as effective, supports their position. They claim the vaccine side effects are worse than covid. Dore constantly going on about negative side effects, while never pointing out that the rates for the same things, like tinnitus or myocarditis, are much much higher with those who get covid, supports their position. They claim it's some big pharma scam and Dore peddling that it's some big pharma scam, supports their position. Nope. Tulsi wasn't to the left of Bernie on anything. Bernie said no intervention in Venezuela. Bernie spoke out against the right wing coup, and in favor of Morales, in Bolivia. Bernie called airstrikes on Syria illegal and unauthorized. Dore, and his knobs, just didn't do their homework. Jimmy's guest clearly stated he was for an "extreme free market" and Dore clearly promoted allying with him. Boogaloos are psychos, that want to start a civil war, ffs. Rofl! Dore literally brings up the bill of rights, with Carlson, you dishonest lying dimwitted Dore knob. That's exactly what he was talking about. While also peddling the right wing bullshit, that giant corporations, owned by centibillionaires, are "the left". He's his own best joke. Fighting to add more yes votes to congress, when getting enough yes votes in congress is the only possible way to ever pass a bill, is the most important fight. Dore has actively worked against doing just that, and slanders people who have done just that. He's a grifter, who claims he's for X, but is actually peddling you Y and/or Z.
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  2122. Dumbass. All it would take is for someone on SSI disability and SNAP, neither of which Yang has stacking with UBI, already getting $1000+ a month in assistance. They wouldn't benefit from UBI but would still have to pay the VAT on many items.
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  2123.  @fredsanford1437  Lol, like the freedom for Russia to invade another country? The freedom to pass on a contagious virus to others? The freedom to incite an insurrection? Etc. Give me a break.
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  2124.  @TheSkryptik  I'm beginning to see that you're not "simply asking questions", in good faith.
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  2125.  @sergeikhripun  Seder was promoting Nina Turner, all along, trying to add another M4A yes vote to congress. Meanwhile, Jimmy actually argued against her ... against adding another M4A yes vote to congress. The DSA has had M4A rallies before, that Dore didn't promote. Dore has ... also not promoted every M4A rally ever, openly argued against adding another M4A yes vote to congress, donated to an anti-M4A Republican, promoted far right anti-M4A ancap Boogaloos as allies, promoted anti-M4A Trump as the better option in 2016, promoted anti-M4A candidate Tulsi Gabbard in the 2020 primaries, didn't give a crap if 10m of the poorest Americans were tossed off Medicaid expansion, didn't care to try and add 40m older Americans to Medicare expansion, and promotes third parties that have produced the likes of Kyrsten Sinema and haven't won a single seat in congress in decades ... but he has somehow crowned himself the one true champion of healthcare, and morons have bought it.
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  2126.  @sergeikhripun  There's already a record of who won't cosign, and a record of committee members sitting on the bill, dimwit. Do something with it, or shut up. Why don't you Dore knobs do something with the record of those who voted against a $15 minimum wage, while you're at it, instead of whining about those who voted for it.
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  2127.  @nathandwyer7273  No. The NDP would be about as effective if they were in an outright coalition with the Liberal party, and it would lower the risk of Conservatives winning. Outside of Alberta and Saskatchewan, Conservatives can't win a majority anywhere. They only win pluralities, and it's totally because votes are split between Liberals and NDP (and BQ). Canada is an example of why a third party kind of sucks, as long as the right is united. The US has an even worse problem, since Republicans are about 15 points more popular, in the US, than Conservatives are in Canada. Splitting votes in any significant way would lead to Republicans dominating for decades.
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  2128.  @nathandwyer7273  You're lying to these people. Jack Layton's popularity is part of why Canada got asshole Stephen Harper for so many years. The votes were too split, between Liberals and the NDP. They'd be much more effective as a coalition party. You need a bunch of parties, with the right divided up, as well. Only 3 main parties leads to conservatives winning much much more than they should. Conservatives would win nowhere but Alberta and Saskatchewan, if the Liberals and NDP were a coalition.
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  2129.  @sergeikhripun  Yeah, and Tucker had pro Assange videos going back a year before Dore was even on. Right wingers love WikiLeaks. Assange isn't some left wing issue. Did Tucker convince Dumpty to pardon Assange? No. So, Jimmy goes on the show, and immediately agrees with Tucker's right wing framing of Trump being kicked off social media because of left wing cancel culture, and blathers about the first amendment, which doesn't even apply, and only feeds right wing morons' victim complex, and feeling their rights are being violated. Utter bullshit. Jimmy should have pointed out that there's no such thing as free speech rights on someone else's private property. He should have pointed out that right wingers are the ones siding with private property, and that, if you do want free speech rights, then you should back public ownership. He should have pointed out that giant corporations, owned by centibillionaires, aren't "leftist", in the least. He should have pointed out that right wingers are the ones who handed corporations so much power, argued they're people with their own rights, including the right to their own beliefs and right to act on those beliefs. They created the monster they're crying about. Plus, he should have pointed out that inciting insurrections and defamation aren't protected speech, even if you made social media an actual public square, through public ownership. He should have pointed out that conservative religious types have been cancelling things and people for millennia. He should have pointed out that Republicans are fine when the government outright violates free speech, like the head of government firing or threatening to fire anyone who contradicts him, like anti-BDS laws, like LGBT books, like making it harder and more dangerous to protest, like an FCC still protecting delicate conservative sensibilities from naughty words and nipples, etc. He should have pointed out all the times Republicans have promoted cancelling a business or a person ... for kneeling, for being gay, for being trans, etc. He should have pointed out that "cancel culture" is nothing new, and not something just the left does. In fact, the left hardly uses government, in comparison, and instead uses social pressure, which is basically like the libertarian solution, to use Yelp, or something, to push a business to behave the way you want. Yeah, and this was right before the well deserved second impeachment, Jimmy then threw in the off topic bone, to Tucker and his audience, that he too considered the first impeachment to be a sham, feeding their doubts about the second one. Nothing in the Mueller report has been refuted. Intelligence agencies didn't rely on the stupid Steele dossier, and are even the ones who decided it wasn't reliable. No clue what you think "Russiagate" is. It's just a fact that Russia interfered in the election. Trump's own FBI concluded the same thing, in 2020. Without relying on the Steele dossier, the Mueller report laid out some 200 pages of information sharing (collusion) that didn't amount to criminal conspiracy, stated Jr and Kushner weren't charged with criminal conspiracy because it would be too hard to prove they willfully broke the law not because they didn't break the law, and laid out evidence of obstruction. The only people I see blathering about "Russiagate", is you Dore knobs. Then, like I said, he finally talked about Assange, which was already something Tucker had no problem with. Nothing Jimmy said on that segment challenged any of Tucker's far right views, or his audience's. A total love fest.
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  2130. ​ @vipermad358  FDR
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  2131.  @SLC-Smudge42  Sam, talking about having Murray on ... "When I did read the book and did some more research on him, I came to think that he was probably the most unfairly maligned person in my lifetime. That doesn’t really run the risk of being much of an exaggeration there." "In the process of defending him against the charge of racism and in order to show that he had been mistreated for decades, we had to talk about the science of IQ and the way genes and environment almost certainly contribute to it." Ezra Klein then lists a number of ways the book is blatantly racist, and Sam starts walking back ... "Now I’m not defending Murray’s view of what the social policy should be." Uh, yeah Sam, you opened arguing he's not, at all, a racist.
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  2132.  @cringlator  Not really. They had the same basic end goal. Differences in method doesn't change the end goal. Plus, if you look at what Marx actually did ... He, and Engels, were members of the SPD, a democratic socialist party, which claimed to be Marxist. They weren't leaders of a violent rebellion. Likewise, for much of Europe. POUM (Workers' Party of Marxist Unification), in Spain, for example, were anti-Stalinists. On the other side, Nazis were Nazis, whether they were attempting a coup, or whether they were getting elected. The end goal was the same.
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  2133.  @EricLeafericson  And? Mussolini ended up being backed by the King (anti-socialist), exactly because his black shirts had been going after socialist enclaves.
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  2134.  @Historia.Magistra.Vitae.  If you think they are the same, then you're arguing that socialism is private ownership. The governance of an absolute monarchy is similar to a large private company. An owner, a board of directors, managers, foremen, and workers. In an absolute monarchy, the borders of the "state" are the borders of the monarch's private property.
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  2135.  @robertpitts671  The $15 got a vote. Dore and his knobs have spent months making out like just getting a vote on an important progressive policy would be a big deal. It actually passed the house (M4A wouldn't have) and also got a senate vote, so you've got a list of no voters from both the house and senate. Dore and his knobs have spent months making out like getting a list of no voters would be a big deal. So ... what have Dore and his knobs done with it? Just kept bitching about those who got it to stay in for a round of voting and who voted for it. Just a bunch of useless pathetic hypocrites.
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  2136.  @robertpitts671  Trump helped kill hundreds of thousands of Americans, dumb dumb. If the US had responded as well as Vietnam or S Korea, they'd have under 12k total covid deaths. He was incompetent beyond belief.
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  2137.  @FerdEdits  Oh piss off with the "there are no progressives in Washington" bullshit. Bernie, Justice Dems, and AOC, have done more for M4A in a few years than Dore has in his entire lifetime. Increasing the number of yes votes in congress is the only possible way to get any of those things. The most popular third party hasn't won a single seat in its near 50 year existence. The broader progressive caucus is 30 years old and is about 10 seats away from becoming the majority of house Dems. Justice Dems are 4 years old and have replaced about a dozen corporate Dems. AOC has been at it 2 years, and has helped replace a few corporate Dems. They're immeasurably more successful than any third party, because you can't even measure how many times better something is than zero ... zero seats, zero bills introduced, zero amendments, zero votes on even a single bill. Because there's no possible way for third party candidates, like former Green candidate Sinema, to ever become corrupt? You're living in some Puritan fantasy world. You get that "vote blue" works both ways, right? That Dems who voted against progressives in the primaries will vote for them in the general, if they win the primaries. Even if you somehow magically convinced every progressive to vote for your fantasy perfectly perfect party, that would just split the votes enough to let Republicans rule for decades to come, in most places.
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  2138.  @FerdEdits  "M4A" and "a 100% guaranteed to fail performance art vote" aren't exactly the same thing. Be clear that you want them to try and block legislation to get a piece of performance art, not to actually get M4A, which requires 100+ more yes votes in the house alone. Also be clear that there are zero extra votes to be gained to the left of progressives, and there is the entire Republican party to try and draw extra votes from, on the right. In a standoff, a bill could be pushed far enough right to pick up enough Republican votes to pass a bill without the squad. On the other hand, it's absolutely impossible to pass a bill without the likes of Manchin, because of the fact that there are no extra votes to be gained to the left, by pushing a bill left. It's a numbers game, and adding numbers is how you win the game. Making out like increasing numbers is doing nothing is beyond moronic. It's the only possible way to ever pass any bill. AOC and Bernie are now trying to increase the numbers by one, by adding Nina Turner. Is Dore promoting Turner?
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  2139.  @FerdEdits  Really? A month of Dore videos, and no headlines promoting Nina Turner. How far back do I have to go, exactly? AOC was just campaigning with her, on the ground in Ohio, a week ago, promoting M4A at rallies as well, and Jimmy's lying headline from 2 days ago, "Bernie and squad abandon Medicare4All". Not trying for what ... trying to actually get M4A, which requires numbers, or trying to get a 100% guaranteed to fail vote? She's actually trying to increase numbers. The $15 minimum vote proved FTVers would do absolutely nothing with a list of no voters, except keep bitching about those who got it to stay in for a round of voting and who voted for it, rather than use it to go after the no voters. There's also already a list of congress members who won't sign onto the M4A bill, during a pandemic, and FTVers just keep bitching about those who did sign onto it, instead of going after the 300+ house members who haven't.
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  2140.  @FerdEdits  Also, Pelosi actually introduced the M4A bill, just last session, and the parliamentarian sent it to committees, where it quietly died, where 90% of bills die. Over a year, including 9 months worth of pandemic, and zero pressure from Dore on committee members to take up the bill, zero protest campaign against committee members ... nada. He was too busy making excuses for his girl Tulsi, and then running an attack ad campaign against Trump's only remaining viable opponent.
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  2141. Probably more to do with the fact that day of voting skewed towards Trump. So would day of exit polls. It's just bullshit, based on bad data.
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  2142.  @premiumGenX  Terrible people vote for terrible policies.
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  2143. You have some serious comprehension problems. There's no such thing as free speech on someone else's private property. Never has been. A private property owners right to have you removed from their private property has always trumped the non right to be on their private property saying shit in the first place. If you want free speech on social media platforms, then make a public ownership argument. Blathering about the constitution has zero to do with private companies.
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  2144. ​ @gnubbiersh647  No clue how Harris even got a philosophy degree. He doesn't even seem to have a full grasp on basics, like subjectivity vs objectivity. He is not very bright.
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  2145.  @mattsheldon8671  Peterson has a PhD and Chopra has a medical degree. You didn't mention a thing that really makes them different.
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  2146.  @mattsheldon8671  That's nice. Is he simply writing peer reviewed papers, and does he stick solely to psychology? Do you think a psychologist, who told millions of people (some percentage of whom would have mental health issues), that his daughter's all meat diet cured his anxiety and depression and that he hadn't needed meds for 6 months ... months before needing to be put into a coma, to break his severe addiction to those very same meds ... is a credible one? Or, do you think it's one that is even willing to give the worst mental health advice, just to make a buck?
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  2147.  @BSCTrainerRob  Honey Boo Boo was a popular American television show. Trump is popular. Why do ignoramuses think popularity is evidence of intelligence?
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  2148.  @gnubbiersh647  That popularity (book sales) isn't evidence of intelligence, as the person I replied to implied.
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  2149.  @andrewkowalow3794  The Steele dossier wasn't used in the Mueller investigation. Don't tell me Jimmy prattled on and on, about something irrelevant, making a huge deal about a nothingburger. He wouldn't do that. Don't recall Sam supporting it.
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  2150.  @duaneslack8516  The same "Russiagate" that led a Republican investigator to indict 29 Russians, and 3 Russian companies? The same "Russiagate" that included some 200 pages of documented non conspiracy level information sharing (collusion), and only didn't indict Jr and Kushner for conspiracy because it would be hard to prove they "willfully" broke the law, not because they didn't break the law? Are you sure you're not thinking of the numerous Benghazi investigations that found no wrongdoing?
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  2151. @The One Oh yeah? What are some examples of him lying?
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  2152.  @grantwithers  Rofl, you mean that Peterson misrepresented, after he said it. How the hell does "enforced monogamy" translate as anything other than exactly what it says?
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  2153. Yeah, Peru used it and has the highest covid deaths per capita in the world. Show a single study, that has passed peer review, which shows its effective against covid. Even the manufacturer doesn't recommend it as a safe and effective covid remedy, even though it could make them billions, if it was.
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  2154.  @carmenharvey6611  Japan has not approved using it. Mexico has surpassed the US in covid deaths per capita, and is widely considered to be underreporting deaths. A huge "study" out of India was just pulled from print, for obviously fabricated and manipulated data.
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  2155.  @harveymanfredsenjenson5417  Must be rough with such severe reading comprehension problems.
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  2156.  @harveymanfredsenjenson5417  You clearly do.
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  2157.  @StoneyHoliday  But, king of the progressives, and M4A champion, Jimmy Dore, paints himself as a left wing man of the people, and administer of the progressive purity test ... which amounts to following a single half baked idea of his, or you're out of the club. Surely, he only promotes the most leftist of candidates.
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  2158.  @edwardrosser938  Did you miss Matt reporting that he's not doing hard investigate reporting for a year or two?
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  2159.  @edwardrosser938  Rofl. What math doesn't add up?
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  2160.  @edwardrosser938  It's "terrifying" to wear a mask and/or get a needle? Get a grip.
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  2161.  @edwardrosser938  Too late. I already said it was pointless talking to Dore knobs, from the get go. You proved me right.
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  2162.  @edwardrosser938  Nope, but I did just run across someone spewing a stream of them.
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  2163.  @newcoatresurfacing5477  You tell me. You're the one with a cult leader. Hard to tell a Dore knob from a Trumpist.
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  2164.  @edwardrosser938  No, he doesn't. If he actually encouraged you to research what he has said, and you actually researched what he has said, you'd find that he's full of shit. Trumpists are constantly telling people to do "independent research", when what they mean is ... don't listen to the consensus of the vast majority of doctors and scientists, across the world, and find that fringe loon who's telling you what we're telling you. They're constantly telling people to "think for themselves", and calling others "sheep", when what they mean is "think exactly what the cult is telling you", and they're the biggest bunch of sheep going.
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  2165.  @patrickriarchy1976  It is no misconception. Again ... a VAT is specifically designed to not tax businesses, in order to avoid cascading taxes upon taxes ... which would be worse (you're arguing for something that would actually be worse than the VAT). I owned and operated a VAT registered business, for years. If you're not a Yang ganger, then why are you lying so hard, for him?
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  2166.  @patrickriarchy1976  "The GST takes into account the cost of inputs – the factors used in manufacturing or production – at each stage of the process to avoid double taxation. Input tax credits enable partnerships, businesses and self-employed workers to recover all GST paid on goods and services purchased for business purposes by deducting them from their GST payments. Final consumers are not entitled to such credits, which means that they pay all the GST on every item purchased. The GST is thus a multi-stage tax on final consumption." If my business buys $100 in vatable goods or services, it would pay $10 input VAT (with a 10% VAT). However, when I sell $200 in vatable goods or services, it would collect $20 in output VAT. The business then pays itself back the $10, and sends $10 to the government. So, if the government received $20 VAT ($10 + $10), and my customers paid $20 VAT, how much VAT did my business end up paying?
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  2167.  @2727rogers  Why do you keep peddling this bullshit? You've been debunked multiple times.
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  2168. ​ @DanNorton1  Your hero disliked you anarcho types: "For the record, I shall repeat what I have said many times before: I do not join or endorse any political group or movement. More specifically, I disapprove of, disagree with and have no connection with, the latest aberration of some conservatives, the so-called “hippies of the right,” who attempt to snare the younger or more careless ones of my readers by claiming simultaneously to be followers of my philosophy and advocates of anarchism. Anyone offering such a combination confesses his inability to understand either. Anarchism is the most irrational, anti-intellectual notion ever spun by the concrete-bound, context-dropping, whim-worshiping fringe of the collectivist movement, where it properly belongs."
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  2169. Ummm, the Trump presidency gave you Biden. People were so scared, and desperate to get rid of Trump, they fell for the "more electable" propaganda, in the primaries. Dore protects establishment Republicans, by never talking about how horrible they are. He has promoted a Republican as the better option. He goes on the establishment MSM Republican propaganda network to largely agree with them. What are you even talking about?
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  2170.  @DiverDan1000-3  Check your reading comprehension problems, first.
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  2171.  @DiverDan1000-3  You have severe reading comprehension problems. I said he promoted a republican, and he did. He promoted Trump as the better option than Clinton. Someone might argue that Trump wasn't "establishment", but I didn't say "establishment Republican" in that sentence, you dimwitted Dore knob. Still, Trump ran on a pretty standard establishment Republican platform, including wanting to toss 10m of the poorest Americans off of Medicaid expansion (which Dore argued was the better option) and he would be a Republican president in place to sign all the bills sent up by the establishment Republicans. Also, if you're promoting a Republican president as the better option, people might just stay home to let him win, which would benefit the establishment Republicans on the down ballots.
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  2172.  @DiverDan1000-3  Idiot Dore knob. Jimmy outright made the argument Trump was worse, but promoted him as the better option, because he had a delusional fantasy that a Trump presidency would cause a major progressive backlash. He vastly overestimated the benefits, claiming it would "for sure" lead to progressives taking the house (wrong) and the senate (wrong), in 2018, and the presidency (wrong), in 2020. He vastly underestimated the risks, claiming even establishment Republicans would vote against a Trump agenda (wrong), and that Trump filling multiple scotus seats was as likely as the moon falling into Lake Michigan (wrong). In what reality was Trump the "lesser evil", and Jimmy wrong on that count, as well?
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  2173.  @DiverDan1000-3  Rofl, what a load of bullshit. The whole Bernie and new progressive movement got going after Obama. Clinton couldn't even make it through the primaries, without showing she was corrupt. It didn't require having to let a complete psycho rule for 4 years. That ended up sending everyone screaming, terrified of another Trump term, right into Biden's "more electable" arms. Of course, Dore didn't care if Bernie (M4A) lost, because, one true champion of healthcare that he is, he was backing Tulsi (public option), the second time around.
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  2174.  @DiverDan1000-3  Her public option, like I put in brackets. Didn't you Dore knobs just make support for a single tactic to get a performance art vote for M4A the purity test for being a "real" progressive? Her healthcare platform was worse than Biden's, you hypocrites.
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  2175.  @DiverDan1000-3  I don't think there's a "perfect" candidate. You're the numbskulls who have made out like other progressives are "fakes", "frauds", "sellouts", PINOs, or whatever bullshit, with your ftv purity test, while being complete hypocrites, who backed a public option candidate.
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  2176.  @DiverDan1000-3  Whoever I like is irrelevant to Dore, and his knobs, being complete hypocrites.
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  2177.  @DiverDan1000-3  Don't like him ... because he's stupid, dishonest, a hypocrite, a grifter, ...
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  2178. ​ @chres843  You don't appear to know what "logic" means.
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  2179. Red states tend to have higher firearm mortality rates, higher homicide rates, higher poverty rates, lower education outcomes, lower healthcare outcomes, ... why is it you think Republicans are better for anyone?
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  2180.  Aaron Dickson  Do you have reading comprehension problems? I said red states. You know, run by Republican governors, and majority Republican state legislators. You know, the dimwits who make state gun laws, etc. You failed to mention St Louis, Missouri, the per capita gun violence capital of the country, where it's easier to get guns.
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  2181.  @jamesbarton1757  ftv is threatening to paralyze the house, dumb dumb. The house can't function without a speaker. No new bills, meaning no new covid relief, no new unemployment extension, no new vaccine funding, etc., during a pandemic, for a piece of performance art.
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  2182.  @inspectortanzi  Why do you dimwits Dore knobs not know that ftv is a threat to paralyze the house, by not picking a speaker?
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  2183.  David Winehouse  Is Biden encouring people to get themselves killed, like psychotic Republicans, dumb dumb?
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  2184.  @inspectortanzi  My phone added an s to dimwit, Dore knob. But, yeah, a grammatical error is totally the same as having zero clue what the plan you're backing actually threatens to do.
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  2185.  @jamesbarton1757  Delaying covid relief for performance art would look bad for progressives. The corporate Dems and MSM would have a field day trashing them, and blaming them for the delays. The corporate Dem majority of the party should do a lot of things they don't.
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  2186.  @inspectortanzi  Keep adding more M4A yes votes to congress, because that's the only possible way to ever pass a bill? It's exactly what you'd still need to do after a failed performance art vote. AOC was just trying to add 1 more, with Nina Turner. What were Dore knobs doing? Protesting AOC instead?
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  2187.  David Winehouse  How is dropping bombs, while also sitting on your ass as hundreds of thousands of Americans die, exactly the same as dropping bombs, while trying to get everyone vaccinated? How is dropping bombs, while trying to toss millions of the poorest Americans off of Medicaid expansion, exactly the same as dropping bombs, while not doing that? What was the other viable option, again?
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  2188.  David Winehouse  Biden didn't run on M4A, dumb dumb. The minimum wage got a vote and a list of no voters. Dore knobs have proven that they don't actually think getting a vote on an important progressive policy is important, and proven that they wouldn't have actually done anything with a list of no voters.
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  2189.  David Winehouse  What was the other viable option, again?
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  2190.  @inspectortanzi  If you think M4A would have actually passed, right now, during a pandemic, you're completely delusional. It's 100+ votes short in the house alone. What you wanted, right now, during a pandemic, was a 100% guaranteed to fail performance art vote, and then you'd still need to add more yes votes to congress, exactly like AOC and Justice Dems, have been doing.
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  2191.  @inspectortanzi  She was just on the ground with Nina Turner, trying to add another M4A yes vote to congress, and promoting M4A at the rallies. That's more action than sitting in your garage bitching about everything and anything. But you do know that 300+ house members won't even sign onto the bill, during a pandemic, while you bitch about those who have and give those 300+ a pass. Absolutely psychotic, that Dore isn't constantly going after those who won't sign onto the bill, and is instead constantly going after those who have.
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  2192.  @whyamimrpink78  The US was founded by people who protested and even rioted against extra taxes that specifically funded the police/military. That's anti-authoritarian.Their opponents fought against democracy to keep an unelected ruler in power. That's authoritarian. Those two things aren't samesies, just because both sides caused damage and hurt people. There's no such thing as a left wing "fascist", and the right already went overt fascist, by trying to overthrow the democratic process. However flawed US democracy is, trying to outright end it is the last nail in the coffin Republicans need to hammer in, to embrace overt fascism. There's also not really such a thing as an extreme left in the US. Someone like Bernie wants to be more like Denmark. That's centrism, in the real world, outside the US bubble.
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  2193. Not only would Trump support Israel just as much, maybe more, but he'd also let Russia do the same thing as Israel, to Ukraine. On top if that, he'd royally screw things up domestically. He has said he wants a pledge of allegiance to Israel to get in the country. He has said he wants to reinstate and expand his Muslim ban. He'd support those red shirt kinds of tactics in NYC. He has said he's going to use the justice system to go after leftist ("First they came for the communists ..."). His Christo-fascists want to take the country back to Puritan times. Etc. Plus, even if you magically got the rest of Democrats to elect a third party presidential candidate, that candidate would be totally impotent, on the Israel issue, because of how much support Israel has in congress. They could easily pass what they want, for Israel, and override any presidential veto. It's a pointless risk, over a single policy.
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  2194.  @jonathanlubarsky2782  Sure, there is another way. Have the government also consider stocks to have current value, and tax them. Or, don't allow banks to consider stocks to have current value, and make them have to sell to get money in hand, and pay taxes on what they sell. Having so much wealth piling up at the top, means it's not being put back into the economy. Wealth being hoarded at the top, by both corporations and billionaires (about $4t each) is why trickle down doesn't work. They should be paying their employees a larger cut, as well.
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  2195.  @jonathanlubarsky2782  Tesla could have handed each of their 110000 employees, $450000 in stock, and still handed over $6b to Musk, just in the last 4 years.
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  2196.  Marc Ruffalo  The only real "American culture" is a culture of immigration and different cultures coming together to make a new one. So, did Italians all convert to Protestantism, start drinking tea, not let any of their language or foods seep into the "American culture", and give up constantly letting everyone know they're Italian? Fuck no. Italians didn't assimilate to "American culture", "American culture" absorbed Italians, and parts of their culture, gangsters and all. That's what makes a melting pot. They melt together and make something new. It's simply racists and bigots who single out groups they don't want to absorb. If there should be zero tolerance in "American culture" changing, then Americans should be putting people in the stocks for kissing in public, stringing up even Quakers for not practicing Christianity properly let alone people practicing different religions, and attacking neighbouring towns/cities for improper conduct. All Americans adopt the culture of the original colonizers, and stick with it.
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  2197. Rofl, says the Dore knob.
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  2198.  @Gambit0590  He's a Dore knob. They aren't very bright.
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  2199.  @michael-pg8fi  Rofl. Dore is the one who took the with us or against us approach, making out like any progressives who didn't agree with him 100% were a "fakes", "frauds", "shills", or whatnot. Then, turns around and makes out like a far right ancapper, who praised the shooting of BLM and Antifa protesters, is a perfect ally. He's a nutjob.
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  2200.  @marciamakesmusic  Just using his own words.
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  2201. This not Rvssia's first time in Ukrn. They already did the Hldmr gncd. They already ethnclly clnsd the Tartars. They already clnzd regions they depopulated. They also did Rvssiafication in Ukrn. Ever since the Svt collapse, Rvssia has been trying to claw back former Svt states (Georgia I, Chechnya I, Chechnya II, Georgia II, Ukrn) ... Trying to claw their way back to NATO's borders. Rvssia never wanted a Svt collapse ... They never wanted to NOT be on NATO's borders. Pvtin said the same in his very first address to parliament as PM. They just don't want NATO in states they want back. NATO also turned down Ukrn's application. What Pvtin actually got upset about was Ukrn joining the EU. Then he put an Eastern trade blckd on Ukrn.
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  2202. ​ @aheroictaxidriver3180  If the North didn't want to end slavery, then why had all the Northern states already ended, or were ending, slavery in their states?
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  2203.  @aheroictaxidriver3180  So? If they didn't give a crap, then why end it?
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  2204. ​ @AOLAmericaOnline  Colonialists in the Americas allowed "good" natives to live near them ... while still massacring and ethnic cleansing many others. That's equivalent to saying you have a black friend, so can't be racist.
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  2205.  @BelowMeGoggle  You Dore knobs are such dishonest twits. AOC criticized voting "present" on an important and historical vote, not simply voting "present", in general. Nothing much historical, or significantly important, about voting "present" for a purely defensive system. The Iron Dome doesn't attack Palestinians. So what? She, and other progressives, have a bill to attach conditions on the annual military aid to Israel. They have an anti anti-BDS laws bill. She actually voted against the State Department appropriation bill, which includes the annual $3.3b in offensive military aid to Israel. It was dishonest of Hinkle to say she voted for it. What she later voted for was the entire government budget, after the appropriation bill was passed, without her. That includes healthcare, education, housing, veteran's benefits, SNAP, SSI, etc., etc., etc. ... things he apparently wanted her to vote against.
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  2206. For example?
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  2207.  @Neofilmcritic  What do you think an ad hom is?
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  2208. You should put "pundit" in quotes. Most media "pundits" don't actually seem to be pundits, at least not in the subjects they're talking about. pundit: an expert in a particular subject or field who is frequently called on to give opinions about it to the public
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  2209. ​ @Matty-o9p  She stated exactly why. Rudimentary Google proficiency will tell you why. But, why do you think?
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  2210. ​ @alejandrosolano7421  In Pvtin's very first address to the Rvssian assembly, as PM, he lamented about the loss of SSR countries. He never wanted Rvssia to not be on NATO's borders. Rvssia has been trying to re-expand, back into states that declared independence, since 1991, trying to get back to the NATO borders. Pvtin blockaded Ukrn trade East, and caused the whole EU deal to fall apart. Pvtin has been invdng Ukrn since 2014. What's wrong with supporting Ukrn against an invdr? Rvssia is just like Isrl.
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  2211. ​ @alejandrosolano7421  Georgia I (1991-93), Chechnya I (1994-96), Chechnya II (1999-2009), Georgia II (2008), Ukraine (2014-present).
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  2212. ​ @Matty-o9p  She didn't vote to pass it. Just a fact, dingus.
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  2213. The progressive caucus is an election or two away from becoming the majority of house Dems, and can then pick the Dem speaker, and bring up as many progressive bills for a vote as often as they like, if Dems are still the majority of the house. It's getting close.
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  2214. Rofl, you think Seder likes Pelosi?!
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  2215.  @intuitionz1198  I'd prefer pre 1948, but who would be recognizing the 1948 borders?
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  2216. That "honest man" has said that a spiritual experience, not a medically induced coma, is the only cure for addiction. That "honest man" claimed his daughter's meat only diet cured his anxiety and depression. They're a family of con artists.
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  2217. ​ @mananimal3644  Trump thanks you.
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  2218.  @brianblair6067  Rofl. What a load of crap. You're the type of idiot who winds up on the wrong end of the Night of the Long Knives (assuming you're not one of Dore's right wing fans).
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  2219. Well, choosing to live in blissful ignorance is stupid, so there's some overlap.
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  2220. When the Jews rose up against their Roman oppressors, killing tens of thousands of non Jewish civilians, did the Jews appreciate the excessive force used to put down the uprising, the destruction of their temple, and the ethnic cleansing ... or, were they still complaining about it 1500 years later?
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  2221.  @sachinaraszkiewicz785  JP, and his daughter, are the one who made a mockery of anxiety and depression, with their charlatan bullshit. People find the irony and hypocrisy funny, not the condition itself. Kind of like Rush Limbaugh, with his anti-drug, pro war on drugs, tough on crime, rants, getting hooked on painkillers, and then buying his way out of being convicted.
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  2222. So, Reagan was an insurrectionist ... for Democrats ... using her "logic"?
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  2223. ​@TheMahayanist "I met the undead Jesus on the road ... I swear!"
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  2224. There are over 130k truck drivers working in Canada. Those protesting are a very small percentage. Needing an actual passport to cross the border, and needing a vaccine passport to cross the border, have nothing much to do with means of production. Likewise, needing a driver's license, needing insurance, following speed limits, obeying lines, obeying lights, obeying signs, seatbelt laws, etc., have nothing really to do with means of production. A completely worker owned co-op food packing plant, would still have to follow health and safety standards, and whatever other laws that apply.
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  2225. Dore has been on Tucker's show a few times. They don't debate. They just largely agree.
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  2226. ​ @elaineklein2385 No he didn't. FTV was moronic. Dore hasn't even dared to talk to Sam, since Sam cleaned his clock, when Jimmy promoted letting Trump win, in 2016. Nothing Dore said came true, and Sam was exactly right about the Supreme Court.
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  2227.  @zachsmith5371  Jimmy is so stupid, he doesn't know the difference between a crude mortality rate and a case fatality rate. He argued to not add another M4A supporter (Nina Turner) to congress, when getting enough support in congress is the only way to ever actually pass the bill. He tries to sell you that he's pro M4A, but then sells you a completely useless, or harmful, way to try and achieve it ... just like a snake oil salesman. He's a grifter.
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  2228.  @Sharper714  She was literally just talking about it while campaigning for Nina, Dore knob. Nothing but slander from you pathetic good for nothings.
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  2229.  @jean-philippeviensjpsplint7410  Kids can't go to public school without a bunch of vaccines. Immigrants can't immigrate without a bunch of vaccines. What's your point? That the current unvaccinated are bigger babies than little kids, or that they care less about their fellow citizens than immigrants?
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  2230.  @robinsss  How is eliminating all regulation not completely unfettered capitalism? What's anarcho-capitalism, if not capitalism?
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  2231.  @user-nc9pc3gr4c  And those religions that had "gods" largely didn't agree, and often fought over whose "gods" are the real "gods", or even whose interpretation of the same "god" was right, and a number don't even have "gods" (ancestor spirit worship, Buddhism, ...). But, you're acting like they're all samesies. People also didn't use wheels, for the vast majority of their existence, does that make not using wheels more correct?
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  2232. His line of argument could be used to say it's an insensitive to have a baby, because you can better afford it, rather than have an abortion, and he's against it.
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  2233.  @glondokakurswongog3790  Rofl. What a load of crap. If Dore didn't think he was accomplishing anything, why the hell did he keep bragging about forcethevote trending? If he didn't consider what he was doing as fighting, then why was he doing it? You're making no sense. He didn't back Bernie in the last election cycle. He backed "Medicare choice" Tulsi. You're spouting bullshit. If he actually recognized that AOC helped add more M4A yes votes to congress, exactly what you need to do to ever pass the bill, exactly what you'd still need to do even after a guaranteed to fail vote, then he wouldn't make out like she wasn't doing anything. It reduces his own forcethevote "plan" to have a failed vote, and then do nothing. There was no crime. Pelosi introduced the M4A bill just last session. It died in committees. There was no progressive uprising over it, no mass protests, not even any outrage from Dore himself. It took a single reporter's question to get Biden on record saying he'd veto M4A. Plenty of corporate Dems and Republicans just said they were opposed to it, during their campaigns. Every new session, you get a new list of names of those who don't sign onto the bill. There's no need to threaten to paralyze the house, to get a list of Dems to primary, or Republicans to run against. You've already got a list of some 300+ names. Where were the 100+ viable pro-M4A candidates, that Jimmy has laying around, in the election that just took place? Why didn't he pull them out and run them?
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  2234. Likud's bloody 100 year history ... In 1923, 100 years ago, Ze'ev Jabotinsky wrote, The Iron Wall, and a follow up, The Ethics of The Iron Wall (sooo racist towards Africans), in which he fully acknowledged that post Balfour Zionsim was colonialism, and that, based on the entirety of history, the native Palestinian population would resist being colonized until the bitter end. He directly compared it to the colonization of North America. He promoted doing it anyway, claiming Zionist colonialism was a "just" colonialism (he also thought North American colonialists were good guys, so not a great judge of morality), not caring what that meant for the native population. Ze'ev is important, because his Betar militant youth group helped found the Irgun terrorist group, along with other supporters of his, and the splinter Lehi terrorist group. The Irgun bombed numerous Palestinian markets and other public places, murdering many Palestinian civilians, including children, even including Palestinian Jews (who didn't support colonialist Zionsim). The Irgun are important, because they ended up being led by future Likud PM, Menachem Begin, who bombed the King David Hotel. The King David Hotel was bombed because the British had raided the Jewish Agency and seized numerous documents that may have shown that the terrorists were working with the JA and Haganah (JA liked to pretend that they didn't support the terrorism). The British then stored those documents at their base, in the hotel. That the Irgun terrorists responded to a JA raid, itself seems to prove the connection. That the thousands of Irgun (and Lehi) terrorists were also quickly merged into the new nation's military (IDF) and intelligence (Mossad) agencies, and are still celebrated as "heroes" by Israelis, to this day, also seems to support total collaboration between the groups. That other terrorist group mentioned, Lehi (also known as the Stern Gang), was considered even more extreme. They even tried to ally with the Nazis, against the British. Lehi ended up being led by Yitzhak Shamir, future Mossad agent, and another future Likud PM. They assassinated Lord Moyne, and others. In 1945, there was a major land and peoples survey done in Palestine. It showed that the Zionists only owned about 5% of the total land, 20% of the arable land, and owned a majority in zero districts. The partition was not only going to be forced on the native Palestinian majority, but Jews were still going to be a minority, in the part allocated to them. The only possible way to even become a "Jewish state" was going to require getting rid of the actual majority (at least enough so that there'd be a solid Jewish majority, so they could fake being democratic). This is also shown by the 1948, post Nakba, population of Israel. If there was 716,700 Jews, 156,000+ non-Jews, and approximately 700k non-Jews ethnically cleansed, that means the Jewish population, in the Zionist portion of partition, was originally over 100,000 less than the non-Jewish population. To believe that there was never any intent, by Zionists, to ethnically cleanse away the Palestinian majority would require believing that they never intended to create a "Jewish state". It's a nonsensical notion. Begin, and those terrorist groups, also opposed partition, but for the opposite reason Palestinians did. Palestinians didn't want to be colonized, at all. The terrorists wanted to colonize it all. "Moderate" Zionists were okay with colonizing half ... for now (what would happen in the future, after partition, was up to them, said Ben-Gurion). The Zionist terrorists were also involved in massacres, and assassinations, during the partition violence (colonialist war against the natives). Another notable future Likud PM, also started in the military, during the partition fighting. That was Ariel Sharon, war criminal, "Butcher of Beirut". Menachem Begin, and these other Zionist terrorists, are important because they became involved in Israeli politics, first forming Herut. That was the party that Albert Einstein, and other prominent American Jews, opposed, having a letter printed in the NYT, in December of 1948, when Begin came to visit the US. The letter opened ... "Among the most disturbing political phenomena of our times is the emergence in the newly created state of Israel of the "Freedom Party" (Tnuat Haherut), a political party closely akin in its organization, methods, political philosophy and social appeal to the Nazi and Fascist parties. It was formed out of the membership and following of the former Irgun Zvai Leumi, a terrorist, right-wing, chauvinist organization in Palestine." Herut merged with other extremist parties, over the years, and eventually became Likud, in the 70s. Now, people get upset over the slogan "From the river to the sea!", but it's the second part that's most important, "Palestine will be free!". Because "Palestine" isn't defined as an ethno-state, a free Palestine can be a single state, free for all to live in, and return to, free of continuing colonization, free of occupation, free of oppression, etc. Just like a Germany free of Nazism, an Italy free of fascism, a South Africa free of apartheid, or an America free of slavery from sea to shiny sea. It doesn't necessitate purging all the Jews. It just necessitates them giving up on the idea of an ethno-state. On the other hand, because "Israel" has been defined as an ethno-state, Likud's, "between the sea and the Jordan there will only be Israeli sovereignty", has no possible good interpretation. It is a declaration of intent to completely colonize, and ethnically cleanse, all Palestine territories. Not only that, but it also claims that they have a "right" to all of the "Land of Israel" (biblical borders that don't mesh with archaeological reality), which is an open declaration of future wars, against Jordan, Syria, Lebanon, and possibly even Iraq. Likud platform ... 1977: "The Right of the Jewish People to the Land of Israel (Eretz Israel) a. The right of the Jewish people to the land of Israel is eternal and indisputable and is linked with the right to security and peace; therefore, Judea and Samaria will not be handed to any foreign administration; between the Sea and the Jordan there will only be Israeli sovereignty. b. A plan which relinquishes parts of western Eretz Israel, undermines our right to the country, unavoidably leads to the establishment of a "Palestinian State," jeopardizes the security of the Jewish population, endangers the existence of the State of Israel. and frustrates any prospect of peace." "Settlement Settlement. both urban and rural. in all parts of the Land of Israel is the focal point of the Zionist effort to redeem the country, to maintain vital security areas and serves as a reservoir of strength and inspiration for the renewal of the pioneering spirit. The Likud government will call on the younger generation in Israel and the dispersions to settle and help every group and individual in the task of inhabiting and cultivating the wasteland, while taking care not to dispossess anyone." 1999: "The Government of Israel flatly rejects the establishment of a Palestinian Arab state west of the Jordan river. The Palestinians can run their lives freely in the framework of self-rule, but not as an independent and sovereign state. Thus, for example, in matters of foreign affairs, security, immigration, and ecology, their activity shall be limited in accordance with imperatives of Israel's existence, security and national needs." "The Jewish communities in Judea, Samaria, and Gaza are the realization of Zionist values. Settlement of the land is a clear expression of the unassailable right of the Jewish people to the Land of Israel and constitutes an important asset in the defense of the vital interests of the State of Israel. The Likud will continue to strengthen and develop these communities and will prevent their uprooting." All Palestine territories are officially considered occupied, by the International Court of Justice, the UN GA, the UN SC, and even in official documents of Israel's own allies. Likud is still using the blueprint for colonizing North America, in the West Bank. Move settlements out into native territory, piss off the natives, the natives retaliate, cry about poor "innocent" colonizing settlers being the "victims" of violent "Savages!", call in the cavalry to put down the native uprising, and eventually expand the borders to include those settlements. Rinse and repeat. In Gaza, Israel is operating an open air WWII style fascist ghetto. Them claiming a "right to defend themselves" would be like the Nazis claiming a "right to defend themselves " from the Warsaw ghetto uprising. There's no "war". That they're the occupiers means the "war" part is long over. Those people are actually supposed to be under the occupier's protection. That partition was forced upon the Palestinian majority, against their will ... that the Zionist portion still had to be forcefully ethnically cleansed of its non-Jewish majority, against their will ... that the millions of occupied Palestinians don't have a say in the government that truly rules over them, Israel's ... means Israel is about as democratic as Nazi Germany after Hitler purged his political opponents and then held elections.
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  2235.  @michaelknight2897  You don't have a firm grip on reality.
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  2236. No. It's "Medicare for all" vs "Medicare for all who opt in". "All who opt in" isn't "all".
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  2237.  @zelenskysboot361  No, they can't opt out of paying the basic Medicare levy. They also can't opt out of the taxes that the general fund uses to pay for the Medicare shortfall. What higher income people can do is opt out of an extra surcharge by paying for their own optional private insurance (a private option). That is different than a "public option".
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  2238. Then so should anyone supporting Likud. Likud was founded by Menachem Begin, leader of the Irgun terrorist group, murderer of civilian Palestinian men, women, and children, murderer of Palestinian Jews (who didn't support Zionism), and bomber of the King David Hotel. Israelis elected that terrorist as their PM. Israelis still celebrate those terrorists, as "heroes", to this day. Likud was also founded by Ariel Sharon, war criminal, who massacred Palestinian villages. Likud's original platform, "between the sea and the Jordan" ... "The Right of the Jewish People to the Land of Israel (Eretz Israel) a. The right of the Jewish people to the land of Israel is eternal and indisputable and is linked with the right to security and peace; therefore, Judea and Samaria will not be handed to any foreign administration; between the Sea and the Jordan there will only be Israeli sovereignty." There is zero indication that Likud, Netanyahu, isn't still working towards that goal, with the endless colonization of Palestine territories.
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  2239. Ted was born to an American mother, passing through. He was considered American, from birth, and didn't have to naturalize. He wasn't raised in Canada, either.
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  2240.  @perpetualgrowtheveninsnow3389  Didn't even make it to pre-K. He's all his parents', and Texas', doing.
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  2241. Ummm, the DoD is an executive branch department of the federal government. So, what's your point?
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  2242.  @johnsmith92704  What the f*ck does Assange actually have to do with left wing policies? Right wingers already like WikiLeaks, more than the left probably. They're already fine with pardoning anyone they like, even war criminals, crooks, and whatnot. They obviously weren't moved to any serious effort to get Trump to pardon him. Dore mostly just agrees with Tucker, when he goes on. Before getting to Assange, Dore agreed with Tucker about Trump getting booted from social media, without once reminding capitalists that there's no such thing as free speech on someone else's private property and that you get free speech rights with public ownership ... without once reminding right wing psychos that things like incitement and defamation aren't even protected speech anyway. And, this being right before the second, well deserved, impeachment, Dore then let all the right wing nuts know that he agreed with them that the first impeachment was all hooey, helping to fuel the idea that the second one would be, as well. There's zero evidence that Dore is changing any significant numbers of right wing minds. I run across plenty of right wing trolls, that just use Dore bullshit against progressives to support their own right wing bullshit.
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  2243. As evidenced, here, they can still counter with their morons.
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  2244. Einstein, and other prominent American Jews, tried to warn Americans. Their opinion of the founders of Likud: "Among the most disturbing political phenomena of our times is the emergence in the newly created state of Israel of the "Freedom Party" (Tnuat Haherut), a political party closely akin in its organization, methods, political philosophy and social appeal to the Nazi and Fascist parties. It was formed out of the membership and following of the former Irgun Zvai Leumi, a terrorist, right-wing, chauvinist organization in Palestine." Yeah, it is the vast majority of congress that's to blame, as well, and has been for decades. MR has also been arguing not to support Israel, for years, well before Biden.
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  2245.  @ng-marc  Labour is doing much better in highly unionized Scandinavian countries. Danish unions have negotiated an average minimum wage of about $20/hr. Swedish unions have negotiated for companies to pay for worker retraining, and they've got an 85% success rate. That's how you get corporations to "pay their fair share". That's how you "tax" automation. Handing consumers $3t will only speed up automation, because consumers are lazy, and will still spend about $30b of that on Amazon, making Amazon and Bezos even richer.
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  2246. The "public option" isn't letting private insurance still exist for extras. It turns Medicare into a public insurer that competes with private insurers.
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  2247. Pretty sure they preferred Bernie, and only considered Biden better than fascism or throwing your vote away.
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  2248. Read Ze'ev Jabotinsky's The Iron Wall, 1923. There is a direct line from him to Likud and Netanyahu. He fully acknowledged that Zionism is colonialism. Colonialists are never not the aggressors, when it comes to the native population.
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  2249. The average career is 3 years. So, try multiplying that by 3, and then dividing it by 40.
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  2250.  @huntermarquette3484  So, because the US offered Native Americans various deals, letting them keep tiny reservations, they didn't ethnically cleanse, or genocide, them?
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  2251. "Those aren't pillows!!!"
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  2252. With 75-90% of those dying being unvaccinated, there should be about 300k fewer Republican voters, by 2022, and close to a million fewer, by 2024, if deaths keep at about 400k a year.
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  2253. Israel is a rogue state, that has ratified few international laws, plus the US can protect it with their veto. They have done things for the US, to keep the US hands clean. They've trained and armed fascist militants in Latin America, for example. They are state sponsors of terror, like they claim Iran is.
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  2254.  @jackd6881  He never had a supermajority, dumb dumb.
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  2255.  @whyamimrpink78  Nope. You're lying.
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  2256.  @hellofellowhumans9353  Kennedy had a seizure right out of the gate. He wasn't replaced with another Dem until a month after he died. There was a whole 4 month window before he was then replaced with a Republican. And then you still have to count independent Lieberman, who screwed everyone on the ACA, as an actual Dem, to make the claim Obama had a brief supermajority. And, on minimum wage specifically, that's ignoring that there were dickheads, similar to Manchin, at the time, like Mark Pryor, who opposed more minimum wage increases.
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  2257.  @donnyj5805  Thanks for letting me know what I think. The comment you replied to was about becoming "a reactionary jimmy door type". Are you saying your comment was totally irrelevant to being "a reactionary jimmy door type"?
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  2258.  @GenXGamez  Because of Ted Kennedy dying, the ACA will be 10 years behind in having a public option, by 2020. Bernie's transition phase has 4 years with a public option, before M4A kicks in. That would be 4 years of what the ACA originally was intended to do, and what should have been the case for 14 years, before transitioning into something even better.
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  2259.  @whyamimrpink78  Nonsense. Fewer politicians just makes for fewer people to bribe. It doesn't magically remove corruption. No matter the size, remove for profit lobbying.
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  2260. Pretty much what they did in this video.
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  2261.  @mroctober3583  Well, that he contradicts himself, has shown himself to be a terrible political mastermind, doesn't know how the speaker vote actually works (even when he reads it out loud), and has proven that he doesn't actually care if anyone gets M4A anytime soon, are all kind of relevant to his plan, and motives.
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  2262.  @mroctober3583  He promoted Trump as better than Clinton. He promoted Stein as having a chance. If he convinced anyone in any 2016 swing state to vote Trump, vote Stein, or to not vote at all, then he helped the lunatic, that has let thousands of Americans die, get elected. Throughout the pandemic, he has basically been running constant attack ads against Trump's only viable opponent, again not seeming to care if the lunatic wins and even more people die. He's attacking the credibility of the woman whose progressive PAC just helped get more pro-M4A progressives elected to congress (exactly the thing you're going to have to do after the vote fails anyway), going against the DCCC. Corporate Dems have openly stated that's why she was punished and not given the committee seat she wanted. She's punching and getting punched, and Dore knob throws in a kick, accusing her of being a "shill" and "wimp". He doesn't care if he undermines progressive politicians, because he's promoting a People's Party, which would be starting from scratch, and wouldn't get you enough seats to pass M4A for decades, if ever. If Dore has 100 pro-M4A progressive candidates in his back pocket, why didn't he pull them out for the election? If he and Briahna want pro-M4A protests, then why haven't they been coordinating with the DSA's M4A rallies, all along? You know ... before the election that just fucking happened. He was more worried about shit Obama (no longer a politician) was saying, or Colbert crying. Dore has his own healthcare, and doesn't give a crap if he tears everything and everyone down to start over. Nothing to lose? What if corporate Dems just keep putting Pelosi back as their speaker candidate over and over again, or even someone to the right of her? Do you just keep paralyzing the house, as they blame progressives for not being able to pass minimum wage, or student debt relief, or lowering social security, or whatever else people just voted for? Jimmy, himself, just argued that corporate Dems would rather lose to Republicans than work with progressives. The dimwit didn't recognize that that's an argument against his own strategy because, if that's really true, then that gives progressives less leverage, and means they could orchestrate something even worse with Republicans, and blame progressives.
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  2263. ​ @NewerSwagger-gp3hj  The Nazis were not "at war" with the Warsaw ghetto.
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  2264.  @expendable4h002  Shove the strawman nonsense. No vaccine is 100%. Nobody has ever claimed a vaccine is 100%. Nobody is expecting absolutely zero breakthrough cases. They reduce infections, hospitalizations, and deaths. Making drinking and driving illegal, and enforcing that law, has reduced the rate of drinking and driving, and reduced the rates of accidents, injuries, and deaths, due to drinking and driving. Making out like the law is useless, is moronic.
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  2265.  @expendable4h002  The polio vaccine doesn't produce sterilizing immunity. Many vaccines don't. The papillomavirus vaccine does, and still isn't considered absolutely 100%. You're a dimwit.
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  2266. Jeffries brings up a specific point of debate, straight from US law, debated by politicians and the general public. On this specific point of debate, Peterson said he was wrong. Brooks brings up a specific point, that people claim Peterson is a superior intellectual, and would wipe the floor with his opponents. That is challenged by the fact that a comedian wiped the floor with him, regarding the specific point of debate, above. Nothing wrong with this video.
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  2267.  @erickdavid2412  Clearly no time to educate yourself.
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  2268.  @sebsakura4418  The Supreme Court.
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  2269.  Alabama Man 2.0  Rofl. Are you under some delusion that Republicans don't live in blue states? Doesn't much matter total numbers in what state. Most of those deaths are now unvaccinated, and most of the unvaccinated are Republicans. Evidenced facts.
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  2270.  Alabama Man 2.0  "Pro-Trump counties now have far higher COVID death rates. Misinformation is to blame"
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  2271.  Alabama Man Special Edition  I already provided the data, whereas you haven't. Are you going to pull out your Gallup article, that you didn't read, again?
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  2272. Not sure how Democrats managed to pull off a Jan 6 false flag operation, while Trump was still president, while Trump appointees were still running every department of government, and while Republicans were still the senate majority. Republicans pretend like they aren't the government, when they are the government.
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  2273. Oh wow, "a literal invasion"?! How many enemy armed forces have crossed, and what cities have they seized?!
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  2274.  @dabblerdeluxe775  It's literally defaulting back to the original, no allocation for affordable housing, development plan, that was already approved. This wasn't a vote that could stop the development. All they did was stop the allocation of land for affordable housing. "Monday’s council vote doesn’t cancel the housing development. Instead, it means a previously approved plan for all single-family homes on the site can move forward."
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  2275.  @dabblerdeluxe775  They outright annexed land from the neighboring township, months ago, and already approved an original zoning plan in November.
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  2276.  @dabblerdeluxe775  You sound like the biased one. It sounds like, as long as they stick to code, they can go ahead with their original zoning plan ... "Village documents lay out a plan allowed under current zoning that includes 143 single-family homes that would start at a price point of about $300,000. Denise Swinger, the planning and zoning administrator for the Village of Yellow Springs, said Oberer will have to send their plan to her. Once she is done with her review for compliance, she said she will submit all materials and a memo to the village planning commission for a review that would check for conformance with the code and for infrastructure needs and compliance. The Planning Commission will approve on the basis of compliance, she said. “Oberer can submit a final plan as soon as they are ready, and that final plan goes to Planning Commission and to Council,” Swinger said. “Council cannot deny the plan unless they find that the plan is not in compliance with the zoning code.”"
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  2277.  @MackerelSkyLtd  ty:)
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  2278. Israel is the one operating an open air WWII style fascist ghetto, dumb dumb. They control the borders, the airspace, the ports, electricity, water, goods going in and out, plus Bibi even controls the flow of money from Qatar, having the ability to turn it off and on, when he wants, and has a number of times.
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  2279. There are so many Palestinians in Gaza, because 1.7m are refugees from the ethnic cleansing of 700k Palestinians from partition, that have literally always been denied the right of return.
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  2280. ​ @robertredmon5409  On top of the Zionist colonialism, Israel was founded on its own terrorism. Israel merged those terrorists into their new nation's military and intelligence agencies. Israelis elected Menachem Begin, leader of the Irgun, who bombed the King David Hotel, as PM. To this day, Israelis celebrate those terrorists as heroes. They literally taught their neighbours that terrorism is a valid path to independence and statehood.
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  2281.  @nassaubahamas8570  Seemed pretty straight forward. Maybe you're just not very bright.
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  2282.  @nassaubahamas8570  Man, you are slow. The influenza vaccine is 50% effective, and you'd likely have to get it twice a year, to maintain that efficacy, if the flu wasn't seasonal. The covid vaccines have shown to be more effective than 50%. Some viruses produce a long lasting immune response, some don't. Covid doesn't. Having to get a couple a year is irrelevant to anything. It's not pointless to slow the spread and reduce the odds of being hospitalized, or of dying, dimwit.
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  2283.  @nassaubahamas8570  The US isn't the only country in the world, dimwit. The vaccines have passed drug approval processes around the world. Pfizer isn't the only vaccine, if they scare you.
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  2284.  @nassaubahamas8570  They have had to show their results to agencies around the world, ffs. Is there some global conspiracy going on in your little mind?
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  2285.  @nassaubahamas8570  Quit lying ... "However, there have been no reports varenicline causes cancer, Rigotti said. Hays agreed: "There's no evidence that anyone who ever took Chantix developed cancer as a result of their exposure to the drug... This is compared with smoking that is associated with about 30% of all cancer deaths in the US.""
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  2286.  @nassaubahamas8570  They didn't pay out money for Chantix, because it hasn't been proven to cause cancer. A substance that can possibly cause cancer, was found to be at higher than advised levels, but still quite low, so they voluntarily recalled it. You're still lying.
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  2287.  @nassaubahamas8570  Rofl! That was for something else, dimwit. Nothing to do with cancer. Can you even math? 2013 is more than your 15 years ago.
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  2288.  @lights473  You get that this is a little clip and that Crowder said more, right? After what's in this little clip, Crowder reads some other things MLK had said, and then says exactly what I quoted. Secular Talk has a longer clip, from a day ago.
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  2289.  @fredsanford1437  FOX? Isn't that the favorite channel for dimwit comedians to go on and agree with far right propaganda?
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  2290.  @aliamjon2550  Rofl
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  2291.  @ToxicAudri  The details of how a UBI is paid for is important, and he kept saying that giant corporations would pay into it, and kept comparing his dividend to the Alaskan dividend, which is entirely paid for by oil companies. The thing is that a VAT is specifically designed to NOT tax businesses in order to avoid double taxation (which would be worse anyway). Yang even posted a link to a pass through rate study that he didn't grasp, or lied about. What it actually showed was a near 100% pass through on standard rated goods and services. It was only by adding lesser rated and zero rated goods and services that the pass through rate dropped. Yang claimed that indicated businesses were paying for a large portion of the tax, when it actually meant that a large portion had less tax or no tax (zero rated are staples that people buy most). The final consumer was still paying the entire VAT. Without corporations paying for it, or even into it, then all they get is the benefit of extra trillions being spent. Instead of taxing Amazon, as Yang said, they would make extra tens of billions a year, which would make Bezos extra billions a year. He could buy a brand new $500m yacht, every year, pay $50m in VAT, and still have extra billions left over. Also, in a future that's increasingly automated, you can't have increasingly unemployed consumers paying for their own UBI. You need corporations to pay the people, like the Alaskan dividend he kept comparing his to, like he kept saying it should be. His words didn't match his actual plan.
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  2292.  @cornholiothefirst2018  No. Tulsi was telling everyone and anyone they could opt out. That's a public option, not the Australian model.
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  2293.  @SuddenlyCthulhu  “In short, when it comes to the war against terrorists, I’m a hawk. When it comes to counterproductive wars of regime change, I’m a dove.” - Tulsi Gabbard The war on terror has been used as grounds to blow the hell out of numerous countries. She's not "anti-war".
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  2294. Those places probably also require ID to buy alcohol. Damn Nazis.
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  2295. Are you enjoying the all progressive house, senate, and presidency, that Dore predicted would happen, if people let Trump win in 2016?
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  2296.  @steveg18556  As already stated, he literally promoted letting Trump win, based on his moronic prediction. If he convinced even one person, in a swing state Clinton lost, then he helped Trump win.
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  2297.  @T1000-h4k  So ... no. lol
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  2298. If "inaction" keeps adding more M4A yes votes to congress, then it doesn't seem so bad. It's not as though she just sits in her garage and bitches about congress members that vote for things she likes, and ignores the ones who vote against things she likes.
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  2299.  @omarlocke9446  See, you seem to be under the delusion that they're the majority, or something.
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  2300.  @biokido575  That is, objectively, untrue. The UK's healthcare system tends to get rated the best, and the US has the worst life expectancy, infant mortality, and maternal mortality, rates in the developed world.
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  2301.  @biokido575  You're still forced to pay for car insurance, if you want to drive legally, and that's still how every single insurance company works.
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  2302. Total crap.
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  2303. But Yang is also bullshitting that a VAT forces giant corporations like Amazon to pay taxes. It's built into a VAT system that businesses get paid back for any input VAT. Since it wouldn't actually tax Amazon, and since their share of US consumer spending is 2%, handing consumers $3t will only make Amazon an extra $60b a year. That would make Bezos an extra $6b a year. He'd have to personally blow over $60b a year on goods and services with a VAT to pay more than he gets out of Yang's plan.
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  2304.  Andrea MENDENHALL  If people are protesting, sometimes rioting, because cops are murdering people, then by training cops to not murder people, you'd lower the odds of their being protests and riots. That is protecting society, dumb dumb.
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  2305.  Andrea MENDENHALL  You're giving the false dilemma of either killing a criminal or letting them go, and totally deflected from the times they murder people, and get away with it. Other developed countries' police are still stopping crimes, without shooting so many people. How many times does it take, for you to be against the police murdering people, ffs? What's the exact percentage for it to be wrong?
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  2306.  @artis1969  If helping to add more M4A yes votes to congress, the very thing that needs doing to ever pass the bill, is "inaction", then "inaction" is what's needed.
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  2307.  @CrucibleBlack13  They gave context. You seem to have reading comprehension problems.
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  2308.  @laleau92  Do you dimwit Dore knobs not grasp math? There are zero extra votes to the left of the party, so it is absolutely impossible to pass a bill without Manchin and Sinema (former Green party candidate ... one of those perfectly perfect incorruptible third parties). On the other end, there is the entire Republican party to try and bring in votes from. If Manchin can get some Republicans to vote for a bill, then you don't need AOC or the squad to pass the bill. That is not, in any way, in any reality, an equivalent amount of leverage.
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  2309. If the media did its job, it's easy to show that Republicans are either objectively wrong, or hypocritical, on basically every brdr issue.
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  2310.  @Wulfen73  But Sam was invited, by Ethan.
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  2311. You're making no sense. If they're "fearmongering" people away from getting sick, then they'd make less money than they would by letting everyone get sick, wouldn't they?
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  2312.  Aaron Dickson  Rofl! There are doctors and scientists across the world, to listen to. There are numerous countries whose covid responses had objectively better results, to look at. Try better.
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  2313.  @justanotherguy1794  Progressive house members did get the $15 minimum to stay in the covid relief bill, when it was first talked about taking it out because it might not get by senate rules, and it passed the house. People were already griping that the covid relief didn't go out the day after Biden was inaugurated. How many times should the bill have bounced back and forth between the house and senate? Who in the senate was going to suddenly change their minds? AOC did use her platform and PAC to back 20 other pro-M4A candidates, helped add a few more M4A yes votes to congress, and helped remove a few more corporate Dems. A guaranteed to fail vote, isn't itself M4A. Dore uses fake support percentages for how wildly popular he claims M4A is. If you actually look at the Pew survey he referred to, it's only 54% of Dems that want all out M4A, and only 36% of Americans. There wouldn't have been some massive uprising over it failing to pass. Half of congress just got done an election cycle, and pretty much every voter knew where their candidates stood on healthcare, when they voted. She also campaigned for Bernie and M4A, while Jimmy was pushing Tulsi and "Medicare choice". Jimmy is also the guy who didn't give two shits if 10m of the poorest Americans lost their Medicaid expansion, and didn't care to add 40m older Americans to Medicare. He also doesn't care if he leads people down the third party route that hasn't won the most popular third party a single seat in congress in 50 years. What he promotes doesn't actually indicate that he cares if anyone gets healthcare coverage anytime soon. The broader progressive caucus is some 10-15 seats away from becoming the majority of house Dems. I think people should stick with the Justice Dem approach, until they're the majority, can pick the party speaker candidate, can control the house if still the house majority, and then see what they do. I think giving up on them, when it's that close, to go some decades long route that doesn't get you even a single vote for or against even a single bill because you don't have a seat isn't a winning strategy. Technically, even Bernie is a centrist, out in the real world, but I think he, and a number of other progressives, are genuine. Might not always agree on tactics though, and disagreeing on a single secondary tactic shouldn't be the end all and be all of the relationship, or support.
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  2314.  @RB-ns2nn  Lol. The only one with hurt feelings seems to be you, getting all upset that people are making fun of your favorite song. Did you used to get this upset when a helluva ton of people made fun of Vanilla Ice? But ... But ... But ... He's kinda popular somewhere!!! Rofl!
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  2315.  @RB-ns2nn  Coping just fine. Never heard of the guy before this.
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  2316.  @RB-ns2nn  Do you have reading comprehension problems?
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  2317.  @SMP1993  There's math involved. There are zero extra votes to try and draw from to the left of progressives. It is absolutely impossible to pass a bill without Manchin. On the other end, there is the entire Republican party to try and draw votes from. It is entirely possible to pass a bill without Bernie, by picking up a single Republican vote. In a stand off, between both ends of the party, a bill would more likely be amended to the right, than the left. The bill would have to be "must pass" to Manchin, to have any leverage. If he doesn't give a crap if it dies, then you've got zero leverage, as we've seen. And, if he can get enough Republicans on board, by making concessions to them, then he doesn't need your votes, as we've seen. What's a bill that Manchin considered "must pass", that required squad votes to pass?
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  2318.  @jaccl4539  Risk, by doing what? You clearly used Manchin as a comparison. He threatens not to vote for things, a threat that requires leverage. Unlike how dishonest Hinkle made things out, AOC actually voted against the state department appropriation bill. And ... it passed without her. The Capitol Hill police bill was heavily amended in the senate, and came back for a second house vote. Unlike how dishonest Hinkle made things out, AOC voted against it, in the end. And ... it passed without her. Unlike how dishonest Hinkle made things out, AOC voted against the defense appropriation bill. And ... it passed without her. She votes against things all the time. They aren't samesies, because they don't have the same mathematical leverage.
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  2319.  @StevefromPR  Are you opposed to IVF? The majority of the fertilized eggs (babies?) don't take, or aren't used.
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  2320.  @alabamaman9476  Never said anything about northern and southern, or anything about states. I said red counties vs blue counties and vaccinated vs unvaccinated. All of those things are in every state. If the covid rate is lower in the south, due to weather, it's still the redder counties and unvaccinated dying at higher rates, there. If the covid rate is higher in the north, due to weather, it's still the redder counties and unvaccinated dying at higher rates, there. Texas is in the south and they just put out a report that's in line with the national situation, 85% of deaths are unvaccinated. So, in all the battleground purplish districts, if covid is killing off Republican voters 8 to 2, for the next year, that increases the odds of Dems coming out on top.
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  2321.  @ToxicAudri  But, while you're protesting, or whatever, you have two options, for who you're up against. Republicans make laws that allow people to run over protesters. Trump has called for categorizing protesters (BLM) as terrorists. While you're doing your thing, Trump and Republicans will make life worse for women, will let Rvssia do to Ukraine what IL is doing to Pal, etc.
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  2322.  @TomFranklinX  I'm referring to Crowder, going on Joe Rogan, making out like he's some kind of pro debater that the left is afraid to debate. Have Colbert or Bernie done anything similar, or are you making a false equivalence? Crowder deserved to be set up. He's a lying coward.
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  2323.  @TomFranklinX  Rofl. You're pulling shit straight out of your ass.
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  2324.  @TomFranklinX  Rofl. Well done. You've moved the goalpost so far, that Crowder was talking about nobody that exists. You've made him nonsensical.
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  2325.  @TomFranklinX  Rofl! So Crowder wants to debate news agencies and actual comedians, unlike himself?
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  2326.  @alabamaman9476  Nobody is obsessed with you, and looking for your comments. You're projecting. You're clearly the obsessed loon posting thousands of comments, from multiple accounts, in a matter of weeks, and making seeing your comments unavoidable ... on a channel you hate.
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  2327.  @leadbreastplate7496  Are you done blathering nonsense? Fascists are right wingers. Sure, they're very much akin to fascists, which exactly makes them not socialists. Making out like they're both is an oxymoron.
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  2328.  @aliamjon2550  The vast majority of abortions take place when there's no consciousness or pain. So, you're good with that, or are you anti-science?
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  2329.  @aliamjon2550  "Some" = the vast majority. And of the remaining late term, they're almost entirely done for medical reasons, not for birth control.
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  2330.  @justingaines207  The question was about fascists, not the average conservative. Do the millions of Republicans, and the majority of Republican politicians, that wanted to overthrow the democratic process to keep an unelected ruler in power, represent "average conservatives"?
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  2331.  @dinospumoni5611  Hedonism is about feelings (subjectivity). Utilitarianism has a subjective goal. Saying it's an objective fact that the gap needs to be filled with subjectivity (hedonism and utilitarianism), is agreeing with Hume, who said the gap can't seem to be filled with objectivity and can only be filled with subjectivity. Your argument makes no sense.
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  2332. What's in their strategy pamphlet is to pressure enough house members to support having a vote, not threatening to paralyze the house.
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  2333.  @mensspace9519  Let's say there's a 50% efficacy vaccine. It has been given to a high risk person. That 50% applies when they're in direct contact with a virus carrier. For every additional vaccinated person you add, between the high risk person and the carrier, you increase the protection another 50%. 1 person = 75%. 2 people = 87.5%. 3 people = 93.75%. Etc. Even if you're not personally high risk, you're helping to add an additional line of protection, by being vaccinated. That's the whole point of trying to achieve herd immunity. Vaccines aren't just about the individual vaccinated.
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  2334.  @sevienhook1612  Multiple people convicted of seditious conspiracy. Trump incited them. The 14th said "insurrection or rebellion", and sedition falls in there. Zero Confederates had to be charged and proved guilty in a court of law. 8 tried to challenge their ineligibility, but lost. He's simply ineligible, just like age, birthplace, residency, and term limits (created by Republicans after FDR kicked their asses 4 times in a row).
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  2335.  @grgoblin  Disney didn't buy FOX News. It's still owned by Murdoch.
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  2336.  @dr.wolfstar1765  Boycotts are generally used as pressure to get whoever, or whatever, you're boycotting to stop doing what you don't want them to do, like occupy Palestinian territories, or whatnot.
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  2337.  @dr.wolfstar1765  You just made out like it was a minority vs majority issue. Methodology? So, was force cancelling slavery and segregation, wrong? Was denazification wrong? Wasn't boycotting S Africa an attempt to cancel apartheid? Isn't BDS an attempt to cancel occupying Palestinian territories? People try to get rid of things they don't like. It's human nature. The whats and whys are the issue.
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  2338.  @grgoblin  Nope. They separated out FOX News, and some other things, which are still owned by the FOX Corporation, which is owned by Murdoch.
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  2339.  @dollywhitley3314  Nope. The biggest coward is the "pro" basketball player who never plays other professionals. The biggest, by far.
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  2340.  @zmiller1840  The coward is the "pro" who only ever debates amateurs, yes. What's hard to grasp about that?
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  2341.  @handofgod9386  What lying? He's got the best following and turnout of Dem candidates. Trump's turnout is irrelevant, atm. He, bar any major mishaps or impeachment, has already won the Republican primary. Support isn't split amongst multiple candidates.
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  2342. The part that usually takes years is developing the vaccine using the old method, not the approval process. This method is simply quicker. The approval process won't be all that different.
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  2343.  @zenbear9952  They were definitely corrupted, but taking a revolution style approach is supposed to go through a phase of dictatorship, and state owned is a form of "socialized". They just never gave up the dictatorship.
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  2344. The economy collapsed under Bush, last time, and is collapsing now, under Trump. In what reality are the Republicans, or Trumps, anti-Wall Street?
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  2345.  @nedim_guitar  Yep, that was in a letter to his son. That was the "moderate" Znsts, approving an earlier proposed plan to ethnclly clns some 200k Plstnns, and expand later.
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  2346.  @haywoodjablowme4945  You should read a book instead of looking at pictures. It doesn't start having actual thoughts and feelings, until about 30 weeks, no matter what it looks like.
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  2347.  @neon-kitty  Having a progressive on the show doesn't make it a progressive show. Stopped watching before the cast switch. There was less debate on Rising than there was on Crossfire or Hannity and Combes. Saagar, who's supposedly an anti-Trump conservative, regularly softened just how bad Trump is, making it seem like Trump is just a little over the top and not a batshit crazy fascist. Likewise, for Trump's cult, who he made out like they were just being a little silly. And, I don't recall him ever leading Republicans down a path towards not voting for Trump. Krystal, on the other hand, was really trashing Biden (Trump's only remaining viable opponent) and telling progressives that they don't owe Biden their vote. What's the overall message, if it says Trump isn't all that bad, Biden is bad, don't stop voting Republican, but possibly stop voting Democrat? Or, even in the primaries, with the repeated fawning over Yang (who would have had money flowing to the very top faster than ever before, because he's completely ignorant, or completely dishonest, as to how a VAT actually works) ... Bernie had a really tough fight in 2016, and lost. That was running as the only progressive, and getting all the progressive votes. Going into the 2020 primaries, everyone should have known that every single vote taken away from him would be extremely important, and likely help produce another progressive loss. But, people still peddled multiple other "progressives". That kind of stuff is all simply a math problem. If you're taking a vote away from the most competitive progressive, then you're lowering his odds of winning, which lowers the odds of a progressive winning, at all. I started feeling like Krystal and Saagar were a gateway down a path that ends with Dore and a Boogaloo, and their comment section was reflecting that more and more. Kim Iverson went batshit crazy during covid. To normalize her is insane. Her moronic, look how great Sweden is doing (regularly the worst country in Europe, at the time), covid will end with warm weather, and generally shitty covid attitude is likely what killed one of her own staff, but she powered on.
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  2348. Glenn is pro Russia, though.
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  2349.  @thedukeofdukers  I tripped, and my milkshake went flying. Prove I didn't.
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  2350.  @aheroictaxidriver3180   Our brains, and the thoughts they produce, objectively exist. A "problem" may be subjective (based on personal feelings, biases, likes/dislikes, etc.), but our subjective thoughts objectively exist. We have instruments, that can map where objectively existing thoughts and feelings are produced in the brain. There's no magic, or spirits ... no "mystical" gobbledygook ... needed. Everything that's subjectivity based isn't "mystical". People's values objectively exist ... what they value is subjective ... and, if they aren't appealing to magic and spirits, or whatnot, then there's nothing "mystical" about it. But, I get how you might think that that brain of yours having a thought is pure magic.
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  2351.  @aheroictaxidriver3180  Rofl. You think that the existence of thoughts is a subjective opinion?
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  2352.  @isasooner5  Yes, Islamic scholars used the geocentric model. You know the geocentric model is wrong, don't you?
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  2353.  @isasooner5  Nope. Islamic scholars kept teaching the geocentric model, although they greatly improved the math.
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  2354.  @isasooner5  That's nice. I assume you failed the class.
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  2355.  @isasooner5  I addressed your claim about the geocentric model, which you were originally correct about. If the interpretation you're claiming is true, then why did the Muslim scholars ignore this supposed breakthrough for centuries? Copernicus used the much improved math of Ibn al-Shatir, but al-Shatir's model was geocentric.
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  2356.  @w33blord66  Whoah, there. German cuisine is German culture. What the fuck does it have to do with Russians, or Spaniards, or any other white people? Kilts are Celtic culture. What the fuck do kilts have to do with Poles or Greeks, or any other white people? Etc. Give an example of "white culture".
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  2357. What bugged me most about the movie was that they went into detail about why you couldn't just kill baby Thanos, because it would create an alternate timeline, and then they spent all kinds of time on creating at least 3 alternate timelines: one where two Captain Americas exist instead of just one; one where Loki disappears with the tesseract; and one where Thanos just disappears, because he jumped into the future and died, before ever gathering all the stones.
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  2358.  @T_____1660  A Liberal minority still requires them getting more votes than the Conservatives. And, yes, Conservatives, like a Ford, are worse. You basically just said so, yourself. Anyone claiming they are both going to balance the budget and cut a bunch of taxes, including for the rich and corporations, is bad news. Singh just doesn't seem to have the following to be able to win in a month.
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  2359.  @thelastdisciple  Yeah, the NDP have lost a lot of traction, since Layton. I like Singh, but the NDP have taken the negative campaigning approach, rather than a positive one. I think it's only helping the Conservatives.
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  2360. ​ @Jettplayzgames  That would be the year they start the job.
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  2361.  @vertigo0331  Governments of the people, for the people, were formed to protect the masses from rich private property owners who had a monopoly on land. A Libertarian government, that is going to protect rich landowners, giant corporations, and the like, is kind of pointless. Might as well just let them rule, directly.
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  2362. How does an exec and VP of the Trump Organization not benefit from tax payer funded stays at Trump properties? How does an exec in some Ukraine company benefit from tax payer funding?
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  2363.  @loverainthunder  You go ahead. I'd much prefer to hear the Dore knob strawman, or false equivalency, straight from you.
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  2364.  @loverainthunder  You can't both "educate yourself" and be a Dore knob, at the same time. The guy just spit out another covid misinformation video, where he moronically compares case fatality rate (fatalities per confirmed case) to population hospitalization rate (hospitalizations per the total vaccinated and unvaccinated populations). He used that false equivalency to promote misinformation, that covid deaths are being greatly inflated. He is completely ignorant, or completely dishonest. Which is it? The hint you gave me is that you can't produce an instance that isn't a strawman or false equivalency.
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  2365.  @loverainthunder  Serious question ... do you have severe reading comprehension problems, or ADD? Because, I made multiple points, that weren't about Dore. But, it's like you lost attention and didn't read them, or you didn't comprehend them. Whatever the case, you didn't actually address them. Pretty obviously seems to be "can't". You can't seem to address any of my specific points. Part of my argument against Jimmy's "plan" (It did come out of Jimmy's mouth, right? So I can mention him?) was that it had no value. You still haven't explained how getting a 100% guaranteed to fail performance art vote has value. Why would you want to trade whatever little leverage you have, for that? Try starting with explaining how it has value, how it is actually "needed"?
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  2366.  @loverainthunder  Just because they didn't use what little leverage they have on the pointless performance art you wanted, doesn't mean they didn't use it. AOC got nominated as a contender for the committee seat she wanted. She lost to a vote. Even though there was talk of taking the $15 minimum out before the house vote, progressives got it to stay in, and it passed the chamber of congress they belong to. Pelosi has no power over senators. Passing the $15 in the house is more than what M4A would have gotten. M4A is 100+ votes short, in the house alone. Like I said, ftvers have proven themselves to be pathetic useless hypocrites ... proved they do absolutely nothing with lists of no voters ... proved ftv was utterly pointless. Just because they didn't publicly declare outright intra party war, doesn't mean they didn't negotiate. You're spewing generalities, and not really saying anything of substance, or addressing any specifics. I take it you're just trolling.
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  2367.  @dalekrenegade2596  Yeah, and the lack of self awareness, in these people is astounding. They're hanging on every word of a loudmouth grifter; who slanders anyone who disagrees with him, including others on his side; who sows distrust in all media, healthcare professionals, scientists, and authorities, etc., that contradict his narrative; who throws henchmen (anonymous producers) under the bus, if wrongdoing is unearthed; ... they're very much like Trumpists, even the projecting onto others, that it's you that's the sheep, and not them.
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  2368.  @loverainthunder  Won't use it ... to get a pointless performance art vote, is what was publicly said. She got exactly the same thing as the other woman you were just praising, a shot at the same seat, that was voted on. You're incoherent, at this point.
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  2369.  @loverainthunder  You both praised one woman for getting a shot at a committee seat, and criticized another woman for getting a shot at the exact same committee seat. That's incoherent. It makes zero sense. They both got exactly the same thing from Pelosi, a nomination as a candidate for the spot. And it wasn't "magic" that lost AOC the vote. A couple voters publicly stated they voted against her because she backed progressives against them in the primaries ... for fighting against them. Then you nimrods come along, and slander her, pretending she's not fighting them. She was just fighting them again, by backing Nina, by being on the ground campaigning for her, by promoting M4A, and fighting against the DNC backed candidate to try and add another M4A advocate to congress. Dore publicly abandoned Nina, and promoted never voting for anyone running as a Democrat ever again. He abandoned adding another M4A advocate to congress. He's a lying grifter, who doesn't actually care if anyone ever gets healthcare coverage. Anyone defending him doesn't care either. Thankfully, he's just a narcissist with delusions of grandeur, and only actually represents a few hundred thousand progressive voters, who vote third party.
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  2370.  @loverainthunder  This happened because the majority of voters haven't been getting out and voting to keep Republicans out of power. Republicans keep taking a step to the right and the "moderate" Dems keep meeting them in the new middle. Those "moderate" Dems need to be removed. Primaries should be the main battleground. At the same time, the majority of voters should vote to keep Republicans out of the majority in congress, and out of the presidency, so "moderate" Dems are the worst thing anyone has to worry about, instead of stark raving mad fascists. If you're promoting giving up and going third party, not voting, or something, then you're the one who wants to keep doing that same thing ... let Republicans win, and take another step to the right. Dore is actively trying to get people killed, at this moment. Countering his bullshit isn't simply a distraction.
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  2371.  @loverainthunder  She had just backed progressives in those couple of conservative districts, and they got absolutely creamed, but the conservative Dem managed to take the seat, from a Republican. I fully understand that Dore knobs ... oh, and those of you who aren't Dore knobs, but somehow spew the exact same nonsense as Dore knobs ... would prefer to lose the midterms, and hand the majority to Republicans. I get it ... "real" progressives want Republicans in power and progressives in a minority party, or an irrelevant party that's sitting on the sidelines.
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  2372.  @loverainthunder  Anyone still following Dore, at this point, is a complete and utter moron. Them being Dore knobs is just a fact.
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  2373.  @scoogsy  I haven't misunderstood a thing. I'll assume you you didn't even grasp page 1, where he sets out what he's about to argue in the book. No, I'm not talking about a different way of looking at the is-ought gap. I'm talking about the fact that Harris didn't argue there are no moral oughts and ought nots. In fact, he entirely sets out to show that science can give us answers as to how we ought or ought not behave. Yet, he uses an "analogy" to health, which doesn't include oughts or ought nots. It's a shite analogy. It's a seperate issue from his moronic belief that he bridged the gap, and his arrogant claim that Hume was a "lazy" thinker. I have zero belief that you clearly understood an entire book, when you can't seem to understand a comparatively short YouTube comment.
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  2374.  Illhan Omars brother's wife is Illhan Omar  Tell me where the vagina is, on a car or boat, referred to as "her" or "she". Gender represents a persona, that doesn't have to match biological sex.
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  2375. Sounds like Joe Pesci.
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  2376.  @dan91121  Pretty sure there are still some people selling some other people, to this day. And we're talking less than 200 years ago, for institutionalized, well documented, routinely studied and judged, North American slavery. When discussed, and that passage is part of your worldview, how do you judge it?
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  2377.  @hangukhiphop  The math still doesn't hold up. There are zero extra votes to the left of progressives, if they start losing votes on the right end of the party. There is the entire Republican party to the right of conservative Dems, to try and bring in votes from, if they lose progressive votes. Bills can be passed without progressives, but not without the likes of Manchin. A standoff would most likely push a bill to the right, not the left.
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  2378.  @hangukhiphop  Corporate Dems telling AOC and the squad to get off Manchin's and Sinema's cases, already tells you which end would get the most pressure to move, in a purely interparty standoff. There are actually bills, people, and motions, being passed, confirmed, and agreed to, with Republican votes every day. They just make a big show about certain things.
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  2379. Except the Zionists were the illegal immigrants, dimwit. However, they didn't simply move in next door (immigration), they claimed half the region for themselves, and ethnically cleansed the majority Palestinian population, supported by the British occupier (colonialism).
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  2380. No. This one was also the pro-terrorist rally. Likud was founded by Menachem Begin, terrorist leader of the Irgun, who murdered Palestinian men, women, children, and even Palestinian Jews (who didn't support Zionism). Israelis, to this day, celebrate those terrorists as "heroes". Likud's platform states there will be no Palestinian state, West of the Jordan. "Between the sea and the Jordan there will only be Israeli sovereignty."
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  2381.  @cosimfre2651  Ah, so nobody argued museum's owning things is racist. The hosts made a clear distinction between private hoarding and being in museums. But, you were somehow confused about whether museums owning things is racist? Weird. Some European countries ban the sale of Nazi memorabilia that includes propaganda and symbols, because they do represent, and promote, racism.
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  2382.  Illhan Omars brother's wife is Illhan Omar  Rofl. Aren't you a Trumpist loon?
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  2383. Exactly. Religion trains people to accept something as true, without evidence, and then they expect you to prove it false.
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  2384. Weird how people who control everything, let Trump win the first time, let Republican goverenors win, allow for state level Republican majority governments, and can never seem to get a solid majority over the federal house and senate.
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  2385.  @lespaulismore4538  Weird, I didn't take Obama for a narcissistic braggart. I also didn't know he threatened to sue his schools.
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  2386.  @lespaulismore4538  Not released and "sealed" are two different things. Obama did not go out of his way to seal his school records. Steering you back on track, when you go off the rails, doesn't equate to defending anything, and there's nothing to defend, because you were spouting bullshit. Tsk, tsk. So, now that we're done with your irrelevant whataboutObama, the point is that a narcissistic braggart wouldn't threaten to sue people to hide his awesomeness. In fact, they might "accidentally" leak how awesome they are, themselves. Threatening to sue even proves he's an idiot, because they can't release his records without his permission anyway. It's like him making doctors, who are already bound by doctor patient confidentiality, to sign NDAs. It's just evidence there's something bad he doesn't want people to see.
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  2387. Yep, her family owns a shipping company that buys ships made by the government, and they've gotten loans from the Bank of China, and his sister in law is on the board of the Bank of China. There's also Trump, who sold Ivanka's Trump tower condo to a Chinese government lobbyist. He also leases property to the Bank of China, and had his own business ventures in China.
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  2388.  @whyamimrpink78  Sweden often had the worst numbers in Europe, and was in the top 15 worst in the world. They did end up resorting to a wide variety of restrictions. Even still, they're in the top 35 worst in the world, and 5-10x higher death rates than their neighbors. Why didn't you pick S Korea, Vietnam, Australia, or New Zealand? Their covid death rates would translate into under 12k total covid deaths in the US, if the US had responded as well.
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  2389.  @residualsurprise2055  Turned their lives around? So his fans are now getting women, by telling them men are simply better at economics and politics, that they were never discriminated against, that they should give up their carriers and have babies to be happy, etc.?
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  2390.  @thewhiterabbit498  Dimwit, you claimed I didn't understand media propaganda. That's what I was referring to. My "Lol, sure it is.", was my response to your other bullshit. All you seem to be doing here, is claiming this is propaganda, so no, simply being here doesn't prove much of anything. Where are you getting your "real" information from, and how did you so expertly deduce that it wasn't propaganda, but this is?
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  2391. Ummm, the rebels lose, and Luke has his hand chopped off, in Empire Strikes Back.
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  2392.  @wenlisman  Didn't all that nationalism cause hundreds of years worth of wars? The "Brits", Britons, actually ended up being ruled by Romans, Angles, Saxons, Norsemen, and then by French Normans, who were themselves formerly Norsemen. The "Scots" were Irish who came to rule over the Picts. The "French" Franks were a Germanic tribe, who conquered lands from Romans, who had conquered lands from Gauls. Etc. Etc. Etc. And, none of all that fighting over, and drawing up of arbitrary borders, by religious fanatics of mixed ethnicities and cultures, that didn't keep much of anything original and seperate, has little to do with later decisions about forms of government. It was actually the conquest of Byzantine culture, sending many west, and bringing their ancient Greek philosophy with them, that led to the enlightenment, and more modern forms of government. It was the loss of a "European" nation, and the mixing of their culture and ancient writings, with others, that led down the path towards modern democracies. Under normal circumstances, isn't it better to have a freer and more open border, like a Nordic Passport Union, a Schengen Area, etc.?
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  2393.  Robert Hunt  I didn't ask "who". Can't you read?
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  2394.  @aemonbane1398  You have mistaken Jimmy's argument. He did consider Trump worse, outright called him a raving fascist. Dore's stupid argument was that a Trump presidency would result in a massive progressive backlash. He vastly overestimated the benefits, claiming that it would "for sure" lead to progressives taking the house (nope) and senate (nope), in 2018, and the presidency (nope), in 2020. He vastly underestimated the risks, claiming even Republican lawmakers would join the left in voting against the Trump agenda (nope), rather than follow him into fascism (nope, they did), and when debating Sam, claimed Trump filling multiple scotus seats was as likely as the moon falling into Lake Michigan (wrong again). He's a loon, and an idiot, that doesn't care if other people's suffering is increased, for however many years it takes to fulfill his fantasy.
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  2395. They have already taken in 3 million Palestinian refugees, plus millions of Syrian refugees. How about stop making refugees, dimwit?
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  2396.  @seanhovan7426  Rofl. Trump (the government) convinced tens of millions of idiots not to believe any media, any judges, any lawyers, any law enforcement, any intelligence agencies, any scientists, any doctors, any nurses ... anybody ... even to not believe their own lying eyes, if they contradicted Supreme Leader Trumpty Dumpty (the government). The CDC, on the other hand, are an organization of doctors and scientists, who also gather data from other doctors and scientists around the world.
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  2397.  @okstever  He was born in a rich home. Odds are they had a television before the average home.
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  2398.  @RedDeadClips  Geez, you must only have a couple left.
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  2399.  @SoundsSilver  No. There are three options, not just two. There is also the option that I simply save you (nobody argued it was going to risk my life), and you'd still have your money, which would be of value to you. When I say I won't rescue you, unless you hand over your money, then I'm threatening to let you die, if you don't hand over your money.
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  2400.  @SoundsSilver  You've proven you're not very bright, at this point. It's just a statement of fact.
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  2401.  @theciakilledjfk5973  Learn math. There are more votes to be lost, or gained, on the right. If push came to shove, corporate Dems could have gone with Manchin's $11, probably passed it without those 23 progressives, and then they'd see no reason to address minimum wage again this session.
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  2402.  @theciakilledjfk5973  You're making a false equivalency, between two different kinds of votes. M4A is about 100 votes short in the house alone. There wouldn't be much of a performance, because debating, calling witnesses, etc., happens during committees. If you want to somehow dodge committees for a straight up floor vote, all you'd get is house members speaking for a few min each, without any fact checking, debate, and 3/4 of the few min speeches being anti-M4A. The impeachment passed the house, and the performance happened during the senate trial, where the case is actually presented and argued. And they even got some Republicans to vote for impeachment, along with all Dems. More Americans were in favor of impeachment than are for all out M4A. Nothing in your post covered that there's more votes to be won, or gained, on the right, if push comes to shove. You're blaming progressives for Biden being a corporate Dem? Wasn't that common knowledge?
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  2403.  @theciakilledjfk5973  Pelosi put her name in the running for that seat. Have you even looked at the Pew survey Dore himself referred to? M4A isn't "wildly popular". It's 54% of Democrats and 36% of Americans.
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  2404.  @theciakilledjfk5973  The party's speaker candidate is picked by the Dem caucus, where progressives are a minority, and it's a straight up majority vote. Progressives didn't actually have the power to threaten the speakership. All they had the power to do was to paralyze the house, by no speaker candidate winning. The corporate Dem majority could keep picking Pelosi over and over, if they wanted. How long do you think it would have been politically advantageous to paralyze the house for, during a pandemic? For what, exactly? Pelosi introduced M4A to congress just last session, where it died in committees, where 90% of bills die. You know, those committees that Dore knob doesn't think are important. And, a speaker, alone, can't even force a bill through committees to the floor. It takes a petition signed by the majority of congress. You also get a brand new list of names of congresspeople who won't cosign the bills, each new session, that need converting or replacing (AOC just helped replace a few). If you, or Dore, had 100+ viable pro-M4A candidates sitting in your back pockets, why didn't you run them in the election cycle that just happened?
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  2405.  @theciakilledjfk5973  Next to nobody outside of some progressive circles (where everyone is already pro-M4A) were talking about Jimmy Dore, or FTV. Something like 20 people showed up for the DC FTV rally. Bernie still has more Twitter followers. Bernie, and his M4A, who she used her platform to campaign for, while Dore knob was backing Tulsi and her "Medicare choice". She also used her platform and PAC to back 20 other pro-M4A progressives. The pandemic had started before the primaries were over. Guess what? The M4A candidate didn't get elected, and no amount of DNC fuckery could have screwed Bernie, if the masses had voted for him. Most of those other pro-M4A candidates didn't make it through the primaries, either. Only a few did. Americans just got finished ranking how important M4A was to them. They went with the idjit who said he'd veto it, if it somehow passed both the house and senate. They went with mostly anti-M4A corporate Dem and Rep congress members, yet again. Dore had this fantasy, in 2016, where a Trump presidency would be better for progressives than a Clinton presidency. It was going to lead to some massive progressive wave that would, "for sure", lead to progressives taking the house and senate in 2018, and a progressive president in 2020. None of it happened. He vastly overestimated the benefits and vastly underestimated the risks. Even with the benefit of hindsight, knowing full well that people started complaining about not getting covid relief fast enough (including, I think, Jimmy Dore), you think they would have been impressed with paralyzing the house for some amount of time, to not actually get them M4A, but simply to get a guaranteed to fail vote?
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  2406.  @theciakilledjfk5973  Speaking of gullible, you're being taken for a ride by a grifter who didn't care if 10m of the poorest Americans lost their Medicaid expansion, didn't care to try and add 40m older Americans to Medicare, and yet passes himself off as the one true champion of healthcare. He doesn't care if he leads people down the third party route, that hasn't won the most popular third party a single seat in congress in 50 years. There's no indication he actually cares if anyone gets healthcare anytime soon, other than his gums flapping. The actions he promotes taking won't get M4A in the next century. AOC actually helped add a few more M4A yes votes to congress, the very thing you need to do to ever pass the bill, the very thing you would still need to do even after a guaranteed to fail vote. House representatives don't have to get involved in other districts' elections. That's beyond the job parameters. She has proven that she actually takes action, and doesn't just flap her gums, like dumbass Dore. She has proven that she fights against corporate Dems, and doesn't just flap her gums, like dumbass Dore.
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  2407.  @theciakilledjfk5973  Pretty sure I addressed your points, while you just ignored mine.
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  2408.  @dickdrapper5491  That was an ironic reply.
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  2409. That there is so much bipartisan support, is exactly why a third party presidential candidate, even if they magically won, is pointless. Congress could still pass whatever aid they want and override any presidential vetoes. Change will take continued public pressure. Dems aren't perfect on protesters, but it's Trump/Republicans talking about deporting protesters, who make laws allowing peiple to drive through protesters, and have called for categorizing protesters (BLM) as trrrsts before. The only people speaking out against Isrl, in congress (not from the West/Stein sidelines), are Dems.
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  2410. Depends on whether they can get their sh*t together to pass a bill. Doubt old folks will like having their social security and medicare unfunded.
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  2411. ​ @WraithWriter  The US didn't even declare war against the Axis, first. Japan declared war against the US. The US reciprocated. Germany declared war against the US. The US reciprocated.
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  2412.  @WraithWriter  And my point is that they also humiliated the US, because they had a choice, to stay out. Because the US' declarations came after they were already declared war upon, they were basically superficial. The US was already in a war, whether they liked it, or not.
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  2413.  @WraithWriter  The US had no choice in participating. They got declared war on, by the Axis countries, first. Costa Rica made a choice that the US never made. The US declarations were counter declarations. You made a point about timing. I'm making a point about choice. You say "no shit", but you don't seem to be following.
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  2414.  @zeeone4492  Dore didn't challenge the guy on anything. It was just Boogaloo publicity. He platformed the guy.
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  2415.  @alhazed  I'm pretty sure Sam didn't call Marc a racist. I'm also pretty sure criticizing Israel isn't racist. The kid also didn't say that the white people he was talking about had in fact said something "racist". That would be criticizing the base he's trying to pander to with this exact take of injustice against white people. He said they made "a comment about a black person", which was, rightly or wrongly, he didn't say which, apparently perceived as racist, and got the white person fired. Then he claimed black people can get away with making "a comment about a white person", and not get fired. Marc made a comment, that his bosses perceived as racist, and fired him. Marc is evidence the kid is wrong. No, that does not mean Marc is a racist.
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  2416.  @mjchakos1  You mean like a kid "resisting" by playing in a park and being shot before the cop car even stopped rolling? Or "resisting" by reaching for your wallet that the cop asked you to reach for, and then the cop shooting you? "Resisting" by laying flat out on your stomach in handcuffs, and still get a knee to the back of the neck, until your dead? "Resisting" by being shot in the back and then having a gun planted beside you? Etc.
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  2417.  @mjchakos1  He didn't actually have a "weapon".
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  2418.  @curiosityl.6261  Hinkle blathered a bunch of standard Dore knob bullshit, is all he did. The Capitol Hill police bill was heavily amended in the senate and sent back to the house. AOC voted no on the final version of the bill. AOC had just backed progressives in purple districts, that got creamed in the primaries, and the Dems who beat them managed to also beat the Republican. This midterm is going to be a helluva fight to try and hang on to the majority. Whatever leverage progressives have, completely evaporates, if Republicans win the majority. Go ahead and be pissed, if you think AOC broke a promise, but trying to retain the majority is smart. The FTV "plan", out of Jimmy's mouth, was for 15 progressives to simply "withhold their votes" or "not vote" for Pelosi. He never mentioned a need to cast protest votes. That implies abstaining. And, he made it very clear that he thought it was impossible for McCarthy to win, unless Democrats actually voted for him, so would see no problem with abstaining. 15 progressives abstaining would have handed the speakership to McCarthy. FTV was also about a 100% guaranteed to fail performance art vote. It doesn't actually move you any closer to being able to pass the bill. The only possible way to ever pass the bill is to get enough yes votes in congress, which makes adding yes votes to congress the most important thing. Justice Dems, and AOC, have helped to add more M4A yes votes to congress. AOC was fighting to add another, in Nina Turner, campaigning on the ground for her. Dore, on the other hand, abandoned Nina Turner ... abandoned adding another M4A yes vote to congress. Progressives did get the $15 to stay in for a round of voting. It actually passed the house (M4A didn't have a shot in hell), and also got a senate vote. Dore knobs have done nothing with those lists of no voters, and just continue to slander those who voted for it. Drone strikes have been reduced to almost nothing. That's one thing Dore knobs should be praising Biden for. Instead they keep whining. All, or nothing. AOC, and other progressives have a bill trying to put conditions on the annual military aid to Israel. They have an anti anti-BDS laws bill. So she voted to rearm a purely defensive Iron Dome. So what? Just a lot of much ado about nothing.
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  2419.  @dantheman4838  Have a stab in the dark, which is colder ... Sweden, Denmark, Norway, of Finland? Sweden has 5-10x more deaths per capita than its neighbours.
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  2420.  @s123-v3x  I literally pointed out that the US and Ottomans didn't even declare war against each other, during WWI. No enemies.
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  2421.  @LEP021085  They track most of their guns ussed in crimes to the US, dimwit. Their gun problem is their neighbor.
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  2422.  @LEP021085  Oh boy, the guns don't kill people bullshit. Yeah, neither do nukes. Do you think we should sell mini nukes and launchers at Walmart? Maybe jars of chemical or bio weapons. Maybe we should sell all drugs over the counter. You know, because one inanimate object can't be deemed more dangerous than other inanimate objects. If an inanimate spoon is just as deadly as an inanimate gun, then why can't you just use a spoon for self defense? Haven't you just stripped away any value a gun might have? Switzerland has one of the highest firearm mortality rates amongst developed countries. Whatever else they're doing to reduce other crimes, is irrelevant. They could potentially have both lower overall violent crime rates, and next to no firearm mortality, like Japan, if they had fewer guns.
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  2423. So Russia hasn't been d*cking around in former SSR countries, since 1991? Putin didn't write an essay stating he thought they should all belong to Russia, again? Weird to whine about not wanting NATO on your border, while literally trying to expand your own borders to NATO.
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  2424.  @decanuck  LL and Rubin aren't separate. They're partners. IHS and Koch aren't separate. He's a board member. Kevin Bacon isn't separate from the Bacon Brothers band, ffs.
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  2425.  @decanuck  Fuck you're a moron. That's still 1, dipshit, from the Rubin partnership to Koch being on the board.
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  2426.  @decanuck  Do you know what "separation" means, dummy?
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  2427.  NoFreedoms  Idiot. Sweden was often the worst in Europe for weekly covid cases, and has 5-10x more covid deaths per capita than its neighbors.
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  2428.  @ZooomaCW  "200 people without weapons" Pretty sure that's where your argument gets lost. There were armed people. There were people using fire extinguishers and flagpoles as weapons. There were people planting pipe bombs. There were people with flex cuffs. There were people with a working gallows. There were people taking cop weapons and using them against cops, even calls to take a cop's gun and kill him with his own gun.
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  2429.  @ZooomaCW  The goddamn fact is that what you're claiming was not a coup attempt, got further than Hitler's 1923 Beer Hall Putsch coup attempt.
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  2430.  @michaels8620  How does forcing a 100% guaranteed to fail performance art vote, speed up anything? Justice Dems, AOC, and Bernie, have been working on adding more yes votes to congress. Getting enough yes votes in congress is literally the only possible way to ever pass the bill. Also, getting a president in place, that wouldn't veto the bill, moves you closer to being able to pass it. Dore outright backed someone campaigning against the M4A candidate, someone who said M4A was unAmerican. Sitting on the sidelines, in some irrelevant third party, possibly even giving up yes votes in congress, by abandoning those people, gets you nowhere, and might even move you further away. The most popular third party hasn't won a single seat in congress in its near 50 year existence. That's even less than an increment. Abandoning Nina Turner, abandoning adding another M4A yes vote to congress, gets you no closer. What are Dore, or this guy, proposing that actually gets you closer to being able to pass it? All corporate Dems have to do is amend a bill to the right, make some concessions to the less crazy Republicans, and get enough onboard to pass things without needing squad votes. On the flip side, there's no way to pick up extra votes to the left of progressives, if you lose too many conservative Dem votes on the right wing end of the party.
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  2431.  @michaels8620  Yeah, a C-SPAN covered floor vote ... totally samesies as thousands of people marching down a highway, covered by all media. Women's suffrage had a first vote to see how close they were to a supermajority, because the parties weren't as partisan, at the time, and they weren't sure how far off they were. They literally held back the bill, the next session, because they didn't think they had the supermajority yet, and saw absolutely no point in having a guaranteed to fail vote. Where are you getting this repeatedly having failed votes being beneficial from? The $15 got a vote, and even passed the house to get a senate vote. Dore knobs argue it was useless, and just keep bitching about those who got it to stay in for a round of voting and voted for it. How did getting a vote help? Isn't turning it into a hill to die on, and to slander M4A's most ardent congressional supporters, part of what turned it stupid? FTV was dead in the water as soon as Dore, and his knobs, used it to slander AOC, and the vast majority of progressives, which was almost right out of the gate. Yeah, Dore killed his own plan, by being a moron. That's the reason you try to detach the man from his own plan, because he's too hard to defend. If he was easy to defend, there'd be no issue with keeping him attached to his own plan. Don't you think he destroyed any chance of getting any of the 15 progressives he named, on board, the moment he started slandering the first one? Any leverage Hinkle believes the squad has entirely depends on Dems being the majority of the house. This midterm will be a helluva fight to try and keep that majority, especially in those more conservative purple districts. Is there some benefit to progressives becoming a minority within a minority, and having Republicans win the majority?
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  2432.  @trickysnacks  "fake IRS" "scam"
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  2433.  ==/A\==  Rofl, there was no backpeddling, dumb dumb.
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  2434. ​ @marklewen9384  A quote ... according to one anti-Catholic preacher.
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  2435.  @marklewen9384  That's nice. Still a "quote" by one anti-Catholic preacher, in his anti-Catholic book, and not included in any official quotes of Lincoln.
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  2436.  @seanhovan7426  No. You're just a dimwit who doesn't grasp when Biden gives literal numbers, indicating vaccines aren't 100%, and then talks virtually, figuratively. "Ten thousand people have recently died; 9,950 of them, thereabouts, are people who hadn’t been vaccinated. This is a simple, basic proposition. If you’re vaccinated, you’re not going to be hospitalized, you’re not going to be in an ICU unit, and you are not going to die."
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  2437.  @seanhovan7426  What aren't you grasping? No vaccine is 100%. The mumps and measles vaccine doesn't "stop" spread. It greatly reduces spread, and that's with a 90% vaccination rate. The covid vaccination rate is at a much lower 65%.
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  2438.  @seanhovan7426  Wtf are you talking about? The 90% vaccination rates for other things are in large part due to public school mandates.
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  2439.  @Thezuule1  No vaccine is 100%. Arguing vaccines are purely individualistic totally defeats the purpose of herd immunity, exactly like I said, dimwit.
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  2440.  @gaeron1305  Haiti isn't on the list of countries known for it, dingus. You thinking of Switzerland? "Not Just for Christmas: Swiss Urged to Stop Eating Cats and Dogs"
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  2441.  @1MarkKeller  They already do. Many Hispanic descendants of Spaniards aren't considered white enough, unless they're like right wing Cubans.
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  2442. @**it happens "Just as"? That's bullshit. He has repeatedly stated Christianity isn't as bad. He promotes people like Hirsi Ali, who (like Ann Coulter) suggests converting Muslims to Christians. When has he said we're at war with Christianity, Hinduism, or other religions?
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  2443. Dore vastly overestimated the benefits of a Trump presidency, claiming it would bring about a massive progressive backlash that would lead to progressives "for sure" taking the house (didn't happen) and the senate (didn't happen), in 2018, and the presidency (didn't happen), in 2020. He vastly underestimated the risks, claiming even Republicans would vote against a Trump agenda (didn't happen), wouldn't follow him into all out fascism (did happen), and that Trump filling multiple scotus seats (did happen) was as likely as the moon falling into Lake Michigan (hasn't happened yet). Also, a reminder that Trump was running on tossing 10m of the poorest Americans off of Medicaid expansion, while Clinton was running on adding 40m older Americans to Medicare expansion, and Dore is making out like he's the one true champion of healthcare, when he promoted the former as the better option.
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  2444.  @leonardzein5056  He's a moron and a quack, who has claimed that getting over an addiction requires a spiritual experience, and also claimed that his daughter's meat only diet cured him of his mental and physical ailments.
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  2445.  @Stress-Free-K  We'll see who comes out, but he'll definitely be getting a decent share of "the" black vote. Mayor Pete is the one who isn't getting "the" black vote. You're talking nonsense. It's not fucking racist to poke fun at two people's similarities. Are people racist for pointing out similarities between Trump and Boris?
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  2446.  @Stress-Free-K   Funnily enough, I just saw another video, and someone commented, poking fun at Michael Brooks wearing a black button up shirt, saying he's representing the socialist Johnny Cash caucus. The racism is rampant!
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  2447. Except nobody was behind on their NATO "bill", and the decision for everyone to do their best to try and achieve a national (not NATO) defense budget of 2% of their GDP, happened in 2014 (under Obama), when Russia first invaded Ukraine. Trump is spewing bullshit, about allies, which is why they don't like him.
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  2448. ​ @jon_wholesale  Ze'ev Jabotinsky wrote that Znsm is clnlsm. His Irgun and Lehi trrrst followers founded Likud, followers Einstein likened to Fscsts and Nzs. What's wrong with being opposed to clnlsm, trrrsts, Fscsts, and Nzs?
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  2449.  @robinalexander5558  Much of the clnzd world wasn't "nations", prior to being clnzd, dingus. The native majority of the mandate were offered to be clnzd, and they said "no thanks" ... Just like most people say "no thanks" to being clnzd.
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  2450.  @robinalexander5558  Who cares if the UN okayed clnlsm? The Brtsh 1939 Wht Paper decided against partition, but Likud's trrrst founders didn't accept, and taught everyone that trrrsm is a valid path to statehood. They didn't care that the previous League of Nations had given the Brtsh administerial control over the mandate. Just because the UN okayed something doesn't mean it wasn't clnztn. Both the Brtsh, and the early Znsts, called it such, themselves.
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  2451. Republicans are leading the charge to try and prove the US is liable, for funding it, so the rest of the world can sue the US and China. Bankrupt America to own the libs!!
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  2452.  @Name-jw4sj  He almost has the exact same percent of the vote. Not as many people voting in 2016, doesn't mean they voted for someone else, and doesn't mean they weren't pro Republican. It just means they didn't get out and vote. It was made easier to vote in 2020, so more people voted, for both sides. Even if your argument was sound, that means Democrats increased their base by even more millions, and the argument that he made more enemies than allies is still valid. Your attempted defense makes zero sense, either way.
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  2453.  @Name-jw4sj  According to you, simply people who vote for you. If more people vote for you, then your base has increased. That was your opening argument.
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  2454.  @Name-jw4sj  To be honest, it's hard to tell at this point, because you've started arguing against yourself along the way. When someone else pointed out the opposition's base expanded more than Trump's, you argued that the opposition's base didn't expand, they had always been opposed, but they just didn't vote before. Then, when I lay out that Trump's base didn't expand, they just didn't vote before, you argued against yourself, by defining the "base" as those who vote, which makes you then arguing that the opposition's "base" did expand. As I pointed out, about the same percentage of the population (not just voters) approved of him at the start and finish. More of those people simply voted in 2020 vs 2016. He may have fired his base up, to get more out to vote, but his style, and rhetoric, and yes who he has attacked, fired up more people that wanted him gone, and got even more of them out to vote. He even got a large percentage of those who voted third party in 2016 to vote for the opposition, people wanted him gone so badly.
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  2455.  @Name-jw4sj  Should I just leave you to argue with, and contradict, yourself?
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  2456.  @Name-jw4sj  You, literally, argued the opposition's "base" didn't grow and that it simply didn't vote in 2016, then you argued that "base" means voters. You're the confused one, dumb dumb.
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  2457.  @Name-jw4sj  By the definition of "base" = voters, the opposition "base" grew more than Trump's, because way more turned out to vote against him, than for him. You're trying to use a different definition of "base" for each side.
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  2458.  @sullen2420  That they have some kind of leverage is the entire basis for FTV, that Dore knobs are still blathering about a year later. It's the entire basis of Hinkle's argument, that they should be killing bills, and behaving like the Tea Party. If there's an agreement that they have no leverage, then Dore and Hinkle have been blathering utter nonsense. An enemy of my enemy is my friend, has been used for gaining power throughout history. Going all out war against on two fronts has almost always been a bad idea. If you think corporate Dems and Republicans are totally samesies, then you're a complete and utter moron.
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  2459.  @sullen2420  Rofl. Those people's views are the topic of the video, ffs, and you mention him in your op. You said he's right, but he thinks they have leverage, which makes his argument moronic. She just got done backing progressives in some of those same conservative districts and they got creamed, but the more conservative Dem beat the Republican. Making out like fascists, who just tried to overthrow the democratic process to keep Dumpty on as an unelected dictator, are samesies as corporate Dems, is beyond moronic. Making out like people who all voted against another round of covid stimulus and against the $15 are samesies as those who voted for those, is beyond moronic. Making out like those who have tried to toss 10+m of the poorest Americans off of Medicaid expansion, dozens of times, are samesies as those who aren't doing that, is beyond moronic. Being in neutral might suck, but going in reverse is worse. Progressives have better odds in more solidly blue districts, taking out corporate Dems there. Meanwhile, Republicans not having the majority is better all around. Whatever, don't give a shit if Republicans rule, then. That's the same Dore knob mentality that didn't care if Trump beat Clinton.
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  2460.  @whyamimrpink78  Nope. That one guy was the head of government. You cultists get that right? Pretending he wasn't the government is denying reality. And you lot were also okay with him (the government) firing, or threatening to fire, people who contradicted him (the government), but whine about private companies cancelling club memberships, which has nothing to do with free speech, and has been going on since the dawn of club memberships. You were also okay with fighting against the people, the democratic process, to try and keep that head of government on as an unelected ruler ... a dictator. You're an insane bunch, that has reality ass backwards. You lot also seem to pretend like FOX isn't the biggest MSM outlet going.
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  2461. ​ @yabadabadont8219  Israel has all Palestinians IDed. Pretty easy to cross check. The numbers have been accurate before. What makes you think they're lying, this one time? Because the people bombing them told you not to trust the numbers?
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  2462. Ok, and how many strikes on the ME, since 9/11, by the US and IL, and how many dths?
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  2463.  @fullyfb3847  Rumble is funded by Peter Thiel, a far right loon that wants the Republican party to become even more Trumpist/fascist. They wouldn't offer to pay Joe, if they thought they were a threat to their agenda. They're inviting grifters, like Glenn Greenwald, Tulsi, Jimmy Dore, that fit their agenda, just fine. The far right either sees Joe as one of them, or at least sees him as a gateway.
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  2464.  @fullyfb3847  Is that the same "freedom loving right" that was okay with the actual government (head of government) firing, or threatening to fire, anyone who contradicted him? That was okay with that same head of government saying people should be fired for kneeling? That was okay with the actual government making anti-BDS laws? That was okay with the actual government making it harder, or more dangerous, to protest? That still has a government agency protecting their delicate conservative sensibilities from naughty words and nipples? Conservative religious types have been cancelling things and people for millennia, and are far more likely to use the authorities to do it. So, a far right loon, like Thiel, or you, supporting Joe, isn't evidence he's acceptable to right wing loons? "Freedom loving" Thiel is literally trying to purge the party of non Trumpists.
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  2465. Sounds mostly right. I'd only change limiting it to the "leadership" of the Confederates. The majority of Southerners elected pro slavery representatives, voted against abolitionist candidates. The same racist majority that then voted for segregation and against desegregation, for another 100 years after the war.
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  2466. Sam's racist against Jimmy Dore? lol
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  2467.  @Aerational  I didn't give an opinion on whether what he is saying was right, or wrong. Devoting your entire channel to just bashing Democrats becomes indistinguishable from a right wing channel devoted to bashing Democrats.
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  2468. Try ... to pass it? That's not even a thing. It will fail. And then you'll have to do the hard work of getting more progressives elected to congress, which her progressive PAC just helped do, and for which she was punished (as they mentioned).
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  2469.  @ojo1979  You know people can disagree on tactics but agree on the goal, right? So maybe shove the straw back up your ass, instead of building men with it.
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  2470. The asylum law says to get yourself inside the country, and it doesn't care how you do it. The misdemeanor of non point of entry crossing, that racist loons want to kill people over, is waved, if their asylum is accepted.
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  2471.  @stopwritingthatreplyjohnat6638  No, you don't know much about the Boogaloos. That guy Dore had on praised Kyle Rittenhouse. They're gun loving right wing nuts, who will shoot you for even thinking of taxing them, once you hand in hand help them topple the authority. Dore ditched the people who want M4A over a tactics disagreement, slandered the hell out of them for weeks as "fakes", "frauds", "sellouts", etc., writing them off as allies. Then he immediately turned around and presented someone who disagrees on almost everything as a potential ally. He's insane. You are likely insane, as well, if you can't see it.
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  2472.  @InfernoBlade64  Exactly. These Dore knobs want to get themselves on the wrong side of a Night of the Long Knives.
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  2473.  @stopwritingthatreplyjohnat6638  Bullshit. AOC used her platform and PAC to back 20 pro-M4A progressives and helped add a few more M4A yes votes to congress, the very thing you need to do to ever pass the bill. She has done more for M4A in 2 years than he has in his entire lifetime. Mr one true champion of healthcare didn't give a crap if 10m of the poorest Americans were thrown off Medicaid expansion and didn't give a crap about adding 40m older Americans to Medicare expansion. Dore knobs are dumb as hell.
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  2474.  @stopwritingthatreplyjohnat6638  Is Pelosi still running on M4A and helping to add more M4A yes votes to congress, removing corporate Dems from congress in the process? Did Pelosi campaign for Bernie instead of Biden or Tulsi? Dore knobs have proved they would have done absolutely nothing with a failed vote, anyway. The $15 got a vote. Did they do anything with their oh so precious list of no voters? No. The pathetic hypocrites just kept whining about those who voted for it. They're lazy and want everything done for them. There's already a list of congress members who won't cosponser it. Do something with it already, and stop bitching at those on your side.
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  2475.  @stopwritingthatreplyjohnat6638  Typical Dore knob strawman. Rofl. The civil Rights Act never failed on a vote, dimwit. It was introduced at the end of a session. A minority filibustered until the end of session, it never failed a vote. At the beginning of the next session, it was quickly reintroduced. The minority filibustered for another 50 days, and then it was passed by the same majority that was for it the previous session. Civil rights had the protests and marches for years before the Civil Rights Act. You have things in the wrong order.
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  2476. ​ @knightsoftheroundtable87 Numerous reports showing that the majority of drugs crossing the Southern border come through border crossings. Drug suppliers don't tend to like their drugs swept down a river, dying in desert, or locked up by border patrol.
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  2477.  @gnubbiersh647  You asked me a question. The "opinion" on biological males competing in women's sports, given in the movie, is that there are people doing it just so they can compete against biological females. Sorry, that you don't like hearing the fact that they're a dishonest bunch.
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  2478.  @gnubbiersh647  I gave an example of a group of men, desperate to prove something, who still refused to go through HRT, to do it. Do you have any examples of men going through HRT, for the sole purpose of achieving higher sport rankings?
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  2479.  @robinsss  Most violent crime is same race vs same race, because most is domestic, or between people who know each other. And they're already being treated like criminals. Why, in the middle of a discussion about cops behaving badly, do you want to change the subject, to that? Pretty sure you don't want to talk about crime and poverty going hand in hand, that black Americans have double the percentage in poverty, and ways to remedy that. So, why is it you want it talked about it, if not simply to whatabout and deflect from cops behaving badly?
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  2480.  @robinsss  But even the right wing media doesn't mention it, until something about a cop is brought up. It's generally only mentioned to interrupt a conversation about a cop. And, again, what is it you want to discuss about it?
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  2481.  @robinsss  Rofl, they don't tend to talk about black on black crime, and possible solutions, when they mention Chicago. They mention Chicago with gun violence and gun laws, dishonestly using Chicago totals to paint a false narrative. Chicago is a large city. Going by per capita rates, St Louis is actually the gun violence capital of the US. Do you want to talk about poverty and crime going hand in hand, poverty levels being higher in red states, and actually do something about the black American poverty rate? Do you want to talk about how firearm mortality rates and homicide rates tend to be higher in states with less gun control, and actually do something to reduce those numbers? Those aren't solutions right wingers tend to want to discuss.
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  2482.  @Wiffernubbin  No. Lehi tried to ally with Italy once and Germany twice. And they said they could raise 40000 fghtrs in Europe (which is oddly a similar amount to Ze'ev Jabotinsky's Betar youth movement, which became both the Irgun and Lehi).
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  2483.  @Milanvaneijk  Meh, it would be kind of moronic to call US Libertarians, extreme "left". "Left" and "right" is economics. Either can be more, or less, authoritarian.
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  2484.  @Milanvaneijk  I'm Canadian. I specifically used a capital "L", as in Ayn Randians or ancappers. They are considered far right because they are far right, and I consider corporate Dems to be right of centre. But okay, whatever.
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  2485.  @robinsss  If they wanted to end slavery, then why didn't they at least end owning slaves, themselves?
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  2486.  @immanny85  And then literally said if you're going to take a punch, punch upward.
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  2487.  @LukeMcGuireoides  The only thing I can think of is the movie The Man Who Would Be King, with Michael Caine and Sean Connery. There were villages that were pissing and shitting in the river, which polluted the river for the village downriver from them.
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  2488. Zionists are the ones who have literally been justifying killing civilians. They're just objectively wrong about who the aggressor is. So, is killing civilians justified, or no? If so, then you're the ones justifying the Hamas attack, not leftists.
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  2489. He didn't obliterate her. His question obliterated her anti-war grift, by exposing she's pro-war, like him.
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  2490. MR were promoting voting for Nina, to add another M4A yes vote to congress, because getting enough M4A yes votes in congress is the only possible way to ever pass the bill. AOC was campaigning for Nina that day. Dore and wife abandoned Nina, abandoned adding another M4A yes vote to congress, and the M4A marchers also abandoned Nina.
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  2491. Slandering people can invite violence. Like when Trump made out like Georgia Reps were sellouts, and they started getting death threats.
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  2492.  @TheAtemiles  I'm referring to Knowles thinking soccer is anti-American simply because Americans don't dominate.
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  2493. ​ @AConquerorsVendetta  Krystal is more of a joke. She's just a gateway into hearing little to no pushback against Saagar's bullshit. And, now, Kyle is a gateway to her.
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  2494.  @AConquerorsVendetta  Krystal doesn't give Saagar much pushback. The whole schtick, started at Rising (The Hill being owned by a multi-millionaire Trump supporter and family friend), allows much of his right wing nonsense to be accepted as reasonable. Meanwhile, he was also over on The Daily Caller, right up Trump's butthole. Somewhat like Rogan, Krystal lets nonsense pass for reasonable.
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  2495. So that makes him MLK Jr?
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  2496.  @Halohalo2323  Do you not know who Peterson is?
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  2497.  @alexanderjamezz  "Masculinity isn't toxic" ~ Jordan Peterson You know why people are making fun of him crying, right?
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  2498.  @kgt7500  Everyone has conversations and gives their opinions on stuff. If that's all the op is referring to, then everyone has "done" stuff. He seemed to be implying that Harris deserves recognition for having "done" something special. What?
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  2499.  @sergeikhripun  You don't know what a "supermajority" is. Democrats do not currently have a supermajority, and they had one in 2009, for all of a few months, if, and only if, you count independent, former Republican, Joe Lieberman, as an actual Democrat. A "supermajority" is not having a majority in the house, senate, and having the presidency. A "supermajority" is having a 2/3, filibuster proof, majority, you dimwitted Dore knob.
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  2500.  @sergeikhripun  You blathered a lot of crap that doesn't change the fact that you have no clue what a "supermajority" is, or are just being dishonest, if you think Dems currently have one. Ironic last sentence, considering that fact.
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  2501.  @sergeikhripun  Canada's healthcare system, btw, is more like Medicaid for all, rather than Medicare for all. Each province runs their healthcare and the federal government cost shares. Newsom adding more and more people to Medi-Cal is going in that direction. You'd have to be a complete and utter moron, if you think Trump, and Republicans, wanting to toss 10+m of the poorest Americans off of Medicaid expansion, is samesies. Or, that all the Republican states which turned down Medicaid expansion, for their citizens, are samesies.
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  2502.  @sergeikhripun  Every Republican in congress voted against the $15 minimum wage, dimwit. Having a handful of conservative morons in the senate isn't samesies with having the entire party opposed. I didn't answer questions that deflected from my point, that you either have zero clue what a "supermajority" is, or are dishonestly claiming there is one now? You just doubled down on it. At no point did Democrats have a supermajority "this year". Nothing you say can change the fact that you're clueless or dishonest. Which is it? Again, Newsom adding more and more people to Medi-Cal is moving in that direction. Republicans want to move in reverse. Not samesies.
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  2503.  @Evirthewarrior  Rofl. Do you think Nina is anti-M4A, dimwit?
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  2504.  @robertjenkins6132  You're misinformed or lying. Yang does not have the UBI stack with SSI disability, only SSDI and VA. SSI disability does currently stack with SNAP. If someone is already getting $1000+ in assistance of a variety Yang doesn't have stacking with UBI, then they'll be worse off under Yang. They may be allowed to opt to keep what they already get but they can't opt out of paying a VAT on many things. Universal free public college is open to all the public, but it doesn't universally hand money to rich people going to private expensive colleges. Not exactly comparable.
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  2505.  @xung3990  Seriously, get your facts straight, before you claim something is debunked, or you just look like you're lying for your cult.
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  2506.  @clintholmes2061  Not partisan and not a hack, are two different things, you dimwitted Dore knob. Chomsky argues for harm reduction. It might make his argument partisan, but it doesn't make him a hack, ffs. Dore doing little homework and spreading bullshit, is a hack.
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  2507.  @clintholmes2061  Nothing you blathered refutes that not partisan, and not a hack, are two different things. Sam criticizes Biden, and other corporate Dems, all the time, dimwit. It's your hack who would only report on the Biden scandal, because he's a grifter, who panders to the far right. Promoting progressives vote third party benefits corporate Dems and Republicans. Promoting Trump as the better option than Clinton or Biden, benefits Republicans. Promoting "extreme free market" Boogaloo psychos as allies, benefits the far right extremists. Spreading covid and vaccine misinformation panders to far right anti-vax nutters. Promoting abandoning Nina Turner benefits her DNC backed corporate Dem opponent. Promoting not voting for Bernie benefits his corporate Dem opponent. Slandering progressives that have done more for M4A in a few years than he has in his entire lifetime, benefits corporate Dems and Republicans. None of the directions Jimmy proposes taking benefits the left. He's a grifter, claiming to be selling you something beneficial, but is actually selling you something completely useless, or even harmful. Head on off to right wing Rumble, with "real" leftists, like Dore and Greenwald.
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  2508.  @clintholmes2061  Fitting, since you don't seem to know what any of those things mean.
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  2509.  @clintholmes2061  I was including "indistinguishable" with the "you don't seem to know what any of those things mean". And you still don't. Sam: Clinton sucks, but is still the better option than Trump. Dore: Trump is the better option than Clinton. Trump: Trump is the better option than Clinton. One of those things doesn't belong. The other two are indistinguishable.
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  2510.  @clintholmes2061  Cultist: "Fake News!" Jimmy Dore: Hillary Presidency Worse For Progressives & America Than Trump Jimmy Dore: "Biden has a worse record than Donald Trump." He twice promoted Trump as the better option than both of the only viable other options.
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  2511.  @clintholmes2061  Again, it's a trolley problem, dimwit. Throwing stones at the trolley won't make it stop. You can fantasize that you're doing something to try and stop the trolley, but you aren't.
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  2512. Zionists are equivalent to Nazis. Being anti-Nazi doesn't equate to being anti-German.
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  2513.  @aliamjon2550  But, you didn't, dumb dumb. My point was based on them both having pasts since, yes, the whole world has pasts, and that you don't want to dig into the MLB's past, unless you also want to dig into Georgia's past, which is far freaking worse than a baseball organization's.
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  2514.  @aliamjon2550  What's to "decipher"? One had history of slavery and one didn't even exist until after the Civil War. If you think that's complicated, then you're not very bright.
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  2515.  @aliamjon2550  Dumb dumb, what aren't you getting about it being the fact that Tucker was the one that brought the history of the MLB into the discussion?
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  2516.  @aliamjon2550  Rofl. You're arguing against yourself, dumb dumb. History is relevant, or it's not, take your pick.
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  2517. I like the co-hosts John has brought in on The Damage Report.
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  2518. Couldn't even make it through your first paragraph. It was a steaming pile of horse shit. Firstly, you don't get to use Palestinian Jews as a place holder, for the "return", after 1700 years, of hundreds of thousands of people from Russia and Europe. They weren't holding a Jewish nation. They were Palestinians, that were Jews. And, they actually opposed Zionism. The Zionist terrorist groups, Irgun and Lehi, targeted them, right alongside their Palestinian brothers and sisters. I don't get to round up people from the Americas, whose ancestors left England hundreds of years ago, "go back", claim half of England, and cleanse "our" half of its current inhabitants. If I did, it would be colonialism. Even if I did have a distant cousin living there, that said it was okay, it would still be colonialism. These are batshit crazy, absolutely moronic, arguments. You're also absolutely lying, about the land purchases. There was a massive 1945 land and peoples survey. It found that the Jews owned a majority of the land in no district. Not even close. Non Jews owned a majority in every district except 4, and owned a plurality in 3 of those (public being the 3rd owner), and second to publicly owned in only 1 district. Jews were a majority nowhere. To have a Jewish majority state would require cleansing the lands of the actual non Jewish majority.
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  2519.  @jonz23m  Should we ditch all laws, all rules of the road, all other vaccines, all safety regulations, etc., etc., so as not to keep our "fear and anxiety"? Sounds genius.
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  2520. British parliamentarians had already chopped off a King's head, and had a short lived republic, over 100 years before the American Revolution.
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  2521.  @keirfarnum6811  Thanks. Help yourself. :)
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  2522.  @HalfDecentTrashCollection2001  Seriously, someone has to get outraged at the idea of making a wedding cake for gay people first, discriminate against them, before the gay people will be outraged that they're being discriminated against. Or, someone has to be outraged by abortion first, try to make it illegal, before someone will become outraged that their freedom to choose is being taken away. Etc.
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  2523. ​ @FelisImpurrator  You're just talking prioritization, not empathy. The poor ones just care more about selfishly imposing their religion on others, than they do about other self interests. The rich ones likely don't really care about religion, but want to selfishly keep all their money.
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  2524.  @aarondickson9573  So, democratic socialism?
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  2525.  @aarondickson9573  You mean right wing Cubans? You know a slim majority of refugees were Batista administration, military, or Batista supporters, or are their descendants, right? As in fascists. That seems to correlate with a slim Cuban majority voting Republican.
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  2526.  @robinsss  There were land grants during colonial times right up until the revolution, and there were land grants between the revolution and the Homestead Act. Back in the day, "property tax" also referred to all property owned, not just land and home. The US was also built on slavery. From the perspective of the owner, having the freedom to own other people might be considered libertarian, but from the perspective of the ones being owned, not so much.
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  2527.  @treeman5274  As far as the house goes, they kept the $15 in for a round of voting, it actually passed the house (M4A didn't have a chance in hell) and also got a senate vote. Surprise, surprise, Dore knobs no longer considered just getting a vote on an important progressive policy to be a big deal, and have done absolutely nothing with a list of no voters. They just continue to bitch about, and slander, those who got a vote on it, and voted for it. Dore knobs have proven themselves to be pathetic useless hypocrites. A senate public option bill was just submitted, this past month. See where it goes.
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  2528.  @ynemey1243  I didn't say anyone was obligated, you strawman spewing dimwit. Abandoning her was optional, and they chose that option. Glad we agree now. You're the one with the reading comprehension problems, dimwit. I said "not to vote for anyone running AS a Democrat". Nina was most definitely running AS a Democrat. You were spewing some bullshit nonsense that "Democrat" didn't apply to her. Dore is encouraging progressives to vote third party, you dishonest twit. I know exact what a strawman is. You, on the other hand, are clearly having severe comprehension problems.
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  2529.  @archologyzero  So you won't be mad, if two similar lousy corporate Dem candidates lose to Trump two elections in a row? Unlike Hillary, who is still mad that she's lousy.
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  2530. ​ @ADJvide0z  That user is as uncommitted as the MAGA one on CNN ... Which is not at all.
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  2531.  @almac8840  His plan doesn't stack with SSI. A disabled person with a child, for example, would be getting $1000+ in SSI. Yang is only offering them a replacement. Opt in or out. Either way, they'll be worse off with the VAT raising their cost of living.
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  2532. It's because Israel is connected to their Christian Armageddon fairy tale. They want Israel to take the mount, raze the mosque, and build a third temple, to bring about the second coming and end of times. Ironically, Israel is the first country that gets destroyed, so they are aiming for the destruction of Israel, and all its Jews. They're just taking a round about way.
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  2533. "Vote blue" works both ways, dumb dumb. It's how progressives tend to win general elections, because those who voted against them in the primaries turn around and vote for them in the general. If you simply split off all the progressive voters to a third party, they'd lose and Republicans would win almost everywhere.
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  2534.  @Unfamous_Buddha  The Tea Party was backed by the Koch brothers, and other billionaire donors. Which billionaire donors want to help turn corporate Dems into progressives?
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  2535.  @Unfamous_Buddha  Rofl. It does matter, because it wasn't grass roots, it had massive corporate donors pushing the candidates further to the right, and that direction is pretty much the direction Republicans naturally want to go anyway. Corporate Dems donors are not pushing them to move to the left, and corporate Dems don't naturally want to move further left. The only thing that made it hard for old school Republicans to ignore the tea party types, is that they were themselves unwilling to move bills a bit left and work with democrats. That's the opposite of Biden's, or Manchin's, "bipartisan" crap. They are willing to push bills right, to pick up Republican votes, and pass things without needing squad votes. You're spewing a bullshit false equivalence.
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  2536.  @TheGUDL716  He's not saying he's going to close existing loopholes. He's dishonestly claiming the VAT doesn't have loopholes and will force them to "pay their fair share". The loophole to avoid actually paying any tax is built right in to a VAT system, because they get paid back for VAT input. His projected revenue from the VAT was based on the entire economy, not simply yachts and very high end items. He has since said he'd exempt staples, but that's just basic groceries, some household items, and possibly kids clothes. That doesn't include the electric bill, phone bill, internet bill, cable bill, toys, games, non-staple snacks and pop, and all kinds of things that will still affect poor people's lives. Some people are already getting $1000+ in assistance Yang doesn't have stack with UBI. The UBI won't benefit them at all but they'll still have to pay VAT on some items. The upper middle class and lower end rich, whose incomes won't jump with massive consumer spending and stocks going up, like doctors and lawyers, will pay in more than they get out. Someone like Bezos is going to make billions more than he pays in with Yang's plan.
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  2537.  @EpicAlcatraz99  You're just objectively wrong, dumb dumb. "The International Court of Justice (ICJ), the UN General Assembly, and the UN Security Council all regard Israel as the occupying power for the territories."
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  2538.  @L0kias1  Yep. I always support natives, when they're arguing with the government, and think they deserve whatever we can afford to give them, as reparations. I think it's too late to boot people out, even in Israel. I think there should be a single state solution, with a Lebanon style government, and a Palestinian right of return. Then whatever assistance they need to build up a similar standard of living that Israelis enjoy.
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  2539.  @TheLaceWeaver  At least in part, since it started with the PLO.
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  2540. The issue is bigger than just one guy. The history of Likud is the history of Revisionist Zionism, which is now over 100 years old, and which has always had the stated goal to completely colonize and ethnically cleanse all Palestine territories, plus claims a "right" to all the "Land of Israel" (fictional biblical borders that don't mesh with archaeological reality), which is also an open declaration of future wars, against Jordan, Syria, and Lebanon. They have been working towards that goal, for decades now. The US has been vetoing Security Council resolutions against Israel, and supplying them with weapons, for decades now.
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  2541.  @michaelmarini94  And they have reading comprehension problems, to boot. Hint: the number isn't the ironic part, dumb dumb.
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  2542. So you're opposed to a thing that isn't happening. Only like 5-10% have their asylum accepted.
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  2543.  @daniel-bg5nq  Tim was still talking to Shapiro from his own studio. Which side is taping it really doesn't much matter. A "convoluted process" that tons of podcasters, radio and television shows, dimwits like Crowder, and even old people and kids have figured out how to do?
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  2544.  @daniel-bg5nq  Rofl. They just didn't wanna? So you chose the full of shit option.
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  2545.  @daniel-bg5nq  Anyone who can show video and audio from the internet during their show has the setup, dimwit.
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  2546.  @GavinGill07  Nah, our Liberals are centre-right, our NDP are centre-left, and the PC are right. In the US, many Democrats are about the same as our PCs. Some about the same as our Liberals. A few new ones and Bernie are like our NDP. The US Republicans and Libertarians are way right. There really are no far left politicians or political parties operating in the developed world. Far left would be complete economic equality. Sure, some politicians promote having less disparity, but none are promoting total equality. Far right, on the other hand, would be zero government interference in economy, business, little to no taxes (except for a legal system and defense, which Ayn Rand was okay taxing for), allowing for whatever inequality capitalism dishes out. Plenty of US politicians promote that. You're right though, that the majority of Americans now seem to be centre-left, since polls show the majority now supporting Medicare for all, taxing the wealthy, etc. The US is only now recovering from McCarthyism and the Cold War, which shifted their politics totally right of centre.
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  2547. @Crimean Tiger Lol, are you here to help make the case that allying with morons is a bad idea?
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  2548.  @pittiesplus4108  If you're actually pro-vaccine, you'd recognise you're an anecdote, and although you might state what you went through, you'd make sure everyone listening knew you're an outlier. Or, when you're talking about other possible negative side effects, like tinnitus, don't dishonestly pretend like it's a side effect of all vaccines, when it is just J&J, and maybe also report that there are thousands of more cases of tinnitus reported by those with covid. Or, when you and your buddy Max are dishonestly misrepresenting the UK's completely socialized healthcare system, like all good "lefties" do, and myocarditis, maybe also mention that youth are 6-8x more likely to get myocarditis from covid, that viruses are the leading cause of myocarditis. No clue how you can listen to someone spewing only negative crap about vaccines, for 15 min, and come away thinking they made a pro-vaccine video.
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  2549.  @pittiesplus4108  Rofl. They aren't. You're a loon.
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  2550.  @davidmeadows5627  Umm, yes, the voter IDs being given to people who don't already have a photo ID, do have pictures. I didn't say one non photo ID was enough. I said you have to accept non photo ID to get a photo ID. Your pedantic blathering didn't debunk that. Again, you're the one who brought up "other countries". Canada allows for a wide variety of ways to prove who you are, including non photo ways. Simply stating "other countries" have "voting ID laws" doesn't explain exactly what form those laws take. Like when lying Republicans tried to make out like Colorado had stricter voting laws than Georgia.
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  2551.  @Sloimer  Nope. Neither of those. Do you have reading comprehension problems?
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  2552.  @Sloimer  Definitely stupid like somebody.
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  2553.  @tony9238  He didn't say to cast a protest vote. He said to "withhold" votes. And he slandered anyone who said the speakership could be won with less than 218 votes. Pelosi just won with 216. He didn't have a clue how the vote actually works.
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  2554.  @bruno.6610  1. By having the government pay for privatized services, turning public tax dollars into private profits. 2. By not having them pay for things they benefit most from. For example, if Apple shipped a million phones from China, and I buy one, they have benefited a million times more than me from protected shipping lanes. If a transport truck had brought 10k phones to my area, they benefited 10000x more than me for the road. Etc. Etc. Republicans don't like consumption taxes, when they're doing the consuming. That's having the public pay for things corporations benefit most from. 3. Not necessarily rich, but their base ... subsidizing farmers (including giant corporate run farms). Pretty sure oil companies get subsidies, as well. 4. You can play semantics, saying that tax breaks and loopholes are letting them keep their own money, but if that same government is setting a yearly budget, saying this is what the government needs to operate, but then let's them get away with not paying, or paying little, then everyone else has to put in more, to compensate. That is having the public pay for their government, for them. If Amazon really paid zero federal taxes, then they're getting benefits they didn't pay for.
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  2555.  @whyamimrpink78  Obama faced little obstruction? Oh geez, you're more delusional than I thought.
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  2556. Medical "apartheid"/"segregation" already has a name. It's called "quarantine", and has been a go to method for dealing with contagious outbreaks for centuries.
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  2557. Rofl. "Exposing" = spewing bullshit. Aaron's Syrian "scandal" article relies on two "inspectors" that weren't even all that involved in a single inspection at a single site ... ignoring that there have been hundreds of accounts of Syrian chemical weapons use, hundreds of victim witnesses, dozens of healthcare witnesses, multiple NGO witnesses, human rights legal group investigations, independent investigations, ... Anyone with Wikipedia and a penchant for leaving out everything that doesn't fit your narrative could have written that article, from anywhere in the world.
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  2558. Isn't he supposed to be a major defender of men? He just, basically, argued that they don't care about women, won't defend women, won't respect their rights, etc. ... unless it hurts men in some way. Effectively, men are sociopaths, according to Peterson.
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  2559.  @aliamjon2550  Can you make that gibberish make sense?
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  2560.  @aliamjon2550  Did you mean to say "it was built for uneducated unskilled laborers"? And the second sentence is contradictory nonsense.
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  2561. You know the "pride" is to counter centuries of being made to feel ashamed, inferior, immoral, etc., etc., etc. Has someone been making out like straight people are inferior, immoral, or whatnot, and made you feel the need to announce your pride?
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  2562. You're the racist princess, I take it.
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  2563.  @tanjianforever  Ted's mom was American. He was considered American, dual citizenship, by birth. He didn't have to naturalize to become American.
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  2564. Just keep that shit on your side of the lakes.
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  2565. What kind of porridge will be served is decided in the primaries. Sure, the primaries should try to pick the porridge that's best for the people and has the best chance at defeating the Republican. Whatever the primary decides, the best chance at defeating the Republican should hold. Voting green will not do that.
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  2566.  @johnscott6481  The mainstream Democratic party is right of centre. Sanders, and the progressives, are centre to centre-left. Mainstream Democrats might be in the centre of the US political spectrum, but that spectrum is almost totally right of centre.
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  2567. Relative to you, maybe.
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  2568. ​ @archologyzero  I'd just assume he's dishonest.
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  2569.  @Captain-Sum.Ting-Wong  They're the kind of "left" that winds up on the wrong end of a Night of the Long Knives.
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  2570. ​ @Newton-Reuther  You haven't seen her speaking at a ceasefire rally?
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  2571. The Tea Party didn't attack their own Tea Party friendly politicians, dimwit. Dore claims to be progressive while trashing progressive politicians.
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  2572.  @michaelarmijo4112  You're the one lying. She said exactly where she was, and simply said she didn't know what was going on, or who was, outside her door.
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  2573.  @michaelarmijo4112  The goal is what makes something sedition, or not, dumb dumb. How well people are armed, how successful it is, or whatnot, is irrelevant.
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  2574.  @michaelarmijo4112  She used her platform and PAC to back 20 other pro-M4A progressives, helped add a few more M4A yes votes to congress, and helped remove a few more corporate Dems. Getting enough yes votes in congress is the only possible way to ever pass a bill. She was just campaigning to try and add another M4A yes vote, in Nina Turner. Oh my, so her tactic for the midterm is to try and avoid progressives becoming part of a minority party? You must be a Republican, if you want them to be the majority.
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  2575. No. Although it's now the dominant variant, it's not the only variant. People are still getting, and dying from, Delta. Delta was also both more contagious and more deadly, than earlier variants, so you don't know what Omicron could mutate into.
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  2576. On top of the colonialist nature of Zionism, Israel was itself founded on terrorism, by groups like the Irgun and Lehi. They bombed many Palestinian markets, murdering civilians, including children, even including Palestinian Jews (who didn't support Zionism). Israel merged those terrorists into the new nation's military and intelligence agencies. Israelis elected Menachem Begin, leader of the Irgun, child murderer, Jew murder, who bombed the King David Hotel, as PM. Israelis, to this day, celebrate those terrorists as "heroes". They literally taught their neighbours that terrorism is a valid path to independence and statehood, and that terrorists are to be celebrated. Netanyahu even promoted, and helped fund, Hamas, to weaken the Palestinian Authority, and avoid peace. Israel is the terrorist nation. Rivlin hosts 90th anniversary of founding Irgun Zvai Leumi (Etzel) By GREER FAY CASHMAN Published: MARCH 1, 2021 "President Reuven Rivlin on Monday hosted the 90th anniversary celebration of Irgun Zvai Leumi, generally known by its Hebrew acronym of Etzel."
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  2577.  4 Fake  Have a nap.
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  2578.  @squatch545  Do you have reading comprehension problems? "Former" Which show was that in? DIANNE FEINSTEIN Out-Of-Touch During Economic Crisis! 55K views13 hours ago AOC Revisionism About The Two Parties of WAR! 120K views1 day ago Pete Buttigieg REWARDED For Fulfilling Mission During Primary! 109K views1 day ago Biden's Cabinet Of WAR! 105K views2 days ago "Biden World" BLAMES Progressives for Their Losses! 90K views2 days ago Big Tech Oligarchs in Biden Administration overseeing Censorship! 87K views2 days ago Trump & Biden -- TRUTH In The Streets! 124K views3 days ago BIDEN's Cabinet Looking WORSE Than Expected! 128K views3 days ago
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  2579. ​ @c.a.t.732  "handed it over" Israel controls the borders, the airspace, the ports, the electricity, the water, the vast majority of what goes in and out, and Bibi even controlled the purse strings. He could stop and start the flow of money from Qatar, whenever he wanted. All while also still ethnic cleansing and colonizing the Palestinians of the West Bank, which Palestinians of Gaza still care about. In no reality did they "hand it over". They pulled out a colony. You don't actually have to colonize to occupy. Nazis didn't actually live in the Warsaw ghetto. All the Palestine territories are still considered occupied, by the International Court, the UN GA, and the UN SC.
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  2580.  decembrist  Math was around long before Mayans. Mesopotamians were recording amounts of things with clay balls, thousands of years before the Mayans settled and started developing a civilization.
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  2581.  @aarondickson1898  Dems don't equate to progressives, and Dems ditched the filibuster on lower courts, which they haven't really complained about all that much. Republicans ditched the filibuster on the Supreme Court, themselves. So, what "backfire" are you talking about?
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  2582.  @aarondickson1898  The Republicans ditching the filibuster on the Supreme Court is a "backfire" on Democrats, how? That makes no sense.
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  2583.  @aarondickson1898  Again, Democrats didn't end the filibuster for the Supreme Court, dumb dumb. It was Republicans who, in 2017, ditched the filibuster for the Supreme Court. Try to make sense.
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  2584.  @alabamaman9476  Exactly what? You can't seem to provide a specific example of supposedly different science.
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  2585.  @jonm7888  Yes!
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  2586. No one has argued the US invented slavery. No one has argued slavery didn't, or doesn't, exist outside the US. No one has argued slavery no longer exists. Crowder is arguing against strawmen of his own making, on all those points. As for his claim that slavery has never been racially motivated, that's a blatant lie. Western chattel slavery was developed around African slaves, and was different from other types of slavery. Simply saying "slavery", implying they're all samesies, is nonsense. Other forms of slavery, practiced elsewhere, didn't tend to be lifelong and multigenerational. Black Americans, in the early colonies, weren't slaves. They were indentured, like white people. Then, very racially motivated laws, around the colonies, started chipping away at any semblance of rights. At first, they tried being subtle, by making laws against enslaving Christians (all the whites were Christians, while black Africans were not, at the time). When black people started converting, then they dropped all subtlety, and became very race specific. There were laws all across the country, as well as the brief mention in the constitution. There was also the Confederate constitution, which made the racial aspect of slavery extremely clear. There was also another hundred years of racially motivated segregation and Jim Crow laws, against the very same people that had been enslaved, indicating their treatment beforehand had also been racially motivated. The majority of Confederate state voters were racists, plain and simple. They voted for pro slavery candidates, and against abolitionists. They voted for secessionists, and against unionists. They were willing to kill, and be killed, for the "right" to own, abuse, torture, rape, and even kill, black Americans. They voted for segregationists, and against desegregationists. They were majority hardcore racists, for centuries, on a massive scale. Anyone who thinks that all suddenly went away, in 50 years, is a complete and utter moron, or a grifter.
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  2587.  @marymackey4518  Government negotiated under $20 prices on vaccines, and giving them out for free, is like a tiny slice of universal healthcare. Not getting vaccinated and having to resort to a $2000+ Rogan "kitchen sink" is handing them 100x the money, out of pocket. Being in the hospital and being pumped full of all kinds of drugs, for weeks, even months, hands them even more money. Jimmy peddling Ivermectin, average price $100 for a bottle of 20 pills, as a preventative, is him peddling a more expensive alternative, paid for out of pocket. He's a grifter, selling you the opposite of what he claims to be for.
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  2588. Richard Spencer stated that he thought Israel was great, for 2 reasons ... 1. He thought all the Jews should go there. ... 2. He thought the US should emulate their racist ethno-state. The evangelical right "supports" Israel, because they want Israel to take the mount, build their third temple, and bring about the second coming, and end times ... and Israel gets destroyed first, in their fairy tale Armageddon story. They are "supporting" Israel to hurry up and die.
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  2589.  @kise_ryota  If a god knows what you are going to "choose", before creating you, that means, once created, you actually have zero ability to choose a different outcome, when apparent choices are presented.
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  2590.  @PathtoYahawah  Rofl. You think DNA isn't factual?
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  2591. Christian Zionists don't have to like Jews, to be pro Israel expansion. Israel taking the mount, destroying the mosque, and building the third temple, supposedly brings about their second coming. Israel is then the first country destroyed, so it's not really being pro Jew, or pro Israel. It won't alienate his psycho base.
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  2592.  @2727rogers  The senate is the most undemocratic part (the electoral college's problem was freezing the number of house seats, in the early 1900s, because electorals are tied to number of seats), but then you'd need the vote of the senate to dissolve itself.
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  2593. Australia's covid deaths per million would translate into about 30k total US covid deaths, instead of 850k. Why hasn't there been an uprising, so they can have people dying at the same rate we are?!!!!!
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  2594.  @mimked  That's because right wingers have banned the CDC from doing their own studies. Why is it you think that is? Why wouldn't the pro-gun side want studies, if they really believed guns saved more lives than they took?
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  2595.  @Fuwuzworsh  It is absolutely not a strawman, to point out the absolute fact, that even the most popular third party hasn't won a single seat in congress in its near 50 year existence, the most popular progressive third party hasn't won a single seat in congress in its 20 year existence. It is absolutely not a strawman to point out the math of having power in congress and that, as a third party, you could be completely ignored, until you get a majority, if the other two parties work together. You, apparently, have no clue what a "strawman" is. AOC just used that PAC to back 20 other pro-M4A progressives in the last primaries. She helped add a few more M4A advocates to congress, and helped remove a few more corporate Dems. Some of the progressives she backed got absolutely trounced in very conservative districts, but a conservative Dem did end up winning the general. So, you Dore knobs are upset, that she wants the party to hold those seats in the midterms. I get it ... Dore knobs like Republicans in the majority, and progressives in a minority party. Wait. On one hand, a Dore argument is that corporate Dems would rather work with, or lose to, Republicans, than they would to work with, or lose to, progressives. On the other hand, a Dore argument is that they'll hate losing to Republicans, so much, that they'll turn more progressive. You realize that that's gibberish, right? Both can't be true. Just pretend that a hard all or nothing stance got you absolutely nothing, like you wanted.
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  2596.  @Fuwuzworsh  That's the thing that has been done, over and over ... letting Reagan win, letting Bush win, letting Trump win ... If Trump wasn't rock bottom, and letting Republicans win a proven failure of a strategy, then what is rock bottom? Just how bad do you want the country to get, exactly?
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  2597.  @joeb134  Isn't the very first OP comment, and the video, about Joe Rogan? But hey, ignore the rest of what I said.
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  2598.  @joeb134  That's what I said.
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  2599.  @campfiresong  Rofl, he and BGJ didn't talk about protests? Yes, yes they did. You're comment is ironic.
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  2600.  @campfiresong  You're clearly full of shit. BJG wrote an article on FTV, in which she specifically stated she thought a failed vote could galvanize the left and lead to protests and strikes. When together, Jimmy has agreed with her talking points. Dore was also on Status Coup talking about FTV and direct action, like protests or a general strike.
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  2601.  @campfiresong  Apparently I've seen more of his reasoning, than you. I don't think you've noticed that I haven't said that he didn't say to use it as a talking point to primary corporate Dems. So did BGJ, in the article I just mentioned. That's totally irrelevant to additional things he has, in fact, stated himself or agreed with when other people stated them. You, on the other hand, are denying he gave any other reasoning, and are making excuses for him agreeing with others who gave more reasoning. And, not only are you a complete bullshitter, but you're an idiot who didn't even grasp my original context. Even his wanting to use it as a talking point to run against corporate Dems, and that it will lead to getting M4A passed, implies he thinks a failed vote will make 100+ viable pro-M4A candidates rise up and run, and the millions, if not tens of millions, more progressive voters needed will rise up and vote for them.
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  2602.  @Hunter_Brandon  Actually, BGJ, and Dore, lied about Dore's plan. The original plan out of Dore's mouth, and for numerous times after, used that same "withhold" wording you're using now, or he'd say "don't vote for". Dore, on his own, never said to cast protest votes. His wording implied abstaining, which would have handed the speakership to McCarthy, because for every 2 empty seats, absentees, and/or abstentions, the threshold needed to win is lowered by 1. If Dore's 15 progressives had abstained, those 15 plus 2 empty seats, would have lowered the threshold needed to win by 8, down to 210. If every other Dem voted Pelosi, she could only get 207, at the time. If every Republican voted McCarthy, he could have gotten 211, and won the vote. Sam knew where the original plan came from. To say he liked Dore's plan and then didn't like Dore's plan, simply because he didn't like Dore, makes no sense. Are you sure it wasn't because Dore started using it to slander progressives in congress, taking the thing in a whole other direction? Or, because flaws were found?
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  2603.  @Hunter_Brandon  Dore didn't say to cast protest votes. His original plan, to simply "withhold", or "don't vote", would have handed the speakership to McCarthy. The fact that Pelosi ended up winning the speakership with less than 218 votes, and speakers before have won with less than 218 votes, proves that Dore was wrong when he insisted it was impossible for McCarthy to win without 218 votes. His 15 would need to cast protest votes, which Dore wasn't saying to do, or McCarthy would have been speaker. Even the amended plan, to cast protest votes, wouldn't necessarily be a threat to Pelosi. The broader progressive caucus is about 15 seats shy of being the majority of the party. They don't yet have the numbers to pick a progressive speaker. As long as the corporate Dem majority stuck with her, they could keep choosing Pelosi as the party speaker candidate over, and over, and over. All the 15 would be doing is paralyzing the house ... during a pandemic, meaning no new covid relief, no new unemployment extensions, no new vaccine funding, etc., with everyone blaming them. It could have been a PR nightmare. Plus, moving forward, now that you've openly started an all out civil war within the party, what happens when the progressive caucus does get those 15 more seats and picks the party speaker? Going third party is nonsensical is what the issue is. The most popular third party hasn't won a single seat in congress in its near 50 year existence. The most popular progressive third party hasn't won a single seat in congress in its 20 year existence. But, let's say you magically got enough progressives to vote third party that a progressive puritan party wins the same number number of seats as the current progressive caucus, 97 in the house and 1 senator. What you'd have is a republican plurality in the house, that only needs to work with a handful of the most conservative corporate Dems to pass anything, and could completely ignore the progressive party. You'd have Trump as president, since progressives and Dems would have split their votes between their two candidates. And, you'd have Pence as the tie breaker in the senate, making it a Republican senate. On the other hand, getting only 15 more progressive seats, within the Dem caucus, would make them the majority, would allow them to pick the party speaker candidate, would allow them to set the party agenda and, if also the majority of the house, put forward whatever bills you want and pick committee members. You know those committees that Dore doesn't consider important. Pelosi actually introduced M4A last session. The parliamentarian sent it to committees, where it died, where 90% of bills die. Pelosi has already reintroduced the bill, this session, and it has again been sent to committees. Instead of pressuring, calling out, or protesting, committee members to take up the bill, what are Dore, and his knobs, doing? Slandering AOC and Bernie, who were just trying to add another progressive vote to congress, in Nina Turner, who Dore abandoned. The paths Dore takes, or proposes, seem to benefit the far right most.
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  2604.  fa q  SMRT Dore: Abandon Nina Turner, abandon adding another M4A yes vote to congress, because that's what "real" pro-M4A progressives do.
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  2605. Whatever every American is paying now, ends up being double the OECD per capita average. If you cut healthcare costs in half, you could cover 300+ million more people for the same price as you are now, and your share would still only need to be $500 a year.
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  2606. Likud's bloody 100 year history ... In 1923, 100 years ago, Ze'ev Jabotinsky wrote, The Iron Wall, and a follow up, The Ethics of The Iron Wall (sooo racist towards Africans), in which he fully acknowledged that post Balfour Zionsim was colonialism, and that, based on the entirety of history, the native Palestinian population would resist being colonized until the bitter end. He directly compared it to the colonization of North America. He promoted doing it anyway, claiming Zionist colonialism was a "just" colonialism (he also thought North American colonialists were good guys, so not a great judge of morality), not caring what that meant for the native population. Ze'ev is important, because his Betar militant youth group helped found the Irgun terrorist group, along with other supporters of his, and the splinter Lehi terrorist group. The Irgun bombed numerous Palestinian markets and other public places, murdering many Palestinian civilians, including children, even including Palestinian Jews (who didn't support colonialist Zionsim). The Irgun are important, because they ended up being led by future Likud PM, Menachem Begin, who bombed the King David Hotel. The King David Hotel was bombed because the British had raided the Jewish Agency and seized numerous documents that may have shown that the terrorists were working with the JA and Haganah (JA liked to pretend that they didn't support the terrorism). The British then stored those documents at their base, in the hotel. That the Irgun terrorists responded to a JA raid, itself seems to prove the connection. That the thousands of Irgun (and Lehi) terrorists were also quickly merged into the new nation's military (IDF) and intelligence (Mossad) agencies, and are still celebrated as "heroes" by Israelis, to this day, also seems to support total collaboration between the groups. That other terrorist group mentioned, Lehi (also known as the Stern Gang), was considered even more extreme. They even tried to ally with the Nazis, against the British. Lehi ended up being led by Yitzhak Shamir, future Mossad agent, and another future Likud PM. They assassinated Lord Moyne, and others. In 1945, there was a major land and peoples survey done in Palestine. It showed that the Zionists only owned about 5% of the total land, 20% of the arable land, and owned a majority in zero districts. The partition was not only going to be forced on the native Palestinian majority, but Jews were still going to be a minority, in the part allocated to them. The only possible way to even become a "Jewish state" was going to require getting rid of the actual majority (at least enough so that there'd be a solid Jewish majority, so they could fake being democratic). This is also shown by the 1948, post Nakba, population of Israel. If there was 716,700 Jews, 156,000+ non-Jews, and approximately 700k non-Jews ethnically cleansed, that means the Jewish population, in the Zionist portion of partition, was originally over 100,000 less than the non-Jewish population. To believe that there was never any intent, by Zionists, to ethnically cleanse away the Palestinian majority would require believing that they never intended to create a "Jewish state". It's a nonsensical notion. Begin, and those terrorist groups, also opposed partition, but for the opposite reason Palestinians did. Palestinians didn't want to be colonized, at all. The terrorists wanted to colonize it all. "Moderate" Zionists were okay with colonizing half ... for now (what would happen in the future, after partition, was up to them, said Ben-Gurion). The Zionist terrorists were also involved in massacres, and assassinations, during the partition violence (colonialist war against the natives). Another notable future Likud PM, also started in the military, during the partition fighting. That was Ariel Sharon, war criminal, "Butcher of Beirut". Menachem Begin, and these other Zionist terrorists, are important because they became involved in Israeli politics, first forming Herut. That was the party that Albert Einstein, and other prominent American Jews, opposed, having a letter printed in the NYT, in December of 1948, when Begin came to visit the US. The letter opened ... "Among the most disturbing political phenomena of our times is the emergence in the newly created state of Israel of the "Freedom Party" (Tnuat Haherut), a political party closely akin in its organization, methods, political philosophy and social appeal to the Nazi and Fascist parties. It was formed out of the membership and following of the former Irgun Zvai Leumi, a terrorist, right-wing, chauvinist organization in Palestine." Herut merged with other extremist parties, over the years, and eventually became Likud, in the 70s. Now, people get upset over the slogan "From the river to the sea!", but it's the second part that's most important, "Palestine will be free!". Because "Palestine" isn't defined as an ethno-state, a free Palestine can be a single state, free for all to live in, and return to, free of continuing colonization, free of occupation, free of oppression, etc. Just like a Germany free of Nazism, an Italy free of fascism, a South Africa free of apartheid, or an America free of slavery from sea to shiny sea. It doesn't necessitate purging all the Jews. It just necessitates them giving up on the idea of an ethno-state. On the other hand, because "Israel" has been defined as an ethno-state, Likud's, "between the sea and the Jordan there will only be Israeli sovereignty", has no possible good interpretation. It is a declaration of intent to completely colonize, and ethnically cleanse, all Palestine territories. Not only that, but it also claims that they have a "right" to all of the "Land of Israel" (biblical borders that don't mesh with archaeological reality), which is an open declaration of future wars, against Jordan, Syria, Lebanon, and possibly even Iraq. Likud platform ... 1977: "The Right of the Jewish People to the Land of Israel (Eretz Israel) a. The right of the Jewish people to the land of Israel is eternal and indisputable and is linked with the right to security and peace; therefore, Judea and Samaria will not be handed to any foreign administration; between the Sea and the Jordan there will only be Israeli sovereignty. b. A plan which relinquishes parts of western Eretz Israel, undermines our right to the country, unavoidably leads to the establishment of a "Palestinian State," jeopardizes the security of the Jewish population, endangers the existence of the State of Israel. and frustrates any prospect of peace." "Settlement Settlement. both urban and rural. in all parts of the Land of Israel is the focal point of the Zionist effort to redeem the country, to maintain vital security areas and serves as a reservoir of strength and inspiration for the renewal of the pioneering spirit. The Likud government will call on the younger generation in Israel and the dispersions to settle and help every group and individual in the task of inhabiting and cultivating the wasteland, while taking care not to dispossess anyone." 1999: "The Government of Israel flatly rejects the establishment of a Palestinian Arab state west of the Jordan river. The Palestinians can run their lives freely in the framework of self-rule, but not as an independent and sovereign state. Thus, for example, in matters of foreign affairs, security, immigration, and ecology, their activity shall be limited in accordance with imperatives of Israel's existence, security and national needs." "The Jewish communities in Judea, Samaria, and Gaza are the realization of Zionist values. Settlement of the land is a clear expression of the unassailable right of the Jewish people to the Land of Israel and constitutes an important asset in the defense of the vital interests of the State of Israel. The Likud will continue to strengthen and develop these communities and will prevent their uprooting." All Palestine territories are officially considered occupied, by the International Court of Justice, the UN GA, the UN SC, and even in official documents of Israel's own allies. Likud is still using the blueprint for colonizing North America, in the West Bank. Move settlements out into native territory, piss off the natives, the natives retaliate, cry about poor "innocent" colonizing settlers being the "victims" of violent "Savages!", call in the cavalry to put down the native uprising, and eventually expand the borders to include those settlements. Rinse and repeat. In Gaza, Israel is operating an open air WWII style fascist ghetto. Them claiming a "right to defend themselves" would be like the Nazis claiming a "right to defend themselves " from the Warsaw ghetto uprising. There's no "war". That they're the occupiers means the "war" part is long over. Those people are actually supposed to be under the occupier's protection. That partition was forced upon the Palestinian majority, against their will ... that the Zionist portion still had to be forcefully ethnically cleansed of its non-Jewish majority, against their will ... that the millions of occupied Palestinians don't have a say in the government that truly rules over them, Israel's ... means Israel is about as democratic as Nazi Germany after Hitler purged his political opponents and then held elections.
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  2607.  @Nanofuture87  Rofl. Pretty sure a government doesn't have to pretend a right is natural, just to assign something a right. People believed in the institution of slavery for thousands of years, believing certain people didn't have natural rights. Men didn't accept that women had natural rights for thousands of years. Humans haven't believed that other animals were magically handed natural rights, for thousands of years. There's no actual evidence that people have acted as if they actually believed natural rights exist, for thousands of years. They've cherry picked what they've considered a right and who is deserving of them, to suit their pleasure. Without an organized society, people have the freedom to do whatever the hell they want, just like any animal. Not all freedoms are good. "Rights" protect freedoms that society, or societies, have deemed good. "Laws" restrict freedoms that society, or societies, have deemed bad.
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  2608.  @Nanofuture87  What kind of gibberish "analogy" is that? No. It's like saying there are no laws, unless society creates laws, which is just a statement of fact. You're arguing as if an action can break a law, even if the society in question doesn't have a law against said action, which is nonsense. Again, aside from opinions, there was zero evidence that Libertarians, "classic liberals", or what not, believed others had natural rights. There's no evidence of your centuries of claimed philosophy in action. Can you, or can't you, claim a piece of property, that already has an apple tree on it? You seem to have to add qualifiers to make your argument. When did the fence come into play? Can you not claim property without building a fence?
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  2609.  @NinjaPlaysMinecraft  Are you more of an Objectivist? Still a shit philosophy.
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  2610.  @robm6645  I've never seen them call themselves "libertarian left". I've come across many trying to dishonestly pass themselves off as centrists, and the "classical liberal" bullshit.
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  2611. Did he?
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  2612. It didn't even work in rural areas. Private property owning cattle barons hired private cowboy armies, and settled disputes privately. It was devolving into feudalism, until the law and government moved in.
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  2613.  @garyhamlin3299  Do you have severe reading comprehension problems? "You might want to look up "Human Studies of Masking and SARS-CoV-2 Transmission"."
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  2614.  @mellow_badger8585  Not at all upset. You don't have to worry your little Dore knob head, about me. It is literally not a town square, exactly because the town doesn't own it. They are private social clubs, with tos you need to adhere to, to retain your membership. Private clubs have been revoking memberships, since the dawn of private clubs. Private property owners have been having people removed from their private property since the dawn of private property. You have no right to be on someone else's private property, which means you have no right to be on their private property spewing whatever you want. If Trump walked into some golf club's ladies change room one too many times, as he is prone to do, and got a number of warnings not to, nobody would care if his membership was revoked. He'd also lose access the property, and saying what he wants on the property. That's the way private property works. Right wingers are the private property pushers. They're the ones that handed giant corporations so much power. They're the ones that made them equivalent to people, and argued they could have their own beliefs. They just get upset when those beliefs don't align with theirs. If Hobby Lobby was doing something anti-women, or Chick-fil-A was doing something anti-gay, they'd have no problem with it. They're only upset because they can't incite insurrections, defame voting machine companies, and spread covid and vaccine misinformation, without consequences. None of those things would necessarily even be protected speech in public, either. They're fine with outright using the government to make anti-BDS laws. They were fine with the government (head of government) firing, or threatening to fire, people who said things that contradicted him. They're fine with maintaining the FCC to protect their delicate conservative sensibilities from naughty words and nipples. Etc. These aren't people that actually care about free speech, or they'd support the one way to get it. No, they just want to try and regulate things in a way that protects them from consequences. Rofl. I know the history of the ACA. So, the thing that Republicans didn't introduce to congress as their own policy, that they all voted against, that they have tried to repeal dozens of times over, that Trump ran on repealing, that they are still trying to repeal and are still fighting in court, is "their" big policy for the lower class? I've never argued that Democrats don't do things to harm the working class. I'm asking about what pro working class policies the right has. The left has things like M4A, the Green New Deal, student loan relief, free college, affordable housing, etc., etc., etc. Sure, a bunch of corporate Dems aren't left enough, and need replacing, to make any of those happen. Upper and lower class has always been the same thing as right and left. The upper class has always managed to get some working class stooges on board, to support their crap that doesn't do anything for the working class. If your best example of "their" policy that helped the working class is something they voted against and have constantly fought against, that's pretty sad.
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  2615.    That made no sense.
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  2616. It has to do with the second coming and end times fable. They believe Jewish people need to take the mount and build the third temple, for those things to happen. Ironically, their story would then have Israel being destroyed, first, so not really very supportive of Israel.
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  2617. ​ @44excalibur  Rofl. Even the most progressive Dems haven't proposed policies that would move the US left of Denmark (real world centrism). That makes you real world right wing.
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  2618.  @themassage6534  She's an anarchist, dumb dumb. That is totally not authoritarian USSR style communism. Who's pushing fascism/Nazism? Fascism: ultra nationalism, anti-socialism, anti-union, anti-feminism, anti-democratic (which gerrymandering, voter suppression, and disenfranchisement all are), backed by big business, backed by religious leaders, pro expanding policing, pro expanding military, pro privatization ... seems to describe the Republican party. Nazism: fascism on steroids + racism ... seems to describe pricks at "unite the right" rallies waving Confederate and Nazi flags or carrying tiki torches and driving into crowds, military dudes posting Nazi pictures, Richard Spencer and his National Policy Institute, idiots shooting up black churches, mosques, temples, synagogues, Hispanics shopping, etc.
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  2619. Rofl, Harris never proved anything beyond what he said was already a given. His "scientific" moral landscape is total nonsense.
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  2620.  @mayorofmotown  Explaining the reality of private property isn't a defense, dumb dumb. If you want free speech on social media, then argue for public ownership. Arguing for public ownership is the destruction of private ownership, not a defense.
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  2621.  @ericpiccard9602  No, the other guy said it was being argued in courts. I said 230 was based on previous laws ... and Supreme Court rulings based on those laws. You seem to have mixed up who you're replying to.
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  2622.  @robertneil65  Damn phone turned Borg to Both.
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  2623.  @anderseckstrand7033  AOC supports M4A. She shares that support for M4A on a platform that reaches 40x more people than Jimmy. On top of her 10m direct audience, a single M4A tweet of hers was retweeted 70 thousand times, compared to Jimmy's best, at under 2k (and that was during this big "trending" moment he thinks he's having). The woman absolutely destroys Jimmy at the only thing he does. On top of that, she was the one who took out the #2 corporate Dem, she started a progressive PAC to counter the DCCC, she fended off another DCCC backed corporate Dem, her PAC helped get more progressives elected to congress even as corporate Dems lost seats (which is why she was punished, as they mentioned) ... you know, doing the things, getting progressive numbers up, that need doing to actually get M4A to pass. That's the kind of stuff that will have to still happen after Jimmy's vote fails, anyway. She has done more for the progressive movement in 2 years than Jimmy has in 20. And, Sam, well he did his best in 2016 to convince at least one moron, that Trump was dangerous, and that multiple scotus seats being filled was a possibility and also dangerous, but ... the idiot stuck to his guns, thinking Trump would be better for progressives, would bring about a massive progressive wave leading to a 2020 Warren presidency, that Republicans would even work with the left against the "maniacal fascist", and that the likelihood of Trump filling multiple scotus seats was on par with the moon falling into Lake Michigan. Maybe Sam could have done more, pushed back even harder, but it's not really Sam's fault that the guy was so stupid.
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  2624. @Defund The Tone Police Rofl! You can't both criticize conspiracies and defend Jimmy Dore. What progress has Jimmy made? Has he convinced anyone in congress to support M4A, or replaced them?
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  2625. @Defund The Tone Police Rofl. Since he has said he assumes the government is lying and he just has to figure out what they're lying about, that means everything to do with the government. He has pushed JFK conspiracies, 9/11 conspiracies, Syria conspiracies, Seth Rich conspiracies, Las Vegas shooting conspiracies, ... want more?
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  2626. Having Medicaid expansion is throwing money at people? Are they living in a hospital, or something?
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  2627. The US was founded by British subjects that protested, rioted, tarred and feathered, and destroyed private property, all because they didn't want to pay extra taxes specifically to fund the police/military. They got extra pissed when those police/military, "fearing for their lives", shot and killed violent protesters.
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  2628. @Zackariah Schultz  "Well being" and utilitarianism are nothing new, but he acts like they are, and pretends he has made some kind of grand discovery. Those didn't prove Hume wrong the first time around, and still don't. His fearmongering about advanced AI then contradicts his own bullshit arguments for an objective hierarchy based on intelligence. Christians have been arguing against Muslims for centuries. Doing so is also nothing new. Whether you like religion, or not, freedom of religion was a step forward. Going backwards, to fearmongering and discriminating against those of a religion you don't like, is the definition of "regressive". He's an idiot, who spouts all kinds of subjective arguments in a calm monotone manner, fooling other idiots into thinking he has been objective.
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  2629. @Zackariah Schultz If you say things like "I will argue", with zero reference to others arguing the same thing before, then you're presenting the argument as your own, not simply something you agree with. Might be fine for a casual conversation, but not for a lecture, article, or whatever, presenting yourself as a scholar in the field. What ... do you want an entire lecture, or article, quoted here, showing an absence of him giving credit to other philosophers before him? All his lectures and articles? Lol Criticizing a specific idea is different from fearmongering about people and arguing to discriminate against them. You know the difference between criticizing authoritarian forms of communism and regressively fearmongering against left leaning people of all sorts, like during McCarthyism, right? If you've never heard him present simply "Muslims" as a problem in a "thought" experiment, like with nuclear weapons for example, or never heard him argue to profile Muslims, then why are you so worried about someone you know little about? Do you also know there's a difference between a book and a religion? Harris has outright said himself that he just recently learned this from Nawaz, which then contradicts a number of his previous arguments, and validates the critics of those previous arguments. His AI argument has to do with an AI as advanced to us as we are to ants. He argues we'd have to worry about it having different values, that don't align with ours, and it turning against us. But, if you use the same argument he uses for Moral Landscape, then the AI's values should be objectively better than ours, and the AI should objectively have more value than us. Contradicting his own hierarchy argument, which gives us more value than ants, Sam still values humans more than the advanced AI. If his hierarchy was truly objective, then any future AI, or other species, found to be more advanced than us, should objectively have more value than us. No, simply calling someone else an idiot isn't idiotic. Repeatedly presenting arguments that contradict your other arguments is idiotic. Presenting old ideas as your own is idiotic. Not being able to get any further than what you already say is a given is idiotic. Constantly presenting non-analagous "analogies" is idiotic. Etc.
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  2630. Courses available ... How not to pay your bills How not to pay your taxes How to pay porn stars hush money How to operate a fake school How to bankrupt multiple casinos How to pull valuations out of your ass How to blow all of daddy's money ...
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  2631.  @jasonadams869  West Virginia is leading the country in drug overdose mortality rate.
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  2632.  @thehappyclam3942  YouTube not liking some word here ... ​@thehappyclam3942 Htler was backed by leading German industrialists. He promised his backers that he wouldn't be redistributing wealth. Nzis allied with other far right parties, to form the Harzburg Front. They literally klled off any prominent left leaning members, on the Night of the Long Knives. They went after communists, socialists, and unionists, first, for "illegal socialist activity". Htler blamed Jws for creating socialism, because Marx was of Jewish descent. He blamed the Communist Party for the Reichstag fire, claimed they were "trrorists", outlawed them, and rounded them up. Mussolini denied the class struggle, that is the very foundation of socialism/communism. He promoted accepting your lot in life, and just working hard, for the betterment of the nation, in an "Ask not what your country can do for you - ask what you can do for your country", kind of way. The Nzis were a little more, "For God and country!" ... People simply working together, towards a goal, doesn't equate to communism/socialism.
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  2633.  @thehappyclam3942   @thehappyclam3942  YouTube not liking some word here ... @thehappyclam3942 Htler was backed by leading German industrialists. He promised his backers that he wouldn't be redistributing wealth. Nzis allied with other far right parties, to form the Harzburg Front. They literally klled off any prominent left leaning members, on the Night of the Long Knives. They went after communists, socialists, and unionists, first, for "illegal socialist activity". Htler blamed Jws for creating socialism, because Marx was of Jwish descent. He blamed the Communist Party for the Reichstag fire, claimed they were "trrorists", outlawed them, and rounded them up. Mussolini denied the class struggle, that is the very foundation of socialism/communism. He promoted accepting your lot in life, and just working hard, for the betterment of the nation, in an "Ask not what your country can do for you - ask what you can do for your country", kind of way. The Nzis were a little more, "For God and country!" ... People simply working together, towards a goal, doesn't equate to communism/socialism.
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  2634.  @thehappyclam3942  YouTube not liking some word here ... @thehappyclam3942 Htler was backed by leading German industrialists. He promised his backers that he wouldn't be redistributing wealth. Nzis allied with other far right parties, to form the Harzburg Front. They literally klled off any prominent left leaning members, on the Night of the Long Knives. They went after cmmunists, scialists, and unionists, first, for "illegal socialist activity". Htler blamed Jws for creating socialism, because Mrx was of Jwish descent. He blamed the Cmmunist Party for the Reichstag fire, claimed they were "trrorists", outlawed them, and rounded them up. Mssolini denied the class struggle, that is the very foundation of scialism/cmmunism. He promoted accepting your lot in life, and just working hard, for the betterment of the nation, in an "Ask not what your country can do for you - ask what you can do for your country", kind of way. The Nzis were a little more, "For God and country!" ... People simply working together, towards a goal, doesn't equate to cmmunism/scialism.
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  2635.  @thehappyclam3942   @thehappyclam3942  YouTube not liking some word here ... @thehappyclam3942 Htler was backed by leading German industrialists. He promised his backers that he wouldn't be redistributing wealth. Nzis allied with other far right parties, to form the Harzburg Front. They literally klled off any prominent left leaning members, on the Night of the Long Knives. They went after cmmunists, scialists, and unionists, first, for "illegal socialist activity". Htler blamed Jws for creating socialism, because Mrx was of Jwish descent. He blamed the Cmmunist Party for the Reichstag fire, claimed they were "trrorists", outlawed them, and rounded them up. Mssolini denied the class struggle, that is the very foundation of scialism/cmmunism. He promoted accepting your lot in life, and just working hard, for the betterment of the nation, in an "Ask not what your country can do for you - ask what you can do for your country", kind of way. People simply working together, towards a goal, doesn't equate to cmmunism/scialism.
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  2636.  @Historia.Magistra.Vitae.  Nope. They allied with the right, and literally outlawed, and rounded people up from, the Communist Party, first.
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  2637.  @Historia.Magistra.Vitae.  Nope. Emil Kirdorf had pulled his support, and backed another far right party, due to his concerns about some members. He only came back after Hitler eliminated those members.
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  2638.  @Historia.Magistra.Vitae.  Wrong. By definition they weren't. FOX being the voice of the Republican party, and almost everyone there being a member of the Republican party, doesn't magically make it owned by the government, and not a capitalist corporation.
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  2639.  @Historia.Magistra.Vitae.  By your "logic", any business owned by a Republican party member, is then owned by the entire party, and, if they get in power, will be owned by the government. They're all commies.
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  2640.  @Historia.Magistra.Vitae.  Against the mainstream: Nazi privatization in 1930s Germany by G BEL · 2010
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  2641.  @Historia.Magistra.Vitae.  State =\= socialism. An absolute monarchy is a 100% privately owned and operated state. How can the "complete opposite" of one kind of socialism be another kind of socialism? That makes zero sense. It was crony capitalism.
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  2642.  @Historia.Magistra.Vitae.  So, Trump, and any Republican party business owner is a "leftist" "socialist" fascist. 🤪
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  2643. ​ @Elgatos_world69  Colonialists are never not the aggressors. Ze'ev Jabotinsky, in 1923, fully acknowledged that Zionism is colonialism, and predicted that the native response would be to fight it until the bitter end. But, then promoted doing it anyway ... f*ck the natives.
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  2644. ​ @Techlax43  Colonialists are never the "defenders" against the native population. They wouldn't be in the position to "defend" themselves, if they hadn't done the colonialist aggression, first.
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  2645.  @JJ-qc6lh  Yeah, they are, because the Palestinian territories are considered occupied, by the law.
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  2646.  @sr2291  That was another problem with Yang's UBI. He didn't have it stack with SSDI, or SNAP, just SSI. Very poor people, on either of those programs, would see less increased benefit (some even no benefit, depending on number of kids) than say a non working Melania Trump, or Barron Trump when he's 18, who'd each get a full extra $2000 a month for shopping sprees, or whatever. There are other versions of UBI out there. His sucked ass.
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  2647.  @X2LR8  Sounds like you don't know what race based chattel slavery is.
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  2648. Read “The Iron Wall” by Vladimir Ze’ev Jabotisnky. He outright compares Zionism with the European colonization of the Americas. The zionists knew they were the colonists, and knew exactly how the natives would react. They just didn't, and still don't, care.
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  2649.  @olorin1710  Rofl. Dore represents the position of a tiny fringe "leftist" element, of under 400k voters, who voted Tulsi, and Green, in the last election. His followers are a majority right wingers, who just use him for other ways to attack Dems and progressives, or are non voters.
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  2650.  @kurtvanderberg7528  I'm not surprised that a dimwit couldn't address the definition provided by fascism's creator. Fascist governments didn't claim to love you, dumb dumb. They were pull yourself up by your bootstraps governments.
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  2651.  @kurtvanderberg7528  I can. To be frank, and honest, you are obviously not very bright. Hearing that, apparently, hurt your feelings, so much, that it rendered you unable to respond to anything else I said. "Dumb" has a definition, and all the evidence you provided indicates that's an objective conclusion. Not an "ad hominem", though. "You're X" =\= ad hominem. "You're X, therefore you're wrong" = ad hominem. Ironically, "You're a meanie, therefore you've got nothing", is an ad hominem.
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  2652.  @kurtvanderberg7528  "Dumbest take" is an attack on the "take" (idea), dumb dumb, and then you got your panties in a bunch. Smart people can have some dumb ideas/takes or do dumb things. Saying "that was dumb" is not equivalent to saying "you are dumb". But, then your response seemed to outright objectively prove you're not very bright, so I was frank and honest.
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  2653. @@Eet_Mia Oh, the ones that did the pogroms?
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  2654. @AvaAdore-wx5gg Yes. "During the night of June 29, 1931 and continuing into the early hours of the next morning, the entire Jewish settlement of Camp Campbell was destroyed by fire and 500 families made homeless, when Greek Christian refugees from Asia Minor unleashed a pogrom. Scores of Jews were injured in the attack and one Jew and one Christian were killed." "Jewish refugees leaving their homes for fear of another attack after the pogrom at Camp Campbell in Thessaloniki." (Which had become a major haven for Jews, under the Ottomans.)
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  2655. @AvaAdore-wx5gg And what was happening in Greece, and with the Eastern Orthodox church, was the spark of Eastern Orthodox pogroms against Jews in Russia, started by Greeks in Odessa. "In Odessa, Greeks and Jews were two rival ethnic and economic communities, living side by side. The first Odessa pogrom, in 1821, was linked to the outbreak of the Greek War for Independence, during which the Jews were accused of sympathizing with the Ottoman authorities and of aiding the Turks in killing the Greek Patriarch of Constantinople, Gregory V, dragging his dead body through the streets and finally throwing it into the Bosphorus."
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  2656. @AvaAdore-wx5gg Same with the 1859 Odessa pogrom. "This was in reality not a Russian but a Greek pogrom; for the leaders and almost all of the participants were Greek sailors from ships in the harbor, and local Greeks who joined them. The pogrom occurred on a Christian Easter; and the local press, in no wise unfriendly to the Jews, attempted to transform it into an accidental fight, the Greek colony at that time being dominant in the administration as well as in the commerce of Odessa."
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  2657. ​@AvaAdore-wx5gg 1871: "Although the pogrom of 1871 was occasioned in part by a rumor that Jews had vandalized the Greek community's church, many non-Greeks participated to it. Rvssian resentment and hostility toward Jews came to the fore in the pogrom of 1871 as Rvssians joined Greeks in attacks on Jews. Thereafter, Rvssians filled the ranks of pogromist mobs in 1881, 1900, and 1905."
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  2658. @AvaAdore-wx5gg I simply answered your question, that you pretended to research an answer to. If you didn't care, in the first place, then you shouldn't have replied to a question I asked someone else. You're incoherent.
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  2659. @AvaAdore-wx5gg Oh, you're both the same ignoramus? Lol, you outright said you were Eastern Orthodox, then asked me if Greeks did pogroms. Don't like the answer, then don't ask.
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  2660. ​ @Aeroneus1  Trump is down for 7 visits. Either the flight logs are evidence of guilt, or they aren't. Which is it? There's videos and lots of pics of Trump partying with Epstein, and quotes of him telling people Epstein is a great guy? There's just more evidence of Trump actually partying with the guy, and knowing he liked them young.
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  2661.  @Poppy-zm2yh  You know this isn't Rvssia's first time in Ukrn (*cough* Hldmr gncd *cough*), right? And not the only country they've mucked about in, right?
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  2662.  @Poppy-zm2yh  Yes, convenient to start after WWII, in a comparison with Rvssia. Rofl! Do you think Rvssia became an Empire by making friends with all their neighbors, and getting them to join the Empire peacefully?
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  2663. ​ @michaelbishell7563  Most of their arguments are total nonsense. Drugs!: Over 90% of drugs are seized at points of entry. Over 80% of drug traffickers are Americans. Little to do with the undocumented crossers. Replacement!: The vast majority are descended from European Spaniards, Native Americans, or both, and almost all are Christians. Descendants of European colonizers can't really be "replaced" by other European colonizers, or natives. Space! Jobs!: The same people arguing there are plenty enough jobs and space, for hundreds of thousands of extra unwanted babies per year. Johnson even argued they're needed, to keep SS and Medicare afloat. The same argument would apply to immigrants. Cheap labor!: Florida decided it's no problem, for children to compete for full time jobs, at 85% of minimum wage. Crime!: They can spew some anecdotes, but undocumented immigrants commit crimes at half the rate of natural born citizens. The undocumented actually try harder to stay out of trouble, so they aren't deported.
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  2664. @Aaron Dickson So, no point.
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  2665.  @Aeroneus1  A fair number of cars and boats must be biologically female, since so many people call them she/her ... either that, or biological sex doesn't have to match gender terminology.
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  2666.  @jashshah5049  Rofl. I've had 5 deleted, including already responding to your last reply. Someone doesn't like facts about India.
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  2667.  @jashshah5049  Take 2. Someone is clearly triggered, dimwit, by the fact that India was rated the most dangerous country for women, which would include being more dangerous than all Muslim countries. Previously, it was rated 4th worst, still making it worse than the vast majority of Muslim majority countries combined. India's gender inequality score is higher than most of the large population Muslim majority countries, plus a bunch more smaller Muslim majority countries than just Saudi. There's no evidence combing Muslim majority countries would make them worse than India for women.
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  2668.  @jashshah5049  Dimwit. Conservative religious types have been cancelling things and people for millennia. They're the biggest snowflakes on the planet. There's still an FCC protecting their delicate sensibilities from naughty words and nipples. Right wing nationalists promoted firing people for kneeling, because kneeling made them melt. Right wingers, corporate Dems included, have passed anti-bds laws. Giant corporations, run by centibillionaires, aren't even leftists, by a long shot. It's not even comparable how much more right wingers love censorship, and have used the law, military, and violence, to do it, over the years. They just tried to cancel the democratic process, ffs. Push for public ownership, if you want freedom of speech. Actual leftists have been promoting public ownership for a century, and the right have opposed it, instead backing giant corporations and billionaires. Rofl. Now you're talking complete nonsense. You moved from better than them combined, to better than any, based on one thing most Muslim majority countries don't even do? Ridiculous.
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  2669.  @jashshah5049  Rofl. You hypocrites didn't care when the actual government (president) fired, or threatened to fire, people that contradicted him. You don't care when the actual government makes it harder, or more dangerous, to protest. You don't really care about the actual government violating free speech rights. You don't care when Marge threatens to cancel cell phone businesses, if they comply with a lawful subpoena. You don't care about calls to fire athletes, and don't care when they're told to shut up and dribble. You don't care when right wing mouthpieces cut people's mics, or kick them off the air. You don't care about calls to cancel Nike, Disney, Captain Marvel, or whoever right wingers are upset with that day. Plenty of lefties have been banned, or suspended from social media. Again, those running social media aren't lefties. The FB PAC has donated more to Republicans than Democrats. The FB algorithm was found to be promoting right wingers, like Shapiro. They just don't like extremist nutbars promoting a civil war, or promoting mass death. Corporations want society running smoothly, and don't want their consumer base dying off in large numbers. They want to keep making large quantities of money. Treat it like a public utility? Don't right wingers want to privatize "public utilities", like in Texas? You hypocrites are all for privatization, and free markets, until it bites you in the ass.
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  2670. It's nonsense, that gullible people believe is them speaking from a higher power.
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  2671. The FBI has been under the direction of Republican presidents for 6 terms, vs 4 Democrat, prior to Biden. Weird that they created a communist FBI department.
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  2672. He, Tulsi, and Greenwald got paid to join Rumble, which is funded by MAGA donor Peter Thiel.
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  2673. ​ @mikeg2306  Do tell. Did they travel to Russia and Germany, to colonize, occupy, and ethnically cleanse, the Zionists?
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  2674. ​ @mikeg2306  When did they travel to Russia and Germany, to colonize other people?
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  2675. ​ @matthewgoedtel5998  Pakman is acting like an "enlightened centrist", not much different than Piers Morgan, when there are objective facts that Israel is the aggressor. Being in the middle, not recognizing reality, is somewhat as delusional as being opposed to reality. Israel is objectively the aggressor by every relevant measure ... Modern history: 100 years ago, in 1923, Ze'ev Jabotinsky fully acknowledged that Zionism is colonialism, and that, based on the entirety of history, the natives would fight it until the bitter end. He just didn't care what would happen to them, and promoted doing it anyway. Colonizers are never not the aggressors. On top of the colonialist nature of Zionism, the Zionists also formed terrorist organizations, like the Irgun and Lehi. They bombed many Palestinian markets and other public places, murdering many civilians, including children, even including Palestinian Jews (who opposed Zionism). Israel merged those terrorists into the new nation's military and intelligence agencies. Israelis elected Menachem Begin, leader of the Irgun, child murderer, Jew murderer, and bomber of the King David Hotel, as PM. Israelis, to this day, celebrate those terrorists as "heroes". Zionists literally taught their neighbours that terrorism is a valid path to independence and statehood, and that terrorists are to be celebrated. In 1945, it is well documented that Zionists owned just 5% of the land and were a majority nowhere. Israel was formed by actually going against the majority population. It's foundation is completely undemocratic. Then, becoming a majority, in "their" new nation, by ethnic cleansing the actual majority, and then claiming to be democratic, is utter nonsense. Law: Israel is considered an occupier by the International Court, the UN GA, and the UN SC. Occupiers are also never not the aggressors. Those occupied actually have a right to resist occupation. On the flip side, it is illegal for the occupier to settle occupied lands, and illegal to use collective punishment. Israel is a rogue nation, that doesn't abide by international law. What it has been doing, and is doing now, is illegal. Current events: This year, alone, prior to Oct 7 ... Israel held over 1200 Palestinian hostages without charges ... over 200 Palestinians had been killed by the IDF and settlers ... over 1000 Palestinians had been displaced by Israel's neverending colonization of the West Bank ... and, Israel continued to operate an open air WWII style fascist ghetto, in Gaza. Even ignoring modern history and law, in no reality did Hamas "start" anything.
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  2676.  @kyledehaven394  They use it because it generates revenue by taxing consumers. Same reason countries, states, use a sales tax. It does not tax businesses. Those countries use other methods to make businesses pay in, not the VAT. Yang is clueless or lying. Since a VAT won't actually tax Amazon, and since their share of US consumer spending is 2%, handing consumers $3t will make Amazon an extra $60b a year, while still paying jack shit in taxes.
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  2677.  @kyledehaven394  No. The Baker paid 2 cents in VAT and kept it, only sending 4 of the 6 he collected from the supermarket. He was fully paid back. It was the supermarket that paid 6 cents. They sent in 4 of the 10. They were fully paid back. The government got 2 + 4 + 4 = 10, and you paid ... ? 10. Everyone else was fully paid back. So, who paid the VAT?
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  2678.  @kyledehaven394  If you click on Amazon's "How VAT works in Europe" it also explains how businesses get their input VAT credited back even if they collect less output VAT, meaning consumers paying the VAT to a profitable business are also paying back an unprofitable businesses' VAT payments.
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  2679.  @kyledehaven394  What are you talking about? Everyone got paid back their full amount, except you. The baker's company ends up paying nothing in taxes. You ended up being the one who paid the entire 10 the government collected. It didn't end up taxing the businesses, at all, which means Yang is spouting pure bullshit when he claims a VAT will force corporations like Amazon to pay taxes. Amazon will still end up paying zero taxes, but will make tens of billions from extra consumer spending.
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  2680.  @kyledehaven394  You also literally proved you can't add and subtract single digits.
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  2681.  @kyledehaven394  No problem. Good luck with the rest of your elementary school classes. Hope they go better.
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  2682.  @thedj3319  Explain the part I "butchered" ... "My readers have a general idea of the history of colonisation in other countries. I suggest that they consider all the precedents with which they are acquainted, and see whether there is one solitary instance of any colonisation being carried on with the consent of the native population. There is no such precedent." Literally called it colonization, dumb dumb.
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  2683.  @thedj3319  "Jewish colonist" "To imagine, as our Arabophiles do, that they will voluntarily consent to the realisation of Zionism, in return for the moral and material conveniences which the Jewish colonist brings with him, is a childish notion, which has at bottom a kind of contempt for the Arab people; it means that they despise the Arab race, which they regard as a corrupt mob that can be bought and sold, and are willing to give up their fatherland for a good railway system."
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  2684. ​ @jfm14  Well, Palestinians have Canaanite DNA. They're Arab and Muslim the same way indigenous peoples of Central America are now Hispanic and Catholic. They were the previous Christian majority. They were the Jewish majority, before that. Zionists are slaughtering the ancient Jews, that never left. They are anti-Semites, whatever definition you use.
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  2685.  @railroadtrash09  You know the US has basically already had 2 civil wars, with neighbors trying to kill neighbors, right? Not to mention numerous labor and race conflicts, where the military was called in, and yes, even bombed other citizens.
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  2686.  @otthau  I'm a Canadian. We have a VAT and universal healthcare paid with taxes. Totally irrelevant to what "public option" means. It means you can opt out, including opting out of paying into it. Saying to pay for it with taxes isn't a "public option", if you don't give them the "option".
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  2687.  @otthau  Yang is bullshitting about the VAT, as well. Either that or he's clueless that businesses get paid back for any input VAT.
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  2688.  @otthau  And, Yang hasn't proposed doing a VAT differently than other countries, where governments pay businesses back claiming to avoid double taxation.
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  2689. It doesn't even matter. Reagan deregulated domestic oil back in 1981. It's no cheaper. It sells at the global market price. The global market price dropped in 2015, before Dumpty, and then during COVID. It has zero to do with "energy independence".
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  2690.  The Ghey Mantis  Rofl. Acting straight isn't being straight. Covering up what you are would be going in the closet, no coming out.
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  2691. Having a blonde James Bond should have already ruined the franchise.
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  2692.  @semi-consciousamerican-joe2481  You're the one that doesn't seem to grasp that nothing has intrinsic value. Making up that a shiny stone has value is no different than making up that a piece of paper with artwork and numbers on it has value. In some governmentless ancap society, me, and others in my community, might have to pool 20% of our shiny stones together and pay someone to build a road. With the government, they take 20% of my artwork paper, and those of others in my community, and pay someone to build a road. Either way, I have 20% less of the thing that has been assigned value, which is different from that thing itself having less value.
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  2693.  @justinshin2279  What kind of dimwitted take is that? AOC got a ton of donations, and won her election, all while not playing ball. She backed 20 other progressives with her platform and PAC. Some of those who voted against her for that committee seat publicly stated they voted against her because she backed primary candidates against them. She's fighting them and they stab her in the front, then you Dore knobs come along and stab her in the back for supposedly not fighting them. You're a pack of morons.
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  2694.  @andyc.9751  You Dore knobs don't grasp basic math, so don't actually grasp leverage. There are zero extra votes to be gained to the left of the party. Therefore, it is absolutely, 100%, impossible to pass a bill, if you lose Manchin's vote. On the other end, there is the entire Republican party to try and gain extra votes from, if you lose squad votes. By moving a bill to the right, and picking up enough Republican votes, squad votes aren't needed. You're either a liar, or a dimwit. AOC was just campaigning for Nina, trying to add another M4A yes vote to congress, because getting enough yes votes is the only possible way to ever pass the bill. Dore, on the other hand, abandoned Nina, abandoned adding another M4A yes vote to congress. So, which is it, liar or dimwit?
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  2695.  @Newton-Reuther  "AOC leads two dozen Democrats calling for Israel cease-fire over 'violations against children' in Gaza" "AOC joins Rabbis For Ceasefire with 5-point agenda, but Internet says there's only one that's absolutely essential" She, and other progressives, boycotted the president of IL visit, last year. What are you looking for?
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  2696.  @Newton-Reuther  Organizing or sponsoring? What are you looking for, exactly? 2 weeks ago: "AOC at a ramadan event in New York. Spoke about a ceasefire and conditioning aid to Israel! AOC has been calling for a ceasefire. Tonight, she spoke in a rally with Cori Bush to a group of rabbis." "Progressive Democrats protest Israeli president's address to US Congress Jul 18, 2023 — Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez, Ilhan Omar and Rashida Tlaib say they intend to boycott address due to Israel's treatment of Palestinians." "Ilhan Omar leads 384 worldwide leaders in call for Gaza ceasefire The American signatories are the representatives Omar, Jamaal Bowman, Cori Bush, André Carson, Greg Casar, Jesús García, Hank Johnson, Summer Lee, Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez, Ayanna Pressley, Nydia Velázquez and Bonnie Watson Coleman." "'Squad' Dems face backlash calling for 'ceasefire' after Israel attacks Oct 7, 2023 — Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez, D-N.Y., called for a "ceasefire and de-escalation" after the surprise terrorist attack by Hamas on Israel." "AOC leads Democrats urging Biden to call for Gaza ceasefire over children's rights Nov 15, 2023 — Twenty-four Democrats in Congress have urged Joe Biden to end “grave violations of children's rights” by pushing for an immediate ceasefire" Votes against the State Department appropriation bill (which includes the annual aid to IL), every year. Bills to condition aid to IL. Bills calling for ceasefire. She, and the other progressives, are prepping to take on AIPAC sponsored opponents, shortly.
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  2697. Can I have half the state/province you live in, to create a Scientology nation, for Tom Cruise and his friends? I'll need you, and the other current inhabitants, on the new Scientology half, to move off.
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  2698.  @alabamaman9476  There are literally registered voter numbers, genius.
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  2699.  @alabamaman9476  The registered voter numbers are new data, dumb dumb.
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  2700.  @alabamaman9476  The way things are trending, there won't be enough Republicans left to make any laws.
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  2701. ​ @delicheese6774  George W Bush had a dad, George H W Bush ... Reagan's VP, and a 1 term president, who did Gulf War I (also based on bullsh*t).
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  2702.  @benmidnightflame  Correction, a VAT is specifically designed not to tax businesses. A VAT isn't supposed to tax businesses, meaning Yang is clueless about his own key tax plan ... or he's an outright liar.
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  2703. Everything the Republicans whine about, regarding the border, is complete nonsense. 90% of drugs come through points of entry. 80% of drug traffickers are Americans. Cartels aren't as stupid as the GOP. They use the least likely people to be stopped, not the most likely. They don't want their product swept downriver, laying in a desert, or tossed in holding. Undocumented immigrants commit crimes at half the rate of natural born citizens. Most try to keep their heads down, and stay out of trouble, so they don't get immediately tossed. Florida now says there are plenty enough jobs to let children compete to work full time, at 85% of minimum wage. Johnson not only thinks there's plenty of room and jobs, for hundreds of thousands of extra unwanted babies per year, he said they're actually needed, to keep SS and Medicare afloat. As for being "replaced" ... Spanish and Catholicism come from Europe. It's European culture. Republicans don't care when that culture comes with white Cubans, like Cruz, Rubio, Salazar , or the like. It's only a problem when it comes with those whose ancestry is mainly Native American, from Central/South America. They're unironically afraid of being "replaced" by Native Americans.
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  2704. Hitchens was the one who debated most. Started dying off with him dying.
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  2705.  @RjWolf3000  Well, I think the height of their "4 Horsemen" popularity was exactly because they were Muslim and leftist bashing constantly. They probably helped bring about a Trump. I just took a look to see if he's saying anything about Israel-Palestine and he's posting Zionist supporters, and his fans are still bashing Muslims.
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  2706.  @herethere2091  Aside from the co-founders, Spotify's largest shareholders are large corporations. "In total, at the close of last year, SEC documents show that exactly 65 percent of Spotify was owned by just six parties: the firm’s co-founders, Daniel Ek and Martin Lorentzon (30.6 percent of ordinary shares between them); Tencent Holdings Ltd. (9.1 percent); and a run of three asset-management specialists: Baillie Gifford (11.8 percent), Morgan Stanley (7.3 percent), and T.Rowe Price Associates (6.2 percent)."
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  2707. ​ @aliamjon2550  You compare using per capita, dumb dumb.
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  2708.  @jpbm1873  Right, he posts more videos, which means looking at the view count on every single Sam video is moronic. Dore posted 2 videos since 4 days ago, one with 79k views and one with 44k views. All the Sam videos you have to look for, in the same time period, is the one that got 70k views and the one that got 63k views. The other videos are just Sam having a smarter business model, and his channel making more money than Jimmy, to help pay for his also smarter staff and co-hosts.
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  2709.  @jpbm1873  I just pointed to 2 and 2, Dore knob. Why are you blathering about 4 and 2? Rofl. Dore is a grifter who doesn't know how the government works, doesn't know what free speech is, and "confronts" by slandering progressives that have done more for M4A in a few years than he has in his entire lifetime. Dore's repeated plans to hand power to Republicans don't help people, in the least.
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  2710.  @seandeane1644  A guaranteed to fail performance art vote isn't itself M4A. Dore was the one who abandoned Nina Turner, abandoned adding another M4A supporter to congress. Dore was the one promoting Tulsi (public option) over Bernie (M4A). Dore is the one trashing progressives that have increased the number of M4A yes votes in congress, and getting enough yes votes is the only possible way to ever pass the bill. It's Dore that ends up benefiting the far right, dumb dumb.
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  2711. It would be great if "woke" was a mind virus. It would be a lot easier than trying to actually convince right wing lunatics that people deserve equal rights.
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  2712. Yang's VAT/UBI scheme will only make giant corporations and the super rich even richer. Hoarded wealth also isn't affected by a VAT.
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  2713.  @baconbriefs  Yes, there is a problem with it. Hoarded wealth doesn't go back into the economy, and there isn't an infinite amount of pie. Apple is sitting on $225 billion. Bezos is sitting on tens of billions. Who said it was a felony Mr Strawman? The compelling reason would be long term sustainability. History has shown that hoarding wealth at the top tends to end badly.
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  2714.  @baconbriefs  You think not what? Last time there was this level of inequality, it ended with labour riots and a great depression. Times before ended with revolutions and nobility being decapitated and such. It doesn't tend to end well. Sure, data is a commodity, but it's giant corporations, and their owners, who are selling it. Google/Alphabet is hoarding over $100b. A VAT on data wouldn't change that. It wouldn't tax Google. It would tax whoever is buying from Google, and whoever that is would then count that as operating cost input VAT, and get paid back.
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  2715.  @jamesparker223  If you think Daniel Craig was even close to Connery, that's definitely evidence it's all subjective.
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  2716.  @jamesparker223  Sure, if you remove the charm, wit, and carefree characteristics from bond, none of which Craig is very good at, he makes an excellent bond.
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  2717.  @khbgkh  Thanks. Glad you agree it's the fault of freezing the house seats and letting the electoral become so imbalanced.
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  2718.  @khbgkh  Where did I claim she won? I simply explained that there hasn't been any difference in outcome, between popular and electoral, for all but 5 elections. The prize using either method would have been exactly the same, in all but 5 elections. And, I explained that the electoral count could be just as representative as the popular count, if the seats in congress hadn't been frozen, and still be an electoral college. Electorals could be evenly distributed, by population, and it would still be an "electoral college", but it would never produce a different outcome than the popular.
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  2719.  @khbgkh  And I don't really care if you don't care about any other point. My point is that the electoral college could almost exactly represent the popular vote. Yes, Trump and Bush were horrible. How is me pointing out the problem of why they "won", "underselling" the problem?
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  2720.  @ken-nf2eg  None of that is true.
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  2721. ​ @TheRedStateBlue  Objectively ... The Palestinian territories are considered occupied by the International Court, the UN GA, and the UN SC. Under international law, those occupied actually have a right to resist occupation. The occupier, however, does not have a right to use collective punishment. That is against the law. The occupier also doesn't have the right to colonize occupied territory. That is also against the law. Therefore, Israel is a rogue nation, violating multiple international laws. Setting the law aside, objectively, prior to Oct 7 ... Israel held over 1200 Palestinian hostages without charges ... over 200 Palestinians had been killed by the IDF and settlers ... over 1000 Palestinians had been displaced by Israel's never ending colonization of the West Bank ... and Israel continued to operate an open air WWII style fascist ghetto. To make out like Israel was the one "defending" itself, and that Hamas "started" something, is utter bullshit. That's the colonialist propaganda line, that poor "innocent" them have been aggressively attacked by "Savages!", ignoring that colonialists are never not the aggressors, when it comes to the natives.
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  2722.    Exactly. You can't actually argue he wasn't living in some alternate reality, with his delusional predictions.
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  2723.    Oh, wow, he predicted Pelosi would be Pelosi? Such insight. Who said Pelosi wouldn't be Pelosi? How is taking out a few more corporate Dems and adding a few more M4A yes votes to congress, in the election cycle that just passed, not fighting for M4A? It's exactly what needs doing to ever pass the bill, exactly what would still need doing even if there was a failed vote. If that doesn't count as fighting, then Dore's own "plan" was to have a failed vote and then not fight. Oh, wow, he predicted Biden would be Biden? Such insight. Who said Biden wouldn't be Biden? So, he has pointed out the obvious, and slandered those actually advancing M4A, even if it's not happening as fast as you fantasize it happening. Such talent.
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  2724.    You weren't under the delusion that it was going to pass, were you?
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  2725.  @inevitablechange2670  Rofl. Events have proven that Jimmy got destroyed, last time. He's operating in some fantasy world, where he vastly overestimates benefits of certain, and vastly underestimates the risks.
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  2726.  @MrDude667  Pakman, TYT, and others were just promoting Nina, encouraging people to vote for her and her progressive platform. They were trying to help add another M4A yes vote to congress. Dore and wife, on the other hand, let everyone know they had stopped donating to Nina, promoted never supporting any Democrat or Republican ever again, and abandoned adding another M4A yes vote to congress. You're listening to a grifter, who claims he's so far left, but then does things that benefits the far right most.
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  2727. ​ @Nick-o-time  Except one is doing what every president has done, since 1948 ... and the other, who also supports Israel, tried to overthrow the democratic process domestically, is backed by Christo-fascists, wants to reinstate and expand his Muslim ban, and would be willing to let Russia do to Ukraine what Israel is doing to Palestine. But sure, risk having a dictator for an unrealistic shot at a third party candidate, who would be totally impotent, since congress could easily overrule them because there's so much Israel support in congress.
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  2728. ​ @DemocratsAgentsOfCarnage Untrue, according to the governor (R), the mayor (R), the popo, the city manager, and the Ohio Department of Natural Resources (R state legislature). Also untrue that the Haitians aren't legal entrants, as Trump/Vance keep saying. They are legal TPS entrants. You lot used to pretend you weren't rcsts, by saying you were okay with legal entrants. Haitians have made your hoods show clearly.
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  2729.  @DemocratsAgentsOfCarnage  What kind of "fine people" show up to see David Duke and the like? There were no "fine people" on the one side. Mueller provided hundreds of pages of Rvssian cllsn. "Sckrs and lsrs" is he said (Kelly) vs he said (Trump). Why would anyone believe Trump?
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  2730.  @DemocratsAgentsOfCarnage  No "very fine people" show up to a David Duke rally. There were zero "very fine people" on the one side. He made out like there were.
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  2731.  @DemocratsAgentsOfCarnage    No "very fine people" show up to an event put on by Duke and the like. There were zero "very fine people" on the one side. He made out like there were.
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  2732.  @DemocratsAgentsOfCarnage  No "fine people" show up to an event put on by Duke and the like. There were zero "fine people" on the one side. He fabricated that there were.
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  2733.  @DemocratsAgentsOfCarnage  No "fine people" show up to an event put on by pack of rcsts. There were no "fine people" on the one side. He said there were.
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  2734.  @DemocratsAgentsOfCarnage  "Fine people" don't show up to an event put on by pack of Nzs. There were none of those on the one side. He said there were.
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  2735.  @jamesamick3298  Great movie. I really liked The Man From Laramie, as well, from that bunch. I like that those characters seem very human, rather than some superhero gunfighters. His, and everyone else's, performances in The Shootist were also moving. With everyone knowing Wayne had been waging a protracted losing war against cancer for a decade, the performances felt very real. Similar to his Vertigo performance, his Rear Window performance was well done. One of the great serious actors.
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  2736. If they keep equating being anti-colonialism with being anti-semitic, they make it almost impossible not to be.
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  2737. Harris is an idiot. I have no clue how he got a philosophy degree. He doesn't seem to have a firm grasp on basics, like objectivity vs subjectivity. Religions don't exist without people. Portraying a religion as a singular horrible thing is saying every one of its practitioners is practicing that singular horrible thing. It's a nonsense way to talk about religion, and the people practicing it. Harris has often sounded like an ISIS leader, describing a one true way to practice Islam, and saying those who don't aren't "real" Muslims. He, at least once, even admitted he was wrong to talk about Islam that way, but he sure as hell didn't draw attention to the fact that that admission meant that many of his former critics were right.
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  2738. How is helping to add more M4A yes votes to congress, the only way to ever possibly pass the bill, not delivering? That gets you closer to actually getting M4A than a 100% guaranteed to fail performance art vote does.
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  2739.  @user-lb2oz8ns3j  2018: "A new report commissioned by members of the U.S. Senate intelligence committee expands upon another facet of Rvssia’s pro-Trump operation: an effort to divert √0t€s away from Hillary Clinton and toward Green Party candidate Jill Stein."
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  2740.  @Quonjack  Even if she magically won, there is so much bipartisan support for Isrl, in congress, that they could pass whatever aid they wanted and override any presidential vetoes. That's why these third parties, aiming for the top, with no presence in congress, are useless. Even if they won, they'd be the most useless president in US history.
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  2741.  @Quonjack  Even if she magically won, there is so much bipartisan support for Isrl, in congress, that they could pass whatever aid they wanted and override any presidential vetoes. That's why these third parties, aiming for the top, with no presence in congress, are completely pointless. Even if one won, they'd be the most impotent president in US history.
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  2742.  @Quonjack  Even if she magically won, there is so much bipartisan support for Isrl in congress, that they could pass whatever aid they wanted and override any presidential vetoes. That's why these third parties, going for the top, with no presence in congress, are completely pointless. Even if one won, they'd be the weakest president in US history.
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  2743.  @Quonjack  Even if fairies stepped in and helped her win, there is so much bipartisan support for Isrl in congress, that they could pass whatever aid they wanted and override any presidential vetoes. Third parties aiming straight for the top, with no presence in congress, are a joke.
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  2744.  @Quonjack  There is so much bipartisan support for Isrl in congress, that they could pass whatever aid they wanted and override any presidential vetoes. Third parties aiming straight for the top, with no presence in congress, are a joke.
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  2745.  @Quonjack  There is so much bipartisan support for Isrl in congress, that they could pass whatever pro Isrl bills they wanted and could overrule any presidential vetoes. Third parties aiming straight for the top, with no presence in congress, are 🤡s.
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  2746. You called it, about Sam Harris. He has an episode out called "THE SIN OF MORAL EQUIVALENCE", supporting Israel.
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  2747.  @synchronium24  Well, he pretty much does. He puts the blame on Hamas for Palestinian civilians dying, and writes off collateral damage.
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  2748. Right wingers do also like themselves some Chinese gunpowder.
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  2749. Likud was founded by Irgun and Lehi terrorists. Their platform has promised to completely colonize and ethnically cleanse all Palestine territories, since the 70s. It's not just Netanyahu.
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  2750.  @jamesmcelroy5830  Like the fact that not voting, or casting a useless vote, only benefits Republicans? Like the fact that Dumpty did fill multiple scotus seats, and the moon didn't fall into Lake Michigan? Like the fact that there were dozens of inspections showing Syria used chemical weapons, and that 2 dissenting opinions on a single inspection doesn't even refute that inspection, let alone all those dozens of others (that didn't have dissenting opinions)? Like the fact that the entire progressive caucus doesn't have the majority needed to pick a different party speaker candidate, meaning the majority of house Democrats could have kept picking Pelosi over and over and over again? Like the fact that Dore actually promoted that 15 progressives abstain, rather than cast protest votes, which would have handed the house speakership to McCarthy? Like the fact that Dore promoted abandoning Nina Turner ... abandoning adding another M4A yes vote to congress, when getting enough yes votes in congress is the only possible way to ever pass the bill? Like the fact that he spewed a ton of garbage about COVID, vaccines, and "alternatives"? Like the fact that Rumble is funded by Peter Thiel (mega MAGA donor, who made his billions helping the government spy on its citizens), and they paid Tulsi, Greenwald, and Dore, to join their platform? Etc. Grifters claim they're selling you something beneficial, but are actually selling you something useless, or even harmful. The paths Dore proposes taking don't lead to where he claims they do. They lead to Republicans ruling for decades to come.
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  2751. ​ @TheScotsalan  India ranks worse than Saudi, for the treatment of women. And, I'm not sure that the motivations of those at the top necessarily align with the motivations of the masses. Like all of Trump's poor cult followers, handing him money, and doing his bidding. Or, poor people handing money to those megachurch multi-millionaire pastors.
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  2752. Harris has never been objective about anything, as far as I've seen. I don't think he even has a clear understanding of what the term means, and often wonder how he was given a philosophy degree.
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  2753.  @gnubbiersh647  He pretended there is an objective hierarchy of how we value conscious beings, dishonestly claiming we value those with closer intelligence to us (other primates) the most. In reality, we've had no problem with destroying their environments, tossing them in cages for entertainment, using them for experiments, etc., while we've valued pets, of all kinds, more.
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  2754.  @gnubbiersh647  He dishonestly stated we make no moral judgments, when it comes to rocks. Many people actually consider it immoral to destroy artistic rocks, architectural rocks, historical rocks, and protected environments (including the rocks within). Many people value shiny or sparkly rocks more than human lives.
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  2755.  @gnubbiersh647  He used to go around spewing results from a survey of the "Muslim World" (Muslim majority countries) in a vacuum, with nothing to compare it to, from the rest of the religious "worlds". He seems to be completely clueless as to what's going on in those "worlds". India represents almost the entirety of the "Hindu World", and ranks lower than Saudi, for the treatment of women. Sam will dismiss Christian extremism as limited to some attack on an abortion clinic, years ago. Meanwhile, in the "Christian World", churches ran propaganda campaigns against condom use, in Africa ... even outright lying, that condoms cause HIV ... as 30m people perished. He thought it was horrible, that a significant minority of the "Muslim World" thought terrorism was sometimes okay. Meanwhile, IL still celebrates the Irgun and Lehi as "heroes", indicating an outright majority of the "Jewish World" thinks terrorism is sometimes okay. 80% of Americans thought blowing up hundreds of thousands of Iraqis would be cool. 60% of Americans (including him) thought torture was sometimes okay. Etc. Etc. Etc. Just "Muslims bad" fear mongering into a vacuum.
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  2756.  @seto749  You actually didn't provide any examples, just that you personally think his impressions sounded gay to you, and anecdotally think there has been a reduction in anti-gay comments. And, now you think Brooks was anti-Jewish, as well? Can you actually provide examples of such things?
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  2757.  @seto749  Brooks was himself Jewish. And, if you found the Shakira Law bit offensive, then I don't think you understand sarcasm.
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  2758. He wants an exact formula for privilege, but just told Qanon that they can believe whatever batshit crazy stuff they want.
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  2759. ​ @Prometheus4096 No, dumb dumb. "Palestine" isn't defined as an ethno-state. "Israel" is.
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  2760.  @redrick8900  Dimwit, the rest of your examples were things everyone else later copied, and were also able to replicate, but some American inventor simply did first. There was no flailing. I reamed off some things the USSR did first. Are you moving the goalpost, and reducing your US "greatness" to simply landing a man on the moon? Unmanned rovers are how we're exploring Mars, dumb dumb, and how we'll be able to explore many more distant places, before sending someone there. That first object was a satellite, an invention massively more important than bringing home a moon rock sample. The only one flailing is you having no grasp on what freedom has to do with any of the things you mentioned.
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  2761.  @redrick8900  Rofl. You could apply a quote like that to things the USSR did first, as well, dimwit. You could apply it to all the inventions in history that happened under authoritarian monarchies. Nazi Germany led, and pushed the rest of the world, in military advancements. You don't even have an argument, to begin with. Inventions are completely irrelevant to freedom. You're simply blathering about irrelevant crap that doesn't, at all, indicate whether a country has more freedom than another.
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  2762.  @redrick8900  Rofl. You didn't actually make an argument, dumb dumb. You quoted me mentioning the freedom index, and then blathered on about things that are totally irrelevant to freedom. And, talk about flailing ... You gave examples of the US doing some things first. Then you argued against yourself, as if simply doing stuff first was irrelevant. Then you again argued as if simply doing stuff first was relevant. You don't seem to know which way is up.
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  2763.  NoFreedoms  Sweden has 5-10x the covid deaths per capita of its neighbors, ffs. It has one of the worst rates in Europe. It was repeatedly the worst in Europe for weekly cases.
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  2764.  NoFreedoms  Rofl. The UK had a shit covid response. Boris barely took it seriously, until he got it, and then still half assed it. Sweden is worse than Germany, Norway, Denmark, Finland, Austria, Switzerland, Luxembourg, Russia, ... Why do dimwits aim to be like another top 40 worst countries in the world, instead of aiming to be amongst the best?
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  2765.  NoFreedoms  US suicides went down 20% in 2020, actually. Right wingers haven't given a crap about mental health, as suicides increased in previous years. Do you think the US should have the same kind of mental health services, and coverage, as Sweden?
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  2766.  NoFreedoms  Sure, it's only 5x more deadly than automobile accidents. We should also do away with street lights, speed limits, seatbelt laws, child seat laws, helmet laws, drinking and driving laws, vehicle safety standards, licensing, etc., so people can truly enjoy their freedumb.
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  2767.  NoFreedoms  Did you look up that there's an estimated 10m unreported automobile accidents a year, on top of the 6m reported automobile accidents? Apparently not. Also, 3x deadlier still means it's deadlier. So ... do away with all rules of the road, because automobile accidents aren't deadly enough?
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  2768.  NoFreedoms  What is the mortality rate for smoking a pack of cigarettes, or eating a big mac, exactly? Cancer mRNA vaccines were already being worked on before the covid vaccines. Should nobody take them, once they're developed? Yep. Not sure what you aren't grasping. If you want no masks, distancing, vaccine requirements, etc., because the virus isn't deadly enough for you, then why aren't you trying to get rid of all rules of the road, that infringe upon your freedoms? Funny you don't seem to grasp how question marks work.
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  2769.  @whyamimrpink78  Rofl! The founders, literally, protested, rioted, and then went to war, over taxes that specifically funded the red coats (police/military) and a lack of representation (disenfranchisement). That's anti-authoritarian. Their opponents backed the red coats, and fought against democracy to keep an unelected ruler in power. That's authoritarian. Idiots like you, literally, only trusted the government (Trump) for 4 years. You have reality backwards.
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  2770.  @whyamimrpink78  They still protested extra taxes that specifically funded the police/military. He was a loser, who failed at almost everything he tried on his own, except being a reality show host. Inheriting daddy's business is the only reason anyone knows him. I care about policies, dumb dumb. Replace them all with people pushing policies I like, for all I care. Try saying the same about the cult leader who convinced tens of millions of people not to believe any media, any other politicians, any judges, any lawyers, any law enforcement, any scientists, any doctors, any nurses, any election officials ... anybody ... if they contradicted Supreme Leader Trumpty Dumpty. That makes you both stupid and ironic. Completely disconnected from reality.
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  2771.  @fredsanford1437  I actually asked a question, which you didn't answer.
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  2772. ​ @goodbher9244  The "human shields" narrative comes from a nation that has its largest IDF base inside a shopping mall, a nation that has over 400k militants (reservists) hiding amongst the populace, and a nation whose mandatory service policy means almost every single Israeli is, was, or will be a militant.
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  2773.  @AR-yp8nh  Netanyahu is their biggest supporter. That would make him a terrorist. Netanyahu: Money to Hamas part of strategy to keep Palestinians divided By LAHAV HARKOV Published: MARCH 12, 2019 The symbiotic relationship between Netanyahu and Hamas BY JONATHAN D. STRUM, OPINION CONTRIBUTOR 10/22/23 For years, Netanyahu propped up Hamas. Now it’s blown up in our faces The premier's policy of treating the terror group as a partner, at the expense of Abbas and Palestinian statehood, has resulted in wounds that will take Israel years to heal from By TAL SCHNEIDER 8 October 2023 Why Israel Lets Qatar Give Millions To Hamas June 18, 2015
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  2774. ​ @yesyoucan5855  How could she possibly work with Republicans? One house member can't do much of anything, alone.
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  2775.  @enaethiolove5134  Even the most popular third party hasn't won a single seat in congress in its 50+ year existence. The last two house independents were elected as Republicans. Even they didn't win seats as independents. Justice Dems won 12 seats in just 6 years. There's clearly a better method for winning a seat.
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  2776.  @enaethiolove5134  The most popular third party hasn't won a single seat in its 50+ year existence. Green hasn't won a single seat in its 25+ year existence. A left leaning independent hasn't won a seat since Bernie was in the house, 17 years ago. Justice Dems won 12 seats in 6 years. You might want to reflect on what has been tried over and over, and not worked. Winning a seat is the basic first step.
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  2777.  @enaethiolove5134  Are you talking about 3rd parties not winning a single seat in congress, in over 50 years, but keep trying?
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  2778. @enaethiolove5134  No independent has been elected for a house seat in the 17 years since Bernie left for the senate. No Green has been elected in its 25+ years existence. No Libertarian has been elected in its 50+ years existence. 12 Justice Dems were elected in just 6 years. Why keep trying what lowers your odds of getting elected, over and over? You can't even attempt to do anything, if you don't get elected.
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  2779. @enaethiolove5134  No independent has been elected for a house seat in the 17 years since Bernie left for the senate. The top 2 third parties haven't been elected to seats in their 25+ and 50+ years existences. 12 Justice Dems were elected in just 6 years. Why keep trying what lowers your odds of getting elected, over and over? You can't even attempt to do anything, if you don't get elected.
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  2780. @enaethiolove5134  No independent has won a house seat in the 17 years since Bernie left. Grn and Lbrtrn haven't won a single seat in their 25+ and 50+ years existences. 12 Justice Dems won seats in just 6 years. Why keep trying what lowers your odds of winning a seat, over and over? You can't even attempt to do anything, if you don't get elected.
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  2781. @enaethiolove5134  When was the last time an independent, or any third party candidate, was elected to the house?
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  2782. Well, Jimmy's dad probably locked up some black people. So, close.
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  2783. The Kansas Flu.
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  2784. ​ @erickdavid2412  Member how she never claimed to be in the Capitol building, and that you're an ignoramus?
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  2785.  @mp22893  Do that in the primaries. The 30 year old progressive caucus is about 15 seats away from becoming the majority of house Dems. The 6 year old Justice Dems have 11 seats. The most popular third party, Libertarian, hasn't won a single seat in its 50 year existence. Green hasn't won a single seat in its 20 year existence. Him, criticizing small steps, and making out like third party will be the faster route to your destination, is completely dishonest. Even if the entire progressive caucus was third party, that would hand the house, senate, and presidency, to Republicans. His path leads to Republican rule, for the foreseeable future.
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  2786.  @JimBob-jr5up  The hint might be in the fact that Rumble, funded by major MAGA donor Peter Thiel, paid the likes of Gabbard, Greenwald, and Dore, to join Rumble and provide content. Why would the far right pay them, if they weren't fine with what they say?
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  2787. As said, the problem is a lot bigger than just him. Likud's platform, has promised to completely colonize and ethnically cleanse all Palestine territories, as well as parts of Jordan, Syria, and Lebanon, since the 70s. Likud was founded by Irgun and Lehi terrorists, followers of Ze'ev Jabotinsky, whose goal was always to colonize it all. Israelis still celebrate them as "heroes". In its previous form, Herut, Einstein and other notbale Jews, likened the party to fascists and Nazis. Many Israelis , who dislike Netanyahu, think he's too soft. Israel has a Third Reich level societal problem.
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  2788.  @DubhghlasMacDubhghlas  I think they are much more used to a lower standard of living, a lack of conveniences, and already had connections with neighbors who could supply them. And, yes, a lot of countries have less obesity than the US, and are in better shape, on average.
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  2789. Oh yeah, are they going to stab a cop in the eye and try to overthrow the government?
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  2790. ​ @mychannel5019  Israel is objectively the aggressor by every relevant measure, dumb dumb ... Modern history: 100 years ago, in 1923, Ze'ev Jabotinsky fully acknowledged that Zionism is colonialism, and that, based on the entirety of history, the natives would fight it until the bitter end. He just didn't care what would happen to them, and promoted doing it anyway. Colonizers are never not the aggressors. On top of the colonialist nature of Zionism, the Zionists also formed terrorist organizations, like the Irgun and Lehi. They bombed many Palestinian markets and other public places, murdering many civilians, including children, even including Palestinian Jews (who opposed Zionism). Israel merged those terrorists into the new nation's military and intelligence agencies. Israelis elected Menachem Begin, leader of the Irgun, child murderer, Jew murderer, and bomber of the King David Hotel, as PM. Israelis, to this day, celebrate those terrorists as "heroes". Zionists literally taught their neighbours that terrorism is a valid path to independence and statehood, and that terrorists are to be celebrated. In 1945, it is well documented that Zionists owned just 5% of the land and were a majority nowhere. Israel was formed by actually going against the majority population. It's foundation is completely undemocratic. Then, becoming a majority, in "their" new nation, by ethnic cleansing the actual majority, and then claiming to be democratic, is utter nonsense. Law: Israel is considered an occupier by the International Court, the UN GA, and the UN SC. Occupiers are also never not the aggressors. Those occupied actually have a right to resist occupation. On the flip side, it is illegal for the occupier to settle occupied lands, and illegal to use collective punishment. Israel is a rogue nation, that doesn't abide by international law. What it has been doing, and is doing now, is illegal. Current events: This year, alone, prior to Oct 7 ... Israel held over 1200 Palestinian hostages without charges ... over 200 Palestinians had been killed by the IDF and settlers ... over 1000 Palestinians had been displaced by Israel's neverending colonization of the West Bank ... and, Israel continued to operate an open air WWII style fascist ghetto, in Gaza. Even ignoring modern history and law, in no reality did Hamas "start" anything.
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  2791. ​ @elconquistador5469  The UN Office of Genocide Prevention considers ethnic cleansing in their wheelhouse. Because, if they don't move, they die. Likud's, "between the sea and the Jordan", platform ... 1977: "The Right of the Jewish People to the Land of Israel (Eretz Israel) a. The right of the Jewish people to the land of Israel is eternal and indisputable and is linked with the right to security and peace; therefore, Judea and Samaria will not be handed to any foreign administration; between the Sea and the Jordan there will only be Israeli sovereignty. b. A plan which relinquishes parts of western Eretz Israel, undermines our right to the country, unavoidably leads to the establishment of a "Palestinian State," jeopardizes the security of the Jewish population, endangers the existence of the State of Israel. and frustrates any prospect of peace." "Settlement Settlement. both urban and rural. in all parts of the Land of Israel is the focal point of the Zionist effort to redeem the country, to maintain vital security areas and serves as a reservoir of strength and inspiration for the renewal of the pioneering spirit. The Likud government will call on the younger generation in Israel and the dispersions to settle and help every group and individual in the task of inhabiting and cultivating the wasteland, while taking care not to dispossess anyone." 1999: "The Government of Israel flatly rejects the establishment of a Palestinian Arab state west of the Jordan river. The Palestinians can run their lives freely in the framework of self-rule, but not as an independent and sovereign state. Thus, for example, in matters of foreign affairs, security, immigration, and ecology, their activity shall be limited in accordance with imperatives of Israel's existence, security and national needs." "The Jewish communities in Judea, Samaria, and Gaza are the realization of Zionist values. Settlement of the land is a clear expression of the unassailable right of the Jewish people to the Land of Israel and constitutes an important asset in the defense of the vital interests of the State of Israel. The Likud will continue to strengthen and develop these communities and will prevent their uprooting."
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  2792. That makes little sense. After losing to Eisenhower, Democrats moved a little further right. After losing to Nixon, Democrats moved a little further right. After losing to Reagan, Democrats moved a little further right. After losing to Bush, Democrats moved a little further right. After losing to Trump, Democrats pushed Biden over Bernie. Bernie actually did better in 2016, after a previous Democrat. And, Israel was ethnically cleansing Palestine that whole time. You need to pressure members or get more progressive members in congress, because with the amount of support Israel has in congress, they can pass whatever bills supporting Israel they want, and have the numbers to override any presidential veto. The president is of little relevance, in the big picture. And, you'll end up with someone who will support Israel even harder, will let Russia do to Ukraine what Israel is doing to Palestine, who has said he wants a pledge of allegiance to Israel to get in the country, who has said he wants to reinstate and expand his Muslim ban (and Republicans have even been talking trying to deport Palestine supporters that weren't born in the US, like Ilhan), who could f up the courts even worse, who has said he wants to go after leftists, etc., etc., etc.
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  2793. ​ @kingjoeblack5  You know the vast majority of the spike in incarcerations was due to the war on drugs, led mainly by Republicans, starting under Nixon, yeah?
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  2794.  @staticcouch135  They are trapped, and the OP is delusional. There is so much Israel support in congress that they can easily override any president. The president is irrelevant, for this issue. You'll end up with Trump, who is worse.
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  2795.  @laqueefa8509  Dore is an idiot. The original "plan" he "organized" was to hand the speakership to McCarthy, because Dore's original wording, and numerous times after, never stated that the 15 progressives he picked need to cast protest votes. He kept repeating simply "withhold" or "don't vote for", which implies abstaining. It took others to fix the major hole in his "plan", because he's an idiot who doesn't know how the government works. Dore also "organized" helping Trump win in 2016, by arguing that Trump was a better option than Clinton, not caring if 10m of the poorest Americans were thrown of Medicaid expansion, and not caring to add 40m older Americans to Medicare expansion. He also "organized" supporting Tulsi and her "Medicare choice" over Bernie and M4A. He also "organized" an attack ad campaign against Trump's only remaining viable opponent in 2020, doing what he could to help him win again. He also "organized" support for the third party route that hasn't won the most popular third party a single seat in congress in its near 50 year existence. A route that would, at best peel away enough progressive votes from Dems to hand the party totally back to corporate Dems and let Republicans rule for decades. Dimwit Dore knobs don't grasp that "vote blue" works both ways, and that Dem voters who vote against progressives in the primaries vote for them in the general. If you simply split off progressives, elections would look like a two candidate Dem primary vs a single candidate Republican general, and Republicans would win in most places. Dore is a grifter, who doesn't actually care about getting anyone healthcare anytime soon.
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  2796.  @jaccl4539  By doing what, dimwit? What has he done, that supposedly risked more? One single example.
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  2797.  @sergeikhripun  Rofl! The bill needs numbers to actually pass, you dimwitted Dore knob. Forcing a 100% guaranteed to fail performance art vote gets you nothing. Even if you got that, what you'd then still have to do, is the work to get enough numbers in congress to be able to pass it. It's the only possible way to pass bills. Magic doesn't work. If you dimwits don't care about adding numbers, then you don't care about M4A, at all.
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  2798.  @sergeikhripun  No it doesn't. The Iron Dome is defensive, and Israel reacts disproportionately. If Palestinian rockets killed dozens of Israelis, instead of just a few, how much worse do you think Israel woukd react? She only has domestic issues, on her website. What do you claim she used to have on her website, about Palestine? Hard to believe you Dore knobs. Dore knobs have claimed she erased M4A from her website, when it's actually at the top of her issues list. Does not having something on her website change the fact that she has called out Israel multiple time, called it an apartheid state, co-signed a bill to put conditions on military aid to Israel, voted against the state department appropriation bill which gives military aid to Israel, co-signed a bill to get rid of anti-BDS laws, etc.?
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  2799.  @brentnoury7626  Why? The numbers of deaths was regularly higher in the early 2000s, before the Dome. If Israelis get hurt, or die, they respond terribly and disproportionately.
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  2800.  @brentnoury7626  Which is why the progressive bill to put conditions on the annual offensive military aid, and the progressive bill to strike down anti-BDS laws, so constant conditions and pressure can be placed on Israel. An irregular rearmament of the Iron Dome wouldn't affect a whole lot. It's still not a yes vote, which would have made it 421-9, and a no vote would have made it 420-10. It's not one of those bills where the progressive votes even mattered much. The entire progressive caucus could have voted no, and it still would have passed.
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  2801.  @brentnoury7626  I hear what you're saying, but, if they're workers voting Republican, truth isn't the "strength" they're looking for, and, if they're right wing Christians, they're probably on the side of Israel. Not sure progressives can vote on an Israel bill in a way that'll woo any right wingers over, without outright voting for it. This wouldn't even have been a seperate bill, where you could see how everyone voted on this specific issue, if progressives hadn't pressured Pelosi to remove it from the government spending bill and vote on it separately. The bigger news should actually be just how overwhelming the yes vote was, and that none of the actual yes voters seem to have to answer for their votes. There's zero questioning, by supposed "leftists", like Dore, zero calling out, zero attacking, of all those who outright supported Israel, but they'll mention every chance they get how AOC didn't vote for it.
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  2802. Yep, they've given a home to the most anti-socialist McCarthy like extremists, Southern racists, religious extremists, Tea Party nutters, the Trump cult, Qanoners, ...
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  2803. You shouldn't capitalize "libertarian". It makes your label incoherent. Capital L Libertarians are far right Ayn Rand types.
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  2804.  @Gilgaemesh  You only gave examples of the problems with right libertarianism. Yeah, they give up democracy and social contracts for individualism. The left is socialism. On the left, what would be the big difference between a representative democracy deciding we should have building standards or a direct democracy deciding we should have building standards?
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  2805.  @Gilgaemesh  You're still rambling on about right libertarianism. On the left ... A) You have a representative democratic socialism, and they vote to have building codes, and gives expert John Doe the job of making sure builders stick to the codes. B) You have a direct democracy that decides to have building codes, and gives expert John Doe the job of making sure builders stick to the codes. The only real difference is you're taking out the corruptible politician middle men.
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  2806.  @rajashashankgutta4334  What are you going to sue someone for, if there's no regulations or codes they've violated? Private individuals and businesses can't violate your rights.
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  2807.  Alabama Man 2.0  What are you on about? More views doesn't equate to better quality, doesn't equate to more correct, doesn't equate to more informative ... it just means more meatheads like it. More meatheads like a lot of crap. So what?
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  2808.  Illhan Omar's Brother  Nope. You criticize him constantly, and have less views, therefore you must be jealous.
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  2809.  Illhan Omar's Brother  You just made multiple posts criticizing him for complaining. He gets more views than you. Therefore, you're jealous.
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  2810. Zionist terrorist groups, Irgun and Lehi, also targeted Palestinian Jews (who didn't support colonialist Zionsim) alongside their Palestinian brothers and sisters. They were themselves Jew murderers.
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  2811. Ben's worldview is centered on the worship of a formless, sexless, penisless, being that apparently likes to be called "he", "him", and even "father".
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  2812. "Indirect" insurrection to overthrow the democratic process, and directly had the majority of Republicans in congress try to overthrow the democratic process, directly asked Pence to overthrow the democratic process, and directly tried a fake electors scheme to overthrow the democratic process. Dumpty dropped more bombs per year than Obama, and more bombs on Yemen than Obama and Bush combined. He kept feeding money to Israel as they continued their ethnic cleansing of Palestine, recognized their illegal annexation of Golan Heights, recognized Jerusalem as their capital, and made a "peace" deal that ignored Palestinians and tried to normalize Israel's ethnic cleansing with some of their neighbors. Dumpty also let Iran have their nuclear weapons program back. He okayed Iraq paying its energy bill to Iran, multiple times, just like Biden. He let his dictator buddy in North Korea build up his nuclear arsenal, and continue to test missiles that can reach at least Alaska. Shared nuclear secrets (presidents have zero authority to declassify nuclear secrets) with a billionaire donor.
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  2813. First, partition was forced on the majority population. Then, non-Jews (845k) still outnumbered Jews (714k) by over 100k, in the Zionist half, so they ethnically cleansed away about 700k of the actual majority, and never let them return. Plus, all Palestine territories are officially considered occupied, meaning millions of Palestinians have no say in the actual government ruling over them. Israel is about as democratic as Nazi Germany after Hitler purged his political opponents and then held elections.
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  2814.  @joehilner4830  The 30 year old progressive caucus is about 15 seats away from becoming the majority of the party. The 4 year old Justice Dems have replaced about a dozen corporate dems. The oldest third party hasn't won a single seat in its near 50 year existence. The Green party hasn't won a single seat in its 20 year existence. The third party route is definitely the slower route. Might be lucky to get one seat, in the next 100 years. The thing is that "vote blue" works both ways. If a progressive wins a primary, those who voted against them turn around and vote for them in the general. Any hope of Bernie ever becoming president relied totally on Clinton or Biden supporters to still "vote blue", if he made it through the primary.
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  2815. Those GOP morons don't even grasp basics, like the fact that advising people not to drink more than 2 a week isn't the same as forcing people not to drink more than 2 a week. More context won't help them.
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  2816.  @uncomfortabletruth5915  And what could be the cost of doing nothing? "Failing to do so could cost the world some $1.7 trillion a year by the middle of this decade, escalating to about $30 trillion a year by 2075, according to estimations by the 738 economists from around the world surveyed by New York University’s Institute for Policy Integrity." "The effects of climate change can be expected to shave 11 percent to 14 percent off global economic output by 2050 compared with growth levels without climate change, according to a report from Swiss Re, one of the world’s largest providers of insurance to other insurance companies. That amounts to as much as $23 trillion in reduced annual global economic output worldwide as a result of climate change."
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  2817. ​ @hauz287 "Subhumans"? You racist Nazi.
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  2818. Yes, MAGA used to claim they weren't rcsts, and were only opposed to misdemeanor entry imm. But, there's something about Haitians they don't like. 🤔
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  2819.  @zachariahyager3115  The most popular third party has been trying to win a seat for almost 50 years, expecting a different result each time, and failing each time. The most popular progressive third party has been trying for 20 years, and failing each time. There are actually something like 40 third parties, that keep failing over and over. Talk about insanity. "Vote blue" actually works both ways. Those who vote against progressives in the primaries turn around and vote for them in the general. The broader progressive caucus only needs about 15 more seats to become the majority of house Dems. Justice Dems have replaced about a dozen corporate Dems. AOC has helped replace a few more corporate Dems. It may not be as fast as you like, but taking over the party seems to be working. Progressives are actually getting seats. Would you rather them be part of a minority party, or a majority party? What do you think a supermajority is? There isn't one now.
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  2820. Bezalel Smotrich, who Netanyahu put in charge of the West Bank, made public a plan to segregate and subjugate (no federal representation), exile, or kill, any non Jews in all of Israel/Palestine. Even worse, he has a map of "Israel" on his wall that includes parts of Jordan, Syria, and Lebanon. He's a religious nut, who thinks all of "Israel" is their god given land, so probably wants the entire Tanakh/OT kingdom.
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  2821. @@SteveT900 Says the moron who thinks Sam will read his comment.
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  2822.  @GaryRine  Yeah, people like a Bezos, or Musk, only claiming $30k a year salaries, while making billions off untaxed stocks, is nonsensical. They make billions, yet provide next to nothing towards UI, or SS, for their employees.
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  2823.  @biokido575  At least a decade of it, dumb dumb.
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  2824.  @biokido575  She showed no interest in boys, for decades. Were you upset when they "ruined" her with a boyfriend?
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  2825.  @aliamjon2550  *they're
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  2826.  @tomservo56954  How so?
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  2827.  @gnubbiersh647  Why would what I prefer matter, if something were objective? You're asking what I'd subjectively like. Again, Sam covered that in his opening, stating that was already a given. If he had simply said ... well here is what I think is a good measure of "well being", and think we should set that as our goal ... that would be a totally different thing. Not what he did. No, Sam is actually the one who routinely agrees with religious extremists, not me. A Sky Hitler is definitely not a good source for morality. I think morality is subjective. By definition, objectivity has no biases. It's straight facts, no feelings. It doesn't care about outcomes. By definition, morality has a bias in favor of some behaviors, and against others. I'm not even really sure how it became debatable. Even a god's morality would be based on its own subjective biases. It could hand down laws, and then you're objectively following the law, or not. But, the morality behind making the law would be subjective.
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  2828.  @gnubbiersh647  Sorry to hear about your reading comprehension problems.
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  2829.  @gnubbiersh647  I answered your questions, and you had problems reading them ... either too much for your tiny brain to read in one go, or too big of words for your tiny brain to comprehend properly. So, definitely your struggle.
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  2830.  @gnubbiersh647  Why would you say that? I think you've come to the wrong leftist channel, if you think this one is pro Sam Harris. Do you think pro gun, pro torture, Islamophobic, anti-blm, anti-antifa, white supremacist defender, feminist critic, leftist critic, Zionist ... Sam Harris is a leftist, or something?
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  2831.  @gnubbiersh647  But I do. Weird, I thought the thumbs up thingy meant someone agreed. No?
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  2832.  @janpeterson1206  *This guy is joking!
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  2833.  @janpeterson1206  No, but David Feldman is a comedy writer, including writing for The Daily Show. You know, the show that spawned satirical characters, like Colbert.
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  2834.  @dootdoot1867  There's a difference between having an ideal, and the best way to reach that ideal. Siding with far right fascists to bring down the current government, isn't the best way to reach anarchism. It's the best way to find yourself on the wrong side of a Night of the Long Knives. And if you haven't even convinced the majority to accept socialism, before completely eradicating the government, then you'll end up with an ancap environment, instead. Dore knobs are so impatient, and yet they promote taking the longest dumbest route to the destination.
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  2835.  @dootdoot1867  Piss off with your ancap psychos. An ancap environment gets you private property owners, with no authority above them, running around doing whatever the hell they want. It's how you get feudalism and absolute monarchies, both 100% privately owned and operated endeavours. You have to be insane to think they'd make good allies.
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  2836. ​ @barbaraklein3944  Likud's bloody 100 year history ... In 1923, 100 years ago, Ze'ev Jabotinsky wrote, The Iron Wall, and a follow up, The Ethics of The Iron Wall (sooo racist towards Africans), in which he fully acknowledged that post Balfour Zionsim was colonialism, and that, based on the entirety of history, the native Palestinian population would resist being colonized until the bitter end. He directly compared it to the colonization of North America. He promoted doing it anyway, claiming Zionist colonialism was a "just" colonialism (he also thought North American colonialists were good guys, so not a great judge of morality), not caring what that meant for the native population. Ze'ev is important, because his Betar militant youth group helped found the Irgun terrorist group, along with other supporters of his, and the splinter Lehi terrorist group. The Irgun bombed numerous Palestinian markets and other public places, murdering many Palestinian civilians, including children, even including Palestinian Jews (who didn't support colonialist Zionsim). The Irgun are important, because they ended up being led by future Likud PM, Menachem Begin, who bombed the King David Hotel. The King David Hotel was bombed because the British had raided the Jewish Agency and seized numerous documents that may have shown that the terrorists were working with the JA and Haganah (JA liked to pretend that they didn't support the terrorism). The British then stored those documents at their base, in the hotel. That the Irgun terrorists responded to a JA raid, itself seems to prove the connection. That the thousands of Irgun (and Lehi) terrorists were also quickly merged into the new nation's military (IDF) and intelligence (Mossad) agencies, and are still celebrated as "heroes" by Israelis, to this day, also seems to support total collaboration between the groups. That other terrorist group mentioned, Lehi (also known as the Stern Gang), was considered even more extreme. They even tried to ally with the Nazis, against the British. Lehi ended up being led by Yitzhak Shamir, future Mossad agent, and another future Likud PM. In 1945, there was a major land and peoples survey done in Palestine. It showed that the Zionists only owned about 5% of the total land, 20% of the arable land, and owned a majority in zero districts. The partition was not only going to be forced on the native Palestinian majority, but Jews were still going to be a minority, in the part allocated to them. The only possible way to even become a "Jewish state" was going to require getting rid of the actual majority (at least enough so that there'd be a solid Jewish majority, so they could fake being democratic). This is also shown by the 1948, post Nakba, population of Israel. If there was 716,700 Jews, 156,000+ non-Jews, and approximately 700k non-Jews ethnically cleansed, that means the Jewish population, in the Zionist portion of partition, was originally over 100,000 less than the non-Jewish population. To believe that there was never any intent, by Zionists, to ethnically cleanse away the Palestinian majority would require believing that they never intended to create a "Jewish state". It's a nonsensical notion. Begin, and those terrorist groups, also opposed partition, but for the opposite reason Palestinians did. Palestinians didn't want to be colonized, at all. The terrorists wanted to colonize it all. "Moderate" Zionists were okay with colonizing half ... for now (what would happen in the future, after partition, was up to them, said Ben-Gurion). The Zionist terrorists were also involved in massacres, and assassinations, during the partition violence (colonialist war against the natives). Another notable future Likud PM, also started in the military, during the partition fighting. That was Ariel Sharon, war criminal, "Butcher of Beirut". Menachem Begin, and these other Zionist terrorists, are important because they also later founded Likud. Now, people get upset over the slogan "From the river to the sea!", but it's the second part that's most important, "Palestine will be free!". Because "Palestine" isn't defined as an ethno-state, a free Palestine can be a single state, free for all to live in, and return to, free of continuing colonization, free of occupation, free of oppression, etc. Just like a Germany free of Nazism, an Italy free of fascism, a South Africa free of apartheid, or an America free of slavery from sea to shiny sea. It doesn't necessitate purging all the Jews. It just necessitates them giving up on the idea of an ethno-state. On the other hand, because "Israel" has been defined as an ethno-state, Likud's, "between the sea and the Jordan there will only be Israeli sovereignty", has no possible good interpretation. It is a declaration of intent to completely colonize, and ethnically cleanse, all Palestine territories. Not only that, but it also claims that they have a "right" to all of the "Land of Israel" (biblical borders that don't mesh with archaeological reality), which is an open declaration of future wars, against Jordan, Syria, Lebanon, and possibly even Iraq. Likud platform ... 1977: "The Right of the Jewish People to the Land of Israel (Eretz Israel) a. The right of the Jewish people to the land of Israel is eternal and indisputable and is linked with the right to security and peace; therefore, Judea and Samaria will not be handed to any foreign administration; between the Sea and the Jordan there will only be Israeli sovereignty. b. A plan which relinquishes parts of western Eretz Israel, undermines our right to the country, unavoidably leads to the establishment of a "Palestinian State," jeopardizes the security of the Jewish population, endangers the existence of the State of Israel. and frustrates any prospect of peace." "Settlement Settlement. both urban and rural. in all parts of the Land of Israel is the focal point of the Zionist effort to redeem the country, to maintain vital security areas and serves as a reservoir of strength and inspiration for the renewal of the pioneering spirit. The Likud government will call on the younger generation in Israel and the dispersions to settle and help every group and individual in the task of inhabiting and cultivating the wasteland, while taking care not to dispossess anyone." 1999: "The Government of Israel flatly rejects the establishment of a Palestinian Arab state west of the Jordan river. The Palestinians can run their lives freely in the framework of self-rule, but not as an independent and sovereign state. Thus, for example, in matters of foreign affairs, security, immigration, and ecology, their activity shall be limited in accordance with imperatives of Israel's existence, security and national needs." "The Jewish communities in Judea, Samaria, and Gaza are the realization of Zionist values. Settlement of the land is a clear expression of the unassailable right of the Jewish people to the Land of Israel and constitutes an important asset in the defense of the vital interests of the State of Israel. The Likud will continue to strengthen and develop these communities and will prevent their uprooting." All Palestine territories are officially considered occupied, by the International Court of Justice, the UN GA, the UN SC, and even in official documents of Israel's own allies. Likud is still using the blueprint for colonizing North America, in the West Bank. Move settlements out into native territory, piss off the natives, the natives retaliate, cry about poor "innocent" colonizing settlers being the "victims" of violent "Savages!", call in the cavalry to put down the native uprising, and eventually expand the borders to include those settlements. Rinse and repeat. In Gaza, they are operating an open air WWII style fascist ghetto. Them claiming a "right to defend themselves" would be like the Nazis claiming a "right to defend themselves " from the Warsaw ghetto uprising. There's no "war". That they're the occupiers means the "war" part is long over. That partition was forced upon the Palestinian majority, against their will ... that the Zionist portion still had to be forcefully ethnically cleansed of its non-Jewish majority, against their will ... that the millions of occupied Palestinians don't have a say in the government that truly rules over them, Israel's ... means Israel is about as democratic as Nazi Germany after Hitler purged his political opponents and then held elections. Hamas is basically just a poor man's Likud, only fighting against colonialism, instead of for colonialism.
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  2837. So Jimmy should stop calling those who simply disagree on methodology "fakes" and "shills"?
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  2838. ​ @Prometheus4096  Piss off. Pakman is equivalent to Piers Morgan.
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  2839. Like the Puritans, persecuted in their homelands, no longer had a home, travelled to the New World, only to turn around and persecute everyone and anyone around them, and within them.
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  2840. ​ @crabbypattie  Likud's bloody 100 year history ... In 1923, 100 years ago, Ze'ev Jabotinsky wrote, The Iron Wall, and a follow up, The Ethics of The Iron Wall (sooo racist towards Africans), in which he fully acknowledged that post Balfour Zionsim was colonialism, and that, based on the entirety of history, the native Palestinian population would resist being colonized until the bitter end. He directly compared it to the colonization of North America. He promoted doing it anyway, claiming Zionist colonialism was a "just" colonialism (he also thought North American colonialists were good guys, so not a great judge of morality), not caring what that meant for the native population. Ze'ev is important, because his Betar militant youth group helped found the Irgun terrorist group, along with other supporters of his, and the splinter Lehi terrorist group. The Irgun bombed numerous Palestinian markets and other public places, murdering many Palestinian civilians, including children, even including Palestinian Jews (who didn't support colonialist Zionsim). The Irgun are important, because they ended up being led by future Likud PM, Menachem Begin, who bombed the King David Hotel. The King David Hotel was bombed because the British had raided the Jewish Agency and seized numerous documents that may have shown that the terrorists were working with the JA and Haganah (JA liked to pretend that they didn't support the terrorism). The British then stored those documents at their base, in the hotel. That the Irgun terrorists responded to a JA raid, itself seems to prove the connection. That the thousands of Irgun (and Lehi) terrorists were also quickly merged into the new nation's military (IDF) and intelligence (Mossad) agencies, and are still celebrated as "heroes" by Israelis, to this day, also seems to support total collaboration between the groups. That other terrorist group mentioned, Lehi (also known as the Stern Gang), was considered even more extreme. They even tried to ally with the Nazis, against the British. Lehi ended up being led by Yitzhak Shamir, future Mossad agent, and another future Likud PM. In 1945, there was a major land and peoples survey done in Palestine. It showed that the Zionists only owned about 5% of the total land, 20% of the arable land, and owned a majority in zero districts. The partition was not only going to be forced on the native Palestinian majority, but Jews were still going to be a minority, in the part allocated to them. The only possible way to even become a "Jewish state" was going to require getting rid of the actual majority (at least enough so that there'd be a solid Jewish majority, so they could fake being democratic). This is also shown by the 1948, post Nakba, population of Israel. If there was 716,700 Jews, 156,000+ non-Jews, and approximately 700k non-Jews ethnically cleansed, that means the Jewish population, in the Zionist portion of partition, was originally over 100,000 less than the non-Jewish population. To believe that there was never any intent, by Zionists, to ethnically cleanse away the Palestinian majority would require believing that they never intended to create a "Jewish state". It's a nonsensical notion. Begin, and those terrorist groups, also opposed partition, but for the opposite reason Palestinians did. Palestinians didn't want to be colonized, at all. The terrorists wanted to colonize it all. "Moderate" Zionists were okay with colonizing half ... for now (what would happen in the future, after partition, was up to them, said Ben-Gurion). The Zionist terrorists were also involved in massacres, and assassinations, during the partition violence (colonialist war against the natives). Another notable future Likud PM, also started in the military, during the partition fighting. That was Ariel Sharon, war criminal, "Butcher of Beirut". Menachem Begin, and these other Zionist terrorists, are important because they also later founded Likud. Now, people get upset over the slogan "From the river to the sea!", but it's the second part that's most important, "Palestine will be free!". Because "Palestine" isn't defined as an ethno-state, a free Palestine can be a single state, free for all to live in, and return to, free of continuing colonization, free of occupation, free of oppression, etc. Just like a Germany free of Nazism, an Italy free of fascism, a South Africa free of apartheid, or an America free of slavery from sea to shiny sea. It doesn't necessitate purging all the Jews. It just necessitates them giving up on the idea of an ethno-state. On the other hand, because "Israel" has been defined as an ethno-state, Likud's, "between the sea and the Jordan there will only be Israeli sovereignty", has no possible good interpretation. It is a declaration of intent to completely colonize, and ethnically cleanse, all Palestine territories. Not only that, but it also claims that they have a "right" to all of the "Land of Israel" (biblical borders that don't mesh with archaeological reality), which is an open declaration of future wars, against Jordan, Syria, Lebanon, and possibly even Iraq. Likud platform ... 1977: "The Right of the Jewish People to the Land of Israel (Eretz Israel) a. The right of the Jewish people to the land of Israel is eternal and indisputable and is linked with the right to security and peace; therefore, Judea and Samaria will not be handed to any foreign administration; between the Sea and the Jordan there will only be Israeli sovereignty. b. A plan which relinquishes parts of western Eretz Israel, undermines our right to the country, unavoidably leads to the establishment of a "Palestinian State," jeopardizes the security of the Jewish population, endangers the existence of the State of Israel. and frustrates any prospect of peace." "Settlement Settlement. both urban and rural. in all parts of the Land of Israel is the focal point of the Zionist effort to redeem the country, to maintain vital security areas and serves as a reservoir of strength and inspiration for the renewal of the pioneering spirit. The Likud government will call on the younger generation in Israel and the dispersions to settle and help every group and individual in the task of inhabiting and cultivating the wasteland, while taking care not to dispossess anyone." 1999: "The Government of Israel flatly rejects the establishment of a Palestinian Arab state west of the Jordan river. The Palestinians can run their lives freely in the framework of self-rule, but not as an independent and sovereign state. Thus, for example, in matters of foreign affairs, security, immigration, and ecology, their activity shall be limited in accordance with imperatives of Israel's existence, security and national needs." "The Jewish communities in Judea, Samaria, and Gaza are the realization of Zionist values. Settlement of the land is a clear expression of the unassailable right of the Jewish people to the Land of Israel and constitutes an important asset in the defense of the vital interests of the State of Israel. The Likud will continue to strengthen and develop these communities and will prevent their uprooting." All Palestine territories are officially considered occupied, by the International Court of Justice, the UN GA, the UN SC, and even in official documents of Israel's own allies. Likud is still using the blueprint for colonizing North America, in the West Bank. Move settlements out into native territory, piss off the natives, the natives retaliate, cry about poor "innocent" colonizing settlers being the "victims" of violent "Savages!", call in the cavalry to put down the native uprising, and eventually expand the borders to include those settlements. Rinse and repeat. In Gaza, they are operating an open air WWII style fascist ghetto. Them claiming a "right to defend themselves" would be like the Nazis claiming a "right to defend themselves " from the Warsaw ghetto uprising. There's no "war". That they're the occupiers means the "war" part is long over. That partition was forced upon the Palestinian majority, against their will ... that the Zionist portion still had to be forcefully ethnically cleansed of its non-Jewish majority, against their will ... that the millions of occupied Palestinians don't have a say in the government that truly rules over them, Israel's ... means Israel is about as democratic as Nazi Germany after Hitler purged his political opponents and then held elections.
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  2841. Remember that time when Loyalists wanted their communities to remain peaceful, under undemocratic authoritarian rule, but those uppity "Patriots" were protesting, rioting, and then even started a war? It's almost like protesting and fighting against authoritarianism was what the US was founded on, and was opposed to protesting and fighting to keep an unelected ruler in power. Oh how the turntables.
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  2842. Fun fact: Ivermectin is manufactured by the 5th largest pharma corporation in the world.
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  2843. @Aaron Dickson Do you run a trolling business?
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  2844. ​ @dickdrapper5491  Do you think having a bomb dropped on your head would have a different result?
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  2845. "Every sperm is sacred" ... ban all sex, and only allow masturbating into test tubes, to save every "child".
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  2846.  @BittyVids  What are the gang of fascists armed with, if there's an assault weapons ban? What are they armed with, if there's no assault weapons ban? Your argument doesn't seem to make sense.
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  2847.  @BittyVids  Police should be demilitarized, and have most of their guns taken away, too. But, you're making the argument they make, claiming they need loads of weapons because criminals have loads of weapons. If they'll come out to protect the fascists you're fighting, then you're also up against body armor, armored vehicles with 50mm guns, and all kinds of shit. All you seem to be arguing for is eternal escalation.
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  2848. ​ @barbaramattson817  Then, since Zionists are the colonizers, terrorists (Irgun and Lehi), ethnic cleansers, and occupiers, operating a racist ethno-state and an open air WWII style fascist ghetto, anything done to them isn't a crime.
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  2849.  @djchaiwallah  What's a fact you think Sanders supporters don't accept? Here's one Yang supporters have a tough time with ... A VAT is specifically designed to NOT tax businesses, in order to avoid double taxation. Businesses reclaim their input VAT. Meaning, it's a fact that anyone claiming a VAT will force corporations like Amazon to pay taxes, is clueless or lying. Meaning, it's a fact that anyone claiming a VAT will make corporations pay you for showing you ads or for your data, is clueless or lying. Meaning, it's a fact that anyone comparing a dividend that won't have corporations paying in to one that is paid for by corporations (Alaska's), is clueless or lying.
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  2850.  @SacClass650  Rofl. What a load of crap. What's well documented is that fascists oppose socialism, and went after socialists first.
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  2851.  @fredsanford1437  But isn't the left who they screwed over?
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  2852.  @fredsanford1437  You mean, overstimated leverage, for a guaranteed to fail vote, and not actually M4A (which Bernie campaigned on, with AOC campaigning for him, while Dore was backing Tulsi and her "Medicare choice", and AOC also backed 20 other pro-M4A progressives, helping to add a few more M4A yes votes to congress and helping to remove a few more corporate Dems). Dore knobs have since proved they would have done absolutely nothing with a failed vote, anyway. There was a vote on the $15, and they just continued to whine and complain about the people who voted for it, instead of those who voted against, and have done absolutely nothing with their treasured list of names of no voters. Just a bunch of lazy good for nothings, following a "real" leftist, who promoted Trump as a better option than Clinton, who didn't care if 10m of the poorest Americans were thrown off Medicaid expansion and didn't care to add 40m older Americans to Medicare expansion, and who failed in all his predictions. Gotta love "real" leftists that benefit the far right most. Go on Tucker, not to challenge right wing ideas, but to agree with them ... make friends with extreme right ancap Boogaloos who want the complete opposite economics to socialism ... such a "real" lefty Jimmy is. Repeating what CIA pro war talking points? Like speaking out against US support for Israeli policies? Speaking out against US support for the war in Yemen? Ignoring that they have voted against US intervention in a number of places, which "pro war" talking points are they repeating, exactly?
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  2853.  @GeistInTheMachine  We invite the North to rejoin with Canada.
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  2854. He "protects" them, by promoting ideas that will only make them more repulsive to modern women?
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  2855. It doesn't even make sense. Hispanics have a Spanish/European Catholic/Christian culture, with Native American and African American mixed in. How is that supposedly so different? Spain and Portugal don't count as European anymore, Catholics don't count as Christians again, or what?
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  2856. Matt Walsh worships a penisless being referred to as "he", "him", and even "father", that transitioned into a human male for a time.
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  2857.  @kathleenmorgan4331  Letting Trump win, who is even worse on the topic, won't hold anyone accountable. It's going to take continued public pressure, to change US policy. That doesn't work against someone who calls for deporting protesters, whose party makes laws saying it's okay to drive over protesters, who has previously called for categorizing protesters trrrsts, etc.
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  2858. ​ @retroboomer3197  To start ... Do you agree that Dumpty and Republicans are worse? Trump talking about making a pledge of allegiance to Israel, to get in the country. Republicans trying to censure people over talks of "cease fire". Haley talking about making anti-Israeli government equate to anti-Semitism, and punishable. More of them support Israel bills. Etc. If there's agreement there, then what's the other viable option? Even if, by some miracle, you convince every Dem voter to vote for some other presidential candidate, and they win, how do they stop pro-Israel bills, when over 90% of congress backs them, and can overrule a veto?
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  2859.  @retroboomer3197  You promote risking letting an outright fascist get back in power, for what? The vast majority of congress could still pass whatever bills they wanted, and overrule a veto.
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  2860. Not part time, and gets to be host regularly. I'm sure she's fine.
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  2861. ​ @TheRedStateBlue  Israelis have repeatedly elected policymakers who continue the Zionist colonialism, which is aggression. Natives are never the aggressors, in the face of colonialism. The colonialists are never "innocent", nor are they ever "defenders". On top of the colonialism, Israel was also founded on its own terrorism, by groups like the Irgun and Lehi, who bombed many Palestinian markets, killing many Palestinian civilians, including children, even including Palestinian Jews (who didn't support Zionism). Israelis elected Menachem Begin, leader of the Irgun, who bombed the King David Hotel. Israel merged those terrorist groups into their new nation's military and intelligence agencies. Israelis, to this day, celebrate those terrorists as "heroes". They literally taught their neighbours that terrorism is a valid path to independence and statehood. If all that isn't bad enough, they are f*cking operating an open air WWII style fascist ghetto. That should make it a no brainer, as to who is the aggressor. One is a colonialist occupier. One isn't. They've become the very thing they fled. The Warsaw ghetto uprising wasn't done by the aggressors. The ghetto was.
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  2862.  @seandoyle296  You're talking like Harris. "Islam" didn't have a relationship with slavery. "Islam" doesn't exist on its own. Certain Muslims have had a relationship with slavery. There's also wasn't particularly racist, as they also made non Africans slaves. And, like you said yourself, they couldn't keep any of them as slaves, if the slaves converted. Converting didn't help African slaves in the Americas, because their status as slaves was entirely race based. There's also a difference between temporarily enslaving people for a period of time (which was often done with prisoners of war and criminals, and even developed countries still do with criminals) and chattel slavery, where you get to own them as personal property for life, and own their children, and their children, ... You also seem to be conflating conquest with forced conversion. It actually benefited Muslim rulers to not force convert populations, because they could tax non Muslims a little bit extra. It benefited non Muslims, that they could pay a little extra to keep their ability to practice their own religion. The majority of the population in Hispania remained Christian, under Muslim rule, and Sephardic Jews remaiined Jewish. That's quite different than the Catholic conquerors giving Muslims and Jews the options of conversion, death, or exile. European Catholics also conquered more of the Orthodox Byzantine Empire than Muslims did, but it's not considered quite as big a deal. It's more acceptable for Christians to conquer other Christians. But, if Muslims happen to conquer a Christian area, it's portrayed as some kind of holy war, when it wasn't necessarily so. It was largely Christians who made things into holy wars, that comprised of both conquest and forced conversion. They had crusades against northern pagans, crusades to "reconquer" Hispania, and crusades against Muslims to the East.
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  2863.  @seandoyle296  Do you have reading comprehension problems, or does your mind only jump between two extremes, of all good and all bad? I didn't call anyone "noble", or argue anything was "utopic". I simply explained some differences. You were mentioning the spread of Islam, in other posts. Not sure where I lost you, while explaining the difference between simply conquering vs conquering with forced conversion. I used Catholics, as an example, because all of Europe was Catholic, at the time, and they force converted along with conquest. They had been force converting since the Roman Empire adopted Christianity and force converted its own populace. You can go on about Muslim conquests, but that doesn't change the fact that they didn't much practice forced conversion. Alexander conquered all the way to India, as well, but he didn't force convert the populations along the way to believe in the Greek gods. Pre-Christian Romans conquered large amounts of territory, but also didn't force convert populations along the way. There's a difference between spreading your borders by the sword, and spreading your religion by the sword. You get that, as a rate, 12m over 500 years is worse than 17m over 1300 years, right? You also failed to mention the millions of slaves being bread like livestock, over hundreds of years, in the Americas, on top of those traded from Africa. There were 4 million, in the US alone, in 1860, and millions more in the 200 years prior. Chattel slavery, like that, wasn't commonplace in Muslim nations, while manumission was common, even mandatory in places. There were black Moors accepted as rulers. There were also Sudanese Mamluks accepted at the elite levels of your slavery hierarchy, that also went on to be rulers in places. There was also a hierarchy in the chattel slavery of the Americas, where whites couldn't be chattel slaves, blacks were considered good chattel slaves, and natives were considered bad chattel slaves, so were wiped out, ethnically cleansed, or simply worked to death en masse. You have an uphill battle trying to argue other forms of slavery was as racist, or as bad, as it was.
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  2864.  @seandoyle296  It does seem to be a reading comprehension problem, because you don't seem to be grasping things I am saying, and make up things I haven't said. What I'm talking about is me simply pointing out the fact that Muslims didn't do X, and you then jumping to comparisons to "apologetics", "nobility", or "utopia", I haven't apologized for anything they actually did. I haven't called anyone "noble". I haven't painted anything as a "utopia". In what reality is having multiple forms of slavery some noble utopia? It's not. Pointing out the fact that they didn't really have race based chattel slavery is simply a fact. That chattel slavery itself wasn't common in Muslim nations is just a fact. Not sure how you're going to dig up millions of extra black slaves, that were bred into slavery, when that wasn't really much of a thing in Muslim nations. Them freeing slaves being more common doesn't change that they enslaved someone to begin with. It doesn't make them saints. It just means they practiced slightly less horrible forms of slavery, and were somewhat less racist. Muslims were only about 16% of the population in India, when the British started ruling, after centuries of Mughal rule. There's no evidence of an ongoing mass forced conversion effort of the populace. Hindu princes helped rule, and Hindus helped run the administration. The Sikh religion itself draws from both Hinduism and Islam, and was only in its infancy around when Mughals started ruling. It actually grew and spread, under Mughal rule. It was mainly just one ruler that tried to force convert people. I'm sure it had nothing to do with them forementing uprisings, and whatnot. You're the one desperately grasping at little anecdotes, to try and make out like two largely different spreads were the same. But, you don't actually have stories of widespread, ongoing, relentless, forced mass conversion, almost everywhere Muslims ruled ... like within the Roman Empire against pagans, like within new territories conquered by Christian Romans, like Northern Crusades against pagan rulers, like Eastern Crusades against Muslims, like the "reconquest" of Spain, like a Chinese Jesus waging one of the bloodiest wars in history, like enslaving or wiping out native Americans that wouldn't convert, Orthodox Russians force converting pagans and Muslims and Jews, etc. Force converting was almost everywhere Christians ruled, on an ongoing grand scale, for centuries. Grasping at what this one Muslim ruler did here, or that this happened to this single Christian there, isn't actually evidence that the overall spread was the same. That there aren't endless accounts from almost everywhere Muslims ruled, and that you have to grasp at little anecdotes, is actually evidence the overall spread wasn't the same. And, again, simply pointing out a fact, isn't arguing that tons of bloody conquests, or any brutal rulers, were some noble utopia, or apologize for anything they actually did do.
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  2865.  @seandoyle296   Are there lists with Europeans considered to be superior chattel slaves, in the Americas, or were they not at all on chattel slave lists? Is there an example of blacks being considered inferior, and used as chattel slaves, in just Spanish controlled Americas, or was it also in the British controlled Americas, the France controlled Americas, the Dutch controlled Americas, the Portuguese controlled Americas? Were natives considered inferior in one European empire's colony in Africa, the Americas, East Asia, the South Pacific, or in pretty much all of those colonies, for hundreds of years? Were there black Christian rulers ruling over major parts any Christian empires, like there were black Muslims ruling over major parts of Islamic empires? Were there Africans or natives even being made governors, or generals? The Zanj rebellion wasn't even a black slave only rebellion, and black slaves might not have even been the majority of rebels. It included Beduins and Bahrani, who were Muslim. It included Basra peasants, who were Muslim. It included previously, or partially, freed slaves, of various races, who were Muslim. They were led by a free Muslim man, who was largely Arab, with a grandmother that was a freed slave, who preached the extreme egalitarian philosophy of previous Kharijite rebels, the first Muslim sect, who had also operated out of Basra. The rebels were also, themselves, quite brutal, slaughtering and burning villages. Your rebellion totals are for both sides, dumb dumb, and the side you're claiming them all on wasn't all black, maybe not even a majority black. Not to mention, that said rebellion led to Islamic empires no longer using large concentrations of slave labour, which kind of f*cks up your bullshit samesies narrative. Even in that brutally authoritarian area of a single Muslim empire, the very fact that many of them were previously freed, or partially freed, slaves, indicates they weren't practicing endless chattel slavery. I'm doubting you even know what that term means, since you keep comparing things that weren't it, to it. It means someone being property for their entire lives. It means their children being property from birth, even if it's a white man's child, for their entire lives. And so on, and so on, generation after generation. Even within that same empire, there were also prominent black Moors in positions of power in parts of it. I have no clue where you're getting the idea that white Christian European nobility would be fine with black Christians ruling over them, or power sharing with black Christians, or even for it to be common to have black Christians amongst their governing administrations. And that's the only possible idea you could possibly have, to think the two were equally racist. Brutality doesn't debunk manumission. Spaniards eradicated entire islands of its people, brought in tons of slaves, cared less if they died as they were constantly bringing in more ... plus weren't commonly freeing them, on top of that. You don't think there were any land deaths, or camp deaths, prior to shipping slaves west? There were also millions shipped to Asian and African markets, by Atlantic slave traders. South Africa was largely uninhabited. They imported a ton of slaves. And European slave traders weren't, at all, capturing Europeans to be slaves, while Muslims like Barbary pirates did. Why? Because their chattel slavery was entirely race based, ffs, while the non chattel Muslim slavery, hierarchy or not, wasn't entirely race based, didn't have a chattel category for people of certain races you didn't even consider human. Christian nations also had non racist debt slavery, political slavery, and criminal slavery, on top of their purely race based chattel slavery. Many of them were treated very poorly, but were released if they made it through their time served. Australia was founded on that kind of non race based non chattel slavery of criminals ... while they were almost entirely eradicating the black natives, because they were racist as f*ck. But hey, some Muslim guy made a hierarchy list, so samesies. Oh geezus. Yeah, Christians also converted slaves ... on top of force converting all of Europe, Russia, people in numerous colonies ... samesies.
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  2866.  @seandoyle296  Rofl. Here are a couple easy questions ... In society A, if you are born outside its borders, you may get brought in as a slave, may even be considered inferior amongst slaves, but you are likely to be freed at some point, and if you are born within its borders, you will be free from the get go, and can attain positions of authority and be accepted as equals amongst the society's higher ups. In society B, whether you're born outside its borders and brought in, or within, you most likely will be a chattel slave your entire life, and if you're in the teenie tiny minority that are freed, you won't attain positions of authority, and likely won't be accepted as an equal. Which society would you prefer living in? In society A, if you are of a different religion, you can pay a bit more taxes, and keep practicing your religion. In society B, your religion is made illegal (maybe even your different denomination), and you are given the option of conversion, death, or exile. Which society would you prefer living in? If you answer B, to either of those, then I can only assume that you are completely delusional.
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  2867.  @mimked  If the topic is Trump inciting an insurrection, and an attempt to stop the democratic process, to install an unelected dictator, are we talking about the few people milling about looking at statues, in the first place? Seems like a dishonest deflection.
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  2868.  @CONEHEADDK  Sep 23, 2021: “You don’t see people hiding bombs, or using bayonets, or firing weapons trying to take over the country with an insurrection,” said Carlson. “You see people walking around and taking pictures. They don’t look like terrorists, they look like tourists.”
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  2869.  @CONEHEADDK  Rofl. If that's all you saw, then you've been actively avoiding seeing anything else.
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  2870.  @CONEHEADDK  Yep.
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  2871.  @CONEHEADDK  There are dozens of images of inside damages. There are videos of them fighting cops indoors. If you can't find them, then you're avoiding finding them. Whatabout all you want. Oath Keepers just got charged with seditious conspiracy.
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  2872.  @CONEHEADDK  Whatabout, whatabout, whatabout ... if you didn't even bother to look, to inform yourself about the thing you're talking about, isn't that actively avoiding looking?
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  2873.  @CONEHEADDK  If you're admittedly ignorant about the topic, why are you discussing the topic?
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  2874.  @CP-ir3ft  Saying Trump (who has now turned 28% of Republicans, and most Republican politicians into overt fascists who want to end the democratic process) would be better than Clinton?
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  2875.  @jasong7373  None of your arguments actually addressed deaths. 21 Jan 2022, PHMDC: COVID-19 hospitalization, death rates ~60x higher for unvaccinated vs. boosted If the risk of death is so much higher, being unvaccinated, how is it Joe Rogan couldn't be killing people?
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  2876.  @rodolfo7441  How is it that a $2000+, per dose, Rogan "kitchen sink", doesn't put more money in the pockets of big pharma, than an under $20, per dose, vaccine? How does weeks, to months, in the hospital, being pumped full of all kinds of drugs, not put more money in the pockets of big pharma?
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  2877.  @jasong7373  You blathered about not ending the pandemic, and didn't address differences in death rates, at all, in your first attempt to explain why Joe isn't helping to kill people. I didn't bother reading your other comments, after that, since that one wasn't a valid argument. So, if there's a significant difference in death rates, how is it Joe couldn't have killing anyone, if he suggested people didn't need to get vaccinated?
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  2878.  @jasong7373  Rofl. You said reaching a high vaccination rate (which 65% isn't) wouldn't end the pandemic, which it irrelevant to whether more unvaccinated are dying. You lied about what exactly the WHO actually said about boosters. They said diverting doses away from the unvaccinated would cause more variants ... because the unvaccinated cause more variants. Nobody is diverting away from the unvaccinated, if they aren't signing up to get vaccinated. So, you, and Joe, are the ones encouraging more variants. You lied about the vaccination rate approaching 80%, and then just asserted that none of the remaining unvaccinated was brought there by Joe, based on absolutely nothing. Potentially about 11m unvaccinated people could have been brought there by Joe. You lied about the vaccines not doing much for transmissions. You have to catch the virus to spread the virus and the booster was shown to have 80% efficacy against Omicron, and 90+% vs Delta and Alpha. No vaccine has been found to have 0% efficacy. Something like 6 out of 8 monoclonal antibodies treatments have been found to be 0% effective against Omicron, however, for those thinking a Rogan $2000+/dose "kitchen sink" is going to save them. Again, none of that addresses death rates, at all. You blathered a lot of nonsense and outright bullshit. PHMDC: COVID-19 hospitalization, death rates ~60x higher for unvaccinated vs. boosted
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  2879. ​ @barbaraklein3944  Likud's bloody 100 year history ... In 1923, 100 years ago, Ze'ev Jabotinsky wrote, The Iron Wall, and a follow up, The Ethics of The Iron Wall (sooo racist towards Africans), in which he fully acknowledged that post Balfour Zionsim was colonialism, and that, based on the entirety of history, the native Palestinian population would resist being colonized until the bitter end. He directly compared it to the colonization of North America. He promoted doing it anyway, claiming Zionist colonialism was a "just" colonialism (he also thought North American colonialists were good guys, so not a great judge of morality), not caring what that meant for the native population. Ze'ev is important, because his Betar militant youth group helped found the Irgun terrorist group, along with other supporters of his, and the splinter Lehi terrorist group. The Irgun bombed numerous Palestinian markets and other public places, murdering many Palestinian civilians, including children, even including Palestinian Jews (who didn't support colonialist Zionsim). The Irgun are important, because they ended up being led by future Likud PM, Menachem Begin, who bombed the King David Hotel. The King David Hotel was bombed because the British had raided the Jewish Agency and seized numerous documents that may have shown that the terrorists were working with the JA and Haganah (JA liked to pretend that they didn't support the terrorism). The British then stored those documents at their base, in the hotel. That the Irgun terrorists responded to a JA raid, itself seems to prove the connection. That the thousands of Irgun (and Lehi) terrorists were also quickly merged into the new nation's military (IDF) and intelligence (Mossad) agencies, and are still celebrated as "heroes" by Israelis, to this day, also seems to support total collaboration between the groups. That other terrorist group mentioned, Lehi (also known as the Stern Gang), was considered even more extreme. They even tried to ally with the Nazis, against the British. Lehi ended up being led by Yitzhak Shamir, future Mossad agent, and another future Likud PM. In 1945, there was a major land and peoples survey done in Palestine. It showed that the Zionists only owned about 5% of the total land, 20% of the arable land, and owned a majority in zero districts. The partition was not only going to be forced on the native Palestinian majority, but Jews were still going to be a minority, in the part allocated to them. The only possible way to even become a "Jewish state" was going to require getting rid of the actual majority (at least enough so that there'd be a solid Jewish majority, so they could fake being democratic). This is also shown by the 1948, post Nakba, population of Israel. If there was 716,700 Jews, 156,000+ non-Jews, and approximately 700k non-Jews ethnically cleansed, that means the Jewish population, in the Zionist portion of partition, was originally over 100,000 less than the non-Jewish population. To believe that there was never any intent, by Zionists, to ethnically cleanse away the Palestinian majority would require believing that they never intended to create a "Jewish state". It's a nonsensical notion. Begin, and those terrorist groups, also opposed partition, but for the opposite reason Palestinians did. Palestinians didn't want to be colonized, at all. The terrorists wanted to colonize it all. "Moderate" Zionists were okay with colonizing half ... for now (what would happen in the future, after partition, was up to them, said Ben-Gurion). The Zionist terrorists were also involved in massacres, and assassinations, during the partition violence (colonialist war against the natives). Another notable future Likud PM, also started in the military, during the partition fighting. That was Ariel Sharon, war criminal, "Butcher of Beirut". Menachem Begin, and these other Zionist terrorists, are important because they also later founded Likud. Now, people get upset over the slogan "From the river to the sea!", but it's the second part that's most important, "Palestine will be free!". Because "Palestine" isn't defined as an ethno-state, a free Palestine can be a single state, free for all to live in, and return to, free of continuing colonization, free of occupation, free of oppression, etc. Just like a Germany free of Nazism, an Italy free of fascism, a South Africa free of apartheid, or an America free of slavery from sea to shiny sea. It doesn't necessitate purging all the Jews. It just necessitates them giving up on the idea of an ethno-state. On the other hand, because "Israel" has been defined as an ethno-state, Likud's, "between the sea and the Jordan there will only be Israeli sovereignty", has no possible good interpretation. It is a declaration of intent to completely colonize, and ethnically cleanse, all Palestine territories. Not only that, but it also claims that they have a "right" to all of the "Land of Israel" (biblical borders that don't mesh with archaeological reality), which is an open declaration of future wars, against Jordan, Syria, Lebanon, and possibly even Iraq. Likud platform ... 1977: "The Right of the Jewish People to the Land of Israel (Eretz Israel) a. The right of the Jewish people to the land of Israel is eternal and indisputable and is linked with the right to security and peace; therefore, Judea and Samaria will not be handed to any foreign administration; between the Sea and the Jordan there will only be Israeli sovereignty. b. A plan which relinquishes parts of western Eretz Israel, undermines our right to the country, unavoidably leads to the establishment of a "Palestinian State," jeopardizes the security of the Jewish population, endangers the existence of the State of Israel. and frustrates any prospect of peace." "Settlement Settlement. both urban and rural. in all parts of the Land of Israel is the focal point of the Zionist effort to redeem the country, to maintain vital security areas and serves as a reservoir of strength and inspiration for the renewal of the pioneering spirit. The Likud government will call on the younger generation in Israel and the dispersions to settle and help every group and individual in the task of inhabiting and cultivating the wasteland, while taking care not to dispossess anyone." 1999: "The Government of Israel flatly rejects the establishment of a Palestinian Arab state west of the Jordan river. The Palestinians can run their lives freely in the framework of self-rule, but not as an independent and sovereign state. Thus, for example, in matters of foreign affairs, security, immigration, and ecology, their activity shall be limited in accordance with imperatives of Israel's existence, security and national needs." "The Jewish communities in Judea, Samaria, and Gaza are the realization of Zionist values. Settlement of the land is a clear expression of the unassailable right of the Jewish people to the Land of Israel and constitutes an important asset in the defense of the vital interests of the State of Israel. The Likud will continue to strengthen and develop these communities and will prevent their uprooting." All Palestine territories are officially considered occupied, by the International Court of Justice, the UN GA, the UN SC, and even in official documents of Israel's own allies. Likud is still using the blueprint for colonizing North America, in the West Bank. Move settlements out into native territory, piss off the natives, the natives retaliate, cry about poor "innocent" colonizing settlers being the "victims" of violent "Savages!", call in the cavalry to put down the native uprising, and eventually expand the borders to include those settlements. Rinse and repeat. In Gaza, they are operating an open air WWII style fascist ghetto. Them claiming a "right to defend themselves" would be like the Nazis claiming a "right to defend themselves " from the Warsaw ghetto uprising. There's no "war". That they're the occupiers means the "war" part is long over. That partition was forced upon the Palestinian majority, against their will ... that the Zionist portion still had to be forcefully ethnically cleansed of its non-Jewish majority, against their will ... that the millions of occupied Palestinians don't have a say in the government that truly rules over them, Israel's ... means Israel is about as democratic as Nazi Germany after Hitler purged his political opponents and then held elections. Hamas is basically just a poor man's Likud, only fighting against colonialism, instead of for colonialism.
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  2880.  @mfflscotty2095  Do you believe there is an infinite amount of money printed every year? Is the pie infinite, or finite?
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  2881.  @mfflscotty2095  There are more regulations in the UK, regarding hiring, zoning, etc., and more spending on government social programs, like the fully socialized NHS. Plus, double the unionization rate, which increases regulations, within a contract. Where the US government mainly outspends, is with the military. 6x more, as a percent of federal spending. US businesses are also more subject to private law suits (which is a "freer" environment), sometimes exactly because they aren't better regulated. Curious as to why are you simply measuring economic freedom, as a sign of success? Wouldn't the happiness index be a better measure of success? Or, do you simply want to stay away from very happy countries with like 75% unionization rates, and even more government services?
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  2882.  @robinsss  Nope. We've already done the ancap and Libertarian nonsense. They sucked for the majority of the population. Poor kids simply didn't get an education.
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  2883. Harris is a moron who presents "analogies" that aren't analogous, and never actually makes it beyond what he says is a given to begin with.
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  2884. The US and UK conscripted, trained, and armed, every single fighting age KKK and BUF member, during WWII. There are still plenty of Nazi types in the US military. What's your point?
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  2885.  @bobbilder8793  They're running on Sharia and tribal laws. Even without a strong central government, how is that libertarian?
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  2886.  @bobbilder8793  Things usually do get better when a civil war dies down.
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  2887.  @bobbilder8793  Did I say "stop"? People not killing each other at quite the same frequency is dying down.
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  2888. ​ @ChaiCrimes  You're as ignorant as your mom. Early Zionists fully acknowledged that Zionism is colonialism. A colonialist is never not the aggressor, when it comes to the natives. On top of the colonialism, Zionists formed terrorist groups like the Irgun and Lehi, which bombed numerous Palestinian markets, amongst other civilian targets, killing many, including children, even including Palestinian Jews (who didn't support Zionism). Israel merged those terrorists into the new nation's military and intelligence agencies. Israelis elected Menachem Begin, leader of the Irgun, who bombed the King David Hote, as PM. To this day, Israelis celebrate those terrorists as heroes. They literally taught their neighbours that terrorism is a valid path to independence and statehood. In the West Bank, Israel is using the blueprint for the colonization of North America. Move settlements out into native territory, piss off the natives, the natives react violently, cry about being poor "innocent" colonizers who were attacked by "savages", call in the cavalry to put down the native uprising, and then extend the borders to include those settlements. Rinse and repeat. In Gaza, Israel is operating an open air WWII style fascist ghetto. Absolutely abhorrent that they, of all people, would do something so horrendous.
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  2889. Likely needed an emergency Sudafed prescription.
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  2890. Israel is objectively the aggressor by every relevant measure, dumb dumb ... Modern history: 100 years ago, in 1923, Ze'ev Jabotinsky fully acknowledged that Zionism is colonialism, and that, based on the entirety of history, the natives would fight it until the bitter end. He just didn't care what would happen to them, and promoted doing it anyway. Colonizers are never not the aggressors. On top of the colonialist nature of Zionism, the Zionists also formed terrorist organizations, like the Irgun and Lehi. They bombed many Palestinian markets and other public places, murdering many civilians, including children, even including Palestinian Jews (who opposed Zionism). Israel merged those terrorists into the new nation's military and intelligence agencies. Israelis elected Menachem Begin, leader of the Irgun, child murderer, Jew murderer, and bomber of the King David Hotel, as PM. Israelis, to this day, celebrate those terrorists as "heroes". Zionists literally taught their neighbours that terrorism is a valid path to independence and statehood, and that terrorists are to be celebrated. In 1945, it is well documented that Zionists owned just 5% of the land and were a majority nowhere. Israel was formed by actually going against the majority population. It's foundation is completely undemocratic. Then, becoming a majority, in "their" new nation, by ethnic cleansing the actual majority, and then claiming to be democratic, is utter nonsense. Law: Israel is considered an occupier by the International Court, the UN GA, and the UN SC. Occupiers are also never not the aggressors. Those occupied actually have a right to resist occupation. On the flip side, it is illegal for the occupier to settle occupied lands, and illegal to use collective punishment. Israel is a rogue nation, that doesn't abide by international law. What it has been doing, and is doing now, is illegal. Current events: This year, alone, prior to Oct 7 ... Israel held over 1200 Palestinian hostages without charges ... over 200 Palestinians had been killed by the IDF and settlers ... over 1000 Palestinians had been displaced by Israel's neverending colonization of the West Bank ... and, Israel continued to operate an open air WWII style fascist ghetto, in Gaza. Even ignoring modern history and law, in no reality did Hamas "start" anything.
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  2891.  @finflwr  Do you know how grifting works? The snake oil salesman claims to be selling you something beneficial, but they're actually selling something completely useless, or even dangerous. Jimmy claims to be for M4A, but every way he proposes to achieve that benefits the far right. Splitting standard Democrat and progressive votes would just hand Republicans a plurality, for decades to come. The oldest third party hasn't won a single seat in its near 50 year existence. He helped campaign against Bernie, the M4A candidate. He promoted allying with psycho anarcho capitalists, who would shoot you, if you proposed M4A after helping them overthrow the government. He has repeatedly lied about and bashed universal healthcare systems, during COVID. He promoted unproven privately paid for options, over a freely distributed vaccine. He publicly abandoned adding more M4A yes votes to congress ... the only thing that will ever get it passed. Etc. None of the roads he proposes taking actually leads to M4A. He's a grifter.
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  2892. ​ @crabbypattie  You're dumb. "Palestine" isn't defined as an ethno-state. A free Palestine, could be a single state, where everyone can live freely. "Israel", however, is defined as an ethno-state, which means there's no good way to interpret Likud's platform. "Between the sea and the Jordan there will only be Israeli sovereignty", promises to completely colonize and ethnically cleanse all Palestine territories. It further claims a "right" to all the "Land of Israel" (fictional biblical borders that don't mesh with archaeological reality), which is an open declaration of future wars, against Jordan, Syria, and Lebanon. Likud was founded by Irgun and Lehi terrorists. Israelis elected the leaders of both those terrorist groups as PMs. Israelis, to this day, celebrate those terrorists as "heroes". Hamas is a poor man's Likud, only opposed to colonialism instead of doing the colonialism.
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  2893. So, how do you feel about a comical huckster, who unscientifically promotes spiritual experiences as the only way for people to break addiction? Or, promotes his comical hucketer daughter's meat only diet, claiming it had cured all of his own mental and physical ailments? Aren't they the ones not taking those things seriously, and using them to grift people? What's not funny, with all the irony involved?
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  2894.  @barbiquearea  Every single absolute monarchy in history has been a 100% privately owned and operated nation, dumb dumb. More people have not died under communist regimes than capitalist ones. Plus, most of the deaths you're talking about were due to badly planned agricultural reforms. So, you need to count the 15m Indians starved to death under the British. And the 6m starving to death every single year under largely capitalist countries. In just 10 years, that's 60m.
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  2895.  @asamanthinketh1937  Crazy, and still have government subsidized day care, paid parental leave for both parents, a top 20 Gini score, almost like nothing US capitalists say is true.
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  2896.  @BadassRaiden  But a society that doesn't treat a minority of the population horribly, would be overall more happy, no? If you asked 100 people if they were happy, 90 would be better than 75, and I'm sure feelings of equality would play into it. You're basically arguing it's impossible for the society to be happier, without having a minority of persecuted miserable people. That doesn't sound like trying to maximize happiness, at all. That sounds like giving up at a certain point.
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  2897.  @BadassRaiden  I stopped reading, because you were incoherent by the end of the first paragraph. You literally said you could increase happiness by making things more equal. That means a country that did that, would have a higher happiness rating than one that didn't. If the goal is not just to make a majority of people happy, but to maximize happiness, then you should always be looking to make unhappy people happier. You can increase equality in bad ways, like making 99% of the population equally slaves. Some of the countries with the best Gini scores aren't many people's top choices of where they'd like to live. If the equality has improved lives and made people happy, is the important part.
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  2898. The UN definition says "all or in part". They also say ethnc cleansing can be considered covered by the gncde statutes. What happens, when you tell people to move and they don't move? Their lives are ended. So, ethnc cleansing is a threat: leave or be gncided.
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  2899.  @StasCherkassky  Move, or we will unalive you, is ethnc cleansing, yeah. Leaving them no homes to return to is ethnc cleansing, yeah. 100+ years of declared revisionist intent to clnz all of Pal says it's ethnc cleansing, as well. Rofl ... Basically every adult IL citizen, is active mltry or a reserve mltry. Even Ham likely has a better mltry to civilian ratio than IL. Oh. So, at what percentage, exactly, were the Nzis officially doing gncd, in Poland, since you claim the first 30k of Poland's 3m Jws don't count? Do tell.
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  2900.  @StasCherkassky  Move, or we will off you, is ethnc cleansing, yeah. Leaving them no homes to return to is ethnc cleansing, yeah. 100+ years of declared revisionist intent to clnz all of Pal says it's ethnc cleansing, as well. Rofl ... Basically every adult IL citizen, is active mltry or a reserve mltry. Even Ham likely has a better mltry to civilian ratio than IL. Oh. So, at what percentage, exactly, were the Nzis officially doing gncd, in Poland, since you claim the first 30k of Poland's 3m Jws don't count? Do tell.
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  2901.  @StasCherkassky   Move, or be mrdrd, is ethnc clnsing, yeah. Leaving them no homes to return to is ethnc clnsing, yeah. 100+ years of declared revisionist intent to clnz all of Pal says it's ethnc clnsing, as well. Basically every adult IL citizen, is active mltry or a rsrv mltry. Even Ham likely has a better mltry to civilian ratio than IL. Oh. So, at what percentage, exactly, were the Nzis officially doing gncd, in Pol, since you claim the first 30k of Pol's 3m Jws don't count? Do tell.
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  2902.  @StasCherkassky   Move, or be mrdrd, is ethnc clnsing, yeah. Leaving no homes to return to is ethnc clnsing, yeah. 100+ years of declared revisionist intent to clnz all of Pal says it's ethnc clnsing, as well. Basically every adult IL citizen, is active duty or rsrvst. Even Ham likely has a better mlt to civilian ratio than IL. Oh. So, at what percentage, exactly, were the Nzs officially doing gncd, in Pol, since you claim the first 30k of Pol's 3m Jws don't count? Do tell.
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  2903.  @StasCherkassky  Telling people to move, or you will end them, is ethnc clnsing. Leaving no homes to return to is ethnc clnsing. 100+ years of declared revisionist intent to clnz all of Pal also says it's ethnc clnsing. Lol, basically every adult IL citizen, is active duty or rsrvst. Even Ham likely has a better mlt to civilian ratio than IL. Oh. So, at what percentage, exactly, were the Nzs officially doing gncd, in Pol, since you claim the first 30k of Pol's 3m Jws don't count? Do tell.
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  2904.  @StasCherkassky  Telling people to move, or you will end them, is ethnc clnsing. Leaving no homes to return to is ethnc clnsing. 100+ years of declared revisionist intent to clnz all of Pal also says it's ethnc clnsing.
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  2905.  @StasCherkassky  Lol, basically every adult IL citizen, is active duty or rsrvst. Even Ham likely has a better mlt to civilian ratio than IL.
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  2906.  @StasCherkassky  Oh. So, at what percentage, exactly, were the Grmns officially doing gncd, in Pol, since you claim the first 30k of Pol's 3m Jws don't count? Do tell.
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  2907.  @soren9833  That was a description of them, not a "debunking". Do you believe in one of those fairy tale gods?
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  2908.  @TheOldSchoolGamer93  The difference between Judaism, Christianity, and Islam, is that Muslims didn't simply stick a new new testament after the first two. It rewrote the whole thing, and left out many things they considered to have been inserted by man, into the first two, including a bunch of the worst laws from the OT/Tanakh. You have to get into the Hadiths, which aren't used by all (somewhat like Catholic catechisms), for it to get as nasty as the OT/Tanakh. It was actually the more tolerant, of the 3, for about 1300, of its 1600 years, until the Ottoman Empire was carved up, by Christian nations, and parts handed off to more extreme Muslims. Since then, part of the problem with being a more moderate Muslim, is that it also went with being somewhat more leftist. Christian nations, especially the UK and US, didn't like that. One, or both, supported ... a coup in Syria, when their democratically elected government voted against a pipeline ... a coup in Iran, when their democratically elected PM wanted to nationalize their oil ... a coup in Iraq, when their popular revolutionary leader, who had overthrown the Brit's puppet king, proposed nationalizing their oil ... religious extremists in Afghanistan, when Communist Muslims overthrew the Brit's puppet king, and wanted to do horrible things, like extend women's rights to all women, not just the rich. For 1300 years Jews lived amongst Muslim nations, in relative peace. They were given refuge when Christian nations offered conversion, death, or exile. The Ottomans even okayed the earliest form of Zionsim, which was closer to just immigration. Zionist fanatics returned the favor with colonialism, terrorism (Irgun and Lehi), and occupation. Similarly, to the US and UK above, Netanyahu promoted, and helped transfer money to, Hamas, to weaken the Palestinian Authority and avoid possible peace, so he could continue his colonization project, which is based on further religious nuttery. So, it's not exactly as straight forward as Islam includes the other two, so it is as bad as them, plus more. The earlier two are partly responsible for the current versions of Islam, and the nations ruled by it. Turkey is the last remnant of the Ottoman Empire, not Saudi. Women there fight to keep abortion rights, like in the US. Homosexuality there has never been illegal, because they carried over Ottoman law, which had decriminalized it before a lot of Christian nations did, or while some were still considering it a form of insanity. TL:DR ... Relationship Status: It's complicated.
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  2909.  @TheOldSchoolGamer93  I literally called the people the West helped prop up "extremists". I didn't blame them for creating extremists, but for propping up those extremists, and helping to remove their more moderate opposition.
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  2910. No. Things would not be faster, if there were 40 extra cars on the road, per bus, driving kids to school.
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  2911. The Zionists were always the colonialists. They were the "hero" like the Puritans were the "hero", who fled their homelands, due to persecution, only to turn around and persecute everyone else in the New World, including colonizing and ethnically cleansing the natives.
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  2912.  @jdelapaz14  "Russiagate" ... is that where Democrats, Republicans like Mueller and Romney, the FBI (which been run by Republicans for 6 of the last 10 presidential terms), and Australian officials, were all in cahoots to get Mike Pence made president? Lol. Russia having bot farms and sharing information with Dumpty's team is pretty straight forward. There have been hundreds of accounts of Syrian chemical weapons use since 2013. There have been dozens of no fault UN investigations, with zero dissenting opinions. There have been dozens of fault finding investigations, with zero dissenting opinions. There have been hundreds of victim witnesses. There have been dozens of healthcare worker witnesses. There have been multiple NGO witnesses, including Doctors Without Borders. There are multiple legal human rights groups investigating on behalf of victims. Two dissenting opinions on a single investigation doesn't even debunk that investigation, let alone all the others. That investigation wasn't even started until after Israel, the US, the UK, and others had already started bombing Syria. The final report didn't come out until almost a year later. Plus, it was an initial no fault investigation, that didn't even assign blame. The report wasn't used as a reason to bomb Syria. There was another chemical weapons attack just the month before, which had both a no fault investigation and a blame assigning investigation, with zero dissenting opinions, that blamed Syria. The US, and others, could just as easily use that one as some retroactive justification. Dore is the one spouting a nutty conspiracy, that all of the above are in cahoots to lie about Syrian chemical weapons use. Syria actually using chemical weapons is pretty straight forward.
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  2913. ​ @ryanhubbard1885  He wasn't in power, when he had the idea, maroon. Now that he has had the idea, why would you let him anywhere near the seat again? 2022: "A Massive Fraud of this type and magnitude allows for the termination of all rules, regulations, and articles, even those found in the Constitution,"
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  2914.  @theTeflonDon1  Lol, not even close? You Trumpets are delusional. You know it's winner gets all the state electorals, right? That's only 3 states, where he barely won. He's like 20 points behind both Biden and Bernie, this time around, in Michigan. The rust belt just barely gave him a chance to be different, and he ended up not giving a crap about the little guy, like every other Republican candidate.
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  2915.  @theTeflonDon1  Even FOX will tell you Trump is behind in Michigan. Michigan is worth 26 electoral votes. That state, alone, would be a 52 point swing. Trump desperately needs those formerly blue rust belt states, that he barely won, to stay red, or he's done. Just a few squeakers going back to blue, and it's all over.
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  2916.  @theTeflonDon1  Why do you leave off that there would be no insurance payments and no copayments, and it would cost less, overall?
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  2917. 64% of the military is childless, btw, along with the majority of everyone under 30, as well as 75% of same sex couples. Those are the people he thinks are s0ci0paths. Those are the people he thinks don't have a stake in the country. Those are the people he thinks should have less of a v0te. Etc.
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  2918. China has a huge population. 20m is just under 3% of China's population at the time. About 2.5% of the US population died during the US Civil War.
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  2919. Trump keeps bullshitting about NATO. There's a formula for how much each country pays, for purely NATO operations, and every country is paying what they're supposed to. What he keeps referring to is the percent of GDP spending those countries spend on their total military budget. Sure, the US spends 4% of their GDP on their total military budget, but a ton of that has absolutely nothing to do with NATO. Fucking about in the ME has nothing to do with NATO.
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  2920.  @A_Derpy_NINJA  You clearly don't know Dore's "argument" for promoting Trump as the better option than Clinton. He agreed Trump was worse, agreed he was a raving fascist, but claimed letting the psycho win would lead to a massive progressive backlash. He vastly overestimated the benefits, claiming it would result in progressives "for sure" taking the house in 2018 (wrong), taking the senate in 2018 (wrong), and the presidency in 2020 (wrong). He vastly underestimated the risks, claiming even Republican lawmakers would join the left in voting against a Trump agenda (wrong), and that Trump filling multiple scotus seats was as likely as the moon falling into Lake Michigan (wrong). To argue Clinton would have been worse is both completely moronic and not, at all, what Dore argued. And, Dore thinking to let him win, again, after all his predictions were wrong, and after Trump helped kill hundreds of thousands of Americans, is psychotic. Did you know there's a big world out there, beyond the US, and US government agents? Doctors across the world support the vaccine. Peru has had one of, if not the, highest uses of Ivermectin, in the world, and also has the highest covid deaths per capita rate, in the world. A large Ivermectin study was pulled from publications, when it was found to be fraudulent, with fabricated and faulty data. Why the need to fabricate results, if it works? Did you know Ivermectin is also owned by a giant pharma company? Dore goes on Tucker to rant and rave about Democrats and progressives, often agreeing with the far right arguments, and Tucker nods along. Dore has never really challenged Tucker, or his audience, about anything.
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  2921. Republicans: It's cool, if female minors want a breast enlargement. It's not cool, if female minors want no breasts.
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  2922.  @charlesandrews2360  Is that intentional irony?
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  2923. ​ @X7Excalibur  You seriously want to use a "nobody wants them" argument, when Jewish people are involved in the equation, and make out like that's the fault of the unwanted? Jordan has 3m Palestinians, btw. There are hundreds of thousands more, in other neighboring countries. Turkey had over 3m Syrian refugees. How about maybe stop making ME refugees? How many people did the Irgun and Lehi assassinate? Likud's bloody 100 year history ... In 1923, 100 years ago, Ze'ev Jabotinsky wrote, The Iron Wall, and a follow up, The Ethics of The Iron Wall (sooo racist towards Africans), in which he fully acknowledged that post Balfour Zionsim was colonialism, and that, based on the entirety of history, the native Palestinian population would resist being colonized until the bitter end. He directly compared it to the colonization of North America. He promoted doing it anyway, claiming Zionist colonialism was a "just" colonialism (he also thought North American colonialists were good guys, so not a great judge of morality), not caring what that meant for the native population. Ze'ev is important, because his Betar militant youth group helped found the Irgun terrorist group, along with other supporters of his, and the splinter Lehi terrorist group. The Irgun bombed numerous Palestinian markets and other public places, murdering many Palestinian civilians, including children, even including Palestinian Jews (who didn't support colonialist Zionsim). The Irgun are important, because they ended up being led by future Likud PM, Menachem Begin, who bombed the King David Hotel. The King David Hotel was bombed because the British had raided the Jewish Agency and seized numerous documents that may have shown that the terrorists were working with the JA and Haganah (JA liked to pretend that they didn't support the terrorism). The British then stored those documents at their base, in the hotel. That the Irgun terrorists responded to a JA raid, itself seems to prove the connection. That the thousands of Irgun (and Lehi) terrorists were also quickly merged into the new nation's military (IDF) and intelligence (Mossad) agencies, and are still celebrated as "heroes" by Israelis, to this day, also seems to support total collaboration between the groups. That other terrorist group mentioned, Lehi (also known as the Stern Gang), was considered even more extreme. They even tried to ally with the Nazis, against the British. Lehi ended up being led by Yitzhak Shamir, future Mossad agent, and another future Likud PM. They assassinated Lord Moyne, and others. In 1945, there was a major land and peoples survey done in Palestine. It showed that the Zionists only owned about 5% of the total land, 20% of the arable land, and owned a majority in zero districts. The partition was not only going to be forced on the native Palestinian majority, but Jews were still going to be a minority, in the part allocated to them. The only possible way to even become a "Jewish state" was going to require getting rid of the actual majority (at least enough so that there'd be a solid Jewish majority, so they could fake being democratic). This is also shown by the 1948, post Nakba, population of Israel. If there was 716,700 Jews, 156,000+ non-Jews, and approximately 700k non-Jews ethnically cleansed, that means the Jewish population, in the Zionist portion of partition, was originally over 100,000 less than the non-Jewish population. To believe that there was never any intent, by Zionists, to ethnically cleanse away the Palestinian majority would require believing that they never intended to create a "Jewish state". It's a nonsensical notion. Begin, and those terrorist groups, also opposed partition, but for the opposite reason Palestinians did. Palestinians didn't want to be colonized, at all. The terrorists wanted to colonize it all. "Moderate" Zionists were okay with colonizing half ... for now (what would happen in the future, after partition, was up to them, said Ben-Gurion). The Zionist terrorists were also involved in massacres, and assassinations, during the partition violence (colonialist war against the natives). Another notable future Likud PM, also started in the military, during the partition fighting. That was Ariel Sharon, war criminal, "Butcher of Beirut". Menachem Begin, and these other Zionist terrorists, are important because they became involved in Israeli politics, first forming Herut. That was the party that Albert Einstein, and other prominent American Jews, opposed, having a letter printed in the NYT, in December of 1948, when Begin came to visit the US. The letter opened ... "Among the most disturbing political phenomena of our times is the emergence in the newly created state of Israel of the "Freedom Party" (Tnuat Haherut), a political party closely akin in its organization, methods, political philosophy and social appeal to the Nazi and Fascist parties. It was formed out of the membership and following of the former Irgun Zvai Leumi, a terrorist, right-wing, chauvinist organization in Palestine." Herut merged with other extremist parties, over the years, and eventually became Likud, in the 70s. Now, people get upset over the slogan "From the river to the sea!", but it's the second part that's most important, "Palestine will be free!". Because "Palestine" isn't defined as an ethno-state, a free Palestine can be a single state, free for all to live in, and return to, free of continuing colonization, free of occupation, free of oppression, etc. Just like a Germany free of Nazism, an Italy free of fascism, a South Africa free of apartheid, or an America free of slavery from sea to shiny sea. It doesn't necessitate purging all the Jews. It just necessitates them giving up on the idea of an ethno-state. On the other hand, because "Israel" has been defined as an ethno-state, Likud's, "between the sea and the Jordan there will only be Israeli sovereignty", has no possible good interpretation. It is a declaration of intent to completely colonize, and ethnically cleanse, all Palestine territories. Not only that, but it also claims that they have a "right" to all of the "Land of Israel" (biblical borders that don't mesh with archaeological reality), which is an open declaration of future wars, against Jordan, Syria, Lebanon, and possibly even Iraq. Likud platform ... 1977: "The Right of the Jewish People to the Land of Israel (Eretz Israel) a. The right of the Jewish people to the land of Israel is eternal and indisputable and is linked with the right to security and peace; therefore, Judea and Samaria will not be handed to any foreign administration; between the Sea and the Jordan there will only be Israeli sovereignty. b. A plan which relinquishes parts of western Eretz Israel, undermines our right to the country, unavoidably leads to the establishment of a "Palestinian State," jeopardizes the security of the Jewish population, endangers the existence of the State of Israel. and frustrates any prospect of peace." "Settlement Settlement. both urban and rural. in all parts of the Land of Israel is the focal point of the Zionist effort to redeem the country, to maintain vital security areas and serves as a reservoir of strength and inspiration for the renewal of the pioneering spirit. The Likud government will call on the younger generation in Israel and the dispersions to settle and help every group and individual in the task of inhabiting and cultivating the wasteland, while taking care not to dispossess anyone." 1999: "The Government of Israel flatly rejects the establishment of a Palestinian Arab state west of the Jordan river. The Palestinians can run their lives freely in the framework of self-rule, but not as an independent and sovereign state. Thus, for example, in matters of foreign affairs, security, immigration, and ecology, their activity shall be limited in accordance with imperatives of Israel's existence, security and national needs." "The Jewish communities in Judea, Samaria, and Gaza are the realization of Zionist values. Settlement of the land is a clear expression of the unassailable right of the Jewish people to the Land of Israel and constitutes an important asset in the defense of the vital interests of the State of Israel. The Likud will continue to strengthen and develop these communities and will prevent their uprooting." All Palestine territories are officially considered occupied, by the International Court of Justice, the UN GA, the UN SC, and even in official documents of Israel's own allies. Likud is still using the blueprint for colonizing North America, in the West Bank. Move settlements out into native territory, piss off the natives, the natives retaliate, cry about poor "innocent" colonizing settlers being the "victims" of violent "Savages!", call in the cavalry to put down the native uprising, and eventually expand the borders to include those settlements. Rinse and repeat. In Gaza, Israel is operating an open air WWII style fascist ghetto. Them claiming a "right to defend themselves" would be like the Nazis claiming a "right to defend themselves " from the Warsaw ghetto uprising. There's no "war". That they're the occupiers means the "war" part is long over. Those people are actually supposed to be under the occupier's protection. That partition was forced upon the Palestinian majority, against their will ... that the Zionist portion still had to be forcefully ethnically cleansed of its non-Jewish majority, against their will ... that the millions of occupied Palestinians don't have a say in the government that truly rules over them, Israel's ... means Israel is about as democratic as Nazi Germany after Hitler purged his political opponents and then held elections.
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  2924. Give it a rest, racist. Jews weren't to blame for what Nazis did to them. Africans weren't to blame for what European colonizers did to them. Native Americans weren't to blame for what European colonizers did to them. Eurasia wasn't to blame for what Mongols did to them. Etc. Etc. Etc. And, Palestinians aren't to blame for what Zionists are doing to them. Any people can become the oppressor or the oppressed. It's not just one people.
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  2925.  @methuselahbenyah6745  "Just asking questions."🙄
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  2926.  @methuselahbenyah6745  Ah, you're dumb, as well.
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  2927.  @methuselahbenyah6745  You ... "Just asking questions (also known as JAQing off, or as emojis: "🤔🤔🤔") is a way of attempting to make wild accusations acceptable (and hopefully not legally actionable) by framing them as questions rather than statements."
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  2928.  @methuselahbenyah6745  JAQing off - the act of spouting accusations while cowardly hiding behind the claim of "just asking questions."
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  2929.  @methuselahbenyah6745  There are decades of German, and other European, anti-Jewish rhetoric documented. Hitler wrote a f*cking book, full of his psychotic rantings. Nazi propaganda is well documented. It has all been well studied, and talked about. Your "question" is itself a lie, on top of being cowardly.
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  2930.  @darrenallen8215  No, they don't, dumb dumb. Motor vehicle traffic deaths Number of deaths: 45,404 Deaths per 100,000 population: 13.7 Source: National Vital Statistics System – Mortality Data (2021) via CDC WONDER All firearm deaths Number of deaths: 48,830 Deaths per 100,000 population: 14.7 Source: National Vital Statistics System – Mortality Data (2021) via CDC WONDER And, like I said, that's with tons of vehicles constantly being used, unlike guns. Guns are, by far, the more dangerous item, and yet less regulated.
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  2931. Jimmy doesn't seem to have many actual progressive viewers. He "inspired" what, some 40k people to sign a FTV petition?
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  2932. ​@velvet1865 Hindutva isn't Hinduism any more than Zionism is Judaism. The founder of Hindutva was a Nazi fan.
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  2933.  @DavidWilliams-by2ne  Hindu =/= Hindutva. Gandhi was Hindu, the Hindutva assassinated him.
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  2934. I don't think anyone is really laughing at simply a man crying. It's specifically Peterson, who promotes traditional masculinity (which has always included that men shouldn't show certain emotions) as non toxic, crying. If it's not toxic, to expect a man not to cry, then what's the problem? If it is, then Peterson is wrong.
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  2935.  @chesterlestrange7725  "Masculinity isn't toxic" ~ Peterson Are you going to rewrite history, and try to claim traditional masculinity didn't promote that men should suppress certain emotions? Or, except the fact that traditional masculinity has been toxic?
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  2936.  @boredpotato2291  How the hell is being reliable and responsible, masculine?
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  2937.  @boredpotato2291  Provide for who? An unreliable and irresponsible wife?
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  2938.  @chesterlestrange7725  Explain the problem with men not seeking the help they need ... the stigma around men and mental health. There are numerous papers written about it, that ties it to a traditional masculinity issue. Peterson seems to be crying about the issue's existence, but then argues the cause of the issue doesn't exist.
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  2939.  @boredpotato2291  Right, so reliability and responsibility aren't masculine or feminine.
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  2940.  @boredpotato2291  Then don't use generic terms. Be specific. So, what is he saying, that it's masculine to have a job?
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  2941.  @chesterlestrange7725  The history of men not seeking mental and physical healthcare, is all women's fault? 🙄
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  2942. We have 3x fewer deaths per capita, ffs. The government helped businesses out so much, we had a 30 year low in bankruptcies. Conservatives are opposed to those things?
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  2943.  @jnagarya519  <- Wow, another moron who missed the point.
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  2944.  @republica13  Israel is bombing fish in a barrel, like the Nazis flattening the Warsaw ghetto. That's not a "war".
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  2945. ​​ @A-ds1mt  Allowing Israel to say they're at "war" only benefits them, and implies there is an enemy army. They are simply slaughtering people that are officially under their protection. Nazis didn't live inside the Warsaw ghetto.
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  2946.  @j0j0dartiste21  Yeah, both Hitler and early Zionists, like Ze'ev Jabotinsky, referenced the colonization of North America, giving their own manifest destiny arguments.
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  2947. @Jash Shah They were insane enough to try and strip Democratoc voters of their votes and have an unelected dictator.
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  2948. @Jash Shah He (the head of government) fired, or threatened to fire, people who contradicted him. He does not believe in freedom of speech. He ignored the courts, and tried to overthrow the election anyway. He does not accept legal judgements.
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  2949.  @jdogdarkness  Again with the reading comprehension problems.
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  2950.  @jdogdarkness  Stop sighing, and learn to read.
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  2951.  @jdogdarkness  I addressed what you stated. If you think something was irrelevant, then why did YOU bring it up? Plus, I commented on the South China Sea, and YOU completely ignored it. You have severe comprehension problems.
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  2952. 😂 You have things backwards, dumb dumb. Multiple studies have now shown lower death rates in counties with higher vaccination rates.
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  2953. ​ @Knight-Bishop  You can also let those people know that there were 8 Confederates, with no official charges or convictions, who challenged their ineligibility in court, and lost. There were also thousands of more intelligent Confederates, with no official charges or convictions, who clearly knew they were ineligible without going to court, that sent in letters petitioning for amnesty. Plenty of evidence against the moronic claim that being charged and convicted is required.
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  2954. Freedom of religion is progressive. That opposes any of the ones who want to force their religious laws on others, while also saying they're free to practice their religion, which doesn't mean free to do anything that violates secular laws. Broad brushing, and demonizing, everyone of a particular religion isn't very progressive.
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  2955.  @X7Excalibur  Did I say a theocracy was progressive? Do they have freedom of religion? No and no. The West carved up a more moderate Muslim empire, and handed bits of it to religious extremists. They've backed coups against more moderate, and more democratic, Muslim governments and politicians, who happened to also lean a bit to the left economically (nationalizing oil, voting against a pipeline, or whatnot). They backed religious extremists to take over Afghanistan. They've backed theocratic Saudi as it has spread its ultra-conservative brand of Islam around the world. Then they turn around and bitch and whine about Muslims being too extreme or conservative, and go blow up hundreds of thousands of them. It's insane. And, someone like Harris is an apologist for US interventions, and blames it all on the religion. He's an idiot. He has sounded like an ISIS leader, claiming there is a one true version of Islam, and those who don't follow that aren't "real" Muslims. Turkey is the last remnant of the Ottoman Empire, not Saudi. Homosexuality has always been legal in Turkey, because it was made legal in the Ottoman Empire, at a time when many Western nations still considered it illegal, or considered it a mental disorder. European women travelling in the Ottoman Empire had reported that they thought women there had more rights than in Europe. Today, women in Turkey protest against similar stuff as American women, when conservatives are in power. Of all the Abrahamic religions, Islam allowed for freedom of religion, first. They also used to be leaders in math and science. The west has helped many Muslim nations go backwards, rather than forwards. In some cases, helped them become worse than ever before. That's partly why there are Muslims who aren't "normal" 2021 people. And, no, that's not blaming the west for creating extremists, from scratch. But, if you install extremists, support extremists, support the spread of extremism, remove moderates, suppress moderates, etc., then you've helped create a more extremist environment.
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  2956.  @X7Excalibur  Technically, Turkey is a secular state, like the US is technically a secular state. Doesn't stop religious conservatives from being elected in either. US Republicans would love a Christian Erdogan. Millions of them are still hoping for the democratic process to be overturned and for an unelected Dumpty to become ruler. Do they count as "normal" 2021 people?
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  2957.  @t-swizzle8102  The guy was an idiot. Drone strikes have dropped to almost nothing, and you Dore knobs are still whining. So contrarian, that you can't see any improvements. Everything is black and white, all or nothing.
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  2958.  @area51sea  Have you considered international travel rates? Have you considered that they're already dying younger, on average, so there's less older people (the median age is 18, compared to Europe's 42)? Have you considered that there's less obesity, diabetes, and cardiovascular disease? You should compare actually comparable countries, dumb dumb. The US had a 2.5x higher death rate than neighboring Canada (where people followed protocols better, and are vaccinated at higher rates). Or comparable counties ... moronic MAGA counties (where people were less likely to follow protocols or get vaccinated) had higher death rates than Biden counties.
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  2959. AOC "cozied up" by helping to replace a few more corporate Dems in the last election, and has just been "cozying up" on the ground trying to get Nina elected over a corporate Dem.
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  2960.  @bradleyjohnson6107  Pretty sure the corporate Dems were the ones putting everything they had into beating Nina, Dore knob.
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  2961. Republicans don't get that it doesn't matter how much domestic oil is produced. Their previous hero, Reagan, deregulated domestic oil back in 1981. It sells at the global market value. There has been no such thing as cheaper domestic oil, for decades. The global price dropped in 2015, before Dumpty, and dipped again in 2020, due to COVID. Had absolutely nothing to do with Trumpty Dumpty.
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  2962.  @Helltown66  That's not a burka, moron.
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  2963.  @franklopez2702  What kind of bullshit are you spouting? Christian Brazil is currently the most dangerous place on the planet to be gay. Christians and Animists in the same regions of Africa also practice FGM. And, it's hardly practiced anywhere outside of Africa. Kurds are the worst for it, outside Africa, but most right wingers seem to love them, for some reason. Right wingers are also the ones who have supported Saudi financially and militarily, as they've spread their ultra-conservative brand of Wahhabism around. They're also the ones who overthrew multiple more liberal Muslim governments, in favour of dictators and religious extremists. Shove your bullshit back up your ass and into your brain.
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  2964.  @kennybachman35  Ummm, that would be because those are the English words, not the Hebrew words, Ibhri and Yisrael. Old English Israel, "the Jewish people, the Hebrew nation," from Latin Israel, from Greek, from Hebrew yisra'el "he that striveth with God" late Old English, from Old French Ebreu, from Latin Hebraeus, from Greek Hebraios, from Aramaic (Semitic) 'ebhrai, corresponding to Hebrew 'ibhri "an Israelite."
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  2965.  @user-ii9kh4ux3o  Have any studies claiming ivermectin is effective against covid passed peer review?
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  2966.  MidScream1  Rofl. You're using "regressive" wrong, moron.
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  2967. In 1923, Ze'ev Jabotinsky fully acknowledged that Zionism is colonialism. He also predicted, based on the entirety of history, that the natives would fight it until the bitter end. He just didn't care what would happen to them and thought it was a great idea, and "moral" colonialism. Colonizers are never not the aggressors when it comes to the native population. On top of the colonialism, the Zionists formed terrorist groups, like the Irgun and Lehi, who bombed many Palestinian markets, as well as other public places, killing many Palestinian civilians, including children, even including Palestinian Jews (who didn't support Zionism). Israel merged those terrorists into the new nation's military and intelligence agencies. Israelis elected Menachem Begin, leader of the Irgun, child murderer, Jew murderer, and bomber of the King David Hotel, as PM. To this day, Israelis still celebrate those terrorists as "heroes". They literally taught their neighbours that terrorism is a valid path to independence and statehood, and that terrorists are to be celebrated. Netanyahu also promoted, and helped fund, Hamas, to weaken the Palestinian Authority, to avoid a possible peace. Netanyahu wants this. He wants an excuse to keep killing and expanding.
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  2968.  @Lashkor  Yes, I did. It was garbage. Even in one of his own responses to criticisms, he touched on the possibility that morality could simply be very strong likes/dislikes, but then dropped it quickly. Chess is an analogy to laws, dumb dumb, not morality. It has rules to follow, but the rules were created based on the rulemaker's subjective wishes. Once you've created a law, it's pretty easy to tell, objectively, if you're breaking it, or not. No new insight, there. Morality is above lawmaking. Laws can be considered immoral. Rofl! Yeah, it's pretty simple to tell, since they don't do anything they aren't programmed to do, and there's zero indication they ever will.
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  2969. @Tidan888 Those other countries have corporations paying in other ways, like higher minimum wages, or high unionization ... then they tax those better paid consumers. Yang doesn't have corporations paying in to his UBI/VAT scheme, because corporations get credited back for input VAT in a VAT system. His plan will only makes the likes of Amazon tens of billions extra a year. That'll make Bezos billions extra a year ... more than he'd ever personally pay in through a VAT. If they'd get more out than they'd pay in, then that money is coming from elsewhere.
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  2970. ​ @Syzygy_Bliss  Oh geez, please don't bring up that moron Sam Harris.
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  2971. ​ @Benson_Bear  David ignores a lot of history, not making it clear that Zionism is colonialism (early Zionists fully acknowledged it as such), which allows for Israel to be the victim and be playing defense. Colonizers are never not the aggressors.
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  2972.  @Whoyouwishyouwere  Major oil exporters tend to keep gas prices low in their own countries, dimwit. In the US and Canada, they have citizens compete with the rest of the world, for their own resources.
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  2973.  @a.a9021  TheDipshitLord also contradicted himself, defending "bidding" prices up. Get as much as anyone, anywhere, is willing to pay. Match the global going price. Quite the opposite of lowering prices.
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  2974.  @thepolarphantasm2319  I'm saying Likud are trrrsts, and their trrrst founders would be proud.
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  2975.  @thepolarphantasm2319  YouTube won't let me buy vowels for some words, "bruh", or my reply gets hidden.
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  2976.  Simon Farre  Again, Sweden is 24th in covid deaths per million, while Germany is 66th. Sweden is currently breaking its first wave case numbers by 300%.
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  2977.  @sealj  Rogan has a larger audience than a lot of network shows. He is also MSM, at this point.
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  2978.  @davidleitner3667  Joe is MSM. Dore and Greenwald go on the largest MSM.
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  2979. ​ @BillSinger-q3b  It's like you people are from 1850, and keep whining about Cochise, when people say stop colonizing and ethnic cleansing the Native Americans.
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  2980.  @Canuck-sw3fo  That's like saying the Nazis were at "war" with the Warsaw ghetto uprising.
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  2981.  @Canuck-sw3fo  Already posted it above, dumb dumb ... Also, UN Office of Genocide Prevention ... Ethnic cleansing: "The Commission of Experts added that these practices can “… constitute crimes against humanity and can be assimilated to specific war crimes. Furthermore, such acts could also fall within the meaning of the Genocide Convention.”"
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  2982. HR 40 has 196 D cosponsors. 0 Rs.
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  2983.  @morgancody6752  Yeah, Ben did the same thing with a Synagogue shooting, by a white supremacist, and tried to spin it against Ilhan Omar.
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  2984. @Ottsel Chops Fascists promoted traditional roles, for men and women ... wanted women at home, pumping out babies.
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  2985.  @GodsSon987  Well, that video of his, that Dore mentioned, which was being passed around, was called "Hillary Presidency Worse For Progressives & America Than Trump". He did promote Trump as the better option. He vastly overestimated the benefits, claiming progressives would "for sure" take the house (nope) and senate (nope), in 2018, and the presidency (nope), in 2020. He vastly underestimated the risks, claiming even Republicans would join the left and vote against a Trump agenda (nope) instead of following him into outright fascism (they did). In a follow up debate with Sam, on the topic, Dore also claimed that Trump filling multiple scotus seats was as likely as the moon falling into Lake Michigan (nope). Dore didn't get anything right.
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  2986. There was a real world test in Peru. They have the most covid deaths per capita in the world.
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  2987.  @brothermine2292  That's why I gave Peru as an example. They've had one of the highest, if not the highest, uses of ivermectin.
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  2988.  @brothermine2292  You would have to believe that Peru found wildly amazing results, from its high ivermectin use, but then didn't expand its usage, and that they had to have extremely horrible results otherwise, to bring them down to being the worst in the world.
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  2989. Except Alex benefits the right, like he's supposed to. Jimmy also benefits the right, unlike he's supposed to.
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  2990.  @dave4deputyZX  We suck at sprinting, compared to other animals. We didn't invent bows until relatively recently. We had to run animals until one of them couldn't run anymore. There's like 1.6m years of evolving as runners, before even spears, and another 350k before bows. So, what's weird about pushing our own limits until one of them drops? We migrated from Africa to South America on foot, thousands of years before the first human settlements on the planet. We were on the move a lot, not sitting on a little island. Archaeologists had been assuming modern roles, and labeling remains with hunting tools as males. They've now tested many of those ancient remains from the Americas and found that almost 50% were actually female. In 15000 years we have changed a wolf into a chihuahua. In 10000 years European males have gone from an average of 5' 4" to 5' 9". What's the big hangup in accepting that things were somewhat different thousands of years ago?
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  2991.  @westonmeyer3110  But they do. And, they actually do even better at ultra marathon swimming, than running. "In 2014, Knechtle and his colleagues analyzed 30 years of finishing men and women’s times for the 46km Manhattan Island Marathon Swim (28.5 miles/45.9km). Once again, the ladies took the lead. The results demonstrated that the best women per year were 12-14% faster than the best men."
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  2992. I suppose he's going to put a VAT on robo calls, so consumers get to pay a tax to hear robo calls? Just like consumers getting to pay a tax to be shown ads, on their own data, and for every automated truck mile.
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  2993.  @tyronevaldez-kruger5313  Are you daft? Resistance groups led uprisings, and snuck in weapons, as well as themselves.
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  2994.  @eelvis1674  People didn't have IDs with their birth dates on them, and used to be shit at keeping track of their ages. They considered puberty to be adulthood.
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  2995.  @anthonyf616  So, are traditional masculinity standards toxic, or not? Peterson says no, praising the economic and political hierarchy it creates, but then cries about the social hierarchy it creates.
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  2996. ​ @Prometheus4096  "Palestine" isn't defined as an ethno-state, dimwit. Everyone could live free in a single "Palestine" state, and refugees could be free to return. "Israel", on the other hand, is defined as an ethno-state. It doesn't allow for anything to challenge the Jewish majority.
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  2997. The only other viable option is wanting to make a pledge of allegiance to Israel to get in the country, and his party is censuring people for anti-Zionism. Neutral is still better than reverse.
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  2998. Azov didn't exist, before Russia invaded in 2014. They're a tiny fraction of the entire military. The far right politicians, they're aligned with, got 2% of the vote, and no seats in parliament. The US is far more fascist, by those numbers, considering the support for Trump. The US and UK conscripted, trained, and armed, every single fighting age KKK and BUF member, to go fight invading fascists, during WWII. Russia is now the invading fascists.
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  2999.  @P1ranh4  Harris has been doing the same thing, since well before Trump came along. Yadda, yadda, yadda ... Republicans are bad ... yadda, yadda, yadda ... but they're right about X, and the "regressive left", or whatnot, are so horribly wrong about X.
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  3000. Same with seatbelts and airbags. You can just use two cars for the analogy. One speeding, drunk, no seatbelts, no airbags, as the unvaccinated.
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  3001.  @Obama6464  It doesn't stack with standard SSI disability. It also doesn't stack with other forms of assistance that could have some people already getting $1000+ a month. The VAT/UBI combo will only be a negative for them.
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  3002.  @Obama6464  I said SSI disability. He absolutely does not have it stack with SSI. But, SSI can stack with SNAP, and put people over $1000 a month in assistance already. A VAT would only be a negative, for them, since they wouldn't benefit from the UBI. Even SNAP alone can put some people over $1000 a month, currently. SNAP also doesn't stack with UBI.
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  3003.  @BCEpedals  The point wasn't technology, dumb dumb, it wasn't HOW. The point was WHY the hell are you watching MR, while your wife is supposedly having pregnancy complications.
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  3004.  @epix4300  Mason stated a fact. Assuming you watched the video, you apparently didn't grasp the meaning of all the words spoken, which did form an argument.
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  3005.  @epix4300  No need.
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  3006.  @epix4300  No clue what he's talking about. They laid out the argument that Kirk didn't understand the term he was using, leading to the conclusion he's an idiot. Either you grasped the words which formed the argument, and lead to the conclusion, or you didn't.
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  3007.  @kennethford3550  It's not about overusing a resource in commonly owned property, like overfishing in publicly owned waters?
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  3008.  @epix4300  I think you missed 75% of what Sam said.
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  3009. Iraq started the freaking tanker war, during the Iraq-Iran War, and Western countries were giving them the arms to do it. Dishonest scum, and morons who believe them.
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  3010. Huh? Aren't the poor people poor by choice? All they have to do is pull themselves up by the bootstraps, no?
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  3011.  @Riddlestar93  Oh, ffs, that wasn't a specific party problem. That was a national problem, and FDR took a step in the right direction with executive order 8802. A higher percentage of black people are poor, and work lower wage jobs. So you think it's better that the party joined Republicans, and moved towards corporate backing instead of union and worker backing, and left the poor people behind?
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  3012. Isn't their answer to kids being shot in schools to lock the kids up in the schools, and hand the teachers guns? They don't actually want anything done, that might reduce the need for increased school security. But, locked up candy ... that's going too far!
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  3013.  @hylomorpher  Right, because Kyle shouldn't make stupid arguments. There's no such thing as "free speech" on someone else's property, because you don't have a right to be on their property, to begin with. The exact argument for leftists, is to point out that, if you want a public square, then it needs to be publicly owned. He wasn't making that argument. He was using the moronic right wing argument, expecting something that has never existed on private property. Again, totally not the same thing as media that creates its own content.
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  3014.  @hylomorpher  1. Privatized "public utilities" are not progressive. That's one of the ways you end up with taxpayers subsidizing for profit companies, and billionaires. 2. No leftist was f*cking "promoting it", as a good thing. It was pointing out the negative side of private ownership, to those that have been actually promoting it, for decades. Right wingers have been crying about all kinds of things corporations have been doing, lately, and it's pointing out that they're crying, like hypocrites, about the world they wanted.
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  3015. Why would you have people trained to patrol the border, sitting in, and overseeing, these camps? That wasn't even remotely a defense. That's just an admission of stupidity. Plus, many of those camps are privatized. How the hell are people working for a private company even trained to be border patrol? Just bullshit.
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  3016.  calo10able  There's plenty of evidence that he's an idiot, so what's your point? He became famous for "successfully" separating siamese twins, and turning them into vegetables. He has also said he didn't study, at times, and that God simply gave him the answers. No thanks on having him do my operation. There are tens of thousands of foreign doctors living in the US that can't practice. You don't think there's a possibility even one might make a better doctor than Carson?
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  3017.  @synchronium24  Yeah, she's Jimmy light.
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  3018. The guy literally got paid by Peter Thiel funded Rumble, to join their platform. He's basically collecting cheques from one of the largest MAGA donors who, ironically, made his billions helping the government spy on people, which Greenwald claimed to be opposed to.
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  3019.  @larshofler8298  Rofl! That was a lot of blathering, when I've never given you my opinion on what I'd like to see. I've simply stated the current objective reality of the situation. Apparently, you're a loon, who thinks they have mental telepathy. I'm asking you questions, for you to tell me what you'd like to see, but you vomit out a couple paragraphs, without actually answering me. Was that a "yes", you'd like it publicly owned and operated? I can't tell.
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  3020.  @larshofler8298  Rofl! You're absolutely hilarious. In what reality does FOX have a spine? They stand up for the rich corporate overlords you were complaining about before, at least economically. They want them to all have big tax breaks and become even richer.
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  3021. Thing is you need a working clock to tell when the 2 times a broken clock is right.
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  3022. By that definition they're adopting, Einstein and Hannah Arendt were "antisemites", for likening Likud's Irgun and Lehi trrrst founders to Fscsts and Nzs. It would also make saying Isrl is an aprthd state "antisemitic". Promoting a single state solution (also Einstein) is also "antisemitic", by that definition.
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  3023. They just claim the opposite of reality. They're the ones who tried to overthrow the democratic process, to install an unelected dictator/King.
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  3024.  @Disaletteritis  Last time Quebec was flipped, it went all NDP.
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  3025.  @Disaletteritis  Do tell me how you have reading comprehension problems.
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  3026.  @Disaletteritis  With what, dumb dumb?
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  3027.  @Disaletteritis  Please don't tell me you've been seething about this thread for a year, and dug it back up because you moronically think Conservatives are popular with the majority.
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  3028. ​ @jds614 Absolute bullshit. Zionists knew exactly how things would play out, and they did it anyway. Ze'ev Jabotinsky, The Iron Wall, 1923 ... "There can be no voluntary agreement between ourselves and the Palestine Arabs. Not now, nor in the prospective future. I say this with such conviction, not because I want to hurt the moderate Zionists. I do not believe that they will be hurt. Except for those who were born blind, they realised long ago that it is utterly impossible to obtain the voluntary consent of the Palestine Arabs for converting "Palestine" from an Arab country into a country with a Jewish majority. My readers have a general idea of the history of colonisation in other countries. I suggest that they consider all the precedents with which they are acquainted, and see whether there is one solitary instance of any colonisation being carried on with the consent of the native population. There is no such precedent. The native populations, civilised or uncivilised, have always stubbornly resisted the colonists, irrespective of whether they were civilised or savage." "This is equally true of the Arabs. Our Peace-mongers are trying to persuade us that the Arabs are either fools, whom we can deceive by masking our real aims, or that they are corrupt and can be bribed to abandon to us their claim to priority in Palestine , in return for cultural and economic advantages. I repudiate this conception of the Palestinian Arabs. Culturally they are five hundred years behind us, they have neither our endurance nor our determination; but they are just as good psychologists as we are, and their minds have been sharpened like ours by centuries of fine-spun logomachy. We may tell them whatever we like about the innocence of our aims, watering them down and sweetening them with honeyed words to make them palatable, but they know what we want, as well as we know what they do not want. They feel at least the same instinctive jealous love of Palestine, as the old Aztecs felt for ancient Mexico, and the Sioux for their rolling Prairies. To imagine, as our Arabophiles do, that they will voluntarily consent to the realisation of Zionism, in return for the moral and material conveniences which the Jewish colonist brings with him, is a childish notion, which has at bottom a kind of contempt for the Arab people; it means that they despise the Arab race, which they regard as a corrupt mob that can be bought and sold, and are willing to give up their fatherland for a good railway system." Likud was founded by Irgun terrorist Menachem Begin, child murderer, Palestinian Jew murderer (because they didn't support Zionism) ... and Ariel Sharon, war criminal who massacred Palestinian villages. Their platform ... "The Right of the Jewish People to the Land of Israel (Eretz Israel) a. The right of the Jewish people to the land of Israel is eternal and indisputable and is linked with the right to security and peace; therefore, Judea and Samaria will not be handed to any foreign administration; between the Sea and the Jordan there will only be Israeli sovereignty." All evidence points towards Netanyahu still aiming for that goal.
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  3029. ​ @jds614  Hitler had an election, after purging his political opponents, just like Israel purged itself of a Palestinian majority, never let them back, and held elections.
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  3030. The Quran doesn't actually give an age for her. Elsewhere, as in the Tanakh/OT, it equates puberty to being of age. People didn't have birth certificates back then. If you look at 19th century censuses, when they still didn't carry around birth certificates, and compare them to county birth records, or baptism records, they show that many people still couldn't keep track of their ages, or their kids ages, very well.
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  3031. The Crayzone is just anti-American. They're fine with Russia invading, occupying, ethnic cleansing, and genociding, other countries. So, they're only right a fraction of the time.
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  3032.  @jacobwright6195  Rofl! You lost your shirt, calling idiots like Crowder and Pool "the brightest political minds". You must be dim as hell, to think they're, in the least bit bright.
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  3033. W refused to sign up for the ICC, during the Iraq War, for obvious reasons. Within the UN proper, the US gets a security council veto, regarding sending in peacekeepers, or resolutions against itself, or countries it likes.
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  3034. ​ @Cheesesteakfreak  Sam is an idiot. Likud's bloody 100 year history ... In 1923, 100 years ago, Ze'ev Jabotinsky wrote, The Iron Wall, and a follow up, The Ethics of The Iron Wall (sooo racist towards Africans), in which he fully acknowledged that post Balfour Zionsim was colonialism, and that, based on the entirety of history, the native Palestinian population would resist being colonized until the bitter end. He directly compared it to the colonization of North America. He promoted doing it anyway, claiming Zionist colonialism was a "just" colonialism (he also thought North American colonialists were good guys, so not a great judge of morality), not caring what that meant for the native population. Ze'ev is important, because his Betar militant youth group helped found the Irgun terrorist group, along with other supporters of his, and the splinter Lehi terrorist group. The Irgun bombed numerous Palestinian markets and other public places, murdering many Palestinian civilians, including children, even including Palestinian Jews (who didn't support colonialist Zionsim). The Irgun are important, because they ended up being led by future Likud PM, Menachem Begin, who bombed the King David Hotel. The King David Hotel was bombed because the British had raided the Jewish Agency and seized numerous documents that may have shown that the terrorists were working with the JA and Haganah (JA liked to pretend that they didn't support the terrorism). The British then stored those documents at their base, in the hotel. That the Irgun terrorists responded to a JA raid, itself seems to prove the connection. That the thousands of Irgun (and Lehi) terrorists were also quickly merged into the new nation's military (IDF) and intelligence (Mossad) agencies, and are still celebrated as "heroes" by Israelis, to this day, also seems to support total collaboration between the groups. That other terrorist group mentioned, Lehi (also known as the Stern Gang), was considered even more extreme. They even tried to ally with the Nazis, against the British. Lehi ended up being led by Yitzhak Shamir, future Mossad agent, and another future Likud PM. They assassinated Lord Moyne, and others. In 1945, there was a major land and peoples survey done in Palestine. It showed that the Zionists only owned about 5% of the total land, 20% of the arable land, and owned a majority in zero districts. The partition was not only going to be forced on the native Palestinian majority, but Jews were still going to be a minority, in the part allocated to them. The only possible way to even become a "Jewish state" was going to require getting rid of the actual majority (at least enough so that there'd be a solid Jewish majority, so they could fake being democratic). This is also shown by the 1948, post Nakba, population of Israel. If there was 716,700 Jews, 156,000+ non-Jews, and approximately 700k non-Jews ethnically cleansed, that means the Jewish population, in the Zionist portion of partition, was originally over 100,000 less than the non-Jewish population. To believe that there was never any intent, by Zionists, to ethnically cleanse away the Palestinian majority would require believing that they never intended to create a "Jewish state". It's a nonsensical notion. Begin, and those terrorist groups, also opposed partition, but for the opposite reason Palestinians did. Palestinians didn't want to be colonized, at all. The terrorists wanted to colonize it all. "Moderate" Zionists were okay with colonizing half ... for now (what would happen in the future, after partition, was up to them, said Ben-Gurion). The Zionist terrorists were also involved in massacres, and assassinations, during the partition violence (colonialist war against the natives). Another notable future Likud PM, also started in the military, during the partition fighting. That was Ariel Sharon, war criminal, "Butcher of Beirut". Menachem Begin, and these other Zionist terrorists, are important because they became involved in Israeli politics, first forming Herut. That was the party that Albert Einstein, and other prominent American Jews, opposed, having a letter printed in the NYT, in December of 1948, when Begin came to visit the US. The letter opened ... "Among the most disturbing political phenomena of our times is the emergence in the newly created state of Israel of the "Freedom Party" (Tnuat Haherut), a political party closely akin in its organization, methods, political philosophy and social appeal to the Nazi and Fascist parties. It was formed out of the membership and following of the former Irgun Zvai Leumi, a terrorist, right-wing, chauvinist organization in Palestine." Herut merged with other extremist parties, over the years, and eventually became Likud, in the 70s. Now, people get upset over the slogan "From the river to the sea!", but it's the second part that's most important, "Palestine will be free!". Because "Palestine" isn't defined as an ethno-state, a free Palestine can be a single state, free for all to live in, and return to, free of continuing colonization, free of occupation, free of oppression, etc. Just like a Germany free of Nazism, an Italy free of fascism, a South Africa free of apartheid, or an America free of slavery from sea to shiny sea. It doesn't necessitate purging all the Jews. It just necessitates them giving up on the idea of an ethno-state. On the other hand, because "Israel" has been defined as an ethno-state, Likud's, "between the sea and the Jordan there will only be Israeli sovereignty", has no possible good interpretation. It is a declaration of intent to completely colonize, and ethnically cleanse, all Palestine territories. Not only that, but it also claims that they have a "right" to all of the "Land of Israel" (biblical borders that don't mesh with archaeological reality), which is an open declaration of future wars, against Jordan, Syria, Lebanon, and possibly even Iraq. Likud platform ... 1977: "The Right of the Jewish People to the Land of Israel (Eretz Israel) a. The right of the Jewish people to the land of Israel is eternal and indisputable and is linked with the right to security and peace; therefore, Judea and Samaria will not be handed to any foreign administration; between the Sea and the Jordan there will only be Israeli sovereignty. b. A plan which relinquishes parts of western Eretz Israel, undermines our right to the country, unavoidably leads to the establishment of a "Palestinian State," jeopardizes the security of the Jewish population, endangers the existence of the State of Israel. and frustrates any prospect of peace." "Settlement Settlement. both urban and rural. in all parts of the Land of Israel is the focal point of the Zionist effort to redeem the country, to maintain vital security areas and serves as a reservoir of strength and inspiration for the renewal of the pioneering spirit. The Likud government will call on the younger generation in Israel and the dispersions to settle and help every group and individual in the task of inhabiting and cultivating the wasteland, while taking care not to dispossess anyone." 1999: "The Government of Israel flatly rejects the establishment of a Palestinian Arab state west of the Jordan river. The Palestinians can run their lives freely in the framework of self-rule, but not as an independent and sovereign state. Thus, for example, in matters of foreign affairs, security, immigration, and ecology, their activity shall be limited in accordance with imperatives of Israel's existence, security and national needs." "The Jewish communities in Judea, Samaria, and Gaza are the realization of Zionist values. Settlement of the land is a clear expression of the unassailable right of the Jewish people to the Land of Israel and constitutes an important asset in the defense of the vital interests of the State of Israel. The Likud will continue to strengthen and develop these communities and will prevent their uprooting." All Palestine territories are officially considered occupied, by the International Court of Justice, the UN GA, the UN SC, and even in official documents of Israel's own allies. Likud is still using the blueprint for colonizing North America, in the West Bank. Move settlements out into native territory, piss off the natives, the natives retaliate, cry about poor "innocent" colonizing settlers being the "victims" of violent "Savages!", call in the cavalry to put down the native uprising, and eventually expand the borders to include those settlements. Rinse and repeat. In Gaza, Israel is operating an open air WWII style fascist ghetto. Them claiming a "right to defend themselves" would be like the Nazis claiming a "right to defend themselves " from the Warsaw ghetto uprising. There's no "war". That they're the occupiers means the "war" part is long over. Those people are actually supposed to be under the occupier's protection. That partition was forced upon the Palestinian majority, against their will ... that the Zionist portion still had to be forcefully ethnically cleansed of its non-Jewish majority, against their will ... that the millions of occupied Palestinians don't have a say in the government that truly rules over them, Israel's ... means Israel is about as democratic as Nazi Germany after Hitler purged his political opponents and then held elections.
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  3035. ​ @melrose762riser  You know the other side based their colonization on some thousands of years old "god gave it to us" fairytale claim, right?
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  3036. ​ @patrickvolk7031  Native Americans reached a point where they want to push all the white people back into the sea. Fun fact: It wasn't simply because they were white.
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  3037. We've already gone through points in history, where what Libertarians want existed. It didn't work the way they fantasize it would, at all. We've done fully privatized education. Only the rich were educated. We've done fully privatized healthcare. Only the rich got decent healthcare. We've done private landowners, with no laws above them, with their own private armies, doing whatever they want, settling property disputes privately, etc. It was feudalism.
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  3038.  @mohammadshami1718  Help yourself.
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  3039.  @jackprice1758  You think the most rcst colonies/states, for centuries, aren't still very rcst? Nikki Haley attended preparatory schools, specifically created to dodge desegregation, that didn't acknowledge admitting their first non-white student until 1989 (the year she graduated ... which means she had been considered white the whole time). She was likely taught the false "Lost Cause" narrative, which is why she had no clue how to properly answer CW questions.
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  3040.  @jackprice1758   You think the most rcst colonies/states, for centuries, aren't still very rcst? Nikki attended preparatory schools, specifically created to dodge desegregation, that didn't acknowledge admitting their first non-wht student until 1989 (the year she graduated ... which means she had been considered wht the whole time). She was likely taught the false "Lost Cause" narrative, which is why she had no clue how to properly answer CW questions.
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  3041.  @jackprice1758   You think the most rcst colonies/states, for centuries, aren't still very rcst? Nikki attended prep schools specifically created to dodge dsgrgtion, that didn't acknowledge admitting their first non-wt student until 1989 (the year she graduated ... which means she had been considered wt the whole time). She was likely taught the false "Lost Cause" narrative, which is why she had no clue how to properly answer CW questions.
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  3042.  @jackprice1758  What are you talking about? Trump, and Republicans, repeatedly questioned the 2020 results in predominantly black districts. They were still trying to do Jm Crw, and take away their votes.
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  3043.  @jackprice1758  What are you talking about? Trump, and Republicans, repeatedly questioned the 2020 results in predominantly blck districts. They are still trying to do Jm Crw, and take away their vts.
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  3044.  @jackprice1758   What are you talking about? Trump, and Republicans, repeatedly questioned the results in predominantly blck districts. They are still trying to do Jm Crw, and take away their vts.
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  3045.  @jackprice1758  Trump, and Republicans, repeatedly questioned the results in predominantly blck dstrcts. They are still trying to do Jm Crw, and take away their vts.
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  3046.  @jackprice1758   The time of 4 whole years? Trump, and Reps, repeatedly questioned the rslts in predominantly blck dstrcts. They are still trying to take away their vts.
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  3047.  @jackprice1758   The passage of 4 whole years? Trump, and Reps, repeatedly qstnd the rslts in predominantly blck dstrcts. They are still trying to take away their v o t e s.
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  3048.  @jackprice1758   The passage of 4 whole years? Trump/Reps tried to erase blck vts. They're still trying to do Jm Crw.
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  3049.  @Thedemotivator  The real fight is trying to change opponents minds, or replace them. AOC just helped replace some of them. She threw some punches. Her not getting on the committee was a punch back by those who didn't like her endorsing and funding progressives against them. She's scrapping. Jimmy's shouting from the sidelines, telling her she's a "fake", a "shill", a "wimp", when his plan ends with having to do exactly the same thing ... the vote fails, and then you have a new list of names of people whose minds you have to change or replace. There's already a list ... everyone and anyone who won't sign on to the M4A bills in the house and senate. Jimmy should be trying to rip those people down, one by one. He should have been ripping a hole in their asses through the primaries. He could have ripped a hole in a new name every day of the primaries. Instead he was worried about stupid shit, like Obama speeches. Fuck Obama. The guy isn't even a politician anymore. Where's M4A champion Jimmy Dore's PAC? He just bought a new $2m house ... how much did he donate to AOC's PAC? He's an armchair quarterback, with a bad track record.
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  3050. But, he didn't threaten to pull his money, if the development takes place. That was already voted on, and he didn't show up to stop it. This was all about allocating some of the land for affordable housing. It literally defaults back to the original no affordable housing plan, which he didn't made a threat against. His only problem seems to be affordable housing.
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  3051.  @House_Husband_Romeo  What does some hypothetical future price increase have to do with providing some affordable housing in the near future? How is zero affordable housing better?
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  3052.  @House_Husband_Romeo  You only got the white right. There are zero houses there now, and the nearest housing isn't a low income area. This has nothing to do with gentrification. The town has already annexed land from a neighboring county. They already approved a prior zoning plan, in November. All you're saying is that you see no point in selling/renting any housing at a lower price, which makes no sense.
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  3053.  @kft590  They were already approved for a first zoning plan, in Nov. All the developer has to do is comply with the code, and there's no grounds to stop them. “Oberer can submit a final plan as soon as they are ready, and that final plan goes to Planning Commission and to Council,” Swinger said. “Council cannot deny the plan unless they find that the plan is not in compliance with the zoning code.” Dave's threat doesn't stop development. It only stops the development allocating land to affordable housing, and having some multi family homes. He's fine with just having $300+k single family homes.
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  3054. ​ @JohnnyTheWolf-d3p  What blue president, or candidate, has stated they want a pledge of allegiance to Isrl for immigration? Or, that protesters should be deported? Or, made laws letting people run over protesters? Or, wants to reinstate and expand a Muslim ban? Or, ...
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  3055.  @mattbebe2555  The guy that made peace between countries that weren't even warring? That guy that is on the campaign trail backing Israel, even saying he wants a pledge of allegiance to Israel, to get in the US? The guy that ended zero wars, dropped more bombs per year than Obama, pissed off Iran and sent them back to having a nuke program? The guy that let his dictator buddy in North Korea build 30-40 nukes, that can reach at least Alaska? The guy who french kisses Putin's asshole, and told him secrets about Israel? The guy that shares nuclear secrets with billionaire donors? Lol
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  3056.  @AsifKhan-hf9zy  Rofl! A gasoline powered generator is still producing electricity, dumbo.
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  3057.  @AsifKhan-hf9zy  Man, Americans are stpd.
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  3058. Outside the US Overton window, yes. The Overton window basically describes a country's subjective state, as opposed to a real world objective state. The Overton window is most useful to the extreme right, who get to portray real world centrists as "extreme left", and real world right wingers who portray themselves as the "centrists".
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  3059. ​@Uhnonimaus They argue against reality (that tougher gun laws, and fewer guns, reduce firearm deaths and homicides), promote doing the opposite (pushing more guns into the streets), and then use it to argue for even more of a police state (fascism).
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  3060. @Uhnonimaus They're directly related, and allow US cops to kill their citizens at 5x to hundreds of times higher rates than other developed countries ... because they were "fearing" for their lives, mistaking a cell phone for a gun.
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  3061. 100 years ago, Ze'ev Jabotinsky fully acknowledged that Zionism is colonialism. You're basically never the good guy, after that point. He also predicted, based on history, exactly how the natives would react ... fight said colonialism until the bitter end. On top of its colonialist Zionist foundation, the state of Israel was founded on terrorism, by groups like the Irgun and Lehi. Israel elected terrorists, like Menachem Begin, who led the Irgun and bombed the King David Hotel. Israel, to this day, celebrates said terrorists, as "heroes". They literally taught their neighbours that terrorism is a valid path to independence and statehood. I take it you considered Geronimo a "villain", or resistance movements during WWII that spent money on "terrorism" instead of food?
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  3062. @Aaron Dickson < max ignorance
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  3063.  @linbinnash  His plan doesn't stack with SSI disability, or SNAP, and could hurt many disabled people currently getting both. They might not benefit from UBI, but will still have to pay the VAT. His plan doesn't account for children. A single parent of 1+ kids gets half that of an adult couple with no kids. His plan doesn't account for cost of living. It will benefit people in less urban areas, and states with fewer taxes who do less for their citizens, more. That could almost be a Republican plan.
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  3064.  @linbinnash  You can't opt out of the VAT. If UBI doesn't benefit you, then the VAT makes you worse off. Some things not considered staples, and not exempt from Canada's VAT: electric bill, phone bill, internet bill, cable bill, games, toys, basically any entertainment with a cost, non staple snacks and pop, a lower but still present VAT on gasoline, personal hygiene products, household cleaning products, home maintenance and repairs, vehicle maintenance and repairs, ....
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  3065.  @linbinnash  You know how averages work, right? Some people get less. Some people get more. SSI disability is also stackable with SNAP, which Yang also doesn't have stack. Some people on SNAP, alone, get over $1000 a month.
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  3066.  @linbinnash  Also, the Alaska "analogy" isn't actually analogous to Yang's plan. Alaska, like Norway, basically partially nationalized their oil, making oil companies pay them for their resource, which they then give to, or spend on, their citizens. Yang's plan is more like taxing gasoline consumption and having the consumers pay for it, and not making the oil companies pay in at all.
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  3067.  @linbinnash  It matters where the money is coming from. A VAT doesn't make giant corporations like Amazon pay in, as Yang falsely claims. Alaska has the oil companies paying the people.
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  3068.  @feleepe92  A mediocre response, like Canada's, would translate into hundreds of thousands fewer deaths in the US. Trump was completely incompetent.
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  3069.  @MeChoonChannel  Their "idea" is to removed the rights of non whites, and toss them out of the country, dimwit. Their "idea" is violence.
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  3070.  @trafalgarla  Is that before, or after, stopping for munchies?
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  3071. ​ @JoKo203  A true snake oil salesman will be telling you they are selling you something that benefits your health when, in fact, they are selling you something completely useless or harmful. Jimmy claims he's for universal healthcare, but then promotes taking the worst possible path to get it, or even a path that will lose what's currently covered. He's a right wing grifter.
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  3072.  @JoKo203  A snake oil salesman, says they're selling you something beneficial. Jimmy promotes taking paths that will never get you universal healthcare. He doesn't give a crap about universal healthcare.
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  3073.  @JoKo203  Nah. Jimmy promotes taking the path that is least likely to get you UH. He's a snake oil salesman, claiming to be selling you healthcare, but actually isn't.
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  3074. You think killing hundreds of thousands of people in Iraq, that had nothing to do with 9/11 was still a good idea?
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  3075. ​ @masonsmith5726  That would be a long future, where Republicans would win, for decades to come. Even if the entire progressive caucus was third party, and all progressive voters voted third party, that would have led to Republicans winning the house, senate, and presidency. A third party would still be largely irrelevant, even if it ever managed to get that many seats in congress. In Canada, the Conservative party should never win outside of 2 provinces, where they have a majority of votes, and never at the federal level. The only reason they do, is because Liberal and NDP (BQ too) votes are split. It allows Conservatives to win the majority of seats with only 35-40% of the vote. Things would be even worse, in the US, because Republicans get 45-50% of the vote. A third party would never be relevant, in the US, until it could get all the current Dem votes, actually become the second main party, and be able to beat the Republican party. That's why it makes more sense just to keep trying to take over the party. The progressive caucus is like 15 seats away from becoming the majority of house Dems. The Justice Dems have won 11 seats. The most popular third party, Libertarian, hasn't won a single seat in its 50 year existence. The most popular progressive third party, Green, hasn't won a single seat in congress in its 20 year existence. You're looking at decades of Republican rule, before possibly even winning one seat.
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  3076. Just to be clear ... Letting Thanos win a battle, eradicate half the universe's population, throwing all of existence into turmoil, throwing trillions upon trillions into grief and depression, very likely causing countless suicides by those who couldn't bear to live without their loved ones, etc., etc., ... all so you can win the final war (thanks to a rat), is a lesser of two evils, utilitarian, decision.
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  3077. Rofl, is offended by "barbaric" and "dark ages", because it implies "bad", but thinks "fascist" is simply "charged" and "robust" political speech. Is there some non "bad" version of fascism I'm unaware of?
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  3078. Look up the Orangeburg Preparatory Schools. They were literally founded for white kids only, to avoid desegregation ... literally founded on racism. Those are the schools she went to. They acknowledged admitting their first non-white student in 1989, the year she graduated, meaning she had been considered white, the whole time. And, when she pulled the "had black friends growing up" card, it sure as hell wasn't from school. Orangeburg is still 95% white prep schools and 90% black public schools.
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  3079.  @GlassesAndCoffeeMugs  Rofl. Should you reread your own comment, that I replied to?
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  3080.  @harryd1471  Wrong Huxley, dumb dumb. You're sleuthing skills are terrible. Besides, an "agnostic" wouldn't be "for" anything, even if it were the case.
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  3081.  @frankpalancio8471  To continuously make out like Ham "started" something, means you have to ignore everything that happened before. By Oct 6, in 2023 alone, the IDF and settlers had killed dozens of Palestinians, including minors; had kidnapped and imprisoned indefinitely, without charges, hundreds of Palestinians; and had displaced over 1000, to make room for new illegal settlements. You're distorting who is the actual aggressor. Colonialists are never not the aggressors. It would be impossible for natives to do anything to them, if they weren't there doing their aggressor colonizing, first.
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  3082.  @frankpalancio8471  To continuously make out like Ham "started" something, means you have to ignore everything that happened before. By Oct 6, in 2023 alone, the IDF and settlers had offed dozens of Palestinians, including minors; had kidnapped and imprisoned indefinitely, without charges, hundreds of Palestinians; and had displaced over 1000, to make room for new illegal settlements. You're distorting who is the actual aggressor. Clnizers are never not the aggressors. It would be impossible for natives to do anything to them, if they weren't there doing their aggressor clnizing, first.
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  3083.  @ballz4kidz  What you're saying doesn't mesh with reality. Voters have been letting Republicans win, over and over. They keep jumping further right and the "moderate" Dems keep meeting them in the new "middle". Letting Republicans win has been dragging the country right. Corporate Dems then think they need to move further right, to win. Take Republicans out of the equation, and force Dems left with strong primary challenges. The primaries are also where there's the most room to increase voter turnout.
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  3084.  @runrafarunthebestintheworld  Any hope of Bernie becoming president, if he had won the primaries, would have relied on those voting against him in the primaries voting for him in the general. "Vote blue" works both ways.
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  3085.  @fireandblood2919  Nah, this point has been reached by voters repeatedly giving up on Dems, and letting Republicans wins, like you're suggesting.
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  3086.  @dabblerdeluxe775  Rofl. Dore is not rational, in the least. He is funny to laugh at though.
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  3087. What has Dore done? He slanders progressive politicians that back unions, and have even gone out on picket lines. He slanders progressive politicians who have done more for M4A in a few years than he has in his entire lifetime.
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  3088. ​ @armondtanz  "You people" ... As in half brained twatwaffles, who act like you're 7 years old, saying "Oh yeah?! Well, my dad could beat up your dad!" Who tf cares? Him beating up Sam wouldn't make him right. It would just make him stupid, if he'd throw away his life, beating someone up on the street, for hurting his feelings.
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  3089.  @rtorres4132  Per NBC end of August poll ... Black and Hispanic Americans are now over 70% vaccinated. Party over Trump Republicans are just over 60%. Trump over party Republicans aren't even 50%. The lowest vaccination rates and highest current covid numbers are in red counties. Nobody is as vaccine hesitant as Trumpists, or even Republicans in general.
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  3090. If you're only going to accept full blown socialism, before using that word, then you should only accept full blown capitalism before using that word. In that case, only countries with absolute monarchies, like Saudi, might represent full capitalism, as they are totally privately owned enterprises. If that ruler builds a road, he's building it on his own private property. Most countries run on a mix of both capitalism, privately owned enterprises, and socialism, publicly owned enterprises. There's nothing wrong with the term "socialized medicine", if it's publicly owned. And, if even one thing is publicly owned, then you've got a small percentage of socialism mixed with your capitalism. The only exceptions being things that someone like Ayn Rand made exceptions for, even under extreme capitalism ... military, legal system, etc., to protect private interests and private property. Those things are more a difference in levels of authoritarianism, and there are authoritarian and non-authoritarian versions of both capitalism and socialism.
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  3091.  @thewellhaspoison  Marx totally talked about having a transition, in which you'd still need a government. If that government does things that reduces the gap in classes (minimum wage, free education, free medical, etc.), then that is a partial move towards socialism and away from all out capitalism. If that government spreads out money according to need (disability, baby bonus, old age, unemployment), then it's a partial move towards socialism, and away from all out capitalism. If that government gives some power to the workers (legalizing unions and strikes, worker safety regulations, guaranteed days off, limited work day, minimum wages, etc.), then it's a partial move towards socialism, and away from all out capitalism. Etc. If a "mixed" economy isn't a mix of capitalism and socialism, then what's it a mix of? If centrism isn't in the centre of capitalism and socialism, then what's it in the centre of?
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  3092.  @thewellhaspoison  What is a "social democracy", in your opinion?
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  3093.  @coffeecomics3583  Subjectivity, which requires a subject by definition yes, is that subject's preferences, likes, dislikes, biases for or against, opinions, desires, caring, etc. Objectivity is facts, truth, logic, etc., which are supposed to be the case independent of any individual subject. Observations are, basically, objective in nature. It's just empirical evidence being sent to your brain. A computer with cameras, or other sensory input, can observe, record, and store empirical evidence. I'm referring to actions, making a decisions, judgements, things that only comes from a subject's subjectivity. Subjectivity is how you feel about what you observed, not a way to observe. Fact: the subject observes person A forcing person B to have sex So what? That only matters if the observing subject cares, one way or another. The subject will make no decision, make no judgement, without subjectivity. If you care, then you'll make a decision about whether you like or dislike such behaviour, make a judgment whether you feel it's right or wrong. Most people will be inclined towards the dislike/wrong. A robot observing that fact may record it, but it won't ever give a crap, make a decision/judgement, on its own. A programmer could program in their own subjective judgment, telling the robot how to react to such behaviour, but it won't ever actually care itself.
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  3094.  Jay McDanieL  Based on facts, isn't simply spouting facts. There is no decision making in just facts. They're facts, no matter what anyone decides. No, then you just subjectively value something more than your own interests. Subjectivity =/= selfish.
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  3095. Why? He'd strawman arguments against Christianity, not truly delve into Judaism and Hinduism, and flat out lied that the extreme version of Buddhism would be extreme peace ... until ethnic cleansing Buddhists took the stage, and then he dropped them for Jainism as his sole example.
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  3096.  @Chuck26814  Nah. When even the most progressive Dems haven't proposed policies that would move the US left of Denmark (real world centrism), but insn people call them Marxists, or whatnot, it's those insn people that are the hyper partisans.
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  3097. ​ @seanking1775  So sensitive. Right wingers have been crapping on California for decades.
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  3098. That makes no sense. She supports LGBTQ ... there's no way to make what you typed make sense.
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  3099.  @knukkaboom4491  You're a moron. It's right in the word, dummy. "Feudalism" comes from the old Germanic word "fihu", which means "cattle". "Fihu" is also where the word "fee" comes from. Sure, there was a variety of bartering, but there was a standard ... the cow. Just like ten dimes is worth the standard dollar, ten chickens might be worth the standard cow. Early feudal lords were, effectively, cattle barons of old. Like the dimwit you are, you jumped straight into nations, with laws, skipping over the earliest feudalism, with no minted coins, with no kings, without even a unified nation, well outside Rome, amongst Germanic tribes. A family would settle land, the family head would be owner, the family would grow, the settlement would grow, but still be considered to be the head's property, the head would pass it down to an eldest son, just like centuries of inheritance, and also perfectly okay in an ancap environment. The settlement might grow to attract other settlers, but they'd still be considered to be living on the head of the family's property. He could charge them rent, make them pledge loyalty, make rules, whatever he wanted, for the right to live on his property. All perfectly fine in an ancap environment. If they had a property dispute with a nearby clan, they'd settle it with their private armies. If you got sick of the other clan, maybe you'd just go outright conquer their settlement, and claim it as your own. There's no oversight, or legal system, saying there's anything wrong with that in an ancap environment. Now you privately own two settlements, so maybe you stick a close family member, or friend, in as manager of your other settlement. Then maybe you add another, and another, etc. All perfectly legal, because there is no law above you in an ancap environment. Etc. Etc. Etc. Until you've got a large enough group of settlements, to declare yourself a king of something ... the Angles, the Franks, ... whatever. Absolute monarchies are complete private ownership of an entire region. The private owner can make whatever rules (laws) they want, for living on their private property. The private owner can charge whatever price (rent, tax) they want, for living on their private property. The private owner can mint his own money, with his face on it, good inside his privately owned nation. The private owner can hire a private policing force, to enforce the rules for living on his private property. Etc. So you shut down the government, and turn the US ancap ... what's to stop giant corporations from hiring large private armies and throwing their weight around? What's to stop the rich from hiring small private armies, and throwing their weight around?
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  3100.  @matrixman8582  There are limits on what you can and can't own? Who's making and enforcing said rule?
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  3101.  @matrixman8582  You're sounding like an anarcho-socialist. So, I can't hire a bunch of people, and live off their labour, in an ancap environment?
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  3102.  @matrixman8582  "have to" "has to" Again ... who is making and enforcing these rules? What if I want to hire labourers, exactly because I don't want to labour, and want to go golfing, or boating? Is that against the imaginary rules?
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  3103.  @matrixman8582  I'll get a small loan from my parents, and then go party with some models. Or, is that against the imaginary ancap rules people "have to" abide by?
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  3104.  @matrixman8582  What difference does it make where my parents got it? You said I'd "have to" labour for my money. Nah, I paid some labourers to build me a casino that's sure to make me more money. Even if I go bankrupt, daddy can keep bailing me out until he dies, and I get tens of millions.
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  3105. ​ @MBarberfan4life  Countries like Switzerland also have the second highest cost per capita.
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  3106.  @seanking1775  Nice strawman.
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  3107. And yet, Israel needed an emergency iron dome reload, under Trump. Weird.
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  3108. If only.
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  3109.  @secularsocialist  I'm perfectly fine "hun". I have the ability to both remain calm, and point out morons, all at the same time, so don't worry your little head, about me. Rofl. What are you blathering about? It was Dore who said he was trying to figure out what the covid death rate was, after pulling total population hospitalization rates out of a Gallup article. He was the one who chose the incorrect rate to compare. He was the one too stupid to be able to find the current incorrect rate to compare. He was the one too stupid to do the math to figure out the current incorrect rate to compare. He was the dimwit who then chose an out of date incorrect rate to compare. All along, the rate he should have been looking for was the crude mortality rate, which is also very very easy to find. Just take the very easy to find deaths per million rate and move the decimal point to the left 4 spaces, or very easy to find deaths per thousand rate a move the decimal point to the left 1 space, and you have deaths per hundred. It's also easy to do the math. There's nothing incompatible with a 0.9% total population covid hospitalization rate, and a 0.26% total population covid death rate.
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  3110.  @josephrobinetteobidenjr.2971  That's stupid. Did Reagan bring in immigrants to vote Democrat?
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  3111. ​ @jds614  When the Powhatan Confederacy massacred colonists of Jamestown, in 1622, were they "terrorists" in a vacuum? What led up to that? Colonization, a previous massacre on the natives by the settlers of Jamestown, raids against the natives for resources, ... You might want to ask yourself what was happening prior to Oct 7.
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  3112. Gee, Brain, what do you want to do tonight? The same thing we do every night, Pinky - try to take over the world!
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  3113.  @dylanbutts1628  Think you mistakenly tagged me.
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  3114. Christians don't like James. He also said that Gentiles should initially be taught the basic Noahide laws (including dietary restrictions), and that they'd learn the rest of the laws from street preachers, and in temples, at a time when there was no book of the New Testament, so what they'd be learning is Jewish laws. Generations of Jewish Christian leaders in Jerusalem stuck to Jewish laws, until Roman Catholics came and ousted them. Early Jewish Christians also didn't seem to believe Jesus was God, and some even considered Paul a false prophet. Also, where you'd expect to find the earliest versions of Gentile Christianity (places like Antioch), they leaned more towards Arianism, which also didn't believe Jesus was God. Catholics gave them the standard options of conversion, death, or exile. Rome conquered Christianity, and transformed it into what it wanted, rather than the other way around. They started the arguments for "just" wars, as well as justifying private property ownership and wealth accumulation.
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  3115. He's talking to a bunch of morons, who are also clueless that the Southern racists left the Democrat party and instead voted third party, in 1968, for a racist segregationist, winning 5 states, before being won over by Nixon, in 1972. They instead think the most racist states in America, for centuries, magically became the least racist states. They're dumber than stumps, or Trumps.
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  3116. ​ @tallspicy  Critical reasoning should tell you that ethnic cleansing is genocide, if the natives don't move, because if they don't move, they get killed. Bezalel Smotrich, the guy Netanyahu put in charge of the West Bank, is a terrorist, homophobe, racist, and lunatic, who made public a plan to segregate and subjugate (no federal representation), exile, or kill, any non Jews in all Israel/Palestine.
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  3117. That he does. He thinks all the Jews should go there, and that America should mimic their ethno-state, only for white Christians.
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  3118.  @ravenmusic6392  High testing rates, high levels of compliance with masking and other covid measures, and high vaccination rates, are all connected to countries having lower hospitalization and death rates. If a large percentage of your population are morons, who refuse to wear masks or get vaccinated, then they're the ones leaving you with few other options. Morons shouldn't be the ones dictating how things are going to go. Singapore's decision, to make the unvaccinated pay for all their healthcare costs, might be worth a try.
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  3119.  @ravenmusic6392  The UK has about 70% of the population vaccinated. All the Nordic countries are higher, including do nothing Sweden. France, Italy, Ireland, Portugal, Germany, and Spain, are all higher. Plus, a third of the UK's vaccinations are AZ, which is only 70% effective at the start. That's significantly different than a country having almost everyone vaccinated with a 95% efficacy vaccine.
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  3120.  @ravenmusic6392  The US is at 62.7%, and the UK at 70.99%, according to John Hopkins and the Google tracker. If being 9 points ahead is "significant", then writing off a point as completely insignificant, is kinda bullshit. Sweden 71.76%, Norway 73.29%, Finland 74.96%, Denmark 78.78% ... Ummm, yeah, being 95% effective, vs 75% effective, against alpha, is significant. Being 88% effective, vs 68%, against delta, is significant. It means AZ has been having over 2x more breakthrough cases.
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  3121.  @ravenmusic6392  Pretty sure it was you who conceded that other European countries used "horrendous mandates" to effectively achieve a higher vaccination rate than the UK.
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  3122.  @valkondarvalakev6377  Dore knobs aren't "leftists".
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  3123.  @valkondarvalakev6377  Anyone who is ftv is promoting a dimwitted Dore "plan". You're the kind of "leftists" who wind up on the wrong end of a Night of the Long Knives, after you help your right wing extremist "allies" topple the government.
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  3124. Yeah. They don't seem to get that, if they insist that Zionism = Judaism, then they're insisting that being anti-Judaism is a good thing, because being anti-Zionism is a good thing.
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  3125.  @XaiNYt  I'll say what I want. And why the hell would you suggest typing more f*cking words? That's stupid.
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  3126.  @XaiNYt  Did you reply again, dumb dumb? Got a notification but not seeing it.
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  3127. ​ @deadgolfer6345  If you don't get it, because you're vaccinated, then you've stopped it spreading to you, and then people you come in contact with, dumb dumb.
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  3128.  @adotjon78  If you don't get it, you don't spread it, dumb dumb. You'd have to falsely believe the vaccines have a 0% efficacy to believe they don't reduce spread.
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  3129. Trump, expecting it to be called on election night, rather than a December certified result, was looking for an AP call himself.
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  3130.  @leviashanken2506  The report of Assistant Inspector-General Richard Catling of the British Palestinian Police Force. You're good with the rest they did ... bombing Palestinian public places ... murdering women, children, and Palestinian Jews?
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  3131. Pretty sure a female "pickup artist" could use a much smaller "bag of tricks", to get men to sleep with her. Probably wouldn't even have to "trick" the majority of them into bed.
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  3132. The main problem with those Pew "research" polls, is that they didn't seem to poll other religions. I had an issue with Harris always citing them, when there was nothing to compare them to. At the time, 80% of Americans supported invading Iraq and blowing up hundreds of thousands of civilians. Something like 60% supported torture. Including Harris himself. They're looking at those Muslim numbers in a vacuum.
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  3133.  @EricLeafericson  Okay. The Nazis were backed by leading German industrialists, who were not socialists, in fact were ardent opponents of socialists, communists, and unionists. Hitler promised those backers there wouldn't be a redistribution of wealth. They allied with other far right parties to form the Harzburg Front. They were European leaders in privatization, prior to an all out war economy. They went after communists, socialists, and unionists, for "illegal socialist activity". They killed off any prominent left leaning members of the party, on the Night of the Long Knives. One of the reasons they gave for hating Jews, is for creating socialism, because Marx was of the Jewish "race". Etc. The black shirts first went after socialist enclaves, across Italy. The King had enough troops to put down the Fascists, but instead decided to make Mussolini PM, exactly because they had been opposing socialists. The King, and the other large landowners, of Italy, who decided to back the Fascists, were the opposite of socialists.
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  3134.  @EricLeafericson  YouTube not liking some word all of a sudden ...  @EricLeafericson  Okay. The Nzis were backed by leading German industrialists, who were not scialists, in fact were ardent opponents of scialists, cmmunists, and unionists. Htler promised those backers there wouldn't be a redistribution of wealth. They allied with other far right parties to form the Harzburg Front. They were European leaders in privatization, prior to an all out war economy. They went after cmmunists, scialists, and unionists, for "illegal scialist activity". They klled off any prominent left leaning members of the party, on the Night of the Long Knives. One of the reasons they gave for hating Jws, is for creating scialism, because Marx was of the Jwish "race". Etc. The black shirts first went after scialist enclaves, across Italy. The King had enough troops to put down the Fscists, but instead decided to make Mssolini PM, exactly because they had been opposing scialists. The King, and the other large landowners, of Italy, who decided to back the Fscists, were the opposite of scialists. Etc.
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  3135.  @Historia.Magistra.Vitae.  You want to rehash your lies in another thread? The Harzburg Front weren't leftists. Emil Kirdorf, and other leading German industrialist backers, were not a leftist. Both owning a business and being a party member doesn't equate to the party owning the business. You think an absolute monarchy, where one person owns everything, is socialism. You effectively argued Republicans who own businesses, are leftists. You are certifiably insane.
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  3136.  @Historia.Magistra.Vitae.  You want to rehash your dishonesty in another thread? Ok. The Harzburg Front weren't leftists. Emil Kirdorf, and other leading German industrialist backers, were not leftists. Both owning a business and being a party member doesn't equate to the party owning the business. You think an absolute monarchy, where one person owns everything, is socialism. You effectively argued Republicans who own businesses, are leftists. You are certifiably insane.
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  3137.  @Historia.Magistra.Vitae.  You want to rehash your ignorance in a second thread? Ok. The Harzburg Front weren't leftists. Emil Kirdorf, and other leading German industrialist backers, weren't leftists. Both owning a business and being a party member doesn't equate to the party owning the business, let alone the government owning the business. You think an absolute monarchy, where one person owns everything, is socialism. You effectively argued Republicans who own businesses, are leftists. That's crazy talk.
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  3138.  @Historia.Magistra.Vitae.  Nope. Emil Kirdorf had pulled his backing, and threw it behind another right wing party, because they hadn't done anything about a few prominent members calling for the redistribution of wealth. Those members were taken care of and Emil returned his support.
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  3139.  @Historia.Magistra.Vitae.  "Fascism repudiates the conception of "economic" happiness, to be realized by Socialism and, as it were, at a given moment in economic evolution to assure to everyone the maximum of well-being. Fascism denies the materialist conception of happiness as a possibility, and abandons it to its inventors, the economists of the first half of the nineteenth century. That is to say, Fascism denies the validity of the equation, well-being = happiness, which would reduce men to the level of animals, caring for one thing only-to be fat and well-fed-and would thus degrade humanity to a purely physical existence. After Socialism, Fascism combats the whole complex system of democratic ideology, and repudiates it, whether in its theoretical premises or in its practical application." ~ Mussolini
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  3140.  @Historia.Magistra.Vitae.  "They certainly were." Absolutely insane. 🤪
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  3141.  @Historia.Magistra.Vitae.  Lol, what? If the workers are the owners, where's the hierarchy? If everyone owns everything equally, where's the hierarchy? You are an insane person, who thinks when one person owns everything, that's socialism! You have zero credibility.
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  3142.  @Historia.Magistra.Vitae.  Yeah, when everyone is equal owners, there's no class hierarchies. You think when one person owns everything, that's socialism, so you're not credible, in the least.
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  3143. "Anti-Nazism is anti-German!" ~ 1930s you, I guess.
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  3144. ​ @remogatron1010  Native Americans reached a point where they wanted to push the white man back into the sea. Guess what, dumb dumb ... it wasn't simply because they were white. It was because they were asshole colonizers and ethnic cleansers.
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  3145. ​ @remogatron1010  If you're the native, in your country, then you're the Palestinians, dumb dumb.
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  3146. The climate on Mars is wonderful.
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  3147.  @zoobrizz  Sorry, you're obviously not my type. Better luck next time.
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  3148. ​ @barbaraklein3944  Likud's bloody 100 year history ... In 1923, 100 years ago, Ze'ev Jabotinsky wrote, The Iron Wall, and a follow up, The Ethics of The Iron Wall (sooo racist towards Africans), in which he fully acknowledged that post Balfour Zionsim was colonialism, and that, based on the entirety of history, the native Palestinian population would resist being colonized until the bitter end. He directly compared it to the colonization of North America. He promoted doing it anyway, claiming Zionist colonialism was a "just" colonialism (he also thought North American colonialists were good guys, so not a great judge of morality), not caring what that meant for the native population. Ze'ev is important, because his Betar militant youth group helped found the Irgun terrorist group, along with other supporters of his, and the splinter Lehi terrorist group. The Irgun bombed numerous Palestinian markets and other public places, murdering many Palestinian civilians, including children, even including Palestinian Jews (who didn't support colonialist Zionsim). The Irgun are important, because they ended up being led by future Likud PM, Menachem Begin, who bombed the King David Hotel. The King David Hotel was bombed because the British had raided the Jewish Agency and seized numerous documents that may have shown that the terrorists were working with the JA and Haganah (JA liked to pretend that they didn't support the terrorism). The British then stored those documents at their base, in the hotel. That the Irgun terrorists responded to a JA raid, itself seems to prove the connection. That the thousands of Irgun (and Lehi) terrorists were also quickly merged into the new nation's military (IDF) and intelligence (Mossad) agencies, and are still celebrated as "heroes" by Israelis, to this day, also seems to support total collaboration between the groups. That other terrorist group mentioned, Lehi (also known as the Stern Gang), was considered even more extreme. They even tried to ally with the Nazis, against the British. Lehi ended up being led by Yitzhak Shamir, future Mossad agent, and another future Likud PM. In 1945, there was a major land and peoples survey done in Palestine. It showed that the Zionists only owned about 5% of the total land, 20% of the arable land, and owned a majority in zero districts. The partition was not only going to be forced on the native Palestinian majority, but Jews were still going to be a minority, in the part allocated to them. The only possible way to even become a "Jewish state" was going to require getting rid of the actual majority (at least enough so that there'd be a solid Jewish majority, so they could fake being democratic). This is also shown by the 1948, post Nakba, population of Israel. If there was 716,700 Jews, 156,000+ non-Jews, and approximately 700k non-Jews ethnically cleansed, that means the Jewish population, in the Zionist portion of partition, was originally over 100,000 less than the non-Jewish population. To believe that there was never any intent, by Zionists, to ethnically cleanse away the Palestinian majority would require believing that they never intended to create a "Jewish state". It's a nonsensical notion. Begin, and those terrorist groups, also opposed partition, but for the opposite reason Palestinians did. Palestinians didn't want to be colonized, at all. The terrorists wanted to colonize it all. "Moderate" Zionists were okay with colonizing half ... for now (what would happen in the future, after partition, was up to them, said Ben-Gurion). The Zionist terrorists were also involved in massacres, and assassinations, during the partition violence (colonialist war against the natives). Another notable future Likud PM, also started in the military, during the partition fighting. That was Ariel Sharon, war criminal, "Butcher of Beirut". Menachem Begin, and these other Zionist terrorists, are important because they also later founded Likud. Now, people get upset over the slogan "From the river to the sea!", but it's the second part that's most important, "Palestine will be free!". Because "Palestine" isn't defined as an ethno-state, a free Palestine can be a single state, free for all to live in, and return to, free of continuing colonization, free of occupation, free of oppression, etc. Just like a Germany free of Nazism, an Italy free of fascism, a South Africa free of apartheid, or an America free of slavery from sea to shiny sea. It doesn't necessitate purging all the Jews. It just necessitates them giving up on the idea of an ethno-state. On the other hand, because "Israel" has been defined as an ethno-state, Likud's, "between the sea and the Jordan there will only be Israeli sovereignty", has no possible good interpretation. It is a declaration of intent to completely colonize, and ethnically cleanse, all Palestine territories. Not only that, but it also claims that they have a "right" to all of the "Land of Israel" (biblical borders that don't mesh with archaeological reality), which is an open declaration of future wars, against Jordan, Syria, Lebanon, and possibly even Iraq. Likud platform ... 1977: "The Right of the Jewish People to the Land of Israel (Eretz Israel) a. The right of the Jewish people to the land of Israel is eternal and indisputable and is linked with the right to security and peace; therefore, Judea and Samaria will not be handed to any foreign administration; between the Sea and the Jordan there will only be Israeli sovereignty. b. A plan which relinquishes parts of western Eretz Israel, undermines our right to the country, unavoidably leads to the establishment of a "Palestinian State," jeopardizes the security of the Jewish population, endangers the existence of the State of Israel. and frustrates any prospect of peace." "Settlement Settlement. both urban and rural. in all parts of the Land of Israel is the focal point of the Zionist effort to redeem the country, to maintain vital security areas and serves as a reservoir of strength and inspiration for the renewal of the pioneering spirit. The Likud government will call on the younger generation in Israel and the dispersions to settle and help every group and individual in the task of inhabiting and cultivating the wasteland, while taking care not to dispossess anyone." 1999: "The Government of Israel flatly rejects the establishment of a Palestinian Arab state west of the Jordan river. The Palestinians can run their lives freely in the framework of self-rule, but not as an independent and sovereign state. Thus, for example, in matters of foreign affairs, security, immigration, and ecology, their activity shall be limited in accordance with imperatives of Israel's existence, security and national needs." "The Jewish communities in Judea, Samaria, and Gaza are the realization of Zionist values. Settlement of the land is a clear expression of the unassailable right of the Jewish people to the Land of Israel and constitutes an important asset in the defense of the vital interests of the State of Israel. The Likud will continue to strengthen and develop these communities and will prevent their uprooting." All Palestine territories are officially considered occupied, by the International Court of Justice, the UN GA, the UN SC, and even in official documents of Israel's own allies. Likud is still using the blueprint for colonizing North America, in the West Bank. Move settlements out into native territory, piss off the natives, the natives retaliate, cry about poor "innocent" colonizing settlers being the "victims" of violent "Savages!", call in the cavalry to put down the native uprising, and eventually expand the borders to include those settlements. Rinse and repeat. In Gaza, they are operating an open air WWII style fascist ghetto. Them claiming a "right to defend themselves" would be like the Nazis claiming a "right to defend themselves " from the Warsaw ghetto uprising. There's no "war". That they're the occupiers means the "war" part is long over. That partition was forced upon the Palestinian majority, against their will ... that the Zionist portion still had to be forcefully ethnically cleansed of its non-Jewish majority, against their will ... that the millions of occupied Palestinians don't have a say in the government that truly rules over them, Israel's ... means Israel is about as democratic as Nazi Germany after Hitler purged his political opponents and then held elections. Hamas is basically just a poor man's Likud, only fighting against colonialism, instead of for colonialism.
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  3149.  @scotthullinger9955  Well ... except for the shooting up of synagogues, mosques, Sikh temples, black churches, Hispanics shopping, the rise in hate crimes and domestic terrorism, the numerous police departments found to use racial profiling, white nationalist "free speech" rallies, etc. ... aside from all that ... non-existent.
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  3150.  @Nawggy  He's a grifter, who promoted his daughter's all meat diet, claiming it got him off drugs, not long before having to be put into a coma, to get him off drugs. He has proven he's willing to lie, and possibly harm people, to make money.
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  3151.  @censorshipleadstothenwo1237  The Bible is about a sexless being, that goes by masculine gender pronouns, who then transitions into a human male. It justifies incest, genocide, and slavery, amongst other things. Why would you want it taught in schools?
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  3152.  @NatTurnerswitBurnerz  That's backwards. Especially if your audience is increasingly right wing, like Jimmy's, should you be letting them know Republicans aren't working for them.
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  3153. Wasn't there only one race, prior to Babel, according to the story?
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  3154. Someone that anti-gay would vote for anti-gay policies, to ruin gay people's lives.
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  3155. Oh ya? When has Omar supported killing other representatives?
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  3156. ​​ @Drinkingyoursaltytearsallah Making a general statement that "the Jewish population" had been living in Jerusalem for centuries or millennia, is kind of dishonest. In 1882, Jews were 8% of the population, and in 1947, they were 32% of the population. So, in 1947, only 25% of "the Jewish population" could be considered native. It is also somewhat ridiculous to include the Palestinian Jews with the Zionist invaders. Palestinian Jews sided with the Palestinian Muslims and Christians. The Zionist terrorist groups, Irgun and Lehi, targeted them right alongside their Palestinian brothers and sisters.
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  3157. ​ @BamBamGT1  Blah, blah, blah. I can't believe all these moronic pro-colonialism arguments. Whatever you call the land, whatever you call the people, there were individuals living there. Ethnically cleansing them, to give the land to people from Europe and Russia, is colonialism. Colonialists are never not the aggressors. They are also racists and bigots. In 1945, there was a massive land and peoples survey. Palestinians owned 84% of the land in the Jerusalem district. 96% in Hebron. 87% in Nablus. 78% in Tulkarm. 84% in Jenin. 87% in Acre. 77% in Ramle. Smaller majorities in 4 other districts, and pluralities in another 4. Nowhere were Jews the majority. Land was handed to the minority of inhabitants, 75% of the Jewish ones being non-native, and the majority population was ethnically cleansed ... at least enough so that the Jews could be a majority in "their" half, so they could fake being democratic.
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  3158. The guy could give each Amazon employee 60 Amazon shares, worth about $120k, and still be worth $80b himself. He's a douchebag of a superhero.
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  3159.  @grsshppr7659  No. You can thank their greed for not doing that anymore, because they could easily have done both. Only being able to do one or the other is a false dichotomy. The minimum wage hike benefited the vast majority of employees.
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  3160.  @grsshppr7659  Oh, well congrats on both of you being petty vindictive assholes, then. Still greedy. Anyone worth $160b is greedy. His stocks would be worth zip, if he just packed it in and closed up shop. You're stupid enough to think he'd do that?
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  3161.  @grsshppr7659  Blah, blah, blah. You already admitted you're a petty vindictive asshole. You argued he was a petty vindictive asshole. And, nothing you've said refutes that wanting that much wealth is greedy.
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  3162.  @gnubbiersh647  No. He's obviously not very bright. That he has people throwing money at his idiocy isn't evidence of anything other than people being dumb. The MAGA crowd does the same thing for Trump.
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  3163.  @paulg6274  😂 He wrote an entire book, and never got beyond what he stated was already a given, at the start, with his "objective" morality. It was pure garbage.
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  3164.  @gnubbiersh647  Then how is "multiple best sellers" relevant to the point, ignoramus?
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  3165.  @gnubbiersh647  Ah, so "multiple best sellers" was just completely irrelevant. You're bright.
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  3166.  @gnubbiersh647  You have some severe reading comprehension problems. No wonder you're a Harris fan.
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  3167.  @gnubbiersh647  Learn to read. You're providing evidence that Harris fans are low intelligence.
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  3168.  @gnubbiersh647  Well, good thing that's not what I said, dumb dumb.
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  3169.  @gnubbiersh647  Not what I said. Get a brain.
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  3170.  @gnubbiersh647  Problem is, that's not what I said. No wonder you think Sam is smart.
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  3171.  @gnubbiersh647  You, apparently, both misread what they said, and what I said. You make for a good Harris fan ... not very sharp.
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  3172.  @gnubbiersh647  Except, the person I replied to didn't make an argument that he's popular, 💩 for brains. He stated two things, and then solely made out like those were evidence of intelligence. Go on, and keep providing evidence for how slow Harris fans are.
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  3173.  @gnubbiersh647  Except, the comment I replied to made no argument, that he was popular. They listed two things, and then only argued he was intelligent, as if those two things were evidence of that.
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  3174. Well, he is "Judeo-Christian values", when he's pandering to his Christian followers. 1/3rd Christian values.
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  3175. Nikki "I had black friends growing up" Haley ... she went to the Orangeburg Preparatory Schools, which were literally founded for white kids only, to avoid desegregation. They acknowledged admitting their first non-white student in 1989, the year she graduated. She was considered white, the whole time, and zero chance of having any non-white school friends.
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  3176.  @uche007us  Saline water? I think everyone would die.
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  3177. ​ @adotjon78  Why do you think it's cool, if Russia keeps messing around in former Soviet states (something it has been doing since 1991)? Putin has made it pretty clear, that he thinks all of them should still belong to Russia. Is there any point at which you would help any of those states, if they asked for it? Or, just let Russia invade, and take, as much of them as they want?
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  3178.  @adotjon78  Probably shouldn't have had a cold war. That doesn't change the fact that those SSR states declared independence, Russia (on the surface) recognized their independence, the UN recognized their independence, and yet Russia (now fascist) has still chosen to f*ck around in them. I don't blame them for seeking help, or others for offering them help. Yep, toss Bush in a prison. I likewise wouldn't blame anyone for helping countries the US invades, or blame those countries for asking for help.
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  3179. The FBI aren't uniformed cops. They have to do undercover sometimes. So, they don't want their names and faces plastered everywhere, so every criminal in the area knows them to see them.
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  3180.  @malachiromero6077  Kyle Rittenhouse? The kid's own defense made zero sense. If it's self defense to shoot someone for pointing a gun at you, then surely it's self defense to grab at a gun someone is pointing at you. His own defense makes him a murderer, and it's actually within the law to chase down and attack fleeing murderers.
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  3181.  @malachiromero6077  You seem to have missed my point. If it's self defense for Kyle to shoot Gaige, when Gaige pointed a gun at him, then surely it's self defense for Rosenbaum to simply grab at Kyle's gun, when Kyle pointed a gun at him. Kyle's own self defense argument for Gaige, should make the shooting of Rosenbaum murder. If the shooting of Rosenbaum is murder, then the other 2 totally had the right to chase down Kyle and even use violence to stop him.
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  3182.  @malachiromero6077  No. Kyle outright testified that he pointed his gun at Rosenbaum, first.
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  3183.  @malachiromero6077  What do you mean no legal reason? If Kyle has a legal reason to shoot someone pointing a gun at him, then how is having a gun pointed at you not a legal reason to try and grab it? That makes zero sense.
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  3184.  @Foxy-vs6yj  So, moving towards someone is life threatening?
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  3185.  @Foxy-vs6yj  Ah, so everyone saying they were going to kill Mike Pence, Pelosi, and AOC, then attempted to force their way into where they thought those people were, should be charged with attempted murder, or something, yeah? Because words are now violence.
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  3186. Texas has a few million less people than Canada, but is still at higher cases and deaths per day. Canada still has various levels of lockdown.
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  3187. Originally, Egypt was the first nation to rule over Canaan.
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  3188.  @grantwithers  It was law, for his workplace, for years. He had zero examples to support his slippery slope bullshit. Hate speech laws, covering other protected peoples, had also been around for years, with zero examples to support his slippery slope bullshit. They've now been around for years longer, and still zero examples to support his slippery slope bullshit.
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  3189.  @MrBeardedgelfling  It's statistics, dimwit. India has a worse rating for women than Saudi.
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  3190.  @MrBeardedgelfling  7000+ dowry death cases, per year. 50000+ women/girls kidnapped for the sex slave industry, per year. A third of the world's child brides. How young are you talking?
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  3191. Like Philando Castile.
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  3192.  @truegrit2060  Like Patrick Warren?
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  3193.  @edwardrosser938  He did it on Joe Rogan, dimwit. Ironic last sentence. Hard to tell Dore knobs from Trumpists.
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  3194.  @edwardrosser938  I completely understood him to say ivermectin was an effective remedy, and preventative, on the Joe Rogan show. You didn't even seem to know he said it. You keep saying shit like this, but who is "conforming without questioning"? I just get my questions answered by the vast majority of doctors and scientists, across the world. An ability to do math, that Dore seemingly lacks, and reading comprehension skills, that Dore seemingly lacks, also help. Oops, looks like a Freudian slip, there, "I'm beholden to Dore".
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  3195.  @edwardrosser938  You've shown zero evidence of thinking for yourself, or being objective. Someone actually "thinking" would get their answers from the vast majority of scientists and doctors, not fringe loons verifying their subjective feelings. And you've shown zero evidence you question what those fringe voices are telling you. I'm responding to what YouTube is notifying me about. I haven't been scrolling through the entire thread, everytime. I'm in favor of paying people, instead of giant corporations, during lockdowns. I have also been in favor of following safety measures better, so there would be fewer lockdowns. Unlike you, I also support not having thousands of business owners dying and never being able to run a business again. So, you're wrong.
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  3196.  @edwardrosser938  "October 30, 2020 -- A new study conducted by researchers at Imperial College London found the COVID-19 infection fatality ratio is about 1.15% of infected people in high-income nations and 0.23% in low-income nations." So, 1 in 100 people with covid die, in developed countries, and you're all worried about a 1 in 100000 syndrome ... that is also caused by the virus, as well?
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  3197.  @edwardrosser938  Those hospitalization numbers in the op, that Dore himself cited, shows that the unvaccinated are being hospitalized at 89x the rate of of the vaccinated (a fact he didn't seem interested in). All the overwhelmed hospitals and hospital staff, are primarily their fault. Why should we care about someone who doesn't care about spreading the virus more easily? Why should we care about someone who doesn't care about overwhelming hospitals, increasing deaths due to other reasons? Your friend could be killing other people, right now, by taking a hospital bed due to stupidity.
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  3198.  @edwardrosser938  I must be pretty lucky. I don't have any family and friends that need shaming. Are you related to, and friends with, a lot of stupid people?
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  3199.  @edwardrosser938  Their "different views" are stupid, which contradicts the "intelligent", and people with those views are, again, spreading a deadly virus the most and taking up hospital beds the most, helping to kill other people, which contradicts the "nice".
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  3200. ​ @shadebleu  Trump not only won't stop aid, he has announced that he wants newcomers to be forced to pledge solidarity with Israel. Is there some other viable option?
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  3201.  @shadebleu  Because your comment would suggest voting for someone else, dimwit. Who would that be?
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  3202.  @shadebleu  Do you know the definition of "viable", dumb dumb?
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  3203.  @landon1626  Lol, yep, and Haley is talking making being anti-Zionist illegal. The free speech party.
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  3204. Increasing the number of loons viewing, commenting on, and liking, their anti-vax crap makes them money.
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  3205.  @patrickriarchy1976  You seem to have zero clue what you're talking about. UAE government: "Liability of VAT The liability of VAT is the difference between the output tax payable (VAT charged on supplies of goods and services) for a given tax period and the input tax (VAT incurred on purchases) recoverable for the same tax period. Where the output tax exceeds the input tax amount, the difference must be paid to FTA. Where the input tax exceeds the output tax, a taxable person will have the excess input tax recovered; he will be entitled to set this off against subsequent payment due to FTA." Do you grasp what that says? If my business has paid $1000 input VAT, and collected $2000 output VAT, it only needs to send the difference ($1000) to the government, recovering the $1000 it spent. Again ... if the government received $2000 ($1000 + $1000), and my customers paid $2000, how much tax did my business end up paying?
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  3206.  @patrickriarchy1976  So far, you're arguing with someone who actually filled out the vat returns, for years ... the Canadian government ... and the UAE government. From the EU, representing 27 countries: "a consumption tax because it is borne ultimately by the final consumer. It is not a charge on businesses." "The VAT due on any sale is a percentage of the sale price but from this the taxable person is entitled to deduct all the tax already paid at the preceding stage. Therefore, double taxation is avoided ..." How big a hole do you want to dig yourself into?
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  3207.  @patrickriarchy1976  Rofl. It's never the end customer. If I spend $1000 on an office computer, for my clothing business, and pay $100 VAT, I still get to deduct that from my output VAT, collected on clothing sales. All input VAT can be deducted from all output VAT. Just stop.
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  3208.  @patrickriarchy1976  If your business is big enough, that you need an accountant, then you're already going to need one to do your VAT returns, ffs. Now you're getting ridiculous.
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  3209.  @christophergreen6595  Yeah, he was an anarchist. He hated fascists, but also didn't much like authoritarian communists, promoting Soviet style communism.
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  3210.  @nathandwyer7273  Dishonesty? The Capitol Hill police bill was heavily amended in the senate, and sent back to the house. What was AOC's actual final vote on the bill?
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  3211.  @DiverDan1000-3  You failed again. Check your reading comprehension, and try again.
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  3212.  Aaron Dickson  So, you want more gun violence. Then what are you complaining about?
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  3213. He described Rosen as a troll. Not feeding the trolls is pretty standard advice, but immediately also pointed out a double standard, before being interrupted. They called Rosen's actions as "whitesplaining", "racist", trolling, and mocked her lame apology. Not sure what else you're looking for.
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  3214.  Logically progressive  Trump, and his cronies, have proved trolling on TV, or just about anywhere, is a thing. He had Republican presidential candidates arguing dick sizes at a debate, instead of issues. Sam didn't say not to respond, at all, so that's just a strawman. He knows it's an interview show, where two guests are each going to give opinions on things, and what each other are saying. Not letting a troll push your buttons, to get the reaction they want, doesn't equate to not responding. Sam is simply not a Nina, or a Cenk, or an Ana, and doesn't get very riled up when he's a guest on MSM. Disagreeing with his approach isn't quite the same as making out like he's a racist who needs to "STFU", as in the above op.
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  3215.  Logically progressive  He didn't say not to respond, as I've already mentioned. Continuing to regurgitate your strawman, anyway, is pretty dishonest. Here, you're commenting on my reply to this op. Go back to your own thread, if you don't want this op referred to.
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  3216.  Logically progressive  Rofl, you're the obvious moron. I didn't even refer to your other conversation, dumbass, so have no clue why that guy even replied to me. That you do think I referred to your other conversation, and needed a correction, indicates you both have severe reading comprehension problems.
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  3217.  @DesignDungeon-nn6jn  No, moron. Objectively, if someone comments in a thread without tagging anyone, then they're replying to the op. Then, when someone tags me and replies to my comment, we're now in a conversation about my reply to the op. Then I tag a reply, and we're in a seperate conversation, dumbass. Done with me? You shouldn't have even started with me, idiot.
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  3218.  @DesignDungeon-nn6jn  Moron, I didn't tag Logically, in my first comment. I responded to the op, dumbass, then Logically started a conversation with me, that you've butted into. Good, fuck off.
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  3219.  @DesignDungeon-nn6jn  Learn how YouTube comment sections work, moron.
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  3220.  @DesignDungeon-nn6jn  Rofl! Hilarious! You read his reply to me, and did you then comment to him about that, and somehow automatically think that brought me along? You two seem to be under some weird delusion that I've read anything you've said to each other.
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  3221.  @DesignDungeon-nn6jn  Hurr Durr ... uh huh. I get notifications when tagged, and respond to being tagged. So, my conversation is limited only to my reply to the op, and replies to tags. So, try rereading my conversation, limited only to my tagging and being tagged, without your nonsensical assumption that I'm reading the entire thread, instead of just reading my notifications.
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  3222.  @DesignDungeon-nn6jn  Rofl, are you "done", or not, dumb dumb? "Done" would suggest you'd stop replying, but you don't.
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  3223.  @DesignDungeon-nn6jn  You seem to get a kick out of trolling yourself. Did we do this before, where you trolled yourself for endless links proving you're a clueless moron? done: completed; finished; through
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  3224.  @DesignDungeon-nn6jn  Hehe, yep the same dumb dumb.
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  3225. Do tell.
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  3226. The other side of the argument? That colonialism, ethnic cleansing, and occupation, are good things? That operating an open air WWII style fascist ghetto, and bombing it when there's an uprising, is a good thing?
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  3227. BLM started protesting years ago. They didn't start only after being fed bullshit by politicians. It's actual police actions that set them off, not politicians spouting baseless nonsense.
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  3228. Celebrate the British colonizers ... celebrate revolting against the British.
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  3229. Sounds more like a US health insurance problem. Canada has how many adverse effects are reported, and anyone can go get treated for any ailments, due to universal healthcare coverage. "Of the 57,436 individual reports (0.058% of all doses administered), 11,231 were considered serious (0.011% of all doses administered)."
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  3230.  @rtorres4132  I'm just saying I don't know if there's any way to avoid the right continuing to move to the extreme. They could have just as easily gone Bernie to avoid a Hillary or Biden. Instead they went Trump. Even if a president like Bill Clinton covers all the usual right wing bases ... turn deficit into surplus, pay down the debt, lower unemployment, increase police, lower crime, even "defend" straight marriage, etc. ... they just find new nuttier talking points, and elect an idiot like W, and his panel of neocon nuts. They've even been throwing their own under the bus, for not following the election insanity. Even FOX is now too tame for some of them. The Tea Party, before, did likewise. There's no other direction they seem willing to go.
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  3231.  @rtorres4132  Yeah, but there wouldn't have been any possible way to rig things enough, if massive amounts of Republicans jumped the party ship and voted Bernie. They didn't want to take things that direction either, most of them making out like Bernie was an outright authoritarian communist. However corrupt corporate Dems are, there's still no indication that most Republicans want to go any other direction than the direction they're going.
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  3232.  @rtorres4132  Like I said, there's no indication most right wingers want to go any other direction than that one. The percentage of the public that approved of him didn't change much, from beginning to end. More people voted in 2020, rather than shifted.
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  3233.  @jonathanlubarsky2782  Wow, yeah, no possible way to set retirement accounts as special, like with a 401(k). What are you talking about? People pay money for the stocks. Corporations buy back stocks, using money that came from people. Increased earnings, from money spent by people, causes stocks to increase in value. Corporations are hoarding about $4t of that money. You know "trickle down" was a complete failure, right? No. If you give $4t to the masses, they'll spend it ... on corporations. Then you tax it back, again. Rinse and repeat.
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  3234.  @jonathanlubarsky2782  Why are you magically making all stocks worth less? Arguing we need the super rich, to create jobs, and shit, is the "trickle down" argument. There simply used to be more smaller businesses, and even more people (than the 2/3 now) working for smaller businesses, before giant corporations. There's no "need" for billionaires. The bottom 50% own about 1.5% of total wealth, and pays about 3% of total taxes. The top 1% owns about 30% of total wealth and pays about 30% of total taxes. The poor are actually paying twice as much in taxes, as a percentage of their wealth.
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  3235.  @jonathanlubarsky2782  You literally argued that we "need" those rich people. Explain exactly what you meant by that, without making a "trickle down" argument. People pay property tax, every year, without selling said property. "Property tax" actually used to tax all property owned, not just land and home. It used to be a kind of wealth tax. Where am I losing you? Retirement investments can be specifically protected. The only way they'd lose money is if the stock values dropped. How are you magically making the stock values drop? Which one of these people, or corporations, you're defending doesn't f*ck others over? Bezos is a union buster. Musk is a union buster. "Inflation" isn't a force of nature. It's businesses raising prices. They're doing it now, while making record profits. Headline: The wealthiest 1% has taken $50 trillion from working Americans and redistributed it, a new study finds.
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  3236. These super rich shits, living off stocks, aren't paying as much in taxes, as you make out. It is the lesser rich, with large taxable annual incomes, paying most of the 1%'s taxes. Nobody needs billionaires to continue existing, just to pay taxes. The rest of your argument was about them going to trickle down their wealth, by creating more businesses, jobs, and other bullshit, which they aren't really doing. Their wealth increased by $1.7t over the pandemic. Where's the $1.7t in new businesses, raised wages, expanding current businesses, charities, etc.? They need consumers with money, to exist. Plenty more taxes in other countries, and they keep their businesses there. Nothing you blathered changes the fact that property taxes tax property, annually, not on sale, when the value is realized. Nor did you change the fact that "property tax" used to tax all property, and was effectively a kind of wealth tax, which worked just fine, before income taxes. Why would it lower the value of the stock? It would put more stock up for sale, each year, and the value would depend on demand. It would be a way for others, including retirement plans, to buy more of the stock. Inflation doesn't simply magically rise with money supply, all on its own, dimwit. People with more money want to buy more stuff. Instead of keeping prices the same and increasing supply to meet the new demand, businesses raise the prices until demand drops to meet supply. The problem was, first, allowing for supply to drop so much, during the pandemic, and giving more money to businesses than consumers. If they had given the money to consumers, they would have kept demanding stuff from businesses, who would have then kept up supply. If you hand the money to businesses, then they get paid for not having to sell/supply anything, and they can let supply drop. You're basically arguing that people need to be paid shit, so they can't demand more.
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  3237.  @jonathanlubarsky2782  Btw, currency in circulation has gone from $1.8t to $2.3t, since the start of 2020. That's not even a 50% increase, let alone a 400% increase.
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  3238.  @jonathanlubarsky2782  You're clearly not very bright. If 20% was 100% of the money in circulation before 2020, and then 80% of the money in circulation was printed after, that's a 400% increase, dumb dumb. You're claiming 4/5ths of the money was printed after. If 1/5th was 100%, then 4/5ths more is 400% more. If you can't do very basic math, then nothing else you say is reliable. You're also completely ignorant, or completely dishonest, about Musk's stocks. It's not like he started with X amount of Telsa stock and that is what is now worth $200b. He has recieved multiple payments of stocks worth tens of billions. Tesla has just been taken to court over his last 4 year $56b compensation package. Tesla could just have easily handed that to its workers, who were the real people who reached the benchmarks. Other people have been f*cked over, to hand him hundreds of billions. I stopped reading your pure bullshit, after that.
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  3239.  @jonathanlubarsky2782  80 is 44.45% of 180, dimwit, not 80%. An 80% increase and 80% of the total, are two different things, dimwit. You're dumb as a stump, or a Trump.
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  3240.  @jonathanlubarsky2782  You are such a dishonest twit. The bonus was for Tesla valuation hitting certain benchmarks. If they didn't hit those marks there wouldn't be a bonus. If they did hit, or surpass, those marks, the stock would be worth what it's worth, now. Either no bonus, or current value bonus. Why don't the workers deserve the $50b? Why isn't $6b be enough for a single person?
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  3241.  @jonathanlubarsky2782  The point is that there was no bonus, that would have only been worth $50k per employee. The bonus was always going to be worth what it was worth. $50b divided by 110k employees, is a $450k bonus. I get that you don't grasp basic math, but do you grasp English? A "bonus" would be on top of anything else they made. It wouldn't be one or the other. There was $50b, that the company could have done with what they wanted. They did not give it to employees, so yes the employees missed out. They did not spread it amongst shareholders, so the shareholders missed out. They did not reduce their prices, so the consumers missed out. They did not invest it into expansion and hiring more people, as in your bullshit trickle down fantasy world, so hypothetical numbers of unemployed missed out. They did not donate it to charity, as in your bullshit trickle down fantasy, so hypothetical numbers of people suffering missed out. They did not cure world hunger, for a decade, so millions of starving people missed out. Nope. They handed it to one person. In what demented reality couldn't $50b have helped tons of other people? Those people all missed out, with the decision to hand that much wealth to one person. The majority of Tesla employees don't make $450k in 4 years, btw: "The median Tesla employee made $56,163 in 2018, the electric-car maker said in a proxy statement."
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  3242.  @jonathanlubarsky2782  No, you lying twit. You claimed 80% of the money in circulation was printed after 2019. "the Federal Reserve printed 80% of all US money IN EXISTENCE in the span of 2 YEARS " "The Fed printed 80% of all US money in existence in the span of 2 years" If there is currently 100 in circulation, that would mean "80% of all US money in existence" is 80, and that that 80 was printed in the last 2 years, dumb dumb. That would mean you started with 20 and added 80. 80 is 400% of 20, dumb dumb. Yeah, your "point" is to deflect to some irrelevant nonsense. The bonus was never going to be worth what you're claiming it was worth. Plus, you're an ignoramus, who apparently doesn't know that most Tesla workers only make $56k a year. Your deflection tries to make out like $50k is nothing, when it would almost double their annual salary.
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  3243.  @jonathanlubarsky2782  Dishonest twit. "The median Tesla employee made $56,163 in 2018, the electric-car maker said in a proxy statement. That figure includes salary or wages, performance bonuses, and stock awards for full-time, part-time, and temporary employees excluding CEO Elon Musk, the company said."
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  3244.  Marc Ruffalo  Italian food has become an American staple. There are Italian restaurants everywhere. Movies and TV shows about Italian mobsters are still a constant. Italian immigrants built hundreds of Catholic churches and still have celebrations to prominent Italian saints. Many actually celebrate Columbus on Columbus Day, instead of just taking the day off. They've influenced art, theatre, music, and fashion. Oh, but your grandparents didn't play soccer. Yeah, those Italians really turned British American (original culture) alright.
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  3245.  Marc Ruffalo  America was built on government handouts of free land to illiterate immigrants. Whatever you think "should" be, English isn't the official language. You're not making much sense. Is there a culture of freedom from and freedom for religious belief or non-belief, that allows for new people of various beliefs, or should America have stuck with the original Puritan culture of the earliest colonists? They didn't think even other forms of Christianity were compatible with their culture.
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  3246.  Marc Ruffalo  You're the one who was falsely claiming America had no free handouts. It always has, in some form, or another. Why would I want to go back? You're the moron who thinks there's been some singular "American culture" everyone should adhere to. If that were actually true, there would never have been an evolving melting pot. There would have been a stagnant, never changing, singular culture. Now you're getting into some honesty. You don't give any value to those kind of people. You don't give a crap about what maybe you can do for them. It's all about what they can do for you.
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  3247.  osamabinladenssecondgirlfr4241  As soon as one became colonialist in nature, they became the aggressors. Colonialists are never not the aggressors, when it comes to natives.
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  3248.  @matthewjames2565  Defend what positions exactly? How do you think 11 people can pass anything, in congress, without working with a majority (the thing needed to pass a bill)?
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  3249.  @matthewjames2565  The most popular third party hasn't won a single seat in congress in its 50+ year existence. In what reality is that the faster option? Plus, a third party would never be in a position to be able to pass anything, unless they were actually in the majority, which would mean they aren't a third party.
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  3250. I have some Loyalist ancestors. I claim half of the US. So, start moving out. I'll take the homes and property of the half that has the most Israel supporters.
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  3251. Yeah, this guy's business is to electronically spy on Americans for the government, and the "anti-government" crowd is walking right into it.
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  3252.  @DumbAssSpeakingWithMansVoice  You're insane. There's no global conspiracy, nutbar. Peru has one of the highest covid death rates, and uses Ivermectin the most. Get a grip on reality, ffs.
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  3253.  Mister Physics  Apparently, you are barely literate.
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  3254.  @tsstevensts  We're doing sarcasm, here. You're supposed to say something like "Bonnie Heather ... never happened."
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  3255.  @TubiTuesdays  Well, there are already Swyer syndrome people, so welcome to the world of fem products in men's rooms and men giving birth. Yeah, there's no evidence of her even being XY, either. The IBA provided nothing.
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  3256.  @TubiTuesdays  Congratulations, Swyer Syndrome is a thing, with or without her. Welcome to the world of fem products in men's rooms and men giving birth.
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  3257.  @TubiTuesdays  1. No evidence she even has XY chromosomes. The IBA provided zero evidence. 2. Congratulations, Swyer Syndrome exists, with or without her. You can already do that.
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  3258.  @TubiTuesdays  1. No evidence from the IBA either. 2. Congratulations, Swyer Syndrome is a thing, with or without her. You can already do that.
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  3259.  @jonm7888  No worries.
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  3260. Oh? Was there a tie breaker, in the senate?
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  3261.  @CaptainSnackbeard  So, "no".
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  3262.  @TheTinyTimmyTimTim  What's unrealistic about: The vaccines save lives, so get vaccinated?
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  3263. Jakub Lejkin, aka "Little Napoleon", was who Ben Shapiro would have been, in Nazi Germany.
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  3264. Israel was founded on terrorism. Menachem Begin led the Irgun terrorist group, who bombed the King David Hotel. They literally taught their neighbours that terrorism was a path to statehood.
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  3265.  @aliamjon2550  Zionism is based on the Tanakh, dumb dumb.
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  3266.  @jessejgay1  No vaccine is 100%, dimwit.
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  3267.  @jessejgay1  Nah, Biden literally gave numbers showing that a small percentage of those who died were vaccinated, immediately before talking in a virtual manner. You'd have to be dumber than a stump to take the words following the numbers literally.
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  3268.  @jessejgay1  Pure bullshit.
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  3269.  @jessejgay1  I'm glad we can agree you're spouting bullshit. Not many people will admit to doing so. Good on you.
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  3270.  @jessejgay1  I thought we agreed that was bullshit? You're incoherent.
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  3271.  @BelowMeGoggle  No, dimwit. The context was, that AOC said voting "present" on an extremely important, or historical, item was a dodge. What extremely important, or historical, item did she vote "present" on, dingleberry?
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  3272.  @BelowMeGoggle  The squad would be his allies, ready to vote yes on Civil Rights, helping to add more Civil Rights yes votes to congress, and he wouldn't be stupid enough to slander his only allies in congress. You're a loon.
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  3273.  @biggieb8900  Lol, it does not correlate that, if I'm in favour of taking in refugees, then I'm pro-rape, or indifferent to rape. It's possible to be both in favour of taking in refugees and be opposed to rape.
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  3274. ​ @JohnnyTheWolf-d3p  I'm sure you have a great strategy, to let Trump win, who adores Palestinians. 🙄
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  3275. Ok, so you've got one pos running on tossing 10m of the poorest Americans off of Medicaid expansion, and another pos running on adding 40m older Americans to Medicare expansion, why is the first pos the better option?
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  3276.  @dimitrythomas4158  Nice strawmen, while also a being an argument that right wingers have been cancelling things for decades, and are complete hypocrites.
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  3277.  @dimitrythomas4158  A strawman would be saying I "agreed" with something I didn't say I agreed with. Argue for public ownership, but arguing "free speech" on private property (which is the current reality) is both moronic and hypocritical, for them. And, acknowledging the simple fact that there's no such thing as "free speech" on private property doesn't equate to agreeing with anyone's reasons for doing things, dimwit.
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  3278.  @9751matt  So... Protesting, rioting, tarring and feathering, and destroying private property, because you don't want to pay extra taxes specifically to fund the police/military (red coats) ... anti-authoritarianism. And ... Fighting against democracy to keep an unelected dictator (King George Trumpty Dumpty) in power ... authoritarianism. Those are samesies?
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  3279.  @tonystark4292  Let me know when Nazi leaders are praising Kyle for leading people in their direction, and I'll get back to you. Agreeing with people who are already alt-right on a single issue isn't the same as leading new people to them, which is what the Nazis are praising Sargon for. Sargon actually complains about and is opposed to those opposed to Nazis ... the big bad SJWs and the left ... far more than he does them. He also argues they should get a platform and even gives them a platform. Hell, he joined UKIP, with them, and managed to help make it more bigoted and extreme. Being active in politics, on their side, is far beyond Kyle simply agreeing on one issue, but good try.
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  3280.  @tonystark4292  EDL members, like Tommy Robinson.
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  3281.  @tonystark4292  Did you say anything that actually contradicts what I said? If so, I missed it. He has given them a platform, like I said. He has worked with some in UKIP, like I said. He constantly bashes those most opposed to Nazis, like I said. Nazi leaders have praised him as a gateway to them, consider him to be helping them, like I said. Calling yourself a "Zionist" doesn't change any of those facts.
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  3282.  @tonystark4292  I already linked to him having a white supremacist on his show. What's the use in replying to you, dickwad, when you're not even paying attention?
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  3283.  @tonystark4292  Far from a Nazi because he's bigoted towards this religious group and not that religious group? Yeah, sounds like a big difference.
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  3284.  @fernandohood5657  The Brexit "party" isn't like UKIP, or any other political party. It's a one trick pony. It doesn't even have a political platform, just a single agenda. Even people within the "party" have called Farage a racist. They all just agree on one thing ... exiting. Galloway said he'd vote for them once, because the country had voted to exit, and should get what they voted for. There won't be a need for a Brexit "party" after they actually exit, and Farage will likely go back to UKIP, which Galloway considers to be an extremist shit party, yet again. People get called anti-Semitic for complaining about the Israel lobby, meanwhile Farage outright complains about the "Jewish lobby". He's a xenophobe who blames foreigners for everything, and he's another person who gets endorsements from the likes of David Duke.
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  3285. Ironically a beta black man arguing whites are alphas. Sadly, he probably learned it growing up with his grandparents, who worked the same plantation their ancestors were slaves on.
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  3286. Which came first, Irgun/Lehi/Likud or Hamas? Likud was founded by Irgun and Lehi terrorists. Israel merged those terrorists into their military and intelligence agencies. Israelis elected the leaders of both those terrorist groups as PMs. Israelis, to this day, celebrate those terrorists as "heroes". Likud's platform (1977), "between the sea and the Jordan there will only be Israeli sovereignty", promises to completely colonize and ethnically cleanse all Palestine territories. It further claims a "right" to all the "Land of Israel" (fictional biblical borders that don't mesh with archaeological reality), which is an open declaration of future wars, against Jordan, Syria, Lebanon, and possibly Iraq. But, do go on, about how colonizing, ethnic cleansing, occupying, warmonger, terrorists, who operate an open air WWII style fascist ghetto, "has to protect themselves". Those Nazis sure "had to protect themselves" against ghetto uprisings and resistance groups.
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  3287. Because the centre of US politics is right of centre. Bernie's the actual centrist.
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  3288.  @barbiquearea  "that is their choice" That's all that's being asked for. A "baby" is actually one that's born. You're "having a baby", you don't "already have a baby". Hey, scientists can create artificial eggs, now. Every single sperm is a living organism, with individual DNA, that has the potential to become a living baby. Maybe we should ban sex, and only allow for masturbating into test tubes, so we can catch every single "baby".
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  3289.  fa q  Entirely true. Jimmy is almost always wrong.
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  3290.  fa q  Not voting Biden would let Trump win. If you don't think Trump is further right, then you're dumber than a stump.
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  3291.  fa q  Yeah, I read that you're clueless, just fine.
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  3292.  fa q  Dore's own argument for Trump being better for progressives than Clinton, was based on Trump being far worse. The worse the president, the bigger the progressive backlash, was Dore's "thinking". Except, people were so desperate to get rid of Trump, they fell for the "more electable" nonsense. The progressive movement behind Bernie came after Obama. There's no evidence that a worse president is required, and all Dore's predictions were false. Trump cared about profits over people, leading to hundreds of thousands of Americans dying. Trump wanted to toss millions off of Medicaid expansion. Trump had major tax cuts for corporations and the rich. Trump put in further right wing judges all over the country, and in the supreme court. Trump wanted to overthrow the democratic process and install himself as a fascist dictator. How is he not?
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  3293.  fa q  Just how dense are you? People being desperate to oppose and get rid of Trump, was part of Jimmy's own argument, dimwit, except he falsely predicted it would lead to a progressive wave. Rofl, so you think people just really really loved Joe Biden, do you? His numbers had nothing to do with people wanting to get rid of Trump?
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  3294.  fa q  Rofl, Bernie has always said he'd support whatever Dem candidate won. If you didn't know that, then you weren't listening. He's a harm reductionist, like Chomsky, and you're plain ignorant. So, after Dore's 2018 house and senate predictions failed , you think it's entirely the fault of covid, that his presidency prediction also failed? Rofl. Apt, you talking about Jimmy like that other cult leader.
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  3295.  fa q  So, Biden is also trying to toss over 10m Americans off of Medicaid expansion? Biden's tax plan is cutting more taxes for the rich and corporations, or keeping them the same? Biden hasn't introduced an infrastructure bill, and instead just keeps saying it's coming in a couple weeks? Weird. Rofl, I never watch either of those, dimit.
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  3296.  fa q  And whether, or not, Bernie and Chomsky are wrong, that doesn't change the fact that they've been following and promoting that philosophy, for some time, and you must be a complete and utter moron for thinking Bernie was lying when he said he'd support whichever Dem candidate won.
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  3297. ​ @liesel16  Reagan was a freedom fighter, once upon a time. He was an FDR voting Dem, and a union leader. You can thank Nixon for starting his transition. Nixon is the start of Republicans collecting all the nuts into one basket.
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  3298. ​ @rs72098  Israel is objectively the aggressor by every relevant measure ... Modern history: 100 years ago, in 1923, Ze'ev Jabotinsky fully acknowledged that Zionism is colonialism, and that, based on the entirety of history, the natives would fight it until the bitter end. He just didn't care what would happen to them, and promoted doing it anyway. Colonizers are never not the aggressors. On top of the colonialist nature of Zionism, the Zionists also formed terrorist organizations, like the Irgun and Lehi. They bombed many Palestinian markets and other public places, murdering many civilians, including children, even including Palestinian Jews (who opposed Zionism). Israel merged those terrorists into the new nation's military and intelligence agencies. Israelis elected Menachem Begin, leader of the Irgun, child murderer, Jew murderer, and bomber of the King David Hotel, as PM. Israelis, to this day, celebrate those terrorists as "heroes". Zionists literally taught their neighbours that terrorism is a valid path to independence and statehood, and that terrorists are to be celebrated. In 1945, it is well documented that Zionists owned just 5% of the land and were a majority nowhere. Israel was formed by actually going against the majority population. It's foundation is completely undemocratic. Then, becoming a majority, in "their" new nation, by ethnic cleansing the actual majority, and then claiming to be democratic, is utter nonsense. Law: Israel is considered an occupier by the International Court, the UN GA, and the UN SC. Occupiers are also never not the aggressors. Those occupied actually have a right to resist occupation. On the flip side, it is illegal for the occupier to settle occupied lands, and illegal to use collective punishment. Israel is a rogue nation, that doesn't abide by international law. What it has been doing, and is doing now, is illegal. Current events: This year, alone, prior to Oct 7 ... Israel held over 1200 Palestinian hostages without charges ... over 200 Palestinians had been killed by the IDF and settlers ... over 1000 Palestinians had been displaced by Israel's neverending colonization of the West Bank ... and, Israel continued to operate an open air WWII style fascist ghetto, in Gaza. Even ignoring modern history and law, in no reality did Hamas "start" anything.
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  3299.  @will4us  No, he's trying to cast doubt on rape claims, based on "reasoning" pulled directly out of his ass.
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  3300. "Join or die" was the motto, for those who wanted to defund the red coats (police/military).
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  3301. ​ @AdamtheRed-  You √0tiπg for your favorite pet? It's just as effective as third party.
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  3302. What an idiot. The "pandemic" label simply refers to an "epidemic" that has hit numerous countries. Even if you somehow don't believe it has hit enough countries to qualify as a "pandemic", within your own national border, it would still be an "epidemic".
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  3303.  @maluminse6013  You know Mueller (Republican) didn't use the Steele dossier, right? He still provided some 300 pages of collusion, that didn't amount to criminal conspiracy. The report said Jr and Kushner weren't charged with criminal conspiracy because it would be hard to prove they "willfully" broke the law, not because they didn't break the law. And, he indicted 34 individuals and 3 companies. So, what's the "hoax"?
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  3304.  @zaidabraham7310   No, no, he said spiritual, or supernatural, experiences are required to end an addiction ... while stupidly trying to argue that magic mushroom hallucinations are evidence of the supernatural ... not that they can be important to some people.
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  3305.  @jollyroger9286  How do you suspect the diet worked, at all, if he was still taking drugs for his anxiety and depression? This should be evidence that he, and she, are full of shit.
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  3306.  @jollyroger9286  Where am I losing you? He, and his daughter, claimed a diet cured their anxiety. Now, he is in a Russian hospital to get off drugs for anxiety. If the diet claim were true, he wouldn't have been on drugs for anxiety, and wouldn't be in the hospital. The diet claim was, obviously, false.
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  3307.  @jollyroger9286  My own assumption? Holy hell, you're a complete moron.
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  3308. @eddieisfiction What extra assumptions? The Boog said he was for an extreme free market, just like other Libertarian and ancap types. You know that doesn't support M4A, right? You know that's the complete economic opposite to socialism, right?
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  3309. @eddieisfiction Is Jimmy the one you were implying was on a different side, or his guest?
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  3310. @eddieisfiction You asked questions, dumb dumb.
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  3311. @Crimean Tiger You can't wait to track people down and ... ?
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  3312. @Crimean Tiger And? What did your imagination fill it in with?
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  3313. @Crimean Tiger You're not my type.
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  3314. @eddieisfiction Rofl. You're making no sense. You ask me questions about people on the other side. I assume you're referring to the right wing guest, not Jimmy. I answer the questions. You then ask me what it has to do with Jimmy Dore. Are you saying Jimmy is the one on the other side then?
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  3315. @Crimean Tiger bawk, bawk, bawk, bawk
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  3316. @eddieisfiction And I asked what assumptions, dumb dumb, which you didn't answer. Thinking you might have been referring to a thing I said about the Boog, being the person on the other side, I answered about that.
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  3317. @eddieisfiction My previous comment to your questions, I stated exactly what Jimmy had been doing, exactly who benefits, and exactly the economic position the Boog said he held. So, again, what "extra assumptions"?
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  3318. @eddieisfiction Rofl. He hasn't just spent weeks bashing other progressives and using FTV as a purity test?
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  3319. @eddieisfiction Lol. So, if a guy with social media promotes the idea to his audience, that Trump is the better option than Clinton, you think there is someone else, besides Trump, that could benefit from that? Who?
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  3320. @eddieisfiction That was not at all, all he said (and Trump has dropped more bombs than Obama, btw). He claimed Trump beating Clinton would be better for the progressive movement. He claimed it would lead to Dems "for sure" taking both the house and senate in 2018 (and not just any Dems, but progressive Dems who would advance the "progressive agenda"), and to a progressive president in 2020. Aside from vastly overestimating the benefits, he vastly underestimated the risks, claiming many Republican lawmakers would side with the left, and block Trump's agenda, and that Trump filling multiple scotus seats was as likely as the moon falling into Lake Michigan. He also didn't show an ounce of caring that a Trump (running on complete ACA repeal) presidency could possibly toss 10m of the poorest Americans off Medicaid expansion, or caring to add 40m Americans to Medicare (Clinton ran on lowering the age to 55), but has now crowned himself the one true champion of healthcare.
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  3321. @eddieisfiction Do you have reading comprehension problems? I said he benefits Republicans.
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  3322. The math isn't the same. There are zero out of party votes to be gained to the left of progressives. It is impossible to pass a bill without Manchin's vote. There is the entire Republican party to the right of Manchin, who he can try and bring in votes from. A bill can be passed without progressive votes.
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  3323.  @AOLAmericaOnline  What comes first, dumb dumb? The colonizing and oppression, or the native response to said colonization and oppression? Maybe stop the colonizing and oppression, to stop the response to it?
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  3324. They still celebrate the Irgun and Lehi terrorists as "heroes". It's an extremist nation, much like Nazi Germany.
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  3325. Colonizers are never not the aggressors.
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  3326. @Bill Brasky I said, "fertilized eggs", dumb dumb. You're using your poor reading comprehension skills to form a reply.
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  3327.  @kcolonelx6181  Right, to determine whether the thing they're doing is illegal, like I said. If the thing they're doing isn't ruled war crimes/genocide, then they won't be asked to stop.
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  3328.  @kcolonelx6181  No, I'm not. Until you determine what a country is doing is illegal, what's the basis for telling them to stop doing what they're doing?
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  3329. ​ @gligarguy4010  Nobody was talking about trans rights because nobody was constantly attacking trans people, day in, day out. Right wing loons have made it a big issue.
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  3330.  @amacuro  One of the reasons that he's a fraud is that he was promoting his daughter's meat only diet, claiming it cured him of all his mental and physical ailments. It's hilarious that that is now outright proven to be bullshit, and that she's the one that made the public announcement.
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  3331. ​ @michaelknight2897  "Lastly, but by no means least, Herron finished nearly 30 minutes in front of the fastest male athlete, Arlen Glick. He placed second in 13:10:25.This may seem surprising – after all, there are very few examples in mainstream sports where a female athlete has overcome a male opponent. But, in the world of ultra-endurance sport, women beat men on a relatively regular basis.Back in January 2019, British ultra-runner Jasmin Paris became the first woman to win the 268-mile Montane Spine Race in the UK.She finished the course in 83:12:23, obliterating the course record by 12 hours. She was still breastfeeding her daughter at the time, and even stopped off mid-race to express milk.Paris’s nearest opponent, a male athlete, finished 15 hours behind her.Five months later, British junior doctor Katie Wright won the Riverhead Backyard ReLaps Ultra-marathon in New Zealand. She ran almost nonstop for 30 hours, beating 40 men and six other women."
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  3332. Pretty sure a putsch, to try and overthrow the democratic process and install an unelected dictator does.
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  3333.  @avinashreji60  Right, but they can't help win an electoral district, if they get swamped by a majority √0tiπg Kamala. Which means they're no help to winning the state. Not sure where you're getting lost.
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  3334. Everyone supporting Likud should be censured. Likud was founded by Menachem Begin, leader of the Irgun terrorist group, murderer of civilian Palestinian men, women, and children, murderer of Palestinian Jews (who didn't support Zionism), and bomber of the King David Hotel. Israelis elected that terrorist as their PM. Israelis still celebrate those terrorists, as "heroes", to this day. Likud was also founded by Ariel Sharon, war criminal, who massacred Palestinian villages. Likud's original platform, "between the sea and the Jordan" ... "The Right of the Jewish People to the Land of Israel (Eretz Israel) a. The right of the Jewish people to the land of Israel is eternal and indisputable and is linked with the right to security and peace; therefore, Judea and Samaria will not be handed to any foreign administration; between the Sea and the Jordan there will only be Israeli sovereignty." There is zero indication that Likud, Netanyahu, isn't still working towards that goal, with the endless colonization of Palestine territories.
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  3335.  @tomservo5007  Please tell me that you're not a MAGA. Do you grasp what that slogan means?
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  3336.  @tomservo5007  Weird, she seems to have been elected by Democratic voters.
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  3337. Isn't that exactly what the amnesty process is? People blather about how many cross the border, but ignore that less than 5% are actually granted asylum. The rest are deported.
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  3338. Authoritarian left? Yeah, Pol Potism, Stalinism, or some such.
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  3339.  @aarondickson9573  A ton of low wage workers worked through shutdowns. So, the ones getting high and enjoying shutdowns are middle class and upper class bums?
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  3340. Every rich person should be a different kind of rich person. The "prior plans" is the same development project, sans affordable housing.
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  3341.  @DUDEBroHey  Russia has been mucking about in former SSR countries, since 1991. Putin wrote an essay stating he thinks they should all belong to Russia. What peace is there, with that? There's only deterrence, which is why those SSR countries ask to join NATO.
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  3342. Jimmy is attacking the left most progressive politicians, who have been arguing for M4A for years, baselessly calling them fakes and shills. He's the one stoking infighting amongst progressives. It's one thing to say you think AOC should do X. It's totally another to say that, if AOC doesn't do X, she's a shill. That's just stupidly undermining the politicians closest to your own position.
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  3343.  @thepicatrix3150  Nobody is talking about the benefits of M4A, and convincing more voters to support it, and convincing more politicians to vote for it. They're simply arguing about methodology, and he's trashing M4A's biggest politician supporters in the process. He's the one stoking infighting.
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  3344.  @thepicatrix3150  Lol, the only people basically talking about it are progressives, and all they're talking about is political methodology. There's zero benefit to "being gruff", by trashing the most progressive politicians you've got.
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  3345.  @thepicatrix3150  Why the hell good is progressives talking about it amongst themselves? They already agree M4A is a good thing. What is our back and forth accomplishing? We aren't even really discussing M4A. We're discussing Jimmy Dore. How is there value in "fakes" and "shills"? Jimmy is trashing the most progressive politians, and declaring them valueless. He's an idiot.
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  3346.  @thepicatrix3150  Stunt tactic? By his comment section, he has convinced numerous morons that the person who took out the #2 corporate Dem is a shill, and has found common ground in trashing progressives with Trump cultists that have joined his fanbase. He's willing to try and destroy the small group of progressives in congress, if they don't do exactly as he says. He's an idiot.
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  3347.  Eric Burkheimer  You're an idiot. You want people to be party zealots, and stick to the party no matter who the candidate or their platform, but don't want people to stick with a candidate, whose platform they actually want, no matter what? If the party doesn't shift more progressive, include things to the platform that progressive voters want, then they're going to lose support. Pretty simple. That would be the stubborn party's fault if Republicans win.
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  3348.  @d3fec767  Aside from his rise to fame, based on complete bullshit, proving he was a grifter, from the get go ... He also proved he was a grifter, by peddling his daughter's all meat diet as a cure for anxiety and depression, on Rogan's show, claiming he no longer needed drugs, and hadn't taken any for 6 months. That was a few months before being sent to Russia, to be forced into a coma, to break his addiction to the very drugs he claimed he no longer needed. His drug addiction, and mental health problems, also proved he was a grifter, that didn't believe in his own rules, about putting your own house in order, before telling others what to do. He is, objectively, a con artist, proven numerous times.
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  3349.  @user-nc9pc3gr4c  Rofl. If all the other "gods" are also "God", then why tell your followers to kill people of other religions? Thanks, for helping make religious texts even more incoherent.
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  3350.  Mandatory-Idiocracy  They haven't cared about his political views, for almost a decade now, dimwit. It's professionalism. If he wants to claim to be a psychologist, then he has to behave like one, or lose his license.
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  3351.  @user-nc9pc3gr4c  Humans have only been around for about 200k years, ffs. Or, 6000 years according some religious texts, lol.
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  3352.  @user-nc9pc3gr4c  Lol, yes, that's what religions have been, Mickey Mouse. It was "ingrained in us"? We used it to explain that the sun was being pulled across the sky by a "god", that rain was product by a "god", that the Earth was created from the body of a dragon by a "god", etc., etc., etc. That we did a stupid thing, for millennia, isn't evidence it's right. Who knows, what came before, if anything, or if things have been cycling in an eternal collapse and regrowth. Your own belief, that a being can exist from nothing, or eternally, without being created, supports the argument that something can exist from nothing, or eternally, without being created.
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  3353. They worship a sexless being that goes by masculine gender terminology. The Trinitarians even believe that sexless being transitioned into a human male. If it existed, that being would also be the leading abortionist in existence, because miscarriage = spontaneous abortion. Plus, their Bibles say to outright quarantine those who are potentially carrying an infectious illness. They're nothing but endless hypocrisy.
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  3354. ​ @JanSolo555  Ze'ev Jabotinsky, in 1923, fully acknowledged that Zionism is colonialism. He also predicted, based on the entirety of history, that the native reaction to said colonization would be to fight it until the bitter end. Zionists knew this would happen, when they did their colonialism. They're perpetually the aggressors.
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  3355. ​ @tonywilson4713  How many times have you spammed this shit? Already replied once.
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  3356.  @nassaubahamas8570  Whatabout that other thing that isn't about Joe Rogan?
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  3357.  @jetter820  Do you think all censorship is objectively wrong? Should porn be allowed anywhere and everywhere?
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  3358.  @jetter820  There'd still be access to Rogan, somewhere else. It has been a matter of a few days since one Neil Young started doing something about it, that sent them scrambling for a fix. Ummm, the "legal" and "illegal" is the censorship difference. Including those words doesn't make a point. If porn wasn't censored, it wouldn't be "illegal".
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  3359.  @nassaubahamas8570  Less than 100% is less than 100% immune. The original Salk vaccine had a lower efficacy rate. Was it not a vaccine? Smallpox is 95% efficacy, btw.
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  3360.  @nassaubahamas8570  Because polio is not even remotely as contagious, for one (the biggest polio outbreak in the US was about 50k people). Because covid mutates more, and there are already more variants, which affects the efficacy rate, for another (the original polio vaccine was only about 65% against one of the 3 polio strains). Because some viruses produce a long lasting immune response, some don't, and unfortunately covid is one of the later (polio seems to last your life, tetanus wears off in about 10 years, smallpox in 3-5 years, the flu in a matter of months). Because we're starting from the point of the virus being widespread ... polio doesn't get eradicated from a population in a matter of months. And, because Gibraltar being 100% vaccinated is misinformation. Some have tallied their vaccination rate simply by dividing the doses given out by the population. Thing is, they've been vaccinating workers from Spain, as well. They only started vaccinating 15+ last month, and hadn't even started vaccinating younger kids yet.
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  3361.  @michaelknight2897  Funny, that you think yours was.
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  3362.  @gagaplex  Nope, I was the one who looked that part up. Must have read the wrong section. Oh, wonderful, even worse, viral pneumonia is contagious until it's cured.
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  3363.  @mikevi1629  We had about 15% say they'd vote Trump over Biden ... about a third the size of the US' per capita problem. And, I think every province is under that 15%, actually, except Alberta.
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  3364.  @Music-vr7sz  Learn what an ad hominem actually is, instead of just pretending like you do. And then you follow up by not providing an actual example of Sam being anti-science, instead implying that if he has repeated something Joy Reid has also said, then it must be anti-science ... which is more like an actual ad hominem.
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  3365. ​​ @eilenetoomey-balas3479  There was an avian flu outbreak, and the largest producer, Cal-Maine, jacked their prices, and recorded a profit margin jump of over 700%. MAGA blames Biden, of course.
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  3366.  @eilenetoomey-balas3479  There was an avian flu outbreak. The largest US producer, Cal-Maine, jacked their prices and recorded a 700+% profit margin increase.
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  3367.  @HavokBWR  Ok, so they aren't equivalent to the previous racists running the country, the white supremacist/nationalist types, is what you just argued. And, what is it you think "prejudice" means? Are you trying to argue that every action that attempts to balance any unbalanced scales, is somehow similar to the actions that caused the existing imbalance? Was reducing the male vote from 100% to 50%, similar to not letting women vote, at all, for example?
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  3368.  @HavokBWR  Just making sure you're not using some lesser definition, that doesn't even show up in multiple dictionaries, dumb dumb, or you'll get pissy about there not being a single definition. Prejudice: an unfair and unreasonable opinion or feeling, especially when formed without enough thought or knowledge. What's unfair or unreasonable, and without enough thought or knowledge, about trying to make things more balanced? That doesn't seem to make sense, since balance tends to go hand in hand with fairness. Who is calling for perfectly equal outcomes (please don't be a complete idiot who says Kamala, because she didn't)? And, if they are, how is that hate, exactly? It's strange to have an economic system that requires ever increasing numbers of consumers, that then punishes the consumer makers for taking some time off. Other countries have narrowed the wage gap even more, and have parental leave for both parents. Do those countries hate men even more? Yes, I know I brought up the example of rebalancing. You, however, found the something to gripe about, all on your own. So, should undocumented men have the right to vote, since that's the big risk and responsibility, in your eyes, even though nobody has been conscripted in almost 50 years, and there's zero indication of a war big enough to require it, in the known future?
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  3369. He's dragging the politicians closest to his own position, that are most likely to help, instead of those least likely to help. It's his methods being criticized, not his wanting M4A or more assistance.
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  3370. ​ @X7Excalibur  “The line I’ve always used is, I would be a Republican if they would. Which means that I like the Barry Goldwater Republican Party, even the Reagan Republican Party. I want a mean old man to watch my money… government is a sieve that takes as much money as it can and gives it away, usually needlessly,” ~ Maher A Reagan Republican is pretty right wing.
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  3371. The 30 year old broader progressive caucus is about 15 seats away from becoming the majority of house Dems. The Justice Dems have replaced about a dozen corporate Dems in 4 years. AOC helped replace a few more in just 2 years. Dore knob: The most rational thing to do, right now, is to start from scratch, with zero seats, zero bills submitted, zero amendments added, zero votes on even a single bill, and zero relevance, because the third party route is oh so viable. I mean, the most popular third party hasn't won a single seat in congress in its near 50 year existence, but this totally isn't a delusional fantasy.
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  3372. You can say if they win without you, then you don't have any leverage to change things, but how does providing them undying support, and them winning, give you any leverage to change things? If they have your support, no matter what, then there's no incentive for them to change. And, no, them losing once isn't evidence it doesn't work. They may have to lose a few times, to clue in ... assuming they care about winning. If the party is so far gone, so close to being Republican themselves, that they don't really care about winning, then why bother voting for them, at all?
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  3373. Read this ... Rolling Stone: "RFK Jr. Claims ‘Vaccine Research’ Likely Responsible for HIV and the Spanish Flu" ... it gives a basic breakdown of his lunacy, and the lunatic friends he hangs with.
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  3374. And he was crazy before COVID. ABC, 2019: "Anti-vaccine leaders targeting minority becomes growing concern at NYC forum"
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  3375. Is that the same "religious argument" that has the entire human race descend from Adam and Eve's children? Lot's descendants from he and his daughters?
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  3376. ​ @BryanM86 Rofl! You're one of those morons who thinks the most racist states in America magically became the least racist states, rather than simply started voting for a different party? You know the Southern Republicans were just as, if not more, racist, right? A higher percentage of Southern Republicans voted against Civil Rights bills, than Southern Democrats.
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  3377. ​ @BryanM86  Yeah, 2 settlements for not renting to black Americans, Trump, is totally not a racist ... "Letitia 'peekaboo' James" Urban Dictionary: peekaboo Racist term used in white-supremacist circles to refer to a person of color, usually black, of upper or upper-middle class social standing. That uppity peekaboo thinks she can golf here just because she has money. by WhoKnowsWhoItCouldBe September 21, 2022
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  3378. Yeah, that third number, on the paper said "with covid", not necessarily that covid contributed to the death, like the Dr of nursing practice stated. The second number is the deaths due to covid that the government and media use. That just means some 20k people died "with covid", and not due to covid. No real contradiction in the numbers. As for the first number, like Sam said, you'd have to look at all the hundreds of other things people die of. If you find about a 30k reduction than average, then there's no contradiction between the first and second number. If they're isn't a 30k reduction there, then maybe covid deaths were slightly overreported. The doctor of nursing is also wrong, about being able to use UK excess mortality for other countries. Each country is different. The US' excess mortality was higher than reported covid deaths. Unlike the UK, that means people were either dying of other things in higher than average numbers, or that covid deaths were underreported.
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  3379. What a moron. What are they going to do about drones? They just shot down a drone.
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  3380. Founders: protest, riot, and even go to war, over extra taxes that specifically funded the police/military and disenfranchisement. Newsmax: Nazis! Loyalists: back the police/military and fight against democracy to keep an unelected ruler in power. Newsmax: Patriots!
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  3381. So, it's not possible to teach things to others, without conquering them, ethnic cleansing them, oppressing them, etc.? Weird. You're probably one of those morons who thinks slavery was good for the slaves, too.
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  3382. When you frame your rant as they'd rather do an impeachment, then Republican viewers hear you ripping on Democrats only.
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  3383. Nazi ghetto.
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  3384. If you're referring to Boko Haram, like most Islamic extremists, they've killed more Muslims than anyone else. Christians just don't care when Muslims are killed, don't count them, and then claim it's a war against just them, and they're being persecuted. Unlike in Palestine, the world is against Boko Haram.
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  3385.  @amil509  They can be sued for malpractice. It just ends up being the government who pays, if they lose. What difference do you think that has on the healthcare provided?
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  3386. They are. All have Canaanite DNA. Difference being that Palestinians didn't leave for 1500 years.
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  3387.  @ubuu7  Yang initially didn't have his UBI stacking with anything. On his own, he thought it would be a great idea to have it even replace social security. It took input from others to have it stack with some things. And, if he's saying the funding for such and such program will end up partly paying for the UBI, then how will the program continue without funding? Either he will abolish the program, or he's lying about how his UBI will be paid for (maybe the later, since he was already lying about the VAT). Even if he let people currently on a program choose, I didn't hear him say new people could get on those programs. Not adding any new people would have the program die off. Kind of ironic, that one of the first things he would have done was automate away numerous government jobs, with an automatic monthly deposit.
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  3388.  @ubuu7  Taking feedback is fine. That doesn't change the fact that Yang, himself, wanted to replace absolutely everything ... he wanted to completely abolish all those government programs. If he didn't argue it, then you're dishonestly inventing an argument for him. He constantly argued how to fund things, which means he wasn't simply not arguing that "secret" ... he was outright arguing something completely different from that. Either you're a blatant liar, or he is ... which is it? Yang repeatedly compared his dividend to the Alaskan dividend, which is entirely paid for by corporations. So, if Alaskans spent all of their dividend back on those corporations, the money will simply have circulated. Yang acknowledged giant corporations weren't paying their fair share of taxes through current methods, and then falsely argued they would through a VAT. So they wouldn't be paying for his dividend, either way. If corporations aren't paying for it, then the money is simply flowing from consumers to the corporations faster than ever before, where it gets hoarded. Instead of taxing Amazon, Yang would have made Amazon extra tens of billions a year, and Bezos extra billions a year. You're the dimwit cultists who can't even do basic math, like you claim.
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  3389.  @estherc.5559  If he planned for the entire budget of certain programs to end up partly funding UBI then, yes, he planned to end those programs. You can't pay employees to run those programs with zero funding. Or was he lying about how much of the current funding would end up paying for UBI, like he was lying about who a VAT actually taxes?
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  3390. The UBI is below the national poverty line, and a VAT doesn't tax automation.
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  3391. ​ @tonkajahari3010 😂
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  3392. You tell them that they don't know what either of those words mean. They aren't mutually exclusive.
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  3393.  @erickdavid2412  Why have the majority of red states put a much earlier ban in place, if the majority are only opposed to late stage abortion?
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  3394.  @sergeikhripun  You're following a grifter who promoted Trump (let's toss 10m of the poorest Americans off of Medicaid expansion) over Clinton (let's add 40m older Americans to Medicare expansion), who promoted Tulsi (public option) over Bernie (M4A), who ran a constant attack ad campaign against Trump's (still wanting to toss millions off of Medicaid expansion) only remaining viable opponent Biden (public option and Medicare expansion), and who just abandoned Nina Turner ... abandoned adding another M4A yes vote to congress. He regularly doesn't back the better healthcare plan, but passes himself off as the one true champion of healthcare.
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  3395.  fa q  Dore wanted to let Trump win, and move outright backwards, dumb dumb. That's not better than Biden. That's not being left of Biden. That's being a far right grifter. Even Chomsky has repeatedly argued to vote for harm avoidance. You Dore knobs have disowned yourselves from basically everyone on the left.
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  3396.  @nfb4027  And? Did Reagan turn out to be a better option than another Carter Term? Did Dubya turn out to be the better option than Gore? Did Trump turn out to be the better option than Clinton? What's your point? Treat the Dem primaries as the important elections, put whoever wins in office, and keep Republicans out of office.
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  3397.  @michaelpeyton5730  Sounds like you don't know how C-16 actually works. You probably got your info from lying Peterson. In the US, you can get charged, or sued, for threatening, defaming, verbally harrassing, etc., an individual. However, you can basically say whatever you want about an entire group of people, like promoting that all gays should be killed. That's crazy. All of those laws protecting individuals, plus things like conspiracy to commit, and incitement, are anti-speech laws, even in the US. No country has unlimited free speech. There's no such thing in existence. Never has been. Hate speech laws, in Canada, basically treat that kind of speech, against groups, the same as it applies to individuals. C-16 basically makes it clear, that trans are protected, under those laws. You can't get charged, for accidentally using the wrong pronoun, or anything like that. But, repeatedly using the wrong pronoun, intentionally, can be considered rising to a level of harassment, much like your boss, or teacher, calling you "dickhead" everyday. People can more easily understand that "dickhead" is harassment, but less so that intentionally using the wrong pronoun is. The law clarifies things. That same law, btw, was already in place, at the provincial level, in multiple provinces, for years, including the province JP worked and lived in. And yet, he had zero examples, to support his bullsh*t slippery slope argument. There are still zero examples to support his bullsh*t slippery slope argument. He had been working under that law, for years, so when he made his "alpha" claim, that he'd use whatever pronouns he wanted ... that seemed to coincide with the law, for all those years.
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  3398.  @michaelpeyton5730  That he was so f*cked up also proved that he clearly didn't follow his own rule, about cleaning your own house, before trying to change the outside world. He proved he doesn't actually believe what he's writing. But, you still think he's "genuine".
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  3399. 100. Read Ze'ev Jabotinsky's The Iron Wall, 1923. His followers then formed the Irgun and Lehi terrorist groups, the leaders of which founded Likud, and were both elected PMs of Israel. Israelis, to this day, celebrate those terrorists as "heroes".
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  3400.  @oliverseiler2871  Native Americans reached a point where they wanted to push the white man back into the sea. It wasn't simply because they were white. Colonists, on the other hand, wanted to get rid of the natives, simply because they were native, and in their way.
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  3401. ​ @SebastianMorrow  Likud was founded by Menachem Begin, Irgun terrorist, Palestinian child murderer, Palestinian Jew murderer (because they didn't support Zionism), and bomber of the King David Hotel. The other founder was Ariel Sharon, war criminal, who massacred Palestinian villages. Their Likud platform was completely unambiguous ... "The Right of the Jewish People to the Land of Israel (Eretz Israel) a. The right of the Jewish people to the land of Israel is eternal and indisputable and is linked with the right to security and peace; therefore, Judea and Samaria will not be handed to any foreign administration; between the Sea and the Jordan there will only be Israeli sovereignty." between the sea and the Jordan = from the river to the sea All evidence indicates it's just a fact that Netanyahu is still aiming for that goal.
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  3402.  @Selindro  The Brits broke a deal when they adopted the Balfour declaration and Sykes-Picot agreement, and planned to colonize Palestine with people from Europe and Russia. Israel has broken multiple ceasefire deals. Israel has torpedoed multiple peace "deals" by making the offers unpalatable.
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  3403.  @MK-hw2ir  "Masculinity isn't toxic" ~ JP Either suck it up, or admit it can be toxic. You're the ones wanting it both ways.
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  3404.  @joshmccaw2777  Only if you're using lower case "l" libertarian, and referring to left libertarian. Capital "l" American Libertarians, on the other hand, are right wing Ayn Randian types. They're just not as authoritarian as fascists, but both are right wing.
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  3405.  Ian Miles  Get the nation together for what though? Fascists were backed by leading industrialists, large land owners, and most religious leaders. They were leaders in privatization, turning public tax dollars into private profits. They destroyed unions, and argued against the class struggle, telling workers to just accept their lot in life and work hard to try and better themselves and the country, rather than trying to fight the rich. So, they were also capitalists, just crony capitalists ... corporatists ... designing the system to make the rich richer. Ayn Randian Libertarians readily ally themselves with authoritarian crony capitalists, all the time. Hardly mortal enemies. And, Nazi style exterminations aren't a requirement for fascism. Nazis took the nationalism and national identity to the extreme, and got rid of those who didn't fit that identity. Wasn't quite the same in Italy or Spain.
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  3406.  Ian Miles  Some? They were backed by most of the leading industrialists in their countries. Yes, they were definitely isolationist, "Germany first!" types, but that doesn't make them anti-capitalist, any more than current "America first!" Republicans, who have more than a few Ayn Rand spouters in their party, could be called anti-capitalist. They're simply crony capitalists.
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  3407.  @accountowner214  The only real problem with the analogy is that cloth, and standard disposable, masks are to protect others from the wearer, and have been shown to be effective in doing so. There are studies going back decades, to when surgeons first started using cloth masks, that show the masks reduce the spread of germs from the surgeon to the patient.
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  3408. They're going to have to ban all sex, soon, and only allow for masturbating into test tubes. Every single sperm "baby" will be saved! "Hayashi and his team cultivated the DNA in the skin to create stem cells, and then stimulated the stem cells to become egg cells. The eggs were then fertilized with mouse sperm in the Petri dish. Fertilized eggs were implanted in mice to mature. About one out of 100 of these completely artificial eggs produced a healthy baby mouse."
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  3409. The Nazi leaders were the ones operating the open air ghettos, dumb dumb, not the ones living in them.
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  3410. Israelis still celebrate the Irgun and Lehi as heroes. They elected Menachem Begin, leader of the Irgun, who bombed the King David Hotel, as PM. Those terrorist groups bombed Palestinian markets, killing many civilians, including children, even including Palestinian Jews (who opposed Zionism). Bezalel Smotrich, who Israelis elected and who Netanyahu put in charge of the West Bank, had previously been arrested on his way to commit a terrorist attack, with 700 gallons of fuel. He's a religious nut homophobe, a racist who thinks "Palestinian" people don't exist, and made public a plan to segregate and subjugate (no federal representation), exile, or kill, any non Jew in all of Israel/Palestine, taking it all for Israel.
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  3411.  @ryanhubbard1885  Selling/buying at the supposedly "correct" time would be "smart", no? Unless you're making the nonsensical argument, that it would be smart to buy/sell at the incorrect time, I think my statement is fine. It dropped more as recently as between 5/2021 and 9/2022. Plus, Alito sold after it had dropped. It's now worth more than what he sold at. He sold at almost the lowest dip. Wouldn't that be the incorrect/dumb time to sell?
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  3412.  @ryanhubbard1885  Rofl. So you are arguing that it was correct to do the dumb thing? 😆
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  3413.  @ryanhubbard1885  I can read just fine. You: "The AB stock tanked" (it actually didn't "tank" ... relative to previous years, it was a minor dip) "selling it was the correct move" Then your panties in a bunch about "correct" not meaning "smart", which is nonsensical when it comes to buying/selling stocks. The smart thing to do, is to buy/sell at the correct time, or you will lose all your money. And now you're making all kinds of "if" statements, which means you had zero clue, if it was the "correct" thing to do. So, why make a baseless "correct" assertion, when you have no clue, in the first place? Seems like a pointless, baseless, attempt to defend him.
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  3414.  @ryanhubbard1885  Rofl. So, a pointless, baseless, "correct" statement, from you. Glad we cleared that up.
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  3415.  @ryanhubbard1885  You just admitted to having no clue, if he was correct, dingus.
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  3416.  @ryanhubbard1885  You wouldn't have to ask me anything, for us to make a better determination, if you already knew. Again, you just admitted you are clueless, as to whether he was "correct" (your original statement), or not, dingus.
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  3417.  @ryanhubbard1885  Rofl! Again, why would you need to ask, if you already know? That you don't know means you have no clue if he was "correct", or not. You've like quadrupled down on admitting you're clueless.
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  3418.  @ryanhubbard1885  Sooo, once again, you're saying you had no clue, if he did the "correct" thing. Just baselessly trying to defend his actions. Okay, got it, you don't have to sextuple down on letting everyone know. 🤣
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  3419.  @ryanhubbard1885  "real adults" ... "correct move" ... Okay, dingus. 🙄
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  3420.  @ryanhubbard1885  You've already admitted you don't know what he bought it at, dingus. How could you possibly know he would lose 30%?
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  3421.  @ryanhubbard1885  Didn't notice a difference, dingus. Made as much sense as your other incoherent nonsense.
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  3422. Trump lost the popular vote, twice.
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  3423. Quomo is about as incompetent as Trump. He's just a better bullshitter.
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  3424. Who is the actual aggressor is uncomplicated. It's the colonialist power. Colonialists are never not the aggressors, when it comes to the natives.
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  3425.  @mroctober3583  I replied to your question to me, not some other comment you made. Don't like the answer, don't ask the question. Holding her accountable? She just helped get more pro-M4A progressives elected to congress than a People's Party will get elected in decades. You and Jimmy need to try and be coherent. If Pelosi and the corporate Dems would rather work with Republicans than progressives, that would mean progressives have even less leverage than Jimmy imagines, not more. Seriously, how long should they paralyze the House, as the rest of the Dems propagandize it, and blame progressives for not being able to vote on anything Biden ran on?
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  3426.  @Ill_drink_to_that  The actual fight is changing opponents minds or replacing them, exactly what AOC just helped do. When the vote fails, you still have to do that. It might give you some extra ammo, but it could also give them ammo, if you paralyze the house, and they start blaming you for not being able to vote on minimum wage, and stuff.
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  3427.  @Ill_drink_to_that  Let me get this straight ... the "fake" is the one whose progressive PAC just helped get more pro-M4A progressives elected to congress, who endorsed them and help fund them as they primaried against corporate Dems, and the "real" progressive is the guy who promoted Trump as better than Clinton? If he convinced even one person, in a 2016 swing state, to vote Trump, Stein, or to not vote at all, then he helped kill thousands of people. That's ass backwards.
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  3428.  @hughwardjackson4776  The first thing the doctor of nursing got wrong was that excess deaths in one country can tell you much of anything about another country. In the US, excess deaths were higher than total covid deaths, so something entirely different is going on there. If you want to add up all the UK's death pluses and minuses, and see if what remains is the covid count, go ahead. If you're hoping anything you're saying would equally apply to the US, it wouldn't.
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  3429. So weird how a black president and now a black SCOTUS pick, "divide America", just by being black.
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  3430.  @jocksharerock7318  Wait ... the thing Jimmy said the moon falling into Lake Michigan was more likely than, actually happened.
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  3431.  @mikebanks2176  Are you a hypocrite who worships a penisless "god" being, that uses masculine gender terminology, and transitioned into a human male for a time? Or, are you simply a dimwit, who doesn't know the difference between sex and gender? Gender represents a persona, that often does, but doesn't have to, match a person's biology. The definition of a "woman" is for English class, or social studies, not science class. There are multiple dictionary definitions for "woman", including some you probably wouldn't like. Check out the various definitions given by the Cambridge dictionary. Even the definition of the scientific term, "female", needs a revamping, because it would exclude people with xx chromosomes, that can't produce eggs. Likewise, "male" would exclude people with xy chromosomes, that can't produce sperm.
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  3432.  @expendable4h002  Oh my, why would that be?
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  3433.  @expendable4h002  And there are all kinds of mandates, in life, to try and minimize those risks. I think you ignored the one to wear a hard hat on a construction site.
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  3434.  calo10able  63% of FOX viewers think Trump has done an excellent job in response to the coronavirus. Proof the majority of FOX viewers are morons.
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  3435.  @erickdavid2412  Oh, please do explain how. 😂
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  3436.  @pmstff700  If they had ruled it unconstitutional, they wouldn't have let the government require anyone to be vaccinated. They ruled the OSHA part was stretching its jurisdiction. Oh no, myocarditis! Except, the rate of myocarditis was 7-11x higher after catching COVID, than after getting the vaccine.
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  3437.  @judobongobuck  Why are you tagging me, with that question?
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  3438. ​ @memyselfandi8544  Not many channels are better than this one, for covering the thousands of deaths, dumb dumb.
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  3439.  @allprogressivesarechildgro7761  Racism? I do not think it means what you think it means.
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  3440.  @dirkdiggler7277  Conservative religious types have been cancelling things and people for centuries, and have never been hesitant to use the law to do it. There is still an FCC protecting delicate conservative sensibilities from naughty words and nipples. Right wingers have made anti-bds laws. They try to make it harder, or more dangerous, to protest. They're making laws to cancel local mask mandates. They're making laws to cancel voters. And that's on top of them also attempting to use public pressure to get people fired, boycott businesses, etc.
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  3441.  @dabblerdeluxe775  Pretty sure the planning and zoning administrator is a voice out of Yellow Springs, and one that knows exactly how the process works.
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  3442. Joe Rogan fans are really ignorant and not open to educating themselves.
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  3443.  @whyamimrpink78  At minimum, there's the multiple times Proud Boys have been arrested, charged, and convicted, for violent crimes. But, they're just a small group in a larger movement, that includes extreme right wingers, and white supremacists, who are shooting up mosques, shooting up synagogues, shooting up black churches, who are responsible for the rise in hate crimes, etc. Surely you'd want the whole lot labeled terrorists.
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  3444.  @ThatOpalGuy  Did you read what I was replying to, dumb dumb?
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  3445. @Mr Veep Doesn't much matter how many Republicans say they approve of Manchin. They won't vote for him, come election time. How is his favorability with Democratic voters, in his district?
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  3446.  @Poeticfloetic  “If Hitler just wanted to make Germany great and have things run well — OK, fine. The problem is he had dreams outside of Germany. He wanted to globalize." ~ Candace Owens That was "the problem" with Hitler? Attempted coup ... cool. Murder ... cool. Ending democracy ... cool. Tossing people in camps ... cool. Etc. Etc. All good ... until he started expanding his borders, which she ignorantly calls "globalization", that was "the problem" with Hitler.
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  3447.  @angryinky  Mine gets hidden too.
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  3448.  @AdamtheRed-  She won't win, without enough votes, and Trump cost hundreds of thousands of preventable dths, last time around.
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  3449.  @AdamtheRed-  Are you sure? Letting Trump win, last time, led to hundreds of thousands of preventable d e a t h s.
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  3450.  @AdamtheRed-  Are you sure? Letting Trump win, last time, led to hundreds of thousands of preventable d . . t h s.
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  3451.  @AdamtheRed-  Are you sure? Letting Dumpty win, last time, led to hundreds of thousands of preventable d . . . . s.
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  3452.  @AdamtheRed-  For sure? Letting Dumpty win, last time, led to hundreds of thousands of preventable d . . . . s.
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  3453.  @AdamtheRed-  Really? Letting Diaper Don win, last time, led to hundreds of thousands of preventable .......
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  3454.  @AdamtheRed-   For sure? Letting the fcst win, last time, led to hndrds of thsnds of preventable d . . . . s.
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  3455. What are you even talking about? No such thing as a white culture. Europe was always full of different ethnicities and cultures, even when it was almost all white. The Irish and English fought over ethnicity and culture for centuries. As did the French and English. Etc. Hispanic Catholics have a culture imported from Europe, even if they aren't the same color. Making out like there's a white culture would be like making out as if those Chinese and Japanese have the same Asian culture.
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  3456. Most sting operations are based solely on intent. Trump, FOX, and Republican politicians, are counting on their followers to be morons, and those followers are giving them what they want.
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  3457.  @scottsbarbarossalogic3665  Yes, but that basically covers everything that's not officially a monarchy. There have been, and are some, non democratic single party countries, that are "republics", where the party considers itself, or passes itself of as, a people's party.
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  3458. Yeah, helping to add more M4A yes votes to congress, the only way to ever pass the bill, is such a disappointment.
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  3459.  @WanderingIdiot81  Kyrsten Sinema was a fantasy perfectly perfect incorruptible third party candidate once. What's your point?
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  3460.  @WanderingIdiot81  Helping to increase the number of M4A yes votes in congress is action. It's exactly the kind of action that would still need doing even if there was a 100% guaranteed to fail performance art vote. Pretending it's inaction is dishonest. The $15 got a vote, actually passed the house (M4A didn't have a chance in hell), that Pelosi and the squad are members of, and also got a senate vote. Suddenly, just getting a vote on an important progressive policy, and getting a list of no voters, is completely useless ... just keep bitching about, and slandering, those who voted for it. FTVers have proven FTV was a sham, and that they're pathetic useless hypocrites. The capitol police don't actually patrol the streets enforcing the law. It's more of a security guard and bodyguard force. Pretending they're totally equivalent to a standard police force is dishonest. Piss off with the Israel bullshit. The squad have repeatedly voted against individual bills to send money to Israel, have introduced bills to put conditions on aid to Israel, have introduced bills against anti-BDS laws. They split votes on an annual foreign aid bill, of which Israel was a small percentage. It wasn't a straight up, Israel only, bill. The bill also included aid to Palestinians, as well as almost $60b in aid elsewhere.
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  3461.  @WanderingIdiot81  Man, you're dishonest. AOC used her platform and PAC to back 20 other pro-M4A progressives. She has always been friends with, and supported, Cori. The issue with that primary was politics, and the fact that Clay had signed onto the Green New Deal, so she didn't give her official endorsement and donation to Cori until the general. I get that Dore knobs don't care about burning bridges, but if Clay had won, AOC would still want that GND vote. In what reality do you think Manchin, and the other dipshit senators, would change their minds? If the senate and house disagree, then the bill goes to house-senate negotiation. Manchin could have offered concessions, and lowered the minimum to $10 (as some Republicans had proposed), to pick up enough Republican votes to ignore the squad. Where can the squad get extra votes from, if they lose Manchin's vote? There is the entire Republican party for Manchin to try and draw extra votes from, to the right of the party. There are zero extra votes to the left of the party. They don't have anywhere close to the same amount of power and leverage. Because corporate Dems outright running against M4A isn't enough? Them not signing onto the bill isn't enough? Again, FTVers proved they're pathetic useless hypocrites. They've already shown that they don't actually value getting a vote and getting a list of no voters. FTV was a complete sham. Progressives got the $15 to stay in for a round of voting. Not sure what other squad members asked for, but Pelosi did give AOC a shot at that committee seat she wanted. Those who voted, stabbed her in the front exactly because she had fought them and backed progressives against them in the primaries. Dore knobs then stab her in the back, falsely claiming she isn't fighting, even lying that she didn't back progressives in the primaries. She, and Bernie, were just backing Nina, campaigning for her, promoting M4A while they were at it, and trying to add another M4A yes vote to congress. Meanwhile, Dore abandoned Nina and abandoned adding another M4A yes vote to congress, and then slandered AOC and Bernie, claiming they were the ones who abandoned M4A. He's a dishonest grifter.
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  3462.  @nassaubahamas8570  Oops, got me. Must have had the early 2006 release date in my head. Still wasn't about cancer, dimwit. Let me get this straight, you don't, and never will, use a product by a company that has lost a lawsuit?
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  3463.  @nassaubahamas8570  Okay, so basically you take no name brand drugs, and you don't use any of the other products those companies make. A prescribed Rogan "kitchen sink", and most other prescribed drugs, plus Rogan supplements, would also be off the table. Have you gone back to the blood letting, hemlock, and wormwood, method, that kept everyone alive for a "long and healthy" 55 years? Do you also walk everywhere, or have you found an automobile manufacturer that hasn't lost a lawsuit?
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  3464.  @nassaubahamas8570  They've shown their results to drug agencies across the world. How can you trust anything?! You're claiming there was a 15 year cover up. Johnson's baby powder is 129 years old, ffs. If you can't trust the drug approval processes from countries around the world, and you can't trust the companies, and things can take years, even maybe over a century, to be discovered to be harmful, the "logical" conclusion should be to take none. Did you answer that you walk everywhere? Auto manufacturers have been sued a lot, recalled all kinds of things, and they're constantly adding new things to vehicles. The only "logical" conclusion should be that you're walking everywhere.
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  3465.  @nassaubahamas8570  You're moving the goalpost all over the place, and making exceptions for yourself. Stick to your principles, ffs. You're a hypocrite.
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  3466.  @nassaubahamas8570  You blathered on about lawsuits, and now say lawsuits are irrelevant, as long as your fee fees tell you that it's okay to take one of their drugs.
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  3467.  @mehrshadvr4  You have severe reading comprehension problems.
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  3468.  @mehrshadvr4  No, I'm just someone who knows how a VAT actually works. A VAT is specifically designed to NOT tax businesses in order to avoid double taxation (which would be worse anyway). Yang even linked to a pass through rate study that he didn't grasp, which showed consumers were paying the entire VAT. If you don't have giant corporations paying into the dividend, like Yang falsely kept claiming they would, then they only get the benefits of it being spent, funneling trillions more a year to the very top.
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  3469. ​ @barbaraklein3944  Likud's bloody 100 year history ... In 1923, 100 years ago, Ze'ev Jabotinsky wrote, The Iron Wall, and a follow up, The Ethics of The Iron Wall (sooo racist towards Africans), in which he fully acknowledged that post Balfour Zionsim was colonialism, and that, based on the entirety of history, the native Palestinian population would resist being colonized until the bitter end. He directly compared it to the colonization of North America. He promoted doing it anyway, claiming Zionist colonialism was a "just" colonialism (he also thought North American colonialists were good guys, so not a great judge of morality), not caring what that meant for the native population. Ze'ev is important, because his Betar militant youth group helped found the Irgun terrorist group, along with other supporters of his, and the splinter Lehi terrorist group. The Irgun bombed numerous Palestinian markets and other public places, murdering many Palestinian civilians, including children, even including Palestinian Jews (who didn't support colonialist Zionsim). The Irgun are important, because they ended up being led by future Likud PM, Menachem Begin, who bombed the King David Hotel. The King David Hotel was bombed because the British had raided the Jewish Agency and seized numerous documents that may have shown that the terrorists were working with the JA and Haganah (JA liked to pretend that they didn't support the terrorism). The British then stored those documents at their base, in the hotel. That the Irgun terrorists responded to a JA raid, itself seems to prove the connection. That the thousands of Irgun (and Lehi) terrorists were also quickly merged into the new nation's military (IDF) and intelligence (Mossad) agencies, and are still celebrated as "heroes" by Israelis, to this day, also seems to support total collaboration between the groups. That other terrorist group mentioned, Lehi (also known as the Stern Gang), was considered even more extreme. They even tried to ally with the Nazis, against the British. Lehi ended up being led by Yitzhak Shamir, future Mossad agent, and another future Likud PM. In 1945, there was a major land and peoples survey done in Palestine. It showed that the Zionists only owned about 5% of the total land, 20% of the arable land, and owned a majority in zero districts. The partition was not only going to be forced on the native Palestinian majority, but Jews were still going to be a minority, in the part allocated to them. The only possible way to even become a "Jewish state" was going to require getting rid of the actual majority (at least enough so that there'd be a solid Jewish majority, so they could fake being democratic). This is also shown by the 1948, post Nakba, population of Israel. If there was 716,700 Jews, 156,000+ non-Jews, and approximately 700k non-Jews ethnically cleansed, that means the Jewish population, in the Zionist portion of partition, was originally over 100,000 less than the non-Jewish population. To believe that there was never any intent, by Zionists, to ethnically cleanse away the Palestinian majority would require believing that they never intended to create a "Jewish state". It's a nonsensical notion. Begin, and those terrorist groups, also opposed partition, but for the opposite reason Palestinians did. Palestinians didn't want to be colonized, at all. The terrorists wanted to colonize it all. "Moderate" Zionists were okay with colonizing half ... for now (what would happen in the future, after partition, was up to them, said Ben-Gurion). The Zionist terrorists were also involved in massacres, and assassinations, during the partition violence (colonialist war against the natives). Another notable future Likud PM, also started in the military, during the partition fighting. That was Ariel Sharon, war criminal, "Butcher of Beirut". Menachem Begin, and these other Zionist terrorists, are important because they also later founded Likud. Now, people get upset over the slogan "From the river to the sea!", but it's the second part that's most important, "Palestine will be free!". Because "Palestine" isn't defined as an ethno-state, a free Palestine can be a single state, free for all to live in, and return to, free of continuing colonization, free of occupation, free of oppression, etc. Just like a Germany free of Nazism, an Italy free of fascism, a South Africa free of apartheid, or an America free of slavery from sea to shiny sea. It doesn't necessitate purging all the Jews. It just necessitates them giving up on the idea of an ethno-state. On the other hand, because "Israel" has been defined as an ethno-state, Likud's, "between the sea and the Jordan there will only be Israeli sovereignty", has no possible good interpretation. It is a declaration of intent to completely colonize, and ethnically cleanse, all Palestine territories. Not only that, but it also claims that they have a "right" to all of the "Land of Israel" (biblical borders that don't mesh with archaeological reality), which is an open declaration of future wars, against Jordan, Syria, Lebanon, and possibly even Iraq. Likud platform ... 1977: "The Right of the Jewish People to the Land of Israel (Eretz Israel) a. The right of the Jewish people to the land of Israel is eternal and indisputable and is linked with the right to security and peace; therefore, Judea and Samaria will not be handed to any foreign administration; between the Sea and the Jordan there will only be Israeli sovereignty. b. A plan which relinquishes parts of western Eretz Israel, undermines our right to the country, unavoidably leads to the establishment of a "Palestinian State," jeopardizes the security of the Jewish population, endangers the existence of the State of Israel. and frustrates any prospect of peace." "Settlement Settlement. both urban and rural. in all parts of the Land of Israel is the focal point of the Zionist effort to redeem the country, to maintain vital security areas and serves as a reservoir of strength and inspiration for the renewal of the pioneering spirit. The Likud government will call on the younger generation in Israel and the dispersions to settle and help every group and individual in the task of inhabiting and cultivating the wasteland, while taking care not to dispossess anyone." 1999: "The Government of Israel flatly rejects the establishment of a Palestinian Arab state west of the Jordan river. The Palestinians can run their lives freely in the framework of self-rule, but not as an independent and sovereign state. Thus, for example, in matters of foreign affairs, security, immigration, and ecology, their activity shall be limited in accordance with imperatives of Israel's existence, security and national needs." "The Jewish communities in Judea, Samaria, and Gaza are the realization of Zionist values. Settlement of the land is a clear expression of the unassailable right of the Jewish people to the Land of Israel and constitutes an important asset in the defense of the vital interests of the State of Israel. The Likud will continue to strengthen and develop these communities and will prevent their uprooting." All Palestine territories are officially considered occupied, by the International Court of Justice, the UN GA, the UN SC, and even in official documents of Israel's own allies. Likud is still using the blueprint for colonizing North America, in the West Bank. Move settlements out into native territory, piss off the natives, the natives retaliate, cry about poor "innocent" colonizing settlers being the "victims" of violent "Savages!", call in the cavalry to put down the native uprising, and eventually expand the borders to include those settlements. Rinse and repeat. In Gaza, they are operating an open air WWII style fascist ghetto. Them claiming a "right to defend themselves" would be like the Nazis claiming a "right to defend themselves " from the Warsaw ghetto uprising. There's no "war". That they're the occupiers means the "war" part is long over. That partition was forced upon the Palestinian majority, against their will ... that the Zionist portion still had to be forcefully ethnically cleansed of its non-Jewish majority, against their will ... that the millions of occupied Palestinians don't have a say in the government that truly rules over them, Israel's ... means Israel is about as democratic as Nazi Germany after Hitler purged his political opponents and then held elections. Hamas is basically just a poor man's Likud, only fighting against colonialism, instead of for colonialism.
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  3470.  @nebwachamp  What are you blathering about? The largest mainstream media in the world, backed him, as did almost the entire Republican party. You're not very bright.
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  3471.  @kevinchristensen7510  No, she said it about A Wrinkle in Time, and idiots like Rubin, Pool, Shapiro, got all upset, and made a lame attempt to cancel her from Marvel.
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  3472.  @sps000111  The vast majority of religious people have been brainwashed since birth, and taught that that is reality. When forced to choose, many often choose exile or death over conversion, or simply just fake it. There's a reason it's included with unchangeable things like race, sex, or sexual orientation, when it comes to discrimination. Do you think anti-vax types have been that severely brainwashed?
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  3473. ​ @EpicAlcatraz99  You know that Israel has hundreds of thousands of militants (reservists), valid military targets, hiding amongst their civilians, right?
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  3474. He has been a liar, from the get go. He was lying to Americans about how a VAT works, claiming it was a way to make giant corporations, like Amazon, "pay their fair share". The reality is that a VAT is specifically designed to NOT tax businesses, in order to avoid cascading taxes upon taxes. He even posted a link to a pass through rate study, claiming it showed businesses paying about half the tax. But, if you actually read it, it showed that consumers were paying the entire tax. Half the sales were simply zero rated (no tax) or lesser rated, bringing the pass through percentage down.
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  3475.  @leviashanken2506  Sooo, what ... because some of the "good kind" of Native Americans were allowed to mingle with North American colonizers, they magically weren't ethnic cleansers and colonizers? Because Nazis had some Jewish collaborators, they magically weren't genocidal racists? Because there were some Stephens, during slavery, helping the slave owners, the slave owners magically weren't racist slave owners? You're making a "black friend" argument. They ethnically cleansed away about 700k of the non-Jewish majority, leaving only 156k, to create their "Jewish state". They've literally opposed any right of return, exactly because it poses a numbers problem for them.
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  3476. Christians ... the literal witch hunters, where the "witch hunt" term comes from.
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  3477. Working in a coffee shop, or something similar, and having a cool loft apartment didn't reflect reality?
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  3478.  @omarlocke9446  Replacing corporate Dems ... removing people from their seats and committees ... is, literally, more than words. You don't seem to have a grasp on reality.
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  3479.  @omarlocke9446  I was talking AOC, and progressives. So you're not delusional, you just have reading comprehension problems?
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  3480.  @omarlocke9446  You're the oneaking excuses for being an idiot. I literally talked about her backing other progressives to primary corporate Dems, which is action, and you went and lumped all Dems together to build a strawman argument against progressives, to support your inaction nonsense.
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  3481.  @omarlocke9446  Rofl. What kind of moronic gibberish, is that? Are you going to join the Trumpists in their next coup, since you don't like the democratic process?
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  3482.  @biokido575  Whatever insurance company you switch to, for anything, that's still how insurance companies work, dumb dumb.
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  3483.  @biokido575  Bullshit. Hospitals are closing down in the US faster than anywhere else in the developed world. Bullshit. They're standard global measures.
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  3484. ​ @barbaraklein3944  Likud's bloody 100 year history ... In 1923, 100 years ago, Ze'ev Jabotinsky wrote, The Iron Wall, and a follow up, The Ethics of The Iron Wall (sooo racist towards Africans), in which he fully acknowledged that post Balfour Zionsim was colonialism, and that, based on the entirety of history, the native Palestinian population would resist being colonized until the bitter end. He directly compared it to the colonization of North America. He promoted doing it anyway, claiming Zionist colonialism was a "just" colonialism (he also thought North American colonialists were good guys, so not a great judge of morality), not caring what that meant for the native population. Ze'ev is important, because his Betar militant youth group helped found the Irgun terrorist group, along with other supporters of his, and the splinter Lehi terrorist group. The Irgun bombed numerous Palestinian markets and other public places, murdering many Palestinian civilians, including children, even including Palestinian Jews (who didn't support colonialist Zionsim). The Irgun are important, because they ended up being led by future Likud PM, Menachem Begin, who bombed the King David Hotel. The King David Hotel was bombed because the British had raided the Jewish Agency and seized numerous documents that may have shown that the terrorists were working with the JA and Haganah (JA liked to pretend that they didn't support the terrorism). The British then stored those documents at their base, in the hotel. That the Irgun terrorists responded to a JA raid, itself seems to prove the connection. That the thousands of Irgun (and Lehi) terrorists were also quickly merged into the new nation's military (IDF) and intelligence (Mossad) agencies, and are still celebrated as "heroes" by Israelis, to this day, also seems to support total collaboration between the groups. That other terrorist group mentioned, Lehi (also known as the Stern Gang), was considered even more extreme. They even tried to ally with the Nazis, against the British. Lehi ended up being led by Yitzhak Shamir, future Mossad agent, and another future Likud PM. In 1945, there was a major land and peoples survey done in Palestine. It showed that the Zionists only owned about 5% of the total land, 20% of the arable land, and owned a majority in zero districts. The partition was not only going to be forced on the native Palestinian majority, but Jews were still going to be a minority, in the part allocated to them. The only possible way to even become a "Jewish state" was going to require getting rid of the actual majority (at least enough so that there'd be a solid Jewish majority, so they could fake being democratic). This is also shown by the 1948, post Nakba, population of Israel. If there was 716,700 Jews, 156,000+ non-Jews, and approximately 700k non-Jews ethnically cleansed, that means the Jewish population, in the Zionist portion of partition, was originally over 100,000 less than the non-Jewish population. To believe that there was never any intent, by Zionists, to ethnically cleanse away the Palestinian majority would require believing that they never intended to create a "Jewish state". It's a nonsensical notion. Begin, and those terrorist groups, also opposed partition, but for the opposite reason Palestinians did. Palestinians didn't want to be colonized, at all. The terrorists wanted to colonize it all. "Moderate" Zionists were okay with colonizing half ... for now (what would happen in the future, after partition, was up to them, said Ben-Gurion). The Zionist terrorists were also involved in massacres, and assassinations, during the partition violence (colonialist war against the natives). Another notable future Likud PM, also started in the military, during the partition fighting. That was Ariel Sharon, war criminal, "Butcher of Beirut". Menachem Begin, and these other Zionist terrorists, are important because they also later founded Likud. Now, people get upset over the slogan "From the river to the sea!", but it's the second part that's most important, "Palestine will be free!". Because "Palestine" isn't defined as an ethno-state, a free Palestine can be a single state, free for all to live in, and return to, free of continuing colonization, free of occupation, free of oppression, etc. Just like a Germany free of Nazism, an Italy free of fascism, a South Africa free of apartheid, or an America free of slavery from sea to shiny sea. It doesn't necessitate purging all the Jews. It just necessitates them giving up on the idea of an ethno-state. On the other hand, because "Israel" has been defined as an ethno-state, Likud's, "between the sea and the Jordan there will only be Israeli sovereignty", has no possible good interpretation. It is a declaration of intent to completely colonize, and ethnically cleanse, all Palestine territories. Not only that, but it also claims that they have a "right" to all of the "Land of Israel" (biblical borders that don't mesh with archaeological reality), which is an open declaration of future wars, against Jordan, Syria, Lebanon, and possibly even Iraq. Likud platform ... 1977: "The Right of the Jewish People to the Land of Israel (Eretz Israel) a. The right of the Jewish people to the land of Israel is eternal and indisputable and is linked with the right to security and peace; therefore, Judea and Samaria will not be handed to any foreign administration; between the Sea and the Jordan there will only be Israeli sovereignty. b. A plan which relinquishes parts of western Eretz Israel, undermines our right to the country, unavoidably leads to the establishment of a "Palestinian State," jeopardizes the security of the Jewish population, endangers the existence of the State of Israel. and frustrates any prospect of peace." "Settlement Settlement. both urban and rural. in all parts of the Land of Israel is the focal point of the Zionist effort to redeem the country, to maintain vital security areas and serves as a reservoir of strength and inspiration for the renewal of the pioneering spirit. The Likud government will call on the younger generation in Israel and the dispersions to settle and help every group and individual in the task of inhabiting and cultivating the wasteland, while taking care not to dispossess anyone." 1999: "The Government of Israel flatly rejects the establishment of a Palestinian Arab state west of the Jordan river. The Palestinians can run their lives freely in the framework of self-rule, but not as an independent and sovereign state. Thus, for example, in matters of foreign affairs, security, immigration, and ecology, their activity shall be limited in accordance with imperatives of Israel's existence, security and national needs." "The Jewish communities in Judea, Samaria, and Gaza are the realization of Zionist values. Settlement of the land is a clear expression of the unassailable right of the Jewish people to the Land of Israel and constitutes an important asset in the defense of the vital interests of the State of Israel. The Likud will continue to strengthen and develop these communities and will prevent their uprooting." All Palestine territories are officially considered occupied, by the International Court of Justice, the UN GA, the UN SC, and even in official documents of Israel's own allies. Likud is still using the blueprint for colonizing North America, in the West Bank. Move settlements out into native territory, piss off the natives, the natives retaliate, cry about poor "innocent" colonizing settlers being the "victims" of violent "Savages!", call in the cavalry to put down the native uprising, and eventually expand the borders to include those settlements. Rinse and repeat. In Gaza, they are operating an open air WWII style fascist ghetto. Them claiming a "right to defend themselves" would be like the Nazis claiming a "right to defend themselves " from the Warsaw ghetto uprising. There's no "war". That they're the occupiers means the "war" part is long over. That partition was forced upon the Palestinian majority, against their will ... that the Zionist portion still had to be forcefully ethnically cleansed of its non-Jewish majority, against their will ... that the millions of occupied Palestinians don't have a say in the government that truly rules over them, Israel's ... means Israel is about as democratic as Nazi Germany after Hitler purged his political opponents and then held elections. Hamas is basically just a poor man's Likud, only fighting against colonialism, instead of for colonialism.
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  3485.  @keithporteous9281  Quit lying for Dore. He and his wife said Chomsky had become what he used to debate against, which implies selling out. He said Chomsky's idea of voting harm reduction was "wrong", "f*cking wrong", while peddling the idiotic notion that Biden was worse than Trump. If every progressive listened to Dore, Trump would be president again. Most of the actions Dore promotes benefit the far right.
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  3486.  @abdul-rahimdahman3300  The thing is that simply being fascist doesn't necessarily include being an ethno-nationalist. It's authoritarian capitalism, on the side of big business, etc. Nazism adds ethnic warfare to their specific brand of fascism.
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  3487.    What country in Europe has UBI for all?
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  3488.  @silversurfer4441  Rofl. If all the progressives are on board with Jimmy, then there are only hundreds of progressives.
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  3489.  @pcwcol  Currently 4th, at 36/100k, after Louisiana 47, Arkansas 43, and Missouri 41. They're 3-4x worse than California, 12, and 6-8x worse than NY or NJ, both 6.
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  3490.  @greggerypeccary88  Oh geez, you're a loon.
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  3491. It's manufactured by the 5th largest pharma corporation in the world. Even they don't recommend it as a safe and effective covid remedy, even though it could make them billions.
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  3492.  @whyamimrpink78  Again, dumb dumb ... Trump was the government, the head of government, and he (the government) convinced tens of millions of you sheep not to believe any media, any other politicians, any judges, any lawyers, any law enforcement, any election officials, any scientists, any doctors, any nurses ... anybody ... even to not believe your own lying eyes, if any of them contradicted him (the government). Hearing from numerous different governments that often can't agree on much, different media outlets, different scientists, and different medical professionals, from all over the world, and accepting reality, is the opposite of being herded around by a single government shepherd. Wearing a seatbelt while driving, just seems reasonable. Wearing a hardhat on a construction site just seems reasonable. Wearing a hazmat suit when working with dangerous chemicals just seems reasonable. Wearing a mask during a pandemic just seems reasonable. I think you ignore warning labels, or prescribed doses, on medication, to prove you can think for yourself, and have taken something that has caused brain damage.
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  3493.  @101RadioheadCovers  Yeah, Netanyahu had to form a political alliance, to stay in power, and he allied with some of the worst extremists. The guy he put in charge of the West Bank had previously been arrested for planned terrorism, he's a religious nut bigot who compares homosexuality to bestiality, he's a racist who says "Palestinian" people don't exist, and he made public a psychotic plan to segregate and subjugate (no federal representation), exile, or kill, any non Jews in all of Israel/Palestine. He wants all of what he thinks was the God given land of Israel, and the map of "Israel" that he has on his wall, includes parts of Jordan, Syria, and Lebanon.
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  3494.  @adaminfinity1733  Absolutely nobody said vaccines were 100%. No vaccine is 100%. In a highly vaccinated population: There are dozens to thousands of measles and mumps breakthroughs a year, in the US alone. The mumps vaccine is about 88% effective, and about 90% of kids get vaccinated, due to public school mandates. So, here's how a breakout works ... In a population of say 1000 kids, 100 have zero protection, and 900 have 88% protection. That means 100 unvaccinated kids, and about 108 vaccinated kids, have the potential of catching the mumps, if it is introduced into the community. That would be 52% of the cases having been vaccinated. The more you lower the vaccination rate, the more people would end up catching the virus, and the more unvaccinated cases you'd see. If only 65% of the kids were vaccinated (the US covid vaccination rate), that would be 350 unvaccinated kids, and about 78 vaccinated kids, with the potential to catch mumps. So that's about 18% of those with mumps being vaccinated, but more actual cases of mumps. A higher percentage of vaccinated people in the hospital is what you want to see, in a highly vaccinated population. Without the vaccine, there would be the potential for all 1000 kids to catch the mumps, and even though that's 0% vaccinated infections, that's what you wouldn't want to see, and which is what you seem to be ignoring.
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  3495. ​ @danielarista1352  There are over 400k Israeli militants (reservists and off duty personnel), valid military targets, hiding amongst its populace, cowardly using civilians as human shields. So, you're justifying the Hamas attack?
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  3496. ​ @danielarista1352  Israel is objectively the aggressor, btw, by every relevant measure... Modern history: 100 years ago, in 1923, Ze'ev Jabotinsky fully acknowledged that Zionism is colonialism, and that, based on the entirety of history, the natives would fight it until the bitter end. He just didn't care what would happen to them, and promoted doing it anyway. Colonizers are never not the aggressors. On top of the colonialist nature of Zionism, the Zionists also formed terrorist organizations, like the Irgun and Lehi. They bombed many Palestinian markets and other public places, murdering many civilians, including children, even including Palestinian Jews (who opposed Zionism). Israel merged those terrorists into the new nation's military and intelligence agencies. Israelis elected Menachem Begin, leader of the Irgun, child murderer, Jew murderer, and bomber of the King David Hotel, as PM. Israelis, to this day, celebrate those terrorists as "heroes". Zionists literally taught their neighbours that terrorism is a valid path to independence and statehood, and that terrorists are to be celebrated. In 1945, it is well documented that Zionists owned just 5% of the land and were a majority nowhere. Israel was formed by actually going against the majority population. It's foundation is completely undemocratic. Then, becoming a majority, in "their" new nation, by ethnic cleansing the actual majority, and then claiming to be democratic, is utter nonsense. Law: Israel is considered an occupier by the International Court, the UN GA, and the UN SC. Occupiers are also never not the aggressors. Those occupied actually have a right to resist occupation. On the flip side, it is illegal for the occupier to settle occupied lands, and illegal to use collective punishment. Israel is a rogue nation, that doesn't abide by international law. What it has been doing, and is doing now, is illegal. Current events: This year, alone, prior to Oct 7 ... Israel held over 1200 Palestinian hostages without charges ... over 200 Palestinians had been killed by the IDF and settlers ... over 1000 Palestinians had been displaced by Israel's neverending colonization of the West Bank ... and, Israel continued to operate an open air WWII style fascist ghetto, in Gaza. Even ignoring modern history and law, in no reality did Hamas "start" anything.
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  3497.  @kylea1436  How is a couple people sitting in his garage, a "big show"?
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  3498.  @kylea1436  No, they don't, and you didn't even attempt to answer my question. How is a couple people sitting in his garage "a big show"?
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  3499. ​ @crystallinebonsai680 Einstein compared Likud's founders to Fscsts and Nzs, way back in 1947. Richard Spencer is pro Isrl, because he wants all Jewish people to go there, and wants to emulate their ethno state, only for Anglos. You didn't make an actual point.
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  3500.  @sighwestberry5079  What? How the hell are they fearmongering people into getting sick? That's moronic.
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  3501. Yeah, the choice in a "public option" is to not opt to pay in. You couldn't find it with a progressive tax, and if you tried to make progressive optional premiums, the rich would simply opt out.
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  3502. Hand in hand grifters. He should have been charged with malpractice, for peddling her all meat diet as a cure for anxiety and depression, claiming he hadn't needed meds for 6 months. Talking with an heir of authority, being a psychologist, he could have caused serious harm to some of Rogan's 5m+ listeners. And, that was shortly before he needed to be put in a coma, to break his drug addiction to the drugs he claimed he no longer needed. Total bullshit.
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  3503.  @justanotherguy1794  I don't consider corporate Dems, neoliberals, Reps, neocons, or whatever you want to call any of them, to be "left". So, Jimmy is joining with idiots who erroneously call right wingers, like Biden, "left", to argue it's not a right vs left thing? If Dore could convince the working class, the poor, to vote for someone, wouldn't it be for someone on the left? His PPM buddies are all a bunch of lefties. Or, would Jimmy get them to vote for an anti-M4A, anti social safety net, anti public education, etc., Libertarian, just because the candidate totally isn't a racist, but would like the government to not interfere with businesses' "right" to discriminate? Republicans are outright working against workers and the poor. Corporate Dems aren't doing all they can for workers and the poor, and a bunch are also actively working against them. Who, on the right, is fighting the class war .. on the side of workers and the poor?
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  3504.  @justanotherguy1794  I think Jimmy also vastly overestimates just how much power progressives have. He singled out 15 house members who he considered the most progressive. There are zero extra out of party votes in their neighborhood. There are zero extra votes to the left of them. On the right side of the party, there are 20 corporate Dems with idiological voting scores in the same range as 40 Reps. That's 40 extra possible votes in the same neighborhood. Then there is the entire rest of the Republican party to the right of them. The most progressive Dems can only push things as far left as the most right wing party members will allow, because if push comes to shove, there are more votes to be gained, or lost, on the right.
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  3505.  @justanotherguy1794  What "outrage" at you?
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  3506. Worthless political stunt, like her holding the articles of impeachment supposedly to get a guarantee of a fair trial, and then putting it through without any guarantees.
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  3507. That math doesn't even seem to make sense. If a slave counted as less, then that would be insensitive to increase the slave population, not lower it, to try and increase voting power.
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  3508. @★ Froggie Animation ★ Yeah, they picked a horse to back, and did whatever they could to pull that horse through the primaries, and she lost to one of the lowest percentages of the vote to ever win. She had an unfavorability rating over 50%. She was only slightly less unliked than Trump, and those who liked her a bit more than him were in the wrong states.
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  3509. @★ Froggie Animation ★ It went to court, dimwit. The judge accepted that the DNC worked against Sanders, but that impartiality isn't enforceable by the courts. If you think wanting to be more like Denmark is all out socialism, then you've got the brain the size of a pea. It's actual, real world, centrism.
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  3510. @☯ Yo, it's a Froggieee Onimations ☯ ✓ Try making some sense.
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  3511. Drug cartels don't want their product lost by people dying in rivers, or deserts, or by being rounded up by border patrol. They mostly send their product over short legal routes.
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  3512. Persecuted people have turned around and persecuted others plenty of times in history.
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  3513.  @Tocqueville69  The guy guy literally shared multiple articles from a white supremacist website, in emails to a Breitbart writer. But more than "just creepy".
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  3514.  @J77225  AOC and Bernie just finished campaigning for Nina, while promoting M4A, trying their best to add another M4A yes vote to congress. Dore abandoned Nina, and abandoned adding another M4A yes vote to congress. He promotes the third party route that hasn't won the most popular third party a single seat in congress in its near 50 year existence. At "best", you peel away enough progressive votes to hand the Dem party totally back to corporate Dems and let Republicans rule for decades to come. You're talking about Jimmy himself, as the bigger danger.
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  3515.  @khazaddum6599  Progressives got the $15 to stay in for a round of voting. It actually passed the house (M4A didn't have a chance in hell) and also got a senate vote. Just getting a vote on an important progressive policy is a huge deal, right? Getting a list of no voters from both chambers is a huge deal, right? Nope. Not anymore. Pathetic useless hypocritical Dore knobs just keep bitching about those who got it to stay in for a round of voting and who voted for it. And you're fantasizing over how house-senate negotiations would go. Manchin didn't want to go over $11. Instead of negotiating with the squad, he'd approach Republicans, who have their own $10 minimum bills, and try to work out some kind of bipartisan agreement, just like he did with infrastructure. If he got enough Republicans on board, then you don't even need squad votes.
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  3516.  @jaccl4539  See my comment, above yours. Math is involved in the amount of leverage Manchin has vs what progressives have. Plus, his not caring if bills completely tank. You need him to think a bill is "must pass", to have leverage over him.
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  3517.  @jaccl4539  The math, tells you the amount of people you need for a war, ffs. Manchin doesn't need anyone else, in a 50/50 senate. If Dems had 51 seats, he'd have no power. 52 seats, and he and Sinema would have no power. They could be completely ignored. You'd never hear about them, because they couldn't then be a cog in anyone's wheel. They'd have no power to wage war. Sure, the entire progressive caucus could have held up infrastructure, but just AOC, and just the squad, couldn't. 13 Republicans voted for it. That takes away the ability to wage war, unless you have 17 people on board to wage war. Numbers are everything.
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  3518.  @jaccl4539  No. You're the one apparently looking for success, because they vote against crap all the f*cking time, and you're not counting it. You have things completely backwards. You bring up Manchin, but the only reason anyone is talking about him, is because he can block votes. Like I said if it was a 51/49 senate, nobody would be talking about him. He could have all the red lines he wanted, and nobody would give a f*ck, because his vote wouldn't be needed.
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  3519.  @jaccl4539  Wtf? How do you go around Manchin, by going further right, dimwit? That's the other side of Manchin, and the side he wants to work with. You're making absolutely no sense. You go right to not need votes from progressives. You can't go left to not need Manchin's vote. There are no extra votes to the left of progressives. Progressives draw lines and don't vote for crap all the f*cking time. You're not counting those, because they weren't successful. Squad members just drew a line and didn't vote for the infrastructure bill. They called out Dems who did vote for it. What are you expecting, exactly? You're blathering nonsense. What "risk" is Manchin taking, aside from simply saying he won't vote for stuff he doesn't like? He's not doing anything squad members haven't done. He simply has more power, due to math.
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  3520.  @SMP1993  So you're expanding the issue from not just one person, and not even the original 4 person squad, or the new 7 person squad, but beyond the squad to some 14 persons. That the progressive caucus could have done something, or 14 of them could do something, is a different argument than the squad, or AOC, being able to do much of anything. The progressive caucus definitely screwed up, and the squad called out those who voted for the bill. Just so we're clear ... some Dems actually do want to pass some things, including Biden? It's not like they don't care if nothing passes? Because, calling bills "must pass" entirely rests on the premise they actually want to accomplish something, unlike the majority of Republicans who just want to tank everything. Dore knobs often then turn around and make out like corporate Dems and Republicans are samesies, which makes the "must pass" argument incoherent. So, you think that if there was a 14 person squad, and they could threaten to block the bill, then Biden would get involved and pressure Manchin? So, does Manchin care if the bill tanks, or no? If not, why would he care what Biden says? If yes, what makes you think he'd move left, instead of simply making some other concessions to Republicans, to get a few more of them on board, for "bipartisanship"? His entire argument was that he didn't want a bill that had only Democrat support. Why would he suddenly move in a direction that would lose him his Republican friends' votes? Then you'd have to increase your squad numbers even more, and I still don't understand why you think Manchin wouldn't just amend the bill even further right. If Pelosi, or the DNC, are getting AOC to campaign for Nina, and getting her to help get Cori, Bowman, and Mondaire, get elected, then maybe they aren't so bad. Or, maybe, just maybe, she isn't doing their bidding, and they are pretty bad.
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  3521.  @SMP1993  I stopped reading, after your first few sentences. The stripped down, and pushed right, infrastructure bill was just passed, with Republicans on board, ffs. Not sure what reality you're living in, but it's not this one.
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  3522.  @alabamaman5994  The guy is a nutter, like you.
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  3523. Then they're Nazi apologists. Likud's bloody 100 year history ... In 1923, 100 years ago, Ze'ev Jabotinsky wrote, The Iron Wall, and a follow up, The Ethics of The Iron Wall (sooo racist towards Africans), in which he fully acknowledged that post Balfour Zionsim was colonialism, and that, based on the entirety of history, the native Palestinian population would resist being colonized until the bitter end. He directly compared it to the colonization of North America. He promoted doing it anyway, claiming Zionist colonialism was a "just" colonialism (he also thought North American colonialists were good guys, so not a great judge of morality), not caring what that meant for the native population. Ze'ev is important, because his Betar militant youth group helped found the Irgun terrorist group, along with other supporters of his, and the splinter Lehi terrorist group. The Irgun bombed numerous Palestinian markets and other public places, murdering many Palestinian civilians, including children, even including Palestinian Jews (who didn't support colonialist Zionsim). The Irgun are important, because they ended up being led by future Likud PM, Menachem Begin, who bombed the King David Hotel. The King David Hotel was bombed because the British had raided the Jewish Agency and seized numerous documents that may have shown that the terrorists were working with the JA and Haganah (JA liked to pretend that they didn't support the terrorism). The British then stored those documents at their base, in the hotel. That the Irgun terrorists responded to a JA raid, itself seems to prove the connection. That the thousands of Irgun (and Lehi) terrorists were also quickly merged into the new nation's military (IDF) and intelligence (Mossad) agencies, and are still celebrated as "heroes" by Israelis, to this day, also seems to support total collaboration between the groups. That other terrorist group mentioned, Lehi (also known as the Stern Gang), was considered even more extreme. They even tried to ally with the Nazis, against the British. Lehi ended up being led by Yitzhak Shamir, future Mossad agent, and another future Likud PM. In 1945, there was a major land and peoples survey done in Palestine. It showed that the Zionists only owned about 5% of the total land, 20% of the arable land, and owned a majority in zero districts. The partition was not only going to be forced on the native Palestinian majority, but Jews were still going to be a minority, in the part allocated to them. The only possible way to even become a "Jewish state" was going to require getting rid of the actual majority (at least enough so that there'd be a solid Jewish majority, so they could fake being democratic). This is also shown by the 1948, post Nakba, population of Israel. If there was 716,700 Jews, 156,000+ non-Jews, and approximately 700k non-Jews ethnically cleansed, that means the Jewish population, in the Zionist portion of partition, was originally over 100,000 less than the non-Jewish population. To believe that there was never any intent, by Zionists, to ethnically cleanse away the Palestinian majority would require believing that they never intended to create a "Jewish state". It's a nonsensical notion. Begin, and those terrorist groups, also opposed partition, but for the opposite reason Palestinians did. Palestinians didn't want to be colonized, at all. The terrorists wanted to colonize it all. "Moderate" Zionists were okay with colonizing half ... for now (what would happen in the future, after partition, was up to them, said Ben-Gurion). The Zionist terrorists were also involved in massacres, and assassinations, during the partition violence (colonialist war against the natives). Another notable future Likud PM, also started in the military, during the partition fighting. That was Ariel Sharon, war criminal, "Butcher of Beirut". Menachem Begin, and these other Zionist terrorists, are important because they also later founded Likud. Now, people get upset over the slogan "From the river to the sea!", but it's the second part that's most important, "Palestine will be free!". Because "Palestine" isn't defined as an ethno-state, a free Palestine can be a single state, free for all to live in, and return to, free of continuing colonization, free of occupation, free of oppression, etc. Just like a Germany free of Nazism, an Italy free of fascism, a South Africa free of apartheid, or an America free of slavery from sea to shiny sea. It doesn't necessitate purging all the Jews. It just necessitates them giving up on the idea of an ethno-state. On the other hand, because "Israel" has been defined as an ethno-state, Likud's, "between the sea and the Jordan there will only be Israeli sovereignty", has no possible good interpretation. It is a declaration of intent to completely colonize, and ethnically cleanse, all Palestine territories. Not only that, but it also claims that they have a "right" to all of the "Land of Israel" (biblical borders that don't mesh with archaeological reality), which is an open declaration of future wars, against Jordan, Syria, Lebanon, and possibly even Iraq. Likud platform ... 1977: "The Right of the Jewish People to the Land of Israel (Eretz Israel) a. The right of the Jewish people to the land of Israel is eternal and indisputable and is linked with the right to security and peace; therefore, Judea and Samaria will not be handed to any foreign administration; between the Sea and the Jordan there will only be Israeli sovereignty. b. A plan which relinquishes parts of western Eretz Israel, undermines our right to the country, unavoidably leads to the establishment of a "Palestinian State," jeopardizes the security of the Jewish population, endangers the existence of the State of Israel. and frustrates any prospect of peace." "Settlement Settlement. both urban and rural. in all parts of the Land of Israel is the focal point of the Zionist effort to redeem the country, to maintain vital security areas and serves as a reservoir of strength and inspiration for the renewal of the pioneering spirit. The Likud government will call on the younger generation in Israel and the dispersions to settle and help every group and individual in the task of inhabiting and cultivating the wasteland, while taking care not to dispossess anyone." 1999: "The Government of Israel flatly rejects the establishment of a Palestinian Arab state west of the Jordan river. The Palestinians can run their lives freely in the framework of self-rule, but not as an independent and sovereign state. Thus, for example, in matters of foreign affairs, security, immigration, and ecology, their activity shall be limited in accordance with imperatives of Israel's existence, security and national needs." "The Jewish communities in Judea, Samaria, and Gaza are the realization of Zionist values. Settlement of the land is a clear expression of the unassailable right of the Jewish people to the Land of Israel and constitutes an important asset in the defense of the vital interests of the State of Israel. The Likud will continue to strengthen and develop these communities and will prevent their uprooting." All Palestine territories are officially considered occupied, by the International Court of Justice, the UN GA, the UN SC, and even in official documents of Israel's own allies. Likud is still using the blueprint for colonizing North America, in the West Bank. Move settlements out into native territory, piss off the natives, the natives retaliate, cry about poor "innocent" colonizing settlers being the "victims" of violent "Savages!", call in the cavalry to put down the native uprising, and eventually expand the borders to include those settlements. Rinse and repeat. In Gaza, they are operating an open air WWII style fascist ghetto. Them claiming a "right to defend themselves" would be like the Nazis claiming a "right to defend themselves " from the Warsaw ghetto uprising. There's no "war". That they're the occupiers means the "war" part is long over. That partition was forced upon the Palestinian majority, against their will ... that the Zionist portion still had to be forcefully ethnically cleansed of its non-Jewish majority, against their will ... that the millions of occupied Palestinians don't have a say in the government that truly rules over them, Israel's ... means Israel is about as democratic as Nazi Germany after Hitler purged his political opponents and then held elections.
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  3524. ​ @masambeni  But it does. Likud are colonizers, terrorists, ethnic cleansers, and occupiers, who are operating an open air WWII style fascist ghetto, and bombing it when there's an uprising. Being anti-Nazi, and anti-Third Reich, didn't equate to being anti-German. Who cares what Zionist Nazi apologists say?
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  3525.  @Dnmac69420  Just keep "right left" to economics, and it works fine.
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  3526.  @ToxicAudri  Ah, so you don't have much of a conscience, after all.
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  3527.  Alabama Man dunks on progressives again  They haven't gotten anything they originally stated they were after, dimwit. "Ahead of the convoy’s arrival in the capital, Canada Unity directed a “Memorandum of Understanding” (MOU) to the Senate and the Governor General, demanding an end to vaccine mandates and the reinstatement of those who lost jobs over COVID-19 vaccinations, or else “RESIGN their lawful positions of authority Immediately” (sic). "
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  3528.  @corpgov  And what do you call promoting Trump as a better option than Clinton? Or, promoting psycho far right anti-socialists as allies? Or, promoting a psycho right wing drive (march) to (on) Ottawa (Rome)? I call that being a fascist.
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  3529.  @TomFranklinX  Are Colbert or Sanders going around making out like they're pro debaters, and claiming the right won't debate them, while dodging right wingers willing to debate them?
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  3530.  @TomFranklinX  He didn't include your nonsense qualifiers, no. Who's he looking to debate? Chomsky? Has he asked him?
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  3531.  @TomFranklinX  Rofl. Aside from him not being a comedian, when was the last great comedian vs comedian debate? You keep moving the goalpost to non existent things. And, Sam is on Peacock, so there you go.
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  3532.  @Leon-qe2bf  Nope. So why is it good if everyone is bribing them? Get money out of politics.
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  3533.  @InvertedInsideout  How is giving money to someone to influence them not bribery? Don't know how I could be thinking about it wrong, when that's the textbook definition of bribery. Shouldn't the goal be to get money out of politics?
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  3534.  @Boswd  Ummm, a "candidate" would be a government official, or potential one?
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  3535.  @DJBenjoyer  Let's say I'm quite sure a Repub would win my district, so I dump all my democracy dollars to the Repub candidate in the next district over. Why not get money right out of politics?
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  3536.  @caseyfergus6614  Aside from being bribery, why isn't this like food stamps? Yang argues against food stamps, because that's the government making people spend X amount of what they're getting on food. Why doesn't he simply hand people $200 more dollars, and let them decide if they want to put it towards a politician's campaign, or spend it on Christmas presents?
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  3537.  @zombiesoul-eater741  Don't know where you learned your history, but even the Jewish Virtual Library says: "Stern decided to try to convince the Germans to allow Jews to go to Palestine. He sent Naftali Lubinchik to Beirut for a meeting with a German Foreign Ministry representative. Lubinchik told the Germans the “Jewish problem” could be solved by sending the Jews to Palestine, where they would create a Jewish military force to help conquer the land from the British."
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  3538.  @zombiesoul-eater741  Even the Jewish Virtual Library will tell you Stern tried to ally with them, Revi. Try peddling your Revisionist garbage elsewhere. If you never stop colonizing, then you're never not a colonizer, Revi. 700k in the West Bank now?
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  3539.  @aicram62  Didn't the Green Party give us Kyrsten Sinema?
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  3540.  @keithporteous9281  Tulsi ran on a public option. Dore did promote Trump (wanted to kick 10m of the poorest Americans off of Medicaid expansion) as the better option than Clinton (wanted to add 40m older Americans to Medicare expansion). And, Dore recently abandoned Nina ... abandoned adding another M4A yes vote to congress, while continuing to slander those who helped to add more M4A yes votes to congress, in the last election, and who were campaigning for Nina, trying to add another. You Dore knobs know that adding yes votes into congress gets you closer to being able to pass M4A, while a 100% guaranteed to fail performance art vote doesn't, right?
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  3541.  @UncleRicoOSU  No pro ivermectin study has passed peer review. Peru, which used ivermectin a lot, has the highest covid deaths per capita in the world. Ivermectin is manufactured by the 5th largest pharma corporation in the world ... they could make billions off of it, if it actually worked ... and even they don't recommend it as a safe covid remedy.
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  3542.  @leadbreastplate7496  "Mormon" says nothing about someone's position on economics or authoritarianism. That's like asking about carpenters.
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  3543.  @leadbreastplate7496  A nonsensical misdirection, just like Mormons.
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  3544.  @justingaines207  The anti-socialist, anti-communist, anti-union, backed by rich capitalists, leaders in privatization, parts put them on the right, which isn't to say everyone on the right is a fascist. Most, if not all, seem to apply to the Trump cult, or at least most of the politicians they vote for.
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  3545.  @justingaines207  Rofl. Why do you think they'll confuse anybody?
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  3546.  @justingaines207  A bunch of anti-democratic dimwits, that don't have a very good grasp on history.
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  3547.  @justingaines207  They seem to have completely failed history, falsely believing that democracy goes against freedom, has brought about the most war, and such like. Thousands of years of history disagrees with their take.
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  3548.  @justingaines207  They just sound like fascists promising more freedom ... when they're in total control. Soon you'd be having a big brother convincing you that slavery is freedom.
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  3549.  @justingaines207  Rofl. They want to install a dictator/monarch, ffs. Did you not catch the "Big Brother" reference? Doublespeak: war is peace, ignorance is strength, and freedom is slavery. They've already started with the backwards bullshit propaganda, making out democracy is anti-freedom and a dictatorship is freedom.
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  3550.  @justingaines207  The US is one of the least democratic developed nations. Why use it to represent democracy?
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  3551.  @justingaines207  To come to the conclusion that democracy is anti-freedom, based solely on the current US system, is kind of moronic. Countries ranked higher on the democracy index, also seem to be ranked higher on freedom indexes, happiness indexes, etc. You'd think the conclusion would be that the US isn't democratic enough, not that it needs a "benevolent" dictator.
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  3552.  @justingaines207  What the f does "proven status" mean? Monarchies were shit, for the majority of people.
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  3553.  @justingaines207  Oh, a single anecdote would disagree. Do tell how Edward III made life grand for the majority.
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  3554.  @justingaines207  I know about Edward, just fine. I want to hear what you think was so awesome. Do tell.
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  3555.  @justingaines207  Oh, rofl! Just saw that second comment. Washington warred against a monarchy to install a democracy, dumb dumb. He's, literally, the opposite of what you're arguing for. To compare the two is ridiculous. Awesome Edward III warred against Scots trying to keep their independence, he started a war that lasted 116 years, drove the country into debt, nobility started rebelling under the strain until he granted parliament the right to tax, which led to even more taxes on peasants, the strain of which led to a massive peasant revolt early in Richard's reign, .... awesomely awesome stuff!!
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  3556. Rofl. That's not a solution.
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  3557. There is very good change, on both sides of the climate.
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  3558.  @MundaneDave  Chickenpox is endemic. That's not an argument against herd immunity and vaccinating as many people as possible.
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  3559.  @MundaneDave  Did you miss the part where the chickenpox vaccine is mandated in all 50 states, to provide herd immunity, to help protect others, and not just yourself?
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  3560.  @MundaneDave  Your argument was that it's "endemic", as if that's some argument against herd immunity, and vaccinating as many people as possible, so "protect yourself". What you're doing now is a basic moving the goalpost, is what this is. It would also be better if everyone got the flu vaccine, as well. You still don't have a f*cking actual point.
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  3561.  @MundaneDave  No vaccine is 100%, dimwit, but every vaccinated person between you and a carrier is an added layer of protection. There is no argument against vaccinating as many people as possible. What "massive negative impact it's had on kids"? What are you blathering about?
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  3562.  @tonyelliott7734  Biden had a physical, when he was done school, and was deemed ineligible. Trump passed a physical, but deferred for school. Then, 2 years later, when he was done school, a podiatrist claimed he had asymptomatic bone spurs.
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  3563.  @federicokspitz7879  What are you on about? Many European countries have hate speech laws, and there's an EU article on it.
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  3564.  @crazyeight9  You don't think Manson should have been charged?
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  3565. Name one that campaigned on threatening to paralyze the house.
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  3566.  @jamesweaver6212  Yeah, a white one though. FOX fans are okay with that, I guess.
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  3567.  @felixmaxime9539  That's not what Peterson meant. He was talking about just having sex and getting women, not specifically marriage, and not even about having more than one woman at a time. He was referring to guys who got more than one woman, total.
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  3568.  @handofgod9386  Nobody in this video said his numbers were better than Trump's.
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  3569. ​​ @stephj9378  Everyone following "self help gurus" thinks their guru is awesome. Most of them are spewing bullshit. The proof that JP is spewing bullshit is that he clearly doesn't believe in, or follow, his own rules. The proof that he's a grifter is him going on Rogan, peddling his daughter's all meat diet, claiming it cured his depression and anxiety, and that he hadn't needed meds in 6 months ... just a few months before needing to be forced into a coma, to break his addiction to the very meds he claimed he no longer needed. He has been bullshitting, mostly ignorant Americans, since his 2016 anti-trans nonsense.
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  3570.  @mitchellwharry2922  He's grifter and a Quack, who doesn't deserve a license. Get over it.
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  3571.  @nevetstrevel4711  If I gather up people from the Americas, whose ancestors left England hundreds of years ago, "went back", claimed half the country as "ours", and cleansed "our" half of its current inhabitants (at least enough so that us "returnees" were in a solid majority, so we could fake being democratic), we'd be colonizers.
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  3572.  @zenbear9952  Definitely. Handing someone a dictatorship likely won't go the way you want.
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  3573.  @zenbear9952  Well, we call something owned by the state "socialized".
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  3574. Yes, we do. I'm not talking about them making rules for how things should run. I'm talking about when they own public schools, own the NHS or the primary form of health insurance, nationalize and own resources, or whatnot. Real world centrism is in the center, between all out capitalism and all out socialism. An evenly mixed economy, is a mix of half capitalism and half socialism. Yes, I already said they were corrupted, and didn't give up their dictatorship, but a dictatorship is part of the revolutionary path. You know right libertarians also argue fascism isn't true capitalism, yeah?
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  3575.  @victormeidan1062  I covered "moving on", moron, with current law and current events. Plus, there hasn't been a "moving on" from the colonization. It's still happening.
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  3576. ​ @michaelfisher1537  No. You are. Likud was founded by Menachem Begin, terrorist leader of the Irgun, who bombed the King David Hotel. The Irgun targeted Palestinian Jews, alongside their Palestinian brothers and sisters, for not supporting colonialist Zionsim. Israel merged those Irgun terrorists ... child murderers, Jew murderers ... into the new nation's military and intelligence agencies. Israelis elected Menachem Begin, Jew murderer, as PM. His Likud platform, "between the sea and the Jordan there will only be Israeli sovereignty", declaring continued colonization and ethnic cleansing of all Palestine territories, putting Israel's Jews at constant threat from the native population fighting said colonialism. Israelis have also put themselves in the same boat as the Irgun and Likud, not just by electing them, but by continuing to celebrate the Irgun terrorists, Jew murderers, as "heroes", to this day.
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  3577.  @Danielle-zq7kb  I don't, sorry. Just a variety of sources. You can find Ze'ev Jabotinsky's articles, Likud's 1977 platform, the changing population of Israel-Palestine, and some other old mandate era documents, at the Jewish Virtual Library (their transcribed primary source stuff is fine, but their own writings get biased). The Balfour Project has transcribed mandate era documents. The British Hansard has mandate era parliament discussions (just set the dates you want and search for keywords: Palestine or Irgun or whatever you're looking for). Google: NYT Einstein letter. The 1945 Village Statistics is scanned onto Wiki, which also has a bunch of info (like with any Wiki articles, just make sure the section your reading is sourced).
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  3578. ​ @Danielle-zq7kb  YouTube hid my reply, for some reason. If you sort the comment section by newest, and refind this thread, you should be able to see it.
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  3579.  @liamoconlocha3264  I have been. Help yourself to it, if you want to as well.
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  3580.  @goliatdepalestein3898  Yeah, some of Jabotinsky's Betar militants even trained with the fascists in Italy.
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  3581.  @ComradeCatpurrnicus  Pew (2002): 83% believed they helped with 9/11; 77% believed they had WMDs or Nclr wpns; 75% believed they were harboring trrrists. So, you don't believe it's possible to change anyone's mind, and instead of battling BS, we should just do nothing, and wait it out, for what? Another 20 years, or so?
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  3582.  @janetwebster5099  I'm also Canadian, and gma was a Webster. 👍🇨🇦
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  3583. ☝️Why can't you be tagged? Bot? Coward? You seem to have left out the part where Weizmann told Faisal that Znsts didn't want to create their own state. Which means, what Faisal was agreeing to was a single state solution. It was the Znsts who didn't stick to that agreement. You also left out that Al Qibla was run by Faisal's dad, Sharif Hussein. He was also likely lied to. But, you have helped prove that the Arabs/Muslims, were willing to open their arms and accept Jws, and that this isn't all about hting Jws. You also left out how there were already Commodore, Tandy, and Apple, as well as Japanese companies, making personal computers. The world would have been just fine, without an already existing IBM chip being modified in IL.
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  3584. ​ @SavageHenry777  This year alone, prior to Oct 7 ... 1200+ Palestinian hostages, held indefinitely without charges, over 100 minors ... 200+ Palestinians killed by the IDF and settlers, 40+ minors ... the ongoing endless colonization of the West Bank ... the ongoing operation of an open air WWII style fascist ghetto. Who "started" what?
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  3585. Trump is being charged with trying to steal the vote away from largely black Georgian voters. Totally samesies as MLK Jr.
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  3586.  @thehappyclam3942  Lol, fascism is a form of capitalism. Capitalism has a huge death toll, dumb dumb. If you're counting famines, and people starving, capitalism is still letting 9 million people starve to death, each year. That's 90 million a decade. That's 6.3 billion, since WWII. Plus, Mussolini promoted pulling yourself up by your bootstraps. Asking people to work together for the country, isn't very collectivist, if the country's economy is designed to make rich people richer. JFK told people to ask not what the country could do for them, but what they could do for the country. The first part is clearly not socialistic.
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  3587. ​ @tonywilson4713  I suggest you instead see his first video on Israel-Palestine, after Oct 7, in which he threw anyone wanting to provide context under the bus with people outright cheering the attack. He didn't want anyone explaining anything Israel had done, prior to Oct 7, but then went on to explain what Israel would do, in turn, as if they were the defender, just like Piers Morgan. The only things I've really seen him criticize is turning off electricity, and bombing one refugee camp. His peace plan is very adamant about needing to remove Hamas, but not nearly as adamant about needing to remove Likud. Likud's "between the sea and the Jordan" platform ... 1977: "The Right of the Jewish People to the Land of Israel (Eretz Israel) a. The right of the Jewish people to the land of Israel is eternal and indisputable and is linked with the right to security and peace; therefore, Judea and Samaria will not be handed to any foreign administration; between the Sea and the Jordan there will only be Israeli sovereignty. b. A plan which relinquishes parts of western Eretz Israel, undermines our right to the country, unavoidably leads to the establishment of a "Palestinian State," jeopardizes the security of the Jewish population, endangers the existence of the State of Israel. and frustrates any prospect of peace." "Settlement Settlement. both urban and rural. in all parts of the Land of Israel is the focal point of the Zionist effort to redeem the country, to maintain vital security areas and serves as a reservoir of strength and inspiration for the renewal of the pioneering spirit. The Likud government will call on the younger generation in Israel and the dispersions to settle and help every group and individual in the task of inhabiting and cultivating the wasteland, while taking care not to dispossess anyone." 1999: "The Government of Israel flatly rejects the establishment of a Palestinian Arab state west of the Jordan river. The Palestinians can run their lives freely in the framework of self-rule, but not as an independent and sovereign state. Thus, for example, in matters of foreign affairs, security, immigration, and ecology, their activity shall be limited in accordance with imperatives of Israel's existence, security and national needs." "The Jewish communities in Judea, Samaria, and Gaza are the realization of Zionist values. Settlement of the land is a clear expression of the unassailable right of the Jewish people to the Land of Israel and constitutes an important asset in the defense of the vital interests of the State of Israel. The Likud will continue to strengthen and develop these communities and will prevent their uprooting."
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  3588.  @haywoodjablowme4945  We pull the plug on brain dead patients, all the time, dumb dumb.
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  3589. Basically, if it's publicly owned and operated, then it's socialistic. If it's privately owned and operated, then it's capitalistic. If everything was publicly owned and operated, you'd have complete socialism. If everything was privately owned and operated, you'd have complete capitalism. Most countries in the world have some kind of mix of the two. Whether it's authoritarian or not is another matter.
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  3590.  @robertreese1275  The main comment, that's here, rather than on a mainstream media channel?
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  3591. You let the kid play you Sam, making out like he hasn't been indoctrinated against hate speech, and that your claim is wrong. He's playing a semantics game. Commie kindergarten teachers are, for sure, indoctrinating kids against "mean" speech. They also force kids to be good sharers!
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  3592. The ones stealing food from the homeless, pissing on war memorials, and defiling Terry Fox?
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  3593.  @dinobotpwnz  No. But they did say they were surprised. No real reason to be surprised, that they'd hire a batshit crazy loon, if you know they're not a progressive station, and owned by Trump's buddy.
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  3594.  @BamBamGT1  There are multiple ways to prove who you are. Strict ID laws only go towards disenfranchising more of certain voters. Fascism is anti-democratic. Immigrants have had to have vaccine passports, for decades. My war bride grandmother had one. There are vaccine passports for kids in public schools. Trying to avoid hundreds of thousands of needless deaths, isn't fascist.
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  3595. Revisionist Znsts have always had the goal of taking all of Palestine, and even lands beyond.
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  3596.  @thedukeofdukers  Ummm, no. The process of law isn't to prove myself innocent, it's for you to prove I'm guilty. Prove it wasn't an accident.
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  3597.  @thedukeofdukers  "in the event that you are charged" No shit. That's exactly what we're talking about. Exactly why I was saying you'd have to prove it. If I wasn't charged, I'd simply be heading home. Innocent until proven guilty. The court system is all about "prove otherwise".
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  3598.  @aheroictaxidriver3180  So? If you don't agree with something, it doesn't magically make it "mystical". You appear to be dmbr than a stump, or a Trump.
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  3599.  @aheroictaxidriver3180  Our brains, and the thoughts they produce, objectively exist. A "problem" may be subjective (based on personal feelings, biases, likes/dislikes, etc.), but our subjective thoughts objectively exist. You know we have instruments, that can map where objectively existing thoughts and feelings are produced in the brain, don't you? There's no magic, or spirits ... no "mystical" gobbledygook ... needed. Everything that's subjectivity based isn't "mystical". People's values objectively exist ... what they value is subjective ... and, if they aren't appealing to magic and spirits, or whatnot, then there's nothing "mystical" about it. But, I get how you might think that that brain of yours having a thought is pure magic.
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  3600.  @aheroictaxidriver3180  You are literally pulling definitions out of your a55 and flinging them around like a monkey.
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  3601.  @aheroictaxidriver3180  You are literally just pulling definitions out of your ___hole, and flinging them around, like a monkey.
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  3602. The Abrahamic values of believing in a formless, sexless, penisless, being, and calling it "he", "him", and even "Father". On top of that, trinity Christians believe that sexless being transitioned into a male human.
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  3603. Rofl, they could still sensor whatever they want, with or without 230. They'd choose to sensor even more, if they were liable, not less.
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  3604. ​ @ChathurkaMadhushan Rofl@"russiagate". The Mueller Report, plus SSCI reports, provided hundreds of pages of collision, that didn't amount to criminal conspiracy, and the Mueller report stated that Jr and Kushner only weren't charged with criminal conspiracy because it would be hard to prove they "intentionally" violated the law, not that they didn't.
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  3605.  @anmolt3840051  Do you have reading comprehension problems?
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  3606.  @michaelknight2897  You know the difference between lifting weights and cardio, right? You can lift all the weights you want, all day long, won't make you a good runner. Might even hinder it. People were walking from home to work, or within the boundary of their farms. People hardly had to run anywhere anymore, for anything.
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  3607. There was already news about them bombing a previous church, and there has also been a video of an Orthodox Church leader saying he would make the call to prayer 5 times a day, if the mosques couldn't.
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  3608. No clue why people keep looking at Israel, as some kind of well vaccinated population. They may have gotten out to a quick start, and got almost all of the older population vaccinated, but overall they only have 65% of the population vaccinated. Obviously, the virus will keep spreading, fairly quickly, at that rate.
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  3609. Long standing Likud platform, "between the sea and the Jordan there will only be Israeli sovereignty". Likud was founded by Irgun terrorist leader, Menachem Begin. They are everything they claim Hamas is.
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  3610. He described Rosen as a troll, intentionally trying to provoke. From the perspective of dealing with trolls, not feeding them what they want is pretty standard advice. He immediately also described it as a double standard, though, before being interrupted.
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  3611.  @tradwitchmorgana6933  So tell Chris there's no false equivalence, then.
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  3612. ​ @barbaraklein3944  Likud's bloody 100 year history ... In 1923, 100 years ago, Ze'ev Jabotinsky wrote, The Iron Wall, and a follow up, The Ethics of The Iron Wall (sooo racist towards Africans), in which he fully acknowledged that post Balfour Zionsim was colonialism, and that, based on the entirety of history, the native Palestinian population would resist being colonized until the bitter end. He directly compared it to the colonization of North America. He promoted doing it anyway, claiming Zionist colonialism was a "just" colonialism (he also thought North American colonialists were good guys, so not a great judge of morality), not caring what that meant for the native population. Ze'ev is important, because his Betar militant youth group helped found the Irgun terrorist group, along with other supporters of his, and the splinter Lehi terrorist group. The Irgun bombed numerous Palestinian markets and other public places, murdering many Palestinian civilians, including children, even including Palestinian Jews (who didn't support colonialist Zionsim). The Irgun are important, because they ended up being led by future Likud PM, Menachem Begin, who bombed the King David Hotel. The King David Hotel was bombed because the British had raided the Jewish Agency and seized numerous documents that may have shown that the terrorists were working with the JA and Haganah (JA liked to pretend that they didn't support the terrorism). The British then stored those documents at their base, in the hotel. That the Irgun terrorists responded to a JA raid, itself seems to prove the connection. That the thousands of Irgun (and Lehi) terrorists were also quickly merged into the new nation's military (IDF) and intelligence (Mossad) agencies, and are still celebrated as "heroes" by Israelis, to this day, also seems to support total collaboration between the groups. That other terrorist group mentioned, Lehi (also known as the Stern Gang), was considered even more extreme. They even tried to ally with the Nazis, against the British. Lehi ended up being led by Yitzhak Shamir, future Mossad agent, and another future Likud PM. In 1945, there was a major land and peoples survey done in Palestine. It showed that the Zionists only owned about 5% of the total land, 20% of the arable land, and owned a majority in zero districts. The partition was not only going to be forced on the native Palestinian majority, but Jews were still going to be a minority, in the part allocated to them. The only possible way to even become a "Jewish state" was going to require getting rid of the actual majority (at least enough so that there'd be a solid Jewish majority, so they could fake being democratic). This is also shown by the 1948, post Nakba, population of Israel. If there was 716,700 Jews, 156,000+ non-Jews, and approximately 700k non-Jews ethnically cleansed, that means the Jewish population, in the Zionist portion of partition, was originally over 100,000 less than the non-Jewish population. To believe that there was never any intent, by Zionists, to ethnically cleanse away the Palestinian majority would require believing that they never intended to create a "Jewish state". It's a nonsensical notion. Begin, and those terrorist groups, also opposed partition, but for the opposite reason Palestinians did. Palestinians didn't want to be colonized, at all. The terrorists wanted to colonize it all. "Moderate" Zionists were okay with colonizing half ... for now (what would happen in the future, after partition, was up to them, said Ben-Gurion). The Zionist terrorists were also involved in massacres, and assassinations, during the partition violence (colonialist war against the natives). Another notable future Likud PM, also started in the military, during the partition fighting. That was Ariel Sharon, war criminal, "Butcher of Beirut". Menachem Begin, and these other Zionist terrorists, are important because they also later founded Likud. Now, people get upset over the slogan "From the river to the sea!", but it's the second part that's most important, "Palestine will be free!". Because "Palestine" isn't defined as an ethno-state, a free Palestine can be a single state, free for all to live in, and return to, free of continuing colonization, free of occupation, free of oppression, etc. Just like a Germany free of Nazism, an Italy free of fascism, a South Africa free of apartheid, or an America free of slavery from sea to shiny sea. It doesn't necessitate purging all the Jews. It just necessitates them giving up on the idea of an ethno-state. On the other hand, because "Israel" has been defined as an ethno-state, Likud's, "between the sea and the Jordan there will only be Israeli sovereignty", has no possible good interpretation. It is a declaration of intent to completely colonize, and ethnically cleanse, all Palestine territories. Not only that, but it also claims that they have a "right" to all of the "Land of Israel" (biblical borders that don't mesh with archaeological reality), which is an open declaration of future wars, against Jordan, Syria, Lebanon, and possibly even Iraq. Likud platform ... 1977: "The Right of the Jewish People to the Land of Israel (Eretz Israel) a. The right of the Jewish people to the land of Israel is eternal and indisputable and is linked with the right to security and peace; therefore, Judea and Samaria will not be handed to any foreign administration; between the Sea and the Jordan there will only be Israeli sovereignty. b. A plan which relinquishes parts of western Eretz Israel, undermines our right to the country, unavoidably leads to the establishment of a "Palestinian State," jeopardizes the security of the Jewish population, endangers the existence of the State of Israel. and frustrates any prospect of peace." "Settlement Settlement. both urban and rural. in all parts of the Land of Israel is the focal point of the Zionist effort to redeem the country, to maintain vital security areas and serves as a reservoir of strength and inspiration for the renewal of the pioneering spirit. The Likud government will call on the younger generation in Israel and the dispersions to settle and help every group and individual in the task of inhabiting and cultivating the wasteland, while taking care not to dispossess anyone." 1999: "The Government of Israel flatly rejects the establishment of a Palestinian Arab state west of the Jordan river. The Palestinians can run their lives freely in the framework of self-rule, but not as an independent and sovereign state. Thus, for example, in matters of foreign affairs, security, immigration, and ecology, their activity shall be limited in accordance with imperatives of Israel's existence, security and national needs." "The Jewish communities in Judea, Samaria, and Gaza are the realization of Zionist values. Settlement of the land is a clear expression of the unassailable right of the Jewish people to the Land of Israel and constitutes an important asset in the defense of the vital interests of the State of Israel. The Likud will continue to strengthen and develop these communities and will prevent their uprooting." All Palestine territories are officially considered occupied, by the International Court of Justice, the UN GA, the UN SC, and even in official documents of Israel's own allies. Likud is still using the blueprint for colonizing North America, in the West Bank. Move settlements out into native territory, piss off the natives, the natives retaliate, cry about poor "innocent" colonizing settlers being the "victims" of violent "Savages!", call in the cavalry to put down the native uprising, and eventually expand the borders to include those settlements. Rinse and repeat. In Gaza, they are operating an open air WWII style fascist ghetto. Them claiming a "right to defend themselves" would be like the Nazis claiming a "right to defend themselves " from the Warsaw ghetto uprising. There's no "war". That they're the occupiers means the "war" part is long over. That partition was forced upon the Palestinian majority, against their will ... that the Zionist portion still had to be forcefully ethnically cleansed of its non-Jewish majority, against their will ... that the millions of occupied Palestinians don't have a say in the government that truly rules over them, Israel's ... means Israel is about as democratic as Nazi Germany after Hitler purged his political opponents and then held elections. Hamas is basically just a poor man's Likud, only fighting against colonialism, instead of for colonialism.
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  3613.  @kcolonelx6181  I think the two state solution has failed. A single state solution, maybe with a Lebanon style government. But, it would take world pressure on Israel.
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  3614.  @kcolonelx6181  There's no Palestinian state left. The idea of two states has failed for 100 years. Plus, it's literally in the Likud platform that not only do they want to colonize all of Palestine, but they also claim a "right" to parts of Jordan, Syria, and Lebanon. They aren't going to agree to anything willingly.
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  3615.  @adamronengorlovitzki3350  Zionists colonized Palestine. Zionist terrorists, Irgun and Lehi, massacred Palestinian civilians. Partition was forced on the Palestinian majority, against their will. Even after partition, the non-Jewish population, of the colonialist Zionist portion, was over 100k more than the Jewish population. Zionists ethnically cleansed about 700k of them, and never let them return. To believe that Zionists had zero intention to ethnically cleanse them would require believing that they had zero intention to create a Jewish state, which is ridiculous. Those terrorists were merged into Israel's military and intelligence agencies, when Zionists did declare their ethno-state. The leaders of those terrorist groups founded Likud. Israelis elected those terrorist leaders as PMs. Israelis, to this day, celebrate those terrorists as "heroes". Likud's platform, "between the sea and the Jordan there will only be Israeli sovereignty", promises to completely colonize and ethnically cleanse all Palestine territories. It further claims a "right" to all the "Land of Israel" (fictional biblical borders that don't mesh with archaeological reality), which is an open declaration of future wars, against Jordan, Syria, Lebanon, and possibly Iraq. Netanyahu has proven he intends to keep that promise. All Palestine territories are officially considered occupied, by every relevant international body. Likud continues to use the blueprint for colonizing North America, in the West Bank ... Move settlers into native territories, piss off the natives, the natives retaliate, the poor "innocent" colonialist settlers cry about being attacked by "Savages!", call in the cavalry to put down the native uprising, and eventually expand the borders to include those settlements. Rinse and repeat. In Gaza, Israel operates an open air WWII style fascist ghetto, then bombs the hell out of it, when there's an uprising. With partition forced on the majority, ethnic cleansing of Israel's actual non-Jewish majority, and the fact that Israel, the occupier, has actual authority over all Palestine territories and the Palestinians within, but doesn't let them vote for their occupying party ... Israel is actually about as democratic as Nazi Germany after Hitler purged his political opponents and then held elections. Yes, Israel is a fascist state.
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  3616.  @vertigo0331  Nonsense. Feudalism, and private property owners gaining monopolies over entire countries happened with zero oversight above them. With next to no oversight, on the US Western frontier, cattle barons pretty much did the same thing, hiring private armies of cowboys, and throwing their weight around ... slaughtering tens of thousands of sheep, tearing down fences, killing shepherds. The US had feudalism right into the 20th century. Little to no government oversight over private property owners has allowed for countless monopolies. Labor, health, safety, environmental, and other assorted regulations have come about exactly because giant businesses, and their owners, didn't self regulate. We've already done the less involved government schtick, and it sucked for most people. Giant corporations keep lobbying for exactly that, less regulation, but you're under some delusion that will hurt them. They, clearly, don't seem to think so. You'd be just handing them what they want, for free. Continuing to expand democracy is still the way to protect the people from those who want to lord over them.
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  3617.  @vertigo0331  Medieval feudalism was a bunch of rich private property owners, with private armies, with no oversight above them, running around doing whatever they wanted. That led to 100% privately owned and operated "governments". Their "governments" were more equivalent to landlords, not governments of the people who have some oversight over private property owners. Just like modern Saudi is a 100% privately owned and operated, purely capitalist, country. "Government" = House of Saud. And, I already gave a more modern example of how it starts, like on the US Western frontier, as a purely private property, purely capitalist, endeavor.
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  3618.  @vertigo0331  You get that handing down privately owned property is a capitalistic property rights thing, yes? Just because it's a "government" and an entire country, doesn't change that. They aren't publicly owned and operated "governments" and countries.
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  3619.  @vertigo0331  Exactly my point. A complete absence of any governmental laws and regulations lets a private property owner do whatever the hell they want. Monopolies have happened with a complete, or near, absence of government. Government is not required to create a monopoly. You can blather about voluntarism, but there's no enforcement of voluntarism with little to no government of the people. If you want to build a building, what's wrong with having the builder voluntarily agree to meet certain public safety standards? You'd rather wait for a collapse, and sue them after?
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  3620.  @vertigo0331  You just argued in favor of a democratic government taking away the property of a private property owner (monarch) and redistributing it, and then argued against a democratic government. Nothing about private property ownership says you can't set the fees for living on your private property, can't make your own rules for living on your private property, or that you can't hire your own security to enforce said rules and collect said fees, which is what absolute monarchs did, and still do.
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  3621.  @vertigo0331  You're either an anarcho-capitalist, or you do actually believe in a representative democracy of some sort, or you are a fascist of some sort.
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  3622.  @robinsss  Right. Government should be more democratic and less of an oligarchy.
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  3623.  @robinsss  Meh, the senate is not, at all, a very democratic body. Freezing the number of house seats, which froze the number of electorals, has also made the house and presidency increasingly less democratic. Having to rely on some massive nationwide protest, or whatnot, just to get something accomplished, isn't very practical.
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  3624.  @vertigo0331  You get that giving nobility more of a say, instead of just dictates from a king (a private property landlord with a monopoly), is a more democratic process ... giving merchants and yeomen more of a say, instead of just the king and nobility, is a more democratic process ... giving landowning white men more of say, instead of just the king, nobility, merchants and yeomen, is a more democratic process ... and so on, with women, minorities, non landowners, etc. How representative it is also makes it more, or less, democratic. Just like with a company ... if things are entirely dictated by a single owner, then it's equivalent to an absolute dictatorship ... if it has a board of directors, with an elected CEO, that's more democratic ... if it's unionized, with workers having more of a say and more power, then that's more democratic ... if it becomes a worker co-op, then that's the business equivalent of an all out direct democracy. So, yeah, you did argue in favor of a more democratic system, and then turned around and argued against a more democratic system. Where's your cutoff? You actually want democracy limited to rich yeomen and merchants, and the poor not be allowed to vote again?
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  3625. ​ @jamescooke7243 Rumble is funded by Peter Thiel, the biggest MAGA (fascist) donor around. They don't pay any "lefties", that are a threat to MAGA, to join their platform. They pay "lefties" that constantly attack their viable opponents far more than them, sometimes even say nice things about them, and who push "left" voters towards apathy (all parties samesies!) or towards non viable alternatives (Green!), that will still help MAGA win. You can tell from their fanbase, who they appeal to most. If your main appeal is found on the right, then you're likely saying things they like, more than things they don't. You know that grifters claim to be selling you one thing, but are actually selling you something else, right? They can claim to be selling you on universal healthcare, but pointing you in the worst possible direction to getting there ... like Jimmy Dore does (also paid by Rumble, as were Tulsi and Glenn Greenwald). If you're helping very overt fascists, who literally tried to overthrow the democratic process, to install an unelected dictator, win, I don't know how you can claim to be a "lefty" anymore.
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  3626.  @harveymanfredsenjenson5417  So you don't know what "median" means?
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  3627.  @harveymanfredsenjenson5417  Yep. So to drive up the "median", they'd have to be in the bottom 50%. You think 50% make more than them? You're making it sound like an awesome degree to get, if that's the case.
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  3628.  @loverainthunder  Ah, so you do have severe reading comprehension problems. I guess that about wraps it up, then.
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  3629.  @loverainthunder  You said a lot of nothing, just like a troll.
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  3630.  @loverainthunder  No. She got the exact same thing, from Pelosi, as the other woman ... a shot at the seat. The behavior that lost her the seat was backing progressives against some of the committee voters. You don't want her backing progressives against corporate Dems? Who is submitting to authority? Is that what you call accepting the broad consensus of doctors and scientists across the world? Being so distrustful, or pandering to those who are so distrustful, that you lie and spread misinformation, yourself, isn't a good thing. It's dishonest grifting. How do you know what he peddles, if you don't watch him?
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  3631. ​ @beethovenstrance5042  Because it's largely sourced, and you can double check what's on it. Why wouldn't you trust sourced material?
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  3632. The sliver is gone, when it comes to Republicans. Fscsts were fscsts before they gained full control. The only real difference used to be that the Republican party backed a democratic system. Now that they've made clear that they're willing to not just use undemocratic measures, but completely overthrow the democratic system, they've checked the last box.
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  3633. His philosophy degree should have been revoked, based on that book. He never got beyond what he stated was already a given.
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  3634.  @scoogsy  No, it's you that's wrong out of the gate. He agrees that science can help us get what we value. Whether I subjectively value going to the moon or subjectively value building a world destroying bomb, science can help me get what I value. That's a given. Unless someone can prove otherwise (which he doesn't), science will never tell me whether, or not, I ought to, or ought not to, do either of those things. That's because science doesn't give a crap, either way. Science has helped us do all kinds of absolutely awful things, as well as the good things. He does not have all conscious creatures equally balanced. He has a supposedly objective hierarchy, that's pure nonsense, with humans on top. He proves it's nonsense, himself, when he still puts humans on top of an AI that's supposed to be as superior to is as we are to ants. It's a purely subjective hierarchy, with him always valuing humans most. Yes, you've misunderstood. I'm saying he's a clueless idiot to claim there's a black and white distinction between "poison" and what is okay to ingest, which he did. The fact that we can get water poisoning, which we can't survive without, is the clearest evidence of this.
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  3635. ​ @DarkPuppy9  Jewish liberals, to be specific, who he himself said aren't "real" Jews.
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  3636. You didn't actually defend a single thing, dmwt. If you get invited to the White House, and take pictures and video where you're not legally supposed to, and shove an employee trying to tell you you're not allowed, that you were invited is irrelevant.
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  3637.  @texajp1946  The WWE is more popular than real wrestling.
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  3638.  @iammclovin1672  Rofl, Hinkle?! The guy had no clue what he was talking about. AOC voted against the individual State Department appropriation bill. She voted against the individual Defense Department appropriation bill. What he was actually whining about, was her voting for the entire f*cking budget, which includes Medicare, Medicaid, SNAP, housing, etc., etc. And, like most Dore knobs, Hinkle doesn't seem to know what was in the final version of the Capitol Hill bill, after it was sent back to the house from the senate, or who voted how on that final version of the bill. AOC actually voted no. Hinkle's whole "debate" was whining about complete bullshit.
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  3639.  @kylea1436  "Smear" JD? Telling the truth isn't a "smear". JD is an obvious grifter. If you're so dumb, that you haven't grasped that, yet, then you shouldn't be advising shows, for anyone.
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  3640.  @texajp1946  Because Greenwald and Dore are paid by Peter Thiel funded Rumble? They're grifters.
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  3641.  @jamesnation9889  Progressives oppose defending people against fascist invasions? That's a new one. Since when? The entire progressive caucus is still about 15 seats away from becoming the majority of house Dems. They don't have the party majority needed to pick a different speaker. All they could have done is paralyze the house ... during a pandemic ... no new COVID cheques, no new vaccine funding, etc. ... all for what?
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  3642.  @spettit2011  Socialism and capitalism are economics. What you seem to be complaining about, regarding "socialism" is authoritarian versions. Centrist Nordic countries are perfectly fine examples. They are approximately as socialist as they are capitalist. No, less bureaucracy doesn't equate to more capitalist. Is there an issue with the socialized sectors of their economy? How does say nationalizing oil lead to the Khmer Rouge?
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  3643.  @adotjon78  What has Jimmy been right about? He's a hypocrite on war. His 2016 predictions were all wrong. He has spouted tons of bullshit about COVID, vaccines, and alternatives. He abandoned adding more M4A yes votes to congress, which is the only way to ever pass the bill. He either can't do basic math, or is completely dishonest. A complete moron, or a lying grifter.
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  3644.  @carlosmarx2178  You care that AOC voted for the entire budget, including healthcare, snap, housing, etc.? You wanted her to vote against funding those things? She actually voted against the individual appropriations bills, for the things Hinkle was whining about.
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  3645.  @Chicken_Little_Syndrome  I call people who, objectively, prove themselves to be morons, "moron". A cruise ship even provided us with a control group, proving about a 1% mortality rate, moron. That's 10x the mortality rate of the flu, moron. If you did nothing, and just let it spread like the flu, it could kill hundreds of thousands of people, in the US alone ... millions worldwide ... moron.
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  3646.  @geekylove3603  Jimmy is just anti-US government, which makes him wrong anytime the US gets something right, like Ukraine. Russia is the equivalent to Zionists, in that conflict. They're the invaders, trying to reclaim past colonialism, ethnic cleansing, and genocide, done as the Empire and USSR. They're the ones that started f*cking around in former SSR countries, almost immediately, in 1991, and haven't stopped. He's an idiot.
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  3647.  @buildinit6523  How the fuck do you move your birth zip code, dumbass?
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  3648. ​ @AOLAmericaOnline  You know that, on top of a colonialist foundation, terrorism, by groups like the Irgun and Lehi, was the next building block in forming Israel, yeah? They bombed Palestinian markets, killing plenty of civilians, including children, and even Palestinian Jews (who didn't support Zionism). Israel merged those terrorist groups into their new nation's military and intelligence agencies. Israelis elected Menachem Begin, leader of the Irgun, who also bombed the King David Hotel. Israelis, to this day, celebrate those terrorists as "heroes". They literally taught their neighbours that terrorism is a valid path to independence and statehood. But, when used against them, they cry foul.
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  3649.  @mickelcsaszar3244  God was running the countries he then claimed were "evil" and ordered genocided?
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  3650.  @mickelcsaszar3244  The OT god is not much different than a sky Hitler.
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  3651.  @mickelcsaszar3244  The book says he literally did just that, to Egypt, dumb dumb. Have you even read the book?
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  3652.  @donnapug  Yeah, the Ford brothers are/were gorgeous. Be honest ... there are at least enough aholes in Toronto to make those Trump lights into political figures.
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  3653.  @Thezuule1  Roger that.
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  3654. Total tests, and even tests per million, are actually irrelevant numbers that are totally detached from the number of covid cases. It's the tests per confirmed case rate that everyone should be looking at. The US was only testing at a rate of 5 people per confirmed case, for months, and has only recently brought that up to over 10 people per confirmed case, which is still a pretty pathetic rate. Countries, like S Korea, New Zealand, Australia, that flattened their curves fast, quickly tested at rates of 50+ people per confirmed case. The US hasn't been testing fast enough to get ahead of the virus spread, finding the people that person has infected, and getting them quarantined, before they spread it to even more people.
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  3655.  @luperamos7307  You seem to have left out a qualifier, "it was recommending vaccination for children age 5 to 11 with preexisting conditions or who are in close contact with vulnerable people". Regarding the rest the kids, the wording "do not advise" kind of implies they are advising not to, which isn't the case, either.
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  3656.  @luperamos7307  In a country with less than 10m kids that age and over 20m people 60+, the "contact with vulnerable people" likely applies to most of the kids.
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  3657.  @luperamos7307  Again, most kids would be recommended to get it, because they likely want to be around their grandparents, and such.
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  3658.  Illhan Omars brother's wife is Illhan Omar  Rofl. Are you pretending there's no "RINO" cancelling going on?
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  3659.  Illhan Omars brother's wife is Illhan Omar  I'm doing your math, for you genius.
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  3660. Trump and Republicans support Israel even more, would let Russia do to Ukraine what Israel is doing to Palestine, have horrid domestic policies, plus are less receptive to public pressure (especially from opponents).
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  3661.  @3745green  What additional insurance is "required" with Medicare?
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  3662.  @3745green  Learn the definition of "required", dumbass. And a M4A plan, like Bernie's, rolls Medicare up with Medicaid, and fills in those supposed "gaps".
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  3663. That's a level of stupidity that's hard to copy.
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  3664. I think you're looking for the morons who are both anti-Israel and anti-Ukraine, because they're simply anti-USA. This is a both anti-Russian colonialism, and anti-Israeli colonialism channel. Israel is objectively the aggressor by every relevant measure ... Modern history: 100 years ago, in 1923, Ze'ev Jabotinsky fully acknowledged that Zionism is colonialism, and that, based on the entirety of history, the natives would fight it until the bitter end. He just didn't care what would happen to them, and promoted doing it anyway. Colonizers are never not the aggressors. On top of the colonialist nature of Zionism, the Zionists also formed terrorist organizations, like the Irgun and Lehi. They bombed many Palestinian markets and other public places, murdering many civilians, including children, even including Palestinian Jews (who opposed Zionism). Israel merged those terrorists into the new nation's military and intelligence agencies. Israelis elected Menachem Begin, leader of the Irgun, child murderer, Jew murderer, and bomber of the King David Hotel, as PM. Israelis, to this day, celebrate those terrorists as "heroes". Zionists literally taught their neighbours that terrorism is a valid path to independence and statehood, and that terrorists are to be celebrated. In 1945, it is well documented that Zionists owned just 5% of the land and were a majority nowhere. Israel was formed by actually going against the majority population. It's foundation is completely undemocratic. Then, becoming a majority, in "their" new nation, by ethnic cleansing the actual majority, and then claiming to be democratic, is utter nonsense. Law: Israel is considered an occupier by the International Court, the UN GA, and the UN SC. Occupiers are also never not the aggressors. Those occupied actually have a right to resist occupation. On the flip side, it is illegal for the occupier to settle occupied lands, and illegal to use collective punishment. Israel is a rogue nation, that doesn't abide by international law. What it has been doing, and is doing now, is illegal. Current events: This year, alone, prior to Oct 7 ... Israel held over 1200 Palestinian hostages without charges ... over 200 Palestinians had been killed by the IDF and settlers ... over 1000 Palestinians had been displaced by Israel's neverending colonization of the West Bank ... and, Israel continued to operate an open air WWII style fascist ghetto, in Gaza. Even ignoring modern history and law, in no reality did Hamas "start" anything.
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  3665. Being against the Nazis doesn't equate to being anti-German. Being against Italian fascists doesn't equate to being anti-Italian. Take a good look at who is operating an open air WWII style fascist ghetto, today. Zionists have become almost everything they fled from.
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  3666.    Weird strawman. Enjoy your ... straw, or whatever.
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  3667.  @halbaloney4593  Women actually attempt suicide more than men. Men use more violent methods, and have a higher success rate.
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  3668.  @TropicalPriest  Okay, but he blathered about tinnitus, for example, as if it was some huge deal. Even if you accepted every VAERS correlation report as causation, tinnitus is about 0.003%, meanwhile some 14% of people who get covid report tinnitus ... a thousands of times higher rate. Dore doesn't mention that. He also doesn't make clear that it's only the J&J vaccine, which has been linked to tinnitus, and falsely makes out like "THAT" is what you're being mandated. No. The J&J isn't the only option. Then, he and Max went on spreading bullshit about myocarditis and the UK's healthcare system ... a completely socialized healthcare system, that's even left of M4A, the very thing Jimmy is supposed to be in favor of. It just ends up being a bunch of bullshit, when Dore is all done, and not, at all, informative.
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  3669. ​ @retroboomer3197  As opposed to ... ? “They don’t want to fund Israel. They want to take away foreign aid to Israel. They want to do a lot of bad things to Israel. In my opinion, you vote for a Democrat, you’re being very disloyal to Jewish people and very disloyal to Israel." ~ Trumpty Dumpty
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  3670. ​ @jaybeemhardscrote7466  Pal will not, and cannot, be solved by a single voting cycle. It will take continued public pressure. Trump and Republicans have called for designating previous protests (BLM) as trrrsm. Republicans make laws allowing people to drive through protesters. Trump has called for deporting protesters. Trump has suggested having a pledge of allegiance to Isrl, for immigrants. They are not the ones you want to try and use public pressure against. Trump entirely left Pals out of his last "peace" plan. He doesn't care about them.
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  3671. ​ @2IC-hn1hz  He didn't say "to come to". He said it can take 10 years to get citizenship. 10 years of living there, renewing expensive visas, adding to the system while still being no more eligible to receive some services than someone who's undocumented, etc. The US and Canada have the same, on paper, timeframe.
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  3672.  @2IC-hn1hz  How did pointing out that you misrepresented what was said, help make your point? You can toss your anecdotes. Not interested in the crypto bot stories.
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  3673.  @robinmaclay2661   Yeah, Thiel is behind a lot of these people. May 2021: "Peter Thiel, J.D. Vance Invest in Rumble Video Platform Popular on Political Right" Aug 2021: "Conservative YouTube Competitor Rumble Seals 6-Figure Content Deals With Tulsi Gabbard, Glenn Greenwald"
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  3674.  @robinmaclay2661  A lot of Thiel connections, out there ... May 2021: "Peter Thiel, J.D. Vance Invest in Rumble Video Platform Popular on Political Right" Aug 2021: "Conservative YouTube Competitor Rumble Seals 6-Figure Content Deals With Tulsi Gabbard, Glenn Greenwald"
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  3675.  @wenlisman  No. Some places let people living there (Luxembourg, New Zealand), who don't have citizenship, vote. Voting doesn't have to be defined by nationality, or depend on it, at all. That's a decision by nationalists, who don't want to give others living there the right to vote on things that affect them. Aren't the Sami the only indigenous people? Didn't the Finns come from Russia and push them North? Aren't they now spread across multiple different nations and have no nation of their own? Weren't parts of what is now Finland at times part of the nations of Sweden and Russia, making the current borders arbitrary? The EU isn't a nation, and you really didn't answer any of my questions.
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  3676. Israel is objectively the aggressor by every relevant measure ... Modern history: 100 years ago, in 1923, Ze'ev Jabotinsky fully acknowledged that Zionism is colonialism, and that, based on the entirety of history, the natives would fight it until the bitter end. He just didn't care what would happen to them, and promoted doing it anyway. Colonizers are never not the aggressors. On top of the colonialist nature of Zionism, the Zionists also formed terrorist organizations, like the Irgun and Lehi. They bombed many Palestinian markets and other public places, murdering many civilians, including children, even including Palestinian Jews (who opposed Zionism). Israel merged those terrorists into the new nation's military and intelligence agencies. Israelis elected Menachem Begin, leader of the Irgun, child murderer, Jew murderer, and bomber of the King David Hotel, as PM. Israelis, to this day, celebrate those terrorists as "heroes". Zionists literally taught their neighbours that terrorism is a valid path to independence and statehood, and that terrorists are to be celebrated. In 1945, it is well documented that Zionists owned just 5% of the land and were a majority nowhere. Israel was formed by actually going against the majority population. It's foundation is completely undemocratic. Then, becoming a majority, in "their" new nation, by ethnic cleansing the actual majority, and then claiming to be democratic, is utter nonsense. Law: Israel is considered an occupier by the International Court, the UN GA, and the UN SC. Occupiers are also never not the aggressors. Those occupied actually have a right to resist occupation. On the flip side, it is illegal for the occupier to settle occupied lands, and illegal to use collective punishment. Israel is a rogue nation, that doesn't abide by international law. What it has been doing, and is doing now, is illegal. Current events: This year, alone, prior to Oct 7 ... Israel held over 1200 Palestinian hostages without charges ... over 200 Palestinians had been killed by the IDF and settlers ... over 1000 Palestinians had been displaced by Israel's neverending colonization of the West Bank ... and, Israel continued to operate an open air WWII style fascist ghetto, in Gaza. Even ignoring modern history and law, in no reality did Hamas "start" anything.
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  3677.  @aarondickson9573  I'll leave it. You're nuts.
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  3678.  @TopherBHC  Doesn't take a monarchy to limit people's representation.
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  3679. ​ @dr.zoidberg8666  The takeaway wasn't that voting for sitting in neutral would have been better than letting going in reverse win?
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  3680.  @Uncanny_Mountain  The OT/Tanakh literally calls them two different things. The Egyptians called them two different things.
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  3681.  @spaceman9599  Tried including links, when I first tried posting it, a few months back. YouTube deleted it.
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  3682.  @Netem1  Wrote it. All the info is out there. Jewish Virtual Library (Ze'ev Jabotinsky's articles, original Likud platform, Israel/Palestine populations over time, other mandate info), the Balfour Project (mandate era documents), British Hansard (mandate era parliament discussions), Google (NYT Einstein letter), Wiki (1945 Village Statistics scans, plus a bunch of other stuff ... just make sure whatever is sourced, like any other Wiki).
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  3683.  @BryanM86  🙄
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  3684.  @BryanM86  Never thought I was, dingleberry.
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  3685. ​ @WoJackMan  And even his UBI, funded by a VAT, was bullshit. A VAT is specifically designed to NOT tax businesses. All input VAT is paid back at the next stage of output VAT collected, and the final consumer ends up paying the entire VAT. Yang kept lying, claiming a VAT would make corporations, like Amazon, pay their fair share of taxes. He even posted a link to a pass through rate study, which showed that the final consumer paid the entire tax. "Math guy" just didn't grasp what the study actually said.
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  3686.  @0redbishop0  To make sure they don't get sued, they'll cut everyone off saying x, y, and z, rather than not cut off the original person saying x.
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  3687. Isn't using a condom more effective against HIV than the flu vaccine is against the flu?
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  3688. Didn't he write his rules, while devolving into drug addiction, while lying that his daughter's all meat diet got him off drugs, because he's a grifter?
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  3689. ba dum tss
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  3690. That's the earliest you could replace people after a failed vote, as well, dimwit.
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  3691. Palestinians have Canaanite DNA, dumb dumb. They're natives. "Arab" is much like "Hispanic". Arabians didn't literally genocide all populations and replace them with people from a tiny desert nation. The bulk of the populations were simply Arabized. Religion, on the other hand, is not tied to DNA. The natives simply converted to Christianity and then Islam, somewhere along the way. Those natives, however, didn't go on a tour of Europe and Russia for 1700 years.
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  3692.  @seanhovan7426  I don't watch "liberal" media. Oh, I can't wait until right wingers prove there was a lab leak, and that the US funded it, so the rest of the world can sue their pants off. Bankrupt America to own the libs!!!
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  3693.  @smileydavis73  Nope. I know what the word means. And I know the word doesn't describe what the channel promotes. That only leaves the possibility of you not knowing what the word means, dumb dumb.
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  3694.  @jakeroper1096  Israel is objectively the aggressor by every relevant measure, dumb dumb ... Modern history: 100 years ago, in 1923, Ze'ev Jabotinsky fully acknowledged that Zionism is colonialism, and that, based on the entirety of history, the natives would fight it until the bitter end. He just didn't care what would happen to them, and promoted doing it anyway. Colonizers are never not the aggressors. On top of the colonialist nature of Zionism, the Zionists also formed terrorist organizations, like the Irgun and Lehi. They bombed many Palestinian markets and other public places, murdering many civilians, including children, even including Palestinian Jews (who opposed Zionism). Israel merged those terrorists into the new nation's military and intelligence agencies. Israelis elected Menachem Begin, leader of the Irgun, child murderer, Jew murderer, and bomber of the King David Hotel, as PM. Israelis, to this day, celebrate those terrorists as "heroes". Zionists literally taught their neighbours that terrorism is a valid path to independence and statehood, and that terrorists are to be celebrated. In 1945, it is well documented that Zionists owned just 5% of the land and were a majority nowhere. Israel was formed by actually going against the majority population. It's foundation is completely undemocratic. Then, becoming a majority, in "their" new nation, by ethnic cleansing the actual majority, and then claiming to be democratic, is utter nonsense. Law: Israel is considered an occupier by the International Court, the UN GA, and the UN SC. Occupiers are also never not the aggressors. Those occupied actually have a right to resist occupation. On the flip side, it is illegal for the occupier to settle occupied lands, and illegal to use collective punishment. Israel is a rogue nation, that doesn't abide by international law. What it has been doing, and is doing now, is illegal. Current events: This year, alone, prior to Oct 7 ... Israel held over 1200 Palestinian hostages without charges ... over 200 Palestinians had been killed by the IDF and settlers ... over 1000 Palestinians had been displaced by Israel's neverending colonization of the West Bank ... and, Israel continued to operate an open air WWII style fascist ghetto, in Gaza. Even ignoring modern history and law, in no reality did Hamas "start" anything.
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  3695.  jetpowercom  You really only have to compromise your values, if your the aggressor, which is the colonialist occupier, Israel. Btw, they ethnically cleansed most of the majority Palestinians from within Israel proper, have never let them return, and don't allow those in occupied territories to vote for the actual authority over them. They're as democratic as Nazi Germany after Hitler purged his political opponents and then held elections.
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  3696. Wtf? Fascism and Nazism are political ideologies, not cultures. The only thing keeping the US, especially Republicans, from being all out fascist, has been keeping things on the undemocratic side of the line from being anti-democratic. Republicans have crossed that line, and wanted to overthrow the democratic process. Nazism is fascism on steroids, with added white Christian supremacy.
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  3697.  @repolarrepolar9833  "Woman" comes from "wifman", wife of man. That would mean all the single ladies aren't "women" and all the men married to men are.
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  3698.  @repolarrepolar9833  You lot seem to be pervs. You've been perfectly fine with the thousands of underage breast enhancement surgeries, for years. You lot apparently like underage girls getting bigger boobs, but just don't like them getting no boobs.
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  3699.  @repolarrepolar9833  Weird, right wingers never mention those surgeries, and haven't had a problem with them, for 20+ years. How many times do you post on social media about underage breast enhancement?
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  3700.  @repolarrepolar9833  Because, I expected you already knew the first usage, dumb dumb, that's why. Right, and there's no context to simply asking the definition of a woman, dumb dumb. There are multiple definitions.
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  3701.  @repolarrepolar9833  Pretty sure biologists tends to use sex, rather than gender, dumb dumb.
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  3702.  @repolarrepolar9833  Right, and some of those billions of women, don't match with their biological sex, but are still women, dumb dumb. Just like a vehicle can have multiple wheels or no wheels.
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  3703.  @jamesgreene6207  Aside from the over a million circumcisions, per year, in the US, there are close to 90 thousand minors getting plastic surgery, of some kind. It's been going on for decades, now. Right wing loons haven't made a peep about it.
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  3704.  @Squeedow  Yep. Glad you're cool with some of the newer dictionary and legal definitions.
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  3705.  @repolarrepolar9833  Already did, dumb dumb.
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  3706.  @repolarrepolar9833  You feel that gender and sex should be the same thing, dumb dumb. Objectively, gender terminology hasn't had to match biological sex, for millennia. The vast majority of Abrahamic believers worship a sexless, penisless, god that uses masculine gender terminology. People have used feminine gender terminology to describe sexless, vaginaless, ships, cars, etc., since they've existed. Gender represents a persona, that often matches biological sex, but doesn't have to.
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  3707.  @sergeikhripun  So, ditch all laws, all rules of the road, all safety regulations, all warning labels, all recommended dosages, etc., etc., etc.?
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  3708.  @adaminfinity1733  At dosages much higher than those humans can take, ffs. You can probably pour some bleach in a petri dish and stop replication, as well. Peru has one of the, if not the, highest uses of Ivermectin in the world, and also has the highest covid death rate in the world. India gave Ivermectin a go, and stopped, because they found it provided no benefit. Many medical agencies, around the world, advise against using it as a covid treatment. Manufacturers advise against using it as a covid treatment. Ivermectin "studies" have been found to be outright fraudulent, and pulled from publications. There are also other studies showing it does nothing, or even makes things worse. Doesn't the fact that a number of medical agencies, and the media, have stated that Fluvoxamine looks promising, defeat the narrative that they've been working against Ivermectin, and increase their reliability in saying Ivermectin is useless, or at least unproven?
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  3709.  @adaminfinity1733  Campbell is outright wrong, that one country's excess mortality rate can be used to relfect what's going on in other countries. The US' excess mortality rate, for example, is actually higher than their covid deaths. Something completely different is going on. That's a very silly mistake, if that's what it was. He was seemingly wrong to say that covid "contributed" to deaths, in that third number. It literally said "with covid", on the paper. The number the government, and media, uses is the second number, for dying due to covid. The third number means some 20k people died "with covid" but not due to covid. And making some big fuss about comorbidity numbers that have been out, all along, and deaths with comorbidities widely talked about, all along, was ridiculous. This was a bullshit video, pandering to certain types of morons, exactly like Jimmy.
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  3710.  @adaminfinity1733  Well, isn't that nice. He has one video covid minimizers can pass around, and one that clarifies things. I'm sure the clarification will be just as viral. Vaccines still lower your chances of even catching covid, in the first place, by 7x. Fluvoxamine does not. And, the hospitalizations for vaccinated breakthroughs are 17x lower, rather than Fluvoxamine's 3x lower. Fluvoxamine shouldn't be considered a replacement for vaccines, just an additional treatment.
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  3711.  @adaminfinity1733  Are you assuming they wouldn't be massively higher, if nobody was vaccinated, dimwit? Plus, Puerto Rico isn't another country, ffs. You sound like Dumpty, always forgetting Puerto Rico is part of the US.
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  3712.  @jgmediting7770  Which such information?
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  3713.  @tn2378  Campbell was wrong to state that UK numbers could indicate what was going on in other countries. The US excess mortality is higher than the covid deaths. If you're going to take it at face value, like that, then the US is undercounting covid deaths. But, you can't really take excess mortality at face value. You have to calculate all the pluses and minuses for other causes of death, to find out if the covid deaths are over, or under, counted. All the mask wearing, etc., could have reduced deaths, due to other viruses. The lockdowns could have reduced deaths due to work related accidents. That second number, is the official number, used by the government and media. It's deaths with covid listed as the cause. Unless, you go through and do the excess mortality calculations, nothing really refutes this number. There's nothing incompatible with the first and second numbers, unless you really breakdown the excess mortality and show that they are. Campbell also misrepresented the third number. It said, on the paper, "with covid", not that covid "contributed" to the death. The other video, that Matt mentions, shows how a cause of death report is filled out. Putting covid in the bottom section doesn't mean covid "contributed" to the death, just that they had covid. Putting covid in the top section means covid was considered to have contributed to the death (which is the second number). The difference between the second and third number means some 20k people, that had covid, died of other things, and the covid wasn't listed as contributing to the death. There's nothing incompatible with the second and third numbers. And, Campbell making out like the government and media haven't been reporting that comorbidities increase your odds of dying, all along, was pure bullshit.
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  3714.  @SarfrazKhan-r4i  Help yourself.
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  3715.  @alexcampbell4297  You can find Jabotinsky's writings, Likud's 1970s platform, the changing demographics of Israel-Palestine, and some early mandate documents, on the Jewish Virtual Library. There are also mandate documents on The Balfour Project. You can search the British Hansard for mandate era parliament discussions. Google (NYT Einstein letter). Wiki (1945 village statistics scans, plus a bunch more ... like with any Wiki stuff, make sure they're sourced properly).
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  3716. ​ @UnknownHumanOnline  You can copy comments if you load YouTube through a browser, instead of the app.
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  3717. What?
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  3718.  @spikesmth  The guy was promoting that daughter's all meat diet, claiming it had cured all his mental and physical ailments. They are jokes, and dangerous ones.
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  3719. ​ @charisma-hornum-fries  Rofl, what "unicorn babies"? "Jun 7, 2023 — On Monday, a Toddler, Mohammed Tamimi, Died of Injuries He Suffered When an Israeli Soldier Shot Him in the Head, in Front of His Father."
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  3720.  @jds614  Oh, so because Native Americans hadn't filed the proper paperwork, with the proper authorities, they weren't actually colonized? Just how stupid are you?
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  3721. ​ @TheRedStateBlue  Native Americans assimilated? Not after 100 years, dimwit. It took 300 odd years, and practically annihilating them. That's what you're good with, here, because Palestinians have Canaanite DNA. They're native.
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  3722. He's talking to the "socialist is in the name" crowd, and is likely one too. They don't even know they're Nazis. They're complete and utter morons, living in an alternate reality.
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  3723.  @WraithWriter  Think you should have tagged the other guy, for that.
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  3724.  @valkondarvalakev6377  Rofl! There was about 20 people who showed up for the ftv rally, dumb dumb. Trying to get Nina elected, to add another M4A yes vote to congress, the thing that actually gets you closer to ever passing the bill. Dore, on the other hand, abandoned her ... abandoned adding another M4A yes vote to congress. He's a pathetic good for nothing.
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  3725.  @alhazed  Sorry, didn't realize you had comprehension problems. Have a good one.
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  3726.  @alhazed  Lol. You get that my comment is saying I now realize you have comprehension problems, and you're telling me I didn't realize incorrectly?
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  3727.  @alhazed  Yep.
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  3728.  @alhazed  Are you trying to say I "didn't realize" correctly?
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  3729.  @alhazed  Ok, I give up on you comprehending English.
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  3730. Like everyone at FOX.
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  3731. Do right wingers want to stop mandatory vaccines for immigrants?
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  3732.  @sandersGG  What? Why was that directed at me?
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  3733.  @mjchakos1  Airsoft are literally sold by toy stores, dimwit.
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  3734.  @mjchakos1  Glad we agree he was shot over a toy. Maybe take a second to use words, instead of shooting before the car stops rolling.
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  3735.  @mjchakos1  Glad we agree, it was a 12 year old with a toy.
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  3736.  @mjchakos1  Sure. As irrelevant as thinking someone with a cell phone in their hand has a "weapon" is irrelevant, and shooting them.
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  3737.  @curiosityl.6261  "MAGA" implies the US currently sucks ass.
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  3738.  @curiosityl.6261  Your comment about conservatives. They've been saying the US sucks, for years, on their hats.
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  3739.  @alabamaman9476  Not in the top 10 per capita. Fact.
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  3740.  @LEP021085  70% of firearms are being traced to the US, dumb dumb.
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  3741.  @LEP021085  Rofl. I like how you have to compare the US to developing, rather than developed, countries, in some lame attempt to argue the US doesn't have a gun problem. Yeah, developing countries have other problems that make the issue more nuanced. Oh, and of course you pull out Switzerland, which doesn't have anywhere close to the same level of gun ownership as the US, and has a higher firearm mortality rate than many other developed countries with lower gun ownership than them. Switzerland doesn't help your case. They have up to 2x the gun ownership rate of Sweden, and about 2x the firearm mortality rate. They have 10-20x the gun ownership rate of the UK, and 10x the firearm mortality rate. The US has about 60x the gun ownership rate of the UK and 60x the firearm mortality rate, 6x the gun ownership rate of Sweden and 12x the firearm mortality rate, 3-5x the gun ownership rate of Switzerland and about 4x the firearm mortality rate.
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  3742.  @LEP021085  No, it doesn't help your case, because if you remove the US, Switzerland is one of 4 developed countries with a firearm mortality rate over 2 per 100k. 2 of the others have firearm ownership rates similar to Switzerland. Switzerland is only great relative to the US.
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  3743.  @LEP021085  I'm saying it has one of the highest firearm mortality rates, of developed countries, dingbat. Where am I losing you?
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  3744.  @LEP021085  Guns end up shooting their owners all the time, when cleaning, when one of their kids gets ahold of one, when there's a family dispute, when someone has a bad day. But, I'm glad to hear you think they're no more dangerous than a spoon. That means they're useless, and you don't need one. That means there doesn't need to be a right to have something completely useless.
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  3745.  @LEP021085  While you're waiting, why don't you call some lawmakers, and try to get opioids sold on the shelf, for anyone of any age ... you know, because they're no more dangerous than candy. Why don't you put one of your harmless gun out where some kids can play with it, while you're at it ... you know, because it's no more dangerous than a nerf gun.
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  3746.  @LEP021085  I completely get your "point". I clearly stated that was your "point". You're the one who didn't seem to get my point, that you can consider one inanimate object to be more dangerous than another. Why can't kids play with your "perfectly safe" inanimate objects? Is it more dangerous than a nerf gun?
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  3747.  @LEP021085  Why aren't they for children? Say it.
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  3748.  @LEP021085  Why aren't those things for them, dimwit?
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  3749.  @LEP021085  Surely, if a gun is no more dangerous than a nerf ball, then kids should be able to play with it.
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  3750.  @LEP021085  That was my point, that you can single out inanimate objects as being more dangerous than others. Making out like a gun is no more dangerous than a qtip, is f*cking moronic.
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  3751.  @LEP021085  It's not dangerous to play with a nerf ball, because a nerf ball isn't dangerous, dimwit. It's the gun that's the dangerous part of the equation.
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  3752.  Alabama Man Special Edition  Oh my, which very important historical vote are you talking about?
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  3753.  @jdelapaz14  Dore promoted Trump (wanted to kick 10m of the poorest Americans off of Medicaid expansion) over Clinton (wanted to add 40m older Americans to Medicare expansion). He argued that Trump was so bad that it would cause a massive progressive backlash. He vastly overestimated the benefits, claiming it would lead to progressives "for sure taking the house (wrong) and senate (wrong), in 2018, and the presidency (wrong), in 2020. He vastly underestimated the risks, claiming even Republicans would join the left and vote against a Trump agenda (wrong), and that Trump filling multiple scotus seats was as likely as the moon falling into Lake Michigan (wrong). He wasn't right about anything. The Obama presidency also gave us Bernie and a progressive movement. It didn't need letting a psycho fascist rule for 4 years to get a progressive movement. In fact, everyone was so scared of another Trump term, they went running they fell for the "more electable" propaganda, and went running to Biden. If he's going to blame Obama for giving us Trump, then we can blame Trump, and Jimmy for encouraging it, for giving us Biden. Dore isn't right about much, at all, when it comes to strategy.
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  3754.  @jdelapaz14  Rofl, Trump isn't as corrupt?!!! You're a loon.
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  3755.  @jdelapaz14  Rofl. He made himself money everytime he vacationed, which was every weekend. He made himself money putting up foreign dignitaries. He made himself money sending Pence places. His complete incompetence had a hand in hundreds of thousands of deaths, because he wanted to keep things open to make money and for his economy to appear good. He was grifting his cult to the end, and still is. You're spewing nonsense.
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  3756. Likud was founded by Irgun and Lehi terrorists. Israel celebrates those terrorists as "heroes", to this day.
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  3757.  @baguazhang2  Sooo, never, because Steven keeps running away.
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  3758. Saw one of them, maybe Mike Johnson, in a video arguing against abortion for economic reasons ... that we should want the extra babies, so they can pay into Social Security and Medicare, to keep it going. That means, not only do they think there is plenty of room for hundreds of thousands of extra unwanted babies per year, but they're actually needed. The same could be achieved through immigration ... Republicans: "No! Not that way!"
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  3759.  @decanuck  Fuck moron, there is one degree of separation between Kevin and his brother, but there are zero degrees of separation, between Kevin and the Bacon Brothers band. If I own a bar, there is one degree of separation between me and my employees, but there are zero degrees of separation between me and my bar. If the bar pays the Bacon Brothers, that's one degree of separation, from me to Kevin, not fucking 3. I am a part of the bar. Kevin is a part of the band. Really not that hard.
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  3760.  @theresaurus9820  You disagree with what? Your second sentence is irrelevant to the first.
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  3761. Welp, there goes his young earth religious nut support.
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  3762. ​ @jamessilver6429  He's an idiot. Likud's bloody 100 year history ... In 1923, 100 years ago, Ze'ev Jabotinsky wrote, The Iron Wall, and a follow up, The Ethics of The Iron Wall (sooo racist towards Africans), in which he fully acknowledged that post Balfour Zionsim was colonialism, and that, based on the entirety of history, the native Palestinian population would resist being colonized until the bitter end. He directly compared it to the colonization of North America. He promoted doing it anyway, claiming Zionist colonialism was a "just" colonialism (he also thought North American colonialists were good guys, so not a great judge of morality), not caring what that meant for the native population. Ze'ev is important, because his Betar militant youth group helped found the Irgun terrorist group, along with other supporters of his, and the splinter Lehi terrorist group. The Irgun bombed numerous Palestinian markets and other public places, murdering many Palestinian civilians, including children, even including Palestinian Jews (who didn't support colonialist Zionsim). The Irgun are important, because they ended up being led by future Likud PM, Menachem Begin, who bombed the King David Hotel. The King David Hotel was bombed because the British had raided the Jewish Agency and seized numerous documents that may have shown that the terrorists were working with the JA and Haganah (JA liked to pretend that they didn't support the terrorism). The British then stored those documents at their base, in the hotel. That the Irgun terrorists responded to a JA raid, itself seems to prove the connection. That the thousands of Irgun (and Lehi) terrorists were also quickly merged into the new nation's military (IDF) and intelligence (Mossad) agencies, and are still celebrated as "heroes" by Israelis, to this day, also seems to support total collaboration between the groups. That other terrorist group mentioned, Lehi (also known as the Stern Gang), was considered even more extreme. They even tried to ally with the Nazis, against the British. Lehi ended up being led by Yitzhak Shamir, future Mossad agent, and another future Likud PM. In 1945, there was a major land and peoples survey done in Palestine. It showed that the Zionists only owned about 5% of the total land, 20% of the arable land, and owned a majority in zero districts. The partition was not only going to be forced on the native Palestinian majority, but Jews were still going to be a minority, in the part allocated to them. The only possible way to even become a "Jewish state" was going to require getting rid of the actual majority (at least enough so that there'd be a solid Jewish majority, so they could fake being democratic). This is also shown by the 1948, post Nakba, population of Israel. If there was 716,700 Jews, 156,000+ non-Jews, and approximately 700k non-Jews ethnically cleansed, that means the Jewish population, in the Zionist portion of partition, was originally over 100,000 less than the non-Jewish population. To believe that there was never any intent, by Zionists, to ethnically cleanse away the Palestinian majority would require believing that they never intended to create a "Jewish state". It's a nonsensical notion. Begin, and those terrorist groups, also opposed partition, but for the opposite reason Palestinians did. Palestinians didn't want to be colonized, at all. The terrorists wanted to colonize it all. "Moderate" Zionists were okay with colonizing half ... for now (what would happen in the future, after partition, was up to them, said Ben-Gurion). The Zionist terrorists were also involved in massacres, and assassinations, during the partition violence (colonialist war against the natives). Another notable future Likud PM, also started in the military, during the partition fighting. That was Ariel Sharon, war criminal, "Butcher of Beirut". Menachem Begin, and these other Zionist terrorists, are important because they also later founded Likud. Now, people get upset over the slogan "From the river to the sea!", but it's the second part that's most important, "Palestine will be free!". Because "Palestine" isn't defined as an ethno-state, a free Palestine can be a single state, free for all to live in, and return to, free of continuing colonization, free of occupation, free of oppression, etc. Just like a Germany free of Nazism, an Italy free of fascism, a South Africa free of apartheid, or an America free of slavery from sea to shiny sea. It doesn't necessitate purging all the Jews. It just necessitates them giving up on the idea of an ethno-state. On the other hand, because "Israel" has been defined as an ethno-state, Likud's, "between the sea and the Jordan there will only be Israeli sovereignty", has no possible good interpretation. It is a declaration of intent to completely colonize, and ethnically cleanse, all Palestine territories. Not only that, but it also claims that they have a "right" to all of the "Land of Israel" (biblical borders that don't mesh with archaeological reality), which is an open declaration of future wars, against Jordan, Syria, Lebanon, and possibly even Iraq. Likud platform ... 1977: "The Right of the Jewish People to the Land of Israel (Eretz Israel) a. The right of the Jewish people to the land of Israel is eternal and indisputable and is linked with the right to security and peace; therefore, Judea and Samaria will not be handed to any foreign administration; between the Sea and the Jordan there will only be Israeli sovereignty. b. A plan which relinquishes parts of western Eretz Israel, undermines our right to the country, unavoidably leads to the establishment of a "Palestinian State," jeopardizes the security of the Jewish population, endangers the existence of the State of Israel. and frustrates any prospect of peace." "Settlement Settlement. both urban and rural. in all parts of the Land of Israel is the focal point of the Zionist effort to redeem the country, to maintain vital security areas and serves as a reservoir of strength and inspiration for the renewal of the pioneering spirit. The Likud government will call on the younger generation in Israel and the dispersions to settle and help every group and individual in the task of inhabiting and cultivating the wasteland, while taking care not to dispossess anyone." 1999: "The Government of Israel flatly rejects the establishment of a Palestinian Arab state west of the Jordan river. The Palestinians can run their lives freely in the framework of self-rule, but not as an independent and sovereign state. Thus, for example, in matters of foreign affairs, security, immigration, and ecology, their activity shall be limited in accordance with imperatives of Israel's existence, security and national needs." "The Jewish communities in Judea, Samaria, and Gaza are the realization of Zionist values. Settlement of the land is a clear expression of the unassailable right of the Jewish people to the Land of Israel and constitutes an important asset in the defense of the vital interests of the State of Israel. The Likud will continue to strengthen and develop these communities and will prevent their uprooting." All Palestine territories are officially considered occupied, by the International Court of Justice, the UN GA, the UN SC, and even in official documents of Israel's own allies. Likud is still using the blueprint for colonizing North America, in the West Bank. Move settlements out into native territory, piss off the natives, the natives retaliate, cry about poor "innocent" colonizing settlers being the "victims" of violent "Savages!", call in the cavalry to put down the native uprising, and eventually expand the borders to include those settlements. Rinse and repeat. In Gaza, they are operating an open air WWII style fascist ghetto. Them claiming a "right to defend themselves" would be like the Nazis claiming a "right to defend themselves " from the Warsaw ghetto uprising. There's no "war". That they're the occupiers means the "war" part is long over. That partition was forced upon the Palestinian majority, against their will ... that the Zionist portion still had to be forcefully ethnically cleansed of its non-Jewish majority, against their will ... that the millions of occupied Palestinians don't have a say in the government that truly rules over them, Israel's ... means Israel is about as democratic as Nazi Germany after Hitler purged his political opponents and then held elections.
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  3763.  @jonesfactor9  Not according to them.
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  3764. Well, it also has to do with the type of virus. Some viruses trigger lifelong immunity, some decades, some years, and some only months. COVID seems to be like the flu, in that regard, and only triggers antibodies for months.
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  3765.  @populuxe1  It was very clearly argued that they had no legitimacy to exist, as they were. A single state solution, with all having equal rights, a right of return for Palestinian refugees, would end Israel, as a "Jewish state". It wouldn't end all Jews in Israel/Palestine. We likewise wanted to end ethno-state Germany, not all Germans. There is no legitimacy to Israel existing, as is.
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  3766. This is more like the colonization of North America, with the colonialists crying about "Savages!" attacking poor "innocent" colonizers, every time the Natives rise up against their colonialism.
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  3767. Treating Republicans "badly"? So, you don't think they deserve to be treated this way?
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  3768.  @connerpittman  Alaska is a false equivalence. Alaska is like Norway, where the oil is effectively nationalized, and the oil company is paying the citizens for their oil. A VAT totally skips making businesses pay in, and has the consumers paying themselves.
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  3769.  Aaron Dickson  The Confederates were the majority racist white southern voters, who voted for pro slavery politicians. The majority racist white southern voters also voted in politicians that implemented Jim Crow laws. Two options ... either those majority racist white populations in the south magically up and became the least racist populations, or they simply started voting for a different party that pandered to their racism. Hint: check out how southern Republicans voted on civil rights acts.
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  3770.  @michaels8620  Calling something "performance art" isn't the same as calling it "stupid". It's just a factual description of what it would have been. In no reality would it have passed. There's already a historical record of those who won't cosign, plus a historical record of committee members who sat on the bill, after Pelosi introduced it, all last session. Likewise, for this session. So, it would have been purely for show, right? "Performance art" is exactly not a hill worth dying on. If you do it, cool. If you don't, whatever. As soon as a certain someone (that you don't want to mention, on a video about a guy spewing that someone's talking points) turned it into a purity test, slandering anyone who didn't immediately jump on board a "fake", "fraud", "sellout", "betrayer", etc., he turned a lot of people off. Part of any good plan is the ability to sell that plan to others, especially those you want to implement the plan. He who shall not be named was a horrible salesman, and his sales team was equally horrible. I think it's less about staying on someone's good side, and more about not feeling it's worth slandering them over it. The party speaker candidate is chosen by simple majority of the Dem caucus. The entire progressive caucus doesn't have the majority needed to be able to pick the party speaker candidate. The corporate Dem majority could keep picking Pelosi over and over and over, or someone worse. All you'd be doing is paralyzing the house, for an indefinite period of time, until a speaker was elected. For what, exactly? What happens when the progressive caucus does get the 15, or so, more seats needed to become the majority of the Dem caucus? You've started an all out intra party war, and they do the same thing, to you. Then what? The only way to actually pass the bill is to get enough yes votes in congress to be able to pass the bill. While he who shall not be named was slandering AOC and Bernie for abandoning M4A, as he himself abandoned Nina Turner, they were on the ground campaigning for Nina Turner, promoting M4A, and fighting to add another M4A yes vote to congress. Bernie, Justice Dems, and AOC, have done more for M4A in a few years, than he has in his entire lifetime.
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  3771.  @michaels8620  Most definitely. FDR would have kept doing what he was doing, even if some loudmouth was calling him a "sellout", for making friends with Charles Murphy, who he had previously called a "noxious weed", and telling people to vote for Norman Thomas instead. AOC has outright backed progressives in other districts, campaigning on the ground, fighting to increase numbers, when getting enough numbers is the only way to ever be able to pass anything. The bare minimum is simply working for your own district, and not giving a fuck what goes on in other districts. They never had the numbers to outright remove Pelosi. Already explained that. They could have paralyzed the house, is what they could have done ... no new covid relief, no new unemployment extension, no new child tax credit, no new vaccine funding, etc. ... during a pandemic. Twice before, when the speakership vote was stalemated for a couple months, the house simply adopted a temporary plurality wins rule. So, you might be able to oust her for McCarthy.
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  3772. What Josh said. Emma was who they finally decided on to replace Michael. Jamie got some extra time, after he passed, but wasn't the permanent choice to fill his spot.
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  3773. ​ @selvamthiagarajan8152  You don't agree with reality? Israel is objectively the aggressor by every relevant measure ... Modern history: 100 years ago, in 1923, Ze'ev Jabotinsky fully acknowledged that Zionism is colonialism, and that, based on the entirety of history, the natives would fight it until the bitter end. He just didn't care what would happen to them, and promoted doing it anyway. Colonizers are never not the aggressors. On top of the colonialist nature of Zionism, the Zionists also formed terrorist organizations, like the Irgun and Lehi. They bombed many Palestinian markets and other public places, murdering many civilians, including children, even including Palestinian Jews (who opposed Zionism). Israel merged those terrorists into the new nation's military and intelligence agencies. Israelis elected Menachem Begin, leader of the Irgun, child murderer, Jew murderer, and bomber of the King David Hotel, as PM. Israelis, to this day, celebrate those terrorists as "heroes". Zionists literally taught their neighbours that terrorism is a valid path to independence and statehood, and that terrorists are to be celebrated. In 1945, it is well documented that Zionists owned just 5% of the land and were a majority nowhere. Israel was formed by actually going against the majority population. It's foundation is completely undemocratic. Then, becoming a majority, in "their" new nation, by ethnic cleansing the actual majority, and then claiming to be democratic, is utter nonsense. Law: Israel is considered an occupier by the International Court, the UN GA, and the UN SC. Occupiers are also never not the aggressors. Those occupied actually have a right to resist occupation. On the flip side, it is illegal for the occupier to settle occupied lands, and illegal to use collective punishment. Israel is a rogue nation, that doesn't abide by international law. What it has been doing, and is doing now, is illegal. Current events: This year, alone, prior to Oct 7 ... Israel held over 1200 Palestinian hostages without charges ... over 200 Palestinians had been killed by the IDF and settlers ... over 1000 Palestinians had been displaced by Israel's neverending colonization of the West Bank ... and, Israel continued to operate an open air WWII style fascist ghetto, in Gaza. Even ignoring modern history and law, in no reality did Hamas "start" anything.
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  3774.  @Dronax  And? What's your point? Get rid of all vaccinations, medicines, laws, rules of the road, health and safety standards, etc., etc., etc.? Because there's no point in trying to reduce the number?
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  3775.  @Thezuule1  No vaccine is 100%, dimwit. No vaccine totally "prevents" infection. Yes, they can still be used for herd immunity. You're just not very bright.
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  3776.  @Thezuule1  You're an ignoramus. "A recent study found that vaccinated people infected with the delta variant are 63 per cent less likely to infect people who are unvaccinated. This is only slightly lower than with the alpha variant, says Brechje de Gier at the National Institute for Public Health and the Environment in the Netherlands, who led the study. Her team had previously found that vaccinated people infected with alpha were 73 per cent less likely to infect unvaccinated people. What is important to realise, de Gier says, is that the full effect of vaccines on reducing transmission is even higher than 63 per cent, because most vaccinated people don’t become infected in the first place." "De Gier says they cannot calculate the full reduction in transmission due to vaccination, because they don’t know exactly how much vaccination reduces the risk of infection. But even assuming vaccination only halves the risk of infection, this would still imply that vaccines reduce transmission by more than 80 per cent overall."
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  3777.  @aliamjon2550  Uh huh, that was my point.
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  3778.  @leonardzein5056  Right. Even worse ... he'd likely try to make money off them, by selling them bullshit.
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  3779.  @markzuckergecko621  Counting all taxes, the top 1% pay about 30% of taxes. They also own about 30% of the wealth. The bottom 50% pays about 3% of the taxes but only owns about 1.5% of the wealth. As a percentage of wealth, the 1% are paying less taxes. Even amongst the 1%, a higher percentage of wealth is being paid by the lesser rich with high taxable incomes. Those at the top, claiming $1 incomes from Tesla, or $80k incomes from Amazon, and living off the value of their stocks, are paying next to nothing. The super rich are even screwing the lesser rich.
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  3780.  @markzuckergecko621  Yeah, you're just counting income taxes, dumb dumb, and not payroll taxes.
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  3781. ​ andresrojas7924 Likud was created by Menachem Begin, a Zionist terrorist leader of the Irgun, who bombed Palestinian markets, full of Palestinian women and children, and even Palestinian Jews (who opposed Zionism), and blew up the King David Hotel. The other founder was Ariel Sharon, who committed numerous crimes of war, massacring Palestinian villages. Their original platform, left no room for Palestinians ... "The Right of the Jewish People to the Land of Israel (Eretz Israel) a. The right of the Jewish people to the land of Israel is eternal and indisputable and is linked with the right to security and peace; therefore, Judea and Samaria will not be handed to any foreign administration; between the Sea and the Jordan there will only be Israeli sovereignty." "between the Sea and the Jordan" = from the river to the sea Israel doesn't recognize Palestine, dimwit. They keep claiming, like cowards, that they aren't colonizers, because "Palestine" doesn't exist, which is an absolutely moronic argument, that would negate much of the colonizing in history.
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  3782. ​ andresrojas7924  Still not following. Wasn't it the elected Muslim leader of the country that the coup was against, perpetrated by Christians? The entire African Union is backing the ousted government.
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  3783.  @Thezuule1  He said the numbers for kids. Although that might skew the total covid hospitalization rate, a little, that doesn't affect the fact that tons of beds are filling with adults due to covid.
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  3784.  @Thezuule1  Well there's going to be a reflection in kid hospitalizations, per adult hospitalizations, for covid, depending on the variant, so it's not like every kid has gone in with covid rather than because of covid. He said "some", however many that is, and didn't really say how skewed. If there are a lot more adults filling beds, due to covid, then there are likely a lot more kids filling beds, as well.
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  3785.  @Thezuule1  As was pointed out ... that was one doctor, in one hospital, in one state, that wasn't one of the top 5, from 2 weeks ago. Update: More than 580,000 US pediatric Covid-19 cases were reported last week alone, far exceeding past peaks, the American Academy of Pediatrics and the Children's Hospital Association said Wednesday. That's a 78% increase over the 325,000 new cases reported the prior week. And the last two weeks alone have accounted for 11% of the country's total for pediatric cases, the groups said. "Of the children who have been hospitalized or go to the intensive care unit or die, about a third of them have no comorbidities. Therefore, it can occur in anyone," Offit said Tuesday. "This is not a virus to fool around with. This is not influenza or parainfluenza or other typical respiratory viruses. This virus can cause you to make an immune response to your own blood vessels, which means that you can have heart disease, brain disease, kidney disease, lung disease as well as liver disease," he said.
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  3786. I was mocking your nonsensical "point". Someone's voice or shirt has nothing at all to do with race or racism.
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  3787. ​ @MarkMayhew  First wrap your brain around who the actual aggressor is. Israel is objectively the aggressor by every relevant measure ... Modern history: 100 years ago, in 1923, Ze'ev Jabotinsky fully acknowledged that Zionism is colonialism, and that, based on the entirety of history, the natives would fight it until the bitter end. He just didn't care what would happen to them, and promoted doing it anyway. Colonizers are never not the aggressors. On top of the colonialist nature of Zionism, the Zionists also formed terrorist organizations, like the Irgun and Lehi. They bombed many Palestinian markets and other public places, murdering many civilians, including children, even including Palestinian Jews (who opposed Zionism). Israel merged those terrorists into the new nation's military and intelligence agencies. Israelis elected Menachem Begin, leader of the Irgun, child murderer, Jew murderer, and bomber of the King David Hotel, as PM. Israelis, to this day, celebrate those terrorists as "heroes". Zionists literally taught their neighbours that terrorism is a valid path to independence and statehood, and that terrorists are to be celebrated. In 1945, it is well documented that Zionists owned just 5% of the land and were a majority nowhere. Israel was formed by actually going against the majority population. It's foundation is completely undemocratic. Then, becoming a majority, in "their" new nation, by ethnic cleansing the actual majority, and then claiming to be democratic, is utter nonsense. Law: Israel is considered an occupier by the International Court, the UN GA, and the UN SC. Occupiers are also never not the aggressors. Those occupied actually have a right to resist occupation. On the flip side, it is illegal for the occupier to settle occupied lands, and illegal to use collective punishment. Israel is a rogue nation, that doesn't abide by international law. What it has been doing, and is doing now, is illegal. Current events: This year, alone, prior to Oct 7 ... Israel held over 1200 Palestinian hostages without charges ... over 200 Palestinians had been killed by the IDF and settlers ... over 1000 Palestinians had been displaced by Israel's neverending colonization of the West Bank ... and, Israel continued to operate an open air WWII style fascist ghetto, in Gaza. Even ignoring modern history and law, in no reality did Hamas "start" anything.
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  3788.  @TheScotsalan  You blathered a bunch of stuff, but didn't answer my question. They have a ten year shorter lifespan than their neighbour, directly on the other side of the wall. The US has a shorter lifespan, at least in part due to more violence and shittier healthcare. Do you think something like Israel delaying permission for an 18 month old to travel to a hospital, and her dying, might contribute to a shorter life expectancy? Do you think bombs on your head might contribute to a shorter life expectancy?
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  3789. @Aaron Dickson No, it didn't.
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  3790.  @jaccl4539  There you go again, not grasping math.
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  3791.  Alabama Man Special Edition  Rofl. Millions of people die of hunger, yearly, and most are in capitalist countries. WWI was all a bunch of capitalist countries killing each other. The Holocaust was actually about 15m people. Japan also killed 3-14 million civilians and POWs. Millions died due to famine, in British India, as they exported food. Japan, Italy, Germany, were all right wing, and started another world war, that killed tens of millions. Millions were killed in the Congo, the most deadly conflict since WWII. You're in denial.
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  3792.  @sergeikhripun  There's already a record of who won't cosign the bill, during a pandemic. There's already a record of committee members who sat on the bill, after Pelosi introduced it last session, during a pandemic. There's new lists of both those things, this session. Why aren't you morons pressuring all the committee members, to take up the bill, instead of blathering about a year old missed opportunity for performance art?
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  3793.  @jaccl4539  It is math, dimwit. We've been over this. They draw lines, and don't vote for crap all the time. They talk to the press. There is absolutely nothing Manchin does, that they haven't done. The only reason anyone is talking about Manchin is because he actually has the ability to kill a bill on his own. Nobody would give a crap about him, nobody would be talking about him, if the senate was 51 Dems. You blather about sword nonsense. Name a single apecific thing that you think Manchin has done, that they haven't.
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  3794.  @eidorm.7953  Even Native Americans reached a point where they wanted to shove all the wt people back into the sea. It wasn't because they were wt, or because they were Christians. It was because they were a holes. People don't like being clnzd. What's so hard to understand?
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  3795.  @eidorm.7953    Even Native Americans reached a point where they wanted to shove all the clnzrs back into the sea. It wasn't because they were wt, or because they were Christians. It was because they were a h0|€s. People don't like being clnzd. What's so hard to understand?
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  3796.  @eidorm.7953   Even Native Americans reached a point where they wanted to send all the clnzrs back where they came from. It wasn't because they were wt, or because they were Chrstns. It was because they were clnzrs. People don't like being clnzd.
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  3797.  @eidorm.7953  Native Americans reached a point where they wanted to send all the clnzrs back. It wasn't because they were wt. It wasn't because they were Chrstns. It was because clnzrs are a§§h0|€§.
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  3798.  @eidorm.7953  American natives also reached a point where they wanted to send all the clnzrs back. It wasn't because the clnzrs were wt. It wasn't because the clnzrs were Chrstns. It was because they were clnzrs.
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  3799.  @robinalexander5558  Nah. You can not pretend all Znsm is samesies, and innocuous. The Revisionists, who became the Irgun and Lehi trrrsts (people even Einstein likened to Fscsts and Nzs), who then became Likud, which is ruling Isrl ... have always promoted ethnc clnsng and clnztn, always claimed "right" to vlntly take all of Plstn, plus all or parts of Jordan, Syria, and Lebanon. That is the dominant Znsm, and that is equivalent to Nzsm.
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  3800.  @robinalexander5558  Were all you Znsts dropped on your heads, as babies, or something? Much of the clnzd world wasn't "nations", prior to being clnzd. The native majority of the mandate were offered to be clnzd, and they said "no thanks" ... Just like most people say "no thanks" to being clnzd.
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  3801.  @robinalexander5558  And ... No, it was also not the "original" partition plan. There had been early plans. "Moderate" Znst, Ben-Gurion, wrote his son a letter about accepting an earlier plan (one that included ethnclly clnsng over 200k Plstnns). He argued the Znsts would accept it, for now, grow their strength, and then expand later. Even he was a duplicitous, ethnc clnsng supporting, vlnt wrmngr.
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  3802.  @robinalexander5558  And no ... Plstnns have Canaanite DNA. They're Arab and Mslm the same way indigenous peoples of Central America are now Hispanic and Catholic. Plstnns were the previous Chrstn majority. They were the Jwsh majority before that, and the Canaanite mythology majority before that. They were simply Arabized and converted along the way. That Plstnns were native is also something both the Brtsh, and the early Znsts, said themselves.
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  3803.  @robinalexander5558  No actual evidence of Canaanites doing that. The OT/Tanakh writers were simply people like Trump, who made things up.
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  3804.  @robinsss  So, the freedom to be able to kill whoever you want, whenever you want, is "good"? All laws limit "freedom". You want zero laws then.
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  3805. ​ @Santirata  Weird how the Jws kept seeking refuge in Muslim nations, if that is true. Which Muslim nation offered conversion, dth, or exile, like Spain?
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  3806. ​ @Santirata  You realize all those "peace proposals" were offers to be clnized, right? Native populations literally can't "start" anything against clnzers. If the clnzers weren't there, doing their clnzing first, there'd be nobody for them to do anything to.
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  3807. ​​ @Santirata 1898: Khalil Beidas, his preface to his translation of Akim Olesnitsky's A Description of the Holy Land: "the people of Palestine were in need of a geography book about their country... the Palestinian peasant waits impatiently for winter to come, for the season’s rain to moisten his fossilized fields." What else would you call someone, who lived in Palestine? You ignore things at an individual level. The Palestinian individuals, living in what would be given to Jwsh clnzers, would 100% be clnzed. So what, if someone living in Jordan wasn't? That's like arguing the first 20% of clnzing and ethnclly cleansing North America was perfectly fine, since Native Americans still had 80% of North America. At what percent, exactly, does clnzing and ethnclly cleansing become wrong?
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  3808.  @VinZZ97  You don't want to alienate a huckster, who promoted his daughter's meat only diet, claiming it cured all his mental and physical ailments? Or, the huckster's huckster daughter? Or, the followers who buy their huckster bullshit?
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  3809. Maybe they had Rudy getting James Taylor for them.
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  3810. Honestly, the "public option" sucks. 6 years in LA and not anywhere close to all of the public opting in.
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  3811.  @rubbercable  Rand Paul was trying to make the case that Fauci was funding research in Wuhan, but Fauci represents the NIH, which represents the US. They're going after Fauci, not seeming to realize that it would implicate the US government, and make them liable.
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  3812. Jordan has over 2 million Palestinian refugees. The others have tens to hundreds of thousands. Countries in the region have also taken in a shit ton of Syrian refugees. Turkey has the most refugees in the world. How about stop blowing up the ME and making more refugees, you dimwit?
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  3813.  @djchaiwallah  Yes, he plummeted to 47-40 vs Trump in today's Ipsos poll, from 43-40 vs Trump on the Feb 19 Ipsos poll.
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  3814.  @avinashreji60  That's simply the nationalistic nature of its economics. Just like Republicans claim to be against "globalism", and for "America first", and claim "foreigners are coming for our jobs", etc. They want to be the chief beneficiaries of capitalism, not others.
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  3815.  @Philbert-s2c  Dore is the kind of dimwit "leftist" who winds up on the wrong side of a Night of the Long Knives, after allying with Nazis, just so he can own the libs with them.
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  3816.  @10tothebigguy25  Rofl. Giant corporations, owned by billionaires, aren't progessives, for one thing. For another, they let him blather whatever he wanted about the election, for months, right up until it incited an insurrection.
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  3817. ​@@dannytimms9011 Rofl. Anyone who's actually good at debate, shouldn't need to use this lame Crowder tactic. This is the age old religious tactic of making a completely baseless assertion, and then expecting anyone who doesn't believe you, to prove you wrong, putting the burden of proof on them, while not having to actually prove your claim, at all. Charlie Kirk sucks dog balls, prove me wrong.
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  3818. ​ @tonywilson4713  Piss off with your spam.
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  3819. No clue how that guy got a philosophy degree. He doesn't seem to grasp basics like objectivity vs subjectivity, laws vs morals ...
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  3820.  @GeLowBrando  And what equally stpd thing do you think that's evidence of?
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  3821.  @GeLowBrando  Lol, you've proved you're a complete and utter maroon, who thinks Nikki was running in the fall of 2021.
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  3822. ​ @donald2665  Did she mention the part where she took a paycheck from Rumble, which is funded by mega MAGA donor Peter Thiel, who spies on US citizens for a living?
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  3823. ​ @donald2665  Did she mention the part where she was paid to join Rumble, which is funded MAGA donor by Peter Thiel, who spies on citizens for a living?
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  3824.  @fullyfb3847  I understand perfectly well that you're a loon, right now.
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  3825.  @robertnewby4798  Nope. You're clueless.
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  3826. I have heard, for years, that the non-progressive Dems would rather lose to Reps, than to progressives. That would mean progressives have next to no leverage. They'd only have leverage if n-p Dems actually wouldn't prefer losing to Reps. Which is it?
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  3827. She is ... on TMJ anyway. Not sure what's happening with The Michael Brooks Show.
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  3828. I thought she already had that down pat.
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  3829. ​ @tonywilson4713  Quit spamming piss.
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  3830.  @jontukagam3888  Gibberish
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  3831. ​ @johnhenry4844 Infinitely better, for who, dumb dumb?
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  3832.  @zacg_  Like I said, the same racist majority that continued to vote for racism for another 100 years. The same racist majority that left the Democrat party in 1968, and voted for racist Wallace, who won 5 Southern states, before they switched to Nixon in 72. Almost 2 centuries of blatantly voting to oppress black Americans.
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  3833. Well, to be fair, that's pretty much what the original Ancient Greek "democracy" was like. "Democracies" come in a spectrum of how democratic they actually are.
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  3834.  @jramir2  Didn't you watch the video? It was all about race and racism.
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  3835. ​ @KamillGran-ch5sb  Lol, all you keep repeating is that you're a racist bigot.
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  3836.  @ojo1979  Atm, that's like arguing to "try" and push a house over. Keep "trying" all you want but, in the end, you're going to need to convince a lot more people, or get a lot more people elected, in congress that support it, which people like AOC are already working on.
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  3837.  @ojo1979  "forcing the vote is one solution" Solution to what? It fails, then you have to do exactly what AOC is currently doing, and get more pro M4A candidates in congress. If Jimmy has 100 pro M4A candidates laying around, why didn't he pull them out and run them in the election that just happened? If Briahna wants to coordinate protests groups to have M4A protests, why hasn't she been doing that all along? The Democratic Socialists of America, of which AOC is a member, have been having M4A rallies. Where were Jimmy and his posse? The things he wants to happen, after forcing a vote that fails, are already happening. They just haven't been a part of it. Get out there and put pressure on your district's anti-M4A candidate, if you have one. Protest them, if you need to. Find someone to run against them, if you need to. You don't need a failed vote to do what needs to be done once it fails, anyway.
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  3838.  @ryanhubbard1885  Then they lose their case and get sent back.
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  3839.  @ryanhubbard1885  Then speed up the process. Make it easier and quicker, not harder.
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  3840.  @ryanhubbard1885  Trump didn't speed up anything. He tried to make the process harder. In 2019, he had the most border crossings in a year than since 2006. The new migration spike started under him. It only dropped back down in 2020 because the world shut down. Overall, he averaged more border crossings per year than Obama. He sucked at the one thing all the racists voted for him for. Yes, I say racists, because almost all of the anti-immigrant arguments are bullshit. Undocumented immigrants commit crimes at half the rate of natural born citizens. Over 90% of drugs come through points of entry. Over 80% of drug traffickers are Americans (Cartels aren't stupid. They use the people least likely to be stopped, not the most likely, and don't want their product swept downriver, lying in a desert, or tossed in detention.). Plus, Republicans argue there is plenty of room for hundreds of thousands of extra unwanted babies per year. Johnson even argued they're needed, to keep SS and Medicare afloat. You don't actually need the babies ... just make immigration easier, and get them paying into the system as fast as possible. And, the "replacement" nonsense is outright insane. Most of those people have native ancestry. Europeans crying about being "replaced" by natives ... give me a break. 😂
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  3841.  Silencedfixer  Republicans: "We need more kids!" Kids come across the border. Republicans: "No! Not like that!" Is there space and jobs for hundreds of thousands of extra unwanted babies per year, or not? The same should apply to immigration.
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  3842.  Silencedfixer  That is a lie.
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  3843.  Silencedfixer  Nope. Lie.
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  3844. ​ Silencedfixer  Nope. 46% of the undocumented population is female. You would need next to no younger, or older, males, for "military age" males to be the majority.
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  3845.  Silencedfixer  ​Nope. 46% of the undocumented population is female. You would need next to no younger, or older, males, for "mil age" males to be the majority.
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  3846.  Silencedfixer  ​ Nope. 46% of the undocumented population is female. There would need to be next to no younger, or older, males, for you to be right.
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  3847.  Silencedfixer  Nope. Lie.
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  3848.  Silencedfixer  Nope. Barely a majority are male, of all ages.
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  3849.  Silencedfixer  You stated a specific age of males, dingleberry.
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  3850.  Silencedfixer  You lie.
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  3851.  Silencedfixer  You stated a specific age range, dufus.
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  3852.  Silencedfixer  You stated a specific age range, twatwaffle.
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  3853.  Silencedfixer  Nope. You're making the age range up.
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  3854.  @gnubbiersh647  The only one not grasping a concept, is you not grasping the contradiction between people both claiming they don't care, while clearly caring. Why do you keep showing up, just to prove you have severe comprehension problems?
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  3855.  @redrick8900  You also have reading problems.
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  3856.  @gnubbiersh647  Rofl. Video premise: Man who claims not to care about women's sports, cares so much he constantly make videos about it OP premise: multiple men who claim not to care about women's sports, care so much they make a whole movie about it @yungmuney5903 premise: they are concern trolling (they truly don't care, but pretend to for attention) You: (apparently having no clue what the video premise is, no clue what the OP premise is, no clue what yung's reply meant) asks what's so hard to understand ... about a completely different premise, where someone does care but doesn't watch Me: I point out you've introduced a completely different premise, and are effectively strawmanning people, by implying they don't understand a completely different premise than they were talking about The only pointless thing above, is you rambling on about what nobody was talking about.
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  3857.  @redrick8900  You failed at comprehension.
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  3858.  @redrick8900  Rofl. You two are dumber than stumps, or Trumps.
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  3859.  @redrick8900  Rofl. Do tell. Since I never once stated that your addle brained friend had ever said they didn't care, as you dishonestly stated I did (I was referring to the topic being discussed). What was I wrong about?
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  3860.  @redrick8900  Rofl. Do tell. Since I never once stated that your addled friend had ever said they didn't care, as you incorrectly stated I did (I was referring to the topic being discussed). What was I wrong about?
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  3861.  @redrick8900  Wrong about ... ?
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  3862.  @gnubbiersh647  And I see you got distracted by going off the topic of the thread, again. Maybe, someday, you'll actually address what people are saying.
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  3863.  @gnubbiersh647  Sure. Say whatever you want, but don't be surprised when people then show you're talking about something nobody else is talking about, and effectively strawmanning people, by implying they don't understand a totally different thing than what they were talking about. Hey look, someone quoted the movie, and them openly admitting to being concern trolls. Do you accept that as a fact?
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  3864.  @gnubbiersh647  I literally slow walked you through the premise of the video title, the op, the concern trolling comment, and you still don't know what the premise is?
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  3865.  @gnubbiersh647  What's wrong with ... I don't care about X, but I'll make endless videos about X? That's a contradiction, which is only resolved by the admitted concern trolling. They truly don't care, but they go on about it just for attention. What did I get wrong about you? Video: guy who says they don't care ... OP: guys who say they don't care ... Reply: concern trolls (those guys don't care, and just do it for clicks). You: What's so hard to understand about me caring but not watching? Nobody was talking about you, or anyone else who claims to care. The movie quote is an admission of being concern trolls. You don't believe the movie makers either?
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  3866.  @gnubbiersh647  Because there's no moral issue, if nobody cares. We no longer consider women wearing pants to be a moral issue, because people no longer care if women wear pants. Who cares, if they actually care, and why, is relevant. Matt Walsh is a Catholic. There's literally a Catholic catechism stating that the god he worships is sexless, but it's apparently perfectly fine to use masculine gender terminology, to identify it. Catholics also believe that sexless god transitioned into a human male for a time. They outright worship a trans god. In fact, the vast majority of Christians do. That makes them all hypocrites, when they whine about trans people. The mere existence of a Y chromosome doesn't guarantee maleness (Swyer syndrome). The gene needs to express, to create maleness. For the first 5-7 weeks, only the mother's X (female) chromosome expresses. Anyone (including Matt and Ben) arguing life begins at fertilization, is arguing we're all female (or, at minimum, all sexless), which makes them trans. They ignore the fact that there are also trans men out there, beating birth certificate certified males, in sports. Lia Thomas was beaten by a trans man, Iszac Henig, before Henig transitioned. The two effectively swapped leagues. Would anyone have cared, if Henig hadn't transitioned, and continued beating women? Thomas has broken no national or international records. She simply swam during some slow years in the women's division, in her categories. Kate Douglass broke 18 national records, but people preferred to blather on endlessly about Lia. Those people are the ones detracting from the accomplishments of a birth certificate certified female, by focusing on nonsense. The makers of the movie admittedly refused to go through the transitioning process that would actually allow them to qualify as women. It's a completely dishonest movie. Nobody is transitioning, just to beat women. Hardly anyone is doing it. So, what's your big issue with it?
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  3867.  @gnubbiersh647   Because there's no moral debate, if the person you're debating doesn't actually care. We no longer consider women wearing pants to be a moral issue, because people no longer care if women wear pants. Who cares, if they actually care, and why, is relevant. Matt Walsh is a Catholic. There's literally a Catholic catechism stating that the god he worships is sexless, but it's apparently perfectly fine to use masculine gender terminology, to identify it. Catholics also believe that sexless god transitioned into a human male for a time. They outright worship a trans god. In fact, the vast majority of Christians do. That makes them all hypocrites, when they whine about trans people. The mere existence of a Y chromosome doesn't guarantee maleness (Swyer syndrome). The gene needs to express, to create maleness. For the first 5-7 weeks, only the mother's X (female) chromosome expresses. Anyone (including Matt and Ben) arguing life begins at fertilization, is arguing we're all female (or, at minimum, all sexless), which makes them trans. They ignore the fact that there are also trans men out there, beating birth certificate certified males, in sports. Lia Thomas was beaten by a trans man, Iszac Henig, before Henig transitioned. The two effectively swapped leagues. Would anyone have cared, if Henig hadn't transitioned, and continued beating women? Thomas has broken no national or international records. She simply swam during some slow years in the women's division, in her categories. Kate Douglass broke 18 national records, but people preferred to blather on endlessly about Lia. Those people are the ones detracting from the accomplishments of a birth certificate certified female, by focusing on nonsense. The makers of the movie admittedly refused to go through the transitioning process that would actually allow them to qualify as women. It's a completely dishonest movie. Nobody is transitioning, just to beat women. Hardly anyone is doing it. So, what's your big issue with it?
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  3868.  @gnubbiersh647  Yes, my reply is gone. Guess YouTube didn't like something. You can likely find it if you sort the comment section by newest, and refind this thread.
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  3869.  @gnubbiersh647  Sorry to hear about the difficulty you have in reading and comprehending more than a couple sentences.
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  3870.  @gnubbiersh647  The YouTube algorithm has been hounding me for the past 6 months, because it didn't like what I was saying about IL, dingus. Nothing to do with you.
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  3871.  @gnubbiersh647  Matt Walsh: "I don't care about women's sports" Why do you keep inventing a different argument?
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  3872.  @gnubbiersh647  The "opinion" in the movie this OP is about? ... And that Matt helped create? ... Is that there are people who pretend to be women, just to win at sports. Meanwhile, the people in the movie admittedly refused to go through enough of the transitioning process necessary to actually qualify to compete in women's sports. The "opinion" portrayed in the movie is just a big lie. That one?
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  3873.  @gnubbiersh647  Why ignore the fact that there are also trans men out there, beating birth certificate certified males, in sports? Lia Thomas was beaten by a trans man, Iszac Henig, before Henig transitioned. The two effectively swapped leagues. Would anyone have cared, if Henig hadn't transitioned, and continued beating women? Thomas has broken no national or international records. She simply swam during some slow years in the women's division, in her categories. Meanwhile, Kate Douglass broke 18 national records, has won 11 world golds, but people preferred to prattling on endlessly about Lia. It's people like Matt, detracting from the accomplishments of birth certificate certified females, by focusing on nonsense.
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  3874.  @gnubbiersh647  Why ignore the fact that there are also trans men out there, beating birth certificate certified males, in sports? Lia Thomas was beaten by a trans man, Iszac Henig, before Henig transitioned. The two effectively swapped leagues. Would anyone have cared, if Henig hadn't transitioned, and continued winning against women? Thomas has broken no national or international records. She simply swam during some slow years in the women's division, in her categories. Meanwhile, Kate Douglass broke 18 national records, won 11 world golds, but people preferred to go on endlessly about Lia. It's people like Matt, detracting from the accomplishments of birth certificate certified females, by focusing on nonsense.
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  3875.  @gnubbiersh647  Lia Thomas was beaten by a trans man, Iszac Henig, before Henig transitioned. The two effectively swapped leagues. Thomas has broken no national or international records. She simply swam during some slow years in the women's division, in those categories. Meanwhile, Kate Douglass broke 18 national records, won 11 world golds, but people like Matt preferred to go on endlessly about Lia. I think it's people like Matt, detracting from the accomplishments of birth certificate certified females, by focusing on something irrelevant.
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  3876.  @gnubbiersh647  Rofl. So, you don't want to address the original topic, Matt "I don't care about women's sports" Walsh and friends just being trolls. You don't want to address Matt and friends being liars. And now you have a problem with using an example Matt has talked about repeatedly, and couldn't even muster up an actual response to the point. Ah well ...
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  3877.  @gnubbiersh647  What did my final point, that you failed to address, have to do with the movie?
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  3878.  @gnubbiersh647  Ironic, since it has been you that has been unwilling to address anything other than a very specific point. And now you won't even address what I said about that specific point, instead just whining about me mentioning a swimmer ... a swimmer Matt has made over a dozen videos/interviews/posts about.
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  3879.  @gnubbiersh647  Have you never heard of using an example? An example the guy we're talking about repeatedly used. The guy whose position you asked me about. Just how daft are you? Matt's favorite example is largely irrelevant. In the finals she got one first, a fifth, and an eighth. So what? It is the people who spent all their time rambling on about her, that ignored and detracted from one of the US' best female swimmers ever. Now you don't even want to talk about Matt's opinions, at all. Carry on moving the goalposts.
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  3880.  @gnubbiersh647  And then you failed to address the fact that Matt's favorite example is largely irrelevant ... 32nd in the 2021-22 NCAA rankings. And yet, Matt still kept ranting about her, even over a year after she was done competing. Likely still is. So, I've covered that he's contradictory ("I don't care", but I'll do constant videos, interviews, posts, and even a movie on the topic), that he's a concern troll, that he's a liar (you can't just dress up and compete in women's sports on a whim), and that he rants about largely irrelevant nonsense. My take is basically that ... that contradictory, dishonest, hypocrites, are making a big todo over nothing. Have you actually made a point about anything, yourself, Mr Contradictory, who doesn't want to limit the conversation, but wants to limit the conversation? Oh, yes ... that there are men's and women's categories. How observant.
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  3881.  @gnubbiersh647  And then you failed to address the fact that Matt's favorite example is largely irrelevant ... 32nd in the 2021-22 NCAA rankings. And yet, Matt still kept ranting about her, even over a year after she was done competing. Likely still is. So, I've covered that he's contradictory ("I don't care", but I'll do constant videos, interviews, posts, and even a movie on the topic), that he's a concern troll, that he's a liar (you can't just dress up and compete in women's sports on a whim), and that he rants about largely irrelevant nonsense. And yet, you keep saying I'm the one having a limited conversation. Meanwhile, you've provided zero actual rebuttals, to any of those, and have just whined about me talking about them. My take is basically that ... that contradictory, dishonest, hypocrites, are making a big todo over nothing. Have you actually made a point about anything, yourself, Mr Contradictory, who doesn't want to limit the conversation, but wants to limit the conversation? Oh, yes ... that there are both men's and women's categories. How observant. And that there's a reason. There's also a reason why you actually have to begin the transition process, to compete as a woman.
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  3882.  @gnubbiersh647  What issue did you raise? "Reasons" isn't much of an argument. Like I said, there are also "reasons" why you can't just throw on a wig and compete in women's sports. Why do you think "reasons" is a valid argument for one thing, but not another? Try not being a hypocrite. I didn't dance around anything. You're just whining about my answer. Where were all the complaints, when Chris Mosier took the possible spot of a birth certificate male, on Team USA? A birth certificate female, who transitioned to a man, was the one who changed Olympic gender policy. And, what's the big problem?
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  3883.  @gnubbiersh647  And the reason you can't just throw on a wig, and go compete against women.
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  3884.  @gnubbiersh647  Because, as I already stated before, you have to be actually going through the transition, and have been taking female hormones for some time, first. Remember? When I pointed out Matt and friends were admittedly dishonest about their movie? You just ignored it, and whined about me talking about it.
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  3885.  @gnubbiersh647  How doesn't it? Thomas lost about 15 seconds from transitioning. The difference between men's records and women's records are often smaller than that.
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  3886.  @gnubbiersh647  How are recorded times "opinion"? Thomas had dropped in 2019-20, when forced to keep swimming in the men's, after having started HRT.
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  3887.  @gnubbiersh647  What if they do? Do you think there will magically be no difference, after years of HRT, just because it wasn't recorded? Again, your memory is as poor as your processing.
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  3888.  @gnubbiersh647  Why not? Since it's obviously clear that even obsessed, hate filled, dishonest, maroons, won't go through HRT, just to win ... what's the big deal?
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  3889.  @gnubbiersh647  Why not? Since it's obviously clear that even obsessed, hate filled, dishonest, pea brains, won't go through HRT, just to win ... what's the big deal?
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  3890.  @gnubbiersh647  Since Matt and friends helped prove that even obsessed, hate filled, dishonest, grifters, won't go through HRT, just to win ... what's the big deal?
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  3891.  @gnubbiersh647  Sad, that you don't grasp the use of examples very well.
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  3892.  @gnubbiersh647  I'll take your whining as a no.
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  3893.  @gnubbiersh647  You know they originally wanted to do a documentary, but they couldn't get any guys to go through HRT, just so they could beat women at sports, right? Then, they did their dishonest fiction.
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  3894.  @gnubbiersh647  Ben Shapiro: "I originally suggested to the Crain boys that they do this as a doc. I originally went to them and said 'You guys should go try out for a bunch of ladies leagues', and that became not possible because, as it turns out, most ladies leagues don't allow in actual men. And, they weren't willing to go the full distance, of what it would require ... you know the actual hormone treatments required to play in the ladies leagues." The reason it was a dishonest fiction, was because the guys were unwilling to go through HRT, just to beat women at sports. Again ... do you have any examples of men who have gone through HRT, for the sole purpose of winning at sports?
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  3895. Yes, people doing things wrong don't tend to tell, and yet many still manage to be exposed. Weird, that you've never heard of that happening. There are some on the news every day. None taking hormones just to win a trophy, I guess. It's a fine argument, since they had much more to gain, than an athlete in some low earnings sport. Well, that's because you're not very bright. The point is that the likelihood someone would take hormones, grow breasts, gain ED, etc., just to win a trophy, is pretty low. Meaning, what we're talking about is trans women, who genuinely want to be women, who just happen to play a sport, and who will remain a woman long after they're done competing. A tiny minority of a tiny minority. Not some massive wave of men in wigs, that are coming to take over women's sports. You: "Waaaah, waaaah, I came to a video about Matt Walsh, and to a thread about Lady Ballers, and someone has the gaul to mention them!!! Waaaah! Waaaah!" That would be one example more than you, correct? And, it's a fine example. The entire point was to pick the one all the transphobes have been going on about. Their "strongest" example. She happened to win in a slow year. She wouldn't have won a couple years earlier. She would have been absolutely annihilated, by 9 seconds, a few years before that. She broke no NCAA, national, or international records. How many examples would you like to talk about, from the zero trans Olympic medalists in 20 years? From any of the other trans athletes, that even the transphobes didn't think helped their case, so didn't talk about? You've provided zero examples of what we're supposed to be so terrified of, and zero examples anyone doing it simply to game the system.
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  3896.  @gnubbiersh647  Yes, people doing things wrong don't tend to tell, and yet many still manage to be exposed. Weird, that you've never heard of that happening. There are some on the news every day. None taking hormones just to win a trophy, I guess. It's a fine argument, since they had much more to gain, than an athlete in some low earnings sport. Well, that's because you're a little slow. The point is that the likelihood someone would take hormones, grow breasts, gain ED, etc., just to win a trophy, is pretty low. Meaning, what we're talking about is trans women, who genuinely want to be women, who just happen to play a sport, and who will remain a woman long after they're done competing. A tiny minority of a tiny minority. Not some massive wave of men in wigs, that are coming to take over women's sports. You: "Waaaah, waaaah, I came to a video about Matt Walsh, and to a thread about Lady Ballers, and someone has the gaul to mention them!!! Waaaah! Waaaah!" That would be one example more than you, correct? And, it's a fine example. The entire point was to pick the one all the transphobes have been going on about. Their "strongest" example. She happened to win in a slow year. She wouldn't have won a couple years earlier. She would have been absolutely annihilated, by 9 seconds, a few years before that. She broke no NCAA, national, or international records. How many examples would you like to talk about, from the zero trans Olympic medalists in 20 years? From any of the other trans athletes, that even the transphobes didn't think helped their case, so didn't talk about? You've provided zero examples of what we're supposed to be so terrified of, and zero examples anyone doing it simply to game the system.
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  3897.  @gnubbiersh647   Take 3 ... @gnubbiersh647  Yes, people doing things wrong don't tend to tell, and yet many still manage to be exposed. Weird, that you've never heard of such a thing happening. There are some on the news every day. None taking hormones just to win a trophy, I guess. It's a fine argument, since they had much more to gain, than an athlete in some low earnings sport. Well, that's because you're working with one brain cell. The point is that the likelihood someone would take hormones, grow breasts, gain ED, etc., just to win a trophy, is pretty low. Meaning, what we're talking about is trans women, who genuinely want to be women, who just happen to play a sport, and who will remain a woman long after they're done competing. A tiny minority of a tiny minority. Not some massive wave of men in wigs, that are coming to take over women's sports. You: "Waaaah, waaaah, I came to a video about Matt Walsh, and to a thread about Lady Ballers, and someone has the gaul to mention them!!! Waaaah! Waaaah!" That would be one example more than you, correct? And, it's a fine example. The entire point was to pick the one all the transphobes have been going on about. Their "strongest" example. She happened to win in a slow year. She wouldn't have won a couple years earlier. She would have been absolutely annihilated, by 9 seconds, a few years before that. She broke no NCAA, national, or international records. How many examples would you like to talk about, from the zero trans Olympic medalists in 20 years? From any of the other trans athletes, that even the transphobes didn't think helped their case, so didn't talk about? You've provided zero examples of what we're supposed to be so terrified of, and zero examples anyone doing it simply to game the system.
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  3898.  @gnubbiersh647  Take 4 ... @gnubbiersh647  Yes, people doing things wrong don't tend to tell, and yet many still manage to be exposed. Weird, that you've never heard of such a thing happening. There are some on the news every day. None taking hormones just to win a trophy, I guess. It's a fine argument, since they had much more to gain, than an athlete in some low earnings sport. Well, that's because you're working with the single processor. The point is that the likelihood someone would take hormones, grow breasts, gain ED, etc., just to win a trophy, is pretty low. Meaning, what we're talking about is trans women, who genuinely want to be women, who just happen to play a sport, and who will remain a woman long after they're done competing. A tiny minority of a tiny minority. Not some massive wave of men in wigs, that are coming to take over women's sports. You: "Waaaah, waaaah, I came to a video about Matt Walsh, and to a thread about Lady Ballers, and someone has the gaul to mention them!!! Waaaah! Waaaah!" That would be one example more than you, correct? And, it's a fine example. The entire point was to pick the one all the transphobes have been going on about. Their "strongest" example. She happened to win in a slow year. She wouldn't have won a couple years earlier. She would have been absolutely annihilated, by 9 seconds, a few years before that. She broke no NCAA, national, or international records. How many examples would you like to talk about, from the zero trans Olympic medalists in 20 years? From any of the other trans athletes, that even the transphobes didn't think helped their case, so didn't talk about? You've provided zero examples of what we're supposed to be so terrified of, and zero examples anyone doing it simply to game the system.
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  3899.  @gnubbiersh647  Take 5 ... @gnubbiersh647  Yes, people doing things wrong don't tend to tell, and yet many still manage to be exposed. Weird, that you've never heard of such a thing happening. There are some on the news every day. None taking hormones just to win a trophy, I guess. It's a fine argument, since they had much more to gain, than an athlete in some low earnings sport. Well, that's because you're working with the single processor. The point is that the likelihood someone would take hormones, go through the physical changes, ED, etc., just to win a trophy, is pretty low. Meaning, what we're talking about is trans women, who genuinely want to be women, who just happen to play a sport, and who will remain a woman long after they're done competing. A tiny minority of a tiny minority. Not some massive wave of men in wigs, that are coming to take over women's sports. "Waaaah, waaaah, I came to a video about Matt Walsh, and a thread about Lady Ballers, and someone has the gaul to mention them!!! Waaaah! Waaaah!" That would be one example more than you, correct? And, it's a fine example. The entire point was to pick the one all the transphobes have been going on about. Their "strongest" example. She happened to win in a slow year. She wouldn't have won a couple years earlier. She would have been absolutely annihilated, by 9 seconds, a few years before that. She broke no NCAA, national, or international records. How many examples would you like to talk about, from the zero individual trans Olympic medalists in the 20 years they've been allowed? Or, from any of the other trans athletes, that even the transphobes didn't think helped their case? You've provided zero examples of what we're supposed to be so terrified of, and zero examples anyone doing it simply to game the system.
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  3900.  @gnubbiersh647  Yes, people doing things wrong don't tend to tell, and yet many still manage to be exposed. Weird, that you've never heard of such a thing happening. There are some on the news every day. None taking hormones just to win a trophy, I guess. It's a fine argument, since they had much more to gain, than an athlete in some low earnings sport. Well, that's because you're working with the single processor. The point is that the likelihood someone would take hormones, go through the physical changes, ED, etc., just to win a trophy, is pretty low. Meaning, what we're talking about is trans women, who genuinely want to be women, who just happen to play a sport, and who will remain a woman long after they're done competing. A tiny minority of a tiny minority. Not some massive wave of men in wigs, that are coming to take over women's sports. "Waaaah, waaaah, I came to a video about Matt Walsh, and a thread about Lady Ballers, and someone has the gaul to mention them!!! Waaaah! Waaaah!" That would be one example more than you, correct? And, it's a fine example. The entire point was to pick the one all the transphobes have been going on about. Their "strongest" example. She happened to win in a slow year. She wouldn't have won a couple years earlier. She would have been absolutely annihilated, by 9 seconds, a few years before that. She broke no NCAA, national, or international records. How many other examples would you like to talk about, from the zero individual trans Olympic medalists in the 20 years they've been allowed? Or, from any of the other trans athletes, that haven't won anything? You've provided zero examples of what we're supposed to be so terrified of, and zero examples anyone doing it simply to game the system.
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  3901.  @gnubbiersh647  Rofl! You need a source for people getting caught doing bad things, they were trying to hide? Like say getting caught paying off a porn star? Or the over 250 suspensions for performance enhancing drugs, since 2001, in the NFL alone? Just how dim are you, exactly? What are you talking about? That would be the ultimate proof for them. It would make them a crap ton of money, and destroy trans athletes in sports, just like they want, if they could actually beat high end women athletes after a year of HRT. I didn't watch it either. What does Ben's admission have to do with the movie plot? Just how dim are you? Learn to read. Examples of there being an actual problem, dim one. Someone who has gone through at least a year of HRT isn't the same as a man who hasn't, so you can't just compare men to women. Compare trans women to women, and provide some examples of this horrible situation.
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  3902.  @gnubbiersh647  Rofl! You need a source for people getting caught doing bad things, they were trying to hide? Like say getting caught paying off Stormy? Or the over 250 suspensions for performance enhancing drugs, since 2001, in the NFL alone? Just how slow are you, exactly? What are you talking about? That would be the ultimate proof for them. It would make them a crap ton of money, and destroy trans athletes in sports, just like they want ... if they could actually beat high end women athletes after a year of HRT. I didn't watch it either. What does Ben's admission in an interview have to do with needing to watch the movie? Just how slow are you? Learn to read. Examples of there being an actual problem, slow one. Someone who has gone through at least a year of HRT isn't the same as a man who hasn't, so you can't just compare men to women. Compare trans women to women, and provide some examples of this horrible situation.
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  3903.  @gnubbiersh647  You need a source for people getting caught doing bad things, they were trying to hide? Like say getting caught paying off Stormy? Or the over 250 suspensions for performance enhancing drugs, since 2001, in the NFL alone? Just how slow is that single processor of yours? What are you talking about? That would be the ultimate proof for them. It would make them a ton of money, and destroy trans athletes in sports, just like they want ... if they could actually beat high end women athletes after a year of HRT, that is. I didn't watch it either. What does Ben's admission in an interview have to do with needing to watch the movie? A very slow processor. But, do keep whining. Learn to read. Examples of there being an actual problem, slow one. Someone who has gone through at least a year of HRT isn't the same as a man who hasn't, so you can't just compare men to women. Compare trans women to women, and provide some examples of this horrible situation.
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  3904.  @gnubbiersh647   You need a source for people getting caught doing things they were trying to hide? Like say getting caught paying off Stormy? Or the over 250 suspensions for performance enhancing, since 2001, in the NFL alone? Just how slow is that single processor of yours? What are you talking about? That would be the ultimate proof for them. It would make them a ton of money, and destroy trans athletes in sports, just like they want ... if they could actually beat high end women athletes after a year of HRT, that is. I didn't watch it either. What does Ben's admission in an interview have to do with needing to watch the movie? A very slow processor. But, do keep whining. Learn to read. Examples of there being an actual problem, slow one. Someone who has gone through at least a year of HRT isn't the same as a man who hasn't, so you can't just compare men to women. Compare trans women to women, and provide some examples of this horrible situation.
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  3905.  @gnubbiersh647  You need a source for people getting caught doing things they were trying to hide? Like say getting caught paying off Stormy? Or the over 250 suspensions for performance enhancing, since 2001, in the NFL alone? The lights are not on. Is anyone home in there? What are you talking about? That would be the ultimate proof for them. It would make them a ton of money, and destroy trans athletes in sports, just like they want ... if they could actually win against high end women athletes after a year of HRT, that is. I didn't watch it either. What does Ben's admission in an interview have to do with needing to watch the movie? Do keep whining. Reading comprehension is your friend. Examples of there being an actual problem. Someone who has gone through at least a year of HRT isn't the same as a man who hasn't, so you can't just compare men to women. Compare trans women to women, and provide some examples of this horrible situation.
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  3906.  @gnubbiersh647  You need a source for people getting caught doing things they were trying to hide? Like say getting caught paying off Daniels? Or the over 250 suspensions for performance enhancing, since 2001, in the NFL alone? Derp. What are you talking about? That would be the ultimate proof for them. It would make them a ton of money, and destroy trans athletes in sports, just like they want ... if they could actually win against high end women athletes after a year of HRT, that is. I didn't watch it either. What does Ben's admission in an interview have to do with needing to watch the movie? Whine away. Did I say "you said"? Or are you now strawmanning me? Examples of there being an actual issue. Someone who has gone through at least a year of HRT isn't the same as a man who hasn't, so you can't just compare men to women. Compare trans women to women, and provide some examples of what we need to worry about.
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  3907.  @gnubbiersh647  You need a source for people getting caught doing things they were trying to hide? Like say getting caught paying hush money? Or the over 250 suspensions for performance enhancing, since 2001, in the NFL alone? Just how uninformed are you, exactly? What are you talking about? That would be the ultimate proof for them. It would make them a ton of money, and destroy trans athletes in sports, just like they want ... if they could actually win against high end women athletes after a year of HRT, that is. I didn't watch it either. What does Ben's admission in an interview have to do with needing to watch the movie? I've never said anything about it, that would require actually watching it. Ironic. Did I say "you said"? No. Examples of there being an actual issue. Someone who has gone through at least a year of HRT isn't the same as a man who hasn't, so provide some examples of what we need to worry about.
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  3908.  @gnubbiersh647   You need a source for people getting caught doing things they were trying to hide? Like say getting caught paying "legal fees"? Or the over 250 suspensions for performance enhancing, since 2001, in the NFL alone? What are you talking about? That would be the ultimate proof for them. It would make them a ton of money, and destroy trans athletes in sports, just like they want ... if they could actually win against high end women athletes after a year of HRT, that is. I didn't watch it either. What does Ben's admission in an interview have to do with needing to watch the movie? I've never said anything about it, that would require actually watching it. Ironic. Did I say "you said"? No. Examples of there being an actual issue. Someone who has gone through at least a year of HRT isn't the same as someone who hasn't, so provide some examples of what we need to worry about.
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  3909.  @gnubbiersh647   You need a source for people getting caught doing things they were trying to hide? Like say getting caught paying "legal fees"? Or the over 250 suspensions for performance enhancing, since 2001, in the NFL alone? What are you talking about? That would be the ultimate proof for them. It would make them a ton of money, and end trans athletes in sports, just like they want ... if they could actually win against high end women athletes after a year of HRT, that is. I didn't watch it either. What does Ben's admission in an interview have to do with needing to watch the movie? I've never said anything about it, that would require actually watching it. Ironic. Did I say "you said"? No. Examples of there being an actual issue. Someone who has gone through at least a year of HRT isn't the same as someone who hasn't, so provide some examples of what we need to worry about.
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  3910.  @gnubbiersh647  YouTube is being annoying. Not sure what word the algorithm is having a problem with. 1/2: You need a source for people getting caught doing things they were trying to hide? Like say getting caught paying "legal fees"? Or the over 250 suspensions for performance enhancing, since 2001, in the NFL alone? What are you talking about? That would be the ultimate proof for them. It would make them a ton of money, and finish trans athletes in sports, just like they want ... if they could actually win against high end women athletes after a year of HRT, that is. I didn't watch it. What does Ben's admission outside the movie have to do with needing to watch the movie? I've never said anything about it, that would require actually watching it. But do keep whining. Ironic. Did I say "you said"? No.
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  3911.  @gnubbiersh647  YouTube is forcing me to break my reply apart. You need a source for people getting caught doing things they were trying to hide? Like say getting caught paying "legal fees"? Or the over 250 suspensions for performance enhancing, since 2001, in the NFL alone?
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  3912.  @gnubbiersh647  What are you talking about? That would be the ultimate proof for them. It would make them a ton of money, and finish trans athletes in sports, just like they want ... if they could actually win against high end women athletes after a year of HRT, that is. I didn't watch it. What does Ben's admission outside the movie have to do with needing to watch the movie? I've never said anything about it, that would require actually watching it. But do keep whining.
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  3913.  @gnubbiersh647  Ironic. Did I say "you said"? No. Examples of there being an actual issue. Someone who has gone through at least a year of HRT isn't the same as someone who hasn't, so provide some examples of what we need to worry about. Would that be the same Ted Cruz who doesn't understand that there isn't much difference between "little boys" and "little girls"? A complete maroon, who doesn't know that the differences occur with puberty, and that there would actually be no real problem with having prepubescent boys and girls compete against each other. Oh my, a video of 3 girls getting hurt, playing sports. Such a thing has never happened before, in the entire history of women's sports! The horror!
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  3914.  @gnubbiersh647  Ironic. Did I say "you said"? No.
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  3915.  @gnubbiersh647  Examples of there being an actual issue. Someone who has gone through at least a year of HRT isn't the same as someone who hasn't, so provide some examples of what we need to worry about.
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  3916.  @gnubbiersh647  Would that be the same Ted Cruz who doesn't understand that there isn't much difference between "little boys" and "little girls"? A complete maroon, who doesn't know that the differences occur with puberty, and that there would actually be no real problem with having prepubescent boys and girls compete against each other. Oh my, a video of 3 girls getting hurt, playing sports. Such a thing has never happened before, in the entire history of women's sports! The horror!
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  3917.  @gnubbiersh647  Would that be the same Ted Cruz who doesn't understand that there isn't much difference between "little boys" and "little girls"? A complete maroon, who doesn't know that the differences occur with puberty, and that there would actually be no real problem with having prepubescent boys and girls compete against each other.
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  3918.  @gnubbiersh647  Would that be the same Ted Cruz who doesn't understand that there isn't much difference between "little boys" and "little girls"? A complete dingus, who doesn't know that the differences occur with puberty, and that there would actually be no real problem with having prepubescent boys and girls compete against each other.
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  3919.  @gnubbiersh647  Oh my, a video of 3 girls getting hurt, playing sports. Such a thing has never happened before, in the entire history of women's sports! The horror!
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  3920.  @gnubbiersh647  You address the other stuff I wrote.
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  3921.  @gnubbiersh647  What? Are your reading comprehension problems surfacing again?
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  3922.  @gnubbiersh647  Go tell YouTube to be normal. It kept hiding my reply, until I broke it up. I did address what you said, point by point.
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  3923.  @gnubbiersh647  What part? You dishonestly pretending that no anti-trans people are arguing that trans women are doing it just to win? Idiotic politicians have even argued that kids' coaches will start encouraging boys to transition, just to win.
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  3924.  @Wiffernubbin  That's nice. And their leader still became a Likud PM. Who were the tens of thousands of fghtrs they were promising the actual Grmn Nzs they tried to ally with? The Irgun, who you ignored?
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  3925. @nish Nope.
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  3926. @nish Nope. India dowry deaths per year: 2020 6,966 2019 7,141 2018 7,167 2017 7,466 2016 7,621 2015 7,634 2014 8,455 2013 8,083 2012 8,233 2011 8,618 2010 8,391 2005 6,787 Women Peace and Security Index: Saudi 102/170 India 148/170 UNICEF India: "Estimates suggest that each year, at least 1.5 million girls under 18 get married in India, which makes it home to the largest number of child brides in the world - accounting for a third of the global total." United Nations: "India accounts for 45.8 million of the world's 142.6 million "missing females" over the past 50 years, a report by the United Nations said on Tuesday, noting that the country along with China form the majority of such women globally."
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  3927.  @jennyanydots2389  That's when the fat in your brain can no longer register ls.
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  3928.  @TomFranklinX  Try looking up "Crowder Confronts". He has ambushed and harassed someone at their workplace, and refused to leave when the person's employer asked them to. He has gone on Rogan, making out like he's some kind of pro debater that the left is afraid to debate, all while dodging debates himself. He has had multiple people on his show with under a million subs. The debate still would have been on the H3 channel, with the same number of H3 subs and viewers. All the excuses to run away were pure bullshit.
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  3929. ​ @stefansollberger5658  Israel is objectively the aggressor by every relevant measure, dumb dumb. They're the colonizers. Colonizers are never not the aggressors.
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  3930.  @joekopsick1540  Oh geezus. Are you really so dumb, you think it's all or nothing? 100% free or 0% free?
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  3931.  @joekopsick1540  Libertarianism has been done, before, dumb dumb. It didn't benefit most people. Only the rich got to go to school, unless the area had some kind of charity school. People needed a sponsor to get healthcare. Kids were working and climbing inside heavy machinery. Companies didn't care what they did to the environment. Companies used union busters and didn't give a crap about their employees. Poor old people had nothing to fall back on. Etc. Etc. Etc. Government regulations came about exactly because right libertarianism sucked ass. Ancap has been done, as well. It devolves into feudalism.
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  3932.  @elconquistador5469  Uh huh. "In the past, corporate profit growth accounted for maybe a third of inflation. But a report from the Kansas City Fed found that nearly 60% of inflation in 2021 was because of corporate profits."
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  3933.  @generationofswine-ge5rw  Yeah, Republicans are whining about egg prices, meanwhile the largest supplier had a 700% profit increase, and literally lost a court case over their price gauging.
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  3934.  @robinsss  Rofl, you could have just stuck that quote into Google.
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  3935.  @elconquistador5469  What are you blathering about? The inflation rate is back below the long term average. If you're expecting prices to actually go down, then you're a complete and utter moron. That only happens during a major recession or depression. Is that what Trumpty Dumpty is going to provide?
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  3936.  @DUDEBroHey  No what's not, dumb dumb?
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  3937.  @DUDEBroHey  This? "US Inflation Rate is at 3.14%, compared to 3.24% last month and 7.11% last year. This is lower than the long term average of 3.28%."
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  3938. ​ @josephversleys  I highly doubt that a story about two male penguins, or whatever, describes any sex acts, dimwit.
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  3939. ​ @maxxwellbeing9449  You are incoherent. You say they cross the line, then you say they're fine as long as they don't cross the line ... but you already admitted they do cross the line. Anyone non-religious, or even a different religion (conservative Jew or Muslims), or even denomination (conservative Mormons or Catholics), than the people leading a push for a Puritan theocracy, and supports them, is objectively stupid. Once you help them achieve their goal, you're also screwed.
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  3940.  @X2LR8  US History 101: Protesting, and even rioting, against extra taxes that specifically funded the red coats (police/military) = anti-authoritarian. Fighting against democracy to keep an unelected ruler in power (King George Trumpty Dumpty) = authoritarian. The only people who incited protests against police, were the police themselves, by killing people.
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  3941.  @CrudeBeach  *"slandering" Reading comprehension problems, dumb dumb?
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  3942.  @amandamcgovern5744  Yeah, sure, just words slandering her as a traitor, or just a funny "joke" meme depicting killing her, right?
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  3943. ​ @matthewjames2565  Who do you think she was talking about, when she was talking about prominent establishment members mobilizing against her, when things looked too close for their liking?
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  3944. The Christian end of days scenario has them taking the mount and building a new temple, first. Then the second coming and Armageddon happens. Ironically, Israel is the first nation destroyed, in their fairy tale ending. Israel's Christian "supporters" are actually trying to hurry it to its destruction.
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  3945.  @Christiangjf  *"pure blooded" Weird how they benefit the far right more than the left.
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  3946. The FBI aren't uniformed cops, and do go undercover sometimes. Why would they want their names and faces plastered everywhere, so that every criminal in the area knows them to see them?
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  3947. "Fscsm is the complete opposite of Marxian sclsm." ~ Mussolini Marx's ideal was for a stateless, non-authoritarian, direct democracy, form of socialism. The complete opposite is an ultra-nationalistic, authoritarian, anti-democratic, form of crony capitalism. Republicans have been riding the line, for decades, but in 2020 they turned from somewhat undemocratic to all out anti-democratic.
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  3948.  @TheAtemiles  Can they debate about how someone could be so stupid as to think soccer is unamerican, simply because there aren't enough Americans good enough to play at high levels?
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  3949. So ... Let Trump win, him support IL harder, him let Rvssia do to Ukraine what IL is doing to Palestine, him possibly fill 2 more SCOTUS spots, and all the other horrible domestic policies. There's no presidential quick fix, here. There's enough support in congress to override any presidential veto. It's going to take public pressure, and Republicans pass laws to legalize driving over protesters, and calls to categorize protesters (BLM) as terrorists.
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  3950. Nobody learned anything from the first Iraq war, when a PR firm made up a story ... to sell intervention to congress ... about Iraqis dumping babies out of incubators, and taking the incubators. The star witness, claiming to be a nurse who was at the scene, turned out to be the daughter of the Kuwait ambassador to the US. There ended up being no evidence that actually ever happened. Nor did they learn from the second Iraq war, and the WMD story.
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  3951.  @jamescooke7243  He's an established psychologist, who completely bullshitted the public about a law he had actually been living and working under, at the provincial level, for years. An established psychologist who lied to the public about his grifting daughter's all meat diet getting him off drugs ... not long before having to be put in a coma, to get him off drugs. An established psychologist, running his own grift about rules for life, while not following the rules himself. He's a joke.
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  3952.  @SnakeWasRight  Apple seeds contain cyanide. Apples contain "poison". So, you'd agree that traditional masculinity is indeed toxic?
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  3953.  @SnakeWasRight  It is traditional masculinity which has promoted that men shouldn't show certain emotions. Again, you seem to be calling that "toxic". You're disagreeing with Peterson, while apparently not grasping why people are mocking him. You're so close to getting it.
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  3954.  @JohnBender1313  Traditional masculinity had men suppressing emotions. Is that toxic, or not? Peterson fans can't seem to make up their minds. If not, quit whining.
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  3955.  @JohnBender1313  What a load of bullshit. There has been a large problem with men not seeking physical or mental health services, regularly and promptly, exactly because they were conditioned to suppress that they might feel weak, in some way. You're rewriting history.
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  3956.  @mina319  You dimwits don't seem to grasp that it's directed at a specific individual, who promotes traditional masculinity, which has included expecting men to suppress certain emotions. Is it toxic, or not? Make up your minds.
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  3957.  @mina319  "Masculinity isn't toxic" Why do men tend to seek mental and physical healthcare less than women? Traditional masculinity conditioned men to avoid looking "weak", by suppressing sharing certain emotions, and ignoring aches and pains. Either that's toxic, Peterson is wrong, and is deserving of mockery, or it's not, and you should just suck up the mocking. Take your pick.
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  3958.  @DaVizzle_Bro  Yeah, not like there are numerous papers, written about the stigma surrounding men and mental health.
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  3959.  @mina319  Traditional masculinity has conditioned men to suppress certain emotions, and not seek help. It's all well documented. It's the very thing Peterson is apparently crying about. What's the cause?
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  3960.  @goshdang2114  What is the cause of the very thing Peterson is apparently crying about? What is the cause of men resorting to suicide, drink, or drugs, rather than seek mental healthcare?
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  3961.  @goshdang2114  What the ...? Slavery, and all kinds of shitty stuff, deserving of zero respect, lasted thousands of years. That's a dumb reason to show something respect. It's largely social, because women tend to have less money than men, and yet still seek help more. And that "social" aspect is traditional standards of masculinity. It's all well and good if you want to redefine masculinity, but then you're basically admitting the previous definition was bad. But, then Peterson is telling modern men that women would be happier at home, having babies, filling their heads with the same old misogynistic bullshit that's not going to fly with most modern women. Telling them workplace sexual harassment is basically the woman's fault, for wearing makeup and high heels ... victim blaming. Etc. Giving them this shit view about women, and then basically blaming women for not picking them. Or, blaming the pill for women picking less masculine men. What's a less masculine man, if blubbering in interviews is masculine? He's incoherent.
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  3962.  @DaVizzle_Bro  "American men are subjected to a culture where the standards of masculinity are literally killing them. One of the factors that contributes to the underuse of seeking professional help is masculinity norms. Masculine norms are the social rules and expected behavior associated with men and manhood within a given culture (Milner et al., 2018)."
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  3963.  @mina319  Rofl. He promotes traditional masculinity, ffs. Does traditional masculinity include conditioning men to suppress their emotions, or not? Plenty of evidence it does.
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  3964.  @goshdang2114  Yes, they're traditional. As far back as the Civil War, there were American doctors writing about those suffering "nostalgia" (PTSD), claiming it affected only those of weak minds, and that public ridicule was the cure. During WWI, many men suffering "shell shock" (PTSD) were tossed back on the front lines within days. They aren't only hurting men now. Those norms have always hurt men. Suicide spiked during the Great Depression, when many men had a hard time providing for their families, or lost everything they had. With society changing, and women becoming more independent, there are now more ways men can lose everything, or never get what they actually want. They need help adapting to the modern world, help evolving with the times, not "advice" from some nimrod stuck in the 1950s, who thinks the changes in the 60s were awful.
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  3965.  @MrLooktotheeast  Ironic.
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  3966.  @mina319  Zero dodge. Men not dealing with certain emotions, not dealing with physical and mental health issues in a timely fashion, is fairly well documented. That's how men were conditioned. They were taught that's what it means to be a man, to be masculine. Either that's toxic, or it's not. Pick one.
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  3967. Anti-Nazi didn't equate to anti-German, dumb dumb. Israel is objectively the aggressor, by every relevant measure... Modern history: 100 years ago, in 1923, Ze'ev Jabotinsky fully acknowledged that Zionism is colonialism, and that, based on the entirety of history, the natives would fight it until the bitter end. He just didn't care what would happen to them, and promoted doing it anyway. Colonizers are never not the aggressors. On top of the colonialist nature of Zionism, the Zionists also formed terrorist organizations, like the Irgun and Lehi. They bombed many Palestinian markets and other public places, murdering many civilians, including children, even including Palestinian Jews (who opposed Zionism). Israel merged those terrorists into the new nation's military and intelligence agencies. Israelis elected Menachem Begin, leader of the Irgun, child murderer, Jew murderer, and bomber of the King David Hotel, as PM. Israelis, to this day, celebrate those terrorists as "heroes". Zionists literally taught their neighbours that terrorism is a valid path to independence and statehood, and that terrorists are to be celebrated. In 1945, it is well documented that Zionists owned just 5% of the land and were a majority nowhere. Israel was formed by actually going against the majority population. It's foundation is completely undemocratic. Then, becoming a majority, in "their" new nation, by ethnic cleansing the actual majority, and then claiming to be democratic, is utter nonsense. Law: Israel is considered an occupier by the International Court, the UN GA, and the UN SC. Occupiers are also never not the aggressors. Those occupied actually have a right to resist occupation. On the flip side, it is illegal for the occupier to settle occupied lands, and illegal to use collective punishment. Israel is a rogue nation, that doesn't abide by international law. What it has been doing, and is doing now, is illegal. Current events: This year, alone, prior to Oct 7 ... Israel held over 1200 Palestinian hostages without charges ... over 200 Palestinians had been killed by the IDF and settlers ... over 1000 Palestinians had been displaced by Israel's neverending colonization of the West Bank ... and, Israel continued to operate an open air WWII style fascist ghetto, in Gaza. Even ignoring modern history and law, in no reality did Hamas "start" anything.
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  3968. Bullshit. Many of his viewers/commenters seem to be right wingers that enjoy listening to him bash even the most progressive Democrats.
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  3969.  @Manageode  "Many" =/= "average".
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  3970.  @Manageode  I, literally, just provided a link with dozens of them commenting that they like Jimmy, and hundreds of likes indicating there are hundreds more.
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  3971.  @Manageode  *has (not "is") Shove your strawmen.
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  3972.  @Manageode  This took all of 2 min to find on his last video ... Nick Savage Exactly! The "squad" are a bunch of show boat Twitter dishrags. Snd Bernie just cares about one thing....his bank account. Jimmy speaks for me, and I'm a Trumper Bobby Alan @Nick Savage same here, I’d vote for Trump a 3rd time if I could. But Jimmy speaks 100% for me.
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  3973.  @gunz300  The point is he's not moving the Overton window by constantly trashing those closest to his own position. He's just bringing in Trump fascists that enjoy listening to him spend most of his time trashing progressives and Democrats.
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  3974.  @Evirthewarrior  If it was the establishment that wanted AOC and Bernie campaigning to try and get Nina Turner (who Dore abandoned) elected, then maybe the establishment isn't so bad. Pretty sure the establishment was supporting Nina's opponent though, which puts AOC and Bernie opposed to the establishment.
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  3975. Exactly. It's the Zionism that was based on a fairy tale "right to the land". The natives are just resisting colonialism, as all natives have, throughout history.
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  3976. ​ @archaicsage4803  Name one.
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  3977.  @Hoobyj  A VAT doesn't actually tax businesses. Since it won't truly tax Amazon, and since Amazon's share of US consumer spending is 2%, handing US consumers $3t will only make Amazon an extra $60b a year. That would, in turn, make Bezos something like $6b extra a year. He could buy a new billion dollar yacht every year, pay $100m in VAT, and still be in the plus $5.9b from Yang's VAT/UBI scheme. Walmart's share of US consumer spending is 2.8%. That'd make them an extra $80+b a year. That'd make the Waltons extra billions a year more than they'd pay into a VAT. Etc. The companies could invest those extra tens of billions a year into automating faster, and leaving you trying to live on $12k a year even sooner. If the plan doesn't make corporations pay in, you'll be shooting your own dumbass self in the foot.
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  3978. Might be working from home, after baby.
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  3979. You don't want a third party, unless Republicans also have a major split. That's just a recipe for decades, or more, of Republican rule. Conservatives, in Canada, shouldn't win anywhere outside of 2 provinces. But, they do, with only 34-40% of the vote, due to Liberal and NDP (or BQ in Quebec) vote splitting. It would be even worse, in the US, because Republicans get 43-48% of the vote.
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  3980. ​ @barbaraklein3944  Likud's bloody 100 year history ... In 1923, 100 years ago, Ze'ev Jabotinsky wrote, The Iron Wall, and a follow up, The Ethics of The Iron Wall (sooo racist towards Africans), in which he fully acknowledged that post Balfour Zionsim was colonialism, and that, based on the entirety of history, the native Palestinian population would resist being colonized until the bitter end. He directly compared it to the colonization of North America. He promoted doing it anyway, claiming Zionist colonialism was a "just" colonialism (he also thought North American colonialists were good guys, so not a great judge of morality), not caring what that meant for the native population. Ze'ev is important, because his Betar militant youth group helped found the Irgun terrorist group, along with other supporters of his, and the splinter Lehi terrorist group. The Irgun bombed numerous Palestinian markets and other public places, murdering many Palestinian civilians, including children, even including Palestinian Jews (who didn't support colonialist Zionsim). The Irgun are important, because they ended up being led by future Likud PM, Menachem Begin, who bombed the King David Hotel. The King David Hotel was bombed because the British had raided the Jewish Agency and seized numerous documents that may have shown that the terrorists were working with the JA and Haganah (JA liked to pretend that they didn't support the terrorism). The British then stored those documents at their base, in the hotel. That the Irgun terrorists responded to a JA raid, itself seems to prove the connection. That the thousands of Irgun (and Lehi) terrorists were also quickly merged into the new nation's military (IDF) and intelligence (Mossad) agencies, and are still celebrated as "heroes" by Israelis, to this day, also seems to support total collaboration between the groups. That other terrorist group mentioned, Lehi (also known as the Stern Gang), was considered even more extreme. They even tried to ally with the Nazis, against the British. Lehi ended up being led by Yitzhak Shamir, future Mossad agent, and another future Likud PM. In 1945, there was a major land and peoples survey done in Palestine. It showed that the Zionists only owned about 5% of the total land, 20% of the arable land, and owned a majority in zero districts. The partition was not only going to be forced on the native Palestinian majority, but Jews were still going to be a minority, in the part allocated to them. The only possible way to even become a "Jewish state" was going to require getting rid of the actual majority (at least enough so that there'd be a solid Jewish majority, so they could fake being democratic). This is also shown by the 1948, post Nakba, population of Israel. If there was 716,700 Jews, 156,000+ non-Jews, and approximately 700k non-Jews ethnically cleansed, that means the Jewish population, in the Zionist portion of partition, was originally over 100,000 less than the non-Jewish population. To believe that there was never any intent, by Zionists, to ethnically cleanse away the Palestinian majority would require believing that they never intended to create a "Jewish state". It's a nonsensical notion. Begin, and those terrorist groups, also opposed partition, but for the opposite reason Palestinians did. Palestinians didn't want to be colonized, at all. The terrorists wanted to colonize it all. "Moderate" Zionists were okay with colonizing half ... for now (what would happen in the future, after partition, was up to them, said Ben-Gurion). The Zionist terrorists were also involved in massacres, and assassinations, during the partition violence (colonialist war against the natives). Another notable future Likud PM, also started in the military, during the partition fighting. That was Ariel Sharon, war criminal, "Butcher of Beirut". Menachem Begin, and these other Zionist terrorists, are important because they also later founded Likud. Now, people get upset over the slogan "From the river to the sea!", but it's the second part that's most important, "Palestine will be free!". Because "Palestine" isn't defined as an ethno-state, a free Palestine can be a single state, free for all to live in, and return to, free of continuing colonization, free of occupation, free of oppression, etc. Just like a Germany free of Nazism, an Italy free of fascism, a South Africa free of apartheid, or an America free of slavery from sea to shiny sea. It doesn't necessitate purging all the Jews. It just necessitates them giving up on the idea of an ethno-state. On the other hand, because "Israel" has been defined as an ethno-state, Likud's, "between the sea and the Jordan there will only be Israeli sovereignty", has no possible good interpretation. It is a declaration of intent to completely colonize, and ethnically cleanse, all Palestine territories. Not only that, but it also claims that they have a "right" to all of the "Land of Israel" (biblical borders that don't mesh with archaeological reality), which is an open declaration of future wars, against Jordan, Syria, Lebanon, and possibly even Iraq. Likud platform ... 1977: "The Right of the Jewish People to the Land of Israel (Eretz Israel) a. The right of the Jewish people to the land of Israel is eternal and indisputable and is linked with the right to security and peace; therefore, Judea and Samaria will not be handed to any foreign administration; between the Sea and the Jordan there will only be Israeli sovereignty. b. A plan which relinquishes parts of western Eretz Israel, undermines our right to the country, unavoidably leads to the establishment of a "Palestinian State," jeopardizes the security of the Jewish population, endangers the existence of the State of Israel. and frustrates any prospect of peace." "Settlement Settlement. both urban and rural. in all parts of the Land of Israel is the focal point of the Zionist effort to redeem the country, to maintain vital security areas and serves as a reservoir of strength and inspiration for the renewal of the pioneering spirit. The Likud government will call on the younger generation in Israel and the dispersions to settle and help every group and individual in the task of inhabiting and cultivating the wasteland, while taking care not to dispossess anyone." 1999: "The Government of Israel flatly rejects the establishment of a Palestinian Arab state west of the Jordan river. The Palestinians can run their lives freely in the framework of self-rule, but not as an independent and sovereign state. Thus, for example, in matters of foreign affairs, security, immigration, and ecology, their activity shall be limited in accordance with imperatives of Israel's existence, security and national needs." "The Jewish communities in Judea, Samaria, and Gaza are the realization of Zionist values. Settlement of the land is a clear expression of the unassailable right of the Jewish people to the Land of Israel and constitutes an important asset in the defense of the vital interests of the State of Israel. The Likud will continue to strengthen and develop these communities and will prevent their uprooting." All Palestine territories are officially considered occupied, by the International Court of Justice, the UN GA, the UN SC, and even in official documents of Israel's own allies. Likud is still using the blueprint for colonizing North America, in the West Bank. Move settlements out into native territory, piss off the natives, the natives retaliate, cry about poor "innocent" colonizing settlers being the "victims" of violent "Savages!", call in the cavalry to put down the native uprising, and eventually expand the borders to include those settlements. Rinse and repeat. In Gaza, they are operating an open air WWII style fascist ghetto. Them claiming a "right to defend themselves" would be like the Nazis claiming a "right to defend themselves " from the Warsaw ghetto uprising. There's no "war". That they're the occupiers means the "war" part is long over. That partition was forced upon the Palestinian majority, against their will ... that the Zionist portion still had to be forcefully ethnically cleansed of its non-Jewish majority, against their will ... that the millions of occupied Palestinians don't have a say in the government that truly rules over them, Israel's ... means Israel is about as democratic as Nazi Germany after Hitler purged his political opponents and then held elections. Hamas is basically just a poor man's Likud, only fighting against colonialism, instead of for colonialism.
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  3981. Try reading The Iron Wall, by Ze'ev Jabotinsky, 1923.
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  3982.  @CyberDandy  The only actual "revision" was from pre-mandate immigration Zionism, to post-mandate colonialist Zionism. Labor Zionists ended up embracing colonialism, and further, promoted the colonization of occupied territories.
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  3983. Also, his argument about being treated "equally" is sometimes exactly what systemic racism is. For example, NYC was stopping and frisking blacks and whites in equal numbers. That means that they were actually stopping and frisking blacks at almost double the rate of whites. The vast majority of charges were for marijuana possession, something blacks and whites do equally. That means that blacks were being charged at almost double the rate of whites, for the same crime. And, that is in a 3 strike state. So, the system was stopping and frisking, charging, and incarcerating, blacks at almost double the rate of whites, for the same crime. The system is stripping them of voter rights, at double the rate. The system might be breaking up families, destroying futures, etc., at double the rate.
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  3984. ​ @DustyFieldz  A crack house is where the crack heads live and do their crack, m@r@n. It's not where the stuff is manufactured.
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  3985. These butt hurt man babies, who Brie Larson hurt the feelings of, promoted the alternate "Captain Marvel", Shazam, while promoting boycotting her Captain Marvel ... which failed. Shazam 2 also had the worst ever DCEU box office. Soooo, their choice for an "anti-woke" alternative has also failed, killing his point.
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  3986. Yeah, need context. Just saw her being interviewed and defending Emma Watson ... "Citing a report by Human Rights Watch claiming Israel is committing the crimes of apartheid and persecution, the artists, including Watson’s Harry Potter co-stars Miriam Margolyes and Julie Christie, continued: “We recognise the underlying power imbalance between Israel, the occupying power, and the Palestinians, the people under a system of military occupation and apartheid. “We stand against ongoing Israeli attempts to forcibly displace Palestinian families from their homes in the East Jerusalem neighbourhoods of Sheikh Jarrah, Silwan and elsewhere in the occupied Palestinian territory.”"
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  3987. ​ @wrpatton8900  Yes
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  3988. And abolish the state taxing people to protect property and resource claims? If people want to build on that property, or use those resources, they're free to do so?
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  3989.  @Evirthewarrior  Learn some basic math. There are zero extra votes to be gained to the left of the party, should you start losing votes on the right end of the party. On the other end, there is the entire Republican party to try and draw votes from, should you start losing votes on the left end of the party. It is entirely impossible to pass a bill without Manchin. It is entirely possible to pass a bill without needing progressive votes, by moving a bill far enough right to bring on Republicans. It's magical thinking to believe a handful of progressive have some.massive power and leverage. A protest could just push a bill further right, rather than further left.
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  3990.  @N2264J  Hearings and major debate happen in committees, not on the floor. On the floor, everyone gets a little few minute speech, and then it's voted on. M4A was introduced and died in committees, where 90% of bills die, last session. Pelosi has already reintroduced M4A, and it is sitting in committees again. Committee members is who the pressure should be on to take up the bill. Also, momentum for other things happened for years, even decades, before they were ever voted on. It wasn't a failed performance art vote that created momentum. You have things backwards.
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  3991. Not samesies, dumb dumb.
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  3992. ​ @mikemyers7539  MAGA maroons are currently claiming a boxer, born with a vjj, is a man. You're arguing, yourselves, that vjj products are needed in men's rooms. As well as arguing men can give birth.
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  3993.  @robinsss  Say what? "Libertarian" only equates to the federal level? State and local governments can tax as much as they want and/or be as restrictive as they want? Puritans, that made PDA illegal, burned witches, etc., were "libertarians", simply because they weren't federal? Slave owners were "libertarians" right up until the federal government okayed slavery? That makes zero sense. Look up the headright system, look up William Penn handing out free land in Pennsylvania, look up the US recognizing Spanish land grants after acquiring Florida, as a few examples.
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  3994.  @robinsss  Many were also leaders and representatives of their states, cities, and towns. Those were taxes they didn't revolt over. They didn't create federal laws banning any and all taxes. How is it not representative of what they were and weren't okay with? Did you even try Googling "headright system"?
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  3995.  @treeman5274  Is California controlled by progressive Democrats, or are you pretending all Democrats are samesies? If the later, then it seems like you have the uninformed opinion. I wouldn't suggest that any corporate Dems need to be replaced, if I expected them to pass M4A. If you think I've said corporate Dems don't need replacing, then you have serious reading comprehension problems. The most popular third party hasn't won a single seat in congress in its near 50 year existence. If you think the third party route is the quickest route to getting M4A, then you're clearly delusional. The 30 year old broader progressive caucus, with M4A on their platform, is about 10 seats away from becoming the majority of house Dems. The 4 year old Justice Dems have replaced about a dozen corporate Dems. AOC has been at it 2 years and helped replace a few more corporate Dems. The M4A bill has the most cosponsors it has ever had. Aaaannnd ... Dore and his knobs want to start from scratch with zero seats, zero bills submitted, zero amendments added, and zero votes on even a single bill. Such genius level political moves are hard to comprehend. Did Pelosi get AOC to use her platform and PAC to back 20 other pro-M4A progressives, did she get AOC to back Nina Turner? If so, maybe Pelosi isn't so bad. If not, then maybe making out like AOC is in her pocket is complete bullshit. Ah, so "real" progressives don't want to fund the Global Fund to fight AIDS, TB, and Malaria, that has helped save an estimated 38m lives. Got it. Didn't AOC, Omar, Khanna, and other Dems, join Rand Paul, and other Reps, in urging Dumpty to follow through with his pledge to pull out of Syria and Afghanistan? Biden finally pulled out of Afghanistan, and Dore was bitching about it.
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  3996.  @treeman5274  The house ... you know that the squad Dore knobs keep bitching about belong to ... didn't fail to pass it. The senate did. And, yes, what Dore knobs did with the result clearly shows they're pathetic useless hypocrites.
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  3997. Republicans: We need more kids! Kids come across the border. Republicans: No! Not those kind!
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  3998.  @ynemey1243  Dore literally promoted Trump as the better option over Clinton, exactly because he was so much worse.
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  3999.  @ynemey1243  No. You're pulling crap out of your ass. What do you mean my problem? This was Dore's argument, and he absolutely did not argue Trump was better at anything, as part of it. He argued Trump was much worse than Clinton and, because he was, that was supposed to cause a massive progressive backlash. Dore vastly overestimated the benefits, claiming a Trump presidency would lead to progressives "for sure" taking the house (wrong) and senate (wrong), in 2018, and the presidency (wrong), in 2020. He vastly underestimated the risks, claiming even Republicans would join the left to vote against a Trump presidency (wrong) rather than follow him into outright fascism (wrong), and that Trump filling multiple scotus seats was as likely as the moon falling into Lake Michigan (wrong). He was wrong about it all. He lives in a delusional fantasy world.
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  4000.  @ynemey1243  Rofl, that was no strawman they said. Aside from Dore actually promoting someone he called a deranged fascist as the better option, basic math says Dore knobs prefer fascists. The most popular third party hasn't won a single seat in congress in its near 50 year existence. Dore, and his knobs, want progressives to throw away their votes. At best, you peel away enough votes that you let Republicans rule for decades to come. Almost every course of action Dore takes, or promotes, benefits the far right most.
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  4001.  @ynemey1243  He, literally, said that Trump was the better option, ffs, exactly because he was worse. You're making up bullshit that his argument had anything to do with Trump being better at some things. Dore does not admit he's wrong. He promoted the candidate that wanted to toss 10m of the poorest Americans off of Medicaid expansion as the better option. He promoted Tulsi (public option) over Bernie (M4A). He promotes going third party, never winning a seat in congress, and letting Republicans rule, for decades. He abandoned Nina Turner ... abandoned adding another M4A yes vote to congress. He slanders progressives that have done more for M4A in a few years than he has in his entire lifetime. He promoted allying with far right Boogaloos that will shoot leftists once they start their civil war. And yet he acts like he's the one true champion of healthcare. Nothing he does gets anyone closer to having healthcare, and much gets you further away. What is Biden worse at? Eating cheeseburgers?
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  4002.  @ynemey1243  He didn't make a video supporting Nina in the 6 months leading to the election, he and his wife let everyone know they had stopped donating to Nina, and he encouraged people to never vote for someone running as a Democrat ever again. How the hell does that not equate to abandoning her? Justice Democrats have replaced about a dozen corporate Dems with progressives. That increases the number of M4A yes votes in congress. AOC helped add a few more M4A yes votes to congress and helped remove a few more corporate Dems. Getting enough yes votes in congress is the only possible way to ever pass the bill. And, if you were wondering where AOC was on M4A march day, she was campaigning for Nina, promoting M4A, and trying to add another M4A yes vote to congress. The M4A marchers could have gone to Nina rallies, to also support adding another M4A yes vote to congress, but they also abandoned her. And then Dore slandered AOC, saying she and Bernie had abandoned M4A. Bernie also campaigned for Nina, trying to add another M4A yes vote to congress. It's just a fact that they've all done more for M4A in a few years than Dore has in his entire lifetime. It's just a fact that he slanders them. It's simple math, that a third party is a losing strategy, and would benefit Republican most. Let's say you got everyone currently in the progressive caucus to run for your progressive third party and they managed to win the same number of seats. That'd be 94 seats in the house and 1 (Bernie) seat in the senate. Trump would have won the presidency, with Dem and progressive votes split between Biden and Bernie in the general instead of the primary. Republicans would control the senate with Pence as the tie breaker. In the house, Republicans would hold a plurality and only need a handful of the most conservative Dems to work with them to pass whatever they wanted and completely ignore the progressive third party. Even a successful progressive third party would benefit Republicans most. It's just math. And, the actual reality is that the most popular third party hasn't won a single seat in congress in its near 50 year existence. You could be talking a century to even win one seat. It's a delusional fantasy. Progressives would gain more power by simply getting the 15 more seats the progressive caucus needs to become the majority of house Dems, than they would getting 100 seats as a third party. I don't think you know what a "strawman" is.
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  4003.  @ynemey1243  Again, he and his wife openly stated they stopped donating to her. That, in itself, is abandoning her. And you're once again making up bullshit. He said to never vote for anyone running as a Democrat. He abandoned her. Ironically, the problem may be that you're twisting what I'm actually saying in your mind into a strawman, which makes your claims of me strawmanning are actually you strawmanning. Nothing you said refutes the fact that math says progressives voting third party benefits Republicans most. Many things Dore promotes doing benefits Republicans, most ... which was the original point.
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  4004.  @allprogressivesarechildgro5284  Exactly his point.
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  4005.  @Unfamous_Buddha  Where am I losing you? Tea party pressure also can from giant corporate donors, pushing the party further right. Are corporate Dems' corporate donors pressuring them to be more progressive? No. I'm not talking about amounts. I'm talking about what their donors are pressuring them to do. The Tea Party had become the majority of the Republican caucus by the time they had another party speaker vote. It wasn't some tiny minority taking over the party. And, again, if old school Republicans really wanted to get around the tea partiers, all they had to do was work with democrats to pass bills without needing tea party votes. I get it. You morons don't actually care that Democrats are in danger of losing the house in 2022. You'd prefer to see progressives in a minority party, and see Republicans become the majority. Learn some basic math. It is impossible to pass a bill without Manchin, because there are zero extra votes to the left of the party, if you lose his vote. On the other end, there is the entire Republican party to try and get extra votes from, if you lose a progressive vote. It is possible to pass bills without the squad by moving a bill to the right and picking up Republican votes. The squad refusing to sign bills could actually push legislation to the right. Unlike the old school Republicans, corporate Dems are willing to work with Republicans, as the likes of Manchin keeps saying. The $15 got a vote. It passed the house (M4A didn't have a chance in hell) and also got a senate vote. Wasn't just getting a vote on an important progressive policy supposed to be a big deal? Wasn't getting a list of no voters on an important progressive policy supposed to be a big deal? Apparently not. Dore knobs are pathetic useless hypocrites and have proved that ftv was a sham. Instead of going after the no voters, they just keep bitching about those who voted for it. Pelosi introduced the M4A bill last session. It died in committees, where 90% of bills die. She has already reintroduced the bill this session. It's sitting in committees. Instead of slandering and bitching about people who have done more for M4A in a few years than Dore has in his entire lifetime, why not try pressuring committee members to take up the bill?
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  4006. It would appear that the older people are less knowledgeable, or are simply more inclined to support colonialism, and the terrorist groups, like the Irgun and Lehi, that are the foundation for Israel.
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  4007.  @quatreraberbawinner2628  He's either ignorant or dishonest. A VAT won't make corporations "pay their fair share".
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  4008.  @quatreraberbawinner2628  How would a wealth tax tax you and make them richer? A VAT would tax consumers and make them richer.
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  4009.  @TheGUDL716  A VAT won't actually tax giant corporations. If they, and their super rich owners, get more out of the VAT/UBI scheme than they put in, then someone else is putting in more than they get out. It's impossible to redistribute money and all get more out of it than they put in.
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  4010. And Manson wasn't at the scene, during the murders. What's your point? The insurrectionists came prepared. It was the over a month of bullshit, peddled by Trump and cronies, that incited them.
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  4011.  @TheLaceWeaver  I didn't do any of that. There are Israelis still alive who did, and Israelis that are still doing that. So, I should stop supporting the natives? You think the current "two state solution" in Israel/Palestine is working better than Lebanon?! Are you demented?
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  4012.  @TheLaceWeaver  Ummm, do you know how that civil war began?
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  4013. Maybe make a bunch of statues, of him raping a woman, that you can put in front of all your churches.
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  4014. Same. The algorithm has been hiding many of my posts, the past 6 months (can only be seen if the comment section is sorted by newest). And a few times, after posting to pro-Israel channels, I haven't been able to post anything for a couple's days. Instant deleting. Some of them must have reported, or something, because they didn't like facts.
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  4015.  @DumbAssSpeakingWithMansVoice  Yeah, and there has always been an exemption, with every mandate I've heard of. Sounds like a bullshit story.
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  4016.  @markzuckergecko621  Slavery was capitalistic, dimwit. That's not leftist. Absolute monarchies are 100% privately owned and operated nations. That's not leftist. "Fascism is the complete opposite of Marxian socialism" ~ Mussolini. That's not leftist.
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  4017.  @DumbAssSpeakingWithMansVoice  How can I be wrong about what "I''ve heard of", dimwit?
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  4018.  @markzuckergecko621  Nope. Capitalism and private property.
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  4019. It's backwards day ... decade?
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  4020.  @tacottogetherness7604  Nobody knows how much the affordable housing would have sold, or rented, for. It was simply a plan to allocate some of the property towards affordable housing. The only prices given were for the non affordable housing.
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  4021.  NNA S  How about this example, then ... people used to (some still do) use the Bible to help argue against mixed race couples, and they were also denied many services, until the civil rights movement. If mixed race marriages were against your beliefs, should you be allowed to not bake them a cake, not give them a marriage license, or deny them service in some other way? Should that be turned back, or was protecting them from discrimination the right thing to do?
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  4022.  NNA S  What do you mean "conflation of scenarios"? It's the same scenario as baking a cake for a gay couple. Some moron says it's against their religious beliefs, and refuses to serve people. All kinds of racists have cited cursing Ham and his descendants as a pretence for being against mixed marriages. The KKK considers itself a Christian organization. Christian Identity definitely does, as well.
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  4023.  NNA S  The Baker makes fucking wedding cakes, moron. They were simply asked to make something they already make, only for a gay couple. They weren't asked to "depict" gay sex or anything. If you don't make penis or vagina cakes for anyone, then you don't have to depict any penis or vagina cakes for anyone who asks. Asking for something they don't make, or depict, for anyone, is stupid. But, there's nothing wrong with asking for something they already make for others. They should be served, and not discriminated against.
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  4024.  NNA S  I stopped at your first lie. He didn't even look at design ideas. He makes wedding cakes. He refused to make a wedding cake for a gay couple.
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  4025. ​ @cosimodirondo972  Racist bullshit. There have been variations of the words Pelest, Philistine, Palestinian, etc., since ancient Egypt. Even in more modern history, the British parliament records, from during the mandate, have shitloads of mentions of "Palestinians", referring to the native population, not the Zionists.
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  4026. Rofl. That was a long winded way of saying you're an ignoramus who didn't listen to what Sam said in the seconds after that time stamp.
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  4027.  Silencedfixer  If you want it to actually be a public square, that's the only way to do it. If not, then don't, and don't whine about free speech.
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  4028.  @Jonscify  You have reading comprehension problems.
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  4029. The lying politicians count on their followers being idiots, who won't double check..
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  4030. Part of the problem, here, is that ... even though BLM may get more support from non-black "leftists", on the ground and in congress ... BLM itself doesn't necessarily equate to a "leftist" movement. Many black voters voted Biden over Bernie. Plus, there is plenty of evidence that black Americans, on average, are charged more often, indicted more often, and given harsher sentences, for the same crimes. Poor white criminals can still benefit from white privilege. There could very well be black store owners being given harsher treatment, for the same thing his mom did, which would mean she still benefited from white privilege.
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  4031.  @seanking1775  Rofl. Right wingers make out like those who don't agree with them are literally demons.
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  4032.  @cspdx11  I heard, from reality, that ivermectin is manufactured by the 5th largest pharma corporation in the world, and even they don't suggest using ivermectin as a treatment for covid.
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  4033. @Fritz Feuer Not being able to tell that Dore started using it to slander the most progressive members of congress, people who have done more for M4A in a few years than he has in his entire lifetime, is the problem. You know "notoriety" is a bad thing, right?
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  4034.  @jaw-knee771  The guy promoted Trump (end Medicaid expansion) as the better option than Clinton (Medicare expansion), and Biden (Medicare expansion and public option), ffs. He promotes going third party, when the most popular third party hasn't won a single seat in congress in its near 50 year existence ... a route that might not even win you a single seat in the next century, let alone get you M4A. Even if a progressive third party magically became popular enough to get every progressive vote, you'd have average Dems and progressives splitting their votes and have Republicans rule for decades to come. Democrats may be slow to move forward, but Republicans literally want to go backwards. Dore benefits the far right more than the left.
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  4035.  @jovanleon7  You're lying.
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  4036.  @jovanleon7  Nope. Anton Lazzaro, arrested last week on multiple counts of underage sex trafficking, actually provided zero verifiable evidence.
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  4037.  @jovanleon7  Weren't you Q nutter types supposed to be against child sex trafficking? Funny how you're now being led by them.
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  4038.  @jovanleon7  Okay, I'll play along. Step 1: show me how to verify he got dna from where he claimed.
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  4039.  @jovanleon7  You dumbos know that all 6 of her siblings have been named, have been photographed, that they were all also refugees to the US, and that she has shown their immigration records, right? You know that siblings can sponsor each other for immigration, so there's no actual motive to fake a marriage, right?
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  4040.  @jovanleon7  We have to take the word of one person that the dna came from where they claim, and can't verify it ourselves? Then that's not verifiable evidence. Oh, a picture, Keira Knightley and Natalie Portman must actually be sisters!
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  4041.  @jovanleon7  That qualifies as a totally different test, and doesn't make your current supposed test verifiable. You're simply taking the word of someone who, by all appearances, is a scammer and trafficker, according to the local FOX station themselves. Ever consider that nobody is taking her to court, because there's no actual evidence that her parents had an 8th child, that they didn't claim at the refugee camp, that didn't come to the US along with their documented 7 kids, and was instead sent to the UK for some odd reason ... because there's no actual motive to fake a marriage, since siblings can sponsor each other already ... because there's no actual evidence the guy even wanted US citizenship, since he up and went back to the UK? No, they aren't identical, qbert. They're only similar, just like the example I gave.
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  4042.  @ilikebells  Rofl. How long are you Dore knobs going to milk that investment for? It's going on 5 years, divided by dozens of employees, maintaining a large studio, and multiple shows. Plus, Dore remained affiliated with TYT for 2 of those years, and has now, along with his grifter buddy Glenn, signed on with right wing Rumble to get some Peter Thiel CIA money.
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  4043.  @DesignerDave  Covid's 1% infection fatality rate is about 10x the influenza infection fatality rate, plus more contagious. It's 2x the polio paralysis rate, 20x the polio infection fatality rate, and again more contagious. It's 4x the automobile accident fatality rate, and again far more widespread. Should we ditch polio vaccine mandates, and all rules of the road, because those things aren't deadly enough to put effort into reducing them? Should we ditch smoking laws, extra taxes, increased insurance rates, and a near universal ban on smoking indoors, or is it dangerous enough?
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  4044.  @DesignerDave  Can people choose to smoke around others in public indoors? No. Why should someone who has a higher chance of spread sickness and death be allowed to be around others in public indoors? Isn't that why smokers are banned? Want to smoke? Step outside. Want to be unmasked and/or unvaccinated? Step outside.
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  4045.  Capo Di capo  Except Sam released the audio of Politicon saying it, dumb dumb.
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  4046. Because she's not talking about specific groups, like AIPAC, or Likud, which would be analogous to her gangs analogy. She's talking "Jewish".
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  4047.  @dayzdnconfuz3d  She stated that the only problem with Hitler was his desire to expand our of Germany, before walking it back. Kanye, who she defended, was talking like that Black Hebrew Israelites cult. They're beyond rational, or honest, actors.
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  4048.  @ph6794  What what?
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  4049.  @constantineblyuz5786  She's a nurse, dimwit. She was asked about her time spent as a nurse.
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  4050.  @ph6794  You're cheering on the aggressor? Israel is objectively the aggressor by every relevant measure ... Modern history: 100 years ago, in 1923, Ze'ev Jabotinsky fully acknowledged that Zionism is colonialism, and that, based on the entirety of history, the natives would fight it until the bitter end. He just didn't care what would happen to them, and promoted doing it anyway. Colonizers are never not the aggressors. On top of the colonialist nature of Zionism, the Zionists also formed terrorist organizations, like the Irgun and Lehi. They bombed many Palestinian markets and other public places, murdering many civilians, including children, even including Palestinian Jews (who opposed Zionism). Israel merged those terrorists into the new nation's military and intelligence agencies. Israelis elected Menachem Begin, leader of the Irgun, child murderer, Jew murderer, and bomber of the King David Hotel, as PM. Israelis, to this day, celebrate those terrorists as "heroes". Zionists literally taught their neighbours that terrorism is a valid path to independence and statehood, and that terrorists are to be celebrated. In 1945, it is well documented that Zionists owned just 5% of the land and were a majority nowhere. Israel was formed by actually going against the majority population. It's foundation is completely undemocratic. Then, becoming a majority, in "their" new nation, by ethnic cleansing the actual majority, and then claiming to be democratic, is utter nonsense. Law: Israel is considered an occupier by the International Court, the UN GA, and the UN SC. Occupiers are also never not the aggressors. Those occupied actually have a right to resist occupation. On the flip side, it is illegal for the occupier to settle occupied lands, and illegal to use collective punishment. Israel is a rogue nation, that doesn't abide by international law. What it has been doing, and is doing now, is illegal. Current events: This year, alone, prior to Oct 7 ... Israel held over 1200 Palestinian hostages without charges ... over 200 Palestinians had been killed by the IDF and settlers ... over 1000 Palestinians had been displaced by Israel's neverending colonization of the West Bank ... and, Israel continued to operate an open air WWII style fascist ghetto, in Gaza. Even ignoring modern history and law, in no reality did Hamas "start" anything.
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  4051. What a moronic assessment. If you drop a bomb, knowing full well it is going to hit civilians, then you're intentionally killing civilians. It wasn't an "accident" that you dropped the bomb. It wasn't an "accident" that it blew up the exact place you wanted to blow up. Israel hides over 400k militants (reservists), valid military targets, amongst its civilians, using them as human shields. Odds are at least one Israeli Hamas killed was an out of uniform militant. Israel hides its largest IDF base, a valid military target, inside a shopping mall, using civilians as human shields. Due to mandatory service, almost every single Israeli is, was, or will be, a militant. This year, prior to Oct 7... over 1200 Palestinian hostages held without charges by Israel ... over 200 Palestinians killed by the IDF and settlers ... over 1000 Palestinians displaced by never ending illegal colonialism of the West Bank ... and the continued operation of an open air WWII style fascist ghetto in Gaza. Why not say Hamas was responding? Would you blame the ZOB and ZZW for the Warsaw ghetto uprising? You're justifying the Hamas attack, with your own moronic argument to justify Israel's use of collective punishment.
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  4052. Total tests, or tests per million, are totally irrelevant numbers that are completely disconnected from the number of confirmed cases. Countries like S Korea, New Zealand, and Australia, flattened their curves quickly by testing at rates of 50+ people per confirmed case. The US has been testing at a rate of about 5 people per confirmed case ... one of the lowest rates in the world. If what Trump said was even remotely true, those countries should have found far more confirmed cases than they did. Instead, they were testing at rates far beyond the rate of virus spread. You can't contain the virus testing only twice the virus spread rate. If each confirmed case came in contact with say 25 people, on average, testing just 5 other people only gives you a 20% chance of finding the right 2.5 people they passed it on to. THAT'S why the US has more cases. They aren't getting ahead of the virus, and the numbers are now so high it's probably impossible for them to ever get ahead.
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  4053. Muslims believe in Jesus. It's Jews that don't. Also, Turkey is what's left of the last caliphate, not Saudi. Homosexuality has always been legal in Turkey, because that was the law of the Ottoman Empire. The west took that more moderate empire, carved it up into little bits, and handed parts of it to religious extremists. In numerous Muslim majority countries, there have also been more secular movements and political leaders. Problem was they also leaned a bit more left, economically, than countries like the US and UK preferred, and were overthrown. Meanwhile, countries like Saudi have been supported financially and militarily, as they've spread their more conservative brand of Islam around the world. Religious nuts in Afghanistan were supported with hundreds of millions of dollars, to overthrow more secular communist Muslims. It's kind of moronic for the west to complain about the current state of Muslim countries, when they had a hand in making them the way they are.
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  4054. ​ @shis1988  Give it a rest. There was a higher eligible voter turnout than when Reagan and each Bush were first elected. It was on par with Bill Clinton first getting elected. And, Dumpty lost the popular vote by more than Dubya. She won the popular vote by 13 points more than her husband first did, and 6 points more than Reagan first did. She simply lost in the wrong places, and that was her fault for thinking some places were solidly blue, that weren't.
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  4055.  @allprogressivesarechildgro7761  The US and UK conscripted, trained, and armed, every single fighting age KKK and BUF member, to fight against fascist invaders. What's your point? Should Ukraine kick people out of the military, while they're being invaded by fascists?
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  4056.  @tadrobinson7709  If Hitler was a socialist, then why was he backed by leading industrialists and large land owners,? Why did he ally with the other right wing parties? Why did they go after the socialists, communists, and unionists, first? Why was their pre war economy one of privatization?
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  4057.  @clenke0  Lol, yes, John is very subtle.
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  4058. ​ @ribbrascal Bullsh*t.
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  4059.  @davidmeadows5627  Reducing the hate spread by nazi/fascist/kkk types to "an opinion that you disagree with", is beyond moronic. That kind of hate not only ruins people's lives, it even takes people's lives. Strict voter ID laws are firstly classist. Yeah, poorer people do have more of an excuse to be able to afford taking a day off to go to the DMV, and more of an excuse to be able to afford extra transportation, to go fetch a new ID. Secondly, certain demographics being poorer than others, they're racist. It's knowingly targetting a higher percentage of those demographics, and making them jump through new hoops, just to vote.
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  4060.  @davidmeadows5627  You don't need a picture ID, to get a job, dimwit. Yes, Mussolini and Hitler being free to spew their bullshit, were totally shot down by mere words from the opposition. Desegregation of the south was accomplished totally with words. You're living in some alternate reality.
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  4061.  @davidmeadows5627  How the hell are hate crimes not actions, dumb dumb?
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  4062.  @davidmeadows5627  You're the one who brought up "other countries", dimwit, but you don't want to hear from one of those "other countries"? Birth certificate counts as a List B ID, which can be coupled with a List C ID, like Social Security (SSN, SIN, same thing). Do you really think people that commit hate crimes haven't been fueled by others spewing hate? They were just born racist, or something?
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  4063.  @davidmeadows5627  Them ending up with a photo ID for voting is the whole point, dimwit. What would be the point of handing them a non photo voter ID? The Georgia voter ID has a photo. The Texas voting certificate has a photo. Alabama voter ID has a photo.
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  4064.  @Sloimer  So go start threads criticizing him for a miriad of other things then. Why are you wasting your time on this thread, if you don't like the topic.
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  4065.  @Sloimer  The topic is how he became popular, dimwit. It's a centerpiece to the topic.
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  4066.  @Sloimer  You're not my type. Find another guy.
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  4067. Native Americans reached a point where they wanted to push all the white people back into the sea. It wasn't simply because they were white. It was because they were colonizing, ethnic cleansing, assholes. Hamas are just a poor man's Likud, only opposed to colonialism, instead of doing the colonialism. Likud was founded by Irgun and Lehi terrorists. Terrorist groups that were merged into Israel's military and intelligence agencies. Israelis elected the leaders of both those terrorist groups as PMs. Israelis celebrate those terrorists as "heroes", to this day. Their Likud platform (over a decade older than the founding of Hamas), "between the sea and the Jordan there will only be Israeli sovereignty", promises to completely colonize and ethnically cleanse all Palestine territories. It further claims a "right" to all the "Land of Israel" (fictional biblical borders that don't mesh with archaeological reality), which is an open declaration of future wars, against Jordan, Syria, and Lebanon. Everyone blathering about Hamas is like going on about Cochise, in the 1850s, when people are trying to tell you that Native Americans are being ethnically cleansed and colonized.
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  4068. ​ @AOLAmericaOnline  Likud's, "between the sea and the Jordan", platform ... 1977: "The Right of the Jewish People to the Land of Israel (Eretz Israel) a. The right of the Jewish people to the land of Israel is eternal and indisputable and is linked with the right to security and peace; therefore, Judea and Samaria will not be handed to any foreign administration; between the Sea and the Jordan there will only be Israeli sovereignty. b. A plan which relinquishes parts of western Eretz Israel, undermines our right to the country, unavoidably leads to the establishment of a "Palestinian State," jeopardizes the security of the Jewish population, endangers the existence of the State of Israel. and frustrates any prospect of peace." "Settlement Settlement. both urban and rural. in all parts of the Land of Israel is the focal point of the Zionist effort to redeem the country, to maintain vital security areas and serves as a reservoir of strength and inspiration for the renewal of the pioneering spirit. The Likud government will call on the younger generation in Israel and the dispersions to settle and help every group and individual in the task of inhabiting and cultivating the wasteland, while taking care not to dispossess anyone." 1999: "The Government of Israel flatly rejects the establishment of a Palestinian Arab state west of the Jordan river. The Palestinians can run their lives freely in the framework of self-rule, but not as an independent and sovereign state. Thus, for example, in matters of foreign affairs, security, immigration, and ecology, their activity shall be limited in accordance with imperatives of Israel's existence, security and national needs." "The Jewish communities in Judea, Samaria, and Gaza are the realization of Zionist values. Settlement of the land is a clear expression of the unassailable right of the Jewish people to the Land of Israel and constitutes an important asset in the defense of the vital interests of the State of Israel. The Likud will continue to strengthen and develop these communities and will prevent their uprooting."
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  4069.  @mjchakos1  If they keep the filibuster, they should at least revert it back to something you actually have to do, like read phonebooks for days, or whatever. As is, it's not even a real filibuster.
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  4070.  @mjchakos1  It's not really fair to the public. Requiring a supermajority for every single bill wasn't supposed to be how things worked.
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  4071.  @mjchakos1  It let's the minority dictate exactly what it wants in a bill to let it pass, or to just not let any bill it doesn't like pass. The senate is already not a very democratic institution, with tens of millions of people represented by the same number of representatives as a few hundred thousand people.
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  4072.  @mjchakos1  Rofl. The senate is nowhere near being a direct democracy. They're barely in the same universe.
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  4073.  @mjchakos1  That's the "tyranny of the majority" they were referring to. They weren't referring to a simple majority of the senate, or the house. They outright designed both so that bills could be passed by simple majority.
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  4074.  @mjchakos1  Lol, the majority having to concede to the minority, doesn't mean the bill was "really popular".
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  4075.  @bruno.6610  5. Sales taxes. They are also benefitting from the sale but having the consumer pay the whole sales tax. They should pay half. 6. Same goes for tariffs. They should only be able to pass on half the cost to consumers.
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  4076. ​ @imagex8000  The people making these laws are the same loons that teach abstinence instead of protection, don't like sex ed taught in schools, don't like protection given to teens, etc. They also, ironically, worship what would be the leading abortionist in existence.
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  4077.  @finflwr  No vaccine is 100%. Even with a 50% efficacy flu vaccine, if you're 50% less likely to catch it, then you're less likely to transmit it. You can't transmit it, if you don't have it, ffs.
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  4078. Facts: Followers of Ze'ev Jabotinsky formed the Irgun and Lehi Zionist terrorist groups. The Irgun bombed numerous Palestinian markets and other public places, murdering Palestinian men, women, children, and even Palestinian Jews, who didn't support colonialist Zionsim. The Lehi were considered even more extreme, tried to ally with the Nazis against Britain, continued fighting the British during WWII, and assassinated British diplomats. Those terrorist groups opposed partition for the opposite reason Palestinians did. Palestinians didn't want to be colonized at all, while the terrorists wanted to colonize it all. Those terrorists committed massacres, rape, and torture, during partition violence. The Irgun bombed the King David Hotel, to cover up that the terrorists were working with the JA and Haganah. Those terrorist groups were merged into Israel's military and intelligence agencies. The leaders of those terrorist groups formed Likud, and both leaders were elected as PMs. Israelis, to this day, celebrate those terrorists as "heroes". Likud's platform, "between the sea and the Jordan there will only be Israeli sovereignty", promised to completely colonize and ethnically cleanse all Palestine territories. It further claims a "right" to all the "Land of Israel" (fictional biblical borders that don't mesh with archaeological reality), which is an open declaration of future wars, against Jordan, Syria, and Lebanon. Zionism = colonialism, terrorism, ethnic cleansing, rape, torture, an ethno-state, occupation, and operating an open air WWII style fascist ghetto. Or, in other words, Nazism.
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  4079.  @Subzearo  The answer is for both of us to depopulate the food source, just so we can both hoard rotting fish? Are you sure?
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  4080.  @Subzearo  Yes, it would be stupid.
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  4081.  @paxaeterna3709  What does that have to do with anything? Whether you're slow, or fast, there's a point where you're taking more than you need ... more than you can eat ... and any more will just rot.
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  4082. Funny, one parent saying that adults believing in what's not real is a mental illness, and another then saying it's against their religious beliefs.
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  4083. ​ @drsuperhero  They support Isl, because they want all the Jws to go there, and then emulate Isl, only with wt Christians.
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  4084.  @mauricionunez6389  So Sondra overstated the amount thrown at corporate corruption? It should be ... corporate corruption ... Give people $200 Instead of getting money out of politics, have people compete with corporate lobby groups, to see who can bribe their candidate with the most money.
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  4085.  @bluesrockfan36  I said he wants people to compete with lobbyists to bribe politicians, like you just did. That's actually more money in politics, not less. Where does the getting money out of politics part come in?
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  4086. Denmark is pretty darn centrist (an even mix of capitalism and socialism).
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  4087. Who's operating the open air WWII style fascist ghetto, dumb dumb? Israel. Your stupid sayings can be applied to any invader ... 1941: You, "Nazis are so awesome, and you're just mad because they keep winning! If Nazis lost the war in France, they'd be tossed out of France! Oh no! Poor Nazis! Those French keep losing, but they're still around. French resistance terrorists!" 1923: Ze'ev Jabotinsky fully acknowledged that Zionism is colonialism. He also predicted, based on the entirety of history, that the natives would react by resisting until the bitter end. But, like all colonialists, he didn't really care what would happen to the natives.
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  4088. And Musk types are claiming $0 income, and being compensated totally in stocks and options.
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  4089. Likely the same lot that think rioting against police brutality, which is anti-authoritarianism, and storming the Capitol to keep an unelected ruler in power, which is authoritarianism, are totally samesies ... or even argue the first is worse.
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  4090.  @alabamaman5994  You have a multiple personality disorder.
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  4091.  @WERob-to5sp  That's like saying capitalism is fascism, and doesn't come in more libertarian, or anarcho, varieties.
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  4092. @Dustin Stich I, literally, posted how. Employers are required to negotiate in good faith. If the labor board oversight determines the employer isn't, the employer can be taken to court, and forced back to the table. There are also labor laws, if they're being assholes, and employees could sue them for the equivalent of what they already bargained for. Why do you think employers would put up a big fight, amass huge legal fees, just to avoid paying amounts they're already paying?
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  4093. @Dustin Stich "The bill says it" means, if that bill is passed, then it's a law. Do you no know how bills work?
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  4094.  @joecasey93  You mentioned one thing that would be affected, operating costs, by this. Private healthcare costs are rising at almost 4x the rate of inflation. It would still save them money to drop healthcare as a cost, even if they converted the current cost into wages.
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  4095.  @joecasey93  Rofl, how is having them pay what they're paying now, only to employees instead of insurance companies, untenable and economically illiterate? Why do you think employers would fight paying one hand over another hand, especially if the second hand saves money in the long run?
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  4096. @Dustin Stich You can try and challenge a law in the supreme court, once it is a law. The supreme court isn't involved with bills becoming laws, dumb dumb.
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  4097. @Dustin Stich That's why the house and senate are called the "legislative" branch. Do you know what "legislative" means?
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  4098. @Dustin Stich If there was a supreme court challenge, what would be getting challenged is a law. If it passes the house and senate, it's a law. Law first, then challenge. And, again, you seem to have simply ignored the labor board supervised negotiations, just so you can travel down a road of stupidity, showing everyone you don't know how the government works.
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  4099.  @joecasey93  From the employer's side, they aren't paying out any more per employee, so nice bullshit false equivalence to a 4 hr work day. Again ... it's a labor negotiation. Bye.
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  4100. @Dustin Stich Hello? Is this thing on? Labor negotiation, with labor board oversight, which labor laws already require employers to negotiate in good faith.
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  4101. Considering that Dore is far less than 1% of their material ... yes?
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  4102.  @inquisitive.lurker  How does Switzerland have a public option, if there is no option to opt out of basic coverage? There is optional supplemental coverage. Like I said, a public option and a private option aren't the same thing.
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  4103.  @inquisitive.lurker  Eh? A public option is government coverage. It's just optional to sign up for it and pay into it. The NHS is pretty comprehensive.
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  4104. So, you'd prefer fascism at home too, and even more fanatical support for Israel? Trump is talking making a pledge of allegiance to Israel to get in the country. Haley is talking making anti-Zionism illegal. Republicans are censuring anti-Zionism.
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  4105. ​@@Dukiehouse Why would they keep going on about something that doesn't get them likes, views, positive responses, etc.?
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  4106. @@Dukiehouse How do you make money if nobody is watching, liking, or giving positive feedback?
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  4107. @@Dukiehouse Are you playing ignorant, or are you actually? How tf do they make money, from constantly going on about Swift, if no conservatives are watching, liking, or giving positive feedback?
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  4108. ​@@Dukiehouse By you claiming it's not conservatives, and me asking why they keep going on about it then, if it's not for their conservative fans. Not that complicated, wingnut.
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  4109. ​ @mattbebe2555  Splitting the vote is just stupid. Even if every progressive voter, and the entire progressive caucus was a third party, you'd be handing Republicans the house, senate, and presidency. And getting that many voters to go third party is delusional. At best, you'll get enough to hand everything to Republicans, and not get a single third party seat (even the most popular third party, Libertarian, hasn't won a single seat in its 50 year existence). The progressive caucus is about 15 seats away from becoming the majority of house Dems. Just keep plugging away at reforming the party. Literally the worst time to give up.
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  4110.  @PunkShockRock  Rofl. What was he "correct" about?
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  4111.  @christopherclanton1986  Not possible. Don't be shy. Own your inner princess. Work it.
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  4112.  @christopherclanton1986  Nope. Are you a bigoted princess too?
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  4113.  @andrewdeschamps4926  The bubonic plague has a mortality rate of about 1% in modern developed countries, so ... about the same. Without modern medicine, and modern counter measures, covid may have killed off many many more, much quicker than the plague.
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  4114.  @andrewdeschamps4926  A lot of people have had serious conditions, that required hospitalization from covid. Many many more likely would have died hundreds of years ago, without modern medicine ... including a lot more middle aged and younger people. Plus, there are already new variants that are sending more younger people than old, to the hospital, right now. Covid would have trashed a medieval world.
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  4115.  @MyName-cw4yr  What's weird? Jordan has over 2m Palestinian refugees. That's equivalent to the US taking in over 60m. Plus, they all know Israel is insane, and would use any excuse to go after them. Likud's platform claims a "right" to parts of Jordan, Syria, and Lebanon. They just need an excuse.
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  4116.  @MyName-cw4yr  It was a size comparison, dim one. There are hundreds of thousands, in other neighboring countries. There are millions of Syrian refugees in multiple countries, as well. How about stop making ME refugees?
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  4117.  @MyName-cw4yr  Riiiiight. Because already having 3.2m refugees, like Turkey, would have zero bearing on wanting to take in more. Just how dim are you?
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  4118. Over 90% of drugs are seized at points of entry, not on people crossing rivers and deserts. Cartels don't want their drugs dying with someone in a river somewhere. Over 80% of drug traffickers are also Americans, not even foreign. Undocumented immigrants commit crimes at half the rate of natural born citizens. Plus, these same people are anti-abortion, so obviously think there's plenty of room for hundreds of thousands of extra people a year, that will compete for jobs, etc. None of their anti-migrant arguments make any sense. They're just racists.
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  4119.  @disenfranchisedamerican6804  A representative simply winning by popular vote isn't even a "true democracy". It's how most elections are won, in the US. A "true democracy" is a direct democracy, which doesn't even require representatives.
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  4120.  @xocoyotl4  You proved that wrong out of the gate.
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  4121. You forgot to divide it over the next 40 years of their life, until they can collect social security.
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  4122. If Cawthorn's God existed, it would be the leading abortionist in existence (miscarriage = spontaneous abortion). He worships an abortionist.
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  4123. Quillette "hippy", and editor, Andy Ngo, likes to embed with the Proud Boys and endlessly hate on Antifa over the white nationalists they're scrapping with. One Quillette "hippy" wrote an article about supposed liberal bias at Twitter, and these are some they grouped as "conservative" victims of that supposed bias ... American Nazi Party Richard Spencer David Duke National Policy Institute League of the South Mike Enoch Paul Nehlen Radix Journal and more ...
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  4124. ​ @Newton-Reuther  There are Biden cultists? And they watch this channel? She has been involved in public rallies against IL's actions, trying to get rid of anti-bds laws to help with boycotting, a house members boycott of President of IL visit, ... And squad members are getting ready to have to defend themselves against AIPAC candidates, shortly, on top of their day jobs. Not sure what you're expecting.
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  4125.  @Newton-Reuther  And he was calling for a ceasefire? When was that?
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  4126.  @Newton-Reuther  So, Fetterman went to a ceasefire rally (a rally calling for a ceasefire), was one of the speakers at said rally, but didn't call for a ceasefire? Sooo ... not samesies then? You're the one who seems to be shifting the goalpost. You asked about her involvement in protesting, didn't like my answer, and are now moving the goalpost to her stance on Biden.
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  4127.  Alabama Man Special Edition  What sanctions are you talking about? Biden was adding sanctions, by the start of March. Do you mean the lifting of some sanctions in May, 4 months, after being in office? Those sanctions were clearly not stopping it from being finished, and the whole thing was also straining relations with Germany, and others. Germany has been closing down nuclear reactors, and needs more energy.
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  4128.  Alabama Man Special Edition  May, dimwit, and they were already completing it.
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  4129.  @alanparedes2427  What is "white culture"?
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  4130.  @michaelarmijo4112  What's the point of having a vote, when it's still 100+ votes short in the house alone? The broader progressive caucus, with M4A on their platform, is about 10 seats away from becoming the majority of house Dems, and could then pick the party speaker candidate, and if the majority party could hold the speakership, fill committee seats, etc. Justice Dems have helped add about a dozen seats in the past couple election cycles. AOC helped add a few seats in the only election cycle since she has been elected. She was just campaigning, trying to add Nina, as well. Getting enough yes votes is, literally, the only possible way to pass a bill. Making out like adding yes votes is doing nothing, is moronic.
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  4131.  @cf6713  As far as the Objectivist ideas for government go, they are exactly minimalist government uppercase L Libertarians. No difference whatsoever, on that front. The "libertarians" Rand was opposed to, at the time, were lowercase l ancap types.
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  4132.  4 Fake  Those who have seen his financial statements, like Deutsche Bank, say he's not a billionaire, which makes him a failure. You'd make more money investing in a general S&P 500 index fund than you would investing in Trump. He would have made billions, if he had simply invested his daddy's money. He's sub par at both business and golf.
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  4133.  @Diogenes2036  Pretty sure I implied he's doing the later, "intentionally misrepresenting its meaning", with my second sentence. So, we agree?
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  4134.  @DarkManSonian  Iraq isn't in Africa, man. Egypt is, and also developed writing early. They were also obviously quite mathematic. There just hasn't been earlier evidence found, there, than that found in Iraq.
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  4135.  @DarkManSonian  Well, except for the fact that it's not part of the continent of Africa, at all, and is in the middle of Eurasia.
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  4136.  @prabesh8277  Australia's covid death rate would translate into 26k total covid deaths in the US, instead of pushing 800k. It's pretty moronic to call saving lives "tyranny". Dumbest use of the word I've ever heard. Again, they are not rounding people up off the streets and putting them in "camps". They're for travellers, to quarantine, before re-entering the general public.
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  4137.  @pmarsh3700  All Palestinian territories are officially considered occupied by the International Court of Justice, the UN GA, and the UN SC, you lying Zionist Nazi. That means millions of Palestinians that don't get to vote for the actual government ruling over them, Israel's. Israel is about as democratic as Nazi Germany after Hitler purged his political opponents and then held elections.
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  4138.  @michaelernest7224  Yeah, Likud (founded by Irgun and Lehi terrorists) seems like it has totally been on board with Palestinian independence ... 1977: "The Right of the Jewish People to the Land of Israel (Eretz Israel) a. The right of the Jewish people to the land of Israel is eternal and indisputable and is linked with the right to security and peace; therefore, Judea and Samaria will not be handed to any foreign administration; between the Sea and the Jordan there will only be Israeli sovereignty. b. A plan which relinquishes parts of western Eretz Israel, undermines our right to the country, unavoidably leads to the establishment of a "Palestinian State," jeopardizes the security of the Jewish population, endangers the existence of the State of Israel. and frustrates any prospect of peace." "Settlement Settlement. both urban and rural. in all parts of the Land of Israel is the focal point of the Zionist effort to redeem the country, to maintain vital security areas and serves as a reservoir of strength and inspiration for the renewal of the pioneering spirit. The Likud government will call on the younger generation in Israel and the dispersions to settle and help every group and individual in the task of inhabiting and cultivating the wasteland, while taking care not to dispossess anyone." 1999: "The Government of Israel flatly rejects the establishment of a Palestinian Arab state west of the Jordan river. The Palestinians can run their lives freely in the framework of self-rule, but not as an independent and sovereign state. Thus, for example, in matters of foreign affairs, security, immigration, and ecology, their activity shall be limited in accordance with imperatives of Israel's existence, security and national needs." "The Jewish communities in Judea, Samaria, and Gaza are the realization of Zionist values. Settlement of the land is a clear expression of the unassailable right of the Jewish people to the Land of Israel and constitutes an important asset in the defense of the vital interests of the State of Israel. The Likud will continue to strengthen and develop these communities and will prevent their uprooting."
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  4139.  @pmarsh3700  No, dumb dumb. Nazis didn't live inside the Warsaw ghetto. They still occupied it, controlled it.
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  4140.  @aarondickson1898  Rewrite what? Democrats, objectively, didn't remove the Supreme Court filibuster, dumb dumb. Republicans did it, in 2017.
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  4141. Dumpty is still worse on this topic, and Republicans are less responsive to public pressure (laws allowing people to run over protesters, calling for protesters to be categorized as terrorists, etc.). Plus, they would let Russia do to Ukraine what Israel is doing to Palestine. Not to mention all the horrible domestic policies, they want to enact.
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  4142.  @zippydodahquirk9039  The first vaccine out of the gate didn't even go through "ows". Trump did jack shit to actually speed things along. All vaccines went through phase III trials. It has now been over a year, since phase I trials. They've met the safety standards of countries across the world. The polio vaccine was being given to millions of kids within a couple years. We would still have polio, if everyone was like you.
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  4143. ​ @asnark7115  🤪
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  4144.  @novaui4014  Well, these ones could have left for vacation without even getting the 8 weeks, like the rest of them did, but they didn't. Cori, AOC, Bowman, and others, have also been raising money, working with charities, and working with state officials, to try and resolve the problem for those in their districts and states. Go bitch about the ones who left for vacation on Fri, and aren't doing anything for the people in their districts or states.
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  4145.  @novaui4014  Yes, an adult who grasps math, dimwit. How do you expect a few progressives to pass bills all on their own? They have been telling people this needs to be resolved for months, ffs.
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  4146. Looks like videos the MSM showed of Venezuelan grocery stores.
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  4147.    Dore espouses a fringe "leftist" position shared by under 400k voters, who voted Tulsi and Green. Not sure why you're impressed with him drawing a right wing crowd.
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  4148. Not only does the office have increased interaction, we're talking sharing space with others for 8 hrs a day, 5 days a week, rather than 1 hr of shopping, once a week, once every two weeks. Not understanding how the former is more dangerous than the later indicates a severe level of stupidity ... or dishonesty and counting on your viewers to have a severe level of stupidity.
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  4149.  @valkondarvalakev6377  It's almost like this isn't forcing a vote, dimwit Dore knob. This is trying to force actually passing a bill. There was absolutely no way that ftv would actually pass M4A. Dore knobs wanted a 100% guaranteed to fail performance art vote, while being the first ones to slander AOC as being only performative. They're pathetic hypocrites that benefit the far right more than the left.
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  4150. Haven't Republican leaders used the word "genocide" in relation to having white supremacist traitor flags and monuments taken down? But, yeah, using the word "concentration" to describe people being concentrated is over the top.
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  4151.  @kise_ryota  How could you have possibly chosen to do anything else, if it was known you'd do it, before you were created. As the actual creation, you have zero ability to choose to do anything differently than what was already known, before you were created.
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  4152.  @kise_ryota  For there to be a point of creation, that requires there to be a point of no creation, right? If not, then the thing they're claiming was created always existed, and no god is needed. Ok, so if that god knows everything that will happen, prior to creation, then once created, the creations can't do anything differently. And, yes, the god would also not be able to interact any differently than how it already knows it will interact. Take Adam. Adam hasn't been created, yet. The god knows that the Adam he is about to create will have insufficient willpower, will succumb to temptation, and will eat the fruit. The god then creates that Adam, with the insufficient willpower. Does the now created Adam actually have the option, the ability, to choose not to eat the fruit?
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  4153.  @kise_ryota  I really don't care where the god is. For there to be a point of creation, that requires there be a point of no creation. That's just a logical necessity, because if there was never a point of no creation, then it always existed and didn't need creating. There's no possible way to maintain a creation narrative and dodge that. If the god knows what his non-existent creations will do, then once they're created they can't deviate from what he knows. Doesn't matter if he zaps the entire timeline into existence and sits outside it, or not. Prior to creating them, he would also know if any of them will ever interact with him. Still talking about the same subject. Creation + foreknowledge. You seem to keep trying to dodge the creation part, and only refer to the foreknowledge. The god hasn't created anything, yet, including Adam. He knows the Adam 1.0 design will fail his entrapment test. He knows the Adam 2.0 design will pass his entrapment test. He creates Adam 1.0 anyway. Can Adam 1.0 pass the test?
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  4154.  @PathtoYahawah  Then it's true that people who claim both that they have free will, and that their creator knows the future, have a problem, loco!
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  4155.  @PathtoYahawah  So, then absolutely nobody is denying g0d, or rbllng against g0d, etc., etc., since g0d programmed them that way. Why would the Bible use words like those then? Plus, you're acknowledging your g0d intentionally does "evil". Why worship "evil"?
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  4156.  @emgtexas  You're leaving off that your g0d is a creator, not just an observer. IF a creator knows what its creation will do, before creating it ... THEN the creation can't possibly choose to do anything differently, once created.
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  4157.  @emgtexas  "In our minds", "in our eyes", would be irrelevant to the truth. If, before day 6, g0d already knew Adam and Eve would eat the fruit, then once created, on day 6, they wouldn't have the ability to choose not to eat the fruit, or g0d would be wrong, and didn't actually know. Think of it like a willpower skill level. G0d could have created an Adam with an indomitable will, but instead knowingly created an Adam that he knew would fold like a cheap suit.
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  4158.  @emgtexas  Yes, without free will, the whole thing makes no sense. But, it's just a fact, that if a creator knows his creation will do X, prior to creating it ... then, once created, the creation can't possibly not do X, or the creator would have been wrong, and didn't actually know.
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  4159.  @emgtexas  And, I've heard that limiting himself argument before, but that also makes no sense. Prior to the point of deciding to limit himself, didn't he already know what would happen? It would create an infinite regression.
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  4160.  @emgtexas  There is only a slight difference between "making us do it" and not giving us the ability to do otherwise. Like I said, if he knew the Adam he was about to create would fail, would be weak willed, that means he knowingly created an Adam that wouldn't have enough willpower to resist temptation. Once presented the choice, that Adam didn't have the willpower to resist temptation, and couldn't possibly do otherwise. He could have created an Adam with the willpower of Job, if he wanted, right? And, that Adam would then have lacked the ability to fail the temptation test, and couldn't have done otherwise.
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  4161.  @emgtexas  Because you basically just keep asserting the premise I originally took issue with, without actually resolving the problem, putting us back to square 1. What we can know ... For there to be a point of creation, that means, by definition, there needs to be a point when the creation didn't exist, or it wouldn't need to be created in the first place. It is impossible for a thing that doesn't exist to make choices. If it is known what a creation will do, prior to it being created, then once created, the creation can't possibly do anything differently than what was known. For a casual observer of the future, that might not be an issue, but for the creator, that means they knowingly created an Adam and Eve that would fail ... that wouldn't have enough willpower to pass the test. Same would go for Satan. Point A: Satan doesn't exist, so can't have made any choices. G0d knows what Satan will be, and do. Point B: G0d still creates Satan. Satan can't possibly choose to be, or do, anything differently. G0d intentionally created Satan to do exactly what he wanted did. And, knew he would succeed at tempting Adam and Eve, because he also intentionally created them to be weak willed failures.
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  4162.  @emgtexas  That is contradictory. Think of it like a game character creation. You can create a character and assign however many points you want (because you have a g0d mode cheat) to strength, dexterity, constitution, intelligence, willpower, etc. You know what challenges the character will face, in game, because you also created the game. Then, you knowingly don't assign enough willpower points to your character to pass the first in game willpower test. Then you start playing. Will the character be able to pass the test?
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  4163.  @emgtexas  There's nothing flawed about it. I didn't say he was controlling your moves, like a game. I said he created the character. You believe in creation, right? You aren't now denying he does the character creation, are you? If Adam possessed enough willpower to pass the test, then he would have passed the test. G0d created a character he knew would fail, which means the character had no possible chance to succeed. It was an illusion of a choice. There's no possible way Adam could have passed the test, if it was known, before he was created, that he would fail the test.
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  4164.  @emgtexas  What? Following the rules takes willpower (the ability to control one's own actions, emotions, urges). What? If other things can exist without a creator, besides the creator, then why can't we? You argued deception has nothing to do with us controlling our actions, and then argued it does. You've gone entirely inchrnt.
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  4165.  @emgtexas  You claimed being deceived has nothing to do with willpower (self control), and then claimed deception led to sin (a violation of what g0d considers proper self control). G0d didn't have to create a tree with a forbidden fruit, and then stick it exactly in the only place, in the entire universe, where the only two humans existed. It was a test (entrapment), like leaving a bowl of candy in front of little kids, telling them not to eat any, or they'll be grounded, and leaving the room. It is entirely a test of willpower. Then have some stranger come along and tell the kids they don't have to listen to their parents, that they won't be grounded, to make it's even more challenging. It's a horrible setup, even leaving off that he created them, knowing they didn't have the ability to pass the test beforehand. Even if you want to make the odd argument that there could possibly be all kinds of other beings, maybe even other g0ds, that don't require being created ... The biblical g0d created Eden, and Adam and Eve, knowing full well that the snake (if that's what you're calling Satan) would show up. He didn't prevent it. He apparently didn't even warn them not to listen to talking snakes. He created the scenario, knowing exactly how it would play out. It couldn't have possibly played out any differently, than how he knew it would.
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  4166.  @emgtexas  And I have tried to be respectful as all you've basically argued is that your g0d has incomprehensible magical thinking. Zero logical thought to actually solving the problem. According to Genesis 2, it took the dmwt g0d creating all the animals and birds in existence, before figuring out Adam might like another human being to help him. The dmwt g0d, knowing full well that Earth 1.0, starting with Adam was doomed to fail, and that he'd have to start over with Earth 2.0 and Noah, still went ahead with Earth 1.0. He could have just started with Noah, and Earth 2.0, in the first place. Etc. The biblical g0d isn't described as exceptionally bright, or good. Pretty much just a ruthless dcttr. If other beings can exist without requiring that g0d creating them, then what's your basis for claiming other g0ds can't also exist? "Middle aged"? He had just created them. There's no indication they had lived in the garden very long, at all. Plus, they were totally innocent, not knowing good or evil. They were child-like. Their father, never even warned them to avoid talking snakes. Rofl! You believe your all powerful g0d let things go down a road he didn't intend? Again, if he knew the Adam and Eve he was about to create, would get hoodwinked, then he could have chosen to make the smarter, chosen to give them some kind of innate sense that talking snakes are bad, chosen to give them unshakable wills, ... The possibilities are limitless, aren't they? You're turning your g0d into a lame duck ... Just had no ability to do things any other way. And yet, you haven't given a single realistic scenario that disproves it. I know the version Adam I am about to create will fail. I have the ability to create an infinite number of other versions, some amount of which would never fail. I have the power to toss the snake across the universe. I have the power to hide the tree across the universe. I still create the scenario, and version of Adam, that I know will fail. How is there any possibility of Adam not failing, once created? If there's no possibility for Adam to do otherwise, once created, then he never had an actual choice.
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  4167.  @emgtexas  You said there could possibly be other powerful beings in existence that didn't require a g0d to create them. How can you then claim there can't possibly be other g0ds? If you've thrown away the core ... this one g0d created everything argument ... while still including the existence of magical beings, then you've opened things up to infinite possibilities. Adam and Eve had just been created. There's zero indication they were "middle aged", especially mentally. They were completely mentally innocent, not knowing good and evil, like little children. And yet, you've given zero realistic scenarios, that actually get around the problem. Your main argument is the good old, "g0d works in mysterious ways", you can't know how a g0d thinks, garbage. His thinking process is described, multiple times, in the Bible, and he's not described as being exceptionally bright. Scenario: A and B are planning to prank C, by A jumping out and startling C, while B videos it. Not long before the planned prank, B receives a text, from himself, from the future. It's the video of what happens. It shows C severely overreacting, tripping, falling down a flight of stairs, landing badly, and no longer living. If B does nothing, and remains an observer/recorder, things will go exactly the same way. A will never not startle C, and C will never react differently. If B truly does not want C to be unalived, they have the power to change the scenario. It's absolutely ridiculous, to claim g0d wanted any other outcome than the one he got. An all powerful being could have changed the scenario in any number of ways. Now, let's say B is actually a g0d, who created C. That means C didn't get traits through genetics or upbringing. C was created, by B, to be high strung and to overreact. Unless B changes their created tendencies, C will always react the way they reacted in the video. Even if B didn't want to change the scenario, B could design C differently, so that they don't overreact. If B changes nothing, C can't possibly do anything other than what was shown in the video from the future. In a debate about free WILL, you've argued WILLpower has nothing to do with it, which makes no sense. It has everything to do with it. If Adam never possessed enough will to resist temptation, then he never had the option to react differently. G0d both could have created a stronger Adam, and could have created a different scenario.
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  4168.  @emgtexas  If you're claiming there could be other magical beings that exist, that don't require a g0d to create them, then you don't have grounds to claim other g0ds don't exist. Not that hard. How are days old creations, so innocent of thought that they don't need clothes, and don't know good and evil, at all like middle aged adults? I'm starting to wonder if you've even read the book. And yet you've given zero realistic scenarios that would allow for Adam to make a different choice, once created. In a debate about free WILL, you've argued WILLpower has nothing to do with it, indicating you don't even know what we're talking about.
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  4169.  @emgtexas  Rofl. I didn't say that, at all. I was comparing g0d to the adult parent, who left the children alone with candy, myself. Why would I care if you compared a g0d to an adult? It's comparing newly created, completely innocent, people, to "middle aged" adults, that's nonsensical. Rofl. You used claiming it's possible g0d didn't create Satan, to dodge my previous point. Now you're claiming you do believe he created Satan. And, now you've resorted to claiming your g0d doesn't know the future of some beings, so isn't all powerful and all knowing. Yes, because it takes WILLpower to make a proper free WILL choice. If someone doesn't have the WILLpower, to override a potentially negative desire, to make a different choice, then they won't. What does it take to resist temptation, if not WILLpower? It's literally the definition.
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  4170.  @Asiyah2000  DNA does not prove that, at all. Yes, no coherent theist arguments still holds. You say your creator g0d gave free will. If your g0d can see the future, then that's impossible. If your g0d can't see the future, then there should be no g0d given prophecies.
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  4171. @emgtexas  First option: Again ... For there to be a point B of creation, that requires there being a point A of no creation. You're inventing a state of being that makes no sense. To get from point A to point B, one thing has to follow the other, meaning time already needs to be passing to create anything, which means it doesn't require being created itself. Genesis debunks the notion that God sits in some impossible place outside time. He creates things one "Day" after another. Second option: You just ignored the creation side of things. Point A, Adam doesn't exist. I jump in a time machine, and travel to point B, where I see the Adam I'm thinking about creating eating the fruit. I then travel back to point A, where Adam doesn't exist, so he can't possibly have been faced with a choice yet. IF I now create Adam, using the exact same weak willed design that I know will eat the fruit ... THEN, once created, Adam won't be able to choose not to eat the fruit, once he's actually faced with a choice.
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  4172. @emgtexas  If time is something that needs creating, then your God hasn't existed for an eternity. Eternity is the infinite passage of time. So, when did your God start existing? You can keep asserting "free will", all you want, but it would just be a fact that it would be impossible for Adam to make a different choice, once he was actually created, and actually faced with the choice. If it's impossible for him to make a different choice, then he has no "free will". You think every single person has the exact same amount of willpower as everyone else?
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  4173. @emgtexas Your words are meaningless. If time is not passing "eternal" means nothing. No end and no beginning would be us currently at point 0, and there's an infinite backwards, -1, -2, -3, ... And, infinite forwards, 1, 2, 3, ... You're the one creating a beginning of time, which would make God existing prior to that have no meaning. He would have existed for no amount of time, prior to time. God was also the parent of Adam and Eve. You just argued he was a failure of a parent, knew he was going to be a failure of a parent, and parented them the exact same way, anyway. If you understand my point of view, then why do you just keep making impossible assertions? It is impossible for an uncreated Adam to make a choice. You keep claiming he can. He doesn't exist, to do so. Once created, it would be impossible for Adam to make a different choice, or God would be wrong. If you can't possibly make a different choice, then you don't have free will. Stop just asserting you do, and explain how Adam could possibly choose differently AFTER he is created.
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  4174. @emgtexas  Rofl! You think you're the one being patient? Again, you just asserted "free will", without giving an actual explanation as to how Adam could possibly choose to do anything differently than what is already known he'd do. A: G knows Adam will choose X, at point C. B: G creates Adam. C: Adam is now faced with a choice, X or ~X. At point C, explain thoroughly, without just asserting "free will", exactly how Adam could possibly choose ~X, when God already knows he will choose X. If he did choose ~X, then God would be wrong. Is it possible for God to be wrong?
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  4175. @emgtexas  Blah, blah, again you failed to explain how Adam could possibly choose ~X, when God already knows he'll choose X. At point C, if Adam chose ~X, that would make God wrong. Can your God possibly be wrong? If God can't possibly be wrong, then Adam can't possibly pick ~X.
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  4176. @emgtexas  How can you make a decision, if you don't exist? Make sense.
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  4177. @emgtexas  I didn't ask how he knows. I asked how someone who doesn't exist can make a decision. You seem about as sharp as a spoon.
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  4178. @emgtexas  This debate is already based on the notion that God can magically see the future. Reiterating that God can magically see the future is an entirely redundant statement. Day 5: Adam doesn't actually exist. Someone who doesn't exist can't make decisions. God magically sees the future, beyond Day 6, and sees that the Adam he's about to create will eat the fruit. Day 6: God creates Adam, with the same level of inner strength, and provides Adam with the same parental guidance, that he knows are doomed to fail. Beyond Day 6: The now existing, weak willed, poorly parented, Adam reaches the point of being faced with a choice. Adam can't possibly choose not to eat the fruit or God will have been wrong. ___ You keep talking as if the entire future, the entire timeline, actually exists already. If that were the case, then nothing would need creating. Also, if God had created everything, including the entirety of time, in an instant, then Genesis makes zero sense. And, if every point in time, including every "decision", had been instantly created, by God, that would also negate free will. The entirety of time would be exactly how he wanted it to be.
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  4179. @emgtexas  Rofl. If he exists, then he doesn't need to be created, dingus.
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  4180. @emgtexas  Again, you're just stating a redundancy, that he can see the future. That's already a given, in the debate. He sees the future, before Adam is created. Adam is then created. How can the now created Adam possibly choose to do anything differently, than what God has seen? If he does, God will have been wrong.
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  4181. @emgtexas  That he can see the future was a given, from the start, dingus! That's not what's being debated.
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  4182. @emgtexas  You seem to have lost the entire plot, and don't even know what the debate is.
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  4183. @emgtexas  You can make up whatever magical nonsense you want, for how God can see the future. That's irrelevant. That he can, some way, some how, is already a given. The question is ... once created, once he's actually brought into existence, once he's actually truly facing a choice in reality, how could Adam possibly choose to do anything differently than what God already knows?
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  4184. @emgtexas  He doesn't actually exist yet, dmwt!
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  4185. @emgtexas  How he sees the future is irrelevant! If Adam requires being created, then Adam doesn't truly exist yet. How can someone who doesn't exist make a decision? If the future Adam actually exists, then he doesn't require being created.
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  4186. @emgtexas  You have already argued that your God is a failure of a teacher. You briefly argued that other powerful magical beings might exist that don't require a creator, which could include other gods, before back peddling. You're the one not grasping what it means to be created. For there to be a point of creation (Day 6 for Adam), that means there needs to be a previous point (Day 5 and before) when the creation didn't yet exist. How can someone who doesn't exist make a decision? That's what you keep claiming. Explain how.
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  4187. @emgtexas  How many times ... Looking forward in time is already in a given dingus! But what God "sees" doesn't actually exist yet, or it wouldn't need to be created. Once created ... Once he actually comes into existence ... Once he's actually truly faced with the choice ... How can Adam possibly choose to things differently?
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  4188. @emgtexas  Try this: Prior to creating anything, your god sees that Adam will fail. Does your god then have the power to create things differently? Can he choose not to create the tree, not create the snake, not create Satan, choose a different Adam and Eve design, choose to be a better teacher (you claimed willpower is all in the teaching, that there's nothing inherent about it, which would mean there was nothing inherently wrong with Adam, only with how he was taught)? Or, is your god's power limited? If your god's power is unlimited, then the future he saw, where Adam fails, was only one of an unlimited potential futures, that would only happen if God chose to create/teach Adam and Eve to be weak willed, chose to create the tree, chose to create the snake, chose to create Satan ... And then he went ahead and created things exactly that way anyway. Your god didn't see an actual existing person make a choice.
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  4189. @emgtexas  Why are you prattling on about irrelevant nonsense? Doesn't matter what Satan started as, your all knowing god would know what he'd turn into, before creating him, right dingus? Yes, you said willpower was all teacher. Right, god would be responsible, either way, since he's both creator and parent. "A range of willpower" ... And he knew that "range" would be inadequate, before creating Adam. They don't f-ing exist, dingus! If they did, then they wouldn't need creating. And, if that's the actual, only possible future, and your god can't make any changes, prior to creating things, then you're now also arguing your god isn't omnipotent, on top of being incompetent.
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  4190. @emgtexas  Rofl. Ironic opening, considering the fact that Satan "chosing" is irrelevant to the point I made, dingus. The point was that your god could have chosen not to create him, if he really wanted Adam to succeed, and if he was all powerful enough to change the vision of the future he saw. Apparently you're arguing your god is not all powerful, and apparently you are too daft to grasp any points being made. That takes willpower, dingus, which he didn't have enough of. The entire premise of the story was that they didn't know good from evil, right from wrong, dingus. He chose to leave two innocent, ignrnt, mental and emotional children, that he knew would fail, that he knew he hadn't given the proper skills to, alone with Satan and a tree that would curse them and their descendants for all eternity. Yeah, the circle is because you haven't solved the problem, dmwt. How can someone who doesn't exist make an actual choice? Or, how can someone who now exists chose to do something differently than what God saw, prior to creating them? Constantly repeating that God can see the future, when that's already a given, means you're as sharp as a spoon. Even a god's morality would be based on their own subjective likes and dislikes. Your god wasn't required to create pigs, make them tasty, and then declare it immoral to eat them. He felt like it.
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  4191.  @emgtexas  Rofl. Ironic opening, considering the fact that Satan "choosing" is irrelevant to the point I made, dingus. The point was that your god could have chosen not to create him, if he really wanted Adam to succeed, and if he was all powerful enough to change the vision of the future he saw. Apparently you're arguing your god is not all powerful, and apparently you are too thick to grasp any points being made. Yeah, that takes willpower, dingus, which he didn't have enough of. The entire premise of the story was that they didn't know good from evil, right from wrong. He chose to leave two innocent, ignrnt, effectively children, that he knew would fail, that he knew he hadn't given the proper skills to, alone with Satan and a tree that would curse them and their descendants for all eternity. But, apparently you're now arguing your God didn't have a choice. That he's not all powerful. That the future he sees is set in stone, and he can't deviate from it. Yeah, the circle is because you haven't solved the problem, dingus. How can someone who doesn't exist make an actual choice? Or, how can someone who now exists chose to do something differently than what God saw, prior to creating them? Constantly repeating that God can see the future, when that's already a given, means you're as sharp as a spoon. Even a god's morality would be based on their own subjective likes and dislikes. Your god wasn't required to create pigs, make them tasty, and then declare it immoral to eat them. He felt like it.
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  4192. @emgtexas  So, just to recap: You've argued there could possibly be other powerful uncreated beings in existence. You've argued your god is an incompetent parent. You've now argued your god isn't omnipotent. You've argued a future Adam both exists and doesn't exist. 🤣
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  4193. @emgtexas  That you're as sharp as a spoon, is simply an objective fact, at this point. You don't even seem to grasp how fractions/percentages work. A few choice words, here and there is not half. Either you don't grasp them or you're the one lying. Only two options. Pick one. What do you think I lied about? If God sees a future where Adam eats the fruit, and you claim that's the actual, unchangeable, future ... That means your god has limits. If he hasn't actually created anything yet, there should be an infinite number of possible futures, all depending on what he decides to do. Only if that future is a possibility, but not fixed, can your god have the ability to change things. You've clearly chosen to give your god limitations. You made out like point C is an already existing future, which would mean it doesn't need creating. Then, you backtracked and said it doesn't exist. But, then you again claimed that someone who doesn't exist can make a decision. Totally inchrnt. You very clearly openly stated that other powerful beings, besides your god, might not need creating, before backtracking.
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  4194. @emgtexas  Glad we agree that you just made stuff up, while trying to dodge that your God created Satan and evil, and then back peddled. How did I dodge anything, when I said even a god's morality would be subjectivity based? All morality is. Absolutely nobody has ever provided a valid argument for objective morality. Even your own god provided a subjectivity based measure of morality ... Love (subjectivity) your neighbor as yourself ... Do unto others as you would like (subjectivity) done to you. Yes, you repeatedly made out like your god was standing outside the timeline, watching it happen, as if it all existed already. But then when I pointed out that would mean it wouldn't need creating, you stated the timeline doesn't exist. But then you again say your god is watching a future that exists. Totally inchrnt. And, if that's the only possible, unchangeable, future, you've also now provided limits to your god's abilities. To be clear, I'm agnostic about the existence of gods the same way I'm agnostic about the existence of aliens. However, I'm quite certain that Star Trek, Spock, the Bible, and its God, are works of fiction.
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  4195. @emgtexas  People who don't exist yet, can't make actual decisions. If a future them already exists, making decisions, then they don't need creating. You're arguing for the impossible, or for non creation. Uh huh, so your god thought it would be "good" to knowingly unleash evil (tree), and Satan, onto the world. And, your god lacks the ability to make a different decision, once he sees the future. It's not simply a potential future, according to you. Do you think Greek mythology is fact, or fiction? Again, you're arguing that your god is limited. Either your god can subjectively pick and choose whatever he feels is moral, or immoral ... or your god is himself limited by some outside force. Yeah, I know what kind of ice cream I like. Doesn't change the fact that what I like is subjective. Nobody argues that subjectivity doesn't exist. Our subjectivity (likes, dislikes, biases, desires, etc.) objectively exists.
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  4196.  @emgtexas  The point at issue, is prior to the creation's existence and any actual decisions it could make. It doesn't exist. If you say there's an existing future Adam, making actual decisions, then Adam doesn't need creating. If you say an uncreated, non existent, Adam can make decisions, then you're arguing for the logically impossible. No creation or the logically impossible ... which is it? And yet, you keep arguing your god does have limits, by claiming the future he sees is a fixed actual future, and not simply a possible future. If Satan sits down and bets God that he can make Job deny him ... then God looks into the future, if Satan's suggestion is accepted, and sees that Job would pass the tests (abuse, suffering, and mrdr) ... Could your god have chosen not to pointlessly trtr Job? Was the future seen only one possibility, or was it the one and only fixed future and your god incapable of choosing to do otherwise? In the end, your god chose to allow for the pointless suffering, just so he could win a bet. Do you think there's some big difference between Thor and Spock? Now you're arguing your god has limits, again. If your god isn't subjectively picking and choosing whatever he thinks is moral or immoral, then what ... is some outside influence making him? Does he not have the ability to choose whatever he likes? Love is subjectivity. Like is subjectivity. Yes, I know I like pizza. It being an objective fact that I subjectively think pizza is good, doesn't magically make it an objective fact that pizza is good.
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  4197. @emgtexas  Rofl. You can't defy being created, dingus. For a thing to be created, it means there was a point when it didn't exist. A non existent thing can't make decisions. No creation needed, if you think a future Adam exists already. "Objective in your mind" ... Apparently you also don't know the definition of "objective". 🤣
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  4198. @emgtexas  You've argued non existent beings can do things. So, it's fair to say a god isn't even needed for creation, if it can both not exist and create.
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  4199. @emgtexas  Nah. It's just repeated evidence that you'll completely invent a nonsensical argument, to try and support your nonsensical position.
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  4200. @emgtexas  I've listened to you just fine. You've effectively argued that a being that doesn't exist can do things. Therefore, no need for gods, since they can create things without existing. I repeat the same thing, because you repeatedly just reiterate the starting given, and think you've solved the problem. That the creator can see the future causes the problem. Repeatedly stating they can see the future doesn't solve it, dingus.
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  4201. @emgtexas  Admitting that you invented what was effectively a gibberish argument, doesn't change the fact you did. Try informing yourself, before making an argument. If you walk into an ice cream shop, do they have to offer you 💩 flavor, for you to have free will?
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  4202. @emgtexas  Ah ha! A potential future is what I said, and what you repeatedly argued against. That means god chose to create that specific outcome, out of all the potential outcomes. Thanks for playing.
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  4203. @emgtexas  I'm asking ... if the creator of the ice cream, and the creator of the ice cream shop scenario, doesn't offer you 💩 flavor, have they removed your ability to choose?
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  4204. @emgtexas  You don't exist yet, dingus!
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  4205. @emgtexas  🤣 Unless you're arguing your god doesn't know which one you'll pick, prior to creating you, in which case he's not all knowing.
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  4206. @emgtexas  And yet you haven't provided a single coherent one. "Through his knowledge of our decision" ... Something that doesn't exist can't make an actual decision. You keep arguing we don't need creating, since we're already existing, and making decisions, in the future. "we can go"? That's not the same as knowing which way we will go. If there are an infinite possible future outcomes, because your god is infinitely powerful and can create, or not create, whatever he wants ... Then, either your god doesn't know exactly which outcome will happen, prior to creating things, or he has picked a single outcome and created that, in which case there's no possible way for a different outcome to happen.
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  4207. @emgtexas   And I've repeatedly explained that him having the ability to see the future is already a given, and actually part of the problem. But there you go, yet again, just reiterating that he can see the future, of someone that doesn't exist yet, someone who can't actually make real live decisions. You repeatedly talk as if he's sitting outside the timeline, that the timeline already exists, that the decision maker already exists in that future timeline, which would mean he doesn't need to be created. Also, an all knowing god should know exactly what will happen, before even creating the timeline, since you also claim time needs creating. Even your future Adam couldn't exist, before the timeline exists. Everything you've said is completely incoherent. What are you talking about? He created the devil. Was there no purpose to doing that? What's "good" about allowing "evil"? That's like saying we shouldn't cover electrical sockets, so toddlers can have free choice. Or, like saying an ice cream shop should offer 💩 flavor, and we don't have free will if they don't.
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  4208. @emgtexas  Rofl! You don't need to offer me 💩 flavor ice cream, for me to have free will. Offering only good flavors works just fine. That argument, that you have to offer "evil" for there to be free will, is complete nonsense. What do you find so hard to understand about the words "prior to creation"? How can it "continue by its decisions" prior to it existing, dingus? If the place exists to be in, prior to creating it, then it doesn't need creating. Got it.
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  4209. @emgtexas  I don't think you've even read the fairytale you're defending. God created the tree (ice cream shop) and the flavors (good and evil). I want the ability to teleport myself around. Why has god limited my free will? If having free will requires having unlimited options available, then we should have superpowers. If it doesn't require having unlimited options, then there's no good reason to create evil, and offer it as an option.
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  4210. @emgtexas  Right. Our disagreement is that everything you're saying is nonsensical.
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  4211. @emgtexas  I'm not the one saying non existent people, in a non existent future, can make decisions. That's gibberish.
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  4212. @emgtexas  But he gave us limits, denied us options. That's denying free will, according to you. You don't even seem to grasp the premise, that Adam and Eve were entirely clueless to the fact that eating the fruit was a sin (evil) because they had no knowledge of good and evil until they ate.
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  4213. @emgtexas  I'm not the one claiming people who don't exist can make decisions, dingus. That's all you.
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  4214. @emgtexas Uh huh, and you've gotten no closer to making any sense. The only kind of decisions that can be made by people who don't exist, on a timeline that doesn't exist, are decisions that don't exist. All you keep arguing is that your god isn't needed, because the people and timeline already exist.
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  4215. @emgtexas  It literally says they were running around wearing nothing, feeling no shame, just like little kids do. Your god created the tree of knowledge of evil ... created evil ... and they had no knowledge of evil (sin) prior to eating the fruit.
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  4216. @emgtexas  Rofl. If you had actually grasped what you read, you would have grasped that she had already eaten, so already gained knowledge of good and evil, before saying that, dingus. Knowing what someone said, and understanding the ramifications of disobeying them, are two different things. God stated they now know good and evil, "like us" (whoever "is" is), and there's zero indication they knew anything of the sort, prior to eating the fruit. If your god had actually wanted them to live forever, he would have just snapped his fingers and made them immortal. Instead, he borrowed an ambrosia tree, from other mythologies, and created one for himself. If the snake was the devil, which it says nowhere and is entirely invented by apologists, then why did your God punish snakes? But, I'm glad you've now reread that your god created the tree, so therefore created evil, and will stop lying about it.
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  4217. @emgtexas  Your video literally says that only god has free will, so narrator won't use those words for the rest of the video. Once again, we already have choices, when only offered good flavors, and don't need to be offered 💩 flavors. God chose to offer the 💩 flavors, knowing full well Adam and Eve would choose to eat them, before ever creating them. They were predestined to fail. Also, Jesus was an ignrnt carpenter, turn apclps preacher, who believed in a domed flat earth and a fictional global flood.
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  4218. @emgtexas  So now you've agreed that people don't have free will, or will you back peddle yet again?
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  4219. @emgtexas  If it's possible to have both limits and free will, then you don't need to have limits to evil removed, to have free will, exactly like I said. Already been over this, but you argued against it. Now you're arguing for it. Then you'll argue against it. Then for, then against. You are just about the most inchrnt theist I've ever run across. It also refers to snakes as just snakes many times in the Bible. You haven't got there? You didn't even manage to finish only 2 pages about the tree and eating the fruit? He cursed snakes to forever slither on the ground and get under the heel of women. Rofl. "Ambrosia" is an immortality giving food or drink, in Greek mythology. Does the tree of life produce fruit that grants immortality? Yes. Then, it's an ambrosia tree. An all powerful god could just make them immortal, or remove that immortality, by thought. The tree is completely pointless. Just something borrowed from other mythologies, like much of the OT. He had absolutely no reason to punish them. Your all knowing god would have actually known that Earth 1.0, starting with Adam, would completely fail, and that he'd begin all over with Earth 2.0, starting with Noah. There was absolutely no good reason for anything, no point to anything, prior to Noah, in that fairytale. Being all powerful, he could have seen his failure of a creation, changed his mind, and started with Noah instead. He chose failure. Rofl. God is depicted as not being very intelligent, in the Bible, and also mad. Did you read how he kept trying to create companions for Adam, and then finally decided on creating Eve for him? If your god knew all that, before actually creating them, why didn't he just create Eve for Adam from the get go?
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  4220. @emgtexas  Rofl. Genesis 1 and 2 have contradicting orders. You can't use Genesis 1 to claim he already created them. In Genesis 2, the one where the trees and rule come into play, it literally says he made Adam before animals. Then proceeded to make animals, so Adam wouldn't be alone. “It is not good for the man to be alone. I will make a helper suitable for him.” Only then does your god proceed to make animals, looking for a suitable companion, but none are suitable. "But for Adam no suitable helper was found." Only then does your god decide to make Eve for him. You sent me to a video, which literally says only your god has free will. You already lost the debate, so no clue what position you're even arguing now. You've repeatedly pulled complete nonsense out of ... I don't know where, only to back peddle. Your arguments defy logic, and the meaning of words like "created". I've listened, but haven't heard any actual sense. You can't even make it through the 2 whole relevant pages in your own fairytale book, and don't even seem to understand the parts you are reading. You've twice now not understood the order of what it literally says (Eve's words after her gaining knowledge, not before, and animals after Adam). You don't even know that "Allah" is just Arabic for "God". Even Arabic Christians say "Allah". It's the exact same Abrahamic god, not a different god. The same god as the Jewish "Elohim". Sorry to say ... that you're about as sharp as a spoon is just a statement of fact. What's to respect?
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  4221. @emgtexas  "Ambrosia" isn't a specifically well defined thing. Just a food or drink that provides immortality. That is what the tree of life produces. Don't know what you're arguing about. The argument is to not create the bad options. It's not to not create Adam, dingus. It's you that doesn't listen. You've now managed to make it through the one whole page where it says your god created the evil tree, right? You are yourself now arguing that all options aren't required to have "free will", right? So, there's nothing good about creating evil, knowing Adam will eat it. It's not required for "free will". He created it, because that's actually what he wanted to happen. There's no other reason for doing it, even according to you now.
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  4222. @emgtexas   Rofl. Even if you fantasize there is no contradiction in the creation order, it would still be pointless to go through all the animals, searching for a companion, knowing full well none would be found and that he'd end up needing to create Eve. He could have just skipped the whole process, and jumped straight to creating Eve. Either your god is as sharp as a spoon, or he doesn't actually know the future (which would help your failed "free will" argument). Lol, now you're pretending you know "how Mohammed put him"? You couldn't even make it through 2 whole pages of your own book. 🤣
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  4223. @emgtexas  You left off your foreknowledge, dingus. If you know full well, before handing your kid the knife, that they will cut themselves, and you still hand it to them, then ... YES, that's exactly what you wanted to happen. Only your inability to know the future, would allow for it to be an accident, and not something you wanted to happen. Dingus, why give them the ability to do evil, in the first place? Why include it in "what you have"? Your god clearly didn't want us to teleport around, so didn't give us the ability to do it. Then why give us the ability to do evil, if he didn't want us to use that ability? You're now arguing that "free will" is both unaffected by limitations and affected by limitations. Not letting me teleport around, is limiting me only to options according to his will, dingus. You are a great source of endless logical contradictions. 🤣 Rofl. You think they were smarter than that? There's zero evidence of the OT existing prior to the exile in Babylon. Guess what ... The Mesopotamians had a flood myth, a garden myth, a tower of Babel myth, a man made of clay myth, ... No, I don't think they were any smarter than those around them, who all borrowed and shared myths with each other. Again ... Jesus believed in the domed flat earth OT model, and in the totally fictional global flood. He was an ignrnt carpenter, turned apclps preacher. Do you believe you could see all the nations on earth, from the highest mountain, on a sphere? Or, see the tallest tree from everywhere on earth, on a sphere? Those would only be possible on a flat earth. Do you believe all the stars can fall to earth? That would only be possible if they were tiny little lights within the firmament (dome). Do you believe the moon is itself a light? It's not. Do you believe the Earth is only about 6000 years old? It's not. Do you believe that all of mankind, and all animals, rebooted from one tiny starting point, within the last 6000 years? They didn't.
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  4224. @emgtexas You left off your foreknowledge, dingus. If you know full well, before handing your kid a sharp object, that they will harm themselves, and you still hand it to them, then ... YES, that's exactly what you wanted to happen. Only an inability to know the future, would allow for it to be an accident, and not something you wanted to happen. Dingus, why give them the ability to do evil, in the first place? Why include it in "what you have"? Your god clearly didn't want us to teleport around, so didn't give us the ability to do it. Then why give us the ability to do evil, if he didn't want us to use that ability? You're now arguing that "free will" is both unaffected by limitations and affected by limitations. Not letting me teleport around, is limiting me only to options according to his will, dingus. You are a great source of endless logical contradictions. 🤣 Rofl. You think they were smarter than that? There's zero evidence of the OT existing prior to the exile in Babylon. Guess what ... The Mesopotamians had a flood myth, a garden myth, a tower of Babel myth, a man made of clay myth, ... No, I don't think they were any smarter than those around them, who all borrowed and shared myths with each other. Again ... Jesus believed in the domed flat earth OT model, and in the totally fictional global flood. He was an ignrnt carpenter, turned apclps preacher. Do you believe you could see all the nations on earth, from the highest mountain, on a sphere? Or, see the tallest tree from everywhere on earth, on a sphere? Those would only be possible on a flat earth. Do you believe all the stars can fall to earth? That would only be possible if they were tiny little lights within the firmament (dome). Do you believe the moon is itself a light? It's not. Do you believe the Earth is only about 6000 years old? It's not. Do you believe that all of mankind, and all animals, rebooted from one tiny starting point, within the last 6000 years? They didn't.
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  4225. @emgtexas   You left off your foreknowledge, dingus. If you know full well, before handing your kid a sharp object, that they will harm themselves, and you still hand it to them, then ... YES, that's exactly what you wanted to happen. Only an inability to know the future, would allow for it to be an accident, and not something you wanted to happen. Dingus, why include the ability to do evil in "what you have"? Your god clearly didn't want us to teleport around, so didn't give us the ability to do it. Then why give us the ability to do evil, if he didn't want us to use that ability? You're now arguing that "free will" is both unaffected by limitations and affected by limitations. Not letting me teleport around, is limiting me only to options according to his will, dingus. You are a great source of endless logical contradictions. 🤣 Rofl. There's zero evidence of the OT existing prior to the exile in Babylon. Guess what ... The Mesopotamians had a flood myth, a garden myth, a tower of Babel myth, a man made of clay myth, ... No, I don't think they were any brighter than those around them, who all borrowed and shared myths with each other. Again ... Jesus believed in the domed flat earth OT model, and in the totally fictional global flood. He was an ignrnt carpenter, turned apclps preacher. Do you truly believe that all the stars in the sky could fall to Earth? That would only be possible if they were tiny little lights, within the firmament (dome), as described in Genesis. In actuality, stars are distant suns, and if one got close enough, it would be the Earth that would fall into it, and it would only take one.
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  4226. @emgtexas You conveniently left off your foreknowledge. If you know full well, before handing a kid a sharp object, that they will definitely harm themselves, and you still hand it to them, then ... YES, that's exactly what you wanted to happen. Only an inability to know the future, would allow for it to be an accident, and not something you wanted to happen. Why include the ability to do evil in "what you have"? Your god clearly didn't want us to teleport around, so didn't give us the ability to do it, didn't include it in "what you have". Then why give us the ability to do evil, if he didn't want us to use that ability? You're now arguing that "free will" is both unaffected by limitations and affected by limitations. Not letting me teleport around, is limiting me only to options according to his will. Zero sense, coming from that end. Rofl. There's zero evidence of the OT existing prior to the exile in Babylon. Guess what ... The Mesopotamians had a flood myth, a garden myth, a tower of Babel myth, a man made of clay myth, ... No, I don't think they were any different than those around them, who all borrowed and shared myths with each other. Again ... Jesus believed in the domed flat earth OT model, and in the totally fictional global flood. He was an ignrnt carpenter, turned apclps preacher. Do you believe you could see all the nations on earth, from one spot, on a sphere?
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  4227. @emgtexas  It literally says they went through all the animals, looking for a companion. I already quoted it for you. I also just stated it was still a waste of time, looking for a companion amongst animals, even if you want to ignore the creation part. And, you come back prattling on about creation. You can't even understand words, when you do read them. Ignore the creation, and it was still a waste of time, looking for a helper amongst the animals, knowing full well he'd have to create Eve anyway. I stopped reading. I'm starting to think you have an actual disability. Please let me know if you do.
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  4228. @emgtexas  I didn't read the rest because the first part was such a failure. There's clearly some lack of ability going on. "15The Lord God placed the man in the Garden of Eden to tend and watch over it." "18Then the Lord God said, “It is not good for the man to be alone. I will make a helper who is just right for him.” 19So the Lord God formed from the ground all the wild animals and all the birds of the sky." Do you know what the word "then" means? Do you know what the word "so" means? They indicate an order of things happening. That you couldn't see a contradiction to Genesis 1, suggests you don't even know what those little words mean. Do you know what "all" means? That you proposed that he had made some animals in Genesis 1, and then some more for the garden, means you also don't know what "all" means. "20He gave names to all the livestock, all the birds of the sky, and all the wild animals. But still there was no helper just right for him." Do you know what the word "but" means? It means they were trying to accomplish a thing, something other than naming the animals, BUT didn't succeed ... didn't find a "helper just right for him". "23“At last!” the man exclaimed." Do you know what those words mean? They mean "Finally!" ... they finally succeeded. They could have succeeded by simply doing that first. What grade level do we need to drop down to, exactly?
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  4229. @emgtexas  Rofl. What version, dingus? You know there are multiple versions, right? You: There's no contradiction! Everything was created in Genesis 1! Genesis 2 totally isn't retelling the story in a different order! Genesis 2: "5 Now no shrub of the field was yet on the earth, and no plant of the field had yet sprouted, for the Lord God had not sent rain upon the earth, and there was no man to cultivate the ground." You: Hur. Dur. I S. M. R. T. Smart!
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  4230. @emgtexas  Even after completely failing at the original free will debate, you keep insisting on proving, over, and over, that there are some serious problems going on, on that end. I mean seriously, my reply opens, "Rofl. Genesis 1 and 2 have contradicting orders.". You didn't even have to open up any replies and read through them, to find it. Now you've just argued that "mankind" was created in Genesis 1, so the Adam created in Genesis 2 wasn't the first man created, and everyone doesn't descend from him and Eve, since the "mankind" in Genesis 1 was told to multiply. Pretty sure that now contradicts other passages. So, why did all the other humans, who were created in Genesis 1, and aren't descendants of Adam ... according to you ... get cursed for Adam being a failure? Your "genius" is truly unrivaled.
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  4231. @emgtexas  Rofl, you brought up Genesis 1, not me. I was talking about the stuff in Genesis 2, the tree and whatnot, until you did. Rofl. Genesis 2: "5 ... and there was no man to cultivate the ground." ... " 7 Then the Lord God formed the man of dust from the ground, and breathed into his nostrils the breath of life; and the man became a living person." If "mankind" in Genesis 1 was already created, then Adam isn't included in "mankind", because he's being created in Genesis 2. If Genesis 2 is a retelling, and "mankind" and "Adam" are the same, then Genesis 2 is in a contradictory order. Pick one.
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  4232. @emgtexas  No matter how many times I tell you that god's perspective is irrelevant, you keep bringing it up. That he can see the future, some way, some how, is exactly what causes the problem. The problem then lies with Adam. Point A: I am Adam, but I don't yet exist. If I exist in the future, then I don't need to be created. Not yet existing means I can't make any real world choices. However, my creator knows I will choose to do X, at Point B. Point B: I have now been created, and am faced with a real world choice. If I choose to do ~X, my creator will be wrong. My creator can't be wrong, so I can't possibly choose ~X.
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  4233. @emgtexas  We're off topic, because the free will topic was done. You outright sent me to a video that literally said only god has free will. You lost. Then you started backtracking, yet again, and making out like "mankind" had some predefined definition, with preset limitations, once again taking agency and ability away from your own god. Your god could have made us with any number of limitations, or without any, and still called us "mankind". You were just arbitrarily declaring some necessary (taking power from your own god's ability) and arguing limitations are both acceptable and unacceptable.
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  4234. @emgtexas You literally sent me to a video, that said exactly that ... that only god has free will. I stopped reading, at that point. I advise seeking a MH professional. There are some serious problems going on, there.
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  4235. @emgtexas  Because he was a maroon. He thought stars could fall to Earth.
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  4236. @emgtexas  You opened with contradicting a video that you, yourself, told me to watch "bro", so I stopped reading. You can debate yourself, at this point, you've contradicted yourself so much. What's to answer? If there's no creator, then it wasn't a creation. Pretty simple.
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  4237. @emgtexas  Also, it isn't a metaphor. It's what's described in Genesis 1. Jesus was an ignrnt carpenter who believed "stars" were tiny little lights within the firmament (dome), so could fall to Earth, and that the moon has its own light.
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  4238. @emgtexas  Why would I need to read past you contradicting yourself, yet again? Don't open with such a horrible failure. Do better, dingus. You're just asserting everything has a creation. Prove it.
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  4239.  @emgtexas  You inserted the "nothing" and the "created". Again you're arguing with yourself. I literally said not a creation. Is English not your first language? You also don't seem to understand "infinitely", if you think it has a start or end. Are you saying your god hasn't existed for eternity? When was his starting point, and who was his creator?
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  4240.  @emgtexas  The Big Bang doesn't say there was absolutely nothing prior to it. In fact, the Law of Conservation of Mass states that matter can't be created or destroyed. It may have just had a different previous form. If everything needs creating, then why does Genesis 1 state that water already existed? Like many mythologies, god then forms things out of the already existing primordial waters.
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  4241. @emgtexas  How do contradictory passages, hundreds of years later, "clear that up"? Biblical contradictions don't clear anything up. They're evidence it's all nonsense. You've basically got two options for Genesis 1:1 ... First, he actually creates earth and heaven at 1:1. In that case, you can try and claim that includes the waters, but it makes Day 2 senseless, when he creates heaven again. Second, 1:1 is like a headline, and everything that follows is how he created earth and heaven. In that case, the primordial waters already exist (like in numerous other mythologies), since the first thing it says he creates is light. It says, "beginning of what we know". There are multiple hypothesis about before the Big Bang. And, even if you claim that was when time came into existence, that would mean nothing existed "before", not even a creator. To get from point A, no creation, to point B, creation, would require time already existing. It would be impossible for time to be created.
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  4242. @emgtexas  I'll mark down "if you" as more little words you don't seem to know the definitions of. You are arguing that nothing existed, for any amount of time, prior to creation. That means your god didn't exist for any amount of time, prior to time existing. So, who created your god, since he has a starting point? Only eternity (infinite time) has no starting, or ending, points. I remember when theists used to claim their god was eternal. Now they're claiming he too has a starting point. Weird stuff. Is he like the Egyptian god Ptah, who nonsensicallly created himself? Water is mentioned before he creates light, and the days start to pass. Before you were arguing there was "THE" Bible. Now you're arguing that, not only are there other versions, but "THE" Bible isn't even translated properly. You can't seem to keep anything straight. The "primordial waters", or "cosmic ocean", represent chaos, from which the creator god (in multiple mythologies) creates order. Calling it a "void" doesn't debunk my argument. Egyptian mythology: "The void itself was described as a primordial body of water out of which rose up a mound shaped like a pyramid—a benben." Only 2 original apostles, and supposed NT writers, claimed to have seen undead Jesus, Matthew and John. The only other supposed writer, to make the claim, was Paul. Absolutely nobody else wrote down their testimony. That's just 3 people, not hundreds. I take it you believe in aliens, since you think alien abduction claims are valid evidence.
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  4243. @emgtexas  Ironic opening, dingus, considering the fact that I said it already "existed", not that it was already "created". I totally agree. It wasn't "created". You seem to be arguing with yourself, yet again. No. You stated you had read "the" Bible, and then accused me of not being able to read, because those passages weren't in "the" Bible. You have one of the absolutely worst memories that I have ever run across, in my entire life. Eternal = infinite time. You just claimed time had a starting point. Arguing with yourself, yet again. Pick one. Can't be both.
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  4244. @emgtexas  You also seem to have confused the word "separated" for "created". At no point does your god create any waters, which you yourself just agreed represented water, on Day 2. He separates the waters above (fresh) from the waters below (salt) with a dome.
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  4245. @emgtexas  You: "I am reading THE Bible and those NUMBERS are not THE passages at all." You now: I didn't say THE Bible and you didn't number the passages!
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  4246. @emgtexas  You: Eternity (infinite time) doesn't exist! Also you: God is eternal!
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  4247. @emgtexas  Again ... Later contradictory passages is just evidence the book is nonsense. In Genesis 1, it literally doesn't say the waters are created. They're there before it says God creates a single thing. There's absolutely nothing you can say to change that fact.
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  4248. ​ @barbaraklein3944  The 100 year bloody history of Likud ... In 1923, 100 years ago, Ze'ev Jabotinsky wrote, The Iron Wall, and a follow up, The Ethics of The Iron Wall (sooo racist towards Africans), in which he fully acknowledged that post Balfour Zionsim was colonialism, and that, based on the entirety of history, the native Palestinian population would resist being colonized until the bitter end. He directly compared it to the colonization of North America. He promoted doing it anyway, claiming Zionist colonialism was a "just" colonialism (he also thought North American colonialists were good guys, so not a great judge of morality), not caring what that meant for the native population. Ze'ev is important, because his Betar militant youth group helped found the Irgun terrorist group, along with other supporters of his, and the splinter Lehi terrorist group. The Irgun bombed numerous Palestinian markets and other public places, murdering many Palestinian civilians, including children, even including Palestinian Jews (who didn't support colonialist Zionsim). The Irgun are important, because they ended up being led by future Likud PM, Menachem Begin, who bombed the King David Hotel. The King David Hotel was bombed because the British had raided the Jewish Agency and seized numerous documents that may have shown that the terrorists were working with the JA and Haganah (JA liked to pretend that they didn't support the terrorism). The British then stored those documents at their base, in the hotel. That the Irgun terrorists responded to a JA raid, itself seems to prove the connection. That the thousands of Irgun (and Lehi) terrorists were also quickly merged into the new nation's military (IDF) and intelligence (Mossad) agencies, and are still celebrated as "heroes" by Israelis, to this day, also seems to support total collaboration between the groups. That other terrorist group mentioned, Lehi (also known as the Stern Gang), was considered even more extreme. They even tried to ally with the Nazis, against the British. Lehi ended up being led by Yitzhak Shamir, future Mossad agent, and another future Likud PM. In 1945, there was a major land and peoples survey done in Palestine. It showed that the Zionists only owned about 5% of the total land, 20% of the arable land, and owned a majority in zero districts. The partition was not only going to be forced on the native Palestinian majority, but Jews were still going to be a minority, in the part allocated to them. The only possible way to even become a "Jewish state" was going to require getting rid of the actual majority (at least enough so that there'd be a solid Jewish majority, so they could fake being democratic). This is also shown by the 1948, post Nakba, population of Israel. If there was 716,700 Jews, 156,000+ non-Jews, and approximately 700k non-Jews ethnically cleansed, that means the Jewish population, in the Zionist portion of partition, was originally over 100,000 less than the non-Jewish population. To believe that there was never any intent, by Zionists, to ethnically cleanse away the Palestinian majority would require believing that they never intended to create a "Jewish state". It's a nonsensical notion. Begin, and those terrorist groups, also opposed partition, but for the opposite reason Palestinians did. Palestinians didn't want to be colonized, at all. The terrorists wanted to colonize it all. "Moderate" Zionists were okay with colonizing half ... for now (what would happen in the future, after partition, was up to them, said Ben-Gurion). The Zionist terrorists were also involved in massacres, and assassinations, during the partition violence (colonialist war against the natives). Another notable future Likud PM, also started in the military, during the partition fighting. That was Ariel Sharon, war criminal, "Butcher of Beirut". Menachem Begin, and these other Zionist terrorists, are important because they also later founded Likud. Now, people get upset over the slogan "From the river to the sea!", but it's the second part that's most important, "Palestine will be free!". Because "Palestine" isn't defined as an ethno-state, a free Palestine can be a single state, free for all to live in, and return to, free of continuing colonization, free of occupation, free of oppression, etc. Just like a Germany free of Nazism, an Italy free of fascism, a South Africa free of apartheid, or an America free of slavery from sea to shiny sea. It doesn't necessitate purging all the Jews. It just necessitates them giving up on the idea of an ethno-state. On the other hand, because "Israel" has been defined as an ethno-state, Likud's, "between the sea and the Jordan there will only be Israeli sovereignty", has no possible good interpretation. It is a declaration of intent to completely colonize, and ethnically cleanse, all Palestine territories. Not only that, but it also claims that they have a "right" to all of the "Land of Israel" (biblical borders that don't mesh with archaeological reality), which is an open declaration of future wars, against Jordan, Syria, Lebanon, and possibly even Iraq. Likud platform ... 1977: "The Right of the Jewish People to the Land of Israel (Eretz Israel) a. The right of the Jewish people to the land of Israel is eternal and indisputable and is linked with the right to security and peace; therefore, Judea and Samaria will not be handed to any foreign administration; between the Sea and the Jordan there will only be Israeli sovereignty. b. A plan which relinquishes parts of western Eretz Israel, undermines our right to the country, unavoidably leads to the establishment of a "Palestinian State," jeopardizes the security of the Jewish population, endangers the existence of the State of Israel. and frustrates any prospect of peace." "Settlement Settlement. both urban and rural. in all parts of the Land of Israel is the focal point of the Zionist effort to redeem the country, to maintain vital security areas and serves as a reservoir of strength and inspiration for the renewal of the pioneering spirit. The Likud government will call on the younger generation in Israel and the dispersions to settle and help every group and individual in the task of inhabiting and cultivating the wasteland, while taking care not to dispossess anyone." 1999: "The Government of Israel flatly rejects the establishment of a Palestinian Arab state west of the Jordan river. The Palestinians can run their lives freely in the framework of self-rule, but not as an independent and sovereign state. Thus, for example, in matters of foreign affairs, security, immigration, and ecology, their activity shall be limited in accordance with imperatives of Israel's existence, security and national needs." "The Jewish communities in Judea, Samaria, and Gaza are the realization of Zionist values. Settlement of the land is a clear expression of the unassailable right of the Jewish people to the Land of Israel and constitutes an important asset in the defense of the vital interests of the State of Israel. The Likud will continue to strengthen and develop these communities and will prevent their uprooting." All Palestine territories are officially considered occupied, by the International Court of Justice, the UN GA, the UN SC, and even in official documents of Israel's own allies. Likud is still using the blueprint for colonizing North America, in the West Bank. Move settlements out into native territory, piss off the natives, the natives retaliate, cry about poor "innocent" colonizing settlers being the "victims" of violent "Savages!", call in the cavalry to put down the native uprising, and eventually expand the borders to include those settlements. Rinse and repeat. In Gaza, they are operating an open air WWII style fascist ghetto. Them claiming a "right to defend themselves" would be like the Nazis claiming a "right to defend themselves " from the Warsaw ghetto uprising. There's no "war". That they're the occupiers means the "war" part is long over. That partition was forced upon the Palestinian majority, against their will ... that the Zionist portion still had to be forcefully ethnically cleansed of its non-Jewish majority, against their will ... that the millions of occupied Palestinians don't have a say in the government that truly rules over them, Israel's ... means Israel is about as democratic as Nazi Germany after Hitler purged his political opponents and then held elections. Hamas is basically just a poor man's Likud, only fighting against colonialism, instead of for colonialism.
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  4249. I don't think what Hamas did was morally good, or even strategically good, but it's basically impossible to say it wasn't expected. Violence is the most common response to colonialism, and ethnic cleansing. A Ghandi or Mandela response is far less common, but probably the better strategic response, so that there's no doubt who the aggressor is. A violent response allows Israel to act like the innocent victim, and respond harshly. Ze'ev Jabotinsky acknowledged that Zionism is colonialism, and predicted the native response, 100 years ago, in 1923. The native response is generally to fight, until the bitter end. Israel was also founded on terrorism, elected terrorists, like Menachem Begin, and celebrate terrorists. They were the ones who taught their neighbours that terrorism can win you a state. Israel is basically using the blueprint for colonizing North America. Send out settlers into native territory, piss off the natives, the natives react violently, the cavalry comes in and squashes the "savage" uprising, the border is eventually expanded to include the settlement, then rinse and repeat. And Gaza is basically an open air prison, similar to the ghettos of WWII. There was the Warsaw ghetto uprising. Jewish prisoners sometimes violently fought back, too. Not quite on par with a lack of proper healthcare.
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  4250. ​ @mdubs1986  So you consider denazification to itself be fscsm?
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  4251.  @mdubs1986  Didn't say he was. Just going by your stated measure of fscsm, that would make denazification itself fscsm.
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  4252.  @mdubs1986  I don't need to look up anything, dingus. Silencing people, alone, isn't fscsm. "Fscsm is the complete opposite of Marxian sclsm." ~ Mussolini
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  4253.  @mdubs1986  Rofl. "Dingus" is just an objective conclusion, based on all available evidence. I don't need to look up brown shirts, because I already know about brown shirts, dingus. That you think someone commenting on YouTube is on par with brown shirts, is just more evidence supporting the objective conclusion.
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  4254.  @mdubs1986  Didn't say you were talking about me, dingus. You stated the OP was a fscst, dingus. You keep providing evidence.
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  4255.  @mdubs1986  Just a fact that simply talking over someone isn't fscsm, dingus. That would make Piers, himself, a fscst. Even calling for people to stop saying certain things isn't fscst (like Piers telling people they shouldn't call DT mean names). Even outright silencing certain speech (false advertising, naughty words), or banning certain politics (like denazification, or Civil Rights, did), isn't fscsm. Just a fact that your measure of fscsm makes you a dingus.
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  4256.  @mdubs1986  Rofl. Goes around calling people fscsts, then whines like a little baby about objectively being a dingus. You didn't even understand the word "alone", dingus.
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  4257.  @mdubs1986  Rofl. Goes around calling people fscsts, then whines like a little baby about being called a dingus. The latter is just an objective fact. You didn't even grasp the word "alone".
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  4258.  @logicbomb8977  Dore, and his doctor of nursing practice, actually just showed you. The second number is the number being used by the government and media as people dying due to covid. The third number, on paper says "with covid". The doctor of nursing practice was wrong to say covid contributed to their deaths. That means some 20k people died "with covid" and weren't counted as dying due to covid.
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  4259.  @robbinburns6329  It's called exponential growth, ffs. 1 - 400k deaths is an increase of 400000%. 400k - 900k deaths is an increase of 125%. More people died in 2021, because the virus had already spread far and wide in 2020. It is no argument that the unvaccinated are still being infected, hospitalized, and dying, at higher rates, even with Omicron. You're uninformed. All the other mandated vaccines also have a very low risk of severe adverse reaction, and even death. It's still much much much lower odds than the odds of severe reaction, or death, due to catching the viruses. Sure, increase the insurance rates for the obese, or something ... plus have vaccines. It's not an either or scenario.
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  4260. ​ @celebrityrog  Palestinians have Canaanite DNA. They're Arab and Muslim the same way indigenous peoples of Central America are now Hispanic and Catholic. Early 20th century Zionists weren't shy about acknowledging they were the colonizers and the Palestinians were the natives. That's how the British also described things. Modern Zionists are just cowards and dishonest about who they are.
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  4261.  @bradleym.mcelroy139  Did I say you didn't know this?
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  4262.  @bradleym.mcelroy139  Errr, okay then, weird convo.
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  4263.  @bradleym.mcelroy139  Sure bub. I'll switch my likes to a dislikes, on a number of your comments to this video, to reflect "my" confusion.
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  4264.  @bradleym.mcelroy139  Lol, I don't care if you're upset, dimwit. The point was that I had liked the comment you seem to have thought I was arguing with, and that you're not very bright.
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  4265.  @mimked  The downsides are that, if they are allowed to be sold, then that means straw purchases can also be made, getting AR-15s into the hands of criminals and, since 25% of guns used in crimes are stolen, that means the more AR-15s there out in the public = the more AR-15s there are for criminals and, since most violence, including shootings, happens between people who know each other, that means the more AR-15s there are handy, when someone blows their top.
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  4266.  @2727rogers  The system needs to change, but you can't change it from the outside. The broader progressive caucus is about 15 seats away from becoming the majority of house Dems. The most popular third party hasn't won a single seat in congress in its near 50 year existence. The shortest path to progressives getting some power, is to take over the Democratic party. At 15 seats away, that's sound about the dumbest time to start from scratch. What major progressive federal policies have the NDP implemented (don't say Medicare)? Didn't vote splitting, between Liberal, NDP, and the BQ, give Canada 9 years of Stephen Harper? Isn't progressives being part of the same party as more conservative Dems, like having a coalition party, which is entirely a thing in parliamentary politics? Isn't that the smarter thing to do, against a united fascist party, rather than split votes, and hand the country to them?
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  4267.  @Fuwuzworsh  You're the one who replied to me, first, and opened with saying I was strawmanning. How can I strawman you, before ever responding to you? You're incoherent. Nader changed the Democratic party? The only change I saw was that in 2000, they had a presidential candidate running on climate change as the centerpiece of his platform. Obama and Biden have both been to the right of Gore, on that subject. Gore losing pushed them further right. Likewise, instead of bringing about a progressive wave, as Dore claimed a Trump presidency would bring about, everyone went screaming into Biden's arms. It was an Obama presidency, that ended with a progressive movement forming behind Bernie. Sure, Biden is a right winger, and letting Trump win, led to Biden. So, the answer is to let Trump, or DeSantis, win again ... let outright fascists who wanted to overthrow the democratic process win again ... because that'll do what, exactly? There's zero evidence letting Republicans win moves Democrats left. There is decades of evidence showing that, when Republicans move things further right, corporate Dems then meet them in the new "middle". There's evidence that a progressive movement can come after a fairly ineffective Dem presidency, and that repeatedly going outright backwards, with Republicans, isn't necessary. You're both arguing to not vote blue, and then pointing to polls, showing that not voting blue will lead to Republicans winning. Biden simply being ineffective isn't telling people not to vote Dem. You are. You're promoting having a Republican majority, because that'll be sooooo much better.
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  4268.  @Fuwuzworsh  Oh geez. Basically, every economic measure was already trending in the direction it was heading, under Obama. The economy's biggest economic gains came during Trump's first year ... which was still Obama's final budget. Even by Trump's own favorite economic metric, the stock market, it almost flatlined in 2018, when his first budget, and tax cuts, came into play. Then, he had one of the most incompetent covid responses, in the world, tanking the economy more than it should have, and leading to hundreds of thousands of unnecessary deaths. Australia's covid death rate would translate into about 20k total covid deaths in the US, instead of going on 800k. It was handing tons of money to corporations, instead of more money to consumers, under Trump, that allowed demand, and supply, to drop, which is why demand is now higher than supply. But, sure, "objectively" better. F*ck off.
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  4269.  @Fuwuzworsh  It is absolutely not a strawman, to point out the math, or the fact that repeatedly letting Republicans win has accomplished nothing but moving the country further right. Sorry, that you find math and facts "hysterical". Voting Obama, kept McCain and Palin out of office, and led to a progressive movement under Bernie. What did letting Trump win lead to? Where's the massive progressive wave, Dore claimed would "for sure" materialize and take the house, senate, and presidency? Oh right, that was a fantasy. That Dore fantasy, btw, was based on the argument that Trump was so much worse than Clinton, it would cause a bigger backlash (it did) ... that was suppose to be majority progressive (it wasn't). Now, your Dore knob argument is that they're tots samesies. So, you're arguing Dore was an idiot, for thinking Trump was far worse? Either way, it seems he was an idiot. You also seem to be sticking to arguing he's an idiot for saying Dems would rather lose to Republicans, than progressives. Voting Gore would have kept Dubya out of power, and put a president with climate change as their priority, in the white house. Gore and Dubya ... tots samesies. Sticking with Carter would have kept Reagan out of the white house. Carter and Reagan ... tots samesies. Voting blue works both ways, for progressives. Those who vote against progressives in the primaries still tend to vote for them in the general. It helps them win general elections. You want to split that voting, which would mostly help Republicans win generals, based on some fantasy that letting Republicans win is what will make corporate Dems change, when there's zero evidence that is the case. You want progressives to have fewer seats, be in a minority party, or be in an insignificant party with zero seats. Yeah, sounds awesome. Consider the primaries the major battle. It's also the election where there's the most room to increase voter turnout, progressive turnout. If progressives happen to lose, then still vote to keep Republicans out, vote to say you don't want the country moving any further right than a corporate Dem. Rofl, no. Profanity often comes out, when I hear something unbelievably stupid. And, I'm perfectly calm. Your mental telepathy has failed you. Labor force participation isn't the lowest in history. It isn't even lower than the lowest point, last year. Consumer confidence isn't the lowest in history. It also isn't even lower than the lowest point, last year. You're hysterically making up nonsense. Weird how a "socialist" would actually lie, to try and make Trump look better. Weird how you Dore "socialists" promote things that would benefit Republicans most.
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  4270.  @Fuwuzworsh  You get that the topic is Jimmy Dore, right, and that he doesn't promote only voting third party in solidly red or blue states, that don't matter? A strawman would be pretending that's his position when, in fact, he promotes abandoning voting blue, everywhere and anywhere.
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  4271.  @Fuwuzworsh  Rofl. I don't even like Biden, you dimwitted Dore knob. Trashing him doesn't affect my argument. How is letting Republicans win, a strategy? It's a failed "strategy", that has been repeated, for decades, and has only moved the country further right. Like I said, vote for progressives in the primaries, try to increase progressive voter participation in primaries, when more corporate Dem voters don't come out to vote. It's the best place for progressives to win, not in generals, running as third party candidates. But then, whatever the outcome, vote in the general, to say a corporate Dem is as far right as you're willing to go, to say neutral is better than reverse, to keep whatever progressives there are in the majority party rather than a minority party, and then focus on getting more progressive seats in the next primary. All the evidence points against letting Republicans win being a good "strategy", and shows it causing a Dem shift to the right, not left. All the evidence points towards a progressive movement coming about without needing a Republican in power. All the evidence points towards going third party as being a decades long endeavor, to even win a single seat in congress. The simple math of congress is that a progressive third party would need a majority, to ever be able to pass anything, and that Republicans and corporate Dems could completely ignore them, and pass anything they wanted, otherwise. Dore cites the definition of insanity, but then proposes doing the same thing, that has been happening for decades. Stop letting Republicans win, even if the current Dems kinda suck. Focus on getting corporate Dems out in the next primaries, rather than just letting them lose to Republicans, which has done absolutely nothing but repeatedly moved the country backwards. What projection? I, in no way, ever promoted Trump as being better for progressives than Clinton. I, in no way, promoted going on a far right white nationalist's propaganda show, just to largely agree with a bunch of far right talking points. I, in no way, promoted allying with psycho ancap Boogaloos that want to start a civil war, and would likely be shooting lefties, if that civil war ever came about. I, in no way, promoted abandoning Nina Turner, an ardent supporter of M4A, just because she was running as a Dem. I, in no way, promoted Tulsi (public option) over Bernie (M4A). I promote progressives get out and vote during the primaries, getting more progressives in congress, but never letting the country move further right than a corporate Dem. That's called harm avoidance, and I'll take a Chomsky, or Bernie, over a BGJ, any day of the week.
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  4272.  @Fuwuzworsh  Rofl, talk about strawmanning. Or, do you just have severe reading comprehension problems? I pointed out the fact that letting Republicans win has only moved Democrats to the right. There's zero evidence to support any fantasy that letting Republicans win will move Dems left, or cause a massive progressive backlash. The numbers argument was about ever being able to pass a progressive policy, as a third party. I made different points, and you're just not addressing that one. Are you simply agreeing, yes, a progressive third party wouldn't be able to accomplish much, even if it magically became popular enough to win a seat in our lifetime? No, letting Republicans win, and jump further right, has had corporate Dems repeatedly meet them in the new "middle", which is then further right, for decades. It's what you're proposing, that has been done over, and over. I'm proposing never letting Republicans be president, or have a majority in congress. You're proposing doing the same thing, that hasn't moved Dems left, that has moved Dems right, again.
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  4273.  @Fuwuzworsh  Bernie has always said he'd support whoever won the primaries, and that's exactly what we would have wanted, if Bernie had won. Would you have wanted Clinton and Biden saying to vote Trump, or not at all? Would you have wanted everyone who voted against Bernie in the primaries, to stay home for the general? If your answer is "yes", to any of those, then you're dumber than a stump, a Dore, or a Trump.
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  4274.  @Fuwuzworsh  Be honest, you would have wanted all the Biden and Clinton voters to keep voting blue, and stick with Bernie in the general, right?
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  4275.  @Fuwuzworsh  Carter didn't deregulate the country. That was Reagan. Clinton wasn't involved in major unilateral wars. That was Dubya. The ACA was definitely not great, but it did add some 10m of the poorest Americans to Medicaid expansion. Republicans, and Trump, have tried to scrap that, with no other healthcare plan to take its place, ever since. Your samesies argument is nonsensical.
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  4276.  @Fuwuzworsh  Republicans have gone so extreme, that they just tried to completely overthrow the democratic process, ffs. You: Samesies!
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  4277.  @Fuwuzworsh  So, Tulsi being "anti-war" (complete bullshit), wasn't the end all and be all? It's the whole bullshit reason why Dore gave her a pass on her public option healthcare, and still supported her. War topped healthcare, for him, at that point. But, Clinton having no major unilateral wars, isn't good enough. I see. Nor his economy. He wasn't perfectly perfect. I guess we can expect perfectly perfect candidates, like say Kyrsten Sinema, in third parties, right? How does being disgruntled, not getting out to vote, letting Republicans win, and having them try to toss 10m poor people off of Medicaid expansion, help prove your point? It proves they aren't samesies, and proves letting Republicans win is stupid. The ACA could actually be turned into a German like system. Private =/= bad. Unregulated private = bad. The government would just have to enforce a low price on basic coverage, make all the basic coverage the same, etc.
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  4278. If the majority of Republican lawmakers are trying to overthrow the democratic process, ditch any of their members that accept the results, and try to protect themselves by not having an investigation, how is that not a Republican policy? When they still seem to have Trump as their leader, even though he's still spewing that the election was stolen, and others of them have rallies, continuing to spread that nonsense, how is that not Republican policy? If Republican lawmakers, across the country, try to curtail voting, using the same nonsense as grounds, how is that not Republican policy? A perfect illustration of your point is that, since the Dems in the house passed the $15, and since most of the Dems in the senate voted for it, that because it didn't ultimately pass, that's a good reason to let Republicans take the house, senate, and presidency, because ... that'll really show those corporate Dems, that voted against it, what's what? Why didn't letting Trump win show them what's what, after Obama? Why didn't letting Bush win, after Clinton, show them what's what? Why didn't letting Reagan win, after Carter, show them what's what? You seem to having some serious delusion, that doesn't match the reality of the last 50 years, or more. There's absolutely zero evidence, suggesting letting Republicans win, moves corporate Dems to the left. The very fact that a Manchin doesn't give a crap, if he tanks Biden's entire platform, is evidence he doesn't give a crap. He'd probably love losing the progressive wing of the party so he, and his Republican buddies, can pass all the "bipartisan" bills they want, without having to deal with progressives in his party. You say sticking with blue, has gotten the country where it is, but that's not, at all, reality. The majority of voters have not gone out and voted blue, no matter what. Enough voters have stayed home, or voted third party, to let Republicans win over, and over. It is exactly what you're proposing, letting Republicans win again, that has gotten the country where it is. Nothing you've fantasized coming about, by letting Republicans win, has actually come about, any of those times, but you want to let them win again, because maybe this time things will be different. The majority getting out and voting, and sticking with blue, is exactly what hasn't happened. That's actual history. Let me be more clear, I'd pick a Chomsky over a dozen BGJs and Chris Hedges. Neither are anywhere close to his weight class and, quite obviously, the vast majority off progressive voters, don't agree with them, or Dore. I'm blinded? You're the one proposing doing the same thing over, and over, but thinks you're going to get a different result. You're the one following a loudmouth contrarian, who makes out like everyone who disagrees with him is a fake, fraud, or sellout, just like Dumpty. You're the one defending a jagoff who has repeatedly backed the worst healthcare policies, has abandoned adding M4A advocates to congress, but passes himself off as some champion of healthcare, who's leading you down a road to never even winning a seat in congress. The same jagoff who had some grand fantasy about letting Trump win, and absolutely none of his predictions came true, and yet you entertain his new fantasies. The Puritan People's Party is a joke, with one of its main leaders already leaving the "party", because even they weren't puritan enough for him. The Green Party has produced the likes of Kyrsten Sinema. The reality is that you can't possibly get a third party, of any significance, as puritan as you like, or even guarantee a third party won't have corruptible members. Actual history shows that corporate Dems have repeatedly moved right, after letting Republicans win, not left, even after 3 terms (12 years) of Republicans. Just how many years do you have to let Republicans rule, to get corporate Dems to move left, exactly, in your fantasy scenario? The reality of math says that a progressive third party couldn't accomplish much. As long as there are a handful of corporate Dems, like Manchin, willing to work with Republicans, they coukd pass whatever they wanted, without needing a single progressive third party vote. You seem to have more faith in corporate Dems, than I do. I don't think they're very moveable. I think you need to replace them, and I don't see how going third party will ever accomplish that. Justive Dems have replaced more corporate Dems, in just 4 years, than all third parties combined have, in 50 years.
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  4279.  @Fuwuzworsh  What aren't you grasping? Splitting off progressive votes, will allow Republicans to win. That's just math. It is absolutely a historical fact that Republicans have been allowed to win repeatedly, and it hasn't moved the Dems left, in the least. They have been moving right, along with Republicans. What don't you get about them moving more towards the position of those who beat them, not further away from it? Even just talking elections with left leaning challengers, the Green Party is now 20 years old. They have run against them multiple times. They even possibly spoiled two elections. In what way did those election losses move corporate Dems left? They didn't. There's no evidence to support anything you're arguing, and plenty of evidence against it. You're the one spewing falsehoods and fantasy. Oh right, they're all in cahoots, and no politicians, no appointed officials, nor any of their aids, have exposed that they're all in cahoots. One of the tightest lipped conspiracies in history. And, your "evidence" is that, since something you wanted didn't get passed, that they must be in cahoots? I never once argued Biden could be pushed left. You're the idiot arguing corporate Dems can be pushed left. I've argued to replace them. I already stated this, but you either have severe reading comprehension problems, or are completely dishonest, leading to you ironically spewing strawmen, which you erroneously opened complaining about, when I hadn't even addressed you. I'll have to assume the completely dishonest part, at this point. I also haven't budged, to the right. I propose suffering through a corporate Dem majority, until they can be taken out in the primaries. You propose suffering through a Republican majority, and no way of getting rid of them, because voting third party won't get rid of them. You outeight propose entrenching a fascist Republican majority, for some undetermined amount of time, until your fantasy comes to fruition, and then unironically claim I'm the fascist supporter? You're hilarious. Trump was blamed for the current (2020) state of the country, and people went screaming into Biden's "more electable" arms, desperate to be rid of him, so desperate they didn't want to risk voting Bernie. Letting Trump win, having Stein possibly spoil the election, is what Dore promoted, what you are promoting. None of his fantasies came true. There's zero indication yours woukd, either. Your answer would have been to let Trump win, yet again? Because, next time it'll work, for sure. Stop pretending that a Republican, like Reagan, couldn't change all kinds of economic policies, and absolutely destroy the country for working people. It doesn't take a Democrat to pass things. You're making up more fiction, implying it does. You're the one proposing letting "to the right we go" happen, ffs. I'm proposing voters get out and vote not to let that happen. Maybe you do have comprehension problems.
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  4280.  @Fuwuzworsh  I, literally, stated "suffering through corporate Dems". More horrible? Such as? (Weird, how you Dore "socialists" keep making out like Republicans are better. Are you sure you're not one of his far right fans, pretending to be a lefty? Hard to tell with Dore knobs.) Right wing Dems voting for another round of covid relief is better than every single Republican voting against it. Having a pro vaccine, and pro other covid regulations, leadership, is better than a completely incompetent, anti- everything, encouraging uprisings against governors, "it is what it is", "leadership". Even simply having leadership not trying to toss 10m+ poor people off of Medicaid expansion, is better than leadership trying to. Restoring some environmental protections is better than removing them. Restoring funding to clinics that simply refer women to abortion clinics is better than stripping their funding. Etc. Etc. (There's a bunch of Trump bullshit that Biden quickly reversed, that's better.)
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  4281.  @Fuwuzworsh  Never watch msnbc. Do you also fantasize you have mental telepathy? It doesn't seem to work. I care enough about change to promote the most realistic way of achieving change, which is to keep replacing corporate Dems, and try to take over the party. You're the one promoting a fantasy that will never come to fruition. Hell, letting Trump win freaked people out so much they voted third party far less, in 2020, than they did in 2016. Your own concept of letting fascists win, hurts your own third party notions. It's nonsensical.
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  4282.  @Fuwuzworsh  Yes, it is possible, hence the fact that there are progressives in congress. DNC shenanigans can't overcome overwhelming numbers. Nina's campaign team, for example, didn't do any canvassing, to get people out to vote. There were hundreds of thousands more potential voters in that district. Barely 70k came out for the primary, and she lost by only 4k. Yes, the corporate Dems, and their allies, threw everything they had, at her, but she had twice as much money, and could have stomped her opponent. Her team blew her money on media ads, and barely spent a dime on canvassing. That's how AOC won her district ... canvassing, canvassing, canvassing ... and barely spent a dime on media ads. Not that it matters to you Dore knobs, since King Jimmy abandoned her ... abandoned adding another M4A advocate to congress ... because that's what "real" M4A supporters do. Hate to tell you, but the "liberal" brand was destroyed, already. And, they didn't do it on their own. Islamophobes started bashing the hell out of "liberals" after 9/11. Republicans always try to convert normal words into insults. Even Dore is using the word like an insult. Why do you still want to use "liberal", for branding? That sounds dumb. Stop pretending like Republicans couldn't get NAFTA done. Reagan had already signed a deal with Canada. Bush Sr was headed for a seperate deal with Mexico. Canadian conservatives then came in late and wanted in, to merge the deals into a 3 way deal. Bush Sr simply ran out of time. The deal was passed by a Republican majority. The majority of Dems voted against it. Stop your fiction. Republicans would have passed it, just fine, without a Dem president. You seriously think NAFTA and Glass-Steagall were worse than the Reaganomics' trickle down myth, and the massive amount of deregulation Reagan pulled off? Reagan had a big hand in destroying the healthcare system, making it so unaffordable, but now healthcare isn't the end all and be all, for you lot. The messaging from Dore, and his knobs, is incoherent. One second anti-war is the end all and be all, and passes are given for shittier healthcare policies, as long as the candidate lies about being anti-war. The next second, healthcare is the end all and be all, and no passes are given, not even for simple strategy disagreement ... anyone who disagrees on strategy is a "fake", "fraud", "sellout", "betrayer", blah blah. Now, you're telling me that neither of those is of primary importance. Now, it's a foreign trade deal, and one specific deregulation that are far worse than the tons of deregulation in the 12 years before, far worse than making healthcare unaffordable, far worse than warmongering. Get your priorities in some coherent order. And, maybe add climate change, as a priority. Republicans have repeatedly rolled back environmental protections, and many still pretend like it's not a thing. Republicans wouldn't have even tried to change the healthcare system, at all. The ACA not only flattened the rate prices were increasing yearly, a little, it also added 10m poor Americans to Medicaid expansion. Numerous Republican states opted out of Medicaid expansion, for their citizens. The ACA, in no f*cking way, is more conservative than what there was before, and red states turning down more Medicaid for their poor, sure isn't samesies, let alone anywhere close to being better. I'm pretty sure you're one of Dore's far right fans, at this point. Again, vote blue works both ways. Those who vote against progressives in the primaries, tend to vote for them in the generals. It's exactly what every progressive would have wanted, if Bernie had won the primaries. It's how progressives can beat Republicans, in some tighter districts. I get it, "real" progressives don't actually want any progressives in congress, and want Republicans to rule, for decades to come. So very brave of you, to offer up poor people to be thrown of healthcare, and other, benefits. So very brave of you to offer up going completely backwards on climate change. So very brave of you to offer up those targetted by racist and bigoted policies. All for some misplaced faith you have in corporate Dems, changing their ways. If only a leftist third party can spoil an election for them (already possibly happened, twice), then they will see the light (they didn't).
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  4283.  @Fuwuzworsh  The 30 year old broader progressive caucus is about 15 seats away from becoming the majority of house Dems. The Justice Dems have been at it 4 years, and have replaced about a dozen corporate Dems. AOC has been at it 2 years and has already helped replace a few more corporate Dems. The most popular third party hasn't won a single seat in congress in its near 50 year existence. The most popular progressive third party hasn't won a single seat in congress in its 20 year existence. Yeah, the former is going much better.
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  4284.  @Fuwuzworsh  No. The fact is that Reagan had already signed a trade deal, with Canada, which was the starting point. The fact is that Bush was working on a seperate trade deal with Mexico. The fact is that it was Canada who then came in and wanted to merge the deals into a three way deal, which pushed negotiations passed the end of Bush's first term. If Bush had a second term, there's zero evidence negotiations would have magically failed and the three way deal wouldn't have gone through as planned. Everything was already in the works, and supported by the majority of Republican lawmakers. There's zero evidence it required a Democrat to finalize the deal. That's totally fiction, on your part. In 1980, US healthcare costs were rising on par with other developed nations. They started spiking before the end of Reagan's time in office. If US healthcare costs were half what they are now, that would be less incentive for businesses to move elsewhere. If US healthcare costs were half what they are now, people could better afford to weather a drop in property prices. You know Canada also lost some factories to Mexico, right? However, they don't have hundreds of thousands of people going bankrupt over healthcare costs. They don't have tens of thousands of people dying due to a lack of healthcare coverage. They don't have over a million people, like cancer victims traveling to India for chemo, for affordable healthcare. Etc. But hey, no, healthcare is suddenly now way down the list of importance, for Dore knobs. Neutering Glass-Steagall was not directly responsible for the 2008 crash. It was responsible for banks becoming "too big to fail", but had little to do with the housing market. The Gramm-Leach-Bliley Act, was a Republican bill. Almost every single Republican lawmaker voted for it. Why the hell would a Republican president have been unable to sign it into law? Would his hand have magically dropped off, or something, if he tried to sign it? You make zero sense, claiming a Dem president was required, to do this or that. If Republicans wanted to pass it, but somehow couldn't, what was the obstacle? Have you looked at John McCain's voting record, who he picked as a VP, etc.? You clearly don't know what an "ad hominem" actually is. You should refrain from using the term. Nina has been on multiple progressive channels, since her loss. There's zero evidence she still "loves" Jimmy, since he publicly abandoned her. Some video of Jimmy's wife, talking to her sometime before they publicly abandoned her, isn't evidence she still does. Most people aren't fond of being publicly abandoned. She seems to be on the "fake", "fraud", "sellout", progressive channels, rather than his. Seems to indicate she loves those who supported her to the end, more. Again, I'm the one who wants to replace M4A no votes with M4A yes votes. Your the one that doesn't want even a single M4A yes vote in congress, and wants to let Republicans rule for decades to come. You're the one supporting an idiot who promoted tossing 10m of the poorest Americans off of Medicaid expansion, as the better option. Republicans are not the party of workers. Their healthcare plan will be out in a couple weeks (repeat this for years). Every single one voted against a national $15 minimum, or it would have passed. You're making up nonsense. Sounding even more like a far right fan, with every post. I know exactly who corporate Democrats are. I'm the one who wants to keep replacing them with more progressives ... force them out ... toss them in a ditch. You're the one actually proposing a fantasy that you can move them left, by letting them lose, even though there's zero evidence of their previous losses moving them left. Again ... blue, no matter who, works both ways, and is how some progressives manage to win their seats. It's the only possible way Bernie could have won a general election. I can only assume you never wanted Bernie to win.
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  4285.  @Fuwuzworsh  Even if the broader progressive caucus isn't puritan enough, for you, the Justice Dems, who don't take any corporate donations, have won more seats in 4 years, than the most popular third party has in 50. AOC, alone, won more seats, in her first year, than the most popular third party has in 50. Even just 1 seat is immeasurably times better than zero seats, zero bills, zero amendments, zero votes, zero influence, ... They didn't know shit. They were brainwashed by lying scum Republican leadership, that the election had been stolen. Their cult leader tried to overthrow the democratic process and install himself as an unelected dictator, and you're lumping the other guy amongst the worst authoritarians in history, because of what? Masks, vaccines, or some stupid nonsensical bullshit? You're a right wing loon, faking being progressive.
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  4286.  @Fuwuzworsh  Rofl. You say I don't grasp things, but I'm the one, literally, calling them "corporate Dems", and I'm the one who doesn't think corporate Dems are changeable. They need to be replaced. You're the one promoting some fantasy, where they suddenly see the light, and change their ways, after losing an election (which has never happened anytime they've previously lost elections). A cult is when one loudmouth convinces tens of millions of people not to believe any other politicians, any election officials, any judges, any lawyers, any scientists, any doctors, any media ... even to not believe their own lying eyes, if they contradict the words of their supreme leader. Yeah, the Trump cult is a cult. You're definitely one of Dore's far right fans. There are already vaccine mandates for public school kids. There are already vaccine mandates for immigrants. You have to show ID to drink, drive, smoke, gamble, hunt, fish, carry a gun, etc., etc. The law makes you cover your junk in public. Businesses can require shirts, shoes, suits, ties, or whatever dress code. They can require their own ID, membership. Schools can have dress codes. You're clearly deranged and making a mountain out of a molehill. Did you know that Australia's covid death rate would translate into about 20k total US covid deaths? Instead, it's pushing 800k ... over 700k unnecessary deaths and you're crying about things that have already been going on for decades and decades. Listening to a broad, worldwide, consensus of the vast majority of scientists and doctors, is exactly not like a cult, that hangs on the word of a single, or very few, uninformed dufus. Seems like you're a fan of two cult leaders.
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  4287.  @mike58greenberg  Why is he lying, then?
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  4288.  @Fuwuzworsh  Which Republicans aren't "professional elites"? What are some pro worker Republican policies? Yeah, fascists tend to draw in disgruntled members of society, by blaming others for all their woes. Guess what, they don't end up doing anything for them. Dore is the kind of "leftist" that ends up on the wrong side of a Night of the Long Knives, dabbling with extremist ancap Boogaloos, that want to start a civil war, and white nationalists, like Tucker. They'd be shooting a lot of leftists, and minorities, if they ever got their civil war. Republicans voted against a public option. Republicans all voted against the $15. Oh sure, they'll end listening to doctors and scientists, just like they've done with climate change. Freedumb!!
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  4289.  @Fuwuzworsh  Over 140000 kids have lost a parent, or guardian, to covid. But, oh my, the "atrocity" of making someone get a needle and showing a piece of paper!!!
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  4290.  @Fuwuzworsh  Again, like I said, even if the broader progressive caucus isn't puritan enough, for you, a dozen Justice Dems, that don't take any corporate donations, is still an immeasurably better start, than starting from scratch, with a fantasy scenario. As for the broader progressive caucus, a minority doesn't have the power to pass anything they want, they don't have the power to block bipartisan bills that don't need their votes to pass. They can block some highly partisan bills, but that's it. So, if a Manchin doesn't care if that highly partisan bill gets passed, you want to see progressives take an all, or nothing, stance, and likely get absolutely nothing. You want to see mainstream media (mainstream = the media the majority of Americans consume) blaming progressives, over, and over, and over, for nothing getting passed, and think that will benefit progressives? Once again, you show your "bravery", your willingness to sacrifice those without clean drinking water getting clean drinking water; your willingness to sacrifice those without broadband getting broadband; your willingness to sacrifice making even small improvements for the environment and stick to the do absolutely nothing about climate change status quo; your willingness to sacrifice poor families having a hard time paying for childcare getting free childcare; your willingness to sacrifice the elderly, and disabled, getting home care benefits; your willingness to sacrifice the homeless, and those struggling with housing, getting more affordable housing; your willingness to sacrifice hungry children getting food; your willingness to sacrifice those who need hearing aids getting free hearing aids; etc; etc; etc. Your "I'm taking my ball and going home, because I didn't get exactly what I wanted" attitude, is so incredibly "brave". So much better, for the poor, hungry, homeless, elderly, and disabled, to get absolutely nothing, at all, than to get small improvements. Wait ... what? You harped on me about mentioning the mathematical reality of needing a majority, and now your fantasy is to completely replaced the Democratic party with some perfectly perfect puritan progressive party ... which would mean replacing the current majority. You repeatedly argued that you wouldn't need a majority, that you'd just have to make them lose enough, to force them to change (that decades of history doesn't support). Now your fantasy is to not only magically get all progressive votes, but all Democratic party votes? That's pretty ambitious, I must say. Incredibly unrealistic, and you're seeming incoherent, but ambitious nine the less. Yes, they have been challenged by the left, in primaries (when the majority of progressives do their voting), and lost to a number of progressives. Whether you accept there's 100, a dozen, 8, or even 1, progressives in congress, all those numbers are better than zero. If you don't accept there are any, then you're likely too puritan, and unlikely to work with the vast majority of other progressives, to ever accomplish anything. The constitutionality of vaccine mandates have been challenged before. None were found to be unconstitutional. You don't get a vaccine, you can't go to public school, but can go to private school = you don't get a vaccine, you can't go to work, but can start a business from home. The polio vaccine was given to millions of kids within a couple years of it being developed. Phase I testing of current vaccines started over a year ago. In your "expert" opinion, how long does it take, exactly, to deem a vaccine safe? And, actually, the covid mortality rate is about 1%, while the polio paralysis rate is about 0.5%, and the polio mortality rate is about 0.05%. Plus, the polio vaccine is also multiple shots, not just one, and they do keep track of whether your due for a new dose. There are absolutely tons of rules for the road, as well as licensing, safety standards, and insurance requirements, while the automobile accident mortality rate is only 0.25%. Not being allowed to just hop in an uninsured, unsafetied, vehicle, without a license, and go drinking and driving, without a seatbelt, driving at any speed you want, and ignoring whatever lights or signs you want, is so authoritarian, when the mortality rate is so low, am I right? The military are required to get vaccines, and take shots for this, or that, when traveling abroad. All kinds of businesses require you to wear protective gear, for your job and a bunch are mandated by OSHA (no, they didn't pull out, they're awaiting a court decision and, no, a common stay doesn't mean anything has been decided about constitutionality). Seriously, there are a crap ton of rules and laws, in society. The vast majority are no big deal, but have to be followed daily. Also, if you're eating hot dogs, eating fast food (any restaurant food, for that matter, where you're just trusting what's being handed to you), drinking pop or even tap water, taking whatever drugs your doctor prescribes, etc., etc., but then make a big fuss about not knowing exactly what's in a vaccine (that has an ingredients list) that has passed safety standards across the world, then I think you're just a big baby, and babies can't make decisions for themselves, or the community. Only some extreme health nut, who watches everything that goes into their body, and knows what every little thing is, has some unhypocritical grounds for wanting to know exactly what's in a vaccine, that has passed global safety standards. Grow the f*ck up, already. Over 700k unnecessary deaths, over 140k orphans, and you're crying about nonsense. Again, Republicans just voted against a national $15. They, and conservative Dems, just negotiated a public option out of the BBB. Keep dreaming.
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  4291. ​ @JohnBarnhart-m7y  Can you give coherency a try?
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  4292. Yeah, not like that "beneficial" Jimmy Dore guy, who whines about Colbert crying or whines about Colbert (a talk show host, not a reporter) asking Obama (no longer a politician) softball questions, calls the man who brought M4A into mainstream discussion a sellout, calls the woman whose progressive PAC just helped elect more progressives in congress a shill, etc.
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  4293. Dumpty has been talking about making a pledge of allegiance to Israel a requirement to get in the country, ffs. He, and the Republicans, are even further up Netanyahu's ass.
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  4294.  @jeffvonbergen291  Yeah, I do. I spelled it out. Do you have severe reading comprehension problems? The other dimwit was making out like Republicans and corporate Dems are samesies. They aren't. Corporate Dems suck, but they aren't samesies. How does sitting in an irrelevant third party do anything about Manchin? Even if you magically got enough people on board so that all the progressive caucus seats were actually some perfectly perfect puritan progressive third party, the PPPP party, here's what you'd have ... Trump as president, due to vote splitting in the general, between Bernie and Biden. One seat in the senate, and Pence as the tie breaking vote. In the house, you'd have a Republican plurality, which would only have to work with a handful of corporate Dems, to pass whatever they want. The PPPP would be completely irrelevant. They'd need to become the majority of the house and senate, to be able to pass anything. So far, the most popular third party hasn't won even a single seat in congress in its near 50 year existence. Within the party, the progressive caucus is about 15 seats away from becoming the majority of house Dems. They could then pick the party speaker candidate, and set the party agenda for the house. If Dems are the majority of the house, that also means that speaker can assign committee seats, introduce whatever bills they want, and sideline whatever bills they want. There's more power in 15 more seats, within the party, than 100 seats outside the party. Whatever you think of current progressives, running as a Dem is very clearly the more effective way to win a seat in congress, and taking over the party is the shorter path to getting any power.
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  4295. I love right wingers, like Rand Paul trying to implicate Fauci, which would implicate the US, and let the world possibly sue the pants off the US. Wanting to bankrupt America, to own the libs.
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  4296. *An open air WWII style fascist ghetto. Nobody but fascists tend to think the Warsaw ghetto uprising was "extreme". Nobody but fascists tend to think all the resistance groups of WWII were "terrorists" (who did sometimes target civilian "collaborators"). They all wanted to push Nazis back into Germany, where they came from. Native Americans decided they weren't fond of colonialism and being ethnically cleansed, and wanted to push the Europeans back into the sea. They had some brutal "savage" responses, but they were "responses". Hundreds of Palestinians have been killed over the past couple years. Dozens and dozens of children. How are they supposed to respond?
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  4297.  @Overonator  Yes. The Nazis and Russians clearly created an incubator, that developed Zionist fascists. Like the Puritans, fleeing persecution in their homelands, only to turn around and persecute everyone else in the New World. Only the current Israeli fascists in power can dismantle the incubator.
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  4298. Your opinion on the Proud Boys? Thanks.
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  4299.  @michaelshannon9169  They've been at fault for starting violence, and planning violence. Their leader keeps praising violence. They band with the KKK and other white supremacists. One of their top members organized that racist filled unite the right rally, that ended in murder. Andy promoted them, called them patriots, and stood with them. Why stand with a group that actively looks for violence, and then whine about finding violence?
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  4300.  @happyprogressivepoop1422  Even if you think that, that's not how winning seats works. They're splitting votes on election days.
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  4301.  @Nanofuture87  Yes, it does mean that some people had zero rights in the societies that didn't recognize them as having rights. That's exactly why they had to fight to get rights. They did not come naturally, and society did not act as if they believed in some centuries old philosophy that those people had natural rights. You were originally talking about societies based on centuries of believing in such a philosophy, and now you're denying societies can have philosophies. Again, without a society deciding what is a right, and what isn't, all you have is a bunch of individuals with freedoms. Claiming land, which Libertarians believe in, violates other people's ability to freely access said land. Claiming resources, which Libertarians believe in, violates other people's ability to freely access said resources. Even Libertarians don't believe that freedoms equate to rights, cherypick which freedoms they think is a right, which they don't, and who is deserving of them. Societies have done Libertarianism, and it sucked. Only kids with money were educated. Only poor people who could find a rich sponsor could get healthcare. Landlords could charge whatever the hell they wanted. Employers could pay whatever the hell they wanted. People could claim lands that natives used to freely travel and live upon. Businesses were free to discriminate, pollute, destroy the environment, smash unions. Etc. Etc. Etc. And, no, the market didn't self police itself. There was zero indication of any widespread belief in natural rights, unless greed, making money, and shitting on the poor, is some keystone to natural rights. In an environment where property is privately owned, and almost all property is already claimed, how is being forced to abide by the rules of all the property owners, and business owners, to make a living to survive, complete ownership over yourself? Sure, you have the "right" to not deal with them, and go off and die somewhere. Big woop.
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  4302.  @Nanofuture87  I am distinguishing. That there are no rights without the recognition of rights, is evidenced by thousands of years of history. You could blather all day long about about slavery violating your rights, as you toiled in the cotton fields, but you clearly wouldn't have any rights, until they were recognized by society. Even you are requiring a group of like minded people to recognize "natural rights", to have a society based on them. Sucked, according to the natives. Sucked, according to the poor and uneducated. Sucked, according to the poor and unhealthy. Sucked, according to massive labor movements and rioting. Sucked, according to massive protests by minorities and women against discrimination. I did not mention simply that it sucked, but that there was no indication of a belief in natural rights, other than the "right" to screw people over. Are you arguing for anarcho-capitalism, or Libertarianism? The later could still have a government that sides with business owners, land owners, corporations, etc. Still have a justice system that sides with their "right" to bust unions, sides with their "right" to use children as labor, sides with their property "rights", etc. Yes, Libertarians do pick and choose which freedoms they consider rights, and which they don't. Can't you claim the property the entire apple tree is on, and deny everyone else an apple, not just your singular apple, and force them to pay for an apple if they want it? Can't you claim a water source, and force everyone else in the area to pay for water?
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