Comments by "" (@TheHuxleyAgnostic) on "The Rational National"
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@ruminationstation4200 Canada's testing rate is also 27 people per confirmed case, while the US testing rate is 13.7 people per confirmed case. While it may be accurate to say that mailing tests is a step the US is now taking that the Canadian government hasn't, it would have been more accurate for David to point out that the US still needs to catch up to Canada, and not the other way around.
Total tests and tests per million are kind of irrelevant numbers that are totally disconnected from the covid numbers. Tests per confirmed case tells you how you're doing compared to the virus spread. Dumpty was bragging about totals and tests per million, meanwhile the US was testing at a rate of about 5 people per confirmed case, at the time. Meanwhile, countries like A Korea, Vietnam, Australia, and New Zealand, were testing 50+ people per confirmed case. Testing rates seem to have a strong correlation to how well countries have contained the virus. The US should be increasing testing by a helluva lot more than 500k home tests.
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@loulfw2513 FTV was asking for a 100% guaranteed to fail performance art vote, hypocrite. AOC actively backed 20 other pro-M4A progressives with her platform and PAC, helped add a few more M4A yes votes to congress, and helped remove a few more corporate Dems. Adding enough yes votes is, literally, the only possible way to ever pass a bill in congress. She has been doing the exact thing that needs doing.
On the M4A march day, AOC was campaigning for Nina, promoting M4A while doing so, and again actively trying to increase the number of M4A yes votes in congress. Dore abandoned Nina, he abandoned adding another M4A yes vote to congress, M4A marchers didn't go support her, he then turned around and slandered AOC, claiming she was the one who abandoned M4A. Bush has been focused on the immediate eviction problem, both in her district, and federally.
Your heading is being filled by a lying grifter, who doesn't actually give two craps if anyone gets healthcare. He didn't care if 10m of the poorest Americans were thrown off Medicaid expansion, he didn't care to try and add 40m older Americans to Medicare expansion, he doesn't care that the most popular third party hasn't won a single seat in congress in its near 50 year existence and that that route won't get anyone healthcare in the next century. He doesn't care.
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@thefreerepublicofadmiralpr2935
How is a peace deal with the UAE, "meaningful"? It didn't resolve anything with regards to Israel-Palestine, and caused tensions between the UAE and other nations.
Trump also removed environmental protections, endangered species protections, etc., that allowed for the killing of more animals and more destruction of their habitat.
Opioid deaths continued to increase. What did Trump do, exactly?
Trump dropped more bombs than Obama. He clearly warred against people and countries.
Oil exports have been increasing, yearly, since 2010. The US was already a net exporter of oil, before Dumpty. Natural gas exports have been increasing, yearly, since 2014. What is it Dumpty did, exactly, that wasn't already happening?
85% of contraband comes through entry points, dumb dumb. Plus, cartels own more planes than Mexican airlines. They also have boats. They also have tunnels. They also have catapults. They don't tend to send their contraband across rivers and deserts, being carried by the most likely people to be picked up by border patrol.
The prices of over 800 drugs went up in 2020. Drug companies are increasing prices on over 1k drugs in 2021. What did Trump do, exactly?
I'm stopping there. You seem to be spewing a load of crap.
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@nameisamine Racism isn't strictly about colour, or ethnicity. Racists tend to think their race, or ethnic group, is superior for some reasons, and they assign certain characteristics to their imagined ideal specimen. Most white supremacists, for example, tend to assign Christianity, or at least Christian culture/heritage, as a characteristic of their ideal specimen. You know, claiming Christianity created the Western world, or whatever. So, they don't consider Jews, most of whom are white, to be one of them. Some even specifically assign Protestantism as a characteristic, and don't consider Catholics to be one of them. Likewise for Muslims. Whether those people are actually of a different race, or not, they get treated as if they are. Like, instead of "no Catholics" signs, in the US, places had "no Irish" or "no Italians", treating them as if they were different races, than other Europeans, rather than simply a different religion. So, yes, saying people look like a mailbox could be considered racist.
You could nitpick for it to be called "bigotry" but, either way, it's discriminatory and dehumanizing.
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@alexandermiller1741 Greenwald doesn't seem to know what "free speech" is. He ranted about "free speech" because editors, whose jobs have included asking writers for rewrites since the dawn of publishing, asked him for a rewrite. He has gone off about losing "free speech" on social media, when there was never such a thing as "free speech" on someone else's private property (which also applies to his former publisher), to begin with. If you don't have a right to be on someone else's private property, then you don't have a right to be on someone else's private property blathering about whatever you want. I haven't heard him, or "socialist" Jimmy, let people know that free speech would come with public ownership. I haven't heard them criticize the far right for creating giant corporations, with so much power. I haven't heard them defend the left, and point out that giant corporations, run by centibillionaires, some of whom donate more to Republicans and whose algorithms promote more right wing crap, aren't leftist, in the least. I haven't heard them point out that inciting an insurrection isn't even protected speech. Etc. They seem to be coming at it from an entirely right wing "free speech" angle.
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@xD4B5x Anti-authoritarian doesn't equate to "left". A majority of black voters voted for Biden, who is clearly a Republican light Democrat, over Bernie. Colonial Americans had protests, riots, destroyed private property, tarred and feathered loyalists, ànd eventually started a war ... against a tax specifically to fund the police/military. One of the last straws, for them, was when red coats, fearing for their lives against violent protesters, shot a bunch of those violent protesters. Do you consider them radical left terrorists?
Can you give an example of a "black supremacist" gathering similar to Charlottesville's Unite the Right gathering? Charlottesville had Nazi flag wavers, Confederate flag wavers, other white supremacist/nationalist flag wavers, KKK speakers, white nationalist speakers, etc.
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@therationalnational Side note, David: As a Canadian living with a VAT (GST), you should do a bit on how a VAT actually works, for Yang and his gang. They seem to be clueless about the fact that it's built into the system that businesses get paid back for their input VAT. Meaning, Yang's claim that a VAT forces corporations to "pay their fair share" is bogus.
Many gangers also seem to be under the delusion that exempting "staples" means only big ticket luxury items will be taxed. We exempt staples, here in Canada, but that doesn't include the electric bill, phone bill, internet bill, cable bill, toys, games, basically any entertainment with a cost, non staple snacks and pop, personal hygiene products, household cleaning products, home maintenance, vehicle maintenance ... many things that still affect ordinary people.
Since it doesn't actually tax corporations like Amazon, handing consumers $3t, and Amazon's share of consumer spending being 2%, instead of making them pay, he'll make them an extra $60b a year. That would make Bezos something like an extra $12b a year. He'd have to personally blow over $120b a year on goods and services with a VAT to pay in more than he'd get out of the plan. If giant corporations and the super rich get more out of the plan than they pay in, that means someone else is paying in more than they're getting out.
Since it does tax many day to day items, those already getting $1000+ a month in government assistance would be worse off. Opting in or out won't give them any extra money, but they can't opt out of paying a VAT. As an example: any single parent on full SSI disability ($775), that currently stacks with SNAP ($355+ for household of 2+), will be worse off. Yang has neither stack with UBI.
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@Bet Your lunch Ummm, infighting is exactly what Jimmy wanted. He started slandering everyone and anyone who didn't go for his "strategy" to get a performance art vote on M4A.
AOC never once ran on paralyzing, or threatening to paralyze, the house. Jimmy lied and pretended she didn't do what she said. AOC did say she wanted to cause a "ruckus" means, based on whatever "ruckus" means to her. Jimmy made up what "ruckus" meant, to him, and again lied that she wasn't doing what she said, as if something is objectively a "ruckus", or not. An old lady, thinking your music is a bit too loud, can think you're causing a "ruckus", ffs. It's a fairly subjective term. AOC backed 20 pro-M4A progressives and helped add a few more M4A yes votes to congress. That actually gets you closer to ever being able to pass the bill than a performance art vote does. On that, alone, she has done more for M4A, in 2 years, than Dore has in his entire lifetime, and more than any third party, that can't win a single seat in congress. Dore made a big deal about where was she on M4A march day, as if she was in hiding. Well, it was public knowledge that she was doing public rallies with Nina Turner, that day, promoting M4A at those rallies, and trying her best to help add yet another M4A advocate to congress. Dore, on the other hand, publicly abandoned Nina Turner, on his show, publicly abandoned trying to add another M4A advocate to congress.
Also, remember, that Dore promoted Trump (platform: toss 10m poor Americans off of Medicaid expansion) over Clinton (platform: add 40m older Americans to Medicare expansion), he promoted Tulsi (platform: public option) over Bernie (platform: M4A), and ran a constant attack ad campaign against Trump's (still wanting to toss millions off of Medicaid expansion) only remaining viable opponent Biden (platform: public option and Medicare expansion). Then, he tries to pass himself off as the one true champion of healthcare. Rofl!
You have got the wrong fraud. Dore is a grifter. He doesn't care if anyone gets, or loses, healthcare. He says one thing, but then proposes the worst healthcare option.
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@Kamfrenchie Prompting Trump as the better option in 2016, could only benefit Trump. Running an attack ad campaign against Trump's only remaining viable opponent in 2020, could only benefit Trump. Going on far right talk shows, just to agree with them, only validates and benefits the far right. Promoting making friends with far right ancap Boogaloos, only benefits the far right. 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, that would, at best, peel away enough progressive votes to hand the Dem party totally back to corporate Dems and let Republicans rule for decades, benefits the far right. Slandering progressives, that have done more for M4A in a few years than he has in his entire lifetime, benefits the far right.
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