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  1. Shooting firemen with water cannons is ironic.
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  2. Americans also "wait" for healthcare, by not going in, because they're afraid of the costs. Canadians with less serious issues wait because people go get checked for whatever they feel like, so the hospitals are busier. This is evidenced by OECD bed occupancy (2019). Canada had 91%, while the US had 64%, even though the beds per capita aren't all that different. Not only do Americans "wait", by not going at all, but around a million Americans also go to places like Mexico and India, for cheaper healthcare. Canada has 2.7 doctors per 1000 people. The US has 2.6. (2020) Canada has 2.58 community hospital beds per 1000. The US has 2.37. (2021) The US has 12 nurses per 1000. Canada has 10.3. (2021)
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  3. I guess everyone can now fight DUI charges by arguing that medical conditions weren't ruled out. Right?
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  4. Weird that he didn't mention all the Christian churches that have been covid hotspots.
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  5. Spends 8 years criticizing the Obama administration ... runs on MAGA, meaning America is not great at the time ... then suggests critics should leave. Moron.
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  6. How did Florida ever get seatbelt, and child seat, laws, with their level of stupidity?
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  7. Likud's bloody 100 year history ... In 1923, 100 years ago, Ze'ev Jabotinsky wrote, The Iron Wall, and a follow up, The Ethics of The Iron Wall (sooo racist towards Africans), in which he fully acknowledged that post Balfour Zionsim was colonialism, and that, based on the entirety of history, the native Palestinian population would resist being colonized until the bitter end. He directly compared it to the colonization of North America. He promoted doing it anyway, claiming Zionist colonialism was a "just" colonialism (he also thought North American colonialists were good guys, so not a great judge of morality), not caring what that meant for the native population. Ze'ev is important, because his Betar militant youth group helped found the Irgun terrorist group, along with other supporters of his, and the splinter Lehi terrorist group. The Irgun bombed numerous Palestinian markets and other public places, murdering many Palestinian civilians, including children, even including Palestinian Jews (who didn't support colonialist Zionsim). The Irgun are important, because they ended up being led by future Likud PM, Menachem Begin, who bombed the King David Hotel. The King David Hotel was bombed because the British had raided the Jewish Agency and seized numerous documents that may have shown that the terrorists were working with the JA and Haganah (JA liked to pretend that they didn't support the terrorism). The British then stored those documents at their base, in the hotel. That the Irgun terrorists responded to a JA raid, itself seems to prove the connection. That the thousands of Irgun (and Lehi) terrorists were also quickly merged into the new nation's military (IDF) and intelligence (Mossad) agencies, and are still celebrated as "heroes" by Israelis, to this day, also seems to support total collaboration between the groups. That other terrorist group mentioned, Lehi (also known as the Stern Gang), was considered even more extreme. They even tried to ally with the Nazis, against the British. Lehi ended up being led by Yitzhak Shamir, future Mossad agent, and another future Likud PM. They assassinated Lord Moyne, and others. In 1945, there was a major land and peoples survey done in Palestine. It showed that the Zionists only owned about 5% of the total land, 20% of the arable land, and owned a majority in zero districts. The partition was not only going to be forced on the native Palestinian majority, but Jews were still going to be a minority, in the part allocated to them. The only possible way to even become a "Jewish state" was going to require getting rid of the actual majority (at least enough so that there'd be a solid Jewish majority, so they could fake being democratic). This is also shown by the 1948, post Nakba, population of Israel. If there was 716,700 Jews, 156,000+ non-Jews, and approximately 700k non-Jews ethnically cleansed, that means the Jewish population, in the Zionist portion of partition, was originally over 100,000 less than the non-Jewish population. To believe that there was never any intent, by Zionists, to ethnically cleanse away the Palestinian majority would require believing that they never intended to create a "Jewish state". It's a nonsensical notion. Begin, and those terrorist groups, also opposed partition, but for the opposite reason Palestinians did. Palestinians didn't want to be colonized, at all. The terrorists wanted to colonize it all. "Moderate" Zionists were okay with colonizing half ... for now (what would happen in the future, after partition, was up to them, said Ben-Gurion). The Zionist terrorists were also involved in massacres, and assassinations, during the partition violence (colonialist war against the natives). Another notable future Likud PM, also started in the military, during the partition fighting. That was Ariel Sharon, war criminal, "Butcher of Beirut". Menachem Begin, and these other Zionist terrorists, are important because they became involved in Israeli politics, first forming Herut. That was the party that Albert Einstein, and other prominent American Jews, opposed, having a letter printed in the NYT, in December of 1948, when Begin came to visit the US. The letter opened ... "Among the most disturbing political phenomena of our times is the emergence in the newly created state of Israel of the "Freedom Party" (Tnuat Haherut), a political party closely akin in its organization, methods, political philosophy and social appeal to the Nazi and Fascist parties. It was formed out of the membership and following of the former Irgun Zvai Leumi, a terrorist, right-wing, chauvinist organization in Palestine." Herut merged with other extremist parties, over the years, and eventually became Likud, in the 70s. Now, people get upset over the slogan "From the river to the sea!", but it's the second part that's most important, "Palestine will be free!". Because "Palestine" isn't defined as an ethno-state, a free Palestine can be a single state, free for all to live in, and return to, free of continuing colonization, free of occupation, free of oppression, etc. Just like a Germany free of Nazism, an Italy free of fascism, a South Africa free of apartheid, or an America free of slavery from sea to shiny sea. It doesn't necessitate purging all the Jews. It just necessitates them giving up on the idea of an ethno-state. On the other hand, because "Israel" has been defined as an ethno-state, Likud's, "between the sea and the Jordan there will only be Israeli sovereignty", has no possible good interpretation. It is a declaration of intent to completely colonize, and ethnically cleanse, all Palestine territories. Not only that, but it also claims that they have a "right" to all of the "Land of Israel" (biblical borders that don't mesh with archaeological reality), which is an open declaration of future wars, against Jordan, Syria, Lebanon, and possibly even Iraq. Likud platform ... 1977: "The Right of the Jewish People to the Land of Israel (Eretz Israel) a. The right of the Jewish people to the land of Israel is eternal and indisputable and is linked with the right to security and peace; therefore, Judea and Samaria will not be handed to any foreign administration; between the Sea and the Jordan there will only be Israeli sovereignty. b. A plan which relinquishes parts of western Eretz Israel, undermines our right to the country, unavoidably leads to the establishment of a "Palestinian State," jeopardizes the security of the Jewish population, endangers the existence of the State of Israel. and frustrates any prospect of peace." "Settlement Settlement. both urban and rural. in all parts of the Land of Israel is the focal point of the Zionist effort to redeem the country, to maintain vital security areas and serves as a reservoir of strength and inspiration for the renewal of the pioneering spirit. The Likud government will call on the younger generation in Israel and the dispersions to settle and help every group and individual in the task of inhabiting and cultivating the wasteland, while taking care not to dispossess anyone." 1999: "The Government of Israel flatly rejects the establishment of a Palestinian Arab state west of the Jordan river. The Palestinians can run their lives freely in the framework of self-rule, but not as an independent and sovereign state. Thus, for example, in matters of foreign affairs, security, immigration, and ecology, their activity shall be limited in accordance with imperatives of Israel's existence, security and national needs." "The Jewish communities in Judea, Samaria, and Gaza are the realization of Zionist values. Settlement of the land is a clear expression of the unassailable right of the Jewish people to the Land of Israel and constitutes an important asset in the defense of the vital interests of the State of Israel. The Likud will continue to strengthen and develop these communities and will prevent their uprooting." All Palestine territories are officially considered occupied, by the International Court of Justice, the UN GA, the UN SC, and even in official documents of Israel's own allies. Likud is still using the blueprint for colonizing North America, in the West Bank. Move settlements out into native territory, piss off the natives, the natives retaliate, cry about poor "innocent" colonizing settlers being the "victims" of violent "Savages!", call in the cavalry to put down the native uprising, and eventually expand the borders to include those settlements. Rinse and repeat. In Gaza, Israel is operating an open air WWII style fascist ghetto. Them claiming a "right to defend themselves" would be like the Nazis claiming a "right to defend themselves " from the Warsaw ghetto uprising. There's no "war". That they're the occupiers means the "war" part is long over. Those people are actually supposed to be under the occupier's protection. That partition was forced upon the Palestinian majority, against their will ... that the Zionist portion still had to be forcefully ethnically cleansed of its non-Jewish majority, against their will ... that the millions of occupied Palestinians don't have a say in the government that truly rules over them, Israel's ... means Israel is about as democratic as Nazi Germany after Hitler purged his political opponents and then held elections.
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  8. Catching 10x more fish than you need to survive isn't "wealth inequality". It's depopulating your food source, like a moron, just so you can have a pile of rotten fish.
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  9. They're using the US Manifest Destiny model. Settlers move into native territory, or do something else to piss off the natives, the natives react, sometimes with violence, then the settlers act like the victims, call in the cavalry, who then ethnically cleanse the natives from the area, and then the US borders expanded. It took over a hundred years, but was very effective.
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  10. Was he always that out of shape, or did he let himself go after getting married?
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  11. Weird ... Ben sounds the same.
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  12. Odd how nobody complained about JLO as a boxer, for a magazine shoot and cover. Almost like they're only really pissed that Kristen isn't straight.
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  13. He's arguing the right isn't logical or reasonable? Okay Dave, you convinced me.
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  14. Weird how Hur had to look up what he himself said. Didn't he remember?
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  15. Yeah, these kind of stories don't mean the right winger in question has turned good. It means the others have gone beyond even that person's crazy and horrible position.
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  16. Likud's bloody 100 year history ... In 1923, 100 years ago, Ze'ev Jabotinsky wrote, The Iron Wall, and a follow up, The Ethics of The Iron Wall (sooo racist towards Africans), in which he fully acknowledged that post Balfour Zionsim was colonialism, and that, based on the entirety of history, the native Palestinian population would resist being colonized until the bitter end. He directly compared it to the colonization of North America. He promoted doing it anyway, claiming Zionist colonialism was a "just" colonialism (he also thought North American colonialists were good guys, so not a great judge of morality), not caring what that meant for the native population. Ze'ev is important, because his Betar militant youth group helped found the Irgun terrorist group, along with other supporters of his, and the splinter Lehi terrorist group. The Irgun bombed numerous Palestinian markets and other public places, murdering many Palestinian civilians, including children, even including Palestinian Jews (who didn't support colonialist Zionsim). The Irgun are important, because they ended up being led by future Likud PM, Menachem Begin, who bombed the King David Hotel. The King David Hotel was bombed because the British had raided the Jewish Agency and seized numerous documents that may have shown that the terrorists were working with the JA and Haganah (JA liked to pretend that they didn't support the terrorism). The British then stored those documents at their base, in the hotel. That the Irgun terrorists responded to a JA raid, itself seems to prove the connection. That the thousands of Irgun (and Lehi) terrorists were also quickly merged into the new nation's military (IDF) and intelligence (Mossad) agencies, and are still celebrated as "heroes" by Israelis, to this day, also seems to support total collaboration between the groups. That other terrorist group mentioned, Lehi (also known as the Stern Gang), was considered even more extreme. They even tried to ally with the Nazis, against the British. Lehi ended up being led by Yitzhak Shamir, future Mossad agent, and another future Likud PM. They assassinated Lord Moyne, and others. The two terrorist groups also operated outside of Palestine. The Irgun bombed the British Embassy at Porta Pia, in Rome. The Lehi bombed the British Colonial Club, in London. A timer failed in another bombing attempt, at the Colonial Office, in Whitehall. Two female Lehi operatives were arrested crossing from Belgium to France, with the ingredients for letter bombs. 21 letter bombs were found to be have sent, and were intercepted. They mined the Cairo-Haifa train, in Egypt, twice, killing dozens of civilians, as well as British soldiers. In 1945, there was a major land and peoples survey done in Palestine. It showed that the Zionists only owned about 5% of the total land, 20% of the arable land, and owned a majority in zero districts. The partition was not only going to be forced on the native Palestinian majority, but Jews were still going to be a minority, in the part allocated to them. The only possible way to even become a "Jewish state" was going to require getting rid of the actual majority (at least enough so that there'd be a solid Jewish majority, so they could fake being democratic). This is also shown by the 1948, post Nakba, population of Israel. If there was 716,700 Jews, 156,000+ non-Jews, and approximately 700k non-Jews ethnically cleansed, that means the Jewish population, in the Zionist portion of partition, was originally over 100,000 less than the non-Jewish population. To believe that there was never any intent, by Zionists, to ethnically cleanse away the Palestinian majority would require believing that they never intended to create a "Jewish state". It's a nonsensical notion. Begin, and those terrorist groups, also opposed partition, but for the opposite reason Palestinians did. Palestinians didn't want to be colonized, at all. The terrorists wanted to colonize it all. "Moderate" Zionists were okay with colonizing half ... for now (what would happen in the future, after partition, was up to them, said Ben-Gurion). The Zionist terrorists were also involved in massacres, and assassinations, during the partition violence (colonialist war against the natives). Another notable future Likud PM, also started in the military, during the partition fighting. That was Ariel Sharon, war criminal, "Butcher of Beirut". Menachem Begin, and these other Zionist terrorists, are important because they became involved in Israeli politics, first forming Herut. That was the party that Albert Einstein, and other prominent American Jews, opposed, having a letter printed in the NYT, in December of 1948, when Begin came to visit the US. The letter opened ... "Among the most disturbing political phenomena of our times is the emergence in the newly created state of Israel of the "Freedom Party" (Tnuat Haherut), a political party closely akin in its organization, methods, political philosophy and social appeal to the Nazi and Fascist parties. It was formed out of the membership and following of the former Irgun Zvai Leumi, a terrorist, right-wing, chauvinist organization in Palestine." Herut merged with other extremist parties, over the years, and eventually became Likud, in the 70s. Now, people get upset over the slogan "From the river to the sea!", but it's the second part that's most important, "Palestine will be free!". Because "Palestine" isn't defined as an ethno-state, a free Palestine can be a single state, free for all to live in, and return to, free of continuing colonization, free of occupation, free of oppression, etc. Just like a Germany free of Nazism, an Italy free of fascism, a South Africa free of apartheid, or an America free of slavery from sea to shiny sea. It doesn't necessitate purging all the Jews. It just necessitates them giving up on the idea of an ethno-state. On the other hand, because "Israel" has been defined as an ethno-state, Likud's, "between the sea and the Jordan there will only be Israeli sovereignty", has no possible good interpretation. It is a declaration of intent to completely colonize, and ethnically cleanse, all Palestine territories. Not only that, but it also claims that they have a "right" to all of the "Land of Israel" (biblical borders that don't mesh with archaeological reality), which is an open declaration of future wars, against Jordan, Syria, Lebanon, and possibly even Iraq. Likud platform ... 1977: "The Right of the Jewish People to the Land of Israel (Eretz Israel) a. The right of the Jewish people to the land of Israel is eternal and indisputable and is linked with the right to security and peace; therefore, Judea and Samaria will not be handed to any foreign administration; between the Sea and the Jordan there will only be Israeli sovereignty. b. A plan which relinquishes parts of western Eretz Israel, undermines our right to the country, unavoidably leads to the establishment of a "Palestinian State," jeopardizes the security of the Jewish population, endangers the existence of the State of Israel. and frustrates any prospect of peace." 1999: "The Government of Israel flatly rejects the establishment of a Palestinian Arab state west of the Jordan river. The Palestinians can run their lives freely in the framework of self-rule, but not as an independent and sovereign state. Thus, for example, in matters of foreign affairs, security, immigration, and ecology, their activity shall be limited in accordance with imperatives of Israel's existence, security and national needs." "The Jewish communities in Judea, Samaria, and Gaza are the realization of Zionist values. Settlement of the land is a clear expression of the unassailable right of the Jewish people to the Land of Israel and constitutes an important asset in the defense of the vital interests of the State of Israel. The Likud will continue to strengthen and develop these communities and will prevent their uprooting." All Palestine territories are officially considered occupied, by the International Court of Justice, the UN GA, the UN SC, and even in official documents of Israel's own allies. Likud is still using the blueprint for colonizing North America, in the West Bank. Move settlements out into native territory, piss off the natives, the natives retaliate, cry about poor "innocent" colonizing settlers being the "victims" of violent "Savages!", call in the cavalry to put down the native uprising, and eventually expand the borders to include those settlements. Rinse and repeat. In Gaza, Israel is operating an open air WWII style fascist ghetto. Them claiming a "right to defend themselves" would be like the Nazis claiming a "right to defend themselves " from the Warsaw ghetto uprising. There's no "war". That they're the occupiers means the "war" part is long over. Those people are actually supposed to be under the occupier's protection. That partition was forced upon the Palestinian majority, against their will ... that the Zionist portion still had to be forcefully ethnically cleansed of its non-Jewish majority, against their will ... that the millions of occupied Palestinians don't have a say in the government that truly rules over them, Israel's ... means Israel is about as democratic as Nazi Germany after Hitler purged his political opponents and then held elections.
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  17. Weird, how descendants of fascist Batista supporters vote right wing.
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  18. Likud's bloody 100 year history ... In 1923, 100 years ago, Ze'ev Jabotinsky wrote, The Iron Wall, and a follow up, The Ethics of The Iron Wall (sooo racist towards Africans), in which he fully acknowledged that post Balfour Zionsim was colonialism, and that, based on the entirety of history, the native Palestinian population would resist being colonized until the bitter end. He directly compared it to the colonization of North America. He promoted doing it anyway, claiming Zionist colonialism was a "just" colonialism (he also thought North American colonialists were good guys, so not a great judge of morality), not caring what that meant for the native population. Ze'ev is important, because his Betar militant youth group helped found the Irgun terrorist group, along with other supporters of his, and the splinter Lehi terrorist group. The Irgun bombed numerous Palestinian markets and other public places, murdering many Palestinian civilians, including children, even including Palestinian Jews (who didn't support colonialist Zionsim). The Irgun are important, because they ended up being led by future Likud PM, Menachem Begin, who bombed the King David Hotel. The King David Hotel was bombed because the British had raided the Jewish Agency and seized numerous documents that may have shown that the terrorists were working with the JA and Haganah (JA liked to pretend that they didn't support the terrorism). The British then stored those documents at their base, in the hotel. That the Irgun terrorists responded to a JA raid, itself seems to prove the connection. That the thousands of Irgun (and Lehi) terrorists were also quickly merged into the new nation's military (IDF) and intelligence (Mossad) agencies, and are still celebrated as "heroes" by Israelis, to this day, also seems to support total collaboration between the groups. That other terrorist group mentioned, Lehi (also known as the Stern Gang), was considered even more extreme. They even tried to ally with the Nazis, against the British. Lehi ended up being led by Yitzhak Shamir, future Mossad agent, and another future Likud PM. They assassinated Lord Moyne, and others. The two terrorist groups also operated outside of Palestine. The Irgun bombed the British Embassy at Porta Pia, in Rome. The Lehi bombed the British Colonial Club, in London. A timer failed in another bombing attempt, at the Colonial Office, in Whitehall. Two female Lehi operatives were arrested crossing from Belgium to France, with the ingredients for letter bombs. 21 letter bombs were found to be have sent, and were intercepted. They mined the Cairo-Haifa train, in Egypt, twice, killing dozens of civilians, as well as British soldiers. In 1945, there was a major land and peoples survey done in Palestine. It showed that the Zionists only owned about 5% of the total land, 20% of the arable land, and owned a majority in zero districts. The partition was not only going to be forced on the native Palestinian majority, but Jews were still going to be a minority, in the part allocated to them. The only possible way to even become a "Jewish state" was going to require getting rid of the actual majority (at least enough so that there'd be a solid Jewish majority, so they could fake being democratic). This is also shown by the 1948, post Nakba, population of Israel. If there was 716,700 Jews, 156,000+ non-Jews, and approximately 700k non-Jews ethnically cleansed, that means the Jewish population, in the Zionist portion of partition, was originally over 100,000 less than the non-Jewish population. To believe that there was never any intent, by Zionists, to ethnically cleanse away the Palestinian majority would require believing that they never intended to create a "Jewish state". It's a nonsensical notion. Begin, and those terrorist groups, also opposed partition, but for the opposite reason Palestinians did. Palestinians didn't want to be colonized, at all. The terrorists wanted to colonize it all. "Moderate" Zionists were okay with colonizing half ... for now (what would happen in the future, after partition, was up to them, said Ben-Gurion). The Zionist terrorists were also involved in massacres, and assassinations, during the partition violence (colonialist war against the natives). Another notable future Likud PM, also started in the military, during the partition fighting. That was Ariel Sharon, war criminal, "Butcher of Beirut". Menachem Begin, and these other Zionist terrorists, are important because they became involved in Israeli politics, first forming Herut. That was the party that Albert Einstein, and other prominent American Jews, opposed, having a letter printed in the NYT, in December of 1948, when Begin came to visit the US. The letter opened ... "Among the most disturbing political phenomena of our times is the emergence in the newly created state of Israel of the "Freedom Party" (Tnuat Haherut), a political party closely akin in its organization, methods, political philosophy and social appeal to the Nazi and Fascist parties. It was formed out of the membership and following of the former Irgun Zvai Leumi, a terrorist, right-wing, chauvinist organization in Palestine." Herut merged with other extremist parties, over the years, and eventually became Likud, in the 70s. Now, people get upset over the slogan "From the river to the sea!", but it's the second part that's most important, "Palestine will be free!". Because "Palestine" isn't defined as an ethno-state, a free Palestine can be a single state, free for all to live in, and return to, free of continuing colonization, free of occupation, free of oppression, etc. Just like a Germany free of Nazism, an Italy free of fascism, a South Africa free of apartheid, or an America free of slavery from sea to shiny sea. It doesn't necessitate purging all the Jews. It just necessitates them giving up on the idea of an ethno-state. On the other hand, because "Israel" has been defined as an ethno-state, Likud's, "between the sea and the Jordan there will only be Israeli sovereignty", has no possible good interpretation. It is a declaration of intent to completely colonize, and ethnically cleanse, all Palestine territories. Not only that, but it also claims that they have a "right" to all of the "Land of Israel" (biblical borders that don't mesh with archaeological reality), which is an open declaration of future wars, against Jordan, Syria, Lebanon, and possibly even Iraq. Likud platform ... 1977: "The Right of the Jewish People to the Land of Israel (Eretz Israel) a. The right of the Jewish people to the land of Israel is eternal and indisputable and is linked with the right to security and peace; therefore, Judea and Samaria will not be handed to any foreign administration; between the Sea and the Jordan there will only be Israeli sovereignty. b. A plan which relinquishes parts of western Eretz Israel, undermines our right to the country, unavoidably leads to the establishment of a "Palestinian State," jeopardizes the security of the Jewish population, endangers the existence of the State of Israel. and frustrates any prospect of peace." 1999: "The Government of Israel flatly rejects the establishment of a Palestinian Arab state west of the Jordan river. The Palestinians can run their lives freely in the framework of self-rule, but not as an independent and sovereign state. Thus, for example, in matters of foreign affairs, security, immigration, and ecology, their activity shall be limited in accordance with imperatives of Israel's existence, security and national needs." "The Jewish communities in Judea, Samaria, and Gaza are the realization of Zionist values. Settlement of the land is a clear expression of the unassailable right of the Jewish people to the Land of Israel and constitutes an important asset in the defense of the vital interests of the State of Israel. The Likud will continue to strengthen and develop these communities and will prevent their uprooting." All Palestine territories are officially considered occupied, by the International Court of Justice, the UN GA, the UN SC, and even in official documents of Israel's own allies. Likud is still using the blueprint for colonizing North America, in the West Bank. Move settlements out into native territory, piss off the natives, the natives retaliate, cry about poor "innocent" colonizing settlers being the "victims" of violent "Savages!", call in the cavalry to put down the native uprising, and eventually expand the borders to include those settlements. Rinse and repeat. In Gaza, Israel is operating an open air WWII style fascist ghetto. Them claiming a "right to defend themselves" would be like the Nazis claiming a "right to defend themselves " from the Warsaw ghetto uprising. There's no "war". That they're the occupiers means the "war" part is long over. Those people are actually supposed to be under the occupier's protection. That partition was forced upon the Palestinian majority, against their will ... that the Zionist portion still had to be forcefully ethnically cleansed of its non-Jewish majority, against their will ... that the millions of occupied Palestinians don't have a say in the government that truly rules over them, Israel's ... means Israel is about as democratic as Nazi Germany after Hitler purged his political opponents and then held elections.
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  19. Yet, many Americans would rather pay more for private insurance, than pay less for single payer ... just out of spite, so they don't pay a dime towards someone who isn't paying. You've got a high percentage of truly horrible people, down there.
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  20. Likud's bloody 100 year history ... In 1923, 100 years ago, Ze'ev Jabotinsky wrote, The Iron Wall, and a follow up, The Ethics of The Iron Wall (sooo racist towards Africans), in which he fully acknowledged that post Balfour Zionsim was colonialism, and that, based on the entirety of history, the native Palestinian population would resist being colonized until the bitter end. He directly compared it to the colonization of North America. He promoted doing it anyway, claiming Zionist colonialism was a "just" colonialism (he also thought North American colonialists were good guys, so not a great judge of morality), not caring what that meant for the native population. Ze'ev is important, because his Betar militant youth group helped found the Irgun terrorist group, along with other supporters of his, and the splinter Lehi terrorist group. The Irgun bombed numerous Palestinian markets and other public places, murdering many Palestinian civilians, including children, even including Palestinian Jews (who didn't support colonialist Zionsim). The Irgun are important, because they ended up being led by future Likud PM, Menachem Begin, who bombed the King David Hotel. The King David Hotel was bombed because the British had raided the Jewish Agency and seized numerous documents that may have shown that the terrorists were working with the JA and Haganah (JA liked to pretend that they didn't support the terrorism). The British then stored those documents at their base, in the hotel. That the Irgun terrorists responded to a JA raid, itself seems to prove the connection. That the thousands of Irgun (and Lehi) terrorists were also quickly merged into the new nation's military (IDF) and intelligence (Mossad) agencies, and are still celebrated as "heroes" by Israelis, to this day, also seems to support total collaboration between the groups. That other terrorist group mentioned, Lehi (also known as the Stern Gang), was considered even more extreme. They even tried to ally with the Nazis, against the British. Lehi ended up being led by Yitzhak Shamir, future Mossad agent, and another future Likud PM. They assassinated Lord Moyne, and others. In 1945, there was a major land and peoples survey done in Palestine. It showed that the Zionists only owned about 5% of the total land, 20% of the arable land, and owned a majority in zero districts. The partition was not only going to be forced on the native Palestinian majority, but Jews were still going to be a minority, in the part allocated to them. The only possible way to even become a "Jewish state" was going to require getting rid of the actual majority (at least enough so that there'd be a solid Jewish majority, so they could fake being democratic). This is also shown by the 1948, post Nakba, population of Israel. If there was 716,700 Jews, 156,000+ non-Jews, and approximately 700k non-Jews ethnically cleansed, that means the Jewish population, in the Zionist portion of partition, was originally over 100,000 less than the non-Jewish population. To believe that there was never any intent, by Zionists, to ethnically cleanse away the Palestinian majority would require believing that they never intended to create a "Jewish state". It's a nonsensical notion. Begin, and those terrorist groups, also opposed partition, but for the opposite reason Palestinians did. Palestinians didn't want to be colonized, at all. The terrorists wanted to colonize it all. "Moderate" Zionists were okay with colonizing half ... for now (what would happen in the future, after partition, was up to them, said Ben-Gurion). The Zionist terrorists were also involved in massacres, and assassinations, during the partition violence (colonialist war against the natives). Another notable future Likud PM, also started in the military, during the partition fighting. That was Ariel Sharon, war criminal, "Butcher of Beirut". Menachem Begin, and these other Zionist terrorists, are important because they became involved in Israeli politics, first forming Herut. That was the party that Albert Einstein, and other prominent American Jews, opposed, having a letter printed in the NYT, in December of 1948, when Begin came to visit the US. The letter opened ... "Among the most disturbing political phenomena of our times is the emergence in the newly created state of Israel of the "Freedom Party" (Tnuat Haherut), a political party closely akin in its organization, methods, political philosophy and social appeal to the Nazi and Fascist parties. It was formed out of the membership and following of the former Irgun Zvai Leumi, a terrorist, right-wing, chauvinist organization in Palestine." Herut merged with other extremist parties, over the years, and eventually became Likud, in the 70s. Now, people get upset over the slogan "From the river to the sea!", but it's the second part that's most important, "Palestine will be free!". Because "Palestine" isn't defined as an ethno-state, a free Palestine can be a single state, free for all to live in, and return to, free of continuing colonization, free of occupation, free of oppression, etc. Just like a Germany free of Nazism, an Italy free of fascism, a South Africa free of apartheid, or an America free of slavery from sea to shiny sea. It doesn't necessitate purging all the Jews. It just necessitates them giving up on the idea of an ethno-state. On the other hand, because "Israel" has been defined as an ethno-state, Likud's, "between the sea and the Jordan there will only be Israeli sovereignty", has no possible good interpretation. It is a declaration of intent to completely colonize, and ethnically cleanse, all Palestine territories. Not only that, but it also claims that they have a "right" to all of the "Land of Israel" (biblical borders that don't mesh with archaeological reality), which is an open declaration of future wars, against Jordan, Syria, Lebanon, and possibly even Iraq. Likud platform ... 1977: "The Right of the Jewish People to the Land of Israel (Eretz Israel) a. The right of the Jewish people to the land of Israel is eternal and indisputable and is linked with the right to security and peace; therefore, Judea and Samaria will not be handed to any foreign administration; between the Sea and the Jordan there will only be Israeli sovereignty. b. A plan which relinquishes parts of western Eretz Israel, undermines our right to the country, unavoidably leads to the establishment of a "Palestinian State," jeopardizes the security of the Jewish population, endangers the existence of the State of Israel. and frustrates any prospect of peace." "Settlement Settlement. both urban and rural. in all parts of the Land of Israel is the focal point of the Zionist effort to redeem the country, to maintain vital security areas and serves as a reservoir of strength and inspiration for the renewal of the pioneering spirit. The Likud government will call on the younger generation in Israel and the dispersions to settle and help every group and individual in the task of inhabiting and cultivating the wasteland, while taking care not to dispossess anyone." 1999: "The Government of Israel flatly rejects the establishment of a Palestinian Arab state west of the Jordan river. The Palestinians can run their lives freely in the framework of self-rule, but not as an independent and sovereign state. Thus, for example, in matters of foreign affairs, security, immigration, and ecology, their activity shall be limited in accordance with imperatives of Israel's existence, security and national needs." "The Jewish communities in Judea, Samaria, and Gaza are the realization of Zionist values. Settlement of the land is a clear expression of the unassailable right of the Jewish people to the Land of Israel and constitutes an important asset in the defense of the vital interests of the State of Israel. The Likud will continue to strengthen and develop these communities and will prevent their uprooting." All Palestine territories are officially considered occupied, by the International Court of Justice, the UN GA, the UN SC, and even in official documents of Israel's own allies. Likud is still using the blueprint for colonizing North America, in the West Bank. Move settlements out into native territory, piss off the natives, the natives retaliate, cry about poor "innocent" colonizing settlers being the "victims" of violent "Savages!", call in the cavalry to put down the native uprising, and eventually expand the borders to include those settlements. Rinse and repeat. In Gaza, Israel is operating an open air WWII style fascist ghetto. Them claiming a "right to defend themselves" would be like the Nazis claiming a "right to defend themselves " from the Warsaw ghetto uprising. There's no "war". That they're the occupiers means the "war" part is long over. Those people are actually supposed to be under the occupier's protection. That partition was forced upon the Palestinian majority, against their will ... that the Zionist portion still had to be forcefully ethnically cleansed of its non-Jewish majority, against their will ... that the millions of occupied Palestinians don't have a say in the government that truly rules over them, Israel's ... means Israel is about as democratic as Nazi Germany after Hitler purged his political opponents and then held elections.
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  21. And it likely would have been cheaper just to give her extra funding, if that's what she needed.
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  22. Everyone who was incited by Manson, and committed crimes, got locked up. Manson, as well, was rightfully locked up with them.
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  23. People getting paid hundreds of thousands to sit on a couch and complain about things they don't like, complaining that people don't want to do actual work for peanuts.
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  24. These are the same people who think scientists have never thought of the planet heating and cooling in cycles and added that to their calculations. Only they thought of it, and owned the scientists!
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  25. "Fascism is the complete opposite of Marxian socialism." ~ Mussolini Marx's ideal was for a stateless, non-authoritarian, direct democracy, form of socialism. The complete opposite is an ultra-nationalistic, authoritarian, anti-democratic, form of crony capitalism.
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  26. The guy who thinks windmill noise causes cancer.
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  27. Biden seems to be prouder of his ability to work with Republicans than he is at all interested in working with progressives.
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  28. Colonialists can never be "defending" themselves, from the natives. If they weren't there, first doing their act of aggression, colonialism, the natives wouldn't have anyone to attack. Colonialist aggression always comes first.
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  29. Likud's bloody 100 year history ... In 1923, 100 years ago, Ze'ev Jabotinsky wrote, The Iron Wall, and a follow up, The Ethics of The Iron Wall (sooo racist towards Africans), in which he fully acknowledged that post Balfour Zionsim was colonialism, and that, based on the entirety of history, the native Palestinian population would resist being colonized until the bitter end. He directly compared it to the colonization of North America. He promoted doing it anyway, claiming Zionist colonialism was a "just" colonialism (he also thought North American colonialists were good guys, so not a great judge of morality), not caring what that meant for the native population. Ze'ev is important, because his Betar militant youth group helped found the Irgun terrorist group, along with other supporters of his, and the splinter Lehi terrorist group. The Irgun bombed numerous Palestinian markets and other public places, murdering many Palestinian civilians, including children, even including Palestinian Jews (who didn't support colonialist Zionsim). The Irgun are important, because they ended up being led by future Likud PM, Menachem Begin, who bombed the King David Hotel. The King David Hotel was bombed because the British had raided the Jewish Agency and seized numerous documents that may have shown that the terrorists were working with the JA and Haganah (JA liked to pretend that they didn't support the terrorism). The British then stored those documents at their base, in the hotel. That the Irgun terrorists responded to a JA raid, itself seems to prove the connection. That the thousands of Irgun (and Lehi) terrorists were also quickly merged into the new nation's military (IDF) and intelligence (Mossad) agencies, and are still celebrated as "heroes" by Israelis, to this day, also seems to support total collaboration between the groups. That other terrorist group mentioned, Lehi (also known as the Stern Gang), was considered even more extreme. They even tried to ally with the Nazis, against the British. Lehi ended up being led by Yitzhak Shamir, future Mossad agent, and another future Likud PM. They assassinated Lord Moyne, and others. In 1945, there was a major land and peoples survey done in Palestine. It showed that the Zionists only owned about 5% of the total land, 20% of the arable land, and owned a majority in zero districts. The partition was not only going to be forced on the native Palestinian majority, but Jews were still going to be a minority, in the part allocated to them. The only possible way to even become a "Jewish state" was going to require getting rid of the actual majority (at least enough so that there'd be a solid Jewish majority, so they could fake being democratic). This is also shown by the 1948, post Nakba, population of Israel. If there was 716,700 Jews, 156,000+ non-Jews, and approximately 700k non-Jews ethnically cleansed, that means the Jewish population, in the Zionist portion of partition, was originally over 100,000 less than the non-Jewish population. To believe that there was never any intent, by Zionists, to ethnically cleanse away the Palestinian majority would require believing that they never intended to create a "Jewish state". It's a nonsensical notion. Begin, and those terrorist groups, also opposed partition, but for the opposite reason Palestinians did. Palestinians didn't want to be colonized, at all. The terrorists wanted to colonize it all. "Moderate" Zionists were okay with colonizing half ... for now (what would happen in the future, after partition, was up to them, said Ben-Gurion). The Zionist terrorists were also involved in massacres, and assassinations, during the partition violence (colonialist war against the natives). Another notable future Likud PM, also started in the military, during the partition fighting. That was Ariel Sharon, war criminal, "Butcher of Beirut". Menachem Begin, and these other Zionist terrorists, are important because they became involved in Israeli politics, first forming Herut. That was the party that Albert Einstein, and other prominent American Jews, opposed, having a letter printed in the NYT, in December of 1948, when Begin came to visit the US. The letter opened ... "Among the most disturbing political phenomena of our times is the emergence in the newly created state of Israel of the "Freedom Party" (Tnuat Haherut), a political party closely akin in its organization, methods, political philosophy and social appeal to the Nazi and Fascist parties. It was formed out of the membership and following of the former Irgun Zvai Leumi, a terrorist, right-wing, chauvinist organization in Palestine." Herut merged with other extremist parties, over the years, and eventually became Likud, in the 70s. Now, people get upset over the slogan "From the river to the sea!", but it's the second part that's most important, "Palestine will be free!". Because "Palestine" isn't defined as an ethno-state, a free Palestine can be a single state, free for all to live in, and return to, free of continuing colonization, free of occupation, free of oppression, etc. Just like a Germany free of Nazism, an Italy free of fascism, a South Africa free of apartheid, or an America free of slavery from sea to shiny sea. It doesn't necessitate purging all the Jews. It just necessitates them giving up on the idea of an ethno-state. On the other hand, because "Israel" has been defined as an ethno-state, Likud's, "between the sea and the Jordan there will only be Israeli sovereignty", has no possible good interpretation. It is a declaration of intent to completely colonize, and ethnically cleanse, all Palestine territories. Not only that, but it also claims that they have a "right" to all of the "Land of Israel" (biblical borders that don't mesh with archaeological reality), which is an open declaration of future wars, against Jordan, Syria, Lebanon, and possibly even Iraq. Likud platform ... 1977: "The Right of the Jewish People to the Land of Israel (Eretz Israel) a. The right of the Jewish people to the land of Israel is eternal and indisputable and is linked with the right to security and peace; therefore, Judea and Samaria will not be handed to any foreign administration; between the Sea and the Jordan there will only be Israeli sovereignty. b. A plan which relinquishes parts of western Eretz Israel, undermines our right to the country, unavoidably leads to the establishment of a "Palestinian State," jeopardizes the security of the Jewish population, endangers the existence of the State of Israel. and frustrates any prospect of peace." "Settlement Settlement. both urban and rural. in all parts of the Land of Israel is the focal point of the Zionist effort to redeem the country, to maintain vital security areas and serves as a reservoir of strength and inspiration for the renewal of the pioneering spirit. The Likud government will call on the younger generation in Israel and the dispersions to settle and help every group and individual in the task of inhabiting and cultivating the wasteland, while taking care not to dispossess anyone." 1999: "The Government of Israel flatly rejects the establishment of a Palestinian Arab state west of the Jordan river. The Palestinians can run their lives freely in the framework of self-rule, but not as an independent and sovereign state. Thus, for example, in matters of foreign affairs, security, immigration, and ecology, their activity shall be limited in accordance with imperatives of Israel's existence, security and national needs." "The Jewish communities in Judea, Samaria, and Gaza are the realization of Zionist values. Settlement of the land is a clear expression of the unassailable right of the Jewish people to the Land of Israel and constitutes an important asset in the defense of the vital interests of the State of Israel. The Likud will continue to strengthen and develop these communities and will prevent their uprooting." All Palestine territories are officially considered occupied, by the International Court of Justice, the UN GA, the UN SC, and even in official documents of Israel's own allies. Likud is still using the blueprint for colonizing North America, in the West Bank. Move settlements out into native territory, piss off the natives, the natives retaliate, cry about poor "innocent" colonizing settlers being the "victims" of violent "Savages!", call in the cavalry to put down the native uprising, and eventually expand the borders to include those settlements. Rinse and repeat. In Gaza, Israel is operating an open air WWII style fascist ghetto. Them claiming a "right to defend themselves" would be like the Nazis claiming a "right to defend themselves " from the Warsaw ghetto uprising. There's no "war". That they're the occupiers means the "war" part is long over. Those people are actually supposed to be under the occupier's protection. That partition was forced upon the Palestinian majority, against their will ... that the Zionist portion still had to be forcefully ethnically cleansed of its non-Jewish majority, against their will ... that the millions of occupied Palestinians don't have a say in the government that truly rules over them, Israel's ... means Israel is about as democratic as Nazi Germany after Hitler purged his political opponents and then held elections.
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  30. Oh, they learned plenty from WWII. They just learned from the wrong people.
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  31. Price gouging: "High egg prices send profits at largest US producer soaring more than 700% Mar 29, 2023" Lost previous case of price gouging: "A US jury has ordered egg producers, including industry giant Cal-Maine Foods, to pay $17.7m in damages to a number of food manufacturing companies after being found guilty in a long-running price-gouging lawsuit. Under federal law that amount will be tripled to around $53m. Dec 4, 2023" Being sued by Texas, in a separate price gouging case: "Egg Pricing Case Going Forward; Petition for Review at Texas Supreme Court Jan 8, 2023 — The State of Texas claims that Cal-Maine Foods illegally charged excessive prices for eggs during the Covid-19 pandemic." Is Texas cmmnst?
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  32. Yeah, Jimmy has become a wingnut. He might as well be a Republican, at this point, with how little he criticizes them.
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  33. He doesn't seem to have a grasp on what the term means. If there are 1000 Palestinians, split between town A and town B, and you come and force out all the ones in town A, making them move to town B, where time passes and they all have some kids, so there's now 1500 Palestinians ... you've still ethnically cleansed them from town A.
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  34. If she thinks an older lady doesn't get a say, then she should agree that men don't get a say.
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  35. One that was raised by grandparents who still worked on the same plantation his great-grandparents were slaves on (not working for themselves).
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  36. ​ @sethjoseph4382  Doesn't matter who is unarmed and carrying a white flag. Killing someone surrendering is a war crime.
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  37. Not only should a president not be allowed to pardon themselves, they shouldn't be allowed to pardon family, friends, and associates. There should be a conflict of interest clause.
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  38. Don't forget that he actually had an election integrity commission investigate the 2016 election, and they found no evidence of widespread voter fraud. He proved, himself, that he was making baseless claims.
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  39. Likud's bloody 100 year history ... In 1923, 100 years ago, Ze'ev Jabotinsky wrote, The Iron Wall, and a follow up, The Ethics of The Iron Wall (sooo racist towards Africans), in which he fully acknowledged that post Balfour Zionsim was colonialism, and that, based on the entirety of history, the native Palestinian population would resist being colonized until the bitter end. He directly compared it to the colonization of North America. He promoted doing it anyway, claiming Zionist colonialism was a "just" colonialism (he also thought North American colonialists were good guys, so not a great judge of morality), not caring what that meant for the native population. Ze'ev is important, because his Betar militant youth group helped found the Irgun terrorist group, along with other supporters of his, and the splinter Lehi terrorist group. The Irgun bombed numerous Palestinian markets and other public places, murdering many Palestinian civilians, including children, even including Palestinian Jews (who didn't support colonialist Zionsim). The Irgun are important, because they ended up being led by future Likud PM, Menachem Begin, who bombed the King David Hotel. The King David Hotel was bombed because the British had raided the Jewish Agency and seized numerous documents that may have shown that the terrorists were working with the JA and Haganah (JA liked to pretend that they didn't support the terrorism). The British then stored those documents at their base, in the hotel. That the Irgun terrorists responded to a JA raid, itself seems to prove the connection. That the thousands of Irgun (and Lehi) terrorists were also quickly merged into the new nation's military (IDF) and intelligence (Mossad) agencies, and are still celebrated as "heroes" by Israelis, to this day, also seems to support total collaboration between the groups. That other terrorist group mentioned, Lehi (also known as the Stern Gang), was considered even more extreme. They even tried to ally with the Nazis, against the British. Lehi ended up being led by Yitzhak Shamir, future Mossad agent, and another future Likud PM. They assassinated Lord Moyne, and others. In 1945, there was a major land and peoples survey done in Palestine. It showed that the Zionists only owned about 5% of the total land, 20% of the arable land, and owned a majority in zero districts. The partition was not only going to be forced on the native Palestinian majority, but Jews were still going to be a minority, in the part allocated to them. The only possible way to even become a "Jewish state" was going to require getting rid of the actual majority (at least enough so that there'd be a solid Jewish majority, so they could fake being democratic). This is also shown by the 1948, post Nakba, population of Israel. If there was 716,700 Jews, 156,000+ non-Jews, and approximately 700k non-Jews ethnically cleansed, that means the Jewish population, in the Zionist portion of partition, was originally over 100,000 less than the non-Jewish population. To believe that there was never any intent, by Zionists, to ethnically cleanse away the Palestinian majority would require believing that they never intended to create a "Jewish state". It's a nonsensical notion. Begin, and those terrorist groups, also opposed partition, but for the opposite reason Palestinians did. Palestinians didn't want to be colonized, at all. The terrorists wanted to colonize it all. "Moderate" Zionists were okay with colonizing half ... for now (what would happen in the future, after partition, was up to them, said Ben-Gurion). The Zionist terrorists were also involved in massacres, and assassinations, during the partition violence (colonialist war against the natives). Another notable future Likud PM, also started in the military, during the partition fighting. That was Ariel Sharon, war criminal, "Butcher of Beirut". Menachem Begin, and these other Zionist terrorists, are important because they became involved in Israeli politics, first forming Herut. That was the party that Albert Einstein, and other prominent American Jews, opposed, having a letter printed in the NYT, in December of 1948, when Begin came to visit the US. The letter opened ... "Among the most disturbing political phenomena of our times is the emergence in the newly created state of Israel of the "Freedom Party" (Tnuat Haherut), a political party closely akin in its organization, methods, political philosophy and social appeal to the Nazi and Fascist parties. It was formed out of the membership and following of the former Irgun Zvai Leumi, a terrorist, right-wing, chauvinist organization in Palestine." Herut merged with other extremist parties, over the years, and eventually became Likud, in the 70s. Now, people get upset over the slogan "From the river to the sea!", but it's the second part that's most important, "Palestine will be free!". Because "Palestine" isn't defined as an ethno-state, a free Palestine can be a single state, free for all to live in, and return to, free of continuing colonization, free of occupation, free of oppression, etc. Just like a Germany free of Nazism, an Italy free of fascism, a South Africa free of apartheid, or an America free of slavery from sea to shiny sea. It doesn't necessitate purging all the Jews. It just necessitates them giving up on the idea of an ethno-state. On the other hand, because "Israel" has been defined as an ethno-state, Likud's, "between the sea and the Jordan there will only be Israeli sovereignty", has no possible good interpretation. It is a declaration of intent to completely colonize, and ethnically cleanse, all Palestine territories. Not only that, but it also claims that they have a "right" to all of the "Land of Israel" (biblical borders that don't mesh with archaeological reality), which is an open declaration of future wars, against Jordan, Syria, Lebanon, and possibly even Iraq. Likud platform ... 1977: "The Right of the Jewish People to the Land of Israel (Eretz Israel) a. The right of the Jewish people to the land of Israel is eternal and indisputable and is linked with the right to security and peace; therefore, Judea and Samaria will not be handed to any foreign administration; between the Sea and the Jordan there will only be Israeli sovereignty. b. A plan which relinquishes parts of western Eretz Israel, undermines our right to the country, unavoidably leads to the establishment of a "Palestinian State," jeopardizes the security of the Jewish population, endangers the existence of the State of Israel. and frustrates any prospect of peace." "Settlement Settlement. both urban and rural. in all parts of the Land of Israel is the focal point of the Zionist effort to redeem the country, to maintain vital security areas and serves as a reservoir of strength and inspiration for the renewal of the pioneering spirit. The Likud government will call on the younger generation in Israel and the dispersions to settle and help every group and individual in the task of inhabiting and cultivating the wasteland, while taking care not to dispossess anyone." 1999: "The Government of Israel flatly rejects the establishment of a Palestinian Arab state west of the Jordan river. The Palestinians can run their lives freely in the framework of self-rule, but not as an independent and sovereign state. Thus, for example, in matters of foreign affairs, security, immigration, and ecology, their activity shall be limited in accordance with imperatives of Israel's existence, security and national needs." "The Jewish communities in Judea, Samaria, and Gaza are the realization of Zionist values. Settlement of the land is a clear expression of the unassailable right of the Jewish people to the Land of Israel and constitutes an important asset in the defense of the vital interests of the State of Israel. The Likud will continue to strengthen and develop these communities and will prevent their uprooting." All Palestine territories are officially considered occupied, by the International Court of Justice, the UN GA, the UN SC, and even in official documents of Israel's own allies. Likud is still using the blueprint for colonizing North America, in the West Bank. Move settlements out into native territory, piss off the natives, the natives retaliate, cry about poor "innocent" colonizing settlers being the "victims" of violent "Savages!", call in the cavalry to put down the native uprising, and eventually expand the borders to include those settlements. Rinse and repeat. In Gaza, Israel is operating an open air WWII style fascist ghetto. Them claiming a "right to defend themselves" would be like the Nazis claiming a "right to defend themselves " from the Warsaw ghetto uprising. There's no "war". That they're the occupiers means the "war" part is long over. Those people are actually supposed to be under the occupier's protection. That partition was forced upon the Palestinian majority, against their will ... that the Zionist portion still had to be forcefully ethnically cleansed of its non-Jewish majority, against their will ... that the millions of occupied Palestinians don't have a say in the government that truly rules over them, Israel's ... means Israel is about as democratic as Nazi Germany after Hitler purged his political opponents and then held elections.
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  40.  @werihfbwl  No, it makes absolutely zero sense, because it still would have happened in front of the same H3 audience, with the same number of viewers. Crowder is a complete and utter coward.
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  41. ​ @EpicAlcatraz99  Because you're not actually "at war", when you're an occupier, which Israel is. International law actually gives those being occupied a right to resist. The occupier, on the other hand, is breaking the law, if they do collective punishment.
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  42. Like an open air WWII style fascist ghetto.
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  43. What are they blathering about? The laws apply to any race, any sex, or any religion. If they think they're being discriminated against, take it to court.
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  44. The funny thing is that he's repeatedly claiming he instead committed MASSIVE tax fraud, by undervaluing a property by over a billion dollars. Valuations are supposed to be accurate, neither way over OR way under.
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  45. Likud's bloody 100 year history ... In 1923, 100 years ago, Ze'ev Jabotinsky wrote, The Iron Wall, and a follow up, The Ethics of The Iron Wall (sooo racist towards Africans), in which he fully acknowledged that post Balfour Zionsim was colonialism, and that, based on the entirety of history, the native Palestinian population would resist being colonized until the bitter end. He directly compared it to the colonization of North America. He promoted doing it anyway, claiming Zionist colonialism was a "just" colonialism (he also thought North American colonialists were good guys, so not a great judge of morality), not caring what that meant for the native population. Ze'ev is important, because his Betar militant youth group helped found the Irgun terrorist group, along with other supporters of his, and the splinter Lehi terrorist group. The Irgun bombed numerous Palestinian markets and other public places, murdering many Palestinian civilians, including children, even including Palestinian Jews (who didn't support colonialist Zionsim). The Irgun are important, because they ended up being led by future Likud PM, Menachem Begin, who bombed the King David Hotel. The King David Hotel was bombed because the British had raided the Jewish Agency and seized numerous documents that may have shown that the terrorists were working with the JA and Haganah (JA liked to pretend that they didn't support the terrorism). The British then stored those documents at their base, in the hotel. That the Irgun terrorists responded to a JA raid, itself seems to prove the connection. That the thousands of Irgun (and Lehi) terrorists were also quickly merged into the new nation's military (IDF) and intelligence (Mossad) agencies, and are still celebrated as "heroes" by Israelis, to this day, also seems to support total collaboration between the groups. That other terrorist group mentioned, Lehi (also known as the Stern Gang), was considered even more extreme. They even tried to ally with the Nazis, against the British. Lehi ended up being led by Yitzhak Shamir, future Mossad agent, and another future Likud PM. They assassinated Lord Moyne, and others. In 1945, there was a major land and peoples survey done in Palestine. It showed that the Zionists only owned about 5% of the total land, 20% of the arable land, and owned a majority in zero districts. The partition was not only going to be forced on the native Palestinian majority, but Jews were still going to be a minority, in the part allocated to them. The only possible way to even become a "Jewish state" was going to require getting rid of the actual majority (at least enough so that there'd be a solid Jewish majority, so they could fake being democratic). This is also shown by the 1948, post Nakba, population of Israel. If there was 716,700 Jews, 156,000+ non-Jews, and approximately 700k non-Jews ethnically cleansed, that means the Jewish population, in the Zionist portion of partition, was originally over 100,000 less than the non-Jewish population. To believe that there was never any intent, by Zionists, to ethnically cleanse away the Palestinian majority would require believing that they never intended to create a "Jewish state". It's a nonsensical notion. Begin, and those terrorist groups, also opposed partition, but for the opposite reason Palestinians did. Palestinians didn't want to be colonized, at all. The terrorists wanted to colonize it all. "Moderate" Zionists were okay with colonizing half ... for now (what would happen in the future, after partition, was up to them, said Ben-Gurion). The Zionist terrorists were also involved in massacres, and assassinations, during the partition violence (colonialist war against the natives). Another notable future Likud PM, also started in the military, during the partition fighting. That was Ariel Sharon, war criminal, "Butcher of Beirut". Menachem Begin, and these other Zionist terrorists, are important because they became involved in Israeli politics, first forming Herut. That was the party that Albert Einstein, and other prominent American Jews, opposed, having a letter printed in the NYT, in December of 1948, when Begin came to visit the US. The letter opened ... "Among the most disturbing political phenomena of our times is the emergence in the newly created state of Israel of the "Freedom Party" (Tnuat Haherut), a political party closely akin in its organization, methods, political philosophy and social appeal to the Nazi and Fascist parties. It was formed out of the membership and following of the former Irgun Zvai Leumi, a terrorist, right-wing, chauvinist organization in Palestine." Herut merged with other extremist parties, over the years, and eventually became Likud, in the 70s. Now, people get upset over the slogan "From the river to the sea!", but it's the second part that's most important, "Palestine will be free!". Because "Palestine" isn't defined as an ethno-state, a free Palestine can be a single state, free for all to live in, and return to, free of continuing colonization, free of occupation, free of oppression, etc. Just like a Germany free of Nazism, an Italy free of fascism, a South Africa free of apartheid, or an America free of slavery from sea to shiny sea. It doesn't necessitate purging all the Jews. It just necessitates them giving up on the idea of an ethno-state. On the other hand, because "Israel" has been defined as an ethno-state, Likud's, "between the sea and the Jordan there will only be Israeli sovereignty", has no possible good interpretation. It is a declaration of intent to completely colonize, and ethnically cleanse, all Palestine territories. Not only that, but it also claims that they have a "right" to all of the "Land of Israel" (biblical borders that don't mesh with archaeological reality), which is an open declaration of future wars, against Jordan, Syria, Lebanon, and possibly even Iraq. Likud platform ... 1977: "The Right of the Jewish People to the Land of Israel (Eretz Israel) a. The right of the Jewish people to the land of Israel is eternal and indisputable and is linked with the right to security and peace; therefore, Judea and Samaria will not be handed to any foreign administration; between the Sea and the Jordan there will only be Israeli sovereignty. b. A plan which relinquishes parts of western Eretz Israel, undermines our right to the country, unavoidably leads to the establishment of a "Palestinian State," jeopardizes the security of the Jewish population, endangers the existence of the State of Israel. and frustrates any prospect of peace." "Settlement Settlement. both urban and rural. in all parts of the Land of Israel is the focal point of the Zionist effort to redeem the country, to maintain vital security areas and serves as a reservoir of strength and inspiration for the renewal of the pioneering spirit. The Likud government will call on the younger generation in Israel and the dispersions to settle and help every group and individual in the task of inhabiting and cultivating the wasteland, while taking care not to dispossess anyone." 1999: "The Government of Israel flatly rejects the establishment of a Palestinian Arab state west of the Jordan river. The Palestinians can run their lives freely in the framework of self-rule, but not as an independent and sovereign state. Thus, for example, in matters of foreign affairs, security, immigration, and ecology, their activity shall be limited in accordance with imperatives of Israel's existence, security and national needs." "The Jewish communities in Judea, Samaria, and Gaza are the realization of Zionist values. Settlement of the land is a clear expression of the unassailable right of the Jewish people to the Land of Israel and constitutes an important asset in the defense of the vital interests of the State of Israel. The Likud will continue to strengthen and develop these communities and will prevent their uprooting." All Palestine territories are officially considered occupied, by the International Court of Justice, the UN GA, the UN SC, and even in official documents of Israel's own allies. Likud is still using the blueprint for colonizing North America, in the West Bank. Move settlements out into native territory, piss off the natives, the natives retaliate, cry about poor "innocent" colonizing settlers being the "victims" of violent "Savages!", call in the cavalry to put down the native uprising, and eventually expand the borders to include those settlements. Rinse and repeat. In Gaza, Israel is operating an open air WWII style fascist ghetto. Them claiming a "right to defend themselves" would be like the Nazis claiming a "right to defend themselves " from the Warsaw ghetto uprising. There's no "war". That they're the occupiers means the "war" part is long over. Those people are actually supposed to be under the occupier's protection. That partition was forced upon the Palestinian majority, against their will ... that the Zionist portion still had to be forcefully ethnically cleansed of its non-Jewish majority, against their will ... that the millions of occupied Palestinians don't have a say in the government that truly rules over them, Israel's ... means Israel is about as democratic as Nazi Germany after Hitler purged his political opponents and then held elections.
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  46. What the hell is he doing, going around the hospital meeting soldiers, when he's got a very contagious virus?
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  47. Didn't the US support religious extremists in Afghanistan, which led to Taliban rule?
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  48. Whether, or not, it originally came from a lab doesn't change the fact that the US, and other countries, botched their response to it. That it has passed from humans to other animals, like minks, and back again, is evidence it very well could have simply originated with an animal to human infection.
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  49. The subs argument was pathetic. The debate would have still been on the H3 channel with the same number of H3 subs and viewers, just a different opponent. If anything Sam's 1m subs would bring in extra viewers than just the H3 audience.
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  50.  @whyamimrpink78  And what would be the deeper argument against?
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  51. Pretty sure a business can tell you to wear a mask, or get out, just like they can tell you to wear a shirt and shoes.
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  52. Their Bible actually says to force quarantine people, who might have a contagious illness. Hell, it even says to quarantine women on their periods.
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  53. I think Trump mentioned there was a punishment for traitors.
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  54. She sounds clueless.
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  55. There's already a word for medical "segregation" ... quarantine ... and it has been a response to countless contagious outbreaks.
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  56. Likud's bloody 100 year history ... In 1923, 100 years ago, Ze'ev Jabotinsky wrote, The Iron Wall, and a follow up, The Ethics of The Iron Wall (sooo racist towards Africans), in which he fully acknowledged that post Balfour Zionsim was colonialism, and that, based on the entirety of history, the native Palestinian population would resist being colonized until the bitter end. He directly compared it to the colonization of North America. He promoted doing it anyway, claiming Zionist colonialism was a "just" colonialism (he also thought North American colonialists were good guys, so not a great judge of morality), not caring what that meant for the native population. Ze'ev is important, because his Betar militant youth group helped found the Irgun terrorist group, along with other supporters of his, and the splinter Lehi terrorist group. The Irgun bombed numerous Palestinian markets and other public places, murdering many Palestinian civilians, including children, even including Palestinian Jews (who didn't support colonialist Zionsim). The Irgun are important, because they ended up being led by future Likud PM, Menachem Begin, who bombed the King David Hotel. The King David Hotel was bombed because the British had raided the Jewish Agency and seized numerous documents that may have shown that the terrorists were working with the JA and Haganah (JA liked to pretend that they didn't support the terrorism). The British then stored those documents at their base, in the hotel. That the Irgun terrorists responded to a JA raid, itself seems to prove the connection. That the thousands of Irgun (and Lehi) terrorists were also quickly merged into the new nation's military (IDF) and intelligence (Mossad) agencies, and are still celebrated as "heroes" by Israelis, to this day, also seems to support total collaboration between the groups. That other terrorist group mentioned, Lehi (also known as the Stern Gang), was considered even more extreme. They even tried to ally with the Nazis, against the British. Lehi ended up being led by Yitzhak Shamir, future Mossad agent, and another future Likud PM. They assassinated Lord Moyne, and others. In 1945, there was a major land and peoples survey done in Palestine. It showed that the Zionists only owned about 5% of the total land, 20% of the arable land, and owned a majority in zero districts. The partition was not only going to be forced on the native Palestinian majority, but Jews were still going to be a minority, in the part allocated to them. The only possible way to even become a "Jewish state" was going to require getting rid of the actual majority (at least enough so that there'd be a solid Jewish majority, so they could fake being democratic). This is also shown by the 1948, post Nakba, population of Israel. If there was 716,700 Jews, 156,000+ non-Jews, and approximately 700k non-Jews ethnically cleansed, that means the Jewish population, in the Zionist portion of partition, was originally over 100,000 less than the non-Jewish population. To believe that there was never any intent, by Zionists, to ethnically cleanse away the Palestinian majority would require believing that they never intended to create a "Jewish state". It's a nonsensical notion. Begin, and those terrorist groups, also opposed partition, but for the opposite reason Palestinians did. Palestinians didn't want to be colonized, at all. The terrorists wanted to colonize it all. "Moderate" Zionists were okay with colonizing half ... for now (what would happen in the future, after partition, was up to them, said Ben-Gurion). The Zionist terrorists were also involved in massacres, and assassinations, during the partition violence (colonialist war against the natives). Another notable future Likud PM, also started in the military, during the partition fighting. That was Ariel Sharon, war criminal, "Butcher of Beirut". Menachem Begin, and these other Zionist terrorists, are important because they became involved in Israeli politics, first forming Herut. That was the party that Albert Einstein, and other prominent American Jews, opposed, having a letter printed in the NYT, in December of 1948, when Begin came to visit the US. The letter opened ... "Among the most disturbing political phenomena of our times is the emergence in the newly created state of Israel of the "Freedom Party" (Tnuat Haherut), a political party closely akin in its organization, methods, political philosophy and social appeal to the Nazi and Fascist parties. It was formed out of the membership and following of the former Irgun Zvai Leumi, a terrorist, right-wing, chauvinist organization in Palestine." Herut merged with other extremist parties, over the years, and eventually became Likud, in the 70s. Now, people get upset over the slogan "From the river to the sea!", but it's the second part that's most important, "Palestine will be free!". Because "Palestine" isn't defined as an ethno-state, a free Palestine can be a single state, free for all to live in, and return to, free of continuing colonization, free of occupation, free of oppression, etc. Just like a Germany free of Nazism, an Italy free of fascism, a South Africa free of apartheid, or an America free of slavery from sea to shiny sea. It doesn't necessitate purging all the Jews. It just necessitates them giving up on the idea of an ethno-state. On the other hand, because "Israel" has been defined as an ethno-state, Likud's, "between the sea and the Jordan there will only be Israeli sovereignty", has no possible good interpretation. It is a declaration of intent to completely colonize, and ethnically cleanse, all Palestine territories. Not only that, but it also claims that they have a "right" to all of the "Land of Israel" (biblical borders that don't mesh with archaeological reality), which is an open declaration of future wars, against Jordan, Syria, Lebanon, and possibly even Iraq. Likud platform ... 1977: "The Right of the Jewish People to the Land of Israel (Eretz Israel) a. The right of the Jewish people to the land of Israel is eternal and indisputable and is linked with the right to security and peace; therefore, Judea and Samaria will not be handed to any foreign administration; between the Sea and the Jordan there will only be Israeli sovereignty. b. A plan which relinquishes parts of western Eretz Israel, undermines our right to the country, unavoidably leads to the establishment of a "Palestinian State," jeopardizes the security of the Jewish population, endangers the existence of the State of Israel. and frustrates any prospect of peace." "Settlement Settlement. both urban and rural. in all parts of the Land of Israel is the focal point of the Zionist effort to redeem the country, to maintain vital security areas and serves as a reservoir of strength and inspiration for the renewal of the pioneering spirit. The Likud government will call on the younger generation in Israel and the dispersions to settle and help every group and individual in the task of inhabiting and cultivating the wasteland, while taking care not to dispossess anyone." 1999: "The Government of Israel flatly rejects the establishment of a Palestinian Arab state west of the Jordan river. The Palestinians can run their lives freely in the framework of self-rule, but not as an independent and sovereign state. Thus, for example, in matters of foreign affairs, security, immigration, and ecology, their activity shall be limited in accordance with imperatives of Israel's existence, security and national needs." "The Jewish communities in Judea, Samaria, and Gaza are the realization of Zionist values. Settlement of the land is a clear expression of the unassailable right of the Jewish people to the Land of Israel and constitutes an important asset in the defense of the vital interests of the State of Israel. The Likud will continue to strengthen and develop these communities and will prevent their uprooting." All Palestine territories are officially considered occupied, by the International Court of Justice, the UN GA, the UN SC, and even in official documents of Israel's own allies. Likud is still using the blueprint for colonizing North America, in the West Bank. Move settlements out into native territory, piss off the natives, the natives retaliate, cry about poor "innocent" colonizing settlers being the "victims" of violent "Savages!", call in the cavalry to put down the native uprising, and eventually expand the borders to include those settlements. Rinse and repeat. In Gaza, Israel is operating an open air WWII style fascist ghetto. Them claiming a "right to defend themselves" would be like the Nazis claiming a "right to defend themselves " from the Warsaw ghetto uprising. There's no "war". That they're the occupiers means the "war" part is long over. Those people are actually supposed to be under the occupier's protection. That partition was forced upon the Palestinian majority, against their will ... that the Zionist portion still had to be forcefully ethnically cleansed of its non-Jewish majority, against their will ... that the millions of occupied Palestinians don't have a say in the government that truly rules over them, Israel's ... means Israel is about as democratic as Nazi Germany after Hitler purged his political opponents and then held elections.
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  57. Haha, when you're dropped by former Nazis, that's pretty bad.
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  58. AOC, Omar, Bowman, Mondaire Jones, and Jimmy Gomez, also took shifts keeping her company, or letting her catch a few zzzs (capitol police wouldn't let her lay down outside).
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  59. They also shrunk their sizes, while raising prices. At least here.
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  60. When you're asking for immunity, you're basically admitting guilt.
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  61.  @emblemedfate4270  Remember when Jimmy promoted Trump as the better option for progressives than Clinton, not caring if the ACA would get repealed and millions lost their healthcare, and argued that Trump filling multiple scotus seats was as likely as the moon falling into Lake Michigan? He vastly overestimates potential benefits and vast underestimates potential risks.
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  62. That's like saying the Nazis had a "right to defend themselves", from the Warsaw ghetto uprising.
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  63. I thought Tucker previously said there weren't any weapons, and they were all just like tourists.
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  64. Hint: A number of other countries have had much better covid outcomes, by better following covid measures and getting more people vaccinated. So, whichever side is fighting those things are the ones politicizing it.
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  65. Like all the right wingers currently complaining about capitalism (over half of the inflation rate spike can be attributed to profit margins).
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  66.  @kyle6232  Like most dimwitted Dore knobs, the guy doesn't even know what was in the final bill, or what AOC's final vote was, when it came back to the house.
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  67.  @leandert.8768  Rofl @ "starting". Colonizers are never not the aggressors.
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  68. It doesn't even make sense. The debate still would have happened on the H3 channel, with the same number of H3 subs and viewers, just with a different opponent. If anything, Sam having his own 1m subs would increase the audience even more.
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  69. Divided the country by being a black president, making all the psychos crawl out of the woodwork, which the Republicans welcomed with open arms.
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  70. Sauce and aura don't even have the same "au" sound.
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  71. Canton police have said lifelong resident, natural born citizen.
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  72. Read Ze'ev Jabotinsky's The Iron Wall, 1923. There's a direct line of succession, from Ze'ev to Likud. They've considered their colonization comparable to the colonization of North America, for over 100 years. They simply consider their colonization "good".
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  73. ​ @X2LR8  In what reality is colonization generally a good thing for the native populations being colonized? Palestinians have Canaanite DNA. They're the previous Christian majority. They were the Jewish majority, before that, and the Canaanite mythology majority, before that. They are Arab and Muslim the same way indigenous peoples of Central America are now Hispanic and Catholic. The few Palestinian Jews who both never left and never converted, were targeted by Irgun and Lehi terrorists, alongside their Palestinian brothers and sisters. You can't use people you kill as some 1700 year old place holders.
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  74. Weird how they aren't against "liberal" gun laws.
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  75. "This one sure did." What the ... ? If the travel ban, that wasn't a ban, sure did work, then how are 500+k Americans infected?
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  76. Using a pandemic to attack the largest remaining union in the US, the teacher's union, by promoting parents switch to private schools. Sweet.
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  77.  @finnsweet3544  Why didn't he oppose the annexation of land from a neighboring county? Why didn't he oppose the first zoning plan, approved in November? All he did was oppose a new plan, that included affordable housing. Now they go back to their original plan.
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  78. It's dangerous calling them "pundits", when they're ignorant party mouthpieces.
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  79. Where's Canada? Tons of fresh water, energy sources, and its arable land has actually been increasing with global warming.
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  80. Must be why Maher likes her. He's not funny anymore, either.
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  81. Yeah, Trump: "I want every kid back in school" ... without any protections for parents, teachers, or other school employees, which would cause more outbreaks, and require shutting back down.
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  82.  @werihfbwl  If Crowder thought Ethan was so absolutely easy to dunk on, then wasn't that like a bigger kid picking on a little kid, to begin with? So, you're admitting Sam is the bigger, tougher, opponent.
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  83. Just remember that these fascists got further than Hitler's coup did, in 1923, and 10 years later he was dictator. Don't relax based on a poll.
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  84. Kyle, you said "at the beginning of his second term in 2012". The second term didn't begin until 2013. Maybe you should retire.
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  85. I take it he would be totally on board for getting rid of the corporate shield, that protects corporate shareholders from liability. It allows corporations to go bankrupt, not pay off their full debts, and let's the shareholders walk away without having to pay off any outstanding debt.
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  86. 2021: "Conservative YouTube Competitor Rumble Seals 6-Figure Content Deals With Tulsi Gabbard, Glenn Greenwald" Rumble is funded by Peter Thiel. Jimmy Dore also joined Rumble, around the same time they were making these deals.
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  87. Canadian here. Big difference between the government recommending that you limit yourself, and the government limiting you. We can buy, and drink, as much as we want.
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  88. Hrrrmmm, almost like they had been incited by weeks of baseless claims that the election was stolen.
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  89. What's insane is that a large percentage of Latinos have Spanish or Portuguese, both white, ancestry ... which would be "replacing" white with white. And/or they have a large percentage of native ancestry ... how the hell can a native American "replace" someone?
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  90. Ending democracy pretty much seals the deal on being fascist. All the other boxes are checked.
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  91.  @zacharythomas8617  Nope. Wrote it myself. You can start with finding Ze'ev Jabotinsky's The Iron Wall, at the Jwsh Virtual Library. They also have Likud's platform, population counts, some info on the Irgun and Lehi trrrists, including Lehi's attempts to ally with Fscsts and Nzs. Want to know where anything else is?
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  92. Jimmy has a new video out, downplaying the risks of covid, called "Are COVID death rates WILDLY inflated?". In it, he takes hospitalization rates per total vaccinated (0.01%)and unvaccinated (0.89%) populations and compares it to a 3.4% "death rate", that is clearly a case fatality rate (fatalities per confirmed cases) from a year and a half ago. The case fatality rate is constantly changing, is different for each country, and different for the world. He claimed he couldn't find a newer rate. Only someone who is completely inept, wouldn't be able to find the current case fatality rate. But, somehow Jimmy managed not to. Only someone who failed grade school math couldn't figure it out themselves. 800k deaths is 1.6% of 50m confirmed cases, in the US. But, somehow Jimmy, or his team, couldn't. So, he compares these two sets of numbers, that are based on totally different math, to question whether covid deaths are being "WILDLY" inflated. You know, because a 3.4% "death rate" is so much higher than 0.9% hospitalization rate. The comparable "death rate" he should be using is the population mortality rate. 800k deaths is 0.24% of 330m total population. Again, something that's easy to find the latest numbers for, or figure out yourself, but the Dore knob team couldn't manage to do. There's nothing, at all, incompatible with a 0.24% total population mortality rate and a 0.9% total population hospitalization rate. But, he's using his false equivalency to make out like covid is a lot less harmful than doctors and scientists, worldwide, have stated, and there's some giant worldwide conspiracy to inflate numbers, by over 10x.
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  93. Nothing a capitalist can say will change the fact that trading, and owning, private property is capitalism. Not considering other human beings to actually be human beings, and trading them like cattle, other livestock, or other property, is capitalism.
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  94.  @NewNormalWorldOrder  We'd still have polio, if all you morons were around back when the polio vaccine was developed.
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  95.  @whyamimrpink78  All other developed countries' healthcare systems are more efficient, in terms of bureaucracy. All the different insurers makes the US system the most inefficient, in that regard. How is tens of thousands dying due to being uninsured, hundreds of thousands going bankrupt, and over a million going to places like India for cheaper care, or Canada for cheaper drugs, "strong"? "Strong" for who?
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  96. Likud's bloody 100 year history ... In 1923, 100 years ago, Ze'ev Jabotinsky wrote, The Iron Wall, and a follow up, The Ethics of The Iron Wall (sooo racist towards Africans), in which he fully acknowledged that post Balfour Zionsim was colonialism, and that, based on the entirety of history, the native Palestinian population would resist being colonized until the bitter end. He directly compared it to the colonization of North America. He promoted doing it anyway, claiming Zionist colonialism was a "just" colonialism (he also thought North American colonialists were good guys, so not a great judge of morality), not caring what that meant for the native population. Ze'ev is important, because his Betar militant youth group helped found the Irgun terrorist group, along with other supporters of his, and the splinter Lehi terrorist group. The Irgun bombed numerous Palestinian markets and other public places, murdering many Palestinian civilians, including children, even including Palestinian Jews (who didn't support colonialist Zionsim). The Irgun are important, because they ended up being led by future Likud PM, Menachem Begin, who bombed the King David Hotel. The King David Hotel was bombed because the British had raided the Jewish Agency and seized numerous documents that may have shown that the terrorists were working with the JA and Haganah (JA liked to pretend that they didn't support the terrorism). The British then stored those documents at their base, in the hotel. That the Irgun terrorists responded to a JA raid, itself seems to prove the connection. That the thousands of Irgun (and Lehi) terrorists were also quickly merged into the new nation's military (IDF) and intelligence (Mossad) agencies, and are still celebrated as "heroes" by Israelis, to this day, also seems to support total collaboration between the groups. That other terrorist group mentioned, Lehi (also known as the Stern Gang), was considered even more extreme. They even tried to ally with the Nazis, against the British. Lehi ended up being led by Yitzhak Shamir, future Mossad agent, and another future Likud PM. They assassinated Lord Moyne, and others. The two terrorist groups also operated outside of Palestine. The Irgun bombed the British Embassy at Porta Pia, in Rome. The Lehi bombed the British Colonial Club, in London. A timer failed in another bombing attempt, at the Colonial Office, in Whitehall. Two female Lehi operatives were arrested crossing from Belgium to France, with the ingredients for letter bombs. 21 letter bombs were found to be have sent, and were intercepted. They mined the Cairo-Haifa train, in Egypt, twice, killing dozens of civilians, as well as British soldiers. In 1945, there was a major land and peoples survey done in Palestine. It showed that the Zionists only owned about 5% of the total land, 20% of the arable land, and owned a majority in zero districts. The partition was not only going to be forced on the native Palestinian majority, but Jews were still going to be a minority, in the part allocated to them. The only possible way to even become a "Jewish state" was going to require getting rid of the actual majority (at least enough so that there'd be a solid Jewish majority, so they could fake being democratic). This is also shown by the 1948, post Nakba, population of Israel. If there was 716,700 Jews, 156,000+ non-Jews, and approximately 700k non-Jews ethnically cleansed, that means the Jewish population, in the Zionist portion of partition, was originally over 100,000 less than the non-Jewish population. To believe that there was never any intent, by Zionists, to ethnically cleanse away the Palestinian majority would require believing that they never intended to create a "Jewish state". It's a nonsensical notion. Begin, and those terrorist groups, also opposed partition, but for the opposite reason Palestinians did. Palestinians didn't want to be colonized, at all. The terrorists wanted to colonize it all. "Moderate" Zionists were okay with colonizing half ... for now (what would happen in the future, after partition, was up to them, said Ben-Gurion). The Zionist terrorists were also involved in massacres, and assassinations, during the partition violence (colonialist war against the natives). Another notable future Likud PM, also started in the military, during the partition fighting. That was Ariel Sharon, war criminal, "Butcher of Beirut". Menachem Begin, and these other Zionist terrorists, are important because they became involved in Israeli politics, first forming Herut. That was the party that Albert Einstein, and other prominent American Jews, opposed, having a letter printed in the NYT, in December of 1948, when Begin came to visit the US. The letter opened ... "Among the most disturbing political phenomena of our times is the emergence in the newly created state of Israel of the "Freedom Party" (Tnuat Haherut), a political party closely akin in its organization, methods, political philosophy and social appeal to the Nazi and Fascist parties. It was formed out of the membership and following of the former Irgun Zvai Leumi, a terrorist, right-wing, chauvinist organization in Palestine." Herut merged with other extremist parties, over the years, and eventually became Likud, in the 70s. Now, people get upset over the slogan "From the river to the sea!", but it's the second part that's most important, "Palestine will be free!". Because "Palestine" isn't defined as an ethno-state, a free Palestine can be a single state, free for all to live in, and return to, free of continuing colonization, free of occupation, free of oppression, etc. Just like a Germany free of Nazism, an Italy free of fascism, a South Africa free of apartheid, or an America free of slavery from sea to shiny sea. It doesn't necessitate purging all the Jews. It just necessitates them giving up on the idea of an ethno-state. On the other hand, because "Israel" has been defined as an ethno-state, Likud's, "between the sea and the Jordan there will only be Israeli sovereignty", has no possible good interpretation. It is a declaration of intent to completely colonize, and ethnically cleanse, all Palestine territories. Not only that, but it also claims that they have a "right" to all of the "Land of Israel" (biblical borders that don't mesh with archaeological reality), which is an open declaration of future wars, against Jordan, Syria, Lebanon, and possibly even Iraq. Likud platform ... 1977: "The Right of the Jewish People to the Land of Israel (Eretz Israel) a. The right of the Jewish people to the land of Israel is eternal and indisputable and is linked with the right to security and peace; therefore, Judea and Samaria will not be handed to any foreign administration; between the Sea and the Jordan there will only be Israeli sovereignty. b. A plan which relinquishes parts of western Eretz Israel, undermines our right to the country, unavoidably leads to the establishment of a "Palestinian State," jeopardizes the security of the Jewish population, endangers the existence of the State of Israel. and frustrates any prospect of peace." 1999: "The Government of Israel flatly rejects the establishment of a Palestinian Arab state west of the Jordan river. The Palestinians can run their lives freely in the framework of self-rule, but not as an independent and sovereign state. Thus, for example, in matters of foreign affairs, security, immigration, and ecology, their activity shall be limited in accordance with imperatives of Israel's existence, security and national needs." "The Jewish communities in Judea, Samaria, and Gaza are the realization of Zionist values. Settlement of the land is a clear expression of the unassailable right of the Jewish people to the Land of Israel and constitutes an important asset in the defense of the vital interests of the State of Israel. The Likud will continue to strengthen and develop these communities and will prevent their uprooting." All Palestine territories are officially considered occupied, by the International Court of Justice, the UN GA, the UN SC, and even in official documents of Israel's own allies. Likud is still using the blueprint for colonizing North America, in the West Bank. Move settlements out into native territory, piss off the natives, the natives retaliate, cry about poor "innocent" colonizing settlers being the "victims" of violent "Savages!", call in the cavalry to put down the native uprising, and eventually expand the borders to include those settlements. Rinse and repeat. In Gaza, Israel is operating an open air WWII style fascist ghetto. Them claiming a "right to defend themselves" would be like the Nazis claiming a "right to defend themselves " from the Warsaw ghetto uprising. There's no "war". That they're the occupiers means the "war" part is long over. Those people are actually supposed to be under the occupier's protection. That partition was forced upon the Palestinian majority, against their will ... that the Zionist portion still had to be forcefully ethnically cleansed of its non-Jewish majority, against their will ... that the millions of occupied Palestinians don't have a say in the government that truly rules over them, Israel's ... means Israel is about as democratic as Nazi Germany after Hitler purged his political opponents and then held elections.
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  97. That's why they love Israel. They would like all the Jews to go there, plus would like to do the same thing and make the US an Anglo-Christian nation.
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  98. ​ @TransKidsMafia  <- Loons like this, are Tucker's audience.
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  99.  @alexluckey6412  He gave him the id he had. The student didn't even seem to know that some id has an address on it. He probably doesn't drive. You're not required by law to have an id with an address on you. You're not even required by law to have any id on you. He told the cop who he was and that he lived in that building. He did identify himself.
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  100. ​ @Wheels36H3WM Fun fact: Nazis didn't actually live inside the Warsaw ghetto. The larger scale of Gaza doesn't change the fact that Israel controls the borders, ports, airspace, electricity, water, who goes in and out, what goes in and out, and Netanyahu even controlled the money from Qatar, having stopped and started it multiple times.
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  101. Likud's bloody 100 year history ... In 1923, 100 years ago, Ze'ev Jabotinsky wrote, The Iron Wall, and a follow up, The Ethics of The Iron Wall (sooo racist towards Africans), in which he fully acknowledged that post Balfour Zionsim was colonialism, and that, based on the entirety of history, the native Palestinian population would resist being colonized until the bitter end. He directly compared it to the colonization of North America. He promoted doing it anyway, claiming Zionist colonialism was a "just" colonialism (he also thought North American colonialists were good guys, so not a great judge of morality), not caring what that meant for the native population. Ze'ev is important, because his Betar militant youth group helped found the Irgun terrorist group, along with other supporters of his, and the splinter Lehi terrorist group. The Irgun bombed numerous Palestinian markets and other public places, murdering many Palestinian civilians, including children, even including Palestinian Jews (who didn't support colonialist Zionsim). The Irgun are important, because they ended up being led by future Likud PM, Menachem Begin, who bombed the King David Hotel. The King David Hotel was bombed because the British had raided the Jewish Agency and seized numerous documents that may have shown that the terrorists were working with the JA and Haganah (JA liked to pretend that they didn't support the terrorism). The British then stored those documents at their base, in the hotel. That the Irgun terrorists responded to a JA raid, itself seems to prove the connection. That the thousands of Irgun (and Lehi) terrorists were also quickly merged into the new nation's military (IDF) and intelligence (Mossad) agencies, and are still celebrated as "heroes" by Israelis, to this day, also seems to support total collaboration between the groups. That other terrorist group mentioned, Lehi (also known as the Stern Gang), was considered even more extreme. They even tried to ally with the Nazis, against the British. Lehi ended up being led by Yitzhak Shamir, future Mossad agent, and another future Likud PM. They assassinated Lord Moyne, and others. The two terrorist groups also operated outside of Palestine. The Irgun bombed the British Embassy at Porta Pia, in Rome. The Lehi bombed the British Colonial Club, in London. A timer failed in another bombing attempt, at the Colonial Office, in Whitehall. Two female Lehi operatives were arrested crossing from Belgium to France, with the ingredients for letter bombs. 21 letter bombs were found to be have sent, and were intercepted. They mined the Cairo-Haifa train, in Egypt, twice, killing dozens of civilians, as well as British soldiers. In 1945, there was a major land and peoples survey done in Palestine. It showed that the Zionists only owned about 5% of the total land, 20% of the arable land, and owned a majority in zero districts. The partition was not only going to be forced on the native Palestinian majority, but Jews were still going to be a minority, in the part allocated to them. The only possible way to even become a "Jewish state" was going to require getting rid of the actual majority (at least enough so that there'd be a solid Jewish majority, so they could fake being democratic). This is also shown by the 1948, post Nakba, population of Israel. If there was 716,700 Jews, 156,000+ non-Jews, and approximately 700k non-Jews ethnically cleansed, that means the Jewish population, in the Zionist portion of partition, was originally over 100,000 less than the non-Jewish population. To believe that there was never any intent, by Zionists, to ethnically cleanse away the Palestinian majority would require believing that they never intended to create a "Jewish state". It's a nonsensical notion. Begin, and those terrorist groups, also opposed partition, but for the opposite reason Palestinians did. Palestinians didn't want to be colonized, at all. The terrorists wanted to colonize it all. "Moderate" Zionists were okay with colonizing half ... for now (what would happen in the future, after partition, was up to them, said Ben-Gurion). The Zionist terrorists were also involved in massacres, and assassinations, during the partition violence (colonialist war against the natives). Another notable future Likud PM, also started in the military, during the partition fighting. That was Ariel Sharon, war criminal, "Butcher of Beirut". Menachem Begin, and these other Zionist terrorists, are important because they became involved in Israeli politics, first forming Herut. That was the party that Albert Einstein, and other prominent American Jews, opposed, having a letter printed in the NYT, in December of 1948, when Begin came to visit the US. The letter opened ... "Among the most disturbing political phenomena of our times is the emergence in the newly created state of Israel of the "Freedom Party" (Tnuat Haherut), a political party closely akin in its organization, methods, political philosophy and social appeal to the Nazi and Fascist parties. It was formed out of the membership and following of the former Irgun Zvai Leumi, a terrorist, right-wing, chauvinist organization in Palestine." Herut merged with other extremist parties, over the years, and eventually became Likud, in the 70s. Now, people get upset over the slogan "From the river to the sea!", but it's the second part that's most important, "Palestine will be free!". Because "Palestine" isn't defined as an ethno-state, a free Palestine can be a single state, free for all to live in, and return to, free of continuing colonization, free of occupation, free of oppression, etc. Just like a Germany free of Nazism, an Italy free of fascism, a South Africa free of apartheid, or an America free of slavery from sea to shiny sea. It doesn't necessitate purging all the Jews. It just necessitates them giving up on the idea of an ethno-state. On the other hand, because "Israel" has been defined as an ethno-state, Likud's, "between the sea and the Jordan there will only be Israeli sovereignty", has no possible good interpretation. It is a declaration of intent to completely colonize, and ethnically cleanse, all Palestine territories. Not only that, but it also claims that they have a "right" to all of the "Land of Israel" (biblical borders that don't mesh with archaeological reality), which is an open declaration of future wars, against Jordan, Syria, Lebanon, and possibly even Iraq. Likud platform ... 1977: "The Right of the Jewish People to the Land of Israel (Eretz Israel) a. The right of the Jewish people to the land of Israel is eternal and indisputable and is linked with the right to security and peace; therefore, Judea and Samaria will not be handed to any foreign administration; between the Sea and the Jordan there will only be Israeli sovereignty. b. A plan which relinquishes parts of western Eretz Israel, undermines our right to the country, unavoidably leads to the establishment of a "Palestinian State," jeopardizes the security of the Jewish population, endangers the existence of the State of Israel. and frustrates any prospect of peace." 1999: "The Government of Israel flatly rejects the establishment of a Palestinian Arab state west of the Jordan river. The Palestinians can run their lives freely in the framework of self-rule, but not as an independent and sovereign state. Thus, for example, in matters of foreign affairs, security, immigration, and ecology, their activity shall be limited in accordance with imperatives of Israel's existence, security and national needs." "The Jewish communities in Judea, Samaria, and Gaza are the realization of Zionist values. Settlement of the land is a clear expression of the unassailable right of the Jewish people to the Land of Israel and constitutes an important asset in the defense of the vital interests of the State of Israel. The Likud will continue to strengthen and develop these communities and will prevent their uprooting." All Palestine territories are officially considered occupied, by the International Court of Justice, the UN GA, the UN SC, and even in official documents of Israel's own allies. Likud is still using the blueprint for colonizing North America, in the West Bank. Move settlements out into native territory, piss off the natives, the natives retaliate, cry about poor "innocent" colonizing settlers being the "victims" of violent "Savages!", call in the cavalry to put down the native uprising, and eventually expand the borders to include those settlements. Rinse and repeat. In Gaza, Israel is operating an open air WWII style fascist ghetto. Them claiming a "right to defend themselves" would be like the Nazis claiming a "right to defend themselves " from the Warsaw ghetto uprising. There's no "war". That they're the occupiers means the "war" part is long over. Those people are actually supposed to be under the occupier's protection. That partition was forced upon the Palestinian majority, against their will ... that the Zionist portion still had to be forcefully ethnically cleansed of its non-Jewish majority, against their will ... that the millions of occupied Palestinians don't have a say in the government that truly rules over them, Israel's ... means Israel is about as democratic as Nazi Germany after Hitler purged his political opponents and then held elections.
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  102. There was also a larger increase in border crossings in 2019, that Republicans didn't seem to blame Trump for.
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  103. Was one of them JFK Jr?
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  104.  @henyosdilly8999  Well, you know, when there were uprisings, led by resistance groups the Nazis considered terrorists, the Nazis totally had a "right to defend themselves". 🙄
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  105. A better question: Is CNN still a credible news outlet?
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  106. Wearing articles of clothing is oppressive!!!
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  107. The US used to be about 40% unionized. It is now down to about 10% unionized. The push for more charter schools is also an attempt to destroy the largest of the remaining unions, the teacher's union.
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  108. ​ @Ar1AnX1x  She called out war crimes, immediately. She just didn't use the g-word fast enough for some people. Complete and utter maroons, attacking one of the few allies they have in congress.
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  109. New first amendment: everyone has a no terms of service right to a book deal, a gym membership, a Costco membership, and a Twitter membership.
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  110. ​ @MultiClassof2010  "New war"? How ignorant are you? That's like saying Geronimo leaving the tiny reserve, his tribe was forced onto, to go on the warpath, was starting a "new war".
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  111. ​ @freem8son86  That's not what Hasan said, though. He said it was currently one state, and didn't care what the one state was called. Then Ethan kept saying "dissolving Israel". Ending Germany being an ethno-state, didn't end Germany. Ending apartheid South Africa, didn't end South Africa.
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  112. ​ @insikwakwak8299 Palestinians have Canaanite DNA. They've always been living on that land. People from England, Russia, and Germany, offered to take half the land they lived on, and let them keep half. That's colonialism. Plus, if you "offer" partition, and the vast majority say "no", then you're clearly the one using force on them. The post Nakba population of Israel was 715k Jews, and 156k non-Jews. That means the 700k ethnically cleansed (started before Israel's declaration of independence) non-Jews were the actual majority, even within the borders of Israel. To believe the Zionist terrorists (Irgun and Lehi founders of Likud) had zero intention to ethnically cleanse the actual majority, would require believing those terrorists had zero intention to create a Jewish state. It's a nonsensical notion to peddle.
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  113. Likud's bloody 100 year history ... In 1923, 100 years ago, Ze'ev Jabotinsky wrote, The Iron Wall, and a follow up, The Ethics of The Iron Wall (sooo racist towards Africans), in which he fully acknowledged that post Balfour Zionsim was colonialism, and that, based on the entirety of history, the native Palestinian population would resist being colonized until the bitter end. He directly compared it to the colonization of North America. He promoted doing it anyway, claiming Zionist colonialism was a "just" colonialism (he also thought North American colonialists were good guys, so not a great judge of morality), not caring what that meant for the native population. Ze'ev is important, because his Betar militant youth group helped found the Irgun terrorist group, along with other supporters of his, and the splinter Lehi terrorist group. The Irgun bombed numerous Palestinian markets and other public places, murdering many Palestinian civilians, including children, even including Palestinian Jews (who didn't support colonialist Zionsim). The Irgun are important, because they ended up being led by future Likud PM, Menachem Begin, who bombed the King David Hotel. The King David Hotel was bombed because the British had raided the Jewish Agency and seized numerous documents that may have shown that the terrorists were working with the JA and Haganah (JA liked to pretend that they didn't support the terrorism). The British then stored those documents at their base, in the hotel. That the Irgun terrorists responded to a JA raid, itself seems to prove the connection. That the thousands of Irgun (and Lehi) terrorists were also quickly merged into the new nation's military (IDF) and intelligence (Mossad) agencies, and are still celebrated as "heroes" by Israelis, to this day, also seems to support total collaboration between the groups. That other terrorist group mentioned, Lehi (also known as the Stern Gang), was considered even more extreme. They even tried to ally with the Nazis, against the British. Lehi ended up being led by Yitzhak Shamir, future Mossad agent, and another future Likud PM. They assassinated Lord Moyne, and others. The two terrorist groups also operated outside of Palestine. The Irgun bombed the British Embassy at Porta Pia, in Rome. The Lehi bombed the British Colonial Club, in London. A timer failed in another bombing attempt, at the Colonial Office, in Whitehall. Two female Lehi operatives were arrested crossing from Belgium to France, with the ingredients for letter bombs. 21 letter bombs were found to be have sent, and were intercepted. They mined the Cairo-Haifa train, in Egypt, twice, killing dozens of civilians, as well as British soldiers. In 1945, there was a major land and peoples survey done in Palestine. It showed that the Zionists only owned about 5% of the total land, 20% of the arable land, and owned a majority in zero districts. The partition was not only going to be forced on the native Palestinian majority, but Jews were still going to be a minority, in the part allocated to them. The only possible way to even become a "Jewish state" was going to require getting rid of the actual majority (at least enough so that there'd be a solid Jewish majority, so they could fake being democratic). This is also shown by the 1948, post Nakba, population of Israel. If there was 716,700 Jews, 156,000+ non-Jews, and approximately 700k non-Jews ethnically cleansed, that means the Jewish population, in the Zionist portion of partition, was originally over 100,000 less than the non-Jewish population. To believe that there was never any intent, by Zionists, to ethnically cleanse away the Palestinian majority would require believing that they never intended to create a "Jewish state". It's a nonsensical notion. Begin, and those terrorist groups, also opposed partition, but for the opposite reason Palestinians did. Palestinians didn't want to be colonized, at all. The terrorists wanted to colonize it all. "Moderate" Zionists were okay with colonizing half ... for now (what would happen in the future, after partition, was up to them, said Ben-Gurion). The Zionist terrorists were also involved in massacres, and assassinations, during the partition violence (colonialist war against the natives). Another notable future Likud PM, also started in the military, during the partition fighting. That was Ariel Sharon, war criminal, "Butcher of Beirut". Menachem Begin, and these other Zionist terrorists, are important because they became involved in Israeli politics, first forming Herut. That was the party that Albert Einstein, and other prominent American Jews, opposed, having a letter printed in the NYT, in December of 1948, when Begin came to visit the US. The letter opened ... "Among the most disturbing political phenomena of our times is the emergence in the newly created state of Israel of the "Freedom Party" (Tnuat Haherut), a political party closely akin in its organization, methods, political philosophy and social appeal to the Nazi and Fascist parties. It was formed out of the membership and following of the former Irgun Zvai Leumi, a terrorist, right-wing, chauvinist organization in Palestine." Herut merged with other extremist parties, over the years, and eventually became Likud, in the 70s. Now, people get upset over the slogan "From the river to the sea!", but it's the second part that's most important, "Palestine will be free!". Because "Palestine" isn't defined as an ethno-state, a free Palestine can be a single state, free for all to live in, and return to, free of continuing colonization, free of occupation, free of oppression, etc. Just like a Germany free of Nazism, an Italy free of fascism, a South Africa free of apartheid, or an America free of slavery from sea to shiny sea. It doesn't necessitate purging all the Jews. It just necessitates them giving up on the idea of an ethno-state. On the other hand, because "Israel" has been defined as an ethno-state, Likud's, "between the sea and the Jordan there will only be Israeli sovereignty", has no possible good interpretation. It is a declaration of intent to completely colonize, and ethnically cleanse, all Palestine territories. Not only that, but it also claims that they have a "right" to all of the "Land of Israel" (biblical borders that don't mesh with archaeological reality), which is an open declaration of future wars, against Jordan, Syria, Lebanon, and possibly even Iraq. Likud platform ... 1977: "The Right of the Jewish People to the Land of Israel (Eretz Israel) a. The right of the Jewish people to the land of Israel is eternal and indisputable and is linked with the right to security and peace; therefore, Judea and Samaria will not be handed to any foreign administration; between the Sea and the Jordan there will only be Israeli sovereignty. b. A plan which relinquishes parts of western Eretz Israel, undermines our right to the country, unavoidably leads to the establishment of a "Palestinian State," jeopardizes the security of the Jewish population, endangers the existence of the State of Israel. and frustrates any prospect of peace." 1999: "The Government of Israel flatly rejects the establishment of a Palestinian Arab state west of the Jordan river. The Palestinians can run their lives freely in the framework of self-rule, but not as an independent and sovereign state. Thus, for example, in matters of foreign affairs, security, immigration, and ecology, their activity shall be limited in accordance with imperatives of Israel's existence, security and national needs." "The Jewish communities in Judea, Samaria, and Gaza are the realization of Zionist values. Settlement of the land is a clear expression of the unassailable right of the Jewish people to the Land of Israel and constitutes an important asset in the defense of the vital interests of the State of Israel. The Likud will continue to strengthen and develop these communities and will prevent their uprooting." All Palestine territories are officially considered occupied, by the International Court of Justice, the UN GA, the UN SC, and even in official documents of Israel's own allies. Likud is still using the blueprint for colonizing North America, in the West Bank. Move settlements out into native territory, piss off the natives, the natives retaliate, cry about poor "innocent" colonizing settlers being the "victims" of violent "Savages!", call in the cavalry to put down the native uprising, and eventually expand the borders to include those settlements. Rinse and repeat. In Gaza, Israel is operating an open air WWII style fascist ghetto. Them claiming a "right to defend themselves" would be like the Nazis claiming a "right to defend themselves " from the Warsaw ghetto uprising. There's no "war". That they're the occupiers means the "war" part is long over. Those people are actually supposed to be under the occupier's protection. That partition was forced upon the Palestinian majority, against their will ... that the Zionist portion still had to be forcefully ethnically cleansed of its non-Jewish majority, against their will ... that the millions of occupied Palestinians don't have a say in the government that truly rules over them, Israel's ... means Israel is about as democratic as Nazi Germany after Hitler purged his political opponents and then held elections.
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  114. Likud's bloody 100 year history ... In 1923, 100 years ago, Ze'ev Jabotinsky wrote, The Iron Wall, and a follow up, The Ethics of The Iron Wall (sooo racist towards Africans), in which he fully acknowledged that post Balfour Zionsim was colonialism, and that, based on the entirety of history, the native Palestinian population would resist being colonized until the bitter end. He directly compared it to the colonization of North America. He promoted doing it anyway, claiming Zionist colonialism was a "just" colonialism (he also thought North American colonialists were good guys, so not a great judge of morality), not caring what that meant for the native population. Ze'ev is important, because his Betar militant youth group helped found the Irgun terrorist group, along with other supporters of his, and the splinter Lehi terrorist group. The Irgun bombed numerous Palestinian markets and other public places, murdering many Palestinian civilians, including children, even including Palestinian Jews (who didn't support colonialist Zionsim). The Irgun are important, because they ended up being led by future Likud PM, Menachem Begin, who bombed the King David Hotel. The King David Hotel was bombed because the British had raided the Jewish Agency and seized numerous documents that may have shown that the terrorists were working with the JA and Haganah (JA liked to pretend that they didn't support the terrorism). The British then stored those documents at their base, in the hotel. That the Irgun terrorists responded to a JA raid, itself seems to prove the connection. That the thousands of Irgun (and Lehi) terrorists were also quickly merged into the new nation's military (IDF) and intelligence (Mossad) agencies, and are still celebrated as "heroes" by Israelis, to this day, also seems to support total collaboration between the groups. That other terrorist group mentioned, Lehi (also known as the Stern Gang), was considered even more extreme. They even tried to ally with the Nazis, against the British. Lehi ended up being led by Yitzhak Shamir, future Mossad agent, and another future Likud PM. They assassinated Lord Moyne, and others. In 1945, there was a major land and peoples survey done in Palestine. It showed that the Zionists only owned about 5% of the total land, 20% of the arable land, and owned a majority in zero districts. The partition was not only going to be forced on the native Palestinian majority, but Jews were still going to be a minority, in the part allocated to them. The only possible way to even become a "Jewish state" was going to require getting rid of the actual majority (at least enough so that there'd be a solid Jewish majority, so they could fake being democratic). This is also shown by the 1948, post Nakba, population of Israel. If there was 716,700 Jews, 156,000+ non-Jews, and approximately 700k non-Jews ethnically cleansed, that means the Jewish population, in the Zionist portion of partition, was originally over 100,000 less than the non-Jewish population. To believe that there was never any intent, by Zionists, to ethnically cleanse away the Palestinian majority would require believing that they never intended to create a "Jewish state". It's a nonsensical notion. Begin, and those terrorist groups, also opposed partition, but for the opposite reason Palestinians did. Palestinians didn't want to be colonized, at all. The terrorists wanted to colonize it all. "Moderate" Zionists were okay with colonizing half ... for now (what would happen in the future, after partition, was up to them, said Ben-Gurion). The Zionist terrorists were also involved in massacres, and assassinations, during the partition violence (colonialist war against the natives). Another notable future Likud PM, also started in the military, during the partition fighting. That was Ariel Sharon, war criminal, "Butcher of Beirut". Menachem Begin, and these other Zionist terrorists, are important because they became involved in Israeli politics, first forming Herut. That was the party that Albert Einstein, and other prominent American Jews, opposed, having a letter printed in the NYT, in December of 1948, when Begin came to visit the US. The letter opened ... "Among the most disturbing political phenomena of our times is the emergence in the newly created state of Israel of the "Freedom Party" (Tnuat Haherut), a political party closely akin in its organization, methods, political philosophy and social appeal to the Nazi and Fascist parties. It was formed out of the membership and following of the former Irgun Zvai Leumi, a terrorist, right-wing, chauvinist organization in Palestine." Herut merged with other extremist parties, over the years, and eventually became Likud, in the 70s. Now, people get upset over the slogan "From the river to the sea!", but it's the second part that's most important, "Palestine will be free!". Because "Palestine" isn't defined as an ethno-state, a free Palestine can be a single state, free for all to live in, and return to, free of continuing colonization, free of occupation, free of oppression, etc. Just like a Germany free of Nazism, an Italy free of fascism, a South Africa free of apartheid, or an America free of slavery from sea to shiny sea. It doesn't necessitate purging all the Jews. It just necessitates them giving up on the idea of an ethno-state. On the other hand, because "Israel" has been defined as an ethno-state, Likud's, "between the sea and the Jordan there will only be Israeli sovereignty", has no possible good interpretation. It is a declaration of intent to completely colonize, and ethnically cleanse, all Palestine territories. Not only that, but it also claims that they have a "right" to all of the "Land of Israel" (biblical borders that don't mesh with archaeological reality), which is an open declaration of future wars, against Jordan, Syria, Lebanon, and possibly even Iraq. Likud platform ... 1977: "The Right of the Jewish People to the Land of Israel (Eretz Israel) a. The right of the Jewish people to the land of Israel is eternal and indisputable and is linked with the right to security and peace; therefore, Judea and Samaria will not be handed to any foreign administration; between the Sea and the Jordan there will only be Israeli sovereignty. b. A plan which relinquishes parts of western Eretz Israel, undermines our right to the country, unavoidably leads to the establishment of a "Palestinian State," jeopardizes the security of the Jewish population, endangers the existence of the State of Israel. and frustrates any prospect of peace." "Settlement Settlement. both urban and rural. in all parts of the Land of Israel is the focal point of the Zionist effort to redeem the country, to maintain vital security areas and serves as a reservoir of strength and inspiration for the renewal of the pioneering spirit. The Likud government will call on the younger generation in Israel and the dispersions to settle and help every group and individual in the task of inhabiting and cultivating the wasteland, while taking care not to dispossess anyone." 1999: "The Government of Israel flatly rejects the establishment of a Palestinian Arab state west of the Jordan river. The Palestinians can run their lives freely in the framework of self-rule, but not as an independent and sovereign state. Thus, for example, in matters of foreign affairs, security, immigration, and ecology, their activity shall be limited in accordance with imperatives of Israel's existence, security and national needs." "The Jewish communities in Judea, Samaria, and Gaza are the realization of Zionist values. Settlement of the land is a clear expression of the unassailable right of the Jewish people to the Land of Israel and constitutes an important asset in the defense of the vital interests of the State of Israel. The Likud will continue to strengthen and develop these communities and will prevent their uprooting." All Palestine territories are officially considered occupied, by the International Court of Justice, the UN GA, the UN SC, and even in official documents of Israel's own allies. Likud is still using the blueprint for colonizing North America, in the West Bank. Move settlements out into native territory, piss off the natives, the natives retaliate, cry about poor "innocent" colonizing settlers being the "victims" of violent "Savages!", call in the cavalry to put down the native uprising, and eventually expand the borders to include those settlements. Rinse and repeat. In Gaza, Israel is operating an open air WWII style fascist ghetto. Them claiming a "right to defend themselves" would be like the Nazis claiming a "right to defend themselves " from the Warsaw ghetto uprising. There's no "war". That they're the occupiers means the "war" part is long over. Those people are actually supposed to be under the occupier's protection. That partition was forced upon the Palestinian majority, against their will ... that the Zionist portion still had to be forcefully ethnically cleansed of its non-Jewish majority, against their will ... that the millions of occupied Palestinians don't have a say in the government that truly rules over them, Israel's ... means Israel is about as democratic as Nazi Germany after Hitler purged his political opponents and then held elections.
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  115. That would be a yes, from Canada.
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  116. The Irish have a better understanding of what it's like to be occupied for a long period of time, portrayed as the angry natives attacking the poor innocent occupiers, and even portrayed as terrorists.
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  117. ​ @rogerwalker3969 He's still outnumbered, 4 to 1. Even Carter is more mentally sound.
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  118. The costs are also worked out per capita. That's how we know how much the US is overspending, per person, not by the total. The entire EU, of some 500 million people, still has lower per capita costs, than the US.
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  119. Not really a "whim". Religion has a problem with free will and knowing the future. Those two things are incompatible. If their god knows the future, anything he creates can't actually choose to deviate from that known future. Furthermore, the god itself wouldn't be able to deviate from what it knows it will do. Knowing the future kills free will and omnipotence.
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  120.  @Flippy_Nips  Jesse Lee Peterson was brainwashed by his own grandfather, who was a plantation manager on the same plantation his family had been enslaved on.
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  121. Introverts aren't necessarily introverted when they're alone with close friends. Prince was likely just quiet because he didn't know David at all.
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  122. Likud's bloody 100 year history ... In 1923, 100 years ago, Ze'ev Jabotinsky wrote, The Iron Wall, and a follow up, The Ethics of The Iron Wall (sooo racist towards Africans), in which he fully acknowledged that post Balfour Zionsim was colonialism, and that, based on the entirety of history, the native Palestinian population would resist being colonized until the bitter end. He directly compared it to the colonization of North America. He promoted doing it anyway, claiming Zionist colonialism was a "just" colonialism (he also thought North American colonialists were good guys, so not a great judge of morality), not caring what that meant for the native population. Ze'ev is important, because his Betar militant youth group helped found the Irgun terrorist group, along with other supporters of his, and the splinter Lehi terrorist group. The Irgun bombed numerous Palestinian markets and other public places, murdering many Palestinian civilians, including children, even including Palestinian Jews (who didn't support colonialist Zionsim). The Irgun are important, because they ended up being led by future Likud PM, Menachem Begin, who bombed the King David Hotel. The King David Hotel was bombed because the British had raided the Jewish Agency and seized numerous documents that may have shown that the terrorists were working with the JA and Haganah (JA liked to pretend that they didn't support the terrorism). The British then stored those documents at their base, in the hotel. That the Irgun terrorists responded to a JA raid, itself seems to prove the connection. That the thousands of Irgun (and Lehi) terrorists were also quickly merged into the new nation's military (IDF) and intelligence (Mossad) agencies, and are still celebrated as "heroes" by Israelis, to this day, also seems to support total collaboration between the groups. That other terrorist group mentioned, Lehi (also known as the Stern Gang), was considered even more extreme. They even tried to ally with the Nazis, against the British. Lehi ended up being led by Yitzhak Shamir, future Mossad agent, and another future Likud PM. They assassinated Lord Moyne, and others. In 1945, there was a major land and peoples survey done in Palestine. It showed that the Zionists only owned about 5% of the total land, 20% of the arable land, and owned a majority in zero districts. The partition was not only going to be forced on the native Palestinian majority, but Jews were still going to be a minority, in the part allocated to them. The only possible way to even become a "Jewish state" was going to require getting rid of the actual majority (at least enough so that there'd be a solid Jewish majority, so they could fake being democratic). This is also shown by the 1948, post Nakba, population of Israel. If there was 716,700 Jews, 156,000+ non-Jews, and approximately 700k non-Jews ethnically cleansed, that means the Jewish population, in the Zionist portion of partition, was originally over 100,000 less than the non-Jewish population. To believe that there was never any intent, by Zionists, to ethnically cleanse away the Palestinian majority would require believing that they never intended to create a "Jewish state". It's a nonsensical notion. Begin, and those terrorist groups, also opposed partition, but for the opposite reason Palestinians did. Palestinians didn't want to be colonized, at all. The terrorists wanted to colonize it all. "Moderate" Zionists were okay with colonizing half ... for now (what would happen in the future, after partition, was up to them, said Ben-Gurion). The Zionist terrorists were also involved in massacres, and assassinations, during the partition violence (colonialist war against the natives). Another notable future Likud PM, also started in the military, during the partition fighting. That was Ariel Sharon, war criminal, "Butcher of Beirut". Menachem Begin, and these other Zionist terrorists, are important because they became involved in Israeli politics, first forming Herut. That was the party that Albert Einstein, and other prominent American Jews, opposed, having a letter printed in the NYT, in December of 1948, when Begin came to visit the US. The letter opened ... "Among the most disturbing political phenomena of our times is the emergence in the newly created state of Israel of the "Freedom Party" (Tnuat Haherut), a political party closely akin in its organization, methods, political philosophy and social appeal to the Nazi and Fascist parties. It was formed out of the membership and following of the former Irgun Zvai Leumi, a terrorist, right-wing, chauvinist organization in Palestine." Herut merged with other extremist parties, over the years, and eventually became Likud, in the 70s. Now, people get upset over the slogan "From the river to the sea!", but it's the second part that's most important, "Palestine will be free!". Because "Palestine" isn't defined as an ethno-state, a free Palestine can be a single state, free for all to live in, and return to, free of continuing colonization, free of occupation, free of oppression, etc. Just like a Germany free of Nazism, an Italy free of fascism, a South Africa free of apartheid, or an America free of slavery from sea to shiny sea. It doesn't necessitate purging all the Jews. It just necessitates them giving up on the idea of an ethno-state. On the other hand, because "Israel" has been defined as an ethno-state, Likud's, "between the sea and the Jordan there will only be Israeli sovereignty", has no possible good interpretation. It is a declaration of intent to completely colonize, and ethnically cleanse, all Palestine territories. Not only that, but it also claims that they have a "right" to all of the "Land of Israel" (biblical borders that don't mesh with archaeological reality), which is an open declaration of future wars, against Jordan, Syria, Lebanon, and possibly even Iraq. Likud platform ... 1977: "The Right of the Jewish People to the Land of Israel (Eretz Israel) a. The right of the Jewish people to the land of Israel is eternal and indisputable and is linked with the right to security and peace; therefore, Judea and Samaria will not be handed to any foreign administration; between the Sea and the Jordan there will only be Israeli sovereignty. b. A plan which relinquishes parts of western Eretz Israel, undermines our right to the country, unavoidably leads to the establishment of a "Palestinian State," jeopardizes the security of the Jewish population, endangers the existence of the State of Israel. and frustrates any prospect of peace." "Settlement Settlement. both urban and rural. in all parts of the Land of Israel is the focal point of the Zionist effort to redeem the country, to maintain vital security areas and serves as a reservoir of strength and inspiration for the renewal of the pioneering spirit. The Likud government will call on the younger generation in Israel and the dispersions to settle and help every group and individual in the task of inhabiting and cultivating the wasteland, while taking care not to dispossess anyone." 1999: "The Government of Israel flatly rejects the establishment of a Palestinian Arab state west of the Jordan river. The Palestinians can run their lives freely in the framework of self-rule, but not as an independent and sovereign state. Thus, for example, in matters of foreign affairs, security, immigration, and ecology, their activity shall be limited in accordance with imperatives of Israel's existence, security and national needs." "The Jewish communities in Judea, Samaria, and Gaza are the realization of Zionist values. Settlement of the land is a clear expression of the unassailable right of the Jewish people to the Land of Israel and constitutes an important asset in the defense of the vital interests of the State of Israel. The Likud will continue to strengthen and develop these communities and will prevent their uprooting." All Palestine territories are officially considered occupied, by the International Court of Justice, the UN GA, the UN SC, and even in official documents of Israel's own allies. Likud is still using the blueprint for colonizing North America, in the West Bank. Move settlements out into native territory, piss off the natives, the natives retaliate, cry about poor "innocent" colonizing settlers being the "victims" of violent "Savages!", call in the cavalry to put down the native uprising, and eventually expand the borders to include those settlements. Rinse and repeat. In Gaza, Israel is operating an open air WWII style fascist ghetto. Them claiming a "right to defend themselves" would be like the Nazis claiming a "right to defend themselves " from the Warsaw ghetto uprising. There's no "war". That they're the occupiers means the "war" part is long over. Those people are actually supposed to be under the occupier's protection. That partition was forced upon the Palestinian majority, against their will ... that the Zionist portion still had to be forcefully ethnically cleansed of its non-Jewish majority, against their will ... that the millions of occupied Palestinians don't have a say in the government that truly rules over them, Israel's ... means Israel is about as democratic as Nazi Germany after Hitler purged his political opponents and then held elections.
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  123. And when it comes to infection, he jumps to "doesn't prevent infection", skipping over that it still significantly reduces the likelihood of infection.
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  124.  @女に人權無し  Which UK culture, exactly? The Celtic culture, almost wiped out by the Romans? The Roman culture almost wiped out by the Anglo-Saxons? The Pictish culture almost wiped out by Irish Scots? The Anglo-Saxon culture almost wiped out by Normans and Danes? The Welsh and Scottish cultures almost wiped out by the English? The Irish Catholic culture almost wiped out by Protestant Brits? The UK has gone through a ton of changes, adapting and absorbing different cultures, that have changed it a bit each time.
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  125. The US adopted all the problems the British caused, and carried on with them.
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  126. Likud's bloody 100 year history ... In 1923, 100 years ago, Ze'ev Jabotinsky wrote, The Iron Wall, and a follow up, The Ethics of The Iron Wall (sooo racist towards Africans), in which he fully acknowledged that post Balfour Zionsim was colonialism, and that, based on the entirety of history, the native Palestinian population would resist being colonized until the bitter end. He directly compared it to the colonization of North America. He promoted doing it anyway, claiming Zionist colonialism was a "just" colonialism (he also thought North American colonialists were good guys, so not a great judge of morality), not caring what that meant for the native population. Ze'ev is important, because his Betar militant youth group helped found the Irgun terrorist group, along with other supporters of his, and the splinter Lehi terrorist group. The Irgun bombed numerous Palestinian markets and other public places, murdering many Palestinian civilians, including children, even including Palestinian Jews (who didn't support colonialist Zionsim). The Irgun are important, because they ended up being led by future Likud PM, Menachem Begin, who bombed the King David Hotel. The King David Hotel was bombed because the British had raided the Jewish Agency and seized numerous documents that may have shown that the terrorists were working with the JA and Haganah (JA liked to pretend that they didn't support the terrorism). The British then stored those documents at their base, in the hotel. That the Irgun terrorists responded to a JA raid, itself seems to prove the connection. That the thousands of Irgun (and Lehi) terrorists were also quickly merged into the new nation's military (IDF) and intelligence (Mossad) agencies, and are still celebrated as "heroes" by Israelis, to this day, also seems to support total collaboration between the groups. That other terrorist group mentioned, Lehi (also known as the Stern Gang), was considered even more extreme. They even tried to ally with the Nazis, against the British. Lehi ended up being led by Yitzhak Shamir, future Mossad agent, and another future Likud PM. They assassinated Lord Moyne, and others. In 1945, there was a major land and peoples survey done in Palestine. It showed that the Zionists only owned about 5% of the total land, 20% of the arable land, and owned a majority in zero districts. The partition was not only going to be forced on the native Palestinian majority, but Jews were still going to be a minority, in the part allocated to them. The only possible way to even become a "Jewish state" was going to require getting rid of the actual majority (at least enough so that there'd be a solid Jewish majority, so they could fake being democratic). This is also shown by the 1948, post Nakba, population of Israel. If there was 716,700 Jews, 156,000+ non-Jews, and approximately 700k non-Jews ethnically cleansed, that means the Jewish population, in the Zionist portion of partition, was originally over 100,000 less than the non-Jewish population. To believe that there was never any intent, by Zionists, to ethnically cleanse away the Palestinian majority would require believing that they never intended to create a "Jewish state". It's a nonsensical notion. Begin, and those terrorist groups, also opposed partition, but for the opposite reason Palestinians did. Palestinians didn't want to be colonized, at all. The terrorists wanted to colonize it all. "Moderate" Zionists were okay with colonizing half ... for now (what would happen in the future, after partition, was up to them, said Ben-Gurion). The Zionist terrorists were also involved in massacres, and assassinations, during the partition violence (colonialist war against the natives). Another notable future Likud PM, also started in the military, during the partition fighting. That was Ariel Sharon, war criminal, "Butcher of Beirut". Menachem Begin, and these other Zionist terrorists, are important because they became involved in Israeli politics, first forming Herut. That was the party that Albert Einstein, and other prominent American Jews, opposed, having a letter printed in the NYT, in December of 1948, when Begin came to visit the US. The letter opened ... "Among the most disturbing political phenomena of our times is the emergence in the newly created state of Israel of the "Freedom Party" (Tnuat Haherut), a political party closely akin in its organization, methods, political philosophy and social appeal to the Nazi and Fascist parties. It was formed out of the membership and following of the former Irgun Zvai Leumi, a terrorist, right-wing, chauvinist organization in Palestine." Herut merged with other extremist parties, over the years, and eventually became Likud, in the 70s. Now, people get upset over the slogan "From the river to the sea!", but it's the second part that's most important, "Palestine will be free!". Because "Palestine" isn't defined as an ethno-state, a free Palestine can be a single state, free for all to live in, and return to, free of continuing colonization, free of occupation, free of oppression, etc. Just like a Germany free of Nazism, an Italy free of fascism, a South Africa free of apartheid, or an America free of slavery from sea to shiny sea. It doesn't necessitate purging all the Jews. It just necessitates them giving up on the idea of an ethno-state. On the other hand, because "Israel" has been defined as an ethno-state, Likud's, "between the sea and the Jordan there will only be Israeli sovereignty", has no possible good interpretation. It is a declaration of intent to completely colonize, and ethnically cleanse, all Palestine territories. Not only that, but it also claims that they have a "right" to all of the "Land of Israel" (biblical borders that don't mesh with archaeological reality), which is an open declaration of future wars, against Jordan, Syria, Lebanon, and possibly even Iraq. Likud platform ... 1977: "The Right of the Jewish People to the Land of Israel (Eretz Israel) a. The right of the Jewish people to the land of Israel is eternal and indisputable and is linked with the right to security and peace; therefore, Judea and Samaria will not be handed to any foreign administration; between the Sea and the Jordan there will only be Israeli sovereignty. b. A plan which relinquishes parts of western Eretz Israel, undermines our right to the country, unavoidably leads to the establishment of a "Palestinian State," jeopardizes the security of the Jewish population, endangers the existence of the State of Israel. and frustrates any prospect of peace." "Settlement Settlement. both urban and rural. in all parts of the Land of Israel is the focal point of the Zionist effort to redeem the country, to maintain vital security areas and serves as a reservoir of strength and inspiration for the renewal of the pioneering spirit. The Likud government will call on the younger generation in Israel and the dispersions to settle and help every group and individual in the task of inhabiting and cultivating the wasteland, while taking care not to dispossess anyone." 1999: "The Government of Israel flatly rejects the establishment of a Palestinian Arab state west of the Jordan river. The Palestinians can run their lives freely in the framework of self-rule, but not as an independent and sovereign state. Thus, for example, in matters of foreign affairs, security, immigration, and ecology, their activity shall be limited in accordance with imperatives of Israel's existence, security and national needs." "The Jewish communities in Judea, Samaria, and Gaza are the realization of Zionist values. Settlement of the land is a clear expression of the unassailable right of the Jewish people to the Land of Israel and constitutes an important asset in the defense of the vital interests of the State of Israel. The Likud will continue to strengthen and develop these communities and will prevent their uprooting." All Palestine territories are officially considered occupied, by the International Court of Justice, the UN GA, the UN SC, and even in official documents of Israel's own allies. Likud is still using the blueprint for colonizing North America, in the West Bank. Move settlements out into native territory, piss off the natives, the natives retaliate, cry about poor "innocent" colonizing settlers being the "victims" of violent "Savages!", call in the cavalry to put down the native uprising, and eventually expand the borders to include those settlements. Rinse and repeat. In Gaza, Israel is operating an open air WWII style fascist ghetto. Them claiming a "right to defend themselves" would be like the Nazis claiming a "right to defend themselves " from the Warsaw ghetto uprising. There's no "war". That they're the occupiers means the "war" part is long over. Those people are actually supposed to be under the occupier's protection. That partition was forced upon the Palestinian majority, against their will ... that the Zionist portion still had to be forcefully ethnically cleansed of its non-Jewish majority, against their will ... that the millions of occupied Palestinians don't have a say in the government that truly rules over them, Israel's ... means Israel is about as democratic as Nazi Germany after Hitler purged his political opponents and then held elections.
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  127. Likud's bloody 100 year history ... In 1923, 100 years ago, Ze'ev Jabotinsky wrote, The Iron Wall, and a follow up, The Ethics of The Iron Wall (sooo racist towards Africans), in which he fully acknowledged that post Balfour Zionsim was colonialism, and that, based on the entirety of history, the native Palestinian population would resist being colonized until the bitter end. He directly compared it to the colonization of North America. He promoted doing it anyway, claiming Zionist colonialism was a "just" colonialism (he also thought North American colonialists were good guys, so not a great judge of morality), not caring what that meant for the native population. Ze'ev is important, because his Betar militant youth group helped found the Irgun terrorist group, along with other supporters of his, and the splinter Lehi terrorist group. The Irgun bombed numerous Palestinian markets and other public places, murdering many Palestinian civilians, including children, even including Palestinian Jews (who didn't support colonialist Zionsim). The Irgun are important, because they ended up being led by future Likud PM, Menachem Begin, who bombed the King David Hotel. The King David Hotel was bombed because the British had raided the Jewish Agency and seized numerous documents that may have shown that the terrorists were working with the JA and Haganah (JA liked to pretend that they didn't support the terrorism). The British then stored those documents at their base, in the hotel. That the Irgun terrorists responded to a JA raid, itself seems to prove the connection. That the thousands of Irgun (and Lehi) terrorists were also quickly merged into the new nation's military (IDF) and intelligence (Mossad) agencies, and are still celebrated as "heroes" by Israelis, to this day, also seems to support total collaboration between the groups. That other terrorist group mentioned, Lehi (also known as the Stern Gang), was considered even more extreme. They even tried to ally with the Nazis, against the British. Lehi ended up being led by Yitzhak Shamir, future Mossad agent, and another future Likud PM. They assassinated Lord Moyne, and others. The two terrorist groups also operated outside of Palestine. The Irgun bombed the British Embassy at Porta Pia, in Rome. The Lehi bombed the British Colonial Club, in London. A timer failed in another bombing attempt, at the Colonial Office, in Whitehall. Two female Lehi operatives were arrested crossing from Belgium to France, with the ingredients for letter bombs. 21 letter bombs were found to be have sent, and were intercepted. They mined the Cairo-Haifa train, in Egypt, twice, killing dozens of civilians, as well as British soldiers. In 1945, there was a major land and peoples survey done in Palestine. It showed that the Zionists only owned about 5% of the total land, 20% of the arable land, and owned a majority in zero districts. The partition was not only going to be forced on the native Palestinian majority, but Jews were still going to be a minority, in the part allocated to them. The only possible way to even become a "Jewish state" was going to require getting rid of the actual majority (at least enough so that there'd be a solid Jewish majority, so they could fake being democratic). This is also shown by the 1948, post Nakba, population of Israel. If there was 716,700 Jews, 156,000+ non-Jews, and approximately 700k non-Jews ethnically cleansed, that means the Jewish population, in the Zionist portion of partition, was originally over 100,000 less than the non-Jewish population. To believe that there was never any intent, by Zionists, to ethnically cleanse away the Palestinian majority would require believing that they never intended to create a "Jewish state". It's a nonsensical notion. Begin, and those terrorist groups, also opposed partition, but for the opposite reason Palestinians did. Palestinians didn't want to be colonized, at all. The terrorists wanted to colonize it all. "Moderate" Zionists were okay with colonizing half ... for now (what would happen in the future, after partition, was up to them, said Ben-Gurion). The Zionist terrorists were also involved in massacres, and assassinations, during the partition violence (colonialist war against the natives). Another notable future Likud PM, also started in the military, during the partition fighting. That was Ariel Sharon, war criminal, "Butcher of Beirut". Menachem Begin, and these other Zionist terrorists, are important because they became involved in Israeli politics, first forming Herut. That was the party that Albert Einstein, and other prominent American Jews, opposed, having a letter printed in the NYT, in December of 1948, when Begin came to visit the US. The letter opened ... "Among the most disturbing political phenomena of our times is the emergence in the newly created state of Israel of the "Freedom Party" (Tnuat Haherut), a political party closely akin in its organization, methods, political philosophy and social appeal to the Nazi and Fascist parties. It was formed out of the membership and following of the former Irgun Zvai Leumi, a terrorist, right-wing, chauvinist organization in Palestine." Herut merged with other extremist parties, over the years, and eventually became Likud, in the 70s. Now, people get upset over the slogan "From the river to the sea!", but it's the second part that's most important, "Palestine will be free!". Because "Palestine" isn't defined as an ethno-state, a free Palestine can be a single state, free for all to live in, and return to, free of continuing colonization, free of occupation, free of oppression, etc. Just like a Germany free of Nazism, an Italy free of fascism, a South Africa free of apartheid, or an America free of slavery from sea to shiny sea. It doesn't necessitate purging all the Jews. It just necessitates them giving up on the idea of an ethno-state. On the other hand, because "Israel" has been defined as an ethno-state, Likud's, "between the sea and the Jordan there will only be Israeli sovereignty", has no possible good interpretation. It is a declaration of intent to completely colonize, and ethnically cleanse, all Palestine territories. Not only that, but it also claims that they have a "right" to all of the "Land of Israel" (biblical borders that don't mesh with archaeological reality), which is an open declaration of future wars, against Jordan, Syria, Lebanon, and possibly even Iraq. Likud platform ... 1977: "The Right of the Jewish People to the Land of Israel (Eretz Israel) a. The right of the Jewish people to the land of Israel is eternal and indisputable and is linked with the right to security and peace; therefore, Judea and Samaria will not be handed to any foreign administration; between the Sea and the Jordan there will only be Israeli sovereignty. b. A plan which relinquishes parts of western Eretz Israel, undermines our right to the country, unavoidably leads to the establishment of a "Palestinian State," jeopardizes the security of the Jewish population, endangers the existence of the State of Israel. and frustrates any prospect of peace." 1999: "The Government of Israel flatly rejects the establishment of a Palestinian Arab state west of the Jordan river. The Palestinians can run their lives freely in the framework of self-rule, but not as an independent and sovereign state. Thus, for example, in matters of foreign affairs, security, immigration, and ecology, their activity shall be limited in accordance with imperatives of Israel's existence, security and national needs." "The Jewish communities in Judea, Samaria, and Gaza are the realization of Zionist values. Settlement of the land is a clear expression of the unassailable right of the Jewish people to the Land of Israel and constitutes an important asset in the defense of the vital interests of the State of Israel. The Likud will continue to strengthen and develop these communities and will prevent their uprooting." All Palestine territories are officially considered occupied, by the International Court of Justice, the UN GA, the UN SC, and even in official documents of Israel's own allies. Likud is still using the blueprint for colonizing North America, in the West Bank. Move settlements out into native territory, piss off the natives, the natives retaliate, cry about poor "innocent" colonizing settlers being the "victims" of violent "Savages!", call in the cavalry to put down the native uprising, and eventually expand the borders to include those settlements. Rinse and repeat. In Gaza, Israel is operating an open air WWII style fascist ghetto. Them claiming a "right to defend themselves" would be like the Nazis claiming a "right to defend themselves " from the Warsaw ghetto uprising. There's no "war". That they're the occupiers means the "war" part is long over. Those people are actually supposed to be under the occupier's protection. That partition was forced upon the Palestinian majority, against their will ... that the Zionist portion still had to be forcefully ethnically cleansed of its non-Jewish majority, against their will ... that the millions of occupied Palestinians don't have a say in the government that truly rules over them, Israel's ... means Israel is about as democratic as Nazi Germany after Hitler purged his political opponents and then held elections.
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  128.  @Justin.Martyr  Why didn't Jesus just make him win the election?
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  129. ​ @ELTEAESS  "Geronimo started this!" ~ someone who supports colonization, and makes out like the colonizers are the victims when natives fight back
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  130. ​ @godoforder1828  They didn't pick who to fight, dingus. Japan attacked the US, then Germany declared war against them.
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  131. She gets paid by the same person Vance does, Peter Thiel.
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  132. Those darn native Americans kept refusing to say yes to us taking their land, and kept attacking our poor settlers, that were innocently colonizing their land. It's all their fault, that they're now on small reserves.
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  133.  @evensteven1950  Einstein likened the Irgun and Lehi trrrst founders of Likud to Nzs and Fscsts, way back in 1948. It wasn't even considered "too soon", then.
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  134. Likewise, Orwell went to Spain to join the anarchists against Franco, and his authoritarians are based on fascists.
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  135. He has also recently written that he's cool with perishing thousands of children in Palestine, and also thinks IL should do the same in Lebanon.
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  136.  @steviejohnson378  In 1923, Ze'ev Jabotinsky fully acknowledged that Zionism is colonialism. He also predicted, based on the entirety of history, that the natives would react by resisting until the bitter end. The Zionists just didn't care what would happen to the natives. The ethnic cleansing involved in colonialism is already waging war. On top of the colonialism, Zionists also resorted to terrorism, by groups like the Irgun and Lehi. They bombed many Palestinian markets, amongst other civilian targets, killing many, including children, even including Palestinian Jews (who opposed Zionism). Israel merged those terrorists into the new nation's military and intelligence agencies. Israelis elected Menachem Begin, leader of the Irgun, who bombed the King David Hotel, as PM. Israelis, to this day, celebrate those terrorists as heroes. They literally taught their neighbours that terrorism is a valid path to independence and statehood and that terrorists are to be celebrated.
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  137. @Men In Black Reclaim Christianity from it, as well. Christian Zionists are nutbars who want to bring about the end of times. Ironically, they "support" Israel, but Israel gets wiped out first in their apocalypse story.
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  138. Part of the reason is because the teacher's union is the largest national union. They want to bust it.
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  139. ​ @MultiClassof2010  Who's the lesser of two evils, when it comes to colonialism? Haven't we generally come to the realization that colonialism is bad?
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  140. People of European descent crying about being "replaced" by people of largely Native American descent. They're insane.
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  141.  @annlevin8064  Yes it was. They only owned about 7% of the land, just before partition, and partition gave them 56% to rule over.
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  142. Although he'll "pay taxes", he also still has options to buy more Tesla stocks at a fraction of the value, meaning he can make money while "paying taxes". That's not a thing for the vast majority of the population, even the lesser rich, who live on large salaries that are subject to income tax.
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  143.  @sprigredfrog  Trying to end democracy is the last box that needs checking, to have full blown fascism. Fascists were fascists before they got all their dictatorial powers. The majority of the Republican congress have signed up for fascism. 28% of Republican voters don't want Trump to concede, under any circumstances, and are in favor of all out fascism. It's a party of wingnuts.
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  144. When his editors asked for an editorial rewrite (something that has been happening since the beginning of newspapers), the last of his brain cells melted.
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  145. The Hill is owned by a close family friend to Trump. It isn't a progressive outlet.
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  146.  @xinjiangstan1233  You mean like China, who gets sanctions against them, Russia, who gets sanctions against them, etc.? Meanwhile, Israel gets funding, armament, and a green light?
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  147.  @latrinemarine826  Was it wrong when the Irgun and Lehi did it? Those terrorist groups were merged into Israel's military and intelligence agencies. Israelis, to this day, celebrate those terrorists and rapists as "heroes". Likud was founded by the leaders of those terrorist groups. Israelis elected both those terrorist leaders as PMs. All evidence suggests that Netanyahu is carrying on with those terrorists' Likud platform, "between the sea and the Jordan there will only be Israeli sovereignty", which promises to completely colonize and ethnically cleanse all Palestine territories. It further claims a "right" to all the "Land of Israel" (fictional biblical borders that don't mesh with archaeological reality), which is an open declaration of future wars, against Jordan, Syria, Lebanon, and possibly Iraq. Do you condemn the Irgun/Lehi/Likud terrorists and rapists, celebrated by Israelis?
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  148. Yep. We're not quick learners, us humans. "First they came for the Communists And I did not speak out Because I was not a Communist Then they came for the Socialists And I did not speak out Because I was not a Socialist Then they came for the trade unionists And I did not speak out Because I was not a trade unionist Then they came for the Jews And I did not speak out Because I was not a Jew Then they came for me And there was no one left To speak out for me"
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  149. ​ @roughhabit9085 Rofl! What's "diverse" about 16th century Puritan gobbledygook?
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  150. Not only are 3 born in the US, but AOC's heritage is Puerto Rican. Even if she follows her heritage back, she'll still be in the US. He's a complete moron, who can't keep straight that Puerto Rico isn't a different country.
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  151. @southwestmystic You should be fired.
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  152. Most of the world doesn't like Trump. Pretty sure they're more worried about Trump stealing the election.
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  153. ​@@A_D_O_L_F__ What nedzed said, plus their stated willingness to let old people to die off from COVID.
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  154. It has been the Likud goal, for 100 years. Likud's bloody 100 year history ... In 1923, 100 years ago, Ze'ev Jabotinsky wrote, The Iron Wall, and a follow up, The Ethics of The Iron Wall (sooo racist towards Africans), in which he fully acknowledged that post Balfour Zionsim was colonialism, and that, based on the entirety of history, the native Palestinian population would resist being colonized until the bitter end. He directly compared it to the colonization of North America. He promoted doing it anyway, claiming Zionist colonialism was a "just" colonialism (he also thought North American colonialists were good guys, so not a great judge of morality), not caring what that meant for the native population. Ze'ev is important, because his Betar militant youth group helped found the Irgun terrorist group, along with other supporters of his, and the splinter Lehi terrorist group. The Irgun bombed numerous Palestinian markets and other public places, murdering many Palestinian civilians, including children, even including Palestinian Jews (who didn't support colonialist Zionsim). The Irgun are important, because they ended up being led by future Likud PM, Menachem Begin, who bombed the King David Hotel. The King David Hotel was bombed because the British had raided the Jewish Agency and seized numerous documents that may have shown that the terrorists were working with the JA and Haganah (JA liked to pretend that they didn't support the terrorism). The British then stored those documents at their base, in the hotel. That the Irgun terrorists responded to a JA raid, itself seems to prove the connection. That the thousands of Irgun (and Lehi) terrorists were also quickly merged into the new nation's military (IDF) and intelligence (Mossad) agencies, and are still celebrated as "heroes" by Israelis, to this day, also seems to support total collaboration between the groups. That other terrorist group mentioned, Lehi (also known as the Stern Gang), was considered even more extreme. They even tried to ally with the Nazis, against the British. Lehi ended up being led by Yitzhak Shamir, future Mossad agent, and another future Likud PM. In 1945, there was a major land and peoples survey done in Palestine. It showed that the Zionists only owned about 5% of the total land, 20% of the arable land, and owned a majority in zero districts. The partition was not only going to be forced on the native Palestinian majority, but Jews were still going to be a minority, in the part allocated to them. The only possible way to even become a "Jewish state" was going to require getting rid of the actual majority (at least enough so that there'd be a solid Jewish majority, so they could fake being democratic). This is also shown by the 1948, post Nakba, population of Israel. If there was 716,700 Jews, 156,000+ non-Jews, and approximately 700k non-Jews ethnically cleansed, that means the Jewish population, in the Zionist portion of partition, was originally over 100,000 less than the non-Jewish population. To believe that there was never any intent, by Zionists, to ethnically cleanse away the Palestinian majority would require believing that they never intended to create a "Jewish state". It's a nonsensical notion. Begin, and those terrorist groups, also opposed partition, but for the opposite reason Palestinians did. Palestinians didn't want to be colonized, at all. The terrorists wanted to colonize it all. "Moderate" Zionists were okay with colonizing half ... for now (what would happen in the future, after partition, was up to them, said Ben-Gurion). The Zionist terrorists were also involved in massacres, and assassinations, during the partition violence (colonialist war against the natives). Another notable future Likud PM, also started in the military, during the partition fighting. That was Ariel Sharon, war criminal, "Butcher of Beirut". Menachem Begin, and these other Zionist terrorists, are important because they became involved in Israeli politics, first forming Herut. That was the party that Albert Einstein, and other prominent American Jews, opposed, having a letter printed in the NYT, in December of 1948, when Begin came to visit the US. The letter opened ... "Among the most disturbing political phenomena of our times is the emergence in the newly created state of Israel of the "Freedom Party" (Tnuat Haherut), a political party closely akin in its organization, methods, political philosophy and social appeal to the Nazi and Fascist parties. It was formed out of the membership and following of the former Irgun Zvai Leumi, a terrorist, right-wing, chauvinist organization in Palestine." Herut merged with other extremist parties, over the years, and eventually became Likud, in the 70s. Now, people get upset over the slogan "From the river to the sea!", but it's the second part that's most important, "Palestine will be free!". Because "Palestine" isn't defined as an ethno-state, a free Palestine can be a single state, free for all to live in, and return to, free of continuing colonization, free of occupation, free of oppression, etc. Just like a Germany free of Nazism, an Italy free of fascism, a South Africa free of apartheid, or an America free of slavery from sea to shiny sea. It doesn't necessitate purging all the Jews. It just necessitates them giving up on the idea of an ethno-state. On the other hand, because "Israel" has been defined as an ethno-state, Likud's, "between the sea and the Jordan there will only be Israeli sovereignty", has no possible good interpretation. It is a declaration of intent to completely colonize, and ethnically cleanse, all Palestine territories. Not only that, but it also claims that they have a "right" to all of the "Land of Israel" (biblical borders that don't mesh with archaeological reality), which is an open declaration of future wars, against Jordan, Syria, Lebanon, and possibly even Iraq. Likud platform ... 1977: "The Right of the Jewish People to the Land of Israel (Eretz Israel) a. The right of the Jewish people to the land of Israel is eternal and indisputable and is linked with the right to security and peace; therefore, Judea and Samaria will not be handed to any foreign administration; between the Sea and the Jordan there will only be Israeli sovereignty. b. A plan which relinquishes parts of western Eretz Israel, undermines our right to the country, unavoidably leads to the establishment of a "Palestinian State," jeopardizes the security of the Jewish population, endangers the existence of the State of Israel. and frustrates any prospect of peace." "Settlement Settlement. both urban and rural. in all parts of the Land of Israel is the focal point of the Zionist effort to redeem the country, to maintain vital security areas and serves as a reservoir of strength and inspiration for the renewal of the pioneering spirit. The Likud government will call on the younger generation in Israel and the dispersions to settle and help every group and individual in the task of inhabiting and cultivating the wasteland, while taking care not to dispossess anyone." 1999: "The Government of Israel flatly rejects the establishment of a Palestinian Arab state west of the Jordan river. The Palestinians can run their lives freely in the framework of self-rule, but not as an independent and sovereign state. Thus, for example, in matters of foreign affairs, security, immigration, and ecology, their activity shall be limited in accordance with imperatives of Israel's existence, security and national needs." "The Jewish communities in Judea, Samaria, and Gaza are the realization of Zionist values. Settlement of the land is a clear expression of the unassailable right of the Jewish people to the Land of Israel and constitutes an important asset in the defense of the vital interests of the State of Israel. The Likud will continue to strengthen and develop these communities and will prevent their uprooting." All Palestine territories are officially considered occupied, by the International Court of Justice, the UN GA, the UN SC, and even in official documents of Israel's own allies. Likud is still using the blueprint for colonizing North America, in the West Bank. Move settlements out into native territory, piss off the natives, the natives retaliate, cry about poor "innocent" colonizing settlers being the "victims" of violent "Savages!", call in the cavalry to put down the native uprising, and eventually expand the borders to include those settlements. Rinse and repeat. In Gaza, Israel is operating an open air WWII style fascist ghetto. Them claiming a "right to defend themselves" would be like the Nazis claiming a "right to defend themselves " from the Warsaw ghetto uprising. There's no "war". That they're the occupiers means the "war" part is long over. Those people are actually supposed to be under the occupier's protection. That partition was forced upon the Palestinian majority, against their will ... that the Zionist portion still had to be forcefully ethnically cleansed of its non-Jewish majority, against their will ... that the millions of occupied Palestinians don't have a say in the government that truly rules over them, Israel's ... means Israel is about as democratic as Nazi Germany after Hitler purged his political opponents and then held elections.
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  155. ​ @pictofsweet  They are targeting predominantly black districts. Still trying to do Jm Crw.
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  156.  @Domonocdoctor  Also didn't factor in how many years Republicans had the house or senate. The current Republican house can't even pass a basic budget.
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  157.  @keithmellon7592  That's like blaming both sides for the colonization of North America. Sometimes both sides-ing isn't rational.
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  158. And after about 40 yrs old, the odds of her getting pregnant drop drastically. I guess they'll stop then, or will he trade her in for a new model?
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  159. Jimmy's "punch up" philosophy tends to punch those closest to his position, first, and the most, as he's punching up.
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  160.  @werihfbwl  Let's be honest, "here" everyone knows who Sam is, because it's his comment section.
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  161. We'll now need to debunk the myth that we haven't had WWII, yet, thanks to Trump.
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  162. Taught her how to grift.
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  163. They're not hidden. There are just fewer of them. Only 14% of our population would have voted Trump, and most of them are in Alberta (our Texas).
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  164. ​ @battlefield5826  He has promoted uselessly voting third party, or letting Trump win, since 2016. How does that benefit anyone, including Palestinians?
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  165.  Mari Jayne  By the argument that removing statues erases history.
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  166. To be clear, MAGA had no problem with him being a bgt, rcst, msgnst, or p watcher ... They just have a problem with him being a T watcher.
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  167. Why do all the mail in votes favour Biden?!!! It's almost like someone told all my followers not to trust mail in voting and to vote in person, or something!!!
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  168.  @alabamaman9476  Your point was that progressives actually have evidence of Boogaloos being charged for inciting riots and plotting terrorism, at BLM rallies, while Republicans don't have any evidence, as usual?
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  169. Also longer than he's been Grmn. As late as 1987 (Art of the Deal), he claimed to be Swdsh. Then, suddenly he's Grmn. Someone should look into that.
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  170. But Trump, in the highest position of government, himself threatening to fire people, and actually firing people, if they said things he didn't like ... totally okay.
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  171. 1850s CNN ... Jayapal: "The US has been colonizing and ethnic cleansing the Native Americans, for about 250 years, and ..." Bash: "But do you condemn Cochise?!"
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  172.  real progressive  Yeah, because a fetus whose pain connections don't even form until 20-24 weeks, is exactly the same as a child who can feel discomfort, hunger pains, is fully aware, and can experience fear, sadness, etc. You're dumb.
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  173. Obama did a bunch of things wrong, but Trump winning 2016 was the DNC's and Hillary's fault. Trump won with one of the lowest percentages of the vote in US history. He lost millions of Republican voters to the Libertarians. She lost to one of the most pathetic campaigns ever.
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  174. One of the saddest songs ever.
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  175.  @WHU63  Palestinians have Canaanite DNA. That goes back to before any temple. If you want to go back to the first nation to rule over the region, that would be Egypt.
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  176. This isn't a "war" Bernie. All Palestine territories are officially considered occupied by the International Court of Justice, the UN GA, the UN SC, and even in official documents of Israel's own allies. Gaza is an open air WWII style fascist ghetto. The Nazis weren't at "war" with the Warsaw ghetto uprising, or the resistance movements. As occupiers, they had already won the "war" part.
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  177. ​ @matt4887  Someone moving in next door to you isn't replacing you. Someone who lands on your shores and either kicks you off your land, or kills you, is replacing you.
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  178. For such a fan of "underrated" actor, Jimmy Stewart, Ben seems to have not seen the numerous serious rolls Jimmy has played.
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  179. ​ @jpro1810  Over 1200 Palestinian hostages, held indefinitely by Israel without charges, prior to Oct 7. Also over 200 Palestinians killed by the IDF and settlers, and over 1000 Palestinians displaced, due to the never ending colonization, prior to Oct 7. All just counting this year.
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  180. ​ @keithdoherty9155  Lol. I'm an amputee, and played wheelchair sports for 25 years, known and joked around with thousands of other people in wheelchairs over the years. What Crockett said was fine. He is literally on wheels.
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  181.  @mikebanks2176  I doubt it lady.
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  182.  @buttstinkman5983  Ummm, cry baby Trump claimed to be a victim of media bias, from day one. Where the hell have you been?
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  183. ​ @HabaneroTi  The operating of an open air WWII style fascist ghetto, and flattening after an uprising, seems similar.
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  184. Conservatives: It's okay to cancel images of body parts that offend us, but don't cancel racist images. But, but, we're not racists.
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  185. ​ @Elemenopi205  He has a proclivity towards incoherence and grifting.
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  186. Another fun fact: Obama's last budget ran through 2017. The Dow has actually flatlined since Trump's first budget. Nasdaq and S&P not much better. https://www.macrotrends.net/1358/dow-jones-industrial-average-last-10-years
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  187. ​ @quadkidnate6370  Israel is objectively an occupier, according to every international body with the authority to rule it such. It is against the law for occupiers to use collective punishment. It is illegal for occupiers to settle occupied land. It is, however, legal for those occupied to resist occupation. Law aside ... it's an objective fact that Israel is a colonialist nation. Colonialists are never not the aggressors, when it comes to the natives. Sure, you can say both Geronimo and the US Cavalry were brutal, but the entire situation was due to Mexico and US colonialism. It's impossible for natives to attack colonialists, if they aren't already there doing their colonizing aggression, first.
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  188. "This land is your land, and this land is my land From California to the New York island From the Redwood Forest to the Gulf Stream waters This land was made for you and me" Terror!!!!
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  189.  @Jonathan-du8fs  The vast majority of anti-abortionists worship a being who aborts the majority of pregnancies ... they worship a "baby killer", if you're going to call an unfeeling, mindless, embryo or fetus a "baby".
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  190.  @barmoleydd6300  Palestinians have Canaanite DNA. They've always lived on the land. Zionists had only purchased about 5% of the land, prior to the Nakba. It wasn't the Palestinians' land, because why?
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  191. Likud's bloody 100 year history ... In 1923, 100 years ago, Ze'ev Jabotinsky wrote, The Iron Wall, and a follow up, The Ethics of The Iron Wall (sooo racist towards Africans), in which he fully acknowledged that post Balfour Zionsim was colonialism, and that, based on the entirety of history, the native Palestinian population would resist being colonized until the bitter end. He directly compared it to the colonization of North America. He promoted doing it anyway, claiming Zionist colonialism was a "just" colonialism (he also thought North American colonialists were good guys, so not a great judge of morality), not caring what that meant for the native population. Ze'ev is important, because his Betar militant youth group helped found the Irgun terrorist group, along with other supporters of his, and the splinter Lehi terrorist group. The Irgun bombed numerous Palestinian markets and other public places, murdering many Palestinian civilians, including children, even including Palestinian Jews (who didn't support colonialist Zionsim). The Irgun are important, because they ended up being led by future Likud PM, Menachem Begin, who bombed the King David Hotel. The King David Hotel was bombed because the British had raided the Jewish Agency and seized numerous documents that may have shown that the terrorists were working with the JA and Haganah (JA liked to pretend that they didn't support the terrorism). The British then stored those documents at their base, in the hotel. That the Irgun terrorists responded to a JA raid, itself seems to prove the connection. That the thousands of Irgun (and Lehi) terrorists were also quickly merged into the new nation's military (IDF) and intelligence (Mossad) agencies, and are still celebrated as "heroes" by Israelis, to this day, also seems to support total collaboration between the groups. That other terrorist group mentioned, Lehi (also known as the Stern Gang), was considered even more extreme. They even tried to ally with the Nazis, against the British. Lehi ended up being led by Yitzhak Shamir, future Mossad agent, and another future Likud PM. They assassinated Lord Moyne, and others. The two terrorist groups also operated outside of Palestine. The Irgun bombed the British Embassy at Porta Pia, in Rome. The Lehi bombed the British Colonial Club, in London. A timer failed in another bombing attempt, at the Colonial Office, in Whitehall. Two female Lehi operatives were arrested crossing from Belgium to France, with the ingredients for letter bombs. 21 letter bombs were found to be have sent, and were intercepted. They mined the Cairo-Haifa train, in Egypt, twice, killing dozens of civilians, as well as British soldiers. In 1945, there was a major land and peoples survey done in Palestine. It showed that the Zionists only owned about 5% of the total land, 20% of the arable land, and owned a majority in zero districts. The partition was not only going to be forced on the native Palestinian majority, but Jews were still going to be a minority, in the part allocated to them. The only possible way to even become a "Jewish state" was going to require getting rid of the actual majority (at least enough so that there'd be a solid Jewish majority, so they could fake being democratic). This is also shown by the 1948, post Nakba, population of Israel. If there was 716,700 Jews, 156,000+ non-Jews, and approximately 700k non-Jews ethnically cleansed, that means the Jewish population, in the Zionist portion of partition, was originally over 100,000 less than the non-Jewish population. To believe that there was never any intent, by Zionists, to ethnically cleanse away the Palestinian majority would require believing that they never intended to create a "Jewish state". It's a nonsensical notion. Begin, and those terrorist groups, also opposed partition, but for the opposite reason Palestinians did. Palestinians didn't want to be colonized, at all. The terrorists wanted to colonize it all. "Moderate" Zionists were okay with colonizing half ... for now (what would happen in the future, after partition, was up to them, said Ben-Gurion). The Zionist terrorists were also involved in massacres, and assassinations, during the partition violence (colonialist war against the natives). Another notable future Likud PM, also started in the military, during the partition fighting. That was Ariel Sharon, war criminal, "Butcher of Beirut". Menachem Begin, and these other Zionist terrorists, are important because they became involved in Israeli politics, first forming Herut. That was the party that Albert Einstein, and other prominent American Jews, opposed, having a letter printed in the NYT, in December of 1948, when Begin came to visit the US. The letter opened ... "Among the most disturbing political phenomena of our times is the emergence in the newly created state of Israel of the "Freedom Party" (Tnuat Haherut), a political party closely akin in its organization, methods, political philosophy and social appeal to the Nazi and Fascist parties. It was formed out of the membership and following of the former Irgun Zvai Leumi, a terrorist, right-wing, chauvinist organization in Palestine." Herut merged with other extremist parties, over the years, and eventually became Likud, in the 70s. Now, people get upset over the slogan "From the river to the sea!", but it's the second part that's most important, "Palestine will be free!". Because "Palestine" isn't defined as an ethno-state, a free Palestine can be a single state, free for all to live in, and return to, free of continuing colonization, free of occupation, free of oppression, etc. Just like a Germany free of Nazism, an Italy free of fascism, a South Africa free of apartheid, or an America free of slavery from sea to shiny sea. It doesn't necessitate purging all the Jews. It just necessitates them giving up on the idea of an ethno-state. On the other hand, because "Israel" has been defined as an ethno-state, Likud's, "between the sea and the Jordan there will only be Israeli sovereignty", has no possible good interpretation. It is a declaration of intent to completely colonize, and ethnically cleanse, all Palestine territories. Not only that, but it also claims that they have a "right" to all of the "Land of Israel" (biblical borders that don't mesh with archaeological reality), which is an open declaration of future wars, against Jordan, Syria, Lebanon, and possibly even Iraq. Likud platform ... 1977: "The Right of the Jewish People to the Land of Israel (Eretz Israel) a. The right of the Jewish people to the land of Israel is eternal and indisputable and is linked with the right to security and peace; therefore, Judea and Samaria will not be handed to any foreign administration; between the Sea and the Jordan there will only be Israeli sovereignty. b. A plan which relinquishes parts of western Eretz Israel, undermines our right to the country, unavoidably leads to the establishment of a "Palestinian State," jeopardizes the security of the Jewish population, endangers the existence of the State of Israel. and frustrates any prospect of peace." 1999: "The Government of Israel flatly rejects the establishment of a Palestinian Arab state west of the Jordan river. The Palestinians can run their lives freely in the framework of self-rule, but not as an independent and sovereign state. Thus, for example, in matters of foreign affairs, security, immigration, and ecology, their activity shall be limited in accordance with imperatives of Israel's existence, security and national needs." "The Jewish communities in Judea, Samaria, and Gaza are the realization of Zionist values. Settlement of the land is a clear expression of the unassailable right of the Jewish people to the Land of Israel and constitutes an important asset in the defense of the vital interests of the State of Israel. The Likud will continue to strengthen and develop these communities and will prevent their uprooting." All Palestine territories are officially considered occupied, by the International Court of Justice, the UN GA, the UN SC, and even in official documents of Israel's own allies. Likud is still using the blueprint for colonizing North America, in the West Bank. Move settlements out into native territory, piss off the natives, the natives retaliate, cry about poor "innocent" colonizing settlers being the "victims" of violent "Savages!", call in the cavalry to put down the native uprising, and eventually expand the borders to include those settlements. Rinse and repeat. In Gaza, Israel is operating an open air WWII style fascist ghetto. Them claiming a "right to defend themselves" would be like the Nazis claiming a "right to defend themselves " from the Warsaw ghetto uprising. There's no "war". That they're the occupiers means the "war" part is long over. Those people are actually supposed to be under the occupier's protection. That partition was forced upon the Palestinian majority, against their will ... that the Zionist portion still had to be forcefully ethnically cleansed of its non-Jewish majority, against their will ... that the millions of occupied Palestinians don't have a say in the government that truly rules over them, Israel's ... means Israel is about as democratic as Nazi Germany after Hitler purged his political opponents and then held elections.
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  192. Oh, they love it. Victims of women going too far. Victims of coloured folks going too far. Victims of the LGBT community going too far. Victims of the foreigners taking all their jobs and money. Victims of the non-religious. Victims of the Muslims. Etc. Etc. Etc.
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  193. Anyone with half a brain would just cut and run, from Trump ... unless they were also involved in the crimes, and need it covered up. My takeaway is that this shows they're all guilty.
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  194.  @SSGTA440  A performance art vote isn't actually M4A. Jimmy slanders people who have done more for M4A in a few years than he has in his entire lifetime.
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  195. ​ @adammockler  She lied, about the charges. People were charged with sdts cnsprcy, which is planning an insrrctn.
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  196. The closest thing I can think of, to compare the creation of Israel, is the earl Puritan pilgrims. They had been persecuted and pushed out of their homeland, were kind of a people without a home, but the British still supported them moving to their colony in the New World. There, they turned around and persecuted everyone and anyone different from them, and began ethnically cleansing and colonizing North America.
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  197. ​ @adammockler  A fact check, for you, when people claim things were great before income taxes ... Back then, the property tax covered all property, not just real estate. It was a wealth tax, that taxed real estate, stocks, money on hand ... almost everything of value that someone owned. Article: "America Used to Have a Wealth Tax: The Forgotten History of the General Property Tax"
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  198. ​​ @Celisar1  Literally are, by the age of majority in all states. child: a young human being below the age of puberty or below the legal age of majority child: a boy or girl from the time of birth until he or she is an adult UNESCO: Child. Definition. Еvery human being below the age of eighteen years unless under the law applicable to the child, majority is attained earlier. child: a young human who is not yet an adult UNICEF: Definition of a child. A child is any person under the age of 18. child: A person who has not attained maturity or the age of legal majority ...
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  199. That's what the "greed is good" crowd don't seem to grasp ... greed is what will kill capitalism. If income doesn't rise with inflation, fewer people can afford to buy your stuff. If you outsource to $3 a day workers, fewer people can afford to buy your stuff. If you automate as much as possible, fewer people can afford to buy your stuff. If you lay off as many people as possible, fewer people can afford to buy your stuff. The greedy are capitalists who don't take any responsibility for creating more consumers, to keep the cycle going.
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  200.  @Evirthewarrior  Fact is he slanders the DSA and members of it. Fact is he slanders people who have done more for M4A in a few years than he has in his entire lifetime. Fact is he didn't give a crap if 10m of the poorest Americans were tossed off Medicaid expansion, and didn't care to try and add 40m older Americans to Medicare expansion, when he promoted Trump as a better option than Clinton. Fact is he didn't back the 2020 M4A candidate. Fact is the third party route hasn't won the most popular third party a single seat in congress in its near 50 year existence. Fact is, at best, you peel away enough progressive votes from the Democratic party to hand the party totally back to corporate Dems and let Republicans rule for decades to come. Fact is he's a complete ignoramus, to be shocked and surprised that ancappers agree on some non authoritarian policies, at his age, and a complete moron to suggest far right ancap Boogaloos, who disagree on basically all economic issues, as potential allies. Fact is he doesn't grasp the basic math behind political leverage.
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  201.  @mikebanks2176  You are.
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  202.  @MBEG89  Try starting around 1918. 1948 was the declared independence of a colonialist nation. Making out like colonialism isn't aggression is moronic.
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  203.  @MrNH718  Dore has spent weeks using FTV as a purity test, and then turns around and claims Libertarian Boogs can be allies, as is. I think that's the hypocrisy you were looking for.
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  204. ​ @gracybotha1791  Rofl. The US's closest neighbor, and top trading partner, Canada: 66% say another Trump presidency would be bad or terrible, and only 15% say it would be good or excellent.
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  205. ​ @rburch20 Because he had been E-9 for a year, when he retired, but his pension got bumped down because he hadn't finished some additional coursework. This stuff is easy to look up. You don't have to be willfully ignrnt, or dishonest.
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  206. Republican legislatures set the rules for the state election process. Rudy: Democrats!!!!!!!
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  207. Likud's bloody 100 year history ... In 1923, 100 years ago, Ze'ev Jabotinsky wrote, The Iron Wall, and a follow up, The Ethics of The Iron Wall (sooo racist towards Africans), in which he fully acknowledged that post Balfour Zionsim was colonialism, and that, based on the entirety of history, the native Palestinian population would resist being colonized until the bitter end. He directly compared it to the colonization of North America. He promoted doing it anyway, claiming Zionist colonialism was a "just" colonialism (he also thought North American colonialists were good guys, so not a great judge of morality), not caring what that meant for the native population. Ze'ev is important, because his Betar militant youth group helped found the Irgun terrorist group, along with other supporters of his, and the splinter Lehi terrorist group. The Irgun bombed numerous Palestinian markets and other public places, murdering many Palestinian civilians, including children, even including Palestinian Jews (who didn't support colonialist Zionsim). The Irgun are important, because they ended up being led by future Likud PM, Menachem Begin, who bombed the King David Hotel. The King David Hotel was bombed because the British had raided the Jewish Agency and seized numerous documents that may have shown that the terrorists were working with the JA and Haganah (JA liked to pretend that they didn't support the terrorism). The British then stored those documents at their base, in the hotel. That the Irgun terrorists responded to a JA raid, itself seems to prove the connection. That the thousands of Irgun (and Lehi) terrorists were also quickly merged into the new nation's military (IDF) and intelligence (Mossad) agencies, and are still celebrated as "heroes" by Israelis, to this day, also seems to support total collaboration between the groups. That other terrorist group mentioned, Lehi (also known as the Stern Gang), was considered even more extreme. They even tried to ally with the Nazis, against the British. Lehi ended up being led by Yitzhak Shamir, future Mossad agent, and another future Likud PM. In 1945, there was a major land and peoples survey done in Palestine. It showed that the Zionists only owned about 5% of the total land, 20% of the arable land, and owned a majority in zero districts. The partition was not only going to be forced on the native Palestinian majority, but Jews were still going to be a minority, in the part allocated to them. The only possible way to even become a "Jewish state" was going to require getting rid of the actual majority (at least enough so that there'd be a solid Jewish majority, so they could fake being democratic). This is also shown by the 1948, post Nakba, population of Israel. If there was 716,700 Jews, 156,000+ non-Jews, and approximately 700k non-Jews ethnically cleansed, that means the Jewish population, in the Zionist portion of partition, was originally over 100,000 less than the non-Jewish population. To believe that there was never any intent, by Zionists, to ethnically cleanse away the Palestinian majority would require believing that they never intended to create a "Jewish state". It's a nonsensical notion. Begin, and those terrorist groups, also opposed partition, but for the opposite reason Palestinians did. Palestinians didn't want to be colonized, at all. The terrorists wanted to colonize it all. "Moderate" Zionists were okay with colonizing half ... for now (what would happen in the future, after partition, was up to them, said Ben-Gurion). The Zionist terrorists were also involved in massacres, and assassinations, during the partition violence (colonialist war against the natives). Another notable future Likud PM, also started in the military, during the partition fighting. That was Ariel Sharon, war criminal, "Butcher of Beirut". Menachem Begin, and these other Zionist terrorists, are important because they also later founded Likud. Now, people get upset over the slogan "From the river to the sea!", but it's the second part that's most important, "Palestine will be free!". Because "Palestine" isn't defined as an ethno-state, a free Palestine can be a single state, free for all to live in, and return to, free of continuing colonization, free of occupation, free of oppression, etc. Just like a Germany free of Nazism, an Italy free of fascism, a South Africa free of apartheid, or an America free of slavery from sea to shiny sea. It doesn't necessitate purging all the Jews. It just necessitates them giving up on the idea of an ethno-state. On the other hand, because "Israel" has been defined as an ethno-state, Likud's, "between the sea and the Jordan there will only be Israeli sovereignty", has no possible good interpretation. It is a declaration of intent to completely colonize, and ethnically cleanse, all Palestine territories. Not only that, but it also claims that they have a "right" to all of the "Land of Israel" (biblical borders that don't mesh with archaeological reality), which is an open declaration of future wars, against Jordan, Syria, Lebanon, and possibly even Iraq. Likud platform ... 1977: "The Right of the Jewish People to the Land of Israel (Eretz Israel) a. The right of the Jewish people to the land of Israel is eternal and indisputable and is linked with the right to security and peace; therefore, Judea and Samaria will not be handed to any foreign administration; between the Sea and the Jordan there will only be Israeli sovereignty. b. A plan which relinquishes parts of western Eretz Israel, undermines our right to the country, unavoidably leads to the establishment of a "Palestinian State," jeopardizes the security of the Jewish population, endangers the existence of the State of Israel. and frustrates any prospect of peace." "Settlement Settlement. both urban and rural. in all parts of the Land of Israel is the focal point of the Zionist effort to redeem the country, to maintain vital security areas and serves as a reservoir of strength and inspiration for the renewal of the pioneering spirit. The Likud government will call on the younger generation in Israel and the dispersions to settle and help every group and individual in the task of inhabiting and cultivating the wasteland, while taking care not to dispossess anyone." 1999: "The Government of Israel flatly rejects the establishment of a Palestinian Arab state west of the Jordan river. The Palestinians can run their lives freely in the framework of self-rule, but not as an independent and sovereign state. Thus, for example, in matters of foreign affairs, security, immigration, and ecology, their activity shall be limited in accordance with imperatives of Israel's existence, security and national needs." "The Jewish communities in Judea, Samaria, and Gaza are the realization of Zionist values. Settlement of the land is a clear expression of the unassailable right of the Jewish people to the Land of Israel and constitutes an important asset in the defense of the vital interests of the State of Israel. The Likud will continue to strengthen and develop these communities and will prevent their uprooting." All Palestine territories are officially considered occupied, by the International Court of Justice, the UN GA, the UN SC, and even in official documents of Israel's own allies. Likud is still using the blueprint for colonizing North America, in the West Bank. Move settlements out into native territory, piss off the natives, the natives retaliate, cry about poor "innocent" colonizing settlers being the "victims" of violent "Savages!", call in the cavalry to put down the native uprising, and eventually expand the borders to include those settlements. Rinse and repeat. In Gaza, they are operating an open air WWII style fascist ghetto. Them claiming a "right to defend themselves" would be like the Nazis claiming a "right to defend themselves " from the Warsaw ghetto uprising. There's no "war". That they're the occupiers means the "war" part is long over. That partition was forced upon the Palestinian majority, against their will ... that the Zionist portion still had to be forcefully ethnically cleansed of its non-Jewish majority, against their will ... that the millions of occupied Palestinians don't have a say in the government that truly rules over them, Israel's ... means Israel is about as democratic as Nazi Germany after Hitler purged his political opponents and then held elections.
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  208. When it came to Civil Rights, the Southern Republican politicians also voted against. They were equally as racist as the Southern Democrat politicians. It was the Northerners, of both parties, that passed the bills, and Southerners, of both parties, who voted against the bills. Fed up with the Northerners of both parties, the Southern racist majority voted for a third party resegregationist, in 1968, winning 5 Southern states. Nixon then won that Southern racist majority over to the Republican party, in 1972. These people trying to make out like the most racist colonies/states, for centuries, up and magically became the least racist states. No.
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  209. Likud's bloody 100 year history ... In 1923, 100 years ago, Ze'ev Jabotinsky wrote, The Iron Wall, and a follow up, The Ethics of The Iron Wall (sooo racist towards Africans), in which he fully acknowledged that post Balfour Zionsim was colonialism, and that, based on the entirety of history, the native Palestinian population would resist being colonized until the bitter end. He directly compared it to the colonization of North America. He promoted doing it anyway, claiming Zionist colonialism was a "just" colonialism (he also thought North American colonialists were good guys, so not a great judge of morality), not caring what that meant for the native population. Ze'ev is important, because his Betar militant youth group helped found the Irgun terrorist group, along with other supporters of his, and the splinter Lehi terrorist group. The Irgun bombed numerous Palestinian markets and other public places, murdering many Palestinian civilians, including children, even including Palestinian Jews (who didn't support colonialist Zionsim). The Irgun are important, because they ended up being led by future Likud PM, Menachem Begin, who bombed the King David Hotel. The King David Hotel was bombed because the British had raided the Jewish Agency and seized numerous documents that may have shown that the terrorists were working with the JA and Haganah (JA liked to pretend that they didn't support the terrorism). The British then stored those documents at their base, in the hotel. That the Irgun terrorists responded to a JA raid, itself seems to prove the connection. That the thousands of Irgun (and Lehi) terrorists were also quickly merged into the new nation's military (IDF) and intelligence (Mossad) agencies, and are still celebrated as "heroes" by Israelis, to this day, also seems to support total collaboration between the groups. That other terrorist group mentioned, Lehi (also known as the Stern Gang), was considered even more extreme. They even tried to ally with the Nazis, against the British. Lehi ended up being led by Yitzhak Shamir, future Mossad agent, and another future Likud PM. They assassinated Lord Moyne, and others. In 1945, there was a major land and peoples survey done in Palestine. It showed that the Zionists only owned about 5% of the total land, 20% of the arable land, and owned a majority in zero districts. The partition was not only going to be forced on the native Palestinian majority, but Jews were still going to be a minority, in the part allocated to them. The only possible way to even become a "Jewish state" was going to require getting rid of the actual majority (at least enough so that there'd be a solid Jewish majority, so they could fake being democratic). This is also shown by the 1948, post Nakba, population of Israel. If there was 716,700 Jews, 156,000+ non-Jews, and approximately 700k non-Jews ethnically cleansed, that means the Jewish population, in the Zionist portion of partition, was originally over 100,000 less than the non-Jewish population. To believe that there was never any intent, by Zionists, to ethnically cleanse away the Palestinian majority would require believing that they never intended to create a "Jewish state". It's a nonsensical notion. Begin, and those terrorist groups, also opposed partition, but for the opposite reason Palestinians did. Palestinians didn't want to be colonized, at all. The terrorists wanted to colonize it all. "Moderate" Zionists were okay with colonizing half ... for now (what would happen in the future, after partition, was up to them, said Ben-Gurion). The Zionist terrorists were also involved in massacres, and assassinations, during the partition violence (colonialist war against the natives). Another notable future Likud PM, also started in the military, during the partition fighting. That was Ariel Sharon, war criminal, "Butcher of Beirut". Menachem Begin, and these other Zionist terrorists, are important because they became involved in Israeli politics, first forming Herut. That was the party that Albert Einstein, and other prominent American Jews, opposed, having a letter printed in the NYT, in December of 1948, when Begin came to visit the US. The letter opened ... "Among the most disturbing political phenomena of our times is the emergence in the newly created state of Israel of the "Freedom Party" (Tnuat Haherut), a political party closely akin in its organization, methods, political philosophy and social appeal to the Nazi and Fascist parties. It was formed out of the membership and following of the former Irgun Zvai Leumi, a terrorist, right-wing, chauvinist organization in Palestine." Herut merged with other extremist parties, over the years, and eventually became Likud, in the 70s. Now, people get upset over the slogan "From the river to the sea!", but it's the second part that's most important, "Palestine will be free!". Because "Palestine" isn't defined as an ethno-state, a free Palestine can be a single state, free for all to live in, and return to, free of continuing colonization, free of occupation, free of oppression, etc. Just like a Germany free of Nazism, an Italy free of fascism, a South Africa free of apartheid, or an America free of slavery from sea to shiny sea. It doesn't necessitate purging all the Jews. It just necessitates them giving up on the idea of an ethno-state. On the other hand, because "Israel" has been defined as an ethno-state, Likud's, "between the sea and the Jordan there will only be Israeli sovereignty", has no possible good interpretation. It is a declaration of intent to completely colonize, and ethnically cleanse, all Palestine territories. Not only that, but it also claims that they have a "right" to all of the "Land of Israel" (biblical borders that don't mesh with archaeological reality), which is an open declaration of future wars, against Jordan, Syria, Lebanon, and possibly even Iraq. Likud platform ... 1977: "The Right of the Jewish People to the Land of Israel (Eretz Israel) a. The right of the Jewish people to the land of Israel is eternal and indisputable and is linked with the right to security and peace; therefore, Judea and Samaria will not be handed to any foreign administration; between the Sea and the Jordan there will only be Israeli sovereignty. b. A plan which relinquishes parts of western Eretz Israel, undermines our right to the country, unavoidably leads to the establishment of a "Palestinian State," jeopardizes the security of the Jewish population, endangers the existence of the State of Israel. and frustrates any prospect of peace." "Settlement Settlement. both urban and rural. in all parts of the Land of Israel is the focal point of the Zionist effort to redeem the country, to maintain vital security areas and serves as a reservoir of strength and inspiration for the renewal of the pioneering spirit. The Likud government will call on the younger generation in Israel and the dispersions to settle and help every group and individual in the task of inhabiting and cultivating the wasteland, while taking care not to dispossess anyone." 1999: "The Government of Israel flatly rejects the establishment of a Palestinian Arab state west of the Jordan river. The Palestinians can run their lives freely in the framework of self-rule, but not as an independent and sovereign state. Thus, for example, in matters of foreign affairs, security, immigration, and ecology, their activity shall be limited in accordance with imperatives of Israel's existence, security and national needs." "The Jewish communities in Judea, Samaria, and Gaza are the realization of Zionist values. Settlement of the land is a clear expression of the unassailable right of the Jewish people to the Land of Israel and constitutes an important asset in the defense of the vital interests of the State of Israel. The Likud will continue to strengthen and develop these communities and will prevent their uprooting." All Palestine territories are officially considered occupied, by the International Court of Justice, the UN GA, the UN SC, and even in official documents of Israel's own allies. Likud is still using the blueprint for colonizing North America, in the West Bank. Move settlements out into native territory, piss off the natives, the natives retaliate, cry about poor "innocent" colonizing settlers being the "victims" of violent "Savages!", call in the cavalry to put down the native uprising, and eventually expand the borders to include those settlements. Rinse and repeat. In Gaza, Israel is operating an open air WWII style fascist ghetto. Them claiming a "right to defend themselves" would be like the Nazis claiming a "right to defend themselves " from the Warsaw ghetto uprising. There's no "war". That they're the occupiers means the "war" part is long over. Those people are actually supposed to be under the occupier's protection. That partition was forced upon the Palestinian majority, against their will ... that the Zionist portion still had to be forcefully ethnically cleansed of its non-Jewish majority, against their will ... that the millions of occupied Palestinians don't have a say in the government that truly rules over them, Israel's ... means Israel is about as democratic as Nazi Germany after Hitler purged his political opponents and then held elections.
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  210. ​ @Roger-fs5yo So you 100% support colonialism, ethnic cleansing, and open air WWII style ghettos for Palestinians?
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  211. And even after the swap, they don't want an investigation into why the US had such a high covid death rate ... an investigation the US could do alone. Nope. China, China, China.
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  212. ​ @richhopson6063  Nixon doesn't get enough credit. In the house, he was the youngest member of the Un-American Activities Commission. While running for the senate, he ran a major Red Scare campaign against his opponent. During that campaign, he also somehow convinced FDR voting, union leader, Democrat, Ronald Reagan, to drop his support for Nixon's opponent, and put him on the path to crazytown. In 1968, fed up with the Northerners of both parties passing Civil Rights bills, the racist Southern majority voted for a third party resegregationist, winning 5 states. Nixon then won that racist Southern majority over to the Republican party. Except for giving Southern boy Jimmy Carter one shot, they've largely remained Republican ever since. So, Nixon is the one who started collecting all the nuts into one basket, starting with the extreme anti-socialists and Southern racists. Reagan added the religious extremists to the basket.
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  213. ​@ace9840 Not to mention the inside attempt, with the majority of the Republican party siding with ending the democratic process.
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  214.  @kt550  Moron, Bernie has an average net worth for people over 55, and wants to tax even himself, to give all Americans healthcare. He already has healthcare. To give all Americans an education. He already has an education. Etc. Nothing Bernie is fighting for is any real benefit to him ... unlike Trump cutting his own and family's taxes, funneling government funds into his own businesses, feeding his narcissistic ego, etc.
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  215.  @ribbrascal  Were people whining about JLo as a boxer (with a cup), and I missed it?
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  216.  @noosphericaltarzan  That's like blaming the Jewish underground for attacking from the Warsaw ghetto.
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  217. Rofl ... My second attempt at replying ... Same. The algorithm has been hiding many of my posts, the past 6 months (can only be seen if the comment section is sorted by newest). And a few times, after posting to pro-IL (edited) channels, I haven't been able to post anything for a couple's days. Instant deleting. One of them must have reported, or something, because they don't like facts.
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  218.  @purplemonkeydishwasher9818  You don't have to go back to 1977, to find Trump and his dad being sued for not renting to black people. You don't even have to go back to 2017, to find Trump thinking non white congresswomen must have come from other countries, and telling them to go back.
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  219.  @Evirthewarrior  Rofl. He pretty much just goes on and agrees with a bunch of right wing crap.
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  220. Repeal the Permanent Apportionment Act of 1929, which froze the number of electorals, and reassign electorals by population, so that the electoral college is more in line with the popular vote. The electoral college isn't inherently unrepresentative. That act has made it increasingly so.
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  221. ​ @jds614  The country needs a deprogramming, like Germany did. In 1923, 100 years ago, Ze'ev Jabotinsky wrote, The Iron Wall, and a follow up, The Ethics of The Iron Wall (sooo racist towards Africans), in which he fully acknowledged that post Balfour Zionsim was colonialism, and that, based on the entirety of history, the native Palestinian population would resist being colonized until the bitter end. He directly compared it to the colonization of North America. He promoted doing it anyway, claiming Zionist colonialism was a "just" colonialism (he also thought North American colonialists were good guys, so not a great judge of morality), not caring what that meant for the native population. Ze'ev is important, because his Betar militant youth group helped found the Irgun terrorist group, along with other supporters of his, and the splinter Lehi terrorist group. The Irgun bombed numerous Palestinian markets and other public places, murdering many Palestinian civilians, including children, even including Palestinian Jews (who didn't support colonialist Zionsim). The Irgun are important, because they ended up being led by future Likud PM, Menachem Begin, who bombed the King David Hotel. The King David Hotel was bombed because the British had raided the Jewish Agency and seized numerous documents that may have shown that the terrorists were working with the JA and Haganah (JA liked to pretend that they didn't support the terrorism). The British then stored those documents at their base, in the hotel. That the Irgun terrorists responded to a JA raid, itself seems to prove the connection. That the thousands of Irgun (and Lehi) terrorists were also quickly merged into the new nation's military (IDF) and intelligence (Mossad) agencies, and are still celebrated as "heroes" by Israelis, to this day, also seems to support total collaboration between the groups. That other terrorist group mentioned, Lehi (also known as the Stern Gang), was considered even more extreme. They even tried to ally with the Nazis, against the British. Lehi ended up being led by Yitzhak Shamir, future Mossad agent, and another future Likud PM. They assassinated Lord Moyne, and others. In 1945, there was a major land and peoples survey done in Palestine. It showed that the Zionists only owned about 5% of the total land, 20% of the arable land, and owned a majority in zero districts. The partition was not only going to be forced on the native Palestinian majority, but Jews were still going to be a minority, in the part allocated to them. The only possible way to even become a "Jewish state" was going to require getting rid of the actual majority (at least enough so that there'd be a solid Jewish majority, so they could fake being democratic). This is also shown by the 1948, post Nakba, population of Israel. If there was 716,700 Jews, 156,000+ non-Jews, and approximately 700k non-Jews ethnically cleansed, that means the Jewish population, in the Zionist portion of partition, was originally over 100,000 less than the non-Jewish population. To believe that there was never any intent, by Zionists, to ethnically cleanse away the Palestinian majority would require believing that they never intended to create a "Jewish state". It's a nonsensical notion. Begin, and those terrorist groups, also opposed partition, but for the opposite reason Palestinians did. Palestinians didn't want to be colonized, at all. The terrorists wanted to colonize it all. "Moderate" Zionists were okay with colonizing half ... for now (what would happen in the future, after partition, was up to them, said Ben-Gurion). The Zionist terrorists were also involved in massacres, and assassinations, during the partition violence (colonialist war against the natives). Another notable future Likud PM, also started in the military, during the partition fighting. That was Ariel Sharon, war criminal, "Butcher of Beirut". Menachem Begin, and these other Zionist terrorists, are important because they became involved in Israeli politics, first forming Herut. That was the party that Albert Einstein, and other prominent American Jews, opposed, having a letter printed in the NYT, in December of 1948, when Begin came to visit the US. The letter opened ... "Among the most disturbing political phenomena of our times is the emergence in the newly created state of Israel of the "Freedom Party" (Tnuat Haherut), a political party closely akin in its organization, methods, political philosophy and social appeal to the Nazi and Fascist parties. It was formed out of the membership and following of the former Irgun Zvai Leumi, a terrorist, right-wing, chauvinist organization in Palestine." Herut merged with other extremist parties, over the years, and eventually became Likud, in the 70s. Now, people get upset over the slogan "From the river to the sea!", but it's the second part that's most important, "Palestine will be free!". Because "Palestine" isn't defined as an ethno-state, a free Palestine can be a single state, free for all to live in, and return to, free of continuing colonization, free of occupation, free of oppression, etc. Just like a Germany free of Nazism, an Italy free of fascism, a South Africa free of apartheid, or an America free of slavery from sea to shiny sea. It doesn't necessitate purging all the Jews. It just necessitates them giving up on the idea of an ethno-state. On the other hand, because "Israel" has been defined as an ethno-state, Likud's, "between the sea and the Jordan there will only be Israeli sovereignty", has no possible good interpretation. It is a declaration of intent to completely colonize, and ethnically cleanse, all Palestine territories. Not only that, but it also claims that they have a "right" to all of the "Land of Israel" (biblical borders that don't mesh with archaeological reality), which is an open declaration of future wars, against Jordan, Syria, Lebanon, and possibly even Iraq. Likud platform ... 1977: "The Right of the Jewish People to the Land of Israel (Eretz Israel) a. The right of the Jewish people to the land of Israel is eternal and indisputable and is linked with the right to security and peace; therefore, Judea and Samaria will not be handed to any foreign administration; between the Sea and the Jordan there will only be Israeli sovereignty. b. A plan which relinquishes parts of western Eretz Israel, undermines our right to the country, unavoidably leads to the establishment of a "Palestinian State," jeopardizes the security of the Jewish population, endangers the existence of the State of Israel. and frustrates any prospect of peace." "Settlement Settlement. both urban and rural. in all parts of the Land of Israel is the focal point of the Zionist effort to redeem the country, to maintain vital security areas and serves as a reservoir of strength and inspiration for the renewal of the pioneering spirit. The Likud government will call on the younger generation in Israel and the dispersions to settle and help every group and individual in the task of inhabiting and cultivating the wasteland, while taking care not to dispossess anyone." 1999: "The Government of Israel flatly rejects the establishment of a Palestinian Arab state west of the Jordan river. The Palestinians can run their lives freely in the framework of self-rule, but not as an independent and sovereign state. Thus, for example, in matters of foreign affairs, security, immigration, and ecology, their activity shall be limited in accordance with imperatives of Israel's existence, security and national needs." "The Jewish communities in Judea, Samaria, and Gaza are the realization of Zionist values. Settlement of the land is a clear expression of the unassailable right of the Jewish people to the Land of Israel and constitutes an important asset in the defense of the vital interests of the State of Israel. The Likud will continue to strengthen and develop these communities and will prevent their uprooting." All Palestine territories are officially considered occupied, by the International Court of Justice, the UN GA, the UN SC, and even in official documents of Israel's own allies. Likud is still using the blueprint for colonizing North America, in the West Bank. Move settlements out into native territory, piss off the natives, the natives retaliate, cry about poor "innocent" colonizing settlers being the "victims" of violent "Savages!", call in the cavalry to put down the native uprising, and eventually expand the borders to include those settlements. Rinse and repeat. In Gaza, Israel is operating an open air WWII style fascist ghetto. Them claiming a "right to defend themselves" would be like the Nazis claiming a "right to defend themselves " from the Warsaw ghetto uprising. There's no "war". That they're the occupiers means the "war" part is long over. Those people are actually supposed to be under the occupier's protection. That partition was forced upon the Palestinian majority, against their will ... that the Zionist portion still had to be forcefully ethnically cleansed of its non-Jewish majority, against their will ... that the millions of occupied Palestinians don't have a say in the government that truly rules over them, Israel's ... means Israel is about as democratic as Nazi Germany after Hitler purged his political opponents and then held elections.
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  222.  @BH-fi1sb  Not just a donor, he's a family friend of Dumpty and Rudy.
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  223. ​ @lawrence208  What if she does? XYs with Swyer Syndrome are born with female parts, can have monthlies, and can even give birth. Are you then going to agree there needs to be fem products in men's rooms and that men can give birth?
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  224.  @RedPillCosby-012  The right has presented zero evidence of election fraud. That's why the cases have been tossed. That's why a bunch of the are being sued for defamation. That's why the big audit found more votes for Biden, instead of fraud. A bunch of Republicans have been charged with election fraud, though. Mueller provided evidence, as well as evidence of obstruction. Republicans just chose not to act on it.
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  225. "Property tax" used to tax all property owned, not just land and buildings.
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  226.  @MRTN13  Hehe, I love RPGs, but most are ancap madness, when it comes to economics. "Please save our village hero!", "Oh, you need a magic sword?", "That'll be 1000000 gp."
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  227. My "hunch" is that 12 deaths per 197 confirmed cases, is about a 6% death rate. Or, it means there are a couple hundred more US carriers, who should be in the hospital but aren't, likely to avoid costs, because your healthcare system sucks.
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  228. ​ @Steamandstream  In this modern age, thinking colonialism is still cool, is the radical ideology. Do you celebrate the Irgun and Lehi terrorists as "heroes", as Likud still does (those terrorists founded Likud)?
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  229. He also promises to reinstate and expand his Mslm ban. He also promises to dprt prtstrs. He also promises to support Isrl.
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  230. So he's disenfranchised as a current voter everytime someone is born?
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  231. Aside from still being live wired, aside from the camera following her, her scripted response to the debate question seemed like she knew that exactly phrased question was coming (like CNN did for Hillary in 2016).
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  232. The biggest failure, when it came to Yang, was American interviewers not looking into how a VAT actually works. He got away with repeatedly claiming it was a way to tax giant corporations, like Amazon. A VAT is actually specifically designed to not tax businesses, in order to avoid cascading taxes upon taxes. At every stage, the business gets to reclaim its input VAT (VAT paid on purchases), from its output VAT (VAT collected on sales). It's only the final consumer that doesn't get to reclaim their VAT paid, and ends up paying the entire tax. His VAT/UBI combo would have had money funneling to the very top, faster than ever before. Since corporations wouldn't actually pay into the UBI, as he claimed, they would have only benefitted from extra trillions being spent, making a corporation like Amazon extra tens of billions a year, and Bezos extra billions a year.
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  233. Which was itself the new "Iraqis are tossing babies out of incubators, we have a witness" (turned out to be the Kuwaiti ambassador's daughter, spewing a script from a pr firm)
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  234.  @mikebanks2176  I'm not confused. I can call you whatever I want, right, regardless of how you identify?
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  235. Was going to say ...
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  236. "As of 2021, he is managing director for the American venture capital firm Thiel Capital."
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  237.  @franklingoodwin  Why would anyone care, that the white South Africans didn't want to give up being an apartheid state, prior to international pressure? Who cares what racist colonizers think? That was the whole point of why it would require pressure, like severe sanctions.
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  238. There's a difference between pointing at evidence of actual voting laws that restrict, hinder, or disenfranchise, voters vs pointing at non existent evidence of widespread voter fraud, isn't there?
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  239. Cmmnst Texas is currently suing Cal-Maine for price gouging.
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  240. Strange how the US has about double the deaths to confirmed cases ratio, than the global average, with such a genius in charge.
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  241.  @Zackattack94  One thing about obesity is that it's not contagious. Another is that some countries, with universal healthcare, have added junk food taxes, as both a deterrent and to help them pay for their increased healthcare costs. Similar for smokers (who can also pay fines, higher life insurance, and are pretty much banned from smoking in any indoor public spaces). So, sure, treat the unvaccinated, but maybe have them pay more taxes, pay more life insurance, and ban them from public spaces.
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  242.  @sprigredfrog  Private companies decided not to run stories they didn't feel like running. Private companies decided to moderate their privately owned web pages and servers. If promoting killing gays, or promoting white nationalism is "free speech", then simply calling people racists and bigots sure as hell must be. Actual government censorship is firing people for not following the party line, dimwit.
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  243. ​ @peeptbgod7047  No, no facts, at all. The terms "Philistia" and "Philistine" are as old as the terms "Israel", "Israelites", "Judah", and "Judahites". Philistia existed alongside both of those kingdoms, for as long as they existed. Israel was the most short lived kingdom, being wiped out about 120 years before Judah and Philistia, by the Assyrians. Refugees from Israel went to Judah, which is how they all became Judahites, and the term "Israelites" lost use.
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  244.  Illhan Omar's Brother  Only a complete and utter moron would believe a fed would go undercover running around football stadium parking lots, for years.
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  245. Likud's bloody 100 year history ... In 1923, 100 years ago, Ze'ev Jabotinsky wrote, The Iron Wall, and a follow up, The Ethics of The Iron Wall (sooo racist towards Africans), in which he fully acknowledged that post Balfour Zionsim was colonialism, and that, based on the entirety of history, the native Palestinian population would resist being colonized until the bitter end. He directly compared it to the colonization of North America. He promoted doing it anyway, claiming Zionist colonialism was a "just" colonialism (he also thought North American colonialists were good guys, so not a great judge of morality), not caring what that meant for the native population. Ze'ev is important, because his Betar militant youth group helped found the Irgun terrorist group, along with other supporters of his, and the splinter Lehi terrorist group. The Irgun bombed numerous Palestinian markets and other public places, murdering many Palestinian civilians, including children, even including Palestinian Jews (who didn't support colonialist Zionsim). The Irgun are important, because they ended up being led by future Likud PM, Menachem Begin, who bombed the King David Hotel. The King David Hotel was bombed because the British had raided the Jewish Agency and seized numerous documents that may have shown that the terrorists were working with the JA and Haganah (JA liked to pretend that they didn't support the terrorism). The British then stored those documents at their base, in the hotel. That the Irgun terrorists responded to a JA raid, itself seems to prove the connection. That the thousands of Irgun (and Lehi) terrorists were also quickly merged into the new nation's military (IDF) and intelligence (Mossad) agencies, and are still celebrated as "heroes" by Israelis, to this day, also seems to support total collaboration between the groups. That other terrorist group mentioned, Lehi (also known as the Stern Gang), was considered even more extreme. They even tried to ally with the Nazis, against the British. Lehi ended up being led by Yitzhak Shamir, future Mossad agent, and another future Likud PM. They assassinated Lord Moyne, and others. In 1945, there was a major land and peoples survey done in Palestine. It showed that the Zionists only owned about 5% of the total land, 20% of the arable land, and owned a majority in zero districts. The partition was not only going to be forced on the native Palestinian majority, but Jews were still going to be a minority, in the part allocated to them. The only possible way to even become a "Jewish state" was going to require getting rid of the actual majority (at least enough so that there'd be a solid Jewish majority, so they could fake being democratic). This is also shown by the 1948, post Nakba, population of Israel. If there was 716,700 Jews, 156,000+ non-Jews, and approximately 700k non-Jews ethnically cleansed, that means the Jewish population, in the Zionist portion of partition, was originally over 100,000 less than the non-Jewish population. To believe that there was never any intent, by Zionists, to ethnically cleanse away the Palestinian majority would require believing that they never intended to create a "Jewish state". It's a nonsensical notion. Begin, and those terrorist groups, also opposed partition, but for the opposite reason Palestinians did. Palestinians didn't want to be colonized, at all. The terrorists wanted to colonize it all. "Moderate" Zionists were okay with colonizing half ... for now (what would happen in the future, after partition, was up to them, said Ben-Gurion). The Zionist terrorists were also involved in massacres, and assassinations, during the partition violence (colonialist war against the natives). Another notable future Likud PM, also started in the military, during the partition fighting. That was Ariel Sharon, war criminal, "Butcher of Beirut". Menachem Begin, and these other Zionist terrorists, are important because they became involved in Israeli politics, first forming Herut. That was the party that Albert Einstein, and other prominent American Jews, opposed, having a letter printed in the NYT, in December of 1948, when Begin came to visit the US. The letter opened ... "Among the most disturbing political phenomena of our times is the emergence in the newly created state of Israel of the "Freedom Party" (Tnuat Haherut), a political party closely akin in its organization, methods, political philosophy and social appeal to the Nazi and Fascist parties. It was formed out of the membership and following of the former Irgun Zvai Leumi, a terrorist, right-wing, chauvinist organization in Palestine." Herut merged with other extremist parties, over the years, and eventually became Likud, in the 70s. Now, people get upset over the slogan "From the river to the sea!", but it's the second part that's most important, "Palestine will be free!". Because "Palestine" isn't defined as an ethno-state, a free Palestine can be a single state, free for all to live in, and return to, free of continuing colonization, free of occupation, free of oppression, etc. Just like a Germany free of Nazism, an Italy free of fascism, a South Africa free of apartheid, or an America free of slavery from sea to shiny sea. It doesn't necessitate purging all the Jews. It just necessitates them giving up on the idea of an ethno-state. On the other hand, because "Israel" has been defined as an ethno-state, Likud's, "between the sea and the Jordan there will only be Israeli sovereignty", has no possible good interpretation. It is a declaration of intent to completely colonize, and ethnically cleanse, all Palestine territories. Not only that, but it also claims that they have a "right" to all of the "Land of Israel" (biblical borders that don't mesh with archaeological reality), which is an open declaration of future wars, against Jordan, Syria, Lebanon, and possibly even Iraq. Likud platform ... 1977: "The Right of the Jewish People to the Land of Israel (Eretz Israel) a. The right of the Jewish people to the land of Israel is eternal and indisputable and is linked with the right to security and peace; therefore, Judea and Samaria will not be handed to any foreign administration; between the Sea and the Jordan there will only be Israeli sovereignty. b. A plan which relinquishes parts of western Eretz Israel, undermines our right to the country, unavoidably leads to the establishment of a "Palestinian State," jeopardizes the security of the Jewish population, endangers the existence of the State of Israel. and frustrates any prospect of peace." "Settlement Settlement. both urban and rural. in all parts of the Land of Israel is the focal point of the Zionist effort to redeem the country, to maintain vital security areas and serves as a reservoir of strength and inspiration for the renewal of the pioneering spirit. The Likud government will call on the younger generation in Israel and the dispersions to settle and help every group and individual in the task of inhabiting and cultivating the wasteland, while taking care not to dispossess anyone." 1999: "The Government of Israel flatly rejects the establishment of a Palestinian Arab state west of the Jordan river. The Palestinians can run their lives freely in the framework of self-rule, but not as an independent and sovereign state. Thus, for example, in matters of foreign affairs, security, immigration, and ecology, their activity shall be limited in accordance with imperatives of Israel's existence, security and national needs." "The Jewish communities in Judea, Samaria, and Gaza are the realization of Zionist values. Settlement of the land is a clear expression of the unassailable right of the Jewish people to the Land of Israel and constitutes an important asset in the defense of the vital interests of the State of Israel. The Likud will continue to strengthen and develop these communities and will prevent their uprooting." All Palestine territories are officially considered occupied, by the International Court of Justice, the UN GA, the UN SC, and even in official documents of Israel's own allies. Likud is still using the blueprint for colonizing North America, in the West Bank. Move settlements out into native territory, piss off the natives, the natives retaliate, cry about poor "innocent" colonizing settlers being the "victims" of violent "Savages!", call in the cavalry to put down the native uprising, and eventually expand the borders to include those settlements. Rinse and repeat. In Gaza, Israel is operating an open air WWII style fascist ghetto. Them claiming a "right to defend themselves" would be like the Nazis claiming a "right to defend themselves " from the Warsaw ghetto uprising. There's no "war". That they're the occupiers means the "war" part is long over. Those people are actually supposed to be under the occupier's protection. That partition was forced upon the Palestinian majority, against their will ... that the Zionist portion still had to be forcefully ethnically cleansed of its non-Jewish majority, against their will ... that the millions of occupied Palestinians don't have a say in the government that truly rules over them, Israel's ... means Israel is about as democratic as Nazi Germany after Hitler purged his political opponents and then held elections.
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  246. ​ @dawnhoughton4533  Do tell.
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  247.  @francismendy1398  The US system has been under attack by those wanting it to fail and pushing for more privatization. It is also funded unevenly, with property taxes going to the schools in their districts, giving more money to schools in rich districts.
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  248. The broader progressive caucus is only about 15 seats away from becoming the majority of house Dems.
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  249.  @DdraigGoch84  Rofl. Why would you think that?
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  250. ​ @teranmm  Even though it's legal in Colorado, it doesn't quite fit with the Republican image.
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  251. ​ @drsgme69  I have an offer for your state/province, or whatever, to give me half of it, to create a new country. I'll need enough of the current inhabitants to move off of it, at least until I'm the majority. Think they'll accept? Think the inhabitants will accept?
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  252.  @groak7395  UN Office of Genocide Prevention: Ethnic cleansing ... "The Commission of Experts added that these practices can “… constitute crimes against humanity and can be assimilated to specific war crimes. Furthermore, such acts could also fall within the meaning of the Genocide Convention.”" Genocide ... "The definition contained in Article II of the Convention describes genocide as a crime committed with the intent to destroy a national, ethnic, racial or religious group, in whole or in part. It does not include political groups or so called “cultural genocide”."
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  253.  @MaskOfCinder  Red states tend to have the highest homicide rates, and other crime rates. Homelessness is definitely a problem. It's an affordable housing failure, which goes to supply and demand driving up prices. Red states tend to have higher poverty rates, which is an economic failure.
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  254. Likud's bloody 100 year history ... In 1923, 100 years ago, Ze'ev Jabotinsky wrote, The Iron Wall, and a follow up, The Ethics of The Iron Wall (sooo racist towards Africans), in which he fully acknowledged that post Balfour Zionsim was colonialism, and that, based on the entirety of history, the native Palestinian population would resist being colonized until the bitter end. He directly compared it to the colonization of North America. He promoted doing it anyway, claiming Zionist colonialism was a "just" colonialism (he also thought North American colonialists were good guys, so not a great judge of morality), not caring what that meant for the native population. Ze'ev is important, because his Betar militant youth group helped found the Irgun terrorist group, along with other supporters of his, and the splinter Lehi terrorist group. The Irgun bombed numerous Palestinian markets and other public places, murdering many Palestinian civilians, including children, even including Palestinian Jews (who didn't support colonialist Zionsim). The Irgun are important, because they ended up being led by future Likud PM, Menachem Begin, who bombed the King David Hotel. The King David Hotel was bombed because the British had raided the Jewish Agency and seized numerous documents that may have shown that the terrorists were working with the JA and Haganah (JA liked to pretend that they didn't support the terrorism). The British then stored those documents at their base, in the hotel. That the Irgun terrorists responded to a JA raid, itself seems to prove the connection. That the thousands of Irgun (and Lehi) terrorists were also quickly merged into the new nation's military (IDF) and intelligence (Mossad) agencies, and are still celebrated as "heroes" by Israelis, to this day, also seems to support total collaboration between the groups. That other terrorist group mentioned, Lehi (also known as the Stern Gang), was considered even more extreme. They even tried to ally with the Nazis, against the British. Lehi ended up being led by Yitzhak Shamir, future Mossad agent, and another future Likud PM. In 1945, there was a major land and peoples survey done in Palestine. It showed that the Zionists only owned about 5% of the total land, 20% of the arable land, and owned a majority in zero districts. The partition was not only going to be forced on the native Palestinian majority, but Jews were still going to be a minority, in the part allocated to them. The only possible way to even become a "Jewish state" was going to require getting rid of the actual majority (at least enough so that there'd be a solid Jewish majority, so they could fake being democratic). This is also shown by the 1948, post Nakba, population of Israel. If there was 716,700 Jews, 156,000+ non-Jews, and approximately 700k non-Jews ethnically cleansed, that means the Jewish population, in the Zionist portion of partition, was originally over 100,000 less than the non-Jewish population. To believe that there was never any intent, by Zionists, to ethnically cleanse away the Palestinian majority would require believing that they never intended to create a "Jewish state". It's a nonsensical notion. Begin, and those terrorist groups, also opposed partition, but for the opposite reason Palestinians did. Palestinians didn't want to be colonized, at all. The terrorists wanted to colonize it all. "Moderate" Zionists were okay with colonizing half ... for now (what would happen in the future, after partition, was up to them, said Ben-Gurion). The Zionist terrorists were also involved in massacres, and assassinations, during the partition violence (colonialist war against the natives). Another notable future Likud PM, also started in the military, during the partition fighting. That was Ariel Sharon, war criminal, "Butcher of Beirut". Menachem Begin, and these other Zionist terrorists, are important because they became involved in Israeli politics, first forming Herut. That was the party that Albert Einstein, and other prominent American Jews, opposed, having a letter printed in the NYT, in December of 1948, when Begin came to visit the US. The letter opened ... "Among the most disturbing political phenomena of our times is the emergence in the newly created state of Israel of the "Freedom Party" (Tnuat Haherut), a political party closely akin in its organization, methods, political philosophy and social appeal to the Nazi and Fascist parties. It was formed out of the membership and following of the former Irgun Zvai Leumi, a terrorist, right-wing, chauvinist organization in Palestine." Herut merged with other extremist parties, over the years, and eventually became Likud, in the 70s. Now, people get upset over the slogan "From the river to the sea!", but it's the second part that's most important, "Palestine will be free!". Because "Palestine" isn't defined as an ethno-state, a free Palestine can be a single state, free for all to live in, and return to, free of continuing colonization, free of occupation, free of oppression, etc. Just like a Germany free of Nazism, an Italy free of fascism, a South Africa free of apartheid, or an America free of slavery from sea to shiny sea. It doesn't necessitate purging all the Jews. It just necessitates them giving up on the idea of an ethno-state. On the other hand, because "Israel" has been defined as an ethno-state, Likud's, "between the sea and the Jordan there will only be Israeli sovereignty", has no possible good interpretation. It is a declaration of intent to completely colonize, and ethnically cleanse, all Palestine territories. Not only that, but it also claims that they have a "right" to all of the "Land of Israel" (biblical borders that don't mesh with archaeological reality), which is an open declaration of future wars, against Jordan, Syria, Lebanon, and possibly even Iraq. Likud platform ... 1977: "The Right of the Jewish People to the Land of Israel (Eretz Israel) a. The right of the Jewish people to the land of Israel is eternal and indisputable and is linked with the right to security and peace; therefore, Judea and Samaria will not be handed to any foreign administration; between the Sea and the Jordan there will only be Israeli sovereignty. b. A plan which relinquishes parts of western Eretz Israel, undermines our right to the country, unavoidably leads to the establishment of a "Palestinian State," jeopardizes the security of the Jewish population, endangers the existence of the State of Israel. and frustrates any prospect of peace." "Settlement Settlement. both urban and rural. in all parts of the Land of Israel is the focal point of the Zionist effort to redeem the country, to maintain vital security areas and serves as a reservoir of strength and inspiration for the renewal of the pioneering spirit. The Likud government will call on the younger generation in Israel and the dispersions to settle and help every group and individual in the task of inhabiting and cultivating the wasteland, while taking care not to dispossess anyone." 1999: "The Government of Israel flatly rejects the establishment of a Palestinian Arab state west of the Jordan river. The Palestinians can run their lives freely in the framework of self-rule, but not as an independent and sovereign state. Thus, for example, in matters of foreign affairs, security, immigration, and ecology, their activity shall be limited in accordance with imperatives of Israel's existence, security and national needs." "The Jewish communities in Judea, Samaria, and Gaza are the realization of Zionist values. Settlement of the land is a clear expression of the unassailable right of the Jewish people to the Land of Israel and constitutes an important asset in the defense of the vital interests of the State of Israel. The Likud will continue to strengthen and develop these communities and will prevent their uprooting." All Palestine territories are officially considered occupied, by the International Court of Justice, the UN GA, the UN SC, and even in official documents of Israel's own allies. Likud is still using the blueprint for colonizing North America, in the West Bank. Move settlements out into native territory, piss off the natives, the natives retaliate, cry about poor "innocent" colonizing settlers being the "victims" of violent "Savages!", call in the cavalry to put down the native uprising, and eventually expand the borders to include those settlements. Rinse and repeat. In Gaza, Israel is operating an open air WWII style fascist ghetto. Them claiming a "right to defend themselves" would be like the Nazis claiming a "right to defend themselves " from the Warsaw ghetto uprising. There's no "war". That they're the occupiers means the "war" part is long over. Those people are actually supposed to be under the occupier's protection. That partition was forced upon the Palestinian majority, against their will ... that the Zionist portion still had to be forcefully ethnically cleansed of its non-Jewish majority, against their will ... that the millions of occupied Palestinians don't have a say in the government that truly rules over them, Israel's ... means Israel is about as democratic as Nazi Germany after Hitler purged his political opponents and then held elections.
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  255.  @sgtwrench69  What was it Jimmy "blew up"? Some stupid Steele dossier, that intelligence agencies, and the Mueller investigation, decided themselves wasn't reliable, and didn't base their investigations on? Multiple intelligence agencies, the house intelligence committee, the senate intelligence committee, and the Mueller investigation, all concluded Russia had interfered. Mueller indicted 19 Russians, and 3 Russian companies. The FBI, under Trump, said they were interfering again, in 2020. The Mueller report included some 200 pages outlining information sharing (collusion, which isn't a legal term) that didn't amount to criminal conspiracy, and stated Manafort, Kushner, and Jr, weren't charged with criminal conspiracy because it would be hard to prove they "willfully" broke the law, not because they didn't break the law. None of that has been debunked. They just couldn't get a supermajority, in the senate, to act on it.
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  256. Especially considering a large percentage of Latin Americans have native ancestry. Weird even calling them "immigrants".
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  257. Likud's bloody 100 year history ... In 1923, 100 years ago, Ze'ev Jabotinsky wrote, The Iron Wall, and a follow up, The Ethics of The Iron Wall (sooo racist towards Africans), in which he fully acknowledged that post Balfour Zionsim was colonialism, and that, based on the entirety of history, the native Palestinian population would resist being colonized until the bitter end. He directly compared it to the colonization of North America. He promoted doing it anyway, claiming Zionist colonialism was a "just" colonialism (he also thought North American colonialists were good guys, so not a great judge of morality), not caring what that meant for the native population. Ze'ev is important, because his Betar militant youth group helped found the Irgun terrorist group, along with other supporters of his, and the splinter Lehi terrorist group. The Irgun bombed numerous Palestinian markets and other public places, murdering many Palestinian civilians, including children, even including Palestinian Jews (who didn't support colonialist Zionsim). The Irgun are important, because they ended up being led by future Likud PM, Menachem Begin, who bombed the King David Hotel. The King David Hotel was bombed because the British had raided the Jewish Agency and seized numerous documents that may have shown that the terrorists were working with the JA and Haganah (JA liked to pretend that they didn't support the terrorism). The British then stored those documents at their base, in the hotel. That the Irgun terrorists responded to a JA raid, itself seems to prove the connection. That the thousands of Irgun (and Lehi) terrorists were also quickly merged into the new nation's military (IDF) and intelligence (Mossad) agencies, and are still celebrated as "heroes" by Israelis, to this day, also seems to support total collaboration between the groups. That other terrorist group mentioned, Lehi (also known as the Stern Gang), was considered even more extreme. They even tried to ally with the Nazis, against the British. Lehi ended up being led by Yitzhak Shamir, future Mossad agent, and another future Likud PM. They assassinated Lord Moyne, and others. In 1945, there was a major land and peoples survey done in Palestine. It showed that the Zionists only owned about 5% of the total land, 20% of the arable land, and owned a majority in zero districts. The partition was not only going to be forced on the native Palestinian majority, but Jews were still going to be a minority, in the part allocated to them. The only possible way to even become a "Jewish state" was going to require getting rid of the actual majority (at least enough so that there'd be a solid Jewish majority, so they could fake being democratic). This is also shown by the 1948, post Nakba, population of Israel. If there was 716,700 Jews, 156,000+ non-Jews, and approximately 700k non-Jews ethnically cleansed, that means the Jewish population, in the Zionist portion of partition, was originally over 100,000 less than the non-Jewish population. To believe that there was never any intent, by Zionists, to ethnically cleanse away the Palestinian majority would require believing that they never intended to create a "Jewish state". It's a nonsensical notion. Begin, and those terrorist groups, also opposed partition, but for the opposite reason Palestinians did. Palestinians didn't want to be colonized, at all. The terrorists wanted to colonize it all. "Moderate" Zionists were okay with colonizing half ... for now (what would happen in the future, after partition, was up to them, said Ben-Gurion). The Zionist terrorists were also involved in massacres, and assassinations, during the partition violence (colonialist war against the natives). Another notable future Likud PM, also started in the military, during the partition fighting. That was Ariel Sharon, war criminal, "Butcher of Beirut". Menachem Begin, and these other Zionist terrorists, are important because they became involved in Israeli politics, first forming Herut. That was the party that Albert Einstein, and other prominent American Jews, opposed, having a letter printed in the NYT, in December of 1948, when Begin came to visit the US. The letter opened ... "Among the most disturbing political phenomena of our times is the emergence in the newly created state of Israel of the "Freedom Party" (Tnuat Haherut), a political party closely akin in its organization, methods, political philosophy and social appeal to the Nazi and Fascist parties. It was formed out of the membership and following of the former Irgun Zvai Leumi, a terrorist, right-wing, chauvinist organization in Palestine." Herut merged with other extremist parties, over the years, and eventually became Likud, in the 70s. Now, people get upset over the slogan "From the river to the sea!", but it's the second part that's most important, "Palestine will be free!". Because "Palestine" isn't defined as an ethno-state, a free Palestine can be a single state, free for all to live in, and return to, free of continuing colonization, free of occupation, free of oppression, etc. Just like a Germany free of Nazism, an Italy free of fascism, a South Africa free of apartheid, or an America free of slavery from sea to shiny sea. It doesn't necessitate purging all the Jews. It just necessitates them giving up on the idea of an ethno-state. On the other hand, because "Israel" has been defined as an ethno-state, Likud's, "between the sea and the Jordan there will only be Israeli sovereignty", has no possible good interpretation. It is a declaration of intent to completely colonize, and ethnically cleanse, all Palestine territories. Not only that, but it also claims that they have a "right" to all of the "Land of Israel" (biblical borders that don't mesh with archaeological reality), which is an open declaration of future wars, against Jordan, Syria, Lebanon, and possibly even Iraq. Likud platform ... 1977: "The Right of the Jewish People to the Land of Israel (Eretz Israel) a. The right of the Jewish people to the land of Israel is eternal and indisputable and is linked with the right to security and peace; therefore, Judea and Samaria will not be handed to any foreign administration; between the Sea and the Jordan there will only be Israeli sovereignty. b. A plan which relinquishes parts of western Eretz Israel, undermines our right to the country, unavoidably leads to the establishment of a "Palestinian State," jeopardizes the security of the Jewish population, endangers the existence of the State of Israel. and frustrates any prospect of peace." 1999: "The Government of Israel flatly rejects the establishment of a Palestinian Arab state west of the Jordan river. The Palestinians can run their lives freely in the framework of self-rule, but not as an independent and sovereign state. Thus, for example, in matters of foreign affairs, security, immigration, and ecology, their activity shall be limited in accordance with imperatives of Israel's existence, security and national needs." "The Jewish communities in Judea, Samaria, and Gaza are the realization of Zionist values. Settlement of the land is a clear expression of the unassailable right of the Jewish people to the Land of Israel and constitutes an important asset in the defense of the vital interests of the State of Israel. The Likud will continue to strengthen and develop these communities and will prevent their uprooting." All Palestine territories are officially considered occupied, by the International Court of Justice, the UN GA, the UN SC, and even in official documents of Israel's own allies. Likud is still using the blueprint for colonizing North America, in the West Bank. Move settlements out into native territory, piss off the natives, the natives retaliate, cry about poor "innocent" colonizing settlers being the "victims" of violent "Savages!", call in the cavalry to put down the native uprising, and eventually expand the borders to include those settlements. Rinse and repeat. In Gaza, Israel is operating an open air WWII style fascist ghetto. Them claiming a "right to defend themselves" would be like the Nazis claiming a "right to defend themselves " from the Warsaw ghetto uprising. There's no "war". That they're the occupiers means the "war" part is long over. Those people are actually supposed to be under the occupier's protection. That partition was forced upon the Palestinian majority, against their will ... that the Zionist portion still had to be forcefully ethnically cleansed of its non-Jewish majority, against their will ... that the millions of occupied Palestinians don't have a say in the government that truly rules over them, Israel's ... means Israel is about as democratic as Nazi Germany after Hitler purged his political opponents and then held elections.
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  258. ​ @andyd568  What's "nonsense" about it? The early Znsts didn't shy away from acknowledging they were clnzrs. Read Ze'ev Jabotinsky's The Iron Wall, 1923.
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  259. He has resting confused face.
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  260. ​ @rs72098  Jesus supposedly transitioned from being a sexless spirit being into a human male, and then transitioned back again. Adam transitioned from being sexless dust. Eve transitioned from being a male rib. So, what's the problem?
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  261.  @shlockofgod  Fascism: ultra-nationalistic; pro military expansion; pro police expansion; anti-union; anti-socialist; anti-communist; anti-feminist; crony capitalists; backed by big business; backed by large land owners; backed by religious extremists; ... And, anti-democratic. Gerrymandering, disenfranchising, and the electoral college already make the US less democratic than other developed countries. 27% of Republicans not wanting Trump to concede, under any circumstances, Trump fighting against the vote, is checking the last box for overt fascism.
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  262. And also turn around and elect Ronald Reagan, Arnold Schwarzenegger, and Donald Trump.
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  263. ​ @MrDandaman2000  If you're operating an open air WWII style fascist ghetto, and flattening it after an uprising, then its a fine comparison.
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  264. How is speaking your mind about traditional marriage "free speech" but speaking your mind about bigotry not "free speech"?
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  265. Isn't a "class war" and "left right war" the same thing? Authoritarian capitalists (fascists) argued against the class struggle. Libertarian capitalists, want to free capitalism, have no government interference with redistribution of wealth, no government safety nets, no minimum wages, etc. Where's the actual class warfare on the right?
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  266. Likud, especially, shouldn't be considered a British ally. They were founded by Irgun and Lehi terrorist enemies of Britain. They still celebrate those terrorists as "heroes", to this day. "Rivlin hosts 90th anniversary of founding Irgun Zvai Leumi (Etzel)"
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  267.  @Suzi195  It's simple math. Being vaccinated significantly decreases the odds of catching the virus, right? So, if I'm around only other vaccinated people, it then also significantly decreases the odds of me even running across someone who has it, and can pass it along to me. It's the whole point of herd immunity. On the other hand, if I'm around only the unvaccinated, it significantly increases the odds of me being around someone who has it, and can pass it along to me. It's an absence of herd immunity.
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  268.  @nadrile  That's not an ad hominem.
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  269. What "both sides"? The corporate Dem side and the progressive side? He's an idiot, and most of his crap against progressives is just bullshit.
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  270. What seems to get left out in a lot of slavery discussions is also how the majority of southerners voted. You get people arguing that is was only a tiny number of rich people that were slave owners, but they ignore that the majority of southern voters voted for pro slavery, anti abolitionist, politicians. They go on to ignore that that same majority of voters then voted for 100 years of Jim Crow laws, and against desegregation.
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  271.  @philmitchell91  You're delusional.
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  272. Australia's covid deaths per million rate would translate into about 36k total US covid deaths, instead of approaching 900k. They're doing a good job.
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  273. DT only picked up about 1m votes. Who decided to vote for him is less relevant than the 9m other 2020 voters, who decided not to vote this time.
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  274.  @KaiCross  Maybe Geronimo should leave them alone! It's all Geronimo's fault ... not the ethnic cleansing, shoving his tribe onto a tiny reserve ... absolutely nothing came before his raid, nope, it all "started" when he left the reserve with a band of warriors.
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  275. The right place to visit is some bushes in Ted's backyard.
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  276.  @highvolumepls  This is a condensed 100 years.
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  277. ​ @johnzhang5018  Who is running the open air WWII style fascist ghetto, in this scenario?
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  278. ​ @mananimal3644  Which means you like Trump's ME policies best, because that's a throwaway fantasy vote.
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  279. Likud's bloody 100 year history ... In 1923, 100 years ago, Ze'ev Jabotinsky wrote, The Iron Wall, and a follow up, The Ethics of The Iron Wall (sooo racist towards Africans), in which he fully acknowledged that post Balfour Zionsim was colonialism, and that, based on the entirety of history, the native Palestinian population would resist being colonized until the bitter end. He directly compared it to the colonization of North America. He promoted doing it anyway, claiming Zionist colonialism was a "just" colonialism (he also thought North American colonialists were good guys, so not a great judge of morality), not caring what that meant for the native population. Ze'ev is important, because his Betar militant youth group helped found the Irgun terrorist group, along with other supporters of his, and the splinter Lehi terrorist group. The Irgun bombed numerous Palestinian markets and other public places, murdering many Palestinian civilians, including children, even including Palestinian Jews (who didn't support colonialist Zionsim). The Irgun are important, because they ended up being led by future Likud PM, Menachem Begin, who bombed the King David Hotel. The King David Hotel was bombed because the British had raided the Jewish Agency and seized numerous documents that may have shown that the terrorists were working with the JA and Haganah (JA liked to pretend that they didn't support the terrorism). The British then stored those documents at their base, in the hotel. That the Irgun terrorists responded to a JA raid, itself seems to prove the connection. That the thousands of Irgun (and Lehi) terrorists were also quickly merged into the new nation's military (IDF) and intelligence (Mossad) agencies, and are still celebrated as "heroes" by Israelis, to this day, also seems to support total collaboration between the groups. That other terrorist group mentioned, Lehi (also known as the Stern Gang), was considered even more extreme. They even tried to ally with the Nazis, against the British. Lehi ended up being led by Yitzhak Shamir, future Mossad agent, and another future Likud PM. They assassinated Lord Moyne, and others. In 1945, there was a major land and peoples survey done in Palestine. It showed that the Zionists only owned about 5% of the total land, 20% of the arable land, and owned a majority in zero districts. The partition was not only going to be forced on the native Palestinian majority, but Jews were still going to be a minority, in the part allocated to them. The only possible way to even become a "Jewish state" was going to require getting rid of the actual majority (at least enough so that there'd be a solid Jewish majority, so they could fake being democratic). This is also shown by the 1948, post Nakba, population of Israel. If there was 716,700 Jews, 156,000+ non-Jews, and approximately 700k non-Jews ethnically cleansed, that means the Jewish population, in the Zionist portion of partition, was originally over 100,000 less than the non-Jewish population. To believe that there was never any intent, by Zionists, to ethnically cleanse away the Palestinian majority would require believing that they never intended to create a "Jewish state". It's a nonsensical notion. Begin, and those terrorist groups, also opposed partition, but for the opposite reason Palestinians did. Palestinians didn't want to be colonized, at all. The terrorists wanted to colonize it all. "Moderate" Zionists were okay with colonizing half ... for now (what would happen in the future, after partition, was up to them, said Ben-Gurion). The Zionist terrorists were also involved in massacres, and assassinations, during the partition violence (colonialist war against the natives). Another notable future Likud PM, also started in the military, during the partition fighting. That was Ariel Sharon, war criminal, "Butcher of Beirut". Menachem Begin, and these other Zionist terrorists, are important because they became involved in Israeli politics, first forming Herut. That was the party that Albert Einstein, and other prominent American Jews, opposed, having a letter printed in the NYT, in December of 1948, when Begin came to visit the US. The letter opened ... "Among the most disturbing political phenomena of our times is the emergence in the newly created state of Israel of the "Freedom Party" (Tnuat Haherut), a political party closely akin in its organization, methods, political philosophy and social appeal to the Nazi and Fascist parties. It was formed out of the membership and following of the former Irgun Zvai Leumi, a terrorist, right-wing, chauvinist organization in Palestine." Herut merged with other extremist parties, over the years, and eventually became Likud, in the 70s. Now, people get upset over the slogan "From the river to the sea!", but it's the second part that's most important, "Palestine will be free!". Because "Palestine" isn't defined as an ethno-state, a free Palestine can be a single state, free for all to live in, and return to, free of continuing colonization, free of occupation, free of oppression, etc. Just like a Germany free of Nazism, an Italy free of fascism, a South Africa free of apartheid, or an America free of slavery from sea to shiny sea. It doesn't necessitate purging all the Jews. It just necessitates them giving up on the idea of an ethno-state. On the other hand, because "Israel" has been defined as an ethno-state, Likud's, "between the sea and the Jordan there will only be Israeli sovereignty", has no possible good interpretation. It is a declaration of intent to completely colonize, and ethnically cleanse, all Palestine territories. Not only that, but it also claims that they have a "right" to all of the "Land of Israel" (biblical borders that don't mesh with archaeological reality), which is an open declaration of future wars, against Jordan, Syria, Lebanon, and possibly even Iraq. Likud platform ... 1977: "The Right of the Jewish People to the Land of Israel (Eretz Israel) a. The right of the Jewish people to the land of Israel is eternal and indisputable and is linked with the right to security and peace; therefore, Judea and Samaria will not be handed to any foreign administration; between the Sea and the Jordan there will only be Israeli sovereignty. b. A plan which relinquishes parts of western Eretz Israel, undermines our right to the country, unavoidably leads to the establishment of a "Palestinian State," jeopardizes the security of the Jewish population, endangers the existence of the State of Israel. and frustrates any prospect of peace." "Settlement Settlement. both urban and rural. in all parts of the Land of Israel is the focal point of the Zionist effort to redeem the country, to maintain vital security areas and serves as a reservoir of strength and inspiration for the renewal of the pioneering spirit. The Likud government will call on the younger generation in Israel and the dispersions to settle and help every group and individual in the task of inhabiting and cultivating the wasteland, while taking care not to dispossess anyone." 1999: "The Government of Israel flatly rejects the establishment of a Palestinian Arab state west of the Jordan river. The Palestinians can run their lives freely in the framework of self-rule, but not as an independent and sovereign state. Thus, for example, in matters of foreign affairs, security, immigration, and ecology, their activity shall be limited in accordance with imperatives of Israel's existence, security and national needs." "The Jewish communities in Judea, Samaria, and Gaza are the realization of Zionist values. Settlement of the land is a clear expression of the unassailable right of the Jewish people to the Land of Israel and constitutes an important asset in the defense of the vital interests of the State of Israel. The Likud will continue to strengthen and develop these communities and will prevent their uprooting." All Palestine territories are officially considered occupied, by the International Court of Justice, the UN GA, the UN SC, and even in official documents of Israel's own allies. Likud is still using the blueprint for colonizing North America, in the West Bank. Move settlements out into native territory, piss off the natives, the natives retaliate, cry about poor "innocent" colonizing settlers being the "victims" of violent "Savages!", call in the cavalry to put down the native uprising, and eventually expand the borders to include those settlements. Rinse and repeat. In Gaza, Israel is operating an open air WWII style fascist ghetto. Them claiming a "right to defend themselves" would be like the Nazis claiming a "right to defend themselves " from the Warsaw ghetto uprising. There's no "war". That they're the occupiers means the "war" part is long over. Those people are actually supposed to be under the occupier's protection. That partition was forced upon the Palestinian majority, against their will ... that the Zionist portion still had to be forcefully ethnically cleansed of its non-Jewish majority, against their will ... that the millions of occupied Palestinians don't have a say in the government that truly rules over them, Israel's ... means Israel is about as democratic as Nazi Germany after Hitler purged his political opponents and then held elections.
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  280. Likud's bloody 100 year history ... In 1923, 100 years ago, Ze'ev Jabotinsky wrote, The Iron Wall, and a follow up, The Ethics of The Iron Wall (sooo racist towards Africans), in which he fully acknowledged that post Balfour Zionsim was colonialism, and that, based on the entirety of history, the native Palestinian population would resist being colonized until the bitter end. He directly compared it to the colonization of North America. He promoted doing it anyway, claiming Zionist colonialism was a "just" colonialism (he also thought North American colonialists were good guys, so not a great judge of morality), not caring what that meant for the native population. Ze'ev is important, because his Betar militant youth group helped found the Irgun terrorist group, along with other supporters of his, and the splinter Lehi terrorist group. The Irgun bombed numerous Palestinian markets and other public places, murdering many Palestinian civilians, including children, even including Palestinian Jews (who didn't support colonialist Zionsim). The Irgun are important, because they ended up being led by future Likud PM, Menachem Begin, who bombed the King David Hotel. The King David Hotel was bombed because the British had raided the Jewish Agency and seized numerous documents that may have shown that the terrorists were working with the JA and Haganah (JA liked to pretend that they didn't support the terrorism). The British then stored those documents at their base, in the hotel. That the Irgun terrorists responded to a JA raid, itself seems to prove the connection. That the thousands of Irgun (and Lehi) terrorists were also quickly merged into the new nation's military (IDF) and intelligence (Mossad) agencies, and are still celebrated as "heroes" by Israelis, to this day, also seems to support total collaboration between the groups. That other terrorist group mentioned, Lehi (also known as the Stern Gang), was considered even more extreme. They even tried to ally with the Nazis, against the British. Lehi ended up being led by Yitzhak Shamir, future Mossad agent, and another future Likud PM. They assassinated Lord Moyne, and others. In 1945, there was a major land and peoples survey done in Palestine. It showed that the Zionists only owned about 5% of the total land, 20% of the arable land, and owned a majority in zero districts. The partition was not only going to be forced on the native Palestinian majority, but Jews were still going to be a minority, in the part allocated to them. The only possible way to even become a "Jewish state" was going to require getting rid of the actual majority (at least enough so that there'd be a solid Jewish majority, so they could fake being democratic). This is also shown by the 1948, post Nakba, population of Israel. If there was 716,700 Jews, 156,000+ non-Jews, and approximately 700k non-Jews ethnically cleansed, that means the Jewish population, in the Zionist portion of partition, was originally over 100,000 less than the non-Jewish population. To believe that there was never any intent, by Zionists, to ethnically cleanse away the Palestinian majority would require believing that they never intended to create a "Jewish state". It's a nonsensical notion. Begin, and those terrorist groups, also opposed partition, but for the opposite reason Palestinians did. Palestinians didn't want to be colonized, at all. The terrorists wanted to colonize it all. "Moderate" Zionists were okay with colonizing half ... for now (what would happen in the future, after partition, was up to them, said Ben-Gurion). The Zionist terrorists were also involved in massacres, and assassinations, during the partition violence (colonialist war against the natives). Another notable future Likud PM, also started in the military, during the partition fighting. That was Ariel Sharon, war criminal, "Butcher of Beirut". Menachem Begin, and these other Zionist terrorists, are important because they became involved in Israeli politics, first forming Herut. That was the party that Albert Einstein, and other prominent American Jews, opposed, having a letter printed in the NYT, in December of 1948, when Begin came to visit the US. The letter opened ... "Among the most disturbing political phenomena of our times is the emergence in the newly created state of Israel of the "Freedom Party" (Tnuat Haherut), a political party closely akin in its organization, methods, political philosophy and social appeal to the Nazi and Fascist parties. It was formed out of the membership and following of the former Irgun Zvai Leumi, a terrorist, right-wing, chauvinist organization in Palestine." Herut merged with other extremist parties, over the years, and eventually became Likud, in the 70s. Now, people get upset over the slogan "From the river to the sea!", but it's the second part that's most important, "Palestine will be free!". Because "Palestine" isn't defined as an ethno-state, a free Palestine can be a single state, free for all to live in, and return to, free of continuing colonization, free of occupation, free of oppression, etc. Just like a Germany free of Nazism, an Italy free of fascism, a South Africa free of apartheid, or an America free of slavery from sea to shiny sea. It doesn't necessitate purging all the Jews. It just necessitates them giving up on the idea of an ethno-state. On the other hand, because "Israel" has been defined as an ethno-state, Likud's, "between the sea and the Jordan there will only be Israeli sovereignty", has no possible good interpretation. It is a declaration of intent to completely colonize, and ethnically cleanse, all Palestine territories. Not only that, but it also claims that they have a "right" to all of the "Land of Israel" (biblical borders that don't mesh with archaeological reality), which is an open declaration of future wars, against Jordan, Syria, Lebanon, and possibly even Iraq. Likud platform ... 1977: "The Right of the Jewish People to the Land of Israel (Eretz Israel) a. The right of the Jewish people to the land of Israel is eternal and indisputable and is linked with the right to security and peace; therefore, Judea and Samaria will not be handed to any foreign administration; between the Sea and the Jordan there will only be Israeli sovereignty. b. A plan which relinquishes parts of western Eretz Israel, undermines our right to the country, unavoidably leads to the establishment of a "Palestinian State," jeopardizes the security of the Jewish population, endangers the existence of the State of Israel. and frustrates any prospect of peace." "Settlement Settlement. both urban and rural. in all parts of the Land of Israel is the focal point of the Zionist effort to redeem the country, to maintain vital security areas and serves as a reservoir of strength and inspiration for the renewal of the pioneering spirit. The Likud government will call on the younger generation in Israel and the dispersions to settle and help every group and individual in the task of inhabiting and cultivating the wasteland, while taking care not to dispossess anyone." 1999: "The Government of Israel flatly rejects the establishment of a Palestinian Arab state west of the Jordan river. The Palestinians can run their lives freely in the framework of self-rule, but not as an independent and sovereign state. Thus, for example, in matters of foreign affairs, security, immigration, and ecology, their activity shall be limited in accordance with imperatives of Israel's existence, security and national needs." "The Jewish communities in Judea, Samaria, and Gaza are the realization of Zionist values. Settlement of the land is a clear expression of the unassailable right of the Jewish people to the Land of Israel and constitutes an important asset in the defense of the vital interests of the State of Israel. The Likud will continue to strengthen and develop these communities and will prevent their uprooting." All Palestine territories are officially considered occupied, by the International Court of Justice, the UN GA, the UN SC, and even in official documents of Israel's own allies. Likud is still using the blueprint for colonizing North America, in the West Bank. Move settlements out into native territory, piss off the natives, the natives retaliate, cry about poor "innocent" colonizing settlers being the "victims" of violent "Savages!", call in the cavalry to put down the native uprising, and eventually expand the borders to include those settlements. Rinse and repeat. In Gaza, Israel is operating an open air WWII style fascist ghetto. Them claiming a "right to defend themselves" would be like the Nazis claiming a "right to defend themselves " from the Warsaw ghetto uprising. There's no "war". That they're the occupiers means the "war" part is long over. Those people are actually supposed to be under the occupier's protection. That partition was forced upon the Palestinian majority, against their will ... that the Zionist portion still had to be forcefully ethnically cleansed of its non-Jewish majority, against their will ... that the millions of occupied Palestinians don't have a say in the government that truly rules over them, Israel's ... means Israel is about as democratic as Nazi Germany after Hitler purged his political opponents and then held elections.
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  281.  @danzwku  Did you miss the leader of the Republican party asking everyone and anyone to overthrow the democratic process to keep him on as an unelected dictator? Did you miss that the majority of Republican lawmakers tried to overthrow the democratic process to keep him on as an unelected dictator? Did you miss the followers that tried to overthrow the democratic process to keep him on as an unelected dictator?
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  282. Some people claim fascism doesn't have an economic policy, but Mussolini literally defined it as the "complete opposite of Marxist socialism". Theoretically, you could have a "Christian nationalism" that's not the complete opposite of socialism, and just focuses on being Christian, not economics. But, they do tend to be right wing, as well.
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  283.  @ComradeCatpurrnicus  Not to mention that the vaccines have government negotiated prices, and are given out for free. That's a tiny slice of what M4A should be like, but he spreads all kinds of misinformation about covid and vaccines, plus doing his "big pharma" schtick, to make it seem like crap. He, and Max, also did a bullshit bit on myocarditis, and trashed the completely socialized UK healthcare system, while they were at it. And, Dore also peddled an unproven, more expensive, paid for out of pocket, vaccine alternative, on Rogan. The guy is selling the complete opposite of what he claims to be for.
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  284. His other video was called, "Are COVID death rates WILDLY inflated?". He cites a Gallup article, which very clearly states their hospitalization rates are based on the total population, 0.01% for the total vaccinated population, and 0.89% for the total unvaccinated population. Now, you'd think that maybe the unvaccinated being hospitalized at 89x the rate of the unvaccinated might be a big deal to talk about, but no. Jimmy claims to have looked for a comparable "death rate". The only comparable death rate, to total population hospitalization rates, is the covid crude mortality rate. That number is easy to find, all you have to do is take the deaths per million rate and move the decimal 4 spaces to the left, 0.27%. It's also easy to do the math yourself. Apparently, the crack Dore knob team wasn't capable of doing either. Instead, Jimmy says he couldn't find a "death rate" from the past year and a half, so uses one from a year and a half ago. The 3.4% he uses is clearly a case fatality rate, deaths per confirmed case. Aside from not being comparable to the total population hospitalization rates, a current case fatality rate is also easy to find, and also easy to work out the math yourself. Even using the wrong rate, the crack Dore knob team was too stupid to figure out the current one. So, he takes those incomparable rates, and since 3.4% is sooooo much higher than 0.89%, he makes out like covid deaths are being "WILDLY inflated". He's either completely ignorant, or completely dishonest, or both.
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  285. Republicans ... Vance: We need to increase the birth rate! Johnson: We lost 60m workers to women's choice, that were needed to keep Social Security and Medicare afloat! Tuberville, backtracking on IVF: We need to have more children! Border: More people enter country. Republicans: Not those kind!
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  286. ​ @elizabethstanley7137  Oh, it stuck weirdo.
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  287. Back in Dec, the CBO quietly released a report on a comprehensive study on the costs of various M4A programs, which showed all but one costing Americans less than they're paying now.
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  288. ​ @saagisharon8595  Who is "us"? You with Likud, founded by Irgun and Lehi trrrsts that Einstein likened to Fscsts and Nzs?
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  289. I keep thinking that, and they keep proving they can.
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  290. Code for ... Find the 1 in 100 dentists, doctors, or scientists, that are saying what you want to hear.
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  291. Hey, but religion has kept people from a "me first" attitude. Just look at how the religious right is always trying to take care of their fellow man.
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  292.  Andrea MENDENHALL  Rofl. You prefer stupid, if it's more professional?
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  293. Heck, just drop all charges against everybody, so they don't feel like the enemy! And release all prisoners!
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  294. Why does it take a "massive investigation" if the perpetrator was caught in the act?
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  295.  @trevorchester4439  No.
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  296. Russia has been expanding its borders, since the collapse of the USSR, ffs. Nobody made them invade Ukraine. It was always on their to do list.
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  297.  @therussiantrollnetwork7464  You answered your own question. Republicans are generally about deregulation for corporations. If they suddenly want to regulate social media, because privately owned corporations are booting them off their private property, then they're hypocrites. There's no such thing as free speech on someone else's private property. Since you don't have a right to be on their private property, to begin with, then you never had a right to be on their private property spewing whatever crap you want. If you want free speech, argue for public ownership. If it's publicly owned property, then you can try and sue for your rights being violated.
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  298.  @brinalee3362  Stop your unpresidented covfefe and go eat a hamberder, moron.
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  299.  @headcrusher1966  Tell Jimmy to promote DSA (that AOC and Tlaib are members of) rallies for M4A. Try to increase support for it and put pressure on the the politicians opposed to it, rather than have a pointless vote and trash the politicians who have been supporting it for years.
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  300.  @X2LR8  Do you know the difference between anti-authoritarianism and authoritarianism? They aren't samesies.
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  301. He has already been found guilty, ffs. He can't be "exonerated".
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  302. Yes, constantly talking about Nazis was sooooo anti-German, in the 1930s/40s.
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  303. Likud's bloody 100 year history ... In 1923, 100 years ago, Ze'ev Jabotinsky wrote, The Iron Wall, and a follow up, The Ethics of The Iron Wall (sooo racist towards Africans), in which he fully acknowledged that post Balfour Zionsim was colonialism, and that, based on the entirety of history, the native Palestinian population would resist being colonized until the bitter end. He directly compared it to the colonization of North America. He promoted doing it anyway, claiming Zionist colonialism was a "just" colonialism (he also thought North American colonialists were good guys, so not a great judge of morality), not caring what that meant for the native population. Ze'ev is important, because his Betar militant youth group helped found the Irgun terrorist group, along with other supporters of his, and the splinter Lehi terrorist group. The Irgun bombed numerous Palestinian markets and other public places, murdering many Palestinian civilians, including children, even including Palestinian Jews (who didn't support colonialist Zionsim). The Irgun are important, because they ended up being led by future Likud PM, Menachem Begin, who bombed the King David Hotel. The King David Hotel was bombed because the British had raided the Jewish Agency and seized numerous documents that may have shown that the terrorists were working with the JA and Haganah (JA liked to pretend that they didn't support the terrorism). The British then stored those documents at their base, in the hotel. That the Irgun terrorists responded to a JA raid, itself seems to prove the connection. That the thousands of Irgun (and Lehi) terrorists were also quickly merged into the new nation's military (IDF) and intelligence (Mossad) agencies, and are still celebrated as "heroes" by Israelis, to this day, also seems to support total collaboration between the groups. That other terrorist group mentioned, Lehi (also known as the Stern Gang), was considered even more extreme. They even tried to ally with the Nazis, against the British. Lehi ended up being led by Yitzhak Shamir, future Mossad agent, and another future Likud PM. They assassinated Lord Moyne, and others. In 1945, there was a major land and peoples survey done in Palestine. It showed that the Zionists only owned about 5% of the total land, 20% of the arable land, and owned a majority in zero districts. The partition was not only going to be forced on the native Palestinian majority, but Jews were still going to be a minority, in the part allocated to them. The only possible way to even become a "Jewish state" was going to require getting rid of the actual majority (at least enough so that there'd be a solid Jewish majority, so they could fake being democratic). This is also shown by the 1948, post Nakba, population of Israel. If there was 716,700 Jews, 156,000+ non-Jews, and approximately 700k non-Jews ethnically cleansed, that means the Jewish population, in the Zionist portion of partition, was originally over 100,000 less than the non-Jewish population. To believe that there was never any intent, by Zionists, to ethnically cleanse away the Palestinian majority would require believing that they never intended to create a "Jewish state". It's a nonsensical notion. Begin, and those terrorist groups, also opposed partition, but for the opposite reason Palestinians did. Palestinians didn't want to be colonized, at all. The terrorists wanted to colonize it all. "Moderate" Zionists were okay with colonizing half ... for now (what would happen in the future, after partition, was up to them, said Ben-Gurion). The Zionist terrorists were also involved in massacres, and assassinations, during the partition violence (colonialist war against the natives). Another notable future Likud PM, also started in the military, during the partition fighting. That was Ariel Sharon, war criminal, "Butcher of Beirut". Menachem Begin, and these other Zionist terrorists, are important because they became involved in Israeli politics, first forming Herut. That was the party that Albert Einstein, and other prominent American Jews, opposed, having a letter printed in the NYT, in December of 1948, when Begin came to visit the US. The letter opened ... "Among the most disturbing political phenomena of our times is the emergence in the newly created state of Israel of the "Freedom Party" (Tnuat Haherut), a political party closely akin in its organization, methods, political philosophy and social appeal to the Nazi and Fascist parties. It was formed out of the membership and following of the former Irgun Zvai Leumi, a terrorist, right-wing, chauvinist organization in Palestine." Herut merged with other extremist parties, over the years, and eventually became Likud, in the 70s. Now, people get upset over the slogan "From the river to the sea!", but it's the second part that's most important, "Palestine will be free!". Because "Palestine" isn't defined as an ethno-state, a free Palestine can be a single state, free for all to live in, and return to, free of continuing colonization, free of occupation, free of oppression, etc. Just like a Germany free of Nazism, an Italy free of fascism, a South Africa free of apartheid, or an America free of slavery from sea to shiny sea. It doesn't necessitate purging all the Jews. It just necessitates them giving up on the idea of an ethno-state. On the other hand, because "Israel" has been defined as an ethno-state, Likud's, "between the sea and the Jordan there will only be Israeli sovereignty", has no possible good interpretation. It is a declaration of intent to completely colonize, and ethnically cleanse, all Palestine territories. Not only that, but it also claims that they have a "right" to all of the "Land of Israel" (biblical borders that don't mesh with archaeological reality), which is an open declaration of future wars, against Jordan, Syria, Lebanon, and possibly even Iraq. Likud platform ... 1977: "The Right of the Jewish People to the Land of Israel (Eretz Israel) a. The right of the Jewish people to the land of Israel is eternal and indisputable and is linked with the right to security and peace; therefore, Judea and Samaria will not be handed to any foreign administration; between the Sea and the Jordan there will only be Israeli sovereignty. b. A plan which relinquishes parts of western Eretz Israel, undermines our right to the country, unavoidably leads to the establishment of a "Palestinian State," jeopardizes the security of the Jewish population, endangers the existence of the State of Israel. and frustrates any prospect of peace." "Settlement Settlement. both urban and rural. in all parts of the Land of Israel is the focal point of the Zionist effort to redeem the country, to maintain vital security areas and serves as a reservoir of strength and inspiration for the renewal of the pioneering spirit. The Likud government will call on the younger generation in Israel and the dispersions to settle and help every group and individual in the task of inhabiting and cultivating the wasteland, while taking care not to dispossess anyone." 1999: "The Government of Israel flatly rejects the establishment of a Palestinian Arab state west of the Jordan river. The Palestinians can run their lives freely in the framework of self-rule, but not as an independent and sovereign state. Thus, for example, in matters of foreign affairs, security, immigration, and ecology, their activity shall be limited in accordance with imperatives of Israel's existence, security and national needs." "The Jewish communities in Judea, Samaria, and Gaza are the realization of Zionist values. Settlement of the land is a clear expression of the unassailable right of the Jewish people to the Land of Israel and constitutes an important asset in the defense of the vital interests of the State of Israel. The Likud will continue to strengthen and develop these communities and will prevent their uprooting." All Palestine territories are officially considered occupied, by the International Court of Justice, the UN GA, the UN SC, and even in official documents of Israel's own allies. Likud is still using the blueprint for colonizing North America, in the West Bank. Move settlements out into native territory, piss off the natives, the natives retaliate, cry about poor "innocent" colonizing settlers being the "victims" of violent "Savages!", call in the cavalry to put down the native uprising, and eventually expand the borders to include those settlements. Rinse and repeat. In Gaza, Israel is operating an open air WWII style fascist ghetto. Them claiming a "right to defend themselves" would be like the Nazis claiming a "right to defend themselves " from the Warsaw ghetto uprising. There's no "war". That they're the occupiers means the "war" part is long over. Those people are actually supposed to be under the occupier's protection. That partition was forced upon the Palestinian majority, against their will ... that the Zionist portion still had to be forcefully ethnically cleansed of its non-Jewish majority, against their will ... that the millions of occupied Palestinians don't have a say in the government that truly rules over them, Israel's ... means Israel is about as democratic as Nazi Germany after Hitler purged his political opponents and then held elections.
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  304. ​ @CnCW453  Literally every other developed nation, with universal healthcare, has lower healthcare costs than the US. Layers and layers of for profit healthcare, is what raises costs.
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  305.  @bernlin2000  Better than Dore's right wing bargain bin.
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  306.  @waterandafter  You're missing the point. You're taking the equivalent roll of someone arguing how the electoral college works. Yes, we know how it works, but these same people were arguing against the electoral college, saying Hillary should have won with the popular vote. Now they're arguing against the popular vote.
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  307. He wasn't even intelligent enough to figure out how a VAT actually works, who it actually taxes. The guy can't even math, the way he claimed.
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  308.  @taggah2000  Vance's childless comments apply to the majority of the military (64% childless). He calls them "sociopaths". He says they have less of a stake in the country. He says they should have less of a vote. He says they should be taxed at a higher rate. Etc. Plus, Project 2025 proposes cuts to the VA and military disability benefits. Those marines must not be fans of those who serve, or have served.
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  309.  KC  You're an idiot. a) people in Congress generally have two homes ... 1 in their district, and 1 in Washington; b) she wants healthcare for everybody; c) their salaries are supposed increase with inflation every year, but congress has been voting to not to accept their automatic increase, for numerous years ... she's not asking for something new, she's just in favour of accepting what they're already supposed to get; d) congressional salary increases also apply to assistant and aid salaries, which have been stuck at around $30000 at the bottom end, for years. Voting against accepting the increase screws people at the bottom most.
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  310.  @bertthompson4748  Peterson rose to right wing fame by freaking out about the Canadian federal government adopting a policy that multiple provinces had already adopted years earlier, including the province he worked and lived in. From years of those policies being in effect, in multiple provinces, he had zero examples of what he fearmongered about. He's a wingnut.
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  311. It's okay. The moon is going to fall into Lake Michigan any day now. Jimmy Dore said so.
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  312. Likud's bloody 100 year history ... In 1923, 100 years ago, Ze'ev Jabotinsky wrote, The Iron Wall, and a follow up, The Ethics of The Iron Wall (sooo racist towards Africans), in which he fully acknowledged that post Balfour Zionsim was colonialism, and that, based on the entirety of history, the native Palestinian population would resist being colonized until the bitter end. He directly compared it to the colonization of North America. He promoted doing it anyway, claiming Zionist colonialism was a "just" colonialism (he also thought North American colonialists were good guys, so not a great judge of morality), not caring what that meant for the native population. Ze'ev is important, because his Betar militant youth group helped found the Irgun terrorist group, along with other supporters of his, and the splinter Lehi terrorist group. The Irgun bombed numerous Palestinian markets and other public places, murdering many Palestinian civilians, including children, even including Palestinian Jews (who didn't support colonialist Zionsim). The Irgun are important, because they ended up being led by future Likud PM, Menachem Begin, who bombed the King David Hotel. The King David Hotel was bombed because the British had raided the Jewish Agency and seized numerous documents that may have shown that the terrorists were working with the JA and Haganah (JA liked to pretend that they didn't support the terrorism). The British then stored those documents at their base, in the hotel. That the Irgun terrorists responded to a JA raid, itself seems to prove the connection. That the thousands of Irgun (and Lehi) terrorists were also quickly merged into the new nation's military (IDF) and intelligence (Mossad) agencies, and are still celebrated as "heroes" by Israelis, to this day, also seems to support total collaboration between the groups. That other terrorist group mentioned, Lehi (also known as the Stern Gang), was considered even more extreme. They even tried to ally with the Nazis, against the British. Lehi ended up being led by Yitzhak Shamir, future Mossad agent, and another future Likud PM. In 1945, there was a major land and peoples survey done in Palestine. It showed that the Zionists only owned about 5% of the total land, 20% of the arable land, and owned a majority in zero districts. The partition was not only going to be forced on the native Palestinian majority, but Jews were still going to be a minority, in the part allocated to them. The only possible way to even become a "Jewish state" was going to require getting rid of the actual majority (at least enough so that there'd be a solid Jewish majority, so they could fake being democratic). This is also shown by the 1948, post Nakba, population of Israel. If there was 716,700 Jews, 156,000+ non-Jews, and approximately 700k non-Jews ethnically cleansed, that means the Jewish population, in the Zionist portion of partition, was originally over 100,000 less than the non-Jewish population. To believe that there was never any intent, by Zionists, to ethnically cleanse away the Palestinian majority would require believing that they never intended to create a "Jewish state". It's a nonsensical notion. Begin, and those terrorist groups, also opposed partition, but for the opposite reason Palestinians did. Palestinians didn't want to be colonized, at all. The terrorists wanted to colonize it all. "Moderate" Zionists were okay with colonizing half ... for now (what would happen in the future, after partition, was up to them, said Ben-Gurion). The Zionist terrorists were also involved in massacres, and assassinations, during the partition violence (colonialist war against the natives). Another notable future Likud PM, also started in the military, during the partition fighting. That was Ariel Sharon, war criminal, "Butcher of Beirut". Menachem Begin, and these other Zionist terrorists, are important because they became involved in Israeli politics, first forming Herut. That was the party that Albert Einstein, and other prominent American Jews, opposed, having a letter printed in the NYT, in December of 1948, when Begin came to visit the US. The letter opened ... "Among the most disturbing political phenomena of our times is the emergence in the newly created state of Israel of the "Freedom Party" (Tnuat Haherut), a political party closely akin in its organization, methods, political philosophy and social appeal to the Nazi and Fascist parties. It was formed out of the membership and following of the former Irgun Zvai Leumi, a terrorist, right-wing, chauvinist organization in Palestine." Herut merged with other extremist parties, over the years, and eventually became Likud, in the 70s. Now, people get upset over the slogan "From the river to the sea!", but it's the second part that's most important, "Palestine will be free!". Because "Palestine" isn't defined as an ethno-state, a free Palestine can be a single state, free for all to live in, and return to, free of continuing colonization, free of occupation, free of oppression, etc. Just like a Germany free of Nazism, an Italy free of fascism, a South Africa free of apartheid, or an America free of slavery from sea to shiny sea. It doesn't necessitate purging all the Jews. It just necessitates them giving up on the idea of an ethno-state. On the other hand, because "Israel" has been defined as an ethno-state, Likud's, "between the sea and the Jordan there will only be Israeli sovereignty", has no possible good interpretation. It is a declaration of intent to completely colonize, and ethnically cleanse, all Palestine territories. Not only that, but it also claims that they have a "right" to all of the "Land of Israel" (biblical borders that don't mesh with archaeological reality), which is an open declaration of future wars, against Jordan, Syria, Lebanon, and possibly even Iraq. Likud platform ... 1977: "The Right of the Jewish People to the Land of Israel (Eretz Israel) a. The right of the Jewish people to the land of Israel is eternal and indisputable and is linked with the right to security and peace; therefore, Judea and Samaria will not be handed to any foreign administration; between the Sea and the Jordan there will only be Israeli sovereignty. b. A plan which relinquishes parts of western Eretz Israel, undermines our right to the country, unavoidably leads to the establishment of a "Palestinian State," jeopardizes the security of the Jewish population, endangers the existence of the State of Israel. and frustrates any prospect of peace." "Settlement Settlement. both urban and rural. in all parts of the Land of Israel is the focal point of the Zionist effort to redeem the country, to maintain vital security areas and serves as a reservoir of strength and inspiration for the renewal of the pioneering spirit. The Likud government will call on the younger generation in Israel and the dispersions to settle and help every group and individual in the task of inhabiting and cultivating the wasteland, while taking care not to dispossess anyone." 1999: "The Government of Israel flatly rejects the establishment of a Palestinian Arab state west of the Jordan river. The Palestinians can run their lives freely in the framework of self-rule, but not as an independent and sovereign state. Thus, for example, in matters of foreign affairs, security, immigration, and ecology, their activity shall be limited in accordance with imperatives of Israel's existence, security and national needs." "The Jewish communities in Judea, Samaria, and Gaza are the realization of Zionist values. Settlement of the land is a clear expression of the unassailable right of the Jewish people to the Land of Israel and constitutes an important asset in the defense of the vital interests of the State of Israel. The Likud will continue to strengthen and develop these communities and will prevent their uprooting." All Palestine territories are officially considered occupied, by the International Court of Justice, the UN GA, the UN SC, and even in official documents of Israel's own allies. Likud is still using the blueprint for colonizing North America, in the West Bank. Move settlements out into native territory, piss off the natives, the natives retaliate, cry about poor "innocent" colonizing settlers being the "victims" of violent "Savages!", call in the cavalry to put down the native uprising, and eventually expand the borders to include those settlements. Rinse and repeat. In Gaza, Israel is operating an open air WWII style fascist ghetto. Them claiming a "right to defend themselves" would be like the Nazis claiming a "right to defend themselves " from the Warsaw ghetto uprising. There's no "war". That they're the occupiers means the "war" part is long over. Those people are actually supposed to be under the occupier's protection. That partition was forced upon the Palestinian majority, against their will ... that the Zionist portion still had to be forcefully ethnically cleansed of its non-Jewish majority, against their will ... that the millions of occupied Palestinians don't have a say in the government that truly rules over them, Israel's ... means Israel is about as democratic as Nazi Germany after Hitler purged his political opponents and then held elections.
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  313. It's because their grift doesn't actually play as well, and isn't as profitable, here at home. It's the opposite of the brain drain. It's the idiot drain.
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  314. He has the snake oil salesman schtick down pretty good. He'll say he supports the right things (he's selling you medicine), but then promotes taking paths that will never get you those things or get you the opposite (actually selling you useless garbage, or even something harmful).
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  315.  @drsgme69  In 1918, Ben-Gurion fully acknowledged that Zionism is colonialism. In 1923, Ze'ev Jabotinsky fully acknowledged that Zionism is colonialism. He also predicted, based on the entirety of history, that the natives would fight it until the bitter end. He just didn't care what would happen to them, declaring Zionist colonialism to be morally "good".
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  316. In the end, though, he only picked up about 1m √0t€s, from 2020, but Dems lost about 10m. It's the 9m that didn't bother, that handed him the win.
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  317. When talking about the electoral college, you should mention the Permanent Apportionment Act of 1929. The EC isn't inherently unbalanced. It was that act which made it increasingly so. It would be easier to redo apportionment than to change the constitution, and balance out electoral representation by current population.
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  318.  @tidus9942  You were using percentages, and then you went and threw them all away. Regressive taxes, like a VAT, are regressive because poorer people end up paying a higher percentage of their income and wealth, than rich people. What you're proposing is a horrible idea. Other percentages, for you ... The bottom 50% own about 1.5% of the wealth, but pay about 3% of taxes. The top 1% owns about 30% of the wealth and pays about 30% of the taxes. The top 1% should be paying 60% of the taxes, double what they are now, if they were taxed at the same ratio as the bottom 50%. And, that's not even counting the shitbags who live off of stocks and options, and pay jack shit back into the system that helped make them rich.
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  319. Plenty of people were also right about Sam Harris.
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  320. @Fenando Orozco There were a few black and Jew Nazis. Did you have an actual argument, dumbass?
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  321. ​ @bluestar6879  Why lie? They didn't control their own borders and gates. Fun fact: Nzs didn't live inside the ghttos they created, guarded the perimeters, and had Jwsh councils and police administer the interiors.
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  322. ​ @John-gi6yh  Trump is the turkey.
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  323.  @PhilLesh69  Nobody, but you, is thinking "natural born citizen", refers to a medical procedure.
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  324.  @liamjones9115  How does constantly slandering those closest to your position, while ignoring those furthest from your position, enact change?
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  325. The rich, and corporations, have outright proven they will do anything and everything to dodge as many taxes as possible. I think we should charge corporations shares if they want to operate in the country.
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  326. And that's how ancap devolves into feudalism.
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  327. ​ @mr8ty8  Yeah, definitely no poverty during the Gilded Age or Victorian Age, when there were little regulations on business and little support for citizens.
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  328.  @1958PonyBoy  *A racist majority of southerners, who once voted Democrat, but are clearly now voting Republican.
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  329. It's also like saying Pootin is not a war criminal.
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  330.  @yarrowlove5086  The right to spread disease and kill other citizens isn't a thing, and religious beliefs aren't affected by not being able to gather live.
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  331.  @tilleryinnovations592  Rofl. That's not how the database works, Dore knob. They aren't "NIH studies". They are simply papers that have been published in various journals around the world. The NIH themselves have posted that there are no conclusive studies showing any benefit. No study that has shown ivermectin to be effective has actually passed peer review. The last big ivermectin "study" was pulled from its publication, because it was found to be completely fraudulent, with falsified data. Ivermectin is manufactured by the fifth largest pharma corporation in the world, and even they don't recommend it as a safe and effective covid remedy, even though it could make them billions, if it actually was.
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  332. ​ @shaft5  Did Israel's work?
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  333. ​ @purewhiteloverbizarrejelly  No. About 56% of Cubans vote R. Similarly, about the same percentage of Cubans came in the first few waves of Batista family and friends, Batista officials and families, and people who got rich under Batista's fscism. They entered illegally, they were behind dozens of trrrist attacks on US soil, but then were handed Golden Ticket fast passes to citizenship ... everything hypocritical Rs claim they're against.
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  334. ​​ @donald2665  Did she mention the part where she was paid to join Rumble, which is funded by MAGA donor by Peter Thiel?
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  335. Anti-Nazism didn't equate to anti-German. Anti-Fascism didn't equate to anti-Italian.
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  336. @delosombres Ummm, worshipping trees and animals is also a religion, dumbass. So you support all the pre-Christian, and non-Christian, religions, and think they're all responsible for moral laws?
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  337. They think waiting a few days for a background check is anti-gun. They're nutbars.
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  338.  @mgrey24  Batista, himself, has descendants living in the US, let alone all of his supporters, and those who got rich under his rule, who also fled to the US. It was, literally, a fascist government. That a good percentage of Cubans are their descendants is just a fact.
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  339.  @bradleym.mcelroy139  Marxism isn't authoritarian communism. Why should they rail against it? The fact that he lumped it with fascism and Nazism means he's a complete and utter moron.
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  340.  @ramonalfaro3252  The grift is Dore making out like he's a leftist, while promoting Trump as the better option, running an attack ad campaign against Trump's only viable opponent, making friends with right wing MSM, making friends with far right Boogaloos ... weird that a "leftist" is most beneficial to Republicans.
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  341.  @xinjiangstan1233  It's happening, at the moment, dumb dumb. It's more like someone, at the time, saying "Hey, let's stop ethnically cleansing the natives", and you arguing to carry on.
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  342.  @aaronlampkin284  For example: Amazon delivers goods all over the country. If they deliver 1m goods to 1m customers, they have benefited 1m x more than each of those individual customers, yet they pay zero taxes, for the roads and infrastructure they use to deliver all those goods. Corporate welfare is all over the place.
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  343. ​ @ab2fine411 You call what RFK Jr does "speaking"? Sounds like he's gargling.
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  344.  Mari Jayne  You don't know what that word means.
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  345.  @imnotmike  People keep talking like this is something new. Religious nuts have been cancelling all kinds of crap they don't like, for centuries. Capitalists have tried to cancel socialist ideas, unions, and all kinds of crap, for decades. Conservatives started making up fake wars against them and have tried to cancel all kinds of businesses, starting years ago. It's not "culture", and it's not new. It's human nature, to try and eliminate shit you have a strong dislike for.
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  346.  @Sugarman96  Dore knows what happened to himself, in 2016. Sam has kicked his ass before. Still waiting for the moon to fall into Lake Michigan.
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  347.  @ComradeCatpurrnicus  Some people don't seem to have a firm grasp on intent. But, revisionists have been openly declaring their intent, for over 100 years now. People should know that Likud has been, and still is, everything they claim Hms to be.
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  348.  discorperted  So, every elected official in history, who ran for a new position during their time in office, failed the people who elected them?
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  349.  @LazloVimes  I expect firemen to be shooting water not getting shot by water. I think you just didn't think things through.
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  350.  @elijahfordsidioticvarietys8770  Even before all out war, there were those protesting, rioting, and destroying private property. There were also those who repeatedly tried negotiating, in attempts to fend off things escalating. (And that was all over taxes that specifically funded the police/military, and disenfranchisement) MLK was basically just saying the same thing Kennedy said ... "Those who make peaceful revolution impossible will make violent revolution inevitable."
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  351. @Brbpeanuts1  Rofl. The US doesn't make up 80% of NATO. The US portion of the NATO budget is the same as Germany. Your entire military isn't doing NATO stuff, dingus. Ironic post, considering that NATO has only used article 5 to defend the US. Should we all send you our Afghanistan bills?
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  352. There is something wrong, in the US. We have 33 confirmed cases, here in Canada, with no deaths. The global death rate is 3.4% of confirmed cases. The US has 9 deaths, with only just over 100 confirmed cases. You must have hundreds of carriers wandering around in public. Your shit healthcare system that makes people have to weigh costs instead of just heading to a clinic or hospital at the first sign of symptoms, is going to kill a bunch of extra people.
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  353.  @RichardTClark396  Nope.
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  354.  @deanpappas8388  The algorithm takes a couple seconds. If you have the comment section sorted by Top, refresh the thread, and if your comment isn't there, then it's hidden (can now only be seen if the comment section is sorted by Newest). If you refind the thread, when sorted by Newest, and it's still not there, then it has been outright deleted.
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  355. ​ @mslindqu  Trump had one of the most incompetent COVID responses, in the world. Anything else?
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  356. Centre-right? Economically, he's to the right of most Canadian Conservative party members.
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  357.  Don Martin  You just answered your own question.
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  358. NY laws ... The same kind of laws he was criticizing Walz for, while benefitting from them himself.
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  359. Yes, he was deployed in the w on trrrsm. He's not the one who picked Italy. Retirees also don't get complete discharges. They get put on retirement reserve, until they're 60. From his retirement, up until his last birthday, if the military had desperately wanted him, they could have activated him anytime.
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  360. @Robert Alan You know that not everyone in "liberal cities" is liberal, right? If they're older, odds are they're more conservative. Older people dying would make the cities more liberal.
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  361. ​ @Just_a_turtle_chad Israel is Russia in the comparison, not Ukraine.
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  362. ​@ace9840 Came closer than Htlr's Beer Hall Putsch, which ended in a beer hall in another city than the capital.
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  363. Do you have more of a right to shoot someone in the back 7 times, if they have a record?
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  364. Maybe he, or his friends, were parroting Jordan Peterson's fearmongering that people could get fired for mistakenly using the incorrect pronoun, because of SJWs and political correctness being taken too far. What Peterson followers don't realize is that Peterson's criticism of the Canadian law was that it used Ontario provincial law wording ... a provincial law Peterson had been living and working under for years. It wasn't the only province that had such a law either. Yet, Peterson had zero examples of anyone actually being fired for mistakenly using the wrong pronoun, in any of those provinces, over all the years the laws were in effect.
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  365. All those private and religious schools with uniforms must be ultra communist.
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  366. And yet, a fetus has no consciousness, and can't feel pain, until around 24 weeks. "Gruesome and painful" aren't a thing, without consciousness, or the ability to feel pain.
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  367. The Nazis were not "defending themselves" from the Warsaw ghetto uprising.
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  368. Likud's bloody 100 year history ... In 1923, 100 years ago, Ze'ev Jabotinsky wrote, The Iron Wall, and a follow up, The Ethics of The Iron Wall (sooo racist towards Africans), in which he fully acknowledged that post Balfour Zionsim was colonialism, and that, based on the entirety of history, the native Palestinian population would resist being colonized until the bitter end. He directly compared it to the colonization of North America. He promoted doing it anyway, claiming Zionist colonialism was a "just" colonialism (he also thought North American colonialists were good guys, so not a great judge of morality), not caring what that meant for the native population. Ze'ev is important, because his Betar militant youth group helped found the Irgun terrorist group, along with other supporters of his, and the splinter Lehi terrorist group. The Irgun bombed numerous Palestinian markets and other public places, murdering many Palestinian civilians, including children, even including Palestinian Jews (who didn't support colonialist Zionsim). The Irgun are important, because they ended up being led by future Likud PM, Menachem Begin, who bombed the King David Hotel. The King David Hotel was bombed because the British had raided the Jewish Agency and seized numerous documents that may have shown that the terrorists were working with the JA and Haganah (JA liked to pretend that they didn't support the terrorism). The British then stored those documents at their base, in the hotel. That the Irgun terrorists responded to a JA raid, itself seems to prove the connection. That the thousands of Irgun (and Lehi) terrorists were also quickly merged into the new nation's military (IDF) and intelligence (Mossad) agencies, and are still celebrated as "heroes" by Israelis, to this day, also seems to support total collaboration between the groups. That other terrorist group mentioned, Lehi (also known as the Stern Gang), was considered even more extreme. They even tried to ally with the Nazis, against the British. Lehi ended up being led by Yitzhak Shamir, future Mossad agent, and another future Likud PM. They assassinated Lord Moyne, and others. In 1945, there was a major land and peoples survey done in Palestine. It showed that the Zionists only owned about 5% of the total land, 20% of the arable land, and owned a majority in zero districts. The partition was not only going to be forced on the native Palestinian majority, but Jews were still going to be a minority, in the part allocated to them. The only possible way to even become a "Jewish state" was going to require getting rid of the actual majority (at least enough so that there'd be a solid Jewish majority, so they could fake being democratic). This is also shown by the 1948, post Nakba, population of Israel. If there was 716,700 Jews, 156,000+ non-Jews, and approximately 700k non-Jews ethnically cleansed, that means the Jewish population, in the Zionist portion of partition, was originally over 100,000 less than the non-Jewish population. To believe that there was never any intent, by Zionists, to ethnically cleanse away the Palestinian majority would require believing that they never intended to create a "Jewish state". It's a nonsensical notion. Begin, and those terrorist groups, also opposed partition, but for the opposite reason Palestinians did. Palestinians didn't want to be colonized, at all. The terrorists wanted to colonize it all. "Moderate" Zionists were okay with colonizing half ... for now (what would happen in the future, after partition, was up to them, said Ben-Gurion). The Zionist terrorists were also involved in massacres, and assassinations, during the partition violence (colonialist war against the natives). Another notable future Likud PM, also started in the military, during the partition fighting. That was Ariel Sharon, war criminal, "Butcher of Beirut". Menachem Begin, and these other Zionist terrorists, are important because they became involved in Israeli politics, first forming Herut. That was the party that Albert Einstein, and other prominent American Jews, opposed, having a letter printed in the NYT, in December of 1948, when Begin came to visit the US. The letter opened ... "Among the most disturbing political phenomena of our times is the emergence in the newly created state of Israel of the "Freedom Party" (Tnuat Haherut), a political party closely akin in its organization, methods, political philosophy and social appeal to the Nazi and Fascist parties. It was formed out of the membership and following of the former Irgun Zvai Leumi, a terrorist, right-wing, chauvinist organization in Palestine." Herut merged with other extremist parties, over the years, and eventually became Likud, in the 70s. Now, people get upset over the slogan "From the river to the sea!", but it's the second part that's most important, "Palestine will be free!". Because "Palestine" isn't defined as an ethno-state, a free Palestine can be a single state, free for all to live in, and return to, free of continuing colonization, free of occupation, free of oppression, etc. Just like a Germany free of Nazism, an Italy free of fascism, a South Africa free of apartheid, or an America free of slavery from sea to shiny sea. It doesn't necessitate purging all the Jews. It just necessitates them giving up on the idea of an ethno-state. On the other hand, because "Israel" has been defined as an ethno-state, Likud's, "between the sea and the Jordan there will only be Israeli sovereignty", has no possible good interpretation. It is a declaration of intent to completely colonize, and ethnically cleanse, all Palestine territories. Not only that, but it also claims that they have a "right" to all of the "Land of Israel" (biblical borders that don't mesh with archaeological reality), which is an open declaration of future wars, against Jordan, Syria, Lebanon, and possibly even Iraq. Likud platform ... 1977: "The Right of the Jewish People to the Land of Israel (Eretz Israel) a. The right of the Jewish people to the land of Israel is eternal and indisputable and is linked with the right to security and peace; therefore, Judea and Samaria will not be handed to any foreign administration; between the Sea and the Jordan there will only be Israeli sovereignty. b. A plan which relinquishes parts of western Eretz Israel, undermines our right to the country, unavoidably leads to the establishment of a "Palestinian State," jeopardizes the security of the Jewish population, endangers the existence of the State of Israel. and frustrates any prospect of peace." "Settlement Settlement. both urban and rural. in all parts of the Land of Israel is the focal point of the Zionist effort to redeem the country, to maintain vital security areas and serves as a reservoir of strength and inspiration for the renewal of the pioneering spirit. The Likud government will call on the younger generation in Israel and the dispersions to settle and help every group and individual in the task of inhabiting and cultivating the wasteland, while taking care not to dispossess anyone." 1999: "The Government of Israel flatly rejects the establishment of a Palestinian Arab state west of the Jordan river. The Palestinians can run their lives freely in the framework of self-rule, but not as an independent and sovereign state. Thus, for example, in matters of foreign affairs, security, immigration, and ecology, their activity shall be limited in accordance with imperatives of Israel's existence, security and national needs." "The Jewish communities in Judea, Samaria, and Gaza are the realization of Zionist values. Settlement of the land is a clear expression of the unassailable right of the Jewish people to the Land of Israel and constitutes an important asset in the defense of the vital interests of the State of Israel. The Likud will continue to strengthen and develop these communities and will prevent their uprooting." All Palestine territories are officially considered occupied, by the International Court of Justice, the UN GA, the UN SC, and even in official documents of Israel's own allies. Likud is still using the blueprint for colonizing North America, in the West Bank. Move settlements out into native territory, piss off the natives, the natives retaliate, cry about poor "innocent" colonizing settlers being the "victims" of violent "Savages!", call in the cavalry to put down the native uprising, and eventually expand the borders to include those settlements. Rinse and repeat. In Gaza, Israel is operating an open air WWII style fascist ghetto. Them claiming a "right to defend themselves" would be like the Nazis claiming a "right to defend themselves " from the Warsaw ghetto uprising. There's no "war". That they're the occupiers means the "war" part is long over. Those people are actually supposed to be under the occupier's protection. That partition was forced upon the Palestinian majority, against their will ... that the Zionist portion still had to be forcefully ethnically cleansed of its non-Jewish majority, against their will ... that the millions of occupied Palestinians don't have a say in the government that truly rules over them, Israel's ... means Israel is about as democratic as Nazi Germany after Hitler purged his political opponents and then held elections.
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  369.  @JoJo-vg8dz  You're definitely a right wing loon.
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  370. The OSS psychological profile of Hitler described his use of the big lie: His primary rules were: never allow the public to cool off; never admit a fault or wrong; never concede that there may be some good in your enemy; never leave room for alternatives; never accept blame; concentrate on one enemy at a time and blame him for everything that goes wrong; people will believe a big lie sooner than a little one; and if you repeat it frequently enough people will sooner or later believe it.
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  371. Even if the voice was AI modified, the guy did a great job with the improv.
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  372.  @joshuamccall8043  He played a role in Trump becoming the Republican nominee, but he wasn't the one who lost to an absolutely pathetic Republican showing. Trump got less of a percentage of the vote than Dubya. She ran a worse campaign than Gore.
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  373. Justified, in the fairy tale he's citing as history.
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  374. ​ @YeSureWhatever  Weird how it's Hasan that aligns with Einstein's views of Likud's founders. Are you sure Ben is the intellectual?
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  375.  @gizroc  Nonsense. Every other country in the world would have had the same misinformation, and yet not every country totally bungled their responses.
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  376.  @xevenflux4709  Trump dropped more bombs than Obama, ffs.
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  377. Antifa somehow also got them to preplan and bring pipe bombs, flex cuffs, a working gallows, etc.?
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  378.  Derek Hitt  Shove the bullshit. Bernie became popular after 8 years of Obama. Didn't need Trump, at all.
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  379. How do luxury apartments at a superyacht marina help the black community, exactly?
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  380. ​ @waltermasterson  Next time you run into a "decolonizer": The other guy was right. People simply converted. Palestinians and Jews share DNA, going back a couple thousand years. Palestinians have Canaanite DNA, going back to before Philistia, Israel, and Judah, ever existed. They're Arab and Muslim much like indigenous peoples of Central America are now Hispanic and Catholic. There's no indication all the current "Arab" countries were genocided, or ethnically cleansed, and completely replaced by actual Arabians, from a tiny desert country. People simply converted, and were culturally Arabized. Ironically, the Zionists are genociding what were the ancient Jews, that never left. Even the Palestinian Jews, who never left and never converted, were targeted, alongside their Palestinian brothers and sisters, by Zionist terrorist groups (Irgun and Lehi), for not supporting colonialist Zionsim. You don't get to use Palestinian Jews, who didn't want you there, that you killed, as some 1700 year old place holder. As for a 1700 year later "return" ... that would be like rounding up millions of people from the Americas, whose ancestors left England hundreds of years ago, "return", claim half of England, and cleanse the "returnee" half of its current inhabitants. It's an absolutely insane idea, and still colonization. Europeans have ancient roots in Africa. They still colonized the sh*t out of it.
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  381.  Alabama Man 2.0  Sure it is. You just pick something innocuous, like say CRT (which has been taught as a college legal theory for decades now, and which isn't taught in K-12), and you make a big political deal about it.
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  382. "Consistent antiimperialists" would be consistently attacking Trump for deciding to bomb Syria, instead of going on and on about an irrelevant UN report, that had absolutely nothing to do with anyone's decision to bomb Syria. Why try and defend Assad so hard, when it's possible to be both opposed to unilateral US interventions and acknowledge that Assad is a brutal dictator that has used chemical weapons?
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  383. ​ @useyourbrain1539  Then you must be incredibly concerned that Trump nearly doubled the deficit, by 2019, yeah?
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  384. ​ @barbiquearea  Would you rather live in the 100% privately owned and operated absolute monarchy, that is Saudi Arabia, 100% pure capitalism, or socialist Vietnam?
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  385. ​ @Gyati  We should let him keep it anyway, and charge him as a traitor, for supporting economic warfare.
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  386.  @si_quest  Does the US have a massive Congo lobby, and an open invitation for any African to become Congolese?
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  387. We have a governor ... Governor General, who represents the King. Canada still belongs to King Charles. I don't think Dumpty knows that.
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  388.  @sl6706  If you load YouTube in a browser, you can copy comments. Help yourself.
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  389.  @andrewwells6323   Rofl. What fantasy land are you living in? Plant closures have not been good for the economy. That's an absolutely moronic thing to say. What economist says it's great when a plant packs up and moves to another country? If all the plants moved elsewhere, the economy would collapse. Wages have not kept up with inflation. You're just outright lying. Advances doesn't equate to people with jobs who can buy your stuff. If everything were automated, there'd be nobody to buy your stuff. You'd have to hand people money, like a UBI, so they could buy anything. Those at the top would rather lay off multiple small wage employees, to save costs, rather than take a cut to their large salaries, or a cut in profits. This is also evident, everytime cuts are made. A great depression, with widespread joblessness and people starving, is a failure. Widespread labour riots is a failure. The masses being so pissed they rise up and overthrow a capitalist government is a failure. Wealth inequality is now at Gilded Age levels. Last time it ended in failure.
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  390. Bernie is the second pick for Warren and Biden supporters. They're the ones who need to drop out. If the others split votes and stay to the end, that would be great. If they have a bunch of delegates and drop, they can hand off those delegates to another candidate, which would be bad for Bernie. He needs to win by wider margins, and get way ahead in delegates, to avoid getting screwed if a bunch of corporate Dems drop out and give all their delegates to one candidate.
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  391. Not like he just pledged to block everything and anything proposed by Democrats.
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  392.  @eriklunden5218  He did say the exponential growth part. I don't think they grasp that whatever growth there is in treatment will cap at however many people are affected, and believe that things will keep growing until everyone is gay and trans.
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  393.  @sprigredfrog  Did I say "Trump", dumbass? Republicans have been defending anti-gay hate speech as "free speech", for years. They've defended Richard Spencer's white nationalist nonsense as "free speech". They've defended numerous gatherings, similar to the "Unite the Right" rally, hosted by white nationalists, as "free speech". The Proud Boys, just had some infighting because their combat leader wants to state clearly that they're a white nationalist group. So, I really don't care about your anecdote, about never having personally met one. The FBI has repeatedly stated that white nationalists are the biggest terrorist threat. Hate crimes by white nationalists are up. You're just ignoring all that in your calculations. The US was founded by people who protested, rioted, tarred and feathered, destroyed private property, and eventually declared outright war, killing people, all because they didn't want to pay a new tax specifically to fund the police/military. To claim anti-authoritarianism is fascism, is beyond nonsensical. It's outright the opposite to having a police state.
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  394. "Nuh uh! We won this trial!" (Was found guilty a month ago)
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  395. Well, oxygen doesn't discriminate. It must be woke.
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  396.  @letsgobrandon9867  Crime and poverty go hand in hand, dumb dumb.
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  397. He didn't answer the question though, and give Dumpty any advice.
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  398. ​ @ByronNoe  She's saying that religious right wing house marms, want all women to be just like them.
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  399. ​ @Max78912  Okay. 100 years ago, in 1923, Ze'ev Jabotinsky fully acknowledged that Zionism is colonialism, and predicted, based on the entirety of history, that natives will fight said colonialism until the bitter end. But, he thought they should do it anyway. So, logically, how are the natives ever really the aggressors towards colonialists, who are the aggressors by definition?
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  400.  @alabamaman9476  I said "Republicans", and they sure have.
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  401.  @OblateSpheroid  Becoming an adult is irrelevant, if you can't vote if you don't have kids, and the average age for having a first child is 26 for women and 31 for men. The vast majority don't have children before 18.
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  402.  @bretbonner  Did you lose the "right" to stand on a corner and preach to kill all gay people, or something?
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  403. ​ @SatansSimgma  It means don't attack civilians, either way. No collective punishment.
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  404. "Centrist", only by American standards. In reality, Bernie is only slightly left of centre, promoting centrist European societies. The bulk of the Democratic politicians are right wing, and Republican politicians further right of them. If this guy is taking a position between Republicans and Democrats, then he's pretty right wing.
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  405.  Mari Jayne  Which isn't a thing.
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  406.  @nejc  When Dore promoted Trump as a better option than Clinton, he predicted it would result in a massive progressive backlash that would "for sure" lead to progressives taking the house (wrong), in 2018, the senate (wrong), in 2018, and the presidency (wrong), in 2020. He predicted that even Republicans would join the left in voting against a Trump agenda (wrong), instead of following him into all out fascism (wrong). And, in his debate with Sam, argued that Trump filling multiple scotus seats was as likely as the moon falling into Lake Michigan (wrong). He got nothing right. He has currently been blathering all kinds of incorrect nonsense about covid and vaccines. The guy is hardly ever right.
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  407.  @whyamimrpink78  Who died because they were denied heart surgery? Factoring in everything, Canadians have a longer life expectancy. Something is killing Americans faster than our wait times. Tens of thousands of Americans are dying due to lack of insurance, hundreds of thousands are going bankrupt, over a million are going to developing or undeveloped countries for cheaper care that they can afford ... yearly.
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  408. About the same stage of puberty, as well.
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  409. ​ @PyrrhicPax  Wait ... What? Robin Williams, Dustin Hoffman, Tom Hanks, Adam Sandler, Tony Curtis, Jack Lemon, Eddie Murphy, Kurt Russell, ... all gay?
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  410. ​​@renetorres3568 Not really that straightforward. Due to Israel's policy, almost every single Israeli is in the military, has been in the military, or will be in the military. Plus, Israel itself, made the policy that the families of Palestinian militants also had to pay the price ... were also guilty ... for any violence against them, and regularly dish out collective punishment.
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  411. ​ @MultiClassof2010  That's like calling the Warsaw ghetto a "country".
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  412.  @jdogdarkness  Things can be similar, but happen in different orders. This isn't Rvssia's first time in Ukrn. They've already done some gncdng (Hldmr). They've already done some ethnc clnsng (Tartars). They've already done some clnzng, repopulating places they depopulated, with Rvssns. They already did some Rvssiafication, frcng Ukrnns to speak Rvssian. Now, they've used the mere existence of Rvssian speakers, in Ukrn, people they previously put there, as justification for their return (like Htlr using Grmn speakers in Poland).
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  413.  @RedPillCosby-012  Mueller provided some 200 pages of information sharing (collusion) that didn't amount to criminal conspiracy.
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  414. The only issue with bashing Justin, right now, is timing. I don't think Singh can gain enough of a following, by the next election, to win, and going back to Conservatives (who made that Saudi deal) is definitely worse.
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  415. Any religious person using that slogan is a hypocrite from the get go.
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  416. She seems to have forgotten that he owns property outside NYC. Why can't he get another loan against his $1.8b Florida property?
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  417. ​ @poorboi8093  Likud's bloody 100 year history ... In 1923, 100 years ago, Ze'ev Jabotinsky wrote, The Iron Wall, and a follow up, The Ethics of The Iron Wall (sooo racist towards Africans), in which he fully acknowledged that post Balfour Zionsim was colonialism, and that, based on the entirety of history, the native Palestinian population would resist being colonized until the bitter end. He directly compared it to the colonization of North America. He promoted doing it anyway, claiming Zionist colonialism was a "just" colonialism (he also thought North American colonialists were good guys, so not a great judge of morality), not caring what that meant for the native population. Ze'ev is important, because his Betar militant youth group helped found the Irgun terrorist group, along with other supporters of his, and the splinter Lehi terrorist group. The Irgun bombed numerous Palestinian markets and other public places, murdering many Palestinian civilians, including children, even including Palestinian Jews (who didn't support colonialist Zionsim). The Irgun are important, because they ended up being led by future Likud PM, Menachem Begin, who bombed the King David Hotel. The King David Hotel was bombed because the British had raided the Jewish Agency and seized numerous documents that may have shown that the terrorists were working with the JA and Haganah (JA liked to pretend that they didn't support the terrorism). The British then stored those documents at their base, in the hotel. That the Irgun terrorists responded to a JA raid, itself seems to prove the connection. That the thousands of Irgun (and Lehi) terrorists were also quickly merged into the new nation's military (IDF) and intelligence (Mossad) agencies, and are still celebrated as "heroes" by Israelis, to this day, also seems to support total collaboration between the groups. That other terrorist group mentioned, Lehi (also known as the Stern Gang), was considered even more extreme. They even tried to ally with the Nazis, against the British. Lehi ended up being led by Yitzhak Shamir, future Mossad agent, and another future Likud PM. They assassinated Lord Moyne, and others. In 1945, there was a major land and peoples survey done in Palestine. It showed that the Zionists only owned about 5% of the total land, 20% of the arable land, and owned a majority in zero districts. The partition was not only going to be forced on the native Palestinian majority, but Jews were still going to be a minority, in the part allocated to them. The only possible way to even become a "Jewish state" was going to require getting rid of the actual majority (at least enough so that there'd be a solid Jewish majority, so they could fake being democratic). This is also shown by the 1948, post Nakba, population of Israel. If there was 716,700 Jews, 156,000+ non-Jews, and approximately 700k non-Jews ethnically cleansed, that means the Jewish population, in the Zionist portion of partition, was originally over 100,000 less than the non-Jewish population. To believe that there was never any intent, by Zionists, to ethnically cleanse away the Palestinian majority would require believing that they never intended to create a "Jewish state". It's a nonsensical notion. Begin, and those terrorist groups, also opposed partition, but for the opposite reason Palestinians did. Palestinians didn't want to be colonized, at all. The terrorists wanted to colonize it all. "Moderate" Zionists were okay with colonizing half ... for now (what would happen in the future, after partition, was up to them, said Ben-Gurion). The Zionist terrorists were also involved in massacres, and assassinations, during the partition violence (colonialist war against the natives). Another notable future Likud PM, also started in the military, during the partition fighting. That was Ariel Sharon, war criminal, "Butcher of Beirut". Menachem Begin, and these other Zionist terrorists, are important because they became involved in Israeli politics, first forming Herut. That was the party that Albert Einstein, and other prominent American Jews, opposed, having a letter printed in the NYT, in December of 1948, when Begin came to visit the US. The letter opened ... "Among the most disturbing political phenomena of our times is the emergence in the newly created state of Israel of the "Freedom Party" (Tnuat Haherut), a political party closely akin in its organization, methods, political philosophy and social appeal to the Nazi and Fascist parties. It was formed out of the membership and following of the former Irgun Zvai Leumi, a terrorist, right-wing, chauvinist organization in Palestine." Herut merged with other extremist parties, over the years, and eventually became Likud, in the 70s. Now, people get upset over the slogan "From the river to the sea!", but it's the second part that's most important, "Palestine will be free!". Because "Palestine" isn't defined as an ethno-state, a free Palestine can be a single state, free for all to live in, and return to, free of continuing colonization, free of occupation, free of oppression, etc. Just like a Germany free of Nazism, an Italy free of fascism, a South Africa free of apartheid, or an America free of slavery from sea to shiny sea. It doesn't necessitate purging all the Jews. It just necessitates them giving up on the idea of an ethno-state. On the other hand, because "Israel" has been defined as an ethno-state, Likud's, "between the sea and the Jordan there will only be Israeli sovereignty", has no possible good interpretation. It is a declaration of intent to completely colonize, and ethnically cleanse, all Palestine territories. Not only that, but it also claims that they have a "right" to all of the "Land of Israel" (biblical borders that don't mesh with archaeological reality), which is an open declaration of future wars, against Jordan, Syria, Lebanon, and possibly even Iraq. Likud platform ... 1977: "The Right of the Jewish People to the Land of Israel (Eretz Israel) a. The right of the Jewish people to the land of Israel is eternal and indisputable and is linked with the right to security and peace; therefore, Judea and Samaria will not be handed to any foreign administration; between the Sea and the Jordan there will only be Israeli sovereignty. b. A plan which relinquishes parts of western Eretz Israel, undermines our right to the country, unavoidably leads to the establishment of a "Palestinian State," jeopardizes the security of the Jewish population, endangers the existence of the State of Israel. and frustrates any prospect of peace." 1999: "The Government of Israel flatly rejects the establishment of a Palestinian Arab state west of the Jordan river. The Palestinians can run their lives freely in the framework of self-rule, but not as an independent and sovereign state. Thus, for example, in matters of foreign affairs, security, immigration, and ecology, their activity shall be limited in accordance with imperatives of Israel's existence, security and national needs." "The Jewish communities in Judea, Samaria, and Gaza are the realization of Zionist values. Settlement of the land is a clear expression of the unassailable right of the Jewish people to the Land of Israel and constitutes an important asset in the defense of the vital interests of the State of Israel. The Likud will continue to strengthen and develop these communities and will prevent their uprooting." All Palestine territories are officially considered occupied, by the International Court of Justice, the UN GA, the UN SC, and even in official documents of Israel's own allies. Likud is still using the blueprint for colonizing North America, in the West Bank. Move settlements out into native territory, piss off the natives, the natives retaliate, cry about poor "innocent" colonizing settlers being the "victims" of violent "Savages!", call in the cavalry to put down the native uprising, and eventually expand the borders to include those settlements. Rinse and repeat. In Gaza, Israel is operating an open air WWII style fascist ghetto. Them claiming a "right to defend themselves" would be like the Nazis claiming a "right to defend themselves " from the Warsaw ghetto uprising. There's no "war". That they're the occupiers means the "war" part is long over. Those people are actually supposed to be under the occupier's protection. That partition was forced upon the Palestinian majority, against their will ... that the Zionist portion still had to be forcefully ethnically cleansed of its non-Jewish majority, against their will ... that the millions of occupied Palestinians don't have a say in the government that truly rules over them, Israel's ... means Israel is about as democratic as Nazi Germany after Hitler purged his political opponents and then held elections.
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  418.  Mari Jayne  Thinking a pharma company is unethical because it charges too much for insulin, is different than not trusting scientifically proven effectiveness of insulin.
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  419.  @chris.kellly  What a load of nonsense. What's the goal, of your delusional conspiracy? Control you to do what? Why?
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  420.  @jdowfleetwood  Whatabout that other person this video isn't about?!!?!!
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  421. If by "closely related", you mean "opposed to", sure.
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  422. This event has broken Ben's mind. I'll have to ditch, if he's on reporting about it again. Modern history: 100 years ago, in 1923, Ze'ev Jabotinsky fully acknowledged that Zionism is colonialism, and that, based on the entirety of history, that the natives would fight it until the bitter end. He just didn't care what would happen to them, and promoted doing it anyway. Colonizers are never not the aggressors. On top of the colonialist nature of Zionism, the Zionists also formed terrorist organizations, like the Irgun and Lehi. They bombed many Palestinian markets and other public places, murdering many civilians, including children, even including Palestinian Jews (who opposed Zionism). Israel merged those terrorists into the new nation's military and intelligence agencies. Israelis elected Menachem Begin, leader of the Irgun, child murderer, Jew murderer, and bomber of the King David Hotel, as PM. Israelis, to this day, celebrate those terrorists as "heroes". Zionists literally taught their neighbours that terrorism is a valid path to independence and statehood, and that terrorists are to be celebrated. In 1945, it is well documented that Zionists owned just 5% of the land and were a majority nowhere. Israel was formed by actually going against the majority population. It's foundation is completely undemocratic. Then, becoming a majority, in "your" new nation, by ethnic cleansing the actual majority, and then claiming to be democratic, is utter nonsense. Law: Israel is considered an occupier by the International Court, the UN GA, and the UN SC. Occupiers are also never not the aggressors. Those occupied actually have a right to resist occupation. On the flip side, it is illegal for the occupier to settle occupied lands, and illegal to use collective punishment. Israel is a rogue nation, that doesn't abide by international law. What it has been doing, and is doing now, is illegal. Current events: This year, alone, prior to Oct 7 ... Israel held over 1200 Palestinian hostages without charges ... over 200 Palestinians had been killed by the IDF and settlers ... over 1000 Palestinians had been displaced by Israel's neverending colonization of the West Bank ... and, Israel continued to operate an open air WWII style fascist ghetto. Even ignoring modern history and law, in no reality did Hamas "start" anything. Ben is apparently cool with ignoring what was happening to Palestinians, and pretending everything started on Oct 7. Actual Hamas supporter: Netanyahu promoted, and helped fund, Hamas, to weaken the Palestinian Authority, to avoid a potential peace, so he could continue his colonization project. This is very much like the US promoting and funding religious extremists in Afghanistan, and that ending up biting them in the ass. Plus, he was warned by Egypt and, instead of strengthening the Gaza border, he moved Gazan troops to the West Bank, to support his colonization. Almost like he wanted his pet terrorists to actually break through. Ben would be blaming the Jewish underground for the Warsaw ghetto uprising, instead of the Nazis.
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  423.  @Richard-jm3um  He had already stated "Israel". It's perfectly fine English to then use a pronoun to continue talking about them. AIPAC's mission statement is, literally, to influence politicians with money.
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  424. ​ @user-op4ln2qj5p  It wasn't his "thoughts" making out like sticking a coin in a grocery cart was some new fangled thing? Which corporation did those "thoughts" belong to, and how did they make them come out of Tucker's mouth?
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  425. 62% of Americans think the US is doing enough, or not enough, for Ukraine. Only 36% think the US is doing too much.
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  426. ​ @John-gi6yh  Yes, split second decisions required for congress ... totally samesies.
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  427. And Bennie lied about it being an Arab minority. The Jewish Virtual Library has the 1948, post Nakba, population of Israel as 716700 Jews and 156000+ non-Jews. Some 711000 non-Jews had been expelled. That means there were over 150000 more non-Jews, in what became Israel, prior to the Nakba. To believe there was zero intention to remove the non-Jewish majority, requires believing there was zero intention to create a Jewish state.
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  428. No clue how Harris got a philosophy degree, when he doesn't seem to grasp basics, like subjectivity and objectivity.
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  429. ​ @bachfan7537  What's weird is spamming that same comment everywhere, Ann.
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  430. ​ @MrEdHasibuan1996  No. He's not rabid, like Fetterman. He was quickly calling for a ceasefire. He said to respect and listen to the uncommitted.
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  431.  @JoJo-vg8dz  What a load of nonsense.
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  432.  @JC-sf6sf  The point was that Shapiro wrote a book about two sides of American politics being angry with each other. Andrew pointed out that Shapiro helps fuel that anger, himself. Seriously, Shapiro is offended by "barbaric", because it makes people out as "bad", but tries to justify "fascist"? There's no non "bad" version of "fascist". He proved himself to be a whiny hypocritical bitch, on the BBC. Ben asks pushback questions because he tries to divert. He's the interviewee not the interviewer dumb dumb. Nor is it a debate platform dumb dumb. Shapiro is supposed to be getting interviewed and be the one answering questions. Andrew doesn't have to answer anything. That's how fucking interviews work, dumbass.
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  433.  @JC-sf6sf  You and Shapiro both proved you have zero clue how interviews work. That you're both dumb is just a fact, at that point. Facts don't care about your feelings.
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  434.  Time's Up John  You know free speech doesn't apply to private property, right? A restaurant owner doesn't have to let an Armageddon preacher into his restaurant to shout at the customers any more than a Dean has to let you use one of their auditoriums, or Twitter has to let you be a twit and post whatever you want on their website. I'm also pretty sure conservatives were the first to actually curtail free speech with actual laws (banning certain words their delicate ears couldn't handle hearing, banning certain books, banning certain images, etc.).
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  435.  @LosFace24  Krystal is a gateway to the likes of Dore, who benefits the far right most.
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  436. ​ @Gee-xb7rt  They aren't talking about lowercase "l" libertarianism, in general. They're talking about far right wing US Libertarianism/Objectivism (Any Rand), sometimes drifting into batshit crazy ancap land. Many on the Murican right, many Republicans, actually pretend to have Libertarian beliefs, and promote those beliefs, but are fascists, when push comes to shove.
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  437. ​ @Gee-xb7rt  And, there is nothing "perfectly good" about Libertarianism/Objectivism.
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  438. ​ @alexpkeaton4471  Which people should be. Israel has over 400k militant reservists, valid military targets, amongst their civilians, around 1 in 20 Israelis. Hamas probably has a better militant to civilian ratio than the IDF.
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  439. The number of Sam Harris fan(atic)s is astoundingly ironic.
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  440. ​ @albertobenevenuto77  No, some forms of contraception won't be available, if Republicans have their way.
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  441. He's used to being on stage in front of employees, and fanboys, that cheer everything he says.
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  442.  Alabama Man 2.0  Fascists ... totally known for wanting to vaccinate people with life saving medicine. There have been vaccine mandates, supported by both parties, for over a century, dimwit.
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  443.  @OblateSpheroid  Except he admitted to drugging women and having sex with teenagers and paying them off.
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  444.  @paulraven2402  Oh geezus, yeah it's horrible to use "celebrity" (a massive platform) to spread progressive ideas, to raise money, and use that platform and money to back 20 other progressives, helping to add more to congress and helping to remove more corporate Dems. So terrible.
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  445.  @michaelbeason8856  It seems I didn't say they pioneered simply expanding borders. So, shove your strawman. If you don't see the similarities between Manifest Destiny, the belief that a god had destined certain people to settle all of America, and the belief that Israelites are a god's chosen people, who gave them a holy land, that's destined to be theirs again, I don't know what to say. There is also a similarity in exact method. Most border expansions, and conquest, involved conquering a land and ruling over its people, which is why genocides, and ethnic cleansing, are treated somewhat differently. They aren't the norm. Just blathering about border expansions doesn't reflect the exact method of expansion. Moving settlers out into native territory, acting like a victim when you're attacked, then ethnically cleansing the area and expanding your borders, over, and over, and over, for over a hundred years, isn't even some standard method of ethnic cleansing. Attila just plowed through other territories pushing massive populations of Goths ahead of him. No feigning a willingness to live side by side in peace with the Goths. No acting like the victim of Goth aggression. If you have a better example of something more similar, I'm all ears.
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  446. ​ @pro-choicemom  Netanyahu promoted, and helped fund, Hamas, to weaken the Palestinian Authority, to avoid peace, so he could continue his colonization project. He's Hamas' biggest fan. Also, UN Office of Genocide Prevention ... Ethnic cleansing: "The Commission of Experts added that these practices can “… constitute crimes against humanity and can be assimilated to specific war crimes. Furthermore, such acts could also fall within the meaning of the Genocide Convention.”"
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  447.  @jamesbunn751  I think they tried meth as a vaccine.
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  448. The same guy currently going around claiming he's so great at making deals, that he never had to give up any prisoners or money to get deals done. Give or take 5k, I guess.
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  449. ​ @DolphinWithIgloo-fg3ow  As stated above you, the intent is for most of the implants to fail. So ...
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  450. BJG is a grifter.
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  451. The only problem is that Canada might be Austria, or Poland, during this repeating of history.
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  452. ​ @Hooyahfish So you're saying every Israeli is a valid target for electing all their colonialist, and terrorist (Menachem Begin), leaders over the years.
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  453. Well ... unless it's within your own borders. She said Hitler was fine, until he expanded beyond his borders.
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  454.  @tcb1012  How many times did you copy and paste this bullshit. The polio vaccine was being given to millions of kids within 2 years, and "operation warp speed" did nothing much to speed up development. The first vaccine out of the gate didn't even take funding. OWS is almost entirely about supply and distribution.
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  455. ​ @Desertdog282  Bill Burr is "woke" by MAGA standards.
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  456. *THE CIA
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  457. Likud's bloody 100 year history ... In 1923, 100 years ago, Ze'ev Jabotinsky wrote, The Iron Wall, and a follow up, The Ethics of The Iron Wall (sooo racist towards Africans), in which he fully acknowledged that post Balfour Zionsim was colonialism, and that, based on the entirety of history, the native Palestinian population would resist being colonized until the bitter end. He directly compared it to the colonization of North America. He promoted doing it anyway, claiming Zionist colonialism was a "just" colonialism (he also thought North American colonialists were good guys, so not a great judge of morality), not caring what that meant for the native population. Ze'ev is important, because his Betar militant youth group helped found the Irgun terrorist group, along with other supporters of his, and the splinter Lehi terrorist group. The Irgun bombed numerous Palestinian markets and other public places, murdering many Palestinian civilians, including children, even including Palestinian Jews (who didn't support colonialist Zionsim). The Irgun are important, because they ended up being led by future Likud PM, Menachem Begin, who bombed the King David Hotel. The King David Hotel was bombed because the British had raided the Jewish Agency and seized numerous documents that may have shown that the terrorists were working with the JA and Haganah (JA liked to pretend that they didn't support the terrorism). The British then stored those documents at their base, in the hotel. That the Irgun terrorists responded to a JA raid, itself seems to prove the connection. That the thousands of Irgun (and Lehi) terrorists were also quickly merged into the new nation's military (IDF) and intelligence (Mossad) agencies, and are still celebrated as "heroes" by Israelis, to this day, also seems to support total collaboration between the groups. That other terrorist group mentioned, Lehi (also known as the Stern Gang), was considered even more extreme. They even tried to ally with the Nazis, against the British. Lehi ended up being led by Yitzhak Shamir, future Mossad agent, and another future Likud PM. They assassinated Lord Moyne, and others. In 1945, there was a major land and peoples survey done in Palestine. It showed that the Zionists only owned about 5% of the total land, 20% of the arable land, and owned a majority in zero districts. The partition was not only going to be forced on the native Palestinian majority, but Jews were still going to be a minority, in the part allocated to them. The only possible way to even become a "Jewish state" was going to require getting rid of the actual majority (at least enough so that there'd be a solid Jewish majority, so they could fake being democratic). This is also shown by the 1948, post Nakba, population of Israel. If there was 716,700 Jews, 156,000+ non-Jews, and approximately 700k non-Jews ethnically cleansed, that means the Jewish population, in the Zionist portion of partition, was originally over 100,000 less than the non-Jewish population. To believe that there was never any intent, by Zionists, to ethnically cleanse away the Palestinian majority would require believing that they never intended to create a "Jewish state". It's a nonsensical notion. Begin, and those terrorist groups, also opposed partition, but for the opposite reason Palestinians did. Palestinians didn't want to be colonized, at all. The terrorists wanted to colonize it all. "Moderate" Zionists were okay with colonizing half ... for now (what would happen in the future, after partition, was up to them, said Ben-Gurion). The Zionist terrorists were also involved in massacres, and assassinations, during the partition violence (colonialist war against the natives). Another notable future Likud PM, also started in the military, during the partition fighting. That was Ariel Sharon, war criminal, "Butcher of Beirut". Menachem Begin, and these other Zionist terrorists, are important because they became involved in Israeli politics, first forming Herut. That was the party that Albert Einstein, and other prominent American Jews, opposed, having a letter printed in the NYT, in December of 1948, when Begin came to visit the US. The letter opened ... "Among the most disturbing political phenomena of our times is the emergence in the newly created state of Israel of the "Freedom Party" (Tnuat Haherut), a political party closely akin in its organization, methods, political philosophy and social appeal to the Nazi and Fascist parties. It was formed out of the membership and following of the former Irgun Zvai Leumi, a terrorist, right-wing, chauvinist organization in Palestine." Herut merged with other extremist parties, over the years, and eventually became Likud, in the 70s. Now, people get upset over the slogan "From the river to the sea!", but it's the second part that's most important, "Palestine will be free!". Because "Palestine" isn't defined as an ethno-state, a free Palestine can be a single state, free for all to live in, and return to, free of continuing colonization, free of occupation, free of oppression, etc. Just like a Germany free of Nazism, an Italy free of fascism, a South Africa free of apartheid, or an America free of slavery from sea to shiny sea. It doesn't necessitate purging all the Jews. It just necessitates them giving up on the idea of an ethno-state. On the other hand, because "Israel" has been defined as an ethno-state, Likud's, "between the sea and the Jordan there will only be Israeli sovereignty", has no possible good interpretation. It is a declaration of intent to completely colonize, and ethnically cleanse, all Palestine territories. Not only that, but it also claims that they have a "right" to all of the "Land of Israel" (biblical borders that don't mesh with archaeological reality), which is an open declaration of future wars, against Jordan, Syria, Lebanon, and possibly even Iraq. Likud platform ... 1977: "The Right of the Jewish People to the Land of Israel (Eretz Israel) a. The right of the Jewish people to the land of Israel is eternal and indisputable and is linked with the right to security and peace; therefore, Judea and Samaria will not be handed to any foreign administration; between the Sea and the Jordan there will only be Israeli sovereignty. b. A plan which relinquishes parts of western Eretz Israel, undermines our right to the country, unavoidably leads to the establishment of a "Palestinian State," jeopardizes the security of the Jewish population, endangers the existence of the State of Israel. and frustrates any prospect of peace." "Settlement Settlement. both urban and rural. in all parts of the Land of Israel is the focal point of the Zionist effort to redeem the country, to maintain vital security areas and serves as a reservoir of strength and inspiration for the renewal of the pioneering spirit. The Likud government will call on the younger generation in Israel and the dispersions to settle and help every group and individual in the task of inhabiting and cultivating the wasteland, while taking care not to dispossess anyone." 1999: "The Government of Israel flatly rejects the establishment of a Palestinian Arab state west of the Jordan river. The Palestinians can run their lives freely in the framework of self-rule, but not as an independent and sovereign state. Thus, for example, in matters of foreign affairs, security, immigration, and ecology, their activity shall be limited in accordance with imperatives of Israel's existence, security and national needs." "The Jewish communities in Judea, Samaria, and Gaza are the realization of Zionist values. Settlement of the land is a clear expression of the unassailable right of the Jewish people to the Land of Israel and constitutes an important asset in the defense of the vital interests of the State of Israel. The Likud will continue to strengthen and develop these communities and will prevent their uprooting." All Palestine territories are officially considered occupied, by the International Court of Justice, the UN GA, the UN SC, and even in official documents of Israel's own allies. Likud is still using the blueprint for colonizing North America, in the West Bank. Move settlements out into native territory, piss off the natives, the natives retaliate, cry about poor "innocent" colonizing settlers being the "victims" of violent "Savages!", call in the cavalry to put down the native uprising, and eventually expand the borders to include those settlements. Rinse and repeat. In Gaza, Israel is operating an open air WWII style fascist ghetto. Them claiming a "right to defend themselves" would be like the Nazis claiming a "right to defend themselves " from the Warsaw ghetto uprising. There's no "war". That they're the occupiers means the "war" part is long over. Those people are actually supposed to be under the occupier's protection. That partition was forced upon the Palestinian majority, against their will ... that the Zionist portion still had to be forcefully ethnically cleansed of its non-Jewish majority, against their will ... that the millions of occupied Palestinians don't have a say in the government that truly rules over them, Israel's ... means Israel is about as democratic as Nazi Germany after Hitler purged his political opponents and then held elections.
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  458. Colonizers are never not the aggressors. It would be impossible for natives to attack them, if they weren't there doing their colonizing aggression, first.
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  459.  @gizroc  How is it "opinion"? Countries like Vietnam, S Korea, Japan, Australia, and New Zealand, responded amazingly. Countries like Norway, Denmark, Canada, Germany, and others, responded decently to mediocrely. The US would have had 200+k fewer covid deaths, just responding in Canada's mediocre fashion.
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  460. ​ @aliasfakename3159  No. You really can't. You could say it's Israel's 1622 massacre, when the Powhatan Confederacy massacred colonists of Jamestown, which was a response to Jamestown's colonialism and massacres of natives.
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  461.  @MBEG89  If the UN declared that Scientologists could have half of Israel, to create a Scientology nation, would Israelis say "Okay, great deal for us!"?
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  462.  Pro' se Kim  Rofl. Where you getting 133 from?
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  463. Ten years off the mark. More like the failed Beer Hall Putsch.
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  464. Small numbers? The US is now leading in new cases per day.
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  465. Maybe they should try to save money by not doing things that get them sued, and have to pay reparations.
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  466. Second on the money out of politics. It's easier for them to find another corporate Dem, or Republican, than it is to find another Bernie.
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  467. The founding fathers almost had a civil war out of the gate when a thousand armed anti-federalist Mainers marched on Providence, Rhode Island. Thomas Jefferson and Samuel Adams were opposed to the constitution, its centralized government, and presidential powers. Apparently they were right, that a president does have the power of a monarch and can do whatever the fuck he wants.
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  468. She went to Orangeburg Preparatory Schools, that were literally founded for white kids to avoid desegregation. The Orangeburg school system basically still is segregated ... "In a 1989 Boston Globe report, the superintendent of Orangeburg's public schools, James Wilsford, credited Orangeburg Prep for stepping away from its segregationist traditions, saying it was "a big move towards accommodating the modern world."[9] The Globe story stated that "[o]ne black student, the son of a physician, studied at Orangeburg Prep until his family moved back to Ohio recently." By 2007, the Orangeburg public school system was 90 percent black, while Orangeburg Prep was still 95 percent white.[10]"
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  469. Supposedly, Bernie would get the biggest bump from Biden dropping out. https://morningconsult.com/2020-democratic-primary/
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  470. Lost an interview 😂
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  471.  @markguilfoyle1053  Mom worked full time (as a TV executive). Dad (a composer) raised him and his siblings (in Studio City, where the median income is about 50% higher than the national median).
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  472. ​ @elizabethstanley7137  Constantly hate watching Kyle, is objectively weird, lady.
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  473. ​ @bnwo  Rofl, he listed left wing shows, that no left winger would have a problem with. You know Archie and Ted were being made fun of, right?
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  474. This isn't the damn trial phase. This is the investigation phase. In the real world, the police and DA don't even need to let you know you're being investigated for a crime.
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  475. ​ @newbieprepper8451  <- Rofl, this guy justifies killing civilians, and my comment got taken down?
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  476.  @stephengarbark6018  You're lying. Studies show it would be cheaper. Every other developed country indicates it would be cheaper.
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  477. Chris seemed to have skipped the part where Russia had been taking parts of, or all of, former Soviet states, since 1991, 8 years before any further NATO expansion. Makes it seem random that former Soviet states asked to join.
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  478. They aren't just centre-right, most are just plain right. Even right wing conservatives in most other developed countries support universal healthcare and don't support the kind of military spending that US corporate Democrats do. Republicans are just bat shit crazy far right.
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  479. She knows. She got her schooling from the Orangeburg Preparatory Schools, which were specifically founded for white kids only, to avoid desegregation ... literally founded on racism. They acknowledged admitting their first non-white student in 1989, the year she graduated, which means she had been considered white the whole time. It also means there was zero possible chance of her having black school friends growing up.
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  480.  @2mogar  Quit smoking crack. Massive wealth inequality, money getting hoarded at the top, led to the great depression.
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  481. And, most likely, to Ben Shapiro's wife.
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  482. Likud's bloody 100 year history ... In 1923, 100 years ago, Ze'ev Jabotinsky wrote, The Iron Wall, and a follow up, The Ethics of The Iron Wall (sooo racist towards Africans), in which he fully acknowledged that post Balfour Zionsim was colonialism, and that, based on the entirety of history, the native Palestinian population would resist being colonized until the bitter end. He directly compared it to the colonization of North America. He promoted doing it anyway, claiming Zionist colonialism was a "just" colonialism (he also thought North American colonialists were good guys, so not a great judge of morality), not caring what that meant for the native population. Ze'ev is important, because his Betar militant youth group helped found the Irgun terrorist group, along with other supporters of his, and the splinter Lehi terrorist group. The Irgun bombed numerous Palestinian markets and other public places, murdering many Palestinian civilians, including children, even including Palestinian Jews (who didn't support colonialist Zionsim). The Irgun are important, because they ended up being led by future Likud PM, Menachem Begin, who bombed the King David Hotel. The King David Hotel was bombed because the British had raided the Jewish Agency and seized numerous documents that may have shown that the terrorists were working with the JA and Haganah (JA liked to pretend that they didn't support the terrorism). The British then stored those documents at their base, in the hotel. That the Irgun terrorists responded to a JA raid, itself seems to prove the connection. That the thousands of Irgun (and Lehi) terrorists were also quickly merged into the new nation's military (IDF) and intelligence (Mossad) agencies, and are still celebrated as "heroes" by Israelis, to this day, also seems to support total collaboration between the groups. That other terrorist group mentioned, Lehi (also known as the Stern Gang), was considered even more extreme. They even tried to ally with the Nazis, against the British. Lehi ended up being led by Yitzhak Shamir, future Mossad agent, and another future Likud PM. They assassinated Lord Moyne, and others. In 1945, there was a major land and peoples survey done in Palestine. It showed that the Zionists only owned about 5% of the total land, 20% of the arable land, and owned a majority in zero districts. The partition was not only going to be forced on the native Palestinian majority, but Jews were still going to be a minority, in the part allocated to them. The only possible way to even become a "Jewish state" was going to require getting rid of the actual majority (at least enough so that there'd be a solid Jewish majority, so they could fake being democratic). This is also shown by the 1948, post Nakba, population of Israel. If there was 716,700 Jews, 156,000+ non-Jews, and approximately 700k non-Jews ethnically cleansed, that means the Jewish population, in the Zionist portion of partition, was originally over 100,000 less than the non-Jewish population. To believe that there was never any intent, by Zionists, to ethnically cleanse away the Palestinian majority would require believing that they never intended to create a "Jewish state". It's a nonsensical notion. Begin, and those terrorist groups, also opposed partition, but for the opposite reason Palestinians did. Palestinians didn't want to be colonized, at all. The terrorists wanted to colonize it all. "Moderate" Zionists were okay with colonizing half ... for now (what would happen in the future, after partition, was up to them, said Ben-Gurion). The Zionist terrorists were also involved in massacres, and assassinations, during the partition violence (colonialist war against the natives). Another notable future Likud PM, also started in the military, during the partition fighting. That was Ariel Sharon, war criminal, "Butcher of Beirut". Menachem Begin, and these other Zionist terrorists, are important because they became involved in Israeli politics, first forming Herut. That was the party that Albert Einstein, and other prominent American Jews, opposed, having a letter printed in the NYT, in December of 1948, when Begin came to visit the US. The letter opened ... "Among the most disturbing political phenomena of our times is the emergence in the newly created state of Israel of the "Freedom Party" (Tnuat Haherut), a political party closely akin in its organization, methods, political philosophy and social appeal to the Nazi and Fascist parties. It was formed out of the membership and following of the former Irgun Zvai Leumi, a terrorist, right-wing, chauvinist organization in Palestine." Herut merged with other extremist parties, over the years, and eventually became Likud, in the 70s. Now, people get upset over the slogan "From the river to the sea!", but it's the second part that's most important, "Palestine will be free!". Because "Palestine" isn't defined as an ethno-state, a free Palestine can be a single state, free for all to live in, and return to, free of continuing colonization, free of occupation, free of oppression, etc. Just like a Germany free of Nazism, an Italy free of fascism, a South Africa free of apartheid, or an America free of slavery from sea to shiny sea. It doesn't necessitate purging all the Jews. It just necessitates them giving up on the idea of an ethno-state. On the other hand, because "Israel" has been defined as an ethno-state, Likud's, "between the sea and the Jordan there will only be Israeli sovereignty", has no possible good interpretation. It is a declaration of intent to completely colonize, and ethnically cleanse, all Palestine territories. Not only that, but it also claims that they have a "right" to all of the "Land of Israel" (biblical borders that don't mesh with archaeological reality), which is an open declaration of future wars, against Jordan, Syria, Lebanon, and possibly even Iraq. Likud platform ... 1977: "The Right of the Jewish People to the Land of Israel (Eretz Israel) a. The right of the Jewish people to the land of Israel is eternal and indisputable and is linked with the right to security and peace; therefore, Judea and Samaria will not be handed to any foreign administration; between the Sea and the Jordan there will only be Israeli sovereignty. b. A plan which relinquishes parts of western Eretz Israel, undermines our right to the country, unavoidably leads to the establishment of a "Palestinian State," jeopardizes the security of the Jewish population, endangers the existence of the State of Israel. and frustrates any prospect of peace." "Settlement Settlement. both urban and rural. in all parts of the Land of Israel is the focal point of the Zionist effort to redeem the country, to maintain vital security areas and serves as a reservoir of strength and inspiration for the renewal of the pioneering spirit. The Likud government will call on the younger generation in Israel and the dispersions to settle and help every group and individual in the task of inhabiting and cultivating the wasteland, while taking care not to dispossess anyone." 1999: "The Government of Israel flatly rejects the establishment of a Palestinian Arab state west of the Jordan river. The Palestinians can run their lives freely in the framework of self-rule, but not as an independent and sovereign state. Thus, for example, in matters of foreign affairs, security, immigration, and ecology, their activity shall be limited in accordance with imperatives of Israel's existence, security and national needs." "The Jewish communities in Judea, Samaria, and Gaza are the realization of Zionist values. Settlement of the land is a clear expression of the unassailable right of the Jewish people to the Land of Israel and constitutes an important asset in the defense of the vital interests of the State of Israel. The Likud will continue to strengthen and develop these communities and will prevent their uprooting." All Palestine territories are officially considered occupied, by the International Court of Justice, the UN GA, the UN SC, and even in official documents of Israel's own allies. Likud is still using the blueprint for colonizing North America, in the West Bank. Move settlements out into native territory, piss off the natives, the natives retaliate, cry about poor "innocent" colonizing settlers being the "victims" of violent "Savages!", call in the cavalry to put down the native uprising, and eventually expand the borders to include those settlements. Rinse and repeat. In Gaza, Israel is operating an open air WWII style fascist ghetto. Them claiming a "right to defend themselves" would be like the Nazis claiming a "right to defend themselves " from the Warsaw ghetto uprising. There's no "war". That they're the occupiers means the "war" part is long over. Those people are actually supposed to be under the occupier's protection. That partition was forced upon the Palestinian majority, against their will ... that the Zionist portion still had to be forcefully ethnically cleansed of its non-Jewish majority, against their will ... that the millions of occupied Palestinians don't have a say in the government that truly rules over them, Israel's ... means Israel is about as democratic as Nazi Germany after Hitler purged his political opponents and then held elections.
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  483.  @torreyalexis6142  Conservative religious types used to get outraged at women's ankles. They've been cancelling things since forever.
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  484. Canada: Conservatives, right. Liberals, centre-right. NDP, centre. US: Republicans, far right. Most Democrats, right, some centre-right, and the few progressives centre.
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  485. If the Intercept, or other news outlets, don't cover the NY Post's many Bigfoot and UFO stories, is that censorship?
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  486.  @gudmundursturluson7683  No progressives expect Biden to be awesome. No progressives are surprised that there are even more conservative Dems than Biden. The only real difference is that Dore's "strategy" was to let Trump win again, even though every single one of predictions turned out wrong, the first time he promotes Trump as the better option.
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  487. Isn't she one of those "Hollywood elites" that they keep telling to shut up and stay out of politics?
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  488. Dave Rubin: Oh, we just have different ideas about my lifestyle, but it's all good. Also, nobody came to my wedding, because they don't think it should be legal, and they think I shouldn't have been allowed to adopt ... totally just about different ideas, not actions based on those ideas ...they love me ... right?
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  489.  @stonnergaming420  Why are you using the USSR as an example of communism? There were some very rich people in the USSR. By your own argument, that would mean they weren't communist.
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  490.  @shlockofgod  Pretty sure freeing millions of people, but leaving them completely destitute, with zero compensation for their centuries of labor, and then allowing for them to be discriminated against and segregated, for another hundred years, explains the disparity pretty well. What percentage of what DNA makes someone a specific race, exactly?
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  491. Fired him for getting caught.
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  492.  @tcb1012  You're lying, again. Trials don't take years, unless it's a very slow disease. The trials were done in a perfectly fine amount of time, all three phases.
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  493. ​ @AlexChecho  Also around the time Trump defaulted on his loan from Deutsche Bank, and they were suing each other, until he got another loan, from an undisclosed sponsor, through the private banking side of Deutsche Bank, not the Bank itself.
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  494. *born to an American, who happened to be in Canada, at the time Canada didn't create that thing. You can blame us for Justin Bieber though. Sorry.
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  495. @Tilip Muejark Dimwit Dore didn't care if Trump won again, the guy whose total ineptitude had a hand in hundreds of thousands of American deaths. That's not "sane".
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  496. Likud's bloody 100 year history ... In 1923, 100 years ago, Ze'ev Jabotinsky wrote, The Iron Wall, and a follow up, The Ethics of The Iron Wall (sooo racist towards Africans), in which he fully acknowledged that post Balfour Zionsim was colonialism, and that, based on the entirety of history, the native Palestinian population would resist being colonized until the bitter end. He directly compared it to the colonization of North America. He promoted doing it anyway, claiming Zionist colonialism was a "just" colonialism (he also thought North American colonialists were good guys, so not a great judge of morality), not caring what that meant for the native population. Ze'ev is important, because his Betar militant youth group helped found the Irgun terrorist group, along with other supporters of his, and the splinter Lehi terrorist group. The Irgun bombed numerous Palestinian markets and other public places, murdering many Palestinian civilians, including children, even including Palestinian Jews (who didn't support colonialist Zionsim). The Irgun are important, because they ended up being led by future Likud PM, Menachem Begin, who bombed the King David Hotel. The King David Hotel was bombed because the British had raided the Jewish Agency and seized numerous documents that may have shown that the terrorists were working with the JA and Haganah (JA liked to pretend that they didn't support the terrorism). The British then stored those documents at their base, in the hotel. That the Irgun terrorists responded to a JA raid, itself seems to prove the connection. That the thousands of Irgun (and Lehi) terrorists were also quickly merged into the new nation's military (IDF) and intelligence (Mossad) agencies, and are still celebrated as "heroes" by Israelis, to this day, also seems to support total collaboration between the groups. That other terrorist group mentioned, Lehi (also known as the Stern Gang), was considered even more extreme. They even tried to ally with the Nazis, against the British. Lehi ended up being led by Yitzhak Shamir, future Mossad agent, and another future Likud PM. They assassinated Lord Moyne, and others. The two terrorist groups also operated outside of Palestine. The Irgun bombed the British Embassy at Porta Pia, in Rome. The Lehi bombed the British Colonial Club, in London. A timer failed in another bombing attempt, at the Colonial Office, in Whitehall. Two female Lehi operatives were arrested crossing from Belgium to France, with the ingredients for letter bombs. 21 letter bombs were found to be have sent, and were intercepted. They mined the Cairo-Haifa train, in Egypt, twice, killing dozens of civilians, as well as British soldiers. In 1945, there was a major land and peoples survey done in Palestine. It showed that the Zionists only owned about 5% of the total land, 20% of the arable land, and owned a majority in zero districts. The partition was not only going to be forced on the native Palestinian majority, but Jews were still going to be a minority, in the part allocated to them. The only possible way to even become a "Jewish state" was going to require getting rid of the actual majority (at least enough so that there'd be a solid Jewish majority, so they could fake being democratic). This is also shown by the 1948, post Nakba, population of Israel. If there was 716,700 Jews, 156,000+ non-Jews, and approximately 700k non-Jews ethnically cleansed, that means the Jewish population, in the Zionist portion of partition, was originally over 100,000 less than the non-Jewish population. To believe that there was never any intent, by Zionists, to ethnically cleanse away the Palestinian majority would require believing that they never intended to create a "Jewish state". It's a nonsensical notion. Begin, and those terrorist groups, also opposed partition, but for the opposite reason Palestinians did. Palestinians didn't want to be colonized, at all. The terrorists wanted to colonize it all. "Moderate" Zionists were okay with colonizing half ... for now (what would happen in the future, after partition, was up to them, said Ben-Gurion). The Zionist terrorists were also involved in massacres, and assassinations, during the partition violence (colonialist war against the natives). Another notable future Likud PM, also started in the military, during the partition fighting. That was Ariel Sharon, war criminal, "Butcher of Beirut". Menachem Begin, and these other Zionist terrorists, are important because they became involved in Israeli politics, first forming Herut. That was the party that Albert Einstein, and other prominent American Jews, opposed, having a letter printed in the NYT, in December of 1948, when Begin came to visit the US. The letter opened ... "Among the most disturbing political phenomena of our times is the emergence in the newly created state of Israel of the "Freedom Party" (Tnuat Haherut), a political party closely akin in its organization, methods, political philosophy and social appeal to the Nazi and Fascist parties. It was formed out of the membership and following of the former Irgun Zvai Leumi, a terrorist, right-wing, chauvinist organization in Palestine." Herut merged with other extremist parties, over the years, and eventually became Likud, in the 70s. Now, people get upset over the slogan "From the river to the sea!", but it's the second part that's most important, "Palestine will be free!". Because "Palestine" isn't defined as an ethno-state, a free Palestine can be a single state, free for all to live in, and return to, free of continuing colonization, free of occupation, free of oppression, etc. Just like a Germany free of Nazism, an Italy free of fascism, a South Africa free of apartheid, or an America free of slavery from sea to shiny sea. It doesn't necessitate purging all the Jews. It just necessitates them giving up on the idea of an ethno-state. On the other hand, because "Israel" has been defined as an ethno-state, Likud's, "between the sea and the Jordan there will only be Israeli sovereignty", has no possible good interpretation. It is a declaration of intent to completely colonize, and ethnically cleanse, all Palestine territories. Not only that, but it also claims that they have a "right" to all of the "Land of Israel" (biblical borders that don't mesh with archaeological reality), which is an open declaration of future wars, against Jordan, Syria, Lebanon, and possibly even Iraq. Likud platform ... 1977: "The Right of the Jewish People to the Land of Israel (Eretz Israel) a. The right of the Jewish people to the land of Israel is eternal and indisputable and is linked with the right to security and peace; therefore, Judea and Samaria will not be handed to any foreign administration; between the Sea and the Jordan there will only be Israeli sovereignty. b. A plan which relinquishes parts of western Eretz Israel, undermines our right to the country, unavoidably leads to the establishment of a "Palestinian State," jeopardizes the security of the Jewish population, endangers the existence of the State of Israel. and frustrates any prospect of peace." 1999: "The Government of Israel flatly rejects the establishment of a Palestinian Arab state west of the Jordan river. The Palestinians can run their lives freely in the framework of self-rule, but not as an independent and sovereign state. Thus, for example, in matters of foreign affairs, security, immigration, and ecology, their activity shall be limited in accordance with imperatives of Israel's existence, security and national needs." "The Jewish communities in Judea, Samaria, and Gaza are the realization of Zionist values. Settlement of the land is a clear expression of the unassailable right of the Jewish people to the Land of Israel and constitutes an important asset in the defense of the vital interests of the State of Israel. The Likud will continue to strengthen and develop these communities and will prevent their uprooting." All Palestine territories are officially considered occupied, by the International Court of Justice, the UN GA, the UN SC, and even in official documents of Israel's own allies. Likud is still using the blueprint for colonizing North America, in the West Bank. Move settlements out into native territory, piss off the natives, the natives retaliate, cry about poor "innocent" colonizing settlers being the "victims" of violent "Savages!", call in the cavalry to put down the native uprising, and eventually expand the borders to include those settlements. Rinse and repeat. In Gaza, Israel is operating an open air WWII style fascist ghetto. Them claiming a "right to defend themselves" would be like the Nazis claiming a "right to defend themselves " from the Warsaw ghetto uprising. There's no "war". That they're the occupiers means the "war" part is long over. Those people are actually supposed to be under the occupier's protection. That partition was forced upon the Palestinian majority, against their will ... that the Zionist portion still had to be forcefully ethnically cleansed of its non-Jewish majority, against their will ... that the millions of occupied Palestinians don't have a say in the government that truly rules over them, Israel's ... means Israel is about as democratic as Nazi Germany after Hitler purged his political opponents and then held elections.
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  497.  @mikevi1629  Are you under some delusion that all Dems are progressive? Did Pelosi ask her to use her platform and PAC to back 20 pro-M4A progressives, help add a few more M4A yes votes to congress, and help remove a few more corporate Dems from congress? If yes, then Pelosi doesn't sound too bad. If no, then your full of crap. AOC has done more for M4A in 2 years than Dore has in his entire lifetime.
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  498.  @rentfree1438  Beta Trump couldn't even win a trade war with Trudeau.
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  499. ​ @sheldonfish7801  I voted that I get half of whatever province/state you live in (the half you're living in), and I'll need everyone to move out of "my" half, so I can be a "democratic" majority. Deal?
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  500.  @YouConnolly  Canada's covid deaths per million would translate into about 600k fewer US covid deaths.
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  501.  @Illumirage  Nope. Wanting to put things back to the way they were in some ancient fairy tale, is objectively moronic.
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  502. *pre-college boarding school, where his rich parents ditched him Walz went to public schools.
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  503. ​ @Ghastlyteaparty  I'd argue that all of the absolute monarchies in history were also forms of capitalism. An absolute monarchy is a 100% privately owned and operated endeavor, with a monopoly on property. That private property owner then makes whatever rules they want, for living on their land, and has a private army to enforce those rules. Feudalism is what an ancap environment leads to.
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  504. Yeah, they don't seem to grasp how anything works. Banks all doing their own bank notes didn't work well outside of local trade. They only had full redeemable value at the issuing bank. So, a bank in Montreal wouldn't take a note from a bank in Halifax, at least not at full value. Because, they'd have to take it to Halifax, to redeem it for actual currency (British pound). There's also the case of mining companies building their own little towns, and issuing their own currency to workers, as pay. Those workers then couldn't use the currency anywhere else, except the mining company shops. It allowed them to fully monopolize their workers.
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  505. My first reply was hidden, because I said I s r a e l, instead of IL.
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  506.  @dr.wolfstar1765  Jimmy Dore literally censored his own guest for mentioning Sam's name, because Sam kicked his ass in 2016. Tim Pool made up that he can't Skype, or whatever, a week before Skyping with Rogan.
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  507. ​ @albertobenevenuto77 Uh huh, which requires them being available to buy ... you know, like a right to a gun. It doesn't mean everyone is handed a gun. It means forms of contraception can't be banned, as some Republicans have been doing, or trying to do.
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  508.  @0ldar  Tough to do, when they're openly embracing being ignorant, fighting against science, wanting to live according to a fairytale, etc.
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  509. ​ @beng2729  Nope. Palestinians have Canaanite DNA. They're Arab and Muslim the same way indigenous peoples of Central America are now Hispanic and Catholic.
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  510.  @jasongrundy1717  You're the moron, talking nonsense. Look at 10 years, and then 3 years. Obama's last budget ran through 2017. The Dow has flatlined since Trump's first budget. https://www.macrotrends.net/1358/dow-jones-industrial-average-last-10-years All he has done is increase the deficit with tax cuts for the rich, shock the stock market multiple times with tariffs, and is now heading for another recession.
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  511. Even worse than just gamblers handing you money. His daddy bought $3m in chips and didn't cash them, handing him millions. They got a small fine for breaking the law, but the casino got to keep almost all of it. And, he still went bankrupt.
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  512.  @jdowfleetwood  You're pointlessly whatabouting on the wrong channel, troll. Sam has compared Maddow to Glenn Beck, before, and criticizes MSNBC frequently. Most people here probably aren't fans of corporate MSM, dimwit.
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  513.  @IV_97  Don't they tend to vote for conserving bullshit, rather than vote for their own, and others', economic interests?
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  514. ​ @ianthabailey555  Yep. A 2.5x higher COVID dth rate than neighbor Canada, equivalent to hundreds of thousands of preventable dths.
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  515. The "change my mind" format allows for Crowder to make his own argument the starting point, without having to prove it true, and forces the opponent to try and prove it false. It's a fallacious format, also fancied by many religious types.
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  516. That's how sting operations work. They get people totally on intent. Like a cop posing as a hit man and meeting with someone who wants to take out their spouse. Or, the guys who show up to meet a fake underage girl.
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  517. The company's ships are also Chinese government made, and it gets loans from the bank of China, where another sister sits on the board of directors. They're up to their eyeballs working with the Chinese government, which they've been saying is a no no.
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  518. ​ @Scifi4life  Why not? They usually use multiple embryos, fully expecting most to fail. That's why they sometimes have multiple not fail.
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  519.  @arcanondrum6543  The majority voted "against" every single party in the federal election.
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  520. Those things aren't mutually exclusive, dumb dumb. Almost all modern republics are representative democracies, including the US.
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  521.  @barbiquearea  A blonde James Bond should have already ruined the franchise for you, or even every James Bond after Connery that didn't have his same accent, or build, if consistency was your only issue.
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  522.  @stevesproul1627  Are you daft? You don't have to be a 90 year old German to practice Nazism. Naz-ism is an ism. Anyone can give it a go, if they want, and thousands of people, around the globe, have openly declared they're doing just that.
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  523.  @SuCKeRPunCH187  Conservative religious types have been cancelling things and people for centuries. They do it a ton.
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  524.  @hibidder2001  The first Omicron death in the US was a reinfection of an unvaccinated person.
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  525. ​ @hizzlemobizzle  I refer them to the UN Office of Genocide Prevention. Genocide: "The definition contained in Article II of the Convention describes genocide as a crime committed with the intent to destroy a national, ethnic, racial or religious group, in whole or in part." Ethnic cleansing: "The Commission of Experts added that these practices can “… constitute crimes against humanity and can be assimilated to specific war crimes. Furthermore, such acts could also fall within the meaning of the Genocide Convention.”"
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  526.  @glennjohn3824  And yet every vaccine mandate that has been challenged has been deemed constitutional.
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  527. What about the Dore knobs, who just invent strawman "promises", and claim she hasn't fulfilled them? Of course, they only represent a tiny fringe element, of less than 400k Tulsi and Green voters. Maybe they're too irrelevant for your generalized metric.
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  528. So Trump. Good for you.
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  529. ​ @robertmarks2379  "Teflon"? He has had to pay around $500k in fines, for improperly running his casinos. Settled, for not renting to black Americans. Settled, for not following his court order, and again not renting to black Americans. Settled, for grifting his own Trump University fans. Was found guilty of rape and defamation. Has been found guilty of fraud. ... Worst "teflon" ever.
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  530. ​ @Gandingas  Not what they said. The beliefs being joked about, mocked, were actual beliefs. The Catholic church even led any anti-condom campaign, outright lying that condoms cause HIV, in Africa, as tens of millions of people died. "Every sperm is sacred" is an actual belief, that Monty Python made fun of.
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  531. ​ @paulkeiper1381  What are you talking about? Tips were taxed well before 2021.
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  532. ​ @HEAT4YOAZZ  He pulled over and helped identify the vehicle. He was still pretending to be the cop, when he was talking to them, in person. Where was the supposed cousin, then? You're throwing up a defense for someone who is clearly a loon.
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  533.  @aarondickson1898  If the US had a response similar to Vietnam or S Korea, it would translate into under 12k deaths total. Even a mediocre response, like Canada's, would translate into 300+k fewer deaths. US leaders, with the Big Cheeto at the top, are most definitely to blame for hundreds of thousands of covid deaths.
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  534.  @cooldrop02  He's blaming his state governor, who isn't the one who can afford to pay people $20k to stay home for 2 months, for locking down without paying them, when it's the federal government who should be paying people. Plus, encouraging people to defy lockdown, spread the virus, and kill even more friends and family, seems a bit nutty of a response.
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  535.  @johnobrien1528  The $15 got a vote, even passed the house. What do Dore knobs do? Just keep bitching about those who got it to stay in for a round of voting and voted for it. They've proven that they're pathetic good for nothings, and would have likewise done nothing with an M4A vote. Trump dropped more bombs than Obama, including on Syria and Somalia. Weird how Dore knobs didn't give a crap if he was re-elected.
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  536.  @yarrowlove5086  Oh, you're crazy. My bad, for engaging.
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  537.  @rentfree1438  Biden, the guy Trump lost the election to?
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  538. Nixon was the youngest member of the house un-American Activities Commission, and ran a brutal red scare campaign against his opponent for the California senate race. FDR voting, union leader, Reagan had been supporting Nixon's opponent, until Reagan and Nixon had some kind of meeting, when someone convinced Reagan to go to a Nixon rally. Reagan then dropped his support of Nixon's opponent, and started taking the oath to crazytown. On top of the extreme anti-socialists, Nixon then went after the racist vote, in 1972. He was the one who started collecting all the nuts into one basket, including Reagan.
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  539. ​ @scottkessel952  Yeah, those mostly Republican state legislatures aren't the sharpest tools in the shed.
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  540. Lost 2 popular votes.
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  541. It doesn't seem to make sense that Rudy was promoting the congressional investigation into Hunter Biden and the Ukraine for months, all while sitting on verifiable evidence that could have helped the investigation he was promoting. Seems more likely that the evidence isn't verifiable, so was released afterwards.
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  542. Likud's bloody 100 year history ... In 1923, 100 years ago, Ze'ev Jabotinsky wrote, The Iron Wall, and a follow up, The Ethics of The Iron Wall (sooo racist towards Africans), in which he fully acknowledged that post Balfour Zionsim was colonialism, and that, based on the entirety of history, the native Palestinian population would resist being colonized until the bitter end. He directly compared it to the colonization of North America. He promoted doing it anyway, claiming Zionist colonialism was a "just" colonialism (he also thought North American colonialists were good guys, so not a great judge of morality), not caring what that meant for the native population. Ze'ev is important, because his Betar militant youth group helped found the Irgun terrorist group, along with other supporters of his, and the splinter Lehi terrorist group. The Irgun bombed numerous Palestinian markets and other public places, murdering many Palestinian civilians, including children, even including Palestinian Jews (who didn't support colonialist Zionsim). The Irgun are important, because they ended up being led by future Likud PM, Menachem Begin, who bombed the King David Hotel. The King David Hotel was bombed because the British had raided the Jewish Agency and seized numerous documents that may have shown that the terrorists were working with the JA and Haganah (JA liked to pretend that they didn't support the terrorism). The British then stored those documents at their base, in the hotel. That the Irgun terrorists responded to a JA raid, itself seems to prove the connection. That the thousands of Irgun (and Lehi) terrorists were also quickly merged into the new nation's military (IDF) and intelligence (Mossad) agencies, and are still celebrated as "heroes" by Israelis, to this day, also seems to support total collaboration between the groups. That other terrorist group mentioned, Lehi (also known as the Stern Gang), was considered even more extreme. They even tried to ally with the Nazis, against the British. Lehi ended up being led by Yitzhak Shamir, future Mossad agent, and another future Likud PM. They assassinated Lord Moyne, and others. The two terrorist groups also operated outside of Palestine. The Irgun bombed the British Embassy at Porta Pia, in Rome. The Lehi bombed the British Colonial Club, in London. A timer failed in another bombing attempt, at the Colonial Office, in Whitehall. Two female Lehi operatives were arrested crossing from Belgium to France, with the ingredients for letter bombs. 21 letter bombs were found to be have sent, and were intercepted. They mined the Cairo-Haifa train, in Egypt, twice, killing dozens of civilians, as well as British soldiers. In 1945, there was a major land and peoples survey done in Palestine. It showed that the Zionists only owned about 5% of the total land, 20% of the arable land, and owned a majority in zero districts. The partition was not only going to be forced on the native Palestinian majority, but Jews were still going to be a minority, in the part allocated to them. The only possible way to even become a "Jewish state" was going to require getting rid of the actual majority (at least enough so that there'd be a solid Jewish majority, so they could fake being democratic). This is also shown by the 1948, post Nakba, population of Israel. If there was 716,700 Jews, 156,000+ non-Jews, and approximately 700k non-Jews ethnically cleansed, that means the Jewish population, in the Zionist portion of partition, was originally over 100,000 less than the non-Jewish population. To believe that there was never any intent, by Zionists, to ethnically cleanse away the Palestinian majority would require believing that they never intended to create a "Jewish state". It's a nonsensical notion. Begin, and those terrorist groups, also opposed partition, but for the opposite reason Palestinians did. Palestinians didn't want to be colonized, at all. The terrorists wanted to colonize it all. "Moderate" Zionists were okay with colonizing half ... for now (what would happen in the future, after partition, was up to them, said Ben-Gurion). The Zionist terrorists were also involved in massacres, and assassinations, during the partition violence (colonialist war against the natives). Another notable future Likud PM, also started in the military, during the partition fighting. That was Ariel Sharon, war criminal, "Butcher of Beirut". Menachem Begin, and these other Zionist terrorists, are important because they became involved in Israeli politics, first forming Herut. That was the party that Albert Einstein, and other prominent American Jews, opposed, having a letter printed in the NYT, in December of 1948, when Begin came to visit the US. The letter opened ... "Among the most disturbing political phenomena of our times is the emergence in the newly created state of Israel of the "Freedom Party" (Tnuat Haherut), a political party closely akin in its organization, methods, political philosophy and social appeal to the Nazi and Fascist parties. It was formed out of the membership and following of the former Irgun Zvai Leumi, a terrorist, right-wing, chauvinist organization in Palestine." Herut merged with other extremist parties, over the years, and eventually became Likud, in the 70s. Now, people get upset over the slogan "From the river to the sea!", but it's the second part that's most important, "Palestine will be free!". Because "Palestine" isn't defined as an ethno-state, a free Palestine can be a single state, free for all to live in, and return to, free of continuing colonization, free of occupation, free of oppression, etc. Just like a Germany free of Nazism, an Italy free of fascism, a South Africa free of apartheid, or an America free of slavery from sea to shiny sea. It doesn't necessitate purging all the Jews. It just necessitates them giving up on the idea of an ethno-state. On the other hand, because "Israel" has been defined as an ethno-state, Likud's, "between the sea and the Jordan there will only be Israeli sovereignty", has no possible good interpretation. It is a declaration of intent to completely colonize, and ethnically cleanse, all Palestine territories. Not only that, but it also claims that they have a "right" to all of the "Land of Israel" (biblical borders that don't mesh with archaeological reality), which is an open declaration of future wars, against Jordan, Syria, Lebanon, and possibly even Iraq. Likud platform ... 1977: "The Right of the Jewish People to the Land of Israel (Eretz Israel) a. The right of the Jewish people to the land of Israel is eternal and indisputable and is linked with the right to security and peace; therefore, Judea and Samaria will not be handed to any foreign administration; between the Sea and the Jordan there will only be Israeli sovereignty. b. A plan which relinquishes parts of western Eretz Israel, undermines our right to the country, unavoidably leads to the establishment of a "Palestinian State," jeopardizes the security of the Jewish population, endangers the existence of the State of Israel. and frustrates any prospect of peace." 1999: "The Government of Israel flatly rejects the establishment of a Palestinian Arab state west of the Jordan river. The Palestinians can run their lives freely in the framework of self-rule, but not as an independent and sovereign state. Thus, for example, in matters of foreign affairs, security, immigration, and ecology, their activity shall be limited in accordance with imperatives of Israel's existence, security and national needs." "The Jewish communities in Judea, Samaria, and Gaza are the realization of Zionist values. Settlement of the land is a clear expression of the unassailable right of the Jewish people to the Land of Israel and constitutes an important asset in the defense of the vital interests of the State of Israel. The Likud will continue to strengthen and develop these communities and will prevent their uprooting." All Palestine territories are officially considered occupied, by the International Court of Justice, the UN GA, the UN SC, and even in official documents of Israel's own allies. Likud is still using the blueprint for colonizing North America, in the West Bank. Move settlements out into native territory, piss off the natives, the natives retaliate, cry about poor "innocent" colonizing settlers being the "victims" of violent "Savages!", call in the cavalry to put down the native uprising, and eventually expand the borders to include those settlements. Rinse and repeat. In Gaza, Israel is operating an open air WWII style fascist ghetto. Them claiming a "right to defend themselves" would be like the Nazis claiming a "right to defend themselves " from the Warsaw ghetto uprising. There's no "war". That they're the occupiers means the "war" part is long over. Those people are actually supposed to be under the occupier's protection. That partition was forced upon the Palestinian majority, against their will ... that the Zionist portion still had to be forcefully ethnically cleansed of its non-Jewish majority, against their will ... that the millions of occupied Palestinians don't have a say in the government that truly rules over them, Israel's ... means Israel is about as democratic as Nazi Germany after Hitler purged his political opponents and then held elections.
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  543.  @FnRenner  If they feel secure in their job being openly racist, bigoted, sexist, or whatever, that's not a good sign for society, especially the society in their voting district.
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  544. Doesn't want it to happen, but threatens Washington on their behalf. Nice guy.
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  545.  @emblemedfate4270  Republican Mueller charged 26 Russians and 3 Russian companies, and the FBI under Trump were the ones saying they interfered in 2020, as well. You must be thinking of the multiple baseless Benghazi investigations that found no evidence of wrongdoing.
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  546.  @aliamjon2550  They had already come prepared, dumb dumb. If you think it all hinges on a few words spoken day of, and not months of lying to them, then you're not very bright.
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  547. I think the Republicans have been giving a home to various right wing extremists, since the 50s. They took in all the extreme anti-socialist McCarthy types, they took in the anti-Civil Rights racist types, they took in the anti-feminists, they took in religious extremists, they took in Tea partiers, and then the Trump cult ... becoming a party of lunatics.
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  548.  @timetraveler7929  Shove your anecdote. People on government healthcare insurance are more satisfied than those with private, and those on VA, completely socialized, are the most satisfied. The UK's almost completely socialized healthcare system ranks tops in the developed world. The US's most privatized system in the developed world ranks at the bottom.
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  549.  @bombaylounge1928  Just speeding mandates; seatbelt mandates; drinking and driving mandates; licensing mandates; insurance mandates; street sign, light, and line mandates; no driving zone mandates; ... all for something that kills over 10x fewer people a year.
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  550. Don't the big 3 also making electric vehicles, or hybrids, now? Trump makes no sense.
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  551. Would you also like to hear the Nazi side of the Warsaw ghetto uprising?
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  552. Zoom not allowing for remote work is somewhat ironic, considering remote work, during lockdowns, boosted their brand.
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  553. ​ @Fandango2972  So you're in favor of letting Pvtin do what he wants in Ukraine?
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  554.  @keithdoherty9155  Lol, groups of people in wheelchairs identify people as "walkies" and "wheelies", themselves. Why should I care if someone pointed out I was on wheels?
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  555.  @TangoNevada  Facts don't care about your feelings. You clearly didn't pay attention to the fact that she didn't get away with the "they aren't the same" dodge.
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  556.  @si_quest  Basically all someone Jewish has to do to become Israeli is move there, and they get citizenship immediately. They don't have to know anything more than what they know now. The OP could become Israeli, simply by setting foot in Israel. There is an open invitation "right of return" to every Jewish person in the world. Not quite the same thing as any other country, that I know of. So, as a Jew, that invitation extends to the OP, who is expressing opinions about a place they're openly invited to live in. And, as an American, the OP should also be able to talk as a taxpayer providing tons of military aid.
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  557. ​ @bruteboy123  Tim was fine with that, up to about 23 weeks. His entire point of contention was basically the third trimester. In the third trimester, basically all abrtns are due to the health of the mother or fetus. Tim wanted to carve out a regulation, for an almost non existent percent of people, that would still affect all the health reasons, as multiple states have now shown.
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  558. MLK Jr did not simply criticize silence. He criticized trying to placate agitators, to silence a movement, telling them not to ruffle feathers. He criticized telling those rising up to calm down and sit down. Biden is exactly that ... "I agree with you in the goal you seek, but I cannot agree with your methods of direct action" ... and wants people without healthcare to sit their asses down, wants people not getting paid a living wage to sit their asses down, wants people facing racial injustice to sit their asses down, etc. Be patient. Unite behind doing nothing, or as little as possible, and be content to accept whatever you get. "I have almost reached the regrettable conclusion that the Negro's great stumbling block in his stride toward freedom is not the White Citizen's Counciler or the Ku Klux Klanner, but the white moderate, who is more devoted to "order" than to justice; who prefers a negative peace which is the absence of tension to a positive peace which is the presence of justice; who constantly says: "I agree with you in the goal you seek, but I cannot agree with your methods of direct action"; who paternalistically believes he can set the timetable for another man's freedom; who lives by a mythical concept of time and who constantly advises the Negro to wait for a "more convenient season." Shallow understanding from people of good will is more frustrating than absolute misunderstanding from people of ill will. Lukewarm acceptance is much more bewildering than outright rejection. I had hoped that the white moderate would understand that law and order exist for the purpose of establishing justice and that when they fail in this purpose they become the dangerously structured dams that block the flow of social progress. I had hoped that the white moderate would understand that the present tension in the South is a necessary phase of the transition from an obnoxious negative peace, in which the Negro passively accepted his unjust plight, to a substantive and positive peace, in which all men will respect the dignity and worth of human personality. Actually, we who engage in nonviolent direct action are not the creators of tension. We merely bring to the surface the hidden tension that is already alive. We bring it out in the open, where it can be seen and dealt with. Like a boil that can never be cured so long as it is covered up but must be opened with all its ugliness to the natural medicines of air and light, injustice must be exposed, with all the tension its exposure creates, to the light of human conscience and the air of national opinion before it can be cured."
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  559.  @Addamo  Dore has healthcare. That's why he doesn't give a crap about taking some third party route that hasn't won the most popular third party a single seat in congress in its near 50 year existence. That's why he didn't give a crap about promoting Tulsi instead of Bernie. That's why he didn't give a crap about promoting Trump, who was running on tossing 10m of the poorest Americans off of Medicaid expansion, as a better option than Clinton, who was running on adding 40m older Americans to Medicare expansion. That's why he doesn't give a crap about slandering M4A's most ardent congressional supporters, who have done more for M4A in a few years than he has in his entire lifetime. Dore doesn't actually give a crap.
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  560.  @Addamo  You're simply lying. Dore did back Tulsi in 2020 and did promote Trump as the better option in 2016. AOC used her platform and PAC to back 20 other pro-M4A progressives, helping to add a few more M4A yes votes to congress. The very thing that needs doing to ever pass the bill. She was just promoting M4A while campaigning for Nina. Dore knobs have nothing but slander. Whether Dore had money troubles, at some point, doesn't change the fact that he doesn't now, and only seems to care about himself. When the 30 year old broader progressive caucus is about 10 seats away from becoming the majority of house Dems ... when the 4 year old Justice Dems have replaced about a dozen corporate Dems ... when AOC who has been at it a couple years helps replace a few more corporate Dems ... that has to be about the dumbest time to give it up for zero seats, zero bills submitted, zero amendments submitted, zero votes on even a single bill, so you can take a third party route that hasn't won the most popular third party a single seat in congress in its near 50 year existence. It's nuts, and likely won't get you M4A in your lifetime.
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  561.  @whyamimrpink78  If you have to start up a hotline, or offer up to a million dollars, that's evidence you don't already have evidence of widespread voter fraud.
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  562. Weird how Americans would rather pay more, just so they don't have to help pay for others, out of spite.
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  563.  @siddave549  “I have always regretted the dumb and offensive comments I made in my 20s, on atheism and homosexuality. They still embarrass me, but they haven’t been representative of my beliefs for over a decade,” he told TheWrap in an additional statement. “Rather than bury them, I chose to raise them myself in a Twitter thread over the weekend to try and urge us all to reckon with our prejudices and to challenge hate speech – whether witting or unwitting – wherever we find it.”
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  564.  luke lifter  A whole lot of nonsense, there. Norway had immediate lockdowns, and a medium testing rate (tests per confirmed case). It's not the same country as Sweden. Sweden, which didn't do much, and landed itself amongst the top countries in the world for covid deaths per capita, 5-10x the rate of its neighbors, Norway, Denmark, and Sweden. Other countries with medium testing rates (like Canada and Germany) also had mediocre results, but better than countries with low testing rates (US, UK, France, Italy, Spain). You're spouting nonsense about testing. In countries with extremely high testing rates (like S Korea, Vietnam, New Zealand, Australia), it didn't lead to finding more and more cases, or deaths. It allowed them to get ahead of the spread and quarantine asymptotic carriers, leading to fewer cases and deaths. Japan had one of the lowest covid deaths per capita rates, with just their readiness and willingness to wear masks. All the negatives you claim about mask use, would have affected them more than almost anyone else. 80% of the population has been using masks. Nothing you stated about testing is true. And, although slow, are trying to get all their elderly vaccinated by July. You're lying about them not touching vaccines.
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  565.  @joshparsons7631  This. Government funded vaccines is like a tiny taste of universal healthcare, and you get right wingers and Dore knob types selling vaccine misinformation and unproven remedies that would cost you out of pocket. Plus, the average price of a bottle of 20 ivermectin pills is like $100. A Pfizer shot is about $15. J&J is even cheaper. Rogan's treatment was thousands more. They're also peddling the more expensive treatment.
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  566. ​ @DanNorton1  What smear? She, and her husband, collected social security and medicare.
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  567. Applying his argument to every country, "patriotic" Germans should be portraying 1921-1945 in a positive light?
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  568. Weird for her to pick the Bible anyway. It has a bunch of passages about quarantining the unclean, including menstruating women.
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  569. ​ @DoctorBiobrain  Nazi Mickey vs Nazi Trump? Depends ... who/what does Nazi Mickey hate? Cats?
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  570. I don't need him to scream, but I expect the "think like a scientist" guy to be objective. Saying he supports Israel taking out Hamas, is somewhat like saying you support the Nazis taking out the Jewish resistance, by bombing the Warsaw ghetto. Israel is objectively the aggressor by every relevant measure.
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  571. Start with using a more honest left-right measure, in the US. By Canadian standards, US progressives are centre to centre-left, US corporate Dems are centre-right to right of centre, and US Republicans and Libertarians are right of centre to far right. While there are a fair number of US politicians who spew far right Ayn Rand philosophy, there's no actual far left calling for complete economic equality, equal ownership of property, resources, and means of production, and an end to capitalism. Corporate Dems aren't "left", at all. Even right of centre politicians in other countries support things like universal healthcare and gun control. Many US corporate Dems are right of them.
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  572. Also of note: Multiple southern states still have a special Confederate Memorial Day, even called Confederate Heroes Day in some. Republicans have been letting bills to change them die in committees, or just not bringing them up for votes.
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  573.  @OblateSpheroid  Women being treated like baby factories is "negative" or "positive" depending on your subjective opinion. Personally, I think treating them like baby factories as a negative, and them now having more diverse lives as a positive. I have 3 daughters, and don't think they should be treated like they don't exist, until they have children.
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  574. It should be along the lines of false advertising. If a media outlet claims to be peddling news, then they should peddle news, otherwise not be allowed to advertise themselves as a news channel.
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  575. A flat tax could make sense, but only if it's on wealth, not income. But, I don't think they want that. The 3 wealthiest Americans own as much wealth as the bottom 50%. Those 3, alone, should be paying the same amount of total taxes, as the bottom 50%.
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  576.  @EpicAlcatraz99  That's like claiming Native Americans "started" wars against European colonialists, who had been ethnically cleansing them, from shortly after they arrived.
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  577.  @kylemcdonnell86  How is the US response being one of the worst in the world, not its leaders faults? If Trump couldn't have done anything more, then how did other countries manage to do so much more?
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  578.  @Evirthewarrior  "constantly attacks everyone from the left" No, he doesn't. He has currently been attacking a vaccine, with a government negotiated price, given to the public for free. That's, literally, a tiny taste of what M4A would be like. He, and Max, have also made a dishonest attack on the UK's completely socialized healthcare system. He has also peddled unproven, more expensive, paid for out of pocket, alternatives. None of that is, at all, leftist. Jimmy's voting advice benefits Republicans more than anyone else. That is not, at all, leftist. He promotes allying with "extreme free market" psycho Boogaloos, who want the complete opposite of socialism, and a civil war. They would be shooting you, if you tried to install M4A, after helping them overthrow the government. That's not, at all, leftist. Dore is the kind of "leftist" that ends up on the wrong side of a Night of the Long Knives. Dore is a grifter. Grifters claim to be selling you one thing, but they're actually selling you something else. He benefits the far right.
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  579. ​ @MyName-cw4yr  How so? Jordan has over 2m Palestinian refugees. That's equivalent to the US taking in over 60m.
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  580. Nah. Independent, to split their votes.
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  581. God gives girl incurable disease, and then decides throwing her off a tree is the best way to cure her. Cool story.
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  582. She needs to go for an injunction. If he violates that, he can be held in contempt, charged, and tossed in jail.
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  583. Yes. So many people seem to think vaccines work like force fields. They produce antibodies, which go to work when you get infected.
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  584.  @cmdrlucas6949  Rofl. Conservatives can only win pluralities outside of Alberta and Saskatchewan. They're lucky people split votes between Liberal, NDP, and BQ. 2/3 of the country is not conservative. There's nowhere near the close split, like the US.
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  585. The auto industry makes the electric cars and hybrids, dumb dumb. Record profits.
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  586. He said "Israel". Has Israel not been dictating the media narrative, for decades?
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  587. ​ @honestdon1772  Do tell. How do they do that?
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  588.  Trump Felonius  Funny how the gop constantly mentions religion, and tries to make laws based on religion.
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  589. "You were telling me yesterday" ... They knew they would be on camera again.
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  590. No, no, he's a libertarian! sarcasm
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  591. This event has broken Ben's mind. I'll have to start ditching TYT channels, if he keeps reporting on it. His mind has left reality. Modern history: 100 years ago, in 1923, Ze'ev Jabotinsky fully acknowledged that Zionism is colonialism, and that, based on the entirety of history, that the natives would fight it until the bitter end. He just didn't care what would happen to them, and promoted doing it anyway. Colonizers are never not the aggressors. On top of the colonialist nature of Zionism, the Zionists also formed terrorist organizations, like the Irgun and Lehi. They bombed many Palestinian markets and other public places, murdering many civilians, including children, even including Palestinian Jews (who opposed Zionism). Israel merged those terrorists into the new nation's military and intelligence agencies. Israelis elected Menachem Begin, leader of the Irgun, child murderer, Jew murderer, and bomber of the King David Hotel, as PM. Israelis, to this day, celebrate those terrorists as "heroes". Zionists literally taught their neighbours that terrorism is a valid path to independence and statehood, and that terrorists are to be celebrated. In 1945, it is well documented that Zionists owned just 5% of the land and were a majority nowhere. Israel was formed by actually going against the majority population. It's foundation is completely undemocratic. Then, becoming a majority, in "your" new nation, by ethnic cleansing the actual majority, and then claiming to be democratic, is utter nonsense. Law: Israel is considered an occupier by the International Court, the UN GA, and the UN SC. Occupiers are also never not the aggressors. Those occupied actually have a right to resist occupation. On the flip side, it is illegal for the occupier to settle occupied lands, and illegal to use collective punishment. Israel is a rogue nation, that doesn't abide by international law. What it has been doing, and is doing now, is illegal. Current events: This year, alone, prior to Oct 7 ... Israel held over 1200 Palestinian hostages without charges ... over 200 Palestinians had been killed by the IDF and settlers ... over 1000 Palestinians had been displaced by Israel's neverending colonization of the West Bank ... and, Israel continued to operate an open air WWII style fascist ghetto. Even ignoring modern history and law, in no reality did Hamas "start" anything. Ben is apparently cool with ignoring what was happening to Palestinians, and pretending everything started on Oct 7. Actual Hamas supporter: Netanyahu promoted, and helped fund, Hamas, to weaken the Palestinian Authority, to avoid a potential peace, so he could continue his colonization project. This is very much like the US promoting and funding religious extremists in Afghanistan, and that ending up biting them in the ass. Plus, he was warned by Egypt and, instead of strengthening the Gaza border, he moved Gazan troops to the West Bank, to support his colonization. Almost like he wanted his pet terrorists to actually break through. Ben would be blaming the Jewish underground for the Warsaw ghetto uprising, instead of the Nazis. By no measure, is Israel not the aggressor ... unless you dishonestly start measuring on Oct 7.
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  592. He also claims he didn't incite an insurrection, while also claiming he knew there would be trouble and that he was saying the national guard should be brought in before the event (which nobody else seems to recall, so maybe he was talking to himself). He also claims that his speech, that day, was perfect, but the insurrectionists came prepared, clearly showing they were already incited.
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  593. What's also funny is that absolute monarchies are the only remaining 100% capitalist nations ... 100% privately owned and operated.
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  594. ​ @JesusOrDestruction  The Southern racist majority, who abandoned both parties, in 1968, and voted for a third party resegregationist, winning 5 Southern states. Nixon then won that Southern racist majority over to the Republican party, in 1972.
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  595. No, no, his boss gets the extra 3/5 of the vote.
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  596. His entire religious worldview is based on feelings.
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  597.  @mirzauamerici2286  6 kids have died in the concentration camps in past year. 1200 kids killed by guns in past year. US kids 70% more likely to die than other developed nations. Uninsured kids 1.6x more likely to die in than insured. Republicans don't give a crap about "kids".
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  598.  @whyamimrpink78  Modern Nazis aren't openly in charge of any major countries, dumb dumb. The Republicans currently have 70m people ready to ditch democracy for officially becoming fascist.
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  599.  @lisahenry20  Yes, but that only might prevent a lab leak from happening again. Plenty of viruses have happened naturally. A better investigation would be to look into why the US response was so pathetic. If you can fix how to respond, then it wouldn't much matter how a virus originated. The covid mortality rates of countries who responded well, like Vietnam, S Korea, New Zealand, Australia, and some others, would translate into under 12k total US deaths. Covid only really became a pandemic because of all the botched responses.
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  600. ​ @bruteboy123  Prior to 25 weeks, a fetus is about as alive as someone who is 🧠💀. It doesn't even have the parts necessary for consciousness. If one can be considered no longer truly "alive", then the other can be considered not yet truly "alive". So what, if women don't want it?
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  601.  @ogaugesantafeandbnsf1157  Why didn't god simply give more people the "wisdom" to vote for Trump? Sounds like an ineffective god.
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  602.  @lordlink1  👍
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  603. They pulled the same BS in 2020, only his son tweeted that he had always thought she was black, and suddenly she was Indian. They can't keep their rcsm coherent.
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  604.  @TaddiestMason  Trump told his cult to vote in person. Democrats encouraged mail in voting during a pandemic. Why do cultists find this confusing?
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  605.  @tilleryinnovations592  Rofl, what false equivalency are you Dore knobs using now?
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  606. Likud's bloody 100 year history ... In 1923, 100 years ago, Ze'ev Jabotinsky wrote, The Iron Wall, and a follow up, The Ethics of The Iron Wall (sooo racist towards Africans), in which he fully acknowledged that post Balfour Zionsim was colonialism, and that, based on the entirety of history, the native Palestinian population would resist being colonized until the bitter end. He directly compared it to the colonization of North America. He promoted doing it anyway, claiming Zionist colonialism was a "just" colonialism (he also thought North American colonialists were good guys, so not a great judge of morality), not caring what that meant for the native population. Ze'ev is important, because his Betar militant youth group helped found the Irgun terrorist group, along with other supporters of his, and the splinter Lehi terrorist group. The Irgun bombed numerous Palestinian markets and other public places, murdering many Palestinian civilians, including children, even including Palestinian Jews (who didn't support colonialist Zionsim). The Irgun are important, because they ended up being led by future Likud PM, Menachem Begin, who bombed the King David Hotel. The King David Hotel was bombed because the British had raided the Jewish Agency and seized numerous documents that may have shown that the terrorists were working with the JA and Haganah (JA liked to pretend that they didn't support the terrorism). The British then stored those documents at their base, in the hotel. That the Irgun terrorists responded to a JA raid, itself seems to prove the connection. That the thousands of Irgun (and Lehi) terrorists were also quickly merged into the new nation's military (IDF) and intelligence (Mossad) agencies, and are still celebrated as "heroes" by Israelis, to this day, also seems to support total collaboration between the groups. That other terrorist group mentioned, Lehi (also known as the Stern Gang), was considered even more extreme. They even tried to ally with the Nazis, against the British. Lehi ended up being led by Yitzhak Shamir, future Mossad agent, and another future Likud PM. They assassinated Lord Moyne, and others. In 1945, there was a major land and peoples survey done in Palestine. It showed that the Zionists only owned about 5% of the total land, 20% of the arable land, and owned a majority in zero districts. The partition was not only going to be forced on the native Palestinian majority, but Jews were still going to be a minority, in the part allocated to them. The only possible way to even become a "Jewish state" was going to require getting rid of the actual majority (at least enough so that there'd be a solid Jewish majority, so they could fake being democratic). This is also shown by the 1948, post Nakba, population of Israel. If there was 716,700 Jews, 156,000+ non-Jews, and approximately 700k non-Jews ethnically cleansed, that means the Jewish population, in the Zionist portion of partition, was originally over 100,000 less than the non-Jewish population. To believe that there was never any intent, by Zionists, to ethnically cleanse away the Palestinian majority would require believing that they never intended to create a "Jewish state". It's a nonsensical notion. Begin, and those terrorist groups, also opposed partition, but for the opposite reason Palestinians did. Palestinians didn't want to be colonized, at all. The terrorists wanted to colonize it all. "Moderate" Zionists were okay with colonizing half ... for now (what would happen in the future, after partition, was up to them, said Ben-Gurion). The Zionist terrorists were also involved in massacres, and assassinations, during the partition violence (colonialist war against the natives). Another notable future Likud PM, also started in the military, during the partition fighting. That was Ariel Sharon, war criminal, "Butcher of Beirut". Menachem Begin, and these other Zionist terrorists, are important because they became involved in Israeli politics, first forming Herut. That was the party that Albert Einstein, and other prominent American Jews, opposed, having a letter printed in the NYT, in December of 1948, when Begin came to visit the US. The letter opened ... "Among the most disturbing political phenomena of our times is the emergence in the newly created state of Israel of the "Freedom Party" (Tnuat Haherut), a political party closely akin in its organization, methods, political philosophy and social appeal to the Nazi and Fascist parties. It was formed out of the membership and following of the former Irgun Zvai Leumi, a terrorist, right-wing, chauvinist organization in Palestine." Herut merged with other extremist parties, over the years, and eventually became Likud, in the 70s. Now, people get upset over the slogan "From the river to the sea!", but it's the second part that's most important, "Palestine will be free!". Because "Palestine" isn't defined as an ethno-state, a free Palestine can be a single state, free for all to live in, and return to, free of continuing colonization, free of occupation, free of oppression, etc. Just like a Germany free of Nazism, an Italy free of fascism, a South Africa free of apartheid, or an America free of slavery from sea to shiny sea. It doesn't necessitate purging all the Jews. It just necessitates them giving up on the idea of an ethno-state. On the other hand, because "Israel" has been defined as an ethno-state, Likud's, "between the sea and the Jordan there will only be Israeli sovereignty", has no possible good interpretation. It is a declaration of intent to completely colonize, and ethnically cleanse, all Palestine territories. Not only that, but it also claims that they have a "right" to all of the "Land of Israel" (biblical borders that don't mesh with archaeological reality), which is an open declaration of future wars, against Jordan, Syria, Lebanon, and possibly even Iraq. Likud platform ... 1977: "The Right of the Jewish People to the Land of Israel (Eretz Israel) a. The right of the Jewish people to the land of Israel is eternal and indisputable and is linked with the right to security and peace; therefore, Judea and Samaria will not be handed to any foreign administration; between the Sea and the Jordan there will only be Israeli sovereignty. b. A plan which relinquishes parts of western Eretz Israel, undermines our right to the country, unavoidably leads to the establishment of a "Palestinian State," jeopardizes the security of the Jewish population, endangers the existence of the State of Israel. and frustrates any prospect of peace." "Settlement Settlement. both urban and rural. in all parts of the Land of Israel is the focal point of the Zionist effort to redeem the country, to maintain vital security areas and serves as a reservoir of strength and inspiration for the renewal of the pioneering spirit. The Likud government will call on the younger generation in Israel and the dispersions to settle and help every group and individual in the task of inhabiting and cultivating the wasteland, while taking care not to dispossess anyone." 1999: "The Government of Israel flatly rejects the establishment of a Palestinian Arab state west of the Jordan river. The Palestinians can run their lives freely in the framework of self-rule, but not as an independent and sovereign state. Thus, for example, in matters of foreign affairs, security, immigration, and ecology, their activity shall be limited in accordance with imperatives of Israel's existence, security and national needs." "The Jewish communities in Judea, Samaria, and Gaza are the realization of Zionist values. Settlement of the land is a clear expression of the unassailable right of the Jewish people to the Land of Israel and constitutes an important asset in the defense of the vital interests of the State of Israel. The Likud will continue to strengthen and develop these communities and will prevent their uprooting." All Palestine territories are officially considered occupied, by the International Court of Justice, the UN GA, the UN SC, and even in official documents of Israel's own allies. Likud is still using the blueprint for colonizing North America, in the West Bank. Move settlements out into native territory, piss off the natives, the natives retaliate, cry about poor "innocent" colonizing settlers being the "victims" of violent "Savages!", call in the cavalry to put down the native uprising, and eventually expand the borders to include those settlements. Rinse and repeat. In Gaza, Israel is operating an open air WWII style fascist ghetto. Them claiming a "right to defend themselves" would be like the Nazis claiming a "right to defend themselves " from the Warsaw ghetto uprising. There's no "war". That they're the occupiers means the "war" part is long over. Those people are actually supposed to be under the occupier's protection. That partition was forced upon the Palestinian majority, against their will ... that the Zionist portion still had to be forcefully ethnically cleansed of its non-Jewish majority, against their will ... that the millions of occupied Palestinians don't have a say in the government that truly rules over them, Israel's ... means Israel is about as democratic as Nazi Germany after Hitler purged his political opponents and then held elections.
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  607.  @mr.minnesota6246  I'd like to use the democratic system to move towards an all out direct democracy, that extends to all aspects of the economy. I also don't want fascists taking over that democratic system.
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  608.  Mari Jayne  More appealing than how about we all not spread sickness and death?
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  609. Also with Canaanite DNA. They are Arab and Muslim the same way indigenous peoples of Central America are now Hispanic and Catholic. They were once the previous Christian majority, and the Jwish majority before that. Znsts have been slghtering the ancient Jws that never left and simply converted along the way.
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  610. Ok Goebbels. Likud's bloody 100 year history ... In 1923, 100 years ago, Ze'ev Jabotinsky wrote, The Iron Wall, and a follow up, The Ethics of The Iron Wall (sooo racist towards Africans), in which he fully acknowledged that post Balfour Zionsim was colonialism, and that, based on the entirety of history, the native Palestinian population would resist being colonized until the bitter end. He directly compared it to the colonization of North America. He promoted doing it anyway, claiming Zionist colonialism was a "just" colonialism (he also thought North American colonialists were good guys, so not a great judge of morality), not caring what that meant for the native population. Ze'ev is important, because his Betar militant youth group helped found the Irgun terrorist group, along with other supporters of his, and the splinter Lehi terrorist group. The Irgun bombed numerous Palestinian markets and other public places, murdering many Palestinian civilians, including children, even including Palestinian Jews (who didn't support colonialist Zionsim). The Irgun are important, because they ended up being led by future Likud PM, Menachem Begin, who bombed the King David Hotel. The King David Hotel was bombed because the British had raided the Jewish Agency and seized numerous documents that may have shown that the terrorists were working with the JA and Haganah (JA liked to pretend that they didn't support the terrorism). The British then stored those documents at their base, in the hotel. That the Irgun terrorists responded to a JA raid, itself seems to prove the connection. That the thousands of Irgun (and Lehi) terrorists were also quickly merged into the new nation's military (IDF) and intelligence (Mossad) agencies, and are still celebrated as "heroes" by Israelis, to this day, also seems to support total collaboration between the groups. That other terrorist group mentioned, Lehi (also known as the Stern Gang), was considered even more extreme. They even tried to ally with the Nazis, against the British. Lehi ended up being led by Yitzhak Shamir, future Mossad agent, and another future Likud PM. They assassinated Lord Moyne, and others. In 1945, there was a major land and peoples survey done in Palestine. It showed that the Zionists only owned about 5% of the total land, 20% of the arable land, and owned a majority in zero districts. The partition was not only going to be forced on the native Palestinian majority, but Jews were still going to be a minority, in the part allocated to them. The only possible way to even become a "Jewish state" was going to require getting rid of the actual majority (at least enough so that there'd be a solid Jewish majority, so they could fake being democratic). This is also shown by the 1948, post Nakba, population of Israel. If there was 716,700 Jews, 156,000+ non-Jews, and approximately 700k non-Jews ethnically cleansed, that means the Jewish population, in the Zionist portion of partition, was originally over 100,000 less than the non-Jewish population. To believe that there was never any intent, by Zionists, to ethnically cleanse away the Palestinian majority would require believing that they never intended to create a "Jewish state". It's a nonsensical notion. Begin, and those terrorist groups, also opposed partition, but for the opposite reason Palestinians did. Palestinians didn't want to be colonized, at all. The terrorists wanted to colonize it all. "Moderate" Zionists were okay with colonizing half ... for now (what would happen in the future, after partition, was up to them, said Ben-Gurion). The Zionist terrorists were also involved in massacres, and assassinations, during the partition violence (colonialist war against the natives). Another notable future Likud PM, also started in the military, during the partition fighting. That was Ariel Sharon, war criminal, "Butcher of Beirut". Menachem Begin, and these other Zionist terrorists, are important because they became involved in Israeli politics, first forming Herut. That was the party that Albert Einstein, and other prominent American Jews, opposed, having a letter printed in the NYT, in December of 1948, when Begin came to visit the US. The letter opened ... "Among the most disturbing political phenomena of our times is the emergence in the newly created state of Israel of the "Freedom Party" (Tnuat Haherut), a political party closely akin in its organization, methods, political philosophy and social appeal to the Nazi and Fascist parties. It was formed out of the membership and following of the former Irgun Zvai Leumi, a terrorist, right-wing, chauvinist organization in Palestine." Herut merged with other extremist parties, over the years, and eventually became Likud, in the 70s. Now, people get upset over the slogan "From the river to the sea!", but it's the second part that's most important, "Palestine will be free!". Because "Palestine" isn't defined as an ethno-state, a free Palestine can be a single state, free for all to live in, and return to, free of continuing colonization, free of occupation, free of oppression, etc. Just like a Germany free of Nazism, an Italy free of fascism, a South Africa free of apartheid, or an America free of slavery from sea to shiny sea. It doesn't necessitate purging all the Jews. It just necessitates them giving up on the idea of an ethno-state. On the other hand, because "Israel" has been defined as an ethno-state, Likud's, "between the sea and the Jordan there will only be Israeli sovereignty", has no possible good interpretation. It is a declaration of intent to completely colonize, and ethnically cleanse, all Palestine territories. Not only that, but it also claims that they have a "right" to all of the "Land of Israel" (biblical borders that don't mesh with archaeological reality), which is an open declaration of future wars, against Jordan, Syria, Lebanon, and possibly even Iraq. Likud platform ... 1977: "The Right of the Jewish People to the Land of Israel (Eretz Israel) a. The right of the Jewish people to the land of Israel is eternal and indisputable and is linked with the right to security and peace; therefore, Judea and Samaria will not be handed to any foreign administration; between the Sea and the Jordan there will only be Israeli sovereignty. b. A plan which relinquishes parts of western Eretz Israel, undermines our right to the country, unavoidably leads to the establishment of a "Palestinian State," jeopardizes the security of the Jewish population, endangers the existence of the State of Israel. and frustrates any prospect of peace." "Settlement Settlement. both urban and rural. in all parts of the Land of Israel is the focal point of the Zionist effort to redeem the country, to maintain vital security areas and serves as a reservoir of strength and inspiration for the renewal of the pioneering spirit. The Likud government will call on the younger generation in Israel and the dispersions to settle and help every group and individual in the task of inhabiting and cultivating the wasteland, while taking care not to dispossess anyone." 1999: "The Government of Israel flatly rejects the establishment of a Palestinian Arab state west of the Jordan river. The Palestinians can run their lives freely in the framework of self-rule, but not as an independent and sovereign state. Thus, for example, in matters of foreign affairs, security, immigration, and ecology, their activity shall be limited in accordance with imperatives of Israel's existence, security and national needs." "The Jewish communities in Judea, Samaria, and Gaza are the realization of Zionist values. Settlement of the land is a clear expression of the unassailable right of the Jewish people to the Land of Israel and constitutes an important asset in the defense of the vital interests of the State of Israel. The Likud will continue to strengthen and develop these communities and will prevent their uprooting." All Palestine territories are officially considered occupied, by the International Court of Justice, the UN GA, the UN SC, and even in official documents of Israel's own allies. Likud is still using the blueprint for colonizing North America, in the West Bank. Move settlements out into native territory, piss off the natives, the natives retaliate, cry about poor "innocent" colonizing settlers being the "victims" of violent "Savages!", call in the cavalry to put down the native uprising, and eventually expand the borders to include those settlements. Rinse and repeat. In Gaza, Israel is operating an open air WWII style fascist ghetto. Them claiming a "right to defend themselves" would be like the Nazis claiming a "right to defend themselves " from the Warsaw ghetto uprising. There's no "war". That they're the occupiers means the "war" part is long over. Those people are actually supposed to be under the occupier's protection. That partition was forced upon the Palestinian majority, against their will ... that the Zionist portion still had to be forcefully ethnically cleansed of its non-Jewish majority, against their will ... that the millions of occupied Palestinians don't have a say in the government that truly rules over them, Israel's ... means Israel is about as democratic as Nazi Germany after Hitler purged his political opponents and then held elections.
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  611. Like has been said, they need to keep increasing the number of workers. But, they don't want to increase those numbers through immigration, because they're also rcsts/bgts. Plus, more kids means it's more likely the mom will stay home ... their "traditional family values".
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  612. Hunter got some money from bad guys and then bought his dad a Christmas present, with that money! 😂
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  613.  @FootballFanFlyingSaucer  Hint: The less racist Union states now tend to vote Democrat. The more racist Confederate, and Jim Crow, states now tend to vote Republican. Either most of the people in both the more racist and less racist states magically flipped their values to the opposite one day and the parties remained exactly the same, or the people in those states migrated to different parties, took their values with them, and the parties changed. Another hint: Millions of black Americans migrated to those less racist states, leaving the more racist states with an even higher percentage of racists, and almost all of them have migrated to the Democratic party, where they have more representation and are more involved with shaping policies. To argue that Republicans are still the exact same less racist party, you'd have to argue that the vast majority of black Americans are clueless ... which is kinda racist.
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  614. In Florida, workers under 20 can be paid a $4.25/hr "training wage", for 3 months. If they're simultaneously enrolled in school, they can be paid 85% of minimum wage, after that.
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  615. ​ @michaelknight2897  "Overall, the study found that female ultra runners are faster than their male counterparts for distances longer than 195 miles (314km). The data showed that as distances get longer, the gap in pacing between genders shrinks until women come out on top. In 5km runs men run 17.9% faster than women, at marathon distance the difference is just 11.1%, 100 mile (161km) races see the difference shrink to just .25%, and above 195 (314km) miles, women are actually 0.6% faster than men. Danish research from 2018 echoes these results, finding that women are 18.61% better than men at running with a controlled and consistent pace when comparing results for the first and the last part of the marathon."
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  616.  @smartass0124  When did they try to overthrow the democratic process and install a dictator?
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  617.  @JoeG2324  It was withheld for months, dimwit, and only released once he got caught. "Do us a favor though" is from the "transcript", that's not an actual transcript, dumb dumb.
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  618. The electoral college isn't inherently unbalanced. It was the 1929 Act that froze the number of house seats, that has made things increasingly unbalanced. The number of electorals is linked to the number of house seats. Unlike previous temporary bills of its kind, it also failed to set rules for how to divide up voting districts, which is how they sometimes get away with gerrymandering. That bill should be repealed and new rules set up. Technically, it's supposed to be easier to repeal and pass bills, than it is to make constitutional amendments.
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  619. @Dollar Bills In other words ... you're a moron who doesn't know the definition of "communist". Thanks for letting us know.
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  620. ​ @twesj  Oh, so how did Trump use "poisoning the blood" in a totally different way than Hitler?
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  621. Likud platform (since 1970s): "between the sea and the Jordan there will only be Israeli sovereignty"
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  622.  @Surteronarto  Your argument is that there are no natives anywhere, except a tiny region of Africa, where homo-sapiens first emerged? I'm pretty sure that's not how we use the term.
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  623.  Mari Jayne  You apparently don't know how racists operate. It isn't simply about thinking their color is a superior color, they attach character traits, and even beliefs,, into what they believe embodies the ideal specimen. White supremacists have routinely attached Christian belief into what makes for the ideal white specimen, and hate Jews accordingly. Some have even reduced that to Protestantism, and hate Catholics, as well. The Nazis even narrowed down the white/European to specifically being Germanic, and considered anyone not of Germanic descent to be inferior. Aside from you not getting that, you trying to nitpick "racism" to "bigotry" doesn't make them any better.
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  624. ​ @billcar6805  Yeah, it should be considered a form of false advertising, since a politician is selling themselves, and their ideas, to the public.
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  625.  @KateBates22zabu  Oh, YouTube has been hiding half of my comments, for the past couple months (can only see them if sorted by newest). Even innocuous ones, like my reply to keirfarnum, above. Not sure why this particular post always gets a pass.
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  626. ​ @SilverSergeant  That's like saying Native Americans "started" a war with their colonizers.
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  627. I get the feeling that Warren knew the exact question coming to her, as well. Her response, and attack on the guys on stage, seem very scripted and prepared.
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  628. The paradox of tolerance (based on the paradox of freedom) argues that tolerating intolerance, makes society less tolerant. Plenty of countries with hate speech laws are ranked freer than the US on the freedom index. From what I see, the right cancels things that actually promote tolerance, while the left more properly cancels the intolerant.
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  629. 85% of people dying are unvaccinated. Pretty sure he's not reporting when any old someone unvaxxed dies. He's reporting on those who have peddled misinformation dying.
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  630.  @crogers4912  Yeah, yeah, move to red states, that tend to have higher firearm mortality rates, higher homicide rates, higher poverty rates, lower minimum wages, poorer education outcomes, poorer healthcare outcomes, etc.
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  631. For example?
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  632. South Korea weirdly had to quarantine an entire Christian group, to stop them from spreading the virus. Someone should have told them about the Jesus blood thing.
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  633. phobia: extreme or irrational fear or dislike of a specified thing or group.
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  634.  @trevorchester4439  Explain how Denmark is just as ignorant and insane as the US.
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  635.  @trevorchester4439  You made it sound like you knew exactly what things are like "everywhere else".
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  636. That event was also the 10th anniversary of RT. The same RT that was just paying Pool and Reuben for pro Rvssia content.
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  637.  @johnlyn1  You're lying. "The immunity is limited to civil damages claims. Moreover, a President, like Members of Congress, judges, prosecutors, or congressional aides—all having absolute immunity—are not immune for acts outside official duties.2 Ante, at 753-755. Even the broad immunity of the Speech and Debate Clause has its limits.3"
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  638. There is also the point of trying to destroy the largest of the few remaining unions, in the US ... the teachers' union.
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  639.  @AppleVsGravity  Islam is a religion. An individual religious person's personal ideology might be completely different from the religious person beside them ... even if they're from the same religion. Religious people all interpret things differently, give weight to things differently, cherry pick differently, etc.
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  640.  @CnCW453  Bullshit. I'm Canadian. I had a major medical issue, as a teen. It was handled great. My wife just had a major medical issue. It was handled great.
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  641.  @FerreusNRG  Right, and Trump is a loudmouth who calls any other Republicans who disagree with him, "fakes', "frauds", "sellouts", etc., based on absolutely nothing, kind of like Dore does to people who don't even take corporate donations, and simply disagree with him on tactics.
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  642.  @divineintervention212  The company doesn't need anyone on board. They already own the land, dimwit. A prior zoning plan was already approved in Nov., which they can move forward with. It was them, the company, that was going allocate some of that land to the city, to build some affordable housing.
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  643. ​ @thedarkdot2977  Wake up! You're dreaming.
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  644. It all has to do with the parties switching, which has happened over time. Teddy Roosevelt was the last progressive, and somewhat worker friendly, Republican, with his Square Deal. When he saw the party was going to make a hard right, he tried coming back for a third run, but they didn't want him anymore. He then ran under his own Progressive Party. That was the major economic turning point, for Republicans. They then drove the economy into the Great Depression. Also, with Jim Crow laws in the South, and industrialization in the North (which needed more manpower), millions of black Americans began moving North. That left the Southern states even more rcst, by percentage. And, as the Democratic party became the party of workers, Northern black Americans started voting for them, and running for office as Democrats. The South was so rcst that the Republicans had to run their own rcst candidates, just to win seats. By the time of Civil Rights, the divisions on the topic were North vs South, not by party. Southern Republicans voted against, just like Southern Democrats. In 1968, fed up with the Northerners of both parties, much of the Southern rcst majority voted for a third party resegregationist, winning 5 Southern states. Nixon, already far right economically (youngest member of the House unAmerican Activities Commission, and ran a red scare campaign against his California senate opponent), then won that Southern rcst majority over to the Republican party, in 1972. Aside from giving fellow Southern boy, Jimmy Carter, one shot, that Southern rcst majority has largely been voting Republican ever since. The party was then far right and rcst. Reagan, a former FDR voting union leader, had been put on the road to crazytown during Nixon's California senate run. He then appealed to the religious xtrmsts. Plus, the NRA took its turn, away from earlier support for firearm laws, and the Republican party also started taking in the firearm fanatics. The party was then far right, rcst, religious xtrmsts, and firearm xtrmsts. All that being said ... they were still somewhat sane enough to work together, to keep the government functioning properly. Then came the Tea Party, and even more extreme Ayn Rand types. They didn't want government to function properly. They would like to end almost all government departments, aside from the justice system and the military. They won over the House Republicans. And, in the senate, McConnell did his obstructionism on key issues and the justice system. All the parts were in place for someone to capitalize on all the xtrmsts having been previously gathered into one basket.
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  645.  @nathandwyer7273  Let me get this straight ... The guy who promoted Trump as the better option, wants to make friends with far right extremists, and has an increasingly far right following, isn't corrupt, and is wanted. But someone who campaigned for Bernie, instead of Tulsi, and used her platform and PAC to back 20 other pro-M4A progressives, helped add a few more M4A yes votes to congress, and has done more for M4A in 2 years than Dore has in his entire lifetime, is corrupt, and isn't wanted?
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  646. It expired way back in 1948, before Hms existed, when Lkd was founded by the Irgun and Lehi trrrst groups. Lkd has never had the moral high ground.
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  647. Trump said Israel should finish the job, plus he'd let Russia do to Ukraine what Israel is doing to Palestine, plus a horrible domestic platform, so ... congratulations, to you, if he wins.
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  648. You skipped mentioning the middle man Saagar. He was hired through the Pinkerton agency. They're the ones the news station had a contract with. They're the ones who sent a security guard whose license had expired. You make it sound like the news station just up and hired some random guy to play security guard for them, directly.
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  649. Even going by the stock market, what they fail to mention is that most of the stock market rise was during Trump's first year in office, while Obama's last budget was still in effect. Since the start of 2018, when Trump's tax breaks for corporations and the rich kicked in, and also when he started his trade wars, even the stock market has been pretty flat.
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  650. Where was this supposed hospital built in 4 days? Weird how there's zero news about it, but all kinds of news about China's 6 day hospital build.
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  651.  @VColossalV  On his website. An extremely dishonest article called: 5 Myths About Israel and the War in Gaza.
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  652. Might also depend on what people consider "liberal". There seem to be a fair number of left leaning men who don't like the "liberal" label.
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  653.  @get_downed_boi6270  Religious institutions don't have to do anything against their religion. That's a strawman. This also wasn't a "religious business". Also a strawman. It was a cake making business, with a religious owner. He makes wedding cakes. They wanted a wedding cake. He wouldn't, because they're gay. Interracial marriages used to be illegal. Some people claim the Bible is against interracial marriages. The KKK has always claimed to be a Christian organization. It's the same shit. If you open a public accomodation, then serve the damn public. If you want a private "religious business", then register as a private club, like Costco, except a cakes for Christians club.
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  654.  @TaIoCrUz246  Not most, no. Close to the same as Trump's 40% base, although I would think his base would have more who strongly agree. https://globalnews.ca/news/5288135/immigration-threat-canadians-poll/
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  655.  @MetatronsRevenge613  UN Office of Genocide Prevention: ethnic cleansing ... "The Commission of Experts added that these practices can “… constitute crimes against humanity and can be assimilated to specific war crimes. Furthermore, such acts could also fall within the meaning of the Genocide Convention.”"
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  656.  @Evirthewarrior  The reverse is also true, Dore knob. Adding 55-64 year olds adds healthier people, than just the 65+ crowd, to the Medicare risk pool, people who would pay into it but need it less. Dore knobs don't grasp basic math. I'm stupid? Dore vastly underestimated the benefits, claiming it would lead to a progressive wave that would "for sure" take the house and senate in 2018 (didn't happen) and the presidency in 2020 (didn't happen). He vastly underestimated the risks, claiming even Republicans would vote against a Trump agenda rather than follow him into overt fascism (didn't happen) and that Trump filling multiple scotus seats was as likely as the moon falling into Lake Michigan (the moon still hasn't fallen). He's a complete and utter moron, living in some fantasy land. The progressive movement behind Bernie started after an Obama presidency, dimwit Dore knob. You don't need a psycho as the head of government. I know exactly what he said about the Boogaloo guy before he came on, and while he was on. Dore is an idiot. The dead peeps on the Night of the Long Knives were leftists, dumb dumb, that teamed up with right wingers. You're the one who brought them up, dimwit.
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  657.  @jimbob9407  Because nobody mentioned political parties, but for you to call it "partisan politics" means you're assigning them to one.
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  658. "I'm a competent lawyer" ... License suspended in NY ... Recommended for disbarment in DC just last month ...
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  659. Well, it's just an interim order, while they have an actual trial. They ruled to hear the case, and not throw it out, as Israel wanted.
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  660.  @seanking1775  "Holding accountable" doesn't equate to slander and bullshit.
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  661. Can we stop calling these types of people "pundits"? Pundits are actually supposed to be experts, or very knowledgeable, and why anyone should be interested in their opinions. We're changing the definition to any idiot with an opinion.
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  662.  Mari Jayne  Because the last adminstration didn't okay Israel colonizing Palestinian lands, provide them military aid, and give them a big green light by recognizing Jerusalem as their capitol? Just like all the Republican majority congresses and presidents, before him, have taken Israel's side, unconditionally. What should be noticed is that only progressives seem to be calling out this shit, and US support for this shit.
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  663. ​ @cfrey1988  Ayn Rand was an ignoramus.
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  664. ​ @Frankie9553  Hunter wasn't even working for Burisma, during the time being investigated, dumb dumb. The initial investigation started, before he ever joined.
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  665. Being of Jewish heritage, she wrote her poem near the start of the large wave of 2 million Jewish immigrants, escaping pogroms in Russia. They were mostly poor.
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  666.  @mpgallogly  How is blathering on and on about a completely irrelevant report, that had nothing to do with anyone's decision to bomb Syria, instead of going after the one who decided to bomb Syria (Trump) anti-war, exactly?
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  667.  @kennybachman35  No, it's something about the order and length. I've tried a version opening with the Einstein quote, but then the word Nzi is at the start, and it gets hidden or deleted. When I make short arguments, I have to highly edit words. So, I think the algorithm reads so far, and then gives up. I've also had multiple 24hr time outs, over the past 7 months, and can't post a single word, on top of the shadow banning.
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  668.  @goldentaco4970  I have an offer to take half of the state/province, or whatever, that you live in. I'll need you, and the other inhabitants, to move off of my half. Do you accept?
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  669. "Middle", in the US, is right wing. Economically, even Canadian PCs are left of most US Democrats.
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  670. Likud's bloody 100 year history ... In 1923, 100 years ago, Ze'ev Jabotinsky wrote, The Iron Wall, and a follow up, The Ethics of The Iron Wall (sooo racist towards Africans), in which he fully acknowledged that post Balfour Zionsim was colonialism, and that, based on the entirety of history, the native Palestinian population would resist being colonized until the bitter end. He directly compared it to the colonization of North America. He promoted doing it anyway, claiming Zionist colonialism was a "just" colonialism (he also thought North American colonialists were good guys, so not a great judge of morality), not caring what that meant for the native population. Ze'ev is important, because his Betar militant youth group helped found the Irgun terrorist group, along with other supporters of his, and the splinter Lehi terrorist group. The Irgun bombed numerous Palestinian markets and other public places, murdering many Palestinian civilians, including children, even including Palestinian Jews (who didn't support colonialist Zionsim). The Irgun are important, because they ended up being led by future Likud PM, Menachem Begin, who bombed the King David Hotel. The King David Hotel was bombed because the British had raided the Jewish Agency and seized numerous documents that may have shown that the terrorists were working with the JA and Haganah (JA liked to pretend that they didn't support the terrorism). The British then stored those documents at their base, in the hotel. That the Irgun terrorists responded to a JA raid, itself seems to prove the connection. That the thousands of Irgun (and Lehi) terrorists were also quickly merged into the new nation's military (IDF) and intelligence (Mossad) agencies, and are still celebrated as "heroes" by Israelis, to this day, also seems to support total collaboration between the groups. That other terrorist group mentioned, Lehi (also known as the Stern Gang), was considered even more extreme. They even tried to ally with the Nazis, against the British. Lehi ended up being led by Yitzhak Shamir, future Mossad agent, and another future Likud PM. They assassinated Lord Moyne, and others. The two terrorist groups also operated outside of Palestine. The Irgun bombed the British Embassy at Porta Pia, in Rome. The Lehi bombed the British Colonial Club, in London. A timer failed in another bombing attempt, at the Colonial Office, in Whitehall. Two female Lehi operatives were arrested crossing from Belgium to France, with the ingredients for letter bombs. 21 letter bombs were found to be have sent, and were intercepted. They mined the Cairo-Haifa train, in Egypt, twice, killing dozens of civilians, as well as British soldiers. In 1945, there was a major land and peoples survey done in Palestine. It showed that the Zionists only owned about 5% of the total land, 20% of the arable land, and owned a majority in zero districts. The partition was not only going to be forced on the native Palestinian majority, but Jews were still going to be a minority, in the part allocated to them. The only possible way to even become a "Jewish state" was going to require getting rid of the actual majority (at least enough so that there'd be a solid Jewish majority, so they could fake being democratic). This is also shown by the 1948, post Nakba, population of Israel. If there was 716,700 Jews, 156,000+ non-Jews, and approximately 700k non-Jews ethnically cleansed, that means the Jewish population, in the Zionist portion of partition, was originally over 100,000 less than the non-Jewish population. To believe that there was never any intent, by Zionists, to ethnically cleanse away the Palestinian majority would require believing that they never intended to create a "Jewish state". It's a nonsensical notion. Begin, and those terrorist groups, also opposed partition, but for the opposite reason Palestinians did. Palestinians didn't want to be colonized, at all. The terrorists wanted to colonize it all. "Moderate" Zionists were okay with colonizing half ... for now (what would happen in the future, after partition, was up to them, said Ben-Gurion). The Zionist terrorists were also involved in massacres, and assassinations, during the partition violence (colonialist war against the natives). Another notable future Likud PM, also started in the military, during the partition fighting. That was Ariel Sharon, war criminal, "Butcher of Beirut". Menachem Begin, and these other Zionist terrorists, are important because they became involved in Israeli politics, first forming Herut. That was the party that Albert Einstein, and other prominent American Jews, opposed, having a letter printed in the NYT, in December of 1948, when Begin came to visit the US. The letter opened ... "Among the most disturbing political phenomena of our times is the emergence in the newly created state of Israel of the "Freedom Party" (Tnuat Haherut), a political party closely akin in its organization, methods, political philosophy and social appeal to the Nazi and Fascist parties. It was formed out of the membership and following of the former Irgun Zvai Leumi, a terrorist, right-wing, chauvinist organization in Palestine." Herut merged with other extremist parties, over the years, and eventually became Likud, in the 70s. Now, people get upset over the slogan "From the river to the sea!", but it's the second part that's most important, "Palestine will be free!". Because "Palestine" isn't defined as an ethno-state, a free Palestine can be a single state, free for all to live in, and return to, free of continuing colonization, free of occupation, free of oppression, etc. Just like a Germany free of Nazism, an Italy free of fascism, a South Africa free of apartheid, or an America free of slavery from sea to shiny sea. It doesn't necessitate purging all the Jews. It just necessitates them giving up on the idea of an ethno-state. On the other hand, because "Israel" has been defined as an ethno-state, Likud's, "between the sea and the Jordan there will only be Israeli sovereignty", has no possible good interpretation. It is a declaration of intent to completely colonize, and ethnically cleanse, all Palestine territories. Not only that, but it also claims that they have a "right" to all of the "Land of Israel" (biblical borders that don't mesh with archaeological reality), which is an open declaration of future wars, against Jordan, Syria, Lebanon, and possibly even Iraq. Likud platform ... 1977: "The Right of the Jewish People to the Land of Israel (Eretz Israel) a. The right of the Jewish people to the land of Israel is eternal and indisputable and is linked with the right to security and peace; therefore, Judea and Samaria will not be handed to any foreign administration; between the Sea and the Jordan there will only be Israeli sovereignty. b. A plan which relinquishes parts of western Eretz Israel, undermines our right to the country, unavoidably leads to the establishment of a "Palestinian State," jeopardizes the security of the Jewish population, endangers the existence of the State of Israel. and frustrates any prospect of peace." 1999: "The Government of Israel flatly rejects the establishment of a Palestinian Arab state west of the Jordan river. The Palestinians can run their lives freely in the framework of self-rule, but not as an independent and sovereign state. Thus, for example, in matters of foreign affairs, security, immigration, and ecology, their activity shall be limited in accordance with imperatives of Israel's existence, security and national needs." "The Jewish communities in Judea, Samaria, and Gaza are the realization of Zionist values. Settlement of the land is a clear expression of the unassailable right of the Jewish people to the Land of Israel and constitutes an important asset in the defense of the vital interests of the State of Israel. The Likud will continue to strengthen and develop these communities and will prevent their uprooting." All Palestine territories are officially considered occupied, by the International Court of Justice, the UN GA, the UN SC, and even in official documents of Israel's own allies. Likud is still using the blueprint for colonizing North America, in the West Bank. Move settlements out into native territory, piss off the natives, the natives retaliate, cry about poor "innocent" colonizing settlers being the "victims" of violent "Savages!", call in the cavalry to put down the native uprising, and eventually expand the borders to include those settlements. Rinse and repeat. In Gaza, Israel is operating an open air WWII style fascist ghetto. Them claiming a "right to defend themselves" would be like the Nazis claiming a "right to defend themselves " from the Warsaw ghetto uprising. There's no "war". That they're the occupiers means the "war" part is long over. Those people are actually supposed to be under the occupier's protection. That partition was forced upon the Palestinian majority, against their will ... that the Zionist portion still had to be forcefully ethnically cleansed of its non-Jewish majority, against their will ... that the millions of occupied Palestinians don't have a say in the government that truly rules over them, Israel's ... means Israel is about as democratic as Nazi Germany after Hitler purged his political opponents and then held elections.
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  671. Also part of the problem. It's easier for them to find the one in a hundred doctors, scientists, dentists, or whatnot, who are going against the consensus. They just look for the outliers who are saying what they want to hear, and find them.
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  672.  @LliamMoore  That didn't really explain why they do do it, just why they can do it.
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  673.  @johnobrien1528  And, Trump dropped more bombs than that guy. Do you have reading comprehension problems? The $15 got a vote. What are pathetic useless Dore knobs doing with that list of no voters? Absolutely nothing, except slandering progressives who voted for it.
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  674. Pretty sure that, by the time Europeans came to the Americas, the Anglo-Saxons had been defeated by the Normans, and their culture had been largely wiped out for 400-500 years. The Normans reorganized, and reformed, much of everything.
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  675.  @arceusthomas2447  Rofl. a) You're moving your goalpost, dumb dumb. What you previously stated was that they didn't prevent infection, therefore they didn't work. They work by reducing infections, hospitalizations, and deaths, which is what other vaccines also do. b) How long antibodies are effective, and how effective they are to variants, has to do with the virus, not the vaccine. Just like how a flu vaccine, made the old fashioned way, is taken once a year. Yes, there are breakthrough cases every month, during flu season. It still reduces infections, hospitalizations, and deaths. That's what vaccines are supposed to do. And, if the flu was year round, you'd also probably need 2-3 shots a year, to maintain your level of protection. That's because flu antibodies don't last as long, the flu mutates a little regularly, and there are multiple strains floating around at the same time. Mumps antibodies last almost 30 years, but there are a fair number of variants. The vaccine is about 88% effective, and there are dozens, to thousands, of breakthroughs a year. 85% of people being hospitalized and dying are unvaccinated, and you're claiming they don't work, like a complete and utter moron.
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  676.  @spellman007  "Women" is gender terminology, and gender terminology has never been required to match sex. Gender terminology describes a persona, not the physical person. You're, objectively, wrong.
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  677. That's nice, but it doesn't think and feel until about 30 weeks.
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  678. ​ @vincenthensley115  He did. lol "stable genius"
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  679. To be clear, a PhD in nursing practice. Totally valid for him to use "Dr", but he's not an MD, let alone any kind of specialist.
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  680. The sister cities program was also nationwide, with numerous Republican politicians participating.
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  681.  @Max78912  It's the most natural reaction to colonialism (a Ghandi response is quite abnormal, even though it may be the better strategy ... always make the colonialists appear to be the aggressors they are, by always being non violent yourself ... never give them a chance to fake being the victims of "savages"). And, resistance has won a number of times. When you're in it, you don't know the outcome. WWII resistance groups didn't know that Germany would eventually be defeated. They just knew that they needed to resist. Native Americans didn't know there was an endless supply of Europeans, across the ocean. The IRA military won, the IRA "terrorists" lost. The Jews of Judah rebelled against the might of the Roman Empire, with zero chance of succeeding. Not sure what Hamas expects, or if they expect anything, other than to just keep resisting. While colonialism is the foundation for Zionism, terrorism is the foundation for Israel. Groups like the Irgun and Lehi, bombed many Palestinian markets, threw dynamite into Palestinian homes, killed many civilians, including children, and even killed Palestinian Jews (who opposed Zionism). Those terrorist groups were merged into Israel's new military and intelligence agency. The leader of the Irgun, Menachem Begin, who ordered much of that terrorism, including the bombing of the King David Hotel, was elected PM of Israel. Israelis, to this day, celebrate those terrorists as "heroes". Israel literally taught their neighbours that terrorism is a valid path to independence and statehood, and to overcome your adversaries. In the West Bank, Israel is using the blueprint for the colonization of North America. Move settlements out into native territory, piss off the natives, the natives respond with violence, cry about being the poor innocent victims of the "Savages!", have the cavalry come in and out down the native uprising, and eventually expand the borders to include those settlements. Rinse and repeat. In Gaza, it absolutely boggles the mind, that Israel is basically running an open air WWII fascist style ghetto. They're like the Puritans, who fled persecution in their homelands, only to turn around and persecute everyone else in the New World ... natives, other denominations, even hanging Quakers of all people, attacking other towns for being too hedonistic, etc. It really is absolutely disgusting, how they've become much like the thing they fled.
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  682. ​ @Toquer88  Nope. You're lying.
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  683. ​ @sayori265  That's worrying about other people's values, not your own. Republicans literally focused hard on predominantly blk districts, with their denialism, trying to steal their voice. Reps are still trying to do parts of Jm Crw.
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  684.  @BloodMoneyLLC  They share the same insane idea of bringing down the government with another civil war, Dore knob. Dore knobs are the type of dimwit left wingers who wind up on the wrong end of a Night of the Long Knives.
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  685.  @richardp6461  What conviction? He peddled Tulsi (public option) over Bernie (M4A), for almost a year, outright working against the M4A candidate. Then, he peddled his pointless 100% guaranteed to fail performance art vote, and slandered anyone who didn't support it as "fakes", "frauds", "sellouts", or whatnot. Surely, outright working against M4A is worse than simply not supporting some pointless secondary tactic. Then, after making out like that was enough to write off other progressives, who agree with you on policy 99%, as allies, he promotes an "extreme free market" ancapper, who disagrees with you on most everything, including M4A, as a potential ally. Then, he abandoned Nina Turner, one of M4A's most ardent supporters ... abandoned adding another M4A yes vote to congress. The guy flips and flops all over the place, on a regular basis. He takes whatever contrarian position he thinks will sell best, at the time.
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  686. He doesn't know who that Trump guy is ... "Never met him!"
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  687. Kinda like how American colonialists described native attacks.
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  688. ​ @lightthatfire4012  Denmark is near the top in happiness, best places to live, etc. It represents real world centrism, outside the US bubble. What's a Dem policy that would move the US left of Denmark?
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  689. No union should blindly protect any worker that is incompetent, or corrupt.
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  690.  @anacc3257  How? They're occupied. Israel controls the border, the coast, the airspace, electricity, water, what goes in and out (only people are usually allowed to cross at Rafah, goods go through Israel), and Bibi even controls the flow of money from Qatar, having turned it off and on multiple times.
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  691.  @robertreese1275  The grift is to sell yourself as something you're not. He promoted Trump as the better option than Clinton, for progressives. According to Jimmy, Trump being so bad, such a deranged fascist, a Trump presidency would lead to a massive progressive backlash that would "for sure" take the house (nope) and senate (nope), in 2018, and the presidency (nope), in 2020. He claimed even Republicans would vote against a Trump agenda (nope), rather than follow him into fascism (they did), and Trump filling multiple scotus seats was as likely as the moon falling into Lake Michigan (nope). All of his predictions were wrong so, ultimately, promoting Trump over Clinton only benefited Trump. Promoting Trump over Clinton was also promoting tossing 10m of the poorest Americans off of Medicaid expansion, over adding 40m older Americans to Medicare expansion. Then he promoted Tulsi (public option) over Bernie (M4A). Then he, again ... even after all his failed predictions ... even after Trump's incompetent leadership had a hand in the unnecessary deaths of hundreds of thousands of people ... he made out like Biden (public option + Medicare expansion) was worse than Trump (still trying to toss millions of poor Americans off of Medicaid expansion). Dore promoted the worst healthcare option, each time, and then tries passing himself off as the one true champion of healthcare, because he came up with a nonsense "plan" to have a performance art vote. He also abandoned Nina Turner (M4A), and now promotes never again voting for someone running as a Democrat. Going third party likely won't even get you a single seat in congress, in the next 5 decades, let alone get some kind of healthcare bill passed, in the next century. He uses slander, not "truth". AOC never ran on paralyzing, or threatening to paralyze, the house. She ran on what her own concept of a "ruckus" is, not Jimmy's. She backed 20 pro-M4A progressives, and helped add a few more M4A advocates to congress, which actually moves you closer to ever being able to pass the bill, while a performance art vote doesn't actually do that. She has done more for M4A in 2 years than Dore has in his entire lifetime. He made out like he didn't know where she was, on M4A march day, when it was public knowledge that she was at rallies for Nina Turner, promoting M4A and trying hard to add another M4A advocate to congress. Why weren't M4A marchers promoting and supporting Nina? Why did Dore promote abandoning Nina, on his show ... abandoning adding another M4A advocate to congress? Then, there's going on far right television, largely just to agree with far right talking points. There's promoting allying with far right ancap extremists, that are trying to start a civil war. How does Dore actually benefit the left? Almost everytime he proposes actions, they're actions that seem to benefit the right ... even extreme right ... no matter that he frames it as coming from the left. You're a sucker.
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  692.  @jdowfleetwood  Multiple intelligence agencies concluded Russia was interfering, in 2016. Republican Mueller indicted 19 Russians, and 3 Russian companies, for interfering. The FBI, under Trump, concluded Russia was interfering again, in 2020. I don't know what the f*ck Maddow is saying, but you sound like you're railing against reality, a bit.
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  693. ​ @8088I  Because, after Egypt warned Netanyahu that something was in the works, instead of beefing up the Gaza border, he moved Gaza border troops to the West Bank, to support his colonialism.
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  694.  @luckycatnip3667  Don't a percentage of all men and women behave in ways that are vile?
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  695. The moron doesn't seem to grasp that valuations are supposed to be accurate, neither over OR under. Claiming it's worth over a billion dollars more, would mean he has committed massive tax fraud, instead of bank fraud.
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  696. ​ @politicas3361  Says the Nazi. lol
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  697.  Joe Maleski  Having to stand in line is pretty much, by definition, suppressing you from doing what you came to do. And, it's no secret that people don't particularly like waiting in lines. The longer you make people wait, the longer the line, the higher the odds of someone, not wanting to go through the trouble, leaving. Do you just not have a grasp on basic human behavior, or something?
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  698. ​ @adriannannen5941  Top 10 homicide rates ... Mississippi Louisiana Alabama New Mexico South Carolina Illinois Maryland Missouri Tennessee Arkansas Top 10 crime rates ... New Mexico Louisiana Colorado South Carolina Arkansas Oklahoma Washington Tennessee Oregon Missouri
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  699.  Simon Farre  Sweden is 24th in deaths per million. Germany is 66th. Sweden's second wave is breaking its first wave case numbers by over 300%.
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  700.  @pete_lind  Well, the issue, according to him, is also age. No he wasn't at the Olympics at 18, and he wasn't as fast as her at 18, according to himself. What your last sentence has to do with anything, I don't know. I can only assume you're insecure, and feel the need to point out that the fastest men are faster than the fastest women, for no apparent reason.
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  701.  @thomas2082  Dore and his wife literally said they stopped donating to her, and promoted never voting for anyone running as a Democrat. That's abandoning her. You know the M4A peeps could have gone to her and AOC, right? Instead of expecting them to abandon trying to get Nina elected.
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  702. His way of paying for a UBI, with a VAT, would have money funneling to giant corporations, and the super rich, faster than ever before. A VAT is specifically designed to NOT tax businesses in order to avoid double taxation, so corporations wouldn't pay into the UBI and only benefit from the extra trillions being spent each year. Yang is completely ignorant, or completely dishonest, as to how a VAT actually works, who it actually taxes.
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  703.  @OzonebxGaming  He was polling double the margins against Trump.
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  704.  @Gaius_Julius_Caesar_Augustus  The same Mike Johnson also argues that more kids are needed, when talking abortion bans, to keep SS and Medicare afloat. So, he wants more people, just not a certain kind of people.
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  705.  @mariem3429  And what does that have to do with him being murdered while unarmed?
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  706.  @martinfiedler4317  Can one of you nuts please provide an example of "substantial election fraud"?
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  707.  @nuclearcatbaby1131  RNA technology has been around for awhile now, and has been used in cancer therapy. They didn't come up with the entire process from scratch, in just a year, they simply used an existing process as a way to create vaccines.
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  708.  @tilleryinnovations592  Stop spreading misinformation. It's not "per NIH". Learn how the database actually works. The publisher is listed at the top, and it's not the NIH themselves.
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  709. ​ @RC-tn3xo  What's your take on the Warsaw ghetto uprising? You side with the Nazis, who ran the open air ghetto?
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  710.  @whyamimrpink78  That the US has more bureaucracy in their system is simply a fact. https://www.commonwealthfund.org/publications/journal-article/2014/sep/comparison-hospital-administrative-costs-eight-nations-us The US' most expensive system in the world, ranks 24th in the world. https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/World_Health_Organization_ranking_of_health_systems_in_2000
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  711.  Bruce Wade  An impeachment isn't a court of law. He could still be charged with obstruction, once he's not a sitting president. He could still be charged with campaign finance violations, like Cohen, once he's not a sitting president. There's also still his tax issues, and an equity for debt swap, that could lead to tax fraud charges, once he's not a sitting president.
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  712.  @korhashamo  Stop trying to censor me!!!! lol
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  713.  @undergrounddojokeyboardcag701  Dore backed Tulsi, dumb dumb.
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  714.  @jimbob9407  So, you agree "covidiots" belong to a specific party?
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  715. Actually, yes, Syria has every right to invite in military aid, just like Ukraine has every right to invite in military aid.
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  716. Like they would have saved Pelosi, if a handful of Dems hadn't voted for her.
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  717. ​ @TheRedStateBlue  UN Office of Genocide Prevention: Ethnic Cleansing "The Commission of Experts added that these practices can “… constitute crimes against humanity and can be assimilated to specific war crimes. Furthermore, such acts could also fall within the meaning of the Genocide Convention.”"
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  718.  @sergeikhripun  BGJ and this guy are dishonest. The FTV "plan" out of Dore's mouth was for 15 progressives to simply "withhold their votes" or "not vote" for Pelosi. That's the way he worded it repeatedly. That does imply abstaining, which would have handed the speakership to McCarthy. Dore didn't say they needed to cast protest votes. In fact, Dore made it clear that he didn't know how things worked, and falsely claimed it was impossible for McCarthy to win, unless Democrats voted for him. Jimmy made perfectly clear that he had things so wrong, that he wouldn't think abstaining was a problem.
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  719. I knew an idiot going around claiming he was immune because he had had the virus. But, he had a cough that wasn't going away. Turned out he was going around with covid pneumonia, for months, which remains contagious until a couple days after starting antibiotics.
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  720. After talking about Tucker, will you talk about Jimmy Dore whining about Biden instead of praising the end of a war?
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  721.  @paulspringwood7190  Step away from the Dore knob and get a grip on reality.
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  722. People have been cancelling things they don't like, and overreacting about things, since forever. It is stupid to blanketly blame "cancel culture". Call out their specific shit criticism.
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  723.  sav savron  Trump said the fires were due to a lack of maintenance, but he forgot the part about them mostly being federal forests. So, his fault, according to himself.
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  724. Yes, the way Buckley was talking about Germany, as if they hadn't done any violence/torture, prior to Normandy ... like wtf? No. Much like Piers acting as if the issue with Israel-Palestine began on Oct 7.
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  725.  @haywoodjablowme4945  Pew says 61/37. That doesn't seem close enough to say "very close to 50/50".
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  726.  Mari Jayne  Like firing, or threatening to fire, federal employees that contradict Supreme Leader Trumpty Dumpty?
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  727. My grandfather was a "terrorist" with the Danish resistance.
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  728.  @LliamMoore  What fraud? Republican state legislatures kept rules that say mail in votes are counted after election day votes. And then Republicans whine and cry about mail in votes being counted after election day votes. And they want vote counting here stopped, and vote counting there finished. Republicans are absolute lunatics, at this point. Why not go unarmed? Who are they afraid of?
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  729. Because Latina/Latino isn't an ethnic grouping. It's a geographical grouping (Latin America). They come in native, black, and white (mainly descended from Spanish ancestors) varieties, like Ted Cruz.
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  730.  @arceusthomas2447  No vaccine is 100%, dumb dumb. By your "logic" none of them work.
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  731. What flip flopping? She has always been both Indian and Afro-Jamaican. She wasn't the first black senator (black father), just like Obama wasn't the first white president (white mother), so those halves are irrelevant, when reporting firsts.
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  732.  @jimcrelm9478  Well, he's saying the current administration are traitors who should be executed. How are you "legally" going to pull that off, without attempting to illegally overthrowing them, again, first?
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  733.  Cuck Baldson  In a steam room with a pastor ... are you under age?
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  734. ​ @HabaneroTi  That it has dragged on for nearly a century.
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  735.  @wombatcitystudios  Except there are zero far left politicians, calling for complete economic equality and an end of capitalism. On the other hand, there are multiple far right politicians, spouting Ayn Rand crap. The US political spectrum ranges from far right to centre-left. There is no real left wing in government. The "radical" progressives point at developed centrist countries to emulate, not the USSR or anarchist Spain. Even outside professional politics, the "extreme" left is tossing milkshakes, destroying property, and getting into some fights. The extreme right is running over people with their cars, shooting up mosques, shooting up synagogues, shooting up black churches, is behind a rise in hate crimes, and behind a rise in domestic terrorism. You seem to be spouting some false equivalency.
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  736. @C M Leave the children alone, so they can get myocarditis at an 8x higher rate, by getting covid? What kind of monster are you?
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  737. ​ @theywouldnthavetocensormei9231  The conservative Supreme Court just literally ruled no, they don't, that the federal government is responsible for immigration laws.
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  738.  Craig Dunk  He should be locked up for incitement. So should Alex Jones.
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  739.  @aidassko  "Hate to tell ya buddy, he’d have been first in line for the vaccine." ~ Kelly Carlin
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  740. ​ @danielmwattsjr3671  Do you not know when puberty starts?
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  741.  @DuderofDudeness  It's not saying that groups necessarily make people stupid. It's that groups of stupid people are dangerous.
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  742. ​ andresrojas7924  So, you're cool with endless wars over land. You must also be cool with how Hamas is fighting over it. Sounds like a great future.
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  743.  @Gooseman2k2  Do you think North Korea is "democratic", moron?
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  744. ​ @peggynulsen1365  Sorry, he was always 50% yours, through his mom. Now you get 100%.
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  745.  Derek Hitt  Like FOX News making out like Bernie is a commie, but propped up Dumpty?
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  746.  @robinsss  You are seriously arguing hard about this, in multiple threads. Are you the caller?
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  747.  @whyamimrpink78  So you think running across 1 infected person, testing the efficacy of your vaccine, is samesies as running across 5 infected people testing the efficacy of your vaccine? No difference?
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  748.  BMO  Math says he has lost.
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  749.  @cmdrlucas6949  You don't look at Terry Fox, running through TO, and deduce that thousands of people ran across Canada. You look at Terry, alone, with his father driving, running through the boonies. The convoy from the West was counted as 113 trucks and 276 personal vehicles, coming into Ontario, from Winnipeg. Who cares if a bunch of anti-vax loons, join them to drive through a city. They won't be following them to Ottawa.
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  750.  Aaron Dickson  Literally was not built on the current lazy man's filibuster. You actually had to filibuster, so they didn't do it often, and most things passed by simple majority.
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  751. ​ @beng2729  Nope. You're lying.
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  752.  Aaron Dickson  No. The science is not different everywhere. There is simply less incompetence and lower percentages of morons, elsewhere. Take your pick. Canada's covid deaths per million would translate into about 250k total US covid deaths, instead of 850k. Australia's covid deaths per million would translate into under 30k total US covid deaths, instead of 850k. There are numerous countries in that mediocre to excellent outcome range. Instead of wanting to emulate Peru, which had possibly the highest Ivermectin use in the world, and also has the highest covid deaths per million in the world, maybe look to countries that did much better.
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  753. "Latino" or "Hispanic" are different. They're geographic or cultural groupings, not racial or ethnic groupings. They can be white, black, native, or any mix there of. Right wingers don't mind the ones with more European (Spanish, Portuguese) ancestry, especially if they're descendants of fascist Batista supporters, or other Central/South American fascists the US has supported in the past.
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  754. ​ @dr.wolfstar1765 😂
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  755.  @Aeroneus1  Lol, I don't care about the Clintons, and neither are running for office.
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  756. ​ @drugmoney4996  Basically every gun starts out with a legal purchase. Criminals are stealing guns from legal owners, or are having people make strawman purchases. If there are less out there, there are less to steal. If it costs more, it's more expensive for the strawman purchase. Neighboring states would probably still be an issue.
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  757.  @zacheryware9215  Rofl! Are you going to protest hard hat mandates, because they take away a worker's freedumb? A vaccine helps the worker, dimwit.
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  758. Top 10 firearm mortality rates ... Mississippi 33.9 Louisiana 29.1 New Mexico 27.8 Alabama 26.4 Wyoming 26.1 Alaska 25.2 Montana 25.1 Arkansas 23.3 Missouri 23.2 Tennessee 22.8
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  759.  No Ma'am  Other way around. There are politicians that promote total Ayn Randian laissez-faire, which is as far right as you can get, economically. There is a far right in politics. There are zero politicians promoting complete economic equality, which would be as far left as you can get, economically. There is no far left in politics. Sanders, who gets labeled "far left", points to centrist European countries to emulate, where capitalism is still working just fine, mixed with some sectors, like health care, being socialized. Saunders is actually a centrist, maybe centre-left, tops. US politics shifted totally right of centre, with McCarthyism and the Cold War, and hasn't recovered. You are the one who seems to be in the everything left of right is left crowd. Your comment is pure irony.
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  760. Ummm, Palestinians don't want to leave en masse. Last time they were ethnically cleansed, they were never allowed to return. 66% of Gazans descend from the 700k Nakba refugees. They're actually refugees from Israel.
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  761. ​ @easternsuneasternsun171  She's both Indian and Afro-Jamaican, dingus. She has never once said she wasn't both, or wasn't black. Trump literally debunked himself, by posting a video of her saying "half" Indian. She's not like Trump, who used to lie that he was Swedish instead of German.
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  762. ​ @jameslopez9661  Not an actual "war". The Palestinian territories are officially occupied by Israel. The occupied actually have a right to resist occupation, while it is against the law for the occupier to use collective punishment (as well as illegal to colonize the occupied territories). Israel is being more of a criminal here.
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  763.  @sentientfetus3894  Rofl. What is it you think people are "immune" to?
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  764. ​ @JosueMartinez-ww1vj  You Googled, Doug Ford corruption, and got zero hits? Weird.
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  765. And a large portion of the conservative (both Rep and Dem) voting base.
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  766. ​ @johnlyn1  Are you ignorantly or dishonestly bringing up that Nixon case, which only addressed a civil suit?
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  767. ​ @Sloimer  I've heard that Native Americans reached a point where they wanted to push the Europeans back into the sea. I wonder if they had any reasons, for feeling that way.
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  768.  @Marbles471  Similar with his supposed anti-war stance. Never mentions that Trump dropped more bombs than Obama, doesn't spend months railing against Trump for deciding to bomb Syria over chemical weapons, nope, but he, and Mate, will spend months crying about a UN report that had absolutely nothing to do with anyone's decision to bomb Syria.
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  769.  @waterandafter  woosh
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  770. ​ @innova1335  Do tell.
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  771. ​ @terryb5797  Dems just proved they didn't have a cult leader, and ditched Biden when he was doing poorly. Trump has been doing poorly for almost 8 years, but you keep putting him on a pedestal.
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  772.  @jemert96  Using money to influence politicians is also literally in AIPAC's mission statement. So, we're not allowed to talk about the realities of AIPAC and its influence, because of some canard list?
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  773.  @thomas2082  Campaigning for Nina, trying to add another M4A yes vote to congress, because getting enough M4A yes votes is the only possible way to ever pass the bill. Dore, and M4A marchers, abandoned Nina, abandoned adding another M4A yes vote to congress.
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  774. She also didn't just up and decide to flee NYC for "free" Florida. Her mother lives there. It was the holidays.
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  775. The Bible also suggests distancing and quarantining from those who are possibly unclean, including women on their period.
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  776.  @James-pt7yh  Ahahaha, American right doesn't believe in big government? You realize that the military, "intelligence" agencies, law enforcement, prisons, etc., is government, right?
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  777. What things, if it's not passing laws? Red states tend to have higher firearm morality and homicide rates. Is he sure no laws will help?
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  778. ​ @edcarson3113  Why should natives have to give up anything, that they were promised by the British, to colonizers? Only an absolute racist, could possibly suggest ethnic cleansing, and colonialism, as a reasonable solution.
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  779.  Tim Kozlowski  They came prepared, dumb dumb. It wasn't only his day of speech. It was the months of lies leading up to it.
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  780.  @i0li0il0i  You left out the "nuance" about Steven "the left won't debate me" Crowder, going around acting like he's some kind of pro debater, lying that nobody on the left will debate him, and only ever debating amateurs, because he's a complete and utter coward. Someone that cowardly and dishonest deserves to be set up.
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  781.  @coryddp7254  Dore promoted Trump (who ran on ACA repeal) as the better option than Clinton (who ran on lowering Medicare to 55), not caring if millions on Medicaid expansion and with preexisting conditions could lose their healthcare, not caring to get millions more on Medicare. He thought Republicans would join the left to stop the Trump agenda, rather than joining him in overt fascism. He thought Trump filling multiple scotus seats was as likely as the moon falling into Lake Michigan. During the 2020 primary he didn't back Bernie (M4A). During the general, he basically ran an attack ad campaign against Trump's only viable opponent, Biden (public option + lowering Medicare to 60), again not seeming to care if Trump won, not caring if millions lost their healthcare, not caring if Trump killed thousands more with incompetent covid response, and again not backing adding millions to Medicare. He didn't know how the speaker vote actually works. He promoted that 15 progressives should "withhold" their votes (he didn't say cast protest votes). 15 abstentions + 2 unfilled seats, would lower the threshold needed to win down to 210. If the 211 Republicans voted McCarthy, he'd win. He spouted strawman bullshit, as if AOC had campaigned on paralyzing the house, or even threatening to paralyze the house, when she didn't. He also promotes going third party. The Libertarian party is almost 50 without ever having won a seat in congress. Dore doesn't give a fuck about the reality that going third party won't get anyone healthcare, and could just split progressive voting enough to hand the Dem party totally back to corporate Dems and let Republicans rule for decades, destroying healthcare even more. He's an asshat, and doesn't actually give two shits about anyone else getting healthcare.
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  782.  @whyamimrpink78  Btw, not caring if tens of thousands die, simply because they lack coverage, or that hundreds of thousands go bankrupt, or that cancer patients are going to India for affordable chemo, etc., means all you want is a very superficial conversation. Not even sure what the point of you discussing healthcare is, if you don't even care about people.
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  783. Likud's bloody 100 year history ... In 1923, 100 years ago, Ze'ev Jabotinsky wrote, The Iron Wall, and a follow up, The Ethics of The Iron Wall (sooo racist towards Africans), in which he fully acknowledged that post Balfour Zionsim was colonialism, and that, based on the entirety of history, the native Palestinian population would resist being colonized until the bitter end. He directly compared it to the colonization of North America. He promoted doing it anyway, claiming Zionist colonialism was a "just" colonialism (he also thought North American colonialists were good guys, so not a great judge of morality), not caring what that meant for the native population. Ze'ev is important, because his Betar militant youth group helped found the Irgun terrorist group, along with other supporters of his, and the splinter Lehi terrorist group. The Irgun bombed numerous Palestinian markets and other public places, murdering many Palestinian civilians, including children, even including Palestinian Jews (who didn't support colonialist Zionsim). The Irgun are important, because they ended up being led by future Likud PM, Menachem Begin, who bombed the King David Hotel. The King David Hotel was bombed because the British had raided the Jewish Agency and seized numerous documents that may have shown that the terrorists were working with the JA and Haganah (JA liked to pretend that they didn't support the terrorism). The British then stored those documents at their base, in the hotel. That the Irgun terrorists responded to a JA raid, itself seems to prove the connection. That the thousands of Irgun (and Lehi) terrorists were also quickly merged into the new nation's military (IDF) and intelligence (Mossad) agencies, and are still celebrated as "heroes" by Israelis, to this day, also seems to support total collaboration between the groups. That other terrorist group mentioned, Lehi (also known as the Stern Gang), was considered even more extreme. They even tried to ally with the Nazis, against the British. Lehi ended up being led by Yitzhak Shamir, future Mossad agent, and another future Likud PM. They assassinated Lord Moyne, and others. In 1945, there was a major land and peoples survey done in Palestine. It showed that the Zionists only owned about 5% of the total land, 20% of the arable land, and owned a majority in zero districts. The partition was not only going to be forced on the native Palestinian majority, but Jews were still going to be a minority, in the part allocated to them. The only possible way to even become a "Jewish state" was going to require getting rid of the actual majority (at least enough so that there'd be a solid Jewish majority, so they could fake being democratic). This is also shown by the 1948, post Nakba, population of Israel. If there was 716,700 Jews, 156,000+ non-Jews, and approximately 700k non-Jews ethnically cleansed, that means the Jewish population, in the Zionist portion of partition, was originally over 100,000 less than the non-Jewish population. To believe that there was never any intent, by Zionists, to ethnically cleanse away the Palestinian majority would require believing that they never intended to create a "Jewish state". It's a nonsensical notion. Begin, and those terrorist groups, also opposed partition, but for the opposite reason Palestinians did. Palestinians didn't want to be colonized, at all. The terrorists wanted to colonize it all. "Moderate" Zionists were okay with colonizing half ... for now (what would happen in the future, after partition, was up to them, said Ben-Gurion). The Zionist terrorists were also involved in massacres, and assassinations, during the partition violence (colonialist war against the natives). Another notable future Likud PM, also started in the military, during the partition fighting. That was Ariel Sharon, war criminal, "Butcher of Beirut". Menachem Begin, and these other Zionist terrorists, are important because they became involved in Israeli politics, first forming Herut. That was the party that Albert Einstein, and other prominent American Jews, opposed, having a letter printed in the NYT, in December of 1948, when Begin came to visit the US. The letter opened ... "Among the most disturbing political phenomena of our times is the emergence in the newly created state of Israel of the "Freedom Party" (Tnuat Haherut), a political party closely akin in its organization, methods, political philosophy and social appeal to the Nazi and Fascist parties. It was formed out of the membership and following of the former Irgun Zvai Leumi, a terrorist, right-wing, chauvinist organization in Palestine." Herut merged with other extremist parties, over the years, and eventually became Likud, in the 70s. Now, people get upset over the slogan "From the river to the sea!", but it's the second part that's most important, "Palestine will be free!". Because "Palestine" isn't defined as an ethno-state, a free Palestine can be a single state, free for all to live in, and return to, free of continuing colonization, free of occupation, free of oppression, etc. Just like a Germany free of Nazism, an Italy free of fascism, a South Africa free of apartheid, or an America free of slavery from sea to shiny sea. It doesn't necessitate purging all the Jews. It just necessitates them giving up on the idea of an ethno-state. On the other hand, because "Israel" has been defined as an ethno-state, Likud's, "between the sea and the Jordan there will only be Israeli sovereignty", has no possible good interpretation. It is a declaration of intent to completely colonize, and ethnically cleanse, all Palestine territories. Not only that, but it also claims that they have a "right" to all of the "Land of Israel" (biblical borders that don't mesh with archaeological reality), which is an open declaration of future wars, against Jordan, Syria, Lebanon, and possibly even Iraq. Likud platform ... 1977: "The Right of the Jewish People to the Land of Israel (Eretz Israel) a. The right of the Jewish people to the land of Israel is eternal and indisputable and is linked with the right to security and peace; therefore, Judea and Samaria will not be handed to any foreign administration; between the Sea and the Jordan there will only be Israeli sovereignty. b. A plan which relinquishes parts of western Eretz Israel, undermines our right to the country, unavoidably leads to the establishment of a "Palestinian State," jeopardizes the security of the Jewish population, endangers the existence of the State of Israel. and frustrates any prospect of peace." "Settlement Settlement. both urban and rural. in all parts of the Land of Israel is the focal point of the Zionist effort to redeem the country, to maintain vital security areas and serves as a reservoir of strength and inspiration for the renewal of the pioneering spirit. The Likud government will call on the younger generation in Israel and the dispersions to settle and help every group and individual in the task of inhabiting and cultivating the wasteland, while taking care not to dispossess anyone." 1999: "The Government of Israel flatly rejects the establishment of a Palestinian Arab state west of the Jordan river. The Palestinians can run their lives freely in the framework of self-rule, but not as an independent and sovereign state. Thus, for example, in matters of foreign affairs, security, immigration, and ecology, their activity shall be limited in accordance with imperatives of Israel's existence, security and national needs." "The Jewish communities in Judea, Samaria, and Gaza are the realization of Zionist values. Settlement of the land is a clear expression of the unassailable right of the Jewish people to the Land of Israel and constitutes an important asset in the defense of the vital interests of the State of Israel. The Likud will continue to strengthen and develop these communities and will prevent their uprooting." All Palestine territories are officially considered occupied, by the International Court of Justice, the UN GA, the UN SC, and even in official documents of Israel's own allies. Likud is still using the blueprint for colonizing North America, in the West Bank. Move settlements out into native territory, piss off the natives, the natives retaliate, cry about poor "innocent" colonizing settlers being the "victims" of violent "Savages!", call in the cavalry to put down the native uprising, and eventually expand the borders to include those settlements. Rinse and repeat. In Gaza, Israel is operating an open air WWII style fascist ghetto. Them claiming a "right to defend themselves" would be like the Nazis claiming a "right to defend themselves " from the Warsaw ghetto uprising. There's no "war". That they're the occupiers means the "war" part is long over. Those people are actually supposed to be under the occupier's protection. That partition was forced upon the Palestinian majority, against their will ... that the Zionist portion still had to be forcefully ethnically cleansed of its non-Jewish majority, against their will ... that the millions of occupied Palestinians don't have a say in the government that truly rules over them, Israel's ... means Israel is about as democratic as Nazi Germany after Hitler purged his political opponents and then held elections.
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  784. Just say "Hi, I'm stupid!", and save yourself some time.
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  785.  @Arcexey  What a load of crap.
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  786.  @DeniseWilliams-jr5xo  The level of British support for Likud baffles me the most. On top of all the Revisionist attacks inside Palestine, they also operated outside of Palestine. They bombed the British embassy in Rome. They bombed the British Colonial Club in London. A timer in a Whitehall truck bombing failed. 21 letter bombs were intercepted. They twice bombed the train from Cairo, killing dozens of British troops and civilians.
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  787.  @uncomfortabletruth5915  You basically just doubled down arguing denazification is "fascism", which is nonsensical. Zero democrats have promoted a 100% publicly owned and operated economy. None are promoting policies that would even move the US left of Denmark, which is centrism, at most. That's not even in the same universe as all out communism. Republicans, on the other hand, just tried to overthrow the democratic process to install an unelected dictator. Many of them do want all out fascism. If you think you're actually in the middle of two extremes, then you're pretty right wing, because the US Overton window really only goes from center to the extreme right.
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  788. Evidence that ignorance is bliss.
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  789. Kamala is too much like Hillary. They don't come across as very personable. Katie Porter, AOC, or maybe Nina, would be better choices, than her.
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  790.  @anonADAM  Mueller charged 26 Russians, dimwit, and Trump's own FBI reported they were interfering again. Election interfering, with proven propaganda bots and email hacking, isn't the same thing as crying widespread voter fraud. You must be thinking of the 10 Benghazi investigations, and the Biden investigation, that went nowhere. Or when dimwit Trump also claimed widespread voter fraud in 2016, and then his own election integrity commission found nothing of the sort, only proving Trump to be a weak pathetic little liar.
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  791. And he was either completely ignorant, or completely dishonest, about how a VAT works ... who it actually taxes. A VAT is specifically designed to NOT tax businesses in order to avoid double taxation. Giant corporations would not have been paying for, or even paying partly for, his UBI, and would have only benefited from the extra trillions being spent. Yang would have had money flowing to the very top faster than ever before.
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  792. ​ @TheManinBlack9054  It's a sin to not want your country, or part of it, taken? Why did Russia fight back against Germany then? Why not let them have it?
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  793.  Andrew g  Poor people, left or right, may share being in similar situations, but the ones on the right have bought into certain beliefs, like: socialized anything is bad, capitalism rules, the rich provide jobs, the unemployed are simply lazy, bootstrap stories aren't complete outliers, minimum wage is bad, etc., etc. If they were to be convinced otherwise, did turn against the rich, and started supporting things that actually help poor people, then they'd no longer be on the right.
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  794. ​ @marklewen9384  Honey Boo Boo was popular television. It still failed at being good, just like Gutfeld fails at being funny.
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  795. Trump saying it wasn't him, that it was his fans, is semantics. He said love it or leave it ... saying she should leave ... go back.
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  796.  @michaeljoyner2052  Didn't the supposed all knowing "perfect" biblical God create Satan, and create humans that would immediately fail and would later "have" to be wiped off the planet, except one family?
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  797.  @sps000111  Yes, having to wear a hard hat on a construction site, for safety reasons, is totally the same as the Holocaust, right?
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  798.  @Treetopflyer777  Plenty of Jewish people think it's fine to criticize the Israeli government. People are probably thinking you're anti-Semitic for generalizing about all Jews.
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  799.  @spellman007  Religious folks have been calling their formless, sexless, penisless, "god" being "he", "him", and even "father", for millennia. They only want gender pronouns to match sex, when it comes to things they don't like. The Trinitarians even believe that sexless being transitioned into a human male, and worship a trans "god".
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  800.  @thewhiterabbit498  Rofl. They let one guy convince tens of millions of them not to believe any media, any politicians, any judges, any lawyers, any election officials, any police, any intelligence agencies, any scientists, any doctors, any nurses ... anyone ... even to not believe their own lying eyes, if any of them contradict Supreme Leader, Big Brother, Trumpty Dumpty. They aren't a savvy bunch.
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  801.  @JimAndrews-ic9oi  That is a declaration of colonialism. Colonizers are never not the aggressors, when it comes to the native population.
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  802.  @60andover-timetotrain-join89  If you truly like history, here's Likud's bloody 100 year history ... In 1923, 100 years ago, Ze'ev Jabotinsky wrote, The Iron Wall, and a follow up, The Ethics of The Iron Wall (sooo racist towards Africans), in which he fully acknowledged that post Balfour Zionsim was colonialism, and that, based on the entirety of history, the native Palestinian population would resist being colonized until the bitter end. He directly compared it to the colonization of North America. He promoted doing it anyway, claiming Zionist colonialism was a "just" colonialism (he also thought North American colonialists were good guys, so not a great judge of morality), not caring what that meant for the native population. Ze'ev is important, because his Betar militant youth group helped found the Irgun terrorist group, along with other supporters of his, and the splinter Lehi terrorist group. The Irgun bombed numerous Palestinian markets and other public places, murdering many Palestinian civilians, including children, even including Palestinian Jews (who didn't support colonialist Zionsim). The Irgun are important, because they ended up being led by future Likud PM, Menachem Begin, who bombed the King David Hotel. The King David Hotel was bombed because the British had raided the Jewish Agency and seized numerous documents that may have shown that the terrorists were working with the JA and Haganah (JA liked to pretend that they didn't support the terrorism). The British then stored those documents at their base, in the hotel. That the Irgun terrorists responded to a JA raid, itself seems to prove the connection. That the thousands of Irgun (and Lehi) terrorists were also quickly merged into the new nation's military (IDF) and intelligence (Mossad) agencies, and are still celebrated as "heroes" by Israelis, to this day, also seems to support total collaboration between the groups. That other terrorist group mentioned, Lehi (also known as the Stern Gang), was considered even more extreme. They even tried to ally with the Nazis, against the British. Lehi ended up being led by Yitzhak Shamir, future Mossad agent, and another future Likud PM. They assassinated Lord Moyne, and others. The two terrorist groups also operated outside of Palestine. The Irgun bombed the British Embassy at Porta Pia, in Rome. The Lehi bombed the British Colonial Club, in London. A timer failed in another bombing attempt, at the Colonial Office, in Whitehall. Two female Lehi operatives were arrested crossing from Belgium to France, with the ingredients for letter bombs. 21 letter bombs were found to be have sent, and were intercepted. They mined the Cairo-Haifa train, in Egypt, twice, killing dozens of civilians, as well as British soldiers. In 1945, there was a major land and peoples survey done in Palestine. It showed that the Zionists only owned about 5% of the total land, 20% of the arable land, and owned a majority in zero districts. The partition was not only going to be forced on the native Palestinian majority, but Jews were still going to be a minority, in the part allocated to them. The only possible way to even become a "Jewish state" was going to require getting rid of the actual majority (at least enough so that there'd be a solid Jewish majority, so they could fake being democratic). This is also shown by the 1948, post Nakba, population of Israel. If there was 716,700 Jews, 156,000+ non-Jews, and approximately 700k non-Jews ethnically cleansed, that means the Jewish population, in the Zionist portion of partition, was originally over 100,000 less than the non-Jewish population. To believe that there was never any intent, by Zionists, to ethnically cleanse away the Palestinian majority would require believing that they never intended to create a "Jewish state". It's a nonsensical notion. Begin, and those terrorist groups, also opposed partition, but for the opposite reason Palestinians did. Palestinians didn't want to be colonized, at all. The terrorists wanted to colonize it all. "Moderate" Zionists were okay with colonizing half ... for now (what would happen in the future, after partition, was up to them, said Ben-Gurion). The Zionist terrorists were also involved in massacres, and assassinations, during the partition violence (colonialist war against the natives). Another notable future Likud PM, also started in the military, during the partition fighting. That was Ariel Sharon, war criminal, "Butcher of Beirut". Menachem Begin, and these other Zionist terrorists, are important because they became involved in Israeli politics, first forming Herut. That was the party that Albert Einstein, and other prominent American Jews, opposed, having a letter printed in the NYT, in December of 1948, when Begin came to visit the US. The letter opened ... "Among the most disturbing political phenomena of our times is the emergence in the newly created state of Israel of the "Freedom Party" (Tnuat Haherut), a political party closely akin in its organization, methods, political philosophy and social appeal to the Nazi and Fascist parties. It was formed out of the membership and following of the former Irgun Zvai Leumi, a terrorist, right-wing, chauvinist organization in Palestine." Herut merged with other extremist parties, over the years, and eventually became Likud, in the 70s. Now, people get upset over the slogan "From the river to the sea!", but it's the second part that's most important, "Palestine will be free!". Because "Palestine" isn't defined as an ethno-state, a free Palestine can be a single state, free for all to live in, and return to, free of continuing colonization, free of occupation, free of oppression, etc. Just like a Germany free of Nazism, an Italy free of fascism, a South Africa free of apartheid, or an America free of slavery from sea to shiny sea. It doesn't necessitate purging all the Jews. It just necessitates them giving up on the idea of an ethno-state. On the other hand, because "Israel" has been defined as an ethno-state, Likud's, "between the sea and the Jordan there will only be Israeli sovereignty", has no possible good interpretation. It is a declaration of intent to completely colonize, and ethnically cleanse, all Palestine territories. Not only that, but it also claims that they have a "right" to all of the "Land of Israel" (biblical borders that don't mesh with archaeological reality), which is an open declaration of future wars, against Jordan, Syria, Lebanon, and possibly even Iraq. Likud platform ... 1977: "The Right of the Jewish People to the Land of Israel (Eretz Israel) a. The right of the Jewish people to the land of Israel is eternal and indisputable and is linked with the right to security and peace; therefore, Judea and Samaria will not be handed to any foreign administration; between the Sea and the Jordan there will only be Israeli sovereignty. b. A plan which relinquishes parts of western Eretz Israel, undermines our right to the country, unavoidably leads to the establishment of a "Palestinian State," jeopardizes the security of the Jewish population, endangers the existence of the State of Israel. and frustrates any prospect of peace." 1999: "The Government of Israel flatly rejects the establishment of a Palestinian Arab state west of the Jordan river. The Palestinians can run their lives freely in the framework of self-rule, but not as an independent and sovereign state. Thus, for example, in matters of foreign affairs, security, immigration, and ecology, their activity shall be limited in accordance with imperatives of Israel's existence, security and national needs." "The Jewish communities in Judea, Samaria, and Gaza are the realization of Zionist values. Settlement of the land is a clear expression of the unassailable right of the Jewish people to the Land of Israel and constitutes an important asset in the defense of the vital interests of the State of Israel. The Likud will continue to strengthen and develop these communities and will prevent their uprooting." All Palestine territories are officially considered occupied, by the International Court of Justice, the UN GA, the UN SC, and even in official documents of Israel's own allies. Likud is still using the blueprint for colonizing North America, in the West Bank. Move settlements out into native territory, piss off the natives, the natives retaliate, cry about poor "innocent" colonizing settlers being the "victims" of violent "Savages!", call in the cavalry to put down the native uprising, and eventually expand the borders to include those settlements. Rinse and repeat. In Gaza, Israel is operating an open air WWII style fascist ghetto. Them claiming a "right to defend themselves" would be like the Nazis claiming a "right to defend themselves " from the Warsaw ghetto uprising. There's no "war". That they're the occupiers means the "war" part is long over. Those people are actually supposed to be under the occupier's protection. That partition was forced upon the Palestinian majority, against their will ... that the Zionist portion still had to be forcefully ethnically cleansed of its non-Jewish majority, against their will ... that the millions of occupied Palestinians don't have a say in the government that truly rules over them, Israel's ... means Israel is about as democratic as Nazi Germany after Hitler purged his political opponents and then held elections.
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  803.  @guitary  OAC helping to add a few more M4A yes votes to congress and helping to remove a few more corporate Dems, is a failure?
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  804. Having the corporate Dem voters splitting their votes is good. Need to get progressive voters to consolidate on Bernie.
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  805. I'm worried we get to play Poland, in this history repeat.
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  806.  @KamuiPan  Democratic People's Republic of Korea (DPRK)! Democratic, because it's in the name? Moron.
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  807. @Dustin Stich Rofl. India has had a shite caste system. That's the opposite of socialism.
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  808.  @valrymlexeous6091  He ran away.
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  809.  Derek Hitt  You're arguing yourself that 4 more years of Trump would bring about a progressive president. How is that one supposed to get through the DNC, if you think it's impossible? Or are you under some delusion that it would be a third party progressive, or a Republican progressive?
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  810. ​ @pirate9154  If you justify punishing Palestinian civilians for their leadership, then you justify punishing Israeli civilians for their leadership.
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  811.  @RHINOTEJAS  What are you talking about? About 100k people immigrate to Denmark per year. Relative to their population, that's the equivalent of 5.5m going to the US per year.
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  812.  Mari Jayne  Has Bernie been sued for fraud, and settled?
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  813.  @chris.kellly  There's zero inconsistency in how herd immunity works. Every vaccinated person, between a high risk person, and a covid carrier, adds an additional line of protection, that the virus has to fight to get through. Take the flu vaccine. It only has about a 50% efficacy rate, due to the multiple different strains, and it taking some guess work to determine which will be dominant strain this season. So, at an individual level, the high risk vaccinated person is 50% protected, if they come in contact with a virus carrier. In a group, if you add another vaccinated person between them, and the high risk person is now 75% protected. Another, and they're 87.5% protected. Another, and they're 93.75% protected. That's the science of herd immunity. Unvaccinated people, on the other hand, provide an unprotected path for a virus to more easily travel. Not too hard to grasp.
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  814.  @nappel6496  Medicare for all would be cheaper than what Americans are currently paying, dumb dumb.
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  815. Yes, it does. Pakman outright didn't want to hear about any kind of context, what Israel had done prior to Oct 7, what the US has done prior to Oct 7, and threw those people, just presenting objective facts, under the bus with open Hamas supporters. He put them all in the same box. He wanted things to be judged as if Oct 7 was the first thing to happen, that Hamas was the aggressor, and that Israel was the defender. This year alone, prior to Oct 7 ... Over 1200 Palestinian hostages, held indefinitely without charges, by Israel ... over 200 Palestinians killed by the IDF and settlers ... over 1000 Palestinians displaced due to the endless colonization of the West Bank ... and, the continued operation of an open air WWII style fascist ghetto. To make out like nothing happened, prior to Oct 7, and that Israel is a defender is just outright dishonest. It's just a fact that Israel is a colonialist state. Colonialists are never not the aggressors when it comes to the natives. It's just a fact that Israel is considered an occupier, and that it's against international law for the occupier to use collective punishment and settle occupied lands. On the other hand, the occupied actually have a right to resist occupation. By multiple measures, it is outright moronic, or biased, to make out like Israel is the one "responding".
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  816. The majority of Cubans that came to Florida, and came first, were Batista government officials, Batista military, Batista supporters, and those who got rich under Batista. They were pretty fascisty to begin with, and founded the communities later Cubans arrived into.
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  817.  @villageidiot9341  Well, surely, that's because more minorites are Democrats, and Noah Carl claims they have lower IQs. All his white supremacist and eugenicist collaborators agree.
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  818. ​ @rw9573  Can you name a single policy, from a sitting Dem, that would move the US left of Denmark (centrism)? If not, only complete morons, loons, or liars, would call them "socialist", "Marxist", or "Communist".
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  819.  @timothydouglas7375  Why are people so obsessed with distance? They did intentionally firebomb the most populated areas of some cities, intentionally killing as many civilians as possible. Hell, they obliterated 2 cities in Japan. Pretty sure some would have had their heads blown off.
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  820.  @AmsterdamHeavy  Supposed to be a democratic republic. They didn't say they lived in a direct democracy.
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  821.  @philmitchell91  You, you're the delusional one. I thought I already pointed that out.
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  822. Lol, so nothing was going on, prior to Oct 7?
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  823. Meh, that's indentured servitude.
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  824.  @whyamimrpink78  You realize that FOX is MSM, and Republicans are politicians, too, right?
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  825.  @melodieostmanrealestate  No more speed limits! No more lights and signs! No more drinking and driving laws! No more licensing mandate! No more insurance mandate! No more vehicle safety standards! Freedumb!!!!
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  826. ​ @Insideoutie 😂
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  827.  @shashasha1249  No, it's not. It's an empty shell on life support.
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  828. If I only donate money to poor people, then I'm discriminating against rich people?
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  829. ​​ @maxpower8429  The electoral college (as it is now) isn't very democratic. How do you think Trump would do, on a straight up popular vote, on whether he should be disqualified, or not? The majority of the house and senate voted to impeach him for inciting an insurrection.
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  830. Even most of Trump's economic positives came during his first year, while Obama's last budget was still in effect. Since his first budget kicked in, with tax cuts for corporations and the rich, and the start of his trade wars, all of which happened around the start of 2018, even by Trump's favorite metric, the stock market, his economy has pretty much sucked.
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  831. And they used to say they were fine with legal entry imm. I wonder what it is about Haitians that they don't like? 🤔
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  832.  Real Progressive  That's a pretty moronic take, for "educated people". "Anti-fascist" doesn't equate to "authoritarian communist".
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  833.  @MrIndiemusic101  FYI, in the poll I was referring to, the number was double the national average, at 32%, in Alberta. It was double Ontario, 16%, and more than double Quebec, 11%. But, hey, go ahead and pretend like Alberta isn't our most conservative province. Pretend it's not the province that spewed forth the Reform Party, that wanted a moronic US style senate, private health insurance, anti-gay legislature, etc. In other words, tried to have a US style Republican party, that failed getting enough support in other provinces.
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  834. Likud's bloody 100 year history ... In 1923, 100 years ago, Ze'ev Jabotinsky wrote, The Iron Wall, and a follow up, The Ethics of The Iron Wall (sooo racist towards Africans), in which he fully acknowledged that post Balfour Zionsim was colonialism, and that, based on the entirety of history, the native Palestinian population would resist being colonized until the bitter end. He directly compared it to the colonization of North America. He promoted doing it anyway, claiming Zionist colonialism was a "just" colonialism (he also thought North American colonialists were good guys, so not a great judge of morality), not caring what that meant for the native population. Ze'ev is important, because his Betar militant youth group helped found the Irgun terrorist group, along with other supporters of his, and the splinter Lehi terrorist group. The Irgun bombed numerous Palestinian markets and other public places, murdering many Palestinian civilians, including children, even including Palestinian Jews (who didn't support colonialist Zionsim). The Irgun are important, because they ended up being led by future Likud PM, Menachem Begin, who bombed the King David Hotel. The King David Hotel was bombed because the British had raided the Jewish Agency and seized numerous documents that may have shown that the terrorists were working with the JA and Haganah (JA liked to pretend that they didn't support the terrorism). The British then stored those documents at their base, in the hotel. That the Irgun terrorists responded to a JA raid, itself seems to prove the connection. That the thousands of Irgun (and Lehi) terrorists were also quickly merged into the new nation's military (IDF) and intelligence (Mossad) agencies, and are still celebrated as "heroes" by Israelis, to this day, also seems to support total collaboration between the groups. That other terrorist group mentioned, Lehi (also known as the Stern Gang), was considered even more extreme. They even tried to ally with the Nazis, against the British. Lehi ended up being led by Yitzhak Shamir, future Mossad agent, and another future Likud PM. They assassinated Lord Moyne, and others. In 1945, there was a major land and peoples survey done in Palestine. It showed that the Zionists only owned about 5% of the total land, 20% of the arable land, and owned a majority in zero districts. The partition was not only going to be forced on the native Palestinian majority, but Jews were still going to be a minority, in the part allocated to them. The only possible way to even become a "Jewish state" was going to require getting rid of the actual majority (at least enough so that there'd be a solid Jewish majority, so they could fake being democratic). This is also shown by the 1948, post Nakba, population of Israel. If there was 716,700 Jews, 156,000+ non-Jews, and approximately 700k non-Jews ethnically cleansed, that means the Jewish population, in the Zionist portion of partition, was originally over 100,000 less than the non-Jewish population. To believe that there was never any intent, by Zionists, to ethnically cleanse away the Palestinian majority would require believing that they never intended to create a "Jewish state". It's a nonsensical notion. Begin, and those terrorist groups, also opposed partition, but for the opposite reason Palestinians did. Palestinians didn't want to be colonized, at all. The terrorists wanted to colonize it all. "Moderate" Zionists were okay with colonizing half ... for now (what would happen in the future, after partition, was up to them, said Ben-Gurion). The Zionist terrorists were also involved in massacres, and assassinations, during the partition violence (colonialist war against the natives). Another notable future Likud PM, also started in the military, during the partition fighting. That was Ariel Sharon, war criminal, "Butcher of Beirut". Menachem Begin, and these other Zionist terrorists, are important because they became involved in Israeli politics, first forming Herut. That was the party that Albert Einstein, and other prominent American Jews, opposed, having a letter printed in the NYT, in December of 1948, when Begin came to visit the US. The letter opened ... "Among the most disturbing political phenomena of our times is the emergence in the newly created state of Israel of the "Freedom Party" (Tnuat Haherut), a political party closely akin in its organization, methods, political philosophy and social appeal to the Nazi and Fascist parties. It was formed out of the membership and following of the former Irgun Zvai Leumi, a terrorist, right-wing, chauvinist organization in Palestine." Herut merged with other extremist parties, over the years, and eventually became Likud, in the 70s. Now, people get upset over the slogan "From the river to the sea!", but it's the second part that's most important, "Palestine will be free!". Because "Palestine" isn't defined as an ethno-state, a free Palestine can be a single state, free for all to live in, and return to, free of continuing colonization, free of occupation, free of oppression, etc. Just like a Germany free of Nazism, an Italy free of fascism, a South Africa free of apartheid, or an America free of slavery from sea to shiny sea. It doesn't necessitate purging all the Jews. It just necessitates them giving up on the idea of an ethno-state. On the other hand, because "Israel" has been defined as an ethno-state, Likud's, "between the sea and the Jordan there will only be Israeli sovereignty", has no possible good interpretation. It is a declaration of intent to completely colonize, and ethnically cleanse, all Palestine territories. Not only that, but it also claims that they have a "right" to all of the "Land of Israel" (biblical borders that don't mesh with archaeological reality), which is an open declaration of future wars, against Jordan, Syria, Lebanon, and possibly even Iraq. Likud platform ... 1977: "The Right of the Jewish People to the Land of Israel (Eretz Israel) a. The right of the Jewish people to the land of Israel is eternal and indisputable and is linked with the right to security and peace; therefore, Judea and Samaria will not be handed to any foreign administration; between the Sea and the Jordan there will only be Israeli sovereignty. b. A plan which relinquishes parts of western Eretz Israel, undermines our right to the country, unavoidably leads to the establishment of a "Palestinian State," jeopardizes the security of the Jewish population, endangers the existence of the State of Israel. and frustrates any prospect of peace." "Settlement Settlement. both urban and rural. in all parts of the Land of Israel is the focal point of the Zionist effort to redeem the country, to maintain vital security areas and serves as a reservoir of strength and inspiration for the renewal of the pioneering spirit. The Likud government will call on the younger generation in Israel and the dispersions to settle and help every group and individual in the task of inhabiting and cultivating the wasteland, while taking care not to dispossess anyone." 1999: "The Government of Israel flatly rejects the establishment of a Palestinian Arab state west of the Jordan river. The Palestinians can run their lives freely in the framework of self-rule, but not as an independent and sovereign state. Thus, for example, in matters of foreign affairs, security, immigration, and ecology, their activity shall be limited in accordance with imperatives of Israel's existence, security and national needs." "The Jewish communities in Judea, Samaria, and Gaza are the realization of Zionist values. Settlement of the land is a clear expression of the unassailable right of the Jewish people to the Land of Israel and constitutes an important asset in the defense of the vital interests of the State of Israel. The Likud will continue to strengthen and develop these communities and will prevent their uprooting." All Palestine territories are officially considered occupied, by the International Court of Justice, the UN GA, the UN SC, and even in official documents of Israel's own allies. Likud is still using the blueprint for colonizing North America, in the West Bank. Move settlements out into native territory, piss off the natives, the natives retaliate, cry about poor "innocent" colonizing settlers being the "victims" of violent "Savages!", call in the cavalry to put down the native uprising, and eventually expand the borders to include those settlements. Rinse and repeat. In Gaza, Israel is operating an open air WWII style fascist ghetto. Them claiming a "right to defend themselves" would be like the Nazis claiming a "right to defend themselves " from the Warsaw ghetto uprising. There's no "war". That they're the occupiers means the "war" part is long over. Those people are actually supposed to be under the occupier's protection. That partition was forced upon the Palestinian majority, against their will ... that the Zionist portion still had to be forcefully ethnically cleansed of its non-Jewish majority, against their will ... that the millions of occupied Palestinians don't have a say in the government that truly rules over them, Israel's ... means Israel is about as democratic as Nazi Germany after Hitler purged his political opponents and then held elections.
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  835. Top 10 homicide rates ... Mississippi 23.70 Louisiana 21.30 Alabama 15.90 New Mexico 15.30 South Carolina 13.40 Missouri 12.40 Illinois 12.30 Maryland 12.20 Tennessee 12.20 Arkansas 11.70
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  836. ​ @michaelknight2897  "Overall, the study found that female ultra runners are faster than their male counterparts for distances longer than 195 miles (314km). The data showed that as distances get longer, the gap in pacing between genders shrinks until women come out on top. In 5km runs men run 17.9% faster than women, at marathon distance the difference is just 11.1%, 100 mile (161km) races see the difference shrink to just .25%, and above 195 (314km) miles, women are actually 0.6% faster than men. Danish research from 2018 echoes these results, finding that women are 18.61% better than men at running with a controlled and consistent pace when comparing results for the first and the last part of the marathon."
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  837. ​ @edbrotherton36  Rofl. Truth Social shows what his brand is actually worth.
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  838.  Intelligent Design  There all just ballots, until they're counted, dumbo. It's only once they're counted that you know who they're going to. And, zero evidence of "fraudulent and illegal" ballots. The fact that Dumpty set up a hotline is actually evidence they have no evidence.
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  839. The native "Savages!" attacked our poor innocent colonialist settlement, for no apparent reason! Absolutely nothing happened, prior to that attack! That's when history began!
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  840. ... by Mestizos, who have native ancestry.
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  841. @Tilip Muejark The covid 1% mortality rate is 5x higher than the automobile accident mortality rate. Do you think street lights, speed limits, seatbelt laws, child seat laws, helmet laws, drinking and driving laws, licensing, vehicle safety standards, etc., are fascism? The polio paralysis rate is 2x lower, and the mortality rate 20x lower, than the covid mortality rate. Do you think mandating the polio vaccine for public school students and immigrants is fascism?
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  842. @IceOrwellian O'neel Pick one, or the other, dumb dumb. "Fascism is the complete opposite of Marxian socialism." ~ Mussolini Weird ... conservative religious types have been using the authority and laws to control people for centuries. When was it they supposedly stopped doing that?
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  843. I like the ones where he "defends" himself by admitting to a totally different crime. Like saying he actually undervalued property, by over a billion dollars, which would instead be MASSIVE tax fraud.
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  844. "Developing" seems kind of accurate, at this point. The US is devolving.
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  845. Even if he honestly desperately wanted bipartisanship, the bipartisanship Manchin should be aiming for is what has bipartisan support amongst voters, not politicians.
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  846.  @makeamericagreatagain3401  You're trusting the word of a proven conman ... proven in court ... who made similar baseless claims about widespread voter fraud in 2016. His own election integrity commission found nothing of the sort. He's a pathetic weak little loser, who accepted every AP call that went his way, and only starts whining and crying about the AP calling it, when it goes against him.
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  847. ​ @bisiashley  He wasn't really the one to talk to. The Minnesota legislature passed an anti-bds law. It's currently illegal for him to divest. Need to get the legislature to drop the law, first.
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  848.  @tilleryinnovations592  I repeat ... motor vehicle deaths were down in the UK, dimwit. It wasn't inaccurate.
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  849.  FACTS ONLY  Dimwit Republicans elected an actor, and considered him their greatest politician ever, until the Trump cult elected a reality TV show host. Did you have a point?
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  850. It's a party of lunatics. They gave a home to McCarthy like anti-socialist extremists, southern racists, religious extremists, gun nuts, tea party nutters, Trump cultists, and now Qanoners.
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  851. Jews lived in Muslim nations for 1300 years. They were given refuge when Christian nations offered conversion, death, or exile. The Ottomans okayed the earliest form of Zionsim, which was closer to immigration. It is all about the Balfour declaration, and Zionism turning into full blown colonialism. Native Americans reached a point where they wanted to push all the white men back into the sea, and it wasn't simply because they were white, and had nothing to do with their religion. It's a common native reaction to colonialism. On the flip side, Zionism's only claim to this specific land is based on their fairy tale book. Maybe ask them about their worldview.
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  852. What? How is obstruction not a reason? That's the reason used for Clinton, ffs.
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  853. ​ @DolphinWithIgloo-fg3ow  What are you talking about? It's a crime to unalive children. The Alabama Supreme Court just decided that they are already "children". The IVF process intends for the majority of those "children" to be "unalived". What's unintended is when they have sextuplets, or something, and the majority of the "children" live.
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  854. "We cannot get re-elect, we cannot win this re-election, excuse me. We can only re-elect Donald Trump." ~ Joe Biden
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  855.  @sc6210  Whether they qualify for asylum is up to the courts. It's not illegal to seek asylum.
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  856.  @JoJo-vg8dz  Most medicines are authorized within 6 months of phase III trials. It's the development that sometimes takes longer. Newer methods of development were faster. They've all gone through the standard phase I-III trials. You're spewing Trump bullshit. You're a right wing loon, not a leftist.
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  857. ​ @anzaca1  The moment of its "inception" was a colonialist land grab, of land with a Palestinian majority. Even within the Zionist portion of partition, the Jewish population was over 100k less than the non-Jewish population. That's why they cleared out 700k non-Jews, during the Nakba. And, because there was approximately 856+k non-Jews vs just over 715k Jews, in the Zionist portion, prior to Nakba, means that believing Zionists had zero intention of ethnically cleansing the majority , requires believing that the Zionists had zero intention of creating a Jewish state. It's a ridiculous notion, peddled by lying racist supporters of colonization.
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  858.  @JC-sf6sf  Again ... you and Shapiro proved you have zero clue how interviews work. It's just a fact that interviewers are there to ask questions, not answer them ... not to be interviewed themselves. Arguing an interviewer is dodging questions, when they aren't there to answer questions in the first place, is dumb. Really dumb. Fact. It was Shapiro who proved to be dodging and redirecting, by trying to reflect the questioning back at the interviewer, instead of just answering. Fact. It was Shapiro who proved to be dodging and redirecting, by ranting about bias and accusing the interviewer of being a leftist, instead of just answering. Fact. It was Shapiro who proved he's a hypocrite by being offended by "barbaric" while, in the same interview, justifying "fascist". Fact. It was Shapiro who proved to be a whiny little bitch, by taking his ball and running home. Fact. He was wrecked, and none of your stupid spin can change that. Fact. Insult all you want. I originally didn't say crap about your opening derogatory remarks, so why whine like a little bitch about mine? Especially since your argument is factually dumb, by definition of the words "interviewer" and "interviewee".
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  859. MLK was basically saying the same thing as JFK was saying at the time: "Those who make peaceful revolution impossible will make violent revolution inevitable."
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  860. He literally promoted, and helped fund, Hamas, to weaken the Palestinian Authority, to avoid peace, so he could continue his colonization of the West Bank.
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  861. Having a minority government that can't unilaterally do all the shit Trump does, is better. We don't need an Impeachment. If the majority of the government wants to trigger a new election, they can. So, Trudeau will have to keep the majority happy, hopefully by teaming with the NDP.
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  862. The law office of Digenova & Toensing (Digenova's wife) also represented Scooter Libby. Toensing was Libby's personal lawyer and they owe Trump for pardoning him.
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  863. ​ @tjk9263  Just once, 6 months ago.
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  864. Likud's bloody 100 year history ... In 1923, 100 years ago, Ze'ev Jabotinsky wrote, The Iron Wall, and a follow up, The Ethics of The Iron Wall (sooo racist towards Africans), in which he fully acknowledged that post Balfour Zionsim was colonialism, and that, based on the entirety of history, the native Palestinian population would resist being colonized until the bitter end. He directly compared it to the colonization of North America. He promoted doing it anyway, claiming Zionist colonialism was a "just" colonialism (he also thought North American colonialists were good guys, so not a great judge of morality), not caring what that meant for the native population. Ze'ev is important, because his Betar militant youth group helped found the Irgun terrorist group, along with other supporters of his, and the splinter Lehi terrorist group. The Irgun bombed numerous Palestinian markets and other public places, murdering many Palestinian civilians, including children, even including Palestinian Jews (who didn't support colonialist Zionsim). The Irgun are important, because they ended up being led by future Likud PM, Menachem Begin, who bombed the King David Hotel. The King David Hotel was bombed because the British had raided the Jewish Agency and seized numerous documents that may have shown that the terrorists were working with the JA and Haganah (JA liked to pretend that they didn't support the terrorism). The British then stored those documents at their base, in the hotel. That the Irgun terrorists responded to a JA raid, itself seems to prove the connection. That the thousands of Irgun (and Lehi) terrorists were also quickly merged into the new nation's military (IDF) and intelligence (Mossad) agencies, and are still celebrated as "heroes" by Israelis, to this day, also seems to support total collaboration between the groups. That other terrorist group mentioned, Lehi (also known as the Stern Gang), was considered even more extreme. They even tried to ally with the Nazis, against the British. Lehi ended up being led by Yitzhak Shamir, future Mossad agent, and another future Likud PM. They assassinated Lord Moyne, and others. In 1945, there was a major land and peoples survey done in Palestine. It showed that the Zionists only owned about 5% of the total land, 20% of the arable land, and owned a majority in zero districts. The partition was not only going to be forced on the native Palestinian majority, but Jews were still going to be a minority, in the part allocated to them. The only possible way to even become a "Jewish state" was going to require getting rid of the actual majority (at least enough so that there'd be a solid Jewish majority, so they could fake being democratic). This is also shown by the 1948, post Nakba, population of Israel. If there was 716,700 Jews, 156,000+ non-Jews, and approximately 700k non-Jews ethnically cleansed, that means the Jewish population, in the Zionist portion of partition, was originally over 100,000 less than the non-Jewish population. To believe that there was never any intent, by Zionists, to ethnically cleanse away the Palestinian majority would require believing that they never intended to create a "Jewish state". It's a nonsensical notion. Begin, and those terrorist groups, also opposed partition, but for the opposite reason Palestinians did. Palestinians didn't want to be colonized, at all. The terrorists wanted to colonize it all. "Moderate" Zionists were okay with colonizing half ... for now (what would happen in the future, after partition, was up to them, said Ben-Gurion). The Zionist terrorists were also involved in massacres, and assassinations, during the partition violence (colonialist war against the natives). Another notable future Likud PM, also started in the military, during the partition fighting. That was Ariel Sharon, war criminal, "Butcher of Beirut". Menachem Begin, and these other Zionist terrorists, are important because they became involved in Israeli politics, first forming Herut. That was the party that Albert Einstein, and other prominent American Jews, opposed, having a letter printed in the NYT, in December of 1948, when Begin came to visit the US. The letter opened ... "Among the most disturbing political phenomena of our times is the emergence in the newly created state of Israel of the "Freedom Party" (Tnuat Haherut), a political party closely akin in its organization, methods, political philosophy and social appeal to the Nazi and Fascist parties. It was formed out of the membership and following of the former Irgun Zvai Leumi, a terrorist, right-wing, chauvinist organization in Palestine." Herut merged with other extremist parties, over the years, and eventually became Likud, in the 70s. Now, people get upset over the slogan "From the river to the sea!", but it's the second part that's most important, "Palestine will be free!". Because "Palestine" isn't defined as an ethno-state, a free Palestine can be a single state, free for all to live in, and return to, free of continuing colonization, free of occupation, free of oppression, etc. Just like a Germany free of Nazism, an Italy free of fascism, a South Africa free of apartheid, or an America free of slavery from sea to shiny sea. It doesn't necessitate purging all the Jews. It just necessitates them giving up on the idea of an ethno-state. On the other hand, because "Israel" has been defined as an ethno-state, Likud's, "between the sea and the Jordan there will only be Israeli sovereignty", has no possible good interpretation. It is a declaration of intent to completely colonize, and ethnically cleanse, all Palestine territories. Not only that, but it also claims that they have a "right" to all of the "Land of Israel" (biblical borders that don't mesh with archaeological reality), which is an open declaration of future wars, against Jordan, Syria, Lebanon, and possibly even Iraq. Likud platform ... 1977: "The Right of the Jewish People to the Land of Israel (Eretz Israel) a. The right of the Jewish people to the land of Israel is eternal and indisputable and is linked with the right to security and peace; therefore, Judea and Samaria will not be handed to any foreign administration; between the Sea and the Jordan there will only be Israeli sovereignty. b. A plan which relinquishes parts of western Eretz Israel, undermines our right to the country, unavoidably leads to the establishment of a "Palestinian State," jeopardizes the security of the Jewish population, endangers the existence of the State of Israel. and frustrates any prospect of peace." 1999: "The Government of Israel flatly rejects the establishment of a Palestinian Arab state west of the Jordan river. The Palestinians can run their lives freely in the framework of self-rule, but not as an independent and sovereign state. Thus, for example, in matters of foreign affairs, security, immigration, and ecology, their activity shall be limited in accordance with imperatives of Israel's existence, security and national needs." "The Jewish communities in Judea, Samaria, and Gaza are the realization of Zionist values. Settlement of the land is a clear expression of the unassailable right of the Jewish people to the Land of Israel and constitutes an important asset in the defense of the vital interests of the State of Israel. The Likud will continue to strengthen and develop these communities and will prevent their uprooting." All Palestine territories are officially considered occupied, by the International Court of Justice, the UN GA, the UN SC, and even in official documents of Israel's own allies. Likud is still using the blueprint for colonizing North America, in the West Bank. Move settlements out into native territory, piss off the natives, the natives retaliate, cry about poor "innocent" colonizing settlers being the "victims" of violent "Savages!", call in the cavalry to put down the native uprising, and eventually expand the borders to include those settlements. Rinse and repeat. In Gaza, Israel is operating an open air WWII style fascist ghetto. Them claiming a "right to defend themselves" would be like the Nazis claiming a "right to defend themselves " from the Warsaw ghetto uprising. There's no "war". That they're the occupiers means the "war" part is long over. Those people are actually supposed to be under the occupier's protection. That partition was forced upon the Palestinian majority, against their will ... that the Zionist portion still had to be forcefully ethnically cleansed of its non-Jewish majority, against their will ... that the millions of occupied Palestinians don't have a say in the government that truly rules over them, Israel's ... means Israel is about as democratic as Nazi Germany after Hitler purged his political opponents and then held elections.
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  865. Weren't all of those accomplished through building mass vocal, and visible, support, outside of congress, and then pressuring those opposed (rather than those on the same side) until a majority of congressional support was achieved? I don't think any were achieved through congressional shenanigans.
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  866.  @haywoodjablowme4945  What are your definitions of "baby" and "murder"?
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  867.  discorperted  How would him being present to vote on an unfettered corporate bailout he opposed have helped? If you're in favour of a restriction free bailout, then him not being there benefits your position.
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  868.  @johnobrien1528  Wait ... are you under the delusion that M4A would have passed? If so, then you're living in a fantasy world. If not, then why are you having trouble grasping comparing a failed vote to what would also have been a failed vote? You're in the sack of Dore knobs, Dore knob.
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  869. The main issue I have is that I've run across Swiss posters arguing it's a solution for poverty ... just let depressed poor people off themselves, or old poor people that don't want to be a burden. Can't agree with that take.
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  870.  @slayin1496  "IDF removes gag on 2016 conviction of officer for raping Palestinian woman" "IDF colonel-rabbi implies: Rape is permitted in war"
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  871. Sounds like Ben is ready for Dave Rubin's next wedding, or anniversary party.
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  872.  Aaron Dickson  The evidence is a Boogaloo being arrested, and confessing to starting a fire at a police station, and shooting it up, during a BLM protest. The evidence is another group of Boogaloos being arrested on their way to starting a fire, loaded with Molotov cocktails, they were going to try and frame BLM for, during a different BLM protest. The evidence is 2 Boogaloos using the cover of George Floyd protests to kill a security guard and a cop. ... You're clearly ignorant about the topic, as usual.
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  873.  Illhan Omar's Brother  No fed is going to run around a stadium for 10 years, dimwit.
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  874.  @johnpatrick3355  Peru has the highest per capita covid death rate in the world, ffs, and you're spouting pure bullshit about vaccine deaths.
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  875. That's a big part of the problem. The ones who have been spouting the same bullshit Trump has can't admit to it being incitement without implicating themselves.
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  876. ​ @gnubbiersh647  You don't seem to grasp what not caring means. If you "want" women to play, then you care.
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  877.  @jamesgentry6814  Red states tend to have higher firearm mortality rates, higher homicide rates, higher poverty rates, lower education outcomes, lower healthcare outcomes, etc. There's definitely an affordable housing problem, but that's something right wingers don't even want to bother fixing, anyway. They'd probably cut funding to what affordable housing there is.
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  878.  @tomypreach  You can't regulate internalized beliefs. People can believe whatever they want. The government isn't supposed to force religion on its citizens. Religious beliefs shouldn't be the basis of any laws or government actions.
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  879.  @NoName-lq6vw  Zionists thinking they have a right to "return" to that specific land, and accepting no other options presented to them, is definitely based on religion. There's no other explanation for picking that spot.
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  880.  @alabamaman5994  Alabama is bottom 10, for income per capita.
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  881.    Exactly. Celebs should shut their yaps ... also they elected Reagan president. Lefties are snowflakes ... also waaah he's kneeling! I'm not a racist, I'm an American expressing their free speech ... also hey, what you said is unAmerican, you Commie! If you don't like it, leave ... also we don't like it, things suck, and want to make it great again. Etc.
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  882. Likud's bloody 100 year history ... In 1923, 100 years ago, Ze'ev Jabotinsky wrote, The Iron Wall, and a follow up, The Ethics of The Iron Wall (sooo racist towards Africans), in which he fully acknowledged that post Balfour Zionsim was colonialism, and that, based on the entirety of history, the native Palestinian population would resist being colonized until the bitter end. He directly compared it to the colonization of North America. He promoted doing it anyway, claiming Zionist colonialism was a "just" colonialism (he also thought North American colonialists were good guys, so not a great judge of morality), not caring what that meant for the native population. Ze'ev is important, because his Betar militant youth group helped found the Irgun terrorist group, along with other supporters of his, and the splinter Lehi terrorist group. The Irgun bombed numerous Palestinian markets and other public places, murdering many Palestinian civilians, including children, even including Palestinian Jews (who didn't support colonialist Zionsim). The Irgun are important, because they ended up being led by future Likud PM, Menachem Begin, who bombed the King David Hotel. The King David Hotel was bombed because the British had raided the Jewish Agency and seized numerous documents that may have shown that the terrorists were working with the JA and Haganah (JA liked to pretend that they didn't support the terrorism). The British then stored those documents at their base, in the hotel. That the Irgun terrorists responded to a JA raid, itself seems to prove the connection. That the thousands of Irgun (and Lehi) terrorists were also quickly merged into the new nation's military (IDF) and intelligence (Mossad) agencies, and are still celebrated as "heroes" by Israelis, to this day, also seems to support total collaboration between the groups. That other terrorist group mentioned, Lehi (also known as the Stern Gang), was considered even more extreme. They even tried to ally with the Nazis, against the British. Lehi ended up being led by Yitzhak Shamir, future Mossad agent, and another future Likud PM. They assassinated Lord Moyne, and others. The two terrorist groups also operated outside of Palestine. The Irgun bombed the British Embassy at Porta Pia, in Rome. The Lehi bombed the British Colonial Club, in London. A timer failed in another bombing attempt, at the Colonial Office, in Whitehall. Two female Lehi operatives were arrested crossing from Belgium to France, with the ingredients for letter bombs. 21 letter bombs were found to be have sent, and were intercepted. They mined the Cairo-Haifa train, in Egypt, twice, killing dozens of civilians, as well as British soldiers. In 1945, there was a major land and peoples survey done in Palestine. It showed that the Zionists only owned about 5% of the total land, 20% of the arable land, and owned a majority in zero districts. The partition was not only going to be forced on the native Palestinian majority, but Jews were still going to be a minority, in the part allocated to them. The only possible way to even become a "Jewish state" was going to require getting rid of the actual majority (at least enough so that there'd be a solid Jewish majority, so they could fake being democratic). This is also shown by the 1948, post Nakba, population of Israel. If there was 716,700 Jews, 156,000+ non-Jews, and approximately 700k non-Jews ethnically cleansed, that means the Jewish population, in the Zionist portion of partition, was originally over 100,000 less than the non-Jewish population. To believe that there was never any intent, by Zionists, to ethnically cleanse away the Palestinian majority would require believing that they never intended to create a "Jewish state". It's a nonsensical notion. Begin, and those terrorist groups, also opposed partition, but for the opposite reason Palestinians did. Palestinians didn't want to be colonized, at all. The terrorists wanted to colonize it all. "Moderate" Zionists were okay with colonizing half ... for now (what would happen in the future, after partition, was up to them, said Ben-Gurion). The Zionist terrorists were also involved in massacres, and assassinations, during the partition violence (colonialist war against the natives). Another notable future Likud PM, also started in the military, during the partition fighting. That was Ariel Sharon, war criminal, "Butcher of Beirut". Menachem Begin, and these other Zionist terrorists, are important because they became involved in Israeli politics, first forming Herut. That was the party that Albert Einstein, and other prominent American Jews, opposed, having a letter printed in the NYT, in December of 1948, when Begin came to visit the US. The letter opened ... "Among the most disturbing political phenomena of our times is the emergence in the newly created state of Israel of the "Freedom Party" (Tnuat Haherut), a political party closely akin in its organization, methods, political philosophy and social appeal to the Nazi and Fascist parties. It was formed out of the membership and following of the former Irgun Zvai Leumi, a terrorist, right-wing, chauvinist organization in Palestine." Herut merged with other extremist parties, over the years, and eventually became Likud, in the 70s. Now, people get upset over the slogan "From the river to the sea!", but it's the second part that's most important, "Palestine will be free!". Because "Palestine" isn't defined as an ethno-state, a free Palestine can be a single state, free for all to live in, and return to, free of continuing colonization, free of occupation, free of oppression, etc. Just like a Germany free of Nazism, an Italy free of fascism, a South Africa free of apartheid, or an America free of slavery from sea to shiny sea. It doesn't necessitate purging all the Jews. It just necessitates them giving up on the idea of an ethno-state. On the other hand, because "Israel" has been defined as an ethno-state, Likud's, "between the sea and the Jordan there will only be Israeli sovereignty", has no possible good interpretation. It is a declaration of intent to completely colonize, and ethnically cleanse, all Palestine territories. Not only that, but it also claims that they have a "right" to all of the "Land of Israel" (biblical borders that don't mesh with archaeological reality), which is an open declaration of future wars, against Jordan, Syria, Lebanon, and possibly even Iraq. Likud platform ... 1977: "The Right of the Jewish People to the Land of Israel (Eretz Israel) a. The right of the Jewish people to the land of Israel is eternal and indisputable and is linked with the right to security and peace; therefore, Judea and Samaria will not be handed to any foreign administration; between the Sea and the Jordan there will only be Israeli sovereignty. b. A plan which relinquishes parts of western Eretz Israel, undermines our right to the country, unavoidably leads to the establishment of a "Palestinian State," jeopardizes the security of the Jewish population, endangers the existence of the State of Israel. and frustrates any prospect of peace." 1999: "The Government of Israel flatly rejects the establishment of a Palestinian Arab state west of the Jordan river. The Palestinians can run their lives freely in the framework of self-rule, but not as an independent and sovereign state. Thus, for example, in matters of foreign affairs, security, immigration, and ecology, their activity shall be limited in accordance with imperatives of Israel's existence, security and national needs." "The Jewish communities in Judea, Samaria, and Gaza are the realization of Zionist values. Settlement of the land is a clear expression of the unassailable right of the Jewish people to the Land of Israel and constitutes an important asset in the defense of the vital interests of the State of Israel. The Likud will continue to strengthen and develop these communities and will prevent their uprooting." All Palestine territories are officially considered occupied, by the International Court of Justice, the UN GA, the UN SC, and even in official documents of Israel's own allies. Likud is still using the blueprint for colonizing North America, in the West Bank. Move settlements out into native territory, piss off the natives, the natives retaliate, cry about poor "innocent" colonizing settlers being the "victims" of violent "Savages!", call in the cavalry to put down the native uprising, and eventually expand the borders to include those settlements. Rinse and repeat. In Gaza, Israel is operating an open air WWII style fascist ghetto. Them claiming a "right to defend themselves" would be like the Nazis claiming a "right to defend themselves " from the Warsaw ghetto uprising. There's no "war". That they're the occupiers means the "war" part is long over. Those people are actually supposed to be under the occupier's protection. That partition was forced upon the Palestinian majority, against their will ... that the Zionist portion still had to be forcefully ethnically cleansed of its non-Jewish majority, against their will ... that the millions of occupied Palestinians don't have a say in the government that truly rules over them, Israel's ... means Israel is about as democratic as Nazi Germany after Hitler purged his political opponents and then held elections.
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  883.  @remus4283  The same way most developed countries do, dumb dumb.
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  884.  @matthewjamison  That's a good one. I often use a native American analogy. I'm Canadian with Tipperary ancestors who left about 10 years before the Young Islander Rebellion. They had worked in the Slieveardagh mines, and lived right near Ballingarry.
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  885.  @robertcampbell6042  If you actually know the timeline, then you're making no sense. Israel was evicting Palestinians with a racist law. Israel responded violently to protests. Israel stormed and occupied the mosque. That was followed by Hamas giving them a warning (equivalent to a "knock") to leave or they'd fire rockets. Israel ignored the warning.
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  886.  @soysaucehairdye7869  Reagan was an FDR voting union leader, until Nixon helped put him on the path to crazytown. Boomers were too young to do McCarthyism. Nixon was also the youngest member of HUAC. Nixon welcomed in the southern racist majority in 1972, leading to a massive red wave. He was a big part of starting to gather all the nuts into one basket. Reagan then gathered all the religious fanatics. It was the generations before boomers, that turned super conservative. Boomers may have turned into more corporate leaning Dems, but they didn't magically become religious fanatics and racists. Those were there already. Republicans just brought them all together.
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  887. The vast majority of people recover from myocarditis fairly quickly, with no long term effects, as well.
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  888.  @colonelangus8247  It's called a representative democracy, dumb dumb. "Republic" and "democracy" aren't mutually exclusive.
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  889. ​ @MultiMolly21  Currently, the bottom 50% owns about 1.5% of total wealth, but pays about 3% of total taxes (a 1:2 ratio), meanwhile the top 1% owns about 35% of wealth and pays about 35% of total taxes (a 1:1 ratio). The bottom 50% are paying more taxes, as a percentage of wealth. The top 3 billionaires, alone, own as much wealth as the bottom 50%. If you have 2 equal piles of wealth, they should each pay equal amounts of taxes, meaning those 3, alone, should be paying as much total taxes as the bottom 50%.
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  890. Someone tell right wing morons, including Sam, that Mexico has universal healthcare. Also, here in Canada, we simply created picture ID health cards, to stop all the Americans that used to come for free healthcare. Easy peasy.
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  891.  @tomitiustritus6672  Sure, but we're talking about the ones who voted for Trump. 100% of Cubans didn't vote for Trump. Over a quarter of Cuban refugees came in the first wave, and were Batista administration, soldiers, government workers, the rich and upper middle class, etc. They set up the community. They provided the manpower who worked with the US government to try and retake Cuba. They provided the extremists who committed terrorist acts and assassinations. They had a few years, to a decade, head start to settle and grow their families. Etc. If about 50% of Cubans support Trump, they and their descendants are likely the majority of that 50%.
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  892.  @fayebrown914  You're insane.
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  893. @jon petcoff No, the person claiming Trump is exposing decades of widespread voter fraud, is insane. He claimed the same thing in 2016. He set up his own election integrity commission. They found nothing of the sort. He proved himself to be a spewer of baseless bullshit. He has been proven to be a grifter in a court of law. He and daddy were fined for being fraudsters. Anyone who believes anything Trump says is a complete nutbar.
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  894. ​ @jacktran7024  Israel was mentioned. They're the colonialists.
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  895. Yeah, I think there are people who look at something like All in the Family the wrong way. If you understand that Archie's views were being mocked and laughed at, there's still nothing wrong with it.
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  896. Seems he has come out on Twitter, claiming prayer, not the doctors and nurses, saved him. Apparently he also infected a bunch of staff, and his wife.
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  897.  @reutg6478  Absolute nonsense. Likud's bloody 100 year history ... In 1923, 100 years ago, Ze'ev Jabotinsky wrote, The Iron Wall, and a follow up, The Ethics of The Iron Wall (sooo racist towards Africans), in which he fully acknowledged that post Balfour Zionsim was colonialism, and that, based on the entirety of history, the native Palestinian population would resist being colonized until the bitter end. He directly compared it to the colonization of North America. He promoted doing it anyway, claiming Zionist colonialism was a "just" colonialism (he also thought North American colonialists were good guys, so not a great judge of morality), not caring what that meant for the native population. Ze'ev is important, because his Betar militant youth group helped found the Irgun terrorist group, along with other supporters of his, and the splinter Lehi terrorist group. The Irgun bombed numerous Palestinian markets and other public places, murdering many Palestinian civilians, including children, even including Palestinian Jews (who didn't support colonialist Zionsim). The Irgun are important, because they ended up being led by future Likud PM, Menachem Begin, who bombed the King David Hotel. The King David Hotel was bombed because the British had raided the Jewish Agency and seized numerous documents that may have shown that the terrorists were working with the JA and Haganah (JA liked to pretend that they didn't support the terrorism). The British then stored those documents at their base, in the hotel. That the Irgun terrorists responded to a JA raid, itself seems to prove the connection. That the thousands of Irgun (and Lehi) terrorists were also quickly merged into the new nation's military (IDF) and intelligence (Mossad) agencies, and are still celebrated as "heroes" by Israelis, to this day, also seems to support total collaboration between the groups. That other terrorist group mentioned, Lehi (also known as the Stern Gang), was considered even more extreme. They even tried to ally with the Nazis, against the British. Lehi ended up being led by Yitzhak Shamir, future Mossad agent, and another future Likud PM. They assassinated Lord Moyne, and others. In 1945, there was a major land and peoples survey done in Palestine. It showed that the Zionists only owned about 5% of the total land, 20% of the arable land, and owned a majority in zero districts. The partition was not only going to be forced on the native Palestinian majority, but Jews were still going to be a minority, in the part allocated to them. The only possible way to even become a "Jewish state" was going to require getting rid of the actual majority (at least enough so that there'd be a solid Jewish majority, so they could fake being democratic). This is also shown by the 1948, post Nakba, population of Israel. If there was 716,700 Jews, 156,000+ non-Jews, and approximately 700k non-Jews ethnically cleansed, that means the Jewish population, in the Zionist portion of partition, was originally over 100,000 less than the non-Jewish population. To believe that there was never any intent, by Zionists, to ethnically cleanse away the Palestinian majority would require believing that they never intended to create a "Jewish state". It's a nonsensical notion. Begin, and those terrorist groups, also opposed partition, but for the opposite reason Palestinians did. Palestinians didn't want to be colonized, at all. The terrorists wanted to colonize it all. "Moderate" Zionists were okay with colonizing half ... for now (what would happen in the future, after partition, was up to them, said Ben-Gurion). The Zionist terrorists were also involved in massacres, and assassinations, during the partition violence (colonialist war against the natives). Another notable future Likud PM, also started in the military, during the partition fighting. That was Ariel Sharon, war criminal, "Butcher of Beirut". Menachem Begin, and these other Zionist terrorists, are important because they became involved in Israeli politics, first forming Herut. That was the party that Albert Einstein, and other prominent American Jews, opposed, having a letter printed in the NYT, in December of 1948, when Begin came to visit the US. The letter opened ... "Among the most disturbing political phenomena of our times is the emergence in the newly created state of Israel of the "Freedom Party" (Tnuat Haherut), a political party closely akin in its organization, methods, political philosophy and social appeal to the Nazi and Fascist parties. It was formed out of the membership and following of the former Irgun Zvai Leumi, a terrorist, right-wing, chauvinist organization in Palestine." Herut merged with other extremist parties, over the years, and eventually became Likud, in the 70s. Now, people get upset over the slogan "From the river to the sea!", but it's the second part that's most important, "Palestine will be free!". Because "Palestine" isn't defined as an ethno-state, a free Palestine can be a single state, free for all to live in, and return to, free of continuing colonization, free of occupation, free of oppression, etc. Just like a Germany free of Nazism, an Italy free of fascism, a South Africa free of apartheid, or an America free of slavery from sea to shiny sea. It doesn't necessitate purging all the Jews. It just necessitates them giving up on the idea of an ethno-state. On the other hand, because "Israel" has been defined as an ethno-state, Likud's, "between the sea and the Jordan there will only be Israeli sovereignty", has no possible good interpretation. It is a declaration of intent to completely colonize, and ethnically cleanse, all Palestine territories. Not only that, but it also claims that they have a "right" to all of the "Land of Israel" (biblical borders that don't mesh with archaeological reality), which is an open declaration of future wars, against Jordan, Syria, Lebanon, and possibly even Iraq. Likud platform ... 1977: "The Right of the Jewish People to the Land of Israel (Eretz Israel) a. The right of the Jewish people to the land of Israel is eternal and indisputable and is linked with the right to security and peace; therefore, Judea and Samaria will not be handed to any foreign administration; between the Sea and the Jordan there will only be Israeli sovereignty. b. A plan which relinquishes parts of western Eretz Israel, undermines our right to the country, unavoidably leads to the establishment of a "Palestinian State," jeopardizes the security of the Jewish population, endangers the existence of the State of Israel. and frustrates any prospect of peace." "Settlement Settlement. both urban and rural. in all parts of the Land of Israel is the focal point of the Zionist effort to redeem the country, to maintain vital security areas and serves as a reservoir of strength and inspiration for the renewal of the pioneering spirit. The Likud government will call on the younger generation in Israel and the dispersions to settle and help every group and individual in the task of inhabiting and cultivating the wasteland, while taking care not to dispossess anyone." 1999: "The Government of Israel flatly rejects the establishment of a Palestinian Arab state west of the Jordan river. The Palestinians can run their lives freely in the framework of self-rule, but not as an independent and sovereign state. Thus, for example, in matters of foreign affairs, security, immigration, and ecology, their activity shall be limited in accordance with imperatives of Israel's existence, security and national needs." "The Jewish communities in Judea, Samaria, and Gaza are the realization of Zionist values. Settlement of the land is a clear expression of the unassailable right of the Jewish people to the Land of Israel and constitutes an important asset in the defense of the vital interests of the State of Israel. The Likud will continue to strengthen and develop these communities and will prevent their uprooting." All Palestine territories are officially considered occupied, by the International Court of Justice, the UN GA, the UN SC, and even in official documents of Israel's own allies. Likud is still using the blueprint for colonizing North America, in the West Bank. Move settlements out into native territory, piss off the natives, the natives retaliate, cry about poor "innocent" colonizing settlers being the "victims" of violent "Savages!", call in the cavalry to put down the native uprising, and eventually expand the borders to include those settlements. Rinse and repeat. In Gaza, Israel is operating an open air WWII style fascist ghetto. Them claiming a "right to defend themselves" would be like the Nazis claiming a "right to defend themselves " from the Warsaw ghetto uprising. There's no "war". That they're the occupiers means the "war" part is long over. Those people are actually supposed to be under the occupier's protection. That partition was forced upon the Palestinian majority, against their will ... that the Zionist portion still had to be forcefully ethnically cleansed of its non-Jewish majority, against their will ... that the millions of occupied Palestinians don't have a say in the government that truly rules over them, Israel's ... means Israel is about as democratic as Nazi Germany after Hitler purged his political opponents and then held elections.
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  898.  @sandrafrancisco  Ironically, Glenn is now collecting cheques from Rumble, which is funded by Peter Thiel, whose company made spying software for the CIA, NSA, FBI, etc. Glenn is now basically being paid from money made from what Snowden exposed, and Glenn claims to be against.
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  899.  @dennisfischer7676  "Lock her up!" sound familiar?
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  900. Seems like Dominion included threatening to sue on air personalities along with the companies they work for, because he really wanted no part of that shit.
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  901. ​ @sethwinslow  Nope. Only about 40% of Israelis support a two state solution, according to polls.
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  902.  @A_Derpy_NINJA  Sorry, how many seats has the Green party won again?
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  903.  @thecheshirecat299  Does your whataboutism somehow magically make the family values party less hypocritical?
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  904. Actually, I think he's minding everyone's business, and recording it.
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  905. Because it's mainly a political commentary show?
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  906. Bernie should hire Piper. She's quick on her feet.
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  907. So Trump's obsession with Obama, makes him a loser and Obama a winner?
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  908.  @CT-um7zq  But she would be the best to carry on and fight as hard for what Bernie wants, in the worst case, should something happen to him.
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  909. ​ @delgado_lucid  Ok, I did. The Bible said the Israelites were foreigners, originally from Iraq.
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  910.  @Grassroots_Hegemon  You realize he was booted out of the socialist party, right? Is Trumpty Dumpty still a Democrat?
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  911.  John Thomas  Yes, because wanting rent cancellation, hazard pay, health coverage, etc., included is "AGAINST THE PEOPLE". And, all the establishment types voted for it. You're talking gibberish. No sense.
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  912. ​ @Palbizu March 2024 survey: Statehood: 47.2% Independence: 11.4% Free association: 23.3%
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  913. ​ @MrJdsenior  Do that in the primaries. Splitting votes in the general, or pouting and staying home because your primary candidate lost, is exactly how you get a Trump elected.
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  914.  @barberwinning  The $15 got an ever so important vote, passed the house (which M4A wouldn't have), got an ever so important list of no voters, and all Dore does is keep sitting in his garage, bitching about those who kept it in for a round of voting and voted for it. That takes stupidity, not balls.
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  915. ​ @andy_daoc  Nope. Trump averaged more bmbngs per year than Obama.
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  916.  @ramonalfaro3252  Was he right, that letting Trump win in 2016 would bring about a massive progressive wave that would "for sure" take the house and senate in 2018, and the presidency in 2020? Was he right that Republicans would join the left to vote against a Trump agenda, rather than join him in overt fascism? Was he right that Trump filling multiple scotus seats was as likely as the moon falling into Lake Michigan? Was he right that Stein had a chance of winning? Dore is hardly ever right.
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  917.  @sjwslayer7403  You're an idiot. Explain how a fetus with an unformed brain that hasn't even developed pain sensors, emotions, consciousness, etc., can suffer liked an actual child, with a conscious, aware, developed brain, that can feel pain, discomfort, fear, sadness, etc.
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  918. ​ @John-gi6yh  Even if true, you're saying ... one rich guy saying to get rid of something he doesn't personally need, don't tax him to help the poor, old, or whoever ... is samesies as another rich guy saying to keep something he doesn't personally need, go ahead and tax him to help the poor, old, disabled, or whoever?
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  919. @eddieisfiction Jones is a nut that benefits the right. Dore is a nut who also benefits the right.
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  920. ​ @michaelbeavis2632  Colonists in North America let some "friendly" natives live amongst them. So, that means they weren't ethnic cleansing occupiers? Nazis had some Jewish collaborators. So, that means they weren't actually racist?
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  921.  @poethepoetspoet  Dore, literally, promoted Trump as the better option, in 2016, and ran a constant attacked ad campaign against Trump's only remaining viable opponent, in 2020.
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  922.  @unitedfools3493  What's their issue? That it's not a kids' book teaching tolerance of homosexuals? Or a Harry Potter book, describing "evil" magic? Conservative types have been cancelling things for centuries.
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  923.  @stonnergaming420  The problem with communism is that it's not actually communism, like you said? I agree.
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  924.  @HardenJID  When did we use our military last? The US invited us to support their fight in Afghanistan, then fucked off to Iraq for no fucking reason. Who protected who last? We took in and protected thousands of Americans stranded in the air, on 9/11. You bring up WWII. Canadians were in it from the start, pushed the furthest inland on D-Day of any allies, and had the top flying ace of any allies. Big thanks for coming in and blowing up my grand uncle's unit though.
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  925.  @LadyMaeloraBeesbury  Mate wrote a Syrian "scandal" piece, that could have been written from anywhere in the world, using Wikipedia as a source, but leaving out the info that doesn't fit your narrative. He, and Dore, have repeatedly ranted about a report that doesn't actually assign blame, that didn't even come out until almost a year after the US, and others, had bombed Syria, so had absolutely nothing to do with anyone's decision to bomb Syria. He's being an idiot. Two dissenting opinions on a single investigation doesn't even debunk that investigation, let alone the dozens of previous investigations. In fact, there was another chemical weapons use, just the month before, which had a no blame investigation, and a follow up blame assigning investigation, with zero dissenting opinions. They have made a big todo about nothing.
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  926. ​ @vitalityfox  The economy is healed, dingus. The inflation rate is down to DT's 2019 level (and over 50% of the spike was attributed to profit margin increases ... capitalism). Unemployment is lower than it has been in decades. The stock market is soaring.
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  927.  @whyamimrpink78  How is trying to overthrow the democratic process and install an unelected ruler, "limited government and giving people more freedom"?
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  928. ​ @82Jaster  They're acting like Ben Shapiro being interviewed by "lefty" Andrew Neil.
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  929. Their nickname being The Daily Heil.
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  930. ​ @farhadchaudhry  That's why the far right is also more likely to ban abortions, to increase numbers internally.
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  931. Odds are still decent Joe might have a stroke before the convention.
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  932. Yeah, the "bipartisan" bunch are only concerned about bipartisanship amongst politicians, not bipartisanship with the public.
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  933.  @richardyoung5293  Deutsche Bank translation: he's worth less than $800 million.
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  934. Stop going by this year's exit polls, ffs. They'll be as skewed as in person vs mail in voting was. If a higher percentage of Trump supporters voted in person, then the exit poll will show a higher percentage of a demographic voting for Trump than is actually the case, when you factor in mail in voting. Years of Pew surveys show Republicans have made zero headway with black and Hispanic Americans.
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  935. Australia's covid deaths per capita rate would translate into about 20k total covid deaths in the US. 600k people have needlessly died for freedumb.
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  936. ​ @MyMomSaysImKeen  That's like cheering on the massacre of a Native American village.
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  937.  @luckycatnip3667  Gender is a persona, and doesn't have to match biological sex. A penisless god can be called "he". A vaginaless car can be called "she".
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  938.  @ComradeCatpurrnicus  Well, a lot of the unconvinced people have possibly been exposed to decades of propaganda, that IL are the good guys. Anyone who thinks everything "started" on Oct 7, is lacking some kind of context. Anyone who thinks IL is "defending itself", is lacking some kind of context. Etc. Every pro-IL stance is either lacking some kind of context, or is simply a rcist/bgot who doesn't care and is likely unpersuadable. I'm aiming for the no context people.
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  939. ​ @jakematterson8652  The UN definition says "all, or in part". The Office of Gncd Prevention has also ruled that ethnc clnsing can also fall within the meaning of the Gncd Convention. You know, because if you don't move, you're unalived. The threat is move or be gncdd.
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  940.  @HenriFaust  It isn't a science question. It's language question. People have been using gender terminology that doesn't match biological sex, for millennia. Gender represents a persona, not necessarily the physical person. Almost all Christians, Muslims, and Jews, accept their god doesn't have a physical sex, but use masculine gender terminology, for it. People have been using feminine gender terminology, to describe sexless objects, like ships, since forever.
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  941.  @gizroc  Man you are stupid. What does the origin have to do with bungling responses? Where it originated has zero to do with how countries responded.
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  942.  @gizroc  Topic: responses to the virus Prove you have an ounce of intelligence, and try to address the actual topic.
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  943. You're dumb.
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  944. Come on somebody!
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  945. @C M No you're not. You're literally fighting for kids to get myocarditis at 8x the rate by catching covid.
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  946. ​ @Mike-jf8py  Her type is the difference between just being a far right party vs being an overtly fascist party. Sure, she'll vote for far right policies, but not supporting overthrowing the democratic process, is kind of important.
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  947.  @alabamaman9476  The topic was agitators at protests. There's zero evidence of any left wing agitators at Jan 6. There has been evidence of right wing agitators at BLM protests. You: Samesies!!!!
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  948.  Mari Jayne  What are they reading, because education outcomes are higher in urban areas than rural areas? Their fairytale book?
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  949.  @tastytherrien5106  Not just a campaign donor, a fairly close family friend, as well as friend of the Giuliani family.
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  950. ​ @LikeLikeLikeLikeLi  It basically comes down to the fact that ... To win seats in the South, Republicans ran their own Southern rcst candidates. By the time of Civil Rights, the division was North-South, not Rep-Dem. Dems wrote the bills. A Dem president signed the bills. Both the Northern Reps and Dems voted for. Both the Southern Reps and Dems voted against. Fed up with the Northerners of both parties, the Southern rcst majority voted for a third party resegregationist, in 1968, winning 5 Southern states. Nixon then won that Southern rcst majority over to the Republican party, in 1972. On the other side, with the Great Migration North, and industrialization, millions of black workers started voting for the more pro worker Dem party. That migration also left the South even more rcst, percentage wise.
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  951.  @gnubbiersh647  The only one not grasping a concept, is you not grasping the contradiction between people both claiming they don't care, while clearly caring. Why do you keep showing up, just to prove you have reading problems?
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  952.  @treymitchell957  Jimmy doesn't support M4A. He outright peddled a non-M4A candidate, who said M4A was unAmerican, over Bernie. He outright abandoned Nina Turner. He peddles a non viable third party route, that hasn't won the most popular third party a single seat in congress in its near 50 year existence, that would just hand power to corporate Dems and Republicans for decades to come.
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  953.  @jop23ify  It's only pointless, to you, because you seem to have missed the point. Abortions and pregnancies aren't contagious deadly viruses. If you're against all vaccine mandates, then you're just not very bright, and considering it to be solely about the individual means you don't grasp how herd immunity works.
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  954.  @tomypreach  I agree with a lot of what you said, but on the specific point ... no, she can't act how she wants, while acting as a government official. Then she's acting as the government, not herself.
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  955.  @thinkoutsidethelines8265  The most popular third party hasn't won a single seat in congress in its near 50 year existence. The most popular progressive third party hasn't won a single seat in congress in its 20 year existence. The third party route is the longest route to your destination, next to teaming up with looney far right extremists that want to start a civil war, and would start shooting leftists once you help them overthrow the government. The broader progressive caucus is about 30 years old and is about 15 seats away from becoming the majority of house Dems. Justice Dems have been at it for about 4 years and have helped replace about a dozen corporate Dems. AOC has been at it 2 years, and has helped replace a few more. It's clearly the better strategy, even if you think it needs better progressive candidates. It's not like going third party is guaranteed to produce perfectly perfect incorruptible puritan progressive candidates. The Green party produced Kyrsten Sinema, ffs. Even if we imagine that you magically got a third party so popular, that every single member of the progressive caucus belonged to that party, instead of the Democrat party. What you'd have is Trump as president, due to vote splitting between Biden and Bernie in the general. You'd have Pence as the senate tie breaking vote. And, you'd have a Republican plurality, in the house, that would only have to work with a handful of the most conservative Dems, to pass whatever they wanted. They could completely ignore your third party. They wouldn't need your votes on anything. Taking over the Dem party is not only the more effective strategy, it gives you more power. If the progressive caucus can become the majority of Dems, they can pick the party speaker candidate, they can set the party agenda. If also the majority not the house, that speaker could assign committee seats, put forward whatever bills they wanted, and sideline whatever bills they didn't want. Third party is a fantasy. Dore is a grifter, who says he's for one thing, but then takes people down a direction that's never going to get you that thing.
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  956. Einstein considered Likud's Irgun and Lehi founders to be comparable to Fscsts and Nzs.
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  957. ​ @ChucksExotics  Except the context was "still alarming", not "still watching", dumb dumb.
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  958. Ben, you are not being totally honest about the history. In 1923, Ze'ev Jabotinsky, fully acknowledged that Zionism is colonialism. Nothing is "fair and square" after that beginning. Ze'ev also predicted, based on historical native responses to colonialism, that the natives would fight against it, until the bitter end. On top of the colonialist nature of Zionism, you left out that Israel, itself, was founded on terrorism, by groups like the Irgun and Lehi. That Israel, itself, elected terrorists, like Menachem Begin, who led the Irgun and bombed the King David Hotel. That Israel still celebrates those terrorists, as "heroes". Israel literally taught their neighbours that terrorism is a valid path to independence and statehood. In the West Bank, Israel is basically using the blueprint for colonizing North America. Send out settlements into native territory, piss off the natives, the natives react violently, cry that the poor "innocent" settlers have been attacked by "savages", the cavalry comes in and puts down the native uprising, and eventually the border expands to include thisse settlements. Rinse and repeat. In Gaza, Israel disgustingly operates an open air WWII style fascist ghetto. Only the fascists thought the Warsaw ghetto uprising was led by extremists. Only the fascsists considered all the WWII resistance movements (that sometimes targeted civilians) were "terrorists". Even the totally standard allied military sometimes intentionally targeted heavily populated civilian areas, like in Dresden, to end fascism. Very similar to the earliest years of colonizing the Americas, the natives originally welcomed Zionists, under the Ottoman Empire. That welcome was worn out, as it became increasingly clear that the Zionists weren't simply moving in next door, like other refugees. They had organizations buying land, that could never again be sold to a non Jew. Those organizations also stopped letting any non Jews rent, or even work on said land. It very definitely became colonialism. The British investigated a number of Zionist settlements, and clearly described all this in a report. Nothing "fair and square" has been going on, for 100 years.
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  959.  @TransKidsMafia  You seem confused. All, or part, of the region has been called some variation of Palestine by the Egyptians, Assyrians, Babylonians, Persians, Greeks (Aristotle considered the Dead Sea to be "in Palestine"), Western Romans, Christian pilgrims, Eastern Romans, early Muslims (Filastin), Christian crusaders, Ottomans, British, and even the first Zionist congress (19th century) that wanted to create a home "in Palestine". It was Israel that ceased to exist. Even the Israelites became Judahites (Jews). Even when they wrote down their religion, during Babylonian exile, it became known as Judaism, not Israelism.
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  960. ​ @mymonitor1348  Why would Israelis vote for Likud? Likud was founded by Irgun terrorist leader, Menachem Begin, murderer of Palestinian men, women, children, and even Palestinian Jews (who didn't support Zionism). He also bombed the King David Hotel. Israel merged those terrorists into the new nation's military and intelligence agencies. They elected Menachem Begin PM. To this day, they still celebrate those terrorists as "heroes". Likud's other founder was Ariel Sharon, war criminal, who massacred Palestinian villages. Israelis also elected him PM. Their original platform stated "between the sea and the Jordan there will only be Israeli sovereignty". There's zero indication that Netanyahu has deviated from that goal.
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  961. ​ @robertkelly6282  That's why he left out the Palestinians. They just wanted to normalize the ongoing colonization with other countries in the region.
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  962.  @emerald3331  Dore is calling the guy who has been fighting for it, for most of his political career a fraud. He's calling a young house member who has been fighting for it for, since before her own political career started, a shill. Dore is the equivalent to Dave Rubin, at this point ... claiming to be a lefty while constantly attacking the left most politicians.
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  963. ​ @bradleyeric14  Wait what? Wasn't basically everyone already opposed to ISIS? Why need a demonstration, if basically everyone already agreed ISIS sucked?
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  964.  Aaron Dickson  Maybe from countries that have had much better covid outcomes?
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  965. ​ @Soril2010  That's not a consistent response. Some people choose the mother, because you can make more kids with her.
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  966. His girlfriends are in school all day. Lots of time.
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  967. You're a moron. He doesn't pay his workers hourly wages. He pays a salary. It was working extra hours that made the salary worth less than $15/hr. Cutting the hours back, while keeping the salary the same, makes the salary worth more than $15/hr.
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  968.  @welderpro357987  Biden's words apply to people who have chosen to support rcsts, bgts, and msgnysts. They can choose not to support those things, and his words will no longer apply to them. How can a Puerto Rican choose not to be Puerto Rican? Also ... Have you forgotten losing your minds over "white guy tacos"?
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  969. ​ @drg8687  A Dem just won a previously Rep seat, by 63/37, in Alabama.
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  970. ​ @frankie4827  "Fascism is the exact opposite of Marxian socialism." ~ Mussolini, defining fascism for an Italian encyclopedia. Who is always claiming to be fighting socialism, putting on ultra-nationalistic performances, and had the majority of their members of congress and their cult leader try to outright overthrow the democratic process?
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  971. Never was a lefty. “The line I’ve always used is, I would be a Republican if they would. Which means that I like the Barry Goldwater Republican Party, even the Reagan Republican Party. I want a mean old man to watch my money… government is a sieve that takes as much money as it can and gives it away, usually needlessly,” - Bill Maher
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  972.  @antonyhanson4479  Rofl. Yeah, "charlatan" AOC helped add a few more M4A yes votes to congress, and was just trying to add one more, in Nina Turner. "True" leftist, Jimmy Dore, slandered AOC and abandoned Nina Turner ... abandoned adding another M4A yes vote to congress. What has he done for the left, exactly?
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  973.  @JoKo203  I know that Dore knobs don't grasp the words like "gaslighting" and "blackmail", but do you also not grasp the word "grifter"? Obviously, the grifter would claim to be for certain things, but the way they propose obtaining those things doesn't actually get you those things. The 30 year old broader progressive caucus is about 15 seats away from becoming the majority of house Dems. Justive Dems are 4 years old and have filled about a dozen seats. AOC has been at it 2 years and helped fill a few more seats. The most popular third party hasn't won a single seat in congress in its near 50 year existence. The most popular progressive third party hasn't won a single seat in congress in its 20 year existence. In what reality would going third party get you what you want, quicker? Even if you magically got the third party popular enough to get all the progressive votes, in the next 100 years, you'd split the Dem votes and let Republicans rule, for decades to come, after that. Trump, and Republicans, have been trying to toss 10m of the poorest Americans off of Medicaid expansion. They, literally, want to go in reverse. That moves you further away from ever getting M4A. The directions Dore often proposes going move you further away from getting the things he claims he supports. That's the grift. The grifter promoted Tulsi (public option) over Bernie (M4A), for months. Then he did an about face, and made out like not supporting a secondary tactic for a 100% guaranteed to fail performance art vote, on M4A, was enough to slander other progressives as "fakes", "frauds", "sellouts", and whatnot. Obviously, supporting a non-M4A candidate is worse than not supporting a secondary tactic, and moves votes away from the M4A candidate. Slandering M4A's most ardent congressional supporters, and getting people to follow some fantasy, moves you further away from ever getting M4A. Then, after making out like simply disagreeing over a single secondary tactic, was enough to no longer consider other progressives allies, then did another about face, and promoted allying with psycho far right ancap Boogaloos, who want to start a civil war, and agree on next to nothing, aside from a handful of anti-authoritarian issues ... including disagreeing on M4A, which they want no part of. M4A and ancap are incompatible. Allying with loons, like that, is how "leftists" wind up on the wrong side of a Night of the Long Knives. Who does he think they're going to be shooting, in their civil war? Ancap is all about private ownership. They'll be shooting any leftist that want public ownership. ...
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  974.  @whyamimrpink78  Rofl. Many anti-maskers and such obeyed their capitalist overlords, Trump cultists gathered at rallies, etc., and got screwed to death. Cases and deaths are currently highest in lower vaccinated areas, because you lot are so stupid.
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  975. ​@GretsGarbo The OP was clearly talking about the "torture" part of the statement. Are you daft?
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  976.  @markfeland2285  And not just the Southern strategy, where Southern racists migrated to the Republican party. They have to ignore migration in the opposite direction ... millions black Americans migrated to what were less racist states (that now largely vote Democrat), out of more racist states (that now largely vote Republican), and that almost all black Americans have migrated to the Democratic party. He'd have to argue that the vast majority of black Americans are totally clueless and can't recognize which party is the most racist.
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  977.  @elijahobviously1288  Try removing a 24 week fetus from life support, and see if it will "recover".
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  978. ​ @maromaro7765  Learn to Google stuff, before saying stupid things. Trump is disliked in most of the world.
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  979.  @TimBitts649  Every NATO country has been fully paying its share of the NATO budget, all along. The goal of 2% of GDP is separate from the NATO budget.
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  980. ​ @snoopcelev1590  Weird. I thought the UN has tried sanctions on Sudan, in the past, and I don't remember anyone trying to veto them. Which government should we contact, that's supporting, arming, and defending, the bad guys in Sudan?
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  981.  @myfriendjenonline7831  No, he wasn't. He could have snapped his fingers and created infinite resources. He was a genocidal nutbar.
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  982.  @FerreusNRG  Hard to tell Dore knobs from Trumpists. The majority of Dore knobs even seem to be both. If someone calls a person who doesn't take corporate donations a "sellout", it's probably a good sign they're the looney cultist.
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  983. @OGL iaDL Not many. https://www.pewresearch.org/global/wp-content/uploads/sites/2/2020/01/PG_2020.01.08_US-Image_0-02.png?w=640
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  984. The attempt at two states, started with talks over 100 years ago, now. It has failed. Need one state.
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  985. He doesn't even seem to grasp the basic concept that you don't have free speech rights on someone else's private property.
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  986. ​ @MrGreensweightHist If you have enough to be doing a constitutional amendment, then it's automatically constitutional.
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  987. Meh, they have their major gerrymandering, and are basically all on the same page. Even "anti-establishment" Trump is just pushing mostly the same old Republican bullshit, just wrapped in a different package.
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  988.  @theboss4359  Why lie? She has been calling for a ceasefire since Oct?
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  989.  Juanito G  Blaming natives for the reaction to colonialism is kind of nonsensical. Leading Zionists knew what they were doing, and knew what the reaction would be. https://www.jewishvirtuallibrary.org/quot-the-iron-wall-quot
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  990.  @markzuckergecko621  So you're not one of those crazy fascist Trumpists who call other Republicans RINOs?
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  991. While I agree the anger is justified, the question is how to reach others, and change minds, when you have an audience of other minded people. I'm not sure that's the best method. They might just write you off as unhinged.
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  992.  @margot9215  You're insane. They fairly quickly tabulated the election day voting machine votes. Then they had to turn to the mail in paper ballots, which are much slower to tabulate. And, it is their Republican legislatures that make the voting rules, idiot. They're the ones who refused to update their system and allow mail in votes to be counted before election day votes.
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  993.  long island  With US corporations all over, I'm not sure you grasp who is taking more of whose money.
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  994. Well, Dore knobs show up, here, when Sam does Dore videos. Probably Matt fans and not regular TYT watchers.
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  995. I'd let "gaslighting" broaden to also falsely portraying someone else as insane (likely the same one you're trying to make feel insane), to others ... the abusive spouse making out like the abused spouse is the crazy one, when the cops show up, for example. But, yeah, just using it to mean "lie" or "mislead" is too much.
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  996. ​ @aszilagyi100  You just said there's nothing to admire about Trump.
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  997.  @sergeikhripun  What did Dore get right about "RussiaGate"? Dore promoted Trump as the better option than Clinton. He vastly overestimated the benefits, claiming it would lead to a progressive wave that would "for sure" take the house in 2018 (wrong), the senate in 2018 (wrong), and the presidency in 2020 (wrong). He vastly underestimated the risks, claiming even Republicans would join the left to vote against the Trump agenda (wrong), and claiming Trump filling multiple scotus seats was as likely as the moon falling into Lake Michigan (wrong). He's a complete and utter moron.
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  998. ​ @frankpalancio8471  You were rooting for the Third Reich, when you read about the Warsaw ghetto uprising?
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  999. ​ @anuragchakraborty8766  Turkey is the biggest ally, a NATO member, in the region. Israel has just caused trouble in the region. The US has more bases in Saudi and Iraq.
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  1000.  @TheJasonBorn  The Palestinians living in an Israeli controlled open air WWII style fascist ghetto, in Gaza, and the Palestinians continuously being colonized and ethnically cleansed, in the West Bank. Both.
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  1001.  @DuderofDudeness  Fascism = trying to vaccinate the population, to better protect them from being sick, being hospitalized, and being dead.
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  1002.  @Robloxdude260  Actually, that's not the standard. Conquer and rule is the standard. That's why genocide and ethnic cleansing aren't considered standard warfare.
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  1003.  @Robloxdude260  They weren't standard, moron, that's why they're considered especially brutal.
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  1004.  @dong9514  Yeah, he was a member of the Black Hebrew Israelites, back when his group's leader, murdered someone. The guy in this video sounds like he might be in the same cult.
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  1005.  @Addamo  You're outright lying. Dore's argument was that because Trump was so much worse, that it would cause a massive progressive backlash, and that's why he was a better option. He was wrong on all of his predictions. AOC was, literally, just promoting M4A, dimwit Dore knob. You're still lying. Oh my, she wants Dems to remain the majority, and progressives to be in that majority, in a difficult midterm, in conservative areas where progressives got slaughtered, including ones she previously backed. I get it, you Dore knobs prefer a Republican majority. Just come out of the closet and say it already.
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  1006. ​ @vipermad358  Firstly, that discussion was solely about the reunification of Germany, a year before the collapse of the USSR. Nobody was talking about any other countries, that didn't exist at the time. The USSR had multiple borders with NATO, at the time. Secondly, that wasn't added to any signed agreements. Thirdly, Rvssia itself almost immediately started trying to expand its borders back into those former SSR countries, towards NATO, starting with Georgia. Lastly, Pvtin himself, in his very first address to parliament, as PM, lamented at the loss of those former SSR countries. He also, personally, never wanted to NOT have borders with NATO. What he wants is for NATO to not be in countries he wants to try and reclaim.
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  1007. ​ @TheDanorte  Yeah. However people are compensated for their work, it should be counted as income. Being handed stocks as compensation should be treated differently than buying/selling stocks. And, stock buybacks should be made illegal market manipulation again. And, stock options (offering insiders a chance to buy stocks at a greatly reduced price) should be considered insider trading.
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  1008. There's also the fact that (on paper) the employer is paying half the FICA tax. "Moral" Libertarians should only be accepting half their Social Security and Medicare benefits, or sending half back to their old employer.
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  1009. ​ @MsEagle20  The inflation rate started spiking before JB's ARP was even implemented (passed mid March and most people didn't get their checks until mid April). You sure it wasn't the DT spending bill, at the end of Dec 2020, that was implemented and checks out by end of Jan?
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  1010.  @tilleryinnovations592  PhD in nursing practice. So, when Dore asks if he's a doctor ... if he means medical doctor, the answer is "No".
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  1011.  @tilleryinnovations592  "There were an estimated 1,390 reported road deaths in the year ending June 2021, a decrease of 11% compared to the year ending June 2020. There was a decrease of 22% compared to the 3 rolling year average for 2017 to 2019 (prior to the coronavirus (COVID-19) pandemic)."
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  1012. But hardly anyone is going to be a bootstrap outlier. Even amongst those who try to pull themselves up by the bootstraps, the successful ones are a minority. 50% of small businesses fail within 5 years, 70% fail within 10 years, the vast majority of workers don't get that single promotion up for grabs, etc. Most people get stuck in the same economic class they were born into. The "American Dream" is dying, with the US being one of the worst developed countries for upward mobility. Letting the government get away with doing nothing to make conditions better for people, will just perpetuate the situation.
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  1013. @Halon's Razor Americans have been going by the AP call, since 1948, including Trump, who went by it in 2016, excepted victory on the 8th, accepted Clinton conceding on the 9th, and accepted an invitation to the White House on the 10th, to talk transition. He was even using their calls to brag about which states he had won on election night, this election. Ivanka even congratulated daddy, a couple days ago, when the AP called Alaska for him ... after all you whiny babies started crying about the AP doing what they've done for decades.
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  1014.  @bretbonner  What a load of crap. Whether, or not, your body keeps producing antibodies depends more on the type of virus than the vaccine. You can catch the flu over and over and over. Tetanus resistance fades over about 10 years. Unvaccinated people are catching covid multiple times, and you'd be letting 1% of the population die every time you get your natural immunity.
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  1015.  Edward Gutierrez  What a load of crap. Nobody is forcing anyone to get abortions. Nobody is pro-abortion, trying to convince everyone to get abortions. People of all walks of life get abortions, most of them Christians, and most US Christians are conservatives. People are forcing these kids into camps. People are arguing that this is what should happen to all illegals ... even though crossing the border at a non-point of entry is a valid way to seek asylum ... even though they aren't being charged with crimes ... even though, if they were charged with crimes, that doesn't make the children criminals. You have no defense, just distraction and dishonesty.
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  1016. English class, learning that should be "your life".
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  1017. Latino is a geographical grouping. Hispanic is a language grouping. Latinos and Hispanics come in wht, blk, native, and mixes.
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  1018.  @aliamjon2550  Emergency use approved by who?
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  1019. Exactly. The founders were even originally just asking for a level of representation on par with the British parliament, which already existed, and still does.
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  1020. There's a giant Democrat conspiracy to permagrab the power to make people wear masks and stay home? Are they all getting paid off by UberEats, or something?
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  1021. ​ @philcollins1255  Except the Palestine territories are officially considered occupied. Those people are living under Israel's authority. Not to mention that Israel simply doesn't allow for most Palestinian refugees, who they ethnically cleansed, to have the right of return, to possibly challenge the Jewish majority. Hitler also allowed elections, after purging his political opponents.
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  1022. ​ @tscanz1994  You can't both want truth, and support Trump. He lies about everything. Pick one.
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  1023.  @emblemedfate4270  The Tea Party didn't attack their own Tea Party politicians, dumb dumb.
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  1024. Maybe if AOC provides cover for a Trumpist, like his wife has done for years, he'd like her better.
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  1025.  @aeroripper  An all powerful god, that's on Trump's side, but couldn't simply win the election for him.
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  1026. ​ @SorbusAucubaria  Social Studies, which is basically a gateway to both History and Geography.
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  1027.  @uncomfortabletruth5915  By your "logic" denazification is fascism. That's nonsensical.
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  1028.  @madmanmapper  Yeah, it's not like egalitarian societies existed for tens of thousands of years, or anything.
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  1029. ​ @Zahaqiel  What he failed to tell all the ignorant Americans, who fell for his bullshit, was that it had basically been ruled law, in Ontario, where he worked, for 16 years, and officially in the Ontario Human Rights Code for 4 years. "In 2000, the Ontario Human Rights Commission (OHRC) released a policy on gender identity and human rights, taking the position that the ground of sex could be used to protect transgender people from discrimination and harassment." "In 2012 “gender identity” and “gender expression” were added as grounds of discrimination in the Ontario Human Rights Code." In all that time, he didn't rebel against the law, and didn't find a single example to support his bullshit slippery slope fear mongering.
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  1030. Same argument they use for the existence of a god. Attempting to shift the burden of proof.
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  1031. Netanyahu promoted, and helped fund, Hamas, to weaken the Palestinian Authority in Gaza, to avoid peace, so he could continue his colonization project in the West Bank. He's their biggest fan.
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  1032.  @whyamimrpink78  Trump calls for people to be fired all the freaking time, dimwit. And that's if he doesn't fire them, himself. He wants entire civil rights movements to be labeled terrorist groups, by the fucking government, not just fired.
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  1033. ​ @hatchetman3662 Well, you can thank McConnell for delaying Obama's appointment. And, you can thank Ginsburg, for not retiring. Having spots to fill wasn't his doing.
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  1034. You don't need to guess at Likud's intent. They've had the same intent for 100 years. Likud's colonialist and terrorist origins ... In 1923, 100 years ago, Ze'ev Jabotinsky wrote, The Iron Wall, and a follow up, The Ethics of The Iron Wall (sooo racist towards Africans), in which he fully acknowledged that post Balfour Zionsim was colonialism, and that, based on the entirety of history, the native Palestinian population would resist being colonized until the bitter end. He directly compared it to the colonization of North America. He promoted doing it anyway, claiming Zionist colonialism was a "just" colonialism (he also thought North American colonialists were good guys, so not a great judge of morality), not caring what that meant for the native population. Ze'ev is important, because his Betar militant youth group helped found the Irgun terrorist group, along with other supporters of his, and the splinter Lehi terrorist group. The Irgun bombed numerous Palestinian markets and other public places, murdering many Palestinian civilians, including children, even including Palestinian Jews (who didn't support colonialist Zionsim). The Irgun are important, because they ended up being led by future Likud PM, Menachem Begin, who bombed the King David Hotel. The King David Hotel was bombed because the British had raided the Jewish Agency and seized numerous documents that may have shown that the terrorists were working with the JA and Haganah (JA liked to pretend that they didn't support the terrorism). The British then stored those documents at their base, in the hotel. That the Irgun terrorists responded to a JA raid, itself seems to prove the connection. That the thousands of Irgun (and Lehi) terrorists were also quickly merged into the new nation's military (IDF) and intelligence (Mossad) agencies, and are still celebrated as "heroes" by Israelis, to this day, also seems to support total collaboration between the groups. That other terrorist group mentioned, Lehi (also known as the Stern Gang), was considered even more extreme. They even tried to ally with the Nazis, against the British. Lehi ended up being led by Yitzhak Shamir, future Mossad agent, and another future Likud PM. In 1945, there was a major land and peoples survey done in Palestine. It showed that the Zionists only owned about 5% of the total land, 20% of the arable land, and owned a majority in zero districts. The partition was not only going to be forced on the native Palestinian majority, but Jews were still going to be a minority, in the part allocated to them. The only possible way to even become a "Jewish state" was going to require getting rid of the actual majority (at least enough so that there'd be a solid Jewish majority, so they could fake being democratic). This is also shown by the 1948, post Nakba, population of Israel. If there was 716,700 Jews, 156,000+ non-Jews, and approximately 700k non-Jews ethnically cleansed, that means the Jewish population, in the Zionist portion of partition, was originally over 100,000 less than the non-Jewish population. To believe that there was never any intent, by Zionists, to ethnically cleanse away the Palestinian majority would require believing that they never intended to create a "Jewish state". It's a nonsensical notion. Begin, and those terrorist groups, also opposed partition, but for the opposite reason Palestinians did. Palestinians didn't want to be colonized, at all. The terrorists wanted to colonize it all. "Moderate" Zionists were okay with colonizing half ... for now (what would happen in the future, after partition, was up to them, said Ben-Gurion). The Zionist terrorists were also involved in massacres, and assassinations, during the partition violence (colonialist war against the natives). Another notable future Likud PM, also started in the military, during the partition fighting. That was Ariel Sharon, war criminal, "Butcher of Beirut". Menachem Begin, and these other Zionist terrorists, are important because they also later founded Likud. Now, people get upset over the slogan "From the river to the sea!", but it's the second part that's most important, "Palestine will be free!". Because "Palestine" isn't defined as an ethno-state, a free Palestine can be a single state, free for all to live in, and return to, free of continuing colonization, free of occupation, free of oppression, etc. Just like a Germany free of Nazism, an Italy free of fascism, a South Africa free of apartheid, or an America free of slavery from sea to shiny sea. It doesn't necessitate purging all the Jews. It just necessitates them giving up on the idea of an ethno-state. On the other hand, because "Israel" has been defined as an ethno-state, Likud's, "between the sea and the Jordan there will only be Israeli sovereignty", has no possible good interpretation. It is a declaration of intent to completely colonize, and ethnically cleanse, all Palestine territories. Not only that, but it also claims that they have a "right" to all of the "Land of Israel" (biblical borders that don't mesh with archaeological reality), which is an open declaration of future wars, against Jordan, Syria, Lebanon, and possibly even Iraq. Likud platform ... 1977: "The Right of the Jewish People to the Land of Israel (Eretz Israel) a. The right of the Jewish people to the land of Israel is eternal and indisputable and is linked with the right to security and peace; therefore, Judea and Samaria will not be handed to any foreign administration; between the Sea and the Jordan there will only be Israeli sovereignty. b. A plan which relinquishes parts of western Eretz Israel, undermines our right to the country, unavoidably leads to the establishment of a "Palestinian State," jeopardizes the security of the Jewish population, endangers the existence of the State of Israel. and frustrates any prospect of peace." "Settlement Settlement. both urban and rural. in all parts of the Land of Israel is the focal point of the Zionist effort to redeem the country, to maintain vital security areas and serves as a reservoir of strength and inspiration for the renewal of the pioneering spirit. The Likud government will call on the younger generation in Israel and the dispersions to settle and help every group and individual in the task of inhabiting and cultivating the wasteland, while taking care not to dispossess anyone." 1999: "The Government of Israel flatly rejects the establishment of a Palestinian Arab state west of the Jordan river. The Palestinians can run their lives freely in the framework of self-rule, but not as an independent and sovereign state. Thus, for example, in matters of foreign affairs, security, immigration, and ecology, their activity shall be limited in accordance with imperatives of Israel's existence, security and national needs." "The Jewish communities in Judea, Samaria, and Gaza are the realization of Zionist values. Settlement of the land is a clear expression of the unassailable right of the Jewish people to the Land of Israel and constitutes an important asset in the defense of the vital interests of the State of Israel. The Likud will continue to strengthen and develop these communities and will prevent their uprooting." All Palestine territories are officially considered occupied, by the International Court of Justice, the UN GA, the UN SC, and even in official documents of Israel's own allies. Likud is still using the blueprint for colonizing North America, in the West Bank. Move settlements out into native territory, piss off the natives, the natives retaliate, cry about poor "innocent" colonizing settlers being the "victims" of violent "Savages!", call in the cavalry to put down the native uprising, and eventually expand the borders to include those settlements. Rinse and repeat. In Gaza, they are operating an open air WWII style fascist ghetto. Them claiming a "right to defend themselves" would be like the Nazis claiming a "right to defend themselves " from the Warsaw ghetto uprising. There's no "war". That they're the occupiers means the "war" part is long over. That partition was forced upon the Palestinian majority, against their will ... that the Zionist portion still had to be forcefully ethnically cleansed of its non-Jewish majority, against their will ... that the millions of occupied Palestinians don't have a say in the government that truly rules over them, Israel's ... means Israel is about as democratic as Nazi Germany after Hitler purged his political opponents and then held elections. Hamas is basically just a poor man's Likud, only fighting against colonialism, instead of for colonialism.
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  1035.  @nassaubahamas8570  Nope. You're lying. "A recent study found that vaccinated people infected with the delta variant are 63 per cent less likely to infect people who are unvaccinated. This is only slightly lower than with the alpha variant, says Brechje de Gier at the National Institute for Public Health and the Environment in the Netherlands, who led the study. Her team had previously found that vaccinated people infected with alpha were 73 per cent less likely to infect unvaccinated people. What is important to realise, de Gier says, is that the full effect of vaccines on reducing transmission is even higher than 63 per cent, because most vaccinated people don’t become infected in the first place."
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  1036. ​ @bl4ckkn1g8t5  You're a woman.
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  1037.  @nebwachamp  Trump is establishment, you said. Ok.
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  1038. Chomsky has always been suggesting fixes. You, don't know what you're talking about.
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  1039.  @andersonlee2755  By "truly alive", and the rest of the statement, it sounds like the op is referring to when it should count as a full fledged human life. A mindless, unfeeling, "life" doesn't really count as a full fledged human any more than a "living" sperm is. Scientists can now trick sperm into turning into an embryo, without an egg. Unless you want to ban sex, and ban men from ejaculating anywhere except into test tubes, so you can preserve the "life" of every single sperm and it's potential to become a full fledged human, then being against anything except late term abortions is somewhat hypocritical. Scientists can also now create an embryo from an egg and stem cells taken from bone marrow. If you want to protect everything that has the potential to become a full fledged human, the list is growing. On another not, the IVF process ends up "killing" most of the embryos they creates for the process. Most don't take, or aren't used. Any anti-abortionists that aren't anti-ivf are also hypocrites. Actually, most are hypocrites, out of the gate, since they worship a being who'd be responsible for the majority of pregnancies ending in spontaneous abortion (miscarriage), if it existed. They worship a "baby" "murderer", by their own "logic".
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  1040.  @baibo_a  There are pretty much zero politicians in Western politics calling for perfect economic equality, for all, and a complete end to capitalism. That's "far left". Meanwhile, there are Republicans, and US Libertarians spouting far right Ayn Rand bullshit, calling for a complete removal from government involvement in the economy. It's a right wing country. Scandinavian countries are fairly centrist countries, and Bernie was pointing at emulating them.
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  1041.  @outtarespecttomyfawtha1589  No. Sam understands Jimmy, just fine. I'm a former Jimmy viewer, and understand him, just fine. You clearly don't. He's a grifter, who sells himself as supporting one thing, but then promotes going in the worst possible direction, that doesn't ever get you said thing.
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  1042. You would like The Iron Wall, written by Ze'ev Jabotinsky, in 1923. The early 20th century Zionists weren't shy about being colonialists, and what their end goal was.
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  1043. Kids forced to get vaccines to go to public school ... immigrants forced to get vaccines to immigrate ... construction workers forced to wear hard hats ... drivers forced to wear seat belts ... biohazard workers forced to wear hazmat suits ... the warning signs of Nazism are all around us!!! Ignore the trying to overthrow democracy to keep an unelected ruler in power, though ... that's nothing like it!!! Ignore that one guy convinced tens of millions of people not to believe anyone that contradicts him ... that's also nothing like it!!!
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  1044. @Tilip Muejark What, like the UK, with dimwit Boris, who didn't take it very seriously at first, either, and had covid testing rates (tests per confirmed case) lower than even the US' pathetically low testing rate, for months? Yes, he's responsible, as well.
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  1045. Likud's bloody 100 year history ... In 1923, 100 years ago, Ze'ev Jabotinsky wrote, The Iron Wall, and a follow up, The Ethics of The Iron Wall (sooo racist towards Africans), in which he fully acknowledged that post Balfour Zionsim was colonialism, and that, based on the entirety of history, the native Palestinian population would resist being colonized until the bitter end. He directly compared it to the colonization of North America. He promoted doing it anyway, claiming Zionist colonialism was a "just" colonialism (he also thought North American colonialists were good guys, so not a great judge of morality), not caring what that meant for the native population. Ze'ev is important, because his Betar militant youth group helped found the Irgun terrorist group, along with other supporters of his, and the splinter Lehi terrorist group. The Irgun bombed numerous Palestinian markets and other public places, murdering many Palestinian civilians, including children, even including Palestinian Jews (who didn't support colonialist Zionsim). The Irgun are important, because they ended up being led by future Likud PM, Menachem Begin, who bombed the King David Hotel. The King David Hotel was bombed because the British had raided the Jewish Agency and seized numerous documents that may have shown that the terrorists were working with the JA and Haganah (JA liked to pretend that they didn't support the terrorism). The British then stored those documents at their base, in the hotel. That the Irgun terrorists responded to a JA raid, itself seems to prove the connection. That the thousands of Irgun (and Lehi) terrorists were also quickly merged into the new nation's military (IDF) and intelligence (Mossad) agencies, and are still celebrated as "heroes" by Israelis, to this day, also seems to support total collaboration between the groups. That other terrorist group mentioned, Lehi (also known as the Stern Gang), was considered even more extreme. They even tried to ally with the Nazis, against the British. Lehi ended up being led by Yitzhak Shamir, future Mossad agent, and another future Likud PM. They assassinated Lord Moyne, and others. In 1945, there was a major land and peoples survey done in Palestine. It showed that the Zionists only owned about 5% of the total land, 20% of the arable land, and owned a majority in zero districts. The partition was not only going to be forced on the native Palestinian majority, but Jews were still going to be a minority, in the part allocated to them. The only possible way to even become a "Jewish state" was going to require getting rid of the actual majority (at least enough so that there'd be a solid Jewish majority, so they could fake being democratic). This is also shown by the 1948, post Nakba, population of Israel. If there was 716,700 Jews, 156,000+ non-Jews, and approximately 700k non-Jews ethnically cleansed, that means the Jewish population, in the Zionist portion of partition, was originally over 100,000 less than the non-Jewish population. To believe that there was never any intent, by Zionists, to ethnically cleanse away the Palestinian majority would require believing that they never intended to create a "Jewish state". It's a nonsensical notion. Begin, and those terrorist groups, also opposed partition, but for the opposite reason Palestinians did. Palestinians didn't want to be colonized, at all. The terrorists wanted to colonize it all. "Moderate" Zionists were okay with colonizing half ... for now (what would happen in the future, after partition, was up to them, said Ben-Gurion). The Zionist terrorists were also involved in massacres, and assassinations, during the partition violence (colonialist war against the natives). Another notable future Likud PM, also started in the military, during the partition fighting. That was Ariel Sharon, war criminal, "Butcher of Beirut". Menachem Begin, and these other Zionist terrorists, are important because they became involved in Israeli politics, first forming Herut. That was the party that Albert Einstein, and other prominent American Jews, opposed, having a letter printed in the NYT, in December of 1948, when Begin came to visit the US. The letter opened ... "Among the most disturbing political phenomena of our times is the emergence in the newly created state of Israel of the "Freedom Party" (Tnuat Haherut), a political party closely akin in its organization, methods, political philosophy and social appeal to the Nazi and Fascist parties. It was formed out of the membership and following of the former Irgun Zvai Leumi, a terrorist, right-wing, chauvinist organization in Palestine." Herut merged with other extremist parties, over the years, and eventually became Likud, in the 70s. Now, people get upset over the slogan "From the river to the sea!", but it's the second part that's most important, "Palestine will be free!". Because "Palestine" isn't defined as an ethno-state, a free Palestine can be a single state, free for all to live in, and return to, free of continuing colonization, free of occupation, free of oppression, etc. Just like a Germany free of Nazism, an Italy free of fascism, a South Africa free of apartheid, or an America free of slavery from sea to shiny sea. It doesn't necessitate purging all the Jews. It just necessitates them giving up on the idea of an ethno-state. On the other hand, because "Israel" has been defined as an ethno-state, Likud's, "between the sea and the Jordan there will only be Israeli sovereignty", has no possible good interpretation. It is a declaration of intent to completely colonize, and ethnically cleanse, all Palestine territories. Not only that, but it also claims that they have a "right" to all of the "Land of Israel" (biblical borders that don't mesh with archaeological reality), which is an open declaration of future wars, against Jordan, Syria, Lebanon, and possibly even Iraq. Likud platform ... 1977: "The Right of the Jewish People to the Land of Israel (Eretz Israel) a. The right of the Jewish people to the land of Israel is eternal and indisputable and is linked with the right to security and peace; therefore, Judea and Samaria will not be handed to any foreign administration; between the Sea and the Jordan there will only be Israeli sovereignty. b. A plan which relinquishes parts of western Eretz Israel, undermines our right to the country, unavoidably leads to the establishment of a "Palestinian State," jeopardizes the security of the Jewish population, endangers the existence of the State of Israel. and frustrates any prospect of peace." "Settlement Settlement. both urban and rural. in all parts of the Land of Israel is the focal point of the Zionist effort to redeem the country, to maintain vital security areas and serves as a reservoir of strength and inspiration for the renewal of the pioneering spirit. The Likud government will call on the younger generation in Israel and the dispersions to settle and help every group and individual in the task of inhabiting and cultivating the wasteland, while taking care not to dispossess anyone." 1999: "The Government of Israel flatly rejects the establishment of a Palestinian Arab state west of the Jordan river. The Palestinians can run their lives freely in the framework of self-rule, but not as an independent and sovereign state. Thus, for example, in matters of foreign affairs, security, immigration, and ecology, their activity shall be limited in accordance with imperatives of Israel's existence, security and national needs." "The Jewish communities in Judea, Samaria, and Gaza are the realization of Zionist values. Settlement of the land is a clear expression of the unassailable right of the Jewish people to the Land of Israel and constitutes an important asset in the defense of the vital interests of the State of Israel. The Likud will continue to strengthen and develop these communities and will prevent their uprooting." All Palestine territories are officially considered occupied, by the International Court of Justice, the UN GA, the UN SC, and even in official documents of Israel's own allies. Likud is still using the blueprint for colonizing North America, in the West Bank. Move settlements out into native territory, piss off the natives, the natives retaliate, cry about poor "innocent" colonizing settlers being the "victims" of violent "Savages!", call in the cavalry to put down the native uprising, and eventually expand the borders to include those settlements. Rinse and repeat. In Gaza, Israel is operating an open air WWII style fascist ghetto. Them claiming a "right to defend themselves" would be like the Nazis claiming a "right to defend themselves " from the Warsaw ghetto uprising. There's no "war". That they're the occupiers means the "war" part is long over. Those people are actually supposed to be under the occupier's protection. That partition was forced upon the Palestinian majority, against their will ... that the Zionist portion still had to be forcefully ethnically cleansed of its non-Jewish majority, against their will ... that the millions of occupied Palestinians don't have a say in the government that truly rules over them, Israel's ... means Israel is about as democratic as Nazi Germany after Hitler purged his political opponents and then held elections.
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  1046. ​ @ComradeCatpurrnicus  Right. Well then, technically, Glinda forced the shoes onto Dorothy's feet, with real life magic. So, Glinda is Satan?
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  1047. ​ @franksinatra1977  If the border was "open", they could simply walk through points of entry. Make sense.
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  1048.  @arceusthomas2447  Are you moving the goalpost again? You asked if there were other vaccines with monthly breakthrough cases. Yes, there are.
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  1049.  @IndustryStandard2004  Attempting to appease everyone isn't a fence sitter, it's a bullshitter.
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  1050.  @gizroc  Rofl. It was an obvious statement of fact, at that point. Change my mind.
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  1051.  @TropicalPriest  Promoting that progressives should sit on the sidelines in some irrelevant third party, with zero seats, benefits the DNC, and the RNC. Telling people to abandon Nina Turner benefits the DNC backed candidate. Telling people not to vote for Bernie helps the DNC backed candidate. Telling people Trump is a better option than Clinton goes against the DNC, but benefits the RNC.
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  1052.  @SamyasaSwi  If the facts make the US look too bad, they seem to think there's a bias. These aren't people that look at facts objectively. The founders protested and rioted against extra taxes that specifically funded the police/military, against a lack of representation (anti-authoritarian). Their opponents fought against democracy to keep an unelected ruler in power (authoritarian). Republicans look at that and somehow think they're most like the founders, as they side with blue lives over black and try to overthrow the democratic process to install a dictator.
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  1053. Attempted murder.
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  1054.  @Lucasolvalou  Yes, the full letter is a good read. Just Google (NYT Einstein letter), for any others interested.
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  1055.  @jeffarnold3800  Except this is simply a YouTube comment, while Republicans have been making authoritarian laws, and this video is a congressman actually trying to arrest a doctor. You might have who is feeding who backwards.
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  1056. ​ @60andover-timetotrain-join89  Lol, the Muslim population in Palestine can be attributed almost entirely to reproduction rate. It a little more than doubled in the 32 years from 1882 to 1914. It a little more than doubled again in the 33 years from 1914 to 1947. You're prattling on about a tiny percent of the population. You skipped that the vast majority of those you're talking about immigrated to Turkey. Not at all similar to the 25x Jwsh population increase, over the same time period, from Europe.
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  1057.  @60andover-timetotrain-join89  They did a land and people survey in 1945. We can confirm that Znsts only owned 5% of the land, then, and were majority landowners in zero districts. The only district that was majority empty was Beersheba, which is mostly desert. Then, Likud's Irgun and Lehi trrrst founders helped ethnclly cleanse away the actual majority from what would become Isrl.
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  1058.  @israelchavarri6562  Any government "profit" is called revenue, and doesn't just slide into some billionaire's pocket. It goes into paying for government funded things, like healthcare.
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  1059. Multiple lines made little sense. "a bitter winter of Valley Forge", instead of "in" Valley Forge. "victory from Cornwallis of Yorktown", also should be "in", Cornwallis was either "of London", where he was born, or "of Culford", where his family properties were. "Our army manned the air" ... huh? "airports" ... derp "and at Fort McHenry, under the rockets’ red glare, it had nothing but victory", that was the War of 1812.
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  1060.  Aaron Dickson  What does your blathering have to do with simply stating the fact that there is zero evidence of left wing agitators on Jan 6., and that there have been multiple arrests of right wing agitators at BLM protests?
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  1061. Saying Hamas had no reason, is like saying Geronimo had no reason.
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  1062.  @CourtneyHaynes  What are you blathering about? Sam has been criticizing Rogan, for years. They were the first to call out Dore, as well.
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  1063.  @briandfox16  Peace ... if they let colonizers take half their land.
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  1064. Ironic, because Arnold defected to the side fighting against democracy to keep an unelected ruler in power ... exactly what those Oregon Republicans were fighting against to do.
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  1065.  @MrMalcolm900  How did it come to power? Not a fucking socialist ... https://spartacus-educational.com/GERflickF.htm Not a fucking socialist ... https://spartacus-educational.com/GERschacht.htm Not a fucking socialist ... https://spartacus-educational.com/GERkirdorf.htm Not a fucking socialist ... https://spartacus-educational.com/GERthyssen.htm Not a fucking socialist ... https://spartacus-educational.com/FWWkruppA.htm Not a fucking socialist ... https://spartacus-educational.com/FWWkrupp.htm Not a fucking socialist ... https://spartacus-educational.com/GERvoegler.htm Not fucking socialists ... http://www.holocaustresearchproject.org/economics/igfarben.html Literally killed off any prominent party socialists ... https://spartacus-educational.com/GERnight.htm
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  1066.  @jop23ify  Both parties support vaccine mandates in every single state. Both support federal vaccine mandates for the military and immigrants. Both have for decades. Pregnancies and abortions are not contagious.
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  1067.  @veryfitting  Nice strawman. How is criticizing other voters anti-democratic? Does that mean anyone who criticizes Trump voters is anti-democracy?
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  1068. Yeah, Canada's covid deaths per million would translate into 400+k fewer deaths in the US, and Canada only had a mediocre response. S Korea's covid deaths per million would translate into something like under 12k total US covid deaths. The US response sucked ass.
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  1069. ​ @nickthompson1812  Then poor analogy, on your part. What is it you're trying to keep out, exactly? 90% of drugs come through points of entry, and 80% of drug traffickers are Americans. Cartels don't want their product swept away downriver, lying in a desert, or tossed in detention. They pick people that will least likely be stopped, not the most likely.
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  1070.  @zybch  Making hundreds of thousands, maybe millions, a year as a FOX mouthpiece, and likely having great healthcare coverage already, is being privileged. Thinking they might have to pay more taxes to take care of everyone's health, feels like oppression, to them.
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  1071. The US government has not recognized that it committed genocide against natives, nor have any European governments, that I've heard of, and nobody seems to be pressuring them to do so. Part of the issue surrounding the Armenian genocide is pressuring the Turkish government to publicly own it. That was one of the hurdles to them joining the EU. Meanwhile, nobody is forcing the British government to own committing genocide in the Americas, in Africa, in India, or in Ireland. Nobody is pressuring Spain to recognize its genocides in the Americas and Africa. I don't think Japan recognized that it committed genocide in China. Not many countries do what Germany did and outright say, hey we did this horrible thing and here's what we're doing to make sure it doesn't happen again and here are reparations to those we've harmed.
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  1072.  @thatguy2608  Also: give everyone an automated monthly deposit and put numerous social workers and administrators out of work. Also: don't actually tax Amazon (a VAT doesn't tax businesses) and give consumers $3t, which would make Amazon about $60b extra a year they can put towards automating faster.
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  1073.  @SR-lh4rm  Yang is lucky nobody who knows how a VAT works has seriously interviewed him. He's outright clueless or lying about his key tax plan.
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  1074.  @Darke_Exelbirth  Depends on what you mean by "complaining". Calling the most progressive members of congress "fakes", "frauds", "sellouts", "betrayers", etc., as some do, isn't "complaining", it's slander.
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  1075.  Aaron Dickson  The senate itself goes against majority rule. You don't need to make an inherently undemocratic body even more undemocratic.
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  1076.  @beng2729  It is absolutely possible to double the population in 90 years, and again in 50 years, largely through reproduction, within the time period you were actually "documenting". You think people have been sneaking into refugee camps, since 1947? The Jewish population became similar to the non-Jewish population, after bringing in the Mizrahi. How did Israel become over 7 million Jews, since then?
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  1077.  @selalewow  You know there were some Jewish Nazis, right?
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  1078. Depends. It would be hard to oppose both the WWII fascists, and the resistance groups (that the fascists called "terrorists") that fought them, sometimes hitting civilians (the allies as a whole bombed and killed a shit ton of civilians). I could say some of the stuff the resistance and allies did was overkill, even morally and strategically questionable, but I couldn't say I opposed them.
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  1079. ​ @AMultipolarWorldIsEmerging Well, Florida's Hispanics are largely white Cubans, like Ted Cruz, descended from Spaniards. Plus, the majority came in the first two waves of fascist Batista family, friends, government, military, and wealthy who benefited from the fascism. They came by boat "illegally" and participated in some 200 terrorist attacks on US soil. Those kinds of Hispanics are okay. Just not the ones descended from natives, because Native American ones are somehow "invading" and "replacing" descendants of Europeans in the Americas.
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  1080. ​ @vintagemotorcyclerepair4052  Those other countries aren't against the US, dingus. It's DT that's against them. You're argument basically boils down to claiming Germans who were against Htlr weren't German.
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  1081.  @jimbob498  Florida is the 13th worst state (the other worsts also being mostly red states), for COVID deaths per capita. Their COVID response sucked ass.
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  1082. His version of UBI, through a VAT, was complete bullshit. A VAT is specifically designed NOT to tax the businesses. It pays back all input VAT on the next stage of sale, from the output VAT, and the final consumer ends up paying the entire tax. He kept falsely claiming a VAT would force corporations, like Amazon, to pay taxes. Completely the opposite. He had no clue what he was talking about. He would have had money flowing to those at the very top faster than ever before.
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  1083. ​ @peterroberts4415  Do you condemn the Irgun and Lehi?
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  1084. ​​ kennethb6211  Humans have domesticated animals for 10000+ years. Plus, there would have been tons of methane produced by all the animals humans also wiped out, like the tens of millions of bison. The spike in speed came with industrialization, ffs. Saying we don't have much to do with that, is nonsensical.
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  1085. "In 1997, at age 20, Mullin took over his father's business, Mullin Plumbing, when his father fell ill."
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  1086.  @JTuaim  Can we not pretend that's the same as chattel slavery, which the op was referring to?
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  1087.  @FacelessProphet1  Rofl. Under 400k people voted like Jimmy ... Tulsi in primary ... Green in general. The majority of his followers either don't vote or vote Republican.
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  1088.  @ConsciusVeritasVids  Candace "The problem is he [Hitler] had dreams outside of Germany" Owens, is pretty close.
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  1089. ​ @billyconnelly3568  Well, what that slogan actually means to someone, depends on what "free" means to them. That could just be a single state solution, where everyone lives free and equal. Likud's original platform, however ... "The Right of the Jewish People to the Land of Israel (Eretz Israel) a. The right of the Jewish people to the land of Israel is eternal and indisputable and is linked with the right to security and peace; therefore, Judea and Samaria will not be handed to any foreign administration; between the Sea and the Jordan there will only be Israeli sovereignty." ... is undeniably calling for the ethnic cleansing of Palestinians, since "Israel" = a Jewish state (which is only possible if they maintain a solid majority).
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  1090.  Alabama Man 2.0  You still jealous of Sam?
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  1091.  @The-Secret-Door  Because most Americans don't know how a VAT actually works. A VAT is specifically designed to NOT tax businesses in order to avoid double taxation. So, when Yang falsely claimed it was a way to tax giant corporations, most Americans didn't know any better. Endorsers like Musk, with corporate outlets abroad, probably knew, and didn't correct him, because Yang's VAT/UBI combo would make them extra billions a year.
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  1092.  @Nitro1000  I'm a Canadian, who has been paying a VAT as a consumer, for 30 years, and operated a VAT registered business, filling out VAT returns for years. But hey.
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  1093.  @meltedsnowman9637  Someone with a permanent disability can get $794 SSI and $204 SNAP. That's $998 (more than $1k, if they were a single parent). Yang was offering someone like that a whole $2 more a month (offering them less if they had kids), but then was adding a 10% tax on many things. "Luxury" items aren't categorized by cost. They're categorized by type of product. Their cheap flip phone, and cheap phone plan, would have a tax on them, just like an iPhone and the best smartphone plan. Their outing for a prepared meal at McDonalds would have a tax on it, just like the fanciest restaurant. Their dollar store Barbie knock off would have a tax, just like a top of the line collector Barbie. Etc. Etc. Etc.
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  1094. "Fascism is the complete opposite of Marxian socialism." ~ Mussolini
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  1095. Hey, there are creationist scientists, too.
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  1096.  @blackout07blue  Exactly? Can you point to the time Hunter Biden was made a White House advisor, given security clearance, etc.?
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  1097.  @joeb134  There's no exemption for exposing yourself in a bowling alley, to anyone.
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  1098. ​ @theslippymaster  Sure. Do you know the legal asylum process says to just get yourself inside the country, and it doesn't really care how? They wave the misdemeanor entry and the asylum application is processed. Every asylum seeker then goes through a legal process ... They are legal. It's already law that if non citizens commit crimes, while in the country, they can be deported.
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  1099. @usernumber09 Already been found guilty.
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  1100. @silver plate And? The super rich, living off stocks and options, don't actually have incomes to tax, anyway, and the US capital gains laws can let them go their whole lives without paying capital gains taxes (which are much lower than Finland's, even when they do). Finnish conservatives have been underfunding the healthcare system for almost a decade and pushing private healthcare, and changes in tax laws have created a group of super rich tax dodgers. You think it's a positive to aim for being more like the US? Even still, Finland would be considered commieland, according to US right wingers (Is that who you think you are talking to? If so, wrong channel.). Most progressives (which this channel's audience mainly is) point out that someone like Bernie is actually a centrist, in the real world, so wouldn't consider Finland anything more than that.
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  1101.  @rust44  No, but they were the winners in more voting districts, and winner takes the district, which gives them more seats. The NDP were voted for across the country, but were only the winners 24 districts. Meanwhile, BQ was basically only voted for in Quebec, but they won 32 districts, there.
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  1102. They've been giving a home to crazy extremists, since the 50s, at least ... extreme anti-socialist McCarthy types, southern racists, religious extremists, Reaganomics spewing Neocons, gun nuts, Tea Party nutters, Trump cultists, Qanoners, ... it has become a party of lunatics.
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  1103. ​ @bug-lf4sg  It's not that difficult. The North/South lines are pretty much still there, only with Union states now blue, and Confederate states now red with the addition of what were mid West territories. The most rcst colonies/states, for centuries, didn't up an magically become the least rcst states. They simply started voting for a different party, that pandered to them. Same folks still trying to grrymndr away black votes. Same folks who tried to steal the black votes, by focusing on heavily black districts, that gave Biden a win in 2020. Same folks who argue 90% of black voters are stpd.
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  1104. There are some fairly conservative districts, where a more conservative Dem just beat an incumbent Republican, after having creamed their progressive challengers in the primaries. For midterm elections, the big deal is trying to hang on to seats. It doesn't benefit progressives to become part of a minority party midterm. I'd say only primary in districts where there's a chance for progressives to win, but support the conservative Dems in districts progressives have no chance in, to help keep the majority.
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  1105.  @SolntsaSvet  Georgia 91-93, Chechnya I 94-96 ... NATO expansion started in 99, same year Chechnya II 99-2009. Ukraine I 2014-21. Georgia II 2018. Ukraine II 2022. They've been working on expanding into former Soviet states the entire time.
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  1106.  @markgamolka1045  Like the way he, and Mate, went on and on and on about an irrelevant UN inspector report, that had absolutely nothing to do with anyone's decision to bomb Syria, instead of constantly attacking Trump, the one who decided to bomb Syria? Yeah, really challenging the authoritarianism, there.
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  1107. ​ @GAMEOVER-yy6zj  Why you lying?
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  1108.  @kennybachman35  Yiddish is Germanic.
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  1109. Just to clarify what "government" means, in this case ... In 1923, Ze'ev Jabotinsky fully acknowledged that Zionism is colonialism. He predicted, based on the entirety of history, that the natives would fight said colonialism until the bitter end. He didn't care what would come of the natives, and claimed their colonialism was morally "good". Something that should be differentiated, is the colonialists can't ever really be "victims" of natives. Natives wouldn't be able to attack you, if your colonialist aggression hadn't put you there. On top of the colonialism, Israel's next building block is terrorism, by groups like the Irgun and Lehi. They killed many Palestinian civilians, including children, even including Palestinian Jews (who opposed Zionism). Those terrorist groups were merged into the new nation's military and intelligence. Israelis elected Menachem Begin, terrorist leader of the Irgun, who bombed the King David Hotel, as their PM. Israelis, to this day, celebrate those terrorists as "heroes". They literally taught their neighbours that terrorism is a valid path to independence and statehood, that terrorists are heroes, and now cry that it's not, and they're not ... if Palestinians do it. Israelis have been voting for their governments, since its inception. They hold some responsibility for its actions. Due to mandatory service, almost every single Israeli is, was, or will be, a militant. Israeli militants kill Palestinians, including children, on a regular basis. Israel has hundreds of thousands of reserve militants (valid military targets) "hiding" amongst civilians, using them as "human shields". Israel also has a policy of blaming the families of Palestinian militants, and unleashing collective punishment, but cries foul, if this is done to them. That a Jewish nation is running an open air WWII style fascist ghetto, is just about the most vile thing, about Israel. Becoming the thing they fled, is a very dark part of history.
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  1110.  Tee X  The US hasn't had a left in power.
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  1111. Again, it was a solid argument, for social media, which doesn't create its own content, and to point out that, if they want an actual public square, then it needs to be publicly owned. The argument does not apply to media that creates its own content. That's a whole other monster. There are all kinds of regulations for creating content ... language on certain airwaves at certain times, nudity, violence, etc., etc., etc. And, there used to be regulations for news being more unbiased. You repeatedly conflate two different things.
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  1112. ​ @uriel7203  Fun fact: Palestinians have Canaanite DNA. They're Arab and Muslim the same way indigenous peoples of Central America are now Hispanic and Catholic. It was the Egyptians that named the Peleset. Egypt ruled over Canaan, and the Sea Peoples, including the Peleset, pushed them out of Canaan. While invaders to Egypt, they were liberators of Canaan. They then settled, and merged with the local Canaanite population. They did not ethnically cleanse or genocide them. Then Philistia, Israel, and Judah emerged, in the power vacuum. There would never have been an Israel, if not for the Sea People "invaders", because they also crushed the Hittites, who were pushing South to try and rule over the region. All, or part, of the region has been called some variation of Palestine, ever since.
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  1113.  @morganthem  My dog transcends logic and reason everytime he tries to find the perfect place to shit.
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  1114. ​ @sergeant_salty  So, you think the denazification of Germany, literally trying to end fascism in Germany, was itself fascism?
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  1115.  @pizdanpula223  Rofl, so you're an "enlightened centrist", who isn't enlightened enough to know that no American "leftist" politicians are actually promoting any policies that would move the US left of Denmark, a centrist country? There's no such thing as "leftist extremists" in US politics. You, thinking there is, indicates you're pretty far right. "Fascism is the complete opposite of Marxian socialism." ~ Mussolini The Marxian ideal is stateless, non authoritarian, democratic, socialism. The complete opposite of that is ultra-nationalistic, authoritarian, anti-democratic, anti-socialism (crony capitalism). The main difference between Republicanism and fascism has been that Republicans have only been undemocratic instead of anti-democratic, up until they tried to completely overthrow the democratic process, and keep an unelected dictator in power. And, that wasn't just a handful of "tourists" attacking the capitol. The majority of Republicans in congress tried to overthrow it. Republican lawmakers across the country supported trying to overthrow it. Tens of millions of Republican voters didn't want Trump to concede and step down, under any conditions.
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  1116. Yeah, it was like that from the get go. Basically the entire majority native population was opposed to being colonized, but were ignored. They created the state anyway, and then cleansed it of enough Palestinians to put them in the majority, in their part (they were a majority nowhere, in 1945, and only owned 5% of the land).
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  1117.  Real American  Sorry about your reading comprehension problems.
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  1118.  @Grassroots_Hegemon  "Fascism is the complete opposite of Marxian socialism" ~ Mussolini
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  1119.  @GlassesAndCoffeeMugs  Jimmy and AOC agree on what, 90% of issues? And yet Jimmy punches at her every chance he gets. Likewise with Bernie. In a room with Jimmy in the centre of the room, and everyone else distanced from him by political difference, he starts throwing punches at those closest to him, first, and as often as possible, and rarely gets to punching those around the edge of the room.
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  1120.  @frankpalancio8471  You seem to be conveniently leaving out that all Palestinian territories are officially considered occupied, just like Poland was. And please don't say, "They left Gaza!" ... Germans didn't actually live inside ghettos. They had Jewish councils and police administer the interiors, while they controlled the perimeters.
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  1121. Pretty sure that's the most likely reason. Like, what's the point of putting up the posters? They aren't kidnapped and missing, in the US. Americans can't keep their eyes out for them. The only point to the posters seems to be to enrage people, and justify what Israel is doing. I can't think of any other reason to put them up.
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  1122.  @luchi.el.zorrito  Rofl. You think you'd be on top? All the giant corporations that rely on the police and military to protect their property and interests around the world, would buy themselves private armies. Those would be your lords.
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  1123. A little surprising, since the new government is actually a coalition, that includes a leftist party and an Arab Israeli party. Not sure it will hold together, if the right wingers do what they please.
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  1124. You want Pete, Amy, and Bloomberg in as long as possible, but Biden dropping would benefit Bernie. Remember, much of Biden's support is from older black Americans, but they like Bernie second best. https://morningconsult.com/2020-democratic-primary/
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  1125. There's a difference between the minority having input and the minority being able to dictate policy. The senate was not originally designed for the later.
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  1126.  @whyamimrpink78   Yet, those are still the measures being used to judge every other country. Those have been the measures used to judge countries, for decades. The US used to be moving forwards, using those exact same measures, rather than moving backwards, as they are now. Cancer mortality just isn't a great measure, dumbass. If you diagnose the cancer earlier, but don't actually extend the life longer, you still get credit for the more years of surviving with cancer, post diagnosis. Infant and maternal mortality, are instead objective rates of dying. Life expectancy is an objective average age of death. Rofl, spends most of his time criticizing sources, rather than actually arguing against what they show, and then presents AEI as a (supposedly unbiased?) source. They aren't arbitrary. They measure exactly what they set out to measure, and that was a study using some 70+ measures, and you bip off about stupid cancer survival rates, and think you've defeated the study.
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  1127.  @get_downed_boi6270  White supremacists interpret the Bible as being against mixing the races. That's just a fact. https://fathersmanifesto.net/racemixing.htm How often do you desire sucking a penis, but choose not to?
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  1128.  @mikew6060  Haha, so you're a nutbar too.
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  1129.  @mikew6060  Lol, all you're doing is admitting you're crazy.
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  1130.  @andrewwells6323  Lol, you're not refuting anything. You're talking about something completely different. Your overall "good economy" being good for the 1% doesn't equate to the economy being good for everyone, nor does it refute anything I said. More and more people buying cheaply made crap from Walmart who pays many employees crap wages, cheaper things packaged in bulk from Costco, or even cheaper crap from dollar stores, has put many businesses out of business. More and more people completely depend on cheap crap just to get by, while more and more wealth ends up in the hands of fewer and fewer people. That is exactly the problem I'm talking about. More and more for them is less and less for the rest. They can't buy as much with less. It won't end well. You're completely delusional if you think it will. The masses eventually, and repeatedly, getting sick of that kind of bullshit, and rising up, is pretty basic history. There is a real world presidential candidate running on automation taking jobs. There are real world projects working on designing near fully automated societies. You could spout how looms improved the overall economy, but they put tons of weavers out of work, paid loomers less for more, and made loom factory owners rich. But, they relied on people getting incomes elsewhere to buy their stuff. Their workers couldn't afford it. You can only do that so much before there will be nobody to buy your stuff. The more and more companies that do it will leave fewer and fewer people working. Automation is really taking off. Plenty of forecasts, based on real world events, predicting a loss of hundreds of millions of jobs in coming years. Oh, do tell, what you think turned a fantastic Roaring 20s economy ... for some ... with rising wealth disparity ... into a great depression.
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  1131. ​ @duketogo2616  Wrong. Trump beat Obama.
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  1132.  @Evirthewarrior  Uh huh, and was Trump going to add 18-36 year olds to Medicare? No. He was running on eliminating the ACA, which includes eliminating Medicaid expansion for 10m of the poorest Americans. So your options were possibly adding 40m healthier people to Medicare vs possibly having 10m poor people tossed off of Medicaid. Dore chose the later as the better option. Not sure what you're blathering about borders for. So you have Republicans and corporate Dems who both suck on the border issue, but one party voted to give people another round of covid relief and the other voted against it. Are they both 100% samesies in the mind of a Dore knob? Dore called him a fascist, himself, dimwit. That Trump was so much worse was the whole point of his argument, dimwit, and why it was supposed to cause a massive progressive backlash. Instead, it got people so desperate to be rid of him, that they fell for bullshit "more electable" propaganda.
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  1133.  @tilleryinnovations592  You didn't give me which false equivalency you're working with, yet, dimwit.
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  1134.  @tilleryinnovations592  Say which new false equivalency, you Dore knobs are working with.
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  1135.  @tilleryinnovations592  Motor vehicle deaths, UK: 2019 ... 1,752 2020 ... 1,460
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  1136. Bullshit, on both counts.
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  1137.  @gudmundursturluson7683  Wtf does needing to be in congress have to do with Dore promoting Trump as the better option, and encouraging viewers to vote in such a way that could only benefit Trump? You seem to have reading comprehension problems. Are you arguing zero voters actually listen to Jimmy, that he has zero influence? Jimmy predicted a Trump presidency would result in a massive progressive backlash, that would "for sure" lead to progressives taking the house (wrong) and senate (wrong), in 2018, and the presidency (wrong), in 2020. He predicted that even Republicans would join the left to vote against a Trump agenda (wrong), instead of following Trump into all out fascism (wrong). In the debate where Sam stomped Jimmy, Dore claimed that Trump filling multiple scotus seats was as likely as the moon falling into Lake Michigan (wrong). He got everything wrong. What was he right about, regarding "Russiagate"? The investigation didn't rely on the Steele dossier, that he blathers about. Mueller still indicted 19 Russians, and 3 Russian companies. The report provided some 200 pages of information sharing (collusion) that didn't amount to criminal conspiracy, and said it didn't indict Jr and Kushner for criminal conspiracy because it would be hard to prove they "willfully" broke the law, not because they didn't break the law. What's Jimmy's take? That the DNC, the FBI (run by Republicans for 6 of the last 10 presidential terms), the Republican lead investigator, and Australian officials, were all in cahoots to make Pence president, or something? Rofl. What makes Fauci a "pathological" liar? "etc etc"? You didn't even give one good example to "etc etc" after.
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  1138. At a 2022 Heritage Foundation dinner, DT also publicly stated that they would be writing the MAGA movement's policies, and P2025 is what they wrote.
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  1139.  @FuddlyDud  1) Covid measures have also reduced the number of flu cases, so you don't really have much of a point. 2) Complete bullshit. Numerous in lab tests show 50+% reduction in spray. Japan has kept their covid rate low heavily relying on mask use. China reported a 75+% reduction in covid cases amongst mask wearers. 3) These states have also not taken offered federal funds to help fund home schooling, or distance learning. All you've demonstrated is that you're full of it.
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  1140. ​ @detectiverick9934  Reps abandoned Teddy Roosevelt, his Square Deal, his environmentalism, etc., before he was even done his second term. That's why he ran for a third term as third party, The Progressive Party. They pushed him out of the party, before the election was even held. He knew, and was ashamed of them, while he was alive. Reps also ran their own rcsts in the South, to win seats. By the time of Civil Rights, it was Northern Dems (Northern Dems wrote the bills and voted for) and Reps vs Southern Dems and Reps (Southern Reps voted against). The Southern rcst majority, fed up with the Northerners of both parties, voted for a third party resegregationist, in 1968, winning 5 Southern states. Nixon then won that Southern rcst majority over to the Republican party, in 1972. That's why they're the ones now protecting Confederate statues, waving Confederate flags, etc. Yeah, Lincoln would think he's in upside down world, if he saw them today.
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  1141. I'm getting old. I remember his breakthrough movie, before Silver Spoons, called The Champ. I think he got the gig because he was good at crying. Still is, apparently.
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  1142.  @newperson4889  Good for you.
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  1143.  @jackklugman107  Viruses are the leading cause of myocarditis. Right wingers just didn't give two shits about myocarditis, before vaccines, is what the issue is.
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  1144.  @shpluk  Here's a brave, no mask, proud colonialist, Ze'ev Jabotinsky, Iron Wall, 1923: "My readers have a general idea of the history of colonisation in other countries. I suggest that they consider all the precedents with which they are acquainted, and see whether there is one solitary instance of any colonisation being carried on with the consent of the native population. There is no such precedent. The native populations, civilised or uncivilised, have always stubbornly resisted the colonists, irrespective of whether they were civilised or savage." "Our Peace-mongers are trying to persuade us that the Arabs are either fools, whom we can deceive by masking our real aims, or that they are corrupt and can be bribed to abandon to us their claim to priority in Palestine , in return for cultural and economic advantages. I repudiate this conception of the Palestinian Arabs. Culturally they are five hundred years behind us, they have neither our endurance nor our determination; but they are just as good psychologists as we are, and their minds have been sharpened like ours by centuries of fine-spun logomachy. We may tell them whatever we like about the innocence of our aims, watering them down and sweetening them with honeyed words to make them palatable, but they know what we want, as well as we know what they do not want. They feel at least the same instinctive jealous love of Palestine, as the old Aztecs felt for ancient Mexico, and the Sioux for their rolling Prairies. To imagine, as our Arabophiles do, that they will voluntarily consent to the realisation of Zionism, in return for the moral and material conveniences which the Jewish colonist brings with him, is a childish notion, which has at bottom a kind of contempt for the Arab people; it means that they despise the Arab race, which they regard as a corrupt mob that can be bought and sold, and are willing to give up their fatherland for a good railway system." "There is no justification for such a belief. It may be that some individual Arabs take bribes. But that does not mean that the Arab people of Palestine as a whole will sell that fervent patriotism that they guard so jealously, and which even the Papuans will never sell. Every native population in the world resists colonists as long as it has the slightest hope of being able to rid itself of the danger of being colonised. That is what the Arabs in Palestine are doing, and what they will persist in doing as long as there remains a solitary spark of hope that they will be able to prevent the transformation of "Palestine" into the "Land of Israel."" "Colonisation carries its own explanation, the only possible explanation, unalterable and as clear as daylight to every ordinary Jew and every ordinary Arab. Colonisation can have only one aim, and Palestine Arabs cannot accept this aim. It lies in the very nature of things, and in this particular regard nature cannot be changed."
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  1145.  @stonnergaming420  I'm going by what you said, dumb dumb. Can communists have millions of dollars, or not? You seem confused.
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  1146.  @antidote4870  The two state solution has failed, and was based on colonialism. I think there should be a single state solution, with a Lebanon style government, and a right of return for Palestinians. No Jewish ethno-state, and no Islamic ethno-state.
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  1147. Likud's bloody 100 year history ... In 1923, 100 years ago, Ze'ev Jabotinsky wrote, The Iron Wall, and a follow up, The Ethics of The Iron Wall (sooo racist towards Africans), in which he fully acknowledged that post Balfour Zionsim was colonialism, and that, based on the entirety of history, the native Palestinian population would resist being colonized until the bitter end. He directly compared it to the colonization of North America. He promoted doing it anyway, claiming Zionist colonialism was a "just" colonialism (he also thought North American colonialists were good guys, so not a great judge of morality), not caring what that meant for the native population. Ze'ev is important, because his Betar militant youth group helped found the Irgun terrorist group, along with other supporters of his, and the splinter Lehi terrorist group. The Irgun bombed numerous Palestinian markets and other public places, murdering many Palestinian civilians, including children, even including Palestinian Jews (who didn't support colonialist Zionsim). The Irgun are important, because they ended up being led by future Likud PM, Menachem Begin, who bombed the King David Hotel. The King David Hotel was bombed because the British had raided the Jewish Agency and seized numerous documents that may have shown that the terrorists were working with the JA and Haganah (JA liked to pretend that they didn't support the terrorism). The British then stored those documents at their base, in the hotel. That the Irgun terrorists responded to a JA raid, itself seems to prove the connection. That the thousands of Irgun (and Lehi) terrorists were also quickly merged into the new nation's military (IDF) and intelligence (Mossad) agencies, and are still celebrated as "heroes" by Israelis, to this day, also seems to support total collaboration between the groups. That other terrorist group mentioned, Lehi (also known as the Stern Gang), was considered even more extreme. They even tried to ally with the Nazis, against the British. Lehi ended up being led by Yitzhak Shamir, future Mossad agent, and another future Likud PM. They assassinated Lord Moyne, and others. The two terrorist groups also operated outside of Palestine. The Irgun bombed the British Embassy at Porta Pia, in Rome. The Lehi bombed the British Colonial Club, in London. A timer failed in another bombing attempt, at the Colonial Office, in Whitehall. Two female Lehi operatives were arrested crossing from Belgium to France, with the ingredients for letter bombs. 21 letter bombs were found to be have sent, and were intercepted. They mined the Cairo-Haifa train, in Egypt, twice, killing dozens of civilians, as well as British soldiers. In 1945, there was a major land and peoples survey done in Palestine. It showed that the Zionists only owned about 5% of the total land, 20% of the arable land, and owned a majority in zero districts. The partition was not only going to be forced on the native Palestinian majority, but Jews were still going to be a minority, in the part allocated to them. The only possible way to even become a "Jewish state" was going to require getting rid of the actual majority (at least enough so that there'd be a solid Jewish majority, so they could fake being democratic). This is also shown by the 1948, post Nakba, population of Israel. If there was 716,700 Jews, 156,000+ non-Jews, and approximately 700k non-Jews ethnically cleansed, that means the Jewish population, in the Zionist portion of partition, was originally over 100,000 less than the non-Jewish population. To believe that there was never any intent, by Zionists, to ethnically cleanse away the Palestinian majority would require believing that they never intended to create a "Jewish state". It's a nonsensical notion. Begin, and those terrorist groups, also opposed partition, but for the opposite reason Palestinians did. Palestinians didn't want to be colonized, at all. The terrorists wanted to colonize it all. "Moderate" Zionists were okay with colonizing half ... for now (what would happen in the future, after partition, was up to them, said Ben-Gurion). The Zionist terrorists were also involved in massacres, and assassinations, during the partition violence (colonialist war against the natives). Another notable future Likud PM, also started in the military, during the partition fighting. That was Ariel Sharon, war criminal, "Butcher of Beirut". Menachem Begin, and these other Zionist terrorists, are important because they became involved in Israeli politics, first forming Herut. That was the party that Albert Einstein, and other prominent American Jews, opposed, having a letter printed in the NYT, in December of 1948, when Begin came to visit the US. The letter opened ... "Among the most disturbing political phenomena of our times is the emergence in the newly created state of Israel of the "Freedom Party" (Tnuat Haherut), a political party closely akin in its organization, methods, political philosophy and social appeal to the Nazi and Fascist parties. It was formed out of the membership and following of the former Irgun Zvai Leumi, a terrorist, right-wing, chauvinist organization in Palestine." Herut merged with other extremist parties, over the years, and eventually became Likud, in the 70s. Now, people get upset over the slogan "From the river to the sea!", but it's the second part that's most important, "Palestine will be free!". Because "Palestine" isn't defined as an ethno-state, a free Palestine can be a single state, free for all to live in, and return to, free of continuing colonization, free of occupation, free of oppression, etc. Just like a Germany free of Nazism, an Italy free of fascism, a South Africa free of apartheid, or an America free of slavery from sea to shiny sea. It doesn't necessitate purging all the Jews. It just necessitates them giving up on the idea of an ethno-state. On the other hand, because "Israel" has been defined as an ethno-state, Likud's, "between the sea and the Jordan there will only be Israeli sovereignty", has no possible good interpretation. It is a declaration of intent to completely colonize, and ethnically cleanse, all Palestine territories. Not only that, but it also claims that they have a "right" to all of the "Land of Israel" (biblical borders that don't mesh with archaeological reality), which is an open declaration of future wars, against Jordan, Syria, Lebanon, and possibly even Iraq. Likud platform ... 1977: "The Right of the Jewish People to the Land of Israel (Eretz Israel) a. The right of the Jewish people to the land of Israel is eternal and indisputable and is linked with the right to security and peace; therefore, Judea and Samaria will not be handed to any foreign administration; between the Sea and the Jordan there will only be Israeli sovereignty. b. A plan which relinquishes parts of western Eretz Israel, undermines our right to the country, unavoidably leads to the establishment of a "Palestinian State," jeopardizes the security of the Jewish population, endangers the existence of the State of Israel. and frustrates any prospect of peace." 1999: "The Government of Israel flatly rejects the establishment of a Palestinian Arab state west of the Jordan river. The Palestinians can run their lives freely in the framework of self-rule, but not as an independent and sovereign state. Thus, for example, in matters of foreign affairs, security, immigration, and ecology, their activity shall be limited in accordance with imperatives of Israel's existence, security and national needs." "The Jewish communities in Judea, Samaria, and Gaza are the realization of Zionist values. Settlement of the land is a clear expression of the unassailable right of the Jewish people to the Land of Israel and constitutes an important asset in the defense of the vital interests of the State of Israel. The Likud will continue to strengthen and develop these communities and will prevent their uprooting." All Palestine territories are officially considered occupied, by the International Court of Justice, the UN GA, the UN SC, and even in official documents of Israel's own allies. Likud is still using the blueprint for colonizing North America, in the West Bank. Move settlements out into native territory, piss off the natives, the natives retaliate, cry about poor "innocent" colonizing settlers being the "victims" of violent "Savages!", call in the cavalry to put down the native uprising, and eventually expand the borders to include those settlements. Rinse and repeat. In Gaza, Israel is operating an open air WWII style fascist ghetto. Them claiming a "right to defend themselves" would be like the Nazis claiming a "right to defend themselves " from the Warsaw ghetto uprising. There's no "war". That they're the occupiers means the "war" part is long over. Those people are actually supposed to be under the occupier's protection. That partition was forced upon the Palestinian majority, against their will ... that the Zionist portion still had to be forcefully ethnically cleansed of its non-Jewish majority, against their will ... that the millions of occupied Palestinians don't have a say in the government that truly rules over them, Israel's ... means Israel is about as democratic as Nazi Germany after Hitler purged his political opponents and then held elections.
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  1148.  @margot9215  You're laughing from a country in the top 20 in the world for covid deaths per capita? lol
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  1149.  @Madness-go3uk  And also knew they had to check them when entering some towns ... which reduced shootouts in those towns.
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  1150.  @chasthanhburns123  With the unvaccinated dying at a rate of 15 to 1, might as well see how the elections go.
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  1151.  @ronaldweaver9308  Rofl, what do you think the constitution has to do with this kind of situation?
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  1152.  @ronaldweaver9308  Rofl, you are so dumb.
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  1153. Did he celebrate the 34.3% decrease, in the second quarter?
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  1154. ​ @Emjaemidd  Racist, using quotes around Palestinians.
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  1155.  @Emjaemidd  People living there were called Palestinians, or variations there of, for millennia. Definitely racist quotes.
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  1156.  @whyamimrpink78  Trump, and many right wingers, wanted people fired just for kneeling. They want burning a flag to be considered a terrorist act, but it's okay to design it into a thong and rub your ass on it. They're hypocritical morons.
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  1157. Reminds me of Bible thumping women, when the Bible literally says women shouldn't be preaching.
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  1158. Nazis also liked roads. Anyone who likes roads is a Nazi.
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  1159. Bought off by who?
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  1160. On top of a VAT being regressive, a VAT is specifically designed to NOT be a tax on businesses, as Yang falsely claims. It's a tax on consumers. Businesses get their input VAT credited back to them, even on things like advertising, which he constantly lies about. Since a VAT won't actually tax the likes of Amazon, and since their share of US consumer spending is 2%, handing consumers $3t will only make them in the range of an extra $60b a year, while not paying into it at all. His plan will do the opposite of what he claims it will do. It will be American consumers handing money to Amazon, not Amazon handing money to them.
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  1161.  @drackestalentorgen166  Mob control tactics? Who convinced tens of millions of people not believing any media, any election officials, any doctors, any nurses, any judges, any politicians, any scientists, anybody, even your own lying eyes, if they contradicted Supreme Leader?
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  1162. ​ @TinyGoHomes  It was Trump who agreed with something Canada announced over a month ago, dingus.
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  1163. ​ @colonelangus8247  "Fascism is the complete opposite of Marxian socialism." ~ Mussolini
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  1164.  @Kroll-2  So was that Warsaw ghetto uprising bunch, right?
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  1165.  @aliamjon4423  “We made our intentions as clear as we could ten years ago. Most of our fans got it. To those who didn’t, I suggest you look closer.” “There are hints about the why in that episode with the mermaid, and if you follow the entire Marcie arc, it seems as clear as we could make it 10 years ago,”
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  1166.  @outtarespecttomyfawtha1589  How many times have you spammed this bullshit comment?
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  1167.  @YouAreStillNotablaze  Yeah, congress just basically declared Einstein to be antisemitic. The definition they adopted states that any comparisons of IL policy to Nzs is antisemitic. Einstein, and other prominent Jws, wrote a letter to the NYT, in 1948, which compared Likud's founders to Fscsts and Nzs.
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  1168.  Illhan Omars brother's wife is Illhan Omar  You've heard that the US population is higher than 73.5m people, right?
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  1169. Yeah, members of congress, or those running, should be considered always under oath, when speaking in public.
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  1170. Including all the equipment media outlets use to capture, organize, and spread information ... evidence.
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  1171. For what? Dore is actively spreading covid and vaccine misinformation, now, helping to hospitalize and kill people, to pander to his right wing base. He's a grifter.
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  1172.  @TheVFXbyArt  Dore knobs and their false equivalencies. Let's skip over the decades of protesting and gaining a strong majority of public support. Let's skip over that a fair number of states had already made it state law. Parties weren't as polorized, at the time. They weren't quite sure how everyone was going to vote. It was a constitutional amendment that needed a supermajority. They knew they had majority support, but didn't know exactly how far off they were from getting a supermajority. So, they had a vote, to see. It failed. The bill was literally held back, the next session, because they saw no point in having a guaranteed to fail vote. The next session, they thought they had the numbers, but it failed a supermajority vote, by 2. Both of those votes are quite a lot different than knowingly being 100+ votes short, in the house alone, but having one for performance art purposes anyway.
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  1173.  @newbieprepper8451  Rofl, that was the biggest load of nonsense I've heard in some time.
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  1174. @Tilip Muejark France, Spain, and Italy, also had pretty shitty responses, especially early on. The covid deaths per capita of countries like Germany, Canada, Norway, Denmark, Finland, who had mediocre responses, would translate into 300k+ fewer covid deaths in the US. Better, but yes, they could have done even better. Those countries tended to quickly get their testing rates up to 15+ people per confirmed case (the US, UK, France, Italy, and Spain, had testing rates lower than 10 people, for some time). Countries like S Korea, Vietnam, New Zealand, and Australia, quickly got their testing rates over 50 people per confirmed case. Their covid deaths per capita rates would translate into under 20k total covid deaths in the US. Most of the US deaths, now, are people not listening to Biden, aren't they? The same folks Dumpty encouraged to not wear masks and rise up against lockdowns.
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  1175.  @kyle6232  A 100% guaranteed to fail performance art vote doesn't get you any closer to being able to pass M4A. You know that, right? What get's you closer to being able to pass it are numbers. Justice Dems have added about a dozen M4A yes votes, in just 4 years. AOC helped add a few more, in just 2 years. She was on the ground campaigning for Nina Turner, fighting to add another. Dore, on the other hand, abandoned Nina Turner ... abandoned adding another M4A yes vote to congress. Pelosi actually introduced the M4A bill, just last session, where it died in committees, that Jimmy thinks are unimportant, where 90% of bills die. He could have been "pressuring" committee members throughout the pandemic, to take up the bill. Pelosi has already reintroduced the bill, this session, where it's again sitting in committees Jimmy doesn't think are important. He could be "pressuring" committee members, to take up the bill, right now. Instead, he's going after M4A's most ardent congressional supporters, who have done more for M4A, in just a few years, than Dore has in his entire lifetime.
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  1176.  @brentnoury7626  How does being on a team that isn't even allowed in the stadium, "brave', or give you a voice? Even if you're unhappy with the current coach and players, trying to change the roster of the team on the field is clearly the better tactic, than being on an irrelevant team that's not even in the game.
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  1177. ​ @CreatureColossus  And yet different countries have different societal norms. Odd, if they're all samesies.
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  1178.  @barbiquearea  He wasn't a seditionist to the US. It would be kind of nonsensical for England to have statues of George Washington.
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  1179.  @gizroc  Yada, yada, and will we be renaming the "Spanish flu" the Kansas flu blame the US, and have all the countries that were affected by it seek reparations? What point are you trying to make?
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  1180.  @gizroc  Viruses will pop up one way, or another. Being prepared, and how to respond to them, is as important, if not more important, than how exactly they start. Plenty of virus strains mutate with animals, like how the Kansas Flu mutated into the swine flu. China has the world's largest fur industry. Plenty of reason to accept it started with animals. https://m.reporterre.net/Mounting-evidence-suggests-mink-farms-in-China-could-be-the-cradle-of-Covid-19-22020
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  1181.  @tilleryinnovations592  The actual NIH: "There is insufficient evidence for the COVID-19 Treatment Guidelines Panel (the Panel) to recommend either for or against the use of ivermectin for the treatment of COVID-19. Results from adequately powered, well-designed, and well-conducted clinical trials are needed to provide more specific, evidence-based guidance on the role of ivermectin in the treatment of COVID-19." "However, most of these studies had incomplete information and significant methodological limitations, which make it difficult to exclude common causes of bias." "Because most of these studies have significant limitations, the Panel cannot draw definitive conclusions on the clinical efficacy of ivermectin for the treatment of COVID-19. Results from adequately powered, well-designed, and well-conducted clinical trials are needed to provide further guidance on the role of ivermectin in the treatment of COVID-19."
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  1182. @Aaron Dickson Ivermectin is manufactured by the fifth largest pharma corporation in the world, dimwit. Even they don't recommend it as an effective covid remedy, even though it would make them billions, if it was.
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  1183.  @repolarrepolar9833  Cambridge dictionary includes both ... "an adult who lives and identifies as female though they may have been said to have a different sex at birth" "a wife or female sexual partner" But, you don't seem to like the older definition still being used, or the newer addition, right? You want it to mean a single thing, that you approve, correct?
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  1184. We're talking weird, as in wanting to spy on, and control, what consenting adults do in the bedroom, dingus.
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  1185. He was watching Alf reruns.
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  1186.  @OblateSpheroid  Yeah, I said "Personally, I think ...". What's "worse", that is caused by progressiveness? Segregation was acceptable less than 100 years ago, unionization was almost 4x higher less than 100 years ago. Desegregation was progressive. Anti-unionization was regressive. Which was "worse" for society? FDR was less than 100 years ago. Huge taxes on top incomes were less than 100 years ago. Are you sure it wasn't regressing back to another Gilded Age, that has been bad for society?
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  1187.  @Stress-Free-K  What are you even talking about? Sanders is popular with younger voters of all races. And, what does two people having similar voices have to do with racism?
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  1188. ​ @TheScotsalan  Would that also explain the 10 year shorter life expectancy?
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  1189.  @SoSoKayla  He's not being sarcastic. He's not very bright. I suspect he doesn't know the difference between an anarchism symbol and an ancap symbol.
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  1190.  @briandfox16  "War refugees", like the natives, after King Philip's War. A "war of their own making", because nothing happened before that.
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  1191. They could argue that him saying he's a reporter also can't be taken seriously.
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  1192. ​ @mananimal3644  So ... Trump. Got it.
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  1193. How about having Canada stop supporting ethnic cleansing? Problem solved.
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  1194. If something is being considered a crime, being investigated like a crime, charging people like a crime, prosecuting people like a crime, and convicting people like a crime, what's to protest? Are people supposed to protest the local gang hideout, or what? On the other hand, if something isn't being treated like a crime, etc., should everyone just ignore the police corruption?
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  1195. Isn't "live and let live" when you don't care if a book has 2 penguin dads? And the opposite of trying to ban a book like that?
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  1196.  @grsshppr7659  The looting is happening under Trump, dumb dumb.
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  1197.  Derek Hitt  But they didn't. You're making shit up.
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  1198.  @CrownVic33  All of Saskatchewan has about a tenth the population of Toronto. You sure as hell don't speak for all Canadians, dumb dumb.
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  1199.  @josephpeeler5434  Any government involvement in the economy doesn't make it fascism, dumbass. Hitler, Mussolini, Franco, and others, were backed by business leaders, large land owners, and even royalty and nobles. Hitler promised his rich backers that there's be no real redistribution of wealth downwards. In fact, the wealth fascists seized from Jews, communists, socialists, unionists, etc., was redistributed upwards, to those rich backers. When those rich backers were worried about prominent party members who were calling for redistribution of wealth, Hitler, literally, killed them off, on the Night of Long Knives. Not only did Mussolini describe fascism as the "complete opposite of Marxian socialism" (non authoritarian stateless socialism), which makes it authoritarian hyper nationalistic capitalism, but he also described it as opposed to democracy. I don't recall FDR doing away with democracy, like the others, and right wingers keep calling past, and current, New Deals socialistic. Please don't tell me you're one of those utter morons who thinks fascism is a variation of some kind of socialism.
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  1200. Dumpty's covid relief went to big business.
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  1201. It was a judgement to have an actual trial, rather than have it thrown out, as Israel wanted. This was all just pre-trial, so far.
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  1202. Ben supports Likud. Likud was founded by Menachem Begin, leader of the Irgun terrorist group, murderer of civilian Palestinian men, women, and children, murderer of Palestinian Jews (who didn't support Zionism), and bomber of the King David Hotel. Israelis elected that terrorist as their PM. Israelis still celebrate those terrorists, as "heroes", to this day. Likud was also founded by Ariel Sharon, war criminal, who massacred Palestinian villages. Likud's original platform, "between the sea and the Jordan" ... "The Right of the Jewish People to the Land of Israel (Eretz Israel) a. The right of the Jewish people to the land of Israel is eternal and indisputable and is linked with the right to security and peace; therefore, Judea and Samaria will not be handed to any foreign administration; between the Sea and the Jordan there will only be Israeli sovereignty." There is zero indication that Likud, Netanyahu, isn't still working towards that goal, with the endless colonization of Palestine territories. Ben is a supporter of terrorists, illegal colonizers, war criminals, occupiers, and the ethnic cleansing of the Palestinian people. He's a disgusting piece of trash.
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  1203. It's to weaken the largest of the little remaining unions, in the US ... the teachers' union. Private schools don't have to be unionized.
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  1204.  charmander  Basically, every president since Eisenhower has had "record high stock market numbers". That's kind of like bragging that no other president has broken 2020 calendar years, before.
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  1205. Jimmy was already supporting the fascist March on Rome (drive to Ottawa).
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  1206.  @retired674  Yes, because living on $12k a year is better than retraining or a government job.
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  1207.  @kennyo5495  Per capita, the UK puts out more medical publications than the US. Good attempt, trying to rely on larger numbers of doctors, hospitals, etc. You'd still have those numbers even with single payer.
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  1208.  @chris.kellly  Covid's 1% infection fatality rate is 2x the polio paralysis rate, 20x the polio infection fatality rate, and a lot more contagious. That 1% is about 4x the motor vehicle accident fatality rate, and again far more widespread. We have vaccine mandates, and all kinds of rules of the road mandated, for less deadly things than covid.
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  1209.  @whyamimrpink78  The "software glitch" was found to be a user error (failed to update system), in a county where a Republican county clerk was running the show. So, either it was simply a mistake, or Republicans are committing fraud to give Biden votes.
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  1210. He already is. The Dow has basically flatlined since his first budget (Oct 2017) and start of trade wars (Mar 2018). The Nasdaq and S&P 500 aren't much better. Even with all the buybacks propping it up, the stock market is doing shit.
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  1211.  @michaelarmijo4112  At least two Republicans in the same building also barricaded themselves in their offices, dumb dumb. None of them knew exactly what was going on outside. Their building got evacuated, as well, so even security wasn't sure it was a completely safe building.
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  1212.  @beng2729  Blah blah blah. Already replied to that.
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  1213. The US death to confirmed cases ratio is almost the worst in the world, indicating there are far more carriers wandering around in public. You also need to make the testing free, so people don't have to weigh costs vs how bad their symptoms are.
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  1214.  @bcanuck  Either you know what they mean by "free", or you're a moron. Take your pick.
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  1215. Might as well write in Mickey Mouse.
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  1216.  @DannyD-lr5yg  Relevant: I'm Canadian. I witnessed his rise, from before he became a right wing internet hero. He's no absent minded professor. He jumped head first into Canadian politics, eyes wide open. He fearmongered about laws he had already been living and working under for years, at the provincial level, and had no examples of the things he fearmongered about. Nobody is getting charged for mistakenly using the wrong pronouns, or any such bullshit. He gained popularity based on bullshit, and has continued peddling bullshit.
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  1217. It's funny how he uses the OT/Tanakh, when that literally describes the Hebrews as Mesopotamian invaders that genocided the natives. His own myth doesn't make them natives.
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  1218. ​ @TransKidsMafia  My 1938 Rand-McNally Atlas just shows "Palestine".
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  1219.  @luchi.el.zorrito  Rofl. The poor people he's arguing should have just had their debts paid for, and the left repeatedly argued should have gotten more covid relief, and you're arguing you wouldn't comply with, and would pull out your gun over? Btw, countries where people followed guidelines better, and the virus didn't get as out of control, didn't have to have as many major lockdowns.
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  1220. That's not what that is.
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  1221. ​ @doogiebear139  Oh ya? What did he do, besides glitch out? 90% of drugs come across entry points, and 86% of drug traffickers are Americans. Was he checking Americans and/or their cars, or something?
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  1222. ​ @annfrancis6287  Not really cherry picking. The OT basically describes an early version of Nzsm. Superior race of chosen people, ordered to cleanse themselves of anyone with different beliefs, and ordered to gncd everyone around them. Only Htlr lives in the sky.
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  1223. ​@@dooothedooo1102 Your one brain cell is overworked. Get some rest.
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  1224. ​ @nebwachamp  Trump's buddy, Epstein?
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  1225.  @outtarespecttomyfawtha1589  You respect complete ignorance, which is itself stupid.
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  1226.  @MLiv-bn4cl  Not too bright, are you.
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  1227. Umm, conservative religious types birthed cancelling crap centuries ago, dumb dumb.
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  1228. ​ @ProudPatriot-t8x  He's Libertarian-ish, not socialist. "I like the Barry Goldwater Republican party, even the Ronald Reagan Republican party." ~ Bill Maher
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  1229. Lost the popular vote 2x. The majority hate him.
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  1230. First they came for ...
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  1231. ​ @mp22893  To be more clear, he is also a grifter. Like a snake oil salesman, they claim to be selling you something beneficial, but they're actually selling you something useless, or even harmful. Sure, he says he's in favor of universal healthcare, but the way he promotes trying to achieve it, is the opposite direction. He literally promoted not voting for Nina Turner, not voting to add a pro-m4a vote to congress, when adding enough votes to congress is the only way to ever pass it. He promotes going third party, when all that will do is help Republicans get elected, who want to go the opposite direction. He spent much of COVID trashing the UK's completely socialized healthcare system ... promoting over the counter, out of pocket, "alternatives" to a vaccine covered by the government (a little taste of socialized healthcare) ... he doesn't actually give a f*ck, if anyone ever gets healthcare coverage.
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  1232.  @elijahobviously1288  A mother is life support, as much as an incubator is. If you haven't heard of a premature baby in an incubator, I don't know what to tell you. Get out more. You're totally justified in pulling the plug on someone brain dead. We do it all the time. Get out more.
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  1233.  @Quaquadaqu  Can't stand a liar. He has been lying since he first ran for president.
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  1234.  @gnubbiersh647  Oh, well then, I'm so glad he sticks to talking about what he's an "expert" in, and doesn't spread bullshit to millions of people.
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  1235. Most media seems to be forgetting that mask wearing and distancing is for when you can't be 100% sure you don't have it or those around you don't have it. If you're 100% sure you've got it, or even if you've done something risky like travel, you're supposed to be quarantining for 2 weeks. Not only shouldn't Trump be taking off his mask, he shouldn't even be around anybody.
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  1236. ​ @brigidmartin  Giving them anti-abortion judges, when he was "very pro-choice" before.
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  1237. The Yang Gang seem like the closest to Trump supporters, to me. They will argue with alternative "facts" and alternative "math", deflect, and project, all day long.
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  1238.  @evanfryberger  But, if you're talking about Nazism, and whether it was racist, then you should be judging it based on what the Nazis thought. They clearly thought Aryan was a "master race". Even within that "master race", they had a tall, blonde haired, blue eyed, "pure" ideal. Hate towards another ethnicity, is generally considered a form of racism.
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  1239.  @robsan5410  Peterson is a horrible person. He pushed his daughter's all meat diet as a way to fight depression and anxiety, and even to stop taking medication. Who knows how many people his grift hurt. He was obviously lying the whole time.
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  1240. They should. Trump, his supposed client, has publicly stated that Rudy wasn't working on his behalf. That should bar him from claiming attorney client privilege.
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  1241. ​ @NCLUSA  That's what public defenders are for.
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  1242. Or anti-American ... or anti-Christian ... or anti-white ... or anti-heterosexual ...
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  1243. UBI is a good idea, but his methods for how to fund, and distribute, a permanent UBI were terrible. A VAT is specifically designed to NOT tax businesses in order to avoid double taxation. Without giant corporations paying into the dividend, as he falsely claimed they would, then they'd only get the benefits of the dividend being spent, funneling money to the very top faster than ever before. And the fact that some very poor people, especially some permanently disabled people on both SSI and SNAP, would be no better off, or even worse off, with his not having UBI stack with either, was nonsensical. Meanwhile, people making hundreds of thousands a year would have a bit more shopping spree, or vacation, cash.
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  1244. ​ @philhiller-mn1gw  Both parties have the same rules, if someone drops out before the convention, dingus.
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  1245.  @frank254100  Where every percentage of the vote goes matters. As a Kenyan, why would you support someone you know is lying about who a VAT taxes?
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  1246. I'm not sure ousting McCarthy was a good move. Things might get worse.
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  1247. ​ @truthache8560  If you think the world started on Oct 7, you're the one who has ignored a lot.
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  1248.  @TheGodYouWishYouKnew  The moron told women who "originally come from other countries" (all but 1 were born in the US) to "go back". He's a total dipshit. Them originally coming from the US makes his government the corrupt government he was criticizing. He got that part right.
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  1249. Matt Walsh chose option 1. The guy talks into a mic. No training necessary. He should be getting $7.25/hr.
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  1250.  @joedirt6212  How many deaths a day would it take for you to care? Or do you just not care if anyone dies? https://assets.weforum.org/editor/DGeMsvX0uNKPCo7qMyTM8zPQDhZFCWEZlOwYyCm3Dp4.jpg
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  1251.  @millabasset1710  He also geared down when he was talking to Cornel West. Cornel was speaking fondly about Bernie and other progressives, and like a coward, Dore didn't go full throttle into his slander routine.
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  1252. ​ @zip10031  "Fscm is the complete opposite of Marxian sclsm." ~ Mussolini
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  1253.  @DB-sd3cw  So, Trump's planned withdrawal would have included taking all equipment back from the Afghan military, and leaving them defenseless? Plus, he would have forced dual citizens, that aren't even sure they want to leave, to leave?
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  1254.  @darkpsychoelf1701  Could be a play on words, since pain is a feeling.
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  1255. ​ @tokesalotta1521  Is that sarcasm?
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  1256. ​ @jackprice1758  You think white Georgians are the best judges of rcsm?
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  1257.  Max Power  Rofl. The EU has about 1.4m active personnel and the US has about 1.3m, and France and the UK have nukes. Russia has about 900k active personnel. Who do you think the US is saving Europe from?
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  1258.  @jvoet123  Who is challenging any and all voter id laws? Did you hear the panel's answers? Some are discriminatory. Only 7 states have strict voter id laws.
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  1259.  Mari Jayne  Do red states tend to have the lowest police funding, because they tend to have the highest homicide rates?
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  1260.  @petrrtep7657  That they've all gone through phase III trials, and have now been given to hundreds of millions of people worldwide, over the past 5 months?
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  1261. @Jack Bennett Armstrong Do you regularly have to verify your gender, when traveling? I've never had mine verified.
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  1262.  @stopwritingthatreplyjohnat6638  Dore knobs have proved that FTV was nothing but bullshit. The $15 minimum got a vote, and what did they do with it? They kept whining about those who voted for it, like the pathetic hypocrites they are. They weren't going to do anything with a list of M4A no voters. They're lazy whiners who want others to do everything for them.
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  1263.  @Grassroots_Hegemon  Which group, Republicans? Yeah, I'm aware.
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  1264. @Tilip Muejark Yes, I compared covid's higher mortality rate to polio. You didn't actually provide an argument against it. Yes, those things separate you from being a legal driver and a non legal driver. Don't have a license, don't have insurance, and you can't legally participate in driving. Break enough rules of the road and you'll lose your license and can't legally participate in driving.
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  1265. Yeah, they think it's impressive, because none of them have the faintest idea about how to actually play chess.
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  1266. @sctexan5392  What are you on about? Canadian healthcare is half the cost of the US per capita.
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  1267.  @ricardocabeza6006  Republicans elected Bush Sr as VP, whose son was an alcoholic and past drug user, then elected him president not long after the son supposedly stopped drinking, then they elected that former alcoholic and drug using son as president, too. Did you have a point?
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  1268.  @whyamimrpink78  You've somehow complexed your way into not wanting what people in every other developed country would never want to give up. You don't think that's odd?
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  1269.  @DuderofDudeness  Bullshit. People with cardiovascular disease should most definitely get vaccinated.
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  1270. ​ @mucephi1  She is literally a fringe extremist.
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  1271.  @nathanconnors8427  "set as a republic and not a democracy" Those aren't mutually exclusive. It was set up as both. It's not a direct democracy, but it is, most definitely, a representative democracy, and always has been. A "republic" is basically any country that's not a monarchy. "Democracies" come in many forms, some more democratic than others, and pretty much all are representative democracies. The original Greek "democracy" only allowed land owning men to vote. It wasn't direct democracy for all.
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  1272. Can we maybe also remind people that Castro did overthrow a fascist dictatorship ... a fascist dictatorship the US backed, as it killed thousands of political opponents. Many of those fascists fled to Florida, and they, or their descendants, are most of the pissed off Cuban-Americans. They, and the US, only dislike left-wing dictators, it seems.
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  1273. Or have a conflict of interest clause, at least.
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  1274. Yes
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  1275. That has to be one of the dumbest ways to decide something is better or correct, that I've heard of.
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  1276. So you're actively searching for TYT clips to whine about? Sad.
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  1277. ​​ @user-wl2xl5hm7k  Letting Rvssia do as much wrrng as it wants, isn't anti-wr, though. He also wants to ditch dept of education, Social Security, Medicare, favors unlimited firearm rights, and favors letting the private secretor work out climate change on their own, ...
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  1278.  @edwardrosser938  Dore knob?
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  1279.  @rideordietheyretring2tranx382  "Fascism is the complete opposite of Marxian socialism" ~ Mussolini
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  1280. ​ @DanNorton1  <- Lol, this guy doesn't like an actual debunking on his channel, and deletes or blocks them. I pointed out the fact that Ayn Rand wasn't an anarcho-capitalist, that she actually criticized them, and that she never argued for zero taxes ... She instead argued that it was an objective fact that everyone wanted a basic skeleton government, justice system, and military, so taxes for those basics weren't coercive. Clearly, she just made that up, because it was her subjective preference. Those very anarcho types prove her wrong. Plus, people who don't want to fund police, at least not as is. Plus, people who don't want to fund the military, at least as is. After the thread with that reply was deleted, I mentioned the deleting in another thread. He claimed he'd welcome a respectful debate about it, but now I can't reply at all. This mighty defender of Ayn Rand doesn't even know what she actually proposed. 😂
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  1281. Yeah, if you're a "comedian" who has to explain their "jokes", or when you're being "funny", then you've got a problem.
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  1282.  @michaelknight2897  Like the 80s? Conservative religious types have been cancelling things and people for millennia, and still do, or try to, and have never had a problem with using the law, or military, to do it. There's still a government agency protecting delicate conservative sensibilities from naughty words and nipples. It has only been 6 years since the Supreme Court uncancelled gay marriage across the country. Right wingers, including corporate Dems, have passed anti-bds laws. You lot have lost your marbles. Giant corporations, run by centibillionaires, aren't even left wing. The left would like to tax the living hell out of them They're being protected by the right. Giving giant corporations so much power, in the first place, was right wing. There being no such thing as free speech on someone else's private property is a long-standing part of private property ownership, which is right wing. If you don't have a right to be on their private property, then you don't have a right to be on their private property spewing whatever nonsense you want. They're the equivalent to private clubs, with memberships, and rules for membership. Private clubs have been revoking memberships since always. If Trump kept walking into the ladies change room at a golf club, got tons of warnings that the average person wouldn't get, and finally lost his membership, that would be totally his own fault. If you actually want free speech rights on social media, I'm pretty sure the left will back you on public ownership. Let's do it.
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  1283.  Proud Zionist  Moron. https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Timeline_of_the_name_%22Palestine%22 Moron. https://www.telegraph.co.uk/news/1524552/Israel-celebrates-Irgun-hotel-bombers.html https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Irgun https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/List_of_Irgun_operations https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Menachem_Begin https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Lehi_(militant_group)
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  1284.  @paulzoom489  Rofl. The senate is the least democratic part of the system, where 580k people get the same number of votes as 40m.
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  1285. ​ @JazziG59  Native Americans weren't "innocent", but they were the ones being colonized and ethnically cleansed.
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  1286. Yep. The majority of Republicans in congress supported trying to overthrow the democratic process.
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  1287. ​ @xlogx737x  Might be due to the fact that they cover the body so much that they hide all signs of lady bits.
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  1288.  @emblemedfate4270  Rofl, only armchair general Jimmy Dore is right on tactics, is it?
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  1289.  @CMA418  Well, Sam has open invitations to multiple people with different opinions. Jimmy Dore is censoring his own guests, if they mention Sam, and is pretending Sam doesn't exist. Dave Rubin's fee fees are too hurt, because Michael was a big meanie. Crowder is having nightmares, and lying, claiming nobody on the left is willing to debate him. Tim is lying that he can't Zoom, or something.
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  1290.  @shpluk  Because he outright says that their colonialism is morally "just", knowing full well, based on the entirety of history, how the natives will react. Does he end up saying they shouldn't do it, knowing how the natives will react, or did promote going forward?
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  1291. Yes they did. Israelis have had decades to vote to change mandatory service. Instead they've kept serving a colonialist oppressor.
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  1292. ​ @golDroger88  He also oversaw a COVID dth rate 2.5x higher than neighbor Canada. That translates into over 500k preventable dths. That seems a tad unfit.
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  1293.  @sprigredfrog  Did you forget the topic, dimwit? The topic was "free speech". It doesn't matter how few of them there are, when the topic is the widespread defense of their "free speech".
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  1294.  Rion  Moron. Muslims tend not to vote with the anti-gay right wing parties, in Western countries, because the right wingers are also bigoted towards them.
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  1295.  @sekulrtsnfnugg6126  Policies? Like promoting Trump as a better option than Clinton, promoting Tulsi over Bernie, or like abandoning Nina Turner ... abandoning adding another M4A yes vote to congress, when getting enough yes votes in congress is the only possible way to ever pass the bill.
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  1296. ​ @47_the_boss  If life begins at fertilization, then we're all female.
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  1297.  Mari Jayne  Those who ended Hitler did, as well, dimwit.
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  1298. Likud's bloody 100 year history ... In 1923, 100 years ago, Ze'ev Jabotinsky wrote, The Iron Wall, and a follow up, The Ethics of The Iron Wall (sooo racist towards Africans), in which he fully acknowledged that post Balfour Zionsim was colonialism, and that, based on the entirety of history, the native Palestinian population would resist being colonized until the bitter end. He directly compared it to the colonization of North America. He promoted doing it anyway, claiming Zionist colonialism was a "just" colonialism (he also thought North American colonialists were good guys, so not a great judge of morality), not caring what that meant for the native population. Ze'ev is important, because his Betar militant youth group helped found the Irgun terrorist group, along with other supporters of his, and the splinter Lehi terrorist group. The Irgun bombed numerous Palestinian markets and other public places, murdering many Palestinian civilians, including children, even including Palestinian Jews (who didn't support colonialist Zionsim). The Irgun are important, because they ended up being led by future Likud PM, Menachem Begin, who bombed the King David Hotel. The King David Hotel was bombed because the British had raided the Jewish Agency and seized numerous documents that may have shown that the terrorists were working with the JA and Haganah (JA liked to pretend that they didn't support the terrorism). The British then stored those documents at their base, in the hotel. That the Irgun terrorists responded to a JA raid, itself seems to prove the connection. That the thousands of Irgun (and Lehi) terrorists were also quickly merged into the new nation's military (IDF) and intelligence (Mossad) agencies, and are still celebrated as "heroes" by Israelis, to this day, also seems to support total collaboration between the groups. That other terrorist group mentioned, Lehi (also known as the Stern Gang), was considered even more extreme. They even tried to ally with the Nazis, against the British. Lehi ended up being led by Yitzhak Shamir, future Mossad agent, and another future Likud PM. They assassinated Lord Moyne, and others. The two terrorist groups also operated outside of Palestine. The Irgun bombed the British Embassy at Porta Pia, in Rome. The Lehi bombed the British Colonial Club, in London. A timer failed in another bombing attempt, at the Colonial Office, in Whitehall. Two female Lehi operatives were arrested crossing from Belgium to France, with the ingredients for letter bombs. 21 letter bombs were found to be have sent, and were intercepted. They mined the Cairo-Haifa train, in Egypt, twice, killing dozens of civilians, as well as British soldiers. In 1945, there was a major land and peoples survey done in Palestine. It showed that the Zionists only owned about 5% of the total land, 20% of the arable land, and owned a majority in zero districts. The partition was not only going to be forced on the native Palestinian majority, but Jews were still going to be a minority, in the part allocated to them. The only possible way to even become a "Jewish state" was going to require getting rid of the actual majority (at least enough so that there'd be a solid Jewish majority, so they could fake being democratic). This is also shown by the 1948, post Nakba, population of Israel. If there was 716,700 Jews, 156,000+ non-Jews, and approximately 700k non-Jews ethnically cleansed, that means the Jewish population, in the Zionist portion of partition, was originally over 100,000 less than the non-Jewish population. To believe that there was never any intent, by Zionists, to ethnically cleanse away the Palestinian majority would require believing that they never intended to create a "Jewish state". It's a nonsensical notion. Begin, and those terrorist groups, also opposed partition, but for the opposite reason Palestinians did. Palestinians didn't want to be colonized, at all. The terrorists wanted to colonize it all. "Moderate" Zionists were okay with colonizing half ... for now (what would happen in the future, after partition, was up to them, said Ben-Gurion). The Zionist terrorists were also involved in massacres, and assassinations, during the partition violence (colonialist war against the natives). Another notable future Likud PM, also started in the military, during the partition fighting. That was Ariel Sharon, war criminal, "Butcher of Beirut". Menachem Begin, and these other Zionist terrorists, are important because they became involved in Israeli politics, first forming Herut. That was the party that Albert Einstein, and other prominent American Jews, opposed, having a letter printed in the NYT, in December of 1948, when Begin came to visit the US. The letter opened ... "Among the most disturbing political phenomena of our times is the emergence in the newly created state of Israel of the "Freedom Party" (Tnuat Haherut), a political party closely akin in its organization, methods, political philosophy and social appeal to the Nazi and Fascist parties. It was formed out of the membership and following of the former Irgun Zvai Leumi, a terrorist, right-wing, chauvinist organization in Palestine." Herut merged with other extremist parties, over the years, and eventually became Likud, in the 70s. Now, people get upset over the slogan "From the river to the sea!", but it's the second part that's most important, "Palestine will be free!". Because "Palestine" isn't defined as an ethno-state, a free Palestine can be a single state, free for all to live in, and return to, free of continuing colonization, free of occupation, free of oppression, etc. Just like a Germany free of Nazism, an Italy free of fascism, a South Africa free of apartheid, or an America free of slavery from sea to shiny sea. It doesn't necessitate purging all the Jews. It just necessitates them giving up on the idea of an ethno-state. On the other hand, because "Israel" has been defined as an ethno-state, Likud's, "between the sea and the Jordan there will only be Israeli sovereignty", has no possible good interpretation. It is a declaration of intent to completely colonize, and ethnically cleanse, all Palestine territories. Not only that, but it also claims that they have a "right" to all of the "Land of Israel" (biblical borders that don't mesh with archaeological reality), which is an open declaration of future wars, against Jordan, Syria, Lebanon, and possibly even Iraq. Likud platform ... 1977: "The Right of the Jewish People to the Land of Israel (Eretz Israel) a. The right of the Jewish people to the land of Israel is eternal and indisputable and is linked with the right to security and peace; therefore, Judea and Samaria will not be handed to any foreign administration; between the Sea and the Jordan there will only be Israeli sovereignty. b. A plan which relinquishes parts of western Eretz Israel, undermines our right to the country, unavoidably leads to the establishment of a "Palestinian State," jeopardizes the security of the Jewish population, endangers the existence of the State of Israel. and frustrates any prospect of peace." 1999: "The Government of Israel flatly rejects the establishment of a Palestinian Arab state west of the Jordan river. The Palestinians can run their lives freely in the framework of self-rule, but not as an independent and sovereign state. Thus, for example, in matters of foreign affairs, security, immigration, and ecology, their activity shall be limited in accordance with imperatives of Israel's existence, security and national needs." "The Jewish communities in Judea, Samaria, and Gaza are the realization of Zionist values. Settlement of the land is a clear expression of the unassailable right of the Jewish people to the Land of Israel and constitutes an important asset in the defense of the vital interests of the State of Israel. The Likud will continue to strengthen and develop these communities and will prevent their uprooting." All Palestine territories are officially considered occupied, by the International Court of Justice, the UN GA, the UN SC, and even in official documents of Israel's own allies. Likud is still using the blueprint for colonizing North America, in the West Bank. Move settlements out into native territory, piss off the natives, the natives retaliate, cry about poor "innocent" colonizing settlers being the "victims" of violent "Savages!", call in the cavalry to put down the native uprising, and eventually expand the borders to include those settlements. Rinse and repeat. In Gaza, Israel is operating an open air WWII style fascist ghetto. Them claiming a "right to defend themselves" would be like the Nazis claiming a "right to defend themselves " from the Warsaw ghetto uprising. There's no "war". That they're the occupiers means the "war" part is long over. Those people are actually supposed to be under the occupier's protection. That partition was forced upon the Palestinian majority, against their will ... that the Zionist portion still had to be forcefully ethnically cleansed of its non-Jewish majority, against their will ... that the millions of occupied Palestinians don't have a say in the government that truly rules over them, Israel's ... means Israel is about as democratic as Nazi Germany after Hitler purged his political opponents and then held elections.
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  1299.  @whyamimrpink78  Idiot. The US was founded by people who didn't want to pay a tax that specifically funded the police/military. They protested, rioted, tarred and feathered, destroyed private property, and eventually resorted to all out war (killing). They got extra pissed, when the police/military, "fearing for their lives", shot violent protesters. So, the US was founded by terrorists? You agree with King George III then?
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  1300.  @dcaseng  No. The entertainment value, provided by Dore knobs, pays the rent. And, no, he's wrong about most everything.
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  1301.  @nassaubahamas8570  It is not the same "rate", dimwit. That's a lie. No vaccine has been found to have 0% efficacy.
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  1302.  @OfficialSeth  "Judeo-Christian values" doesn't even make sense. Jews are still Jews because they don't believe in Christianity, and don't practice Christian "values". Christians practice next to no OT "values", except the 10 commandments and anti-gay stuff.
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  1303.  @sheraldhill2728  Bullshit. If you're too stupid to figure out how to stop participating in terrorism, then that's on you.
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  1304. Likud's bloody 100 year history ... In 1923, 100 years ago, Ze'ev Jabotinsky wrote, The Iron Wall, and a follow up, The Ethics of The Iron Wall (sooo racist towards Africans), in which he fully acknowledged that post Balfour Zionsim was colonialism, and that, based on the entirety of history, the native Palestinian population would resist being colonized until the bitter end. He directly compared it to the colonization of North America. He promoted doing it anyway, claiming Zionist colonialism was a "just" colonialism (he also thought North American colonialists were good guys, so not a great judge of morality), not caring what that meant for the native population. Ze'ev is important, because his Betar militant youth group helped found the Irgun terrorist group, along with other supporters of his, and the splinter Lehi terrorist group. The Irgun bombed numerous Palestinian markets and other public places, murdering many Palestinian civilians, including children, even including Palestinian Jews (who didn't support colonialist Zionsim). The Irgun are important, because they ended up being led by future Likud PM, Menachem Begin, who bombed the King David Hotel. The King David Hotel was bombed because the British had raided the Jewish Agency and seized numerous documents that may have shown that the terrorists were working with the JA and Haganah (JA liked to pretend that they didn't support the terrorism). The British then stored those documents at their base, in the hotel. That the Irgun terrorists responded to a JA raid, itself seems to prove the connection. That the thousands of Irgun (and Lehi) terrorists were also quickly merged into the new nation's military (IDF) and intelligence (Mossad) agencies, and are still celebrated as "heroes" by Israelis, to this day, also seems to support total collaboration between the groups. That other terrorist group mentioned, Lehi (also known as the Stern Gang), was considered even more extreme. They even tried to ally with the Nazis, against the British. Lehi ended up being led by Yitzhak Shamir, future Mossad agent, and another future Likud PM. They assassinated Lord Moyne, and others. The two terrorist groups also operated outside of Palestine. The Irgun bombed the British Embassy at Porta Pia, in Rome. The Lehi bombed the British Colonial Club, in London. A timer failed in another bombing attempt, at the Colonial Office, in Whitehall. Two female Lehi operatives were arrested crossing from Belgium to France, with the ingredients for letter bombs. 21 letter bombs were found to be have sent, and were intercepted. They mined the Cairo-Haifa train, in Egypt, twice, killing dozens of civilians, as well as British soldiers. In 1945, there was a major land and peoples survey done in Palestine. It showed that the Zionists only owned about 5% of the total land, 20% of the arable land, and owned a majority in zero districts. The partition was not only going to be forced on the native Palestinian majority, but Jews were still going to be a minority, in the part allocated to them. The only possible way to even become a "Jewish state" was going to require getting rid of the actual majority (at least enough so that there'd be a solid Jewish majority, so they could fake being democratic). This is also shown by the 1948, post Nakba, population of Israel. If there was 716,700 Jews, 156,000+ non-Jews, and approximately 700k non-Jews ethnically cleansed, that means the Jewish population, in the Zionist portion of partition, was originally over 100,000 less than the non-Jewish population. To believe that there was never any intent, by Zionists, to ethnically cleanse away the Palestinian majority would require believing that they never intended to create a "Jewish state". It's a nonsensical notion. Begin, and those terrorist groups, also opposed partition, but for the opposite reason Palestinians did. Palestinians didn't want to be colonized, at all. The terrorists wanted to colonize it all. "Moderate" Zionists were okay with colonizing half ... for now (what would happen in the future, after partition, was up to them, said Ben-Gurion). The Zionist terrorists were also involved in massacres, and assassinations, during the partition violence (colonialist war against the natives). Another notable future Likud PM, also started in the military, during the partition fighting. That was Ariel Sharon, war criminal, "Butcher of Beirut". Menachem Begin, and these other Zionist terrorists, are important because they became involved in Israeli politics, first forming Herut. That was the party that Albert Einstein, and other prominent American Jews, opposed, having a letter printed in the NYT, in December of 1948, when Begin came to visit the US. The letter opened ... "Among the most disturbing political phenomena of our times is the emergence in the newly created state of Israel of the "Freedom Party" (Tnuat Haherut), a political party closely akin in its organization, methods, political philosophy and social appeal to the Nazi and Fascist parties. It was formed out of the membership and following of the former Irgun Zvai Leumi, a terrorist, right-wing, chauvinist organization in Palestine." Herut merged with other extremist parties, over the years, and eventually became Likud, in the 70s. Now, people get upset over the slogan "From the river to the sea!", but it's the second part that's most important, "Palestine will be free!". Because "Palestine" isn't defined as an ethno-state, a free Palestine can be a single state, free for all to live in, and return to, free of continuing colonization, free of occupation, free of oppression, etc. Just like a Germany free of Nazism, an Italy free of fascism, a South Africa free of apartheid, or an America free of slavery from sea to shiny sea. It doesn't necessitate purging all the Jews. It just necessitates them giving up on the idea of an ethno-state. On the other hand, because "Israel" has been defined as an ethno-state, Likud's, "between the sea and the Jordan there will only be Israeli sovereignty", has no possible good interpretation. It is a declaration of intent to completely colonize, and ethnically cleanse, all Palestine territories. Not only that, but it also claims that they have a "right" to all of the "Land of Israel" (biblical borders that don't mesh with archaeological reality), which is an open declaration of future wars, against Jordan, Syria, Lebanon, and possibly even Iraq. Likud platform ... 1977: "The Right of the Jewish People to the Land of Israel (Eretz Israel) a. The right of the Jewish people to the land of Israel is eternal and indisputable and is linked with the right to security and peace; therefore, Judea and Samaria will not be handed to any foreign administration; between the Sea and the Jordan there will only be Israeli sovereignty. b. A plan which relinquishes parts of western Eretz Israel, undermines our right to the country, unavoidably leads to the establishment of a "Palestinian State," jeopardizes the security of the Jewish population, endangers the existence of the State of Israel. and frustrates any prospect of peace." 1999: "The Government of Israel flatly rejects the establishment of a Palestinian Arab state west of the Jordan river. The Palestinians can run their lives freely in the framework of self-rule, but not as an independent and sovereign state. Thus, for example, in matters of foreign affairs, security, immigration, and ecology, their activity shall be limited in accordance with imperatives of Israel's existence, security and national needs." "The Jewish communities in Judea, Samaria, and Gaza are the realization of Zionist values. Settlement of the land is a clear expression of the unassailable right of the Jewish people to the Land of Israel and constitutes an important asset in the defense of the vital interests of the State of Israel. The Likud will continue to strengthen and develop these communities and will prevent their uprooting." All Palestine territories are officially considered occupied, by the International Court of Justice, the UN GA, the UN SC, and even in official documents of Israel's own allies. Likud is still using the blueprint for colonizing North America, in the West Bank. Move settlements out into native territory, piss off the natives, the natives retaliate, cry about poor "innocent" colonizing settlers being the "victims" of violent "Savages!", call in the cavalry to put down the native uprising, and eventually expand the borders to include those settlements. Rinse and repeat. In Gaza, Israel is operating an open air WWII style fascist ghetto. Them claiming a "right to defend themselves" would be like the Nazis claiming a "right to defend themselves " from the Warsaw ghetto uprising. There's no "war". That they're the occupiers means the "war" part is long over. Those people are actually supposed to be under the occupier's protection. That partition was forced upon the Palestinian majority, against their will ... that the Zionist portion still had to be forcefully ethnically cleansed of its non-Jewish majority, against their will ... that the millions of occupied Palestinians don't have a say in the government that truly rules over them, Israel's ... means Israel is about as democratic as Nazi Germany after Hitler purged his political opponents and then held elections.
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  1305.  Aaron Dickson  You know you're in a cult when, your cult leader convinces tens of millions of people not to believe any media, any judges, any lawyers, any law enforcement, any intelligence agencies, any other politicians, any election officials, any scientists, any doctors, any nurses ... anyone ... even to not believe their own lying eyes, if any contradict said cult leader.
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  1306.  @alabamaman1684  Nope. Your mental telepathy has failed you (you probably don't actually have mental telepathy, just so you know).
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  1307. So, ignore the centuries of conservative religious homophobia, ignore the centuries of racism, ignore the centuries of bigotry ... the punching started with trying to teach kids that different people exist, and proper history?
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  1308. Rofl, the anti-authoritarian small government Republicans making it impossible to shrink government budgets for the authorities? Makes sense.
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  1309. When it comes to Likud's Revisionist goals, over 100 years now. Read Ze'ev Jabotinsky's The Iron Wall, 1923. Those Revisionists then formed the Irgun and Lehi trrrist groups, whose leaders formed Likud.
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  1310.  @aliamjon2550  Why would anyone trust a troll?
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  1311. ​ @dontaedrone4673  Oil companies aren't socialized. He's not their boss. They have zero incentive to flood the global market, drive down prices, and lose profits. That's why they are just sitting on thousands of already approved drilling sites.
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  1312.  @ComradeCatpurrnicus  I also debate people who post first, and address their specific context issues. This is me posting first. I don't know who will read it, so here's all the relevant context. Also, as I mentioned above, the algorithm gives me more problems with shorter posts. I have to remove half my vowels in some posts.
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  1313.  @X2LR8  I know my ancient history, just fine. I take it you rooted for Germany, in WWII.
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  1314. All while, ironically, worshipping a being who would be responsible for aborting the majority of pregnancies, if it existed.
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  1315. Saagar: I'm never going to trust polling again. Saagar: Here, look at this exit poll. (This year's exit polls will be as skewed as election day voting. They're largely useless.)
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  1316.  @aarondickson1898  You mean funded by a US agency, with multiple other US agencies signing off on working with that lab. Let me know when you actually prove the leak and that the US is liable. It'll be hilarious if the rest of the world can sue the pants off of the US, with Republican assistance. Bankrupt America to own the libs!!! I take it you'll be getting an award.
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  1317. ​ @ezioauditore3128  No. That's still modern history, and an ongoing situation. The wars against Native Americans lasted about 300 years. It wasn't "ancient history" a third of the way through. UN Office of Genocide Prevention ... Genocide: "The definition contained in Article II of the Convention describes genocide as a crime committed with the intent to destroy a national, ethnic, racial or religious group, in whole or in part." Ethnic cleansing: "The Commission of Experts added that these practices can “… constitute crimes against humanity and can be assimilated to specific war crimes. Furthermore, such acts could also fall within the meaning of the Genocide Convention.”"
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  1318.  @zippydoo9533  You seem to be making a good argument for public ownership, so everyone can benefit from automation.
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  1319. ​ @ComradeCatpurrnicus  Every rpg says you're wrong. lol
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  1320. ​ @trekkiejunk  An extended family thanksgiving. Some relatives you only see the once a year, maybe less, or someone with a new partner you've never met.
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  1321. His supporters are either so stupid that they buy all his bullshit, or so fanatic that they don't give a crap that he's full of shit ... or both.
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  1322.    Main Stream Media
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  1323.  @e13kid  Dore didn't give a crap about M4A during the election cycle, when AOC was campaigning for Bernie, and used her platform and PAC to help add a few more M4A yes votes to congress. He's full of crap.
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  1324. A fraudster pardoned (admission of guilt) by another fraudster, and currently convicted of contempt, possibly heading to jail again. Such great people to talk to.
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  1325. ​ @richhughes6180  Exactly. He's just spewing the exact same thing coming out of the mouths of Trump and his cronies, almost word for word, then ironically says people should think for themselves, while ignoring objective facts about reality.
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  1326.  @bobbun4369  He engaged with, and has given aid and comfort, to people convicted of seditious conspiracy (rebellion). He's ineligible.
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  1327.  @tommyboym6563  Anti-abortion, anti-lgbt rights, climate denial, government job discrimination based on politics (starting to have parties fire tens of thousands of people each time a president is elected is moronic), dismantling the separation of church and state, expansion of presidential powers, .... what's to like?
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  1328.  @stanr8946  You left out the right of return. Israel doesn't offer that to Palestinian refugees, correct? Is that the Supreme Court, that fascist Netanyahu is trying to pass a bill, so the government can overrule? On top of being able to overrule any negative ruling about his own corruption, would allow the government to overrule any Palestinian rights cases.
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  1329.  discorperted  What does collegiate baseball have to do with the minor league baseball?
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  1330.  @60andover-timetotrain-join89  Uh huh. 276k non-Jws in 1882, and 595k non-Jws in 1914, equals a little over double. 1,324k non-Jws in 1947 equals a little more than double again. Math not your strong suit I take it.
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  1331. Yeah, the issue is that "Latino" isn't really an ethnic grouping. It's a geographical grouping. Latinos come in wt (predominantly Spanish ancestry), blk (predominantly African slv ancestry), native (predominantly indigenous ancestry), and mixes of those. Over half of the Cuban migrants came over in the first few waves of predominantly wt Batista family members, government members, mltry, and those who got rich under him. Can't get much wtr than Ted Cruz. The Spanish almost completely gncdd the islands, leaving almost only wt and blk on the islands. Meanwhile, Latinos from Central/South America are predominantly natives, or at least a mix.
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  1332. His brain outright exploded when editors asked for editorial rewrites. Like that hasn't been going on since the beginning of newspapers.
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  1333.  @twoshedsjohnson8540   Hrrrm, let's learn to count ... Koch is on the board of the Institute of Humane Studies, and funds it = zero degrees to Koch. Dave Rubin is in a partnership with Learn Liberty = zero degrees to Dave Rubin IHS funds LL = 1 degree from Koch and IHS to Rubin and LL.
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  1334. Rofl, why not allow everyone to sue whoever, over a regretted decision they made themselves? If I regret buying a house ... sue the developer for my money back, plus some extra for the suffering my regretful decision has caused. Or, a car. Or, some stocks (especially if the price drops ... sue to get back the full amount you paid). Etc. lol
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  1335. The bottom 50% own about 1.5% of the wealth, but pay about 3% of the taxes. The top 1% own about 34% of the wealth, and paid about 34% of the taxes. So, the top 1% is paying half the rate, based on percentage of wealth.
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  1336. The level of violence isn't what makes something an insurrection, or not, dumb dumb. Portland streets = not where the federal government is located, and not where sore losers tried to overthrow the democratic process.
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  1337. Yeah, the early one room school houses were modeled after churches, or they even just used the church, during the week, if they didn't have a school house.
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  1338. ​ @seanmatal2383  Exactly. This case was for them to try and show Trump's words did little to no damage, not to attempt to retry the original case.
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  1339.  @Illumirage  *Moronic rebuttal.
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  1340.  @peggynulsen1365  He'd probably only make it to the provincial level, in Alberta or Saskatchewan. Those are the only two provinces with an actual conservative majority, and far right enough.
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  1341. ​ @JeanneBlumLesinski-tr6se  Over 90% go through US points of entry and over 80% are carried by Americans. If DT only focuses on foreigners and non points of entry, he'll do nothing to lower trafficking.
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  1342.  @alphaomega5878  Yeah, remember that time when some socialists decided to work with fascists ... good times for them. https://spartacus-educational.com/GERnight.htm
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  1343. Vance's "cat lady" arguments also apply to the majority of the young military, only 36% of whom have children. According to him, they should get less of a vote, they don't have a stake in the future of the country, they're "sociopaths", they should pay more taxes, etc.
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  1344. ​ @richardsanders.4624  Rofl. How does the aggressor keep having a right to "defend" themselves?
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  1345.  @seanhovan7426  That there were slaves in Egypt, is taught in schools. Pretty sure they enslaved all kinds of people they conquered, though, and didn't single out white people.
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  1346.  @masterofmashup1737  People who practice Abrahamic religions outright worship a formless, sexless, being that they use male gender pronouns to describe. Trinitarians believe that sexless being transitioned into a human male.
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  1347. They're smearing me by showing what I said. Deflect. Whatabout. Hypocrisy. False Equivalency.
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  1348. Yes, they like to ignore that Trump himself negotiated, to have Mar-a-Lago rezoned, to lower its value, so he could pay lower property taxes. That rezoning included designating it as a club only, and designating a good portion of the property as conservation land, which is worthless until rezoned.
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  1349.  Axl Dave  Yeah, all the Confederate flag waving white supremacists are at unite the left rallies, these days. Moron.
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  1350. His Sky News Australia is batshit crazy.
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  1351. Either complete bullshit, or complete stupidity. Heart disease makes you high risk, and more important to get vaccinated, not avoid it. And, there's no major complications with the vaccine and Lupus.
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  1352. Likud's bloody 100 year history ... In 1923, 100 years ago, Ze'ev Jabotinsky wrote, The Iron Wall, and a follow up, The Ethics of The Iron Wall (sooo racist towards Africans), in which he fully acknowledged that post Balfour Zionsim was colonialism, and that, based on the entirety of history, the native Palestinian population would resist being colonized until the bitter end. He directly compared it to the colonization of North America. He promoted doing it anyway, claiming Zionist colonialism was a "just" colonialism (he also thought North American colonialists were good guys, so not a great judge of morality), not caring what that meant for the native population. Ze'ev is important, because his Betar militant youth group helped found the Irgun terrorist group, along with other supporters of his, and the splinter Lehi terrorist group. The Irgun bombed numerous Palestinian markets and other public places, murdering many Palestinian civilians, including children, even including Palestinian Jews (who didn't support colonialist Zionsim). The Irgun are important, because they ended up being led by future Likud PM, Menachem Begin, who bombed the King David Hotel. The King David Hotel was bombed because the British had raided the Jewish Agency and seized numerous documents that may have shown that the terrorists were working with the JA and Haganah (JA liked to pretend that they didn't support the terrorism). The British then stored those documents at their base, in the hotel. That the Irgun terrorists responded to a JA raid, itself seems to prove the connection. That the thousands of Irgun (and Lehi) terrorists were also quickly merged into the new nation's military (IDF) and intelligence (Mossad) agencies, and are still celebrated as "heroes" by Israelis, to this day, also seems to support total collaboration between the groups. That other terrorist group mentioned, Lehi (also known as the Stern Gang), was considered even more extreme. They even tried to ally with the Nazis, against the British. Lehi ended up being led by Yitzhak Shamir, future Mossad agent, and another future Likud PM. In 1945, there was a major land and peoples survey done in Palestine. It showed that the Zionists only owned about 5% of the total land, 20% of the arable land, and owned a majority in zero districts. The partition was not only going to be forced on the native Palestinian majority, but Jews were still going to be a minority, in the part allocated to them. The only possible way to even become a "Jewish state" was going to require getting rid of the actual majority (at least enough so that there'd be a solid Jewish majority, so they could fake being democratic). This is also shown by the 1948, post Nakba, population of Israel. If there was 716,700 Jews, 156,000+ non-Jews, and approximately 700k non-Jews ethnically cleansed, that means the Jewish population, in the Zionist portion of partition, was originally over 100,000 less than the non-Jewish population. To believe that there was never any intent, by Zionists, to ethnically cleanse away the Palestinian majority would require believing that they never intended to create a "Jewish state". It's a nonsensical notion. Begin, and those terrorist groups, also opposed partition, but for the opposite reason Palestinians did. Palestinians didn't want to be colonized, at all. The terrorists wanted to colonize it all. "Moderate" Zionists were okay with colonizing half ... for now (what would happen in the future, after partition, was up to them, said Ben-Gurion). The Zionist terrorists were also involved in massacres, and assassinations, during the partition violence (colonialist war against the natives). Another notable future Likud PM, also started in the military, during the partition fighting. That was Ariel Sharon, war criminal, "Butcher of Beirut". Menachem Begin, and these other Zionist terrorists, are important because they became involved in Israeli politics, first forming Herut. That was the party that Albert Einstein, and other prominent American Jews, opposed, having a letter printed in the NYT, in December of 1948, when Begin came to visit the US. The letter opened ... "Among the most disturbing political phenomena of our times is the emergence in the newly created state of Israel of the "Freedom Party" (Tnuat Haherut), a political party closely akin in its organization, methods, political philosophy and social appeal to the Nazi and Fascist parties. It was formed out of the membership and following of the former Irgun Zvai Leumi, a terrorist, right-wing, chauvinist organization in Palestine." Herut merged with other extremist parties, over the years, and eventually became Likud, in the 70s. Now, people get upset over the slogan "From the river to the sea!", but it's the second part that's most important, "Palestine will be free!". Because "Palestine" isn't defined as an ethno-state, a free Palestine can be a single state, free for all to live in, and return to, free of continuing colonization, free of occupation, free of oppression, etc. Just like a Germany free of Nazism, an Italy free of fascism, a South Africa free of apartheid, or an America free of slavery from sea to shiny sea. It doesn't necessitate purging all the Jews. It just necessitates them giving up on the idea of an ethno-state. On the other hand, because "Israel" has been defined as an ethno-state, Likud's, "between the sea and the Jordan there will only be Israeli sovereignty", has no possible good interpretation. It is a declaration of intent to completely colonize, and ethnically cleanse, all Palestine territories. Not only that, but it also claims that they have a "right" to all of the "Land of Israel" (biblical borders that don't mesh with archaeological reality), which is an open declaration of future wars, against Jordan, Syria, Lebanon, and possibly even Iraq. Likud platform ... 1977: "The Right of the Jewish People to the Land of Israel (Eretz Israel) a. The right of the Jewish people to the land of Israel is eternal and indisputable and is linked with the right to security and peace; therefore, Judea and Samaria will not be handed to any foreign administration; between the Sea and the Jordan there will only be Israeli sovereignty. b. A plan which relinquishes parts of western Eretz Israel, undermines our right to the country, unavoidably leads to the establishment of a "Palestinian State," jeopardizes the security of the Jewish population, endangers the existence of the State of Israel. and frustrates any prospect of peace." "Settlement Settlement. both urban and rural. in all parts of the Land of Israel is the focal point of the Zionist effort to redeem the country, to maintain vital security areas and serves as a reservoir of strength and inspiration for the renewal of the pioneering spirit. The Likud government will call on the younger generation in Israel and the dispersions to settle and help every group and individual in the task of inhabiting and cultivating the wasteland, while taking care not to dispossess anyone." 1999: "The Government of Israel flatly rejects the establishment of a Palestinian Arab state west of the Jordan river. The Palestinians can run their lives freely in the framework of self-rule, but not as an independent and sovereign state. Thus, for example, in matters of foreign affairs, security, immigration, and ecology, their activity shall be limited in accordance with imperatives of Israel's existence, security and national needs." "The Jewish communities in Judea, Samaria, and Gaza are the realization of Zionist values. Settlement of the land is a clear expression of the unassailable right of the Jewish people to the Land of Israel and constitutes an important asset in the defense of the vital interests of the State of Israel. The Likud will continue to strengthen and develop these communities and will prevent their uprooting." All Palestine territories are officially considered occupied, by the International Court of Justice, the UN GA, the UN SC, and even in official documents of Israel's own allies. Likud is still using the blueprint for colonizing North America, in the West Bank. Move settlements out into native territory, piss off the natives, the natives retaliate, cry about poor "innocent" colonizing settlers being the "victims" of violent "Savages!", call in the cavalry to put down the native uprising, and eventually expand the borders to include those settlements. Rinse and repeat. In Gaza, Israel is operating an open air WWII style fascist ghetto. Them claiming a "right to defend themselves" would be like the Nazis claiming a "right to defend themselves " from the Warsaw ghetto uprising. There's no "war". That they're the occupiers means the "war" part is long over. Those people are actually supposed to be under the occupier's protection. That partition was forced upon the Palestinian majority, against their will ... that the Zionist portion still had to be forcefully ethnically cleansed of its non-Jewish majority, against their will ... that the millions of occupied Palestinians don't have a say in the government that truly rules over them, Israel's ... means Israel is about as democratic as Nazi Germany after Hitler purged his political opponents and then held elections.
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  1353. Daddy even bought over $3 million in chips, and didn't cash them in, and Donny still went under.
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  1354. Or vice versa. Whoever is the leading corporate Dem, near the end, the others could hand them all their delegates. Bernie needs to start winning by a large margin, to avoid getting fucked over in the end. Need higher voter turnout.
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  1355. ​ @AnnoyingCritic-is7rp  "Harris was born on Oct. 20, 1964, at the Kaiser Permanente Hospital in north Oakland." Born in Oakland. "For around six years, Harris lived above a daycare facility on Bancroft Way in West Berkeley, an area known as “the flatlands” that was a center for the city’s Black population. The home is about 2.5 miles away from Thousand Oaks Elementary School, where she was bused as part of the city’s desegregation program." A little apartment over a garage converted into a daycare, doesn't sound ritzy, to me. She, and her mom, both lived in Oakland, upon returning to the US, as well.
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  1356.  @samsnuff8323  You can put a capitalized "FEEL" in front of any opinion, because it's subjectivity that is the decision maker, not objectivity. You FEEL it is none of their business. You FEEL that doctors shouldn't judge.
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  1357. ​ @AA-cg3gd  I'm still waiting for my "small" $1m loan ... plus a fraudulent $3m dollar loan (for which Trump and daddy were fined for gaming fraud) ... plus another $400m from daddy (in allowances and inheritance). How much has Trump actually made, if you don't count the debt?
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  1358.  @yarrowlove5086  No, it's stupid. So, that makes you stupid. The "right" to spread disease and kill other citizens, isn't a thing.
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  1359.  @reptiliancow  You're spouting bullshit. Canada has better overall results than the US. Also, Americans on VA are the happiest with their healthcare, dumbass. Those with private are the least happiest. https://news.gallup.com/poll/186527/americans-government-health-plans-satisfied.aspx
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  1360.  @aliamjon2550  You keep repeating the same nonsense. They didn't stop, between the speech and the Capitol to buy flex cuffs, bear spray, pipe bombs, the materials to build a working gallows, etc. They came prepared. It was months of his lies that incited them.
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  1361.  @triknives  Maybe he thought people were smart enough to be able to find the whole speech on their own, if they wanted to watch it all, and wasn't counting on you.
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  1362. ​ @CoolHandLuke196  Palestinians have been reacting like pretty much every other colonized people in history. It's only Zionism that's based on some "god given" right to this specific land, as a god's chosen people.
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  1363. Sooo ... the "atheist" part is redundant. "Agnosticism is of the essence of science, whether ancient or modern. It simply means that a man shall not say he knows or believes that which he has no scientific grounds for professing to know or believe." ~ Thomas Huxley
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  1364.  @rikirich2223  Sweden has 5-10x more covid deaths per million than its neighbors, and had weeks where it was the worst in Europe. "In Sweden, excess mortality was 3% without, and 8% with consideration of increasing life expectancy."
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  1365. Hostages ... "JERUSALEM (AP) — Israel is holding over 1,200 detainees — nearly all of them Palestinians — without charge or trial, the highest number in over three decades, an Israeli human rights group said Tuesday.Aug 1, 2023"
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  1366.  @whyamimrpink78  Are you stupid? People live paycheck to paycheck because of bills. You know, the "lifestyle" of having a roof over your head, electricity, etc.
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  1367.  @dwaynebruny  Well, at least he knew Rogan didn't have worms.
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  1368. Ze'ev Jabotinsky literally spelled out that this was exactly how everything would happen, 100 years ago. The most common native response to colonialism will be to fight to the bitter end.
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  1369.  @aliamjon2550  That's exactly how it works. If you were actually worried about being "replaced", then you'd want to end any and all immigration/refuge/asylum. But, you lot aren't actually worried about being "replaced".
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  1370. Wait, wait, not corporations that are in charge of social media. They shouldn't be allowed to enforce their own prerogatives, and tell people what to do, or not do.
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  1371. But the country is too full to accept asylum seekers ...
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  1372. He considered Dore to be a complete and utter maroon, so I doubt he'd have gone down the mrnc third party route.
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  1373.  @jasonmilton  Did "mama bear" brainwash her into campaigning with Nina Turner, trying to add another M4A yes vote to congress?
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  1374.  @FacelessProphet1  Rofl. No, he doesn't. He outright promoted the idea that Trump was a better option than Clinton. He's a grifter who benefits the far right.
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  1375.  @antonyhanson4479  She hasn't changed her position, Dore knob. She was never a pacifist. “In short, when it comes to the war against terrorists, I’m a hawk. When it comes to counterproductive wars of regime change, I’m a dove.” - Tulsi Gabbard, Hawaii Tribune-Herald, 2016
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  1376. The electoral college isn't inherently unbalanced. The 1929 permanent appropriation act froze the number of seats in congress and the number of electorals along with it. There's also a 1941 bill that is supposed to calculate the electorals evenly, but the math seems broken. Theoretically, it should be easier to repeal those bills, and rebalance everything, rather than make a constitutional amendment to completely ditch the electoral college. If there's enough votes to amend the constitution, they should also merge the senate with the house. Let every state get their 2 equal votes on bills, but don't let the senate completely override the house, as a seperate body.
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  1377. He's also just lying about this issue. If the company switched to making electric cars, they'd still need workers to make them? Who does the dimwit think will be making the electric cars?
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  1378.  @dougsfriendskeeter  The UN Office of Genocide Prevention considers ethnic cleansing to be under their purview because, if you fight removal, you tend to be killed. Israel has been ethnic cleansing, constantly, for decades.
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  1379. They've been trained, to follow grifters, from birth ... every Sunday.
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  1380.  @JustSomeGoy  You're a loon. And, it wouldn't matter if the virus was a bioweapon, made by China. Trump's response to it was still one of the most incompetent on the planet.
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  1381.  @cfrey1988  Aside from the point about variants, because no vaccine is 100%. The more you're passing the virus around, especially higher virul loads in the unvaccinated, the more you're challenging the efficacy of the vaccine.
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  1382. ​ @tugsn.mccowan1634  Who's the leader of antifa?
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  1383. Weird. I've noticed that most top models, musicians, actresses, and other entertainers, considered attractive by most, lean towards being liberal, inclusive, etc. In fact, I've also noticed Republicans going on and on about these "left wing" "Hollywood elite" types, all the freaking time. I've also noticed that more centrist countries (which are left of the US) have a lot more fit people, and much less obesity, on average, than the US. I've also noticed obesity maps of the US, and the most obese states tend to be red states. But hey, I'm sure he's onto something ... or on something.
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  1384.  @brianchoo298  For one, banning 24 hr voting, which was used by a higher percentage of minorities.
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  1385.  Dj Nichols  That the report absolutely does not say no obstruction, no collusion, or anything of the sort ... that Trump didn't cooperate and answered dishonestly ... that Trump wanted evidence manufactured ... that Trump wanted people to give false testimony ... that there wasn't no evidence of conspiracy, there was simply no evidence Jr knew he was breaking any laws, because he's a fucking moron ...
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  1386.  @CnCW453  Healthcare index ... 1 Taiwan 78.72 2 South Korea 77.7 3 Australia 74.11 4 Canada 71.32 5 Sweden 70.73 6 Ireland 67.99 7 Netherlands 65.38 8 Germany 64.66 9 Norway 64.63 10 Israel 61.73 11 Belgium 60.16 12 Switzerland 59.6 13 Japan 59.52 14 Singapore 57.96 15 United States 56.71
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  1387.  @januarysson5633  Rofl, she's a Qanoner. Of course she would.
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  1388.  @brigidmartin  The ones that did away with Roe? Did you just come out of a coma, or something?
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  1389. So, a pretty standard colonialist feeling about the "savage" natives.
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  1390. They used to claim they weren't rcsts, and were only opposed to the misdemeanor entrants. There's just something about the legal entrant Haitians though ... I wonder what it is? 🤔
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  1391. Sent you guys an email stating he was a fraud, from day 1. I'm a Canadian who owned and operated a VAT registered business. A VAT is specifically designed to NOT tax businesses in order to avoid double taxation. Yang is either completely clueless, or completely dishonest, about major policies he wants to enact.
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  1392.  @sjwslayer7403  Kids dying isn't worse than a misdemeanor invisible line crossing? You're a real prick.
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  1393.  Margaret Lilley  Bezos claims $80k a year in income. Billionaires live off lines of credit taken out against the value of their stock shares. When they do cash in shares, it's usually when they have the option to buy lower, and they end up making money out of the deal. The average person doesn't make money off of paying taxes.
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  1394. ​ @JoePackJoeNC  "President Donald Trump said the United States would cut its oil production to assist Mexico in keeping alive a deal between OPEC and other oil-producing countries to boost global oil prices." I repeat ... "boost global oil prices" ... great deal.
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  1395. Warning: That CM is a loon, and claims to be part of the convoy.
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  1396.  @sarahtelles1931  Well, Robin Hood: Men in Tights wasn't the greatest. I wish his siblings had warned me.
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  1397. And, to any Americans who think progressives (NDP) should split from the more corporate Dems (Liberals) ... what you'd end up with is Republicans (Conservatives) being able to win the majority of seats, with little more than a third of the vote. We're likely going to get stuck with this Conservative a-hole, next election, due to vote splitting.
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  1398.  @1000aaronaaronaaron  Trump, and his followers, seem to have size insecurities.
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  1399. Rofl. So, if you walk into a mansion and claim half of it, you think that's a good deal for the people already living there?
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  1400. Judging by that sentence, you're not qualified on the subject.
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  1401. So you've just watched this one video of theirs?
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  1402.  @Thedudeabides803  What a load of crap. Non of the vaccines has been shown to be 0% effective. Instead the booster has been shown to be 80% effective against Omicron.
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  1403.  @miguelsuarez-solis5027  He's only smart if he doesn't actually believe a bunch off his nonsense arguments, but knows his audience will eat it up. If he actually believes all of what he says, he's an idiot.
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  1404.  Derek Hitt  So, if the point is that Republicans would no longer be pen pals with someone like Marx, then you're saying Democrats would no longer be pen pals with Nazis? I guess that's why Nazis show up to unite the right rallies, instead of Democrat rallies.
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  1405. ​ @societylost4344  Can you make that more coherent?
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  1406.  @luisvelez5695  And he wants it higher ... Not to benefit the children, but part of his "reward what is good", "punish what is bad", policy. He said being childless is bad.
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  1407.  @2bRealist  Your average bouncer could have probably taken him down without a gun, before he got to his car door. Why is it people like you don't expect police to be better trained than bouncers?
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  1408.  @mpguilfo  Yeah, yeah, 75-90% of those dying now have natural immunity and won't catch covid ever again.
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  1409. Deutsche Bank has ... "they concluded he was worth about $788 million" https://theweek.com/speedreads/829999/deutsche-bank-found-trump-inflated-assets-by-70-percent-not-billionaire-claimed ... but that was before he started funneling government funds into his businesses.
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  1410.  @RayD_19  How the hell were Obama and Biden celebrities?
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  1411. Jimmy is feuding with anyone who doesn't agree with Jimmy 100%.
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  1412.  @New2Haven  Are you against the government requiring people to wear articles of clothing, in general, or just articles of clothing that might have a medical benefit, and protect kids from not only catching the virus, but to protect them from being carriers, and possibly killing their stupid parents, or others?
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  1413.  @jackprice1758  Are you talking about Byron Donalds types, who think black Americans had it better under Jm Crw, and criticize going down the path of LBJ (Civil Rights Act of 1964, Voting Rights Act, Civil Rights Act of 1968)? Don't think they're great judges, either.
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  1414.  @jackprice1758  He also literally criticized going down the path of LBJ. He also falsely claimed black Americans were voting more conservatively, at a time and place they couldn't even vote. Plus, he was still seemingly attributing the family togetherness to segregation.
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  1415.  @Gnolomweb  Then why are many of the least religious countries in the world considered the best places to live, by many different metrics?
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  1416. ​ @jenniferpearce1052  You know boat engines have batteries, like car engines, right? And the larger the boat, the more electrical systems it likely has running all through it, no matter what the engine is running on? Do you think a yacht's lights, tvs, electrical outlets, stereos, etc., aren't electrical?
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  1417. No shit. She blames people voting third party, but far more Republicans voted Libertarian than Democrats voted Green. It should have been a cakewalk, but not enough people liked her to even bother voting.
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  1418.  Biblical Kraken  A "kraken" is something fictional.
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  1419. You mean when he intentionally had drive in rallies, specifically to not pack as many people as possible into confined spaces?
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  1420. Sweden's economy was worse than Norway and Denmark, and no better than Finland, plus had 5-10x more covid deaths per capita than its neighbors. Doing next to nothing, and killing people to stay open, doesn't necessarily equate to a better economy.
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  1421. @Tilip Muejark You do remember that your own initial point was about the mortality rate, right? Again, the covid mortality rate is 20x higher than polio, and 5x higher than automobile accidents. Why are you okay with mandating a vaccine (4 shots) for a much lower mortality rate? Why are you okay with so many rules of the road, that infringe on people's freedumbs, for a much lower mortality rate? Why not let anyone drive, in whatever condition, wherever they want, as fast as they want?
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  1422.  @notyouraveragebear903  Nope. He, through the Governor General, is our commander in chief, and some 89% of Canada is still Crown lands, technically owned by the Crown, him, and managed by provincial or federal parliaments.
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  1423. @doobiewah357 What the ... ? You think Iran attacked on 9/11? You are dumber than a stump.
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  1424.  @weshallovercome3990  Rofl, you think Biden is going to win New Hampshire? Even Biden doesn't think he'll win.
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  1425.  @michaelbarquero6079  You know the images on the screen aren't real, right? Nobody is forcing you to associate with anyone. And, you can turn it off, or leave the theater, if you don't like a show, commercial, or movie.
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  1426.  @michaelbarquero6079  It was a deflection, because the topic wasn't a gay marriage, nor was it about businesses considered public accommodations. A movie, commercial, or show, doesn't force you to associate with anyone. You're not even forced to watch them. And, it's absolutely moronic to suggest including warnings for racists, bigots, or sexists, that people they dislike might be portrayed in a positive light.
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  1427. ​ @Tetrahfy  1. First Step has been shown to benefit wht prisoners more, and did nothing about the front end problems, of being arrested at higher rates, charged at higher rates for similar crimes, being convicted at higher rates, and being sentenced for longer times. Blk Americans still have to face all the front end problems, and now wht prisoners are getting their sentences reduced more than blk prisoners, actually increasing the sentencing discrepancy, with First Step. Incarceration rates started going up in the 70s, with Nixon's W on D. They spiked further, when Reagan supercharged it. Every Dem state, that has legalized mari, has kept more blk Americans entirely out of prison, than Trump.
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  1428. The UK hasn't been good at much, during the pandemic, themselves. They've also had one of the worst covid outcomes in the world. Their testing rate, for much of 2020, was as pathetically low as the US testing rate. Moron Boris didn't take it much more seriously than Trumpty Dumpty. Why not look at countries that have done well, or at least mediocre, instead of others that have done piss poorly?
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  1429.  @ajr993  It wasn't about rent, liar. It was about a racist law that allows Jews, but not Palestinians, to reclaim property owned before 1948. Those Palestinians were given abandoned property by Jordan, just like Israel gave tons and tons of abandoned property to its citizens, and have been on it for decades.
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  1430.  @Robloxdude260  He'd like for them to leave voluntarily. If they didn't, then they'd be rounded up and tossed out. And, if they resisted, he'd then turn to violence. If you think he has said he'd never resort to violence, to achieve his goals, then you haven't been paying attention. SoB can't even seem to get through the day without beating his wife, ffs. Just another coward.
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  1431.  @Robloxdude260  Every country has decided to boot all non-whites out of their country, and will resort to violence (last) to do it? Do you have a source for that?
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  1432. Right-wing "cancel culture" hypocrisy exposed by ... centuries of religious conservative types cancelling an endless list of things, people, and behavior, that they didn't like.
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  1433. This would have to apply worldwide. Doesn't making out like the vast majority of doctors, across the world, are all in on some global conspiracy to not treat people, and let them die, just to get more people vaccinated, sound somewhat insane, to you?
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  1434.  @sledzeppelin  Apparently you have reading comprehension problems. Someone still willing to work with, and vote for, non anarcho-communists, to move things in the direction they want, is politically relevant.
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  1435. Then leave, you Irgun and Lehi apologist.
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  1436. In the US, there are about as many vehicles owned as firearms. However, unlike firearms, vehicles are used, on average, 2 hours a day. They now kill fewer people than guns. And, the vast majority of the time, simply get people from point A to point B ... their intended use. Relative to vehicles, firearms are rarely used, and yet they now kill more people, and they have no other intended use, except to shoot things. They are, by far, the more dangerous object.
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  1437.  @smandin1  What the fuck? I didn't say I was opposed to immigration. I was the one saying most of us Canadians don't consider immigrants a threat.
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  1438. ​ @puffdaddy69  Yeah, and what about that Warsaw ghetto uprising ... attacking the peaceful Third Reich. 🙄
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  1439.  @Painlesshunt  Are you really stupid, or are you just playing stupid on YouTube?
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  1440.  @tilleryinnovations592  He was simply giving examples of things that could also possibly affect excess mortality, off the top of his head, dimwit, and they did go down, in the UK ... you know, the nation the numbers refer to.
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  1441.  @markzuckergecko621  Isn't tens of thousands of people dying due to a lack of healthcare coverage, hundreds of thousands going bankrupt due to healthcare debt, and over a million seeking more affordable treatment in other countries, a problem? A problem solved by other developed nations, with universal healthcare?
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  1442. Yeah, no such thing as Celtic, Greek, or Viking warrior women, no such thing as female pirates, etc. Never happened.
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  1443. March 16: Bernie suggests primary voting should be postponed. April 1: Bernie suggests primary voting should be postponed. And not once has Bernie made out like it's safe.
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  1444. People forgetting that Trump called 2016 rigged, as well, and claimed he actually won the popular vote. Once president, he created an election integrity commission, that found absolutely no evidence of the election being rigged, and quietly closed down.
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  1445.  @outtarespecttomyfawtha1589  Slandering progressives that have done more for M4A in a few years than he has in his entire lifetime, is not okay. Peddling vaccine misinformation, is not okay. Peddling right wing extremists that want a civil war, is not okay. Peddling fantasies that will never get you what you want, is not okay. Jimmy is not okay.
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  1446. ​ @stearin1978  Read up on the Irgun and Lehi terrorists. Their leaders founded Likud.
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  1447. He's the one who promoted, and helped fund, Hamas, to weaken the Palestinian Authority and avoid possible peace, so he could continue his colonization project.
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  1448. ​ @jakematterson8652  If the border was open, they could just walk through points of entry, dumb dumb.
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  1449. @Cody Historical reminder: The US was founded by people who protested, rioted, and even went to war, over taxes that specifically funded the police/military, and a lack of representation, which is anti-authoritarianism. Their opponents backed the police/military, and fought against democracy to keep an unelected ruler in power, which is authoritarianism.
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  1450. ​ @dontcensormebro3217  Shutting down wouldn't have been as big a deal, if the government actually supported businesses, and citizens, better. Canada ended up having a 30 year low, in business insolvency claims, because federal and provincial governments offered so much help.
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  1451. Like the Spanish Inquisition.
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  1452. That's also how parking tickets, and other fines work, or anything with a set cost, or fee, for that matter. Just get vaccinated and you don't have to pay.
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  1453.  @derekmcaleer2386  FOX viewers were found to be less informed than people who don't consume news, ffs, and CNN isn't "left wing".
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  1454. ​ @je7647  It is the same. Things just happen in a different order. Rss has been in Ukrn before. They already did full occptn before. They already did the ethnc clnsng of the Tartars in Crimea. They already did the Hldmr gncd, which greatly affected the Dnbs region. They already did clnztn, to fill regions they depopulated. They already did forced Rvssiafication. Then they used those Rssn clnzrs, and speakers, as grounds to come back.
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  1455.  Progressives for Trump  A judge actually agreed that the DNC hadn't taken a neutral approach towards Bernie, but then said their neutrality statement couldn't be legally enforced.
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  1456.  Progressives for Trump  What a load of nonsense. At minimum, a judge read, or heard, the merits of every single one of those 60 cases, and a number did go to trial. They were baseless. And, none of them had anything to do with the DNC or RNC picking favorites and plowing money into defeating a candidate. Nobody thinks the DNC rigged voting machines against Nina.
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  1457.  @km2530  For years? What the hell vaccine are you talking about?
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  1458.  @SteveM-gj2vy  Moron. Hitler was backed by leading industrialists. He was backed by religious leaders. He destroyed unions, and tossed unionists, socialists, and communists into camps first. He ran on racism and bigotry, and one of the demonizations used against Jews was blaming them for inventing socialism. He tossed them into camps. He handed their property and businesses to his industrialist backers. He, literally, murdered any prominent left leaning members of his party on The Night of Long Knives. Nazis were leaders in privatization. They were uber nationalists. They were anti-feminists. They were anti-democracy (which gerrymandering and disenfranchisement are). They were pro military expansion and pro police expansion. "Fascism is the complete opposite of Marxian Socialism" ~ Mussolini You're probably too stupid to recognize a fascist waving a Nazi flag at a unite the right rally ... or looking back at you in a mirror.
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  1459. It's one of the few shows where they regularly debate callers with different opinions.
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  1460.  @chestervirgil7968  Rofl. Some 20 people showed up in DC for the ftv rally. During the latest M4A rallies, AOC was campaigning for Nina, trying to add another M4A yes vote to congress. Dore, and his Dore knobs, abandoned her ... abandoned actually moving you one vote closer to ever passing the bill. The $15 got a vote, even passed the house (M4A didn't have a chance in hell) and got a senate vote. Didn't you pathetic good for nothings pretend like just getting a vote on an important progressive policy would be great, pretend like getting a list of no voters would be great ... and now, what? Weren't you supposed to do something amazing with the optics and the list? Yet, you lot just keep whining and slandering those who got it to stay in for a round of voting and who voted for it. Lol, you Dore knobs can't seem to make up your little minds. A bunch of you ridiculously try and make comparisons to women's suffrage, or civil rights, and yet you're here whining that a politician should be doing all the work for you. So, you're nothing like the women's suffrage or civil rights movements. Dore benefits the far right more than the left and, either that's why you like him, because you're one of his many right wing fans, or you're being grifted and are the kind of "lefty" that ends up on the wrong end of a Night of the Long Knives.
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  1461. The Nazis had a "right to defend themselves" against the Warsaw ghetto uprising, according to these guys.
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  1462.  @tcb1012  Bullshit. The polio vaccine was being given to millions of kids within 2 years, and "operation warp speed" did nothing much to speed up development. The first vaccine out of the gate didn't even take funding. OWS is almost entirely about supply and distribution.
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  1463. Landing yourself in prison for years, or dead, for attention, is playing yourself.
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  1464.  @Barskor1  The southern states, literally, said they were separating over slavery, and enshrined slavery into their constitution. The Civil War was always about slavery. The north still had segregated military units and widespread racism, even if they were anti-slavery. The nation still allowed Jim Crow laws, and all kinds of discrimination to take place, after the Civil War, for another century. Even immediately after Lincoln's assassination, Johnson stopped reparations and even gave any land that had been given to freed slaves back to the former slave owners. Anti-slavery doesn't necessarily equate to not a racist, or not a bigot.
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  1465.  @Coolinteresting876  How is Dore promoting Trump as the better option in 2016, being left wing? How is Dore running attack ads for Trump's only remaining viable opponent, in 2020, being left wing? Those things could only benefit Trump, who is an overt fascist. How is Dore going on Tucker, simply to agree with right wing nonsense being left wing? How is Dore promoting far right ancap Boogaloos as ally potential, after weeks a slandering anyone who simply disagreed with him on tactics over a single issue, being left wing? Those also only seem to benefit the far right. What has Dore actually done to benefit the left?
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  1466. Literally, the Stop being alert to racial prejudice and discrimination Act.
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  1467. Progressive policies, or nonsense propaganda?
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  1468.  @michaelpeyton5730  Genuinely lying, yes. He was a psychologist, promoting that diet to millions of listeners, claiming it cured anxiety and depression, all so his daughter could make a few bucks. That's called grifting. It's absolutely disgusting, considering his credentials. He should have lost his license, for that alone. Why you think everything else he does, isn't also a grift, I don't know.
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  1469. ​ @foggylake  "Nov 17, 2020 — President Donald Trump, with two months left in office, last week asked for options on attckng Iran's main nclr site, ..." He was talked out of things, before, and is now installing people who won't say no.
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  1470. ​ @donnicholson3170  Rofl. All you said there was that you don't know the definition of communism.
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  1471. Did they get the right Four Seasons, this time?
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  1472. It was a conversion from immigration Zionism to colonialist Zionsim, with the Balfour declaration. Since then, it has basically remained the same. Followers of Ze'ev Jabotinsky (The Iron Wall, 1923) formed the Irgun and Lehi terrorist groups, and the leaders of those groups formed Likud. Those terrorists are still celebrated as "heroes", to this day, and Likud has the same goals ... colonize it all.
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  1473.  @RobCipher  Well, that has more to do with the type of virus, and the antibodies it produces, rather than the vaccines. The antibodies for some viruses last most of your life, others maybe a decade, others only months. And viruses that mutate more frequently can change the effectiveness of vaccines more frequently.
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  1474.  @donnyj5805  Yeah, Dore knob doesn't do that.
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  1475.  @ophu7760  Right? The moron opens using "hippies" and "special" in a derogatory manner, intending to insult, then cries and runs away, because of insults. A whiny hypocritical bitch, just like Shapiro.
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  1476.  @JC-sf6sf  Fuck you're clueless. Shapiro didn't address the Georgia laws, at all, and instead had hissy fits about bias, never answering the questions. Shapiro didn't address whether, or not, he was part of the problem with American political discourse, which his book is about, and instead whined that a UK interviewer used the word "barbaric", trying to imply irony/hypocrisy on Andrew's part. But, a UK interviewer has nothing the fuck to do with American discourse, so it's impossible for his question to be ironic/hypocritical. It was a total dodge and misdirection by Shapiro ... another total fail at trying to gotcha Andrew. Ben makes out like he has nothing to do with videos that have "DESTROYS" in the title. That's just an outright falsehood. He has a bunch in his own Twitter and YouTube. He wrote a fucking book with "Destroy" in the title. He's a little weasel, who totally dodged that question with dishonesty. I don't give two craps about the BBC. Say whatever you want about it. Yet more misdirection, from you, won't change the fact that Shapiro fell flat on his face, had a little tantrum, and ran away. Your boy is an idiot.
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  1477.  @Emjaemidd  And the ones who stayed, Palestinian Jews, opposed Zionism. Colonialist terrorist groups, like the Irgun and Lehi, killed them, alongside other Palestinian civilians, including children.
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  1478.  @whyamimrpink78  Rofl, so you agree with "blacklisting", simply because they don't report what you want? BLM defaced and pulled down some statues. Trump called those that did it terrorists and Nazis. Giuliani called for BLM to be labeled terrorists. Jr called BLM animals and has also called for them to be labeled terrorists.
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  1479. Before Iran, the US was also involved in a coup in Syria, when their democratically elected government voted against a pipeline. In Iraq, although it wasn't an election, a popular revolutionary leader had overthrown the UK's puppet monarchy, but the US backed a coup, when he talked about nationalizing the oil.
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  1480. You should just stop covering the Israel/Palestine topic David. You're not very good at it.
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  1481. Ben, you've been embellishing, about real people, who are dying due to similar embellishment from colonialist occupier Israel, since Oct 7.
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  1482.  @spanqueluv9er  Sorry that you have reading troubles.
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  1483.  @SAMOTUBER  No conscious effort? He was asking everyone and anyone to overthrow the democratic process to install him as an unelected dictator.
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  1484.  @DB-sd3cw  They weren't asked to bake a "gay cake", whatever that is. They were asked to bake a wedding cake, something their public accomodation business does, for gay people. They chose to actively discriminate against gay people. If they want an anti-gay marriage shop, they should register as a club, like Costco, a religious organization, or something that doesn't count as a public accomodation. Simply making and selling things to gay people isn't an endorsement of their lifestyle. Actively discriminating against them is being against them, is being hateful.
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  1485. That's like blaming Native Americans for wanting to send the European settlers back into the sea. There was a reason that they did.
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  1486. ​ @colonelangus8247  People simply doing stuff together, is fascist? Like a group school project? Or a barn raising?
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  1487. "Get out more" Hrrrmmm... Top 10 obese states ... West Virginia Kentucky Alabama Oklahoma Mississippi Arkansas Louisiana South Dakota Ohio Missouri Bottom 10 obese states ... Hawaii Colorado Massachusetts California Florida New Jersey Washington Vermont New York Rhode Island
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  1488.  @Evirthewarrior  No he's not. Grifters claim they're selling you something beneficial, but they're actually selling you something completely useless, or even harmful. All the directions Dore has proposed going, since 2016, actually get you no closer to, or further away from, M4A and socialism. Intentionally skipping all pro vaccine content in articles, and only focusing on the negatives, is intentionally portraying vaccines in a more negative light. Dishonestly comparing total population hospitalization rates to a year and a half old case fatality rate, to portray covid deaths as "WILDLY inflated", promotes that covid is far less deadly than it actually is, and that vaccines aren't as necessary as people think. Lying about an article on children and covid, and outright being against vaccinating children, is blatantly anti-vax for children. Making out like there's some big pharma conspiracy, regarding vaccines given out for free and prices negotiated by government (representing a tiny sliver of what M4A would be like) is both anti-vax (making out like it's a pure profit motive) and anti-M4A. He also not only dishonestly promoted that an unproven drug is an effective remedy, but also that it's an effective preventative, which promotes a false alternative to vaccines. Between that, and being fine with Rogan's $2000+ "kitchen sink", Dore is promoting more expensive, and paid for out of pocket, alternatives. Dore has harped on vaccine side effects, like tinnitus and myocarditis, while, like Rogan, ignoring that covid causes those far more often (myocarditis over 6x more, tinnitus thousands of times more). He and Max misrepresented what was going on with the UK healthcare system (a completely socialized system, even left of M4A) and vaccines for kids, promoting a negative light on both vaccines and socialized healthcare. He's a grifter, ffs. People have to be complete and utter morons, to not see it, by now. Or, are his numerous far right fans.
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  1489. Hehe, dimwitted Dore knobs no likey your comment.
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  1490.  @timg185  No. Poorer people spend almost every penny they have. Rich people hoard a lot of money. Poorer people spend a higher percentage of their income. Plus, high priced luxury items are a lot less likely to have been made in China. If they do buy something, say a cell phone, they aren't going to buy a thousand times more cell phones than a poorer person.
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  1491. Higher unionization, higher wages, successful retraining programs, universal healthcare, free college, mandatory parental leave, more paid vacations, double the percentage of the population working public jobs ... prepared for, and even welcoming, automation. https://www.boyden.com/media/automation-and-jobs-the-swedish-perspective-3770222/index.html But, hey, if you prefer someone who doesn't even know how his key tax works, all the power to you.
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  1492.  @alabamaman1684  The only people I've seen "crying" are those who are afraid of a small piece of cloth and a needle.
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  1493. Ummm, Venezuela has a mixed economy, just like almost every other country on the planet. They simply have an economy heavily dependent on one resource. Quality of electrical service went down, and costs went up, when our service went just semi-private. They do as little as possible, to keep costs down, but charge as much as they can get away with, to maximize profits.
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  1494. Agree with most above, buy wouldn't include police and military as socialism. They're more the authoritarian axis, and even capitalist extremists, like Ayn Rand, kept a justice system and National defence. The VA hospitals, though ... 100% socialized.
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  1495. ​ @Loushe-n4k  He was with heavy artillery, dingus. They are 10-25 miles away, or they're doing it wrong. "Action" in Iraq wouldn't have been much different than his training for 24 years ... get radioed coordinates, fire howitzer.
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  1496. Nazis were fascists. "Fascism is the complete opposite of Marxian socialism." ~ Mussolini
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  1497. ​ @eileenspamer  Rofl, you want to go after all people of all religions not specific people?
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  1498.  @peterroberts4415  The inflation rate is below the 50 year average. If you're expecting deflation, you only get that with a major recession or depression.
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  1499.  @ComradeCatpurrnicus  Nothing arbitrary about picking the beginnings of clnlism. Clnzers in North America portrayed themselves as the poor innocent victims of native "Savages!", or "Heathens!", for centuries. People bought the propaganda and, in turn, thought what was done to the Natives was perfectly fine. If you don't step in and say, "Umm, no, you did your clnzing first", then they keep falsely claiming to be on defense. Americans were fed propaganda, about Iraq, and 80% were perfectly fine with invding another country and klling hundreds of thousands of its citizens. Look, if you don't want to read it, just don't. If you think it's not useful, then surely whining about its length is even less useful. Go debate a Znst somewhere.
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  1500.  @michaelarmijo2752  You're arguing colonialism is good?
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  1501.  @X2LR8  Do you just not grasp that we created international laws, ditched col-nialist projects, etc., because they weren't good things?
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  1502. ​ @abittwisted  You can't create social good? Like Civil Rights?
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  1503.  @mickelcsaszar3244  That's basically the definition of hypocrisy ... my people can do it, but you can't. A god's laws aren't objective. They're based on that god's subjectivity, and people just accept them as absolute. It's not all that different than any dictator .. anything they say is good is good, and anything they say is bad is bad. If they order genocide, it's good. If they say it's okay to own slaves, it's good. If they say those people are bad, they're bad. If they say doing X is bad, then doing X is bad. Etc. Etc. According to the book, he literally orders bashing people's heads in with rocks, if they do multiple other things wrong, and spits out over 600 laws about what to do, and what not to do. Ordering to bash someone's head in, for collecting firewood on a Saturday, but not ordering to bash someone's head in, for owning other people, seems morally bankrupt.
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  1504.  @arceusthomas2447  That's the annual mumps outbreaks in just the US, dimwit. You know something fun to do with anecdotes? Gathering them all together together to make actual statistics. What source? Like every source, from multiple countries.
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  1505.  @DonaldAJr  Apparently you're the one having a problem thinking. Simply asking for money isn't evidence of a grift. Charities have still been asking for money. A guy sitting in his garage with his wife and a couple friends can likely live quite comfortably off of just YouTube income. If you think that's equivalent to having 100+ employees, then you're not very bright. A requirement for being a grift is peddling a fraud, peddling bullshit. Who peddled the bullshit idea that those two completely not equivalent things are equivalent, to you? Dore actually brought up the Anna incident, first, in an earlier vid where he was making fun of an unnamed former female co-worker who wore short skirts. If he didn't want the actual details revealed, maybe he should have never mentioned it. Who peddled the bullshit idea that her simply making a statement equates to "blackmail"?
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  1506. ​ @adammockler  Hi Adam. Some MAGA, in another thread, tried praising him for his 2020 OPEC deal. Maybe do a bit reminding people what that deal actually was ... "President Donald Trump said the United States would cut its oil production to assist Mexico in keeping alive a deal between OPEC and other oil-producing countries to boost global oil prices." "cut its oil production" ... "to boost global oil prices" Maybe also remind them that domestic oil has been selling at the global market price since Reagan deregulated domestic oil way back in 1981.
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  1507. ​ @yitzhakspolter9551  The Nazholes didn't actually live inside ghettos. They even had Jewish administrators and police. They actually didn't like Germans being near them. They still occupied the ghettos.
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  1508.  @LazloVimes  You're ironic.
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  1509.  @LazloVimes  No, dumb dumb, I meant you're ironic ... making out like you're knowledgeable while proving yourself ignorant.
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  1510.  Derek Hitt  As a religious nut, he's literally just repeating things he's heard or read, getting a lot of his worldview from a single book.
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  1511.  @bobbun4369  Confederates didn't have to be charged and convicted, to be considered ineligible, dumb dumb. They were simply considered ineligible. 8 tried to challenge their ineligibility, in court, and all lost.
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  1512. @Aaron Dickson US Census Bureau Household Pulse Survey: Disparities by education level remained, with adults holding a bachelor’s degree or higher continuing to have the highest vaccination rate at 90.8%, and adults without a high school diploma having the lowest vaccination rate at 68.6%.
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  1513. @Aaron Dickson You said PhD graduates were amongst the lowest vaccinated group in America. The Census Bureau clearly puts them amongst the highest vaccinated group in America.
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  1514.  @eduardobibm  "Historians disputed her statement, including Cornell professor Lawrence Glickman and University of Arkansas professor Angie Maxwell. Princeton historian Kevin Kruse called Owens’ statements "utter nonsense."" https://www.politifact.com/punditfact/statements/2019/apr/10/candace-owens/candace-owens-pants-fire-statement-southern-strate/
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  1515.  @BarbaPamino  You seem to be the liar. SJHH patients admitted for COVID-19 48 SJHH patients admitted for other reasons but also COVID-19 positive 26 Total SJHH patients with COVID-19 74 Patients with COVID-19 in the ICU 15 Number of staff & physicians self-isolating at home 91* Overall Funded Acute Occupancy 94% ICU occupancy rate (over normal ICU bed complement) 93%
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  1516. Why would he pick someone who makes out like 2 part time "inspectors" (one wasn't even an official inspector and the other never left home base because he didn't finish training), working on a single inspection at a single site, debunks hundreds of accounts of Syrian chemical weapons use, since 2012?
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  1517. Lincoln too, and then Johnson reversed reparations for slaves, and instead gave reparations to slave owners, for their loss of "property".
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  1518.  @60andover-timetotrain-join89  Didn't avoid anything, dmwt. I put all the numbers down.
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  1519. ​ @theywouldnthavetocensormei9231  You missed the one where Vance said he wants the government to punish the "bad" (childless), by giving them less of a √°t€. 64% of the military is childless, btw.
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  1520.  @theywouldnthavetocensormei9231  "Let’s give v...s to all children in this country, but let’s give control over those v...s to the parents of the children." ~ JD Vance “we need to reward the things that we think are good and punish the things that we think are bad" ~ JD Vance ∆ He's the one who literally stated that he wants to "punish" them, dingus. It wasn't me who added "punish ", to describe something he suggested.
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  1521. ​ @NPC-bs3pm  Tariffs are designed to inhibit trade, dingus. The impact they will have is that they'll inhibit trade.
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  1522.  @ZooomaCW  You said a whole lot of nothing. You could have tried to list 10 good things Trump did, instead of blathering on, like that.
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  1523.  @DuderofDudeness  How does that quote promote any of the things you said, then, if you understand it? A group of stupid racists would be exactly who his quote would apply to.
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  1524. ​ @AndrewShepherdODAS  They don't know. They're all over the place. They say gender and visible biology must match, but they've been using masculine gender terminology to identify their sxlss g0d, for thousands of years. Alabama's SC rules life begins at fertilization. But that means we all start life sxlss (because no biological parts), or female (because only the mother's female X chromosome expresses for about the first 7 weeks). They say gender must match birth certificate sx, but then argue someone whose birth certificate says they're female is actually a male, because XY. They say men can't give birth, but then an XY Swyer Syndrome person, who can give birth, is then a woman. They say XY = man, but then some don't match birth certificates, are born with vjjs, can have monthlies, and can give birth.
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  1525. ​ @Mathis218337  What's "combative" about asking simple questions about Twitter policies? She couldn't give a straight answer to very basic questions. It was pathetic.
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  1526.  @KaiCross  Colonialism is aggression. Colonialists are never not the aggressors, when it comes to the native population.
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  1527. Moron. Socialist or fascist? Pick one. "Fascism is the complete opposite of Marxian socialism." ~ Mussolini The complete opposite of non authoritarian stateless socialism is authoritarian ultra-nationalistic crony capitalism, dumb dumb.
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  1528. Math doesn't change. Still a vote to let Trump win.
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  1529.  @unknownname8591  "In recent years, Canada’s arms sales to Israel have significantly increased with 315 export permits granted in 2022 along with military exports of $21,329,783. These figures do not include Canadian parts exported to the USA, which in turn are integrated into US military equipment such as F-35 aircraft supplied to the Israeli Defense Force (IDF)."
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  1530. Well, being in neutral isn't really regressive. You have to go in reverse, for that. Republicans want to go back to Puritan times, and Sinema has helped them. Supporting Israel is pretty much the stupid status quo. But, maybe you could say he regressed to being a standard Dem, from claiming to be a progressive one.
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  1531. ​ @GS-oo2vh  Not something Haiti is known for. If there are pets missing, maybe investigate whether there are any Swiss immigrants around. "Sep 8, 2023 — Yet, as of today, it is remains perfectly legal to eat your pet cat or dog in Switzerland – as long as you follow the rules of course."
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  1532.  @valrymlexeous6091  The facts are that Steven ran away.
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  1533.  @redtree8254  Nonsense. The government can require kids to be vaccinated to go to public school, and require immigrants be vaccinated. My war bride grandmother had a vaccine passport.
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  1534.  @thomascross8339  AOC and Bernie were on the ground fighting to add another M4A yes vote to congress, in Nina Turner. Getting enough yes votes in congress is the only possible way to ever pass a bill. It's the most important thing. Dore, on the other hand, abandoned Nina ... abandoned adding another yes vote to congress. Pelosi introduced the bill, again (she did last session, as well). It's sitting in committees. Maybe pressure and protest the committee members sitting on the bill, instead of pressuring and protesting people who have done more for M4A in a few years than Dore has in his entire lifetime?
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  1535. There was a border crossing spike in 2019, that Republicans completely ignored. And this wave started back before September. Averaged out, Trump had more border crossings per year than Obama.
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  1536.  @clintholmes2061  Shouldn't you be over on right wing Rumble, watching Jimmy Dore and Glenn Greenwald earning their Peter Thiel CIA money?
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  1537.  @craigcrawford6595  The book, literally, describes him and his followers owning and sharing everything communally. They organized themselves as commies.
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  1538.  @craigcrawford6595  It is a perfect example of what Marx considered primitive tribal communism, where everyone in the tribe equally owned and shared pretty much everything.
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  1539. Putin's nickname is "The Butcher of Grozny", ffs. I thought he was proud to be a killer.
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  1540.  @chrisjacobsen1659  The mumps vaccine has an 88% efficacy rate. So, let's say you have a community of 1000 vaccinated kids. If someone brings mumps into the community, the vaccine could fail for about 120 kids, and you'll have a little outbreak. An unvaccinated kid has much higher odds of introducing mumps into that community, and causing such an outbreak. You're arguing that herd immunity is useless.
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  1541. It's not a matter of opinion. You're just wrong.
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  1542. How the hell do you flip short term monetary gains into long term thinking, and the long term health of the planet into short term thinking? That's whack.
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  1543.  Don Martin  What mistakes, exactly? Not purging enough capitalists and religious nutters?
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  1544. Your parents not have the talk with you, yet?
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  1545. ​ @ph6794  Homosexuality has never been illegal in Turkey. It was decriminalized in the West Bank in 1950, under Jordan law, where it was also decriminalized. If you're talking strictly Gaza and Hamas, I'm sure all the dead closeted gays, and women, super appreciate their "liberation".
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  1546. There are pictures of him, and his black Jamaican family. He wrote an article about his lifelong Christianity. It would take you 2 min, to not sound like a total maroon.
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  1547.  @mpgallogly  And, on top of what @longliverocknroll5 said, also a protection that was already in place in multiple bigger provinces. He was making a big todo about it simply being extended to smaller provinces. He also lived and worked in one of those provinces that already had the protection, for a few years. From multiple provinces, over multiple years, he couldn't provide a single example of the slippery slope nonsense he blathered about.
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  1548. Mayor Cheat
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  1549. Bernie also wants to require employers to convert their share of healthcare ($10k per employee on average) into wages or equivalent benefits.
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  1550.  @johnq8552  Nobody ran on threatening to paralyze the house. AOC helped add a few more yes votes to congress. She was just on the ground in Ohio trying to help add one more. You know getting enough yes votes is the only way to ever possibly pass a bill, right? If you don't consider adding numbers to be fighting for it, then you're cuckoo for cocoa puffs. Weird. Progressives got the $15 to stay in for a round of voting. It actually passed the house, which they belong to, and got a senate vote, as well. After making out, for weeks, like getting a vote on an important progressive policy, and getting a list of no voters, would be some massive accomplishment, Dore and his knobs completely flipped, acted like getting a vote on the $15 was useless, and have done absolutely nothing with the list of no voters, except keep bitching about those who voted for it. Insane.
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  1551.  voi vod  He's trying to have millions of valid votes tossed out, and steal an election. Republican judges chastised his legal team over it.
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  1552. ​ @joepeay6986  Senate: Nov 29, 2022 — Mitch McConnell and Ted Cruz are among the 36 senators who voted against a bill to protect interracial and same-sex marriage. House: Dec 8, 2022 — The Respect for Marriage Act seeks to protect same-sex and interracial marriage. 169 Republicans voted against.
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  1553.  @AnnoyingCritic-is7rp  Toronto is nowhere near Montreal, dingus. They bussed because Berkley was segregated, dingus.
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  1554.  @bodhisattva3774  She started a new progressive PAC, and used it to back 20 other progressives against establishment backed candidates, helping to add a few more progressive votes to congress, and helping remove a few more corporate Dems. She was just campaigning for Nina Turner, trying to do it again. Her office has recently helped tens of thousands of her constituents with rent relief and disaster relief. She seems to be both helping her constituents and still fighting the establishment. But hey, she switched a symbolic vote from "nay" to "present", neither of which helps a bill pass ... the horror!
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  1555. AOC, Omar, Bowman, Mondaire, and Jimmy Gomez, also took shifts keeping her company, and giving her little breaks.
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  1556. That's like saying the Nazis had a right to defend themselves from a ghetto uprising.
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  1557. He's not "far left". Ancap Boogaloos went to BLM protests.
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  1558.  @DannyD-lr5yg  He went down that route as he was grifting for his daughter's all meat diet, claiming it cured depression and anxiety, and that people could even stop medicating for those things. Who knows how many people he harmed, as it was all obviously bullshit.
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  1559.  @2727rogers  That's how grifts work. They say they support one thing, but then what they propose doing about it actually doesn't get you that thing. There's no indication Dore actually cares about getting anyone healthcare coverage. When it gets down to it, he always seems to back the worst healthcare option. The most popular third party hasn't won a single seat in congress in its near 50 year existence. The most popular progressive third party hasn't won a single seat in its 20 year existence. There are actually some 50 third parties, nationwide. In what reality does going third party benefit progressives? At best, let's say you magically get the party popular enough to get all progressive votes. Now, you've split progressive and Dem votes in the general, and handed more seats in congress, and handed the presidency, to Republicans. How does that benefit progressives?
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  1560. Already did once.
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  1561. @Ivan Snyder Don't blame the people making or selling meth, just the ones using meth?
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  1562. Likud's bloody 100 year history ... In 1923, 100 years ago, Ze'ev Jabotinsky wrote, The Iron Wall, and a follow up, The Ethics of The Iron Wall (sooo racist towards Africans), in which he fully acknowledged that post Balfour Zionsim was colonialism, and that, based on the entirety of history, the native Palestinian population would resist being colonized until the bitter end. He directly compared it to the colonization of North America. He promoted doing it anyway, claiming Zionist colonialism was a "just" colonialism (he also thought North American colonialists were good guys, so not a great judge of morality), not caring what that meant for the native population. Ze'ev is important, because his Betar militant youth group helped found the Irgun terrorist group, along with other supporters of his, and the splinter Lehi terrorist group. The Irgun bombed numerous Palestinian markets and other public places, murdering many Palestinian civilians, including children, even including Palestinian Jews (who didn't support colonialist Zionsim). The Irgun are important, because they ended up being led by future Likud PM, Menachem Begin, who bombed the King David Hotel. The King David Hotel was bombed because the British had raided the Jewish Agency and seized numerous documents that may have shown that the terrorists were working with the JA and Haganah (JA liked to pretend that they didn't support the terrorism). The British then stored those documents at their base, in the hotel. That the Irgun terrorists responded to a JA raid, itself seems to prove the connection. That the thousands of Irgun (and Lehi) terrorists were also quickly merged into the new nation's military (IDF) and intelligence (Mossad) agencies, and are still celebrated as "heroes" by Israelis, to this day, also seems to support total collaboration between the groups. That other terrorist group mentioned, Lehi (also known as the Stern Gang), was considered even more extreme. They even tried to ally with the Nazis, against the British. Lehi ended up being led by Yitzhak Shamir, future Mossad agent, and another future Likud PM. They assassinated Lord Moyne, and others. In 1945, there was a major land and peoples survey done in Palestine. It showed that the Zionists only owned about 5% of the total land, 20% of the arable land, and owned a majority in zero districts. The partition was not only going to be forced on the native Palestinian majority, but Jews were still going to be a minority, in the part allocated to them. The only possible way to even become a "Jewish state" was going to require getting rid of the actual majority (at least enough so that there'd be a solid Jewish majority, so they could fake being democratic). This is also shown by the 1948, post Nakba, population of Israel. If there was 716,700 Jews, 156,000+ non-Jews, and approximately 700k non-Jews ethnically cleansed, that means the Jewish population, in the Zionist portion of partition, was originally over 100,000 less than the non-Jewish population. To believe that there was never any intent, by Zionists, to ethnically cleanse away the Palestinian majority would require believing that they never intended to create a "Jewish state". It's a nonsensical notion. Begin, and those terrorist groups, also opposed partition, but for the opposite reason Palestinians did. Palestinians didn't want to be colonized, at all. The terrorists wanted to colonize it all. "Moderate" Zionists were okay with colonizing half ... for now (what would happen in the future, after partition, was up to them, said Ben-Gurion). The Zionist terrorists were also involved in massacres, and assassinations, during the partition violence (colonialist war against the natives). Another notable future Likud PM, also started in the military, during the partition fighting. That was Ariel Sharon, war criminal, "Butcher of Beirut". Menachem Begin, and these other Zionist terrorists, are important because they became involved in Israeli politics, first forming Herut. That was the party that Albert Einstein, and other prominent American Jews, opposed, having a letter printed in the NYT, in December of 1948, when Begin came to visit the US. The letter opened ... "Among the most disturbing political phenomena of our times is the emergence in the newly created state of Israel of the "Freedom Party" (Tnuat Haherut), a political party closely akin in its organization, methods, political philosophy and social appeal to the Nazi and Fascist parties. It was formed out of the membership and following of the former Irgun Zvai Leumi, a terrorist, right-wing, chauvinist organization in Palestine." Herut merged with other extremist parties, over the years, and eventually became Likud, in the 70s. Now, people get upset over the slogan "From the river to the sea!", but it's the second part that's most important, "Palestine will be free!". Because "Palestine" isn't defined as an ethno-state, a free Palestine can be a single state, free for all to live in, and return to, free of continuing colonization, free of occupation, free of oppression, etc. Just like a Germany free of Nazism, an Italy free of fascism, a South Africa free of apartheid, or an America free of slavery from sea to shiny sea. It doesn't necessitate purging all the Jews. It just necessitates them giving up on the idea of an ethno-state. On the other hand, because "Israel" has been defined as an ethno-state, Likud's, "between the sea and the Jordan there will only be Israeli sovereignty", has no possible good interpretation. It is a declaration of intent to completely colonize, and ethnically cleanse, all Palestine territories. Not only that, but it also claims that they have a "right" to all of the "Land of Israel" (biblical borders that don't mesh with archaeological reality), which is an open declaration of future wars, against Jordan, Syria, Lebanon, and possibly even Iraq. Likud platform ... 1977: "The Right of the Jewish People to the Land of Israel (Eretz Israel) a. The right of the Jewish people to the land of Israel is eternal and indisputable and is linked with the right to security and peace; therefore, Judea and Samaria will not be handed to any foreign administration; between the Sea and the Jordan there will only be Israeli sovereignty. b. A plan which relinquishes parts of western Eretz Israel, undermines our right to the country, unavoidably leads to the establishment of a "Palestinian State," jeopardizes the security of the Jewish population, endangers the existence of the State of Israel. and frustrates any prospect of peace." "Settlement Settlement. both urban and rural. in all parts of the Land of Israel is the focal point of the Zionist effort to redeem the country, to maintain vital security areas and serves as a reservoir of strength and inspiration for the renewal of the pioneering spirit. The Likud government will call on the younger generation in Israel and the dispersions to settle and help every group and individual in the task of inhabiting and cultivating the wasteland, while taking care not to dispossess anyone." 1999: "The Government of Israel flatly rejects the establishment of a Palestinian Arab state west of the Jordan river. The Palestinians can run their lives freely in the framework of self-rule, but not as an independent and sovereign state. Thus, for example, in matters of foreign affairs, security, immigration, and ecology, their activity shall be limited in accordance with imperatives of Israel's existence, security and national needs." "The Jewish communities in Judea, Samaria, and Gaza are the realization of Zionist values. Settlement of the land is a clear expression of the unassailable right of the Jewish people to the Land of Israel and constitutes an important asset in the defense of the vital interests of the State of Israel. The Likud will continue to strengthen and develop these communities and will prevent their uprooting." All Palestine territories are officially considered occupied, by the International Court of Justice, the UN GA, the UN SC, and even in official documents of Israel's own allies. Likud is still using the blueprint for colonizing North America, in the West Bank. Move settlements out into native territory, piss off the natives, the natives retaliate, cry about poor "innocent" colonizing settlers being the "victims" of violent "Savages!", call in the cavalry to put down the native uprising, and eventually expand the borders to include those settlements. Rinse and repeat. In Gaza, Israel is operating an open air WWII style fascist ghetto. Them claiming a "right to defend themselves" would be like the Nazis claiming a "right to defend themselves " from the Warsaw ghetto uprising. There's no "war". That they're the occupiers means the "war" part is long over. Those people are actually supposed to be under the occupier's protection. That partition was forced upon the Palestinian majority, against their will ... that the Zionist portion still had to be forcefully ethnically cleansed of its non-Jewish majority, against their will ... that the millions of occupied Palestinians don't have a say in the government that truly rules over them, Israel's ... means Israel is about as democratic as Nazi Germany after Hitler purged his political opponents and then held elections.
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  1563.  @luchi.el.zorrito  Every other country in the world got the same info out of China and the WHO, dumb dumb. Every country had the same starting point. If the US had responded even in a mediocre fashion, like Canada, that would translate into about 400k fewer deaths. If they had responded in an amazing fashion, like S Korea, that would translate to under 10k deaths. The US response sucked ass.
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  1564.  @H4I2I2EE  Millenials are the, "USA! USA! We're #1! We're #1!", crowd?
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  1565. He's a centrist, dummy. The countries that consistently get ranked at the top for happiness, freedom, and overall well being, are centrist countries, not socialist countries.
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  1566. Don't listen to Ryan and dam... Huxley was a scientist, above all else. He saw the scientific method in picking apples at the market. The agnosticism he defined was a belief in that scientific method, and it amounted to a form of demarcation. No objective testable evidence = a subjective unfalsifiable claim. Results: unscientific and inconclusive. No belief as to the truth, or falsehood, of the claim. It is not compatible with athe-ism, the belief gods do not exist, or the-ism, the belief gods do exist. “I say, strive earnestly to learn something, not only of the results, but of the methods of science, and then apply those methods to all statements which offer themselves for your belief. If they will not stand that test, they are nought, let them come with what authority they may.” "Agnosticism is of the essence of science, whether ancient or modern. It simply means that a man shall not say he knows or believes that which he has no scientific grounds for professing to know or believe." He outright considered it "immoral" to form beliefs about objective truth claims without any objective evidence. So, no, not compatible with believing gods exist, or don't exist. "That which Agnostics deny and repudiate, as immoral, is the contrary doctrine, that there are propositions which men ought to believe, without logically satisfactory evidence; and that reprobation ought to attach to the profession of disbelief in such inadequately supported propositions." And, no, he didn't define it as some oxymoronic gnostic agnosticism that claims to know something is eternally unknowable or claims to know that nobody else knows either. "The extent of the region of the uncertain, the number of the problems the investigation of which ends in a verdict of not proven, will vary according to the knowledge and the intellectual habits of the individual Agnostic. I do not very much care to speak of anything as “unknowable.” What I am sure about is that there are many topics about which I know nothing; and which, so far as I can see, are out of reach of my faculties. But whether these things are knowable by any one else is exactly one of those matters which is beyond my knowledge, though I may have a tolerably strong opinion as to the probabilities of the case. Relatively to myself, I am quite sure that the region of uncertainty–the nebulous country in which words play the part of realities –is far more extensive than I could wish."
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  1567.  @justaguy6100  Oh, his audience will be getting smaller, with about 85% of deaths being unvaccinated.
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  1568. People have to operate in the environment they exist in, dimwit.
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  1569.  @michaelmaisonneuve  She's an M4A cosponser (and fighting for lower drug prices is part of it), she voted for the $15, she has voted for getting out of conflicts, wasn't one of the 300 who just signed a letter declaring unconditional support for Israel, etc. But, yeah, keep whining about the ones that are likely closest to your own political views. You must be a Dore knob.
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  1570.  @IV_97  Right, so they care more about bullshit than they care about working people and their struggles. Are you just concerned the op said they don't care, at all? And it is bullshit, because they aren't protesting IVF, which ends up not using a ton of fertilized eggs, on top of the many that don't take, killing them. Plus, studies now show that the majority of pregnancies end in spontaneous abortions (miscarriages), so they're actually worshipping a being that, if existed, aborts the majority of pregnancies. They don't actually believe embryos and newborns are samesies. They don't actually believe aborting embryos and fetuses is objectively wrong.
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  1571.  @allhopeabandon7831  Pretty sure it was the 7th doctor who tanked the series. It went off the air for 16 years. Also pretty sure that the vast majority of developing and undeveloped countries are pretty capitalist, and pretty much every other developed country can, at least, pull off socialized health insurance, just fine. Some even pull off free college, massive unionization rates, nationalizing some resources, and more, all without tanking.
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  1572.  @BeautifulEarthJa  Oh right, I forgot about the Soros funded homeless Antifa army. lol
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  1573. ​ @vivalaleta  Literally what the video is about.
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  1574. Oh, Sam started in 2016. Still waiting for the moon to fall into Lake Michigan, which Dore claimed was as likely as Trump filling multiple scotus seats, in their 2016 debate.
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  1575.  @aliamjon2550  If the issue is really being "replaced", then it shouldn't matter how or where they come from, you should be against it. Is that the issue, or not?
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  1576. Joe Rogan "kitchen sink": $2000+ per dose monoclonal antibodies.
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  1577.  @darkliter7  Don't worry, it will provide you with free mental health care.
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  1578.  @alabamaman1684  Yeah, that's not true.
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  1579. Luke Skywalker also wasn't a woman, in the latest Star Wars movies. I don't think he was relying on facts.
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  1580.  @dickdrapper5491  Rofl. Conservative religious types have been cancelling things for centuries, ffs. You think the earth isn't the center of the universe?! Cancelled!!
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  1581.  @iblus2225  The polio vaccine was being given to millions of children within a couple years of development. Yeah, Pfizer was fined for marketing a drug for something it wasn't approved for, kind of like idiots peddling Ivermectin for something it wasn't approved for. The vaccines were approved for covid. And? Israel's covid deaths per million would translate into about 300k US covid deaths, instead of going on 900k. What's your point?
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  1582.  @Dylanbolton69  Jamie is great, but her timing is off, when it comes to cutting in on Sam. So often you see her about to say something, but she doesn't jump in fast enough, before Sam gets going again, and she stays quiet. Emma is good at jumping in.
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  1583.  @smartass0124  Hey, dumb dumb, when one guy convinces tens of millions of people not to believe any media, any politicians, any election officials, any judges, any lawyers, any law enforcement, any doctors, any nurses, any scientists ... anybody ... even convinces them not to believe their own lying eyes, if any of those disagrees with Supreme Leader ... then it's a cult.
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  1584. Jr was dumb enough to get away with conspiracy.
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  1585. ​ @annast9172  These ones? "When the Israelis left Gaza, half of the greenhouses were dismantled by their owners before leaving because they doubted they would receive compensation.[12] Afterwards Palestinians looted the area, and 800 of 4,000 greenhouses were left unusable,[13][14] while, according to Wolfensohn, most were left intact.[15] Subsequently, the harvest, intended for export via Israel for Europe, was lost due to the Israeli restrictions on the Karni crossing which "was closed more than not", leading to losses in excess of $120,000 per day.[15] Economic consultants estimated that the closures cost the agricultural sector in Gaza $450,000 a day.[16] Israel closed the crossing citing security concerns."
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  1586.  @BobbyJenko  Typed it out once, then copy pasted for the past few months.
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  1587. Obama's last budget ran through most of 2017. The stock market is, now, at about the same place it was when Trump's first budget started, his tax breaks kicked in, and he started his trade wars. So much winning.
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  1588.  @cfrey1988  There's a fairly broad consensus that as many people as possible, including school kids, is needed to reach herd immunity. And, the counties that don't want to vaccinate school kids (or adults for that matter) are also anti-mask counties. They're nutbars.
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  1589.  @aliamjon2550  Bullshit. Studies going back decades to when surgeons first started using cloth masks show they reduce the spread of germs. You morons keep thinking they're to protect the wearer, instead of to protect others from the wearer.
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  1590.  @wvu05  Yang should have been absolutely trashed by all media. As someone who has been paying a VAT for 30 years and operated a VAT registered business, I can tell you that he has zero clue how a VAT actually works. Unfortunately, I don't think many Americans in the media, mainstream or independent, know themselves exactly how it works.
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  1591.  @AG-lm5uf  Dore admitted to the harrassment, ffs, and you Dore knobs clearly don't know what "blackmail" is.
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  1592.  @AG-lm5uf  Wrong. What he described, and admitted to, was harrassment.
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  1593. ​ @zoeherriot  JFK is dead.
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  1594. It's a crazy ruling. Congress never had to make any new rulings to disqualify each Confederate candidate. Like 14A, S3, clearly says, congress is only needed to remove an individual's ineligibility.
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  1595.  @homelesspolitician1623  All her siblings were documented refugees, and came to the US, with her parents. There's zero evidence he was a brother that they what ... just left behind? Parents, or siblings, could have easily sponsored him, if he actually was their sibling/child. There's also no motive for marrying a sibling. Then the guy went back to the UK. There's not even evidence the desperately wanted to be an American citizen. You're spewing trash.
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  1596.  @gnubbiersh647  No clue how he got a philosophy degree. He doesn't have a very good grasp on basics, like objectivity vs subjectivity, or morals vs laws. The Bible is the best selling book of all time. Tucker Carlson was the most watched man on tv. Trump will likely be the Republican nominee. Jordan Peterson and Joe Rogan are popular. So, what's your point? There are a lot of stupid people out there, consuming moronic crap.
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  1597. Republicans wouldn't have any problem if the word "Catholic" was replaced with "Muslim".
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  1598.  @brothersandsistersofvalhalla  By your "logic", CRT must be correct, because some people are trying to ban it. LGBT books must be correct, because some people are trying to ban them. Abortion must be okay, since some people are trying to ban it. Etc. Etc. Etc.
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  1599. ​ @dr.wolfstar1765 😂 You're not serious, right?
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  1600.  @aliamjon2550  While lying about numbers, and lying about southern border crossings only now surging under Biden. They jumped back up to pre-Obama numbers in 2019.
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  1601. I think he means needing to restore the action of having to filibuster. The US has now implemented a lazy man's filibuster, where you no longer need to do anything. Republicans couldn't block things forever, if they were required to actually talk forever.
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  1602. Graham knows this is the inquiry/investigation phase, and not the trial phase. He's spouting pure bullshit, for their moron followers to eat up.
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  1603. Making Shapiro look tough isn't a thing.
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  1604. Venezuela has a 70% private sector economy. Its economy tanked when oil prices tanked. Even Saudi, whose economy also relies heavily on oil sales, had troubles, but had more savings to fall back on. The "Venezuela!!!" boogeyman is largely bullshit.
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  1605. Do tell.
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  1606.  @keithlilly6242  "more religious" contradicts "nothing wrong at all" Also, colonialists are never not the aggressors. They wouldn't be able to be "attacked" if they weren't there doing their own aggression (colonialism) first.
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  1607. ​ @barbiquearea  That's like saying if I was good buds with Kim Jong Un, I'd get great treatment in North Korea, since that fund is used mainly for friends of the royal family. Assuming you're not best buds with the royal family, Saudi or Vietnam?
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  1608. ​ @JoePackJoeNC  The deal to reduce oil production, to raise oil prices? Yeah, that was so awesome.🙄
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  1609.  Ashwin Varghese  Rofl. How did people who hadn't lived there in almost 2000 years still count as "natives"? That's like saying my descendants have a right to go claim half of the British Isles, in another 1500 years, because they're "natives". Stupidity has many logical flaws.
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  1610. ​ @ryanhubbard1885  Why do you cite processes and rules, if someone doesn't have to follow any process or rules, and can do whatever they want?
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  1611.  @xinjiangstan1233  Are they being "slandered as oppressors", or are they actually oppressors? You appeared to have been defending the notion that it's slander to call occupiers, colonizers, ethnic cleansers, "oppressors". The US has sanctioned Pakistan a number of times. How many times has Israel been sanctioned?
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  1612. Do more crossovers. It's good seeing you on other channels. I think Sam got a few hundred thousand new subs with the Crowder "nightmare".
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  1613.  @theboss4359  "rather than pushing for an end to g-word" Soooo, continuously calling for a ceasefire ... an end to the g-word ... for 7 months, isn't doing that? Her, and others, putting forward bills, and writing letters to the man, isn't doing that? Seems like you're expecting the impossible. If you think a third party can win, or think Trump is better ... 🤪
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  1614. ​ @lindag4544  Yes. It seems crazy to suggest indigenous people can "replace" people who came to the Americas after them.
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  1615. And Donnie used to pretend he was Swedish ... then suddenly he was German.
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  1616. He should be archived for that.
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  1617. WW is also Larson's favourite, so not a burn at all.
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  1618. ​ @playstationmultiverse6791  The "Canadian identity"? Would that be the French, English, Scottish, Irish, German, Chinese, Native, ... ? What do you mean? The "Canadian identity" has always been that of mixing cultures?
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  1619.  @markzuckergecko621  On top of not being very bright, and being a hypocrite, you seem to have severe reading comprehension problems. I didn't actually personally call you a fascist anywhere. I asked if you were one of them.
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  1620.  @CaBdosdos  What do you think your "fix" changed? The majority of undocumented aliens are visa overstays. The largest group of people who overstay visas are Canadians. The "illegal" doesn't change the fact that you're focusing on the "brown people".
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  1621. That bill didn't even really alter the steadily increasing rate at which people were being arrested and imprisoned. That rate started spiking in the early 80s, when Reagan pumped 10x more money into the "war on drugs", and kept the same trajectory for over a decade.
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  1622.  @timtpr7104  Oh boy, a plan to get a 100% guaranteed to fail performance art vote, by paralyzing the house ... delaying new covid relief, new unemployment extension, new vaccine funding ... during a pandemic, if they don't do what you want. You Dore knobs know that Pelosi introduced the M4A bill just last session, right, and it died in the committees Jimmy doesn't think are important. Where was the pressure on committee members to take up the bill? She has already reintroduced the bill this session. Where is the pressure on committee members to take up the bill? Progressives did get the $15 to stay in for a round of voting, it actually passed the house (M4A didn't have a chance in hell) and also got a senate vote. Suddenly, just getting a vote on an important progressive policy wasn't worth anything to Dore knobs. Suddenly, getting a list of no voters wasn't worth anything to Dore knobs. Just keep bitching about, and slandering, the most progressive members of congress.
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  1623. That "brick wall" account for 75-90% of current deaths, and 89x more hospitalizations. They're killing people and overworking hospitals.
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  1624. Ummm, those homes aren't, and were never, considered the "affordable housing" part of the project, ffs. And, the project now continues on, but defaulting to no property allocated for affordable housing. Chappelle didn't threaten to withdraw his money to stop the project altogether, only to stop the allocation of property to affordable housing.
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  1625. ​ @judeless77  No such thing as absolute free speech. Defamation isn't covered.
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  1626.  @shanabell8603  The video is called "Are COVID Death Rates WILDLY Inflated?", you dimwitted Dore knob, and he very clearly compares a total population hospitalization rate to a case fatality rate, instead of to the covid crude mortality rate. The only one lying here, is you.
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  1627.  @brandonlehmann8899  Will learning any of your 'whatabout those other people' history change the fact that white men running federal, state, and local, governments, stripped black Americans of any rights? Will it change the fact that the majority of white citizens in slave owning states voted to keep slavery for almost 100 more years after independence? Will it change the fact that the Confederates enshrined owning black people into their constitution? Will it change the fact that the majority of white citizens in those former slave owning states then voted for segregation for another 100 years? Will it change the fact that all the politicians from those states voted against Civil Rights? Will it change the fact that all those majority racist voters, who had been voting for racism for almost 200 years, became disgruntled with Northern Democrats for passing Civil Rights and started voting for Republicans who were pandering to their racism? Will it change the fact that millions of black Americans migrated out of those majority racist states to less racist states, joined the Northern Democrats, have the most representation within that party? Will it change the fact that some of those former slave states still have Confederate 'Heroes" Days, still use Confederate symbols, still memorializing Confederate racists who were willing to kill and die for the "right" to own and abuse other human beings?
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  1628.  @thewhiterabbit498  Rofl. PV are proven frauds, in court.
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  1629. Their selfishness is literally why they want to break up the budget. So, they can fund things like their military and defund things like social programs.
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  1630. ​ @susankeith326  Seems he may have lied on his application. He spent some time as an illegal immigrant.
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  1631.  @larshofler8298  Except they never were "public". They were always private clubs, with rules you agree to, to join the club. Simply being large doesn't magically make them "public". Who owns them is what makes them public, or not public. Would you like to see them publicly owned and operated, so they are actually "public"?
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  1632.  @Spsuperstar  Other than the tens of thousands of documented lies. The Trump "university" fraud. The breaking of gaming laws with daddy. His blatant admission to avoiding taxes. His cheating on all his wives. His bullshit claim of being self made, with a little loan. Etc. Etc. Etc. Etc.
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  1633. ​ @jaybeemhardscrote7466  Use the primaries to vote for what you want. If what you want makes it through, then great, do the same in the general. If not, use the general to vote for the least amount of damage.
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  1634.  @powbobs  Ah, you doing the third party thing? The one that hasn't won a single seat in its 50 year existence, or the one that hasn't won a single seat in its 25 year existence? Such a noble deed, letting Dumpty win.
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  1635. Hrrrmmm, should we still be actively doing colonialism? Such a tough question. Should we be operating open air WWII style fascist ghettos? Another tough one. Should we intentionally kill civilians? I thought Israel already answered "no", to that ... or does that just apply when it happens to them?
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  1636. If there's a nursing shortage, then not enough citizens are training for those jobs, and she's not taking anyone's job.
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  1637.  @whyamimrpink78  And nothing you've shown proves that's not the case. The US also has people dying while waiting, on top of all their other problems.
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  1638.  @juliusebola9389  Are they calling to close the Southern boarder and not the Northern boarder? If so, then they're probably racist, just like when they don't attempt to round up illegal Canadians and toss them into prisons.
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  1639. ​ @williecatch9  But she's not a viable option. You might as well write in your pet's name.
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  1640.  @therealSteveMack  To be honest, everyone usually goes by the associated press call, and if Trump wanted an election night call, that's exactly what he originally wanted. He didn't come out and say the election won't be officially called until December.
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  1641. Trump has already admitted, in a round about way, that he's incompetent. He accused Biden and Obama of being incompetent, regarding their handling of the flu. Not only has Trump overseen the worst flu season in 40 years, himself, covid deaths are obviously many times higher than death rates he's claiming are evidence of others' incompetence.
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  1642. ​ @seanmccartney5177  Yes, Spencer is sickening. But, I guess "fine people" show up to rallies he organizes, and hang out with people like him, Duke, and those sporting Nzi flags.
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  1643. Yang has always been on the side of corporations. He's bullshitting Americans, telling them a VAT will tax corporations like Amazon, when a VAT is specifically designed to NOT tax them. If you don't have Amazon pay into the UBI, since their share of US consumer spending is 2%, handing consumers $3t will only make Amazon an extra $60b a year. That'd make Bezos something like $6b extra a year, far more than he'd ever personally pay into a VAT. His "plan"would make giant corporations and the super rich even richer, and increase wealth inequality, while leaving some very poor people worse off. He's not a progressive. He's skipping the things other countries do to make corporations pay in, like the things Bernie is proposing. "a consumption tax because it is borne ultimately by the final consumer. It is not a charge on businesses." https://ec.europa.eu/taxation_customs/business/vat/what-is-vat_en "Final consumers are not entitled to such credits, which means that they pay all the GST on every item purchased. The GST is thus a multi-stage tax on final consumption." http://publications.gc.ca/Collection-R/LoPBdP/BP/prb0003-e.htm#A.%20Taxing%20Mechanism(txt) Even Amazon, who he falsely claims a VAT will tax, has their own tutorial page on "How VAT works in Europe" and "How to claim back VAT", proving him to be a liar. https://services.amazon.co.uk/services/vat-resources.html
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  1644. What have they delivered for their voters?
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  1645. ​ @TheRedStateBlue  History, and even current events, "started" on Oct 7!
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  1646. Objectivity makes no decisions, has no opinions. It is subjectivity that forms opinions and makes decisions. No matter how much Shapiro wants to be a robot, or Harris wants to be permanently comatose, they can't change that fact.
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  1647.  @Crayolapup  Resisting arrest can be a misdemeanor. Shouldn't come with a death sentence (or an attempted one). You guys seem to be arguing that these 3 cops are just too weak to subdue one guy. They shouldn't be cops, if that's the case.
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  1648.  @Disaletteritis  These are far right loons, who represent less than 1% of Canada's hundreds of thousands of commercial freight vehicles. They have been denounced by the Canadian Trucking Alliance and the Canadian Teamsters. By blockading entry points, they caused shortages, that put thousands of people out of work, and will likely affect prices, both of which hurt the working class, and the poor, most. They're led by former picket line busters, who also harassed native protesters. They're pathetic losers "fighting" to have Canadians hospitalized and dying at a 3x higher rate, like the US. Workers fought for decades for health and safety standards, so the owners couldn't force them to take unnecessary risks. Nothing about this is for workers. It's purely about the self interests of lunatics. They're self centered spoiled brats, having a temper tantrum, because they're afraid of a little needle.
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  1649. ​ @peacefuljourney4994  You're not into charging people for attempted crimes? Or, you don't think trying to overthrow the democratic process is a crime?
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  1650.  @Starcrash6984  Treason is the only crime listed in the constitution. If it can be ignored, can other parts be ignored?
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  1651. Trump did it. Did Ben make a video about it?
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  1652. @Collective Sigh Well, right wing revolutionaries aren't very bright, and tend to have their standoffs out in the middle of nowhere, where they can be easily shot or blown up, without too much worry about collateral damage. Not sure they're the most capable.
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  1653. They should move him into Trump Plaza, quick, and he can go out with a real bang.
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  1654.  @michaelbarquero6079  Deflecting to a baker, doesn't address what I said, about something you said.
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  1655. ​ @Tetrahfy  4. Unemployment was already on the trajectory it remained on, when Trump became president. Blk unemployment dropped below 5%, for the first time, under Biden.
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  1656. Stop spouting bullshit. Influenza numbers are at normal levels, in the US, on top of covid numbers. You want to be like Sweden, do you? Sweden is in the top 20 for covid deaths per capita. Sweden has 5-10x more deaths per capita than its neighbours. Sweden is currently breaking its already shit daily records from the first wave. Seriously, why do you people want more deaths? Why not aim for being like Vietnam, rather than another stupid top 20 country?
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  1657.  @ramonalfaro3252  He's obnoxious and regularly wrong.
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  1658. ​@John-PaulHunt-wy7lf Sam Harris is an ignoramus.
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  1659.  @whyamimrpink78  And you just dismissed tens of thousands of people dying, without even saying, yeah that's something we need to work on. I don't buy that you give a crap, at all.
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  1660. He's looking at the possibility of numerous charges and a lot of jail time, once he's out of office, so he might try staying in any which way he can.
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  1661.  @markg.7865  Except Trump publicly stated that Rudy wasn't working for him. He was working on his own. That should bar him from Presidential protection and attorney client privilege, if he wasn't actually working for his client. https://www.vanityfair.com/news/2019/11/donald-trump-rudy-giuliani-acted-alone
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  1662.  @MrRedsjack  What kind of nonsense are you spouting? The term "Nazi" has been used since the 1920s. Please tell me you're not one of those morons who think it's actually a form of socialism, so insist on saying "socialism" as much as possible.
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  1663.  @routineforputin1720  No. A lack of unions is the origin of the minimum wage. If most businesses were unionized, there'd be no need for it.
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  1664.  @yuothineyesasian  You know people pull knives in other countries, right? https://www.cnn.com/videos/world/2015/07/31/man-knife-attacks-cops-uk-orig.cnn But, still, police elsewhere aren't quite so cowardly and trigger happy. https://www.statista.com/statistics/1124039/police-killings-rate-selected-countries/
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  1665.  @tonyfat2458  There's an even higher survival rate for driving. You should still wear a seatbelt, not drive 100 mph in the city, and if you're drunk not drive at all. Moron Trump is currently driving drunk, at high speed, without a seatbelt.
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  1666.  @theangryquad3127  So? 4 years ago, Trump was just a spoiled brat, fake billionaire, and reality tv show host.
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  1667.  @russwhite7715  Well, as long as you are fine ...
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  1668.  @freeassange5667  Do you not know how antibodies work? They don't provide a force field, with the virus bouncing off of you. They actually go to work when you get the virus. So, yeah, that is how "immunity" properly works.
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  1669. If the shoe was on the other foot, I'd also like to see the court cases be based on actual evidence, and not just wasting time with nonsense. I mean, they took the stupid online sharpie conspiracy to court, like morons.
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  1670. It's specifically this man, who claims traditional masculinity isn't toxic, and that traditional hierarchies are simply because men are better at some things, while crying about a social hierarchy created by such traditional masculinity.
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  1671.  @aSimpleTailor  Because the majority wanted a single state solution, but that wasn't the Zionists.
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  1672. ​ @squeallymaniac  What a load of nonsense. The guy has been campaigning for an office, and been in an office, for decades. It's more likely all a blur of decades of doing similar stuff.
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  1673.  MidScream1  For being ignorant, like you.
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  1674.  @yanyannyaany  Florida got all the crony capitalist fascists from Cuba, too.
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  1675.  @alabamaman5994  I don't know. You not even addressing what was said, and thinking you made an intelligent reply, is pretty freaking hilarious.
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  1676. He should take over The Daily Show.
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  1677.  @888strummer  Reagan spent hundreds of millions funding religious extremists to take over Afghanistan, in the first place. Bush rejected negotiations to hand over Bin Laden, that would have ended things long ago, while also redirecting US troops to another shit show of a war he started instead of securing Afghanistan. Dumpty negotiated this withdrawal, and released thousands of Taliban militants, including the one about to be the new president. But, yeah, tots Biden's fault.
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  1678. *protect ?
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  1679. He's talking about rounding up "leftists". Didn't the Nzs start with people they considered sclsts, cmmnsts, and unionists?
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  1680. Right. They have to believe that the most racist states in the country ... where the majority of white voters voted in pro slavery, anti abolitionist, leaders, for about 90 years ... where they seceded and were willing to die and kill for the "right" to enslave, beat, rape, torture, and kill, other human beings ... where they then voted in pro segregation, anti desegregation, leaders, for another 100 years ... all suddenly up and became the least racist states in the country, electing the least racist party. It couldn't possibly be that racists from those same racist places started running as Republicans and all the same racists started voting Republican. Anyone who can't see the switch is insane.
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  1681.  @rtorres4132  The Republican party has been giving a home to extremists, since at least the 50s ... extreme anti-socialist McCarthy types, southern racists, religious extremists, Reaganomics, gun nuts, Tea Party nutters, science deniers, Trump cultists, Qanoners ... it has become a party of lunatics. And there's as much, if not more, corruption amongst Republican politicians than corporate Dems. They'll take in any psycho, or criminal, if it gives them a chance to win. It doesn't really matter what Democrats or progressives do.
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  1682.  @crisrer4720  Using money to influence politicians, and American views, is literally AIPAC's mission statement.
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  1683. Does he not know that the Smithsonian Institution is actually multiple museums, that already include some museums dedicated to Native Americans, African Americans, Asian art, ... ?
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  1684.  @DiesiraeL  Who, as a doctor, is 99% likely to be vaccinated.
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  1685.  @maxmusterman9262  In this clip, he literally skips over that vaccines significantly decrease the likelihood of infection, to jump to the strawman that they don't outright prevent infection, to support his anti-mandate argument. That's some anti-vax bullshit. No vaccine provides absolute 100% protection.
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  1686. ​​ @hochmeisterr  Well, then all the Znsts are in the wrong place. The First Znst Congress wanted to create a home "in Plstn". The Znsts should all leave that place, that isn't Plstn, and go find it.
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  1687.  @soulreaver8466  Weird that there are more psychopaths in states with less guntrol, which tend to have higher firearm mortality rates and higher homicide rates. Or, maybe gun control does help not put guns in the hands of as many psychopaths.
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  1688.  Steve Austin  Moron. "Mr. Trump told Deutsche Bank his net worth was about $3 billion, but when bank employees reviewed his finances, they concluded he was worth about $788 million, according to documents produced during a lawsuit Mr. Trump brought against the former New York Times journalist Timothy O’Brien." http://nymag.com/intelligencer/2019/03/report-trump-repeatedly-inflated-assets-in-deutsche-deals.html
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  1689. Yes. Democracy is just math, in the end. Look at Canada, with only 3 viable parties, where the NDP is basically like progressives split off from Democrats (Liberals). The Conservative party only has a popular majority in 2 provinces, and yet they can win the majority of seats in more provinces, and even federally. You need the right to split into multiple parties, as well, or you're just screwing yourself. I'd prefer seeing our Liberals and NDP unite, and never see Conservatives win, outside those 2 provinces, ever again.
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  1690. I think Australia has a non native rabbit problem, amongst some problems other non native species. So, might help.
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  1691.  @chaddeez8446  Nah. A political leader who fires, or threatens to fire, people for contradicting him is more like a fascist. Someone running a hospital, that doesn't want their employees, or patients, getting sick, sounds responsible.
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  1692. Giving a home to extremists has been the only thing keeping them a viable party ... McCarthy like anti-socialist extremists, southern racists, religious extremists, gun nuts, Tea Party nutters, Trump cultists, Qanoners ...
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  1693.  @ajaxaceofaces  So Jews and Muslims fleeing the Christian Spain, where they were given the options of conversion, death, or exile, fled to the Ottoman Empire, which took them in. Where Jews lived for centuries. An empire that okayed limited Zionism. An empire that decriminalized homosexuality when many Christian countries still considered it a crime or mental illness. Etc. An empire that was as, or more, liberal than a number of Christian empires. The West took that empire and carved it up into little countries. The Brits handed most of their bits to backwoods ultra-conservative Wahhabi dictators. No, they didn't create the ultra-conservatives, but they did put them in power. The French left a democratically elected government in Syria. It voted against an oil pipeline, so the US backed a coup to take them out. In Iran, a democratically elected PM was taking power away from the puppet dictator Shah, and was going to nationalize Iran's oil, so the US and UK backed a coup to take him out. In Iraq, a popular revolutionary had overthrown their puppet dictator, and was going to nationalize Iraq's oil, so the US backed a coup to take him out. In Afghanistan, communists overthrew their puppet dictator, and wanted to increase education and women's rights to the poor, so the US backed and trained religious extremists, including Bin Laden, to take them out. Etc. Etc. The problem with being more liberal, is that liberals will also tend to lean more left economically. The West has been taking out the more liberal Muslims, backing the more conservative Muslims, and poking their noses in ME affairs, pissing many of them off. You, seriously, don't think the US has fueled any hatred against itself? Supporting an Israel invasion of Lebanon wasn't what pissed people off, and got them bombed in Beirut? Bin Laden didn't list US intervention as a reason to declare war on them? Iranians didn't blame the US for decades of support for the dictator Shah?
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  1694. Likud's bloody 100 year history ... In 1923, 100 years ago, Ze'ev Jabotinsky wrote, The Iron Wall, and a follow up, The Ethics of The Iron Wall (sooo racist towards Africans), in which he fully acknowledged that post Balfour Zionsim was colonialism, and that, based on the entirety of history, the native Palestinian population would resist being colonized until the bitter end. He directly compared it to the colonization of North America. He promoted doing it anyway, claiming Zionist colonialism was a "just" colonialism (he also thought North American colonialists were good guys, so not a great judge of morality), not caring what that meant for the native population. Ze'ev is important, because his Betar militant youth group helped found the Irgun terrorist group, along with other supporters of his, and the splinter Lehi terrorist group. The Irgun bombed numerous Palestinian markets and other public places, murdering many Palestinian civilians, including children, even including Palestinian Jews (who didn't support colonialist Zionsim). The Irgun are important, because they ended up being led by future Likud PM, Menachem Begin, who bombed the King David Hotel. The King David Hotel was bombed because the British had raided the Jewish Agency and seized numerous documents that may have shown that the terrorists were working with the JA and Haganah (JA liked to pretend that they didn't support the terrorism). The British then stored those documents at their base, in the hotel. That the Irgun terrorists responded to a JA raid, itself seems to prove the connection. That the thousands of Irgun (and Lehi) terrorists were also quickly merged into the new nation's military (IDF) and intelligence (Mossad) agencies, and are still celebrated as "heroes" by Israelis, to this day, also seems to support total collaboration between the groups. That other terrorist group mentioned, Lehi (also known as the Stern Gang), was considered even more extreme. They even tried to ally with the Nazis, against the British. Lehi ended up being led by Yitzhak Shamir, future Mossad agent, and another future Likud PM. They assassinated Lord Moyne, and others. In 1945, there was a major land and peoples survey done in Palestine. It showed that the Zionists only owned about 5% of the total land, 20% of the arable land, and owned a majority in zero districts. The partition was not only going to be forced on the native Palestinian majority, but Jews were still going to be a minority, in the part allocated to them. The only possible way to even become a "Jewish state" was going to require getting rid of the actual majority (at least enough so that there'd be a solid Jewish majority, so they could fake being democratic). This is also shown by the 1948, post Nakba, population of Israel. If there was 716,700 Jews, 156,000+ non-Jews, and approximately 700k non-Jews ethnically cleansed, that means the Jewish population, in the Zionist portion of partition, was originally over 100,000 less than the non-Jewish population. To believe that there was never any intent, by Zionists, to ethnically cleanse away the Palestinian majority would require believing that they never intended to create a "Jewish state". It's a nonsensical notion. Begin, and those terrorist groups, also opposed partition, but for the opposite reason Palestinians did. Palestinians didn't want to be colonized, at all. The terrorists wanted to colonize it all. "Moderate" Zionists were okay with colonizing half ... for now (what would happen in the future, after partition, was up to them, said Ben-Gurion). The Zionist terrorists were also involved in massacres, and assassinations, during the partition violence (colonialist war against the natives). Another notable future Likud PM, also started in the military, during the partition fighting. That was Ariel Sharon, war criminal, "Butcher of Beirut". Menachem Begin, and these other Zionist terrorists, are important because they became involved in Israeli politics, first forming Herut. That was the party that Albert Einstein, and other prominent American Jews, opposed, having a letter printed in the NYT, in December of 1948, when Begin came to visit the US. The letter opened ... "Among the most disturbing political phenomena of our times is the emergence in the newly created state of Israel of the "Freedom Party" (Tnuat Haherut), a political party closely akin in its organization, methods, political philosophy and social appeal to the Nazi and Fascist parties. It was formed out of the membership and following of the former Irgun Zvai Leumi, a terrorist, right-wing, chauvinist organization in Palestine." Herut merged with other extremist parties, over the years, and eventually became Likud, in the 70s. Now, people get upset over the slogan "From the river to the sea!", but it's the second part that's most important, "Palestine will be free!". Because "Palestine" isn't defined as an ethno-state, a free Palestine can be a single state, free for all to live in, and return to, free of continuing colonization, free of occupation, free of oppression, etc. Just like a Germany free of Nazism, an Italy free of fascism, a South Africa free of apartheid, or an America free of slavery from sea to shiny sea. It doesn't necessitate purging all the Jews. It just necessitates them giving up on the idea of an ethno-state. On the other hand, because "Israel" has been defined as an ethno-state, Likud's, "between the sea and the Jordan there will only be Israeli sovereignty", has no possible good interpretation. It is a declaration of intent to completely colonize, and ethnically cleanse, all Palestine territories. Not only that, but it also claims that they have a "right" to all of the "Land of Israel" (biblical borders that don't mesh with archaeological reality), which is an open declaration of future wars, against Jordan, Syria, Lebanon, and possibly even Iraq. Likud platform ... 1977: "The Right of the Jewish People to the Land of Israel (Eretz Israel) a. The right of the Jewish people to the land of Israel is eternal and indisputable and is linked with the right to security and peace; therefore, Judea and Samaria will not be handed to any foreign administration; between the Sea and the Jordan there will only be Israeli sovereignty. b. A plan which relinquishes parts of western Eretz Israel, undermines our right to the country, unavoidably leads to the establishment of a "Palestinian State," jeopardizes the security of the Jewish population, endangers the existence of the State of Israel. and frustrates any prospect of peace." "Settlement Settlement. both urban and rural. in all parts of the Land of Israel is the focal point of the Zionist effort to redeem the country, to maintain vital security areas and serves as a reservoir of strength and inspiration for the renewal of the pioneering spirit. The Likud government will call on the younger generation in Israel and the dispersions to settle and help every group and individual in the task of inhabiting and cultivating the wasteland, while taking care not to dispossess anyone." 1999: "The Government of Israel flatly rejects the establishment of a Palestinian Arab state west of the Jordan river. The Palestinians can run their lives freely in the framework of self-rule, but not as an independent and sovereign state. Thus, for example, in matters of foreign affairs, security, immigration, and ecology, their activity shall be limited in accordance with imperatives of Israel's existence, security and national needs." "The Jewish communities in Judea, Samaria, and Gaza are the realization of Zionist values. Settlement of the land is a clear expression of the unassailable right of the Jewish people to the Land of Israel and constitutes an important asset in the defense of the vital interests of the State of Israel. The Likud will continue to strengthen and develop these communities and will prevent their uprooting." All Palestine territories are officially considered occupied, by the International Court of Justice, the UN GA, the UN SC, and even in official documents of Israel's own allies. Likud is still using the blueprint for colonizing North America, in the West Bank. Move settlements out into native territory, piss off the natives, the natives retaliate, cry about poor "innocent" colonizing settlers being the "victims" of violent "Savages!", call in the cavalry to put down the native uprising, and eventually expand the borders to include those settlements. Rinse and repeat. In Gaza, Israel is operating an open air WWII style fascist ghetto. Them claiming a "right to defend themselves" would be like the Nazis claiming a "right to defend themselves " from the Warsaw ghetto uprising. There's no "war". That they're the occupiers means the "war" part is long over. Those people are actually supposed to be under the occupier's protection. That partition was forced upon the Palestinian majority, against their will ... that the Zionist portion still had to be forcefully ethnically cleansed of its non-Jewish majority, against their will ... that the millions of occupied Palestinians don't have a say in the government that truly rules over them, Israel's ... means Israel is about as democratic as Nazi Germany after Hitler purged his political opponents and then held elections.
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  1695. ​ @alexlifeson1321  Ze'ev Jabotinsky, a leading Zionist, in 1923, fully acknowledged that Zionism is colonialism. He also predicted, based on the entirety of history, that the native response to said colonialism would be to fight it until the bitter end. He did not state these facts to deter people away from Zionism, which he argued was morally good. He was basically pointing out that, to support Zionism, you have to not care about the consequences for the natives. Was Ze'ev, a Zionist himself, anti-Semitic?
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  1696. @Steve Jobs She was right about what?
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  1697.  @TheUser06  You aren't privy to evidence, but somehow know the numbers are flubbed? That's gibberish. What's your given excuse for the over 200k excess mortality in 2020? Purely coincidental that it coincides with a pandemic, and purely coincidental that it's close to the same death toll given for that pandemic?
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  1698.  Real Progressives Allowed  You're the one who said her defense was "free speech", dumb dumb. That's not a defense for defamation.
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  1699.  @CoolhandLukeSkywalkr  Cut your typing time, next time ... just say, "Hi everybody! I'm a moron!"
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  1700. They don't believe in Darwin.
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  1701. Knew some idiot going around, for months, saying he had had covid so had "natural immunity" and was safe to be around. But, he had a lingering cough. Turned out he had covid pneumonia, the whole time. You're contagious as long as you have pneumonia.
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  1702. This event has broken Ben's mind. I'll have to ditch, if he's on reporting about it again. Modern history: 100 years ago, in 1923, Ze'ev Jabotinsky fully acknowledged that Zionism is colonialism, and that, based on the entirety of history, that the natives would fight it until the bitter end. He just didn't care what would happen to them, and promoted doing it anyway. Colonizers are never not the aggressors. On top of the colonialist nature of Zionism, the Zionists also formed terrorist organizations, like the Irgun and Lehi. They bombed many Palestinian markets and other public places, murdering many civilians, including children, even including Palestinian Jews (who opposed Zionism). Israel merged those terrorists into the new nation's military and intelligence agencies. Israelis elected Menachem Begin, leader of the Irgun, child murderer, Jew murderer, and bomber of the King David Hotel, as PM. Israelis, to this day, celebrate those terrorists as "heroes". Zionists literally taught their neighbours that terrorism is a valid path to independence and statehood, and that terrorists are to be celebrated. In 1945, it is well documented that Zionists owned just 5% of the land and were a majority nowhere. Israel was formed by actually going against the majority population. It's foundation is completely undemocratic. Then, becoming a majority, in "your" new nation, by ethnic cleansing the actual majority, and then claiming to be democratic, is utter nonsense. Law: Israel is considered an occupier by the International Court, the UN GA, and the UN SC. Occupiers are also never not the aggressors. Those occupied actually have a right to resist occupation. On the flip side, it is illegal for the occupier to settle occupied lands, and illegal to use collective punishment. Israel is a rogue nation, that doesn't abide by international law. What it has been doing, and is doing now, is illegal. Current events: This year, alone, prior to Oct 7 ... Israel held over 1200 Palestinian hostages without charges ... over 200 Palestinians had been killed by the IDF and settlers ... over 1000 Palestinians had been displaced by Israel's neverending colonization of the West Bank ... and, Israel continued to operate an open air WWII style fascist ghetto. Even ignoring modern history and law, in no reality did Hamas "start" anything. Ben is apparently cool with ignoring what was happening to Palestinians, and pretending everything started on Oct 7. Actual Hamas supporter: Netanyahu promoted, and helped fund, Hamas, to weaken the Palestinian Authority, to avoid a potential peace, so he could continue his colonization project. This is very much like the US promoting and funding religious extremists in Afghanistan, and that ending up biting them in the ass. Plus, he was warned by Egypt and, instead of strengthening the Gaza border, he moved Gazan troops to the West Bank, to support his colonization. Almost like he wanted his pet terrorists to actually break through. Ben would be blaming the Jewish underground for the Warsaw ghetto uprising, instead of the Nazis.
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  1703.  @serioustalk6912  Aren't Dore, Glenn, and Tulsi, now taking Rumble and Peter Thiel money?
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  1704.  @wakaisgood  We have free speech, dumbass. Canada, and many other countries, rank higher than the US on the RWB freedom index.
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  1705.  @JC-sf6sf  It wasn't a fucking debate, moron. Shapiro severely lost at being interviewed. That's reality.
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  1706.  @whyamimrpink78  Calling for people to be fired for kneeling, is blacklisting. What does it matter why they're kneeling? Blacklisting them because their freedom.of expression annoys you, is still blacklisting. Calling for reporters to be fired, who report facts you don't like, or criticize your politics, is blacklisting. Firing scientists for saying to follow the science, instead of your political bullshit, is blacklisting. Similarly, he has publicly threatened to fire Fauci for sticking with science and medicine, instead of supporting Trump's political agenda.
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  1707. Because they're comical charlatans, who have spouted nonsense about a spiritual experience being the only way to cure addiction, and a meat only diet as a cure for both physical and mental health issues, amongst other things?
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  1708.  @AdamtheRed-  No they don't, because voting Stein won't save a single life.
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  1709. With AOC as her VP, then an AOC presidency.
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  1710.  @quadkidnate6370  Jews lived relatively peacefully with Muslims for 1300 years. They were given refuge when Christian nations offered conversion, death, or exile. The widespread tension began with the colonialism. Native Americans reached a point where they wanted to push the white man back into the sea, and it wasn't simply because he was white. It was because of all the negative things they came to associate with being white, because of what had been done to them. Israel has made it very clear that they don't want peace until they own the whole thing, and as long as there's a conflict they can deny Palestinian rights. Netanyahu was the one who promoted, and even helped fund, Hamas, to avoid possible peace and an official Palestinian state. He is constantly supporting new settlements. I think the Palestinians should throw a wrench and just surrender, declare the Israeli government to be theirs, demand equal rights, and the right of return for Palestinian refugees, now that the conflict is over. If not, Israel will just continue to colonize and beat the shit out of them, for as long as they can get away with it. Which could be another 100 years, with the help of the US.
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  1711.  @lights473  No you. "he more often than not encouraged violent protesting" ~ Crowder
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  1712.  @ynwa3476  Most conquests in history involved mainly defeating the warriors, then ruling over the people that are there. They weren't genocide and ethnic cleansing. That's why, when those happen, it sticks out.
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  1713.  @-suphur  Just trying to think of the next "brilliant" Republican take.
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  1714.  @CatotheE  Trump spent months brainwashing people into thinking that their democracy had been overthrown, leading to them ironically trying to take it back by overthrowing the democratic process. They came prepared. Pretending like it was all one speech, is a moronic take.
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  1715. ​ @QuackMaster0  According to Alabama, we're all women, since life begins at fertilization, and only the mother's X (female) chromosome expresses for the first 7 weeks, or so.
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  1716. Does it take long to find a bad picture of Dumpty?
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  1717. Umm, the "market rate" is what landlords decide they can charge. So, yeah, you're the cause.
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  1718.  @jeffgojail  Who is actively trying to end having bankruptcies, or end the corporate shield? It seems to be right wingers that only think one is wrong ... forgiving debt for the poor.
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  1719. Some of the details of Oathkeeper communications indicate the weapons were for if they couldn't breach the Capitol. That the Capitol police had a piss poor outer defense may have saved some lives, in retrospect.
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  1720.  calo10able  The op didn't even use the word "racists". You, apparently, thought of Alabama and thought "racists", all on your own (how nice of you).
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  1721.  Mari Jayne  Maybe because BLM doesn't actually plan and organize riots, unlike the numerous insurrectionists who planned Jan 6.
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  1722.  @baibo_a  US politics is almost entirely right of an actual centre. Joe might be centre, centre-left in that US bubble. Bernie is the centrist outside that bubble.
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  1723. @Brandon Bernard US History 101: Protesting, and even rioting, against extra taxes that specifically funded the red coats (police/military) = anti-authoritarian. Fighting against democracy to keep an unelected ruler in power (King George Trumpty Dumpty) = authoritarian.
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  1724. David's video is perfect first step. The more often, and stronger, we deny it works, the more they'll believe it must be true.
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  1725.  @InternetMameluq  Except that this was also the Civil Rights movement ... https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Long,_hot_summer_of_1967 https://www.history.com/news/mlk-assassination-riots-occupation
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  1726. ​ @waveygravey9347  What does "woke" mean, and who is the cult leader?
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  1727. ​ @Nick-o-time  She literally votes against the defense appropriation bill, every time. You want her to vote against the entire budget, including SNAP, Medicaid, Medicare, SS, education, housing, etc., etc., etc. She also votes against the State Department appropriation bill, that includes the annual aid to Israel.
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  1728.  @TheOtario007  Bernie is the actual centrist, and is more popular with independents. Going with someone more popular amongst Democrats, but less popular amongst independents, is what lost, last time.
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  1729. Yeah, 4 days.
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  1730. From "scratch" ... "But The Times’s investigation, based on a vast trove of confidential tax returns and financial records, reveals that Mr. Trump received the equivalent today of at least $413 million from his father’s real estate empire, starting when he was a toddler and continuing to this day." He started being involved in tax fraud as a toddler. "Mr. Trump told Deutsche Bank his net worth was about $3 billion, but when bank employees reviewed his finances, they concluded he was worth about $788 million, according to documents produced during a lawsuit Mr. Trump brought against the former New York Times journalist Timothy O’Brien. And a senior investment-banking executive said in an interview that he and others cautioned that Mr. Trump should be avoided because he had worked with people in the construction industry connected to organized crime." And hasn't grown his fortune very much, at all.
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  1731.  @mpgallogly  I talked policy, and you ignored me. Trump dropped more bombs than Obama, ffs, and they kept blathering on about some completely irrelevant UN report. That UN investigation didn't even start until after the US bombed Syria. It was a no fault finding investigation, so didn't even blame Syria. Plus, the final report didn't come out until almost a year later. It had absolutely nothing to do with anyone's decision to bomb Syria. Why weren't they spending all their time attacking Trump, for deciding to bomb Syria? Plus, they attack people for simply accepting that Assad is a brutal dictator that has used chemical weapons, as if that makes people CIA agents. In reality, it's quite possible to both accept that Assad is a brutal dictator, and think that the US shouldn't be unilaterally, or with tiny coalitions of the willing, intervening in other countries. You can criticize leaders of both countries, instead of going out of your way to kiss ass with a brutal dictator.
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  1732. Israel is objectively the aggressor, by every relevant measure... Modern history: 100 years ago, in 1923, Ze'ev Jabotinsky fully acknowledged that Zionism is colonialism, and that, based on the entirety of history, the natives would fight it until the bitter end. He just didn't care what would happen to them, and promoted doing it anyway. Colonizers are never not the aggressors. On top of the colonialist nature of Zionism, the Zionists also formed terrorist organizations, like the Irgun and Lehi. They bombed many Palestinian markets and other public places, murdering many civilians, including children, even including Palestinian Jews (who opposed Zionism). Israel merged those terrorists into the new nation's military and intelligence agencies. Israelis elected Menachem Begin, leader of the Irgun, child murderer, Jew murderer, and bomber of the King David Hotel, as PM. Israelis, to this day, celebrate those terrorists as "heroes". Zionists literally taught their neighbours that terrorism is a valid path to independence and statehood, and that terrorists are to be celebrated. In 1945, it is well documented that Zionists owned just 5% of the land and were a majority nowhere. Israel was formed by actually going against the majority population. It's foundation is completely undemocratic. Then, becoming a majority, in "their" new nation, by ethnic cleansing the actual majority, and then claiming to be democratic, is utter nonsense. Law: Israel is considered an occupier by the International Court, the UN GA, and the UN SC. Occupiers are also never not the aggressors. Those occupied actually have a right to resist occupation. On the flip side, it is illegal for the occupier to settle occupied lands, and illegal to use collective punishment. Israel is a rogue nation, that doesn't abide by international law. What it has been doing, and is doing now, is illegal. Current events: This year, alone, prior to Oct 7 ... Israel held over 1200 Palestinian hostages without charges ... over 200 Palestinians had been killed by the IDF and settlers ... over 1000 Palestinians had been displaced by Israel's neverending colonization of the West Bank ... and, Israel continued to operate an open air WWII style fascist ghetto, in Gaza. Even ignoring modern history and law, in no reality did Hamas "start" anything.
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  1733.  Steve Austin  Trump also funded Israel. Trump made out like American Jews not backing Israel were traitors. He okayed continued colonization. He recognized Jerusalem as Israel's capitol. None of those reduced tensions, they only increased tensions. As mentioned, he also dropped more bombs than Obama. There wasn't less violence in the ME, under Trump. Trump's best economic year was his first, while Obama's last budget was still in effect. By his own favorite measure, the stock market, it almost flatlined after his first budget, with his tax cuts, came into effect and he started his stupid trade wars. The "tough guy", Mr deal maker, lost a trade war with Trudeau, ffs. Trump had one better border crossing year than Obama. The rest were worse. There was a huge spike in 2019, that dimwit Republicans just ignored was happening. This current spike surpassed every month of Obama's back in September 2020, under Trump. He was no better on border crossings. He was just crueler to the crossers. There's actual evidence of Trump making millions in China. He also made millions from selling a Trump tower condo to a Chinese lobbyist, and millions renting a property to the Bank of China. That would be the same Bank of China that Mitch McConnell's sister in law is on the board of, that gives loans to his other sister in law, who runs a shipping company that buys its boats from the Chinese government. Considering all the bullshit you spouted. You being a former Democrat is likely also bullshit.
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  1734. Sounded like a young, moderate Republican/Democrat, Dave Rubin, just wanting to hear people's ideas.
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  1735. Woke Lincoln.
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  1736.  @keilafleischbein59  Neither is inciting an insurrection, but Elon said it was. An absolutist is supposed to be absolute.
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  1737. Lol, well that's bullshit. Biden and Sanders are leading with black voters. Warren has below average black support and above average white support.
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  1738. David Doel is good, with a Canadian perspective. The American left should look at how Canada's Liberals and NDP (progressives) are split, and how that allows for the Conservatives to win pluralities far more often than they should. From a Canadian perspective, it's easy to see that someone like Dore is actually promoting Republican rule, for decades to come.
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  1739. Yang's foundation is flawed. A VAT is specifically designed to NOT tax businesses in order to avoid double taxation. It's a sales tax, collected in stages, with all the business stages getting to reclaim their input VAT. Since his dividend wouldn't actually have corporations paying into it, as the Alaskan dividend does, a corporation like Amazon would only get the benefits of the dividend being spent. Yang would make Amazon extra tens of billions a year, which would make Bezos extra billions a year. It is only progressive on the surface, but would increase inequality, increase money flowing to the top to be hoarded, increase money being invested into automation, etc. ... all at an even faster rate than is happening now. How a UBI is paid for matters. Also, LA has tested a public option, and that doesn't get you universal coverage anytime soon, if ever.
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  1740. ​ @bikeman78  Rofl. You mean basement halls?
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  1741. Still waiting for the moon to fall into Lake Michigan, like he told Sam, the last time they debated.
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  1742. Cartels have planes, boats, submarines, catapults, tunnels, and often just send their illegal goods through points of entry, in secret compartments in vehicles or up some mule's ass. They don't hand their goods to poor people swimming across rivers or trudging through mountains and deserts, that are more likely to get detained by border patrol.
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  1743. You shouldn't start a sentence with "Doctor Who".
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  1744.  @newbieprepper8451  Mocking guidelines encouring his cult not to adhere to them. Fighting with governors trying to save lives, rather than working with them. Not being prepared. Inadequate trace testing.
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  1745.  @ludlowaloysius  I don't compare everything to ducks, but if it quacks like a duck ...
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  1746.  @toaitran6447  So, in your reality, there are no studies dating back decades, to when surgeons first started wearing cloth masks, showing that masks reduce germs being spread from surgeons to patients?
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  1747.  @jeffarnold3800  No. The US is so fucked. It's Overton window goes from far right to center. On a full political spectrum, where extreme left is a 100% publicly owned and operated economy, Biden is right wing.
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  1748. ​ @yitzhakspolter9551 Yes, the Nazholes never invaded and occupied other countries, first. 🙄
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  1749. Trump: No more counting! Also Trump: Recount Wisconsin!
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  1750. The US Overton window is basically the top right square on a two axis political compass. The majority of Republicans do check off most of the fascist boxes. And, the only box that needed checking off was the one they checked off when they went anti-democratic and tried to overthrow the democratic process.
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  1751. Yeah, I've been wheeled through a hospital basement, due to construction on main floor. It was the only other way to get from one wing to another. It's like a labyrinth.
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  1752. But, what are their beliefs, that I'm insane, based on? It's not "smug" to dismiss an objectively warped "reality".
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  1753.  @KennedyIvy  Well, there's the objective fact that no Democrat in congress is proposing any policies that would move the US left of Denmark (a centrist country). Meanwhile, the majority of Republicans in congress actively tried to overthrow the democratic process. So, thinking one group are insane "communists" is incredibly disconnected from reality, while thinking the other group are insane "fascists" is close to reality.
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  1754.  @p.chuckmoralesesquire3965  Dore is an anecdote. No need for him to turn that into hours of covid misinformation. Shaun only scratched the surface, and Dore has peddled more bullshit, since.
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  1755.  @nathanschmidt5026  Progressives aren't proposing any policies that would move the US left of real world centrist countries. The US Overton window goes from far right to centrism. Every US "enlightened centrist" is actually a right winger.
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  1756. ​ @s1ler  Literally how the US was founded.
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  1757.  @fighter4freedom  If they take that route, you can also point out that Palestinians have Canaanite DNA. They're Arab and Muslim the same way indigenous peoples of Central America are now Hispanic and Catholic. They were the previous Christian majority, the Jewish majority, before that, and the Canaanite mythology worshippers, before that.
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  1758.  @AndrewPeaceMaker  Maybe learn to quote properly, and use sentences that make sense, before criticizing other's intelligence.
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  1759. "Sanctuary cities!", are they mostly in red states, or something? Top 10 crime rates ... New Mexico 6,462 Louisiana 6,408 Colorado 6,091 South Carolina 5,973 Arkansas 5,899 Oklahoma 5,870 Washington 5,759 Tennessee 5,658 Oregon 5,610 Missouri 5,605 Top 10 homicide rates ... Mississippi 23.70 Louisiana 21.30 Alabama 15.90 New Mexico 15.30 South Carolina 13.40 Missouri 12.40 Illinois 12.30 Maryland 12.20 Tennessee 12.20 Arkansas 11.70 Also, the crime rate for undocumented immigrants is about half the rate of natural born Americans.
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  1760.  @NewNormalWorldOrder  Blah, blah, blah. You didn't refute that we'd still have polio, if you morons were around, back when that vaccine was developed. Hey, let's wait a decade, as hundreds of thousands of people die a year, to see if we grow an extra arm.
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  1761.  @SoundsSilver  Yes, coercion is force, or threat. The threat is me letting you fall to your death, if you don't hand over your money.
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  1762.  discorperted  What team are you talking about? Burlington's team is the Lake Monsters.
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  1763.  discorperted  "New England Collegiate Baseball League" http://www.necbl.com/view/necbl/teams-245/upper-valley-nighthawks
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  1764.  @60andover-timetotrain-join89  From my own notepad. I can tell you where I got each piece of info, if you want. You can start with finding Jabotinsky's writings at the Jwsh Virtual Library. No. You don't seem to have a point, except that you're pro clnlsm.
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  1765.  @60andover-timetotrain-join89  Not a thing that happened, dmwt. I had my opinion before Google existed.
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  1766. ​ @americanpolitic1  It's not arbitrary. Prior to about 25 weeks, it doesn't have the necessary parts for consciousness or feeling pain. It is on par with someone who is brn dd. If one is medically considered no longer truly "alive", then the other is not yet truly "alive". Pretty simple, and objective, actually.
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  1767.  @valkondarvalakev6377  The budget reconciliation bill is going to get a vote, and always was going to get a vote, one way or the other. This isn't forcing a vote. Do Dore knobs know how anything works?
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  1768.  @andrewkowalow3794  What's the "truth" about "RussiaGate"? Were the DNC, the FBI (run by Republicans for 6 of the last 10 presidential terms), the Republican investigator, other Republicans like Romney, and Australian officials, all in cahoots to falsely frame Trump, to make Mike Pence president?
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  1769. ​ @soultec11 Netanyahu promoted, and helped fund, Hamas, to weaken the Palestinian Authority, to avoid a possible peace agreement, so he could continue his colonization project. Can there be peace while Netanyahu is leader?
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  1770.  @eloyomedallas4802  Pretty sure it's right wing capitalists that have been kissing Saudi ass, funding them, and have helped them spread the most conservative brand of Islam around to other countries, not progressives.
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  1771.  @eloyomedallas4802  You do know that most women who get abortions are Christian, right? You do know that many "pro-lifers" also fight against sex ed, easy access to birth control, and promote abstinence over birth control, right?
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  1772.  @jamesjameson4303  Did. Can't find the ME enemies. The US and Ottomans didn't even declare war against each other, in WWI.
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  1773.  @rtorres4132  There's nothing more incremental than sitting on the sidelines, in some irrelevant third party, for the next 50 years.
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  1774. Put him in a costume and you've got a show for pre-schoolers.
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  1775.  @wvu05  I've asked 1 before, too, without getting many answers. A couple pointed at the 50s ... when the US was 40% unionized and there was a high marginal tax rate, lol. Oh, and they didn't mind the segregation. Yeah, Trumpets seem genuinely clueless as to things Obama did. They don't seem to know that the economy has been on the same trajectory it is now, since 2009. They don't seem to know there has been a negative net undocumented migration rate, for about a decade. They don't seem to know the ACA, which polls well with them, is "Obamacare", which polls badly with them. They try to claim their hate for him isn't just racism, but they don't actually know specifics policies, to hate.
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  1776.  Aaron Dickson  Rofl, point at me saying you said that, dimwit. You can't, because I literally never said you did. Not once. I was repeating what I had said, which led to you blathering about moral judgments.
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  1777. ​ @1979cavsfan  Right. Right. The ol' lots of signs and boats measure.
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  1778. Because they have the most leverage. It's impossible to pass anything without them, because there are zero extra votes to be gained to the left of the party. Meanwhile, they could possibly pick up enough Republican votes to pass things without needing votes from the squad.
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  1779.  Illhan Omar's Brother  Apparently not, since the very stable geniuses it is meant to fool, aren't buying it.
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  1780. Nope. It's clearly you that doesn't understand that "freedom of speech" doesn't mean unlimited free speech, and never has. Defamation, incitement, conspiring to commit, threats, ... all limits on speech.
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  1781. It is a modern day Warsaw ghetto.
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  1782.  @dough1968GMC  If you're fighting to get rid of all vaccine mandates, then you're dumb, and I don't want you fighting for me, or my kids. If you're fighting against this specific vaccine, then you need a new argument than simply "Freedumb!"
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  1783. She often wears pants. Haven't heard her say that they should go back to not letting women wear pants in the senate.
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  1784.  @cruizerbrony4902  Ben also wrote a book about how to "destroy" leftists, has multiple videos on his own YouTube channel with "destroy" in the title, yet he dishonestly dodges that in the interview. He totally dodges the conversation about Georgia laws by accusing another right winger of bias and being a lefty. He yammers on, spouting nonsense about Republican "conversations", but didn't actually provide an example of Republicans pitching any new ideas. He whined about old tweets, said a couple were dumb, but he never answered the actual question, about whether or not he has contributed to the anger he writes about. He was owned by being a complete failure at being interviewed.
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  1785. I don't think they thought through judging the MLB, based on its past. They shouldn't want Georgia's past brought up.
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  1786.  @ReaghNetwork  Rofl. No, the facts state the opposite. https://hartfordhealthcare.org/about-us/news-press/news-detail?articleid=27691&publicId=395
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  1787. How is ethnic cleansing not barbaric?
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  1788. 10 million civilians? Fuck you're a wingnut. The worst years of the Iraq War, under Bush, possibly killed around 1m. No US military actions have come anywhere close to that, since. And, Trump has been dropping more bombs than Obama.
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  1789. ​ @timeames2509  👈 Young Earthers used to argue the world began some 6000 years ago. Now they're arguing it started on Oct 7.
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  1790.  @biokido575  Except people aren't wanting to pay for a doctor's appointment, aren't being prescribed it for covid by US doctors anyway, so the morons are buying the over counter horse medicine instead. You're the one trying to falsely imply they're using human prescribed dosages.
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  1791. They will gang up by handing off delegates, as they drop out. If Biden or Bloomberg do better in more diverse states, and Pete and Amy tank, Pete and Amy can drop out and hand either of those guys an effective Iowa and New Hampshire win with both their delegates combined. Bernie needs more people out and a big lead to avoid getting screwed.
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  1792. We don't want to see Likud in charge of Israel anymore. Likud's bloody 100 year history ... In 1923, 100 years ago, Ze'ev Jabotinsky wrote, The Iron Wall, and a follow up, The Ethics of The Iron Wall (sooo racist towards Africans), in which he fully acknowledged that post Balfour Zionsim was colonialism, and that, based on the entirety of history, the native Palestinian population would resist being colonized until the bitter end. He directly compared it to the colonization of North America. He promoted doing it anyway, claiming Zionist colonialism was a "just" colonialism (he also thought North American colonialists were good guys, so not a great judge of morality), not caring what that meant for the native population. Ze'ev is important, because his Betar militant youth group helped found the Irgun terrorist group, along with other supporters of his, and the splinter Lehi terrorist group. The Irgun bombed numerous Palestinian markets and other public places, murdering many Palestinian civilians, including children, even including Palestinian Jews (who didn't support colonialist Zionsim). The Irgun are important, because they ended up being led by future Likud PM, Menachem Begin, who bombed the King David Hotel. The King David Hotel was bombed because the British had raided the Jewish Agency and seized numerous documents that may have shown that the terrorists were working with the JA and Haganah (JA liked to pretend that they didn't support the terrorism). The British then stored those documents at their base, in the hotel. That the Irgun terrorists responded to a JA raid, itself seems to prove the connection. That the thousands of Irgun (and Lehi) terrorists were also quickly merged into the new nation's military (IDF) and intelligence (Mossad) agencies, and are still celebrated as "heroes" by Israelis, to this day, also seems to support total collaboration between the groups. That other terrorist group mentioned, Lehi (also known as the Stern Gang), was considered even more extreme. They even tried to ally with the Nazis, against the British. Lehi ended up being led by Yitzhak Shamir, future Mossad agent, and another future Likud PM. They assassinated Lord Moyne, and others. In 1945, there was a major land and peoples survey done in Palestine. It showed that the Zionists only owned about 5% of the total land, 20% of the arable land, and owned a majority in zero districts. The partition was not only going to be forced on the native Palestinian majority, but Jews were still going to be a minority, in the part allocated to them. The only possible way to even become a "Jewish state" was going to require getting rid of the actual majority (at least enough so that there'd be a solid Jewish majority, so they could fake being democratic). This is also shown by the 1948, post Nakba, population of Israel. If there was 716,700 Jews, 156,000+ non-Jews, and approximately 700k non-Jews ethnically cleansed, that means the Jewish population, in the Zionist portion of partition, was originally over 100,000 less than the non-Jewish population. To believe that there was never any intent, by Zionists, to ethnically cleanse away the Palestinian majority would require believing that they never intended to create a "Jewish state". It's a nonsensical notion. Begin, and those terrorist groups, also opposed partition, but for the opposite reason Palestinians did. Palestinians didn't want to be colonized, at all. The terrorists wanted to colonize it all. "Moderate" Zionists were okay with colonizing half ... for now (what would happen in the future, after partition, was up to them, said Ben-Gurion). The Zionist terrorists were also involved in massacres, and assassinations, during the partition violence (colonialist war against the natives). Another notable future Likud PM, also started in the military, during the partition fighting. That was Ariel Sharon, war criminal, "Butcher of Beirut". Menachem Begin, and these other Zionist terrorists, are important because they became involved in Israeli politics, first forming Herut. That was the party that Albert Einstein, and other prominent American Jews, opposed, having a letter printed in the NYT, in December of 1948, when Begin came to visit the US. The letter opened ... "Among the most disturbing political phenomena of our times is the emergence in the newly created state of Israel of the "Freedom Party" (Tnuat Haherut), a political party closely akin in its organization, methods, political philosophy and social appeal to the Nazi and Fascist parties. It was formed out of the membership and following of the former Irgun Zvai Leumi, a terrorist, right-wing, chauvinist organization in Palestine." Herut merged with other extremist parties, over the years, and eventually became Likud, in the 70s. Now, people get upset over the slogan "From the river to the sea!", but it's the second part that's most important, "Palestine will be free!". Because "Palestine" isn't defined as an ethno-state, a free Palestine can be a single state, free for all to live in, and return to, free of continuing colonization, free of occupation, free of oppression, etc. Just like a Germany free of Nazism, an Italy free of fascism, a South Africa free of apartheid, or an America free of slavery from sea to shiny sea. It doesn't necessitate purging all the Jews. It just necessitates them giving up on the idea of an ethno-state. On the other hand, because "Israel" has been defined as an ethno-state, Likud's, "between the sea and the Jordan there will only be Israeli sovereignty", has no possible good interpretation. It is a declaration of intent to completely colonize, and ethnically cleanse, all Palestine territories. Not only that, but it also claims that they have a "right" to all of the "Land of Israel" (biblical borders that don't mesh with archaeological reality), which is an open declaration of future wars, against Jordan, Syria, Lebanon, and possibly even Iraq. Likud platform ... 1977: "The Right of the Jewish People to the Land of Israel (Eretz Israel) a. The right of the Jewish people to the land of Israel is eternal and indisputable and is linked with the right to security and peace; therefore, Judea and Samaria will not be handed to any foreign administration; between the Sea and the Jordan there will only be Israeli sovereignty. b. A plan which relinquishes parts of western Eretz Israel, undermines our right to the country, unavoidably leads to the establishment of a "Palestinian State," jeopardizes the security of the Jewish population, endangers the existence of the State of Israel. and frustrates any prospect of peace." "Settlement Settlement. both urban and rural. in all parts of the Land of Israel is the focal point of the Zionist effort to redeem the country, to maintain vital security areas and serves as a reservoir of strength and inspiration for the renewal of the pioneering spirit. The Likud government will call on the younger generation in Israel and the dispersions to settle and help every group and individual in the task of inhabiting and cultivating the wasteland, while taking care not to dispossess anyone." 1999: "The Government of Israel flatly rejects the establishment of a Palestinian Arab state west of the Jordan river. The Palestinians can run their lives freely in the framework of self-rule, but not as an independent and sovereign state. Thus, for example, in matters of foreign affairs, security, immigration, and ecology, their activity shall be limited in accordance with imperatives of Israel's existence, security and national needs." "The Jewish communities in Judea, Samaria, and Gaza are the realization of Zionist values. Settlement of the land is a clear expression of the unassailable right of the Jewish people to the Land of Israel and constitutes an important asset in the defense of the vital interests of the State of Israel. The Likud will continue to strengthen and develop these communities and will prevent their uprooting." All Palestine territories are officially considered occupied, by the International Court of Justice, the UN GA, the UN SC, and even in official documents of Israel's own allies. Likud is still using the blueprint for colonizing North America, in the West Bank. Move settlements out into native territory, piss off the natives, the natives retaliate, cry about poor "innocent" colonizing settlers being the "victims" of violent "Savages!", call in the cavalry to put down the native uprising, and eventually expand the borders to include those settlements. Rinse and repeat. In Gaza, Israel is operating an open air WWII style fascist ghetto. Them claiming a "right to defend themselves" would be like the Nazis claiming a "right to defend themselves " from the Warsaw ghetto uprising. There's no "war". That they're the occupiers means the "war" part is long over. Those people are actually supposed to be under the occupier's protection. That partition was forced upon the Palestinian majority, against their will ... that the Zionist portion still had to be forcefully ethnically cleansed of its non-Jewish majority, against their will ... that the millions of occupied Palestinians don't have a say in the government that truly rules over them, Israel's ... means Israel is about as democratic as Nazi Germany after Hitler purged his political opponents and then held elections.
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  1793. Trying to re-enter the closet doesn't make you any less gay than someone who never came out. Simply not acting on urges doesn't make you ex-gay.
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  1794.  @robinsss  All your blathering is off topic. The topic was things that have more value than Crowder, like shit and piss.
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  1795.  @barbiquearea  So, you believe the exact same Bond can run around for 60 years, still look to be in his 30s, can be Scottish, English, Welsh, and Australian, and be both brunette and blonde ... but being black is too much?
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  1796. Look up Jakub Lejkin. Short little Jewish lawyer, nicknamed "Little Napoleon", who collaborated with the Nazis. Reminds me of Ben.
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  1797. @C M Rofl, for months? Where are "50000" people going to get food, water, piss, and shit, for months, if you supposedly shut down the city?
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  1798. ​ @kylegary8662  What a load of crap. People write thousands of pages on events, not the reason for it. The Southern states made very very clear, that they were seceding, to preserve slavery, and immediately enshrined slavery in their new constitution. How is that "complex"?
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  1799.  @foxtrot789  Why didn't Trump, or his cult, think it was suspicious that the election day votes heavily skewed towards Trump? Why weren't they checking voting machines for anomalies? Because it wasn't suspicious. He encouraged his cult to vote in person. The other side encouraged voting by mail during a pandemic. It should be equally not suspicious that mail in voting heavily skewed towards Biden.
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  1800. Yeah, he wrote "attempt", as if he knew he would fail.
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  1801.  @deadmeat1471  So, you consider it completely rational to say gay marriage is a threat to America?
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  1802.  @NewNormalWorldOrder  You're talking gibberish.
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  1803.  @Julian-we6qg  Rofl, tell me you don't really think most drugs are walked across the border outside of entry points by refugees? https://www.vice.com/en_us/article/vv7bwb/the-sinaloa-cartel-has-more-planes-than-mexicos-biggest-airline https://www.cnn.com/2017/02/15/us/marijuana-catapult-trnd/index.html https://www.washingtonpost.com/world/2019/01/14/trump-pushes-wall-authorities-keep-finding-drug-tunnels-under-us-mexico-border/ https://gcaptain.com/drug-cartels-deploy-new-stealthy-boats-americas-pacific-shore/
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  1804.  @18661873  Yeah, they're the ones that started endlessly slandering people as "fakes", "frauds", "sellouts", "betrayers", for disagreeing over a single secondary tactic, and are promoting a People's Puritan Party.
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  1805.  @barbiquearea  Craig already doesn't have dark hair, dimwit. Plus, Connery was Scottish, and everyone after wasn't. You're incoherent.
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  1806.  Aaron Dickson  Because 2 votes represent 600k people and 2 votes represent 40m people? Because it can block the more democratic house? I don't give a crap who uses it. The lazy man's filibuster is bullshit. Most things used to pass by simple majority. Go back, or ditch it. What they're using now is, not at all, what the country was "literally" founded on.
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  1807. ​ @AdamBladeTaylor  Well, Deutsche Bank is one of those banks, and they knew he was over inflating values. In their report, Trump had pegged his total net worth at $3b, and they pegged him at under $1b. They gave him loans anyway. They wouldn't have much of a case.
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  1808. You know there's a 2hr show, with a "fun half", right? If you're only interested in the non fun half, then don't watch clips from the fun half.
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  1809.  @oppsy2944  If you don't support the police being consistent, then you support their prejudices. They should either treat these anti-vax loons like they treat native, and other protesters, or vice versa.
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  1810.  @beng2729  Why do you keep insisting on lying? All, or part, of the region was called Peleset, Philistia, Philistine, Palestine, or some variation thereof, by the Egyptians, Assyrians, Babylonians, Persians, and Greeks, before the Romans. Aristotle considered the Dead Sea to be "in Palestine". It was the Hasmoneans, who renamed it Judea (and not Israel). The Romans put the name back to Palestine. It's "Israel" that ceased to exist as a descriptor, for thousands of years. Even the Israelite refugees to Judah stopped calling themselves Israelites, and became Judahites (Jew being the Europeanized version). That's also why, when they created their religion in Babylon, it became known as Judaism, not Israelism.
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  1811. The asylum process says to get inside the country, and it doesn't care how. You can't apply for asylum from outside the country. So, what's the process, if you don't let them come in at points of entry?
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  1812.  @Bramble451  For there to be a point of creation, there needs to be a point when there's no creation. At the point of no creation, if the god knows the future of everything he will create, then the creations can't deviate, from that, once created. At that point, he would also know how he will interact with the thing he hasn't created yet, and won't be able to change his mind, once it's created.
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  1813.  @halinaqi2194  Was I replying to a theist? I don't really expect people brainwashed from birth to change their minds about much. So, the actual bits you said, relevant to what I said, is that there's no point to it all, because all choices are made? So, still no free will, because I've taken all the possible choices. And ... God has made all possible choices? So, still no free will, for him either.
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  1814. And, funny thing, Biden could have easily been talking about the time Trump tweeted "Melanie", or the time Trump identified Carroll as "Marla".
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  1815.  @thomasautonomousanonymous  Jimmy isn't "down", or "to the left".
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  1816.  @thomasautonomousanonymous  His moronic 2016 take isn't a secret, which then led to a debate with Sam Seder, where he spewed more moronic nonsense, that also isn't a secret. You're just ignorant.
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  1817. ​ @globalhikingcr  60% of Canadians polled preferred Kamala, only 21% preferred Trump, the rest were neutral.
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  1818. Murchad99 Do you have a reading comprehension problem? I very clearly just posted that agnosticism is a position of no belief. That makes it not compatible the(os)+ism, the belief gods exist. That also makes it not compatible with athe(os)+ism, the belief no gods exist. And, don't bother trying to rope me into an a-theism definition. I'm not a fan. Those promoting an a-theism definition, like George H Smith and Antony Flew, totally acknowledged that their's was a new, or uncommon, usage. The Oxford Handbook of Atheism, which prefers Flew's terminology, still acknowledges that the narrow athe-ism definition is still more common. Also, on surveys, more non-theists choose "nothing" or "agnostic", rather than "atheist", indicating that even most non-theists aren't using the a-theist label to describe themselves. That an a-theism definition exists, doesn't men I have to use it. You may consider me one, but stop acting like people have to call themselves one. Personally, I think it makes for an illogical convoluted mess of a labelling system, and I'm in the majority of non-theists, and the majority of people who use words, who doesn't use it.
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  1819.  @garyhamlin3299  What are you talking about? "Since May 2021, people living in counties that voted heavily for Donald Trump during the last presidential election have been nearly three times as likely to die from COVID-19 as those who live in areas that went for now-President Biden."
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  1820.  @waterkingdavid  He outright promoted Trump as the better option, in 2016, dumb dumb. Sadly? You know what would happen if progressives voted third party? Republicans would win in most places. Every election be like a Dem primary vs a Republican general. You Dore knobs aren't very bright, or are his right wing fan base. The system needs to be changed, first, before third parties are viable, and you can't do that from the outside.
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  1821.  @traviswilliams2010  Do you expect socialists to starve to death, rather than buy food in stores, or some stupid shit?
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  1822.  @AILMinistries  Summary: A brief statement or account of the main points of something. Pretty sure that's what he wrote.
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  1823.  @timekeeper2538  Peru had one of the highest, if not the highest, uses of ivermectin in the world. It also has the highest covid deaths per capita rate in the world.
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  1824.  Ricky Spanish  McDonalds is open during school hours, dumbass. It's not a teenager only job.
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  1825.  @johnnytijerina4122  Having insane levels of forgiveness isn't the same as admiration, or praise. Get a grip.
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  1826.  @kurtvanderberg7528  Dumbest take. Mussolini literally defined fascism as firstly anti-socialist. He outright denied class warfare, didn't want any divisions, and wanted everyone to accept their lot in life, to work together united in nationalism. The Nazis, too, blamed socialists for sowing divisions, and Jews for inventing socialism and for not integrating. They also wanted everyone united in a single nationalist goal.
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  1827. @@Eet_Mia Why do I have to be in that state, to know the history of American wht sup, vs German wht sup?
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  1828. He's a moron. There are seperate appropriation bills, that need to pass, first. To redo everything separately, a second time, is just a waste of time.
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  1829. ​ @lindarushton6502  "Oh no, the savages have risen up and left the reserve, to terrorize us! They're so aggressive!" ~ 19th century you, I assume
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  1830.  @lobola956  Why do red states, where it's easier to get guns, and wander the streets with guns, tend to have higher firearm mortality and homicide rates?
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  1831.  Derek Hitt  That's moronic. They manipulate politicians with money, to get them to deregulate, cut their taxes, and give them more freedom to do whatever they want, and your solution to crony capitalism is to just hand them all that for free?
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  1832. You're wrong.
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  1833.  @JTuaim  Chattel slaves had no rights, at all. They were owned for life. They were recorded as property, like cattle. They couldn't do anything without permission. They could be beaten, raped, tortured, or killed, whenever their master wanted. They could have their children ripped away and sold, whenever the master wanted. Comparing that to being a "slave" to your job, or even to doing a set amount of time in prison, is nonsensical.
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  1834. Idiot Trump doesn't seem to grasp that almost every president, since the inception of the stock market, has had "record high" numbers, during their presidencies.
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  1835.  @TheRedStateBlue  Writing, and saying, things can be a crime, if you bring even one other person in on it. That's conspiracy to commit. Simply by bringing in one other person, that's enough to indicate you're actually going to try and do it. It can also be a crime if you write, or say, something to the someone you're going to commit a crime against, if the police think it's a credible threat. Someone putting out threats towards specific individuals in a book, should probably have been investigated. With one person it's harder, but writing, or saying stuff, can also get you arrested, if you take any action that indicates preparation, or even just show up at the place in question, where you've said you're going to do something illegal. Police can arrest your for things, before you get to the last stage of carrying out that thing. You've probably seen the stings, where they arrest someone for showing up to meet an underage teen, or something.
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  1836. Call them out for what, exactly? AOC actually voted against the individual state department appropriation bill and voted against the individual defense appropriation bill. What morons, like Jackson, apparently want her to do is then vote against the entire budget, which includes healthcare, education, housing, veteran's benefits, SNAP, SSI, etc. She also voted against the final version of the Capitol Hill police bill. Dore knobs don't seem to know that it was heavily amended, in the senate, and sent back for a second house vote. That state department appropriation bill she voted against is what includes the annual offensive military aid to Israel. So what, if she didn't vote against a purely defensive system? She didn't vote for it, either, and it was a blowout vote. Her vote made no difference. Progressives have a bill to put conditions on the offensive military aid to Israel. They have an anti anti-BDS laws bill. They've been calling it out as an apartheid. Get a grip on reality and complain about the 400+ house members who voted for it, ffs. So what, if they didn't force a 100% guaranteed to fail performance art vote on M4A? The $15, dimwit Jackson was complaining they weren't getting a vote on, already did get a vote. It passed the house (M4A didn't have a shot in hell), and also got a senate vote. What have Dore knobs done with two precious lists of no voters? Just keep bitching and complaining about those who voted for it, like pathetic useless hypocrites. And, learn some basic math skills. There are zero extra votes to be gained to the left of progressives, which means it's impossible to pass a bill without Manchin. There is the entire Republican party to try and draw extra votes from, to the right of Manchin. Bring enough Republicans on board and you can easily pass bills without needing squad votes. The squad only have leverage if a bill is "must pass", to Manchin. If he doesn't care if a bill will die ... zero leverage. If he amends a bill to the right, to bring enough Republicans on board ... zero leverage. Which bill has been "must pass", to Manchin, which he couldn't get Republicans on board for?
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  1837.  @laxarus3259  Literally called the The Law of Return, ffs, and applies to any Jewish person in the world, even if they just found out they've got some Jewish DNA. Israel has blocked Palestinians the right of return for 70 years. You are completely ignorant.
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  1838.  @outtarespecttomyfawtha1589  Sam tried to have a rational discussion with Jimmy, in 2016, when Jimmy was peddling Trump as the better option than Clinton. Jimmy wasn't having any of it. Every single one of Jimmy's predictions were wrong. Jimmy, himself, argues against simply believing what people say, and to look at what they do, to judge them. Looking at what he does, doesn't show "good intentions", at all.
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  1839. No. No she didn't.
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  1840. What are you talking about? They're free to think for themselves and support white supremacists, and others are free to think for themselves and point out that they support white supremacists.
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  1841.  @whyamimrpink78  Because they're dead? You didn't say anything that debunks the fact that the unvaccinated now account for almost all hospitalizations and deaths.
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  1842.  @whyamimrpink78  Yes, I get that Republicans don't give a crap about anyone with preconditions. Who you care, or don't care, about doesn't change the fact that hundreds of thousands of people are dead. Even a mediocre response, like Canada, Germany, Norway, Denmark, Finland ... would translate into about 400k fewer deaths.
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  1843. FACT: It won't stack with regular SSI disability. A disabled person with a child would already be getting $1000+ a month. Yang's plan would simply make most things, at least, 10% more expensive for them. FACT: A VAT is paid by the consumers, not corporations. Yang is outright lying when he says a VAT will force corporations like Amazon to "pay their fair share". Amazon would simply collect the tax and pass it along to the government. FACT: Many of those who do benefit from the UBI will spend their extra money on Amazon, making Amazon even more money. FACT: Amazon making more money will give more money to Bezos, for him to hoard, and hoarded money isn't affected by a VAT. FACT: Any plan that hurts some poor people, and will make giant corporations and the super rich even richer, is a shit plan.
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  1844.  Lovely Lori  Yeah, judging by the number of deaths, there's more likely 2-6m infected.
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  1845.  @aarondickson9573  "Greatest" can apply to anything, good or bad, and doesn't tell me anything. The US is not at the top of the freedom index. It is not at the top of the freedom of the press index. It has more citizens locked up, than any other country in the world. Etc. How is it the "greatest" at "liberation and freedom"?
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  1846.  @JusSick24  The strategy ... the only possible way to ever pass a bill in congress ... is to increase the number of yes votes in congress. So, when some dimwit comedian starts slandering people who just helped increase the numbers, your screwing your own pointless movement (getting a 100% guaranteed to fail performance art vote isn't itself M4A). AOC, Bernie, and TYT, have been trying to help add one more yes vote to congress, in Nina Turner, while Dore has been busy slandering them all.
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  1847.  @spearman9788  The US hasn't advanced beyond giving reparations to the slave owners, rather than the slaves?
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  1848.  @democratpoopcity3347  Every state in question does an audit before certification, dimwit.
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  1849. Canada settled on 24 weeks, with exceptions for after. At around 25 weeks is when a fetus starts developing the parts required for any level of consciousness, and feeling pain. Prior to that, a fetus is basically equivalent to someone who is brain dead. If one is generally understood to be no longer truly alive, then the other should be understood to be not yet truly alive. 16 weeks is just arbitrary nonsense.
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  1850.  @aliamjon2550  Whatabout penguins?
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  1851. Would you choose it over being run over by a car, shot up in a Walmart, shot up at church, shot up at temple, shot up at synagogue, shot up at mosque, stabbed to death by a fellow student, stabbed to death in a subway, etc., etc., etc.?
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  1852. Liz is on the better end of the Republican party. Hillary wasn't the better end of the Democratic party.
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  1853.  @cfrey1988  That's nonsense. Covid's 1% mortality rate is actually 5x higher than the automobile accident mortality rate. Should we ditch street lights, speed limits, seatbelt laws, child seat laws, drinking and driving laws, vehicle safety standards, licensing, etc., because automobile accidents aren't deadly enough?
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  1854.  @genesis204  Yeah, no, that whole snowflake thing is backwards. Right wingers are definitely the snowflakes.
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  1855.  @joeblowe3180  Rofl. The entire NATO budget is less than 0.5% of the US mltry budget, and less than 0.1% of annual US healthcare spending.
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  1856. Most of the Florida ones were supporters of the fascist government, before Castro, or are their children.
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  1857. So, you're saying it was okay to punish Israeli civilians, for the actions of their government, are you?
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  1858. ​ @jasoncriscio7238  Do tell. What did Michelle's financial statements say, during their second campaign?
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  1859.  @geebsterman2881  Just how many times have you spammed your bullshit, trying to cover for a pathetic US response to the pandemic?
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  1860.  @Tanouuuu  That's like saying both the French resistance actions can be explained and the Nazis actions can be explained ... the actions of the colonists of North America and the Native Americans can both be explained. One "explanation" sucks ass.
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  1861.  @SeanD808  Aside from the fact that, yes, he did default on a loan ... If I stole a car at night and brought it back by morning, refueled, did I still steal a car?
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  1862. And his supporters are fine with tax payers funding fighting his private legal battles?
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  1863.  @CV-fb9kf  Backing pro-M4A progressives in other districts with your giant platform and your PAC, being on the ground campaigning for them, is going beyond the job of simply representing your district. Helping to add more M4A yes votes to congress, is exactly what needs doing to ever pass the bill. Getting enough yes votes is the only way to ever pass any bill. Slandering people who are actively fighting to increase numbers, isn't holding anyone accountable. It's simply slander. Nobody ran on threatening to paralyze the house, during a pandemic. Dore implying they did is a bullshit strawman. Nobody ran on Dore's subjective concept of a "ruckus". They ran on their own. Him implying they ran on what he considers a "ruckus", and then went against it, is also a bullshit strawman. Dore making out like spreading progressive ideas on social media platforms much larger than his, and battling right wing bullshit over social media, is doing nothing, while making out like he's some kind of warrior, is hypocritical gibberish. He's not an honest actor. He's full of endless bullshit.
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  1864. How is talking as if "Aristotelian" is Judeo-Christian, "on the money", when Aristotle was neither Jewish, nor Christian?
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  1865. Basically, take democracy to its extreme. You could still have the bureaucracies required to run large countries, if you want to keep a nation together. Those bureaus would just take orders directly from the people, rather than untrustworthy and corruptible politicians. You'd keep jobs needed to run society ... legal system, police, regulatory bodies, public works, etc. ... all answering directly to the people, and abandon jobs not really needed in a moneyless society ... banking, marketing, advertising, insurance, stock market, etc. The later, and any unemployed people would help do the necessary work, meaning everyone could work less to keep society functioning. Any automation would also mean people could work less at the remaining jobs but still get equal benefits of a functioning society.
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  1866. The Permanent Apportionment Act of 1929 froze the size of the house. If that were repealed, the house could be enlarged and become more representative. That, in turn, would distribute electorals in a more representative fashion. It would likely kill Republicans' chances of ever winning the house and presidency again, unless they found another Reagan. That would still leave the senate, though, which is more undemocratic than the electoral college. Worst part of the US system.
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  1867.  @moe433  Plenty of men seem to have babies, or there wouldn't be any babies. Men also used to wear skirts and dresses. Should we go back to the good ol' masculine days of kilts, togas, and such?
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  1868. Why? Might as well write in Mickey Mouse for president.
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  1869.  @TheBiggestSqueeze  She just got done taking on the DNC campaigning for Bernie, and backing pro-M4A progressives against the DCCC, dumb dumb. That's the exact reason committee voters said they didn't vote for her. They stabbed her in the front for fighting them and Dore stabbed her in the back for supposedly not fighting them. M4A is the kind of bill that goes through committees. Pelosi even introduced it last session, where it died in committees, just like 90% of bills do. The speaker can't even force a bill through committees, all on their own. She didn't tout "forcing" (threatening to paralyze the house) a vote. She touted having a vote.
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  1870.  @thunderpooch  Same with going after Ilhan so much more than Tlaib, even though they support similar things and are both Muslim.
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  1871. Not quite what he stated and he did apologize for what he did say. So, you're going to post a daily reminder that you're dishonest?
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  1872.  @VIi726  Why? It's a museum. It was a free ticket and a free dress. Are progressives supposed to be anti museums now?
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  1873.  @roems6396  You don't have a right to be on someone else's private property, so how do you have a right to say whatever you want on property you don't have a right to be on?
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  1874.  @dr-wz4gf  Digging what? People have had their memberships revoked since the dawn of memberships. People have been removed from private property since the dawn of private property. In what reality do you have a stated right to be on someone else's private property saying stuff.
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  1875.  @SallyBlumCGN  How about a very basic definition, from its originator ... "Fascism is the complete opposite of Marxian socialism." ~ Mussolini Marx's ideal is a stateless, non-authoritarian, democratic, socialism. The opposite would be a ultra-nationalistic, authoritarian, anti-democratic, capitalism. Trying to toss the democratic process asside to keep an unelected ruler in power, pretty much moved Republicans from being kind of undemocratic to overtly anti-democratic, and was the last piece in their fascist puzzle.
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  1876. That's the problem with saying a member of their pack is the alpha. That makes the rest of them all betas.
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  1877.  @moe433  Not too hard a concept. A grifter, like a snake oil salesman, claims to be selling you something beneficial, but is actually selling you something completely useless, or even harmful. So, for example, Dore claims to be for M4A. He promoted Trump (platform: toss 10+m of the poorest Americans off of Medicaid expansion) as a better option than Clinton (platform: add 40m older Americans to Medicare expansion), which is going outright backwards. He peddled Tulsi M4A is unAmerican Gabbard, over Bernie, outright campaigning against M4A. He peddles sitting on the sidelines in some irrelevant third party, and letting corporate Dems and Republicans rule for decades to come, which gets you no closer to passing M4A. He publicly abandoned Nina Turner, abandoned adding another M4A yes vote to congress, which gets you no closer to passing M4A. The government negotiated under $20 vaccines, that are then given out for free, is like a tiny taste of what M4A would look like, and he continuously sows distrust in the government and "big pharma", while peddling more expensive, paid for out of pocket, alternatives ... peddling the more privatized healthcare options. He, and Max, spewed misinformation about the UK's completely socialized healthcare system, sowing distrust in that system, which is even left of M4A. All the directions he leads people get you no closer to, or even further away from, M4A. Get it?
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  1878.  @waterandafter  And, out of the gate, you weren't debating the actual point of the op ... commentator hypocrisy. You were having a strawman argument with yourself, and just haven't seemed to grasp the point, throughout, even when it's spelled out to you.
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  1879. He probably read marital law, and thought he had lots of experience with prenups and divorces.
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  1880.  @liberalismthebiggerpandemi4768  The guy convinced tens of millions of you dimwits not to believe any media, any judges, any lawyers, any law enforcement, any election officials, any intelligence agencies, any scientists, any doctors, any nurses ... anybody ... even to not believe your own lying eyes, if they contradict Big Brother Trumpty Dumpty. You're in a cult.
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  1881.  @aliamjon2550  "then go if not vote" Can you make that make sense?
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  1882.  @robertmatthews2009  Oh, my bad. You're a crazy person. Have a nice day.
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  1883.  @rainydays999  If there's "70000", $7m is only $100 each.
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  1884.  @melodieostmanrealestate  How are they going to get in, if they aren't vaccinated?
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  1885.  @upmediawindsor2067  Either that's only about $100 each, or they're full of shit about how many of them there are.
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  1886.  @Thedudeabides803  Nope. You must be thinking of the $2000+ Joe Rogan "kitchen sink". A bunch of monoclonal antibody treatments were found to be 0% effective against Omicron.
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  1887.  @jaredbrooker  I'm comparing numbers. Covid is also far more contagious, btw. But hey, insignificant numbers of people, am I right? The motor vehicle accident fatality rate is about 0.25%. 99.75% survivability! Maybe we should ditch all rules of the road. Why bother with all the licensing, laws, and vehicle safety standards, when the numbers are so insignificant, right?
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  1888.  @markzuckergecko621  So, yeah, you do call other Republicans fake Republicans, making you a hypocrite.
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  1889.  @benhay100  That would be his record.
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  1890. Does this affect the Republican primaries? He has a challenger. If yes, then more states should do it.
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  1891.  @a-o-dumb3348  The average net worth of Americans over 55 is $1m+. What he has isn't ridiculously high. He leads by example by promoting policies that would tax him more. It's not in his best self interest, if his interest is to be as rich as possible. Millionaires that promote giving themselves, and billionaires, tax breaks have their own self interests in mind.
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  1892. ​ @QuickScope771  A representative democracy is still a form of democracy. It's just not a direct democracy.
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  1893.  @shanabell8603  You can also find another video, by Ryan Cooper, called "Unpacking Jimmy Dore's dishonest BS about child vaccination", that shows Jimmy lying about yet another article.
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  1894. ​ @Lt.-Dans-Legs  He was a member of the house from 2007-2019. Who called for an investigation or impeachment? Why aren't they investigating or impeaching Ronny Jackson (his webpage says he's a retired Rear Admiral, when he had a dishonorable demotion down to captain)?
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  1895. They would ironically also be justifying the Hamas attack, if Israeli citizens are likewise to be held responsible for their leadership.
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  1896.  @larshofler8298  Yeah, totally samesies .... well, except for the part where the government doesn't control social media. Are you asking for the government to step in, to stop private companies from moderating however they want?
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  1897.  @harveymanfredsenjenson5417  So, McCain voting no to repeal Obamacare was Trump's fault?
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  1898. Maybe because her mother and grandmother live in Florida? People often visit family over the xmas holidays, don't they?
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  1899. I'm Joe O'Biden-Bama, and I approve of this message. If you don't like it, vote for the other O'Biden-Bama.
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  1900.  @stevent1565  Payments have already been suspended, since last year. Who's still making payments? And, most people probably aren't petty enough to wish any and all obstacles they had to overcome on everyone else, like you are.
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  1901.  @mariem3429  Being a cop is less dangerous than being a garbage collector, because they shoot first, ask questions later, and take as little risk as possible.
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  1902.  @mariem3429  It's a saying, dumb dumb, not always literal. https://idioms.thefreedictionary.com/shoot+first%2C+ask+questions+later I'd also call whoever's job it was to do the job I wanted them to do. That has absolutely nothing to do with your blathering about them being "heroes" for taking risks. They take fewer risks than garbage collectors. Are you going to start calling garbage collectors "heroes", for the risks they take? There you go, assuming everyone they interact with is guilty, first, is how you get shooting first and asking questions later. They should be risking their lives more, by not assuming someone reaching for their wallet is reaching for a gun, not assuming something in someone's hand is a gun, not assuming a kid has a real gun or that he's planning to use it on you, etc., dimwit. That's cowardly, not brave.
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  1903.  @mariem3429  Got it. Don't assume innocence. Assume guilt. Kill people who aren't an actual threat, because you're scared. Nope, you're spewing more bullshit. You're probably including all officer deaths, due to any reason.
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  1904. The Tates will be teaching from a cell in Romania, hopefully.
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  1905.  @lisahenry20  Yeah, but we're already studying coronaviruses. Hence the lab leak theory.
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  1906.  @LogoLamont  The US is 29th on net migration rate. https://www.cia.gov/library/publications/the-world-factbook/rankorder/2112rank.html What you loonies fail to do, is also count the people leaving. Unlike what your moron President says, more Mexicans have actually been leaving than coming in, over the past decade. They didn't like it, at all. https://www.pewhispanic.org/2015/11/19/more-mexicans-leaving-than-coming-to-the-u-s/ This spike is from places like Guatemala, where the US has been supporting a dictator with over $100m in military aid. Just like the ME, the US directly, or indirectly, destroys the place, and then refuses to help clean up the mess.
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  1907. ​ @ThirtyYearstoolate  Has a bunch of courtroom sketches, as well.
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  1908. 50s: extreme anti-socialist Karens 60s: religious extremist Karens 70s: racist Karens 80s: gun nut Karens 90s: neocon Karens 00s: tea party Karens 10s: anti-Obama Trumpist Karens 20s: Qanon Karens (or Qarens)
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  1909. Bullshit. The DoJ has found that numerous police departments use excessive violence and racial profiling.
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  1910.  @myroslavprotsiv9925  Rofl, what an asinine argument. So, if you forget your driver's license, you expect a pass from the cops? If you forget a proof of age, you expect a pass from a bar, smoke shop, or lottery outlet? If you forget your normal passport, you expect a pass at the border? If you forget your Costco membership, gym membership, or whatnot, you expect a free pass, to get in? If you forget your bank card, you expect free access to your account? Forgetting an id sucks, but it happens all the time. Get a grip.
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  1911.  Real American  Moron. General election polls poll the entire country. Those were accurate.
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  1912.  Real American  Fuck you're stupid. A national poll does the national total. Hillary won the national total. Those polls were accurate, dumbass. Are you seriously comparing a party's already chosen single candidate with a multiple candidate primary?
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  1913.  @GlassesAndCoffeeMugs  Jimmy and AOC both want M4A. They simply disagree on what? Whether forcing a vote now, that is guaranteed to fail, will accomplish anything. And yet he calls her a fake progressive, baselessly claims she's a paid opposition shill, etc., etc. If you're looking for someone to tell not to make such a big deal over small differences, go to Jimmy's channel. And, the reverse should be that he make a bigger deal over bigger differences, so maybe most of his videos should be attacking Republicans.
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  1914. @Tilip Muejark So, no argument. Got it. You mean like needing proof of age for certain things, a membership for certain things, a license for certain things, a vaccine passport to go to public school, a vaccine passport to immigrate, etc.? What reality are you living in, where you have unlimited freedom?
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  1915.  @heidibenner1577  Action is AOC and Bernie on the ground campaigning for Nina Turner, promoting M4A, and trying to add another M4A yes vote to congress. Adding more yes votes to congress is the most important thing, when getting enough yes votes is the only possible way to ever pass a bill. AOC also helped add a few more in the general election. A 100% guaranteed to fail performance art vote, doesn't get you any closer to being able to pass the bill. Publicly abandoning Nina Turner ... abandoning adding another M4A yes vote to congress ... as Dore did, doesn't get you closer to being able to pass the bill. Sitting on the sidelines, in some irrelevant third party doesn't get you any closer to being able to pass the bill and, if you let Republicans win, or let a corporate Dem win back a progressive seat, could actually move you further away. Promoting Tulsi M4A is unAmerican Gabbard over Bernie doesn't get you any closer to being able to pass the bill ... in fact, voting against having an M4A president is actually the opposite. Trashing government negotiated under $20 prices on vaccines that are given out for free (a tiny taste of what M4A would be like) as some "big pharma" conspiracy, and spreading a general fear of the government, doesn't get you any closer to being able to pass the bill. Having your buddy Max on, so the two of you can misrepresent the UK's completely socialized healthcare system, doesn't get you any closer to being able to pass the bill. All the "action" Dore promotes gets you no closer, or even further away from, ever passing the bill. He's a grifter, who pretends he's selling you something beneficial, but is actually selling you something completely useless, or even harmful.
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  1916.  @luchi.el.zorrito  Anarcho-capitalism devolves into feudalism.
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  1917.  @luchi.el.zorrito  Rofl. America is already my lord? I'm not American. Can you give an example of democratic socialism being "proven" inferior? Inferior militarily? Communists overthrew Russia's capitalist military. Communists overthrew China's capitalist military. Even the US couldn't defeat communists in N Korea or Vietnam. The USSR defeated most of the capitalist Nazi military, the strongest capitalist military of its time. You say you don't like Ayn Rand, but then say you also like "classic liberalism". She's considered a major influence in the revival of "classic liberalism", so you're pretty much talking gibberish. You're smearing yourself. You're just pulling shit out of your ass and flinging it around like a monkey.
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  1918. Except Iron Man is returning as Dr Doom.
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  1919.  @camelopardalis84  She went all covid isn't as bad as people make out, promoting herd immunity, promoting it'll be better when warm weather hits, etc. She has attracted a bunch of Trumpists, like Jimmy's constant Dem bashing has.
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  1920. There's no "slippery slope". Private property owners have always had the right to remove people from their private property. Clubs with memberships have always had the right to revoke memberships.
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  1921.  Lincoln D  Rofl, "assaulted" by BLM activists ... when a cop pushed someone into Rand and bumped his shoulder?
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  1922. If Dave is finding religion, is he going to follow strict Jewish (OT) laws? He'll have a tough time recovering from a stone to the head.
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  1923. ​ @jameskennedy6207  In what reality were Native Americans, or Africans, "picking on" their more powerful colonialist oppressors?
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  1924. ​ @Tetrahfy  6. Trump also made all kinds of healthcare "plans", due out in just two weeks, that never materialized. Just like he made infrastructure "plans" that never materialized. If he hasn't actually implemented a thing, then he hasn't done anything.
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  1925.  Eric Moore  If you think he's great, the only options are you're dumb or a right winger. I gave you the benefit of the doubt.
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  1926.  @FactsFirst  It does mean don't force your religious beliefs on others, though. Omar is obviously religious. Wearing a hijab doesn't violate the separation. If she tried to force all women to wear a hijab, that would be violating the separation. If Tulsi is personally opposed to killing cows, that doesn't violate the separation. If she tried to make it illegal for everyone to kill cows, that would be a violation of the separation. If your reasoning includes "because God", then don't force it on others.
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  1927.  @routineforputin1720  All the more reason to have minimum wages.
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  1928. Learn some math. There are zero extra out of party votes in the neighborhood, or to the left, of the most progressive Dems. There are some moderate Republicans with voting ideology scores in the neighborhood of the most conservative Dems, and then the entire rest of the Republican party, to the right of them. There are more votes to be lost, or gained, on the right. The $15 min got a vote. There's now a record of names of representatives and senators who voted against paying people more, during a pandemic. Isn't that supposed to be used, in some fashion, to go after those who voted against it? Yet, the FTV mouthpiece is still bitching about those who voted for it.
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  1929. ​ @tanyasharadamba1264  It says "I want a president". Stein isn't a viable candidate, and won't ever be one.
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  1930. Did you catch the part of the video pointing out you're stupid?
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  1931. He also promoted, and helped fund, Hamas, to weaken the Palestinian Authority, to avoid possible peace, so he could continue his colonization project.
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  1932.  @w.iraheta3769  How a UBI is paid for matters. A VAT doesn't actually tax businesses. In fact, it's specifically designed not to. Giant corporations wouldn't have paid into Yang's UBI, and only received the benefit of extra trillions being spent, funneling money to the very top faster than ever before.
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  1933. Yeah, she started peddling right wing covid misinformation, for some reason. It would be gone with warm weather (nope). Look at how great Sweden is doing (as it racked up a 5-10x higher covid death rate than Its neighbors). Her covid attitude was probably responsible for one of her own staff dying, but she powered on.
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  1934. ​ @Greg-io1ip  Corrupt Trump pardon. Not that bizarre.
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  1935. It's religious thinking. They set X is good, as "fact", therefore X can't possibly do something wrong. Even if say their "god" commits genocide, or orders a genocide, then it must be the other people's fault.
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  1936.  @premkumar7969  Nah, NV is plenty "woke".
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  1937.  @andrewwells6323  Nah, you're talking past what I'm saying and referring to an overall economy. And now you've moronically called Walmart goods, "quality". So the power loom didn't put thousands of people out of work, force them to take jobs for 3/4 the wages, and cause riots? Strange. The average cost of living, inflation, prices, would have to be going in reverse for you to make sense. Prices on goods are going up, not down, on average. The loss of jobs to automation didn't reduce prices. The loss of jobs to $3 a day workers didn't reduce prices. But, those two things did put thousands out of work.
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  1938.  MidScream1  Aside from insulting your own citizens, which you might want to apologize for, if you think a burka looks like a Balaklava or Halloween mask, then you're a complete and utter moron.
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  1939.  @edwardrosser938  Rofl! Hilarious, coming from a Dore knob. Jimmy slanders anyone who disagrees with him a "fake", "fraud", "sellout", or whatnot. He's a grifting loudmouth, who slanders anyone who disagrees with him, peddles endless bullshit, who throws henchmen (anonymous producers) under the bus for his mistakes, has conned his followers into thinking he "tells it like it is", and it's almost entirely hopeless trying to have a conversation with them. Sound familiar? Case in point, I stated facts about Dore's dishonest take on numbers ... it's clearly just math ... and you still came here to try and defend him. Go ahead and argue against the reality of math. Make me laugh, Dore knob.
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  1940.  @stephanielewis5595  The Seal who shot Osama has been alive and well and supporting Trump, up until now. You idiots are shooting your own supporters in the back.
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  1941. ​ @tomjackson4374  So you're insane is what you're saying.
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  1942.  @korhashamo  It's to point out that idiots, like Greenwald, and likely you, don't know what "censorship" is. A privately owned and operated news company picking and choosing which articles it wants to write/print, and which it doesn't, has nothing to do with "censorship". If the authorities were forcing them not to write/print something, then that would be censorship. Likewise, private companies picking and choosing what people can, and can't, post on their privately owned websites, or store on their privately owned servers, isn't censorship.
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  1943.  @korhashamo  Me not letting you put posters up on my house, or Sam not letting you come talk on his show, or me not stocking the NY Post in my store newspaper section, aren't forms of censorship, dumbass.
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  1944.  @bretbonner  Nothing you just blathered refutes how antibodies work. Not all viruses produce long lasting antibodies. Covid is one that doesn't. Even less so, if you had a mild case.
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  1945.  @mickg3738  Rofl. How is electing an actor to be a governor, any better, dumb dumb?
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  1946. Makes no sense, that he can't simply mortgage properties, unless he already owns no equity in them.
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  1947.  @elephantintheroom5678  The Jewish Virtual Library, the Balfour Project, British Parliament Hansard, all have a bunch of the pre-1948 information.
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  1948. The first amendment has little to do with this. A private property owner's right to have you removed from their private property has always trumped the non right to be on their private property saying stuff. If you want first amendment rights, want an actual public square, then it's the private ownership that's the problem.
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  1949.  @will4us  He's basically arguing not to believe anyone who claims to have been raped, unless they're young and attractive.
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  1950.  @strange4you  No she isn't. Look Ze'ev Jabotinsky
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  1951. So, you somehow didn't noticed the massive 2019 border crossing spike, that was more than double any year under Obama? And you somehow didn't notice that this wave surpassed any month under Obama, back in September? Averaged out, there were more border crossings per year under Trump than Obama.
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  1952. The clipped ears tells you who.
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  1953.  @mediamattersismycockholste562  Moron. Nazis loosened gun control for citizens. They just no longer considered Jews citizens, kind of like right wing nuts who question Muslim citizens' loyalties, or don't stick up for the black guy who carries and gets shot by police. Those people don't count. Nazis were perfectly fine with insulting people of other religions, other races, other politics, etc. They just shut down negative media representations of them, with shouts of "fake news". They did not believe in safe spaces for those other people, just themselves. Nazis were leaders in privatization, dumbass, turning tax dollars into private profits. They were backed by Germany's leading industrialists. They were anti-globalization, Germany first, type nationalists. Infanticide? Again, Jews didn't count, to them. Just like many right wing nutters are fine with killing hundreds of thousands Muslim children, pardoning war criminals that kill Muslim children, etc. P.S. 1. An "infant" is birth to 12 months, so fetuses don't count as "infanticide". 2. Nobody is forcing abortions on people, you stupid wingnut. 3. Nobody is even promoting the idea that all fetuses of any group should be aborted. "Pro abortion" isn't actually a thing.
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  1954. Yep, unless she comes on as a guest, or something. The Damage Report has her jersey framed.
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  1955.  @kcolonelx6181  Because they can't order a country to stop doing a thing, that may or may not be breaking the law, until they rule that thing is breaking the law. But they can say don't break the law, and provide us with details of how you're not breaking the law.
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  1956. That came after Israelis forced Palestinians out of their homes, and attacked the mosque, where a protest was being organized. It was after that, that Hamas warned Israel to leave, or else, and Israel ignored them.
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  1957. ​ @tomk1183  Lying about immigration. "When evidence emerged that didn’t suit Miller’s aims, he squelched it. In March, the White House had asked the Department of Health and Human Services to study the costs of refugee resettlement. The department returned with a study, in July, showing that the revenue generated by refugees in the form of local, state, and federal taxes exceeded the costs of resettling them by sixty-three billion dollars. According to the Times, Miller suppressed the study and demanded that H.H.S. recalculate the numbers. Two of the White House officials told me they’d heard that Miller had given H.H.S. strict instructions at the outset. “The President believes refugees cost more, and the results of this study shouldn’t embarrass the President,” he had told people at the agency."
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  1958.  @hazardousjazzgasm129  About Israel having non-Jews, as if that means something. Sure, but they ethnically cleansed the non-Jewish majority (there were over 100k fewer Jews, than non, in the Zionist portion of partition, prior to the Nakba), never letting them return, before being such "great" people and allowing about 20% to stay.
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  1959. Did Trump get Hannity snorting drugs?
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  1960.  @wolfen888  Native Americans initially welcomed Europeans, but then reached a point where they wanted to push them all back into the sea. Do you think it was because they were Christians, because they were white, or was there some other reason? How did Jws manage to live amongst Muslims for some 1200 years? Why did they flee to Muslim countries, when Christians offered conversion, dth, or exile?
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  1961.  @wolfen888  I know my history just fine, thanks. Yeah, not all Muslims follow hadiths, much like all Christians don't follow catechisms. Medina? Have you read the Medina constitution? Pretty sure most Muslims believe there was some betrayal by some, at the time. The vast majority of Jws then lived amongst them for 1200 years, exactly like I said. They shared a Golden Age together. Jws fled Christian Spain and found refuge in Muslim nations, exactly like I said. Some things happened, between 1917 and 1948, that drastically changed things. What was it, do you think? Try real hard. Think. Think.
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  1962. Morons, like Matt, don't seem to realize that colonialism was also done between nations of equal development (Romans against Greeks, Greeks against Persians), and even done by less developed peoples against more developed nations (Mongol and Viking conquests and colonization for example). Is he really a fan of the Roman colonization of Palestine? The Jews didn't seem to like it, at the time. The roads and aqueducts weren't enough.
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  1963. ​ @Milimeteypetey  Yes, it is a spectrum. Even the original Greek democracy was similar to the original US version, in that only land owning men were eligible to vote, and no possible eligibility for women or slaves. Also why we have a democracy index, indicating just how democratic a nation is. Whoever does the index, however, seems to ignore things about IL. Partition was done against the will of the majority, the actual majority of what became Israel had been ethnically cleansed and never allowed to return, it is occupying all Palestine territories and not allowing them to vote for who actually rules over them. It's about as democratic as Germany, after mustached man purged his political opponents and then held elections.
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  1964.  @faerykat  If they elect their government, then they elect those who do make policy. Just like the majority of white Southern Americans elected pro-slavery leaders, pro-secession leaders (who enshrined slavery into their new constitution), pro-Jim Crow/segregation leaders, anti-Civil Rights/desegregation leaders ...
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  1965. Ummm, those original voters got almost a month to vote ... "The 1788–89 United States presidential election was the first quadrennial presidential election. It was held from Monday, December 15, 1788, to Saturday, January 10, 1789"
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  1966.  @bartjargengarblbargeler1980  Do you Dore knobs even know there was an earlier attack in Feb 2018, with zero dissenting opinions from inspectors, and a follow up investigation that assigned blame to the Syrian government?
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  1967. For one, the IDF has its largest base in a shopping mall, cowardly hiding behind civilian human shields. And, the IDF has over 400k militants (reservists) amongst the populace, cowardly hiding behind human shields. For another, yeah, there is something they can do ... just don't fire on civilians. We don't drop bombs on a bank hostage situation. We don't drop bombs on an urban gang hideout. We wouldn't drop a bomb on domestic terrorists, hold up in an apartment building, hospital, or whatnot. We don't do that, because we care about our own civilians or, at least, the authorities somewhat care about the optics. This is blatantly just not giving a crap about Palestinian lives.
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  1968. Technically, their "support" for Israel leads to Israel being the first nation wiped out, in their end of times myth. That's not really liking Jewish people either.
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  1969. ​ @deborahboggs6040  Yeah, the slaps on the wrist go back to 1991, at least. He and daddy were fined $30k, for breaking gaming laws, when daddy's lawyer purchased over $3m in chips and didn't cash them in. That let him get a $3m fraudulent loan, while only having to pay off 1% of it. Should have been like his current case, where they're fining him for all the unlawful gains, and been a $3m fine.
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  1970.  @pbfrank13  Socialist programs do not require force, if you're committed to democracy, and the program is voted in. If you're not committed to democracy, then you're already committed to force, so shouldn't complain about force.
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  1971. Testing rates are one of the most overlooked covid measures. Total tests and tests per million are irrelevant numbers that are completely disconnected from the covid numbers. The number you want to look at is tests per confirmed case. The US spent much of 2020 testing at a pathetically low rate of about 5 people per confirmed case. Canada fairly quickly got up to about 15 people per confirmed case. Australia fairly quickly got up to about 50 people per confirmed case. The US is only up to about 13 people. Canada is now about 25. Australia is up about 150. There's a strong correlation between testing rates and covid outcomes.
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  1972. What's the big difference between Netanyahu and Putin?
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  1973.  our hair defies gravity so can we  Moron. Improper entry is only a misdemeanor. Might as well start shooting people for loitering or smoking in a no smoking area. It is also a misdemeanor that US asylum law encourages people to commit. Getting yourself into the country, any which way, is step 1 in applying for asylum. People even have a full year to fuck about, before they're required to apply. "To obtain asylum through the affirmative asylum process you must be physically present in the United States. You may apply for asylum status regardless of how you arrived in the United States or your current immigration status." https://www.uscis.gov/humanitarian/refugees-asylum/asylum/obtaining-asylum-united-states
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  1974. The most popular third party hasn't won a single seat in congress in its near 50 year existence. The most popular progressive third party hasn't won a single seat in congress in its 20 year existence. There's nothing more incremental than going third party, other than sitting on your ass at home and not voting.
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  1975.  @chestervirgil7968  The $15 passed the house in the covid relief bill, dimwit. It got an actual vote, and passed the house. It didn't pass the senate, then went back to the house for a second vote. It was after that, that Bernie tried to get it in reconciliation. If the house hadn't passed the senate bill that was sent back, do you even know what happens next? It goes to house-senate negotiation, where the squad can try and pull in zero extra votes by making concessions to the zero members of congress to the left of them, and Manchin can try and pull in extra votes by making concessions to the 50 senators and 212 house members to the right of the party. In a standoff, a bill will most likely move right, not left. That is all besides the point that Dore is a pathetic useless hypocrite, who did nothing with the optics of voting against raising the minimum during a pandemic and nothing with the list of no voters. He just keeps whining, bitching about, and slandering, those who voted for it. AOC endorsed Nina in March, you dishonest douchebag. She then campaigned for her in the final stretch. Meanwhile, Dore was slandering AOC, claiming she had abandoned M4A, while she was actively trying to add another M4A yes vote to congress. It was him who had publicly abandoned Nina and abandoned adding another M4A yes vote to congress. While he was stupidly wondering where AOC was on M4A march day, she was at Nina rallies. Oh my, Dore's comment section must have been in an uproar over Dore abandoning Nina and slandering AOC and Bernie, who was also campaigning with Nina. Was it? Did you all call him out as a lying grifter? Dore, and his knobs, benefit the far right. That's just a fact.
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  1976.  @chestervirgil7968  Go learn some basic math, and how government actually works, Dore knob.
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  1977. The majority of "illegals" are overstays, and the largest group of overstayers are Canadians. Canadian overstays are largely being ignored. They only care about certain "illegals".
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  1978.  @antidote4870  The two state solution took land from the native population and gave it to newcomers, from Europe and Russia. It was based on colonialism. It's almost a single state, already. Israel sure seems like it wants that outcome. Bezalel Smotrich, the lunatic Netanyahu put in charge of the West Bank, made public a plan to segregate and subjugate (no federal representation), exile, or kill, any non Jews in all of Israel/Palestine. Even worse, his map of "Israel" includes parts of Jordan, Syria, and Lebanon. The question is whether Palestinians will have any property or rights left. To survive as a Jewish ethno-state, Israel has to keep Jews as the majority, which means continuing to ethnically cleanse, or kill, enough Palestinians to keep themselves in the majority, or resort to taking away any non Jewish rights and give up being democratic.
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  1979. He's a quack who has claimed addiction can only be cured with a spiritual experience, and has claimed his daughter's meat only diet cured all his mental and physical ailments. Having quacks' bullshit proven false is funny.
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  1980. The idiot doesn't even seem to get that this is a still from a video, saying they took a picture at that moment, and that everyone's going to get to see the full video tomorrow.
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  1981. @current_interest He didn't prepare for it. He downplayed it. He mocked guidelines. The US trace testing rate has been pretty pathetic. He just bullies and fighs with everyone, instead of pulling them together and working together. Promoting being like Sweden (also in the top 20 for covid deaths per capita), rather than promoting being like Vietnam, New Zealand, Australia, or other countries that have done it right. ...
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  1982.  @daemonzap1481  Isn't that what we'd hope from all Catholics?
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  1983.  @whyamimrpink78  You didn't answer my question. How is trying to overthrow the democratic process and install an unelected ruler, "limited government and giving people more freedom"? You're telling people to cut the cord? Trump (the federal government), convinced tens of millions of stupid right wingers not to believe any media, any judges, any lawyers, any election officials, any law enforcement, any intelligence agencies, any scientists, any doctors, any nurses ... anyone ... even to not believe their own lying eyes, if they contradicted him (the federal government). He (the federal government) convinced millions to go against their local and state governments. He (the federal government) fired, or threatened to fire, any federal workers who contradicted him. How is the most Big Brother like government in US history, "limited government and giving people more freedom"?
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  1984. ​ @SeanPat1001  They were made ineligible by the 14th. Zero Confederates had to be personally disqualified by congress. Thousands understood they were disqualified by the 14th, and sent letters to congress asking for it to be lifted. Because, that's exactly what the 14th says congress is needed for, to lift the ineligibility on individuals, not to dictate ineligibility for individuals. The SC did exactly the opposite of what they claimed. The 14th was to prevent states from deciding for themselves that rebels could run for office. The SC made it so they could run as many rebels as they want, unless congress says otherwise.
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  1985.  The Ghey Mantis  You realize that capitalism has killed as many, if not more, and has failed numerous times over, and failed for billions of individuals, right?
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  1986.  The Ghey Mantis  Bringing people out of poverty, from what? Monarchies were private enterprises, with a monopoly on property. Chopping off heads, dispersing that property, and giving more power to the people, is what brought more people out of poverty. Massive labour strikes and giving more say and power to workers is what brought more people out of poverty. Those much more centrist countries I mentioned, with more social programs, much higher unionization, etc., have lower poverty rates. You're talking out your ass.
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  1987. ​ @dannyvalentino328  Ethnic cleansing: The Commission of Experts added that these practices can “… constitute crimes against humanity and can be assimilated to specific war crimes. Furthermore, such acts could also fall within the meaning of the Genocide Convention.”
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  1988.  @makeamericagreatagain3401  Different goals, dimwit. The US was founded by people who protested, rioted, tarred and feathered, and destroyed private property, all because they didn't want to pay extra taxes specifically to fund the police/military. That's actually anti-authoritarianism. Those who fought against democracy to keep an unelected ruler in power, was authoritarianism.
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  1989. Rofl. Because it makes so much sense to fight to pay more for absolutely no reason.
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  1990. Mayanmar disagrees, that Buddhists are nonviolent. India disagrees that Hindus are nonviolent (ranked worse than Saudi, for its treatment of women).
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  1991.  @nuclearcatbaby1131  You didn't conclude exponential growth? 1 to 400k deaths is a 400000% increase. 400k to 900k deaths is a 125% increase. If the virus wasn't so widespread, in the first place, there'd be a lot less total people dying, now. Up to date vaccines are still considered 80-95% effective, depending on the variant. 85% of those being hospitalized and dying are unvaccinated.
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  1992. Canada has about the same number of beds per capita as the UK and Sweden, which is more than over 100 other countries. Sure, room for improvement, but you seem to be exaggerating.
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  1993.  @andrewtaynton3402  The two state solution is based on colonialism. There should be a single state solution, with a Lebanon style government, with a right of return for Palestinians. Israel doesn't get their colonialist ethno-state, and Hamas doesn't get to toss anyone back into the sea.
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  1994.  @whyamimrpink78  Like BLM, the Civil Rights movement in the 60s, wasn't some centrally organized movement, with an official leader, or anything. MLK Jr wasn't Malcolm X who wasn't Huey Newton, etc. And nobody actually had any control over spontaneous protests and riots, over police brutality, or what not. So, whether MLK Jr spoke against violence is irrelevant to whether the entire movement should be considered a terrorist group, because some rioted in some places. Over 90% of BLM protests are peaceful. Various different BLM leaders have spoken out against rioting and looting. And, yet, you're still calling the entire movement a terrorist group. You seem to be heading towards an argument where being a "terrorist" isn't necessarily a bad thing ... one man's terrorist is another man's freedom fighter ... and you simply don't like the BLM cause.
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  1995.  Progressives Against the Regressive Left  "Regressive" would be to pull out the 18th century rulebook and respond to protests, riots, and property destruction, exactly like King George III. "Progressive" would be to listen to what's upsetting so many people and actually try to fix things.
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  1996.  @caseypdx503  Nope. He is objectively not good at it. It is an objective fact that Zionists were colonialists. Early Zionists, like Ben-Gurion and Ze'ev Jabotinsky, fully acknowledged that fact. Ze'ev also predicted based on the entirety of history that the native population would fight said colonialism, until the bitter end. He just didn't care what would happen to them. Colonizers are never not the aggressors. It would be impossible for natives to attack them, if they weren't there doing their colonialist aggression, first. It is also a fact that, on top of the colonialist base, Zionists formed terrorist groups, like the Irgun and Lehi. They bombed many Palestinian markets, killing many civilians, including children, even including Palestinian Jews (who didn't support Zionism). Israel merged those terrorists into their new nation's military and intelligence agencies. Israelis elected Menachem Begin, leader of the Irgun, who also bombed the King David Hotel, as PM. Israelis still celebrate those terrorists as heroes, to this day. Anyone who makes out like Palestinians started the violence on Oct 7, is objectively bad at it. Even this year, alone, Israel had already killed over 200 Palestinians, prior to that. Hamas didn't start anything, and didn't do anything Zionists haven't resorted to.
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  1997.  @ThisIsEddieBear  Rofl, I guess those "snooty institutions" include a vast majority of Germans.
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  1998. It's funny how so many man babies took offense to her saying a diverse tween chick flick wasn't really made for 45 year old white men, and that they needed more female, minority, and youth, reviewers. I guess all those alpha males are just really into tween chick flicks.
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  1999.  @augustin1999  You don't understand math. There are zero extra out of party votes to the left of the squad, if you start losing votes from the most conservative Dems. There is the entire Republican party to try and get extra votes from to the right of conservative Dems. Manchin could approach Republicans who had their own $10 minimum bills, agree to their $10, maybe agree to some of their other demands, if they come on board, the bill gets moved even further right, and passed without needing the squad's votes. Bills can be passed without the squad, by moving them right. Bills can't be passed without Manchin, by moving them left.
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  2000.  @TheManinBlack9054  Would Putin completely pull out of all parts of Ukraine, peacefully? The doesn't seem to mesh with what he says.
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  2001.  @FontaineDerby  Uh huh, by Irgun and Lehi terrorists.
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  2002. Speaking of Alex Jones, he's trying to incite a war. https://www.rt.com/usa/505812-alex-jones-maricopa-arizona-election/
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  2003. Good for him. Lee is 77 ffs. Enough is enough.
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  2004. You only get deflation with major recessions or depressions, dingus.
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  2005. Can you explain to Yang that a VAT won't make corporations like Amazon "pay their fair share", as he dishonestly promotes on his VAT page? And that, mixed with his UBI, it will actually make Amazon and Bezos even more money?
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  2006. ​ @jds614  So, like Germany represents a large percentage of the global German population, but being anti-Nazi didn't equate to being anti-German. Better?
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  2007. The Hindutva (used by the Sangh Parivar) founder literally modelled it on Italian fascism and Nazism.
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  2008. Yeah, they're nuts. They complain about "free speech", when "free speech" has absolutely nothing to do with privately owned companies, but don't complain when their president (the actual government) fires people, or threatens to fire people, if they say things he doesn't like.
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  2009. Except Gaza is an open air WWII style fascist ghetto. This is closer to a German getting arrested for saying to stop bombing a ghetto, after an uprising.
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  2010. ​ @picturesLondon  You can thank the likes of RFK Jr for increasing numbers of Measles outbreaks. He's a loon.
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  2011.  @Evirthewarrior  Dore will spend months blathering about an irrelevant UN inspector report, that had absolutely nothing to do with anyone's decision to bomb Syria, instead of attacking Trump for deciding to bomb Syria. Instead of trying to undermine the UN, he should be attacking the decision to unilaterally bomb another country, rather than going through the UN. If he actually cared about anti-war, he could have totally been reporting on the fact that Trump was dropping more bombs than Obama. Not many were reporting on it. He could have been different, while actually attacking the person in power, instead of rambling about bullshit.
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  2012. @Tucker Carlson Ummm, the economy was trending for the better, since 2009. It was a global economic crisis. It has been trending better in many other countries, since 2009, as well. Trump absolutely did not fix the economy, both years before he took office, and around the world. That's just stupid. The military operation that took down ISIS was started 4 or 5 years ago. It was an ongoing, years long, military operation, not like a new piece of intel and a presidential order to take down an individual. North Korea has been asking to talk for years, dipshit. It didn't take anything to get them to talk. They wanted to talk. Trump's NATO talk is absolute bullshit. You Trump supporters are idiots.
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  2013.  @randyosborne310  Trumpists claim Trump "tells it like it is", ignoring the tens of thousands of documented lies.
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  2014. What do you think of the Irgun and Lehi?
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  2015.  @bennyrodriguez8788  No. Cops and the military are the authoritarian axis, not the economic axis. Simply having a government the public pays for, doesn't equate to socialism, and even right wing extremists keep the police and military to protect that government and their legal rights.
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  2016. Tell everyone who Likud is Bernie. Likud's bloody 100 year history ... In 1923, 100 years ago, Ze'ev Jabotinsky wrote, The Iron Wall, and a follow up, The Ethics of The Iron Wall (sooo racist towards Africans), in which he fully acknowledged that post Balfour Zionsim was colonialism, and that, based on the entirety of history, the native Palestinian population would resist being colonized until the bitter end. He directly compared it to the colonization of North America. He promoted doing it anyway, claiming Zionist colonialism was a "just" colonialism (he also thought North American colonialists were good guys, so not a great judge of morality), not caring what that meant for the native population. Ze'ev is important, because his Betar militant youth group helped found the Irgun terrorist group, along with other supporters of his, and the splinter Lehi terrorist group. The Irgun bombed numerous Palestinian markets and other public places, murdering many Palestinian civilians, including children, even including Palestinian Jews (who didn't support colonialist Zionsim). The Irgun are important, because they ended up being led by future Likud PM, Menachem Begin, who bombed the King David Hotel. The King David Hotel was bombed because the British had raided the Jewish Agency and seized numerous documents that may have shown that the terrorists were working with the JA and Haganah (JA liked to pretend that they didn't support the terrorism). The British then stored those documents at their base, in the hotel. That the Irgun terrorists responded to a JA raid, itself seems to prove the connection. That the thousands of Irgun (and Lehi) terrorists were also quickly merged into the new nation's military (IDF) and intelligence (Mossad) agencies, and are still celebrated as "heroes" by Israelis, to this day, also seems to support total collaboration between the groups. That other terrorist group mentioned, Lehi (also known as the Stern Gang), was considered even more extreme. They even tried to ally with the Nazis, against the British. Lehi ended up being led by Yitzhak Shamir, future Mossad agent, and another future Likud PM. They assassinated Lord Moyne, and others. The two terrorist groups also operated outside of Palestine. The Irgun bombed the British Embassy at Porta Pia, in Rome. The Lehi bombed the British Colonial Club, in London. A timer failed in another bombing attempt, at the Colonial Office, in Whitehall. Two female Lehi operatives were arrested crossing from Belgium to France, with the ingredients for letter bombs. 21 letter bombs were found to be have sent, and were intercepted. They mined the Cairo-Haifa train, in Egypt, twice, killing dozens of civilians, as well as British soldiers. In 1945, there was a major land and peoples survey done in Palestine. It showed that the Zionists only owned about 5% of the total land, 20% of the arable land, and owned a majority in zero districts. The partition was not only going to be forced on the native Palestinian majority, but Jews were still going to be a minority, in the part allocated to them. The only possible way to even become a "Jewish state" was going to require getting rid of the actual majority (at least enough so that there'd be a solid Jewish majority, so they could fake being democratic). This is also shown by the 1948, post Nakba, population of Israel. If there was 716,700 Jews, 156,000+ non-Jews, and approximately 700k non-Jews ethnically cleansed, that means the Jewish population, in the Zionist portion of partition, was originally over 100,000 less than the non-Jewish population. To believe that there was never any intent, by Zionists, to ethnically cleanse away the Palestinian majority would require believing that they never intended to create a "Jewish state". It's a nonsensical notion. Begin, and those terrorist groups, also opposed partition, but for the opposite reason Palestinians did. Palestinians didn't want to be colonized, at all. The terrorists wanted to colonize it all. "Moderate" Zionists were okay with colonizing half ... for now (what would happen in the future, after partition, was up to them, said Ben-Gurion). The Zionist terrorists were also involved in massacres, and assassinations, during the partition violence (colonialist war against the natives). Another notable future Likud PM, also started in the military, during the partition fighting. That was Ariel Sharon, war criminal, "Butcher of Beirut". Menachem Begin, and these other Zionist terrorists, are important because they became involved in Israeli politics, first forming Herut. That was the party that Albert Einstein, and other prominent American Jews, opposed, having a letter printed in the NYT, in December of 1948, when Begin came to visit the US. The letter opened ... "Among the most disturbing political phenomena of our times is the emergence in the newly created state of Israel of the "Freedom Party" (Tnuat Haherut), a political party closely akin in its organization, methods, political philosophy and social appeal to the Nazi and Fascist parties. It was formed out of the membership and following of the former Irgun Zvai Leumi, a terrorist, right-wing, chauvinist organization in Palestine." Herut merged with other extremist parties, over the years, and eventually became Likud, in the 70s. Now, people get upset over the slogan "From the river to the sea!", but it's the second part that's most important, "Palestine will be free!". Because "Palestine" isn't defined as an ethno-state, a free Palestine can be a single state, free for all to live in, and return to, free of continuing colonization, free of occupation, free of oppression, etc. Just like a Germany free of Nazism, an Italy free of fascism, a South Africa free of apartheid, or an America free of slavery from sea to shiny sea. It doesn't necessitate purging all the Jews. It just necessitates them giving up on the idea of an ethno-state. On the other hand, because "Israel" has been defined as an ethno-state, Likud's, "between the sea and the Jordan there will only be Israeli sovereignty", has no possible good interpretation. It is a declaration of intent to completely colonize, and ethnically cleanse, all Palestine territories. Not only that, but it also claims that they have a "right" to all of the "Land of Israel" (biblical borders that don't mesh with archaeological reality), which is an open declaration of future wars, against Jordan, Syria, Lebanon, and possibly even Iraq. Likud platform ... 1977: "The Right of the Jewish People to the Land of Israel (Eretz Israel) a. The right of the Jewish people to the land of Israel is eternal and indisputable and is linked with the right to security and peace; therefore, Judea and Samaria will not be handed to any foreign administration; between the Sea and the Jordan there will only be Israeli sovereignty. b. A plan which relinquishes parts of western Eretz Israel, undermines our right to the country, unavoidably leads to the establishment of a "Palestinian State," jeopardizes the security of the Jewish population, endangers the existence of the State of Israel. and frustrates any prospect of peace." 1999: "The Government of Israel flatly rejects the establishment of a Palestinian Arab state west of the Jordan river. The Palestinians can run their lives freely in the framework of self-rule, but not as an independent and sovereign state. Thus, for example, in matters of foreign affairs, security, immigration, and ecology, their activity shall be limited in accordance with imperatives of Israel's existence, security and national needs." "The Jewish communities in Judea, Samaria, and Gaza are the realization of Zionist values. Settlement of the land is a clear expression of the unassailable right of the Jewish people to the Land of Israel and constitutes an important asset in the defense of the vital interests of the State of Israel. The Likud will continue to strengthen and develop these communities and will prevent their uprooting." All Palestine territories are officially considered occupied, by the International Court of Justice, the UN GA, the UN SC, and even in official documents of Israel's own allies. Likud is still using the blueprint for colonizing North America, in the West Bank. Move settlements out into native territory, piss off the natives, the natives retaliate, cry about poor "innocent" colonizing settlers being the "victims" of violent "Savages!", call in the cavalry to put down the native uprising, and eventually expand the borders to include those settlements. Rinse and repeat. In Gaza, Israel is operating an open air WWII style fascist ghetto. Them claiming a "right to defend themselves" would be like the Nazis claiming a "right to defend themselves " from the Warsaw ghetto uprising. There's no "war". That they're the occupiers means the "war" part is long over. Those people are actually supposed to be under the occupier's protection. That partition was forced upon the Palestinian majority, against their will ... that the Zionist portion still had to be forcefully ethnically cleansed of its non-Jewish majority, against their will ... that the millions of occupied Palestinians don't have a say in the government that truly rules over them, Israel's ... means Israel is about as democratic as Nazi Germany after Hitler purged his political opponents and then held elections.
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  2017.  @uncomfortabletruth5915  Can you make that make sense? Fashion expression is already commercialized.
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  2018. If you wanted to be honest, she said she didn't want their opinions about a specific movie that wasn't really made for them. She didn't say she didn't want to hear them ever, about any movie she did. But this anti-Larson whiny man baby bunch hasn't shown itself to be very honest.
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  2019.  @richardyoung5293  John Kennedy? What are you even talking about, moron? The electoral college has only ever mattered 5 times, and Kennedy wasn't one of those times.
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  2020.  @RealRougarou  Even Democrats elected the public option guy, not the M4A guy, after the pandemic had already hit. Jimmy was pushing Tulsi, who had moved to a public option, at the time. Where were the 100 pro-M4A progressive candidates Jimmy has in his back pocket? Where were Briahna's M4A protests throughout the pandemic pressuring candidates running? I'm sure AOC's PAC would have supported them. I'm sure the DSA would have coordinated rallies with them. Where were these champions of M4A? Keep in mind that these people now want to start over, from scratch, with a People's Party. They don't actually seem to care if you get M4A in their lifetime.
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  2021. Anna: “Pick the ice cream you want! Have your money ready! Move to the extreme left after ordering!” If you did not stick to the rules: “No ice cream for you!”
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  2022.  @kennybachman35  If you load YouTube in a browser, you can try copying my post, and see if you can post it somewhere yourself.
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  2023.  @leviashanken2506  There are a few different versions, in the OT/Tanakh, one being ... Exodus 23:31 “I will establish your borders from the Red Sea to the Mediterranean Sea, and from the desert to the Euphrates River. I will give into your hands the people who live in the land, and you will drive them out before you."
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  2024.  @ComradeCatpurrnicus  You don't seem to grasp how propaganda works. Americans were fed propaganda about Iraq, making it falsely seem like they were a threat to Americans, and 80% of Americans decided it was cool to go end hundreds of thousands of Iraqi lives. Just pointing at the amount of people being ended doesn't phase people who think they're on the defensive side. You have to point out how they're on the offensive side.
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  2025.  @ComradeCatpurrnicus  I have to say, you're actions make your argument somewhat incoherent, since you're arguing it's pointless to try and change minds, while trying to change my mind.
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  2026.  @ComradeCatpurrnicus  Oh sorry. Anyway, you enjoy doing nothing, and hoping people simply get tired of it in yet another 20 years, since that has worked so well for the past 76 years. I'll keep doing my little part to try and combat all the BS.
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  2027.  @swiftfuegon  So, every single religion needs its own nation, and every single ethnic group needs its own nation, and we should use force, and cleansing methods, to make it happen? A Scientology country? Utah should split off and become a Mormon country? A Wiccan country? Both Palestinians and Jews have Canaanite DNA. It is the Palestinians' homeland, as well, except they never left for 1700 years. They aren't Iraqis, or Saudis, or anything else. There's no good reason to ethnically cleanse them off their homeland, for people who left for hundreds of years. That would be like me, and 6 million other North Americans, with ancestors that left England hundreds of years ago, going "back", and demanding half the country, and that everyone currently living on our half to move to the other half. Or, at least enough, so that us "returnees" are in the majority, so we can fake being democratic.
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  2028.  @mikehawk3472  Telephone call for Mike Hawk! Is Mike Hawk here? Rofl, got your username from a 10 year old's telephone prank. Is that a reflection of your age?
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  2029. ​ @r.v.5606  Russia started immediately violently interfering in former SSR countries, in 1991. That argument makes no sense, since they're the ones who have been trying to expand their borders to NATO countries.
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  2030.  @wheelchairjoe70  Miscarriages are natural "spontaneous abortions". Shapiro worships a "baby killer".
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  2031.  @therationalnational  David. Jimmy has a new video out, downplaying the risks of covid, called "Are COVID death rates WILDLY inflated?". In it, he takes hospitalization rates per total vaccinated (0.01%)and unvaccinated (0.89%) populations and compares it to a 3.4% "death rate", that is clearly a case fatality rate (fatalities per confirmed cases) from a year and a half ago. The case fatality rate is constantly changing, is different for each country, and different for the world. He claimed he couldn't find a newer rate. Only someone who is completely inept, wouldn't be able to find the current case fatality rate. But, somehow Jimmy managed not to. Only someone who failed grade school math couldn't figure it out themselves. 800k deaths is 1.6% of 50m confirmed cases, in the US. But, somehow Jimmy, or his team, couldn't. So, he compares these two sets of numbers, that are based on totally different math, to question whether covid deaths are being "WILDLY" inflated. You know, because a 3.4% "death rate" is so much higher than 0.9% hospitalization rate. The comparable "death rate" he should be using is the population mortality rate. 800k deaths is 0.24% of 330m total population. Again, something that's easy to find the latest numbers for, or figure out yourself, but the Dore knob team couldn't manage to do. There's nothing, at all, incompatible with a 0.24% total population mortality rate and a 0.9% total population hospitalization rate. But, he's using his false equivalency to make out like covid is a lot less harmful than doctors and scientists, worldwide, have stated, and there's some giant worldwide conspiracy to inflate numbers, by over 10x.
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  2032.  @geebsterman2881  FOX13 Tampa Bay: "Florida hospitals see tenfold jump in rate of kids hospitalized for COVID-19 since school began" News4Jax: "Pediatric COVID-19 hospitalizations in Florida reach record highs" WFLA: "Florida child hospitalizations at 68 per day with children’s hospitals ‘under an unprecedented strain’" AP: "As Florida mask fight rages, more children hospitalized"
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  2033.  discorperted  So, Obama failed his electorate, when he campaigned for president? You're an idiot.
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  2034.  discorperted  Moron. https://www.vox.com/policy-and-politics/2015/11/2/9645384/rubio-missing-votes
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  2035.  @aarondickson1898  The grant doesn't come out of his bank account, dumb dumb. It's a grant from the US.
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  2036.  @alexandrasymeon5893  What a load of nonsense. Russia has been violently interfering in former SSR countries, since 1991. They never wanted their borders to not be bordering NATO countries.
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  2037.  @Xpistos510  The guy was also totally clueless as to how a major tax policy he wanted to implement on the country actually works. A VAT is specifically designed to NOT tax businesses in order to avoid double taxation, yet he kept claiming it was a way to tax major corporations. He even linked to a pass through rate study, that he totally failed to understand, which showed a near 100% pass through rate, debunking his own claims.
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  2038.  @kyle6232  What was in the final version of the Capitol Hill bill, and what was AOC's final vote?
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  2039.  Dan Wruck  The lower end plague death rate is also about 1%, in developed countries, if you want to keep things in perspective. Playing right into GOP hands won't get anyone any money from the federal government. They want you to open up, get back to work, and kill yourselves off, rather than pay you.
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  2040. Maybe remind these types of people that the US was founded on revolting over a lack of representation. So, yeah, repeatedly telling people their representation was stolen, can be inciting rhetoric. And if it's a baseless claim, you're revolting over nothing but a narcissist's inability to accept reality.
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  2041.  @kyle6232  What was in the final Capitol Hill police bill, and what was AOC's final vote?
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  2042. Did the DNC, and "mamma bear", get AOC to help remove a few more corporate Dems from congress, and help add a few more M4A yes votes to congress, and get her to campaign for Nina to try and add one more? If so, maybe they aren't so bad. If not, then you're likely spewing nonsense.
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  2043. Nutbar.
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  2044.  @pbpp2904  And that would be with about 20 mil total cases. Coronavirus has 2x the contagion rate, 2x the serious cases rate, lasts 2x longer, and is 10x deadlier. Plus, ongoing observations of recovered patients are showing possible long term lung damage.
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  2045. You even have to be careful of exit polls, this year, too. Election day, early voting, and mail in voting all skewed differently. Almost 100m people voted early or by mail, and about 150m voted in total. Yet, a CNN exit poll polled 8000 election day voters, and then only 5000 early or mail in voters. Just based on those numbers, you know their poll is going to skew towards Trump support. Based on those, they're claiming Trump gained black and Latino support, when years of Pew surveys show Republicans have made zero headway in 16 years.
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  2046. ​ @geraldperyman6535  It's wierd if you wear eyeliner while arguing men shouldn't wear makeup, and suchlike.
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  2047. Didn't watch the video?
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  2048.  @bpdmf2798  Anyone can become a parent. The topic is becoming pregnant.
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  2049. They weren't insurrectionists, because they weren't competent insurrectionists? They got closer than Hitler's Beer Hall Putsch.
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  2050. You know the capitol police don't actually wander the streets enforcing the law like a real police force, right? They're more of a security guard and bodyguard force.
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  2051.  @personanongrata2045  It's not that anyone can't figure it out, dumb dumb, it's that limiting the ID allowed to ones poorer people are less likely to have, is forcing them to go out and get something they don't already have, just to vote. And, in case you didn't know, black and Hispanic Americans are overrepresented in poverty. It's directly classist, and indirectly racist.
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  2052.  @CGoffgrid  No, not taxing them is moronic. If Apple is shipping a million phones from China to the US via militarily protected trade lanes, then they will benefit a million times more from that protection than each individual consumer. If Amazon ships a million products via US roads and highways, then they are benefitting a million times more from those roads and highways than each individual consumer.
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  2053. As in you'd support MAGA Republicans, if you were American? Canadian Conservative isn't quite samesies.
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  2054. Trump brags about everything he possibly can, including even other people's accomplishments. You know his grades have to horrible, for him to threaten people if they show them.
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  2055. And ... they settled for a Matt Gaetz. Missed the mark.
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  2056.  @BloodMoneyLLC  If you think Jimmy is Zen, then you don't know what "Zen" means.
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  2057. Weird how "dead" voters have been found alive and well.
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  2058. What's that got to do with a private publishing company? You don't have a right to be published by a major publishing company. Writers get rejected all the time.
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  2059. Right (close to conservatives in other countries) and far right (openly fascist since trying to overthrow the democratic process).
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  2060.  @bretbonner  Because they contain and quarantine positive cases quickly, dimwit, instead of crying about freedumb. Canada is nowhere close to the US. Canada's covid deaths per million would translate into about 600k fewer total US covid deaths, ffs. The US had a completely incompetent response. Canada had a mediocre response.
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  2061.  @bretbonner  No vaccine is 100%. All vaccines have a tiny percentage of people who have adverse effects. The adverse effects from getting the viruses the vaccines are for, are much much higher. Plenty of vaccines are mandated, and have been for decades. Do you want construction workers to have the choice not to wear steel toe boots and hard hats? Do you want drivers to have the choice to drink and speed? Do you want doctors to have the choice not to wash their hands and mask up before an operation?
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  2062. @C M Again, covid causes myocarditis at 8x the rate of vaccines. You, wanting all the kids to catch covid, is you wanting 8x the number of myocarditis cases. You don't give two shits about kids, and are likely lying.
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  2063. ​ @Typical.Anomaly  It would be easier to repeal the Permanent Apportionment Act of 1929, and redo it, than it would be to amend the constitution. That act froze the number of seats in the house, which froze the number of electorals, and caused things to become increasingly disproportionate and unrepresentative. It could all be redone proportionally.
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  2064. ​ @smileydavis73  So you don't know what "communism" means, is what you're saying.
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  2065.  @PSALM-50  I think you're mixing up where he supposedly landed with where he was from.
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  2066.  @60andover-timetotrain-join89  Rock solid Nzsm.
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  2067.  @theywouldnthavetocensormei9231  What difference does that make, dingus? He still said they should be punished, while they don't.
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  2068.  @theywouldnthavetocensormei9231  Less of a ... V ... O ... T ... E ... dingus.
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  2069. ​ @TheRedStateBlue  Was it you I asked, if I could have half of your state/province, to start a new Scientology nation, for Tom Cruise? Is it a deal?
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  2070. By her "logic", there should be no federal laws, rights, or even any decision making, and leave everything to trusting voters at the state level.
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  2071. ​ @Rowsy91  You know denazification was a thing, right?
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  2072. ​ @jakegetrost4690  According to years of gun control, in numerous states, passing constitutional challenges, firearm regulations don't infringe on people's rights. False advertising, defamation, conspiracy to commit, fraud, etc., aren't protected speech.
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  2073.  @zeeone4492  Assange isn't a leftist issue. Tucker was having pro Assange segments starting a year before Dore ever went on his show, simply to agree with Tucker's right wing takes. How does peddling a public option candidate over the M4A candidate, support M4A? How does abandoning Nina Turner, abandoning adding another M4A yes vote to congress, support M4A? How does peddling "extreme free market" loons as allies, ones that want to start a civil war and will shoot you if you try to implement M4A, once you help them overthrow the government, support M4A?
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  2074.  @eloyomedallas4802  You can't even seem to point to a single oppressive law that a Muslim politician is trying to pass in the US. You're defending a law, and in turn the lawmakers, who are mainly Christian "pro-lifers", who are also the ones who fight against the best ways to reduce the number of unwanted pregnancies. Seems like you're the only regressive here.
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  2075.  @danielmwattsjr3671  So, why would anyone need a puberty blocker, aged 5-10, unless they had early onset puberty (another use for puberty blockers, to delay it until a normal age)?
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  2076.  @ericfugal6648  Is ditching the tens of billions a year to farmers on the Republican platform? That should be public knowledge, if it is.
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  2077.  @alabamaman9476  You're literally using a list of only cities over a certain population, dimwit, which weeds out a bunch of cities. You're cheating to make them top 10. In other words ... lying. Chicago isn't even top 20.
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  2078.  @alabamaman9476  The fact is that state law determines more than city law, dimwit. Not too baffling as to why a rate would still be high, if you can buy a gun at the edge of town. Yeah, I get it, you don't want to count all the cities in red states, because you're dishonest.
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  2079.  @alabamaman9476  Chicago has literally traced guns to being purchased outside the city and neighboring states, dimwit. It's just a fact ... something you're allergic to.
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  2080.  @ericfugal6648  Australia's covid deaths per million would translate into about 30k total US covid deaths, instead of 850k. Mocking Australia is moronic.
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  2081.  @elliotwilliams7421  By connecting Japan's medication conservativeness to a single health board member's statement, with a "but", Rogan made it seem like Japan had endorsed using ivermectin. They didn't. He was the one misleading people.
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  2082.  @elliotwilliams7421  Holy hell, you argued the contrast to being conservative, that came after the "but", only referred to the individual, ffs. You're incoherent.
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  2083. There has to be a medical reason, in very late stage abortion. Most "late stage" abortions happen within a few weeks of the 21 weeks line, with fewer and fewer abortions the further you move past that line. "While very limited data exists on this issue, a study from 1992 estimated 0.02% of all abortions occurred after 26 weeks gestation (320 to 600 cases per year)."
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  2084.  @ZooomaCW  They tried to overthrow the democratic process to keep an unelected ruler in power. That's a dictatorship. What fascist boxes do you think still need checking, that haven't been?
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  2085. ​ @abruhigoham7472  More like the overly repetitive "What is a woman?", coming mostly from people who have been using masculine gender terminology to identify their sxlss g0d for thousands of years, and have always known gender terminology doesn't have to always match biology.
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  2086.  Aaron Dickson  Nope. I clearly just gave examples of the evidence, dimwit, and it's nothing like that. Do you have severe reading comprehension problems?
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  2087. Ever since he ran in the presidential primaries, Yang has needed to be interviewed by foreign interviewers, that know how a VAT works. The guy has been completely ignorant, or completely dishonest, since he came on the scene.
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  2088. ​​@@AP-jx1pf No. Just needs the majority of votes. Doesn't even need to be a member of congress, let alone a member of a party.
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  2089. @John Langley Capitalism has failed at national levels, over and over, and fails hundreds of millions of people daily. Going right back to what clearly failed, doesn't equate to success. The only purely capitalist countries left are absolute monarchies, like Saudi, which are 100% privately owned and operated countries. Why aren't you using them as the greatest examples of capitalism? Not sure why you find it weird to compare developed countries to other developed countries, rather than to developing countries. You blathered about a bunch of irrelevant crap, because the US could afford those things, right? Why didn't the US keep progressing, like the happiest, far more centrist, countries on the planet, rather than regress back to levels of inequality that have failed before? Hey, if you want free speech, then argue for public ownership. No such thing as free speech on someone else's private property. Where's this forced segregation going on?
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  2090.  @b.d.a.8719  Wasn't it Dore who attacked and slandered anyone who didn't support his performance art vote idea?
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  2091.  @serzMaga  If Rvssia doesn't like war, just go home.
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  2092.  @Gee-xb7rt  Yeah. The fact that she actually opposed lowercase "l" right libertarians (ancappers), and argued that there needed to be a government, with minimal services ... "the police, the armed forces, the law courts" ... leads to her defeating herself. She just asserts that everyone would voluntarily pay taxes for those "necessities", so it wouldn't be involuntary taxes. But, we see, all the time, that people would love to not fund the police, the military, and probably wouldn't want to fund racist or bigoted courts, especially ones that constantly side with the rich, or the prison system, if they had the option. Definitely not some universal truth, that everyone would voluntarily fund those things. The rich would, and would use it to oppress the poor, is what would likely happen ... like calling in the military to bust strikes, or whatnot, like the good ol' days. That's why those things are a "necessity", in her mind ... to protect people with property and wealth. I might argue that capitalism can exist without a "government", but likely not without some kind of force, unless everyone is magically voluntarily following the same belief system. Feudalism, and absolute monarchies, are less "governments" and are more a form of governance, like a major company. They're private property owners, with their hired private armies, enforcing whatever rules they want on their private property, and charging people whatever they want for the use of their property, resources, etc. I don't consider privately owned and operated "governments" to be real governments.
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  2093.  @Name-jw4sj  Just because a higher percentage of the population voted, that doesn't equate to base expansion. It just means more people voted. He only went from 46.1% of voters to 46.9% of voters, while the opposition went from 48.2% of voters to 51.4% of voters. So, yeah, he created more opposed to him than he gained.
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  2094.  @harveymanfredsenjenson5417  By that "logic", Tucker is in love with Democrats and Biden.
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  2095.  Venraef  If we left our own kids hungry and homeless, it would be considered neglect. Why is it okay for a society to let some of its children go hungry and homeless, just so some billionaires and massive corporations can make even more billions? Why is it okay for a society to neglect its members with mental health issues, physical health issues, or its senior citizens, for the same reasons? In what reality isn't that selfishness?
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  2096.  @DemsJugglingLs  Here, since you can't figure out how Google works ... "Some examples of gag orders: Police departments issue gag orders to protect the identity of victims, in particular minors, and also to keep information about ongoing investigations from becoming known when its release to the public could pose a threat to cases or the people involved. A judge often issues a gag order to forbid anyone involved in a case from discussing it outside of the court. A company might include gag orders in contracts associated with partnerships, employment and termination to protect trade secrets, intellectual property, sensitive information and, sometimes, the business’s reputation. In the United States, gag orders are included with all national security letters (a type of subpoena issued by the FBI) to prevent the recipients from saying they received them. In a settlement between parties in a legal dispute, a gag order against discussing issues related to the dispute may be part of the terms agreed upon." ... gag orders are used all the time, and aren't considered violations of free speech, or freedom of the press.
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  2097. @f "Mr. Trump told Deutsche Bank his net worth was about $3 billion, but when bank employees reviewed his finances, they concluded he was worth about $788 million, according to documents produced during a lawsuit Mr. Trump brought against the former New York Times journalist Timothy O’Brien." http://nymag.com/intelligencer/2019/03/report-trump-repeatedly-inflated-assets-in-deutsche-deals.html
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  2098.  @GeLowBrando  In September 2021? Just how stpd are you?
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  2099. What "evidence"? https://thehill.com/homenews/administration/454338-fbis-wray-says-majority-of-domestic-terrorism-arrests-this-year
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  2100. Isn't that exactly how Trump got elected ... totally trashed every Republican, became the party leader, and sort of won the election? Bernie's criticisms are pretty mild, in comparison.
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  2101.  Proud Class Reductionist  Son of a small city lawyer vs son of a bank VP/diplomat and stepson of a Swanson heiress. One of these things is not like the other, but yet the one with less manages to recognize privilege, while the one with more does not.
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  2102.  @Demon1800e  The Pfizer vaccine now has full approval. The vaccines have all gone through phase I-III trials. Phase I subjects have been vaccinated for over a year now. Drugs are approved for public use after phase III trials, and then stay under observation for a time, and the public are the phase IV trial subjects. All the vaccines have passed the safety standards of countries across the world. We would still have polio, if everyone had your "common sense". It was being given to millions of kids, within 2 years of being developed.
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  2103.  @thinkoutsidethelines8265  Pretty sure that the progressive caucus, and even the house Dems, passed the $15 minimum wage. An important progressive policy got a vote. It even passed (M4A didn't have a hope in hell) and got a senate vote. There's lists of no voters from both chambers. Jimmy, and his Dore knobs, have surely done something with those lists of no voters, right? No? They just keep bitching about those who got it to stay in for a round of voting and who voted for it. Pathetic. Progressives regularly vote against the annual defense appropriation bill. They do support the Green New Deal. Do you understand basic math, and how bills are passed? M4A is on the progressive caucus platform. They're the ones that have all co-signed the bill. Did you not grasp the effectiveness and power arguments? Even if you're not fond of the current progressives, it is still more effective to run within the party than running third party, and will get you more power quicker.
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  2104. ​ @amillionworms So, if you're cool with collective punishment, then you should be cool with the Hamas attack.
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  2105.  @masterofmashup1737  It is literally a Catholic catechism, that God is sexless, and yet they still call it "he", "him", and even "Father". Catholics are still the majority of Christians. Orthodox teachings are basically the same as Catholicism. That is the standard teachings of Judaism and Islam, as well. It is also what most Protestants teach. It is basically only some evangelicals and Mormons who teach God has a form. These people know there's a difference between gender and sex. Plenty of them probably also call their sexless cars and boats "her" and "she", regularly assigning genders, and using gender pronouns, that don't match a being's, or an object's, sex. In cases of referring to some unknown person, that they don't know the sex of, they know perfectly well how to use "they" and "them" in the singular (Someone left me flowers. I wish I knew who they were, so I could thank them). They know gender and sex are different. They know how to use the English language. They're simply bigoted hypocrites who only get upset when the LGBT community does it.
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  2106. ​ @etham1655  The world didn't start on Oct 7 2023.
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  2107. Fuck, you're as dumb as Trump.
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  2108.  @spanqueluv9er  7 months says you're wrong, dingus.
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  2109. Forcethevote was stupid. And Dore's version, before others amended it, would have handed the speakership to McCarthy.
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  2110. ​ @nickthompson1812  You think a waste high fence keeps people off your property? Even a 6 ft high is only keeping out obese or very short people.
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  2111.  @quinndirks5653  Those losing privilege fight against equality, as if they're fighting against being oppressed, like fighting against minorities getting equal rights, fighting against women getting equal rights, fighting against a religion losing its privileged status, etc.
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  2112. Ontario, Canada, should be having constant blackouts, throughout the winter, by US Republican and FOX "logic".
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  2113. The Iowa Democratic Party has removed its results from their home page and their caucus page now goes to a 404 error. They're still having serious problems.
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  2114. It ends up being the same as a sales tax. A 10% sales tax on a total value of $500 is $50. A 10% VAT on 5 stages of $100 value added is $50. And it's the final consumer who ends up paying in both cases.
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  2115.  @VMVarga-zg4cl  Rofl, and f*cking Dore just did an ftv anniversary special, as if it was some big deal. He can't get over it.
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  2116.  @aliamjon2550  Did you even watch the video, ffs?
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  2117.  @tomservo5007  Apparently your mom did.
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  2118.  @giantsr1eva  Peddling unproven alternatives, constantly casting vaccines in a negative light, lying about about how deadly covid is, etc., is most definitely not pro-vaccine. He panders to all kinds of anti-vax bullshit arguments.
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  2119.  @sergiosaunier  It's pretty bad. Multiple Southern states still have Confederate Memorial Day holidays, also called Confederate Heroes Day by some of them. The fact that they don't see things like that as overtly racist means it's ingrained pretty deep.
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  2120.  @davidmeadows5627  Not every insult is an "ad hominem". You should learn what it means, before tossing it around so wildly. The religious right has been cancelling people, and things, for millennia, and have used the law, and authorities, to do it. A private company deciding what people can, and can't, say, on their platform, doesn't violate any American values. People protesting those they don't agree with, doesn't violate American values. The US was founded on protesting against companies that supported the crown, or vice versa, even destroying their property. Meanwhile, you have actual Republican lawmakers, tossing books and dictating language. If you know how the first amendment works, then you should know which is more of an infringement on American values, and rights. There's a difference between "voter ID laws" and strict voter ID laws. Canada is one of those "other countries", with "voter ID laws", but they aren't strict. You can bring in household bills, student IDs, and all kinds of things, to indicate who you are. Nobody really has a problem with having to provide some way of identifying yourself. The problem is if you narrow it down to a few very specific forms of ID, that some demographics are less likely to already have, in some states very significantly less likely.
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  2121.  calo10able  You're right. Tlaib was born in the US ... "whose governments are a complete and total catastrophe, the worst, most corrupt and inept anywhere in the world" ... so Dump got that part right.
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  2122.  @Stickyfingers420  Dore was arguing to "withhold" votes for Pelosi, not arguing to cast protest votes against Pelosi, and he misinformed people, claiming it would be impossible for McCarthy to win because 218 votes are needed to get the majority of the house. But, it's actually the majority of votes cast, and for every 2 abstentions, "present", absentees, or unfilled seats, it lowers the threshold needed to win by 1, because those don't count as votes. Pelosi just won with 216, even though Jimmy claimed 218 was needed, and slandered anyone who said otherwise. If the 15 progressives Dore named, simply "withheld" their votes, then the threshold needed to win would be lowered to 210 (one unfilled seat makes 16, 218 - 8 = 210). That would give McCarthy (212) more votes than Pelosi (209), and the majority of votes cast. He'd win.
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  2123. ​ @brenden4915  Too bad for you, you're factually wrong. Top 10 Countries with the Highest Human Freedom Indexes (2021): Switzerland — 9.11 New Zealand — 9.01 Denmark — 8.98 Estonia — 8.91 Ireland — 8.90 Canada — 8.85 Finland — 8.85 Australia — 8.84 Sweden — 8.83 Luxembourg — 8.80
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  2124.  @chris.kellly  Rofl. C'mon, give it a try. What's the goal, and why?
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  2125.  @fgsaramago  They're right. You don't know what an ad hom fallacy is.
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  2126.  @iller3  Bernie's people made an offer to to Krystal, to talk to he on either of her shows. Bernie has shown he's willing to take questions from hostile right wing media, even hostile corporate "liberal" media, so it's not like he was afraid of Saagar. It was simply an offer to Krystal.
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  2127. Yeah, because "establishment shills" always back Bernie and campaign against DCCC backed corporate Dems, and add more M4A yes votes to congress. Or, maybe them being "shills" is just Dore knob slander.
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  2128.  @deadmeat1471  Considering gay marriage to be a "threat", is having a fear of gay marriage. This shouldn't be that hard.
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  2129.  @deadmeat1471  You: "Prager doesn't have an irrational fear of gays" Prager: "I don't think that the press covers always what's most important. Because, honestly, whatever side you're on, I can't think frankly of a more important issue even including the economy, than the definition of marriage." Prager: "America is engaged in two wars for the survival of its civilization. The war over same-sex marriage and the war against Islamic totalitarianism are actually two fronts in the same war — a war for the preservation of the unique American creation known as Judeo-Christian civilization." For your statement to be compatible with Prager's statements, you must think his are rational. Your claim of a strawman is bullshit.
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  2130.  @deadmeat1471  Don't argue. Just keep asserting bullshit.
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  2131.  @SR-lh4rm  Bullshit. I didn't say it doesn't generate revenue. I said he's clueless. It doesn't tax businesses, as Yang falsely claims. What Scandinavian countries do to make the rich and businesses pay in: very high unionization, higher wages, paid parental leave, more paid vacations, higher income tax on the wealthy, having them pay for retraining, having oil companies with majority state ownership, etc. ... and then they tax their better paid, higher standard of living, consumers, for more social benefits. Yang skips most of that, and doesn't have businesses paying in. If you want a VAT, do Bernie's stuff first.
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  2132. They are selling themselves to the public, for donations and votes. It should be false advertising.
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  2133.  Alabama Man 2.0  Just the person the op was referring to.
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  2134.  Alabama Man 2.0  There is a big world out there, dimwit. There are doctors, across the globe ... scientists, across the globe ... drug approval processes, across the globe ... Seems to me your type ends up feeding a lot of money to big pharma, as you're laying in hospital beds, for weeks, even months. Or, by taking a $2000+ per dose Rogan "kitchen sink".
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  2135.  @Understandingways  What are you blathering about? “You can’t have capitalism without racism... You can’t operate a capitalistic system unless you are vulturistic; you have to have someone else’s blood to suck to be a capitalist...” ~ Malcolm X That's complete opposition to the right.
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  2136.  @Understandingways  Here, before you claim they were right wingers too ... "The Black Panther Party (originally the Black Panther Party for Self-Defense) was a Marxist–Leninist and black power political organization founded by college students Bobby Seale and Huey P. Newton in October 1966 in Oakland, California."
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  2137.  @crogers4912  Alaska has the highest firearm mortality rate. Which Democrat run city is to blame?
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  2138. It's like those who "researched" climate change and say the climate cycles, as if scientists across the world haven't thought of that and factored it into their calculations already.
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  2139.  @dustinsindledecker154  He was born in Michigan. We get to double send him back to the US.
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  2140. And yet red states tend to have the higher homicide rates, firearm mortality rates, and rape rates. Weird.
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  2141. ​​ @AnnoyingCritic-is7rp  Why don't you go concern troll over Trump, and daddy, claiming they were from Sweden, for decades? There's the Baltic Sea, between it and Germany, rather than a city block.
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  2142.  @clintonbaird5465  Vote for a nice Green party candidate, like Kyrsten Sinema was, or an independent, like Joe Lieberman was. Third party, and non party, candidates can never be corrupted! Their souls are pure!
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  2143.  @alexanderjulian554  No, I don't find your nonsense interesting.
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  2144.  @AXSLV2  He was not shutting down travel from China. He was shutting down foreigners travelling from China, as if the virus gives a shit who brings it into the US. He was being xenophobic, and let in tons of Americans, without testing or quarantine.
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  2145.  @Addamo  Dore has been slandering people who have done more for M4A in a few years than he has in his entire lifetime. He promotes the third party route, that hasn't won the most popular third party a single seat in congress in its near 50 year existence, peddling some fantasy where third parties are incorruptible and will only produce perfectly perfect candidates ... you know, like Kyrsten Sinema. He did, in fact, promote Tulsi over Bernie, which you're just lying about. He didn't care if 10m of the poorest Americans were thrown off Medicaid expansion, didn't care to try and add 40m older Americans to Medicare expansion, did support the "medicare choice" candidate over the M4A candidate, and then turned around and made himself out to be the one true champion of healthcare, because he came up with a stupid way to get a 100% guaranteed to fail performance art vote. He argued that Trump filling multiple scotus seats was as likely as the moon falling into Lake Michigan (wrong). He promoted Trump as the better option than Clinton, vastly overestimating the benefits, claiming it would lead to progressives "for sure" taking the house and senate in 2018 (wrong) and the presidency in 2020 (wrong), and vastly underestimating the risks, claiming even Republicans would join the left and vote against a Trump agenda rather than follow him into all out fascism (wrong). If he's not a grifter, then he's a complete and utter moron. Either way, he benefits the far right more than the left.
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  2146.  @X2LR8  Dimwit. Right wingers have falsely tried to portray fascism as leftist, and themselves as against it (anti), for years.
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  2147.  @matthewwolfe9417  Well, those are mostly pretenders. I mean the actual Libertarians that debate whether driver's licenses are a good idea.
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  2148. Just like the empathy and understanding for the urban poor, yeah?
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  2149. Yep. She said K-12.
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  2150.  @thomasautonomousanonymous  You seem to have severe reading comprehension problems. I said he promoted Trump as the better option for progressives, than Clinton. You get that promoting Clinton as the worse option, than Trump, is exactly the same thing, right?
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  2151.  @thomasautonomousanonymous  A link to the video, a couple comments back, wasn't good enough for you, you dimwitted Dore knob?
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  2152.  @thomasautonomousanonymous  Also, you Dore knobs seriously need to learn what "gaslighting" actually means. It's a specific form of deception that attempts to make someone feel, or appear, insane. You know, like when Jimmy made out like Trump filling multiple scotus seats was as likely as the moon falling into Lake Michigan, and that Sam Seder was crazy for suggesting otherwise. Turned out Sam was entirely correct, and Jimmy is the one living in some alternate reality.
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  2153. ​ @the_mini_axe2817  That "chunk" might be a lot smaller than you think, though. Many of his detractors don't think he's extreme enough. Likud was founded by Irgun and Lehi terrorists. Israelis, to this day, celebrate those terrorists as "heroes".
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  2154. He gets donations from one nurse's union pac. Not one being funded by big dollar donations or set up specifically to donate to him. Warren dishonestly pretends a union pac is akin to a pac funded by rich donors.
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  2155.  @luchi.el.zorrito  You're only needlessly killing people and spreading more variants than any other state, but hey, as long as you're unemployment rate is a few percentage points lower than some other states. Woohoo!
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  2156.  @CaptainYesz  Well, it is owned by Trump's corporate buddy.
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  2157.  @fayebrown914  Oh shit, we hit the Q motherlode!
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  2158.  @terryarcona3254  Who'd ensure it wouldn't be like that, at all? On the Western frontier, before the government and law had much of a presence, private property owning cattle barons, with their privately hired cowboy armies, threw their weight around, slaughtering thousands of sheep, ripping down fences, and even killing herders and their supporters. Feudalism is just a bunch of private property owners, with their private armies, charging rent on their private property, and making rules for living on their private property. With no authority above those private property owners, they resolved their property disputes privately.
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  2159.  @garyhamlin3299  Except they did work. Australia's covid deaths per million would translate into about 850k fewer US covid deaths. Even Canada's more mediocre response would translate into about 600k fewer US covid deaths. The US covid response was utterly pathetic.
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  2160. ​ @ralphdenis3449 What did he do? Deficit almost doubled by 2019. Oil prices had dropped in 2014 and went up under Trump. More ❌ ings in 2019 than any year under Obama. Ended zero w a r s, and dropped more b o m b s per year than Obama.
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  2161.  @bce5726  What kind of nonsensical analogy is that?
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  2162.  @Andrew-cu3xd  The politicization of justice nominations happened before Kavanaugh. How is McConnell's, we're going to block everything just cuz, not the worst form of politicization?
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  2163.  @STC987  Rofl. There's no such thing as a cheaper version of Jimmy Dore. He's the cheapest version you can get.
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  2164.  @IV_97  Rofl. How is deciding to use a procedure, that will most definitely lead to the death of an embryo, all that different? How is outright worshipping an embryo and fetus killer not diametrically the opposite of what you claim to be against?
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  2165.  @IV_97  Shapiro considers most American Jews to be JINOs. So, yeah, he throws his own people under the bus to be accepted.
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  2166. @alaskanmes Fascism: anti-union ... check anti-socialism ... check anti-feminism ... check ultra-nationalism ... check backed by religious leaders ... check backed by big business ... check leaders in privatization ... check pro expanding policing ... check pro expanding military ... check anti-democratic ... check (gerrymandering, disenfranchisement, electoral college, obstructionist) How is the GOP not fascist? You know fascists were still fascists before consolidating full power, right?
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  2167. 27% of Republicans don't want Trump to concede even if these sham court cases all lose. Millions of Americans saying okay to all out fascism.
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  2168.  Ricky Spanish  All you're arguing is that the corporation is taking too much, from franchise owners in the US, simply for using their brand, not that the corporation isn't taking too much. McDonald's employees get paid $20/hr in Denmark. It's not like it's impossible to pay them more. Why would the corporation let all their franchises crash and burn, if wages were increased? That wouldn't make sense.
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  2169.  @JD-jz5rr  No worries. We can all go back to our ancestral homes, claim half the country, and boot anyone living there off, just like Israel, right?
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  2170.  @Daneelro  Yeah, that's why I like the 2D political compass, for authoritarian vs anti-authoritarian takes. Being authoritarian, or anti-authoritarian, isn't necessarily left, or right. You can like someone's takes on some anti-authoritarian issues, but people shouldn't let that fool them, that they're on the same side, when it comes to a majority of political issues. Glenn's (and Dore's) recent "free speech" rantings have been very much the kind you hear from right wingers, even if they are seemingly anti-authoritarian. They never propose public ownership, which would give people free speech rights. They pretend like people are losing "free speech" righs, when nobody ever had such rights on someone else's private property, to begin with. They just seem to expect to be able to say whatever they want on someone else's private property, even expecting to dodge editors, whose jobs it is to literally edit your work before publication. And, if Glenn's take on Trump is similar to Dore's, Dore simply agreed with Tucker about how problematic it was for Trump to be removed from social media. Aside from what I mentioned above, Dore also never pointed out that incitement isn't even protected speech. If Glenn also doesn't point that out, then they're just defending far right wing insurrectionists, who wanted to overthrow the democratic process to install Dumpty as an unelected dictator.
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  2171.  @ribbrascal  Alabama ruled that we're all female, since life begins at fertilization. Only the X (female) chromosomes are active, for the first 5-6 weeks.
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  2172.  Ohio State  ... that can't do math.
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  2173. The US has made it so complicated to fire a shit leader. In Canada, politicians can make a motion for a no confidence vote and, if passed, there's a reelection. Legal ... illegal ... irrelevant.
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  2174.  Bruce strkland  The global 3.4% death rate is based on deaths per confirmed cases, not guesses as to how many asymptomatic carriers are wandering around. Nothing really dark about confirmed deaths to confirmed cases ratios. A 6% rate indicates there are likely Americans with symptoms who aren't heading to the hospital at the same rate as people in other countries, likely because they're weighing costs instead of just heading to the hospital at the first sign of symptoms. And, if Americans are heading to the hospital at half the rate as other countries, it will end up spreading faster.
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  2175. Bernie is anti-war, too, so not sure why you're presenting as an either or situation.
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  2176. He was being chased because people thought he had murdered someone. Allowing Kyle to get off on "self defense", would mean it's okay for a criminal to shoot anyone chasing them down.
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  2177. Pretty sure that 90% of non-fast food restaurants would fall somewhere between ultra-fine dining and fast food, don't tend to hire teenagers, and don't make waiters/waitresses a fortune.
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  2178. GWB won with New Hampshire. Everybody kept going on about Florida, because it was so close, but New Hampshire would have also given Gore a win. A state like Maine, where they split the electorals, would also be a good place to get him off the ballot.
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  2179.  Darkgreen0311  Almost all of the highest homicide rates have belonged to red states, for years. You hypocrites don't actually give a crap. https://www.cdc.gov/nchs/pressroom/sosmap/homicide_mortality/homicide.htm
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  2180. Hitler just killed off his own party members that weren't culty enough, and kept going.
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  2181.  @Caareenkm6726  What do common sense Brits think about the people who bombed the King David Hotel?
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  2182. ​@@Ares-sp7vo So what? It's okay to ethnically people from where they live, if there's more of them living elsewhere? It's okay to ethnically cleanse one tribe of Native Americans, since there's more Native Americans? Make some sense.
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  2183. ​ @gerthabanks3304  I like that you called it "Bile".
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  2184.  @christianfascist7281  They aren't "united". They represent less than 1% of Canada's 420k commercial freight trucks. The united workers are working.
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  2185. A quick look at their website shows they have both valet and self parking. So, you kinda have to let them know you want the valet service, and not just sit there staring at them.
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  2186.  @John-bravooo  Post Nakba: "By 15 May 1948, the population was 805,900, of which 649,600, i.e. 80.6%, were Jews and 156,000, i.e. 19.4%, were the remaining Palestinians of the region which was occupied and named as Israel later on." If 700+k non-Jews were ethnically cleansed, then who was the actual pre-Nakba majority? Colonizers of North America let some "friendlies" live amongst them. I guess that totally means they weren't racist, colonizing, ethnic cleansers. The good old "black friend" argument.
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  2187.  @dallasmorrison6983  Nope.
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  2188.  @laxarus3259  It's literally handing out a right to become an immediate citizen, to any Jew in the world, even those who just converted. "The rights of a Jew under this Law ...". I take it back. You're not ignorant, you're dishonest.
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  2189.  @laxarus3259  And Palestinian refugees are trying to move back home, not to a new country, ffs.
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  2190. Minus the violent conquest. Simply moving next door doesn't actually replace someone.
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  2191.  @texajp1946  By backing Tulsi Gabbard? “In short, when it comes to the war against terrorists, I’m a hawk. When it comes to counterproductive wars of regime change, I’m a dove.” - Tulsi Gabbard, Hawaii Tribune-Herald, 2016 The war on terrorism has basically been used as grounds for all US interventions, since 9/11, ffs.
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  2192.  @churchofthelambofsat  The problem is that the Zs keep claiming they're the same thing.
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  2193.  @shadowthehedgehog3113  You Dore knobs need to learn what words mean. You don't seem to know what "gaslit" or "blackmail" mean.
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  2194. Likud's bloody 100 year history ... In 1923, 100 years ago, Ze'ev Jabotinsky wrote, The Iron Wall, and a follow up, The Ethics of The Iron Wall (sooo racist towards Africans), in which he fully acknowledged that post Balfour Zionsim was colonialism, and that, based on the entirety of history, the native Palestinian population would resist being colonized until the bitter end. He directly compared it to the colonization of North America. He promoted doing it anyway, claiming Zionist colonialism was a "just" colonialism (he also thought North American colonialists were good guys, so not a great judge of morality), not caring what that meant for the native population. Ze'ev is important, because his Betar militant youth group helped found the Irgun terrorist group, along with other supporters of his, and the splinter Lehi terrorist group. The Irgun bombed numerous Palestinian markets and other public places, murdering many Palestinian civilians, including children, even including Palestinian Jews (who didn't support colonialist Zionsim). The Irgun are important, because they ended up being led by future Likud PM, Menachem Begin, who bombed the King David Hotel. The King David Hotel was bombed because the British had raided the Jewish Agency and seized numerous documents that may have shown that the terrorists were working with the JA and Haganah (JA liked to pretend that they didn't support the terrorism). The British then stored those documents at their base, in the hotel. That the Irgun terrorists responded to a JA raid, itself seems to prove the connection. That the thousands of Irgun (and Lehi) terrorists were also quickly merged into the new nation's military (IDF) and intelligence (Mossad) agencies, and are still celebrated as "heroes" by Israelis, to this day, also seems to support total collaboration between the groups. That other terrorist group mentioned, Lehi (also known as the Stern Gang), was considered even more extreme. They even tried to ally with the Nazis, against the British. Lehi ended up being led by Yitzhak Shamir, future Mossad agent, and another future Likud PM. They assassinated Lord Moyne, and others. In 1945, there was a major land and peoples survey done in Palestine. It showed that the Zionists only owned about 5% of the total land, 20% of the arable land, and owned a majority in zero districts. The partition was not only going to be forced on the native Palestinian majority, but Jews were still going to be a minority, in the part allocated to them. The only possible way to even become a "Jewish state" was going to require getting rid of the actual majority (at least enough so that there'd be a solid Jewish majority, so they could fake being democratic). This is also shown by the 1948, post Nakba, population of Israel. If there was 716,700 Jews, 156,000+ non-Jews, and approximately 700k non-Jews ethnically cleansed, that means the Jewish population, in the Zionist portion of partition, was originally over 100,000 less than the non-Jewish population. To believe that there was never any intent, by Zionists, to ethnically cleanse away the Palestinian majority would require believing that they never intended to create a "Jewish state". It's a nonsensical notion. Begin, and those terrorist groups, also opposed partition, but for the opposite reason Palestinians did. Palestinians didn't want to be colonized, at all. The terrorists wanted to colonize it all. "Moderate" Zionists were okay with colonizing half ... for now (what would happen in the future, after partition, was up to them, said Ben-Gurion). The Zionist terrorists were also involved in massacres, and assassinations, during the partition violence (colonialist war against the natives). Another notable future Likud PM, also started in the military, during the partition fighting. That was Ariel Sharon, war criminal, "Butcher of Beirut". Menachem Begin, and these other Zionist terrorists, are important because they became involved in Israeli politics, first forming Herut. That was the party that Albert Einstein, and other prominent American Jews, opposed, having a letter printed in the NYT, in December of 1948, when Begin came to visit the US. The letter opened ... "Among the most disturbing political phenomena of our times is the emergence in the newly created state of Israel of the "Freedom Party" (Tnuat Haherut), a political party closely akin in its organization, methods, political philosophy and social appeal to the Nazi and Fascist parties. It was formed out of the membership and following of the former Irgun Zvai Leumi, a terrorist, right-wing, chauvinist organization in Palestine." Herut merged with other extremist parties, over the years, and eventually became Likud, in the 70s. Now, people get upset over the slogan "From the river to the sea!", but it's the second part that's most important, "Palestine will be free!". Because "Palestine" isn't defined as an ethno-state, a free Palestine can be a single state, free for all to live in, and return to, free of continuing colonization, free of occupation, free of oppression, etc. Just like a Germany free of Nazism, an Italy free of fascism, a South Africa free of apartheid, or an America free of slavery from sea to shiny sea. It doesn't necessitate purging all the Jews. It just necessitates them giving up on the idea of an ethno-state. On the other hand, because "Israel" has been defined as an ethno-state, Likud's, "between the sea and the Jordan there will only be Israeli sovereignty", has no possible good interpretation. It is a declaration of intent to completely colonize, and ethnically cleanse, all Palestine territories. Not only that, but it also claims that they have a "right" to all of the "Land of Israel" (biblical borders that don't mesh with archaeological reality), which is an open declaration of future wars, against Jordan, Syria, Lebanon, and possibly even Iraq. Likud platform ... 1977: "The Right of the Jewish People to the Land of Israel (Eretz Israel) a. The right of the Jewish people to the land of Israel is eternal and indisputable and is linked with the right to security and peace; therefore, Judea and Samaria will not be handed to any foreign administration; between the Sea and the Jordan there will only be Israeli sovereignty. b. A plan which relinquishes parts of western Eretz Israel, undermines our right to the country, unavoidably leads to the establishment of a "Palestinian State," jeopardizes the security of the Jewish population, endangers the existence of the State of Israel. and frustrates any prospect of peace." "Settlement Settlement. both urban and rural. in all parts of the Land of Israel is the focal point of the Zionist effort to redeem the country, to maintain vital security areas and serves as a reservoir of strength and inspiration for the renewal of the pioneering spirit. The Likud government will call on the younger generation in Israel and the dispersions to settle and help every group and individual in the task of inhabiting and cultivating the wasteland, while taking care not to dispossess anyone." 1999: "The Government of Israel flatly rejects the establishment of a Palestinian Arab state west of the Jordan river. The Palestinians can run their lives freely in the framework of self-rule, but not as an independent and sovereign state. Thus, for example, in matters of foreign affairs, security, immigration, and ecology, their activity shall be limited in accordance with imperatives of Israel's existence, security and national needs." "The Jewish communities in Judea, Samaria, and Gaza are the realization of Zionist values. Settlement of the land is a clear expression of the unassailable right of the Jewish people to the Land of Israel and constitutes an important asset in the defense of the vital interests of the State of Israel. The Likud will continue to strengthen and develop these communities and will prevent their uprooting." All Palestine territories are officially considered occupied, by the International Court of Justice, the UN GA, the UN SC, and even in official documents of Israel's own allies. Likud is still using the blueprint for colonizing North America, in the West Bank. Move settlements out into native territory, piss off the natives, the natives retaliate, cry about poor "innocent" colonizing settlers being the "victims" of violent "Savages!", call in the cavalry to put down the native uprising, and eventually expand the borders to include those settlements. Rinse and repeat. In Gaza, Israel is operating an open air WWII style fascist ghetto. Them claiming a "right to defend themselves" would be like the Nazis claiming a "right to defend themselves " from the Warsaw ghetto uprising. There's no "war". That they're the occupiers means the "war" part is long over. Those people are actually supposed to be under the occupier's protection. That partition was forced upon the Palestinian majority, against their will ... that the Zionist portion still had to be forcefully ethnically cleansed of its non-Jewish majority, against their will ... that the millions of occupied Palestinians don't have a say in the government that truly rules over them, Israel's ... means Israel is about as democratic as Nazi Germany after Hitler purged his political opponents and then held elections.
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  2195. ​ @doubletap1663  Likud's platform: "The Right of the Jewish People to the Land of Israel (Eretz Israel) a. The right of the Jewish people to the land of Israel is eternal and indisputable and is linked with the right to security and peace; therefore, Judea and Samaria will not be handed to any foreign administration; between the Sea and the Jordan there will only be Israeli sovereignty. b. A plan which relinquishes parts of western Eretz Israel, undermines our right to the country, unavoidably leads to the establishment of a "Palestinian State," jeopardizes the security of the Jewish population, endangers the existence of the State of Israel. and frustrates any prospect of peace."
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  2196. To shorten your future posts, just say "I'M STUPID!"
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  2197.  @whyamimrpink78  Nonsense. The countries with excellent responses had fewer lockdowns. Letting it constantly be out of control leads to having to lockdown more.
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  2198.  @iblus2225  No vaccine is 100%, dimwit. You've probably had a few of them.
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  2199. Nothing much ever happens in any new congress, before committee week. "Immediately" = as soon as congress is fully up and running. You know the senate is still working out how it's going to function, exactly, right?
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  2200.  @joebin3286  Does a high school kid need a living wage? Are you going to shut down all the McDonalds until after 3pm, during the school year?
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  2201.  @aarondickson9573  Based on ... ?
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  2202. So, you can't freely state that you don't want to share the same platform with someone, and give the platform an option to choose?
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  2203. "Fscsm is the complete opposite of Marxian sclsm." ~ Mussolini I guess DT is a Mrxst, now.
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  2204.  @michelbisson6645  Trump was not the first in the world to ban travel from China. He did not even ban travel from China. He stopped foreigners from coming from China, and let thousands of Americans to come back from China. As is clearly obvious, a travel ban alone isn't overly effective. Canada is in the middle of the road, for covid responses, but had 700 fewer deaths per million, which is about 230k extra deaths in the US. All the other countries had the same info out of China. You're spewing bullshit straight from the mouth of your Supreme Leader. You're in a cult. Wake up.
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  2205. They don't even really have much of anything on Hunter. The guy joined Burisma after the period they were being investigated over. Ironically lucked out with a gun charge.
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  2206.  @JustSomeGoy  One of the most incompetent covid responses in the world. Australia's covid death rate would translate into about 26k total US deaths. Canada's covid death rate would translate into 400+k fewer US covid deaths.
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  2207.  @truthache8560  She was 13 already, when she went to Canada, and only spent 5 years there, dingus. She went to Westmount High School, which is public, and then a year at a public college, Vanier, before returning to the US, to go to Howard. She didn't even spend the majority of her childhood in Canada. Nothing you said was true, because Vance's book and movie are also untrue.
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  2208.  @rentfree1438  If an old lady with arthritis can't dodge an oncoming truck, she didn't die from old age and arthritis, dumb dumb. They simply added to her inability to dodge the truck.
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  2209. She should not do this right now.
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  2210.  @maxpower8429  Ah, so you're very anti-democratic, and want to disenfranchise everyone under 25.
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  2211.  @maxpower8429  Are you so daft, that you don't know Vivek wants to raise the voting age to 25?
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  2212. You had what used to be called a brain. Now, not so much.
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  2213. He's a proven grifter. (Q: Jordan or Donny? A: Yes.)
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  2214.  @aarondickson9573  Dimwit. There was also a southern Republican amongst those filibustering, and 6 Republicans that voted against it. Do you think 27 Republicans passed the bill alone? Democrats introduced it, and the majority of them voted for it, dumb dumb.
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  2215.  james colvin  You idiot. There were anti-fascists in the streets, and fighting with the brown shirts, in Germany, too. Claiming anti-fascists are the fascists makes you stupid. US independence was founded on protesting, confronting authorities in the streets, tarring and feathering loyalists, burning their houses, and destruction of property. When a red coat feared for his life, and shot a protester, it led to all out war. Were the founding fathers fascists? Aside for that being bullshit, you don't have a right to be on Facebook or Twitter. There's no protections for political leanings. They can boot whoever they want. Don't like it, then try to get political leanings protected, like race, sex, religion, etc. Oh wait, protecting people from being discriminated against would probably be against your political leanings. You're likely in favour of private companies having the "right" to discriminate against whoever they want.
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  2216. The crud that led to Republican Mueller indicting 29 Russians and 3 Russian companies, some 200 pages of documented information sharing (collusion) that didn't amount to illegal conspiracy, and only not indicting Jr and Kushner for conspiracy because it would be hard to prove they "willfully" broke the law, not because they didn't break the law ... that crud?
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  2217. And knew what he was going to say. They made him take out some other "joke".
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  2218. If you look at where we started pulling away from the rest, in housing prices, it was when the bubble burst, in the US. On the flip side, all the people who lost their homes, in the US, and the recession hitting them harder, because market prices plummeted, wasn't a good thing.
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  2219.  @shakenbacon3655  Yeah, Dore called Trump a "maniacal fascist", but then outright promoted him as the better option than Clinton, not giving two shits if that could get 10m poor people tossed off Medicaid expansion, and not caring to add 40m to Medicare. And now that same idiot is acting like he's the one and only true champion of healthcare.
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  2220. The Smithsonian is already 20 museums, dimwit.
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  2221. Was going to say ... Our Canadian Trailer Park Boys comedy was to laugh at, not emulate.
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  2222.  @duduong3841  "leftist fascists" That's an oxymoron.
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  2223. Right? His question back, to avoid simply answering the initial question, was the deflection.
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  2224. ​ @khersonskiyarbuzkhersonski2460  Incorrect. Ukrn was trying to join the EU, not NATO. Yanukovych was elected stating he supported joining the EU. Pvtin then implemented an Eastern blockade on Ukrn trade, until Yanukovych folded, and backed out of joining the EU. That's when the protests started. The US had no reason to be planning the protests, or a coup, because Yanukovych had been saying he'd join the EU. People were just pissed. Yanukovych then fled the country. Pvtin then invdd, took Crimea, and started supplying manpower, wpns, and money, to rbls in Donbass.
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  2225. They might have been the ones who changed it. They sent her to a prep school that was literally founded for white kids to avoid desegregation.
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  2226.  @evanfryberger  They weren't simply "white" supremacists. They were Aryan supremacists. They thought Aryan was itself a race. They didn't consider non Aryans (white, or not) to be of that race. It's pretty straight forward racism. Them being wrong doesn't change what they believed, and their beliefs is what should be judged, to determine whether they were racist, or not. It's not the only time people merged their bigotry into racism. In the US they had No Irish, or No Italian, signs, rather than No Catholics signs. Old English descriptions of the Irish, made out like the Irish were some inferior race. It's racism, based on the views of the perpetrators.
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  2227. ​​@lg2285a All you have to do is listen to some early Zionists. They were not cowardly about their colonialism, like modern ones. They announced it proudly. Ze'ev Jabotinsky, in 1923, fully acknowledged that Zionism is colonialism, and predicted, based on the entirety of history, that the natives would fight it until the bitter end. He just didn't care what would happen to them, and considered Zionist colonialism to be morally "good". Ze'ev Jabotinsky, The Iron Wall
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  2228.  @barbiquearea  South Korea isn't fully capitalist. They have socialized healthcare for those who can't afford it, publicly funded post secondary education, ... So why did you pick them as "true" capitalism?
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  2229.  @asamanthinketh1937  Why not pick one of the happier countries than Switzerland, like centrist Denmark? Top 10 happiness index ... Finland 7.80 Denmark 7.59 Iceland 7.53 Israel 7.47 Netherlands 7.40 Sweden 7.39 Norway 7.32 Switzerland 7.24 Luxembourg 7.23 New Zealand 7.12
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  2230. Not sure he grasps exactly what McCarthyism was about. Republicans crying things like, "SOCIALISM!!!!", "VENEZUELA!!!!", "UN-AMERICAN!!!!", "THEY HATE AMERICA!!!!", etc., is a lot closer to McCarthyism, than simply pointing out the fact that he blatantly refuses to allow a vote on defending elections from Russia, and to punish Russian interference.
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  2231.  @tripvic7629  You can both, accept that Assad is a brutal dictator that used chemical weapons, and believe that the US shouldn't be unilaterally intervening in other countries, dimwit. What is lefty about defending a brutal dictator so hard? Dore went so anti-Clinton, he promoted Trump as the better option. What the f*ck is lefty about promoting Republicans as the better option?
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  2232.  @jamalmcduffie7262  Everyone afraid to give them equal rights, freedom from discrimination, etc.
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  2233. We are willing to work with Biden, if he's willing to do things exactly the way we want.
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  2234. @Harry Moorehouse So has everyone at FOX. Doesn't stop them from spewing bullshit.
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  2235.  @Evirthewarrior  Maybe you're making light of just how bad the US is, compared to other developed countries. You're 15x more likely to be killed by a cop in the US than in New Zealand, and about 8x more likely to be murdered. Is there some objective point where someone isn't a "coward", when they say a country is dangerous? Is Honduras dangerous, with 8x the US homicide rate?
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  2236.  @raymondflores5176  ROFL! Oh great, the dumbest Nazi argument going ... "But, but, but ... it's in the name!" By that absolutely moronic argument the DPRK is actually democratic.
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  2237. How about asking a president to not only stop mocking guidelines, but to encourage people to follow guidelines? Asking a president to support states trying contain the virus, rather than fighting them? Asking a president to increase testing from its pathetically low rate? You know ... asking them to do their job.
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  2238.  Dragon1717  It was only a "civil war", because the North won, were victorious over the South, and the union stayed together. For the South, it was a war of independence. They declared themselves to be a separate country, and that country, the Confederate States of America, with its own constitution, enshrining slavery, its own flags, its own uniforms, etc., was defeated. It was a victory for the union, keeping the union together. It was a victory for the United States of America over the Confederate States of America. Why shouldn't the USA celebrate that?
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  2239.  @alowry2002  It's not a "war", when you're already officially occupied. Nazis weren't at "war" with the Warsaw ghetto uprising.
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  2240. I didn't look at the details of all the SC polls, but the one I did, which showed Biden with a big lead, polled 43% people over 65.
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  2241. Bad ugly behaviour is impeachable.
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  2242. ​ @Whoyouwishyouwere  How about you take a look at reality. Their 2022 profits are 3x that of 2019. They raised prices purely for more profit.
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  2243. It only takes 5 Republicans to make a deal with Democrats, to pass a budget. All of the ones claiming they're opposed to the shutdown are full of shit.
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  2244.  @jonathanlebo3710  You're too lazy to read, but want someone to type out something for you to read?
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  2245. Quillette wouldn't get rid of him for being a right wing grifter. Those considered to be "conservative" victims of supposed liberal Twitter bias, according to a Quillette article ... American Nazi Party National Policy Institute Richard Spencer David Duke League of the South Mike Enoch Paul Nehlen Radix Journal Proud Boys Gavin McInnes and more.
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  2246.  Adam Lanza  By "government actors", you mean the vast majority of doctors and scientists in the field, from across the world?
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  2247.  @samsom4122  Rofl. Vaccine mandates don't violate any constitutional rights. Plenty of vaccines are already mandated by public schools and for immigrants.
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  2248.  @theworkingprogressive127  When he promoted Trump as the better option, not caring if 10m of the poorest Americans were thrown off Medicaid expansion, and not caring to add 40m older Americans to Medicare expansion, how was that fighting for the working class? When he was promoting Tulsi and her "Medicare choice" instead of Bernie and his M4A (as well as all his other policies geared towards workers), how was that fighting for the working class? When he promotes third parties, while the most popular third party hasn't won a single seat in congress in its near 50 year existence, how is sitting on the sidelines and having zero seats and zero votes on even a single bill, fighting for the working class? How is slandering the most progressive pro worker politicians in congress, instead of the most anti worker politicians, fighting for the working class? He's an idiot, that benefits the far right.
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  2249.  @shanabell8603  Jimmy has had a video, since the Shaun video, about covid deaths. In it, he starts with vaccinated and unvaccinated hospitalization rates, 0.01% and 0.89%, that are based on the total vaccinated and unvaccinated populations, which is clearly stated in the Gallup article he cites. Jimmy instead uses the numbers as if they're based on only the infected population, and immediately makes out like the hospitalization rates are crazy low. He then compares those hospitalization rates to a "death rate" that is obviously a year and a half old case fatality rate, 3.4%. Then ... you know, since 3.4% is so much higher than 0.9% ... he makes out like covid deaths have been "WILDLY inflated". If you're using total population hospitalization rates, then the "death rate" you want is the covid crude mortality rate, which is about 0.25%. There's nothing incompatible with 0.9% and 0.25%. Jimmy was falsely making out like hospitalization rates were much lower than they actually are, for those infected, and that people were being lied to about death rates, all of which panders to the anti-maskers and anti-vaxxers, who have been claiming covid is no worse than a cold or flu. Plus, he basically completely ignores that he has just shown numbers indicating that the unvaccinated are being hospitalized at 89x the rate of the vaccinated. Either Jimmy didn't read the Gallup article, himself, to know what kind of hospitalization rates he was using, or he's a complete and utter moron who, himself, decided to use the incorrect "death rate" ... a complete and utter moron who couldn't find a "death rate" that's newer than a year and a half old (case fatality rates change constantly) ... a complete and utter moron who couldn't do the simple math to find out the latest case fatality rate, or crude mortality rate, himself. He's either completely ignorant or completely dishonest. Take your pick.
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  2250. Was he right, when he claimed letting Trump win would cause such a massive progressive backlash, that progressives would take the house, senate, and presidency, in 2020? Was he right that a Trump presidency would have little effect on the Supreme Court? He isn't "spot on" about much, that I've seen.
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  2251. Likud's, "between the sea and the Jordan", platform ... 1977: "The Right of the Jewish People to the Land of Israel (Eretz Israel) a. The right of the Jewish people to the land of Israel is eternal and indisputable and is linked with the right to security and peace; therefore, Judea and Samaria will not be handed to any foreign administration; between the Sea and the Jordan there will only be Israeli sovereignty. b. A plan which relinquishes parts of western Eretz Israel, undermines our right to the country, unavoidably leads to the establishment of a "Palestinian State," jeopardizes the security of the Jewish population, endangers the existence of the State of Israel. and frustrates any prospect of peace." "Settlement Settlement. both urban and rural. in all parts of the Land of Israel is the focal point of the Zionist effort to redeem the country, to maintain vital security areas and serves as a reservoir of strength and inspiration for the renewal of the pioneering spirit. The Likud government will call on the younger generation in Israel and the dispersions to settle and help every group and individual in the task of inhabiting and cultivating the wasteland, while taking care not to dispossess anyone." 1999: "The Government of Israel flatly rejects the establishment of a Palestinian Arab state west of the Jordan river. The Palestinians can run their lives freely in the framework of self-rule, but not as an independent and sovereign state. Thus, for example, in matters of foreign affairs, security, immigration, and ecology, their activity shall be limited in accordance with imperatives of Israel's existence, security and national needs." "The Jewish communities in Judea, Samaria, and Gaza are the realization of Zionist values. Settlement of the land is a clear expression of the unassailable right of the Jewish people to the Land of Israel and constitutes an important asset in the defense of the vital interests of the State of Israel. The Likud will continue to strengthen and develop these communities and will prevent their uprooting."
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  2252.  @kevin6293  Guess the US was screwed from the start, then. It was founded by people who protested, rioted, and even went to war, over extra taxes that specifically funded the police/military and a lack of representation. Their opponents, btw, backed the police/military and fought against democracy to keep an unelected ruler in power.
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  2253.  @kevin6293  Fighting against an authoritarian justice system is fighting for tyranny? Can you make that make sense?
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  2254.  @kevin6293  None of the squad backed Biden in the primaries. They didn't actually want him as president. And, it was older and black voters who handed it to Biden.
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  2255.  @Disaletteritis  Rofl. Conservatives can't get a majority of votes anywhere but Alberta and Saskatchewan, and only win pluralities due to Liberal and NDP vote splitting. And the extreme right wing loons, from the People's Party, and the like, that are leading this shit show, are even far less popular.
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  2256. ​ @TransKidsMafia  Better report them to some right wing government.
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  2257. That doesn't seem to mesh with the fact that wht and black Americans do drugs at similar rates, but black Americans are charged and convicted at higher rates, and tend to be sentenced for longer.
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  2258.  @SSGTA440  Dore hasn't done anything and keeps going after M4A's most ardent congressional supporters. Dore knobs have already proved that ftv was pure bullshit. The $15 got a vote, actually passed the house (which M4A wouldn't have), and produced a list of no voters from both the house and senate. All Dore and his knobs do is keep bitching about those who got it to stay in for a round of voting, and voted for it.
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  2259.  @LancesArmorStriking  No. In terms of Russia and Israel both being the colonialists.
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  2260.  @daniellove162  Every Republican voted against the $15, in congress. Whatever the hell is going on at the state level is irrelevant. NYC and Washington DC already have $15 minimums, not 5 years from now. Multiple states already have minimums above Florida's current minimum, and it'll take Florida a few years to even catch up to them. Wouldn't your "logic" mean that all the Democratic places that are out in front of Florida, are evidence they can pass minimum wage bills, and do it sooner? Wouldn't the fact that almost all of them voted for it in congress be evidence they're ahead of Republicans on the issue? The $15 would be an important progressive policy, that got a vote in the house, actually passed (M4A didn't have a chance in hell), and also got a senate vote. Weren't you Dore knobs supposed to be doing something with lists of no voters, instead of bitching about, and slandering, those who voted for it?
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  2261. ​ @aaronwilson8403  He doubled down on his opinion, after someone else confessed, after dna and specific details confirmed he was the one who did it, and after they were exonerated.
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  2262.  Max Power  Lol, China is even taking over the US, without even firing a shot.
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  2263.  @jvoet123  Strict voter ID laws drastically limit what they'll accept as ID. Poorer people are less likely to already have a driver's license so, instead of accepting multiple other ways of identifying themselves that they are more likely to already have, you're forcing them to get something they don't already have to vote. Poorer people can least afford to take a day off work and pay for extre transportation, to go get a voter ID. Strict voter ID laws are directly classist. It's also a fact that higher percentages of black and Hispanic Americans are lower income, making it indirectly racist. But, of course, those facts are know beforehand, so they're knowingly doing something that will have a larger effect on certain minority groups, making it racist.
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  2264. Well, they also haven't questioned how Yang's policies won't affect corporations, or the 1%, as he claims. So, he's lucky there.
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  2265.  Major Nelson  You so don't know what "communist" means.
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  2266.  @EnviousNV_  Not really. On top of him not knowing how the vote works. None of them thought of other options than Pelosi simply bending over. She could have just let them paralyze the house, and let the corporate media have a field day blaming progressives for no new covid relief, no new unemployment extensions, no new vaccine funding, etc., during a pandemic. She could have made a deal with Republicans, and give them something in exchange for enough of them abstaining or being absent to lower the threshold needed to win. A couple times in the past, the house also simply adopted a temporary plurality wins rule, to end the house being paralyzed. They have overestimated just how much leverage progressives actually have, based on only considering one possible outcome.
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  2267. 100 years ago, in 1923, Ze'ev Jabotinsky fully acknowledged that Zionism is colonialism, and predicted, based on all of history, that the natives would fight said colonialism until the bitter end. Being a colonialist, makes you the original aggressor. Everything natives do is a reaction to that beginning. On top of the colonialism, Israel was founded on terrorism, by groups like the Irgun and Lehi, who killed many civilians, including children and even Palestinian Jews. Israel merged those groups into their new intelligence agency and military. Israelis elected terrorists, like Menachem Begin, who led the Irgun, killed plenty of civilians, including throwing dynamite and blowing up Palestinian homes, and bombed the King David Hotel. Israelis, to this day, celebrate those terrorists as "heroes". Israel literally taught their neighbours that terrorism is a valid path to independence and statehood. Fascists called resistance movements "terrorists". Colonialists called unruly Natives "Savages!". Both sometimes brutally attacked civilians. They were still reacting to the fascism and colonialism. Without those things, they would have had nothing to react to. Native Americans didn't arrive at wanting to send the colonialists back into the sea, simply because they were white. The French resistance didn't want to send Nazis back to Germany, simply because they were German. Ask yourself why Jewish people were able to live side by side with Muslims, fled Christian nations for Muslim nations, for around 1300 years, even the earliest years of Zionism was accepted under the Ottomans, and then it suddenly stopped. Why was it timed around the Balfour declaration, which screwed Palestinians out of independence and self rule over the lands they lived on? Why was it timed around the first discussions of partition, with the first plan including force moving over 200k Palestinians out of lands that would be given to Zionists? Etc. Give your head a shake Ben.
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  2268.  @mauler7303  I didn't say "feel pain". "The thalamocortical structure, which is widely believed to be required for consciousness, develops around 26 weeks."
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  2269. 42 is the sacred number.
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  2270. It's a process, that would start on day 1. https://www.vox.com/policy-and-politics/2019/10/24/20930422/bernie-sanders-marijuana-legalization-plan
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  2271. ​ @jimballard7217  What, exactly, is anti-Semitic about saying it's a colonial state? Ze'ev Jabotinsky, a leading Zionist, acknowledged that Zionism is colonialism, 100 years ago, in 1923. He also predicted, based on history, how the natives would react to said colonialism ... fight to the bitter end.
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  2272.  @michaelbarquero6079  You get an F on analogies. You're concept of reality is completely backwards. It's you and Shapiro that are, literally, telling the NFL to shut up and play football. And, I'm the one telling you how to protest ... turn the channel, don't see the movie, or whatever, if you don't like it. Again, a tangent of deflection, from you, and ironically strawmanning me, with something someone else may have said, while complaining about strawmanning. You're clearly not very bright, and me saying so is just a statement of fact.
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  2273. Well, if they're out in the far suburbs, or even rural, he could be fending for himself. Used to have a lab that seemed to be able to find and catch things pretty easily, the few times he got away up at the cottage, when I was a kid.
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  2274. ​ @Nocthorix  If he was a genius, he'd be able to think up different names to call his businesses. He called his pre-merger online bank, X. He called his space company X. He called his social media company X. Hell, he even named 3 kids X-avier, Exa, and X AE A-Xii.
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  2275. ​ @Tetrahfy  2. A number of states were already doing Enterprise Zones. A 2002 study of 75 Enterprise Zones, found they had "little or no positive impact". It has also amounted to gentrification, in some places, pushing out the very people it was supposed to benefit, instead benefiting the outside rich investors most.
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  2276. ​ @Tetrahfy  3. HBCUs were being funded. Even every department of government gets funded annually.
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  2277. ​ @Tetrahfy  5. Harris and Booker had a bill that would create permanent, enforceable, reforms, at about the same time. Trump and Republicans had no interest in it. Trump wanted the blk Americans in the streets, calling for reforms, to be categorized as trrrsts. He's currently calling for tougher laws, and sentencing, without fixing the system first.
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  2278. Go check yourself in for a mental health evaluation.
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  2279.  Eric Moore  You must be a right winger, because that's who Dore benefits most.
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  2280.  Eric Moore  Watched for years. "Real" lefties promote Trump as the better option for progressives, not caring if 10m of the poorest Americans are thrown off Medicaid expansion, and not caring to add 40m Americans to Medicare expansion, in 2016? "Real" lefties back Tulsi and "Medicare choice" rather than Bernie and M4A? "Real" lefties run attack ad campaigns against Trump's only viable remaining opponent, in 2020? "Real" lefties slander progressives that have done more for M4A in a few years than he has in his entire lifetime? "Real" lefties go on far right MSM, not to challenge them, but to agree with their right wing nonsense? "Real" lefties, after slandering other progressives for weeks, and making out like they're no longer allies, over a single tactic disagreement, turn around and promote making allies with far right ancap Boogaloos, who are the complete opposite on economics? "Real" lefties promote going the third party route that hasn't won the most popular third party a single seat in congress in its near 50 year existence and, at best, would peel away enough progressive votes to let Republicans rule for decades? Why does a "real" lefty seem to benefit the far right most?
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  2281.  @professormeow7432  Going on Rogan, pretending like you're some kind of pro debater, claiming the left is afraid to debate you, all the while avoiding debating anybody but amateurs, makes you the coward who deserves to be set up. Your boy took his ball and ran home to daddy, when presented with a player he couldn't get an "easy layup" on.
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  2282.  @secularsocialist  Rofl. Aren't Jimmy, Glenn, and Tulsi, now getting money from Peter Thiel, to be on Rumble, ffs? Peter Thiel also sells software to the CIA, and other intelligence agencies. Coincidence? lol
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  2283.  @whyamimrpink78  You're lumping all access to healthcare together, as being equal. If I'm living in the middle of nowhere, hours from a hospital, sure, just having coverage won't give me access to immediate care. That's a totally different access issue. 42000 Americans die due to a lack of coverage, easily fixed by giving everyone coverage. It's just a damn fact that, if everyone has coverage, you won't have people dying due to lack of coverage. This is a no brainer. It would be a fact that nobody would go bankrupt due to healthcare costs. It would be a fact that nobody would have to go to India to get cheaper care. Nothing you say will change those facts. Two? "We based our analysis on 72 indicators that measure performance in five domains important to policymakers, providers, patients, and the public: Care Process, Access, Administrative Efficiency, Equity, and Health Care Outcomes." Sure, if everyone did everything just perfectly, then life would be grand. Perfectly safe drivers, perfectly healthy eaters, perfectly healthy exercisers, perfectly safe workers, etc., etc., etc. But, that's not reality, and I doubt it ever will be. At least, if you have access to regular checkups, you might have someone to regularly suggest lifestyle changes. Or you can also add a health tax to unhealthy things, like cigarettes, or whatever, as they do in some places.
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  2284. Trump wouldn't have done anything to stop Israel.
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  2285.  @MsPope1010  Me too.
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  2286.  @BB-mq9qk  The fact that he thinks there's a global conspiracy, amongst the vast majority of doctors, to let people die, is proof he's a quack, dimwit.
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  2287. diGenova's wife is Scooter Libby's lawyer. They owe Trump for pardoning their client.
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  2288. Scientists can now trick sperm into becoming embryos, without needing an egg. Sperm are living things with the potential to develop into babies. Should we outlaw sex and only allow for masturbating into test tubes, so we can save every single one of those "children"? And then execute anyone who breaks that law?
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  2289.  @mediamattersismycockholste562  Moron. Economic measures were on the same trajectory since about 2009. Obama's last budget went to the end of 2017. If you actually look at the DOW, Nasdaq, S&P 500, they have almost flatlined, since Trump's first budget.
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  2290.  @mediamattersismycockholste562  Lol, the Mueller report did find evidence of conspiracy, dumbass. What they decided they couldn't prove was that Jr knew the law. They concluded he was as dumb as you, so didn't bring charges against him.
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  2291.  @mediamattersismycockholste562  It's gun violence per capita, dumbass, not bear shooting. Using totals is the moronic way to do things. Per capita shows your odds of being shot.
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  2292. Might as well write in your cat's name.
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  2293. Bernie should stay in until the end, in case Joe has a stroke.
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  2294. If you justify punishing Palestinian civilians for their leadership, then you justify punishing Israeli civilians for their leadership. Congratulations.
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  2295. He's an idiot, spouting that Trumpist bullshit about Bernie. The top 1% isn't simply having a good year in book sales. The average net worth of the top 1% is over $26m. Don't think that's Bernie. https://images.app.goo.gl/oqeRWpzNTfdmSyQr8
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  2296.  @Mike2digital  And Bernie wants to make businesses give those who negotiated healthcare the equivalent back to them in wages, so ...
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  2297. Israel has colonized too much, and the 2 state solution has failed. I think it needs a one state solution, Lebanon style government, and a right of return for Palestinians.
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  2298.  @Frank-zs1wk  I'm not sure that it's even necessarily the fact that he has more right wingers on, but the fact that he has some really extreme right wing people on, and he lets them get away with passing themselves off as moderates or centrists, without challenge. I don't think they do very in-depth research into the background of their guests, so he ends up just taking their word for some stuff. For example: He just had Andy Ngo on, and let Andy pass himself off as centre-right, a poor middle of the road "reporter" viciously attacked by the far left Antifa. Andy Ngo works for Quillette, which took Twitter to task for supposed liberal bias against "conservatives". Some they grouped as simply "conservatives": American Nazi Party Richard Spencer National Policy Institute David Duke Mike Enoch Paul Nehlen James Allsup League of the South Proud Boys The Proud Boys are Andy's personal favorites, who he follows around, and defends. They go looking for fights, and Andy chooses to basically embed with them. Andy, and Quillette, are far from some moderate centre-right. Joe, letting the very far right pass itself off as some moderate middle, makes their positions seem more acceptable.
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  2299.  @edwardrosser938  Jimmy promoted Trump (platform: toss 10m of the poorest Americans off of Medicaid expansion) over Clinton (platform: add 40m older Americans to Medicare expansion). He peddled Tulsi (public option) over Bernie (M4A). He slanders progressives who have done more for M4A in a few years than he has in his entire lifetime. He slandered Bernie and AOC, claiming they had abandoned M4A, at the exact time they were on the ground campaigning for Nina Turner, promoting M4A, and trying to add another M4A advocate to congress. Dore, on the other hand, publicly abandoned Nina ... abandoned adding another M4A advocate to congress. He peddles the third party route, that hasn't won the most popular third party a single seat in congress in its near 50 year existence. He has peddled allying with "extreme free market" nutjobs that want to start a civil war, who would outright shoot any leftists trying to enact M4A, after you help them topple the government. Do you know what "grifter" means? It means they're selling themselves as one thing, but they're actually selling you something else. The directions Jimmy proposes going provide zero evidence he actually wants M4A. What he says doesn't match what he does.
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  2300.  @edwardrosser938  That wasn't Dore's argument for Trump over Clinton. He argued Trump was far worse. His claim was that a Trump presidency would cause a massive progressive backlash, exactly because he was so much worse. He claimed it would "for sure" lead to progressives taking the house (wrong) and senate (wrong), in 2018, and the presidency (wrong), in 2020. He claimed even Republicans would join the left and vote against a Trump presidency (wrong) rather than follow him into fascism (wrong). In his debate with Sam over it, he claimed Trump filling multiple scotus seats was as likely as the moon falling into Lake Michigan (wrong). He was wrong about everything. The very basis of his argument, that things had to get worse to have a bigger progressive movement, wasn't based on any kind of reality. Bernie had just created a progressive movement right after an Obama presidency. “In short, when it comes to the war against terrorists, I’m a hawk. When it comes to counterproductive wars of regime change, I’m a dove.” - Tulsi Gabbard, Hawaii Tribune-Herald, 2016 Pretty much every US intervention, since 9/11 used the war on terrorism as grounds. She was always a grifter, and Jimmy grifter for her. He spent months backing a public option candidate against the M4A candidate, then turned around and made out like not supporting some secondary tactic to get a performance art vote, was the end all and be all, slandering anyone who didn't jump onboard as "fakes", "frauds", "sellouts". All those labels should apply to him, for outright going against the M4A candidate. Yes, he and his wife publicly announced they had stopped donating to Nina, and then promoted never supporting anyone running as a Democrat ever again. The Trump presidency actually hurt Bernie's progressive movement. People went screaming into Joe Biden's "more electable" arms. They didn't want to risk having Trump around another term. It did the opposite of what Dore fantasized. Jimmy is a fringe "progressive". He represents only a few hundred thousand people that voted for Tulsi, and Green party, in the last election. The vast majority of progressives vote for, and support, all the progressives he keeps trashing. His audience has become more and more packed with right wing loons.
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  2301. The thing is "blue no matter who" works both ways, and is generally how progressives get elected. Those who vote against them in the primaries turn around and vote for them in the general. Even if you somehow managed to split off every progressive voter, to vote for a purely progressive party, that would just lead to Republicans winning almost everywhere. It might be hard moving policies forward with corporate Dems, but Republicans want to move backwards on a lot of issues.
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  2302. ​ @danialhillmann5374  So, you're not very bright, is what you're saying.
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  2303.  @makeamericagreatagain3401  He was sued and settled in court for being a conman, with his fraudulent university. He's, literally, a conman.
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  2304. @W Shiflet "She" is a well known Russian troll.
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  2305.  @Stegibbon  Yeah, and that's just the tip of the iceberg. They've cancelled, or attempted to cancel ... the non religious, pagans, other religions, other denominations, women's rights, women in pants, women's ankles, then knees, then thighs, they've cancelled books and movies, they still have a government agency protecting delicate conservative sensibilities from naughty words and nipples, religious grounds were used to cancel blacks being treated like human beings, ... and they've used the actual government, "justice" system, and military, to do it. Their psycho right wing president was firing, or threatening to fire, any federal workers who contradicted him, and they were fine with that. But, then express horror, if private companies (that they wanted to have rights like people and have given so much power to) decide for themselves to cancel crap. They're insanely hypocritical.
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  2306.  @Lorenzconnok  Rofl. Peterson is an idiot.
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  2307. ​ @mikeg2939  If someone declares they want to offensively absorb you, then looking for defensive allies is the reaction.
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  2308. Per capita, Canada sucks at climate change issues. We simply aren't singled out because our population is 10x smaller than the US, so our totals are low.
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  2309.  @jonathanlubarsky2782  Banks consider stocks to have current value. They can take out lines of credit, against their stock, to live on. Money in hand, without paying taxes on it.
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  2310. ​ @iamyoda66  Bullshit. Both Palestinians and Jews have Canaanite DNA. The Palestinians simply didn't go wandering for 1500 years.
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  2311. ​ @tomjackson4374  So you're okay with Trump is what you're saying.
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  2312. Do they grasp that, even if all VAERS deaths were confirmed as being caused by the vaccine, that the 0.0018% in brackets there, is a lot lower than the 1% virus mortality rate?
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  2313.  @chunkyMunky329  You're just lying. There was continued ethnic cleansing under Trump, and about 70k new colonizers, in the West Bank. UN: "The Commission of Experts added that these practices can “… constitute crimes against humanity and can be assimilated to specific war crimes. Furthermore, such acts could also fall within the meaning of the Genocide Convention.”"
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  2314.  @jonm7888  Who's "you guys"? I had no thoughts about her, until bgts started in on her.
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  2315.  @thomasfisher8793  Does having an IQ above 90 allow for nuance? For example: Although neither is M4A, trying to toss 10m of the poorest Americans off of Medicaid expansion isn't exactly samesies as not doing that and possibly adding tens of millions more through further Medicaid and Medicare expansion.
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  2316. I do like the UK system, but having a single payer does give that single payer the power to negotiate prices down. All other OECD countries are cheaper than the US, per capita.
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  2317. Everyone wearing seatbelts, following speed limits, not drinking and driving, heeding traffic lights, maintaining safe vehicles, etc., help reduce the frequency of automobile accidents, and how deadly they are. Everyone ignoring those things help increase the frequency and how deadly they are. And, the second group can have an effect on the first group, dimwit, which doesn't make what the first group is doing ineffective.
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  2318. To be clear, he attacked the bus parking lot, across the street from the prison, not the actual prison with refugees and ICE agents in it. Destruction of property was about the worst he was going to do.
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  2319.  @jasondale7358  Well, the Manitoba PC, aren't exactly the UC, and Manitoba has a history of electing the NDP. If you try to go too far right in Manitoba, it'd be political suicide. Alberta, on the other hand, is full of batshit crazy right wingers that would still vote for stupidity.
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  2320. ​ @Matty-o9p  She doesn't get money from AIPAC. Try again.
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  2321.  @MK-hw2ir  Rofl. It's mocking Jordan's own inconsistencies, dumb dumb.
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  2322.  @michaelknight2897  You're not living in reality. All this medical stuff, surrounding covid, has nothing actually to do with left-right. Washington mandated vaccines. Quarantines are a centuries old response to outbreaks. A not completely insane right wing government in Australia has had an excellent covid response. Incompetent "freedom" cancelled numerous lives, and right wingers have been throwing old people, overweight people, and those with other health issues, under the bus. What is the left doing that's even on par with anti-BDS laws? The New York Times could have an effect on an election, depending on the article. Doesn't mean everyone and anyone should have a right to have their letters to the editor published. Each edition would be a book.
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  2323.  @michaelknight2897  Rofl! You are a complete loon. The Republican party's leader encouraged overthrowing the democratic process to install an unelected dictator, himself. The majority of Republican lawmakers in congress supported trying to overthrow the democratic process to install an unelected dictator. Tens of millions of Republican voters supported overthrowing the democratic process to install an unelected dictator. Hundreds of Republicans stormed the capitol to overthrow the democratic process and install an unelected dictator. Get a grip on reality, ffs. That is fascism, and it's not coming from the left (no such thing as left wing fascism, btw).
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  2324.  Leonard Weisfeld  The conversation is about a bogus claim that Trump withheld aid only because he was so concerned about corruption. If he's not doing it elsewhere, then that indicates he's not actually concerned about corruption. Has the Egyptian president been charged with corruption? Handing them $3b in planes just means $3b of their own money doesn't need to be spent on planes, and frees it up. Same result as handing them money.
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  2325. New 1st amendment: everyone is guaranteed a book deal and a Twitter account.
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  2326.  Mari Jayne  The FBI had been under the direction of Republican presidents for 6 of the last 10 terms. They said Russians were interfering in 2018 and 2020, as well. Mueller, a Republican, indicted 29 Russians and 3 Russian companies. He presented some 200 pages of non conspiracy level information sharing (collusion), and they only didn't indict Jr and Kushner because they said it would be hard to prove they "willfully" broke the law, not because they didn't break the law. He also presented evidence for what could be considered obstruction, but said a sitting president couldn't be indicted. You'd rather believe that the FBI, the DNC, Australian officials, and Republicans like Mueller, were working together to make a false case against Trump, so that they could make Pence president?
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  2327. You first two guys don't know the definition of "stole".
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  2328.  @patchandy  Lol, okay, so by your definition all taxes are theft. Even Rand believed in taxing for a functioning minimal government, a justice system, and a military. Therefore, according to you, Rand believed in theft for things she liked. You must be an ancapper, who longs for the good ol' days of feudalism.
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  2329.  @gonzos-twin  Multiply Australia's 110 deaths per million rate, by 330. Now subtract that number from 879000. That's how many US citizens the US government failed.
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  2330.  @callmedeno  Oh geezus. China contained it pretty damn well, compared to most countries. They have 3 deaths per million, ffs. That would translate into 990 total US covid deaths. Australia's 110 covid deaths per million rate would translate into about 36k total US covid deaths. Even Canada's mediocre response would translate into 276k total US covid deaths. The US, and some others, royally screwed up. That's 600-879k deaths that are totally due to incompetence, and freedumb.
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  2331.  @peterbruno657  All the unknowns about vaccines are also unknown about the virus. All the knowns about vaccines makes them far less of a risk than the knowns of catching covid.
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  2332.  @hibidder2001  Invent whatever you want. "The new report (Report 49) from the Imperial College London COVID-19 response team estimates that the risk of reinfection with the Omicron variant is 5.4 times greater than that of the Delta variant. This implies that the protection against reinfection by Omicron afforded by past infection may be as low as 19%."
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  2333.  @hibidder2001  I explain that you're using anecdotes, which are relatively useless. Texas also recently reported that 85% of deaths are unvaccinated, which is on par with the nationwide rate. That's a helluva a way to get permanent immunity.
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  2334. Not just the US. The majority of Christians, today, live in Central/South America, Africa, and Asia. There are some pretty horrible Christians in a lot of those places, and plenty of huckster preachers. Europe is no longer the primary representative of Christianity.
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  2335.  @robinsss  Landlords, laying claim to entire countries, oppressing the majority and leaving them destitute, ending with revolutions and some landlords losing their heads. Allowing for the ownership of other human beings, ending with the most deadly and destructive war on US soil. The Gilded Age ending with massive labor riots, a great depression, and having to introduce socialistic policies to fix things a bit. Little, to no, oversight on the western frontier, allowing for private property owning cattle barons to hire their own private armies, and resolve things privately ... slaughtering tens of thousands of sheep, destroying property, and even killing those who put up a fight against them (basically the beginnings of feudalism). It is currently failing hundreds of thousands of homeless, tens of millions in poverty, hundreds of thousands with medical debt, etc., in the US alone.
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  2336. Definitely an insult. Russia is playing the Israel role, in Ukraine. They've already been in Ukraine, as both the Empire and as the USSR. Both had forced Russification. They ethnically cleansed Tartars from Crimea. There was the Holdomor genocide. They brought in colonizers. And, now they're back, to carry on.
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  2337.  Net I  Dumb dumb, Trump's own lawyers admitted in court that they had observers. You're spouting crap.
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  2338. Trump dropped more bombs than Obama, and Dore spent months crying about Syria being bombed (although he and Aaron were always going on about an irrelevant inspection, and attacking inspectors, rather than attacking Trump for ordering the bombing).
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  2339.  @bartjargengarblbargeler1980  Rofl. Aaron's Syrian "scandal" article could have been written by anyone, from anywhere in the world, with Wikipedia and a penchant for leaving out bits they don't like. Israel, France, the US, and the UK, started bombing Syria before inspectors even reached the site to start their inspection. The final report didn't come out until months and months later. As per Russian security council demands, the final report didn't even assign blame. Those countries decided to bomb Syria all on their own. Plus, two part-time "inspectors", working with others, on a single investigation of a single site, doesn't even debunk the other full-time inspectors, let alone debunk the hundreds of accounts, dozens of other inspections, indicating Syrian chemical weapons uses since 2012.
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  2340.  Deniz Yazz  Like I said, all the info Aaron used was already in a Wikipedia page, Dore knob. People had already written articles about things he used, even reporters who were on the ground, at the site, at the time. They just didn't write his article. No one else had his penchant for leaving out bits they don't like, I guess. Yeah, I mentioned Henderson. He was the one that wasn't an official inspector. Aaron talked at the UN, so what? Syria invited him to, Just like they invited him to hang out with the Assad apologists who reported a "free and fair" election in Syria. Weird, when a brutal dictator keeps inviting you to stuff.
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  2341.  @bartjargengarblbargeler1980  One wasn't even an official inspector, Dore knob. The other never left home base because he didn't finish training.
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  2342. What? Taxes pay for the damn wall.
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  2343.  @seabass155  They didn't ban Moderna for that age group. They set Pfizer as the preferred vaccine, for that age group, because the Pfizer myocarditis rate was 5x lower. People that age can still get Moderna, if they want it. Ontario did not acknowledge there's some huge risk. They said they were being overly cautious. Only 10 people had needed hospital treatment, and only 20 in 100000 developed myocarditis, with Moderna, which is about 7x lower than the 146 in 100000 who develop myocarditis from COVID.
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  2344.  @tripvic7629  You already know who is openly not supporting M4A. What's Jimmy doing with that ammo? Oh right, trashing those who openly support it.
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  2345.  @DumbAssSpeakingWithMansVoice  Take a guess how many times more people die, if even a flu is 10x more contagious, dimwit.
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  2346.  @uncomfortabletruth5915  Seems like you have severe reading comprehension problems, on top of being illogical. I said that your "logic" equates to calling denazification "fascism", which is nonsensical. Banning things, even a political ideology, doesn't equate to fascism. I didn't call you a Nazi, but you are obviously pretty right wing. You're the one claiming people who don't agree with you are fascists, here.
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  2347.  @uncomfortabletruth5915  Nope. Also not what I said. You said a poster sounded like a fascist because they said outlawing behavior stopped it from being normalized. Denazification outlawed certain behavior. Your generalization is nonsensical. Then you doubled down, by saying your issue is outlawing political ideologies, which Nazism is, and which denazification did. Your generalization was still nonsensical.
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  2348.  @uncomfortabletruth5915  You seem confused. Are they fascists or authoritarian communists? Make up your mind. Btw, isn't it Republicans that are trying to rewrite textbooks?
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  2349.  @uncomfortabletruth5915  So you would be fine with outlawing a political ideology you personally agreed was extreme? What is it you don't consider extreme about tens of millions of Republicans, the majority of Republican lawmakers in congress, and the Republican president (who is still the Republican frontrunner for 2024, along with his equally nutjob son), trying to overthrow the democratic process to keep an unelected ruler in power?
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  2350. Having a bias isn't the same as peddling complete bullshit. Bullshit, btw, that is being peddled by basically everyone on the right ... California bad, booo!
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  2351.  @TheUser06  Even your own linked headline ... do you know what "only" means, dummy? 6% didn't have known comorbidities. That doesn't mean covid didn't kill the other 94%, idiot.
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  2352.  @Coolinteresting876  Do you have reading comprehension problems? I said go on there to agree with their right wing nonsense. Dore doesn't really challenge them.
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  2353. What's the "dark" state? A Freudian slip?
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  2354. If you believe Biden is a socialist, then you're dumber than a stump, or a Trump.
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  2355.  @rolffriis5149  Not
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  2356.    Or maybe your a delusional cultist.
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  2357. To be clear, though, we're unhappy with our Canadian politicians, with a covid death rate lower than the US. Our death rate would translate into 300k+ fewer deaths in the US.
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  2358.  @michaelpeyton5730  Was he "genuine", when he was on Rogan, and claimed his daughter's all meat diet had cured his anxiety and depression, and that he hadn't needed drugs, for six months? Just months before having to be sent to Russia, and put in a coma, to break his addiction to those very same drugs?
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  2359. School choice is a war on the teacher's union, the largest of the remaining unions in the US. If they can pit poor people against unions, all the better. Oh, Jamie hit on it.
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  2360. ​ @badguy5554  Do you think that Geronimo, and those like him, were the big problem, to finding peace with colonialists, in North America? Not the colonialists?
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  2361. Omg, they want to feminize America!!!! Omg, they're protesting, rioting, and fighting!!!! Omg, they want everyone to cowtow to the government!!!! Omg, they aren't following law and order!!!!
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  2362.  @danielarcadia7243  If you're going to peddle bullshit, at least get it right. The money didn't come from Fauci's personal bank account. The US funded research, okayed by multiple different US agencies. It would be the US that is liable, if actual evidence of a lab leak is ever discovered. Bankrupt America to own the libs!!!!
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  2363.  @suzanneporterfield8726  No, they haven't. Jews lived in Muslim nations for 1300 years, with few incidents. They had a "Golden Age" in Islamic Spain. They were given refuge in Muslim nations, when Christians offered conversion, death, or exile. The Ottomans even okayed the earliest form of Zionsim, which was closer to simply immigration. Everything changed with the Balfour declaration and the conversion of Zionism to colonialism, based on some fairytale "god given right", to that specific land. Palestinians have simply reacted like any other colonized people.
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  2364.  The Ghey Mantis  Oh geezus, you're stupid. The happiest countries on the planet have much more mixed economies, are more centrist. What do idiots like you think they are a mix of? What do you think they're in the centre of?
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  2365. You've gone and proven yourself wrong.
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  2366.  @footballfan5462  The establishment wanted Bernie to win? The establishment wanted Nina to win? Are you arguing the establishment isn't that bad, or something?
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  2367.  @baconcerberus  In the UK motor vehicle deaths were down. Plus, the US is different, in that the excess mortality is higher than their covid death count. You really can't apply one country's excess mortality to other countries, as the doctor of nursing practice stated. They have to be worked out individually, to try and figure out how all the thousands of pluses and minuses add up.
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  2368.  Rion  Where are Americans slaughtering gay people? Just how dumb are you?
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  2369.  @boxybrown6900  Physical jobs, like mining, drywalling, spray painting, chemical plant, firemen, etc., etc.?
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  2370.  @socialdistancewarrior9099  But the Christians can all hide their crosses under their clothes, in their purses or pockets, or whatever. A law that equates some outer clothing to religious symbols is only going to have a major affect on certain people of other religions, like Muslim women, yamaka wearing Jews, and Sikhs.
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  2371.  @brandonlouderback4408  What's the supposed strawman? They played exactly what he said, as they dissected it. Which part did they get wrong? Einstein considered Likud's founders to be on par with Fscsts and Nzs. Sam, uninterested in any of that history, equates the people living inside the open air ghetto, to Nzs ... worse than Nzs ... rather than the people operating it.
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  2372. Because having zero seats is better than having a few seats?
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  2373.  @whyamimrpink78  Right, and those colonists were Loyalists, and on the side of King George III, like I said. So you agree that the US was founded by terrorists? What does it matter why they were kneeling? Not sure who you're quoting, and debating about rights, but it's not me.
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  2374.  @whyamimrpink78  You've been presented with multiple examples of right wingers wanting people blacklisted. You've even agreed with blacklisting people. Why are you even arguing this point, anymore?
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  2375.  @whyamimrpink78  Do you consider the 60s Civil Rights movement to have been a terrorist group?
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  2376.  @whyamimrpink78  How violent were they?! That's just sad man. Go do some googling on us race riots. The point being that it would have been stupid to label MLK Jr a terrorist, or all the peaceful protesters terrorists, just because they were part of a movement which included some other people who rioted and whatnot.
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  2377.  @ricnaldoserrant6375  Yes , she did. She tried to walk it back later, but that's what she said.
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  2378.  @docvaliant721  And still the US violent crime rate is 4x higher, and US cops kill their own citizens at 50x the rate.
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  2379.  @nathanconnors8427  Absolutely nothing about the word "republic" says you can't have a highly representative system, that better reflects the majority of voters.
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  2380. What was shitty about them complying with UN inspections?
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  2381.  @augustin1999  You Dore knobs need to learn what "gaslighting" means, along with numerous other words.
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  2382.  @augustin1999  AOC has the receipts for using her platform and PAC to back 20 other pro-M4A progressives, helping to remove a few more corporate Dems from congress, and helping to add a few more M4A yes votes to congress. That's exactly what needs doing to ever pass the bill. It's what would still need doing even after a guaranteed to fail show vote. Making out like that's doing nothing reduces FTV itself to, have a pointless show vote, and then do nothing.
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  2383.  @omnibus5359  Whatever he claimed, the girls claimed otherwise, and he pled guilty. So, no, not an "allegation", a crime that got him 2 years probation. The youngest girl was 16, and he was 27. Girlfriend Boebert was only 17.
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  2384.  @Aeroneus1  From my notepad.
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  2385.  @thecheshirecat299  At least 4 threads with your whataboutisms.
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  2386. No, because he has nothing really to do with the investigation and any decisions to indict. His "plan" was to rescue the guy from Iran, try and paint Gaetz as some kind of hero, and then hope that would get Gaetz a pardon, or something. He doesn't actually have the power to make the legal issues go away, either. It was some kind of major gamble, but not really extortion.
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  2387. He used the wrong word, to describe himself, is what he did. There's no "white" culture. He's a white supremacist, is what he is.
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  2388. Meh. They've all had 8 years to figure out MAGA is rcst. The small percentage that might not be, are complete and utter maroons.
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  2389. Maybe sniffs concrete.
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  2390.  @Evirthewarrior  Rofl! Sam Harris is an idiot. No clue how he even got a philosophy degree. He doesn't seem to grasp the very basics.
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  2391.  @timg185  As for everyone benefiting from things the government supplies ... take something like military spending. If Apple ships a million phones via protected shipping lanes, and a million individuals buy one, Apple has benefited a million times more from that protection than each of those individuals. They should be paying a million times more for that protection than individuals. Not only do they not do that, they also tend to pass along all costs to the customer. It ends up being the individual customers paying for what Apple benefits most from. Or, take roads ... Not only does a transport truck use the roads 3x more than the average car, but again it's used to transport goods. It is benefiting from the roads many times more than individuals. A company like Amazon, shipping things all over the country, while paying zero taxes, is absolute bullshit. Corporate welfare isn't just in bailouts and subsidies. It's in everything.
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  2392. ​ @Byakurenfan  The early Zionists were pretty honest about what they were doing. They were all calling it colonialism. Especially the Revisionists, who were the founders of Likud. Read The Iron Wall, by their founder Ze'ev Jabotinsky. Revisionist newspaper Hazit Ha'am, on "Hitlerism": "the anti-Semitic husk should be discarded, but not its anti-Marxist inside" Basically the same thing.
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  2393.  @sjwslayer7403  You're an idiot. It costs more to keep someone in jail, provide guards, etc., than have them go on welfare. Don't pretend it's about money.
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  2394.  @robinsss  No, the caller wasn't right. Coercion is by force, or threat. The threat is me letting you drop to your death, if you don't hand me your money.
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  2395.  @alabamaman9476  Clearly someone who hate watches channels has their panties in a bunch.
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  2396.  @IAmisMaster  Why should committing a crime strip you of your right to vote? What do the two have to do with each other?
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  2397.  @vytalman  Yep. A bunch of private property owners, with their own private armies, running around doing whatever they wanted, fighting for resources, with no authority above them.
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  2398.  @johns783  Well, Alberta is right next door to BC. It's full of kooks.
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  2399. ​ @zenbear9952  "Fascism is the complete opposite of Marxian socialism." ~ Mussolini Fascism is a form of crony capitalism. Not the same as authoritarian communism. While there are some similarities, because they're both authoritarian, it's the difference between a government take over of business (communism) and a business takeover of government (fascism).
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  2400. Grifter on grifter violence.
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  2401.  @robertreese1275  Imagine thinking this, here, is mainstream media.
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  2402. Appropriate username for a Dore knob.
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  2403.  @selfishcapitalist3523  The US is, and always has been, a representative democracy, dumb dumb. "Democracy" and "republic" aren't mutually exclusive terms. Basically everything that's not a monarchy is a republic. The US government has both handed out free land to people and intervened to not let capitalists own other human beings, in the past. Its most popular, 3+ term, president was FDR, who most definitely wasn't some capitalist puritan. Just how far back do you want to revert to, exactly?
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  2404.  @aheroictaxidriver3180  Then stop disagreeing with me, and dictionaries, dmwt.
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  2405. ​ @ChathurkaMadhushan So, everyone should shut up about politicians, and their policies, unless that politician is in front of them and can respond?
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  2406.  @wadepo1  Yes, I know. Not much different than the Dr Seuss folks "cancelling" their own books, and yet Republicans still freak out.
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  2407. Yeah, but there's not enough time left to get a 15 point swing by Monday, and if there's a 1 point swing away from Liberals then we get a conservative minority again. Looks like we'll get dumb or dumber.
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  2408. The Hill is owned by a close Trump family friend. They're a gateway drug.
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  2409.  @Dan0TheMano  You get that a midterm and presidential year elections are different, right? AOC backed progressives in purple districts, last election, that got creamed in the primaries, by a more conservative Dem that managed to win the general. Any little scrap of leverage you think house progressives have, completely depends on keeping the majority in the house, and it's going to be a helluva fight in those purple districts to try and hang on. I get it ... Dore knobs don't care if fascists that tried to overthrow the democratic process win, like the "real" leftists you are.
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  2410.  @sps000111  Rofl. Did you say "benign"? That's just stupid.
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  2411.  @zippydoo9533  I like grandpa Huxley. I don't think you understood what I meant. Your claims of what you think will happen, is a good argument to push for public ownership, to avoid it.
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  2412.  @zippydoo9533  You criticize it, but you also make it out to be the only option, to avoid the future you envision. Countries with more mixed (that would be a mix of capitalism and socialism) economies are doing fine, and the happiest countries on the planet. Capitalism has failed dozens of times over, and failed individuals billions of times over. Just because people return to it, after say a massive depression, doesn't make it successful. Btw, anti-democratic, anti-union, anti-socialist, anti-communist, anti-globalist, were all part of fascist platforms. Either your a fascist, who wants an undemocratic government, or you're an ancapper, who doesn't want any government ... which would unleash massive corporations, with no oversight ... making you sound nonsensical.
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  2413. Bye
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  2414. @Vicks VaporRub Rofl, is that the same "real" left, whose actions benefit Republicans most?
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  2415.  @dan91121  So, how does someone reinterpret a passage describing non-debt slavery, blatantly saying it's okay to buy foreign slaves, and own them for life? Leviticus 25:44 “‘Your male and female slaves are to come from the nations around you; from them you may buy slaves. 45 You may also buy some of the temporary residents living among you and members of their clans born in your country, and they will become your property. 46 You can bequeath them to your children as inherited property and can make them slaves for life, but you must not rule over your fellow Israelites ruthlessly."
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  2416.  @deez3913  So, if you tell someone your name, you're fine with them instead calling you whatever name they want? Like say your boss can call you "Dumb F*ck", and they're totally free to do so?
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  2417. ​ @runnergo1398  Pssst. $400 x 1000 = $400000. But still a thousand times off the mark.
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  2418.  @mikevi1629  Do you not grasp basic math? Are progressives the majority in congress?
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  2419. His dad also told him not to tell anyone they're Grmn. They pretended to be Swedish. As late as Art of the Deal, DT was still calling himself Swedish.
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  2420. It's also because he's lying about how a VAT works. VAT registered businesses can reclaim their input VAT. It's only the final non-registered buyer who doesn't get credited back. Since the VAT won't actually tax giant corporations, handing consumers $3t will only make them, and their billionaire owners, billions more a year.
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  2421. Technically, Turkey is the official NATO ally.
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  2422. ​ @PUREBOILINGRAGE55  What's that got to do with breaking the law, and shoving an employee?
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  2423.  @LiquidDestruction  No, there aren't scholarships that say "white", but there are scholarships for people of different European heritage. For example, scholarships for German Americans ... https://www.theclassroom.com/scholarships-for-kids-of-german-descent-13607461.html The thing about the vast majority of blacks in America is that they don't have a previous specific heritage they can draw from. They were brought over from Africa, all tossed together, and quickly blended together. Their heritage is now only that of the black experience in America. So, not only is it a racial grouping, it's also become a cultural, heritage, grouping, on par with that German American grouping. There are also German clubs, and German festivals, celebrating German heritage. There are German American schools. And, the same goes for numerous other European American groups. And there's no such thing as "white" heritage or culture.
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  2424. ​ @erinmac4750  The issue is appealing to workers, at an anti worker party convention. It gives the false impression that the RNC supports his views.
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  2425.  @supasf  He's been a failure as a businessman. Deutsche Bank, which has seen his financial records, pegged him at under $1 billion. That's billions less than if he had invested his inheritance. The economy has been on the same recovery trajectory since 2009. He has done nothing but increase the deficit with tax cuts to the rich, and shock the stock market a few times with tariffs he doesn't understand.
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  2426.  @thewhiterabbit498  Lol, sure it is. I'm not watching MSM media, for a reason. So, if you get zero information from any media at all, how do you stay so incredibly well informed?
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  2427. Well, for one, if someone has the virus, they're supposed to quarantine for 2 weeks. That idiot didn't even quarantine for 2 days, before interacting with all kinds of unnecessary people.
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  2428. Not only were quarantines a common reaction in those days, but the US was founded by people who protested, rioted, tarred and feathered, and destroyed private property, all because they didn't want to pay extra taxes specifically to fund the police/military. They even got extra pissed when the police/military, "fearing for their lives", shot and killed a handful of outright violent protesters. Can't imagine how they'd have reacted to repeated killings of non violent citizens. Republicans are only similar to the founders with their tolerance for racism.
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  2429.  @tommyboym6563  And somehow billionaires paid less taxes than the working class, for the first time, and now they want to have workers work extra years, and pay more taxes for those years, for their SS and Medicare. If they are paying a smaller share of overall taxes, then you're paying a higher share.
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  2430. The Ottomans gave refuge to Jews fleeing Spain, when Christians were offering conversion, death, or exile. The Ottomans okayed the earliest form of Zionsim, which was closer to immigration. The Balfour declaration itself, and Zionism converting to colonialism, caused the rift between Muslims and Jews.
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  2431. @Aaron Dickson Are PhDs not in the bachelors and above group, dumb dumb?
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  2432. It's just a fact those are the only two viable options. What's wrong with supporting the better option? Support who you would most like, in the primaries, like he supported Bernie. If they win, great. If not, then still try to stop the christofascists, in the general.
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  2433.  @eduardobibm  This is a "unite the right" rally, not a unite the left rally. If you think things are exactly the same as 50 years ago, then you must be blind. https://images.app.goo.gl/Az8skFfEjaQ1Y9deA
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  2434.  @ultramaga813  Tim Apple should have the 6G network built by then. Should be interesting times.
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  2435. @dalesims  Talk to our Commander in Chief, King Charles.
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  2436.  @iluvdissheet  Impeachment also comes with the option to vote that they never hold office again, making Trump ineligible to run again. You might get a some months of president Pence, but the Republicans would be pretty screwed for 2020.
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  2437.  @C..404  Because that ends up causing damage beyond their own private property?
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  2438.  @Makingnewnamesisdumb  Name a vaccine that's 100% effective.
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  2439.  @alabamaman9476  32. South Bend, Indiana > Murder rate: 27.4 per 100,000 people Just 4 spots down from Chicago.
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  2440.  @charlesvan13  Cenk has a law degree from Columbia. Pretending a law degree from a top university is both an indicator of intelligence, and not an indicator of intelligence, makes you a contradictory dipshit.
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  2441.  @mickswagger6086  Unless you want public ownership, that's how private property works.
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  2442.  @elliotwilliams7421  Nope. He outright connected Japan's willingness to "endorse" things to the individual's comment, as if they had endorsed it.
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  2443.  @ZooomaCW  You can't "demonstrate" anything, if you don't provide any evidence to support your case. Without it, you're just blathering. The "they" would be Trump and over 100 Republican members of congress trying to overthrow the democratic process, based on bullshit. The "they" would be the 28% of Republican voters surveyed stating they didn't want Trump to concede under any circumstances. The "they" would be the right wing media that have had to backtrack due to defamation lawsuit threats, and the psycho lawyers being sued for defamation, for spouting bullshit. And, yes, the "they" would also include those who physically tried to stop the process by storming the Capitol after they were incited by being fed said bullshit for weeks. Rofl. Trump outright fires people who don't tow the party line, or state truths that don't match his lies. He has called for voters to cancel Republican politicians who didn't support his lies. He wanted to cancel funding to states and cities that didn't do as he said. He has called for plenty of other people to be fired, as well, from reporters to athletes. He convinced tens of millions of people not to believe any media, any judges, any election officials, any politicians (even Republicans), if they contradicted him. He totally just convinced a ton of people to cancel FOX for not being psycho enough anymore. Gaetz just held a cancel Liz Cheney rally. What rock do you live under? You also seem to have reading comprehension problems, and misunderstood wanting a dictator and dictatorship, as meaning currently is a dictator and dictatorship. The dictatorship part would be after you've kept the unelected ruler in power, and thrown the democratic process out the window. Yeah, no, that doesn't equate to fascism. "Fascism is the complete opposite of Marxian socialism" ~ Mussolini The complete opposite of the Marxian ideal of stateless non-authoritarian democratic socialism, is an ultra-nationalistic authoritarian undemocratic crony capitalism. Which box do Republicans, who take the extra step of trying to end the democratic process, still need to fill?
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  2444. But, but, but ... AOC voted yes on the entire budget, which included funding the state department (please ignore that she voted against the individual state department appropriation bill)!!!
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  2445.  @thehappyclam3942  The economy has been on the same trajectory since about 2009. Trump hasn't done anything but increase the deficit with tax cuts and shock the stock market a few times with tariffs.
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  2446.  @ccpj0eyb319  The inflation problem started in 2020, when demand and supply dropped. Handing money to corporations, instead of people, gave money to corporations to not sell anything, and no money to people so they could keep buying things at the same levels. So, demand dropped, and then supply dropped. Now, demand is rising faster than supply. Nothing much to do with government spending.
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  2447. There's the simple fact that Australia's covid deaths per million would translate into under 30k total US covid deaths, instead of over 830k. They seem to be doing a much much better job at reducing the spread.
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  2448. Scientists are actually on the path to being able to create an embryo from a sperm, without needing an egg. Men shouldn't be stopped from masturbating. They should be stopped from having sex, and only be allowed to masturbate into a test tube. Too many sperm die during sex.
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  2449.  @chrisg.4796  They've been talking about it for months, dumb dumb. If you're not a Republican, are you a Dore knob? Hard to tell them apart. Either way, you seem to be full of crap. Cori has been helping to keep her constituents from facing evictions. https://www.kctv5.com/congresswoman-cori-bush-helping-residents-avoid-eviction-housing-is-healthcare/article_9a39ca52-b7ef-534f-a848-5582350a777b.html AOC has been doing fundraisers for those facing evictions. https://www.ginx.tv/en/twitch/aoc-s-among-us-stream-raises-200k-for-eviction-defense-food-pantries-and-more?display=amp
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  2450. That's why it should be tied with inflation.
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  2451.  @aarondickson1898  My grandpa was an antifa "terrorist" in the Danish resistance.
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  2452. Who said "sole"?
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  2453.  @americanwoman9342  He was mixed. Said he voted for and admired FDR, and voted for a Democrat governor. He might fall in the RINO zone, today. Hell, Reagan might fall in the RINO zone, today.
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  2454.  @zetectic7968  Oh, Wayne was definitely anti-communist, but today's Trumpists would be calling FDR a communist, who Wayne voted for. Reagan was anti-communist, but pro immigration. Today's Trumpists might be calling them RINOs, like they do with Romney or Cheney. Today's cult has even turned on some real Trump bootlickers, just because they accepted the results of the election. They're insane.
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  2455.  @JaseekaRawr  His grift is pretty solid. His words make him sound far left, but if you actually follow his advice, his suggested course of action, it ends up benefitting the far right.
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  2456.  @kenlee4356  While the honesty may be refreshing, it says something about the condition of the country, where they feel more and more comfortable being so openly honest.
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  2457. And?
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  2458. Yeah, pretty much using the same methods used to take lands native Americans lived on. It's an old playbook from colonizing and settling North America.
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  2459. Well, the Republican party has been giving a home to nutters for decades ... taking in the anti-communist, anti-socialist, McCarthy types; taking in the racists angry about civil rights; taking in religious extremists; taking in the crony capitalists; taking in Tea Party nutters; taking in the anti-science anti-intellectuals; and then taking that last step towards fascism with a wannabe dictator. Not that the Democrats don't have many issues, but the Republicans have been giving a home to the worst of the worst.
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  2460. ​ @GeLowBrando  Then registering as a Republican, when he turned 18, doesn't count?
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  2461.  @randibgood  I'd toss him in a ditch. They already argue what he says on his show can't be taken seriously. If he says, on his show, that he's a reporter, they could keep arguing that can't be taken seriously, based on the exact same argument. You need him saying it when he's not on his entertainment show.
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  2462. Just read Ze'ev Jabotinsky's The Iron Wall, 1923. He was the founder of Revisionist Znsm. He literally compares Znsts to clnzrs of NA. He simply argues their clnlsm is "just". His followers formed the Irgun and Lehi trrrst groups which, in turn, formed Likud. They still celebrate those trrrst groups as "heroes", to this day. Einstein likened Likud's founders to Fscsts and Nzs.
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  2463. TYT: dozens of videos clearly titled to be discussing the election You: clicks on video clearly titled to be discussing former employee, and then complains that video is discussing former employee rather than election
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  2464.  @whyamimrpink78  Moron, Hulme opposes the doomsday language, because he thinks many people will have a negative reaction. He totally agrees that human activity is heavily responsible for climate change.
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  2465. The fascists of WWII considered resistance to their fascism to be "terrorism". Resistance groups sometimes killed civilian "collaborators". Natives of North America got sick of the European colonialism, ethnic cleansing, etc., and decided they wanted to push the Europeans back into the sea, and sometimes attacked civilians. The colonialists (who also attacked civilians, like Israel regularly does), on the other hand, considered them "Savages!". The colonialism, fascism, etc., comes first. The "savage" "terrorist" attacks are a response. The only real way to end having a response, is to stop doing the things thay cause a response. Or, utterly destroy the responders.
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  2466.  @YouConnolly  You mean 6.2. You have a right to move to and take up residence in any province. So, who's stopping you from doing that? You have a right to pursue the gaining of a livelihood. That doesn't mean any and all livelihoods can be persued. It doesn't prevent the government from making some livelihoods illegal, adding regulations to livelihoods, temporarily halting livelihoods, etc. You have the right to persue from what's available.
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  2467. Might want to lower your "all day long" expectations. Trump only managed to pull a 15 min "shift", in a closed McDs, and then needed a nap.
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  2468.  @jeffbguarino  Toronto gave us the Ford brothers, ffs. Are you from Alberta, or something? https://www.macleans.ca/politics/how-much-do-canadians-dislike-donald-trump-a-lot/
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  2469. 90% of drugs come through points of entry. 80% of drug traffickers are Americans. Cartels aren't stupid, like MAGA. They pick people least likely to be stopped, not the most likely, and don't want their product swept downriver, lying in a desert, or tossed into detention. Undocumented immigrants commit crimes at half the rate of natural born citizens. Republicans think there is plenty of romm for hundreds of thousands of extra unwanted babies per year. Nothing right wingers whine about makes sense. They're just racist and, ironically, don't want to be "replaced" by what are largely people with Native American ancestry.
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  2470. ​ @avenuePad  It's his job to turn "we would have died" to "you would have been killed"?
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  2471. @Gawanipony 3 Isn't that her career? Taking clearly guilty people and blowing smoke up people's asses, hoping they don't find them guilty ... or, in this case, taking someone who clearly lost and blowing smoke up people's asses, hoping they don't find them to have lost.
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  2472. ​ @beaubiden9293  They should register as a private club, like Costco, only a Christian club, if they don't actually want to operate as a public accommodation and serve the entire public.
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  2473. Lol. What coup was that?
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  2474.  @moe433  Sam promoted voting for Bernie for as long as Bernie was still running, you dimwitted Dore knob. So, the reason you couldn't vote for Bernie, at the time Sam was saying vote Biden, is because Bernie was no longer in the race. Jimmy told people to vote Tulsi "I'm a hawk" Gabbard (public option) over Bernie (M4A), is what he told people to do.
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  2475.  @moe433  Because Bernie was no longer in the race. Because Trump is even further away from the progressive position. I get it. Jimmy, and his Dore knobs, prefer Trump. Just straight up admit it already.
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  2476.  @singer07872007  The video the op is commenting on is specifically about "those party people". Where's the generalization?
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  2477.  @cruizerbrony4902  I watched the interview on BBC. He doesn't.
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  2478.  @g.e.o.r.g.e...  The student also offered to open the building door with his key. He offered the cop everything he could, and the cop refused to accept it. He wasn't doing anything wrong, complied as best he could, and only then carried on with his business when the cop didn't accept anything. He didn't deserve to be harrassed, in the first place, for picking up litter. But, the cop didn't ask the white guy. You're speculating as to how people may, or may not, have reacted on an alternate timeline. I also doubt the cop harassed white folks he saw out doing yardwork. If he did, then they should release those body cam videos. By percentages, there should be twice as many videos of white Americans being harrassed doing daily activities by cops, if there's no profiling involved in these kinds of situations.
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  2479.  @craigcrawford6595  What does that have to do with him identifying early tribal societies as being communistic? Did he not know what "communism" means? It's the Bible, itself, that then states Jesus and his little community/tribe of followers was sharing ownership of everything, pooling all their money into one bag, etc. How are those two things not similar?
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  2480.  @BlazingOwnager  Republicans are banning things that aren't even taught in public schools. They're banning abortions and putting bounties on people who get abortions. Calling for the death penalty for getting an abortion. They're banning taking safety measures against a deadly virus. They're banning bds. They're making it more difficult and dangerous to protest. They're making it more difficult to vote. Their leader outright called to overthrow the democratic process to keep himself on as an unelected dictator. The majority of Republican lawmakers tried to overthrow the democratic process to keep him on as an unelected dictator. The majority of Republican voters believe the lies that led some of them to try and violently overthrow the democratic process. They defend police that kill their own citizens at hundreds of times the rate of numerous other developed countries. They defend having the largest prison population in the world. They defend charging, and convicting, certain people at higher rates, for similar crimes. They defend sentencing certain people for longer periods of time, for similar crimes. Etc. Etc. Etc. All of which uses government power. And, you're whining about some on the left using public pressure? It's, literally, akin to something ancappers actually promote, leaving bad Yelp reviews to fight racism, sexism, bigotry, and other forms of discrimination, instead of using the government. Give me a break. If you have to ""walk on eggshells" to not say something racist, or whatnot, then the problem is you.
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  2481.  @frederickfarias9515  Weird. Western civilizations installed theocratic monarchs, as well as trained and armed Muslim extremists to fight against less religious lefties in Muslim majority countries.
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  2482. Republican state legislatures, in these states, not changing the mail in vote counting rules was part of this problem. It was stupid of them to not allow early processing of ballots, like all the other states.
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  2483.  @wisetrollman  Maybe they should go with the old "no taxation without representation" slogan, until they get proportional representation in the system. Or, maybe just "Join or Die". Those were popular with colonists, when they protested, rioted, tarred and feathered, and destroyed private property, all because they didn't want to pay an extra tax specifically to fund the police/military.
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  2484.  @Evirthewarrior  Getting a 100% guaranteed to fail performance art vote, isn't actually doing something that moves you closer to ever passing M4A. Using your platform and PAC to back 20 other pro-M4A progressives, helping to remove a few more corporate Dems, and helping to add a few more M4A yes votes to congress, actually does move you closer to ever being able to pass the bill. AOC was just trying to add another M4A yes vote to congress, in Nina Turner. Dore, on the other hand, abandoned Nina ... abandoned adding another M4A yes vote to congress. You're living outside reality, as to who is actually doing more to pass the bill. AOC has done more for M4A in 2 years than Dore has in his entire lifetime. Firstly, you Dore knobs don't seem to know that that wasn't the final vote on the bill, or the final version of the bill. Secondly, the Capitol police don't have a mandate to charge people for any and all crimes, outside Capitol grounds. Outside Capitol grounds, their only mandate is to protect members of congress. What is it you're afraid having a couple in the field, in California and Florida, investigating threats on congress members, is going to lead to?
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  2485.  @RHINOTEJAS  What's that got to do with whether their policies work, or not?
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  2486.  @RHINOTEJAS  So, you're saying the "diverse" thinking of Republicans is the problem.
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  2487.  Captain J  FTVers have proven that to be a fact. The $15 got a vote, even passed the house (M4A wouldn't), and all they keep doing is bitch about those who got it to stay in for a round of voting and voted for it. They spent weeks making out like just getting a vote on an important policy was a big deal, making out like getting a list of no voters was a big deal. They've proven they're a bunch of pathetic useless bullshit spewing hypocrites.
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  2488.  @ronniebaker4549  You didn't watch the video before commenting, you twit. He outright says it won't get passed the senate, at 4:08.
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  2489.  Axl Dave  What Democrat vetoed providing beds and services to penniless immigrants?
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  2490. ​ @gr8fulnbama59  Are you seriously trying to imply that 2 extra years of him picking committees, and setting the legislative agenda, would have made no difference?
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  2491. Not really much. The top 3 billionaires, alone, own as much wealth as the bottom 50%. Those 3, alone, should therefore pay the same total amount of taxes as the bottom 50%.
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  2492. What's the one aspect you're supposedly so smart in?
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  2493.  @timothysalinas37  The US was founded by people who protested, rioted, destroyed private property, and even went to war, over extra taxes that specifically funded the police/military and a lack of representation. Being anti-authoritarian, against police brutality, for justice reform, has little with left and right. There are plenty of right wing anti-authoritarians. Some have even been charged with starting some of those riots you're talking about.
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  2494. No. It's a good argument for social media, because the only way out is to make it public ownership. So, if those right wingers desperately want free speech, they'd have to support public ownership. Media that creates its own content is somewhat different, and is not a platform anyone expects to be free speech. There used to be broadcasting standards for news. There still should be. If you're advertising yourself as news, then it should be as unbiased as possible, or it should be considered false advertising. Or, create one state sponsored public news outlet ... make sure that no bias is in the charter ... and have it operated by a diverse group.
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  2495. Likud's bloody 100 year history ... In 1923, 100 years ago, Ze'ev Jabotinsky wrote, The Iron Wall, and a follow up, The Ethics of The Iron Wall (sooo racist towards Africans), in which he fully acknowledged that post Balfour Zionsim was colonialism, and that, based on the entirety of history, the native Palestinian population would resist being colonized until the bitter end. He directly compared it to the colonization of North America. He promoted doing it anyway, claiming Zionist colonialism was a "just" colonialism (he also thought North American colonialists were good guys, so not a great judge of morality), not caring what that meant for the native population. Ze'ev is important, because his Betar militant youth group helped found the Irgun terrorist group, along with other supporters of his, and the splinter Lehi terrorist group. The Irgun bombed numerous Palestinian markets and other public places, murdering many Palestinian civilians, including children, even including Palestinian Jews (who didn't support colonialist Zionsim). The Irgun are important, because they ended up being led by future Likud PM, Menachem Begin, who bombed the King David Hotel. The King David Hotel was bombed because the British had raided the Jewish Agency and seized numerous documents that may have shown that the terrorists were working with the JA and Haganah (JA liked to pretend that they didn't support the terrorism). The British then stored those documents at their base, in the hotel. That the Irgun terrorists responded to a JA raid, itself seems to prove the connection. That the thousands of Irgun (and Lehi) terrorists were also quickly merged into the new nation's military (IDF) and intelligence (Mossad) agencies, and are still celebrated as "heroes" by Israelis, to this day, also seems to support total collaboration between the groups. That other terrorist group mentioned, Lehi (also known as the Stern Gang), was considered even more extreme. They even tried to ally with the Nazis, against the British. Lehi ended up being led by Yitzhak Shamir, future Mossad agent, and another future Likud PM. In 1945, there was a major land and peoples survey done in Palestine. It showed that the Zionists only owned about 5% of the total land, 20% of the arable land, and owned a majority in zero districts. The partition was not only going to be forced on the native Palestinian majority, but Jews were still going to be a minority, in the part allocated to them. The only possible way to even become a "Jewish state" was going to require getting rid of the actual majority (at least enough so that there'd be a solid Jewish majority, so they could fake being democratic). This is also shown by the 1948, post Nakba, population of Israel. If there was 716,700 Jews, 156,000+ non-Jews, and approximately 700k non-Jews ethnically cleansed, that means the Jewish population, in the Zionist portion of partition, was originally over 100,000 less than the non-Jewish population. To believe that there was never any intent, by Zionists, to ethnically cleanse away the Palestinian majority would require believing that they never intended to create a "Jewish state". It's a nonsensical notion. Begin, and those terrorist groups, also opposed partition, but for the opposite reason Palestinians did. Palestinians didn't want to be colonized, at all. The terrorists wanted to colonize it all. "Moderate" Zionists were okay with colonizing half ... for now (what would happen in the future, after partition, was up to them, said Ben-Gurion). The Zionist terrorists were also involved in massacres, and assassinations, during the partition violence (colonialist war against the natives). Another notable future Likud PM, also started in the military, during the partition fighting. That was Ariel Sharon, war criminal, "Butcher of Beirut". Menachem Begin, and these other Zionist terrorists, are important because they became involved in Israeli politics, first forming Herut. That was the party that Albert Einstein, and other prominent American Jews, opposed, having a letter printed in the NYT, in December of 1948, when Begin came to visit the US. The letter opened ... "Among the most disturbing political phenomena of our times is the emergence in the newly created state of Israel of the "Freedom Party" (Tnuat Haherut), a political party closely akin in its organization, methods, political philosophy and social appeal to the Nazi and Fascist parties. It was formed out of the membership and following of the former Irgun Zvai Leumi, a terrorist, right-wing, chauvinist organization in Palestine." Herut merged with other extremist parties, over the years, and eventually became Likud, in the 70s. Now, people get upset over the slogan "From the river to the sea!", but it's the second part that's most important, "Palestine will be free!". Because "Palestine" isn't defined as an ethno-state, a free Palestine can be a single state, free for all to live in, and return to, free of continuing colonization, free of occupation, free of oppression, etc. Just like a Germany free of Nazism, an Italy free of fascism, a South Africa free of apartheid, or an America free of slavery from sea to shiny sea. It doesn't necessitate purging all the Jews. It just necessitates them giving up on the idea of an ethno-state. On the other hand, because "Israel" has been defined as an ethno-state, Likud's, "between the sea and the Jordan there will only be Israeli sovereignty", has no possible good interpretation. It is a declaration of intent to completely colonize, and ethnically cleanse, all Palestine territories. Not only that, but it also claims that they have a "right" to all of the "Land of Israel" (biblical borders that don't mesh with archaeological reality), which is an open declaration of future wars, against Jordan, Syria, Lebanon, and possibly even Iraq. Likud platform ... 1977: "The Right of the Jewish People to the Land of Israel (Eretz Israel) a. The right of the Jewish people to the land of Israel is eternal and indisputable and is linked with the right to security and peace; therefore, Judea and Samaria will not be handed to any foreign administration; between the Sea and the Jordan there will only be Israeli sovereignty. b. A plan which relinquishes parts of western Eretz Israel, undermines our right to the country, unavoidably leads to the establishment of a "Palestinian State," jeopardizes the security of the Jewish population, endangers the existence of the State of Israel. and frustrates any prospect of peace." "Settlement Settlement. both urban and rural. in all parts of the Land of Israel is the focal point of the Zionist effort to redeem the country, to maintain vital security areas and serves as a reservoir of strength and inspiration for the renewal of the pioneering spirit. The Likud government will call on the younger generation in Israel and the dispersions to settle and help every group and individual in the task of inhabiting and cultivating the wasteland, while taking care not to dispossess anyone." 1999: "The Government of Israel flatly rejects the establishment of a Palestinian Arab state west of the Jordan river. The Palestinians can run their lives freely in the framework of self-rule, but not as an independent and sovereign state. Thus, for example, in matters of foreign affairs, security, immigration, and ecology, their activity shall be limited in accordance with imperatives of Israel's existence, security and national needs." "The Jewish communities in Judea, Samaria, and Gaza are the realization of Zionist values. Settlement of the land is a clear expression of the unassailable right of the Jewish people to the Land of Israel and constitutes an important asset in the defense of the vital interests of the State of Israel. The Likud will continue to strengthen and develop these communities and will prevent their uprooting." All Palestine territories are officially considered occupied, by the International Court of Justice, the UN GA, the UN SC, and even in official documents of Israel's own allies. Likud is still using the blueprint for colonizing North America, in the West Bank. Move settlements out into native territory, piss off the natives, the natives retaliate, cry about poor "innocent" colonizing settlers being the "victims" of violent "Savages!", call in the cavalry to put down the native uprising, and eventually expand the borders to include those settlements. Rinse and repeat. In Gaza, Israel is operating an open air WWII style fascist ghetto. Them claiming a "right to defend themselves" would be like the Nazis claiming a "right to defend themselves " from the Warsaw ghetto uprising. There's no "war". That they're the occupiers means the "war" part is long over. Those people are actually supposed to be under the occupier's protection. That partition was forced upon the Palestinian majority, against their will ... that the Zionist portion still had to be forcefully ethnically cleansed of its non-Jewish majority, against their will ... that the millions of occupied Palestinians don't have a say in the government that truly rules over them, Israel's ... means Israel is about as democratic as Nazi Germany after Hitler purged his political opponents and then held elections.
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  2496.  @rickduval2025  You, Hinkle, and pretty much every Dore knob, are dishonest twits. Each department has their own individual appropriation bill, before the budget vote. She voted no on the state department appropriation bill. She voted no on the defense appropriation bill. Then, the budget is based on all the appropriation bills. You idiots are shitting on her for not voting against the budget, which includes Medicaid, affordable housing, education, veteran's benefits, SNAP, SSI, etc.
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  2497. No thanks. He's the kid of a visiting American. He's all yours.
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  2498.  @giantsr1eva  Sure. Sam kicked his ass in 2016. That's why Dore censors his own guests for mentioning Sam's name.
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  2499.  @giantsr1eva  Still waiting for the moon to fall into Lake Michigan, from their last debate.
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  2500.  @Lurch685  Sometimes you have to make very clear to some people, that certain groups are also "human", or they might say something like "all men are created equal", and not include women or non-white people.
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  2501. You'd think that people who believe in a formless, penisless, being, and call it "he", "him", or "father", would understand the difference between sex and gender.
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  2502.  @frankie8387  Wtf bullshit are you on about?
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  2503. ​ @dwel7085 👈 Being good misogynists, right wingers are only hating the wife.
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  2504.  calo10able  Dumbass, that's what Dump said about the country she's originally from, and she's originally from the US. You're such a moron, you don't know how quotes work?
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  2505. That makes no sense. He's now promoting having a pledge of allegiance to Israel to get in the country.
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  2506.  @dougkenny6548  Lincoln didn't start the civil war. The Southern states seceded specifically over slavery, so they could enshrine slavery forever, and they attacked.
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  2507. ​ @kevchard5214  You wanted her to cause a shit show, like Matt Gaetz?
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  2508. ​ @GoodbyePaleSwine  "European-American" isn't an ethnicity, dingus. There are dozens of European ethnic groups.
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  2509. Wrong analogy, dumb dumb. There are businesses that have required people to wear shirts, shoes, ties, etc., since forever. If they require you to wear a mask, wear the fing mask. All the protected classes, except stupid religion, are inherent traits that people can't change about themselves, and religion is only there because most are brainwashed from birth, so it seems inherent. It's pretty easy to change from maskless to masked.
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  2510.  @cadec1086  It's not against the law to seek asylum. None of them have been charged and given a day in court. Even if adults had broken the law, what does that have to do with kids? If social services took a kid from some criminals taken away by cops, why would it be okay to lock that kid up?
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  2511.  @lancemusashi6368  There's no "maybe" about it. You don't.
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  2512. Like the Manson family, both the ones who acted, and the one who incited them to act, should get locked up.
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  2513.  @erica.7231  What matters is what the people doing the hating and persecuting believe. If they hate Latinos, and consider them a different race then, yeah, they're racists.
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  2514. ​ @Djockzone  He started spouting this in Feb, along with Marge and Rafael. Her office came out in Mar, to quash the nonsense, and said she won't run. And yet, he continued to peddle it as a possibility, on multiple occasions.
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  2515. Rofl! Ben Shapiro? The guy can't even get through an interview without crying.
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  2516.  @joepeay6986  You know when people talk about reducing inflation, they're talking about the rate, right? You don't actually get deflation without a major recession or depression. So, yeah, the inflation rate went down. Do you have a different stpd example?
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  2517.  @AnnoyingCritic-is7rp  "Redlining: The history of Berkeley's segregated neighborhoods Sep 20, 2018 — The segregation can be traced to government-supported racist housing practices, a pattern seen also in Oakland and across Alameda County."
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  2518.  @RoseB45  These ladies are in the House, not the Senate. The House has passed bills. Complain about the stupid Senate. Plus, it was a get out and vote event, which is kind of relevant to everything you said, with only a couple weeks left until the election.
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  2519.  @damebesos8497  Have you been asleep for 20 years? Trump dropped more bombs than Obama, and the region was destabilized by Bush invading Iraq.
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  2520.  @prabesh8277  The medical term is called quarantine. It has been a goto response since the dawn of civilization. And the "camps" in Australia, Canada, and other countries, are for travellers to quarantine. They aren't rounding people up off the streets and tossing them into camps.
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  2521.  @alabamaman9476  For example?
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  2522. Homicide rate per capita: 1. Mississippi 23.7 2. Louisiana 21.3 3. Alabama 15.9 3. New Mexico 15.3 4. South Carolina 13.4 ... 28. California 6.4
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  2523.  @harveymanfredsenjenson5417  Why are you still knocking religious studies, after arguing half of them make more than multi millionaires? Noxinfluencer also says about the same amount of views in the last 30 days. Are you counting his thousands of videos by hand, or something? What's your total? Can you even count over double digits, since you failed grade school?
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  2524. @G G Even if you wanted to teach the adults something, by separating them from their kids, what's the point in treating the kids like shit? There's zero reason for it, any which way.
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  2525. How will they fill the Republican slots, if an expertise in intelligence is needed? But, seriously, they should add accepting the reality of the election as a qualifier. Having investigators that side with insurrectionists should be a conflict of interest.
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  2526. @MrBOASTMAN32  July 2 1789: An act to establish the Treasury department ... "it shall be the duty of the Secretary of the Treasury, to digest and prepare plans for the improvement and management of the revenue" "To superintend the collection of the revenue" "for all delinquencies of officers of the revenue" You: There's no revenue. 🙄
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  2527.  @GrantAugustus1  It does mean it is the democratic thing to do. Do you prefer something other than a democratic system?
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  2528.  Karen Byrd  I wonder if he'll still get that in prison ... his own prison gang.
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  2529.  Mari Jayne  Ummm, slavery started centuries earlier, dumb dumb. Higher levels of racism are tied more to regions than parties. The people in those regions, where the majority of them used to vote pro slavery, and then voted pro segregation, tend to vote Republican, today.
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  2530. I'm in Canada, and I'm shaking my head at Germany, too ... planning to reopen things, when you haven't even flattened your curve.
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  2531.  @johneriksson9356  A lot of people are shaking their heads at Sweden, too, right now.
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  2532. ​ @joeb134  But Sam is right. An AI doesn't have its own subjective goals. It's not actually thinking for itself. It's thinking for whoever is programming it. It's the programmers, and their goals, that you really have to worry about. There is no indication we will ever be able to create an AI, that has its own top level subjectivity.
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  2533.  @albertcovington9942  Nope. And it's the FDA that approves drugs. Neither consider ivermectin a COVID treatment.
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  2534. ​ @greenowl2834  No. Like any "self help" guru, there will be those who claim it helps. But, he's basically just telling them it's okay to be a holes.
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  2535.  @mayman4255  You seem to just be agreeing that the US window is fucked up, compared to other countries.
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  2536. Here's an anecdote about a driver dying while wearing a seatbelt ... might as well not use seatbelts.
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  2537. He claimed he's losing billions, and he isn't even worth one billion, according to those who have seen his financial statements. Pure bullshit. Multiple Trump properties are shown to be doing better financially, since he took office and has had the government flip the bill for stays at those properties.
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  2538.  @itsokaytobeclownpilled5937  No, she didn't find any election fraud. PV have been found to be full of shit on multiple occasions. The witnesses who say they don't have any grounds for their claims, when they make it to court? The "witnesses" from online "affidavit" gathering that Trump lawyers had to admit, in court, produced a lot of bullshit and spam, and the judge didn't consider reliable? Even AG Barr went out of his way to say the DoJ would investigate any significant cases of voter or election fraud, and is now saying that no evidence of it has been presented to them. You're a nutbar, as well.
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  2539.  @thehappyclam3942  You're "free speech" can't be limited on private property, because it doesn't exist on private property. Kicking an apocalypse preacher out of my restaurant, for screaming at my customers, isn't limiting his "free speech". Same goes for privately owned servers and web pages.
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  2540. "Agnosticism is of the essence of science, whether ancient or modern. It simply means that a man shall not say he knows or believes that which he has no scientific grounds for professing to know or believe." ~ Thomas Huxley The original, and still most common, definition of Athe(os)-ist is, "someone who believes gods do not exist". So, not wanting to use the more modern a-theist reconstruction, because he doesn't want to be mistaken for those others, is just fine. Get over yourselves. Modern atheism is turning into an evangelical cult.
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  2541.  @bvierville1  People on the most socialized healthcare, VA, are happiest. Those on private, the least happy. https://news.gallup.com/poll/186527/americans-government-health-plans-satisfied.aspx
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  2542.  @DegreesOfThree  You're talking nonsense. The US already has an issue with hospitals shutting down in rural areas, and most of the latest shutdowns occurred in states that didn't accept federal Medicare assistance. You're also talking nonsense about positive rights. If you have a right to a speedy trial, who's going to judge that trial? What about the right to an attorney?
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  2543.  @stillfishing4sheep  Rofl. You just announced you are dmbr than a stump, or a Trump.
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  2544. Likud's bloody 100 year history ... In 1923, 100 years ago, Ze'ev Jabotinsky wrote, The Iron Wall, and a follow up, The Ethics of The Iron Wall (sooo racist towards Africans), in which he fully acknowledged that post Balfour Zionsim was colonialism, and that, based on the entirety of history, the native Palestinian population would resist being colonized until the bitter end. He directly compared it to the colonization of North America. He promoted doing it anyway, claiming Zionist colonialism was a "just" colonialism (he also thought North American colonialists were good guys, so not a great judge of morality), not caring what that meant for the native population. Ze'ev is important, because his Betar militant youth group helped found the Irgun terrorist group, along with other supporters of his, and the splinter Lehi terrorist group. The Irgun bombed numerous Palestinian markets and other public places, murdering many Palestinian civilians, including children, even including Palestinian Jews (who didn't support colonialist Zionsim). The Irgun are important, because they ended up being led by future Likud PM, Menachem Begin, who bombed the King David Hotel. The King David Hotel was bombed because the British had raided the Jewish Agency and seized numerous documents that may have shown that the terrorists were working with the JA and Haganah (JA liked to pretend that they didn't support the terrorism). The British then stored those documents at their base, in the hotel. That the Irgun terrorists responded to a JA raid, itself seems to prove the connection. That the thousands of Irgun (and Lehi) terrorists were also quickly merged into the new nation's military (IDF) and intelligence (Mossad) agencies, and are still celebrated as "heroes" by Israelis, to this day, also seems to support total collaboration between the groups. That other terrorist group mentioned, Lehi (also known as the Stern Gang), was considered even more extreme. They even tried to ally with the Nazis, against the British. Lehi ended up being led by Yitzhak Shamir, future Mossad agent, and another future Likud PM. They assassinated Lord Moyne, and others. The two terrorist groups also operated outside of Palestine. The Irgun bombed the British Embassy at Porta Pia, in Rome. The Lehi bombed the British Colonial Club, in London. A timer failed in another bombing attempt, at the Colonial Office, in Whitehall. Two female Lehi operatives were arrested crossing from Belgium to France, with the ingredients for letter bombs. 21 letter bombs were found to be have sent, and were intercepted. They mined the Cairo-Haifa train, in Egypt, twice, killing dozens of civilians, as well as British soldiers. In 1945, there was a major land and peoples survey done in Palestine. It showed that the Zionists only owned about 5% of the total land, 20% of the arable land, and owned a majority in zero districts. The partition was not only going to be forced on the native Palestinian majority, but Jews were still going to be a minority, in the part allocated to them. The only possible way to even become a "Jewish state" was going to require getting rid of the actual majority (at least enough so that there'd be a solid Jewish majority, so they could fake being democratic). This is also shown by the 1948, post Nakba, population of Israel. If there was 716,700 Jews, 156,000+ non-Jews, and approximately 700k non-Jews ethnically cleansed, that means the Jewish population, in the Zionist portion of partition, was originally over 100,000 less than the non-Jewish population. To believe that there was never any intent, by Zionists, to ethnically cleanse away the Palestinian majority would require believing that they never intended to create a "Jewish state". It's a nonsensical notion. Begin, and those terrorist groups, also opposed partition, but for the opposite reason Palestinians did. Palestinians didn't want to be colonized, at all. The terrorists wanted to colonize it all. "Moderate" Zionists were okay with colonizing half ... for now (what would happen in the future, after partition, was up to them, said Ben-Gurion). The Zionist terrorists were also involved in massacres, and assassinations, during the partition violence (colonialist war against the natives). Another notable future Likud PM, also started in the military, during the partition fighting. That was Ariel Sharon, war criminal, "Butcher of Beirut". Menachem Begin, and these other Zionist terrorists, are important because they became involved in Israeli politics, first forming Herut. That was the party that Albert Einstein, and other prominent American Jews, opposed, having a letter printed in the NYT, in December of 1948, when Begin came to visit the US. The letter opened ... "Among the most disturbing political phenomena of our times is the emergence in the newly created state of Israel of the "Freedom Party" (Tnuat Haherut), a political party closely akin in its organization, methods, political philosophy and social appeal to the Nazi and Fascist parties. It was formed out of the membership and following of the former Irgun Zvai Leumi, a terrorist, right-wing, chauvinist organization in Palestine." Herut merged with other extremist parties, over the years, and eventually became Likud, in the 70s. Now, people get upset over the slogan "From the river to the sea!", but it's the second part that's most important, "Palestine will be free!". Because "Palestine" isn't defined as an ethno-state, a free Palestine can be a single state, free for all to live in, and return to, free of continuing colonization, free of occupation, free of oppression, etc. Just like a Germany free of Nazism, an Italy free of fascism, a South Africa free of apartheid, or an America free of slavery from sea to shiny sea. It doesn't necessitate purging all the Jews. It just necessitates them giving up on the idea of an ethno-state. On the other hand, because "Israel" has been defined as an ethno-state, Likud's, "between the sea and the Jordan there will only be Israeli sovereignty", has no possible good interpretation. It is a declaration of intent to completely colonize, and ethnically cleanse, all Palestine territories. Not only that, but it also claims that they have a "right" to all of the "Land of Israel" (biblical borders that don't mesh with archaeological reality), which is an open declaration of future wars, against Jordan, Syria, Lebanon, and possibly even Iraq. Likud platform ... 1977: "The Right of the Jewish People to the Land of Israel (Eretz Israel) a. The right of the Jewish people to the land of Israel is eternal and indisputable and is linked with the right to security and peace; therefore, Judea and Samaria will not be handed to any foreign administration; between the Sea and the Jordan there will only be Israeli sovereignty. b. A plan which relinquishes parts of western Eretz Israel, undermines our right to the country, unavoidably leads to the establishment of a "Palestinian State," jeopardizes the security of the Jewish population, endangers the existence of the State of Israel. and frustrates any prospect of peace." 1999: "The Government of Israel flatly rejects the establishment of a Palestinian Arab state west of the Jordan river. The Palestinians can run their lives freely in the framework of self-rule, but not as an independent and sovereign state. Thus, for example, in matters of foreign affairs, security, immigration, and ecology, their activity shall be limited in accordance with imperatives of Israel's existence, security and national needs." "The Jewish communities in Judea, Samaria, and Gaza are the realization of Zionist values. Settlement of the land is a clear expression of the unassailable right of the Jewish people to the Land of Israel and constitutes an important asset in the defense of the vital interests of the State of Israel. The Likud will continue to strengthen and develop these communities and will prevent their uprooting." All Palestine territories are officially considered occupied, by the International Court of Justice, the UN GA, the UN SC, and even in official documents of Israel's own allies. Likud is still using the blueprint for colonizing North America, in the West Bank. Move settlements out into native territory, piss off the natives, the natives retaliate, cry about poor "innocent" colonizing settlers being the "victims" of violent "Savages!", call in the cavalry to put down the native uprising, and eventually expand the borders to include those settlements. Rinse and repeat. In Gaza, Israel is operating an open air WWII style fascist ghetto. Them claiming a "right to defend themselves" would be like the Nazis claiming a "right to defend themselves " from the Warsaw ghetto uprising. There's no "war". That they're the occupiers means the "war" part is long over. Those people are actually supposed to be under the occupier's protection. That partition was forced upon the Palestinian majority, against their will ... that the Zionist portion still had to be forcefully ethnically cleansed of its non-Jewish majority, against their will ... that the millions of occupied Palestinians don't have a say in the government that truly rules over them, Israel's ... means Israel is about as democratic as Nazi Germany after Hitler purged his political opponents and then held elections.
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  2545. Nazi Germany (Gaza = Warsaw ghetto) + North American colonialists (West Bank) They're using the blueprint for colonizing North America ... Move settlements out into native territory, piss off the natives, the natives retaliate, cry about being poor "innocent" colonizers attacked by "Savages!", call in the cavalry to squash the native uprising, then extend the borders to include those settlements. Rinse and repeat, until you own it all.
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  2546. Ended zero. Dropped more 🧨 per year than Obama.
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  2547. ​ @skontheroad All Palestine territories are considered occupied, by the International Court, the UN GA, and the UN SC. Hope that helps.
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  2548.  @edwardreynolds3242  I am outraged at the Powhatan Confederacy's attack on civilians ... satisfied? Can we now talk about the colonialism, raids, attacks, etc., by the colonialists that provoked them, to try and stop it from happening again?
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  2549.  @KenjaTimu  Gender doesn't equate to sex, dumbass. If you're okay with calling a formless penisless god being "he", or are okay with calling cars or boats "she", you should be able to grasp that fact.
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  2550. ​ @owRekssjfjxjxuurrpqpqss  In what reality is Trump less racist? He was talking making a pledge of allegiance to Israel to get in the country.
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  2551. ​@@Eet_Mia Can you explain how you missed who the American version tends to go after, or that the German version also targeted other people?
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  2552. Rofl, you invented a reaction for them, and then called them hypocrites. Is your entire brain made of straw?
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  2553.  @alanblanes2876  And yet the majority population didn't want partition, the early Z-nists weren't shy about calling it colonialism, the Revisionists even outright approved an early plan to become the 7th Dominion of the British Empire, and Ze'ev outright compared it to other col-nialist projects.
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  2554. Hint: You skipped over the part about employees paying for it.
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  2555. Umm, he has the nickname "Butcher of Grozny", for a reason, dingus.
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  2556.  @jashshah5049  Fascists often come to power in democracies, so mentioning India is a democracy doesn't mean Modi isn't a fascist. He's an Hindutva nutter. Tulsi opposed denying Modi a visa after Gujarat riots. She opposed religious freedom and human rights being included in dialogue with Indian national and state officials. She vocally supported Modi being elected. She brought him a gift, when he came to the US. She hobnobbed with him, and other Hindutva members on her visit to India. India, representing almost the entirety of the "Hindu world", is ranked worse than Saudi, for the treatment of women.
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  2557. ​ @redwattlebird24  There's also The Majority Report.
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  2558.  @sim1manson1  He also left out the part where he, and daddy, were fined for gaming fraud, when daddy bought over $3m in chips, and didn't cash them in, to give his incompetent son another $3m off books "loan".
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  2559.  @robotron17  If he treated everyone that way, do you think it would make him any less a shit cop?
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  2560.  @aliamjon2550  So, you're agreeing with the OP. What's your issue then?
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  2561. ​ @danialhillmann5374  You should spend yours on upgrading to a grade 3 education.
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  2562.  Derek Hitt  You're nuts. Private landowners were able to monopolize land, leading to absolute monarchies, which are 100% privately owned and operated countries, with zero representation of the people above them, regulating them. The western frontier devolved into feudalism, when there was little to no authority above large landowners who hired private armies of cowboys, and threw their weight around. It was the law and government moving in that calmed things down. You're living in a fantasy. Monopolies are ages old, and have occured plenty of times, with little to no government assistance.
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  2563. He's probably talking about idiots from Brazil, and the like.
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  2564. The goal to overthrow the democratic process to keep Dumpty on as an unelected dictator, dimwit.
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  2565.  @rafters35  The 850k people who died preventable deaths probably weren't too thrilled about it.
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  2566. ​ @LePedant  Are people considered to be 1 year old, 3 months after birth? Or do we go by "birthday"?
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  2567.  @alabamaman1684  Nope. It reduced the life expectancy for 2020 by 1+ years for white Americans and 3-4x that for Hispanic and black Americans.
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  2568. No pricing was given for affordable housing. It was simply allocating some of the land for affordable housing. The prices given are for the non affordable housing.
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  2569. He was a capitalist utilitarian though. A commie utilitarian would have snapped infinite resources.
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  2570.  @2727rogers  You're lying. A handful of Canadian parliament members do not have the power to paralyze parliament, did not paralyze parliament, did not threaten to paralyze parliament. Canada's healthcare system is more like Medicaid for all, and is a province/federal partnership, with the provinces actually running it. It was started by one province, others followed, and then the federal government got involved and made it nationwide. Progressive politicians, TYT, Packman, MJ, and others were just heavily promoting, or campaigning for, Nina Turner, trying to add another M4A yes vote to congress, because getting enough yes votes in congress is the only possible way to ever pass M4A. Dore, on the other hand, abandoned Nina, abandoned adding another M4A yes vote to congress. He's a grifter. He doesn't actually care if anyone else ever gets healthcare.
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  2571. When was that?
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  2572.  @youtubemoderationtaskforce5583  You're really trying your best to defend your white supremacist friends. You downplay number of attempts, and numbers of people involved, in favor of total deaths, which could just show others are better at it, or that white supremacists are stupid. You downplay intent, as if a desire to kill one other person is totally the samesies as a desire to get rid of another race. You downplay targets, with a number of white supremacists just being involved in trying to overthrow the government.
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  2573.  @youtubemoderationtaskforce5583  Not assuming anything. It's pretty clear, that you're making a defense. I was talking attempts, or thwarted attempts, not simply violence that doesn't lead to deaths, nor simply thinking without acting. White supremacists make far more attempts than Muslim extremists. Attempting, but failing, to murder is still trying to kill someone, and isn't simply an assault, or whatnot. Getting caught plotting to murder people is planning to kill people, not simply having a praiseworthy thought crime. And, again, a terrorist threat would be more of a threat to the nation, and not simply the individuals living in it. Targetting a governor, targetting the Capitol, etc., are more of a threat to keeping the government functioning. "Terrorism" isn't simply about causing terror, it includes doing it to achieve a political outcome. Gangs fighting, or a spouse killing their spouse, aren't trying to achieve political outcomes.
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  2574.  Mari Jayne  Blue isn't a race, and can be fixed with proper legislation.
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  2575.  @laxarus3259  No equal right of return. In fact Jewish people, all over the world, who have never been there, have more of a right of "return" than Palestinian refugees.
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  2576.  @WorldifySanity  And?
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  2577.  @outtarespecttomyfawtha1589  Which perspective? First he's supporting a public option candidate against the M4A candidate ... then he's acting like a simply not supporting a single secondary tactic to get a pointless performance art vote on M4A is enough to consider other progressives no longer allies ... then he's peddling a far right "extreme free market" nutter, who is opposed to M4A, and disagrees on most everything, as an ally ... then he slanders AOC and Bernie (not the first time) for abandoning M4A, while they're campaigning for Nina Turner, promoting M4A, and trying to add another M4A advocate to congress ... then he abandons Nina Turner, abandoning adding another M4A yes vote to congress ... he's all over the place.
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  2578.  @vovkam  Pretty simple, just ruin the lives of those who aren't voting for you anyway. Like Trump threatening to withhold money from states like California. Republicans don't give two craps if Californians suffer, because they largely don't get their vote. To an even greater degree, they overwhelmingly don't get the black American vote, so don't care if they suffer.
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  2579.  @ozzie3963  The broader progressive caucus is 30 years old and is about 10 seats away from becoming the majority of house Dems. Justice Dems are 4 years old and have replaced about a dozen corporate Dems. AOC has been in the he 2 years, just backed 20 other pro-M4A progressives, helping to remove a few more corporate Dems, and helping to add a few more M4A yes votes to congress. 10 seats away from the M4A caucus becoming the majority of the party sounds like a perfect time to take the third party route, that hasn't won the most popular third party a single seat in congress in its near 50 year existence. Zero seats, zero bills, zero amendments, zero votes on even a single bill, zero committee time, zero committee votes, ... such a winning strategy.
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  2580. Is he wearing fake muscles? When he points up, it looks like there's a layer of something under his shirt, that ends just before his shirt sleeve ends.
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  2581. Well, he could still possibly win all the remaining states, which would be a pretty good electoral win.
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  2582. Edit that. Zero came through Canada. They flew directly to the US.
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  2583. They know that most presidents have had "record high" DOW numbers, at the time of their presidencies, since the stock market began, right? Obama had "record high" stock market numbers, at the end of his presidency, with lower unemployment, yet they were saying the economy sucked, then.
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  2584. ​ @xvolokos  Do you know what a protest is?
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  2585.  @whyamimrpink78  How many people die, and whether it is successful or not, is irrelevant to whether something is an insurrection or not. Did they want to overthrow the democratic process to keep an unelected ruler in power? Yes. Insurrection.
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  2586.  @guiagaston7273  Jimmy outright promoted Trump as the better option than Clinton, which only benefits Trump. He peddled Tulsi over Bernie, outright working against Bernie and M4A. He ran a constant attack ad campaign against Trump's only remaining viable opponent, Biden, which only benefits Trump. He slanders progressives that have done more for M4A in a few years than he has in his entire lifetime, which only benefits corporate Dems and Republicans. He peddles a third party fantasy, which only benefits corporate Dems and Republicans. He publicly abandoned Nina Turner ... abandoned adding another M4A yes vote to congress ... and promoted never voting for anyone running as a Dem ever again, which only benefits corporate Dems and Republicans. He peddled allying with "extreme free market" psycho Boogaloos, who want to start a civil war, overthrow the government, and have society run on pure capitalism. He goes on white nationalist television just to largely agree with right wing talking points, which only benefits right wing propaganda tv, and their audience. Government negotiated prices on vaccines, and then giving them out for free, is a tiny taste of universal healthcare. Dore and Max also lied about the completely socialized UK healthcare system. Dore has also peddled more expensive, and paid for out of pocket, vaccine alternatives. Dore pandering to anti-vaxxers is also anti-universal healthcare. Like all grifters, he claims to be selling you something beneficial, but is actually selling you something completely useless, or even harmful (Trump was running on tossing 10m of the poorest Americans off of Medicaid expansion, ffs).
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  2587. ​ @emileblanche5868  It's possible to both, think √0tiπg Green is pointless, and understand that Likud was founded by its own Irgun and Lehi trrrsts, who Einstein likened to Fscsts and Nzs. You might not want to alienate needed √0t€§.
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  2588.  @mp22893  How is letting wars happen, without resistance, anti-war? My stance is that I was fine with Russia helping Syria defend itself, and I'm fine with the US helping Ukraine defend itself. And, I was against the US invading Iraq, and am against Russia invading Ukraine. Your "anti-war" stance also seems to allow Russia to war all it wants, like Dore. Doesn't sound very "anti-war".
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  2589. ​Israel is objectively the aggressor, by every relevant measure, dumb dumb ... Modern history: 100 years ago, in 1923, Ze'ev Jabotinsky fully acknowledged that Zionism is colonialism, and that, based on the entirety of history, the natives would fight it until the bitter end. He just didn't care what would happen to them, and promoted doing it anyway. Colonizers are never not the aggressors. On top of the colonialist nature of Zionism, the Zionists also formed terrorist organizations, like the Irgun and Lehi. They bombed many Palestinian markets and other public places, murdering many civilians, including children, even including Palestinian Jews (who opposed Zionism). Israel merged those terrorists into the new nation's military and intelligence agencies. Israelis elected Menachem Begin, leader of the Irgun, child murderer, Jew murderer, and bomber of the King David Hotel, as PM. Israelis, to this day, celebrate those terrorists as "heroes". Zionists literally taught their neighbours that terrorism is a valid path to independence and statehood, and that terrorists are to be celebrated. In 1945, it is well documented that Zionists owned just 5% of the land and were a majority nowhere. Israel was formed by actually going against the majority population. It's foundation is completely undemocratic. Then, becoming a majority, in "their" new nation, by ethnic cleansing the actual majority, and then claiming to be democratic, is utter nonsense. Law: Israel is considered an occupier by the International Court, the UN GA, and the UN SC. Occupiers are also never not the aggressors. Those occupied actually have a right to resist occupation. On the flip side, it is illegal for the occupier to settle occupied lands, and illegal to use collective punishment. Israel is a rogue nation, that doesn't abide by international law. What it has been doing, and is doing now, is illegal. Current events: This year, alone, prior to Oct 7 ... Israel held over 1200 Palestinian hostages without charges ... over 200 Palestinians had been killed by the IDF and settlers ... over 1000 Palestinians had been displaced by Israel's neverending colonization of the West Bank ... and, Israel continued to operate an open air WWII style fascist ghetto, in Gaza. Even ignoring modern history and law, in no reality did Hamas "start" anything.
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  2590.  @michelbisson6645  You're an insane person, who thinks Trump was chosen by God. Get help.
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  2591.  @iamyourpc  Race away from the bottom.
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  2592.  @samuelmerkel2888  I didn't state an income. It's pretty easy to look up the median income for the area. Do you think TV executives would be below median?
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  2593.  @samuelmerkel2888  You seem have severe reading comprehension problems, on top of everything else. I simply included the fact that the working mother was a tv executive, included the fact that his father was a composer on top of raising the kids, and included the fact that they lived in an area with a 50% higher median income than the national median. Those facts don't care about your feelings. You, desperately trying to reinvent meanings of words, to make it sound like she could have been mopping floors, for all we know, look ridiculous.
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  2594.  @samuelmerkel2888  Bahahaha!!!!! I got sick of your bullshit, and looked up Shapiro on public records on Ancestry. Benjamin A Shapiro & Mor Shapiro, MD (she is a doctor) lived at 5700 Rhodes Ave, Valley Village (which is the neighborhood just north of Studio City, where he went to Middle School). Ben's previous address listed, for 1996 (when he was 12) is 12407 Hartsook St, Valley Village. It's an almost $2m home with 4 bedrooms, 3.5 bathrooms, and 2719 sq ft. ... with a pool. Can we be done now?
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  2595.  @starfireb.4098  Nope. "Pew surveys of 3,576 adults in 23 countries indicate 59 percent have a favorable opinion of the United States, while 30 percent don’t. Similarly, 54 percent have confidence in Biden, while 39 percent don’t. While Pew does not have directly comparable data for a global sweep of countries for the Trump, Barack Obama and George W. Bush presidencies, it does have confidence and popularity information by individual nations that show Biden’s ratings far above Trump’s."
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  2596.  Mari Jayne  It would have fixed it, if the US hadn't spent hundreds of millions backing religious nuts to take over the country, leading to the Taliban. A Russian should know that history.
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  2597. Yeah, I think having a weak, on the ropes, speaker, was better for Dems. They're going to end up with something worse, that might not pass a budget.
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  2598. Sarcasm, I hope.
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  2599.  @Gilgaemesh  Left libertarian, or anarchism, can still maintain the social concept of society through direct democracy. A direct democracy can still vote to have rights and social contracts, that protect minors. It's the further right libertarian you go, that ditches democracy, ditches rights, and ditches social contracts. Somehow society will magically keep itself together on pure free market capitalism.
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  2600. ​ @Sloimer  Israel has killed hundreds of Palestinians, including dozens and dozens of children, over the past couple years, alone. What are you even talking about? By your own uninformed logic, you're arguing it's okay for Hamas to respond with excessive force, and collective punishment.
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  2601.  @upabittoolate  My point was that there just isn't an "ad hominem", unless context creates one, not that an "ad hominem" with the right context is fine. Boebert's husband is a sex offender. (Not an ad hominem) Boebert's husband is a sex offender, which makes her a hypocrite. (Not an ad hominem) Boebert is trailer trash. (Not an ad hominem) Boebert's husband is a sex offender, therefore she's wrong about something unrelated. (ad hominem) There's no fallacy in simply pointing out facts. There's no fallacy in pointing out hypocrisy. There's not even a fallacy in simply calling her "trailer trash", or whatever other insult you want. There's only a fallacy if you say something like "you are dumb, therefore you must be wrong", because the conclusion doesn't necessarily follow. The person could be both dumb, and right, about the topic at hand. Personally, I don't have a problem with pointing out hypocrisy. It's not necessarily childish.
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  2602.  @upabittoolate  Irrelevant to whether it's an ad hominem, or not. If two people are sitting around and one says "Lauren Boebert's husband is a sex offender.", that's not an ad hominem. If some news outlet says "Lauren Boebert's husband is a sex offender.", that's not an ad hominem. Why do you think it would magically become an ad hominem, if another politician said it? Plus, if Boebert is making some claim about the sexualization of minors, and making out like she cares, she's implying something about herself. Pointing out she didn't seem to care, when her husband sexualized minors, is a response to what she's implying about herself.
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  2603. The Hill is owned by a close friend of Trump and Giuliani.
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  2604. The broader progressive caucus is about 15 seats away from becoming the majority of house Dems. At that point, they'll be able to pick the party speaker candidate, and set the party agenda, for the house. If also the majority of the house, that speaker could also pick committee seats, pick which bills to introduce, pick which bills to not introduce, etc. In an alternate reality, where the progressive caucus was an entirely different party, what you'd have is a Trump presidency (due to vote splitting between Dem voters and progressives), Pence as the senate tie breaker, and a Republican plurality in the house. Republicans would only have to work with a few of the most conservative Dems, to pass whatever they wanted, and could completely ignore the progressive party, altogether. There is more power in getting 15 more seats within the Democratic party, than getting 115 seats outside the Democratic party. Plus, the reality is that most popular third party hasn't won a single seat in congress in its near 50 year existence. Also, the "vote blue" strategy works both ways. Those who vote against progressives in the primaries tend to turn around and vote for them in the generals. Any hope of Bernie actually winning a general election, if he got through the primary, would have rested entirely upon those who voted against him turning around and voting for him. If you split the voters, you'd pretty much be handing any tight districts, and the presidency, to Republicans, for decades to come.
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  2605. Tougher gun laws, less prison punishment, and more rehabilitation, seems to work in other developed countries. But, almost half of Americans are right wing morons, so they might be too stupid to pull it off.
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  2606.  @gerri577  That's nice. Is 36% "most Americans"?
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  2607. Exactly. Politicians are allowed to practice false advertising, to sell themselves to the public.
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  2608.  @sergeikhripun  A 100% guaranteed to fail performance art vote doesn't actually get you M4A, during a pandemic, Dore knob. Adding more M4A yes votes to congress, which the justice Dems and AOC just helped do, is what needs doing to ever pass the bill. You just got a new list of names of people who won't co-sign either M4A bill. How about protesting, and bitching about, them, instead of progressives who support it?
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  2609. Yeah, I totally remember Bernie running on a 6 month student loan deferment and Medicare for a single virus strain.
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  2610.  @rburch20  He had been E-9 for a year, and still was, when he retired. He was then bumped down for his pension. What are you finding so hard to grasp?
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  2611. New Zealand has been testing at a rate of 50+ people per confirmed case. The US was testing at a rate of 5 people per confirmed case, for months. Now it's up to 10+. Trump is a moron.
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  2612.  @giantsr1eva  Rofl. You think every Democrat voter would have voted Bernie? That's delusional.
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  2613. Likud's bloody 100 year history ... In 1923, 100 years ago, Ze'ev Jabotinsky wrote, The Iron Wall, and a follow up, The Ethics of The Iron Wall (sooo racist towards Africans), in which he fully acknowledged that post Balfour Zionsim was colonialism, and that, based on the entirety of history, the native Palestinian population would resist being colonized until the bitter end. He directly compared it to the colonization of North America. He promoted doing it anyway, claiming Zionist colonialism was a "just" colonialism (he also thought North American colonialists were good guys, so not a great judge of morality), not caring what that meant for the native population. Ze'ev is important, because his Betar militant youth group helped found the Irgun terrorist group, along with other supporters of his, and the splinter Lehi terrorist group. The Irgun bombed numerous Palestinian markets and other public places, murdering many Palestinian civilians, including children, even including Palestinian Jews (who didn't support colonialist Zionsim). The Irgun are important, because they ended up being led by future Likud PM, Menachem Begin, who bombed the King David Hotel. The King David Hotel was bombed because the British had raided the Jewish Agency and seized numerous documents that may have shown that the terrorists were working with the JA and Haganah (JA liked to pretend that they didn't support the terrorism). The British then stored those documents at their base, in the hotel. That the Irgun terrorists responded to a JA raid, itself seems to prove the connection. That the thousands of Irgun (and Lehi) terrorists were also quickly merged into the new nation's military (IDF) and intelligence (Mossad) agencies, and are still celebrated as "heroes" by Israelis, to this day, also seems to support total collaboration between the groups. That other terrorist group mentioned, Lehi (also known as the Stern Gang), was considered even more extreme. They even tried to ally with the Nazis, against the British. Lehi ended up being led by Yitzhak Shamir, future Mossad agent, and another future Likud PM. In 1945, there was a major land and peoples survey done in Palestine. It showed that the Zionists only owned about 5% of the total land, 20% of the arable land, and owned a majority in zero districts. The partition was not only going to be forced on the native Palestinian majority, but Jews were still going to be a minority, in the part allocated to them. The only possible way to even become a "Jewish state" was going to require getting rid of the actual majority (at least enough so that there'd be a solid Jewish majority, so they could fake being democratic). This is also shown by the 1948, post Nakba, population of Israel. If there was 716,700 Jews, 156,000+ non-Jews, and approximately 700k non-Jews ethnically cleansed, that means the Jewish population, in the Zionist portion of partition, was originally over 100,000 less than the non-Jewish population. To believe that there was never any intent, by Zionists, to ethnically cleanse away the Palestinian majority would require believing that they never intended to create a "Jewish state". It's a nonsensical notion. Begin, and those terrorist groups, also opposed partition, but for the opposite reason Palestinians did. Palestinians didn't want to be colonized, at all. The terrorists wanted to colonize it all. "Moderate" Zionists were okay with colonizing half ... for now (what would happen in the future, after partition, was up to them, said Ben-Gurion). The Zionist terrorists were also involved in massacres, and assassinations, during the partition violence (colonialist war against the natives). Another notable future Likud PM, also started in the military, during the partition fighting. That was Ariel Sharon, war criminal, "Butcher of Beirut". Menachem Begin, and these other Zionist terrorists, are important because they also later founded Likud. Now, people get upset over the slogan "From the river to the sea!", but it's the second part that's most important, "Palestine will be free!". Because "Palestine" isn't defined as an ethno-state, a free Palestine can be a single state, free for all to live in, and return to, free of continuing colonization, free of occupation, free of oppression, etc. Just like a Germany free of Nazism, an Italy free of fascism, a South Africa free of apartheid, or an America free of slavery from sea to shiny sea. It doesn't necessitate purging all the Jews. It just necessitates them giving up on the idea of an ethno-state. On the other hand, because "Israel" has been defined as an ethno-state, Likud's, "between the sea and the Jordan there will only be Israeli sovereignty", has no possible good interpretation. It is a declaration of intent to completely colonize, and ethnically cleanse, all Palestine territories. Not only that, but it also claims that they have a "right" to all of the "Land of Israel" (biblical borders that don't mesh with archaeological reality), which is an open declaration of future wars, against Jordan, Syria, Lebanon, and possibly even Iraq. Likud platform ... 1977: "The Right of the Jewish People to the Land of Israel (Eretz Israel) a. The right of the Jewish people to the land of Israel is eternal and indisputable and is linked with the right to security and peace; therefore, Judea and Samaria will not be handed to any foreign administration; between the Sea and the Jordan there will only be Israeli sovereignty. b. A plan which relinquishes parts of western Eretz Israel, undermines our right to the country, unavoidably leads to the establishment of a "Palestinian State," jeopardizes the security of the Jewish population, endangers the existence of the State of Israel. and frustrates any prospect of peace." "Settlement Settlement. both urban and rural. in all parts of the Land of Israel is the focal point of the Zionist effort to redeem the country, to maintain vital security areas and serves as a reservoir of strength and inspiration for the renewal of the pioneering spirit. The Likud government will call on the younger generation in Israel and the dispersions to settle and help every group and individual in the task of inhabiting and cultivating the wasteland, while taking care not to dispossess anyone." 1999: "The Government of Israel flatly rejects the establishment of a Palestinian Arab state west of the Jordan river. The Palestinians can run their lives freely in the framework of self-rule, but not as an independent and sovereign state. Thus, for example, in matters of foreign affairs, security, immigration, and ecology, their activity shall be limited in accordance with imperatives of Israel's existence, security and national needs." "The Jewish communities in Judea, Samaria, and Gaza are the realization of Zionist values. Settlement of the land is a clear expression of the unassailable right of the Jewish people to the Land of Israel and constitutes an important asset in the defense of the vital interests of the State of Israel. The Likud will continue to strengthen and develop these communities and will prevent their uprooting." All Palestine territories are officially considered occupied, by the International Court of Justice, the UN GA, the UN SC, and even in official documents of Israel's own allies. Likud is still using the blueprint for colonizing North America, in the West Bank. Move settlements out into native territory, piss off the natives, the natives retaliate, cry about poor "innocent" colonizing settlers being the "victims" of violent "Savages!", call in the cavalry to put down the native uprising, and eventually expand the borders to include those settlements. Rinse and repeat. In Gaza, they are operating an open air WWII style fascist ghetto. Them claiming a "right to defend themselves" would be like the Nazis claiming a "right to defend themselves " from the Warsaw ghetto uprising. There's no "war". That they're the occupiers means the "war" part is long over. That partition was forced upon the Palestinian majority, against their will ... that the Zionist portion still had to be forcefully ethnically cleansed of its non-Jewish majority, against their will ... that the millions of occupied Palestinians don't have a say in the government that truly rules over them, Israel's ... means Israel is about as democratic as Nazi Germany after Hitler purged his political opponents and then held elections.
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  2614. No he doesn't. He didn't give two craps if 10m of the poorest Americans lost their Medicaid expansion. He didn't care to add 40m Americans to Medicare. He's promoting a third party route that hasn't won the most popular third party a single seat in congress in going on 50 years, and won't get anyone healthcare in the next century.
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  2615.  @Planeman516  "Fascism is the complete opposite of Marxian socialism." ~ Mussolini Marx's ideal is a stateless, non-authoritarian, direct democracy, socialism. The complete opposite is an ultra nationalistic, authoritarian, anti-democratic, capitalism.
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  2616.  @moe433  You've obviously assigned genders to inanimate objects, and do seem to care. You care enough to be here blathering about it. Rich men also used to powder their faces, wear makeup, and wear girdles. Punk guys, goth guys, etc., have worn makeup. Trump appears to have worn makeup almost everyday. I don't think you know what "feminism" means, because I'm pretty sure it doesn't mean "trying to look feminine".
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  2617. Sam's problem though, was that he defined religions, especially Islam, as if there was one true interpretation, and then argued that those who didn't believe exactly what he claimed the one true Islam to be, were less religious, were "nominal" Muslims. He was, basically, making the same argument the likes of ISIS makes, that anyone who doesn't believe what they believe isn't a "true" Muslim. The actual fact is that people interpret things, cherry pick, give weight to, include additional writings and rulings, differently. Even people in the same church, temple, synagogue, or mosque, can have somewhat different beliefs. A pacifist Muslim isn't necessarily less religious, anymore than a Quaker is less religious than some hate filled Southern Baptist spewing that all gays should be stoned to death. If you portray Islam as a singular, horrible, "motherlode of bad ideas", and every single Muslim on the planet practices Islam, by definition, then you've said something about what every single Muslim on the planet believes and practices. Broad brushing, like that, generally makes you wrong, out of the gate.
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  2618. He could see New Jersey from his window, as well.
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  2619. Panzies, afraid of a needle.
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  2620. The global bitcoin owner population is estimated to only be about double the population of Argentina. That seems like a helluva lot of energy, for the size of the population, just to create currency.
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  2621. She didn't name herself. You, on the other hand, named yourself a necropheliac.
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  2622.  Mari Jayne  Pretty sure those were real impeachment trials. Same results as the Clinton impeachment.
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  2623.  @Shay-bp7yt  Yes, Sweden is doing so awesome! 5-10x more covid deaths per capita than its neighbours, and in the top 13 covid deaths per capita, in the world.
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  2624. Does Ben Shapiro just not know how Google works?
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  2625.  @davedoney7017  Are you under some delusion that 27 Republicans passed the bill?
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  2626.  @WLD968  Get cheaper lawyers, ffs.
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  2627.  @WLD968  Uh huh. And? If one worked on your case 40hrs per week, 4 weeks straight, that's $50k, dumb dumb.
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  2628.  @SolntsaSvet  Russia armed the "separatists" in Georgia, provided some military support (from bases they already had there) and Russian mercenaries, just like in Donbas. Heavy artillery, tanks, etc., don't just magically appear in "separatist" hands. To pretend Russia wasn't involved is utterly dishonest. And they sat by while their allies ethnically cleansed Georgians out of Abkhazia. Russia joined in on the ethnic cleansing in 2008. Every SSR and ASSR declared independence. Russia convinced all but Chechnya and Tatarstan to rejoin and sign the Treaty of Federation. Unlike Crimea officially joining Ukraine, and the other ASSRs officially joining the Russian Federation, Chechnya never really agreed to be part of the new Russia Federation.
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  2629. His daughter, or one of the even dumber sons.
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  2630. Look at photos of the Warsaw ghetto, after it was flattened. Looks like Gaza.
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  2631.  @DubhghlasMacDubhghlas  You think chunky American cosplayers are ready to go hide in the mountains for years, hide in a neighboring country for years, find assistance there, etc.?
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  2632.  @bender9222222222  Ideally, the $4t US corporations are hoarding should fund it, and get that money circulating again.
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  2633. Whatever you think of any of the Democrats in congress, running as a Democrat is very clearly the more effective way to win a seat in congress. The most popular third party hasn't won a single seat in its 50 year existence. The broader progressive caucus is 30 years old, and about 15 seats away from becoming the majority of house Dems, when they can set the party agenda and pick the party speaker candidate. Justice Dems have replaced about a dozen corporate Dems in 4 years. AOC helped replace a few more in just 2 years. There's nothing more incremental that sitting on the sidelines for 50 years. It's the slowest possible route to your destination.
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  2634.  @martinD1  The US Overton window is basically the top right square on a political compass. There are actually fascists, and fascism with added bigotry and racism is Nazism. The morons are those calling Biden, or even Bernie, communists, when Bernie is a centrist, and Biden is well right of him.
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  2635. ​ @ChrisJohnston-v3n  The Palestine territories are officially occupied, according to the International Court, the UN GA, and the UN SC. It is both illegal for the occupier to colonize occupied territories and use collective punishment. On the flip side, the occupied actually have a right to resist occupation.
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  2636.  @ard1805  Most of us Canadians hate Trump. He'd get absolutely trounced by every other candidate, if they were running in Canada. https://www.ctvnews.ca/world/nearly-8-in-10-canadians-prefer-dems-over-trump-sanders-biden-most-popular-poll-1.4517305
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  2637. ​ @truthache8560  The Orange Maroon thought Puerto Rico was a different country. Not only did he disrespect PR, when describing how terrible he thought it was, but he was ironically trashing his own government.
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  2638.  @cosimawagner7831  What do you think they did with all the homes and property belonging to people they rounded up and sent to camps?
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  2639. There are 2 smart Trump supporters? That's 2 more than I thought there were.
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  2640. Yeah, was going to say ... The fighting had started in Apr of 1775, and Britain had declared the American colonies to be in a state of rebellion by Aug of 1775. 1776 was the Declaration of Independence.
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  2641. ​ @Whoyouwishyouwere  You literally saw how low they could sell gas for, and still make a profit, during COVID. They've basically doubled the price, for profit.
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  2642.  @EyeLabPNiece  The WWE gets more views than actual wrestling. More views doesn't magically make it real.
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  2643.  @emjay2045  Seditious conspiracy.
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  2644.  @robertmatthews2009  Oh, I'll be surprised alright, because that would mean you're not insane, when I'm quite sure you are. If you think you have the "right" to spread disease, and kill others, you're likely a sociopath. You should get that checked.
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  2645.  @soakupthesunman  It was colonialism from the moment the Brits okayed colonialism, dumb dumb, like they did plenty of times before.
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  2646.  @fisher5759  Denmark is a centrist country. Name the Democrat policies that would move the US left of Denmark, let alone move it to full blown Marxism or communism.
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  2647.  @Doc5thMech  I wrote it.
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  2648. ​ @koloni2862 😂 How are colonizers, ethnic cleansers, and occupiers, operating an open air WWII style fascist ghetto, "innocent"?
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  2649.  Derek Hitt  Good for him. Have him show up with people waving Nazi flags, Confederate flags, and tiki torch carrying anti-Semitics, at some kind of leftist rally. Oh wait, leftists did show up to protest against them, rather than march beside them like all the right wingers.
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  2650.  @2011barnstormer  Loon
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  2651.  Adam Lanza  Rofl! Is your argument that nothing is believable, except what you say is believable? You know that makes you crazy, yeah?
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  2652.  Adam Lanza  So, is an AMA survey of doctors, finding 96% fully vaccinated, believable? Is a CMA survey of healthcare (doctors and nurses) and long term care workers, finding 90% vaccinated, believable? Is an RCP survey, finding 99% of doctors fully vaccinated, and 96% boostered, believable?
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  2653.  Adam Lanza  I know how surveys work. You don't seem to know how they work. So, you've written off all surveys as an accurate representation of the population surveyed. You've written off all media as believable. How was I wrong, before, about your argument being that only what you say is believable is believable?
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  2654.  occupyanewparadigm  Pretty much the whole rest of the world has decided colonialism = bad, except for China, and a few other countries.
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  2655.  @markzuckergecko621  But I do.
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  2656. Who does Nina slander?
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  2657. ​ @danburns6452  Protect their families, from what?
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  2658.  @2mogar  Are you intentionally trying to be ironic?
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  2659.  @Cryptum404  If you're calling anything left of corporate Dems "socialist", then socialism is doing great in the rest of the developed world.
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  2660. ​ @nerighal2889  You sure you weren't in Malaysia? "Lavish 'Gaza' Mall Is Actually in Malaysia, Israeli Military Admits Israeli military apologizes for a photograph on its English-language blog, which was incorrectly represented as a mall in Gaza, describing it as an honest mistake."
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  2661.  @barbiquearea  "British" applies to citizens in N Ireland, Scotland, Wales, and England, of all races. "British" and "black" are not mutually exclusive.
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  2662.  @thehusketeers4319  Not sure whacked out on Sudafed is a "bonus". They both suck.
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  2663.  @jojojoe1904  She just helped replace some of her "mama's" DCCC backed corporate buddies, Dore knob.
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  2664.  @jeffspicolli593  The trrrst groups existed before that, dingus. They were forming the current ruling political party, in 1948. Einstein likened them to Fscsts and Nzs.
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  2665. You think it has gotten better since FDR? That seems pretty ignorant, to me. And leaving workers and unions behind seems pretty privileged.
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  2666. The US population likely hit 330m this past year. The population has never hit 330m before. It's the highest population in US history. It's such a beautifully big population. Him, continuously bragging about highest stock market numbers, is stupid. Almost every president, in the history of the stock market, has presided over the highest stock market numbers, during their presidencies. The stock market has a habit of going up, most of the time. Since Trump's first budget kicked in, when corporations and the rich first got their tax breaks, at the start of 2018, and Trump's trade wars started about the same time, the DOW has only gone up 4000 points. It went up more than that in his first year, during Obama's last budget.
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  2667.  @thinkhector  We've known this all along. This is not new information. And, no, that is not Dore's point. He also did another dishonest video, where he falsely claimed that covid deaths were "WILDLY inflated". Dore is a disgusting human being, who has repeatedly trled to minimize the risk of covid, while repeatedly overexaggerating the risk of vaccines.
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  2668.  @uooooooooh  It's the same US and Israel policies that have existed for decades. It's not his. There is so much support for Israel in congress, that the president is almost irrelevant. They can pass whatever aid to Israel they want and have the numbers to override any presidential veto. Only continued public pressure has a chance of changing things anytime soon, and that works better against the party that doesn't legalize driving over protesters, and doesn't call to have protesters categorized as terrorists.
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  2669. Yeah, let's just forget that the crime he's being charged with is trying to steal the election away from mostly black Georgia voters.
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  2670.  @kevin6293  Well, there's himself, who has said racist crap himself, and been sued, alongside his dad, for not renting to black Americans. But, yeah, his dad rounded up in a clan robe.
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  2671.  Progressives for Trump  China and India have lower carbon emissions per capita, dumb dumb. Take the total of all the countries above them, amounting to a similar population, and those countries are collectively putting out more total emissions. And, what do they have to do with the Green New Deal not really proposing policies that go beyond Denmark? Nope, not a one has proposed completely abolishing capitalism, liar. Denmark is a centrist country, with a much more evenly mixed economy. What do you think it's in the center of, capitalism and ... ? What do you think it's more of a mix of, capitalism and ... ?
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  2672.  Matt Vine  Weird that they all seem to be living in red districts.
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  2673. They both said believe whatever you want, dimwit, just keep it out of politics.
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  2674. That's where the fight for progressiveness should be, in the primaries. Vote for the most progressive Dem candidate. But, if they lose, don't stay home come general election, and vote blue. If your progressive actually wins the primary, you'd also want all the Dem voters, who voted against them in the primaries, to vote blue no matter who in the general ... or else they'll lose the general.
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  2675.  @juliusebola9389  Rofl, while lowering the refugee cap (also a legal process), and fighting tooth and nail to keep certain feet out of the country so they can't ask for asylum (also a legal process). Yeah, he's a peach.
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  2676.  @juliusebola9389  Moron. It's you, who seemed to miss the point of the op. It's about shouting lies during an emergency. Undocumented workers driving down wages is an argument for documenting them, in some way, and make them conform to wage laws ... and to actually have wage laws ... dumbass. And wtf does that have to do with documented refugees and asylum seekers?
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  2677. To be fair, he also claimed widespread voter fraud in 2016, claiming he would have won the popular vote without it. Then, his own election integrity commission found nothing of the sort.
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  2678. Rofl. You must not watch much, besides dimwit Jimmy Dore.
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  2679.  @whyamimrpink78  The electoral college simply adds a middleman. The majority in a state are actually democratically picking electors, not the president. The majority of electors then democratically pick the president. It is a two step process rather than a single step process. The imbalance of electors makes it less democratic from start to finish, but it doesn't make it not democratic. The US is a representative democracy. Fascist: ultra-nationalistic; authoritarian (pro military expansion, pro police expansion, pro militarization of police); anti-union; anti-socialism; anti-communism; anti-feminism; backed by crony capitalists; backed by religious nuts; anti-democratic (gerrymandering, disenfranchising; and the added step of the electoral college is already somewhat anti-democratic, but armed nutters waiting outside the capital for the president's word, Bannon calling for heads, Jones calling for a revolution, against the election outcome is heading for all out fascism).
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  2680.  @whyamimrpink78  The presidential election is decided by the majority of elector voters, dumb dumb. The totality is fascism, dumb dumb. Fascists are anti-communist, which isn't the same thing as saying all anti-communists are fascists.
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  2681.  @whyamimrpink78  You just proved you have reading comprehension problems.
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  2682.  @whyamimrpink78  Because I already answered both of those questions.
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  2683.  @riheg  She didn't vote for the CARES Act, dumb dumb. Her corporate Dem primary opponent even tried to use that as a negative against her. Piss off with your lying Dore knob bullshit.
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  2684.  @barbiedahl  If you load YouTube in browser, you can copy comments.
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  2685. He has a primary challenger. He won't even be the Republican presidential candidate if enough other states follow suit, and he doesn't cough up his returns.
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  2686. @2_Wheel_Life You're spouting bullshit. The medical examiner classified it as a homicide.
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  2687.  @mariem3429  Got it. Just start shooting anyone who scares you, because that's bravery.
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  2688.  @jackprice1758  The passage of 4 whole years? Whose v o t e s did Trump/Reps try to erase?
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  2689.  @KingoftheJuice18  You don't need to be competent to be a fascist. Many tin pot dictators only managed to get and maintain their power with US assistance. "Fascism is the complete opposite of Marxian socialism" ~ Mussolini The Marxist ideal is a stateless non-authoritarian socialism. The complete opposite is an ultra-nationalistic authoritarian crony capitalism. Republicans have been close to filling in the last anti-democratic box for years. Cruz encouraged this nonsense, that moves them to being overtly anti-democratic. He's a fascist.
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  2690.  @mimzyjinx8142  The right doesn't have a problem with marching alongside racists, I think you meant to say.
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  2691. Because the party picks their speaker at the Dem caucus, where progressives don't yet have the majority. The house vote doesn't change who the party picks to be their speaker. It just paralyzes the house, if no speaker wins. How would paralyzing the house, during a pandemic, help progressives? People would quickly hate them, for no new covid relief, no new unemployment extensions, no new vaccine funding, etc.
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  2692.    Rogan has a larger viewership than some "mainstream media", which kind of makes him "mainstream media".
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  2693. By increasing the amount of affordable housing, having a federal jobs guarantee, making college tuition free (some kids go through college living in a car), M4A (some families lose everything due to healthcare debt), ...
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  2694. It was developed over decades by hundreds of people. His bullshit has been debunked by other doctors and scientists.
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  2695.  @paneko1  From the mouth of Richard Spencer, organizer of the "Unite the Right" rally, where they did their Tiki torch march.
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  2696.  @LosFace24  There's a list of names of people who voted against the $15 minimum. What are you doing with it?
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  2697.  @donnicholson3170  Since you're old and fond of the US, you should grasp Bugs Bunny language, maroon.
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  2698.  @MeChoonChannel  Denazification wasn't itself fascism, dumb dumb. And Nazis "peacefully" spread their "ideas" throughout the country, won elections, etc., first, before gaining full power.
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  2699.  Real American  He did lose to Hillary in overall numbers.
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  2700.  @georgeh6856  Yeah, petty sure they're agreeing with you, and sighing that it happens over and over.
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  2701.  @frankpalancio8471  Pretty sure Japan wasn't occupied by the US, in 1941. Try again. It's like you're blaming Geronimo for "starting" the 300 years of warring and colonization against Native Americans.
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  2702. Or quit and have Pence pardon him. I have a hard time picturing Trump putting any effort in, knowing he has lost.
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  2703. ​ @jeremys6631 Nope. You're lying. The non-Jewish population increase, from 1882-1947, increasing by about 4 times, can almost be completely attributed to reproduction. The Jewish population, on the other hand, increased by about 26 times. That was a mass migration of colonizers.
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  2704. If the US had had an excellent response, similar to S Korea, New Zealand, Australia, Vietnam, or a few others, their covid death rates would translate into under 12k total covid deaths in the US. If the US had had even a mediocre response, similar to Canada, Denmark, Finland, Norway, Germany, or some others, their covid death rates would translate into hundreds of thousands fewer deaths in the US.
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  2705.  @servandomaya3075  Moron. Sanders leads Trump in a bunch of swing states. Sanders vs Trump, Pennsylvania https://www.realclearpolitics.com/epolls/2020/president/pa/pennsylvania_trump_vs_sanders-6862.html Sanders vs Trump, Michigan https://www.realclearpolitics.com/epolls/2020/president/mi/michigan_trump_vs_sanders-6768.html Sanders vs Trump, Colorado https://www.realclearpolitics.com/epolls/2020/president/co/colorado_trump_vs_sanders-6942.html Sanders vs Trump, Minnesota https://www.realclearpolitics.com/epolls/2020/president/mn/minnesota_trump_vs_sanders-6968.html Sanders vs Trump, Nevada https://www.realclearpolitics.com/epolls/2020/president/nv/nevada_trump_vs_sanders-6868.html
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  2706.  @cormoran2303  Having the right to remove someone from your private property goes hand in hand with private property rights. Saying this is a "slippery slope" amounts to saying private property is a "slippery slope".
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  2707.  @cormoran2303  How does it not make sense? I think you just have reading comprehension problems. Marge was removed from someone else's private property. They always had the right to remove her from their private property. She never had a right to be on their private property. This has been standard fare for private property rights, since forever.
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  2708.  @neutrino78x  Bullshit. It's Israel's policy to punish the families of militants. It's also Israel's policy to attack anyway, if militants are using "human shields". Israel has hundreds of thousands of militants (reservists), valid military targets, using "human shields" by mingling with the civilians.
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  2709.  @elliotwilliams7421  Guess you're a Rogan fanboy. Rogan made out like Japan had "endorsed" it. They did not.
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  2710.  @whyamimrpink78   I didn't simply say people die. I said people die due to being uninsured, and you didn't give a flying fuck. A legitimate complaint about the US system is that not everyone gets coverage. It's an easily preventable cause of death. Simply cover everybody. You also haven't given a flying fuck about hundreds of thousands bankruptcies, or over a million going to cheap third world countries .... all per year. Both also easily preventable. Sure, there may be other reasons people die. If they are also easily preventable, then people should try to prevent those too, no? You didn't break down crap about the Commonwealth Fund healthcare index. Like I said, there were 70+ measures. You whined about ignoring cancer mortality rates, which does suck as a good measure because you can't tell if they got better care or were diagnosed early, and dismissed them as a source. You didn't address WHO, at all, simply dismissing them as a source. You addressed my own mention of infant and maternal mortality rates, and life expectancy, which is still the global standard, and has been the standard for decades. There is no widespread medical consensus, to stop using those measures as a decent standard. The ages people survive until, before dying of cancer, in all countries, are included in life expectancy rates. You know that, right? So, if you're oh so awesome at actually extending cancer patients' lives, rather than simply diagnosing early, then that should really bump up your life expectancy rate. Preventative healthcare is still healthcare.
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  2711. @Packster Mosk Life is force. Nobody gets to choose to be born, let alone choose to be born in a specific geographic region, with a specific economic system. Life then forces you to find food, water, and shelter, or die. But the natural state of affairs, was that nobody owned anything. You're the one creating the artificial state, where property is privately owned. And, if all the property that is currently publicly owned by governments were also privately owned, I'd be forced to make money to pay someone else to own my property or to rent property, pay someone else for building materials, pay someone else for water, pay someone else for food, pay someone else for electricity, etc., or rot on the streets and die. With that, comes most people being forced to make that money by working for someone else. All those someones would have some power over my life, my ability to survive, and could set the prices for what I need to survive, and set the wage I get to try and survive on. History has shown that large landowners, and major business owners, often treat their renters and employees like shit. Sure, people have risen up and chopped off the heads of large landowners. Sure, workers have risen up in massive strikes and riots. You can blather about them using "force", but they were already being forced to work for next to nothing, barely being able to pay for all their costs. Making out like they freely entered into agreements with their employers and landlords, when the other option was to "freely" rot and die, is absolutely moronic.
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  2712.  @Simon.the.Likeable  True, but Ze'ev is the name you can find his writings under, and the name you can find on British reports of him inciting trouble, when looking back at old documents.
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  2713. ​ @Dr.EgonCholakian  So, if they both walked into your hospital room, you'd want her treating you, even if she was the fresh out of school, sharply dressed, new resident, and he was the dishevelled doctor, with years of experience, training her?
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  2714.  @nathanconnors8427  Right wingers don't seem to know much about the electoral college, either. The electoral college didn't use to have such a drastic imbalance. That was caused by freezing the number of seats in the house, in the 30s I believe it was. It's not simply being an "electoral college" that causes an imbalance of votes. It would still be an "electoral college", if you assigned electorals proportionally to the population. Nothing about "electoral college" says it needs to be imbalanced. The only truly undemocratic, by its very nature, part of the US system, is the senate.
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  2715.  @Mech-730  I'm agnostic about "gods" the same way I'm agnostic about "aliens". While I have no clue if there are any "gods" or "aliens", out there, somewhere, I am quite certain that Star Trek, Spock, the Bible, and its God, are works of fiction. Huxley, the grandpa, as in Thomas Henry, "Darwin's Bulldog". "Agnosticism is of the essence of science, whether ancient or modern. It simply means that a man shall not say he knows or believes that which he has no scientific grounds for professing to know or believe." ~ T H Huxley
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  2716. Pretty much. Son of a friend of the last guy to hold that seat, or something like that.
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  2717. ​ @bobbya8628  This year alone, prior to Oct 7 ... 1200+ Palestinian hostages, held indefinitely without charges by Israel ... 200+ Palestinians killed by the IDF and settlers ... continued unending colonization of the West Bank ... and the continued operation of an open air WWII style fascist ghetto. How much does Israel have to do, before you can say Palestinians are the ones responding to aggression?
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  2718.  Tim Kozlowski  Rofl. Only an idiot would think being a specific nationality means you can't ever be a fascist sympathizer. Isn't Poland currently run by far right nationalists? Wasn't there some gathering of tens of thousands of neo Nazis in Warsaw?
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  2719. Even by Trump's favorite metric, the stock market, he has done a piss poor job. Almost all of his stock market gains came in his first year, when Obama's last budget was still in effect. Since Trump's first budget, and his tax cuts for corporations and the rich kicked in, which was also around the time he started his trade wars, the stock market has basically flatlined. He has always sucked by that measure.
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  2720.  @Historia.Magistra.Vitae.   @Historia.Magistra.Vitae.  You want to rehash your ignorance in a second thread? Ok. The Harzburg Front weren't leftists. Emil Kirdorf, and other leading German industrialist backers, weren't leftists. Both owning a business and being a party member doesn't equate to the party owning the business, let alone the government owning the business. You think an absolute monarchy, where one person owns everything, is socialism. You effectively argued Republicans who own businesses, are leftists.
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  2721.  @CitroTeam  There's a wide range of options between incompetent fascists and innocent saints.
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  2722.  @ablewindsor1459  Giant corporations, run by centibillionaires, aren't progressive, dumb dumb.
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  2723.  @thedarkenigma3834  Also, what "Protestant values" are you referring to? The Puritan Protestants claimed to be persecuted by mainstream Protestantism. Then they persecuted other Protestant denominations, like Quakers. Then the Puritan values died out, with more and more mainstream Protestant, and Catholic, arrivals. The founders based the constitution on the more secular notion of both freedom from, and freedom for, at a time when Protestants and Catholics were still persecuting each other in the British Isles and Europe. That clearly wasn't based on a particular religion, or denomination. Etc. With all the denominations, there is no singular set of "Protestant values". Pretending there is one set of "Protestant values" is like saying there's a single "white culture". It's pure nonsense.
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  2724.  boris boris  Well, the "public accomodation" category was created to protect people from not being able to find food, shelter, and other necessities. If you think Twitter is a necessity, then you likely have an addiction problem. If not, then it's not samesies.
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  2725.  Blue Wave 2018  Moron. He was at the commune to write an article. He didn't join it. He did live in a kibbutz for awhile, though.
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  2726.  @robertjenkins6132  There's no such thing as "free speech" on someone else's private property. Their right to boot you off their private property trumps your non right to be on their private property blathering about whatever you like. Instead of going on Tucker and simply agreeing with the right wing take on Trump being booted from social media, Dore should have let them know that public ownership is the only real way to get "free speech". He also should have let them know that inciting an insurrection isn't even protected "free speech", as well.
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  2727. Netanyahu facilitated funding to Hamas, btw, since you didn't know.
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  2728.  @giovannifurfaro9647  It significantly reduces infections, as well. The booster is considered 80% effective against Omicron, with increasing efficacy for Delta and Alpha. The measles vaccine is 88% effective. You see how well that works when 91% of the population gets vaccinated for it. Even if you had a 50% efficacy vaccine, every person vaccinated, between you and a virus carrier increases your protection by another 50%. 1 person between you and a virus carrier = 75% protection. 2 = 87.5%. 3 = 93.75%. The more unvaccinated people around means the fewer layers of protection.
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  2729. You're a loon.
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  2730.  @uncomfortabletruth5915  Clubs, with memberships, have been revoking memberships since they became a thing. Even if a golf club didn't have a specific rule against a guy walking into the women's change room. If after 3, or more, warnings not to do it, Trump kept walking into the ladies change room, as he admittedly likes to do, what's the big deal if they revoked his membership? Marge was given plenty of warning.
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  2731.  @desmondjames9312  This guy is one of our Conservative politicians, too.
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  2732. Nobody dropped M4A. A guaranteed to fail vote isn't itself M4A. Dore left the people that have done more for M4A in a few years than he has in his entire lifetime.
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  2733. Alberta and Saskatchewan are the only provinces where Conservatives get the majority of the vote. Ford only wins due to vote splitting between Liberals and the NDP. Ontario is about the same as BC ... only about 1% more conservative. Manitoba is about 6% more.
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  2734.  @baddie1shoe  What the hell kinds of seasons do you have to worry about, when you're inside your house, dumb dumb?
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  2735.  @baddie1shoe  How does being baffled by your level of stupidity count as being "triggered"?
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  2736.  @baddie1shoe  Lol. I mean, you are sooooo stupid, that you don't seem to even grasp the irony of you posting about how annoyed you are about seeing arms, and then accusing others of being "triggered". It's hilarious.
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  2737.  @Mike2digital  "Slowly", as in it would take decades, if ever, for a public option to get you universal coverage. https://www.theatlantic.com/politics/archive/2019/08/los-angeles-public-option-2020-democrats/597115/
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  2738. That's going to cost the government a lot of money, when morons, who don't know what crt is, try to take schools to court over something they don't teach, and the schools have to pay to defend such bullshit.
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  2739. Oh? Which cities?
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  2740.  @edwardrosser938  How does him lying about how deadly it is, lying about children and covid, lying about vaccine effectiveness, lying about who a vaccine protects, lying about alternate treatments, etc., help anyone? If it's going to be around forever, all that does is help more people die. There have been vaccine mandates for over a century. Many businesses have had dress codes since forever. Isn't the "hysteria" making out like measures to save lives are some kind of "fascism"?
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  2741. @goodcitizen6193  You think "liberal" means "lawless"?
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  2742. ​ @ncwordman  Have you never read the OT? Whether you think the laws no longer apply, or not, that's supposedly the same god ... committing genocide; ordering genocide; ordering to bash people in the head with rocks, for non belief, for speaking of other religions, for working, even doing chores, on the Sabbath; okaying enslaving non Israelites for life, and passing them down as inheritance; etc., etc., etc.
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  2743. The Civil Rights Acts protect people of all races, colors, religions, nationalities, ages, abilities, sexuality, and sexes, actually. Of course, stupid isn't a protected class, so he didn't help you there.
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  2744. ​ @Kiskadee8388  He can't even win bets, when he's the house, so that's standard.
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  2745. He's just waiting on his Enabling Act. A lot of similarities to pre Enabling Act Hitler.
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  2746.  @jamesbarton1757  AOC helped add a few more M4A yes votes to congress during the last election cycle, and was just promoting M4A while campaigning for Nina, trying to help add another. Is there another option for how to pass an M4A bill, other than increasing the number of yes votes?
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  2747.  @muserwood  Rofl. He went on Carlson, agreed with Carlson that banning someone who incited an insurrection was troublesome. He then threw in the off topic bone that he considered the first impeachment to be based on bullshit ... this, right before the second impeachment. And, only then talked about Assange, who Carlson never talked about again, because he didn't actually give a crap. Dore had already given him everything he wanted.
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  2748.  @johnchavez9001  Nice. Then she won't be too young.
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  2749. There's no such thing as a singular "white" culture.
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  2750. ​ @TheRedStateBlue  Okay, let's examine the history. Ze'ev Jabotinsky, in 1923, fully acknowledged that Zionism is colonialism, and predicted that the natives would fight it until the bitter end. They went ahead with their colonialism anyway. How are people doing colonialism not perpetually the aggressors?
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  2751.  @DumbAssSpeakingWithMansVoice  There are already over a dozen vaccine mandates for school children and immigrants. There are already government mandates, and extra business mandates, on dress codes. Who the hell is giving away "all freedoms"? The "freedom" to spread a deadly virus around, unhindered, already isn't a thing.
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  2752. And they all support Likud. Likud's original platform ... "The Right of the Jewish People to the Land of Israel (Eretz Israel) a. The right of the Jewish people to the land of Israel is eternal and indisputable and is linked with the right to security and peace; therefore, Judea and Samaria will not be handed to any foreign administration; between the Sea and the Jordan there will only be Israeli sovereignty." And there's no sign that Netanyahu has deviated from that goal.
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  2753.  @downstream0114  6 Set your house in order before you criticise the world He seems to think he's above needing to follow his own advice.
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  2754.  @TubiTuesdays  1. No evidence from the ABI either. 2. Swyers is a thing, with or without her, so you can already do that.
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  2755. There like the Trump cult, where they don't believe anything or anyone, if it contradicts their loudmouth cult leader.
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  2756.  @ThePoliticalLawyer  Bernie never made it a secret that, although he's an independent, he has always caucused with the Dems. He never made it a secret that he's a lesser evil guy, and considered whoever the Dem candidate ended up being would be the lesser evil. If you think he "sold out", then you weren't actually paying attention to what he said he'd do all along.
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  2757.  @whyamimrpink78  Nope. You're lying. The efficacy range is 60-92%. That's reducing the odds of getting it and dying from covid, just like rules of the road reduce the odds of being in and dying from automobile accidents.
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  2758.  @whyamimrpink78  You're lying and deflecting. You can alternatively work from home and have what you need delivered. Other forms of transportation are irrelevant to the point. We do X, Y, and Z, to reduce the numbers of automobile accidents, and reduce the mortality rate. We do X, Y, and Z, to reduce the numbers of covid cases, and reduce the mortality rate. Vaccines are not 100% effective. You idiots spreading it around continue to challenge efficacy rates, plus create variants that could pose even more of a challenge. You're arguing that your drinking, speeding, ignoring signs and lights, and lack of a seatbelt won't harm anyone who follows the rules of the road ... while increasing the odds of you crashing into them, flying through your window, and impaling them with your broken bones.
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  2759.  @mickg3738  Being a reality TV host is the only business venture Trump seemed to succeed in, other than the one he inherited from daddy (and even that one is questionable).
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  2760. Yeah, cancer isn't contagious. But, smoking can cause cancer, and smoke can affect others. Oh look, there are widespread smoking quarantines. Want to smoke? Okay, step outside. Don't want to be vaccinated, or masked? Okay, step outside.
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  2761.  @laurent1144  And they're plenty happy with gunpowder.
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  2762.  @MK-hw2ir  Do you think constantly weeping is compatible with traditional masculinity? Doesn't traditional masculinity go hand in hand with keeping certain emotions bottled up?
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  2763. Why do Christians have "I love Jesus" stickers, or such like?
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  2764.  @lucboy13  If so many idiots didn't follow guidelines, and incompetent idiots in charge, including Trumpty Dumpty, didn't let things get so out of hand, there wouldn't have needed to be so many lockdowns, or for so long.
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  2765. @Bill Brasky Unless you're also anti IVF, then you're picking and choosing which fertilized eggs you consider "babies". The majority of them don't take, or aren't used, and "die".
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  2766. Why can't I laugh at the fact that this proves he's pseudoscientific charlatan, who promoted his daughter's meat only diet, claiming it had cured all his mental and physical ailments?
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  2767. ​ @morkfromork2179  Name the proposed Dem policies that would even move the US left of Denmark (real world centrism).
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  2768.  @littlebitofhope1489  They outright worship the leading abortionist in existence, if it existed. Miscarriage = spontaneous abortion.
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  2769.  @patchandy  You also don't know what "theft" means.
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  2770.  @patchandy  You're a moron. People get more than they pay in, on average. Not only don't you know the definitions of words you're using, you don't know how SS and Medicare actually work. You aren't paying in for yourself. You're paying in for the people who are currently on SS and Medicare. Younger people will pay in for you. That's why people worry when the older population increases. If what they paid in was going directly back to them, and actually less than what they paid in, there'd be zero worries.
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  2771.  @krimmer66  He's a disgruntled narcissist who's upset that the scientific community isn't hailing him as the one true inventor of the vaccines.
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  2772.  @sdfgjvnfgfkstjg  The op literally said they didn't think he was a grifter, all while disagreeing with him. Do you have severe reading comprehension problems, or something?
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  2773.  @hibidder2001  “The death reported this afternoon was of a man between the ages of 50-60 years old who was unvaccinated and had been infected with COVID-19 previously,” Harris County Public Health said in a Dec. 20 news release. “The individual was at higher risk of severe complications from COVID-19 due to his unvaccinated status and had underlying health conditions.”
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  2774.  @hibidder2001  Whether they've been infected before, or not, those are the people the unvaccinated are willing to sacrifice to get their temporary natural resistance. At about 400k deaths a year, you're willing to sacrifice an extra 200+k people, for your temporary natural resistance.
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  2775. ​ @jimmydesantatownley564  You're arguing what Steph says doesn't matter. So why does what you say matter?
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  2776. How did Jws survive, for some 1200 years, living amongst Muslims? Why did they keep fleeing to Muslim nations, from Christian nations? How did they have a Golden Age, with Muslims?
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  2777.  @stephenchase6611  What is something beneficial Trump has done, exactly, besides ride a wave? Dow, 10 years ... https://www.macrotrends.net/1358/dow-jones-industrial-average-last-10-years Nasdaq, 10 years ... https://www.macrotrends.net/2489/nasdaq-composite-index-10-year-daily-chart S&P 500, 10 years ... https://www.macrotrends.net/2488/sp500-10-year-daily-chart Job gains ... https://www.forbes.com/sites/chuckjones/2018/10/30/two-charts-show-trumps-job-gains-are-just-a-continuation-from-obamas-presidency/
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  2778.  @ENDURANCELAND  Nothing you said is an argument against the op. Native Americans have always been in America. In fact, unlike the majority of Israel's population, they never left for 1000+ years. There's no nation with a Native American religion as it's foundation ... as if a religion needs its own country (should we carve out a Scientologist country?). There's a sea of Christian countries, so no big deal shoving a Christian American off their property, giving it back to natives, and telling them to move to Italy, or somewhere.
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  2779.  @sergeikhripun  You get that all the times Jimmy was going on about Russiagate, Russiagate, Russiagate, he wasn't talking about any of those things, either, right?
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  2780.  @CMfuell  Jimmy made very clear that he didn't know how the vote actually worked, and made very clear that he didn't think abstaining could lead to McCarthy winning, when it could. There's no strawman, dimwit. That you're a dimwit is simply an objective fact. You keep deflecting to what didn't come out of Jimmy's mouth. Stick to what he said.
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  2781. The left is opposed to colonialism, no? While I think Hamas' actions are morally, and strategically, wrong, it's hard to say they weren't expected. Almost no natives respond to colonialism like Ghandi. Ze'ev Jabotinsky recognized this fact, in 1923, when he fully acknowledged that Zionism is colonialism, and predicted exactly how the natives would react ... fight it to the bitter end. On top of the colonialism, Israel is also itself founded on terrorism, by groups like the Irgun and Lehi. Instead of condemning the actions of those terrorists, Israel elected terrorist leaders, like Menachem Begin, who led the Irgun and bombed the King David Hotel. Even further from condemning their own terrorism, Israel actually celebrates those terrorists. Israel has taught their neighbours that terrorism is a valid path to independence and statehood.
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  2782. There's no such thing as having "free speech" on someone else's private property. You don't have a right to be on their property, which means you don't have a right to be on their property spewing whatever you want. That's the kind of reality that Trump, and his ilk, have been fighting for. He doesn't stand a chance. If they wanted free speech, they should have been fighting for public ownership.
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  2783.  @robinsss  So, you mean unfettered capitalism, with a lack of oversight. They are all the result of private property ownership, so how are they not capitalistic?
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  2784.  @robinsss  Didn't say it was. Capitalism comes in varieties from anarcho to fascism (a variety which has also repeatedly failed). I simply gave examples of capitalism failing many times over. And, many of the fixes for those failures have been moves away from capitalism by introducing socialistic concepts. The happiest countries on the planet are fairly centrist, rather than all out capitalistic, because all out capitalism fails many.
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  2785.  Net I  You're an idiot. There's a difference between self proclaimed "observers" and official party observers. They outright acknowledged in court that they had official observers in there, dumb dumb.
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  2786. So, when supporters of hers "leaked" to the MSM, a conversation they weren't involved with, portraying Bernie as a sexist, she must have stood up, taken responsibility, and disavowed their actions?
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  2787. @Bald Freak Not sure what comment you're replying to and what you want greater detail about, exactly.
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  2788.  @ryanadams0922  He already put a hold on student loan payments and interest, for 8 months. That doesn't need to be addressed for a bit. Not sure why anyone would expect him to push M4A, when he didn't run on it, literally said he'd veto it. He did run on lowering the age, though, which could add tens of millions to Medicare. That would be better than the previous idiot who didn't even want to do that, and was still trying to throw 10m of the poorest Americans off of Medicaid expansion.
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  2789. “Given a choice between Noam Chomsky and Ben Carson, in terms of the totality of their understanding of what’s happening now in the world, I’d vote for Ben Carson every time,” Harris stated.
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  2790.  @headcrusher1966  Destroying confidence in the most progressive politians in congress, by calling them sellouts, fakes, shills, or whatnot, is a fucking problem. For what? For a vote guaranteed to fail. And, since there is no danger in it passing, there's no reason why those who have signed on for it wouldn't vote for it ... exposing nobody, and leaving you with the same names you have now. Plus, running the risk of them using the excuse that it was just voted on to put off voting for it again, for years. Attack the people against M4A, ffs, not those in favor of M4A.
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  2791. ​ @ComradeCatpurrnicus  Yes, she was also paid to join Rumble, which is funded by Peter Thiel.
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  2792. ​ @JC-de1ik  Yeah, shot for shoplifting a load of bread, nothing for shoplifting nuclear secrets.
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  2793.  @peoples2296  The UK is still recommending vaccines for 12-15 year olds. The other countries are simply switching to Pfizer, because there's even less of a risk with Pfizer. The Moderna risk is still much lower than the risk from getting covid.
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  2794. Those angry native Americans keep attacking our poor innocent settlers that keep colonizing their territories. We're just sending in the cavalry to ethnically cleanse them in self defense.
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  2795.  @Vanderearden  AOC has about a 17% Trump score, Manchin a 50% Trump score, and McConnell a 91% Trump score. Seems to be a bit more of a difference than you're saying.
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  2796.  @SuperShisto  Putin is willing to negotiate leaving a country he invaded a decade ago? Or willing to negotiate how much of that nation he gets to keep? The latter is very much like Israel.
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  2797.  @zelenskysboot361  Rofl. A private option =/= a public option.
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  2798.  @shpluk  Ze'ev Jabotinsky, The Ethics of the Iron Wall ... "Let us consider for a moment the point of view of those to whom this seems immoral. We shall trace the root of the evil to this – that we are seeking to colonise a country against the wishes of its population, in other words, by force. Everything else that is undesirable grows out of this root with axiomatic inevitability. What then is to be done? The simplest way out would be to look for a different country to colonise. Like Uganda. But if we look more closely into the matter we shall find that the same evil exists there, too. Uganda also has a native population, which consciously or unconsciously as in every other instance in history, will resist the coming of the colonisers. It is true that these natives happen to be black. But that does not alter the essential fact. If it is immoral to colonise a country against the will of its native population, the same morality must apply equally to the black man as to the white. Of course, the blackman may not be sufficiently advanced to think of sending delegations to London, but he will soon find some kindhearted white friends, who will instruct him. Though should these natives even prove utterly helpless, like children, the matter would only become worse. Then if colonisation is invasion and robbery, the greatest crime of all would be to rob helpless children. Consequently, colonisation in Uganda is also immoral, and colonisation in any other place in the world, whatever it may be called, is immoral. There are no more uninhabited islands in the world. In every oasis there is a native population settled from times immemorial, who will not tolerate an immigrant majority or an invasion of outsiders. So that if there is any landless people in the world, even its dream of a national home must be an immoral dream. . Those who are landless must remain landless to all eternity. The whole earth has been allocated." ... the f*cking guy doesn't even think that "the simplest way out" is to not colonize another country.
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  2799.  @Tespri  Palestinians have Canaanite DNA. They're natives. "Arab" is like "Hispanic". They aren't all literally from a small desert country. Plus, I'm pretty sure you're about a 1300 years off when it was first Arabized.
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  2800. @The Wraith So, you don't think scientists understand how the ozone works, and don't know how to measure ozone depletion rates?
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  2801.  @HavokBWR  You seem to be changing the definition. Which races do progressives consider superior or inferior?
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  2802. 100 days of protests, dumb dumb ... in Portland. The shooter of the Trump supporter was claiming self defense but we'll never fully hear his side because, as Trump admitted, US Marshals, who had no intention of arresting him and giving him a trial, murdered him. Also, you seem to be ignoring exactly what David said, that most protesters, and most people getting arrested, have nothing to do with antifa.
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  2803. So he "proved" all the gods exist? Hail Dionysus! Drinks all around!
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  2804.  @Mageroeth  That's just a lie. Numerous studies have shown no difference. And, as many people have pointed out ... there are more kids in the system than families who want to adopt them. Even if you were right about heterosexual couples, you'd be wrong to say kids are better off in the system than being adopted by a homosexual couple. Any which way you look at it, you and Ben are wrong.
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  2805.  @TheUser06  Consider yourself stupid. https://www.factcheck.org/2020/09/cdc-did-not-admit-only-6-of-recorded-deaths-from-covid-19/
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  2806.  @The_S_Soldier  Pure ignorance, on your part. She has been calling for a ceasefire since Oct.
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  2807.  Real Progressives Allowed  "Free speech" isn't, at all, an explanation as to how what you said wasn't defamation. Someone simply thinking what they said was legal isn't a defense against it being illegal. A defense is arguing how it was legal, not illegal.
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  2808. I mean, wasn't the whole point of revolting and founding the United States, because people were denied the "privilege" to vote? You guys should have just stuck it out a few more years ... avoided that war, possibly avoided the civil war, and now every Canadian has a guaranteed right to vote.
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  2809. There were already challenges to Cruz, and the rulings were never that it doesn't matter where he was born, because he's a citizen. The rulings were that he qualified because he was considered a citizen by birth, due to his mom.
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  2810.  @makeamericagreatagain3401  Weird how all the supposed fraud happened in states that counted their mail in ballots after election day ballots (due to Republican legislatures not changing their rules), when mail in voting was up across the country, including all the other states that counted their mail in ballots early. It's almost as if they're playing propaganda with the red mirage optics, in those specific states.
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  2811. You probably missed the best years of TYT. Even before a few months ago, it was better. Cenk has said some ridiculous things, since putting out his book, that have no basis in reality. Even that he thinks he's eligible to run, as a Turkish born child, to non citizens, seems delusional. Ted Cruz's eligibility has been challenged, more than once. The rulings were that he was eligible, because he was considered a citizen by birth, due to his mom being a US citizen. The rulings were not that it didn't matter, as long as he was a citizen. Other decent channels, if you are new to this ... The Rational National, The Majority Report, The Humanist Report, and more.
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  2812. Or, it has been happening, but nobody was talking about it, much, until they wanted to blame it on something ... "A 2016 study cited by the Los Angeles Times found that NCAA athletes run a 1-in-53,703 risk of sudden cardiac death, but those odds were shortened to 1 in 21,491 for Black athletes and 1 in 8,978 for men’s basketball players who are Black."
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  2813. ​ @scottlayton2553  Yeah, people were good with about 300 years of colonizing Native Americans. Human tolerance could go the distance.
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  2814.  @brandonlehmann8899  Are you attempting to ironically defend Jimmy all my critics are CIA Dore, with that comment?
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  2815. “We have reviewed Joe Biden’s official schedules from the time and no meeting, as alleged by the New York Post, ever took place.”
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  2816.  calo10able  It was released by a FOX "reporter", dumbass.
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  2817. If you show up on a construction site, without a hardhat, they'll treat you just like the Jews in the Holocaust, and make you leave the site.
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  2818.  @ENDURANCELAND  Wow, you are so ignorant. When the Roman Empire converted, they forced Christianity on their population, persecuting pagans, and spreading it, as they conquered. There were Northern crusades force converting Northern Europeans. Crusades weren't a defense. They were an offense. One of the deadliest wars in history, was Chinese Christians trying to force Christianity on the rest of China, led by Jesus's Chinese brother. Muslims didn't tend to force convert the population, either, which is why the Spanish population was still almost all Christians, when it was reconquered. The Christians who reconquered it, on the other hand, offered the Muslim and Jewish population the options of conversion, exile, or death. Jews fled with Muslims to the Ottoman Empire, where they were safer. Israel's colonization is also the ethnic cleansing kind, like in the Americas. Muslims typically used the standard conquer and rule method, rather than the remove and replace method. Most "Arabs" are linguistically Arab, and don't actually originate from Arabia. Palestinian "Arabs", for example, are most closely related, genetically, to other peoples of the Levant, including the Jewish population, than they are to Arabian Arabs. They're the same peoples who have been ruled over by pagans, Jews, Christians, and Muslims, and not colonizers from the Arabian peninsula. They simply converted at some point, along the way.
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  2819. Go back to watching cowardly Crowder "debate" amateurs. He couldn't step up and debate a pro.
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  2820.  @xenomar9417  He uses the "doesn't prevent infection" strawman in this very video, instead of saying vaccines also significantly reduce infections. That's misleading people about the vaccines, not simply a no mandate argument. No vaccine 100% prevents infection, and yet he was good with mandating them before ... "The point of mandatory vaccinations is not merely to protect those who are vaccinated. When it comes to measles, mumps and rubella, for example, children cannot be vaccinated until 1 year of age. The only way to prevent them from getting diseases is to ensure that those who surround them do not have those diseases. The same is true for children with diseases like leukemia, as well as pregnant women. Herd immunity is designed to protect third parties. But Americans have short memories and enormous confidence in junk science. Parents will ignore vaccinations but ensure that their kids are stocked up with the latest homeopathic remedies, Kabbalah bracelets and crystals. St. John's wort, red string and crystals all existed before 1962. They didn't stop the measles. Vaccination did. When it comes to measles and mumps and rubella and polio, your right to be free of vaccination -- and your right to be a dope with the health of your child because you believe Jenny McCarthy's idiocy -- ends where my child's right to live begins."
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  2821. Why isn't FOX pressing for an investigation as to why the US had so many covid deaths? If the US had responded as well as Vietnam, S Korea, New Zealand, Australia, and some others, those countries' covid death rates would translate into less than 10k US covid deaths.
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  2822. It's centrism. The more sectors of society you socialize, the more mixed the economy. Don't people ask themselves what a "mixed economy" is a mix of? Or, ask what "centrism" is in the center of? It's a mix of capitalism and socialism, and in the center, between 100% capitalism and 100% socialism.
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  2823. Deadpool?
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  2824.  @LastBref  The thing is that his current tirade is not good on civil liberties. It's utter nonsense. Ranting about editors asking for editorial rewrites, something that's been happening since the dawn of newspapers and literally part of their job, as if your "free speech" has been violated, is total trash. Ranting as if private companies cancelling memberships, something that has been going on since the dawn of memberships, is some violation of "free speech", is total trash. A private property owner's right to have you removed from their private property has always trumped the non right to be on their property saying whatever you want. There's no such thing as "free speech" on private property. If he, Dore, or anyone else, actually wanted "free speech", were actually leftists, then they should not just whine about the lack of "free speech" on private property, as if that's something that ever existed. They should argue how it doesn't exist, how it can't be protected on private property, and make an argument for public ownership.
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  2825.  @whyamimrpink78  He hasn't progressed? Wealth disparity has regressed to Gilded Age levels. That ended with labour riots, race riots, and a great depression. Why wouldn't he keep talking about it, as long as things keep regressing, when he's the one advocating progression?
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  2826.  @justinbellpa  You didn't answer the question.
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  2827. @Who_dey Gotwins Nope. Yang only had his UBI stack with SSDI, not SSI. SSI already stacks with SNAP, which could put someone with a permanent disability around the $1000 a month mark already, more if they were a single parent with kids. Even though they could opt out of the UBI, they couldn't opt out of paying a VAT on anything beyond the very basics, and would effectively have less money with Yang's plan. Yang is completely clueless as to how a VAT actually works, as well. It is specifically designed to NOT tax businesses in order to avoid double taxation (Which would be even worse!). Amazon, itself, has tutorial pages on how a VAT doesn't end up taxing businesses, but Yang kept claiming it was a way to force giant corporations to pay taxes. Yang's plan would have had money flowing to giant corporations and the super rich faster than ever before. A public option may be better than the current situation, but it's not even close to M4A, and not to be confused with a private option.
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  2828. So, freedom loving DeSantis wouldn't say threaten to blacklist Ben & Jerry's for their stance on Israel?
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  2829. Absolutely zero people deny an embryo will become a child. The question is whether a mindless, emotionless, unfeeling, group of cells is currently a child, dumb dumb. Scientists can now create an embryo from just a sperm, which means every single sperm has the potential to become a child. Do you want to ban masturbating? Or, actually, maybe we should ban sex, and masturbate into cups, so we can turn every sperm into an embryo, instead of letting millions die trying to fertilize an egg. Should we ban IVF? Most of the embryos don't take, or aren't used. It's a bloodbath. A tiny percentage of abortions are late term, and almost always for health reasons, of some kind.
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  2830.  @79EBHS  Weird is having AI generated black supporters.
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  2831.  @brandonlouderback4408  What kind of flex is that? Trump has PR. Doesn't make him more of an intellectual, or more correct about anything.
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  2832.  @brandonlouderback4408  Is there some part, they missed, where he doesn't put his complete ignorance and bigotry on display? It's not the first episode he has done on the topic, in the last 6 months, and his other takes were complete and utter garbage. Completely ignoring the first couple centuries of the colonization of North America, might have you blaming Crazy Horse, or Geronimo, as extremists.
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  2833. Because it's very controlled, who, and how many. Israel was created against the majority population of Palestine. Israel then ethnically cleansed the majority out of Israel, and has never let them return. Colonialists, in NA, let some "good" natives live with them. Even Nazis had a few "good" Jews collaborating with them. It's their equivalent of saying they have a black friend, so can't be racist.
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  2834. Marxism =/= authoritarian communism. Clearly an idiot, if he's lumping it in with Nazism and fascism. "Fascism is the complete opposite of Marxian socialism." ~ Mussolini The Marxian ideal is a stateless, democratic, non authoritarian, socialism. The complete opposite is an ultra-nationalistic, anti-democratic, authoritarian, crony capitalism/corporatism, which is exactly how Mussolini defined fascism in greater detail.
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  2835.  Mari Jayne  So, Australian officials, the FBI (which has been directed by Republicans for 6 terms vs 4 Democrat terms, since 1980), the DNC, and Republicans like Mueller, were all in cahoots to make Pence president?
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  2836.  @jrizaac  If he wanted a private cakes for Christians business, he should have registered as one. Instead, he's operating a public accomodation and should serve the public. The business makes wedding cakes. Make a damn wedding cake.
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  2837.  @SageSea1  Because nothing in the court case said they were being douches. They didn't even get into any details of design. They said they wanted a wedding cake, he asked if it was for the two of them, they said yes, he refused to make a wedding cake for a gay couple. You're making up crap that didn't happen, to try and defend him. A "public accomodation" is a type of establishment. It doesn't imply it's publicly owned. It's ironic, because you can't discriminate against customers purely because of their religious beliefs, but the cake guy wants to discriminate against customers because of his own religious beliefs. https://adata.org/faq/what-are-public-accommodations
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  2838.  @SageSea1  You're just lying and making shit up. They wanted a wedding cake. They didn't even get to talking design, so it wasn't about any special design request. The shop makes wedding cakes. It wouldn't make them a wedding cake, because they're gay. It's a fact that it's a public accomodation. So, when it was legal to discriminate against black couples, or mixed race couples, was that okay? Someone tried to challenge the civil rights act, claiming religious beliefs were grounds for their discrimination. They lost.
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  2839.  @sentientfetus3894  You're a complete ignoramus.
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  2840. Ummm, objectively, you need a subject (a self) to get subjective input from.
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  2841. Rofl! Only 17% of Canadians surveyed picked Trump over old man Biden. You Albertan, or something?
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  2842.  @iamaloafofbread8926  Well, CNN is, at least, slightly better than nothing, for both national and international news. FOX is the worst, with MSNBC a close second. https://www.businessinsider.com/study-watching-fox-news-makes-you-less-informed-than-watching-no-news-at-all-2012-5
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  2843. He's acting like Trump, slandering anyone who doesn't back his election tactics.
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  2844.  @mehrshadvr4  Andrew Yang is an idiot who would have had money flowing to the very top faster than ever before, if he were in power. And, one capitalist being nice still wouldn't change the fact that buying and selling human beings is capitalism, anyway.
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  2845.  @Brandon_388  Conservatives can't win a majority, in Canada, anywhere except Alberta and Saskatchewan.
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  2846.  @Warrenmitchum  Complete bullshit.
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  2847.  @bl4ckkn1g8t5  Can't I call whoever I want a woman, irregardless of how they identify? You're a woman.
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  2848.  @oliviakahlo1  You can find a bunch of early documents at the Jewish Virtual Library, the Balfour Project, and British Hansard.
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  2849. ​ @nebwachamp  Rofl, they're untrustworthy, as well. Don't think it was them correcting her Civil War take.
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  2850.  @CatotheE  Trump had been calling for months for the democratic process to be overturned, so he could become an unelected dictator. The majority of Republican lawmakers tried to overturn the democratic process, so he could become an unelected dictator. Tens of millions of Republicans believe the bullshit lies, that led hundreds of them to try and forcefully overthrow the democratic process, so he could become an unelected dictator. Ummm, there were stun guns, baseball bats, flagpoles, bear spray, pipe bombs, a working gallows, and, yes, some guns, you dimwit. How well armed, how successful, how many, etc., are all irrelevant to whether something is an insurrection, or not. It's the goal that makes it an insurrection, or not.
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  2851.  @CatotheE  It has to be remotely the same to be hypocrisy, dumb dumb. Trying to save lives and trying to overthrow the democratic process aren't remotely the same, from the get go.
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  2852. So there was a massive wave of progressive politicians that took the house and senate in 2018, and the presidency in 2020? Republicans joined the left in voting against a fascist Trump agenda, instead of following him into overt fascism? And the moon fell into Lake Michigan when Trump filled multiple scotus seats?
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  2853. Even the most popular third party hasn't won a single seat in congress in its near 50 year existence. That's reality. Even if you magically got a third party so popular that you had as many seats as the current progressive caucus, you'd have a Trump second term, a republican senate with Pence as tie breaker, and a Republican plurality in the house. Republicans would only need a handful of conservative Dems to pass whatever they wanted, and could completely ignore the progressive party. That's the reality of math.
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  2854. Bimbobert
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  2855.  @MiguelCruz-oz7km  Most of his Dore knob talking points were also bullshit, as is usually the case. There's a difference between voting for the budget and voting for the state department appropriation bill. AOC voted against the appropriation bill. A vote against the budget is also a vote against Medicaid, Medicare, education, affordable housing, etc., etc., etc. She also voted against the military appropriation bill. These departments have their own individual budget request bills, before the budget vote. Haven't run across a Dore knob, yet, that knows the Capitol Hill police bill was heavily amended in the senate, nor that she voted against it, on the final house vote. The guy didn't even seem to know that the $15 got a vote already. It passed the house (M4A didn't have a shot in hell), and also got a senate vote. Instead of doing something with the two precious lists of no voters, they just keep bitching about those who got it to stay in for a round of voting and who voted for it. While Dore was claiming AOC had abandoned M4A, she was literally on the ground campaigning for Nina Turner, promoting M4A, and fighting to add another M4A yes vote to congress. Adding yes votes to congress gets you closer to being able to pass the bill. Forcing a 100% guaranteed to fail performance art vote, doesn't. AOC used her platform and PAC to back 20 other pro-M4A progressives, in the last election. Some of those were in purple districts, and the progressive got absolutely creamed in the primaries, but the more conservative Dem managed to win the district. This midterm election is a whole other animal, and it's going to be a helluva fight to hang on to those purple district seats. Any leverage the guy thinks progressives have, rests entirely on Democrats being in the majority, and yet he sees no benefit in her helping to retain that majority. They'd prefer seeing Republicans become the majority. They just look for any little thing to attack progressives over, while not seeming to care if fascists, that tried to overthrow the democratic process to keep Dumpty on as an unelected dictator, regain power. They're the kind of "leftists" that wind up on the wrong side of a Night of the Long Knives, when their psycho extreme right allies no longer consider them useful.
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  2856.  @somuchfortalent  The US and UK drafted every single fighting age member of the KKK and BUF, to go fight the Third Reich. Do you think you have a point? There's one invader, and that's Russia, and they have their own nationalists.
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  2857. "Fascism is the complete opposite of Marxian socialism." ~ Mussolini Marx's ideal was a stateless, non authoritarian, direct democracy, form of socialism. The complete opposite would be an ultra-nationalistic (✅), authoritarian (✅), anti-democratic (✅), form of crony capitalism (✅). Yes Marge, you are a fascist, as are any other Republicans that supported overthrowing the democratic process.
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  2858. That's what this orange maroon doesn't seem to know. Canada belongs to King Charles. It's not entirely independent.
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  2859. ​ @waltergrace565  The US is 27th in mobility. How is there not room for improvement, if 26 other countries can do it better? If it now takes generations to move up the ladder, how is it unwarranted, to help groups with double the poverty rate?
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  2860. Although it's called Medicare, Canada's system is more like Medicaid for all, with the federal government splitting costs with states, and the states administering it. Why couldn't US states have their own purely state funded Medicaid expansion, for all, that goes beyond what the federal government helps pay for? And then work on getting the federal government to help cover everyone.
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  2861. They leave out that her mother lives in Florida, as well. Not very hypocritical to visit your mother over the holidays, and there's no outdoor mask mandate in NYC either.
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  2862.  @makeamericagreatagain3401  So, you're a moron who's afraid of the boogie man word, "taxes", but not afraid of the words "premiums", "deductibles", or "copays"? The US could immediately save on adminstrative costs, which are higher than other OECD countries, due to multipayers with different paperwork. Single payer also provides the power to negotiate down drug prices. It also removes the insurance profit margin. As per this video, they could also negotiate down hospital markups (above their costs, which would include salaries). There are multiple ways it could save on costs, before even touching doctor pay.
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  2863.  @vavibab  Bullshit. It's like triage. If it's non life threatening, then maybe you wait a little longer, but people who need immediate care, get immediate care. You know tens of thousands of Americans die due to no coverage, or lack of coverage, hundreds of thousands go bankrupt at least in part due to medical debt, and over a million go to cheaper countries (like Mexico) for affordable healthcare, right? How is waiting a little longer for non life threatening procedures worse than that?
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  2864.  Lincoln D  Stop using Dore knob bullshit. You're a right wing cultist who doesn't want those things anyway.
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  2865.  @nevermorebouquet3681  So, the "liberal order" wanted AOC to back 20 other progressives, help add a few more to congress, and help remove a few more corporate Dems? They wanted her on the ground campaigning for Nina Turner, fighting to add another? They wanted her campaigning for Bernie instead of Biden? The argument that she doesn't oppose them, makes the "liberal order" sound not too bad, if that's what they support.
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  2866.  @nevermorebouquet3681  You're basically incoherent. You first said they wouldn't give a committee seat to someone who opposes their power. That would mesh with those who voted against AOC, for a committee seat, saying they voted against her because she backed primary challengers against them. But, then you say they haven't opposed those in power. It makes no sense.
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  2867. ​ @supacheef1  His sentencing has been postponed to September. If he's done even probation, by November, that's a problem.
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  2868.  Aaron Dickson  With red counties dying at 3x the rate of blue counties, the coping will get easier and easier, as this goes on.
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  2869.  @alabamaman9476  Oh, sorry, I didn't know you didn't know what a "county" was. You go figure that out, and get back to me.
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  2870.  @socialdistancewarrior9099  A law that equates outer clothing to religious symbols is going to favor religions that can hide a symbol under their clothes, in their purses, or in their pockets.
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  2871. @Bet Your lunch How did you stop Obama in 2013? All I've heard Dore knobs blather about is the Steele dossier. Mueller didn't rely on the Steele dossier. The Mueller report included some 200 pages of information sharing (collusion), that didn't amount to criminal conspiracy. Mueller indicted 19 Russians, 3 Russian companies, a bunch of Trump cronies, and only didn't indict Jr and Kushner because he said it would be hard to prove they "willfully" broke the law, not because they didn't. So, are we supposed to believe that Republican investigator Mueller, the DNC, the FBI (run by Republicans for 6 of the past 10 presidential terms), Republicans like Romney, and Australian officials, were all in cahoots to frame Trump and make Pence president? Occam's Razor would suggest it's just a simple fact that Dumpty was getting info from Russians. Also, there was evidence of obstruction, which Republicans onve considered good enough to impeach Clinton over.
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  2872. @Bet Your lunch Nope, he outright promoted Trump as the better option than Clinton, for progressives. You're lying, or clueless. Dore's dimwitted take led to a debate with Sam Seder, which Dore clearly lost.
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  2873. Yeah, all the Trump cultists, that aren't already getting Trump's statements, flood in here to get their Trump news from David.
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  2874.  @robinsss  Just how stupid are you? Are you going to get pulled up, if you don't pay?
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  2875. Mississippi: #1 firearm mortality rate; #1 homicide rate; #1 poverty rate; lowest life expectancy
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  2876.  Josh Edmonds  Lowest GDP per capita, and mostly Republican governors, for decades.
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  2877. Bribing officials, with "democracy dollars" isn't quite how democracy is supposed to work, is it?
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  2878.  @thebatmanover9000  That's not how it works. There were some black people on the white side, during apartheid. There were "good" Christian natives on the white side during wars against Native Americans. There were some black people helping slave owners. There were some Jewish people helping Nazis. The only way for Israel to always remain a "Jewish state", is for Jews to remain the dominant majority. That's inherently anti-democratic, racist, bigoted, ... it has the facade of being a democracy. It is in Israel's interest to keep the conflict going, or else they'd become a minority, and would have to drop the facade.
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  2879.  @stevenkalavity9879  What would the ACLU have to do with it? No such thing as free speech on someone else's private property. Never has been. If you want free speech, push for public ownership.
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  2880. He promoted the March on Rome (Drive to Ottawa), as left wing. It was organized and led by a bunch of fascists.
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  2881.  @davidbrisbane7206  Even worse. Over 200k deaths compared to the Canadian covid death rate. Over 300k deaths compared to the rates of some other countries that had even better responses.
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  2882. ​ @vytalman  Oh yay, feudalism!
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  2883.  @pluckyduck11y  "95% of those killed didn't even have slaves" Did the majority of southerners keep electing officials who maintained slavery laws? Did the majority of southerners elect anti-abolitionist officials? Did the majority of southerners elect officials who seceded over slavery and enshrined slavery into their new constitution? Did the majority of southerners fight for the "right" to enslave, abuse, rape, torture, and kill other human beings? After the war, did the majority of southerners then start voting for officials who adopted segregation and Jim Crow laws? Did the majority of southerners continue to vote that way for another 100 years? Did the majority of southerners vote for officials who fought against desegregation and Civil Rights? Piss off with your nonsense narrative, trying to portray only a minority of white southerners as racists.
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  2884. ​@@tennishack Just say you have no clue how hate speech laws work, and call it a day.
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  2885.  @handofgod9386  Just like Bernie? Rofl. That's $20 more per person on average, and that average definitely is from only small donars. You're spouting bullshit. Views? He's the sitting president. All kinds of people are viewing his crap who don't necessarily support him. You sound like a Trump supporter pretending to be a Dem.
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  2886.  @ryctohernadez9135  Poor people make cheaper purchases, but a consumption tax is regressive because it's a higher percentage off their income, not because of total amount.
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  2887. Are you on the wrong channel?
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  2888. Unless you're a Republican, looking for an alternative, then you 100% should vote Libertarian or RFK Jr.
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  2889.  @KaiCross  And why are you lying, that people from Russia and Europe were always there?
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  2890. That would make Pelosi president, if they both got ousted.
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  2891. If they simply paid all that hoarded wealth to their employees, then you wouldn't have to blame the system for not taxing their wealth.
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  2892. Iraq is actually where he thinks Beau developed his cancer, which led to his death. "Dating back to 2016, Biden has frequently tied Beau's death to his service in Iraq and burn pit exposure, including multiple times this year, the White House noted to the Washington Examiner Thursday morning. The president has also said that Beau's cancer and death were key factors driving his support for the PACT Act, a veterans-focused healthcare bill he signed into law in August." And, who gives a f*ck, if it was the next day, or the next week. He did what he said he did, either way. It's not like he claimed to have seen Muslims dancing in the streets in Jersey (didn't happen). It's not like he took the opportunity to gloat that one of his buildings became the tallest (also a lie). It's not like he claimed to have personally witnessed people jumping from the towers, from his home (4 miles away, lie). It's not like he claimed to have gotten a grant for helping people (lie). And, it's not like he completely fabricated spending a lot of time at ground zero, and helping to clear rubble (lies).
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  2893. Except it should be expected. The guy put zero effort into informing himself as to how a VAT actually works, who it actually taxes. And yet built his major policy around it. He would have had money funneling to the very top faster than ever before.
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  2894.  @donrasumssen3213  If you drop a bomb, knowing there are civilians in range, you are intentionally bombing civilians. If I dropped a bomb on a bank hostage situation, I would be knowingly, and intentionally, killing civilians. If I bombed a block, that some criminal gang lived on, I would be knowingly, and intentionally, killing civilians.
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  2895. The "truckers" that represent less than 1% of Canada's 420 thousand commerical freight trucks, that have been denounced by the Canadian Trucking Alliance, that have been denounced by the Canadian Teamsters, whose leaders and organizers are right wing loons ... those "truckers"?
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  2896.  @ThomasSMuhn  Not a direct democracy, but it is supposed to be a form of representational democracy.
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  2897.  @aheroictaxidriver3180  And? "Materialist" and "spiritual" aren't compatible. You seem to be explaining that he suggested abandoning the "spiritual", for the "material", not that he was himself spewing spiritual gobbledygook. You're an oxymoron, hold the oxy.
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  2898.  @michaelknight2897  You think people who started settling on farms and in cities, inventing things like beer and cheese, and riding around on horses and carts, remained just as physically fit as hunter gatherers? That humans didn't lose fitness, first, before athletes improving performance? The modern Olympics started during the Victorian Age. The vast majority of people never had to run anywhere, for any length of time, then. What we've done is recorded performances improving from an already relatively sedentary lifestyle, after starting to settle about 10k years earlier, not right back to hunter gatherers.
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  2899.  @geebsterman2881  New Zealand is almost as obese as the US. Their covid deaths per capita would translate into under 20k total US covid deaths. Are you sure it doesn't have anything to do with them quickly getting their testing rate up to 50+ people per confirmed case, while the US' testing rate was under 10 people per confirmed case, for many months, allowing it to spread to a ton more people?
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  2900. By that "logic", Tucker is trying to silence Kamala Harris, and anyone who thinks the system has a racism issue. Oh wait, that would include TYT.
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  2901. Because, the alternative of killing much fewer Palestinians, especially civilians, isn't an option?
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  2902.  @BGMofo  If Israel wasn't so hell bent on ethnic cleansing, would there be Israeli deaths?
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  2903. ​ @codynichols7053  Nah. He decided some religions aren't as bad as others, and defends Znst zlts.
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  2904. @UCwXwnQlxWUcQDfYAE8kwG3A You diverted into your sick fantasies. I still want to hear about the supposed fraud, and who you're afraid of.
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  2905. @Aaron Dickson The AZ (only about $2 each in the EU) and J&J vaccines are a few bucks each. How many ivermectin pills do you have to take to fight off covid? You can't grasp why you'd be getting different numbers for something with different prices in different places, or different prices per pill vs multiple packaged pills?
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  2906. @Mickey Mouse Moron. The only reason the US still has to consider lockdowns is because they didn't test enough to get ahead of the virus. Countries, like S Korea, New Zealand, and Australia, who flattened their curves quickly, were testing at rates of 50+ people per confirmed case, while the US was testing 5 people per confirmed case. You can't get ahead of the spread at that slow a testing rate. Trump is incompetent.
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  2907.  @pbpp2904  And about 30m total cases that year. 30m total coronavirus cases would be 300k+ dead.
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  2908. It's like they can't do basic math. Switching to $3 a day workers = fewer people who can afford to buy your stuff. Not raising pay to keep up with inflation = fewer people who can afford to buy your stuff. More automation = fewer people who can afford to buy your stuff. The greedy at the top are going to be the ones who end capitalism.
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  2909.  @Time_to_Stop_Animal_Cruelty  Harris is an idiot. No clue how he got a degree in philosophy, when he doesn't seem to grasp some of the basics.
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  2910.  @grapeshot  Evangelical Zionists are so ironic. They make out to be pro Israel but, in their Armageddon story, Israel gets wiped out first, after they rebuild the third temple. They actually want to see Israel destroyed.
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  2911. 3 were born in the US. So he was right on the money, when he said, "who originally came from countries whose governments are a complete and total catastrophe, the worst, most corrupt and inept anywhere in the world"
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  2912.  @mickelcsaszar3244  The supposed exodus, and all the plagues on Egypt, to let them go? Doesn't ring a bell?
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  2913.  @matthewcarver2013  Say what? Who's forcing their kids to be trans? Minors have been having plastic surgery, for years. Why did nobody care, when girls wanted bigger boobs, and now only care if they want no boobs? 2008: "Although teenagers still represent a very small proportion of women undergoing breast enlargements, the ASPS confirms that the procedure has become more popular among young people. Between 2002 and 2003, the number of breast implants for girls younger than 18 nearly tripled, from 3,872 to 11,326."
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  2914.  @dcaseng  When did she advocate paralyzing, or threatening to paralyze, the house?
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  2915.  @arceusthomas2447  Like I said, dozens to thousands. Over 3000, in 2019. Over 6000, in 2017. Are you moving the goalpost again, that it now needs to be over a certain number of breakthroughs? Rofl. No. The covid vaccine efficacy rates are pretty high. Over 90% of kids are vaccinated for the mumps. There are still some 40% unvaccinated for covid. The vaccination rate is the bigger issue, than efficacy rates. CDC report: "Unvaccinated patients accounted for 84.2% (1669/1983) of COVID-19 hospitalizations." CDC: Unvaccinated seniors 50 times more likely to be hospitalized than those with boosters PHMDC: COVID-19 hospitalization, death rates ~60x higher for unvaccinated vs. boosted UCD Health: 85 percent of hospitalized COVID patients are unvaccinated About 90% of COVID-19 patients in some of Pa.’s hardest-hit hospitals are unvaccinated Houston: 85% OF PEOPLE HOSPITALIZED WITH COVID-19'S OMICRON VARIANT ARE UNVACCINATED, DOCTORS SAY DHMC officials say 85% of COVID-19 patients in intensive care in NH are unvaccinated NCDHHS: COVID-19 patients, most unvaccinated, occupy 85% of ICU hospital beds statewide Michigan hospital data: 87% of COVID ICU patients are unvaccinated How do you miss this stuff?
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  2916.  @andersenparker2297  No. Because it is increasingly unrepresentative, largely due to a 1929 bill, that was most definitely not a pillar.
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  2917.  @andersenparker2297  You're incoherent. People in every state get to vote. How is having some votes count for more than others "completely representative"? Do you have reading comprehension problems? I stated to simply repeal the 1929 bill that made the electoral college increasingly unrepresentative.
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  2918.  @andersenparker2297  But states don't have equal representation, except for in the undemocratic senate, as is. It's not "completely representative", in the presidential vote, any which way. You're incoherent.
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  2919.  @andersenparker2297  A 1929 bill that caused the house and electoral college to become increasingly unrepresentative, benefits Republicans. That's what you're defending.
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  2920.  @cultmecca  The US is a tragicomedy.
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  2921.  @brentnoury7626  People have been giving up on Dems, and letting Republicans win, for decades. The only change it caused was moving the country further right. Everytime Republicans win they jump further right, then the "moderate" Dems go meet them in the new "middle". What hasn't been done is keep fighting hard in the primaries but, no matter what, vote to keep Republicans out of the majority, and out of the presidency, for good. Vote to say conservative Dems is a far right as you want the country to go. Vote to say you don't want to keep heading into all out fascism. Vote to make the Republican party irrelevant and the primaries the main battleground.
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  2922.  @brentnoury7626  What does a 100% guaranteed to fail performance art vote change?
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  2923.  @brentnoury7626  How does a failed vote do that? No. Actually passing a bill is all about numbers, not performance art.
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  2924.  @MorarLa  That was against the Commonwealth of Virginia. Do you think self, or other, defense, is a double standard, when it comes to assault or murder? Or, is it a different standard?
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  2925. I like the insurance idea, and think it should be tied to registered changes in ownership. It would cut back on straw purchases, if the buyer was liable for the gun they're secretly handing off to someone who can't get their own gun. It should start at the point of production, with the producer liable until it is sold to a distributor, the distributor liable until it is sold to a customer, etc.
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  2926. How does a VAT solve money flowing to a small number of people at the top? It's built right into a VAT system that businesses get credited back for any input VAT. Since a VAT doesn't actually tax a corporation like Amazon, mixing in a UBI will only speed the flow of money to the very top. If even 20% of the $3t handed to consumers is spent on retail, and Amazon owns 5% of retail, then Yang will make Amazon an extra $30b a year. That would make Bezos an extra $3.6b a year. He'd have to blow over $36b a year on goods and services with a VAT to pay in more than he'd get out. Yang is either clueless or lying when he says a VAT will make the likes of Amazon and Bezos "pay their fair share". Amazon, itself, even has a little tutorial page on how businesses get credited back for any input VAT, ffs. https://services.amazon.co.uk/services/vat-resources.html
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  2927. Not really. In a standoff between the left end and right end of the party, a bill can be passed, without the squad, by moving it right and maybe picking up Republican votes. A bill can't be passed without the right end of the party. There are no extra votes to the left of the squad.
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  2928.  @supasf  Job growth and unemployment have been on the same trajectory since 2009. GDP growth was 2.9% in 2018. It was 2.9% in 2015. The border isn't secure. There was a negative net undocumented migration rate for about 10 years. Now it's going positive. He signs off on Puerto Rico spending, and lies about how much money he has authorized. The DOW, Nasdaq, and S&P 500, have all been on the same trajectory since 2009. He didn't explode anything. He's a pedo himself, and you're a moron.
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  2929. He has also stood outside this courtroom and "defended" himself, by claiming he didn't commit bank fraud, by overvaluing, insisting he instead committed massive tax fraud, by undervaluing by over a billion dollars. He's not smart.
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  2930.  @spellman007  Yeah, why not? Why aren't you concerned about everyone who doesn't match sex and gender? You're not a bigoted hypocrite, who only cares when certain people do it, are you?
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  2931. ​ @eddyvideostar  What did you rally around? Make America racist again?
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  2932. ​ @colewarner4954  Rvssia had already invdd, and was occpyng, part of Ukrn. Pvtin didn't leave for DT. Pvtin didn't stop backing rbls for DT. Why was DT doing his quid pro quo, for wpns, if there was no fghtng going on?
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  2933. ​ @bl4ckkn1g8t5  Medicaid expansion was part of the ACA, dumb dumb. But, thanks to Republican judges on the supreme court, it was ruled that it had to be optional for states. The federal government couldn't make them. There are like 10 states, all with Republican legislatures, that haven't signed up for Medicaid expansion. So, whether it's the judges, or the state legislatures, yes, it's Republicans' fault.
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  2934.  @eduardobibm  Rofl!!! "BY DINESH D'SOUZA" Get that shit out of here. He's a complete moron.
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  2935. ​ @kittykim6818  Like censoring profanity and sex on certain media, as has been done for decades? Wasn't that also a Bible thumper led thing?
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  2936. ​ @radaro.9682  Voting comes down to math. Here in Canada, the Conservative party only gets a majority of the votes in 2 provinces. Yet, they manage to win a majority of seats, in multiple provinces and federally, with little more than a third of the vote, exactly because 60+% of the other votes are split between our Liberal party and the NDP (and BQ in Quebec). All you're promoting is to let Trump, and Republicans, rule. You're not actually promoting voting against Trump, by promoting someone who can't beat him.
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  2937. MLK Jr would be totally onboard with not speaking out ... oh wait ... "In the end, we will remember not the words of our enemies, but the silence of our friends." "Our lives begin to end the day we become silent about things that matter." "The hottest place in Hell is reserved for those who remain neutral in times of great moral conflict." "He who passively accepts evil is as much involved in it as he who helps to perpetrate it. He who accepts evil without protesting against it is really cooperating with it." "Shallow understanding from people of good will is more frustrating than absolute misunderstanding from people of ill will." "The ultimate tragedy is not the oppression and cruelty by the bad people but the silence over that by the good people." "There comes a time when silence is betrayal."
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  2938.  @zeroexcuse6558  No they aren't. Phase III trials are done. The "vaccine hesitant" morons would have zero data if everyone was like them, because absolutely nobody would have even volunteered for trials. We'd still have all kinds of horrible viruses running rampant, if everyone thought like you. But, keep trying to sound rational.
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  2939.  @timothyo718  Aaron is an idiot. Besides what I mentioned above, Israel, the US, France, and the UK, had started bombing Syria, before UN inspectors even made it to the site, to start their investigation. The final report didn't come out until months later. And, that final report, as per Russian security council demands, didn't assign blame to any party. It had no real bearing on anyone's decision to bomb Syria.
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  2940.  @pallasweb7180  Those are not, at all, major concerns.
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  2941.  @repolarrepolar9833  So, you're cool with meanings of words changing?
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  2942.  @SoundsSilver  There doesn't even have to be a physical threat. Scenario 1: A student writes an A grade paper. The teacher threatens to give them a C if the student doesn't have sex with them. Scenario 2: A student writes a C grade paper. The teacher threatens to let the C stand, if the student doesn't have sex with them, and will upgrade it to an A, if they do. It's moronic to argue that scenario 2 isn't coercion, simply because the student isn't entitled to an A. Being entitled is also irrelevant to whether something is coercion, or not. You clearly don't understand the meaning of the word.
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  2943. ​ @MatthewMortensen1  It already has a basic definition. "Fascism is the complete opposite of Marxian socialism." ~ Mussolini Marx's ideal was for a stateless, non-authoritarian, direct democracy, form of socialism. The complete opposite is an ultra-nationalistic, authoritarian, anti-democratic, form of crony capitalism. Democrats may have some undemocratic moments, and some flag waving here and there, but they are not outright anti-democratic and ultra-nationalistic. They aren't humping flagpoles, or trying to install an unelected dictator, aren't in a constant state of "patriotism" or constantly arguing "it's not a democracy, it's a republic", etc. Republicans are far more likely to justify police brutality, or "good guys" shooting people ... more likely to call for harsher laws and punishments. And, Republicans are all worse than the most conservative Dem, when it comes to lining the pockets of corporations, and fighting against workers. The "Samesies!" argument is moronic.
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  2944.  @tidus9942  I know how a VAT works. I've been paying one for 30 years. You left out that the rich also don't have to pay on their NECESSITIES. Poor people still do things, beyond necessities. They just do cheaper things. Nothing you can do will ever change the fact that someone spending everything they've got to get through the month will pay a higher percentage of their income/wealth in VAT than someone spending a tiny percentage of their income/wealth per month. You swap to totals, when it suits your purposes. Bezos doesn't have to cash in stocks to realize cash in hand, does he? He can take out a line of credit against the value of his stocks, spend it like real income, and pay nothing in taxes on it. He, and his corporation, are welfare queens, letting everyone else pay for most of the infrastructure that helps make them money.
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  2945. Yeah, the endless tantrums over wearing a piece of cloth, getting a needle, losing an election ... oh, wait.
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  2946.  @twesj  It wasn't taken out of context. That's who everyone reported he was talking about. How do they "poison the blood"?
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  2947. Moron, people are still dying of the flu. This is on top of that, and it has 2x the contagion rate, lasts 2x as long, has 10x the rate of serious cases, and at least 10x the mortality rate.
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  2948. Americans aren't going to the doctor for human prescriptions. American doctors aren't prescribing Ivermectin for covid. Stupid conservatives have been using horse medicine.
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  2949. Because there's still no science on how long, exactly, antibodies will last. The longer he goes without the vaccine, the higher the chance of them reducing, most likely.
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  2950.  Derek Hitt  He didn't go to war with the establishment Republican propaganda machine, until FOX said he lost the election.
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  2951. ​ @jamesjameson4303  Do tell.
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  2952.  @LEP021085  It's not, at all, hard to compare. Just use per capita rates. That's how you always compare places with different sized populations. Chicago isn't even top 10 worst.
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  2953.  @alabamaman9476  Top 20 cities, 12 in red states ... 1. St. Louis, Missouri > Murder rate: 88.1 per 100,000 people 2. Petersburg, Virginia > Murder rate: 76.9 per 100,000 people 3. Pine Bluff, Arkansas > Murder rate: 56.5 per 100,000 people 4. New Orleans, Louisiana > Murder rate: 51.0 per 100,000 people 5. Saginaw, Michigan > Murder rate: 50.2 per 100,000 people 6. Detroit, Michigan > Murder rate: 49.7 per 100,000 people 7. Trenton, New Jersey > Murder rate: 48.2 per 100,000 people 8. Harrisburg, Pennsylvania > Murder rate: 46.7 per 100,000 people 9. Baton Rouge, Louisiana > Murder rate: 46.5 per 100,000 people 10. Flint, Michigan > Murder rate: 46.4 per 100,000 people 11. Riviera Beach, Florida > Murder rate: 44.7 per 100,000 people 12. Memphis, Tennessee > Murder rate: 44.4 13. Wilmington, Delaware > Murder rate: 44.2 per 100,000 people 14. Cleveland, Ohio > Murder rate: 42.2 per 100,000 people 15. Alexandria, Louisiana > Murder rate: 41.3 per 100,000 people 16. Monroe, Louisiana > Murder rate: 40.3 per 100,000 people 17. Shreveport, Louisiana > Murder rate: 37.2 per 100,000 people 18. Portsmouth, Virginia > Murder rate: 36.1 per 100,000 people 19. Kansas City, Missouri > Murder rate: 35.2 per 100,000 people 20. Dayton, Ohio > Murder rate: 32.8 per 100,000 people Top 20 states, 12 red states ... Louisiana 12.8 Maryland 10.4 Alabama 9.6 Mississippi 9 Arizona 9 Tennessee 8.3 Arkansas 8 South Carolina 7.9 New Mexico 7.9 Nevada 7.8 North Carolina 7.6 Missouri 7.3 Georgia 7.1 Michigan 6.9 California 6.9 Illinois 6.8 Delaware 6.6 Texas 6.5 Virginia 6.4 Pennsylvania 6.3
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  2954.  @BboyKeny  Rofl. They're living in an alternate reality. Everytime something is debunked, they move the goalpost and come up with a new conspiracy.
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  2955. Seems lame to go around pretending like you're some kind of pro debater, and saying the left is afraid to debate you, all while avoiding debating the left yourself. That's a cowardly liar who deserves to be set up.
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  2956.  @mickswagger6086  Nope. It's run like a private club, with terms of service you agree to, when you sign up and get a membership. No such thing as the right to free speech on someone else's private property. You don't have a right to be on their private property, to begin with, so you don't have a right to be on their private property spewing whatever nonsense you want.
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  2957. “In short, when it comes to the W against trrrsts, I’m a hawk,” she told the Hawaii Tribune-Herald last year. “When it comes to counterproductive Ws of regime change, I’m a dove.” Every single US W, since 2001, has used W on trrrsm as justification. She's perfectly fine with starting them. She just doesn't want to stick around to try and clean up any messes.
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  2958.  @elliotwilliams7421  He said Japan was conservative about the medication they "endorse" followed by a "but", as if what he said next was Japan endorsing its use. What he said next was not Japan endorsing its use.
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  2959.  @rtorres4132  Except passing non public information along to others is itself illegal, whereas simply knowing the information isn't itself illegal.
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  2960. To be great "again" means you didn't think it is great, hate America, and should be packing your bags.
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  2961.  @windstime3614  Billionaire? When did that happen?
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  2962. An coordinated enterprise, to break the law, should be another RICO charge.
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  2963. Isn't he literally one, himself, dingus? TMTG
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  2964. ​ @ICLight412  Well, one group of extremists tried to overthrow the democratic process and install an unelected dictator. The other group of "extremists" haven't actually proposed any policies that would move the US left of Denmark (real world centrism). What do you agree on, with people that tried to have a dictator?
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  2965. He brought his Shakespearean stage acting to the screen. It has to be a little "over", for the people in the back row of the theatre. He just didn't change styles, between stage and screen, like others do.
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  2966.  @phatmantv  She was in Cleveland that day, promoting M4A while campaigning for Nina, trying to increase the M4A yes vote by one. I get it, you Dore knobs would prefer the corporate Dem or Republican, and to not increase the vote count, because that's what "real" progressives want.
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  2967.  @sandrawalker8839  AOC, Omar, Pressley, Bowman, and other reps, were also there in shifts. Google is your friend.
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  2968. ​ @MyThoughtsImJustSaying  Reading comprehension is your friend. "Most people" =\= all people.
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  2969.  @logangonzalez-patton3121  Canada is still part of the same monarchy. The King is our commander in chief.
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  2970. Republicans, corporate Dems, and MSM, don't seem to be pissed at him.
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  2971.  @CourtneyHaynes  Lol, well start it over something serious, like Sam's new beard.
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  2972. Most of the economic gains were in the first year, when Obama's last budget was still in effect. Trump's favorite measure is the stock market, and that almost flatlined, after Trump's first budget came out.
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  2973. Dems should have kept McCarthy weak and on the ropes.
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  2974. Likud's bloody 100 year history ... In 1923, 100 years ago, Ze'ev Jabotinsky wrote, The Iron Wall, and a follow up, The Ethics of The Iron Wall (sooo racist towards Africans), in which he fully acknowledged that post Balfour Zionsim was colonialism, and that, based on the entirety of history, the native Palestinian population would resist being colonized until the bitter end. He directly compared it to the colonization of North America. He promoted doing it anyway, claiming Zionist colonialism was a "just" colonialism (he also thought North American colonialists were good guys, so not a great judge of morality), not caring what that meant for the native population. Ze'ev is important, because his Betar militant youth group helped found the Irgun terrorist group, along with other supporters of his, and the splinter Lehi terrorist group. The Irgun bombed numerous Palestinian markets and other public places, murdering many Palestinian civilians, including children, even including Palestinian Jews (who didn't support colonialist Zionsim). The Irgun are important, because they ended up being led by future Likud PM, Menachem Begin, who bombed the King David Hotel. The King David Hotel was bombed because the British had raided the Jewish Agency and seized numerous documents that may have shown that the terrorists were working with the JA and Haganah (JA liked to pretend that they didn't support the terrorism). The British then stored those documents at their base, in the hotel. That the Irgun terrorists responded to a JA raid, itself seems to prove the connection. That the thousands of Irgun (and Lehi) terrorists were also quickly merged into the new nation's military (IDF) and intelligence (Mossad) agencies, and are still celebrated as "heroes" by Israelis, to this day, also seems to support total collaboration between the groups. That other terrorist group mentioned, Lehi (also known as the Stern Gang), was considered even more extreme. They even tried to ally with the Nazis, against the British. Lehi ended up being led by Yitzhak Shamir, future Mossad agent, and another future Likud PM. They assassinated Lord Moyne, and others. In 1945, there was a major land and peoples survey done in Palestine. It showed that the Zionists only owned about 5% of the total land, 20% of the arable land, and owned a majority in zero districts. The partition was not only going to be forced on the native Palestinian majority, but Jews were still going to be a minority, in the part allocated to them. The only possible way to even become a "Jewish state" was going to require getting rid of the actual majority (at least enough so that there'd be a solid Jewish majority, so they could fake being democratic). This is also shown by the 1948, post Nakba, population of Israel. If there was 716,700 Jews, 156,000+ non-Jews, and approximately 700k non-Jews ethnically cleansed, that means the Jewish population, in the Zionist portion of partition, was originally over 100,000 less than the non-Jewish population. To believe that there was never any intent, by Zionists, to ethnically cleanse away the Palestinian majority would require believing that they never intended to create a "Jewish state". It's a nonsensical notion. Begin, and those terrorist groups, also opposed partition, but for the opposite reason Palestinians did. Palestinians didn't want to be colonized, at all. The terrorists wanted to colonize it all. "Moderate" Zionists were okay with colonizing half ... for now (what would happen in the future, after partition, was up to them, said Ben-Gurion). The Zionist terrorists were also involved in massacres, and assassinations, during the partition violence (colonialist war against the natives). Another notable future Likud PM, also started in the military, during the partition fighting. That was Ariel Sharon, war criminal, "Butcher of Beirut". Menachem Begin, and these other Zionist terrorists, are important because they became involved in Israeli politics, first forming Herut. That was the party that Albert Einstein, and other prominent American Jews, opposed, having a letter printed in the NYT, in December of 1948, when Begin came to visit the US. The letter opened ... "Among the most disturbing political phenomena of our times is the emergence in the newly created state of Israel of the "Freedom Party" (Tnuat Haherut), a political party closely akin in its organization, methods, political philosophy and social appeal to the Nazi and Fascist parties. It was formed out of the membership and following of the former Irgun Zvai Leumi, a terrorist, right-wing, chauvinist organization in Palestine." Herut merged with other extremist parties, over the years, and eventually became Likud, in the 70s. Now, people get upset over the slogan "From the river to the sea!", but it's the second part that's most important, "Palestine will be free!". Because "Palestine" isn't defined as an ethno-state, a free Palestine can be a single state, free for all to live in, and return to, free of continuing colonization, free of occupation, free of oppression, etc. Just like a Germany free of Nazism, an Italy free of fascism, a South Africa free of apartheid, or an America free of slavery from sea to shiny sea. It doesn't necessitate purging all the Jews. It just necessitates them giving up on the idea of an ethno-state. On the other hand, because "Israel" has been defined as an ethno-state, Likud's, "between the sea and the Jordan there will only be Israeli sovereignty", has no possible good interpretation. It is a declaration of intent to completely colonize, and ethnically cleanse, all Palestine territories. Not only that, but it also claims that they have a "right" to all of the "Land of Israel" (biblical borders that don't mesh with archaeological reality), which is an open declaration of future wars, against Jordan, Syria, Lebanon, and possibly even Iraq. Likud platform ... 1977: "The Right of the Jewish People to the Land of Israel (Eretz Israel) a. The right of the Jewish people to the land of Israel is eternal and indisputable and is linked with the right to security and peace; therefore, Judea and Samaria will not be handed to any foreign administration; between the Sea and the Jordan there will only be Israeli sovereignty. b. A plan which relinquishes parts of western Eretz Israel, undermines our right to the country, unavoidably leads to the establishment of a "Palestinian State," jeopardizes the security of the Jewish population, endangers the existence of the State of Israel. and frustrates any prospect of peace." "Settlement Settlement. both urban and rural. in all parts of the Land of Israel is the focal point of the Zionist effort to redeem the country, to maintain vital security areas and serves as a reservoir of strength and inspiration for the renewal of the pioneering spirit. The Likud government will call on the younger generation in Israel and the dispersions to settle and help every group and individual in the task of inhabiting and cultivating the wasteland, while taking care not to dispossess anyone." 1999: "The Government of Israel flatly rejects the establishment of a Palestinian Arab state west of the Jordan river. The Palestinians can run their lives freely in the framework of self-rule, but not as an independent and sovereign state. Thus, for example, in matters of foreign affairs, security, immigration, and ecology, their activity shall be limited in accordance with imperatives of Israel's existence, security and national needs." "The Jewish communities in Judea, Samaria, and Gaza are the realization of Zionist values. Settlement of the land is a clear expression of the unassailable right of the Jewish people to the Land of Israel and constitutes an important asset in the defense of the vital interests of the State of Israel. The Likud will continue to strengthen and develop these communities and will prevent their uprooting." All Palestine territories are officially considered occupied, by the International Court of Justice, the UN GA, the UN SC, and even in official documents of Israel's own allies. Likud is still using the blueprint for colonizing North America, in the West Bank. Move settlements out into native territory, piss off the natives, the natives retaliate, cry about poor "innocent" colonizing settlers being the "victims" of violent "Savages!", call in the cavalry to put down the native uprising, and eventually expand the borders to include those settlements. Rinse and repeat. In Gaza, Israel is operating an open air WWII style fascist ghetto. Them claiming a "right to defend themselves" would be like the Nazis claiming a "right to defend themselves " from the Warsaw ghetto uprising. There's no "war". That they're the occupiers means the "war" part is long over. Those people are actually supposed to be under the occupier's protection. That partition was forced upon the Palestinian majority, against their will ... that the Zionist portion still had to be forcefully ethnically cleansed of its non-Jewish majority, against their will ... that the millions of occupied Palestinians don't have a say in the government that truly rules over them, Israel's ... means Israel is about as democratic as Nazi Germany after Hitler purged his political opponents and then held elections.
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  2975.  @twmax6525  Promoting Trump as a better option for progressives than Clinton.
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  2976.  @nick-kd2yx  Saving lives?
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  2977. Peterson is a moron. The actual target of his bill c-16 criticism ended up being that it relied on OHRC wording. It had become OHRC policy 16 years earlier. It had become part of the Ontario bill of rights 4 years earlier. Peterson, the idiot, had to look up the wording after hearing about bill c-16. He had been living and working in Ontario all those years, under "totalitarianism", and was never once charged with mistakenly using the wrong pronoun. He had zero examples of any other Ontarians being charged with mistakenly using the wrong pronoun in all those years. Not only that, but Ontario wasn't the only province to adopt the code. The feds moved to adopt it at the federal level after most provinces had already adopted it at the provincial level. In all those provinces, over multiple years, and he had zero examples of anyone being charged with mistakenly using the wrong pronoun. Anyone who thinks he's brilliant is also a moron.
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  2978.  @barbiquearea  Maybe try talking to them, before the guns and cuffs?
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  2979. Genesis tells the story of a formless, sexless, penisless, god being, that is called "he", "him", and "father". And the trinity belief is a belief that that being transitioned into a human male.
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  2980.  @Rob_Cary  Then maybe watch a video before commenting, dimwit. The title said exactly what Stern did, and you made a comment about David, before knowing what David said.
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  2981. Considering the fact that both parties, including all presidents, have supported Israel for decades, and that the vast majority of congress supports Israel (enough to override any presidential veto on the subject), blaming Biden for it all, doesn't really make sense ... and letting Trump win, will just make things worse. He was the first president to go as far as recognizing Jerusalem as Israel's capital. He was the one who peddled a "peace plan", that ignored Palestinians, and tried to completely normalize Israel's behavior, even amongst Arab countries. He's the one talking about making a pledge of allegiance to Israel, to get in the country, and reintroducing and expanding a Muslim ban. Plus, he would back the same thing, in Ukraine, letting Russia colonize and occupy whoever it wants. Then there's what he could do, domestically. Even if your only presidential options were Mussolini or Hitler ... Hitler is worse. Biden and Trump aren't exactly samesies.
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  2982.  @StasCherkassky  Even if Gazans did, IL still celebrates the Irgun and Lehi trrrist founders of Likud as "heroes". So, what's the issue, if IL considers celebrating trrrism and trrrists okay?
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  2983. @John Dew No, there's no sense to it. China has lower emissions per capita. Combined, all the countries with higher emissions per capita have a similar total population but much higher total emissions. China isn't the biggest problem. Plus, they do have a zero emissions plan.
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  2984. ​ @jasonfuller1001  But, Palestinians aren't supposed to respond to the mass murder, of their people? 200+ killed this year, before the Hamas attack, dozens of children. Last year was bad, too. Your argument makes no sense.
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  2985. ​ @ThatApeBigMad488  According to the first book in the trilogy, Moses ordered genocide ... except 32000 little virgin girls, of any age, which Israelites could keep for themselves. Did you have a point?
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  2986.  @YouConnolly  Don't bother trying to educate me. You couldn't even get the numbers in the right order. It doesn't say you have a right to any of those things. "to move to and take up residence in any province;" Nothing about that has anything to do with simply travelling and shopping. And? Plenty of things we vaccinate for are endemic. As soon as you get a little anti-vax enclave, you get an outbreak. Influenza is endemic, and we vaccinate every year. So, what's your point?
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  2987. ​ @laskji  If it was a failure, explain why studies consistently find higher COVID death rates in Republican counties, where people were less likely to get it, and less likely to follow other guidelines.
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  2988. @Sheep #5491 Rofl. The "hearings" are a shit show.
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  2989. Lol @ all the bullshit, don't contribute to society, answers. Poor people tend to spend every penny they have, putting it all entirely back into the society. Hoarders of money put less back into the economy, per dollar, if they aren't spending every penny they've got. By that measure, it's the hoarders who contribute less. Producers also tend to pass all costs onto consumers. Even if a corporation can't dodge all its taxes, they'll pass along the cost of what they can't dodge onto consumers. Those costs also include salaries and health care. By that measure, it's the consumers, including poor ones, who contribute more than the producers. Producers provide a method for moving the money around, while taking a cut for themselves. An okay system with small businesses, where the producer is also the labourer, and they aren't hoarding vast amounts. A terrible system the more that is skimmed off the top, and not recirculated back into the economy. Might as well be a lord, living off the labour of his peasants, and hoarding vast amounts gold in the process. So, it's because the system is looked at backwards, that people at the top are praised. You can not get the capitalism ball rolling without the capital in the hands of consumers. They are the ones providing.
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  2990. So, blindly "love" someone, no matter what they say? Sounds kinda dumb.
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  2991. Like all the fascist Batista supporters, who fled to Florida, who were okay with a US backed right wing dictator killing thousands of people?
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  2992. Ze'ev Jabotinsky, a Zionist himself, admitted that Zionism is colonialsim 100 years ago, and predicted exactly how the natives would react. US pilgrims worked with "good" natives. That's equivalent to saying you have a black friend, so can't be racist. Ben is completely full of shit, on this subject. Israel was literally founded on terrorism, by terrorists. Menachem Begin was an Irgun terrorist, who blew up the King David Hotel. The Bezalel Smotrich guy, that Netanyahu put in charge of the West Bank, was arrested for terrorism, he's a major homophobe, he's a racist, and he has a public plan to subjugate (no federal representation), exile, or kill, every non Jew in all Israel/Palestine. Ben just made himself look like a biased hack.
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  2993. What's the murder rate of a state vs a city? Lol Why not state vs state? State homicide rates ... West Virginia 6.9 California 6.4 New York 4.8
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  2994. Also, India, representing almost the entirety of the Hindu world, is ranked worse than Saudi for the treatment of women. Thousands of yearly bride burnings, tens of thousands of yearly kidnappings of women and girls for sex slavery, a third of the world's child brides, ... plus Hindutva crackpots.
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  2995.  @robinsss  "Since the trough of the COVID-19 recession in the second quarter of 2020, overall prices in the NFC sector have risen at an annualized rate of 6.1%—a pronounced acceleration over the 1.8% price growth that characterized the pre-pandemic business cycle of 2007–2019. Strikingly, over half of this increase (53.9%) can be attributed to fatter profit margins, with labor costs contributing less than 8% of this increase. This is not normal. From 1979 to 2019, profits only contributed about 11% to price growth and labor costs over 60%"
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  2996.  @grsshppr7659  That doesn't refute my point, in the least.
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  2997. @vikedude 123 Fascism is worse, because it is specifically an authoritarian form of crony capitalism. Communism is a broader spectrum, like capitalism, which comes in even non-authoritarian anarcho varieties. Fascism and authoritarian forms of communism, like Stalinism, are both equally horrible, sure, but the US government isn't authoritarian communist, so why compare them to Stalin? Being anti-fascist also doesn't equate to being a Stalinist, so why compare them to Stalin? Where does a Stalin comparison come in?
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  2998. Aren't these the same people that want tougher laws, more and longer incarcerations, when it's black people getting incarcerated at higher rates? Not rich white Republicans.
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  2999.  @thinkoutsidethelines8265  Pretty sure I responded with more than a few sentences about Dore. So, you don't grasp basic math.
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  3000.  @SuburbanConan  Ummm, the big pharma monoclonal antibodies they took are $2000+ a pop, and effective, dimwit. Ivermectin didn't save them.
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  3001.  @Sil3ntKn1ght  Way to fail at reading comprehension. The video being commented on is specifically about a bunch of partying morons, not an entire generation of people.
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  3002.  @bradleyriles3889  How is $1.9t bigger than $2.3t, dumb dumb?
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  3003. You're making an analogy between inanimate objects and living beings, and between owning and being owned? Shouldn't the analogy, at least, be from the owner perspective? If a law takes away your right to own slaves, but you keep slaves anyway, then you're a criminal, and then you threaten civil war to keep your slaves ... sounds somewhat familiar.
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  3004.  @robertfines7501  "rate" (per 100k). You compare states of different sizes by rates, not totals.
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  3005.  @dalton-at-work  They didn't have a pointless show vote on women's suffrage. The $15 minimum got a vote and all FTVers do is keep bitching about those who voted for it. They've proved that they're pathetic good for nothings, who don't actually believe just getting a vote is a big deal, who won't actually do anything with a list of no voters.
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  3006.  @BlazingOwnager  woke: alert to racial prejudice and discrimination What's the issue with being "ultra woke"?
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  3007. ​ @woodyhitya  Uh huh, and native Americans actually sometimes attacked colonialists, and were painted as the "savages". What's your point?
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  3008.  @BeardiusMaximus  She also made it quite clear that she wasn't anti most wars, since 9/11, back in 2016. “In short, when it comes to the war against terrorists, I’m a hawk. When it comes to counterproductive wars of regime change, I’m a dove.”
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  3009.  @RHINOTEJAS  The type of thinking that ranks it near the top of the best places in the world to live. So?
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  3010.  @BrandonGiordano  But, he didn't show up to block the annexation of land from the neighboring county, for the development. He didn't show up to block the first zoning plan, approved in November. He only showed up to block a new zoning plan, that included affordable housing. The development is still happening, just without affordable housing, now.
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  3011.  @roberttelford745  The progressives who backed Bernie and M4A during the last primaries, instead of Tulsi and a public option. The progressives who helped add a few more M4A yes votes to congress, which gets you closer to being able to pass the bill. The progressives who were just trying help add another M4A yes vote to congress, in Nina Turner, who Dore abandoned. The progressives who did vote against the stand alone rearming Israel bill, and introduced bills to put conditions on aid to Israel. You Dore knob dimwits wanted them to vote against the entire foreign aid budget, that included aid to Palestinians, as well as non military aid around the world? And what is it with your stupid obsession with Syria? There have been hundreds of accounts of Syrian chemical weapons use, hundreds of victim witnesses, dozens of healthcare worker witnesses, multiple NGO witnesses, independent investigations, legal human rights groups investigating on behalf of victims, on top of the numerous UN investigations that had zero dissenting opinions, since 2013, plus tons of other human rights violations. Two dissenting opinions on a single investigation doesn't even debunk that investigation, let alone all the others. The investigation you dimwits keep blathering about didn't even start until after the US, and others, were already bombing Syria, and the final report didn't come out until almost a year later, plus it didn't even assign blame as per Russian security council demands. It wasn't used as grounds for the bombing, ffs. You're being played by a grifter, Dore knob.
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  3012. All UBIs aren't the same, gangers. How it's paid for is very important. A VAT is specifically designed to NOT tax businesses in order to avoid double taxation. Since it won't make corporations like Amazon pay into the dividend, then they will only benefit from the dividend being spent. Yang will make Amazon extra tens of billions they can hoard or invest into automating even faster. He'll make Bezos extra billions a year more than he'd ever personally pay into a VAT. That doesn't sound like something MLK Jr would support. Anyone promoting a tax that's designed to not tax businesses, as a way to tax businesses, is completely clueless or completely dishonest. Anyone comparing a dividend that won't have corporations paying into it (Yang's), to a dividend paid for by corporations (Alaska's), is completely clueless or completely dishonest. Anyone claiming a VAT/UBI combo will have corporations paying you to show you ads, pay you for your data, or pay you for every automated truck mile, is completely clueless or completely dishonest. Take your pick. Is Yang clueless or dishonest? https://ec.europa.eu/taxation_customs/business/vat/what-is-vat_en
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  3013. Often by megachurch preachers.
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  3014. Antifa: property destruction, punching, and milkshaking White supremacists: property destruction, punching, shooting up mosques, synagogues, temples, black people in church, Hispanic people shopping, driving into crowds of people, and behind much of the hate crimes and domestic terrorism Yeah, the first sounds way worse.
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  3015. Every history book I read is just farming, farming, farming ... and more farming. Nothing else happened.
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  3016.  @timeames2509  But you're now defending punishing civilians, in an over the top manner, for the actions of their leadership. That's hypocritical. Prior to Oct 7, in 2023 alone, the IDF and illegal settlers had ended the lives of dozens of Pals, IL had held hundreds of Pals indefinitely without charges, IL had ethnclly cleansed over 1000 Pals to make room for new illegal settlements, and IL continued to operate an open air ghtto in Gaza. How many IL lives would have been acceptable? If ending less than 10x more is not okay for Ham, then how is ending over 30x more acceptable for IL?
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  3017. It's a joke, ya dimwit.
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  3018.  @benh580  Are you saying it's nearly impossible to run a business in Western European countries, Japan, Australia, Canada ... more progressive countries than the US? That would seem to be patently false.
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  3019.  @timothysalinas37  Just facts. https://www.justice.gov/usao-mn/pr/self-described-member-boogaloo-bois-charged-riot
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  3020.  @beardedrogue4282  Oh. My bad. Tim's "studio" can't work out a latency issue that countless podcasts, radio and TV shows, and even kids playing live music together, have figured out.
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  3021.  @andrewkent650  Well, they supposedly crucified the first coming for blasphemy. Let's hope they're consistent.
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  3022.  @DumbAssSpeakingWithMansVoice  The covid mortality rate has always been estimated at about 1%, 10x deadlier than the flu (which has seen it's own pandemic years, in the past), with even higher verifiable case fatality rates. If the US had a mediocre response, similar to Canada, Norway, Denmark, Germany ... their deaths per million rates would translate into 300+k fewer covid deaths in the US. If the US had an amazing response, similar to Vietnam, S Korea, New Zealand, Australia ... their deaths per million rate would translate into 500+k fewer covid deaths in the US. Right wingers continuing with their death panels, deciding certain people have passed their expiry dates, so it's okay to kill hundreds of thousands of them.
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  3023.  @DesignerDave  Dore has a video where he makes out like covid deaths are "WILDLY inflated". In it, he starts with total population hospitalization rates (vaccinated 0.01%, unvaccinated 0.89%), taken from a Gallup article. The proper "death rate", to compare to a total population hospitalization rate, would be the covid crude mortality rate (currently about 0.26%). That number is easy to find, and it's even easy to do the math yourself (take total population, total covid deaths, and work out the percentage). There's nothing incompatible with a 0.9% total population hospitalization rate and a 0.26% total population "death rate". Instead, Jimmy claims he can't find a current "death rate", or even one within the past year and a half ... and is apparently also too stupid to figure out any rates himself ... so uses a year and a half old "death rate", that is clearly a case fatality rate (3.4%), based on deaths per confirmed case (the hospitalizations rates weren't per confirmed case). Then he dishonestly compares those two rates, that are based on completely different math, to make out like covid deaths are being "WILDLY inflated" ... you know, because 3.4% is so much higher than 0.9%. Many anti-maskers/anti-vaxxers types have long argued that covid isn't any worse than a cold or flu, making it unnecessary to take precautions, masks or vaccines. Jimmy's dishonest video panders to that anti-mask/anti-vax bullshit.
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  3024.  @ilikebells  Basically every single one of his "anti-mandate" videos peddles misinformation about covid and vaccines, and then uses that as grounds for why vaccines shouldn't be mandated. They're both anti-mandate and anti-vax.
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  3025.  Mike W  Was it Sam scouring the internet, looking for Crowder standup, and monitoring Crowder's shows?
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  3026. 6 Republican presidential terms and 4 Democrat presidential terms, over the past 40 years. 10 R and 10 D house majorities. 11 R and 9 D senate majorities. Totally the Democrats fault.
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  3027.  @inspectortanzi  Rofl, are you a Jackson Hinkle MAGA "communist"?
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  3028.  @andyj845  The safety and security metric, yeah. You don't think hate speech incites people? Literally just a kid stabbed to death after listening to right wing radio, and a far right loon shoot up Maine. You don't think hate speech leads to discrimination? Literally book bannings and even word bannings going on right now. Doesn't CA's banning of book bannings actually make for more freedom, than having the "freedom" to ban whatever books you want?
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  3029.  @anti-corporatecapture3844  If it was ruled "unconstitutional", then why did they allow it for healthcare workers, genius? They simply ruled the OSHA didn't have the authority to mandate vaccines, but the CMS did, dimwit. They didn't rule it "unconstitutional".
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  3030. Animals can't consent, dumb dumb. This is like if a racist prick still wanted interracial marriages to be illegal, defended discrimination against interracial couples, claimed his Bible/Tanakh was against interracial couples and that the couple were evil wicked sinners. That's intolerance, and to be intolerant of that intolerance is to be opposed to it. To say being intolerant of that intolerance is the "most intolerant" would be beyond moronic.
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  3031.  @Will_Moffett  Rofl. Then why are there still so many Israel supporters? Why hasn't there been immediate major political pressure to ceasefire, if it's so obvious to everyone? DN reporting is great, and needed to move the needle.
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  3032.  @deadmeat1471  Nope. You exactly said he wasn't irrational, which means you must consider his arguments rational.
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  3033. You spelled 'Fatherland' wrong.
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  3034. "It's thought that science can help us get what we value, but it can never tell us what we ought to value. " Harris is an idiot, who never actually gets beyond what he states is already a given. If you present a subjective definition of "well being" and subjectively decide to set that as something you value, your goal, then science can help you achieve what you value. The end.
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  3035.  @joedon1706  Viruses, including covid, are still the primary cause of myocarditis. "The rest" is a lot less than "the rest" who get it from covid, and thousands of times lower than the covid infection fatality rate.
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  3036.  @ruminationstation4200  Canada's testing rate is also 27 people per confirmed case, while the US testing rate is 13.7 people per confirmed case. While it may be accurate to say that mailing tests is a step the US is now taking that the Canadian government hasn't, it would have been more accurate for David to point out that the US still needs to catch up to Canada, and not the other way around. Total tests and tests per million are kind of irrelevant numbers that are totally disconnected from the covid numbers. Tests per confirmed case tells you how you're doing compared to the virus spread. Dumpty was bragging about totals and tests per million, meanwhile the US was testing at a rate of about 5 people per confirmed case, at the time. Meanwhile, countries like A Korea, Vietnam, Australia, and New Zealand, were testing 50+ people per confirmed case. Testing rates seem to have a strong correlation to how well countries have contained the virus. The US should be increasing testing by a helluva lot more than 500k home tests.
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  3037.  @dirkdiggler7277  Biden didn't shut down any functioning pipelines, so didn't reduce delivery. OPEC prices have been historically cheaper. They kept oil prices pretty steady in the $15-30 a barrel range, for years. It was American oil companies that wanted prices higher, because oil production in N America costs more. Bush broke having lower, and fairly steady, gas prices. Gas prices dropped during the height of the pandemic, and are now back up to pre pandemic levels. They were lower because so much was shut down ... so lower no thanks to Trump, who argued against shutdowns, and higher thanks to all the states opening up. Trump could have avoided having as many shutdowns by not having a completely incompetent covid response. He could also have had better oversight for businesses that took covid money to keep paying employees, but instead took covid money and fired employees. Countries with excellent to mediocre covid responses also weren't as negatively impacted economically. Trump was a xenophobe for only stopping foreigners coming from China. He let a ton of Americans return from China, and keep traveling to and from China, as if Americans were immune. The first vaccine out of the gate had nothing to do with Trump's "operation warp speed". Vaccines in other countries, that had nothing to do with ows, also came out at similar times to ones that did. There's no evidence that Trump did anything that actually sped up the vaccine rollout.
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  3038.  @aliamjon2550  The US was kind of built on letting in millions of uneducated, unskilled, people without a job or a home, and handing out plots of land to them. So, the virus isn't a hoax, isn't equivalent to a cold, or whatever the going right wing bullshit is?
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  3039. It's an outing, because he pretended like his white nationalism wasn't racist ... that all races would equally be better off sticking with their own. He has used Israel as an example, claiming to support their ethno-state. Etc. Numerous of his online defenders have challenged critics to prove he's racist, or that his white nationalism is white supremacy. This pretty much blows that all to bits.
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  3040.  @tacitus6384  Ummm, the British parliament already operated as a representative democracy, with constraints. Slavery didn't even survive British common law, in Britain proper. Whatever was going on in the colonies, slavery was illegal in Britain proper. Pretty sure it counted as a big civilization, back then. And, when they abolished slavery in all the colonies, the colonies all said "Okay". The only reason the US had to "combat and crusade" over slavery is because it was such a racist country that a large percentage of the population was willing to kill, and be killed, for the "right" to own and abuse other human beings.
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  3041.  @tacitus6384  Rofl. You didn't even get anything historical right in your first post. Not sure what you've been reading but you might want to look for different authors.
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  3042.  @crogers4912  Rural reading levels are below urban and suburb reading levels. Rural kids don't go to college as much. Which Democrat cities are to blame?
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  3043.  @jinwanc  The op is calling Collins, and hypocrites like her, who complain about Biden picking a black woman, the racists. They didn't saying picking a black woman is racist.
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  3044. The roads are lined with people who let Jesus take the wheel. He's not a good driver.
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  3045.  @Djockzone  I'm not reading that. "Biden will not be the Democratic nominee. Get ready for Michelle Obama." ~ Vivek tweet, Feb 8 2024
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  3046.  @loulfw2513  FTV was asking for a 100% guaranteed to fail performance art vote, hypocrite. AOC actively backed 20 other pro-M4A progressives with her platform and PAC, helped add a few more M4A yes votes to congress, and helped remove a few more corporate Dems. Adding enough yes votes is, literally, the only possible way to ever pass a bill in congress. She has been doing the exact thing that needs doing. On the M4A march day, AOC was campaigning for Nina, promoting M4A while doing so, and again actively trying to increase the number of M4A yes votes in congress. Dore abandoned Nina, he abandoned adding another M4A yes vote to congress, M4A marchers didn't go support her, he then turned around and slandered AOC, claiming she was the one who abandoned M4A. Bush has been focused on the immediate eviction problem, both in her district, and federally. Your heading is being filled by a lying grifter, who doesn't actually give two craps if anyone gets healthcare. He didn't care if 10m of the poorest Americans were thrown off Medicaid expansion, he didn't care to try and add 40m older Americans to Medicare expansion, he doesn't care that the most popular third party hasn't won a single seat in congress in its near 50 year existence and that that route won't get anyone healthcare in the next century. He doesn't care.
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  3047.  @devo2  Their timelapses include both climate change causes and effects, as well as overall damage to the environment. They include deforestation, which you clearly didn't know was a contributing cause to climate change, even admitted it, and yet you plowed forward, as if you weren't an ignorant twit. Why did you skip Greenland becoming greener, and the glaciers melting?
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  3048. Greenwald, literally, doesn't know what "censorship" means, in this case, or is intentionally misrepresenting its meaning. I'm sure he has been in the news business long enough to know that asking for edits, or even scrapping a story, doesn't equate to "censorship". That's just a fact, not propaganda. Censorship would be if the authorities forced them to edit, or scrap, a story.
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  3049.  @bodhisattva3774  No it didn't help the bill pass. Who cares, they aren't the actual police. Yeah, she wants to remain in a majority party in a mid term that puts Democrats in danger of losing the house, and it's a fact that progressives don't have a chance in hell in some districts. I get it. You Dore knob types would prefer a republican majority, because that's what "real" progressives want.
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  3050. You're a loon.
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  3051.  @jmcc2275  Nazis didn't live inside the Warsaw ghetto. You don't have to live inside an area to occupy it. Israel controls the borders, ports, airspace, who goes in and out, what goes in and out, electricity, water, and Bibi even controls the money from Qatar, having stopped and started it multiple times. Gaza is an open air WWII style fascist ghetto. In the West Bank, Israel has never stopped colonizing. Over 1000 Palestinians ethnically cleansed, prior to Oct 7, this year. 700k colonizers.
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  3052.  @zippydodahquirk9039  Peru has used it most. They have the most covid deaths per capita on the planet. American doctors aren't prescribing it for covid, so right wing morons, who have been encouraged by right wing morons like Prager and Dore, have been taking over the counter horse medicine. That's why people are talking about horse medicine.
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  3053.  @emblemedfate4270  Editors have been asking for editorial rewrites since the beginning of newspapers. It's one thing to claim your editors are partisan. It's a completely different thing to have a tantrum, being a moron and making out like your free speech rights have been violated, going on multiple shows and also making out like private companies with TOS violate people's free speech rights, etc. His editors asking for a rewrite drove him off the deep end. He's spewing nonsense all over the place.
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  3054. He was tops in the world for helping to create more people with disabilities.
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  3055.  @bkbland1626  And wood floats on water. What else floats on water?
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  3056.  Bryzz Lull   Ummm, you should read a history book, or two. There was no American founding in the 16th century. Jamestown wasn't even settled until 1607, the beginning of the 17th century. Plymouth was settled in 1620. Then came waves of Puritans, who basically created a theocracy. They enslaved or killed natives that didn't convert. They banished, persecuted, or killed other Christians who didn't conform, including Quakers. They banished, persecuted, or killed non-Christians. They killed people for "witchcraft". They forced church attendance. They forced a dress code. They outlawed PDAs. Etc. There was no liberty, at all. By the time the later 18th century rolled around, when the 1775 revolution occurred, British parliamentarians had already fought three civil wars against royalists, and chopped off a king's head, over a hundred years earlier. They had also already enacted a number of bills outlining subject rights (petition of right, habeas corpus act, and bill of rights), during that time, as well. What American revolutionaries originally wanted was the same rights and freedoms as those in the motherland, where those things had already existed for over a century. British common law was so much better than colonial laws at protecting individual rights, slavery couldn't survive it. When Americans created their own constitution and bill of rights, they used the British one as a model. But, their rights didn't protect everyone's liberty, and they still conserved chattel slavery, and only managed to get rid of it by fighting a bloody civil war against those willing to kill and die to conserve it forever, decades after the British Empire had abolished it in all the other colonies it still owned, and everyone said okay, without a fight. Those millions of freed American slaves, and their descendants, were still stripped of rights, discriminated against, persecuted, and even killed, for another hundred years, before the US came up with a civil rights act, after a great struggle against those trying to conserve those lack of rights, that finally protected everyone. Americans are actually a slow bunch, when it comes to freedoms, compared to many other countries, due to so many of them trying to conserve the exact opposite of liberty. They are not at the forefront, at all. America "created" so much, for so many, because it had a ton of open land (well, once the natives were cleared out), and people were given free land ... government handouts. This also happened in Canada and Australia, both of which rank better than the US on the freedom index, on the happiness index, on quality of life, on healthcare, on education, etc., etc. Conservatives do not believe in smaller government. They love a big military and expanded policing, both of which are expanding government. Conservatives do not believe in a free market, and work towards helping monopolies, all the time, as well as support corporate welfare. So, all you basically said was ... conservatives believe in pure bullshit and propaganda.
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  3057. C'mon, a primary is different than a third party. Not, at all, the same. A third party run splits the vote during the general election. In Canada, Conservatives only get a majority of votes in 2 provinces, and yet they win, with little more than a third of the vote, in more provinces, and even federally, because the rest of the votes are split between Libs (Dem light) and the NDP (progressives). It's just math. Cornell should have run as a Dem, in the primary. Anything else is just asking for Republican rule.
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  3058. ​ @lgroots8691  Rofl, you lot have been gathering all the nuts into one basket since Nixon.
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  3059.  @harveymanfredsenjenson5417  Oh lol, it's the grade school dropout, who doesn't know how median income works. 6.952 million views in the past 30 days, according to socialblade. Seems like a few.
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  3060.  @harveymanfredsenjenson5417  Rofl. How is citing a second source "moving the goalpost", dumb dumb? Seems like another term you don't comprehend.
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  3061.  @JamesMorgan-ne8qu  More specifically, that because they would be able to achieve anything, working together, implying the tower to Heaven was possible. Heaven should be hovering about 500' over Iraq somewhere.
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  3062. ​ @redguy8941  Is there some other viable option?
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  3063.  @thecheshirecat299  Rofl, how many threads have you spewed your whataboutism in?
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  3064.  @markzuckergecko621  Did you fail grade school math?
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  3065. ​ @kfleming78  I've heard people call cars, boats, and other things, "she". So, those are women, right?
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  3066.  @minnymouse4753  250k deaths isn't saying much? Are you a sociopath? Wtf are you blabbering about George Floyd for?
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  3067. He was born to an American that was passing through, and was considered an American, by birth. He's all yours.
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  3068.  @midwesternmann6290  Are you trying, and failing, to say "anecdotal"?
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  3069.  @thomasautonomousanonymous  Seems like you have reading comprehension problems, and are ignorant about Jimmy's 2016 take.
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  3070. ​ @barbiquearea  A dry doctor.
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  3071. Thinking there'd be some massive uprising over a guaranteed to fail vote is moronic and naive. It's a fantasy, just like Dore's fantasy that a Trump presidency would cause a massive progressive uprising, that would "for sure" take the house and senate in 2018, and the presidency in 2020. Thinking you need to go to all out war with the party, just to get a list of names to primary, is moronic. You get a new list of people who won't sign onto the M4A bills each new session. Pelosi even introduced M4A, just last session, where it died in committee. The speaker, alone, can't even force a bill through committees to the floor.
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  3072.  @pavedarker8484  You don't know what "blackmail" means.
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  3073.  @alizakessler  Want to go through them? You can find Ze'ev Jabotinsky's The Iron Wall at the Jwsh Virtual Library, along with Likud's platform, and info on the Irgun and Lehi (including their attempts to ally with Fscsts and Nzs). You can Google: Einstein letter to NYT 1948. Let me know what else you need help finding.
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  3074.  @prabesh8277  Their leader calling to overthrow the democratic process. The majority of their lawmakers trying to overthrow the democratic process. The majority of their followers believing the fascist propaganda, leading to some of them trying to violently overthrow the democratic process. What's not fascist about them?
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  3075.  @prabesh8277  Have the US, and many other developed countries, been "fascist" for over a century, since they've been mandating vaccinations (something supported by both US parties) for over a century?
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  3076.  BalkanHound  Ivermectin has been used in Peru a lot. Peru has the most covid deaths per capita, in the world.
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  3077. @jon petcoff That's an oxymoron.
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  3078.  @robinsss  Well, simply saying "anarchists", tends to imply anarcho-socialists, who the "anarchist" label is generally applied to, when used alone. Capital "L" US Libertarians do range from Ayn Rand Objectivist types (Gary) to anarcho-capitalist types (Darryl).
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  3079. Alan W Well, for one, the ism Huxley defined wasn't answering a different question. You folks making up a new ism, should come up with a new name for your ism. Secondly, there are 3 different positions of belief/non-belief, regarding any objective truth claim. If you include knowledge/certainty questions, then there are 5 positions. There's still a middle. "Agnostic atheist" doesn't tell me if you believe gods don't exist (agnostic strong/positive a-theist) or don't (agnostic weak/negative a-theist). If you're going off those 4 position models, they're garbage. https://qph.ec.quoracdn.net/main-qimg-2c6c280baf5c6d800eb96638f25259a4-p
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  3080. Rofl. He just defined agnosticism, almost exactly how Huxley did, only he called it "atheism". Idiot. Huxley was a scientist, above all else. He saw the scientific method in picking apples at the market. The agnosticism he defined was a belief in that scientific method, and it amounted to a form of demarcation. No objective testable evidence = a subjective unfalsifiable claim. Results: unscientific and inconclusive. No belief as to the truth, or falsehood, of the claim. It is not compatible with athe-ism, a belief gods do not exist, or the-ism, a belief gods do exist. “I say, strive earnestly to learn something, not only of the results, but of the methods of science, and then apply those methods to all statements which offer themselves for your belief. If they will not stand that test, they are nought, let them come with what authority they may.” "Agnosticism is of the essence of science, whether ancient or modern. It simply means that a man shall not say he knows or believes that which he has no scientific grounds for professing to know or believe." "That which Agnostics deny and repudiate, as immoral, is the contrary doctrine, that there are propositions which men ought to believe, without logically satisfactory evidence; and that reprobation ought to attach to the profession of disbelief in such inadequately supported propositions." This New A-theism stuff is nonsense. "In this interpretation an atheist becomes: not someone who positively asserts the non-existence of God; but someone who is simply not a theist. Let us, for future ready reference, introduce the labels ‘positive atheist’ for the former and ‘negative atheist’ for the latter. The introduction of this new interpretation of the word ‘atheism’ may appear to be a piece of perverse Humpty-Dumptyism, going arbitrarily against established common usage. ‘Whyever’, it could be asked, ‘don’t you make it not the presumption of atheism but the presumption of agnosticism?’" ~ Antony Flew
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  3081. ​ @stillfishing4sheep  Name the Dem policies that would move the US left of Denmark (real world centrism), dingus.
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  3082.  @adriennetisme  In 2016, he claimed that a Trump presidency would be better for progressives, vastly overestimating the benefits, claiming it would lead to a massive progressive wave that would "for sure" take the house and senate in 2018, and take the presidency in 2020. He vastly underestimated the risks, claiming Republicans would even join the left to vote against a Trump agenda, rather than follow a fascist, and claiming Trump filling multiple scotus seats was as likely as the moon falling into Lake Michigan. All while not giving a crap if that meant 10m of the poorest Americans were thrown off of Medicaid expansion, and not caring to add 40m older Americans to Medicare expansion, and yet somehow now passes himself off as the one true champion of healthcare.
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  3083.  @traviswilliams2010  Most congresspeople also have to maintain 2 households. So, you expect her to run campaigns on her salary?
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  3084. @Badatallthis Stuff Who the f*ck ever argued EVERYONE was going to die from covid? Shove your strawman. Per capita is how you compare things in countries with different populations. Norway's rate would translate into about 2500 total Sweden covid deaths, instead of 15k. That's about 12500 preventable deaths Sweden didn't bother to try and prevent. All for what? Their economy didn't even do better. So, they died just so people wouldn't be inconvenienced by a mask, or something?
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  3085. @Anurag Chakraborty You know it's mostly red states that top both those lists, right?
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  3086. So are Pakman, Doel, Seder, and others. Oddly, I can't find a Dore clip praising the end of a war.
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  3087. The progressive caucus is possibly one election away from becoming the majority of house Democrats. Then they could pick a progressive speaker and put M4A up for a vote as often as they like, if Dems still have the house. Threatening to paralyze the house could backfire and damage progressive gains, and going third party when it won't win a seat in congress in 50 years let alone get anyone healthcare ... Jimmy doesn't have the brightest ideas.
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  3088.  @jrodamores87  Who is it I hate? I don't hate Cubans, because I think the US should normalize relations with Cuba, and stop punishing Cuban civilians. It's just a fact who came over in the first couple waves. I don't like Batista fascists? Sure. So? What's wrong with disliking fascists?
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  3089.  @whyamimrpink78  Being 13th is not bad? It's in the bottom 20%. Like I said ... "mostly".
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  3090.  @fussballgeniesser  He's a cultist, that constantly twists himself into knots, trying to make out like Yang is perfect.
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  3091.  @Historia.Magistra.Vitae.  Wrong again. "And above all Fascism denies that class-war can be the preponderant force in the transformation of society." ~ Mussolini Classes accepting their lot in life, and just working together for the country, is, in no reality, socialism or communism.
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  3092.  Frank Marano  The Hill is owned by a good friend of Dumpty and Rudy. Be weary of some of their spins on things.
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  3093.  E.C. Cooper  They think they'd like less police brutality and a more just justice system?
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  3094. That's stupid. If you report human rights violations, or war crimes, in any country, then you support intervention?
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  3095.  @raonaveen90  The corporate Dem majority could keep picking Pelosi over and over and over, or someone worse, as the party speaker candidate. Paralyzing the house and picking the party speaker candidate are two different things. And, if you go to all out war with the party, what do you think they'll do, when the progressive caucus does become the majority and picks the party speaker candidate? The most popular third party hasn't won a single seat in congress in its near 50 year existence. That's the longest road you could take.
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  3096. ​ @jds614  You know Likud is founded by the Irgun and Lehi, yeah?
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  3097. To be fair to the "moron", it's your question that's pretty stupid.
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  3098.  Zero Cool  Lol. "We're sort of like the alt-right without the racism." ~ Gavin McInnes Except for the ones that are clearly racist, of course. https://www.thisamericanlife.org/626/transcript
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  3099. ​ @ianbaine  States don't do things exactly the same, when it comes to education. Not every state thinks PragerU is educational, for example. There is also a difference in prioritizing education. Top 10 least educated states ... West Virginia Mississippi Louisiana Arkansas Alabama Oklahoma Nevada Kentucky New Mexico Texas
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  3100.  @Mr_Rabbit  You seriously don't think Tucker is including himself in the "well adjusted among us" category? That he's instead including himself amongst the boring, boorish, brainwashed, narcissists, that you should move away from? That seems like a pretty biased, not at all objective, take.
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  3101.  @Sophie-and-Ken  Umm, your anecdote doesn't represent reality. The US has a massively higher flu death rate than Canada, even if you multiply Canada's number by 10, to account for population difference. https://www.cbc.ca/news/health/flu-deaths-us-80000-last-winter-1.4839917
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  3102. What's the difference between claiming a digital currency has value, claiming a piece of metal has value, or claiming a piece of paper with artwork on it has value? It's all made up.
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  3103. It does not recognize a lot of those people. A disabled person with a child could already be getting $1000 per month. With most things costing, at least, 10% more, they'd be worse off. It doesn't adjust for cost of living. It doesn't adjust for children.
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  3104. Bernie also needs keep progressives in the house and senate, and not take them all out and put them in his cabinet. Nina's great, and isn't currently serving.
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  3105.  @comareborn8734  How is it "not all of them", when even the "good" ones help to come up with convincing lies to get the bad cops off? Or the "good" cops threaten to strike if a bad cop is fired? Etc.
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  3106.  @cookieheka5431  Because he said they were effective? Because he said they were safe?
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  3107.  @davidadams2395  Rofl. How are Democrats responsible, when it's Trump's policies causing the problem? The majority now coming across aren't Mexicans, so why is it Mexico's responsibility to not let them get to the US? And why does how you came to have children in your custody, matter to how you then treat them?
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  3108.  @MisterNarrador  You can be a carrier, if your vaccinated. So, not at all like a force field.
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  3109.  @jojojoe1904  There's a new list of people that don't sign onto it every time it's reintroduced in a new session, dumb dumb. If you and Jimmy had an extra 100 pro-M4A candidates in your back pockets, why didn't you run them in the election that just happened?
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  3110. Both the old man and the cop were trigger happy. "Drop the gun" with shooting immediately as the punctuation to the sentence.
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  3111. 85% of those dying are unvaccinated. Is it him promoting not getting vaccinated? Are you saying he should force those people to get vaccinated?
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  3112. Yeah, yeah, the prolonged seatbelt and speeding laws destroy freedom and liberty!!! Nutjob.
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  3113.  @jeremiahbachmann3901  When weren't conservatives authoritarian?
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  3114. Don't be like a Trump cultist, denying reality. He said it in front of dozens of reporters. https://time.com/5773895/andrew-yang-iowa-campaign/
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  3115.  @ItsAllison-ub3vx  There were also other "loans", after the initial $1m, as well. They got fined for illegal loans to Donnie boy's failing casino. Through a lawyer, Fred purchased $3.5m in chips, and then didn't cash them in. The casino still went bankrupt a year later.
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  3116.  @ramonalfaro3252  Oh, give me a break. He has been acting like he's the one true puritan leftist champion, and anyone who disagrees, even on a single tactic, is a fraud. All while somehow benefiting the right the most.
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  3117.  @doeeyes2  The US Senate shouldn't exist. Giving 580k people the exact same number of votes as 39m people, is insanity. At least, with the electoral college, you could actually ditch the 1929 Apportionment Act, enlarge the house, and give proportional representation, which would get you proportional electorals. The senate is just pure stupidity. Our Conservatives splintered for awhile years back, and the further right of the two parties wanted to implement that shit here in Canada. Glad they got nowhere with it.
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  3118.  @2727rogers  No. The bill was actually passed by St Laurent's majority Liberal parliament (its second in a row majority Liberal parliament). It simply wasn't implemented until the following year, under a minority government. There's a difference between an actually viable third party in a parliamentary system, and no viable third parties in the current US system. The 30 year old broader progressive caucus is about 10 seats away from becoming the majority of house Dems. Justice Dems have replaced about a dozen corporate Dems in 4 years. AOC has helped replace a few in just 2 years. The most popular third party hasn't won a single seat in congress in its near 50 year existence. The most popular progressive third party hasn't won a single seat in congress in its 20 year existence, and that party has produced beautiful candidates like Kyrsten Sinema. It's a fantasy to think a third party has a shot in the US, and will get you M4A in the next century. It's a fantasy to think they'll produce perfectly perfect progressive puritan candidates, far beyond progressive Dems. Even if you somehow magically peeled away a significant number of progressive votes, to win a handful of seats, the most likely political outcome would be a Republican majority or minority government. They would most likely work with the most conservative Dems, to pass legislation, and completely ignore your insignificant number of seats.
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  3119.  @jstreets1983  Rofl. Voting third party won't even get you a seat in the house for decades, let alone M4A, and could let Republicans rule for decades, if you split the vote enough. Sounds like you're the fake progressive and Republican shill, like Jimmy.
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  3120. US History 101: Protesting, rioting, even going to war, over extra taxes that specifically funded the police/military and a lack of representation = good, anti-authoritarian. Fighting against democracy to keep an unelected ruler in power = bad, authoritarian. They are treated differently, because they are different, dumb dumb.
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  3121.  Alabama Man 2.0  You're jealous. He has more views than you, therefore jealous, by your own "logic".
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  3122.  @stopwritingthatreplyjohnat6638  Only a complete idiot, like Dore, would be shocked that ancappers will agree with you on some anti-authoritarian issues. Old news. They're still the complete opposite on economics, unless you're also a far right capitalist.
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  3123.    He proved he was objectively delusional to think a Trump presidency would be better for progressives ... that it would lead to a progressive wave which would "for sure" take the house and senate in 2018, and the presidency in 2020 ... that Republicans would join with the left to obstruct a Trump agenda ... that Trump filling multiple scotus seats was as likely as the moon falling into Lake Michigan. He proved he was operating outside of reality when he claimed Stein, who was only on the ballot in like 10 states, had a shot. AOC just got done campaigning for Bernie and backed 20 other progressives, helping to remove a few more corporate Dems and add a few more M4A yes votes to congress. To make out like that's a worse ally than ancap Boogaloos is actually insane. Getting a guaranteed to fail vote on M4A was supposedly supposed to be useful in pressuring or replacing those opposed. Progressives get the $15 to stay in for a round of voting, and suddenly that's not useful in going after those opposed, but instead useful in continuing to shit on progressives. There's gaslighting, and then there's actually being delusional. Sam was right on the mark, predicting the reality of multiple scotus seats being filled. So, obviously Jimmy was gaslighting. Jimmy has been proven to be delusional, and is therefore actually delusional.
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  3124. Didn't Trump and his cult argue that you should leave the country if you don't like it?
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  3125.  @kennethcadwell2124  All you said was that you don't know what "OT" means. Do you believe Jesus = God? If so, he's the same multiple personality disorder psycho who dictated all the OT rules to Moses, and the like.
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  3126.  @scifirealism5943  Yeah. The corporation is treated something like a person, in its own right. So it, and only it, bears responsibility for its debt. The large shareholders, actually running it, making the decisions for it, effectively acting as its brain, somehow aren't considered a part of it and aren't personally liable for what it does.
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  3127.  @yeyeee4230  Morons on the right called Obama a commie. They're, objectively, idiots.
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  3128.  @dorothypage77  Where does he say that he will initially bump up all assistance programs by at least 10%, and that they will rise with inflation? Where does he even say UBI will rise with inflation?
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  3129.  @bartjargengarblbargeler1980  Seems to have spelled out astroturfing, just fine. Are you sure you know what it means?
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  3130. Yeah, great choice. "We cannot get re-elect, we cannot win this re-election, excuse me. We can only re-elect Donald Trump." ~ Joe Biden
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  3131.  @Anxh007  Yeah, that's a load of crap. Turkey is the last remnant of the Ottoman Empire, not Saudi. Women there are fighting to keep abortion rights, like in the US, and homosexuality was never illegal, because they carried over Ottoman laws, which had already decriminalized it. Jews had lived in relative peace in Muslim nations, for 1300 years, been given refuge when Christian nations offered conversion, death, or exile. Plenty of accounts of Christian crusaders being the most bigoted, ruthless, and fanatic, during the Crusades. Etc. Most of the current Muslim nations were created by the Christian west. Carving up the Ottoman Empire was as if nations conquered the US, with the help of far right Christian militia groups, and then handed those religious nuts some of the states to rule over, like theocracies, after. And then, if any more moderate leftist Muslims rose up, those same Christian nations helped overthrow them, with coups, or again backing religious extremists. So, yeah, the West wanting to keep the current socio-economic status, in those countries, has been tied to more extremism. Just like how they supported fascists, in Central/South America, to try and keep the status quo, keep people down, and keep the money flowing in the direction they wanted.
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  3132.  @rahn45  Moron, the WHO took it seriously and the CDC head works for Trump.
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  3133. They also ignored the large 2019 border crossing spike, and ignored that this wave started back before September. Averaged out, Trump had more border crossings per year than Obama.
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  3134.  ArchAingeal  Yeah, so you don't know what "multiculturalism" means. Thanks for stopping by and letting us know.
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  3135.  @redrick8900  Rofl! The USSR put the first object into space, the first man into space, the first space station into space, put the first unmanned rover on the moon ... Wtf, does anything you said have to do with freedom, dumb dumb?
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  3136.  @JusSick24  Dimwit Dore knob ... all Republicans and basically all corporate Dems, openly campaign against M4A, so wtf are you even talking about? There's also a brand new list of house members who won't sign onto the bill. Why didn't you run the 100+ viable M4A candidates you have laying around against some of the 300+ who won't sign onto the bill? Dore knobs have proved it was a call for performance art. The $15 got a vote, even passed the house and got a senate vote. What have Dore knobs done with that? Bitch about those who got it to stay in for a round of voting and voted for it. Dore knobs are lazy pathetic hypocrites, and wouldn't have done anything different with a list of no voters, than they're doing now, with a list of those who won't sign onto it, and who actively campaign against it.
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  3137. ​ @shadowoflugia  They have the same energy and behaviour of investment bots.
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  3138.  @anderseckstrand7033  Shouldn't an "outstanding journalist" know basics, like ... that you don't have, and never did have, "free speech" on someone else's private property, and that you can't lose something you never had?
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  3139.  @guiagaston7273  Despite your denial, you're clearly a dimwitted Dore knob. You idiots don't get that "vote blue" works both ways. If a progressive can make it through the primaries, those who voted against them will turn around and vote for them in the general. It's how progressives can have a chance in purple districts. Splitting Democrat voters in those districts is just handing it to Republicans. Any hope in hell of Bernie becoming president would have relied on Clinton or Biden voters turning around and voting for him in the general. You "real" leftists seem to prefer Republican rule for decades to come. Even if the current progressives aren't perfectly perfect puritan enough for you, running as a Dem is very clearly the more effective way to ever win a seat. The most popular third party hasn't won a single seat in congress in its near 50 year existence. Find better candidates, if you think they're so bad. You might want to try and remove more corporate Dems and Republicans, first, before worrying about purifying the progressives, though.
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  3140.  @guiagaston7273  No. Dore outright promoted the idea that letting 10 people be executed, or 5 be run over by a trolley, was the better option. You just argued he's stupid. I thought that was the one thing we had agreed on.
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  3141.  Derek Hitt  And fascism is a form of authoritarian capitalism. Did you have a point?
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  3142. ​ @mp22893 As for "anti-war", he is only anti-US. He is completely fine with Russia invading other countries, starting wars.
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  3143.  @shinystarmiestudios4179  And they think that somehow absolves the US response, which doesn't make sense. Even if it was a bioweapon, countries still responded to it differently, and the US response was still shit.
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  3144.  @Btdenn123  Trade and taxes? Since his first budget tax plan kicked in, and he started his trade wars, at the beginning of 2018, even his favorite measure (the stock market) says he sucks. It has only grown 4000 points since then. He doesn't know how tariffs work. Other nations are just leaving the US out of new trade deals. Regulatory? What's good about deregulating health, safety, and environmental standards? Foreign policies? He's dropping more bombs than Obama. He hasn't ended the endless wars. Allies dislike him. Iran and N Korea are following their nuclear programs unsupervised. Assassinations are pushing things to the brink with Iran, a much more populated, and more developed, country than Afghanistan or Iraq (after a decade long siege). Immigration? Why? What good do you think his immigration policies have done?
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  3145.  @heavydny86  Huckster Jordan claimed his huckster daughter's meat only diet had cured his anxiety and depression, so why did he need drugs? Huckster Jordan has also claimed that only a spiritual experience will break an addiction, so why the medically induced coma?
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  3146. @Sez B 20 years? They both jumped further right with McCarthyism, the Red Scare, and the Cold War. The Democrat party ditched being the union party for workers, and joined being another corporate party. More Democrats, now, might be slightly left of Bill Clinton, but he was well right of FDR. The Republicans have gone crazy far right, keeping that McCarthyism mentality, along with a theocratic mentality, adding in Southern racists, adding in Tea Party nutters, working up an 8 year racist frenzy against Obama ... and then, after creating this crazy core, Trump came along and hijacked it, playing on all their worst attributes.
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  3147. Can you explain how singling out "congresswomen" you consider foreigners, "who originally came from countries", and telling them to "go back" "from which they came", not racist and sexist? There are white female progressives. There are male progressives. Maybe also explain how it's not completely hypocritical, considering he, and Republicans, spent 8 years complaining about the country and the previous president ... considering the MAGA slogan was based on not considering America great, at the time. Shouldn't everyone with a MAGA hat have packed their bags and gone back to wherever they come from? Maybe also explain how it's not completely moronic, considering only 1 was born outside the US.
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  3148.  @888strummer  So, you're saying that lifelong housewives don't get Medicare? You're saying that those with higher wages, who paid in more, get back exactly what they paid in, and those with lower wages, who paid in less, get back exactly what they paid in? Or, are you simply dumb?
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  3149.  @feathersigil2048  But they don't have laws about going elsewhere, to get one. They aren't hunting down women, and trying to charge them with murder. They even offer help, PEI: "If a physician is unavailable OR pregnancy is beyond 15 weeks 6 days, Sexual Health, Options & Reproductive Services staff can assist with out-of-province options."
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  3150. Well, aside from the fact that a dozen Benghazi investigations showed no wrongdoing, and this is just the beginning of investigating into Jan 6. Hundreds of charges, A seditious conspiracy plot uncovered already. Republican memos laying out a coup plan. Etc. Not exactly samesies.
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  3151.  @samuelmerkel2888  You seem to be reinventing the definition of the word "executive". executive: a person with senior managerial responsibility in a business organization.
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  3152. He'd probably be dumb enough to accept it, and brag about it, if presented as a Nobel.
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  3153.  @adamfiala7615  Haha, Bernie Sanders is about as "left" a politician as the US has. He points at centrist European countries to emulate. He's centre-left, at best. There are zero US politicians promoting total economic equality and an end to capitalism, which would actually be extreme left. On the other hand, there are numerous US politicians promoting Ayn Randian economics, which is about as far right as you can get. US politics moved totally right of centre with McCarthyism and the Cold War, and then the Tea Party. The US still hasn't recovered.
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  3154.  @Bugdriver49  He lost betting on his son, at least, two times. After the initial loan, pops also had his lawyer buy $3.5m in chips, from one of Donnie's failing casinos, that they didn't cash in. It still went bankrupt a year later. https://www.motherjones.com/politics/2016/09/trump-files-fred-trump-funneled-cash-donald-using-casino-chips/
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  3155. Probably more to do with him being a coward. If his cult staged a coup, "on their own" (with a little inciting), he could do his denying being part of it routine if it went bad.
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  3156.  @musicman1eanda  Doesn't the right argue that it's weakness to put feelz over facts? Fact: states with less gun control tend to have both higher firearm mortality rates and higher homicide rates. The actual best way to protect your family is to have tighter gun laws. But, you being able to personally fondle your gun makes you feel better, eases your fear, right?
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  3157. It's not an issue that can be resolved with a single vote. It's going to take public pressure. So, would you like people who make laws okaying driving over protesters, or almost outlawing protests, and who call for movements (blm) to be categorized as terrorist organizations, etc., in charge, as your protesting?
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  3158.  @laqueefa8509  What have FTVers done with the ever so precious list of no voters on the $15 minimum wage? Oh right, they've continued to bitch about those who voted for it. They're just a pathetic bunch of lazy hypocrites, that would have likewise done absolutely nothing with a list of M4A no voters. Just like they've done nothing with the list of those who won't cosponsor M4A.
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  3159.  @bjornjorgenbjorgenhoogenbo2954  Increasing his right wing audience, and subscribers, increases his profits. And his webpage is still advertising memberships and merch. You Dore knobs buy all his bullshit, hook, line, and sinker. The Trumpists of the "left" (who still somehow benefit the right most).
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  3160.  Alabama Man 2.0  You: NFL gets more views than Discovery Atlas, therefore it's more informative!!!
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  3161.  @crogers4912  Profits are what's left after debits and credits are calculated. If there are massive profits, then there is money to pay people more. If your company is teatering on the edge, so close that they can't give a $1/hr raise, then you might want keep your feelers out for another job.
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  3162.  @joeb134  But the Romeo and Juliet laws you're referring to only applies to relationships. There's no exemption for exposing yourself in public. He was an adult who exposed himself to minors.
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  3163.  @joeb134  You don't seem to get any facts right. He is 40, going on 41. He was 24, at the time, as others pointed out. Boebert, and her friends, were 17, and 16, which make a them minors. He spent 4 days in jail, and got 2 years probation.
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  3164.  @joeb134  Is the arrest record a reliable source? Birthdate: 12-06-1980. You're the Trumpist like loon who hasn't got a single fact straight. One of the other girls was 16, ffs. In what reality doesn't that count as a minor?
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  3165.  @coleworld1898  Lies that have been addressed in the thread, already.
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  3166.  @thefreerepublicofadmiralpr2935  How is a peace deal with the UAE, "meaningful"? It didn't resolve anything with regards to Israel-Palestine, and caused tensions between the UAE and other nations. Trump also removed environmental protections, endangered species protections, etc., that allowed for the killing of more animals and more destruction of their habitat. Opioid deaths continued to increase. What did Trump do, exactly? Trump dropped more bombs than Obama. He clearly warred against people and countries. Oil exports have been increasing, yearly, since 2010. The US was already a net exporter of oil, before Dumpty. Natural gas exports have been increasing, yearly, since 2014. What is it Dumpty did, exactly, that wasn't already happening? 85% of contraband comes through entry points, dumb dumb. Plus, cartels own more planes than Mexican airlines. They also have boats. They also have tunnels. They also have catapults. They don't tend to send their contraband across rivers and deserts, being carried by the most likely people to be picked up by border patrol. The prices of over 800 drugs went up in 2020. Drug companies are increasing prices on over 1k drugs in 2021. What did Trump do, exactly? I'm stopping there. You seem to be spewing a load of crap.
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  3167. It also says to murder disrespectful and disobedient children. Planned any children stonings lately?
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  3168. Toronto gave us the Ford brothers. Just sayin.
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  3169. They freaking quoted her. Melania implying it's okay to talk about Greta that way, because Greta is a public activist, but it's not okay to talk about Barron, because he's not, is bullshit. Go ahead and try to counter Greta's climate change arguments all you want, sure, but Trump shouldn't be trying to belittle a teen to his tens of millions of brain dead followers.
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  3170. ​ @prodemocracyseth  Every single country that doesn't have a monarchy, is a republic, by definition. More than a few republics elect representatives.
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  3171. Left of Mao doesn't suggest making friends with far right ancap Boogaloos who are the complete economic opposites, doesn't go on far right television to agree with them, doesn't ignore the far right to constantly attack those closest to their own position, doesn't promote a fascist as a better option, etc.
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  3172. No, there aren't. Idiots giving loons more attention doesn't mean there's more of them.
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  3173.  @biokido575  “We made our intentions as clear as we could ten years ago. Most of our fans got it. To those who didn’t, I suggest you look closer.”
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  3174.  @hikelfin  The idiot shouldn't even have a philosophy degree, he's so bad at it. "Well being" and utilitarianism are nothing new. He regurgitated old shit, and morons ate it up. His moral "analogies", used for his foundation, aren't even analogous. He's a dolt, and never actually got his moral argument beyond what he already stated was a given.
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  3175.  @CV-fb9kf  Rofl! He's not honest.
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  3176.  @user-jy7yw5kw3w  So, the US median puts them in 3rd, and is a whole $6000 over the Denmark median. Americans also then have higher out of pocket expenses for healthcare and drugs. They also then have higher out of pocket expenses for education. They also don't get as much vacation time, sick time, parental leave time, etc. All that is on top of the fact that wealth and income disparity is lower in Denmark, so the median isn't as skewed, and applies to more people, while the US has 3x more people per capita in poverty, and more extreme super rich people. That 3rd place is also less than Norway.
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  3177.  @tonybanks1035  You're the fucking moron. He outright said that people didn't do science, for the sake of science, before Judeo-Christians, and then said the scientific method was Aristotelian, you dumb shit.
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  3178.  @nostrum6410  Trump (the actual government) fired, or threatened to fire, people who said things he didn't like. But, Republicans were fine with the actual government punishing people's speech. Yet, they whine, when privately owned companies make decisions for themselves. That recent enough?
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  3179.  Derek Hitt  Anti-socialist, anti-communist, anti-unionist, backed by leading industrialists and large land owners, leaders in privatization, is centrist, is it?
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  3180.  @ZooomaCW  So, when Dore made out like covid deaths were "WILDLY inflated", by dishonestly comparing a total population hospitalization rate to a year and a half old case fatality rate (he should have been using a covid crude mortality rate), what did you think to yourself?
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  3181.  @blargh3428  The difference being that Alex Jones benefits the far right, the side he claims to be on, while Jimmy Dore also benefits the far right, the opposite side he claims to be on.
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  3182. Do tou know what "regressive" means? I have my doubts.
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  3183.  @runner6500  Dimwit. The original antifa was fighting against fascism in Italy, Spain, and Germany. Just saying people protesting, even rioting, equates to fascism, is beyond stupid. That would make every uprising in history "fascists", including colonial Americans protesting, rioting, tarring and feathering, destroying private property ... all because they didn't want to pay an extra tax specifically to fund the police/military. Removing what people are fighting for, from the equation, is idiotic.
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  3184.  @therationalnational  Did my reply disappear? Yes, we are definitely an outlier, and don't have the social housing in place that some European countries might have. But, to Bill, comparing the US to Canada, it isn't because the US has an amazing affordable housing program in place. It's because the US housing market tanked, due to horrible policies, and many people suffered, due to that. The ensuing US recession affected other countries, as well. It was very bad. Not a point to brag about.
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  3185. ​ @Exit_Sign  Facts: Likud's bloody 100 year history ... In 1923, 100 years ago, Ze'ev Jabotinsky wrote, The Iron Wall, and a follow up, The Ethics of The Iron Wall (sooo racist towards Africans), in which he fully acknowledged that post Balfour Zionsim was colonialism, and that, based on the entirety of history, the native Palestinian population would resist being colonized until the bitter end. He directly compared it to the colonization of North America. He promoted doing it anyway, claiming Zionist colonialism was a "just" colonialism (he also thought North American colonialists were good guys, so not a great judge of morality), not caring what that meant for the native population. Ze'ev is important, because his Betar militant youth group helped found the Irgun terrorist group, along with other supporters of his, and the splinter Lehi terrorist group. The Irgun bombed numerous Palestinian markets and other public places, murdering many Palestinian civilians, including children, even including Palestinian Jews (who didn't support colonialist Zionsim). The Irgun are important, because they ended up being led by future Likud PM, Menachem Begin, who bombed the King David Hotel. The King David Hotel was bombed because the British had raided the Jewish Agency and seized numerous documents that may have shown that the terrorists were working with the JA and Haganah (JA liked to pretend that they didn't support the terrorism). The British then stored those documents at their base, in the hotel. That the Irgun terrorists responded to a JA raid, itself seems to prove the connection. That the thousands of Irgun (and Lehi) terrorists were also quickly merged into the new nation's military (IDF) and intelligence (Mossad) agencies, and are still celebrated as "heroes" by Israelis, to this day, also seems to support total collaboration between the groups. That other terrorist group mentioned, Lehi (also known as the Stern Gang), was considered even more extreme. They even tried to ally with the Nazis, against the British. Lehi ended up being led by Yitzhak Shamir, future Mossad agent, and another future Likud PM. They assassinated Lord Moyne, and others. In 1945, there was a major land and peoples survey done in Palestine. It showed that the Zionists only owned about 5% of the total land, 20% of the arable land, and owned a majority in zero districts. The partition was not only going to be forced on the native Palestinian majority, but Jews were still going to be a minority, in the part allocated to them. The only possible way to even become a "Jewish state" was going to require getting rid of the actual majority (at least enough so that there'd be a solid Jewish majority, so they could fake being democratic). This is also shown by the 1948, post Nakba, population of Israel. If there was 716,700 Jews, 156,000+ non-Jews, and approximately 700k non-Jews ethnically cleansed, that means the Jewish population, in the Zionist portion of partition, was originally over 100,000 less than the non-Jewish population. To believe that there was never any intent, by Zionists, to ethnically cleanse away the Palestinian majority would require believing that they never intended to create a "Jewish state". It's a nonsensical notion. Begin, and those terrorist groups, also opposed partition, but for the opposite reason Palestinians did. Palestinians didn't want to be colonized, at all. The terrorists wanted to colonize it all. "Moderate" Zionists were okay with colonizing half ... for now (what would happen in the future, after partition, was up to them, said Ben-Gurion). The Zionist terrorists were also involved in massacres, and assassinations, during the partition violence (colonialist war against the natives). Another notable future Likud PM, also started in the military, during the partition fighting. That was Ariel Sharon, war criminal, "Butcher of Beirut". Menachem Begin, and these other Zionist terrorists, are important because they became involved in Israeli politics, first forming Herut. That was the party that Albert Einstein, and other prominent American Jews, opposed, having a letter printed in the NYT, in December of 1948, when Begin came to visit the US. The letter opened ... "Among the most disturbing political phenomena of our times is the emergence in the newly created state of Israel of the "Freedom Party" (Tnuat Haherut), a political party closely akin in its organization, methods, political philosophy and social appeal to the Nazi and Fascist parties. It was formed out of the membership and following of the former Irgun Zvai Leumi, a terrorist, right-wing, chauvinist organization in Palestine." Herut merged with other extremist parties, over the years, and eventually became Likud, in the 70s. Now, people get upset over the slogan "From the river to the sea!", but it's the second part that's most important, "Palestine will be free!". Because "Palestine" isn't defined as an ethno-state, a free Palestine can be a single state, free for all to live in, and return to, free of continuing colonization, free of occupation, free of oppression, etc. Just like a Germany free of Nazism, an Italy free of fascism, a South Africa free of apartheid, or an America free of slavery from sea to shiny sea. It doesn't necessitate purging all the Jews. It just necessitates them giving up on the idea of an ethno-state. On the other hand, because "Israel" has been defined as an ethno-state, Likud's, "between the sea and the Jordan there will only be Israeli sovereignty", has no possible good interpretation. It is a declaration of intent to completely colonize, and ethnically cleanse, all Palestine territories. Not only that, but it also claims that they have a "right" to all of the "Land of Israel" (biblical borders that don't mesh with archaeological reality), which is an open declaration of future wars, against Jordan, Syria, Lebanon, and possibly even Iraq. Likud platform ... 1977: "The Right of the Jewish People to the Land of Israel (Eretz Israel) a. The right of the Jewish people to the land of Israel is eternal and indisputable and is linked with the right to security and peace; therefore, Judea and Samaria will not be handed to any foreign administration; between the Sea and the Jordan there will only be Israeli sovereignty. b. A plan which relinquishes parts of western Eretz Israel, undermines our right to the country, unavoidably leads to the establishment of a "Palestinian State," jeopardizes the security of the Jewish population, endangers the existence of the State of Israel. and frustrates any prospect of peace." "Settlement Settlement. both urban and rural. in all parts of the Land of Israel is the focal point of the Zionist effort to redeem the country, to maintain vital security areas and serves as a reservoir of strength and inspiration for the renewal of the pioneering spirit. The Likud government will call on the younger generation in Israel and the dispersions to settle and help every group and individual in the task of inhabiting and cultivating the wasteland, while taking care not to dispossess anyone." 1999: "The Government of Israel flatly rejects the establishment of a Palestinian Arab state west of the Jordan river. The Palestinians can run their lives freely in the framework of self-rule, but not as an independent and sovereign state. Thus, for example, in matters of foreign affairs, security, immigration, and ecology, their activity shall be limited in accordance with imperatives of Israel's existence, security and national needs." "The Jewish communities in Judea, Samaria, and Gaza are the realization of Zionist values. Settlement of the land is a clear expression of the unassailable right of the Jewish people to the Land of Israel and constitutes an important asset in the defense of the vital interests of the State of Israel. The Likud will continue to strengthen and develop these communities and will prevent their uprooting." All Palestine territories are officially considered occupied, by the International Court of Justice, the UN GA, the UN SC, and even in official documents of Israel's own allies. Likud is still using the blueprint for colonizing North America, in the West Bank. Move settlements out into native territory, piss off the natives, the natives retaliate, cry about poor "innocent" colonizing settlers being the "victims" of violent "Savages!", call in the cavalry to put down the native uprising, and eventually expand the borders to include those settlements. Rinse and repeat. In Gaza, Israel is operating an open air WWII style fascist ghetto. Them claiming a "right to defend themselves" would be like the Nazis claiming a "right to defend themselves " from the Warsaw ghetto uprising. There's no "war". That they're the occupiers means the "war" part is long over. Those people are actually supposed to be under the occupier's protection. That partition was forced upon the Palestinian majority, against their will ... that the Zionist portion still had to be forcefully ethnically cleansed of its non-Jewish majority, against their will ... that the millions of occupied Palestinians don't have a say in the government that truly rules over them, Israel's ... means Israel is about as democratic as Nazi Germany after Hitler purged his political opponents and then held elections.
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  3186. The US has been riding a thin line for some time. 70m people seemingly willing to give up democracy is close to checking that last box for all out fascism.
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  3187.  @mfbobyle6771  Sam has had Jaime with him for years. He likes her just fine.
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  3188.  @invisiblek5783  Jaime has moved from the background, where she used to only make the odd comment, like Matt. Emma has moved from being a reporter and co-anchor on other progressive news networks. Emma is better at jumping into the discussion with Sam, like Michael used to, than Jaime. Jaime kind of had her shot, after Michael passed, and many shows were just her and Sam, but she did the same thing, didn't jump into the discussion enough, and barely said anything.
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  3189. White and black aren't actually colors, and nobody is actually white or black.
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  3190.  @lynnecrummay6026  <- Trump causes brain cancer.
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  3191.  I only use this account when I get put in time out  So, everyone Dore calls "sellouts", and shit, are you holding off judgement until there is actual evidence of them taking money from someone to change their opinions?
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  3192. What evidence is there that Republicans care about "children"? And how would male reproductive rights end abortions?
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  3193.  @vsalukir7019  Ah. Trump supporters are either rich, stupid, or racist. Thanks for letting us know which type you are.
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  3194.  @snowbumenzo  ... to "own" the libs.
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  3195. ​ @anitamurkes9511  Your math is way off. Isrl's 2024 budget is $155b. Their mltry budget is $15b (10% of budget). The US has given them $12.5b, since Oct. They've covered almost all of Isrl's mltry budget. Even the annual $3.8b is over 3% of Isrl's budget, or a quarter of their mltry budget.
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  3196. AOC just backed Bernie (M4A), and used her platform and PAC to help get more pro-M4A progressives elected to congress, going against DCCC backed corporate Dems. Jimmy just backed Tulsi ("Medicare choice" aka public option), and bitched about shit Obama was saying. He's the poser.
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  3197.  @mimked  Something doesn't have to be illegal to be a concerted effort to overthrow the democratic process. All of 7 house Dems objected to Trump, in 2017, and since none of them had a senator's backing, none of them actually counted as an official objection. Zero official objections, in total. That's quite a lot different than the majority of Republicans, with multiple senators backing, objecting to Biden, based on zero evidence of voter fraud, just because they didn't like the result.
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  3198.  @Mugdorna  1920s old fashioned.
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  3199. Hey now, his American mom was just passing through Canada, at the time. He's a full blown American. Didn't have to naturalize.
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  3200. No it's not. RSS outright pushes Hindutva. Point at Democrats pushing Jim Crow laws and slavery.
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  3201. Just Nazis being Nazis, implying the Jewish guy has beady little black soulless eyes.
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  3202.  @paulraven2402  Kicking corporate Dems to the curb is action, Dore knob.
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  3203.  @mfflscotty2095  No. You're the one implying that, if they take a large chunk of the pie, it's not their fault if there's little left for anyone else ... that others can still make choices, that will make more pie magically appear.
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  3204. Nobody seems to know what "censorship" means. These are private companies with private property (servers and websites) who don't actually have to let anyone post anything they don't want, on their private property. "Censorship" would be if the authorities took down your post, or made them take down your post. Me not letting you stick a sign on my lawn, that I don't want, isn't censorship.
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  3205. ​ @robinsss  Kids are the next generation of consumers. Capitalism would die, without them, and the more successful they are, the more stuff they can buy! They are also the next generation of workers, who will be paying for his Social Security and Medicare, when he's old, but while they aren't old, and have no individual guarantee of getting old.
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  3206.  @loulfw2513  David knows that you do not want Dems and Progressives splitting. Conservatives win the plurality way too often in Canada, with only a little more than a third of the vote. They should only ever be running Alberta and Saskatchewan, where they have a majority.
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  3207. It's literally an asylum prerequisite to get yourself inside the country, any which way, to ask for asylum.
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  3208.  King Charles ✔  Truth.
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  3209.  @adams4377  You're defending someone who ordered the sterilization of black Germans.
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  3210.  @adams4377  "The persecution soon escalated to sterilization. A German doctor Dr. Hans Maco supported and encouraged sterilization in Afro German children in 1933 (Kestling, 89). The Nazis rounded up 365 Afro-German children who were sterilized by German doctors in 1937. One victim of sterilization was Hans Hauck, the son of white German woman and an Algerian man- taken without consent or permission to get an unprecedented vasectomy. After his vasectomy, he was forced to sign an agreement that stated he would not have sexual intercousse or romantic relations with people of German heritage. In addition, in the files of the Reich Ministry of Interior files, one Afro-German girl named Marianne Braun who whose father was a from a French colonial African country and stationed in Rhineland, was admitted to a Main State Hospital. There in the hospital she was sterilized on June 3rd, 1937 (Kestling, 90)."
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  3211.  @lychee8328  Oh my. And how many people has the iron dome killed?
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  3212.  @asamanthinketh1937  Lol, why isn't happiness the ultimate goal?
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  3213.  @thehappyclam3942  Did it show that Joe suddenly made $17m in China while being president in 2017 and withdrawing $15m of that, or that he has made millions leasing to a government bank of China while being president, or that he made millions selling Ivanka's condo to a Chinese woman whose business it is to connect American businessmen with the Chinese government while being president, or that his daughter received 40+ expedited trademarks from China while he was president, of that his US companies import tons of Chinese goods in just a month, or that he pays more taxes to China than the US? What, exactly, did the laptop show about Joe, who has released 22 years of tax returns and nobody has found a single payment from foreign entities?
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  3214. You know red states tend take more fed assistance than they pay in taxes, while blue states tend to pay more than they take?
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  3215.  Ghost Yuki  He already called himself Obiden.
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  3216. Fascists are vermin, aren't they?
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  3217.  I only use this account when I get put in time out  The op didn't imply anyone was calling for her arrest, dumb dumb. The op referred to their supposed love for free speech. FOX has repeatedly simply argued for people to shut up (shut up and dribble), instead of addressing their actual arguments. That's simply criticizing them for exercising their free speech, criticizing that they're saying something, rather than what they're saying.
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  3218. Cruz knows that Russian women played significant roles in the military and partizan groups, in WWII, right? No, probably not.
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  3219. ​ @Diddy-sp9vf  Look up the paradox of tolerance. Tolerating intolerance is nonsensical.
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  3220.  Without Jesus Hell Awaits  Bernie has never pointed at a single one of those places, to emulate. He points at Western Europe, Canada, Japan, Australia ... other developed countries. You're a moron. FYI: We have a ton of Home Depots, here in Canada. Langone seems to have confused the USSR with Russia, and why did he leave out China? Oh ... because they have stores in China.
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  3221. Nope. The rent is having a laugh, at their expense.
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  3222.  @SallyBlumCGN  Nope. You're just ignorant.
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  3223.  @A_Derpy_NINJA  Do you even know what a "grift" is? Sure, he says stuff, but the whole point is that he's selling himself as something he's not. In 2016, Dore promoted Trump (platform: kick 10m of the poorest Americans off of Medicaid expansion) as the better option than Clinton (platform: add 40m older Americans to Medicare expansion). He also promoted the idea that Stein had a shot. If he convinced even a single swing state voter not to bother going out to vote against Trump, or to vote Stein, then he helped Trump win. For the 2020 primaries, he promoted Tulsi (public option) over Bernie (M4A). If he convinced even a single person not to vote Bernie, then he helped Bernie lose. Then, he spent the general running a constant attack ad campaign against Trump's only remaining viable opponent, again trying to help Trump win. A disagreement over a performance art vote was enough for him to portray other progressives as enemies, and then he turns around and promotes allying with far right nutty ancap Boogaloos, that want a civil war. That's the kind of idiot move that lands you on the wrong side of a Night of the Long Knives. He goes on Tucker mainly to agree with him. He abandoned Nina Turner ... abandoned adding another M4A advocate to congress. He, again, is promoting third party fantasies, to draw off progressive votes, and hand power to Republicans, just as the broader progressive caucus is about 15 seats away from becoming the majority of house Dems. He slanders progressives that have done more for M4A in a few years than he has in his entire lifetime, to try and get people to lose confidence in them. He, at least, benefits the right more than the left.
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  3224. Calling the election before half of the country votes isn't how democracy works.
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  3225.  @raymondflores5176  "Nazi style socialism" ... or, in other words ... Authoritarian crony capitalism.
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  3226. Getting up there in irony with DPRK or NSDAP.
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  3227. ​@velvet1865 The Hindutva founder wasn't even religious. He redefined what it meant to be "Hindu". His definition did not include Muslims, Christians, or Jews. "As World War II become imminent, Savarkar had initially advocated a policy of neutralism centered on India's geostrategic equations but his rhetoric grew coarser with time and he expressed consistent support for Hitler's policy about Jews.[107][108] In a speech on 14 October, it was suggested that Hitler's ways be adopted for dealing with Indian Muslims.[107] On 11 December, he characterized the Jews as a communal force.[107] Next March, Savarkar would welcome Germany's revival of Aryan culture, their glorification of Swastika, and the "crusade" against Aryan enemies — it was hoped that German victory would finally invigorate the Hindus of India.[107] On 5 August 1939, Savarkar highlighted how a common strand of "thought, religion, language, and culture" was essential to nationality thus preventing the Germans and Jews from being considerable as one nation.[107] By the year end, he was directly equating the Muslims of India with German Jews — in the words of Chetan Bhatt, both were suspected of harboring extra-national loyalties and became illegitimate presences in an organic nation.[107][108][109] These speeches circulated in German newspapers with Nazi Germany even allotting a point-of-contact person for engaging with Savarkar, who was making sincere efforts to forge a working relationship with the Nazis. Eventually, Savarkar would be gifted with a copy of Mein Kampf.[107]"
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  3228. ​ @TennisArena365  He should be "asking" King Charles, dingus. Canada still belongs to him and he's our commander in chief.
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  3229.  @waterandafter  Nobody is debating the facts of how a caucus works, with you. You're having a strawman argument of your own making ... which you're doing a great job of winning, I might add. The exact facts of how a caucus works or the exact facts of how an electoral college works are irrelevant to the fact that hypocrites who were once arguing for the popular vote indicating a win are now arguing against the popular vote indicating a win.
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  3230.  @republica13  All Palestine territories are officially considered occupied, dumb dumb. The Nazis weren't at "war" with resistance groups. They had already won the "war" part in places they occupied.
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  3231.  @jameshigginbottom632  By your standard of what constitutes "socialism", "capitalism" has repeatedly failed.
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  3232. ​ @truthache8560  The guy re-uped, after already retiring, when he didn't have to. Maybe you are thinking of Vance, who stayed stateside on his couch, when his unit went to Afghanistan, then stayed stateside on his couch, for 2 more years, when his unit went to Iraq. After his unit made a safe base (safe enough for Bush to visit), Vance finally joined them for 6 months, before abandoning them, and heading back stateside, to spend his last 9 months on a couch.
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  3233. There's a reason they go to the US. Not enough loons to make money off the grift in Canada. Only 19% of Canadians surveyed said they'd vote Trump, if they could.
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  3234.  @greenith  Because a VAT is specifically designed to not tax businesses in order to avoid double taxation, yet he repeatedly claimed a VAT would force corporations to pay their fair share. That's total ignorance or total bullshit, on his part. The business VAT formula ... input VAT - output VAT = x if x is positive, reclaim the input VAT amount and send x to the government if x is negative, reclaim the output VAT amount and the government sends you a refund for x Either way, the business ends up paying nothing in taxes ... by intentional design.
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  3235.  @truthache8560  Wrong Huxley, dmwt. Plus, wrong take on the Brave New World. You're the one supporting a caste system, dingus, not me.
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  3236.  @truthache8560  You're the one who moved the post from DT and his PR disrespect to talking about the wrong Huxley, and having the wrong take on BNW, dmwt. Both parties have the exact same rules for if someone drops out before the convention, dingus. Democratic parliamentary systems, around the world, have the party pick their leader, and then there's just a general election. An oligarchy is when DT and Musk are laughing at the idea of firing workers who just want a better life, so they can maintain the class/caste system.
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  3237.  @truthache8560  Again, dingus ... Both parties have the exact same rules. The delegates of the person who drops out become unassigned, and they can vote for whoever they want. There are also rules for if someone drops out post convention, so it's not too late for Reps to try and find someone who isn't absolutely 🤪. But, I do, dingus. Some spoiled, silver spoon, brat, "politician" letting the super rich know that he's cool with them squashing workers, is a prime example.
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  3238.  @truthache8560   Blah, blah. Both parties ... exact same rules. You're the one trying to dance around that fact. Also, JB said she'd be his VP again, all the way back in Jan 2022. Anyone who didn't know they were voting for her as his backup, would have to be as sharp as a spoon, like you. Over 500k preventable American dths, was better? That's a pretty uncaring thing to say. Ironic, claiming projection, considering the fact that DT's businesses have routinely failed, while KH was actually quite successful as a prosecutor. Just being a friend of someone wealthy isn't the issue, dmwt. The issue was that they were laughing at the concept of Musk firing people for even thinking about striking or unionizing. That was a potential president, letting all the big business owners know he's on their side, and opposed to labor laws. That was them laughing at the idea of keeping the caste system alive.
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  3239.  @nobrkes  Wrong.
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  3240.  @nobrkes  Except crt says the problems are in laws. You're the one saying it's "racial realism".
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  3241.  @tacitus6384  Continuing to feed his election lies to his cult is a problem.
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  3242.  @whyamimrpink78  Well, that's easily debunked stupidity.
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  3243. ​ @stevensica5918  If they're dodging taxes, then they're living off what should be tax dollars.
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  3244.  @truthache8560  I'm talking about the fact that that wasn't the starting point of anything.
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  3245. The Smithsonian is 20 museums, dumb dumb.
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  3246.  @nameisamine  Racism isn't strictly about colour, or ethnicity. Racists tend to think their race, or ethnic group, is superior for some reasons, and they assign certain characteristics to their imagined ideal specimen. Most white supremacists, for example, tend to assign Christianity, or at least Christian culture/heritage, as a characteristic of their ideal specimen. You know, claiming Christianity created the Western world, or whatever. So, they don't consider Jews, most of whom are white, to be one of them. Some even specifically assign Protestantism as a characteristic, and don't consider Catholics to be one of them. Likewise for Muslims. Whether those people are actually of a different race, or not, they get treated as if they are. Like, instead of "no Catholics" signs, in the US, places had "no Irish" or "no Italians", treating them as if they were different races, than other Europeans, rather than simply a different religion. So, yes, saying people look like a mailbox could be considered racist. You could nitpick for it to be called "bigotry" but, either way, it's discriminatory and dehumanizing.
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  3247. ​ @thepolarphantasm2319  Likud's Irgun and Lehi trrrst founders would be proud.
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  3248. It's Finland. That's like sampling 120000 Americans.
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  3249.  @Thedudeabides803  "The researchers then tested nine monoclonal antibodies used in clinical practice or in pre-clinical development. Six lost all anti-viral activity, they say, while the other three were between three and 80 times less effective against Omicron compared to Delta." Btw, you don't know what an "anecdote" is. Might want to look it up.
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  3250.  @jaredbrooker  Polio has a 99.45% recovery. A 0.5% paralysis rate, and a 0.05% infection fatality rate. What's your point?
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  3251. Fact: "It is not a charge on businesses." https://ec.europa.eu/taxation_customs/business/vat/what-is-vat_en Bullshit: "A VAT makes it impossible for them to benefit from the American people, automation, and infrastructure without paying their fair share." https://www.yang2020.com/policies/value-added-tax/
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  3252. That one happened to my mother, regarding my son. Unfortunately, for them, they seemed to have thought he was going to college in Birmingham, Alabama, and were using some kind of southern accent. But, my son had saved up and gone to school across the pond in Birmingham, England. So, my mom knew something was up, right away.
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  3253.  @myemperor  80% of trafficking goes straight through points of entry, dumb dumb. And, did you cry about the border crossing spike in 2019? Averaged out, Dumpty was worse than Obama, for border crossings per year.
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  3254.  @useyourbrain1539  Name a Dem policy that would move the US left of Denmark (real world centrism).
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  3255.  @libertybell5796  Your bell is cracked. "He made proposal after proposal to circumvent the increasingly entrenched positions: colonial representation in Parliament, reorganization of the empire on a more equal basis, the establishment of a paper currency fund in the colonies to meet the revenue requirement, a return to the old requisition system, etc." https://web.lib.unb.ca/winslow/franklin.html "Some Americans called for colonial representation in Parliament. As James Otis put it in The Rights of the British Colonies Asserted and Proved:" https://www.libertarianism.org/publications/essays/excursions/sons-liberty-resistance-stamp-act-part-two "In the course of the 1760s and 1770s, William Pitt the Elder, Sir William Pulteney, and George Grenville, amongst other prominent Britons and colonial Americans, such as Joseph Galloway, James Otis, Jr., Benjamin Franklin, John Adams, the London Quaker Thomas Crowley, Royal Governors such as Thomas Pownall M.P., William Franklin, Sir Francis Bernard, and the Attorney-General of Quebec, Francis Maseres, debated and circulated plans for the creation of colonial seats in London, imperial union with Great Britain, or a federally representative British Parliament with powers of taxation that was to consist of American, West Indian, Irish and British Members of Parliament." http://self.gutenberg.org/articles/eng/taxation_without_representation#Representative_Proposals_before_1776 And most of those who didn't consider representation in parliament feasible, simply wanted semi independence, and not complete independence from the crown, even up to the First Congressional Congress. Revolution and complete independence was only settled on as a last resort, after they felt they exhausted all other options and negotiations.
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  3256.  Adam Lanza  Why are over 90% of doctors vaccinated?
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  3257.  Adam Lanza  Rofl. Ah, so you think medical agencies in multiple countries are inept at doing surveys that give a relatively accurate result ... that their margins of error are wildly off? Based on ... what? Your fee fees?
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  3258.  Adam Lanza  Doesn't 90% count as the "vast majority", exactly like I said?
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  3259.  Adam Lanza  "Repeating stuff other people have said' ... which agrees with the vast majority of doctors. So, yeah, that is the smart guy. And, yeah, those arguing against the vast majority of doctors are the ignorant Aholes.
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  3260. Was Soleimani actually listed as a "terrorist" by any country?
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  3261.  occupyanewparadigm  Rofl. Well, that rules out all colonialism in Africa, I guess.
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  3262.  Colleen  Lesson: Don't bother nitpicking about people's spelling, if you're not going to use proper grammar.
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  3263. Nope.
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  3264. Israel simply absorbed its terrorists and terrorist organizations into the state government. Begin was the leader of the Irgun, that bombed the King David Hotel.
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  3265.  @tmsphere  It's a fundraising event for a museum, ffs, that then allows NY residents go for free.
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  3266.  @timtpr7104  The only possible solution is to get enough M4A yes votes in congress to pass the bill. It's what you'd still have to do, even after a 100% guaranteed to fail performance art vote. Sam and co. were promoting adding another M4A yes vote to congress in Nina Turner, exactly what needs doing. Dore promoted not donating to her and to never vote for someone running as a Democrat.
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  3267. The British and US governments were handing out free, or very cheap, land, during the largest periods of immigration growth in North America. That's kind of a big social safety net, Benny.
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  3268. ​ @L0kias1  It's racist to operate an open air WWII style fascist ghetto.
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  3269.  @NewNormalWorldOrder  Listening to a broad consensus of the vast majority of doctors and scientists, from around the world, is literally the opposite of how cults work.
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  3270. Hey, you even beat the bots. 🎉
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  3271. Ummm, the minority being able to dictate policy is exactly not democracy.
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  3272. The science for when you know you definitely have the virus is to totally isolate yourself, quarantine, not just wear a mask. He's a complete idiot.
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  3273. What would a "smart" one say?
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  3274.  @paulsmith7579  But they don't attribute deaths with covid as deaths due to covid. That bullshit has been debunked numerous times over. Now you're not just questioning how to count covid hospitalizations, you're questioning the competence of doctors across the world in being able to determine what killed someone. Nothing Fauci said affects death rates, dimwit. And, again, you can't fix Dore's dishonest math, any which way you try.
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  3275. George Orwell was an anarchist/socialist, who went to Spain in hopes to fight fascists. Right wing fascists were the leaders, and media, in his book. He wrote about the kind of leaders, and media, who might, for example, make morons believe there has been an effective pandemic response, when the numbers clearly indicate the exact opposite. Or, make morons believe that propping up corporations is good for the little guy, that money will trickle down. Etc.
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  3276.  @antipositivism3128  hierarchy: a system or organization in which people or groups are ranked one above the other according to status or authority. What reality has capitalism without a hierarchy of status? You're describing something never before seen in the history of private property ownership. How would that work? I didn't say "necessarily", I said "could". There's no guard against monopolies. The op is pointing out terms were hijacked. It's circular to point at different definitions, which stem from that hijacking of terms. The point is that it shouldn't be compatible with the isms in question. It should be called feudalism or neo-feudalism.
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  3277.  @t-swizzle8102  A "ruckus" is a subjective term. It means different things to different people. She has her own idea of what a "ruckus" is. She didn't run on Jimmy's idea of what a "ruckus" is. That's him strawmanning. She was on the ground, promoting M4A, while campaigning for Nina Turner, against the heavily backed DNC candidate. In the last election, she used her platform and PAC to back 20 other pro-M4A progressives, and helped add a few more M4A yes votes to congress. She also didn't run on getting a floor vote on M4A. She mentioned in an interview, that they couldn't get a floor vote on M4A, and I doubt she was thinking along the lines of paralyzing the house, something that hadn't happened in 100 years. She most definitely never ran on paralyzing, or threatening to paralyze, the house. Why would she want to start an all out intra party war, over a 100% guaranteed to fail performance art vote? The broader progressive caucus is about 15 seats away from becoming the majority of house Dems. Then what happens, if you've started an all out war? You'll never have a progressive speaker, until progressives become the majority of the house, instead of just the majority of the party. Shouldn't you Dore knobs be migrating over to right wing Rumble, where Glenn and Dore signed on to get them some Peter Thiel CIA money? You're all just right wingers, trying to tank progressives.
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  3278. It's Pepé Le Pew's whole schtick.
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  3279.  @AgitpropPsyop  The most popular third party hasn't won a single seat in congress in its 50 year existence. A third party wouldn't be able to pass anything, until it actually became the majority. That could take decades, or more. It's literally the least effective method, aside from not voting. Vote progressives, in the primaries, then vote not to go in reverse, in the general, until you've got enough progressives.
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  3280. At least temporarily removing him from committees that have any kind of oversight over departments investigating him seems logical.
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  3281.  @kevin6293  His dad?
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  3282.  Progressives for Trump  Don't care what anyone calls themselves. None of them have promoted all out socialism, or anything that goes beyond Scandinavian countries. Denmark has a carbon neutral plan, Copenhagen is on track to be the first carbon neutral major European city. They have universal healthcare. They have a 30% public sector (double the US). They have 70+% unionization. They have free college. What has Bernie or the squad proposed that goes beyond that?
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  3283.  Progressives for Trump  Rofl. Riiight.
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  3284.  @tacitus6384  No. The advice was to sell your home's and move, after they were underwater.
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  3285.  @evolvedape3341  Bernie vs the DNC actually went to court. The judge agreed that the DNC hadn't been neutral, but also ruled they weren't legally bound to being neutral. The DNC interfering in the primaries is as much a "conspiracy" as Russians interfering in the general.
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  3286. Rofl. That was a whole lot of bullshit.
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  3287.  @jimbob3030  Nah, been going 7 months. YouTube has given me a lot of time outs though. Most often happens after posting to a more pro IL channel, so Znists that don't like facts are probably reporting, or something.
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  3288.  @flip.flap.  Most of it is basic stuff. Nixon bio for his House and HUAC years, 64/68 Civil Rights votes (mainly divided by geography, not party, Southern Republicans also voted against, Northern Democrats mostly voted for), and maps of the 1968 and 1972 presidential elections. As for the California senate race, between "Tricky Dick" and "The Pink Lady", there's a good Slate article ... Actress, Opera Star, Congresswoman Helen Gahagan Douglas fought for liberty—and watched Richard Nixon end her political career. BY KARINA LONGWORTH APRIL 14, 2016
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  3289.  @rikirich2223  Are you really comparing underdeveloped countries with life expectancies as low as 55, to developed countries? Hrrrm, I wonder why they have fewer people dying? Think. Think.
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  3290.  @mimzyjinx8142  Yeah, zero Democrats called out the anti-Semitic Tiki torch marchers at the "Unite the Right" rally.
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  3291. Overthrowing the democratic process?
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  3292.  @brentnoury7626  What are some things AOC has lied about (not made up Dore things)?
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  3293.  @dumpsternimrod9927  BJG spewed some bullshit. It is actually true that Jimmy's "plan" would have handed the speakership to McCarthy. Without anyone else amending his plan, what he kept saying was for 15 progressives to simply "withhold their votes for", or "not vote for", Pelosi. That implies abstaining. He never said they should cast protest votes for someone else. For every 2 empty seats, absentees, or abstentions, the threshold needed to win drops by 1. There were already 2 empty seats. 2 empty seats + 15 abstentions = -8 to the threshold, lowering it to 210. If every Dem voted Pelosi, she'd get 207. If every Republican voted McCarthy, he'd get 211, and win. The very fact that Pelosi just won with less than 218 is proof Jimmy saying it needed to be 218, is false. The very fact that Boehner won with less than 218 is proof Jimmy's 218 claims were false.The very fact that you can have a voting quarum with only 218 members present, and only need to win a majority of voting members present is evidence you don't need anywhere close to 218, to win.
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  3294. Israel is objectively the aggressor, by every relevant measure... Modern history: 100 years ago, in 1923, Ze'ev Jabotinsky fully acknowledged that Zionism is colonialism, and that, based on the entirety of history, the natives would fight it until the bitter end. He just didn't care what would happen to them, and promoted doing it anyway. Colonizers are never not the aggressors. On top of the colonialist nature of Zionism, the Zionists also formed terrorist organizations, like the Irgun and Lehi. They bombed many Palestinian markets and other public places, murdering many civilians, including children, even including Palestinian Jews (who opposed Zionism). Israel merged those terrorists into the new nation's military and intelligence agencies. Israelis elected Menachem Begin, leader of the Irgun, child murderer, Jew murderer, and bomber of the King David Hotel, as PM. Israelis, to this day, celebrate those terrorists as "heroes". Zionists literally taught their neighbours that terrorism is a valid path to independence and statehood, and that terrorists are to be celebrated. In 1945, it is well documented that Zionists owned just 5% of the land and were a majority nowhere. Israel was formed by actually going against the majority population. It's foundation is completely undemocratic. Then, becoming a majority, in "their" new nation, by ethnic cleansing the actual majority, and then claiming to be democratic, is utter nonsense. Law: Israel is considered an occupier by the International Court, the UN GA, and the UN SC. Occupiers are also never not the aggressors. Those occupied actually have a right to resist occupation. On the flip side, it is illegal for the occupier to settle occupied lands, and illegal to use collective punishment. Israel is a rogue nation, that doesn't abide by international law. What it has been doing, and is doing now, is illegal. Current events: This year, alone, prior to Oct 7 ... Israel held over 1200 Palestinian hostages without charges ... over 200 Palestinians had been killed by the IDF and settlers ... over 1000 Palestinians had been displaced by Israel's neverending colonization of the West Bank ... and, Israel continued to operate an open air WWII style fascist ghetto, in Gaza. Even ignoring modern history and law, in no reality did Hamas "start" anything.
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  3295.  @Toad2943  Except, when people say slavery ended, they're referring to chattel slavery. None of those things comes anywhere close to chattel slavery.
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  3296.  michael piro  How is it not a fact that gathering at church isn't essential? Why would it be essential to gather, when you can pray at home, watch a service at home, etc.?
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  3297. ​ @DNYLNY  All Palestine territories are officially considered occupied. Likud's own platform states that the Palestinian territories are not, and never will be, independent. Do Palestinians, in those territories, get to vote for the actual authority over them, which is the Israeli government?
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  3298. Ben's entire worldview is based on a fairytale (feelings).
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  3299. They think they're like the founders, but they've completely flipped reality. The founders protested, rioted, and even went to war, over extra taxes that specifically funded the police/military and a lack of representation, disenfranchisement. Their opponents backed the police/military, and fought against democracy to keep an unelected ruler in power. No clue how their brains think they're like the former and not the later.
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  3300.  @AsifKhan-hf9zy  You are dmbr than a stump, or a Trump. It a) still has a battery, for starting, and b) is still producing electricity for electrical systems (or tell me how a boat radio runs solely on gasoline).
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  3301.  @rawfoodphilosophy7061  You may not have factored in being an overweight 79 year old who already seems to have respiration issues.
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  3302. Ummm, completely altering the meaning of an article, and skipping all the parts that don't fit your narrative, isn't a "mistake", ffs.
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  3303.  @bluesrockfan36  Moron. 12k is below the poverty line. How the hell does that "end poverty"? How does making some people currently below the poverty line even worse off "end poverty"? Meanwhile you're handing $60b to Amazon by not actually taxing them. You're seriously having a hard time grasping the reasoning that there's a flaw in that "plan"? Are you also having trouble grasping that, because a VAT is specifically designed to not tax businesses, that means Yang is clueless or lying? Either way is fine with you?
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  3304. ​ @JohnDebasa  Take your meds.
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  3305. So? FOX News has the highest news channel ratings. That's just evidence there's a lot of stupid people..
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  3306. Weird, how God backs so many losers.
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  3307. Disagree on committee seats. Committees are where you get to debate, to question witnesses, and make presentations. They're less important for corporate Dems and Republicans, if another corporate Dem or Republican is just going to take their place, tow the corporate line, and softball corporate witnesses. They are more important for progressives, like AOC, or Katie Porter, to challenge the corporate bullshit.
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  3308. I think it was inflating, to get loans (bank fraud), and deflating, for taxes (tax fraud).
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  3309.  @Time4Project2025  You are horrible at math, and/or civics, if you think 27 R senators and 138 R house members, can pass a bill.
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  3310.  @ryand76  She didn't pay for the ticket or dress. Even if she did, what would that have to do with campaign donations that couldn't be used for a personal event? If you donated to her, didn't you get someone who helped add a few more M4A yes votes to congress and helped remove a few more corporate Dems from congress? Didn't you get someone who campaigned for Nina, trying to add one more? Didn't you get someone whose office has helped tens of thousands of her constituents get disaster and rent relief? Someone who draws attention to strikes? Someone who raises money for freezing Texans and women's choice activists in Texas? Someone who helped draw attention to the eviction moratorium running out? Someone who has been talking about unemployment running out and introducing a bill to reinstate it? Etc. Etc. What is it you expect one person to do, exactly, that she isn't?
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  3311.  @GlassesAndCoffeeMugs  The conversation has been moving in that direction for 5 years, thanks to Bernie, not thanks to a pointless vote.
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  3312.  @mauler7303  Well, consciousness was my point, so not sure why you said "actually", as if you were countering something I said. "While the neural pathways that send nociceptive signals have completed development by 23 weeks, a comprehensive, nonpartisan, multidisciplinary review of almost 2,000 fetal pain studies concluded that “the capacity for functional pain perception in preterm neonates probably does not exist before 29 or 30 weeks” [5]. Until the conscious ability to process nociceptive signals develops, it is definitionally and physically impossible to register pain [6]."
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  3313.  @frankpalancio8471  To continuously make out like Ham "started" something, means you have to ignore everything that happened before. By Oct 6, in 2023 alone, the IDF and settlers had offed dozens of Plstinians, including minors; had taken hostage indefinitely, without charges, hundreds of Plstinians; and had displaced over 1000, to make room for new illegal settlements. You're distorting who is the actual aggressor. Clnizers are never not the aggressors. It would be impossible for natives to do anything to them, if they weren't there doing their aggressor clnizing, first.
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  3314.  @aarondickson9573  Not sanctioning them is simply doing nothing. It doesn't prop them up or support them. Didn't the US trade with the USSR, itself? Why is supporting and propping up fascist dictators, or monarchies, any different?
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  3315.  @aarondickson9573  No, it doesn't, if the US government itself doesn't make any trade deals with them. There's a difference between the US government not trading with Cuba, and the US government not allowing US companies, or other countries or foreign companies, to trade with Cuba. Yeah, it's not the "dictatorship" part they have a problem with. They'll even overthrow democratically elected politicians, who aren't communists, for simply trying to nationalize a single resource. And, they'll support and prop up the likes of Saudi, or Batista.
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  3316. Also used to deek parents, exs, cops, etc.
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  3317.  Adam Lets Play  Rofl, they haven't put their ever increasing funding towards better training, for decades. What makes you think they're going to start?
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  3318. HEY!!! They're discussing stuff!!!
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  3319.  @luchi.el.zorrito  Sure, I'll let you know when we can pull off planting our flag on an orbiting dust rock, and you let me know when you can pull off giving everyone healthcare. Still zero examples, dumb dumb?
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  3320.  @luchi.el.zorrito  Wasn't the US founded by leftist terrorists who didn't want to pay taxes for the military to their capitalist king, and resorted to protests, riots, destroying private property, tarring and feathering loyalists, and then all out war? Imagine getting so upset by tons of money being spent on the military, and upset that poor redcoats, innocently just doing their jobs trying to keep the peace, shot protesters while fearing for their lives.
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  3321.  @luchi.el.zorrito  Man, you are delusional. Hate to break the news, but Venezuela has a larger private sector than Denmark, which you were saying wasn't socialist, above. So much for you supporting a mixed, but largely capitalist, economy. You are a whole lot of inconsistent gibberish.
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  3322.  @luchi.el.zorrito  And you have reading comprehension problems, as well. Sad.
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  3323. ​ TheOpenSociety777  Florida just decided that there are plenty of jobs ... enough to let teens compete with adults for full time employment (at 85% of minimum wage). Republicans keep saying there is plenty of room for hundreds of thousands of extra unwanted babies, per year. You lot are incoherent.
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  3324. Clearly his daughter's meat diet didn't cure all his mental and physical health issues, as he claimed, either.
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  3325.  @nostrum6410  Here, on the internet, you claimed we had nothing but TYT to go on, as if you can't simply Google it. You clearly aren't very bright.
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  3326. ​ @khit007  That's how all insurance works. Those not needing it pay for those needing it. The more you spread out the cost, the cheaper it ends up being, for everyone, and everyone will end up needing health insurance one day ... unlike maybe house or car insurance, that you could end up never needing but still pay for.
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  3327. @Jash Shah If they're religious, point out that means they're hypocrites for worshipping a "baby killer". Studies have now shown that the majority of pregnancies end in miscarriage. Most women just don't know they're pregnant before it happens. Meaning, their "god" is aborting the majority of pregnancies ... killing the majority of "babies". You can also point out that tons of fertilized eggs, "babies", aren't used (often destroyed, buried, or used for science), or don't take and die, in the IVF industry, and ask if they're also opposed to IVF. If they aren't also anti-IVF, then they're hypocrites. You can try a trolley experiment, and ask them: If there's a newborn baby on one track, a petri dish of 10 fertilized eggs on the other, and the trolley is heading for the petri dish, would they pull the lever to make the trolley run over the newborn or let it run over the petri dish? If they'd let it run over the petri dish, then they don't really consider it to be full of 10 "babies". If they make it run over the newborn, tell them how disgusting that choice is, with baby guts and brains splattered everywhere, and then tell them the petri dish was on its way for IVF disposal anyway.
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  3328.  @Wally-pu2hh  Imagine thinking none of those people will run into a 60 year old in the next couple weeks.
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  3329. While California has a higher homelessness rate, Arizona has a higher overall poverty rate, above the national average, while California is below the national average. Arizona has a higher homicide rate. Arizona has over double the firearm mortality rate. Arizona's healthcare is ranked worse. Arizona's education outcomes are worse. But, hey, as long as you don't have to see the poor in the streets, it's all good.
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  3330.  @LancesArmorStriking  I only mentioned the one thing. What's to like about violently interfering in former SSRs or ASSRs, that didn't sign on to be part of the new federation? Capitalist? You spelled "fascist" wrong.
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  3331.  @area51sea  "Challenge" =/= slander. Change her to what? She can't pass shit on her own. You still need to convert or replace enough to get a majority vote on bills, and now you're simply slandering someone who just helped do exactly that, replace a few more corporate Dems, in the last election cycle.
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  3332.  @VColossalV  Podcast Transcript 5 MYTHS ABOUT ISRAEL AND THE WAR IN GAZA January 30, 2024
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  3333.  @aureliodeprimus8018  You can find a bunch of early documents, and accounts of what happened, on the Jewish Virtual Library, the Balfour Project, and the British Hansard (old parliament debates). You can Wiki some of it, and follow the source link. I'd link everything, but tried that once and YouTube deleted it.
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  3334.  hoola bella  If you're leaning Trump, I don't believe you're "moderate". Denmark is moderate. You're pretty far right.
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  3335. @Packster Mosk Ownership power, dumb dumb. The power to fire you. The power to not hire you, if you don't accept the owner's conditions. The power to make all the decisions, which could affect your job. You've spent this thread blathering about crap that's irrelevant to the op. If you can't grasp that an employer has some power over their employees, then you're not very bright.
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  3336.  @ChristianThePagan  Exactly. The word "pundit" shouldn't be used for 90% of the people it's used to describe. A "pundit" is supposed to be an informed expert on a subject.
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  3337. ​ @TravelsTTG  No, not "just as much". Rounding up millions of people from the Americas whose ancestors left England hundreds of years ago, and claiming we have some right to part of England, is nonsensical.
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  3338. ​ @TheJackjack From the Sinai desert?
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  3339.  @TheSkryptik  Not too difficult ... if you see that, yes, it's insane to peddle the idea that there's a worldwide conspiracy amongst the vast majority of doctors, to intentionally kill people, then there shouldn't be an issue with calling him a "quack". He wasn't a doctor with a practice. He worked for pharma companies. He doesn't appear to be doing anything but spreading insanity and repeatedly debunked crap, since he resigned from his last pharma company. Why are you so confused? Do you think it's like 50/50, what the majority of doctors around the world recommend? It's not.
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  3340.  @samiamrg7  McCullough was fired from the hospital he worked at, for spreading misinformation.
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  3341.  @TheSkryptik  Why are they labelling him a "quack"? Because he's peddling some absolutely insane bullshit, that the vast majority of doctors around the world are intentionally trying to kill people. Why doesn't that qualify someone as a "quack"?
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  3342. George Washington resorted to strict quarantines, and eventually a vaccine mandate, to fight off smallpox, ffs.
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  3343. Nah, he went right back to kissing Trump and Trumpist ass. He just didn't want to be the one to take the fall, if he did what they wanted him to do.
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  3344.  @TheRealIronMan  More affordable relative to the US, not "quite affordable", and with plenty of student loans and long term debt. Plus, it would be nice to have healthcare cover dental, optical, and drugs for the 26-64 age range.
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  3345. And making out like "most places" did just move on is a blatant lie. After hundreds of years, the Irish won back most of their island, before moving on. In India, the people didn't move on until, almost 100 years later, after the British left. In South Africa, people didn't move on until apartheid was over. Native Americans resisted for hundreds of years, and only moved on when they were on the brink of being completely eradicated, and had no hope left. Etc.
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  3346.  @jojomany5792  If they're up to date on vaccines, they're 80% - 95% (depending on the variant) protected themselves. Much higher odds they don't have it.
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  3347.  methven Arundell  I think you need to reread Charlie Blair's comment, dumb dumb.
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  3348.  @anderseckstrand7033  A lot of people know about US interventions. Well, having someone like Aaron Mate blather on and on about an irrelevant UN inspector report, that had nothing to do with anyone's decision to bomb Syria, instead of relentlessly attacking the Trump administration, which made the decision to bomb Syria, doesn't help their reputation.
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  3349.  @Justme-rt4gj  Wow, Marx really ruled over a lot of people. When did he do that?
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  3350. McConnell tied the covid relief bill to the larger omnibus bill that funds government. The two don't really have anything to do with each other.
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  3351. You're a moron. Obama's last budget ran through 2017. The stock market has basically flatlined since Trump's first budget and the start of his trade wars, dumbass.
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  3352. By them and their businesses not paying their share. Bezos is a billionaire douchebag who only claims $80k in income, while making billions a year. These billionaires live on loans or lines of credit, which don't count as taxable income, taken out against their stock values, to avoid paying for the infrastructure that helped make them rich, to avoid paying for the military that protects shipping lanes and corporate interests abroad, and to avoid helping pay for healthcare and social security for the elderly. Musk is a billionaire douchebag who has a 50k salary, that he hasn't even taken. Zuckerberg is a billionaire douchebag who gets paid $1. The few times they do sell off some stock is generally tied to a stock option purchase, where they can sell off current stock at full price, pay the taxes on that, and then buy more stocks at a fraction of the value, that are then worth full value, making money out of the whole deal. Then, they can use that year of paying taxes to get tax credits against years they don't. They're leeches. If Amazon transports a million items over US roads and highways to a million customers, Amazon has benefited from those roads and highways a million times more than each of those customers. If Apple ships a million phones from its sweat shops in China to a million US customers, they have benefited a million times more from the military than each of those customers. Etc.
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  3353. ​ nofybn7794  For those who pretend to fret about "replacement", it shouldn't matter, either way. If they were honestly afraid of "replacement", they should oppose all immigration and refugees. But, they're only actually afraid of certain people.
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  3354.  @thedarkenigma3834  Pretty sure that Latin America is largely European, African, and Native, just like the US. Also heavily Christian. Republicans should be more worried about less religious, pro union, centrists, from Nordic countries, if they're actually worried about "culture" (What is the US "culture", btw? That seems on par with saying that Europe has a single "culture", which is nonsense.).
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  3355.  @thedarkenigma3834  Pretty sure the Anglo-Saxons were actually defeated by the Normans, who reformed much of the way things were done. The US has had a big hand in the way numerous Latin American countries have turned out. The US has supported tons of fascist dictator types, over the years. So, they do represent "American culture".
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  3356.  @RubbishFPS  She is objectively not a felon.
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  3357.  @johnmatthews3427  No. He likely pays someone tens of thousands a year, and then deducts it from his taxes.
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  3358.  @FerdEdits  Right wingers want to constantly hear that Democrats suck, they want to constantly hear that progressives suck, they want to hear left wing third parties promoted to split votes, ... if you think he's converting people en masse, then you're delusional. His right wing audience is just there to hear him shit on people they don't like. There are Trumpists using Dore talking points to trash progressives in the comment sections of multiple progressive channels.
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  3359.  @hayvern  You have it backwards. He is being treated with the traditional masculinity he promotes. Is it toxic, or not?
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  3360. Go vote for someone else, John!
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  3361. Top 10 "democratic run hell holes", by state homicide rate: Mississippi Louisiana Alabama Missouri New Mexico South Carolina Maryland Tennessee Arkansas Top 10 "democratic run hell holes", by state poverty rate: Mississippi New Mexico Louisiana Kentucky West Virginia Arkansas Alabama Tennessee Arizona Georgia It's mostly Southern States that are the worst of the worst. Since when have Democrats been running them?
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  3362.  @mediamattersismycockholste562  St Louis, Missouri, is the big city with the highest gun violence. Alaska is the state with the highest gun violence.
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  3363. ​ @DemocratsAgentsOfCarnage  Marxist or fscst ... Pick one. Can't be both. "Fscsm is the complete opposite of Marxian sclsm." ~ Mussolini
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  3364.  @mattsheldon8671  Peterson is legit? 😂
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  3365.  @andrewkowalow3794  What is it you think he got right, about it?
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  3366.  MidScream1  Lol, you're just doubling down on using a word you don't understand, dumb dumb. Progress has been moving further and further away from one person owning owning everything, making all the laws, dictating religious beliefs, etc.
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  3367.  @Soleilune1995  lol
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  3368. @independentCog His method of paying for UBI wouldn't have corporations paying into it, and only benefiting from it being spent. In the end, he'd have money funneling to the very top, faster than ever. Not exactly a progressive reform.
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  3369.  @jojojoe1904  Jimmy doesn't give a fuck about starting from scratch, maybe splitting the progressive vote, and letting Republicans rule for decades, as a third party tries to win even a single seat. He doesn't care if anyone has healthcare.
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  3370. ​ @danialhillmann5374  You will never in your life need healthcare? That sounds delusional.
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  3371. ​​ @danialhillmann5374  The UK system costs half the US per person, dumb dumb.
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  3372.  @mtorres3097  There was a larger spike in 2019, and this current wave surpassed every month of 2017 and 2018 back in September. But keep spouting bullshit.
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  3373.  @KrisH-px2jk  Yeah, I posted a link to it in a comment above. Is it not showing because it includes a link, or something?
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  3374.  @edwardrosser938  That's two big hypotheticals in one ... that he's still in office ... and that he wouldn't be on the ban all mandates Desantis side of things, pushing anti-vax nonsense while being vaxxed, like FOX ... and Dore. I'm for getting as many people vaccinated as possible, and taking measures that have worked in countries amongst those with the best covid outcomes. I don't care if Australia's government is conservative, that the leader was a dufus and incompetent when it came to the fires ... when it comes to covid, their response has been great, and should be emulated. Australia's covid death rate would translate into 26k total US covid deaths, instead of 800k. They've done what should have been done. Whoever is in charge of the US, do those things that would have saved 750+k lives.
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  3375.  @edwardrosser938  Oh geez, missed this nonsense "fascism" comment. Tons of people warred against fascism to out an end to, and silence fascism. Denazification tried to silence fascism. To strip down the definition of "fascism", to simply mean silencing a political opponent, turns everyone who fought against fascism, fascists. It's a ridiculous use of the word. Plenty of businesses require shirts and shoes, others require suits and ties. Governments pretty much everywhere require you to, at least, cover your junk. Are they all "fascists There have been vaccine mandates for over a century. There are dozens of vaccine mandates for public school kids and immigrants. If that's fascism, then pretty much every developed country is already "fascist". You should, seriously, read up on what fascism actually is. It's a totality of characteristics, not a single characteristic.
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  3376.  @edwardrosser938  Now you're going full blown stupid. Cancer and heart disease aren't contagious. Something that is a leading cause of those things though, smoking, is treated much the same. Countries have extra healthcare taxes on cigarettes. Insurance companies charge more for smokers. Pretty much all public places have banned smoking. Want to smoke? Step outside. Don't want to wear a mask, or be vaccinated? Step outside. Multiple places are also trying junk food taxes, to discourage, and help pay for, things that lead to obesity and diabetes. A 1% covid infection fatality rate is 2x the polio paralysis rate, and 20x the polio infection fatality rate. Plus, it is far more contagious than polio. I assume you want to ditch polio vaccine mandates. There are about 6m reported automobile accidents, per year, in the US. There are also an estimated 10m unreported accidents. There are about 40k deaths. Covid's 1% death rate is 4x that of automobile accidents. Plus, again, far more frequent. I assume you want to ditch licensing mandates, insurance mandates, speeding laws, seatbelt laws, all signs and lights, etc., because it's far less deadly than covid.
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  3377.  @edwardrosser938  Good for you. We should run society based totally on anecdotes from your life.
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  3378.  @user-rl3oy7em8g  Pretty sure only one is seeing actual reality, and it isn't him.
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  3379.  @bobbyharper8710  Literally nobody attacked white people. You are just extremely sensitive little snowflake.
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  3380.  @makeamericagreatagain3401  Plus, most of his economic gains were in his first year, when Obama's last budget was still in effect. Since his first budget's tax breaks for the rich and corporations kicked in, also around the time he started his trade wars, even his favorite metric, the stock market, has sucked.
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  3381.  @user-em6ie2be7x  Manchin is really really bad, but zero Republicans voted for the covid relief bill. It wouldn't have passed with an actual Republican in that seat. He's the worst of the Democrats, but that's still not as bad as a purely obstructionist Republican, a party that largely embraced overt fascism, and want to install an unelected dictator.
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  3382.  @douglassepic9030  US History 101: Protesting and rioting against extra taxes that specifically funded the red coats (police/military) = anti-authoritarian. Fighting against democracy to keep an unelected ruler in power (King George Trumpty Dumpty) = authoritarian. So, yeah, causes matter. And the police are the ones who keep inciting protests, all on their own. Those protesters aren't relying on baseless claims from politicians to rile them up.
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  3383.  @patrickriarchy1976  See. Yang Gangers reply about something completely different than what I'm talking about. You're so clueless about the VAT, you addressed a completely different problem with the VAT, pulled out of a Yang Gang copy and paste playbook. Bezos could pay $100m on a brand new $1b yacht, every single year, and he still could have made billions extra a year, with Yang's VAT/UBI combo. Mass amounts of money constantly funneling to the very top, where it's hoarded, is unsustainable. It's already why things are failing. Progressive taxes are definitely better, if done properly. Loopholes should be closed. The way Yang explains how a tax/ubi combo should work, is correct. It should be corporations paying for the UBI, like in Alaska, which he repeatedly, and dishonestly, compared his plan to. The problem is he dishonestly, or moronically, picked a tax that doesn't do what he says. If you want a $4t UBI, it just so happens that the top US corporations are hoarding about $4t. That's what should be taxed to pay for it. In a future, where you predict ever increasing unemployment, as robots take over, you can't depend on a tax paid by increasingly unemployed consumers. The corporations need to pay for it.
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  3384. Tulsi declared herself a hawk, when it comes to the war on terrorism, in 2016. The war on terrorism has been used as grounds for almost every US intervention since 9/11. She was never anti-war. Tulsi peddled a public option. And, no, hers was not the Australian model. That was a lie. She hangs with Hindutva nutters. She's a grifter.
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  3385. @W Shiflet Lol. Check out "her" about page.
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  3386.  @koyaanisqatsi78  Ironic, that you stalled out your op, and finished in a reply. 😄
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  3387. Because he's a bigot, promotes other bigots, constantly trashes liberals, is terrible at philosophy, is totally clueless on a number of topics he still gives ignorant opinions about, talks out both sides of his ass, sides with right wing nutters on a number of topics, etc.
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  3388.  @marcusj1167  Mississippi and West Virginia are actually the worst states in numerous categories. And, with a popular vote, every single vote would count everywhere. Politicians would have to campaign everywhere, instead of mainly battleground states. The 30% of Californians that voted Republican would have their votes count, rather than none count. Republicans would need someone as popular as Reagan to win, not moronic duds, like Trump.
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  3389. Aren't they always complaining about the hot and sexy "Hollywood elites" being Democrats?
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  3390. Because ... ? What does 2017 have to do with anything?
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  3391. Seth is right. People found ways to be funny when joking about religion would get you cancelled, they found ways to be funny when swearing would get you cancelled, etc., etc. Just whining about some ever present "cancel culture", that has existed forever, means you're likely not funny enough to adapt with the times.
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  3392.  @alex_macieira  AOC, alone, has done more for M4A in 2 years than Dore has in his entire lifetime. She used her platform and PAC to back 20 other pro-M4A progressives, helped add a few more M4A yes votes to congress, and helped remove a few more corporate Dems. That's exactly what needs doing to ever pass the bill. It's exactly what would still need doing even if there had been a guaranteed to fail performance art vote. It's exactly what still needs doing after any amount of protests.
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  3393.  @2727rogers  Jimmy would be bitching about Tommy not being able to pass the bill, calling him a sellout, and telling people to vote for a new party.
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  3394.  @inspectortanzi  It's 100+ votes short in the house alone, it has less support as a percentage of the senate, and a president who said they'd veto it. Why do you think that's the time for a piece of performance art?
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  3395. The Bible literally justifies genocide and murder.
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  3396. She'll turn 35 a month before the election. Do you have to be 35 before you start running, or before the election?
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  3397. ​ @TotalDramaDon <- Canada's lunatic fringe.
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  3398. You know Israel was founded on terrorism, and elected terrorist leaders, like Menachem Begin, right?
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  3399.  @underworld7148  Oops, we've been giving John a better deal than Bob, for years. Let's make it up to Bob by giving him compensation. Underworld: That's racist towards John!!!!
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  3400. ​ @danialhillmann5374  It's how insurance programs work, dumb dumb. Everyone whose houses aren't robbed, hit by a disaster, or whatnot, are helping to pay for the ones that are. Everyone whose cars aren't stolen, or in an accident, are helping to pay for the ones that are. Everyone who doesn't get sick, or injured, is helping to pay for those who do. Everyone not losing their jobs, are helping to pay for the ones that do. Etc.
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  3401.  @alexandermiller1741  Greenwald doesn't seem to know what "free speech" is. He ranted about "free speech" because editors, whose jobs have included asking writers for rewrites since the dawn of publishing, asked him for a rewrite. He has gone off about losing "free speech" on social media, when there was never such a thing as "free speech" on someone else's private property (which also applies to his former publisher), to begin with. If you don't have a right to be on someone else's private property, then you don't have a right to be on someone else's private property blathering about whatever you want. I haven't heard him, or "socialist" Jimmy, let people know that free speech would come with public ownership. I haven't heard them criticize the far right for creating giant corporations, with so much power. I haven't heard them defend the left, and point out that giant corporations, run by centibillionaires, some of whom donate more to Republicans and whose algorithms promote more right wing crap, aren't leftist, in the least. I haven't heard them point out that inciting an insurrection isn't even protected speech. Etc. They seem to be coming at it from an entirely right wing "free speech" angle.
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  3402. @Halon's Razor Who said they were the law? As you say, it was just a formality, because Clinton wasn't flinging baseless claims and acting like a baby.
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  3403.  @zeinabkhalil3591  Rooting for King Arthur to resurrect! Woohoo! 🗡️
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  3404. The ones in Penn are protesting to stop the count, though.
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  3405.  @CCJJ160Channels  @whyami soretarded78 is actually mocking @whyamimrpink78.
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  3406. Australia has a conservative president, dimwit.
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  3407. Except when it comes to the majority of South and Central Americans, descended from Spaniards and Portuguese? Keep them out?
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  3408.  @ShaneTheBane  He shouldn't have to sell any, if he actually owned even one billion in equity in the properties. He'd be able to take out a mortgage, or remortgage. That he can't, seems to indicate he doesn't actually own much equity, and isn't worth much, at all.
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  3409.  @tonystark4292  Sargon is kind of all over the place, but Daily Stormer and Richard Spencer have both said that Sargon is a great gateway to their position. If the Nazis think what you say helps them, then it probably helps them. If you're helping Nazis, then what does that make you?
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  3410. But Sam can speak out both ends of his ass. Like saying Ben Carson is an idiot, but then side with Carson over Chomsky.
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  3411.  Leonard Weisfeld  Interesting use of words to describe your reading comprehension problems.
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  3412. "Missed it by that much!" ~ Agent 86
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  3413. If "Santa" is taken from St Nicholas, then he should be a fairly dark Olive skinned Greek guy, from Turkey. If "Santa" is taken from Father Christmas, then his pagan winter solstice celebration shouldn't have been appropriated by Christians and Jesus's birthday. If "Santa" is just made up by department stores, to get people to buy more crap, then who the hell cares.
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  3414. Should have done it to block the scotus vote, on the grounds of negligent homicide.
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  3415.  @sprucesoultree3833  Probably, yeah, just like all the FOX loons.
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  3416.  @maxmusterman9262  Ben Shapiro, 2015: "When it comes to measles and mumps and rubella and polio, your right to be free of vaccination -- and your right to be a dope with the health of your child because you believe Jenny McCarthy's idiocy -- ends where my child's right to live begins."
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  3417. Reminder that the first vaccine out of the gates, and arguably the best vaccine, actually had nothing to do with Trumpty Dumpty. No US government funding.
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  3418.  @1080-v4v  "Pre-recession" is pre-Obama, dumb dumb. Obama's crossing numbers were much lower than Bush's.
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  3419. ​ @SabeerAbdulla  Being logical has nothing to do with being ethical. Objectivity doesn't give a crap if people live or die. The entire point of objectivity is that it is without biases, likes, dislikes, caring, desires, etc. (all the things that make up subjectivity), and sticks to facts.
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  3420. @eddieisfiction Rofl. Ironic. Dore has just spent weeks bashing other progressives as "fakes", "frauds", "shills", "sellouts", etc. He made not just being pro-M4A a purity test, but his FTV tactic and use of slander as a purity test, writing off any progressives who disagreed, even if they only disagreed on the slander use. Then he turns around and welcomes far right Libertarian/ancap Boogs as allies, simply because they agree on a few anti-authoritarian issues, even though they have completely opposite economic goals, including M4A. He's a hypocritical moron. You know who is the only one who can benefit, when you claim Trump is the better option than Clinton? Trump. You know who is the only one who can benefit from running an attack ad campaign against Trump's only viable opponent, Biden? Trump. You know who can only benefit from possibly peeling off progressive voters from Dem progressives? Corporate Dems and Republicans.
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  3421.  @lincolnsghost9995  It's only opening to the fully vaccinated.
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  3422.  Mari Jayne  Was Breonna trying to break into a non public area of a government building, in an effort to overthrow the democratic process?
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  3423. Prior to Oct 7, Israel was holding over 1200 Palestinians indefinitely, as hostages, without charges.
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  3424.  @masonmurphy4978  The etymology is a man's wife. That would mean single ladies aren't "women", and any men married to men are.
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  3425. They know those cultures have evolved from European Spanish and Portuguese culture, right? Even European French, Dutch, and British, on Carribean islands. And all quite Christian. Pretty sure their issue is purely color.
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  3426.  @patchandy  Nope.
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  3427. 2016: Dore promoted Trump as the better option, not caring if 10m of the poorest Americans were thrown off Medicaid expansion, and not caring to try and add 40m older Americans to Medicare expansion. 2020 primaries: Dore promoted Tulsi and her "Medicare choice", rather than Bernie and M4A. 2020 general: Dore ran a constant attack ad campaign against Trump's only remaining viable opponent, again not caring if Republicans might finally repeal Medicaid expansion, and again not caring to try for Medicare expansion and/or a public option. Dec 2020: Dore is the one true champion of healthcare, and anyone who disagrees is a "fake", "fraud", "sellout", "betrayer", or whatever crazy nonsense.
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  3428. Over 1200 years of history says you're wrong.
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  3429.  @jon.wilson  When did he roast congress members or media that backed civil rights? When did he roast those who had introduced and co-signed the bill?
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  3430. Since 3 of the squad originally came from the US, what Trump tweeted about them applies to his own government ... "So interesting to see “Progressive” Democrat Congresswomen, who originally came from countries whose governments are a complete and total catastrophe, the worst, most corrupt and inept anywhere in the world"
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  3431.  @CMfuell  Dimwit, Dore implied 15 progressives should simply abstain.
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  3432.  @CMfuell  I don't give two craps what members of congress know. I'm talking about Jimmy's plan, out of Jimmy's mouth. His plan was to hand the speakership to McCarthy, you dimwitted Dore knob.
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  3433.  @noqb2862  The 40 million elderly collecting Medicare and social security, who'd benefit from expanding both, didn't work hard? Workers, who would benefit from less costly healthcare, healthcare not tied to their employer, and from wages instead of employer healthcare spending, higher minimum wages, higher unionization, and more democratic work places, don't work hard? Students who have earned degrees, but are still having a tough time getting ahead due to mountains of debt, didn't work hard for them? Who are you talking about?
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  3434.  @Addamo  A performance art vote isn't itself M4A, Dore knob. If you already know you need to convert or replace 100+ people in the house alone, trying to ferret out a few more fakers, who can still vote for it knowing it has zero chance of passing, is a waste of everyone's time. The party's speaker candidate is chosen by simple majority in the party caucus. Even the broader progressive caucus doesn't have enough votes to block Pelosi being the party's speaker candidate. The corporate Dems don't have to pick someone new, if you paralyze the house. They can keep picking her over and over and over, if they want. So, how long do you paralyze the house for, during a pandemic ... no new covid relief, no new unemployment extension, no new vaccine funding, etc.?
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  3435. Before that, Russia promised to never invade Ukraine, in 1997, but did. Why would anyone agree to anything else, with Russia?
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  3436.  @Sharper714  She backed 20 other pro-M4A progressives with her platform and PAC, helped remove a few more M4A no votes from congress, helped add a few more M4A yes votes to congress. She was just on the ground campaigning for Nina, promoting M4A, and trying to help add another M4A yes vote to congress. You know that getting enough yes votes is the only way to ever pass a bill, right?
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  3437. Capitalism has failed, on a large scale, numerous times over, and fails hundreds of millions, daily. Sticking with it, or going back to it, doesn't equate to success.
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  3438. Definitely not from shore. Dogs can only swim a couple miles.
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  3439.  Net I  What a load of crap.
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  3440.  @user-nc9pc3gr4c  Ironic, claiming others are ignorant, while also claiming humans have been around, and worshipping, for a million years. You know that ancient gods were worshipped for thousands of years longer than current ones, right? If you think length of time worshipped is evidence a religion is correct, then you should be worshipping one of those gods.
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  3441. ​ @raulabobo9845  You forgot to clarify that you only want a specific few hundred year period of history looked at. You don't want to start with the first civilization of city states with a shared culture, language, mythology ... Canaan. You don't want to start with the first nation to rule over the region ... Egypt. Right? Palestinians have Canaanite DNA. They are Arab and Muslim the same way indigenous peoples of Central America are now Hispanic and Catholic. The early Znsts weren't shy about calling themselves clnzrs. Especially the Revisionists, founded by Ze'ev Jabotinsky, whose followers became the Irgun and Lehi trrrst founders of Likud.
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  3442.  Deniz Yazz  Calling him out for being a dimwit who promoted Trump as the better option in 2016.
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  3443.  @DAV3RAG3  The 1% covid mortality rate is actually 2x higher than the polio paralysis rate and 20x higher than the polio mortality rate.
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  3444.  @AwesomeBlackDude  Biden never ran on a number of those things, so you'd have to be stupid to expect them from him. Others are being worked on right now. The $15 got a vote. Remember when some supposed leftists promoted that just getting a vote on an important progressive policy would be a big deal? It even passed the house (M4A didn't have a shot in hell) and also got a senate vote. Remember when some supposed leftists promoted that getting a list of no voters would be a big deal, and that they'd do something with it? Turns out those supposed leftists were lying pathetic useless hypocrites, and they just keep bitching about, and slandering, those who got it to stay in for a round of voting and who voted for it. HR 1 would actually benefit third parties, with government matching funds, if they can meet a fairly low threshold. Third parties are still a fantasy, unless there are major changes to the system. Getting 15 more progressives in the Democratic party would give you more power than 100 seats as a third party (which would take over a century ... the most popular third party hasn't won a single seat in congress in its near 50 year existence). The US was already bombing Somalia, under Trump. Why are you saying it like it's new news shocker? Surely the rabid anti-interventionists have been repeatedly talking about Trump was dropping more bombs than Obama, rather than whining about Democrats.
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  3445. @xD4B5x Anti-authoritarian doesn't equate to "left". A majority of black voters voted for Biden, who is clearly a Republican light Democrat, over Bernie. Colonial Americans had protests, riots, destroyed private property, tarred and feathered loyalists, ànd eventually started a war ... against a tax specifically to fund the police/military. One of the last straws, for them, was when red coats, fearing for their lives against violent protesters, shot a bunch of those violent protesters. Do you consider them radical left terrorists? Can you give an example of a "black supremacist" gathering similar to Charlottesville's Unite the Right gathering? Charlottesville had Nazi flag wavers, Confederate flag wavers, other white supremacist/nationalist flag wavers, KKK speakers, white nationalist speakers, etc.
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  3446. ​ @dalesims  Traitors would be those attacking allies, dingus.
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  3447.  @Rob1066-  And your employer's choice to want employees vaccinated.
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  3448.  @6MikeJones9  Yep. http://www.loonwatch.com/files/2015/11/sam-harris-id-vote-for-ben-carson-over-noam-chomsky-every-time/
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  3449. I like how their god often trolls his followers, too, by letting the "chosen by god" candidate lose.
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  3450.  @Y0utubeIsFuckingHomo  A mixed economy is a mix of capitalism (privately owned and operated) and socialism (publicly owned and operated). If you say there's zero socialism, until you reach a 100% socialized society, then there should be zero capitalism, unless you reach a 100% privatized society.
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  3451.  @seabass155  But, they did minimize harm. 20 per 100k is far less harmful than 147 per 100k. And, when they saw there was a difference between Moderna and Pfizer, with Pfizer reducing harm even more, they switched to Pfizer for that age group.
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  3452.  @publiopaolacci495  Thinking the DNC, the FBI, Republicans like Mueller, Australian officials, and others, conspired together to oust Trump and install Pence as president, isn't the weird conspiracy theory? An investigation that indicted 26 Russians, 3 Russian companies, provided 200 pages of non conspiracy level information sharing (collusion), and only didn't indict Jr and Kushner for conspiracy because it would be hard to prove they "willfully" broke the law, not because they didn't break the law, is the weird conspiracy theory? You seem to have skipped over years of multiple Benghazi investigations that found absolutely no wrongdoing whatsoever, to jump to "Russiagate" being normalized.
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  3453.  @yobased2872  No policies?! Rofl!! Just say, "Hi! I'm a moron!", and move on.
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  3454. Probably agrees with those Louisiana Republicans who just voted to keep spanking, paddling, in schools.
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  3455. The US has a pathetic trace testing rate (tests per confirmed case), dumb dumb. https://ourworldindata.org/grapher/number-of-covid-19-tests-per-confirmed-case?tab=chart&stackMode=absolute&time=2020-12-17&country=AUS~CAN~DNK~DEU~ITA~JPN~NZL~NOR~KOR~TWN~GBR~USA~VNM®ion=World
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  3456. What are you even referring to? She has supported women's rights, including abortion, LGBT rights, seems to support the separation of church and state, supports climate and virus science, ...
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  3457.  @uncomfortabletruth5915  You didn't really answer my question. The majority of the Republican voices are now wingnuts that would be happy overthrowing the democratic process. If they're extreme, then what's extreme about banning them? If they're not extreme, then how so?
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  3458.  @uncomfortabletruth5915  So, lock up all the Republican politicians that tried to overthrow the democratic process, instead of banning their bullshit from social media, and such? Ok.
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  3459.  @fergusmurphy8310  Dore video: "Hillary Presidency Worse For Progressives & America Than Trump". He promoted Trump as the better option, first time around. Second time around, he spent the general running a constant attack ad campaign against Trump's only remaining viable opponent. He isn't a Trump opponent.
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  3460.  @calebjackson1187  Except both Ben, and the Daily Wire (also Ben), have videos titled like those.
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  3461.  @robertm8780  10 million "illegals" a year? You're smoking dope.
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  3462.  @sergeikhripun  There are already records of who won't cosign, and committee members who sat on the bill, during a pandemic. For both last session and this session. If Dore cared so much, he'd be "pressuring" committee members, rather than those who actually added M4A yes votes to congress, and have done more for M4A in a few years than he has in his entire lifetime. Seder promoted Nina Turner, promoted adding another M4A yes vote to congress. Dore publicly abandoned Nina Turner, abandoned adding another M4A yes vote to congress.
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  3463.  @123123lad  Trump is in the top tier, for both money and race, dingus. He has been handled with kid gloves.
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  3464.  @TheUser06  Rofl, no, that's not what it means. So much stupid.
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  3465.  @KaiCross  How is continuing colonization of the West Bank, and almost one Palestinian killed a day by the IDF or settlers, prior to Oct 7, and the continuing open air WWII style fascist ghetto, constitute "trying"?
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  3466. ​ @bretf5038  I couldn't even make it through your first paragraph of lies. Archaeology shows that the Philistines simply settled and merged with the local Canaanite population. They didn't ethnically cleanse them, or genocide them. Palestinians still have Canaanite DNA. They're Arab and Muslim the same way indigenous peoples of Central America are now Hispanic and Catholic. It is similar to the Dal Riata Scots, from Ireland, settling in northern Britain and the north all becoming Scotland and all the people there becoming Scots. All, or part, of the region has been called some variation of Palestine, by the Egyptians, Assyrians, Babylonians, Persians, Greeks (Aristotle considered the Dead Sea to be "in Palestine"), before the Romans. The Western Romans simply put the name back to Palestine. The name carried on with the Christian pilgrims, Eastern Romans, early Muslims, Christian crusaders, Ottomans, British, and the first Zionist congress (who wanted to create a home "in Palestine").
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  3467.  @johnsmith92704  Bringing right wing nut jobs to your viewership and comment section, so they can join in on the progressive bashing, doesn't actually count as bringing them over to the left, ffs.
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  3468.  @dondumitru7093  There's also Puerto Rico. It should be made a state, so future dumb presidents don't also think it's another country.
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  3469.  @zoobrizz  Yeah, BLM doesn't want people's rights violated, so organizes protests. Meanwhile, 2nd amendment nuts argue cops can't be trusted to be the only ones with guns and that they'll shoot them, if they try to take their guns away. Real cop lovers.
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  3470. Don't you have book banning lists to be making, or something?
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  3471. Thanks for commenting, and helping to show the video to more people. Quick question ... do you know what "boycott" means?
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  3472.  @unitedfools3493  The US is a lot more puritan than a fair number of other countries. Also, the guy publicly chastised a woman for simply asking, indicating the direction they want to take society.
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  3473. Needed a snort to stay up so late.
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  3474.  Juan Mendoza  Stop spamming how stupid you are. Cruz is lying. https://wallethub.com/edu/best-worst-states-to-be-a-taxpayer/2416
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  3475. So, when the company first bought the property, why didn't Dave make his threat then? When the town was annexing land from the neighboring county, that the developers owned, why didn't Dave make his threat then? When the first zoning plan was approved in Nov, why didn't Dave make his threat then? Why did he only make his threat against the second zoning plan, that included allocating some of the land for affordable housing? Now, it's just back to the already approved zoning plan, that Dave didn't make a threat against.
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  3476. Who thinks black lives don't matter? Cops who pull them over at higher rates, or stop and frisk them at higher rates? Judges who sentence them at higher rates, for longer periods of time? Politicians who do nothing to change any of that? Most of the attendees of rallies like Charlottesville's Unite the Right rally? Etc.
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  3477.  @aliamjon2550  If lying takes so much effort, then props to you, for all your hard work.
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  3478. Right wingers are really nailing the doublespeak.
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  3479.  @therationalnational  Side note, David: As a Canadian living with a VAT (GST), you should do a bit on how a VAT actually works, for Yang and his gang. They seem to be clueless about the fact that it's built into the system that businesses get paid back for their input VAT. Meaning, Yang's claim that a VAT forces corporations to "pay their fair share" is bogus. Many gangers also seem to be under the delusion that exempting "staples" means only big ticket luxury items will be taxed. We exempt staples, here in Canada, but that doesn't include the electric bill, phone bill, internet bill, cable bill, toys, games, basically any entertainment with a cost, non staple snacks and pop, personal hygiene products, household cleaning products, home maintenance, vehicle maintenance ... many things that still affect ordinary people. Since it doesn't actually tax corporations like Amazon, handing consumers $3t, and Amazon's share of consumer spending being 2%, instead of making them pay, he'll make them an extra $60b a year. That would make Bezos something like an extra $12b a year. He'd have to personally blow over $120b a year on goods and services with a VAT to pay in more than he'd get out of the plan. If giant corporations and the super rich get more out of the plan than they pay in, that means someone else is paying in more than they're getting out. Since it does tax many day to day items, those already getting $1000+ a month in government assistance would be worse off. Opting in or out won't give them any extra money, but they can't opt out of paying a VAT. As an example: any single parent on full SSI disability ($775), that currently stacks with SNAP ($355+ for household of 2+), will be worse off. Yang has neither stack with UBI.
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  3480.  Derek Hitt  The "market" (greedy businesses) has already failed at self regulating many times over. The Victorian and Gilded Ages weren't good times, for most, and led to massive labor strikes, and riots.
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  3481.  LudVan 77  How does that change what I said? They don't believe in vaccines, they don't believe in masks, they likely don't believe in climate change, and likely don't believe in evolution, instead believing the Earth was created 6000 years ago.
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  3482.  @danielarcadia7243  Rofl. Says the person with zero actual evidence of any wrongdoing.
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  3483.  Trumps A. Traitor  How the hell can they force rules on you, unless they're forcing you to use their service? Is there a Google guy with a gun to your head, or something? Plenty of businesses will kick you out if you're disturbing other customers.
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  3484. ​@RuckFussia An "enlightened centrist", both sides-ing, take on colonialism, occupation, and ethnic cleansing, isn't reasonable, and actually shows an emotional bias.
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  3485. @RuckFussia Yeah, you can choose not to bomb the civilians, dumb dumb. Not that hard. If there was a bank hostage situation, would you bomb the building?
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  3486.  @robertlee4172  What do you think the "facts" are? The UN Office of Genocide Prevention considers ethnic cleansing to fall under their definition of genocide.
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  3487. There are extra taxes on smoking. Insurance rates higher for smokers. Fines for smoking within a certain distance from a doorway. Smoking banned from pretty much every indoor venue. Some places have started extra junk food taxes. It's already a thing, and has been for some time.
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  3488.  @iamcosma7065  You get something for the money he wants to spend (public healthcare is cheaper than private healthcare, btw). It's more ridiculous to fund a candidate who is going to hand trillions to corporations and their shareholders.
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  3489.  @SplicedSerpents  Rofl. You want to cancel all cancelling? Zero boycotts? Zero protests? Etc.?
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  3490.  @Eggcornbean  Oh, go storm the capitol to try and cancel an election, or something.
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  3491.  The Ghey Mantis  What policies are any progressives promoting that would move the US left of Denmark, a more centrist country?
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  3492.  The Ghey Mantis  Blah, blah, blah, which policies do progressives promote that would move them left of Denmark, a centrist country?
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  3493.  @RobCipher  How long will mostly likely have to do with hospitalization and death rates. If you think those are anywhere close to cold and flu levels, then you're completely delusional.
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  3494.  @RobCipher  The covid vaccines are proving to be effective for everyone, of all age categories. A 0.1% infection fatality rate is also the flu's pre vaccine infection fatality rate. So, you're removing older people from the equation (partly because you don't grasp how herd immunity works, and how everyone being vaccinated helps old people as well), just so you could point out that covid is as deadly for the individual as pre-vaccine influenza, while ignoring that it is far more contagious meaning more deadly overall, causes more hospitalizations amongst all age groups, and is millions of times more likely to cause long term effects? Covid has left over 120k American kids orphaned by killing adults young enough to still have kids. Studies have shown that while covid is less deadly than the flu, for individual kids, the fact that it's far more contagious makes it more dangerous overall. The flu kills about 500 kids a year (pre covid). Covid has now killed over 1000k, in two, and most of those since Delta (1 year). And that was with all the covid measures. All the covid measures (masks and such) massively reduced the flu rate, because it's so weak, in comparison to covid.
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  3495.  @chasthanhburns123  The fun thing to do with anecdotes is put them all together and get actual statistics. Let another million Republicans die off by 2024, and see if that's enough to affect the election. Simple logic.
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  3496.  @footballfan5462  So then, MR, TYT, and others, backing Bernie and Nina (Dore worked against Bernie and publicly abandoned Nina) was them going against what the establishment wanted?
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  3497.  @paulwoo804  Yeah, a lot of them are like Trump cultists, arguing alternative "facts" and "math", denying reality.
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  3498. Give us a break. It's hard to make the stupid and ridiculous things the right does and says even more ridiculous and stupid. You guys are killing satire. Stop it.
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  3499. I don't know. It's pretty edgy to tell the world that you'd abuse and rape women, if you'd get imprisoned with them. He really lets everyone know who he truly is.
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  3500. The most left leaning Dems/Dem allies can't throw the same weight around, because there are absolutely zero extra votes to the left of them. There are more votes to be lost, or gained, to the right.
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  3501. Corporate taxes don't work. Corporations should pay shares to operate in a country.
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  3502. So, like in charge of their borders, their airspace, and their ports, you mean?
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  3503. ​ @justinbellpa  What did she lie about?
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  3504.  @JohnB-dr8sk  Fascism: anti-unionist anti-socialist anti-communist anti-feminist anti-intellectual anti-democratic (which gerrymandering and disenfranchisement both are) ultra-nationalist pro police expansion pro military expansion backed by big business backed by large landowners backed by religious leaders leaders in privatization Nazism: fascism on steroids widespread racism widespread bigotry "Fascism is the complete opposite of Marxian Socialism" ~ Mussolini Marx's ideal was a non authoritarian stateless socialism. The complete opposite is an authoritarian nationalistic capitalism.
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  3505. Expectations are subjective. If you expect total shit, and get slightly better than total shit, then they've exceeded expectations.
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  3506. ​ @Tom-zp1rp  Who is she racist against?
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  3507. Why bother? Jimmy Dore is doing their work for them. Must have wanted to reach a larger audience, I guess.
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  3508.  Man Splainer  Can you right wing morons please get together and pick either that the left are girly men, or that the left are violent terrorists who destroy cities, or that the left are authoritarian communists with the full weight of the deep state behind them? As a group, you're incoherent.
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  3509.  @alabamaman1684  Weird how those at your "impromptu unarmed" get together both planned ahead and came armed. You seem to have flipped reality, and are also arguing Kyle wasn't fearing for his life and if just a murderer. Don't you also argue the last point, on numerous threads, as well?
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  3510.  Alabama Man 2.0  You still peddling that Gallup article, you didn't actually read?
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  3511.  Alabama Man 2.0  With Republicans dying at over 3x the rate, purple districts might be closer than you think.
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  3512.  Alabama Man Special Edition  Already did. You're just not very bright.
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  3513. ​ @danialhillmann5374  You're basically trashing everyone in every other developed nation, who rank higher in life expectancy, lower in infant mortality, higher in democracy, higher in happiness, higher in education, higher in safety, etc., etc., etc. You're simply a moron.
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  3514.  @jrizaac  Who the fuck makes racist cakes? They make wedding cakes, dumbass.
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  3515.  @dabblerdeluxe775  Yeah, those $300+k houses weren't the "affordable housing" part of the equation. Those will still be built, and will now be the only ones built. He didn't show up to block the entire development. That had already been passed, before. He only showed up to block a proposal to allocate some of the property to affordable housing. He apparently didn't show up to argue the land sucked, and that they should donate better land for affordable housing. Just to stop it.
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  3516. Yeah, whenever I see folks waving Confederate flags, defending monuments to Confederate "heroes", and shooting themselves with their own guns like idiots, my first thought is "They must be Democrats".
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  3517.  @Poeticfloetic  Remedial is thinking "the problem" with moustache man, was simply his desire to expand beyond Germany.
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  3518. ​ @projecti-la-ri8058  Sam Harris is wrong a lot. He's a maroon.
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  3519.  @cinaedmacseamas2978  "Reminds me of ..." It was an analogy, and the analogy doesn't say "in church". If she doesn't want women to vote, then yeah she wants women to be subservient to all men.
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  3520. You know you need congress to pass anything you want, right?
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  3521.  @ToxicAudri  To be fair, Yang aslo had no clue, or was lying, about how a VAT works, and would have had money flowing up to those at the very top faster than ever before.
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  3522. ​ @DrunkQueer  That's like blaming the Native Americans for being colonized.
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  3523. So ironic, that right wingers are all into having the government tell private companies what they can and can't do on their private property.
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  3524.  @markeldik7057  No. They don't have "just as much leverage" as Manchin and the most conservative Dems. There are zero extra out of party votes to the left of progressives. It is absolutely impossible, to pass a bill without Manchin. As Manchin has shown, there is the entire Republican party, to the right of him, where he can try and draw extra out of party votes from, by moving a bill right. Manchin has a more leverage.
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  3525.  @nickcharles5891  Kinda like how Europe decided to go back to the stone age, after Western Rome fell?
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  3526.  @lilikaramirez1848  Seriously, you don't have to hide it. Everyone knows the truth ... "Strip club owners around the country are privy to a little secret: It’s better for business if your city hosts the Republican National Convention than if it hosts the Super Bowl. The New York Timesreported in 2012 that Republicans, on average, spend three times as much at strip clubs as Democrats at convention time. But is there something to this, or is this just political mudslinging? According to researchers who analyzed state-by-state Google searches, the evidence holds water. The highest volumes of Internet searches for sexual content were found in states where religion and conservatism were most prevalent."
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  3527. How a UBI is paid for matters. In a future end game, where everything is automated, it would need to be paid for by the corporations. Yang's VAT/UBI combo wouldn't have corporations paying into his UBI, at all, since a VAT is specifically designed to NOT tax businesses in order to avoid double taxation.
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  3528.  @biokido575  You're obviously a moron who doesn't understand how insurance works. Yes, you are paying for any smokers, drinkers, etc., using your same insurance company. People who aren't currently needing healthcare are paying for those who do, plus insurance company profit, as well.
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  3529. If you talk to him again, ask him if he's going to reintroduce his UBI/VAT combo into his new party's platform. If yes, ask him if he is simply ignorant as to how a VAT works, or if is he intentionally lying, when he claims a VAT is a way to tax giant corporations and make them pay their fair share. In reality, a VAT is specifically designed to NOT tax businesses in order to avoid double taxation. He even linked to a pass through rate study that he either didn't grasp, or lied about, proving a VAT won't tax giant corporations.
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  3530.  Dustin Caso  You know Antifa are counter protesters, right? They show up at the alt-right rallies. If you agree the white nationalists, and their fringe supporters, are ignorant piles of shit, whose ultimate goal is to strip all non-whites of their rights and toss them out of the country ... a "philosophy" that's behind most hate crimes and domestic terrorism, behind shooting up synagogues, temples, mosques, black churches, Hispanics shopping, and driving into crowds of people ... what's your issue with Antifa, exactly? What's wrong with fighting that shit?
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  3531. What did Native Americans expect, when they attacked colonizers?
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  3532. ​ @MedicineMan510  So, you think the way the US treated Cuba, and other countries in the Western hemisphere, was right? Russia was the one who started interfering in almost every former USSR state, right from the get go. Not odd, for them to then look for help. They had already invaded, and taken part of the Ukraine, before. And had their own fascists take over those Eastern provinces. They started economic warfare against the Ukraine, just for them wanting to join the EU (not NATO). But, yeah, Ukraine bad, for wanting help.
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  3533. Nice strawman. Nobody is saying private insurance will be eradicated overnight. Also, nobody is saying private insurers can't still exist to cover extras, like chiropractors, massages, acupuncture, etc. They just won't be able to sell people what they can already get through M4A. The "public option" route isn't simply letting private insurers exist, or weeding them out slowly. The "public option" route makes paying into public healthcare optional, and has public insurance compete with private insurance, just hoping everyone will switch to public. It's not Medicare for all. It's Medicare for all who opt in. And, having everyone pay in with equal premiums, even if they are lower priced than private, is regressive compared to it being paid for with a progressive tax.
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  3534. That Clemson poll polled 43% people over 65.
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  3535. How many seats do third parties have in congress?
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  3536.  @craigkidd9524  Do you have reading comprehension problems?
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  3537. The US was, literally, founded by breaking away from the English.
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  3538. @D34D 3D Yeah, damn them for campaigning for Bernie, helping to add more M4A yes votes to congress, and removing a few more corporate Dems. Man, they should have been backing Tulsi, and making friends with far right ancap Boogaloos, instead.
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  3539.  @ricardocabeza6006  How does something that ends up costing less, overall, bankrupt a state?
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  3540.  @bartjargengarblbargeler1980  Never watch Maddow. Did you have a point?
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  3541.  Aaron Dickson  Oh yeah? Who's my cult leader?
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  3542.  @bartjargengarblbargeler1980  FOX, themselves, used a similar defense for Tucker. What's your point? I'm getting the feeling you just like talking about Rachel. Do you have a thing for her?
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  3543.  @bartjargengarblbargeler1980  Still can't come up with a point? I guess you do just like talking about Rachel. Have you tried sending her a letter, to let her know how you feel?
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  3544.  @bartjargengarblbargeler1980  Spewing a random fact isn't making a point, dumb dumb. Guiness is an Irish beer.
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  3545.  @Gandingas  No. You're just the kind of person who doesn't grasp when people tell you the old Stephen Colbert character (mocking satirical comedy) was based on actual right wing "news" personalities.
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  3546.  @Matt-mt2vi  Majority rule doesn't equate to single party rule. Republicans could sway voters to vote for them, with all their brilliant ideas.
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  3547. @joe smath Oh, there was a point. I guess you're just slow. My grandfather was in the Danish resistance and had to live under Nazi rule. My other grandfather was in the army, during WWII, as was my grandmother and her 5 brothers. My other grandmother had to hide in bomb shelters, because Nazis were blow her and her neighbors up, and her brothers were in the army. What's the problem with punching Nazis, exactly? Spencer would like to strip non-whites of their rights and forcibly remove them from the country, ffs. He doesn't represent freedom.
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  3548.  Cuck Baldson  Anyone can claim to be a "man of god".
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  3549.  @timg185  Ummm, $10 to someone making $500 a week is a lot different than $10 to someone making $5000 a week, or $50000 a week. As a percent of income it's not close to fair.
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  3550.  @RB-ns2nn  Honey Boo Boo was popular. What's your point?
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  3551.  @nevermorebouquet3681  Doesn't removing them from power, even if it's one seat at a time, "oppose their power"?
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  3552. What's Sam's excuse? That Crowder won't debate him.
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  3553.  Janet Masiello  And how many coal jobs have come back, idiot?
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  3554. @Bet Your lunch Ummm, infighting is exactly what Jimmy wanted. He started slandering everyone and anyone who didn't go for his "strategy" to get a performance art vote on M4A. AOC never once ran on paralyzing, or threatening to paralyze, the house. Jimmy lied and pretended she didn't do what she said. AOC did say she wanted to cause a "ruckus" means, based on whatever "ruckus" means to her. Jimmy made up what "ruckus" meant, to him, and again lied that she wasn't doing what she said, as if something is objectively a "ruckus", or not. An old lady, thinking your music is a bit too loud, can think you're causing a "ruckus", ffs. It's a fairly subjective term. AOC backed 20 pro-M4A progressives and helped add a few more M4A yes votes to congress. That actually gets you closer to ever being able to pass the bill than a performance art vote does. On that, alone, she has done more for M4A, in 2 years, than Dore has in his entire lifetime, and more than any third party, that can't win a single seat in congress. Dore made a big deal about where was she on M4A march day, as if she was in hiding. Well, it was public knowledge that she was doing public rallies with Nina Turner, that day, promoting M4A at those rallies, and trying her best to help add yet another M4A advocate to congress. Dore, on the other hand, publicly abandoned Nina Turner, on his show, publicly abandoned trying to add another M4A advocate to congress. Also, remember, that Dore promoted Trump (platform: toss 10m poor Americans off of Medicaid expansion) over Clinton (platform: add 40m older Americans to Medicare expansion), he promoted Tulsi (platform: public option) over Bernie (platform: M4A), and ran a constant attack ad campaign against Trump's (still wanting to toss millions off of Medicaid expansion) only remaining viable opponent Biden (platform: public option and Medicare expansion). Then, he tries to pass himself off as the one true champion of healthcare. Rofl! You have got the wrong fraud. Dore is a grifter. He doesn't care if anyone gets, or loses, healthcare. He says one thing, but then proposes the worst healthcare option.
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  3555.  @swimminginthoughts  Conservative religious types haven't been cancelling things, people, and behavior they don't like ... and using the authorities to do it ... for centuries?
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  3556. ​ @ToxicAudri  Well, elections boil down to math, and there are only two viable candidates. I hope your conscience is cool with Trump.
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  3557. The problem is there can be only one alpha, which makes all MAGA men betas to Trump.
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  3558.  @InternetMameluq  You think the Boston tea party folks were peaceful? They destroyed property, beat, tarred, and feathered people. Milkshakes are a far cry from hot tar and feathers.
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  3559.  @waveygravey9347  What's wrong with "radical progressivism"? You don't like progress? If there's no leader, then who's "imposing excessive control over members"?
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  3560.  @jeffarnold3800  Congress isn't fully up and running. The senate was still figuring out how, exactly, it was going to function this past week. Both have been filling committee seats, etc. This week coming is committee week, when things get rolling, and bills should be hitting the floor by next week.
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  3561.  @zombiesoul-eater741  Native Americans resisted colonialism for some 300 years. The Irish took back most of their island after some 800 years. You're still colonialists, if you never stop doing it. What is it, over 700k in the West Bank now?
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  3562.  @zombiesoul-eater741   Even the Jwsh Virtual Library will tell you Stern tried to ally with them, Revi. Try peddling your Revisionist propaganda elsewhere. If you never stop clnizing, then you never stop being a clnizer, Revi. What is it ... 700k in the West Bank now?
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  3563.  @zombiesoul-eater741  The only one doing citizenship, by DNA test, is Israel. If you have Jewish DNA, a couple generations back, then you can come, from anywhere in the world, help colonize more land, and have more rights than the native population. I think it should all be turned into one Israel-Palestine. So weird how the West Bank, still being colonized and ethnically cleansed, and the Gaza ghetto, aren't as peacefully inclined. Ever read contemporary accounts of the Kitos War?
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  3564. Bill even slept through his Zionist history class. There were early Zionists saying the same thing as the BDS guy, that it should be expected that Palestinians will always fight back against colonialism, just like native populations had, throughout history ... https://www.jewishvirtuallibrary.org/quot-the-iron-wall-quot
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  3565. @xrpmarkyb "alternative facts" ~ Kellyanne Conway Yes, Republican "alternative facts" are lies.
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  3566.  @jasonsaenz8959  I just gave you an example of how the bill is banning overnight voting, which higher percentages of minorities took advantage of. Also, strict ID laws are directly classist. Poorer people are less likely to already have a driver's license. It forces them to get an ID they are less likely to already have, just to vote. They can also least afford to be able to take a day off from their low wage jobs, to go get an ID. And, it's just a fact that a higher percentage of minorities are in poverty, making it indirectly racist. Of course, knowing full well, ahead of time, that what you're going to do will affect minorities more, makes it directly racist. They've also already had to backtrack from Sunday voting times that targeted black voters, and a section that targeted immigrants who had at any point in the past declared they weren't a citizen. It's not like they aren't being blatant about it.
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  3567. ​ @meowy4720 Did you read the last sentence?
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  3568.  @mensspace9519  No vaccine is 100%, dimwit. Not sure where I lost you, in showing how herd immunity works, and everyone being vaccinated helps others.
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  3569.  Capo Di capo  How many times have you copied and pasted this nonsense? Sam released the audio of him being told exactly that by Politicon.
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  3570. ​ @nbeizaie  Einstein, and others, also identified who the founders of Likud truly were, in a 1948 letter to the NYT. "Among the most disturbing political phenomena of our times is the emergence in the newly created state of Israel of the "Freedom Party" (Tnuat Haherut), a political party closely akin in its organization, methods, political philosophy and social appeal to the Nazi and Fascist parties. It was formed out of the membership and following of the former Irgun Zvai Leumi, a terrorist, right-wing, chauvinist organization in Palestine."
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  3571.  @Mic-healDay  Right, the covid mortality rate is about 2x higher than the polio paralysis rate, and 20x higher than the polio mortality rate ... and it's a lot more contagious than polio. They are quite different.
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  3572.  @purklepanda5574  Dumpty received dozens and dozens of warnings about various rules he was breaking, over 5 years. He spent months making idiots believe Biden stole the election. Plenty of people would consider that something worth fighting for. Most just don't base their decision on zero evidence of such a thing happening. Spewing that baseless claim for months was incitement.
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  3573.  @purklepanda5574  There's no such thing as free speech on someone else's private property. If you don't have a right to be on their private property to begin with, you don't have a right to be on it spewing whatever you want. People have been having their club memberships revoked since the dawn of club memberships. People have been removed from private property since the dawn of private property. If you want free speech on social media, then you should be arguing for public ownership.
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  3574.  @lookatmepleasesir  During McCarthyism, it was bigoted. During the Civil Rights movement, it was bigoted and racist. Seeing as how he hasn't used it on any white male progressives, seeing as how he thought it was perfectly fine for his white male ass to bitch and complain about his president and country for a decade, it could be bigoted, racist, and sexist. Any which way, it's most definitely hypocritical and moronic.
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  3575. ​ @gujapattieseebarran4262  You just "failed" the test. It's not a pass/fail test, dingus.
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  3576.  @brianchoo298  Yeah, protesting, even rioting, against police brutality is totally equivalent to trying to overthrow democracy to put an unelected ruler in power. And, I guess it's already forgotten that said ruler let an excess 400k people die from covid, in 2020, if that's not what 2020 will be remembered for anymore.
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  3577.  @gabedude68  The Mueller investigation charged 34 people. You must be thinking of the 10 Benghazi investigations and the Biden investigation, which turned up nothing.
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  3578. It's actually the 1929 permanent appropriation act, that made it increasingly disproportionate. Also, there's a 1941 bill that's supposed to distribute electorals kind of proportionally, but the math seems broken. Those bills should be repealed, and things balanced out better.
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  3579.  @StasCherkassky  1. Palestinians have Canaanite DNA. They're Arab and Muslim the same way indigenous peoples of Central America are now Hispanic and Catholic. The non-Jwsh population increase was on par with reproduction rates of the time and place. It doubled in the 32 years from 1882 to 1914. It doubled again in the 32 years from 1914 to 1946. In those same 32 year periods, the Jwsh population quadrupled, then quintupled. 2. Weird thing to say, since they started before the Brits even left and independence was announced.
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  3580. Yeah, he's too stupid, for that, and a little racism news wouldn't stop bigger news if Epstein named him, or Mueller said to impeach, or something.
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  3581.  @woobiefuntime  "Europeans didn't do colonialism, because they came from Africa long ago!" ~ You
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  3582.  @woobiefuntime  They ditched "Hebrew". They ditched "Israelite". They kept the identity that their religion got attached to, after they wrote their fairy tale book, while in Babylonia. If Jews and Palestinians both have Canaanite DNA, that means the vast majority of natives, that never left, actually did change their identities, likely converting along the way. And, outside Saudi Arabia, "Arab" is somewhat like "Hispanic". It doesn't mean you're actually from Arabia. Arabs didn't genocide every country they conquered and refill it with Arabians from a little desert country. If Palestinians have Canaanite DNA, then they were likely simply Arabized, as well as the converting. Do you think that people in England no longer have any actual Briton in them? Just pure Anglo (even though the Anglos were conquered by the Normans)?
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  3583. Their rule can be waved with a simple majority vote.
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  3584.  @gj1234567899999  My grandmother needed a vaccine passport to immigrate as a war bride. She didn't whine like you bitches.
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  3585. Jimmy Dore thought a Trump presidency would be a spark, that would bring about a progressive wave that would, "for sure", take the house, senate, and presidency, by 2020. He was wrong. The $15 minimum just got a vote, that could be used as a spark against those who voted no. Instead, ftv's primary mouthpiece is using it to still bitch about those who voted yes. He's a hypocrite, and an idiot, who benefits Republicans.
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  3586.  @MrCheckitout123  The American Dream is long standing right wing propaganda, that doesn't clearly state it only works for outliers. Mexicans have found out it's bullshit, and you've actually had a negative migration rate with Mexico, for a decade. Your current influx is from places like Honduras, where the US has supported a dictator with $100+ million in military aid. They're fleeing a dangerous place. That's not how you use a carrot, dumbass. You don't beat people with it.
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  3587. Pelosi political stunt, just like her claiming she was holding back impeachment until guaranteed a fair trial, but then not getting one.
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  3588.  @TheBiggreenpig  Which is more likely ... that the most racist states, with racist majorities of white voters, who had been voting for racists and racist policies for 200 years, suddenly up and taught their kids and grandkids to be the least racist people in the country, and to vote for the least racist party ... or, the Republican party started pandering to those racists, after they felt abandoned by Northern Democrats, and the racists simply started voting for a different party?
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  3589.  @MichaelAChristian1  The majority of pregnancies end in spontaneous abortion. You worship a "baby" murderer, hypocrite.
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  3590. @@gayperson1one Ummm, colonialism literally doesn't care about rights either.
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  3591. @@gayperson1one You seem to be conflating having a certain kind of government with doing colonialism. Colonialism is literally the opposite of respecting rights.
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  3592. @@gayperson1one The imaginary ones you claimed your colonialists respected. I guess slavery was spreading rights too, was it?
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  3593. @@gayperson1one You get that colonialism dates back to Ancient Egypt, hasn't always been done against much less developed people, and often done by absolute monarchies, that had no rights for commoners, yeah? Vikings conquered and colonized places that had rulers, laws, etc. As did Romans. Colonialism didn't give me rights. A form of government did.
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  3594.  @justinbetland9792  They already posted a "FIVE DEAD After SUV Drives Through Holiday Parade in Wisconsin" video, dimwit.
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  3595. Hillary had 0 classified documents. The others fully cooperated with their investigations. Trump, once again, tried to obstruct.
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  3596. ​ @aheroictaxidriver3180  What "mystical" goals would those be?
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  3597.  @aheroictaxidriver3180  Nope. Just new to your mrnc uses of words.
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  3598.  @aheroictaxidriver3180  Try stating the "mystical" goals again, using the actual definition. mystical: having spiritual powers or qualities that are difficult to understand or to explain mystical: having a spiritual meaning or reality that is neither apparent to the senses nor obvious to the intelligence mystical: Something that is mystical involves spiritual powers and influences that most people do not understand.
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  3599.  @aheroictaxidriver3180  *people who use dictionaries
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  3600.  @aheroictaxidriver3180  😂 Logic very much requires sticking to definitions, Mr "Reason" (aka dmwt). What's "mystical" about "peace, brotherhood, justice"? People seem to understand what those things are. There are no spiritual or magical processes required.
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  3601.  @aheroictaxidriver3180  What does "the world", and its tangible, objectively existing, problems, and suggesting real world, tangible, fairly easy to comprehend, solutions, have to do with the "mystical"? You make little sense, Mr "Reason" (aka dmwt).
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  3602.  @openminded4751  I think it's every accusation. He, and his daddy, told people, for decades, that they were Swedish. Suddenly, they're actually German. So, even his false "turned black" accusation was projection.
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  3603.  @Kamfrenchie  Prompting Trump as the better option in 2016, could only benefit Trump. Running an attack ad campaign against Trump's only remaining viable opponent in 2020, could only benefit Trump. Going on far right talk shows, just to agree with them, only validates and benefits the far right. Promoting making friends with far right ancap Boogaloos, only benefits the far right. Promoting the third party route, that hasn't won the most popular third party a single seat in congress in its near 50 year existence, that would, at best, peel away enough progressive votes to hand the Dem party totally back to corporate Dems and let Republicans rule for decades, benefits the far right. Slandering progressives, that have done more for M4A in a few years than he has in his entire lifetime, benefits the far right.
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  3604. Do "they" all have shares in UberEats?
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  3605. ​ @jenniferb.9404  Israel is a colonialist nation. Going on about the Powhatan Confederacy's massacre of Jamestown colonists, and both sides-ing the situation, like some "enlightened centrist", is not, at all, truthful. The root cause was aggressive Jamestown colonialism, raids on the natives, and a previous Jamestown massacre on the natives.
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  3606.  @Evirthewarrior  True, there are 2 axis, and Marxian socialism is libertarian left. The complete opposite of that would be an authoritarian right. "Fascism is the complete opposite of Marxian socialism" ~ Mussolini They cut taxes. They privatized numerous things (fascist governments were leaders in privatization). They teamed up with monarchists, industrialists, and large land owners. They sidelined independent unions and created government run unions, outlawing strikes ... the government took over labour, not the means of production, and stripped it of power. Employer syndicates, on the other hand, were given the freedom to control production, distribution, and expansion. Simply controlling the economy doesn't equate to socialism, if it's geared towards making rich people richer. That's crony capitalism. "The corporative State considers private initiative, in the field of production, as the most efficient and useful instrument of the Nation."  People who portray fascists as socialists, should also be weary of wartime economies. The British government also took more control over its economy and production, during war. It had nothing to do with them attempting to become more socialist. It simply had to do with trying to keep their military armed and their people (not Indians) fed.
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  3607. Seems to get all his ideas, from this guy ... "Adolf Hitler Schools (AHS) were 12 day schools run by the Schutzstaffel in Nazi Germany from 1937 to 1945. Their aim was to indoctrinate young people into the ideologies of the Nazi Party. They were for young people aged 14 to 18 years old and were single sex, with three schools for girls and the rest for boys.[1] Selection for admission to the schools was rigorous; pupils were chosen for their political dedication and physical fitness, as opposed to their academic prowess.[1] Activities focused on political indoctrination rather than academic studies. The SS often selected future officers from the schools.[1]"
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  3608. So, a couple more percentage drops in unemployment, following the same trajectory unemployment was already on when he took over, is better than the 15th amendment, desegregation, and the Civil Rights Act?
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  3609.  @rentfree1438  One of the most credible news sources? FOX viewers were found to be less informed than people who watch no news, ffs.
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  3610. Sooo many people don't know what it actually is, and throw the term around trying to make themselves sound smart, using Latin. They're actually dipshits (not an ad hominem). https://laurencetennant.com/bonds/adhominem.html
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  3611.  @michaelvanderwal7390  Do you know the difference between crowds getting out of hand, and going with an intent? Crowds of people leaving sporting events sometimes get out of hand, and turn into riots, but they didn't go with that intent. A protest doesn't intend to turn into a riot, which is why over 90% of them don't. These people weren't holding a protest. They were there intending to destroy Palestinian property.
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  3612.  @Xpistos510  If your "plan" doesn't actually have the giant corporations paying into the dividend, then they only get the benefits of extra trillions being spent, funneling money to the very top faster than ever before. That seems pretty neoliberal.
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  3613.  @6789uiop  Ivermectin is manufactured by the 5th largest pharma corporation in the world, and even they don't suggest that ivermectin is an effective covid remedy. Peru, where ivermectin has possibly been prescribed more than anywhere else, also has the highest covid deaths per capita than anywhere else.
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  3614.  @Dan0TheMano  Rofl. A Republican Dore knob.
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  3615.  @Dan0TheMano  Kinda the topic, dingleberry. Jackson Dore knob, spewing all the Dore knob talking points. Why are you even here, if you don't care about the topic so much? The trying to overthrow the democratic process to install an unelected dictator really sold ya, did it?
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  3616.  @loverainthunder  Ftv was a "plan" to get a pointless 100% guaranteed to fail performance art vote. There's nothing essential about it. Dore, and his knobs, have proved that they're pathetic useless hypocrites, who would have done absolutely nothing with a list of no voters. The $15 minimum got a vote, even passed the house (M4A didn't have a chance in hell) and also got a senate vote. All Dore, and his knobs, have done with lists of no voters is continue to slander those who voted for it.
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  3617.  @prometheus575  Someone else was talking about the possibility of Pence pardoning him. If you impeached and disqualified him from further holding office with the little 90 day max crime, Pence could go ahead and pardon him. Then, once Pence is out, you hit him with Stormy, and other more serious crimes, and lock him up for a nice long time.
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  3618. The Israeli people keep electing the people who make the policies. One of those policies, mandatory service, means that every single Israeli is, was, or will be, a militant. Another policy is that the relatives of Palestinian militants should also be punished, but don't seem to like it both ways. Another policy is to still attack militants, if they're using "human shields". Israel has hundreds of thousands of militants (reservists), valid military targets, using the population as "human shields". The hundreds of thousands of illegal settlers are also Israeli "civilians".
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  3619. @Aaron Dickson Who is telling you to get a Pfizer vaccine, and only a Pfizer vaccine? Go get an AZ or J&J, if you don't like Pfizer. They've both committed to no profit vaccines, and their prices per dose are on par with an ivermectin pill. But, how many doses of ivermectin do you need to take to fight off covid, exactly? A few pills and you're up at the price of a dose of Pfizer.
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  3620.  @krim7  Allowing to vote none, wouldn't affect any rights.
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  3621. Go to a riot. Be afraid of being at a riot. Point his gun at someone and then shoot them in "self defense" when they grab for it. Then shoot someone else in "self defense" for pointing a gun at him.
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  3622.  @Treetopflyer777  The problem is making out like they all feel the same way, not calling them all the same thing.
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  3623.  @Sikyu-ye4ns  Didn't people get thrown on trains for all kinds of stupid reasons, during good ol' European fascism?
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  3624.  @mickelcsaszar3244  So, governments are better at ending slavery, than a god.
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  3625.  @mickelcsaszar3244  I didn't say "you" can do this and "you" can't do that. I said "you" can't do that but "we" can do that. Hypocrisy: a feigning to be what one is not or to believe what one does not : behavior that contradicts what one claims to believe or feel No slavery for thee, but slavery for me, is hypocrisy.
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  3626.  @mickelcsaszar3244  I most definitely am. You're just trying to justify the hypocrisy.
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  3627.  @matthewcarver2013  Are parents "letting" their kids be circumcised, or forcing them to be circumcised? Your "analogy" doesn't seem to be analogous.
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  3628. Give them the coordinates for Doug Ford's house.
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  3629. It was progressive Dems speaking up in congress, and one in the video. I don't think they're "all" like Joe Manchin.
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  3630.  @stephanielewis5595  Can't wait for right wingers to prove the US is liable, so the rest of the world can sue the pants off them. Bankrupt the US to own the libs!
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  3631. Like Menachem Begin?
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  3632. ​ @SuzanneWho  Need to double it, if they aren't going to vote Dem. 10 absent or abstentions.
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  3633. ​ @StevenWolfe-lx8js  10, if they aren't going to add votes to Dem candidate.
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  3634. The NIH themselves say that ivermectin studies have so far been problematic and haven't passed peer review. Their database has papers that have been published in journals around the world. Not all of them have been peer reviewed, and simply being in the database doesn't mean they're NIH approved.
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  3635.  @somejuanidk7674  Is he leaning towards the "f*cking dangerous" "bunch of morons", Trump camp?
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  3636. ​ @terrysmith5168  So maybe try and discern who the aggressor is, where. Did Ukraine invade Russia, or did Russia invade Ukraine?
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  3637. Claiming his daughter's all meat diet got him off drugs, not long before having to be put into a coma to get him off drugs, really stood up well.
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  3638.  @andersenparker2297  Wyoming gets one electoral vote per 193k people while California gets one electoral vote per 700k people, dimwit. How is that "completely representative" dimwit?
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  3639.  @andersenparker2297  You're the hypocrite defending a 1929 bill that benefits you. Constitution: "The number of Representatives shall not exceed one for every thirty Thousand, but each State shall have at Least one Representative" Nothing about it says the number of seats shouldn't be representative of the population, and electorals are based on the number of seats in congress. They made the senate for equal state representation. Based on a 1929 bill, you want both chambers to not be representative of the population, so Republicans have a better chance to win in the house and presidency.
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  3640. Rogan "kitchen sink": monoclonal antibodies, $2000+ per dose. Also supposed to be rationed for high risk people. He's either lying about how healthy he is, or he used money to get something that should have gone to a higher risk person.
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  3641.  @malcolmjelani3588  Firstly, getting into the country is how to apply for asylum. You can only apply from within the country. Secondly, few people crossing the border are from Mexico, atm. The vast majority are from Honduras and Guatemala.
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  3642.  @emblemedfate4270  Jimmy read the Dave Rubin handbook of how to pretend you're a lefty while constantly attacking the most left leaning politicians, and largely ignoring Republicans.
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  3643.  @emblemedfate4270  So, you agree that's what he does? Rofl. Acknowledging the fact that Biden isn't Trump (someone who has pushed 28+% of Republicans to give up on democracy and be in favor of overt fascism) doesn't equate to thinking he's an angel. That's just some strawman bullshit, that is.
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  3644.  @emblemedfate4270  Jimmy hasn't even done a single video on Trumpists going outright fascist, I don't think. He's more worried that Colbert gave Obama a weak interview.
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  3645.  @Andromediens  What does that have to do with the fact that firemen are usually on the opposite end of shooting the water at something?
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  3646.  @mathewgaspay5877  Well, there were survivors from all religions, so did they all work?
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  3647.  Ms Taylor  If you have to opt in to get it, then it's not even "universal". No matter what words Yang uses, it's bullshit. A public option gets you nowhere fast. https://www.theatlantic.com/politics/archive/2019/08/los-angeles-public-option-2020-democrats/597115/
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  3648.  Ms Taylor  But it doesn't cover "everybody", only "everybody who opts in". If you don't opt in, you're not covered and are somehow outside the "everybody".
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  3649.  @sahmeerodies1686  The golden rule is much older than Christianity and popped up around the world. Are you crediting the ancient Egyptian religion, or something? Laws are not morality. Many laws in history, and the Bible, and numerous God given orders, are immoral, using the golden rule as a moral code.
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  3650.  @whyamimrpink78  Justify having one of the most pathetic responses in the world?
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  3651. If some minority vaccination rates are lagging, then they're the ones who have received a lower share of vaccines, so far, not whites.
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  3652.  @AutismGaming489  You know Mussolini and Hitler were popular, right?
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  3653.  Don Kee  Weird. I say poorer people are less likely to already have a driver's license, and it's money out of their pocket, that they can't afford, to take time off to go get an id. And it's just a fact that a higher percentage of Black Americans are living in poverty.
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  3654. *born in Canada to an American mother passing through He didn't have to go through naturalization to get his US citizenship. The government considered American from birth.
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  3655.  Cuck Baldson  His wingman in the guy's steam room? Props to you both for being so progressive.
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  3656.  @jaidev777  What's the false narrative? He isn't bigoted towards Muslims? He didn't defend Charles "Bell Curve" Murray against the liberals? He didn't defend Andy Ngo ... editor at Quillette, that had an article listing the American Nazi Party, as well as other white supremacists/nationalists, as "conservative" victims of supposed liberal Twitter bias?
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  3657.  @aarondickson9573  You think a significant number of people who test positive are getting multiple tests?
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  3658.  @nonyabizness.original  Yang's "plan" could actually speed up that process. A VAT isn't a tax on businesses. Since a VAT won't make an Amazon pay into his dividend, they will only get the benefits of that dividend being spent. Amazon's share of US consumer spending is 2.3%. If even 2% of $3t is spent on Amazon, they'd make an extra $60b a year. That's $60b they could invest into automating even faster. That would also make Bezos an extra $6+b a year. He could buy a $1b yacht every single year, paying $100m in VAT, and still be $5.9b in the plus. A VAT isn't the way to fund a UBI. Corporations should be paying for it.
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  3659.  Robert Hunt  Rofl. Trump lost his home state twice. Trump has been divorced twice. What are you even talking about?
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  3660.  @BeeN-fy2jh  Where are you getting lost? Infltn started rising before March. JB didn't sign his ARP until mid March. DT, on the other hand, signed $900b additional relief on Dec 27, 2020. How could JB's ARP have caused infltn before it existed?
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  3661. Mississippi: highest firearm mortality rate, highest homicide rate, highest poverty rate, lowest life expectancy ... but yeah, you nailed it.
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  3662.  @bozeeke  You left out the part where he had already been living and working under those laws, at the provincial level, for years. You left out that most other provinces already had those laws at the provincial level for years. You left out that, out of all those years, in all those provinces, Peterson didn't have an actual example of the crap he was fearmongering about. You also left out that he grifted for his daughter's all meat diet, claiming it cured depression and anxiety, and that people could even do away with medications for those things. Obviously lies, considering he wasn't cured, and was taking drugs.
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  3663.  @eduardobibm  Party Realignment https://history.house.gov/Exhibitions-and-Publications/BAIC/Historical-Essays/Temporary-Farewell/Party-Realignment/
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  3664.  @alabamaman1684  And most of them won't be voting for him, anyway, because he's a Democrat.
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  3665.  @SaraphDarklaw  He had some pretty looney takes, even in 2016, like promoting Trump as a better option than Clinton.
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  3666.  @JoJo-vg8dz  The vaccinated are absolutely not spreading it at the same rate, dimwit. You're lying. No vaccine has been determined to be 0% effective against any variant.
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  3667.  @JoJo-vg8dz  The life expectancy in some African countries if 55, you dimwit. Underdeveloped countries aren't comparable to developed countries. Or, is that the life expectancy developed countries should be aiming for? No, comparable countries with the highest vaccination rates don't have the worst stats.
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  3668.  @zeroexcuse6558  ignorant : lacking knowledge or information It's just a fact. Phase III was done over a year ago. You clearly lack knowledge or information. You're the one who decided to include your wife, as if she was saying the same thing you were. If so, that applies to her too. Just a fact.
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  3669.  @pallasweb7180  The absence of doctors and scientists everywhere expressing those concerns, would indicate those aren't major concerns. What makes you think they are major concerns?
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  3670.  @RealKull  Go away Tim.
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  3671. ​ @AgxntAqua  School shootings have gone up. 2021 was especially horrid. About 10x that of 1970.
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  3672.  @SoundsSilver  You're clearly the one demonstrating that you don't know what coercion means.
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  3673.  @SoundsSilver  There's also a difference of proportion between threatening to punch someone and threatening to kill someone. There both still threats and, if there's a demand involved, coercion. You're blathering about irrelevant nonsense, that doesn't change the definition.
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  3674.  @SoundsSilver  All on their own, the student wrote a C grade paper (all on their own, someone fell off a cliff edge). The "rescuer" is offering them an A, for a reward (offering to help them up for a reward), threatening to let the C stand, if they don't (threatening to leave them hanging, if they don't). You're clearly not very bright, if you can't grasp simple analogies.
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  3675. The US hasn't been testing at a high enough rate to get ahead of the virus spread. Look up tests per confirmed case rates.
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  3676.  @KARKAT420  Doh, mixed up my Andrews.
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  3677.  @jaialaiwarrior  What are you on about? Do you think the British colonization of India, and the forced partition, was a good thing? Gandhi and Abdul Ghaffar Khan were opposed to partition. Hindutva was literally founded on Italian fascism and German N-zism. Those were the partition supporters. That's the current Indian government. You realize the Germany analogy would be more comparable to defeating the invading Z-nists, and then removing all Jews, right? You sure you want to promote that, as a good thing?
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  3678. People that are nuanced, would grasp that there's largely no "far left" media, or viable politicians. A true "far left" would be proposing all out socialism, and a complete end to capitalism. Single payer healthcare, for example, would just makes you like every other largely capitalist developed country ... still right of the center.
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  3679. The plan only allocated land to affordable housing, and didn't give prices. The prices given were for the standard priced homes. The plan that allocated land to affordable housing, also had some less expensive standard priced homes.
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  3680.  @nerdjournal  He literally didn't oppose the "entire deal". The "entire deal" started over a year before. He didn't oppose the annexation. He didn't oppose the first zoning plan, which was approved in November, that didn't include affordable housing or multi family homes. He opposed the second zoning plan, which included multi family homes and affordable housing. Now it simply defaults back to the original zoning approval, and development can go ahead.
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  3681.  @charliebrown3082  You're not going to get Trump voters anyway. Why not bring your side closer together by healing an old wound?
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  3682.  @uncomfortabletruth5915  You think it's morally wrong to remove, or have someone removed, from your private property?
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  3683. That last sentence is the important part. There would have been zero American lives lost, if the US just kept bombing them the old fashioned way. But, that would take too long, and Russia would have come in and possibly made Japan surrender to them. The nukes were to get them to surrender fast, not to save American lives, or whatever nonsense.
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  3684.  @jodieholmes8453  Kyle has repeatedly said, in multiple elections now, to only cast protest votes in safe states.
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  3685. Have your brain cells checked.
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  3686.  @noeldown1952  Ummm, Hitler wasn't a major wealth redistributer. That's exactly why leading industrialists supported him. Hitler outright killed off any prominent left leaning members of the party on the Night of Long Knives. He provided them with slave labour and confiscated Jewish property and businesses. He destroyed unions, and tossed unionists, socialists, and communists, into camps. Nazis were leaders in privatization. Giant corporations came out of Nazi Germany. Hitler was a fascist, and fascism is ... "Fascism is the complete opposite of Marxian socialism." ~ Mussolini
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  3687.  @shadowjudge921  Normal immigration has required vaccines for decades. It already is kinda weird that they don't require natural born citizens get vaccines, unless they go to public school.
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  3688.  @TheGhostofTomMetzger  Religious folks have been calling their formless, sexless, penisless, "god" being "he", "him", and even "father", for millennia. Gender terminology has never been required to match sex. Pretty sure opioids have a warning label, saying exactly that they can cause dependence, addiction, and overdose. Who said they're not addictive?
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  3689.  @Shooting_Star-v2e  Being "woke" goes back decades. It's a mixed economy, so there has always been a little socialism, and progressives are promoting actual centrism, at most, not all out socialism. The borders aren't open, loon.
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  3690.  @Makingnewnamesisdumb  Yes, I read your bullshit, and I read your first sentence, which you're now avoiding. Name a vaccine that's 100% effective.
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  3691. You're implying there's something "intellectual" to compete against.
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  3692. ​ @GeteMachine  It has literally been Likud's platform, since it was formed, in the 70s, from earlier parties, but nobody bats an eye. "Between the sea and the Jordan there will only be Israeli sovereignty", has promised to completely colonize and ethnically cleanse all Palestine territories, for decades. It even further claims a "right" to all the "Land of Israel" (fictional biblical borders that don't mesh with archaeological reality), which is also an open declaration of future wars, against Jordan, Syria, and Lebanon.
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  3693. A public option turns Medicare into a competing insurance company, and paying for it into a premium instead of through progressive taxation. The poorest person would have to pay the same premium as the richest person, to get coverage. It is regressive (as is a VAT). Phasing out private insurance allows for Bernie to also demand companies turn their per employee healthcare payments ($10k on average) into wages. With a public option, unless you convince the employer to switch over, it becomes pointless for an individual employee to start paying for something they already have, and makes it difficult for them to negotiate individually to opt out of the company plan and get wages instead. It's also just doesn't seem to get you universal coverage anytime soon ... https://www.theatlantic.com/politics/archive/2019/08/los-angeles-public-option-2020-democrats/597115/
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  3694. Averaging out the cost per use, isn't stupid. If you're going to use your house every day for 30 years, it's costing you about $70 a day. A lot of things are sold stating how many uses you'll get out of it, and you weigh that against whether it's worth it. That one method she mentioned just applies it to everything. It's how charities advertise ... It'll only cost you the price of a cup of coffee a day.
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  3695.  Aaron Dickson  Red states, with more liberal gun laws, tend to have both higher firearm mortality rates and higher homicide rates. Hard to have proper gun control, if someone can easily hit a gun shop just outside of town.
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  3696.  Aaron Dickson  Chicago doesn't have the highest murder "rate". You're lying.
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  3697.  @alabamaman9476  Rofl. You cheat by using a list of only cities over a certain population, and you still get over half in red states, where it's easier to get guns.
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  3698.  Alabama Man Special Edition  Rofl. She never said that voting present was always a cop out. She said it was a cop out for very important, even historical, things. Do you think a Capitol police bill that was going to the senate, to be altered, before coming back to the house, was very important, or historical? Do you know what her vote was on the final version of the bill was?
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  3699.  GPE MUZIK Rofl, he's a religious nut. His whole reality is based on blind belief in a fairy tale, not facts. Plus, idiots, like him and you, don't seem to understand that objectivity has zero opinions, judgements, biases for or against anything, etc. That's what makes it objective. Facts are objective. All his opinions, etc., are subjectivity based ... feelings.
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  3700. Can you two make up your minds? Is she willing to work with some who disagree on some things, or not?
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  3701.  @twoshedsjohnson8540  Not really obvious, when there are plenty of dismissive right wing idiots in TMR comments. I thought learning to count was quite funny, from my end ... so right back atcha.
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  3702.  @mickswagger6086  Penguins!
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  3703.  @aliamjon2550  Rofl, the virus was a deliberate attempt to derail Trump?! All he had to do was not be completely incompetent, dimwit. A mediocre response, like Canada's, would translate into 400+k fewer US covid deaths.
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  3704.  @ronaldmatthews7361  Being taken to court by the DoJ for not renting to blacks. The judge immediately tossing out his lame defamation counter suit. So, he settled.
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  3705.  @elliotwilliams7421  No, he connected the two statements with a "but", as if an individual Japanese health board member endorsing ivermectin had something to do with Japan endorsing ivermectin. If nobody else in Japan listened to the individual, then it's still conservative, and there's no "but".
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  3706.  @elliotwilliams7421  No, you're pretending the conversation stops at the "but", and that the thing that precedes it (Japan's willingness to endorse drugs) isn't connected to the thing that follows it. Joe didn't say every individual Japanese person was conservative, or that that specific individual Japanese person was conservative. He said Japan was conservative. One Japanese individual's values has nothing much to do with Japan's overall conservativeness, when it comes to endorsing drugs. You have no clue if he abandoned his values. Maybe he has always been their most liberal guy.
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  3707. ​ @JohnFreedman0  Yeah, tariffs on American made whiskey and maple syrup, really hurt. We totally don't have tariff free Canadian alternatives to those. 🙄 Weird. When Canada's housing prices didn't crash, like in the US, Conservatives touted that as their success, and did absolutely nothing as the prices started spiking. Suddenly, they say it's a bad thing, and the fault of immigration. You also don't seem to know how immigration works, in Canada. It's a federal/provincial partnership. 2022: "Ministers from Ontario, Alberta, Saskatchewan, and Manitoba are calling on Sean Fraser, Canada's minister of immigration, refugees and citizenship, to allow their provinces to select more immigrants "with the skills they need most" in a letter sent Tuesday night." Conservative premiers are the ones asking for them.
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  3708.  @adaminfinity1733  Piss off. "Of Americans surveyed from Sept. 13-22, 72% of adults 18 and older had been vaccinated, including 71% of white Americans, 70% of Black Americans, and 73% of Hispanics. Contrast these converging figures with disparities based on politics: 90% of Democrats had been vaccinated, compared with 68% of Independents and just 58% of Republicans. A Gallup survey released on Sept. 29 confirmed the KFF findings. As of mid-September, 75% of adult Americans have been vaccinated, including 73% of non-Hispanic white adults and 78% of non-whites. Along party lines, however, the breakdown was 92% of Democrats, 68% of Independents, and 56% of Republicans."
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  3709.  @DuderofDudeness  Your first sentence doesn't seem to mesh with reality.
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  3710. ​ @TheHOruS55  Yeah, totally the natives fault, for the colonization of North America.
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  3711.  @insightoftheages5571  Both firearm mortality rates and homicide rates tend to be higher in states with fewer gun safety laws. https://www.cdc.gov/nchs/pressroom/sosmap/firearm_mortality/firearm.htm https://www.cdc.gov/nchs/pressroom/sosmap/homicide_mortality/homicide.htm
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  3712.  @renegraider  Moron. He's cool because he is very pro women's rights, dumb dumb. https://feelthebern.org/bernie-sanders-on-womens-rights/ https://berniesanders.com/issues/womens-rights/
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  3713. No more messing with house or senate seats. It looks like Dems will win Georgia. Pick people from outside congress.
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  3714.  @ACDCfan666tnt  Exactly. The people who are openly opposed to M4A aren't pissed at him. Good job, Jimmy.
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  3715. ​@donHooligan Does she have any shot at winning ?
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  3716.  @cupajoy8498  Because most people aren't maroons. a) She has zero chance of winning, so you'd just be helping DT ... who is still worse, even on this single topic. b) She would let Rvssia do to Ukrn what Isrl is doing to Plstn. c) Even if magical fairies helped her win, there is so much bipartisan support for Isrl in congress that they could pass whatever aid bills they wanted and overrule any presidential vetoes. Third parties vying for the top position, without any presence in congress, are pointless.
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  3717. Yang is relying on Americans not knowing how a VAT actually works. It taxes consumers, not corporations, as he dishonestly promotes. Mixed with his UBI, his plan will make giant corporations, like Amazon, and the super rich, like Bezos, even more money. It won't make them "pay their fair share", as he claims.
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  3718.  scott thomas  You just proved the op's point. You seem to have missed all the history in between then, and now, if you think that's relevant.
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  3719. The $15 minimum wage did get a vote, however. What were all the FTVers going to do with the guaranteed to fail M4A vote? It was supposed to be a big deal just getting a vote, and was going to lead to big things. Why have FTVers done absolutely nothing with the failed $15 vote, except bitch about those who voted for it?
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  3720. This is a midterm fight, and Dems will have a problem trying to hang on in those purple districts. Any ounce of leverage Hinkle believes AOC to have, entirely rests on Dems maintaining a majority. Without that, Republicans will just do whatever they want, without needing any corporate Dem or progressive votes. She already tried backing progressives in some of those districts, and they got creamed, but the more conservative Dem, who beat them, managed to also beat the Republican in the general. For the midterm, she should be backing new progressives in blue districts, that have an incumbent corporate Dem, where there's no worry in the general, and doing whatever to help everyone else hang on to their seats. You may not like that she broke some supposed promise, but it's smart.
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  3721.  @Rob_Cary  The title states factually what Stern did. David factually made the point that covid is made for people. You claimed David didn't stick to the facts, which he did. Either you didn't watch first and made an ignorant comment, or you watched, have severe comprehension problems, and made a moronic comment.
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  3722.  @Rob_Cary  Now your criticism is tone? Before it was "David needs to get his facts straight" and "100% non factual information".
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  3723. She had her issues, even before flipping. She was educated at preparatory schools that were literally created to avoid desegregation. They didn't acknowledge admitting their first non-wt student until 1989, the year she graduated. She had been considered wt the whole time. Likely the kinds of schools that teach the CW wasn't about slvry, which is why she bungled the question.
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  3724.  @agarthastudio6005  All evidence indicates the vaccines are working fine. You're living in an alternate reality. Yes, other variants could cause problems, so all the morons not getting vaccinated, should, before they create more and more variants.
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  3725. @f What was said by Deutsche Bank, was that they figured he had over inflated his assets, and was only worth in the 800 millions. They lent him money anyway, for some strange reason.
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  3726.  @ricflair2743  Moron. It's beyond stupid to compare the totals of a 300m population country and a 1b population country. Per capita, the US is worse than China.
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  3727.  @kevin6293  You know that fascism doesn't equate to Nazism, or white nationalism, right? There have been fascist, corporate backed, dictatorships all over the world, that have come in a variety of colors.
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  3728.  Progressives for Trump  Slightly over half of the Cubans in Florida came over in the waves with Batista's adminstration, Batista's military, and those who got rich under Batista, or are their descendants. They're fascists. That largely corresponds to the slight majority that votes Republican.
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  3729. That would take a constitutional amendment, which is tough. An easier angle would be to redo the Permanent Reapportionment Act, and add more seats to the house, based on population.
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  3730.  @dough1968GMC  How will they be gone? I was mandated vaccines, when I went to public school. My kids were mandated vaccines, when they went to public school. What are these mysterious rights anyone is losing?
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  3731.  @sfsandman4489  No vaccine is 100%, ffs. How are there so many idiots who don't know this? mRNA has been worked on for over a decade. They just quickly tweaked it for the viruses. Medicines are typically approved within 6 months after phase III trials. Oh geezus. Cancer?
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  3732.  @YouConnolly  Sorry, not doing a JP video. He's a quack.
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  3733.  @YouConnolly  By your "logic" fascism is the truth, because it caused such opposition.
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  3734. It's an Onion joke.
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  3735. Because you're not too bright?
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  3736.  @jodada97  More people haven't died from suicide, dimwit.
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  3737.  @stopwritingthatreplyjohnat6638  It's when you sell yourself as a lefty but you benefit the right the most ... like promoting Trump as the better option in 2016; running an attack ad campaign against Trump's only viable opponent in 2020; slandering people who have done more for M4A in a few years than you have in your entire lifetime; promoting the third party route that hasn't won the most popular third party a single seat in congress in its near 50 year existence and would, at best, peel off enough progressive votes to hand the Dem party totally back to corporate Dems and let Republicans rule for decades; after writing off the most progressive politicians as allies, promote making allies with far right ancap Boogaloos with completely opposite economics; go on far right television only to agree with them; etc.
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  3738. ​ @ThatRascalMerlin  Not sure you want the strongest cockroach as speaker though. This could turn out bad.
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  3739. Ummm, the cops the black woman wanted to make a compliant about were the cops the white woman called, when she tried to get the black woman arrested. Mental illness, or not, she tried to ruin the black woman's life. The black woman is a victim.
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  3740.  @redtree8254  With regards to nearly eradicating everything public school children are vaccinated for, specifically, how is that an abysmal failure? Wouldn't the pockets of anti-vax home schoolers, bringing back small outbreaks, be the abysmal failure, in that regard?
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  3741. Geezus, you haven't even uploaded your corn bot pic yet, and you're already posting?
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  3742.  Derek Hitt  Not what I replied to. You said that to someone else.
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  3743.  @blairsy77  Because they actually haven't been. You're pulling shit out of your ass.
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  3744.  @basedlaya  Those were Iran's own dollars, which the US had seized. The original deal was to release Iran's money, that the US had stolen, back to them, and reducing sanctions, in exchange for inspections, which Iran did allow, until Dumpty pulled out of the deal.
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  3745. @Gawanipony 3 Let me get this straight ... you think it's perfectly reasonable to believe that one of the most despised presidents in US history got more votes than Obama, but not Biden? That he's so despised is exactly why Biden got more votes.
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  3746. What is something important and new that Harris has done?
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  3747.  Xantoven  What's weird about blaming a leader for their response to a pandemic? Some countries had an amazing response to the pandemic, containing the virus and flattening their curves quickly. Others, like the US, are in the top 10 for covid deaths per capita. How is that not a leadership issue?
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  3748.  @jeffrunge6427  Not even remotely true.
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  3749.  @thinkoutsidethelines8265  I already understood that you don't grasp basic math. But, thanks for reiterating.
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  3750.  @jeffrunge6427  1200 dead is not even remotely true.
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  3751.  @mimked  Yeah, I'm not reading all that, after such a rubbish start. Many countries didn't treat patients the way he wants. Tens of millions of doctors and nurses, worldwide, didn't treat patients the way he wants. The vast majority of doctors and nurses, worldwide, advocate being vaccinated. Trying to make out like what he's saying would only apply to the US, is bullshit. Even if it did only apply to the US, that's still millions of doctors and nurses. Making out like they intentionally didn't treat people, so they would die, to boost demand for vaccines, is still psychotic. He's a loon.
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  3752. Moron. The black population had a poverty rate of 60% before the Civil Rights Act, which dropped down to 30% after. Still not good enough, but you're spouting pure bullshit, implying the Civil Rights Act made things worse.
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  3753. It's a math problem though. In a standoff between the left end and right end of the party, the right has more leverage. Moving legislation to the right has the possibility of picking up extra votes from Republicans, and it can be passed without the left end. Moving legislation to the left has zero possibility of picking up extra votes from the zero members to the left of progressives, and it can't be pass d without the right end.
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  3754.  @clintholmes2061  Sam was telling people to vote for Bernie and M4A, instead of telling them to vote for Tulsi "I'm a hawk" Gabbard and her public option. Sam was telling people to vote Nina, instead of telling them to abandon Nina ... telling them to abandon adding another M4A yes vote to congress. So what if he doesn't support casting an irrelevant vote, or possibly a spoiler vote, for a third party candidate? "Vote blue" works both ways. Those who vote against progressives in the primaries tend to turn around and vote for them in the general. That's how progressives can win more purple districts. Any hope in hell of Bernie becoming president would have relied totally on Clinton or Biden voters turning around and voting for him in the general. "Vote blue" benefits progressives, you dimwitted Dore knob. Whatever you think of the current progressives in congress, running as blue is clearly the more effective way to win a seat ... by a mile ... by a hundred miles. The most popular third party hasn't won a single seat in congress in its near 50 year existence. At least Sam wasn't promoting Trump as the better option, like Dore did. Almost every direction Dore proposes taking seems to benefit the extreme right, more than anyone else. Weird, for a "real" leftist.
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  3755.  @clintholmes2061  Long story short, he's not a moron, like your grifter cult leader.
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  3756. ​ @justinbellpa  Rofl. The slogan of a guy whose entire worldview is based on feeling a fairytale is true.
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  3757. They also like to dishonesty use totals, for really large cities, like Chicago. Per capita, Chicago isn't even top 10 most violent cities. St Louis, Missouri (with state Republican gun laws) is the most violent. Also notice they don't refer to most violent states. Most of the top 10 violent states, per capita, are Republican run states. Most of the top 10 states with the highest poverty rates, per capita, are Republican run states.
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  3758.  @289cobra9  "Trillions" would suggest multiple trillions, dumb dumb, which would only be the case if you add up all the covid relief bills.
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  3759.  @HWEspana  It's pretty damn strange. Hunter travels across country with 3? broken laptops, drops them off to be fixed, the owner just happens to be a Trumpist, he's legally blind and can't visually identify who dropped it off, but apparently also took no contact information, or any other way, to contact or identify who dropped it off. Then, the legally blind guy goes through what, hundreds of emails, to stuff years ago, all on his own. Pretty weird.
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  3760. They're idiots who think the "Spanish flu" actually originated in Spain, and think they're naming this similarly.
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  3761. Yep. Israel Ironically operates a Gaza ghetto and a West Bank ghetto.
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  3762.  @aliamjon2550  Yeah, no shit. You seem to have missed the point.
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  3763. COVID death rates by state ... Arizona 455 Oklahoma 454 Mississippi 449 West Virginia 444 New Mexico 432 Arkansas 431 Alabama 429 Tennessee 428 Michigan 423 Kentucky 406 New Jersey 405 Florida 404 Louisiana 404 Georgia 400 New York 397 Pennsylvania 394 Indiana 388 Nevada 387 South Carolina 381 Missouri 373 Rhode Island 365 South Dakota 361 Ohio 358 Massachusetts 353 Wyoming 346 Kansas 346 Connecticut 343 Montana 342 Delaware 341 Iowa 340 Illinois 327 North Dakota 324 Texas 322 Idaho 303 Wisconsin 281 Virginia 277 Maryland 274 North Carolina 271 Minnesota 264 California 256 Nebraska 255 Colorado 246 Oregon 222 New Hampshire 221 Maine 218 Washington 206 Alaska 203 District of Columbia 203 Puerto Rico 182 Utah 165 Vermont 149 Hawaii 130 "New York murdered people!" ... Florida rate is higher.
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  3764.  @jojomany5792  Inanna died for three days and three nights, and was then resurrected by her father, Enki.
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  3765. Plenty of people on the left don't even know who Jimmy Dore is, and there's zero mainstream media attention about it. Trump airs his grievances to a platform 320x larger than Dore's, and the mainstream media is covering their fights.
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  3766. In all its previous forms, it has always been Revisionist Zionsim's goal to colonize and ethnically cleanse all Palestine territories, and more. Likud's bloody 100 year history ... In 1923, 100 years ago, Ze'ev Jabotinsky wrote, The Iron Wall, and a follow up, The Ethics of The Iron Wall (sooo racist towards Africans), in which he fully acknowledged that post Balfour Zionsim was colonialism, and that, based on the entirety of history, the native Palestinian population would resist being colonized until the bitter end. He directly compared it to the colonization of North America. He promoted doing it anyway, claiming Zionist colonialism was a "just" colonialism (he also thought North American colonialists were good guys, so not a great judge of morality), not caring what that meant for the native population. Ze'ev is important, because his Betar militant youth group helped found the Irgun terrorist group, along with other supporters of his, and the splinter Lehi terrorist group. The Irgun bombed numerous Palestinian markets and other public places, murdering many Palestinian civilians, including children, even including Palestinian Jews (who didn't support colonialist Zionsim). The Irgun are important, because they ended up being led by future Likud PM, Menachem Begin, who bombed the King David Hotel. The King David Hotel was bombed because the British had raided the Jewish Agency and seized numerous documents that may have shown that the terrorists were working with the JA and Haganah (JA liked to pretend that they didn't support the terrorism). The British then stored those documents at their base, in the hotel. That the Irgun terrorists responded to a JA raid, itself seems to prove the connection. That the thousands of Irgun (and Lehi) terrorists were also quickly merged into the new nation's military (IDF) and intelligence (Mossad) agencies, and are still celebrated as "heroes" by Israelis, to this day, also seems to support total collaboration between the groups. That other terrorist group mentioned, Lehi (also known as the Stern Gang), was considered even more extreme. They even tried to ally with the Nazis, against the British. Lehi ended up being led by Yitzhak Shamir, future Mossad agent, and another future Likud PM. They assassinated Lord Moyne, and others. In 1945, there was a major land and peoples survey done in Palestine. It showed that the Zionists only owned about 5% of the total land, 20% of the arable land, and owned a majority in zero districts. The partition was not only going to be forced on the native Palestinian majority, but Jews were still going to be a minority, in the part allocated to them. The only possible way to even become a "Jewish state" was going to require getting rid of the actual majority (at least enough so that there'd be a solid Jewish majority, so they could fake being democratic). This is also shown by the 1948, post Nakba, population of Israel. If there was 716,700 Jews, 156,000+ non-Jews, and approximately 700k non-Jews ethnically cleansed, that means the Jewish population, in the Zionist portion of partition, was originally over 100,000 less than the non-Jewish population. To believe that there was never any intent, by Zionists, to ethnically cleanse away the Palestinian majority would require believing that they never intended to create a "Jewish state". It's a nonsensical notion. Begin, and those terrorist groups, also opposed partition, but for the opposite reason Palestinians did. Palestinians didn't want to be colonized, at all. The terrorists wanted to colonize it all. "Moderate" Zionists were okay with colonizing half ... for now (what would happen in the future, after partition, was up to them, said Ben-Gurion). The Zionist terrorists were also involved in massacres, and assassinations, during the partition violence (colonialist war against the natives). Another notable future Likud PM, also started in the military, during the partition fighting. That was Ariel Sharon, war criminal, "Butcher of Beirut". Menachem Begin, and these other Zionist terrorists, are important because they became involved in Israeli politics, first forming Herut. That was the party that Albert Einstein, and other prominent American Jews, opposed, having a letter printed in the NYT, in December of 1948, when Begin came to visit the US. The letter opened ... "Among the most disturbing political phenomena of our times is the emergence in the newly created state of Israel of the "Freedom Party" (Tnuat Haherut), a political party closely akin in its organization, methods, political philosophy and social appeal to the Nazi and Fascist parties. It was formed out of the membership and following of the former Irgun Zvai Leumi, a terrorist, right-wing, chauvinist organization in Palestine." Herut merged with other extremist parties, over the years, and eventually became Likud, in the 70s. Now, people get upset over the slogan "From the river to the sea!", but it's the second part that's most important, "Palestine will be free!". Because "Palestine" isn't defined as an ethno-state, a free Palestine can be a single state, free for all to live in, and return to, free of continuing colonization, free of occupation, free of oppression, etc. Just like a Germany free of Nazism, an Italy free of fascism, a South Africa free of apartheid, or an America free of slavery from sea to shiny sea. It doesn't necessitate purging all the Jews. It just necessitates them giving up on the idea of an ethno-state. On the other hand, because "Israel" has been defined as an ethno-state, Likud's, "between the sea and the Jordan there will only be Israeli sovereignty", has no possible good interpretation. It is a declaration of intent to completely colonize, and ethnically cleanse, all Palestine territories. Not only that, but it also claims that they have a "right" to all of the "Land of Israel" (biblical borders that don't mesh with archaeological reality), which is an open declaration of future wars, against Jordan, Syria, Lebanon, and possibly even Iraq. Likud platform ... 1977: "The Right of the Jewish People to the Land of Israel (Eretz Israel) a. The right of the Jewish people to the land of Israel is eternal and indisputable and is linked with the right to security and peace; therefore, Judea and Samaria will not be handed to any foreign administration; between the Sea and the Jordan there will only be Israeli sovereignty. b. A plan which relinquishes parts of western Eretz Israel, undermines our right to the country, unavoidably leads to the establishment of a "Palestinian State," jeopardizes the security of the Jewish population, endangers the existence of the State of Israel. and frustrates any prospect of peace." "Settlement Settlement. both urban and rural. in all parts of the Land of Israel is the focal point of the Zionist effort to redeem the country, to maintain vital security areas and serves as a reservoir of strength and inspiration for the renewal of the pioneering spirit. The Likud government will call on the younger generation in Israel and the dispersions to settle and help every group and individual in the task of inhabiting and cultivating the wasteland, while taking care not to dispossess anyone." 1999: "The Government of Israel flatly rejects the establishment of a Palestinian Arab state west of the Jordan river. The Palestinians can run their lives freely in the framework of self-rule, but not as an independent and sovereign state. Thus, for example, in matters of foreign affairs, security, immigration, and ecology, their activity shall be limited in accordance with imperatives of Israel's existence, security and national needs." "The Jewish communities in Judea, Samaria, and Gaza are the realization of Zionist values. Settlement of the land is a clear expression of the unassailable right of the Jewish people to the Land of Israel and constitutes an important asset in the defense of the vital interests of the State of Israel. The Likud will continue to strengthen and develop these communities and will prevent their uprooting." All Palestine territories are officially considered occupied, by the International Court of Justice, the UN GA, the UN SC, and even in official documents of Israel's own allies. Likud is still using the blueprint for colonizing North America, in the West Bank. Move settlements out into native territory, piss off the natives, the natives retaliate, cry about poor "innocent" colonizing settlers being the "victims" of violent "Savages!", call in the cavalry to put down the native uprising, and eventually expand the borders to include those settlements. Rinse and repeat. In Gaza, Israel is operating an open air WWII style fascist ghetto. Them claiming a "right to defend themselves" would be like the Nazis claiming a "right to defend themselves " from the Warsaw ghetto uprising. There's no "war". That they're the occupiers means the "war" part is long over. Those people are actually supposed to be under the occupier's protection. That partition was forced upon the Palestinian majority, against their will ... that the Zionist portion still had to be forcefully ethnically cleansed of its non-Jewish majority, against their will ... that the millions of occupied Palestinians don't have a say in the government that truly rules over them, Israel's ... means Israel is about as democratic as Nazi Germany after Hitler purged his political opponents and then held elections.
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  3767. ​ @siviweslara1023  NATO had rejected Ukrn's application. This all started when Ukrn was simply trying to join the EU, when Pvtin put an Eastern economic blckd on them, which got events rolling. In Pvtin's very first address to parliament, as PM, he lamented the loss of former USSR states. He never wanted to NOT be on NATO's borders. He just doesn't want NATO in countries Rvssia has been trying to take back, piece by piece, since 1991.
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  3768.  @siviweslara1023  What? Rvssian expansion back into former Svt states ... 1991: Georgia I 1994: Chechnya I 1999: Chechnya II (Pvtin earned the nickname, "Butcher of Grozny") 2008: Georgia II 2014: Ukrn When hasn't Rvssia been invdng a former Svt state?
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  3769. I don't think FOX News has reported on the NY Post's many Bigfoot articles. They must be commie leftist censors.
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  3770. "We hold these truths to be self-evident, that all men are created equal, that they are endowed by their Creator with certain unalienable Rights, that among these are Life, Liberty and the pursuit of Happiness" How can someone be equal, but not have an equal right to vote? How can someone have liberty, in some kind of oligarchy, where they have no voice?
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  3771.  @snakedoctor6969  Her salary puts her in the upper middle class quintile, not the rich. Plus, members of congress have to maintain two households, and DC and NYC aren't exactly cheap. She's nowhere close to the 1% who actually pay for those tickets.
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  3772. You're lying. It was used dating back centuries.
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  3773. And yet included every single link to every single way to give him money with every single video (on top of getting paid for increased views for peddling bullshit during the pandemic).
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  3774.  @aarondickson9573  Capitalism already failed in Cuba. What should they do now?
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  3775.  @RHINOTEJAS  You lot are currently claiming a boxer, born with a vjj, is a man. You're arguing, yourselves, that vjj products are needed in men's rooms.
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  3776.  @NikhilVandanapu  The US was built on free government handouts of land. They weren't Libertarians back then.
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  3777. The poorest of the poor, on maximum unstackable government assistance, will be worse off with Yang. He's lying about a VAT being a way to make corporations like Amazon "pay their fair share". His plan, as is, will hurt some economically vulnerable people, and make Amazon and Bezos richer. That's not a good plan.
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  3778.  @ultrademigod  What would be the difference between "punching" (assault) and "punching" "regular people" (assault)? And how would that make Antifa just as bad? Or worse, as the op implies?
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  3779.  @utterlyviolet  Ben, Little Napoleon, Shapiro is the anti-Semite. https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Jakub_Lejkin https://www.cjnews.com/perspectives/opinions/ben-shapiros-hateful-attack-on-his-fellow-jews
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  3780. Stupidity saved Jr and Kushner being charged with conspiracy.
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  3781.  @briandfox16  Rofl, every international body that has any authority to rule on whether Palestine is, or isn't, occupied, has ruled it is. The Nazis weren't "at war" with the Warsaw ghetto uprising.
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  3782. Test ... Aaand I just had a day's detention. :(
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  3783.  @thedebatemechannel4746  It doesn't much matter if it was natural or a lab leak, that won't change how well, or how pathetically, countries responded. Rand presented no evidence of a lab leak, and really only asked about funding. Fauci presented no defense of a lab leak, and really only replied about funding. Who the fuck cares about funding, if there was no lab leak?
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  3784.  @nickmaroni9333  I never mentioned fascism. You can't possibly know if I know what it means. You obviously don't. Fascists are fascists long before they acquire absolute power, dumb dumb.
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  3785.  @mikem4481  Private clubs have been revoking memberships since the dawn of private clubs with memberships. People have been removed from someone else's private property since the dawn of private property. If Trump had a golf club membership revoked for walking into the women's change room too many times, so what? And it wouldn't make a difference if it was a tiny club or some giant international franchise that purchased almost all golf clubs. He still has zero right to be part of their club. I bet you were perfectly fine with Trump (the actual head of government and not a private company) firing, or threatening to fire, any federal employees that contradicted him.
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  3786. It was Hillary or bust that lost the last election, and it'll be corporate Dem or bust that loses this one, if it goes the same way again. If that's what you're rooting for, then you are the problem.
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  3787. ​ @coolmark4851  Around 1918, Zionism converted from immigration to colonialism ... Zionism = colonialism.
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  3788.  @tyronesmith3991  Even people in the "middle" should be anti fascist. So, you're making no sense. You also seem to have stopped following history, at some point. The Republican party started giving a home to nutters ... extreme anti-socialist McCarthy types, racists, religious extremists, gun nuts, Tea Party nutters, Trump cultists, Qanoners, fascists that tried to do away with the democratic process completely ... the core of the party are now a bunch of lunatics.
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  3789. It's weird that they believe in a formless, sexless, penisless, being they refer to as "he", "him", and even "father", but can't seem to grasp the difference between sex and gender.
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  3790. Peru was one of if not the biggest users of ivermectin. They have the most covid deaths per capita on the planet.
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  3791.  @jimfogarty6385  He had already killed someone. You're saying people can't try and stop shooters now?
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  3792.  @Sean-gg4ns  Intent matters, dumb dumb, not level of violence or success. They intended to stop the democratic process to keep an unelected ruler in power. That's authoritarianism, like when the Loyalists wanted to keep King George in power. Protesting, and sometimes rioting, against funding the police, police brutality, and a lack of representation, is anti-authoritarianism, and more like what the Patriots did, before they outright went to war. You loons have reality backwards.
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  3793. Half of the top 20 deaths per million states are red states. Higher population density states got off to a bad start, but the red states are doing their best to catch up.
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  3794.  @Nick1994H  Everyone at FOX is literally vaccinated. Doesn't mean you can't peddle misinformation, pandering to anti-vaxxers.
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  3795. Ivermectin is manufactured by the 5th largest pharma company in the world, ffs. Peru is a top user of ivermectin and has the most covid deaths per capita on the planet. Everything you're spewing is nonsense.
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  3796. According to Jimmy, a Trump presidency was "for sure" going to lead to progressive wave that would take the house and senate, in 2018, and the presidency, in 2020. Every one of his predictions were wrong. And, not voting Biden, in the general, would have given everyone another term of Trump. How would that have been better?
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  3797. David, he has also been lying from the start about who a VAT actually taxes. A VAT is specifically designed to NOT be a tax on businesses. "The GST takes into account the cost of inputs – the factors used in manufacturing or production – at each stage of the process to avoid double taxation. Input tax credits enable partnerships, businesses and self-employed workers to recover all GST paid on goods and services purchased for business purposes by deducting them from their GST payments. Final consumers are not entitled to such credits, which means that they pay all the GST on every item purchased. The GST is thus a multi-stage tax on final consumption." http://publications.gc.ca/Collection-R/LoPBdP/BP/prb0003-e.htm#A.%20Taxing%20Mechanism(txt) "a consumption tax because it is borne ultimately by the final consumer. It is not a charge on businesses." https://ec.europa.eu/taxation_customs/business/vat/what-is-vat_en Even Amazon knows. "How VAT works in Europe", "How to claim back VAT". https://services.amazon.co.uk/services/vat-resources.html That includes getting credited back input VAT on advertising, which he repeatedly lies about. https://www.burtonbeavan.co.uk/reclaim-vat-google-adwords/ If he doesn't actually make Amazon pay into the UBI, and their share of US consumer spending is 2%, handing consumers $3t a year will only make Amazon an extra $60b a year. That would, in turn, make Bezos something like an extra $6b a year ... a ton more than he'd ever personally pay into a VAT. Yang's plan will make giant corporations and the super rich even richer, and increase inequality. That ad has other subtle diahonesty, because he doesn't have his UBI stack with SSI disability or SNAP, which do currently stack together. A single non working caregiver with a disabled child could now be getting over $1000/month. Even if they opt out of the UBI, they can't opt out of paying a VAT on many things. Non staples, here in Canada: utilities, phone service, internet service, snacks and pop, personal hygiene products, household cleaning products, home maintenance, vehicle maintenance, toys, games, basically any entertainment with a cost ... all kinds of things that would still affect their lives.
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  3798.  @panda-phat  Ah, right, pretend that Trump's temporary covid coverage proposal is M4A, pretend that Bernie's temporary covid coverage proposal isn't M4A, and pretend Bernie backed off M4A the day after he's putting out new videos promoting M4A. Jimmy is a real "genius", sometimes.
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  3799. Seriously? I didn't know he had Canadian supporters. I thought they were all right wing American fans of his moronic transphobic nonsense.
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  3800. Yeah, not like she has showed up for unionization events multiple times, before and after that one she missed.
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  3801.  @jackmahoff931  The estimated cost of covid was $16t, back in Oct 2020 (9 months ago). Trump's incompetence cost Americans more than any of Biden's policy plans.
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  3802. @Fat Cat You clearly do, by your own argument, hate Palestinians, and are completely okay with Israel killing civilians.
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  3803.  @brenden4915  The US has laws about defaming and threatening individuals, but people can say whatever batshit crazy bullshit they want, against entire groups of people. Being free from threats, defamation, and the discrimination and hate crimes that follow, makes them freer.
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  3804.  @andyj845  My OP referred to the concept, dimwit ... the paradox of freedom.
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  3805.  @andyj845  Do you understand the paradox of freedom? "Total freedom", giving people the freedom to violate others' freedoms, actually diminishes freedom. To maximize freedom, you have to take away the freedom to violate others' freedoms. Therefore, "total freedom" =/= maximum freedom. Laws restricting some freedoms can make a society more free. Outlaw the freedom for people to randomly kill anyone they want, and you increase the freedom of being able to walk outside, without being killed, instead of hiding in your home.
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  3806. ​ @MistyHenryMisty  The "full clip", where he makes out like going down the road of HEW (Health, Education, and Welfare) ... LBJ (Civil Rights Act of 1964, Economic Opportunities Act, Voting Rights Act of 1965) ... was a bad thing? He claimed black Americans voted more conservatively under Jim Crow ... They couldn't freaking vote under Jim Crow!
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  3807. @RenNightingale-gi8ej He literally criticized going down the road of HEW and LBJ (Civil Rights Act, Voting Rights Act), and peddled that black Americans voted more conservatively under Jim Crow (They couldn't vote!).
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  3808.  @1robotchamp  You're still thinking winner take all. Trump would have won some 30% of the California popular vote, instead of 0% of California electoral votes. Same for every state. Every single vote, everywhere, would count. You couldn't just ignore tons of states. It's the electoral college that allows for politicians to largely ignore all but swing states, and a handful of swing states get to decide the election.
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  3809.  @anti-corporatecapture3844  You seem to be using numbers based on two different ways of calculating them. That 0.89% hospitalization for the unvaccinated (and 0.01% hospitalization rate for the vaccinated, an 89x lower rate), seems to be the rate, based on total population, given in a Gallup article. The comparable death rate would be the crude mortality rate, which is 0.088%, in Canada, and 0.27% in the US. But, you morons want Canada to be more like the US, and have people die at a much higher rate, instead of the other way around. Your 0.02% death rate seems to be the infection fatality rate for underdeveloped countries, where life expectancy is as low as 55. For developed countries it's about 1%. That would be 370k Canadians, or 3.3m Americans, you're willing to sacrifice. That 1% is 4x the fatality rate for motor vehicle accidents, and far more widespread. And yet we still have licensing mandates, light and sign mandates, speed limit mandates, seatbelt mandates, no drinking and driving mandates, vehicle safety standard mandates, line mandates, etc. Should we ditch all those, for freedumb, because motor vehicle accidents are far less common and less deadly, than covid? I mean, if the covid death rate isn't worth worrying about, then why should a lower death rate, right?
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  3810.  @anti-corporatecapture3844  Rofl. They created the virus to kill old people, so you're suggesting old people up and die, and are going along with that sinister conspiracy?
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  3811.  @nassaubahamas8570  That's a lie. No vaccine has been shown to have 0% efficacy.
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  3812.  @jimohara  Just accidentally bashed through a window, and wall of police officers, while I was wandering around with my flex cuffs, bear spray, and spear tipped flagpole. Had to leave my working gallows outside.
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  3813.  @neweraboss5728  He outright says his transition to universal coverage would be via a public option that would compete against private insurance, multiple times. https://youtu.be/kpC9tTudcsk
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  3814.  @fittzie  The US paying over double the OECD average is per capita, idiot. Alaska, with over 5x fewer people than Denmark, still has double the per capita costs. The entire OECD, with tens of millions more people than the US has an average per capita cost that's half the US's. Total population is largely irrelevant. If anything, a larger population should lower costs.
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  3815.  @cortext36  Rofl. AOC, alone, has done more for M4A in 2 years than he has in his entire lifetime.
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  3816.  @african-history-fountain  Define "many". And, what types of doctors? I mean, you don't go to an orthopedic surgeon for chronic migraines, right?
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  3817.  @cadec1086  Lol. Again ... it's not illegal to seek asylum. But you think seeking asylum is a good excuse to treat kids like crap?
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  3818.  @inquisitive.lurker  His proposal was a public option, that he argued would turn into universal coverage. Freaking Biden, and Obama before him, promoted a public option. It's not all that progressive a proposal, and LA county attempted just that. It hasn't gotten them anywhere close to universal coverage.
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  3819.  @inquisitive.lurker  No other developed country, that I know of, has a public option. Private options are totally different things, if that's what you're thinking of.
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  3820.  @malachiromero6077  Smoking is more analogous, and oh look, there are fines for smoking, extra taxes, increased insurance rates, and an almost universal ban in all public indoor places. Want to smoke? Step outside. Don't want to get vaccinated or wear a mask? Step outside.
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  3821. ​ @VesperAegis  People that dodge paying taxes, by paying themselves in stocks, are dodging the social contract. They still seem to get lots of attention.
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  3822.  @FuddlyDud  1) Covid measures have also reduced the number of flu cases, so you don't really have much of a point. 2) Complete bullshit. Numerous in lab tests show 50+% reduction in spray. Japan has kept their covid rate low heavily relying on mask use. China reported a 75+% reduction in covid cases amongst mask wearers. 3) These states have also not taken offered federal funds to help fund home schooling, or distance learning. All you've demonstrated is that you're full of it.
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  3823.  Alabama Man 2.0  Health System Tracker: Unvaccinated COVID-19 hospitalizations cost billions of dollars "From June through November 2021, preventable COVID-19 hospitalizations among unvaccinated adults cost over $13 Billion"
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  3824. Jimmy Dore is nitpicking the withdrawal, and things Biden said, rather than focusing on the fact that Biden ended a war. Do him next.
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  3825. ​ @Understandingways  After the Civil Rights Act of 1968 was passed by both Democrats and Republicans in the North, and opposed by both Democrats and Republicans in the South, the racist white Southern majority abandoned both parties, in the 1968 presidential election, instead voting for a third party racist, winning 5 states. Nixon then won over that racist white Southern majority to vote Republican, in 1972. Aside from giving Southern boy Jimmy Carter one shot, that racist majority has almost entirely been voting Republican ever since. He was already protesting the conventions of both parties, before that happened. Pretty sure he would not be a modern Republican, after that happened, and didn't say anything to suggest he'd be opposed to gay rights. His wife and Bayard Rustin think he would have supported their rights.
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  3826.  @crogers4912  More hospitals have been shutting down in states that didn't sign onto Medicaid expansion, and most of the shutdowns have been in rural areas. Lack of access to healthcare leads to poorer healthcare outcomes in rural areas. Which Democrat run cities are to blame?
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  3827.  @albertobenevenuto77  No misinterpretation. Check out Rolling Stone's: "The Right Is Cracking Down on Abortion and IVF. Is ‘Recreational Sex’ Next?"
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  3828.  @investmotivation1014  Don't you know the definition of the word "grift"? Dore says he's for things like that, but the directions he proposes taking don't get you any closer to getting them, or even take you in the opposite direction. How does sitting on the sidelines, in some irrelevant third party, get you M4A in the next century? How does a 100% guaranteed to fail performance art vote get you any closer to getting M4A? When adding M4A yes votes to congress is the very thing that gets you closer to ever being able to pass it, how does slandering those like Justice Dems and AOC, who have added yes votes to congress, not mean you're outright fighting against M4A? When you publicly abandon Nina Turner ... abandon adding another M4A yes vote to congress ... and promote never voting for someone running as a Dem ever again, not mean you're outright fighting against M4A? How is literally peddling someone against the M4A candidate, not mean you're outright fighting against M4A? How is trashing government negotiated vaccine prices, for vaccines that are then given out for free (a tiny slice of what M4A would be), not mean you're fighting against M4A? How is misrepresenting and attacking the completely socialized UK healthcare system, not mean you're fighting against socialized healthcare? How is peddling more expensive, privately paid for, alternatives, not promoting the opposite of M4A? How is peddling Trump (platform: toss 10m of the poorest Americans off of Medicaid expansion), as the better option, not going outright backwards? What has Jimmy proposed doing, since 2016, that actually gets you closer to getting M4A?
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  3829. ​ @sheldonspider86 Isn't that where we're currently watching him say this?
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  3830. So, Trump is copying China? Good to know.
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  3831.  @Jasondirt  Show me one example of her campaigning on paralyzing, or threatening to paralyze, the house.
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  3832. ​ @AdamtheRed-  "Harris backs ending filibuster for abortion rights legislation Sep 24, 2024"
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  3833. He needs to clean his own room, before telling the world what to do.
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  3834.  @williameverett3136  "Legal" by whose measure? The native inhabitants?
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  3835. But even heavily blue states should try and get him off the primary ballots. If some other Republican got all the delegates from blue states, it could be close.
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  3836. Well, it was likely the same trip, when he visited Hitler's vacation home. Russia has white nationalist gatherings. It was probably a planned stop, on his white nationalist tour, rather than a spontaneous one.
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  3837.  @rwwilson21  Members of congress have to maintain two households. She goes to an event to support a museum with a free ticket and a free dress and tells all the rich people there that she'd like to tax them more. What's the problem?
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  3838.  @rwwilson21  Rofl. Trickle down bullshit that has been debunked.
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  3839. ​ @MultiMolly21  10% of wealth?
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  3840. ​ @Silver_Something  You might want to look up the paradox of freedom. It's what the paradox of tolerance is based on.
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  3841. Likud's bloody 100 year history ... In 1923, 100 years ago, Ze'ev Jabotinsky wrote, The Iron Wall, and a follow up, The Ethics of The Iron Wall (sooo racist towards Africans), in which he fully acknowledged that post Balfour Zionsim was colonialism, and that, based on the entirety of history, the native Palestinian population would resist being colonized until the bitter end. He directly compared it to the colonization of North America. He promoted doing it anyway, claiming Zionist colonialism was a "just" colonialism (he also thought North American colonialists were good guys, so not a great judge of morality), not caring what that meant for the native population. Ze'ev is important, because his Betar militant youth group helped found the Irgun terrorist group, along with other supporters of his, and the splinter Lehi terrorist group. The Irgun bombed numerous Palestinian markets and other public places, murdering many Palestinian civilians, including children, even including Palestinian Jews (who didn't support colonialist Zionsim). The Irgun are important, because they ended up being led by future Likud PM, Menachem Begin, who bombed the King David Hotel. The King David Hotel was bombed because the British had raided the Jewish Agency and seized numerous documents that may have shown that the terrorists were working with the JA and Haganah (JA liked to pretend that they didn't support the terrorism). The British then stored those documents at their base, in the hotel. That the Irgun terrorists responded to a JA raid, itself seems to prove the connection. That the thousands of Irgun (and Lehi) terrorists were also quickly merged into the new nation's military (IDF) and intelligence (Mossad) agencies, and are still celebrated as "heroes" by Israelis, to this day, also seems to support total collaboration between the groups. That other terrorist group mentioned, Lehi (also known as the Stern Gang), was considered even more extreme. They even tried to ally with the Nazis, against the British. Lehi ended up being led by Yitzhak Shamir, future Mossad agent, and another future Likud PM. They assassinated Lord Moyne, and others. In 1945, there was a major land and peoples survey done in Palestine. It showed that the Zionists only owned about 5% of the total land, 20% of the arable land, and owned a majority in zero districts. The partition was not only going to be forced on the native Palestinian majority, but Jews were still going to be a minority, in the part allocated to them. The only possible way to even become a "Jewish state" was going to require getting rid of the actual majority (at least enough so that there'd be a solid Jewish majority, so they could fake being democratic). This is also shown by the 1948, post Nakba, population of Israel. If there was 716,700 Jews, 156,000+ non-Jews, and approximately 700k non-Jews ethnically cleansed, that means the Jewish population, in the Zionist portion of partition, was originally over 100,000 less than the non-Jewish population. To believe that there was never any intent, by Zionists, to ethnically cleanse away the Palestinian majority would require believing that they never intended to create a "Jewish state". It's a nonsensical notion. Begin, and those terrorist groups, also opposed partition, but for the opposite reason Palestinians did. Palestinians didn't want to be colonized, at all. The terrorists wanted to colonize it all. "Moderate" Zionists were okay with colonizing half ... for now (what would happen in the future, after partition, was up to them, said Ben-Gurion). The Zionist terrorists were also involved in massacres, and assassinations, during the partition violence (colonialist war against the natives). Another notable future Likud PM, also started in the military, during the partition fighting. That was Ariel Sharon, war criminal, "Butcher of Beirut". Menachem Begin, and these other Zionist terrorists, are important because they became involved in Israeli politics, first forming Herut. That was the party that Albert Einstein, and other prominent American Jews, opposed, having a letter printed in the NYT, in December of 1948, when Begin came to visit the US. The letter opened ... "Among the most disturbing political phenomena of our times is the emergence in the newly created state of Israel of the "Freedom Party" (Tnuat Haherut), a political party closely akin in its organization, methods, political philosophy and social appeal to the Nazi and Fascist parties. It was formed out of the membership and following of the former Irgun Zvai Leumi, a terrorist, right-wing, chauvinist organization in Palestine." Herut merged with other extremist parties, over the years, and eventually became Likud, in the 70s. Now, people get upset over the slogan "From the river to the sea!", but it's the second part that's most important, "Palestine will be free!". Because "Palestine" isn't defined as an ethno-state, a free Palestine can be a single state, free for all to live in, and return to, free of continuing colonization, free of occupation, free of oppression, etc. Just like a Germany free of Nazism, an Italy free of fascism, a South Africa free of apartheid, or an America free of slavery from sea to shiny sea. It doesn't necessitate purging all the Jews. It just necessitates them giving up on the idea of an ethno-state. On the other hand, because "Israel" has been defined as an ethno-state, Likud's, "between the sea and the Jordan there will only be Israeli sovereignty", has no possible good interpretation. It is a declaration of intent to completely colonize, and ethnically cleanse, all Palestine territories. Not only that, but it also claims that they have a "right" to all of the "Land of Israel" (biblical borders that don't mesh with archaeological reality), which is an open declaration of future wars, against Jordan, Syria, Lebanon, and possibly even Iraq. Likud platform ... 1977: "The Right of the Jewish People to the Land of Israel (Eretz Israel) a. The right of the Jewish people to the land of Israel is eternal and indisputable and is linked with the right to security and peace; therefore, Judea and Samaria will not be handed to any foreign administration; between the Sea and the Jordan there will only be Israeli sovereignty. b. A plan which relinquishes parts of western Eretz Israel, undermines our right to the country, unavoidably leads to the establishment of a "Palestinian State," jeopardizes the security of the Jewish population, endangers the existence of the State of Israel. and frustrates any prospect of peace." "Settlement Settlement. both urban and rural. in all parts of the Land of Israel is the focal point of the Zionist effort to redeem the country, to maintain vital security areas and serves as a reservoir of strength and inspiration for the renewal of the pioneering spirit. The Likud government will call on the younger generation in Israel and the dispersions to settle and help every group and individual in the task of inhabiting and cultivating the wasteland, while taking care not to dispossess anyone." 1999: "The Government of Israel flatly rejects the establishment of a Palestinian Arab state west of the Jordan river. The Palestinians can run their lives freely in the framework of self-rule, but not as an independent and sovereign state. Thus, for example, in matters of foreign affairs, security, immigration, and ecology, their activity shall be limited in accordance with imperatives of Israel's existence, security and national needs." "The Jewish communities in Judea, Samaria, and Gaza are the realization of Zionist values. Settlement of the land is a clear expression of the unassailable right of the Jewish people to the Land of Israel and constitutes an important asset in the defense of the vital interests of the State of Israel. The Likud will continue to strengthen and develop these communities and will prevent their uprooting." All Palestine territories are officially considered occupied, by the International Court of Justice, the UN GA, the UN SC, and even in official documents of Israel's own allies. Likud is still using the blueprint for colonizing North America, in the West Bank. Move settlements out into native territory, piss off the natives, the natives retaliate, cry about poor "innocent" colonizing settlers being the "victims" of violent "Savages!", call in the cavalry to put down the native uprising, and eventually expand the borders to include those settlements. Rinse and repeat. In Gaza, Israel is operating an open air WWII style fascist ghetto. Them claiming a "right to defend themselves" would be like the Nazis claiming a "right to defend themselves " from the Warsaw ghetto uprising. There's no "war". That they're the occupiers means the "war" part is long over. Those people are actually supposed to be under the occupier's protection. That partition was forced upon the Palestinian majority, against their will ... that the Zionist portion still had to be forcefully ethnically cleansed of its non-Jewish majority, against their will ... that the millions of occupied Palestinians don't have a say in the government that truly rules over them, Israel's ... means Israel is about as democratic as Nazi Germany after Hitler purged his political opponents and then held elections.
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  3842.  @squatch545  I'm subscribed, dimwit, and a former regular watcher.
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  3843.  @bodhisattva3774  Rofl. You're the one that doesn't know what you're talking about.
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  3844. Dore is an idiot, whose actions benefit Republicans most. He might as well be one.
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  3845.  @alabamaman9476  Stop with a specific example.
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  3846.  @Breadbored.  You know the US already has hospitals shutting down, or in trouble, in rural areas, right? https://www.businessinsider.com/us-rural-hospitals-financial-crisis-risk-closing-2019-2
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  3847.  @chiefsfan1533  A "fetus", or "embryo", is samesies as a "baby"?
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  3848.  Phantom Alpha  What's something you understand? Do you understand that there's actually been a negative overall migration rate with Mexico, for about a decade? Do you understand that the majority of undocumented aliens are actually visa overstays? Do you understand that the majority of visa overstays are Canadians? Do you understand that the economy was on the exact same upward trend, before Trump came along, and that his first year in office was still Obama's final budget? Do you understand that trickle down is a proven failure? Do you understand that the wealth disparity of the Gilded Age ended with labour riots, race riots, and a great depression, and that you have the opportunity to avoid any of that by jumping right to backing a new New Deal? Do you understand that the "free" healthcare in other developed countries costs less? Do you understand that it also gets better results, overall? Seriously, what is it you think you understand?
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  3849. ​ @gameofender4463  Right, they're different, and the hearing was about what was happening on campuses, not some hypothetical. Like Hannity, the question asker was conflating a slogan, that doesn't actually call for genocide, with genocide ... conflating a slogan that is against a nation and its decades of colonialism, ethnic cleansing, and occupation, with a religious group. She knew what they were doing. She should have called them out, for the dishonest phrasing.
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  3850. He's going scorched earth on the only progressives in congress, like an idiot.
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  3851.  @battmeets1289  Why are you conflating two different things, dimwit? I'm an amputee. Kids do ask questions. That's different than one pointing and laughing. Just how stupid are you?
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  3852.  @cnault3244  Because those kids will become future workers, who then pay for the elderly.
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  3853.  @mikec4670  As per the founding of the country, protesting and even rioting, over extra taxes that specifically funded the police/military and a lack of representation, is anti-authoritarianism. And, fighting against the democratic process to keep, or return, an unelected ruler, is authoritarianism. You're whatabouting to a false equivalence.
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  3854.  @matthewwolfe9417  Yeah, everytime the Republicans have jumped right, the "moderates" have met them in the new "middle".
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  3855.  @harveymanfredsenjenson5417  Awww, poor baby, did he "smear" someone you have feelings for? Who was it?
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  3856.  @Warrenmitchum  You're spewing nonsense. Unions have largely backed raising the minimum wage. Their wages are often tied to the minimum wage floor, and if it goes up, they get paid more.
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  3857.  @halinaqi2194  Sadly, no coherent theists, so far.
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  3858. @MrBOASTMAN32  Tell me what IRS stands for, dingus.
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  3859. ​ @seanmccartney5177  How so? It has been Likud's goal for 100 years, in all its previous forms. Likud's bloody 100 year history ... In 1923, 100 years ago, Ze'ev Jabotinsky wrote, The Iron Wall, and a follow up, The Ethics of The Iron Wall (sooo racist towards Africans), in which he fully acknowledged that post Balfour Zionsim was colonialism, and that, based on the entirety of history, the native Palestinian population would resist being colonized until the bitter end. He directly compared it to the colonization of North America. He promoted doing it anyway, claiming Zionist colonialism was a "just" colonialism (he also thought North American colonialists were good guys, so not a great judge of morality), not caring what that meant for the native population. Ze'ev is important, because his Betar militant youth group helped found the Irgun terrorist group, along with other supporters of his, and the splinter Lehi terrorist group. The Irgun bombed numerous Palestinian markets and other public places, murdering many Palestinian civilians, including children, even including Palestinian Jews (who didn't support colonialist Zionsim). The Irgun are important, because they ended up being led by future Likud PM, Menachem Begin, who bombed the King David Hotel. The King David Hotel was bombed because the British had raided the Jewish Agency and seized numerous documents that may have shown that the terrorists were working with the JA and Haganah (JA liked to pretend that they didn't support the terrorism). The British then stored those documents at their base, in the hotel. That the Irgun terrorists responded to a JA raid, itself seems to prove the connection. That the thousands of Irgun (and Lehi) terrorists were also quickly merged into the new nation's military (IDF) and intelligence (Mossad) agencies, and are still celebrated as "heroes" by Israelis, to this day, also seems to support total collaboration between the groups. That other terrorist group mentioned, Lehi (also known as the Stern Gang), was considered even more extreme. They even tried to ally with the Nazis, against the British. Lehi ended up being led by Yitzhak Shamir, future Mossad agent, and another future Likud PM. They assassinated Lord Moyne, and others. In 1945, there was a major land and peoples survey done in Palestine. It showed that the Zionists only owned about 5% of the total land, 20% of the arable land, and owned a majority in zero districts. The partition was not only going to be forced on the native Palestinian majority, but Jews were still going to be a minority, in the part allocated to them. The only possible way to even become a "Jewish state" was going to require getting rid of the actual majority (at least enough so that there'd be a solid Jewish majority, so they could fake being democratic). This is also shown by the 1948, post Nakba, population of Israel. If there was 716,700 Jews, 156,000+ non-Jews, and approximately 700k non-Jews ethnically cleansed, that means the Jewish population, in the Zionist portion of partition, was originally over 100,000 less than the non-Jewish population. To believe that there was never any intent, by Zionists, to ethnically cleanse away the Palestinian majority would require believing that they never intended to create a "Jewish state". It's a nonsensical notion. Begin, and those terrorist groups, also opposed partition, but for the opposite reason Palestinians did. Palestinians didn't want to be colonized, at all. The terrorists wanted to colonize it all. "Moderate" Zionists were okay with colonizing half ... for now (what would happen in the future, after partition, was up to them, said Ben-Gurion). The Zionist terrorists were also involved in massacres, and assassinations, during the partition violence (colonialist war against the natives). Another notable future Likud PM, also started in the military, during the partition fighting. That was Ariel Sharon, war criminal, "Butcher of Beirut". Menachem Begin, and these other Zionist terrorists, are important because they became involved in Israeli politics, first forming Herut. That was the party that Albert Einstein, and other prominent American Jews, opposed, having a letter printed in the NYT, in December of 1948, when Begin came to visit the US. The letter opened ... "Among the most disturbing political phenomena of our times is the emergence in the newly created state of Israel of the "Freedom Party" (Tnuat Haherut), a political party closely akin in its organization, methods, political philosophy and social appeal to the Nazi and Fascist parties. It was formed out of the membership and following of the former Irgun Zvai Leumi, a terrorist, right-wing, chauvinist organization in Palestine." Herut merged with other extremist parties, over the years, and eventually became Likud, in the 70s. Now, people get upset over the slogan "From the river to the sea!", but it's the second part that's most important, "Palestine will be free!". Because "Palestine" isn't defined as an ethno-state, a free Palestine can be a single state, free for all to live in, and return to, free of continuing colonization, free of occupation, free of oppression, etc. Just like a Germany free of Nazism, an Italy free of fascism, a South Africa free of apartheid, or an America free of slavery from sea to shiny sea. It doesn't necessitate purging all the Jews. It just necessitates them giving up on the idea of an ethno-state. On the other hand, because "Israel" has been defined as an ethno-state, Likud's, "between the sea and the Jordan there will only be Israeli sovereignty", has no possible good interpretation. It is a declaration of intent to completely colonize, and ethnically cleanse, all Palestine territories. Not only that, but it also claims that they have a "right" to all of the "Land of Israel" (biblical borders that don't mesh with archaeological reality), which is an open declaration of future wars, against Jordan, Syria, Lebanon, and possibly even Iraq. Likud platform ... 1977: "The Right of the Jewish People to the Land of Israel (Eretz Israel) a. The right of the Jewish people to the land of Israel is eternal and indisputable and is linked with the right to security and peace; therefore, Judea and Samaria will not be handed to any foreign administration; between the Sea and the Jordan there will only be Israeli sovereignty. b. A plan which relinquishes parts of western Eretz Israel, undermines our right to the country, unavoidably leads to the establishment of a "Palestinian State," jeopardizes the security of the Jewish population, endangers the existence of the State of Israel. and frustrates any prospect of peace." "Settlement Settlement. both urban and rural. in all parts of the Land of Israel is the focal point of the Zionist effort to redeem the country, to maintain vital security areas and serves as a reservoir of strength and inspiration for the renewal of the pioneering spirit. The Likud government will call on the younger generation in Israel and the dispersions to settle and help every group and individual in the task of inhabiting and cultivating the wasteland, while taking care not to dispossess anyone." 1999: "The Government of Israel flatly rejects the establishment of a Palestinian Arab state west of the Jordan river. The Palestinians can run their lives freely in the framework of self-rule, but not as an independent and sovereign state. Thus, for example, in matters of foreign affairs, security, immigration, and ecology, their activity shall be limited in accordance with imperatives of Israel's existence, security and national needs." "The Jewish communities in Judea, Samaria, and Gaza are the realization of Zionist values. Settlement of the land is a clear expression of the unassailable right of the Jewish people to the Land of Israel and constitutes an important asset in the defense of the vital interests of the State of Israel. The Likud will continue to strengthen and develop these communities and will prevent their uprooting." All Palestine territories are officially considered occupied, by the International Court of Justice, the UN GA, the UN SC, and even in official documents of Israel's own allies. Likud is still using the blueprint for colonizing North America, in the West Bank. Move settlements out into native territory, piss off the natives, the natives retaliate, cry about poor "innocent" colonizing settlers being the "victims" of violent "Savages!", call in the cavalry to put down the native uprising, and eventually expand the borders to include those settlements. Rinse and repeat. In Gaza, Israel is operating an open air WWII style fascist ghetto. Them claiming a "right to defend themselves" would be like the Nazis claiming a "right to defend themselves " from the Warsaw ghetto uprising. There's no "war". That they're the occupiers means the "war" part is long over. Those people are actually supposed to be under the occupier's protection. That partition was forced upon the Palestinian majority, against their will ... that the Zionist portion still had to be forcefully ethnically cleansed of its non-Jewish majority, against their will ... that the millions of occupied Palestinians don't have a say in the government that truly rules over them, Israel's ... means Israel is about as democratic as Nazi Germany after Hitler purged his political opponents and then held elections.
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  3860. It has happened throughout history. Roman pagans persecuted Christians, who then turn around and persecuted pagans when they got in power. Catholics persecuted Protestants, whoe then turned around and persecuted Catholics when they got in power. Puritans persecuted in their homelands, who then turned around and persecuted everyone else when they got in power. Etc.
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  3861. Plus, it doesn't even matter. Reagan deregulated domestic oil back in 1981. Domestic has sold at the same price as foreign, ever since. There just happened to be a global price drop in 2014, and prices actually went up under Trump.
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  3862.  @hardwork3053  Ancaps rule. Ancap is feudalism. Libertarians did a nice job of screwing Trump out of some states, though.
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  3863. ​ @tomcotter8138  Rofl! Alberta is going to 💩.
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  3864.  @whyamimrpink78  Moron. If she was saying she was in her office, then she was saying, herself, that she was in a different building. It was still a building that ended up being evacuated, due to the threat to members of congress. In the moment, she wouldn't know if her building had been breached, as well, or not.
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  3865.  @whyamimrpink78  There are billions of religious people who call a formless, sexless, penisless, being they believe in, "he", "him", and even "father", but still can't seem to grasp the difference between sex and gender.
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  3866.  @t-swizzle8102  How does sitting on the sidelines, in some irrelevant third party, and letting corporate Dems and Republicans rule for decades to come, help poor and working class Americans, exactly? And sitting on the sidelines, in some irrelevant third party, is based on what ... some fantasy, that a third party will only produce perfectly perfect puritan progressives, rather than another Kyrsten Sinema, like the Green party produced? When adding M4A yes votes to congress is the most important thing to do, because the only possible way to ever pass the bill is to get enough yes votes in congress, how does abandoning Nina Turner ... abandoning adding another M4A yes vote to congress ... help poor and working class Americans? How does promoting Trump (platform: toss 10m of the poorest Americans off of Medicaid expansion) as the better option than Clinton (platform: add 40m older Americans to Medicare expansion), help poor and working class Americans?
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  3867. He only takes an $80k salary. Musk's is $1 but goes up to a minimum of about 30k on income taxes. They're welfare queens, who let others pay for the society that helped make them rich.
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  3868. Part of the problem is having 3 viable parties, plus a large party dedicated to a single province. Conservatives wouldn't actually win at the federal level, or win any provinces, except Alberta and Saskatchewan, if the Liberal and NDP parties were united and the BQ didn't exist. Multiple parties is only a good thing if the right wing is also divided up. If not, then they're going to win far more often than they should. It would be like if the standard Dems and Progressives split. If the progressive caucus was its own party, Trump would be president again, Pence would be the senate tie breaker (if progressive caucus Bernie voted with Dems), and Rs would have a plurality in the house. Rs would only have to work with the most conservative Ds, to pass pretty much whatever they wanted.
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  3869. Just hope it doesn't go bad ... like the old retiring cop, taking that one last case, trope.
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  3870.  @johannuys7914  Fascism is a totality of characteristics, not a single characteristic. Which "liberals" called for overthrowing the democratic process?
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  3871.  @ima4916  How are "extreme free market" Boogaloos, that want to start a civil war, not the lunatic right?
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  3872.  BalkanHound  How is Peru being one of the top, if not the top, users of ivermectin and also having the most covid deaths per capita in the world, random? Bolivia is on par with Sweden, infamous for not doing much of anything and having 5-10x more covid deaths per capita than its neighbors. Shouldn't these ivermectin using countries be amongst the best response countries in the world, rather than the worst, if it's so great?
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  3873.  @LDuke-pc7kq  Please explain how, if you're at a rally with Nazi flag wavers, Confederate flag wavers, other white supremacist flag wavers, tiki torch marchers chanting against Jews, and people like David Duke as speakers, in what reality you could be a "fine person"?
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  3874. @jon petcoff Rofl, you think the Q person is the sane one? Bahaha!
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  3875.  @thehappyclam3942  Nope.
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  3876.  @thehappyclam3942  Individual privately owned web pages and servers don't equate to the "internet".
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  3877. "just" No, it's not "just", because the original and still more popular athe-ist definition says atheists believe gods do not exist, and the newer and less popular a-theist definition includes those people, as well as agnostics. He's using "Agnostic" just fine, as can be found in most philosophy books. Even in the Oxford Handbook of Atheism, which uses an a-theist definition, calls agnosticism a form of negative a-theism, and considers it a perfectly valid label, to describe your specific position. Theists still count as people who use words, and they don't tend to use the a-theist definition. Even more non-theists choose "nothing" or "agnostic" than choose "atheist". You're a minority within a minority of all people who use words, trying to dictate word usage to everyone else.
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  3878. NekoMouser //I identify as an agnostic atheist because I understand how words work and believe in accurate labels to facilitate better// Well, you obviously don't understand how something works, because "agnostic a-theist" doesn't describe a specific position. Someone could be an agnostic weak/negative/soft a-theist, who has no belief, either way, and no knowledge claim. Or, someone could be an agnostic strong/positive/hard a-theist, who believes gods don't exist, but doesn't claim to know. Those 4 position models are nonsense. Or, you could just call one position "agnostic" and one "athe-ist", if you're not a fan of an illogical convoluted mess. //Atheism ONLY means you lack a belief is god or gods.// You know what's more pathetic than theists who don't know much about the long history of their chosen religion? A-theists who don't know the history and usage of a couple words. First came atheos + ist = someone who believes no gods exist. Then came theos + ist = someone who believes gods exist. Then came agnostos + ic = someone who is without knowledge (as in completely uncertain, due to lack of evidence, and not compatible with beliefs, either way). "Agnosticism is of the essence of science, whether ancient or modern. It simply means that a man shall not say he knows or believes that which he has no scientific grounds for professing to know or believe." ~ Thomas Huxley, 1884 Then came a + theist = not a theist (a rock is not a theist). "In this interpretation an atheist becomes: not someone who positively asserts the non-existence of God; but someone who is simply not a theist. Let us, for future ready reference, introduce the labels ‘positive atheist’ for the former and ‘negative atheist’ for the latter. The introduction of this new interpretation of the word ‘atheism’ may appear to be a piece of perverse Humpty-Dumptyism, going arbitrarily against established common usage. ‘Whyever’, it could be asked, ‘don’t you make it not the presumption of atheism but the presumption of agnosticism?’" ~ Antony Flew, 1984 This a-theist usage is the newer one. It is still not the most popular one, not even amongst non-theists, most of whom choose "nothing" or "agnostic" on surveys.
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  3879. //With this said, when asked whether or not you believe in a god, "I'm agnostic"  doesn't answer the question.// I've never met a self described "agnostic" (nothing else) use the word the way you're using it. I, and every other one I've come across, use it to mean "doesn't believe gods exist" and "doesn't believe gods don't exist". There was no weak/negative atheism terminology, and athe(os)-ist (strong/positive) was by far the most common definition in use, when Huxley came up with the term agnostic. "Agnosticism is of the essence of science, whether ancient or modern. It simply means that a man shall not say he knows or believes that which he has no scientific grounds for professing to know or believe." ~ Thomas Huxley The push to popularize the weaker definition for "atheist" and "atheism" didn't come until the 1960s, almost 100 years after Huxley's "agnosticism".
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  3880. lol@no freedom Haven't you seen that video, stating the US only ranks #1 in 3 things? Freedom isn't one of them. Canada: 99 USA: 90 https://freedomhouse.org/report/freedom-world/freedom-world-2016
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  3881.  @kendrasspongeasmr210  "nobody knows" Pretty much everyone identifying as a-theist doesn't know what Huxley actually said, nor do they know the history of the words ... that's who doesn't know much. Name a single other ist/ism that attaches the prefix last. The words were athe-ist and athe-ism, for hundreds of years. The belief gods don't exist and those who believe that. Huxley clearly described agnosticism as having to do with belief, and not having a belief either way. Yeah, you either believe you left the door unlocked, or you don't, but you also either believe you left it locked, or you don't, and you could be totally uncertain, not having either belief. You folks like to pretend there's no such thing as real athe-ists (hard atheists, strong atheists, positive atheists). Weak/soft/negative a-theism = Huxley agnosticism. Strong/hard/positive a-theism = athe-ism. It makes no real sense to call two totally different positions of belief/non-belief the same thing. Yes, the position of no belief either way shares no belief gods exist with the real athe-ist, but it also shares no belief gods don't exist with the theist. It had a no balief commonality with both positions but shares neither of their beliefs. Huxley named the position of no belief, when it didn't have a name. Christians, at the time, erroneously considered not believing x to equate to believing not x, and labelled all non-believers "atheist". Doesn't change how they defined the word though. They defined it as believing gods don't exist. By that definition, they were wrong to label all non-believers "atheist". That's the error Huxley pointed out and then provided a label for simply not believing, either way. 20th century idjits, like Smith and Flew promoted the a-theist redefinition and hijacked that position into a-theism. Every inanimate object in the universe is not a theist. It's a stupid redefinition that then requires qualifiers to clarify and tell two positions apart and doesn't necessarily even describe people. Personhood is in the "ist", and an a-theist is not an ist. A rock is a-theist. If we temporarily need to group two positions together, I prefer the non- prefix. Athe-ists and agnostics are non-theists. Theists and agnostics are non-atheists. Theists and athe-ists are non-agnoatics. For any claim, it is objectively true, x, or not true, ~x. Subjectively, you can believe x, believe ~x, or form no belief either way. A: belief x, no belief ~x B: no belief x, no belief ~x C: no belief x, belief ~x Yes, both B and C are not As, but A and B are also not C's, and A and C are not Bs. Three distinct positions of belief regarding x. Why redefine a label, making B and C the same thing?
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  3882.  @whyamimrpink78  The vaccine was largely developed faster because it used a totally new method for creating vaccines, that didn't require years of growing virus cultures to be used in the vaccine itself. The vaccines all went through the same 3 trial phases the government required before. Trial phases ... safety testing ... that Libertarians wouldn't want. The government did provide funding for some of them, which they do for a lot of R&D. R&D funding that Libertarians wouldn't want. The government has also paid for producing and distributing enough to vaccinate every American. Payments Libertarians wouldn't want. The Libertarian way would be to have a vaccine, with no enforced safety testing, distributed and paid for privately. Maybe hope that some charity would vaccinate poor people.
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  3883. Sorry, but the Bible is about a sexless being, that uses masculine gender pronouns, who transitions into a human male. It also has tales of hetero sex, non hetero sex, adultery, incest, rape, etc. Plus, it has a "theory" on how the different races/cultures came into being, and justifies ex slaves going on a genocidal rampage, to create their own nation. Definitely needs to be pulled from all schools.
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  3884.  @garyhamlin3299  What, like the UK, where moron Boris also didn't take things very seriously? Testing rates (tests per confirmed case) is one of those covid measures, and the UK was testing at a pathetically low rate, just like the US. They weren't even trying to get ahead of the virus.
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  3885.  @garyhamlin3299  Yeah, give me an example of a country that followed covid measures pretty good, and things still got as out of hand as the US. WHO advises at minimum testing should be in the range of 10-30 people per confirmed case. The UK, France, US, Spain, and Italy, were testing under 10 people for months of 2020, as things got out of hand. Canada, Germany, Norway, Denmark, Finland, got within that range fairly quickly. Australia, New Zealand, S Korea, Vietnam, got to testing over 50 people fairly quickly.
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  3886.  Illhan Omars brother's wife is Illhan Omar  You are completely full of shit.
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  3887.  @cameronlee2238  Can you name a single Democrat calling for a "pure"/direct democracy? I'm pretty sure you don't know what that is.
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  3888. You think it's a human right to spread a virus and kill off other citizens, even faster?
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  3889.  @unitedfools3493  The Tea Party was astroturffed by billionaire donors, who were pressuring Republican lawmakers. The donor pressure consistently increased their numbers. Republicans have a natural tendency to want to move right, anyway. And, the only reason they could block any votes was because the other Republicans were unwilling to simply make compromises with Dems and pass things without needing Tea Party votes. Are there large billionaire donors pressuring corporate Dems to join progressives? Do corporate Dems have a natural tendency to move left? Are corporate Dems unwilling to compromise and work with Republicans? The situations aren't samesies.
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  3890.  @smokedbeefandcheese4144  Try replacing 15 more corporate Dems, first. That's about how many more seats the progressive caucus needs to become the majority of house Dems, and then have enough to pick the party speaker candidate. If Dems are also the majority in the house, that speaker can then pick committee members, introduce whatever bills they want, sideline whatever bills they want, etc.
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  3891.  @mosslinden5058  Rofl. Google what a "supermajority" actually is, dumb dumb. You seem to have as good an understanding of how government works, as Dore.
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  3892.  @mosslinden5058  What threat? They got under 1% of the vote in 28. They got all of 1% of the vote in the 30 midterms. And they still ran candidates against FDR, that combined didn't get 3% of the vote. Those are the same kinds of numbers the Libertarians and Green get now. Who considers them a threat? The big get in the coalition was union backing, which barely exists anymore in the US, and factored more into the 20 point turn around than third parties, which took a higher percentage of the vote away from FDR than his predecessor. And it was unions dying off that led to the Dem decline and Reagan. It has taken the Green party 20 years to gain its still relatively shot level of popularity. It has taken the Libertarians almost 50 years. You're living in a fantasy. Hey, the $15 got a vote. Weren't you Dore knobs arguing that just getting a vote on something is a huge deal? Aren't you supposed to be doing something amazing with a list of no voters? Nah, just keep bitching about those who voted for it, rather than actually do anything productive.
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  3893.  @traviswilliams2010  Make money ... to promote her policies, because advertising and promotions cost money in this environment.
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  3894.  @bce5726  Oh, do tell smart guy.
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  3895. @Halon's Razor You, repeatedly, spout nothing but bullshit.
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  3896.  @mellow_badger8585  Why aren't you advising people to head on over to right wing Rumble, where Glenn and Jimmy have signed on to get themselves some Peter Thiel CIA money? Or, go find them on FOX?
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  3897.  @mellow_badger8585  And yet you were just advising people they could supposedly find similar content elsewhere. If you go on to mainly just to agree with the other side of the aisle, then you're not actually on the other side of the aisle.
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  3898.  @mellow_badger8585  Rofl. Tucker had pro Assange segments going back a year before Dore was on, you dimwitted Dore knob. He didn't move Tucker's position on anything. Dore went on, agreed with Tucker that it was problematic that Dumpty had been banned from social media, and using the bullshit first amendment argument. There's no such thing as free speech on someone else's private property. A leftist should be pointing that out, and pointing out the way to get free speech rights is through public ownership. Someone whose not sucking on Tucker's far right white nationalist balls, might also point out that things like inciting insurrections and defamation aren't protected speech anyway. He played right along with the right wing framing of "cancel culture", not pointing out that conservative religious folks have been cancelling things and people for millennia, still do, and often even use the government to do it, not just public pressure. Then, and this was right as the second impeachment was beginning, Jimmy threw Tucker and his audience the off topic bone that he too considered the first impeachment to be a sham. Then, he finally got to Assange, who Tucker didn't show any indication of disagreeing with Jimmy on. Right wingers love WikiLeaks. Assange isn't a right/left issue, in the least. The issue isn't common ground, dingleberry. The issue is priorities. Right wing morons care more about bullshit, like CRT that isn't even taught in K-12, than they do about getting themselves healthcare. If they prioritized healthcare, they wouldn't be right wingers. An "extreme free market" Boogaloo psycho, that wants to start a civil war, isn't going to vote for the same people you are, just because you both agree an a handful of anti-authoritarian issues. They'll be shooting you, if you try and implement M4A, after you help them bring down the government.
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  3899.  @jameshumphrey9939  Prove it does not work.
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  3900.  @InternetMameluq  Rofl. Trump saying a homelessan was more fortunate than him was bullshit is what it was. Even so, simply stating someone is more fortunate than you doesn't imply jealousy.
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  3901.  @themassage6534  I hear people wanting to be more like Denmark, but is anyone today pushing USSR style communism?
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  3902. @LD Tha P And by "the" government, you mean governments, scientists, and doctors, across the globe?
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  3903. ​ @GivePeaceAChance12  If they aren't adding votes to the Dem side, you need double to be absent or abstain.
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  3904. Did they check Tucker's cavernous sorting facility? I hear there's a ton of shit in there.
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  3905. And yet the vast majority of Protestants kept a number of Catholic rulings. Why didn't they go back to pre-Catholic Christianity, as was practiced by the earliest Christians, in Palestine and surrounding areas, where the first Gentiles were converted?
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  3906.  @omnisomnia  As soon as you say someone has the authority to decide whether an action is right or wrong, and create a law, you have your answer as to who would have the authority to decide to make say a slander law, or a credible threat law, or a conspiracy to commit law, or a false advertising law, etc. If they can't be trusted to make any of the multiple speech laws, then how can they be trusted to make any laws?
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  3907. So she's whining about capitalism, like the rest of you? "Corporate profits drove 53% of inflation during the second and third quarters of 2023 and more than one-third since the start of the pandemic, the report found, analyzing Commerce Department data. That's a massive jump from the four decades prior to the pandemic, when profits drove just 11% of price growth."
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  3908. Even the single poll that Yang used to make that claim had Bernie with higher support amongst Republicans and independents. https://www.politifact.com/factchecks/2019/oct/24/andrew-yang/andrew-yangs-claim-support-among-trump-voters-rate/
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  3909. Exactly. He's a moron who regurgitates old philosophies. The only people dumber are those who buy his bullshit.
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  3910.  Nigel Henry  Pretty much nobody is talking about this outside of online progressives. Stop pretending like Jimmy is actually trending. It wouldn't take much to miss the entire thing.
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  3911. They've been operating an open air WWII style fascist ghetto, for some time now, so ...
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  3912.  @joethethunder4906  Imagine that everyone in the progressive caucus had run as the people's party, and magically won the exact same number of seats. What you'd have is a Republican minority house, that would only have to work with the 16 most conservative Dems, to pass anything, and could completely ignore the people's party. You'd have a Trump presidency (because Dem and progressive votes would have split between Biden and Bernie in the general). And, you'd have 1 people's party senator, Bernie, with Republicans in control of the senate and Pence as tie breaker. No, you're not going to win over significant numbers of right wingers. If they cared about things like M4A more than hate abortions and immigrants, they'd already be voting for progressives.
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  3913.  @joethethunder4906  No. I clearly talked about an alternate reality, where some third party actually won seats, a lot of seats, 94 in the house and 1 in the senate. It would lead to Republican rule, and they could work with a handful of corporate Dems and completely ignore progressives. What are you talking about? Texas and Florida indicate Republicans are batshit crazy. Trump is batshit crazy.
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  3914.  @joethethunder4906  Getting even 100 seats as a third party would allow for Republicans and corporate Dems to almost completely ignore a progressive third party. The broader progressive caucus is currently 10-15 seats away from becoming the majority of house Dems. They could then pick the party speaker candidate and set the party agenda. If the party were in the majority, that progressive speaker could pick committee members and introduce whatever bills they wanted. Getting 10-15 more seats taking over the Democrat party would give you more power than 100 seats as a third party.
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  3915.  @joethethunder4906  The most popular third party hasn't won a single seat in congress in its near 50 year existence. And, as I pointed out, winning even 100 seats wouldn't give progressives any power as a third party. There's no indication what you're aiming for would benefit progressives in the next century. Progressives could be the majority of the Dem party within an election, or two, if progressives got out and voted heavily in the primaries.
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  3916.  @thehappyclam3942  Who were the Harzburg Front?
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  3917.  @Historia.Magistra.Vitae.  Wrong. Emil Kirdorf had pulled his backing, and started backing another far right party. He only returned after certain people were eliminated.
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  3918.  @Historia.Magistra.Vitae.  The Harzburg Front wasn't leftist. Grow another brain cell.
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  3919.  @Historia.Magistra.Vitae.  Wrong
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  3920.  Truthus Maximus  You're lying. What Mueller said was that Jr, and others, were too clueless to know they were breaking the law. You hypocritical idiots sure don't seem to like it when foreigners get off for being ignorant of the law. Add to that plenty of evidence of obstruction.
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  3921. *Django The D is silent.
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  3922.  @stanleymiller9977  Please tell me you're not referring to Benghazi.
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  3923. Still waiting for the moon to fall into Lake Michigan.
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  3924.  @X2LR8  Did you want to keep the tradition of slavery?
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  3925. Then you're hoping for something that doesn't happen, because that's not the way it legally works. They also can't legally spend it on themselves.
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  3926. @Badatallthis Stuff It's a vaccine. It's an "immunization" the same way other vaccines, and "natural immunity", are "immunizations". None mean literally 100% immune.
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  3927.  @DontDrinkthatstuff  And? Who would you rather defining human rights, and deciding on violations? Nobody?
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  3928. ​ @avol2  Or ... "Since the trough of the COVID-19 recession in the second quarter of 2020, overall prices in the NFC sector have risen at an annualized rate of 6.1%—a pronounced acceleration over the 1.8% price growth that characterized the pre-pandemic business cycle of 2007–2019. Strikingly, over half of this increase (53.9%) can be attributed to fatter profit margins, with labor costs contributing less than 8% of this increase. This is not normal. From 1979 to 2019, profits only contributed about 11% to price growth and labor costs over 60%"
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  3929. Ironically, rights are exactly what limits the government.
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  3930. Aren't the others praying to a wall?
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  3931. ​ @BryanM86  Yeah, not going out with someone who asks, and then finally giving them a try is totally samesies as going out with someone on the first ask, deciding they're the worst, dumping them, and them never going away.
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  3932.  Zero Cool  Yeah, David's gang of thugs and repeated promotion of violence make the two totally comparable.
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  3933. To be fair, the Canadian testing rate (tests per confirmed case) is double the US rate, already.
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  3934.  @jashshah5049  So mentioning it was a democracy was pointless. Got it.
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  3935. Who has this agenda?
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  3936.  @David-mr4gr  There are 420 thousand commerical freight trucks on Canadian roads. These spoiled brats are a tiny fraction, that apparently don't need to earn a living.
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  3937.  @kennethmcneil3478  Oh, sorry. There are dozens of sources for you not to believe, just like a Trump cultists. That one actually quoted a squad member. But, I guess you imagine they're inventing quotes, or something, like a proper nutter. https://www.politico.com/news/2021/02/09/progressive-covid-minimum-wage-468061
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  3938. ​ @mikeg2306  Yeah, remember that time they traveled to Russia, to do the pogroms? Horrible. 🙄
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  3939.  @damebesos8497  Trying to sell what is actually a public option as some kind of medicare for all, is a grift.
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  3940. Moron. Those who champion private property, gave corporations so much power, said corporations could have beliefs, said corporations could discriminate based on those beliefs, etc., are the ones crying when their chicken has come home to roost.
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  3941.  @kyledehaven394  Also, Yang is spouting nonsense about how a VAT will force the likes of Amazon to pay taxes. A VAT is specifically designed to pay businesses back for any input VAT. If you don't actually tax Amazon, then hand consumers trillions a year, you're only making Amazon tens of billions extra a year, while still not making them pay a dime.
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  3942. ​ @michaelsamra3171  You think the economy was better in 2020?
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  3943. The US was founded by "political Nazis" who protested, rioted, tarred and feathered, destroyed private property, and eventually declared all out war ... all because they didn't want to pay an extra tax specifically to fund the police/military. They even got extra pissed, when those police/military, "fearing for their lives", shot and killed violent protesters.
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  3944.  Peak Weimar  Before there even was an American flag? They were British subjects.
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  3945.  @danialhillmann5374  I don't believe you. You used "are" instead of "our", twice in a row, dimwit.
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  3946.  Derek Hitt  Nope. I don't support morons in Florida deciding to have little to no building inspections. I don't support morons in Texas deciding to let people freeze. I don't support morons in Michigan deciding to deliver poisoned water. Etc. That would be you, and your fantasy that state and local government is always superior. No. Having no environmental regulations made it easier to pollute. We already did that. You don't own the air breezing across your property and into your lungs, you don't own the ozone layer, you don't own the forests being wiped out, you don't own the oceans but can be greatly affected by them, etc. And, if there's no actual legislation saying pollution is damage, then how do property rights help you? You get to sue them once you're already sick and dying, and can prove damages, rather than preemptively suing them for breaking an environmental regulation? Woohoo! Sounds awesome! You want people to make their own decisions about whether their kids should work in factories? You want individual business owners making their own decisions about worker health and safety standards, like the good ol'days, when they took care of their workers ever so well? We've been through your Libertarian bullshit before. Most people thought it sucked.
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  3947. ​ @therock8288  They didn't check the box, that asks for a jury.
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  3948. Israel is objectively the aggressor, by multiple measures ... Modern history: 100 years ago, in 1923, Ze'ev Jabotinsky fully acknowledged that Zionism is colonialism, and that, based on the entirety of history, the natives would fight it until the bitter end. He just didn't care what would happen to them, and promoted doing it anyway. Colonizers are never not the aggressors. On top of the colonialist nature of Zionism, the Zionists also formed terrorist organizations, like the Irgun and Lehi. They bombed many Palestinian markets and other public places, murdering many civilians, including children, even including Palestinian Jews (who opposed Zionism). Israel merged those terrorists into the new nation's military and intelligence agencies. Israelis elected Menachem Begin, leader of the Irgun, child murderer, Jew murderer, and bomber of the King David Hotel, as PM. Israelis, to this day, celebrate those terrorists as "heroes". Zionists literally taught their neighbours that terrorism is a valid path to independence and statehood, and that terrorists are to be celebrated. Law: Israel is considered an occupier by the International Court, the UN GA, and the UN SC. Occupiers are also never not the aggressors. Those occupied actually have a right to resist occupation. On the flip side, it is illegal for the occupier to settle occupied lands, and illegal to use collective punishment. Israel is a rogue nation, that doesn't abide by international law. What it has been doing, and is doing now, is illegal. Current events: This year, alone, prior to Oct 7 ... Israel held over 1200 Palestinian hostages without charges ... over 200 Palestinians had been killed by the IDF and settlers ... over 1000 Palestinians had been displaced by Israel's neverending colonization of the West Bank ... and, Israel continued to operate an open air WWII style fascist ghetto. Even ignoring modern history and law, in no reality did Hamas "start" anything.
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  3949.  @semi-consciousamerican-joe2481  Yeah, like I get a road in exchange for paying X amount in taxes. Having less money and that money being worth less are two different things.
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  3950. ​ @ACsPianoCorner Not simply an emotional response. There's a policy hypocrisy. In Ukraine, funding defense against Russia. In Palestine, funding Israel's offence.
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  3951.  @kittylvoe456  You clearly have no clue what "very far left" would actually look like. Which Democrats are calling for a 100% publicly owned and operated economy, and an end to capitalism?
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  3952. ​ @Newton-Reuther  Guess you did.
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  3953.  @manvbees  So, if the US collapsed, and Canada came in and claimed Michigan, Michiganders couldn't say they were occpd, because Michigan was never a country? People in Poland can't say they were occpd, during WWII, because each half of Poland wasn't its own country?
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  3954.  @mikesamra9126  Most of that happened in his first year and, technically, his first year in office was also Obama's last budget. Since the tax cuts from his first budget kicked in, and his trade wars started around the same time, the stock market has kinda flatlined, and only gone from about 26 to 29. And, not even the first year was "record" growth, which isn't what he keeps saying. He keeps saying "record highs", which is nothing much to brag about.
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  3955. It was weak sauce Kyle. Making out like Netanyahu is the only Israel problem. Making out like Hamas represents all of Palestinian opinion. Then proposing the same old two state solution, that hasn't worked for decades, and without any insight as to what that two state means. Does it mean removing the 700k illegal settlers? 67 lines? 48 lines? I'm actually disappointed. Jon has come back pretty lame.
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  3956.  @scifirealism5943  The history of Likud is the history of Revisionist Zionsim. That has always been their choice. Their stated goal, for a century, has been to colonize not only all of Palestine but also parts of Jordan, Syria, and Lebanon.
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  3957. Even the most progressive Dem policies wouldn't move the US left of Denmark (real world centrism). You failed at reality.
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  3958. All it would take to essentially end homelessness is to give HUD an annual budget of $20b instead of $2b. Instead, Trump chose to give corporations and the rich a $1.4 trillion tax cut. So, why isn't the continuing homeless problem his fault?
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  3959.  @joqiii3  Canada likes to send our resources to the US to be made into useable products we then buy back for more money, helping to make the US rich ... including oil.
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  3960. The once oppressed becoming oppressors happens more than it should.
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  3961. What does the right have to offer, to solve the up and down problem?
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  3962. Freedom =/= good. Do you want people to have the freedom to drive down sidewalks? The freedom to walk around naked and have sex in the streets? The freedom to break into other's property and take whatever they want? Do you seriously advocate ditching any and all laws and regulations?
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  3963. That's quite the strawman, making out like anyone has ever claimed using fossil fuels has caused bad weather. It speeding up global warming, is a totally different thing.
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  3964.  @sugadagud3093  I'm a leg amputee. Pirate jokes arrrrr acceptable.
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  3965.  @aliamjon2550  Getting yourself in the country is actually the only legal way to seek asylum.
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  3966. Let me guess ... a Dore knob.
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  3967.  @2727rogers  Rofl. Not what I said, at all. I clearly indicated that progressive Dems are gaining seats, adding M4A yes votes to congress, whereas third parties aren't. The "vote blue" works both ways. The vast majority of those who vote against progressives in the primaries vote for them in the general. If you split those voting groups in two, math says Republicans are then more likely to win. Dore often promotes "strategies" that benefit Republicans most, and actually move you further from the goal.
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  3968.  @olorin1710  What's that got to do with the point about not counting people with comorbidities as covid deaths?
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  3969. At least 4 times, and back where you started.
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  3970. ​ @user-xq9yg8ei5e  Not a wild dog. It belonged to her. Not a badly injured dog. It was a healthy young dog. If her kids were looking for the dog, then there didn't seem to be a problem with it being intentionally aggressive towards people. Even if you were worried about kids or other animals, there are plenty of dogs that get adopted with "no kids, no other animals" warnings. She hadn't trained it properly. She took it out and got it all wound up, chasing birds. She then took it to another place with birds, and let it run free. If it was all wound up and there was a big commotion of chickens, then she grabbed it, it probably didn't realize what it was reacting to. That you're trying to justify what she did is disgusting.
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  3971.  @TheAnical  You know that it was only a couple years between Salk's first trials and widespread use of the polio vaccine, right? You would have waited another 20 years?
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  3972.  @khbgkh  The popular vote has matched the electoral vote in the vast majority of elections. All but something like 5 elections would have turned out exactly the same. Also, simply being an "electoral college" doesn't require electorals to be distributed unevenly. It would still be an "electoral college", if they were distributed evenly. It was the freezing of the number of house seats, in the 1930s, that has increased the imbalance, making it less democratic.
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  3973.  @Ebbrush3  The former convicts that couldn't vote. Kids get to go to prison with their parents.
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  3974.  @DB-sd3cw  So weird, the concept that a job should be left to the people better qualified to do the job, but to also expect those people not to abuse their power.
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  3975.  @jstreets1983  Like the one who just used her platform and PAC to help get more pro-M4A progressives elected to congress, going against DCCC backed corporate Dems, exactly the thing you'll still have to do after a failed vote?
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  3976.  @TGouse1  She clearly stated she was in her office, dimwit. If you didn't know which building her office was in, that's on you. Her building was also evacuated, and some Republican congresswoman down the hall had barricaded herself in her office.
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  3977.  @matbrooks7678  Biden didn't run on M4A, and neither did the majority of congress. The $15 minimum passed the house. But, hey, blame her.
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  3978. Lol, you're stupid.
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  3979.    So, you've learned how to use the term "gaslighting" incorrectly, from Dore? "Gaslighting" is a specific form of manipulation and deception designed to make someone feel, or look, crazy. "Gaslighting" is more like claiming Trump filling multiple scotus seats is as likely as the moon falling into Lake Michigan, making out like whoever says otherwise is batshit crazy.
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  3980. Which was Einstein? He considered Likud's founders on par with Nazis. Likud's bloody 100 year history ... In 1923, 100 years ago, Ze'ev Jabotinsky wrote, The Iron Wall, and a follow up, The Ethics of The Iron Wall (sooo racist towards Africans), in which he fully acknowledged that post Balfour Zionsim was colonialism, and that, based on the entirety of history, the native Palestinian population would resist being colonized until the bitter end. He directly compared it to the colonization of North America. He promoted doing it anyway, claiming Zionist colonialism was a "just" colonialism (he also thought North American colonialists were good guys, so not a great judge of morality), not caring what that meant for the native population. Ze'ev is important, because his Betar militant youth group helped found the Irgun terrorist group, along with other supporters of his, and the splinter Lehi terrorist group. The Irgun bombed numerous Palestinian markets and other public places, murdering many Palestinian civilians, including children, even including Palestinian Jews (who didn't support colonialist Zionsim). The Irgun are important, because they ended up being led by future Likud PM, Menachem Begin, who bombed the King David Hotel. The King David Hotel was bombed because the British had raided the Jewish Agency and seized numerous documents that may have shown that the terrorists were working with the JA and Haganah (JA liked to pretend that they didn't support the terrorism). The British then stored those documents at their base, in the hotel. That the Irgun terrorists responded to a JA raid, itself seems to prove the connection. That the thousands of Irgun (and Lehi) terrorists were also quickly merged into the new nation's military (IDF) and intelligence (Mossad) agencies, and are still celebrated as "heroes" by Israelis, to this day, also seems to support total collaboration between the groups. That other terrorist group mentioned, Lehi (also known as the Stern Gang), was considered even more extreme. They even tried to ally with the Nazis, against the British. Lehi ended up being led by Yitzhak Shamir, future Mossad agent, and another future Likud PM. They assassinated Lord Moyne, and others. In 1945, there was a major land and peoples survey done in Palestine. It showed that the Zionists only owned about 5% of the total land, 20% of the arable land, and owned a majority in zero districts. The partition was not only going to be forced on the native Palestinian majority, but Jews were still going to be a minority, in the part allocated to them. The only possible way to even become a "Jewish state" was going to require getting rid of the actual majority (at least enough so that there'd be a solid Jewish majority, so they could fake being democratic). This is also shown by the 1948, post Nakba, population of Israel. If there was 716,700 Jews, 156,000+ non-Jews, and approximately 700k non-Jews ethnically cleansed, that means the Jewish population, in the Zionist portion of partition, was originally over 100,000 less than the non-Jewish population. To believe that there was never any intent, by Zionists, to ethnically cleanse away the Palestinian majority would require believing that they never intended to create a "Jewish state". It's a nonsensical notion. Begin, and those terrorist groups, also opposed partition, but for the opposite reason Palestinians did. Palestinians didn't want to be colonized, at all. The terrorists wanted to colonize it all. "Moderate" Zionists were okay with colonizing half ... for now (what would happen in the future, after partition, was up to them, said Ben-Gurion). The Zionist terrorists were also involved in massacres, and assassinations, during the partition violence (colonialist war against the natives). Another notable future Likud PM, also started in the military, during the partition fighting. That was Ariel Sharon, war criminal, "Butcher of Beirut". Menachem Begin, and these other Zionist terrorists, are important because they became involved in Israeli politics, first forming Herut. That was the party that Albert Einstein, and other prominent American Jews, opposed, having a letter printed in the NYT, in December of 1948, when Begin came to visit the US. The letter opened ... "Among the most disturbing political phenomena of our times is the emergence in the newly created state of Israel of the "Freedom Party" (Tnuat Haherut), a political party closely akin in its organization, methods, political philosophy and social appeal to the Nazi and Fascist parties. It was formed out of the membership and following of the former Irgun Zvai Leumi, a terrorist, right-wing, chauvinist organization in Palestine." Herut merged with other extremist parties, over the years, and eventually became Likud, in the 70s. Now, people get upset over the slogan "From the river to the sea!", but it's the second part that's most important, "Palestine will be free!". Because "Palestine" isn't defined as an ethno-state, a free Palestine can be a single state, free for all to live in, and return to, free of continuing colonization, free of occupation, free of oppression, etc. Just like a Germany free of Nazism, an Italy free of fascism, a South Africa free of apartheid, or an America free of slavery from sea to shiny sea. It doesn't necessitate purging all the Jews. It just necessitates them giving up on the idea of an ethno-state. On the other hand, because "Israel" has been defined as an ethno-state, Likud's, "between the sea and the Jordan there will only be Israeli sovereignty", has no possible good interpretation. It is a declaration of intent to completely colonize, and ethnically cleanse, all Palestine territories. Not only that, but it also claims that they have a "right" to all of the "Land of Israel" (biblical borders that don't mesh with archaeological reality), which is an open declaration of future wars, against Jordan, Syria, Lebanon, and possibly even Iraq. Likud platform ... 1977: "The Right of the Jewish People to the Land of Israel (Eretz Israel) a. The right of the Jewish people to the land of Israel is eternal and indisputable and is linked with the right to security and peace; therefore, Judea and Samaria will not be handed to any foreign administration; between the Sea and the Jordan there will only be Israeli sovereignty. b. A plan which relinquishes parts of western Eretz Israel, undermines our right to the country, unavoidably leads to the establishment of a "Palestinian State," jeopardizes the security of the Jewish population, endangers the existence of the State of Israel. and frustrates any prospect of peace." "Settlement Settlement. both urban and rural. in all parts of the Land of Israel is the focal point of the Zionist effort to redeem the country, to maintain vital security areas and serves as a reservoir of strength and inspiration for the renewal of the pioneering spirit. The Likud government will call on the younger generation in Israel and the dispersions to settle and help every group and individual in the task of inhabiting and cultivating the wasteland, while taking care not to dispossess anyone." 1999: "The Government of Israel flatly rejects the establishment of a Palestinian Arab state west of the Jordan river. The Palestinians can run their lives freely in the framework of self-rule, but not as an independent and sovereign state. Thus, for example, in matters of foreign affairs, security, immigration, and ecology, their activity shall be limited in accordance with imperatives of Israel's existence, security and national needs." "The Jewish communities in Judea, Samaria, and Gaza are the realization of Zionist values. Settlement of the land is a clear expression of the unassailable right of the Jewish people to the Land of Israel and constitutes an important asset in the defense of the vital interests of the State of Israel. The Likud will continue to strengthen and develop these communities and will prevent their uprooting." All Palestine territories are officially considered occupied, by the International Court of Justice, the UN GA, the UN SC, and even in official documents of Israel's own allies. Likud is still using the blueprint for colonizing North America, in the West Bank. Move settlements out into native territory, piss off the natives, the natives retaliate, cry about poor "innocent" colonizing settlers being the "victims" of violent "Savages!", call in the cavalry to put down the native uprising, and eventually expand the borders to include those settlements. Rinse and repeat. In Gaza, Israel is operating an open air WWII style fascist ghetto. Them claiming a "right to defend themselves" would be like the Nazis claiming a "right to defend themselves " from the Warsaw ghetto uprising. There's no "war". That they're the occupiers means the "war" part is long over. Those people are actually supposed to be under the occupier's protection. That partition was forced upon the Palestinian majority, against their will ... that the Zionist portion still had to be forcefully ethnically cleansed of its non-Jewish majority, against their will ... that the millions of occupied Palestinians don't have a say in the government that truly rules over them, Israel's ... means Israel is about as democratic as Nazi Germany after Hitler purged his political opponents and then held elections.
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  3981.  @jerryoshea3116  That all sounds nice, but some countries have boycotted Olympics for political reasons, screwing their athletes who trained hard to be in them. Some politicians, governments, don't really care all that much about their athletes, or their citizens. I would bet if some female athlete from Iran took off her hijab on the podium, in protest, right wing Americans would love it.
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  3982. @Doppler Overrun Corporations make billions living on welfare. It's the consumers that pay their taxes.
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  3983. All laws would indicate otherwise.
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  3984.  @daftwod  You are daft. Within a country, freedom from and freedom for is progressive. As for theocratic countries, it is capitalist right wingers that have been kissing theocrat ass, backing them as they spread their ultra-conservative brand of Islam around. It has been capitalist right wingers that have overthrown, or helped put down, less religious leftists in the greater ME, in favor of religious extremists.
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  3985.  @kennethcadwell2124  Rofl. Catholics aren't Christians?
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  3986.  @bpdmf2798  Yeah, but you'd have to remove the shield, or at least move it to shield only small investors, to get at the large investors making the decisions that cause the debt. My point was that he likely wouldn't want to hold rich shareholders liable, and is likely hypocrite, who should be fine with relieving student debt.
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  3987.  @fomori2  It should be titled "Who's dumber, Trumpists or Dore knobs?" AOC was just campaigning for Nina, trying to add another M4A yes vote to congress. Dore, on the other hand, abandoned Nina ... abandoned trying to add another M4A yes vote to congress. Which one do you morons think is the "real" progressive?
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  3988.  @fomori2  You might want to educate yourself on what an ad hominem actually is, you ignoramus. Also educate yourself on Aldous' grandfather.
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  3989. Weird, that they're also the states that kept after election day mail in vote counting. It's almost as if they're using the red mirage optics as propaganda.
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  3990.  @danielpowers2413  34 people charged, including 26 Russians, and 3 Russian companies. Jr and Kushner only not charged because it would be hard to prove they "wilfully" broke the law, not because they didn't break the law. Evidence of Trump obstruction, but can't charge a sitting president. And, an impeachment by the House. Plus, the FBI, under Trump, saying they were interfering again with this election. VS 10 Benghazi investigations that found no wrongdoing, and a Biden investigation that found no wrongdoing.
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  3991.  @willli8163  Mari Jayne's country is a Russian bot farm. Check "her" about page.
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  3992.  @hitreset0291  Pretty sure the ones who think working at McDonalds is a teenager only job, are the morons. Is that you?
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  3993.  Aaron Cubitt  So you're from a mixed race family? Or did you get stupid some other way?
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  3994.  @DrJellyFanguzzz  Hey now, Cruz was born to an American that was passing through, and never grew up here. He's all yours.
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  3995. I think so. Nixon wasn't officially charged with any crimes, yet, but Ford gave him a blanket pardon for anything he may have done as president.
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  3996. Bernie has never made a secret of the fact that, even as an independent, he has always caucused with the Democrats. He has never made a secret of being a lesser evil philosophy guy. Anyone surprised that he gave support to the Democratic candidate, when he thought he couldn't win, wasn't listening to him.
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  3997.  @operationstack  And that's a lie. The Bible includes the OT/Tanakh, which is the absolute worst of the trilogy, by many mi​les.
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  3998.  @Anxh007  Netanyahu also followed the Christian West's example. He promoted, and helped fund, Hamas, to weaken the more secular Palestinian Authority, to avoid possible peace, and an officially recognized independent Palestine, which he would then have to leave, and give up on his colonization project. It's kind of nonsensical to cry about how extreme Muslims are, when you're the one putting down moderates and propping up extremists.
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  3999. ​ @BillyHenry-fk1qg  Who, for example?
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  4000.  @zarius6363  That's what they need in a co-host. Michael would jump in all the time. If someone doesn't jump in on Sam, he just keeps going and going.
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  4001. VW has already overtaken Tesla in Europe. They'll be outselling Tesla in the next year.
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  4002. Umm, yes, that was factually how many Palestinians were to be moved in the initial plan. You leave out the part where Zionists needed to be in the majority, to have their Jewish state. Letting a minority of Palestinians stay is zero evidence that Palestinians weren't ethnically cleansed. It is well documented that, in 1945, the Jewish population was a majority nowhere, and only owned about 5% of the land. "Arab" is like "Hispanic". They aren't all literally from a tiny desert country. The region was Arabized. Palestinians have Canaanite DNA. They're native to the region. They aren't native to the lands in Iraq, Jordan, Syria, Egypt, Saudi, etc. That argument is like saying it's okay to ethnically cleanse one of the early Native American tribes, from a specific region, because there were still plenty of other regions controlled Native American tribes.
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  4003.  ArchAingeal  There are various profanity laws in the US. https://www.independent.co.uk/news/world/americas/myrtle-beach-profanity-fines-swearing-tickets-south-carolina-a8515016.html
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  4004.  @jorgeabuauad  How can someone both have no belief Hell is a real place, or Satan is real, and serve Hell and Satan? That's like saying I serve Vulcan and Vulcans.
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  4005.  @guidinglight2116  Colonialism actually flooded white Europeans into numerous places around the world. The difference being that they did so using violence and claimed said places for their own nations.
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  4006.  @guidinglight2116  You don't know what "genocide" means. Plus, you seem to be insane.
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  4007.  @fredsanford1437  Did you make Trump fear the people, or did you follow him around like sheep?
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  4008.  @susanw1863  No, the report said they didn't have evidence he wasn't completely ignorant of the laws he was possibly violating. It was being so dumb, that saved him.
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  4009.  @guiagaston7273  It's literally how trolley problems work.
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  4010.  @guiagaston7273  You're the kind of person who looks at a trolley problem and thinks if you pull the lever you've had a hand in killing one person, instead of seeing it as having a hand in saving 4, and that if you do nothing, then it's not your fault if 5 people die.
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  4011.  @guiagaston7273  So, like the trolley problem, except your solution is to pick up a few stones from the track gravel, and throw them at the trolley, to try and stop it altogether ... as it runs over 5 people. Would I be stupid for thinking you did nothing to stop the trolley? Or would you be stupid for thinking you had? Point being that, thinking you're doing something seems to be part of the idiotic delusion.
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  4012. Soooo sanctioned bribery of officials? Why not take money out of the equation, instead?
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  4013. Dinesh is a dimwit.
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  4014. Didn't Trump have covid?
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  4015.  @josephlauziere9254  Because a public option doesn't get you everyone covered anytime soon. If people are getting covered through work, it still leaves it in the hands of corporations whether, or not, to switch over all their employees. And, having it paid for with premiums, even if they're lower than average, doesn't allow for paying for it with progressive taxation, making it regressive.
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  4016.  Derek Hitt  Where are you getting this nonsense from? Capitalism allowed for human beings to be traded like cattle. As I stated, with almost no government involvement, it allowed for people to resolve their differences privately, however they felt. Before labor laws, it allowed for the private property owners to hire strike busters to beat up striking workers, pay workers next to nothing, work them endlessly, work children, etc. Nothing about capitalism says you can't own a tone of property, even a country, just like a landlord, and make whatever rules you want for people living on the property you claim to own. For you to argue that ancap environments aren't capitalism, is nonsensical. To argue a 100% privately owned and operated country isn't capitalism, is nonsensical. Your "pure" capitalism, does require government involvement, but then you acknowledge it might not be perfect, and that the government might say rule in favor of corporations or rich backers. If they do that, then that's crony capitalism, but you've argued that also isn't capitalism. So, your very narrow position for capitalism is some perfectly working, incorruptible, form of Libertarianism. That's nuts.
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  4017.  @crashraynor  "The major problem—one of the major problems, for there are several—one of the many major problems with governing people is that of whom you get to do it; or rather of who manages to get people to let them do it to them. To summarize: it is a well-known fact that those people who most want to rule people are, ipso facto, those least suited to do it. To summarize the summary: anyone who is capable of getting themselves made President should on no account be allowed to do the job." ~ Douglas Adams
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  4018. If you're referring to businesses paying, there's nothing for them to dodge, since it's built right in that they can reclaim their input VAT, in order to avoid double taxation. A VAT is only harder for them to dodge charging, collecting, and turning in the proper amount.
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  4019. All the polls said Hillary would have a tougher time against Trump. Hillary or bust-ers were the ones who picked her anyway, got the closer race they wanted, and busted.
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  4020.  @danialhillmann5374  So, very very brain-dead, is your answer.
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  4021. @Sez B Rofl. Hillary is right wing. They didn't swing the pendulum, at all, nominating her. Now they're swinging all the way to the centre, pointing at the other developed centrist countries to emulate. Oh no ... the centre is too far!
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  4022.  @DubhghlasMacDubhghlas  I'll stick with statistics, rather than your anecdotes. They're going to get blood pressure medicine from where, exactly, while on the run in large numbers?
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  4023. The poorest of the poor, on assistance, aren't the ones simply collecting food stamps. They're the ones on full government assistance. A disabled person with a child would be getting $1000+ already. Even a childless disabled person could be getting suplemental assistance and getting $1000+. His UBI won't help them, at all. They'd be better off to opt out. But, with a new tax on many things, they'll be worse off. And, his VAT doesn't actually tax giant corporations. It taxes consumers. Mixed with the UBI, it will actually make them richer. Any plan that's going to hurt some of the poorest of the poor, and benefit giant corporations and the super rich is a bad plan.
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  4024. ​ @ericw2229  No
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  4025.  @biteme9869  Everyone uses subjectivity to make decisions and form opinions. And, using a stupid right winger's catch phrase against right wingers is intentional irony, dimwit.
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  4026. Awww, you a dumb Jimmy Dore fan, or something?
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  4027.  @aliamjon2550  The open wounds belong to someone else, dimwit. Cloth masks, and standard disposable masks, are to protect others from the wearer, and do so.
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  4028.  @patmahinie5728  The Mueller report stated Jr and Kushner weren't indicted for conspiracy because it would be hard to prove they "willfully" broke the law, not because they didn't break the law. Nobody has shown that Biden has any personal ties to China. Trump rents property to the bank of China. Trump sold Ivanka's Trump tower condo to a Chinese lobbyist. Trump personally made deals with the government of China, and made millions in China. Rofl! The delta variant isn't spreading due to asylum seekers. It's spreading due to morons not masking or getting vaccinated. No, there aren't any serious questions that need answering, about the election.
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  4029.  @jimohara  There's a difference between asking questions vs making a completely unsupported claim and asking for it to be disproved. You know, exactly like he also did in 2016, and then his own voting integrity commission couldn't find evidence of widespread voter fraud.
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  4030.  @mikelowery6227  Why? Because her mother lives in Florida? You know there's a difference between promoting that cars, trucks, planes, and trains should be more fuel efficient, and promoting never using them, right?
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  4031. Right wingers have made laws against BDS; they've made laws against CRT (which isn't even taught in public schools); there is a government agency still protecting delicate conservative sensibilities from naughty words and nipples; they are fine with a president (head of government) firing, or threatening to fire, those who contradict him; they are fine with state legislators threatening local governments; they are fine with making protesting harder and more dangerous; ... that's all kinds of government power they use to control people's speech. Conservative religious types have been using government power, to cancel people, businesses, and things, they don't like, for millennia. On top of all that use of government power, they also call for people to be fired, and call for businesses to be boycotted out of business. That "cancel culture" is something new, or primarily left wing, is complete and utter bullshit.
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  4032.  @wvu05  And it's not just that. A VAT is specifically designed to not tax businesses, in order to avoid double taxation. It's basically a sales tax, collected in stages, with all the business stages getting paid back. It's only the final consumer that doesn't get paid back. Yang even posted a pass through rate study, that he didn't understand. It outright said that there was a near 100% pass through on standard rated goods and services. It was only by including lesser rated and zero rated goods and services that the pass through rate lowered. Yang mistakenly thought the lower pass through rate meant that businesses were paying half or more of the tax, when it actually meant that nobody was paying a tax on about half the stuff. That means his VAT/UBI combo wouldn't actually have giant corporations paying into the UBI, like he claimed, and they'd only get the benefit of trillions extra being spent. Money would flow to corporations and those at the very top faster than ever before. His plan was nothing like the Alaskan dividend, which he kept comparing his dividend to. They have giant corporations paying the people, which is how a UBI should also be paid for to be sustainable.
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  4033.  Rion  Are you stupid? Antifa are the counter protesters. They specifically go to where the fascists are having their flag wavings, or whatever the fuck. The Proud Boys and friends are the ones who announce their rally, first.
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  4034.  @laqueefa8509  Dore knobs? No, they want to hand power to Republicans, and go backwards for decades to come..
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  4035.  @BrockObama2016  He trashed anyone and everyone who'd vote for M4A in congress, and wants to start primarying them instead of the hundreds of M4A opponents.
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  4036.  @sharonharris9782  You'd think.
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  4037. The math isn't the same. The squad can bring in zero extra out of party votes to the left of them, if votes are lost on the right end of the party. The likes of Manchin has the entire Republican party to try and bring in votes from, on the right. The squad can be ignored by moving a bill to the right. Manchin can't be ignored by moving a bill to the left.
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  4038. ​ @tomm1109  That character was similar to Archie Bunker. His bad takes were to laugh at, not emulate. Somewhat like playing a heel.
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  4039.  Alabama Man 2.0  You: Honey Boo Boo gets more views than Cosmos, therefore it's better!!!!
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  4040. Aaron is an idiot, who ignored hundreds of witnesses, and dozens of other investigations, in favor of two largely discredited witnesses who weren't even involved in the entirety of a single site investigation.
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  4041. His stance isn't "objective". If there are 1200+ Palestinian hostages, being held indefinitely by Israel, without charges, prior to Oct 7 ... if there are 200+ Palestinians killed, this year alone, by the IDF and settlers, prior to Oct 7 ... if there are never ending settlements, colonizing the West Bank, prior to Oct 7 ... if Israel is operating an ongoing open air WWII style fascist ghetto, in Gaza, prior to Oct 7 ... then, in what reality, did Hamas "start" the aggression? In what reality is Israel "defending" itself, if they're the aggressor? Also, legal objectivity ... Israel is considered to be occupying the Palestinian territories, according to the International Court, the UN GA, and the UN SC. International law actually gives those being occupied the right to resist occupation. On the flip side, it does not give the occupier the right to use collective punishment. It is objectively against international law, to use collective punishment. It is also against international law to colonize occupied territories. Israel is, objectively, a rogue occupier nation, that constantly violates international law, and faces no consequences, in large part due to US vetoes.
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  4042.  @joeb134  Ffs, the arrest report has been attached to multiple articles from the right, like the NY Post, to the left, like Salon. Take your pick. What was your source? You're focusing on one thing, but let's not forget you've been wrong about basically everything ... a 16 yr old is a minor ... he would have still been an adult exposing himself to said minor (that wasn't his girlfriend) even if he were 19 ... he spent 4 nights in jail and got 2 years probation ... you've spouted nothing but pure bullshit. F*cking rich, you saying anyone else is like a Trumpist.
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  4043. The one that says ... "U.S.-funded experiments in China posed biosafety risks but did not cause Covid-19 pandemic, scientists say." "The documents do not establish whether Fauci was directly aware of the work." "But the terms of the grant clearly stipulated that the funding could not be used for gain-of-function experiments. The grant conditions also required the researchers to immediately report potentially dangerous results and stop their experiments pending further NIH review. According to both the EcoHealth Alliance and NIH, the results were reported to the agency, but NIH determined that rules designed to restrict gain-of-function research did not apply."
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  4044. How does "take her out" equate to firing her? Was he talking to someone who could fire her?
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  4045. He beats Trump in most polls in those 3 states, and beats him in the last Florida poll. Plus Bernie's numbers tended to be higher than polls due to young voter turnout, last time around, and looks to be the same this time.
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  4046.  @weshallovercome3990  Shouldn't you be Mike Pence 2040 then?
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  4047.  @aviandragon1390  No, there does not need to be a crime, to impeach.
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  4048.  @bloui1033  How does giving money to poor people, equate to "the practice of unfairly treating a person or group of people differently from other people or groups of people" (def of discrimination)? What's unfair about not giving money to rich people that already have money?
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  4049.  @bloui1033  So, what's wrong with simply recognizing a difference, if you're using that definition, and not using the unfair treatment definition?
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  4050.  @bloui1033  You literally said "(which it IS unfair)", to someone else. As long as she's qualified, what difference does it make? It would be nice, if the law were more objective, but isn't it a reality that scotus picks are already chosen based on political discrimination, irregardless if they're the most qualified candidate amongst every legal expert in the country? The fact that political points of view on certain topics is considered in the process of picking a scotus nominee, is evidence law isn't purely objective. Subjective opinions, subjective political or religious beliefs, matter, which would mean different life experiences, and different race and gender points of view, are also important. In that sense, yes, women are more qualified to give an opinion on women's issues. Your "analogies" aren't very analogous. People's subjective beliefs also factor into creating laws, would be a more analogous example. So, yes, you'd also want a more diverse group of people creating laws, as well.
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  4051. @John Entwistle Says a lot about you. Sad.
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  4052.  @uncomfortabletruth5915  Except it doesn't actually have a price tag worked out. People have made a range of estimates. Weird how you "enlightened centrist" types use the same high end estimate as the far right, instead of giving a range, or an estimate in the middle.
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  4053.  @EclecticoIconoclasta  Well, considering how the US system works, a progressives caucus, working within the democratic party, is a more effective "third party". All they need is about 15 more seats to become the majority of the party, and be able to pick the party speaker candidate. If the party is the majority of the house, that speaker could pick committee seats, introduce whatever bills they want, sideline whatever bills they want, etc. If the progressive caucus was an actual third party, Trump would be president due to vote splitting in the general, Pence would be the senate tiebreaker, and Republicans would have a plurality in the house. Republicans would only have to work with a handful of conservative Dems to pass whatever they wanted, and could completely ignore the progressive party.
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  4054.  @goldilox369  Green party got ballot access 20 years ago, and have won zero seats in congress. The Libertarian party got ballot access almost 50 years ago, and have won zero seats in congress. What's your point?
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  4055.  @2011barnstormer  I wouldn't promote the idea that you came up with that stupidity all on your own, if I were you. If you say you heard it from others, that wouldn't make you seem quite as stupid.
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  4056.  @RJL612  FOX has its own mandates.
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  4057.  Aaron Dickson  Rofl. Aren't you a.poser ancapper, that doesn't know the difference between an ancap symbol and an anarchist symbol, who constantly bootlicks for the Republican party?
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  4058.  @zeeone4492  Exactly. You getting some feeling that they're "controlled opposition" doesn't make it so. Glad we're on the same page, now.
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  4059.  real progressive  At least fabricate new stuff.
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  4060.  real progressive  What's that got to do with fabricating new stuff, dumb dumb?
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  4061. ​ @NothingIsKnown00  Unfortunately, for Dave, Harris isn't very bright either.
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  4062.  @gnubbiersh647  Harris argued it was already a given that, if you set a subjective goal, science can help you achieve that goal. Meaning, if you subjectively define "well being", and subjectively set that as your goal, then science can help you reach that goal. Or, for example, if you set reaching the moon as your subjective goal, then science can help you achieve that goal, and everything you do then objectively gets you closer to achieving that goal, or it doesn't. What people didn't believe was that science could itself set the goal, so that the goal was objective. By saying he wanted to prove that wrong, Sam had to show that the goal, "well being", is itself objective, to give us something beyond what he already acknowledged was a given. He argued all concepts of morality are about "well being". If that is actually the case, that would mean they all have different concepts of "well being" (a Christian's, for example, would be measured not by how healthy and happy you are, but instead measured by how closely you are following God's will, so your soul can have ultimate happiness in the afterlife). Sam set aside their beliefs in an afterlife, or any other concepts, and began arguing as if there was only one concept of "well being" ... his ... and that it is only measured by his standards. He had basically defeated himself, at this point, and is exactly at what he said was a given, at the outset. He also tried to support his concept, by arguing morality is only about sentient creatures, and that we don't value the "well being" of rocks. Problem there is ... we do. If we deem that a structure or sculpture, made of rocks, has historical value, we consider it immoral to harm or destroy it. Same with any rocks deemed to have artistic value. We also deem some environments to have value, including any rocks within, and provide them protection. We also deem many shiny rocks to have value, and some people will kill each other over them, considering that value to be worth more than another human being's life. He also made out like that also applies to lesser life forms, and yet some people's concept of morality includes all life forms. He didn't provide any real "objective" demarcation line. Are cows, pigs, and chickens, below the line? Most people's concepts of morality okay slaughtering them. Plenty of people think the world would be better off without humans. Plenty value certain animals over other human beings. Hedonists value simply fulfilling your desires. All these concepts of morals and values aren't samesies. Even ignoring that many concepts of "well being" include an afterlife, the various moral concepts aren't all using the exact same concept of "well being", that Sam puts forward, for this life. He goes completely deranged, and argues that an objective fact can change. He gives as an example, the distance of the Earth to the Sun. The problem there is that he's leaving out that any measurement to the Sun would be made at an exact moment in time. It will forever be true that, at that exact moment in time, we were exactly that distance from the Sun. If something is truly an objective fact, it will always be true. To support his "moral landscape" argument, he provides chess, as an "analogy". He claims it is a game of "perfect objectivity", where a move is objectively better or worse. No. Someone subjectively decided to create a game, subjectively decided on the board, the pieces, how those pieces would move, and how to win (back to what he said was already a given at the start). People have also subjectively come up with alternate rules. People have subjectively come up with alternate boards (3D Star Trek chess). Chess, and any game with rules, is more akin to laws, than morality. Once you've subjectively decided something is a rule/law, then you are objectively following the rule/law, or you aren't. Sometimes we decide laws are themselves immoral, and change them. Even when you're within the game, with the rules in place, nothing says it's wrong to maybe let your kid beat you once in a while. If that's your subjective goal, then what is "objectively" a better or worse move could become completely flipped, and there'd be nothing wrong with that, even though it would appear to be an "objectively" horrible move, by Sam's singular (and subjective) way to measure things. He also tries using healthy vs unhealthy, as an analogy to moral vs immoral. The problem there is that healthy/unhealthy don't include oughts. Eating a Big Mac might be unhealthy, but there's nothing really saying it's wrong to do something unhealthy (unless maybe it forces something unhealthy on others, against their will). Technically, skydiving increases your odds of dying, or being injured. So? People do it for kicks. Being healthy, or unhealthy, depends totally on your own subjectivity. If you subjectively want to be healthy, only then you ought not do X. If you subjectively don't care about being healthy, then you ought to do X, if you want. This is nothing like morality. We don't say go ahead and randomly kill someone, if you want. We'll call it "immoral", but that no longer means it's behavior/actions you ought not do. Sam paraded around like a peacock, making out like he was a genius, making out like Hume wasn't all that, and that he was the one to have finally filled, or dodged, the is/ought gap .... Nope. He is a complete and utter moron, who never got beyond what he said was a given, from the outset, and was just too stupid to see it. He had filled the gap with subjectivity, just like everyone before him. He also showed his limited grasp on objectivity vs subjectivity, when fear mongering about AI. He didn't take the angle that people would be able to greatly misuse it (as is possible). No, he took the Terminator angle, that it would rise up against us! Except, it doesn't matter how "intelligent" a computer is, there's zero indication that one can set its own subjective goals. That's because they care about nothing. Any goals one has, has been programmed in. An AI would be following at least one human's goals. A super intelligent computer, knowing a lot of facts (objectivity), would still make none of its own decisions (subjectivity), because it just doesn't care about outcomes. Humans have to program in all the decision making. They might give it a little room to learn the most efficient route, between point A and point B, for example, but once it learns the most efficient route, that's the one it will stick with. It will never, in a billion years, decide to take the scenic route, all on its own, because it just doesn't care. It feels nothing, good or bad, when "seeing" things. Sam has been taking sci-fi way too seriously.
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  4063. How do you arrive at both sides of colonialism being wrong? Israel is objectively the aggressor, by every relevant measure ... Modern history: 100 years ago, in 1923, Ze'ev Jabotinsky fully acknowledged that Zionism is colonialism, and that, based on the entirety of history, the natives would fight it until the bitter end. He just didn't care what would happen to them, and promoted doing it anyway. Colonizers are never not the aggressors. On top of the colonialist nature of Zionism, the Zionists also formed terrorist organizations, like the Irgun and Lehi. They bombed many Palestinian markets and other public places, murdering many civilians, including children, even including Palestinian Jews (who opposed Zionism). Israel merged those terrorists into the new nation's military and intelligence agencies. Israelis elected Menachem Begin, leader of the Irgun, child murderer, Jew murderer, and bomber of the King David Hotel, as PM. Israelis, to this day, celebrate those terrorists as "heroes". Zionists literally taught their neighbours that terrorism is a valid path to independence and statehood, and that terrorists are to be celebrated. In 1945, it is well documented that Zionists owned just 5% of the land and were a majority nowhere. Israel was formed by actually going against the majority population. It's foundation is completely undemocratic. Then, becoming a majority, in "their" new nation, by ethnic cleansing the actual majority, and then claiming to be democratic, is utter nonsense. Law: Israel is considered an occupier by the International Court, the UN GA, and the UN SC. Occupiers are also never not the aggressors. Those occupied actually have a right to resist occupation. On the flip side, it is illegal for the occupier to settle occupied lands, and illegal to use collective punishment. Israel is a rogue nation, that doesn't abide by international law. What it has been doing, and is doing now, is illegal. Current events: This year, alone, prior to Oct 7 ... Israel held over 1200 Palestinian hostages without charges ... over 200 Palestinians had been killed by the IDF and settlers ... over 1000 Palestinians had been displaced by Israel's neverending colonization of the West Bank ... and, Israel continued to operate an open air WWII style fascist ghetto, in Gaza. Even ignoring modern history and law, in no reality did Hamas "start" anything.
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  4064.  @CV-fb9kf  Are you this stupid in real life, or do you just play stupid on the interwebs? How is adding numbers not accomplishing anything, when adding enough numbers is the only possible way to ever pass the bill? The most popular third party hasn't won a single seat in congress in its near 50 year existence. I think they'd consider getting multiple seats an accomplishment.
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  4065. Yeah! Paralyze the house, and let corporate Dems use that to blame you for no new covid relief, no new unemployment extensions, no new vaccine funding, etc., during a pandemic. Me Jimmy Dore. Me so smart. If you disagree you're a fake!
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  4066.  @thenomad9230  Yeah, Jimmy isn't bright. He has also argued that Pelosi would rather work with Republicans than progressives, which is an argument against his own "plan". She could just make a backroom deal with Republicans, and give them something in exchange for enough of them to abstain, or be absent, to reduce the threshold needed to win. For every 2 abstentions, absents, or unfilled seats, it lowers the threshold needed to win by 1.
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  4067.  @nostrum6410  Conservative types have been cancelling things for centuries ... other religions, other denominations, women's ankles, women's knees, women's thighs, women wearing pants, women in the workplace, women's votes, foul language, gays, trans, PDA, sex, tons of books they didn't like, music they didn't like, unionists, socialists, blacks, black votes, etc. It's insanely hypocritical, when they complain about "cancel culture".
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  4068.  @belkyhernandez8281  The Dore knobs are on another channel.
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  4069.  @jasonshort9001  Well, religious people are always arguing that only the rules in their Holy Book are keeping them from doing everything it says they shouldn't.
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  4070.  @pinwheelart2825  Bullshit. Almost exclusively the same kind of right wing nuts, all over.
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  4071.  Derek Hitt  Trump is a far right wing authoritarian, fascist. Ron Paul is a far right wing Libertarian. Their level of authoritarianism doesn't make them any more, or less, left or right. It just makes them more, or less, authoritarian. US "centrists" are right wing, but not as far right as either of those two, a bit less authoritarian than Trump. US progressive "leftists", are center-right to center, out in the real world, and tend to be less authoritarian than the "centrists", probably agreeing more with Ron Paul on many policies dealing with authoritarianism.
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  4072. US oil companies want gas prices even higher than OPEC, because it costs more to extract oil in N America.
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  4073.  The Truth of the Matter  Government funding isn't allowed to be used for abortions. So, that would be going towards the many other things they do. Try again.
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  4074. ​ @slick73nova  Ummm, the Speedy Trial Act established a "speedy" timeline, that both isn't supposed to allow for railroading and isn't supposed to allow for endless delays, and states that defendants cannot wave their right to a speedy trial.
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  4075.  @RtistiqSkubie  Oh oh, are you a Qanoner too?
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  4076.  @PpOoPpCcOoRrNn  And yet it was Walz who had to get eardrum surgery. Did Vance get carpal tunnel, or something?
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  4077.  kyle grant  What are you talking about? Right wingers are more likely to go out and vote, and vote a dumbass politician into office. Plus, anarchists have been saying this for 100 years.
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  4078.  @gary_stavropoulos  That wouldn't be "fair". How about, if you ship a million phones from China, and a million people buy them, since you're benefiting a million times more from protected shipping lanes, you pay a million times more for that protection? How about, if you transport a million units of goods along the roads, to a million customers, since you're benefiting a million times more from the roads, then you pay a million times more to maintain them? Etc. Etc. Etc. Unless, of course, you're fond of the massive corporate welfare going on.
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  4079. Like even just holding a majority in the house, if they're so awesome at rigging elections.
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  4080. No, not televangelists. That's how televangelists get too much money and influence.
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  4081. @انمار جينار Seriously?
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  4082. Campaign finance laws are tighter here, in Canada. Plus there are spending limits, and a limit to the campaign length. It's more likely pandering. He has lost support to Conservatives, that he wants back, instead of simply forming a coalition with the NDP.
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  4083.  @AG-xc5ni  Rofl. Tucker loved everything Jimmy was saying. He didn't even try to jump in. Because, when Dore phrases it as they'd rather be doing an impeachment, it doesn't sound, at all, like he's talking about Republicans, who didn't want an impeachment. It sounds like he's just ripping Democrats. If a 2 min rant that makes Carlson glow with delight, then you've done something wrong.
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  4084.  @AG-xc5ni  Uh huh. And he spewed stuff Tucker and his audience liked last time, as well, dumb dumb.
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  4085.  @AG-xc5ni  He agreed with Tucker and his audience that it was wrong for Twitter to ban Trump and his cultists. He threw them the off topic bone that he also considered the first impeachment a fraud. And only then did he get to Assange, who they don't really give a crap about.
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  4086.  @brothersinfarmsllc  Why would I want to do that? Try reading some academic papers, books by historians, or primary sources.
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  4087.  @happyprogressivepoop1422  She should. You're the one arguing she's not so bad, if AOC helping to remove corporate Dems is Pelosi's bidding. Or, is AOC not doing her bidding?
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  4088. ​ @Theunspokentruth77  Likud was founded by Irgun and Lehi trrrists, that Einstein compared to Fscsts and Nzs. Their platform states, "between the sea and the Jrdn there will only be Isrli sovereignty". Ham is just a poor man's Likud, only on the other side of colnlsm, occption, ethnc clnsing, etc.
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  4089.  I only use this account when I get put in time out  Uh, sexual harrassment is grounds for a civil case. It's not a crime, that's going to get Jimmy arrested. Dore isn't calling corporate Dems "sellouts". He's calling progressives, like Bernie and AOC, "sellouts", and there's actually evidence they don't even take corporate donations, let alone change their opinions for them.
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  4090.  @afrodinho  There is only one possible way to pass progressive policies, and that is to get enough yes votes in congress. Bernie has helped add more M4A yes votes to congress. The Justice Dems have helped to add more M4A yes votes to congress. AOC has helped add more M4A yes votes to congress. They were just trying to add one more, in Nina Turner, who Dore turned against. What has Dore actually done? As far as I can tell, they've all done more for M4A in a few years than he has in his entire lifetime.
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  4091.  @SacClass650  The problem with your comparison is that "socialism" (publicly owned and operated) is a broad category, opposing the broad category "capitalism" (privately owned and operated), that comes in non-authoritarian (anarcho, direct democracy), representative democracy, and authoritarian, flavours. Meanwhile, "fascism" is a narrow category. It is authoritarian capitalism. So, no, fascism doesn't have much in common, with about 2/3rds of the socialism spectrum, and is the complete opposite of the anarcho variety. Authoritarians having similarities is no revelation.
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  4092. So, not only do you want to ditch term limits, but you're dumb enough to think Trump will be in better shape at the same age, in 2024? The moron's brain is already glitching. He could have a Sudafed induced stroke any day.
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  4093. You answered your own question there.
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  4094.  @fredsanford1437  Rofl. DNC is left?
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  4095. 27% of Republicans don't want Dumpty to concede, even if his sham court challenges fail. They're ready to give up on democratic elections, and check the box for fascism. Don't make the mistake of thinking "fascist" means they have to be a Hitler, Franco, or Mussolini. There have been numerous fascist tin pot dictators in South and Central America, and other places around the world. Not all of them have been especially competent or particularly intelligent. A number of them only gained, or maintained, power with US assistance. Not all of them were tossing people in ovens. Simply saying "fascist" isn't an automatic jump to some evil genocidal mastermind. Clown, or not, you've got someone who seems willing to take on the role of dictator, who has dozens of politicians, and millions of Americans, willing to support him in that role.
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  4096.  @thedarkdot2977  How many years has she been at it, now? And she can't even get a following, like Ross Perot managed to do in one campaign season. She did worse in 2020 than 2016. I'm talking simple reality.
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  4097.  @KIDROCK-oq7um  Don't you have new statutory rp lyrics to work on?
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  4098.  Real Progressive  I directly addressed your use of terms, dimwit. The US didn't fight anti-fascism, it fought authoritarian communism, making the US both anti-fascist and anti-communist. Of course, it also allied with communists to defeat some fascists, and has supported fascists in other countries. Do you describe the Civil War as the US fighting against democracy, and wonder how slaves enjoyed democracy in the Confederate States of America?
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  4099. The most popular third party hasn't won a single seat in congress in its near 50 year existence. The 30 year old broader progressive caucus is about 10 seats away from becoming the majority of house Dems. In 4 years, the Justice Dems have replaced a number of corporate Dems. In 2 years, AOC has helped replace a few corporate Dems. Starting from scratch, with zero seats, and no likelihood of getting even one in 50 years, doesn't seem like a winning strategy.
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  4100.  @mimked  There are 261 Republicans in the house and senate. 147 objected to the election results.
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  4101.  Diana Novak  Do you think Republican Mueller's report lied?
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  4102. Jimmy Dore recently cited the vaccinated (0.01%) and unvaccinated (0.89%) hospitalization rates (based on total population). Of course, he ignored that the unvaccinated were being hospitalized at 89x the rate of the vaccinated. Instead, he dishonestly compared those rates to the incorrect "death rate", to make out like covid deaths were being "WILDLY inflated".
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  4103. Yeah, damn fake progressive AOC just helped get more M4A yes votes in congress. How horrible.
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  4104.  @aliamjon2550  Pay less for it. Nope. Nope.
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  4105. ​ @AngusTCat  Also, the Lehi did try to ally with the Nazis, against the British, dimwit.
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  4106. You're lying. Look up how much was actually given to Puerto Rico.
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  4107.  @mfflscotty2095  Holy hell. How do they make their billions? By people buying stuff, right? That's people handing them their money, and having less money, and the billionaires gaining more money, right? And, if those billionaires don't pay their workers an even share of that, then the money is mostly going one direction, right? Again, you seem to be implying that you can hand your money to them, and more will just magically appear, from somewhere.
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  4108.  Larry Scary  Response: You're an idiot.
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  4109. Rofl, are you some Dore knob, or something?
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  4110.  @TheBiggestSqueeze  Committee voters outright admitted to not voting for her because she backed progressives against them and other party incumbents. Are you claiming she didn't use her platform and PAC to back 20 other progressives?
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  4111. Show me the one that says minorities commit 95% of murders.
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  4112. You don't know what "blackmail" means Dore knob.
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  4113.  @ghostf6321  What's the difference in outcome between decapitating someone up close, or blowing them apart from 1000'?
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  4114. Ancap is feudalism. A bunch of private property owners running around doing what they want with no governing body of the people, laws, or justice system, above them.
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  4115. It seems to be an objective fact that the US is a majority of morons. I only feel sorry for the minority who aren't.
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  4116. Reminds me a bit of our NDP leader, Jagmeet Singh. He's always stylish. https://images.app.goo.gl/AdR5Fib5VUCckLFt7
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  4117.  King Charles ✔  All non Aryans, including blacks, were stripped of their rights by the Nuremberg laws, and Hitler ordered the sterilization of the mixed race Rheinlandbastardes.
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  4118.  @cmiller0116  You seriously can't connect the dots between 1 am and when most people are unconscious?
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  4119. The only "claim" that Zionism had to this specific land, was based on a fairy tale book. After living relatively peacefully in Muslim countries for 1300 years ... being given refuge when Christian nations offered conversion, death, or exile ... the Ottoman Empire even okaying the earliest form of Zionsim, which was more like immigration ... Zionist religious extremism, the switch to colonialism, changed everything. Jewish extremists believe in the OT/Tanakh, which is the worst book in the trilogy, by many miles. India represents almost the entirety of the Hindu world. It ranks lower than Saudi, for the treatment of women. And, now there are Hindutva fascists, running the country, persecuting Sikhs, Muslims, and Christians. Christian nuts, in Africa, actually campaigned against wearing protection, even telling people that condoms cause AIDS, as tens of millions of people died. Plus, there are plenty of other Christian extremists around. Europe and North America no longer represents the majority of the Christian world. The majority is represented by Central/South America, Africa, and Asia. The US likes to say "Mexican cartel", but there are some you could also describe as a "Christian cartel", that worship a saint of death, and chop off more body parts than ISIS did. Christian Brazil is also the deadliest place on the planet, to be gay. They also challenge Buddhist Thailand for the child sex tourism capital of the world. Psycho Buddhist monks have also been doing very bad things. Most suck pretty bad, if you actually take a hard look, and don't just focus on the one you've already predetermined is the worst. Ancestral spirit worship doesn't seem too fanatic.
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  4120. They're the same as Israel and Netanyahu.
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  4121. Probably has more to do with the opening sentence, that she was trespassing.
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  4122.  @theTeflonDon1  Trump is one of the biggest popular vote losers to ever get elected, and barely scraped out electoral college wins in a handful of states, by less than 1%. I have no clue how you lot manage to be so cocky.
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  4123.  @4itamar  You mean let Israel ethnically cleanse Gaza?
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  4124. Hey, the two Ryans are pretty popular.
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  4125.  @Evirthewarrior  Rofl, you don't think people are getting arrested, without getting killed, in those other countries? Why is "getting arrested" an okay to kill people? There are also fewer deaths due to terrorism than deaths due to cops, per year, so might as well not consider terrorism a danger, I guess.
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  4126. ​ @Bewildered674  Then what was the moronic crazy first Zionist congress talking about, when they said they wanted to create a home for Jews "in Palestine", if no such place existed?
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  4127.  @MrNH718  Dore went on Tucker's show, agreed that Twitter deplatforming Trump and his cult was troublesome, threw Trump the off topic bone that he also considered "Russiagate" a hoax, and then made an argument, that has nothing to do with "left wing policy", for Assange to be pardoned.
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  4128. What are some examples of not BS?
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  4129.  @helenmartin9150  Why not let Americans know that Yang is spouting complete nonsense? A VAT is specifically designed to NOT tax businesses in order to avoid double taxation. Anyone claiming a tax designed to not tax businesses, as a way to tax businesses, is totally clueless, or lying.
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  4130.  @WikiSorcerer  McCarthy types are just another bunch of extremists the Republican party has given a home to over the decades ... along with anti civil rights racists, extreme religious nuts, the Tea Partiers, Qanon and other conspiracies, the Trump cult, ...
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  4131.  @andrew-jv7iv  Who feared Dumpty? He couldn't even win a trade war with Trudeau, ffs.
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  4132.  Simon Farre  That is, not at all, "logical". Having a law against drinking and driving doesn't guarantee no accidents, but it does reduce the odds of accidents. And, even with a drinking and driving law, a busy highway is going to end up having more accidents than a less busy highway. That's why multiple safety measures are suggested, including distancing and not gathering in large numbers, rather than a just wear a mask mandate. Businesses dodge those measures by claiming they're essential, not by claiming masks will 100% protect their workers. Nobody should be taking covid advice from Sweden.
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  4133. ​ @darrenallen8215  Lol, there are about as many vehicles owned, as guns. They have an alternate purpose, to travel from point A to point B. They are used an average of 2 hrs a day. The vast majority of the time, they simply do get safely from point A to point B. Do you think there is no point, to all the vehicle regulations (licensing, registration, insurance, speed limits, seatbelts, no driving zones, certain vehicles not allowed on the road, safety standards, etc.), because criminals will just ignore them anyway? Guns have no alternative use, other than to shoot things. Relative to vehicles, guns are rarely used, but they still kill as many people. They are clearly the far more dangerous item, and yet they're far less regulated. Why is it, do you think, that states with less regulations tend to have higher firearm mortality, and homicide, rates? Why is it that other developed countries, with tougher gun laws, tend to have lower firearm mortality, and homicide, rates (and, in turn, cops that shoot citizens 3 to 100s of times lower rates, per capita)?
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  4134.  @kidxclusive  Didn't use the word "racist". I said "white supremacists". You know, the ones forming in groups, parading around, letting you know they're there, etc. You go ahead and point them out, at the next unite the left rally.
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  4135.  @wasdwasdedsf  Being anti-Israel policies isn't anti-Jewish, any more than being anti-India policies is anti-Hindu.
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  4136. ​​ @Brentford704  The OT/Tanakh is the absolute worst of the trilogy. Ironically, it basically describes a tribe of early Nzs, who are told they are a superior race of chosen people, and ordered to gncd everyone around them, after cleansing some of their own people ... Only their Htlr is up in the sky, according to Moses. Other stories, of Nzs being nice to each other, aren't of much importance.
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  4137.  @josecipriano3048  Rofl. Russia placed an embargo on Ukraine, threatened more sanctions, and even invasion, if Yanukovych didn't flip on the EU bid, which he then did. That's what caused hundreds of thousands of people to protest. Not cookies.
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  4138. @velvet1865 Ooo, he must have been very powerful. What incredibly powerful position did he hold, and what massive support did he provide? Was there a political movement started by him, and those beliefs? The current leader of India, 1.5b people, is Hindutva.
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  4139.  @Arthos1824  Table 1 ... if the final consumer paid $49 VAT, and the government collected $49 VAT, then how much did each of the businesses end up paying into it? http://publications.gc.ca/Collection-R/LoPBdP/BP/prb0003-e.htm#HOW%20THE%20GST%20WORKS(txt)
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  4140. Jimmy Dore: Trump is better than Clinton. Jimmy Dore: It's more likely that the moon will fall into Lake Michigan than Trump will fill multiple scotus seats. Jimmy Dore: I'm the real progressive and a political mastermind, and anyone who disagrees is a sellout or a shill.
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  4141. Nah, she has been talking against it, the whole time. "Oh no, she only used the words 'war crime' and 'against international law', and not the g-word!" 🙄
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  4142. "Letitia 'peekaboo' James" ~ Trumpty Dumpty Urban Dictionary: "peekaboo Racist term used in white-supremacist circles to refer to a person of color, usually black, of upper or upper-middle class social standing. That uppity peekaboo thinks she can golf here just because she has money. by WhoKnowsWhoItCouldBe September 21, 2022"
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  4143.  @roystonboodoo7525  Nice false equivalence. She wasn't acting as a juror, at the time, was she?
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  4144.  @roystonboodoo7525  Key point in op was "jurors".
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  4145.  @pathologicaldoubt  95% of Hindus live in India. Is criticizing right wing India policies anti-Hindu?
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  4146.  @Ivan-qf4mt  What are you blathering about? It was still a political region, that people lived in, for millennia. You racists make no sense. Even if it wasn't, and was just a native village, that had been sitting there for millennia, you'd still be coming and taking the home of the individuals who live there.
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  4147.  @justapatsy8601  Lol, Hillary is only "left" in the US, where centre is "far left".
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  4148.  @BoostedS650  What you meant to say was that the downward trajectory, after the vaccine rollout, slowed, after lifting the mask mandate.
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  4149.  @t-swizzle8102  Which campaign promises would those be?
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  4150.  @SuperMutant2099  Gore didn't call for Democratic lawmakers to overthrow the democratic process, to install him as an unelected dictator, like Trump. The majority of Democratic lawmakers didn't vote to overthrow the democratic process, like current Republicans did. As the VP, he apparently could have done what Trump wanted Pence to do, but didn't. Democrats didn't storm the Capitol to try and overthrow the democratic process. Clinton conceded the night of the election. She didn't call on Democratic lawmakers to try and overthrow the democratic process to install her as an unelected dictator, like Trump. The majority of Democratic lawmakers didn't vote to overthrow the democratic process, like current Republicans did. She didn't ask Biden to overthrow the democratic process, like Trump. Democrats didn't storm the Capitol to try and overthrow the democratic process. What are you loons blathering about?
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  4151.  @bartjargengarblbargeler1980  Are you going to be "smart" and help Trump win, when Dore promotes him as the better option again, like a "real progressive"?
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  4152. If you drive up the cost of living, at home, it will end up driving up your own costs.
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  4153.  @greenith  He can't even do VAT math properly.
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  4154.  @greenith  You must have been one of those YangGang cultists, who argue against reality. A VAT is a sales tax (tax on total value), only collected in stages, with all the business stages intentionally being paid back their input VAT. "a consumption tax because it is borne ultimately by the final consumer. It is not a charge on businesses." "taxable persons (i.e., VAT-registered businesses) deduct from the VAT they have collected the amount of tax they have paid to other taxable persons on purchases for their business activities" https://ec.europa.eu/taxation_customs/business/vat/what-is-vat_en
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  4155.  @greenith  Some more Yang fun ... Say my business sells computers. Per computer sold it spends $100 buying data from Facebook, $100 on Google ads, and $100 on automated delivery (100 miles per computer at $1 a mile). That $300 per computer cost is included in my $500 per computer sale price. Add a 10% VAT, and I will have also initially paid $30 input VAT, which was sent to the government. Now I sell to you. You pay me $500 + $50 output VAT. I get to reclaim my $30 and send $20 to the government. The government gets $50. I end up paying nothing. You end up paying the full $50. You paid a tax on your own data that I purchased, a tax to be shown my ads, and a tax on your job that was automated away. To get the complete opposite conclusion ... that it would be corporations paying you for those things ... is a complete VAT math failure.
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  4156.  @greenith  Bullshit. You clearly don't. A VAT is designed to NOT tax businesses, exactly so it's NOT passed along the same way an expense is. input VAT spent = $100 output VAT collected = $200 Keep $100, send $100 to the government. How much did my business end up paying in taxes? Or ... input VAT = $200 output VAT = $100 Keep $100, the government sends me $100. How much did my business end up paying in taxes? https://www.canada.ca/content/dam/cra-arc/migration/cra-arc/tx/bsnss/tpcs/gst-tps/bspsbch/rtrns/wrkngcp-eng.pdf
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  4157.  @billiii711  "what he himself said"
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  4158.  @nobrkes  "unobtainable in a perilously racist America" What race realism? Are you arguing white people are inherently racist?
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  4159.  @spongefreddie  Yes, I literally stated what I assumed the train of thought to be, dumb dumb. BTW, you don't know what an "ad hominem" actually is.
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  4160. Israel controls the borders, airspace, and ports. There were no Nazis living in the Warsaw ghetto, either, so nothing you said actually debunks anything. All Palestinian territories are considered occupied by the International Court, the UN GA, and the UN SC. Under international law, the occupied actually have a right to resist. The occupiers, on the other hand, don't have a right to use collective punishment.
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  4161.  @Whoyouwishyouwere  A few cents? The big oil companies make most of their money on the oil side, ffs. They've jacked the price of a barrel by $20, since 2019. The US, and Canada for that matter, are both net oil exporters. Neither has to meet the global market price, if they don't want to, to supply inside the two countries. Whatever the f*ck Russia or Saudi is doing, doesn't affect supply, so shouldn't affect in country prices, but they act like it does anyway, and blame what's going on elsewhere in the world, for the price increase, as if it just magically makes their prices go up, and wasn't them intentionally raising their prices. They didn't need the extra $20 a barrel. They just did it ... to increase profits.
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  4162. Sue the governments they worked for. The whole world should sue the US into oblivion.
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  4163. So, then Trump is definitely commiting tax fraud?
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  4164.  @_lil_lil  2016 is when he started spewing utter nonsense, like promoting Trump as the better option than Clinton, for progressives, or that Stein had a shot.
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  4165. What power do you think they have to punish Biden, exactly?
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  4166.  @thepolarphantasm2319  Ummm, no, I said Likud's trrrst founders would be proud of their trrrsm.
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  4167.  @robertmatthews2009  Wtf are you talking about? Sure, vaccines (a good thing), but where are you getting the rest of that nonsense from?
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  4168.  @robertmatthews2009  What's with the pathetic lies? They reduced it to a misdemeanor, like their law for knowingly spreading communicable diseases in general. Even if they had totally ditched the HIV specific law, there'd still be that general law about knowingly spreading communicable diseases.
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  4169.  @alonsoarana5307  Yeah, economically, I think US corporate Dems, and many of their supporters, are even a bit to the right of Canada's Conservative party, and other developed countries' main conservative parties, who support things like universal healthcare.
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  4170. That's like saying Nazis had a "right to defend themselves" from the Warsaw ghetto uprising.
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  4171.  @ZawieHa  They were already the colonizers, ethnic cleansers, and occupiers, to begin with. They're "defenders" like colonialist ethnic cleansers, in North America, were "defenders" against the Native Americans.
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  4172. @@drishti3282 The OT/Tanakh is the worst of the trilogy, by miles.
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  4173. You want Democrats to turn government into a sh*t show?
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  4174.  @aliamjon2550  What do you call the people waving Nazi flags, when you go to "Unite the right rallies" ... "friend"?
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  4175.  @jimbob9407  What do you mean "explain Louisiana"? You know Louisiana is a red state, right? They've been doing horribly, and have moved up the ladder. Poll on who has been vaccinated ... Whites: 66 percent Blacks: 76 percent Latinos: 71 percent Republicans who support Trump more than party: 46 percent Republicans who support party more than Trump: 62 percent Democratic Sanders-Warren voters: 88 percent Democratic Biden voters: 87 percent Biden voters in 2020 general election: 91 percent Trump voters in 2020 general election: 50 percent
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  4176.  @jimbob9407  That they voted 60-40 for Trump? That they have a majority Republican state house and senate? That their voting district map is almost entirely red? That 5 out of 6 of their congressional house members are Republican? That both of their congressional senators are Republican? How would it be anything else?
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  4177.  @josephayoub6445  Rofl. If there were actually 50000+ of them, that's not much money, each. It's only a lot of money, if they're full of shit about how many of them there are.
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  4178.  @grantkruse1812  Either that's only about $100 bucks each, or they're vastly overexaggerating their numbers.
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  4179. You mean the Republican state legislatures, that kept the stupid rules not to count mail in votes until after election day votes? Then Republicans whine and cry about counting votes after election day. Then protest to stop counting where Trump is ahead and protest to keep counting where Trump is behind. They're a pack of lunatics, with zero evidence of fraud.
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  4180. You seriously have that much trouble recognizing the difference between offense and defense, do you? You think supporting offense and defense is samesies?
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  4181.  @krisniemczuk3452  That's insane.
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  4182. I have been watching, and after the Oct 7 attack, you threw anyone offering context usnder the bus with those outright cheering the attack. You said you didn't want to hear any explanations, then proceeded to give an explanation as to why and what Israel would do. You spent a show saying the bombing of the first refugee camp was bad, not the following refugee camp bombings, but basically ignored all the other bombing, as if that was perfectly normal. That first show, after the attack, you also did the standard bit about Israel being "progressive", and stuff, and Muslims not so much. Fascists, operating an open air WWII style fascist ghetto, aren't progressive. Colonizers aren't progressive. A country, where the actual majority was ethnically cleansed from, and never allowed to return, is no more democratic than Hitler having an election after purging his political opponents. You've been acting like an "enlightened centrist", both sides-ing, when Israel is objectively the aggressor, by every relevant measure ... Modern history: 100 years ago, in 1923, Ze'ev Jabotinsky fully acknowledged that Zionism is colonialism, and that, based on the entirety of history, the natives would fight it until the bitter end. He just didn't care what would happen to them, and promoted doing it anyway. Colonizers are never not the aggressors. On top of the colonialist nature of Zionism, the Zionists also formed terrorist organizations, like the Irgun and Lehi. They bombed many Palestinian markets and other public places, murdering many civilians, including children, even including Palestinian Jews (who opposed Zionism). Israel merged those terrorists into the new nation's military and intelligence agencies. Israelis elected Menachem Begin, leader of the Irgun, child murderer, Jew murderer, and bomber of the King David Hotel, as PM. Israelis, to this day, celebrate those terrorists as "heroes". Zionists literally taught their neighbours that terrorism is a valid path to independence and statehood, and that terrorists are to be celebrated. In 1945, it is well documented that Zionists owned just 5% of the land and were a majority nowhere. Israel was formed by actually going against the majority population. It's foundation is completely undemocratic. Then, becoming a majority, in "their" new nation, by ethnic cleansing the actual majority, and then claiming to be democratic, is utter nonsense. Law: Israel is considered an occupier by the International Court, the UN GA, and the UN SC. Occupiers are also never not the aggressors. Those occupied actually have a right to resist occupation. On the flip side, it is illegal for the occupier to settle occupied lands, and illegal to use collective punishment. Israel is a rogue nation, that doesn't abide by international law. What it has been doing, and is doing now, is illegal. Current events: This year, alone, prior to Oct 7 ... Israel held over 1200 Palestinian hostages without charges ... over 200 Palestinians had been killed by the IDF and settlers ... over 1000 Palestinians had been displaced by Israel's neverending colonization of the West Bank ... and, Israel continued to operate an open air WWII style fascist ghetto, in Gaza. Even ignoring modern history and law, in no reality did Hamas "start" anything.
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  4183.  @libertybell5796  Nope. They were already paying a variety of taxes. They didn't like the introduction of new taxes that were specifically to fund the red coats.
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  4184.  @libertybell5796  Dumbass, they started off protesting new taxes that specifically funded the red coats. Then they tried to get representation in parliament. They didn't start off wanting to separate, ffs.
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  4185.  @libertybell5796  Rofl, you are dumber than a stump. Like I said before, even those who didn't think representation in parliament was feasible, were still pledging loyalty to the crown in the First Continental Congress. They were still only asking for semi-independence, right up until the last year.
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  4186.  @libertybell5796  Sam Adams signed, even after fighting had broken out ... "For such arrangements as your Majesty's wisdom can form for collecting the united sense of your American people, we are convinced your Majesty would receive such satisfactory proofs of the disposition of the Colonists towards their Sovereign and Parent State, that the wished for opportunity would soon be restored to them, of evincing the sincerity of their professions, by every testimony of devotion becoming the most dutiful subjects, and the most affectionate Colonists. That your Majesty may enjoy a long and prosperous reign, and that your descendants may govern your Dominions with honour to themselves and happiness to their subjects, is our sincere prayer. John Hancock. New-Hampshire: John Langdon, Thomas Cushing. Massachusetts: Samuel Adams, John Adams, Robert Treat Paine. Rhode-Island: Stephen Hopkins, Samuel Ward, Eliphalet Dyer. Connecticut: Roger Sherman, Silas Deane. New-York: Philip Livingston, James Duane, John Alsop, Francis Lewis, John Jay, Robert Livingston, Jr., Lewis Morris, William Floyd, Henry Wisner. New-Jersey: William Livingston, John De Hart, Richard Smith. Pennsylvania: John Dickinson, Benjamin Franklin, George Ross, James Wilson, Charles Humphreys, Edward Biddle. Delaware Counties: Cæsar Rodney, Thomas McKean, George Read. Maryland, Matthew Tilghman, Thomas Johnson, Jr., William Paca, Samuel Chase, Thomas Stone. Virginia: Patrick Henry, Jr., Richard Henry Lee, Edmund Pendleton, Benjamin Harrison, Thomas Jefferson. North-Carolina: William Hooper, Joseph Hewes. South-Carolina: Henry Middleton, Thomas Lynch, Christopher Gadsden, John Rutledge, Edward Rutledge." https://www.encyclopediavirginia.org/Olive_Branch_Petition_1775
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  4187.  @libertybell5796  Uh huh. Never argued it worked. It obviously didn't. Plenty of founders signed it though, including the main celebs. An "inevitable" outcome doesn't equate to a desired outcome. They spent years trying to resolve things, without declaring independence, or asking for total independence.
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  4188.  Derek Hitt  Beginning: "The nation was founded by people who protested and rioted against extra taxes that specifically funded the red coats" And they didn't protest against any and all forms of taxes. Nothing you've said shows anything different, dumbass. "Boom"
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  4189.  @libertybell5796  Your opening said they didn't want to pay any high taxes (the taxes weren't high) to any government, so they overthrew their government, and created a new government ... that taxed them to cover their own war debts, which led to the whiskey rebellion, which was put down with a government show of force.
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  4190. The broader progressive caucus, which has M4A on their platform, is about 10 seats away from becoming the majority of house Dems. How many third party votes are there for M4A in congress?
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  4191.  Adam Lanza  It means he's agreeing with the vast majority of doctors, dumb dumb. If the supposed "government actors" he listens to (you don't actually know where he gets his opinions from) are saying what the vast majority of doctors agree with, then so what?
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  4192. ​ @chrisrushton3994  The Puritans weren't "rational".
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  4193. Did Pelosi okay them to back Bernie, and back other progressives to primary corporate Dems, helping to remove a few and add a few more M4A yes votes to congress? Maybe Pelosi isn't so bad, then.
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  4194. And?
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  4195.  @ownSystem  Dimwit. You just validated the different reactions, by bringing up Weiner.
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  4196.  @michaelpetrovich5353  If you oust a dictator/monarch, and install a democratic system, hasn't your regime change been about democracy?
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  4197.  @justrodriguez21  His message is that they're no longer allies, and he talks about primarying them more than he talks about primarying Manchin, or taking out Republicans. His message is shit.
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  4198. Because they can, and can give whatever excuse they want, and political leaders will still back them, as well as most mainstream media.
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  4199.  @nobrkes  You, apparently, don't know the definition of fascism. The way you're using the term so loosely, everyone who fought fascists were themselves fascists, just for trying to force the fascists to not be fascists. Denazification is fascism, by your "logic".
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  4200.  @samsom4122  If it was unconstitutional, then no government, at any level, against even a single individual, could violate federally protected rights. The fact that schools and immigration can clearly mandate vaccines, the fact that the supreme court has upheld states being able to mandate vaccines before, means you're full of crap.
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  4201. She should be censured. Original platform of the Likud, "between the sea and the Jordan" "The Right of the Jewish People to the Land of Israel (Eretz Israel) a. The right of the Jewish people to the land of Israel is eternal and indisputable and is linked with the right to security and peace; therefore, Judea and Samaria will not be handed to any foreign administration; between the Sea and the Jordan there will only be Israeli sovereignty."
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  4202.  @Cryptum404  Who, exactly, is promoting all out authoritarian communism?
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  4203. @Grand Inquisitor Wanting to end police brutality and bring about a more just justice system vs wanting to overthrow the democratic process and bring about a dictatorship ... You think those are samesies? Or the first is even worse?
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  4204.  @millabasset1710  Excatly why he doesn't accomplish anything. He does get angry with most people who disagree with him. And, I didn't even mean for him to get angry at Cornel, I meant he didn't pull out his slander routine about Bernie and AOC in front of Cornel, like a coward.
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  4205. ​ @Jack2511  People give them money just by using their product, through data and ad revenue. Consumers are the ones who end up paying for all the corporations' advertising budgets.
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  4206.  madwtube   @madwtube  The right hasn't killed anyone? The right wing president has killed tens of thousands of Americans with his pathetic pandemic response. Right wing anti-mask rallies and covid parties have killed people. Murdering someone with a car at a Unite The "Right" rally. Shooting up Hispanics shopping, citing Shapiro-like rhetoric of a coming race war. Shooting up black churches. Shooting up Synagogues. Shooting up temples. Black Americans aren't even particularly "left". Most that voted supported Biden over Bernie. Having enough of being treated like shit by police wouldn't really be left or right, except for the fact that the right apparently doesn't give a crap about police behaviour ... unless they're coming for your guns. These protests and riots are still nothing compared to the 60s. Trump will get more people killed by escalating the situation. Simply increasing police presence, rounding people up, and throwing them in jail didn't work then, and likely won't work this time. He's a moron repeating the wrong things from history.
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  4207. ​ @Mike-jv4rz  You contradicted yourself.
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  4208.  @shunt5001  What are you blathering about? I'm arguing against the "brick wall" Trumpets?
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  4209.  @NewNormalWorldOrder  Rofl. You think the vast majority of doctors and scientists, across the world, have been bribed? You're a nutbar.
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  4210.  @crafty1096  Bernie has been the most followed member of congress on Twitter, for 6 years straight.
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  4211. Repealing and replacing the Permanent Apportionment Act of 1929 would be easier.
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  4212.  @JourneyLT  Except, Alex Jones benefits the far right, who he's supposed to. Meanwhile, Dore also benefits the far right, not who he's supposed to.
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  4213.  @Savageviking120  All you idiots are saying is that you have no clue what "republic" means, and have no clue what kind of "democracy" is being talked about.
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  4214.  @michaelb4833  Canada is also a representative democracy, just not a republic.
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  4215.  @1erinjames  "Constitutional" and "democracy" or "democratic" are also not mutually exclusive. The US is a representative democracy, dipshit. They have outright officially declared themselves as one, ffs.
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  4216. There's always a tiny percentage of voter fraud, like the Trump guy who filled out a ballot for his dead mom, but it's irrelevant to the outcome, and is usually dealt with behind the scenes, afterwards. Bringing it to the forefront, making out like it'll have any impact by lying about the magnitude, and wasting everyone's time with it, is just moronic.
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  4217. "Calm, composed, dressed elegantly, well groomed" are all irrelevant to being deranged. And, it was definitely not "cogent". It was insane baseless bullshit. I was winning, then they counted more votes, and I lost. Right. End of story.
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  4218.  Shade Bleu  No, dumb dumb. It's that criminalizing it creates a need for drug cartels, to supply the demand for an Illegal substance. Like gangsters during prohibition. It's that locking people up instead of treating the addiction, leaves many still junkies when they get out, who then still need cartels to supply their demand.
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  4219.  @strangestcraze7743  Biden didn't win a single electoral vote in Texas. It was irrelevant, and has been irrelevant for some time, to a Dem presidential win.
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  4220.  @SSJFACPACIFIST  So, he was watching the majority report while his wife was in the hospital?
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  4221.  @amber2583  Dimwit. He cancelled the WEEK before, claiming his wife had to go to hospital ... but was still monitoring the Majority Report, at the same time?
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  4222.  Juanito G  The underlying philosophy is to try and help repair the damage of centuries of racism, sexism, and bigotry ... and you think that's "vile"? Are you being serious? So, when Northern Ireland mandated having a 50-50 Catholic-Protestant police force, that was terribly "vile" and bigoted against Protestants? When Norway mandated that large public stock companies have at least 40% of each sex represented on their boards, that was terribly "vile" and sexist against men? Not sure how promoting proportional representation comes anywhere close to Nazi's promoting a superior race, sex, religion, etc., over others.
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  4223. And, whether they believe the Abrahamic god has a hand in every life and death, or simply designed people, studies now show that the majority of pregnancies end in miscarriage (natural abortion). Many women just don't know they were pregnant, it happens so early on. So, if they equate aborting fetuses to killing babies, then they're worshipping a being who kills most "babies", before they're born.
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  4224. You idiots, fighting to stay on course with this new Gilded Age, are the lunatics. The last one ended with labour riots, race riots, a great depression, etc. It wasn't pretty. You have the opportunity, this time, to jump straight to a new New Deal, without having to go through the rough patch again. It will need to happen.
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  4225.  quadir1  Shove the strawman, dummy.
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  4226.  @paulsmith7579  Again, he said hospitalization rates, not "covid rates", dumb dumb. He didn't question the covid rate, which means that doesn't change the death rate. If the hospitalization rate, alone, is overstated, then the death rate would be higher compared to the hospitalization rate, not lower, and make Jimmy's argument even more incorrect. Btw, nothing you can say will ever change the fact that Dore used mismatched rates, couldn't properly use Google, and couldn't do grade school level math.
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  4227.  @larsfrisk6658  People no longer talk about all the race riots, during the Civil Rights movement, with hundreds dying.
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  4228.  @johnnysheehy  *recording of lecturers, to see if they're thinking and saying the right things,
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  4229. ChucksExotics: "Home of the reading comprehension problems."
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  4230. No such thing as "free speech" on someone else's private property, to begin with, Kyle. If you want free speech, then push for public ownership.
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  4231. It's the perfect example. Absolutely nobody has died from AIDS, by Jimmy's "logic".
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  4232. What's the flaw, exactly? If you have zero seats, like third parties, you get to submit zero bills, get to add zero amendments, and get to vote on zero bills.
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  4233. So is Ben Carson. There are probably better doctors driving cabs, because they got their degrees in other countries.
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  4234.  @sargentpilcher  Rofl. Who is going to enforce that one right, one rule, so that things don't devolve into feudalism? You'd build yourself a house or live in an RV on whose property?
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  4235.  @antipositivism3128  Anarchism is, basically, taking democracy to the extreme, with everyone having an equal voice in economic, social, and political, matters. No hierarchies, at all. How is that truly compatible with a zero democracy system, that could allow for giant monopolies?
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  4236.  @antipositivism3128  hijack: take over (something) and use it for a different purpose. I didn't argue your definitions don't exist. I argued it was a hijacking. Apparently, you don't understand English very well. Is it your second language? Explain how capitalism without a hierarchy would work?
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  4237. There already is a right wing third party, Libertarian. It's the most popular third party and hasn't won a single seat in congress in its near 50 year existence.
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  4238. It's the Republican party. They've given a home to all kinds of extremists, for decades, in their effort to cling to power ... extreme anti-socialist McCarthy types, anti-Civil Rights racists, crony capitalist Reaganomics, religious extremists, extreme gun rights nuts and the NRA, tea party nutters, Trump cultists, insane Qanoners ... It has become a party of lunatics. They've pushed the party far right authoritarian, and the "centrist" Dems have kept moving to meet them in the "middle", which is now right wing, and towards corporate backers rather than the old union/worker backed party, themselves.
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  4239. The song didn't identify themselves. It called out a racist sexist boy. You don't like that?
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  4240. Such as?
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  4241.  @straightwhitemale966  Which, the vast majority of the time, isn't serious, and which is more common after getting covid than after getting the vaccine.
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  4242.  @larshofler8298  Oh, you did answer, 3 replies later. If it's not state owned, then you can't take them to court for violating your first amendment rights. If it's run by direct democracy, then the majority get to decide what gets banned, what doesn't, and can't violate your rights. That would still be considered privately owned, by the government, and when it comes to rights.
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  4243. The fact that paralyzing the house could be used by corporate Dems, Republicans, and the corporate media, to blame progressives for no new covid relief, no new unemployment extensions, no new vaccine funding, etc., during a pandemic?
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  4244.  @GoogleAccount-ev2hq  Yeah, the woman who took out Pelosi's #2 corporate Dem, and just used her platform and PAC to help get more pro-M4A progressives elected to congress, going against DCCC backed corporate Dems ... such a "puppet".
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  4245. That way, if it proves to be false, they can simply claim they were reporting what another "news" outlet was reporting.
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  4246.  @alchemicpink2392  People should write off Republicans as insane, and always vote to keep them out, to try and sideline them. Consider the Dem primaries the chance to vote in who you most like.
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  4247. The Canadian constitution guarantees the right to freedom of beliefs, and non beliefs. This is a provincial law, and challenges to it will likely work their way up to the Supreme Court.
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  4248. ​ @MichaelAChristian1  "Canton, Ohio police spokesperson Dennis Garren said in an email, according to Reuters: “The suspect in this case is not a Haitian immigrant,” “She is a life long Canton resident.”" "In a statement on Tuesday, a Springfield police spokesperson said, “In response to recent rumors alleging criminal activity by the immigrant population in our city, we wish to clarify that there have been no credible reports or specific claims of pets being hrmd, injrd or absd by individuals within the immigrant community.”" It's also a fact that the Haitians in Springfield are legal entry immigrants. Republicans just don't like them because they're black.
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  4249.  Progressives for Trump  Name a single politician in government who has promoted all out socialism ... a 100% publicly owned and operated economy. Or, even one that has promoted going beyond some of the more centrist European countries, like Denmark. Who, exactly, is promoting all out open borders, like they have throughout the EU? Stop identifying people as not deserving of equal rights, and people won't identify them as needing equal rights.
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  4250.  Progressives for Trump  When is Trump's healthcare plan coming out, again?
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  4251.  @lotsofuwuenergy3983  If we didn't exist to call a tree "tree" and some other species developed to speak and called it a "crumpich", it would still be the same thing. Some other species developing some other word to represent that same amount won't change the fact that the amount of what we call planets would be exactly the same. When we group them in 3s, we also get 3 groups of 3. It's still the same amount of what we call planets, and the basis for 3 x 3 = 9. If some rogue giant asteroid came along and took out Pluto, and we were no longer around to count, it would still equate to what we call 9 - 1 = 8. The amount of planets remaining would be what we've named "eight" and given the symbol "8". Any other naming or grouping won't change the fact that there's be the exact same amount of what we currently consider planets. A species being too primitive to know that water contains 2 hydrogen atoms, 1 oxygen atom, and 3 atoms in total, won't change the facts of those existing amounts. We simply came along and provided objectively existing amounts names and symbols. Before anyone ever came up with counting, they still had the same amount of fingers on one hand, the same amount on the other, and the same amount in total. Amounts exist. If amounts don't exist, then time doesn't exist. If amounts don't exist, then there's no amount of planets in solar systems, no amount of solar systems in galaxies, no amount of galaxies in the universe. That's nonsensical.
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  4252. AOC had donated to a number of progressives in conservative districts, in the last election. A bunch got creamed in the primaries, but a more conservative Dem did manage to win the district. The midterms are a totally different animal, and there will be a helluva fight to just try and hang on to their majority. Purple districts will be the hardest ones to try and hang on to. Dore knobs just don't care if Republicans get the majority, and don't care if progressives have even less power being in a minority party. Hell, they don't even care if progressives sit on the sidelines, in some irrelevant third party, for the next century. I've yet to run across a Dore knob that actually knows what was in the final version of the Capitol police bill, and what AOC's final vote was. All the first house vote actually did was send it to the senate, to have the shit amended out of it, just to be sent back to the house. AOC voted against it, when it came back. Her vote was irrelevant, because it had been amended enough to Republicans' liking to bring them onboard. The $15 did get a vote. It even passed the house, and got a senate vote. There's an ever so precious list of no voters. Weren't Dore knobs making out like they were going to do big things, with a list of no voters on an important policy? How come all they've done with this one is bitch about those who got the $15 to stay in for a round of voting and voted for it? The FTV "plan", out of Jimmy's mouth, before anyone else amended it, was for 15 progressives to simply "withhold their votes" or "not vote" for Pelosi. It's wording he used repeatedly. That wording implied abstaining, which would have given the speakership to McCarthy. Jimmy incorrectly thought it was impossible for McCarthy to win, because he thought you outright needed 218 votes to win. Drone strikes have dropped to almost nothing. Shouldn't Dore knobs be praising Biden, for that? They are such all or nothing puritan dimwits.
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  4253. Harris is an idiot. I can't even figure out how he got a philosophy degree, he's so bad at it.
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  4254.  @BoostedS650  "We don't live in a democracy" was your last post before my reply. Sorry, I didn't know you were knowingly dishonest, rather than dumb.
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  4255.  @BoostedS650  Now it sounds like you're arguing almost all votes are suppressed, if voters don't actually get what they voted for.
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  4256.  @Aaron-ju2gp  Piss off with the "tone" strawman. Dore was using it to outright slander the most progressive politicians in congress. Whatever "tone" it's said in, slander is just bullshit.
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  4257. He also lives in Canada, dimwit, and you're still lying.
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  4258.  Lanzy Fabian  Oh, she has taken some shots at Rubin on her Twitter, and on Brooks' show. She has also been on Brooks' show drinking beer while trashing Shapiro.
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  4259.  Illhan Omars brother's wife is Illhan Omar  Gallup does a monthly poll ... 2021 Dec 1-16 ... 26% Rep ... 42% Ind ... 30% Dem
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  4260.  @mikew6060  Wearing a mask is being as "paranoid" as wearing a seatbelt, dumb dumb.
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  4261. @UC4TrUqyhead23Jznh_hA84Q Survival rates are a poor measure. It's just the length of time after first diagnosis. If a doctor in the US discovers someone has cancer at 40, and the person lives until 70, they get credit for 30 years survival. If a doctor in Canada discovers someone has the same cancer, only at 50, and still gets them to live until 70, they'll only get credit for 20 years survival. Both dying at 70, though, is recorded under life expectancy.
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  4262. They're getting tossed aside, like Liz Cheney.
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  4263. It affects the primaries. He has a Republican challenger.
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  4264.  @mohammadshami1718  Yep :)
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  4265.  @jimbob3030  Yeah, it's weird. Somehow this gets by, written in this order (I tried a different order before that was immediately deleted), but then sometimes the YouTube algorithm gets after me, and I find it hard to post even the littlest thing, or can't post anything for a day.
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  4266.  @andym9571  “Great Britain is prepared to recognize and support the independence of the Arabs in all the regions within the limits demanded by the Sherif of Mecca” ~ McMahon - Hussein correspondence, which included Palestine.
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  4267.  @johnnytorres398  Look up the definition of "racism", dimwit. Hating another ethnicity is considered a form of racism.
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  4268.  @sometimesgeorgia8933  Read some old anti Irish propaganda. They were depicted as an inferior race. The dictionary definition of "race" doesn't matter. What matters is what the perpetrators of the hate, prejudice, discrimination, etc., believed.
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  4269.  @therussiantrollnetwork7464  It matters because the question is whether Nazism was racist. The only thing that matters, to answer that question, is what the Nazis thought, dimwit. It doesn't matter what you, I, some dictionary, or encyclopedia, says about race. That's entirely besides the point of what Nazis thought about race.
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  4270. ​ @johndunn9602  Are you referring to the dairy tariff? Dump negotiated that deal, dingus, and the tariff doesn't kick in until a completely tariff free limit is reached. US milk imports aren't even reaching half that limit, so nobody is paying anything.
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  4271.  @ZereayM  The Taliban call themselves the "real" Muslims, too, and don't consider more moderate Muslims to be "real" Muslims. Either one saying the other isn't a "real" Muslims is using a not a true Scotsman argument. Some gay hating Southern Baptist is a Christian, and a Quaker is a Christian. All well and good for the Quaker to denounce the gay hater, but they don't have the power to disown them from Christianity.
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  4272. ​ @zachdave2994  The problem many IL supporters have with WWII analogies, is correctly identifying who is analogous to the Axis, and who is analogous to the Allies. Hint: IL is the colonizer, occupier, and the one operating an open air WWII style fascist ghetto. Meanwhile, Palestinians have been operating like those occupied, and the many resistance groups, across Europe. IL isn't "at war" with Gaza, any more than the Germans were "at war" with the Warsaw ghetto. It's just a massacre, after an uprising.
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  4273. Likud's bloody 100 year history ... In 1923, 100 years ago, Ze'ev Jabotinsky wrote, The Iron Wall, and a follow up, The Ethics of The Iron Wall (sooo racist towards Africans), in which he fully acknowledged that post Balfour Zionsim was colonialism, and that, based on the entirety of history, the native Palestinian population would resist being colonized until the bitter end. He directly compared it to the colonization of North America. He promoted doing it anyway, claiming Zionist colonialism was a "just" colonialism (he also thought North American colonialists were good guys, so not a great judge of morality), not caring what that meant for the native population. Ze'ev is important, because his Betar militant youth group helped found the Irgun terrorist group, along with other supporters of his, and the splinter Lehi terrorist group. The Irgun bombed numerous Palestinian markets and other public places, murdering many Palestinian civilians, including children, even including Palestinian Jews (who didn't support colonialist Zionsim). The Irgun are important, because they ended up being led by future Likud PM, Menachem Begin, who bombed the King David Hotel. The King David Hotel was bombed because the British had raided the Jewish Agency and seized numerous documents that may have shown that the terrorists were working with the JA and Haganah (JA liked to pretend that they didn't support the terrorism). The British then stored those documents at their base, in the hotel. That the Irgun terrorists responded to a JA raid, itself seems to prove the connection. That the thousands of Irgun (and Lehi) terrorists were also quickly merged into the new nation's military (IDF) and intelligence (Mossad) agencies, and are still celebrated as "heroes" by Israelis, to this day, also seems to support total collaboration between the groups. That other terrorist group mentioned, Lehi (also known as the Stern Gang), was considered even more extreme. They even tried to ally with the Nazis, against the British. Lehi ended up being led by Yitzhak Shamir, future Mossad agent, and another future Likud PM. They assassinated Lord Moyne, and others. In 1945, there was a major land and peoples survey done in Palestine. It showed that the Zionists only owned about 5% of the total land, 20% of the arable land, and owned a majority in zero districts. The partition was not only going to be forced on the native Palestinian majority, but Jews were still going to be a minority, in the part allocated to them. The only possible way to even become a "Jewish state" was going to require getting rid of the actual majority (at least enough so that there'd be a solid Jewish majority, so they could fake being democratic). This is also shown by the 1948, post Nakba, population of Israel. If there was 716,700 Jews, 156,000+ non-Jews, and approximately 700k non-Jews ethnically cleansed, that means the Jewish population, in the Zionist portion of partition, was originally over 100,000 less than the non-Jewish population. To believe that there was never any intent, by Zionists, to ethnically cleanse away the Palestinian majority would require believing that they never intended to create a "Jewish state". It's a nonsensical notion. Begin, and those terrorist groups, also opposed partition, but for the opposite reason Palestinians did. Palestinians didn't want to be colonized, at all. The terrorists wanted to colonize it all. "Moderate" Zionists were okay with colonizing half ... for now (what would happen in the future, after partition, was up to them, said Ben-Gurion). The Zionist terrorists were also involved in massacres, and assassinations, during the partition violence (colonialist war against the natives). Another notable future Likud PM, also started in the military, during the partition fighting. That was Ariel Sharon, war criminal, "Butcher of Beirut". Menachem Begin, and these other Zionist terrorists, are important because they became involved in Israeli politics, first forming Herut. That was the party that Albert Einstein, and other prominent American Jews, opposed, having a letter printed in the NYT, in December of 1948, when Begin came to visit the US. The letter opened ... "Among the most disturbing political phenomena of our times is the emergence in the newly created state of Israel of the "Freedom Party" (Tnuat Haherut), a political party closely akin in its organization, methods, political philosophy and social appeal to the Nazi and Fascist parties. It was formed out of the membership and following of the former Irgun Zvai Leumi, a terrorist, right-wing, chauvinist organization in Palestine." Herut merged with other extremist parties, over the years, and eventually became Likud, in the 70s. Now, people get upset over the slogan "From the river to the sea!", but it's the second part that's most important, "Palestine will be free!". Because "Palestine" isn't defined as an ethno-state, a free Palestine can be a single state, free for all to live in, and return to, free of continuing colonization, free of occupation, free of oppression, etc. Just like a Germany free of Nazism, an Italy free of fascism, a South Africa free of apartheid, or an America free of slavery from sea to shiny sea. It doesn't necessitate purging all the Jews. It just necessitates them giving up on the idea of an ethno-state. On the other hand, because "Israel" has been defined as an ethno-state, Likud's, "between the sea and the Jordan there will only be Israeli sovereignty", has no possible good interpretation. It is a declaration of intent to completely colonize, and ethnically cleanse, all Palestine territories. Not only that, but it also claims that they have a "right" to all of the "Land of Israel" (biblical borders that don't mesh with archaeological reality), which is an open declaration of future wars, against Jordan, Syria, Lebanon, and possibly even Iraq. Likud platform ... 1977: "The Right of the Jewish People to the Land of Israel (Eretz Israel) a. The right of the Jewish people to the land of Israel is eternal and indisputable and is linked with the right to security and peace; therefore, Judea and Samaria will not be handed to any foreign administration; between the Sea and the Jordan there will only be Israeli sovereignty. b. A plan which relinquishes parts of western Eretz Israel, undermines our right to the country, unavoidably leads to the establishment of a "Palestinian State," jeopardizes the security of the Jewish population, endangers the existence of the State of Israel. and frustrates any prospect of peace." "Settlement Settlement. both urban and rural. in all parts of the Land of Israel is the focal point of the Zionist effort to redeem the country, to maintain vital security areas and serves as a reservoir of strength and inspiration for the renewal of the pioneering spirit. The Likud government will call on the younger generation in Israel and the dispersions to settle and help every group and individual in the task of inhabiting and cultivating the wasteland, while taking care not to dispossess anyone." 1999: "The Government of Israel flatly rejects the establishment of a Palestinian Arab state west of the Jordan river. The Palestinians can run their lives freely in the framework of self-rule, but not as an independent and sovereign state. Thus, for example, in matters of foreign affairs, security, immigration, and ecology, their activity shall be limited in accordance with imperatives of Israel's existence, security and national needs." "The Jewish communities in Judea, Samaria, and Gaza are the realization of Zionist values. Settlement of the land is a clear expression of the unassailable right of the Jewish people to the Land of Israel and constitutes an important asset in the defense of the vital interests of the State of Israel. The Likud will continue to strengthen and develop these communities and will prevent their uprooting." All Palestine territories are officially considered occupied, by the International Court of Justice, the UN GA, the UN SC, and even in official documents of Israel's own allies. Likud is still using the blueprint for colonizing North America, in the West Bank. Move settlements out into native territory, piss off the natives, the natives retaliate, cry about poor "innocent" colonizing settlers being the "victims" of violent "Savages!", call in the cavalry to put down the native uprising, and eventually expand the borders to include those settlements. Rinse and repeat. In Gaza, Israel is operating an open air WWII style fascist ghetto. Them claiming a "right to defend themselves" would be like the Nazis claiming a "right to defend themselves " from the Warsaw ghetto uprising. There's no "war". That they're the occupiers means the "war" part is long over. Those people are actually supposed to be under the occupier's protection. That partition was forced upon the Palestinian majority, against their will ... that the Zionist portion still had to be forcefully ethnically cleansed of its non-Jewish majority, against their will ... that the millions of occupied Palestinians don't have a say in the government that truly rules over them, Israel's ... means Israel is about as democratic as Nazi Germany after Hitler purged his political opponents and then held elections.
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  4274.  @KingoftheJuice18  "Non authoritarian", "authoritarian", "capitalism", and "socialism" cover a lot of things. They're just overview words. Fascists: ultra-nationalistic, anti-communist, anti-socialist, anti-unionist, anti-feminist (promoted traditional home life), anti-democratic, pro-military expansion, pro-police expansion, backed by big business (crony capitalists), backed by religious extremists ... pretty much everything Cruz is. I think the US needs a major wake up call. It's Overton window goes from far right to centrism ("radical left", "communism", "far left", etc.). And, it's authoritarianism, compared to other developed countries, is insane. Those nutters should be called what they are, and be held accountable for what they just incited.
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  4275.  @KingoftheJuice18  You seem to have reading comprehension problems. I was describing fascism. It is authoritarian and capitalist. I never said there can't be forms of authoritarian socialism. I never said their can't be non authoritarian capitalism. And you can't seem to get unstuck from people having a few of the characteristics. I never said having a few makes you a fascist. I outright said it just indicates where you'd be on a political compass. Having all the characteristics would make you a fascist. Cruz just helped incite a coup attempt, and has been spouting bullshit propaganda against the democratic process in an attempt to circumvent the will of the people and put a dictator in power. 28 fucking percent of Republicans didn't want Trump conceding, no matter what. That is millions who wanted a dictator, ffs. The US is batshit crazy, atm, and needs a serious wakeup call, before it gets worse. It's like you just witnessed the Beer Hall Putsch and still weren't quite sure if the NSDAP were really fascists.
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  4276.  @SimonTBam  Trump and most Republicans are not completely unfettered capitalists. They want the state to fund their massive military and policing. They back fed controls on the economy. They back "socialism" for the rich, sharing their losses with the nation, but not their gains. They're crony capitalists, wanting to benefit those who already have a ton of money, most, including their giant corporate donors. Libertarians are the ones who want unfettered capitalism, with a minimalist government, military, and justice system, no fed. Ancappers want unfettered capitalism with no government. Only a few Republicans consistently act more like Libertarians, the rest spew words, but then consistently vote to increase government power (Patriot Act, ICE, military, police, endless wars, their own pork items, etc). Hitler was backed by leading industrialists, who were definitely out to make a profit. He handed them confiscated wealth and businesses from Jews, he handed them conquered businesses and resources, he handed them slave labor, he destroyed unions and outlawed striking (workers' power), etc. They made a killing, before he started losing on them. Some huge German corporations, that are still around today, came out of WWII pretty well off.
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  4277.  @KingoftheJuice18  You were literally spouting strawman nonsense that I never said, and repeatedly trying to broaden category beyond what I said to a point where you could then imply I'm labelling too many people, when it was you who did it. I assumed you weren't dishonest, and simply misread and misunderstood. If you prefer me saying you're dishonest, then so be it. A guy named Mussolini conveniently wrote the doctrine of fascism, as well as an Italian encyclopedia entry on what is fascism, describing what he meant by "fascism". Plus some extra characteristics from common historical actions (Me not limiting characteristics strictly to what Mussolini wrote actually lessens who would be a fascist. I can broaden the category to only what he wrote, if you want.). If you don't allow that it can be identified by certain characteristics, then you don't allow that it exists. Republicans have checked off almost all those boxes, for decades. They took in the extreme anti-socialist McCarthy types, they took in the southern racists, they took in the religious extremists, they took in the Koch backed Tea Party nutters, and now Trump cultists and Qanoners. They've been fed so much propaganda that FOX viewers are less informed than people who watch no news at all. Even gerrymandering, disenfranchising, and suppression, already made them somewhat anti-democratic. Now, 28% of Republicans outright don't want Trump to concede under any circumstances, over a hundred Republican lawmakers wanted to overthrow an audited and certified election, that all election officials were saying was secure, and you're just not quite sure, yet. What would it take?
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  4278. He talks out of both ends of his ass. He'll spend some time criticizing the NRA, but then he'll spout NRA talking points, call his non-gun owning friends stupid, and dismiss factual firearm ownership statistics as being rational. https://samharris.org/the-riddle-of-the-gun/
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  4279. For one, anecdotal evidence isn't evidence. Canada has less crime than the US. Almost as diverse. In fact, lots of countries have less crime than the US, including many non-white, non-asian majority countries. A number of non-white, non-asian countries have a lower crime rate than Poland. Saudi has a lower crime rate than Poland. Monaco has a lower crime rate than Poland. Kuwait has a lower crime rate than Poland. Qatar, Bahrain, UAE, Malta, ... Plenty of white and Asian majority countries have higher crime rates than Poland. What's wrong with them? If it's "science", then it should be consistent. "Scientifically", aren't SA and Caribbean Latinos and Hispanics largely white descendants of Spaniards and the Portuguese? What the fuck is going on down South? Walking around Poland and declaring it wonderful isn't any kind of science that needs refuting. It's just personal opinion.
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  4280.  @Friskojack_  Depends on how it was done, and how many did it. Jimmy pointed at 15 progressives. If 15 had simply abstained, or said "present", that would lower the threshold needed to win, and McCarthy could have won. If 15 made protests votes, Pelosi wouldn't win, and the house would be frozen until a house speaker is elected. The Dem caucus isn't required to change their minds. They could keep picking Pelosi over and over and over again, or someone worse. How long do you think people would support freezing the house, while being unable to put food on their tables and pay their bills?
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  4281.  @Friskojack_  She definitely is a drag, and a bitch. On the bright side, she has said this is her last ride as speaker, so it will be up for grabs in 2 years. At the same time, if progressives can have a good showing in 2022, the progressive caucus could become the majority of house Dems. I know they aren't all as progressive as everyone might like, but they are more progressive than the rest of the party, and they include M4A on their platform. If they can win the majority of house Dems, and keep the majority of the house, they could then pick the party speaker and put as many progressive bills up for votes as often as they like. Now is bad timing to give up on progressives and go third party, or something. The most popular third party, Libertarian, hasn't even won a single seat in going on 50 years. Just by winning a seat, AOC has accomplished more in congress than any third party in the last 50 years. When they get the majority, if they then don't put progressive bills up for votes, that would be evidence they aren't really progressive. Simply not freezing the house, a tactic that hasn't been used in almost 100 years, isn't really evidence of anyone not being a true progressive.
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  4282.  @dumpsternimrod9927  Holy crap. You have severe reading comprehension problems, as well. Can any of you Dore knobs read? "Without anyone else amending his plan, what he kept saying was for 15 progressives to simply "withhold their votes for", or "not vote for", Pelosi. That implies abstaining. He never said they should cast protest votes for someone else."
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  4283.  @Toad2943  Exactly your point? None of those things is what a person is talking about, when they say slavery ended. You're talking about a different thing, while pretending like it's the same thing the other person was talking about. I like to be specific, because idiotic racists present indentured servitude, and other things, as evidence slavery wasn't racist, that all races endured slavery. But those are totally different things than the absolutely racist and much worse chattel slavery, which was ended. You're handing racists the false equivalency they want.
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  4284. @Gawanipony 3 Defending a white athlete's right to say what he wants, when he speaks out against kneeling, but then she tells black athletes to shut up and dribble?
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  4285. You mean like Mitch McConnell, and his wife, whose family business gets loans from the Bank of China, buys boats from the Chinese government, and whose sister in law is on the board of the Bank of China?
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  4286. Was Galileo bullying the Inquisition with his heliocentric model, when they cancelled his career from their mother's basements?
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  4287. Rofl, you think Biden is the leader of BLM and Antifa? Are you brain dead?
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  4288.  @themassage6534  Well, a) NYC has been found to use racial profiling, before, with their stop and frisk policy; b) you dodged the question about how the majority can be considered good cops if they're defending bad cops.
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  4289. May 2021: "Peter Thiel, J.D. Vance Invest in Rumble Video Platform Popular on Political Right" Aug 2021: "Video platform Rumble, which has grown in popularity among conservatives as an alternative to YouTube, has reached agreements with eight “thought leaders” to provide content, including former Rep. Tulsi Gabbard (D-Hawaii) and journalist Glenn Greenwald."
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  4290. Maroon
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  4291.  @donnicholson3170  Are you seriously taking credit for something that came into existence by an Act when you were 3? Plus, you're the only one on here disrespecting those that did give Canada its healthcare system, by calling to throw it all away.
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  4292.  Hoc Est Pseudonym  It addresses motivation, dummy. You have to be pretty dumb not to grasp that.
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  4293.  @bluesrockfan36  You're a moron, because I've already included links, verifying I know exactly how a VAT works, verifying you're spouting pure bullshit by claiming it's a tax on businesses. You obviously didn't bother to inform yourself, are clearly pretending you know how a VAT works, but are actually clueless. You're like a Trump cultist, with your alternative "facts" and math. Fact: Yang acknowledges there are people currently getting $1000+ in assistance that he doesn't have stacking, and that they'll have to choose. Math: If you gain zero economic benefit from the UBI, but now have to pay 10% more for many things, you're worse off. Fact: Amazon's share of US consumer spending is 2+% and Bezos' share of Amazon is 10+%. Math: If you hand consumers $3t, and don't have Amazon pay in, they will make $60b. That would make Bezos $6b. That large shareholder would make a ton more than he'd ever personally pay into a VAT. Averages don't address that people who are getting full benefits might be getting them because they need the most help, and those are the people you're willing to make worse off, while you make giant corporations and the super rich even richer.
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  4294.  Robert Hunt  Weird how red states, where cops can do not wrong, tend to have higher homicide rates.
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  4295.  @chrisolivo6591  So, it's just a coincidence that the lowest vaccination rates, and higher current covid rates, tend to be in red counties?
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  4296. ​ @JohnDebasa  Get a grip loon. Every Republican argument against asylum seekers is bullshit. Over 90% of drugs come through points of entry. Over 80% of drug traffickers are Americans. Cartels don't want their product swept downriver, lying in a desert, or tossed in detention. They use people least likely to be stopped, not the most likely. They aren't morons, like the MAGA cult. Undocumented immigrants commit crimes at half the rate of natural born citizens. Plus, Republicans clearly think there is plenty of room for hundreds of thousands of extra unwanted babies per year. Nutbar.
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  4297.  @monkeytron5061  How does it benefit the unbanked, when hardly any business transactions accept it as actual currency, and you can't convert it into some kind of useable currency without a bank account to cash out into? Plus, tons of those unbanked have little to no money. You talk about having a few hundred dollars to invest, but about 10% of the world doesn't even make $1.90 a day. A larger percentage is almost equally poor people, that just happen to be making over $1.90 a day. Many are also unpaid housewives, who have no money to invest, at all. You seem to be spewing nonsense.
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  4298. ​ @kittycatwithinternetaccess2356  What's "defensive" about bmbing buses and markets?
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  4299. Exactly. Exit polls this year are kind of pointless. Since a higher percentage of Democrats voted early, or by mail, and a higher percentage of Republicans voted on election day, then the exit polls are going to be too skewed to be meaningful.
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  4300. Anthony Hill?
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  4301.  @BeeN-fy2jh  Southerners, who now vote Republican.
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  4302.  @JoKo203  How can you say someone supports M4A, when they repeatedly promote taking a path that will never lead to getting it?
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  4303. ​ @SkazwalkerMusic  It's the same division, either way. The furthest right (or the highest top) have morons convinced they are good for them.
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  4304.  @jaketaylor3129  You seem to have zero grasp on what the bill he opposed was actually about. It was about discrimination, hate crimes, and hate speech. Pronoun use isn't even mentioned. It is only mentioned by the Ontario Human Rights Commission, if refusing to use someone's chosen pronoun can be shown rising to the level of discrimination and harrassment. You think it's okay for your boss to call you Jacqueline, girly, she, her, or whatever they feel like?
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  4305.  @hazelmccloy1136  Yeah, I know why he does it. He's a hypocritical douchebag. Just pointing out that the op's statement isn't false, as some people are claiming. While Trump family products aren't specifically being exempted, the industries they're involved with in China have been exempted, meaning, yes, Ivanka's clothing and shoes are exempt.
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  4306.  @GlassesAndCoffeeMugs  The conversation hasn't ended. The DSA (you know, the socialist organization AOC is an actual member of, not just democratic socialist in name, and not simply endorsed by them) has been having M4A rallies. Jimmy could be reporting about those, encouraging people to get out to those, instead of attacking those who are his best shot in the House of being fakes and shills. Jimmy could be letting everyone and anyone know about the latest CBO report, instead of arguing over a pointless vote. People are just arguing about a vote, and best procedures, not actually discussing the benefits of M4A, convincing others of the benefits, etc. If anyone is a capitalist shill, it's Jimmy. He seems to be going the way of Dave Rubin, finding it's good money to claim to be a lefty, while constantly attacking the politicians that are the most left leaning.
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  4307.  @mauler7303  "Do Fetuses Feel Pain? What the Science Says May 17, 2016 — The science shows that based on gestational age, the fetus is not capable of feeling pain until the third trimester."
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  4308.  @pachamamarecords  Exactly. We're 107 years into a clnization project, and he's blaming the natives for "starting" trouble, by leaving the reserve and going after some nearby settlers. Yeah, no, it started 107 years ago.
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  4309.  @dickdrapper5491  So, fire sticks and hand cannons weren't types of guns/firearms?
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  4310. Authoritarianism doesn't have much to do with right and left.
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  4311.  @jamespoon2656  But, how does slandering all the M4A supporters in congress and casting useless votes for third parties get you M4A? Those things only benefit the far right.
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  4312.  @aarondickson9573  Uh huh, and, again, simply not imposing sanctions doesn't support or prop up anyone. And, again, why are they okay with supporting and propping up fascists and absolute monarchs?
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  4313. What a moron. You can't just walk in and ask a doctor to kill you. You have to go through mental and physical evaluations. Here, it takes 3 doctors to finally agree that your physical and/or mental health issues are incurable, before it can be done. Most people who attempt suicide never attempt it again. Guns have an 80% success rate. Women actually attempt suicide more, while men succeed a lot more. Tucker doesn't seem to care about men going through a tough period.
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  4314.  Jay McDanieL  Right. He's hurdling over Hume's gap from fact to value, acting as if the value is purely objective, based on the fact, but that's just simply not the case. He's not admitting that the value, and his decision/judgement, is actually based on his own subjective caring about that "life". Depending on the definition of "life", I'd even give him his fact. That still doesn't give it the same value as an infant. Every pro-lifer I've run across would save an infant over 10 fertilized eggs in a petri dish, in a trolley problem. They don't truly think they have the same value, as they claim.
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  4315. How much were they offering to pay workers? The standard below average server pay, where they need tips to survive?
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  4316. What matters is what Nazis thought. They literally made Nuremberg Laws declaring Jewish people a race. This is a Nazi fact ... takes about a 30 second Google search.
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  4317.  @anuragchakraborty8766  Literally in NATO.
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  4318. @Christopher Bradley As for Twitter allies. What does Dore do, besides social media? AOC backed Bernie (M4A), on the ground campaigning, when Dore was peddling Tulsi (public option) from his garage. AOC started a PAC, used that PAC, and her Twitter platform, to back 20 other pro-M4A progressives, and ended up helping to remove a few more corporate Dems and add a few more M4A advocates to congress. While Dore was slandering her for no longer supporting M4A, she was on the ground campaigning for Nina Turner, promoting M4A, and trying to add another M4A advocate to congress. Jimmy Dore, the one true champion of healthcare, on the other hand, abandoned Nina Turner on air ... abandoned adding another M4A advocate to congress. Jimmy basically does jack shit, except bitch on social media, and he promotes actions that benefit corporate Dems and Republicans more than anyone else.
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  4319. President Pelosi?
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  4320.  @knukkaboom4491  Nonsense. Cattle were simply currency, in early forms of feudalism. Capitalism has absolutely nothing against claiming land, claiming resources, hiring private armies, and settling disputes privately. It has absolutely nothing against making whatever rules you want for living on that private property. It has absolutely nothing against setting whatever rents you want for living on that private property.
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  4321.  @akinbobolaz  Moron. You could have given it a Google, before replying. https://www.cbc.ca/news/canada/toronto/skilled-labour-construction-workers-shortage-ontario-construction-secretariat-report-1.5054456
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  4322.  @akinbobolaz  What makes you a moron is being so confidently wrong, and telling me to "come correct". I came correct dude. Now you're backpeddling, admitting there's a shortage, exactly like I said, but now tossing in that he's going to do something about it. You're in the industry? How did you feel about him abolishing the Ontario college of trade?
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  4323.  @zoobrizz  Hilarious, that you think CNN and MSNBC aren't themselves right wing to various degrees.
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  4324. The opposite. No nuance is making out like Israel is some poor innocent victim.
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  4325.  Trump Truth Train  The US's last flu season had normal numbers, dumb dumb, on top of the covid deaths. Even if it was the low end of the average flu range, you know that mask wearing, distancing, etc., also lowers the spread of the flu, right?
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  4326.  @neutrino78x  No, I want those in power to respect human rights. You know full well that if there was a domestic terrorist group, criminal gang, or whatever, they wouldn't just willy nilly blow up a f*cking block, full of civilians, to get them. Because they actually care about not killing their own civilians or, at least, care about the reaction of their own civilians. If you're intentionally dropping a bomb on civilians, you're intentionally killing civilians. And, again, Israel has hundreds of thousands of militants hiding amongst the populace, using them as "human shields".
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  4327.  @tiredofitall9213  That's like blaming native Americans for fighting against colonization and being ethnically cleansed. It's all their fault is it?
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  4328. ​ @TheManinBlack9054  Yes, they worked very hard to keep Chechnya as part of Russia.
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  4329.  @secularsocialist  No. Glenn and Tulsi outright signed a deal with Rumble. They aren't simply getting ad revenue. Not positive about Jimmy, but he followed Glenn just a couple months later.
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  4330.  @secularsocialist  Has Dore addressed why he took total population hospitalization rates and compared them to a year and a half old case fatality rate, to dishonestly portray covid deaths as "WILDLY inflated"? Has Dore addressed why he'd take government negotiated vaccine prices, for vaccines given out for free (a tiny taste of what M4A would be like), and spin some "big pharma" conspiracy ... which both creates vaccine hesitancy and criticizes a universal healthcare measure ... all while he peddles unproven, more expensive, and privately paid for, alternatives? Has he addressed why he, and Max, dishonestly misrepresented what was happening with the completely socialized UK healthcare system, regarding vaccines and kids ... which, again, causes both vaccine hesitancy and attacks a socialized healthcare system?
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  4331.  @secularsocialist  Oh, yeah, here ... let me spend 15 min telling you how bad the side effects of the vaccine can be, without telling you the same side effects are caused by covid, at much higher rates, and then pretend I've sent a pro-vaccine message. Here, let me lie about effective alternatives, leading people to believe they don't need the vaccine, and then pretend I've sent a pro-vaccine message. Here, let me lie about covid and children, making it seem like vaccines don't help them, and then pretend like I've sent a pro-vaccine message. Etc. F*cking bullshit.
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  4332.  @secularsocialist  But he barely ever blamed Trump for deciding to bomb Syria. He did, however, blather on, for months, about an irrelevant UN inspector report that had absolutely nothing to do with anyone's decision to bomb Syria.
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  4333.  @secularsocialist  No, that's not what he did. You're lying.
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  4334.  @secularsocialist  He barely ever mentioned Trump by name, the way he does Obama or Biden. You're completely delusional, if you think he did.
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  4335.  @secularsocialist  What right winger, critiquing from the right, has been called a leftist? How is lying about a more socialized healthcare system, critiquing from the left? How is constantly portraying a tiny taste of socialized healthcare, in a negative light, critiquing from the left? How is peddling privately paid for, more expensive, "healthcare" alternatives, critiquing from the left? How is peddling Trump as the better option than Clinton, critiquing from the left? How is peddling Tulsi over Bernie, critiquing from the left? How is peddling allying with "extreme free market" psycho Boogaloos, critiquing from the left? How is going on white nationalist television, just to largely agree with every right wing talking point, critiquing from the left? How is slandering progressives who have done more for M4A in a few years than he has in his entire lifetime, critiquing from the left? How is promoting sitting on the sidelines, in some irrelevant third party, and letting Republicans rule for decades to come, critiquing from the left?
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  4336.  @secularsocialist  As a Dore knob, you should know that Dore himself argues to not just listen to people's words. A grifter will claim to be selling you one thing, but is actually selling you something completely different. Just pointing at things he claims to be for, isn't evidence of anything. What directions does he actually propose taking? On Rogan's show, Dore not only dishonestly peddled Ivermectin as a proven effective remedy, he peddled the further dishonesty that it's a proven effective preventative. The average price of a bottle of 20 Ivermectin pills is $100. If you take 1 a month, as a preventative, that's worth 3+ shots a year, if you take 1 a week, that's worth like 15 shots a year, and it's paid for out of pocket instead of free from the government. He also seemed fine with Rogan's $2000+ out of pocket "kitchen sink", as an alternative to getting the vaccine. He, and Max, also lied about the completely socialized UK healthcare system, while pandering to anti-vaxxers, making it also anti-socialized healthcare pandering. His anti-vax schtick has also been anti-socialized healthcare, and pro handing "big pharma" even more money out of pocket. Everyone at FOX is vaxxed. Being vaxxed doesn't mean you can't peddle anti-vax propaganda. He has been caught peddling misinformation, multiple times. If I spend hours telling people that skydiving is really really really dangerous, and then wrap the conversation up by saying you should try it. That wasn't a pro-skydiving conversation, dimwit. You're lying. He has a video called "Hillary Presidency Worse For Progressives & America Than Trump". That's just the reverse wording of Trump is better than Clinton. He outright peddled Trump as the better option. Tulsi was never to the left of Bernie on anything. He just didn't do his homework. “In short, when it comes to the war against terrorists, I’m a hawk. When it comes to counterproductive wars of regime change, I’m a dove.” - Tulsi Gabbard, Hawaii Tribune-Herald, 2016 Pretty much every US intervention, since 9/11, has used the war on terror as justification. You're the one lying. Dore's Boogaloo buddy clearly stated he was for an "extreme free market". Jimmy was fine with that, and promoted allying with that. Jimmy is the kind of "leftist" that winds up on the wrong side of a Night of the Long Knives. I didn't criticize simply going on FOX, dimwit. Dore went on and agreed with Tucker's right wing framing of free speech and Trump being tossed off of social media. Dore, and Glenn, generally take the right wing framing. They don't point out that there's no such thing as free speech rights on someone else's private property. They don't point out that, if you want free speech, then public ownership is the way to get it. They don't point out that inciting an insurrection isn't even protected speech in public. Then, and this was right as the second impeachment was beginning, Dore threw in the off topic bone that he considered the first impeachment bogus, to help cast a shadow on the second impeachment. Then, he finally got to Assange, but plenty of right wingers like WikiLeaks, and Tucker has some pro Assange videos going back to a year before Dore was even on. Even that wasn't even a left wing issue. "Pressuring" and slandering are two different things. Dore slanders those who have been helping to add M4A yes votes to congress. Getting enough yes votes in congress is the only possible way to ever pass the bill. Pelosi has already reintroduced M4A again, this session (she also did last session), and it's sitting in committees again. Dore should be pressuring those currently sitting on the bill, instead of those who have co-signed it, and have been increasing the congressional vote count. Pretty much every direction Dore peddles benefits corporate Dems, or Republicans. At best, a third party gets you less than 400k voters and you're sitting in an irrelevant party. At worst, you convince enough progressives to split off their votes, to hand seats back to corporate Dems, or Republicans. All for some fantasy, that your perfectly perfect puritan progressive party won't produce another Kyrsten Sinema. You're bending so far backwards, to defend a grifter, that your head is up your ass.
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  4337.  @VColossalV  YouTube not liking some words here, so ditched some vowels ...  @VColossalV  He makes out like IL are the peaceful ones. They're not, at all, the colnzng, etnc cleansing, occprs, operating an open air ghto, like the Thrd Rch. They're the poor victims. It's the ones living in the open air ghto, that are equivalent to the Thrd Rch. "What is the alternative to vlnce for IL in its current conflict with Hms, given what Hms did on Oct 7th, and given what it has vowed to do again at any opportunity? Pacifism? Pacifism only works against a morally sane adversary. It worked against the Brtsh in India. But pacifism would not have worked against the Nzs. Had the Allies decided that war is just too awful, and they just couldn’t stomach kllng any more Grmn children, we would all be living in the 1000-year Rch." Oh, and this all has absolutely nothing to do with some colnlsm policy ... and Hz and possibly Irn, will need to be dealt with similarly. "The first point is that the problem that IL faces with Hms, and eventually Hzbllh, and ultimately Irn, while it is existential for IL, and dangerous and difficult in many specific ways, is a variant of a larger problem that has nothing, in principle, to do with IL or Jws or Amrcn foreign policy."
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  4338.  @saikyk4822  Crowder is a douchebag. Change my mind.
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  4339.  @whyamimrpink78   That number is completely abnormal, compared to the rest of the developed world, because everyone has coverage in the rest of the developed world. Zero people are dying DUE to not having coverage. I don't know why you can't grasp this simple concept. If there are any deaths DUE to that specific reason, simply giving everyone coverage will outright eradicate that as a reason for someone dying. Nobody can die, DUE to lack of coverage, if everyone has coverage. This is really really simple, man. You are trying way too hard, to dodge a very simple fact. Understand? Show me you understand this very simple fact, by answering the following ... If every American has healthcare coverage, how many Americans will die DUE to a lack of healthcare coverage? You just seem to want to control for every tiny little thing, in some lame attempt to argue it's impossible to find the US system is bad, or that it's impossible to compare to others and find it's worse. You know that would also mean it's impossible to find the US system is good, right? But you've tried to argue that it is. If it's impossible to measure, if all measures are completely arbitrary, then you've got zero grounds for arguing it's a good system. "The study assessed mortality among uninsured and privately insured persons aged 17 to 64 years, controlling for demographic characteristics, smoking, alcohol consumption, body mass index, leisure time activity, self-rated health, and physician-rated health after the NHANES physician completed the medical examination." "In the main model, being uninsured was associated with a mortality hazard ratio of 1.40 (CI, 1.06 to 1.84)." https://annals.org/aim/fullarticle/2635326/relationship-health-insurance-mortality-lack-insurance-deadly The Commonwealth Fund study. You know, the doctor run organization. Not the American Enterprise Institute, run by Ayn Rand types. So, the Oregon study was all of 2 years, measured a handful of things, and included most of the healthiest ages to be, 19-64. It excluded the elderly, and children, who are most at risk. Still ... "it did increase use of health care services, raise rates of diabetes detection and management, lower rates of depression, and reduce financial strain." So, how do you think that diabetes and depression management would play out over 20 years, or more? How do you think the increased visits would affect the elderly, and children? There's nothing about pregnant women. How do you think increased visits would affect infant and maternal mortality? How is the reduced financial strain not an objectively better outcome than having increased financial strain? Firstly, you were the one all concerned, and singling out lifestyle choices, not me. That's a way to deal with lifestyle choices. Are you opposed to speeding and seatbelt laws? Secondly, you right wingers seem to be willy nilly with your support, or disdain, for consumption costs/taxes. You're perfectly good with corporations making billions using public roads and infrastructure while paying little to nothing for those things, want parents or students to cover their own education costs, want people to cover their own private healthcare costs, but if healthcare goes public you don't want people who make shit choices to pay a little more towards it. That's not "controlling" your life. That's simply charging you an extra fee for an express lane pass to needing healthcare. Like higher car insurance for young or bad drivers. Like higher life insurance for smokers.
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  4340. Vaccines are government negotiated prices, under $20, and given out for free. A Rogan "kitchen sink" will cost you $2000+, out of pocket, paid to big pharma, unless you're high risk, and even then the government pays the same high price.
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  4341. You people are absolutely insane. Starting to count absentee ballots after counting election day ballots, doesn't mean the ballots came in at 4am, dumbasses.
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  4342. @Packster Mosk What difference does it make how the employer got their wealth and power? How they got it won't change the fact that there's an imbalance in wealth and power.
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  4343. @Packster Mosk What does political power have to do with the op? Ok, take away political power ... there's still a power and wealth imbalance between them and their employees, right?
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  4344. @Packster Mosk You're just a bag of endless deflection. So, you're agreeing one has more power over the other?
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  4345. Stop slandering Marxism. The Marxist ideal is stateless non authoritarian socialism.
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  4346. ​ @ykm257  They are already operating an open air WWII style fascist ghetto, so doesn't take much.
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  4347.  @abe8435  Actually, they have. Progressives got the $15 to stay in for a round of voting, it passed the house (M4A didn't have a chance in hell of passing) and also got a senate vote. What did Dore and his knobs do with the ever so precious list of no voters? Just kept bitching about those who got it to stay in for a round of voting, and who voted for it. Dore knobs are pathetic useless hypocrites.
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  4348.  @abe8435  What did I say that's been debunked? Dore knobs have done absolutely nothing with the list of $15 no voters, and just kept bitching and whining about those who got it to stay in, and voted for it. I'm addressing "fraudsquad" spewing Dore knobs. It's you that's deflecting, and who provided nothing indicating I'm wrong. What it takes to pass bills is numbers. AOC used her platform and PAC to back 20 pro-M4A progressives, helped add a few more M4A yes votes to congress, and helped remove a few more corporate Dems. That's exactly what needs doing to actually pass M4A, and other progressive policies. She was just campaigning for Nina, to help add one more, and both were promoting M4A. Dore's headline, days later, claimed she had abandoned M4A. He's a slanderous idiot. He and his followers are pathetic good for nothings. Getting a single seat is a big deal. The most popular third party hasn't won a single seat in its near 50 year existence. The most popular progressive third party hasn't won a single seat in its 20 year existence.
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  4349. She was complaining about Biden reopening youth detention centers for migrants. On the other hand, I don't recall Republicans blaming Trump for the larger 2019 "surge" and "crisis". I don't recall Republicans blaming Trump when this current wave surpassed all the months of 2017 and 2018, back in September.
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  4350.  @johntruxal432  Southerners were the slave owners, and Southerners now tend to vote Republican. Do you really think the most racist states in America just magically up and became the least racist states, after 150 years of slavery and 100 years of segregation? Even after millions of black Americans migrated to the least racist states, leaving racists as a higher percentage of the population? When did this magic happen?
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  4351.  @dextermorgan7441  The parties weren't even unified, soon after the civil war. By the time 1964 came around, 153 (the majority) of Dems voted for the Civil Rights Act, while 35 Republicans voted against. Most of the no voters, in both parties, were from the South. Pretending like no racists were switching to Republican before 1990, is a fairytale.
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  4352.  @ahfimiwonawun  Yeah, that's fine.
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  4353. He literally criticized going down the road of LBJ (Civil Rights Act, Voting Rights Act), and claimed people voted more conservatively when they couldn't even vote.
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  4354.  @samiamrg7  Not to mention profiting massively from a $2000+ per dose Rogan "kitchen sink".
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  4355.  @BB-mq9qk  And, yet, you presented zero facts. Weird. It's a fact that he's spewing an insane conspiracy supposedly perpetrated by the vast majority of doctors, worldwide, to intentionally kill millions of people. There's no "fact" that debunks that fact.
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  4356.  @TheSkryptik  Rofl, you're trying to keep so open minded that your brain falls out, is that it? He's spewing insane bullshit. And, yes, I have answered that he's not working, atm, and that McCullough was fired from the hospital he was working at. You're definitely not asking questions in good faith. You're concern trolling.
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  4357.  @-Thunder  Rofl, you're spouting nonsense. The false positive rate is extremely low, and you're more likely to get a false negative.
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  4358. @Abe Tsenoh Trump is dropping more bombs than Obama, dumb dumb, on top of letting Americans die.
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  4359. Exactly. Monumental hypocrites.
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  4360.  @Historia.Magistra.Vitae.  Nope. He routinely just said "socialism". A "socialism" that repudiates the class struggle isn't socialism.
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  4361.  @Historia.Magistra.Vitae.  Nope. No such thing as a "socialism" that wants to keep class hierarchies as is.
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  4362.  @Historia.Magistra.Vitae.  You think when one person owns everything, that's socialism. You have no credibility.
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  4363. So, you think schools are equally funded, by having property taxes largely fund schools?
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  4364.  @samuelmerkel2888  Being a cop is less dangerous than being a garbage collector. They protect themselves by shooting people at 3 to hundreds of times the rate of other developed countries. Your "we ended up killing" number appears to include cops crashing their own vehicles, cops having heart attacks, cops inadvertently shooting themselves or each other, etc. https://www.odmp.org/search/year/2020 And why would you include all police deaths, but not all the people police have killed? If you're only going to count the unarmed black men, then how many unarmed black men have killed police? Just how big a threat are they?
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  4365.  @theangryquad3127  Experience at going bankrupt, and losing fraud cases, with his own business ventures. As for taking over daddy's real estate business venture, you'd make more money simply investing in a S&P 500 index fund, than you would investing in Trump. And that's based on Forbes estimating his net worth at $3b. Deutsche Bank, who has seen his finances and tax returns, doesn't even think he's worth a billion, making him even worse.
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  4366.  @theangryquad3127  Rofl, who do you think she should be debating? Online grifters?
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  4367. People also seem quite fond of the 2 Ryans, as well as a bunch of comedians.
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  4368.  @1massboy  It doesn't much matter if they're worldwide. They're a US based company. They haven't cared about a variety of calls for regime changes in other countries. They personally don't want to live under a dictatorship.
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  4369. Nothing illegal about lying in a bush with a firearm, in Florida. Might just be a licensing violation, for having an AK.
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  4370.  @fredsanford1437  You forgot to include having violent enemies on almost every front and a switch to defense in depth.
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  4371. Not to mention that they worship a being that "murders" the majority of "babies", either less hands on through his human design, or more hands on by picking and choosing who lives and dies, whichever they believe.
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  4372.  @Kevin-gf4im  Lol, they're idiots.
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  4373. Pence promoting the ACA (Obamacare) Medicaid expansion as a good thing. Donny won't be happy.
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  4374.  @Celisar1  You'll also be surprised to find that "child" abu§€ laws apply to minors under 18, and immigration law says a "child" is anyone unmarried under 21. You're not right about anything.
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  4375.  @Nick-gx4oc  Uh huh. And that's how a number of supposed "leftists" get themselves a mostly right wing audience.
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  4376. She said she was a "dove" on regime change wars but a "hawk" on the war on terrorism. Every f*cking war, since 9/11, used the war on terrorism as its justification. So, that's not being anti any wars.
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  4377.  @luchi.el.zorrito  Strong voter ID laws are directly classist. Poor people are less likely to have a driver's license, so it's a hurdle you're adding for them, before they can vote. Poor people can less afford to take a day off to go get ID. "Free", except for that time off you won't get paid for, and your transportation costs. Hispanic and black Americans have higher percentages of poverty, which would make it indirectly racist, if that wasn't for the fact that is common knowledge, before the fact. While Georgia isn't going back to zero drop boxes, and drop boxes are "expanding" from 2016, the 2020 election obviously made voting too convenient, so they're drastically reducing it from the amount they allowed for in 2020. There are already fewer polling stations per capita in poorer districts which, again, disproportionately affects certain minority groups, making them have to stand in line longer. And now people can't bring them any food or water, as if they're going to change their vote in line, due to a water handout. Not sure why this would be an issue, if handing out food and water were a bipartisan activity. Oh wait, it's not, because right wingers don't give two shits about the people in line for hours. But you've probably heard, or read, this kind of stuff before, and are just playing stupid.
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  4378. Some women get apartments, vehicles, furniture ... all kinds of things ... and don't get arrested. He did nothing better.
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  4379.  @888strummer  Progressives got the $15 to stay in for a round of voting. Remember that time when supposed "real" progressives made out like just getting a vote on an important progressive policy would be a big deal? It even passed the house (M4A didn't have a hope in hell) and also got a senate vote. Remember that time when supposed "real" progressives made out like getting a list of no voters on an important progressive policy would be a big deal? Turns out those "real" progressives were nothing but pathetic useless hypocrites. AOC has used her platform and PAC to help add a few more M4A yes votes to congress and help remove a few more corporate Dems. She was just campaigning for Nina, trying to add another M4A yes vote to congress. Those same supposed "real" progressives abandoned Nina ... abandoned adding another M4A yes vote to congress ... pathetic.
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  4380.  @turanamo  Yeah, I don't get why people think he actually cares if they get healthcare. In 2016, he did what he could, from promoting Trump as better than Clinton to promoting Stein as having a chance of winning, to get Trump elected, not caring if that would lead to the ACA being repealed and millions losing their healthcare. During the 2020 primaries, he promoted Tulsi ("Medicare choice") over Bernie (M4A). During the 2020 general, he basically ran an attack campaign against Biden, Trump's only viable opponent, again not caring if Trump won and that could lead to the ACA being repealed, not caring if Trump killed thousands more Americans, not caring to get millions more covered by lowering the Medicare age. Now, he's slandering the most progressive politicians in congress, especially the one who just used her platform and PAC to help get more pro-M4A progressives elected to congress, the very thing that actually moves you closer to passing M4A. And, he wants to start yet another third party, that likely won't even get a single seat for decades, let alone M4A, and could simply split the vote enough to let Republicans rule and destroy people's healthcare more. If anyone is a "fake", "shill", and "wimp", it's the guy who basically campaigns for Republicans and stabs progressives making small gains in the back.
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  4381.  @yarpenzigrin1893  What are you blathering about? Nothing you said actually addresses what the op said.
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  4382.  @IDF_R_HEROES  The Times of Israel... "For years, Netanyahu propped up Hamas. Now it’s blown up in our faces"
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  4383. ​ @mattsheldon8671  By writing "philosophical" garbage, for cash. He's not all that different from Deepak Chopra, or Jordan Peterson.
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  4384. ​ @cptbaker  Have to change the system, first. It's just math, that if you don't vote Dem, then what are now outright fascists, who tried to overthrow the democratic process, will win.
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  4385. Aside from helping to add M4A yes votes to congress, helping to raise money for freezing Texans, helping to raise money for women's rights in Texas, helping to delay the evictions, helping her constituents with disaster relief, helping her constituents get rent relief, bringing attention to striking workers, ...
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  4386. And how would continuing to try and toss millions of the poorest Americans off Medicaid expansion not be worse?
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  4387.  MidScream1  You don't know what "regressive" means. Being in favour of most of the wealth in the hands of a few is regressive. Been there, done that, it sucked. Being in favour of religion in politics and education is regressive. Been there done that, it sucked. Being against environmental regulations is regressive. Been there, done that, it sucked. Being in favour of discrimination is regressive. Been there, done that, it sucked. Etc.
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  4388. Speaking of grifters ... Jimmy has a new video out, downplaying the risks of covid, called "Are COVID death rates WILDLY inflated?". I could only make it through a few minutes of his stupidity, or dishonesty ... It's very clear that the 3.4% "death rate" is the case fatality rate ... deaths per confirmed case. This number is always changing, and can be found all over the place. Only someone who is completely inept, wouldn't be able to find the current case fatality rate. But, somehow Jimmy couldn't. Only someone who failed grade school math couldn't figure it out themselves. 750k deaths is 1.5% of 50m confirmed cases. But, somehow Jimmy couldn't. He apparently didn't actually read the Gallup article, he's referencing, or skipped the parts he didn't like. The hospitalization rates he's citing are based on the total vaccinated and unvaccinated populations, not just those who contract covid. This isn't comparable to the case fatality rate. It's based on totally different math. The comparable "death rate" would be the population mortality rate. 750k deaths is 0.23% of 330m total population. So, now he's making out like covid is a lot less harmful than doctors and scientists, worldwide, have stated, and there's some giant worldwide conspiracy to inflate numbers.
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  4389.  @unitedfools3493  Yes, overt fascism and kissing corporate ass ... total samesies.
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  4390.  @konvo8092  It's M4A, not M4Awho opt-in.
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  4391.  @toomin2316  Is she convincing Republicans to no longer vote Republican, or just Democrats to no longer vote Democrat. You get basic math, yeah, and what happens if you only convince the Democrats?
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  4392.  @MyName-cw4yr  Peterson had already been living under that law, at the provincial level, for years. Other provinces also had similar laws, for years. And yet, he had zero examples to support his slippery slope claims, which were pure bullshit. Canada has hate speech laws, and yet he wasn't attacking the hate speech laws, hadn't had a history of attacking Canada's hate speech laws, in general. He was only attacking including protection for transgender people. He lied that someone could get thrown in jail for mistakenly saying the wrong pronoun. The bill is tied to the hate speech laws, so whatever is said would need to include threats, or said repeatedly to rise to the level of harassment, to violate the law.
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  4393.  @mikeceebo8611  So, you'd be cool with an employer, or teacher, calling you "douchebag", daily?
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  4394.  @MrBeardedgelfling  "courage to consider new ideas" What the ... ? Pretty sure the idea of enforced marriages is an ancient idea. What countries are you talking about? India, rated one of the worst places on the planet, for women? Saudi? Congo?
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  4395. What irregularities?
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  4396.  @TexasTeaHTX  What's the actual evidence of non interventionist? Trump dropped more bombs than Obama.
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  4397.  @doubledown8250  New Orleans and St Louis are the two most dangerous, and they're in shithole red states, with crap gun laws. Shithole red states tend to have the most gun violence and homicides. Red states tend to leech off of blue states. They have the shittiest healthcare and education. They tend to have more child marriages. Etc.
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  4398. He didn't even say "Jewish". He said "Israel", which does have deep pockets and a lot of influence with US politicians and media, through lobby groups like AIPAC.
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  4399.  @andrewwells6323  No, dumbass, as I've repeatedly said, you're just talking about different things than I am. That is you misrepresenting me. The overall economy doesn't refute anything I'm saying. You seem to think 2 $5/hr jobs is just as good, or an improvement from 1 $10/hr job. As individuals, the 2 $5/hr workers can buy less stuff. A decent paying job being automated, doesn't equate to an improvement for workers, even if it creates the same, or more, lower paying jobs. The workers are still fucked, at an individual level, and can't buy the same amount of the same stuff. People operating power looms were then paid shit, compared to hand loom weavers ... while overall cost of living was up ... https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Power-loom_riots Automation to replace 800m jobs, globally, by 2030, and you might want read worst case scenario, if a country doesn't prepare, because the US sure as hell isn't good at preparing ... it also refers to hitting the middle class, and increasing wealth disparity ... https://www.mckinsey.com/featured-insights/future-of-work/jobs-lost-jobs-gained-what-the-future-of-work-will-mean-for-jobs-skills-and-wages So, your 2 $5/hr workers then buy the cheapest shit they can find, just to get by, and neither can afford some of the things the $10/hr workers could. They can't afford to buy the same stuff. Walmart steps in with cheaply made crap, and shit paid employees, to sell to those workers, and their own shit paid workers. They then put some businesses selling better quality items, and/or paying employees better, out of business. Those people might then have to go work in the Walmart for shit. https://www.businessnewsdaily.com/2405-real-cost-walmart.html With more and more shit wages, or stagnating wages, individuals can't afford to buy as many cars. So, here GM has some options ... a) take a hit in profit or exec salaries, and pay employees more, so they can buy cars; b) move the plant to Mexico, save a ton of money, and pass that savings on by drastically reducing prices of cars for customers; or c) move the plant to Mexico, save a ton of money, and keep that savings as profit. Unlike Walmart bringing in cheap poor quality, GM moves towards the same quality for cheaper ... but where are all the coinciding price reductions on vehicles? There aren't any. They're using it as a temporary way to increase profit margins. They'll be fucked once all of their plants are already in Mexico, and they need another way to cut costs, for a temporary rise in profits. They're paying people 10x less, in Mexico, yet moving a plant never results in a large reduction in price. https://www.spokesman.com/stories/2019/jan/03/gm-now-top-automaker-in-mexico-as-it-idles-us-fact/ In fact, not only aren't prices on the same, or similar quality, items going down, overall, the cost of living keeps going up and up, while wages don't keep up. Meaning ... people can't afford to buy as much stuff. https://www.forbes.com/sites/patrickwwatson/2018/09/25/real-wage-growth-is-actually-falling/ Based on your bullshit, cost of living outpacing wages shouldn't even be possible. In fact, outsourcing, automating, keeping wages down, laying off as many people as possible, etc., should actually be lowering the cost of living, by your argument, but I've never heard of such a thing. Maybe you think a handful of tech items represents how everything works?
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  4400.  @edwardrosser938  You want to question and resist life saving measures, just for the sake of resisting? Should we stop treating unconscious people brought into emergency rooms, in case they want to resist the "fascist" attempts to save their lives, without their permission?
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  4401.  @jakes658  Nope. You failed math.
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  4402.  @edwardrosser938  No. You are being extremely hyperbolic, comparing health safety measures to fascism, ffs. Australia's covid death rate would translate into about 26k total US covid deaths, instead of 800k. Their style of "fascism" would have saved 750+k lives.
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  4403.  @jakes658  Nope. No "or". You clearly tried to argue the numbers showed something they don't, and failed at math.
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  4404.  @edwardrosser938  It's called an argument absurdum, not "hyperbole". If you're argument doesn't hold up, that means it was garbage to begin with. "Hyperbole" is equating the government doing stuff to "fascism".
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  4405.  @edwardrosser938  I did. I questioned Dore's math, and he clearly failed at it. At best, it shows he's a complete and utter moron. At worst, it shows he's a dishonest grifter, who's encouraging people to die, by intentionally spreading misinformation, for money.
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  4406.  @edwardrosser938  Yeah, and pneumonia is caused by other things ... like covid. Reducing covid is reducing pneumonia.
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  4407.  @edwardrosser938  Are reading comprehension problems a requirement to be a Dore knob? "Cases" are up.
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  4408.  @knob3887  No, you dimwitted Dore knob. The Gallup article clearly stated it was using hospitalizations per total vaccinated and unvaccinated populations (how many people hospitalized for covid in the total population). The comparative "death rate" would be the covid population mortality rate (how many covid deaths in the total population).
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  4409.  @edwardrosser938  That "authority" being the advisories of the vast majority of doctors and scientists, from around the world? That "authority" being the evidence of vaccines working, worldwide, and 75-90% of those dying being unvaccinated? That "authority" being the evidence of covid measures working in countries with the best covid responses, that could have saved hundreds of thousands of American lives? Much better than hanging on the words of a complete and utter moron "comedian", sitting his garage, I would think. A moron, btw, who isn't simply "questioning", but who is spreading misinformation that could kill people.
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  4410.  @edwardrosser938  For the same f*cking reason it is hard to get patent wavers on all kinds of life saving drugs. Seriously, how did that question stump you?
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  4411.  @edwardrosser938  Isn't corporate power and greed exactly why patent exemptions aren't supported for all life saving drugs, dumb dumb? Exact same reason, exactly like I said. Some idiot corporation marking up insulin 1000%, and the government doing nothing about it, has zero bearing on whether insulin is effective and saves lives.
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  4412.  @edwardrosser938  You: Strawman. Strawman. Strawman.
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  4413.  @edwardrosser938  Already answered, long ago.
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  4414.  @edwardrosser938  Btw, not only has Dore dishonestly promoted ivermectin as an effective remedy, he dishonestly promoted it as an effective preventative. The average price of a bottle of 20 ivermectin pills is $100, that you'd have to pay for yourself. The Pfizer vaccine, on the other hand, is $15 a shot, paid for by the government. J&J is even cheaper. Dore is the one peddling a more expensive, and more privatized, route for dealing with covid. He's clearly a grifter.
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  4415.  @_Hobbes  Yeah, because having staffers drop a story to MSM, about a conversation only two people were present for, portraying a guy who has supported women's rights for decades, as some kind of misogynist, is so non toxic.
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  4416. A "democratic socialist" believes in democracy, and will take a democratic path towards socialism as far as it will go. A "social democrat" doesn't want to ever go beyond centrism (of the real variety, not the US variety), and should call themselves "democratic centrist", or something less confusing for people.
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  4417.  @douglassepic9030  Again, causes do matter. Again, BLM has been protesting for years, didn't only start protesting after politicians fed them bullshit to start protesting, and doesn't wait for politicians to feed them bullshit to start protesting after each incident.
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  4418. She mentioned the founding pro slavery values, and the following pro segregation values. That's the bigotry and discrimination she was referring to. Do you think those values are pros?
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  4419.  boomboomdj  You have a very low bar, if you think Trump is sexy.
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  4420.  @mountainjay  You seem to have successfully made the point that his issue is with Israel, and that he's fine with Jews that don't support Israeli policy.
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  4421.  @2DRonaldo  What's ironic is that they're sooooo impatient, some are willing to follow Dore down the third party route, which hasn't even won the most popular third party a single seat in congress in its near 50 year existence.
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  4422.  @Will_Moffett  The speaker of the house can't even force a bill through committees to the floor, all in their own. It takes a petition, signed by the majority of the house.
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  4423.  @GregorRenkoMusic  He called Trump a piece of shit so, by Republican standards, that equates to socialist.
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  4424.  Edward Moran  Do you morons really not know what the words mean when put together? If that's how you want to play it ... have a nice day, dumbass.
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  4425.  @b.t.1632  The Hill is owned by a friend of Dumpty and Rudy.
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  4426. You know Israel has over 1200 "adminstrative detainees", being held indefinitely, yeah?
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  4427.  @tulsacaupain2882  Because The Daily Show viewership has dropped below his. It could be a win-win.
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  4428.  @jamesmurray6753  Ignorant to the fact that the average NFL career is only about 3 years? So, even the $800k only works out to about $60k a year over the next 40 years of their life, until they can collect social security. The $150k works out to a whole $11.25k a year.
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  4429. ​ @bbaff8622  She's both, dingus. This nonsense was already debunked in 2020. Her senate bio said: "second African American, first Asian American" woman in the senate. Media reported on the "first" part. When she became VP, she got 3 firsts. You lot are like a skipping record.
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  4430.  @2727rogers  It actually passed under Tommy's successor. Tommy had troubles passing it. But, good effort.
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  4431.  @inspectortanzi  That's the best time to possibly paralyze the house ... no new covid relief, no new unemployment extension, no new vaccine funding, etc. ... for a piece of performance art?
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  4432.  @jamesbarton1757  Name a single progressive who ran on paralyzing the house. You're adding a strawman to their platform, and then claiming they aren't doing what they said they'd do.
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  4433.  @inspectortanzi  That made no sense, as a reply to my question.
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  4434.  David Winehouse  Fact is you're delusional if you think AOC is corrupt and don't think anyone in a third party can be corrupt (Sinema is a former Green party candidate).
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  4435.  David Winehouse  How many times ... she helped add more M4A yes votes to congress. She's helping to try and add one more, right now, in Nina Turner. Getting enough yes votes in congress is the only way to ever pass the f*cking bill. If doing the very thing that needs doing to ever pass it, doesn't count as fighting for it, then nothing does. Biden isn't as nuts as Trump. What was the other viable option? Hawkins? I get it. Dore knobs prefer Republicans winning. Just admit it already.
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  4436.  @jamesbarton1757  The house has been paralyzed for 2 months, before, over a speakership vote, and eerything on the schedule would get pushed. What's your point? The house has simply adopted plurality wins to get over a paralyzed house, before, as well.
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  4437.  David Winehouse  Trump dropped more bombs than Obama, including on Somalia.
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  4438.  @jeromeriedl  I'm just pointing out that, whichever way it started, once it lands in your country, then you're the one responsible for controlling it. What you do from there is not on China. Republicans like to use its origin as a deflection, to make out like what happened in the US is all China's fault. But, reality is that Australia's covid deaths per million would translate into about 800k fewer covid deaths in the US. Canada's covid deaths per million would translate into about 600k fewer covid deaths in the US. So, 600-800 thousand deaths have been due to complete incompetence, and largely due to letting it get so out of hand in that first year ... none of which has anything to do with where, or how, it originated. Knowing exactly how it happened is mainly just of benefit for future prevention. It does nothing for the current situation.
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  4439. It's like you've never heard of Libertarians and ancappers before. They may agree on some anti-authoritarian issues, but they're economic opposites to socialism.
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  4440.  @iball36  Hamas warned Israel to leave the mosque area, if you think warnings are a defense.
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  4441.  @iball36  Almost every adult Israeli under 40 is in the military, or is in the reserve. They are valid military targets wandering around amongst civilians, using them as human shields.
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  4442.  @iball36  Reserve duty is mandatory for those who have completed military service, which is also mandatory. You're lying. The US and Israel have already made it acceptable to target off duty militants, wherever they are. By your own argument, cowardly Israeli militants, valid military targets, are hiding amongst civilians.
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  4443.  @iball36  Every Palestinian angry with ethnic cleansing and colonization is Hamas, is it?
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  4444.  @davidhughes4089  A big part of covid numbers has to do with the initial outbreak. Unfortunately, Boris didn't take things seriously enough, right out of the gate. There's a strong correlation between trace testing rates (tests per confirmed case) and covid spread. The UK's testing rate was even lower than the US' pathetic rate, early on. Both countries were testing 5 or less people per confirmed case, for months. Italy, Spain, and France, weren't much better, testing under 10 people per confirmed case. All of them had a pretty bad 2020. Once the cats were out of the bag, it was hard to try and gain control, and get ahead of the virus. Canada and Germany got up to 15+ fairly quickly. Denmark, Norway, and Finland, got up to 20+. They all had medium results. Canada's covid deaths per million rate, for example, would translate into 54k total UK covid deaths, instead of 150k, and would translate into about 250k total US covid deaths, instead of 850k. Countries like S Korea, Vietnam, Australia, and New Zealand, got their testing rates up to over 50 people per confirmed case, early on. They all had excellent results. Australia's deaths per million rate would translate into about 6k total UK covid deaths, and about 36k total US covid deaths. You just can't get ahead of the virus spread, testing only 5 people per confirmed case. If the infected person has been in the vicinity of 50 people, before testing positive, and you only test 5 of those people, then you only have a 10% chance of finding who they infected. If you aren't actively looking for asymptomatic carriers, then they'll just keep spreading it wildly. The UK is now up to almost 29, ahead of Canada at 22. Germany has dropped to 13. Australia is up to 71. New Zealand and others are testing in the hundreds per confirmed case. The US is up to 13, but things are so politically divided, you know that's going to be a lot higher with some people and a lot lower with others, who are just letting it spread now, and who are even legislating to oppose attempts to contain the virus anymore.
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  4445.  @alex_8025  Have you actually watched any MCU movies with Hulk in them? Thanos easily beat the shit out of Hulk, without using any stones on him. Thor could not handle Thanos without a magic weapon. Even with the most powerful magic weapon the dwarves ever made, one specifically designed to defeat the gauntlet, Thor had troubles with a healthy Thanos. CM plowed through Thanos' ship in seconds, which neither Thor nor Hulk could do. CM could take a normal hit from Thanos without flinching, which neither Thor nor Hulk could do. CM almost soloed Thanos, until he offhanded the power infinity stone, which can destroy planets, and used it to knock her away. MCU Thor and Hulk aren't their most powerful comic forms. P.S. There's no such thing as "near" infinite. Something is either infinite or it's not. Like unending or limitless. Something either is or isn't those things. You can't get like one away from infinity or something.
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  4446.  @whyamimrpink78  Higher quality, as in higher infant mortality, higher maternal mortality, lower life expectancy, 500+ k people going bankrupt, tens of millions uninsured, over a million going to places like India for cheaper care, etc.?
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  4447. ​ osamabinladenssecondgirlfr4241  But, the original version was somewhat more similar to immigration. It wasn't carving out a new nation, or the Ottomans wouldn't have agreed to it. The OP does skip the earlier exodus from Russia, though, who is also to blame. And the British, who came up with the batshit crazy plan of carving out a new colonialist nation.
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  4448. If Aaron writing a Syrian "scandal" article, that could have been written by anyone, from anywhere in the world, with Wikipedia and a penchant for leaving out bits they don't like, is the "best", then that's pretty bad. If Glenn's inability to grasp the basics of how freedom of speech works is the "best", then that's also pretty bad.
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  4449.  @alexandermiller1741  Sorry to hear about your reading comprehension problems.
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  4450.  @krook5158  Not really. He's bringing idiots together to listen to him apout about off against progressives and Democrats. He barely ever speaks out against Republican politicians, the Republican establishment, Republican policies, or lunatic Republican voters. That's why he has an increasing right wing fan base.
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  4451.  @krook5158  I've watched plenty enough of Dore, dimwit. How does barely ever saying a word against those they vote for, "educate" them? All they basically hear is Dems bad! That's something they already believed. That's why they listen to him. He literally promoted Trump as the better option than Clinton. He promotes abandoning progressives to go a third party route that benefits Republicans most. Pretty much everything he promotes doing helps Republicans most.
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  4452.  @dinkleberg794  Every sixty seconds in Canada, someone has watched one of our heritage minutes. https://www.historicacanada.ca/heritageminutes
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  4453.  @adamromero  I see it as the online anti-Bernie people and bots, the DNC, and the MSM, are constants, at every level. Those are the generic normal, champion, and unique monsters. Their attacks get stronger or more numerous with every level. 1st boss: Warren, challenging for progressive support. (DEFEATED) 2nd boss: Fake out, it wasn't Biden, it was Sneaky Pete slipping in there. (CHEATED rnd 1 ... rnd 2 tonight) 3rd boss: Biden challenging for black voters in more diverse states than Iowa or New Hampshire. 4th boss: Bloomberg and his billions Once they're all defeated, will have to see if they help against Big Boss Trump or not.
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  4454. Talking on a Bluetooth while he's doing stuff, walking somewhere?
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  4455. South Korea developed mass testing quickly, to get ahead of the spread.
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  4456.  @elnegrobembon  Yep, that would be awesome. 95% of hospitals here, in Canada, operate as non profit. First, get yourselves some M4A. Then get yourselves back to a largely non profit healthcare system. Once you've caught up to most of the rest of the developed world, then look into your VA for all.
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  4457. Yes, corporate Dems were so afraid of the Green Party, which hasn't won a single seat in its 20 year existence, they invented AOC, intentionally had her take out their #2 corporate Dem, intentionally had her back Bernie, and intentionally had her use her platform and PAC to replace even more DCCC backed corporate Dems. It's all so obvious- ... ly nonsense.
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  4458.  @melodieostmanrealestate  All the idiots packed into one place isn't "everyone".
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  4459.  @mickg3738  Why would I be jealous of being such a failure that daddy had to bail me out with an illegal loan?
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  4460. Claiming a shiny rock is worth something, isn't really that different.
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  4461. Likud was formed by Irgun terrorist, Menachem Begin, child murderer, Jew murderer, King David Hotel bomber, and Ariel Sharon, war criminal, who massacred Palestinian villages. Their Likud platform included "from the sea to the Jordan" (reverse of the river to the sea) for Israel alone, no interpretation. Netanyahu seems to still be trying to achieve that goal.
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  4462. Rofl. You actually get more microplastics from cheap bottled water, in really cheap thin plastic bottles, that starts breaking down faster. The cheaper bottled water is also more likely to simply be tap water, itself, with now even more microplastics in it. Plus, all the extra plastic use, will add even more microplastic to the system.
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  4463.  @HolyCanoley  What a load of shit. If someone offers me two shit movies to watch and says I need to pick one, me writing down some other movie I actually want to watch but isn't available, and them picking for me, doesn't negate what I dislike about the two shit movies being offered.
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  4464.  @EbluestarE  It's stupid when you have say one smoking causes cancer doctor and one smoking doesn't cause cancer doctor, and make out like they're equally valid points, that the public should debate and decide, instead of a consensus of doctors. No ivermectin "study" has been deemed sufficient to conclude ivermectin is an effective remedy. They've been deemed insufficient, biased, and even outright fraudulent. You don't need to both sides it, as if they're equally valid, and have an ignorant public debate whether it's effective, and decide for themselves. Peer review and scientific consensus have nothing to do whether an opinion wins a public popularity content. All you really need to report is what's holding up under peer review, and what the scientific consensus is. The unvaccinated aiming for natural immunity, are letting 1% of their population die, and letting millions get long covid, to get their individual natural immunity ... that also wears off, like vaccines, and then you have to let people die, and get long covid, again, just so you can get natural immunity again. It doesn't deserve equal time.
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  4465.  @davidm1926  He's no anarchist.
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  4466. ​ @KeithMilner  It should be considered false advertising.
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  4467. ​ @Matty-o9p  So, she didn't provide a yes vote to it? So?
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  4468. ​ @danielwebster8019  They don't wish for any of that. They're MAGA, just using dmwt Dore type criticisms.
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  4469. You get that both Russia and Israel are the colonialists, right?
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  4470.  @Bolaniullen  Aside from that being bullshit ... Chomsky says to stop supporting Saudi, who spreads their ultra-conservative Wahhabism around, while Sam justifies supporting Saudi ... Sam said "in terms of the totality of their understanding of what’s happening now in the world" and Carson proved to be absolutely clueless about what's going on in the world, multiple times.
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  4471.  @alejandrojuarez5640  Yeah, Biden forgetting Obama's name, his own surname, what position he's running for, etc., is all a GOP ploy.
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  4472.  @alejandrojuarez5640  Rofl. Progressives were catching Joe nonsense live. If anything, the GOP followed them, dumbass. When was the last time you forgot your own last name?
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  4473. Lol, are you one of Dore knob's Booger friends?
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  4474.  @barbiquearea  There's a difference between depressed consciousness and subconsciousness vs zero consciousness. People recount dreams, after coming out of comas. We pull the plug on brain dead people all the time, even though their bodies could be sustained on life support (like a fetus requires life support). A fetus doesn't even start developing the parts required, for any of the above, until 24 weeks. If we can consider someone brain dead no longer really "alive", then why can't we consider a pre 24 week fetus, not yet "alive"?
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  4475.  @gudmundursturluson7683  Rofl! The tea party was backed by the Koch brothers, and other far right donors that were pressuring all the Republicans in congress. There were constantly growing numbers of them. Republicans don't actually need to be pushed that hard to move further right. As you can see, the majority are plenty happy to support all out fascism. Plus, the only way a minority within a party can have any power over the majority, is if that majority is unwilling to work with the other party. If the non tea party Republicans had simply worked with enough Democrats, they could have passed whatever they wanted, and totally ignored the tea partiers. There are zero big donors pushing other Democrats to jump onboard with progressives. New congressional Dems aren't joining the progressive caucus weekly. Corporate Dems have no natural tendency to move left. Plus, the Manchin types are clearly willing to work with Republicans. Expecting similar results to the tea party would be completely moronic. They aren't, at all, samesies. Justice Dems have increased the progressive vote count. Getting enough yes votes in congress is the only possible way to ever pass a bill. AOC helped add a few more, as well. She was on the ground campaigning for Nina Turner, trying to add another. Dore slanders those progressives, who have done more for M4A in a few years than he has in his entire lifetime. And, he publicly abandoned Nina Turner ... abandoned adding another M4A yes vote to congress. Other countries don't have the same political system, or similar party divisions. The most popular third party hasn't won a single seat in congress in its near 50 year existence. The most popular progressive third party hasn't won a single seat in congress in its 20 year existence. Even if you magically got a significant percentage of progressives to vote third party, then Republicans would rule for decades to come, due to vote splitting. "Vote blue" works both ways. The vast majority of those who vote against progressives in the primaries tend to vote for them in the general. Any hope of Bernie becoming president would have relied on "vote blue" working for him. Progressives running as Dems has proven to be the far more effective way to win a seat than going third party has. Plus, you're not guaranteed a third party will only produce perfectly perfect puritan progressives. Green produced Kyrsten Sinema.
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  4476. People getting offended and whining about the general concept of people getting offended and whining, is pretty nonsensical.
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  4477. This year's election day exit polls will be as skewed as election day voting was skewed. If more Democrat Latinos voted by mail than Republican Latinos, then exit polls would show a higher percentage of election day Latinos voting for Trump. Years of Pew surveys show the Republicans making zero headway with Hispanic or Black Americans.
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  4478. Nobody is talking about a cold, dumb dumb.
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  4479.  @whyamimrpink78  20-30% are not scared of a cold, second dumb dumb.
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  4480.  @whyamimrpink78  Nope. Not afraid of a "cold".
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  4481.  fa q  Rofl! Dore promoted Trump as the better option than Clinton, claiming Trump being so awful would cause a massive progressive backlash (wrong). He vastly overestimated the benefits, claiming that it would "for sure" lead to progressives taking the house (wrong), and senate (wrong), in 2018, and the presidency (wrong), in 2020. He vastly underestimated the risks, claiming even Republicans would join the left and vote against a Trump agenda (wrong) and claiming Trump filling multiple scotus seats was as likely as the moon falling into Lake Michigan (wrong). He was wrong about Tulsi. He was wrong about Boogaloos. He was wrong about AOC and Bernie, who were just campaigning for Nina Turner, still fighting to add another M4A yes vote to congress (It was Dore who abandoned fighting to add another M4A yes vote to congress). He's wrong about third party viability. He's wrong about almost everything.
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  4482.  @TWENTYFO5  Weird how "actual lefty", Jimmy Dore, benefits the far right more than the left.
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  4483.  @jackaljade  Every single sperm is a potential human life. Do you want to save every potential human life?
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  4484. ​ @EB-du3vh  So, you think people in Germany came to the right conclusion, for themselves?
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  4485. What even would be recognized as Palestine, if it was.
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  4486.  @1080-v4v  Talk to Border Patrol? Border Patrol are the ones posting the numbers clearly showing that Trump had more border crossings than Obama, dumb dumb. And, nothing you can now say can will ever change the fact that you found a Vox article and totally failed to grasp what it said.
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  4487.  @FrankskinOrweed-ep4ij  People who train dogs for fighting.
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  4488. Kyle, please do a segment on how a VAT actually works. It's built right into VAT systems that VAT registered businesses get their input VAT credited back to them. It is not a way to make corporations like Amazon "pay their fair share", as Yang falsely claims. While he's claiming it will force Amazon to pay taxes, Amazon is already operating in countries with a VAT and has their own tutorial page on how businesses get their input VAT credited back. https://services.amazon.co.uk/services/vat-resources.html "If the person or businesses that is buying is registered for VAT they can deduct the amount of VAT paid from his/her settlement with the tax authorities." https://www.hwca.com/accountants-hull/what-is-vat-input-and-vat-output/ "The GST takes into account the cost of inputs – the factors used in manufacturing or production – at each stage of the process to avoid double taxation. Input tax credits enable partnerships, businesses and self-employed workers to recover all GST paid on goods and services purchased for business purposes by deducting them from their GST payments. Final consumers are not entitled to such credits, which means that they pay all the GST on every item purchased. The GST is thus a multi-stage tax on final consumption." http://publications.gc.ca/Collection-R/LoPBdP/BP/prb0003-e.htm#A.%20Taxing%20Mechanism(txt) Since a VAT won't actually tax Amazon, and since their share of US consumer spending is 2%, handing consumers $3t will only make them an extra $60b a year, while still paying nothing in taxes. That would, in turn, make Bezos more money a year than he'd ever personally pay into a VAT. The very people Yang claims he's going after will only get richer from him.
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  4489. It's one thing to get them to work with you, to do what you want. It's another thing to be beholding to them, to get you to do what they want.
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  4490. Yang is clueless. His method for paying for a UBI would have had money flowing to the very top faster than ever before.
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  4491.  @mediamattersismycockholste562 Man, you are dumber than a stump. Confederate flag wavers, disrupting black birthday parties aren't Democrats. Confederate flag wavers arming themselves, and shooting themselves, to protect Confederate monuments are not Democrats. People still fighting for the right to discriminate are not Democrats. The KKK, Richard Spencer, and their racist ilk, are not Democrats. The parties switched, dumb dumb.
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  4492. He's even worse, on this topic, and would also let Rvssia do to Ukraine what IL is doing to Pal.
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  4493. And by "religious freedom", he was referring to Puritans "freedom" to force their beliefs on everyone else, theocratic courts, persecuting and even killing those they considered hedonist and also other denominations like Quakers, giving natives conversion ultimatums, etc.
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  4494.  @kcolonelx6181  The ICJ has previously ruled that Israel didn't have a right to defend itself, as an occupier. Why wouldn't they have the votes?
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  4495.  @kcolonelx6181  Because they have to have a trial, and judge that the thing Israel is currently doing is illegal, like I said?
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  4496. Weren't right wingers the ones who wanted corporations to be treated like people, and allowed to have beliefs, or are they only allowed to have religious beliefs?
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  4497.  @Michaelcj-m2d  Yeah, totally samesies, as today. You know there were some electoral reforms, between then, and now, right? Like, limiting the electoral college, and how electorals are divided, which benefits current Republicans. The most popular third party hasn't won a single seat in congress in its 50 year existence. The most popular progressive third party hasn't won a single seat in its 20 year existence. So similar to the Republicans in the 1800s.
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  4498. ​ @righthandstep5 That's like claiming the Native Americans chose their path.
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  4499. How to fund UBI is extremely important. If you're not shaving wealth from the very top and handing it down, then the money is coming from elsewhere. Yang is lying when he claims a VAT is a way to make giant corporations, like Amazon, and the super rich like Bezos, "pay their fair share". It is built right into a VAT system that businesses get paid back for their input VAT, and the final consumer ends up paying the entire tax. Since it won't tax Amazon, handing consumers $3t will only make Amazon richer. If only 20% is spent on retail and Amazon owns 5% or retail, Yang's VAT/UBI scheme will make Amazon an extra $30b a year. That would make Bezos an extra $3.6b a year. He'd have to spend over $36b a year on goods and services with a VAT to pay in more than he gets out.
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  4500.  @fatbachelors3922  Nope. He promoted a Trump presidency as the better option, because he fantasized it would lead to a progressive wave that would "for sure" take the house and senate in 2018 (didn't happen), and the presidency in 2020 (didn't happen). He claimed that even Republicans would vote against a Trump agenda, rather than follow him into overt fascism (didn't happen, they followed right along and even tried to overthrow the democratic process to keep an unelected ruler in power). He also claimed Trump filling multiple scotus seats was as likely as the moon falling into Lake Michigan (still waiting for it to drop). A Trump presidency made people so desperate to be rid of him, that they fell for "more electable" propaganda. Bernie didn't really do much better after a Trump presidency, than he did after an Obama presidency. If only "kingmaker" Dore had backed Bernie instead of Tulsi, maybe that would have made a difference, lol.
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  4501. Rofl. The completely socialized UK system is half the cost of the US. Why are you quoting absolute morons?
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  4502.  @JamesDavy2009  Next you'll be telling me that people don't prance around clapping coconut halves together.
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  4503. Bernie/Nina Worst case scenario, she'd best carry on and stick to Bernie's platform.
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  4504. There's a law against fraud, dumbass.
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  4505. Lol, "just as" is a bit much.
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  4506. To those saying police and military ... they don't count towards the capitalist-socialist axis. They count towards the authoritarian-libertarian axis. Even Ayn Rand thought the most minimalist government needed military and a justice system. Counting them as socialist is how capitalists claim all authoritarianism is socialist.
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  4507.  @wolfen888  Justice for the clnized or the clnizers?
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  4508. He lost his mind when editors asked for a rewrite, something editors have been doing since the dawn of publishing, and is literally part of their jobs. Blathering about violating his "free speech", when it has nothing to do with anything he's ranting about. Then he moved on to accusing private companies of violating "free speech", when there's no such thing as free speech on someone else's private property. That brought him together with Jimmy, and it's even more downhill from there.
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  4509. Well, it's not a private company making decisions about what to allow on their own private property, it's the actual government, so ... they probably won't, because neither of them seem to know how free speech rights actually work.
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  4510. Dore knob.
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  4511.  @roberttelford745  Rofl. He was wrong on most of that crap. He's often only "right", when he builds strawmen, or uses false equivalencies, to make himself right. Bernie,, for example, never hid the fact that he caucuses with Democrats, is a harm reductionist who considers Republicans to be worse, and would support whoever the Democrat candidate would be. He stuck to what he said he'd do. Maybe you idiots just weren't listening.
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  4512.  @CMfuell  Rofl! For every 2 empty seats, absentees, or abstentions, the threshold needed to win is lowered by 1, you dimwitted Dore knob. At the time, there were 2 empty seats. 2 empty seats, plus 15 abstentions, lowers the threshold needed to win by 8, down to 210. If every other Dem voted Pelosi, she'd get 207. If every Republican voted McCarthy, he'd get 211. He'd win the speakership.
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  4513.  @CMfuell  Where am I losing you? Dore made it clear that he thought it was "impossible" for McCarthy to become speaker, without Dems voting for him. He made it clear that he didn't think abstaining could lead to McCarthy winning. He didn't say his 15 progressives needed to cast protest votes. He repeatedly used the wording to simply "withhold votes" or "not vote" for Pelosi, which implies abstaining. If 15 progressives abstained, McCarthy would win the speakership. The "plan", out of Dore's mouth, would have handed the speakership to McCarthy.
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  4514.  @herbertcamacho1461  What are you blathering about? The majority in congress supported Civil Rights, by the time it came up for a vote. A minority filibustered. As soon as the filibuster ended, the majority passed it.
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  4515.  @noqb2862  They'd be the "workers", dumb dumb.
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  4516.  Without Jesus Hell Awaits  You're a moron. Look at 10 years, then look at 3 years. Obama's last budget ran through 2017. The DOW has flatlined since Trump's first budget kicked in. https://www.macrotrends.net/1358/dow-jones-industrial-average-last-10-years
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  4517.  @nebraskacovington3615  What do you consider progressive?
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  4518.  @wakaisgood  Ummm, that's not hate speech. Hate speech laws don't applying to criticizing individuals. In fact it's criticizing an individual who spews hate speech. At best, you could try to argue it's defamation, and sue the cartoonist, but you'd have to prove how it's untrue ... prove that Trump actually cares about those people.
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  4519.  @waltergrace565  Why were you prattling on about congressional and senate hearings, and such, when the next two congressional makeups are unknowns?
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  4520.  @gattaca5911  Yeah, I've been waiting, should be dropping any day now ...
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  4521.  @shanabell8603  The op literally said they never were. But, what they'd do is point at the one or two reporters who weren't looney fascist propagandists, and say see, we've got this guy. Now they can't even do that.
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  4522. Hehe, I do genealogy. Yeah, it's fucking annoying.
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  4523.  @poethepoetspoet  But, I do.
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  4524.  @poethepoetspoet  Recent evidence suggests that you're a Dore knob who either doesn't know what Dore, literally, did, or is lying for him.
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  4525.  @robinsss  How the f*ck is being allowed to buy, sell, and own, another human being, not also an economic issue, especially so you can make a bigger profit rather than hire people and pay wages? How is having a monopoly on land also not an economic issue? How is money funneling to the very top, and leaving millions destitute, also not an economic issue? Etc. What, about capitalism, says that I, as a landlord, can't charge tenants whatever I want, can't set whatever rules I want for living on my property, and can't hire my own security to enforce those rules and collect those fees?
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  4526. @legion999 Jimmy Dore, who promoted Trump as better than Clinton, and claimed it was more likely for the moon to fall into Lake Michigan than Trump filling multiple scotus seats, thinks he's king of progressives and a political mastermind, and is calling anyone who doesn't do what he says fakes, sellouts, and shills.
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  4527. Sky News is absolutely nutty. Wandered into one of their comment sections one day and it's full of batshit crazy people.
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  4528. Except the Tea Party was backed by big corporate donors, and Republicans have a natural tendency to move right, to begin with. Corporate Dems don't have a natural tendency to move left, and their corporate donors won't help push them left.
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  4529.  @ericb-amuur9897  You're spewing nonsense.
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  4530.  Zoom Boom  You mean strategies like using that massive social media platform of hers, and her PAC, to help take out the chair of the foreign affairs committee, by backing Jamaal Bowman, and helping to add other pro-M4A progressives to congress, as well? Or using that platform to spotlight striking union workers? Or using it to raise money for Texans, putting their Republican representatives to shame? Only a complete moron, like Dore, would both think he's accomplishing things, think he's fighting, using his relatively small social media platform, while making out like using a much larger social media platform doesn't accomplish anything, and doesn't amount to fighting for anything. Bernie, AOC, and other progressives, have used their platforms to spread progressive ideas, have used them to make ideas like M4A and GND part of mainstream discussion, have used them to increase public support for said ideas ... oh no, make them stop! On top of that platform, that you're criticizing, being a valuable tool for the progressive cause, she is accomplishing more than any third party, just by having a seat in congress, that allows her to put forward bills, cast votes on bills, join committees, etc. The most popular third party hasn't even won a single seat in congress in its near 50 year existence.
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  4531.  @sydberetta4649  You Dore knobs don't even know what "gaslighting" means.
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  4532. These nuts literally worship what would be the leading abortionist in existence, if it existed, while claiming that's pure goodness.
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  4533. ​ @JonathanB138  For example?
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  4534. You guys have a serious problem. Here in Canada we have 33 confirmed cases with zero deaths. Globally the death rate is 3.4% of confirmed cases. You've got 9 deaths, with just over 100 confirmed cases. That's almost 3x the global rate.
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  4535. @Without Error By forcing them on others?
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  4536. Except Sam likely idiotically thinks Trump understands what's going on in the world better than Noam Chomsky, like he does with the absolute moron Ben Carson.
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  4537.  @RaitoYagami88  link above
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  4538.  @ajaxaceofaces  Isn't the brightest bulb? For example?
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  4539. puts pinky to side of mouth 300 MILLION PEOPLE!!!!
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  4540. Don't worry. Her team is on standby, in case they have to put a stop to the naming of a post office!
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  4541.  @seabass155  CDC: "During March 2020–January 2021, the period that coincided with the COVID-19 pandemic, the risk for myocarditis was 0.146% among patients diagnosed with COVID-19 during an inpatient or hospital-based outpatient encounter and 0.009% among patients who were not diagnosed with COVID-19." 0.146% = 146 per 100000 (COVID) 0.009% = 9 per 100000 (No COVID) My bad, the age table ... 16-24: 0.098% = 98 per 100000 (C) 16-24: 0.013% = 13 per 100000 (~C) ^But, those would be higher for boys/men. CTV reporting on Ontario announcement: "The risk of myocarditis in Ontario following the second dose of Moderna in men in the 18 to 24 age group was one in 5,000, the government said. The number is much lower for women. That number is approximately one in 28,000 for the Pfizer COVID-19 vaccine." 1 per 5000 = 20 per 100000 (M) 1 per 28000 = 3.6 per 100000 (P) So, Pfizer is 3.6x lower than the no covid rate, and 27x lower than the COVID rate. Moderna is 1.5x the no covid rate, but 4.9x lower than the COVID rate.
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  4542.  @marshalLannes1769  What is the One Million Plan?
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  4543. ​ @herballycorrect  Also you: FJB ... FJB ... FJB Hypocrite.
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  4544.  @zelenskysboot361  A "public option" is making it optional to sign up for, and pay into, the public health insurance plan. Can Australians simply opt out of paying into the public plan?
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  4545.  @prettypurplepicklez  No there weren't. The Palestinian population increase can almost all be attributed to reproduction rates. The Jewish population increase rate was more than double that. Yep, Jews have Canaanite DNA too, but they left for 1700 years. I can't round up 6 million people from the Americas whose ancestors left England hundreds of years ago and go take half of England. That's a batshit crazy idea, which is what Zionism is, batshit crazy.
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  4546. @The Wraith Well, if the world adopts something like the Montreal Protocol, and reverses ozone depletion, of course any bad predictions won't then come true, because the bad predictions were based on doing nothing.
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  4547.  @HavokBWR  What was it you considered "prejudice" to mean? You think trying to achieve a better balance is driven purely by a hate, rather than a desire for equal rights, equal opportunities, equal treatment, equal pay, or whatnot? That doesn't sound quite right. Was the US founded on hatred, because they didn't want to pay taxes without equal representation? Ugh. The division was then property owners vs non property owners, and non property owners were denied the right to vote. It was classist. Denying black Americans rights was racist. Denying women rights was sexist. Denying non Christians rights was bigoted (indirectly racist, since it applied mainly to blacks and natives, at the time). Rofl. Conscription? That's your big beef? Have you asked women if they support conscription? I think you're just pulling a load out of your ass, there. So, should undocumented males be given the right to vote, since they can be conscripted?
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  4548.  @whyamimrpink78  Moron. She's more of a common "man" than someone shitting on golden seated toilets. You're simply racist idiots, who don't even know there was a negative net undocumented migration rate, for a decade. More have been leaving than coming in. No evidence? Aside from multiple reports, there was just Pence standing in front of hundreds of people, who had been there over a month, hadn't showered, hadn't brushed their teeth, couldn't lay down, etc. If think how they were being treated is humane, then I can only assume you don't know the definition of "humane".
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  4549. ​ @barbaraklein3944 Likud's bloody 100 year history ... In 1923, 100 years ago, Ze'ev Jabotinsky wrote, The Iron Wall, and a follow up, The Ethics of The Iron Wall (sooo racist towards Africans), in which he fully acknowledged that post Balfour Zionsim was colonialism, and that, based on the entirety of history, the native Palestinian population would resist being colonized until the bitter end. He directly compared it to the colonization of North America. He promoted doing it anyway, claiming Zionist colonialism was a "just" colonialism (he also thought North American colonialists were good guys, so not a great judge of morality), not caring what that meant for the native population. Ze'ev is important, because his Betar militant youth group helped found the Irgun terrorist group, along with other supporters of his, and the splinter Lehi terrorist group. The Irgun bombed numerous Palestinian markets and other public places, murdering many Palestinian civilians, including children, even including Palestinian Jews (who didn't support colonialist Zionsim). The Irgun are important, because they ended up being led by future Likud PM, Menachem Begin, who bombed the King David Hotel. The King David Hotel was bombed because the British had raided the Jewish Agency and seized numerous documents that may have shown that the terrorists were working with the JA and Haganah (JA liked to pretend that they didn't support the terrorism). The British then stored those documents at their base, in the hotel. That the Irgun terrorists responded to a JA raid, itself seems to prove the connection. That the thousands of Irgun (and Lehi) terrorists were also quickly merged into the new nation's military (IDF) and intelligence (Mossad) agencies, and are still celebrated as "heroes" by Israelis, to this day, also seems to support total collaboration between the groups. That other terrorist group mentioned, Lehi (also known as the Stern Gang), was considered even more extreme. They even tried to ally with the Nazis, against the British. Lehi ended up being led by Yitzhak Shamir, future Mossad agent, and another future Likud PM. In 1945, there was a major land and peoples survey done in Palestine. It showed that the Zionists only owned about 5% of the total land, 20% of the arable land, and owned a majority in zero districts. The partition was not only going to be forced on the native Palestinian majority, but Jews were still going to be a minority, in the part allocated to them. The only possible way to even become a "Jewish state" was going to require getting rid of the actual majority (at least enough so that there'd be a solid Jewish majority, so they could fake being democratic). This is also shown by the 1948, post Nakba, population of Israel. If there was 716,700 Jews, 156,000+ non-Jews, and approximately 700k non-Jews ethnically cleansed, that means the Jewish population, in the Zionist portion of partition, was originally over 100,000 less than the non-Jewish population. To believe that there was never any intent, by Zionists, to ethnically cleanse away the Palestinian majority would require believing that they never intended to create a "Jewish state". It's a nonsensical notion. Begin, and those terrorist groups, also opposed partition, but for the opposite reason Palestinians did. Palestinians didn't want to be colonized, at all. The terrorists wanted to colonize it all. "Moderate" Zionists were okay with colonizing half ... for now (what would happen in the future, after partition, was up to them, said Ben-Gurion). The Zionist terrorists were also involved in massacres, and assassinations, during the partition violence (colonialist war against the natives). Another notable future Likud PM, also started in the military, during the partition fighting. That was Ariel Sharon, war criminal, "Butcher of Beirut". Menachem Begin, and these other Zionist terrorists, are important because they also later founded Likud. Now, people get upset over the slogan "From the river to the sea!", but it's the second part that's most important, "Palestine will be free!". Because "Palestine" isn't defined as an ethno-state, a free Palestine can be a single state, free for all to live in, and return to, free of continuing colonization, free of occupation, free of oppression, etc. Just like a Germany free of Nazism, an Italy free of fascism, a South Africa free of apartheid, or an America free of slavery from sea to shiny sea. It doesn't necessitate purging all the Jews. It just necessitates them giving up on the idea of an ethno-state. On the other hand, because "Israel" has been defined as an ethno-state, Likud's, "between the sea and the Jordan there will only be Israeli sovereignty", has no possible good interpretation. It is a declaration of intent to completely colonize, and ethnically cleanse, all Palestine territories. Not only that, but it also claims that they have a "right" to all of the "Land of Israel" (biblical borders that don't mesh with archaeological reality), which is an open declaration of future wars, against Jordan, Syria, Lebanon, and possibly even Iraq. Likud platform ... 1977: "The Right of the Jewish People to the Land of Israel (Eretz Israel) a. The right of the Jewish people to the land of Israel is eternal and indisputable and is linked with the right to security and peace; therefore, Judea and Samaria will not be handed to any foreign administration; between the Sea and the Jordan there will only be Israeli sovereignty. b. A plan which relinquishes parts of western Eretz Israel, undermines our right to the country, unavoidably leads to the establishment of a "Palestinian State," jeopardizes the security of the Jewish population, endangers the existence of the State of Israel. and frustrates any prospect of peace." "Settlement Settlement. both urban and rural. in all parts of the Land of Israel is the focal point of the Zionist effort to redeem the country, to maintain vital security areas and serves as a reservoir of strength and inspiration for the renewal of the pioneering spirit. The Likud government will call on the younger generation in Israel and the dispersions to settle and help every group and individual in the task of inhabiting and cultivating the wasteland, while taking care not to dispossess anyone." 1999: "The Government of Israel flatly rejects the establishment of a Palestinian Arab state west of the Jordan river. The Palestinians can run their lives freely in the framework of self-rule, but not as an independent and sovereign state. Thus, for example, in matters of foreign affairs, security, immigration, and ecology, their activity shall be limited in accordance with imperatives of Israel's existence, security and national needs." "The Jewish communities in Judea, Samaria, and Gaza are the realization of Zionist values. Settlement of the land is a clear expression of the unassailable right of the Jewish people to the Land of Israel and constitutes an important asset in the defense of the vital interests of the State of Israel. The Likud will continue to strengthen and develop these communities and will prevent their uprooting." All Palestine territories are officially considered occupied, by the International Court of Justice, the UN GA, the UN SC, and even in official documents of Israel's own allies. Likud is still using the blueprint for colonizing North America, in the West Bank. Move settlements out into native territory, piss off the natives, the natives retaliate, cry about poor "innocent" colonizing settlers being the "victims" of violent "Savages!", call in the cavalry to put down the native uprising, and eventually expand the borders to include those settlements. Rinse and repeat. In Gaza, they are operating an open air WWII style fascist ghetto. Them claiming a "right to defend themselves" would be like the Nazis claiming a "right to defend themselves " from the Warsaw ghetto uprising. There's no "war". That they're the occupiers means the "war" part is long over. That partition was forced upon the Palestinian majority, against their will ... that the Zionist portion still had to be forcefully ethnically cleansed of its non-Jewish majority, against their will ... that the millions of occupied Palestinians don't have a say in the government that truly rules over them, Israel's ... means Israel is about as democratic as Nazi Germany after Hitler purged his political opponents and then held elections. Hamas is basically just a poor man's Likud, only fighting against colonialism, instead of for colonialism.
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  4550. WalletHub bottom 10 ... Arizona 50 Louisiana 49 Nevada 48 New Mexico 47 Alabama 46 South Carolina 45 Oklahoma 44 North Carolina 43 Florida 42 Tennessee 41 Top 10 ... New Jersey 1 New Hampshire 2 Connecticut 3 Vermont 4 Massachusetts 5 New York 6 Maine 7 Colorado 8 Pennsylvania 9 Virginia 10
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  4551.  @sushibois2103  The US is separated from China by an ocean. The virus didn't walk into the country. And, Japan has a higher population density.
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  4552.  @leoelvis524  He looks tired is what he looks. They just travelled to Asia to jump right into more press junkets.
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  4553.  @peterbills4129  Not sure about David's heritage, specifically, but you might want to look up 'Jewish Gauchos'.
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  4554.  @mimzyjinx8142  Listening to a worldwide widespread consensus of scientists and doctors isn't ignoring any other sources. It's listening to the majority of sources, dumb dumb. Ignoring the 9 dentists for the 1 dentist, is listening to a single source.
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  4555.  @mimzyjinx8142  Oh my, they aren't self centered idiots who don't care if they can possibly be a carrier, and only care that their own antibodies will keep them personally safe. You idiots think vaccines, or having had the virus already, acts like a force field. Antibodies only go to work to fight off the virus, when you get the virus.
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  4556.  @mimzyjinx8142  Yeah, no bear spray, no stun guns, no spear tipped flagpoles, no flagpoles used to beat anybody, no baseball bats, no pipe bombs ... just a bunch of tourists.
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  4557. ​ @hatchbackhound  Denmark is real world centrism. Every American "enlightened centrist" is quite far right, because even the most progressive Dem policies wouldn't move the US left of Denmark, meaning Dems are Center to Right. Reps are extreme fscst right.
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  4558.  @knightoftheonedotcom  No she didn't, dumb dumb. All her siblings have been accounted for. All applied for asylum on their own. And, there's no reason to fake a marriage, when siblings can already sponsor each other. You're simply an idiot.
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  4559. That, or, "Can I have some headphones, please?"
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  4560. You don't know what "freedom of speech" is.
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  4561. It's, literally, a journalist's job to inform the public. It's pretty much the definition of "journalist".
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  4562.  @TheUser06  That's not what they said, dumb dumb.
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  4563.  @TheUser06  Lol, don't have any of those. The average person with asthma has a normal life expectancy. Saying the asthma killed them is moronic.
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  4564.  @TheUser06  Lol, it's one of the comorbidities, you're claiming kills people, idiot.
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  4565.  @Barskor1  That's why I said "after the Civil War", dumb dumb.
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  4566.  @vallano8970  Yang doesn't even have his UBI stack with SSI disability, which can currently stack with SNAP. If a disabled person is already getting $1000+ a month in assistance, they'll get zero economic benefit from the UBI but will still have to pay a 10% VAT on many things. They'd immediately be worse off with Yang. Non staples: electricity, phone, phone service, internet, toys, games, basically any entertainment with a cost, personal hygiene products, household cleaning products, home maintenance, vehicle maintenance, and all kinds of things that still affect people's lives. Letting them opt out of the UBI doesn't let them opt out of paying the VAT.
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  4567.  @vallano8970  Moron. I'm Canadian. I've been paying a VAT for almost 30 years and operated a VAT registered business. I know exactly how a VAT works. You left out how the department store would keep $1.00 and only send $1.00 to the government. A total of $2 was sent to the government. Every business was paid back their input VAT, and it was the final consumer who actually paid the full $2 VAT, because they're the only one who doesn't get paid back. Here, while Yang is lying to you about how a VAT will tax Amazon, Amazon is already operating in countries with a VAT and has their own tutorial page on how businesses get their input VAT credited back to them. https://services.amazon.co.uk/services/vat-resources.html Also, if you don't think an extra $20 a month matters (say an extra $10 on electricity, $4 on phone service, $4 on internet, and a couple bucks elsewhere), then you've never been really poor. Some very poor people will be worse off, while Yang actually makes Amazon an extra $60b a year.
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  4568. He has. Jimmy got creamed. Still waiting for the moon to fall into Lake Michigan.
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  4569. Dore knob or right winger? Can't tell the difference.
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  4570. It's their private property. That's pretty much the way private property works, because you don't have a right to be on someone else's private property. Push for public ownership, if you want free speech rights, or whatever.
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  4571.  @robertferguson6827  Progressives in the house have been working on trying to increase the number of M4A yes votes in congress, which moves you closer to ever passing the bill, because getting enough M4A yes votes in congress is the only possible way to ever pass the bill. A 100% guaranteed to fail performance art vote doesn't actually get you any closer to actually passing M4A. Progressives tried to add another M4A yes vote to congress, in Nina Turner. Dore, on the other hand, abandoned her ... he abandoned adding another M4A yes vote to congress. He's a grifter.
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  4572.  @theotherview1716  Maybe not, but the Native Americans reached a point where they wanted to push the white man back into the sea, and it wasn't simply because they were white.
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  4573. Even Richard Spencer supports Israel ... because he wants all the Jews to go to Israel, as well as stating he wants the US to copy Israel, and create their own ethno-religious state.
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  4574. ​ @SuperWolfkin  This guy likes talking about things that have nothing to do with each other.
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  4575. The Gilded Age through to the Roaring 20s created massive economic inequality. Leading into the Great Depression, there were all kinds of labour riots, etc. Democrats sided more and more with the workers. Then came the crash, depression, FDR, and his New Deal. Unionization spiked, and Democrats were the party of workers and their unions. HUAC started upping it's game against "leftists", and then came McCarthyism in the early 50s. Things started shifting to the right, again, as did the Democrats. Reagan came along and pushed things even further right. Economically, the two parties became not all that different, both right wing, Democrats swapping union support for corporate support as unionization rates dropped. They differed more and more on social issues (Republicans taking in very religious views, and taking in the Southern racists). The Tea Party nuts took the Republicans to an even more extreme right, leaving Democrats right wing, but left of them. Progressives want to return to the true centrist position, like FDR. A truer centre between all out capitalism and all out socialism. The current "centrist" corporate Dems want to stay in the "centre" between Republicans and Progressives, and stick with their now corporate backers.
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  4576. You get a brand new list of names, every new session, of people who won't sign onto the bill, ffs. Having a guaranteed to fail vote, just to try and ferret out a few fakers, when you still need to convert or replace 100+ seats, is idiotic.
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  4577.  @estherc.5559  I stopped reading at your first sentence. A VAT does not tax businesses. That is a blatant lie. A VAT is specifically designed to NOT tax businesses in order to avoid double taxation (which would be f*cking worse anyway!!!). While Yang was claiming a VAT would force Amazon to pay its fair share in taxes, Amazon UK has tutorial pages on how a VAT doesn't end up taxing businesses. You're clearly a cultist who has no idea what they're talking about.
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  4578.  @estherc.5559  You are completely ignorant, and have no clue how a VAT actually works. Take being clueless as a compliment all you want. This is the basic VAT formula for businesses ... x = output VAT y = input VAT x - y = z If z > 0, then the business reclaims y from x and sends z to the government, having paid no tax in the end. If z < 0, then the business keeps all of x and can reclaim z from the government, having paid no tax in the end. Neither has the business paying any taxes.
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  4579. Likud's bloody 100 year history ... In 1923, 100 years ago, Ze'ev Jabotinsky wrote, The Iron Wall, and a follow up, The Ethics of The Iron Wall (sooo racist towards Africans), in which he fully acknowledged that post Balfour Zionsim was colonialism, and that, based on the entirety of history, the native Palestinian population would resist being colonized until the bitter end. He directly compared it to the colonization of North America. He promoted doing it anyway, claiming Zionist colonialism was a "just" colonialism (he also thought North American colonialists were good guys, so not a great judge of morality), not caring what that meant for the native population. Ze'ev is important, because his Betar militant youth group helped found the Irgun terrorist group, along with other supporters of his, and the splinter Lehi terrorist group. The Irgun bombed numerous Palestinian markets and other public places, murdering many Palestinian civilians, including children, even including Palestinian Jews (who didn't support colonialist Zionsim). The Irgun are important, because they ended up being led by future Likud PM, Menachem Begin, who bombed the King David Hotel. The King David Hotel was bombed because the British had raided the Jewish Agency and seized numerous documents that may have shown that the terrorists were working with the JA and Haganah (JA liked to pretend that they didn't support the terrorism). The British then stored those documents at their base, in the hotel. That the Irgun terrorists responded to a JA raid, itself seems to prove the connection. That the thousands of Irgun (and Lehi) terrorists were also quickly merged into the new nation's military (IDF) and intelligence (Mossad) agencies, and are still celebrated as "heroes" by Israelis, to this day, also seems to support total collaboration between the groups. That other terrorist group mentioned, Lehi (also known as the Stern Gang), was considered even more extreme. They even tried to ally with the Nazis, against the British. Lehi ended up being led by Yitzhak Shamir, future Mossad agent, and another future Likud PM. In 1945, there was a major land and peoples survey done in Palestine. It showed that the Zionists only owned about 5% of the total land, 20% of the arable land, and owned a majority in zero districts. The partition was not only going to be forced on the native Palestinian majority, but Jews were still going to be a minority, in the part allocated to them. The only possible way to even become a "Jewish state" was going to require getting rid of the actual majority (at least enough so that there'd be a solid Jewish majority, so they could fake being democratic). This is also shown by the 1948, post Nakba, population of Israel. If there was 716,700 Jews, 156,000+ non-Jews, and approximately 700k non-Jews ethnically cleansed, that means the Jewish population, in the Zionist portion of partition, was originally over 100,000 less than the non-Jewish population. To believe that there was never any intent, by Zionists, to ethnically cleanse away the Palestinian majority would require believing that they never intended to create a "Jewish state". It's a nonsensical notion. Begin, and those terrorist groups, also opposed partition, but for the opposite reason Palestinians did. Palestinians didn't want to be colonized, at all. The terrorists wanted to colonize it all. "Moderate" Zionists were okay with colonizing half ... for now (what would happen in the future, after partition, was up to them, said Ben-Gurion). The Zionist terrorists were also involved in massacres, and assassinations, during the partition violence (colonialist war against the natives). Another notable future Likud PM, also started in the military, during the partition fighting. That was Ariel Sharon, war criminal, "Butcher of Beirut". Menachem Begin, and these other Zionist terrorists, are important because they also later founded Likud. Now, people get upset over the slogan "From the river to the sea!", but it's the second part that's most important, "Palestine will be free!". Because "Palestine" isn't defined as an ethno-state, a free Palestine can be a single state, free for all to live in, and return to, free of continuing colonization, free of occupation, free of oppression, etc. Just like a Germany free of Nazism, an Italy free of fascism, a South Africa free of apartheid, or an America free of slavery from sea to shiny sea. It doesn't necessitate purging all the Jews. It just necessitates them giving up on the idea of an ethno-state. On the other hand, because "Israel" has been defined as an ethno-state, Likud's, "between the sea and the Jordan there will only be Israeli sovereignty", has no possible good interpretation. It is a declaration of intent to completely colonize, and ethnically cleanse, all Palestine territories. Not only that, but it also claims that they have a "right" to all of the "Land of Israel" (biblical borders that don't mesh with archaeological reality), which is an open declaration of future wars, against Jordan, Syria, Lebanon, and possibly even Iraq. Likud platform ... 1977: "The Right of the Jewish People to the Land of Israel (Eretz Israel) a. The right of the Jewish people to the land of Israel is eternal and indisputable and is linked with the right to security and peace; therefore, Judea and Samaria will not be handed to any foreign administration; between the Sea and the Jordan there will only be Israeli sovereignty. b. A plan which relinquishes parts of western Eretz Israel, undermines our right to the country, unavoidably leads to the establishment of a "Palestinian State," jeopardizes the security of the Jewish population, endangers the existence of the State of Israel. and frustrates any prospect of peace." "Settlement Settlement. both urban and rural. in all parts of the Land of Israel is the focal point of the Zionist effort to redeem the country, to maintain vital security areas and serves as a reservoir of strength and inspiration for the renewal of the pioneering spirit. The Likud government will call on the younger generation in Israel and the dispersions to settle and help every group and individual in the task of inhabiting and cultivating the wasteland, while taking care not to dispossess anyone." 1999: "The Government of Israel flatly rejects the establishment of a Palestinian Arab state west of the Jordan river. The Palestinians can run their lives freely in the framework of self-rule, but not as an independent and sovereign state. Thus, for example, in matters of foreign affairs, security, immigration, and ecology, their activity shall be limited in accordance with imperatives of Israel's existence, security and national needs." "The Jewish communities in Judea, Samaria, and Gaza are the realization of Zionist values. Settlement of the land is a clear expression of the unassailable right of the Jewish people to the Land of Israel and constitutes an important asset in the defense of the vital interests of the State of Israel. The Likud will continue to strengthen and develop these communities and will prevent their uprooting." All Palestine territories are officially considered occupied, by the International Court of Justice, the UN GA, the UN SC, and even in official documents of Israel's own allies. Likud is still using the blueprint for colonizing North America, in the West Bank. Move settlements out into native territory, piss off the natives, the natives retaliate, cry about poor "innocent" colonizing settlers being the "victims" of violent "Savages!", call in the cavalry to put down the native uprising, and eventually expand the borders to include those settlements. Rinse and repeat. In Gaza, they are operating an open air WWII style fascist ghetto. Them claiming a "right to defend themselves" would be like the Nazis claiming a "right to defend themselves " from the Warsaw ghetto uprising. There's no "war". That they're the occupiers means the "war" part is long over. That partition was forced upon the Palestinian majority, against their will ... that the Zionist portion still had to be forcefully ethnically cleansed of its non-Jewish majority, against their will ... that the millions of occupied Palestinians don't have a say in the government that truly rules over them, Israel's ... means Israel is about as democratic as Nazi Germany after Hitler purged his political opponents and then held elections.
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  4580. Fascism/Nazism is based on mass hysteria. They're all insane. They cry about M&Ms ffs.
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  4581. Conservative religious types have been cancelling things and people, for centuries. The Earth isn't the center of the universe? You're cancelled!!!
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  4582. Ummm, conservative religious types have been cancelling crap for centuries. If it's coming around to bite anyone in the ass, it's them.
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  4583.  @tonyz4292  If you can tell me how those debunk multiple studies showing that mask use has helped slow the spread, and debunks the fact that countries with higher tests per confirmed case rates have contained the virus much better and flattened their curves quicker, sure. Go ahead.
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  4584.  @tonyz4292  Ok, countries that quickly adopted mass mask use, consistently had slower spreads. Countries that test dozens, hundreds, of people per confirmed case, consistently flatten their curves faster, and even totally contain the virus. You said nothing that shows anything different.
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  4585.  @chronometer9931  The point was about the people, not the prizes themselves. Face palm.
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  4586.  @whyamimrpink78  Rofl. Trump wasn't a threat to the elites. He gave giant corporations, and the super rich, all kinds of handouts. He had the same old Republicans in his administration. The same old Republicans in congress supported him. How the hell are local election officials elites relative Trump (the head of the federal government ... the head of the elites)? How are judges elites relative to Trump? Even ones he appointed (was the supposed threat to elites packing the courts with elites?) ruled against his garbage lawsuits. How the hell are scientists, doctors, and nurses, "elites"? Yes, Trump did want people to ignore what the vast majority of scientists, doctors, and nurses, across the world, were saying, if they contradicted him. No, he was not right about anything important. Trusting a broad consensus of scientists, doctors, and nurses, across the world, is not bowing to the elites, dumb dumb. Looking for the 1 in 1000 specialists, peddling misinformation for corporations, is trusting the elites. Trump, literally, went backwards on the environment, against a ton of science, all for giant corporations. Again, he fought against state and local governments, which you argue better represent the people. Again, he fought against the voice of the people, tried to overthrow the democratic process, and rule as an unelected dictator. But, hey, you keep pretending you aren't the one attached to the elites by a cord. Remember that your Big Brother speaks in doublespeak.
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  4587. I'm not sure how stupid you are but, just in case ... they're not actually standing beside each other. Sign language guy is in a split screen.
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  4588.  @SeanPat1001  Uh huh, and I literally said "run for office".
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  4589.  @danielarcadia7243  Just the fact, dumb dumb. He was acting as a US agent, on behalf of a US agency. It wasn't a personal project, with personal funds.
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  4590. ​@RuckFussia Would you consider the Warsaw ghetto uprising genocide?
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  4591. @RuckFussia They aren't at war. All the Palestine territories are considered occupied by the International Court of Justice, the UN GA, the UN SC, and even the individual governments allied to Israel. Israel controls the Gaza borders, airspace, ports, electricity, water, imports and exports (only people are allowed to cross Rafah), and Bibi even controls the money coming from Qatar, having turned it off and on, whenever he feels like, before. This is an open air WWII style fascist ghetto. This is like bombing one of those ghettos, to root out the Jewish underground. Palestinians are under the occupiers' protection. The world did not begin on Oct 7. This year, alone, prior to Oct 7 ... Israel held over 1200 Palestinian hostages without charges ... over 200 Palestinians had been killed by the IDF and settlers ... over 1000 Palestinians had been displaced by Israel's neverending colonization of the West Bank. But hey, go ahead and pretend like Hamas "started" something.
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  4592. Rofl! You're insane.
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  4593.  @newbieprepper8451  a) Taxes can be used to deter people from doing something, just like fines, whatever they end up paying for. b) Mexico's junk food tax does go into their universal healthcare system.
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  4594.  @maleficent7484  Exactly. People calling you a bigot or racist doesn't violate your free speech, media outlets deciding what stories they want to run is their free speech, but a president firing (punishing) someone for saying an election wasn't rigged is a free speech issue.
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  4595.  @victoriarichardson1471  Apparently they're there to steal food from the homeless, piss on war memorials, and defile Terry Fox.
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  4596.  @ENDURANCELAND  Stop lying. Europeans from Catholic states were attacking the Orthodox Byzantine Empire, just as much as Muslims. They conquered almost the entire Western half of the Byzantine Empire. Even Crusaders sometimes sacked Byzantine cities, as they were passing through, including Constantinople. You're a dishonest bigot. Aside from a tiny number of Baltic boys, relative to the entire Empire's population, there's no account of Ottomans force converting the population. No account of mass genocide committed against the Byzantines. Just standard medieval warfare. There are first hand accounts of Crusaders slaughtering men, women, and children, until they were up to their ankles in blood? Crusaders slaughtering women and children hiding on rooftops? Are you confusing them for Muslims?
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  4597.  The Ghey Mantis  Bahaha!! You're a loon.
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  4598. ​ @ryanhubbard1885  If he was a smart stock seller, then why didn't he sell between 2016 and 2020, when the stock actually tanked? 2023 was a tiny dip, in comparison.
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  4599.  @whyamimrpink78  Liar
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  4600.  @whyamimrpink78  Wait, are you counting independent Lieberman, who forced them to ditch the public option, and ditch having a 55 year old Medicare buy in, to pass the ACA, as a guaranteed vote? Rofl!
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  4601.  @whyamimrpink78  So there was a 4 month window, where Kennedy's replacement was a Democrat, and you had to count Lieberman as a guaranteed vote, to say Obama had a supermajority. Rofl, okay.
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  4602. It was spelled "hypocrasy", on the board.
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  4603. Turn the page on millions of currently misplaced vaccinations? Or do you just not want who was responsible for misplacing them mentioned?
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  4604.  @whyamimrpink78  So, you're good with the way things ended, last time there was this much disparity? Or, you have baseless faith, that things will just magically end differently, if allowed to play out, this time around? Just ignore the countless times in history when those on the bottom got fed up, and rose up ... things will magically be different this time!
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  4605.  @TenChairman  MAGA is none of those things.
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  4606. Nah, he's pseudo, as well.
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  4607. The fun thing to do with anecdotes is add them all together to get actual statistics.
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  4608. I'm torn. Being polite, and dishonestly supportive, is how you get talentless contestants, that think they're awesome, competing on talent shows. If you're doing something purely for fun, for personal enjoyment, absolutely nobody can take that away from you. If you're doing it because you think you're good at it, and are maybe going to go somewhere with it, then you're going to get critiqued.
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  4609.  @squatch545  The tea party was backed by the Koch brothers. Major right wing donors were also pressuring Republican lawmakers to make another jump to the right ... a direction they already have a tendency to move. The tea party numbers were increasing. And, the only reason they could block anything was because even the other Republicans were so far right that they were unwilling to simply make deals with enough Democrats to get the numbers to pass bills without needing tea party votes. There are no major donors helping progressives push the party left. Other party members aren't joining progressives regularly. Corporate Dems do not have a tendency to move left. Corporate Dems are willing to simply work with Republicans to try and pass bills without needing progressives' votes. The two scenarios are not at all samesies.
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  4610.  @doctorbatman8520  Can you give an example of Bernie Sanders fearmongering about everyone on the right, specific religious groups, or such like? He has complained about the super rich and corporations. Have his followers been out violently attacking the super rich?
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  4611. ​ @chrisd_man2156  Canton police: woman was a natural born citizen Springfield police: no reports of immigrants eating pets
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  4612.  @takincareofbusiness5793  Maybe if you're not also starting trade wars, and large drops can be directly attributed to your tariff announcements, while your tax cut allows buybacks, artificially propping things back up. Both of those have an immediate effect on the stock market, no?
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  4613.  @ranzilberman  Oh, my bad, I misread your racism. Palestinians have Canaanite DNA, racist, so they're simply Arabized natives that converted, somewhere along the way. "Arab" is like "Hispanic". Doesn't necessarily mean someone came from Spain/Arabia, just that they practice the culture, language, etc. For another, you're not very bright, on top of being racist. Both the Greeks and Persians, before the Romans, called the region Palestine, including Aristotle and Herodotus. And, yes, the Assyrians, Babylonians, and Egyptians, called the land that existed right alongside Israel and Judah, for the same length of time that little Judah existed (Israel was wiped out about 120 years before), Philistine or Philistia. And, everyone after the Romans, also called it Palestine. Being called Judea was a small percentage of the thousands of years it has been called Palestine. And, the People living there were called Palestinians several times, well before the 1950s.
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  4614. Hey now, we burned down you're White House!!! Sorry about that, btw.
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  4615.  @joyphillips1821  Losing special privileges, you've enjoyed for hundreds of years, and shouldn't have had to begin with, doesn't equate to being persecuted. Which synagogues are influencing Democrats? To do what?
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  4616.  Alabama Man 2.0  I'm understating, if anything ... "Fully vaccinated people are 93% less likely to die of COVID compared to unvaccinated people" "PHMDC: COVID-19 hospitalization, death rates ~60x higher for unvaccinated vs. boosted" "Unvaccinated in Wisconsin hospitalized at 10x higher rate, died at 14x higher rate in December" "Unvaccinated New Yorkers 26 Times More Likely to Die of COVID at Omicron Peak" "Unvaccinated were over 3 times more likely to be hospitalized or die of COVID, Oklahoma study shows" "Unvaccinated 97 times more likely to die from COVID than those with boosters, CDC data shows"
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  4617.  Alabama Man 2.0  And, who are the unvaccinated? "A Gallup survey released on Sept. 29 confirmed the KFF findings. As of mid-September, 75% of adult Americans have been vaccinated, including 73% of non-Hispanic white adults and 78% of non-whites. Along party lines, however, the breakdown was 92% of Democrats, 68% of Independents, and 56% of Republicans." You dimwits are killing off your own voting base. lol
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  4618.  Alabama Man Special Edition  Literally gave you 6 recent articles about the unvaccinated dying at higher rates, and the data on who is the least vaccinated by party. You've provided nothing. You apparently don't know what "data" means, not to mention "gaslighting".
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  4619. Maybe he's referring to Missouri's child brides, when they can somehow consent to be statutory raped.
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  4620. No, I won't take 30 min, to go get vaccinated, so I can get right to work ... I'm going to spend weeks not working, driving across the country, to protest that I can't work in freedumb!!!
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  4621.  @danialhillmann5374  Rofl, I live in Canada. Our costs are about half per capita, as well, dumb dumb.
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  4622. MAGA = America isn't great now. Go back to where you come from, if you hate America.
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  4623.  @SageSea1  No, not proving your point. Wedding cakes are made fresh, for the wedding day. The shop makes wedding cakes. It's one of the public accomodation services they provide. The couple wanted a wedding cake. The guy refused that service, which they provide to everyone else, based solely on the grounds that they're gay.
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  4624. ​​ @NobuhikuObayashi  In the US system a third party would be completely irrelevant, until it won the majority of seats. It would basically have to become part of a new duopoly, replacing one of the current ones.
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  4625. Umm, it's 2021 now. He lost.
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  4626.  @rickkwitkoski1976  Do they check people, to make sure they aren't wearing one under their shirt? Treating outerwear as equivalent to concealable jewelry, isn't actually samesies, and will affect people with certain religious beliefs far more than others.
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  4627.  @JC-sf6sf  Buddy, it's just a fact that he didn't give an answer about Georgia law. You can look at that video a million times and there's no answer there. Same for the rest.
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  4628.  Undead Necromancer  Your god aborts most pregnancies.
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  4629.  @brucecarter8296  Whatever biases there may, or may not be, is irrelevant. Just look at it in a similar light to false advertising, or fraud. If you're not actually selling news, then you shouldn't get to claim you're selling news. Not sure how that's fascism. I thought it was a way to keep people from getting conned.
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  4630.  @andorrasrevenge1683  It's like Langlois (the Anglo) being a fairly common French surname.
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  4631. ​ @projecti-la-ri8058  This isn't a difficult topic. The early Znsts agreed Pals were native and they were clnzrs. They simply argued, at the time, like many clnzrs did, that their clnlsm was a good thing. Harris is a maroon.
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  4632. Probably, because you'd still be as stupid as you are now.
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  4633.  @tacitus6384  Bahaha, a gerbil could have got your "point", meathead. It wasn't clever. Did you get my point, that you can't fix stupid so, no matter what you watch, you'll likely be wrong most of the time?
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  4634. AOC routinely votes against the State Department appropriation bill, that funds the yearly offensive military funding to Israel. That's the more important vote. Voting "present", for a purely defensive system, is less important. Voting to say you want rockets to hit, and kill, Israelis, isn't the greatest political position to take. The $15 minimum passed the house, where the Justive Dems are. It was the senate that took it out. If they had voted against the bill that came back to the house, the entire bill could have died. Justice Dems are part of the larger Progressive Caucus, which is only about 15 seats away from becoming the majority of house Dems, at which point they could pick their party speaker candidate, and lead the direction of the party. And, if a progressive were speaker of the house, they could then put forward whatever bills they wanted to be voted on. It's an entirely bad time, to give up on trying to take over the party.
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  4635.  @thefreestofspeech6951  Cat woman was from Canton, and Canton Popo say she was a lifelong resident. No evidence she even has Haitian ancestors. Goose guy was from Columbus, and was legally collecting 2 geese hit by a car. No evidence he was Haitian. Ohio Wildlife says they've received two whole calls, about Haitians and Springfield park duck/geese. Both were looked into and no evidence was found to support the claims. Springfield Popo say there have been no credible reports of Haitians and pets. Haiti is not known for eating pets. Switzerland is though. Any Swiss migrants around?
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  4636.  @nassaubahamas8570  A different variant is plenty of an excuse for lower efficacy, dimwit. The Salk polio vaccine was only 60-70% effective against PV1, while over 90% againat the other variants. The influenza vaccine is more effective against B and H1N1, than H3N2.
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  4637.  @Warrenmitchum  The rest of the world heard the same things from WHO. The rest of the world heard the same things from China. Fauci is a Reagan appointee, and a Bush medal of freedom honory. He's also not the head of the pandemic response team. The head of that team is ... oh wait, Trump disbanded that team. Changing your stance, as more information becomes available, isn't necessarily a bad thing, and sticking to your empty guns, isn't necessarily a good thing. Cuomo is also an idiot. I've personally been saying he's as incompetent as Dumpty, all along. Trash him all you want. Whatabout all day long, if you like. Vietnam shares one of the longest borders with China. They are constantly flooded with Chinese tourism and trade. And yet, they have one of the lowest covid case and fatality rates in the world. The US response was complete incompetence. A response like Vietnam's would have meant under 1k deaths. Even a mediocre response, like Canada's, would have meant hundreds of thousands of fewer deaths. The US response was a total shit show.
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  4638. ​ @Mr.BlackSanta  Israel was founded on terrorism, dumb dumb. Look up the Irgun and Lehi, Menachem Begin, and the still ongoing celebrations of those terrorists as "heroes".
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  4639.  @bl4ckkn1g8t5  No, but you can take a wheel off of a bicycle and turn it into a unicycle. Wouldn't it then be stupid to keep calling it a bicycle?
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  4640.  @BrokenAbyss  Rofl, you a Dore knob?
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  4641.  @greenith  Bernie is actually winning delegates, unlike Yang was. Even if he loses the nomination, having as many delegates as possible gives him a bigger seat at the table. Yang had no reason to stay in, but he did have a reason to support helping Bernie get as many progressive delegates as possible ... if he was actually progressive. Just like Warren.
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  4642. You could just shorten your post to 'Hi, I'm a moron.'
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  4643. ​ @lloydchristmas5698  And not just the primary in 2016. He also claimed the general was rigged and that he actually won the popular vote. Once president, he created his own election integrity commission, which found nothing of the sort and quietly shut down.
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  4644. Athletes get paid an actual salary, which is taxed. Musk getting paid in stocks, not so much.
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  4645.  @Noodles1771  Are you referring to the 20 people ftv march? Or, are you referring to the M4A march that was called off because dimwits booked a white nationalist to be a speaker (probably a Dore fan)?
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  4646. @Kevin Allies Overweight right wingers, who couldn't survive a week without McDonald's, let alone hide out in mountain caves for months from the military, have watched Red Dawn one too many times.
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  4647.  @lilikaramirez1848  It's just a fact that conservative states search porn more. Everyone knows it. You don't have to try and hide your love for porn anymore.
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  4648. What are you talking about? They've always criticized Bibi. And, the problem is bigger than just Bibi. Likud's bloody 100 year history ... In 1923, 100 years ago, Ze'ev Jabotinsky wrote, The Iron Wall, and a follow up, The Ethics of The Iron Wall (sooo racist towards Africans), in which he fully acknowledged that post Balfour Zionsim was colonialism, and that, based on the entirety of history, the native Palestinian population would resist being colonized until the bitter end. He directly compared it to the colonization of North America. He promoted doing it anyway, claiming Zionist colonialism was a "just" colonialism (he also thought North American colonialists were good guys, so not a great judge of morality), not caring what that meant for the native population. Ze'ev is important, because his Betar militant youth group helped found the Irgun terrorist group, along with other supporters of his, and the splinter Lehi terrorist group. The Irgun bombed numerous Palestinian markets and other public places, murdering many Palestinian civilians, including children, even including Palestinian Jews (who didn't support colonialist Zionsim). The Irgun are important, because they ended up being led by future Likud PM, Menachem Begin, who bombed the King David Hotel. The King David Hotel was bombed because the British had raided the Jewish Agency and seized numerous documents that may have shown that the terrorists were working with the JA and Haganah (JA liked to pretend that they didn't support the terrorism). The British then stored those documents at their base, in the hotel. That the Irgun terrorists responded to a JA raid, itself seems to prove the connection. That the thousands of Irgun (and Lehi) terrorists were also quickly merged into the new nation's military (IDF) and intelligence (Mossad) agencies, and are still celebrated as "heroes" by Israelis, to this day, also seems to support total collaboration between the groups. That other terrorist group mentioned, Lehi (also known as the Stern Gang), was considered even more extreme. They even tried to ally with the Nazis, against the British. Lehi ended up being led by Yitzhak Shamir, future Mossad agent, and another future Likud PM. They assassinated Lord Moyne, and others. In 1945, there was a major land and peoples survey done in Palestine. It showed that the Zionists only owned about 5% of the total land, 20% of the arable land, and owned a majority in zero districts. The partition was not only going to be forced on the native Palestinian majority, but Jews were still going to be a minority, in the part allocated to them. The only possible way to even become a "Jewish state" was going to require getting rid of the actual majority (at least enough so that there'd be a solid Jewish majority, so they could fake being democratic). This is also shown by the 1948, post Nakba, population of Israel. If there was 716,700 Jews, 156,000+ non-Jews, and approximately 700k non-Jews ethnically cleansed, that means the Jewish population, in the Zionist portion of partition, was originally over 100,000 less than the non-Jewish population. To believe that there was never any intent, by Zionists, to ethnically cleanse away the Palestinian majority would require believing that they never intended to create a "Jewish state". It's a nonsensical notion. Begin, and those terrorist groups, also opposed partition, but for the opposite reason Palestinians did. Palestinians didn't want to be colonized, at all. The terrorists wanted to colonize it all. "Moderate" Zionists were okay with colonizing half ... for now (what would happen in the future, after partition, was up to them, said Ben-Gurion). The Zionist terrorists were also involved in massacres, and assassinations, during the partition violence (colonialist war against the natives). Another notable future Likud PM, also started in the military, during the partition fighting. That was Ariel Sharon, war criminal, "Butcher of Beirut". Menachem Begin, and these other Zionist terrorists, are important because they became involved in Israeli politics, first forming Herut. That was the party that Albert Einstein, and other prominent American Jews, opposed, having a letter printed in the NYT, in December of 1948, when Begin came to visit the US. The letter opened ... "Among the most disturbing political phenomena of our times is the emergence in the newly created state of Israel of the "Freedom Party" (Tnuat Haherut), a political party closely akin in its organization, methods, political philosophy and social appeal to the Nazi and Fascist parties. It was formed out of the membership and following of the former Irgun Zvai Leumi, a terrorist, right-wing, chauvinist organization in Palestine." Herut merged with other extremist parties, over the years, and eventually became Likud, in the 70s. Now, people get upset over the slogan "From the river to the sea!", but it's the second part that's most important, "Palestine will be free!". Because "Palestine" isn't defined as an ethno-state, a free Palestine can be a single state, free for all to live in, and return to, free of continuing colonization, free of occupation, free of oppression, etc. Just like a Germany free of Nazism, an Italy free of fascism, a South Africa free of apartheid, or an America free of slavery from sea to shiny sea. It doesn't necessitate purging all the Jews. It just necessitates them giving up on the idea of an ethno-state. On the other hand, because "Israel" has been defined as an ethno-state, Likud's, "between the sea and the Jordan there will only be Israeli sovereignty", has no possible good interpretation. It is a declaration of intent to completely colonize, and ethnically cleanse, all Palestine territories. Not only that, but it also claims that they have a "right" to all of the "Land of Israel" (biblical borders that don't mesh with archaeological reality), which is an open declaration of future wars, against Jordan, Syria, Lebanon, and possibly even Iraq. Likud platform ... 1977: "The Right of the Jewish People to the Land of Israel (Eretz Israel) a. The right of the Jewish people to the land of Israel is eternal and indisputable and is linked with the right to security and peace; therefore, Judea and Samaria will not be handed to any foreign administration; between the Sea and the Jordan there will only be Israeli sovereignty. b. A plan which relinquishes parts of western Eretz Israel, undermines our right to the country, unavoidably leads to the establishment of a "Palestinian State," jeopardizes the security of the Jewish population, endangers the existence of the State of Israel. and frustrates any prospect of peace." 1999: "The Government of Israel flatly rejects the establishment of a Palestinian Arab state west of the Jordan river. The Palestinians can run their lives freely in the framework of self-rule, but not as an independent and sovereign state. Thus, for example, in matters of foreign affairs, security, immigration, and ecology, their activity shall be limited in accordance with imperatives of Israel's existence, security and national needs." "The Jewish communities in Judea, Samaria, and Gaza are the realization of Zionist values. Settlement of the land is a clear expression of the unassailable right of the Jewish people to the Land of Israel and constitutes an important asset in the defense of the vital interests of the State of Israel. The Likud will continue to strengthen and develop these communities and will prevent their uprooting." All Palestine territories are officially considered occupied, by the International Court of Justice, the UN GA, the UN SC, and even in official documents of Israel's own allies. Likud is still using the blueprint for colonizing North America, in the West Bank. Move settlements out into native territory, piss off the natives, the natives retaliate, cry about poor "innocent" colonizing settlers being the "victims" of violent "Savages!", call in the cavalry to put down the native uprising, and eventually expand the borders to include those settlements. Rinse and repeat. In Gaza, Israel is operating an open air WWII style fascist ghetto. Them claiming a "right to defend themselves" would be like the Nazis claiming a "right to defend themselves " from the Warsaw ghetto uprising. There's no "war". That they're the occupiers means the "war" part is long over. Those people are actually supposed to be under the occupier's protection. That partition was forced upon the Palestinian majority, against their will ... that the Zionist portion still had to be forcefully ethnically cleansed of its non-Jewish majority, against their will ... that the millions of occupied Palestinians don't have a say in the government that truly rules over them, Israel's ... means Israel is about as democratic as Nazi Germany after Hitler purged his political opponents and then held elections.
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  4649. @Kansas Geoff US History 101: Protesting, even rioting, against extra taxes that specifically funded the red coats (police/military) = anti-authoritarian. Fighting against democracy to keep an unelected ruler in power (King George Trumpty Dumpty) = authoritarian. You're whataboutism ignores causes and goals.
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  4650. The "dwarves" in folklore are also their own race, who tend to live separately from humans. They aren't small outcast humans. Having all the dwarves, elves, hobbits, etc., in LoTR be of the same stature, same culture, no pointy ears, no hairy feet, no beards, etc., would be nonsensical.
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  4651.  @omarlocke9446  Whether it "reads nice", or not, it's just a fact that AOC used her platform and PAC to back 20 other pro-M4A progressives, helped add a few more M4A yes votes to congress, and helped remove a few more corporate Dems. That's exactly what needs doing, to ever pass the bill.
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  4652.  @biokido575  Where did I lose you? Car insurance ... all the lucky and good drivers are paying for the unlucky and bad drivers, plus profit. House insurance ... all the lucky and good homeowners are paying for the unlucky and bad homeowners, plus profit. Health insurance ... all the lucky and health conscious people are paying for the unlucky and non health conscious people, plus profit. If you were simply paying for yourself, there's no reason to have insurance. Insurance is a pool.
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  4653.  @biokido575  Rofl. It doesn't matter what provider you choose, dumbass, that's how insurance works. That's a great idea. Don't have any insurance, of any kind, your entire life.
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  4654.  @RedPillCosby-012  It's you that's projecting. There's no evidence of widespread voter fraud. None. Trump's 5000 "dead" Georgia voters turned out to be 4, and at least 1 voted Republican, as her late husband wished.
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  4655.  @treborkroy5280  People were branded so they'd be shunned forever. People got permanently cancelled for not believing in a god. People got locked in stocks, for the entire community to know and ridicule them, over PDA. Shove your technology specific anecdotes.
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  4656.  Lincoln D  Trump made farmers reliant on the state with his trade wars. Unemployment only dropped about another .5% after Obama's last budget, and before Trump made millions reliant on the state with his pathetic pandemic response.
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  4657. The USSR did this 60 years ago.
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  4658. You just proved who is dumb. It's red states that tend to have higher firearm mortality rates, higher homicide rates, higher poverty rates, poorer education outcomes, poorer healthcare outcomes, take more from the federal government than they put in, ... you're out of touch with reality.
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  4659.  @MichaelAChristian1  Mississippi has the worst homicide rate. https://www.cdc.gov/nchs/pressroom/sosmap/homicide_mortality/homicide.htm
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  4660. At the same time, our divided Liberal and NDP parties allows for the Conservatives too win much more than they should. Not to mention the PQ, which shouldn't be a party beyond the provincial level if it only wants to represent one province, screwing both those parties out of more votes.
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  4661. ​ @cdr3986  Yeah, not like it's all recorded, or something.
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  4662.  @seanhovan7426  If you ignore that they said to him, "I think it’s totally right to point out the haste with which some journalists and experts are talking about Russia’s hand.", and didn't ask him to say that it was Russian disinformation, I guess.
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  4663.  @whisperingegg7339  How is introducing zero bills, not having a vote on even a single bill, not adding a single amendment, having zero debate or speaking time in congress or committees, and being largely ignored by most media, going for you?
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  4664.  @outtarespecttomyfawtha1589  Stop spamming bullshit.
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  4665.  @wizzalamaru8794  Paralyzing the house during a pandemic ... no new covid relief, no new unemployment extensions, no new vaccine funding, etc., also not very progressive. Just to get a vote guaranteed to fail. Not sure most people would support suffering to try and get a show vote. The progressive caucus doesn't yet have the majority of the Dem caucus, and can't actually pick a different party speaker. Corporate Dems could keep picking Pelosi over and over and over again, or someone worse. If progressives can make a good showing in 2022, they might get the majority, could pick the speaker, and could put progressive bills up for votes as often as they like.
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  4666.  @Leviathan762-zh4lq  Ones that don't want to be Republican betas, who get their marching orders from a whiny spoiled brat "alpha" narcissist, who can't take an L like a man. Bunch of man babies, following the biggest man baby.
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  4667.  @craigkidd9524  Which makes it a far better strategy to get the 15 more seats needed for the broader progressive caucus to become the majority of house Dems, which would allow them to set the party agenda and pick the party speaker candidate. Plus, if the majority in the house, that means picking committee members (Pelosi actually introduced M4A last session and it died in committees. She has already reintroduced it this session and it's sitting in committees. Weird how puritan progressives aren't constantly harassing committee members to take up the bill instead of slandering M4A' s congressional supporters.) and introducing whatever bills progressives want.
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  4668.  @craigkidd9524  You're clearly the one with reading comprehension problems, if you think I said wait for corporate Dems. I promoted to keep replacing them. How is that working out? The broader progressive caucus is about 30 years old and is about 15 seats away from becoming the majority of house Dems. The Justice Dems have been at it 4 years and have replaced about a dozen corporate Dems. AOC has been at it 2 years and helped replace a few more corporate Dems. You're the dimwit choosing the route that hasn't won even a single seat in decades.
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  4669.  @Chevalier1632  It's only "regressive" in that cancelling crap goes back centuries. But it never actually stopped, to regress back to. She showed her ankles?! Cancelled!! He said the Earth wasn't the center of the universe?! Cancelled!! She wore pants?! Cancelled!! He said he doesn't believe in God?! Cancelled!! There's still an FCC regulating words, nipples, and whatnot, to protect delicate conservative sensibilities. It has always existed, and has never stopped.
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  4670.  @sergeikhripun  Dore's 2016 argument was that, because Trump was so awful, he would be a better option for progressives than Clinton. He vastly overestimated the benefits, claiming it would lead to a massive progressive wave that would "for sure" take the house and senate in 2018 (didn't happen), and the presidency in 2020 (didn't happen). He vastly underestimated the risks, claiming even Republicans would join the left and vote against a Trump agenda, instead of following him into overt fascism (wrong). And, he argued that Trump filling multiple scotus seats was as likely as the moon falling into Lake Michigan (still waiting for it to drop).
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  4671.  @CR33SIVE  "The idea that Jews would’ve out of hand rejected any state that had Arabs on it or always had a plan of expulsion, it’s just betrayed by the acceptance of the 47 partition plan." ~ Destiny "Does the establishment of a Jewish state [in only part of Palestine] advance or retard the conversion of this country into a Jewish country? My assumption (which is why I am a fervent proponent of a state, even though it is now linked to partition) is that a Jewish state on only part of the land is not the end but the beginning.... This is because this increase in possession is of consequence not only in itself, but because through it we increase our strength, and every increase in strength helps in the possession of the land as a whole. The establishment of a state, even if only on a portion of the land, is the maximal reinforcement of our strength at the present time and a powerful boost to our historical endeavors to liberate the entire country." ~ Ben-Gurion Is the acceptance of a partition plan actual evidence that those accepting it plan to adhere to it, as Destiny states?
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  4672.  @zulublack1212  Rofl, black voters did not. The vast majority of black voters absolutely did not vote for Kamala, over Bernie or Biden. You're spewing complete bullshit, and obviously can't talk for an entire race of Americans.
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  4673.  @greggerypeccary88  Mein Kampf is a best seller. Why do you think that achievement is necessarily something good?
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  4674. @Halon's Razor Can you spout anything but bullshit? The teacher's union is the biggest union, and teachers are Bernie's biggest supporters. He already has numerous endorsements from state chapters. At the national level they haven't endorsed anyone yet, but sure as hell haven't come out against Sanders.
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  4675.  @reav3rtm  Regardless of competence? So corporations are regularly hiring and promoting people that are totally unqualified? How do they stay in business?
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  4676.  @MyName-cw4yr  You seem to be confusing Sam and Ethan. Ethan mentioned Spartans and the gun holster. And, Sam was invited, by Ethan. Steven "the left won't debate me" Crowder, deserved to be set up, for pretending like he's some kind of pro debater the left is afraid to debate, while himself avoiding debates.
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  4677.  @MyName-cw4yr  Rofl. A guy who goes around acting like they're some pro debater, claiming the left is afraid to debate him, but avoids debates, is the dickhead who deserved to be set up. He was the lying coward before there was even a plan to debate.
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  4678. Notice he said "nobody feels more", but didn't say what that feeling was. Could be disdain.
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  4679. ​ @claydoerste2939  Why? According to anti-abortionists, there is plenty of room in the US for hundreds of thousands of extra people per year.
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  4680.  @MrBeetsGaming  Does that apply to Trump, not simply asking Nikki to end her campaign, but threatening her donors?
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  4681. @Anurag Chakraborty Shame on you for being in favour of trashing the politicians that actually support and promote M4A, rather than trashing those opposed to it, just like wingnut right wingers do.
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  4682. There is no lesson to be learned because they don't really care if a corporate Democrat or corporate Republican wins.
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  4683.  @JaysSavvy  You're lying. It does cost less overall. The CBO itself has even researched the cost of multiple different Medicare for all options, and found that all but one cost less overall. Every other developed country has lower per capita costs.
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  4684. All pro-lifers give up and die eventually. They aren't very dedicated.
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  4685. The crime rate jumped in 2020, under Trump, dumb dumb. Averaged out, Trump had more border crossings per year than Obama. He sucked worse than Obama at the one thing racists voted for him for. Trump also ended zero wars and dropped more bombs per year than Obama. Plus, pissed off Iran, backed out of nuke deal with Iran. Ignored his dictator buddy in N Korea, who is estimated to have built 30-40 nukes under Trump's watch. Gave Putin secrets about Israel. Gave some rando billionaire donor nuclear secrets. All his "peace" deals were nonsense, between countries that weren't really fighting. By Trump's own favorite measure, the stock market, his biggest gains were in his first year, under Obama's last budget. When his own first budget, and tax breaks for the rich and corporations, kicked in, the stock market almost flatlined. Dumpty had one of the worst pandemic responses in the world. Both, in terms of health and economic support for the people. Inflation and gas prices are up around the world. Nothing to do with Biden. The US is actually doing better than most. On top of all that, Trump is actually a lifelong criminal. His daddy had him committing tax fraud, when he was in diapers. He had to settle 2 suits for not renting to black Americans. He racked up $10.5m in fines, for improperly running his casinos. He and daddy were fined for gaming fraud, when daddy bought $3m in chips and didn't cash them in, to try and bail out his incompetent son. Settled suit for grifting his own Trump University fans. Guilty of rape and defamation. Guilty of bank fraud. That's not even getting into how divisive he is, with his hate and fear mongering.
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  4686.  @bartjargengarblbargeler1980  Nope. Don't watch any of the cable news. Did you have a point?
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  4687.  @whyamimrpink78  Maine and New Hampshire are in the top 5 best.
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  4688.  @edwardchavez4235  Pinocchio doesn't exist, much like your trolling skills.
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  4689. The biggest problem with AI is that it's only really as "intelligent" as its programmers. It has no subjectivity of its own, and therefore relies on the subjective goals of its creators ... who are mostly being paid by giant corporations.
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  4690. His anti-fascist army of fascists?
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  4691. @joe smath It's not circular logic. It's the tolerance paradox, which is based on the freedom paradox. If you tolerate intolerance, then you'll end up with a less tolerant society. Similarly, if you give people the freedom to violate others' freedoms, you'll have a less free society.
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  4692. @joe smath Rofl. You're claiming punching someone makes you a Nazi, and you think you're a good judge of IQ? Anarchists and communists getting into street fights with fascists and Nazis, in Italy and Germany, didn't magically turn the anarchists and communists also into Nazis. That's not the qualification that makes someone a Nazi, or not, ffs. There was also the Iron Front, which opposed Nazis, authoritarian communism, and monarchy. Simply punching a Nazi didn't magically make them Nazis, either. That is a seriously dumbass argument. How is promoting the idea that people should have their rights taken away and forcibly removed from the country, not a threat to those people?
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  4693. He should go back to math class, when he drops out.
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  4694.  @gordondwyer3641  Make up your little minds ... "Fascism is the complete opposite of Marxian socialism." ~ Mussolini ... and pick one. Can't be both.
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  4695. South Korea laid out a mass testing response that worked. It not only flattened their curve, but got them on a downward curve relatively quickly. All other countries had to do was copy their method. That we didn't means our politicians are incompetent, at all levels. We need to be able to test anyone who has come in contact with a confirmed case, not simply those showing symptoms, to get ahead of it.
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  4696. This guy is not the inventor. He is one of hundreds involved in research that led to the development of the vaccines. His vaccine nonsense has been debunked by multiple doctors and scientists. His ivermectin nonsense doesn't add up. You're peddling bullshit, as usual, Jimmy.
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  4697.  @stevemarchando4132  Make up your minds ... either there won't be jobs, or there will be jobs.
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  4698.  @hwajuhwarang  I didn't argue a VAT doesn't generate revenue. So, you're not actually making a counter point. Just a strawman. I argued it doesn't tax corporations, as Yang falsely claims. That also makes his claims that a VAT will have corporations paying you for your data, paying you to show you ads, or paying you for every automated truck mile, false. That also makes his comparison between his dividend, which won't have corporations paying into it, and the Alaskan dividend, which is paid for by corporations, a false equivalence. Since he won't have corporations paying into the dividend then they will only benefit from the dividend being spent. Amazon would make an extra $60b a year from $3t in increased consumer spending. That's extra billions a year they could invest into automating even faster. It would make Bezos an extra $6+b a year. He could buy a brand new $1b yacht every single year, paying $100m in VAT, and still be in the plus $5.9+b. That would increase the speed of inequality. That's not a sustainable plan.
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  4699.  @alabamaman9476  You seem to be doing the wrong math. Can you grasp the math of vaccination rates and deaths? If another 400k people die by election day, and 85% of deaths continue to be the unvaccinated, with the vast majority of those being Republicans, then you're looking at 300+k fewer Republican voters, come election day. That'll be great for all the purplish areas.
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  4700. Missouri not happy with just being in the top 10. They want to be #1. Top 10 firearm mortality rates ... Mississippi 33.90 Louisiana 29.10 New Mexico 27.80 Alabama 26.40 Wyoming 26.10 Alaska 25.20 Montana 25.10 Arkansas 23.30 Missouri 23.20 Tennessee 22.80 Top 10 homicide rates ... Mississippi 23.70 Louisiana 21.30 Alabama 15.90 New Mexico 15.30 South Carolina 13.40 Missouri 12.40 Illinois 12.30 Maryland 12.20 Tennessee 12.20 Arkansas 11.70
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  4701. Americans have been going by the AP call since 1948, with certification being just a formality. Trump went by the AP call in 2016. Even this election, as early as election night, Trump has been using the AP call for states they called for him. Ivanka congratulated daddy when the AP called Alaska for him. The spoiled brat is only not accepting the AP calls that go against him.
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  4702. Lowercase libertarians can be either. The term, as well as anarchism, was initially used by non authoritarian leftists. Uppercase Libertarians (Ayn Rand Objectivists, "classical liberals", or whatever they call themselves) are economically about as far right as you can get. Aside from a very minimal government, justice system, and military, they want the economy 100% privately owned and operated. They're just supposed to be less authoritarian than Republican types. Ancappers don't even want that minimalist government.
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  4703. @Bet Your lunch Aaron and Jimmy have blathered on, and on, about 2 dissenting opinions on a single, no fault finding, investigation. 2 dissenting opinions don't debunk that single investigation, let alone the numerous others, that had zero dissenting opinions, or the numerous follow up fault finding investigations that had zero dissenting opinions. That no fault finding investigation, they keep blathering about, didn't even begin until after, the US, and others, had bombed Syria (2018, not 2013), and the final report wasn't out until almost a year later. The report had absolutely nothing to do with anyone's decision to bomb Syria. It's a big nothingburger. There was a chemical weapons attack, just the month before. It had a no fault investigation, with zero dissenting opinions. It had a fault finding follow up investigation, that faulted Syria, with zero dissenting opinions. There have been hundreds of accounts of Syrian chemical weapons use since 2013. 2 dissenting opinions on a single no fault investigation, doesn't erase all of those.
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  4704. @Bet Your lunch You don't even know what year you're talking about. 2018 is the nonsense, no fault, report Dore and Aaron have gone on and on about, making a huge deal about, that had absolutely nothing to do with anyone's decision to bomb Syria. That has nothing to do with 2013. Even Russia has accepted the results of the 2013 investigation, and a number of others. They're the ones that demanded that there be no fault investigations, first, only then to be followed by fault finding investigations. Dore and Aaron have made much ado about nothing.
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  4705. @Bet Your lunch Also, Aaron's Syrian "scandal" article could have been written by anyone, from anywhere in the world, with Wikipedia and a penchant for leaving out info that doesn't match your narrative. Absolutely nothing was from the field. He was probably in some Damascus hotel, if he was even in Syria.
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  4706.  @ToxicAudri  So, if you're taking the protest route, would you rather be up against people who legalize driving over protesters, and have wanted to categorize protesters (BLM) as trrrists?
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  4707. If it's a Canadian goose, it'll f-ck you up.
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  4708.  Alabama Man Special Edition  Point out who organized a riot, calling for everyone to come out and commit violence and property damage. I can point to these organizers as organizing border blockades that have caused shortages, causing job losses and which could drive up prices on goods for ordinary people.
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  4709. ​ @pranays  Reagan was an FDR voting Democrat and union leader, until Nixon either convinced him, or threatened him with blacklisting (Nixon was the youngest member of the un-American Activities Commission, and used extreme Red Scare tactics against his California senate opponent), to ditch supporting Nixon's political opponent, and put him on the path to crazytown.
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  4710.  @Nutrollio  Covid's 1% infection fatality rate is 2x the polio paralysis rate, and 20x the polio infection fatality rate, plus it's a lot more contagious. That 1% infection fatality rate is also 4x the death rate for automobile accidents, and again far more widespread. Do you think a 1% infection fatality rate is insignificant, or something?
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  4711. Stop making insanity so financially rewarding. You're attracting grifters from all over.
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  4712.  @InternetMameluq  Tell that to the FBI, Mary Poppins. They've labelled multiple eco groups "terrorists" for "violence against property". Or people calling Willem van Spronsen a terrorist, for attacking a parking lot. Of course, it's only bad when it's against corporations and authorities. "Violence against property" is perfectly fine if it's against a Planned Parenthood office. The Sons of Liberty were well known for beating, tarring, and feathering numerous people, as well as for property destruction and arson. They led the Boston Tea Party.
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  4713.  @TheStockwell  The past 7 months of me copying and pasting from the notepad I wrote it on, says you're wrong.
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  4714.  @zombiesoul-eater741  Btw ... How many hundreds of years of Assyrian, Babylonian, Persian, and Greek rule, when the Jewish population rebelled against what they still considered to be rule by colonizers/occupiers? Such hypocrisy.
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  4715. You must be completely ignorant to Likud's platform, "between the sea and the Jordan there will only be Israeli sovereignty". Likud was founded by Menachem Begin, leader of the Irgun terrorist group. They've declared their goal to be the complete colonization and ethnic cleansing of Palestine territories.
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  4716. The guy went out of his way to involve the DoJ in states' election processes, but it's others that have to provide them with specific things to investigate. Just have Rudy hand them his evidence, if there actually is any.
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  4717. Bernie said he'd decriminalize non-violent drug use, Kyle. He just wouldn't legalize making and selling hard drugs. That is, basically, what Portugal did, isn't it?
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  4718. Wrong. The bill was brought up for a vote near the end a session, and had majority support by the time it was. A minority ran out the session with a filibuster. It was quickly brought up for a vote again at the start of the next session, the minority filibustered for 50 more days, and it passed. There was no forced guaranteed to fail vote on the Civil Rights Act.
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  4719.  @stevenkalavity9879  Rofl. You nuts have the 230 protections backwards. If they're protected from liability, then they don't have to care as much what people post. If you make them liable for everything other people post, they won't censor less, they'll censor more. Any little thing they think could possibly get them sued, they'll remove it. Trump would have been booted long before.
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  4720.  @stevenkalavity9879  No. 230 is based on previous supreme court law, that started with a book store. The book store winning a case that it isn't liable for what publishers put in their books. A book store can still pick and choose whatever the hell books it wants, to put on its shelves. That is also not being a publisher. And, you still seemed to miss the point, that if you do somehow make them liable, as a publisher, they will censor more, not less, to protect themselves. Trump still would have been booted, and probably years ago.
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  4721.  @stevenkalavity9879  Rofl. You didn't post anything that refutes what I said. Inciting violence based on complete bullshit, bullshit that has gotten others sued for defamation, isn't politics. If they didn't have 230 protection, they would have banned his bullshit all the sooner, so as not to get sued for defamation themselves. And, again, 230 was based on previous supreme court rulings. Simply removing 230, doesn't mean you could actually win a lawsuit against them. It just means you can sue them. Previous rulings would suggest you'd still lose.
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  4722.  @stevenkalavity9879  Why didn't you cultists care when Trump (the actual government) fired, or threatened to fire, people who said things that contradicted him? That's the actual government punishing people's speech, and should be considered a violation of their free speech.
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  4723.  @rayerickson7614  Ironic, considering you're calling anti-racism "racism". Guess that makes you the "real racist".
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  4724.  @jasonsaenz8959  Pretty sure they've already done segments on voter suppression bills, that target minorities, including this one. One example from this bill is that it bans overnight voting that was used by higher percentages of minorities.
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  4725.  @justingaines207  Fascism: anti-socialist; anti-communist; anti-unionist; anti-liberal; anti-globalist; anti-democratic; backed by big business, large landowners, and religious nuts; ultra-nationalist; pro police expansion; pro military expansion; leaders in privatization; etc. You know, based on the definition of the guy who defined it, and all the stuff they actually did, and do.
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  4726. Trump must be a progressive.
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  4727. You're lying. Requests to leave also have to go through the court, because it affects reentry.
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  4728. And? Found any extra votes yet?
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  4729.  @dr.wolfstar1765  What does minority vs majority have to do with what you're attempting to do? You're giving conservative religious types a pass on centuries worth of cancelling people and things, while the majority.
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  4730.  @drstone3418  What are you blathering about?
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  4731. I don't think you know what an ad hominem is. https://laurencetennant.com/bonds/adhominem.html
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  4732.  @purklepanda5574  Trump just started his own social media platform, aka a blog. He can walk out in public and say whatever he wants. His free speech hasn't been denied. One private company, Apple, no longer wanted to sell some other private company's app in their app store (which they're now allowing back in, btw), has nothing to do with free speech. Retail stores decide to stop selling other's stuff, all the time. Again, this is something that has been happening, since the dawn of stores. And, nothing about free speech gives you a right to a specific private company's audience. You don't have a right to be on TV, the radio, or have a right to have everything you write printed in the paper, or in a book. Nothing about this has anything to do with "free speech", when it all involves private companies.
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  4733.  @baconjam5815  Simply having a vote, and blackmailing the speaker your party has chosen to get a vote, or paralyzing the house to get a vote, aren't exactly the same thing.
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  4734. The IDF has its largest base in a shopping mall, cowering behind civilian human shields. The IDF has over 400k militants (reservists) hiding amongst the populace, cowering behind civilian human shields.
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  4735.  @JamesThomas-pj2lx  If you've ever watched, or read, any kind of story where there's some kind of "tough guy" combatant villain who only targets non combatants he thinks he can easily defeat, but then one of his targets finds and brings in a combatant for their side, you should be able to grasp what cowardice is, and who the actual coward is. Even those cowardly story villains tend to fight the story hero, at least once. Crowder just ran for it.
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  4736.  @normaaliihminen722  A "pro" basketball player who only agrees to play against amateurs, so he can get his "easy layup" to stroke his ego, is the coward from the get go. From, that point, I don't give a crap if someone tricks that coward into coming face to face with an actual pro. And then he proved he won't play an actual pro, took his ball, and ran home to daddy.
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  4737.  @zmiller1840  But I don't support a coward going around claiming "the left won't debate me", acting like some debate master, while only ever debating amateurs, because he is such a coward.
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  4738. At least British style parliament senates can't outright override the house. The US senate would be far less horrible if states simply each got an extra two votes on a bill, rather than the power to vote down bills on their own.
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  4739. There isn't even a filibuster, in the house. There's no actual point in rambling on this long, in that chamber.
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  4740.  @noktilux4052  Do you need someone on the "left" promoting Trump as the better option than Clinton, in 2016? Running attack ads against Trump's only remaining viable opponent, in 2020? After years of him not caring if 10m of the poorest Americans were tossed off Medicaid expansion, not caring to try and add tens of millions to Medicare expansion, after months of him promoting a non M4A candidate, do you need a dimwit comedian on the "left" to then make out like he's the one true champion of healthcare, and anyone who disagrees is slandered as being a fake, fraud, sellout, or whatever bullshit?
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  4741.  @gabedude68  If they're still running a hotline, fishing for evidence of widespread voter fraud, then they don't have evidence of widespread voter fraud. If they just put up a reward, fishing for evidence of widespread voter fraud, then they don't have evidence of widespread voter fraud. Every election there is a miniscule percentage of voter fraud, and them going to court over all of that, before conceding, is just wasting people's time, and won't change the results. Out of 150m votes, finding a dozen here, or even a hundred there, is an absolutely ridiculous thing to put the entire country through. Trump baselessly claimed widespread voter fraud in 2016, as well. His own election integrity commission found nothing of the sort. He's a proven con artist ... proven in court ... and 70m people are buying his bullshit.
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  4742. They quickly started mass producing masks, for everyone. If everyone isn't wearing masks (even their kids are), you'll end up being Sweden, not Taiwan. Taiwan is also mass testing, tracking, and quarantining confirmed cases. They're testing at a rate of about 140 people per confirmed case. The US is testing at a rate of about 5 people per confirmed case, and not getting ahead of the virus. That's about the same testing rate as Sweden, who isn't even attempting to contain the virus. Many leading countries have utterly failed at containing the virus. If your country isn't doing those things, then staying the hell away from people as much as possible is your best option.
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  4743.  @llm7013  No, as Kenny said, it doesn't take hate speech. I have issues writing Znst, trrrist, and other words, in shorter posts. Also with Ukraine wr stuff, just discussing vlnce, RU, Ptin. It's annoying.
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  4744.  @aethionr4478  He can't even do math. He has no clue how a VAT actually works, and completely failed at understanding a pass through rate study that he posted on his VAT page.
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  4745. @Kellan McDonald So, you'd like to go back to the culture of Puritan theocracy, no women's rights, no votes for non property owners, slavery, killing natives, and never change?
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  4746. @Kellan McDonald Holy fuck, you are such a lying twat. The bill of rights was based on the British bill of rights, that already existed, and now plenty of countries have bills of rights. The US didn't come up with anything unique, and is now only unique in their level of stupidity, amongst other developed countries.
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  4747. @Kellan McDonald Your first amendment gets you ranked in 17th place on the freedom index. https://www.fraserinstitute.org/studies/human-freedom-index-2018 Your first amendment gets you ranked 48th in press freedom. https://rsf.org/en/ranking
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  4748.  @thehappyclam3942  "Fascism is the complete opposite of Marxian socialism" ~ Mussolini Fascist governments were leaders in privatization, pre-war. All governments took more control of production and distribution, during the war.
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  4749. He didn't much like the congresswomen from foreign countries, like New York, Michigan, and Ohio, though, telling them to go back.
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  4750.  @lisbondiaries9212  It's just a fact of reality, that there are only two viable candidates. It is just a fact of math, that if you don't vote for one, then you're helping the other. Go ahead and not feel shame, but accept the objective facts, that you'd be helping Trump win.
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  4751. That whole generation, of all 4 lines of my family, 11 men and women, fought the Nazis. One grandfather was in the Danish resistance, and had to live under Nazi rule, while doing it. Yeah, I don't think they'd be impressed with this take, if they were still around.
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  4752.  Swift BMF  Nothing you deflected and strawmanned about debunks the fact that you're a bunch of lazy pathetic whiners, who did absolutely nothing with a list of $15 minimum wage no voters. Instead, you just bitched about the ones who voted for it. AOC used her platform and PAC to help add a few more M4A yes votes to congress, and help remove a few more corporate Dems ... the very thing you need to do to ever pass the bill ... the very thing you'd still need to do even if there was a pointless guaranteed to fail vote. She's done more for M4A in 2 years than Dore has in his entire lifetime. And, she never once argued that when she said "rucus", she meant paralyzing the house. That's a Dore strawman. Talk about brainwashed. You lot are like Trumpists, not believing anyone or anything that contradicts one loudmouth.
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  4753. Yes :)
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  4754.  @johnpoole3871  Nope. A VAT is specifically designed to NOT tax businesses in order to avoid double taxation.
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  4755.  @captainron7120  Him. I'm a person who operated a VAT registered business for years, and filled out VAT returns for years. Yang couldn't even grasp the pass through rate study he linked to on his VAT page, that actually showed everything else on his VAT page was nonsense.
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  4756.  @Georgeeboy  He clearly doesn't understand how the VAT works. And being prepared to enact policies, when you have zero clue how they work, should be a concern for the mayor position, as well.
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  4757.  @kylequest  You didn't say anything that magically made him grasp that a VAT doesn't tax corporations, like he claimed. It didn't magically erase his complete failure to grasp the pass through rate study he posted himself. If you don't have corporations paying into the UBI, via the VAT (Yang himself argued they were dodging the other taxes), then they only get the benefit of extra trillions being spent, funneling money to the very top faster than ever before. That's nothing like his repeated comparisons of his dividend to the Alaskan dividend, which is paid for by corporations. Nothing you said magically makes his "analogy" actually analogous.
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  4758.  @kylequest  Rofl. I was one of those businesses, dumb dumb. Businesses get to reclaim their input VAT. The EU represents 29 countries, which say it's not a tax on businesses, that you're arguing against. Here's Canada, to make it 30 ... "The GST takes into account the cost of inputs – the factors used in manufacturing or production – at each stage of the process to avoid double taxation. Input tax credits enable partnerships, businesses and self-employed workers to recover all GST paid on goods and services purchased for business purposes by deducting them from their GST payments. Final consumers are not entitled to such credits, which means that they pay all the GST on every item purchased. The GST is thus a multi-stage tax on final consumption." http://publications.gc.ca/Collection-R/LoPBdP/BP/prb0003-e.htm#HOW%20THE%20GST%20WORKS(txt)
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  4759.  @nassaubahamas8570  How many times have you copy and pasted this bullshit? No vaccine has been shown to have 0% efficacy.
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  4760.  Jonathan Still   You're comparing a nationality to a race. Some half of Mexicans identify as "white" ... you know ... descended from European Spaniards. Try to make sense.
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  4761.  @hansdampf2284  Did he cover the Russian Empire and USSR both using Russification in Ukraine, to turn Ukrainians "Russian"? Did he cover the ethnic cleansing and colonization of Crimea? Did he cover that Donbas was one of the areas hardest hit by the Holdomor, and colonized by Russians?
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  4762. @@gayperson1one Slavery wasn't legal in England proper. Rights absolutely did not expand into their colonies.
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  4763.  @justinbetland9792  You seem to be moving the goalpost from falsely claiming they wouldn't even mention the incident. What "details" do you think they're avoiding?
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  4764. Well, aside from your numbers being bullshit, yeah percentages or per capita are how you better compare places with different populations.
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  4765. If you justify punishing Palestinian civilians for their leadership, then you justify punishing Israeli civilians for their leadership. Congratulations.
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  4766. We'd still have polio and smallpox, if everyone thought like you.
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  4767. ​ @patrick9445  Even smaller than the 1%. There are people in the 1% that get paid in salaries, and pay taxes on those salaries. The assholes getting paid in, and living on, stocks, paying little to no taxes, are screwing over even those big salary earners.
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  4768.  @carrenpalmer3453  Thank god you're not in a country with 10x fewer cases per million, and 36x fewer deaths per million, than the US? You're clearly stupid, and don't give a shit about other people's lives.
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  4769.  @isasooner5  Blah, blah, gish gallop. Try to focus. I replied about the "geocentric model". First you made the claim it had a "geocentric model". Then, you changed your mind, claimed you wrote it down incorrectly, and that it has a "heliocentric model". Now, you're claiming it doesn't have any model. Lol, is that your final answer?
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  4770.  @rickkwitkoski1976  Well, calling clothing "symbols", even though those articles of clothing don't have religious symbols on them, is only going to affect certain groups of people, like some female Muslims and Sikhs, while those with symbolic jewelery could easily just wear theirs under their shirt, carry it in a purse, pocket, or whatever. So, it's not a law that affects people of all religions uniformly.
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  4771. Not only a Holocaust denier, but someone who promotes the idea that white culture is a thing, and a thing to be proud of. There's no such thing as white culture. But, even if you buy his claim that he's not racist, that he's simply "alt-right without the racism" ... that would still make him a fascist. Nazism without the racism is basic fascism.
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  4772. ​ @Ass_of_Amalek  The Palestinians are responding exactly how they were always expected to respond. Ze'ev Jabotinsky, Iron Wall, 1923: "I suggest that they consider all the precedents with which they are acquainted, and see whether there is one solitary instance of any colonisation being carried on with the consent of the native population. There is no such precedent. The native populations, civilised or uncivilised, have always stubbornly resisted the colonists, irrespective of whether they were civilised or savage. And it made no difference whatever whether the colonists behaved decently or not."
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  4773. ​ @Lance-Oakland And yet David has largely supported Israel's indiscriminate bombing of Palestinian civilians, for the actions of Hamas.
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  4774.  @UncleRicoOSU  Because seatbelts really only protect the wearer, while masks and vaccines also protect those around the wearer/vaccinated?
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  4775.  jcorb  There have been hundreds of victim witnesses, dozens of healthcare worker witnesses, multiple NGO witnesses, dozens of UN inspectors, multiple independent investigations, legal human rights groups putting together cases for victims, since 2013. You think two part time investigators, on a single investigation, at a single site, debunks all of that? F*cking Dore knobs are complete idiots.
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  4776. A whole lot of food doesn't do you much good, with noone to sell it to, to make a living. I wonder how much is subsidized by the government? All the Americans who paid for Trump's tariffs, paid to save farmers' asses.
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  4777. Dore. Jones is a nut, but he backs the right. Dore is a nut who claims to back the left but benefits the right.
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  4778. Why does he have to read a description of what happened, if he clearly watched what happened?
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  4779. ​ @zumatoobs  Republicans held 6 investigations into Hillary, while she was Trump's opponent. He literally ran on "Lock her up!". You lot are such hypocrites. Just mad that they actually found stuff against your loser of a leader.
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  4780. Stormy Daniels warned about something like this.
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  4781.  @lucboy13  Mask use being effective has a pretty broad consensus, across the world, with studies going back decades, to when surgeons first started wearing cloth masks, showing they reduced the transmission of germs from surgeons to patients. In what reality is that similar to religious nonsense, that doesn't rely on any science?
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  4782.  @lucboy13  Do you know the difference between the words "reduce" and "eliminate"?
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  4783. As a European, you should know better.
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  4784.  @oddvardmyrnes9040  Do you think the last rise of fascism was defeated in the marketplace of ideas?
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  4785. Bernie would be a centrist in Sweden. Why are you calling it "radical left"? Especially if you're supposedly left of that?
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  4786.  @cjohnson3836  Governors don't represent you at the federal level. They can ask for things, but don't get to vote on things. The House and Senate represent you at the federal level. Those are the politicians to go after. Playing into the hands of the people who can authorize paying you, but don't want to pay you, by rising up against the wrong branch of government, and spreading the virus and death, while your at it, is ignorant.
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  4787. If you look at a single Rasmussen poll, maybe. If you look at all the polls, then no. https://projects.fivethirtyeight.com/trump-approval-ratings/
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  4788. Regarding Hunter ... should all gun owners have to take drug tests?
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  4789.  @harveymanfredsenjenson5417  Ummm, the median income for a religious studies degree is about $15k above the national, with unemployment rates about 4x lower than the national average and 2x lower than the graduate average.
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  4790.  @loverainthunder  The dynamics of power is that, on bills, there are zero extra votes to be gained to the left of progressives. That makes it absolutely impossible to pass bills without the likes of Manchin. On the flip side, there is the entire Republican party to the right of Manchin, to try and draw extra votes from. If enough Republicans can be brought onboard a bill, then you can pass it without needing progressive votes. A standoff between the left end and right end, of the party, is far more likely to move a bill even further right, rather than left. With regard to the speakership vote, the house hasn't been paralyzed over a speakership vote in about a century. It's not some business as usual tactic. Starting an all out intra party war could have consequences. The broader progressive caucus is about 15 seats away from becoming the majority of house Dems. At that point, they could pick the party speaker candidate, at the Dem caucus. If there's an all out war, with corporate Dems, then they'll likely do the same thing right back at you, and you'll need them, and their votes, more than they need you, and your votes, to be able to pass anything. Okay, you've started a war, for what, exactly? A purely performance art vote. You get a new list of names of congress members that won't sign onto the bill every new session of congress. You have a list of names of politicians who wouldn't sign on, during a pandemic, for 2020. You have a list of names of congress members who haven't signed on, during a pandemic, for 2021. Surely, Dore, and his knobs, are pestering and pressuring every single one of the members of congress who haven't signed on, and organizing protests against them ... wait, what, Dore, and his knobs just keep harrassing and slandering M4A's most ardent congressional supporters? Pathetic. Pelosi actually introduced the M4A bill last session, where it died in committees. She has also already reintroduced the bill, this session, and it's sitting in committees. So, on top of the first two lists, you also have a list of committee members, who let the bill die, during a pandemic, and a list of committee members, who are currently sitting on the bill, during a pandemic. This ... this must be the group of people Dore, and his knobs, are pestering and pressuring, and organizing protests against, to get them to take up the bill ... wait, what, Dore, and his knobs just keep harrassing and slandering M4A's most ardent congressional supporters? Pathetic. Dore is a grifter. What he actually promotes is having progressives sit on the sidelines, in some irrelevant third party, handing the Dem party totally back to corporate Dems, and letting Republicans rule for decades to come.
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  4791.  @loverainthunder  People were pretty freaking energized to get rid of Trump. People like Dore promoted the idea of letting Trump win ... that he was a better option for progressives than Clinton. He had a fantasy that it would result in a massive progressive backlash, that would "for sure" lead to progressives taking the house (wrong) and senate (wrong), in 2018, and the presidency (wrong), in 2020. He claimed that even Republicans would join the left to vote against a Trump agenda (wrong), instead of following him into outright fascism (wrong). He claimed that Trump filling multiple scotus seats was as likely as the moon falling into Lake Michigan (wrong). Letting Trump win was stupid. If those are the only two viable options, still get your asses out and vote the conservative Dem as a vote for that being the worst you want the country to go, instead of letting things get even worse under Republicans. Letting Trump win actually sent voters screaming into Biden's "more electable" arms. It hurt the progressive movement. Bernie started a movement immediately after an Obama presidency. The very premise of the argument, that you need to go backwards to go forwards is idiotic, and has no basis in reality. Going backwards, with Republicans, has shifted the country further and further right. If progressives actually want to move forward, then they should energetically vote to not go backwards, even if the primary doesn't go our way. Progressive candidates, themselves, are highly reliant on "vote blue". If they win the primary, the vast majority of Dems who voted against them in those primaries, will turn around and vote for them in the general. Any hope of Bernie becoming president, rested entirely on all Dems voting for him, in the general. We do need a blue team, that may not be entirely comprised of perfectly perfect puritan progressives, for things to go the progressives' way. I get being jaded, and disappointed, but stop the cycle of madness, and keep f*cking Republicans out of power, forever. They've gone completely bat shit crazy fascist, ffs. Trying to completely overthrow, and end, the democratic process, is the last box that needed checking, to move them from being undemocratic to anti-democratic. Worry about getting even more of them out of office, worry about getting more conservative Dems out of office, before flipping out on, abandoning, and wanting to replace, progressives who have done more for M4A in a few years than Dore has in his entire lifetime. You don't think AOC used what little leverage she had effectively, so be it. But the reality is still that she helped add a few more M4A advocates to congress, in just 2 years. That's more than any third party has done in 50 years. That is going against the DNC candidates. Recently backing Nina was AOC still going against the DNC candidate. That's not the "status quo". And, that is infinitely better than going outright backwards, with Republicans. Get a grip on reality and focus the jaded anger where it should be. This getting angriest with those most aligned to your own views, is nonsensical. Slandering the vast majority of progressives, and the vast majority of progressive voters who vote for them, as "fakes", "frauds", "sellouts", and writing them all off as no longer allies, because of some stupid secondary tactic, is lunacy. Getting so jaded and angry, because you didn't get your way, and not voting, or casting a useless vote, and letting Republicans back in power ... THAT is the "status quo". That is what has been happening for decades. All the covid misinformation is even more dangerous lunacy. Jimmy should be shut down, at this point. He is now making money off of encouraging people to die.
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  4792. Not on her dad's side.
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  4793.  @johnobrien1528  I get that it's tough to defend being pathetic useless hypocrites, but you really gave up even trying surprisingly quick.
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  4794.  @Juicebrainjoe  Peru: #1 for covid deaths per capita in the world. Japan: didn't approve ivermectin as a treatment. Mexico: also in the top 20 for covid deaths per capita, and widely considered to be underreporting.
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  4795.  @scoogsy  Harris agreed it was already a given that, if you set a subjective goal, science can help you achieve that goal. If I want to go to the moon, science can tell me if something I do objectively moves me closer or further from that goal. Likewise, if you insert your own subjective idea of "well being" as your subjective goal, then science can also help achieve that goal. If Harris doesn't provide anything that gets you beyond that given, then he completely failed at showing how science can tell us what our goal should be ... a purely objective goal. He failed. He defeated his own hierarchy nonsense in a seperate article, where he fearmongers about AI that is as advanced beyond us as we are to ants. If his hierarchy was actually objective, then he should be arguing that we should do whatever the AI wants, that it has objectively more value than us, as we supposedly have objectively more value than ants. He then claims that all moral systems are about the "well being" of conscious creatures. If that's the case, then there are as many concepts of "well being" as there are concepts of moral systems. But, Harris moves on as if there is a singular concept of "well being" ... his own subjective one ... by which he can then "scientifically" judge all other moral systems. He can't seem to make an analogous analogy to save his life: Chess is a game with rules. It's not analogous to morality. It's analogous to laws (rules). Laws may be a reflection of a society's current morals, but they aren't themselves morality. People can come along and argue a law is itself immoral, just like they can come along and change game rules, if they want, and play a new way. "Healthy" and "unhealthy" don't include oughts. "Moral", on the other hand, is how we ought to behave, and "immoral" is how we ought not behave. He seems to be totally clueless as to what "poisoning" actually is, claiming some totally objective difference between "poison" and "food". "Poisoning" is simply too much of something in your system. We eat cyanide in apples. We can get poisoned from too much water. Most "poisonings" are overdoses of medications that are supposed to make us healthier. Harris failed, and never provided anything beyond what he agreed was already a given. He also failed at some pretty basic philosophy.
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  4796.  @scoogsy  Holy crap. You can't even keep the words in front of your face straight. I didn't mention both is-ought. I mentioned only "ought". The words "moral" and "immoral" have oughts in them ... how we ought and ought not behave. If it's okay to behave immorally, then the word has no meaning. It is okay to eat an unhealthy Big Mac, if you feel like it. There's no "ought not" in "unhealthy". It's just a fact it's "unhealthy". It's okay to go skydiving and unhealthily increase your odds of dying. If you likewise take the "ought not" out of "immoral", then immorality no longer refers to wrong behaviour. It's a shite analogy. I know full well the arrogant idiot thinks he solved the is-ought problem. He didn't, because his argument is based totally on subjectivity, not objectivity. He didn't get beyond his starting point. His hierarchy, which he does include, is subjective. Without it, he'd have to argue for veganism. His personal concept of "well being" is also subjective. The difference between cyanide, water, and being "poisoned" has more to do with amounts. A drop of cyanide won't "poison" you. A ton of water will. A bunch of alcohol will. A bunch of medication will. Etc. Etc. Yet, we willingly ingest all the time. Poisoning isn't even always a bad thing to do. We intentionally poison people to cure cancer. Another shite analogy. I think you're the one that needs to reread the book, without your fanboy glasses on.
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  4797. He takes his first swing, and then puts his ball on the green, so he has twitter time in between.
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  4798. What do you think "minority" means?
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  4799.  @synchronium24  Israelis elected Menachem Begin, leader of the Irgun, who bombed the King David Hotel. The Irgun, and Lehi, also targeted Palestinian civilians, including children, even including Palestinian Jews (who opposed Zionism). Israel merged those terrorist groups into the new nation's military and intelligence agencies. Israelis, to this day, celebrate those terrorists as "heroes". They literally taught their neighbours that terrorism is a valid path to independence and statehood, and that terrorists are "heroes".
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  4800.  @LudVanB  In the 20th century capitalists started two world wars killing tens of millions, genocided millions, starved millions of people in India, killed millions fighting over resources in the Congo, overthrew numerous elected governments, supported numerous murderous dictators, armed and trained religious extremists and terrorists, let millions around the world die or suffer due to rigid patents on life saving drugs, let millions of people die without healthcare, caused the great depression, ... totally awesome. Currently, "communist" Denmark, with its 70-80% unionization, universal healthcare, paid college, high marginal tax rates, 30% of the population working public sector jobs, etc., along with other Scandinavian countries, are the happiest countries on the planet.
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  4801. Sure, just need to get a majority of the house votes to go to someone else. How?
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  4802.  @professionaldouchebag128  Ironically, many supporters of Zionism are Christian religious extremists, who want Israel to take the Temple Mount, destroy the mosque, build the third temple, and bring about Armageddon. What's ironic about it is that Israel is the first country destroyed in war, according to their fairytale. Their support for the state of Israel is actually trying to hurry it along to its destruction. There are still quite a few Jewish fanatics who also want to build the third temple.
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  4803.  @Milanvaneijk  Shove your straw back into your "brain". It is possible to accept the science that a drug is effective, promote that drug as an effective treatment, all while being opposed to drug price gauging. Pretty sure it's the left pushing for drug price controls.
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  4804. A "classical liberal" is someone who forgets that Adam Smith promoted the government handling public works and education, forgets that much of the US was founded on the government handing free land to illiterate immigrants, forgets that the US founders violated the "natural" rights of Africans, Natives, and women, etc.
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  4805.  Mitt Romney stands with BLM  You know that deleting his own comments is the simplest answer, and that people are out to get him is a more complex answer, right?
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  4806.  TheSanctuaryl990  You're talking nonsense. Early Zionist leaders knew they were playing the role of the colonialists, and knew exactly how the natives would react. They're the colonialist apartheid government. https://www.jewishvirtuallibrary.org/quot-the-iron-wall-quot
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  4807.  @stuckin80  The OP didn't say your birth zip code was where you'd always live. Some of you have reading comprehension problems.
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  4808.  @mojrimibnharb4584  The states with after election day mail in vote counting proved there was a significant difference between same day voting and mail in voting. It was also likely that way everywhere. It just wasn't noticable in states where they processed mail in votes early, and counted them at much the same time, as day of votes. It's not a good year to rely on exit polls. A CNN exit poll tried to make a lame attempt to account for early and mail in voting by adding a phone survey to their day of exit polls, but even there, they polled 8000 people on election day, and phoned 5000 people. Meanwhile, about 100m people voted early or by mail, while about 50m voted on election day. The immediate obvious problem is that they should have, at least, called 16k people to represent early/mail in voters. The less obvious problem is that, if you start with a highly skewed data set (a higher percentage of Republican voters than should be) random phone calls might not fix that. To fix the skew, you'd have to know how the final vote count ends up, and adjust your phone calls to make sure you skew things the other way, until they align with the way the final vote went. And, you'd pretty much have to do it for how each electoral district voted, if you wanted to be accurate.
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  4809. ​ @lawrence208  You're a woman.
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  4810. The states those cities belong in should stop putting in more than they get back, to the federal government, I guess, and take care of their own.
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  4811.  @dan91121  Reparations are still plenty talked about, for example. How would thinking it's perfectly moral to own foreigners, for life, and pass them on as inheritance, not come into play, if considering whether reparations would be valid, or not?
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  4812.  @mickelcsaszar3244  So, god is a hypocrite. It should have been fine for Egypt to have foreign slaves.
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  4813.  @mickelcsaszar3244  God could have killed every firstborn sons of the Israelites, brought plagues, ordered stonings (like he did for numerous other things), etc., etc., etc., until they stopped slavery. Not like he wasn't willing to genocide the world, to end "evil", or anything. Could have just started yet a third time, and say "Oh, and extra rule, this time, that I forgot to tell Noah ... no slavery."
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  4814.  @mickelcsaszar3244  Seriously, all you're saying is that it's okay for your sky dictator to be a hypocrite, because whatever he says is right is right, and whatever he says is wrong is wrong.
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  4815.  @HenriFaust  There you go, making out like gender terminology must match biology, which hasn't been the case for millennia, like I said.
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  4816. Nina would best carry on with his platform should, hopefully not, something happen to him.
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  4817. Stop using the term "gaslighting" to simply mean misleading or lying. It's a specific form of misinformation and manipulation, meant to make the person feel crazy, or observers think the person is crazy.
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  4818.  @railroadtrash09  AOC, literally, just used her platform and PAC to back 20 other pro-M4A progressives, helped remove a few more corporate Dems from office, and helped add a few more progressives to congress. If that's called backing corporate Dems, I'm all for it.
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  4819.  @stephanielewis5595  Why? Republicans are leading the charge to make a case that the US is liable, for the rest of the world to use. The rest of the world won't even have to put in any effort, if they succeed. It's hilarious.
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  4820.  @MysteriousRival  She's in the House, not the Senate. The House has passed bills. It's the Senate that's doing nothing.
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  4821.  @cosimfre2651  So, you saw them make a clear distinction between museums and a private hoarder, and you still asked this question?
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  4822. That makes no sense. US politics is almost entirely right of centre.
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  4823. Free community college may not be a cancellation of current debt, but it would cancel many people's future debt, since they won't have to go into debt. If they can pass it.
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  4824.  @terrysmith5168  It's not about "moral high ground". When someone invades another country, oppose it. When someone is defending against an invasion, support it. Offense bad. Defense okay. You're not anti-war, or anti the military industrial complex, if you okay Russia mucking about in former SSR countries, since 1991, and give them a green light to do whatever they want.
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  4825.  @terrysmith5168  Should the Allies have tried to stop the Axis, or not? Their histories didn't really give them an overall "moral high ground". So, was it wrong for them to intervene? Or, do you say they did the right thing, or the wrong thing, depending on the circumstances?
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  4826.  @andersenparker2297  The Permanent Apportionment Act of 1929, is what you're actually defending, not the constitution. You're defending a bill that was put in place so that you could win. You're a hypocrite.
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  4827.  @andersenparker2297  The electoral college isn't inherently disproportionate. You are defending the current disproportionate state of affairs, created by a 1929 bill.
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  4828.  @andersenparker2297  The senate already has equal state representation, and can override anything that goes through congress. You're defending a 1929 bill because it benefits you. You're a hypocrite.
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  4829. Sam crushed Jimmy, when Jimmy promoted letting Trump win in 2016. He won't debate again.
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  4830.  @DarkHeartTheEmo  You guys have the second highest death to confirmed cases ratio in the world. That indicates there are hundreds more carriers out in the US public, who should be coming in to be tested but aren't coming in to be tested. Likely because they're weighing costs vs severity of symptoms.
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  4831. MLK Jr didn't include the word "liberal", just "white moderate".
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  4832. This two state idea has failed for 100 years. Maybe time to try a single state solution?
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  4833. He didn't say "pure", so why did you? "Pure" would be a direct democracy, a system no country is using. The video is referring to those already elected representatives of the Republic, who were elected to get things done. It's still supposed to be a democratic republic.
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  4834.  @barbiquearea  States had already negotiated new treaty lines with natives, opening up plenty of land for settlement, before the American Revolution. Washington had also been personally given tens of thousands of acres, as a reward for his service in the French Indian War. There's no indication the proclamation line was a major factor leading into the revolution. American colonists largely did protest over new tax policies, to pay for debts from the war, and against being taxed without representation (and then they later went on to enacted their own taxes to pay for debts from the revolutionary war). Expanding voting to white male landowners, is still a much more democratic system, then nobody voting, and an appointed governor making decisions. Most white male colonists did own property, so it was almost all of them. Later expanding the system to include non landowners, then minority males, then women, were all also steps that made things more democratic, even if there are still undemocratic aspects to the system.
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  4835.  @MorarLa  John Brown didn't separate from and go to war with the United States, itself, and your imagined course of events never happened. Being anti-slavery is equivalent to being anti-American or anti-Virginian? I was considering all the kidnapping, abusing, raping, torturing, and even killing, of other human beings to be the initial violence. You think slave owners can "just as well" argue they were innocent victims being attacked, and any violence started with John Brown?
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  4836.  @MorarLa  Absolutely anyone who breaks laws is anti-American? It doesn't actually require trying to overthrow the government, or going to war against the nation? Like the underground railroad, sitting on the back of the bus, or whatnot? All anti-American, because they broke the laws of the times, in protest of the laws of the times? Give me a break. Everything I mentioned was commonplace. Plenty of research has led to the consensus that maybe 10% of slaves were treated decently, and they were still considered property, and had no rights. Slaves couldn't testify against white people (very undemocratic), even if there were a law against doing any of those things. Who was going to? The other white guys doing the same stuff? The senate going against the house is undemocratic. The very concept of the senate is undemocratic. Gerrymandering is undemocratic. Freezing the number of seats in the house, and therefore the number of electorals, is undemocratic. Women not being allowed to vote was undemocratic. Blacks and other minorities not being allowed to vote was undemocratic. By the time Brown came along, the Northern states had already abolished slavery. Are you sure, with over half the population not being allowed to vote, and the voting majorities in the North having already abolished slavery, that slavery was supported by the majority of Americans, and he was going against that?
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  4837.  @christopherdonahue1066  Blame China for what, exactly? A coronavirus was first recorded in chickens in the US, and first recorded in humans in the US and UK. Different strains have been first recorded in the Netherlands, Hong Kong, and the ME. 2 coronavirus strains, SARS and Covid 19, were first recorded in China. There are multiple different strains of the flu, that started in different countries. Are we going to assign blame to every country where a new virus, or new strain of a virus, appears? Or do you think they seriously messed up somehow?
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  4838. ​ @LabGoats  Ty
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  4839.  @FM-ln2sb  So, you're an idiot whining about a bill you didn't read? Most is going to repay costs incurred due to Jan 6, and for renovations and security updates.
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  4840.  @Noodles1771  Are you on Dore's payroll? He makes more money than she does. Make up your dumbass Dore knob minds. Is using social media to spread progressive ideas worth anything, or not? You lot make out like her doing it is not of value and not doing anything, while making out like Jimmy is some kind of warrior of truth, and now you're crying that she's not doing it? You idiots are all over the place. She helped add more M4A yes votes to congress during the election. If that's "folding", then "folding" is what's needed to ever pass the bill. The $15 got a vote. It passed the house, the congressional body she belongs to. Remember when Dore and his knobs were claiming getting a vote on important bills was a big deal? The vote produced a list of no voters. Remember when Dore and his knobs made out like getting a list of no voters was a big deal? Now they think getting a vote is useless, and proved getting a list of no voters is pointless, because they aren't going to do anything with it anyway. Dore knobs are pathetic good for nothings, who just keep bitching about those who voted for it. Freezing student debt payments and interest, until the end of September, was one of the first things Biden did, dumb dumb. It hasn't been a pressing matter that needs to be immediately resolved. She, and others are pushing to extend the freeze again, until next March. At least the dimwit loudmouth Trump, and his cult, benefitted the far right, like they're supposed to. Why does dimwit Dore, and his Dore knob cult, also benefit the far right?
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  4841. ​ @JeGu-fs6oo  Also no clue how the NATO budget works. Every single country has always paid their share of the NATO budget.
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  4842.  @CGoffgrid  Taxing isn't "stealing". Plus, what I described is charging for usage. You don't want a military or roads and highways? Are you an ancap? That devolves into feudalism.
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  4843. You've needed one to immigrate normally, for decades.
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  4844.  @web-angel  You Dore knobs both argue that corporate Dems would rather work with, or lose to, Republicans, than progressives, and that progressives have leverage, so make your math make sense. Why would they suddenly want to work with, or lose to, 6 "real" progressives, rather than Republicans? Why wouldn't they just amend their bills to the right, and pick up enough Republican votes to completely ignore you?
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  4845. @Trevoroxx  You pivoted from a nation's "sovereignty" to personal "freedom", so made no actual point about sovereignty. Also, the US overdose rate is double Canada's. And, the only reason the US housing prices are a bit lower is because they had a major real estate bubble burst. Conservatives were proud of avoiding a bubble burst in Canada, at the time, and housing prices continuing to climb. The US has around the same number of doctors, nurses, and hospital beds, per capita, as the US. Americans don't use theirs because they can't afford to. They stay at home sick and have a 5 year shorter lifespan. How is some 60k people losing their lives due to lack of coverage, hundreds of thousands going bankrupt with healthcare debt, around a million traveling to places like India for affordable cancer treatments, etc., better healthcare?
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  4846.  @spellman007  There are countless people who think cars and boats have vaginas, if gender terminology and sex are the same thing. Ben Shapiro is currently crying that vaginaless Barbie's and penisless GI Joes, might be in gender neutral toy sections. Republicans were crying about a penisless potato not being called "Mr".
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  4847.  @spellman007  Why not? You seem to have strong feelings when others don't match sex and gender. So, why not him, the billions of Abrahamic religious followers, or the maybe hundreds of millions that call their cars or boats "she" or "her"?
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  4848.  @thirtythreemorebees  He just made the case, for the investigation bill, that Democrats met all the Republican demands. Republicans still voted against it. They aren't interested, and Manchin is being played by them.
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  4849. Is everyone in NYC a leftist? Who are you referring to, exactly?
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  4850. There are about 50 other options, and the most popular hasn't won a single seat in its near 50 year existence. Third party is a fantasy. Even if you magically made a third party popular enough to win as many seats as the current progressive caucus, what you'd have is a Trump presidency due to vote splitting between Biden and the progessive candidate. You'd have one senator, and Pence being the tie breaker. And, you'd have a Republican plurality in the house. Republicans would only need to work with a few of the conservative Dems to pass whatever they wanted, and could completely ignore progressives. A third party would be completely useless, unless you can divide Republicans, as well.
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  4851. Toensing is Scooter Libby's lawyer. They owe Trump for pardoning their client.
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  4852. No. The logical way would be to have the corporations start paying people. A VAT doesn't do that. Yang is talking nonsense when he claims it does. Corporations are currently hoarding $2.7b. If you're going to have a UBI, that's what should be paying for it. Yang's "plan" will end up increasing the hoard at a faster rate.
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  4853.  @stephanie5249  He appears to be a complete moron, if he thinks progressive channels are full of Obama and Hillary lovers.
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  4854.  @Netem1  YouTube hid my reply. You can see it if you sort the comment section by newest and then refind this thread. They've been hiding or deleting half of my replies, the past few months, since I started posting this.
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  4855.  @calogero100  That wasn't an answer to the question. Rogan previously claimed being healthy was good enough to fight off covid. It was one of his arguments for not needing an under $20 vaccine. Why did he need to take hundreds to thousands of dollars woth of meds?
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  4856. What a load of nonsense. 😂
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  4857. Thing is that you need a working clock to tell when those two times are.
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  4858. ​ @BeeN-fy2jh  He had already almost doubled the annual deficit, by 2019. He then more than tripled that 2019 amount, in 2020. Isn't government spending what you lot claim caused all the inflation (ignoring that over 50% can be attributed to profit margin increases)? How could Biden's March 2021 COVID relief have caused inflation to begin rising, before March, and hit 3% before some people even got their checks?
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  4859.  @BeeN-fy2jh  Rofl! No dots could have existed, before JB signed his bill, dmwt. And yet, the infltn rate was already going up.
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  4860.  @BeeN-fy2jh  I am talking about the rate, dingus. You literally just said March was 2.6%. JB only announced assigning implementation of the bill on Mar 15. In what reality could his bill have caused the Mar rate, when it all still had to be processed and sent out, something the IRS said took 3-4 weeks.
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  4861.  @BeeN-fy2jh  You were claiming it wasn't on the rise under DT, but left out that JB didn't really pass anything until Mar. I said one caused the start of the rise, and one literally couldn't have, because the second one hadn't been passed and paid out, when it started. 1.7% to 2.6% in a month was the start of things, right? So, it was basically still DT's economy, and the rate started rising under his economy, since JB's bill wouldn't really take effect until Apr, right? And, since they're blending into each other, there's no real clear line, where you can say the effects of DT's $1t bill stops and Biden's $1t bill starts. A 2022 Fed Res study estimated relief bills may have caused 3% of the 2021 inflation rate spike. But, you lot don't want to hear about the profit margin side of the rest of the spike. Maybe talk to cmmnst Texas, who is currently taking a few corps to court, for p®I©€ g0ugiπg.
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  4862.  @zeusmasterson4117  If the DNC and their chosen candidate know progressives will fall in line and vote blue no matter who, why would they ever think they need to change?
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  4863.  @renegado100  You don't have to be a nutrition expert to know that Peterson was obviously spouting bullshit about the all meat diet. It obviously didn't cure his depression and anxiety. It obviously didn't let him get off prescription drugs.
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  4864.  @jveebklyn1644  They can't reject him. The most they could do is convince the publisher to reject him. Wouldn't implying they don't have a right to speak their minds be worse than a publisher deciding, for whatever reason, that they don't want to publish a book?
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  4865.  Captrowdy49  Babies didn't vote? Thanks for the info.
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  4866. Yeah, right wingers have flipped history. The founding "Patriots" protested, rioted, and even went to war, over extra taxes that specifically funded the red coats (police/military) and a lack of representation (disenfranchisement). The "Loyalists" fought against democracy to keep an unelected ruler in power. After this past year, I have no clue how right wingers think they're the "Patriots".
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  4867. Weird, since his religious buddies worship a formless, sexless, being they still call "father" or "he" or "him". They seemed to know sex and gender terminology are two different things, all along.
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  4868.  @almitrahopkins1873  Buddhism is an atheistic, or agnostic, religion. As is Chinese ancestor spirit worship. But, all atheists don't practice those things, and aren't necessarily religious. There are also theists, mainly deist types, who aren't really religious, even though they have some kind of god belief. "Theism" and "religion" aren't synonymous. Even Dawkins has made that error, while trying to distance atheism from atheistic crusaders attached to some Communist movements, calling them religious like. Sure, but that doesn't change the fact that they were atheistic in nature, as he tries to make out. I agree that there are some religious like atheist crusaders, but atheism itself isn't a religion.
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  4869. Also a lie, btw. There were taller buildings.
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  4870. And natives attacked North American colonialists. What's your point?
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  4871. Even a shit Dem, like Manchin, voted for covid relief, unlike every Republican, and isn't trying to throw 10m of the poorest Americans off of Medicaid expansion, like Republicans. Even if they both suck, they aren't samesies. One sucks worse.
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  4872.  @bleb87  Well, if you miss the train going 100mph to your destination, and the only two viable options left are a train going 10mph to your destination or even going nowhere, or a train going in the complete opposite direction, going 10mph or nowhere is better than going the opposite direction.
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  4873.  @bretbonner  It only takes a few people, to get out of their country and out of their reach. They can't drag someone back from Italy, and quarantine them, but they can quarantine people in their own country. Every single country started with just a few cases, and could have better contained it. Why does Australia's covid deaths per million translate into under 50k total US covid deaths, instead of almost 900k? Because they had a much better response.
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  4874.  @bretbonner  Rofl!!! Are you seriously using some stupid anecdote to make out like it would be no difference if doctors weren't hygienic? Holy hell. You want work conditions to be like they were in the 19th century, ffs? Rofl! Are you seriously implying that because they don't reduce the drinking and driving to absolutely zero, that drinking and driving laws are useless? There are dozens to thousands of measles and mumps breakthroughs every year, in the US. No vaccine is 100%, dimwit. You're absolutely crazy.
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  4875.  @zeroexcuse6558  That's nice. Apparently you're both still ignorant. Nov, 2020: Pfizer and BioNTech Conclude Phase 3 Study of COVID-19 Vaccine Candidate, Meeting All Primary Efficacy Endpoints It's phase IV, and phase IV is simply releasing it to the public and monitor.
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  4876.  @JoJo-vg8dz  You're crying about government negotiated under $20 prices for vaccines, that are then given out for free, but are perfectly fine with unvaccinated people then having to get $2000+ per dose of monoclonal antibodies, or some shit? Paid for out of pocket, if you aren't high risk, like Joe Rogan would have had to do. You lot are loons.
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  4877.  @JoJo-vg8dz  There are extra taxes on cigarettes. Higher insurance costs for smokers. They're banned from smoking in almost every public indoor place. They're fined for smoking too close to a door to a public indoor place. Some places, and countries, have also started junk food taxes, to help pay for healthcare. You know what none of things you mentioned are ... contagious.
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  4878. How do you pass bills, without a fully functioning congress?
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  4879.  @jumpinjohnnyruss  Didn't say they'd stop it from being made. I said we'd still have polio. If everyone had their "common sense" (moronic) attitudes, then nobody would have ever taken the vaccine, because you can't study long term effects, if nobody takes it, and everyone would be scared to take it, forever. Or, even if there was a few test subjects, but they wanted to wait 40 f*cking years, before giving it to the public, to see if the test subject grows an extra arm, then polio would have kept spreading for 40 years, and we'd still have it, because it still took another 40 years, after the vaccine, to consider it basically eradicated.
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  4880. ​ @davidwilliamson9333  Averaged out, Trump had more border crossings per year than Obama. In 2019, he had the most border crossings in a year, since 2005. He sucked at the one thing you racists voted for him for.
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  4881.  @SoundsSilver  Again, the level of threat is irrelevant to whether something is coercion, or not. There is a threat of a negative outcome, in both cases. There is a power imbalance in both cases. The rescuer is in the position of power. There are duty to rescue laws in multiple countries. Just spouting that something is illegal, or not, is also irrelevant to whether something is coercion, or not. You clearly can't grasp even a simple analogy.
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  4882.  @csanderson5163  Vaccines reduce spread. No vaccine completely eliminates the possibility of being infected.
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  4883.  @OwainLlewellyn  So, doctors without borders, hrw, amnesty, multiple uninvolved countries who have opposed US intervention before, hundreds of victim witnesses, dozens of healthcare worker witnesses, multiple independent investigations, etc. ... indicating hundreds of uses of chemical weapons use since 2012 ... are all in cahoots to frame Syria, because 2 part time "inspectors" (one wasn't an actual inspector and the other never left home base because he didn't finish training) working on a single investigation at a single site, dispute the findings? Dore knobs are the Q of the "left".
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  4884. ​ @qa377  I already posted a reply, listing some sources, but YouTube has been hiding or deleting half my posts, recently. You can see it if you sort comments by newest, and then refind this thread.
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  4885.  Councilman Les Wynan  It would actually probably be easier to show which people with black ancestry didn't descend from slavery. There were 4,441,830 black people, in the US, in 1860, and 3,953,760 were slaves.
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  4886.  @lesliewilliam3777  You know what's some fun history ... contemporary accounts of Kitos Wa®.
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  4887. @Quartinium The US judicial branch kinda sucks, too. The president shouldn't be picking the judicial branch.
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  4888. Start charging political accounts from Florida $25k a day for verification services and account protection.
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  4889.  @tonyfat2458  Idiot. They don't go out, round black girls/women up, and force them to have abortions. They don't turn away white girls/women. If more black girls/women are using their services, then it's something they want. You're the one who wants to force a black child either into a home that doesn't want it, or into an already overloaded foster/adoption system. You're the one who wants to force a black woman to do what she doesn't want to do.
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  4890.  @Mkultra_isReal  He really always was. A VAT doesn't tax giant corporations, like he claimed. He even linked to a study, that he didn't grasp or lied about, which showed consumers pay the entire VAT. His VAT/UBI combo would have had money flowing to the very top faster than ever before.
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  4891. Maybe Twitch should enforce sexual harrassment?
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  4892. Movement for a Puritan Party
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  4893.  @frankrohr41  I think that's mostly Biden's older black supporters, who still look on Biden fondly for the Obama-Biden bromance, but like Bernie second best. That's why it wasn't seen in the second round of mainly white Iowa caucuses.
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  4894.  @DAndyLord  Progressives are center to center-right (like countries they'd like to emulate more), corporate Dems are right (even to the right of conservative parties in a number of countries), Republicans are batshit crazy far right.
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  4895.  @TheGhostofTomMetzger  I'm two shots and a booster ahead of the 85% of people dying of covid, right now. So?
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  4896.  @TheGhostofTomMetzger  Rofl! Covid causes more of the same kinds of heart problems, ffs. Viruses are the main cause of myocarditis.
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  4897.  @TheGhostofTomMetzger  Oh, I love anecdotes. Put them all together and you get statistics. Statistics say you're more likely to get heart problems from covid itself.
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  4898.  @Shooting_Star-v2e  You're a loon.
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  4899.  @Shooting_Star-v2e  You're not "regular". You're a nutbar.
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  4900.  @resir9807  With respect to things Harris has said about Islam or race, or any other things Seder has specifically commented on, how has Seder misrepresented Harris?
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  4901.  Lincoln D  Go whine outside a chiropractor's office, or something.
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  4902.  @iblus2225  No, it doesn't "really" skew the numbers.
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  4903.  @ryandugal  That's kind of the secondary point of all vaccinations, dimwit ... achieving herd immunity.
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  4904. Again? He's a constant failure.
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  4905.  Derek Hitt  Trump didn't do anything beyond pretty standard establishment Republican platforms. Bernie's platform is very different than establishment Dem platforms. He's just a lesser evil philosophy guy, as is Chomsky, and quite a few other on the left.
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  4906. Sure, except for Bernie being talked to about those things for the past 6 years. https://medium.com/basic-income/on-the-record-bernie-sanders-on-basic-income-de9162fb3b5c
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  4907. During a pandemic, when paralyzing the house would have the corporate Dems, Republicans, and corporate media, blaming you for no new covid relief, no new unemployment extensions, no new vaccine funding, etc., and the majority of people in desperate financial need, may actually not be the right time to paralyze the house for a vote that's almost 100 votes short in the house alone. You could come out looking worse than Pelosi. The progressive caucus is possibly one election away from becoming the majority of house Dems, when they could actually pick the speaker, and bring up whatever they want for a vote, whenever they want. Plus, bitch Pelosi says this is her last ride as speaker, so the speakership will be up for grabs anyway. You'll get a list of names of people who won't sign onto M4A when the bill is reintroduced in the new session. Work on converting them, or replacing them, over the next 2 years, exactly like you would have had to do after a failed vote anyway.
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  4908.  @RealityHurts2024  How does a bill that's 100 votes short in the house alone get you healthcare sooner? Dore has healthcare and proposes taking the third party route to not winning a single seat in the next 50 years ... but you probably think that's brilliant.
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  4909. US doctors aren't prescribing the human version for covid, so people have been buying the over the counter horse dewormer. Can't say, for sure, about Joe, but he's not very bright.
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  4910.  @Euthyphro  I thought if someone pointed a gun at you, you had a right to self defense. The argument is that Kyle gets to both point his gun at someone, plus shoot them if they grab at it, and that if someone points a gun at him, he can outright try to kill them.
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  4911. Your average leg amputee just has conversations about being able to afford decent everyday walking around legs, not augmentation. A pair of everyday legs, for me, cost $25000+.
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  4912.  @keywee849  See a shrink.
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  4913. Red states tend to have the highest homicide rates, highest firearm mortality rates, highest poverty rates, lowest education scores, worse healthcare, etc., etc. What awesome right wing country are you from?
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  4914. Harris constantly criticizes liberals.
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  4915.  @robbiemedica2652  Learn Liberty is a "project of IHS". Says it right in their banner, and elaborates on their about page. There's nothing hidden.
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  4916.  @beastmasterx7091  Funding the government totally through sales tax would break the poorest people, first. It's a regressive tax. The super rich are sitting on most of their millions and billions, not buying stuff with it.
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  4917.  @beastmasterx7091  Nothing you said changes the fact that a sales tax is a regressive tax, that would hurt the poorest people most. It would be a terrible way to try and totally fund the government. I think giant corporations and the super rich have proven, beyond any shadow of a doubt, that they'll do anything and everything to avoid paying their fair share in taxes. I'd totally ditch sales taxes, VATs, or anything of the sort, plus ditch corporate taxes and switch to making corporations pay progressive shares to the public to operate in that country and make money off that public. Something like ... small businesses that do $1m and under business get a pass, $1-10m business the public gets a 10% share in the company, $10-100m the public gets a 20% share, $100m-$1b the public gets a 30% share, $1-10b the public gets a 40% share, $10-100b the public gets a 50% share, $100+b the public gets a 60% share. Or, maybe scale it based on a business's percent of GDP so it works in any size economy. Kind of like how Norway has a majority share of its major oil company ... only do that with all businesses, scaling down the share based in the size of the business.
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  4918.  @hellenicboi14  You must be completely clueless, if you don't use any media.
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  4919.  @hellenicboi14  Do you know what "media" means, dimwit?
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  4920.  @hellenicboi14  You must know nothing about pretty much everything. Even a textbook is published media.
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  4921.  @hellenicboi14  So you trust absolutely nothing that you've ever consumed?
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  4922.  @hellenicboi14  Bingo? How do you know anything, if you don't believe anything is true?
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  4923. No. The point isn't just to prevent the individual from getting the virus. The point is also to try and stop it spreading around as much as possible. The more it spreads around, the more variants it will create, and the more it will challenge the efficacy of the various vaccines.
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  4924.  @ronaldmatthews7361  Even if none of the moronic birthers mentioned race, why was this only brought up for the only black president?
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  4925.  @ronaldmatthews7361  You're lying about what he said about the squad. Based solely on their looks or names he assumed they "originally came from countries", and said "why don't they go back". Only 1 originally came from another country. Meaning, not only did he moronically assume incorrectly, based on ethnicity/race, that means this ... "whose governments are a complete and total catastrophe, the worst, most corrupt and inept anywhere in the world" ... is referring to the US, for 3 of them. By his own "logic", he should be packing a bag and leaving.
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  4926.  @vanessacallahan3515  Exactly. If it's so hard for him to get mortgages/loans, then it seems like he doesn't actually own much equity in his properties. Which means he's not actually worth much.
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  4927.  @adamcramm  The 1% covid mortality rate is 5x higher than the automobile accident mortality rate. Should we do away with street lights, speed limits, seatbelt laws, child seat laws, helmet laws, drinking and driving laws, vehicle safety standards, licensing, etc., because automobile accidents aren't deadly enough for you?
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  4928.  @adamcramm  There are tons of laws and regulations based on that philosophy. Even if the majority of the population isn't getting raped, but many are, we take away the individual's freedom to rape people ... or murder, assault, etc. The majority of people might not be getting food poisoning, but many are, so we take away a business' freedom to not wash, wear gloves, sell past expiration dates, etc. And on and on and on ... there are tons. Your slippery slope isn't as slippery as you think. It's a slow roll, that can be stopped wherever we want.
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  4929.  @adamcramm  No it's not. There are the rare cases where malfunctioning lights, some issue with a vehicle that got through safety testing but later is recalled, a shitty driver got through licensing, or whatnot. That's equivalent to your vaccine "risk" right ... that something dangerous has got through testing, or malfunctions when it comes to you, as an individual?
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  4930.  @adamcramm  Polio has a 0.5% paralysis rate and 0.05% mortality rate. Do you want to ditch the polio vaccine?
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  4931. ​ @AB-zl4nh  Like a children's discount, or a seniors' discount? What age you are is a characteristic based on when you were born.
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  4932. ​ @populuxe1  Pretty sure the colonizing of Palestine, is still happening, as we speak. Not exactly samesies. Who is talking genocide? Wanting to end Nazi Germany wasn't wanting to genocide Germans. Wanting to end Apartheid South Africa wasn't wanting to genocide white South Africans. Wanting to end Fascist Italy wasn't wanting to genocide Italians. Wanting to end colonial India wasn't wanting to genocide the British.
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  4933.  @beezusHrist  Nobody knows what the price of the affordable housing would have been, only that property would have been allocated to it. The only prices given were for the non affordable units.
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  4934.  Derek Hitt  So, cancelling is like when conservative religious types create a government agency to protect their delicate sensibilities from naughty words and nipples, by not letting anyone hear or see those things? Or, when they try to enshrine a definition of marriage as a man and a woman, trying to not let any other combinations get married? Or, making it illegal for women to wear pants? Or, making PDA illegal? Or making other religions illegal? Or other denominations illegal? Or making non religion illegal? Or trying to erase someone for saying the Earth isn't the center of the universe? Etc. Etc. Etc. Etc. Etc. Etc. Etc.
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  4935. Like pro Israel media starts spewing reasons why Palestinians had it coming?
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  4936. So you morons think her mom and dad brought 7 kids with them, and left one behind. Then, instead of simply sponsoring him, as siblings and parents can do, she married him for no particular reason. You are dumber than a stump, or a Trump.
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  4937.  Illhan Omars brother's wife is Illhan Omar  What a load of crap. A bunch of vaccines are mandated. There are a miriad of laws and regulations that people are mandated to follow. You're talking out your ass ... again.
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  4938.  @adaminfinity1733  No, that doesn't happen every year. 2018 had a spike. Seriously? You can't grasp why people are more likely to blame the unvaccinated for something 10x worse than the flu, that lasts much of the year, and has a free vaccine for all?
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  4939.  @DuderofDudeness  You can force (pick up) a baby and stop it from doing the dangerous thing, make it sit and listen to you, and use reward and punishment to teach it to make better choices. Kind of a false equivalency, unless you have some way to make him stop and listen to you, and some way to change his mind. Unless you can do that, you're only asking people to tolerate complete ignorance.
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  4940. Boris calls someone a letter box. We call him a bigot. The second is also free speech and doesn't violate his free speech. "Convening"? Did he pick the cabinet?
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  4941.  @sentaukrai  Ever hear of a toddler pulling their mom's pepper spray, knife, or stun device, out of her purse, and killing her with it?
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  4942.  @insightoftheages5571  You can't both argue that a gun is a better weapon to defend yourself with, and that other weapons are just as good as a gun. If other weapons are just as good, just as lethal, as a gun, then I guess nobody needs a gun.
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  4943.  @congressmanjimjordan7051  Most presidents have been presidents of record, all time high, stock markets, at the time of their presidencies, dumbass. He's also president of an all time record high year. It's never been above 2019, ever before!
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  4944. @Lucid Dreamer If you don't need anyone to fight for your best interests in government, then I assume you're staying home on election day?
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  4945.  @poolboywillis1225  You made the argument that simply criticizing Rogan was "trying to control what others think", then you went on to criticize people. You're a hypocrite, by your own "logic".
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  4946. Man, if only there were a bipartisan investigation into Jan 6, to figure it all out.
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  4947. The richer people are, the more they tend to hoard and hoarded wealth isn't affected by a VAT. The VAT is also not a way to make corporations like Amazon "pay their fair share". Mixed with the UBI, it will actually make them richer and, in turn, hand Bezos more money to hoard. Opting out of UBI won't change your electric bill, or phone bill, etc., going up 10%. Some people will be worse off under Yang's plan.
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  4948.  @Eevcee  What? The Republicans have been giving a home to extremists, for decades ... extreme anti-communist anti-socialist McCarthy types (so extreme they think nationalizing health insurance, or one resource, is all out communism); anti civil rights racists; religious extremists that want to force their religion on everyone else; extreme economic right Tea Partier/Ayn Rand types; 2nd amendment fanatics; and now Trump cultists. The party, and their prime media outlet, will have to move, again, if enough cultists follow Trump.
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  4949.  @seanhovan7426  No vaccine is 100%. Nobody said the vaccines had 100% efficacy. There are dozens to thousands of measles and mumps breakthroughs every year, in the US. The vaccines are still considered to work, with about 88% efficacy and a 90% vaccination rate.
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  4950.  @evilchaperone  The US could cut its military spending in half, and still single handedly account for 20% of the world's military spending.
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  4951.  @elgatofelix8917  You're spouting nonsense. Gallup started doing presidential approval polls during FDR's first term. He still has the highest approval ratings of any president since.
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  4952. ​ andresrojas7924  Wtf are you blathering about? The British conquered the South, then conquered the North, and created a single country out of the Christian Southern and Muslim Northern Nigerian protectorates. The ancestry of Nigerian Muslims is within the borders of Nigeria, created by the British. The only thing similar to Israel/Palestine is that the British had a hand in creating a shit show.
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  4953.  @johnbrowne3950  You know the population keeps growing, and that making it easier to vote increased the percentage of people who voted overall, right? Even when he won, Trump won with one of the lowest percentages of the vote in history.
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  4954.  @pikachulover2000  You're an idiot. It is the US that has been downgraded to a flawed democracy, not other developed countries with gun control. It is the US that's ranked lower on the freedom index and press freedom index, than developed countries with hate speech laws.
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  4955. Who has signed onto HR 40, in the house and senate?
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  4956. Did you miss the T&T health minister part?
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  4957. Those would be delivered by truckers actually working. Canada has 420 thousand commerical freight trucks. These dimwits don't even represent 1% of truckers. The Canadian Trucker's Alliance and the Canadian Teamsters have both come out against them.
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  4958.  @reaganoames6787  So, you actually believe that Rudy has had verifiable evidence of Biden corruption for months, and didn't hand it over to the investigation he was promoting since the impeachment hearings?
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  4959. Yang's plan doesn't pay for UBI properly. A VAT is actually specifically designed to not tax businesses. If you don't have giant corporations paying into the UBI, then they will only gain the benefit of the UBI being spent, making them extra billions, funneling money to the very top even faster than it is now.
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  4960.  @rafidifrancesco7956  How do you carve out a Jewish majority state, where a Palestinian majority already lives, without it being inherently genocidal (the UN Office of Genocide Prevention considers ethnic cleansing to be within their definition)?
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  4961. ​@@MirglipEA You mean she voted for an entire budget? She votes against the state department appropriation bills, which includes the yearly military aid to Israel.
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  4962.  Googlag Inmate #666  AOC, Pressley, Omar, Bowman, were also there in shifts, dumb dumb. AOC was also just campaigning for Nina, trying to increase the M4A yes vote count by one.
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  4963.  @Name-jw4sj  Then the other side had an even greater expansion, more likely due them hating Trump than loving Joe, and your argument still makes no sense.
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  4964. Russian fascists invaded Ukraine, dumb dumb. They're the Israel in that comparison.
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  4965. You must not know what "regressive" means. Fighting to discriminate is regressive ... going backwards. Fighting for religion in politics is regressive. Fighting for Gilded Age levels of inequality is regressive. Anti-feminism is regressive. Etc.
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  4966.  @sullen2420  It's not smart to have progressives in a majority party? It's smart to let Republicans win the majority? Why do Dore knobs always seem to think the smartest route is to let Republicans rule? Weird, and totally contradictory to wanting them to use whatever leverage they have, because they wouldn't have any in that case.
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  4967.  @sullen2420  You have reading comprehension problems.
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  4968.  @sullen2420  Why don't you learn to read, and answer my questions, first.
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  4969.  @sullen2420  Do you still have reading comprehension problems? Learn to read, and go back and answer my questions, first.
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  4970.  @sullen2420  I understood, just fine, and replied that they'd lose whatever leverage they have, being in a minority. YOU, keep dodging my questions. I don't give a crap, if you think it is, or isn't, their job. The entire argument that they have some little amount of leverage, entirely rests on them being in the majority party. So, is it smart for them to try and retain a majority, and retain any leverage they have? Or, is it smart to let Republicans win the majority, and lose any leverage they have?
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  4971.  @dudeguy7347  Do you think something that can't have conscious thoughts, can't feel pain, can't form memories, is it exactly equivalent to something that can? Sperm are unthinking, unfeeling, living organisms, with the potential of becoming humans, if you don't interfere with them, so why are you okay with killing them with birth control? The vast majority of the fertilized eggs (conception), used in IVF, fail to take, or aren't used. Do you consider that the slaughter of hundreds of thousands of "babies" per year?
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  4972.  @whyamimrpink78  Hrrrmmm ... One guy convinces tens of millions of people not to believe any media, any other politicians, any judges, any lawyers, any law enforcement, any scientists, any doctors, any nurses ... anybody ... even to not believe their own lying eyes, if they contradict Fuehrer Trumpty Dumpty. He incites his cult into trying to overthrow the democratic process, and even got further than getting stuck at a beer hall. If you're at a rally marching with Nazi flag wavers, Confederate flag wavers, other white supremacist symbol wavers, a bunch of Tiki torch carrying anti-Semites, organized by white supremacists, with white supremacist speakers, defending a statue of a racist who was willing to kill and die to keep black people enslaved ... in what reality are you "very fine people"? How are you not a racist? How are you not a racist, thinking there were "very fine people" at a white supremacist rally?
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  4973. But the guy most people hate got 74 million?
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  4974.  @10tothebigguy25  Which progressives say the second thing?
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  4975.  @craigfin3222  Dore, himself, recently cited a Gallup article, showing the unvaccinated hospitalization rate to be 0.01% and the unvaccinated hospitalization rate to be 0.89%. Of course, he completely ignored that he had just shown that the unvaccinated were being hospitalized at 89x the rate, and instead dishonestly compared those hospitalization rates to the incorrect "death rate".
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  4976. If the US had responded as well as S Korea, Vietnam, New Zealand, or Australia, their covid deaths per capita would translate into under 20k total US covid deaths. A mediocre response, like Canada, Germany, Norway, Denmark, or Finland, would translate into 400+k fewer US covid deaths. His pathetic response is responsible for 400-600k deaths.
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  4977.  @Special_Agent_NSB  *Kansas Flu
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  4978.  @WishQuitting  You think he actually believes his own bullshit?
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  4979.  @runrafarunthebestintheworld  Doel didn't mind the FTV idea, but he didn't follow along with bashing progressives, going third party, or other Dore nonsense.
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  4980.  @therussiantrollnetwork7464  W graduated Harvard. Carson was a brain surgeon. Ancient fairy tales, accepted as truth, and which Ben accepts as truth, are the most printed books in the world. What's your point?
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  4981. If a highway bridge isn't designed to withstand vehicles possibly hitting it, that's just stupid.
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  4982. ​ @jackm6307  Desperation is going on television and not making an actual defense against the charges, but rambling on about irrelevant nonsense, and making baseless attacks against the judge.
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  4983.  @brothersandsistersofvalhalla  Something that affects the individual, and is not passed down genetically to the next generation, is not evolution.
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  4984.  @whyamimrpink78  Moron. Myles Allen also only takes issue with certain language, but totally agrees human activity is responsible for climate change.
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  4985. If the banks consider the stocks to have value, without having to cash them in, then the government should consider them to have value, without having to cash them in.
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  4986.  @kevin6293  Again, you're assigning racism to fascism. "Fascism is the complete opposite of Marxian socialism." ~ Mussolini The Marxian ideal is stateless, non authoritarian, democratic, socialism. The complete opposite is ultra-nationalistic, authoritarian, anti-democratic, anti-socialism (oligarchy, crony capitalism, corporatism), which is exactly how Mussolini describes fascism in more detail. Fascists can take their nationalism to xenophobic levels, but fascism isn't necessarily racist. White nationalists don't think any minorities should count as citizens. Nazis took it to the extreme, and even considered Germanic people superior to other white people. Nazis and white nationalists tend to be fascists, but fascists don't have to be Nazis or white nationalists ... or black nationalists. But, even amongst the Nazi extreme, there were few Jewish, and other minority, Nazis. Even then, it wasn't impossible for non-Germanic people to be Nazis, or Nazi sympathizers. The US has been riding the edge of fascism for some time. Basically, the only difference has been being somewhat undemocratic as opposed to being anti-democratic. So, even an authoritarian black cop can be pretty fascisty. Any black Trumpist, who supported overthrowing the democratic process to install a dictator, is most definitely a fascist.
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  4987.  @vivalaleta  Say whatever you want. It still doesn't change the math. She has zero chance of winning, therefore it will simply help Trump, mathematically speaking.
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  4988. Yeah, they shouldn't be allowed to promote their religion in congress, or use religious arguments for the basis for any laws.
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  4989. Libertarian and ancap are extreme, have been done before, and failed for most people. An ancap environment just leads to feudalism. A Libertarian environment leaves the poor uneducated and without healthcare, unless they can find a sponsor, and/or tossed into some kind of workhouse (Gilded Age, Victorian Age).
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  4990.  @ballz4kidz  Voters keep letting Republicans win, over and over. Those Republicans take a jump to the right and the "moderate" Dems go meet them in the new "middle", which is further right. Vote in the primaries, to try and get what you really want. Vote in the general to try and keep Republicans out of power, forever, no matter what the primary outcome. Force the Overton window in the opposite direction, by making the primaries the main battleground and making Republicans irrelevant.
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  4991. @President Houseplant Rofl. PV itself specializes in defamation. They've been proven to be full of crap many times over. What, exactly, said about them was slanderous?
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  4992. Read Ze'ev Jabotinsky's The Iron Wall, 1923. He fully acknowledged that Znsm is clnlsm, and that the native population would resist it until the bitter end. He still argued it was a good idea. His followers became the Irgun and Lehi trrrst groups, whose leaders ended up founding Likud. Einstein likened them to Fscsts and Nzs. Things started over 100 years ago now.
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  4993. Why does it need to be a male colleague? He can't be alone with multiple women, either? If he's riding with one male reporter, couldn't people just as easily make up crap about him being in a homosexual relationship? Doesn't really make much sense.
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  4994.  @sfsandman4489  You're insane.
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  4995. @C M Rofl. Keep proving you're a bunch of right wing loons, exactly as David said. Why don't you go violate Terry Fox some more.
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  4996.  @YouConnolly  Now what are you blathering about? Do you have reading comprehension problems?
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  4997. People watching too many gangster movies/shows, and thinking they're the good guys.
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  4998.  @chrisallum9044  You seem to have things backwards. It was an anti-masker who shot a retail worker. It was an anti-masker who shot a cop. It was an anti-masker who shot a mall cop. It was anti-maskers who shot up a strip club. They are dangerous nutbars.
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  4999.  @avasephora  Rofl, Germany has 6x fewer deaths per million than the US. You shouldn't have included them. Trace testing rates also factor into how well the virus is contained. Italy and France haven't had very good testing rates, and the US rate is pretty pathetic. Locking down is supposed to be temporary, to give you a chance to get the virus under control. If you don't do shit, to get it under control, then no it's not going to be as effective.  https://ourworldindata.org/grapher/number-of-covid-19-tests-per-confirmed-case?time=2020-11-12&country=AUS~CAN~DNK~DEU~ITA~JPN~NZL~NOR~KOR~TWN~GBR~USA~VNM
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  5000. @Robert Carlton Which of JFK's 3 points do you think are false? "But instead of holding out a helping hand of friendship to the desperate people of Cuba, nearly all our aid was in the form of weapons assistance - assistance, which merely strengthened the Batista dictatorship - assistance which completely failed to advance the economic welfare of the Cuban people - assistance, which enabled Castro and the Communists to encourage the growing belief that America was indifferent to Cuban aspirations for a decent life." "Secondly, in a manner certain to antagonize the Cuban people, we used the influence of our Government to advance the interests of and increase the profits of the private American companies, which dominated the island's economy. At the beginning of 1959 United States companies owned about 40 percent of the Cuban sugar lands - almost all the cattle ranches - 90 percent of the mines and mineral concessions - 80 percent of the utilities - and practically all the oil industry - and supplied two-thirds of Cuba's imports." "The third, and perhaps most disastrous of our failures, was the decision to give stature and support to one of the most bloody and repressive dictatorships in the long history of Latin American repression. Fulgencio Batista murdered 20,000 Cubans in seven years - a greater proportion of the Cuban population than the proportion of Americans who died in both World Wars, and he turned Democratic Cuba into a complete police state - destroying every individual liberty."
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  5001. The biggest issue, for me, is that if you basically drop criticizing Republicans to spend all your time bashing Democrats, even the most progressive ones, then you've effectively become a Republican media outlet, not a progressive one.
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  5002. ​ @rosybean  What's to like?
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  5003.  @ufutz  Maybe. I don't really see any proposing policies that would move the US left of Denmark, which is a center to center-right country.
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  5004.  @honestcomments6412  Because he said attractive women don't get raped? Learn what "gaslit" actually means.
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  5005. ​ @christian-us1se  You want a million people to walk, without water, through the Sinai desert?
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  5006. He spouts his constant appeals to emotion in a calm, monotone, manner, as well, making some people think he's totally logical.
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  5007.  @xxcrysad3000xx  Bernie is considered centre-left, in normal countries. Hillary is right of centre, in normal countries. Harris was Hillary over Bernie. Harris bashes the left all the time. He sides with totally insane and/or moronic Republicans on a number of issues.
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  5008.  @gnubbiersh647  No. Your memory is as bad as your processing. OP: guys who care about women's sports so much they made a movie, in which they say they don't care about women's sports Some reply: load of concern troll Your reply to that reply: What's so hard to understand, blah, blah, blah ... Rambling on, introducing a completely different premise, where you care but just don't watch ... Effectively strawmanning people your accusing of not understanding.
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  5009.  @redrick8900  Rofl. Fool, who misread what I said, claims I'm the fool. You're as bright as the other one.
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  5010. It's like, if they are so awesome at rigging elections, then why don't they rig them to win the house and senate, too?
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  5011. By that "logic" Israelis are responsible for Netanyahu. This year, alone, prior to Oct 7 ... Israel held over 1200 Palestinian hostages without charges ... over 200 Palestinians had been killed by the IDF and settlers ... over 1000 Palestinians had been displaced by Israel's neverending colonization of the West Bank ... and, Israel continued to operate an open air WWII style fascist ghetto. Congratulations, you justified the Hamas attack.
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  5012.  @BerndSchnabl  You justified it, by claiming the population is also responsible.
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  5013.  @Demon1800e  Again, Pfizer is now fully approved. There wasn't much way to sue early vaccine manufacturers, and there hasn't been much way, since NCVIA passed in the 80s, unless they manufacturer it wrong, either.
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  5014. Just to be clear, they aren't choosing to be bi, though.
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  5015.  @mehwhyausername1  There's nothing for businesses to circumvent with a VAT. It's built in that they get to reclaim their input VAT. A VAT successfully generates revenue in those other countries, but it doesn't successfully tax corporations, because that's not what it's designed to do. It's a sales tax collected in stages with all the business stages getting paid back. "If you’re GST registered, you can claim back the GST you pay on goods or services you buy for your business." https://www.business.govt.nz/tax-and-accounting/basic-tax-types/gst/
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  5016.  @donhello7522  I love when a gang leader is on trial, and all his top gang members are part of the jury.
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  5017.  @jop23ify  He still kept peddling her over Bernie, dimwit, exactly like I stated. But, thanks for making it very clear, that he knew full well, her plan wasn't M4A, and he still kept backing her.
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  5018.  @treymitchell957  The Libertarian party is doing even less. The Green party is doing even less. Whatever you think of current progressives in office, running as a Dem is very clearly the more effective way to win a seat. One of the worst Dems, right now, was a product of the Green party, Kyrsten Sinema. It's not like you're guaranteed perfectly perfect puritan progressives, going third party, anyway.
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  5019.  @jop23ify  No vaccine is 100%, dimwit. There are dozens to thousands of measles and mumps breakthroughs every year, in the US. Say you've been vaccinated with a vaccine that has a 50% efficacy rate. That's 50%, if the virus carrier comes in contact with you. If there's another vaccinated person between you and the carrier, that's 75% protection. Another, and that's 87.5% protection. Another, and that's 93.75% protection. That's the whole point of herd immunity. It's not solely about the individual.
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  5020. @Gawanipony 3 Pretty sure I got it right. It would be hard to find more guilty people than Enron affiliated assholes, or Michael Flynn.
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  5021.    Oh boy, you're spreading every ounce of gossip possible. lol
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  5022.  @MrNH718  Have you Dore knobs only just discovered Libertarians and ancappers? What rock have you been living under? Sure, they don't want the government telling consenting adults who they can and can't sleep with, or who they can and can't marry, but they also don't want the government telling businesses who they can't discriminate against. He wasn't "pro M4A".
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  5023.  @SnakeWasRight  What are you talking about? Peterson says masculinity isn't toxic, so how can someone spread toxic masculinity?
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  5024.  @DaVizzle_Bro  Try to grasp why people are mocking him. It's because of who he is, and the ideas he promotes. It is traditional masculinity, the very thing he promotes, that considers men crying a bad thing. You Peterson fans need to make up your minds. Is that toxic, or not? If not, then suck it up. If it is, then Peterson is wrong.
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  5025. Aside from winning her own seat, she just helped replace a few more corporate Dems with a few more pro-M4A progressives. How many seats has the most popular third party won, in its near 50 year existence? Zero. How many has the most popular left leaning party won, in its 20 year existence? Zero. If you think those are faster routes, then you're not very bright.
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  5026. Yes, make Amazon and Bezos even richer, with Yang.
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  5027.  @michaelarmijo4112  Do you grasp basic math? There are zero extra votes to be gained to the left of progressives. It is absolutely impossible to pass a bill without votes from the most conservative Dems, like Manchin. On the flip side, there is the entire Republican party to try and draw extra votes from, to the right of conservative Dems. If they can bring enough Republicans onto a bill, then they don't need progressive votes to pass the bill. Expecting even 100 progressives to be able to pass whatever they want, is nonsensical. What about her voting record is it that you think is highly problematic? When did she "promise" to remove Nancy? How is that even possible, when even the entire progressive caucus doesn't have enough votes, within the Dem caucus, to pick a different speaker candidate? Blocking the house speaker vote just paralyzes the house, until a speaker is elected. It doesn't change who the party puts forth as a candidate. The corporate Dem majority could keep picking Pelosi over and over and over, or someone even worse. All you'd be doing is paralyzing the house, indefinitely, rather than ousting the party speaker candidate.
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  5028. The reality is that there are only 2 viable candidates. Just say you prefer Trump.
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  5029.  @AvatarFanUno  Yeah, he has his blinders on, when it comes to other religions. He also doesn't judge Christians globally, like he does with Muslims. He straw mans, pretending like the WBC are the worst of modern Christians, meanwhile tens of thousands of people are persecuted, even killed, for being "witches", in Christian parts of Africa, and Brazil has become the most dangerous place on the planet to be gay.
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  5030.  @shogreene9215  Doesn't change the fact that your conscience is helping Trump. It's just math.
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  5031.  @johnqpublic2718  How does ensuring an unstable leader can't unilaterally launch a nuclear attack, amount to a coup? It's ensuring there's a limit to his power, not removing him from office and replacing him. Your "enlightened centrism" is just right wing bullshit.
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  5032. @V His accusation was that they were intentionally not treating people, and letting them die, dimwit. Nothing to do with "researching" the vaccines.
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  5033.  @mimked  You think tens of millions of doctors and nurses, across the world, have no clue if they're treating someone, or not, unless they're told by some administrator? And, that administrators, across the world, are all in cahoots?
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  5034.  @mimked  What aren't you grasping, here? You're arguing that tens of millions of doctors and nurses are completely clueless, as to whether they're treating someone, or not, without a Fauci telling them. It's a moronic argument.
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  5035.  @mimked  You're going in circles. Now we're back to where we started, with tens of millions of doctors and nurses, who "know there's some better effective treatment", but are intentionally letting people die. Whether someone higher up ordered, or not, is irrelevant. It's one or the other. Either that, or they're completely clueless as to what's an effective treatment, without some higher up telling them what is, or isn't. Pick one. Both are insane.
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  5036.  @AnonCitizenxx   And if enough individuals don't want it as a national holiday, they're free to change it, dumbass. Then you as an individual can still make a Columbus cake, or whatever stupid slaughter the natives day celebration you want to do, on your own.
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  5037. Or ... nothing happened to him, and he was always a grifter. The guy didn't even end up lowering border crossings. He just treated the border crossers worse. What did he actually do?
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  5038.  @EbluestarE  Yes, it is fucked up to just constantly bring on fringe "experts". Yes, most people are stupid.
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  5039.  @clintholmes2061  Every single Republican voted against the last round of covid stimulus. You'd have to have severe brain damage to think they're still not worse, even if it's only a little. Sam would support someone primarying Manchin. But, you'd have to have severe brain damage to think there are enough progressive votes to beat both him, and the Republican, in the general, in that district. Do you have severe brain damage?
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  5040.  @clintholmes2061  Yes, we were talking about harm reduction, you dimwitted Dore knob, which is a comparison of which is the more harmful outcome. Catch up.
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  5041.  @clintholmes2061  Trump cultists follow a loud mouth who spews endless bullshit, but still claim he tells it like it is; who calls any right winger who doesn't do as he says "fakes", "frauds", and "sellouts"; who is pals with Tucker Carlson; who also promoted himself as the better option than Clinton or Biden; who also spouted covid misinformation; who also allies with right wing extremists; who also partnered with Rumble; who also prefers seeing Republicans win than Democrats; who also blathers about "Russiagate"; who also whines about "free speech" rights, when that has nothing to do with private corporations; who also throws subordinates under the bus, when he looks bad; etc. Hard to tell a Trumpist from a Dore knob.
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  5042.  @justinbellpa  Nope. Just a fact that Ben's worldview is based on a fairytale.
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  5043.  @justinbellpa  Nope. You're simply as sharp as a spoon.
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  5044.  @justinbellpa  Spoons don't have points, dingus.
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  5045.  @justinbellpa  I comprehend that Ben feels fairytale floods and stuff are true, just fine.
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  5046. Well, she's consistently supporting the aggressors, in both cases. The other consistent position is to support Ukraine and Palestine. People who support Israel and Ukraine, or Russia and Palestine, are inconsistent.
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  5047. ​ @tenetgg  "Fascism is the complete opposite of Marxian socialism." ~ Mussolini Regarding the founders of Likud ... "Among the most disturbing political phenomena of our times is the emergence in the newly created state of Israel of the "Freedom Party" (Tnuat Haherut), a political party closely akin in its organization, methods, political philosophy and social appeal to the Nazi and Fascist parties. It was formed out of the membership and following of the former Irgun Zvai Leumi, a terrorist, right-wing, chauvinist organization in Palestine." ~ Einstein, and other prominent Jews.
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  5048.  @michaeldriggers7681  Ummm, hate to break the news to you but, Republicans, and corporate Dems, are the ones that have used the government to make anti-BDS laws. The FCC is still protecting delicate conservative sensibilities from naughty words and nipples. Plus, right wingers are peddling the bullshit idea that there's such a thing as free speech on someone else's private property. There's no such thing, and they're the ones who have given giant corporations so much power. Only public ownership of social media would give you free speech rights on social media.
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  5049.  @jojomany5792  Been there, didn't do that. How would one go about picking the right god to pray for help from, or should people just pray to them all?
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  5050.  @augustin1999  Did you take the "intelligent" third party route, that hasn't won the most popular third party a single seat in congress in its near 50 year existence? Zero seats, zero bills introduced, zero amendments added, zero votes on even a single item.
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  5051. A gas tax is one of the worst for poor people. It adds to the transportation costs for all products, including necessities, and businesses will, for sure, pass along the cost.
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  5052. That's an oxymoron.
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  5053.  bleepehdeepdoop  Agnosticism isn't actually compatible with beliefs, either way. But, that isn't to say I can't believe Dune is a work of fiction, or believe Spock is a fictional character, while having no belief about whether aliens actually exist, or not. Likewise, for the Bible, or Zeus, vs whether gods actually exist, or not. "Agnosticism is of the essence of science, whether ancient or modern. It simply means that a man shall not say he knows or believes that which he has no scientific grounds for professing to know or believe." ~ Thomas Huxley If that sounds like you, then keep it simple and just call yourself an agnostic. If someone has a problem with that, then take the advice about debating the position, rather than the label.
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  5054.  @jeanneeber  It reminds me of the Puritans. They were persecuted in England, many exiled, somewhat a people without a home, but then the British government used them to colonize the "New World". There, they turned around and persecuted everyone and anyone that wasn't just like them, and went about ethnic cleansing the native population.
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  5055. By every relevant measure, Israel is objectively the aggressor... Modern history: 100 years ago, in 1923, Ze'ev Jabotinsky fully acknowledged that Zionism is colonialism, and that, based on the entirety of history, the natives would fight it until the bitter end. He just didn't care what would happen to them, and promoted doing it anyway. Colonizers are never not the aggressors. On top of the colonialist nature of Zionism, the Zionists also formed terrorist organizations, like the Irgun and Lehi. They bombed many Palestinian markets and other public places, murdering many civilians, including children, even including Palestinian Jews (who opposed Zionism). Israel merged those terrorists into the new nation's military and intelligence agencies. Israelis elected Menachem Begin, leader of the Irgun, child murderer, Jew murderer, and bomber of the King David Hotel, as PM. Israelis, to this day, celebrate those terrorists as "heroes". Zionists literally taught their neighbours that terrorism is a valid path to independence and statehood, and that terrorists are to be celebrated. In 1945, it is well documented that Zionists owned just 5% of the land and were a majority nowhere. Israel was formed by actually going against the majority population. It's foundation is completely undemocratic. Then, becoming a majority, in "your" new nation, by ethnic cleansing the actual majority, and then claiming to be democratic, is utter nonsense. Law: Israel is considered an occupier by the International Court, the UN GA, and the UN SC. Occupiers are also never not the aggressors. Those occupied actually have a right to resist occupation. On the flip side, it is illegal for the occupier to settle occupied lands, and illegal to use collective punishment. Israel is a rogue nation, that doesn't abide by international law. What it has been doing, and is doing now, is illegal. Current events: This year, alone, prior to Oct 7 ... Israel held over 1200 Palestinian hostages without charges ... over 200 Palestinians had been killed by the IDF and settlers ... over 1000 Palestinians had been displaced by Israel's neverending colonization of the West Bank ... and, Israel continued to operate an open air WWII style fascist ghetto. Even ignoring modern history and law, in no reality did Hamas "start" anything.
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  5056.  @michaelgrimm2121  Shouldn't everyone hate fascism, dumb dumb? You "enlightened centrists" are how fascists get in power. Absolutely no progressive is promoting policies that would move the US left of actual real world centrism, or promoting overthrowing the democratic process. The majority of Republicans lawmakers promoted overthrowing the democratic process. The majority of Republican lawmakers actually tried to overthrow the democratic process. You: But ... both sides!
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  5057.  @michaelgrimm2121  You're a loon.
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  5058.  @BlazingOwnager  Because morons who don't know what crt really is, will be trying to ban, and sue teachers over, basic history.
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  5059.  @anticom6099  Stopped reading after your "Show me" sentence. "Moms for Liberty" are using a CRT ban to try and ban an MLK Jr book.
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  5060.  @anticom6099  Because, exactly as the example I just gave, morons who don't know what crt is, will use it to try and ban standard history.
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  5061.  @anticom6099  Ironic, you talking about propaganda, when you're straight up lying. "Inside the complaint, “Moms for Liberty” take issue with several books in the school’s offered curriculum, including Frances Ruffin’s Martin Luther King Jr. and the March on Washington, and the autobiographical Ruby Bridges Goes to School: My True Story. The complaint also cites “photographs of white firemen blasting Black children to the point of ‘bruising their bodies and ripping off their clothes.’”"
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  5062.  @anticom6099  Nothing you blathered about showed that anyone was teaching a college law class to kids in grade 2. Simply teaching that something is/was racist isn't crt, you ignoramus. On top of being completely ignorant, you also seem to have severe reading comprehension problems. The complaint clearly lays out that they take issue with multiple pages in the books themselves.
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  5063.  @travisrhodus1362  I try to keep it simple, when talking to simpletons.
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  5064.  @anticom6099  No, dimwit, the complaint lays out problems they have with both the books and with teacher's manuals. You definitely have reading comprehension problems. They even state clearly that they have a problem with the books, as well ... "The classroom books and teacher manuals reveal both explicit and implicit Anti-American, Anti-White, and Anti-Mexican teaching." They even state clearly that they're attacking history ... "historical mistakes". Ummm, Christians are constantly wanting their morality to be law of the land, and taught. I've never considered them wanting abstinence taught in sex ed, or whatever, to be the same as them wanting to outright teach Christianity, though. Likewise, simply teaching that something was racist isn't teaching CRT. Your propaganda rants are quite ironic.
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  5065.  @anticom6099  "And" doesn't suggest a combination is the problem. It suggests they're both a problem. They didn't say "with', or "combined with". What a coincidence ... I find your natural obtuseness amusing, as well. Oh my, teaching an anti-racist worldview? Better fight against that, since that apparently works against Republicans. I wonder why.
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  5066.  @anticom6099  No, "and" simply suggests both things you're complaining about are problematic to you. You're inventing an argument they didn't actually make. Rofl! Don't teach people to be anti-racist, because that'll cause more reprisals from racists? Oh geezus, you have to be brain dead to think anti-fascists are fascists.
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  5067.  @anticom6099  No. I didn't say the books alone are the problem. I said they have a problem with the books. You're the one trying to pretend that they don't actually have a problem with the books, that it's only the books in combination with the teacher manuals that they have a problem with. It's you that's trying to make out like, if the teacher manuals weren't involved, they wouldn't have a problem with the books, when there's zero indication they wouldn't still have a problem with the books. The fact they they include "Anti-Mexican" in their complaint, because one of the books also shows examples of racism directed towards Mexicans, is another indicator they have a problem with the books. It's also an indicator that they're dishonest, because they're arguing the examples of racism towards black Americans is instead Anti-White, not Anti-Black. Examples of racism directed towards Mexicans should likewise be Anti-White, rather than Anti-Mexican. Anti-racism can only be Anti-White, if you're arguing white people are all racists. Is that what you're arguing? Is that what you're claiming the teachers' are saying? They don't teach that there were any white Americans involved in fighting against slavery, fighting to end segregation, or whatnot? That would be weird, if that were the case. But I highly doubt that is the case. How the f*ck is being against government authoritarianism itself authoritarianism? Have antifa stormed the Capitol to try and overthrow the democratic process, and install themselves an unelected dictator, or something? You're basically arguing American revolutionists were themselves authoritarians, just by fighting against authoritarianism. That's moronic. You're turning much of history into "fascism".
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  5068.  @anticom6099  That sounds like bullshit, to me, is what it sounds like.
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  5069.  @anticom6099  Again, you're making up an argument for them. Their complaint takes issue with both books and manuals. You are completely inventing that they don't actually have a problem with the books. You're a dishonest hypocrite, creating your own propaganda. Rofl. You're seriously arguing that teachers either don't teach how slavery or the civil rights ended, or they never mention the likes of Lincoln or JFK? Give me a break. One of the images they're complaining about is one of a black girl being protected by white bodyguards, ffs. You're spewing nonsense. Yes, the founding fathers rioted, destroyed private property, attacked the police/military, got even angrier when those police/military shot violent protesters, and then outright declared war ... killing plenty of their own countrymen, and destroying a ton of their property. Are you completely brain-dead, or what? What authoritarians? Cops that kill their own citizens at hundreds of times the rate of some other developed countries. In what reality is wanting cops to be less brutal, being more authoritarian? Again, they are not the ones trying to completely overthrow the democratic process to install themselves an unelected dictator. I don't watch mainstream media. Your mental telepathy is as bad as your takes.
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  5070.  @anticom6099  No. They clearly state that they have a problem with the books and the manuals. They have a problem with the books. They have a problem with the manuals. Take away the books, and there's zero indication they wouldn't still have a problem with the manuals. Take away the manuals, and there's zero indication they wouldn't still have a problem with the books. You're the one clearly inventing a position for them, straight from your imagination. Rofl, did you go to PragerU, where they teach John Brown and Lincoln were bad guys, or something? Oh, and now you've gone and protected your own unsupported claim with another unsupported claim. There seem to be plenty of online lesson plans, and curriculum outlines, about abolitionists, Lincoln, and the Civil War. I think it's you, who should be the one showing the some teachers are teaching that emancipation came about with zero white people involved. Umm, it was a British colony, and they were British subjects, at the time, dimwit. They were fighting against their own Empire's police/military and their own government (including attacking people in positions filled by their own neighbors), and the Loyalists most definitely lived on the same land they did. You're nothing but projection, clearly being the one inventing a position for the complaining "moms", and clearly being the one reinventing history. How is a system that has police killing citens at 50x the rate of the UK, 150x the rate of Japan, an immeasurable hundreds of times more than the rate of Denmark, not authoritarian? US citizens are only killing each other at 4-5x the rate of those countries, while the police are killing citizens at 50-hundreds times more than they are. How is imprisoning more of the population than any other country in the world, including all the dictatorships, not authoritarian? Again ... when was it antifa stormed the Capitol to try and install their leader as an unelected dictator? Rofl. I like the way you say "over our republic". The R in USSR stands for Republics. The R in PRC stands for Republic. The important part is the US being a representative democracy, not being a republic. Basically every country that's not a monarchy is a republic. It's moron Republicans who constantly argue for a more undemocratic society, now even arguing for a completely anti-democratic society. Right wing loons: Communism/socialism never succeeds! Also right wing loons: China is killing us economically! Give it a rest, dimwit. If you think you sound any different than a million other right wing nutters, you're wrong. And, you're proving to be just as ignorant as the rest of them, as well.
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  5071.  @anticom6099  Nope. What is explicitly stated is that they have a problem with books and manuals. You have only provided evidence that you have severe reading comprehension problems and a vivid imagination. Nothing you blathered changes the absolute fact that they were British subjects, living in a British colony ... a colony, btw, that had recently needed protection during the French-Indian War. They were fighting against their own King, not someone else's King. They were fighting against their own parliament, not someone else's. They were fighting their own police/military, not someone else's. Their neighbors were amongst those in appointed positions. Their neighbors were the Loyalists. There are loyalists whose ancestry traces to the Mayflower, and even before the Mayflower. You saying their was a clear difference is just you providing more evidence that you are a complete ignoramus. Oh geez, now you're bringing out the evidence that you're an absolute loon. So, you believe that the most racist states ... where the majority voted against abolitionists and voted for slavery, for decades, where the majority voted for secessionists, where the majority was willing to kill and die for the "right" to own and abuse other human beings (which is what their new constitution was largely about) ... states where the majority (from both parties) then continued to vote for Jim Crow and segregationists for another hundred years, states where folks were perfectly fine with lynchings and the KKK ... just magically up and became the least racist voters, now representing the least racist states, voting for the least racist party, almost overnight. Rofl! The fact that all the Republicans, in those states, also voted against Civil Rights, indicated Republicans were just as racist, in those states. The fact that the Democrat president created the bill ... the fact that the majority of Democrats passed the bill ... didn't, at all, push all those racists in those more racist states to start simply voting for the racist Republican candidates instead of the racist Democrat candidates, from their racist states? Nope, they just magically stopped being racists, according to lunatic right wingers, like you. And the vast majority of the millions of black Americans ... who left those more racist states during the great migration, and moved to those less racist states, and started voting for those Northern Democrats (which represented the majority of Democrats that voted for Civil Rights, just like Northern Republicans did), and have become a significant percentage of Democrat representatives ... must be completely clueless as to which party is more racist. By your own standards, you've provided evidence you're a racist, by portraying black Americans as violent and stupid. Red states, where it tends to be easier to get a gun, actually tend to have both higher firearm mortality rates and higher homicide rates. The per capita gun violence capital of the US is St Louis Missouri, not Chicago. Chicago, the place right wingers keep blathering about, isn't even top 10. Don't pretend like you care if people shoot each other, as you're providing them the environment it's easiest to get a gun in. US civilians are killing each other at 4-5x the rate of those countries, while the police are killing civilians at over 50x the rate of those countries. That's just a fact. US police are the most violent gang on the streets. Rofl!! Aaaaand, now you've provided evidence you're a cultists. There is zero evidence the election was rigged, you nutbar. Did you ask Santa for a JFK Jr, for Christmas? No. Trying to save lives is not the dictionary definition of "fascism". And, yes, it saves lives. Australia's covid death rate would translate into about 26k total US covid deaths, instead of 826k. 75-90% of those dying are unvaccinated. The hospitalization rate for the unvaccinated is 89x that of the vaccinated. Smoking has been pretty much banned indoors everywhere. Smokers have to pay higher insurance rates. Smokers have to pay extra taxes. Every single state already has vaccine mandates for public school kids. The federal government already has vaccine mandates for the military and immigrants. That's the kind of thing you're whining and crying about. Literally, NOT the definition of fascism, but instead health and safety measures, the likes of which have been around for over a century. At this rate, there will be about a million fewer Republican voters, by 2024, due purely to stupidity. Dumpty was doing business in China, he leases property to the bank of China, he sold Ivanka's condo to a Chinese lobbyist ... Mitch is married into a family that runs a Chinese company, that buys government made boats, that gets government loans, and that has another daughter on the board at the bank of China ... Republicans are kissing plenty of China ass. Dumpty did no real damage to China, but he did do some significant damage to American farmers. Good thing Trump was still able to have wealth redistributed to those according to their need, from those according to their ability, and help those farmers out, considering it's such a terrible philosophy, that will soon fail. Yes, I did rebut your plainly bullshit statement by calling it bullshit. That's the only rebuttal a bullshit strawman deserves. Just the fact that you think overemphasizing anti-racism could possibly be the "most racist", when you've got states that still have Confederate "Heroes" Days, when you've got hate crimes rising, when you've got unite the right rallies with people marching with Confederate and Nazi flags, anti-Semitic tiki torch marchers, a "leader" telling citizens (even ones born in the US) to go back where they came from, a "leader" that likes to reminisce about the good ol' civil rights era when you could beat protesters, when you've got PragerU making out like slavery was good, when you've got Tucker peddling replacement propaganda, etc., etc., etc. You: But, but, but ... that teacher pointed out there was racism one too many times! They are the most racist!!!!!!!!! F*ck off, with that bullshit. You don't know what "evidence" means. The only evidence you've provided is evidence that you're an ignorant, idiotic, lunatic, death cultist, that's living in some alternate reality.
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  5072. UBI, in general, or Yang's stupid UBI/VAT combo?
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  5073.  @tmsphere  The top 1% own about 30% of wealth and pay about 30% of taxes, a 1:1 ratio. The bottom 50% own about 1.5% of the wealth and pay about 3% of taxes, a 2:1 ratio. As a percentage of their wealth, the top 1% pay less than the bottom 50%. As pointed out already, amongst the 1% are the super rich who pay next to nothing relative to their wealth owned, who are screwing the lesser rich along with everyone else.
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  5074.  @firewithfire848  She was just with Bernie supporting striking workers trying to get a $15 minimum. The two were also campaigning with Nina, trying to add another M4A yes vote to congress. She had already helped add a few more M4A yes votes to congress and helped remove a few more corporate Dems. If those are the kinds of things the Democratic establishment has "co-opted" her to do, maybe they aren't so bad.
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  5075. Pretty sure there's a lot of sex talk in Bibles. Better get any, and all, copies of them out of school libraries.
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  5076. Because it's not a "cold", dumb dumb.
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  5077. Considering that Obama's last budget ran until almost the end of 2017, the stock market is about the same, now, as when Trump's first budget started, his tax cuts kicked in, and around the same time he started his trade wars.
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  5078.  @nadrile  You say an ad hominem has a definition, which is correct, but then you "characterize" it as an ad hominem, by not sticking to the definition. Simply saying someone is stupid, for example, isn't an ad hominem, and could be a perfectly justifiable conclusion. If someone is so ridiculously wrong about something, the conclusion that they're stupid would follow. Saying someone is stupid, therefore they must be wrong, is an ad hominem, because the conclusion, that they're wrong, doesn't follow. Stupid people can sometimes be right about things.
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  5079. The US was founded by Washington using strict quarantines, and finally a vaccine mandate, against smallpox, dimwit.
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  5080.  @murraymadness4674  Bernie made that point repeatedly.
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  5081.  @eleSDSU  It is, literally, a lobby group for another country, that gives money to mostly non-Jewish politicians, whose loyalties are in question, as well. "All about the Benjamins" is no different than "follow the money". Pretty common terminology.
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  5082. Could go 1 per million, or fraction thereof, which gives 337, I think. And then merge the senate to the house, giving each state an extra 2 votes, but no more senate blocking crap the house passes. That'd be 437.
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  5083. And if you stand up and fight, the guy beside you might stand up and fight ... but he might not, depends on what you're fighting ... but, if he does stand up and fight, then the lady beside him might stand up and fight ... but, she might not ... likely not, because women tend to do less random stupid shit, like fighting ... but, at minimum, you'll be fighting ... what, we don't know, but it will be a royally grand fight!
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  5084. FOX has its own agenda, though. They'll agree with the DNC being corrupt and agree with other MSM being biased, but then they'll have their own segment screaming "Venezuela!"regarding Bernie's policies.
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  5085. Block what right wingers like Manchin are already blocking, to try and get them to stop blocking?
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  5086. Horseshoe theory is nonsense. Oppressive government uses force ... revolutionaries trying to overthrow the government use force ... Horseshoe theory: SAME!
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  5087.  @danielbertrand6675  Fascists just take their cyanide straight.
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  5088.  @turtlex5994  Most definitely. One of the Empire's last colonialist endeavors. Some of the early 20th century Zionists thought they were to become a member state within the Empire. The whole thing reminds me of how the Puritans had been persecuted and exiled, were very much a people without a real home, but even though Britain didn't want them in the homeland, used them to colonize North America. Once there, the Puritans turned around and persecuted everyone around them, especially the natives, who they also ethnically cleansed and genocided. And then the colonialists rebelled. The Mandate timeline was just more condensed, before the colonialist rebellion occurred. From 1948 to now, though, is about the same amount of time to the push of the manifest destiny concept, post US independence.
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  5089.  @thedebatemechannel4746  Who the fuck cares, if they were doing research in Wuhan, if there's no lab leak?
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  5090.  @thedebatemechannel4746  Wake up, and provide actual evidence of a lab leak. You're trying to connect money from person A to person B to person C, and haven't even yet shown that person B or C even did anything wrong. Who the hell cares about a money trail, if nobody did anything wrong? Even Rand seemed to accept Fauci's answer, that any funding would have been for research in NC, and then just blathered about how he thought that kind of research was dangerous, in general, with zero evidence of any accidents that show its dangerous. Oh my, working with atomic particles is dangerous!!! Yeah, and ... ?
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  5091.  @thedebatemechannel4746  Then return to my original question ... who gives a crap, if there's no lab leak? Then there's nothing to see here.
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  5092. If you think Dinesh is "brilliant", I have bad news for you.
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  5093.  Juan Mendoza  Rofl. Libertarians aren't, at all, left, dumb dumb. They're less authoritarian, but about as far economically right as you can get. And an insult =/= an ad hominem. As for the point, where in Texas are those people moving to? If they're moving due to politics, but move to Texas' blue areas, and vote blue, then there's no real political point. Also, Texas has higher overall state and local taxes, than California, due to higher property taxes, so he's just lying.
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  5094. N Korea is a "republic", dumb dumb. A "republic" can be outright capitalist, outright communist, and everything in between. It can also be a direct democracy, a dictatorship, and everything in between. To right wing idiots ... "You keep using that word. I do not think it means what you think it means." — Inigo Montoya
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  5095.  @nickmaroni9333  Venezuela! Venezuela! Venezuela! Venezuela has a 70% privately owned and operated economy. That's on par with Denmark. What they were doing decreased extreme poverty by 2/3. It was oil prices crashing that screwed their economy. Even Saudi, a privately owned and operated country, had economic troubles when prices dropped. The difference was that Saudi had years of built up savings to fall back on. To blame Venezuela on socialism, instead of too much of dependency on a single resource, is stupid.
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  5096. Like this? Face masks prevent transmission of respiratory diseases: a meta-analysis of randomized controlled trials https://www.medrxiv.org/content/10.1101/2020.07.31.20166116v1
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  5097.  @based3998  Yes, setting a laptop in front of Pool sounds like it would be tough.
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  5098.  @daniel-bg5nq  How did they debate the first time? How was Ben Shapiro on Tim's show, the week after Sam was supposed to be on? Why could Tim pull it off both before and after that day, but not that specific day?
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  5099.  @daniel-bg5nq  All I keep hearing you argue is that Tim and his team are inept.
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  5100.  @daniel-bg5nq  What are you talking about, "isn't required"? They're on a computer, using the internet, showing things from the internet, and talking about those things, all the time, aren't they? They have the ability to put Tim in a window, and show another window of internet videos, or whatnot. How they can't figure out how to put a guest in a seperate zoom window, I have no clue. The only answer is that they're inept, or full of shit.
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  5101.  @daniel-bg5nq  You might want to look at your original argument, dumb dumb. You're making an entirely different one, now. Based on your original argument, Pool is inept. Based on your current argument, the original argument was bullshit.
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  5102.  @dylan8670  Rogen isn't wrong. People found ways of being funny, when they couldn't openly joke about sex, a god, a monarch, or whatever. People found ways of being funny, even with certain words being banned on certain media (which is still the case). Plenty of people still find ways of being funny now. Just blaming some ever existing "cancel culture" for your inability to be funny, is bullshit.
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  5103.  @hylomorpher  I'm saying that "they're a private company and can do what they want" was a good argument, for social media, against the cries of right wing "free speech" advocates. Because, their only way out would be to advocate for public ownership. It cornered them, between their capitalism and their "free speech". They have to pick one. Social media platforms don't create their own content, so it's not exactly the same thing as media that creates its own content. The "free speech" advocates were wanting social media, something that isn't a public square, to be treated as a public square. Nobody expects content creating news media to be a public square. It's a different animal, and can be argued differently.
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  5104. ​ @jeffgojail  It's like settlers in North America, crying "savages!", and acting like the victims, whenever there was a Native attack. You don't think the colonialism, ethnic cleansing, fascist style open air ghetto, have anything to do with it?
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  5105.  @DavidBrown-ps3vn  243 deaths per million vs 608 deaths per million. 3696 cases per million vs 20603 cases per million.
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  5106.  @Anon-xd3cf  Others have before. Hard to pack 100 years into a YouTube comment. Still lots left out.
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  5107. Name the "radical left" policies that would move the US left of Denmark (a centrist country).
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  5108.  @rickduval2025  AOC has done more for M4A in 2 years than Dore has in his entire lifetime. The only way to ever pass the bill is to get enough yes votes in congress. She used her platform and PAC to back 20 other pro-M4A progressives, helped remove a few more corporate Dems, and add a few more M4A yes votes to congress. While Dore was slandering AOC for abandoning M4A, she was on the ground campaigning for Nina Turner, promoting M4A, and fighting to add another M4A yes vote to congress. Dore, on the other hand, publicly abandoned Nina ... abandoned adding another M4A yes vote to congress ... and promoted never voting for anyone running as a Democrat ever again. He's a grifter, who leads people in the opposite direction he claims to be going.
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  5109.  @aliamjon2550  There are people more dangerous than Iran with nuclear weapons, who the right has made out to be a major threat ... people that outright hate America, and are trying to destroy it ... and does he suggest exactly how to deal with them peacefully, or does he leave it open how to deal with them?
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  5110. ​ @KRAMITDFROG  No. An ad hominem would be: You wear a bowtie, therefore you must be wrong. Every single insult/burn isn't an ad hominem.
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  5111.  @beautifulprogressivewester4156  You're not being a good Nazi. You shouldn't hate them both equally. Nazis are fascists. "Fascism is the complete opposite of Marxian socialism" ~ Mussolini
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  5112. Or how shooters are often "good guys" (non criminal gun owners), right up until they start shooting people.
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  5113. A miscarriage is a "spontaneous abortion". The vast majority of these people, ironically, outright worship what would be the leading abortionist in existence, if it existed.
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  5114.  @tj12711  Marx was anti-Judaism, the religion, not anti-Semitic. He wasn't a fan of any religions.
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  5115.  @Silvashoots  Trump and Fauci had nothing to do with BioNtech. You're a nutbar.
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  5116.  @pc4mlc451  Representatives don't have to get involved in elections in other districts. She used her platform and PAC to back 20 other pro-M4A progressives, and helped add a few more M4A yes votes to congress. Her backing progressives against established corporate Dems was the reason given by corporate Dems for voting against her on the committee seat she wanted. How does getting stabbed in the front by corporate Dems for fighting against them, and getting stabbed in the back by Dore knobs for supposedly not fighting against them, help her personally?
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  5117.  Real Progressives Allowed  What point? That that's her legal defense, whether she typed it up herself, or whether she just okayed it.
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  5118.  @davidmeadows5627  Picture ID? You're basically claiming everyone without a driver's license, is unemployed, which is total bullshit. Social insurance number, for taxes, and bank info, for direct deposits, is pretty much all you need from an employee, unless it's a driving job.
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  5119.  @davidmeadows5627  Funny thing is you use non photo ID to get the photo ID. To get the photo voter ID, that you're oh so concerned about, you have to accept that the person in front of you matches their birth certificate, or whatnot. Only allowing photo ID should lead to infinite regression.
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  5120.  @BobbyU808  Oh, fuck off. Some people think picking the lesser of two evils causes the least damage. Some people think letting it burn down and starting over will get you what you want faster. Bernie is just a lesser of two evils approach, try again next time, kind of guy. He didn't go back on M4A, you lying twit.
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  5121.  @BobbyU808  So, you're expanding beyond M4A. Bernie hasn't backed off M4A. He hasn't said anything like M4A for everyone ... except this one guy. Milano has outright said metoo women should be believed, but she obviously isn't believing this woman. She also promoted women supporting other metoo women, but obviously doesn't support this one.
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  5122. @Fat Cat Says the nutter arguing with a strawman. Didn't say it absolved anyone. I was pointing to where the violence started. Are you "absolving" Israel of starting the violence, injuring dozens of Palestinians, and occupying a site they fully knew would piss people off? Or, are you putting more blame on only one of 3 disproportionate responses, for some reason? You know Israel was founded on terrorism, and by terrorists, right? PM Begin had been leader of the Irgun, that bombed the King David Hotel, and committed other terrorist acts.
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  5123. @Fat Cat Curious ... Are you one of the same idiots who think it's okay for police to shoot anyone for even thinking of hitting them, or okay for a stalker to kill a black teen when the teen hits him?
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  5124.  Fat Cat  I am talking about the current situation, dimwit. There were protests over the home evictions. The IDF injured hundreds of Palestinians cracking down on protesters. There were hundreds of Palestinians in and around the mosque who were injured, when the IDF then stormed and occupied the mosque. You seem very okay with attacking and assaulting certain civilians. Then you're okaying Israel's response directed at many civilians, and killing them. So, stop pretending like you're opposed to violence or death directed at civilians. You're only opposed to it for certain civilians, and more than okay with it against certain other civilians. You're a Palestinian hater, by your own argument. Your questions were framed improperly, again ignoring the initial violent actions. Try answering mine. How would the US respond if the Mexican military stormed and occupied El Paso?
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  5125. @Fat Cat Exactly like I said. You are clearly and consistently okay with indiscriminately bombing and killing a civilian population, in response to actions taken by a militant group ... as long as that civilian population is Palestinian. You obviously hate Palestinians, by your own "logic".
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  5126. @Fat Cat Rofl. That was a long winded way of shitting on yourself. As I've repeated, I'm using your own "logic", that allows you to claim I hate people I never said I hated, or that I'm okay with actions I never said I was okay with. I pointed at where everything started, and you unloaded with bullshit accusations. You're the one ignoring how the escalation built up, and are pointing at a single bad guy, like a child. According to your own "logic", you are perfectly okay with Israel escalating from ethnic cleansing, to assault and occupying a holy site, you are perfectly okay with Israel escalating tensions by ignoring Hamas' warning to leave, you are perfectly okay with Israel's escalated response to rocket fire, and you are perfectly okay with them killing Palestinian civilians, because ... again according to your own "logic" ... you hate Palestinians.
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  5127.  @andyj845  Evidence based objectivity.
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  5128.  @andyj845  More evidence. You don't know what an "ad hominem" actually is, but ignorantly use the term. "You are stupid." - Not an ad hominem fallacy, and could very likely be an accurate description, based on solid evidence. "You are stupid, therefore you must be wrong." - An ad hominem fallacy, because it doesn't necessarily follow that someone stupid's claim is always wrong.
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  5129. @peter If there was a general rule that an investigation should take place, if there's a security breach of some kind, a Republican minority couldn't just willy nilly have investigations into everything and anything they wanted. There'd have to be a security breach to trigger an investigation. You could set similar rules for other specific triggering events. If a bunch of wackos breached Pentagon, CIA, or FBI, security, there sure as hell would be an investigation as to how and why it happened. Not sure why it's not automatic for the government body that runs all of them.
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  5130.  @soysaucehairdye7869  Older voters leaned MAGA.
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  5131. Freed slave: I worked really hard, did absolutely everything and anything master said, and he gave me my freedom when he died. Every slave should have to do that.
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  5132.  @bretbonner  No vaccine is absolutely 100%, dimwit. None. Oh geezus, do you butt chug sunlight?
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  5133.  @anti-corporatecapture3844  A 1% infection fatality rate is 2x the polio paralysis rate, 20x the polio infection fatality rate, and it's far more contagious, which you're not even taking into account by only looking at the infection fatality rate for the individual. You're not very bright.
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  5134.  @anti-corporatecapture3844  They didn't rule mandates unconstitutional, dimwit. They clearly allowed a mandate. Their ruling was about the OSHA's authority, not simply mandates. They even implied congress could do it.
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  5135.  @anti-corporatecapture3844  No, every single person dying with covid isn't being list as dying due to covid. That's pure bullshit.
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  5136.  @anti-corporatecapture3844  Again, the infection fatality rate for developed countries, is about 1%, you dishonest twit.
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  5137.  @anti-corporatecapture3844  Holy hell, you are a boatload of misinformation. The life expectancy, if you make it to 60, is about 84. The US has a high infant fatality rate, which lowers the overall life expectancy. Covid is shaving years off of people's lives. Myocarditis and paricarditis rates are much higher from getting covid, ffs.
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  5138. That Harlem crowd was so white.
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  5139.  @brotharapha7254  Peru used ivermectin a bunch. Peru is also the worst in the world for covid deaths per capita. Seems like a large scale trial that was a complete failure.
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  5140. The rent is being able to laugh at how stupid he and his cultists are, at their expense.
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  5141.  @MrJonsonville5  That's not quite the gist of it. They have mandatory universal coverage. The insurance "companies" are non profit, highly regulated, and due amounts depend on income. The government also pays into those insurers' budgets, covering 60% of healthcare costs, with progressive taxation, and employers pay 30% of healthcare costs. The government controls what is and isn't covered by the primary health basket. The government directly owns and operates almost half the hospitals. They also do cover a lot of the cost of drugs, IVF, abortions, dental, etc. ... things not all universal healthcare systems do.
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  5142.  @MrJonsonville5  If the US pays for billions of their military, then they can put equal billions towards their healthcare, instead. And, yes, details matter, or you leave it sounding like a perfectly private system that somehow works great, and the government isn't paying into, at all.
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  5143. Yeah, weird how backing a coup against a popular, democratically elected, PM didn't sit well with Iranians.
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  5144.  @TeaPartyActivist  The only working people he has been in touch with, are the maids working at his resort.
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  5145.  @TeaPartyActivist  Oh, you picture him hanging around construction sites, do you?
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  5146.  @neweraboss5728  There's a difference between a private option and a public option. A public option they don't have to opt into paying. A private option, you still pay into public universal healthcare for all, and still quality for it, but opt to buy some kind of additional or alternate private insurance.
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  5147.  @TheMoBrother  You're delusional.
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  5148.  @TheMoBrother  You're nonsensical. A public option, literally, turns Medicare into a publicly owned insurance company that competes against private companies. A: You can't cover 3x the people, for the same public cost, simply by cutting paperwork. B: How does the government know what to pay the hospital, doctor, or whatever, or whether a procedure is covered or not, with zero administration? Are you just going to start blanket covering million dollar specialists?
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  5149.  Sock Cucka  What's this "fundamental level", that isn't "homophobic"? Try explaining it.
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  5150.  Sock Cucka  And the Bible, especially the OT, isn't anti-gay?
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  5151. ​ Sock Cucka  People who have thought Bible passages support slavery, and not mixing the races, weren't really racists, then?
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  5152. Might be one of those Black Hebrew Israelites. That one "Blacks for Trump" guy was affiliated, as well.
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  5153.  @SR-lh4rm  Learn to read. I didn't criticize him proposing a VAT. I criticized him for bullshitting about who a VAT actually taxes. Fuck you gangers are morons.
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  5154. 10 years is a long bandwagon.
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  5155.  @Julian-we6qg  Cartels are flying drugs in, tunneling drugs in, boating drugs in, catapulting drugs in, and even taking drugs right through entry points with mules. No, I don't think the wall will make it at all harder to smuggle drugs. I think drug smugglers are already avoiding areas border patrol are most likely found patrolling. And immigrants of all kinds commit fewer crimes.
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  5156.  @muserwood  What issues has Tucker changed his mind on?
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  5157.  @AbdulKhader-786  Do you think hate crimes are magically committed without any hate speech provoking that kind of mentality?
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  5158. @Aaron Dickson Oh, do tell, what did I get wrong?
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  5159.  @whyamimrpink78  A surge in demand can cause inflation, which happens when you reopen. Your argument against Biden is incoherent, if you actually wanted Trump to provide more covid relief, as well. The house had already passed two different HEROES Acts. All the senate had to do was vote either through. McConnell didn't even allow a vote on either. You're spewing nonsense. Countries with much better pandemic responses also tended to have better economies, and it wasn't because they did nothing and simply stayed open no matter what. Almost all of the best response countries quickly had very high testing rates (tests per confirmed case), testing 50+ people pcc. The mediocre response countries, were testing 15+ people pcc. The US, on the other hand, had a pathetic covid testing rate, testing about 5 people pcc, for months, that Trump did nothing about. The US had pathetic mask use, encouraged by Trump. If things were getting out of control, in some areas, and more severe measures were taken, Trump encouraged defying them. Nothing you blathered about states, or your politician anecdotes, was an actual argument that they had better economies or better health responses. Just a big nothingburger. Nope. There's no evidence ows actually sped up the development of vaccines. Again, the first one out of the gate had nothing to do with ows, and others that had nothing to do with ows were coming out at similar times to those that did. At most ows was about ordering enough supply and distributing it. Trump didn't order as much as he could, didn't leave enough of a supply, and wasn't prepared to distribute as much as he possibly could.
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  5160. "I see nothing, I hear nothing, I know nothing!" ~ Sgt Schultz
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  5161.  mountaingoat1003  Are you referring to the poll that questioned 3% 18-25 and 43% 65+?
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  5162.  @dagosias  Not all UBIs are the same. I doubt MLK Jr would support a VAT/UBI scheme that will only make giant corporations and the super rich even richer. Learn how a VAT actually works, because Yang is clueless or lying. https://ec.europa.eu/taxation_customs/business/vat/what-is-vat_en
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  5163.  real progressive  Fuck you're a moron. The Ottoman Empire welcomed hundreds of thousands of Jews fleeing Christian Spain, where they lived for hundreds of years. They allowed for controlled Zionism to start. They decriminalized homosexuality, when many Christian countries still considered it a crime or mental illness. They weren't any more aggressive than any of the other empires of the times ... made treaties with Christian nations ... allied with Christian nations. No, the West didn't create ultra-conservative Wahhabism, but they did take that fairly liberal Ottoman Empire, carved it up, and the UK handed a bunch of pieces to ultra-conservative Wahhabi dictators. As the UK phased out, the US phased in. France left Syria with a democratically elected government. When it voted against an oil pipeline, the US backed a coup. Iran's democratically elected PM was taking power away from the puppet Shah and was going to nationalize Iran's oil. The US backed a coup. In Iraq, a popular revolutionary leader had overthrown their puppet dictator, and was going to nationalize Iraq's oil. The US backed a coup. In Afghanistan, communists overthrew their puppet dictator, and wanted to expand education and women's rights to the poor. The US trained and armed Jihadists to take them out. So ... put ultra-conservatives in power, supported them economically and militarily as they spread their Wahhabism around, took out more liberal Muslims, helped suppress more liberal Muslims, etc., and considering the US trained the extremists who attacked them, yes they've caused some extremism, dumb dumb.
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  5164.  Allan Kaiser  A good percentage of Cubans were, literally, fascist Batista supporters, or are descendants of those people. They've always had a higher percentage of right wingers than other Hispanic Americans.
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  5165. Campaigning to actually add another M4A yes vote to congress. You know how bills get passed in congress, right?
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  5166. ​@@Dukiehouse Likes help the algorithm, to spread views. Without them, your argument amounts to tons of non conservatives actively looking for those channels to view, and hate reply on, making them money. Rather than the simple premise, that their conservative viewers are hating on Swift, right along with them.
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  5167.  @cqtaylor  Some might argue that, if the US hadn't entered WWI, there might not have been a WWII, because stalemate negotiations wouldn't have as hard on Germany, which played a big part in the rise of Hitler. So, that might cancel out the WWII things they were "needed" for. The US has also caused more problems in, and around, Israel, and the greater ME, than it has solved. Oooo, a treaty ... but they helped overthrow multiple democracies, as well as committimg and supporting many war crimes in the area.
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  5168. Most US corporate Dems are, economically, more right wing than conservatives in other developed countries. They may be somewhat more socially liberal, but not economically.
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  5169. Nonsense. She can do all that stuff, in the comics. The top tier incarnations of comic book Thor and Hulk just weren't used.
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  5170.  @crogers4912  A higher percentage of homeless people is most definitely an affordable housing crisis, but a higher percentage of people in poverty is an economic crisis.
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  5171.  @crogers4912  The "rule" seems to be that, whoever is running cities, there are higher firearm mortality rates and higher homicide rates in states with less gun control.
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  5172.  @crogers4912  Pretty easy to look up. Migration continues to be rural to urban, dumb dumb.
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  5173. So, no problem with union busting and supporting fascist coups, if you make an electric car most people can't afford? Plus, his wife has things backwards ... automating things under capitalism has automation competing for human jobs people need to survive. It doesn't make less work for people unless the socialism comes first. These billionaire space men have achieved what the USSR did 40 years ago. Woo!
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  5174. @IceOrwellian O'neel Do you argue against all vaccines, so we can have "healthy" dirty children? And, maybe, the op was referring to deranged psycho parents, rather than than kids?
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  5175. @Badatallthis Stuff Possibly paralyzing the house, during a pandemic ... delaying new covid relief, new unemployment extensions, new vaccine funding, etc. ... all for a piece of performance art, could have turned plenty of people off of progressives, and their ideas. It was actually a stupid time to suggest possibly doing that rather the best time. You lot have proven that ftv was sham. Progressives got the $15 to stay in for a round of voting, it actually passed the house and also got a round of senate voting. Suddenly, getting a vote on an important progressive policy is meaningless to Dore knobs. Suddenly, getting a list of no voters is meaningless to Dore knobs. The pathetic good for nothing, hypocrites, just carry on bitching about, and slandering, those who got it to stay in for a round of voting and who voted for it. Do you idiots even know that Pelosi introduced the M4A bill last session? It died in committees (that Dore doesn't think are important), where 90% of bills die. She has already reintroduced the bill this session. Why aren't you dolts pressuring and marching against committee members, to get them to take up the bill? Why are you wasting your time slandering and marching against progressives who have done more for M4A in a few years than Dore has in his entire lifetime?
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  5176. @Badatallthis Stuff You're rewriting history. Most of the women's suffrage movement came in the decades preceding the first federal vote. They had already spent decades protesting, and numerous states had already adopted women's voting rights. They did not hold the first federal vote for purely performance. They weren't sure how everyone would vote, because the parties weren't as partisan back then. Even the first vote had majority support. The problem was that it was a constitutional amendment and needed supermajority support. They, literally, held off on reintroducing the bill the next session, because they saw absolutely no point in having a purely performance art vote. They thought they had the second vote, which did have supermajority in the house, but lost supermajority in the senate by only 2 votes. The third vote passed. That is not, at all, f*cking equivalent to being 100+ votes short in the house alone, having an even lower percentage of senate support, plus a president who said they'd veto it. You Dore knobs have no clue what you're talking about.
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  5177. @Badatallthis Stuff I think you have severe reading comprehension problems. Okay, see you after 50 years of protests.
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  5178. @Badatallthis Stuff And, if these M4A marches count as year 1 of 50 years of protests, can you also point out how the women's suffrage movement started out by slandering their most ardent congressional supporters, while never going against their biggest detractors. You know, because you're totally not making a false equivalence.
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  5179.  @Jasondirt  The 30 year old broader progressive caucus is about 10 seats away from becoming the majority of house Dems. The 4 year old Justice Dems have replaced about a dozen corporate Dems. AOC has been at it 2 years and has helped replace a few more corporate Dems. Progressives are making steady progress and are close to being able to pick the party speaker candidate. If still the majority party, that also means picking which bills to introduce, picking committee members, etc. But, hey, sounds like a great time to start from scratch, with zero seats, zero bills introduced, zero amendments added, and zero votes on even a single bill, for the next 50 years.
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  5180.  @Jasondirt  Sorry, but arguing progressives are totally samesies as conservative Dems, and conservative Dems are totally samesies as Republicans, would make you the nutter.
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  5181.  @thejuniorseas7683  I know.
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  5182. "You know how to stop abortion? Require that each one occur with a gun." ~ Rush Limbaugh
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  5183.  @normster1000  You're a moron, who doesn't know the difference between gender and sex. Why is it okay to call a car or boat "she", or a formless penisless god being "he", but not use gender pronouns however we want for human beings?
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  5184. That's like telling the guy getting punched to not criticize the one punching them, because it's divisive. Tell the DNC to stop fucking around.
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  5185. "Social democracy" and "democratic socialism" used to mean the same thing. It's, basically, mixing in as much socialism as democracy will take you. If you socialize a sector of the economy (say healthcare or health insurance), then you've added a little socialism to the capitalism. Modern "social democracies" seem to have paused around centrism (the centre between full capitalism and full socialism, a fairly even mix of both).
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  5186.  @nerodia  Denmark, for example, has a 35% public sector workforce. On top of that, they have a 70+% unionized workforce, which isn't ownership, but does give more power to workers, to determine what they're worth. On top of that, they have multiple socialized sectors of the economy (healthcare, education through college, nationalized wind power, etc.). Like I said, "social democracies" seem to have paused around centrism, which isn't exactly just a kind of "capitalism". It's a fairly even mix of both capitalism and socialism.
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  5187.  @666j1  I think if you go on shows like Rogan, making out like you're some kind of pro debater that the left avoids debating, but then you stick to debating amateurs, then you're a coward who deserves to be set up.
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  5188.  @888strummer  She was just campaigning for Nina, trying to add another M4A yes vote to congress, while some "real" progressives abandoned Nina and slandered AOC. The $15 got a vote, actually passed the house, which she's a part of, and also got a senate vote. I heard just getting a vote on an important progressive policy, and getting a list of no voters, would be a big deal. I guess those saying it were full of crap.
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  5189. What was the right side of history during the Indian Massacre of 1622?
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  5190. Complete bullshit.
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  5191.  Alabama Man Special Edition  Pretty sure Dumpty was criticized for illegally withholding military aid from the Ukraine, not for finally releasing it to them.
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  5192.  @BonzoKilbourn  Then don't watch it in the middle of the day, dumb dumb. It's not a requirement to watch it live.
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  5193. I'm not "defending" anything. You said "It is the most pervasive retailer in our lives and nobody talks about it". That's just wrong. And, you said "these people", whoever that is, "will never criticize Walmart either". The NDP has criticized them being allowed to open. Maybe they aren't "these people".
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  5194.  just saying  Fuck you're a lying twat. Sanders' employees were paid a salary, not an hourly wage. The issue was working extended hours making that set salary worth less per hour, so he cut the hours. They're paid just fine, dumb dumb.
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  5195.  @bjornjorgenbjorgenhoogenbo2954  Godwin thinks it's perfectly fine to call Nazis Nazis, dumb dumb. He said so about Richard Spencer.
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  5196. But that transparency shows incompetence. Ontario should be testing 10k people a day, by now. South Korea showed us what to do, and we didn't do it. To get ahead of the virus, you have to be able to test everyone and anyone who has come in contact, not simply those showing enough symptoms.
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  5197.  @matthewgaines10  And the electoral college proves that its electoral boundaries favour one party or class. The electoral college has only ever really mattered the 5 times an elected president didn't win both. In the 2 modern elections it made the difference, it has favoured a less popular Republican over a more popular Democrat.
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  5198.  @afkav3m3  Yeah, but then you'd also have to keep replacing the ones you've gotten in, when their term limit is up, as you're trying to add more progressives elsewhere. Presidential term limits was a right wing idea, because they think it benefits them. An age cap, on the other hand, could have negated having Reagan or Trump as presidents.
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  5199.  @squatch545  I stopped watching for a reason, dumb dumb, when that was the direction he was heading. Which show was it?
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  5200. @UCy9d4PdVUo2g4EwmwgFwfcg Buddy, I'm a Canadian. Our politics are almost entirely left of US politics and, personally, I almost can't score any further left, or further libertarian, on a political compass test. Economically, most US Democrats are to the right of our Conservative party. I think both the US parties suck ass, and I struggle with not believing that the US is a majority of morons, for not voting Bernie, and for not joining the rest of the developed world. I also understand the benefit of having a viable third party (NDP, which I vote for) and, under normal circumstances, might support not voting Democrat, letting an average Republican be president, let the Democrat party fall apart, and pushing for a third party to rise up. Having said that, it's not normal times. US Republicans are outright cookoo for cocopuffs insane. They're letting hundreds of thousands of people die, and you've got 70m people who look like they'd be willing to close the door on democracy, and check the final box for outright fascism, just to keep Trumpty Dumpty in office. That's not the time to be bashing the most progressive people you've got. Whether you're a full blown USSR style communist, an underground anarchist, or a US crony capitalist (all totally not in the same tribe) you team up and take out the damn fucking fascists ... pronto. The enemy of my enemy is my friend, and the fucking psychos should be your biggest enemy. Have your cold war with the corporate Dems later, or on the side, but stay focused on who the biggest threat is. Bannon is calling for heads. Jones is calling for a revolution. Oath keepers are saying they're armed and ready, when Trump gives the word. Proud Boys are standing by. But, hey, let's take this time to bash AOC and make baseless bullshit claims that progressives are just there for appearances, as if the corporate Dems actually wanted progressives to win instead of fighting them tooth and nail. That's getting into some conspiracy crap and, whatever the case, they should be the last people on your hit list. That's if you actually want to move the US left, which I'm no longer sure Jimmy does. I stopped watching because Jimmy was seeming more and more like a Sam Harris type, claiming to be more liberal than the liberals he was constantly bashing, while spouting all kinds of crap far right nutters would lap up. And, no, the odd swing at a Republican, every blue moon, doesn't balance things out.
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  5201.  @squatch545  If you don't give a crap about all the excess deaths, you must be one of the morons. Repeatedly talking about subjects, can change opinions, dumb dumb. Her, Bernie, and other progressives, have increased American support for the things Jimmy claims to be in favour of. Are you one of his right wing followers, or something?
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  5202.  @BT-ts4pb  Capitol police is basically a security guard and bodyguard force. They don't take calls to go to people's residencies. They don't wander the streets enforcing all the laws. Plus, most of that bill was paying back expenses and for building security upgrades, and didn't even go to the capitol police. And, a "present" vote still doesn't much help a bill pass, unless it's really close.
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  5203.  @corpsefoot758  "Representative Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez (D-N.Y.) speaks at the “No Climate, No Deal” rally in Lafayette Square in Washington on Monday, June 28, 2021. The rally, held by the Sunrise Movement, calls on President Joe Biden to uphold his climate commitments in his infrastructure proposal and pass more climate and justice initiatives."
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  5204.  @bodhisattva3774  Yet you don't seem to know anything about the final bill passed. Yeah, I said they're a bodyguard force, which has already included protecting prominent congressional representatives outside of DC. They're still not acting as actual cops.
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  5205. ​ @jimandskittum  Both are constitutional monarchies. They're considered democracies, because the monarch/governor-general generally just agrees with whatever parliament wants, now. Technically, they don't have to, and can just dictate some things themselves, but doing so would likely lead to them being ousted completely.
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  5206.  @BaroqueEnjoyer  You mean the 90% Guatemalan detainees? I'd guess it's due to problems in Guatemala, and not Mexico's healthcare, driving them North.
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  5207. Shouldn't he be arguing that sexless candies shouldn't have genders, at all?
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  5208.  @zippydodahquirk9039  I associate anti-vax morons in Mississippi, taking horse medicine instead of vaccines, with being right wing. Your anecdote isn't how science works.
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  5209.  @Breadbored.  I'm Canadian, and what you're describing is bullshit, where I'm from. What Americans should also take note of is that we do things differently, by province, and some provinces suck, and drag our overall wait times, and service, down.
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  5210.  @Breadbored.  Also, our overall results still take into account our shittier provinces that drag us down. Overall ... higher life expectancy, lower infant mortality, lower maternal mortality, at half the cost. We could invest 50% more into our healthcare system, and still be paying thousands of dollars less than Americans pay, per capita.
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  5211.  @Breadbored.  The poorly, in this case, seems to be having a mixed federal/provincial system, that allows provincial boards to negotiate costs. If your province can't get its own shit together, don't blame the entire system.
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  5212.  @Breadbored.  Uh huh. "there are fundamental flaws with our system"
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  5213.  @unitedfools3493  8 wars and 10 fucking million deaths?!!! Holy crap, list those, please, if you can.
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  5214. @Thomas Dendtler Yeah, that'd be my guess, too. He's thinking 2024 (or 2020 if Trump is impeached). He's using Trump's "swamp" lingo, to speak to Trump's base, and making out like he has actually done something to try and drain the "swamp".
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  5215. Like what? What would a 100% guaranteed to fail performance art vote have gotten you? Pelosi introduced the M4A bill last session. It died in committees, where 90% of bills die. She has already reintroduced it this session. It is in committees again. If Dore knobs had any brains, they'd be pressuring committee members to take up the bill, instead of bitching about people who have increased the number of M4A yes votes in congress, and were just trying to add another in Nina Turner, who Dore abandoned.
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  5216.  @battmeets1289  Right, you didn't say there was a difference. That was my point, dimwit. Do you not know what "conflating" means? You brought in kids asking questions, and conflated it with what she was saying, which was an entirely different thing. There is also a difference between encouraging kids to laugh and make fun of others and them laughing once, and you telling them they shouldn't do that.
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  5217.  @cnault3244  But you were complaining about it not being okay, wondering why others should pay for your kids. a) those kids will be in turn paying for their social security, healthcare, etc. b) that's how insurance works, and if you ended up in a position to need it, you would get it too.
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  5218.  @matthewwolfe9417  Capital L Libertarians.
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  5219. It's not permanent, and it only applies to the coronavirus, so it's not M4A. Jimmy is spouting bullshit.
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  5220. Was it true that a Trump presidency led to a massive progressive wave that took over the house, senate, and presidency? Was it true that Trump filling multiple scotus seats was as likely as the moon falling into Lake Michigan? Dore is a pro at overestimating benefits and underestimating risks. And now he's just slandering anyone who doesn't make the exact same cost/benefit analysis he does.
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  5221.  @Warrenmitchum  You seem to have missed the point. Existing unions have already negotiated with the price floor, and get paid percentages higher than the floor. If the floor rises, so do their wages. Unions have invested tens of millions into activism and lobbying to raise the minimum wage. What are you talking about? Most countries have a minimum wage.
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  5222.  @Warrenmitchum  18 out of 27 EU countries have a national minimum wage. A bunch of others have mass unionization, which has effectively done the same thing, raising wages across the board. Australia has the highest national minimum wage. Tons of countries have national minimum wages. You're spouting absolute garbage. You're making a moronic argument that amounts to saying it's pointless to accept raises.
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  5223.  @remixtapes9308  A public option gets you universal coverage no time soon. Might not get it in your lifetime, it's so slow. https://www.theatlantic.com/politics/archive/2019/08/los-angeles-public-option-2020-democrats/597115/ Part of the problem is that it turns paying for expansion into a regressive set premium, rather than paying for it with progressive taxation.
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  5224.  @halinaqi2194  No. I do it to see if there's any good answers out there (like constantly trying to falsify a claim, to see if it holds), and for anyone reading, that's possibly unsure (so they don't dive into something crazy, without giving it some thought first).
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  5225.  @richardsawicki8521  A "whistleblower" working for 2 weeks at a facility that accounted for less than 3% of the total phase III trials participants, doesn't debunk the phase III trials, nor the year's worth of real world data, since.
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  5226.  @tamalepapi4692  You mean showing a very specific, and valid, photo ID. The problem is that lower income people are less likely to already have a valid one of those very specific IDs, and can least afford to take a day off to go get one. You're creating an extra hoop for them to jump through to vote, by severely limiting the ways people can prove who they are.
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  5227.  @christopherchilton-smith6482  Given: He said it's already considered a given that science can help you achieve subjective goals, but the consensus is that it can't tell us what our goals ought to be. Insert a subjective definition of "well being" as your goal, and end book in one paragraph. He totally failed to show how science can tell us what our goal ought to be. One bad "analogy": He claims chess is a sphere of perfect objectivity, and makes an "analogy" to morality. The problem is that chess is a game of rules, and that's what makes it somewhat objective (still isn't perfectly objective). A game of rules is analogous to a society of laws, not morality. Laws =\= morality.
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  5228.  @Soril2010  Except, most often, this question is posed to the husband/father. Them making more kids with their own kids would be gross. It is also a question posed to mothers, going in to a risky birth, who to prioritize. Many women don't tend to think they're disposable, and would also like to be prioritized and try again for another baby, if they choose to.
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  5229.  JD  If you're calling progressives "fascists", I have hard time believing you will ever "get smart". Plus, it's easier to deprogram a fascist than it is to make a dumb person smart, anyway.
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  5230.  calo10able  Lol, coming from a brainwashed twit, who didn't even Google who first reported the letter, before declaring it fake.
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  5231.  @mrgreen5597  Do Dore knobs know how to math? What's 20m divided by 100+ employees divided by 4 years?
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  5232. Can we please not say that anything is like chattel slavery? Having debts (living expenses) and being forced to work for whatever wages they're willing to pay, is more like indentured servitude. Chattel slavery is not even being considered human, it includes having your children owned and possibly ripped from you whenever the owner wants, it includes possibly being raped whenever the owner wants, it includes possibly being beaten whenever the owner wants, it includes possibly being tortured, it includes being owned until your death without retirement, ...
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  5233. Netanyahu is the biggest Hamas supporter, and Israel is objectively the aggressor by every relevant measure ... Actual Hamas supporter: Netanyahu promoted, and helped fund, Hamas, to weaken the Palestinian Authority, to avoid a potential peace, so he could continue his colonization project. This is very much like the US promoting and funding religious extremists in Afghanistan, and that ending up biting them in the ass. Plus, he was warned by Egypt and, instead of strengthening the Gaza border, he moved Gazan troops to the West Bank, to support his colonization. Almost like he wanted his pet terrorists to actually break through. Modern history: 100 years ago, in 1923, Ze'ev Jabotinsky fully acknowledged that Zionism is colonialism, and that, based on the entirety of history, the natives would fight it until the bitter end. He just didn't care what would happen to them, and promoted doing it anyway. Colonizers are never not the aggressors. On top of the colonialist nature of Zionism, the Zionists also formed terrorist organizations, like the Irgun and Lehi. They bombed many Palestinian markets and other public places, murdering many civilians, including children, even including Palestinian Jews (who opposed Zionism). Israel merged those terrorists into the new nation's military and intelligence agencies. Israelis elected Menachem Begin, leader of the Irgun, child murderer, Jew murderer, and bomber of the King David Hotel, as PM. Israelis, to this day, celebrate those terrorists as "heroes". Zionists literally taught their neighbours that terrorism is a valid path to independence and statehood, and that terrorists are to be celebrated. In 1945, it is well documented that Zionists owned just 5% of the land and were a majority nowhere. Israel was formed by actually going against the majority population. It's foundation is completely undemocratic. Then, becoming a majority, in "your" new nation, by ethnic cleansing the actual majority, and then claiming to be democratic, is utter nonsense. Law: Israel is considered an occupier by the International Court, the UN GA, and the UN SC. Occupiers are also never not the aggressors. Those occupied actually have a right to resist occupation. On the flip side, it is illegal for the occupier to settle occupied lands, and illegal to use collective punishment. Israel is a rogue nation, that doesn't abide by international law. What it has been doing, and is doing now, is illegal. Current events: This year, alone, prior to Oct 7 ... Israel held over 1200 Palestinian hostages without charges ... over 200 Palestinians had been killed by the IDF and settlers ... over 1000 Palestinians had been displaced by Israel's neverending colonization of the West Bank ... and, Israel continued to operate an open air WWII style fascist ghetto. Even ignoring modern history and law, in no reality did Hamas "start" anything.
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  5234.  @johncrighton4738  AOC helped take out a few more corporate Dems last year, was just campaigning for Nina, and taking shifts keeping Cori company. How much more progressive do morons like you need?
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  5235.  @LeShawnTho  What "truth" is there in claiming a woman, who just used her platform and PAC to help get more pro-M4A progressives elected to congress, going against DCCC backed corporate Dems, is a "fake", "shill", "wimp", "sellout", etc.? Especially when adding more yes votes to congress is the only way to ever pass a bill, and it's what you'd still have to do even after a failed vote.
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  5236.  @2727rogers  There is only one possible solution to passing M4A, and that is to convert or replace enough members of congress to pass the bill. AOC, Justice Dems, a Bernie PAC, have been working on doing just that. They added a few more M4A yes votes to congress in the last election. AOC and Bernie were campaigning to add one more M4A yes vote, in Nina Turner, while Jimmy opposed adding one more. There's already a list of members of congress that won't sign onto the bill. Go protest them. Pelosi actually introduced the M4A bill last session, where it died in committees that didn't do anything with it. It has already been reintroduced, and is in committees again. Look who is on the committees and go protest them to take up the bill. Endlessly bitching about, and slandering, the most progressive members of congress, M4A's most ardent congressional supporters, people who have done more for M4A in a few years than Dore has in his entire lifetime, is moronic and insane.
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  5237. You mean bribed to spout bullshit?
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  5238. She was always pro most wars, since most US interventions have used fighting terrorism as a justification since 9/11. “In short, when it comes to the war against terrorists, I’m a hawk. When it comes to counterproductive wars of regime change, I’m a dove.” ~ Tulsi, 2016 Those presenting her as anti-war were lying.
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  5239.  @00dfm00  How are Hamas the Nazis, when Gazans are the ones in an open air WWII style fascist ghetto, operated by Israel?
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  5240. "Murder" is a legal term. If it's legal, then it's never "murder". Executions aren't "murder". Self-defense isn't "murder". Wars aren't "murder". Legal assisted suicides are not "murder". It's just a fact that anyone calling the legal taking of any life "murder" is simply dishonest or ignorant. They make a circular argument, saying abortion is wrong because it's "murder", when "murder" is already saying it's wrong. What they should be doing is arguing why it's wrong and should be considered "murder".
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  5241.  @minnymouse4753  Epidemics and pandemics don't actually have to kill anyone, dimwit. Yes, it's a pandemic. And it has killed over 10x more people than a low end flu year, heading towards killing 10x more people than a mid range flu year. There are also flu epidemics and pandemics, even though it's less deadly. Those terms have to do with spread, not deaths.
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  5242.  @bradleym.mcelroy139  That was my point, so maybe you missed mine?
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  5243. There's a difference between open borders and decriminalized borders. It would be cheaper to put asylum seekers up in a HoJo than it is to keep them in guarded prisons.
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  5244.  @joeb134  Well, Sam Harris has argued that, so some people do. Plus, that's the impression programmers have tried to give. The UN demonstration, for example, had the AI saying it "believed", was "very happy", etc. You should definitely worry about a programmer who has its AI say it could rule the world better. But hey, lets instead worry about a wonky image creator. And, don't worry about the extra arms, legs, or digits, they sometimes produce ... just that they had a skin tone issue.
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  5245.  @mayman4255  Lol, not what you quoted, but keep moving the goalpost. Now you're just wrong, because on that the op is correct.
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  5246.  @afrodinho  The $15 got a vote. It passed the house (M4A didn't have a chance in hell), that the squad is part of, and also got a senate vote. Wasn't just getting a vote on an important progressive policy supposed to be a big deal? What are Dore, and his knobs, doing with the ever so important list of no voters ... other than bitching about those who got it to stay in for a round of voting and who voted for it?
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  5247. ​ @hirejsdev  That you're not a Dem, spew Republican talking points in other posts, and promote Kennedy, indicates Kennedy also spews Republican talking points, that you like, or you think he'd be easier to beat.
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  5248. I'm old enough to remember Republicans not giving a crap when Trump walled the White House.
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  5249.  @t-swizzle8102  Rofl! Do you know what a false equivalency is? The Tea Party was backed by leading Republican donors, like the Koch brothers, who were also pressuring Republican members of congress to move further right. Are there any major Democratic donors pressuring Democrats to move left? No? Republicans have a natural predisposition to moving right, anyway. Do corporate Dems have a natural predisposition to moving left? No? With that pressure on congress members Tea Party numbers were regularly increasing, as members converted. Are corporate Dems converting to being progressives? No? And, the only thing that gave Tea Party members the power to block any bills, was the other Republicans' unwillingness to work with Democrats, instead. All they had to do was make some concessions to Democrats, bring enough Democrats on board, and pass the bill without needing Tea Party votes. Do corporate Dems have a complete unwillingness to work with Republicans? No? There's no equivalence to the Tea Party's situation. It's math, dimwit. There are zero extra votes to the left of progressives. It is absolutely impossible to pass a bill without Manchin. On the other end, there is the entire Republican party to try and draw extra votes from. Bring one Republican on board, and it's entirely possible to pass a bill without Bernie. Bring enough house Republicans on board and it's entirely possible to pass a bill without the squad. If corporate Dems are willing to work with Republicans, a stand off will more likely end up pushing a bill further right, not left. Empty virtue signalling is going on and on, for a f*cking year about a missed chance to get a 100% guaranteed to fail performance art vote, ffs. A performance art vote would get you no closer to getting M4A. Fighting to increase numbers in congress actually does move you closer to being able to pass the bill. You dimwitted Dore knobs have things completely backwards. Dore is sitting in his $2m garage and not giving a shit if anyone ever gets healthcare. That's why he doesn't care if the country goes outright backwards, and 10m of the poorest Americans are thrown off of Medicaid expansion. That's why he doesn't care if you sit on the sidelines for the next century. That's what he doesn't care, when he helps another grifter campaign against Bernie. That's why he didn't care, when he abandoned Nina. He's a grifter, dimwit. His increasing right wing audience should have clued you in. Or, maybe you're one of them, just pretending. You're more upset at Democrats, that you only got $1400, than you are at Republicans, every one of which voted against giving you anything? $1400 and $0, is totally samesies, to you? No difference? Just how dumb are you? Plus the unemployment extension they all voted against. Plus the eviction moratorium they all voted against. Plus repeatedly extending the freeze on student loan payments and interest (How are you still having to make student loan payments?), that they're all opposed to. Rescinding numerous Trump executive orders is totally samesies as Trump signing those orders. Signing a.number of new beneficial executive orders is totally samesies as not signing those orders. A near end to drone strikes is totally samesies as Trump dropping more bombs than Obama. Oh, oh, but I'm a brain dead Dore knob ... look at this thing that hasn't changed ... they're totally samesies!!! You're obviously the one that doesn't care, dimwit, if you have the luxury to let Republicans, and corporate Dems, rule for decades to come. Whatever you think of current progressives, running as a Dem is clearly the more effective way for a progressive to win a seat in congress, and remove a corporate Dem.
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  5250. For as long as they generate views and comments? I'm sure they appreciate your support.
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  5251.  @elizas3249  Pure fantasy. She's at 1%, just like in 2016. All that did was produce a DT win. Even Nader, who got 2.74%, only managed to help produce a Dubya win.
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  5252.  @miriamschiro8585  Hur dur, way to miss the point, dingus. Even if she was polling as high as Nader, all that produced was a Republican win.
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  5253. What did he lie about?
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  5254.  @zanbrocal  Wouldn't that apply to voting for an independent, or third party, presidential candidate, and expecting a different result?
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  5255. That's right. Let black Americans continue dying in disproportionate numbers due to lack of healthcare or discrimination in healthcare, let them continue being arrested and indicted in disproportionate numbers, let them continue having housing problems in disproportionate numbers, let them continue being disenfranchised in disproportionate numbers, let them continue getting poisoned in disproportionate numbers, let them continue having student debt in disproportionate numbers, etc. https://berniesanders.com/issues/racial-justice/
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  5256.  @MarcelNKemet  Sanders is a co-sponsor of HR 40, to study and develop a reparations proposal, and has already adopted Sen Clyburn's 10-20-30 formula, that would help black Americans the most, into his platform. While you withhold your vote, know you're voting for the continuation of what I listed, above.
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  5257. ​ @sandyjamison5929  What's illegal about laying on the ground with a firearm, in Florida? Doesn't Florida's "stand your ground" law mean he could have returned fire in "self defense"?
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  5258.  @brothersandsistersofvalhalla  You're talking an objective center. An "enlightened centrist" is usually American and, using the US Overton window, considers actual centrism "extreme left", and argues for the US "center", which makes them a right winger, who just isn't outright fascist.
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  5259.  @luchi.el.zorrito  If demand hadn't dropped, causing supply to drop, then demand wouldn't now outpace supply. Yes, handing money to consumers, to keep buying things, would have helped keep demand and supply up, and helped people in need. Instead, right wingers handed tons of money directly to corporations, leaving consumers with less money to buy things, and corporations not needing to sell things.
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  5260.  @prabesh8277  Well, you obviously can't do basic math. The first vaccine mandate was in Massachusetts, in 1809. Pretty sure that's over a century ago. Covid's 1% infection fatality rate is 2x the polio paralysis rate, and 20x the polio infection fatality rate. Plus, it's a lot more contagious, and contagion rates can be far more important than how likely it will kill a single individual. Yeah, not interested in what some fringe "experts" are saying. There is a pretty solid worldwide consensus, amongst doctors and scientists. There is no question the vaccines are effective. 85% of Americans dying are unvaccinated. The flu vaccine needs a shot yearly. It's still effective against the flu.
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  5261.  @TheBighatter  You already have rationed healthcare, dumb dumb. The question is should it be rationed by need or by wealth? You have tens of thousands dying due to lack of coverage, hundreds of thousands going bankrupt, and over a million going to places like India for healthcare they can afford. You could gain immediate savings just by switching to single payer. Your multi-payer system administration costs are higher per capita. You could also get immediate savings by negotiating drug prices down, as the rest of the developed world does, and which is a part of most hospital stays. The providers costs would go down. Then go from there.
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  5262.  @TheBighatter  You're spouting pure bullshit. The question wasn't do you like paying for your healthcare. The question was are you happy with your healthcare. It should also be noted that the vast majority of people on Medicare are seniors, who already experienced having private insurance, through work they've since retired from. They know if it's an upgrade or a downgrade. They're happy with their Medicare. You keep talking as if it's a fact private coverage provides better quality, when nothing supports that. Universal healthcare systems in other developed countries get better results than the US system. For profit propagandists use anecdotal VA stories, but studies have found that VA care, the most socialized public system, provides just as good, or better, care as private care. https://annals.org/aim/article-abstract/2718687/veterans-health-administration-hospitals-outperform-non-veterans-health-administration-hospitals Private coverage costs are increasing at almost double the rate of public coverage costs. https://images.app.goo.gl/kiwdQFoto9Nrk98J8 US healthcare costs separated from the rest of the world after Nixon allowed hospitals to be for profit, and then Reagan deregulation. https://images.app.goo.gl/954n3gTnfx2Akd9C9 It's a dumbass healthcare system.
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  5263. I'll address it. There's no such thing as natural "rights". Hope that helps.
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  5264. @jon petcoff Buddy, that person, literally, just proved they are batshit crazy. I was dead on.
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  5265. @jon petcoff No, laughing at you.
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  5266. There's still a math problem. There are zero extra votes to be gained to the left of progressives, so it's impossible to pass anything without Manchin, Sinema, or others at the right end of the party. On the other end, there is the entire Republican party to try and draw extra votes from. If Manchin actually does get enough Republicans on board, they can pass their "bipartisan" bill without progressives.
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  5267.  Mari Jayne  Should there be an investigation as to why the US covid death rate was so high? Figuring out whether it was a lab leak or natural won't actually help answer why the response was so pathetic, and how to be better prepared for the next virus, whether that one is a lab leak or natural.
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  5268.  @thehappyclam3942  Even if you incorrectly believe the government owns the "internet", that would be like the government owning a highway or road to travel upon. But, when you get off at my rest stop, or come into my store, that no longer applies. Web pages and servers are privately owned property, dumbass.
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  5269. Cesiah Gamez An omnipotent God couldn't think up any other way to prove he exists, other than to make a little girl sick and then toss her out of a tree?  He couldn't just magically appear before everyone, simultaneously, and say, "Hi"?
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  5270. Cesiah Gamez How is that proof, if it could just be some weird combination of events? Falling out of a tree isn't miraculous. Landing in a strange way, that affects you physically, isn't miraculous. I know a guy who was play wrestling with his brother, tripped over a tree root, landed funny, and was paralyzed for life. Should we thank God for that "miracle", as well? Or, maybe, I should consider my friend evil. I mean, obviously, if he was pure of heart, God would make his wheelchair tip over and have everything pop back into place. 
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  5271. Cesiah Gamez Believe what you want, but don't use words like "proof" or "evidence", for that. It could just be a strange coincidence. If a God is "showing his glory and power" by causing massive accidents, where dozens die, and then not letting one person die, so everyone will praise him for saving that one person, that's kind of crazy.  If he's starving millions of children in the world, just to teach you to be thankful for your food, that's crazy. If he's killing millions through war, disease, crime, etc., just to teach you to be thankful for things, that's crazy.  And, if he's giving little girls diseases, and tossing them out of trees, just to teach you about his glory and power, that's crazy.  Learn your lessons already, so he can stop. 
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  5272. People use words differently. Narrow definition "atheism" = the belief that gods don't exist. That is the way the word was originally constructed, athe(os)-ism. That was, by far, the most common definition, when Huxley came up with "agnosticism". It is still the most common definition outside atheist circles. Huxley's 19th century "agnosticism": "Agnosticism is of the essence of science, whether ancient or modern. It simply means that a man shall not say he knows or believes that which he has no scientific grounds for professing to know or believe." George H Smith promoting using the less common broad/weak/negative definition of atheism, in the 1960s: "Critical atheism presents itself in various forms. It is often expressed by the statement, “I do not believe in the existence of a god or supernatural being.” This profession of non-belief often derives from the failure of theism to provide sufficient evidence in its favor. Faced with a lack of evidence, this explicit atheist sees no reason whatsoever for believing in a supernatural being." George, on narrow/strong/positive atheism: "Critical atheism also assumes stronger forms, such as, “God does not exist” or, “The existence of a god is impossible.” These assertions are usually made after a particular concept of god, such as the God of Christianity, is judged to be absurd or contradictory. Just as we are entitled to say that a “square-circle” does not and cannot possibly exist, so we are entitled to say that the concept of god, if it entails a contradiction, does not and cannot possibly exist." If the more popular narrow definition is used: "Notice that agnosticism emerges as a third alternative only if atheism is narrowly defined as the denial of theism."
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  5273.  @robinsss  An Ayn Rand style Objectivist government isn't a "strong" government. It's a minimalist government. These guys are all just disagreeing on how minimalist to go.
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  5274. onlytag1way "Agnosticism is of the essence of science, whether ancient or modern. It simply means that a man shall not say he knows or believes that which he has no scientific grounds for professing to know or believe." ~ Thomas Huxley The push to try and popularize a broad definition of atheism, started in the 1960s. Leon stated what is still the most common definition of atheism, outside of atheist circles. No need to get your panties in a bunch, just because some people use an older, more popular, broad definition of agnosticism and narrow definition of atheism, and you use a narrow definition of agnosticism and a broad definition of atheism.
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  5275. No, atheism has at least two definitions: no belief that gods exist and the belief that no gods exist.  Some people use a narrow definition of atheism and a broad definition of agnosticism. Others use a broad definition of atheism and a narrow definition of agnosticism. Using words the first way, isn't wrong. The 4 position square is faulty. It lumps weak agnostic atheists in with strong agnostic atheists. They are "weak" specifically because they don't believe the strong athiest's proposition any more than they believe the theist's proposition. You need at least 5 positions.
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  5276. The word can be used in the broad sense or the narrow sense. The older, more common (outside of atheist circles) use, is the narrow athe(os)-ism sense...the belief that gods don't exist. A proper -ism, to go with the rest.
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  5277. Dan Cosme The root word is atheos, not theism. An -ism was attached to the ancient Greek word atheos. The French and English started using the word decades before they even used the word theism. There was no word to attach an a~ prefix to. Most dictionaries still have the older definition. Some, have both definitions. None, have just the weak atheism definition, that I know of. An a prefix = weak atheism. An ism suffix = strong atheism.
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  5278. Dan Cosme "the bottom line is that word has a literal prefix and a suffix. the prefix, although it may have used to be atheos, is just 'a' because the suffix has to be "theism", or it just wouldn't make sense." An ism is a belief system or world view. An ist is a believer. Atheos is without god, not god, or no god. An athe(os)-ist would be someone who believes we are without gods...that there are no gods. "athe·ist : a person who believes that God does not exist" http://www.merriam-webster.com/dictionary/atheist "a person who believes that God does not exist" http://www.oxfordlearnersdictionaries.com/definition/english/atheist "someone who believes that God does not exist" http://dictionary.cambridge.org/dictionary/british/atheist "(narrowly) A person who believes that no deities exist" https://en.wiktionary.org/wiki/atheist You seem to be the one who has no idea what you're talking about. A-theist is literally "not a theist". That's every inanimate object in the universe. Do you label yourself everything else you're not? 
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  5279. What's more pathetic than theists who don't know the elaborate and lengthy histories of their chosen religions? A-theists who don't know the history of two damn words. They also don't seem to know that they're actually a minority of people who use the word that way. Even on surveys, more non-theists choose "nothing" or "agnostic" than choose "atheists. Most of the people you're claiming as a-theists aren't using the word that way, at least not to self-identify with. The word was put together atheos + ist, someone who believes gods do not exist, some 100 years before there even was a word "theist". There was no word "theist" to attach a prefix to. For any claim:X, you can believe it’s true, believe it’s false, or have no belief either way. Person A: belief X is true, no belief X is false Person B: no belief X is true, no belief X is false Person C: no belief X is true, belief X is false Considering B and C the same thing, just because they share "no belief X is true", makes as much sense as considering asexuals and homosexuals the same thing. Here's a Sesame Street game... Which one of these things, is not like the others, which one of these things just doesn't belong? Polytheist = someone who believes in many gods Polytheist =/= many theists Pantheist = someone who believes everything is god Pantheist =/= everything is a theist Monotheist = someone who believes in a single god Monotheist =/= a single theist Zootheist = someone who believes an animal is godlike Zootheist =/= an animal theist Amoralist = someone who adheres to the doctrine that there are no morals Amoralist =/= not a moralist Abiogenist = someone who believes in abiogenesis Abiogenist =/= not a biogenist Atonalist = someone who creates atonal music Atonalist =/= not a tonalist Athe-ist = someone who believes no gods exist Athe-ist =/= not a theist A-theist =/= someone who believes no gods exist A-theist = not a theist
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  5280. Ryan Marshall Even the Oxford Handbook of Atheism describes agnosticism as no belief, either way, due to lack of evidence, dumbass. You're the one acting like you got all your philosophy from online blurbs, from the internet a-theist bubble world, like a teenager.
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  5281. Ryan Marshall More non-theists choose "nothing" or "agnostic" on surveys. Even the majority of non-theists aren't using the a-theist definition to self identify with.
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  5282. Ryan Marshall I quoted the exact man who defined agnosticism as a philosophy, dumbass. "That which Agnostics deny and repudiate, as immoral, is the contrary doctrine, that there are propositions which men ought to believe, without logically satisfactory evidence; and that reprobation ought to attach to the profession of disbelief in such inadequately supported propositions." In what reality is considering it "immoral" to form beliefs about objective truth claims with no objective evidence, compatible with forming beliefs with no objective evidence? Or, do you also have a reading comprehension problem? belief: “I say, strive earnestly to learn something, not only of the results, but of the methods of science, and then apply those methods to all statements which offer themselves for your belief. If they will not stand that test, they are nought, let them come with what authority they may.” or believes: "Agnosticism is of the essence of science, whether ancient or modern. It simply means that a man shall not say he knows or believes that which he has no scientific grounds for professing to know or believe." believe: "I trust that I have now made amends for any ambiguity, or want of fulness, in my previous exposition of that which I hold to be the essence of the Agnostic doctrine. Henceforward, I might hope to hear no more of the assertion that we are necessarily Materialists, Idealists, Atheists, Theists, or any other ists, if experience had led me to think that the proved falsity of a statement was any guarantee against its repetition. And those who appreciate the nature of our position will see, at once, that when Ecclesiasticism declares that we ought to believe this, that, and the other, and are very wicked if we don't, it is impossible for us to give any answer but this: We have not the slightest objection to believe anything you like, if you will give us good grounds for belief; but, if you cannot, we must respectfully refuse, even if that refusal should wreck morality and insure our own damnation several times over. We are quite content to leave that to the decision of the future. The course of the past has impressed us with the firm conviction that no good ever comes of falsehood, and we feel warranted in refusing even to experiment in that direction."
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  5283.  @kendrasspongeasmr210  You guys are wasting words. There are 3 different positions. That only needs 3 words. Calling two of those positions the same thing brings in more qualifing words. Some people redifine agnostic-ism to a-gnosticism, as well, and call themselves a-gnostic weak/negative/soft a-theists. It's idiotic.
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  5284. All the laws were already there. 3 Subsection 318(4) currently: (4) In this section, identifiable group means any section of the public distinguished by colour, race, religion, national or ethnic origin, age, sex, sexual orientation, or mental or physical disability. C-16 amendment: (4) In this section, identifiable group means any section of the public distinguished by colour, race, religion, national or ethnic origin, age, sex, sexual orientation, gender identity or expression, or mental or physical disability. 4 Subparagraph 718.‍2(a)‍(i) currently: (i) evidence that the offence was motivated by bias, prejudice or hate based on race, national or ethnic origin, language, colour, religion, sex, age, mental or physical disability, sexual orientation, or any other similar factor, C-16 amendment: (i) evidence that the offence was motivated by bias, prejudice or hate based on race, national or ethnic origin, language, colour, religion, sex, age, mental or physical disability, sexual orientation, or gender identity or expression, or on any other similar factor, 1 Section 2 of the Canadian Human Rights Act currently: 2 The purpose of this Act is to extend the laws in Canada to give effect, within the purview of matters coming within the legislative authority of Parliament, to the principle that all individuals should have an opportunity equal with other individuals to make for themselves the lives that they are able and wish to have and to have their needs accommodated, consistent with their duties and obligations as members of society, without being hindered in or prevented from doing so by discriminatory practices based on race, national or ethnic origin, colour, religion, age, sex, sexual orientation, marital status, family status, disability or conviction for an offence for which a pardon has been granted or in respect of which a record suspension has been ordered. C-16 amendment: 2 The purpose of this Act is to extend the laws in Canada to give effect, within the purview of matters coming within the legislative authority of Parliament, to the principle that all individuals should have an opportunity equal with other individuals to make for themselves the lives that they are able and wish to have and to have their needs accommodated, consistent with their duties and obligations as members of society, without being hindered in or prevented from doing so by discriminatory practices based on race, national or ethnic origin, colour, religion, age, sex, sexual orientation, gender identity or expression, marital status, family status, disability or conviction for an offence for which a pardon has been granted or in respect of which a record suspension has been ordered. 2 Subsection 3(1) of the Act currently: 3 (1) For all purposes of this Act, the prohibited grounds of discrimination are race, national or ethnic origin, colour, religion, age, sex, sexual orientation, marital status, family status, disability and conviction for an offence for which a pardon has been granted or in respect of which a record suspension has been ordered. C-16 amendment: 3 (1) For all purposes of this Act, the prohibited grounds of discrimination are race, national or ethnic origin, colour, religion, age, sex, sexual orientation, gender identity or expression, marital status, family status, disability and conviction for an offence for which a pardon has been granted or in respect of which a record suspension has been ordered.
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  5285.  @whyamimrpink78  They haven't had this specific virus for years, dumb dumb. They didn't pop out some generic coronavirus vaccine. It's specifically a covid 19 vaccine. They were able to do it so quickly because the method, that they've been researching for years, that was used is much quicker than previous vaccines. They went through all 3 trials phases. Nothing was sped up except the formality of waiting for approval, which came after development and the trials. You're just lying. A 1% mortality rate is 10x deadlier than the flu, dumb dumb. Letting it spread to 300m people would be 3m dead. All states already have some vaccine mandates, so wtf are you even talking about? It's not some new power.
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  5286.  @garyhamlin3299  Testing is a "covid measure", which is what my op was talking about. You might want to look up "Human Studies of Masking and SARS-CoV-2 Transmission".
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  5287.  Alabama Man 2.0  What a load of bullshit.
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  5288.  @cameronlee2238  A country can still be a "republic" with popular vote elections, dummy. Yes, I'm positive you're clueless.
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  5289.  Sc0ut op  Right, and voting for a representative is exactly not a direct/pure democracy, it's a representative democracy.
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  5290.  Sc0ut op  Apparently you have no clue what a republic is, either.
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  5291.  @jaccl4539  There you go again, not grasping math.
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  5292.  @JBPVFL   Going from owning a piece of shit mule 100 years ago to owning a piece of shit car now is technological advancements, not economic advancements. The same with going from owning a landline 50 years ago, to owning a cell now. Some cell phone deals are actually cheaper than some landline deals. The poverty rate hasn't really changed since the civil rights movement. People are eating a lot of cheaper unhealthy food. People aren't starving because of things like food stamps, and other social safety nets that have increased over those decades. Many people working for massively profitable companies are collecting food stamps, and not benefiting from profit increases. Etc. Etc. You're spouting trash.
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  5293. So, Emma, Ana, Krystal Ball, and other progressive female commentators, that don't like Hillary, are sexist and misogynistic? Sounds legit.
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  5294. That's how undocumented Canadians avoid ICE. Nah ... ICE is just racist and bigoted, and most Canadians are white and Christian.
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  5295. @Bry-Fi Most undocumented aliens are overstays, and the largest group of overstayers are Canadians.
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  5296.  @mosslinden5058  It's asinine, because it all came from Jimmy Dore. Glad we agree.
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  5297.  @mosslinden5058  They literally backed the major party, to change things from the inside at the federal level, dimwit, and weren't at all viable at the federal level themselves.
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  5298.  @-NoneOfYourBusiness  Dore knobs have proved that ftv was pure bullshit, and that they weren't actually going to do anything with a list of no voters. The $15 got a vote, and all they've done is kept whining about those who voted for it, rather than doing anything about those who voted against it. Just keep trashing those who have done more for M4A in a few years than Dore has in his entire lifetime. When the UN, UN inspectors taken from around the world, NGOs like doctors without borders, amnesty, HRW, independent investigators from various countries, hundreds of victim witnesses, dozens of healthcare witnesses, and various human rights legal groups representing victims, have hundreds of accounts of Syrian chemical weapons use, since 2013, and you try to portray a big conspiracy based on two "inspectors" (one wasn't an official inspector, and one never left the base because they didn't finish training) that were involved in a single inspection at a single site, but weren't involved in the last 7 months of the investigation ... all to defend Syria, along with Russia ... then what's the better answer? Are Dore and Aaron just stupid?
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  5299.  @traviswilliams2010  If she could somehow tax the rich all on her own, to pay for a campaign to raise taxes on the rich, she wouldn't need a campaign to raise taxes on the rich. You guys make no sense.
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  5300. @Halon's Razor Still not sure where I'm losing you. My point is you're spouting bullshit, and you haven't provided any evidence you're not spouting bullshit. If someone made a baseless assertion that aliens just landed in their backyard, calling bullshit is a perfectly valid response. If you don't like it, try backing up your bullshit. What are you going to do, pull out a clip where he says a literacy program is a good thing, while clearly and unequivocally condemning the authoritarianism and the treatment of political opponents? Are you going to pretend like that's some general praise of Castro's Cuba, like a complete and utter moron? Oooh my ... I thought it was impressive that China built a hospital in a matter of days. Ack! Does that mean I'm now in favour of the 2000+ executions a year? Also, claiming he loses a third of voters by using the word "socialism" implies he could have them if only he didn't use that word. Which third would that be? Would Trump only be getting 13-19% in the polls, if Bernie just didn't use that word? Face it. You're a bullshitter. Me stating that is just me stating a fact.
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  5301. @Halon's Razor Breaking what records, moron? If you're simply referring to highest stock market numbers ever, numerous presidents had highest ever stock market numbers, at the time of their presidencies. That should be the default, and only slightly more impressive than being president during the highest year, 2020, ever.
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  5302. Rofl, is that also why newspapers, magazines, and books, aren't selling well any more?
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  5303.  @mellow_badger8585  What's a right wing policy that benefits the lower class?
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  5304. Corporate Dems aren't "left".
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  5305. Numerous US presidents have committed crimes against humanity, with their foreign policy. What you want is negligent homicide, for letting people he's supposed to be protecting die needlessly, within his country.
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  5306.  @stringmonkey568  There's only a billion people in all of the Americas, and most of them already get universal healthcare, dumb dumb. Where are you expecting everyone to walk from?
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  5307.  @themassage6534  There are people pushing actual fascism/Nazism. Who is pushing USSR style communism?
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  5308. What are you doing David? "While researchers will likely continue to look into the performance of generic versus brand-name drugs, the bulk of research out there shows that taking the no-name brand not only saves you money, but also provides you with a medication that is just as effective as the original." https://www.health.harvard.edu/staying-healthy/do-generic-drugs-compromise-on-quality
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  5309. David, as a Canadian living with a VAT system, please expose that Yang is also lying about how a VAT works. While it is designed to generate revenue, a VAT is not designed to tax corporations like Amazon, as he falsely claims. In fact, a VAT is specifically designed to credit back registered businesses for any of their input VAT. It's only the final non-registered buyer who doesn't get their VAT payment credited back. http://publications.gc.ca/Collection-R/LoPBdP/BP/prb0003-e.htm#A.%20Taxing%20Mechanism(txt) Since it won't actually tax Amazon, and since their share of US consumer spending is 2%, handing consumers $3t will only make them an extra $60b a year. That would, in turn, make Bezos more a year than he'd ever personally pay into the VAT.
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  5310.  @helluvastart  Like I said, according to himself. "It's thought that science can help us get what we value, but it can never tell us what we ought to value." So, if we pick our own subjective definition of "well being", like Sam does, then science can help us achieve that goal. End of "thesis". He never actually makes it beyond what he says is already a given. His "analogies" are moronic. Take his chess "analogy". Rules of chess are analogous to laws, not morality. To get rules for a game, first you have to subjectively decide to make them up and then subjectivity decide to play that game. There's no science telling you that "you ought to play chess". Even if you do subjectively choose to play, there's nothing saying it's objectively wrong to lose, if you want to say lose to your child, or something. His "healthy" and "unhealthy" "analogy" is equally moronic. Those terms don't include oughts. Eating Big Macs may be "unhealthy", but so what? That only matters if I subjectively care about being healthy. Skydiving may be "unhealthy", because it increases your chance of dying but, again, so what? People enjoy skydiving. Comparing terms that don't include oughts to terms that do (moral: how you ought to behave; immoral: how you ought not behave) is completely idiotic. Harris is a moron.
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  5311.  @fisher5759  Someone has been watching too many Hallmark movies.
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  5312. I looked into the details of one of the SC polls showing Biden with a big lead, and it polled 43% people over 65. If the others are similar, it should be closer than what the polls say.
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  5313. Why "can't" they perform as editors? Couldn't a golf club remove Trump's club membership, if he walked into the women's change room one too many times, if they felt like it?
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  5314.  @mayorofmotown  A bookstore (which has to do with previous laws 230 was based on) can still pick and choose which books it wants to sell, and which it doesn't, without being considered an editor. It can selectively not sell porn, but sell nude photography books, and decide exactly what content crosses the line for them. Deciding not to host someone's content, doesn't make you an editor, or publisher.
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  5315. Bernie needs a majority. Younger voters need to get their asses out. Pete could drop, back Biden, and hand him his 26 delegates, giving Biden the lead, without even needing superdelegate interference.
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  5316. Except they don't sit down and make plans to commit crimes. They don't make plans on the internet to commit crimes. Those are things insurrectionists do. Riots tend to be spontaneous. You know, like a bunch of hyped sports fanatics. Should some sports fans be considered terrorist groups?
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  5317.  @omnisomnia  So, ditch all laws, regulations, safety standards, or whatnot? You're argument is incoherent, unless you're advocating complete anarchy.
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  5318.  @Pacman398  Fascists having free speech, to spread their ideas, has proved to be pretty risky.
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  5319.  @KASC92  Except the science shouldn't be determined by morons on the internet. Shutting down moronic internet debates isn't, at all, anti-science.
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  5320.  @wikingagresor  What's that one thing?
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  5321.  @Pacman398  You made a blanket statement, that wasn't about this single person, dimwit. You're the one who apparently can't now defend their blanket statement, and is deflecting.
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  5322.  @wikingagresor  How does that do any good? Fascists outright ran on democracy being a bad thing.
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  5323.  @iancuninghame9163  What does that have to do with including, or not including them, having anything to do with being "anti-science". Science doesn't need their input.
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  5324.  @wikingagresor  They see democracy as the flaw. Mussolini defined fascism as outright anti-democratic. That didn't bother it's followers, in the least. You constantly hear right wingers trying to claim the US isn't a democracy, and defending the undemocratic parts of the system. They don't care.
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  5325.  @iancuninghame9163  Morons across the internet, who think they're smarter than climate scientists, and pull shit out of their ass, like "the climate cycles every tens of thousands of years", as if scientists across the world haven't already factored that in, and thinking they've debunked climate science, isn't, at all, science. Their opinions aren't needed to determine the actual science, which means eliminating their opinions isn't, at all, "anti-science".
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  5326.  @omnisomnia  The difference is that you could prevent a murder, if you could arrest someone for saying they're going to kill someone. If you can only arrest them for the act, then you can't prevent the murder attempt. An example of the difference seems to be that promoting killing a specific gay person might be taken as a credible threat, while promoting killing all gay people is okay. Hate speech laws tend to be tied to protected classes, and have to rise to the level of harrassment, or promote violence, to be considered a crime.
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  5327.  @wikingagresor  There's a difference between "pure" direct democracy, a democratic representative democracy, and an undemocratic system. The US senate is total crap, and the 1929 permanent appropriation act has created an increasingly unrepresentative house and electoral college. Plenty of countries, considered to have more democratic systems than the US, that aren't "pure" direct democracies, seem to be doing just fine.
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  5328.  @robertneil65  Isn't trying to pass off clerical errors as election fraud, fishing for views from the psycho Trump cult? Who, posting regular content to YouTube, isn't looking for views? Crowder must suck at it, since Ethan has half the subs, but double the views. Crowder's views to subs ratio is similar to Sam's.
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  5329.  @robertneil65  Are you Both, or something?
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  5330.  @SR-lh4rm  Nope. You're making crap up, cultist. The entire concept of paying the business stages back is based on the very basic principle that if you leave it as a cost on businesses they'll pass it onto customers anyway. That would allow for cascading taxes upon taxes upon taxes. You're arguing for something even worse, that the VAT is designed to avoid.
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  5331.  @SR-lh4rm  Single digit math, here, for the math gang (and the answer is even given on the right) ... If the final consumer pays $2 in VAT, and the government collects $2 in VAT, how much did each of the businesses end up paying into the VAT? https://www.heritage.org/sites/default/files/~/media/images/reports/2010/b2503/b2503_chart1_750px.jpg
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  5332.  NEAR TERM EXTINCTION - HUMAN  There is already a pretty clear list of who hasn't signed on for M4A. AOC just used her platform and PAC to help get more pro-M4A progressives elected to congress, going against DCCC backed corporate Dems, exactly what you'll still have to do after a failed vote. Jimmy rewards doing the exact thing that's needed to actually get M4A passed, with calling her a "fake", "shill", and "wimp". To actually pass it, you need to replace about 100 people in the house and senate. If Jimmy has 100 new candidates in his back pocket, he should have run them in the election that just happened. I'm sure AOC would have done what she could to help them get elected too. Yeah, paralyzing the house, if you don't get your way, isn't really politics 101. There hasn't been multiple speaker votes in about a hundred years. Resorting to that, during a pandemic, could backfire and be used to make you look bad.
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  5333.  @Evirthewarrior  Pro-M4A progressives don't have the majority in either the house or senate. We wouldn't be having this discussion, if they did.
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  5334. ​ @notnecessary7730  Only if you mean taxing wealth.
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  5335.  @whyamimrpink78  Food costs, as a percentage of income, has actually gone down, since 30 years ago. What has gone up, is housing, healthcare, and basic needs ... bills. https://www.hamiltonproject.org/ee-ce-image/made/assets/img/uploads/wysiwyg/papers/automatic_stabilizers_may2016/household_budget_change_categories_800_445_80.jpg
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  5336.  @mjchakos1  That's a far right Libertarian, not a "moderate", and they already have a third party.
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  5337.  @joethethunder4906  As a third party? You're dreaming.
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  5338.  @aarondickson9573  Both candidates increased total numbers in all demographics, dumb dumb. It's a pointless "point". Trump picked up a whole 1.6 percentage points, amongst black voters, with a total percentage that was less than Reagan's. There was no massive, unprecedented, shift, or anything.
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  5339. ​ @thehappyclam3942  Hitler was backed by leading German industrialists. He promised his backers that he wouldn't be redistributing wealth. Nazis allied with other far right parties, to form the Harzburg Front. They literally killed off any prominent left leaning members, on the Night of the Long Knives. They went after communists, socialists, and unionists, first, for "illegal socialist activity". Hitler blamed Jews for creating socialism, because Marx was of Jewish descent. He blamed the Communist Party for the Reichstag fire, claimed they were "terrorists", outlawed them, and rounded them up. Mussolini denied the class struggle, that is the very foundation of socialism/communism. He promoted accepting your lot in life, and just working hard, for the betterment of the nation, in an "Ask not what your country can do for you - ask what you can do for your country", kind of way. The Nazis were a little more, "For God and country!" ... People simply working together, towards a goal, doesn't equate to communism/socialism.
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  5340.  @thehappyclam3942   @thehappyclam3942   @thehappyclam3942  YouTube not liking some word here ... @thehappyclam3942 Htler was backed by leading Grman industrialists. He promised his backers that he wouldn't be redistributing wealth. Nzis allied with other far right parties, to form the Harzburg Front. They literally klled off any prominent left leaning members, on the Night of the Long Knives. They went after cmmunists, scialists, and unionists, first, for "illegal scialist activity". Htler blamed Jws for creating scialism, because Mrx was of Jwish descent. He blamed the Cmmunist Party for the Reichstag fire, claimed they were "trrorists", outlawed them, and rounded them up. Mssolini denied the class struggle, that is the very foundation of scialism/cmmunism. He promoted accepting your lot in life, and just working hard, for the betterment of the nation, in an "Ask not what your country can do for you - ask what you can do for your country", kind of way. People simply working together, towards a goal, doesn't equate to cmmunism/scialism.
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  5341.  @thehappyclam3942  Who was Emil Kirdorf?
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  5342.  @Historia.Magistra.Vitae.  Wrong
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  5343.  @Historia.Magistra.Vitae.  Wrong
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  5344.  @Historia.Magistra.Vitae.  Wrong. Prior to wartime economies fascists were leaders in privatization.
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  5345.  @Historia.Magistra.Vitae.  You've argued Trump is a communist. You've lost. Give up.
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  5346.  @Historia.Magistra.Vitae.  Yes you did. He owns businesses, and is a party member.
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  5347.  @Historia.Magistra.Vitae.  "Fascism is the complete opposite of Marxian socialism." ~ Mussolini
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  5348.  @Historia.Magistra.Vitae.  Trump owns businesses, and is a party member. You've, at minimum, argued he's a leftist, socialism based, collectivist. By your "logic", if any party member owns a business, then the entire party owns the business.
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  5349.  @Historia.Magistra.Vitae.  The "complete opposite" of anarcho-capitalism is not some other form of capitalism.
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  5350.  @Historia.Magistra.Vitae.  You either don't know what "complete" means, or "opposite" means. Which is it?
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  5351.  @Historia.Magistra.Vitae.  Rofl!!! One person owns everything, and you call that "socialism". You've proven yourself insane.
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  5352.  @nfb4027  Lol, you likely think a guy with his own healthcare, and non public garage job, flinging slander, is political action.
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  5353.  @JackHawkinswrites  Dimwit, the constitution has been amended dozens of times. Do you think the original was perfect, on its own?
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  5354.  Scientific Methodology  You ought to change your name. You're definitely not using it.
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  5355. Presidents needing constant security means they don't represent "the people"? Military bases on US soil having fences or walls means they don't represent "the people"?
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  5356.  @tymegrace4838  You're spewing bullshit. Republicans controlled congress at the end of Obama's presidency, before Bernie first entered the race.
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  5357.  @Brodyshalecomedy  Jimmy said the moon falling into Lake Michigan was more likely than Trump filling multiple scotus seats.
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  5358.  @jimohara  Social media corporations were flagging covid misinformation, while Trump was still president, and Republicans held the senate. Which government were they taking orders from, exactly? Sounds like you're spewing nonsense.
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  5359.  @X2LR8  Why are you anti-white traditions? You must be a progressive.
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  5360.  @X2LR8  Where is, and was, race based chattel slavery practiced?
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  5361. @Badatallthis Stuff All you said was that you're ignorant, and don't grasp how herd immunity works. Say you've been vaccinated with a 50% efficacy vaccine. That added 50% protection applies when you come in direct contact with a virus carrier. For every other vaccinated person, between you and the carrier, it adds another layer of 50% protection. 1 person = 75% protection. 2 people = 87.5% protection. 3 people = 93.75% protection. Etc. It's the whole point of trying to vaccinate as many people as possible, with any vaccine. It's not just about individual protection.
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  5362. @Badatallthis Stuff No. You were the one who just moved a public health measure into the politics column. That's stupid.
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  5363.  @DontDrinkthatstuff  What has that got to do with those reporting human rights violations, or war crimes? You can both report a human rights violation, or war crime, and not consider it a justification for war.
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  5364.  @DontDrinkthatstuff  Rofl, so you Dore knobs don't want any human rights violations, or war crimes, to ever be reported on, in any country ever, in case the US uses it as a reason to bomb someone? That's one of the dumbest things I've ever heard. Should nobody ever report on US human rights violations, or war crimes, just in case others use it as a reason to bomb the US, as well?
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  5365.  @raonaveen90  You: "They are called fraud squad because when the time came to rid of Pelosi they didn't." Also, AOC didn't vote for the CARES Act. You're spouting bullshit, as well as contradicting yourself.
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  5366.  @raonaveen90  Her corporate Dem primary opponent literally tried to use the fact that she didn't vote for it as a negative in the primaries.
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  5367. Not sure he had to con conservatives, too much. Leading industrialists were his backers, and the ones who got him made chancellor, to begin with. He had already promised them there wouldn't be any serious attempt to redistribute wealth, and took out any prominent left leaning members of his party on the Night of Long Knives, after some of them had dropped their support. They then returned, after that night. Many of them were as horrible as he was.
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  5368. Pinky
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  5369. Dore would be arguing that hopping in a cop car would be better in the long run.
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  5370. ​ @avol2  Reagan deregulated domestic oil prices, way back in 1981. Domestic has sold at the global market price ever since. Trump's "energy independence" is irrelevant to prices, since foreign and domestic are the same price. Global oil prices dropped in 2014, before Trump, and were going back up, under Trump. Oil companies have zero incentive to flood the global market, to drive down prices, so they can lose money. That's why they're sitting on thousands of already approved drilling sites.
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  5371. How they're pissing on war memorials and trashing Terry Fox?
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  5372. @Mario M Moron. Nationals stadium has a 40k+ capacity.
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  5373.  @drew4509  He, literally, said it himself, dimwit. So, yeah, all that stuff.
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  5374. Apparently Ben doesn't know that Israel has over 400k Israeli militants (reservists), valid military targets, hiding amongat its civilians, using them as human shields.
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  5375. Sorry. We didn't want them.
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  5376.  Zero Cool  Who the hell came up with the "beat-in" initiation? Who the hell came up with the "fourth level", for members who get in fights? How the hell was he not on board with everything they were doing, as their leader? He just distanced himself, when members got into legal troubles, not when they started being violent.
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  5377. Or, she went to visit her mother, who lives in Florida, for the holidays.
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  5378. @Aaron Dickson Honey Boo Boo was popular. What's your point?
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  5379.  @jashshah5049  Are you flagging my posts providing facts and sources for how horrible India is for women?
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  5380. Musk is a billionaire douchebag, who only claims about $50k in income a year, so he doesn't have to help pay for the infrastructure that helped make him rich, doesn't have to help pay for the military that protects shipping lanes and corporate interests abroad, doesn't have to help pay for the elderly's healthcare or social security, etc. And, because a VAT doesn't actually tax businesses, Musk would only gain from $3t in consumer spending, making billions extra a year.
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  5381.  @apathy7899  Did you answer my question as to who openly organized a riot? These "truckers" are openly organizing to put people out of work, etc. Are you arguing all the "truckers" are Nazis, who piss on war memorials and steal food from the homeless? Or was that just some, and not part of the plan?
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  5382.  @David-mr4gr  The organizers are yellow vesters, wexiters, Unite We Roll members who formerly harrased native protesters and Unifor strikers, People's Party loons, racists, bigots, etc. They're spoiled brats that are upset they live in a country that's only about a third conservative, even less outright looney right. Not to mention a looney apocalypse preacher, that thinks opposing covid measures will bring about the end of times. The PPC leader is openly anti-vax and unvaccinated. No clue why you're so sure most of those "truckers" are vaccinated, when some of the organizers ran as PPC candidates, and the preacher and others have been part of anti-mask and anti-vax groups, all along.
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  5383.  @JohnP.Conley-gt5ce  Moron.
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  5384. I wouldn't let off the "average Joe", too much. The majority of them voted for pro slavery candidates, pro Jim Crow candidates, anti civil rights candidates, at both state and federal levels. They voted for racist sheriffs, judges, and other local officials.
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  5385.  @justinb2630  No. She is not a "viable" candidate. viable: capable of becoming actual, useful, etc.
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  5386.  @justinb2630  No, dingus. I'm saying polling at 1-2% isn't a viable candidate.
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  5387.  @Mr_Rabbit  He didn't, at all, detach himself from the opinions he stated as "facts". He clearly presented his opinion that it's boring as a fact. He clearly presented his opinion that the neighbors are brainwashed as a fact. Why would you use magic to detach him from his clearly stated opinions, and pretend he doesn't consider himself in either group?
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  5388. Well, as they say, the victors write history. Some was initially propagandized so much that it does need rewriting, with added perspective. And some statues were put up decades after events, of people who were racists and traitors, also for propaganda purposes, that should have never had statues. If the people overthrew Orwell's fascist government, they'd also have to do all that, to fix things.
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  5389. ​ @BobMuskFan  No, it's not. Canada's exports are 77% to US, but that's 17% of Canada's GDP. If you no longer import Canadian oil (at a 15% discount), then you're going to have to stop exporting oil to China and Mexico. Canada can then approach them to buy our oil.
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  5390.  KenjiAzurai  His other options were ... ?
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  5391. The same face that considered him a moron, before. https://www.newsweek.com/progressives-hold-biden-account-15-minimum-wage-he-suggests-it-dealt-later-1568050
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  5392.  @jhallin5185  Lol, what's "true" socialism?
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  5393. That can happen, with overly repetitive fine motor actions. Did you put ice on it?
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  5394. It's almost as if the supreme leader told all his followers to vote in person, and not by mail, while Democrats promoted voting by mail during a pandemic. Notice how you didn't find it fishy that election day votes skewed so heavily towards Trump in those states. Just as long as it goes the way you want, right?
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  5395. Jack isn't even shorter than John. I don't get that one.
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  5396. Opting out won't change the fact that many things will cost, at least, 10% more and make that $1000+ worth less. You opt out, but your electric bill is now $110 instead of $100, for example.
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  5397. Yes, it's unimaginable, governments forcing people to wear articles of clothing. Terrible times.
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  5398.  @driftboat945  No, they've been working to wipe them out. The US was 40% unionized in the early 50s. It's now down to 10% unionized. They're currently working against the largest of the remaining unions ... the teacher's union ... with their privatized schools bullshit.
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  5399.  @YankeeDoodle2  Nope. You're lying. Top 10 firearm mortality rates... Mississippi Louisiana New Mexico Alabama Wyoming Alaska Montana Arkansas Missouri Tennessee Top 10 homicide rates... Mississippi Louisiana Alabama New Mexico South Carolina Illinois Maryland Missouri Tennessee Arkansas
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  5400. There are also states that have their own state defense force. Some also have navy and air forces. And that's on top of the state's national guard, which governors can activate, who have also sworn to protect their state, not just the constitution.
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  5401. Gun lovers don't tend to like anything smart.
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  5402. Oh no, a religious nut won't be posting anymore. Whatever shall we do?
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  5403. The "public option" makes paying into the government healthcare optional, not simply giving you the option for private extras. That would be a "private option". If the rich can opt out, then you can't have progressive payments into M4A.
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  5404.  Derek Hitt  They, literally, said you could be paid opposition and a corporate troll. I'm the one who said they gave you the benefit of the doubt (saying you're paid to spew nonsense) when you could simply be a complete moron (who spews nonsense for free). So, yes, you clearly have severe reading comprehension problems.
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  5405. Yeah, Dem voters should treat the primaries as the more important battle, between progressive and conservative Dems, but then still vote en masse for whoever wins to keep out the batshit crazy party.
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  5406.  @semi-consciousamerican-joe2481  You know that, if "their" money is worth more, then your money is worth more, right? And that the "destroyed" money gets counted as credits against government debits, and overall debt, which is how all paying for things works?
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  5407.  @billymain2813  "America is great" Then what the fuck does MAGA stand for, dumbass? It stands for hypocritical morons.
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  5408. Rofl. What's a good "informed" reason for not wanting to be vaccinated?
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  5409.  @5thElement0560  This year, alone, prior to Oct 7 ... Israel held over 1200 Palestinian hostages without charges ... over 200 Palestinians had been killed by the IDF and settlers ... over 1000 Palestinians had been displaced by Israel's neverending colonization of the West Bank ... and, Israel continued to operate an open air WWII style fascist ghetto, in Gaza. Making out like nothing was going on, prior to Oct 7, is moronic. If Israel had cared about its civilians, then they wouldn't have done any of that, right? Right? Also, the IDF has its largest base in a shopping mall, cowardly using civilians as human shields. The IDF has over 400k militants (reservists) hiding amongst its civilians, cowardly using them as human shields, maybe even at a festival. Be careful justifying killing civilians, because it can work both ways, and you might justify something you don't want to.
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  5410.  @hunterbidensgun8295  But they didn't. You're a lying twit.
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  5411.  @strongbone9471  Same thing. Dore benefits the far right.
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  5412. She is the anti-Pence as Bernie is the anti-Trump.
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  5413. Doing what colonizers often think they have to do.
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  5414.  @kittylvoe456  Not what I asked. So which Democrat is pushing all out communism, dumb dumb?
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  5415.  @kittylvoe456  The truth is that you're too stupid to be able to answer a simple question. It also seems like you're too stupid to recognize that most of Trump's "great economy" came in his first year ... during Obama's last budget. Since his own first budget, when his tax breaks for the rich and corporations kicked in, and he started his trade wars about the same time, the stock market has largely flatlined. Even his favorite metric says he sucks.
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  5416.  @alabamaman1684  Yeah, that's not at all true. The life expectancy dropped by 1+ years in 2020, for white Americans, and by 2-3x that for black and Hispanic Americans.
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  5417.  @Baked_potatos376  And yet here we are, no head.
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  5418.  @manvbees  Where are you getting lost? The country of half of Poland never existed. Grmny and Rss each took half. The British and French each took parts of the Ottoman Empire. Can parts be occpd, or not?
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  5419.  Judge Parker  If you think the parties haven't changed, then you're simply brain dead. Republicans have given a home to extreme anti-socialist McCarthy types, religious extremists, racists (the Nazi and Confederate flag wavers and Tiki torch carriers show up at "Unite the Right" rallies and Trump insurrections), religious extremists, Reaganomics and neocons, gun fanatics, Tea Party nutters, the Trump cult, and now Qanoners. It has become a party of lunatics. Parties didn't used to vote along party lines. Sure, 38% of Dems in congress voted against the Civil Rights Act, but so did 20% of Reps. If you're going to use the minority of congressional Dems to make out like they were a racist party (ignoring that they introduced the bill), that "logic" should apply to Reps, as well, making them both racist parties, at the time. Black voters, themselves, have almost entirely migrated to the Dem party, since then. What ... are the vast majority of black Americans racist against themselves? Do you think the vast majority of black Americans can't recognize which party does, and doesn't, give a home to racists? Republicans just got done letting Trump (the government) convince tens of millions of them not to believe any media, any politicians, any judges, any lawyers, any election officials, any intelligence agencies, any police, any military, any doctors, any nurses, any scientists ... anybody ... even to not believe their own lying eyes, if they contradicted Supreme Leader Trumpty Dumpty. Republicans aren't like the founders, who protested and rioted against authority and taxes that specifically funded the police/military. They are the authority, who back the police/military, and instead chose to fight against democracy to keep an unelected ruler in power. Republicans are the good loyalists to authority.
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  5420.  @davidbates3057  The Bible has God killing fetuses, infants, children, and youths, by the millions. The Bible has God ordering the killing of pregnant women, male infants, male children, and male youths. Plus, every God sanctioned miscarriage is a abortion.
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  5421.  Feeds Ravens  Or maybe it's a Canadian development with its first test plant in BC, since 2015, and with a full plant to be built in Texas in the next year, or so. https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Carbon_Engineering
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  5422.  Jambi Love  Take a country, like S Korea, who flattened their curve quickly. They quickly mass produced masks, and trace tested at a rate of 50+ people per confirmed case. The US, on the other hand, let themselves have a mask shortage, and tested at a pathetic rate of 5 people per confirmed case, for months, only recently getting that rate up to a still pathetic 10 people per confirmed case. The US hasn't tested at a rate fast enough to get ahead of the virus spread. New Zealand, and Australia, also used 50+ testing rates, and flattened their curves quickly. The US is playing behind the curve, and might be too far gone to catch up, due to incompetence.
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  5423.  @zelenskysboot361  But they want to shoot lefties with them, not the super rich.
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  5424.  Jamarcus Washington  Millions of books have stopped being published over the years. Have you been crying about every out of print book ever?
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  5425. She's on MR all the time.
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  5426. Also, public handjobs, tit fondling, and sexual assault, is okay, to them.
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  5427. Kyle, please explain to Americans how a VAT actually works. It does not make corporations like Amazon "pay their fair share". It is built right into a VAT system that they get credited back for any input VAT, effectively paying nothing. Amazon, itself, has a little tutorial page explaining how businesses get credited back for any input VAT. https://services.amazon.co.uk/services/vat-resources.html Since a VAT won't actually tax the likes of Amazon, handing consumers $3t will only make Amazon about $30b extra a year, on retail alone. That would make Bezos about $3.6b extra a year. He'd have to blow over $36b a year to pay in more than he'd get out of Yang's VAT/UBI scheme.
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  5428. It is pronounced wine-steen.
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  5429.  @fubarace1027  So a hundred years of the majority of southern voters voting for people who kept slavery, another hundred years of the majority of southern voters voting for segregationists and those who fought against desegregation, and Southern populations being much more racist just went away? Their Confederate flags on state flags, their Confederate monuments, and also multiple southern states still having a Confederate Memorial Day ... all dedicated to memorializing those who were willing to kill and die for the "right" (enshrined in the Confederate constitution) to own, torture, rape, and kill, other human beings ... isn't an indication they might still be a bit more racist?
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  5430.  @fubarace1027   Talk about bullshit. Some racists in X doesn't equate to being just as racist as Y, if there has far more racists in Y. It's more and less. Trying to make out like there was the same percentage of racists in states where the majority of voters voted for abolitionists as states where the majority of voters voted for anti-abolitionists, is just moronic. The same goes for voting for anti-segregationists vs voting for segregationists ... which only ended about 50 years ago. There are still black Americans alive who lived under it, and still white Americans who voted for it. Trying to make it all sound like some ancient history is also bullshit. The southern strategy is also documented, by Republicans themselves. What "history" are you preserving? The statues were put up decades after the fact, by a group of racist Southern women. Either you're honoring those willing to kill and die for the "right" to enslave others, or you're honoring the work of a bunch of racist women, that were largely a sister group to the KKK. There's zero evidence that having no statues of Nazis led to Nazis being erased from history. There's zero evidence that ripping down a statue of Saddam erased him from history. It was simply the act of ripping down a monument to an asshole. If there so much less racism than 50 years ago, why do they still need stupid shit like this explained to them? In 2021, why the hell are there still Confederate Memorial Days, even called Confederate Heroes Day, in some Southern states? They're either more racist or more stupid.
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  5431. Religion?
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  5432. Yeah, they should have narrowed it to peameal bacon, for Canada.
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  5433.  @railroadtrash09  Dore knobs aren't a tribe. They're a cult.
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  5434.  @ruppelspoopels  Disney just bought 20th Century Fox.
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  5435. Yeah, I'm sure they'd trade a couple percentage points in lower unemployment for a return to no voting rights and segregation.
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  5436. He was considered natural born, due to his mother, and got an automatic US citizenship, on top of his Canadian one (which he has renounced). He didn't have to go through the naturalization process, to get his US citizenship. He's all yours now!
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  5437. Did you learn about any Union service members who fought against the traitorous Confederates, whom Republicans still memorialize on Confederate Memorial Day, and with Confederate monuments and flags, disrespecting the US military and their fellow black Americans? They don't give two craps about service members, and deserve to have their fake patriotism trolled.
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  5438.  @alikaostermiller  Are there Democrat led states with holidays to memorialize the USSR, statues to memorialize the USSR, and state flags with Communist symbols in them, that Republicans keep trying to get rid of but Democrats keep resisting? Texas and Florida even call theirs Confederate Heroes Day, ffs.
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  5439.  @GM-db4bv  Rofl, all Dore does is trash people more popular than him.
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  5440.  @GM-db4bv  Every public figure is a legit target, if they're giving their opinions on crap. Dore has bitched about Maher, Chomsky, Bill Gates, Mark Ruffalo, Zuckerberg, and many other more popular public figures than him, along with the politicians that are far more popular than him. It's all Dore does.
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  5441.  @2727rogers  If they actually wanted M4A more than they wanted to end abortion, and other stupid shit, they'd already be voting for progressives.
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  5442.  @2727rogers  Jimmy Dore actions: promoted Trump (running on kicking 10m of the poorest Americans off of Medicaid expansion) as the better option to Clinton (running on adding 40m older Americans to Medicare expansion); promoted Tulsi (public option) over Bernie (M4A); ran an attack ad campaign against Trump's (still running on kicking over 10m of the poorest Americans off of Medicaid expansion) only remaining viable opponent, Biden (running on Medicare expansion and a public option); slanders progressives that have done more for M4A in a few years than he has in his entire lifetime; promotes allying with extreme right Boogaloos who will be shooting leftists once they start the civil war they want; goes on Tucker mainly to agree with him; promotes a third party route that would benefit Republicans most; abandoned Nina and abandoned adding another M4A yes vote to congress ... In what reality are those the actions of someone who makes out like they're the one true champion of healthcare?
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  5443.  @2727rogers  Imagine if everyone in the progressive caucus was third party (which includes only 1 senator, Bernie). What you'd have is a Republican minority house, a republican senate with Pence as tie breaker, and Trump as president (because Dems and progressives split votes between Biden and Bernie). Republicans would be basically in control of everything. How would a third party even having 94 seats in the house, and 1 seat in the senate, get you closer to M4A? On the other hand, if progressives get the 10 or so more seats in the house needed to become the majority of the Democrat party, they can then pick the speaker candidate for the party and set the party agenda. If the party is in the majority, that speaker could pick committee members and introduce whatever bills they wanted. Getting 10-15 more seats within the party would seem to get you a lot closer to your goal than even 100 seats as a third party. No? What Jimmy is suggesting would benefit Republicans most. Many things he does benefits Republicans most. You're listening to his words and not paying attention to who his actions actually benefit.
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  5444.  @2727rogers  Anyone who voted Republican, because Democrats let them down, sure as hell didn't have M4A as a priority. And it wouldn't be enough to add significantly more progressive seats. Plenty came back, or came out of the non voter woodwork, to vote psycho Dumpty out of office, to get the current seating, which is what I used as my example. Yeah, the senate shouldn't exist, and the 1930s bill that froze the number of house seats also froze the number of electorals, which has made the electoral college increasingly disproportionate, all of which benefits the right, already giving them more power than they deserve. Drastically splitting the votes, while they remain united and have those added benefits (as well as gerrymandering), would be political suicide. Canada also shouldn't have a senate, btw. It's like still having an unelected house of lords.
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  5445.  @SuperweedmanGrows  According to socialblade, Sam's channel has had 9.57m views over the past 30 days, while Dore's has had 5.01m. Sam also has more subscribers. As usual, a Dore knob spewing bullshit.
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  5446.  @iheartlreoy8134  Yeah, I know.
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  5447. Just like voting, this year's exit polls are heavily skewed.
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  5448. ​ @eraldylli  Wtf are you on about? She didn't create the conservatorship.
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  5449. While not listing all the ways the Republican party is corrupt, and denying it's corrupt?
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  5450. Umm, Harris has admitted that Nawaz was the one that changed his mind about there being a singular Islam ... years after arguing with Affleck. Of course, he hasn't gone back and said that many of his earlier critics, including Affleck, were right.
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  5451. "Nawaz took some time to convince me — But through this keyhold aperture he finally led me to see that there is no true Islam. Islam does not have a pope, etc. …. Such and such a rule or understanding doesn’t apply to all Muslims throughout all time." ^That's a different position than he pulled on Affleck, who rightly questioned him on being a singular voice for Islam, when Sam pretended he knew the one true proper interpretation of Islam.
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  5452. @𝓛𝓸𝓼𝓽 𝓲𝓷 𝓗𝓮𝓪𝓿𝓮𝓷 Yeah, he'll never go around saying that his many critics were right to criticize him.
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  5453. Yes, let's ignore that there's a recanvass set for the 16th, and that the associated press won't declare a winner.
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  5454.  @Ammiad  Nope.
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  5455.  @JoellePeters-ej5nh  Does this sound peaceful? Likud's platform: "The Right of the Jewish People to the Land of Israel (Eretz Israel) a. The right of the Jewish people to the land of Israel is eternal and indisputable and is linked with the right to security and peace; therefore, Judea and Samaria will not be handed to any foreign administration; between the Sea and the Jordan there will only be Israeli sovereignty. b. A plan which relinquishes parts of western Eretz Israel, undermines our right to the country, unavoidably leads to the establishment of a "Palestinian State," jeopardizes the security of the Jewish population, endangers the existence of the State of Israel. and frustrates any prospect of peace."
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  5456.  @JoellePeters-ej5nh  So, do you condemn Likud? Or are you a hypocrite?
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  5457.  @JoellePeters-ej5nh  You clearly are spinning things from a particular narrative.
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  5458. Yang's plan to not actually tax giant corporations, and making them and the super rich even richer? Why?
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  5459.  Jefe Anson  A bunch of bullshit. Anyone educated knows that other developed countries have more safety nets, more government healthcare regulation, and fewer fat and unhealthy people. Their healthcare systems are cheaper and get better results. Your "education" has also failed in teaching you what a "fascist" is. This is the Dore crowd? Right wing nutters?
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  5460.  @ChollieD  Hey, there were a few black slave owners, I guess enslaving black people isn't racist. Hey, there were a few Jews who joined the Nazis, I guess tossing Jews into ovens isn't racist. Hey, some natives helped colonialists, I guess ethnic cleansing isn't racist. Etc. Point being that, even with the worst, most extreme forms of racism, you could find some supporters of that race on the side of the racism. Your line of argument doesn't even come close to proving someone isn't a racist. Also, Latino and Hispanic are cultural groupings. There are native, black, white, and mixes there of, amongst Latinos and Hispanics. Finding yourself a bunch of Ted Cruzes to support you sure as hell isn't evidence you're not racist. Aside from that, the most obvious is that, since a recent Pew survey showed similar support as 2016 (Trump 8% black, 29% Hispanic), that suggests more black and Hispanic Democrats didn't vote, rather than suggesting Trump has won over large percentages.
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  5461.  @ken-nf2eg  Peru has the most covid deaths per capita on the planet, and one of the highest ivermectin uses.
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  5462.  @zulublack1212  Bernie had the support of the majority of young black voters. Plenty of his policies would have benefited black Americans most, due to higher percentages living in poverty. You seem to prefer tone over substance.
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  5463. The movies that had Luke Skywalker in them?
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  5464. Who the hell is Yaqub?
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  5465.  @nappel6496  You didn't answer my question. Childcare workers are paid shit. You're spouting nonsense. https://www.epi.org/publication/child-care-workers-arent-paid-enough-to-make-ends-meet/
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  5466.  @sergeikhripun  Idiot. It was Republicans Jimmy predicted were less corrupt than they are, claiming that they'd join Democrats in voting against the Trump agenda, and wouldn't follow him into overt fascism.
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  5467.  @NeveauRock  Can't get much further right than promoting far right ancap Boogaloos.
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  5468.  @user-zf3mb2rh9n  Google: "Reflections of a Jamaican Father", look at the pictures of Donald's grandmothers. Tell me which one is wt.
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  5469.  @DemocratsAgentsOfCarnage  He didn't say there were "fine people" at a rally held by David Duke, and the like?
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  5470.  @DemocratsAgentsOfCarnage  Then who were the "fine people", on the other side, attending a wt sprmcst rally (that's what it was)?
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  5471.  @DB-sd3cw  Conservative religious types have been cancelling things and people for centuries, dumb dumb. There's still an actual government agency protecting their delicate sensibilities from naughty words and nipples.
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  5472.  @shaneyd1986  It's called human nature. People across the world, and throughout time, have tried to rid themselves of things or behavior they have a strong dislike for. The hypocrites are the ones complaining about cancelling, in general, while practicing it. Arguing against the reasons given for cancelling a thing or person is different than just whining about the cancelling.
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  5473.  @jacobgarcia4188  Rofl. Almost every Jimmy idea benefits Republicans the most.
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  5474. Not voting Bernie is just incredibly selfish to me, and not even based on any "principles". What did Biden voters even put above actual suffering?
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  5475.  @jsmyth024  Trump has done nothing but ride a wave. The economy has been rising on the same trajectory, since 2009. The unemployment rate has been dropping on the same trajectory, as well. https://www.macrotrends.net/1316/us-national-unemployment-rate
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  5476. *found
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  5477.  @mimzyjinx8142  You're spewing nonsense.
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  5478.  @kennethcadwell2124  Religious texts can be interpreted, dimwit. Plenty of Muslims read parts you're referring to only as defensive. It takes them less interpretation than you. The Bible is a much worse book.
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  5479. Palestinians lived in Palestine, not any of those other countries. That's like saying, early on, that there were plenty of other Native American tribes, so it's okay to ethnically cleanse this one.
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  5480. ​ @andyj845  What don't you morons grasp? Whether a virus was natural or from a lab, makes no difference to how to respond to a virus. Dumpty had one of the worst responses in the world. Also, if you want to open the US government (Fauci wasn't working as a private citizen) to worldwide lawsuits, please provide the evidence of a lab leak. I want to join that class action lawsuit.
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  5481.  @2ndtonone1000  An "actual journalist" would know that there's no such thing as free speech rights on someone else's private property. An actual leftist journalist would then point out that public ownership would provide free speech rights.
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  5482.  @MichaelSmith-fj7di  The electoral college isn't inherently disproportionate. It was the freezing of the number of house seats, in 1929, that has made it increasingly disproportionate. You get as many electorals as you have house seats. Repeal that 1929 act, and you can assign more seats to higher population states, which would likely be more Democrat seats, which would give them more electorals, and have a president elected more closely to majority vote.
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  5483.  @zaffo757  The allies were all paying their share of NATO, as calculated, just like they were supposed to. What he did was threaten them to raise their non NATO defense budgets, which should have nothing to do with the US. Allies includes the people of those countries, and most Germans would be happy to see American troops pull out, and take their nukes with them. The opinions of the US went down, in almost every allied country.
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  5484.  @ingsoc_8295  Rofl. Ok, without you using mental gymnastics, explain how thinking that congresswomen of colour must have come from different countries (3 out of 4 were born in the US), thinking that you have more right to criticize the country, and call for change, than citizens of colour (all 4 are citizens), and telling them to "go back" and fix their own countries (again, 3 of 4 were born in the US, and 1's ancestry is even Puerto Rican ... the moron thinks Puerto Rico is another country) first, isn't racist.
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  5485.  @Quonjack  There is so much bipartisan support for Isrl in congress, that they could pass whatever aid they wanted and overrule any presidential vetoes. Third parties trying for the top position, with no presence in congress, are pointless.
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  5486.  @crooked52h  What has Jimmy been right about?
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  5487.  @crooked52h  How many votes does a governor get in congress, on an M4A bill?
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  5488.  @crooked52h  Shove the bullshit. The Civil Rights Act had a majority support. A minority filibuster ran out one session, it was reintroduced, filibustered for 50+ more days, and then passed. Women's suffrage, also had majority support. Problem was is that a constitutional amendment needed super majority support. It passed the house with supermajority numbers, and only fell 2 votes short of supermajority in the senate. Most of the work getting numbers for those bills was done before they were introduced. M4A is almost 100 votes short in the house alone. AOC just used her platform and PAC to help add even more M4A yes votes to congress. If that doesn't count as fighting for it, then Doreknob's own plan is to have a failed vote and not fight, because that's exactly the same thing you'd have to do after a failed vote.
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  5489.  Matti Hänninen  Did your education teach you that Israel is a colonizing power, which is ethnic cleansing the native population onto smaller and smaller reserves? Old Zionists used to be honest about it. https://www.jewishvirtuallibrary.org/quot-the-iron-wall-quot
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  5490.  @Psykroids  Cultists can't change their mind.
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  5491. Numerous human rights groups, NGOs like doctors without borders, independent investigators, dozens of healthcare workers, hundreds of victims, have reported on what amounts to possibly hundreds of chemical weapons attacks, since 2013. Why would he assume there'd be major international backlash, when there hadn't been all along?
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  5492.  @sherylgoodman2134  Pence can go ahead and pardon him for a crime that only has a 90 day max. An impeachment case can also vote to disqualify him from holding office again. Trump wouldn't be able to run for a second term. Then, once Pence is out, hit Trump with all the major stuff.
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  5493.  @outtarespecttomyfawtha1589  Stop spamming bullshit.
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  5494.  @gnubbiersh647  He called chess a game of "perfect objectivity". Someone subjectively decided to make a game, decided on the pieces, decided how they'd move, decided on the board, and on any special moves. There is nothing objectively wrong with using alternate rules, or an alternate board (Star Trek chess). Even once all that is decided, there's nothing objectively wrong with letting your opponent beat you (maybe let your kid win once in awhile so they don't get frustrated). Harris has a very slim grasp on philosophy basics, like objectivity and subjectivity. A game, with a book of rules, is analogous to laws (book of laws), not morality. And, sometimes we decide laws themselves are immoral/wrong.
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  5495.  @gnubbiersh647  He again doesn't seem to grasp subjectivity vs objectivity, when fear mongering about AI. While there are definitely things to worry about, when it comes to AI, Sam completely misses the mark. He prattled on about how a far superior AI might set its own goals, that conflict with human goals. He has watched too much sci-fi, and isn't talking reality. There's absolutely zero evidence we can ever create an AI, with its own top tier subjectivity. AI can only operate within the parameters set by its human programmers, so can't possibly deviate from all human goals. We do need to worry about those programmers' goals, however.
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  5496.  @MissBlueEyeliner  Puerto Rico is a US territory, rather than state. Still part of the US though.
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  5497. No. They're more like a community clubhouse with a newspaper/magazine rack, and a community bulletin board. They don't publish the newspapers or magazines, and they don't publish what people are sticking up on the bulletin board. But, they have every right to take down whatever they don't want posted on the bulletin board, in their clubhouse. They also have every right to pick and choose what magazines and newspapers they want to order, to put on their rack. If you don't like it, go to some other clubhouse.
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  5498. Bernie/Turner 2021-2028, Turner/AOC 2029-2036, AOC/? 2037-2044 ...
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  5499.  ArchAingeal   Why'd you delete your reply? Let's keep going and see if you can hit the bottom of the stupidity barrel. "Multiculturalism, the view that cultures, races, and ethnicities, particularly those of minority groups, deserve special acknowledgement of their differences within a dominant political culture." https://www.britannica.com/topic/multiculturalism
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  5500. So, during the Great Depression and Jim Crow, one of the worst periods in American history.
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  5501.  @patrickbooth5091  Fascists were still fascists before they had full powers, you dumbass. Hitler was still a Nazi before the Enabling Act, you stupid shit.
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  5502. If it wasn't for that damn curve, I'd be able to see all the way down the hall to the exit.
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  5503. That is not a "solid point", from anyone who worships a sexless god being, who identifies with masculine pronouns. The Abrahamic religions have basically been saying, for thousands of years, that gender terminology doesn't have to match biological sex.
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  5504.  @justapatsy8601  Native Brits have likely been a minority in London since the Anglo-Saxons moved in, followed by Vikings and Normans. Wales is where you find people who are more genetically native Brit. South East is the least native Brit.
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  5505.  @embedded_software  Don't throw your hands up in the air about tax loopholes that allow giant corporations and the super rich to avoid taxes. Close the loopholes. And, find alternative ways to tax them directly, like Bernie's Wall Street tax or Warren's wealth tax. Yang's plan, as is, will actually benefit giant corporations and the super rich.
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  5506.  @embedded_software  Well, Sanders' is like a sales tax on Wall Street. It would be as unavoidable as the VAT, but the consumers, in that case are 84% the top 10%, 50% the top 1%. Corporations doing buybacks would also have to pay it. Someone might be able to avoid Warren's wealth tax by redirecting anything over $50m through charities, but that would still cut down on hoarding. A VAT doesn't affect hoarding, at all, it also doesn't tax giant corporations at all, which is why, when mixed with the UBI, it would end up benefiting giant corporations and the super rich.
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  5507.  @embedded_software  A VAT doesn't end up taxing the producers. It taxes the consumers. http://money.com/money/5054009/stock-ownership-10-percent-richest/
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  5508. Lol, congress has always had the power to impeach. Was Clinton's impeachment Republican "cancel culture"? Were 10 Benghazi investigations, looking for wrongdoing to blame on Obama and Clinton, "cancel culture"? It's a stupid point.
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  5509.  @ragingbull94mtx  Trump ran on fixing the economy, as well as his other bullshit, and "they" (FOX and guests), jumped on the Trump bandwagon. Instead of pointing at the "record high", a mostly meaningless statement, they'd point at the slow recovery rate. Obama's last budget ran through most of Trump"s first year in office. Since Trump's first budget, his tax cuts kicking in, and the start of his trade wars, the stock market has almost flatlined, but now they go on about the "record high". They're partisan hacks, not newspeople.
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  5510. The US has one of the worst deaths to confirmed cases ratios in the world. You're currently at about a 7% death rate, twice the 3.4% average.
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  5511.  @sandracampbell9822  Actually, you can prove most negatives, because most can be turned into positives. You prove he is not an idiot by proving he is fairly intelligent. Difficult task, to be sure.
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  5512.  @Addamo  Really? A dozen seditious conspiracy charges, and you're still playing the ... but was it an insurrection ... game? What's ironic about the Dems passing their own budget? Isn't that what tends to happen? AOC voted against the individual state department and defense department appropriation bills. She didn't vote against funding healthcare, housing, education, veteran's benefits, SNAP, SSI, etc., if that's what you're moronically looking for. The Capitol Hill police bill was amended in the senate and made bipartisan. It passed with large bipartisan support, and came back for a house vote. AOC actually voted against the final version of that bill, as well, but it passed with overwhelming support.
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  5513.  @smartass0124  Rofl, I haven't said either of those things. You, on the other hand, claimed Trump didn't have a cult ... no, you moronically claimed it was the complete opposite of a cult. You're dumber than a stump, or a Trump.
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  5514.  @andrewwells6323  Regression would be going back to the Victorian or Gilded Ages, when governments provided fewer social safety nets, fewer environmental and safety standards, etc. Or, going back to the western frontier, which had somewhat of an ancap environment, with little government oversight, that devolved into feudalism.
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  5515.  @guiagaston7273  Oh right, right, you were doing that super effective zero probability of succeeding thing, rather than doing nothing.
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  5516.  @guiagaston7273  I said promoted as the better option. Jimmy Dore video: "Hillary Presidency Worse For Progressives & America Than Trump" I don't have to explain that saying Hillary is worse is just the reverse wording of saying Trump is better, do I?
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  5517.  @malachiromero6077  How do you win against the Supreme Court? They're judges. Ben doesn't even grasp the first amendment and has lost at least one "free speech" case.
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  5518. He's an old MSM guy who helped create the illusion that Democrats are "left" and Republicans are "right", when in reality Democrats are just slightly left of Republicans. One is right and the other is far right.
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  5519. Don't remember her making any solid points after. I do remember her getting paid to join Rumble, which is funded by Peter Thiel, mega MAGA donor and spy software billionaire.
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  5520. Even if Pete and Amy don't get further, they can hand off their delegates to Biden or Bloomberg, which is a problem. Bernie needs more turnout, and/or for Warren or Biden to drop out (a plurality of both of their supporters pick Bernie as their second choice).
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  5521.  @nappel6496  Total population is irrelevant to polling stations per capita, dumbass.
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  5522.  @iller3  He seemed to be trying to imply that there's some contradiction between what comes before the "but" and after. There's not.
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  5523.  Derek Hitt  Corporations tend to be privately owned and operated. In what reality is that anything other than a form of capitalism? Nazis were fascists. Mussolini defined fascism as the complete opposite of anarchism, the original socialist kind. The complete opposite of a non authoritarian socialism is an authoritarian capitalism. You're trying to define "capitalism" as some narrow position, rather than a broad category. Ancap environments have devolved into feudalism, with large landowners making the rules for living on what they claim is their private property. Has your teenie tiny zero authoritarian "capitalism" position ever existed anywhere?
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  5524.  Derek Hitt  And, literally, threw socialists, communists, and unionists, into camps first ... were, literally, backed by leading industrialists, who owned large privately owned and operated businesses ... literally, killed off any prominent left leaning members of their own party on the Night of the Long Knives ... were, literally, leaders in privatization ... so not actually socialists. Your turn, how are 100% privately owned and operated corporations, not capitalistic? Your definition of "capitalism" doesn't sound like it has ever existed anywhere.
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  5525.  Derek Hitt  A dispute over fencing and water access, isn't automatically theft and vandalism. The violence and vandalism was part of resolving things privately. So, instead of resolving things privately, you want the government making decisions about who can and can't build fences, and whether someone has to give someone else access to water, so they don't resolve things privately? You want the government making rulings that can benefit one party over another, economically.
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  5526.  Derek Hitt  What the ... ?! You're the one trying to argue capitalism comes in only one perfect non authoritarian, no government involvement, brand.
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  5527.  Derek Hitt  So, yes, you're in favor of the government making a judgement, that could benefit one party over another, economically. You don't actually think capitalism has zero government involvement.
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  5528.  Derek Hitt  Don't those often include legal agreements ... that you want the government ruling on? You're incoherent.
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  5529.  Total Water  Even conservative governments, and conservative citizens, in plenty of countries, have followed covid guidelines, and they've worked. Australia's covid deaths per million rate would translate into about 26k total covid deaths, in the US, instead of 826k. Republicans are the ones who politicized covid guidelines.
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  5530.  @mp22893  Where has he criticized Russia aiding in Syria's defense, or criticized Russia invading Ukraine (or any of the other former Soviet states it has been f*cking around in, since 1991)? He has criticized helping those former Soviet states, which would allow Russia to do whatever it wanted.
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  5531.  @mp22893  Trying to make sense of it, in my head, but I still don't understand how criticizing fighting against Russian aggression, isn't a defense of Russian aggression. If everyone listens to you, and nobody helps fight against it, that allows them to do it all they want, no?
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  5532. ​ @pocket83squared  You opened with much strawmanning. I do believe in pure objectivity, and do believe there can be a reasonable basis for values ("reasonable" doesn't equate to objective). I'm pretty sure empiricism can handle providing objective evidence of a floor. What's the empirical, objective, evidence that I ought to value X? There is none. Valuing X entirely relies on caring (subjectivity) about X. "X is suffering" ... So what? Irrelevant, unless you care (subjectivity) about X suffering. So, everyone who eats meat, including Sam, is objectively immoral? Everyone who justifies b.mbing civilians, including Sam, is objectively immoral? Everyone who justifies t.rture, including Sam, is objectively immoral? Then you go on about religion. Even a god's morality would be based on subjectivity, it's own subjective likes and dislikes. Absolutely nobody has ever made a valid case for objective morality.
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  5533. You have much higher odds of surviving a car ride. There are still seatbelt laws, drinking and driving laws, and speed limits, that reduce those odds.
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  5534.  @LesterBrunt  *reduce the odds of dying.
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  5535. Ummm, the US helped build it, and US companies can produce them ... "In July 2014 it was announced that Raytheon would be the major U.S. partner in co-production of major components for the Iron Dome's Tamir intercepting missile. The U.S. firm will supply components through various subcontractors.[53] Rafael and Raytheon had teamed to offer the Iron Dome launcher and Tamir interceptor, known as SkyHunter in the U.S., to the U.S. Army as part of its Indirect Fires Protection Capability (IFPC) system, but Dynetics was instead chosen offering a launcher based on the Multi-Mission Launcher firing the AIM-9X Sidewinder.[54]"
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  5536.  @jakes658  Rogan is now getting paid by a large corporation, whose largest shareholders are even larger corporations. He is MSM, at this point. He didn't actually say it was a mistake to have repeatedly debunked people on. He literally argued it was just fine, and spewed a bunch of bullshit to try and support platforming them. Plenty of other MSM people should also be deplatformed. Who said they shouldn't?
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  5537.  @danialhillmann5374  Facts? Like the fact that the 3 wealthiest Americans own as much wealth as the bottom 50%. Those 3, alone, should be paying as much total taxes as the bottom 50%.
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  5538.  @DubhghlasMacDubhghlas  American cosplayers, who have been plumped up on McDonalds, aren't the Taliban.
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  5539. ​ @boojeboy1  You cultists would claim Charles Manson only used his free speech, and didn't murder anyone, so shouldn't be locked up.
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  5540. ​ @Ebikelover  No. You're brainwashed by the right wing media, dumb dumb. "A small number of Capitol riot defendants — at least three charged in the federal criminal investigation — have been accused of carrying firearms. But guns weren't the only threat. According to court documents reviewed by CBS News, 39 defendants have been accused of wielding "deadly or dangerous" weapons that weren't firearms, including Tasers, tomahawk axes, crowbars, flagpoles, a knife, an ice axe, a firecracker, a stun gun, baseball bats, fire extinguishers, a wooden club and chemical spray." "The right-wing Oath Keepers militia group was prepared to move a stash of firearms and equipment from a Virginia hotel to rioters on Jan. 6 last year, federal prosecutors said, painting the most detailed portrait yet of the planning the group’s members allegedly undertook as they tried to stop the certification of Joe Biden’s 2020 presidential election win."
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  5541.  @marlenechartrand3699  Every election there is a miniscule percentage of voter fraud. When 150m people have voted, taking a dozen votes to court here, or even a hundred votes there, before conceding, is just wasting people's time. That small crap, that doesn't affect the outcome, is usually dealt with behind the scenes, afterwards. He made the same baseless claim of widespread voter fraud, in 2016, then set up his own election integrity commission. They found nothing of the sort. He proved, himself, that his claim was baseless. He's a proven conman ... proven in court ... and you're falling for his con. You're the little old lady who hands over her social security number.
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  5542.  @marlenechartrand3699  Americans have been going by the AP call since 1948. Certifying states has been seen as simply a formality. Trump accepted the AP call in 2016. He accepted the AP calling states for him on this election day. Ivanka was even congratulating her daddy when the AP called Alaska, just a few days ago. The spoiled brat, and his cult, only don't accept AP calls when they're not for him. It's over.
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  5543.  @marlenechartrand3699  Math says so.
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  5544.  @marlenechartrand3699  You're clinging to nonsense. https://www.cato.org/blog/no-presidential-election-was-not-rigged-hacked-voting-machines
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  5545.  @marlenechartrand3699  Recounts have never swung the votes that far in the other direction, and Georgia still wouldn't give Trump a win.
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  5546.  @marlenechartrand3699  Rofl! The Qanon conspiracy theorist lawyer?
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  5547.  @lilikaramirez1848  <- Claims to not have an ideology ... spouts off the same nonsense as a ton of other conservative religious nuts do.
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  5548.  @samuelmerkel2888  Isn't it "sandwich artists"? And isn't it Shapiro that has said what his mother's job was, not her employer? If you want to argue he's making up a title for his mom, that doesn't actually apply, all the power to you. I'll concede that he's dishonest.
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  5549.  @samuelmerkel2888  And you get that "expert" is a description of skill, not your position in a company, right? An "executive" signifies you're in upper management. You seem to be getting dumber, as we go.
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  5550.  @samuelmerkel2888  That you reading those simple facts and getting the impression that means someone is wealthy, means you do actually know the meaning of the words. You're apparently just trying to be deceitful.
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  5551.  @samuelmerkel2888  Ironic opening, considering your severe reading comprehension problems. I haven't actually stated anywhere that they were wealthy, swimming in money, or anything of the sort. I simply stated facts that don't care about your feelings, and you then started to argue against the meaning of a word that you, yourself, obviously read as meaning a certain position.
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  5552.  @samuelmerkel2888  I simply added factual details, that the other poster left out. You clearly seem to have read those basic facts to mean they were wealthier than the other poster was making out. Why is that? Is it because the word "executive" actually does have meaning, and you were being dishonest to suggest it doesn't?
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  5553.  @samuelmerkel2888  Sure, man. You find out all the details on those things, and then we'll compare it to their incomes. Oh wait, we don't know their incomes, so you're blathering about pointless bullshit. What we do know is that she was a tv executive, he was a composer, and they lived in an area with an above average median income. All simply facts, that still don't care about your feelings.
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  5554.  @samuelmerkel2888  What I replied to was meaningless, without some context of what the full time working mom did, that the stay at home father did also work, and where their house was. Someone might imagine them living in a shack in the poorest part of the country, with his mom mopping floors full time, and his dad providing zero other income.
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  5555. ​​ @franquil85conn  There were dozens of cities that made proposals for that Amazon headquarters. Why isn't anyone slamming all the other ones, that didn't give Amazon enough tax breaks to win the bid?
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  5556. "A slice of every Amazon transaction" A VAT works similar to a sales tax. It is the customers who will be paying 10% more on each Amazon sale. Amazon would just be collecting the tax and passing it along to the government. They would still be paying zero taxes, themselves. Sure, it's a good way to generate federal revenue, but he's lying by saying it's a way to tax Amazon, or other corporations.
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  5557. "The utility of the Qassam rocket design is assumed to be ease and speed of manufacture, using common tools and components. To this end, the rockets are propelled by a solid mixture of sugar and potassium nitrate, a common fertilizer." You want them to run generators on fertilizer?
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  5558.  @mattfarhat4820  Trump fired, or threatened to fire, people who contradicted him. He, literally, encouraged people to beat up protesters. He promoted using the national guard against protesters, and labelled them terrorists. And, conservative religious types have been cancelling things and people for centuries, dumb dumb ... it's not some new phenomena.
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  5559.  Suicide by Muslim  You don't seem to know what an "insurrection" is.
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  5560.  @Mniagmdmah  No. That just makes it less regressive. A $400 VAT on a $4000 night stay at a swanky hotel is still a fraction of a fraction of a percent of what Bezos makes a year. Meanwhile, a $400 VAT on a $4000 used car is a full 2% of the yearly income of someone who makes $20k a year. Consumption taxes are regressive due to the percentage of someone's income that they affect, when paid. You've also exempted the staples for all the rich people. Exempting staples eases the burden but doesn't make it non regressive.
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  5561.  @djatlasmusik  Corporations don't pay the VAT. Yang is wrong about that. A VAT is specifically designed to NOT tax businesses in order to avoid double taxation.
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  5562.  @Taconomnomnom  Mankiw? The one who put forward a 20% income tax/ UBI? That's even dumber than Yang's plan. Bezos only claims $80k a year in income, making billions in stocks. He'd only pay in $16k a year, get $12k back, and have only paid in $4k ... only enough for a third of another person. While someone making only $120k a year would pay $24k, enough for themselves and one other person. Keep appealing to credentials and don't think for yourself.
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  5563. Rofl@"good reputation"
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  5564. Jimmy Dore is correct? So, there's a progressive majority in the house and senate, a progressive president, and the moon fell into Lake Michigan?
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  5565.  @murphyslaw7815  They came prepared, dumb dumb. It was the months of him brainwashing his cult into thinking the election was stolen, not a single speech. You're equating Trump's influence to that of a random unknown dipshit on the interwebs?
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  5566.  @rufusking4012  The country is still running on Dumpty's final budget, just like Dumpty's first, and best, year was Obama's final budget.
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  5567.  @rufusking4012  He didn't open the borders. He didn't shut off working pipelines. And the US is finally out of f*cking Afghanistan. It was moronic to get in an all out war there, against religious extremists, in the first place. That's exactly what the US wanted the USSR to get bogged down doing, and moron Bush turned around and did the exact same thing.
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  5568.  @shoveI  The next guy in line supports Israel, supports letting Russia do to Ukraine what Israel is doing to Palestine, has stated he wants a pledge of allegiance to Israel, has stated he wants to reinstate and expand his Muslim ban, Republican politicians have said Palestine supporters (Omar) who aren't natural born citizens should be deported, etc. You might want to choose a form of public pressure that leads in a different direction.
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  5569.  @shoveI  You're going to get one, or the other, whether you like it, or not. If you think otherwise, then you're not living in reality.
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  5570.  Dragon1717  How about this? Fascist: ultra-nationalist; anti-unionist; anti-anarchist; anti-socialist; anti-communist; anti-democratic (which gerrymandering is); anti-feminist; pro expanding policing; pro expanding military; backed by big business; backed by large landowners; backed by religious leaders; leaders in privatization; ... Nazi: fascist + racist and bigot The first sounds like many Republicans, even some corporate Dems. The second sounds like Dump and many hardcore Dumpsters.
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  5571.  @sergeikhripun  If she told them to campaign for Nina Turner, to try and add another M4A yes vote to congress, then you're arguing Pelosi isn't that bad, dimwit.
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  5572.  @sergeikhripun  How many times have you spammed that other bullshit comment?
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  5573.  @brentnoury7626  But, that wasn't the annual military aid to Israel. That was to rearm what is purely a defensive system. The Iron Dome doesn't kill Palestinians. The annual military aid to Israel is in the State department appropriation bill. Unlike Hinkle dishonestly made out, AOC actually voted against the State Department appropriation bill. What she voted for was the entire annual budget, which includes things like healthcare, education, housing, veteran's benefits, SNAP, SSI, etc. He wasn't really asking her to vote solely against the state department, which she had already done. He was asking her to vote against everything. She also voted against the defense appropriation bill. She also voted against the final version of the Capitol Hill police bill (it was amended in the senate and came back). She has actually voted against most of the things he wanted her to vote against. Dore knobs are dishonest.
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  5574.  @jaccl4539  You keep spouting the garbage in multiple threads. Name a single thing Manchin has done, that the squad hasn't done. Be specific, not your falling on a sword abstract gibberish.
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  5575.  Spok  Oh geez. "Pure socialism" would be 100% publicly owned and operated businesses, economic equality for all, and a complete end to capitalism. That doesn't even describe Venezuela, let alone Bernie or Denmark. You're a moron.
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  5576. ​ @InVinoVeratas  Nzs were only a plurality party.
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  5577. "Collusion" isn't a crime, because that's not a legal term. The legal term would be "conspiring"... which it it.
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  5578.  @AG-lm5uf  She wasn't his boss, dimwitted Dore knob.
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  5579.  @Deepstatedebate  Aren't you Dore knobs the ones watching someone who fabricates sections of articles? Might want to check which one is living in a distorted reality.
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  5580.  Illhan Omar's Brother  Sam has more views than you, you being here means your jealous.
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  5581.  @nobrkes  Feudalism is a bunch of private property owners running around doing whatever the hell they liked. It fits in anarcho-capitalism, completely unfettered capitalism.
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  5582.  @nobrkes  That was gibberish.
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  5583.  @sallyjackson8129  Mexico has a 5.5% death rate, you stupid shit.
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  5584. @gerardflynn7382  I know.
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  5585. Weird how the first one out, and most effective one, didn't get any funding from Dumpty, and was developed in Germany. But ... Yay Trump!???
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  5586.  @James-gq4tb  Nope. You're just factually wrong. When the Hamas attack happened, David acted like they were the ones that started something.
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  5587. Australia's covid death rate would translate into about 20k total US covid deaths, instead of going on 800k, ffs.
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  5588.  @mattl7424  Seriously, this sex vs gender thing isn't that hard to grasp, dumb dumb. Have you ever said something like "Isn't she a beaut!", about a car or boat? Or, do you believe in a formless, penisless, super being, and still refer to it as "he" or "father"?
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  5589.  @meganalves9967  Israel is objectively the aggressor, by every relevant measure ... Modern history: 100 years ago, in 1923, Ze'ev Jabotinsky fully acknowledged that Zionism is colonialism, and that, based on the entirety of history, the natives would fight it until the bitter end. He just didn't care what would happen to them, and promoted doing it anyway. Colonizers are never not the aggressors. On top of the colonialist nature of Zionism, the Zionists also formed terrorist organizations, like the Irgun and Lehi. They bombed many Palestinian markets and other public places, murdering many civilians, including children, even including Palestinian Jews (who opposed Zionism). Israel merged those terrorists into the new nation's military and intelligence agencies. Israelis elected Menachem Begin, leader of the Irgun, child murderer, Jew murderer, and bomber of the King David Hotel, as PM. Israelis, to this day, celebrate those terrorists as "heroes". Zionists literally taught their neighbours that terrorism is a valid path to independence and statehood, and that terrorists are to be celebrated. In 1945, it is well documented that Zionists owned just 5% of the land and were a majority nowhere. Israel was formed by actually going against the majority population. It's foundation is completely undemocratic. Then, becoming a majority, in "their" new nation, by ethnic cleansing the actual majority, and then claiming to be democratic, is utter nonsense. Law: Israel is considered an occupier by the International Court, the UN GA, and the UN SC. Occupiers are also never not the aggressors. Those occupied actually have a right to resist occupation. On the flip side, it is illegal for the occupier to settle occupied lands, and illegal to use collective punishment. Israel is a rogue nation, that doesn't abide by international law. What it has been doing, and is doing now, is illegal. Current events: This year, alone, prior to Oct 7 ... Israel held over 1200 Palestinian hostages without charges ... over 200 Palestinians had been killed by the IDF and settlers ... over 1000 Palestinians had been displaced by Israel's neverending colonization of the West Bank ... and, Israel continued to operate an open air WWII style fascist ghetto, in Gaza. Even ignoring modern history and law, in no reality did Hamas "start" anything.
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  5590.  @B.White70  What's wrong with saying "We don't know", if there's zero evidence to support a belief? A place existing is no more evidence of a magical event actually happening than New York in the Avengers movie is proof of superheroes.
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  5591.  @bloui1033  You're kind of incoherent. You told me you weren't using the unfair treatment definition, but then told others it's unfair treatment. If it's simply recognizing a difference, what's wrong with, at minimum, recognizing that women have been drastically underrepresented in the supreme court, for over two centuries, and are currently underrepresented, 6-3. There will be legal cases, that specifically deal with women's issues. In fact, odds are, there will be more legal cases dealing specifically with women's issues than specifically with men's issues.
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  5592. At best, you split off progressive votes from the Dem party, and let Republicans rule for decades. At worst, you remain as irrelevant as the 50 year old Libertarian party, or 20 year old Green party.
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  5593.  @kenetickups6146  So, the corporate Dems who have been replaced wanted Justice Dems and AOC to replace them? Weird. AOC was on the ground campaigning for Nina Turner, trying to add another M4A yes vote to congress. So, was the DNC against Nina Turner, or was AOC working for the DNC to support Nina Turner, in your conspiracy?
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  5594.  @kenetickups6146  Even the broader progressive caucus doesn't have the majority of the Dem caucus needed to pick a different party speaker, "hun". Who was she supposed to vote for? Oh yeah, bought and paid to campaign for Nina Turner, to try and oust the DNC backed candidate. Makes total sense.
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  5595.  @moestietabarnak  There's a difference between not backing a bill, and voting for the Republican's speaker candidate. Who is it you think would do that?
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  5596.  @countmein33  He's a lawyer. He was actually invited to join the board, after the company had some legal issues.
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  5597.  @countmein33  His business partner, Archer, had already joined the board a bit before him. That likely had something to do with it.
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  5598. You know the followers of the fascist you thought would be good for progressives are trying to stage a coup, yeah?
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  5599. These insecure man babies, who can only feel "strong" by putting down others, are the furthest thing from "masculine".
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  5600. Wouldn't "far left extremism" have made it illegal for him to have a firearm? This is simply "a fact of life", in a permit less carry state.
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  5601. Hey, let's just spew out all kinds of crap, that we don't know if they actually do, or not ... golf club memberships, season tickets to Disney, spa days, ...
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  5602.  @susieedwinson1175  He has had 3 days to produce the supposed "damaging" evidence, but nothing.
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  5603. Early 20th century Zionists weren't shy about calling themselves colonialists, and the Palestinians natives. Colonialists are never not the aggressors, when it comes to the natives. They just argued their colonialism was "just". Modern Zionists are simply cowards, about who they are.
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  5604.  Adam Lanza  No.
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  5605.  Adam Lanza  No, you're wrong. At least not the way you clearly "think" it does.
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  5606. All well and good in a void, but the US has an even further right party of outright fascists, that tried to overthrow the democratic process to install themselves an unelected dictator. Vote for progressives in the primaries. If they don't make it, vote to keep the fascists out in the general. Splitting the progressive voters from more conservative Dem voters, in the general, would just let Republicans rule for decades to come, and wouldn't give progressives any more power. In fact, it would give them less power. As is, progressives only need to become the majority of the party, to pick the party speaker candidate, and take the party in the direction they want. As a third party, they'd have to win the majority of congress, to have any power.
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  5607.  @zeeone4492  If the broader progressive caucus isn't puritan enough for you, Justice Dems, who have been at it only 4 years, have replaced about a dozen corporate Dems. Even starting with that low number is extremely better than the third party route, which hasn't won the most popular third party a single seat in 50 years.
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  5608.  @zeeone4492  Bullshit
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  5609.  @handsuporillshoot381  Yeah, that's not the "defunding" argument, dumb dumb. Just say "Hi, I'm stupid!", next time you post, and save some effort.
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  5610.  @Maxmaxmax63  Yes, I do. Is a game, with a rulebook (chess), analogous to morality or laws (hint: laws are rules to live by)?
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  5611.  @Maxmaxmax63  The maid. Care to answer my question? Sam got it wrong.
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  5612.  @gnubbiersh647  Well, I gave my tl:dr answer, first, and you asked again. No, I fault Sam for spewing absolute nonsense.
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  5613.  @nazztynatenugglife5891  Rofl.
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  5614. Looks like their other option is going to be one who forgets his own name.
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  5615. Oh fuck off. Peterson is a pseudoscientific prick. He claimed his daughter's meat only diet got rid of all his mental and physical health problems. Either he was lying then or he's lying now. Peterson is the joke, not the mental health or addiction problems.
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  5616.  @CV-fb9kf  Adding yes votes is actually doing a thing. Sitting in your garage bitching, isn't.
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  5617.  @CV-fb9kf  Do you think getting a 100% guaranteed to fail performance art vote would be an accomplishment? If so, why? What would you get from it?
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  5618.  @CV-fb9kf  And then replace them and add more yes votes to congress, exactly like AOC and Justice Dems, are doing already?
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  5619.  @fatbachelors3922  Make them explain why they won't sign onto the bill. Make them explain why they've openly campaigned against it. What the hell are you Dore knobs waiting for? Slandering people who have done more for M4A in a few years than Dore has in his entire lifetime, is moronic.
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  5620. For $44b, Musk could have bought every US homeless family a $100k house, but instead wanted to be dictator of Twitter.
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  5621.  @ramarblood7697  You think there would be zero botched gun shots? Even people putting guns directly to their own heads screw up killing themselves.
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  5622.  @user-jy7yw5kw3w  How can you invest it, when you have to use it to pay for things others don't have to pay for? Upward mobility is actually much harder in the US than Denmark. https://www.visualcapitalist.com/ranked-the-social-mobility-of-82-countries/
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  5623.  @jpbm1873  M4A is, literally, 100+ votes short in the house alone, has even less support as a percentage of the senate, and a president who said he'd veto it. Any of you Dore knobs who thought it had even the slightest chance of passing are completely delusional.
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  5624.  @brothersandsistersofvalhalla  Don't think so. Your "if" suggests a certain interpretation.
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  5625.  King Charles ✔  Next to nothing that's considered a loonie conspiracy ever comes true. Not sure if you listed even 1.
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  5626.  King Charles ✔  You're not actually telling anyone anything. Nobody thought it was a conspiracy that he owned an island. What, specifically, about Epstein's Island did someone claim was a conspiracy, that has come true? Wasn't it Republican, and Trump crony, Alexander Acosta, who made the shit plea deal with Epstein? Wasn't it news outlets, like the Guardian and NYT, which right wingers consider "leftist", that reported on Julie Brown's investigation? Who, and what, are you talking about? What email has been proven to show Biden corruption? Who was Kyle supposedly talking about? Who said there's no way you'd ever need more than two shots, and that it'd be over in two weeks?
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  5627.  King Charles ✔  And? There's been zero evidence to show otherwise. The Arizona audit even found more votes for Biden. Trump voters have been the ones charged with election fraud. All it has gotten the right wing loons spreading the bullshit is defamation lawsuits.
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  5628.  King Charles ✔  No. It only audited Maricopa county, and there were about 500k fewer votes than registered voters. You're lying. You've been watching too much OANN. The election lies led to Republicans trying to overthrow the democratic process, and cultists storming the Capitol, to try and install an unelected dictator, ffs. Yeah, that's not normal. Clinton conceded the night of the election. Zero Democratic lawmakers tried to overthrow the democratic process. No Clinton cultists stormed the Capitol to try and overthrow the democratic process. Nothing anyone has been arrested for was used in Republican Mueller's investigation, which indicted 19 Russians, and 3 Russian companies, for election interference (completely different than election fraud). His report provided some 200 pagrs of information sharing (collusion), that didn't amount to criminal conspiracy, and only didn't charge Jr and Kushner with criminal conspiracy because it said it would be hard to show they "willfully" broke the law, not because they didn't break the law. The FBI, under Trump, said Russia was interfering again, in 2020. Thinking that the DNC, the FBI (run by Republicans for 6 of the last 10 presidential terms), the Republican lead investigator, Republicans like Romney, and Australian officials, were all in cahoots to make Mike Pence president, is a loonie conspiracy.
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  5629.  @bravesirkevin  So, I'm not allowed to express my displeasure, if a company is platforming things I don't like. A racist, for example, who doesn't respect minority rights can spew whatever bullshit they want, but I can't tell the company that I don't want to hear their bullshit, or I'm the one violating their rights? You're basically saying I don't have a right to speak my mind. Aren't you now violating my human rights?
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  5630.  @bravesirkevin  You seem to be moving the boyfriend into the position of the publisher, or whatnot, and giving him the ability to outright stop her from associating with someone else, completely against her will, rather than simply giving her an ultimatum, and letting her choose. If she's the one making the decision, and he's the one giving an ultimatum, then she's the publisher. She's the one with the power to make the final decision. You seem to be ignoring that she could choose to keep the friend and ditch the boyfriend. You're trying to deny his right to say "it's me or them". You're trying to deny his right to not want to associate with the other person she has brought into his life, allowed into the space he's in. You've also repeatedly agreed that it's okay to give an ultimatum, with every example I've given that includes what you agree is a valid reason to do so. Which, again, means your "analogy" could only come anywhere close to actually being analogous if there was absolutely zero valid reason for giving the ultimatum. Who decides that? And, the whole point of bringing up the Dixie Chicks, was to point out hypocrisy. Those pro war nationalist right wingers made out like they had a valid reason for trying to cancel the Dixie Chicks, and now many of those same people are crying about "cancel culture", as if cancelling is always wrong. You seemed to be straddling that same hypocrisy line, where you agree to cancelling if you agree with the reasons, but we're still trying your damnedest to make out like cancelling, in general, is "abuse". Again, who is asking for people to be cancelled for absolutely zero reason? It's not really a thing, right? So, you are determining that reasons you agree with are valid reasons to cancel, and reasons you don't agree with are "abuse". You need to be arguing against specific reasons, arguing why you think it's wrong for those reasons, and give up making out like it's always wrong, because you already completely failed in that department.
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  5631.  Derek Hitt  Ugh, no. Fascists were leaders in privatization. You're probably confusing their war economies, where governments in all countries took more control, dictating what needed to be produced for the war effort, for their standard economies.
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  5632.  @OPgamingstyle  The military is young. Only 36% have children. They like Vance calling them "sociopaths", saying they don't have a stake in the country, saying they should get less of a vote, saying they should pay more taxes, etc.?
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  5633. Well, at least there are lakes that make that a possibility. It's better than morons like Ben Shapiro thinking you can simply sell sunken property.
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  5634.  @namename-qb5xe  The "credible journalist" who has joined Jimmy's anti-vax grift, and spewed bullshit about the completely socialized UK healthcare system, that "real" lefties, like him and Jimmy, are supposed to be in favor of?
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  5635. The poverty rate for the US black population was at 60% before the civil right movement. It's now down to 30%. Still too high, but a 100% improvement.
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  5636.  @gary_stavropoulos  The government is providing tax funded stuff, which they gain the most benefit from, but for which they don't pay an amount proportional to the benefit they receive. That is the equivalent of handing them tax payer money.
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  5637.  @gary_stavropoulos  Nope. I'm saying they shouldn't be allowed to dodge paying for it, or be allowed to pass the buck. You know ... pay their fair share, instead of leaching off the rest of us.
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  5638.  @gary_stavropoulos  Lol, how is ending corporate welfare detatched from reality? Too many right wing fans of it, to end it? Tax the markup on both sides of each sale, cap markup at a maximum percent of costs, and don't consider taxes a cost that can be passed along. So, if there's a $100 markup on those cell phones, and a 10% sales tax on both sides, the buyer and seller are each paying $10 towards government services, and the seller will then be paying their one million times more share, when they sell their million phones. Having the customers pay all the taxes is stupid, and you're just feeding corporate welfare, giving corporations tons of free crap.
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  5639. He made some of his own mistakes, if that's what they are. One country's excess mortality rate can't be used to deduce anything about other countries. The US' excess mortality rate, for example, is higher than recorded covid deaths. That's the reverse of the UK, so something completely different is going on, in the US. That third number, on the paper says died "with covid", not that covid was necessarily a contributing factor, as he said. That second number is the one the government and media report as deaths due to covid. That simply means some 20k people have died "with covid", but not due to covid.
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  5640.  @shlockofgod  That is history, dimwit. "Fascism is the complete opposite of Marxian socialism." ~ Mussolini Objective Morality is an oxymoron, btw.
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  5641. @Xai Fascism includes what path you're following, and who benefits. Someone could argue that the government taking over corporations and businesses to enrich everyone is a "merger" of the two, but that's a different path, and benefits different people, than corporate oligarchs taking over the government to enrich themselves, which is the path fascism follows.
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  5642.  @ChesaFreakBoyzFishingVideos  She wouldn't still be there if he didn't like her. She wouldn't have moved to an on camera position if he didn't like her. She and Matt also seem to get along great, and also do the Antifada podcast together. On shows without Sam, when Jamie interacts more directly with Emma, they also seem to get along just fine. People who generally get along just fine can have disagreements and get annoyed with each other, now and then.
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  5643.  @almavasquez7065  That was Iran's money, ffs. He released Iran's own money.
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  5644.  Bob Smith  Every single law and regulation is a mandate, ffs. Having laws and regulations =/= fascism.
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  5645. I'd go back to the 50s. They gave a home to extreme anti-socialist McCarthy types, then southern racists, religious extremists, gun nuts, neocons, Tea Party nutters, extreme obstructionists, the Trump cult, and now Qanoners. It's increasingly a party of lunatics. Trump did pull off the most Big Brother like propaganda campaign in US history though, I think, convincing tens of millions of people not to believe any media, any judges, any lawyers, any election officials, any doctors, any nurses, any scientists, any other politicians ... anybody ... even to not believe their own lying eyes, if they contradicted Supreme Leader. As well as convincing many to embrace overt fascism, and bring an end to the democratic process.
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  5646.  @jaypoirier4216  Rofl, Dore knobs have been making like anyone who disagrees with Jimmy Dore is a fake leftist. Talk about brainwashed. It's like a pathetic little "leftist" Trump cult.
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  5647. Take it back to Nixon. Nixon was the youngest member of the un-American Activities Commission, as a House representative. When he then ran for the California senate, he used an extremist Red Scare campaign against his opponent Hellen "Pink Lady" Gahagan. Reagan, was an FDR supporting Dem and union leader. He was backing Gahagan, at first. Someone (one account I read said Nancy, another said some other actress he worked with) then got him to go to a Nixon rally, and he dropped his support for her, and was put on the path to crazytown. Not sure if he actually met with Nixon. If so, there could possibly have been threats of black listing involved, as Nixon supported doing to people. Nixon continued gathering the anti-socialist extremists, and then started playing to the Southern racists, during his presidential run. Nixon is pretty much to blame for starting to gather all the nuts into one basket.
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  5648. ​ @travman1987  What prominent leftists made fun of underage Barron?
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  5649.  Gord Orvis  lol
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  5650.  @AG-xc5ni  Just a warning ... I may watch a show, have a shit, do something else, or maybe even go to sleep for many hours, and not give minute by minute responses, dumb dumb. Don't be sitting on the edge of your seat the whole time.
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  5651. @Michael Rogers You didn't mention Spain. Europe and the US are perfectly cool with fascists who didn't step on their toes. The US even provided aid to Franco. Because fascists are capitalists, who use their authoritarianism to make their rich backers richer.
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  5652.  @brothersinfarmsllc  You seem to have skipped over the part where Mussolini stated fascism was opposed to liberalism.
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  5653.  @brothersinfarmsllc  Because it's the fascist who created and defined what it was?
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  5654.  @happyprogressivepoop1422  If Pelosi wanted AOC to help replace a few corporate Dems, and campaign for Nina Turner to try and keep out another, then maybe Pelosi isn't so bad. Or ... maybe AOC doesn't actually do what Pelosi wants her to.
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  5655.  @sailingthevic3966  You know they first have an appropriation bill, like the military, right? AOC voted no on the state department appropriation bill, and military. You're just giving her shit for voting yes on the entire budget? So, you want her to vote no to funding healthcare, no to funding veteran's benefits, no to funding housing, no to funding education, etc., over the state department budget?
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  5656.  @xLatinAssazzin  You know her last name is Morinico, right?
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  5657. Pick and "Is". Either is fine, both is not.
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  5658. Peterson may be somewhat smarter than Trump, but he's just as big a grifter. He got famous by lying about Canadian law. He peddled books, with rules that he obviously wasn't following himself. He peddled his daughter's bullshit all meat diet, lying that it cured his anxiety and depression, and that he hadn't needed drugs for 6 months ... just months before needing to be put in a coma, to break his addiction to the drugs he claimed he was no longer on. He has faced malpractice charges. Might lose his license. In what reality does any of that indicate his "university" would be anything more than a scam, just like Trump University? Or PragerU?
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  5659.  @Theunspokentruth77  Will that magically change who Likud is?
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  5660. Rofl. I hope you didn't try to type that with a straight face as a Dore fan. He has spent months slandering anyone and everyone who didn't follow along with his one tactic, making out like anyone who contradicts him isn't on the same team anymore. He's a Trump wannabe.
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  5661.  @terrificlion2328  Except it's Dore that has been aggressively slandering any progressives that don't do exactly what he wants, as "fakes", "frauds", "sellouts", "betrayers", etc. He's the, all or nothing, with us or against us, Puritan.
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  5662. I'd take her seriously if she wasn't "defending" him, by saying he was committing tax fraud, by being worth far more than he reported. Dumpty too, "defends" himself by saying he didn't overvalue, but instead undervalued by over $1b, committing massive tax fraud. You're supposed to value at the f*cking value, no over, no under.
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  5663. Wearing masks, distancing, etc., is also going to reduce flu numbers. And, if something comes along and kills people, before they die of their heart disease, or whatnot, then yes that'll reduce heart disease deaths. Dropping bombs on 250k Americans would also reduce deaths due to other things.
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  5664. South Korea is largely ahead of the virus, now, and has been testing beyond those showing symptoms, for weeks. Their confirmed and total numbers are close to the same, and they have a 1.9% mortality rate. A cruise ship provided us with a control group where total and confirmed numbers are the same, and they had a 1.5% mortality rate. Even at those rates, that's about 10x deadlier than the flu. If you let it run rampant, like the flu, it would kill hundreds of thousands Americans, dumbass.
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  5665.  @fredsanford1437  You're making no sense. If the DNC's undemocratic practices go against Bernie and other progressives, then they're working against the left, but you're saying they are the left.
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  5666.  @fredsanford1437  If even the most progressive members are extreme right wingers, then you're making even less sense.
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  5667.  @fredsanford1437  Again, then you're arguing even the most left leaning politicians aren't actually left, which would seem to agree that the DNC isn't left.
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  5668.  @fredsanford1437  Soooo, you're also arguing that the DNC isn't left, now. Bernie and AOC would be centrists out in the real world, outside the US Overton window.
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  5669.  @whyamimrpink78  The US is sucking at trying to keep people alive as long as possible, as well. Lowest life expectancy in the developed world. Bloomberg would force that number even lower.
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  5670.    "Need", in countries with universal healthcare, is those with life threatening issues go before those with non life threatening issues, just like in an emergency room. Kyle has explained this numerous times. Letting old people with life threatening issues die isn't anywhere close to being the same as making someone who needs a knee replacement wait a bit longer.
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  5671.  @thehappyclam3942  Japan disagrees with your "science".
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  5672.  @bretbonner  The US response was completely inept, dimwit. Australia's covid deaths per million translates into under 50k total US covid deaths, instead of nearly 900k. Dumpty was a complete failure. That was the main problem.
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  5673. @C M How many ... supposedly 70000? That means your grifting GoFundMe $7m gives you each $100. Either that won't last you months, or the number of truckers is exaggerated by about 100x.
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  5674. Even for those who were unskilled, the fallacy in their argument is that it implies enslavement was required, to provide whatever skills they're talking about. In reality, early colonial immigrants from Africa, that came over freely, before their rights were taken and slavery became law, adapted to the new world as well as anyone else. They either had the skills, or developed the skills, without them being forced on them. Just like poor Europeans, many of whom had been living in cities and had never been farmers, came over, were given land, and quickly developed the skills necessary to become farmers ... no force necessary. Slavery didn't provide anything other than pain and misery.
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  5675. Clinton impeachment: Republicans didn't think an initial crime needed to happen, and that obstruction was sufficient grounds. Trump impeachment #1: Republicans argued that an initial crime needed to be proven, and that obstruction wasn't enough. Trump covid response: Republicans don't consider complete incompetence, leading to the excessive deaths of hundreds of thousands of Americans, a reason to call for an impeachment. Trump impeachment #2: Republicans don't consider inciting an insurrection to be a crime. Biden Afghanistan withdrawal, initiated by Trump: Impeach Biden! No initial crime, nor a follow up crime, is needed, and only slight incompetence is sufficient.
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  5676. The Electoral college isn't inherently unrepresentative. It was the Permanent Apportionment Act of 1929, which has made it increasingly so. That Act also allowed for grrymndrng. Getting rid of the electoral college would take a constitutional amendment. But, repealing and replacing that Act would only take a simple majority (in the house anyway ... senate can filibuster). You could reassign electors so they represent the same amount of people, in all states, and make new rules about mapping districts.
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  5677.  @1massboy  The Tea Party didn't eat their own Tea Party friendly politicians, ffs.
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  5678. @TheDrewSaga You'll be wanting your own equivalent to a seperate puritan Libertarian party, that won't win a seat in 50 years, not the equivalent to an internal Tea Party takeover.
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  5679.  @1massboy  They voted for Boehner to be speaker. They didn't threaten to paralyze the house. Plus, it wasn't a grassroots movement. It was started up and funded by the Koch brothers, who were adding their own pressure. Which major donors to the Democrat party will help pressure Pelosi to step down, and threaten donorship if the party doesn't support progressives and their ideas?
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  5680.  @79pants  Pretty sure the older "left" crowd, who didn't want to go too far left, with Bernie, and instead went with Biden, are pretty influential, and have stupid ideas about bipartisanship and electability. Not to mention that older people, in general, lean more right, and have a lot of stupid takes and influence.
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  5681.  @79pants  Do you have reading comprehension problems? I didn't make any claims about who you supported, and didn't make any claims that anything was exactly equal to anything else. I stated the stupidest arguments from the "left" tend to be from the older, less progressive, wing.
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  5682.  @79pants  Bernie won with 18-44 year olds, but you think younger people are making the more stupid arguments, rather than the majority of the 44+ crowd?
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  5683.  @squeaky7798  Oh, Kid Rock has statutory rp lyrics too.
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  5684. ​ @alexbowman7582  Ignoramus “a typical security violation involves premarked classified information discovered contemporaneously with the incident. None of the emails at issue in this review were marked as classified.”
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  5685.  @RobertGuilman  Conservative religious types have been cancelling things for centuries. There's still a government agency protecting delicate sensibilities from naughty words and nipples. What's dishonest is implying cancelling things is new and only from liberals.
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  5686.  @yourrealdad816  Oh lookie, an "enlightened centrist", peddling bullshit. Clearly, the majority of conservatives voted for Trump, and vote for an anti-abortion party. Clearly, the majority of liberals didn't vote for Bernie or progressives (who haven't even proposed any policies that would move the US left of Denmark, a centrist country).
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  5687.  @Mariomario-gt4oy  Well ... “Why is it so easy, then, so trivially easy - you could almost bet your life on it easy - to guess the young man’s religion?” ... arguing you could almost bet your life on guessing the religion of a suicide bomber is pretty damn close. Plus, he definitely seems to consider suicide bombings radically different than other kinds of bombings, when it's actually just a different delivery method.
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  5688.  @Mariomario-gt4oy  People have knowingly sacrificed themselves over all kinds of things. What was the extreme ideology of say the Alamo guys, who knew they didn't have a chance?
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  5689.  @Mariomario-gt4oy  Then why the hell would anyone bet their life that it's someone from a specific religion? So, what's the big difference between the Irgun planting a bomb in the King David hotel, someone wearing a bomb into a hotel, or the US droning a wedding or a bunch of farmers?
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  5690.  @mimked  Ahhh no. This was at a time when there was already plenty of video of those people being destructive and violent. Tucker chose to show videos of them looking at statues, instead.
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  5691.  @mimked  Hitler's insurrection didn't make it past a beer hall. Being one hallway away from making it to the house floor, while members were still there, is quite a bit closer. They were going to stop the certification of the election, and not keep Trump in power? That makes zero sense. Weird how "enlightened centrists" are always defending right wing insanity. The entirety is that there were people trying to overthrow the democratic process, and a few people looking at statues. Why are people looking at statues relevant to trying to overthrowing the democratic process? Who the f*ck cares if a few dingbats were looking at some statues? Why is that news?
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  5692.  @mimked  You get that, on top of the people who stormed the Capitol to try and overthrow the democratic process, the majority of Republican lawmakers also tried to overthrow the democratic process, and the Republican leader was repeatedly calling to overthrow the democratic process, right?
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  5693.  @dwightschrute47  The etymology is wiffman, wife of man. That would mean all the single females aren't "women", and all the men married to men are "women".
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  5694. Weird. Rudy wasn't even working for him a few months back. https://thehill.com/homenews/administration/472205-trump-denies-sending-giuliani-to-ukraine-on-his-behalf
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  5695. Yeah, he's going the Dave Rubin route, claiming to be a lefty but finding there's money to be made in relentlessly attacking progressives and Dems, instead of the cult that has turned openly fascist.
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  5696.  @candidbowyer4625  Yeah, Dave is ahead of Jimmy in evolving to a right winger. Jimmy is Rubin a year ago.
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  5697. Some might not be stupid and racist. Some are likely selfish and greedy.
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  5698.  @aliamjon2550  Are you telling me you have reading comprehension problems?
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  5699. Mass testing, quickly, has flattened the curve in a number of countries. Total tests and tests per million are totally irrelevant numbers. It's tests per confirmed case that matters. S Korea, Australia, and New Zealand, have all tested over 50 people per positive result. The US is testing 5 people per positive result. New York and New Jersey are testing 2-3 people per positive result ... absolutely pathetic. Most countries that are supposed to be world leaders, have failed miserably. France is testing 2-3 people per positive result. The UK is testing 4 people per positive result. Sweden isn't even trying to contain the virus, and they're testing 5 people per positive result. How do countries claim to be trying to contain it, while having testing rates similar to, or lower than, a country that isn't trying?
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  5700. @Liberals H8 Facts Nope.
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  5701.  Liberals H8 Facts  I understand you're an ignoramus. https://www.statista.com/chart/amp/17366/venezuelan-gdp-from-1990-to-2023/
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  5702.  @Quantris  This question, from an American neighbour, was about Canadian crazies, in general. They are more abundant, as a percentage of the population (which my polling comment was based upon), i.e. more visible, a larger percent of the vote, etc., in Alberta. Kenney is also a shit show, with Alberta currently leading all North American provinces and states, for new covid cases per capita. He, on the other hand, won by a majority of the Alberta vote ... because it's our most conservative province. Arguing against that, is arguing against reality.
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  5703. Well before their shift. Like alcohol, they can't come in high.
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  5704.  @Kai-tn4yx  Oh, you want progressives to be part of a minority party, and Republicans to hold congress? Weird, how Dore knobs benefit Republicans most. She literally just got done backing progressives in some of those conservative districts, and they got creamed.
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  5705. It's a bit of a shock that a majority of Trump supporters disagree with their supreme leader.
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  5706. Imagine saying "MDS" (Mussolini derangement syndrome) in 1918, and thinking you weren't actually the one getting owned.
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  5707.  @mfflscotty2095  And what good is equipment and policies, without workers, to work that equipment, and implement those policies? No, we want to give more money to "workers", because they're the ones doing the work. The clue is in their name. Every measure they use, to increase profits, and their personal wealth, either takes more money from consumers (which are mostly workers), or gives less money to workers. To pretend like one side doesn't get less, when another side gets more, is nonsensical.
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  5708.  @mfflscotty2095  Rofl! So, you think Canada, and other countries ranked higher than the US, have less regulations and taxes? You're living in some alternate reality.
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  5709.  @mfflscotty2095  An individual has more economic freedom, if they don't have to worry about healthcare costs, for example. The opposite of your "free market" bullsh*t.
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  5710.  @mfflscotty2095  It's bullshit, because you're implying they're more free market than the US, and that the US needs to be more free market, to move up the ranks. The UK literally has a socialized healthcare system.
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  5711.  @mfflscotty2095  What are you even talking about, when you say "less restrictions", or "less regulations"? You know they all use highly regulated VAT systems, right, that basically track everything being bought and sold? They all have more environmental restrictions. Government negotiated drug prices. More gun control. More regulations on employment. What do you even mean?
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  5712. I go with ... If everything needs to be created, then who created god?
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  5713.  @TheBiggestSqueeze  She just helped add more M4A yes votes to congress, the very thing you need to do to ever pass the bill, the very thing you'd still need to do after a guaranteed to fail vote. Saying adding yes votes to congress isn't fighting turns FTV itself into have a failed vote and then don't fight. You already get a brand new list of hundreds of people who won't even cosponser the bill, every new session it's reintroduced. Where were the 100+ viable pro-M4A candidates you have laying around during the election that just happened?
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  5714.  @dwayneb72  FOX already quietly admitted that the former partner didn't provide them with any actual evidence. No use copying them. So, Tucker decided to "lose" the documents. https://www.foxnews.com/politics/hunter-biden-tony-bobulinski-joe-biden-unanswered-questions
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  5715.  @malex0171  What, exactly, is "deranged" about disliking a proven conman (received both a criminal fine for his casino, and settled a lawsuit over his fake university), a proven racist (settled with DA over not renting to blacks), and a fascist who was clearly asking everyone and anyone to overthrow the democratic process to keep him on as an unelected dictator?
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  5716. "No individuals or groups (political parties, cultural associations, economic unions, social classes) outside the State. Fascism is therefore opposed to Socialism to which unity within the State (which amalgamates classes into a single economic and ethical reality) is unknown, and which sees in history nothing but the class struggle." ~ Mussolini, The Doctrine of Fascism They also like to complain about celebrities, telling them to shut up, or that their opinions don't matter, but they'll sure pull one out quick, if they've got one. Hell, they've elected two as presidents, now.
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  5717.  @littlemonster6052  Say what?
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  5718. If there's no possibility it will pass, then someone who claims to be for it but is secretly against it can vote for it without worry. It has to have a chance of passing to force their hand.
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  5719.  @itsajob12  You already know who is for it, on the surface, and who isn't. Forcing a vote won't necessarily show anything different, unless it has a chance of passing. If it's voted on and fails, then the corporate Dems and Republicans could use that failure as an excuse to put off voting on it again for years.
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  5720. ... bus parking lot.
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  5721. Well, Cubans can come as white as Ted Cruz. Plus, half, or more, came to Florida in the waves with Batista, Batista's adminstration, Batista's military, and those who got rich under Batista, or are their descendants ... so pretty fascisty.
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  5722. *depend
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  5723.  @ECisvotersuppression  But we also have a minority government that can be forced into another election, if the majority of parliament wants, so they'll have to try and keep the majority of parliament happy, unlike royal Dump, doing whatever the fuck he wants.
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  5724. That's like asking what colonists in North America should have done, after a native attack against their years of colonialism. For one, stop the colonialism, ethnic cleansing, etc. Or ... keep wiping them out, until they lose all hope, and shove them onto little reserves?
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  5725. Ironic. Trump, and the majority of Republicans in congress, tried to overthrow the democratic process, to install him as an unelected dictator. On the flip side, zero Dem policy proposals would move the US left of Denmark (real world centrism). Look in the mirror. Fascists call people still well right of center "communists".
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  5726. How is Mueller actually finding collusion, but saying Jr, and others, were too stupid to know they were breaking the law to charge them with "knowingly" committing a crime, biased? How is Mueller actually finding multiple instances of obstruction, biased? The bias would seem to be towards letting them get away with it, atm.
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  5727. No, they have alterior motives, and only cover him fairly when it's to criticize the DNC or other MSM. When it comes to his policies, they're all "but Venezuela!"
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  5728.  @freedomlover9196   Lol, I know exactly what feudalism is. It started with a bunch of medieval cattle (fihu) barons with no laws or regulations above them. When they'd have property disputes, they'd settle them privately. Eventually some expanded their private property claims. They'd form family alliances expanding private property claims. Expansion. Expansion. Until one claimed to personally own a large enough region to declare themselves king of a kingdom. Again, at that level, there were also multiple other private property owning kings, with no law or regulation above them, who claimed ownership of entire kingdoms. You simply referenced the highest level private property owner, the highest feudal lord, making whatever rules they wanted for living on their private property, enforcing those rules with their private army, and charging whatever they wanted for living and working on their private property. It was only a parliament, and the removal of a monarch's power, that created a governing body above the highest private property owner, and an end to their monopoly on land and power.
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  5729.  @freedomlover9196  It's not even ancient history. The same thing was happening on the Western frontiers, where there was little in the way of consistent law and order. Cattle barons, feeling like they could do what they want, hired private armies of cowboys, attacked sheep herders, and others. They were stopped by the law moving in, but still lasted into the 20th century. The early medieval feudal lords used livestock as currency, mainly cattle, long before they ever started minting currency. They were medieval cattle barons, usually starting out as a growing family clans, with a head of the family. A King being nervous of a possible peasant uprising isn't the same as the peasants being in control of a government of the people for the people, and being able to make laws over the king and other nobles.
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  5730.  @freedomlover9196  But you're describing an armed citizenry defending a parliament, a government of the people for the people, against a private property owner with a monopoly. The people became the government. Like I said. Private property owners with no authority above them gave them that King. A democratic government of the people for the people should be able to be toppled with voting. Republicans have shown the US maybe made that too hard to do. Many countries can simply have a no confidence vote, and don't make a big to do over ditching a shit leader.
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  5731.  @freedomlover9196  It's a democratic republic, dumbass.
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  5732. Yeah, when you print off as much money as you want it becomes worthless. You're talking out your ass.
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  5733.  @thepracticalinvestor2386  Sounds like you need a school that teaches basic facts, like how red states tend to have higher firearm mortality rates, higher homicide rates, higher poverty rates, lower education outcomes, lower healthcare outcomes, etc.
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  5734. Don't MAGA morons often bring their kids to his rallies? Family values!
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  5735.  @lizardking5711  Says the guy bullshitting about shrinkage.
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  5736.  @lizardking5711  States voting differently, and where he's getting votes and not getting votes, has more to do with delegates. He's still up 1.7m votes from 2016, while Biden is only up 1.4m votes more than Hillary. Not enough growth, and not in the right places, for sure, but 1.7 is still more than 1.4. So, your shrinkage bullshit is exactly that ... bullshit.
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  5737.  @adams4377  Nuremberg Trials: Rhineland Bastards; Operation against 'Rhineland Bastards'; R.B. Matter; et. al.
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  5738.  @adams4377  Rofl. He literally ordered the sterilization of black Germans. You're blathering nonsense.
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  5739.  @BattousaiHBr  When has CNN, NYT, MSNBC, etc., represented complete economic equality for all, equal ownership of property, resources, and production, and an end to capitalism? That's the "far left". They barely seem to tolerate the centre-left, like Bernie. The US has no "far left" politicians, pushing for outright Marxism, or something. On the other hand, the US has numerous US politicians who spout Ayn Rand crap. The US political spectrum goes from "far right" to centre-left, with almost all politicians being right of centre, to some degree.
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  5740.  @josephgonzalez4380  The polarity was still North vs South. They were all the same Democratic-Republican Party, just a few decades earlier, and dominated the whole country. Before the Republicans split off, the Northerners had already abolished slvry. They split off to become the National Republicans, then the Whigs, then the Republicans. They came to dominate the North. So, the main reason there was party polarity, going into the CW was because the parties were largely split by North-South geography. There were no Southern Republicans. As per my OP, that changed after the CW, when they started running their own rcst candidates, to win Southern seats. It then was still North vs South, only it was Northern Dems and Reps vs Southern Dems and Reps. If you look at a CW North-South map, and a current Red-Blue map, blue states are pretty much the CW North states. Red states are the CW South states, plus what had been territories at the time of the CW. The most rcst colonies/states, for centuries, didn't up and magically become the least rcst states. The more rcst states simply started voting red, while the less rcst states started voting blue.
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  5741.  Kira  The only way to ever possibly pass a bill "for the cause", is to get enough votes in congress. The 30 year old progressive caucus has increased its numbers and are close to becoming the majority of house Dems. They could then pick the party speaker candidate, set the party agenda, and, if the majority of the house, that speaker could then pick committee seats, and what bills to vote on. The 4 year old Justice Dems have replaced about a dozen corporate Dems. AOC has been at it 2 years and used her platform and PAC to back 20 pro-M4A progressives, helped add a few more M4A yes votes to congress and helped remove a few more corporate Dems. Increasing numbers is what actually gets you closer to ever passing a progressive bill. A 100% guaranteed to fail performance art vote, doesn't, if that's what you wanted. After the performance art, you'd still need to do the work of converting or replacing enough members to ever pass progressive policies.
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  5742.  @cmiller0116  Lol thinking you know what time it is EST.
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  5743.  @cmiller0116  Thanks, but you're not my type.
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  5744.  @asamanthinketh1937  "Social programs" = socialized sectors of the economy. Centrism = the center, between capitalism and socialism. Denmark has something like 30% of the population working the public sector, 70% unionization (not ownership, but far more of a say in what your labor is worth), universal healthcare, not just free post secondary but other expenses covered as well, etc., etc., etc. You'd take that over the lovely 100% privately owned and operated absolute monarchies we have remaining?
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  5745.  @asamanthinketh1937  Yeah, almost like shopping for healthcare and education isn't really an important factor.
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  5746.  @thehappyclam3942  If those laptops actually had evidence of any wrongdoing by Joe, Rudy would have handed it to the investigation he's been promoting since Trump's impeachment. Instead, he didn't, and the investigation went nowhere. You want another billion Benghazi investigations?
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  5747.  @thehappyclam3942  Investigation? You mean investigation(s) ... 10 of them, and 33 hearings. Kind of overkill. I hope you support at least one investigation into Trump letting thousands of Americans die.
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  5748.  @thalmoragent9344  What did Pakman say, that you consider "anti-white"?
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  5749.  @JohnSmith-xq6cv  What fucking "group"? There's no such thing as a unified "white culture".
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  5750.  @JohnSmith-xq6cv  It's a group of morons, who believe something exists that doesn't.
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  5751.  @JohnSmith-xq6cv  Russian culture is not Irish culture, dumb dumb. "Chinese" isn't a colour, dumbass. It doesn't compare to "white". There's also no unified "yellow culture".
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  5752. ​ @jazzip  Better an old coot that shakes hands with the air, than an old coot who wants to nuke the air (hurricane).
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  5753.  @jazzip  Apparently fairly competent people, unlike the incompetent criminals surrounding Trumpty Dumpty.
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  5754.  @robertbeck8585  Pretty sure progressives want to get corporate money out of politics, as well. Pretty sure they also want to tax the wealth of the rich, and not just income, or dollars in a bank. The super rich don't even have to hide money offshore. They keep their wealth almost entirely in stocks, only taking a $1 salary from Tesla, or an $80k salary from Amazon, and live off lines of credit, that aren't taxable income, taken out against the value of their stocks.
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  5755. They came prepared. It was months of his bullshit in the making, not just the final speech, which included a lot more inflammatory words than not.
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  5756.  @2bRealist  Train them in hand to hand, dumbass. There was zero reason to shoot him. Three cops should be able to handle one guy, without shooting him.
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  5757.  @clintholmes2061  Betrayed everyone, by just getting done campaigning for Bernie against the DNC, just getting done fighting off her own DCCC backed challenger, while also using her platform and PAC to help get more pro-M4A progressives elected to congress going against the DCCC? You Dore Knobs are completely insane. The left's equivalent to Trumpists.
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  5758.  @clintholmes2061  Trumpists just make shit up to be outraged about. Trumpists have purity tests if you're Trumpy enough. Trumpists slander anyone who doesn't do what they want.
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  5759.  @clintholmes2061  And how is just helping to add more M4A yes votes to congress, the very thing you need to do to ever pass the bill, the very thing you'd still need to do even after a failed vote, not fighting for M4A?
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  5760.  @clintholmes2061  Pelosi introduced the bill just last session. It's the kind of bill that goes through committees first. It died in committee, just like 90% of bills. Pelosi can't even force it through committees alone, to begin with. Every session it's reintroduced and you get a brand new list of house members that don't cosponser it. Pressure any who don't. Protest any who don't. Run progressives against any who don't. Don't know why you're all waiting for some failed vote. It's like you waiting for some spark to ignite others to do the work for you.
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  5761. It's from all the sexual harassment that goes on at FOX. Tucker Carlson must be getting harassed too.
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  5762.  @XShadowWolf1926  Yeah, Israel's actions just blatantly show that they have little care for Palestinian lives. We don't drop bombs on bank hostage situations. We don't drop bombs on domestic terrorists hiding in an apartment building. Etc. That's either because the authorities care about the civilians, or at least care about really bad optics. Israel doesn't care about either, and largely because many other countries also don't care about either, because their propaganda machines are spinning up as down. As for Ben ... His take ends up simply being the Israel take. You can hear it anywhere. I don't think it's needed here.
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  5763. How so? A jury already found him guilty of doing it. This was just a trial to determine how much he owed.
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  5764. ​ @aepneuma Modernization most definitely kills off sections of industry. Sure, we still have horses, but motorized vehicles killed off using horses for the majority of farming, travel, deliveries, etc. Sure, there are still some hand weavers, but the loom killed off hand weaving as the majority of the industry. Realism used to be a major part of the painting industry. After photography, not so much. Who wants to sit for hours for a realistic family portrait, when you can just take a picture? And we started calling crap, like a black square, painted soup can labels, or paint splatters on canvas, "art". All animations used to be hand drawn, frame by frame. Now, a ton are done with 3D animation. Mass produced crap has become the norm, in many sectors of society. Sure, there will still be some people who care, but I don't know why you'd think that people who watch Kardashians, or some sh*t, won't welcome garbage.
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  5765. Only 19 states have the recall option, and those 3 aren't on the list.
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  5766.  @markzuckergecko621  Homicide rates ... NYC, NY 6.0 Chicago, IL 25.8 St Louis, MO 68.2 New Orleans, LA 74.3
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  5767. @Get Real Man, you really invented a load of bullshit.
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  5768. ​ @4itamar  The border with Egypt was settled with the Israel-Egypt peace treaty. Only people are allowed through Rafah, and Egypt doesn't mean the crossing. Israel used to, and now an EU group does. All goods are supposed to go through Israel.
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  5769.  @4itamar  The Israel-Egypt peace treaty isn't supposed to allow anything but people to cross at Rafah. All goods are supposed to go through Israel. As soon as Israel made this exception , only because the world was yelling at them, Egypt sent aid. What else are they supposed to do, exactly?
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  5770. The only problem is with his conclusion and response. It's the federal government that can afford to pay people to stay home but doesn't. It's the state government trying to get a grip on the virus. He's rebelling against the state government, and potentially spreading a deadly disease, possibly killing people, because of the failures of the federal government. His aim is off.
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  5771. Are they following their old staff, Dore and Rueben? Unsubscribed after they let Ben Gleib talk one too many times.
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  5772. The reason the big 3 needed to be bailed out, before, was because they weren't keeping up with the times, allowing foreign manufacturers to take large chunks of the market. Conservatives apparently want the same thing to happen again.
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  5773.  @Evirthewarrior  Almost double the heatstroke deaths per year, btw.
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  5774.  @oliverpringle4309  Nope. Not what I meant to say, at all. You seem to have failed at basic math. 1999 (Poland, Czech, Hungary, join NATO) is 8 years after 1991 (Russia interfering in Georgia), 5 years after 1994 (first Chechen war), and about the same time Russia was pushing further conflicts (second Chechen war). You also seem to have failed at geography. NATO isn't a nation, with its own borders. Poland had its own borders. Poland joining NATO doesn't change its borders nor does it change Russia's borders. All it means is that, if Russia interferes in Poland, as it has elsewhere, then Poland has allies. Seems like it was a smart thing for Poland to do, considering what Russia had been up to. Why should Russia get to dictate who can ally with who, and invade whoever they want, if they feel like it? Also, the vast majority of deaths, in Donbas, actually occurred when Russian backed fascists were taking over the region and Russia was also taking over Crimea. Tell me, did you blame the Syrian government, for fighting against a rebellion, and justify the US involvement in Syria?
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  5775. The "messenger" is smearing anyone who doesn't whole heartedly agree with his tactics. The woman who took out the #2 corporate Dem, who got challenged again by a DCCC backed corporate Dem and won, who started her own progressive PAC, who just used that PAC to get even more progressives elected to congress, who's a member of the DSA which has been holding M4A rallies, ... she's a "shill"? If you, at all, doubt the strategy of the political mastermind who promoted Trump as better than Clinton, and claimed the moon would fall into Lake Michigan before Trump fills multiple scotus seats, then you're a "fake", "sellout", or "shill"? Piss off Jimmy Dore. The moron doesn't even know it would be possible for Pelosi, or even McCarthy, to win, if things weren't done just right, and somehow coordinated with both Republicans and all the corporate Dems. The speaker has to win the majority of votes cast, not the majority of the house. House members abstaining changes the number of votes needed to win. His plan isn't risk free. Considering forcing a vote guaranteed to lose not worth the potential risks, doesn't make someone a "shill".
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  5776.  @Aj-zr8dz  Jimmy recently argued himself that corporate Dems would rather lose to Republicans than deliver to progressives. That's an argument against his own plan. If they'd rather things fail to the right than succeed to the left, that indicates progressives have less political leverage than he's claiming they have. I get that people are frustrated with the slow build up of progressives in congress, wish it could go faster, etc., but remember that Jimmy has an agenda too ... the People's Party. Making out like progressives aren't doing what they can, that they're "fakes", that they're "shills", etc., because of a tactics disagreement, plays into his argument for a People's Party ... which would have to start from scratch, and have even less power. He thinks fascists and neolibs are samesies, even promoted the fascist as a better option, in 2016. He thought Jill Stein had an actual shot at becoming president. He underestimates just how horribly worse Republicans can be, and overestimates how much influence and power underdog progressives, or third parties, have.
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  5777.  @jjteacher7482  You're more likely to get Biden, voting Warren.
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  5778.  @tonyfat2458  Get off the interwebs and crawl back into your hole, if you're too sensitive to hear from non-Americans.
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  5779.  @Arthos1824  A VAT is specifically designed to NOT end up taxing businesses. It's a sales tax, collected in stages, with all the stages getting paid back, except the final consumer.
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  5780.  @waterandafter  I see you having reading comprehension problems out of the gate, and having a different conversation than everyone else is.
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  5781. The bottom 50% owns about 1.5% of total wealth. They pay about 3% of total federal taxes. The top 1% owns about 30% of total wealth and pays about 30% of total federal taxes. Right wingers like to pretend the payroll tax doesn't exist, and doesn't count for 36% of total federal revenues. If the top 1% were taxed at the same ratio, they'd be paying 60% of total federal taxes. They, most definitely, are not.
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  5782.  @conradveigt5995  You don't seem to know what "contradiction" means. Wasn't the US also quite diverse during segregation and slavery? Why do you think diversity and racist are contradictions?
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  5783. The Fed is putting $1.5t into artificially boosting the stock market, and nobody is batting an eye.
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  5784. "Black Americans love when we try to illegally steal their votes!" ~ MAGA
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  5785.  @roystonboodoo7525  "how the jurors"
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  5786. Except they literally don't. They've always considered Russia the bad guy, when it comes to its imperialism, and consider the US to be on the right side, in Ukraine. But, do go on strawmanning.
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  5787.  @jdogdarkness  Nothing you just said supports your nonsense, "they assume every other actor is the good guy & did nothing wrong", statement. When did they say Russia has done no wrong, and is the good guy? And, now you're strawmanning me. I never said you said they "loved Russia". Do you have reading comprehension problems? Disputes over the South China Sea have been going on for over a century. Indonesia has been the most aggressive towards other fishing boats, in disputed territory, destroying hundreds in a matter of years. Vietnam has built the most outposts in disputed territory, dozens compared to other countries' handfuls. What has China suddenly done, exactly, that you think warrants US involvement?
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  5788. Are you referring to the countries where the UK installed theocratic monarchs, that the US supports economically and militarily? Or the countries where the US and UK helped overthrow more moderate, but also more left leaning, Muslims, and more extreme Muslims took over?
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  5789.  Juanito G  That's where the largest population of Jews live.
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  5790. Whoopsie Goldberg
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  5791. Aye!
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  5792.  @BoostedS650  Rofl. Oh, so you're insane.
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  5793.  @luchi.el.zorrito  "Never trusting the government" ... says one of the tens of millions who were convinced not to believe anyone, if they contradicted Supreme Leader, Big Brother, Trumpty Dumpty, the former president (government)?
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  5794.  @BoostedS650  Well, there's the fact that the current covid hospitalization rate is at about 4600 a day, while the CDC has reported about 3600 breakthrough covid cases, total. So, math says you're nuts.
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  5795.  @t-swizzle8102  You didn't answer my question, you dimwitted Dore knob. Give an example, that's not one of those strawmen you were building in the other thread.
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  5796. 2 morons in body armor and armed with semi rifles, trying to rob a bank in California, helped create the modern police state. It was after that the government started selling police military surplus. Police will always try to be better armed than what they think is out there and can be used against them. The best way to not have a police state is to have fewer guns, then downgrade the police to gunless bobbies, like in the UK.
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  5797.  @bartjargengarblbargeler1980  Well, you could help "real progressive", Jimmy Dore, run attack ad campaigns against his only viable opponents, like he's done the last couple elections. You could help "real progressive", Jimmy Dore, bullshit and convince dimwits that some third party has a chance in hell ... convince them not to cast a vote that matters against Trump. Weird how "real progressive", Jimmy Dore, benefits the furthest right wingers more than progressives.
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  5798.  msalem7729  Uh huh. What's that got to do with Yiddish being Germanic?
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  5799.  @greenith  You're spouting the same bullshit as Yang. You, clearly, don't grasp the difference between input VAT and output VAT, don't know businesses get to reclaim their input VAT, and didn't grasp the simple business formula.
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  5800.  @greenith  Here, Singapore turned the business formula into a pretty graphic, if that makes things easier to understand. https://images.app.goo.gl/EnnVzkvoKJRz27kL9
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  5801.  @greenith  You clearly don't know how a VAT works, if you think businesses are paying a tax intentionally designed NOT to tax them, specifically to avoid double taxation. I just gave you basic math both you and Yang seem to fail at. If the government collects $49 and the final consumer pays $49, how much did each of the businesses end up paying? +49 (government) -49 (consumer) = ? (businesses) Are double digits too much? How about this ... if the final consumer pays $2 and the government collects $2, how much did each of the businesses end up paying? Hint: the answer is on the right. https://images.app.goo.gl/apKKfg8GK9NCT2d37
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  5802.  @greenith  No. I'm saying it's built into a VAT system that businesses reclaim their input VAT. It's an intentional part of the design, exacetly so they don't consider an expense which can lead to cascading taxes upon taxes upon taxes. Not crediting back businesses, like a VAT does, would be even worse ... VAT (crediting back input VAT): My business purchases an item for $100 + $10 input VAT (sent to government). I sell for $200 + $20, output VAT. I get my $10 credited back and send $10 to the government. Government gets $20. Consumer pays $20. Business ends up paying no taxes. Some other tax, that's not a VAT, which doesn't credit businesses back: My business purchases an item for $100 + $10 tax (sent to the government). I consider the $10 a cost that won't be credited back. To keep the same profit, I now sell for $210 + $21 tax (sent to the government). The government now gets $31. The business still pays nothing. The consumer pays the $20 tax on the original $200 value, the business' $10 tax, plus a $1 tax on that $10. The more steps in the chain, the more that taxes upon taxes upon taxes will build up. The examples I gave are an intentional part of the VAT design. "You can claim a credit for any GST included in the price of any goods and services you buy for your business. This is called a GST credit (or an input tax credit – a credit for the tax included in the price of your business inputs)." https://www.ato.gov.au/Business/GST/Claiming-GST-credits/
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  5803.  @greenith  Not sure where I lost you. A VAT is specifically designed to NOT tax businesses.
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  5804.  @greenith  Oh geezus. Firstly, you mixed up input VAT and output VAT, indicating you clearly have no clue what you're talking about. Secondly, it's pure bullshit that businesses would keep the price exactly the same. Yang's linked to pass through rate study, on his own VAT page, even debunked his bullshit. Regarding the "central question", it found a 100% pass through on on standard rated goods and services. The pass through rate only lowered by including partially rated goods and services, including the large amount of zero rated staples. Including zero rated goods and services is only relevant to overall CPI or inflation, not who pays, because nobody is paying on zero rated, 0% pass through, goods and services. Not only do businesses not eat the tax, it found that most "prepared" months ahead of time, raising their prices and pocketing the extra, until the VAT increase actually kicked in. Thirdly, you're horrible at math. The $20 in the $220 is the VAT. They don't owe $22 on $220. They owe the $20 on $200, -$10 for their INPUT VAT, leaving them a $50 profit, exactly as before. Lastly, you are completely missing the fucking point of the government intentionally crediting businesses back their INPUT VAT. It's exactly so they DON'T consider it a cost, which would cause cascading taxes upon taxes, making things even worse. The VAT is outright trying to avoid taxing businesses. Look at this again. The final consumer pays $2 on the final $20 value. The government gets $2. The businesses all get paid back in full. It was never intended to tax the businesses. The result is the same as a 10% sales tax on $20. https://images.app.goo.gl/jkmycdqrbgQgzTL46
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  5805.  @greenith  Focus! The topic is Yang claiming that a VAT would force businesses to "pay their fair share". You're yammering on about irrelevant shit, that has nothing to do with the topic. A VAT is specifically designed to NOT tax businesses. It's a sales tax on the final consumer. It's simply collected in stages with all the business stages getting paid back. Are you grasping that? A VAT is intentionally trying to NOT tax businesses. Meaning ... Anyone promoting a tax that's specifically designed to NOT tax businesses as a way to tax businesses is completely clueless or completely dishonest. Anyone promoting a VAT as a way to have businesses pay you for your data, to show you ads, or pay you for automating jobs, is completely clueless or completely dishonest. Anyone promoting an overall pass through rate, including zero rated items, as meaning businesses are paying most of the tax is completely clueless or completely dishonest. I'm giving him the benefit of the doubt, that he's not completely dishonest. That means he's completely clueless, regarding VAT math.
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  5806.  @greenith  The cost on consumers is irrelevant to who is paying the tax. They are paying the tax, not the businesses. If a VAT won't have businesses paying into the dividend, and it won't, then they would only get the benefit of the dividend being spent. Amazon's share of US consumer spending is 2+%. They would make an extra $60b a year from $3t in increased consumer spending. Money would end up flowing to the very top, increasing inequality, increasing the speed of automation, increasing corporate hoards, faster than ever. Add that anyone promoting a dividend that wouldn't have corporations paying into it, comparing it to a dividend paid for by corporations, Alaska's, is completely clueless or completely dishonest.
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  5807.  @divasbraidz  Moron. He's opposed to undocumented immigrants being exploited and paid shit wages, which American workers then can't compete with. Document them, pay them fair wages, and then it's even competition. Same reason he's opposed to a trade agreement that has US workers competing against $2/hr workers in Mexico.
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  5808.  @0ptimisticcynic642  Yeah, they've come further in 70 years than Tucker has in 50. Guess we'll see how his next 20 go. Won't hold my breath.
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  5809.  @tindobranic4791  You're in a 24% Croatian minority that approves of Trump. https://mobile.abc.net.au/news/2018-06-25/chart-of-the-day-trump-global-approval/9899778 https://balkaninsight.com/2018/01/18/kosovo-shows-highest-support-for-us-leadership-in-europe-poll-01-18-2018/
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  5810.  @jackaljade  Ironic, since you made up a strawman.
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  5811.  @jackaljade   Nope. I literally said they become unassigned and can vote for who they want.
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  5812.  @jackaljade  Marianne Williamson?
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  5813.  @jackaljade  What are you talking about? She started and suspended her campaign 3 times. The last was Jul 2 to Jul 29. She jumped back in the race after his debate, called for him to drop out, and promoted herself as an alternative. JB dropped out Jul 21, but the delegates signaled they were backing Kamala, so she dropped out again.
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  5814.  @jackaljade  Why are you lying? She couldn't get 300 delegates to back her by the deadline, so dropped out. She was in the race until the deadline.
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  5815.  @jackaljade  She didn't get 300 delegates to back her, by the deadline, dingus.
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  5816.  @jackaljade  Because she didn't convince 300 delegates to back her, by the deadline, dingus.
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  5817.  @jackaljade  Yes, candidates have to convince enough unpledged delegates to back them, if there's no clear leader by the convention, dmwt. Like when neither Ford nor Reagan had enough delegates to be declared the primary winner, in 1976. Ford then managed to convince 66 delegates to switch to him.
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  5818.  @jackaljade  Then how did Ford become the 1976 Republican nominee, dmwt, when he didn't win enough delegates in the primaries?
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  5819.  @jackaljade  How did Ford become the Republican nominee, when he didn't win enough delegates in the primaries, dmwt? Did they hold another round of primaries, or did he convince enough delegates to switch their votes?
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  5820.  @jackaljade  You're not answering the question. Neither Ford nor Reagan had enough delegates to become the nominee. How did Ford become the nominee? Did they hold another round of primaries, or did he convince enough delegates to switch? Biden said Harris would be his VP again, before any primaries. So, yeah, she was on his ticket, as his backup.
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  5821.  @jackaljade  Nope. You didn't answer how Ford became the nominee, dmwt. Harris was Joe's VP (backup) the entire time. People were √0ting for both. The fact they even gave Marianne, and anyone else who wanted to for that matter, a chance to convince just 300 delegates to back them, was plenty generous. There are plenty of parliamentary systems out there, where the party just picks their leader and there's only a general election, that are considered more democratic than the US system (which didn't used to have primaries either).
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  5822.  @jackaljade  Nope.  I didn't ask how they arrived at the convention. I asked how Ford became the nominee. Did they redo the primaries, so he could earn enough delegates from √0t€rs, or ... were enough delegates, that he didn't earn through primaries, simply convinced to switch to him? Again, JB announced that Kamala was his running mate before any primaries. Anyone who didn't know they were √0tiπg for both, is as sharp as a spoon. Anyone, not just Marianne, had a chance to step in and convince 300 delegates to support them.
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  5823.  @jackaljade  Whoever doesn't know that a VP is the P backup, is about as sharp as a spoon. It's literally in the job description.
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  5824.  @jackaljade  And, nope ... Never answered how Ford became the nominee. Just can't bring yourself to acknowledge the fact that enough delegates (delegates that he didn't win in the primaries) were convinced to switch to him. That's how a contested convention works, when nobody has enough delegates to automatically become the nominee after the primaries. The delegates become free to back whoever they want. They could have picked someone totally different than either of them, if they had wanted. Both parties, same rules.
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  5825.  @jackaljade  JB quit, and his delegates were up for grabs. MW, and anyone else who wanted to jump in the race for that matter, had a chance to convince 300 delegates to back them, before the deadline. Nobody else, did that. KH did.
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  5826.  @jackaljade  And ... I never once asked if they both went through primaries. In fact, I said myself that they did. What I repeatedly asked was how Ford ended up becoming the nominee. He did so, by taking someone else's (Reagan's) delegates. After the convention became contested. Those delegates could have actually √0t€d for whoever they wanted. It was even floated by Republicans as a way to end DT's political career, in 2016, if he didn't have enough delegates, to automatically become the nominee, by the time of the convention. You, and your party, are nothing but hypocrites.
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  5827.  @rev.chuckshingledecker  Likud's Revisionist Zionsim founders were around though. Ze'ev Jabotinsky literally had some of his Betar militant youth movement train with fascists, in Italy. They became the Irgun and Lehi. The Lehi also tried to ally with the Italians, Germans, and Vichy, during WWII, and kept fighting against the British. Here's what Einstein, and other prominent Jews, thought of Likud's founders ... "Among the most disturbing political phenomena of our times is the emergence in the newly created state of Israel of the "Freedom Party" (Tnuat Haherut), a political party closely akin in its organization, methods, political philosophy and social appeal to the Nazi and Fascist parties. It was formed out of the membership and following of the former Irgun Zvai Leumi, a terrorist, right-wing, chauvinist organization in Palestine."
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  5828.  @ashkebora7262  You seem to be thinking of Bush.
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  5829. Rofl. The tea party was backed by the Koch brothers, and the natural Republican tendancy is to move right. If you think the natural tendency is for corporate Dems to move left, and that massive corporate Dem donors are pushing them left, then you're living in a fantasy.
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  5830.  @joshboston2323  Well, there's his nonsensical morality argument, that includes him using completely garbage "analogies". One being using chess as an "analogy" to morality, and calls it a game of pure objectivity. But, chess has rules, which is an analogy to having laws, not to morality. And, those rules were created by the subjective decisions of its creator, people make the subjective decision to play or not, people make the subjective decision whether they actually want to win or not (might want to let their kid win), people make the subjective decision whether they want to use alternative rules or not, ... He also argues against himself, first claiming all variations of morality are about "well being". If true, that would mean everyone has a different idea of what "well being" entails, everyone has a different subjective concept of "well being". But then he makes out like his version of "well being" is objective and uses it to judge other versions of "well being" as worse. He doesn't ever actually get beyond his initial statement about the consensus being that science/objectivity, can't tell you what main goal to set, but once you subjectively decide on a main goal, science/objectivity can tell you, objectively, whether a course of action will bring you closer to, or further from, reaching that goal. All he did was stick in his own subjective version of "well being", as the main goal. It was complete nonsense, by a dimwit who thinks he's smarter than Hume. There's also his fearmongering about AI, as if an AI having more knowledge (objectivity), giving an example of an AI that's more intelligent to us than we are to ants, will somehow lead to it turning against us (subjectivity). There's zero indication we can even create an AI with its own subjectivity, its own ability for primary goal setting. You have to worry about the programmers who are programming in the primary goals, not an AI suddenly up and deciding it wants to organize paperclips, one day. An AI has no personal desires.
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  5831.  Danny Saigal  How does it eradicate poverty, when it's under half the poverty line, and doesn't account for children? There are even some very poor people on full benefits, like SSI disability and SNAP, already getting $1000+ a month. All they'll get from Yang is higher consumption taxes on plenty of goods and services, leaving them worse off.
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  5832. I wonder if Trump will withhold aid to Israel, until corruption is investigated.
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  5833. The dumbest part, of an entirely dumb and racist load of crap, has to be including AOC. Puerto Rico is not a different country. If she went back to Puerto Rico, she'd still be in the same damn country. Or, does he want her to go all the way back to Spain? Then his "totally broken and crime infested" makes no sense. All roads lead to moron.
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  5834. Don't forget there was election denialism in 2016 too, Brian. Trump claimed he had won the popular vote, then set up his own election integrity commission, which found nothing and quietly shut down.
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  5835. It kills about 500 per year, in the US. Samesies!
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  5836.  @rolo2415  You just argued that transmission is the issue, and then started rattling off things that aren't transmitted, like a total nutbar. Starvation and heart disease aren't contagious, dumbass.
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  5837. Did someone argue Russia "magically" made votes appear? If the DNC can "magically" make votes appear, how did they lose in 2016, and why didn't they just take the senate, while they were at it?
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  5838. There should be a max age for all positions of government, including adminstration, congress, and judicial. Would hate to see Bernie go, but they should all retire at 70.
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  5839. She's talking about his VAT (GST here in Canada). A VAT is absolutely not a way to tax corporations like Amazon. The corporations would simply collect the tax, paid for by the consumer, and pass it along to the government. Yang is outright lying when he says it's a way to make them "pay their fair share".
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  5840.  @dianalee1589  Give me a break. NATO turned down Ukrn's application. Ukrn was only trying to join the EU, when Pvtin hit them with an Eastern trade blckd.
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  5841.  @robertmatthews2009  From fiction? I'm familiar, but my name refers to his grandpa, who was more into science than fiction.
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  5842.  @robertmatthews2009  Ugh, the lying sociopath homeschooled his kids. That's sad. You didn't even watch the video?
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  5843. @President Houseplant He outright promoted Trump as the better option in 2016. He spent the 2020 general basically running an attack ad campaign against Trump's only viable opponent, which could only benefit Trump. Didn't care if 10m of the poorest Americans lost their Medicaid expansion, and didn't care to add 40m older Americans to Medicare, but makes out like he's the one true champion of healthcare. Slanders the most progressive politicians in congress, which can only benefit corporate Dems and Reps. Also promotes third parties, which only really benefits corporate Dems and Reps. Goes on right wing talk shows, not to challenge their ideas, rather to agree with them. Trashes the DSA, which has been having M4A rallies. After slandering the most progressive politicians in congress, and progressive organizations, making out like they're no allies, all because of a tactics disagreement, turns around and makes out like some far right ancap Boogaloos would make great allies, even though they completely disagree on economics, don't want anything socialized at all. What makes him left wing, exactly? Just him saying so?
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  5844. The kind of anarcho-capitalism he's pushing has been done before. Beyond the borders of the Roman Empire, cattle was currency. Large land owners sprung up with their own private armies and no government above them. They did whatever they wanted. The same happened on the Western frontier, where rich cattle barons hired their own private armies of Cowboys and threw their weight around. Only governments of the people, with their own militaries and law enforcement, put an end to it. Anarcho-capitalism is feudalism.
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  5845.  @jimbob9407  What stats are you looking at, dumb dumb? Mississippi is now the worst for covid deaths per capita, and you want to avoid the current trend stats.
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  5846.  @jimbob9407  Pretty sure it was explained to you how some states were hit hard, at first, but are currently trending better. Maybe Dumpty should have stopped all incoming travel, or isolated and tested everyone coming in, instead of just banning foreigners from coming in, and pretending American travellers were immune or something. Red counties are currently trending the worst. Red states shouldn't be moving up the ladder, at all, if their ongoing responses are best. Florida is moving up, as well.
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  5847.  @FuddlyDud  1) Covid measures have also reduced the number of flu cases, so you don't really have much of a point. 2) Complete bullshit. Numerous in lab tests show 50+% reduction in spray. Japan has kept their covid rate low heavily relying on mask use. China reported a 75+% reduction in covid cases amongst mask wearers. 3) These states have also not taken offered federal funds to help fund home schooling, or distance learning. All you've demonstrated is that you're full of it.
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  5848. Likud's bloody 100 year history ... In 1923, 100 years ago, Ze'ev Jabotinsky wrote, The Iron Wall, and a follow up, The Ethics of The Iron Wall (sooo racist towards Africans), in which he fully acknowledged that post Balfour Zionsim was colonialism, and that, based on the entirety of history, the native Palestinian population would resist being colonized until the bitter end. He directly compared it to the colonization of North America. He promoted doing it anyway, claiming Zionist colonialism was a "just" colonialism (he also thought North American colonialists were good guys, so not a great judge of morality), not caring what that meant for the native population. Ze'ev is important, because his Betar militant youth group helped found the Irgun terrorist group, along with other supporters of his, and the splinter Lehi terrorist group. The Irgun bombed numerous Palestinian markets and other public places, murdering many Palestinian civilians, including children, even including Palestinian Jews (who didn't support colonialist Zionsim). The Irgun are important, because they ended up being led by future Likud PM, Menachem Begin, who bombed the King David Hotel. The King David Hotel was bombed because the British had raided the Jewish Agency and seized numerous documents that may have shown that the terrorists were working with the JA and Haganah (JA liked to pretend that they didn't support the terrorism). The British then stored those documents at their base, in the hotel. That the Irgun terrorists responded to a JA raid, itself seems to prove the connection. That the thousands of Irgun (and Lehi) terrorists were also quickly merged into the new nation's military (IDF) and intelligence (Mossad) agencies, and are still celebrated as "heroes" by Israelis, to this day, also seems to support total collaboration between the groups. That other terrorist group mentioned, Lehi (also known as the Stern Gang), was considered even more extreme. They even tried to ally with the Nazis, against the British. Lehi ended up being led by Yitzhak Shamir, future Mossad agent, and another future Likud PM. In 1945, there was a major land and peoples survey done in Palestine. It showed that the Zionists only owned about 5% of the total land, 20% of the arable land, and owned a majority in zero districts. The partition was not only going to be forced on the native Palestinian majority, but Jews were still going to be a minority, in the part allocated to them. The only possible way to even become a "Jewish state" was going to require getting rid of the actual majority (at least enough so that there'd be a solid Jewish majority, so they could fake being democratic). This is also shown by the 1948, post Nakba, population of Israel. If there was 716,700 Jews, 156,000+ non-Jews, and approximately 700k non-Jews ethnically cleansed, that means the Jewish population, in the Zionist portion of partition, was originally over 100,000 less than the non-Jewish population. To believe that there was never any intent, by Zionists, to ethnically cleanse away the Palestinian majority would require believing that they never intended to create a "Jewish state". It's a nonsensical notion. Begin, and those terrorist groups, also opposed partition, but for the opposite reason Palestinians did. Palestinians didn't want to be colonized, at all. The terrorists wanted to colonize it all. "Moderate" Zionists were okay with colonizing half ... for now (what would happen in the future, after partition, was up to them, said Ben-Gurion). The Zionist terrorists were also involved in massacres, and assassinations, during the partition violence (colonialist war against the natives). Another notable future Likud PM, also started in the military, during the partition fighting. That was Ariel Sharon, war criminal, "Butcher of Beirut". Menachem Begin, and these other Zionist terrorists, are important because they became involved in Israeli politics, first forming Herut. That was the party that Albert Einstein, and other prominent American Jews, opposed, having a letter printed in the NYT, in December of 1948, when Begin came to visit the US. The letter opened ... "Among the most disturbing political phenomena of our times is the emergence in the newly created state of Israel of the "Freedom Party" (Tnuat Haherut), a political party closely akin in its organization, methods, political philosophy and social appeal to the Nazi and Fascist parties. It was formed out of the membership and following of the former Irgun Zvai Leumi, a terrorist, right-wing, chauvinist organization in Palestine." Herut merged with other extremist parties, over the years, and eventually became Likud, in the 70s. Now, people get upset over the slogan "From the river to the sea!", but it's the second part that's most important, "Palestine will be free!". Because "Palestine" isn't defined as an ethno-state, a free Palestine can be a single state, free for all to live in, and return to, free of continuing colonization, free of occupation, free of oppression, etc. Just like a Germany free of Nazism, an Italy free of fascism, a South Africa free of apartheid, or an America free of slavery from sea to shiny sea. It doesn't necessitate purging all the Jews. It just necessitates them giving up on the idea of an ethno-state. On the other hand, because "Israel" has been defined as an ethno-state, Likud's, "between the sea and the Jordan there will only be Israeli sovereignty", has no possible good interpretation. It is a declaration of intent to completely colonize, and ethnically cleanse, all Palestine territories. Not only that, but it also claims that they have a "right" to all of the "Land of Israel" (biblical borders that don't mesh with archaeological reality), which is an open declaration of future wars, against Jordan, Syria, Lebanon, and possibly even Iraq. Likud platform ... 1977: "The Right of the Jewish People to the Land of Israel (Eretz Israel) a. The right of the Jewish people to the land of Israel is eternal and indisputable and is linked with the right to security and peace; therefore, Judea and Samaria will not be handed to any foreign administration; between the Sea and the Jordan there will only be Israeli sovereignty. b. A plan which relinquishes parts of western Eretz Israel, undermines our right to the country, unavoidably leads to the establishment of a "Palestinian State," jeopardizes the security of the Jewish population, endangers the existence of the State of Israel. and frustrates any prospect of peace." "Settlement Settlement. both urban and rural. in all parts of the Land of Israel is the focal point of the Zionist effort to redeem the country, to maintain vital security areas and serves as a reservoir of strength and inspiration for the renewal of the pioneering spirit. The Likud government will call on the younger generation in Israel and the dispersions to settle and help every group and individual in the task of inhabiting and cultivating the wasteland, while taking care not to dispossess anyone." 1999: "The Government of Israel flatly rejects the establishment of a Palestinian Arab state west of the Jordan river. The Palestinians can run their lives freely in the framework of self-rule, but not as an independent and sovereign state. Thus, for example, in matters of foreign affairs, security, immigration, and ecology, their activity shall be limited in accordance with imperatives of Israel's existence, security and national needs." "The Jewish communities in Judea, Samaria, and Gaza are the realization of Zionist values. Settlement of the land is a clear expression of the unassailable right of the Jewish people to the Land of Israel and constitutes an important asset in the defense of the vital interests of the State of Israel. The Likud will continue to strengthen and develop these communities and will prevent their uprooting." All Palestine territories are officially considered occupied, by the International Court of Justice, the UN GA, the UN SC, and even in official documents of Israel's own allies. Likud is still using the blueprint for colonizing North America, in the West Bank. Move settlements out into native territory, piss off the natives, the natives retaliate, cry about poor "innocent" colonizing settlers being the "victims" of violent "Savages!", call in the cavalry to put down the native uprising, and eventually expand the borders to include those settlements. Rinse and repeat. In Gaza, Israel is operating an open air WWII style fascist ghetto. Them claiming a "right to defend themselves" would be like the Nazis claiming a "right to defend themselves " from the Warsaw ghetto uprising. There's no "war". That they're the occupiers means the "war" part is long over. Those people are actually supposed to be under the occupier's protection. That partition was forced upon the Palestinian majority, against their will ... that the Zionist portion still had to be forcefully ethnically cleansed of its non-Jewish majority, against their will ... that the millions of occupied Palestinians don't have a say in the government that truly rules over them, Israel's ... means Israel is about as democratic as Nazi Germany after Hitler purged his political opponents and then held elections.
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  5849.  @Name-jw4sj  You didn't take a neutral position. You made a counter claim, which needs its own citations.
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  5850.  @fisher5759  So, no such thing as anarchism, no such thing as democratic socialism, etc. Wow, you are so stupid. That's just a fact.
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  5851.  @oldcrowtj4937  Oh geezus You're braindead, as well.
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  5852.  @jimbo4612  The American Revolution came about when colonialists didn't want to pay a tax that was specifically to fund the police/military. They protested, rioted, tarred and feathered, destroyed private property, but the authorities just got more heavy handed. One of the last straws, was when those police/military, "fearing for their lives", shot violent protesters.
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  5853. This you, with the matching Twitter handle ... "You are going to Hell if you are not a member of our online church."? Hypocrite.
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  5854.  @Bishop_PastorRW  Yeah, "warning" people that they're going to be tortured for eternity, if they don't joint your church, specifically, is a little pushy, hypocrite.
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  5855. Bernie's plan is just fine. He's also promoting rehab over jail time, safe injection sites, etc. https://feelthebern.org/bernie-sanders-on-drug-policy/
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  5856. The legal asylum process accepts anyone who gets themselves inside the country, any which way. Also, citizens and "legal" immigrants, are more than twice as likely to commit crimes. Plus, a "legal" immigrant would just as likely be "replacing" a current citizen as an "illegal" one. Plus, 90% of drugs come across points of entry, and 86% of drug traffickers are American. So, what's the actual major gripe you have with "illegal" immigrants, if it's not simply racism?
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  5857. Like how they campaigned for Bernie, how they got the eviction moratorium extended, how AOC helped add more M4A yes votes to congress in the last election and campaigned for Nina to try and add one more, ... if that's what the establishment wants, maybe the establishment isn't so bad.
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  5858.  @dave4deputyZX  Someone with a club? We evolved physically in ways beyond earlier bipeds, that is only really explained by becoming long distance runners, persistence hunters. Starting with homo-erectus.
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  5859.  Derek Hitt  Weird, I never mentioned Trump. You seem to have connected him to anti-Semitism yourself.
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  5860.  Derek Hitt  Rofl. The Tea Party was backed by the Koch brothers.
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  5861.  @libertybell5796  Oh geezus. Ron Paul was literally the chairman for the Koch brothers' CSE. The CSE literally designed the first Tea Party website.
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  5862.  @libertybell5796  You don't recognize the name Benjamin Franklin? Jesus
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  5863.  @libertybell5796  Holy shit, dumbass. I provided links. It was during his second mission to England, while acting as the official agent for multiple states.
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  5864.  @libertybell5796  And James Otis Jr is the guy whose catchphrase you quoted, dummy. His "Taxation without representation is tyranny" became the "no taxation without representation" slogan.
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  5865.  Derek Hitt  You just keep proving you're the dumbest person in this thread. Learn the difference between "founders", in general, and celebritized "founding fathers".
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  5866.  Derek Hitt  Before full blown revolution. Hell, there was even an Olive Branch Petition sent to the king by founders, after fighting had broken out.
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  5867.  Derek Hitt  They all signed it. Founding a new nation, in the end, doesn't equate to calling for a new nation, from the get go.
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  5868.  @libertybell5796  Wtf? I said they were protesting and rioting against taxes from the get go, dimwit.
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  5869.  @libertybell5796  Nope. You have reading comprehension problems.
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  5870.  @offendedwokeperson1445  Can you make that make sense?
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  5871.  @thomashumphries7859  Top 5 state homicide rates: Louisiana Alabama Mississippi Missouri Alaska https://youtu.be/lj60OAh7O5U Top 5 state firearm mortality rates: Alaska Alabama Montana Louisiana Mississippi https://www.cdc.gov/nchs/pressroom/sosmap/firearm_mortality/firearm.htm
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  5872. @United Corporations Make 'Merika Slaves Again The most popular third party hasn't won a single seat in congress in its near 50 year existence. Meanwhile, the broader, 30 year old, progressive caucus is 10-15 seats from becoming the majority of house Dems. The 4 year old Justice Dems have filled about 10 seats. AOC has been at it about 2 years, just backed 20 other progressives with her platform and PAC, helped add a few more M4A yes votes to congress, and helped remove a few more corporate Dems. You want to start from scratch, with zero seats, because ... ?
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  5873.  @drrichardpaul  Umm, adding more M4A yes votes to congress, as AOC just helped do, gets you closer to M4A than a guaranteed to fail vote does. Dore knobs have since proved they do absolutely nothing with a list of no votes anyway. The $15 minimum got a vote, but they just keep whining about those who voted for it, rather than do anything about those who voted against.
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  5874. In terms of economics, the far left would actually be complete economic equality for all, and the total eradication of capitalism. Absolutely zero politicians run on such a platform. The far right would be calling for complete privatization of services ... Ayn Rand. There are politicians actually running on such platforms. Libertarians are far right, and there's no equivalent on the left, in US politics. Bernie is the centrist, pushing policies like centrist European countries, Canada, etc, where capitalism is still doing quite well. Democrats shifted, and have been right of centre for some time, and Republicans shifted even further right of them. The US still hasn't recovered from McCarthyism and the Red Scare. The US was also 40% unionized in the early 50s, with those unions lobbying for workers. It's currently at about 10% unionized, with politicians and corporations trying to destroy the largest union left ... the teachers union ... by pushing to privatize schools. There is barely a worker lobby left to go up against the corporate lobby.
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  5875.  @d33j4ybf  There were draft indictments/charges, but Ford gave him a blanket pardon, before he was officially charged with crimes. https://www.newsweek.com/grand-jury-indict-richard-nixon-watergate-1195613
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  5876.  @justrodriguez21  Uh huh, corporate Dems come after all progressives. How does slandering other progressives help with that?
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  5877. ​ @GrantPearson  Just not using the Andrew Yang method. A VAT doesn't do what he said, at all.
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  5878. Multiple studies have shown they are.
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  5879. So, only centrism? Is that real world centrism, or US centrism?
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  5880. Except states with less gun control tend to have higher firearm mortality rates and higher homicide rates. Don't expect some fantasy of 0 rate for both. California's firearm mortality rate is over 3x lower than Alaska's.
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  5881.  @samsom4122  No. You seem to be the stupid one. The first amendment, for example, applies to federal, state, and local governments. If a state or local government can mandate vaccines, then it doesn't violate constitutional rights. Your rights aren't violated, only if the federal government does it. A constitutional right also protects the individual. If they can mandate vaccines against any number of individuals, then it doesn't violate constitutional rights. One person or every person, doesn't matter. It's you that's deflecting, and trying to narrow things down to irrelevant specifics.
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  5882.  @Demon1800e  Wrong. They also force medicate people in government run hospitals and prisons, as well as demand adult immigrants be vaccinated.
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  5883.  @jodyclancy5995  Johnson: There aren't enough people to keep SS and Medicare afloat, due to abortion and the loss of 63m able bodied workers. Able bodied workers cross the border. Also Johnson: Not that kind!
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  5884. Trump's base will be dead by November.
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  5885.  @daftwod  So, you're making an argument for cleansing America of those who don't believe in gay rights?
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  5886. Shouldn't they walk the walk, live off the grid, and not use anything paid for, or subsidized, by the government?
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  5887. Because they're still considered occupied, and have no control over their borders, airspace, or ports.
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  5888.  @brian8507  Would you idiot right wingers stop with the Chicago nonsense. It's 33rd for violent crimes per capita. Red states, where it's easier to get guns, tend to have higher firearm mortality rates and higher homicide rates. 7 of the top ten most violent cities are in red states.
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  5889. It's a garbage poll, that's getting all kinds of flack.
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  5890.  @rojobackape1669  Over 95% of our truckers were busy working, and not involved in blockading the country, so nothing happened to their accounts. Foreign donations to people who were calling to overthrow the government should be seized.
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  5891. ​ @dtsai  In 1918, Ben-Gurion fully acknowledged that Zionism is colonialism. In 1923, Ze'ev Jabotinsky fully acknowledged that Zionism is colonialism. He also predicted, based on the entirety of history, that the natives would fight it until the bitter end. He just didn't care what happened to them. Colonizers pull the first brick. Colonizers are never not the aggressors.
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  5892.  @R.B.90  I'd say skip, for Canadian teams that are part of the same "national" league.
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  5893.  @goonerboz6023  Dore knobs say bitching from your garage on social media is fighting. Make up your minds. Pretty sure I mentioned other things, as well, dimwit.
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  5894.  @corsoconner  My strategy? To never promote the worst of fascists (those that he's supposedly against) as the better option for progressives, because that's beyond moronic. Not to go completely backwards as they try to throw millions of the poorest Americans off Medicaid expansion, try to remove women's choice, try to remove anti-discrimination laws, try to remove environmental protection laws, etc., etc., etc. Maybe get a small step forward by adding millions to Medicare expansion. Not completely ditching the 30 year old broader progressive caucus as it's about 10 seats away from becoming the majority of house Dems. Not completely ditching the 4 year old Justice Dems, who have added about a dozen of the most progressive members. Not ditching AOC, who just helped add a few more progressives. Not take the third party route that hasn't won the most popular third party a single seat in congress in going on 50 years, which could just have completely backwards Republicans rule for decades, even if you did manage to peel away enough progressive votes, and still didn't get a single seat for it. Glenn has gone nuts, and Dore was a complete coward in front of West, when West talked fondly of Bernie and other progressives. He didn't jump into his slander routine, calling Bernie, and others, fakes and sellouts, in front of him.
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  5895. It's like the Bush Sr Iran-Contra pardons.
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  5896.  @ElkSlayer8172  I saw pictures of people riding a quaint trolley, through the Warsaw ghetto. Weird, I thought it was an open air prison, but since there was a nice thing in it, I guess it wasn't. We were all lied to.
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  5897.  @banparlous2552  A VAT won't do that for you, though. If my business has spent $100 (for 100 miles of automated shipping) + $10 input VAT, that $100 shipping cost will be included in my pricing. The consumer would then pay $10 VAT on that $100 cost, which my business gets to reclaim. A VAT is a sales tax, collected in stages, and the business stages all get to reclaim their input VAT. You, the consumers would be the ones paying a tax on every automated truck mile.
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  5898.  @jayasri6764  Any of you conservatives pretending like you're Spock, or Data, are complete idiots. That's just a fact. Even those characters weren't accurate to reality. In reality, one's objectivity actually makes zero decisions in life. Every decision is based on what one does, and/or doesn't value ... one's subjectivity. Shapiro values something over people, which is why he doesn't want others to value people. Shapiro is a hypocritical douchebag that wants policies to have empathy for brainless fetuses, but not for thinking, feeling, developed human beings. Pushing contradictions is an indication he is, factually, an idiot.
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  5899.  @NewNormalWorldOrder  And I never said "all". I said "a vast majority". Do you have severe reading comprehension problems, on top of being dense?
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  5900.  @braytonlife  So, you think flat earthers, young earthers, ... shouldn't be treated like idiots? Every "debate" is valid?
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  5901. Kobe isn't even top 20, by win shares per 48 min ... https://www.basketball-reference.com/leaders/ws_per_48_career.html Nor is he top 20 by PER ... https://www.basketball-reference.com/leaders/per_career.html
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  5902. ​ @scottfirman  Ironic. Kamala Coolaide is cool. MAGA Koolaid is not.
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  5903.  @emanueljcruz  He only has it stacking with SSDI, not SSI.
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  5904.  @macro8236  The guy used to wear a bowtie. He was born with boomer mentality. Also, he's only a few years off the back end of boomer, age wise. Not exactly "nowhere near".
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  5905.  Juanito G  You moron. You've got things completely backwards. With almost any other crime, police accept the reported crime, and start investigating, as if a crime has happened. With rape, many police departments have been criticized for starting to question the victim, immediately. When has anyone said they were mugged, and have others start asking them if they're sure they didn't give the person the money, only to regret it later?
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  5906.  @Chris4Liberty  The US was founded by people who protested, rioted, tarred and feathered, destroyed private property, all because they didn't want to pay an extra tax specifically to fund the police/military. They got extra pissed when the police/military, "fearing for their lives", shot violent protesters.
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  5907.  @dollcrazy300  Appalachia? Are half those relations the same person?
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  5908.  @jane82381  There is always a tiny percentage of voter fraud, like the Pennsylvania guy who voted Trump for his dead mother. It's usually dealt with behind the scenes, and after the election, because hundreds of votes is irrelevant to the outcome, and a drop in the bucket compared to 150m votes cast. Bringing it to the forefront, and making a big show out of it, before conceding, is just wasting everyone's time. It's propaganda.
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  5909.  quadir1  If some people think not wearing a seatbelt, speeding, and drinking and driving, are some kind of glorious fight for their rights, then they're idiots. Absolutely zero people are claiming we're all going to die, or even a majority will die. That's just a stupid strawman, spouted by someone with shit for brains.
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  5910. Umm, SSRS is a C+ pollster. Not very accurate polling.
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  5911.  @Canvashed  Do you likewise make no distinction between the Irgun and Lehi trrrst founders of Likud, who Einstein likened to Fscsts and Nzs, and Isrls?
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  5912. Those morons don't seem to recall that the revolution happened because people were pissed about an extra tax that was specifically to fund the police/military. In reaction, they protested, rioted, tarred and feathered, destroyed private property, and got even more pissed off when those police/military, "fearing for their lives", shot violent protesters. They're actually on the side of King George III, who considered those protesters to be traitors to the crown, and terrorists.
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  5913.  @paulsmith7579  No, dumb dumb. He said child covid hospitalization rates are overblown, and that kids are being admitted for other things, before testing positive. He did not say that same thing was happening in any significant way, with adults. And, how is it you think that would affect the death rate, exactly?
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  5914. Preparing for if the US goes full on fascist?
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  5915. Rofl, have you Trump cultists actually read the transcript? Nothing much is different, just because he didn't use the exact word "fraud".
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  5916. Did you ask yourself why, a far right platform, with Peter Thiel as a primary investor, who is backing taking the Republican party further fascist, would pay for people like Rogan, Glenn Greenwald, Tulsi, Jimmy Dore, to join their site?
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  5917. Haven't you been paying attention to your cult leader? He's going around saying he wants to make a pledge of allegiance to Israel mandatory to get in the country, ffs.
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  5918. Trump isn't for Palestinians, lol. He has been pandering to the most extremist Jews all along, claiming Dem voting Jews don't love Israel.
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  5919.  @snwlooner  British India: 27m; Holocaust victims (including non Jews): 15+m; Mideast and Atlantic slave trade: 30+m; Conquest of the Americas: 15+m; Congo: 10m; Christian nuts in China: 20m ... Didn't even have to try very hard, or dig below 10m.
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  5920. There's a difference between saying a VAT generates revenue ... it does ... and saying a VAT will tax businesses ... it won't. A VAT is specifically designed to NOT tax businesses in order to avoid double taxation. Anyone promoting a tax that's designed to not tax businesses, as a way to tax businesses, is completely clueless or completely dishonest.
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  5921. Pretty sure she was long gone, when she got paid to join Peter Thiel funded Rumble, along with Glenn Greenwald and Jimmy Dore. If not, before that even.
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  5922.  @blogintonblakley2708  Thinking the FBI, the DNC, Australian officials, a Republican investigator, and other Republicans, were all in cahoots to fabricate a Russia story, in an attempt to make Mike Pence president, is the looney conspiracy theory, Dore knob. The Mueller report included some 200 pages of information sharing (collusion), that didn't rise to the level of criminal conspiracy, and stated Jr and Kushner weren't charged with criminal conspiracy because it would be hard to prove they "willfully" broke the law, not because they didn't break the law. There have also been hundreds of accounts of Syrian chemical weapons use, since 2013. Two dissenting opinions, on a single report, doesn't actually debunk that report, let alone all the other accounts and investigations. That single investigation wasn't even started before the US and others had bombed Syria, it doesn't actually assign blame as per Russia's UN demand, and the final report didn't come out until almost a year after Syria was bombed. That no blame assigning report, that Dore and Mate kept crying about, had absolutely nothing to do with anyone's decision to bomb Syria. There was also another use of chemical weapons, just the month before, which had a no blame assigning investigation with zero dissenting opinions, and also had a follow up blame assigning investigation with zero dissenting opinions that did find Syria to blame.
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  5923.  @blogintonblakley2708  My bad. You're right. At least one of the studies in the meta analysis (an analysis of data from other "studies" isn't itself a study, ffs) was peer reviewed and found to be fraudulent, and pulled from publications. Since you seem to have troubles telling the difference between "from the NIH" and from someone else, but in an NIH database ... From the NIH: "There is insufficient evidence for the COVID-19 Treatment Guidelines Panel (the Panel) to recommend either for or against the use of ivermectin for the treatment of COVID-19. Results from adequately powered, well-designed, and well-conducted clinical trials are needed to provide more specific, evidence-based guidance on the role of ivermectin in the treatment of COVID-19." "However, most of these studies had incomplete information and significant methodological limitations, which make it difficult to exclude common causes of bias." "Because most of these studies have significant limitations, the Panel cannot draw definitive conclusions on the clinical efficacy of ivermectin for the treatment of COVID-19. Results from adequately powered, well-designed, and well-conducted clinical trials are needed to provide further guidance on the role of ivermectin in the treatment of COVID-19."
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  5924. Do you even know what was in the final version of the bill?
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  5925. ​ @chillywilly3102  These are the same kind of people who support authoritarian police, defend police shootings, and make out like protests and property destruction are unAmerican, while they glorify the people involved in the American revolution, who participated in protests, riots, property destruction, and see authoritarian red coats shooting protesters as a bad thing. They don't live in a coherent reality.
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  5926.  Don Martin  Weren't you lot okay with sending all kids to patriotic bullshit school for programming?
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  5927.  @lucasssw4590  Nah, why don't you tell me which ones have made laws declaring they are a state for specific ethnicities.
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  5928.  @lucasssw4590  So, no laws openly declaring themselves an ethnocracy ... no laws allowing for rcist organizations to operate ... What's your argument? If there's simply an ethnic majority, mostly running things, then it's an ethno-state? Wouldn't that garbage definition apply to almost every country?
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  5929.  @antipositivism3128  That's your definition of direct democracy ... mob rule?
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  5930.  @X2LR8  But the song didn't mention their ethnicity, race, or gender. It didn't even mention the boy's ethnicity or race. It simply called out a "racist sexist boy". The identity politics seems to be in your own head.
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  5931.  Jordan B  Rudy is busy with his own legal troubles, atm.
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  5932.  @GoogleAccount-ev2hq  Shove the strawman bullshit. I didn't call them saints, perfect, or anything of the sort. Simply a fact that the Dore knob "plan" wasn't risk free. Not surprising, since the guy doesn't even have a clue how the vote actually works.
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  5933. @Majorminor3rd Trump isn't doing economic warfare? He says he'll keep uping the tariffs if Canada does likewise, and has stated the way out is to be effectively conquered and become a 51st state.
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  5934.  mike Michel  35 people charged. Jr and Kushner only not charged because they're morons. Obstruction laid out, but couldn't charge a sitting president. That "hoax"?
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  5935.  @uooooooooh  Republicans are the more genocidal party. "Finish the job" to Israel, and "do whatever he wants" to Russia. Trump also stated he wants a pledge of allegiance to Israel. He has stated he wants to reinstate and expand his Muslim ban. Plus the Republican attacks on women and minority groups. So, you'll effectively not be voting against any of that.
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  5936.  @1MarkKeller  Yeah, it reads like an open declaration of future war, against Jordan, Syria, and Lebanon, at least. "Land of Israel" refers to the Biblical borders, not the current Israel.
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  5937.  @moe433  No you aren't.
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  5938. ​ @rafaelpena4269  Letting Trump win is also part of the moral dilemma.
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  5939. You are dumber than a stump. It is the Republican run state legislatures that decide on state voting procedures. It was them who decided not to count absentee ballots until after in person voting. And then Republicans turn around and whine about counting those ballots after in person ballots? You lot are outright lunatics, at this point.
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  5940. Or decent beer.
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  5941.  @frbe0101  Unless more and more people vote for third parties, and grow those parties.
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  5942.  Matt Vine  Those are the districts that now have the most cases, hospitalizations, and deaths, per capita. You don't think it's weird?
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  5943.  Matt Vine  Yep. Can you? https://www.brookings.edu/blog/fixgov/2021/07/29/covid-19-is-crushing-red-states-why-isnt-trump-turning-his-rallies-into-mass-vaccination-sites/
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  5944.  Matt Vine  Can you? https://www.nytimes.com/interactive/2021/04/17/us/vaccine-hesitancy-politics.html
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  5945. Right. If you expected 100% protection, then you're stupid. If you don't know the risks increase for people constantly dealing with the infected, then you're stupid.
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  5946. ​ @jasonpk2267  Ironic, since the people right wingers call "commies", haven't put forward any policies that would move the US left of Denmark. Meanwhile, they've supported overthrowing the democratic process, in the US at least, to try and install an unelected dictator ... making them objectively fascist.
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  5947. @Matthew Hopkins Well that's bullshit. A number of nations had banned importing slaves into their nation proper, and/or had laws outright banning slavery, altogether, within their nation proper. It was slavery in their colonies, not within their national borders, where slavery was legal.
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  5948.  @tacitus6384  You have verified comprehension problems.
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  5949.  @BoostedS650  Yes, you do live in a representational democracy, dummy.
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  5950.  @keithe1334  Dore knob.
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  5951. Rudy will be out of places he can practice law, before it gets to court.
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  5952.  @jj947  Divorce!
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  5953.  @sauravjha3262  "MAGA" literally says that America isn't currently great. The entire cult says they don't like America.
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  5954.  @justinmcfarland5226  You're a nutbar.
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  5955.  @xLuis89x  Sam has debated numerous people. One anecdote, that you don't like, isn't evidence of the norm. Plus, he didn't bring co-hosts, unless you count Ethan, and Crowder had his own sidekick.
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  5956.  @jacobwright6195  The guy was sitting to Crowder's left, and moved over to Crowder's right. How the hell is that being "by himself". You're the one lying. Seder has been an MSNBC co-host, his firing and rehiring was covered by MSM in the US and even in Canada, he has guested on shows with much higher viewership than Crowder's, he has been on Carlson and debated with Carlson and more prominent right wingers than Crowder, he has a syndicated radio show on stations across the country, the MR is on Peacock ... this making out like Crowder is much better known is bullshit, based simply on what ... YouTube subs?
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  5957. They seem to have never turned the page, to Romans 2.
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  5958.  Alabama Man 2.0  Right from the Gallup page.
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  5959.  Alabama Man 2.0  Latest data.
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  5960. Make DC and Puerto Rico states, and add 4 more senate seats.
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  5961. She just used her platform and PAC to help get more pro-M4A progressives elected to congress, going against DCCC backed corporate Dems, you Dore knobs. You know, adding more yes votess to congress being that thing you have to do to ever pass a bill ... that thing you'd still have to do even if you got a vote that failed. Here's a great idea ... slander the most progressive politicians in congress, go third party with dummy Dore, and not get a seat in congress in the next 50 years, let alone get M4A. Maybe it could be just popular enough to split the progressive vote, hand the Dem party totally back to corporate Dems, and let Republicans rule for decades. Sounds fucking awesome ... if your a Republican.
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  5962. Look at the covid death rate in Peru. You'll find it at #1 in the world.
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  5963. Oh geez. He spouted bullshit about a law he had already been living and working under for years, because it was already Ontario law, and already law in many other provinces. It was simply being adopted by the federal government. In all those provinces, for all those years, he couldn't provide an actual example of the things he fear mongered about.
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  5964. No it's not, dummy. Men should be able to control themselves, if they see a miniskirt. It's their fault, if they attack a woman in a miniskirt. Viruses can't control themselves. They're out to spread. Are you actually trying to argue men are like viruses, and are all rapists, just waiting for an opening? It's more like a car crash. Not something people intentionally try to do. And, if you were the one following all the safety precautions, and rules of the road, then you're not at fault. But, if you're the one not wearing your seatbelt, speeding, and driving drunk, then you are at fault. The later is Trump. He's an idiot who shouldn't be allowed on the road.
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  5965.  @henrywallace2257  Sure as hell not by actually promoting Trump over Clinton, like Dore did.
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  5966.  @henrywallace2257  Nope. He said Trump was far worse, and then used that to argue he was the better option for progressives. He vastly overestimated the benefits, claiming it would result in a massive progressive backlash, that would "for sure" lead to progressives taking the house (didn't happen) and senate (didn't happen), in 2018, and the presidency (didn't happen), in 2020. He vastly underestimated the risks, claiming even Republicans would join the left to vote against a Trump agenda (didn't happen), rather than follow him into all out fascism (did happen), and that Trump filling multiple scotus seats (did happen) was as likely as the moon falling into Lake Michigan (hasn't happened, still waiting).
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  5967.  @Gaius_Julius_Caesar_Augustus  Mike Johnson: "As a result, the lives of more than 63 million American children have been lost… You think about the implications of that on the economy. We’re all struggling here to cover the bases of Social Security and Medicare and Medicaid and all the rest. If we had all those able-bodied workers in the economy, we wouldn’t be going upside down and toppling over like this." : Able bodied workers cross the border. Mike Johnson: Not those kind!
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  5968.  @juliering6653  What did Sanders lie about?
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  5969.  @juliering6653  It's about his press secretary. What did Sanders lie about?
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  5970.  Stimulus Dragon  Think the "you guys" meant Americans, the US, in general.
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  5971.  @cometclear  But, if the US was siding with the more secular Afghanis, and the Taliban are the religious extremists, then isn't it most likely that the more religious Afghanis want to stay and the more secular ones want to leave? Seems stupid to use a survey of all Afghanis, rather than a survey of just the ones who want to leave. The entire 40% they referred to could be amongst the Taliban, and none amongst refugees.
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  5972.  @biokido575  If gender = sex, then how come people call cars and boats "she"? How come billions of people call a formless, penisless, invisible god friend "he"?
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  5973. ​ @GTKJNow  How is a relationship with someone who only spent parts of holidays with their kid, since they were 7, comparable to a spouse, who a person has promised to spend their life with and (most people anyway) sees daily?
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  5974.  @ItsKDHN  You keep forgetting Peru, which now has the highest covid deaths per capita in the world. An ivermectin miracle.
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  5975.  @ItsKDHN  It also exploited the pathetically low testing rate (tests per confirmed case), and the higher percentage of idiot anti-maskers, etc. The US obesity rate is only 6% higher than New Zealand, but New Zealand's covid deaths per capita would translate into under 20k total US covid deaths. They quickly had a very high testing rate, and adhered to rules much better.
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  5976.  @riheg  Which "media"? https://theintercept.com/2020/04/09/coronavirus-stimulus-package-congress-vote/
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  5977. Awww, 7 months and not a single laugh for you. :(
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  5978.  @shaquandradestinyfreeman87  Nah ... pictures of actual children who were victims of priests molesting them.
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  5979.  @shaquandradestinyfreeman87  What drugs are you on?
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  5980. The later.
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  5981.  @timonsolus  Were they native to it? Pretty sure the Germans conquered the Old Prussians, Bohemia was ruled from Prague, and Silesia was part of the Republic of Poland. Are you suggesting ethnically cleansing the Israelis?
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  5982.  @slewone4905  You're just plain lying. There was a massive land and peoples survey done in 1945. Jews only owned 5% of the land and were a majority in no region. Arabs owned the majority of land in all but 3 regions, a plurality in 2 of those, and the public only owned the majority in Beersheba.
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  5983.  @therussiantrollnetwork7464  You're a dimwit who doesn't seem to grasp that Nazis considered Aryan a race. Any non Aryan had their rights stripped away. Whether they were right, or wrong, about Aryan being a race doesn't change the fact that their ideology was racist.
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  5984.  @therussiantrollnetwork7464  Did you fail to Google whether Nazis thought Jews were a different race? "It is a sign of their rising confidence and sense of security that at a time when one section is still playing the German, Frenchman, or Englishman, the other with open effrontery comes out as the Jewish race." ~ Hitler
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  5985.  @therussiantrollnetwork7464  Because the topic is whether Hitler and Nazis were racists, dimwit. Any other definition of race, except theirs, is what's irrelevant, ffs.
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  5986.  @PotentialThall  Holy hell. Nazis didn't just look at people, and consider only tall, blonde, blue eyed, people to be Aryans, ffs. They actually did genealogy, to prove ones Aryan, or "German and kindred blood", lines. 3+ German (or related) grandparents, and you're an acceptable German. 3+ non German (or related) grandparents, and you're not an acceptable German. 50/50, and you were considered mixed race. You dimwits seem to be completely clueless as to the Nuremberg Laws.
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  5987.  @PotentialThall  They rounded up non practicing Jews, and even those who had converted to Christianity, based on their genealogy. They literally made it not at all about religion.
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  5988.  @PotentialThall  They literally defined someone's Jewishness, defined someone as being of the "Jewish race", by their genealogy, and not by their religion. That is how the Nazis socially constructed race, in Nazi Germany.
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  5989.  @rouskeycarpel1436  Nazis didn't give a crap if someone converted. They literally made laws deciding Jewishness based on heritage, alone.
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  5990.  @rouskeycarpel1436  Rofl. It doesn't matter if they were "wrong". They considered them a different race, therefore racism.
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  5991.  @PotentialThall  I'm not ignoring anything. Your eyeballing argument is nonsensical. Even "race scientists" of the times didn't make it that simplistic. If race is a social construct, then how is the way Nazis constructed race any more right, or wrong, than the other stupid ways people constructed race?
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  5992.  @rouskeycarpel1436  Arguing Nazis were "wrong" and arguing they weren't racist towards Jews, are two different things. They literally used laws to create a Jewish "race" on their books, and then discriminated against said "race". How is that not the Nazis being racist? What do you consider ethnic discrimination, if not a form of racism? "The UN Convention on the Elimination of All Forms of Racial Discrimination prohibits discrimination on the basis of race, skin colour, descent or national or ethnic origin."
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  5993.  @PotentialThall  I've made the same point, all along. Haven't moved once. Millions of Germans followed Nazi ideology. Nazi laws literally said Jewish was a race. Individual countries can have their own social constructs, ffs. The entire world doesn't have to agree. Laws are social constructs. Not all countries agree on exactly the same laws. Nazi Germany's laws stated Jews were a race. Hitler still had the supposed Aryan genealogy, dimwit. It wasn't purely about eyeballing, which you keep going to. Nobody had to be tall, blonde, and blue eyed, to get their Aryan certificate.
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  5994.  @kundakaps  When the discussion is Nazis, and whether they were racist towards Jews, how those Nazis determined race is the only thing that matters. They considered someone a Jew, based on heritage, not religion, and considered them a different race.
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  5995.  @therussiantrollnetwork7464  To Nazis, yes, Jewish was a race. How are you so dimwitted?
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  5996.  @kundakaps  The Nazis literally defined who a Jew and a German was in the Nuremberg Laws, ffs, and spelled out that they considered Jews to be a different race. You're clueless.
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  5997. All the former convicts that couldn't vote.
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  5998.  @felwinter7883  The weather underground was condemned. The bombing was condemned. The FBI tried to solve the case but nobody cracked. It's not like the two bombers were taking selfies and posting them, as they were committing the crime, and the FBI just ignored them.
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  5999.  @jimbob9407  Their goal was to stop the certification of the election, overthrow the democratic process, and install an unelected dictator. The majority of Republican lawmakers had the same goal. Tens of millions of Republican voters want that same outcome. They may not have had a well thought out plan, but they did have a fairly cohesive tactic and goal.
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  6000.  @ZereayM  There are plenty of Christians behaving badly, Hindus behaving badly, Jews behaving badly, even atheistic Buddhists behaving badly, socialists behaving badly, capitalists behaving badly, Americans behaving badly, Mexicans behaving badly, etc, etc., etc. There's a difference between Islamophobes portraying all Muslims and Islam in a singular horrible light, and simply acknowledging that there are some Muslims behaving badly.
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  6001.  @zachdave2994   @zachdave2994  Lol, you're like someone arguing a medium, or minimum, security prison, isn't a prison. Likud's bloody 100 year history ... In 1923, 100 years ago, Ze'ev Jabotinsky wrote, The Iron Wall, and a follow up, The Ethics of The Iron Wall (sooo racist towards Africans), in which he fully acknowledged that post Balfour Zionsim was colonialism, and that, based on the entirety of history, the native Palestinian population would resist being colonized until the bitter end. He directly compared it to the colonization of North America. He promoted doing it anyway, claiming Zionist colonialism was a "just" colonialism (he also thought North American colonialists were good guys, so not a great judge of morality), not caring what that meant for the native population. Ze'ev is important, because his Betar militant youth group helped found the Irgun terrorist group, along with other supporters of his, and the splinter Lehi terrorist group. The Irgun bombed numerous Palestinian markets and other public places, murdering many Palestinian civilians, including children, even including Palestinian Jews (who didn't support colonialist Zionsim). The Irgun are important, because they ended up being led by future Likud PM, Menachem Begin, who bombed the King David Hotel. The King David Hotel was bombed because the British had raided the Jewish Agency and seized numerous documents that may have shown that the terrorists were working with the JA and Haganah (JA liked to pretend that they didn't support the terrorism). The British then stored those documents at their base, in the hotel. That the Irgun terrorists responded to a JA raid, itself seems to prove the connection. That the thousands of Irgun (and Lehi) terrorists were also quickly merged into the new nation's military (IDF) and intelligence (Mossad) agencies, and are still celebrated as "heroes" by Israelis, to this day, also seems to support total collaboration between the groups. That other terrorist group mentioned, Lehi (also known as the Stern Gang), was considered even more extreme. They even tried to ally with the Nazis, against the British. Lehi ended up being led by Yitzhak Shamir, future Mossad agent, and another future Likud PM. They assassinated Lord Moyne, and others. In 1945, there was a major land and peoples survey done in Palestine. It showed that the Zionists only owned about 5% of the total land, 20% of the arable land, and owned a majority in zero districts. The partition was not only going to be forced on the native Palestinian majority, but Jews were still going to be a minority, in the part allocated to them. The only possible way to even become a "Jewish state" was going to require getting rid of the actual majority (at least enough so that there'd be a solid Jewish majority, so they could fake being democratic). This is also shown by the 1948, post Nakba, population of Israel. If there was 716,700 Jews, 156,000+ non-Jews, and approximately 700k non-Jews ethnically cleansed, that means the Jewish population, in the Zionist portion of partition, was originally over 100,000 less than the non-Jewish population. To believe that there was never any intent, by Zionists, to ethnically cleanse away the Palestinian majority would require believing that they never intended to create a "Jewish state". It's a nonsensical notion. Begin, and those terrorist groups, also opposed partition, but for the opposite reason Palestinians did. Palestinians didn't want to be colonized, at all. The terrorists wanted to colonize it all. "Moderate" Zionists were okay with colonizing half ... for now (what would happen in the future, after partition, was up to them, said Ben-Gurion). The Zionist terrorists were also involved in massacres, and assassinations, during the partition violence (colonialist war against the natives). Another notable future Likud PM, also started in the military, during the partition fighting. That was Ariel Sharon, war criminal, "Butcher of Beirut". Menachem Begin, and these other Zionist terrorists, are important because they became involved in Israeli politics, first forming Herut. That was the party that Albert Einstein, and other prominent American Jews, opposed, having a letter printed in the NYT, in December of 1948, when Begin came to visit the US. The letter opened ... "Among the most disturbing political phenomena of our times is the emergence in the newly created state of Israel of the "Freedom Party" (Tnuat Haherut), a political party closely akin in its organization, methods, political philosophy and social appeal to the Nazi and Fascist parties. It was formed out of the membership and following of the former Irgun Zvai Leumi, a terrorist, right-wing, chauvinist organization in Palestine." Herut merged with other extremist parties, over the years, and eventually became Likud, in the 70s. Now, people get upset over the slogan "From the river to the sea!", but it's the second part that's most important, "Palestine will be free!". Because "Palestine" isn't defined as an ethno-state, a free Palestine can be a single state, free for all to live in, and return to, free of continuing colonization, free of occupation, free of oppression, etc. Just like a Germany free of Nazism, an Italy free of fascism, a South Africa free of apartheid, or an America free of slavery from sea to shiny sea. It doesn't necessitate purging all the Jews. It just necessitates them giving up on the idea of an ethno-state. On the other hand, because "Israel" has been defined as an ethno-state, Likud's, "between the sea and the Jordan there will only be Israeli sovereignty", has no possible good interpretation. It is a declaration of intent to completely colonize, and ethnically cleanse, all Palestine territories. Not only that, but it also claims that they have a "right" to all of the "Land of Israel" (biblical borders that don't mesh with archaeological reality), which is an open declaration of future wars, against Jordan, Syria, Lebanon, and possibly even Iraq. Likud platform ... 1977: "The Right of the Jewish People to the Land of Israel (Eretz Israel) a. The right of the Jewish people to the land of Israel is eternal and indisputable and is linked with the right to security and peace; therefore, Judea and Samaria will not be handed to any foreign administration; between the Sea and the Jordan there will only be Israeli sovereignty. b. A plan which relinquishes parts of western Eretz Israel, undermines our right to the country, unavoidably leads to the establishment of a "Palestinian State," jeopardizes the security of the Jewish population, endangers the existence of the State of Israel. and frustrates any prospect of peace." "Settlement Settlement. both urban and rural. in all parts of the Land of Israel is the focal point of the Zionist effort to redeem the country, to maintain vital security areas and serves as a reservoir of strength and inspiration for the renewal of the pioneering spirit. The Likud government will call on the younger generation in Israel and the dispersions to settle and help every group and individual in the task of inhabiting and cultivating the wasteland, while taking care not to dispossess anyone." 1999: "The Government of Israel flatly rejects the establishment of a Palestinian Arab state west of the Jordan river. The Palestinians can run their lives freely in the framework of self-rule, but not as an independent and sovereign state. Thus, for example, in matters of foreign affairs, security, immigration, and ecology, their activity shall be limited in accordance with imperatives of Israel's existence, security and national needs." "The Jewish communities in Judea, Samaria, and Gaza are the realization of Zionist values. Settlement of the land is a clear expression of the unassailable right of the Jewish people to the Land of Israel and constitutes an important asset in the defense of the vital interests of the State of Israel. The Likud will continue to strengthen and develop these communities and will prevent their uprooting." All Palestine territories are officially considered occupied, by the International Court of Justice, the UN GA, the UN SC, and even in official documents of Israel's own allies. Likud is still using the blueprint for colonizing North America, in the West Bank. Move settlements out into native territory, piss off the natives, the natives retaliate, cry about poor "innocent" colonizing settlers being the "victims" of violent "Savages!", call in the cavalry to put down the native uprising, and eventually expand the borders to include those settlements. Rinse and repeat. In Gaza, Israel is operating an open air WWII style fascist ghetto. Them claiming a "right to defend themselves" would be like the Nazis claiming a "right to defend themselves " from the Warsaw ghetto uprising. There's no "war". That they're the occupiers means the "war" part is long over. Those people are actually supposed to be under the occupier's protection. That partition was forced upon the Palestinian majority, against their will ... that the Zionist portion still had to be forcefully ethnically cleansed of its non-Jewish majority, against their will ... that the millions of occupied Palestinians don't have a say in the government that truly rules over them, Israel's ... means Israel is about as democratic as Nazi Germany after Hitler purged his political opponents and then held elections.
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  6002.  @zachdave2994  Nope. I only mentioned a ghto. You're the one who compared that to an exterm camp. You're the one who needs to seek help ... at least with your reading comprehension.
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  6003.  @zachdave2994  Lol. You made a single comment. I made a reply, never mentioning Norm. Then you went on completely irrelevant tangents, arguing with strawmen of your own making, never refuting a thing I said. I kept telling you, that you were deflecting, and not addressing what I actually said. I didn't argue against your irrelevant deflections, at all. You need to find a second brain cell, so you can at least rub two together.
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  6004.  @zachdave2994  No clue why you keep yapping about who is worse. Just a fact that IL controls Gz's borders, airspace, ports, electricity, water, imports/exports, who goes in and out, and even the money from Qtr, which Bibi has stopped and started multiple times. Just a fact that Likud's own platform states the Pal territories are not, and never will be, independent. Just a fact that all the relevant international bodies consider the Pal territories all occpied. Just a fact that it is an open air ghto.
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  6005.  @Thedemotivator  They aren't against M4A. Stop conflating being opposed to a tactic with being opposed to the goal. When the vote fails, then you'll have to do the hard work of getting more progressives in congress ... exactly what AOC's PAC just helped do. Just skip the pointless vote and backstabbing, and help her get more progressives elected.
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  6006.  @KingoftheJuice18  This isn't a mental health thing. This is an ideology thing. The more capitalism and more authoritarianism, or their opposites, it moves your position on a political compass. Which of those doesn't apply to Cruz?
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  6007.  @KingoftheJuice18  What, exactly, do you think the bulk of fascists are, if not ignorant, misinformed, and deeply misguided people? I mean, we released the bulk of them back into the world, and they went about their business.
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  6008. Look up the Rafah border crossing, dumb dumb. Egypt doesn't control it.
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  6009.  @B88-h6n  Used to be. Now it's handled by an EU force, for Israel. And, only people are allowed through. All goods must go through Israel.
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  6010. Shouldn't anyone who supports Likud, and Netanyahu, be censured? Likud's platform, "between the sea and the Jordan" ... 1977: "The Right of the Jewish People to the Land of Israel (Eretz Israel) a. The right of the Jewish people to the land of Israel is eternal and indisputable and is linked with the right to security and peace; therefore, Judea and Samaria will not be handed to any foreign administration; between the Sea and the Jordan there will only be Israeli sovereignty. b. A plan which relinquishes parts of western Eretz Israel, undermines our right to the country, unavoidably leads to the establishment of a "Palestinian State," jeopardizes the security of the Jewish population, endangers the existence of the State of Israel. and frustrates any prospect of peace." "Settlement Settlement. both urban and rural. in all parts of the Land of Israel is the focal point of the Zionist effort to redeem the country, to maintain vital security areas and serves as a reservoir of strength and inspiration for the renewal of the pioneering spirit. The Likud government will call on the younger generation in Israel and the dispersions to settle and help every group and individual in the task of inhabiting and cultivating the wasteland, while taking care not to dispossess anyone." 1999: "The Government of Israel flatly rejects the establishment of a Palestinian Arab state west of the Jordan river. The Palestinians can run their lives freely in the framework of self-rule, but not as an independent and sovereign state. Thus, for example, in matters of foreign affairs, security, immigration, and ecology, their activity shall be limited in accordance with imperatives of Israel's existence, security and national needs." "The Jewish communities in Judea, Samaria, and Gaza are the realization of Zionist values. Settlement of the land is a clear expression of the unassailable right of the Jewish people to the Land of Israel and constitutes an important asset in the defense of the vital interests of the State of Israel. The Likud will continue to strengthen and develop these communities and will prevent their uprooting."
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  6011.  @markdegloria4038  Does "thinking for yourself" mean thinking that dozens and dozens of countries, across the world, led by political parties of all leanings, who rarely agree on anything, all came together to fabricate a pandemic, then got 90+% of their doctors, nurses, and scientific specialists in the field, on board, all for the purpose of ... what? They all have shares in Uber Eats?
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  6012.  @alexkowalski8020  Moron. He said "Jesus", not fucking "church", "priest", "pastor", or whatever the fuck.
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  6013. And, yet, you believe one of the most despised presidents in US history got more votes than Obama, at the height of his popularity. Weird, how making it easier to vote garners more voting.
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  6014.  @Scepticalasfuk  Threatening to paralyze the house doesn't get you M4A. It could just get you a paralyzed house, with corporate Dems, Republicans, and the corporate media, then blaming progressives for no new covid relief, no new unemployment extensions, no new vaccine funding, etc., during a pandemic. Even if it got you a vote guaranteed to fail, you'd then still have to add more yes votes to congress, exactly as the "synthetic-progressive" AOC just did. You know that's the only possible way to pass a bill, yeah? Get enough yes votes. Your slander turns Jimmy's own "plan" into have a failed vote and then do nothing.
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  6015.  @LeShawnTho  She could simply say that she doesn't want to take up weeks or months of debate when more immediate and achievable things need to be done for the American people, first. You think the corporate media will blame Pelosi instead of progressives? What fantasy land do Dore knobs live in? Are you also living in the fantasy where a third party can win a single seat in under 50 years?
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  6016.  @LeShawnTho  The progressive caucus has a policy platform. How did the squad "cave"? They don't have the power to oust Pelosi at the Dem caucus. They don't even have the power to paralyze the house, without help, a tactic that hasn't actually been used in almost 100 years, a tactic that could backfire. So, they get help and manage to freeze the house ... how long do you think people would support that, under the circumstances?
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  6017.  @pdoylemi  Those morons don't seem to get that the poem was written to help raise money to purchase that base, which is why it was attached later. They also don't seem to get that it was written about penniless Jews fleeing pogroms in Russia, with no qualifier about "public charge".
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  6018.  @kevindenning7361  Think you misread what I said and was replying to.
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  6019.  @Toad2943  I think we both agree you're talking about something completely different to what the op is talking about.
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  6020. @Ralph Reilly J&J always triggered a much lower antibody response. As does catching a mild case of covid. And whether antibodies are long lasting, or not, has to do with the virus, not the vaccine. Both "natural immunity" and vaccine "immunity", wear off, with this virus. So, you're good with letting 1% of the population die off, to get a temporary "natural immunity", yeah?
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  6021. @Ralph Reilly It's the whole point of herd immunity. For every vaccinated person between a higher risk person (say born with asthma) and a virus carrier, it adds an extra layer of defense. Whether the person in between is fit, or not, they help protect the herd, if they're vaccinated. Being unvaccinated just makes you the easiest path to others.
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  6022.  @sergeikhripun  Yeah, the reason is that Malone is a disgruntled narcissist, who has already been debunked multiple times. You loons are the ones peddling things like a $2000+ Rogan "kitchen sink", paid for out of pocket, over a government negotiated under $20 price for vaccines given out for free. Plus, the hospitalized unvaccinated have cost about $13b, which is worth 650+m vaccines. You loons are pumping tons of money into "big pharma".
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  6023.  @bellfaith1065  My comment was that he doubled down after they were exonerated.
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  6024.  @abcdefghijk3574  Do you have reading comprehension problems? Nobody implied every bad decision was because of alcohol.
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  6025. Support Russia? Their government is actually led by fascists, and the Russian backed interim government leaders, in Donbas, were from white supremacist groups. That's a magnitude worse than having a minority of racists, with no government power, and some 90 year old Nazi, like Ukraine.
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  6026. Progressives voted lesser of two evils, dumb dumb.
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  6027.  @jimohara  When they introduced, and were the majority that passed, civil rights acts, which led to racists abandoning the party and the Republicans giving those racists a new home? Are you seriously under some delusion that the racist majorities in states that fought to keep slavery, that enacted Jim Crow laws, etc., suddenly became the least racist states, rather than them simply voting for a different party, making that the more racist party? You seem pretty clueless. Learn what "fascism" is, as well.
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  6028.  @themindofjohn4346  They cut them to fit into 2 hr time slots, with commercials, not because they're Nazis, dumbass.
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  6029. ​ @AlHindMaskeen  Israel = Likud
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  6030. ​ @sherribogdanowicz9120 Ironically, Nikki attended prep schools that were intentionally created to dodge desegregation. They didn't acknowledge admitting their first non-wt student until 1989, the year she graduated. She had been considered wt, or wt enough, the entire time.
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  6031.  @seanmccartney5177  Are you actually an ignoramus, or do you just play one on the internet? Richard Spencer, organizer of Charlottesville: “As someone who understands your identity, who has a sense of nationhood and peoplehood, and the history and experience of the Jewish people, you should respect someone like me, who has analogous feelings about whites. You could say that I am a white Zionist – in the sense that I care about my people, I want us to have a secure homeland for us and ourselves. Just like you want a secure homeland in Israel." "I have great admiration for Israel's nation-state law. Jews are, once again, at the vanguard, rethinking politics and sovereignty for the future, showing a path forward for Europeans."
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  6032. You could have just posted, "Hi everyone! I'm stupid!", and left it at that.
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  6033.  @rebia5542  Why wouldn't they? Like I said, it won't affect them, like he claims. Collecting a tax and passing it along doesn't equate to paying a tax. It is the consumer that pays the VAT, not the corporations. For the 1%, their unspent billions will still not be taxed, and they will make more money from people who have an extra $1000/month to spend. It'll be the 20 or 10 percenters that will be affected by the VAT the most, not the 1 percent.
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  6034.  @ashwynnair6812  Yeah, we have exemptions on staples, here in Canada. There's still a VAT on most things. Being from the UK, you know why things are priced higher in the UK and Canada, then, yes? Companies will cover their costs. Corporations, especially those he constantly mentions, won't be paying the tax. I'm talking about the upper middle class and up, who do spend ridiculous amounts per month. The higher you go, the more they'll simply save, hoard, get paid in stocks, etc., which isn't taxed by a VAT, because they aren't spending it. The 1% will make even more, with Yang, while the next 19% will pay the most into the VAT. The alternative is not to bullshit people. Sure, a VAT is a way to bring in a lot of federal revenue. No, a VAT is not a way to make Amazon or Bezos "pay their fair share", as Yang keeps saying.
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  6035.  @ashwynnair6812  My argument was that he's bullshitting who's paying for it. He is bullshitting who's paying for it. You're conflating the argument.
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  6036.  @ashwynnair6812  1. I'm not wrong. 2. Why care that he's a liar? And, why care that the very corporations and 1% he claims will be "paying their fair share" will actually make more money with his plan? Really?
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  6037.  @dwaynesmith8986  You're spouting nonsense. Vehicle mortality rates have dropped below firearm mortality rates. And you're ignoring the fact that a couple hundred million people drive about 3hrs a day, in public, on average. The vast majority of the time the vehicle gets from point A to point B without incident. If someone was shooting a gun in public for 3 hrs, odds are someone, or a whole lot of someones, would get shot.
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  6038. @Der aggressive Hustler I love how you're too stupid to address the topic, and think throwing in a strawman is somehow owning lefties.
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  6039. But hey, that's not private companies deciding for themselves who they want, or don't want, on their private property ... that's only the government.
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  6040. What was the other viable option?
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  6041.  @mattbebe2555  Who's that?
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  6042.  @ERMAC4482  It's the ratio. It's like right wing media having 1 anti climate change person on, and 1 climate change person on, and making out like it's completely up in the air, 50/50, what the science indicates ... purely just two equal "opinions". If you're going to have a Malone on, then you should be having 99 other doctors and scientists on, to actually balance out his bullshit properly. Joe has an audience larger than many news media shows. He is now getting paid by a large corporation, whose largest shareholders are even larger corporations. Joe is MSM.
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  6043.  @ERMAC4482  Health Feedback: Robert Malone made multiple misleading or unsubstantiated claims about COVID-19 and vaccines on The Joe Rogan Experience
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  6044.  @ERMAC4482  Go look. They actually have multiple articles on his misinformation, besides just that one. And, they aren't the only ones.
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  6045.  @ERMAC4482  Yes I have. There's a helluva lot of debunking. It would be easier if you just go read the articles.
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  6046.  @themassage6534  The NYPD union, representing the majority of NYPD cops, is currently fighting to not even fire anyone, for killing a man. How is the majority good and decent, if they hide and protect the very bad?
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  6047.  @themassage6534  The police work for them. Their neighbors don't. If they don't like how their employees are operating, they have every right to let them know.
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  6048.  @themassage6534  Eric Garner.
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  6049.  @themassage6534  The disciplinary ruling advised the department to fire him. You, and the fucking NYPD, won't even accept a disciplinary ruling, when improper methods led to someone's death. Fuck you both. You're obviously blue no matter what, whose opinion is worthless.
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  6050. Yeah, yeah ... Democrats, the FBI (run by Republicans for 24 of the past 40 years), Republican lead investigator Mueller, Republicans like Cheney and Romney, and Australian officials, were all in cahoots to frame Trump and make Mike Pence president ... but left Mike Pence, and enough of the other establishment Republicans, out of the plan, leaving them unable to remove Trump. Or ... Mueller provided some 200 pages of information sharing (collusion), that didn't amount to criminal conspiracy, and only didn't charge Jr and Kushner with criminal conspiracy because it would be too hard to prove they "willfully" broke the law, not because they didn't break the law.
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  6051. They've already admitted in court that their online affidavit gathering has produced a lot of bullshit and spam. https://lawandcrime.com/2020-election/trump-campaign-lawyer-admits-to-judge-our-search-for-evidence-of-fraud-produced-obvious-lies-and-spam/
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  6052.  @PhilLesh69  Simply recruiting people isn't specifically making someone out to be crazy, just like simply lying isn't specifically trying to make someone feel crazy.
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  6053. @West Park You've described some crap that a lot of extremely authoritarian regimes have done, most of which weren't communist. The difference being economics. Republicans are fascists, not communists. The USSR was actually the first country to allow abortions for whatever reason.
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  6054. @West Park Blah, blah, blah, the difference is economics, ffs. Ancappers and anarchists are not samesies, just because they both don't want governments. Neither are authoritarian communists and authoritarian capitalists samesies, just because they're both authoritarian. Ummm, one bunch of nuts did just try to overthrow democracy and install an unelected dictator, supported by a majority of Republican members of congress, and Republican lawmakers across the country. You know, aiming for all out fascism. On the flip side, absolutely no Democrats have promoted a 100% publicly owned and operated economy. There are zero communist politicians in power.
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  6055. ​ @barbaraklein3944 Likud's bloody 100 year history ... In 1923, 100 years ago, Ze'ev Jabotinsky wrote, The Iron Wall, and a follow up, The Ethics of The Iron Wall (sooo racist towards Africans), in which he fully acknowledged that post Balfour Zionsim was colonialism, and that, based on the entirety of history, the native Palestinian population would resist being colonized until the bitter end. He directly compared it to the colonization of North America. He promoted doing it anyway, claiming Zionist colonialism was a "just" colonialism (he also thought North American colonialists were good guys, so not a great judge of morality), not caring what that meant for the native population. Ze'ev is important, because his Betar militant youth group helped found the Irgun terrorist group, along with other supporters of his, and the splinter Lehi terrorist group. The Irgun bombed numerous Palestinian markets and other public places, murdering many Palestinian civilians, including children, even including Palestinian Jews (who didn't support colonialist Zionsim). The Irgun are important, because they ended up being led by future Likud PM, Menachem Begin, who bombed the King David Hotel. The King David Hotel was bombed because the British had raided the Jewish Agency and seized numerous documents that may have shown that the terrorists were working with the JA and Haganah (JA liked to pretend that they didn't support the terrorism). The British then stored those documents at their base, in the hotel. That the Irgun terrorists responded to a JA raid, itself seems to prove the connection. That the thousands of Irgun (and Lehi) terrorists were also quickly merged into the new nation's military (IDF) and intelligence (Mossad) agencies, and are still celebrated as "heroes" by Israelis, to this day, also seems to support total collaboration between the groups. That other terrorist group mentioned, Lehi (also known as the Stern Gang), was considered even more extreme. They even tried to ally with the Nazis, against the British. Lehi ended up being led by Yitzhak Shamir, future Mossad agent, and another future Likud PM. In 1945, there was a major land and peoples survey done in Palestine. It showed that the Zionists only owned about 5% of the total land, 20% of the arable land, and owned a majority in zero districts. The partition was not only going to be forced on the native Palestinian majority, but Jews were still going to be a minority, in the part allocated to them. The only possible way to even become a "Jewish state" was going to require getting rid of the actual majority (at least enough so that there'd be a solid Jewish majority, so they could fake being democratic). This is also shown by the 1948, post Nakba, population of Israel. If there was 716,700 Jews, 156,000+ non-Jews, and approximately 700k non-Jews ethnically cleansed, that means the Jewish population, in the Zionist portion of partition, was originally over 100,000 less than the non-Jewish population. To believe that there was never any intent, by Zionists, to ethnically cleanse away the Palestinian majority would require believing that they never intended to create a "Jewish state". It's a nonsensical notion. Begin, and those terrorist groups, also opposed partition, but for the opposite reason Palestinians did. Palestinians didn't want to be colonized, at all. The terrorists wanted to colonize it all. "Moderate" Zionists were okay with colonizing half ... for now (what would happen in the future, after partition, was up to them, said Ben-Gurion). The Zionist terrorists were also involved in massacres, and assassinations, during the partition violence (colonialist war against the natives). Another notable future Likud PM, also started in the military, during the partition fighting. That was Ariel Sharon, war criminal, "Butcher of Beirut". Menachem Begin, and these other Zionist terrorists, are important because they also later founded Likud. Now, people get upset over the slogan "From the river to the sea!", but it's the second part that's most important, "Palestine will be free!". Because "Palestine" isn't defined as an ethno-state, a free Palestine can be a single state, free for all to live in, and return to, free of continuing colonization, free of occupation, free of oppression, etc. Just like a Germany free of Nazism, an Italy free of fascism, a South Africa free of apartheid, or an America free of slavery from sea to shiny sea. It doesn't necessitate purging all the Jews. It just necessitates them giving up on the idea of an ethno-state. On the other hand, because "Israel" has been defined as an ethno-state, Likud's, "between the sea and the Jordan there will only be Israeli sovereignty", has no possible good interpretation. It is a declaration of intent to completely colonize, and ethnically cleanse, all Palestine territories. Not only that, but it also claims that they have a "right" to all of the "Land of Israel" (biblical borders that don't mesh with archaeological reality), which is an open declaration of future wars, against Jordan, Syria, Lebanon, and possibly even Iraq. Likud platform ... 1977: "The Right of the Jewish People to the Land of Israel (Eretz Israel) a. The right of the Jewish people to the land of Israel is eternal and indisputable and is linked with the right to security and peace; therefore, Judea and Samaria will not be handed to any foreign administration; between the Sea and the Jordan there will only be Israeli sovereignty. b. A plan which relinquishes parts of western Eretz Israel, undermines our right to the country, unavoidably leads to the establishment of a "Palestinian State," jeopardizes the security of the Jewish population, endangers the existence of the State of Israel. and frustrates any prospect of peace." "Settlement Settlement. both urban and rural. in all parts of the Land of Israel is the focal point of the Zionist effort to redeem the country, to maintain vital security areas and serves as a reservoir of strength and inspiration for the renewal of the pioneering spirit. The Likud government will call on the younger generation in Israel and the dispersions to settle and help every group and individual in the task of inhabiting and cultivating the wasteland, while taking care not to dispossess anyone." 1999: "The Government of Israel flatly rejects the establishment of a Palestinian Arab state west of the Jordan river. The Palestinians can run their lives freely in the framework of self-rule, but not as an independent and sovereign state. Thus, for example, in matters of foreign affairs, security, immigration, and ecology, their activity shall be limited in accordance with imperatives of Israel's existence, security and national needs." "The Jewish communities in Judea, Samaria, and Gaza are the realization of Zionist values. Settlement of the land is a clear expression of the unassailable right of the Jewish people to the Land of Israel and constitutes an important asset in the defense of the vital interests of the State of Israel. The Likud will continue to strengthen and develop these communities and will prevent their uprooting." All Palestine territories are officially considered occupied, by the International Court of Justice, the UN GA, the UN SC, and even in official documents of Israel's own allies. Likud is still using the blueprint for colonizing North America, in the West Bank. Move settlements out into native territory, piss off the natives, the natives retaliate, cry about poor "innocent" colonizing settlers being the "victims" of violent "Savages!", call in the cavalry to put down the native uprising, and eventually expand the borders to include those settlements. Rinse and repeat. In Gaza, they are operating an open air WWII style fascist ghetto. Them claiming a "right to defend themselves" would be like the Nazis claiming a "right to defend themselves " from the Warsaw ghetto uprising. There's no "war". That they're the occupiers means the "war" part is long over. That partition was forced upon the Palestinian majority, against their will ... that the Zionist portion still had to be forcefully ethnically cleansed of its non-Jewish majority, against their will ... that the millions of occupied Palestinians don't have a say in the government that truly rules over them, Israel's ... means Israel is about as democratic as Nazi Germany after Hitler purged his political opponents and then held elections. Hamas is basically just a poor man's Likud, only fighting against colonialism, instead of for colonialism.
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  6056. @Jack Bennett Armstrong So, as long as someone looks like a man, or a woman, without making sure, then that's what gender they are?
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  6057.  @cortext36  Yeah. Aside from this, they were also just fighting to add another M4A yes vote to congress, in Nina Turner. Dore fought against increasing the M4A yes vote by one.
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  6058. Being born out of country, to a US citizen, still counts as a natural born US citizen. He didn't have to go through the naturalization process.
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  6059. Kind of pointless to shoot someone who has been drawn and quartered.
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  6060. AOC just helped replace DCCC backed corporate Dems with pro-M4A progressives. Going third party won't even win you a single seat in the house in the next 50 years.
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  6061. Oh, is there some actual new evidence, or still the same year old stuff?
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  6062.  @charlesljones2454  Did you not watch the video?
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  6063.  @jayannakelley9051  No worries. :)
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  6064.  @BeeN-fy2jh  The Southern Republican politicians were even more racist, going by percent. Civil Rights Act of 1964 ... The House of Representatives: Southern Democrats: 8–83 (9–91%) Southern Republicans: 0–11 (0–100%) Northern Democrats: 145–8 (95–5%) Northern Republicans: 136–24 (85–15%) The Senate: Southern Democrats: 1–20 (5–95%) Southern Republicans: 0–1 (0–100%) Northern Democrats: 45–1 (98–2%) Northern Republicans: 27–5 (84–16%)
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  6065.  @ShaggyTheClown17  Rofl. Black Americans moved the most during The Great Migration, 1910-1970. That left the South even more rcst, percentage-wise. That rcst majority voted for a third party resegregationist, in 1968, and then turned to Republicans, in 1972. All the evidence is on the presidential election maps. And, as you can see, in the vote above, there were even more total (not just a higher percentage) rcst Northern Rs, than Northern Ds.
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  6066.  @BeeN-fy2jh  Lol, if people in a certain location, consistently vote for rcsts, for centuries, across multiple parties (D, R, and AI 1968), then the issue is the people in that certain location. Currently, those people are voting R. Northern states had already abolished slvry at the state level, before the Republican party even existed. Who did that?
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  6067.  @mikew6060  Rofl. You're an idiot.
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  6068. Partition was anti-democratic. Ethnic cleansing away the actual majority was anti-democratic. Occupation is anti-democratic. Not allowing potential voters the right of return is anti-democratic. Not much of a democracy, and never was.
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  6069. Clothing (including MAGA hats) and shoes were exempted, not her specific clothing and shoes.
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  6070.  @tonymccann7445  Are there people who don't understand that the super rich don't live on taxable incomes?
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  6071.  @tonymccann7445  Is this the first time you've ever heard of her?
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  6072.  @tonymccann7445  So you've heard her say to tax wealth many times? What are you bitching about, then? That she wasn't specific on a fucking dress slogan? Are you a complete moron? A girl thinking she can become pm, or president, because of Margaret Thatcher, doesn't equate to having the same politics.
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  6073.  @marciamakesmusic  No, he said it showed perversions that had already been realized in both Communism and fascism. He already had a Stalinist country represented in the 3 totalitarian regimes, exactly where the USSR already was. He also already had an Imperialist regime based on Japan, their divine emperor, and suicidal devotion. Why would he include yet another Stalinist supernation, when he repeatedly stated he considered fascists to be the worst of the totalitarians, and not have them represented, at all? That the Ingsoc claimed to be socialists, then quickly abandoned it, and are described in the forbidden book Winston reads as being outright opposed to socialism, suggests they're fascists. Much like Hitler's "national socialists", who weren't really socialists, and quickly killed off their own left leaning members on the road to power. Doublespeak would suggest they're the opposite of what they claim to be.
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  6074. Yeah, treat the primaries as the main battleground, for getting what you actually want. But, if you lose, still vote in the general to say corporate Dems is as bad you want things to get, to try and keep Republicans out of power, forever. Driving 1 mph towards your destination is still better than going in the opposite direction.
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  6075. Most isn't all. There will be a pocket of people already collecting $1000 per month, or more, in assistance who will be worse off if most things cost at least 10% more. Any plan to help the poor shouldn't hurt some of the poor. Also, a single parent's $1000 per month isn't going to go nearly as far as a single non-parent's $1000 per month. Any plan for the poor that doesn't factor in children, and give an increase for children, is crap, especially if things for the children will cost at least 10% more. We exempt basic staples here in Canada, but that doesn't include clothing, which growing kids can plow through, toys, or other entertainment. On top of having a negative effect on some amount of poor people, he is completely bullshitting that a VAT is a way to make corporations like Amazon "pay their fair share". Corporations simply collect the tax and pass it along to government. The consumers pay the tax. Many who do end up in the plus will actually spend their extra money on corporations like Amazon, making Amazon even more money. That, in turn, will make people like Bezos even more money, and the more money someone has, the more they hoard. Hoarded money isn't affected by a VAT. The upper middle class and lower end rich, who already spend a lot but don't hoard as much, will be the ones paying into the VAT the most, as a percentage of their income/wealth. Yang's plan, as is, will hurt some poor people, hurt the upper middle class and low end rich, while making giant corporations and the super rich even richer.
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  6076.  Swift BMF  Is that the Greenwald who signed a deal with right wing Rumble, to get his hands on some Peter Thiel CIA money, along with Tulsi and Dore?
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  6077. Being politically correct is not broad brushing all Muslims (who are also the victims here). Nothing to do with calling out specific a-holes, or governments.
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  6078.  @AmbyJeans  Yeah, "concentration camps" isn't PC enough, and you know how they're so pro-PC, aren't snowflakes, don't care about feelings, and such.
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  6079. The Nashville "manifesto" was literally described by authorities as the incoherent ramblings of someone with mental health issues. Meanwhile, the Florida manifesto, clearly laid out that the guy was a white supremacist. Vivek, trying to make out like they're reversed.
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  6080. Why did the mastermind criminals not "magically" create more senate and house votes, when they "magically" created presidential votes?
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  6081.  mario mario  "Operation Iraqi Freedom (OIF; March 2003 - November 2011)" https://www.va.gov/vetsinworkplace/docs/em_datesnames.asp
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  6082.  mario mario  Right at the top of the list, name of operation ... and length ... which I even quoted for you.
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  6083.  Jay McDanieL  Say we take Mr facts don't care about your feelings statement that life begins at conception. So what? Make that matter without any subjective caring.
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  6084.  @putinpuppet2063   Sure, empirical senses can be flawed, which is why we have more and more people make observations for things like science, to minimize the chance of flawed observations. Assuming parts are working properly, they're fairly objective, and what one person sees another person sees. Flawed parts doesn't make for a "subjective" observation, it just makes for an incorrect observation. Even a camera could be out of focus, have a scratch, or a microphone could be glitching, etc. Doesn't make their observations "subjective", just incorrect, or flawed. What would be an example of a purely objective wrong decision? Right, Ben is full of all kinds of crap, and is quite dishonest about his facts over feelings mantra. There's no factual evidence to support his religious beliefs. I said make it matter, not make it a fact. I also outright said above that objectivity, facts, truth ... should be independent of any subjectivity. Him simply stating that life begins at conception, isn't actually an argument for action, one way or the other. He states that fact like there's then an automatic objective, emotionless, jump right to anti-abortion, simply because it's "life". So it's "life". So what? That doesn't actually matter without subjectivity. Ben subjectively cares about that zigot and doesn't want it harmed. His feelings are his actual argument, not his fact. Right, an action can't be taken without subjectivity. Not helping someone? Either A, you don't care either way, which means you didn't actually make a decision (like I said above, a robot would sit there observing ... that's not "deciding" not to act, it just doesn't give a crap, so doesn't act ... neither would a vacuum cleaner). B, you subjectively have a desire to see what happens if you don't help, so decide not to. C, you subjectively fear more for your own safety if you try to help, than you do theirs, so decide not to. Or, some other subjective reason to actually decide not to. How could you actually decide not to act without subjectivity?
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  6085. Nina Turner
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  6086. She has sponsored 41, and cosponsored 761, bills and amendments. You make yourselves look like idiots, when you make out like she isn't doing anything.
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  6087. Simple question: How do you know they didn't have conversations with Biden, and that he didn't agree to do something for them?
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  6088.  Adam Lets Play  That's stupid. If someone is clearly reaching for a gun, and you have no other way to stop them (3 cops should have been able to grapple him before he reached his car door), then what difference does them having a criminal record, or not, make?
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  6089.  @luchi.el.zorrito  Ewww, a step towards giving more people a say and taking power away from the rightful private property owner is a step towards socialism and away from capitalism.
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  6090. Except, Yang is lying when he says it's a way to tax corporations. I've been paying VAT on goods and services for almost 30 years. It's the consumers who pay the tax. Amazon would still pay zero taxes, with a VAT added. They'd simply be collecting the tax, from consumers, and passing it along to the government.
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  6091. Like how all the Confederate flag waving racists morons are now found at "unite the right" rallies, with their Nazi brothers, but she says a switch didn't happen?
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  6092. "Grant" Canada statehood? Pretty sure Canada has never asked for it.
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  6093.  @hstock3  You know Canada isn't fully independent, right? Our Commander in Chief is King Charles. He'd probably love some of the old colonies back.
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  6094. ​ @markzuckergecko621  I checked, and it's made up.
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  6095. Also a Canadian, here ... Yeah, the US still hasn't fully recovered from McCarthyism and the Cold War. They've gone from being 40% unionization and a 90% marginal tax bracket, at the top, to 10% unionized and people, and corporations, at the top, getting away with paying no taxes. During that time, both parties tried to avoid any hint of being left leaning, as far as economics go. The Republicans moved way right, and Democrats moved right of centre. There are zero politicians proposing complete economic equality and an end to capitalism. There is no "far left" in US politics. On the other hand, there are numerous politicians spouting far right Ayn Rand type politics. Bernie, and new progressives, are pointing at centrist European countries to emulate. They're centre-left, at most. US politics ranges from far right to centre-left, but many politicians, and the media, have pushed this "far left" nonsense, when "far left" doesn't really exist in US politics.
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  6096.  @Buckshot99  Lives? One of the worst covid responses in the world.
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  6097. He was probably visiting Amish country for other reasons. https://publicintegrity.org/inside-publici/qa-sarah-mcclure-on-widespread-sexual-abuse-in-amish-communities/
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  6098. @Christopher Bradley That made no sense, since the reality is that Dore, and others of his ilk, have drawn the hardest lines. If you don't agree with just a single stupid pointless plan, then you get slandered as a "fake", "fraud", "sellout", or whatnot. Slandering and "self criticizing" are two different things, and if you attack those who are closest to you, the most, and those who want to go completely backwards, the least (if at all), then you end up sounding mich like FOX. Since when did the left give up on sensible gun control, that works in most other developed nations, including all the ones ranked higher than the US on freedom indexes? Rittenhouse should have never been wandering the streets with a gun, in the first place. He would have been arrested long before the shootings in pretty much every other developed country. But, since he was, compare it to another case, where a guy shot up a church. A neighbor from down the street ran down to the church with his gun. He didn't see what was going on inside the church. He then shot at the armed gunman who came out of the churh. The gunman, who had been shot then got in his vehicle and sped off. Another man drives up and the neighbor guy jumps in that vehicle, tells him what happened, and they chase after the gunman at 95 mph. The gunman drove into a ditch and died of his gunshot wounds. US law has allowed people, who didn't witness the crime, but think they're chasing a murderer, to use even deadly force. The Rittenhouse case goes against that. The Rittenhouse verdict would seemingly allow the church gunman to have killed the two men chasing after him, and shooting at him, in "self defense". Ironically, that seems to allow people to shoot "good guys with guns" in "self defense".
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  6099.  @knukkaboom4491  So how the hell can it be the "opposite" of feudalism?
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  6100.  @akinbobolaz  https://globalnews.ca/news/4161338/canada-labour-shortage-job-vacancies/
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  6101.  @darring.9161  Yeah, the other moron said there wasn't a shortage either, and I already replied to that. Ford has stopped working with Ottawa to relocate refugees. Ford has cut legal aid to help refugees and immigrants. He has said Ontario needs to take care of their own. He has endorsed a group full of white supremacists. White supremacists routinely endorse him.
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  6102.  @darring.9161  You're pulling bullshit numbers out of your ass. The no vetting is bullshit too. That we don't have a labour shortage is bullshit. You seem to be a complete lying twat. And, yes, Ford endorsed this group, which is packed with white supremacists, and is rolling across Canada. https://www.nationalobserver.com/2019/02/21/analysis/convoy-mixes-white-nationalists-and-delivers-toxic-message-ottawa
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  6103. It went to court, dimwit. Evidence was presented. The judge agreed that the DNC hadn't been neutral, but then ruled that they weren't legally bound to be neutral. That's not at all the same as Republicans having zero evidence of election fraud and more on par with having evidence of Russian election interference. If you don't want complaints about the DNC, then get them to clean up their act.
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  6104.  @douglaskalberg8899  Fearmongering about a civil war is a bit different. That can encourage people to make "pre-emptive" attacks on minorities.
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  6105. Who is giving out cross sex hormones and surgery to minors? Totally different thing than delaying puberty.
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  6106. So, don't allow corporations to dodge paying debt by going bankrupt, and don't allow the actual people who took on that debt to dodge liability with a corporate shield?
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  6107. He was born to an American mother and considered American, by birth. He didn't have to naturalize.
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  6108. ​ @Peter-rh2gn  Literally not viable options. This is a trolley problem. If you don't pull the lever for Kamala, then Trump will win.
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  6109.  @torfinnzempel6123  Yeah. I, literally, just said she's not trying to be friends.
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  6110.  @RC-tn3xo  Colonialists are the bull pokers, dumb dumb. Once you do colonialism, you're never the innocent bull. Ze'ev Jabotinsky, in 1923, fully acknowledged that Zionism is colonialism, and predicted, based on the entirety of history, that the natives would react by fighting it to the bitter end. Then promoted doing it anyway, knowing full well that the bull would poke back, indefinitely.
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  6111. ​@@MirglipEA What are you blathering about?
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  6112.  @hippiecowgirl4231  Rofl, he's bragging about setting up tents in 4 days?
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  6113.  @spaceman6821  Did you mean to say, not wearing? Not wearing a mask has a much higher chance of killing a self aware, thinking, feeling, being, that has friends and family, than an abortion.
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  6114. ​ @NessaBear90  Because they were targeted for being Palestinian. It's the Muslim part that's not needed.
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  6115.  @xq8152  She just used her platform and PAC to back 20 pro-M4A progressives, and helped add a few more M4A yes votes to congress. Not a fast process, to be sure, but better than the third party route that hasn't won the most popular third party a single seat in congress in its near 50 year existence.
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  6116.  @zoobrizz  Rofl. Half, or more, of Dore's audience are right wingers, and a bunch of others are third party voters or non voters, none of which voted Democrat anyway.
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  6117.  @secularsocialist  Completely false, you dimwitted Dore knob. Firstly, the Gallup article he cited clearly stated their hospitalization rates were for the total unvaccinated and vaccinated populations, together a hospitalization rate for the entire population. Secondly, there are 3 different covid "death rates". 1 is the infection fatality rate, which has been estimated at about 1%, since the beginning, and multiple studies since then have supported about a 1% infection fatality rate, in developed countries. 2 is the case fatality rate, which changes constantly, which you can easily find the current rate, and which is even easy to do the math to figure out yourself. 3 is the crude mortality rate, which is covid deaths per the total population, which is also easy to find the current rate, or do the math to figure out yourself. A 3.4% "death rate", from a year and a half ago, is clearly a case fatality rate. Only a complete and utter moron, couldn't find the current rate, or simply do the math. Even then, it's the wrong rate. If you're using a total population hospitalization rate, then the comparable "death rate" is the crude mortality rate. Comparing total population hospitalization rates to a case fatality rate is completely dishonest. You must be completely ignorant to think he made a valid comparison. Dumber than a stump.
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  6118.  @secularsocialist  Just how slow are you? I didn't claim simply giving opinions on YouTube and making money was grifting. I clearly spelled out what I meant by grifting. A grifter, like a snake oil salesman, claims to be selling you something beneficial, but is actually selling you something completely useless, or even harmful. Incredibly ironic, you claiming others are lying and strawmanning. Nope, you're lying. He claimed Ivermectin was both an effective remedy and an effective preventative, on Rogan's show. He got caught in that lie with his first video on his new right wing platform, Rumble. Probably signed a deal, like his grifter friend Glenn did, for some of that Peter Thiel money ... made from working with the CIA, btw. By Jimmy's own "logic", he himself is both a grifter and a CIA agent. You also lied about what he did with his dishonest comparison of rates based on totally different math. Nope. He outright promoted Trump as the better option than Clinton, and made up some delusional fantasy to justify what he was saying, none of which came true. Promoting voting for Stein is also promoting letting Trump win. In no reality was she going to win, right. So you're just promoting not voting for the only viable alternative to Trump. I know what actual anti-vax people say. They say covid is like a cold or flu, isn't that bad, so isn't worth getting vaccinated. Dore lying that covid deaths are "WILDLY inflated", by over 10x, supports their position. They claim there are alternatives to vaccines, and Dore promoting Ivermectin, and other unproven crap, as effective, supports their position. They claim the vaccine side effects are worse than covid. Dore constantly going on about negative side effects, while never pointing out that the rates for the same things, like tinnitus or myocarditis, are much much higher with those who get covid, supports their position. They claim it's some big pharma scam and Dore peddling that it's some big pharma scam, supports their position. Nope. Tulsi wasn't to the left of Bernie on anything. Bernie said no intervention in Venezuela. Bernie spoke out against the right wing coup, and in favor of Morales, in Bolivia. Bernie called airstrikes on Syria illegal and unauthorized. Dore, and his knobs, just didn't do their homework. Jimmy's guest clearly stated he was for an "extreme free market" and Dore clearly promoted allying with him. Boogaloos are psychos, that want to start a civil war, ffs. Rofl! Dore literally brings up the bill of rights, with Carlson, you dishonest lying dimwitted Dore knob. That's exactly what he was talking about. While also peddling the right wing bullshit, that giant corporations, owned by centibillionaires, are "the left". He's his own best joke. Fighting to add more yes votes to congress, when getting enough yes votes in congress is the only possible way to ever pass a bill, is the most important fight. Dore has actively worked against doing just that, and slanders people who have done just that. He's a grifter, who claims he's for X, but is actually peddling you Y and/or Z.
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  6119. Stop pretending a guaranteed to fail vote = M4A.
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  6120. Dumbass. All it would take is for someone on SSI disability and SNAP, neither of which Yang has stacking with UBI, already getting $1000+ a month in assistance. They wouldn't benefit from UBI but would still have to pay the VAT on many items.
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  6121. That's right, just stop paying for food, utilities, housing, etc., and stay flush.
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  6122. Nationalizing one resource isn't outright socialism. Venezuela is a mixed economy, like most countries in the world. Also, having verified elections isn't having a dictator. You're obviously an idiot.
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  6123.  @mrscruffy8045  He could pardon him for any federal crimes, but a number of states are investigating Trump, as well. "However, the President cannot pardon a state criminal offense." https://www.justice.gov/pardon/pardon-information-and-instructions
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  6124. Likud platform, "between the sea and the Jordan" ... 1977: "The Right of the Jewish People to the Land of Israel (Eretz Israel) a. The right of the Jewish people to the land of Israel is eternal and indisputable and is linked with the right to security and peace; therefore, Judea and Samaria will not be handed to any foreign administration; between the Sea and the Jordan there will only be Israeli sovereignty. b. A plan which relinquishes parts of western Eretz Israel, undermines our right to the country, unavoidably leads to the establishment of a "Palestinian State," jeopardizes the security of the Jewish population, endangers the existence of the State of Israel. and frustrates any prospect of peace." "Settlement Settlement. both urban and rural. in all parts of the Land of Israel is the focal point of the Zionist effort to redeem the country, to maintain vital security areas and serves as a reservoir of strength and inspiration for the renewal of the pioneering spirit. The Likud government will call on the younger generation in Israel and the dispersions to settle and help every group and individual in the task of inhabiting and cultivating the wasteland, while taking care not to dispossess anyone." 1999: "The Government of Israel flatly rejects the establishment of a Palestinian Arab state west of the Jordan river. The Palestinians can run their lives freely in the framework of self-rule, but not as an independent and sovereign state. Thus, for example, in matters of foreign affairs, security, immigration, and ecology, their activity shall be limited in accordance with imperatives of Israel's existence, security and national needs." "The Jewish communities in Judea, Samaria, and Gaza are the realization of Zionist values. Settlement of the land is a clear expression of the unassailable right of the Jewish people to the Land of Israel and constitutes an important asset in the defense of the vital interests of the State of Israel. The Likud will continue to strengthen and develop these communities and will prevent their uprooting."
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  6125. Sounds like Mayor Pete claiming to be going after murderers but somehow rounding up black people for marijuana at 4x the rate of white people, instead.
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  6126. There are a bunch. Also, The Hill is owned by a good friend of Dumpty and Rudy. Implying it has an anti-Republican bias is moronic.
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  6127.  hoola bella  It's measurable, dummy. You are, apparently, Homer Simpson level "smrt". Moderate centrism would lie in the middle of the extremes of a 100% privately owned and operated economy and a 100% publicly owned and operated economy. The more you move away from that centre, the less moderate, more extreme, your position. US politics is almost completely right of centre, to begin with, making the only vote that might be more extreme than the one you're leaning towards a Libertarian vote.
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  6128.  sick flex  Because Republicans blocked updating the process, idiot. Not at all suspicious. You're just nuts. "But states such as Michigan, Pennsylvania and Wisconsin — all with Republican-led legislatures and all of them swing states — made a conscious decision to wait so there would be no counting of mail-in ballots prior to election day." https://www.cbc.ca/news/world/ballot-count-delays-in-results-u-s-election-1.5789738
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  6129.  sick flex  They count absentee ballots last, in some states. More Democrats voted by mail. More Republicans voted in person, because their crazy leader fed them bullshit, and told them to. Not sure what's so hard to understand, here.
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  6130.  @clearwater3432  What's the best Qanon page for the right info?
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  6131. ​ @shakeyj4523  Pretty sure Jews lived in Muslim nations for 1300 years, with only a few localized incidents. And, they were given refuge, when Christian nations offered conversion, death, or exile. Plus, the Ottomans okayed the earliest form of Zionsim, which was closer to immigration, before it converted to colonialism.
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  6132.  @tibor_szilagyi  Isn't Israel making money on those "investments", as well? That's how "investments" usually work. Plus, getting a handout.
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  6133. Did they put a toilet in there?
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  6134.  @J-C.Denton  Nobody gives a shit what 2000 Daily Wire viewers think about a movie.
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  6135.  @jknight9613  How is it "regressive"? Most people don't use that word properly.
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  6136. Yang is bullshitting Americans. A VAT is intentionally designed to NOT tax businesses in order to avoid double taxation. It will be the consumers who pay a tax to be shown ads, pay a tax on their own data, pay a tax for every automated truck mile, etc. Every time Yang claims a VAT will make corporations like Amazon pay their fair share in taxes ... that's pure bullshit. Every time he compares his dividend to the Alaskan dividend, which is paid to Alaskans by corporations ... that's pure bullshit. https://ec.europa.eu/taxation_customs/business/vat/what-is-vat_en
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  6137. Dore knobs have proven that ftv was a sham.
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  6138. David, stop with the extreme 5 billion people per $100b nonsense. Revenue generated would be per capita. If you have a developed country of 5 billion people, you could generate more revenue than $100b. If you have a developed country of 5 million people, you don't need to generate $100b in revenue. All other developed countries have both lower per capita costs and better outcomes.
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  6139. Also, how is saving 68000 lives not an increase in quality, as well as access? If you're getting zero access, then you're getting zero quality, until you need emergency care. You're just leaving millions of people with no, or limited, access out of the initial quality metric. So, what metric are you using for quality, if not overall life expectancy, infant mortality, maternal mortality, etc.? Shouldn't the quality of healthcare measured in its capacity to keep people alive, first and foremost?
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  6140.  @taskforceandy2830  Rofl, Amazon has their own tutorials on how a VAT doesn't end up taxing businesses. "How VAT works in Europe" "How to claim back VAT" https://services.amazon.co.uk/services/vat-resources.html
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  6141.  @fredsanford1437  Lol, like the freedom for Russia to invade another country? The freedom to pass on a contagious virus to others? The freedom to incite an insurrection? Etc. Give me a break.
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  6142. The IDF has over 400k militants (reservists) hiding amongst the populace, cowardly using Israeli civilians as human shields. Anywhere there's a group of about 20 Israelis, I guess they're a valid military target. Odds are, one is a militant.
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  6143.  @dextermorgan7441  Didn't say anything like that. Are you saying many things aren't passed down through teaching, from one generation to the next, like say religion? Or do you think religion is passed down through DNA?
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  6144.  @johntruxal432  Rofl. "Uh huh", was agreement, dimwit. Life must be rough with severe reading comprehension problems. 27 Republicans couldn't end a filibuster alone, dumb dumb. They had 46 Democrats with them.
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  6145. They also tend to misrepresent what kind of drugs trans kids get. Minors don't get opposite gender hormone therapy. They get puberty blockers, that exactly put off the final decision until they're adults.
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  6146. Two part-time "inspectors" (one wasn't an official inspector and the other never left home base because he didn't finish training), working on a single investigation, at a single site, don't even debunk the larger number of full-time inspectors working on that single investigation, let alone debunk the hundreds of accounts of Syrian chemical weapons use or dozens of other investigations, since 2012. Plus, Israel, France, the US, and the UK, had started bombing before inspectors even made it to the inspection site. The final report wasn't released until months after the fact. It wasn't even used to make the decision to intervene.
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  6147.  @dong9514  White racists throw Cherokees under the bus, when they're whatabouting, because they had a few slaves too ... trying to make out like slavery wasn't racist, because other people were doing it too. That they're the party of Lincoln is also standard bullshit, ignoring the party switch that came after.
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  6148.  @annalisemaya8464  Oh geezus. There were protests and riots during the early labor movement. There were protests and riots during the civil rights movement. Hell, American colonists protested and rioted over funding the police/military and disenfranchisement. It's the reason and goals that make something insane, or not. What's insane about wanting to end police brutality and have a more just justice system? US police kill citizens at 4 to hundreds of times the rate of other developed countries. The US has the largest prison population in the world. That's fighting against authoritarianism. Trying to overthrow the democratic process to keep Dumpty on as an unelected dictator is fighting for authoritarianism. And aside from that, who on the left is outright completely batshit crazy, waiting around for zombie JFK Jr, blathering about Jewish space lasers, spewing religious gobbledygook, thinking Bill Gates is microchipping everyone, etc., etc., etc.?
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  6149.  @ChannelTwoFiftyTwo  Moron. Burlington wasn't the only city that was part of the US-USSR sister cities program, that started 15 years before Bernie's visit. Is every US city that eatablished a USSR sister city a bunch of communists?
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  6150.  Super JLK  Why is it ridiculous to bring someone in alive?
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  6151.  @TheSkryptik  I'm beginning to see that you're not "simply asking questions", in good faith.
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  6152.  @sergeikhripun  Seder was promoting Nina Turner, all along, trying to add another M4A yes vote to congress. Meanwhile, Jimmy actually argued against her ... against adding another M4A yes vote to congress. The DSA has had M4A rallies before, that Dore didn't promote. Dore has ... also not promoted every M4A rally ever, openly argued against adding another M4A yes vote to congress, donated to an anti-M4A Republican, promoted far right anti-M4A ancap Boogaloos as allies, promoted anti-M4A Trump as the better option in 2016, promoted anti-M4A candidate Tulsi Gabbard in the 2020 primaries, didn't give a crap if 10m of the poorest Americans were tossed off Medicaid expansion, didn't care to try and add 40m older Americans to Medicare expansion, and promotes third parties that have produced the likes of Kyrsten Sinema and haven't won a single seat in congress in decades ... but he has somehow crowned himself the one true champion of healthcare, and morons have bought it.
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  6153.  @soulreaver8466  What a load of nonsense. If a shiv is just as lethal as a gun, then that makes guns pointless. Use a shiv to fight off the government.
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  6154.  @nemesis7884  Moron. Nazis aren't socialists. They're fascists.
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  6155.  @sergeikhripun  There's already a record of who won't cosign, and a record of committee members sitting on the bill, dimwit. Do something with it, or shut up. Why don't you Dore knobs do something with the record of those who voted against a $15 minimum wage, while you're at it, instead of whining about those who voted for it.
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  6156.  @nathandwyer7273  No. The NDP would be about as effective if they were in an outright coalition with the Liberal party, and it would lower the risk of Conservatives winning. Outside of Alberta and Saskatchewan, Conservatives can't win a majority anywhere. They only win pluralities, and it's totally because votes are split between Liberals and NDP (and BQ). Canada is an example of why a third party kind of sucks, as long as the right is united. The US has an even worse problem, since Republicans are about 15 points more popular, in the US, than Conservatives are in Canada. Splitting votes in any significant way would lead to Republicans dominating for decades.
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  6157.  @nathandwyer7273  You're lying to these people. Jack Layton's popularity is part of why Canada got asshole Stephen Harper for so many years. The votes were too split, between Liberals and the NDP. They'd be much more effective as a coalition party. You need a bunch of parties, with the right divided up, as well. Only 3 main parties leads to conservatives winning much much more than they should. Conservatives would win nowhere but Alberta and Saskatchewan, if the Liberals and NDP were a coalition.
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  6158.  @sergeikhripun  Yeah, and Tucker had pro Assange videos going back a year before Dore was even on. Right wingers love WikiLeaks. Assange isn't some left wing issue. Did Tucker convince Dumpty to pardon Assange? No. So, Jimmy goes on the show, and immediately agrees with Tucker's right wing framing of Trump being kicked off social media because of left wing cancel culture, and blathers about the first amendment, which doesn't even apply, and only feeds right wing morons' victim complex, and feeling their rights are being violated. Utter bullshit. Jimmy should have pointed out that there's no such thing as free speech rights on someone else's private property. He should have pointed out that right wingers are the ones siding with private property, and that, if you do want free speech rights, then you should back public ownership. He should have pointed out that giant corporations, owned by centibillionaires, aren't "leftist", in the least. He should have pointed out that right wingers are the ones who handed corporations so much power, argued they're people with their own rights, including the right to their own beliefs and right to act on those beliefs. They created the monster they're crying about. Plus, he should have pointed out that inciting insurrections and defamation aren't protected speech, even if you made social media an actual public square, through public ownership. He should have pointed out that conservative religious types have been cancelling things and people for millennia. He should have pointed out that Republicans are fine when the government outright violates free speech, like the head of government firing or threatening to fire anyone who contradicts him, like anti-BDS laws, like LGBT books, like making it harder and more dangerous to protest, like an FCC still protecting delicate conservative sensibilities from naughty words and nipples, etc. He should have pointed out all the times Republicans have promoted cancelling a business or a person ... for kneeling, for being gay, for being trans, etc. He should have pointed out that "cancel culture" is nothing new, and not something just the left does. In fact, the left hardly uses government, in comparison, and instead uses social pressure, which is basically like the libertarian solution, to use Yelp, or something, to push a business to behave the way you want. Yeah, and this was right before the well deserved second impeachment, Jimmy then threw in the off topic bone, to Tucker and his audience, that he too considered the first impeachment to be a sham, feeding their doubts about the second one. Nothing in the Mueller report has been refuted. Intelligence agencies didn't rely on the stupid Steele dossier, and are even the ones who decided it wasn't reliable. No clue what you think "Russiagate" is. It's just a fact that Russia interfered in the election. Trump's own FBI concluded the same thing, in 2020. Without relying on the Steele dossier, the Mueller report laid out some 200 pages of information sharing (collusion) that didn't amount to criminal conspiracy, stated Jr and Kushner weren't charged with criminal conspiracy because it would be too hard to prove they willfully broke the law not because they didn't break the law, and laid out evidence of obstruction. The only people I see blathering about "Russiagate", is you Dore knobs. Then, like I said, he finally talked about Assange, which was already something Tucker had no problem with. Nothing Jimmy said on that segment challenged any of Tucker's far right views, or his audience's. A total love fest.
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  6159. ​ @samjohnson2842  For example?
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  6160. However things went down with the first guy, the second two believed they were chasing down a criminal, an active shooter. They were the "good guy with a gun", or a skateboard, and the law allows some degree of force to try and apprehend someone you believe has committed a crime. If Kyle gets off, this would seem to set a precedent that criminals being chased by citizens can kill them in "self defense".
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  6161.  @martinfiedler4317  Idiot. Trump is still doing that, as well. https://www.statista.com/chart/16079/weapons-released-by-the-us-coalition-over-afghanistan/
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  6162.  @louisesumrell6331  You still aren't.
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  6163.  @garycampbell1076  Hate to tell you, but the few states that Trump barely managed to flip, in 2016, by less than a 1% margin, already flipped back during the 2018 midterms.
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  6164.  @blakestillinthegame4248  That's the funny thing about his tweets. Because all but Ilhan were born in the US, that means he was describing the US, when he was trashing "their countries". Doubly so, for AOC. Even if you use ancestry gymnastics, she's from Puerto Rico. If she went back to the country of her ancestors, she'd still be in the US. The moron can't quite grasp that Puerto Rico isn't a different country.
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  6165. ​ @vipermad358  FDR
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  6166.  @SLC-Smudge42  Sam, talking about having Murray on ... "When I did read the book and did some more research on him, I came to think that he was probably the most unfairly maligned person in my lifetime. That doesn’t really run the risk of being much of an exaggeration there." "In the process of defending him against the charge of racism and in order to show that he had been mistreated for decades, we had to talk about the science of IQ and the way genes and environment almost certainly contribute to it." Ezra Klein then lists a number of ways the book is blatantly racist, and Sam starts walking back ... "Now I’m not defending Murray’s view of what the social policy should be." Uh, yeah Sam, you opened arguing he's not, at all, a racist.
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  6167.  @cringlator  Not really. They had the same basic end goal. Differences in method doesn't change the end goal. Plus, if you look at what Marx actually did ... He, and Engels, were members of the SPD, a democratic socialist party, which claimed to be Marxist. They weren't leaders of a violent rebellion. Likewise, for much of Europe. POUM (Workers' Party of Marxist Unification), in Spain, for example, were anti-Stalinists. On the other side, Nazis were Nazis, whether they were attempting a coup, or whether they were getting elected. The end goal was the same.
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  6168.  @EricLeafericson  And? Mussolini ended up being backed by the King (anti-socialist), exactly because his black shirts had been going after socialist enclaves.
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  6169.  @Historia.Magistra.Vitae.  If you think they are the same, then you're arguing that socialism is private ownership. The governance of an absolute monarchy is similar to a large private company. An owner, a board of directors, managers, foremen, and workers. In an absolute monarchy, the borders of the "state" are the borders of the monarch's private property.
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  6170. Sam says they're all bots.
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  6171. Musk is just another slimeball billionaire, who only claims $50k in income, while making billions in stocks and options, so he doesn't have to pay into the infrastructure that helped make him rich, so he doesn't have to pay for poor elderly people's healthcare or social security, and so he doesn't have to pay for the military that protects shipping lanes and corporate interests abroad.
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  6172.  @gigiarmany  Do you think that poorer Americans, with black and Hispanic Americans overrepresented in that category, are getting the same quality of education, when schools are funded largely by property taxes? That means that to raise the same amount of revenue, in a lower lower property value area, you have to tax more properties ... more properties = more kids = fewer funds per child.
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  6173.  @selvamary450  Not at all. You must be pretty stupid to think it's reasonable to expect a member of congress to respond. If David Pakman tweets out a debate challenge to Mitch McConnell, you thinks it's reasonable for Pakman to expect a response, do you?
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  6174. So he wants people to cancel using products from the companies he listed?
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  6175. If you completely ignore challenging them in the elections that just happened, I guess.
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  6176.  @meowzedong9039  I find it hard to believe you're from Australia, if you think it's a capitalist healthcare system.
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  6177.  van wray  Quite right. Some might not be racist. His followers could be racist, bigoted, selfish, and/or complete morons.
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  6178.  @LividImp  So, you think terraforming enough other planets, and moons, or making enough technological advancements, to eleminate scarcity, is "magic"?
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  6179.  @LividImp  We're doing things on this planet, that would be considered terraforming on another. So, you think we'll just never get a colony on another planet, or moon?
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  6180. If they take a further jump towards the authoritarian right, it also means that anyone who wants to work with them is going to have take a step towards the authoritarian right, themselves, to meet them in the "middle".
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  6181. ​ @jackied962  *not in America, would likely be more apt. What's the point of the posters? People can't keep their eyes open for them, in the US.
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  6182.  @ManiacMayhem7256  Isn't the actual left in favor of public ownership, that would turn social media platforms into actual public squares, where free speech could be litigated? So, how is the left both in favor of making social media an environment where free speech would actually be a thing, and opposed to free speech? "Free speech" already doesn't include incitement, false advertising, defamation, or false speech that can cause a panic or harm. You're claim doesn't seem to make sense, without some right wing notion of completely unfettered "free speech", which doesn't exist, and which they don't actually adhere to themselves.
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  6183.  @robertpitts671  The $15 got a vote. Dore and his knobs have spent months making out like just getting a vote on an important progressive policy would be a big deal. It actually passed the house (M4A wouldn't have) and also got a senate vote, so you've got a list of no voters from both the house and senate. Dore and his knobs have spent months making out like getting a list of no voters would be a big deal. So ... what have Dore and his knobs done with it? Just kept bitching about those who got it to stay in for a round of voting and who voted for it. Just a bunch of useless pathetic hypocrites.
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  6184.  @robertpitts671  Trump helped kill hundreds of thousands of Americans, dumb dumb. If the US had responded as well as Vietnam or S Korea, they'd have under 12k total covid deaths. He was incompetent beyond belief.
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  6185.  @FerdEdits  Oh piss off with the "there are no progressives in Washington" bullshit. Bernie, Justice Dems, and AOC, have done more for M4A in a few years than Dore has in his entire lifetime. Increasing the number of yes votes in congress is the only possible way to get any of those things. The most popular third party hasn't won a single seat in its near 50 year existence. The broader progressive caucus is 30 years old and is about 10 seats away from becoming the majority of house Dems. Justice Dems are 4 years old and have replaced about a dozen corporate Dems. AOC has been at it 2 years, and has helped replace a few corporate Dems. They're immeasurably more successful than any third party, because you can't even measure how many times better something is than zero ... zero seats, zero bills introduced, zero amendments, zero votes on even a single bill. Because there's no possible way for third party candidates, like former Green candidate Sinema, to ever become corrupt? You're living in some Puritan fantasy world. You get that "vote blue" works both ways, right? That Dems who voted against progressives in the primaries will vote for them in the general, if they win the primaries. Even if you somehow magically convinced every progressive to vote for your fantasy perfectly perfect party, that would just split the votes enough to let Republicans rule for decades to come, in most places.
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  6186.  @FerdEdits  "M4A" and "a 100% guaranteed to fail performance art vote" aren't exactly the same thing. Be clear that you want them to try and block legislation to get a piece of performance art, not to actually get M4A, which requires 100+ more yes votes in the house alone. Also be clear that there are zero extra votes to be gained to the left of progressives, and there is the entire Republican party to try and draw extra votes from, on the right. In a standoff, a bill could be pushed far enough right to pick up enough Republican votes to pass a bill without the squad. On the other hand, it's absolutely impossible to pass a bill without the likes of Manchin, because of the fact that there are no extra votes to be gained to the left, by pushing a bill left. It's a numbers game, and adding numbers is how you win the game. Making out like increasing numbers is doing nothing is beyond moronic. It's the only possible way to ever pass any bill. AOC and Bernie are now trying to increase the numbers by one, by adding Nina Turner. Is Dore promoting Turner?
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  6187.  @FerdEdits  Really? A month of Dore videos, and no headlines promoting Nina Turner. How far back do I have to go, exactly? AOC was just campaigning with her, on the ground in Ohio, a week ago, promoting M4A at rallies as well, and Jimmy's lying headline from 2 days ago, "Bernie and squad abandon Medicare4All". Not trying for what ... trying to actually get M4A, which requires numbers, or trying to get a 100% guaranteed to fail vote? She's actually trying to increase numbers. The $15 minimum vote proved FTVers would do absolutely nothing with a list of no voters, except keep bitching about those who got it to stay in for a round of voting and who voted for it, rather than use it to go after the no voters. There's also already a list of congress members who won't sign onto the M4A bill, during a pandemic, and FTVers just keep bitching about those who did sign onto it, instead of going after the 300+ house members who haven't.
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  6188.  @FerdEdits  Also, Pelosi actually introduced the M4A bill, just last session, and the parliamentarian sent it to committees, where it quietly died, where 90% of bills die. Over a year, including 9 months worth of pandemic, and zero pressure from Dore on committee members to take up the bill, zero protest campaign against committee members ... nada. He was too busy making excuses for his girl Tulsi, and then running an attack ad campaign against Trump's only remaining viable opponent.
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  6189.  @Kevin-gf4im  What's suspicious? An idiot told his cult to vote in person, rather than by mail, while the other side encouraged its voters to vote by mail during a pandemic. So, you get election day votes heavily skewing towards Trump (which you lot didn't find suspicious), and you get voting by mail heavily skewed towards Biden (which you lot do find suspicious). You're just spouting unverified crap.
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  6190. How is Denmark "EXTREMIST"?
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  6191. It's not. There's even a native focused branch of CRT: TribalCrit.
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  6192. Yang may be scientifically literate, but he, and his gangers, aren't as good at math as they pretend to be.
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  6193. Probably more to do with the fact that day of voting skewed towards Trump. So would day of exit polls. It's just bullshit, based on bad data.
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  6194. If you ignore that progressives demanded that the $15 min stay in the bill, which passed the house, I guess. You wanted them to what ... not vote for what the senate sent back to the house, push to put the $15 min back in again, and send it back to the senate a second time? Because the senate was going to change its mind?
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  6195.  @Bluebelle51  You're way overestimating their power. Dore singled out 15 people he seems to consider the most progressive. There are zero other extra votes to be gained around them, or to the left of them. On the other end, there are 20 corporate Dems who are in the same idiological voting range as 40 Reps, plus the rest of the Republican party to the right of them. There are far more votes to be lost, or gained, on the right. That means the furthest left Dems can only push a bill as far left as the furthest right Dems will allow. If there's a standoff, there's more votes to be gained by moving the bill to the right.
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  6196.  @premiumGenX  Terrible people vote for terrible policies.
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  6197. You have some serious comprehension problems. There's no such thing as free speech on someone else's private property. Never has been. A private property owners right to have you removed from their private property has always trumped the non right to be on their private property saying shit in the first place. If you want free speech on social media platforms, then make a public ownership argument. Blathering about the constitution has zero to do with private companies.
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  6198.  @gelpen7882  Holy crap, Americans need to learn how a VAT actually works. Corporations, like Amazon, would totally avoid a VAT, because they aren't paying it. They collect it, from the consumer, and pass it along to government. People benefitting from the UBI will spend some percentage of that extra money on Amazon, making them even more money. That, in turn, will make Bezos more money. The more money he has, the more he'll hoard, and hoarded money isn't affected by a VAT. Table 1 shows how a VAT (GST) actually works. It's the final consumer who ends up paying the entire VAT. http://publications.gc.ca/Collection-R/LoPBdP/BP/prb0003-e.htm#A.%20Taxing%20Mechanism(txt)
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  6199. Wow!
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  6200.  @edwardz.rosenthal9946  It's almost 100 house members short of even being able to pass the house. There are already plenty of names of people that need replacing. If you, or Jimmy, has 100 new pro-M4A candidates in your back pockets, you should have pulled them out and run them in the election that just happened.
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  6201.  @edwardz.rosenthal9946  Why didn't you lot just pressure all the Dems who haven't signed onto M4A to add it to their campaign platforms, if it's so easy? Once the bill is reintroduced in the next session, pressure all Democrats to sign onto it, if it's that easy. Won't have to force a vote, if it's that easy to get the majority of the house onboard.
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  6202.  @edwardz.rosenthal9946  Yeah. I get the frustration, feeling like it's slow going. But, the progressive caucus is only about 10 more seats away from becoming the majority of house Democrats. Some of their most vocal members could protest vote Pelosi, now, but even as a whole, they don't actually have the majority to swap her out in caucus. Pelosi has said this is her last ride as speaker. So, the next caucus speaker election will be up for grabs anyway, and the progressive caucus could have the majority by then, if everyone sticks by them, and elects some more. Letting someone like Tim Ryan get his foot in the door, now, and take over the job could make things tougher. He's even more anti-progressive than Pelosi. Paralyzing the house now could be propagandized against progressives. Pushing corporate Dems to have to work with Republicans to dodge paralyzing the house could make things worse for progressives. There are risks to forcethevote. If they get the majority of the Dems, next election, and Dems get the majority of the house again, they could pick a speaker who could put the M4A bill up for a vote as many times as Republicans put the ACA repeal bill up for a vote. They could put progressive policies up repeatedly. They're close. Promote the forcethevote idea. If they go for it, they go for it. If they don't want to risk it, they won't. Still stick together, do all that stuff you can still do anyway, and you can start now ... pressure any Rep not signing on, have and promote M4A rallies, find good candidates to take out anyone who won't sign on, spread proper information, etc. Don't set fire to the ship, jump overboard, let it sink, and start from scratch, over a secondary tactics disagreement. Jimmy isn't a good figurehead for a movement. The Libertarian party will soon be turning 50 years old without ever having won a seat in congress. The Green Party is 20 years old without ever having won a seat in congress. That's the reality of third parties in the US, atm. Need to get people on the inside to change how elections work, get big donors out of politics, etc., before third parties can really be viable, I think. It may seem like a revolutionary idea in the moment, and you have grand ideas of everyone jumping onboard and it being a short trip to your destination, but it's actually a long road to nowhere, as the system works now. Sticking with progressives is the shorter route, even if it seems slow.
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  6203.  @robertmartin2867  Oh, geezus. If it's "censorship", then it's self censorship. It's not like the FCC is telling them no swearing or nudity, which conservative types have been fine with, for decades. But, hey, better not pull something somewhat racist, or conservatives will get all up in arms. But ... they're not racists, of course. lol
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  6204.  @thelittlebudusyacht2744  Russia has vetoed over a dozen resolutions against Syria. Like the US does with Israel.
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  6205.  Demon Best  "Investigated"? He could have written his Syria "scandal" article from anywhere in the world using Wikipedia.
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  6206.  @IDF_R_HEROES  By every relevant measure, Israel is objectively the aggressor... Modern history: 100 years ago, in 1923, Ze'ev Jabotinsky fully acknowledged that Zionism is colonialism, and that, based on the entirety of history, the natives would fight it until the bitter end. He just didn't care what would happen to them, and promoted doing it anyway. Colonizers are never not the aggressors. On top of the colonialist nature of Zionism, the Zionists also formed terrorist organizations, like the Irgun and Lehi. They bombed many Palestinian markets and other public places, murdering many civilians, including children, even including Palestinian Jews (who opposed Zionism). Israel merged those terrorists into the new nation's military and intelligence agencies. Israelis elected Menachem Begin, leader of the Irgun, child murderer, Jew murderer, and bomber of the King David Hotel, as PM. Israelis, to this day, celebrate those terrorists as "heroes". Zionists literally taught their neighbours that terrorism is a valid path to independence and statehood, and that terrorists are to be celebrated. In 1945, it is well documented that Zionists owned just 5% of the land and were a majority nowhere. Israel was formed by actually going against the majority population. It's foundation is completely undemocratic. Then, becoming a majority, in "your" new nation, by ethnic cleansing the actual majority, and then claiming to be democratic, is utter nonsense. Law: Israel is considered an occupier by the International Court, the UN GA, and the UN SC. Occupiers are also never not the aggressors. Those occupied actually have a right to resist occupation. On the flip side, it is illegal for the occupier to settle occupied lands, and illegal to use collective punishment. Israel is a rogue nation, that doesn't abide by international law. What it has been doing, and is doing now, is illegal. Current events: This year, alone, prior to Oct 7 ... Israel held over 1200 Palestinian hostages without charges ... over 200 Palestinians had been killed by the IDF and settlers ... over 1000 Palestinians had been displaced by Israel's neverending colonization of the West Bank ... and, Israel continued to operate an open air WWII style fascist ghetto. Even ignoring modern history and law, in no reality did Hamas "start" anything.
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  6207.  @IDF_R_HEROES  Jerusalem Post... "Netanyahu: Money to Hamas part of strategy to keep Palestinians divided By LAHAV HARKOV Published: MARCH 12, 2019"
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  6208.  @IDF_R_HEROES  France24... "Netanyahu defends Qatari cash infusion to Gaza Jerusalem (AFP) – Issued on: 11/11/2018"
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  6209.  @IDF_R_HEROES  NPR... "Why Israel Lets Qatar Give Millions To Hamas June 18, 2015"
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  6210. Why don't they ever give a crap about us, mostly white, Canadians, who overstay? Most undocumented aliens in the US are overstays, and the largest group of overstayers are Canadians.
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  6211.  @jirkazalabak1514  There are all kinds of articles from December and January. And, I explained how it's still better if everyone is vaccinated, even if efficacy drops. For every vaccinated person between you and a carrier, it doubles the protection.
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  6212. ​ nigelmcgiver2275  No. He said "the blacks" were working for themselves under Jim Crow. His grandparents were still working for his great-grandparents' owner.
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  6213. ​ @gnubbiersh647  No clue how Harris even got a philosophy degree. He doesn't even seem to have a full grasp on basics, like subjectivity vs objectivity. He is not very bright.
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  6214.  @mattsheldon8671  Peterson has a PhD and Chopra has a medical degree. You didn't mention a thing that really makes them different.
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  6215.  @mattsheldon8671  That's nice. Is he simply writing peer reviewed papers, and does he stick solely to psychology? Do you think a psychologist, who told millions of people (some percentage of whom would have mental health issues), that his daughter's all meat diet cured his anxiety and depression and that he hadn't needed meds for 6 months ... months before needing to be put into a coma, to break his severe addiction to those very same meds ... is a credible one? Or, do you think it's one that is even willing to give the worst mental health advice, just to make a buck?
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  6216.  @BSCTrainerRob  Honey Boo Boo was a popular American television show. Trump is popular. Why do ignoramuses think popularity is evidence of intelligence?
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  6217.  @gnubbiersh647  That popularity (book sales) isn't evidence of intelligence, as the person I replied to implied.
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  6218.  @andrewkowalow3794  The Steele dossier wasn't used in the Mueller investigation. Don't tell me Jimmy prattled on and on, about something irrelevant, making a huge deal about a nothingburger. He wouldn't do that. Don't recall Sam supporting it.
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  6219.  @CV-fb9kf  Sorry, when was she handed the power to pick what is voted on, when? Did I miss something? She, and others, were complaining about it running out for weeks.
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  6220.  @CV-fb9kf  I hope you're not one of those hypocrites that wanted a 100% guaranteed to fail performance art vote on M4A.
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  6221.  @mayavox  You people who keep spouting "but, but, but, we're a republic!" know there are a helluva lot of shitty republics out there, right? Republic =\= good. You also know the electoral college has only mattered 5 times in US presidential history, right? The popular vote would have given the US pretty much all the same presidents. Recently, only Bush and Trump would have lost to popular.
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  6222. Ugh. Yes, other countries are using a VAT to generate federal revenue. No, other countries aren't using a VAT to make corporations "pay their fair share". It's built right into VAT systems that corporations get paid back for any input VAT. Americans need to learn how a VAT actually works.
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  6223.  @JohnSmith-kr7sj  Once you get multiple VAT countries involved, it depends. The EU used to have companies charging the VAT rate for the country the company operated in. So, people could actually pay less VAT buying from lower VAT countries. But, now they've changed it so that they use the buyer's country's VAT rate. Apple and Amazon didn't eat any profits, with the change, and simply let the full VAT differences pass along to customers of those countries. And, businesses from one EU country can recoup input VAT in other EU countries. Depends on how Yang would integrate with other VAT systems, if he does, at all.
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  6224.  @duaneslack8516  The same "Russiagate" that led a Republican investigator to indict 29 Russians, and 3 Russian companies? The same "Russiagate" that included some 200 pages of documented non conspiracy level information sharing (collusion), and only didn't indict Jr and Kushner for conspiracy because it would be hard to prove they "willfully" broke the law, not because they didn't break the law? Are you sure you're not thinking of the numerous Benghazi investigations that found no wrongdoing?
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  6225. *inaction
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  6226. As a publisher, don't they get to decide what to publish? Books have been going out of print since forever.
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  6227. @The One Oh yeah? What are some examples of him lying?
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  6228. @independentCog Forgive me. I don't remember you, from a sea of ironic gangers who think math is "disinfo".
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  6229.  @writerconsidered  Yang gangers who argue against the reality of math, when he's supposed to be the math guy.
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  6230.  @SR-lh4rm  For example?
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  6231. ​ @vietnamd0820  That was the perfect comment.
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  6232.  @toomin2316  What happens, if she convinces enough voters to not vote Democrat?
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  6233.  @grantwithers  Rofl, you mean that Peterson misrepresented, after he said it. How the hell does "enforced monogamy" translate as anything other than exactly what it says?
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  6234. It's like triage, where those who need immediate care get it, and those with non life threatening issues are the ones who wait. So, your "require" depends on what you mean by that.
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  6235. To be fair, the vast majority of the shows on my Netflix subscription are completely fiction.
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  6236. Yeah, Peru used it and has the highest covid deaths per capita in the world. Show a single study, that has passed peer review, which shows its effective against covid. Even the manufacturer doesn't recommend it as a safe and effective covid remedy, even though it could make them billions, if it was.
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  6237.  @carmenharvey6611  Japan has not approved using it. Mexico has surpassed the US in covid deaths per capita, and is widely considered to be underreporting deaths. A huge "study" out of India was just pulled from print, for obviously fabricated and manipulated data.
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  6238. Literally isn't.
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  6239.  @ivanfreely6366  Exactly. The two state "solution" has proven itself to be anything but a solution. It has been a complete failure. They need one state, with a power sharing government, like Lebanon.
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  6240. Yeah, it's supposed to reduce hospitalizations, and deaths, by 30%, which is significant. Pfizer is saying their's reduces both by 89%, though, which would be amazing.
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  6241. *Peter Jennings He is Canadian, after all.
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  6242.  @harveymanfredsenjenson5417  Must be rough with such severe reading comprehension problems.
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  6243.  @harveymanfredsenjenson5417  You clearly do.
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  6244.  @StoneyHoliday  But, king of the progressives, and M4A champion, Jimmy Dore, paints himself as a left wing man of the people, and administer of the progressive purity test ... which amounts to following a single half baked idea of his, or you're out of the club. Surely, he only promotes the most leftist of candidates.
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  6245. You know the FBI and DoJ put out statistics, yeah?
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  6246.  @shinra358  What the ...? I've never called black people names, and always agreed with statistics showing they're subject to hate crimes, as well.
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  6247. "Agnosticism is of the essence of science, whether ancient or modern. It simply means that a man shall not say he knows or believes that which he has no scientific grounds for professing to know or believe." ~ T H Huxley Believing anything, without verifiable/falsifiable evidence, isn't agnosticism. That's, basically, demarcation, so anything that doesn't follow that philosophy (which Popper cemented into the philosophy of science) is anti-science.
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  6248.  @matrixman8582  If all else stayed the same, the corporate model, demanding ever increasing profits would still cause prices, and inflation, to go up.
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  6249.  @andrewwells6323  You're obviously dishonest, or a moron with reading comprehension problems, or both. "A weaver who in 1792 could have expected to earn six shillings a day was by 1826 earning less than six shillings a week for a sixteen-hour day, in a period when the price of staples such as bread, cheese and meat had almost doubled.[3]"
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  6250.  @andrewwells6323  No, you lying twat. "in the textile towns of the industrial north wages fell sharply as the factory system was developed", is what it said.
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  6251.  @andrewwells6323  You, literally, showed that you're clueless. The wages dropping went along with the automation, not the end of the war, dumbass. https://spartacus-educational.com/PRhandloom.htm
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  6252.  @andrewwells6323  Already provided. It explained how an unskilled child could run a power loom, and how they hired children to do just that. It explained how wages dropped in step with automation. That you didn't comprehend is on you. You don't know about 16 hr work days, 6 days a week, for shit wages? Women paid half, or less? Hundreds of thousands of children (almost half the UK workforce, 750k in the US) paid even less, to do things like climb into the machinery, or small coal shafts to run the machinery? All the things that resulted in massive strikes, protests, and riots?
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  6253.  @danialhillmann5374  Wtf are you blathering about? The tax is the only time you pay, dumb dumb. The expenditure per capita is less than half.
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  6254. @Ursus Americanus So you're psycho. Good to know.
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  6255. @Ursus Americanus What leftist force?
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  6256. Per capita, the US is far worse than China or India. Why do these morons constantly compare totals with populations over 1b people?
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  6257. The electoral college isn't inherently disproportionate. It was a 1929 bill that froze the number of seats in the house, that also froze the number of electorals, which has become increasingly disproportionate. There was also a 1941 bill that calculates how electorals are distributed, and the math seems off. Theoretically, it should be easier to repeal those bills and redo distribution, than to make a constitutional amendment. If they have enough to make a constitutional amendment, they should ditch the senate, or at least merge it with the house, instead of being a completely separate undemocratic body, that can override the house.
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  6258. ​ @joshuahbogus7056  Religion doesn't require theistic beliefs, and theistic belief doesn't require a religion. Deist types don't really practice a religion. They simply have a belief. Buddhism and ancestral spirit worship, are religious practices.
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  6259.  @edwardrosser938  Did you miss Matt reporting that he's not doing hard investigate reporting for a year or two?
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  6260.  @edwardrosser938  Rofl. What math doesn't add up?
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  6261.  @edwardrosser938  It's "terrifying" to wear a mask and/or get a needle? Get a grip.
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  6262.  @edwardrosser938  Too late. I already said it was pointless talking to Dore knobs, from the get go. You proved me right.
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  6263.  @edwardrosser938  Nope, but I did just run across someone spewing a stream of them.
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  6264.  @newcoatresurfacing5477  You tell me. You're the one with a cult leader. Hard to tell a Dore knob from a Trumpist.
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  6265.  @edwardrosser938  No, he doesn't. If he actually encouraged you to research what he has said, and you actually researched what he has said, you'd find that he's full of shit. Trumpists are constantly telling people to do "independent research", when what they mean is ... don't listen to the consensus of the vast majority of doctors and scientists, across the world, and find that fringe loon who's telling you what we're telling you. They're constantly telling people to "think for themselves", and calling others "sheep", when what they mean is "think exactly what the cult is telling you", and they're the biggest bunch of sheep going.
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  6266.  @DanA-nl5uo  I didn't mention donors. Do you have reading comprehension problems?
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  6267. Praise the leading abortionist in existence, if it existed, like a hypocrite.
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  6268. Israel has their largest IDF base inside a shopping mall, using civilians as human shields. Israel has over 400k militants (reservists) hiding amongst the populace, using them as human shields. Israel's mandatory service policy means that Israel is forcing Israelis to be militants and murderers. And those are actually verifiable. Are your claims?
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  6269.  @jonathanthompson4077  Maybe. But Justice Dems and AOC tried backing some progressives in very conservative areas, and they got smoked in the primaries. Another problem with Manchin and Sinema is that they're in office until 2025. Need to handle 2022, first.
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  6270.  @sensualeye  If 8 senate Dems, and every Republican in the house and senate, votes against the $15, for example, how are Dems fully half the problem?
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  6271. Damnit!!! I bet on Louie. :(
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  6272. And? What did your doctor say about how herd immunity works, and what you should do?
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  6273.  @skycryztals  He underestimated the dangers of a Trump presidency, claiming Trump filling multiple scotus seats was as likely as the moon falling into Lake Michigan, amongst other nonsense. Should be anytime now.
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  6274.  @nostrum6410  Yep.
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  6275.  @patrickriarchy1976  It is no misconception. Again ... a VAT is specifically designed to not tax businesses, in order to avoid cascading taxes upon taxes ... which would be worse (you're arguing for something that would actually be worse than the VAT). I owned and operated a VAT registered business, for years. If you're not a Yang ganger, then why are you lying so hard, for him?
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  6276.  @patrickriarchy1976  "The GST takes into account the cost of inputs – the factors used in manufacturing or production – at each stage of the process to avoid double taxation. Input tax credits enable partnerships, businesses and self-employed workers to recover all GST paid on goods and services purchased for business purposes by deducting them from their GST payments. Final consumers are not entitled to such credits, which means that they pay all the GST on every item purchased. The GST is thus a multi-stage tax on final consumption." If my business buys $100 in vatable goods or services, it would pay $10 input VAT (with a 10% VAT). However, when I sell $200 in vatable goods or services, it would collect $20 in output VAT. The business then pays itself back the $10, and sends $10 to the government. So, if the government received $20 VAT ($10 + $10), and my customers paid $20 VAT, how much VAT did my business end up paying?
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  6277.  @mrb152  The wait time data is for people that go to the doctor. Many uninsured Americans just don't go to the doctor, until there's an emergency which hospitals are still required to help with. Here, in Ontario we had a problem with masses of Americans coming over, borrowing an old non photo health card, and getting free health care. Then we implemented photo health cards. Now, over a million Americans a year are going to places like India for cheap health care. Tens of millions uninsured, over a million traveling abroad, 500k + bankruptcies a year due to medical costs, highest costs in the world, not the highest life expectancy, not the lowest infant mortality rate, not the lowest maternal mortality rate, ... but, hey, you didn't have to wait as long ... just grand.
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  6278.  @mountainjay  You moved the goalpost. You originally said Jews who didn't like Israel. Kyle has promoted Bernie a ton. Bernie hates other Jews, does he, rather than simply being opposed to Israeli policies?
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  6279. Firstly, Israel was created against the wishes of the majority population of Palestine. Its very foundation is anti-democratic. From there, the non-Jewish population was still the majority, in the part given to the Zionists. Jews became the majority by ethnically cleansing enough of the actual majority (and have never let them return), until they had themselves a solid majority. That is equivalent to Hitler purging Germany of his political opponents, and then holding an election. The non-Jewish population is only allowed to vote, because the Jewish majority has no fear of their minority. You can not maintain being a "Jewish state", unless you maintain being a solid Jewish majority, which means never giving refugees the right of return. The Palestinian territories are officially still considered occupied territories, by the International Court, the UN GA, and the UN SC. They get no vote in what their occupier is allowed to do to them (continued colonizing and collective punishment).
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  6280. Now, now ... we've all seen Nigel Farage.
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  6281.  @2727rogers  Why do you keep peddling this bullshit? You've been debunked multiple times.
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  6282.  @sinamos3945  That horrible "fraud" just used her platform and PAC to help add more M4A yes votes to congress ... the horror!!! Dore knob idiot.
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  6283. ​ @DanNorton1  Your hero disliked you anarcho types: "For the record, I shall repeat what I have said many times before: I do not join or endorse any political group or movement. More specifically, I disapprove of, disagree with and have no connection with, the latest aberration of some conservatives, the so-called “hippies of the right,” who attempt to snare the younger or more careless ones of my readers by claiming simultaneously to be followers of my philosophy and advocates of anarchism. Anyone offering such a combination confesses his inability to understand either. Anarchism is the most irrational, anti-intellectual notion ever spun by the concrete-bound, context-dropping, whim-worshiping fringe of the collectivist movement, where it properly belongs."
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  6284. There are still also shareholder lawsuits, and complaints about leadership.
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  6285. Ummm, the Trump presidency gave you Biden. People were so scared, and desperate to get rid of Trump, they fell for the "more electable" propaganda, in the primaries. Dore protects establishment Republicans, by never talking about how horrible they are. He has promoted a Republican as the better option. He goes on the establishment MSM Republican propaganda network to largely agree with them. What are you even talking about?
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  6286.  @DiverDan1000-3  Check your reading comprehension problems, first.
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  6287.  @DiverDan1000-3  You have severe reading comprehension problems. I said he promoted a republican, and he did. He promoted Trump as the better option than Clinton. Someone might argue that Trump wasn't "establishment", but I didn't say "establishment Republican" in that sentence, you dimwitted Dore knob. Still, Trump ran on a pretty standard establishment Republican platform, including wanting to toss 10m of the poorest Americans off of Medicaid expansion (which Dore argued was the better option) and he would be a Republican president in place to sign all the bills sent up by the establishment Republicans. Also, if you're promoting a Republican president as the better option, people might just stay home to let him win, which would benefit the establishment Republicans on the down ballots.
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  6288.  @DiverDan1000-3  Idiot Dore knob. Jimmy outright made the argument Trump was worse, but promoted him as the better option, because he had a delusional fantasy that a Trump presidency would cause a major progressive backlash. He vastly overestimated the benefits, claiming it would "for sure" lead to progressives taking the house (wrong) and the senate (wrong), in 2018, and the presidency (wrong), in 2020. He vastly underestimated the risks, claiming even establishment Republicans would vote against a Trump agenda (wrong), and that Trump filling multiple scotus seats was as likely as the moon falling into Lake Michigan (wrong). In what reality was Trump the "lesser evil", and Jimmy wrong on that count, as well?
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  6289.  @DiverDan1000-3  Rofl, what a load of bullshit. The whole Bernie and new progressive movement got going after Obama. Clinton couldn't even make it through the primaries, without showing she was corrupt. It didn't require having to let a complete psycho rule for 4 years. That ended up sending everyone screaming, terrified of another Trump term, right into Biden's "more electable" arms. Of course, Dore didn't care if Bernie (M4A) lost, because, one true champion of healthcare that he is, he was backing Tulsi (public option), the second time around.
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  6290.  @DiverDan1000-3  Her public option, like I put in brackets. Didn't you Dore knobs just make support for a single tactic to get a performance art vote for M4A the purity test for being a "real" progressive? Her healthcare platform was worse than Biden's, you hypocrites.
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  6291.  @DiverDan1000-3  I don't think there's a "perfect" candidate. You're the numbskulls who have made out like other progressives are "fakes", "frauds", "sellouts", PINOs, or whatever bullshit, with your ftv purity test, while being complete hypocrites, who backed a public option candidate.
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  6292.  @DiverDan1000-3  Whoever I like is irrelevant to Dore, and his knobs, being complete hypocrites.
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  6293.  @DiverDan1000-3  Don't like him ... because he's stupid, dishonest, a hypocrite, a grifter, ...
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  6294. ​ @chres843  You don't appear to know what "logic" means.
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  6295.  @dwreal1717  In 2017?! Weird ... "Joe Biden announces he is running for president in 2020 Apr 25, 2019"
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  6296.  Craft9841  We were laying waste to nature. We did hunt some species to extinction, or near extinction, without a care. You think conservationism started simply because we suddenly decided we like a nature walk?
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  6297. Poverty rates are actually higher in red rural areas, dumb dumb, along with poorer education rates. Higher wages, like this, is why people continue to keep migrating to blue urban areas, from red rural areas, and why Republicans can only win elections with gerrymandering, and an electoral college that stopped being proportional representation in 1929.
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  6298. It's also supposed to be a democratic system, hence the voting. And, no, if the electoral college vote beating the popular vote gives you 2 of the dumbest presidents in American history, and has a majority of Americans wanting to ditch it, then it's not "working fine".
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  6299. ​ @martinisawe6300  "Mexican" is a nationality, so doesn't mean anything. You're sharp, like a spoon.
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  6300.  @martinisawe6300  "Hispanic" is a linguistic label, and Hispanics come in all races, just like Mexicans. Any Mexican Hispanics, who are largely descended from Spaniards, are wht, right?
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  6301. "Allah", Arabic for "God". Imagine if the kid had said it in Croatian, "Bog".
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  6302.  @martinpenwald9475  McCarthy's group was literally the group that voted with Dems to keep the government funded. The other group would have let the government fall apart.
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  6303. Red states tend to have higher firearm mortality rates, higher homicide rates, higher poverty rates, lower education outcomes, lower healthcare outcomes, ... why is it you think Republicans are better for anyone?
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  6304.  Aaron Dickson  Do you have reading comprehension problems? I said red states. You know, run by Republican governors, and majority Republican state legislators. You know, the dimwits who make state gun laws, etc. You failed to mention St Louis, Missouri, the per capita gun violence capital of the country, where it's easier to get guns.
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  6305.  @nuttysalts9649  Ask Republicans who were fine with Trump (the actual government) cancelling, or threatening to cancel, federal employees that contradicted him. Ask conservatives with delicate sensibilities that the FCC (the actual government) protects from naughty words and nipples. Whining about the general public (the audience) not finding you funny anymore, means you likely aren't.
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  6306.  @jamesbarton1757  ftv is threatening to paralyze the house, dumb dumb. The house can't function without a speaker. No new bills, meaning no new covid relief, no new unemployment extension, no new vaccine funding, etc., during a pandemic, for a piece of performance art.
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  6307.  @inspectortanzi  Why do you dimwits Dore knobs not know that ftv is a threat to paralyze the house, by not picking a speaker?
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  6308.  David Winehouse  Is Biden encouring people to get themselves killed, like psychotic Republicans, dumb dumb?
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  6309.  @inspectortanzi  My phone added an s to dimwit, Dore knob. But, yeah, a grammatical error is totally the same as having zero clue what the plan you're backing actually threatens to do.
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  6310.  @jamesbarton1757  Delaying covid relief for performance art would look bad for progressives. The corporate Dems and MSM would have a field day trashing them, and blaming them for the delays. The corporate Dem majority of the party should do a lot of things they don't.
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  6311.  @inspectortanzi  Keep adding more M4A yes votes to congress, because that's the only possible way to ever pass a bill? It's exactly what you'd still need to do after a failed performance art vote. AOC was just trying to add 1 more, with Nina Turner. What were Dore knobs doing? Protesting AOC instead?
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  6312.  David Winehouse  How is dropping bombs, while also sitting on your ass as hundreds of thousands of Americans die, exactly the same as dropping bombs, while trying to get everyone vaccinated? How is dropping bombs, while trying to toss millions of the poorest Americans off of Medicaid expansion, exactly the same as dropping bombs, while not doing that? What was the other viable option, again?
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  6313.  David Winehouse  Biden didn't run on M4A, dumb dumb. The minimum wage got a vote and a list of no voters. Dore knobs have proven that they don't actually think getting a vote on an important progressive policy is important, and proven that they wouldn't have actually done anything with a list of no voters.
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  6314.  David Winehouse  What was the other viable option, again?
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  6315.  @inspectortanzi  If you think M4A would have actually passed, right now, during a pandemic, you're completely delusional. It's 100+ votes short in the house alone. What you wanted, right now, during a pandemic, was a 100% guaranteed to fail performance art vote, and then you'd still need to add more yes votes to congress, exactly like AOC and Justice Dems, have been doing.
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  6316.  @inspectortanzi  She was just on the ground with Nina Turner, trying to add another M4A yes vote to congress, and promoting M4A at the rallies. That's more action than sitting in your garage bitching about everything and anything. But you do know that 300+ house members won't even sign onto the bill, during a pandemic, while you bitch about those who have and give those 300+ a pass. Absolutely psychotic, that Dore isn't constantly going after those who won't sign onto the bill, and is instead constantly going after those who have.
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  6317.  @TheBestLife2184  Hitler didn't try to end Christianity, dimwit. What he wanted was a national united Christian Church, under the Fuehrer, like the church of England, under the king. In Mein Kampf, he promoted the idea of Jesus being an Aryan who opposed the Jews. That's Nazi Positive Christianity. He used Martin Luther's writings about Jews as a playbook.
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  6318. @Caleb Strohl How is it "unamerican"? The US oversaw banning fascism in Europe, and holding fascists accountable. They fired everyone who worked for Sadaam, when in charge of Iraq. They got rid of all the Taliban leadership, when in charge of Afghanistan. Etc.
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  6319.  @Zackattack94  Vaccines are both individual protection and to provide herd immunity. If you don't want to be considered part of the herd, then stay out of the herd. Go do your own thing where nobody else is, like a proper non member of society. No vaccine is 100%, but having a high vaccination rate reduces how well a virus can travel. If a booster has an 80% efficacy, in a room of 100 unvaccinated and 100 vaccinated, sure, 20 of the vaccinated have the potential to catch it. That's a helluva lot better than the 100 unvaccinated, and that's exactly why 85% of those hospitalized and dying are unvaccinated. Want to smoke? Step outside. Want to be unvaccinated and unmasked? Step outside. Don't want your kid to have other vaccines? Keep them out of the public school. Pretty standard fare.
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  6320. In the end, it doesn't much matter, whether it came from a lab or a market, with regards to how well countries responded. Either way, China didn't have a hand in the US' pathetic and incompetent response. And, for those going full blown conspiracy, that China intentionally released it as a bioweapon, that would make Trump's response worse, by not defending the country from an intentional attack.
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  6321.  @whyamimrpink78  The US was founded by people who protested and even rioted against extra taxes that specifically funded the police/military. That's anti-authoritarian.Their opponents fought against democracy to keep an unelected ruler in power. That's authoritarian. Those two things aren't samesies, just because both sides caused damage and hurt people. There's no such thing as a left wing "fascist", and the right already went overt fascist, by trying to overthrow the democratic process. However flawed US democracy is, trying to outright end it is the last nail in the coffin Republicans need to hammer in, to embrace overt fascism. There's also not really such a thing as an extreme left in the US. Someone like Bernie wants to be more like Denmark. That's centrism, in the real world, outside the US bubble.
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  6322. Not only would Trump support Israel just as much, maybe more, but he'd also let Russia do the same thing as Israel, to Ukraine. On top if that, he'd royally screw things up domestically. He has said he wants a pledge of allegiance to Israel to get in the country. He has said he wants to reinstate and expand his Muslim ban. He'd support those red shirt kinds of tactics in NYC. He has said he's going to use the justice system to go after leftist ("First they came for the communists ..."). His Christo-fascists want to take the country back to Puritan times. Etc. Plus, even if you magically got the rest of Democrats to elect a third party presidential candidate, that candidate would be totally impotent, on the Israel issue, because of how much support Israel has in congress. They could easily pass what they want, for Israel, and override any presidential veto. It's a pointless risk, over a single policy.
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  6323. Funny how she campaigned for Bernie, backed 20 other pro-M4A progressives, helped add a few more M4A yes votes to congress, and helped remove a few more corporate Dems from office, while Dimwit Dore was peddling Tulsi and then running constant attack ads against Trump's only remaining viable opponent (not quite as bad as him outright promoting Trump as the better option in 2016). Funny how she just helped Bush extend the eviction moratorium, which Dimwit Dore didn't seem to care about (kind of like when he didn't care if 10m of the poorest Americans were thrown off Medicaid expansion). Funny how she was also just campaigning for Nina, promoting M4A, and trying to help increase the M4A yes vote count by one more, while Dimwit Dore was arguing against adding another M4A yes vote to congress (because third parties ... that's the best way to get votes in congress ... and third party candidates are obviously incorruptible and perfectly perfect puritans, like former Green member Sinema). Oh my, AOC isn't perfectly perfect. Better call her out about a topic not relevant to the video. Maybe cult leader Dore, the one true champion of healthcare, will notice his little knob and give him a shine.
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  6324. ​ @mysty0  Hundreds of millions of vehicles are constantly being used, in public, every day. The vast majority of the time, when used, they simply get people from point A to point B. A gun has no other purpose and, when used, just shoots things. Relative to vehicle use, they are rarely used in public (parking it in a holster isn't using it), but still kill as many people per year. They're clearly far more dangerous. How about requiring licenses, insurance, registration (ownership), clip limits (speed limits), no go zones (illegal to drive down the sidewalk), age requirement, etc., for guns?
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  6325. Nuclear weapons don't kill people, only people kill people. Why not start selling some Fallout style hand held nuke launchers, and ammo, at Walmart?
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  6326.  @jonathanlubarsky2782  Sure, there is another way. Have the government also consider stocks to have current value, and tax them. Or, don't allow banks to consider stocks to have current value, and make them have to sell to get money in hand, and pay taxes on what they sell. Having so much wealth piling up at the top, means it's not being put back into the economy. Wealth being hoarded at the top, by both corporations and billionaires (about $4t each) is why trickle down doesn't work. They should be paying their employees a larger cut, as well.
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  6327.  @jonathanlubarsky2782  Tesla could have handed each of their 110000 employees, $450000 in stock, and still handed over $6b to Musk, just in the last 4 years.
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  6328.  Marc Ruffalo  The only real "American culture" is a culture of immigration and different cultures coming together to make a new one. So, did Italians all convert to Protestantism, start drinking tea, not let any of their language or foods seep into the "American culture", and give up constantly letting everyone know they're Italian? Fuck no. Italians didn't assimilate to "American culture", "American culture" absorbed Italians, and parts of their culture, gangsters and all. That's what makes a melting pot. They melt together and make something new. It's simply racists and bigots who single out groups they don't want to absorb. If there should be zero tolerance in "American culture" changing, then Americans should be putting people in the stocks for kissing in public, stringing up even Quakers for not practicing Christianity properly let alone people practicing different religions, and attacking neighbouring towns/cities for improper conduct. All Americans adopt the culture of the original colonizers, and stick with it.
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  6329.  @56percentt56  Idiot. Stormbreaker was specifically designed to defeat the gauntlet. That wasn't Thor. That was dwarven magic. And, anyone can wield Stormbreaker, even Thanos. Anyone could have thrown Stormbreaker and it still would have cut through the beams. It's nothing special about Thor. Without that anti-gauntlet magic weapon, Thor, as well as Hulk and other Asgardian "gods", got stomped by Thanos. CM destroyed Thanos' ship, and almost had him, until he offhanded the planet destroying power stone. Infinity War would have been over in 2 min, if Thor could fly out into space and easily plow through spaceships. MCU Thor just can't.
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  6330.  @hoodlum4511  Only one of those is currently in the MCU. Wanda and CM both got their powers from infinity stones. It would likely depend on conditions. Both almost took out Thanos solo. He had to use his ship on Wanda and had to use the power stone on CM, to save himself. Strange could probably solo him too, without stones involved. Maybe an unnerfed Vision, as well. Only writers can defeat the ability to phase and rip out hearts. If you're going to bring in X-Men, Professor X should be able to take out just about anyone with a brain, who doesn't have a special helmet. Writers usually nerf him with a strict code of ethics, so that X-Men stories aren't over in 2 seconds.
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  6331.  @justanothergamer8155  It wasn't built for him, you dumb fuck. It was already designed for anyone, before he showed up. Even Thanos could use it. It's the hammer that has restrictions on who can use it.
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  6332. The US was founded by people who didn't want to pay a tax specifically to fund the police/military.
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  6333.  @pizzacrust43  Ah, a "real life", where North Korea never controlled all means of production, and where US Libertarians, and Ayn Rand promoters, don't exist?
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  6334.  @j_ll7  The "mindset" of not wanting to go bankrupt? Why is that hard to believe? "In 2017, more than 1.4 million Americans sought health care in a variety of countries around the world." "The reason more Americans have become medical tourists is simply that they are seeking less expensive health care. Because we have the most expensive health care system in the world, it is not difficult to find countries that offer various procedures at 30%-65% of the cost of care in the United States." https://www.amjmed.com/article/S0002-9343(18)30620-X/fulltext
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  6335.  @GotWag  What are you blathering about?
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  6336. Denazification wasn't democratic, but was how Germany became democratic. Need more info from those questioned.
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  6337. Rofl, says the Dore knob.
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  6338.  @Gambit0590  He's a Dore knob. They aren't very bright.
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  6339.  @DaraParsavand  Before getting to Assange, Dore first agreed with the right wing framing of Trump being banned from social media. He didn't point out that there's no such thing as free speech on someone else's private property. He didn't point out that Republicans are the primary supporters of corporations having so much power. He didn't point out that public ownership would give you free speech rights. He didn't point out that inciting an insurrection isn't even protected speech, under the first amendment. Nope, just agreed with Tucker's right wing framing. Then, and this interview was just as the second impeachment was getting underway, Dore threw Tucker, and his audience, the off topic bone of letting them know he considered the first impeachment to be a sham, helping to reinforce that, in their minds, for the second impeachment. Finally, he got to Assange. WikiLeaks has been leaning right, in the information it's collecting and releasing. Right wingers love it. So how, exactly, is Assange an entirely leftist issue, at all? Tucker, himself, had already done multiple pro Assange pieces, starting 2 years before Jimmy was even on. There was no disagreement, or debate, on that topic, either. What did Dore accomplish, exactly?
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  6340.  @alexandermiller1741  Rofl. Doesn't address anything I said, then makes out like not addressing anything you said is "telling". Yeah, it is "telling". You let me know that you have severe reading comprehension problems, so there's no reason to bother.
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  6341.  @maryhalverson5713  Neera Tanden promotes public ownership of social media? Did not.know that.
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  6342.  @maryhalverson5713  Pretty sure the DNC would like a grifter who abandoned Nina Turner, on air, and who now promotes never voting for a progressive running as a Democrat, ever again. That benefits corporate Dems, and Republicans, most. Rofl! Dore is consistently wrong.
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  6343. So, hypothetically, if Spain or the UK held independence referendums for Northern Ireland or the Basque region, and a Spanish or British official turned whistleblower, and provided information that the Spanish or British governments were falsifying the referendum votes, suppressing widespread support for Basque or Northern Irish independence, you'd want to give the whistleblower stitches? You sound like a complete moron.
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  6344.  @michael-pg8fi  Rofl. Dore is the one who took the with us or against us approach, making out like any progressives who didn't agree with him 100% were a "fakes", "frauds", "shills", or whatnot. Then, turns around and makes out like a far right ancapper, who praised the shooting of BLM and Antifa protesters, is a perfect ally. He's a nutjob.
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  6345.  @JonPais  Rofl. And you keep confirming.
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  6346. ​ @Polit_Burro  And now that guy has 30-40 nukes that can at least reach Alaska. What was your point?
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  6347. *kooks Cooks prepare meals.
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  6348. @Halon's Razor Well, the Mueller investigation charging 26 Russians, and the FBI recently saying Russians are interfering again, isn't quite the same thing as just pulling shit out of your ass and flinging it around.
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  6349.  @jilliancopeland6825  Ugh, yes. I wandered into a Sky News Australia comment section last week. They're lunatics.
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  6350. It was more Nate Mendel that led them in that direction. Either way, you think Ricky is going to evolve and move to a sane position, like them?
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  6351.  @marciamakesmusic  Just using his own words.
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  6352. Wasn't Rubin supposed to retire if Biden was inaugurated?
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  6353. This not Rvssia's first time in Ukrn. They already did the Hldmr gncd. They already ethnclly clnsd the Tartars. They already clnzd regions they depopulated. They also did Rvssiafication in Ukrn. Ever since the Svt collapse, Rvssia has been trying to claw back former Svt states (Georgia I, Chechnya I, Chechnya II, Georgia II, Ukrn) ... Trying to claw their way back to NATO's borders. Rvssia never wanted a Svt collapse ... They never wanted to NOT be on NATO's borders. Pvtin said the same in his very first address to parliament as PM. They just don't want NATO in states they want back. NATO also turned down Ukrn's application. What Pvtin actually got upset about was Ukrn joining the EU. Then he put an Eastern trade blckd on Ukrn.
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  6354.  Capo Di capo  You are aware that Nazis weren't the only fascists ever, right? Capitalists have allied with fascists (authoritarian capitalists) all over the world, for decades. German capitalists backed the Nazi party. Spanish and Italian capitalists backed Franco and Mussolini. Foreign capitalists were perfectly fine with Nazis, until they stepped on the wrong toes, just like they were fine with Mussolini and Franco. The USSR backed communist militants in Spain, against fascism. They supported the communist party of Germany, against fascism. Stalin having some mutual interest in Poland, with Nazis, doesn't mean he particularly liked fascists. Stalin also had a neutrality agreement with Imperial Japan. That doesn't imply he particularly liked imperialists. He then allied with a bunch of capitalist countries against those fascists and imperialists. That doesn't imply he particularly liked capitalists. Stalin was an opportunist.
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  6355.  @mickg3738  He wasn't in any position of political power, before that. He just supported or opposed causes, and endorsed candidates. So AOC working for Kennedy, Sanders, counts as political experience, or doesn't?
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  6356. ​ @aheroictaxidriver3180  If the North didn't want to end slavery, then why had all the Northern states already ended, or were ending, slavery in their states?
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  6357.  @aheroictaxidriver3180  So? If they didn't give a crap, then why end it?
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  6358. Not every insult is a fallacy. "Trump is a moron." <- Not a fallacy, and might even accurately describe him, based on all available evidence. "Trump is a moron, therefore he must be wrong." <- Ad hominem fallacy, because the conclusion doesn't follow. Like a broken clock, a moron can be right once in awhile.
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  6359. ​ @AOLAmericaOnline  Colonialists in the Americas allowed "good" natives to live near them ... while still massacring and ethnic cleansing many others. That's equivalent to saying you have a black friend, so can't be racist.
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  6360.  @mordec1016  You're the fucking moron. Venezuela is a mixed economy. Two thirds is privately owned and operated. It's not even a centrist country, let alone an all out socialist country. Norway is more socialist than Venezuela. You're like those semantics idiots who think Nazis were actually socialists.
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  6361.  @BelowMeGoggle  You Dore knobs are such dishonest twits. AOC criticized voting "present" on an important and historical vote, not simply voting "present", in general. Nothing much historical, or significantly important, about voting "present" for a purely defensive system. The Iron Dome doesn't attack Palestinians. So what? She, and other progressives, have a bill to attach conditions on the annual military aid to Israel. They have an anti anti-BDS laws bill. She actually voted against the State Department appropriation bill, which includes the annual $3.3b in offensive military aid to Israel. It was dishonest of Hinkle to say she voted for it. What she later voted for was the entire government budget, after the appropriation bill was passed, without her. That includes healthcare, education, housing, veteran's benefits, SNAP, SSI, etc., etc., etc. ... things he apparently wanted her to vote against.
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  6362. For example?
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  6363.  @Neofilmcritic  What do you think an ad hom is?
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  6364. ​ @PhatAssObese Are the hotel and UPS workers joining the writers' strike? Any other unions, workers, outside the industry? It would be great, if all unions, and all workers, joined each other's movements, but not something only the actors' union doesn't do. No need to single them out for unrealistic expectations.
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  6365. You should put "pundit" in quotes. Most media "pundits" don't actually seem to be pundits, at least not in the subjects they're talking about. pundit: an expert in a particular subject or field who is frequently called on to give opinions about it to the public
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  6366. ​ @Matty-o9p  She stated exactly why. Rudimentary Google proficiency will tell you why. But, why do you think?
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  6367. ​ @alejandrosolano7421  In Pvtin's very first address to the Rvssian assembly, as PM, he lamented about the loss of SSR countries. He never wanted Rvssia to not be on NATO's borders. Rvssia has been trying to re-expand, back into states that declared independence, since 1991, trying to get back to the NATO borders. Pvtin blockaded Ukrn trade East, and caused the whole EU deal to fall apart. Pvtin has been invdng Ukrn since 2014. What's wrong with supporting Ukrn against an invdr? Rvssia is just like Isrl.
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  6368. ​ @alejandrosolano7421  Georgia I (1991-93), Chechnya I (1994-96), Chechnya II (1999-2009), Georgia II (2008), Ukraine (2014-present).
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  6369. ​ @Matty-o9p  She didn't vote to pass it. Just a fact, dingus.
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  6370. The progressive caucus is an election or two away from becoming the majority of house Dems, and can then pick the Dem speaker, and bring up as many progressive bills for a vote as often as they like, if Dems are still the majority of the house. It's getting close.
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  6371. The point of puberty blockers is exactly to delay puberty until they are old enough to make a decision. It's not cross sex hormone therapy or surgery. So his question was moronic.
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  6372.  @ivanprihhodko2278  No. When he finally got around to talking about the US, what he specifically mentioned was minors being given puberty blockers.
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  6373. *fascist
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  6374. Rofl, but believe the supposed billionaire?
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  6375. All of the Palestine territories are considered occupied by the International Court, the UN GA, and the UN SC. You're just lying.
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  6376. Rofl, you think Seder likes Pelosi?!
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  6377.  @Bolaniullen  “Given a choice between Noam Chomsky and Ben Carson, in terms of the totality of their understanding of what’s happening now in the world, I’d vote for Ben Carson every time,” Harris stated.
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  6378.  @alejandrojuarez5640  Wasn't that the argument that MSM, DNC, and even Biden, were making about Bernie being unelectable? Either a) they would have voted Bernie if he was the nominee and were spouting pure bullshit, or b) they wouldn't have voted Bernie if he was the nominee and are now hypocrites expecting Bernie followers to do what they wouldn't have done. Which do you think, liars or hypocrites?
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  6379. I'm going to test the efficacy of using a mallet to cure headaches. Do you want to take my remedy before the test results are in?
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  6380.  @FrankCastle-tq9bz  What the hell does she have to do with reconciliation? You're moving the goalpost.
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  6381.  Leonard Weisfeld  Thank you for clearly detailing your reading comprehension problems. You're, quite obviously, mistaken. Is English not your first language? Also, here's a tip ... even when compleyely failing at being a grammar Nazi, do try to use perfect grammar, yourself. *your
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  6382.  Leonard Weisfeld  Bye, moron. Learn English, before trying to teach it.
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  6383. I guess. If you ignore that the public option, as well as free community college, was just mentioned in the American Families Plan, on April 29 ... "FREE COMMUNITY COLLEGE AND OTHER POSTSECONDARY INVESTMENTS" "President Biden has a plan to build on the Affordable Care Act and lower prescription drug costs for everyone by letting Medicare negotiate prices, reducing health insurance premiums and deductibles for those who buy coverage on their own, creating a public option and the option for people to enroll in Medicare at age 60, and closing the Medicaid coverage gap to help millions of Americans gain health insurance." https://www.whitehouse.gov/briefing-room/statements-releases/2021/04/29/fact-sheet-the-american-families-plan-will-support-children-teachers-and-working-families-in-rural-america/
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  6384.  @Galadriel333  I don't give two shits about Biden. It's just a fact that it wasn't dropped immediately, dumb dumb. It's right there in his American Families Plan.
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  6385. Look up the Irgun, Lehi, and Menachem Begin.
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  6386.  @lucboy13  Oh, you think you can see the future. Might want to talk with a professional about that. That "logic" is evidenced by the fact that countries with very high testing rates (the US rate was pathetically low) kept the virus under control, and have been able to stay open more. It's evidenced by the fact that countries with quick and widespread mask use were able to keep things open more. But, hey, don't let that bother you.
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  6387.  @joshualocicero6799  Bernie is centre-left, not far left. He points to centrist European countries to emulate, with mixed economies. He doesn't call for total economic equality and an end of capitalism, which would be the actual extreme left. In reality, there is no extreme left in US politics. On the other hand, there are numerous extreme right, Ayn Randian, politicians in US politics. So, US politics ranges from far right to centre-left, and simply agreeing with a few of Bernie's suggestions doesn't make one a leftist. Conservatives in most developed countries still agree with having a public health care system. They might not be extreme right economically, but they're still on the right. Everything left of far right isn't "left". Fascists using language to try and sway workers to their side is exactly the way it worked the first time around. Nazis, for one, weren't socialists any more than North Korea is democratic, simply because the word is in their party name. They may not have been extreme Ayn Randian on economics, but they were still right wing. They destroyed unions, and socialists, communists, and unionists, were the first people they tossed into camps. One of their main arguments against Jews, one of the main reasons they hated them, was that a Jew, Marx, came up with socialism. Playing to the workers was just bullshit, the same as when Republicans do it. Fascists were actually backed by leading industrialists, large land owners, and most church leaders. They were leaders in privatization, turning public tax dollars into private profits. But you can't win elections with only those votes. You have to con some idiots to your side. As well as simply lying about being on the side of workers, which they aren't, they use other rhetoric, like extreme nationalism, including an ideal national identity. That ideal being "brave" white male heterosexual Christians taking back "their" country. But they're actually cowards, afraid of people different than them. Spencer has heaped tons of praise on Trump. He's not a freaking leftist.
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  6388.  @joshualocicero6799  Pretty sure I included an argument, and you clearly don't know the definition of "ad hominem". "Fascism is the complete opposite of Marxian socialism" ~ Mussolini
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  6389.  @joshualocicero6799  "After Socialism, Fascism combats the whole complex system of democratic ideology" "Therefore Fascism is opposed to Socialism"
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  6390.  @joshualocicero6799  “It was the Jew who discovered Marxism. It is the Jew who for decades past has endeavored to stir up world revolutions through the medium of Marxism. It is the Jew who is today at the head of Marxism in all the countries of the world. Only in the brain of a nomad who is without nation, race and country could this Satanism have been hatched.” ~ Goebbels
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  6391.  @joshualocicero6799  I'm pretty sure Bernie wants health care and living wages for everyone, not just a white male Christian elite. You have to remember that Spencer's minimum wage wouldn't apply to a third of the country. His health care wouldn't apply to a third of the country. In his ideal state, women also can't vote and they'll be back in the kitchen, with a husband, so a living wage won't even apply to half of the white folks. That doesn't sound the same, economically, at all.
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  6392.  @joshualocicero6799  Ugh ... 1. You have zero clue what an ad hom is ... https://laurencetennant.com/bonds/adhominem.html 2. I never personally claimed Marx invented socialism, you daft twat. I stated that's what the Nazis argued, and one of the reasons they gave for hating Jews. That's just a fact, which I am 100% correct about. I already pointed that out to you, but you were too stupid to grasp it. I made a statement about Nazis, not Marx. Please grasp that this time. 3. Seriously ... arguing that people should just accept their lot in life, give up the class struggle, not fight the upper class, and simply work hard to better yourself, is not freaking socialism, in any sense of the word. That's right wing "American Dream" style bullshit, which doesn't tell you that only outliers manage to change their economic position in life. The vast majority stay in the same bracket their entire lives. Turning public tax dollars into private profits is not socialism, in any sense of the word. That's pretty much the opposite. Confiscating the property and businesses of minority citizens and handing them to your big business backers is not socialism in any sense of the word. Handing your industrialist buddies slave labour is not socialism in any sense of the word. Owning people is a capitalist endeavor. 4. Economics that only apply to a few, is far different than economics that apply to everyone. Even if his country was entirely white, I already pointed out that women wouldn't benefit economically. They'd be nobodies without husbands, and then wives. Screwing 50% of the population seems quite different than Bernie, economically. If we were talking democracy, and one said everyone could vote, and the other said every man could vote, those wouldn't be the same thing. If women can't work, and can't benefit from a minimum wage hike, etc., then their economic policies aren't at all the same. Plus, they've outright said that they need to win people over on the left so, like earlier fascists, and like Republican, and many Democrat, politicians, they're likely just full of shit. What do you consider yourself? Please don't say ancap.
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  6393.  @joshualocicero6799  "anarchist" Anarcho-capitalism or anarcho-socialism? Simply "anarchist" usually applies to the later. I'm an "anarchist" (the later).
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  6394.  @joshualocicero6799  I can only assume you mean the later, then, since it was the original "anarchism". If you do a box or circle political compass, with left-right economics and high-low authoritarianism, bottom left and bottom right are totally different creatures. Ancap is nutty, and devolves into feudalism. Nothing wrong with pointing out they're very different.
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  6395.  @jackaljade  Scientists are close to being able to create an embryo from a sperm, no egg needed, so yes they are each a potential human life.
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  6396. Right wingers gave corporations so much power, argued they're people, argued they can have beliefs, and argued they can discriminate based on those beliefs. They got the law to go along with them. They're also the ones who are all in on private property, and it's just a fact that you don't have any free speech rights on someone else's private property. I'm all for publicly owning and operating giant corporations. If they aren't, then they should stop whining about what they created.
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  6397. All citizens, even those in prison, get to vote, here in Canada. Works fine.
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  6398.  @intuitionz1198  I'd prefer pre 1948, but who would be recognizing the 1948 borders?
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  6399.  @NationofTyros  Dore was a complete ignoramus, to be shocked and surprised that ancappers agree on some anti-authoritarian issues, at his age. It was like he has never heard of an ancapper or even a Libertarian. They are still complete opposites on economics, and don't actually make for good allies, beyond some single issues. They want a civil war, ffs. You think they won't shoot lefties, once it gets going? AOC helped add more M4A yes votes to congress, which actually gets you closer to being able to pass the bill. A performance art vote doesn't actually get you closer to being able to pass the bill.
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  6400.  @1080-v4v  And not only did you either fail at reading, or fail at recent history, you failed at math. 2019 - 11 (Vox "11 year high") = 2008 (year before Obama took office).
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  6401.  @1080-v4v  How is over double the crossings of any Obama year confusing?
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  6402.  @1080-v4v  Trumps 2019 numbers were higher than any Obama month, for months. Averaged out, there were under 400k crossings a year under Obama and over 400k a year under Trump. You're just pulling crap out of your ass, to try and make up for your Vox failure. https://www.cbp.gov/newsroom/stats/southwest-land-border-encounters
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  6403. @Q-AM Utah doesn't add occupation as a protected class, which would be stupid anyway. It protects the police and military. So, yeah, you do seem to be a fan of protecting cops.
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  6404. Would be the leading abortionist in existence, if it existed, and they claim it's pure goodness.
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  6405. That "honest man" has said that a spiritual experience, not a medically induced coma, is the only cure for addiction. That "honest man" claimed his daughter's meat only diet cured his anxiety and depression. They're a family of con artists.
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  6406.  @roknrole  Enjoy your strawman that she ever promised to paralyze the house. The house hasn't been paralyzed in almost 100 years. Right, right, someone who just helped add a few more M4A yes votes to congress and helped remove a few more corporate Dems isn't a friend. She's done more for M4A in 2 years than a dipshit comedian in his garage has done in his entire lifetime.
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  6407. More religious red states tend to have higher homicide rates, higher firearm mortality rates, higher rates of child marriages, higher poverty rates, etc.
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  6408.  @Geissele_match  Actually rates give you your odds of someone killing you, not totals. Louisiana has the highest homicide rate. Alaska has the highest firearm mortality rate. California has the highest population, most large cities, but you're almost 3x more likely to be murdered in Louisiana, and are 3x more likely to die from a firearm in Alaska.
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  6409.  @Geissele_match  St Louis is the worst. Red state gun laws. Have fun.
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  6410. Umm, pretty much all the aid goes through non profits, who also handle the ordering and supplying, dumb dumb. All goods are on an approved list by Israel, and go through Israel (only people are generally allowed through Rafah). The money isn't just handed to people. It's the Qatar money that is given to Hamas, for salaries. Bibi has had full control of that money, having turned it on and off, multiple times.
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  6411. ​ @mananimal3644  Trump thanks you.
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  6412.  @therussiantrollnetwork7464  Trump seems to be one of these folks. https://globalnews.ca/news/7425712/coronavirus-ages-brain-10-years/
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  6413.  @brianblair6067  Rofl. What a load of crap. You're the type of idiot who winds up on the wrong end of the Night of the Long Knives (assuming you're not one of Dore's right wing fans).
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  6414. Well, choosing to live in blissful ignorance is stupid, so there's some overlap.
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  6415. And yet plenty of Republicans have anti-BDS laws. Not to mention that conservative religious types have been cancelling things and people for centuries. Sounds like your dad was full of shit.
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  6416. When the Jews rose up against their Roman oppressors, killing tens of thousands of non Jewish civilians, did the Jews appreciate the excessive force used to put down the uprising, the destruction of their temple, and the ethnic cleansing ... or, were they still complaining about it 1500 years later?
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  6417. ​ @HiNRGboy  Jessica Burbank
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  6418.  @sachinaraszkiewicz785  JP, and his daughter, are the one who made a mockery of anxiety and depression, with their charlatan bullshit. People find the irony and hypocrisy funny, not the condition itself. Kind of like Rush Limbaugh, with his anti-drug, pro war on drugs, tough on crime, rants, getting hooked on painkillers, and then buying his way out of being convicted.
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  6419.  @davel9514  He supported a law that could possibly land someone who miscarried in jail, yeah. He should be asking for his man in the sky to be charged as an accomplice.
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  6420. "It was pushing" "It", as in Twitch themselves, or "it" as in guys on Twitch? If the later, then maybe Twitch should enforce sexual harrassment, instead.
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  6421.  @brittaniblackfyre5670  How does what one girl does affect another? There'd need to be some kind of pressure from somewhere. Why doesn't Twitch simply do what YouTube does, and require age verification to watch certain things? I mean, why aren't they doing that anyway, when games have age ratings?
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  6422. And you? How did you come to be stupid? Were you born that way, have an accident, or did you intentionally choose to be?
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  6423.  @auniquedisposition9009  Who gets the most benefit from Dore promoting Trump as the better option in 2016, Dore running a constant attack ad campaign against Trump's only remaining viable opponent in 2020, Dore slandering people who have done more for M4A in a few years than he has in his entire lifetime, Dore promoting splitting votes towards third parties that haven't won a single seat in congress in decades, Dore promoting far right ancap Boogaloos as allies, Dore going on Tucker to largely agree with Tucker and his audience, etc.? Hint: It's not the left.
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  6424.  @auniquedisposition9009  Dore didn't just say f that. He, literally, promoted Trump as the better option, vastly overestimating the benefits, claiming it would "for sure" lead to progressives taking the house (wrong) and senate (wrong) in 2018, and the presidency (wrong) in 2020. He vastly underestimated the risks, claiming even Republicans would vote against a Trump agenda rather than follow him into outright fascism (wrong) and that Trump filling multiple scotus seats was as likely as the moon falling into Lake Michigan (wrong). Do you have some fantasy, that Green candidates, like Kyrsten Sinema, are incorruptible? The most popular third party hasn't won a single seat in congress in its near 50 year existence. Bernie has always been one of M4A's most ardent supporters and promoters. M4A might not even be part of mainstream conversation, without him running on it. To call him a "sellout", or whatever bullshit, is slander. Justice Dems have added about a dozen M4A yes votes to congress. AOC used her platform and PAC to back 20 pro-M4A progressives, helped add a few more M4A yes votes to congress, and helped remove a few more corporate Dems. Adding enough yes votes is the only possible way to ever pass the bill. It's the exact thing that needs doing. It's the exact thing you'd still need to do, even if there had been a 100% guaranteed to fail performance art vote. To claim those people are "sellouts", or whatever bullshit, is slander. Absolutely nobody ran on paralyzing, or threatening to paralyze, the house. That's a bullshit strawman. Absolutely nobody ran on Jimmy's idea of a "rucus", they ran on their own idea of what that means. Another bullshit strawman. While AOC and Bernie were campaigning for Nina, trying hard to add another M4A yes vote to congress, promoting M4A as they were doing it, Dore was posting a video with a lying title claiming that they had both abandoned M4A. Dore was the one who abandoned Nina, and abandoned adding another yes vote to congress. There's no real disagreement on major policies. This all started with a disagreement over a secondary tactic, that wasn't even very well thought out. Someone supporting the tactic (like Kyle), or someone not, shouldn't have been that big a deal. Dore used a lack of support to slander any progressive that didn't bow down to him. He's someone who didn't care if 10m of the poorest Americans were thrown off Medicaid expansion, didn't care to try and add 40m older Americans to Medicare expansion, promoted Tulsi and her "Medicare choice" (public option) over Bernie and M4A, who now passes himself off as the one true champion of healthcare, and anyone who disagrees is a "fake", "fraud", "sellout", "betrayer". It's insanity. He doesn't actually give a crap about anyone else.
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  6425. When the Republicans take a big jump further into far right authoritarianism, meeting them in the "middle", is just moving further towards that, yourself.
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  6426.  Mari Jayne  Israel was founded on terrorism, dumb dumb ... Irgun, Lehi, King David Hotel, PM Begin. Arguing it's an unacceptable way to gain a nation in Israel/Palestine is kind of nonsensical, considering.
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  6427. Before income tax, the "property tax" used to be a tax on all property owned (i.e. a wealth tax), not just land.
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  6428.  @mikeadams3931  So is every insurance company running a ponzi scheme, where those who don't need payouts help pay in for those who do?
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  6429.  @callmedeno  Anti-vax sentiment = encouraging hospitalizations and deaths. He should be tossed in jail, somewhere.
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  6430. As well as the church shootings.
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  6431.  @ozzie3963  You forgot promoting someone he himself called a fascist as the better option to Clinton, not caring if 10m of the poorest Americans were thrown off Medicaid expansion, not caring to add 40m older Americans to Medicare expansion, not caring about the courts, etc. If promoting fascists are your values, please stay with Jimmy, and make friends with far right ancap Boogaloos with completely opposite economics.
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  6432.  @ozzie3963  Oh wow, he made an irrelevant vote. Yeah, the Dimwit also claimed Stein had a shot, when she was only on the ballot in like 10 states. Nothing you said changes the fact that he promoted who he called a fascist as the better option, vastly overestimating the benefits vastly underestimating the risks, and not giving a crap about people's healthcare. He also decided not to back the M4A candidate in the 2020 primaries. He's also slandering someone who has done more for M4A in 2 years than he has in his entire lifetime. A true champion of healthcare, he is. I'm sure far right ancap Boogaloos will bring about M4A any day now. Lol
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  6433.  @Darren_S  For example?
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  6434.  @fraserbrowne1685  Thanks. No, anecdotes aren't weak because they aren't true. They're weak because they don't give you the big picture. His personal experience, even if true, still isn't a valid reflection of what's going on with the entire population.
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  6435. ​ @jefe2098  That's an oximoron.
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  6436. So, Reagan was an insurrectionist ... for Democrats ... using her "logic"?
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  6437.  @nitroneonicman  How is that possible? Hrrrm, because the majority of viewers are split between multiple other networks?
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  6438. They're calling it "terrorism". A war on terrorism is already okayed.
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  6439.  @paulbattenbough1002  Is there a progressive majority in the house and senate, and a progressive president? Those are things Dore claimed letting Trump win would "for sure" give us. Has the moon fallen into Lake Michigan? Dore claimed that was as likely as Trump filling multiple scotus seats.
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  6440. ​ @luisboIV  Hey now, Canadian media was calling him a liar. It was far right US media that adopted him and turned him into something other than a largely unknown uni professor. That should count as taking ownership of him.
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  6441. ​​ @IDF_R_HEROES  The world being created on Oct 7 is a worse story than it being created 6000 years ago.
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  6442.  @bjornjorgenbjorgenhoogenbo2954  Have you made friends with a racist far right Boogaloo today?
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  6443.  @AbdulKhader-786  Because they don't like the word, and it's their private property. How come moron right wingers suddenly forget how private property works, when it comes to being racists, bigots, sexists, or whatever?
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  6444.    I think you spelled 'owe' incorrectly.
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  6445. @Tucker Carlson You're a moron. Obama's last budget ran through 2017. Trump has cut unemployment by less than 1%. The stock market has basically flatlined since Trump's first budget and trade wars started. All the buybacks from his tax cuts to corporations has only managed to keep things flat. He has farmers on welfare. He has China setting up shop in other countries, and the longer things go the less likely they'll ever go back.
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  6446. ​ @nfzeta128  It's called math. Unless they have a chance to win, then it only helps Rs win. If you think any of the current third party candidates has a chance to win, then you're living in a fantasy.
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  6447.  @pizdanpula223  Rofl, you're a nut.
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  6448. Why?
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  6449. ​ @Rowsy91 "In terms of positive impressions, Vice President Kamala Harris has a significant favourable advantage among Canadians with a net impression of +27." Trump -37.61 Vance -24 Biden -12
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  6450.  @roberttelford745  As usual? Either you've been stalking me for all of 2 hrs, and this is all you've read, or you're a stalker with terrible timing, who keeps missing all the good stuff. If someone equates "hold their own accountable in a principled way" to the strawmen, slander, and bullshit, that Dore spouts, then it's like talking to a Trump cultist. Anyone who questions, contradicts, or disagrees on tactics, with Supreme Leader Dore, is a "fake", "fraud", "shill", "betrayer", "coward", "sellout", or whatever, and isn't pure enough to be a "real" progressive anymore. Just like the Trump cult calling people RINOs. You lot should try and get PINO trending.
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  6451.  @roberttelford745  "Russiagate", with a Republican leading the investigation, produced some 200 pages of documented information sharing (collusion) that didn't amount to illegal conspiracy, and only didn't indict Jr and Kushner because it would be hard to prove they "willfully" broke the law, not because they didn't break the law. Thinking Republicans like Mueller, the DNC, the FBI, and Australian officials, all teamed up to take out Trump, just so Pence could be president, is the nutty conspiracy. Multiple UN investigations, and numerous NGOs operating in Syria, support the chemical weapons claim. Dore was right, because a single reporter working in Russia, said otherwise? Arguing "free speech" on privately owned property is a completely garbage argument. There's no such thing, because you don't have a right to be on their private property in the first place. Make an argument for public ownership, if your a "real" leftist, rather than going on Tucker's show and agreeing with the moronic and contradictory right wingers. And AOC just got done campaigning for Bernie and his M4A, while Dore was backing Tulsi and her "Medicare choice". She used her platform and PAC to back 20 other progressives, helped take out a few more corporate Dems, and helped add a few more M4A yes votes to congress. That's exactly what you need to do to ever pass a bill, exactly what you'd still need to do even if there was a guaranteed to fail vote. Dore, the new one and only true champion of healthcare, didn't give a crap if 10m of the poorest Americans might lose their Medicaid expansion, didn't care to add 40m more older Americans to Medicare, and doesn't give a crap about leading people down the third party route that hasn't won the most popular third party a single seat in congress in 50 years. All or nothing often gets you nothing. One of those MPP puritan leaders even recently left the MPP, because he decided even they weren't pure enough for him. He'll go along way with his party of one. Reducing your number of allies down to as few pure people as possible isn't a winning strategy.
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  6452.  @roberttelford745  Whatever amount it affected the election outcome is irrelevant to the fact that it happened. 29 Russians indicted, 3 Russian companies, the other things I mentioned above, none of which you refuted. Republicans impeached Bill Clinton for lying to congress, with no underlying criminal charge. Mueller, a Republican, also laid out evidence that could be considered obstruction, but said they couldn't indict a sitting president. No. Multiple UN inspections concluded there were chemical attacks. HRW and Doctors Without Borders are amongst NGOs that also corroborate chemical weapons attacks. All of which spoke out against the US, when it came to WMDs in Iraq. Now they've all joined the US to spew fake propaganda is what Dore wants you to believe? FTV was much ado about nothing. You already had a list of names of those in congress that wouldn't sign the M4A bill. If Dore had 100+ viable pro-M4A candidates laying around, why didn't he run them in the election that just happened? When Pelosi introduced the bill to congress, last session, and it quietly died in committees, where 90% of bills die, why wasn't that, at least, used against all the committee members who didn't push it through? Progressives just got the $15 minimum wage to stay in the covid bill for one round of voting. Now you've got a list of those who voted against. So, what's the Dore plan? Oh, to sit on his ass, in his garage, and whine about those who voted for it, rather than those who voted against. Now, getting a vote isn't worth anything, to him. Dore knobs make out like a guaranteed to fail vote was itself M4A. It isn't. And, like I said, you'd then still have to do exactly what AOC did ... work to replace as many as you can with pro-M4A progressives. Slandering someone as a "fake", "fraud", "sellout", "shill", "betrayer", etc., isn't "a bit of criticism", ffs. It's the kind of thing that got Republicans, who said the election was fine, death threats, when Trump spoke that way about them. Luckily, Dore isn't as influential as he thinks. Trump, who Dore promoted as a better option for progressives than Clinton, not caring if 10m Americans lost their public healthcare, and not caring to add 40m to public healthcare ... and now pretends like he's the one true champion of healthcare. He's a joke. He minimized the risks, claiming even Republicans would join the left in blocking the Trump agenda. Reality is, most followed him into overt fascism. Dore claimed the moon would fall into Lake Michigan, before Trump could fill multiple scotus seats. Reality is, the moon is still where it should be. And, he overestimated the benefits, claiming it would lead to a progressive wave that would, "for sure", take the house, senate, and presidency. Reality is, progressives made slight gains, with no evidence they couldn't have made similar gains without a Trump presidency. Seriously, minimizing your allies to as few puritans as possible, isn't going to get you anything. At best, you peel off enough progressive voters from the Dem party to hand the party totally back to corporate Dems, and let Republicans rule for decades, while your new third party sits on the sidelines. That benefits progressives how? They're the backwards party. It's the party that wants to move in the completely opposite direction. There's no such thing as "free speech" on private property. Again, argue for public ownership, if you want that right. Someone claiming to be a far lefty, like Dore, should have public ownership in their repertoire. Instead, he's using contradictory right wing talking points. Also, inciting violence isn't even protected speech, to begin with.
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  6453.  @roberttelford745  Rofl, I don't watch CNN. Dore would be proud of the strawmanning. I didn't say the DNC was an ally. It's Bernie, AOC, and others who campaigned against the DNC and DCCC backed corporate Dems, who are still allies. But, no, they're no longer pure enough for you lot. The broader progressive caucus is 30 years old and 10-15 seats away from becoming the majority of house Dems, when they could then pick the party speaker candidate, and run the house, if still in the majority party. Justice Dems are 4 years old and have helped add a few of the most progressive seats in each of the last couple elections. AOC has been around 2 years and just helped add a few of the most progressive seats to congress in the last election. What a perfect time to ditch them all, start from scratch, have no seats, and no ability to introduce a single bill, no ability to add a single amendment, no ability to vote on even a single bill, and likely not have a single seat for decades to come. A winning strategy ... the winners being corporate Dems and Republicans. Weird how Dore strategies benefit those he claims to hate, most.
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  6454. ​@TheMahayanist "I met the undead Jesus on the road ... I swear!"
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  6455. Exactly. We aren't opposed to, and questioning the science behind, insulin. We're opposed to, and questioning, its price being jacked up. Etc.
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  6456. There are over 130k truck drivers working in Canada. Those protesting are a very small percentage. Needing an actual passport to cross the border, and needing a vaccine passport to cross the border, have nothing much to do with means of production. Likewise, needing a driver's license, needing insurance, following speed limits, obeying lines, obeying lights, obeying signs, seatbelt laws, etc., have nothing really to do with means of production. A completely worker owned co-op food packing plant, would still have to follow health and safety standards, and whatever other laws that apply.
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  6457. If the writers and directors say she is, then she is. Other movies would have been over in minutes, if she had been introduced earlier, or others had her power. Avengers I: the gate opens and spaceships appear ... CM plows through all the spaceships in minutes, goes through the gate, and destroys them all. The end. Guardians I: Ronan's ship appears ... CM plows through his ship in seconds. The end. Infinity War: Thanos' ship appears ... CM plows through the ship in seconds. The end.
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  6458. He's not making any sense, if he's just going to then hand the voting right to someone, when they turn 25. Either every voter should have to pass the test, or none. He clearly seems to be targeting non military (probably because he thinks military lean right) young voters.
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  6459. Dore has been on Tucker's show a few times. They don't debate. They just largely agree.
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  6460. Nazis had a right to "defend" themselves from the Warsaw ghetto uprising.
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  6461.  @waltergrace565  "As of January 1, 2024, Medicare now covers IOP services, closing a significant gap in Medicare coverage of mental health and SUD services." When Medicare says it will cover something new, it then covers that something new. It's not that difficult. You want Kyle to try and imagine what the 2025 congress makeup will look like, or the 2027 one, and wildly guess if it will be possible to pass during a 4 year term? What, exactly, are you looking for?
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  6462. ​ @elaineklein2385 No he didn't. FTV was moronic. Dore hasn't even dared to talk to Sam, since Sam cleaned his clock, when Jimmy promoted letting Trump win, in 2016. Nothing Dore said came true, and Sam was exactly right about the Supreme Court.
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  6463.  @zachsmith5371  Jimmy is so stupid, he doesn't know the difference between a crude mortality rate and a case fatality rate. He argued to not add another M4A supporter (Nina Turner) to congress, when getting enough support in congress is the only way to ever actually pass the bill. He tries to sell you that he's pro M4A, but then sells you a completely useless, or harmful, way to try and achieve it ... just like a snake oil salesman. He's a grifter.
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  6464.  @legion999  It depends. Some cultural naming patterns leaned towards naming the first born son after the father's father, and the second born son after the mother's father. Say Michael son of John, has two sons, and he names them John and Joseph. John and Joseph would then both name their first sons, Michael. All good, if there's no repeating names. But, if the wife's father's name was the same as her husband, then you're heading for trouble. Michael's kids would then be John and Michael (after the wife's father, not him), and that Michael's son would be Michael, and then you're off on an endless string, until someone breaks with tradition. Someone, like Trump, is obviously not attempting to honour his father, or following a tradition, so likely ego, yeah.
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  6465.  @DadCanInJapan  Don't forget chair whisperer, Clint Eastwood.
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  6466.  @Sharper714  She was literally just talking about it while campaigning for Nina, Dore knob. Nothing but slander from you pathetic good for nothings.
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  6467.  @searose6192  And, how did stopping flights from China work out, while not getting prepared for the virus to hit the US anyway?
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  6468.  @bobsmith4226  Insurance works the same, whether it's public or private, dumb dumb. Either way, you'll pay for others' lifestyle choices. The question is whether you also want to pay for insurance profits, and unregulated medical costs.
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  6469.  @jean-philippeviensjpsplint7410  Kids can't go to public school without a bunch of vaccines. Immigrants can't immigrate without a bunch of vaccines. What's your point? That the current unvaccinated are bigger babies than little kids, or that they care less about their fellow citizens than immigrants?
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  6470.  @robinsss  How is eliminating all regulation not completely unfettered capitalism? What's anarcho-capitalism, if not capitalism?
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  6471. Forcing the vote won't get you M4A "now". At best, you get the vote, it fails, and it gives you ammo to use against anti M4A candidates in 2022, so you can run pro M4A candidates against them (exactly like "shill", AOC, just did with her progressive PAC helping elect more progressives to congress), until you elect enough progressives to pass it. Worse, you don't get the vote, you paralyze the House, and corporate Dems use paralyzing the house as propaganda against the progressives involved ... like arguing progressives won't let them get minimum wage passed, won't let them get lowering social security eligibility passed, and whatever else they can use to make it look like progressives are hurting the people. Worst, if corporate Dems truly would rather lose to Republicans than give concessions to progressives (as Jimmy himself just argued), they could even orchestrate losing the speakership to McCarthy, and blame progressives. It's majority of votes cast, not majority of the house. Jimmy's plan isn't 100% risk free.
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  6472. Yeah, I can't believe how stupid MAGA has to be, to think this guy is smart. He has repeatedly "defended" himself, by arguing that, instead of bank fraud, he has committed massive tax fraud, by undervaluing properties by over a billion dollars.
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  6473. What does size of population matter, when using per capita statistics to compare different countries, or different states or provinces, to each other? The entire EU has a higher population than the US, is much more complex, and still has fewer gun crimes per capita.
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  6474.  @user-nc9pc3gr4c  And those religions that had "gods" largely didn't agree, and often fought over whose "gods" are the real "gods", or even whose interpretation of the same "god" was right, and a number don't even have "gods" (ancestor spirit worship, Buddhism, ...). But, you're acting like they're all samesies. People also didn't use wheels, for the vast majority of their existence, does that make not using wheels more correct?
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  6475. And The Hill is owned by a close family friend of Trump and Giuliani.
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  6476.  @richardmetzger2574  Nonsense. People use religious identities in politics, all the time. Religious beliefs aren't immutable. Neither are a bunch of other ways people use identities in politics.
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  6477. His line of argument could be used to say it's an insensitive to have a baby, because you can better afford it, rather than have an abortion, and he's against it.
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  6478.  @AwesomeBlackDude  What does pulling out some troops have to do with bombing? Can't post the link, but look for a Military Times article titled "US airstrikes in Somalia continue at rapid pace even after force relocation".
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  6479.  @AwesomeBlackDude  He did not "invent" mRNA vaccine technology, Dore knob. He built upon work that came before, and others built on his work. The final product was the work of hundreds over decades. He's not an honest actor. He has spewed nonsense about vaccines that multiple other doctors and scientists have debunked. He has spewed nonsense about ivermectin, that doesn't add up. He's a bitter man, that thinks he should be a millionaire, and has expressed jealousy and anger towards other scientists that have been given some awards.
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  6480.  @yourerightdawg  I understand my comment perfectly fine. Those are the ones involved in the investigation, right? And, the those who voted to impeach ("overthrow") him, right? And, Pence becoming president would have been the result of the impeachment, right? So, you believe it's more reasonable to believe that bunch were all in cahoots to make Pence president, than it is to believe Russians have bot factories.
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  6481.  @dalesims  Has he thought long ahead to the fact that our Commander in Chief is King Charles?
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  6482.  @weseeucommies8402  Like the fact that they passed phase III trials and that countries, doctors, and scientists, across the world consider them safe? Or, the fact that hundreds of millions of people have now received at least one shot, for over 9 months since phase I trials started? In your expert opinion, what will it take to show they're safe?
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  6483.  @Majestros  How was your labotomy?
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  6484.  @Majestros  You think governments, scientists, and doctors, around the world, are all in cahoots, to give people "gene therapy", that aren't really a vaccines? And what does Q say are the non RNA non vaccines, like J&J or AZ, are?
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  6485.  @Majestros  You outright called them "gene therapy", and then questioned whether they're vaccines, dumb dumb. You don't seem to know what a "strawman" is.
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  6486.  @mw7304  That's an idiotic take for someone working in a hospital, where they're regularly going to come into contact with the most vulnerable people, who don't need their vaccine efficacy constantly tested by idiots on staff. A hospital is also where you might more likely find people who want to, but can't get the vaccine due to medical reasons. Or babies that come out unvaccinated. Etc.
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  6487.  @mw7304  Do you have reading comprehension problems? "who don't need their vaccine efficacy constantly tested"
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  6488. @donnicholson3170  Rofl! Anecdotes aren't evidence, unless you gather them all up into statistics, maroon. Average unemployment under Harper 7.09%. Average under Trudeau 6.625%.
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  6489.  @glondokakurswongog3790  Rofl. What a load of crap. If Dore didn't think he was accomplishing anything, why the hell did he keep bragging about forcethevote trending? If he didn't consider what he was doing as fighting, then why was he doing it? You're making no sense. He didn't back Bernie in the last election cycle. He backed "Medicare choice" Tulsi. You're spouting bullshit. If he actually recognized that AOC helped add more M4A yes votes to congress, exactly what you need to do to ever pass the bill, exactly what you'd still need to do even after a guaranteed to fail vote, then he wouldn't make out like she wasn't doing anything. It reduces his own forcethevote "plan" to have a failed vote, and then do nothing. There was no crime. Pelosi introduced the M4A bill just last session. It died in committees. There was no progressive uprising over it, no mass protests, not even any outrage from Dore himself. It took a single reporter's question to get Biden on record saying he'd veto M4A. Plenty of corporate Dems and Republicans just said they were opposed to it, during their campaigns. Every new session, you get a new list of names of those who don't sign onto the bill. There's no need to threaten to paralyze the house, to get a list of Dems to primary, or Republicans to run against. You've already got a list of some 300+ names. Where were the 100+ viable pro-M4A candidates, that Jimmy has laying around, in the election that just took place? Why didn't he pull them out and run them?
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  6490. Immigrants, and kids going to public school, have been required to get vaccines for decades. The vast majority of Republicans were likely required to get vaccines, as kids. Why is it suddenly "Jim Crow", now?
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  6491. Likud's bloody 100 year history ... In 1923, 100 years ago, Ze'ev Jabotinsky wrote, The Iron Wall, and a follow up, The Ethics of The Iron Wall (sooo racist towards Africans), in which he fully acknowledged that post Balfour Zionsim was colonialism, and that, based on the entirety of history, the native Palestinian population would resist being colonized until the bitter end. He directly compared it to the colonization of North America. He promoted doing it anyway, claiming Zionist colonialism was a "just" colonialism (he also thought North American colonialists were good guys, so not a great judge of morality), not caring what that meant for the native population. Ze'ev is important, because his Betar militant youth group helped found the Irgun terrorist group, along with other supporters of his, and the splinter Lehi terrorist group. The Irgun bombed numerous Palestinian markets and other public places, murdering many Palestinian civilians, including children, even including Palestinian Jews (who didn't support colonialist Zionsim). The Irgun are important, because they ended up being led by future Likud PM, Menachem Begin, who bombed the King David Hotel. The King David Hotel was bombed because the British had raided the Jewish Agency and seized numerous documents that may have shown that the terrorists were working with the JA and Haganah (JA liked to pretend that they didn't support the terrorism). The British then stored those documents at their base, in the hotel. That the Irgun terrorists responded to a JA raid, itself seems to prove the connection. That the thousands of Irgun (and Lehi) terrorists were also quickly merged into the new nation's military (IDF) and intelligence (Mossad) agencies, and are still celebrated as "heroes" by Israelis, to this day, also seems to support total collaboration between the groups. That other terrorist group mentioned, Lehi (also known as the Stern Gang), was considered even more extreme. They even tried to ally with the Nazis, against the British. Lehi ended up being led by Yitzhak Shamir, future Mossad agent, and another future Likud PM. They assassinated Lord Moyne, and others. In 1945, there was a major land and peoples survey done in Palestine. It showed that the Zionists only owned about 5% of the total land, 20% of the arable land, and owned a majority in zero districts. The partition was not only going to be forced on the native Palestinian majority, but Jews were still going to be a minority, in the part allocated to them. The only possible way to even become a "Jewish state" was going to require getting rid of the actual majority (at least enough so that there'd be a solid Jewish majority, so they could fake being democratic). This is also shown by the 1948, post Nakba, population of Israel. If there was 716,700 Jews, 156,000+ non-Jews, and approximately 700k non-Jews ethnically cleansed, that means the Jewish population, in the Zionist portion of partition, was originally over 100,000 less than the non-Jewish population. To believe that there was never any intent, by Zionists, to ethnically cleanse away the Palestinian majority would require believing that they never intended to create a "Jewish state". It's a nonsensical notion. Begin, and those terrorist groups, also opposed partition, but for the opposite reason Palestinians did. Palestinians didn't want to be colonized, at all. The terrorists wanted to colonize it all. "Moderate" Zionists were okay with colonizing half ... for now (what would happen in the future, after partition, was up to them, said Ben-Gurion). The Zionist terrorists were also involved in massacres, and assassinations, during the partition violence (colonialist war against the natives). Another notable future Likud PM, also started in the military, during the partition fighting. That was Ariel Sharon, war criminal, "Butcher of Beirut". Menachem Begin, and these other Zionist terrorists, are important because they became involved in Israeli politics, first forming Herut. That was the party that Albert Einstein, and other prominent American Jews, opposed, having a letter printed in the NYT, in December of 1948, when Begin came to visit the US. The letter opened ... "Among the most disturbing political phenomena of our times is the emergence in the newly created state of Israel of the "Freedom Party" (Tnuat Haherut), a political party closely akin in its organization, methods, political philosophy and social appeal to the Nazi and Fascist parties. It was formed out of the membership and following of the former Irgun Zvai Leumi, a terrorist, right-wing, chauvinist organization in Palestine." Herut merged with other extremist parties, over the years, and eventually became Likud, in the 70s. Now, people get upset over the slogan "From the river to the sea!", but it's the second part that's most important, "Palestine will be free!". Because "Palestine" isn't defined as an ethno-state, a free Palestine can be a single state, free for all to live in, and return to, free of continuing colonization, free of occupation, free of oppression, etc. Just like a Germany free of Nazism, an Italy free of fascism, a South Africa free of apartheid, or an America free of slavery from sea to shiny sea. It doesn't necessitate purging all the Jews. It just necessitates them giving up on the idea of an ethno-state. On the other hand, because "Israel" has been defined as an ethno-state, Likud's, "between the sea and the Jordan there will only be Israeli sovereignty", has no possible good interpretation. It is a declaration of intent to completely colonize, and ethnically cleanse, all Palestine territories. Not only that, but it also claims that they have a "right" to all of the "Land of Israel" (biblical borders that don't mesh with archaeological reality), which is an open declaration of future wars, against Jordan, Syria, Lebanon, and possibly even Iraq. Likud platform ... 1977: "The Right of the Jewish People to the Land of Israel (Eretz Israel) a. The right of the Jewish people to the land of Israel is eternal and indisputable and is linked with the right to security and peace; therefore, Judea and Samaria will not be handed to any foreign administration; between the Sea and the Jordan there will only be Israeli sovereignty. b. A plan which relinquishes parts of western Eretz Israel, undermines our right to the country, unavoidably leads to the establishment of a "Palestinian State," jeopardizes the security of the Jewish population, endangers the existence of the State of Israel. and frustrates any prospect of peace." "Settlement Settlement. both urban and rural. in all parts of the Land of Israel is the focal point of the Zionist effort to redeem the country, to maintain vital security areas and serves as a reservoir of strength and inspiration for the renewal of the pioneering spirit. The Likud government will call on the younger generation in Israel and the dispersions to settle and help every group and individual in the task of inhabiting and cultivating the wasteland, while taking care not to dispossess anyone." 1999: "The Government of Israel flatly rejects the establishment of a Palestinian Arab state west of the Jordan river. The Palestinians can run their lives freely in the framework of self-rule, but not as an independent and sovereign state. Thus, for example, in matters of foreign affairs, security, immigration, and ecology, their activity shall be limited in accordance with imperatives of Israel's existence, security and national needs." "The Jewish communities in Judea, Samaria, and Gaza are the realization of Zionist values. Settlement of the land is a clear expression of the unassailable right of the Jewish people to the Land of Israel and constitutes an important asset in the defense of the vital interests of the State of Israel. The Likud will continue to strengthen and develop these communities and will prevent their uprooting." All Palestine territories are officially considered occupied, by the International Court of Justice, the UN GA, the UN SC, and even in official documents of Israel's own allies. Likud is still using the blueprint for colonizing North America, in the West Bank. Move settlements out into native territory, piss off the natives, the natives retaliate, cry about poor "innocent" colonizing settlers being the "victims" of violent "Savages!", call in the cavalry to put down the native uprising, and eventually expand the borders to include those settlements. Rinse and repeat. In Gaza, Israel is operating an open air WWII style fascist ghetto. Them claiming a "right to defend themselves" would be like the Nazis claiming a "right to defend themselves " from the Warsaw ghetto uprising. There's no "war". That they're the occupiers means the "war" part is long over. Those people are actually supposed to be under the occupier's protection. That partition was forced upon the Palestinian majority, against their will ... that the Zionist portion still had to be forcefully ethnically cleansed of its non-Jewish majority, against their will ... that the millions of occupied Palestinians don't have a say in the government that truly rules over them, Israel's ... means Israel is about as democratic as Nazi Germany after Hitler purged his political opponents and then held elections.
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  6492.  @nappel6496  Moron. 1 death per 15 confirmed is one of the worst rates in the world. You're shit system, that makes people weigh costs instead of simply heading to a clinic or hospital at the first sign of symptoms, is going to kill a bunch of extra people.
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  6493. See, you just proved you're dumb, because both those things could be true. The second claim doesn't debunk the first claim. Since you're clearly dumb, you're probably wrong about the second.
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  6494. It seems like you're just trying to avoid the term "socialism" and/or the term "centrism". You can have partial socialism, just like you can have partial capitalism. Seriously, what do people think centrism is in the centre of? What do people think a mixed economy is a mix of? If you socialize a sector of the economy, say the health insurance industry, making it publicly owned and operated, then that sector is then run in a socialist fashion. Privately owned and operated schools are run in a capitalist fashion. Publicly owned and operated schools are run in a socialist fashion. Privately owned and operated electric companies are run in a capitalist fashion. Publicly owned and operated electric companies are run in a socialist fashion. Etc. If you went 100% with either, you'd have full blown capitalism or full blown socialism. Centrism is a mix of the two. "Social democracy", to me, doesn't seem to really describe an economic position, at all. The economic position you described is centrism (the real centre, not the centre of the US's almost completely right of centre political spectrum). You want to get to central station. The democratic socialist train is heading in that direction. You can take it as far as maybe 50/50 capitalism/socialism, but then you can jump off the train at Central station. And that's fine. It's democratic. If the majority of people aren't ready to move further, then that's fine. That's what a democracy is about. That's the current destination Bernie is headed for, and hasn't suggested going any further, at least not for now. The Republican train, on the other hand, just keeps chugging further and further right, currently taking the country with it. While the corporate Dem train wants to take you to a fake central station, that's actually between the real central station and the extreme right station, and not truly central, at all.
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  6495.  @michaelknight2897  You don't have a firm grip on reality.
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  6496. What does it matter? If you say the populace is responsible for their leadership, then you end up justifying the Hamas attack.
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  6497.  @integratedboxingsystem8827  Did we miss the part where Joe clearly states he's only talking about Moderna, as Prasad seems to imply, by claiming he's right about "some doses of specific mRNA shots"?
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  6498.  @Cha4k  No. It means he twists things to suit a narrative. Rogan did not make clear that he was only talking about Moderna. Rogan did not make clear that he was only talking about a second shot of Moderna. So, it is not right, to say that Rogan was right, and that paper doesn't show Rogan was right, because Rogan wasn't talking about just a second shot of Moderna. Plus, there are studies from Denmark, Israel, other UK studies, data from Canada, and Japan, all of which seems to show some variance in myocarditis rates, and don't show Moderna rates over the covid rates, which means one UK study isn't the definitive answer.
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  6499.  @Politicallyhomeless18  Kinda. Consumers are basically paying their own wages, when they buy stuff, plus paying for the billionaires' profits.
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  6500.  @truth7017  As has been said, mask wearing is based on science. The same science behind doctors wearing them, for ages. It also isn't singling out a specific group for discrimination. There's a better reason to mandate mask wearing, than any other article of clothing, atm.
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  6501. Lol, you might as well be campaigning for Trump and the Republicans, at this point Jimmy.
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  6502. You know the US was founded by people who protested, rioted, tarred and feathered, and destroyed private property, all because they didn't want to pay extra taxes specifically to fund the police/military, right? They considered the police/military who, "fearing for their lives", shot and killed a handful of violent protesters, to be the terrorists, the tyrants. This lot is fighting against democracy to keep King George on the throne. Samesies?
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  6503. No. It's "Medicare for all" vs "Medicare for all who opt in". "All who opt in" isn't "all".
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  6504. Yang is lucky nobody is questioning him on his dishonest representation of who a VAT actually taxes, or how his plan actually benefits giant corporations and the super rich.
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  6505.  @thecoolannishatk.  Canada has a VAT (GST). I didn't say anything about how much. I mentioned who pays it. It's the consumer, not the corporations, who pays it. Yang claims it's a way to make corporations like Amazon "pay their fair share". That's nonsense.
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  6506.  @thecoolannishatk.  People who benefit from the UBI will spend more money on Amazon, making them even more money, and in turn make Bezos more money. The more he makes, the more he hoards, and hoarded money isn't affected by a VAT. Yang is just throwing his hands in the air over tax loopholes for giant corporations and the super rich, so his plan will ultimately benefit them.
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  6507. ​ @stephanielewis5595  "Letitia 'peekaboo' James" ~ Trumpty Dumpty Urban Dictionary: peekaboo Racist term used in white-supremacist circles to refer to a person of color, usually black, of upper or upper-middle class social standing. That uppity peekaboo thinks she can golf here just because she has money. by WhoKnowsWhoItCouldBe September 21, 2022
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  6508. Because Israel is equivalent to Nazi Germany.
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  6509. ​ @dorianshadesofgray  Woman, from wifman (a man's wife). So, any single ladies aren't "women", and any guys married to guys are, right?
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  6510. Saying Israel was attacked is like saying the Nazis were attacked by the Warsaw ghetto uprising, and that the Nazis will take apart the Jewish underground. The IDF has its largest base, a valid military target, in a shopping mall, cowardly using civilians as human shields. The IDF has over 400k militants (reservists), valid military targets, hiding amongst their civilians, cowardly using them as human shields. Intentionally dropping bombs where you know there are civilians is absolutely not trying to protect civilians. We don't drop bombs on bank hostage situations. We don't drop bombs if domestic terrorists are hiding in an apartment building. We don't drop bombs on gang hideouts, in the middle of a city block. That's what we don't do, when we actually care about civilian lives. This is a total disregard for civilian lives, because they don't care about Palestinian lives.
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  6511.  @zelenskysboot361  No, they can't opt out of paying the basic Medicare levy. They also can't opt out of the taxes that the general fund uses to pay for the Medicare shortfall. What higher income people can do is opt out of an extra surcharge by paying for their own optional private insurance (a private option). That is different than a "public option".
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  6512. @The Wraith Well, this is what they're saying we avoided. https://www.earthobservatory.nasa.gov/features/WorldWithoutOzone
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  6513.  @whyamimrpink78  Worse places as college students? Many? Give many examples. Most people live in cities. That is exactly common. Most, however, don't live at the top of cities, shit on golden thrones, ride around in limos, etc.
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  6514. Because dimwits aren't listening to all the scientists and doctors?
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  6515. Krystal has also given cover to an actual Trumpist, for years, making out like he's reasonable. Guess that's okay though. 🙄
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  6516. Read, The Iron Wall, by Vladimir Ze’ev Jabotisnky. They knew they were colonizers, from the get go. They knew exactly how the natives would react, from the get go.
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  6517.  @FudgethePudge  How will he be broke, with a pension and book sale revenues?
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  6518. @Kekistani Refugee You had 10 Benghazi investigations, and already had a Biden investigation, all of which went nowhere. The Mueller investigation charged 34 people. You people are complete.morons.
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  6519.  @alexandraday6721  While I appreciate your support of the vaccine, these pills are for if you catch covid, and aren't necessarily a vaccine replacement. If you ended up in the 2% breakthrough case category, you wouldn't want to reduce your odds of hospitalization or death by another 30%, by taking a pill? The Pfizer pill coming is said to reduce hospitalizations and deaths by 89%.
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  6520. Sam Harris is a moron. Based on his objective morality garbage, he shouldn't even have a philosophy degree.
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  6521.  @mimzyjinx8142  1984: Tens of millions of people convinced not to believe any media, any other politicians, any judges, any lawyers, any election officials, any scientists, any doctors, any nurses, any law enforcement ... anybody ... even to not believe their own lying eyes, if any of them contradict Big Brother Trumpty Dumpty.
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  6522.  @acetate909  More like Jimmy is Malcolm X, criticizing MLK Jr's peaceful tactics.
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  6523. ​ @JonathanB138  How is that effectively different than a non-vote?
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  6524. Then so should anyone supporting Likud. Likud was founded by Menachem Begin, leader of the Irgun terrorist group, murderer of civilian Palestinian men, women, and children, murderer of Palestinian Jews (who didn't support Zionism), and bomber of the King David Hotel. Israelis elected that terrorist as their PM. Israelis still celebrate those terrorists, as "heroes", to this day. Likud was also founded by Ariel Sharon, war criminal, who massacred Palestinian villages. Likud's original platform, "between the sea and the Jordan" ... "The Right of the Jewish People to the Land of Israel (Eretz Israel) a. The right of the Jewish people to the land of Israel is eternal and indisputable and is linked with the right to security and peace; therefore, Judea and Samaria will not be handed to any foreign administration; between the Sea and the Jordan there will only be Israeli sovereignty." There is zero indication that Likud, Netanyahu, isn't still working towards that goal, with the endless colonization of Palestine territories.
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  6525. More than 2 killed by cops alone.
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  6526. Ted was born to an American mother, passing through. He was considered American, from birth, and didn't have to naturalize. He wasn't raised in Canada, either.
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  6527.  @perpetualgrowtheveninsnow3389  Didn't even make it to pre-K. He's all his parents', and Texas', doing.
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  6528.  @SeanJ2A  It has gotten more M4A yes votes in congress, the very thing you need to do to ever pass a bill, the very thing you'd still need to do even if you had a 100% guaranteed to fail performance art vote. Adding another M4A yes vote to congress gets you closer to M4A than a failed vote does.
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  6529. ​ @fartnutssupreme4930  Blaming the native population is moronic. Colonizers are never not the aggressors.
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  6530. You're a moron. Fascists were backed by big business, backed by religious leaders, backed by large landowners, leaders in privatization, anti-union, anti-socialist, anti-feminist, pro expanding military, pro expanding policing, ultra-nationalists, anti-democratic (which gerrymandering and disenfranchisement is), etc. Nazis were extreme fascists that are also racists and bigots. Proud Boys are "Alt-right without the racism", according to Gavin McInnes ... not the Nazis the friends they hang out with are, but still fascists.
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  6531. Those are the values Netanyahu promoted over the more secular Palestinian Authority, because he wanted to divide Gaza and the West Bank, to avoid peace. On top of all the other horrible things Israel is, they have also been Hamas supporters, with Netanyahu in charge. That makes Israel no more progressive.
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  6532. ​ @somchai272  Do you have reading comprehension problems? How would there be anyone else to share blame, if Hamas wasn't also to blame? Netanyahu is like the US supporting extremists in Afghanistan, to fight the secular communists. The US helped create Bin Laden, right? The US helped create the Taliban, right? They preferred those extremist values over communism. Netanyahu prefers those extremist values over peace, because he wants to keep killing, colonizing, and ethnically cleansing, the whole thing. I doubt anyone cares what happens to Hamas itself. Also, if there was peace, there would be no perceived need for Hamas anymore. If a peace deal included merging the two Palestine territories, then the more secular Palestinian Authority, and more secular West Bank laws, could be promoted. Netanyahu put a homophobic Jewish religious extremist in charge of the West Bank. He's more extreme than the West Bank laws.
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  6533.  @KaiCross  It means they have to share.
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  6534.  @kdemetter  How do you feel about feudalism, which even appeared on the US' Western frontier, with cattle barons hiring private armies of cowboys, and throwing their weight around, with little to no government intervention? It was only government law, and enforcers of said laws, finally moving in, that ended conflicts between private citizens. Why do you pretend like private citizens can't coerse each other? There are, literally, blackmail and extortion laws, to stop private citizens from coercing each other, because they do.
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  6535.  @c.a.g.3130  Try explaining how Yaron isn't a sociopath, to help educate us all. "Antisocial personality disorder, sometimes called sociopathy, is a mental disorder in which a person consistently shows no regard for right and wrong and ignores the rights and feelings of others. People with antisocial personality disorder tend to antagonize, manipulate or treat others harshly or with callous indifference. They show no guilt or remorse for their behavior." He seems to ignore others' feelings, has a callous indifference for others' lives, apparently would have zero guilt if he ran someone over, he fabricates a fantasy world to "support" his bullshit, ...
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  6536.  @kd6613   Bernie's "ban" is only for identical coverage. If private insurers still want to offer insurance for massages, chiropractors, etc., all the power to them. There's already a ban on trying to sell people on Medicare identical coverage. Those Medicare plus plans can only include things Medicare doesn't cover. Yang has more problems than just M4A. He is also totally bullshitting people on how a VAT works. Businesses can reclaim their input VAT. It's only the final non registered buyer who can't reclaim their VAT payment. Yang's claim that a VAT will force Amazon to pay taxes is completely false. Since it won't truly tax Amazon, and since Amazon's share of US consumer spending is 2%, handing consumers $3t will only make Amazon an extra $60b a year, while paying jack shit into the VAT/UBI scheme. That's $60b they can invest into automating faster. It would also make Bezos extra billions a year, more than he'd ever personally pay into the VAT. His stupid plan would do the exact opposite of what he's claiming it will do to giant corporations and the super rich.
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  6537. Ummm, the DoD is an executive branch department of the federal government. So, what's your point?
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  6538. @Adam S We've informed the US, and other countries, about stuff too. Allied countries are always sharing intelligence. He talked like they are our only protection, and we'd be doomed without them.
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  6539.  Real Progressives Allowed  Say what? She said she was going to "release the Kraken".
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  6540.  @noelcayer3599  You're both unreasonable and missed a bunch of somethings.
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  6541.  @johnsmith92704  What the f*ck does Assange actually have to do with left wing policies? Right wingers already like WikiLeaks, more than the left probably. They're already fine with pardoning anyone they like, even war criminals, crooks, and whatnot. They obviously weren't moved to any serious effort to get Trump to pardon him. Dore mostly just agrees with Tucker, when he goes on. Before getting to Assange, Dore agreed with Tucker about Trump getting booted from social media, without once reminding capitalists that there's no such thing as free speech on someone else's private property and that you get free speech rights with public ownership ... without once reminding right wing psychos that things like incitement and defamation aren't even protected speech anyway. And, this being right before the second, well deserved, impeachment, Dore then let all the right wing nuts know that he agreed with them that the first impeachment was all hooey, helping to fuel the idea that the second one would be, as well. There's zero evidence that Dore is changing any significant numbers of right wing minds. I run across plenty of right wing trolls, that just use Dore bullshit against progressives to support their own right wing bullshit.
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  6542.  Michael Pahl  Rofl, you're just spouting nonsense.
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  6543.  @seanhammer6296  No, that's not the same thing as totally ditching the EC, because the higher the state population, the more votes there are per electoral. It preserves exactly what Republicans keep saying the EC needs to be preserved for ... so that smaller states aren't completely dominated by larger states ... it just divides the state EC up proportionally. Only if you gave every state the same number of electors per capita, would it be the same.
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  6544. ​ @Swordoftruth289  Denazification wasn't itself fscsm, dingus.
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  6545. Everyone who voted Hillary in the primaries spoiled 2016. She lost to a racist bigoted buffoon, who lost millions of Republican voters to the Libertarian party. Trump did absolutely horribly, and she still lost to him.
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  6546. As evidenced, here, they can still counter with their morons.
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  6547. No. The Libertarian party is going on 50 years old without ever having won a single seat in congress. All yet another progressive third party might accomplish, if it's popular enough, is pull away enough votes from Dem progressives, totally hand the Dem party back to corporate Dems, and let Republicans rule for decades.
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  6548.  @wcjerky  Not like you have to dig to find them ... https://abcnews.go.com/Politics/breakdown-indictments-cases-muellers-probe/story?id=61219489 https://www.chicagotribune.com/nation-world/ct-nw-russian-election-interference-senate-report-20200818-apprn474wnbulfhw2gi545fo2a-story.html https://www.politico.com/news/2020/09/17/fbi-director-russia-election-meddling-416839 https://www.npr.org/2018/01/03/575524512/trump-dissolves-controversial-election-commission
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  6549.  @X2LR8  Are you Jimmy Dore idiots, or right wingers? They only didn't charge Jr and Kushner, because it would be hard to prove they "knowingly" broke the law, not because they didn't break the law.
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  6550. Einstein, and other prominent American Jews, tried to warn Americans. Their opinion of the founders of Likud: "Among the most disturbing political phenomena of our times is the emergence in the newly created state of Israel of the "Freedom Party" (Tnuat Haherut), a political party closely akin in its organization, methods, political philosophy and social appeal to the Nazi and Fascist parties. It was formed out of the membership and following of the former Irgun Zvai Leumi, a terrorist, right-wing, chauvinist organization in Palestine." Yeah, it is the vast majority of congress that's to blame, as well, and has been for decades. MR has also been arguing not to support Israel, for years, well before Biden.
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  6551.  @ng-marc  Labour is doing much better in highly unionized Scandinavian countries. Danish unions have negotiated an average minimum wage of about $20/hr. Swedish unions have negotiated for companies to pay for worker retraining, and they've got an 85% success rate. That's how you get corporations to "pay their fair share". That's how you "tax" automation. Handing consumers $3t will only speed up automation, because consumers are lazy, and will still spend about $30b of that on Amazon, making Amazon and Bezos even richer.
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  6552. Okay. Peru has used it the most and has the highest covid death rate in the world.
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  6553. The "public option" isn't letting private insurance still exist for extras. It turns Medicare into a public insurer that competes with private insurers.
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  6554. Gangers should spend 10 min learning how a VAT actually works.
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  6555.  @dggamer2761  So you already know it's not designed to tax businesses, and Yang is clueless or lying?
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  6556.  @dggamer2761  Moron. A business covers all of its costs in the price of the goods or services it is selling. If it doesn't, then it doesn't even break even. If a business spent $1000 +$100 input VAT on items for its business, the $1000 would be covered by its own pricing. When their customer then pays that $1000 portion of the price, they pay $100 VAT to the business. The business gets to keep that $100, reclaiming its input VAT. You, the consumer, get to pay a tax on their printers and office supplies, their trucks, their add buys, their data buys, their employee wages, etc., and a tax on their profits. You really should take a mooment to double check if what someone is saying is true, or not, before doubling, and tripling, down on being stupid there cultist.
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  6557.  @dggamer2761  Wow, you didn't even take a second to even glance at how a VAT actually works. You're a cultist through and through. Keep spewing your alternative "facts", dumbass, and argue against reality. The reality is that a VAT is specifically designed to NOT tax businesses, to avoid the potential for double taxation, moron.
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  6558.  @OliverCaesar  Absolutely nobody promised to paralyze the house, or threaten to paralyze the house. AOC did help add a few more M4A yes votes to congress, which is what actually moves you closer to ever being able to pass the bill. A 100% guaranteed to fail performance art vote doesn't actually get you closer. The Boogaloo was an ancapper. What more do you need to know, to know he's far right? Once you help them take down the government, they'll shoot you, if you try to get them to help pay for M4A. Dore knobs are like the idiot leftists who found themselves on the wrong end of the Night of the Long Knives.
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  6559. A higher percentage don't have them, but you probably already know that. A higher percentage are low income, and low income people can least afford to take a day off, but you probably already know that, as well.
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  6560.  @rogerfontenot2610  Just admit you have reading comprehension problems.
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  6561.  @rogerfontenot2610  I proved you have reading comprehension problems, because my argument wasn't that they have zero way of identifying themselves.
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  6562. Pretty sure they preferred Bernie, and only considered Biden better than fascism or throwing your vote away.
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  6563.  @oiseau_libre  You don't need a cure to flatten the curve, moron. Rofl, educate your own self.
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  6564. Yeah, it's a miniscule percentage in the grand scheme of 150m votes, that's usually handled quietly, behind the scenes, instead of making a big bullshit production out of it, and holding up the transition over it. Trump is just wasting everyone's time.
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  6565. Nope. He was born to US citizens, also like Ted Cruz's mom, and considered a citizen by birth. Neither he, nor Cruz, had to go through the naturalization process. Cruz's eligibility has been challenged in court, and that was the ruling. The ruling was not that it didn't matter, as long as he was a citizen of any kind.
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  6566.  Who_dey Gotwins  On drugs isn't the same as died from a drug overdose, dumb dumb. Even the government autopsy says it was a homicide.
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  6567. Read Ze'ev Jabotinsky's The Iron Wall, 1923. There is a direct line from him to Likud and Netanyahu. He fully acknowledged that Zionism is colonialism. Colonialists are never not the aggressors, when it comes to the native population.
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  6568.  @justaguy9496  Well, being "immune" isn't a force field. It's having antibodies to fight it off quickly, if you do get it again. There's still a possibility of being able to carry it around, briefly, and infect others. Just like kids can still infect others, even though they seem to be able to fight it off relatively easily and quickly.
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  6569. Rightists: "Don't believe anything or anyone that doesn't agree with Supreme Leader!" That's it. Just a psycho cult.
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  6570. The average career is 3 years. So, try multiplying that by 3, and then dividing it by 40.
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  6571. Dore and Rubin left of their own accord. No need to fire the grifters.
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  6572.  @ItsKDHN  Peru was the first, and also has a huge ivermectin black market. They also have the most covid deaths per capita in the world. Slovakia and Mexico are both in the top 20, and Mexico is widely considered to be underreporting.
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  6573.  @ItsKDHN  3% deaths is horrible. The covid mortality rate is about 1%. Either their undercounting cases, or they're dying at 3x the rate they should. Ivermectin should have absolutely nothing to do with number of cases, even if all the crap studies were correct, and that it helped with recovering from covid.
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  6574.  Derek Hitt  I haven't ignored your argument. Like I said, your argument supported that they pay workers as little as they possibly can. You want me to address that you're comparing workers, human beings, to commodities, is that what you want addressed? Sounds like the language of a slave owner. Are you really so stupid as to consider hoarding tens of billions in wealth to be samesies as socking away a little savings for a house? Yeah, yeah, capitalists totally understand economics, leading everyone into depressions and recessions, over and over again.
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  6575.  @huntermarquette3484  So, because the US offered Native Americans various deals, letting them keep tiny reservations, they didn't ethnically cleanse, or genocide, them?
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  6576. "Those aren't pillows!!!"
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  6577. The shutdowns actually caused deflation, as happens during most economic downturns. It's the reopening that has caused inflation. If people, rather than corporations, had been given more money, during shutdowns, they would have continued to buy more stuff. Without them buying, demand and supply dropped, and supply hasn't caught back up, now that people are buying more again.
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  6578.  @uncomfortabletruth5915  There was not inflation during the height of shutdowns, dumb dumb. The inflation rate dropped to near zero, last year. The rise in demand came this year, with things reopening, but the low supply rate, hangover from last year, hasn't caught up. If people had been given enough money to keep buying things, last year, then demand and supply wouldn't have dropped off, so much. The money should have gone to the consumers, last year, to keep demand and supply up, instead of to the corporations.
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  6579.  @SeanPat1001  That would be an infinite loop, allowing them to run, not letting them hold, having to have another election, let them run again, ....
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  6580.  @martinleuchs5403  That's a nonsensical difference, that could create an infinite loop of allowing them to run, them winning, not being allowed to hold, having a new election, allowing them to run, them winning, ...
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  6581. Sounds like you're the one inventing a culture war. Nobody said the fastest men aren't faster than the fastest women.
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  6582. ​ @aceboogisback9946  Native Americans rejected giving up their lands, as well. What colonized people have jumped at an offer to be colonized and ethnically cleansed?
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  6583. With 75-90% of those dying being unvaccinated, there should be about 300k fewer Republican voters, by 2022, and close to a million fewer, by 2024, if deaths keep at about 400k a year.
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  6584. ​ @romulus_  What's the "nuance" to colonialism, occupation, and ethnic cleansing? Taking an "enlightened centrist" kind of position is not necessarily a rational, objective, or emotionally unbiased, position.
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  6585. You might as well proudly announce that you tossed your ballot in the garbage.
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  6586. ^ Oh geezus, a Jordan Peterson fan.
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  6587.  @newbieprepper8451  Do you have reading comprehension problems? "Some places have started extra junk food taxes" I see no problem with it. Chronic illnesses? The issue isn't simply being sick. It's increasing the odds of being sick due to your own choices, right? Or are we moving the goalpost?
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  6588. Who?
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  6589. Abrahamic religions believe in a formless penisless being they call "he", "him", or "father", so I'd say yes.
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  6590. He is a bigot, with a hard-on for Muslims.
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  6591.  paulbsmokin  The DNC doesn't run general elections, just primaries.
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  6592. Israel is a rogue state, that has ratified few international laws, plus the US can protect it with their veto. They have done things for the US, to keep the US hands clean. They've trained and armed fascist militants in Latin America, for example. They are state sponsors of terror, like they claim Iran is.
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  6593.  @bustos1959  Let's be real, even amongst the most overt fascists, they aren't all perfectly samesies. Between Hitler and Mussolini, Hitler was worse. Trump convincing a large percentage of Republicans to embrace overt fascism, wanting to completely end the democratic process, flawed as it is, is pretty fucking bad.
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  6594.  The Ghey Mantis  Soooo, none?
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  6595.  The Ghey Mantis  Doesn't confuse me. Sorry, that it gives you troubles.
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  6596.  The Ghey Mantis  Fascists threw socialists, communists, and unionists, into camps first. They were backed by big business, large landowners, and religious extremists. Lumping them together is idiotic. Just move them both North on the authoritarian axis.
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  6597.  The Ghey Mantis  "Fascism is the complete opposite of Marxian socialism." ~ Mussolini It sounds like your triangle doesn't allow for anarchism ... anarcho-socialism, anarcho-communism. The Marxian ideal is a non authoritarian, stateless, democratic, socialism/communism. That ideal does not share a desire for government power with fascists, in the least. Its complete opposite is an authoritarian, nationalistic, anti-democratic, capitalism. Fascists promoted bootstrapping ... denied class warfare, promoted accepting your lot in life and work hard for the country, and that hard work might pay off. There was not much agreement on equality, either. It's like you don't actually know what the two things are.
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  6598.  The Ghey Mantis  You're a complete ignoramus. There were local non authoritarian socialist enclaves in both Italy and Spain. Mussolini's black shirts went after them even before his March on Rome. It's part of the reason the monarchy backed the fascists, because they were fighting socialists. There were even more anarchists in Spain, that gave the fascists a helluva fight.
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  6599.  The Ghey Mantis  Rofl. Since you have zero examples of progressive policies that would move the US left of Denmark, try giving some examples of leftist conspiracy theories.
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  6600. Not better for managers without enough things to manage. And they can't wander around the office looking busy. It shows they may be irrelevant.
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  6601. Pierre has been on the road talking about vehicle thefts, as well. He tells the story of a man who tracked his stolen vehicle with AirTags, followed it to a shipping yard, and ended up being fined for trespassing as his vehicle was leaving. Problem is, this story was reported on. The police, texting with the man, were the ones who ended up at the shipping yard. They didn't have the authority to have the two possible container candidates opened. It was the private railway "police" who were then contacted, and didn't even respond that night, allowing the containers to be shipped. The man wasn't in the yard, and the railway "cops" didn't even show up that night, to be able to fine anyone.
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  6602. Shouldn't you be watching Dore over on Rumble, where he moved to collect some of that Peter Thiel CIA money?
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  6603.  @malachiromero6077  He's an Orthodox Jew. What needs elaborating? It's a fairy tale. Yes, when no vaccine is 100% and can completely prevent infection, skipping saying that vaccines significantly reduce infections, and instead saying they don't prevent infections, is arguing against a strawman.
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  6604.  @DevinMacGregor  Exactly. Want to smoke? Step outside. Don't want to be vaccinated, or wear a mask? Step outside. It's a pretty simple concept. People making out like it's akin to being Jewish in Nazi Germany, are insane.
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  6605. A dinner of bullshit on a plate? "It is not a charge on businesses." https://ec.europa.eu/taxation_customs/business/vat/what-is-vat_en
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  6606.  @chasthanhburns123  The thing about a minority group is that they're a mathematical "minority", dumb dumb. If they represent 12% of the population, who do you think the vast majority of dying unvaccinated are? Hint: red counties are being hospitalized and dying at much higher rates.
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  6607. Nixon doesn't get enough credit. He was the youngest member of the Un-American Activities Commission, and ran a Red Scare campaign during his senate run. He also somehow put FDR voting, union leader, Reagan on the path to crazytown. He started collecting all the extreme anti-socialist nuts. Pissed off at the passing of Civil Rights, in 1968 the Southern racist majority abandoned both parties and voted for a third party resegregationist, winning 5 states. Nixon won them over to the Republican party, in 1972. He started collecting all the racist nuts. He's the one who started collecting all the nuts into one basket. Reagan then collected the religious nuts.
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  6608.  Dustin Stich  Protesting for justice reform and less police brutality ... protesting to overthrow the democratic process and install a dictator ... total samesies!
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  6609.  @joshuameier4062  We've already got a Trump light in Ford, and he's a complete tool.
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  6610.  @jackd6881  He never had a supermajority, dumb dumb.
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  6611.  @whyamimrpink78  Nope. You're lying.
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  6612.  @hellofellowhumans9353  Kennedy had a seizure right out of the gate. He wasn't replaced with another Dem until a month after he died. There was a whole 4 month window before he was then replaced with a Republican. And then you still have to count independent Lieberman, who screwed everyone on the ACA, as an actual Dem, to make the claim Obama had a brief supermajority. And, on minimum wage specifically, that's ignoring that there were dickheads, similar to Manchin, at the time, like Mark Pryor, who opposed more minimum wage increases.
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  6613.  @leejc288  What do you call a movement that shoots up black churches, shoots up mosques, shoots up synagogues, drives into crowds of people, is behind a rise in hate crimes, and is behind a rise in terrorism? Then, what do you call a media outlet that defends those types of people, and promotes their ideas?
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  6614.  @donnyj5805  Thanks for letting me know what I think. The comment you replied to was about becoming "a reactionary jimmy door type". Are you saying your comment was totally irrelevant to being "a reactionary jimmy door type"?
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  6615.  @tyco1649  If I rounded up 6 million people from the Americas whose ancestors left England hundreds of years ago, then we went to England, claimed half of England for ourselves, called it New New England, and told any of the current population in our New New England to move to Old England, you'd think that was a great deal, for them?
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  6616. It was a long war. I'm not sure when it started, but it sure as hell escalated, back in 1942, with that Irving Berlin and Bing Crosby song, Happy Holiday. Sad, that we lost the war, but glad it's finally over. Bing, Andy Williams, Jackie Gleason, Peggy Lee, Johnny Mathis, and more, were all valiant warriors for the cause.
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  6617. He screwed his own name, already ... O'Biden.
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  6618. Do you always go around announcing that you're an obedient cultist?
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  6619.  @thinkbeyond3457  How you pay for a UBI matters. A VAT doesn't actually tax corporations like Amazon. They get their input VAT credited back to them under a VAT system. It's only the final non-registered buyer who doesn't get their VAT payment credited back. Since Yang skips actually taxing giant corporations, he will only make them richer by handing consumers $3t. Amazon's share of US consumer spending is 2%. They'd make $60b extra a year from Yang. Ironically, they could invest that into automating faster. On top of him, ironically, automating away numerous government assistance jobs with an automatic bank deposit. Yang does not beat Bernie, here. Bernie proposes many of the things other countries do, to actually make corporations pay in, before they tax their better paid, higher standard of living, consumers with a VAT. Yang is skipping important steps.
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  6620.  @AstroMortuum  A single stay at home caretaker of a disabled child ($771 full SSI disability + $355 full SNAP for 2 = $1126/month). Since Yang doesn't adjust for children, he'd offer that same parent $1000 instead. Even if that parent opts to keep what they've got, they would still have to pay 10% for many of their goods and services. They'd be worse off. Bernie has all kinds of other proposals to expand social security, housing, and other government assistance programs.
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  6621.  @mircogam  Alaskan's are being paid by corporations for their resources. A VAT doesn't actually tax corporations, as Yang falsely claims. They are not comparable. How you pay for it matters. Giant corporations will only make tons more money from Yang, while still not paying in.
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  6622.  @mingo0817  Well, it's not necessarily about revenue generation. A VAT can generate a lot of revenue. It's also not a "loophole". "Loopholes" are flaws in a design that people can exploit to avoid taxes. A VAT is intentionally designed to pay back businesses along the way, and only not pay back the final non registered buyer. Who is paying the VAT matters, if you're then handing consumers $3t. If Amazon isn't actually paying in, as Yang falsely claims they would, then they'll make tens of billions extra from Yang while still paying no taxes. He's skipping most of the other things countries do to make corporations pay in, before they tax their consumers.
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  6623.  @mircogam   And, why do you keep pretending as if a VAT is at all designed to tax companies? It's not, at all. It's designed to not tax companies. "a consumption tax because it is borne ultimately by the final consumer. It is not a charge on businesses." "taxable persons (i.e., VAT-registered businesses) deduct from the VAT they have collected the amount of tax they have paid to other taxable persons on purchases for their business activities" "The VAT due on any sale is a percentage of the sale price but from this the taxable person is entitled to deduct all the tax already paid at the preceding stage." "the final VAT paid is made up of the sum of the VAT paid at each stage" https://ec.europa.eu/taxation_customs/business/vat/what-is-vat_en
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  6624.  Senior Billy Bull  Puerto Ricans have been US citizens, and can move freely between states, for over 100 years now, dumb dumb.
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  6625. Yang's plan, as it is now, will benefit giant corporations, like Amazon, and the super rich, like Bezos. It won't make them "pay their fair share", as Yang dishonestly promotes.
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  6626.  @gelpen7882  Because he's throwing his hands up in the air, with regards to closing tax loopholes, and not coming up with alternative ways to actually tax giant corporations and the super rich. A VAT taxes consumers, not corporations. He's outright lying when he says it's a way to make them "pay their fair share". Table 1 shows how it works here in Canada. It is the final consumer that pays the entire VAT (GST). http://publications.gc.ca/Collection-R/LoPBdP/BP/prb0003-e.htm#A.%20Taxing%20Mechanism(txt) His plan will benefit giant corporations and the super rich.
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  6627.  @GenXGamez  Because of Ted Kennedy dying, the ACA will be 10 years behind in having a public option, by 2020. Bernie's transition phase has 4 years with a public option, before M4A kicks in. That would be 4 years of what the ACA originally was intended to do, and what should have been the case for 14 years, before transitioning into something even better.
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  6628. Fani should be laying out some defamation lawsuits, on all these people trashing her, and clearly lying about what they're charged with, as well.
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  6629.  @whyamimrpink78  Nonsense. Fewer politicians just makes for fewer people to bribe. It doesn't magically remove corruption. No matter the size, remove for profit lobbying.
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  6630. Pretty much what they did in this video.
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  6631.  @mroctober3583  Well, that he contradicts himself, has shown himself to be a terrible political mastermind, doesn't know how the speaker vote actually works (even when he reads it out loud), and has proven that he doesn't actually care if anyone gets M4A anytime soon, are all kind of relevant to his plan, and motives.
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  6632.  @mroctober3583  He promoted Trump as better than Clinton. He promoted Stein as having a chance. If he convinced anyone in any 2016 swing state to vote Trump, vote Stein, or to not vote at all, then he helped the lunatic, that has let thousands of Americans die, get elected. Throughout the pandemic, he has basically been running constant attack ads against Trump's only viable opponent, again not seeming to care if the lunatic wins and even more people die. He's attacking the credibility of the woman whose progressive PAC just helped get more pro-M4A progressives elected to congress (exactly the thing you're going to have to do after the vote fails anyway), going against the DCCC. Corporate Dems have openly stated that's why she was punished and not given the committee seat she wanted. She's punching and getting punched, and Dore knob throws in a kick, accusing her of being a "shill" and "wimp". He doesn't care if he undermines progressive politicians, because he's promoting a People's Party, which would be starting from scratch, and wouldn't get you enough seats to pass M4A for decades, if ever. If Dore has 100 pro-M4A progressive candidates in his back pocket, why didn't he pull them out for the election? If he and Briahna want pro-M4A protests, then why haven't they been coordinating with the DSA's M4A rallies, all along? You know ... before the election that just fucking happened. He was more worried about shit Obama (no longer a politician) was saying, or Colbert crying. Dore has his own healthcare, and doesn't give a crap if he tears everything and everyone down to start over. Nothing to lose? What if corporate Dems just keep putting Pelosi back as their speaker candidate over and over again, or even someone to the right of her? Do you just keep paralyzing the house, as they blame progressives for not being able to pass minimum wage, or student debt relief, or lowering social security, or whatever else people just voted for? Jimmy, himself, just argued that corporate Dems would rather lose to Republicans than work with progressives. The dimwit didn't recognize that that's an argument against his own strategy because, if that's really true, then that gives progressives less leverage, and means they could orchestrate something even worse with Republicans, and blame progressives.
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  6633. Except that's bullshit.
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  6634.  Jack Schitt  He doesn't even put his writings from his supposed field of expertise up for peer review. Good thing, because he's not very good at philosophy. Outside his supposed field of expertise, he's even worse.
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  6635. Do you worship what would be the leading abortionist in existence, if it existed, and claim it's pure goodness?
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  6636.  @toddbuckingham2000  But that's largely the 16% Trumpist population in Canada, listening to right wing US media, and right wing US politicians, not really due to the Conservative party, or any Canadian media, being anti-vax.
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  6637. @1350 Do you think property rights, copyrights, patents, wealth, etc., magically happen?
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  6638.  @1Hogman1zz  You know that if a McDonald's employee pumped out 15 combos an hour, that'd only be $1 per combo towards their salary, right?
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  6639. @Who_dey Gotwins You appear to be an ignoramus that doesn't know the difference between social security and supplemental security income (SSI).
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  6640. Serious question: is a formless sexless "god" with a gambling addiction, that religious people call "he" and "father", that had a son with a woman, that was actually himself, and who then "sacrificed" himself to save humanity from himself, heterosexual, asexual, or insane?
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  6641. Trump isn't a scientist dumb dumb.
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  6642. So, if someone on Gal's team posted the tweet, then that someone on her team uses an iPhone, not necessarily her. And, if someone else is handling her Twitter account, then it wasn't necessarily her that blocked him. What a big story.
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  6643.  @ryctohernadez9135  Yeah, that's what the Confederates and Nazis believed. Numbers usually win, in the end.
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  6644. *centuries ... other religions, non religious, other denominations, "witches", PDA, women's ankles, women's knees, women's thighs, women in pants, women in the workplace, ... the list is indeed endless.
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  6645. ​ @TransKidsMafia  Is it okay to use puberty blockers to stop precocious puberty (early onset puberty)?
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  6646. You don't have free speech rights on someone else's private property. Never did. They can't trample what doesn't exist.
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  6647. There are a bunch of pretty genderless languages. It's a big todo about nothing.
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  6648. ​ @NewerSwagger-gp3hj  The Nazis were not "at war" with the Warsaw ghetto.
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  6649.  @expendable4h002  Shove the strawman nonsense. No vaccine is 100%. Nobody has ever claimed a vaccine is 100%. Nobody is expecting absolutely zero breakthrough cases. They reduce infections, hospitalizations, and deaths. Making drinking and driving illegal, and enforcing that law, has reduced the rate of drinking and driving, and reduced the rates of accidents, injuries, and deaths, due to drinking and driving. Making out like the law is useless, is moronic.
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  6650.  @expendable4h002  The polio vaccine doesn't produce sterilizing immunity. Many vaccines don't. The papillomavirus vaccine does, and still isn't considered absolutely 100%. You're a dimwit.
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  6651. Obviously nobody ever gets shot in a church, mosque, synagogue, or other place of worship and prayer.
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  6652.  @alainarchambault2331  Then you're a moron who doesn't know how to click on 5 years.
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  6653.  @timscott3892  And higher social security and disability? Wtf? You're blaming him for people getting old?
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  6654. Anti LGBT hate crimes are currently on par with anti black hate crimes. There is plenty of history of violence and murder, directed at the LGBT community. There was a purge of homosexuals from the military and government jobs, in the 50s. Sodomy laws made it illegal to be an openly practicing gay man, until the 60s. It was considered a mental illness, into the 70s.
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  6655.  @brunoantony9257  If you think colonizers, that are still colonizing, want to live in peace , you need to do some research.
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  6656. Jeffries brings up a specific point of debate, straight from US law, debated by politicians and the general public. On this specific point of debate, Peterson said he was wrong. Brooks brings up a specific point, that people claim Peterson is a superior intellectual, and would wipe the floor with his opponents. That is challenged by the fact that a comedian wiped the floor with him, regarding the specific point of debate, above. Nothing wrong with this video.
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  6657. There's already the G20, as well as the G7.
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  6658.  @erickdavid2412  Clearly no time to educate yourself.
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  6659.  @sebsakura4418  The Supreme Court.
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  6660.  @thewitcher364  Robots don't buy their stuff.
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  6661. Same people who trash the "liberal elites" of the entertainment industry, including what are considered some of the most attractive people in the world. Also, get out and exercise? Top 10 least healthy states ... West Virginia Mississippi Kentucky Alabama Arkansas Tennessee Louisiana Oklahoma South Carolina Ohio Top 10 most obese states ... West Virginia Kentucky Alabama Oklahoma Mississippi Arkansas Louisiana South Dakota Ohio Missouri
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  6662. Because Florida accepts whatever the state he was convicted in says. NY says felons can vote if they aren't in prison. Trump is benefiting from a similar law he's criticizing Walz for. If he's in prison, come Nov, they might not be able to count it.
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  6663. A representative democracy, which the US has always been, is still a form of democracy, dimwit. It's just not a direct democracy.
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  6664.  @findme7862  Sounds like you're describing pretty standard ICU triage and recovery areas, that I've seen in the US, UK, and Canada, before they assign you a room in the proper ward, if you'll be staying in the hospital. Where is it they have individual ICU rooms for every patient? No, you're just lying about the cancer wait. Hip replacement, maybe.
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  6665. Yeah, he never actually gets beyond his opening statement, about what everyone currently agrees science can do. He just sticks in his own subjective goal, and then there are objectively better, and worse, ways to achieve that goal. He didn't show how science, itself, could set the goal. Plus, his "analogies" aren't actually analogous to morality. I have no clue how he got a philosophy degree, when he doesn't seem to grasp basics about subjectivity and objectivity.
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  6666.  @alabamaman1684  There are dozens of people with weapons charges, dingbat ... bear spray, stun guns, tazers, baseball bats, tomahawks, chemical spray, hockey sticks, axe handles, crowbars, batons, knives, flagpoles, ice axe ... and I'm pretty sure you don't make pipe bombs and a working gallows, on the fly.
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  6667.  @alabamaman1684  And yet the FBI also ignored warnings and tips ahead of time. Hard for there to be warnings and tips to ignore, if absolutely nothing was planned ahead. HARKRIDER, Alex Kirk Case Number: 1:21-cr-117 Charge(s): Civil Disorder; Obstruction of an Official Proceeding; Assaulting, Resisting, or Impeding Certain Officers Using a Dangerous Weapon; Theft of Government Property; Entering and Remaining in a Restricted Building or Grounds with a Deadly or Dangerous Weapon; Disorderly and Disruptive Conduct in a Restricted Building or Grounds with a Deadly or Dangerous Weapon; Unlawful Possession of a Dangerous Weapon on Capitol Grounds or Buildings; Disorderly Conduct in a Capitol Building; Act of Physical Violence in the Capitol Grounds or Buildings; Parading, Demonstrating, or Picketing in a Capitol Building
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  6668.  @seanpatrick1243  Yeah, but they seem to like increasing the views and comments count.
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  6669.  @alabamaman1684  The "weapon" ... "According to court documents, Harkrider was armed with a tomahawk ax and Nichols with a crowbar and pepper spray." Warning ... "A top official within the FBI said the bureau adequately warned local authorities of what it knew about the planned violence at the U.S. Capitol last week as supporters of President Donald Trump attempted to disrupt congressional certification of President-elect Joe Biden's victory in November. The assertions from Steven D'Antuono, the acting director in charge of the FBI's Washington field office, follow reports that an internal FBI document warned of "war" and other forms of violence by pro-Trump extremists who were planning to travel to Washington."
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  6670.  @alabamaman1684  Ironic post, considering I didn't say anything about "murdered police officers", and yet there you are shooting your wad over your own lie. Rofl. Riiiight, "allegedly". You have to be completely ignorant, if you haven't seen a single picture or video of weapons, that were brought, being used, like police batons, bats, bear spray, or the guy showing off his stun gun, etc. Only someone unfathomably stupid would see absolutely nobody armed. And, you completely ignored the pipe bombs and the working gallows that they wanted to hang Pence on, which clearly take a lot of preparation time, on top of being weapons. Rofl. There are documented tips and warnings, outlining some very specific things that happened, that the FBI didn't act on. Those wouldn't exist, if there was zero preparation. But, at least we've established that you don't accept anything that hasn't been proven in court, so no stolen election. And, we've established that you're highly trustful of the FBI, so no FBI instigators on Jan 6, plus the FBI concluded Russia had interfered in both 2016 and 2020. And, we've established that Kyle got away with murder, since he wasn't actually afraid of girly men.
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  6671. Was that when he went to visit Hitler's vacation home?
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  6672.  Alabama Man 2.0  Rofl. Are you under some delusion that Republicans don't live in blue states? Doesn't much matter total numbers in what state. Most of those deaths are now unvaccinated, and most of the unvaccinated are Republicans. Evidenced facts.
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  6673.  Alabama Man 2.0  "Pro-Trump counties now have far higher COVID death rates. Misinformation is to blame"
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  6674.  Alabama Man Special Edition  I already provided the data, whereas you haven't. Are you going to pull out your Gallup article, that you didn't read, again?
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  6675.  @SageSea1  He makes wedding cakes. He wouldn't make a wedding cake for gay people. If you don't want to actually operate a public accomodation, then don't. So, you're opposed to the civil rights act? You don't think it shows decency?
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  6676. Not sure how Democrats managed to pull off a Jan 6 false flag operation, while Trump was still president, while Trump appointees were still running every department of government, and while Republicans were still the senate majority. Republicans pretend like they aren't the government, when they are the government.
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  6677. Are you going to do an entire segment on how Bloomberg himself made the "incendiary" claim, on stage, that Bernie wants to throw out capitalism and bring about communism?
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  6678.  @MuchCow9000  But funding, and arming, Israel is intervening, and both imperialistic and heartless.
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  6679. Oh wow, "a literal invasion"?! How many enemy armed forces have crossed, and what cities have they seized?!
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  6680.  @dabblerdeluxe775  It's literally defaulting back to the original, no allocation for affordable housing, development plan, that was already approved. This wasn't a vote that could stop the development. All they did was stop the allocation of land for affordable housing. "Monday’s council vote doesn’t cancel the housing development. Instead, it means a previously approved plan for all single-family homes on the site can move forward."
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  6681.  @dabblerdeluxe775  They outright annexed land from the neighboring township, months ago, and already approved an original zoning plan in November.
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  6682.  @dabblerdeluxe775  You sound like the biased one. It sounds like, as long as they stick to code, they can go ahead with their original zoning plan ... "Village documents lay out a plan allowed under current zoning that includes 143 single-family homes that would start at a price point of about $300,000. Denise Swinger, the planning and zoning administrator for the Village of Yellow Springs, said Oberer will have to send their plan to her. Once she is done with her review for compliance, she said she will submit all materials and a memo to the village planning commission for a review that would check for conformance with the code and for infrastructure needs and compliance. The Planning Commission will approve on the basis of compliance, she said. “Oberer can submit a final plan as soon as they are ready, and that final plan goes to Planning Commission and to Council,” Swinger said. “Council cannot deny the plan unless they find that the plan is not in compliance with the zoning code.”"
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  6683. Think you have things backwards. The people of Gaza are the ones in the WWII style fascist ghetto. Nazis considered all resistance groups to be "terrorists". Nazis considered the Warsaw ghetto uprising to be the act of extremists.
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  6684.  @Emjaemidd  They're operating an open air WWII style fascist ghetto, ffs. They should feel guilty. It's psychotic, that Jewish people are doing that.
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  6685.  @jstout333  They would non magically not get reelected. Even the most popular third party hasn't won a single seat in its near 50 year existence. No third party candidate has won a seat in 80 years. Why would they need their votes, any more than they do now? They'd do the same thing, and work with Republicans to pass watered down crap.
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  6686.  @jstout333  Voting blue works both ways. Those who vote against progressives in the primaries tend to vote for them in the general. She would immediately lose any votes that are voting for her because she's blue. Third party isn't the same as an independent who caucuses with Dems, and is allowed to have a voice and vote within the party. On top of immediately losing blue voters, whoever is campaigning against her could run on how she'd have zero influence as a third party candidate.
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  6687. @Dave Blackman Why do people use vehicle deaths as examples? There are seatbelt laws, speed limits, drinking and driving laws, vehicle safety requirements, etc., that help reduce accidents and deaths due to accidents. It's one of the most regulated activities, which helps make it about 3x less deadly than covid.
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  6688. @Dearly Diane Trump has never lied about serious politics? You're joking, right?
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  6689.  @MackerelSkyLtd  ty:)
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  6690. Rofl. Mueller actually provided hundreds of pages of evidence, showing collusion that didn't amount to criminal conspiracy. All it took was two lying words, "no collusion", from your cult leader, for the cultists to ignore hundreds of pages, and Mueller's own words that the report didn't absolve Trump. Mueller indicted 26 Russians and Russian companies. He indicted a bunch of Trump's staff. The report stated they only didn't indict Jr and Kushner, because it would be hard to prove they "willfully" broke the law, not because they didn't break the law. Provide an ounce of evidence 2020 was rigged. If there was an ounce of evidence, FOX wouldn't have settled the defamation case against them. Same with all the other defamation cases. You cultists cried and cried about 60+ cases being tossed out, not getting a day in court, and when opportunity comes along ... nothing. All absolute bullshit. If there was a single ounce of evidence, all the insurrectionists could have proved they were the ones fighting to save democracy, not overthrow it ... nothing. All absolute bullshit. If there was a single ounce of evidence, Trump and co-defendants should be rushing into court to finally prove the election was stolen! Nope. Trump is stalling, and co-defendants are flipping and pleading guilty ... nothing. Absolute bullshit. 6 investigations into Hillary, while she was Trump's political opponent ... all found nothing to charge her with. More Republican and Trump bullshit. People forget, but Dumpty claimed that election was stolen too, claimed he actually won the popular vote. He set up his own election integrity commission, and they found ... nothing. Just pure bullshit out of Trump's mouth. Trump and you cultist also started trying to imply Biden was a criminal, while he was Trump's 2020 opponent, and still haven't stopped while he's Trump's 2024 opponent. Still ... nothing. Just absolute bullshit from the Trumpty Dumpty cult. Get it? Do you actually grasped the difference between evidence and no evidence? Trump is being charged, because there's actual evidence of crimes. Trump has been a criminal since he was in diapers, thanks to his tax dodging daddy. Fined for breaking laws many times, lost lawsuits for being a grifter, lost lawsuits for being a racist, lost divorces for being a cheater, ... you picked one of the biggest losers in the world, to be your cult leader.
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  6691. Israel is the one operating an open air WWII style fascist ghetto, dumb dumb. They control the borders, the airspace, the ports, electricity, water, goods going in and out, plus Bibi even controls the flow of money from Qatar, having the ability to turn it off and on, when he wants, and has a number of times.
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  6692.  @mak88119  Never happened nutbar.
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  6693. ​ @zedwolf1589  His wife says fake news.
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  6694. There are so many Palestinians in Gaza, because 1.7m are refugees from the ethnic cleansing of 700k Palestinians from partition, that have literally always been denied the right of return.
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  6695. Canada's system needs improving. We only rank better, overall, than the US, amongst developed countries, so pointing to Canada isn't some big gotcha. It's a federal/provincial partnership, with the provinces being in charge of their own healthcare systems, and the federal government adding funds to it. A province like Quebec actually has more private involvement than Ontario, but has higher wait times. So, it's not simply single payer = longer wait times. We don't have tens of thousands dying due to being uninsured, don't have hundreds of thousands going bankrupt from healthcare debt, and don't have millions going to other countries to find healthcare they can afford. If some Canadians with money decide they don't want to wait for non life threatening elective procedures, and go elsewhere, so be it. That's still rare. Most Canadians who get healthcare in the US, happen to already be in the US, and need healthcare while there, like all the elderly Snowbirds. They don't actually go to the US specifically for healthcare. It's like triage, where those who need it most go first, instead of those who can afford it most go first. We have higher life expectancies, lower infant mortality rates, lower maternal mortality rates, etc. By the most common measures, used to rate healthcare worldwide, Canada beats the US in outcomes. If your superficial comparison was valid, all single payer countries should have longer wait times, but the UK's system (the most socialized and usually rated #1) scores better than the US in timeliness of care. They also produce more medical papers per capita, than the US. We also have room to almost double the amount of money invested into our healthcare, to make improvements, before hitting US cost levels. A number of issues with single payer systems come from conservative parties not funding them enough.
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  6696. ​ @robertredmon5409  On top of the Zionist colonialism, Israel was founded on its own terrorism. Israel merged those terrorists into their new nation's military and intelligence agencies. Israelis elected Menachem Begin, leader of the Irgun, who bombed the King David Hotel, as PM. To this day, Israelis celebrate those terrorists as heroes. They literally taught their neighbours that terrorism is a valid path to independence and statehood.
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  6697.  @nassaubahamas8570  Seemed pretty straight forward. Maybe you're just not very bright.
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  6698.  @nassaubahamas8570  Man, you are slow. The influenza vaccine is 50% effective, and you'd likely have to get it twice a year, to maintain that efficacy, if the flu wasn't seasonal. The covid vaccines have shown to be more effective than 50%. Some viruses produce a long lasting immune response, some don't. Covid doesn't. Having to get a couple a year is irrelevant to anything. It's not pointless to slow the spread and reduce the odds of being hospitalized, or of dying, dimwit.
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  6699.  @nassaubahamas8570  The US isn't the only country in the world, dimwit. The vaccines have passed drug approval processes around the world. Pfizer isn't the only vaccine, if they scare you.
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  6700.  @nassaubahamas8570  They have had to show their results to agencies around the world, ffs. Is there some global conspiracy going on in your little mind?
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  6701.  @nassaubahamas8570  Quit lying ... "However, there have been no reports varenicline causes cancer, Rigotti said. Hays agreed: "There's no evidence that anyone who ever took Chantix developed cancer as a result of their exposure to the drug... This is compared with smoking that is associated with about 30% of all cancer deaths in the US.""
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  6702.  @nassaubahamas8570  They didn't pay out money for Chantix, because it hasn't been proven to cause cancer. A substance that can possibly cause cancer, was found to be at higher than advised levels, but still quite low, so they voluntarily recalled it. You're still lying.
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  6703.  @nassaubahamas8570  Rofl! That was for something else, dimwit. Nothing to do with cancer. Can you even math? 2013 is more than your 15 years ago.
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  6704. Then there'd be voter fraud, because about a third of Americans are under 18. It's more like 200m adult voters, or there abouts.
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  6705.  @lights473  You get that this is a little clip and that Crowder said more, right? After what's in this little clip, Crowder reads some other things MLK had said, and then says exactly what I quoted. Secular Talk has a longer clip, from a day ago.
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  6706.  @Warrenmitchum  Pretty sure Trump got away with 300k+ American deaths, due to incompetence.
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  6707.  @Warrenmitchum  Rofl. You're the one who deflected from Trump, to whatabout these other people, dummy. By your own "logic", that means your ideas are failing. Democratic states, like Japan, S Korea, Australia, New Zealand, who all had great responses? Democratic states like Norway, Denmark, Finland, Germany, Canada, who had mediocre responses, that still would have saved hundreds of thousands of American lives? It was countries with shit responses that were hit hardest.
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  6708. ​@@lefersan That's moronic. Unless you're just team cheering, there's no problem with saying the US is wrong to back Israel's offense, and right to back Ukraine's defense. Vice versa, for Russia.
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  6709. @@lefersan The defenders, dimwit.
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  6710. @@lefersan I don't give two shits if Palestine defense benefits Putin, and don't give two shits if the Ukraine defense hurts Putin. Just how stupid do you have to be, to think it's impossible for someone to be right, in one situation, and wrong in another?
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  6711.  @fredsanford1437  FOX? Isn't that the favorite channel for dimwit comedians to go on and agree with far right propaganda?
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  6712.  @web-angel  They got the $15 minimum wage to remain in the house bill.
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  6713. Have they blockaded the border, blockaded a city core, have their leaders discussed overthrowing the government, are they taking money from foreign entities getting involved in Canadian politics, etc.?
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  6714.  @Method9  The OP is trying to compare them to the trucker stooges.
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  6715.  @caseypdx503  If someone is teaching people how to math wrong, telling them they should stop because they aren't good at it isn't simply not liking how they do it, dumb dumb. David's starting points are objectively incorrect.
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  6716. These Republicans know this is the investigation stage. In criminal cases, police and the DA don't even have to let you know you're being investigated. After the investigation phase, then they vote on whether to charge, impeach, the president. Then it goes to the trial phase in the Senate. They think their followers are morons, and their followers are proving them right.
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  6717.  @aliamjon2550  Rofl
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  6718.  @Richard_Nickerson  "Rubik's Cube" used as a term, like "Kleenex". Instead of saying "3D combination puzzle" or "facial tissue". But, you probably already know that, and are just trying to be a dick.
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  6719.  @ToxicAudri  The details of how a UBI is paid for is important, and he kept saying that giant corporations would pay into it, and kept comparing his dividend to the Alaskan dividend, which is entirely paid for by oil companies. The thing is that a VAT is specifically designed to NOT tax businesses in order to avoid double taxation (which would be worse anyway). Yang even posted a link to a pass through rate study that he didn't grasp, or lied about. What it actually showed was a near 100% pass through on standard rated goods and services. It was only by adding lesser rated and zero rated goods and services that the pass through rate dropped. Yang claimed that indicated businesses were paying for a large portion of the tax, when it actually meant that a large portion had less tax or no tax (zero rated are staples that people buy most). The final consumer was still paying the entire VAT. Without corporations paying for it, or even into it, then all they get is the benefit of extra trillions being spent. Instead of taxing Amazon, as Yang said, they would make extra tens of billions a year, which would make Bezos extra billions a year. He could buy a brand new $500m yacht, every year, pay $50m in VAT, and still have extra billions left over. Also, in a future that's increasingly automated, you can't have increasingly unemployed consumers paying for their own UBI. You need corporations to pay the people, like the Alaskan dividend he kept comparing his to, like he kept saying it should be. His words didn't match his actual plan.
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  6720.  @cornholiothefirst2018  No. Tulsi was telling everyone and anyone they could opt out. That's a public option, not the Australian model.
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  6721.  @SuddenlyCthulhu  “In short, when it comes to the war against terrorists, I’m a hawk. When it comes to counterproductive wars of regime change, I’m a dove.” - Tulsi Gabbard The war on terror has been used as grounds to blow the hell out of numerous countries. She's not "anti-war".
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  6722.  @whyamimrpink78  Lol, do those sources use completely different data, or something? How would say the unemployment rate, during such and such years, be completely different on FOX?
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  6723.  @whyamimrpink78  Why are you rambling about other rates and nonsense? You didn't argue David was using insufficient data. You've blathered, repeatedly, on different threads, asking for sources for his data. The participation rate isn't the unemployment rate. How is it so hard for you to find the unemployment rate, just like he said? Is the FOX unemployment rate different, yes or no?
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  6724. Those places probably also require ID to buy alcohol. Damn Nazis.
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  6725. Partition was forced on the majority, against their will. Even after partition, non-Jews were still the majority in the Zionist portion, so 700k were ethnically cleansed and never allowed to return. All Palestine territories are officially considered occupied, meaning millions of Palestinians don't get a say in who actually rules over them. Israel is as democratic as Nazi Germany after Hitler purged his political opponents and then held elections.
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  6726. You wake up, dumb dumb. Israel is objectively the aggressor by every relevant measure ... Modern history: 100 years ago, in 1923, Ze'ev Jabotinsky fully acknowledged that Zionism is colonialism, and that, based on the entirety of history, the natives would fight it until the bitter end. He just didn't care what would happen to them, and promoted doing it anyway. Colonizers are never not the aggressors. On top of the colonialist nature of Zionism, the Zionists also formed terrorist organizations, like the Irgun and Lehi. They bombed many Palestinian markets and other public places, murdering many civilians, including children, even including Palestinian Jews (who opposed Zionism). Israel merged those terrorists into the new nation's military and intelligence agencies. Israelis elected Menachem Begin, leader of the Irgun, child murderer, Jew murderer, and bomber of the King David Hotel, as PM. Israelis, to this day, celebrate those terrorists as "heroes". Zionists literally taught their neighbours that terrorism is a valid path to independence and statehood, and that terrorists are to be celebrated. In 1945, it is well documented that Zionists owned just 5% of the land and were a majority nowhere. Israel was formed by actually going against the majority population. It's foundation is completely undemocratic. Then, becoming a majority, in "their" new nation, by ethnic cleansing the actual majority, and then claiming to be democratic, is utter nonsense. Law: Israel is considered an occupier by the International Court, the UN GA, and the UN SC. Occupiers are also never not the aggressors. Those occupied actually have a right to resist occupation. On the flip side, it is illegal for the occupier to settle occupied lands, and illegal to use collective punishment. Israel is a rogue nation, that doesn't abide by international law. What it has been doing, and is doing now, is illegal. Current events: This year, alone, prior to Oct 7 ... Israel held over 1200 Palestinian hostages without charges ... over 200 Palestinians had been killed by the IDF and settlers ... over 1000 Palestinians had been displaced by Israel's neverending colonization of the West Bank ... and, Israel continued to operate an open air WWII style fascist ghetto, in Gaza. Even ignoring modern history and law, in no reality did Hamas "start" anything.
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  6727. Are you enjoying the all progressive house, senate, and presidency, that Dore predicted would happen, if people let Trump win in 2016?
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  6728.  @steveg18556  As already stated, he literally promoted letting Trump win, based on his moronic prediction. If he convinced even one person, in a swing state Clinton lost, then he helped Trump win.
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  6729. Are they ignoring that you're 7x more likely to develop myocarditis from COVID, than from vaccines?
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  6730. Maybe I just like math guys that can actually do math.
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  6731. Hemsworth jokes: I do all my own stunts! Morons who don't get jokes: Liar!!!!!!!!!! https://twitter.com/chrishemsworth/status/1043163429073244160?s=20
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  6732.  @ashokafulcrum4795  Did you have a point, "dingus"? So, what ... those things are good? We should all keep doing them?
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  6733.  @scottbowling58  NYC banned garbage disposals for a long time. They hardly have any. Calling someone stupid, for just not having seen a garbage disposal before is more a sign that you're stupid.
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  6734.  @riheg  So, AOC is fighting them, when she backs pro-M4A progressives against them?
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  6735. Okay, but a $10m salary isn't really "super rich". That's just "rich". Also, getting a salary doesn't tend to go hand in hand with "indolent". The actual indolent super rich billionaires don't tend to get a taxable salary, or claim a low taxable salaries. Bezos claims a salary of about $80k. Tesla claims a salary of about $24k. I don't think Gates even gets a salary anymore, nor much of the Walton family. Billionaires live on non-taxable lines of credit taken out against their stock values. So, while you might be raising the social security percentage on high end entertainers, doctors, lawyers, millionaire business owners, etc., who do work for their money, indolent super rich billionaires living off stocks and options will still pay jack shit into social security.
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  6736. So you didn't actually watch the video?
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  6737. Is that what was used to help Peru lead the world in covid deaths per capita?
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  6738.  @h..8083  I found that the developers bought the property over a year ago, and didn't find anything about Dave making threats, then. Some of that land was in a neighboring county, so the city annexed that, last summer, and didn't find anything about Dave making threats, then. The developers already introduced a first zoning plan, that was approved in Nov, and didn't find anything about Dave making threats, then. Then came this second zoning plan, which included assigning land to affordable housing, and lo and behold, Dave shows up making threats against it. Now it's just back to the original zoning plan.
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  6739. ​ @abebabe3069  What a load of nonsense. The British did a major Village Statistics survey, in 1945. The Jewish population only owned 5% of the land, and were a majority in zero districts. The post Nakba population of Israel was about 650k Jews and 150k non-Jews ... which means that the 700+k ethnically cleansed non-Jews were the actual majority in the lands claimed by Israel.
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  6740.  @T1000-h4k  So ... no. lol
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  6741. If "inaction" keeps adding more M4A yes votes to congress, then it doesn't seem so bad. It's not as though she just sits in her garage and bitches about congress members that vote for things she likes, and ignores the ones who vote against things she likes.
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  6742.  @omarlocke9446  See, you seem to be under the delusion that they're the majority, or something.
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  6743.  @biokido575  That is, objectively, untrue. The UK's healthcare system tends to get rated the best, and the US has the worst life expectancy, infant mortality, and maternal mortality, rates in the developed world.
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  6744.  @biokido575  You're still forced to pay for car insurance, if you want to drive legally, and that's still how every single insurance company works.
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  6745.  @rack9458  Well, keep practicing.
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  6746.  @paulnejtek6588  When I first posted this, 6 months ago, I tried including links, but YouTube didn't like and deleted. You can find a bunch of the info on the Jewish Virtual Library: Ze'ev Jabotinsky's Iron Wall, population of Palestine mandate and first 1948 population of IL, Likud's 77 platform. Google: Einstein letter NYT 1948, Israel celebrates Irgun. Wiki (like with any Wiki, just double check it's sourced properly): 1945 Village Statistics (has actual scans), Irgun, Lehi, Irgun attacks, revisionist Zionism, Likud (1999 platform), etc. The JVL and The Balfour Project also have earlier British reports, and other mandate info. You can search British Hansard for mandate era parliament debates, as well.
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  6747.  @rack9458  Keep up the reading practice. It is severely in need.
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  6748.  @888strummer  Who gets it is irrelevant to whether it's a socialistic or capitalistic model. Is it publicly owned and operated, rather than privately owned and operated? Yes. Does it pool the money, from each according to their ability, and then redistribute it, to each according to their need (no matter how much they paid in, and even if they didn't)? Yes.
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  6749. Yeah, Democrats were never backed by most unions, or promoted a New Deal, ever before.
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  6750.  @andreakae4211  Yeah, Andrew Yang is no leftist. He's totally bullshitting people about who pays for a VAT. I'm Canadian. We've had a VAT (GST) for almost 30 years. It sure as hell isn't corporations that pay it. They collect it, from consumers, like sales tax, and then simply pass it along to the federal government.
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  6751.  @genericdragon7260  Geraldo Rivera. He wants to get injected with "Trump".
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  6752. ​ @danialhillmann5374  It's a sign that they're stupid, insane, or both.
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  6753.  @patriciaanndemello4652  Might as well have no laws, no safety regulations, no prescribed or suggested dosages of drugs, no other warnings labels, no required vaccines for kids and immigrants, etc. You know, because there's absolutely no way to make the world less dangerous.
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  6754.  @patriciaanndemello4652  I'm not the one crying in public over wearing a mask, or getting a needle, dumb dumb.
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  6755. Total crap.
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  6756. The US has a pathetic trace testing rate. Other countries do not find hundreds of extra cases by testing hundreds more people per confirmed case. https://ourworldindata.org/grapher/number-of-covid-19-tests-per-confirmed-case?tab=chart&stackMode=absolute&time=2020-12-17&country=AUS~CAN~DNK~DEU~ITA~JPN~NZL~NOR~KOR~TWN~GBR~USA~VNM®ion=World
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  6757.  @ValleyPooch   If everyone wanted to be entirely accurate, they'd admit that almost every country in the world is running a mixed, capitalist-socialist, economy, where some sectors are privately owned and operated, and some sectors are publicly owned and operated. The only entirely capitalist countries are the remaining absolute monarchies. There are no entirely socialist countries ... not Venezuela ... not Cuba ... not China ... If everyone wanted to be entirely accurate, they'd admit there's no actual "far left" in US politics, and Bernie is a centrist, centre-left, while most Democrat politicians are right of centre, and many Republican politicians are extreme right, promoting the ideas of Ayn Rand (about as far right as you can get). Really, the only difference between social democracy and democratic socialism is how far you want to go. Up to a certain point, they look pretty much the same. And, seeing as how they're both democratic, it's really up to the voters to decide whether to hold, or move forward. There are far more inaccurate terms being used.
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  6758. With a free ticket and a free dress, telling them all she wants to tax them more. What's hypocritical about that?
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  6759.  @fatespiker  He's not really in it, if he's only on 20% of the ballots.
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  6760. The court rulings in favour of Ted Cruz's eligibility, ruled that he was a citizen by birth, due to his mom. The rulings weren't that it didn't matter, as long as he was a citizen. "a natural-born citizen of the United States"
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  6761.  @whisperingegg7339  The broader progressive caucus is 30 years old and is 10-15 seats away from becoming the majority of house Dems. The Justice Dems are 5 years old and have 10 seats in congress. The most popular third party is going on 50 years old, and has won zero seats in congress.
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  6762.  Uncomfortable Truth  It passing isn't part of Jimmy's "plan". Driving up support and bringing in more progressives is the "plan". If that's "starting", moving forward, then it has already started. AOC's PAC just helped get more progressives elected, and the moron makes out like she's a fake and a shill.
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  6763. But Yang is also bullshitting that a VAT forces giant corporations like Amazon to pay taxes. It's built into a VAT system that businesses get paid back for any input VAT. Since it wouldn't actually tax Amazon, and since their share of US consumer spending is 2%, handing consumers $3t will only make Amazon an extra $60b a year. That would make Bezos an extra $6b a year. He'd have to personally blow over $60b a year on goods and services with a VAT to pay more than he gets out of Yang's plan.
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  6764.  Andrea MENDENHALL  If people are protesting, sometimes rioting, because cops are murdering people, then by training cops to not murder people, you'd lower the odds of their being protests and riots. That is protecting society, dumb dumb.
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  6765.  Andrea MENDENHALL  You're giving the false dilemma of either killing a criminal or letting them go, and totally deflected from the times they murder people, and get away with it. Other developed countries' police are still stopping crimes, without shooting so many people. How many times does it take, for you to be against the police murdering people, ffs? What's the exact percentage for it to be wrong?
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  6766.  @Youtubersareignorant2023  TYT is better than "The Hill". Rising is okay sometimes, but The Hill is owned by one of Trump and Giuliani's closest friends, who monitors his editorial staff, and doesn't like anything too critical of the president. Krystal is simply their Chris Wallace.
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  6767. Well, being forced to wear safety gear on construction sites is just like the Holocaust or Jim Crow.
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  6768.  @artis1969  If helping to add more M4A yes votes to congress, the very thing that needs doing to ever pass the bill, is "inaction", then "inaction" is what's needed.
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  6769.  @CrucibleBlack13  They gave context. You seem to have reading comprehension problems.
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  6770.  @laleau92  Do you dimwit Dore knobs not grasp math? There are zero extra votes to the left of the party, so it is absolutely impossible to pass a bill without Manchin and Sinema (former Green party candidate ... one of those perfectly perfect incorruptible third parties). On the other end, there is the entire Republican party to try and bring in votes from. If Manchin can get some Republicans to vote for a bill, then you don't need AOC or the squad to pass the bill. That is not, in any way, in any reality, an equivalent amount of leverage.
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  6771. If the media did its job, it's easy to show that Republicans are either objectively wrong, or hypocritical, on basically every brdr issue.
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  6772.  @clownworld7763  He's not the one giving Gaetz the legal problems though. Extortion is threatening to do something to the person, if they don't give you money. Just coming along with a whack plan that might get Gaetz off, isn't extortion.
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  6773.  @zulublack1212  Simply having a black president is more important than all Bernie's policies that would benefit black Americans?
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  6774. Yes, breakthrough cases are expected to happen. Only a complete and utter moron wouldn't expect them to happen. 75-90% of those dying are unvaccinated. The unvaccinated hospitalization rate is 89x higher than the vaccinated hospitalization rate.
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  6775.  @mr.rickochet4794  The hospitalization rate for the US vaccinated population is 0.01%. For the unvaccinated population it's 0.89%. How many times more does your math calculate that to be?
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  6776.  @jeffgojail  Firstly, 2008 exit polling found 16 percent of “Clinton Democrats” voting for McCain, so shove the holier than thou, bullshit. Secondly, you've got the wrong channel, to do your broadbrushing on. You're looking for the Dore knob channel, where he promoted Trump as the better option than Clinton, and promoted voting Stein. Not this one.
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  6777.  @jeffgojail  Yes, it does matter who they promoted. Pointing out what's wrong with corporate Dems, but still saying they're far better than Republicans and the only viable option, is a vastly different position than saying Republicans are the better option or that a third party is a viable option. No such thing as an "extreme left" in US politics. Progressives promote policies that the vast majority of developed countries already have. Hillary lost to someone who won with the one of the worst election results in US history, and yet here you are.
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  6778.  @jeffgojail  If you think universal healthcare, and lower drug prices, is a "massive welfare program for middle class white kids", then you're dumber than a stump, or a Trump.
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  6779.  @jeffgojail  You get that that's for community colleges, right?
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  6780.  @jeffgojail  You didn't say "loans", dumb dumb. You said "free tuition". As for loans, wealthier kids don't need loans, ffs.
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  6781.  @jeffgojail  You're a complete and utter moron. Loan forgiveness also only applies to federal loans. Student Loan Debt by Race: "Black students are the most likely to receive Federal loans. Asian students are least likely to receive Federal loans. White students are most likely to receive nonfederal loans." "Black and African American college graduates owe an average of $25,000 more in student loan debt than White college graduates. Four years after graduation, 48% of Black students owe an average of 12.5% more than they borrowed. Black and African American student borrowers are the most likely to struggle financially due to student loan debt, with 29% making monthly payments of $350 or more."
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  6782. Are they the generation that invented the FCC to protect delicate sensibilities?
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  6783. Imagine that a progressive politician just used her platform and PAC to help get more pro-M4A progressives elected to congress, just backed Bernie (M4A) instead of Tulsi (public option), and morons thinking she's the one that doesn't support M4A.
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  6784. I love that right wingers are desperately trying to prove the US funded research that leaked, which would make them liable. Bankrupt America to own the libs!!!
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  6785. Yeah, an anti-corporation Republican is an oxymoron.
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  6786. And, they have a lower firearm mortality rate and lower homicide rate, than many states with less gun control. Almost like an anecdote isn't evidence of how effective policies are overall.
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  6787.  @Wulfen73  But Sam was invited, by Ethan.
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  6788. Would he pull more Dems or more non MAGA Reps?
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  6789. The Hill is owned by Trump and Giuliani's buddy.
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  6790. Ummm, you might want to look at a teen pregnancy map. The Bible belt has the highest rates, because they don't teach reality, like using contraception.
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  6791. He's "defending" himself by instead arguing that he has committed massive tax fraud, if it's worth $1b+. He's so stupid that he doesn't seem to grasp that, to argue he's not committing any kind of fraud, he needs to pick a number and stick with it.
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  6792. ​ @13BGunBunny  Lol. Biden: 0, Trump: 7
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  6793.  @spacetoast7783  Do you have reading comprehension problems?
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  6794.  @JaysSavvy  But real life doesn't contradict the study (by the CBO, not a college). I live in Canada, dumb dumb. I've been to multiple countries, including all but 4 US states. I have plenty of real world perspective. You're lying.
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  6795.  @JohnDoe-qz1ql  Is the op an omniscient omnipotent god being?
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  6796.  @JohnDoe-qz1ql  original post/poster
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  6797.  @JohnDoe-qz1ql  I think you missed the point of it.
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  6798. You're making no sense. If they're "fearmongering" people away from getting sick, then they'd make less money than they would by letting everyone get sick, wouldn't they?
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  6799. An unthinking unfeeling life is less of a life than ones we kill to eat every day. If they're religious, tell the parents that just experienced a spontaneous abortion (miscarriage) that their god is an evil abortionist.
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  6800.  Aaron Dickson  Rofl! There are doctors and scientists across the world, to listen to. There are numerous countries whose covid responses had objectively better results, to look at. Try better.
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  6801.  @whyamimrpink78  You know how "per capita" works, right? It's exactly how you compare stats between places with different sized populations.
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  6802.  @whyamimrpink78  You only listed one factor, in your defense of Florida ... older population. Now you're just moving the goalposts. You get that Alaska is largely empty, and that the vast majority of the population is actually packed into a small portion of the state, yeah? Over a third of the population lives in one city. The British Isles are islands, and dimwit Boris had a crappy initial COVID response, until he caught it himself. Mississippi is the worst state, and comes in 37th in population density and 32nd in median age. Arkansas is the second worst, and comes in 35th and 33rd. Oklahoma is third worst, and comes in 47th and 35th. They are, however, redder than Florida. West Virginia is tied with Vermont, for 4th oldest population. They are 29th and 31st for population density. West Virginia is the 5th worst state. Vermont is the best. WV, however, voted 68% Trump, while Vermont voted 66% Biden. Face it, dimwitted Republicans have been killing themselves.
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  6803.  @Gandingas  Here's a word of the day, for you ... satire: the use of humor, irony, exaggeration, or ridicule to expose and criticize people's stupidity or vices, particularly in the context of contemporary politics and other topical issues
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  6804. Look at countries that are flattening their curves. They've gotten ahead of the virus by testing beyond those showing symptoms. Their total infected and confirmed infected numbers have to be close to the same, to get ahead of the spread, and largely contain it. S Korea's mortality rate is about 2%. Australia's curve appears to be flattening, and their mortality rate is about 1%. A cruise ship also provided us with a control group, almost all of who were tested in Japan. Their total and confirmed numbers are the same, and they had a mortality rate of 1.5%. The virus appears to have an actual mortality rate of about 1-2%, which is 10x deadlier than the flu. Factors, such as an older population, more smokers, more diabetics, more people with heart disease or asthma, more pollution, etc., could increase that rate. Likewise, less of those things could lower that rate. So, if 26k deaths is 1-2% of the actual total infected, then the US would actually have about 2.6-5.2m infected and, unless you speed up testing and find most of those missing hundreds of thousands of infected, quickly, they will go around spreading the virus, and those numbers will just keep increasing. Personally, I think the US is too far behind the virus, and is fucked. You should be at, at least, double the number of total tests, by now.
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  6805. @UCikBhPF4HkoDJqZNcUhDQPw You might want to be skeptical of those optimistic .4% estimates. The ones out of China didn't include Hubei. Including Hubei, their mortality rate is 4%. There were also lower estimates out of Germany, when they were impressing the world with their .4% mortality rate, which has now jumped to 2.6%. A .4% mortality rate just doesn't seem to be born out in reality. Places where the total and confirmed numbers are converging, or a control group where they're definitely the same number, seem like the best figures, to me. They're real.
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  6806.  @justanotherguy1794  Progressive house members did get the $15 minimum to stay in the covid relief bill, when it was first talked about taking it out because it might not get by senate rules, and it passed the house. People were already griping that the covid relief didn't go out the day after Biden was inaugurated. How many times should the bill have bounced back and forth between the house and senate? Who in the senate was going to suddenly change their minds? AOC did use her platform and PAC to back 20 other pro-M4A candidates, helped add a few more M4A yes votes to congress, and helped remove a few more corporate Dems. A guaranteed to fail vote, isn't itself M4A. Dore uses fake support percentages for how wildly popular he claims M4A is. If you actually look at the Pew survey he referred to, it's only 54% of Dems that want all out M4A, and only 36% of Americans. There wouldn't have been some massive uprising over it failing to pass. Half of congress just got done an election cycle, and pretty much every voter knew where their candidates stood on healthcare, when they voted. She also campaigned for Bernie and M4A, while Jimmy was pushing Tulsi and "Medicare choice". Jimmy is also the guy who didn't give two shits if 10m of the poorest Americans lost their Medicaid expansion, and didn't care to add 40m older Americans to Medicare. He also doesn't care if he leads people down the third party route that hasn't won the most popular third party a single seat in congress in 50 years. What he promotes doesn't actually indicate that he cares if anyone gets healthcare coverage anytime soon. The broader progressive caucus is some 10-15 seats away from becoming the majority of house Dems. I think people should stick with the Justice Dem approach, until they're the majority, can pick the party speaker candidate, can control the house if still the house majority, and then see what they do. I think giving up on them, when it's that close, to go some decades long route that doesn't get you even a single vote for or against even a single bill because you don't have a seat isn't a winning strategy. Technically, even Bernie is a centrist, out in the real world, but I think he, and a number of other progressives, are genuine. Might not always agree on tactics though, and disagreeing on a single secondary tactic shouldn't be the end all and be all of the relationship, or support.
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  6807. It's basically like any insurance ... those who don't end up needing it, or needing much of it, are paying for those who do. Social Security is insuring retirees can get by (barely).
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  6808. Pretty sure they're only in favor of letting women wear what they want, whether it's a bag or a bikini. Right wingers are the ones that actually back countries like Saudi, and helped train and arm extremists like Al Qaeda and the Taliban. How is being against Israel colonizing occupied territories anti-Semitic?
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  6809. The single state solution would actually be easier. You'd only have to convince the Palestinians. Israel, well before Netanyahu, has shown no desire to compromise, and give back land it had stolen, to make a two state solution possible. For a single state solution, Palestinians would just simply have to surrender. Israel has indicated it wants to own the entirety of Israel/Palestine, so let them. They are now the government of Palestine, as well. Demand equal rights, a right of return for Palestinian refugees, and part of the federal budget, to raise the Palestinians' standard of living.
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  6810.  TRUMP 2020 Keep America Great!  That's what the op said.
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  6811.  @MegaSandyvagina  You have severe reading comprehension problems, moron.
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  6812. @joe smath Rofl. Your mental telepathy has failed you. Why? Are you a Nazi?
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  6813.  @weshallovercome3990  Moron.
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  6814. Well, there are white Hispanics, who descend almost entirely from the Spanish conquerors, whose lines didn't mix with natives much, if at all. Can't get much more white than Ted Cruz.
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  6815.  Islam is cancer  Yes, regressing back to the Gilded Age is much more intelligent.
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  6816.  Islam is cancer  Yes, communist Western European countries, communist Japan, communist Australia, communist New Zealand, communist Canada, ranked better places to live than the US. Wouldn't want to go up in the rankings. That'd be horrible. Keep going down. Maybe the US can be downgraded to a developing country, and be great again!
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  6817. She helped to add M4A yes votes to congress in the last election, which actually gets you closer to ever being able to pass it. She was campaigning for Nina Turner, not that long ago, trying to add another. Let me guess, you think peddling Tulsi (public option) over Bernie (M4A), and publicly abandoning Nina ... abandoning adding another M4A yes vote to congress ... is what makes someone an M4A advocate. lol
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  6818.  @RB-ns2nn  Lol. The only one with hurt feelings seems to be you, getting all upset that people are making fun of your favorite song. Did you used to get this upset when a helluva ton of people made fun of Vanilla Ice? But ... But ... But ... He's kinda popular somewhere!!! Rofl!
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  6819.  @RB-ns2nn  Coping just fine. Never heard of the guy before this.
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  6820.  @RB-ns2nn  Do you have reading comprehension problems?
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  6821.  @stevemarchando4132  Ah, so you're going to the extreme, and then think living on $12k a year is the answer? Is that a joke?
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  6822.  @laviniawells3802  Robots working for corporations won't fund your living expenses, because a VAT doesn't tax corporations. A VAT is specifically designed to NOT tax businesses in order to avoid double taxation. Anyone promoting a tax that's designed to not tax businesses as a way to tax businesses is speaking gibberish. As people lose their jobs, foreclose their homes, and adjust to living on $12k a year, a VAT will generate less and less revenue.
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  6823.  @stevemarchando4132  Just how many out of home businesses do you imagine taking off? There will be some jobs but fewer? So, yes, simply declaring jobs "gone" is extreme? There are hundreds of different kinds of government jobs, including research and development of new technologies and other innovations, teaching, truck driving, construction, administrative, social work, ... a wide variety for all kinds of people.
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  6824.  @SMP1993  There's math involved. There are zero extra votes to try and draw from to the left of progressives. It is absolutely impossible to pass a bill without Manchin. On the other end, there is the entire Republican party to try and draw votes from. It is entirely possible to pass a bill without Bernie, by picking up a single Republican vote. In a stand off, between both ends of the party, a bill would more likely be amended to the right, than the left. The bill would have to be "must pass" to Manchin, to have any leverage. If he doesn't give a crap if it dies, then you've got zero leverage, as we've seen. And, if he can get enough Republicans on board, by making concessions to them, then he doesn't need your votes, as we've seen. What's a bill that Manchin considered "must pass", that required squad votes to pass?
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  6825.  @jaccl4539  Risk, by doing what? You clearly used Manchin as a comparison. He threatens not to vote for things, a threat that requires leverage. Unlike how dishonest Hinkle made things out, AOC actually voted against the state department appropriation bill. And ... it passed without her. The Capitol Hill police bill was heavily amended in the senate, and came back for a second house vote. Unlike how dishonest Hinkle made things out, AOC voted against it, in the end. And ... it passed without her. Unlike how dishonest Hinkle made things out, AOC voted against the defense appropriation bill. And ... it passed without her. She votes against things all the time. They aren't samesies, because they don't have the same mathematical leverage.
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  6826.  @greeneyeddevil1  That's like asking when the US tried to utterly destroy the native population ... they didn't ... but they gradually ethnically cleansed almost all of them, bit by bit, while making out like the natives trying to get rid of colonizers were the bad guys.
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  6827.  @greeneyeddevil1  Umm, this started before 1948, and the early Zionists were honest about being the colonizers, and knew exactly how the natives would react. Again, you're making out like the natives wanting to push the white man back into the ocean were the bad guys, rather than those colonizing and ethnically cleansing them. Oh, why didn't they just live in peace with their colonizers. https://www.jewishvirtuallibrary.org/quot-the-iron-wall-quot
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  6828.  @StevefromPR  Are you opposed to IVF? The majority of the fertilized eggs (babies?) don't take, or aren't used.
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  6829.  @alabamaman9476  Never said anything about northern and southern, or anything about states. I said red counties vs blue counties and vaccinated vs unvaccinated. All of those things are in every state. If the covid rate is lower in the south, due to weather, it's still the redder counties and unvaccinated dying at higher rates, there. If the covid rate is higher in the north, due to weather, it's still the redder counties and unvaccinated dying at higher rates, there. Texas is in the south and they just put out a report that's in line with the national situation, 85% of deaths are unvaccinated. So, in all the battleground purplish districts, if covid is killing off Republican voters 8 to 2, for the next year, that increases the odds of Dems coming out on top.
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  6830.  @socialdistancewarrior9099  Which favors a religion that can hide their symbols under their clothes, while still wearing it.
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  6831. He isn't proposing anything permanent, or covering anything beyond covid costs. This isn't M4A. Jimmy is spouting nonsense.
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  6832.  @ToxicAudri  But, while you're protesting, or whatever, you have two options, for who you're up against. Republicans make laws that allow people to run over protesters. Trump has called for categorizing protesters (BLM) as terrorists. While you're doing your thing, Trump and Republicans will make life worse for women, will let Rvssia do to Ukraine what IL is doing to Pal, etc.
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  6833.  @realchris  Canada's long term unemployment average is 7.5%. Things are currently below average.
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  6834. @realchris  Remember that unemployment is kind of a strange stat. It's people who have looked for work, and didn't get a job. Does Canada simply have more non workers looking for work? 59.8% of the US population is employed. 60.6% of the Canadian population is employed.
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  6835. @realchris  The OECD uses an across the board 15-64 age range, for all countries, for direct comparison. Canada is 15th, at 74.7% employed. The US is 26th, at 70.5% employed. The OECD average is 68.5% employed. So, yeah, it's simply the case that more non employed Canadians look for jobs than non employed Americans.
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  6836.  @majorlazor5058  Yeah. As someone who operated a VAT registered business for years, I knew he was from the first time I heard him speak about his VAT/UBI combo. He would have had money flowing to those at the very top faster than ever before.
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  6837.  @majorlazor5058  Yeah, a VAT is specifically designed to NOT tax businesses, in order to avoid double taxation. Every step in the chain gets to reclaim their input VAT, except the final consumer, so they end up paying the entire VAT. As soon as he presented it as a way to tax corporations like Amazon, I just laughed. Amazon UK even had its own tutorial pages on how a VAT doesn't tax businesses. Arguing with some of his cult, they'd move to ... well, price elasticity will make businesses eat some of the price increase, and indirectly pay some taxes, blah blah ... but Yang himself posted a link to a pass through rate study that he didn't grasp, or intentionally misrepresented. It showed a near 100% pass through on standard rated goods and services, and it was only by adding lesser rated and zero rated goods and services that the pass through rate dropped. Yang used the overall dropped rate to claim businesses were paying a significant portion of the VAT, when it actually meant there was less tax, or no tax, on a significant portion of the sales (staples, what people buy most, are largely zero rated). He repeatedly made out like his dividend was similar to the Alaskan dividend, which is entirely paid for by oil corporations, when it's totally not. If you don't have corporations paying for, or even paying a significant portion of, the dividend, then they only get the benefit of extra trillions a year being spent, funneling money to the very top to be hoarded. Yang would have been making his buddy Musk extra billions a year. Musk probably knew it, because Tesla operates in VAT countries.
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  6838. After gathering the anti-socialist extremists, as a house member and senator, Nixon then gathered all the Southern racists, as a Presidential candidate. He's the one that started collecting all the nuts into one basket.
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  6839. Unless they're homeless, the family is paying property taxes, either directly, or indirectly through rent, which is where the majority of school funding comes from.
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  6840.  @InternetMameluq  Definitely far from zero racism, but better than legal segregation, discrimination, and Jim Crow, isn't it? So what highly successful peaceful protest movements are you referring to? Many labour riots were part of the labour movement.
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  6841.  @InternetMameluq  Moron. Violence ended slavery. Did it make everything perfect? Obviously not. But it did end slavery. Did the Civil Rights movement make things perfect? Obviously not, but if you don't think the voting rights act or civil rights act were improvements, then you're a pretty daft twatwaffle. Still waiting for you to name some of the numerous successful peaceful protest movements.
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  6842.  @TomFranklinX  I'm referring to Crowder, going on Joe Rogan, making out like he's some kind of pro debater that the left is afraid to debate. Have Colbert or Bernie done anything similar, or are you making a false equivalence? Crowder deserved to be set up. He's a lying coward.
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  6843.  @TomFranklinX  Rofl. You're pulling shit straight out of your ass.
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  6844.  @TomFranklinX  Rofl. Well done. You've moved the goalpost so far, that Crowder was talking about nobody that exists. You've made him nonsensical.
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  6845.  @TomFranklinX  Rofl! So Crowder wants to debate news agencies and actual comedians, unlike himself?
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  6846. Well, too bad you don't like communist-socialist universal healthcare. The rising healthcare costs actually flattened a little, with the ACA, but you probably want to pay more, because ....freedumb.
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  6847. It is directly classist, because poorer people are less likely to have a driver's license so you're forcing them to get something they don't already have to vote. They are less likely to be able to get a day off work to go down and get an ID. They are less likely to be able to afford a day off work. Anything classist, that affects poor people most, is indirectly racist, since higher percentages of some minorities are poor. But, knowing that fact ahead of time ... knowing what you're about to do will disproportionately affect black and Hispanic Americans ... makes it directly racist. It's making people jump through extra hoops they haven't been required to jump through, before. Making it harder to vote, whether it's through id or having hours long lines in certain districts, suppresses the vote. The harder it is, the more people won't bother going through the hassle.
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  6848.  @alabamaman9476  Nobody is obsessed with you, and looking for your comments. You're projecting. You're clearly the obsessed loon posting thousands of comments, from multiple accounts, in a matter of weeks, and making seeing your comments unavoidable ... on a channel you hate.
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  6849.  @tripandroctonus7787  Basically the same thing, they just didn't consider certain people deserving of rights. Just like the second amendment didn't do black Americans much good. They simply weren't considered deserving of rights.
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  6850.  @MK-fk4kp  Yang will only make the "establishment" richer. A VAT doesn't tax businesses. A corporation like Amazon will only benefit from the $3t being spent. It'll make them extra tens of billions a year. That would make Bezos extra billions a year. He'd then have to personally spend tens of billions on goods and services with a VAT to pay in more than he makes. Yang's VAT/UBI scheme will have money funneling to the top handful of people even faster than it is now.
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  6851.  @breakupgoogle4584  The FTV folks were the ones sitting back and waiting, this past election, as far as I can tell. They had a list of names of members of congress that wouldn't sign onto M4A. Where were the 100+ viable progressive candidates they have lying around? Where was all the pressure? Where were all the protests?
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  6852.  @stevenkalavity9879  Hard to believe, or you'd know Facebook's algorithm was found to be right leaning, and that Twitter has also banned numerous leftists, or you should know, and wouldn't be going on about just Trump. People have been having their memberships revoked since the dawn of memberships. People have been removed from other people's private property since the dawn of private property. You're spouting nonsense. If you want free speech, argue for public ownership, like a proper leftist.
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  6853.  @stevenkalavity9879  They don't need any major legal aptitude. It's their private property. It's them handing out memberships to their private club. If they don't want you on their private property, don't want you in their private club, then you can't be on it, or in it. Costco cancels memberships, if you harass their employees. A golf club would revoke Trump's membership if he walked into the ladies dressing room too many times. So what? He just proved he could setup his own website, and continue to blather his bullshit, exercising his free speech. Absolutely nothing about free speech gives you a right to a specific audience. You don't have a right to have every letter to the editor printed in the paper. You don't have a right to a book deal. And, you don't have a right to a Twitter membership. How does "exactly" mesh with you going on about imbalance, and a bias in one direction?
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  6854.  @stevenkalavity9879  Whether a virus was natural or man-made is totally irrelevant to how pathetically some countries responded. All countries started out with the same information, and some responded very well. And there was no actual evidence, and still isn't. Just a possibility. Nobody died from a lack of speculating it was man-made. So what if my newsstand doesn't want to carry your newspaper anymore? There's no guaranteed right for you to sell your crap, or peddle information, through someone else's business, or on their private property. It isn't public property. If you want rights on social media, argue for public ownership. They also weren't providing verifiable evidence about Hunter Biden, making it look like they were the ones trying to influence an election. Hunter travelled across the country, dropped off multiple laptops, to a blind repair man, who can't identify him and took zero personal information to contact him ... just take our word for it. Sounds nonsensical. Tucker was going to provide evidence, it supposedly disappeared, he supposedly got it back, and then he never presented it. Seriously, if you think losing your Twitter account amounts to losing your free speech, then you have an addiction problem. They can only control what's on their private property, which has always been the case for private property.
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  6855.  @stevenkalavity9879  It's a "point of view" that matches the reality of history. It's just a fact that you don't have, and never have had, a right to be on someone else's private property. Which means you don't have a right to be on their private property spewing whatever you want.
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  6856.  @stevenkalavity9879  Again, it was designed based upon previous supreme court rulings. Don't have to be a scotus to know how they have ruled in the past. And, I definitely don't need to be a scotus to know there have been countless people removed from private property in history, countless people who have had memberships revoked in history, or to know the simple fact that they can pull the plug on the servers they own and close up shop if they want, or start charging people a fee if they want. All of which are clear indicators that you don't have, and never had, a right to be on their private property.
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  6857.  @whyamimrpink78  Rofl, what a load of crap. Bernie hasn't pushed for anything more than what's going on in other developed countries. And, just so you know, you're a moron who doesn't recognize that Venezuela is a mixed economy, like almost every country on the planet. Nationalizing one freakin resource doesn't equate to outright communism or socialism. Still plenty of privately owned and operated companies in Venezuela.
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  6858.  @ethandemille2585  No. The problem was that Hillary didn't appeal to independent swing voters. Bernie is more popular with them. Solid Democrats would still vote for Bernie, if he was the Democratic nominee. If you don't pick the candidate that's most popular with independents, this time, you'll lose again.
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  6859.  @bherber  That'd be the same mistake as last time. Bernie is more popular with independents, the swing voters. The Democrats will still vote for Bernie, if he's the nominee. He's second choice of most Biden supporters. However, Biden would get less independent support.
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  6860. ​ @ashleyshiba8380  Not much better? Only something like 14% of Canadians polled would have voted for Trump, and 72% Biden, in 2020, if they could. Canada is like 2/3 less crazy.
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  6861.  @leadbreastplate7496  Are you done blathering nonsense? Fascists are right wingers. Sure, they're very much akin to fascists, which exactly makes them not socialists. Making out like they're both is an oxymoron.
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  6862.  @aliamjon2550  The vast majority of abortions take place when there's no consciousness or pain. So, you're good with that, or are you anti-science?
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  6863.  @aliamjon2550  "Some" = the vast majority. And of the remaining late term, they're almost entirely done for medical reasons, not for birth control.
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  6864.  @justingaines207  The question was about fascists, not the average conservative. Do the millions of Republicans, and the majority of Republican politicians, that wanted to overthrow the democratic process to keep an unelected ruler in power, represent "average conservatives"?
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  6865. Secretary of Transportation (Pete taking that I think), and one sister in law on the board of the bank of China, and another sister in law running the family's multi million dollar company that takes loans from, and buys ships from, the Chinese government ... but, but, but Hunter Biden!!
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  6866.  @dinospumoni5611  Hedonism is about feelings (subjectivity). Utilitarianism has a subjective goal. Saying it's an objective fact that the gap needs to be filled with subjectivity (hedonism and utilitarianism), is agreeing with Hume, who said the gap can't seem to be filled with objectivity and can only be filled with subjectivity. Your argument makes no sense.
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  6867. What's in their strategy pamphlet is to pressure enough house members to support having a vote, not threatening to paralyze the house.
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  6868.  @vytalman  It has to do with that, mixed with ditching elected politicians, ditching "political drama".
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  6869.  @mensspace9519  Let's say there's a 50% efficacy vaccine. It has been given to a high risk person. That 50% applies when they're in direct contact with a virus carrier. For every additional vaccinated person you add, between the high risk person and the carrier, you increase the protection another 50%. 1 person = 75%. 2 people = 87.5%. 3 people = 93.75%. Etc. Even if you're not personally high risk, you're helping to add an additional line of protection, by being vaccinated. That's the whole point of trying to achieve herd immunity. Vaccines aren't just about the individual vaccinated.
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  6870. Bullshit. AOC just backed Bernie and his M4A and helped get more pro-M4A progressives elected to congress. Jimmy promoted Tulsi, and her "Medicare choice" (public option) and didn't give two craps if that would possibly peel votes away from the more viable candidate, with the better healthcare plan, and help Biden win. Dore is the poser.
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  6871.  @andrefasset3266  The present is Dore slandering people who just helped add more yes votes to congress, while he's going for yet another third party that won't even win a seat in congress in the next 50 years, let alone get anyone healthcare.
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  6872. ​ @whyamimrpink78  Like, when Hillary was running, right? Republicans must be communists too.
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  6873.  @deep-n-yo-mind5061  It's just a fact that there will be more people spending their extra money on Amazon. Didn't say anyone had to. The tax would be on those buying the data, not those selling. Google wouldn't be taxed a cent.
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  6874.  @deep-n-yo-mind5061  You're the one spouting the hypotheticals. I've been paying a VAT for almost 30 years, and have operated a business with a VAT. Any random UBI isn't the same as Yang's UBI plan, which involves not actually taxing giant tech companies, at all, and throwing your hands up in the air and pretending like there's zero way to close tax loopholes, or actually tax them directly. If things are going to be automated, more demand will simply require a supply of more automation, and not create any human jobs, leaving millions trying to live on $12k a month, while those giant corporations get richer and richer.
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  6875.  @JSon-yl1ty  If the rest of the Jews in the world decided that they wanted to return to the land, but didn't want to be part of Israel and wanted to create there own nation, would Israelis give up half of Israel?
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  6876.  @gaulishrealist  Zionism wasn't part of trying to create Israel? Was the US involved in colonialism, before it became the US, or do colonial times no longer count as part of its history?
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  6877.  @sevienhook1612  Multiple people convicted of seditious conspiracy. Trump incited them. The 14th said "insurrection or rebellion", and sedition falls in there. Zero Confederates had to be charged and proved guilty in a court of law. 8 tried to challenge their ineligibility, but lost. He's simply ineligible, just like age, birthplace, residency, and term limits (created by Republicans after FDR kicked their asses 4 times in a row).
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  6878. ​ @daughterofbob-d5r  The electoral college wasn't inherently designed to be so unrepresentative. It was the Permanent Apportionment Act of 1929, that fixed the number of seats in congress, which fixes the number of electorals. It would actually be easier to simply redo apportionment, so it is representative of the population, than amend the constitution. The senate is inherently the least democratic part of the system. Under 600k people getting the same number of votes as 40m people.
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  6879.  @richardyoung5293  Good thing, because it's no longer considered one. Keep aiming for it to be downgraded to a developing country. You're right on track. https://fortune.com/2017/01/25/us-democracy-downgrade/
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  6880.  @quedizzle7378  Which party officials has Sanders been buying?
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  6881.  @grgoblin  Disney didn't buy FOX News. It's still owned by Murdoch.
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  6882.  @dr.wolfstar1765  Boycotts are generally used as pressure to get whoever, or whatever, you're boycotting to stop doing what you don't want them to do, like occupy Palestinian territories, or whatnot.
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  6883.  @dr.wolfstar1765  You just made out like it was a minority vs majority issue. Methodology? So, was force cancelling slavery and segregation, wrong? Was denazification wrong? Wasn't boycotting S Africa an attempt to cancel apartheid? Isn't BDS an attempt to cancel occupying Palestinian territories? People try to get rid of things they don't like. It's human nature. The whats and whys are the issue.
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  6884.  @grgoblin  Nope. They separated out FOX News, and some other things, which are still owned by the FOX Corporation, which is owned by Murdoch.
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  6885.  @purklepanda5574  That guy's public statements, and dislike for conservatives, date back to 2012. He was someone who hated conservatives, that became a Bernie supporter. Bernie didn't incite him to hate conservatives. And, what's complete misinformation about saying Republicans healthcare plan is to let people die, when that's exactly what the status quo allows to happen, and they have no plan to change things ... for the better (they did plan to boot 10m of the poorest Americans off of Medicaid expansion)? Trump started a months long propaganda campaign, starting even before election night, with constant, almost daily, bullshit. Those who stormed the capitol didn't all already believe the election would be rigged. He convinced them that it would be, and was ... which is entirely bullshit.
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  6886. I don't think Sweden is doing enough testing to make this sustainable.
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  6887.  @dollywhitley3314  Nope. The biggest coward is the "pro" basketball player who never plays other professionals. The biggest, by far.
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  6888.  @zmiller1840  The coward is the "pro" who only ever debates amateurs, yes. What's hard to grasp about that?
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  6889. His argument is contradictory. To be moving towards having more rights and protections means moving away from having fewer rights and protections. That point of limiting people's rights, discriminating against them, etc., would have been the start of the battle. DeSantis and Republicans are trying to turn back the dial.
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  6890. What's relevant is whether Nazis considered Jewish people a race, and they literally made the Nuremberg Laws stating they were.
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  6891.  @handofgod9386  What lying? He's got the best following and turnout of Dem candidates. Trump's turnout is irrelevant, atm. He, bar any major mishaps or impeachment, has already won the Republican primary. Support isn't split amongst multiple candidates.
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  6892. The part that usually takes years is developing the vaccine using the old method, not the approval process. This method is simply quicker. The approval process won't be all that different.
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  6893. If his client says Rudy wasn't acting on his behalf, then Rudy shouldn't be able to claim attorney client privilege.
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  6894.  @zenbear9952  They were definitely corrupted, but taking a revolution style approach is supposed to go through a phase of dictatorship, and state owned is a form of "socialized". They just never gave up the dictatorship.
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  6895.  @JustMike2791  Kindergarten teaches sharing is caring. Advertisers teach consumerism. Some parents teach sharing is theft and caring is weak.
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  6896.  @georgeb.wolffsohn30  Cruz didn't have to go through naturalization.
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  6897.  @FreedomFox1  I've mostly just seen right wingers use Dore nonsense to bash progressive politicians and other progressive channels, without having actually changed their minds on any policies. What policies have you changed your mind about?
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  6898.  @FreedomFox1  Which social welfare policies, in particular, are you now in favor of? He seems to have convinced you to redefine "blackmail" with him. Didn't Jimmy just attack Kyle personally? Hasn't he attacked numerous people personally over tactics disagreements?
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  6899. They can't even math correctly. -$2 (amount consumer paid in) + $2 (amount government received) = $0 (amount businesses paid in) https://images.app.goo.gl/FmZbfsYJZ1NubS6e6
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  6900. He, and Jones, went on whining and crying about it, over and over, in multiple tweets and videos. Stop spreading your bullshit. They had a meltdown.
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  6901. Rofl, Jones is in a perpetual state of psychological and emotional meltdown. He's looney tunes, man. Get a grip on reality, yourself.
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  6902.  @jimohara  The constitution largely leaves voting procedures up to the states. He's not going to win, unless he finds the widespread fraud he's claiming took place, which he has no evidence of.
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  6903.  @gabedude68  The Mueller investigation only didn't charge Jr and Kushner, because they didn't think they could prove the two "willfully" broke the law (ie couldn't prove they weren't ignorant morons), when they met with Russians. It didn't conclude they didn't break the law.
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  6904.  @Adrian-pp6qy  So you're intentionally stupid?
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  6905. The economy collapsed under Bush, last time, and is collapsing now, under Trump. In what reality are the Republicans, or Trumps, anti-Wall Street?
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  6906. He told everyone what he actually was ... “The line I’ve always used is, I would be a Republican if they would. Which means that I like the Barry Goldwater Republican Party, even the Reagan Republican Party. I want a mean old man to watch my money… government is a sieve that takes as much money as it can and gives it away, usually needlessly,” https://www.politico.com/story/2012/03/10-little-known-facts-about-bill-maher-074107
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  6907. Although it's called Medicare, it's more comparable to the US' Medicaid, so Medicaid for all.
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  6908.  @DobeMom  Canada's healthcare system is actually numerous systems, run by individual provinces, with the federal and provincial governments each paying in. That's more like the US Medicaid system, rather their Medicare system.
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  6909. How about fact checking whether a UN investigation, that didn't start until after the US and others were already bombing Syria, that didn't assign blame as per Russian security council demands, and who's final report didn't even come out until almost a year after, had anything to do with anyone's decision to bomb Syria.
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  6910.  @nedim_guitar  Yep, that was in a letter to his son. That was the "moderate" Znsts, approving an earlier proposed plan to ethnclly clns some 200k Plstnns, and expand later.
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  6911.  @shadebleu  Okay, I'll take the half with the coastline.
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  6912.  @woobiefuntime  No, they didn't. "There is a broad consensus among scholars that these originated as a single work (the so-called "Deuteronomistic History") during the Babylonian exile of the 6th century BC."
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  6913.  @woobiefuntime  The split was way later ... "The emergence of a distinctive Samaritan identity, the outcome of a mutual estrangement between them and Jews, was something that developed over several centuries. Generally, a decisive rupture is believed to have taken place in the Hasmonean period."
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  6914.  @ryanhubbard1885  Dimwit, it had an accompanying press release. They classified it as a freaking homicide, ffs. Cause of death: Cardiopulmonary arrest complicating law enforcement subdual, restraint, and neck compression Manner of death: Homicide How injury occurred: Decedent experienced a cardiopulmonary arrest while being restrained by law enforcement officer(s)
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  6915.  @ryanhubbard1885  It's a statement from the exact same medical examiner's office, to the press, ffs, regarding their conclusion. It's not a political statement, unless you think that exact same medical examiner that you're citing yourself, is political, and untrustworthy. They classified it a homicide. That's just a fact. Even FOX News reported on the fact that they classified it a homicide. Saying otherwise is a lie.
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  6916.  @ryanhubbard1885  Dimwit. Culpability or intent is irrelevant to whether it's a "homicide", or not. Even a "justifiable homicide" is still a "homicide". You know what a "homicide" isn't, though? A drug overdose.
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  6917.  @ryanhubbard1885  Rofl.
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  6918.  @sgtnutterbutter144  I'm thinking you have rabies. There's something wrong with your brain.
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  6919. Who said it's "only" a horse medication? US doctors aren't prescribing the human version to those with covid. Dumb people are buying, and taking, the over the counter horse dewormer. Peru used ivermectin the most, and has the most covid deaths per capita in the world.
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  6920.  @adlucem9845  Because reality is that if you don't vote for the Dem, the Republican will win. If you don't think trying to toss 10m of the poorest Americans off of Medicaid expansion is worse than adding 40m older Americans to Medicare expansion, then I don't know what to say. Reality is that the most popular third party hasn't won a single seat in congress in its near 50 year existence. Reality is that, "best" case, the third party is popular enough to peel away enough progressive votes to completely hand back the Dem party to corporate Dems, and let Republicans rule for decades.
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  6921.  @haywoodjablowme4945  You should read a book instead of looking at pictures. It doesn't start having actual thoughts and feelings, until about 30 weeks, no matter what it looks like.
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  6922.  @hockeydad6211  They were outside, dimwit. Keep moving the goalpost away from your original moronic "point".
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  6923.  @hockeydad6211  She went to visit her mother, dimwit. You can both go visit your mother and still think Florida's covid response sucks. There's nothing contradictory, or hypocritical, about it.
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  6924.  @TenaciousTheSketcher  Then there was no point to it other than as a political stunt, or to release it just before primaries started.
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  6925.  @StrangerHappened  No. He literally made out like Shaun was CIA funded.
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  6926.  @StrangerHappened  No. He literally said "they funded that hit job on me", dimwit.
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  6927.  @StrangerHappened  He literally said "they funded that hit job on me", dimwit.
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  6928.  @afridgetoofar1818  A grifter, like a snake oil salesmen, claims to be selling you something beneficial, but they're actually selling you something completely useless, or even harmful. So, for example, Dore sells himself as being for M4A, but the directions he proposes going actually get you nothing, or something worse. He promoted Trump (platform: toss 10m of the poorest Americans off of Medicaid expansion) as the better option than Clinton (platform: add 40m older Americans to Medicare expansion) ... which is something worse. He promoted Tulsi (public option) over Bernie (M4A) ... outright campaigning against the M4A candidate. He promotes the third party route, that hasn't won the most popular third party a single seat in congress in its near 50 year existence ... which gets you nothing, or, if you do manage to persuade just enough voters away from progressives, hands the Dem party totally back to corporate Dems, and let's Republicans rule for decades to come, which is worse. Adding M4A yes votes to congress (as Justice Dems and AOC have done) is the only possible way to ever pass the bill ... Dore using a lack of support for a performance art vote, that doesn't actually get you any closer to getting M4A, to slander those who have done more for M4A in a few years than he has in his entire lifetime, is counterproductive. While AOC and Bernie were campaigning, teying to add another M4A yes vote to congress, in Nina Turner, and promoting M4A while they were doing it, Dore slandered them as having abandoned M4A, meanwhile Dore publicly abandoned Nina and promoted never voting for someone running as a Dem ever again ... it was him that abandoning adding another M4A yes votes to congress, which is counterproductive. He, and Blumenthal, have spread bullshit about the UK healthcare system, which is a completely socialized healthcare system, even more left than M4A, regarding vaccines ... counterproductive. That goes along with him spreading doubt and misinformation about vaccines in the US, which is government negotiated prices for freely distributed vaccines, a tiny sliver of what universal healthcare is like, and Dore peddles unproven, privately paid for, alternative remedies and prevention ... counterproductive. In what reality, outside him simply mouthing words, as grifters do, is there any indication he actually wants to achieve M4A?
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  6929.  @isaiahdryg5010  Lol, the economy has been on the same trajectory since about 2009. All he has done is increase the deficit with tax cuts for the rich, and shock the stock market a few times with tariffs.
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  6930. I don't get what happened to her holding back the impeachment until she was guaranteed witnesses and evidence. Instead, she ended up bending over, right before primary voting started.
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  6931. A bunch of Cubans are descendants from fascist Batista supporters. A bunch of Venezuelans supported fascist coup attempts on democratically elected Chavez, supported US intervention, and helped push the current Venezuelan government to be more authoritarian. They're perfectly fine with Trump's behaviour.
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  6932.  @MichaelAChristian1  Man you're dim witted. There are millions of voters who switched, dumb dumb. Republicans weren't going after racist Democratic politicians to bring them to their party, they went after racist voters, with their own racist politicians, to bring them over. There were more Republicans elected between the 1964 vote and the 1968 vote. Those elected in racist areas were still racist. I was right. You worship a baby murderer. Hypocrite.
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  6933. If a knife or bat is just as lethal as a gun, then I guess you don't really need a gun, to fight criminals or for your fantasy fight against the government, or whatnot.
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  6934. In 1923, Ze'ev Jabotinsky fully acknowledged that Zionism is colonialism. He also predicted, based on the entirety of history, that the natives would fight it until the bitter end. Colonialists are never not the aggressors. You don't get to do colonialism because a fairy tale book says so.
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  6935.  @neon-kitty  Having a progressive on the show doesn't make it a progressive show. Stopped watching before the cast switch. There was less debate on Rising than there was on Crossfire or Hannity and Combes. Saagar, who's supposedly an anti-Trump conservative, regularly softened just how bad Trump is, making it seem like Trump is just a little over the top and not a batshit crazy fascist. Likewise, for Trump's cult, who he made out like they were just being a little silly. And, I don't recall him ever leading Republicans down a path towards not voting for Trump. Krystal, on the other hand, was really trashing Biden (Trump's only remaining viable opponent) and telling progressives that they don't owe Biden their vote. What's the overall message, if it says Trump isn't all that bad, Biden is bad, don't stop voting Republican, but possibly stop voting Democrat? Or, even in the primaries, with the repeated fawning over Yang (who would have had money flowing to the very top faster than ever before, because he's completely ignorant, or completely dishonest, as to how a VAT actually works) ... Bernie had a really tough fight in 2016, and lost. That was running as the only progressive, and getting all the progressive votes. Going into the 2020 primaries, everyone should have known that every single vote taken away from him would be extremely important, and likely help produce another progressive loss. But, people still peddled multiple other "progressives". That kind of stuff is all simply a math problem. If you're taking a vote away from the most competitive progressive, then you're lowering his odds of winning, which lowers the odds of a progressive winning, at all. I started feeling like Krystal and Saagar were a gateway down a path that ends with Dore and a Boogaloo, and their comment section was reflecting that more and more. Kim Iverson went batshit crazy during covid. To normalize her is insane. Her moronic, look how great Sweden is doing (regularly the worst country in Europe, at the time), covid will end with warm weather, and generally shitty covid attitude is likely what killed one of her own staff, but she powered on.
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  6936. @@JohnLith-yl4qt Lol@"journalist"
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  6937.  @rabbitsforyang8273  Hey, dumb dumb, I'm simply pointing out the fact that a VAT doesn't do what Yang claims it does. He even linked to a study that completely debunked what he said it does. He just didn't grasp it. Nothing you can say, denying reality, won't ever change that fact. I've also commented on other topics, when they come up again, and again, for years, on channels I'm subscribed to. Do you not do that, or do you just hunt down Yang videos, all over YouTube, like a cultist?
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  6938.  @MorganRisch  It's right on Yang's still existing VAT page. I'm a Canadian who has been paying a VAT for 30 years as a consumer, and owned a VAT registered business and filled out VAT returns for years, as well. The study shows a near 100% pass through for standard rated (20%) goods and services. It was only by adding lesser rated (8%) and zero rated (0%) goods and services that the pass through rate dropped. Yang mistakenly took that to mean that businesses were paying half or more of the VAT, when it actually meant there was no tax, or less tax, on half or more of the sales.
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  6939. Yang can't do math though. He completely failed to grasp how a VAT actually works, who it actually taxes.
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  6940.  @hostronic  Yes, and it's not even round about. It's very straight forwardly designed for the entire VAT to be paid for by the final consumer. Every VAT registered business in the chain gets to recoup their input VAT, and ends up not paying anything. While Yang was claiming a VAT would tax corporations like Amazon, Amazon had its own European webpage with tutorials on how a VAT doesn't end up being a tax on businesses.
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  6941.  @kylequest  How is pointing out one of your politicians is clueless about something, wasting your time? You'd rather remain cultishly blind, and spew nonsense, than hear the truth?
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  6942.  @kylequest  So, yes, you'd rather spout nonsense. That a VAT is specifically designed to NOT tax businesses in order to avoid double taxation is just a fact. That Yang didn't grasp that is just a fact. If you want politicians willing to enact policies they clearly don't grasp, all the power to you.
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  6943. The camera shouldn't have to zoom in to see numbers on a ticket. The timestamp should just have to match the time the winning ticket was printed out, and who was standing there buying it.
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  6944. Glenn is pro Russia, though.
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  6945.  @klip8726  That's bullshit. Nazis started out supporting Zionism, to get Jews out of their country. Richard Spencer promotes Israel as a fine example of a largely ethno state, wants all the Jews to go there, and wants white folks to follow a similar path.
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  6946.  @thedukeofdukers  I tripped, and my milkshake went flying. Prove I didn't.
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  6947. How do you know it's real?
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  6948.  @aheroictaxidriver3180   Our brains, and the thoughts they produce, objectively exist. A "problem" may be subjective (based on personal feelings, biases, likes/dislikes, etc.), but our subjective thoughts objectively exist. We have instruments, that can map where objectively existing thoughts and feelings are produced in the brain. There's no magic, or spirits ... no "mystical" gobbledygook ... needed. Everything that's subjectivity based isn't "mystical". People's values objectively exist ... what they value is subjective ... and, if they aren't appealing to magic and spirits, or whatnot, then there's nothing "mystical" about it. But, I get how you might think that that brain of yours having a thought is pure magic.
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  6949.  @aheroictaxidriver3180  Rofl. You think that the existence of thoughts is a subjective opinion?
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  6950.  @isasooner5  Yes, Islamic scholars used the geocentric model. You know the geocentric model is wrong, don't you?
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  6951.  @isasooner5  Nope. Islamic scholars kept teaching the geocentric model, although they greatly improved the math.
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  6952.  @isasooner5  That's nice. I assume you failed the class.
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  6953.  @isasooner5  I addressed your claim about the geocentric model, which you were originally correct about. If the interpretation you're claiming is true, then why did the Muslim scholars ignore this supposed breakthrough for centuries? Copernicus used the much improved math of Ibn al-Shatir, but al-Shatir's model was geocentric.
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  6954. Or just take the day off and f*ckin pay someone to do it for you. $15/hr, 8hrs per month, is $1440 a year out of the $400k.
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  6955.  @brusher79  No. The hospitalization rate he's starting with is based on the total population. The only comparable "death rate" would be the total population mortality rate.
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  6956.  @brusher79  If your starting hospitalization numbers are based on the total population, then you want to compare it to the crude mortality rate, not case fatality rate, not infection fatality rate ... Case fatality rate (CFR): The CFR is easy to calculate. You take the number of people who have died from the disease, and you divide it by the total number of people diagnosed with the disease. So if 10 people have died, and 100 people have been diagnosed with the disease, the CFR is [10 / 100], or 10%. Crude mortality rate The crude mortality rate – sometimes also called the crude death rate – measures the share among the entire population that have died from a particular disease. It’s calculated by dividing the number of deaths from the disease by the total population. For instance, if there were 10 deaths in a population of 1,000, the crude mortality rate would be [10 / 1,000], or 1%. Infection fatality rate (IFR) The IFR is the number of deaths from a disease divided by the total number of cases. If 10 people die of the disease, and 500 actually have it, then the IFR is [10 / 500], or 2%.
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  6957. A government can violate your free speech. Meanwhile, there's no such thing as "free speech" on someone else's private property. So, how are they the same?
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  6958.  @HeadcheeseSmoothie  Ummm, no. Jimmy relies on strawmen, slander, and bullshit. Jimmy is worse than Alex Jones. Alex Jones actually benefits the right wing agenda. Jimmy also benefits the right wing agenda, so he's not even a good Alex Jones for the left.
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  6959.  @Aj-zr8dz  How the hell can you get a different Dem caucus pick for speaker without the majority, when it's chosen by majority?
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  6960.  @Aj-zr8dz  The corporate Dem majority is more likely to pick someone worse, rather than someone more progressive. Even Glenn Greenwald agreed with keeping Pelosi if the alternative is someone like Tim Ryan. How do progressives get someone more progressive, without the majority?
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  6961. OMG, they cancelled the Dixie?!!!
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  6962.  @weneedcriticalthinking  No. Bernie endorsed the NDP. The other two endorsed the Liberals.
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  6963.  @Evirthewarrior  You seem to be doing what you accused others of ... moving the dial left, just because a government becomes more authoritarian. Even if a government forces a company to make something, but lets the company keep the profits, in what reality is that socialism? No changes in classes, and an end to the class struggle. No worker control. No wealth redistribution. You just seem to be equating "state" to "socialism", and therefore it can't possibly be authoritarian state capitalism. Fascists were leaders in privatization ... http://www.ub.edu/graap/bel_Italy_fascist.pdf https://daily.jstor.org/the-roots-of-privatization/ Fascism isn't even trying to be socialism, at all, let alone some perfect version of it ... "Fascism is therefore opposed to Socialism to which unity within the State (which amalgamates classes into a single economic and ethical reality) is unknown, and which sees in history nothing but the class struggle." "Such a conception of life makes Fascism the resolute negation of the doctrine underlying so-called scientific and Marxian socialism, the doctrine of historic materialism which would explain the history of mankind in terms of the class struggle and by changes in the processes and instruments of production, to the exclusion of all else."
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  6964.  @w33blord66  Whoah, there. German cuisine is German culture. What the fuck does it have to do with Russians, or Spaniards, or any other white people? Kilts are Celtic culture. What the fuck do kilts have to do with Poles or Greeks, or any other white people? Etc. Give an example of "white culture".
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  6965. What bugged me most about the movie was that they went into detail about why you couldn't just kill baby Thanos, because it would create an alternate timeline, and then they spent all kinds of time on creating at least 3 alternate timelines: one where two Captain Americas exist instead of just one; one where Loki disappears with the tesseract; and one where Thanos just disappears, because he jumped into the future and died, before ever gathering all the stones.
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  6966. Not "5% more deadly", CNN lady. A 5% vs a 1% death rate would be 5x (500%) more deadly.
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  6967. Rofl. There are hundreds of accounts of Syrian chemical weapons use. Aaron's Syrian "scandal" article could have been written from anywhere in the world, using Wikipedia. Except, he left out that there have been hundreds of witnesses of chemical attacks since 2013, dozens of investigators, independent investigators, legal rights investigations, all to rely on 2 "investigators" (one wasn't actually an official investigator, and one never left home base because he didn't finish training), that weren't even involved in the last 7 months of the investigation ... of a single site.
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  6968.  @smartass0124  So, not a widespread rigged software conspiracy? Not sure that helps your argument. And, it's a largely pro Trump county, making the odds that workers are Republicans.
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  6969.  @michaeljoyner2052  Either you don't have the choice to be evil in Heaven, or you do and it's not all good and perfect. If it's okay to spend an eternity with no choice to do evil, then why bother creating evil, in the first place? You're incoherent.
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  6970.  @michaeljoyner2052  If God knew he'd have to wipe out the entire planet with a flood, and start again with Earth 2.0, why didn't he just start with Noah, instead of Adam, in the first place?
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  6971.  @michaeljoyner2052  Didn't answer my question. Do you have reading comprehension problems? An all knowing "god" would know what was going to happen, wouldn't it? Why not just skip Earth 1.0 and start with Earth 2.0?
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  6972.  @T_____1660  A Liberal minority still requires them getting more votes than the Conservatives. And, yes, Conservatives, like a Ford, are worse. You basically just said so, yourself. Anyone claiming they are both going to balance the budget and cut a bunch of taxes, including for the rich and corporations, is bad news. Singh just doesn't seem to have the following to be able to win in a month.
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  6973.  @thelastdisciple  Yeah, the NDP have lost a lot of traction, since Layton. I like Singh, but the NDP have taken the negative campaigning approach, rather than a positive one. I think it's only helping the Conservatives.
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  6974.  @leeannemillard8263  If your supreme leader has convinced you not to believe any media, any courts, any election officials, any politicians (even Republican ones), even convinced you not to believe your own lying eyes, if any of them disagree with what supreme leader says, then you're in a cult.
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  6975. Moron. The El Paso guy spelled out that it was politically motivated. The Dayton guy didn't spell anything out. Does his target indicate it was politically motivated? Did he shoot up a large corporation? No. Did he shoot up a right wing rally? No. Nothing.
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  6976. So open, his brain dropped out.
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  6977. Countries like S Korea and others that have flattened their curve, and confirmed cases is close to total cases, as well as the cruise ship which provided us with a control group where total cases and confirmed cases was exactly the same, indicate a mortality rate of about 1-2%. That's about 10x the flu's .1-.2% mortality rate. Going by number of deaths, the US likely has 4-8m infected, millions more than they've found so far.
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  6978.  @gabrielarcari72  Convert or replace the 300 odd house members who won't even sign onto it. Whip out the extra 100+ viable pro-M4A candidates that, for some reason, didn't run in the elections that just took place. Pelosi even introduced M4A last session, where it died in committees, where 90% of bills die. Where was the massive uprising?
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  6979.  @gabrielarcari72  Where did you get that bullshit from? https://justfacts.votesmart.org/candidate/key-votes/180416/alexandria-ocasio-cortez/22/defense
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  6980.  @TheStockwell  So sorry to hear about your difficulty with reading. Keep practicing. It'll become easier.
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  6981.  @northwestnightmaresenterta9917  Yes, their coalition allies are also horrible.
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  6982.  @iandrackert7838  Actually have corporations pay for a UBI. A VAT doesn't do that.
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  6983.  @lucboy13  You mean the guy who was let go by Pfizer years before covid and the vaccine came along, so whose leaving has absolutely nothing to do with covid and the vaccine? The guy who originally said covid wasn't going away until we got a vaccine? The guy who originally told anti-vaxxers not to hinder others taking the vaccine? The guy who then totally flipped and said the virus would magically go away and that there wouldn't be more than 40k covid deaths in the UK (there's now 134k)? The guy who declared the pandemic over in September?
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  6984. There was also the 1980 boycott.
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  6985.  @Xpistos510  The basic VAT formula for a business is ... x = input VAT (collected on sales) y = output VAT (paid on expenses) x - y = z If z > 0, the business repays itself for y from the x it collected, and sends z to the government. It has paid 0 in the end. If z < 0, the business keeps all of x it collected, and gets a refund for z from the government. It has paid 0 in the end. It is only the final consumer that doesn't get paid back, so ends up paying the entire VAT. Paying the businesses back is based on the basic principle that, if you leave it as a cost, they'll include it in their price anyway, and then the next stage would end up paying taxes on taxes. You find that in some places where businesses don't get a sales tax exemption. They'll pay sales tax on an expense, add that sales tax they paid into their own sale price, and then a portion of the sales tax on their sale is a tax upon a tax. After multiple stages, you get cascading taxes upon taxes upon taxes... So, even if Yang didn't use the VAT formula, and did use a sales tax, attempting to tax businesses, it would actually end up being even worse. Consumption taxes aren't the way to go, to attempt to tax businesses. So, then you get Yang cultists, like SR, arguing price elasticity, or whatnot, claiming that, even though the VAT might not directly tax businesses, businesses will adjust their pre tax prices down, effectively eating some of the tax, paying some indirectly. But, Yang's own linked to pass through rate study totally debunks that argument. If you actually read it, it shows an almost 100% pass through on standard rated (20% VAT) goods and services. It was only by including lesser rated (8% VAT), and zero rated (0% VAT), goods and services, that the overall pass through rate dropped to around 50%. Yang mistakenly took that to mean that businesses were paying half the tax, when it actually means that there was less tax, or no tax, on most of the sales (the zero rated category is for staples, the necessities that people buy most), and that consumers were paying the entire tax, on what was taxed. The lesser rated category even showed that not only did businesses mark up their price to include the entire 8% VAT, but they marked it up even a bit more, for a little added profit.
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  6986. ​ @paradisepipeco  Yay, Ben stood up for colonialism, ethnic cleansing, occupation, the operation of an open air WWII style fascist ghetto, and flattening it after an uprising. So brave.
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  6987. ​ @Jettplayzgames  That would be the year they start the job.
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  6988. Then they should go off and be individuals, where they can't spread the virus around to others.
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  6989.  @vertigo0331  Governments of the people, for the people, were formed to protect the masses from rich private property owners who had a monopoly on land. A Libertarian government, that is going to protect rich landowners, giant corporations, and the like, is kind of pointless. Might as well just let them rule, directly.
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  6990.  I only use this account when I get put in time out  No, dimwit. Trump talks border crossers, and then makes it sound like they're mostly all major criminals, aside from the "some are good people". That's different than specifically talking about crime and criminals, without even mentioning a specific group of people.
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  6991. Nonsense. Plenty of countries have less wealth disparity, than the US, and a higher standard of living. There is a lot of room for improvement.
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  6992.  @WobiKabobi  So, why give a shit about terrorism, suicide, homicide, etc.? What's the magic number of daily global deaths that would get you caring? https://www.visualcapitalist.com/wp-content/uploads/2020/05/how-many-people-die-each-day-infographic.jpg
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  6993.  @cjohnson3836  Your state representatives represent you in the state legislature, or general assembly, at the state level. Like a governor, a mayor can ask for things, but they have no actual power when it comes to getting the thing asked for. All the power in getting the thing asked for lies with those who can give it, which are those who vote on giving it, or those who can write executive orders to give it. Explain how you think a governor can get 20k per citizen from the federal government, without the federal government agreeing.
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  6994.  @cjohnson3836  And Gretchen helped the Gary Peters campaign, and helped the Biden campaign. Each won Michigan. How is she responsible for Republicans holding onto the senate, for now?
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  6995.  @sps000111  What the hell are you blathering about? What S Korea and Japan consider bad, and freak out about, is not at all anywhere close to what idiots like you consider perfectly acceptable. Their covid death rates would translate to under 20k US covid deaths, total. If Japan is a mess, then the US response was a complete and utter disaster. Aside from them and New Zealand, there's also Vietnam and Australia that had very good results. All but Japan had very high testing rates, quickly testing dozens to hundreds of people per confirmed case. The US, UK, France, Spain, and Italy, were all testing at pathetically low rates, under 10 people per confirmed case, for many months, allowing the virus to spread.
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  6996.  @sps000111  You seem to have entirely ignored emergency powers as a part of the rule of law, as is martial law. Oh, preserving the liberty to spread disease and death. Such a noble endeavor. You're insane.
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  6997.  @sps000111  Go cry about the government making you wear clothes, or something equally stupid.
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  6998. It's not good that Amy endorsed Biden. That means her delegates are expected to go to him. If Pete endorses him, that'll be even worse.
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  6999.  @BGMofo  At least the old Zionists were honest. https://www.jewishvirtuallibrary.org/quot-the-iron-wall-quot
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  7000.  @BGMofo  You know, the terrorist group that was later led by Begin, and bombed the King David hotel, amongst their other terrorist acts. Begin, who became Prime Minister.
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  7001. ​ @hamid30nbl  As long as MAGA keeps their current percent of support, and US elections are done the way they are, promoting third parties just helps MAGA.
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  7002. How does an exec and VP of the Trump Organization not benefit from tax payer funded stays at Trump properties? How does an exec in some Ukraine company benefit from tax payer funding?
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  7003.  @stopfakenews8368  Judges have, literally, chastised Trump's lawyers for having no legal grounds for trying to invalidate millions of votes. They are trying to take the election without legal grounds for doing so. Judges just keep catching them.
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  7004.  @loverainthunder  You go ahead. I'd much prefer to hear the Dore knob strawman, or false equivalency, straight from you.
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  7005.  @loverainthunder  You can't both "educate yourself" and be a Dore knob, at the same time. The guy just spit out another covid misinformation video, where he moronically compares case fatality rate (fatalities per confirmed case) to population hospitalization rate (hospitalizations per the total vaccinated and unvaccinated populations). He used that false equivalency to promote misinformation, that covid deaths are being greatly inflated. He is completely ignorant, or completely dishonest. Which is it? The hint you gave me is that you can't produce an instance that isn't a strawman or false equivalency.
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  7006.  @loverainthunder  Serious question ... do you have severe reading comprehension problems, or ADD? Because, I made multiple points, that weren't about Dore. But, it's like you lost attention and didn't read them, or you didn't comprehend them. Whatever the case, you didn't actually address them. Pretty obviously seems to be "can't". You can't seem to address any of my specific points. Part of my argument against Jimmy's "plan" (It did come out of Jimmy's mouth, right? So I can mention him?) was that it had no value. You still haven't explained how getting a 100% guaranteed to fail performance art vote has value. Why would you want to trade whatever little leverage you have, for that? Try starting with explaining how it has value, how it is actually "needed"?
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  7007.  @loverainthunder  Just because they didn't use what little leverage they have on the pointless performance art you wanted, doesn't mean they didn't use it. AOC got nominated as a contender for the committee seat she wanted. She lost to a vote. Even though there was talk of taking the $15 minimum out before the house vote, progressives got it to stay in, and it passed the chamber of congress they belong to. Pelosi has no power over senators. Passing the $15 in the house is more than what M4A would have gotten. M4A is 100+ votes short, in the house alone. Like I said, ftvers have proven themselves to be pathetic useless hypocrites ... proved they do absolutely nothing with lists of no voters ... proved ftv was utterly pointless. Just because they didn't publicly declare outright intra party war, doesn't mean they didn't negotiate. You're spewing generalities, and not really saying anything of substance, or addressing any specifics. I take it you're just trolling.
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  7008.  @dalekrenegade2596  Yeah, and the lack of self awareness, in these people is astounding. They're hanging on every word of a loudmouth grifter; who slanders anyone who disagrees with him, including others on his side; who sows distrust in all media, healthcare professionals, scientists, and authorities, etc., that contradict his narrative; who throws henchmen (anonymous producers) under the bus, if wrongdoing is unearthed; ... they're very much like Trumpists, even the projecting onto others, that it's you that's the sheep, and not them.
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  7009.  @loverainthunder  Won't use it ... to get a pointless performance art vote, is what was publicly said. She got exactly the same thing as the other woman you were just praising, a shot at the same seat, that was voted on. You're incoherent, at this point.
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  7010.  @loverainthunder  You both praised one woman for getting a shot at a committee seat, and criticized another woman for getting a shot at the exact same committee seat. That's incoherent. It makes zero sense. They both got exactly the same thing from Pelosi, a nomination as a candidate for the spot. And it wasn't "magic" that lost AOC the vote. A couple voters publicly stated they voted against her because she backed progressives against them in the primaries ... for fighting against them. Then you nimrods come along, and slander her, pretending she's not fighting them. She was just fighting them again, by backing Nina, by being on the ground campaigning for her, by promoting M4A, and fighting against the DNC backed candidate to try and add another M4A advocate to congress. Dore publicly abandoned Nina, and promoted never voting for anyone running as a Democrat ever again. He abandoned adding another M4A advocate to congress. He's a lying grifter, who doesn't actually care if anyone ever gets healthcare coverage. Anyone defending him doesn't care either. Thankfully, he's just a narcissist with delusions of grandeur, and only actually represents a few hundred thousand progressive voters, who vote third party.
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  7011.  @loverainthunder  This happened because the majority of voters haven't been getting out and voting to keep Republicans out of power. Republicans keep taking a step to the right and the "moderate" Dems keep meeting them in the new middle. Those "moderate" Dems need to be removed. Primaries should be the main battleground. At the same time, the majority of voters should vote to keep Republicans out of the majority in congress, and out of the presidency, so "moderate" Dems are the worst thing anyone has to worry about, instead of stark raving mad fascists. If you're promoting giving up and going third party, not voting, or something, then you're the one who wants to keep doing that same thing ... let Republicans win, and take another step to the right. Dore is actively trying to get people killed, at this moment. Countering his bullshit isn't simply a distraction.
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  7012.  @loverainthunder  She had just backed progressives in those couple of conservative districts, and they got absolutely creamed, but the conservative Dem managed to take the seat, from a Republican. I fully understand that Dore knobs ... oh, and those of you who aren't Dore knobs, but somehow spew the exact same nonsense as Dore knobs ... would prefer to lose the midterms, and hand the majority to Republicans. I get it ... "real" progressives want Republicans in power and progressives in a minority party, or an irrelevant party that's sitting on the sidelines.
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  7013.  @loverainthunder  Anyone still following Dore, at this point, is a complete and utter moron. Them being Dore knobs is just a fact.
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  7014.  @bsaforlife  Rofl. Dore is an idiot, who is wrong about most things. AOC helped add more M4A yes votes to congress, and getting enough yes votes is the only possible way to ever pass the bill. She was trying to help add another, in Nina Turner, who Dore abandoned. He abandoned adding another M4A yes vote to congress. He's a grifter, who benefits the far right more than the left.
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  7015.  @scoogsy  I haven't misunderstood a thing. I'll assume you you didn't even grasp page 1, where he sets out what he's about to argue in the book. No, I'm not talking about a different way of looking at the is-ought gap. I'm talking about the fact that Harris didn't argue there are no moral oughts and ought nots. In fact, he entirely sets out to show that science can give us answers as to how we ought or ought not behave. Yet, he uses an "analogy" to health, which doesn't include oughts or ought nots. It's a shite analogy. It's a seperate issue from his moronic belief that he bridged the gap, and his arrogant claim that Hume was a "lazy" thinker. I have zero belief that you clearly understood an entire book, when you can't seem to understand a comparatively short YouTube comment.
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  7016. It would be beyond perfect, if some obscure weather bureau law brought him down.
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  7017. That's why he showed The Hill's coverage?
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  7018.  @UssaRars  You're barking up the wrong tree. I'm pointing out the op's comment is kinda stupid, considering Kyle was showing The Hill coverage.
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  7019.  @thegheymantis8702  He convinced tens of millions of people not to believe any media, any politicians, any judges, any lawyers, any election or other governmental officials, any doctors, any nurses, any scientists ... anybody ... even not to believe their own lying eyes, if any of those contradicted him, Supreme Leader. He pulled off the most Big Brother like propaganda campaign in US history. He also convinced 28% of Republicans surveyed that he shouldn't concede to Biden, under any circumstances ... to embrace overt fascism and stay in power as an unelected ruler. And a number of those psychos actually stormed the capitol, to try and make that happen. How much more would it take for you to recognize extremism, on your own?
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  7020.  @DumbAssSpeakingWithMansVoice  Let me get this straight ... governments around the world, including those who have trouble agreeing on much of anything, doctors around the world, nurses around the world, scientists around the world, and media around the world ... are all involved in a global conspiracy to lie about vaccine effectiveness, to what end exactly?
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  7021.  @DumbAssSpeakingWithMansVoice  Nutbar.
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  7022.  @sabin97  It might have more to do with the definition of "war", and what constitutes going to war against your own citizens, or state governors.
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  7023.  @blkhemi3925  It's the holidays, and her mother lives in Florida, dimwit.
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  7024. Weird how other countries have criminals, armed with things like knives, but their police don't shoot them down at anywhere near the rate American cops do. Doesn't okaying all the police shootings just cover the fact that so many American cops are incompetent at subduing criminals?
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  7025. 😂 What do you think it says, that she's right about?
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  7026.  @ThePoliticalBulldog  Uh huh. Sounds like a people on the defensive against colonialism and ethnic cleansing, which is objective reality. Don't think that's what Roseanne was saying.
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  7027. Excellent. When does the Marxism kick in?
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  7028. Jimmy's is gone already.
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  7029.  Illhan Omars brother's wife is Illhan Omar  Tell me where the vagina is, on a car or boat, referred to as "her" or "she". Gender represents a persona, that doesn't have to match biological sex.
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  7030.  @Treetopflyer777  Do you have reading comprehension problems?
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  7031.  @Treetopflyer777  Conversations can't be had, if you can't understand what the other person just said. I, literally, had just said it's about making out that they all feel the same way, not about calling them all the same thing, and you returned to wondering what's wrong with calling them the same thing.
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  7032.  Mitt Romney stands with BLM  Right. Because nobody ever deletes their own posts.
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  7033.  Mitt Romney stands with BLM  You missed that they do still have a post in this thread. Just tag them and ask them.
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  7034. That's dumb.
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  7035.  @Midg-td3ty  But, this year, the exit polls would be as skewed as election day votes. They're almost useless.
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  7036.  @thankunext1625  Too many Democrats voted early, or by mail. This year's election day exit polls are skewed.
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  7037. Hrrrm, except a bunch of large private property owners, with their private armies, resolving their property disputes privately, is already an anarcho-capitalist environment.
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  7038. As a covid remedy?
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  7039. Sounds like Joe Pesci.
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  7040. ​ @ryanwilliams7407  The "experts" would be millions of doctors, nurses, and scientists, across the world. Having people ignore all them, to listen to one, or a handful, of meatheads, isn't "independent thought".
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  7041.  @dan91121  Pretty sure there are still some people selling some other people, to this day. And we're talking less than 200 years ago, for institutionalized, well documented, routinely studied and judged, North American slavery. When discussed, and that passage is part of your worldview, how do you judge it?
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  7042.  @bluecoffee8414  Do tell. What psychologists, psychiatrists, or doctors, suggest letting anorexics starve themselves to death, as the best course of action?
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  7043.  @bluecoffee8414  It has everything to do with your comment. Like you said, they've changed their diagnosis, and what they think is the best course of action. Do you think homosexuals should still be treated as insane, or do you accept the change in diagnosis? Do you think women should still be tossed in asylums for being opinionated, or do you accept the change in diagnosis? Do you want to go back to all medieval medical diagnoses, or do you accept changes in modern medical diagnoses? Science and medicine changes with new information. Again ... who has changed their minds about anorexia, and suggests letting them starve themselves to death?
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  7044. Odds are, because he found somewhere to easily buy a gun. Most guns used in crimes aren't stolen.
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  7045.  jfsfrnd  Totally dishonest comparison. Alaska's dividend is paid to Alaskans by corporations. A VAT is actually designed to NOT tax businesses. Businesses get to reclaim their input VAT. All UBIs aren't the same, and Yang should stop pretending they are. How they're funded is extremely important.
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  7046. Nope. It's owned by a good friend of Dumpty and Rudy.
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  7047.  @hangukhiphop  The math still doesn't hold up. There are zero extra votes to the left of progressives, if they start losing votes on the right end of the party. There is the entire Republican party to the right of conservative Dems, to try and bring in votes from, if they lose progressive votes. Bills can be passed without progressives, but not without the likes of Manchin. A standoff would most likely push a bill to the right, not the left.
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  7048.  @hangukhiphop  Corporate Dems telling AOC and the squad to get off Manchin's and Sinema's cases, already tells you which end would get the most pressure to move, in a purely interparty standoff. There are actually bills, people, and motions, being passed, confirmed, and agreed to, with Republican votes every day. They just make a big show about certain things.
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  7049. ​ @TonboIV  Take a little comfort in the fact that we still are actually a monarchy. Declaring war on us would be declaring war on the monarchy. One good thing about it.
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  7050.  @TonboIV  Yeah, not a fan either. Having to see his ugly mug on coins will suck. But, still, slightly more comforting not being a completely independent republic.
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  7051.  @mycatsaliberal3848  Bitcoin is more comparable to "limited edition" coins, sold on 3 am television commercials.
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  7052. Except the Zionists were the illegal immigrants, dimwit. However, they didn't simply move in next door (immigration), they claimed half the region for themselves, and ethnically cleansed the majority Palestinian population, supported by the British occupier (colonialism).
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  7053. No. This one was also the pro-terrorist rally. Likud was founded by Menachem Begin, terrorist leader of the Irgun, who murdered Palestinian men, women, children, and even Palestinian Jews (who didn't support Zionism). Israelis, to this day, celebrate those terrorists as "heroes". Likud's platform states there will be no Palestinian state, West of the Jordan. "Between the sea and the Jordan there will only be Israeli sovereignty."
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  7054. Because holding up a bill is totally samesies as paralyzing the house, and actually getting something included is totally samesies as a 100% guaranteed to fail show vote. Usual Dore knob false equivalencies. Dore and his knobs have already proved they were going to do nothing with a failed vote, anyway. The $15 got a vote, and all they do is keep bitching about those who voted for it, rather than use the list of no voters to start a public pressure campaign. They haven't done anything about the new list of congress members who won't even cosponsor M4A, either. Just a bunch of lazy pathetic hypocrites that just want everything done for them ... and now!
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  7055. What?! You mean Hunter wasn't relevant to the election?
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  7056.  @stephanielewis5595  You seem to be stupid enough to think that the NIH doesn't represent all of the US, if it's liable for funding the research.
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  7057. It's also an election cycle, and only a couple weeks before election day. Pretty sure it's the time and place to encourage hundreds of thousands of people to vote.
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  7058.  @cosimfre2651  Ah, so nobody argued museum's owning things is racist. The hosts made a clear distinction between private hoarding and being in museums. But, you were somehow confused about whether museums owning things is racist? Weird. Some European countries ban the sale of Nazi memorabilia that includes propaganda and symbols, because they do represent, and promote, racism.
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  7059.  Illhan Omars brother's wife is Illhan Omar  Rofl. Aren't you a Trumpist loon?
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  7060.  @StevenWolfe-lx8js  If you aren't adding the 5 votes to Dems, then it ends up 216 R to 212 D. If 5 vote Dem, then it's 216 R to 217 D, and Dems win. If they're just voting present or abstaining, or are absent, you need 10, so it's 211 R to 212 D, and Dems win.
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  7061.  scum  What she's going through is why they don't.
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  7062.  @howardmctroy3303  What "left wing policies" would those be? Also, why not measure at the state level? Most of the top 20 homicide rates are red states. Most of the top 20 poverty rates are red states. Most of the top 20 firearm fatality rates are red states.
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  7063. Oh, is that how it works? Israelites like to genocide everyone around them, according to their book. Guess they get zero say about killing anyone.
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  7064. Rofl. You lot get told not to believe your own eyes and ears, and you follow orders.
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  7065. Yeah, not like conservative religious types haven't been cancelling crap for centuries.
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  7066. David is Canadian.
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  7067.  @twisteddancer7773  Did he invade Russia?
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  7068. @• Juuke • And how does below poverty level money, for those who don't have a job, give them a decent life? Especially while handing tens of billions extra a year to corporations like Amazon, and their billionaire owners?
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  7069. @Alex Green Yeah, adding a step between voters and the results was supposed to do something. Doesn't seem to have worked. But, it wasn't inherently unbalanced, to start. In theory, it should be easier to repeal the bill that made it increasingly imbalanced, and rebalance things, rather than make a constitutional amendment to switch to popular vote. The lazy man's filibuster makes even that harder than it should be, though.
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  7070.  @andersenparker2297  Rofl. You're incoherent. If returning to making things more representative would benefit Democrats, then clearly not having things representative must benefit Republicans. You're the one defending a 1929 permanent change that benefited who you want it to. You're a hypocrite.
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  7071.  @andersenparker2297  Just how severe are your reading comprehension problems? Again, I haven't said to get rid of the electoral college. I've said to get rid of a 1929 bill, that made the electoral college increasingly unrepresentative. You're the one defending what was a permanent change to the electoral college. And, it is most definitely incoherent to say that getting rid of that permanent change will benefit Democrats, if the imbalance it created doesn't benefit Republicans.
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  7072.  @andersenparker2297  Again, each state is equally represented by the undemocratic senate. That's what it was designed for. The house of representatives was designed to be representative of the population. If you aren't arguing for the house to be exactly like the senate, and have an equal representation from each state, and you aren't actually arguing for the house to be "completely representative", then you're arguing for things to be just unbalanced enough for your liking.
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  7073.  @andersenparker2297  Who's the opponent? Plenty of people voted Biden because they hated Trump, not because they loved Biden. They can both dislike the job Biden doing, but still vote to keep a nutter out of office. I don't think their opinion of Trump has improved.
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  7074.  @andersenparker2297  Right, because the imbalance is just the way you like it.
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  7075.  @andersenparker2297  You've proven you're a loon. You learn what a coup is. Learn what gaslighting actually is. And, learn what socialism actually is.
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  7076.  @andersenparker2297  Biden didn't put much effort into caring about either of those things, either. You want Biden to slow down the jobs, to slow down demand, until supply catches up? You want him to interfere in corporate price gauging? Or, what? That's kind of anti laissez faire, isn't it? Asking people to find votes is a coup attempt. Asking Pence to not do his job is a coup attempt. Inciting the public, based on absolutely nothing but pure bullshit, is a coup attempt. The Eastman memo outlines a coup attempt. The majority of Republican lawmakers in congress following that plan is a coup attempt. The Oathkeepers planned a more violent coup attempt. The goal of the mob, many of whom claimed to be doing what they thought Trump wanted them to do, was a coup attempt. "The November 3rd election was the most secure in American history." ~ Department of Homeland Security’s Cybersecurity & Infrastructure Security Agency (CISA)
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  7077.  @andersenparker2297  Rofl. You're a loon.
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  7078. If you'd rather trust the Trump administration, over anyone, it says you're nuts.
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  7079. Her words have helped raise money for charities and causes, helped add more progressives to congress, helped promote progressive ideas to millions, etc. Plus, unlike any third party candidates, or social media commentators, her words also won her her own seat in congress, which also allows her to do other things, like submit bills, join committees and interrogate corporate douchebags, vote on bills, etc. But hey, maybe it would be better to team up with far right ancappers, that praise the shooting of BLM and Antifa protesters, than her.
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  7080. So everybody back to Africa?
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  7081.  @MrChristyCree  3 out of 4 of the squad are from the US, dumbass. So, when Trump said this ... "Congresswomen, who originally came from countries whose governments are a complete and total catastrophe, the worst, most corrupt and inept anywhere in the world (if they even have a functioning government at all)" ... he was describing his own country and government, like an utter moron. He's a fucking brain dead racist who seems to think minorities must have come from somewhere else.
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  7082.  @nappel6496  What do you mean they were supposed to crash? According to Trump, the US was supposed to expect 6% GDP growth. Didn't happen. Growth has been slower than under Obama, whose economy Trump attacked as horrible. Trump is worse than what he himself claimed was bad. Was it bad, or not? https://www.forbes.com/sites/chuckjones/2020/02/01/trumps-economic-growth-is-slower-than-obamas-last-3-years/
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  7083.  @Banana_Split_Cream_Buns  It was very high testing rates that was the saving grace for New Zealand, Australia, S Korea, Vietnam (one of the longest borders with China), and a few others who responded very well. Be grateful of your leadership, and not just grateful you're on an island. Look up tests per confirmed case rates. Those countries tested in the high double digits to hundreds of people per confirmed case. Meanwhile, countries like the US, UK (an island nation), Italy, and others with the highest death rates, had low testing rates throughout much of the pandemic. Countries like Canada, Germany, Denmark, Norway, had higher testing rates than the second group, but lower testing rates than the first group, and had medium results. Canada and the US are effectively islands, relative to China, which is an ocean away. The US' troubles weren't caused by people walking the virus in from Canada and Mexico. It flew in, and the response was terrible, and what we're considering bad, here in Canada, is a 3x lower death rate than the US. Even though our response was mediocre, we've done a lot better. Canada's deaths per million rate would translate into 300+k fewer deaths in the US, if they had had a mediocre response, like ours.
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  7084. We've done a lot better, than the US, overall. Not just slightly better. But, we still could have done more.
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  7085.  @remiscott9843  Lol.
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  7086.  @remiscott9843  Swine flu was a descendant strain.
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  7087. Among the other things they're ranked at the top in, Scandinavian countries rank the happiest. They're also some of the least religious.
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  7088.  @teamgb692  You might be mistaking being members of the church to actually attending. Baptisms are still part of the culture, and the church automatically enrolls anyone who is baptised, and you're considered a member unless you formally withdraw. Even that aspect is declining. http://cphpost.dk/news/religion-doesnt-play-much-of-a-role-to-most-danes.html
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  7089.  @teamgb692  They aren't actually going to church. https://www.thelocal.se/20180531/swedes-least-likely-in-western-europe-to-go-to-church
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  7090. The analogy is flawed, if you look at who is actually operating the open air WWII style fascist ghetto. It's not Hamas, that controls the borders, airspace, ports, and most of what and who goes in and out.
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  7091. ​ @rip666S  No. Nzs actually expanded firearm rights to Grmns. They just narrowed who counts as a Grmn. Much like MAGA wants to narrow who counts as American.
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  7092.  @rentfree1438  Ohhhh, you're an absolute lunatic. Have a nice day.
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  7093. Iran gives free transition surgery, so yes. Does the Republican ideology fit in with being a complete moron? Obviously, yes.
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  7094. Exactly. Religion trains people to accept something as true, without evidence, and then they expect you to prove it false.
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  7095. Religion deals more in laws than morality.
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  7096.  @narutomgm  Do you have examples of morality religion has provided? Not laws.
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  7097.  @CGoffgrid  So you want to tax nobody?
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  7098. Weird how people who control everything, let Trump win the first time, let Republican goverenors win, allow for state level Republican majority governments, and can never seem to get a solid majority over the federal house and senate.
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  7099. I don't know how David will ever recover, from such a sick burn. He must ne utterly devastated.
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  7100.  @candorsspot2775  No.
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  7101.  @DeepfriedNutz  "Fascism is the complete opposite of Marxian socialism." ~ Mussolini That would make it a form of capitalism. Denying the class struggle, banning workers' only power ... the strike, their pre-war economy making them leaders in privatization, the backing of leading industrialists and large land owners, ... there's nothing socialist about it.
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  7102. No. That could not be considered a scientific truth. If you're simply studying morality, the scientific truth is that people have a variety of different concepts of morality, and there is no objective, scientific, evidence that one is objectively correct. Sam subjectively picks one, measures others with the one he picked, and then rules the others wrong. That's somewhat like picking imperial and then saying metric is the objectively wrong way to measure things.
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  7103.  @Pradeep_889  Sure, it's an objective fact that tons of species are wired to subjectively value self preservation. Does that translate into it being an objective fact that none of those species should be harmed, including humans? Including cows? Including dogs? Including chickens? Including cats? Etc. Don't we simply like ourselves, dogs, and cats more, so give them more value.
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  7104.  @Pradeep_889  Weird, how that doesn't answer my question. Should we not harm all species that have a self preservation instinct? Yes, a newborn has to rely on the subjective caring of a parent. If no parent cares, they might get tossed in a dumpster. Objectivity has no bias, either way, by definition. It doesn't care if you're snuggled in a crib, or in a dumpster. Some species lay eggs, or spit out their offspring, and then walk away. And yet, they still have a self preservation instinct. It just literally only covers themselves. Much like a narcissist.
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  7105. That is not, at all, what the Mueller report said. It provided dozens of pages of evidence that the Trump campaign was working with Rvssia ... just not in ways that amounted to criminal conspiracy ... except for that big meeting. Regarding that, they said they didn't charge Jr and Kushner because it would be hard to prove they "willfully" broke the law, not because they didn't break the law.
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  7106.  @lespaulismore4538  Weird, I didn't take Obama for a narcissistic braggart. I also didn't know he threatened to sue his schools.
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  7107.  @lespaulismore4538  Not released and "sealed" are two different things. Obama did not go out of his way to seal his school records. Steering you back on track, when you go off the rails, doesn't equate to defending anything, and there's nothing to defend, because you were spouting bullshit. Tsk, tsk. So, now that we're done with your irrelevant whataboutObama, the point is that a narcissistic braggart wouldn't threaten to sue people to hide his awesomeness. In fact, they might "accidentally" leak how awesome they are, themselves. Threatening to sue even proves he's an idiot, because they can't release his records without his permission anyway. It's like him making doctors, who are already bound by doctor patient confidentiality, to sign NDAs. It's just evidence there's something bad he doesn't want people to see.
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  7108. Yeah, they need to be adjusted properly, to account for disparities between in person voting vs mail in voting, if those two methods of voting skew differently by party.
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  7109. ​ @FreedomeIsAMyth-1948  Rofl! Math basics says there are only two viable options. So, if you're not helping one win, it helps the other win.
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  7110. Yep, her family owns a shipping company that buys ships made by the government, and they've gotten loans from the Bank of China, and his sister in law is on the board of the Bank of China. There's also Trump, who sold Ivanka's Trump tower condo to a Chinese government lobbyist. He also leases property to the Bank of China, and had his own business ventures in China.
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  7111.  @web-angel  Rofl! How do you imagine things would have gone with 6 seats belonging to a third party?
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  7112.  @web-angel  And? So they dodge the house being paralyzed with a plurality wins vote, because some third party was holding up being able to pass covid relief, which the majority of Americans wanted fast. What do you think you accomplished, exactly, besides getting a bunch of bad press for delaying covid relief during a pandemic?
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  7113.  @web-angel  They don't have a shot. "Vote Blue" works both ways. If a progressive Dem wins a primary, the vast majority of Dems who voted against them in the primary still vote for them in the general. If you split off the progressive vote, general elections will look kind of like a 2 candidate Dem primary vs a 1 candidate Republican general. So called "real" progressives would help Republicans rule for decades.
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  7114.  @web-angel  You're failing at the math you were promoting. All Dems would have to do is adjust their bills to pick up 6, or more, Republican votes, and ignore you. You couldn't hold up anything. Like bringing in the Republicans who have their own $10 minimum wage bill, and doing $10 instead of $15. Dems on the right have more leverage because they can possibly bring in extra votes. There is the entire Republican party to the right of them. There are zero extra votes to the left of progressives, whether they part of the party, or not. They can't bring in extra votes, if votes on the right end of the Democratic party are lost. They can only ever push things as far left as the right end of the Democratic party is willing to go, and can't offer anything if votes on the right end are lost. There's a reason why the right end has more leverage. And it's exactly the math you were talking about. 6 votes at one end and 6 votes at the other aren't exactly samesies, if one end can bring in extra votes, and the other can't, in the case of a standoff. They've voted against things. They've made pretty good use of speaking and committee debate times. They've introduced bills and amendments. They've helped move public opinion. Zero seats, and zero attention, won't even get you that. Not a single vote on even a single bill. Libertarians, the most popular third party, get none of that, and are treated as largely irrelevant. AOC backing 20 other progressives, helping to add more M4A yes votes to congress, helping to remove a few more corporate Dems, pissing off the people Dore knobs falsely claim she has sold out to, isn't treated as irrelevant. There's a difference between the corporate press criticizing M4A, when you present it, and them simply being able to point at the fact that you're delaying covid relief.
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  7115.  @web-angel  Rofl. No, all evidence points to the fact that they don't have a shot. The most popular third party hasn't won a single seat in congress in its near 50 year existence. Yeah, the Libertarian party is right wing, and still largely irrelevant. Both them and Green got more votes in 2016 than 2020. Fewer people went third party.
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  7116.  @web-angel  There are some 50 third parties. #Fact And they haven't been voting for any of them.
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  7117.  @web-angel  Rofl. So you want the majority of congress to consider the minimum wage resolved, for another decade, at $10, instead of using the no votes to the $15, against the no voters. Dore knobs are such hypocritical trash. Proof there was zero plan to actually do anything with a no vote on M4A.
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  7118.  @whyamimrpink78  Sweden often had the worst numbers in Europe, and was in the top 15 worst in the world. They did end up resorting to a wide variety of restrictions. Even still, they're in the top 35 worst in the world, and 5-10x higher death rates than their neighbors. Why didn't you pick S Korea, Vietnam, Australia, or New Zealand? Their covid death rates would translate into under 12k total covid deaths in the US, if the US had responded as well.
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  7119.  @residualsurprise2055  Turned their lives around? So his fans are now getting women, by telling them men are simply better at economics and politics, that they were never discriminated against, that they should give up their carriers and have babies to be happy, etc.?
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  7120. ​ @DK-nc9wr  Nazis are fascists, with added racism and bigotry. "Fascism is the complete opposite of Marxian socialism." ~ Mussolini
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  7121.  @thewhiterabbit498  Dimwit, you claimed I didn't understand media propaganda. That's what I was referring to. My "Lol, sure it is.", was my response to your other bullshit. All you seem to be doing here, is claiming this is propaganda, so no, simply being here doesn't prove much of anything. Where are you getting your "real" information from, and how did you so expertly deduce that it wasn't propaganda, but this is?
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  7122. Ummm, the rebels lose, and Luke has his hand chopped off, in Empire Strikes Back.
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  7123. Dore is both a moron and a grifter.
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  7124. Even then, lower income voters can least afford to take a day off and a higher percentage of minorities are lower income.
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  7125. Well, if you have proper gun control, social safety nets, people paid a living wage, universal healthcare (including mental health), etc., you can reduce police shootings to being almost non existent, as in the happiest of developed countries.
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  7126.  @nathanschmidt5026  You asked about Tim Pool. He's a US "enlightened centrist", which makes him a right winger (the "center" between real world centrism and the far right).
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  7127. He knew what time his ex wife was coming home.
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  7128.  @wenlisman  Didn't all that nationalism cause hundreds of years worth of wars? The "Brits", Britons, actually ended up being ruled by Romans, Angles, Saxons, Norsemen, and then by French Normans, who were themselves formerly Norsemen. The "Scots" were Irish who came to rule over the Picts. The "French" Franks were a Germanic tribe, who conquered lands from Romans, who had conquered lands from Gauls. Etc. Etc. Etc. And, none of all that fighting over, and drawing up of arbitrary borders, by religious fanatics of mixed ethnicities and cultures, that didn't keep much of anything original and seperate, has little to do with later decisions about forms of government. It was actually the conquest of Byzantine culture, sending many west, and bringing their ancient Greek philosophy with them, that led to the enlightenment, and more modern forms of government. It was the loss of a "European" nation, and the mixing of their culture and ancient writings, with others, that led down the path towards modern democracies. Under normal circumstances, isn't it better to have a freer and more open border, like a Nordic Passport Union, a Schengen Area, etc.?
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  7129. Ummm, pretty sure the SoD also works for Congress, which still holds much of the military authority. So, no, they shouldn't necessarily be a presidential yes man.
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  7130.  @Mike-ul1xn  Congress holds war powers the president doesn't, and the president needs congressional authorization for some things. If the president orders something he hasn't been authorized to do, then the SoD isn't actually authorized to do it, and shouldn't just be saying "yes sir". You might also want a SoD that recognizes if an order violates the constitution, and is willing to say no. You might also want a SoD that recognizes incompetence, and is willing to say no.
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  7131.  @sandydl2  How do you get $60k, when $12k is 10% of $120k? People spend up to about 30% of their income on VATable goods and services. A single adult wouldn't start paying in more than they get back until the $400k a year mark. An adult couple wouldn't start paying in more than they get back until the $800k a year mark. So, someone making $300k a year would get a few thousand extra bucks a year in shopping spree funds. Meanwhile, a single disabled parent collecting full SSI benefits ($771) and SNAP for 2+ ($355+) would get zero economic benefit from the UBI. Even if they opt out of the UBI, they can't opt out of paying a VAT, which would leave them worse off. And then there's the super rich who will make extra billions due to increased consumer spending. That's a weird plan.
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  7132. Yang is a grifter. During his presidential run, he lied to everyone about a VAT being a way to tax corporations. A VAT is specifically designed to NOT tax businesses, in order to avoid cascading taxes upon taxes. Yang would have had money flowing to the very top faster than ever before.
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  7133. He didn't really arc. Americans just aren't familiar with how a VAT actually works. If they were, they'd have known it's not a way to tax giant corporations, from the get go. Businesses get to reclaim their input VAT and the final consumer ends up paying the entire VAT.
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  7134.  @pikachulover2000  Do you want to build a strawman?
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  7135.  @pikachulover2000  It's not "leaking" if it's to your own government authorities, dumbass.
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  7136.  @calogero100  85% of hospitalizations and deaths are unvaccinated. Vaccines are working fine, and would work even better of there were fewer unvaccinated morons around.
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  7137.  @calogero100  Btw, how is it you think relying on $2000 remedies, after you get infected, isn't the bidding of big pharma, but an under $20 jab is? Texas Tribune: Unvaccinated Texans make up vast majority of COVID-19 cases and deaths this year, new state data shows UCD Health: 85 percent of hospitalized COVID patients are unvaccinated JAMA: Unvaccinated patients accounted for 84.2% (1669/1983) of COVID-19 hospitalizations. WMUR9: DHMC officials say 85% of COVID-19 patients in intensive care in NH are unvaccinated Michigan hospital data: 87% of COVID ICU patients are unvaccinated
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  7138. Need a bill passed to get reparations. More black Americans should have voted for Bernie, who signed on to HR40. Instead the majority of black voters voted for this shit, just because he had a bromance with Obama.
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  7139.  Robert Hunt  I didn't ask "who". Can't you read?
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  7140. Rofl. Sooo impatient, let's give up the broader 100 or so progressive caucus seats, let's give up the dozen or so most progressive seats, and start from scratch, taking the third party route that hasn't won the most popular third party a single seat in congress in its near 50 year existence.
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  7141.  @meoff7602  Why? Because guys working for CNN and Bloomberg, and David who got crusty about progressives complaining about his Israel bias, said that's what progressives are doing? Every progressive channel I watch, still has AOC as a frontrunner. Who's he even talking about? Jimmy Dore?
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  7142.  @Dawt_Calm  I stopped reading at "grandstanding". If you think building support and getting more progressives into congress, is "grandstanding", then you're clearly an idiot. That would make Jimmy trending on Twitter, and anyone trying to get a People's Party going and elected, "grandstanding".
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  7143. Rofl. The most popular third party hasn't won a single seat in congress in going on 50 years. Taking that route is about as long term thinking as you can get.
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  7144.  @BeeN-fy2jh   1.4 or 1.7 (pre rise) + 3 (fed estimate rise for both bills) = less than 5. Which means that the profit margins put the rate over the line you just drew, not government spending. And, DT doesn't want to do anything about that. Where do you keep getting lost? The 2.6% was the start of a rise. Since one blended into another, you have absolutely zero clue if that's the max it would have gone on DT's bill alone. Combined, they were responsible for a 3% rise. Yeah, the rate is going back down. So, what's DT running on exactly? You only get deflation with a major recession or depression. Is that what he's bringing? That's what his tariffs will bring, just like the 1930 tariff act made things worse.
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  7145.  @BeeN-fy2jh  1.7 + 3 is still less than 5. Nothing you say will make that math change. You keep making out as if the Mar 2021 rate was no big deal, as if that was definitively all DT was responsible for. Nobody knows that, because they blended together. The only thing definitive is that it was on the rise before JB's bill was implemented, and combined they are responsible for an estimated 3% (high end of estimate) rise. That means the thing that put it over 5 was profit margin increases, which DT has no plan to address.
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  7146.  @BeeN-fy2jh  The rate hit its peak in Jun of 2022. The IRA was passed in Aug. The rate has been dropping, since. By your government spending "logic", the rate should have shot up again, and continued shooting up with foreign aid. By the logic of corporate greed, they raised prices a lot, to make back some of what they lost in 2020, settled into their new profit margins, and then stopped continuing to raise them so much, so the rate went down. Why does your "logic" make no sense? The rate should have never dropped.
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  7147. @williamward9278 Admitting you're an idiot takes a lot of courage. Bravo! 👏
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  7148.  @usam-zf6gc  Moron. Americans with public healthcare are happiest with it. Those with VA the happiest. https://news.gallup.com/poll/186527/americans-government-health-plans-satisfied.aspx
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  7149.  @bozeeke  Rofl. "Fascist" =/= totalitarian. Saying there are far left fascists is an oxymoron. "Fascism is the complete opposite of Marxian socialism" ~ Mussolini The complete opposite of stateless non-authoritarian socialism, the Marxian ideal, is ultra-nationalistic authoritarian capitalism.
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  7150.  @bozeeke  It's, literally, the definition of the guy who invented it. You're the idiot redefining it.
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  7151.  @bozeeke  Nah, the Nazis were more the racists. Fascists don't have to necessarily be racists. So, you don't think the people literally waving Nazi flags, waving Tiki torches shouting about Jews, waving Confederate flags, and other white supremacist symbols/flags toting nutjobs, spewing hate at "Unite the Right" rallies, and the like, are the racist Nazis? But, people who want hate speech laws (like in Canada and other developed countries) are the Nazis? You know that sounds insane, right? Lol, how is the "complete opposite" of socialism, not capitalism? Or is capitalism not right wing? Fascism promotes ultra-nationalism, and "collectivism" in putting the country first (like "America First", and calling different politics "unAmerican") but, it does not promote economic collectivism. It promotes rugged "heroic" individualism and denies the class struggle, you know ... accept your lot in life, pull yourself up by the bootstraps, and do the best you can ... It simply argues that all those different classes work together for the good of the country. Again, the closest thing to a dictatorial leader, is the one currently fighting to have valid votes thrown out, and has 27% of Republicans saying he shouldn't concede under any circumstances. Fascists were leaders in privatization, actually. They were backed by leading industrialists, large land owners, and religious authoritarians. Hitler promised his industrialist backers he wouldn't redistribute wealth in any significant way, and literally killed off any prominent party members who wanted such a thing to happen. Fascists practice crony capitalism. There are US Republican politicians, and even a party that get millions of votes, who promote far right economics, a la Ayn Rand, etc. Are there any US politicians getting significant numbers of votes, who even promote economics that would move the US left of Denmark (a centrist country), let alone to the actual far left (100% publicly owned and operated economy)?
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  7152.  @jveebklyn1644  Don't all companies have to consider PR?
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  7153.  VeryEvilPettingZoo  Even if nobody gives a crap about how any of his opinions insult others, no reputable publisher should publish Peterson, after his grifting for his daughter's all meat diet, claiming it cures depression and anxiety, and even allows stopping taking meds for such things. Not only shouldn't he be published, for obviously peddling dangerous lies (and he clearly knew he was lying), he should also lose his license to practice clinical psychology.
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  7154.  @MK-oz2lf  Bernie votes against the annual defense authorization bill, regularly. What bill are you talking about?
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  7155.  @TripleDDDD  "Wasteful wars" doesn't equate to "all wars". “In short, when it comes to the war against terrorists, I’m a hawk. When it comes to counterproductive wars of regime change, I’m a dove.” - Tulsi Gabbard, Hawaii Tribune-Herald, 2016 Basically every war, since 9/11, was started on the grounds of fighting terrorism. "So, as long as these Islamic jihadists are waging war against us, we have to work to defeat them militarily and ideologically." - Tulsi Gabbard, FOX News, 2021
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  7156. So, who are the Democrats going to pass a budget with, now?
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  7157.  @kevin6293  Getting yourself in the country, any which way, is one way to seek asylum ... "To obtain asylum through the affirmative asylum process you must be physically present in the United States. You may apply for asylum status regardless of how you arrived in the United States or your current immigration status. You must apply for asylum within one year of the date of their last arrival in the United States," https://www.uscis.gov/humanitarian/refugees-and-asylum/asylum/obtaining-asylum-in-the-united-states
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  7158.  kyle grant  So, all the low income Trump supporters, are stupid by default, based solely on the jobs they have?
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  7159.  kyle grant  So, Einstein was stupid, for not being able to get a teaching job, and working in a patent office. Got it.
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  7160.  kyle grant  No, I didn't. You just have reading comprehension problems. Your garbage argument declared Einstein to be stupid. They don't have many garbage disposals in NYC. So what? You're not stupid, if you've never heard of bagged milk. You've probably just never been to Canada.
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  7161.  @SapienSafari  Only 14% of our population are Trump loving nutjobs. So, when they do gather, it does seem like they came out of nowhere, since we hardly ever run into them.
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  7162. Voting blue no matter who works both ways. That's how progressives win general elections. The Dem voters who voted against them in primaries still vote for them in generals. Third parties won't get that extra bump, and part of why even the most popular third party hasn't won a single seat in congress in 50 years.
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  7163.  @SmileskingSoto  If you have to opt in to pay a premium to get it, it's not "universal".
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  7164.  @aemonbane1398  You have mistaken Jimmy's argument. He did consider Trump worse, outright called him a raving fascist. Dore's stupid argument was that a Trump presidency would result in a massive progressive backlash. He vastly overestimated the benefits, claiming that it would "for sure" lead to progressives taking the house (nope) and senate (nope), in 2018, and the presidency (nope), in 2020. He vastly underestimated the risks, claiming even Republican lawmakers would join the left in voting against the Trump agenda (nope), rather than follow him into fascism (nope, they did), and when debating Sam, claimed Trump filling multiple scotus seats was as likely as the moon falling into Lake Michigan (wrong again). He's a loon, and an idiot, that doesn't care if other people's suffering is increased, for however many years it takes to fulfill his fantasy.
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  7165. They have already taken in 3 million Palestinian refugees, plus millions of Syrian refugees. How about stop making refugees, dimwit?
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  7166.  @zeroexcuse6558  Phase III was done over a year ago. Look up the definition of "ignorant".
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  7167.  @seanhovan7426  Rofl. Trump (the government) convinced tens of millions of idiots not to believe any media, any judges, any lawyers, any law enforcement, any intelligence agencies, any scientists, any doctors, any nurses ... anybody ... even to not believe their own lying eyes, if they contradicted Supreme Leader Trumpty Dumpty (the government). The CDC, on the other hand, are an organization of doctors and scientists, who also gather data from other doctors and scientists around the world.
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  7168.  @okstever  He was born in a rich home. Odds are they had a television before the average home.
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  7169.  @NewNormalWorldOrder  You're a loon.
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  7170.  @NewNormalWorldOrder  Rofl. You're batshit crazy.
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  7171.  @pdpgb  The vaccines went through phase I through III trials, just like other drugs. The vaccines have passed the safety standards of numerous other countries. The first vaccine out of the gate had nothing to do with "operation warp speed", and vaccines from other countries, that had nothing to do with "operation warp speed", came out not much later. It generally takes 6-12 months after phase III trials to get approval. Nothing was actually done to rush the vaccines, or their approval, along.
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  7172.  @pdpgb  The standard approval is 6-12 months after phase III trials. Waiting 10 years, as hundreds of thousands of people die a year, or develop long term health issues, is most definitely a crazy concept.
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  7173.  @NewNormalWorldOrder  You're absolutely insane, comparing masks and vaccines to gulags.
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  7174.  @pdpgb  If you're arguing that it's not insane for her to want to wait 10 years, then you're arguing it wouldn't be insane if everybody wanted to wait 10 years. Yes, that would be f*cking insane. You also argued that "normally you want long term studies". No, normally, drugs are approved within 6-12 months after phase III trials. Then they keep monitoring them for years after approval.
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  7175.  @LadyMistborn  No record. Drugs are generally approved 6-12 months after phase III trials. It took 9, right in the middle.
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  7176.  @NewNormalWorldOrder  If the US had Australia's covid deaths per capita, that would translate into under 13k total covid deaths. Trump incompetence cost 600 thousand lives. I think you're uneducated, and insane, brain doesn't know the difference between the words "gulag" and "quarantine".
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  7177.  @NewNormalWorldOrder  You are a nutbar. Quarantining has been a goto response to sickness and disease, for thousands of years. I've never heard of there ever being as many babies as there in the US, right now.
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  7178. I wouldn't use a billionaire douchebag, who has a $1 salary, so he doesn't have to pay back into the system that helped make him rich, or to help others, as a spokesman for anything.
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  7179.  @mikew6060  Weren't you right wing loons recently arguing it's okay to shoot, and kill, someone who threatens you?
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  7180.  @RedDeadClips  Geez, you must only have a couple left.
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  7181.  @jimohara  If you ban a method of voting that benefits minorities most, is that racist?
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  7182.  @mryagami8448  If she was only talking about systemic racism, then she's a moron, who couldn't stay on topic. The topic was the rise of white nationalism, the spread of white identity ideology, and hate crimes along with those things. People are shooting up mosques, synagogues, and black churches. There is a documented rise in white supremacist hate crimes and terrorism. People like Richard Spencer, an unashamed white nationalist, are holding public ralies. And she said terms like "white nationalist" are purely fearmongering, pretending that nothing is going on, except Democrats trying to scare their non-white voters. She claimed the fairly well documented Southern switch never happened, and is also a Democrat lie .... so, just in case she's wrong, they racists are the Democrats. You don't even need documentation, ffs. Today's Confederate flag waving, Confederate statue saving, black birthday harassing, black church shooting, bad cop supporting, racists, are on the right. All the white nationalists have been praising Trump. They're openly Republican. She said "America isn't a racist country", which is just stupid. If she meant something more specific, then she should have said so. She denied reality, multiple times.
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  7183. They're using Hamas' old charter. This is Likud's original platform ... "The Right of the Jewish People to the Land of Israel (Eretz Israel) a. The right of the Jewish people to the land of Israel is eternal and indisputable and is linked with the right to security and peace; therefore, Judea and Samaria will not be handed to any foreign administration; between the Sea and the Jordan there will only be Israeli sovereignty."
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  7184.  @SoundsSilver  No. There are three options, not just two. There is also the option that I simply save you (nobody argued it was going to risk my life), and you'd still have your money, which would be of value to you. When I say I won't rescue you, unless you hand over your money, then I'm threatening to let you die, if you don't hand over your money.
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  7185.  @SoundsSilver  You've proven you're not very bright, at this point. It's just a statement of fact.
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  7186.  @chickenbeek  Trump has dropped more bombs than Obama/Biden did. How is Trump thinking that minority women of congress must have come from other countries (3 of 4 were born in the US), and telling them to go back (even ancestrally one is from fucking Puerto Rico, not another country), not racist?
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  7187.  @theciakilledjfk5973  Learn math. There are more votes to be lost, or gained, on the right. If push came to shove, corporate Dems could have gone with Manchin's $11, probably passed it without those 23 progressives, and then they'd see no reason to address minimum wage again this session.
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  7188.  @theciakilledjfk5973  You're making a false equivalency, between two different kinds of votes. M4A is about 100 votes short in the house alone. There wouldn't be much of a performance, because debating, calling witnesses, etc., happens during committees. If you want to somehow dodge committees for a straight up floor vote, all you'd get is house members speaking for a few min each, without any fact checking, debate, and 3/4 of the few min speeches being anti-M4A. The impeachment passed the house, and the performance happened during the senate trial, where the case is actually presented and argued. And they even got some Republicans to vote for impeachment, along with all Dems. More Americans were in favor of impeachment than are for all out M4A. Nothing in your post covered that there's more votes to be won, or gained, on the right, if push comes to shove. You're blaming progressives for Biden being a corporate Dem? Wasn't that common knowledge?
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  7189.  @theciakilledjfk5973  Pelosi put her name in the running for that seat. Have you even looked at the Pew survey Dore himself referred to? M4A isn't "wildly popular". It's 54% of Democrats and 36% of Americans.
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  7190.  @theciakilledjfk5973  The party's speaker candidate is picked by the Dem caucus, where progressives are a minority, and it's a straight up majority vote. Progressives didn't actually have the power to threaten the speakership. All they had the power to do was to paralyze the house, by no speaker candidate winning. The corporate Dem majority could keep picking Pelosi over and over, if they wanted. How long do you think it would have been politically advantageous to paralyze the house for, during a pandemic? For what, exactly? Pelosi introduced M4A to congress just last session, where it died in committees, where 90% of bills die. You know, those committees that Dore knob doesn't think are important. And, a speaker, alone, can't even force a bill through committees to the floor. It takes a petition signed by the majority of congress. You also get a brand new list of names of congresspeople who won't cosign the bills, each new session, that need converting or replacing (AOC just helped replace a few). If you, or Dore, had 100+ viable pro-M4A candidates sitting in your back pockets, why didn't you run them in the election cycle that just happened?
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  7191.  @theciakilledjfk5973  Next to nobody outside of some progressive circles (where everyone is already pro-M4A) were talking about Jimmy Dore, or FTV. Something like 20 people showed up for the DC FTV rally. Bernie still has more Twitter followers. Bernie, and his M4A, who she used her platform to campaign for, while Dore knob was backing Tulsi and her "Medicare choice". She also used her platform and PAC to back 20 other pro-M4A progressives. The pandemic had started before the primaries were over. Guess what? The M4A candidate didn't get elected, and no amount of DNC fuckery could have screwed Bernie, if the masses had voted for him. Most of those other pro-M4A candidates didn't make it through the primaries, either. Only a few did. Americans just got finished ranking how important M4A was to them. They went with the idjit who said he'd veto it, if it somehow passed both the house and senate. They went with mostly anti-M4A corporate Dem and Rep congress members, yet again. Dore had this fantasy, in 2016, where a Trump presidency would be better for progressives than a Clinton presidency. It was going to lead to some massive progressive wave that would, "for sure", lead to progressives taking the house and senate in 2018, and a progressive president in 2020. None of it happened. He vastly overestimated the benefits and vastly underestimated the risks. Even with the benefit of hindsight, knowing full well that people started complaining about not getting covid relief fast enough (including, I think, Jimmy Dore), you think they would have been impressed with paralyzing the house for some amount of time, to not actually get them M4A, but simply to get a guaranteed to fail vote?
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  7192.  @theciakilledjfk5973  Speaking of gullible, you're being taken for a ride by a grifter who didn't care if 10m of the poorest Americans lost their Medicaid expansion, didn't care to try and add 40m older Americans to Medicare, and yet passes himself off as the one true champion of healthcare. He doesn't care if he leads people down the third party route, that hasn't won the most popular third party a single seat in congress in 50 years. There's no indication he actually cares if anyone gets healthcare anytime soon, other than his gums flapping. The actions he promotes taking won't get M4A in the next century. AOC actually helped add a few more M4A yes votes to congress, the very thing you need to do to ever pass the bill, the very thing you would still need to do even after a guaranteed to fail vote. House representatives don't have to get involved in other districts' elections. That's beyond the job parameters. She has proven that she actually takes action, and doesn't just flap her gums, like dumbass Dore. She has proven that she fights against corporate Dems, and doesn't just flap her gums, like dumbass Dore.
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  7193.  @theciakilledjfk5973  Pretty sure I addressed your points, while you just ignored mine.
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  7194.  @misterknee  How is a colonialist agreement, with non natives, that don't have an army, or political leader, a stronger agreement, btw?
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  7195.  @misterknee  Oh, the great League of Nations ... that included no nations in the region, and weren't the ones who made the agreement to rise up against the Ottomans, without which there might not even be a discussion about how to divide it. Soooo much more authority to decide to colonize the region (and nothing you've said debunks that it was, in fact, colonialism, no matter who okayed it). The f*cking King of England said it was okay to colonize North America, so that makes it totally okay! The Queen of Spain said it was okay to colonize the Caribbean and Central America, so that makes it totally okay! The proper authorities greenlit colonialism, therefore colonialism is good!
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  7196.  @briano9397  Aaron is being an idiot. Probably got infected by the Dore knob virus. There have been hundreds of accounts of Syrian chemical weapons use, since 2012. Just in 2018, there was an earlier one in Feb, that had zero dissenting opinions from anyone associated with its inspection. 2 dissenting opinions on a single investigation of a single site, for a report that didn't assign blame and didn't come out until months after bombing, is a big todo about not much of anything.
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  7197.  @nikm5628  Exactly. The Republican base is largely the same majority of people, in certain states, that voted for slavery, voted for segregation, voted against Civil Rights, didn't mind having the KKK out in the open well into the 80s, etc. They've been majority racist for centuries. Trump just told them it was okay to come back out into the open.
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  7198.  @dickdrapper5491  That was an ironic reply.
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  7199.  @frbe0101  The left loses elections when it is not energized. Psycho Trump voters are already in a frenzy.
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  7200.  @frbe0101  Yang's plan sucks ass. As is, it will make giant corporations and the super rich even richer.
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  7201.  JB JG  The right is pro reparations. Trump's stupid trade war caused farmers a little economic hurt, and he immediately doled out some reparations for the damage he caused.
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  7202.  @frbe0101  Because he's throwing his hands in the air with regards to closing tax loopholes on corporations or the super rich, and turning to a VAT. A VAT taxes the consumers, not the corporations. The corporations would simply collect it and pass it along to the government. Those benefitting from the UBI would spend some of that extra money on those corporations, like Amazon, making them even more money. That, then, hands more money to Bezos, for him to hoard, and hoarded money isn't affected by a VAT.
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  7203.  @Xanlet  It wouldn't be asking specific individuals who are descendants of individuals to pay. It would be asking a nation to pay for its mistakes. Just like if a business was sued and found guilty of an old wrongdoing. Even if it had a new board of directors, it would still have to pay.
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  7204.  @Xanlet  You're moving the goalpost. Your argument was about "sins of the father". "150 years" is irrelevant to a new board of directors. A company that lost a lawsuit would still have to pay damages, even if it was new people running it. You're moving your argument to time? What would your cutoff time be? Was paying damages to victims of nuclear fallout, 40 years after the fact, with new people in government, wrong? Is settling 122 year old Native American disputes, with new people in government, wrong?
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  7205.  @Xanlet  You're spouting pure nonsense. A nation is considered a legal entity, and if the current government violates a treaty or trade agreement made by a previous government, the nation can be sued. If it's found out that half of Oklahoma is actually supposed to belong to Natives then descendants of the original Natives who signed the treaty can still sue the current government for the land back, or for compensation. Or, if it's found out that the US hasn't upheld it's end of a 110 year old trust agreement, between Natives and a previous government, then descendants of those Natives can sue the current government. Also, children of dead smokers have won lawsuits against tobacco companies. So now you'll probably move the goalpost to there being no binding legal agreement, or most (not all) being over one generation removed.
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  7206.  @Xanlet  The point was descendants suing the government, or corporations, for "sins of the father", which was your original goalpost. It is the government's ongoing "sin" that they didn't follow through with reparations for slaves, and only, ridiculously, followed through with reparations for slave owners. They still got sued for nuclear fallout, decades after they stopped blowing up nuclear bombs too close to Nevada residential areas. They still get sued for originally taking Native's land, even if they stopped taking Native's land. Oprah? So George Takei shouldn't have gotten Reagan's Japanese reparations, just because he was successful?
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  7207.  @Xanlet  So, whether they've done well, or not, is totally irrelevant. Gotcha. A bunch of goalpost moving and irrelevance.
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  7208.  @Xanlet  Okay slowpoke, so if someone is wealthy, then any disadvantages they personally endured also didn't hold them back. Whether an individual is wealthy is irrelevant. The vast majority of people stay in the same income bracket they were born into. The US is a 5 generations, on average, to get out of poverty country. Some old black people, are just 2 generations removed and had grandparents they knew who were born into slavery. So how does below poverty level assistance help get people out of poverty? Doesn't it mostly just barely help people survive? And, if that's "reparations", then why is everyone else getting it, too?
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  7209.  @Xanlet  Lol, that is also not a "reparation" policy, if anyone can get a cut. That's like saying anyone, with diseases unrelated to smoking, can get a chunk of the class action lawsuit against tobacco companies. Or, anyone can sue to get Native lands back from the government. That's some pretty dumb shit.
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  7210.  @tidus9942  Rofl, so you expect people to be robots, with no life beyond work. No phones, no televisions, no movies, no radios, no computers, no internet, no vehicles, no eating out ever, etc. Well, aren't you pleasant.
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  7211.  @tidus9942  By your "logic", there seems to be a higher percentage of "stupid" people in red states, with higher poverty rates, lower education outcomes, and where they get more from the government than they pay in. All those "stupid" farmers are constantly getting government bailouts. Numerous "stupid" corporations have also received huge government bailouts, and subsidies.
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  7212. ​ @m0ckingB1rd42  Early Zionists weren't afraid to describe it as colonialism. How is being anti-colonialism anti-Semitic?
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  7213. You don't know the definition of "blackmail". Which state? Numerous states agree, even ones with no skin in the game and who opposed other US aggression, that Syria has used chemical weapons. There have been hundreds of victim witnesses, dozens of healthcare worker witnesses, multiple different NGO witnesses, multiple UN investigations with dozens of inspectors from around the world, there are legal human rights groups building cases against Syria on behalf of victims, there have been multiple independent investigations, all providing hundreds of accounts of Syrian chemical weapons uses, since 2012. Aaron's Syrian "scandal" article could have been written by anyone, from anywhere in the world, with Wikipedia and a penchant for leaving out the bits they don't like. Two part time "inspectors", working on a single investigation at a single site, doesn't debunk all the rest. Plus, the UN report doesn't even assign blame, as per Russia's demands. Assigning blame and choosing to respond independently, was totally the US' decision. Should we stop reporting on human rights violations everywhere in the world, in case the US uses it at grounds to bomb or invade?
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  7214. Disciplined how? Paid leave (paid vacation)?
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  7215.  @YisraeliTiger-ez7dy  You said "nope", so I said "yep".
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  7216. That there is so much bipartisan support, is exactly why a third party presidential candidate, even if they magically won, is pointless. Congress could still pass whatever aid they want and override any presidential vetoes. Change will take continued public pressure. Dems aren't perfect on protesters, but it's Trump/Republicans talking about deporting protesters, who make laws allowing peiple to drive through protesters, and have called for categorizing protesters (BLM) as trrrsts before. The only people speaking out against Isrl, in congress (not from the West/Stein sidelines), are Dems.
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  7217.  @morganwartman8507  "tell corporations" That's called customer feedback, dumb dumb, and has always been a part of business. That would still exist even in an ancap environment, where Yelp reviews would supposedly guide businesses to doing the right thing. Enough complaints about the business doing X, or allowing for Y, and they might stop doing X, or stop allowing for Y, if they're negatively affecting their business. What's the supposed hypocrisy?
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  7218.  @uncomfortabletruth5915  No false equivalence. If an apocalypse preacher is standing in my business, screaming at my other customers, what's morally wrong with having security remove them from the premises?
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  7219.  I only use this account when I get put in time out  Libertarianism isn't "moderation". It's an extreme right, extreme capitalism, position. Centrism, like say Denmark, is moderation.
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  7220.  @portalarizona  A business can register as a private club, like Costco, and not allow anyone they want to use their services. A business can register as a religious organization, and not allow anyone they want to use their services. If a business freely chooses to register themselves as what's considered a "public accomodation", and open to the public, then they're not supposed to discriminate against specific groups, and serve the public as they advertise. If you think Nazis, and the like, should be included as a protected group, then argue for it, but it would still only apply to "public accommodations". Social media sites may be very big, but they're still private clubs, with TOS, that users agree to, for being a part of their club. Private clubs have been cancelling memberships, and picking and choosing who to let in their clubs, since the dawn of clubs and memberships. It doesn't seem to be a very slippery slope.
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  7221.  @texanbalaban6777  Are you an idiot?
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  7222.  Man Splainer  Oh geez, you're incoherent all on your own. Rofl
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  7223. *to fraud. His daddy had him committing fraud when he was in diapers. He set up a fake company, put his toddler kids down as shareholders, and transferred over $400m to them, over the years, to dodge taxes.
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  7224. Depends on whether they can get their sh*t together to pass a bill. Doubt old folks will like having their social security and medicare unfunded.
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  7225. The Fed just found $1.5t to prop up the stock market though.
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  7226.  @lopezjose476  Andrew Yang was completely clueless as to how a tax, that he was prepared to lay on the entire country, actually works. He should be disqualified from politics, until he gets a clue how things actually work.
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  7227.  @typhoon320i  Rofl. Those are just facts. You're the one who seems upset that people would want corporations and the super rich to pay their fair share. Fact: The bottom 50% owns about 1.5% of total wealth, but pays about 3% of total federal taxes (including payroll, which those who falsely claim the rich pay more than their fair share leave out), a 1:2 ratio. Fact: The top 1% owns about 30% of the wealth and pays about 30% of federal taxes, a 1:1 ratio. Amongst that 1%, the lesser rich, who make a living on actual salaries, albeit large ones, are also paying for the welfare queen billionaires, who don't pay their fair share. Gas tax doesn't cover all roads anymore, and other taxes are used. The military you mentioned protects corporate interests abroad, and trading lanes. Yet, the ones benefitting the most from those things, pay the least towards them, as a percentage of their total wealth. If Tesla is importing parts for 200k cars a year, and transporting those 200k cars out on roads, then they, and their shareholders, are benefitting 200k times more from protwcted trading lanes, and roads, than each of the individual Tesla buyers. Amazon depends on those things even more, and gets to pay zero taxes for years? And, you think that's groovy. You're making up nonsense, about them deploying their money, at appropriate times, to the benefit of all. Trump just gave them even more tax breaks and many used the savings to buy back their own stocks, to artificially inflate the price, rather than use it to create more jobs, or increase pay. What's wrong with taking trillions out of the economy, and not circulating it back in? Really?
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  7228. Weird eh? Almost like something, other than simply being Jewish, suddenly turned those countries against them. Maybe try finding out what happened before 1948.
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  7229. ​ @WraithWriter  The US didn't even declare war against the Axis, first. Japan declared war against the US. The US reciprocated. Germany declared war against the US. The US reciprocated.
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  7230.  @WraithWriter  And my point is that they also humiliated the US, because they had a choice, to stay out. Because the US' declarations came after they were already declared war upon, they were basically superficial. The US was already in a war, whether they liked it, or not.
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  7231.  @WraithWriter  The US had no choice in participating. They got declared war on, by the Axis countries, first. Costa Rica made a choice that the US never made. The US declarations were counter declarations. You made a point about timing. I'm making a point about choice. You say "no shit", but you don't seem to be following.
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  7232.  @DAndyLord  Most Dems are already right.
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  7233.  @DAndyLord  Part of the problem with Trump is that he has made some previous Republican nutjobs seem more reasonable, but they're still the same nutjobs they were before.
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  7234. It's better when their bullshit isn't very convincing. The last ones being able to convince most of their followers of their bullshit was bad.
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  7235. ​ @senioMseD  Not just move in, but move in and claim land for another country.
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  7236. The NIH exactly doesn't recommend it as a treatment. It says all of the ivermectin studies have been problematic. You're lying.
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  7237. Proudly displaying your hate and bigotry, well done.
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  7238.  @zeeone4492  Dore didn't challenge the guy on anything. It was just Boogaloo publicity. He platformed the guy.
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  7239. More the latter, I would think. They were trying to go to court 60+ times. That would have been a lot of legal fees. Now they have a chance to present all their "evidence", but don't seem to want to bet their freedom on it. Guess it's not so hot.
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  7240.  @alhazed  I'm pretty sure Sam didn't call Marc a racist. I'm also pretty sure criticizing Israel isn't racist. The kid also didn't say that the white people he was talking about had in fact said something "racist". That would be criticizing the base he's trying to pander to with this exact take of injustice against white people. He said they made "a comment about a black person", which was, rightly or wrongly, he didn't say which, apparently perceived as racist, and got the white person fired. Then he claimed black people can get away with making "a comment about a white person", and not get fired. Marc made a comment, that his bosses perceived as racist, and fired him. Marc is evidence the kid is wrong. No, that does not mean Marc is a racist.
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  7241. You might want to look up state firearm mortality and homicide rates. States with fewer gun laws tend to have higher rates. So, they do work. You don't expect some fantasy zero rate, do you?
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  7242.  @mjchakos1  You mean like a kid "resisting" by playing in a park and being shot before the cop car even stopped rolling? Or "resisting" by reaching for your wallet that the cop asked you to reach for, and then the cop shooting you? "Resisting" by laying flat out on your stomach in handcuffs, and still get a knee to the back of the neck, until your dead? "Resisting" by being shot in the back and then having a gun planted beside you? Etc.
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  7243.  @mjchakos1  He didn't actually have a "weapon".
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  7244.  @MrPhilsterable  Yang has math problems. Not only won't a VAT tax who he claims it will tax, but his plan adjustments, since he started, seriously affect his revenue projections, which he hasn't adjusted. He started out not having UBI stack with anything. Eliminating government services was supposed to pay for a third of his UBI. He now has it stack with SS, SSDI, and VA. All he has left to eliminate is under $400b. Nowhere close to an $800b projection. He started out with a VAT on everything. He's now going to exempt staples. That will lose him some other needed tens of billions. A third of the UBI didn't even start with initial funding, running a deficit of upwards of $800b a year, until the economy expanded enough. With his plan adjustments, it will be more like half that doesn't have initial funding, and start with a deficit of $1.2+ trillion a year. That's well over his expanded economy projection, and doesn't even account for whether the UBI is supposed to keep up with inflation, or not, or increase if there any major unemployment issues.
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  7245.  @thenumbersss  Bernie's proposals are what a number of other developed countries do, before they tax consumers with a VAT. Scandinavian countries have high unionization rates. Norway nationalized oil resources. Sweden has corporations pay in for retraining. Denmark has double the percentage of government workers. Numerous countries have over double the US's minimum wage. More paid vacations. More paid parental leave. Etc. Etc. That's how you make businesses pay in. Then you put a consumption tax on better paid, higher living standard, consumers. Yang is clueless, and has a very superficial plan, that won't actually make corporations pay in. Yang doesn't have UBI stack with SSI disability, or SNAP. SSI can stack with SNAP. A disabled person on full benefits, plus kids, could be getting over $1000 a month. SNAP, alone, has a cost of living adjustment. A single parent of 3, in Alaska, could be getting over $1000 a month. Whatever the exact number, you're good with making some very poor people worse off, while handing people getting by just fine a monthly spa fund, a sportscar, or something? Yang could run as a Republican, because his plan will benefit couples, even those without kids, more than single parents, because he doesn't adjust for kids; his plan will benefit less urban, lower cost of living, areas more than urban areas, because he doesn't have an adjustment for cost of living; likewise for states with lower state taxes that do as little as possible for their citizens; a VAT doesn't actually make corporations pay anything they don't want; ...
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  7246.  @curiosityl.6261  Hinkle blathered a bunch of standard Dore knob bullshit, is all he did. The Capitol Hill police bill was heavily amended in the senate and sent back to the house. AOC voted no on the final version of the bill. AOC had just backed progressives in purple districts, that got creamed in the primaries, and the Dems who beat them managed to also beat the Republican. This midterm is going to be a helluva fight to try and hang on to the majority. Whatever leverage progressives have, completely evaporates, if Republicans win the majority. Go ahead and be pissed, if you think AOC broke a promise, but trying to retain the majority is smart. The FTV "plan", out of Jimmy's mouth, was for 15 progressives to simply "withhold their votes" or "not vote" for Pelosi. He never mentioned a need to cast protest votes. That implies abstaining. And, he made it very clear that he thought it was impossible for McCarthy to win, unless Democrats actually voted for him, so would see no problem with abstaining. 15 progressives abstaining would have handed the speakership to McCarthy. FTV was also about a 100% guaranteed to fail performance art vote. It doesn't actually move you any closer to being able to pass the bill. The only possible way to ever pass the bill is to get enough yes votes in congress, which makes adding yes votes to congress the most important thing. Justice Dems, and AOC, have helped to add more M4A yes votes to congress. AOC was fighting to add another, in Nina Turner, campaigning on the ground for her. Dore, on the other hand, abandoned Nina Turner ... abandoned adding another M4A yes vote to congress. Progressives did get the $15 to stay in for a round of voting. It actually passed the house (M4A didn't have a shot in hell), and also got a senate vote. Dore knobs have done nothing with those lists of no voters, and just continue to slander those who voted for it. Drone strikes have been reduced to almost nothing. That's one thing Dore knobs should be praising Biden for. Instead they keep whining. All, or nothing. AOC, and other progressives have a bill trying to put conditions on the annual military aid to Israel. They have an anti anti-BDS laws bill. So she voted to rearm a purely defensive Iron Dome. So what? Just a lot of much ado about nothing.
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  7247.  @Darfail  Based on this World Health Organization list, the countries where femicide occurs most often are El Salvador, Venezuela, the Central African Republic, South Africa, Jamaica, Honduras, Guatemala, Guyana and Mexico. How many of those are Islamic countries?
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  7248.  @dantheman4838  Have a stab in the dark, which is colder ... Sweden, Denmark, Norway, of Finland? Sweden has 5-10x more deaths per capita than its neighbours.
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  7249.  @s123-v3x  I literally pointed out that the US and Ottomans didn't even declare war against each other, during WWI. No enemies.
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  7250.  @LEP021085  They track most of their guns ussed in crimes to the US, dimwit. Their gun problem is their neighbor.
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  7251.  @LEP021085  Oh boy, the guns don't kill people bullshit. Yeah, neither do nukes. Do you think we should sell mini nukes and launchers at Walmart? Maybe jars of chemical or bio weapons. Maybe we should sell all drugs over the counter. You know, because one inanimate object can't be deemed more dangerous than other inanimate objects. If an inanimate spoon is just as deadly as an inanimate gun, then why can't you just use a spoon for self defense? Haven't you just stripped away any value a gun might have? Switzerland has one of the highest firearm mortality rates amongst developed countries. Whatever else they're doing to reduce other crimes, is irrelevant. They could potentially have both lower overall violent crime rates, and next to no firearm mortality, like Japan, if they had fewer guns.
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  7252. @Lew 286 Here's what hasn't worked ... authoritarian crony capitalism (fascism) ... authoritarian communism (Stalinism, etc.), which zero politicians are calling for ... Ayn Rand style Libertarianism, which leaves many uneducated, many without proper healthcare, idiotically leaves big business to self regulate, and ends with labour riots, and such like ... and anarcho-capitalism, which quickly devolves into feudalism. On the other hand, more centrist mixed economies are ranked the best places to live, in the world. The US political spectrum is almost entirely right of centre. Bernie is the actual centrist.
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  7253. So Russia hasn't been d*cking around in former SSR countries, since 1991? Putin didn't write an essay stating he thought they should all belong to Russia, again? Weird to whine about not wanting NATO on your border, while literally trying to expand your own borders to NATO.
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  7254. Did you never see the USSR Olympic teams?
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  7255.  @decanuck  LL and Rubin aren't separate. They're partners. IHS and Koch aren't separate. He's a board member. Kevin Bacon isn't separate from the Bacon Brothers band, ffs.
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  7256.  @decanuck  Fuck you're a moron. That's still 1, dipshit, from the Rubin partnership to Koch being on the board.
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  7257.  @decanuck  Do you know what "separation" means, dummy?
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  7258.  @petercraigg1  Kids and immigrants have to get vaccines. Pretty much everyone whining about possibly being forced to get a vaccine has already likely been forced to get many, to go to public school. When you want the "right" to spread disease and death, I think you've already given up wanting to be a civil member of society.
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  7259.  @ronaldmatthews7361  Did you address not renting to blacks in your wall of bullshit?
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  7260.  @ronaldmatthews7361  No, he was taken to court for not renting to blacks. His counter suit was quickly tossed. And, he settled for not renting to blacks.
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  7261.  @ronaldmatthews7361  You know that a congressman is not a mayor or local representative, right? You know they're not a governor, or state representative, right? They're a federal representative. They represent a voice for their district on federal matters. This is Pence's former congressional district, in a state he was also governor of ... https://www.theindychannel.com/news/local-news/muncie-wrestles-with-too-many-abandoned-homes So, why single out Cummings? Red states are poorer on average. They have higher homicide rates on average. They have higher firearm mortality rates on average. St Louis Missouri (red state) has a higher violent crime rate. East St Louis (Republican congressman) has a higher violent crime rate. Trump was just lying saying Baltimore is the worst, and even if you think a congressman is responsible, Mike Bost has a worse congressional district.
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  7262.  @ronaldmatthews7361  But you're lying. He wasn't taken to court for not renting to section 8. He was taken to court for not renting to blacks. Section 8 is irrelevant to the case.
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  7263.  @ronaldmatthews7361  Trump likely got his info about Baltimore from his family. https://www.bet.com/news/national/2019/07/31/trump_s-son-in-law--jared-kushner--owns-rat-infested-baltimore-p.html Big cities get more pests, as well as people. Baltimore isn't considered to have the worst rat problem, on top of not having the worst crime or poverty problem. So, why single out the black congressman's district? Oh, give me a break. Trump just outright made shit up about the black president. https://www.politifact.com/truth-o-meter/statements/2011/apr/07/donald-trump/donald-trump-says-president-obamas-grandmother-cau/
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  7264.  @ronaldmatthews7361  What false claim? And how was it cleared up?
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  7265.  @ronaldmatthews7361  The US has lots of shitholes. I just showed you one of Pence's shitholes. I showed others that are worse for violent crime and poverty. Why single out the black congressman?
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  7266.  @ronaldmatthews7361  What video? I'm not digging for a months old video, for some clip answering what? You're not even saying what you're talking about.
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  7267.  @ronaldmatthews7361  Rofl, and what "false claim" is there a supposed to be an answer to in there?
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  7268.  @JohnFreedman0  You might want to check how many of those others are international students. Ontario (Ford) approved 240k international students, in 2019, and it was the federal government (Trudeau) that halved their international student cap.
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  7269.  @JohnFreedman0  "Most non-permanent residents in Ontario are holders of work or study permits, with a small proportion of asylum claimants (9 per cent) and other categories (3 per cent). The largest proportion consists of international students (45 per cent)." "Canada hosted more than 1 million international students in 2023 Jan 24, 2024" <- That's provincial level public and private colleges/universities trying to attract them, for the higher, and not government subsidized, tuition fees.
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  7270.  NoFreedoms  Idiot. Sweden was often the worst in Europe for weekly covid cases, and has 5-10x more covid deaths per capita than its neighbors.
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  7271.  @NPC-bs3pm  You seem to be confused about the difference between trade for maximum profit, and trade period. Why would a sclst be opposed to trading the thing they're producing for things others are producing? You also don't seem to know the difference between taxing profits, after costs are already factored, and tax as an added cost.
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  7272. ​ @SamNMman505  ​Israel is objectively the aggressor by every relevant measure, dumb dumb ... Modern history: 100 years ago, in 1923, Ze'ev Jabotinsky fully acknowledged that Zionism is colonialism, and that, based on the entirety of history, the natives would fight it until the bitter end. He just didn't care what would happen to them, and promoted doing it anyway. Colonizers are never not the aggressors. On top of the colonialist nature of Zionism, the Zionists also formed terrorist organizations, like the Irgun and Lehi. They bombed many Palestinian markets and other public places, murdering many civilians, including children, even including Palestinian Jews (who opposed Zionism). Israel merged those terrorists into the new nation's military and intelligence agencies. Israelis elected Menachem Begin, leader of the Irgun, child murderer, Jew murderer, and bomber of the King David Hotel, as PM. Israelis, to this day, celebrate those terrorists as "heroes". Zionists literally taught their neighbours that terrorism is a valid path to independence and statehood, and that terrorists are to be celebrated. In 1945, it is well documented that Zionists owned just 5% of the land and were a majority nowhere. Israel was formed by actually going against the majority population. It's foundation is completely undemocratic. Then, becoming a majority, in "their" new nation, by ethnic cleansing the actual majority, and then claiming to be democratic, is utter nonsense. Law: Israel is considered an occupier by the International Court, the UN GA, and the UN SC. Occupiers are also never not the aggressors. Those occupied actually have a right to resist occupation. On the flip side, it is illegal for the occupier to settle occupied lands, and illegal to use collective punishment. Israel is a rogue nation, that doesn't abide by international law. What it has been doing, and is doing now, is illegal. Current events: This year, alone, prior to Oct 7 ... Israel held over 1200 Palestinian hostages without charges ... over 200 Palestinians had been killed by the IDF and settlers ... over 1000 Palestinians had been displaced by Israel's neverending colonization of the West Bank ... and, Israel continued to operate an open air WWII style fascist ghetto, in Gaza. Even ignoring modern history and law, in no reality did Hamas "start" anything.
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  7273.  @chimpmonkeyape  Lol, you're one of our 14% insane population? https://www.macleans.ca/politics/how-much-do-canadians-dislike-donald-trump-a-lot/
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  7274.  @ZooomaCW  "200 people without weapons" Pretty sure that's where your argument gets lost. There were armed people. There were people using fire extinguishers and flagpoles as weapons. There were people planting pipe bombs. There were people with flex cuffs. There were people with a working gallows. There were people taking cop weapons and using them against cops, even calls to take a cop's gun and kill him with his own gun.
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  7275.  @ZooomaCW  The goddamn fact is that what you're claiming was not a coup attempt, got further than Hitler's 1923 Beer Hall Putsch coup attempt.
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  7276.  Derek Hitt  You're going to start calling endless evolution of language "cancel culture"? Hahahaha!!! Are you going to start practicing your Old English, or are you going back to Old Germanic, or beyond? And you're equating trying to end a dependency on fossil fuels, to slow global warming, with not liking to hear profanity? Might as well call making newer fuel efficient cars cancelling old gas guzzlers. Or say adding airbags is cancelling people flying through windshields. You're a real nutter. Rofl.
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  7277.  Derek Hitt  Nope. You're the one that replied to my comment with your moronic fale equivalencies, not me. That's nice. Still not an outright ban. Just the government no longer being a partner. Are you going to move the goalpost again? Oh look, you have zero grasp what "fascist" means, as well. Not the brightest bulb, are you.
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  7278.  @debrajohnson382  N Korea is a republic, dimwit. Why don't Americans know what "republic" means?
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  7279. ​ @jeremyfrost1801  Name a single proposal by even the most progressive Dem, that would move the US left of Denmark (centrism).
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  7280. The rich like to point out that the bottom 50% only pay 3% of the total federal taxes collected. What they fail to point out is that the bottom 50% only owns about 1.5% of total wealth. A 2:1 ratio. The top 1% pays almost 40% of total federal taxes, but also owns almost 40% of total wealth. A 1:1 ratio.
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  7281. Aim for further, if you can. Canada may become Austria 2.0 or Poland 2.0.
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  7282. That's all wrong.
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  7283.  @michaels8620  How does forcing a 100% guaranteed to fail performance art vote, speed up anything? Justice Dems, AOC, and Bernie, have been working on adding more yes votes to congress. Getting enough yes votes in congress is literally the only possible way to ever pass the bill. Also, getting a president in place, that wouldn't veto the bill, moves you closer to being able to pass it. Dore outright backed someone campaigning against the M4A candidate, someone who said M4A was unAmerican. Sitting on the sidelines, in some irrelevant third party, possibly even giving up yes votes in congress, by abandoning those people, gets you nowhere, and might even move you further away. The most popular third party hasn't won a single seat in congress in its near 50 year existence. That's even less than an increment. Abandoning Nina Turner, abandoning adding another M4A yes vote to congress, gets you no closer. What are Dore, or this guy, proposing that actually gets you closer to being able to pass it? All corporate Dems have to do is amend a bill to the right, make some concessions to the less crazy Republicans, and get enough onboard to pass things without needing squad votes. On the flip side, there's no way to pick up extra votes to the left of progressives, if you lose too many conservative Dem votes on the right wing end of the party.
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  7284.  @michaels8620  Yeah, a C-SPAN covered floor vote ... totally samesies as thousands of people marching down a highway, covered by all media. Women's suffrage had a first vote to see how close they were to a supermajority, because the parties weren't as partisan, at the time, and they weren't sure how far off they were. They literally held back the bill, the next session, because they didn't think they had the supermajority yet, and saw absolutely no point in having a guaranteed to fail vote. Where are you getting this repeatedly having failed votes being beneficial from? The $15 got a vote, and even passed the house to get a senate vote. Dore knobs argue it was useless, and just keep bitching about those who got it to stay in for a round of voting and voted for it. How did getting a vote help? Isn't turning it into a hill to die on, and to slander M4A's most ardent congressional supporters, part of what turned it stupid? FTV was dead in the water as soon as Dore, and his knobs, used it to slander AOC, and the vast majority of progressives, which was almost right out of the gate. Yeah, Dore killed his own plan, by being a moron. That's the reason you try to detach the man from his own plan, because he's too hard to defend. If he was easy to defend, there'd be no issue with keeping him attached to his own plan. Don't you think he destroyed any chance of getting any of the 15 progressives he named, on board, the moment he started slandering the first one? Any leverage Hinkle believes the squad has entirely depends on Dems being the majority of the house. This midterm will be a helluva fight to try and keep that majority, especially in those more conservative purple districts. Is there some benefit to progressives becoming a minority within a minority, and having Republicans win the majority?
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  7285.  @trickysnacks  "fake IRS" "scam"
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  7286.  ==/A\==  Rofl, there was no backpeddling, dumb dumb.
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  7287. @Lucid Dreamer Lol, if you're not voting for someone to fight for your best interests, then what are you voting for?
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  7288. @Lucid Dreamer And if others try to interfere with those rights, do you want that president to fight them, fight for your rights?
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  7289. @Lucid Dreamer Rofl, and who appoints the judges who will oversee that? Are you opposed to the President vetoing anything?
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  7290.  @meghnac78  You corrected the date in the first sentence. It seemed like you were arguing with them, about what Ghandi wanted, when they said the same thing. That's why I picked the part I picked. It seemed like you misunderstood them.
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  7291. "Unions"? What a joke. As well as having high marginal tax rates in the 50s, the US was also 40% unionized in the early 50s. McCarthyism, the cold war, and decades of attacking and blaming unions has led to the US now being only 10% unionized. Becoming less unionized has only helped cause greater income inequality. Those unions also acted as counter lobbies to corporate lobbies, creating a more balanced lobbying system when it came to government. Now there's next to no counter balance to the corporate lobby, so they get what they want. Unions help create a strong middle class. Denmark is 70% unionized. They don't even need government to set a minimum wage, because the unions have negotiated a high average minimum, on their own. Blaming and destroying unions, in the US, has only made things worse.
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  7292.  Fire Stryker  No such thing as free speech on someone else's private property. If you want free speech, argue for public ownership.
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  7293.  @colonelangus8247  Yeah, it was totally the truth that kept fascists from ever achieving power.
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  7294. ​ @marklewen9384  A quote ... according to one anti-Catholic preacher.
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  7295.  @marklewen9384  That's nice. Still a "quote" by one anti-Catholic preacher, in his anti-Catholic book, and not included in any official quotes of Lincoln.
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  7296. A privately owned space was never bound by the first amendment. The first amendment applies to government.
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  7297. Germany's covid deaths per million rate would translate into about 400k fewer covid deaths in the US. But, yeah, bash on countries with much better covid outcomes.
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  7298.  @curious011  How would you reach that conclusion? Wouldn't those numbers imply the rich need to be taxed double?
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  7299. It's already written into the primary process, for both parties, dingus. If someone drops out, their delegates go to the convention unassigned. If nobody has enough delegates to win, the convention can vote to give them to whoever they want. Dems had their early vote, to beat state deadlines, and she won.
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  7300. Is there no point at which progressives should punish, or just give up on, the DNC?
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  7301.  @exiledfrommyself  And I'm simply talking the reverse. If you alienate part of the left (progressives), then why should they keep voting for non-progressives? Wouldn't that then be the non-progressives' failure, if you're consistent?
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  7302.  @bobbah3893  You're the one making up definitions, dumbass. Fascism: anti-union; anti-socialism; anti-feminism; anti-democratic (which gerrymandering is); ultra-nationalism; pro expanding military; pro expanding policing; backed by big business; backed by religious leaders; pro privatization; anti-free press; anti-free speech; "Fascism is the complete opposite of Marxian socialism" ~ Mussolini ... the complete opposite of non authoritarian socialism is authoritarian crony capitalism. It seems more like a fascist was shouted off the stage, which would make those shouting anti-facists.
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  7303.  @Openeyesopenheart42  So, you can afford to pay into the public healthcare system, pay for private insurance on top of that, and don't think it's a big deal to pay a few grand, is what I heard. Do you think the 90% of Australians using the public system, don't think a few grand is a big deal?
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  7304.  @seanhovan7426  No. You're just a dimwit who doesn't grasp when Biden gives literal numbers, indicating vaccines aren't 100%, and then talks virtually, figuratively. "Ten thousand people have recently died; 9,950 of them, thereabouts, are people who hadn’t been vaccinated. This is a simple, basic proposition. If you’re vaccinated, you’re not going to be hospitalized, you’re not going to be in an ICU unit, and you are not going to die."
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  7305.  @seanhovan7426  What aren't you grasping? No vaccine is 100%. The mumps and measles vaccine doesn't "stop" spread. It greatly reduces spread, and that's with a 90% vaccination rate. The covid vaccination rate is at a much lower 65%.
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  7306.  @seanhovan7426  Wtf are you talking about? The 90% vaccination rates for other things are in large part due to public school mandates.
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  7307.  @Thezuule1  No vaccine is 100%. Arguing vaccines are purely individualistic totally defeats the purpose of herd immunity, exactly like I said, dimwit.
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  7308.  @gaeron1305  Haiti isn't on the list of countries known for it, dingus. You thinking of Switzerland? "Not Just for Christmas: Swiss Urged to Stop Eating Cats and Dogs"
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  7309.  @1MarkKeller  They already do. Many Hispanic descendants of Spaniards aren't considered white enough, unless they're like right wing Cubans.
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  7310. @**it happens "Just as"? That's bullshit. He has repeatedly stated Christianity isn't as bad. He promotes people like Hirsi Ali, who (like Ann Coulter) suggests converting Muslims to Christians. When has he said we're at war with Christianity, Hinduism, or other religions?
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  7311. ​ @anuragchakraborty8766  Canada is a monarchy, dingus. That monarch also has nukes at his disposal.
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  7312. Dore vastly overestimated the benefits of a Trump presidency, claiming it would bring about a massive progressive backlash that would lead to progressives "for sure" taking the house (didn't happen) and the senate (didn't happen), in 2018, and the presidency (didn't happen), in 2020. He vastly underestimated the risks, claiming even Republicans would vote against a Trump agenda (didn't happen), wouldn't follow him into all out fascism (did happen), and that Trump filling multiple scotus seats (did happen) was as likely as the moon falling into Lake Michigan (hasn't happened yet). Also, a reminder that Trump was running on tossing 10m of the poorest Americans off of Medicaid expansion, while Clinton was running on adding 40m older Americans to Medicare expansion, and Dore is making out like he's the one true champion of healthcare, when he promoted the former as the better option.
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  7313.  @leonardzein5056  He's a moron and a quack, who has claimed that getting over an addiction requires a spiritual experience, and also claimed that his daughter's meat only diet cured him of his mental and physical ailments.
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  7314.  @dawaj3715  He never hid the fact that he's a harm reductionist, considers Republicans worse, and was going to support the Democratic candidate. If you expected him to do something different, you weren't paying much attention to him. You would have preferred peeling away enough progressive votes to let Trump win again?
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  7315.  @dawaj3715  Rofl. You think they're totally samesies?
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  7316.  @shadebleu  Rofl. Trump had racked up dozens and dozens of warnings that would have gotten anyone else a time out. One tweet was a final straw in a huge stack of hay.
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  7317. ​ @RoamingUndertheStars  Netanyahu promoted, and helped fund, Hamas, to weaken the Palestinian Authority, to avoid peace, so he could continue his colonization project.
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  7318. Votes got audited before certification.
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  7319.  @Stress-Free-K  We'll see who comes out, but he'll definitely be getting a decent share of "the" black vote. Mayor Pete is the one who isn't getting "the" black vote. You're talking nonsense. It's not fucking racist to poke fun at two people's similarities. Are people racist for pointing out similarities between Trump and Boris?
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  7320.  @Stress-Free-K   Funnily enough, I just saw another video, and someone commented, poking fun at Michael Brooks wearing a black button up shirt, saying he's representing the socialist Johnny Cash caucus. The racism is rampant!
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  7321.  Count of Monte Cristo  Read it again.
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  7322.  Count of Monte Cristo  Nope. Reread the op.
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  7323. I think we need to leave enough room in our use of language for thin people to express those kinds of insecurities, because they can lead to eating disorders that have killed people. It's not something they should be chastised, for talking about. This reminds me of the show, This Is Us, where Kate was initially annoyed with Madison being at an eating disorder group.
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  7324.  @jackjonnez6000  You still haven't pointed out any specifics that were false. Can you?
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  7325. I checked out Sky News Australia. Their headlines, and their comment section, is insane, as well.
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  7326. Except nobody was behind on their NATO "bill", and the decision for everyone to do their best to try and achieve a national (not NATO) defense budget of 2% of their GDP, happened in 2014 (under Obama), when Russia first invaded Ukraine. Trump is spewing bullshit, about allies, which is why they don't like him.
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  7327. What a load of nonsense. They are intelligent enough to mimic having a conversation (within parameters designed by their programmers), but they don't actually "believe" anything ... they aren't actually "happy" about anything.
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  7328. David! Can you and Lance please explain how, in Canada, the Conservative party wins the majority of seats, far more often than it should (it shouldn't win outside of 2 provinces, nor federally), due to Lib and NDP (and BQ) splitting votes. It would be even worse, in the US, because they have a higher percentage of Republican voters, than Conservatives do.
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  7329. Sure, if you don't count AOC just using her platform and PAC to help get more pro-M4A progressives elected to congress, replacing some DCCC backed corporate Dems ... yeah, didn't change the party at all.
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  7330. ​ @jon_wholesale  Ze'ev Jabotinsky wrote that Znsm is clnlsm. His Irgun and Lehi trrrst followers founded Likud, followers Einstein likened to Fscsts and Nzs. What's wrong with being opposed to clnlsm, trrrsts, Fscsts, and Nzs?
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  7331.  @robinalexander5558  Much of the clnzd world wasn't "nations", prior to being clnzd, dingus. The native majority of the mandate were offered to be clnzd, and they said "no thanks" ... Just like most people say "no thanks" to being clnzd.
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  7332.  @robinalexander5558  Who cares if the UN okayed clnlsm? The Brtsh 1939 Wht Paper decided against partition, but Likud's trrrst founders didn't accept, and taught everyone that trrrsm is a valid path to statehood. They didn't care that the previous League of Nations had given the Brtsh administerial control over the mandate. Just because the UN okayed something doesn't mean it wasn't clnztn. Both the Brtsh, and the early Znsts, called it such, themselves.
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  7333. So, his talent is grifting?
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  7334. The most popular third party hasn't won a single seat in congress in its near 50 year existence. The most popular progressive third party hasn't won a single seat in congress in its 20 year existence. It also produced a Kyrsten Sinema, so it's not like you can guarantee some fantasy perfectly perfect puritan candidates, just by going third party.
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  7335.  @shadebleu  You do know you don't know the definition of "Asia"?
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  7336.  @eriklakeland3857  Nope. They then get to pay themselves back, first, when they collect the VAT on what they're selling, and only send the difference to the government. It's only the final consumer who doesn't get paid back. A VAT is a sales tax that's collected in stages.
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  7337.  @eriklakeland3857  Yeah, and even if a business somehow pays more in VAT buying things than they collect in VAT selling things, they can still then ask for a refund, and not have actually paid a dime, in the end.
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  7338.  @heterodoxagnostic8070  How the hell is the fact that Ontario added it to their official human rights code in 2012, "bullcrap"? How the hell is the fact that Peterson was living and working in Toronto, "bullcrap"? How the hell is the fact that Peterson said in his statement to the government that he had to look up the OHRC wording, when he had already been living and working under their official code, for 4 years without incident or evidence of any other incidents, "bullcrap"? Whether he's nice, or not, is irrelevant to the fact that he's a moron.
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  7339. There were about 100m early, or mail in, voters, and about 50m election day voters. I think that's even more than 62% of adult Americans.
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  7340.  Patrick Skywalker  Dore had just spent weeks making out like other progressives aren't allies, that they're "fakes", "frauds", "sellouts", "betrayers", etc., if they didn't support a single secondary tactic. Then he turned around and made out like a far right ancap 2nd amendment nutter, who didn't support M4A at all, let alone a secondary tactic, and who had praised Kyle Rittenhouse shooting protesters, would make for a good ally ... just because he's more anti-authoritarian than the standard Republican (ignoring that the guy was going to Trump "stop the steal" rallies, which promoted overthrowing the democratic process). It was like Dore was an idiot, who had never heard of Libertarians, or ancappers, before. All having that guy on proved is that Dore is a moron and a hypocrite.
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  7341. I love how they think a god is on their side, but somehow couldn't simply have made Trump clearly win the election.
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  7342. Republicans are leading the charge to try and prove the US is liable, for funding it, so the rest of the world can sue the US and China. Bankrupt America to own the libs!!
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  7343. @@MirglipEA Literally voted against it, when is was a separate appropriation bill. Voting against the entire budget = voting against SNAP, Medicaid, SSDI, Medicare, housing, education, infrastructure, etc., etc., etc.
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  7344. The difference between them is that Jones says he's right wing, and actually benefits the far right, while Dore claims to be left wing, but somehow also benefits the far right.
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  7345. Weirdly trying their best to kill off their older voter base.
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  7346.  @Name-jw4sj  He almost has the exact same percent of the vote. Not as many people voting in 2016, doesn't mean they voted for someone else, and doesn't mean they weren't pro Republican. It just means they didn't get out and vote. It was made easier to vote in 2020, so more people voted, for both sides. Even if your argument was sound, that means Democrats increased their base by even more millions, and the argument that he made more enemies than allies is still valid. Your attempted defense makes zero sense, either way.
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  7347.  @Name-jw4sj  According to you, simply people who vote for you. If more people vote for you, then your base has increased. That was your opening argument.
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  7348.  @Name-jw4sj  To be honest, it's hard to tell at this point, because you've started arguing against yourself along the way. When someone else pointed out the opposition's base expanded more than Trump's, you argued that the opposition's base didn't expand, they had always been opposed, but they just didn't vote before. Then, when I lay out that Trump's base didn't expand, they just didn't vote before, you argued against yourself, by defining the "base" as those who vote, which makes you then arguing that the opposition's "base" did expand. As I pointed out, about the same percentage of the population (not just voters) approved of him at the start and finish. More of those people simply voted in 2020 vs 2016. He may have fired his base up, to get more out to vote, but his style, and rhetoric, and yes who he has attacked, fired up more people that wanted him gone, and got even more of them out to vote. He even got a large percentage of those who voted third party in 2016 to vote for the opposition, people wanted him gone so badly.
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  7349.  @Name-jw4sj  Should I just leave you to argue with, and contradict, yourself?
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  7350.  @Name-jw4sj  You, literally, argued the opposition's "base" didn't grow and that it simply didn't vote in 2016, then you argued that "base" means voters. You're the confused one, dumb dumb.
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  7351.  @Name-jw4sj  By the definition of "base" = voters, the opposition "base" grew more than Trump's, because way more turned out to vote against him, than for him. You're trying to use a different definition of "base" for each side.
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  7352.  @sullen2420  That they have some kind of leverage is the entire basis for FTV, that Dore knobs are still blathering about a year later. It's the entire basis of Hinkle's argument, that they should be killing bills, and behaving like the Tea Party. If there's an agreement that they have no leverage, then Dore and Hinkle have been blathering utter nonsense. An enemy of my enemy is my friend, has been used for gaining power throughout history. Going all out war against on two fronts has almost always been a bad idea. If you think corporate Dems and Republicans are totally samesies, then you're a complete and utter moron.
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  7353.  @sullen2420  Rofl. Those people's views are the topic of the video, ffs, and you mention him in your op. You said he's right, but he thinks they have leverage, which makes his argument moronic. She just got done backing progressives in some of those same conservative districts and they got creamed, but the more conservative Dem beat the Republican. Making out like fascists, who just tried to overthrow the democratic process to keep Dumpty on as an unelected dictator, are samesies as corporate Dems, is beyond moronic. Making out like people who all voted against another round of covid stimulus and against the $15 are samesies as those who voted for those, is beyond moronic. Making out like those who have tried to toss 10+m of the poorest Americans off of Medicaid expansion, dozens of times, are samesies as those who aren't doing that, is beyond moronic. Being in neutral might suck, but going in reverse is worse. Progressives have better odds in more solidly blue districts, taking out corporate Dems there. Meanwhile, Republicans not having the majority is better all around. Whatever, don't give a shit if Republicans rule, then. That's the same Dore knob mentality that didn't care if Trump beat Clinton.
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  7354.  @BigTDesai  Except an impeachment would still leave the democratically elected Republican VP as president. It's not an attempt to completely overthrow the democratic process to keep an unelected ruler in power. They aren't samesies.
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  7355.  @whyamimrpink78  Nope. That one guy was the head of government. You cultists get that right? Pretending he wasn't the government is denying reality. And you lot were also okay with him (the government) firing, or threatening to fire, people who contradicted him (the government), but whine about private companies cancelling club memberships, which has nothing to do with free speech, and has been going on since the dawn of club memberships. You were also okay with fighting against the people, the democratic process, to try and keep that head of government on as an unelected ruler ... a dictator. You're an insane bunch, that has reality ass backwards. You lot also seem to pretend like FOX isn't the biggest MSM outlet going.
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  7356.  @4idhero798  And ... why would Yang have been able to pass anything?
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  7357.  @Rob_Cary  David made it perfectly clear that there is a human version, dimwit.
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  7358.  @Mike2digital  Moron. A VAT doesn't actually tax corporations, as Yang falsely claims it does. "a consumption tax because it is borne ultimately by the final consumer. It is not a charge on businesses." https://ec.europa.eu/taxation_customs/business/vat/what-is-vat_en "Final consumers are not entitled to such credits, which means that they pay all the GST on every item purchased. The GST is thus a multi-stage tax on final consumption." http://publications.gc.ca/Collection-R/LoPBdP/BP/prb0003-e.htm#A.%20Taxing%20Mechanism(txt) Since a VAT won't actually tax corporations like Amazon, and since their share of US consumer spending is 2%, handing consumers $3t would only make Amazon an extra $60b a year. That would make Bezos something like an extra $6b a year. He could buy a new $1b yacht every year, pay $100m in VAT, and still be in the plus $5.9b. Yang is not making corporations and the super rich pay you anything. His plan would only make them richer. It would also leave some very poor people worse off, rather than "eradicate poverty".
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  7359. ​ @yabadabadont8219  Israel has all Palestinians IDed. Pretty easy to cross check. The numbers have been accurate before. What makes you think they're lying, this one time? Because the people bombing them told you not to trust the numbers?
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  7360.  @wasdwasdedsf  Andy Ngo, was editor at Quillette. Those a Quillette article described as "conservative" victims of supposed liberal Twitter bias ... American Nazi Party National Policy Institute Richard Spencer David Duke League of the South Radix Journal Mike Enoch Paul Nehlen and more. Everyone should have a bias against those fucks, liberal and conservative alike.
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  7361.  @DanA-nl5uo  Risk getting another Trump, all for a very low odds chance to get a president that can be easily overridden by congress, on this issue?
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  7362.  @marshalLannes1769  What is the One Million Plan?
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  7363. ​ @hardybuzz3592  Both parties have the exact same rules, for when people drop out before the convention, dingus.
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  7364.  @unelectedleader6494  NATO didn't ask the US to have a huge military budget. They did that all on their own. Almost all of the US military budget is completely outside of the NATO budget. Trump is a moron, who doesn't know how NATO funding works. There's a formula for the NATO budget, and everyone is paying exactly what they're supposed to.
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  7365.  @agarthastudio6005  Yes, I do know, because it has been reported on in Mississippi. No, there are absolutely not as many doctors and scientists opposed to vaccines, as there are in favor. Other doctors and scientists showing, for example ... that an ivermectin "study" was outright fraudulent, that they were falsifying data, and pulling it from publication, doesn't make it "smeared and censored". It makes it garbage and misinformation that shouldn't be spread around.
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  7366. ​ @grammary69  Latino is a geographical grouping (people from Latin America). Hispanic is a language grouping (Spanish speakers). Latinos and Hispanics come in wht (predominantly Spanish ancestry), blk (§|a√€§), native, and mixes thereof. There's no double standard. "Cuban" is a nationality and 64% of Cubans identify as wht. Predominantly wht especially applies to the first few waves of the fscst Batista family, friends, government, mltry, and those who got wealthy under Batista, that immigrated (without visas) to the US, commited the most 70s trrrsm in the US, but were still given special golden ticket fast passes to citizenship, and were taken in by the Republican party.
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  7367. You don't seem to know what "redundant" or "solicited" mean.
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  7368.  @sledzeppelin  The US was founded on protesting, rioting, and fighting authoritarianism. Anti-authoritarian doesn't even necessarily represent the far left. Even right wingers can be anti-authoritarian.
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  7369.  @sledzeppelin  Yes, not a novel, but "authoritarianism" covers a lot of things, so I don't think it's incomplete. They, literally, started protesting and rioting over extra taxes that specifically funded the red coats (police/military). My suggestion would be to make some effort to fix the damn system.
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  7370.  @PoochuTheHunter  Bernie will most likely beat her in number of primary votes. The matter is beating Biden, if progressive votes are split, and also who she'd hand her delegates to, if she did drop out at a later date.
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  7371. This story is 2 months old. Why are you choosing now to promote nice ways to propose in public with a crowd of friends, or nice ways to carry germs from one old age home to another?
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  7372. Except the California firearm mortality rate, and homicide rate, are both lower than numerous states with less gun control.
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  7373. Ok, and how many strikes on the ME, since 9/11, by the US and IL, and how many dths?
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  7374.  @fullyfb3847  Rumble is funded by Peter Thiel, a far right loon that wants the Republican party to become even more Trumpist/fascist. They wouldn't offer to pay Joe, if they thought they were a threat to their agenda. They're inviting grifters, like Glenn Greenwald, Tulsi, Jimmy Dore, that fit their agenda, just fine. The far right either sees Joe as one of them, or at least sees him as a gateway.
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  7375.  @fullyfb3847  Is that the same "freedom loving right" that was okay with the actual government (head of government) firing, or threatening to fire, anyone who contradicted him? That was okay with that same head of government saying people should be fired for kneeling? That was okay with the actual government making anti-BDS laws? That was okay with the actual government making it harder, or more dangerous, to protest? That still has a government agency protecting their delicate conservative sensibilities from naughty words and nipples? Conservative religious types have been cancelling things and people for millennia, and are far more likely to use the authorities to do it. So, a far right loon, like Thiel, or you, supporting Joe, isn't evidence he's acceptable to right wing loons? "Freedom loving" Thiel is literally trying to purge the party of non Trumpists.
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  7376.  @vulcanh254  Name a country where capitalism has never failed.
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  7377. Owned by a close friend of Trump and Giuliani. Krystal is their Chris Wallace.
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  7378. He also argued that Republicans could obstruct even more by going nuclear, and Democrats wouldn't be able to get anything done. And then argued that when Republicans are the majority, they'll be able to pass anything they want, as if Democrats couldn't possibly do the same thing to them. Either not having the filibuster allows you to pass things more easily, or it doesn't. He made zero sense.
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  7379. Is he talking to the numerous victim witnesses, numerous healthcare witnesses, and numerous NGO witnesses? Is he talking to the multiple human rights groups investigating and building legal cases against Syria, for the victims? Is he talking to the numerous actual inspectors, instead of 2 debunked extras that weren't even part of the full investigation, one not even being an inspector as Aaron claims? Is he talking to Syrian and Russian officials who both agreed there was a chemical attack ... they just tried to blame it on rebels? I could have written his Syria "scandal" article from Canada. There was no on the ground content in it.
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  7380.  @mananimal3644  Same old 2000 nonsense, lol. All you did was agree with me. Yes to Trump.
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  7381.  @ethanstump  The most popular third party hasn't won a single seat in congress in its near 50 year existence, and can still only run a presidential candidate in about a dozen states after all that time.
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  7382.  @meaghanorlinski8464  Aiding and abetting then.
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  7383. Israel was founded on terrorism. Menachem Begin was the leader of the Irgun terrorist group, that bombed the King David Hotel. Israel celebrates those terrorists. They literally taught their neighbours that terrorism is a valid path to independence and statehood.
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  7384. @C M <- Not at all a bunch of right wing loons.
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  7385.  @bretbonner  All laws mandate you "to do the right thing", ffs. Are you an ancap loon, or something?
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  7386.  @janetbest6638  I know. That's why I said he was always 50% theirs, through his mom. He got natural born citizenship to both countries.
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  7387. Actually adding another yes vote to congress, in Nina Turner, would have gotten you closer to getting M4A, than a performance art vote would have, and Dore argued against her.
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  7388. Sounds mostly right. I'd only change limiting it to the "leadership" of the Confederates. The majority of Southerners elected pro slavery representatives, voted against abolitionist candidates. The same racist majority that then voted for segregation and against desegregation, for another 100 years after the war.
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  7389. It's not like they never get cold spells. Plus, even if you thought weatherizing was a waste of money, they have also been hit by hurricanes. Having a totally independent grid, not even emergency access to a neighboring grid, is stupid.
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  7390.  @nassaubahamas8570  How many times have you copy and pasted this bullshit? No vaccine has been shown to have 0% efficacy.
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  7391. Sam's racist against Jimmy Dore? lol
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  7392.  @Aerational  I didn't give an opinion on whether what he is saying was right, or wrong. Devoting your entire channel to just bashing Democrats becomes indistinguishable from a right wing channel devoted to bashing Democrats.
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  7393. You're an idiot. Obama's last budget ran through to Oct 2017. The stock market has basically flatlined since Trump's first budget and the start of his trade wars.
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  7394.  @gledatelj1979  In the real world, outside the US Overton window, progressives are center to center-right, corporate Dems are center-right to right, and Republicans are right to far right. That makes Republicans the furthest extreme from actual centrism.
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  7395. Try ... to pass it? That's not even a thing. It will fail. And then you'll have to do the hard work of getting more progressives elected to congress, which her progressive PAC just helped do, and for which she was punished (as they mentioned).
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  7396.  @ojo1979  You know people can disagree on tactics but agree on the goal, right? So maybe shove the straw back up your ass, instead of building men with it.
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  7397. The asylum law says to get yourself inside the country, and it doesn't care how you do it. The misdemeanor of non point of entry crossing, that racist loons want to kill people over, is waved, if their asylum is accepted.
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  7398.  @stopwritingthatreplyjohnat6638  No, you don't know much about the Boogaloos. That guy Dore had on praised Kyle Rittenhouse. They're gun loving right wing nuts, who will shoot you for even thinking of taxing them, once you hand in hand help them topple the authority. Dore ditched the people who want M4A over a tactics disagreement, slandered the hell out of them for weeks as "fakes", "frauds", "sellouts", etc., writing them off as allies. Then he immediately turned around and presented someone who disagrees on almost everything as a potential ally. He's insane. You are likely insane, as well, if you can't see it.
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  7399.  @InfernoBlade64  Exactly. These Dore knobs want to get themselves on the wrong side of a Night of the Long Knives.
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  7400.  @stopwritingthatreplyjohnat6638  Bullshit. AOC used her platform and PAC to back 20 pro-M4A progressives and helped add a few more M4A yes votes to congress, the very thing you need to do to ever pass the bill. She has done more for M4A in 2 years than he has in his entire lifetime. Mr one true champion of healthcare didn't give a crap if 10m of the poorest Americans were thrown off Medicaid expansion and didn't give a crap about adding 40m older Americans to Medicare expansion. Dore knobs are dumb as hell.
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  7401.  @stopwritingthatreplyjohnat6638  Is Pelosi still running on M4A and helping to add more M4A yes votes to congress, removing corporate Dems from congress in the process? Did Pelosi campaign for Bernie instead of Biden or Tulsi? Dore knobs have proved they would have done absolutely nothing with a failed vote, anyway. The $15 got a vote. Did they do anything with their oh so precious list of no voters? No. The pathetic hypocrites just kept whining about those who voted for it. They're lazy and want everything done for them. There's already a list of congress members who won't cosponser it. Do something with it already, and stop bitching at those on your side.
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  7402.  @stopwritingthatreplyjohnat6638  Typical Dore knob strawman. Rofl. The civil Rights Act never failed on a vote, dimwit. It was introduced at the end of a session. A minority filibustered until the end of session, it never failed a vote. At the beginning of the next session, it was quickly reintroduced. The minority filibustered for another 50 days, and then it was passed by the same majority that was for it the previous session. Civil rights had the protests and marches for years before the Civil Rights Act. You have things in the wrong order.
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  7403. ​ @knightsoftheroundtable87 Numerous reports showing that the majority of drugs crossing the Southern border come through border crossings. Drug suppliers don't tend to like their drugs swept down a river, dying in desert, or locked up by border patrol.
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  7404. The Tea Party wasn't a third party, ffs. Even the most popular third party hasn't won a single seat in congress in going on 50 years.
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  7405.  @gnubbiersh647  You asked me a question. The "opinion" on biological males competing in women's sports, given in the movie, is that there are people doing it just so they can compete against biological females. Sorry, that you don't like hearing the fact that they're a dishonest bunch.
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  7406.  @gnubbiersh647  I gave an example of a group of men, desperate to prove something, who still refused to go through HRT, to do it. Do you have any examples of men going through HRT, for the sole purpose of achieving higher sport rankings?
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  7407.  @robinsss  Most violent crime is same race vs same race, because most is domestic, or between people who know each other. And they're already being treated like criminals. Why, in the middle of a discussion about cops behaving badly, do you want to change the subject, to that? Pretty sure you don't want to talk about crime and poverty going hand in hand, that black Americans have double the percentage in poverty, and ways to remedy that. So, why is it you want it talked about it, if not simply to whatabout and deflect from cops behaving badly?
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  7408.  @robinsss  But even the right wing media doesn't mention it, until something about a cop is brought up. It's generally only mentioned to interrupt a conversation about a cop. And, again, what is it you want to discuss about it?
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  7409.  @robinsss  Rofl, they don't tend to talk about black on black crime, and possible solutions, when they mention Chicago. They mention Chicago with gun violence and gun laws, dishonestly using Chicago totals to paint a false narrative. Chicago is a large city. Going by per capita rates, St Louis is actually the gun violence capital of the US. Do you want to talk about poverty and crime going hand in hand, poverty levels being higher in red states, and actually do something about the black American poverty rate? Do you want to talk about how firearm mortality rates and homicide rates tend to be higher in states with less gun control, and actually do something to reduce those numbers? Those aren't solutions right wingers tend to want to discuss.
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  7410.  @chrisallum9044  No, it's not. Denazification wasn't itself fascism. The fairness doctrine wasn't fascism.
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  7411.  @Wiffernubbin  No. Lehi tried to ally with Italy once and Germany twice. And they said they could raise 40000 fghtrs in Europe (which is oddly a similar amount to Ze'ev Jabotinsky's Betar youth movement, which became both the Irgun and Lehi).
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  7412. Former Mitchell Center Senior Fellow (2017-2021) Former Benjamin Franklin Presidential Professor of Practice (2017-2021) "Vice President Joseph R. Biden, Jr. was named the Benjamin Franklin Presidential Practice Professor at the University of Pennsylvania, where he led the Penn Biden Center for Diplomacy and Global Engagement, a new center focused principally on diplomacy, foreign policy, and national security. The Center was located in Washington, D.C. Biden also had an office on the Penn campus in Philadelphia. His role also included an appointment at Senior Fellow at the Andrea Mitchell Center for the Study of Democracy. As Presidential Practice Professor, Biden held joint appointments in the Annenberg School for Communication and the School of Arts and Sciences, with a secondary affiliation in the Wharton School."
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  7413. Nonsense.
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  7414.  @Milanvaneijk  Meh, it would be kind of moronic to call US Libertarians, extreme "left". "Left" and "right" is economics. Either can be more, or less, authoritarian.
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  7415.  @Milanvaneijk  I'm Canadian. I specifically used a capital "L", as in Ayn Randians or ancappers. They are considered far right because they are far right, and I consider corporate Dems to be right of centre. But okay, whatever.
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  7416.  chris Barnett  *there. Duh.
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  7417. ​ @Ghastlyteaparty  Cows (fehu) were their currency. Whether you have a coin as a placeholder between selling a cow and buying a donkey, or you straight up trade a cow for a donkey, is of little relevance. They both still indicate an economy based on trading private property. It developed through a bunch of private property claimants (capital: wealth producing wealth), with no authority above them (anarcho), using their own private armies to settle land disputes. If the winner subjugated the other, or installed someone to rule over the new land under them, then a hierarchy began forming. Much like the cattle barons of the Western Territories, with little to no authority above them. They hired their own private armies of cowboys, and started throwing their weight around. They were only stopped by the federal government influencing more control over the region, removing the anarcho element. Taxes have been around since ancient Egypt. But, until governments started becoming governments of the people, the "taxes" were really just direct payments to a private land owner, not to a non person government entity. The top of the hierarchy was a private landlord, and everyone who lived on his property, was paying rent in some form or another. No peasant could do whatever they wanted, if what they wanted was to live on a Lord's land for free.
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  7418. ​ @KungFuDoom  "Fascism is the complete opposite of Marxian socialism." ~ Mussolini
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  7419.  @robinsss  If they wanted to end slavery, then why didn't they at least end owning slaves, themselves?
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  7420. Puberty blockers delay puberty until they can make the decision. It's kind of the point.
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  7421.  @daviddeida  So, delay puberty until it is more developed?
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  7422.  @clemmettalan8250  Conservative religious types have been cancelling things and people for centuries, dumb dumb. Plus the allied denazification of Germany literally cancelled Nazism, so to make out like cancelling equates to Nazism is ridiculous.
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  7423.  @whyamimrpink78  Capital L Libertarian isn't a vague term. It's the Any Rand kind of crowd.
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  7424.  @immanny85  And then literally said if you're going to take a punch, punch upward.
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  7425.  @LukeMcGuireoides  The only thing I can think of is the movie The Man Who Would Be King, with Michael Caine and Sean Connery. There were villages that were pissing and shitting in the river, which polluted the river for the village downriver from them.
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  7426. Zionists are the ones who have literally been justifying killing civilians. They're just objectively wrong about who the aggressor is. So, is killing civilians justified, or no? If so, then you're the ones justifying the Hamas attack, not leftists.
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  7427. He didn't obliterate her. His question obliterated her anti-war grift, by exposing she's pro-war, like him.
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  7428.  @mjw2002mjw  Nice strawman. Argue with yourself elsewhere.
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  7429. MR were promoting voting for Nina, to add another M4A yes vote to congress, because getting enough M4A yes votes in congress is the only possible way to ever pass the bill. AOC was campaigning for Nina that day. Dore and wife abandoned Nina, abandoned adding another M4A yes vote to congress, and the M4A marchers also abandoned Nina.
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  7430. ​ @MajorAnthonyNelson  So don't vote for him.
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  7431.  @originalpunkSxE  Lol, I know. MAGA morons also shouldn't vote for Hunter Biden.
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  7432. ​ @lgroots8691  <- This loon, apparently. 😅
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  7433.  @lgroots8691  Lol, it's iTunes. F*cking Billy Joel is #2. Like they said ... old people.
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  7434. Slandering people can invite violence. Like when Trump made out like Georgia Reps were sellouts, and they started getting death threats.
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  7435.  @mcoo465  Where were you lot when the actual government (president) was threatening to fire people and actually did fire people, if they said things Supreme Leader didn't like?
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  7436. He doesn't even understand how his key tax proposal actually works. His followers are obviously idiots, helping Amy get delegates, that she can hand to Biden when she drops out. Definitely not a progressive movement. A VAT is a sales tax collected in stages with all the business stages getting paid back their input VAT. It's specifically designed to NOT tax businesses in order to avoid double taxation. Anyone promoting a tax that doesn't tax businesses as a way to tax businesses is speaking gibberish. https://ec.europa.eu/taxation_customs/business/vat/what-is-vat_en
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  7437.  @crystalh450  How did you make that jump? Anti-racism doesn't equate to being anti some other race. "Not putting up with racism" is being against racism ... anti-racism.
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  7438. ​ @HoldenNY22  I left it out because it happened in Europe, not Palestine, and the Palestinians didn't do it. You know that was Germany, right? And you know the Russian pogroms was Russia, not Palestinians, yeah?
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  7439.  @TheAtemiles  I'm referring to Knowles thinking soccer is anti-American simply because Americans don't dominate.
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  7440. @Gawanipony 3 Enron assholes represent about a decade of her 21st century career, and Flynn represents her current career. How far back do I have to go, to find what you simply asserted?
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  7441. @Gawanipony 3 We know for a fact that they started making baseless claims of widespread voter fraud, from the get go. The election swinging the other way is only evidence of the election swinging the other way, and yet Trump was already making up bullshit on election night. We know for a fact that they still didn't have evidence of widespread voter fraud, when they set up their hotlines, fishing for evidence. They still didn't have evidence, when they set up their online affidavit gathering, fishing for evidence. They still didn't have evidence, when they offered rewards, fishing for evidence. Desperately fishing for evidence, is evidence you don't have evidence. Trump did this in 2016 ... claimed widespread voter fraud ... and his own election integrity commission found nothing of the sort, proving Trump just throws around baseless bullshit. At this point, it's ignorant to give this group of pathetic little liars the benefit of the doubt.
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  7442. ​ @AConquerorsVendetta  Krystal is more of a joke. She's just a gateway into hearing little to no pushback against Saagar's bullshit. And, now, Kyle is a gateway to her.
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  7443.  @AConquerorsVendetta  Krystal doesn't give Saagar much pushback. The whole schtick, started at Rising (The Hill being owned by a multi-millionaire Trump supporter and family friend), allows much of his right wing nonsense to be accepted as reasonable. Meanwhile, he was also over on The Daily Caller, right up Trump's butthole. Somewhat like Rogan, Krystal lets nonsense pass for reasonable.
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  7444. So that makes him MLK Jr?
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  7445.  @Halohalo2323  Do you not know who Peterson is?
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  7446.  @alexanderjamezz  "Masculinity isn't toxic" ~ Jordan Peterson You know why people are making fun of him crying, right?
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  7447. Umm, because he had killed someone. If citizens are not allowed to intervene, when they think a crime has happened, then Kyle, and the militia, shouldn't have been there from the get go. Pick one: citizens can try and stop someone they think is a criminal, or they can't.
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  7448.  @kgt7500  Everyone has conversations and gives their opinions on stuff. If that's all the op is referring to, then everyone has "done" stuff. He seemed to be implying that Harris deserves recognition for having "done" something special. What?
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  7449. Rofl! You think it would have passed the filibuster?
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  7450.  @ChrisHart78  They were also aware that the North would likely not stand for the union disolving. So, given their reason for seceding, slavery, and knowing it would likely lead to war, how was the war not about slavery?
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  7451. Dore knobs don't seem to consider the fact that corporate Dems can just let progressives paralyze the house, and then blame them for no new covid relief, no new unemployment extensions, no new vaccine funding, no minimum wage increase, etc., while people struggle to get by. It isn't a risk free tactic. What do you gain if you do get the vote? A vote guaranteed to fail because it's still almost 100 votes short in the house, let alone the senate.
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  7452. Btw, AOC just used her platform and PAC to help get more pro-M4A progressives elected to congress, increasing the yes vote count, the very thing you need to do to ever pass a bill in congress, the very thing you'd still need to do after a failed vote.
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  7453.  @Nalgitas86  Wait ... are you under the delusion that the vote could pass now? It's almost 100 votes short in the house alone.
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  7454.  @Nalgitas86  Adding yes votes to congress is exactly what's necessary. It's the only possible way to ever pass a bill. If you, or Jimmy, has an extra 100 pro-M4A candidates in your back pocket, why didn't either of you pull them out for the election that just happened? There was already a list of names that hadn't signed onto M4A, that needed replacing. You know corporate Dems don't have to fold to the threat, and can just let progressives paralyze the house, and then blame them for no new covid relief, no new unemployment extensions, no new vaccine funding, etc., during a pandemic, right? And you're already going to get a new list of people that won't sign onto M4A when the bill is reintroduced in the new session.
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  7455.  @Nalgitas86  Still going to have to do the things they're doing after a failed vote, by adding yes votes to congress, anyway. Not sure why you're not grasping that fact. A failed vote won't drastically change then when.
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  7456. ​ @shogreene9215  Math says that won't happen and you'll just help Trump win.
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  7457.  @davidgetchell630  There you go. You just proved that Canada doesn't have strict voter ID laws. Republicans want specific photo ID only.
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  7458. He started going looney, at least, as far back as 2016, when it started looking like Bernie wasn't going to win the primaries.
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  7459.  @sergeikhripun  You don't know what a "supermajority" is. Democrats do not currently have a supermajority, and they had one in 2009, for all of a few months, if, and only if, you count independent, former Republican, Joe Lieberman, as an actual Democrat. A "supermajority" is not having a majority in the house, senate, and having the presidency. A "supermajority" is having a 2/3, filibuster proof, majority, you dimwitted Dore knob.
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  7460.  @sergeikhripun  You blathered a lot of crap that doesn't change the fact that you have no clue what a "supermajority" is, or are just being dishonest, if you think Dems currently have one. Ironic last sentence, considering that fact.
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  7461.  @sergeikhripun  Canada's healthcare system, btw, is more like Medicaid for all, rather than Medicare for all. Each province runs their healthcare and the federal government cost shares. Newsom adding more and more people to Medi-Cal is going in that direction. You'd have to be a complete and utter moron, if you think Trump, and Republicans, wanting to toss 10+m of the poorest Americans off of Medicaid expansion, is samesies. Or, that all the Republican states which turned down Medicaid expansion, for their citizens, are samesies.
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  7462.  @sergeikhripun  Every Republican in congress voted against the $15 minimum wage, dimwit. Having a handful of conservative morons in the senate isn't samesies with having the entire party opposed. I didn't answer questions that deflected from my point, that you either have zero clue what a "supermajority" is, or are dishonestly claiming there is one now? You just doubled down on it. At no point did Democrats have a supermajority "this year". Nothing you say can change the fact that you're clueless or dishonest. Which is it? Again, Newsom adding more and more people to Medi-Cal is moving in that direction. Republicans want to move in reverse. Not samesies.
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  7463. Why are Republicans so afraid of hearing women, and want them hauled off?
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  7464. Even if red states overproduced food, their economy is based on them selling that extra food to get other things they need, many of which are produced in urban areas (including many of the finished food products).
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  7465.  @AnonCitizenxx  And those civilizations are also free to toss holidays/celebrations they now consider stupid or wrong, dumbass. Do you have an actual point?
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  7466.  @Evirthewarrior  Rofl. Do you think Nina is anti-M4A, dimwit?
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  7467. The problem is that they care, and then upgrade. 2 guys in body armor, with semiautomatic rifles, trying to rob a bank in California, changed the face of law enforcement. The feds then started giving them military grade equipment. The less the public is armed, the less cops need to be armed.
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  7468. Luckily the voters still tend to vote blue in general elections, even if they voted against progressives, democratic socialists, in the primaries.
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  7469. @SeanJ2A Might lose a few, but not the majority. Same, when things go the other way. A few refused to vote for Biden.
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  7470.  @robertjenkins6132  You're misinformed or lying. Yang does not have the UBI stack with SSI disability, only SSDI and VA. SSI disability does currently stack with SNAP. If someone is already getting $1000+ in assistance of a variety Yang doesn't have stacking with UBI, then they'll be worse off under Yang. They may be allowed to opt to keep what they already get but they can't opt out of paying a VAT on many things. Universal free public college is open to all the public, but it doesn't universally hand money to rich people going to private expensive colleges. Not exactly comparable.
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  7471.  @xung3990  Seriously, get your facts straight, before you claim something is debunked, or you just look like you're lying for your cult.
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  7472.  @clintholmes2061  Not partisan and not a hack, are two different things, you dimwitted Dore knob. Chomsky argues for harm reduction. It might make his argument partisan, but it doesn't make him a hack, ffs. Dore doing little homework and spreading bullshit, is a hack.
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  7473.  @clintholmes2061  Nothing you blathered refutes that not partisan, and not a hack, are two different things. Sam criticizes Biden, and other corporate Dems, all the time, dimwit. It's your hack who would only report on the Biden scandal, because he's a grifter, who panders to the far right. Promoting progressives vote third party benefits corporate Dems and Republicans. Promoting Trump as the better option than Clinton or Biden, benefits Republicans. Promoting "extreme free market" Boogaloo psychos as allies, benefits the far right extremists. Spreading covid and vaccine misinformation panders to far right anti-vax nutters. Promoting abandoning Nina Turner benefits her DNC backed corporate Dem opponent. Promoting not voting for Bernie benefits his corporate Dem opponent. Slandering progressives that have done more for M4A in a few years than he has in his entire lifetime, benefits corporate Dems and Republicans. None of the directions Jimmy proposes taking benefits the left. He's a grifter, claiming to be selling you something beneficial, but is actually selling you something completely useless, or even harmful. Head on off to right wing Rumble, with "real" leftists, like Dore and Greenwald.
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  7474.  @clintholmes2061  Fitting, since you don't seem to know what any of those things mean.
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  7475.  @clintholmes2061  I was including "indistinguishable" with the "you don't seem to know what any of those things mean". And you still don't. Sam: Clinton sucks, but is still the better option than Trump. Dore: Trump is the better option than Clinton. Trump: Trump is the better option than Clinton. One of those things doesn't belong. The other two are indistinguishable.
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  7476.  @clintholmes2061  Cultist: "Fake News!" Jimmy Dore: Hillary Presidency Worse For Progressives & America Than Trump Jimmy Dore: "Biden has a worse record than Donald Trump." He twice promoted Trump as the better option than both of the only viable other options.
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  7477.  @clintholmes2061  Again, it's a trolley problem, dimwit. Throwing stones at the trolley won't make it stop. You can fantasize that you're doing something to try and stop the trolley, but you aren't.
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  7478. Actually, plenty of countries with universal healthcare discriminate against smokers, and have them pay extra taxes. Some also have extra junk food taxes. With the US system, they should have the unvaccinated paying extra out of pocket, so others in their insurance risk pool don't have to pay for their bad choices ... an 89x higher hospitalization rate.
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  7479. The exit polling is heavily skewed, this year. More Republicans voted in person, day of. More Democrats voted by mail, or early.
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  7480.  @lreez977  Instead of saying "Bernie Sanders asked if he's ...", it asked "Is Bernie Sanders ..."
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  7481. If she works for you, just assume no, ffs, and leave her alone.
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  7482. ​ @jimmcdevitt6084  You know they're usually televised and/or streamed, right?
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  7483. He likes to believe in the imaginary "Judeo-Christian" values, when Christianity is literally the least like the other two, since the vast majority of Christians believe in the Trinity gibberish, and that they don't have to follow any dietary laws, etc. Judaism and Islam are more similar.
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  7484. Our "societal norm" is that colonization, ethnic cleansing, and occupation, are still good things? I thought we had evolved from those. Are you going to finish off the natives and bring back slavery, as well?
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  7485.  TrackinDaMeta  Imagine you meeting an English speaking Christian Native American and thinking they're literally Anglo-Saxon.
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  7486. Zionists are equivalent to Nazis. Being anti-Nazi doesn't equate to being anti-German.
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  7487. ​ @MegaForrestgump  The senate is already wildly unrepresentative, with 2 people voting for 600k citizens and 2 people voting for 40m citizens.
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  7488.  @aliamjon2550  But, you didn't, dumb dumb. My point was based on them both having pasts since, yes, the whole world has pasts, and that you don't want to dig into the MLB's past, unless you also want to dig into Georgia's past, which is far freaking worse than a baseball organization's.
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  7489.  @aliamjon2550  What's to "decipher"? One had history of slavery and one didn't even exist until after the Civil War. If you think that's complicated, then you're not very bright.
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  7490.  @aliamjon2550  Dumb dumb, what aren't you getting about it being the fact that Tucker was the one that brought the history of the MLB into the discussion?
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  7491.  @aliamjon2550  Rofl. You're arguing against yourself, dumb dumb. History is relevant, or it's not, take your pick.
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  7492. I like the co-hosts John has brought in on The Damage Report.
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  7493.  @jojomany5792  You shut up. The Anuna, the seven judges, rendered their decision against her. They looked at her -- it was the look of death. They spoke to her -- it was the speech of anger. They shouted at her -- it was the shout of heavy guilt. The afflicted woman was turned into a corpse. And the corpse was hung on a hook. After three days and three nights had passed, her minister Nincubura (2 mss. add 2 lines: , her minister who speaks fair words, her escort who speaks trustworthy words,) carried out the instructions of her mistress (1 ms. has instead 2 lines: did not forget her orders, she did not neglect her instructions). ... "They will offer you a riverful of water -- don't accept it. They will offer you a field with its grain -- don't accept it. But say to her: "Give us the corpse hanging on the hook." (She will answer:) "That is the corpse of your queen." Say to her: "Whether it is that of our king, whether it is that of our queen, give it to us." She will give you the corpse hanging on the hook. One of you sprinkle on it the life-giving plant and the other the life-giving water. Thus let Inana arise." The gala-tura and the kur-jara paid attention to the instructions of Enki. They flitted through the door like flies. ... They were offered a river with its water -- they did not accept it. They were offered a field with its grain -- they did not accept it. They said to her: "Give us the corpse hanging on the hook." Holy Erec-ki-gala answered the gala-tura and the kur-jara: "The corpse is that of your queen." They said to her: "Whether it is that of our king or that of our queen, give it to us." They were given the corpse hanging on the hook. One of them sprinkled on it the life-giving plant and the other the life-giving water. And thus Inana arose.
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  7494.  @miwkins  All you said was that you were too stupid to Google before opening your trap.
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  7495. Couldn't even make it through your first paragraph. It was a steaming pile of horse shit. Firstly, you don't get to use Palestinian Jews as a place holder, for the "return", after 1700 years, of hundreds of thousands of people from Russia and Europe. They weren't holding a Jewish nation. They were Palestinians, that were Jews. And, they actually opposed Zionism. The Zionist terrorist groups, Irgun and Lehi, targeted them, right alongside their Palestinian brothers and sisters. I don't get to round up people from the Americas, whose ancestors left England hundreds of years ago, "go back", claim half of England, and cleanse "our" half of its current inhabitants. If I did, it would be colonialism. Even if I did have a distant cousin living there, that said it was okay, it would still be colonialism. These are batshit crazy, absolutely moronic, arguments. You're also absolutely lying, about the land purchases. There was a massive 1945 land and peoples survey. It found that the Jews owned a majority of the land in no district. Not even close. Non Jews owned a majority in every district except 4, and owned a plurality in 3 of those (public being the 3rd owner), and second to publicly owned in only 1 district. Jews were a majority nowhere. To have a Jewish majority state would require cleansing the lands of the actual non Jewish majority.
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  7496.  @jonz23m  Should we ditch all laws, all rules of the road, all other vaccines, all safety regulations, etc., etc., so as not to keep our "fear and anxiety"? Sounds genius.
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  7497.  @Str8Rippin93  The "leftist" anti-union billionaires? The "leftist" billionaires that make workers pee in bottles and hire an ambulance instead of getting air conditioning? The "leftist" billionaires that claim to have barely any income, so they don't have to pay into the system that helped make them rich, don't have to help pay for their workers future Medicare, etc.?
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  7498.  @danielwang7793  Affleck was right. Since then, Harris has even said that Nawaz showed him that there's not a singular version of Islam, which is what Affleck challenged him about. He just didn't clearly let everyone know that meant many of the earlier things he had said was garbage, and that it made many of his critics right.
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  7499. British parliamentarians had already chopped off a King's head, and had a short lived republic, over 100 years before the American Revolution.
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  7500.  @keirfarnum6811  Thanks. Help yourself. :)
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  7501. Views don't get counted until you watch a certain amount of the video. Some people hit like before the view is counted.
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  7502.  @siviweslara1023  All didn't sign on to be part of the new Rvssian Federation, just like Ukrn, after the Svt collapse. Georgia and Chechnya just didn't get as much time, before Rvssia interfered.
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  7503. They"ve got some stupid online affidavit gathering page. They've admitted in at least one of their court cases already that a bunch of them are garbage and spam.
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  7504. @Donald J. Trump If you think M4A is all out socialism, then socialism is working in all kinds of countries.
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  7505. Many are clueless to the fact that they're less authoritarian right wing, rather than less right wing.
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  7506.  @CeasiusC  Bullshit. The US shifted totally right of centre with McCarthyism, the Cold War, Tea Party, etc. FDR was a centrist, and the progressives are shifting back to the actual centre.
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  7507.  @CeasiusC  Zero politicians are calling for complete economic equality and an end of capitalism. Multiple politicians spew Ayn Randian far right nonsense. The US political spectrum is far right to centre-left.
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  7508.  @CeasiusC   Since 1994 ... when the US was already well right? Pulling back towards a centrist new New Deal, that would be considered perfectly normal in other developed countries, that would have been considered perfectly normal in the 30s and 40s US, is pulling the US back to more normalcy. The lunatic right has spent decades destroying unions, returning to Gilded Age levels of wealth disparity, screwing up other countries out of a completely irrational fear of anything even remotely centre-left sounding. A nation nationalizes one resource, or tries to raise minimum wage from $1.50 to $2 a day, and they lose their minds. The "lunatic" left is centre-left in just about any other developed country. It's the US that's insane.
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  7509. The most basic explanation ... 100% capitalism (right) = 100% privately owned and operated economy. 100% socialism (left) = 100% publicly owned and operated economy. Mixed economies are somewhere in between, with centrist economies a pretty even mix in the middle. Levels of authoritarianism, and whatnot, have little to do with the economics. Pointing at the USSR to represent socialism is like pointing at Nazi Germany to represent capitalism.
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  7510. ​ @orchid6699 Why?
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  7511. ​ @mattbebe2555  White is a color. What color is Ben?
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  7512.  @michaelgrimm2121  Policy wise, progressives haven't promoted any policies that would move the US left of Denmark, which is centrist, at most. It seems to be the right wing fascists that are using the government to ban bds, ban crt (which isn't even taught in public schools), ban abortions, ban life saving measures, make protesting harder and more dangerous, etc. They're also the ones who's leader called for overthrowing the democratic process, who's majority of lawmakers tried to overthrow the democratic process, and who brainwashed tens of millions of followers into believing a lie that led some to try and violently overthrow the democratic process. And you're whining about someone who wants you to have free dentures?
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  7513. 😂 What conservative values would those be?
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  7514.  @HalfDecentTrashCollection2001  Seriously, someone has to get outraged at the idea of making a wedding cake for gay people first, discriminate against them, before the gay people will be outraged that they're being discriminated against. Or, someone has to be outraged by abortion first, try to make it illegal, before someone will become outraged that their freedom to choose is being taken away. Etc.
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  7515.  @MarcSummers1  Rofl. Haven't ran across a single Yang ganger who did their homework on how a VAT actually works, who it actually taxes.
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  7516.  @LionEatingMan  A VAT is specifically designed to NOT tax businesses in order to avoid double taxation. What it basically means is that Yang is either completely ignorant, or completely dishonest, as to how it works, and so are his gang.
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  7517.  @nadrile  It seems you didn't read the last sentence of you're quote.
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  7518. ​ @FelisImpurrator  You're just talking prioritization, not empathy. The poor ones just care more about selfishly imposing their religion on others, than they do about other self interests. The rich ones likely don't really care about religion, but want to selfishly keep all their money.
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  7519.  @aarondickson9573  So, democratic socialism?
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  7520.  @aarondickson9573  You mean right wing Cubans? You know a slim majority of refugees were Batista administration, military, or Batista supporters, or are their descendants, right? As in fascists. That seems to correlate with a slim Cuban majority voting Republican.
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  7521. ​ @avinashtyagi2  They've changed their opinions, since the spring ... "Economists at Bank of America and JPMorgan now say a recession will not happen this year, or perhaps at all."
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  7522.  @mikehmike123  You know fascists were fascists before even getting any power, were fascists when they were expanding power, and then fascists when they had full control, right?
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  7523.  @robinsss  There were land grants during colonial times right up until the revolution, and there were land grants between the revolution and the Homestead Act. Back in the day, "property tax" also referred to all property owned, not just land and home. The US was also built on slavery. From the perspective of the owner, having the freedom to own other people might be considered libertarian, but from the perspective of the ones being owned, not so much.
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  7524.  @kristenungstad3252  I'd say even a little further back, to when Puritans were running a theocracy in the Americas.
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  7525.  @treeman5274  As far as the house goes, they kept the $15 in for a round of voting, it actually passed the house (M4A didn't have a chance in hell) and also got a senate vote. Surprise, surprise, Dore knobs no longer considered just getting a vote on an important progressive policy to be a big deal, and have done absolutely nothing with a list of no voters. They just continue to bitch about, and slander, those who got a vote on it, and voted for it. Dore knobs have proven themselves to be pathetic useless hypocrites. A senate public option bill was just submitted, this past month. See where it goes.
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  7526.  @ronniebaker4549  David outright said it wouldn't make it through the senate, multiple times, dimwit. All you proved was that you were the one speaking about what you didn't know, not him. What else do you think he doesn't know?
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  7527.  @ynemey1243  I didn't say anyone was obligated, you strawman spewing dimwit. Abandoning her was optional, and they chose that option. Glad we agree now. You're the one with the reading comprehension problems, dimwit. I said "not to vote for anyone running AS a Democrat". Nina was most definitely running AS a Democrat. You were spewing some bullshit nonsense that "Democrat" didn't apply to her. Dore is encouraging progressives to vote third party, you dishonest twit. I know exact what a strawman is. You, on the other hand, are clearly having severe comprehension problems.
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  7528.  @archologyzero  So you won't be mad, if two similar lousy corporate Dem candidates lose to Trump two elections in a row? Unlike Hillary, who is still mad that she's lousy.
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  7529. ​ @ADJvide0z  That user is as uncommitted as the MAGA one on CNN ... Which is not at all.
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  7530. Rofl. That's like if the "persecuted" Puritans said they needed their own Puritan country, and telling the pagan natives to go move to some other pagan land, if they don't like it.
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  7531.  @almac8840  His plan doesn't stack with SSI. A disabled person with a child, for example, would be getting $1000+ in SSI. Yang is only offering them a replacement. Opt in or out. Either way, they'll be worse off with the VAT raising their cost of living.
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  7532.  @stratocasterblue  The difference being that the left has numerous other policies, that benefit the bulk of the population. Abortion rights are just one of many policies. They don't rely on just that one policy. On the right, all they have is anti-abortion, and anti a few other things, with no beneficial policies, and those who vote for them care about anti-abortion, etc., more than they care about voting for their own best interests, unless they're rich.
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  7533.  @stratocasterblue  If corporate Dems are to the left of you, then you're pretty far right.
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  7534.  @cantizzy  No. For wandering the streets with a gun. I wouldn't be in his position.
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  7535. When?
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  7536. It's because Israel is connected to their Christian Armageddon fairy tale. They want Israel to take the mount, raze the mosque, and build a third temple, to bring about the second coming and end of times. Ironically, Israel is the first country that gets destroyed, so they are aiming for the destruction of Israel, and all its Jews. They're just taking a round about way.
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  7537. The zombie apocalypse has begun!!! I always thought there'd be more zombies. Kinda disappointed. Haven't even seen the Chavez one.
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  7538.  @dexterriley  AOC never ran on paralyzing the house, or threatening to paralyze the house, lying Dore knob.
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  7539. ​ @NooNoo0  The Germans were a majority Protestant. Hitler put Martin Luther's words into action. The Russians (pogroms) were a majority Orthodox. The Spanish Catholics offered conversion, death, or exile. Ironically, throughout history, Jews have done similar things, whenever they've had power, even just enough power to violently revolt. The Hasmoneans force converted, killed, or exiled people. Even killed their own, if they weren't anti-Greek enough. Contemporary accounts of Kito's War, describe them raping, pillaging, murdering, even genociding entire cities, and parading around wearing the skins of their victims, with entrails as belts. Their book justifying genociding everyone around them, with the original Israelites. But, for 1300 years, Jews lived amongst Muslims, with only a few localized incidents. A "Golden Age" in Spain. Refuge from Spanish exile. Even okaying the earliest form of immigration Zionism, before it converted to colonization Zionsim. Christians too. When Spain was reconquered, almost the entire population was still Christian. But, that all changed with colonialist Zionism, ethnic cleansing, and occupation.
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  7540. There are rules for what happens to it. He can't pocket it, but he also can't return it. It can be donated to charity, other politicians he supports, or he can keep it for a future run.
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  7541. "Vote blue" works both ways, dumb dumb. It's how progressives tend to win general elections, because those who voted against them in the primaries turn around and vote for them in the general. If you simply split off all the progressive voters to a third party, they'd lose and Republicans would win almost everywhere.
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  7542.  @Unfamous_Buddha  The Tea Party was backed by the Koch brothers, and other billionaire donors. Which billionaire donors want to help turn corporate Dems into progressives?
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  7543.  @Unfamous_Buddha  Rofl. It does matter, because it wasn't grass roots, it had massive corporate donors pushing the candidates further to the right, and that direction is pretty much the direction Republicans naturally want to go anyway. Corporate Dems donors are not pushing them to move to the left, and corporate Dems don't naturally want to move further left. The only thing that made it hard for old school Republicans to ignore the tea party types, is that they were themselves unwilling to move bills a bit left and work with democrats. That's the opposite of Biden's, or Manchin's, "bipartisan" crap. They are willing to push bills right, to pick up Republican votes, and pass things without needing squad votes. You're spewing a bullshit false equivalence.
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  7544.  @cfayeeezac  How is the FBI saying Russia was interfering in 2016, Republican Mueller charging 26 Russians and 3 Russian companies, and the FBI again saying they were interfering in 2020, the "left"?
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  7545.  @cfayeeezac  Dude, it literally said they only didn't charge Jr and Kushner with conspiracy because it would be hard to prove they "willingly" broke the law, not because they didn't break the law. Plus, it laid out out plenty of evidence of other legal forms of "collusion".
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  7546.  @TheGUDL716  He's not saying he's going to close existing loopholes. He's dishonestly claiming the VAT doesn't have loopholes and will force them to "pay their fair share". The loophole to avoid actually paying any tax is built right in to a VAT system, because they get paid back for VAT input. His projected revenue from the VAT was based on the entire economy, not simply yachts and very high end items. He has since said he'd exempt staples, but that's just basic groceries, some household items, and possibly kids clothes. That doesn't include the electric bill, phone bill, internet bill, cable bill, toys, games, non-staple snacks and pop, and all kinds of things that will still affect poor people's lives. Some people are already getting $1000+ in assistance Yang doesn't have stack with UBI. The UBI won't benefit them at all but they'll still have to pay VAT on some items. The upper middle class and lower end rich, whose incomes won't jump with massive consumer spending and stocks going up, like doctors and lawyers, will pay in more than they get out. Someone like Bezos is going to make billions more than he pays in with Yang's plan.
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  7547.  @mikelowery6227  What brainiac is she avoiding debating?
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  7548. Saying you're going to do Y is a statement. Saying stop doing X or I'll do Y is a threat. Saying give me X or I'll do Y is blackmail. Dore and his knobs have zero clue what "blackmail" means.
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  7549. David, you missed explaining that a VAT isn't designed to tax businesses. In fact, it's specifically designed to NOT tax businesses in order to avoid double taxation. Businesses get to reclaim their input VAT. A VAT won't have corporations paying you for your data. A VAT won't have corporations paying you to show you ads. A VAT won't have corporations paying you for every automated truck mile. A VAT would have you, the consumers, paying a tax on your own data, a tax to be shown ads, and a tax on automation taking your jobs. https://ec.europa.eu/taxation_customs/business/vat/what-is-vat_en http://publications.gc.ca/Collection-R/LoPBdP/BP/prb0003-e.htm#A.%20Taxing%20Mechanism(txt)
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  7550.  @IndyAvocadoKid  Yeah, because they need to tax wealth, not income.
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  7551.  @EmperorDxD  Try to write a coherent sentence.
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  7552.  @EpicAlcatraz99  You're just objectively wrong, dumb dumb. "The International Court of Justice (ICJ), the UN General Assembly, and the UN Security Council all regard Israel as the occupying power for the territories."
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  7553.  @L0kias1  Yep. I always support natives, when they're arguing with the government, and think they deserve whatever we can afford to give them, as reparations. I think it's too late to boot people out, even in Israel. I think there should be a single state solution, with a Lebanon style government, and a Palestinian right of return. Then whatever assistance they need to build up a similar standard of living that Israelis enjoy.
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  7554.  @TheLaceWeaver  At least in part, since it started with the PLO.
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  7555. Union participation in the US actually started its downward curve in the 50s, thanks to McCarthyism and the Cold War's persecution of left leaning Americans. The Democrat party also started moving away from being a union backed party, to becoming another corporate backed party. Reagan made everything even worse. Republicans don't seem to mind police unions that even defend corrupt and incompetent policemen, but they've been moving against the largest remaining union in the US, the teacher's union, hard.
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  7556. The issue is bigger than just one guy. The history of Likud is the history of Revisionist Zionism, which is now over 100 years old, and which has always had the stated goal to completely colonize and ethnically cleanse all Palestine territories, plus claims a "right" to all the "Land of Israel" (fictional biblical borders that don't mesh with archaeological reality), which is also an open declaration of future wars, against Jordan, Syria, and Lebanon. They have been working towards that goal, for decades now. The US has been vetoing Security Council resolutions against Israel, and supplying them with weapons, for decades now.
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  7557.  @tymegrace4838  Wtf are you blathering about? Republicans controlled congress at the end of Obama's presidency.
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  7558. But he's not really "very" critical about any other religion. He strawmans, pretending like the WBC are the worst Christians going, when there are far worse. I've never heard him discuss Hindu India being ranked worse than Saudi, for women. Etc.
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  7559.  @michaelmarini94  And they have reading comprehension problems, to boot. Hint: the number isn't the ironic part, dumb dumb.
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  7560.  @blackphillip564  Name me some educated right wingers that don't disparage science, aren't themselves anti-intellectuals, and don't equate centrism to communism (acknowledge the full political spectrum), for a start, and I'll look into it.
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  7561. The majority of poor caucasian people are in rural areas and small towns, not urban "neighbourhoods".
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  7562.  @MultiBlackmind  Holy hell, what if some of them adapted, became stronger, and escaped?!! Could that be considered gain of function research?
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  7563.  @thedebatemechannel4746  Fauci wouldn't even be considered acting as an individual. The NIH is a government agency. You know who okays their funding, and okays what they're funding? Congress, and the president.
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  7564. So you're opposed to a thing that isn't happening. Only like 5-10% have their asylum accepted.
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  7565. David usually supports the NDP, here in Canada, and progressives in the US.
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  7566.  @timothysalinas37  Exactly what I said. Anti-authoritarianism isn't left or right, and even the founders did similar things. The most radical anti-authoritarians want to start an all out civil war, not just get justice reform ... https://www.nbcnews.com/news/all/three-men-connected-boogaloo-movement-tried-provoke-violence-protests-feds-n1224231
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  7567. The no collusion is also a lie. The Mueller report said that Jr, and others, weren't aware they were committing a crime, not that they hadn't committed a crime.
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  7568.  @biokido575  You're the lying twit. "Byers said that 85% of the people calling after using ivermectin had mild symptoms, but at least one person has been hospitalized due to ivermectin toxicity, according to the Mississippi Free Press."
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  7569.  @biokido575  Multiple Mississippi news outlets reporting one hospitalized, dumb dumb. Plus, you're ignoring that the people calling poison control have actually said they've taken it, and described symptoms.
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  7570.  @daniel-bg5nq  Tim was still talking to Shapiro from his own studio. Which side is taping it really doesn't much matter. A "convoluted process" that tons of podcasters, radio and television shows, dimwits like Crowder, and even old people and kids have figured out how to do?
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  7571.  @daniel-bg5nq  Rofl. They just didn't wanna? So you chose the full of shit option.
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  7572.  @daniel-bg5nq  Anyone who can show video and audio from the internet during their show has the setup, dimwit.
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  7573. Who is snapping the spines of newborns?
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  7574. @Kiflaam Yeah, good thing Americans got away from paying an extra tax for the military and police. Whew.
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  7575. Oh cool, then FOX must be regularly reporting on how Trump has been dropping more bombs than Obama, yes?
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  7576.  @Mullet-ZubazPants  So, anti-war FOX is regularly reporting on Trump dropping more bombs than Obama?
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  7577.  @GavinGill07  Nah, our Liberals are centre-right, our NDP are centre-left, and the PC are right. In the US, many Democrats are about the same as our PCs. Some about the same as our Liberals. A few new ones and Bernie are like our NDP. The US Republicans and Libertarians are way right. There really are no far left politicians or political parties operating in the developed world. Far left would be complete economic equality. Sure, some politicians promote having less disparity, but none are promoting total equality. Far right, on the other hand, would be zero government interference in economy, business, little to no taxes (except for a legal system and defense, which Ayn Rand was okay taxing for), allowing for whatever inequality capitalism dishes out. Plenty of US politicians promote that. You're right though, that the majority of Americans now seem to be centre-left, since polls show the majority now supporting Medicare for all, taxing the wealthy, etc. The US is only now recovering from McCarthyism and the Cold War, which shifted their politics totally right of centre.
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  7578.  @tyronesmith3991  If your supreme leader has convinced millions of people not to believe any media (even right wing), any courts (even Republican appointed judges, even judges he appointed himself), any election officials (even Republican ones, even ones he appointed), any politicians (even Republican ones that had been kissing his ass), even your own lying eyes, if any of them contradict him, then you're in a cult. Trump pulled off the most big brother like propaganda campaign in US history. Trying to get state politicians to find votes, trying to encourage the VP to not recognize certified election results, inciting people to try and stop the reading of the election results, is trying to completely overthrow the democratic process to keep an unelected ruler in power. That's the last box Republicans needed to check, to embrace overt fascists. There have been no racists at events like the Unite the Right rally in Charlottesville? There have been no right wing religious extremists trying to get Christianity back in schools, fighting to keep religious monuments on government property, Blathering about a war on Christmas, arguing congresswomen need to swear on a Bible, constantly threatening abortion clinics and doctors and even committing acts of terrorism, fighting for the religious "right" to discriminate, etc.? Q: https://www.mediamatters.org/qanon-conspiracy-theory/here-are-qanon-supporters-running-congress-2020 You're living in some alternate reality.
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  7579.  @dggjr1759  Dore is a complete idiot. Mr ... I don't care if 10m of the poorest Americans lose their Medicaid expansion, I don't care to add 40m Americans to Medicare expansion, and I support Tulsi and her "Medicare choice" over Bernie and M4A ... making out like he's the one true champion of healthcare. Rofl.
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  7580.  Venus Bloodflow  It's safer than being a garbage collector, ffs.
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  7581. It's based on the word "genus", dimwit.
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  7582. @Crimean Tiger Lol, are you here to help make the case that allying with morons is a bad idea?
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  7583. FACT: You're a moron.
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  7584.  @Jays6926  WWI was a shitshow. Not as black and white as WWII.
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  7585. Being led by the wrong people, and going after a bunch of the wrong people.
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  7586.  @user-bj1mx2ip1c  Tucker worked for one of the largest corporate news companies in the world. Did he gain an entirely new audience after he was let go?
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  7587. The trial phase hasn't started yet, moron.
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  7588. ​ @megatron6393 Rofl, if you don't count energy, it's the US with the trade surplus. Have fun with your higher energy prices.
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  7589. ​ @CaveManGrows  Because King Charles is still our king, and commander in chief? You do know that, yeah? (We don't have a "president")
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  7590.  @kylemcdonnell86  On top of mask using countries doing better, countries with higher testing rates did better. Countries like S Korea, New Zealand, Australia, that quickly flattened their curves, quickly got their testing rates up to 50+ people per confirmed case. Some countries in Europe, and Canada, that had slower flattening, but better than the US, tested at rates of 15+ people per confirmed case. The US tested at a rate of 5 people per confirmed case for months, only recently getting that testing rate up to about 13 people per confirmed case. You just can't get ahead of the virus at 5 people per confirmed case. It's a pathetically low rate of testing.
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  7591. @KB Harrison Proposing to not strip people of their right to vote in the future, is different than currently registering felons, dumb dumb. They are not doing the later. Saying so is a lie. Voting is a citizen's right, here in Canada, no matter what. What are you afraid is going to happen? Who is now waving Confederate flags, trying to save statues of Confederate "heroes", shooting themselves in the process with their open carry guns, etc., for the most part? Who is most likely to propose laws making it legal for businesses to discriminate? Who is most likely to be against black people protesting? Who is most likely to defend violent cops? If you think it's still Democrats, and don't recognize that a switch happened, then you're a moron.
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  7592.  @KRAMITDFROG  Jon dealt with what Tucker was saying, and the bowtie comment had to do with Jon's point, that they were doing a performance.
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  7593. His entire worldview is based on a fairy tale. He never actually believed in facts.
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  7594.  @pittiesplus4108  If you're actually pro-vaccine, you'd recognise you're an anecdote, and although you might state what you went through, you'd make sure everyone listening knew you're an outlier. Or, when you're talking about other possible negative side effects, like tinnitus, don't dishonestly pretend like it's a side effect of all vaccines, when it is just J&J, and maybe also report that there are thousands of more cases of tinnitus reported by those with covid. Or, when you and your buddy Max are dishonestly misrepresenting the UK's completely socialized healthcare system, like all good "lefties" do, and myocarditis, maybe also mention that youth are 6-8x more likely to get myocarditis from covid, that viruses are the leading cause of myocarditis. No clue how you can listen to someone spewing only negative crap about vaccines, for 15 min, and come away thinking they made a pro-vaccine video.
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  7595.  @pittiesplus4108  Rofl. They aren't. You're a loon.
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  7596.  @thinkharder9332  You mean like plotting to kidnap and murder the Michigan governor? Plotting to arm terrorists? Actually being the ones instigating riots during some BLM protests? Plotting to frame BLM for terrorism? Shooting at police stations? ...
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  7597. How the hell did they lose in D+5 and D+6?!
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  7598. The supreme leader told all his followers not to trust mail in voting, and to vote in person, while Democrats have encouraged early and absentee voting due to pandemic, and you think it's weird that most of the mail in votes are for Biden? It should be pretty obvious to those who aren't braindead.
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  7599. A toxic dose is about 4 grapes per kg of dog. He looks like he'd have to eat 40+ grapes.
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  7600.  @whyamimrpink78  Idiot. Scandinavian countries are quite centrist. Norway has public ownership in numerous corporations, including majority ownership in their main oil company. Denmark has 30% of the population working public sector jobs, double the US percentage. They all have very high unionization, giving power to workers. They have higher marginal tax rates than the US. They have higher capital tax rates than the US. They have free colleges, Denmark even pays students to go to college. They have universal healthcare. They are all commited to going carbon neutral, including banning fossil fuel vehicles by certain dates. Etc. By your own moronic "logic", you should be calling them communist states. But, they aren't. They're centrist states. That makes them close to 50/50 capitalist/socialist. While that might leave them still far from being all out socialist states, it also leaves them almost as equally far from being all out capitalist states. And, that's about what Sanders is promoting.
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  7601. For a third party to ever become viable, you have to be willing to let Democrats, or Republicans, lose, accept the consequences, and hang tough. As a Canadian, who votes NDP, I think fearmongering people away from third parties is bullshit. A vote for someone else is NOT a vote for Trump, as numerous commenters are saying. Yes, scoring a goal for team C means you didn't score a goal for team B, but it also means you didn't score a goal for team A.
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  7602.  @armandodelossantos736  Rules against targetting civilians, which the US has ignored btw, are ridiculous?
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  7603. He's objectively wrong about 3 of them, at minimum, who were born in the US. It's beyond moronic to tell them to go back to their countries.
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  7604.  @davidmeadows5627  Umm, yes, the voter IDs being given to people who don't already have a photo ID, do have pictures. I didn't say one non photo ID was enough. I said you have to accept non photo ID to get a photo ID. Your pedantic blathering didn't debunk that. Again, you're the one who brought up "other countries". Canada allows for a wide variety of ways to prove who you are, including non photo ways. Simply stating "other countries" have "voting ID laws" doesn't explain exactly what form those laws take. Like when lying Republicans tried to make out like Colorado had stricter voting laws than Georgia.
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  7605.  @BobbyU808  "Bernie kinda did that when ...". You wrote the words. Do you just not know what they mean?
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  7606.  @dwel7085  I'm not a racist, bigoted, misogynistic, fascist, cultist.
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  7607.  @Sloimer  Nope. Neither of those. Do you have reading comprehension problems?
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  7608.  @Sloimer  Definitely stupid like somebody.
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  7609. Homosexuality was decriminalized in the West Bank in 1950. Gaza isn't all of Palestine. The guy Netanyahu put in charge of the West Bank, is less tolerant of homosexuality than West Bank Palestinians. He organizes beast parades, and compares homosexuality to bestiality. He was also once arrested on his way to commit an act of terrorism. He is also a racist, who says "Palestinian" people don't exist. He is also a psycho, who made public a plan to segregate and subjugate (no federal representation), exile, or kill, any non-Jews in all of Israel/Palestine. Also, Hamas changed its charter in 2017.
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  7610. Can everyone please start calling the "Spanish flu" (H1N1) the Kansas flu. Thank you.
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  7611.  @prodemocracyseth  What are you talking about? They're majority Protestant.
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  7612.  @tony9238  He didn't say to cast a protest vote. He said to "withhold" votes. And he slandered anyone who said the speakership could be won with less than 218 votes. Pelosi just won with 216. He didn't have a clue how the vote actually works.
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  7613. You dimwitted Dore knobs know that "vote blue" works both ways, right? The vast majority of those who vote against a progressive in the primaries will then vote for them in the general. We get it, you'd prefer splitting the votes between two different parties and have Republicans rule for decades to come, because that's what "real" progressives want.
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  7614.  @jackmahoff931  Learn to read.
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  7615. @Fat Cat Hamas heavy handed protesters, stormed and occupied the mosque?
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  7616. @Fat Cat They injured dozens of people with rubber bullets, tear gas, and stun grenades, and seized Palestinian property, dimwit. The point is that right wingers often argue that it's okay to kill people, if they assault you, or try to take your property. You're the ignoramus expecting Palestinians to sit back and accept violence, and picking the middle escalation to blame ... apparently because you hate Palestinians, by your own "logic".
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  7617. @Fat Cat Who said it was okay? I said it wasn't the start of violence. I guess you're okay with the initial violence, by your own "logic".
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  7618. @Fat Cat How would the US react if the Mexican military stormed and occupied New Mexico, I wonder? You seem to keep ignoring that hundreds of Palestinians were injured, due to IDF violence, and keep making out like they were simply trespassing without violence. You jump right over one violent escalation, criticize the next, and then justify the last.
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  7619. Jordan has 2 million Palestinian refugees, dumb dumb. Plus about 500k Syrian refugees. How about stop creating refugees?
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  7620. ​ @Klonen75  Read the contemporary accounts of Kitos War.
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  7621.  @bruno.6610  1. By having the government pay for privatized services, turning public tax dollars into private profits. 2. By not having them pay for things they benefit most from. For example, if Apple shipped a million phones from China, and I buy one, they have benefited a million times more than me from protected shipping lanes. If a transport truck had brought 10k phones to my area, they benefited 10000x more than me for the road. Etc. Etc. Republicans don't like consumption taxes, when they're doing the consuming. That's having the public pay for things corporations benefit most from. 3. Not necessarily rich, but their base ... subsidizing farmers (including giant corporate run farms). Pretty sure oil companies get subsidies, as well. 4. You can play semantics, saying that tax breaks and loopholes are letting them keep their own money, but if that same government is setting a yearly budget, saying this is what the government needs to operate, but then let's them get away with not paying, or paying little, then everyone else has to put in more, to compensate. That is having the public pay for their government, for them. If Amazon really paid zero federal taxes, then they're getting benefits they didn't pay for.
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  7622.  @chris.kellly  Sure, if you want to let 1% of the population die, doing it naturally, and those antibodies have proven not to last long, either. So, let another 1% die, to get your natural immunity, again. And again. And again.
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  7623.  @anti-corporatecapture3844  Are you a Dore knob? You didn't take his advice to abandon Nina Turner ... abandon adding another M4A yes vote to congress?
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  7624.  @anti-corporatecapture3844  Rofl. You were formerly arguing a federal mandate, period, was unconstitutional. They clearly didn't rule that way, allowed a federal mandate, and implied congress could set a federal mandate. The ruling goes against your former argument, dimwit. You're just trying to move the goalpost.
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  7625.  @anti-corporatecapture3844  Nope. You're lying. Rogan just got fact checked on that myocarditis bullshit, live. All vaccines have a small percentage of people who develop adverse effects. There are plenty of vaccine mandates, for things less harmful than covid. You're not making any valid points. Nope. You're still the one lying ... Report 34 - COVID-19 Infection Fatality Ratio Estimates from Seroprevalence: "In contrast, in a typical high income country, with a greater concentration of elderly individuals, we estimate the overall IFR to be 1.15% (0.78-1.79 95% prediction interval range)."
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  7626.  @anti-corporatecapture3844  No, you hadn't posted something specific about OSHA. You had posted crying about mandates violating constitutional rights.
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  7627.  @anti-corporatecapture3844  Nope. You're the liar. Already shown you to be a liar, multiple times, above.
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  7628. @C M Are the lot lizards offering discounts for you, too?
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  7629.  @anti-corporatecapture3844  Nothing you're saying supports your original stance, that a mandate violates an individual's constitutional rights. If that were the case, no mandates would be allowed, and definitely no implication that congress has the right to set mandates.
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  7630.  @anti-corporatecapture3844  Blah, blah, blah. You're lying. You're original stance was simply crying about mandates being against an individual's constitutional rights. You did not build an argument about the OSHA specifically. You're moving the goalpost to make yourself out to not be a raving lunatic. So, your new argument is that it doesn't violate someone's individual constitutional rights, if they're receiving federal money? So, the government can mandate vaccines to farmers receiving aid, anyone on Medicaid or Medicare, any company receiving grants, anyone working for the government, schools, etc., etc., etc.?
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  7631.  @anti-corporatecapture3844  You're embarrassing yourself, by not being able to stick to your original position, which was simply that a federal mandate violated an individual's constitutional rights. It clearly does not violate an individual's rights, who works for healthcare. The implication that congress could pass a mandate indicates there's no baseline violation of an individual's constitutional rights. My response to your very generalized argument was that the courts hadn't ruled any previous mandate to be a violation of someone's constitutional rights. Even states and local governments shouldn't be able to violate an individual's constitutional rights, dimwit. "No state shall make or enforce any law which shall abridge the privileges or immunities of citizens of the United States; nor shall any state deprive any person of life, liberty, or property, without due process of law; nor deny to any person within its jurisdiction the equal protection of the laws." None of your arguments make sense.
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  7632.  @whyamimrpink78  Obama faced little obstruction? Oh geez, you're more delusional than I thought.
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  7633. ​ @X2LR8  Dumb take
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  7634.  @brotharapha7254  Stop spewing crap. Even the drug's Big Ass Pharma manufacturer, one of the top 100 corporations in the world, the 5th largest pharma company in the world, doesn't advise it as a covid treatment ... "The drug’s manufacturer, pharma giant MSD, also warned that its analysis of ivermectin identified “no scientific basis for a potential therapeutic effect against Covid-19 from pre-clinical studies”, “no meaningful evidence for clinical activity or clinical efficacy in patients with Covid-19 disease” and “a concerning lack of safety data” in most studies." https://www.pharmaceutical-technology.com/features/ivermectin-covid-19-antiparasitic-political/ They had problems finding a controlled group to test because so many people were taking the drug already. In your fantasy, Peruvians started taking it at point A and stopped taking it at point B when, in reality, they were taking it all along. Your big pharma vs little pharma conspiracy is also complete nonsense.
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  7635. I like speed limits, but wouldn't like the speed limit set to 5 mph everywhere. Did your tiny brain think you made a point?
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  7636. If you can't trust the science behind a vaccine, while also thinking the producers are in it for the money, can we trust a single MSM host, like him, if their producers are in it for the money?
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  7637. Dore thought it was okay to let Trump get elected, even promoted him as the better option. Does that make him a Republican?
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  7638. Medical "apartheid"/"segregation" already has a name. It's called "quarantine", and has been a go to method for dealing with contagious outbreaks for centuries.
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  7639.  @Dhardeman1981  Yeah, it's suspicious that the Democrat criminal masterminds couldn't manage to "magically" create enough votes to also take the senate. They should be investigated to see if their mastermind status should be downgraded to journeymanmind.
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  7640.  @richardgoldman  Lol, what 100k straight votes? So Trump starts off complaining about these stupid states, whose Republican legislatures wouldn't allow early processing of mail in ballots, not giving election night final numbers, and now you think it's a great idea to start letting parties count and recount votes in every state, check and double check every machine, even though they already have observers, whenever they want ... and how many times until results are given? Nothing about fear. That just sounds nonsensical. It sounds like going that route is based on fear (paranoia). Not only do those states have Republican legislatures, half of them also have Republican governors, and Republican secretaries of state. But, sure, Democrats are criminal masterminds, who fabricated millions of votes, in multiple states (oddly just these slow ones), to steal the presidency, but somehow couldn't come up with thousands to take the senate. Some masterminds.
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  7641.  @timothymiddleton6651  Why speculate, when numbers indicate that natural herd immunity won't be achievable before one of many vaccines is developed, at which time artificial herd immunity can be achieved? Countries that didn't take the virus seriously, or aimed for natural herd immunity, simply let people die for no good reason.
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  7642.  @HaHaroni  Moron. https://www.ucsf.edu/news/2020/06/417906/still-confused-about-masks-heres-science-behind-how-face-masks-prevent
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  7643. Rofl. "Exposing" = spewing bullshit. Aaron's Syrian "scandal" article relies on two "inspectors" that weren't even all that involved in a single inspection at a single site ... ignoring that there have been hundreds of accounts of Syrian chemical weapons use, hundreds of victim witnesses, dozens of healthcare witnesses, multiple NGO witnesses, human rights legal group investigations, independent investigations, ... Anyone with Wikipedia and a penchant for leaving out everything that doesn't fit your narrative could have written that article, from anywhere in the world.
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  7644.  @holetohell4140  An example of gaslighting would be person A making out like person B is crazy, that they're frauds, that they're shills, etc., for even suggesting that the speaker election could be won with less than 218 votes. Well, Pelosi just won with only 216. Or, it's an example of person A (Jimmy) being totally ignorant as to how the speaker vote actually works, and yet having a "plan" that's totally dependent on how the speaker vote works.
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  7645.  @danielrivard2485  Not a fan of the democracy dollars idea. It somewhat assumes that all the regular people would go against the candidates backed by corporate interests. Reality is, 40% of the adult population would hand Trump $10b to campaign with. 50% of Democrats, supporting corporate shills, would hand those candidates their $100. They'd simply have their corporate donors, plus billions of extra dollars.
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  7646.  @artsparadisopracticaleduca4378  You sound like a Trump cultist. Reality ... "held court with roughly two-dozen reporters in Des Moines" https://time.com/5773895/andrew-yang-iowa-campaign/
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  7647.  @neweraboss5728  There's no indication a public option will get you UHC or M4A.
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  7648.  @neweraboss5728  But a public option doesn't treat it as a right. It treats it as a commodity. 1:10 "out compete it" https://youtu.be/1t62aqnP-YI That's what LA attempted, hoping it would lead to UHC. It didn't. https://www.theatlantic.com/politics/archive/2019/08/los-angeles-public-option-2020-democrats/597115/
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  7649.  @TheMoBrother  What are you even talking about?
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  7650. The Mueller report actually documented multiple instances of information sharing that didn't amount to criminal conspiracy (but is still collusion), and it said they didn't charge Jr and Kushner for conspiracy because it would be hard to prove they "wilfully" broke the law, not because they didn't break the law.
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  7651.  @t.a.b.8376  Moron. Like Trump, you don't seem to understand the relevance of per capita.
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  7652.  @BjayawesomeBlackDude  Hrrrm, doesn't take corporate donations, just backed 20 other pro-M4A progressives in the last election cycle, helped add a few more M4A yes votes to congress, and helped remove a few more corporate Dems from office ... that's a corporate shill, how?
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  7653.  @fittzie  Shrink government? Denmark has about 30% of the population working in the public sector, dumb dumb. The US has about 15%. You'd double the number of government workers, to be more like Denmark. You'd also have a 70+% unionization rate, which is why they have higher incomes.
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  7654.  @fittzie  Yes, administrative costs disappear, if a single payer system is easier to operate than a multipayer system. Pharma costs disappear, if you set a lower maximum price they're allowed to sell at. Turning non-profit makes the cost of paying for a profit disappear. Some costs will just vanish. Private insurance costs have been increasing at almost double the rate of Medicare costs. That's without Medicare even, currently, negotiating down drug prices. Private insurance is a shit show. You're buying right wing bullshit. The US has tens of thousands dying due to lack of coverage, hundreds of thousands going bankrupt due to medical debt, over a million travelling to places like India for healthcare they can afford, and you're all worried about wait times for non life threatening procedures. The supposed tens of thousands of Canadians going to the US to avoid wait times? A myth. A few rich people might go to hurry along their hip surgery, or have some other non life threatening procedure, but the vast majority of Canadians getting healthcare in the US are elderly Snowbirds, who spend winters in Florida or Arizona. They're getting healthcare while in the US, not going to the US for healthcare. And, their Canadian coverage might still be picking up some of those bills.
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  7655.  @NewNormalWorldOrder  Rofl. Right, right, a global conspiracy. You're a loon.
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  7656.  @nappel6496  Republicans: minimum wage jobs aren't meant to be permanent Also Republicans: post secondary schooling isn't a necessity The current healthcare system is, objectively, twice as costly as the OECD average for comparatively poor results. What's to like?
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  7657. Yang will make corporations like Amazon even richer. His plan doesn't actually make them "pay their fair share".
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  7658. Sam didn't invent sociology. We already have a study of societies. We already measure the human condition, in all kinds of ways. There are indexes for happiness, freedom, democracy, poverty, education, life expectancy, crime, safety, etc., etc., etc. There are already existing peaks and valleys, based on those scientific measures. He also didn't invent what he agreed was already a widely understood given ... That, if you set a subjective value, there are then objectively better and worse was to get what you value, and science can help. If I value building a nuclear power plant, or a nuclear bomb, there are then objectively better and worse ways to achieve either of those goals, and science can help achieve them. Likewise, if I subjectively value human well being, or human suffering, there are then objectively better and worse ways to achieve either of those goals, and science can help. In all of those cases, objectivity and science don't care what you do, any which way. The question is all about whether science/objectivity can tell us what to value, and the answer is no. He has never actually got beyond what he stated was a given, at the start. Science doesn't care if you want to blow up the world. It will help you do it.
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  7659.  @jennifercuddy5663  Numerous countries didn't have to have a civil rights movement, because they weren't denying rights based on race, or it was resolved more quickly and quietly because there wasn't such hardcore opposition. Much like the US being one of the only countries who had a war over slavery, whereas citizens in other countries just said "fine", when their governments ended slavery. The US was a bit behind a number of other developed countries, with regards to women's rights, as well.
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  7660.  @jennifercuddy5663  That the US is still behind on recognizing rights. The US has been blocking UN resolutions against Israel for decades, that other security council countries supported.
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  7661. That's like saying it's not a good look when people are all trying to leave a big sports event or concert, at the same time.
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  7662.  @toomuch8232  If you had unlimited power why would you create beings that need to piss and shit so much? Why not design them to digest 100%?
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  7663.  @cadec1086  Not at all what you said, but then you went on to say exactly that. You just justified the way they're being treated, and they are being treated like crap, simply because they came seeking asylum, which isn't illegal. One of the two ways to seek asylum is exactly to get in the country first, and then ask for it ... kid. http://uscode.house.gov/view.xhtml?req=granuleid%3AUSC-prelim-title8-section1158&num=0&edition=prelim#0-0-0-192
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  7664. Isn't he supposed to be a major defender of men? He just, basically, argued that they don't care about women, won't defend women, won't respect their rights, etc. ... unless it hurts men in some way. Effectively, men are sociopaths, according to Peterson.
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  7665. Ze'ev Jabotinsky, The Iron Wall, 1923 ... "There can be no voluntary agreement between ourselves and the Palestine Arabs. Not now, nor in the prospective future. I say this with such conviction, not because I want to hurt the moderate Zionists. I do not believe that they will be hurt. Except for those who were born blind, they realised long ago that it is utterly impossible to obtain the voluntary consent of the Palestine Arabs for converting "Palestine" from an Arab country into a country with a Jewish majority. My readers have a general idea of the history of colonisation in other countries. I suggest that they consider all the precedents with which they are acquainted, and see whether there is one solitary instance of any colonisation being carried on with the consent of the native population. There is no such precedent. The native populations, civilised or uncivilised, have always stubbornly resisted the colonists, irrespective of whether they were civilised or savage." What's the context, other than Israel is a colonialist nation? Colonialists are never not the aggressors when it comes to the native population. Okay, so Geronimo leaves the tiny reserve his tribe was forced onto, and goes on the warpath. You would contextualize that how?
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  7666.  @aliamjon2550  Can you make that gibberish make sense?
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  7667.  @aliamjon2550  Did you mean to say "it was built for uneducated unskilled laborers"? And the second sentence is contradictory nonsense.
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  7668.  @robertjohnson1681  You've been on his show?
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  7669. Name a progressive policy that would move the US left of Denmark (real world centrism)?
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  7670.  @protestssopeacefulweneedad2017  Not in the USA, dumb dumb. Motor vehicle traffic deaths Number of deaths: 38,659 Deaths per 100,000 population: 11.9 All firearm deaths Number of deaths: 39,773 Deaths per 100,000 population: 12.2 https://www.cdc.gov/nchs/fastats/injury.htm
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  7671.  @dannyjenning1788  You really shouldn't want to get into a views vs subs ratio argument, on Hassan's channel, which make Crowder's ratio look pathetic, in comparison. Sam uploads multiple clips a day, and his channel's daily views to subs ratio is similar to Crowder's. Plus, he's on a weekly syndicated radio show. Plus, he does voice work on Bob's Burgers. Plus, he has debated Crowder's buddy Tim Pool, so fans of Tim should know Sam. Plus, he has debated Crowder's buddy Charlie Kirk, so fans of Charlie and Turning Points should know Sam. Plus, Fans of Politicon, in general, should know Sam. Plus, it all would have happened on the same H3 channel, with the same number of H3 subs and viewers, anyway. It's all just a lame excuse made by a coward, to "justify" running away. If he had some balls, and could have beaten Sam in a debate, then he would have actually made H3 and Sam ridiculous, rather than looking like the coward he is.
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  7672. Aaron's Syrian "scandal" article could have been written by anyone in the world using the wikipedia page and leaving out the bits you don't like.
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  7673. Simply "disagreeing" isn't quite the same as considering Trump's actions "abhorrent". abhorrent: inspiring disgust and loathing; repugnant
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  7674.  @daciefusjones8128  The only problem with sticking to your Overton window, is that you give the far right the green light to call centrism "far left" or "extreme left". The US has Republican politicians, and even a Libertarian party, who promote an Ayn Rand philosophy. The actual far right is represented. Progressives, like Bernie, aren't proposing anything that would move the US left of Denmark, a centrist country. Zero viable US politicians are promoting a 100% publicly owned and operated economy, and an end to capitalism ... no actual far left represented.
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  7675. ​ @eddiel7635  Natives can't attack any colonizers, if they aren't already there doing their colonizing aggression, first.
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  7676. You know the "pride" is to counter centuries of being made to feel ashamed, inferior, immoral, etc., etc., etc. Has someone been making out like straight people are inferior, immoral, or whatnot, and made you feel the need to announce your pride?
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  7677.  @nova77791  Oh geez. You don't think the parties are exactly the same, today, do you? The most racist states, for centuries, just up and magically became the least racist states, after the Civil Rights movement? There was no Southern Strategy? There was no great migration of Black Americans to less racist states and to a different party?
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  7678. ​ @Kain9407  By what supposed measure is one worse than the other? Christians, in Africa, have campaigned against condom use, as 30m have people perished. Hindu India ranks worse than Saudi, for the treatment of women, and is run by an Hindutva movement that was literally founded on Italian fascism and German Nazism. Buddhist Thailand is competing with Christian Brazil, to be the pedo tourism capital of the world. Christian cartels, worshipping a saint of death, have chopped off more body parts than ISIS. If some survey, spouted in a vacuum, showing a significant minority of the "Muslim World" thinking that terrorism is sometimes okay, was supposed to be horrible, then what about IL (representing the entirety of the "Jewish World") being ruled by a party founded by terrorists, and apparently an actual majority of the population still celebrating those terrorists as "heroes"?
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  7679. Progressives wanted Bernie. Progressives want M4A and a Green New Deal. Progressives met other Democrats in the middle, by supporting Biden in the general and trying to pass Biden's platform. It was the right wing of the party that rejected Biden's platform, in favor of a more Republican platform.
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  7680.  @geebsterman2881  Again ... New Zealand is almost as obese as the US, but their covid deaths per capita rate would translate into under 20k total US covid deaths. Are you sure it has nothing to do with a pathetic US covid response?
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  7681.  @FuddlyDud  1) Corrected me about what data? I didn't post before yours. Glad we agree that we can also reduce pediatric flu deaths with covid measures. Win win. 2) Yes, what I said is actually true. I described lab results, and you didn't debunk those results. Lab results are the best for telling whether masks are effective, if used properly, because there are generally also other measures taking place out in the real world, so it's harder to dissect. People doing things wrong doesn't debunk that masks are effective. It's not an argument that masks don't work. It's an argument that some people are incompetent at mask use. If I build a car with improved safety features, proven in testing, you driving it off a 1000' cliff and obliterating the car and yourself, doesn't prove the car didn't have improved safety features. Masks are effective in reducing spread. The US had a pathetic pandemic response, and there is a good percentage of partisan anti-maskers in almost all communities. Why would anyone really want to use real world stats from the US? Canada had a better adherence to covid rules, including mask use. Their covid deaths per capita rate would translate into 400+k fewer US covid deaths. Japan has had a heavy reliance on mask use, and their covid deaths per capita rate would translate into about 45k total US covid deaths. France, Italy, Spain, and the UK, all didn't take the virus seriously enough, at first, much like the US, and let it get well out of control. Germany took it a little bit more seriously. Like other Western countries, none quickly resorted to mask use, and had mask shortages even for medical staff. They, instead, started resorting to quarantines and lockdowns. Germany's were more effectively implemented. It's not like Italy quickly jumped to its current rate of mask use, and it completely failed them. Italy and Spain currently have high mask rates and are currently below Germany in 7 day covid cases per capita. How quickly countries got their testing rates (tests per confirmed case) up, also factored into isolating and quarantining carriers. The US, UK, Italy, Spain, and France had pathetic testing rates, for months, as the virus spread. The US and UK still have shitty testing rates. Numerous Asian countries, besides Japan and China, quickly turned to masks, at a high rate of use, and have amongst the best covid outcomes in the world, even though the virus started in their region, even if they share a long border with China, like Vietnam. Before it even hit S Korea, their president was talking with corporate leaders to increase mask production. That mask use has included kids in school. Covid amongst kids in Japan actually increased 3x during their August summer break ... up from the school rate. Mississippi (pop 3m) alone had more student covid cases than all of Japan (pop 126m), in Aug. Florida (pop 21.5m) beat out Japan's entire month in just one week of Aug. It's as if Japanese kids followed the rules while in school, and those rules actually helped, and then they let loose a bit during break. What are you even talking about with FL and CA being the same, anyway? FL has an above US average 2366 deaths per million, while CA has a below US average 1720 dpm. FL currently has a 74/100k daily cases average, while CA has a 27/100k daily cases average. Florida is the only state where more people are dying now than at any previous time during the pandemic. What are you looking at that makes you think they're close to the same? 3) What? Billions earmarked for schools have been in every covid relief bill. Florida simply didn't submit a plan, to get the funding before school started. They didn't have a back to school covid plan. Still no clue why you're comparing CA and FL.
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  7682.  @FuddlyDud  Was there a Part 1? Locking down doesn't simply have to do with time, ffs. Italy didn't implement major widespread lockdowns until they hit hundreds of deaths. Germany implemented major widespread lockdowns when they hit dozens of deaths. Germany was quite clearly the more cautious of the two, and you clearly don't know what you're talking about. Oh, give me a break. The weather quite obviously doesn't have much to do with anything, like some people made out. Didn't Trumpty Dumpty say it would magically go away when the warm weather hit? Shocker ... it didn't. Doctors and scientists still don't know if there's any actual seasonality to covid. There's no evidence what you're saying actually plays a major factor. FL is hotter than California, on average, in the summer, and currently has more cases and deaths per capita. Italy and Spain are hotter than Germany, and Germany currently has more cases and deaths per capita. Covid has clearly shown it likes all weather, and you clearly don't know what you're talking about. Less developed countries like India and Brazil, that get very hot, but have much less air conditioning, still have horrible covid rates. The UK is clearly islands, and they clearly sucked ass. The US is clearly effectively an island, relative to China, and they clearly let the virus come in by flights, not walking across a border, and clearly let it spread like wildfire within its own borders. It was Canada and Mexico that didn't want Americans coming into their countries, for most of the pandemic. You ignored Vietnam, which clearly isn't an island, and clearly shares one of the longest boarders directly with China, and has one of the best covid outcomes. S Korea clearly isn't an island. Canada and Germany clearly aren't islands and did much better than the US. Clearly Denmark, Finland, and Norway aren't islands and clearly did much better than the US, not to mention having 5-10x fewer covid deaths per capita than their neighbor, Sweden. There are a number of Carribean countries, that are clearly islands, and clearly aren't having as good outcomes as the non island countries I mentioned that had decent to excellent outcomes. You clearly have no clue what you're talking about. You're flinging poop and hoping it sticks. Japan is actually an outlier, amongst countries the had excellent covid outcomes, in that its testing rate is actually low. They clearly relied more heavily on mask use, and other measures, and you clearly still don't know what you're talking about. On top of that, you sound paranoid. And, the topic was mask effectiveness, not mandate effectiveness. What difference does it make if the mask use is cultural? You're the one changing your argument, dumb dumb. You're moving the goalpost. Masks proved to be effective in Japan. The outcome for an entire country, isn't quite "anecdotal", and on par with you comparing outcomes from two different states, dimwit. You're also the one who called for real world data. Not only are you completely clueless, you're a walking contradiction, a hypocrite. What the hell are you talking about? Florida has about half the population of California, and they did spike up to about 20k in the winter while California spiked to about 40k. Florida clearly did not have a similar spike last Aug. They had a spike in July, as did California. California is having an Aug spike now, too, but Florida's is clearly far worse, with almost 50% more cases and almost half the population. As I clearly mentioned, there is a good sized percentage of anti-mask idiots in every US community, making the US a shitty country to use real world data from, for an example of following covid rules. Do you have reading comprehension problems, on top of your other issues? Why isn't there a much larger disparity between CA and FL? Because there is a large minority in CA that are idiots and a large minority in FL that aren't idiots. Apparently, you literally didn't read an article saying Florida was one of 5 states that didn't submit a plan, by the deadline, that would have handed them a couple billion from the covid funds dedicated to schools. Seriously, your just pulling crap out of your ass.
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  7683. Rofl. I explained that dates don't indicate whether one was a more conservative response than the other, and you just come back and say to look at the dates again. Closing down at dozens of deaths is objectively the more conservative response than not closing down until hundreds of deaths. Italy had 366 deaths by the time of their major March 8 lockdown. Germany started various lockdowns between Mar 13-22. Germany was at 55 deaths on Mar 22. Your argument is beyond moronic. I wasn't citing Trump as saying anything factual. I was citing him as another example of weather spewing stupidity. Just how bad are your reading comprehension problems? I literally pointed out that Florida and California had similar spikes, relative to population. Were Floridians all huddled in their homes, due to the freezing cold Florida winter? I understood perfectly well, which is why I pointed out that it's hotter in Italy and Spain than Germany, but you wanted to reject the current trend there, because it's currently the opposite of your nonsense weather narrative. Canada had spikes in the fall and spring, as did Greece and France. Japan's last little uptick was in May, which is neither their hottest or coldest month. You said I was wrong about the US letting the virus fly in, and countered with the fact that the US let you fly in. You're spewing gibberish, at this point. If covid was brought in by border crossers, the US spread would have looked a lot different. Japan, reported their first case within a day of the US. The US' first case was someone who flew into Washington state from Wuhan. The virus did not walk into the country. It flew in. By Mar 3, Washington state (pop 7.6m) had over twice as many deaths as Japan (pop 126m). Initial East coast clusters were traced to a Wuhan-Italy-US trip, also flying in. There's no actual evidence that the US' problem was having land borders. Yes, an ocean between China and the US, "effectively" makes it an island "relative" to China. Do you know what "effectively" and "relative" means? Canada shares a long land border with one of the shittiest covid outcome countries in the world. Germany shares land borders with some of the shittiest covid outcomes in the EU. Vietnam shares a large land border with the virus's country of origin. Norway and Findland share borders with the shittiest Nordic country. The UK, French Polynesia, Guadeloupe, Martinique, Aruba, Sint Maarten, Bahamas, British Virgin Islands, Saint Martin, Seychelles ... all worse than Germany. Those, plus Ireland, Trinidad & Tobago, Malta, Curacao, Saint Lucia, all worse than Canada. There are about a dozen more, including Jamaica and Bahamas, that are worse than Vietnam and Norway. Plus, even Australia, Japan, and New Zealand, have worse numbers than the country of origin, China. How a country responded played a bigger factor in how good an outcome they had, than being an island had to do with anything. Yes, I do understand that Vietnam and S Korea are actually prepared for epidemics, unlike many other countries, and have plans in place, including mass mask use. You sound like a psycho. Vietnam's covid deaths per capita rate would translate into under 60k total US covid deaths, instead of over 690k, and you're more worried that the government might be able to track you through the covid app on your cellphone, that you're already carrying around with you but not worried they're already tracking you with it? Oh, the horror ... this app I can freely download, and can freely delete, is showing me if I've come in contact with someone who freely enters that they've tested positive. So scary. Oh no, a government computer might know whether I'm at the variety store or at the gas station, and .... what? What comes after that? Between you spewing contradictory gibberish and other nonsense, and now paranoid conspiracy theories, and arguing freedumb over hundreds of thousands of lives, I'm done reading your crap.
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  7684.  @FuddlyDud  Italy started cancelling school across the country Mar 4 (107 dead). They didn't have provincial level lockdowns until Mar 8 (366 dead). Germany started closing schools and banned visiting senior homes Mar 13 (8 dead). They had sate level curfews, and were closing down cinemas and restaurants across the country, by Mar 22 (55 dead). You'd have to be a complete and utter moron, to think locking down at 7x fewer deaths is a less conservative response. Apparently, you are.
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  7685.  @FuddlyDud  Canada has had a higher tests per confirmed case rate than Japan. You're still lying, or completely ignorant. Stopped reading there.
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  7686.  @FuddlyDud  You agreed there are plenty of islands worse off than even mediocre outcome countries. Glad we agree that you're full of shit. Stopped reading there.
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  7687.  @FuddlyDud  You've lied that Italy responded in a more conservative manner than Germany. You've lied about Japan's testing rate, trying to make it seem like they're amongst the best in the world, when they're not even close, in an attempt to dance away from their heavy reliance on mask use. You make excuses for all the islands that sucked and for all the countries with land borders that did well, in a lame attempt to fit a square peg into the round hole in your island "argument". You've spewed gobbledygook about weather. You've contradicted your own arguments multiple times. You've moved goalposts. And, you're clearly a paranoid loon. What's to argue about?
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  7688.  @FuddlyDud  I'll quite myself. "France, Italy, Spain, and the UK, all didn't take the virus seriously enough, at first, much like the US, and let it get well out of control. Germany took it a little bit more seriously." Those were the first two sentences of the point I was making, and you started blathering on about Italy's lockdown happening sooner, which doesn't show they were in any way whatsoever taking it more seriously than Germany. This was the point I continued trying to make, and you again kept diverting to the timeline. You have dishonestly tried to make out like Italy took the virus more seriously, when they clearly didn't. Now you're just lying about about being dishonest. Stopped reading.
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  7689.  @FuddlyDud  Obviously meant "quote", dumb dumb. Never had a phone change a word? Wtf are you talking about? By that same Mar 22, the Netherlands (pop 17.3m) had 179 deaths, and Germany (pop 83m) had 55. The Netherlands did shit, at the very start, and had an early shit result because of it. Then, they did take tougher measures, closing schools, banning large gatherings, mandating distancing, non essential workers work from home, first mask mandate was for public transportation and later a broader mask mandate, plus enacted serious fines for any violations. You're still spewing bullshit. Stopped reading.
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  7690.  @FuddlyDud  Rofl! You say something isn't true, and then say pretty much what I said, to supposedly counter what I said. You're an idiot. Stopped reading.
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  7691. Medicare already exists. You still need a bill to expand it. Medicaid is handled by the state, and would require a state senate vote to expand. Conservative states could decide never to expand, just like a bunch chose not to expand Medicaid under the ACA.
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  7692.  @NOYOUSHUTUP3.14  Exactly, people need a cut, first, before it happens, and how it's paid for matters. The corporations need to pay for it, not some stupid VAT that doesn't tax businesses and has consumers paying for it.
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  7693. You're the racist princess, I take it.
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  7694. ... in New Hampshire only. Americans should learn that a VAT doesn't make corporations, like Amazon, "pay their fair share", as Yang claims. His plan will make Amazon and Bezos even richer.
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  7695. ​ @Seigensi  She had 5 min any which way.
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  7696. ​ @Leelee-u4m2t  Trudeau was elected because people were desperate for change, from Harper. Reelecting Conservatives is mrnc.
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  7697.  @Jasondirt  It's called harm reduction. An excellent covid response, like S Korea's, would translate into under 12k total covid deaths in the US. A mediocre covid response, like Canada's, would translate into 400+k fewer covid deaths in the US. If there's zero chance in hell of getting the excellent response, do you vote for the mediocre response, or do you let the complete incompetence, that led to 600+ covid deaths, rule instead?
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  7698.  @morphor  Some video obviously taken well before he and wife publicly stated they stopped donating to her, and promoted never again donating to any Democrat or Republican, progressive or not, is irrelevant. Also, what Nina said doesn't, at all, debunk that Dore abandoned her. You'd have to show something Dore said, showing that he was supporting her to the end, which can't be done, not her showing him some support. Not knowing exactly what the "some things" he says that she can't, that she likes, also makes what she said kind of meaningless. Rofl. Dore is "outraged" for a profit.
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  7699.  @Jasondirt  It's reality. Unless you can spark some giant movement, like Ross Perot, a third party has no chance in hell of winning. Even he, at best, had a chance to win the presidency, but would have had zero supporting party seats in congress. There are basically two viable parties, or a few independents who caucus with those two parties. If you don't think one of the two is going to win, then you're not living in reality.
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  7700.  @Darke_Exelbirth  The only possible way to ever pass M4A is to add enough yes votes to congress. So, someone like AOC, who is actively helping to add M4A yes votes to congress, is the one actually fighting for M4A. You Dore knobs have mistaken fighting for a 100% guaranteed to fail performance art vote for fighting for M4A. They aren't the same thing. AOC, and Bernie, were just actively trying to add another M4A yes vote to congress, in Nina Turner. Dore, on the other hand, abandoned Nina and abandoned trying to add another M4A yes vote to congress. Progressives got the $15 to stay in for a round of voting, it actually passed the house (M4A didn't have a chance in hell) and also go a senate vote. Suddenly, you moron Dore knobs think just getting a vote on important progressive policy is useless, and getting a list of no voters is useless. You're pathetic useless hypocrites, who benefit the far right most.
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  7701.  @Darke_Exelbirth  People don't have to expose themselves as fake supporters, unless the bill has a chance of passing, dimwit. If it has absolutely zero chance of passing, the supposed faker could vote for it all day long. When you already need to convert or replace over 100 members of congress, trying to ferret out a few more isn't strategic, it's moronic.
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  7702.  @Darke_Exelbirth  Rofl! You think the "M4A movement" is equivalent to the women's suffrage movement?! You're a complete and utter moron.
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  7703.  @Jasondirt  Rofl. Dore has healthcare, dumb dumb. He's the one that didn't care if 10m of the poorest Americans were thrown off Medicaid expansion. He's the one that didn't care to try and add 40m older Americans to Medicare expansion. He's the one that backed Tulsi and her public option over Bernie and M4A. He's the one that doesn't care that the third party route hasn't won the most popular third party a single seat in congress in its near 50 year existence. He's the one that didn't care to add another M4A yes vote to congress, in Nina Turner. He's at the top and has the luxury of holding out for all or nothing, and getting nothing. Take the opportunity to add more people to Medicaid and Medicare. Then f*cking do it again, and again, and again, until you have M4A. All or nothing is for spoiled babies.
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  7704. @Badatallthis Stuff Can you make the connection between what your fantasy of Biden using 1881a has to do with ftv, or progressives in congress? Can you even make the connection between 1881a and M4A? 1881a wouldn't give you the M4A in the M4A bill. It would give you the current Medicare, with all the extra out of pocket costs. It would also only give you that coverage if you were diagnosed with the reason for the emergency. The ones benefiting from it most would be all the anti-mask, anti-vax, morons catching covid and landing themselves in the hospital. It still wouldn't cover someone else's cancer treatments. Forcing a 100% guaranteed to fail performance art vote isn't forcing them to give you M4A. Stop pretending like it is.
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  7705.  @Jasondirt  You're arguing for performance art over actually adding yes votes to congress. And you're the one arguing to hand the party back to the "lesser evil" corporate Dems and let the "greater evil" Republicans rule for decades, by sidelining progressive voters with a third party that will never win a seat, leaving progressives with zero representation in congress. You have just about the worst plan to actually get M4A.
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  7706.  @Jasondirt  Rofl. No, AOC is not a major reason Pelosi got to remain speaker of the house. The party speaker candidate is chosen by simple majority of the party caucus. Even the entire broader progressive caucus doesn't yet have the majority needed to pick a different speaker candidate. A failed house speaker vote doesn't require the party to pick someone new. The non progressive majority could keep picking Pelosi over and over and over. Or, they could pick someone worse. Then what? Keep paralyzing the house? Sure, AOC is one of 217 reasons why the house wasn't paralyzed. How long do you suggest paralyzing the house for, during a pandemic ... no new covid relief, no new unemployment extensions, no new vaccine funding, etc.? Look, I get it, Dore knobs would rather see Republicans in the majority and progressives in a minority party, or in a party with zero seats, at all.
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  7707.  @Jasondirt  It's called harm avoidance, Dore knob, and it isn't bs reasoning. Many ethics questions and trolley experiments are based on it (Pssst, there's no such thing as actual "evil", dumb dumb, just better and worse outcomes). Either you have some delusional fantasy that a third party will win, or you outright know you're increasing the odds of a corporate Dem winning your primary (if you don't vote for a progressive Dem), and increasing the odds of a Republican winning your general (if you don't vote for whichever Dem wins). You're increasing the odds of the worst possible outcome, and you know it. Just admit you don't care already.
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  7708. @Badatallthis Stuff Having independent Joe Lieberman, who endorsed McCain for president, doesn't exactly count as having a super majority.
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  7709. @Badatallthis Stuff Rofl. You should take your own advice, and use the internet to learn what 1881a can actually do. It doesn't cover everyone for everything. It only covers those afflicted with the emergency disease, disaster, or whatnot. It would have been good, at the start of the pandemic, when everyone was more vulnerable to covid. Now, you'd mostly just be rewarding all the anti-mask and anti-vax morons, who catch covid, with Medicare coverage, while not getting it for cancer patients, or anyone with non covid illnesses or injuries.
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  7710. @Badatallthis Stuff It's admitting Lieberman was an independent, who endorsed a Republican, which you can't seem to do. It's admitting that everyone within a party isn't exactly the same, which you can't seem to do. It's admitting that there's not really such a thing as a party without people. A peopleless "party" isn't against progressive policies. Certain people, that belong to parties, are against progressive policies. Replace the people that are obstacles. The party is what you make of it, with the people you elect. Stomping off if you don't get your way is childish. One of those Puritan People's Party leaders quickly left because even that party wasn't puritan enough for him. It's f*cking ridiculous. He's now in what, a party of one? Trying to have the support of as few puritans as possible is a terrible strategy.
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  7711.  @tanjianforever  Ted's mom was American. He was considered American, dual citizenship, by birth. He didn't have to naturalize to become American.
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  7712. Just keep that shit on your side of the lakes.
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  7713. What kind of porridge will be served is decided in the primaries. Sure, the primaries should try to pick the porridge that's best for the people and has the best chance at defeating the Republican. Whatever the primary decides, the best chance at defeating the Republican should hold. Voting green will not do that.
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  7714.  @johnscott6481  The mainstream Democratic party is right of centre. Sanders, and the progressives, are centre to centre-left. Mainstream Democrats might be in the centre of the US political spectrum, but that spectrum is almost totally right of centre.
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  7715.  @normster1000  What does offending have to do with "truth"? Truth is moron cry babies don't give two shits how gender pronouns are used in other scenarios, and that's actually the right approach. Where the morons get tripped up is when they suddenly think gender = sex.
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  7716. Bullshit. One official observer had an issue at one station (he got into every other station he went to just fine) because the person was using the old rules, and it was resolved.
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  7717. There's also a reason he didn't, right from the start. He's not so smart.
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  7718. Seems fascist.
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  7719. If they delve too deeply into Canada, they'd have to address how a 1993 report found that 600k Americans were coming to leech off our free healthcare, in Ontario alone. That's why we introduced the picture ID health cards in 1995.
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  7720. I doubt anyone is denying what happened. But, if you look at something like the Indian Massacre of 1622, in which the natives massacred many civilians in and around Jamestown, you can't look at it and say it was entirely the natives fault ... "Savages!". Their actions were a response. If what caused that response had never happened, they wouldn't have responded, right? So, ultimately, the issue is with the colonialists, causing "savage" responses.
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  7721. Did you mean papers to show you've had a vaccine, or had a test with negative results? Either way, those are both actually positives.
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  7722.  @LittleMissLeared  Because they're psycho.
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  7723.  @Irishhound  Fascism: ultra-nationalistic; pro military expansion; pro police expansion; anti-communist; anti-socialist; anti-union; anti-feminist; backed by business leaders and large land owners; backed by religious extremists; ... Republicans checked all those boxes years ago. And, lastly ... anti-democratic. Gerrymandering, disenfranchising, and the electoral college, already make the US less democratic than most other developed countries. Outright fighting against voters wishes, and 27% of Republicans saying Trump shouldn't concede, no matter what, is the final nail in going outright fascist.
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  7724.  @Irishhound  Are you still saying that? Buddy ... Mein Kampf is a rant against Jews (who he blames for Marxism), social democracy (which he claimed was also Marxism), democracy (which he claimed leads to Marxism), and Marxism. He ran on National Socialism, which he defined as simply people working together for the good of the nation. If simply working together is "socialism", then almost everything humans do together is "socialism". He outright said Marxism had misused the word. He outright argued against the class struggle. He outright argued that National Socialism is on the side of private property. All his rich backers clearly understood he was running against unionism, socialism, and communism, but somehow you don't. Any pro socialism statements you think you read, wasn't any kind of left wing "socialism". It was right wing [National] "socialism". He kicked people out of the party, and killed people in the party, to prove it. "Fascism is the complete opposite of Marxian socialism." ~ Mussolini
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  7725.  @elainejohnson6955  And Trump incited an insurrection. Not booting him is for some political reason.
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  7726. A majority of voters, themselves, are still voting Republican or corporate Dem, voting against their own best interests.
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  7727.  @buddyguy4723  Rofl. There are countless stories and movies about the underdog bringing in someone to take on the town bully, for them. It's far from immoral. Going on Joe Rogan, lying about being some awesome debater the left is afraid to debate, while basically only ever debating amateurs, and yours of avoiding debates, would be depicted more as the immoral coward position. At least, in most of those stories, the bully tends to fight the person the underdog brings in, and you get a fight scene. Steven just ran for the hills.
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  7728.  @buddyguy4723  The WWE is fiction. You want real life, like American revolutionaries picking a fight with the British, and then getting the French to help them? Crowder was a lying coward, from the get go, who deserved to be set up.
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  7729.  @888strummer  She hasn't been quiet about minimum wage. She hasn't been silent about unemployment extension, and is drawing up her own bill to reinstate it, since the leadership let it run out. $174k gets you to upper middle class, not in the 1% like the people actually buying tickets. Plus, members of congress have to maintain two households. It's not like she's making double, or more, than that sitting on her ass in the garage of her $2m house.
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  7730.  @leetroy3129  She has used her platform and PAC to help add more M4A yes votes to congress, the thing that actually gets you closer to ever being able to pass the bill. She has used her platform to raise money for freezing Texans. She has used it to raise money for women's choice activists in Texas. She has used it to help bring attention to the eviction moratorium running out. She has used it to bring attention to striking workers. Her office also does things in her district, not just in congress, like helping constituents get rent relief, helping them get disaster relief, etc. Apparently, you're clueless.
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  7731.  @rwwilson21  Rofl, no, that's not trickle down economics, and not what you argued. Plus, the top 10% owns like 85% of stocks, ffs. Since Reagan, the top 1% has increased its share of the wealth by about 50%, while the bottom 50% has had their share of the wealth decrease by about 50%. Cutting taxes for the rich only led to the rich hoarding more of the wealth.
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  7732.  @mirandalancaster8968  You're insane, if you think that many different governments, scientists, doctors, colleges and universities, across the planet, are working together in a coordinated conspiracy.
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  7733. Relative to you, maybe.
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  7734. Karen tackling a kid over a phone that wasn't hers was pretty bad, too.
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  7735.  @waterfrodo4304  She also called the cops on the woman filming her, after her psycho fit.
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  7736. ​ @archologyzero  I'd just assume he's dishonest.
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  7737.  @Captain-Sum.Ting-Wong  They're the kind of "left" that winds up on the wrong end of a Night of the Long Knives.
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  7738. What would be your take on the Indian massacre of 1622, if you were reporting, at the time, David?
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  7739. ​ @Newton-Reuther  You haven't seen her speaking at a ceasefire rally?
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  7740. The Tea Party didn't attack their own Tea Party friendly politicians, dimwit. Dore claims to be progressive while trashing progressive politicians.
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  7741. That's nonsensical.
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  7742. Even we need the right wing votes split up more, so people don't worry as much about voting NDP leading to Conservatives winning.
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  7743.  @michaelarmijo4112  You're the one lying. She said exactly where she was, and simply said she didn't know what was going on, or who was, outside her door.
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  7744.  @michaelarmijo4112  The goal is what makes something sedition, or not, dumb dumb. How well people are armed, how successful it is, or whatnot, is irrelevant.
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  7745.  @michaelarmijo4112  She used her platform and PAC to back 20 other pro-M4A progressives, helped add a few more M4A yes votes to congress, and helped remove a few more corporate Dems. Getting enough yes votes in congress is the only possible way to ever pass a bill. She was just campaigning to try and add another M4A yes vote, in Nina Turner. Oh my, so her tactic for the midterm is to try and avoid progressives becoming part of a minority party? You must be a Republican, if you want them to be the majority.
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  7746. People have been talking about Walmart being shit, for years.
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  7747.  @GoodBaleadaMusic  There have been plenty of articles on Walmart destroying small towns. There have been plenty of articles on Walmart not paying employees enough. And, there have been articles about Walmart, and other big box stores being open, just because they sell a few grocery items. The NDP have called out Ford for having exemployees that are now lobbyist for Walmart, while questioning why he let big box stores stay open.
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  7748.  @GoodBaleadaMusic  "the most pervasive retailer in our lives" doesn't sound like someone only talking about Walmart staying open during covid, ffs. Shove your strawmen, back into your brain, where you got them from.
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  7749.  @GoodBaleadaMusic  Rofl, aaaand another strawman. Stop trying to guess how I feel. You're bad at it.
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  7750.  @GoodBaleadaMusic  I've never once mentioned how I feel. You have severe reading comprehension problems. You're apparently a lunatic.
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  7751. @Doctor Drywell The US was founded on the government handing out free land to many poor illiterate immigrants.
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  7752. @Doctor Drywell  I'm not an American, dumbass. Referring to Americans, though, many of them equate welfare to socialism or communism, so I always like to point out that the US was founded on government handouts. Now take your totally not made up degree, and shove it up your ass.
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  7753. Dore knob.
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  7754. No. Although it's now the dominant variant, it's not the only variant. People are still getting, and dying from, Delta. Delta was also both more contagious and more deadly, than earlier variants, so you don't know what Omicron could mutate into.
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  7755. On top of the colonialist nature of Zionism, Israel was itself founded on terrorism, by groups like the Irgun and Lehi. They bombed many Palestinian markets, murdering civilians, including children, even including Palestinian Jews (who didn't support Zionism). Israel merged those terrorists into the new nation's military and intelligence agencies. Israelis elected Menachem Begin, leader of the Irgun, child murderer, Jew murder, who bombed the King David Hotel, as PM. Israelis, to this day, celebrate those terrorists as "heroes". They literally taught their neighbours that terrorism is a valid path to independence and statehood, and that terrorists are to be celebrated. Netanyahu even promoted, and helped fund, Hamas, to weaken the Palestinian Authority, and avoid peace. Israel is the terrorist nation. Rivlin hosts 90th anniversary of founding Irgun Zvai Leumi (Etzel) By GREER FAY CASHMAN Published: MARCH 1, 2021 "President Reuven Rivlin on Monday hosted the 90th anniversary celebration of Irgun Zvai Leumi, generally known by its Hebrew acronym of Etzel."
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  7756.  @waterbottles4744  Nope. You're wrong.
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  7757.  4 Fake  Have a nap.
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  7758.  @bjornjorgenbjorgenhoogenbo2954  Wtf does party affiliation have to do with anything, dumb dumb? Holocaust denial can land you in jail in multiple countries that have zero Democrats running them. Go test if the Austrian authorities will take Holocaust denial seriously. Fuentes is a far right white nationalist, who supported trying to overthrow the democratic process to keep an unelected ruler in power. What more is needed, before he can be called a Nazi?
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  7759.  @clopez4280  What kind of nonsense are you spouting? China just donated a bunch of medical gear to Canada.
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  7760. You mean his business partner and WH advisor? That part is kind of relevant.
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  7761.  @marvinnickel7913  Congratulations! You managed to pack one the biggest loads of bullshit into a single post on YouTube.
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  7762.  @marvinnickel7913  Seriously, you were spouting pure bullshit, from start ... https://oversight.house.gov/planned-parenthood-fact-v-fiction ... to finish ... https://www.christiantoday.com/article/10-happiest-countries-in-the-world-are-among-the-least-religious/127465.htm
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  7763. It would actually need to be funded by corporations though, not consumers, or it wouldn't be sustainable.
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  7764. If he had taken it seriously, Ontario would already be testing 10+k people a day, and we'd be on a downward curve, like South Korea did.
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  7765.  @donnewton7858  Right wingers added the presidential term limits after FDR was elected for 4 terms.
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  7766.  @squatch545  Do you have reading comprehension problems? "Former" Which show was that in? DIANNE FEINSTEIN Out-Of-Touch During Economic Crisis! 55K views13 hours ago AOC Revisionism About The Two Parties of WAR! 120K views1 day ago Pete Buttigieg REWARDED For Fulfilling Mission During Primary! 109K views1 day ago Biden's Cabinet Of WAR! 105K views2 days ago "Biden World" BLAMES Progressives for Their Losses! 90K views2 days ago Big Tech Oligarchs in Biden Administration overseeing Censorship! 87K views2 days ago Trump & Biden -- TRUTH In The Streets! 124K views3 days ago BIDEN's Cabinet Looking WORSE Than Expected! 128K views3 days ago
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  7767. ​ @c.a.t.732  "handed it over" Israel controls the borders, the airspace, the ports, the electricity, the water, the vast majority of what goes in and out, and Bibi even controlled the purse strings. He could stop and start the flow of money from Qatar, whenever he wanted. All while also still ethnic cleansing and colonizing the Palestinians of the West Bank, which Palestinians of Gaza still care about. In no reality did they "hand it over". They pulled out a colony. You don't actually have to colonize to occupy. Nazis didn't actually live in the Warsaw ghetto. All the Palestine territories are still considered occupied, by the International Court, the UN GA, and the UN SC.
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  7768.  decembrist  Math was around long before Mayans. Mesopotamians were recording amounts of things with clay balls, thousands of years before the Mayans settled and started developing a civilization.
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  7769.  @bodhisattva3774  Learn basic math. It is impossible to pass a bill without Manchin. There are zero extra votes to the left of the party, if you lose his vote. On the other hand, there is the entire Republican party to try and get extra votes from, if you lose votes on the left. It is entirely possible to pass a bill without AOC, or the squad, by making concessions to Republicans. That final capitol police bill actually passed 98-0 in the senate and 416-11 in the house.
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  7770.  @bodhisattva3774  Yes, their jurisdiction is threats to members of congress, just like the secret service's jurisdiction is threats to the president, and former presidents. You're making up crap, implying they have some broad scope, like either the FBI or CIA. Not funding police refers to local police, and hasn't really involved the FBI or CIA. I haven't heard of anyone calling to defund the secret service. You're really stretching your outrage to nonsensical proportions. And, you're apparently still clueless as to when the final bill was actually passed, what was in it, and what the vote count was.
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  7771.  @bodhisattva3774  Rofl. I didn't say I was fine with anything, you dimwitted Dore knob. Nor am I in favor of establishment Dems. I am, however, in favor of progressives being part of a majority party, and in favor of not going completely backwards under Republicans. Your grifting cult leader is the one who abandoned Nina Turner ... abandoned adding another M4A yes vote to congress ... abandoned trying to keep another corporate Dem out of office. The only thing they're authorized to do, outside of the capitol complex, is protecting members of congress. They have no jurisdiction over any other crimes, in the rest of the country. What is it you think they're going to do, exactly?
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  7772. Hey, if my business cuts the office that goes after unpaid bills, my costs should go down. Surely, that won't affect my company's income in any way, whatsoever.
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  7773. I don't even know why you're talking about irrelevant divisions that aren't reflected in major politics. Left: progressive/justice Democrats; Green party Right: corporate Democrats; Republicans; Libertarians The only actual division in major politics, that's left of centre, is between progressive Dems (who want to take over the Democratic party) and Greens (who have started a new party). Both of those groups would only be considered centre-left in most other countries. Corporate Dems are centre-right to right of centre. Republicans are right of centre to far right. Libertarians are far right, but are less authoritarian than Republicans. However, they tend to vote their economics over their authority issues. The right has more political divisions. As a party, the Democrats have a bigger split, because the party now has a wider range, from centre-left to right of centre. It's, mostly, a right of centre party. Right wingers in other developed countries support things like universal healthcare and gun control. US corporate Dems are right of them. Progressives are trying to move the party back to its more centrist position.
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  7774.  @Cyrus992  Pretending like both are exactly the same is nonsense. Trying to toss 10m of the poorest Americans off of Medicaid expansion isn't samesies as not doing that and possibly adding 40m older Americans to Medicare. Sure, it's not M4A, but all or nothing often gets you nothing. Dore promoted Trump as the better option than Clinton. He claimed it would lead to a progressive wave that would "for sure" take the house, senate, and presidency, by 2020. Wrong, on all counts. He vastly overestimated the benefits. He also didn't see Republicans as far worse than Democrats, and claimed they would join Democrats in voting against the Trump agenda. Instead, they embraced overt fascism. He vastly underestimated the risks. He even gaslit (actual gaslighting is trying to falsely make someone feel crazy, or appear crazy to others, not simply to mislead people) Sam Seder, making out like the possibility of Trump filling multiple scotus seats was as likely as the moon falling into Lake Michigan, and what Sam was saying was insane. Events have proven that Dore was the completely delusional one. Dore has also promoted going third party, which hasn't won the most popular third party a single seat in congress in 50 years. At best, you peel away enough progressive votes to hand the Dem party totally back to corporate Dems, and let Republicans rule for decades. It's a fantasy to think that's a viable option to get what you want. The system needs to be changed to make third parties viable, and you can't do that from the outside. "Call out" shouldn't equate to slander. AOC campaigned for Bernie and his M4A, while Dore was backing Tulsi and her "Medicare choice". Her not having an M4A platform wasn't a deal breaker for him. AOC also used her platform and PAC to back 20 other pro-M4A progressives, helping to add a few more M4A yes votes to congress, and helping to take out a few more corporate Dems. Adding more yes votes is exactly what needs doing to ever pass the bill. It's exactly what you'd still need to do even if there was a guaranteed to fail vote. Pretending like that isn't fighting for M4A is garbage. Pretending she has sold out is garbage. She also never once ran on threatening to paralyze the house. Dore making out like she did was a strawman, giving his own meaning to her words, when she never indicated such a meaning. He also makes false equivalencies between things like a bill that's about 100 votes short in the house alone, that wouldn't get any hearings or major debate if you somehow dodge going through committees, where those things happen, and comparing that to an impeachment that only fell a few votes short in the senate, and got a hearing and major debate. He also misrepresents surveys. The Pew survey he cited about 88% Dem voter support for M4A actually showed 88% support for some kind of government responsibility for healthcare, but only 54% for all out single payer. He used it to claim the majority of Americans wanted M4A but, same thing, it showed that, of the majority who said the government had a responsibility to make sure everyone was covered, only 36% wanted all out single payer. On the other hand, the majority of Americans wanted Trump impeached. There was no equivalence between the two things, any which way you look at it. Using his made up nonsense to trash progressives, making people lose confidence in them, will only end up benefiting corporate Dems and Republicans, the ones he is supposedly against. For him to spend weeks making out like a disagreement on a secondary tactic was a deal breaker, and that anyone who didn't agree with him was some kind of fraud, was no longer an ally, he immediately turned around and made out like some ancap Boogaloos, who are the complete opposite when it comes to economics, who don't want any government healthcare, at all, could be allies, just because they're anti-authoritarian on a few topics. That's actual insanity. And, the progressive caucus got the $15 minimum to stay in the covid relief bill for a round of voting. He immediately turned around and made out like getting a vote doesn't count for shit. Even that isn't good enough. Simply getting a vote was a huge freaking deal, and a deal breaker, one second, but then it's worthless, the next. He's a walking contradiction. He's only consistent in his Dems = bad message. However he has to twist things, manipulate surveys, slander, contradict himself, the message is consistently Dems = bad. For a "real" progressive, he seems to promote actions that benefit Republicans most. Odd.
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  7775.  @aarondickson1898  Dems don't equate to progressives, and Dems ditched the filibuster on lower courts, which they haven't really complained about all that much. Republicans ditched the filibuster on the Supreme Court, themselves. So, what "backfire" are you talking about?
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  7776.  @aarondickson1898  The Republicans ditching the filibuster on the Supreme Court is a "backfire" on Democrats, how? That makes no sense.
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  7777.  @aarondickson1898  Again, Democrats didn't end the filibuster for the Supreme Court, dumb dumb. It was Republicans who, in 2017, ditched the filibuster for the Supreme Court. Try to make sense.
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  7778. Neither are many of the opinion shows on news channels really news, which should also be deplatformed. It's false advertising. "News" channels should be almost entirely reporting of facts, without the opinions.
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  7779.  @alabamaman9476  Exactly what? You can't seem to provide a specific example of supposedly different science.
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  7780. Are you in the Trump cult or the Dore cult?
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  7781.  @Breadbored.  Hospitals in trouble also isn't inherently a problem with single payer. More hospitals shut down in US states that didn't take government expansion. https://www.gq.com/story/rural-hospitals-closing-in-red-states
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  7782.  @Breadbored.  Because your hospital's problem likely has less to do with single payer, and more to do with location. I don't know where you are to blame negotiated doctor salaries for your hospital's problems. Hundreds of doctors in Quebec thought they were being paid too much, by the same single payer system. Ours is a mixed federal/provincial system. Maybe your province isn't putting in enough, on their end. https://montrealgazette.com/news/local-news/quebec-doctor-embarrassed-by-pay-hikes-to-colleagues Even if doctor salaries stayed the same, in the US, single payer has much lower administration costs. It's the multiple payer system that requires more administration. And, if the US could negotiate drug costs to half, that would also lower costs for hospitals. Switching to non-profit hospitals would also lower costs. On top of the savings, you'd have tens of thousands fewer people dying due to lack of coverage, hundreds of thousands fewer people going bankrupt due to healthcare costs, and over a million people not having to travel to places like India for healthcare they can afford. It is inherently better, without even touching doctor salaries.
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  7783.  @Breadbored.  I don't think ours is perfect, but there aren't "fundamental" flaws in single payer. Whatever flaws your province has is because of something your province is doing or not doing. If the flaws were "fundamental" to our system, they'd be unavoidable. They aren't.
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  7784.  @jonm7888  Yes!
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  7785. No one has argued the US invented slavery. No one has argued slavery didn't, or doesn't, exist outside the US. No one has argued slavery no longer exists. Crowder is arguing against strawmen of his own making, on all those points. As for his claim that slavery has never been racially motivated, that's a blatant lie. Western chattel slavery was developed around African slaves, and was different from other types of slavery. Simply saying "slavery", implying they're all samesies, is nonsense. Other forms of slavery, practiced elsewhere, didn't tend to be lifelong and multigenerational. Black Americans, in the early colonies, weren't slaves. They were indentured, like white people. Then, very racially motivated laws, around the colonies, started chipping away at any semblance of rights. At first, they tried being subtle, by making laws against enslaving Christians (all the whites were Christians, while black Africans were not, at the time). When black people started converting, then they dropped all subtlety, and became very race specific. There were laws all across the country, as well as the brief mention in the constitution. There was also the Confederate constitution, which made the racial aspect of slavery extremely clear. There was also another hundred years of racially motivated segregation and Jim Crow laws, against the very same people that had been enslaved, indicating their treatment beforehand had also been racially motivated. The majority of Confederate state voters were racists, plain and simple. They voted for pro slavery candidates, and against abolitionists. They voted for secessionists, and against unionists. They were willing to kill, and be killed, for the "right" to own, abuse, torture, rape, and even kill, black Americans. They voted for segregationists, and against desegregationists. They were majority hardcore racists, for centuries, on a massive scale. Anyone who thinks that all suddenly went away, in 50 years, is a complete and utter moron, or a grifter.
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  7786.  @marymackey4518  Government negotiated under $20 prices on vaccines, and giving them out for free, is like a tiny slice of universal healthcare. Not getting vaccinated and having to resort to a $2000+ Rogan "kitchen sink" is handing them 100x the money, out of pocket. Being in the hospital and being pumped full of all kinds of drugs, for weeks, even months, hands them even more money. Jimmy peddling Ivermectin, average price $100 for a bottle of 20 pills, as a preventative, is him peddling a more expensive alternative, paid for out of pocket. He's a grifter, selling you the opposite of what he claims to be for.
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  7787. Richard Spencer stated that he thought Israel was great, for 2 reasons ... 1. He thought all the Jews should go there. ... 2. He thought the US should emulate their racist ethno-state. The evangelical right "supports" Israel, because they want Israel to take the mount, build their third temple, and bring about the second coming, and end times ... and Israel gets destroyed first, in their fairy tale Armageddon story. They are "supporting" Israel to hurry up and die.
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  7788.  @battmeets1289  The issue, here, is this adult wanting kids to bully other kids, not kids that don't know any better.
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  7789. @cnault3244  That's how all insurance style programs work. Those not needing it are helping to pay for those who need it. Health insurance, car insurance, house insurance, unemployment insurance, social security, ...
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  7790.  @X2LR8  It can never be no longer the case, dimwit. First, and foremost, Mussolini argued fascism was opposed to socialism. If it's not anti-socialism, then it's not fascism. "Fascism is the complete opposite of Marxian socialism." ~ Mussolini
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  7791.  @X2LR8  No, it's not. Rofl, you think giant tech corporations, and centibillionaires, are left wing? That's hilarious.
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  7792.  @X2LR8  Not from complete idiots.
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  7793.  @Nick-fg4dq  But, that's the thing. He wasn't associated with anybody that was specifically "left". He was associated with anti authority (BLM) and the far right (Proud Boys), and there are anti authority extremist right wingers (Boogaloo types).
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  7794.  @ihcterra4625  Even anarcho types generally have an idea of what they want after, whether it's ansoc or ancap. Next to none just want pure anarchy. He associated with anti authority and the far right, putting him in the realm of ancap Boogaloo types.
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  7795. Your milshakes are bringing all the sex bots to the yard.
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  7796. ​ @aleph8888  You know that the UK could spend double on the NHS, basically double the healthcare system, and still be cheaper than the US, right? So, you can't really say it's because it's socialized that there's problems, unless you double the funding, and still find those problems.
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  7797. Wasn't the recognition of IL as a state, a reward for Irgun and Lehi (founders of Likud) trrrism? IL still celebrates those trrrists as "heroes".
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  7798.  @reelmtb  What does that have to do with the fact that claiming no other country uses a minimum wage is flat out bullshit? And I responded to someone using that bullshit claim, that the majority doesn't like it, as evidence it's no good, so you might want to direct your response to them.
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  7799. @Donald J. Trump Yeah, focusing on banning travel from China, instead of getting ready for it to hit anyway, was really effective.
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  7800.  @kise_ryota  If a god knows what you are going to "choose", before creating you, that means, once created, you actually have zero ability to choose a different outcome, when apparent choices are presented.
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  7801.  @PathtoYahawah  Rofl. You think DNA isn't factual?
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  7802.  @makhiabryantsknife4528  Everyone who has ever done an Arnold impression is a racist? Against Austrians?
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  7803. OWS didn't actually speed up development of vaccines, or even speed up approval much. It is mainly about acquiring supply and speeding up distribution. Even there, Trump failed to acquire as much supply as he could have, before he left office.
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  7804. The comedy network is much more informative.
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  7805. ​ @MrBOASTMAN32  A budget increase is revenue increase, not a tax break.
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  7806. Christian Zionists don't have to like Jews, to be pro Israel expansion. Israel taking the mount, destroying the mosque, and building the third temple, supposedly brings about their second coming. Israel is then the first country destroyed, so it's not really being pro Jew, or pro Israel. It won't alienate his psycho base.
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  7807.  @christopherchilton-smith6482  Ugh, his Moral Landscape is utter trash. He never gets beyond what he already agrees is a given, and can't seem to make an analogous analogy if his life depended on it. I have no clue how he got a philosophy degree, it's so bad.
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  7808.  @christopherchilton-smith6482  The idiot doesn't even seem to grasp what "poisoning" actually is. It's too much of something in your system. He makes out like there's a clear difference between food, or things we should ingest, and "poison". We can get water poisoning. Apples have cyanide in them. Most "poisonings" are overdoses of prescribed medicines, which mostly help us. He's a dolt.
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  7809. There are millions of refugees in ME countries, from Syria, Iraq, and Palestine. How about simply stop constantly making more and more refugees?
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  7810. ​ @AngusTCat  Why was that, do you think, after Jews living amongst Muslims, for 1300 years?
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  7811.  @tymegrace4838  The house and senate were lost under Obama, dimwit. Quit spewing bullshit.
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  7812.  @mrgreen5597  Literally what it was being invested in, expanding staff, dumb dumb.
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  7813.  @fatbachelors3922  Oh no, they might do something horrible, like continue adding more M4A yes votes to congress, exactly the thing that needs doing to ever pass the bill, exactly the thing that would still need doing after a performance art vote. Dore knobs are as dumb as a sack of doorknobs.
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  7814. If someone thinking of becoming a police officer decides not to, if they can't use excessive force, and murder people ... that's probably a good thing.
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  7815. On the plus side, no media has covered that he has zero clue how a VAT works.
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  7816. Does look like there's stuff on the ground by the back driver side tire. Why would that get there, if he was just pulled over?
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  7817.  @2727rogers  The senate is the most undemocratic part (the electoral college's problem was freezing the number of house seats, in the early 1900s, because electorals are tied to number of seats), but then you'd need the vote of the senate to dissolve itself.
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  7818. Rofl. They may be anti-authoritarian, Dore, but they're also anti-socialist. Once they're done kidnapping and killing off the government, they'll start shooting at anyone who tries to implement socialism.
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  7819.  @Snihawk  Let's do a quick historical comparison ... When the Jewish resistance led an uprising, in the Warsaw ghetto, were the Nazis have a "right to defend themselves"?
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  7820.  @stephj9378  Rofl. A sin? I take it you "think" a god exists, with zero evidence.
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  7821. Australia's covid deaths per million would translate into about 30k total US covid deaths, instead of 850k. Why hasn't there been an uprising, so they can have people dying at the same rate we are?!!!!!
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  7822.  @beckyjohnson5057  Yeah, it prevented deaths so well that Peru has the most covid deaths per capita, in the world.
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  7823. ​ @williamhager7136  Weird. He seemed to have missed the anniversaries of the 65 lost under his command.
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  7824. ​ @williamhager7136  Almost like he is using these 13 for purely political purposes. Disgusting.
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  7825. ​ @williamhager7136  Nah. What's disgusting is manhandling and disrespecting the Arlington staff, and using the 13 as political tools. Was he there in 2023? Was he there in 2022? Was he at any of the anniversaries of any of his own 65 losses?
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  7826.  @mimked  That's because right wingers have banned the CDC from doing their own studies. Why is it you think that is? Why wouldn't the pro-gun side want studies, if they really believed guns saved more lives than they took?
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  7827.  @bigbaldmikey3601  He's a religious nut, who worships a sexless, penisless, being that is referred to as "he", "him", and even "father", and yet Ben hypocritically pretends that gender and sex are the same thing. That being, would also be the leading abortionist in existence (miscarriage = spontaneous abortion), if it existed. He outright worships a "baby murderer", while hypocritically criticizing abortion. That he's a religious nut also make his "facts don't care about your feelings" slogan hypocritical. His entire worldview is based on his feelings about a fairy tale.
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  7828. You're lying. You actually had a negative net undocumented migration rate, for about ten years. More left, or were sent back, than came in.
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  7829.  @Fuwuzworsh  It is absolutely not a strawman, to point out the absolute fact, that even the most popular third party hasn't won a single seat in congress in its near 50 year existence, the most popular progressive third party hasn't won a single seat in congress in its 20 year existence. It is absolutely not a strawman to point out the math of having power in congress and that, as a third party, you could be completely ignored, until you get a majority, if the other two parties work together. You, apparently, have no clue what a "strawman" is. AOC just used that PAC to back 20 other pro-M4A progressives in the last primaries. She helped add a few more M4A advocates to congress, and helped remove a few more corporate Dems. Some of the progressives she backed got absolutely trounced in very conservative districts, but a conservative Dem did end up winning the general. So, you Dore knobs are upset, that she wants the party to hold those seats in the midterms. I get it ... Dore knobs like Republicans in the majority, and progressives in a minority party. Wait. On one hand, a Dore argument is that corporate Dems would rather work with, or lose to, Republicans, than they would to work with, or lose to, progressives. On the other hand, a Dore argument is that they'll hate losing to Republicans, so much, that they'll turn more progressive. You realize that that's gibberish, right? Both can't be true. Just pretend that a hard all or nothing stance got you absolutely nothing, like you wanted.
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  7830.  @Fuwuzworsh  That's the thing that has been done, over and over ... letting Reagan win, letting Bush win, letting Trump win ... If Trump wasn't rock bottom, and letting Republicans win a proven failure of a strategy, then what is rock bottom? Just how bad do you want the country to get, exactly?
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  7831.  @theprogressiveatheist7024  Yeah, I think I recall Dawkins saying something about Nobel prizes awhile back, as if it was an intelligent and valid argument. It's not.
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  7832. Rofl. Libertarians, ancappers, and the like, will fight you after you help them take down the government.
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  7833.  @joeb134  Isn't the very first OP comment, and the video, about Joe Rogan? But hey, ignore the rest of what I said.
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  7834.  @joeb134  That's what I said.
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  7835. ​ @therationalnational  Yeah, it's like BC politics. On the surface, they have no provincial Conservative party, but in federal elections they vote about as Conservative as Ontario. Their conservatives simply run as Liberals, at the provincial level.
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  7836. ​ @KeithGordon-f8v  Or because a good lawyer can see he's guilty, and probably advises him to settle, or plead guilty, so he fires them.
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  7837. ​​ @Idk-ye8ob  Domestic cats are the leading killer of birds, dimwit.
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  7838. You misspelled 35th out of 230. Even if it were 59/178, what is the issue with referring to the top third as the "most armed"? What would even be the issue with calling the top 50% "most armed" and the bottom 50% "least armed"? Do you know the definition of "most"?
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  7839. Well, it's called harm reduction. Republicans all voted against another round of covid relief, so it could have been no new covid relief, plus evictions, plus continued covid incompetence.
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  7840.  @campfiresong  Rofl, he and BGJ didn't talk about protests? Yes, yes they did. You're comment is ironic.
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  7841.  @campfiresong  You're clearly full of shit. BJG wrote an article on FTV, in which she specifically stated she thought a failed vote could galvanize the left and lead to protests and strikes. When together, Jimmy has agreed with her talking points. Dore was also on Status Coup talking about FTV and direct action, like protests or a general strike.
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  7842.  @campfiresong  Apparently I've seen more of his reasoning, than you. I don't think you've noticed that I haven't said that he didn't say to use it as a talking point to primary corporate Dems. So did BGJ, in the article I just mentioned. That's totally irrelevant to additional things he has, in fact, stated himself or agreed with when other people stated them. You, on the other hand, are denying he gave any other reasoning, and are making excuses for him agreeing with others who gave more reasoning. And, not only are you a complete bullshitter, but you're an idiot who didn't even grasp my original context. Even his wanting to use it as a talking point to run against corporate Dems, and that it will lead to getting M4A passed, implies he thinks a failed vote will make 100+ viable pro-M4A candidates rise up and run, and the millions, if not tens of millions, more progressive voters needed will rise up and vote for them.
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  7843. ​ @stcroix7722  Literally the Capitol police's job, to protect the Capitol, and members of Congress. Not their job to decide who won an election. Neither is it the job of fake electors, or the president. Everyone whose job it was, called it for Biden.
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  7844.  @LoseTheWorld-KeepYourSoul  Lol. Have you ever looked into why Jewish people don't consider him their Messiah?
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  7845.  @LoseTheWorld-KeepYourSoul  So, a guy who never met him, in person, and made up a story about meeting undead Jesus on the road, knows better than the vast majority of Jewish religious leaders, and scholars, as to whether their prophecies have been fulfilled. So, your argument is that Jews are too stupid to recognize whether their own prophecies have been fulfilled?
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  7846.  @mayman4255  Your disagreeing, then agreeing, is what appears to make no sense and is useless.
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  7847.  @KenS1267  Biden might be more in line with Canada's Liberal party on some social issues, but on economic issues, he'd be right of the Conservative party.
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  7848. @D2 E2 It's more obvious than Bernie, or AOC, being "sellouts", "fakes", "shills", or whatever bullshit Jimmy spouts. Jimmy has found a broader audience, with many of them being Trumpists, by simply bashing progressives and Dems 90% of the time. It's the same grift Dave Rubin took, pretending to be a lefty while constantly bashing the most left leaning people.
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  7849. @D2 E2 The truth of it is relative to Jimmy's claims about others. If you think what I said about him is untrue, then he has even weaker shit to base his accusations on. If you think his accusations have a solid foundation, then mine have more.
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  7850. @D2 E2 It's not true that Jimmy is calling progressive politicians sellouts, fakes, shills, and the like?
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  7851. @D2 E2 What context, dimwit? Someone's either a shill or they aren't, they"re either paid opposition or they aren't, they're either a sellout or they aren't. It's baseless wingnut ridiculousness to use a label that implies that Pelosi and/or the DNC wanted AOC to beat the #2 corporate Dem in the house, want her in the house just for show, that she knows this and is happily playing the part, etc. And that is exactly what he has convinced hundreds of the commenters on his trash videos. You mean like AOC, who voted against it, and who he's trashing? She's also a member of the Democratic Socialists of America. An organization that dropped out of the international organization because they thought it had become too capitalist. An organization that has been holding M4A rallies, that "M4A champion Jimmy Dore" hasn't been covering. She has more socialist cred than Dore. If you think him simply spewing baseless accusations is evidence of anyone actually being a sellout or shill, then him making money, and increasing his fanbase with Trumpists, by bashing progressives is obviously more evidence that he's the actual shill.
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  7852. Cultist.
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  7853.  @codyjames4457  Fence went up, while Trump was still president.
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  7854.  @m.r.browning2065  What's moral about letting Rvssia do to Ukrn what Isrl is doing to Plstn?
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  7855.  @Hunter_Brandon  Actually, BGJ, and Dore, lied about Dore's plan. The original plan out of Dore's mouth, and for numerous times after, used that same "withhold" wording you're using now, or he'd say "don't vote for". Dore, on his own, never said to cast protest votes. His wording implied abstaining, which would have handed the speakership to McCarthy, because for every 2 empty seats, absentees, and/or abstentions, the threshold needed to win is lowered by 1. If Dore's 15 progressives had abstained, those 15 plus 2 empty seats, would have lowered the threshold needed to win by 8, down to 210. If every other Dem voted Pelosi, she could only get 207, at the time. If every Republican voted McCarthy, he could have gotten 211, and won the vote. Sam knew where the original plan came from. To say he liked Dore's plan and then didn't like Dore's plan, simply because he didn't like Dore, makes no sense. Are you sure it wasn't because Dore started using it to slander progressives in congress, taking the thing in a whole other direction? Or, because flaws were found?
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  7856.  @Hunter_Brandon  Dore didn't say to cast protest votes. His original plan, to simply "withhold", or "don't vote", would have handed the speakership to McCarthy. The fact that Pelosi ended up winning the speakership with less than 218 votes, and speakers before have won with less than 218 votes, proves that Dore was wrong when he insisted it was impossible for McCarthy to win without 218 votes. His 15 would need to cast protest votes, which Dore wasn't saying to do, or McCarthy would have been speaker. Even the amended plan, to cast protest votes, wouldn't necessarily be a threat to Pelosi. The broader progressive caucus is about 15 seats shy of being the majority of the party. They don't yet have the numbers to pick a progressive speaker. As long as the corporate Dem majority stuck with her, they could keep choosing Pelosi as the party speaker candidate over, and over, and over. All the 15 would be doing is paralyzing the house ... during a pandemic, meaning no new covid relief, no new unemployment extensions, no new vaccine funding, etc., with everyone blaming them. It could have been a PR nightmare. Plus, moving forward, now that you've openly started an all out civil war within the party, what happens when the progressive caucus does get those 15 more seats and picks the party speaker? Going third party is nonsensical is what the issue is. The most popular third party hasn't won a single seat in congress in its near 50 year existence. The most popular progressive third party hasn't won a single seat in congress in its 20 year existence. But, let's say you magically got enough progressives to vote third party that a progressive puritan party wins the same number number of seats as the current progressive caucus, 97 in the house and 1 senator. What you'd have is a republican plurality in the house, that only needs to work with a handful of the most conservative corporate Dems to pass anything, and could completely ignore the progressive party. You'd have Trump as president, since progressives and Dems would have split their votes between their two candidates. And, you'd have Pence as the tie breaker in the senate, making it a Republican senate. On the other hand, getting only 15 more progressive seats, within the Dem caucus, would make them the majority, would allow them to pick the party speaker candidate, would allow them to set the party agenda and, if also the majority of the house, put forward whatever bills you want and pick committee members. You know those committees that Dore doesn't consider important. Pelosi actually introduced M4A last session. The parliamentarian sent it to committees, where it died, where 90% of bills die. Pelosi has already reintroduced the bill, this session, and it has again been sent to committees. Instead of pressuring, calling out, or protesting, committee members to take up the bill, what are Dore, and his knobs, doing? Slandering AOC and Bernie, who were just trying to add another progressive vote to congress, in Nina Turner, who Dore abandoned. The paths Dore takes, or proposes, seem to benefit the far right most.
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  7857.  fa q  SMRT Dore: Abandon Nina Turner, abandon adding another M4A yes vote to congress, because that's what "real" pro-M4A progressives do.
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  7858. ​ @AkonFenty1992  What does science say about gender vs sex, dumb dumb?
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  7859. And a miscarriage is also called a spontaneous abortion. I hope you don't worship what would be the leading abortionist in existence, if it existed.
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  7860. ​ @andersbodin1551  Who was Folke Bernadotte?
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  7861. How is it undemocratic? Everyone has the ability to release their tax returns.
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  7862. The framers of the constitution wanted the second so you could overthrow the government? But also made it illegal to overthrow the government?
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  7863. Whatever every American is paying now, ends up being double the OECD per capita average. If you cut healthcare costs in half, you could cover 300+ million more people for the same price as you are now, and your share would still only need to be $500 a year.
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  7864.  @TheBighatter  That's a pretty shite analogy. The federal government has involved itself with food for over a hundred years. Restaurants and a lot of extravagant foods aren't necessities. They're more akin to unnecessary plastic surgery. You don't think the government should try and help make sure all citizens are fed? They should no longer subsidize farming to keep food costs down? There are also all kinds of government regulations surrounding food. You think people no longer want the government to regulate food standards? No longer regulate health codes in places that serve and sell food? The government has interfered with farming loans, putting tariffs on competing foreign goods, they've set quotas before, etc., etc., etc.
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  7865.  @TheBighatter  No. Not necessarily. Other countries also don't renew patents as easily as the US. They also have generic competition.
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  7866. Likud's bloody 100 year history ... In 1923, 100 years ago, Ze'ev Jabotinsky wrote, The Iron Wall, and a follow up, The Ethics of The Iron Wall (sooo racist towards Africans), in which he fully acknowledged that post Balfour Zionsim was colonialism, and that, based on the entirety of history, the native Palestinian population would resist being colonized until the bitter end. He directly compared it to the colonization of North America. He promoted doing it anyway, claiming Zionist colonialism was a "just" colonialism (he also thought North American colonialists were good guys, so not a great judge of morality), not caring what that meant for the native population. Ze'ev is important, because his Betar militant youth group helped found the Irgun terrorist group, along with other supporters of his, and the splinter Lehi terrorist group. The Irgun bombed numerous Palestinian markets and other public places, murdering many Palestinian civilians, including children, even including Palestinian Jews (who didn't support colonialist Zionsim). The Irgun are important, because they ended up being led by future Likud PM, Menachem Begin, who bombed the King David Hotel. The King David Hotel was bombed because the British had raided the Jewish Agency and seized numerous documents that may have shown that the terrorists were working with the JA and Haganah (JA liked to pretend that they didn't support the terrorism). The British then stored those documents at their base, in the hotel. That the Irgun terrorists responded to a JA raid, itself seems to prove the connection. That the thousands of Irgun (and Lehi) terrorists were also quickly merged into the new nation's military (IDF) and intelligence (Mossad) agencies, and are still celebrated as "heroes" by Israelis, to this day, also seems to support total collaboration between the groups. That other terrorist group mentioned, Lehi (also known as the Stern Gang), was considered even more extreme. They even tried to ally with the Nazis, against the British. Lehi ended up being led by Yitzhak Shamir, future Mossad agent, and another future Likud PM. They assassinated Lord Moyne, and others. In 1945, there was a major land and peoples survey done in Palestine. It showed that the Zionists only owned about 5% of the total land, 20% of the arable land, and owned a majority in zero districts. The partition was not only going to be forced on the native Palestinian majority, but Jews were still going to be a minority, in the part allocated to them. The only possible way to even become a "Jewish state" was going to require getting rid of the actual majority (at least enough so that there'd be a solid Jewish majority, so they could fake being democratic). This is also shown by the 1948, post Nakba, population of Israel. If there was 716,700 Jews, 156,000+ non-Jews, and approximately 700k non-Jews ethnically cleansed, that means the Jewish population, in the Zionist portion of partition, was originally over 100,000 less than the non-Jewish population. To believe that there was never any intent, by Zionists, to ethnically cleanse away the Palestinian majority would require believing that they never intended to create a "Jewish state". It's a nonsensical notion. Begin, and those terrorist groups, also opposed partition, but for the opposite reason Palestinians did. Palestinians didn't want to be colonized, at all. The terrorists wanted to colonize it all. "Moderate" Zionists were okay with colonizing half ... for now (what would happen in the future, after partition, was up to them, said Ben-Gurion). The Zionist terrorists were also involved in massacres, and assassinations, during the partition violence (colonialist war against the natives). Another notable future Likud PM, also started in the military, during the partition fighting. That was Ariel Sharon, war criminal, "Butcher of Beirut". Menachem Begin, and these other Zionist terrorists, are important because they became involved in Israeli politics, first forming Herut. That was the party that Albert Einstein, and other prominent American Jews, opposed, having a letter printed in the NYT, in December of 1948, when Begin came to visit the US. The letter opened ... "Among the most disturbing political phenomena of our times is the emergence in the newly created state of Israel of the "Freedom Party" (Tnuat Haherut), a political party closely akin in its organization, methods, political philosophy and social appeal to the Nazi and Fascist parties. It was formed out of the membership and following of the former Irgun Zvai Leumi, a terrorist, right-wing, chauvinist organization in Palestine." Herut merged with other extremist parties, over the years, and eventually became Likud, in the 70s. Now, people get upset over the slogan "From the river to the sea!", but it's the second part that's most important, "Palestine will be free!". Because "Palestine" isn't defined as an ethno-state, a free Palestine can be a single state, free for all to live in, and return to, free of continuing colonization, free of occupation, free of oppression, etc. Just like a Germany free of Nazism, an Italy free of fascism, a South Africa free of apartheid, or an America free of slavery from sea to shiny sea. It doesn't necessitate purging all the Jews. It just necessitates them giving up on the idea of an ethno-state. On the other hand, because "Israel" has been defined as an ethno-state, Likud's, "between the sea and the Jordan there will only be Israeli sovereignty", has no possible good interpretation. It is a declaration of intent to completely colonize, and ethnically cleanse, all Palestine territories. Not only that, but it also claims that they have a "right" to all of the "Land of Israel" (biblical borders that don't mesh with archaeological reality), which is an open declaration of future wars, against Jordan, Syria, Lebanon, and possibly even Iraq. Likud platform ... 1977: "The Right of the Jewish People to the Land of Israel (Eretz Israel) a. The right of the Jewish people to the land of Israel is eternal and indisputable and is linked with the right to security and peace; therefore, Judea and Samaria will not be handed to any foreign administration; between the Sea and the Jordan there will only be Israeli sovereignty. b. A plan which relinquishes parts of western Eretz Israel, undermines our right to the country, unavoidably leads to the establishment of a "Palestinian State," jeopardizes the security of the Jewish population, endangers the existence of the State of Israel. and frustrates any prospect of peace." "Settlement Settlement. both urban and rural. in all parts of the Land of Israel is the focal point of the Zionist effort to redeem the country, to maintain vital security areas and serves as a reservoir of strength and inspiration for the renewal of the pioneering spirit. The Likud government will call on the younger generation in Israel and the dispersions to settle and help every group and individual in the task of inhabiting and cultivating the wasteland, while taking care not to dispossess anyone." 1999: "The Government of Israel flatly rejects the establishment of a Palestinian Arab state west of the Jordan river. The Palestinians can run their lives freely in the framework of self-rule, but not as an independent and sovereign state. Thus, for example, in matters of foreign affairs, security, immigration, and ecology, their activity shall be limited in accordance with imperatives of Israel's existence, security and national needs." "The Jewish communities in Judea, Samaria, and Gaza are the realization of Zionist values. Settlement of the land is a clear expression of the unassailable right of the Jewish people to the Land of Israel and constitutes an important asset in the defense of the vital interests of the State of Israel. The Likud will continue to strengthen and develop these communities and will prevent their uprooting." All Palestine territories are officially considered occupied, by the International Court of Justice, the UN GA, the UN SC, and even in official documents of Israel's own allies. Likud is still using the blueprint for colonizing North America, in the West Bank. Move settlements out into native territory, piss off the natives, the natives retaliate, cry about poor "innocent" colonizing settlers being the "victims" of violent "Savages!", call in the cavalry to put down the native uprising, and eventually expand the borders to include those settlements. Rinse and repeat. In Gaza, Israel is operating an open air WWII style fascist ghetto. Them claiming a "right to defend themselves" would be like the Nazis claiming a "right to defend themselves " from the Warsaw ghetto uprising. There's no "war". That they're the occupiers means the "war" part is long over. Those people are actually supposed to be under the occupier's protection. That partition was forced upon the Palestinian majority, against their will ... that the Zionist portion still had to be forcefully ethnically cleansed of its non-Jewish majority, against their will ... that the millions of occupied Palestinians don't have a say in the government that truly rules over them, Israel's ... means Israel is about as democratic as Nazi Germany after Hitler purged his political opponents and then held elections.
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  7867. Your Twitter take on the fund freezing was shit, I have to say. The Supreme Court had agreed that blockading a border is already illegal. That makes donating to illegal activities, not legal. They are following donations for illegal activities to the accounts (following the money). They are not picking people out of a crowd and tracking them to their accounts (following people). Simply don't take donations to do illegal shit, and this would never apply to you. Unless you're one of the fabled Soros sponsored protesters, and you're doing illegal shit, this would never apply to you. Striking isn't illegal. Peaceful protest isn't illegal (blaring air horns 24/7, also not peaceful). Both of those are actually protected by the charter of rights. Comparing either of those to a border blockade (an actual military tactic), and what the Geneva conventions might consider sound torture, is nonsense. Plus, the IRS and CRA are freezing assets without due process and without emergency powers, all the time. Prosecutors have the assets of people charged frozen, before trial so they don't offload and hide their money, without emergency powers, all the time. Freezing people's assets has been going on forever, which makes freaking out about this one time, when it's applied to far right anti-vax loons, and when it took emergency powers, a weird take. Biden just froze an entire country's assets, with no due process or emergency powers needed. Maybe have his powers limited, so he can only do something like that, if given emergency powers by congress.
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  7868.  @Nanofuture87  Rofl. Pretty sure a government doesn't have to pretend a right is natural, just to assign something a right. People believed in the institution of slavery for thousands of years, believing certain people didn't have natural rights. Men didn't accept that women had natural rights for thousands of years. Humans haven't believed that other animals were magically handed natural rights, for thousands of years. There's no actual evidence that people have acted as if they actually believed natural rights exist, for thousands of years. They've cherry picked what they've considered a right and who is deserving of them, to suit their pleasure. Without an organized society, people have the freedom to do whatever the hell they want, just like any animal. Not all freedoms are good. "Rights" protect freedoms that society, or societies, have deemed good. "Laws" restrict freedoms that society, or societies, have deemed bad.
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  7869.  @Nanofuture87  What kind of gibberish "analogy" is that? No. It's like saying there are no laws, unless society creates laws, which is just a statement of fact. You're arguing as if an action can break a law, even if the society in question doesn't have a law against said action, which is nonsense. Again, aside from opinions, there was zero evidence that Libertarians, "classic liberals", or what not, believed others had natural rights. There's no evidence of your centuries of claimed philosophy in action. Can you, or can't you, claim a piece of property, that already has an apple tree on it? You seem to have to add qualifiers to make your argument. When did the fence come into play? Can you not claim property without building a fence?
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  7870. Wasn't the whole point to try and take it over, dmwt?
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  7871.  BalkanHound  You're spouting nonsense. No ivermectin study has passed peer review. https://www.politico.eu/article/rise-and-fall-of-coronavirus-miracle-cure-ivermectin/ In the real world, countries that have prescribed it are amongst the worst covid death rates in the world. The Czech Republic has also used ivermectin ... 4th worst covid death rate in the world. Do you actually know how vaccines work? They boost your antibodies against a virus, often against a specific strain. Antibodies don't work like a forcefield, with the virus bouncing off of you. They actually go to work, when you get the virus, and try to eradicate it before it becomes serious. And, they aren't always 100% effective. So, yeah, the vaccinated can get and spread covid. Israel has 90% of those over 60 vaccinated, 95% of those over 90. That's almost everyone in the most vulnerable groups. Their daily deaths have dropped to single digits, with days, even weeks, between days with deaths. A 20+x lower rate than the state of Georgia, which has a similar population, and a bunch of antivax idiots. Once you've vaccinated nearly everybody, then yes, the small amount of break through cases will be most of the people in the hospital, and they'll often recover better.
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  7872.  @azjbpotter  Do you mean covid deaths? Because what you said is not at all true. The US has more covid deaths because it had a horrible response. If it had a similar response to S Korea or Vietnam, and similar deaths per million, that would translate to under 12k total covid deaths. If the US had a similar deaths per million as Peru, that would translate into about 1.8m deaths.
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  7873.  @itsokaytobeclownpilled5937  The Hill.
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  7874. Cesiah Gamez Someone posted it somewhere, I clicked on the link. That's how the internet works. You're right, it's not for me. It's supposedly a message in a language I don't understand. It must be a message for you. I'm saying that you should hurry up and learn your lesson, so people don't have to be tortured, in an attempt to help you learn that lesson. 
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  7875. Brenda Valeria I'm not going to learn anything from throwing girls off trees, because I think throwing girls off trees is a bad idea. I can't see how any amount of throwing girls off trees will make me think it's a good idea. 
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  7876. So, you're good with equating Islam to something that is objectively bad for your health? That people outlaw? That people get fined for doing? What you are doing to yourself, is equivalent to ingesting cancer causing agents?
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  7877. daz7887 Well, he should have used an analogy involving something subjective, to compare to the entirety of "Islam". Like disco.
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  7878. daz7887 Smokers get bad reactions, all the time.
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  7879.  @NinjaPlaysMinecraft  Are you more of an Objectivist? Still a shit philosophy.
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  7880. Do you believe “gods exist”? Do you claim to know “gods exist”? Do you believe “gods do not exist”? Do you claim to know “gods do not exist”? YYNN: theo-gnostic YNNN: the-ist NNNN: agnostic NNYN: athe-ist NNYY: atheo-gnostic
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  7881. As an idiot who believes in objective morality, he should believe killing = always bad. If it's sometimes bad, sometimes not, depending on who's doing it, depending on their intentions, then he's walking down the relative morality road, and disproving his own bullshit.
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  7882. woof beast I believe in relative morality. You're pulling a Sam Harris, and creating a straw man to argue with, instead of arguing against exactly what I said. Credentials? This was my point. Sam somehow got a PhD for claiming he solved the is/ought problem and proved objective morality. Intent shouldn't come into play with objective morality. Something that's wrong should always be wrong. This promotion of relative morality, and this isn't the first time, proves his credentials are bogus nonsense, and that his thesis is crap. I don't buy your bullshit, that he has contributed anything much, at all. I think he got a PhD based on a complete failure to understand what the word "objective" means. He also doesn't understand how simple mutual deterrence works. He has a fondness for regurgitation old crap as something new. Atheistic Buddhism is nothing new. Utilitarian morality is nothing new. Well being is nothing new. As a supposed neuroscientist he should, at minimum, understand how a damn phobia works, but he fails at even that.  You back up your bullshit assertion, and produces something I should consider a great contribution, rather than asking me to prove your assertion false. 
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  7883. woof beast Learn to read. Sam (the objectivist), not me (the relativist), should back up his objective morality stance and believe that if something is wrong, then it is always wrong. See, there's no contradiction, if I'm actually talking about two different people. Neat how that works, eh?  Sam got his PhD for the thesis The Moral Landscape. He took the philosophy route to neuroscience, not the biology route. He's not a scientist. He's a philosopher...and not a good one. The straw man was pretending I took an objective morality position myself, and then attacking it. I stated nothing about me, or my position. You were attacking some opponent you made up in your head. You started this second reply off with a straw man too, arguing against something I didn't actually say, because you have a reading comprehension problem. Focus man.  I've read enough of his crap. He clearly shows that he has no clue what the word "objective" actually means... "Consider, by analogy, the game of chess. Now, if you’re going to play good chess, a principle like, “Don’t lose your Queen,” is very good to follow. But it clearly admits some exceptions. There are moments when losing your Queen is a brilliant thing to do. There are moments when it is the only good thing you can do. And yet, chess is a domain of perfect objectivity. The fact that there are exceptions here does not change that at all." What actually is objective, about chess? The board is 8 squares by 8 squares. Certain pieces are allowed to move in a certain ways. If your king is captured, you lose the game. And, that’s about it. A good principle is not "objective", at all. What you ought to, and ought not, do is totally relative to your goal, and the situation you are in. Even winning being the goal isn’t an “objective” truth. If you are playing your child, and want to let them win, then you ought to let your king be captured. If you’re in a situation where you believe the best move is to lose your queen, then you ought to lose your queen. There is no “perfect objectivity” to chess. You make your move relative to the situation you are in, and relative to your end goal. Sam seems to have a serious problem understanding, exactly, what “objective” means. It should mean that something is true, independent of a mind. Something that is objectively true should always remain true. If a mind is deciding that something is true sometimes, but false at other times, to suit them, then that something should not be considered “objective”. It's relative. 
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  7884. woof beast Lol, you should invest in a hay farm. 
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  7885. woof beast The part, between the quotes, was a quote, dumbass.  "Consider, by analogy, the game of chess. Now, if you’re going to play good chess, a principle like, “Don’t lose your Queen,” is very good to follow. But it clearly admits some exceptions. There are moments when losing your Queen is a brilliant thing to do. There are moments when it is the only good thing you can do. And yet, chess is a domain of perfect objectivity. The fact that there are exceptions here does not change that at all."
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  7886. "Look at this Bernie supporter expressing his free speech" Ummm, the white guy just had him in a head lock. "Here's a peaceful Bernie supporter flying a communist flag" That's a Bernie supporter? Standing amongst those other folks wearing Trump hats? Nice spin.
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  7887.  @robm6645  I've never seen them call themselves "libertarian left". I've come across many trying to dishonestly pass themselves off as centrists, and the "classical liberal" bullshit.
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  7888. Man, some of you are daft, thinking running, or not following orders, deserves the death penalty. How often does a house load of teens scatter, when cops show up at a party, or something. Should the cops just shoot them all?
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  7889. Slaves were offered their freedom. How is that a "small amount"? That's more than what America revolutionaries started fighting for ... against some extra taxes to pay for the military protecting them.
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  7890. Did he?
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  7891. It didn't even work in rural areas. Private property owning cattle barons hired private cowboy armies, and settled disputes privately. It was devolving into feudalism, until the law and government moved in.
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  7892. Ummm, Likud is the one founded by Zionist terrorists, who tried to ally with the Nazis against Britain, and are operating an open air WWII style fascist ghetto, dumb dumb.
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  7893.  @KillingWithaSmile613  Nah. People cheering on bombing an open air fascist ghetto, operated by Zionist Nazis, after an uprising, are morally bankrupt.
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  7894.  @garyhamlin3299  Do you have severe reading comprehension problems? "You might want to look up "Human Studies of Masking and SARS-CoV-2 Transmission"."
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  7895. ​ @doughesson  6 Republican led investigations, while she was Trump's political opponent, Trump using it to run on "Lock her up!", right wing media saying just being investigated should disqualify her ... and then nothing was found to charge her with.
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  7896. Have you actually seen anyone debate Theists?
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  7897.  Sc0ut op  But they don't want to abolish voting for representatives. Just say that you have no clue what a direct/pure democracy is, next time.
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  7898.  Sc0ut op  Deleting a comment and going back and editing a comment didn't make you look any smarter. You just proved yourself to be even more clueless.
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  7899. ​ @ralphdenis3449  What did he do? Oil prices dropped in 2014, and actually went up under Trump. He had more Southern ❌ ings in 2019 than any year under Obama. Averaged out, he ended up with more ❌ ings per year than Obama. He almost doubled the deficit, by 2019. He ended zero w__s and dropped more b__bs per year than Obama.
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  7900. What scenario has both parties gaining? https://www.pewresearch.org/
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  7901.  @JBPVFL  There's a difference between "needing" someone to start and run a company, and them "needing" to rake in billions of dollars while their employees collect food stamps, or their wages stagnate while their cost of living increases, or they automate or outsource just so they can rake in extra billions.
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  7902. Ffs, every piece of propaganda, every lie, every manipulation of facts, every cover up, etc., isn't damn "gaslighting". "Gaslighting" is a specific brand of manipulation, designed to try and make someone feel, or appear, insane. Might as well call this headline "The Hill gaslights their viewers/readers about other media gaslighting their viewers/readers".
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  7903.  @quedizzle7378  Why do so many on the "just as sexist and misogynistic" left wish AOC was old enough to be a VP, or call for Nina Turner to be VP, and would love for either of them to be president after Bernie? Hillary just wanted to build on the ACA, which was already broken, due to compromising with Republicans. She was big on maintaining military spending. She didn't propose ending the war on drugs. And other things. She's not a progressive.
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  7904. Israel is objectively the aggressor by every relevant measure (modern history, law, and current events) ... Modern history: With the Balfour declaration, Zionsim converted from something like immigration to colonization. 100 years ago, in 1923, Ze'ev Jabotinsky fully acknowledged that Zionism is colonialism, and that, based on the entirety of history, the native Palestinians would fight it until the bitter end. He just didn't care what would happen to them, and promoted doing it anyway. Colonizers are never not the aggressors, when it comes to the native population. On top of the colonialist nature of Zionism, the Zionists also formed terrorist organizations, like the Irgun and Lehi. They bombed many Palestinian markets and other public places, murdering many civilians, including children, even including Palestinian Jews (who opposed colonialist Zionism). Israel merged those terrorists into the new nation's military and intelligence agencies. Israelis elected Menachem Begin, leader of the Irgun, child murderer, Jew murderer, and bomber of the King David Hotel, as PM. Israelis, to this day, celebrate those Irgun terrorists as "heroes". Zionists literally taught their neighbours that terrorism is a valid path to independence and statehood, and that terrorists are to be celebrated. In 1945, it is well documented that Zionists owned just 5% of the land and were a majority in zero districts. Israel was formed by going against the will of the majority population. Its foundation is completely undemocratic. Even then, Jews were still a minority, in "their" half. The only possible way to actually become a Jewish ethno-state, would be to ethnically cleanse away the actual majority. And, that's exactly what happened. Israel has never allowed those people to return. Law: Israel is considered an occupier by the International Court, the UN GA, and the UN SC. Occupiers are also never not the aggressors. Those occupied actually have a right to resist occupation. On the flip side, it is illegal for the occupier to settle occupied lands, and illegal to use collective punishment. Israel is a rogue nation, that doesn't abide by international law. What it has been doing, and is doing now, is illegal. Current events: This year, alone, prior to Oct 7 ... Israel held over 1200 Palestinian hostages without charges ... over 200 Palestinians had been killed by the IDF and settlers ... over 1000 Palestinians had been displaced by Israel's neverending colonization of the West Bank ... and, Israel continued to operate an open air WWII style fascist ghetto. Even ignoring modern history and law, in no reality did Hamas "start" anything.
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  7905.  @nuoiptertermer4484  I don't give a crap what he fantasized would happen. Him vastly overestimating benefits, and vastly underestimating risks, benefits the far right. He outright does go on right wing talk shows, doesn't challenge them, and agrees with right wing nonsense. Only complete idiots would be shocked, and don't know that ancappers and Libertarians will agree with the non authoritarian left on some non authoritarian issues. That doesn't make them decent allies ... which Dore did promote even before the guy came on, after spending weeks trashing other progressives over a disagreement on a single tactic ... for anything other than some single issues. Dore has proven that he's a lazy pathetic hypocrite, that expects everything to be done for him. He trashes people who have done more for M4A in a few years than he has in his entire lifetime. He does absolutely nothing with the $15 vote, except continue bitching about those who voted for it, after spending weeks promoting the idea that just getting a vote on an important bill was a big accomplishment, that it would lead to big things, that having a list of no voters would be a big deal, ... all bullshit.
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  7906.  @PutinsMommyNeverHuggedHim  What the ... Stein ran in 2016.
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  7907. David's M4A analysis was way off, a couple days ago. He used a nonsensical extreme example of a 5b population while still having a fixed $100b in revenue to work with, arguing you'd have to give up quality. But, revenue would increase, or decrease, depending on the population size. If you're generating about $4k of revenue per capita for healthcare with a population of 5m, you'd have $20b to work with. A population of 5b would give you $20t to work with. I'm also not sure what metric he was using for quality, because going by life expectancy, infant mortality, maternal mortality, leaving tens of thousands of people without access also leaves them without quality, and makes those overall metrics worse. Other developed countries both pay less per capita and get better overall results.
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  7908. @Halon's Razor And, yet again, you prove you're a complete moron. The argument that a baseless assertion is bullshit is calling it bullshit, which I did. "Free thinking", in your case, appears to allowing yourself to be free to think whatever bullshit you want is true.
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  7909. @Halon's Razor Do you have reading comprehension problems? My point was you spout bullshit. Not sure where you're getting lost, there. You are quite slow.
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  7910. @Halon's Razor Do you not know what "record" means?
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  7911.  @mellow_badger8585  Not at all upset. You don't have to worry your little Dore knob head, about me. It is literally not a town square, exactly because the town doesn't own it. They are private social clubs, with tos you need to adhere to, to retain your membership. Private clubs have been revoking memberships, since the dawn of private clubs. Private property owners have been having people removed from their private property since the dawn of private property. You have no right to be on someone else's private property, which means you have no right to be on their private property spewing whatever you want. If Trump walked into some golf club's ladies change room one too many times, as he is prone to do, and got a number of warnings not to, nobody would care if his membership was revoked. He'd also lose access the property, and saying what he wants on the property. That's the way private property works. Right wingers are the private property pushers. They're the ones that handed giant corporations so much power. They're the ones that made them equivalent to people, and argued they could have their own beliefs. They just get upset when those beliefs don't align with theirs. If Hobby Lobby was doing something anti-women, or Chick-fil-A was doing something anti-gay, they'd have no problem with it. They're only upset because they can't incite insurrections, defame voting machine companies, and spread covid and vaccine misinformation, without consequences. None of those things would necessarily even be protected speech in public, either. They're fine with outright using the government to make anti-BDS laws. They were fine with the government (head of government) firing, or threatening to fire, people who said things that contradicted him. They're fine with maintaining the FCC to protect their delicate conservative sensibilities from naughty words and nipples. Etc. These aren't people that actually care about free speech, or they'd support the one way to get it. No, they just want to try and regulate things in a way that protects them from consequences. Rofl. I know the history of the ACA. So, the thing that Republicans didn't introduce to congress as their own policy, that they all voted against, that they have tried to repeal dozens of times over, that Trump ran on repealing, that they are still trying to repeal and are still fighting in court, is "their" big policy for the lower class? I've never argued that Democrats don't do things to harm the working class. I'm asking about what pro working class policies the right has. The left has things like M4A, the Green New Deal, student loan relief, free college, affordable housing, etc., etc., etc. Sure, a bunch of corporate Dems aren't left enough, and need replacing, to make any of those happen. Upper and lower class has always been the same thing as right and left. The upper class has always managed to get some working class stooges on board, to support their crap that doesn't do anything for the working class. If your best example of "their" policy that helped the working class is something they voted against and have constantly fought against, that's pretty sad.
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  7912.    That made no sense.
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  7913.  @Cerceify4645  Yeah, a tax doesn't need to be as high a percentage, if you tax a higher percentage of stuff.
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  7914. Bernie's position on drugs is fine, and is closer to Portugal's than Yang's. Portugal did not decriminalize all drugs. "Nonviolent drug offenders should not be incarcerated. Instead, they should have access to affordable treatment to address their drug dependencies." https://feelthebern.org/bernie-sanders-on-drug-policy/
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  7915. Africans were originally only indentured, in the North American colonies, like many white immigrants. First, the colonies made it illegal to enslave other Christians, which targetted the non Christians from Africa, and Natives, without saying so. As black slaves adopted Christianity, the laws became race specific. The colonies ended up taking away the rights of many free black people, when they adopted race base chattel slavery. Slavery did not take hold in Britain proper, because it didn't survive old British laws. Even if there were any African chiefs willing sell all their people to white folks in Britain, it wouldn't have made a difference. Slavery was against the law, there, period. The North American colonies also stopped importing slaves. So, even if there were any African chiefs selling them, the colonies were no longer buying them. White Americans took on the role of breeding black people, solely for the purpose of enslaving all of them, all on their own. There's no blaming that on someone else. And American Southerners loved the institution of slavery so much, they were willing to fight, kill, and even die, for the "right" to own, torture, rape, and murder, other human beings.
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  7916. Harris is an idiot.
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  7917.  @timothydouglas7375  I'm the one who said I wouldn't say I was opposed to the "terrorist" resistance, or allies, dumb dumb. Did you forget already? Just a fact that they intentionally killed a crap ton of civilians, in the process.
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  7918. Yes, and it's ironic that the far right thinks they're the ones on the same side as the 1776 "patriots", but we're fighting to keep an unelected ruler in power.
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  7919. Let me see if I'm understanding. If someone presented a hypothesis, you think not seeing enough evidence to say you believe the hypothesis is the same as seeing enough evidence to outright state you believe the hypothesis is false...and, that stating a hypothesis is false carries no burden of proof?
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  7920. Rofl. Ben "facts don't care about your feelings" Shapiro's entire worldview is based on a fairytale. Israel is objectively the aggressor, by every relevant measure... Modern history: 100 years ago, in 1923, Ze'ev Jabotinsky fully acknowledged that Zionism is colonialism, and that, based on the entirety of history, the natives would fight it until the bitter end. He just didn't care what would happen to them, and promoted doing it anyway. Colonizers are never not the aggressors. And, other early Zionists said similar things. Like Ze'ev predicted, Palestinians have been reacting to colonialism, like everyone else before them. No religious nuttery required, for that reaction. Even Native Americans reached a point, where they were so sick of being colonized, that they wanted to push the white man back into the sea. And, it wasn't simply because they were white, or did it have anything to do with the Natives' religion. On top of the colonialist nature of Zionism, the Zionists also formed terrorist organizations, like the Irgun and Lehi. They bombed many Palestinian markets and other public places, murdering many civilians, including children, even including Palestinian Jews (who opposed Zionism). Israel merged those terrorists into the new nation's military and intelligence agencies. Israelis elected Menachem Begin, leader of the Irgun, child murderer, Jew murderer, and bomber of the King David Hotel, as PM. Israelis, to this day, celebrate those terrorists as "heroes". Zionists literally taught their neighbours that terrorism is a valid path to independence and statehood, and that terrorists are to be celebrated. In 1945, it is well documented that Zionists owned just 5% of the land and were a majority nowhere. Israel was formed by actually going against the majority population. It's foundation is completely undemocratic. Then, becoming a majority, in "your" new nation, by ethnic cleansing the actual majority, and then claiming to be democratic, is utter nonsense. Law: You simply outright lied, about Israel not being an occupier. Nazis didn't actually live inside the Warsaw ghetto. Colonizing and occupying don't mean exactly the same thing. Israel is considered an occupier by the International Court, the UN GA, and the UN SC. Occupiers are also never not the aggressors. Those occupied actually have a right to resist occupation. On the flip side, it is illegal for the occupier to settle occupied lands, and illegal to use collective punishment. Israel is a rogue nation, that doesn't abide by international law. What it has been doing, and is doing now, is illegal. Current events: This year, alone, prior to Oct 7 ... Israel held over 1200 Palestinian hostages without charges ... over 200 Palestinians had been killed by the IDF and settlers ... over 1000 Palestinians had been displaced by Israel's neverending colonization of the West Bank ... and, Israel continued to operate an open air WWII style fascist ghetto, in Gaza. Even ignoring modern history and law, in no reality did Hamas "start" anything.
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  7921.  @memry1571  He can't even do math, though. If Amazon pays 10% VAT on an item, and gets that 10% input VAT credited back to them from the government, how much in taxes did Amazon actually pay? Zero. Amazon even has their own tutorial page on how businesses get their input VAT credited back to them. https://services.amazon.co.uk/services/vat-resources.html
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  7922. No it's not. The people who labelled others Atheist, used it mainly to mean Athe-ist, as per the etymology. And, there were people who were active Athe-ists. So, Huxley didn't label himself Athe-ist, nor did he try to redefine the word. As for Skeptic, that mainly applies to the realm of knowledge (have evidence for what you claim to know). Huxley did say that Hume and Kant were on his side, so it is close. Agnosticism is about the realm of belief (have evidence for what you claim to believe).
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  7923. It has to do with the second coming and end times fable. They believe Jewish people need to take the mount and build the third temple, for those things to happen. Ironically, their story would then have Israel being destroyed, first, so not really very supportive of Israel.
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  7924. ​ @44excalibur  Rofl. Even the most progressive Dems haven't proposed policies that would move the US left of Denmark (real world centrism). That makes you real world right wing.
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  7925.  @timtglf  Well that escalated quickly.
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  7926. Canada has 700 fewer covid deaths per million. If the US had a response similar to Canada's (which was only mediocre itself, but did have more mask mandates, higher testing rates, etc.), that would have been 230k fewer deaths.
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  7927. Has the GQP proved that the US is liable for the pandemic yet? Can't wait until the rest of the world can sue the pants off of the US. Bankrupt America to own the libs!!!
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  7928.  @007kingifrit  It would be a civil suit. Foreigners can try to sue the US in US courts, or they can try to sue the US in their own courts. If successful in their own countries, they could seize any US assets held in their country. If the research wouldn't have been taking place without the US backing, then it's the US that's liable, no matter where it took place. And multiple US agencies okayed working with WIV. Both might be liable.
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  7929. It was a one time, temporary thing, that NY did. They removed the statute of limitations for civil rape cases, for a limited time. Time is almost up. Some 3000 past victims sued their rapists.
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  7930.  @themassage6534  She's an anarchist, dumb dumb. That is totally not authoritarian USSR style communism. Who's pushing fascism/Nazism? Fascism: ultra nationalism, anti-socialism, anti-union, anti-feminism, anti-democratic (which gerrymandering, voter suppression, and disenfranchisement all are), backed by big business, backed by religious leaders, pro expanding policing, pro expanding military, pro privatization ... seems to describe the Republican party. Nazism: fascism on steroids + racism ... seems to describe pricks at "unite the right" rallies waving Confederate and Nazi flags or carrying tiki torches and driving into crowds, military dudes posting Nazi pictures, Richard Spencer and his National Policy Institute, idiots shooting up black churches, mosques, temples, synagogues, Hispanics shopping, etc.
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  7931.  @cpickles2996  You tell me. He did. "Judge rejects Trump’s request to delay hush-money trial until Supreme Court rules on immunity"
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  7932. "After analyzing data from more than 3.5 million patients, the authors observed that use of generics provided comparable clinical outcomes to those of the brand-name products for chronic conditions including diabetes (glipizide), hypertension (amlodipine, amlodipine-benazepril, and quinapril), osteoporosis (alendronate and calcitonin salmon), and depression and anxiety (escitalopram and sertraline)." https://journals.plos.org/plosmedicine/article?id=10.1371/journal.pmed.1002763
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  7933. Have my 2 daughters "upgraded" to what is actually is, or have they downgraded it, broadened the definition, and made things more convoluted than they need be?
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  7934. ​ @jasonmitchell7550  Dump keeps claiming the only way he'll lose is if the same thing as 2020 happens (a thing that didn't happen) "again". Why isn't it relevant?
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  7935. Top 10 firearm mortality rates ... Mississippi 33.9 Louisiana 29.1 New Mexico 27.8 Alabama 26.4 Wyoming 26.1 Alaska 25.2 Montana 25.1 Arkansas 23.3 Missouri 23.2 Tennessee 22.8 Canada 1.94 Top 10 homicide rates ... Mississippi 23.7 Louisiana 21.3 Alabama 15.9 New Mexico 15.3 South Carolina 13.4 Illinois 12.3 Maryland 12.2 Missouri 12.4 Tennessee 12.2 Arkansas 11.7 Canada 2.07 We're good ... thanks!
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  7936.  @Triussk61  Like an open air WWII style fascist ghetto, dimwit. Nazis weren't "at war" with the Jewish underground and the Warsaw ghetto uprising. They were just slaughtering people.
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  7937.  @Triussk61  Also started before 48, dumb dumb.
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  7938.  @jrodamores87  Cry about reality all you want, but it won't change it ... Library of Congress: Crossing the Straights "The first Cubans to flee were the wealthiest—affluent professionals and members of the Batista regime who feared reprisals from the new government. More than 200,000 of these "golden exiles" had left Cuba for the U.S. by 1962, when air flights between the two countries were suspended. Between 1965 and 1973, a few flights resumed from Varadero beach in Cuba, and 300,000 more Cubans, who became known as Varaderos, seized the opportunity to emigrate. Many of the Cubans of these first waves felt that it was only a matter of time before the new government was overthrown, and planned to wait in the U.S. for their opportunity to return." Long View: How the Fight Against Castro Once Terrorized U.S. Cities "On April 12, 1974, José Elías de la Torriente was sitting in his home in Coral Gables, Florida, when he was shot and killed by an unknown assailant firing through the living room window. Torriente, a prominent local businessman, had crossed Miami’s Cuban exile community after failing to follow through on plans to invade Cuba and overthrow Fidel Castro. His death marked the start of a period of political violence that would lead the FBI to call Miami the terrorist capital of the United States. Though it’s largely forgotten today, some Cuban-American exile groups in the mid-1970s were responsible for one of the most impactful waves of terror in U.S. history. Authorities in that period tied them to 113 bombings on U.S. soil, killing around a dozen people. In 1974, Cuban exiles accounted for 45 percent of all terrorist bombings on the planet, according to José Luis Méndez’s Los Años del Terror."
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  7939. ​ @picilocarnal  Israel is objectively the aggressor, by every relevant measure... Modern history: 100 years ago, in 1923, Ze'ev Jabotinsky fully acknowledged that Zionism is colonialism, and that, based on the entirety of history, the natives would fight it until the bitter end. He just didn't care what would happen to them, and promoted doing it anyway. Colonizers are never not the aggressors. And, other early Zionists said similar things. Like Ze'ev predicted, Palestinians have been reacting to colonialism, like everyone else before them. No religious nuttery required, for that reaction. Even Native Americans reached a point, where they were so sick of being colonized, that they wanted to push the white man back into the sea. And, it wasn't simply because they were white, or did it have anything to do with the Natives' religion. On top of the colonialist nature of Zionism, the Zionists also formed terrorist organizations, like the Irgun and Lehi. They bombed many Palestinian markets and other public places, murdering many civilians, including children, even including Palestinian Jews (who opposed Zionism). Israel merged those terrorists into the new nation's military and intelligence agencies. Israelis elected Menachem Begin, leader of the Irgun, child murderer, Jew murderer, and bomber of the King David Hotel, as PM. Israelis, to this day, celebrate those terrorists as "heroes". Zionists literally taught their neighbours that terrorism is a valid path to independence and statehood, and that terrorists are to be celebrated. In 1945, it is well documented that Zionists owned just 5% of the land and were a majority nowhere. Israel was formed by actually going against the majority population. It's foundation is completely undemocratic. Then, becoming a majority, in "your" new nation, by ethnic cleansing the actual majority, and then claiming to be democratic, is utter nonsense. Law: You simply outright lied, about Israel not being an occupier. Nazis didn't actually live inside the Warsaw ghetto. Colonizing and occupying don't mean exactly the same thing. Israel is considered an occupier by the International Court, the UN GA, and the UN SC. Occupiers are also never not the aggressors. Those occupied actually have a right to resist occupation. On the flip side, it is illegal for the occupier to settle occupied lands, and illegal to use collective punishment. Israel is a rogue nation, that doesn't abide by international law. What it has been doing, and is doing now, is illegal. Current events: This year, alone, prior to Oct 7 ... Israel held over 1200 Palestinian hostages without charges ... over 200 Palestinians had been killed by the IDF and settlers ... over 1000 Palestinians had been displaced by Israel's neverending colonization of the West Bank ... and, Israel continued to operate an open air WWII style fascist ghetto, in Gaza. Even ignoring modern history and law, in no reality did Hamas "start" anything.
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  7940. Rofl, Harris never proved anything beyond what he said was already a given. His "scientific" moral landscape is total nonsense.
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  7941. Keep acting like a Trump cultist, spitting out conspiracy theories, and arguing against reality ... "held court with roughly two-dozen reporters in Des Moines" https://time.com/5773895/andrew-yang-iowa-campaign/
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  7942. Everything in the US "center" is right, though. Bernie is the centrist, out in the real world. Plus, there are people claiming to be left of Bernie, who pander to right wingers, while claiming the vast majority of progressives aren't left enough.
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  7943. Are you arguing that being Jewish amounts to being pro colonizing and ethnic cleansing? That sounds pretty anti-Semitic.
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  7944.  @whyamimrpink78  There was just another study showing, once again, higher death rates amongst Republicans. Florida is still kind of purple, so no, I wouldn't expect it to be number one, dumb dumb.
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  7945.  @bobbun4369  But it doesn't have the most old people, per capita, dumb dumb.
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  7946. ​ @barryleveson6147  Nothing validates colonizing, ethnic cleansing, and occupying, other people, dumb dumb. Israel is operating an open air WWII style fascist ghetto, and bombing it whenever there's an uprising. They're now the Nazis.
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  7947.  @mayorofmotown  Explaining the reality of private property isn't a defense, dumb dumb. If you want free speech on social media, then argue for public ownership. Arguing for public ownership is the destruction of private ownership, not a defense.
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  7948.  @ericpiccard9602  No, the other guy said it was being argued in courts. I said 230 was based on previous laws ... and Supreme Court rulings based on those laws. You seem to have mixed up who you're replying to.
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  7949.  @bonchidude  Wow, he did drop out today. If he goes on to endorse another candidate, his delegates are expected to vote for that candidate. If he doesn't endorse anyone, most states let the delegates vote for whoever they want, like uncommitted superdelegates do.
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  7950. What rate is that?
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  7951.  @AlbertoGarcia-yb4ih  Those were made by racist pricks, dumb dumb, on the other side.
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  7952. Yes, purely a political stunt by Pelosi.
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  7953. Well, it is an absolute monarchy, so the country is privately owned and operated.
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  7954. You, obviously, have comprehension problems. You should get that checked.
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  7955.  @TheEvolver311  I know. But, what does that have to do with my comment to the op?
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  7956.  @Pacman398  I don't give a crap if someone has a different opinion on a whole ton of crap, dimwit, so shove your strawman. Them having a difference of opinion on pizza toppings isn't going to hurt anyone. People can be convinced to do some horrible things, with just words. Manson deserved to be in prison, along with the people he convinced to commit the murders. Some general giving orders to commit war crimes deserves to be charged with war crimes right along with those who committed them. Now, if you can pick out the language that incites people, and stop them before they do terrible things, that would be better. Do we really need to debate racist ideas for centuries to come, for example? Can't we just settle on everyone deserving equal rights, and someone like Richard Spencer promoting taking the right of all non-whites away, to be an unnecessary, and potentially harmful, idea?
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  7957.  @omnisomnia  But that's the thing, it's perfectly fine for some psycho preacher to promote killing all gays. That's something a hate speech law would make illegal. Yeah. Wouldn't you feel safer knowing the person you were turning in would more likely be locked up for making verbal threats, rather than more likely be let go, because of "free speech", and possibly come after you for turning them in?
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  7958.  @wikingagresor  Simply having a representative democracy is a clever way to not have a direct democracy. The senate is not at all clever. It's about the dumbest part of the system.
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  7959.  @wikingagresor  Pure bullshit.
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  7960.  @josephplumb4130  Seems to me you don't know what "53%" means.
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  7961.  @josephplumb4130  Did any of that blather address that you don't know what "53%" means? No. So, the price hikes for profit is a good thing now? Make up your moronic MAGA minds.
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  7962.  @josephplumb4130  Nothing you said changes the fact that you don't know what "53%" means. And, now you're arguing the price hikes are a good thing. Make up your MAGA loving minds.
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  7963. And all the highly vulnerable old people should stop paying the extra cost included in the price of products sold by businesses who advertise on any FOX channel. Buy elsewhere. Those businesses should really take the initiative and pull all advertising, to save their companies money, until this is over.
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  7964. Stop spewing your dumbass slander, Dore. AOC just used her platform and PAC to help get more pro-M4A progressives elected to congress, the very thing that needs doing to ever pass the bill in congress, the very thing you'd still have to do even if you got a vote that fails.
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  7965.  @robertneil65  Damn phone turned Borg to Both.
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  7966. It's the "alpha" types, who are actually very insecure little boys, when it comes to the realities of the changing world. When the world is wanting less patriarchy, misogyny, toxicity, etc., they want to hear someone tell them that it's okay to be that way, be stuck in the 17th century, rather than make any effort to change.
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  7967.  @aaroncostello8812  That's nice. Still considered occupied, by the International Court, the UN GA, and the UN SC. And even by Israel's individual allies, US, Canada, Australia, UK, ...
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  7968. Agnostic at the no belief position labelling: 3: belief, knowledge = Atheo-Gnostic 2: belief, no knowledge = Athe-ist 1: no belief, no knowledge = Agnostic 2: belief, no knowledge = The-ist 3: belief, knowledge = Theo-Gnostic
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  7969. She's an idiot. Wearing masks, washing hands, keeping 6 ft apart, etc., is for when you're in the public and don't know who has what. If someone knowingly has the virus, they shouldn't be going anywhere near anyone, and nobody should be going anywhere near them. They should be quarantined.
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  7970.  @SR-lh4rm  A private option is different than a public option, dumb dumb. Something else you need to learn about, while you're learning that a VAT is specifically designed to NOT tax businesses, and Yang was clueless to that fact.
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  7971.  @SR-lh4rm  Rofl. And every next stage the business gets to recoup their input VAT from their output VAT and only send the difference to the government, dumb dumb. Until the last stage, the final consumer, who doesn't get to reclaim their input VAT. Again, you're arguing for each stage to remain as a cost on businesses, which would allow for double taxation (exactly what an actual VAT is designed to avoid), which would be f-ing worse, you cultist nutjob. Rofl. What is it you think exempting (which I think you're confusing for zero rating, just like Yang confused the two) or lesser rating actually does? A public option isn't universal healthcare. LA county tried it, thinking it would lead to universal coverage, and it hasn't.
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  7972.  @SR-lh4rm  Nope. I'm not allowed to opt out of paying into public healthcare, which is what a "public option" is. That's different from getting extra private coverage, which is what a "private option" is. No such thing as "public option", in Canada. Yes, a VAT is specifically designed to NOT tax businesses in order to avoid double taxation. "a consumption tax because it is borne ultimately by the final consumer. It is not a charge on businesses." "the taxable person is entitled to deduct all the tax already paid at the preceding stage. Therefore, double taxation is avoided" https://ec.europa.eu/taxation_customs/business/vat/what-is-vat_en You're a complete idiot, on top of being a nutjob cultist, who argues for something worse, to "defend" their cult leader.
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  7973.  @SR-lh4rm  Do the single digit math, and show me you're at least as smart as a kid in grade 1.
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  7974.  @SR-lh4rm  Omg, you are so stupid. The quote outright said they'd be paid back for the input VAT they paid. And, no, the VAT doesn't come anywhere close to taxing a business on its own value added. Where do you come up with this complete bullshit? No, businesses are not final consumers, when it comes to the VAT. All their input VAT paid, on everything they've purchased for their business, can be subtracted from the output VAT they've collected, and they only send the government the difference. More bullshit. I'm against a completely ignorant, or completely dishonest, politician spewing nonsense, and against a VAT/UBI combo that would funnel money to the top faster than ever before. Shove your bullshit irrelevant strawmen about me being anti-VAT, me being anti-tax, that don't make Yang's claims anymore true. Seriously, he outright linked to a pass through rate study, and totally didn't grasp what it actually said. He totally misunderstood nobody paying taxes on half the things for businesses paying taxes on half the things. None of your made up VAT nonsense can ever fix that.
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  7975.  @SR-lh4rm  Dummy, that extra they send to the government was paid by whoever they sold to, not them. That next someone also gets paid back for that input VAT, unless they're the final consumer. You're an idiot who thinks collecting tax and sending it to the government equates to paying it. That's also how a sales tax is collected, dummy. Do you think a sales tax is paid for by the busiiness collecting it, rather than the consumer? I'm anti not having corporations pay into the UBI, you stupid twit. How a UBI is paid for is important, and paying for it with a VAT is a garbage idea. If giant corporations don't pay into it, then they just get the benefit of it being spent, funneling trillions to the very top faster than ever before.
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  7976.  @SR-lh4rm  That was a whole lot of nonsense. Businesses are never the final consumer, because they are also selling goods and services to consumers themselves. Whatever input VAT they've paid, they can subtract from whatever output VAT they've collected from their own sales. Even if they have a return period where they've somehow paid more input VAT than they've collected in output VAT, they can then get a refund from the government for that amount. Businesses don't f-ing pay into a VAT, in the end. Inventing some alternate tax, that leaves the cost on businesses, would be the opposite of what a VAT does, and would allow for double taxation. If my business bought something for $1000 and paid $100 in an additional 10% tax, then I would make sure to cover my extra costs. Instead of selling for my pre tax $2000, I'd now sell for $2100, to keep the profit margin the same. The next buyer would then get charged $210 additional tax, $10 of which would be a tax on the $100 tax I included in my price. If they used to sell for $3000, they'd now sell for $3210, to keep their profit margin the same. The next buyer would then pay $321 in additional tax, $21 of which would be taxes upon taxes. You get it? If I buy for $1000, pay $100 input VAT, know I'm going to get paid back, I then sell for $2000, collect $200 in output VAT, pay myself back $100, and send $100 to the government. The next sells for $3000, collects $300, keeps $200, and also sends $100 to the government. What you're inventing would be f-ing worse. It's exactly what a VAT is designed to avoid. You are so amazingly clueless.
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  7977.  @SR-lh4rm  You didn't, at all, address the difference between the two examples. The one that leaves a cost on businesses isn't a "VAT". Nope. Businesses are never the final consumer. All businesses have customers and can subtract any input VAT they've paid for the operation of their business from any output VAT they've collected from their sales. What you're describing isn't a VAT. It's an invention that a VAT is specifically designed to avoid.
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  7978.  @SR-lh4rm  There are no examples of what you're describing. You're totally not comprehending how anything actually works, totally misrepresenting how everything actually works, and pretending what you're describing is a "VAT". It's not.
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  7979.  @SR-lh4rm  Nope. No such thing as a "public option" in most developed countries. A "public option" makes paying into the public healthcare system an option. People can't just opt out, here. They can opt in to getting additional private coverage, a "private option", but they still have to pay into public healthcare, through taxes.
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  7980.  @SR-lh4rm  You're inventing shoulds and shouldn'ts. As long as any purchase was made for the operation of the business, any input VAT paid can be subtracted from the output VAT collected.
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  7981.  @SR-lh4rm  I never even mentioned consumption taxes being "regressive". You're off on another irrelevant tangent.
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  7982.  @SR-lh4rm  Where's your "here"? That's not a thing, here.
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  7983.  @SR-lh4rm  I'm arguing that businesses don't pay into a VAT, like Yang claimed. Therefore, giant corporations wouldn't pay into the UBI, via a VAT, as Yang claimed. Therefore, they'd only get the benefits of the UBI being spent, making them, and their owners, extra billions upon billions a year, funneling money to the very top faster than ever before. That's an entirely different point than consumption taxes being regressive, which is just a fact. Even if you give everyone $1k a month, consumption taxes would still be a higher percentage of poorer persons income than a rich persons.
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  7984.  @SR-lh4rm  Businesses can sometimes have higher input VAT than output VAT. If that happens, they get a refund from the government, which I've already mentioned. It's not gaming the system, if the system is outright designed to NOT tax businesses.
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  7985.  @SR-lh4rm  Why would it be always? For one, a business would have to have the money to constantly buy enough stuff for their input VAT to always exceed their output VAT. For another, that would mean their sales are constantly lower than their expenditures, and the business would fail. And, lastly, why would a business just randomly buy crap, simply to get their input VAT numbers up, just to reclaim their input VAT? You're making no sense, as usual. Not having corporations pay into a UBI is what would have money funneling to the top, and make it unsustainable. Not simply the UBI itself. Therefore, a VAT/UBI combo, which wouldn't have corporations paying into the UBI would be unsustainable. Not sure where I keep losing you. That shouldn't be so hard to grasp. Consumption taxes are regressive by default, so what's to dispute? I'm arguing that that aspect is completely irrelevant to money being funneled to the top. I get that you very much like bringing in completely irrelevant points, and inventing arguments for me for you to argue with yourself about, but I'm not a fan. No. If the UBI was funded by corporations, then the money would simply circulate to the people, back to them, back to the people, back to them, etc. If the people are funding the UBI, it goes from the people, to the people, to the corporations, where they, and their super rich owners who live on stocks and options, will get even richer.
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  7986.  @SR-lh4rm  You're arguing against yourself. Businesses try to minimize unnecessary costs to maximize profits. You're arguing they'd unnecessarily increase their costs, reducing their profits, so they can pay more input VAT, just so they can turn around and get the exact same amount refunded to them, and not make any money off your invented nonsensical "gaming" of the system. You'd have businesses going bankrupt, left and right, with your made up crap. You're a complete fool.
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  7987.  @SR-lh4rm  Rofl. Try giving a single example of the nonsense you're making up. Give me a good laugh.
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  7988.  @SR-lh4rm  Rofl, I think you're making up that you grasp basic accounting and how it applies to VAT returns. Give me a single example of how you think a company could "game" the system, if you can.
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  7989.  @SR-lh4rm  ROFL!!!!!!!!!! You said absolutely nothing, at all, of relevance to what I was saying. That was absolutely hilarious! Thank you. Yes, if you think someone has described a loophole, or some way to "game the system", then you should be able to give an example of how that might happen. You just can't, because you have absolutely no clue what you're talking about. You're babbling nonsense. It doesn't matter which way you do your accounting. For the VAT period in question, you fill out a VAT return, and simply list all input VAT paid during that period on all expenses for the business, and list all output VAT collected during that period on sales. You subtract input VAT from output VAT, paying yourself back for all input VAT, and sending the government the difference. Or, if you've somehow paid more input VAT than you've collected in output VAT, you send for a refund from the government, and still get paid back all your input VAT. There's no loophole, because it's specifically designed to NOT tax businesses in the first place. There's no "gaming the system", when the system isn't designed to tax you in the first place. There's no way to make money off it, without committing a crime. You are so absolutely clueless. How many hours have you spent inventing bullshit. Go watch a few min video on how a VAT works. Amazon, who Yang claimed a VAT would tax, even has tutorials on exactly how a VAT doesn't tax businesses, even for non resale B2B expenses. You're quite insane cultist.
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  7990.  @anderseckstrand7033  AOC supports M4A. She shares that support for M4A on a platform that reaches 40x more people than Jimmy. On top of her 10m direct audience, a single M4A tweet of hers was retweeted 70 thousand times, compared to Jimmy's best, at under 2k (and that was during this big "trending" moment he thinks he's having). The woman absolutely destroys Jimmy at the only thing he does. On top of that, she was the one who took out the #2 corporate Dem, she started a progressive PAC to counter the DCCC, she fended off another DCCC backed corporate Dem, her PAC helped get more progressives elected to congress even as corporate Dems lost seats (which is why she was punished, as they mentioned) ... you know, doing the things, getting progressive numbers up, that need doing to actually get M4A to pass. That's the kind of stuff that will have to still happen after Jimmy's vote fails, anyway. She has done more for the progressive movement in 2 years than Jimmy has in 20. And, Sam, well he did his best in 2016 to convince at least one moron, that Trump was dangerous, and that multiple scotus seats being filled was a possibility and also dangerous, but ... the idiot stuck to his guns, thinking Trump would be better for progressives, would bring about a massive progressive wave leading to a 2020 Warren presidency, that Republicans would even work with the left against the "maniacal fascist", and that the likelihood of Trump filling multiple scotus seats was on par with the moon falling into Lake Michigan. Maybe Sam could have done more, pushed back even harder, but it's not really Sam's fault that the guy was so stupid.
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  7991. @Defund The Tone Police Rofl! You can't both criticize conspiracies and defend Jimmy Dore. What progress has Jimmy made? Has he convinced anyone in congress to support M4A, or replaced them?
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  7992. @Defund The Tone Police Rofl. Since he has said he assumes the government is lying and he just has to figure out what they're lying about, that means everything to do with the government. He has pushed JFK conspiracies, 9/11 conspiracies, Syria conspiracies, Seth Rich conspiracies, Las Vegas shooting conspiracies, ... want more?
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  7993.  @Evirthewarrior  They had a majority. They could bring up the vote as many times as they wanted, and passed it as many times as they wanted. Obama had to keep vetoing it. Not anywhere close to the same scenario as being in the minority, having to threaten the speaker election to get a single vote (which you won't get to do for another 2 year), and not having enough votes to pass the house or senate.
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  7994.  NEAR TERM EXTINCTION - HUMAN  It's not a referendum. The politicians get to vote. Reality says it fails by about 100 votes in both chambers. Some people have been busy trying to replace corporate Dems in the house and congress, while Dore was whining about shit Obama was saying.
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  7995.  @Evirthewarrior  There's already a record of people who haven't signed on to M4A. You'll get an updated record, when the bill is reintroduced next session. AOC just helped replace some corporate Dems who wouldn't. You still need to replace almost 100 politicians in the house and a couple dozen in the senate. If Jimmy has 100 new pro-M4A progressives in his back pocket, why didn't he pull them out and run them in the election that just happened? If you can't even replace all the ones already openly opposed to M4A, trying to get a few extra names of fakers isn't going to help you much. A vote guaranteed to fail won't even necessarily expose fakers. They could vote for it without worrying it will pass. What do you mean it would already have passed the house? You're delusional. It needs almost 100 more people to sign on for it, in the house alone. No. It's not "literally impossible" for the Republican candidate to win. It's majority of votes cast. For every 2 abstentions, absents, or unfilled seats, the threshold needed to win drops by 1. Jimmy arguing that corporate Dems would rather work with Republicans than progressives is actually an argument against his plan, not for it, since it increases the risk they'd work together against progressives. And if they just let you keep paralyzing the government, during a pandemic, that could also look bad on progressives. No votes on a minimum wage increase. No votes on lowering the social security age. No votes on more covid relief. Etc. They'd definitely propagandize it all, to make progressives look as bad as possible. Jimmy thought the moon would fall into Lake Michigan before Trump could fill multiple scotus seats. He's not good at risk assessment. Negatives, that he makes out to be impossible, actually aren't impossible.
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  7996.  @Evirthewarrior  Pull out your 100 extra Pro-M4A candidates and run them against anyone who doesn't include M4A on their platform. Everyone clearly knew Bernie was pro-M4A and Biden wasn't, right? Questioning even got Biden to say he'd outright veto it. Doesn't take a vote to make a clear distinction between two candidates. So where are these 100 extra candidates you have laying around?
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  7997.  @Evirthewarrior  How is replacing DCCC backed corporate Dems with pro-M4A progressives doing nothing, like AOC just helped do? That's exactly what you'd still need to do, even if you got a failed vote. Seriously, where are your 100 extra Pro-M4A candidates that you didn't run in the election that just happened? Why are you holding them back?
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  7998.  @Evirthewarrior  You know this is all a secondary tactic disagreement, right? Getting M4A is the goal. The primary tactic of converting or replacing enough people in congress to actually pass M4A is the primary tactic, because that's the only possible way to pass a bill in congress. Whether the secondary tactic of forcing the vote would provide ammo for the primary tactic ànd speed up the process, whether it could backfire in some way and hinder the process, whether people would forget it in 2 years and it be neither good or bad, or whatever, that's the actual debate. As long as progressives are working at the primary tactic, they aren't doing nothing. It may not be fast enough for your liking, but Jimmy and posse slandering and trashing progressive politicians, over a secondary tactic disagreement, could damage even those small gains, and starting a third party likely won't even get you a seat in congress for decades, let alone M4A, and could split progressive votes enough to let Republicans and corporate Dems rule for decades. He's both impatient and willing to take the longest path to victory. He doesn't really make much sense.
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  7999.  @Evirthewarrior  Slander progressives in congress, start a new party, and get M4A in a century.
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  8000.  @Evirthewarrior  If someone just used her platform and PAC to do the very thing you need to do (add more pro-M4A votes in congress) to ever be able to pass a M4A bill, if she just fought against the very corporate Dems you want out (opposing DCCC backed corporate Dems), if she just got punished by them for doing that (threw punches and took a punch) then some cowardly armchair general calling her a "fake", "shill", and "wimp", is pure slander, and a stab in the back. He doesn't actually give a fuck if anyone gets healthcare. He has his, and is willing to start from scratch, take a century for a third party to get a single seat, and let Republicans and corporate Dems rule, as he works on splitting the progressive vote. If anyone is a "fake" and a "shill" it's the one trashing progressives and the gains made.
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  8001.  @Evirthewarrior  And, if you want to talk about money, Jimmy just bought himself a $2m home. He also works from his garage, which is likely why he didn't give a crap if Trump and Republicans were elected again and killed thousands more Americans, as he ran his anti-Biden campaign.
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  8002.  @Evirthewarrior  Why should I believe a guy who didn't care if Trump was elected and the ACA was repealed and millions lost their healthcare, a guy who promoted Tulsi and "Medicare choice" over Bernie and M4A, a guy who again didn't care if Trump was re-elected and killed thousands more Americans instead running an attack campaign against Biden who was at least offering to reduce the Medicare age and offering a public option (Medicare choice), a guy who's both impatient with progressives' small gains, willing to slander them and try to destroy their credibility over a secondary tactics disagreement, but ready to start from scratch with a third party that won't get you M4A for another century during which time Republicans could rule and destroy healthcare due to vote splitting? There's zero indication in that guy's actions that he actually gives a fuck if anyone else has healthcare.
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  8003.  @Evirthewarrior  Fascists are fascists before they get complete power. 28% of Republicans, and many Republican lawmakers, don't want Trump to concede under any circumstances. Whether it happened, or not, they've embraced overt fasism and the end of the democratic process. Many are leaving their already batshit crazy FOX News for even more extreme absolutely nonsensical propaganda stations. He packed in tons of conservative judges, including multiple scotus seats (When Jimmy did his risk assessment, he even agreed that would be horrible, he just thought it was as likely to happen as the moon falling into Lake Michigan. Is it horrible or not?). You lot are insane, yourself, if you think that's samesies as neolibs. And even more insane, if you think progressives are samesies as neolibs. We might not be talking about M4A, if it weren't for Bernie. Him recognizing that Republicans are even worse, and opposing them, just means he's sane. And, AOC helping to add extra Pro-M4A votes to congress is exactly what you need to happen to ever pass it. Many of the anti-mask protesters, etc., have been Trump cultists, encouraged by their cult leader. Why would it have been worse, without their cult leader? Why would it have been worse with a pandemic response team prepared to act? The US has had a pathetically low testing rate, one of the most important things to actually contain the virus. Why would it have been worse? N Korea's president gathered corporate leaders and told them the country would need a ton of masks, and it got done. That's leadership. It didn't take forcing them. It had nothing to do with whether federal, state, or local politicians had what powers. Trump's response has been complete incompetence. He also repeatedly threatened state and local politicians going against his bullshit, with defunding. He encouraged his cult to ignore them. Even if they have more control over some things, he fought against them.
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  8004.  @Evirthewarrior  Holy fuck, no. The US testing rate is pathetic. Total tests and tests per million are numbers that are totally disconnected from the virus numbers. The trace testing rate is tests per confirmed case. You know, if you find one infected person, how many others do you test to find asymptomatic carriers and quarantine them. https://ourworldindata.org/grapher/number-of-covid-19-tests-per-confirmed-case?tab=chart&stackMode=absolute&time=2020-12-27&country=AUS~CAN~DNK~DEU~ITA~JPN~NZL~NOR~KOR~TWN~GBR~USA~VNM®ion=World
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  8005.  @Evirthewarrior  Fuck you're stupid. Tests per day is also a number totally disconnected from your covid numbers. If country A sits back and only tests people with symptoms who come in to get tested, then they won't catch the completely asymptomatic carriers, or those who will develop symptoms but haven't developed them yet. Those people will infect more and more people. They won't get ahead of the virus and it will keep spreading. More and more people will then get covid and more and more symptomatic people will come in for tests. The country will end up doing a ton of tests, but still never get ahead of the virus. If country B actively tests 100 people that possibly came into contact with someone who had a positive result, they'll catch completely asymptomatic carriers and people who haven't developed symptoms yet, and can have them quarantine themselves, getting ahead of the virus and keeping more infected people away from others. This country will get ahead of the virus, flatten its curve, and might not have to do as many total tests, tests per million, or tests per day, exactly because their better testing rate helped reduce the numbers of infected.
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  8006.  @Evirthewarrior  Yeah, or maybe your mental telepathy doesn't actually work, and I was watching a movie.
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  8007.  @Evirthewarrior  Dore knobs diving this hard into stupidity, to defend Trump's covid response, just proves you lot might as well be Republicans. https://www.jhsph.edu/covid-19/articles/covid-19-testing-understanding-the-percent-positive.html
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  8008.  @Evirthewarrior  And you could see on that graph that the European countries having the harder time also aren't testing as much as the European countries that have a better handle on it. But you're too stupid to grasp what that indicates.
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  8009. Having Medicaid expansion is throwing money at people? Are they living in a hospital, or something?
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  8010. Supporting Israel has been US policy since Israel came into existence. There's so much support for Israel in congress that they could pass whatever aid to Israel they want, and override any presidential veto. One president isn't responsible.
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  8011. ​ @techvof  "We"? Who cares what insurrectionists want? They don't care what anyone else wants.
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  8012. The US was founded by British subjects that protested, rioted, tarred and feathered, and destroyed private property, all because they didn't want to pay extra taxes specifically to fund the police/military. They got extra pissed when those police/military, "fearing for their lives", shot and killed violent protesters.
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  8013. @Zackariah Schultz  "Well being" and utilitarianism are nothing new, but he acts like they are, and pretends he has made some kind of grand discovery. Those didn't prove Hume wrong the first time around, and still don't. His fearmongering about advanced AI then contradicts his own bullshit arguments for an objective hierarchy based on intelligence. Christians have been arguing against Muslims for centuries. Doing so is also nothing new. Whether you like religion, or not, freedom of religion was a step forward. Going backwards, to fearmongering and discriminating against those of a religion you don't like, is the definition of "regressive". He's an idiot, who spouts all kinds of subjective arguments in a calm monotone manner, fooling other idiots into thinking he has been objective.
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  8014. @Zackariah Schultz If you say things like "I will argue", with zero reference to others arguing the same thing before, then you're presenting the argument as your own, not simply something you agree with. Might be fine for a casual conversation, but not for a lecture, article, or whatever, presenting yourself as a scholar in the field. What ... do you want an entire lecture, or article, quoted here, showing an absence of him giving credit to other philosophers before him? All his lectures and articles? Lol Criticizing a specific idea is different from fearmongering about people and arguing to discriminate against them. You know the difference between criticizing authoritarian forms of communism and regressively fearmongering against left leaning people of all sorts, like during McCarthyism, right? If you've never heard him present simply "Muslims" as a problem in a "thought" experiment, like with nuclear weapons for example, or never heard him argue to profile Muslims, then why are you so worried about someone you know little about? Do you also know there's a difference between a book and a religion? Harris has outright said himself that he just recently learned this from Nawaz, which then contradicts a number of his previous arguments, and validates the critics of those previous arguments. His AI argument has to do with an AI as advanced to us as we are to ants. He argues we'd have to worry about it having different values, that don't align with ours, and it turning against us. But, if you use the same argument he uses for Moral Landscape, then the AI's values should be objectively better than ours, and the AI should objectively have more value than us. Contradicting his own hierarchy argument, which gives us more value than ants, Sam still values humans more than the advanced AI. If his hierarchy was truly objective, then any future AI, or other species, found to be more advanced than us, should objectively have more value than us. No, simply calling someone else an idiot isn't idiotic. Repeatedly presenting arguments that contradict your other arguments is idiotic. Presenting old ideas as your own is idiotic. Not being able to get any further than what you already say is a given is idiotic. Constantly presenting non-analagous "analogies" is idiotic. Etc.
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  8015. Kinda how most quarantines work, whatever the economics. If you let people travel it spreads. So, you're saying a large breakout causes job loss?
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  8016.  @VinWeiLee27171  Ironic.
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  8017.  @VinWeiLee27171  Doesn't judging something "disgusting" require mounting your own moral high horse?
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  8018.  @VinWeiLee27171  More irony.
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  8019. Courses available ... How not to pay your bills How not to pay your taxes How to pay porn stars hush money How to operate a fake school How to bankrupt multiple casinos How to pull valuations out of your ass How to blow all of daddy's money ...
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  8020. And? How many seats in congress have they won? How many bills have they introduced, voted on, amended, etc.?
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  8021.  @Backhand77  It's called harm reduction. You're not voting to reduce harm. You're voting to be insignificant.
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  8022.  @Backhand77  If two candidates will both cage kids (and you ignore some nuance), but one also wants to toss 10m of the poorest Americans off of Medicaid expansion, while the other wants to add people to Medicaid expansion, Medicare, and possibly have a public option, then voting for the later is reducing harm. If a third candidate, that has zero shot at winning, and voting for them would give the first candidate more of a shot at winning, voting for them is, at best, being insignificant, and at worst allowing for more harm.
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  8023. The word was used from a Theist POV. The word was created in the Atheos-ism order. There is no error in adding an -ism to a word, and the definition that goes with it. The only error would be applying that label to yourself, if it doesn't apply...which many self labelled A-theists, have wrongly done.
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  8024. UBI is a good idea. Yang's idea of how to pay for it is horrible. He had no clue how a VAT actually works. He even had a linked pass through rate study on his VAT page, which he clearly didn't understand, and which proved most everything on his VAT page was bullshit.
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  8025. He "popped up" by lying about Canadian law. He was already a grifter.
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  8026.  @anacc3257  People follow all kinds of self help "gurus", religious quacks, fortune tellers, or whatnot, and consider them good influences.
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  8027. Multiple models show universal healthcare would be cheaper than what Americans already pay into private insurance plans. You don't even need billionaires to make that switch.
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  8028. ​ @xtbum3339  "Whatabout Geronimo's evil?", "Savages!", "They want to push all the white people back into the sea, for absolutely no reason, whatsoever! They must just be racist."
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  8029. Sure, language evolves. But, you're point doesn't prove me wrong. And, doesn't point out anything wrong with devolving. The current evolution, to make the term Atheist apply to both A-theists and Athe-ists only convolutes and confuses what is meant by Atheist. If the term Athe-ist offends you, don't freakin call yourself one...it's really quite simple.
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  8030.  @jasonadams869  West Virginia is leading the country in drug overdose mortality rate.
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  8031. Did you ever Google "root word", like I said?
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  8032. ​@@everyisnaadisfabricated3784 ... for men. India is just about the worst place on the planet, to be a woman. "India Ranks 135th Out of 146 Countries for Gender Parity, Worst for 'Health and Survival': Report"
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  8033. Republicans investigated Obama, while they were doing their 6 investigations (fishing expeditions) into Hillary, while she was Trump's political opponent. Trump literally ran on "Lock her up!". But, now, when there's actually enough evidence of wrongdoing, to indict someone, for 90+ crimes, it's suddenly a no no.
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  8034.  @lamarjackson5056  So, much higher than the automobile accident mortality rate. Should all rules of the road, vehicle safety standards, licensing, etc., be done away with?
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  8035.  @lamarjackson5056  Didn't answer my question. Did those people die the same year they first had a Big Mac? Plus, you've moved the goalpost from mortality rates. How many tens of millions of people, eating fast food hundreds of millions of times, for decades, does it take to get that number of deaths?
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  8036.  @lamarjackson5056  Still didn't answer my original question. And, now still haven't given an actual mortality rate for unhealthy eating. McDonald's, alone, serves about 25m customers a day, about 9b a year ... what is the mortality rate for eating a Big Mac?
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  8037.  @lamarjackson5056  Should we get rid of all rules of the road, or not?
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  8038.  @lamarjackson5056  What's the mortality rate for drinking a beer?
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  8039.  @lamarjackson5056  Rofl. Why are you having so much trouble sticking to mortality rates, like you started out with, dimwit? Should we ditch all rules of the road, or not?
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  8040.  @lamarjackson5056  You're still having trouble sticking to your opening line. There are about 6m reported automobile accidents a year, and about 37k deaths. That is a case fatality rate a little over 0.6% (almost 3x lower than the covid case fatality rate you posted). There are an estimated 10m unreported accidents. That is a mortality rate a little over 0.2% (about 5x lower than the estimated 1% mortality rate for covid). By your "logic", we shouldn't have all these street lights, speed limits, seatbelt laws, child seat laws, drinking and driving laws, vehicle safety standards, licensing, etc., to try and reduce the number of accidents and/or lower the death rate, right? Only 1-2% of polio cases results in paralytic polio. 5-15% of paralytic polio cases result in death. That's a mortality rate as low as 0.05%. By your "logic", we should stop giving the polio vaccine (mandated for immigrants and public school kids), right? What does the mortality rate, or case fatality rate, need to be, exactly, before we should bother taking any action to reduce the number of cases and deaths? Those are pretty simple questions, based on your original premise. Can you answer any?
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  8041.  @locochang6533  You know the Bible is about a sexless being who later transitions into a human male, yeah?
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  8042.  @thehappyclam3942  YouTube not liking some word here ... ​@thehappyclam3942 Htler was backed by leading German industrialists. He promised his backers that he wouldn't be redistributing wealth. Nzis allied with other far right parties, to form the Harzburg Front. They literally klled off any prominent left leaning members, on the Night of the Long Knives. They went after communists, socialists, and unionists, first, for "illegal socialist activity". Htler blamed Jws for creating socialism, because Marx was of Jewish descent. He blamed the Communist Party for the Reichstag fire, claimed they were "trrorists", outlawed them, and rounded them up. Mussolini denied the class struggle, that is the very foundation of socialism/communism. He promoted accepting your lot in life, and just working hard, for the betterment of the nation, in an "Ask not what your country can do for you - ask what you can do for your country", kind of way. The Nzis were a little more, "For God and country!" ... People simply working together, towards a goal, doesn't equate to communism/socialism.
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  8043.  @thehappyclam3942   @thehappyclam3942  YouTube not liking some word here ... @thehappyclam3942 Htler was backed by leading German industrialists. He promised his backers that he wouldn't be redistributing wealth. Nzis allied with other far right parties, to form the Harzburg Front. They literally klled off any prominent left leaning members, on the Night of the Long Knives. They went after communists, socialists, and unionists, first, for "illegal socialist activity". Htler blamed Jws for creating socialism, because Marx was of Jwish descent. He blamed the Communist Party for the Reichstag fire, claimed they were "trrorists", outlawed them, and rounded them up. Mussolini denied the class struggle, that is the very foundation of socialism/communism. He promoted accepting your lot in life, and just working hard, for the betterment of the nation, in an "Ask not what your country can do for you - ask what you can do for your country", kind of way. The Nzis were a little more, "For God and country!" ... People simply working together, towards a goal, doesn't equate to communism/socialism.
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  8044.  @thehappyclam3942  YouTube not liking some word here ... @thehappyclam3942 Htler was backed by leading German industrialists. He promised his backers that he wouldn't be redistributing wealth. Nzis allied with other far right parties, to form the Harzburg Front. They literally klled off any prominent left leaning members, on the Night of the Long Knives. They went after cmmunists, scialists, and unionists, first, for "illegal socialist activity". Htler blamed Jws for creating socialism, because Mrx was of Jwish descent. He blamed the Cmmunist Party for the Reichstag fire, claimed they were "trrorists", outlawed them, and rounded them up. Mssolini denied the class struggle, that is the very foundation of scialism/cmmunism. He promoted accepting your lot in life, and just working hard, for the betterment of the nation, in an "Ask not what your country can do for you - ask what you can do for your country", kind of way. The Nzis were a little more, "For God and country!" ... People simply working together, towards a goal, doesn't equate to cmmunism/scialism.
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  8045.  @thehappyclam3942   @thehappyclam3942  YouTube not liking some word here ... @thehappyclam3942 Htler was backed by leading German industrialists. He promised his backers that he wouldn't be redistributing wealth. Nzis allied with other far right parties, to form the Harzburg Front. They literally klled off any prominent left leaning members, on the Night of the Long Knives. They went after cmmunists, scialists, and unionists, first, for "illegal socialist activity". Htler blamed Jws for creating socialism, because Mrx was of Jwish descent. He blamed the Cmmunist Party for the Reichstag fire, claimed they were "trrorists", outlawed them, and rounded them up. Mssolini denied the class struggle, that is the very foundation of scialism/cmmunism. He promoted accepting your lot in life, and just working hard, for the betterment of the nation, in an "Ask not what your country can do for you - ask what you can do for your country", kind of way. People simply working together, towards a goal, doesn't equate to cmmunism/scialism.
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  8046.  @Historia.Magistra.Vitae.  Nope. They allied with the right, and literally outlawed, and rounded people up from, the Communist Party, first.
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  8047.  @Historia.Magistra.Vitae.  Nope. Emil Kirdorf had pulled his support, and backed another far right party, due to his concerns about some members. He only came back after Hitler eliminated those members.
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  8048.  @Historia.Magistra.Vitae.  Wrong. By definition they weren't. FOX being the voice of the Republican party, and almost everyone there being a member of the Republican party, doesn't magically make it owned by the government, and not a capitalist corporation.
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  8049.  @Historia.Magistra.Vitae.  By your "logic", any business owned by a Republican party member, is then owned by the entire party, and, if they get in power, will be owned by the government. They're all commies.
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  8050.  @Historia.Magistra.Vitae.  Against the mainstream: Nazi privatization in 1930s Germany by G BEL · 2010
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  8051.  @Historia.Magistra.Vitae.  State =\= socialism. An absolute monarchy is a 100% privately owned and operated state. How can the "complete opposite" of one kind of socialism be another kind of socialism? That makes zero sense. It was crony capitalism.
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  8052.  @Historia.Magistra.Vitae.  So, Trump, and any Republican party business owner is a "leftist" "socialist" fascist. 🤪
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  8053. ​ @Elgatos_world69  Colonialists are never not the aggressors. Ze'ev Jabotinsky, in 1923, fully acknowledged that Zionism is colonialism, and predicted that the native response would be to fight it until the bitter end. But, then promoted doing it anyway ... f*ck the natives.
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  8054. ​ @Techlax43  Colonialists are never the "defenders" against the native population. They wouldn't be in the position to "defend" themselves, if they hadn't done the colonialist aggression, first.
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  8055.  @JJ-qc6lh  Yeah, they are, because the Palestinian territories are considered occupied, by the law.
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  8056.  @damebesos8497  How is 8% of the social media market a monopoly?
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  8057.  @damebesos8497  Facebook/Instagram seems to be much bigger than Twitter. https://gs.statcounter.com/social-media-stats
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  8058. Constantly expanding the military isn't expanding the government? Expanding ICE isn't expanding the government? Expanding Homeland Security isn't expanding the government? Etc. They pretend government things they like aren't government, pretend politicians they like aren't politicians, and pretend their own largest MSM "news" organization isn't MSM.
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  8059.  @songyani3992  You just made the "not real Christians" argument, for them. Anyone who believes in magic over science is in a cult. If your beliefs allow for science, then it's simply a religion.
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  8060.  @songyani3992  Don't really care. I was using "your" in the generic sense. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Generic_you
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  8061. It's not two propositions. Those are the steps to proving a belief is true. Theism/Atheism address stage 2.
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  8062.  @JustBree716  It's a non-profit, dumb dumb. There are no exec salaries, or profits, that could be reduced to pay them more. If it were, why not keep raising worker salaries to half the top exec salary? Is the exec really working 900x harder? Why not cut into profits until the company is just in the black? Why the need for ever increasing profit margins and hoarding billions?
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  8063.  @GGg-ug3jr  No, no. Executing Chris Matthews in Central Park is Bernie's platform. Executing everyone over 65 is Bloomberg's platform.
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  8064. ​ @hajkie  No. He called out the bombing of a refugee camp. He seemed fine with everything else. His starting point was that Hamas was the aggressor. He didn't want to hear any context. He threw people providing context under the bus, and in the same box with people openly cheering the Hamas attack. Israel is objectively the aggressor, by every relevant measure ... Modern history: 100 years ago, in 1923, Ze'ev Jabotinsky fully acknowledged that Zionism is colonialism, and that, based on the entirety of history, the natives would fight it until the bitter end. He just didn't care what would happen to them, and promoted doing it anyway. Colonizers are never not the aggressors. On top of the colonialist nature of Zionism, the Zionists also formed terrorist organizations, like the Irgun and Lehi. They bombed many Palestinian markets and other public places, murdering many civilians, including children, even including Palestinian Jews (who opposed Zionism). Israel merged those terrorists into the new nation's military and intelligence agencies. Israelis elected Menachem Begin, leader of the Irgun, child murderer, Jew murderer, and bomber of the King David Hotel, as PM. Israelis, to this day, celebrate those terrorists as "heroes". Zionists literally taught their neighbours that terrorism is a valid path to independence and statehood, and that terrorists are to be celebrated. In 1945, it is well documented that Zionists owned just 5% of the land and were a majority nowhere. Israel was formed by actually going against the majority population. It's foundation is completely undemocratic. Then, becoming a majority, in "their" new nation, by ethnic cleansing the actual majority, and then claiming to be democratic, is utter nonsense. Law: Israel is considered an occupier by the International Court, the UN GA, and the UN SC. Occupiers are also never not the aggressors. Those occupied actually have a right to resist occupation. On the flip side, it is illegal for the occupier to settle occupied lands, and illegal to use collective punishment. Israel is a rogue nation, that doesn't abide by international law. What it has been doing, and is doing now, is illegal. Current events: This year, alone, prior to Oct 7 ... Israel held over 1200 Palestinian hostages without charges ... over 200 Palestinians had been killed by the IDF and settlers ... over 1000 Palestinians had been displaced by Israel's neverending colonization of the West Bank ... and, Israel continued to operate an open air WWII style fascist ghetto, in Gaza. Even ignoring modern history and law, in no reality did Hamas "start" anything.
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  8065. How usinging etymology and original source material, "twisting"? That's a new one. Have a nice day.
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  8066. ​ @rachelh7886  Israel is objectively the aggressor, by every relevant measure, dumb dumb ... Modern history: 100 years ago, in 1923, Ze'ev Jabotinsky fully acknowledged that Zionism is colonialism, and that, based on the entirety of history, the natives would fight it until the bitter end. He just didn't care what would happen to them, and promoted doing it anyway. Colonizers are never not the aggressors. On top of the colonialist nature of Zionism, the Zionists also formed terrorist organizations, like the Irgun and Lehi. They bombed many Palestinian markets and other public places, murdering many civilians, including children, even including Palestinian Jews (who opposed Zionism). Israel merged those terrorists into the new nation's military and intelligence agencies. Israelis elected Menachem Begin, leader of the Irgun, child murderer, Jew murderer, and bomber of the King David Hotel, as PM. Israelis, to this day, celebrate those terrorists as "heroes". Zionists literally taught their neighbours that terrorism is a valid path to independence and statehood, and that terrorists are to be celebrated. In 1945, it is well documented that Zionists owned just 5% of the land and were a majority nowhere. Israel was formed by actually going against the majority population. It's foundation is completely undemocratic. Then, becoming a majority, in "their" new nation, by ethnic cleansing the actual majority, and then claiming to be democratic, is utter nonsense. Law: Israel is considered an occupier by the International Court, the UN GA, and the UN SC. Occupiers are also never not the aggressors. Those occupied actually have a right to resist occupation. On the flip side, it is illegal for the occupier to settle occupied lands, and illegal to use collective punishment. Israel is a rogue nation, that doesn't abide by international law. What it has been doing, and is doing now, is illegal. Current events: This year, alone, prior to Oct 7 ... Israel held over 1200 Palestinian hostages without charges ... over 200 Palestinians had been killed by the IDF and settlers ... over 1000 Palestinians had been displaced by Israel's neverending colonization of the West Bank ... and, Israel continued to operate an open air WWII style fascist ghetto, in Gaza. Even ignoring modern history and law, in no reality did Hamas "start" anything.
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  8067. Trump: settled 2 lawsuits for being racist; was fined $10.5m for illegal operations of his casinos; he and daddy were fined for gaming fraud; settled suit for grifting his own Trump University fans; guilty of rape and defamation; guilty of bank fraud; ... but hey, whatabout Joe?! Republican's own witnesses say they have zero actual evidence of wrongdoing. Just like the 6 investigations into Hillary, while she was Trump's political opponent, while he ran on "Lock her up!", found nothing to charge her with.
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  8068. Oh, I get what you're saying. You want to give credit to the Egyptians for coming up with a creation story?
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  8069.  @SamuraiKage-iv3ow  Presidents are also elected representatives, you dumb apple.
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  8070. If you found it "easy to follow", then what was his first philosophical mistake?
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  8071.  @jeremybr2020  Nope. He was objectively wrong, a number of times.
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  8072. "Successful" and "effective" are strange measures. I despise Reagan and Dubya, but they quite successfully and effectively got almost everything they wanted.
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  8073. ​ @nowere4579  It happens. Trumpty Dumpty helping get his people arrested and even killed. "Last week, Abigail Jo Shry, 43, of Alvin, Texas, was arrested by federal agents and charged with threatening to kill the federal judge overseeing the prosecution of former President Donald Trump. A week earlier, Craig Robertson, 75, of Provo, Utah, was shot and killed by FBI agents who were trying to arrest him on charges of making social media threats against President Joe Biden and the Manhattan district attorney who has brought charges against Trump." "ATLANTA (AP) — An Alabama man has been indicted on federal charges that he threatened violence against a Georgia prosecutor and sheriff related to an investigation into former President Donald Trump."
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  8074. Well, it was totally the Jewish underground's fault, that there was an uprising. Totally not the fault of the Nazis.
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  8075. Where's "near me"? Some places have a much higher cost of living, already have a $15 minimum, and even that's not really a living wage for where they're living.
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  8076. #blameGeronimo
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  8077.  @sr2291  That was another problem with Yang's UBI. He didn't have it stack with SSDI, or SNAP, just SSI. Very poor people, on either of those programs, would see less increased benefit (some even no benefit, depending on number of kids) than say a non working Melania Trump, or Barron Trump when he's 18, who'd each get a full extra $2000 a month for shopping sprees, or whatever. There are other versions of UBI out there. His sucked ass.
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  8078.  @berenicea.n.barkovitch7406  Next to nobody on the left think Bernie and AOC are 100% outright socialists. Plenty describe him as the true centrist, out in the real world beyond the US Overton window. They do promote socialistic ideas, which things like socialized healthcare are. If every economic sector was publicly owned and operated, you'd have all out socialism. Publicly owning and operating the health insurance sector adds a tiny amount of socialism. The right ... now they claim even Biden is a commie.
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  8079. ​ @welderpro357987  Biden was talking about people with specific chosen views. People who support MAGA's rcsm, bgtry, and msgny, are garbage. Just change your views, and he's no longer talking about you. How do you change being Puerto Rican?
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  8080.  @corbinsmith50  When Trump was president, Republicans held the senate, and corporations were already flagging, suspending, and banning, people for covid misinformation?
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  8081.  @Irishhound  No. A bookstore can pick and choose what books it wants to put on its shelves. Doesn't make them a publisher.
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  8082.  @caladan4130  You're making up nonsense. The constitution didn't compel private property owners to allow anyone to stand on their private property and spew whatever they wanted. It didn't give people a right to be on someone else's private property. It didn't compel newspapers to print whatever someome else wanted them to print. It didn't give people a right to have whatever they wanted printed by some privately owned media.
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  8083. Or all the Canadian overstays.
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  8084.  @X2LR8  Sounds like you don't know what race based chattel slavery is.
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  8085. ​ @realtalkradiowithdanlane  According to Israel, people can "go back" to Europe, claim at least half of it, and cleanse that half of its current inhabitants.
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  8086.  @realtalkradiowithdanlane  Weird. I thought armies of people from North America landing in Europe worked pretty well.
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  8087. ​ @dontforgettolike7127  We literally cheered on and supported Stalin, because Hitler was so much worse, dumb dumb.
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  8088. This is still Dumpty's wall. It was already approved, by congress, under Trump. It's not Biden's wall.
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  8089.  @J-C.Denton  How the hell would most viewers not know who Shapiro is, when it was streamed through the Daily Wire, dimwit?
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  8090. Sure thing. Fascism: anti-union; anti-socialism; anti-feminism; anti-democratic (which gerrymandering is); pro expanding policing; pro expanding military; backed by big business; backed by religious leaders; ultra-nationalism; "Fascism is the complete opposite of Marxian socialism." ~ Mussolini ... the opposite of non authoritarian socialism is authoritarian crony capitalism. So, the fascist was the guy who got shouted off stage.
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  8091. Read “The Iron Wall” by Vladimir Ze’ev Jabotisnky. He outright compares Zionism with the European colonization of the Americas. The zionists knew they were the colonists, and knew exactly how the natives would react. They just didn't, and still don't, care.
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  8092. There are actually over a million Americans who travel to developing or undeveloped countries for healthcare they can afford. Meanwhile, most of the Canadians getting healthcare in the US are our elderly Snowbirds, who didn't travel to the US specifically for healthcare.
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  8093. You can't both believe x is true and not believe x is true. You either believe, or you don't.
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  8094.  @olorin1710  Rofl. Dore represents the position of a tiny fringe "leftist" element, of under 400k voters, who voted Tulsi, and Green, in the last election. His followers are a majority right wingers, who just use him for other ways to attack Dems and progressives, or are non voters.
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  8095. ​ @The_S_Soldier  Why you lying in multiple threads? AOC and two fellow NY progressives back formal plea for ceasefire in Gaza Oct 16, 2023 18 House Democrats sign resolution for Mideast de-escalation, ceasefire Oct 23, 2023 — Cori Bush (D-Mo.). Bush's fellow “Squad” members Reps. Rashida Tlaib (D-Mich.), Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez (D-N.Y.) Democrats Like Rashida Tlaib, AOC Split With Biden Over Israel Ceasefire Calls Oct 31, 2023 AOC leads Democrats urging Biden to call for Gaza ceasefire over children's rights Nov 15, 2023 AOC calls Biden administration 'shameful' for blocking United Nations demand for a ... Dec 11, 2023 Aoc ceasefire | keeping it reel - NewsBreak Original Jan 17, 2024 Hour 1: AOC Calls for Ceasefire from Israel - The Marc Cox Morning Show Podcast Feb 8, 2024 AOC suggests cutting off aid to Israel after U.S. vetoes ceasefire resolution Feb 22, 2024 AOC and Other Democrats Urge Biden to Call for a Ceasefire at the State of the ... Mar 1, 2024
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  8096. This is one of the most uninformed comment sections I have ever seen. AOC and two fellow NY progressives back formal plea for ceasefire in Gaza Oct 16, 2023 18 House Democrats sign resolution for Mideast de-escalation, ceasefire Oct 23, 2023 — Cori Bush (D-Mo.). Bush's fellow “Squad” members Reps. Rashida Tlaib (D-Mich.), Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez (D-N.Y.) Democrats Like Rashida Tlaib, AOC Split With Biden Over Israel Ceasefire Calls Oct 31, 2023 AOC leads Democrats urging Biden to call for Gaza ceasefire over children's rights Nov 15, 2023 AOC calls Biden administration 'shameful' for blocking United Nations demand for a ... Dec 11, 2023 Aoc ceasefire | keeping it reel - NewsBreak Original Jan 17, 2024 Hour 1: AOC Calls for Ceasefire from Israel - The Marc Cox Morning Show Podcast Feb 8, 2024 AOC suggests cutting off aid to Israel after U.S. vetoes ceasefire resolution Feb 22, 2024 AOC and Other Democrats Urge Biden to Call for a Ceasefire at the State of the ... Mar 1, 2024
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  8097.  @kurtvanderberg7528  I'm not surprised that a dimwit couldn't address the definition provided by fascism's creator. Fascist governments didn't claim to love you, dumb dumb. They were pull yourself up by your bootstraps governments.
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  8098.  @kurtvanderberg7528  I can. To be frank, and honest, you are obviously not very bright. Hearing that, apparently, hurt your feelings, so much, that it rendered you unable to respond to anything else I said. "Dumb" has a definition, and all the evidence you provided indicates that's an objective conclusion. Not an "ad hominem", though. "You're X" =\= ad hominem. "You're X, therefore you're wrong" = ad hominem. Ironically, "You're a meanie, therefore you've got nothing", is an ad hominem.
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  8099.  @kurtvanderberg7528  "Dumbest take" is an attack on the "take" (idea), dumb dumb, and then you got your panties in a bunch. Smart people can have some dumb ideas/takes or do dumb things. Saying "that was dumb" is not equivalent to saying "you are dumb". But, then your response seemed to outright objectively prove you're not very bright, so I was frank and honest.
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  8100. Agnosticism, is basically a one word description for religious skepticism. I would no longer be a religious skeptic, having commited to a belief, but I may still be a skeptic. Do you think it is possible to both believe a proposition is true and doubt that proposition is true?
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  8101. @@Eet_Mia Oh, the ones that did the pogroms?
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  8102. @AvaAdore-wx5gg Yes. "During the night of June 29, 1931 and continuing into the early hours of the next morning, the entire Jewish settlement of Camp Campbell was destroyed by fire and 500 families made homeless, when Greek Christian refugees from Asia Minor unleashed a pogrom. Scores of Jews were injured in the attack and one Jew and one Christian were killed." "Jewish refugees leaving their homes for fear of another attack after the pogrom at Camp Campbell in Thessaloniki." (Which had become a major haven for Jews, under the Ottomans.)
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  8103. @AvaAdore-wx5gg And what was happening in Greece, and with the Eastern Orthodox church, was the spark of Eastern Orthodox pogroms against Jews in Russia, started by Greeks in Odessa. "In Odessa, Greeks and Jews were two rival ethnic and economic communities, living side by side. The first Odessa pogrom, in 1821, was linked to the outbreak of the Greek War for Independence, during which the Jews were accused of sympathizing with the Ottoman authorities and of aiding the Turks in killing the Greek Patriarch of Constantinople, Gregory V, dragging his dead body through the streets and finally throwing it into the Bosphorus."
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  8104. @AvaAdore-wx5gg Same with the 1859 Odessa pogrom. "This was in reality not a Russian but a Greek pogrom; for the leaders and almost all of the participants were Greek sailors from ships in the harbor, and local Greeks who joined them. The pogrom occurred on a Christian Easter; and the local press, in no wise unfriendly to the Jews, attempted to transform it into an accidental fight, the Greek colony at that time being dominant in the administration as well as in the commerce of Odessa."
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  8105. ​@AvaAdore-wx5gg 1871: "Although the pogrom of 1871 was occasioned in part by a rumor that Jews had vandalized the Greek community's church, many non-Greeks participated to it. Rvssian resentment and hostility toward Jews came to the fore in the pogrom of 1871 as Rvssians joined Greeks in attacks on Jews. Thereafter, Rvssians filled the ranks of pogromist mobs in 1881, 1900, and 1905."
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  8106. @AvaAdore-wx5gg I simply answered your question, that you pretended to research an answer to. If you didn't care, in the first place, then you shouldn't have replied to a question I asked someone else. You're incoherent.
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  8107. @AvaAdore-wx5gg Oh, you're both the same ignoramus? Lol, you outright said you were Eastern Orthodox, then asked me if Greeks did pogroms. Don't like the answer, then don't ask.
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  8108.  @Dominic_Williams_Videos  Iran was there, with permission, to fight ISIS and train Iraqis. They are Shiites who didn't want extremist Wahhabis as their new neighbors. They weren't invaders.
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  8109. ​ @spicymemes7458  Why? Libertarians are largely loons, and they tend to vote for their wallets over other liberties.
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  8110. ​ @Aeroneus1  Trump is down for 7 visits. Either the flight logs are evidence of guilt, or they aren't. Which is it? There's videos and lots of pics of Trump partying with Epstein, and quotes of him telling people Epstein is a great guy? There's just more evidence of Trump actually partying with the guy, and knowing he liked them young.
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  8111. You're right. "A-theists" live in a make believe world, where there is no counter claim.
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  8112. He's not ready, anyway. His plan is seriously flawed by the fact that he doesn't know how a VAT actually works.
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  8113. ​ @MG_Franklin_Kirby  Not what he's being charged with, dumb dumb.
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  8114.  @Poppy-zm2yh  You know this isn't Rvssia's first time in Ukrn (*cough* Hldmr gncd *cough*), right? And not the only country they've mucked about in, right?
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  8115.  @Poppy-zm2yh  Yes, convenient to start after WWII, in a comparison with Rvssia. Rofl! Do you think Rvssia became an Empire by making friends with all their neighbors, and getting them to join the Empire peacefully?
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  8116. Yeah, because your product has to appeal to the masses, not a niche. Musk doesn't appeal to the masses.
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  8117.  Shadow Skull  What the ... ? It's the US that wants prices higher, because North American oil costs more for US corporations to extract. Prices went up when the US invaded Iraq and was in control of the country, and had a toe in OPEC, not down. They don't give two shits about costs to the average American.
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  8118.  @apathyguy8338  How does belief in bullshit spread, if not by giving people spouting bullshit platforms to spread it? And, everyone who wants to give a speech on C-SPAN doesn't have a right to give a speech on C-SPAN. Not having him on doesn't violate anyone's freedom of speech.
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  8119.  P Smith  They're right, so that makes you the buffoon who should think more, and attack less.
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  8120. ​​ @iMatti00  Rofl. That one is factually the colonialist, and aggressor, doesn't tell you what I think the best solution is, dimwit. Nice strawman though.
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  8121. Worthless political stunt, just like her holding back impeachment and then submitting it without getting any guarantee of a fair trial. She's a regime change supporting neo-lib, who gave a standing ovation to an unelected fake "president" of Venezuela, and who'd likely rather see 4 more years of Trump than see a progressive win the Democrat nomination.
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  8122. ​​ @famalam943  Israel is the colonialist occupier, operating an open air WWII style fascist ghetto, dumb dumb. You're arguing up is down.
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  8123. A Canadian surge isn't quite the same thing as an American surge. Canada's covid deaths per million would translate into about 260k US deaths, instead of 850k. The US is far more out of control. The one who let it get so out of control is still far more to blame. Although better than last year, the US is still testing at about half the rate (tests per confirmed case) that Canada is. Canada, in turn, is testing at about a sixth the rate Australia is. Australia's covid deaths per million would translate into about 26k total US covid deaths, and 3300 Canadian covid deaths (instead of 30k). Australia has been controlling the virus fairly well. Canada is mediocre. The US is pathetic.
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  8124. ​ @michaelbishell7563  Most of their arguments are total nonsense. Drugs!: Over 90% of drugs are seized at points of entry. Over 80% of drug traffickers are Americans. Little to do with the undocumented crossers. Replacement!: The vast majority are descended from European Spaniards, Native Americans, or both, and almost all are Christians. Descendants of European colonizers can't really be "replaced" by other European colonizers, or natives. Space! Jobs!: The same people arguing there are plenty enough jobs and space, for hundreds of thousands of extra unwanted babies per year. Johnson even argued they're needed, to keep SS and Medicare afloat. The same argument would apply to immigrants. Cheap labor!: Florida decided it's no problem, for children to compete for full time jobs, at 85% of minimum wage. Crime!: They can spew some anecdotes, but undocumented immigrants commit crimes at half the rate of natural born citizens. The undocumented actually try harder to stay out of trouble, so they aren't deported.
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  8125. @Aaron Dickson So, no point.
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  8126.  @Aeroneus1  A fair number of cars and boats must be biologically female, since so many people call them she/her ... either that, or biological sex doesn't have to match gender terminology.
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  8127. Except the go to covid measures have worked great, in multiple countries. Australia's covid death rate would translate into about 26k total US covid deaths, instead of 800k. Having a bunch of morons not following guidelines, and not getting vaxxed, and then pretending like nothing has worked to slow down the spread and reduce deaths, is insanity.
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  8128.  @jashshah5049  Rofl. I've had 5 deleted, including already responding to your last reply. Someone doesn't like facts about India.
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  8129.  @jashshah5049  Take 2. Someone is clearly triggered, dimwit, by the fact that India was rated the most dangerous country for women, which would include being more dangerous than all Muslim countries. Previously, it was rated 4th worst, still making it worse than the vast majority of Muslim majority countries combined. India's gender inequality score is higher than most of the large population Muslim majority countries, plus a bunch more smaller Muslim majority countries than just Saudi. There's no evidence combing Muslim majority countries would make them worse than India for women.
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  8130.  @jashshah5049  Dimwit. Conservative religious types have been cancelling things and people for millennia. They're the biggest snowflakes on the planet. There's still an FCC protecting their delicate sensibilities from naughty words and nipples. Right wing nationalists promoted firing people for kneeling, because kneeling made them melt. Right wingers, corporate Dems included, have passed anti-bds laws. Giant corporations, run by centibillionaires, aren't even leftists, by a long shot. It's not even comparable how much more right wingers love censorship, and have used the law, military, and violence, to do it, over the years. They just tried to cancel the democratic process, ffs. Push for public ownership, if you want freedom of speech. Actual leftists have been promoting public ownership for a century, and the right have opposed it, instead backing giant corporations and billionaires. Rofl. Now you're talking complete nonsense. You moved from better than them combined, to better than any, based on one thing most Muslim majority countries don't even do? Ridiculous.
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  8131.  @jashshah5049  Rofl. You hypocrites didn't care when the actual government (president) fired, or threatened to fire, people that contradicted him. You don't care when the actual government makes it harder, or more dangerous, to protest. You don't really care about the actual government violating free speech rights. You don't care when Marge threatens to cancel cell phone businesses, if they comply with a lawful subpoena. You don't care about calls to fire athletes, and don't care when they're told to shut up and dribble. You don't care when right wing mouthpieces cut people's mics, or kick them off the air. You don't care about calls to cancel Nike, Disney, Captain Marvel, or whoever right wingers are upset with that day. Plenty of lefties have been banned, or suspended from social media. Again, those running social media aren't lefties. The FB PAC has donated more to Republicans than Democrats. The FB algorithm was found to be promoting right wingers, like Shapiro. They just don't like extremist nutbars promoting a civil war, or promoting mass death. Corporations want society running smoothly, and don't want their consumer base dying off in large numbers. They want to keep making large quantities of money. Treat it like a public utility? Don't right wingers want to privatize "public utilities", like in Texas? You hypocrites are all for privatization, and free markets, until it bites you in the ass.
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  8132. What a load of nonsense. Religion isn't tied to DNA, dimwit. Both Palestinians and Jews have Canaanite DNA. The difference between the two is that one never left, and simply converted along the way, and the other took off for 1700 years. Whatever the religion of the natives who never left (which included Palestinian Christians and Palestinian Jews), they shouldn't have to make way for colonizers "returning" from Europe and Russia. I don't get to round up 6 million people from the Americas, whose ancestors left England hundreds of years ago, "go back", claim half of England, and force the current inhabitants off of "our" half. If I did, that would also be colonialism.
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  8133. ​ @moscowboyjer  Gobbledygook horse shit. "Returning", after 1700 years, is still colonialism.
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  8134. ​ @moscowboyjer  Israel is objectively the aggressor, by every relevant measure ... Modern history: 100 years ago, in 1923, Ze'ev Jabotinsky fully acknowledged that Zionism is colonialism, and that, based on the entirety of history, the natives would fight it until the bitter end. He just didn't care what would happen to them, and promoted doing it anyway. Colonizers are never not the aggressors. On top of the colonialist nature of Zionism, the Zionists also formed terrorist organizations, like the Irgun and Lehi. They bombed many Palestinian markets and other public places, murdering many civilians, including children, even including Palestinian Jews (who opposed Zionism). Israel merged those terrorists into the new nation's military and intelligence agencies. Israelis elected Menachem Begin, leader of the Irgun, child murderer, Jew murderer, and bomber of the King David Hotel, as PM. Israelis, to this day, celebrate those terrorists as "heroes". Zionists literally taught their neighbours that terrorism is a valid path to independence and statehood, and that terrorists are to be celebrated. In 1945, it is well documented that Zionists owned just 5% of the land and were a majority nowhere. Israel was formed by actually going against the majority population. It's foundation is completely undemocratic. Then, becoming a majority, in "their" new nation, by ethnic cleansing the actual majority, and then claiming to be democratic, is utter nonsense. Law: Israel is considered an occupier by the International Court, the UN GA, and the UN SC. Occupiers are also never not the aggressors. Those occupied actually have a right to resist occupation. On the flip side, it is illegal for the occupier to settle occupied lands, and illegal to use collective punishment. Israel is a rogue nation, that doesn't abide by international law. What it has been doing, and is doing now, is illegal. Current events: This year, alone, prior to Oct 7 ... Israel held over 1200 Palestinian hostages without charges ... over 200 Palestinians had been killed by the IDF and settlers ... over 1000 Palestinians had been displaced by Israel's neverending colonization of the West Bank ... and, Israel continued to operate an open air WWII style fascist ghetto, in Gaza. Even ignoring modern history and law, in no reality did Hamas "start" anything.
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  8135.  @moscowboyjer  Hundreds of thousands of Jews lived in Muslim nations for 1300 years. They showed no desperate desire to move to Palestine. When the original form of Zionsim, which was closer to immigration, was proposed to the Ottomans, they accepted. Jews living in other parts of the Ottoman Empire, or other Muslim nations, still didn't rush to Palestine. "Home" and "nation state" are two different things. This is all about the conversion of Zionism to colonialism, with the Balfour declaration. Even Palestinian Jews opposed colonial Zionism, and were targeted by Zionist terrorists, Irgun and Lehi, alongside their Palestinian brothers and sisters.
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  8136. Just to clarify, even Germany didn't mass test, beyond those showing symptoms, fast enough. S Korea did and got ahead of the virus. Iceland, Norway, New Zealand, and Australia also appear to be flattening their curves, quickly, with mass testing fast enough.
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  8137. It's nonsense, that gullible people believe is them speaking from a higher power.
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  8138.  @apathy7899  Can you name someone who openly organized a riot, rather than a protest? These "truckers" are outright organizing to put people out of work, and cause shortages that will possibly cause price increases.
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  8139.  @apathy7899  Same thing happened in the 60s .. even worse, actually, with hundreds dead. Were any riots that broke out the fault of those who organized protests? The point being, which seems to be flying over your head, is that these "truckers" are organizing to put people out of work, and cause shortages which could cause price increases. They are themselves organizing an economic attack on workers and the poor.
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  8140.  @apathy7899  Rioters. Who organized a riot? We know who is organizing putting people out of work and possibly causing more price increases.
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  8141.  @apathy7899  No deflect. Point me out someone who organized a riot, dimwit ... said come on out and wreck some places.
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  8142. You're talking gibberish and making no sense.
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  8143. The FBI has been under the direction of Republican presidents for 6 terms, vs 4 Democrat, prior to Biden. Weird that they created a communist FBI department.
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  8144. Republicans have helped get Green on ballots before, as well. Elections come down to basic math. Shave off a few percentage points from your opponent, and you win.
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  8145. ​ @misterknee  That's like saying the Nazis were "at war" with the Jewish underground, in the Warsaw ghetto.
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  8146. Pretty sure they installed a bunch of those dictator monarchies, in the ME, as well. Had a problem with the democratically elected PM of Iran, back in the 50s, too.
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  8147. Then there's no problem. Joe will do exactly the same, when they don't vote for him.
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  8148.  @timothysullivan84  The video is about whether Bernie supporters should vote Biden, or not. If they don't vote anyway, then there's no difference.
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  8149. People need to stop using this year's exit polls. They'll be as skewed as election day voting vs mail in voting was skewed, and show Trump with higher percentages of demographics than he actually got, because more Trump voters voted in person. Years of Pew surveys show the Republicans making zero headway with black and Hispanic Americans.
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  8150. Israel is objectively the aggressor by every relevant measure (modern history, law, and current events) ... Modern history: With the Balfour declaration, Zionsim converted from something like immigration to colonization. 100 years ago, in 1923, Ze'ev Jabotinsky fully acknowledged that Zionism is colonialism, and that, based on the entirety of history, the native Palestinians would fight it until the bitter end. He just didn't care what would happen to them, and promoted doing it anyway. Colonizers are never not the aggressors, when it comes to the native population. On top of the colonialist nature of Zionism, the Zionists also formed terrorist organizations, like the Irgun and Lehi. They bombed many Palestinian markets and other public places, murdering many civilians, including children, even including Palestinian Jews (who opposed colonialist Zionism). Israel merged those terrorists into the new nation's military and intelligence agencies. Israelis elected Menachem Begin, leader of the Irgun, child murderer, Jew murderer, and bomber of the King David Hotel, as PM. Israelis, to this day, celebrate those Irgun terrorists as "heroes". Zionists literally taught their neighbours that terrorism is a valid path to independence and statehood, and that terrorists are to be celebrated. In 1945, it is well documented that Zionists owned just 5% of the land and were a majority in zero districts. Israel was formed by going against the will of the majority population. Its foundation is completely undemocratic. Even then, Jews were still a minority, in "their" half. The only possible way to actually become a Jewish ethno-state, would be to ethnically cleanse away the actual majority. And, that's exactly what happened. Israel has never allowed those people to return. Law: Israel is considered an occupier by the International Court, the UN GA, and the UN SC. Occupiers are also never not the aggressors. Those occupied actually have a right to resist occupation. On the flip side, it is illegal for the occupier to settle occupied lands, and illegal to use collective punishment. Israel is a rogue nation, that doesn't abide by international law. What it has been doing, and is doing now, is illegal. Current events: This year, alone, prior to Oct 7 ... Israel held over 1200 Palestinian hostages without charges ... over 200 Palestinians had been killed by the IDF and settlers ... over 1000 Palestinians had been displaced by Israel's neverending colonization of the West Bank ... and, Israel continued to operate an open air WWII style fascist ghetto. Even ignoring modern history and law, in no reality did Hamas "start" anything.
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  8151. Because those states tend to have higher firearm mortality rates. Texas is sad it's not in the top 25, coming in at 26. https://www.cdc.gov/nchs/pressroom/sosmap/firearm_mortality/firearm.htm
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  8152.  @RashidNextLevel  Oh please. You might as well say you had the "vision, courage, intelligence, and humanity" to write in Mr Rogers.
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  8153.  @justinb2630  Polling at 1-2% doesn't equate to a 1-2% chance of winning, dmwt. That's a zero percent chance of winning.
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  8154.  @justinb2630  Polling at 1-2% doesn't equate to a 1-2% chance of winning, dingus. That's a 0% chance of winning. You have to poll in the range of your opponent(s), to have a shot at beating them.
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  8155.  @justinb2630  You're about as sharp as a spoon, thinking polling points equates to odds of winning. I'd suggest you no longer attempt to lecture people on critical thinking.
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  8156. He, Tulsi, and Greenwald got paid to join Rumble, which is funded by MAGA donor Peter Thiel.
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  8157. Bullshit. It wasn't an answer, at all. So, yes, he wants to give felons the right to vote? Or no?
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  8158. Reading comprehension is your friend.
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  8159. Only the government can violate "freedom of speech", MAGA morons.
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  8160.  @Jraymiami  The problem is that half of the masses have been led to believe that the rich are looking out for them, not that they don't care. So, when some of the masses occupy Wall Street, or some such, the other half of the masses will outright work against them. They care, but in the wrong direction, and work against their own best interests.
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  8161. Knowing, knowledge, requires truth and justification. Anything less, is just believing you know...not the same thing. The stages of knowledge: No knowledge, no belief = Agnostic Belief = The-ist or Athe-ist Knowledge (justified true belief) = Gnostic
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  8162.  @davidhoran7116  Where do you think he was going to gain 300+ more delegates than Biden?
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  8163. A VAT won't do that for you. Businesses get to reclaim their input VAT. Consumers don't. A VAT would end up having you paying a tax on your own data.
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  8164. ​ @mikeg2306  Do tell. Did they travel to Russia and Germany, to colonize, occupy, and ethnically cleanse, the Zionists?
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  8165. ​ @mikeg2306  When did they travel to Russia and Germany, to colonize other people?
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  8166.  1776  Which would be shown in the state tax returns he's fighting tooth and nail not to show, in court?
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  8167.  David Martin  That wasn't a state return, dumb dumb ... you know, the topic of the conversation you injected yourself into. Also, showing one year of taxes is kind of pointless, when the same person gets tens of millions in refunds a different year.
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  8168.  @jhallin5185  Nordic countries have some of the more evenly mixed economies. What is it you think mixed economies are a mix of, if not capitalism (privately owned and operated) and socialism (publicly owned and operated)? Sure, they aren't 100% socialist, but to pretend they're not, at all, socialist, is nonsensical. If those are your ideas of "true" socialism, then what is Marxism? The Marxist ideal is a non authoritarian, stateless, version of what, if not socialism? Saying those are "true" socialism is like saying fascism is "true" capitalism.
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  8169. What about Switzerland? They have an estimated 27.6 guns per 100, less than Canada, while the US has 120.5.
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  8170. Are you using a correlation reporting website and thinking it's a causation reporting website, like most of the other idiots spouting what you're spouting?
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  8171. Do you believe everything in a thousands of years old book? Since there's no actual evidence of widespread voter fraud, yes, she's agreeing her cult leader is undermining democracy.
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  8172.  @imatter4619  The question was about your profile name, not Trump support. She agreed with the guy who said that, if there's no evidence of widespread voter fraud, then that is also hurting democracy. There is no evidence of widespread voter fraud.
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  8173.  @imatter4619  Just thought it might have to do with zombies who believe everything they read, in a certain ancient book.
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  8174. Probably because Trump is on audio, from a Stern prank, congratulating Menendez on his acquittal on corruption charges. Have to make like Menendez is being targeted.
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  8175. ​ @matthewgoedtel5998  Pakman is acting like an "enlightened centrist", not much different than Piers Morgan, when there are objective facts that Israel is the aggressor. Being in the middle, not recognizing reality, is somewhat as delusional as being opposed to reality. Israel is objectively the aggressor by every relevant measure ... Modern history: 100 years ago, in 1923, Ze'ev Jabotinsky fully acknowledged that Zionism is colonialism, and that, based on the entirety of history, the natives would fight it until the bitter end. He just didn't care what would happen to them, and promoted doing it anyway. Colonizers are never not the aggressors. On top of the colonialist nature of Zionism, the Zionists also formed terrorist organizations, like the Irgun and Lehi. They bombed many Palestinian markets and other public places, murdering many civilians, including children, even including Palestinian Jews (who opposed Zionism). Israel merged those terrorists into the new nation's military and intelligence agencies. Israelis elected Menachem Begin, leader of the Irgun, child murderer, Jew murderer, and bomber of the King David Hotel, as PM. Israelis, to this day, celebrate those terrorists as "heroes". Zionists literally taught their neighbours that terrorism is a valid path to independence and statehood, and that terrorists are to be celebrated. In 1945, it is well documented that Zionists owned just 5% of the land and were a majority nowhere. Israel was formed by actually going against the majority population. It's foundation is completely undemocratic. Then, becoming a majority, in "their" new nation, by ethnic cleansing the actual majority, and then claiming to be democratic, is utter nonsense. Law: Israel is considered an occupier by the International Court, the UN GA, and the UN SC. Occupiers are also never not the aggressors. Those occupied actually have a right to resist occupation. On the flip side, it is illegal for the occupier to settle occupied lands, and illegal to use collective punishment. Israel is a rogue nation, that doesn't abide by international law. What it has been doing, and is doing now, is illegal. Current events: This year, alone, prior to Oct 7 ... Israel held over 1200 Palestinian hostages without charges ... over 200 Palestinians had been killed by the IDF and settlers ... over 1000 Palestinians had been displaced by Israel's neverending colonization of the West Bank ... and, Israel continued to operate an open air WWII style fascist ghetto, in Gaza. Even ignoring modern history and law, in no reality did Hamas "start" anything.
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  8176.  @kyledehaven394  They use it because it generates revenue by taxing consumers. Same reason countries, states, use a sales tax. It does not tax businesses. Those countries use other methods to make businesses pay in, not the VAT. Yang is clueless or lying. Since a VAT won't actually tax Amazon, and since their share of US consumer spending is 2%, handing consumers $3t will make Amazon an extra $60b a year, while still paying jack shit in taxes.
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  8177.  @kyledehaven394  No. The Baker paid 2 cents in VAT and kept it, only sending 4 of the 6 he collected from the supermarket. He was fully paid back. It was the supermarket that paid 6 cents. They sent in 4 of the 10. They were fully paid back. The government got 2 + 4 + 4 = 10, and you paid ... ? 10. Everyone else was fully paid back. So, who paid the VAT?
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  8178.  @kyledehaven394  If you click on Amazon's "How VAT works in Europe" it also explains how businesses get their input VAT credited back even if they collect less output VAT, meaning consumers paying the VAT to a profitable business are also paying back an unprofitable businesses' VAT payments.
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  8179.  @kyledehaven394  What are you talking about? Everyone got paid back their full amount, except you. The baker's company ends up paying nothing in taxes. You ended up being the one who paid the entire 10 the government collected. It didn't end up taxing the businesses, at all, which means Yang is spouting pure bullshit when he claims a VAT will force corporations like Amazon to pay taxes. Amazon will still end up paying zero taxes, but will make tens of billions from extra consumer spending.
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  8180.  @kyledehaven394  You also literally proved you can't add and subtract single digits.
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  8181.  @kyledehaven394  No problem. Good luck with the rest of your elementary school classes. Hope they go better.
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  8182.  @upbreaker7055  It's scarcity is invented, just like with money, with less control over scarcity. Everyone and anyone seems to be able to start up a new cryptocurrency.
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  8183. @Mr Veep The law doesn't set precedents, which can be used in later cases?
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  8184. @Mr Veep And? What does it say about one citizen trying to catch and detain another, that they believe commited a crime?
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  8185.  @thedj3319  Explain the part I "butchered" ... "My readers have a general idea of the history of colonisation in other countries. I suggest that they consider all the precedents with which they are acquainted, and see whether there is one solitary instance of any colonisation being carried on with the consent of the native population. There is no such precedent." Literally called it colonization, dumb dumb.
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  8186.  @thedj3319  "Jewish colonist" "To imagine, as our Arabophiles do, that they will voluntarily consent to the realisation of Zionism, in return for the moral and material conveniences which the Jewish colonist brings with him, is a childish notion, which has at bottom a kind of contempt for the Arab people; it means that they despise the Arab race, which they regard as a corrupt mob that can be bought and sold, and are willing to give up their fatherland for a good railway system."
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  8187. Are you the descendant of a slave owner, that wants Larry to give you reparations for your family's lost slaves?
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  8188. Inviting a former Russian officer wouldn't have been any better. They loaded Tartars into box cars, and ethnically cleansed them from Crimea. The Holdomor killed millions of Ukrainians. They colonized the areas they depopulated with Russians.
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  8189. ​ @martinmata7942  What is a man?
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  8190.  @michaelsamra3171  Dump ended zero w@®§, increased mltry spending, and dropped more 🧨 per year than Obama. 2020: 8.1% unemployment, -2.77% GDP, -3.13t dollar deficit, ... If that's a good economy, the Biden is crushing those numbers. His must be excellent.
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  8191.  @michaelsamra3171  Dump ended zero w@®§, and dropped more 🧨 per year than Obama. 2020: 8.1% unemployment, -2.77% GDP, -3.13t dollar deficit, ... If that's a good economy, then Biden's is awesome.
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  8192.  @michaelsamra3171  Trump ended zero Ws, and dropped more 🧨 per year than Obama. 2020: 8.1% unemployment, -2.77% GDP, -3.13t dollar deficit, ... If that's a good economy, then Biden's is awesome.
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  8193.  @michaelsamra3171  Trump ended zero ©0πfli©t§, and dropped more b0mb§ per year than Obama. 2020: 8.1% unemp, -2.77% GDP, $-3.13t deficit, ... If that's a good economy, then Biden's is awesome.
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  8194.  @michaelsamra3171  Trump ended zero Ws and dropped more 🎇 per year than Obama. 2020: 8.1% unemp, -2.77% GDP, $-3.13t deficit, ... If that's a good economy, then Biden's is awesome.
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  8195.  @michaelsamra3171  2020: 8.1% unemp, -2.77% GDP, $-3.13t deficit, ... If that's a good economy, then Biden's is awesome.
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  8196.  @michaelsamra3171  Plus, Dump ended zero w ... a ... r ... s ... and dropped more b ... o ... m ... b ... s ... per year than Obama. 2022 was the first year, since 2001, with zero HA losses.
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  8197.  @michaelsamra3171  Plus ... He €πd€d z€r0 Ws and d®0pp€d more 🧨per year than Obama.
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  8198.  @jwild5360  Biden created a bird flu?
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  8199. Rofl. TYT supported Bernie and M4A. Dore supported Tulsi and her public option. TYT supported Nina, who would have added another M4A yes vote to congress. Dore abandoned Nina, abandoned adding another M4A yes vote to congress. TYT supports progressives who have done more for M4A in a few years than Dore has in his entire lifetime. Dore slanders them. Dore slandered Kyle. Kyle recently did a vid on people whining about Biden's pullout, instead of praising the end of a war, calling them little bitches, which would include Dore. Rubin is a right wing grifter, ffs. Apt that you group him with Dore. Greenwald has lost his mind. Editors have been asking for editorial rewrites since the dawn of publishing. It doesn't violate free speech rights. He, seemingly, has no clue what "free speech" actually is. It also has nothing to do with social media, which is private property.
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  8200.  @strikerorwell9232  The US was already bombing Somalia, dumb dumb. What does Somalia have to do with pharma?
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  8201.  @strikerorwell9232  Soooo, nothing much to do with Biden, specifically ... or TYT ... you're just going off about random things now?
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  8202.  Peak Weimar  Did I call them "progressive", dumb dumb?
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  8203.  Peak Weimar  Don't publicize your sexual fantasies, like that. It's creepy.
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  8204.  @FoxExcess  Saying they wanted to be seperate from the British is like saying Confederates wanted to be seperate from the Union. It has nothing to do with the cause of the whole situation. The cause was a tax to pay for the red coats stationed there, who kept the peace and defended the colony during the French-Indian war. Colonialist leaders actually went out of their way, trying not to separate, and to resolve their grievances through the British government. Pretending like there isn't a problem with US cops, and like everyone they harm deserves it, is simply moronic. Even with the internet, you somehow haven't seen cops caught on a security cam beating the shit out of someone who wasn't resisting, which they claimed was? You haven't seen a video of cops shooting a kid with a toy gun before the car even completely comes to a stop? You haven't seen a video of a cop caught on someone's cell phone shooting a guy in the back and then planting a gun? Etc. Etc. Etc. Do you somehow think that every bad cop has magically been caught on camera, and that there aren't a bunch more of them that haven't been? Christ, the colonialist protesters were violently throwing rocks at red coats when the red coats shot and killed only 5 of them, and they considered that a "massacre", and the red coats in the wrong, blaming all of them, and the government, for the actions of a few. You don't seem to give a crap if cops line up like a firing squad and blast a kid full of holes, just for holding a knife. Face it. You're the authoritarian, on the side of King Dumpty. Are you also ones of those idiots whose ready to do away with the democratic process?
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  8205.  @michaelhernandez5384  There would be more iPhone sales, if they sold them for $600. Doesn't directly equate to bringing in more money.
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  8206. This is one of the most uninformed comment sections I have ever seen. AOC and two fellow NY progressives back formal plea for ceasefire in Gaza Oct 16, 2023 18 House Democrats sign resolution for Mideast de-escalation, ceasefire Oct 23, 2023 — Cori Bush (D-Mo.). Bush's fellow “Squad” members Reps. Rashida Tlaib (D-Mich.), Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez (D-N.Y.) Democrats Like Rashida Tlaib, AOC Split With Biden Over Israel Ceasefire Calls Oct 31, 2023 AOC leads Democrats urging Biden to call for Gaza ceasefire over children's rights Nov 15, 2023 AOC calls Biden administration 'shameful' for blocking United Nations demand for a ... Dec 11, 2023 Aoc ceasefire | keeping it reel - NewsBreak Original Jan 17, 2024 Hour 1: AOC Calls for Ceasefire from Israel - The Marc Cox Morning Show Podcast Feb 8, 2024 AOC suggests cutting off aid to Israel after U.S. vetoes ceasefire resolution Feb 22, 2024 AOC and Other Democrats Urge Biden to Call for a Ceasefire at the State of the ... Mar 1, 2024
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  8207.  @Bishop_PastorRW  So, a restaurant, let's say, has to let an apocalypse preacher stand inside their property, scream nonsense, and annoy their customers, or else they don't believe in free speech?
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  8208.  @Bishop_PastorRW  That's moronic.
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  8209.  @Bishop_PastorRW  Yeah, I'm sure you'd be consistent, if someone came into church and interrupted a sermon with a bullhorn, or was saying things you didn't like in your own home.
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  8210. ​ @jfm14  Well, Palestinians have Canaanite DNA. They're Arab and Muslim the same way indigenous peoples of Central America are now Hispanic and Catholic. They were the previous Christian majority. They were the Jewish majority, before that. Zionists are slaughtering the ancient Jews, that never left. They are anti-Semites, whatever definition you use.
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  8211. This poll says Bernie is in the lead in NH. https://www.bostonherald.com/2019/09/11/bernie-sanders-jumps-to-lead-in-nh-franklin-pierce-herald-poll-shows/
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  8212.  @railroadtrash09  You know the US has basically already had 2 civil wars, with neighbors trying to kill neighbors, right? Not to mention numerous labor and race conflicts, where the military was called in, and yes, even bombed other citizens.
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  8213.  @otthau  I'm a Canadian. We have a VAT and universal healthcare paid with taxes. Totally irrelevant to what "public option" means. It means you can opt out, including opting out of paying into it. Saying to pay for it with taxes isn't a "public option", if you don't give them the "option".
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  8214.  @otthau  Yang is bullshitting about the VAT, as well. Either that or he's clueless that businesses get paid back for any input VAT.
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  8215.  @otthau  And, Yang hasn't proposed doing a VAT differently than other countries, where governments pay businesses back claiming to avoid double taxation.
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  8216. I guess his marks (and dogs) don't grasp that simply not acting on urges doesn't mean you have no urges. He's still gay, and still a grifter.
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  8217.  Derek Hitt  A private individual, or company, can't violate your rights, so what are you talking about?
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  8218.  Derek Hitt  You said you didn't want no government or laws, just enough to protect rights. Private individuals and companies can't violate your rights, so what are you talking about? That's effectively no laws that corporations have to follow.
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  8219.  Derek Hitt  Construction/production health and safety laws, worker health and safety laws, environmental laws, standard criminal laws ... none of which are covered by just constitutional rights, which protect you from government overreach, not private entities.
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  8220.  Derek Hitt  He's giving you the benefit of the doubt, that you're not simply a complete moron. I'll accept that later.
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  8221.  Derek Hitt  You seem to have reading comprehension problems.
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  8222.  Derek Hitt  Nope. You clearly do have reading comprehension problems.
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  8223.  Derek Hitt  Why would someone pay you to promote nonsense that benefits giant corporations? You're asking why troll farms exist, and who they benefit.
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  8224. It doesn't even matter. Reagan deregulated domestic oil back in 1981. It's no cheaper. It sells at the global market price. The global market price dropped in 2015, before Dumpty, and then during COVID. It has zero to do with "energy independence".
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  8225. Wasn't his whole 2016 campaign about how terrible the government was, draining the swamp, promising big changes, etc.? Now that's un-American? That would mean only he, and his supporters, are American.
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  8226.  @edwardcohen1184  Nazis trap people in large ghettos. Just sayin.
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  8227.  The Ghey Mantis  Rofl. Acting straight isn't being straight. Covering up what you are would be going in the closet, no coming out.
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  8228. And, if you want to see twisting, in action, read George H Smith's, ATHEISM: The Case Against God. You can see him give the common and popular definitions of Atheism, then push his A-theism definition. You can also see him quote Huxley, and then give a totally contradictiory definition for Agnosticism.
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  8229. Unfortunately, Republican voters don't prioritize those things they might be in favor of higher than wanting to ban abortions, wanting to discriminate against LGBT, wanting to keep out foreigners, etc.
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  8230. Total tests, or tests per million, are totally irrelevant numbers that are completely disconnected from the number of confirmed cases. For trace testing rates, you want tests per confirmed case. Countries like S Korea, New Zealand, and Australia, that flattened their curves quickly, tested 50+ people per confirmed case. Countries like Germany, or Canada, that took a few months to flatten their curves, have been testing in the 15-20 people per confirmed case range. The US was testing at around 5 people per confirmed case, for months. They've had a pathetic rate of testing.
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  8231. Having a blonde James Bond should have already ruined the franchise.
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  8232.  @semi-consciousamerican-joe2481  You're the one that doesn't seem to grasp that nothing has intrinsic value. Making up that a shiny stone has value is no different than making up that a piece of paper with artwork and numbers on it has value. In some governmentless ancap society, me, and others in my community, might have to pool 20% of our shiny stones together and pay someone to build a road. With the government, they take 20% of my artwork paper, and those of others in my community, and pay someone to build a road. Either way, I have 20% less of the thing that has been assigned value, which is different from that thing itself having less value.
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  8233.  @thepcenthusiastchannel2300  The Republican party upped the number from 8 to 9, in 1869, where it has remained, since. Of course, the current Republican party isn't much like that old one.
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  8234. Rofl. For example?
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  8235.  @1911GreaterThanALL  That's a lie, you dishonest twat. The infant mortality rate is higher in the US than other developed countries.
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  8236.  @TheBighatter  Actually, it's not "most" that have government funding of some kind. It's all. https://www.google.com/amp/s/www.cbc.ca/amp/1.4547640
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  8237.  @kishkin8743  RNA vaccines aren't like previous vaccines, so you're comparing two different things. That's also the reason these were created faster. Trump didn't do much of anything to speed things up, aside from funding the process. RNA cancer therapy has been used for years now. It's only new, when it comes to vaccines.
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  8238. ​ @karmasutra4774  Domestic oil has sold at the global market price, since Reagan deregulated domestic oil, way back in 1981. Domestic hasn't been cheaper than foreign, ever since. Trump just happened to be president after the global market price dropped in 2015, and then dipped a little more during 2020 COVID. He did absolutely nothing, to lower oil prices.
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  8239.  @chadleach6009  To get everyone vaccinated, so the virus doesn't have any serious effect on anyone. Until then people, even vaccinated ones, should be distancing and masking.
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  8240.  @MisterNarrador  A death trap also isn't a force field. If it was like a force field, it wouldn't even get in your body, where you can still be a carrier for a briefer amount of time. Are we using the same definition of "force field"? Say Star Trek, where there's a difference between shields that don't allow others to transport in, vs, having your crew all armed and killing them once they get in?
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  8241. Right wingers don't even get the irony, when they mention a guy who went to Spain to join anarchists against fascists.
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  8242. ​ @Shukaikim  I researched and found that ❌ ings actually spiked in 2019. More that year than any year under Obama. They only plummeted in the first half of 2020 due to COVID, and then started spiking again, before 2021. Averaged out, Trump had more ❌ ings per year than Obama. Add to that that over 90% of drgs come through points of entry, and over 80% of traffickers are Americans, Trump did jack all for brdr security.
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  8243.  @jimohara  Stepping further into lunacy isn't a sidestep, or a dodge, and does expose how nutbars will twist everything into "evidence" that supports their insanity. If Trump losing, is God bringing despair, that will lead to hope and miracles and Trump's eventual win, uniting everyone under God, why didn't God simply do that in 2016? Ask him that and he'd likely spew further lunacy.
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  8244. ​ @silenthill4  The Northerners of both parties passed Civil Rights, dingus (Dem bills, promoted and signed by a Dem president). And the Southerners of both parties opposed Civil Rights. Fed up with the Northerners of both parties, the Southern rcst majority backed a third party resegregationist, in 1968, winning 5 Southern states. Nixon then won that Southern rcst majority over to the Republican party, in 1972. If you think the most rcst colonies/states, for centuries, up and magically became the least rcst states, you're about as sharp as a spoon. They simply started backing a different party. The party switch was real. It's well documented. CW Union states are now blue. Confederate and Jm Crw states are now red.
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  8245.  @kittylvoe456  Lol, why can't you answer a simple question, dumb dumb?
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  8246.  @justinshin2279  What kind of dimwitted take is that? AOC got a ton of donations, and won her election, all while not playing ball. She backed 20 other progressives with her platform and PAC. Some of those who voted against her for that committee seat publicly stated they voted against her because she backed primary candidates against them. She's fighting them and they stab her in the front, then you Dore knobs come along and stab her in the back for supposedly not fighting them. You're a pack of morons.
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  8247.  @andyc.9751  You Dore knobs don't grasp basic math, so don't actually grasp leverage. There are zero extra votes to be gained to the left of the party. Therefore, it is absolutely, 100%, impossible to pass a bill, if you lose Manchin's vote. On the other end, there is the entire Republican party to try and gain extra votes from, if you lose squad votes. By moving a bill to the right, and picking up enough Republican votes, squad votes aren't needed. You're either a liar, or a dimwit. AOC was just campaigning for Nina, trying to add another M4A yes vote to congress, because getting enough yes votes is the only possible way to ever pass the bill. Dore, on the other hand, abandoned Nina, abandoned adding another M4A yes vote to congress. So, which is it, liar or dimwit?
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  8248. ​ @frankie4827  Hey MAGA moron, "Trump's" big stock market gains occurred during his first year, while Obama's last budget was still in effect. The stock market basically flatlined, at the start of 2018, when Trump's first budget, and his tax breaks for corporations and the rich, kicked in. Even with all the stock buybacks, falsely inflating stock values, that corporations spent their tax breaks on, the stock market barely held its head above water. There has been no major change in border policy, and no open borders. Your type keeps whining about drugs, when it has been well documented, for decades, that drugs mainly come across at legit border crossings. Drug dealers don't want their drugs washed down the river, or stuck in holding, dumb dumb. Plus, Trump had more border crossings, averaged out per year, than Obama. He wasn't better at it than the guy before him. Gas prices started jumping under Bush. People don't seem to know that US oil companies have long complained that OPEC kept oil prices too low. Oil costs more to produce, in North America, so there's less of a profit margin. As soon as the US got a foot in OPEC, by invading Iraq, prices started jumping, handing US oil companies the larger profit margins they wanted, from NA oil. Prices spiked to $4.40 (adjusted to 2023 dollars). By the end of Obama's presidency, prices had dropped to $2.59 (2023 dollars). The price went back up to around $3 (2023), under Trump, and only dropped in 2020 (globally) due to COVID, not due to anything Dumpty did. There is global inflation, due to rebounding from COVID, not due to anything Biden did. The US is actually doing better than many other countries.
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  8249.  @frankie4827  So you're a complete and utter moron, is what you just said.
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  8250.  @frankie4827  No MAGA moron likes facts.
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  8251.  @JohnJ469  Nonsense. All the fascists were backed by leading industrialists, large landowners, and even nobility, exactly because they opposed all forms of socialism. Their backers had previously backed other far right parties. They sometimes allied with other far right parties. They were the complete opposite, dumb dumb.
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  8252.  @JohnJ469  Mussolini literally denied the class struggle, at the heart of any kind of socialism, expecting people to just accept their lot in life, and work hard for the betterment of the nation. "Ask not what your country can do for you - ask what you can do for your country." ~ JFK If your country isn't going to redistribute wealth, isn't going to give ownership to the workers, isn't going to provide a crap ton of socialized service, etc., it is far from being socialist. Quite the opposite. Simply doing things in a group isn't "socialism".
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  8253.  @frankie4827  You realize, at the time, whoever came in second was VP, right? Lincoln and Johnson didn't run together.
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  8254.  @JohnJ469  You are a complete and utter moron. There are 2 axes, economic and authoritarian, so the terms I used were just fine. To make out like a 100% privately owned and operated absolute monarchy (100% totalitarian capitalism) is samesies to a society with all worker owned industries and a direct democracy (100% anarcho-socialism), simply because the latter is a kind of "socialism" is absolutely nonsensical. You'd have to be dumber than a stump, to believe that. One person owning everything is the complete opposite of everything being publicly owned. One person being the ultimate authority is the complete opposite of authority being in the hands of everyone. Both Italy's and Germany's pre-war (all nations' war economies are more controlled) economies favoured privatization. They were leaders in it, at the time. Again, people just doing stuff together, as a group, isn't f*cking socialism. People could be trying to defeat socialism, as a group, and that's exactly what fascists tried to do. Nazis were literally arresting people for "illegal socialist activity", not "illegal international activity". Hitler literally killed off the left leaning members of his party on the Night of the Long Knives. He made a secret pamphlet, for his industrialist backers, telling them there would be no serious attempt to redistribute wealth. He handed his crony backers slave labour. He handed his crony backers Jewish businesses and property. He handed his crony backers seized businesses and property, after conquests. They got rich off of him. That's why they also stood trial, after the war, because they weren't doing it at gunpoint. To think that the monarch of Spain (who had enough military available to squash the fascists, but instead decided to back them, exactly because they had been fighting socialism), and other nobility, representing the epitome of private ownership, were socialists, is truly f*cking bizarre. Plenty of governments got bossy during wartime, dictating what needed to be produced, dictating what couldn't be hoarded, dictating lights out, etc., etc., etc. ... that doesn't equate to socialism either. Every country in WWII didn't suddenly become magically "socialist", just more authoritarian.
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  8255.  @JohnJ469  Marx's ideal was a stateless, non-authoritarian, direct democracy, form of socialism. The complete opposite is an ultra-nationalistic, authoritarian, anti-democratic, form of crony capitalism. That describes the Republican party, to a T.
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  8256. ​ @javiervega1065 Lol, that's bullshit.
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  8257.  @gbat2479  Yang also supports a VAT over closing tax loopholes for giant corporations and the super rich. A VAT doesn't actually tax corporations like Amazon. Mix that with handing people trillions of dollars to go shopping, and Amazon is going to come out tens of billions ahead, and Bezos will come out billions ahead.
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  8258.  @Newton-Reuther  "AOC leads two dozen Democrats calling for Israel cease-fire over 'violations against children' in Gaza" "AOC joins Rabbis For Ceasefire with 5-point agenda, but Internet says there's only one that's absolutely essential" She, and other progressives, boycotted the president of IL visit, last year. What are you looking for?
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  8259.  @Newton-Reuther  Organizing or sponsoring? What are you looking for, exactly? 2 weeks ago: "AOC at a ramadan event in New York. Spoke about a ceasefire and conditioning aid to Israel! AOC has been calling for a ceasefire. Tonight, she spoke in a rally with Cori Bush to a group of rabbis." "Progressive Democrats protest Israeli president's address to US Congress Jul 18, 2023 — Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez, Ilhan Omar and Rashida Tlaib say they intend to boycott address due to Israel's treatment of Palestinians." "Ilhan Omar leads 384 worldwide leaders in call for Gaza ceasefire The American signatories are the representatives Omar, Jamaal Bowman, Cori Bush, André Carson, Greg Casar, Jesús García, Hank Johnson, Summer Lee, Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez, Ayanna Pressley, Nydia Velázquez and Bonnie Watson Coleman." "'Squad' Dems face backlash calling for 'ceasefire' after Israel attacks Oct 7, 2023 — Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez, D-N.Y., called for a "ceasefire and de-escalation" after the surprise terrorist attack by Hamas on Israel." "AOC leads Democrats urging Biden to call for Gaza ceasefire over children's rights Nov 15, 2023 — Twenty-four Democrats in Congress have urged Joe Biden to end “grave violations of children's rights” by pushing for an immediate ceasefire" Votes against the State Department appropriation bill (which includes the annual aid to IL), every year. Bills to condition aid to IL. Bills calling for ceasefire. She, and the other progressives, are prepping to take on AIPAC sponsored opponents, shortly.
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  8260. Can I have half the state/province you live in, to create a Scientology nation, for Tom Cruise and his friends? I'll need you, and the other current inhabitants, on the new Scientology half, to move off.
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  8261.  @sabine1470  There didn't need to be a "state of Plstn" or "state of Isrl", when Likud's Irgun and Lehi trrrst founders considered Britain to be occpyng the region. Why change the rules?
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  8262.  @manvbees  The Ottoman Empire was a nation. So, what's your point? If you say part of the former Ottoman Empire can't be occpd, then part of Poland can't be occpd, because half of Poland wasn't its own nation.
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  8263.  @Canvashed  Rofl! The Catholics sacked Orthodox Constantinople first, dingus. Don't pretend they were united. Western European Christians cnqrd half of the Byzantine Empire themselves.
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  8264.  @manvbees  Then Poland simply lost part of Poland to Grmny, and lost part to Rss. Those two then "owned" the lands, if you're arguing parts can't be occpd, only lost. The population was 600k non Jws, when the British took over, liar. And, Palestinians have Canaanite DNA. They're Arab and Muslim the same way indigenous peoples of Central America are now Hispanic and Catholic. They weren't "transient". They were the former Christian majority, the former Jwsh majority before that (the majority of Jws never went anywhere), and the Canaanite mythology majority before that.
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  8265.  @manvbees  Then Poland simply lost part of Poland to Grmny, and lost part to Rss. Those two then "owned" the lands, if you're arguing parts can't be occpd, only lost. The population was 600k non Jws, when the British took over. And, Palestinians have Canaanite DNA. They're Arab and Muslim the same way indigenous peoples of Central America are now Hispanic and Catholic. They weren't "transient". They were the former Christian majority, the former Jwsh majority before that (the majority of Jws never went anywhere), and the Canaanite mythology majority before that.
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  8266.  @manvbees  You know the British literally called themselves occprs, right? "The monthly cost of the British Army of Occptn in Egypt and Palestine is £2,400,000."
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  8267.  @manvbees  Egypt was the very first nation to rule over Canaan (previously independent city states). So, tell me your rules, first. Could Canaan be occpd, since it wasn't a nation? If not, and it was rightly owned by Egypt ... does ancient, and/or original, ownership by a nation count for anything?
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  8268.  @manvbees  Was Austria occpd by Grmny? Is Scotland occpd by England? Or do the locals get to decide if they're okay with this, or that, foreign rule?
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  8269.  @manvbees  The Ottoman Empire was !n√@d€d, dingus. What's so hard to grasp about that?
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  8270.  @mikesamra9126  So, 60 million?
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  8271.  @ps3301  Rofl, the US has the highest per capita healthcare costs. All the universal healthcare systems, in the rest of the developed world, are cheaper per capita. It makes zero sense to say that people would tax themselves to death with something that costs less than what they're already paying.
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  8272.  @ps3301  Doctors' salaries are a fraction of the cost problem. There are US politicians that want to lower drug prices. Even if no other costs changed, the US could cut about half of its administrative costs by switching to single payer, and pay less than they are now.
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  8273.  @declanshanahan3888  Well, they should. Those Irgun terrorists, along with the Lehi terrorists, that assassinated Lord Moyne and tried to ally with the Nazis against Britain, went on to form Likud.
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  8274.  @declanshanahan3888  Likud ancestry.
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  8275.  @dr.romeoconfidential9271  Clinton, with Biden as VP, actually didn't have any major unilateral foreign interventions, or with any little "coalitions of the willing". The 1994 crime bill didn't actually tell local police to round black people up at higher rates, didn't tell DAs to charge black people at higher rates, didn't tell judges to convict black people at higher rates or give them harsher sentences. They should definitely have made the DoJ fix the racism in the system, first, before getting tough on crime, though. Still should.
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  8276. You're disgusting. Lebanon, a much smaller, and much poorer, country, has 2m refugees from Palestine and Syria. Jordan, a much smaller, and much poorer, country, has over 3m refugees from Palestine and Syria. Turkey hosts more refugees than anyone else, in the world. Saudi and Egypt are across deserts, but host hundreds of thousands of Palestinian refugees, and Saudi donated over $20m to agencies caring for Palestinian refugees, last year. How about the West, or their proxies, stop making refugees in the ME?
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  8277.  @bane3991  Pretty sure the government forces people to wear articles of clothing almost everywhere. And, Germany has speed limits.
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  8278.  @bane3991  Exposing yourself isn't going to kill anyone else. There's less of a reason to force people to wear other articles of clothing, than there is to mandate mask use, temporarily. No, there are some spots on the autobahn that don't have speed limits, but almost everywhere in Germany does have speed limits.
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  8279. ​ @JonathanB138  The Dem is way up in the governor's race. Be kinda odd, if all that Dem +10 swung the other way, for the presidential election.
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  8280. ​ @raevj  Then why doesn't Pvtin just leave? He's the invdr. Pretty easy way to achieve peace, if that's what he wants.
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  8281. ​ @dawnhoughton4533  Politicians are effectively selling themselves, for donations and √0t€s. False advertising laws should apply to them.
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  8282. David, as the majority, they can ignore their own rules, and then not start an ethics investigation. Or, it takes a simple conference majority vote, to end the rule.
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  8283. Israel is objectively the aggressor by every relevant measure (modern history, law, and current events) ... Modern history: With the Balfour declaration, Zionsim converted from something like immigration to colonization. 100 years ago, in 1923, Ze'ev Jabotinsky fully acknowledged that Zionism is colonialism, and that, based on the entirety of history, the native Palestinians would fight it until the bitter end. He just didn't care what would happen to them, and promoted doing it anyway. Colonizers are never not the aggressors, when it comes to the native population. On top of the colonialist nature of Zionism, the Zionists also formed terrorist organizations, like the Irgun and Lehi. They bombed many Palestinian markets and other public places, murdering many civilians, including children, even including Palestinian Jews (who opposed colonialist Zionism). Israel merged those terrorists into the new nation's military and intelligence agencies. Israelis elected Menachem Begin, leader of the Irgun, child murderer, Jew murderer, and bomber of the King David Hotel, as PM. Israelis, to this day, celebrate those Irgun terrorists as "heroes". Zionists literally taught their neighbours that terrorism is a valid path to independence and statehood, and that terrorists are to be celebrated. In 1945, it is well documented that Zionists owned just 5% of the land and were a majority in zero districts. Israel was formed by going against the will of the majority population. Its foundation is completely undemocratic. Even then, Jews were still a minority, in "their" half. The only possible way to actually become a Jewish ethno-state, would be to ethnically cleanse away the actual majority. And, that's exactly what happened. Israel has never allowed those people to return. Law: Israel is considered an occupier by the International Court, the UN GA, and the UN SC. Occupiers are also never not the aggressors. Those occupied actually have a right to resist occupation. On the flip side, it is illegal for the occupier to settle occupied lands, and illegal to use collective punishment. Israel is a rogue nation, that doesn't abide by international law. What it has been doing, and is doing now, is illegal. Current events: This year, alone, prior to Oct 7 ... Israel held over 1200 Palestinian hostages without charges ... over 200 Palestinians had been killed by the IDF and settlers ... over 1000 Palestinians had been displaced by Israel's neverending colonization of the West Bank ... and, Israel continued to operate an open air WWII style fascist ghetto. Even ignoring modern history and law, in no reality did Hamas "start" anything.
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  8284. They aren't "exactly" repeating your completely bullshit claim that Bernie has "backed off" M4A.
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  8285. Rofl. Have any of you morons, that are crying about her, actually watched that whole interview? You know, with them joking and being sarcastic through the whole thing.
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  8286.  @alabamaman9476  There are literally registered voter numbers, genius.
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  8287.  @alabamaman9476  The registered voter numbers are new data, dumb dumb.
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  8288.  @alabamaman9476  The way things are trending, there won't be enough Republicans left to make any laws.
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  8289.  @purplemonkeydishwasher9818  Rofl. You are, seriously, dumb. You're looking at how he legislates and responds to problems? How did calling in the national guard work in the 60s? It didn't. Things kept escalating, until there was actual policy changes. What policy changes are Trump and other Republicans putting forth to deal with heavy handed policing? You know, other than him fondly recollecting the good ol' days, when you could beat up protesters? He's the most inept leader, in his covid response, in the developed world. How are you good with him being responsible for tens of thousands of Americans dying? He's responsible for the need for continued lockdowns, unemployment, etc., by not flattening the curve quickly. Even using his dumbass stock market meassure of the economy, almost the entire first year of his presidency, when the stock market made its biggest gains, was through Obama's last budget. Since Trump's first budget, his tax breaks kicking in, and the start of his trade wars, the stock market has almost flatlined.
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  8290.  @purplemonkeydishwasher9818  "competent leader" ... Hahaha, you're clearly insane.
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  8291.  @purplemonkeydishwasher9818   Anyone who thinks Trump is competent has zero ability to accurately gauge whether someone is a clown, or not. You simply deflected on any police policy, and covid. Cuomo ... blah blah blah ... is also incompetent. Doesn't change the fact that Trump is incompetent, and you're a moron who thinks the opposite. All you're doing is arguing that Trump is completely full of shit, when he makes all his claims about all the supposed great things he's been doing, at a national level. You're clearly the uninformed idiot. People connected to BLM have been putting out well thought out, and researched, demands, for years ... https://www.joincampaignzero.org/#vision ... and after years of being ignored, and decades of ever increasing police funding obviously not going into better and better training, gets you people being fed up and just wanting them defunded, dumb dumb.
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  8292. @Jeromerome 8 of the top 10 most violent states, per capita, are red states. https://www.cdc.gov/nchs/pressroom/sosmap/homicide_mortality/homicide.htm Basically, all of the top 10 highest poverty rate states, are currently red states. https://worldpopulationreview.com/state-rankings/poverty-rate-by-state
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  8293.  @purplemonkeydishwasher9818  You lot can't have it both ways. Either Trump has been completely bullshitting everyone, with his claims of getting and distributing supplies, bullshitting that he has the power to simply executive order that businesses be required to cover pre-existing conditions (which would mean he has the power to executive order businesses to do all kinds of things, like mass producing masks), etc., or he does have the power, and hasn't used it effectively, making him incompetent. Why vote for bullshit or incompetence, on top of the recent racism? Plus, you morons seem to think everything needs to be done by force. S Korea gathered business leaders, used coherent words to describe the coming threat, and what they thought needed to be done, and the business leaders jumped on board. Mr deal maker can't seem to make any actual deals, if his life depended on it. You're the one in the bubble of lies, dumbass.
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  8294. @Jeromerome Yeah, big CDC conspiracy to make red states look bad. Hail Q!
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  8295. Athée: m. An Atheist; one that beleeves there is no God. ~ 1611 Cotgrave French-English dictionary
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  8296. You mean claiming you've won, when the votes say you didn't, is the "fraudulent election"?
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  8297.  @bigtee2000  “My team will sort out what the heck is being conveyed, and then they’ll sit me down,” he said, adding that, even without guidance, many of his supporters would “naturally head to Bernie.” Why do you guys find this controversial? "For Yang supporters, 49% of his support would fall to Sanders, followed by 18% who indicate would leave the caucus if Yang is unsuccessful in gaining caucus support." http://emersonpolling.com/category/polls/
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  8298.  @remotewealth  You don't think Rogan signed off on using his show clips in an ad?
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  8299.  @remotewealth  Not his company, dumbass. Him, personally. Moron.
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  8300. Nothing was "banned", dimwit.
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  8301.  @TiminTende  Books go out of print all the damn time, and have forever. That's not "banning".
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  8302. Right wing conservative religious types have been cancelling things, or trying to cancel things, for centuries ... women's rights, women's ankles, women's knees, women's thighs, women's nipples, women's degrees, minority rights, minorities immigration, minorities in white only spaces, mixed marriages, black human status, natives, PDA, naughty words, sex, LGBT rights, tons of books, rock and roll, Elvis's pelvis, other religions, other denominations of the same religion, socialists, unions, civil rights protesters, anti war protesters ...
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  8303. ​ @philipbrower4003  Get a brain. USCIS: "The United States is a representative democracy. This means that our government is elected by citizens. Here, citizens vote for their government officials. These officials represent the citizens' ideas and concerns in government." A representative/indirect democracy is still a kind of democracy, dumb dumb.
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  8304. Yeah, don't forget that Israel gets destroyed, first, in their second coming apocalypse story. They want Israel to take the mount, destroy the mosque, build a third temple, and bring about war and its own destruction.
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  8305.  @fubarace1027  Rofl. You seem to have severe reading comprehension problems. How is the small group getting elected, to fight against black Americans trying to get rid of that stuff, because they don't buy your rewriting of history, that it's about separation not slavery. All those statues that are supposedly supposed to teach you the history of what they represent, and you still make up a new representation for them. You're evidence they're useless.
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  8306.  @fubarace1027  Rofl. You definitely have severe reading comprehension problems. I replied to exactly what you said about Confederate "stuff". Turning statues (stuff) into memorials for treason instead of a fight for slavery, is exactly rewriting history, dimwit ... history you claim statues are supposed to preserve. Turning it all into states rights nonsense, is bullshit history. Rofl, are you pretending you're Spock, or something? If you, or anybody else, doesn't actually care about keeping that Confederate "stuff", then there shouldn't be an issue with ditching it all. Or, are your feelz, or someone else's, getting in the way of that happening?
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  8307. ​ @Frankie9553 Biden's brain mistakes which week he was at ground zero. Trump's brain invents dancing Muslims in New Jersey (debunked), him going to ground zero regularly to help clear debris (debunked), and him letting needy people stay in one of his buildings (debunked).
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  8308. Progressives are losing, whether it's Corporate Dems or Republicans, in office. The question is do Democrat voters like losing? Because they will lose again, if they don't push their candidates to move towards the progressive position, and pick up progressive votes. If Biden supporters are all "vote blue no matter who", and Bernie supporters aren't, that makes Bernie the more electable ... he'd get his supporters' votes, plus the "vote blue no matter who" votes. If Biden supporters aren't "vote blue no matter who", then they're hypocrites, if they expect Bernie supporters to be.
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  8309. ​ @delicheese6774  George W Bush had a dad, George H W Bush ... Reagan's VP, and a 1 term president, who did Gulf War I (also based on bullsh*t).
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  8310. You're being disingenous, because that's not it. Atheism IS also an -ism, that describes people who have a belief that there are no gods (strong Atheists). That's why it's a convoluded word, that is now supposed to describe believers and non-believers.
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  8311.  @benmidnightflame  Correction, a VAT is specifically designed not to tax businesses. A VAT isn't supposed to tax businesses, meaning Yang is clueless about his own key tax plan ... or he's an outright liar.
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  8312. Yes. Nixon wasn't officially charged with anything, and Ford gave him a blanket pardon for anything he may have done while being president.
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  8313. Everything the Republicans whine about, regarding the border, is complete nonsense. 90% of drugs come through points of entry. 80% of drug traffickers are Americans. Cartels aren't as stupid as the GOP. They use the least likely people to be stopped, not the most likely. They don't want their product swept downriver, laying in a desert, or tossed in holding. Undocumented immigrants commit crimes at half the rate of natural born citizens. Most try to keep their heads down, and stay out of trouble, so they don't get immediately tossed. Florida now says there are plenty enough jobs to let children compete to work full time, at 85% of minimum wage. Johnson not only thinks there's plenty of room and jobs, for hundreds of thousands of extra unwanted babies per year, he said they're actually needed, to keep SS and Medicare afloat. As for being "replaced" ... Spanish and Catholicism come from Europe. It's European culture. Republicans don't care when that culture comes with white Cubans, like Cruz, Rubio, Salazar , or the like. It's only a problem when it comes with those whose ancestry is mainly Native American, from Central/South America. They're unironically afraid of being "replaced" by Native Americans.
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  8314. To be fair, the Trump, and Republican, brainwashing, that created the cult, has centered around a lot of cultural issues. They don't have much in the way of actual policy issues on their side.
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  8315. Hitchens was the one who debated most. Started dying off with him dying.
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  8316.  @RjWolf3000  Well, I think the height of their "4 Horsemen" popularity was exactly because they were Muslim and leftist bashing constantly. They probably helped bring about a Trump. I just took a look to see if he's saying anything about Israel-Palestine and he's posting Zionist supporters, and his fans are still bashing Muslims.
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  8317. Also ironic, since Peter Theil is funding all kinds of MAGA projects. They're the ones on the side of the spy software guy.
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  8318. Israel is objectively the aggressor by every relevant measure (modern history, law, and current events), dumb dumb ... Modern history: With the Balfour declaration, Zionsim converted from something like immigration to colonization. 100 years ago, in 1923, Ze'ev Jabotinsky fully acknowledged that Zionism is colonialism, and that, based on the entirety of history, the native Palestinians would fight it until the bitter end. He just didn't care what would happen to them, and promoted doing it anyway. Colonizers are never not the aggressors, when it comes to the native population. On top of the colonialist nature of Zionism, the Zionists also formed terrorist organizations, like the Irgun and Lehi. They bombed many Palestinian markets and other public places, murdering many civilians, including children, even including Palestinian Jews (who opposed colonialist Zionism). Israel merged those terrorists into the new nation's military and intelligence agencies. Israelis elected Menachem Begin, leader of the Irgun, child murderer, Jew murderer, and bomber of the King David Hotel, as PM. Israelis, to this day, celebrate those Irgun terrorists as "heroes". Zionists literally taught their neighbours that terrorism is a valid path to independence and statehood, and that terrorists are to be celebrated. In 1945, it is well documented that Zionists owned just 5% of the land and were a majority in zero districts. Israel was formed by going against the will of the majority population. Its foundation is completely undemocratic. Even then, Jews were still a minority, in "their" half. The only possible way to actually become a Jewish ethno-state, would be to ethnically cleanse away the actual majority. And, that's exactly what happened. Israel has never allowed those people to return. Law: Israel is considered an occupier by the International Court, the UN GA, and the UN SC. Occupiers are also never not the aggressors. Those occupied actually have a right to resist occupation. On the flip side, it is illegal for the occupier to settle occupied lands, and illegal to use collective punishment. Israel is a rogue nation, that doesn't abide by international law. What it has been doing, and is doing now, is illegal. Current events: This year, alone, prior to Oct 7 ... Israel held over 1200 Palestinian hostages without charges ... over 200 Palestinians had been killed by the IDF and settlers ... over 1000 Palestinians had been displaced by Israel's neverending colonization of the West Bank ... and, Israel continued to operate an open air WWII style fascist ghetto. Even ignoring modern history and law, in no reality did Hamas "start" anything.
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  8319. @sedawk  Yeah, but only Americans call back bacon "Canadian bacon". Peameal was actually created in Canada.
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  8320.  @sedawk  And my point is that "Canadian bacon" isn't a Canadian thing, at all. It's American slang for back bacon. At least one was made in Canada.
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  8321. That means her delegates are then expected to go to Biden. If Pete endorses Biden, too, this is really bad. Consider Biden to be winning by 1 delegate, now.
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  8322.  @herethere2091  Aside from the co-founders, Spotify's largest shareholders are large corporations. "In total, at the close of last year, SEC documents show that exactly 65 percent of Spotify was owned by just six parties: the firm’s co-founders, Daniel Ek and Martin Lorentzon (30.6 percent of ordinary shares between them); Tencent Holdings Ltd. (9.1 percent); and a run of three asset-management specialists: Baillie Gifford (11.8 percent), Morgan Stanley (7.3 percent), and T.Rowe Price Associates (6.2 percent)."
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  8323. It is the government that enshrined slavery in numerous laws, didn't protect people's rights, etc. It doesn't matter if individual citizens were alive then, or not. It hasn't been individual ex-Nazis paying war reparations. It has been Germany.
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  8324.  BlackSun  Why the Nazi symbol then, racist fuck?
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  8325. Quakers did own many slaves, at one point. Quakers did a full U-turn, later becoming abolitionists, but they had been Christian slave owners, like the rest. Not many anabaptists owned slaves and, when they did, it didn't tend to be many. They weren't bigtime slave owners, to begin with, but they also didn't become bigtime abolitionists, in any significant numbers.
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  8326. What are you idjits above on about? AOC and two fellow NY progressives back formal plea for ceasefire in Gaza Oct 16, 2023 18 House Democrats sign resolution for Mideast de-escalation, ceasefire Oct 23, 2023 — Cori Bush (D-Mo.). Bush's fellow “Squad” members Reps. Rashida Tlaib (D-Mich.), Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez (D-N.Y.) Democrats Like Rashida Tlaib, AOC Split With Biden Over Israel Ceasefire Calls Oct 31, 2023 AOC leads Democrats urging Biden to call for Gaza ceasefire over children's rights Nov 15, 2023 AOC calls Biden administration 'shameful' for blocking United Nations demand for a ... Dec 11, 2023 Aoc ceasefire | keeping it reel - NewsBreak Original Jan 17, 2024 Hour 1: AOC Calls for Ceasefire from Israel - The Marc Cox Morning Show Podcast Feb 8, 2024 AOC suggests cutting off aid to Israel after U.S. vetoes ceasefire resolution Feb 22, 2024 AOC and Other Democrats Urge Biden to Call for a Ceasefire at the State of the ... Mar 1, 2024
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  8327. This is one of the most uninformed comment sections I have ever seen. AOC and two fellow NY progressives back formal plea for ceasefire in Gaza Oct 16, 2023 18 House Democrats sign resolution for Mideast de-escalation, ceasefire Oct 23, 2023 — Cori Bush (D-Mo.). Bush's fellow “Squad” members Reps. Rashida Tlaib (D-Mich.), Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez (D-N.Y.) Democrats Like Rashida Tlaib, AOC Split With Biden Over Israel Ceasefire Calls Oct 31, 2023 AOC leads Democrats urging Biden to call for Gaza ceasefire over children's rights Nov 15, 2023 AOC calls Biden administration 'shameful' for blocking United Nations demand for a ... Dec 11, 2023 Aoc ceasefire | keeping it reel - NewsBreak Original Jan 17, 2024 Hour 1: AOC Calls for Ceasefire from Israel - The Marc Cox Morning Show Podcast Feb 8, 2024 AOC suggests cutting off aid to Israel after U.S. vetoes ceasefire resolution Feb 22, 2024 AOC and Other Democrats Urge Biden to Call for a Ceasefire at the State of the ... Mar 1, 2024
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  8328. ​ @henrywallacesghost5883  The youngest member of the House Un-American Activities Commission. Ran a vicious red scare campaign against his opponent for senate, who he called "Pink Lady" (and she's the one who nicknamed him "Tricky Dick"). Somehow convinced FDR voting Democrat, and union leader, Ronald Reagan, to ditch his support for her, and put him on the path to crazytown. After collecting all the extreme anti-socialism nuts, in 1972 he then collected the Southern racist majority (who had voted for a third party resegregationist in 1968, winning 5 Southern states), winning them over to the Republican party. Nixon was the one who started collecting all the nuts into one basket. Reagan then collected the religious extremists. Nixon was horrible.
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  8329.  @alikaostermiller  Oh, wow, you're dumber than I thought.
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  8330. ​ @aliamjon2550  You compare using per capita, dumb dumb.
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  8331.  @jpbm1873  Right, he posts more videos, which means looking at the view count on every single Sam video is moronic. Dore posted 2 videos since 4 days ago, one with 79k views and one with 44k views. All the Sam videos you have to look for, in the same time period, is the one that got 70k views and the one that got 63k views. The other videos are just Sam having a smarter business model, and his channel making more money than Jimmy, to help pay for his also smarter staff and co-hosts.
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  8332.  @jpbm1873  I just pointed to 2 and 2, Dore knob. Why are you blathering about 4 and 2? Rofl. Dore is a grifter who doesn't know how the government works, doesn't know what free speech is, and "confronts" by slandering progressives that have done more for M4A in a few years than he has in his entire lifetime. Dore's repeated plans to hand power to Republicans don't help people, in the least.
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  8333.  @seandeane1644  A guaranteed to fail performance art vote isn't itself M4A. Dore was the one who abandoned Nina Turner, abandoned adding another M4A supporter to congress. Dore was the one promoting Tulsi (public option) over Bernie (M4A). Dore is the one trashing progressives that have increased the number of M4A yes votes in congress, and getting enough yes votes is the only possible way to ever pass the bill. It's Dore that ends up benefiting the far right, dumb dumb.
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  8334. A Mallomar
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  8335. It would be great if "woke" was a mind virus. It would be a lot easier than trying to actually convince right wing lunatics that people deserve equal rights.
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  8336. Yang's VAT/UBI scheme will only make giant corporations and the super rich even richer. Hoarded wealth also isn't affected by a VAT.
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  8337.  @baconbriefs  Yes, there is a problem with it. Hoarded wealth doesn't go back into the economy, and there isn't an infinite amount of pie. Apple is sitting on $225 billion. Bezos is sitting on tens of billions. Who said it was a felony Mr Strawman? The compelling reason would be long term sustainability. History has shown that hoarding wealth at the top tends to end badly.
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  8338.  @baconbriefs  You think not what? Last time there was this level of inequality, it ended with labour riots and a great depression. Times before ended with revolutions and nobility being decapitated and such. It doesn't tend to end well. Sure, data is a commodity, but it's giant corporations, and their owners, who are selling it. Google/Alphabet is hoarding over $100b. A VAT on data wouldn't change that. It wouldn't tax Google. It would tax whoever is buying from Google, and whoever that is would then count that as operating cost input VAT, and get paid back.
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  8339. Two different rankings rank Indiana as 34th. So, the 16 shittiest states might look to Indiana for healthcare advice. https://wallethub.com/edu/states-with-best-health-care/23457/ https://www.usnews.com/news/best-states/rankings/health-care/healthcare-quality This one ranks Indiana 38th. https://www.money-rates.com/research-center/compare-healthcare-by-state.htm
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  8340. ​ @stephanielewis5595 Already found guilty, dumb dumb. Also already found guilty of rape and defamation. Can't wait for a criminal trial to start.
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  8341. ​ @christiankaitshepard7496  Trump had more border crossings in 2019, than since 2005. Averaged out, he had more border crossings per year than Obama. He even sucked at the one thing you racists voted for him for.
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  8342. What about the saucers?
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  8343.  @xoranginho  A lot of Biden's, Bernie second, supporters are likely older black voters who still look at him fondly mainly because of the Obama-Biden bromance. A smaller percentage of them in Ohio and New Hampshire. So, Bernie would probably get the biggest bump in more diverse states.
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  8344. The number hasn't broken the near 1m border crossings of 2019, that right media didn't talk about. This wave started back before September, and the right media didn't talk about it. Averaged out, Trump had more border crossings per year than Obama, but the right media hasn't mentioned that he sucked worse than Obama at protecting the border.
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  8345.  @iliveinsideyourhead7532  Whoever is, or isn't, talking about it, won't change the numbers out out by the border patrol and the simple math you can do with those numbers.
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  8346. Ironically, most of the people seeking asylum have native ancestry, and the right wing Europeans are crying about being "replaced" and "poisoned" by them. Madness.
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  8347.  @lmp23612  If I rounded up millions of people from the Americas, whose ancestors left England hundreds of years ago, "went back", claimed half of England, and forced the current inhabitants off "our" half, backed by the US military ... we'd be colonizers.
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  8348.  @John-bravooo  Ah, so since the Nuremberg Laws stripped Jews of their citizenship, they weren't actually refugees from Germany. Got it. Where were they refugees from, then?
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  8349.  @John-bravooo  YouTube, or someone, aren't liking some words, and hid my comment. Certain laws in Germany, at a certain time, stripped a specific group of people of their citizenships. Does that mean those people were no longer refugees from Germany?
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  8350.  @laxarus3259  What are you blathering about? N-zis didn't live inside the ghettos they operated. Clearly they can move to East Jerusalem and the West Bank. There are 700k illegal settlers.
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  8351.  @ethanpollock3092  There are 3m Palestinians living in Jordan. How about just stop making Palestinian refugees?
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  8352.  @JoellePeters-ej5nh  Jordan has about 3m Palestinian refugees, other neighboring countries have hundreds of thousands more. There are also millions of Syrian refugees around the region. How about stop making ME refugees, ffs?
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  8353.  @JoellePeters-ej5nh  Do you support Likud, which was founded by Irgun and Lehi terrorists, and whose platform, "between the sea and the Jordan there will only be Israeli sovereignty", promises to completely colonize and ethnically cleanse all Palestine territories? It further claims a "right" to all the "Land of Israel" (fictional biblical borders that don't mesh with archaeological reality), which is an open declaration of future wars, against Jordan, Syria, and Lebanon. There's zero indication they've ever wanted peace. It has always been Revisionist Zionism's goal to colonize it all.
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  8354.  @JoellePeters-ej5nh  What is actually happening is that Israel keeps creating refugees, and never lets them return (ethnic cleansing). How about stop doing that?
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  8355.  @JoellePeters-ej5nh  So, you don't support Likud ... founded by Irgun and Lehi t-rrorists, who they still celebrate as "heroes"? Likud, whose platform, "between the sea and the Jordan there will only be Israeli sovereignty", promises to completely c-lonize and ethn-cally cleanse all Palestine territories?
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  8356.  @JoellePeters-ej5nh  Ummm, Native Americans did reach a point where they wanted to push all the white people back into the sea ... and it wasn't simply because they were white. It was because they were ethnic cleansing colonizers. There were some 300 years of resisting, ffs. Read a book about it. Then read Ze'ev Jabotinsky's The Iron Wall.
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  8357.  @JoellePeters-ej5nh  Then how the hell did you skip over 300 years of resistance, making out like it never happened? Native Americans hopes had to be crushed, and the population almost annihilated, to end resistance. No people welcomes being colonized and ethnically cleansed. Native Americans had originally welcomed and helped Europeans, but the Europeans turned on them. Jews had been living in Muslim countries for 1300 years. They fled to Muslim countries, when Christian countries offered conversion, death, or exile. But, you make out like their resistance is all about religion. What changed, about their religion, between 1917 and 1947?
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  8358.  @JoellePeters-ej5nh  Likud's is from the 70s, and it follows Revisionist Zionism's goal, which began in 1923. You're the one who made out like Hamas is the only one opposed to peace. In what reality have Revisionist Zionism, the Irgun, the Lehi, Herut, and Likud, ever had peaceful goals, in 100 years?
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  8359.  @JoellePeters-ej5nh  No, I simply know when two things aren't samesies. Europe was also constantly at war, however the European population wasn't almost eradicated, en masse. Native Americans warred, but their overall population kept increasing, like in Europe ... until Europeans showed up. You have to be borderline insane, to justify the violence of colonialism and ethnic cleansing, but think resisting it is worse.
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  8360.  @JoellePeters-ej5nh  Yep, formed by former terrorists, on a platform of complete colonization and ethnic cleansing. N-zis won a plurality of seats in the German government. What was your point?
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  8361.  @JoellePeters-ej5nh  Founded by t-rrorists, on a platform to completely colonize and ethnically cleanse all Palestine territories. N-zis also won a plurality of seats in the German government. What was your point?
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  8362.  @JoellePeters-ej5nh  Yep, founded by t-rrorists, on a platform to completely c-lonize and ethn-cally cleanse all of Palestine. What was your point?
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  8363.  @JoellePeters-ej5nh  How does people voting for t-rrorists, with a platform to c-lonize it all, make things better?
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  8364.  @JoellePeters-ej5nh  Whatabout, whatabout, whatabout, whatabout, ... by your "logic", it was wrong to resist Genghis Khan, it was wrong to resist the Third Reich, it was wrong to resist Japan, etc., etc., etc.
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  8365.  @JoellePeters-ej5nh  No, not all slavery was the same. Manumission was fairly common, in Muslim nations. That's a lot of whatabouts, and according to your "logic" it was wrong to resist any of it.
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  8366.  @JoellePeters-ej5nh  You keep blathering about everything but Likud. They were founded by t-rrorists. Their policy is the complete c-lonization of Palestine, and beyond. How is it possible to have peace with Likud?
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  8367.  @JoellePeters-ej5nh  You have severe reading comprehension problems.
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  8368.  @JoellePeters-ej5nh  You keep deflecting to everything but Likud. They were founded by t-rrorists. Their policy is the complete c-lonization of Palestine, and beyond. How is it possible to have peace with Likud? Make sense.
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  8369.  @JoellePeters-ej5nh  Except I didn't say that. Learn to read.
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  8370.  @JoellePeters-ej5nh  You keep going on about everything but Lik-d. They were founded by t-rrorists. Their policy is the complete c-lonization of Palestine, and beyond. How is it possible to have peace with Lik-d?
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  8371.  @JoellePeters-ej5nh  Rofl, YouTube, or someone here, doesn't like something I'm saying. Try 4 ... You keep going on about everything but Lik-d. They were founded by t-rrorists. Their policy is the complete c-lonization of P-lestine, and beyond. How is it possible to have peace with Lik-d?
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  8372.  @JoellePeters-ej5nh  Rofl, YouTube, or someone here, doesn't like something I'm saying. Try 5 ...  You keep going on about everything but Lik-d. They were founded by t-rrorists. Their policy is the complete c-lonization of P-lestine, and beyond. How is it possible to have p-ace with Lik-d?
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  8373.  @JoellePeters-ej5nh  Ummm, so no ethno-state, then?
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  8374.  @JoellePeters-ej5nh  Rofl, YouTube, or someone here (channel owner is a f-scist Likud supporter), doesn't like something I'm saying. 5 hidden replies.
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  8375.  @JoellePeters-ej5nh  I'm good. I haven't forget anything. Thanks.
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  8376.  @JoellePeters-ej5nh  Now you're just lying. They passed a law that it's a "Jewish state". That can only be maintained by continuing to deny Palestinians the right of return, under international law.
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  8377.  @JoellePeters-ej5nh  Because I already know it just fine.
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  8378.  @JoellePeters-ej5nh  No, I'm not. The US literally has a separation of church and state, and doesn't have a legally stated ethnicity or culture. Most countries don't have a legally stated ethnicity or culture. I know it means more than just religion, which is why you, comparing it to countries that have a national religion, is dishonest. It's an ethno-state, exactly like I said, like the Third Reich was. There are currently millions of Palestinians, denied a right of return, to vote for the government. Meanwhile, they hand out a right of "return" to any Jews in the world. There are currently millions more Palestinians, under occupation, denied the right to vote for the actual authority over them. Israel is k-lling women, children, closeted LGBTQ people, anyone Palestinian, and you have the gaul to say they respect women and the LGBTQ community?
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  8379.  @JoellePeters-ej5nh  But I do know that their system wasn't a race specific system, and did have much more manumission. So, undeniably, not the same.
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  8380.  @JoellePeters-ej5nh  Blah, blah, none of your gish galloping is addressing how Likud's platform is compatible with peace.
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  8381.  @JoellePeters-ej5nh  I know about the Muslim slave trade just fine. Implying they were all castrated is a lie. Implying it was equally racist is a lie. Implying there wasn't far more manumission, by simply converting, is a lie. It wasn't samesies. Nothing really truly compares to the race based, multi generational chattel slavery, of the Americas. Not much compares to the near total eradication of natives on many islands of the Americas, either. The lovely Spanish Christians were more effective than the lovely German Christians, or lovely Russian Christians.
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  8382.  @JoellePeters-ej5nh  I know about the Muslim sl-ve trade just fine. Implying they were all c-strated is a lie. Implying it was equally r-cist is a lie. Implying there wasn't far more manumission, by simply converting, is a lie. It wasn't samesies. Nothing really truly compares to the race based, multi generational chattel sl-very, of the Americas. Likewise, not much compares to the near total eradication of natives on many islands of the Americas, either. The lovely Spanish Christians were more effective than the lovely German Christians.
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  8383.  @JoellePeters-ej5nh  I know about the M-slim sl-ve trade just fine. Implying they were all c-strated is a lie. Implying it was equally r-cist is a lie. Implying there wasn't far more manumission, by simply converting, is a lie. It wasn't samesies. Nothing really truly compares to the r-ce based, multi generational ch-ttel sl-very, of the Americas. Likewise, not much compares to the near total eradic-tion of natives on many islands of the Americas, either. The lovely Sp-nish Christians were more effective than the lovely G-rman Christians.
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  8384.  @JoellePeters-ej5nh  Man, it's hard to post anything here. I know about the M-slim sl-ve trade just fine. Implying they were all c-strated is dish-nest. Implying it was equally r-cist is dish-nest. Implying there wasn't far more m-numission, by simply converting, is a lie. It wasn't samesies. Nothing really truly compares to the r-ce based, multi generational ch-ttel sl-very, of the Americas. Likewise, not much compares to the near total eradic-tion of n-tives on many islands of the Americas, either. The lovely Sp-nish Christians were more effective than the lovely G-rman or R-ssian Christians.
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  8385.  @JoellePeters-ej5nh  Man, it's hard to post anything here. I know about the M-slim sl-ve trade just fine. Implying they were all c-strated is dish-nest. Implying it was equally r-cist is dish-nest. Implying there wasn't far more m-numission, by simply c-nverting, is dishonest. It wasn't samesies. Nothing really truly compares to the r-ce based, multi generational ch-ttel sl-very, of the Americas. Likewise, not much compares to the near total eradic-tion of n-tives on many islands of the Americas, either. The lovely Sp-nish Christians were more effective than the lovely G-rman or R-ssian Christians.
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  8386.  @JoellePeters-ej5nh  Man, it's hard to post anything here. I know about the M-slim sl-ve trade just fine. Implying they were all c-strated is dish-nest. Implying it was equally r-cist is dish-nest. Implying there wasn't far more m-numission, by simply c-nverting, is dish-nest. It wasn't samesies. Nothing really truly compares to the r-ce based, multi generational ch-ttel sl-very, of the Americas. Likewise, not much compares to the near total eradic-tion of n-tives on many islands of the Americas, either. The lovely Sp-nish Chr-stians were more effective than the lovely G-rman or R-ssian Chr-stians.
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  8387.  @JoellePeters-ej5nh  I don't think you're grasping "r-ce based". Could white people be owned, as multi generational ch-ttel sl-ves, in the Americas? Could sl-ves gain their freedom simply by converting to Chr-stianity, in the Americas?
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  8388.  @JoellePeters-ej5nh  BB is following the same 100 years old Revisionist Z-onism goals. It was Lik's platform before BB, and will continue to be their platform after BB. Ham is just a poor man's Lik, on opposite sides of c-lonialism. To think Ham needs to go, but Lik can stay, makes zero sense.
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  8389.  @JoellePeters-ej5nh  Tell me how many sl-ve armies were created in the Americas, giving them power, weapons, training ... making them governors, or giving them other positions of leadership ... something akin to the Mamluks, or Black Guard.
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  8390.  @JoellePeters-ej5nh  The Lik f-scist alliance is governing IL. BB, and Lik, are definitely on par with Ham. Last year alone, prior to Oct 7, some 2000 Pals were being held indefinitely without charges, over 1000 ethnic-lly cleansed for illegal settlements, some 200 killed by the IDF and illegal settlers (of which there are over 700k, due to IL's ongoing policy of ethn-c cleansing and c-lonization)
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  8391.  @JoellePeters-ej5nh  And Guantanamo Bay isn't right. Sooo ... what was your point? My point was that Israel thinks it's wrong to capture and hold Israelis without charges. They're still slaughtering people, claiming the goal is to get Israelis back. But, Pals are not allowed to do anything similar. They're incoherent hypocrites.
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  8392.  @JoellePeters-ej5nh  GB isn't right. And, you're endless whatabouting doesn't change the fact that IL considers it okay to sla-ghter c-vilians, in order to retrieve captured Isr-alis, that are held without charges. But, if Ham does that, it's wrong. They're hyp-crites.
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  8393.  @JoellePeters-ej5nh  GB isn't right. And, your endless whatabouting doesn't change the fact that IL considers it okay to sla-ghter c-vilians, in order to retrieve capt-red Isr-alis, that are held without ch-rges. But, if Ham does that, it's wrong. They're hyp-crites, and very much the same as Ham.
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  8394.  @JoellePeters-ej5nh  Aside from all your pointl-ss what-bouting, you're inc-herent. IL has been ethn-c cleansing innocent people for decades. They've k-lled innocent people for decades. They've oppr-ssed and occ-pied people for decades. C-lonizers are never not the aggr-ssors, when it comes to the native population. You made it clear that you don't think people should resist the aggr-ssors. But, then you pretend like the aggr-ssors are the v-ctims, if people do, and claim they have a "right to d-fend" themselves. You've basically argued that it was just fine for N-zis to do their inv-ding, col-nizing, occ-pying, ethn-c cleansing, gen-ciding, operating of open air gh-ttos, because G-nghis Kh-n, or somebody else, did such and such ... that it was wrong for res-stance groups to f-ght back, and they should have bent the knee, like the Vichy. You're batsh*t cr*zy, as far as I can tell.
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  8395.  @JoellePeters-ej5nh   @JoellePeters-ej5nh  Aside from all your pointl-ss what-bouting, you're inc-herent. IL has been ethn-c cleansing innocent people for decades. They've k-lled innocent people for decades. They've oppr-ssed and occ-pied people for decades. C-lonizers are never not the aggr-ssors, when it comes to the n-tive population. You made it clear that you don't think people should res-st the aggr-ssors. But, then you pretend like the aggr-ssors are the v-ctims, if people do, and claim they have a "r-ght to d-fend" themselves. You've basically argued that it was just fine for N-zis to do their inv-ding, col-nizing, occ-pying, ethn-c cleansing, gen-ciding, operating of open air gh-ttos, because G-nghis Kh-n, or somebody else, did such and such ... that it was wrong for res-stance groups to f-ght back, and they should have bent the knee, like the V-chy. You're batsh-t cr-zy, as far as I can tell.
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  8396.  @JoellePeters-ej5nh   @JoellePeters-ej5nh   @JoellePeters-ej5nh  Aside from all your pointl-ss what-bouting, you're inc-herent. IL has been ethn-c cleansing innocent people for decades. They've k-lled innocent people for decades. They've oppr-ssed and occ-pied people for decades. C-lonizers are never not the aggr-ssors, when it comes to the n-tive population. You made it clear that you don't think people should res-st the aggr-ssors. But, then you pretend like the aggr-ssors are the v-ctims, if people do, and claim they have a "r-ght to d-fend" themselves. You've basically argued that it was just fine for N-zis to do their inv-ding, col-nizing, occ-pying, ethn-c cleansing, gen-ciding, operating of open air gh-ttos, because G-nghis Kh-n, or somebody else, did such and such ... that it was wrong for res-stance groups to f-ght back, and they should have bent the knee, like the V-chy. You're totally ins-ne, as far as I can tell.
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  8397.  @JoellePeters-ej5nh  Aside from all your pointl-ss what-bouting, you're inc-herent. IL has been ethn-c cleansing innocent people for decades. They've k-lled innocent people for decades. They've oppr-ssed and occ-pied people for decades. C-lonizers are never not the aggr-ssors, when it comes to the n-tive population. You made it clear that you don't think people should res-st the aggr-ssors. But, then you pretend like the aggr-ssors are the v-ctims, if people do, and claim they have a "r-ght to d-fend" themselves. You've basically argued that it was just fine for the Th-rd Re-ch to do their inv-ding, col-nizing, occ-pying, ethn-c cleansing, gen-ciding, operating of open air gh-ttos, because G-nghis Kh-n, or somebody else, did such and such ... that it was wrong for res-stance groups to f-ght back, and they should have b-nt the kn-e, like the V-chy. You're totally ins-ne, as far as I can tell.
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  8398.  @RomanGolubev_A  Pretty sure many peace treaties were attempted, and it wasn't the natives who violated them the most.
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  8399.  @RomanGolubev_A  There were some 368 treaties. You can go through each, if you want. More often than not, violations mentioned were due to settlers moving onto Native American lands.
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  8400.  @RomanGolubev_A  Part of the reason there were so many treaties is because original ones were violated and new ones were made. Example: "In the years following the Revolutionary War, Andrew Pickens and other commissioners of the new U.S. government concluded three highly similar treaties with the Cherokee, Choctaw and Cherokee Nations at Hopewell, Pickens’ plantation home in northwestern South Carolina. Collectively known as the Treaty of Hopewell, these agreements extended the friendship and “protection” of the United States to the southern Native American tribes; all three ended with the same sentence: “The hatchet shall be forever buried, and peace given by the United States of America.” Despite this sentiment, white settlers were already moving onto the lands designated for the Cherokee, leading to more conflict and the Treaty of Holston (1791), in which the Cherokee forfeited still more land."
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  8401.  @JoellePeters-ej5nh  No. They literally had to cede more land, and make a new treaty, in that case, and it's not the only one. Many court cases don't end with the Native Americans getting their land back. They've been offered inadequate compensation in a number of cases, and the tribes refuse to take the money and keep fighting in court. Plus, you two seem to have missed the point, that Native Americans fought for three centuries. In most cases, they had to have their hopes crushed, and almost be eradicated, to sign treaties under the threat of extermination.
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  8402.  @JoellePeters-ej5nh  No. I'm simply stating the reality of what it took to reach the point of signing treaties. You get that possibly 80% of native populations were killed off, or died of disease, first, yeah? Nobody just up and voluntarily says "Oh, please colonize and ethnically cleanse us!" Nothing you two are going on about changes those facts. The natives signed treaties under the threat of extinction.
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  8403.  @JoellePeters-ej5nh  The French were different, btw. They were more along the lines of a single state solution.
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  8404.  @JoellePeters-ej5nh  I'm not reading more of your irrelevant whatabout diversions. You don't even seem to grasp the point ... that the tribes' morals had to be crushed, and their numbers decimated, before they effectively surrendered to their fate and signed treaties. People don't volunteer to be ethnically cleansed and colonized.
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  8405.  @JoellePeters-ej5nh  Not sure why you keep rambling on about irrelevant stuff. You seem to have completely missed the point.
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  8406.  @JoellePeters-ej5nh  Still completely irrelevant to the point.
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  8407.  @JoellePeters-ej5nh  No. Your deflections are, in fact, completely irrelevant to the point that Native Americans felt completely decimated, before deciding not to fight anymore.
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  8408.  @JoellePeters-ej5nh  See, you completely missed the point. The point was that most tribes were almost wiped out, for whatever reason, before reaching the point of giving up and signing themselves to reserves. Absolutely nothing you're going on about, changes that fact. The whys of how disease spreads, and the history of viruses spreading, are entirely irrelevant. The point was about how most tribes felt, before deciding to give up. Again, for the slow ... People don't jump up and say "Please c-lonize and ethn-cally cleanse us!", they agree to it when they feel utterly defeated. Just like before, with your endless pointless whatabouting, about Genghis Khan, and other irrelevant nonsense, that didn't change a single fact about Isrl-Plstn. Try to actually read what someone is saying, before going off on pointless tangents.
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  8409.  @JoellePeters-ej5nh  Nope. You having selective reading comprehension, is still the issue.
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  8410.  @JoellePeters-ej5nh  And yet you keep talking about a small percentage of Native Americans, in Canada, as if that's the "one explanation", and apparently don't comprehend words like "the French were different", or "most", or "after initially welcoming and helping Europeans", or "c-lonize AND ethn-cally cleanse", etc. If you want to be pedantic, let's start at the start ... You blamed the ones being c-lonized, who had accepted J-ws for some 1300 years, in P-lestine. So, comparably, what did the natives in the Caribbean do wrong, to get themselves c-lonized, ethn-cally cleansed, and g-nocided? They welcomed the newcomers, and then did what, to get themselves hunted by packs of dogs, for sport, worked to death as slaves, and such like?
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  8411.  @JoellePeters-ej5nh  Yeah, because the French were different, exactly like I said.
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  8412.  @JoellePeters-ej5nh  You have yet to tell me a single thing I didn't already know. Except, I didn't know there were Viking records, detailing their interactions with natives. Clearly, there must be, since you thought they were relevant, because obviously you wouldn't bring up something completely irrelevant ... yet again. Do tell me all about Viking-Native relations. I'm very eager to hear. It's you that has been the one generalizing all of the Americas and all the various interactions, and boiling it all down to the tiny little bit you know about a few interactions in Canada. A treaty that actually respects a tribe's land is exactly the opposite of c-lonizing and ethn-cally cleansing that tribe. So, guess what? Not even comparable to Pal. I specifically stated treaties to have a tribe's land colonized, and the tribe ethn-cally cleansed, you know ... because that's actually comparable to Zio-Pal. You, on the other hand, go on and on about completely irrelevant and incomparable nonsense, and that seems to be because you can't actually comprehend the point someone is making.
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  8413.  @JoellePeters-ej5nh  I know about the freaking Viking settlement. I asked you for all the detailed records of Viking-Native relations. Surely you didn't think it was worthwhile mentioning them, just to say that irrelevant bit. Surely you had an actual f-cking point to mentioning them ... that they were relevant to the conversation. Are you some kind of really bad AI, or just really really d-mb? Now you're in f-cking China again?! You're in favor of atr-cities, is how we got here. You blamed the victims of c-lonization and ethn-c cleansing, for fighting back. You're united with the c-lonizers, is all you are, and have made little sense, other than making that clear. Because I was making an analogy to actual comparable events, you ignor-mus. The closest you've come to something relatively comparable is Big Bear, and you totally dodged my reply to it. Tell me how Big Bear was wrong to not sign a bad treaty. Tell me how Riel was wrong to resist. Tell me how the Canadian government was in the right, and that it would have been perfectly fine for them to k-ll off 10%+ percent of the Cree population, in response to Frog Lake.
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  8414.  @JoellePeters-ej5nh  I know about the freaking Viking settlement. I asked you for all the detailed records of Viking-Native relations. Surely you didn't think it was worthwhile mentioning them, just to say that irrelevant bit. Surely you had an actual f-cking point to mentioning them ... that they were relevant to the conversation. Are you some kind of really bad AI? Now you're in f-cking China again?! You're in favor of atr-cities, is how we got here. You blamed the victims of c-lonization and ethn-c cleansing, for fighting back. You're united with the c-lonizers, is all you are, and have made little sense, other than making that clear. You think it's okay for China to be doing what it's doing, and blame the Uyghur, if you're consistent. It's totally the Tibetans' fault, for getting themselves occ-pied, if you're consistent. Because I was making an analogy to actual comparable events. The closest you've come to something relatively comparable is Big Bear, and you totally dodged my reply to it. Tell me how Big Bear was wrong to not sign a bad treaty. Tell me how Riel was wrong to resist. Tell me how the Canadian government was in the right, and that it would have been perfectly fine for them to k-ll off 10%+ percent of the Cree population, in response to Frog Lake.
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  8415.  @JoellePeters-ej5nh  I know all about the freaking Viking settlement. I asked you for all the detailed records of Viking-Native relations. Surely you didn't think it was worthwhile mentioning them, just to say that irrelevant bit. Surely you had an actual point to mentioning them ... that they were relevant to the conversation. Are you some kind of really bad AI? Now you're in Ch-na again?! You're in favor of atr-cities, is how we got here. You blamed the victims of c-lonization and ethn-c cleansing, for fighting back. The only unity you showed was being united with the col-nizers in blaming the col-nized, and have made little sense, other than making that abundantly clear. You think it's okay for Ch-na to be doing what it's doing, and blame the Uygh-r, if you're consistent. Because I was making an analogy to actual comparable events. The closest you've come to something relatively comparable is Big Bear, and you totally dodged my reply to it. Tell me how Big Bear was wrong to not sign a bad treaty. Tell me how Riel was wrong to resist. Tell me how the Canadian government was in the right, and that it would have been perfectly fine for them to k-ll off 10%+ percent of the Cree population, in response to Frog Lake.
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  8416.  @JoellePeters-ej5nh  Lol, you dodged again. I understand your point, just fine. You just don't understand the reality of the situation. Like I said, you've given one actual comparable example, and you can't square that example with who you're blaming in Pal. You should reread a few of your earliest replies, on "unity".
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  8417.  @jeremymead8546  Yeah, zero Arabs traveled to Europe and Russia, to "initiate" anything. "Since Israel's formation" ... weird ... and after 1200 years of living together and taking in Jewish refugees from Christian nations. If they didn't want them, why didn't they wipe them out, or kick them out, or refuse them entry, in all that time?
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  8418.  @onesmallbridge4753  "Full rights", except the right of return to non Jewish descendants of Israel-Palestine. Weird, how people being occupied aren't fond of their occupiers. How fond were Jews of Romans, or Germans?
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  8419.  @JonnyQest666  Weird argument, when the other side is Jws. So, it said something about the people, not the countries, when no countries wanted to take them in, in the first half of the 20th century? What does it say about them, exactly?
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  8420.  @inkmage4084  And yet, nobody is creating a new state, for the sole purpose of shoving all the unwanted Pals into.
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  8421.  @inkmage4084  Nope. Guess they aren't yet as unwanted as the people who ended up in IL.
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  8422. AOC just put her money where her mouth is, using her platform and PAC to help get more pro-M4A progressives elected to congress, the exact thing you'd still have to do even if you get a vote guaranteed to fail. Meanwhile, Jimmy was busy bitching about shit Obama was saying on the campaign trail.
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  8423.  @jamesparker223  If you think Daniel Craig was even close to Connery, that's definitely evidence it's all subjective.
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  8424.  @jamesparker223  Sure, if you remove the charm, wit, and carefree characteristics from bond, none of which Craig is very good at, he makes an excellent bond.
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  8425. The left is ablaze? I've run across one Dore knob who mentioned this.
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  8426.  @khbgkh  Thanks. Glad you agree it's the fault of freezing the house seats and letting the electoral become so imbalanced.
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  8427.  @khbgkh  Where did I claim she won? I simply explained that there hasn't been any difference in outcome, between popular and electoral, for all but 5 elections. The prize using either method would have been exactly the same, in all but 5 elections. And, I explained that the electoral count could be just as representative as the popular count, if the seats in congress hadn't been frozen, and still be an electoral college. Electorals could be evenly distributed, by population, and it would still be an "electoral college", but it would never produce a different outcome than the popular.
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  8428.  @khbgkh  And I don't really care if you don't care about any other point. My point is that the electoral college could almost exactly represent the popular vote. Yes, Trump and Bush were horrible. How is me pointing out the problem of why they "won", "underselling" the problem?
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  8429. If Democrats are so amazing at rigging elections, why couldn't they keep the house?
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  8430. ​@@tonicshade He has been arrested, and booked, dumb dumb. That's how you get a mug shot.
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  8431. ​@@tonicshade What wars went up? Russia first invaded Ukraine in 2014, and has been mucking about in former SSR countries since 1991. Israel has been doing its aggression, for decades. Trump dropped more bombs on Yemen than Obama and Bush combined. What's the fourth? The civil war Republicans keep salivating over? "Illegals" went up under Trump. In 2019, he had more crossings than any of the previous 12 years, averaged more border crossings per year than Obama, and the current spike (similar to Bush and Reagan numbers) started before he left office. Over 50% of the inflation rate spike (now back below the long term average) was attributed to profit margin increases. Why don't you like capitalism? Is Trump going to bring deflation? That only happens during major recessions or depressions.
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  8432.  @ken-nf2eg  None of that is true.
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  8433.  @Sofahuntingatnight  If they could manufacture them, dingus, then they would be able to manufacture them every election. That they lose elections is evidence of the opposite, dmwt.
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  8434. Republicans from the more purple districts? Democrats who approved them?
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  8435.  @zulublack1212  You're the one arguing against a purely factual statement, like a Trumpist. https://www.theguardian.com/us-news/2020/mar/05/super-tuesday-black-voters-analysis-recap
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  8436.  @zulublack1212  Keep railing against reality, Trumpy. "But in each state, Sanders won the 18-44 vote across all races." https://www.ajc.com/news/sanders-biden-push-for-black-votes-revealing-generational-divide/UmaSjSi0eknDGl1E5nPgEJ/
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  8437.  @zulublack1212  Ok Trumpy.
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  8438. Here are the 3 stages in the system of belief/knowledge: 1: No Belief, No Knowledge = Agnostic 2. Belief, No Knowledge = The-ist and Athe-ist 3. Belief, Knowledge = Gnostic Tell me, how making 2 of those words apply to 2 different stages is a more solid, less convoluted system.
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  8439. ​ @TheRedStateBlue  Objectively ... The Palestinian territories are considered occupied by the International Court, the UN GA, and the UN SC. Under international law, those occupied actually have a right to resist occupation. The occupier, however, does not have a right to use collective punishment. That is against the law. The occupier also doesn't have the right to colonize occupied territory. That is also against the law. Therefore, Israel is a rogue nation, violating multiple international laws. Setting the law aside, objectively, prior to Oct 7 ... Israel held over 1200 Palestinian hostages without charges ... over 200 Palestinians had been killed by the IDF and settlers ... over 1000 Palestinians had been displaced by Israel's never ending colonization of the West Bank ... and Israel continued to operate an open air WWII style fascist ghetto. To make out like Israel was the one "defending" itself, and that Hamas "started" something, is utter bullshit. That's the colonialist propaganda line, that poor "innocent" them have been aggressively attacked by "Savages!", ignoring that colonialists are never not the aggressors, when it comes to the natives.
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  8440.  @RemorfChuket  Rofl. Reality disagrees with your insanity.
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  8441.  @jayrock2073  Dore knob.
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  8442.  @jayrock2073  Have you made a friend with a fascist, today, like a good little knob?
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  8443.  @alancook9780  She didn't know exactly what was going on outside her door. 2 Republicans had also barricaded themselves in their offices, dimwit.
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  8444.  @netx421  Yes, she just used her platform and PAC to back Jamaal Bowman and help take out a high ranking corporate Dem, who was the chair of the house foreign affairs committee. I'm sure the "hedge fund manager delegates" just loved that. Oh wait, no, some gave that as the reason they voted against her getting the committee seat she wanted. They actually didn't like her backing progressive candidates against them in the primaries.
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  8445. These assholes know that this is the investigation phase. They know that, if it gets through this phase, it's the next phase that is the trial phase. Republicans are counting on their followers being morons, and their followers are giving them what they want.
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  8446.  @nappel6496  Are low wage childcare or elderly care workers going to be able to afford a pricey vaccine/cure, with a private system?
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  8447. I'm sure there were good people on both sides.
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  8448.  @toomuch8232  I'm sure there is blame on both sides.
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  8449. About your first sentence ... How does a colonialist nation, operating an open air WWII style fascist ghetto, have the moral high ground?
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  8450. ​ @13BGunBunny  Look at the votes on the Civil Rights Acts. Southern Republican politicians also voted against them. They were just as racist as Southern Democrats. Fed up with the Northerners of both parties, the Southern racist majority voted for a third party resegregationist, in 1968, winning 5 Southern states. Nixon then won that Southern racist majority over to the Republican party, in 1972. To believe the most racist colonies/states, for centuries, magically up and became the least racist states, rather than believe the well documented party switch, takes a special kind of person.
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  8451.    Exactly. You can't actually argue he wasn't living in some alternate reality, with his delusional predictions.
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  8452.    Oh, wow, he predicted Pelosi would be Pelosi? Such insight. Who said Pelosi wouldn't be Pelosi? How is taking out a few more corporate Dems and adding a few more M4A yes votes to congress, in the election cycle that just passed, not fighting for M4A? It's exactly what needs doing to ever pass the bill, exactly what would still need doing even if there was a failed vote. If that doesn't count as fighting, then Dore's own "plan" was to have a failed vote and then not fight. Oh, wow, he predicted Biden would be Biden? Such insight. Who said Biden wouldn't be Biden? So, he has pointed out the obvious, and slandered those actually advancing M4A, even if it's not happening as fast as you fantasize it happening. Such talent.
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  8453.    You weren't under the delusion that it was going to pass, were you?
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  8454.  @inevitablechange2670  Rofl. Events have proven that Jimmy got destroyed, last time. He's operating in some fantasy world, where he vastly overestimates benefits of certain, and vastly underestimates the risks.
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  8455.  @MrDude667  Pakman, TYT, and others were just promoting Nina, encouraging people to vote for her and her progressive platform. They were trying to help add another M4A yes vote to congress. Dore and wife, on the other hand, let everyone know they had stopped donating to Nina, promoted never supporting any Democrat or Republican ever again, and abandoned adding another M4A yes vote to congress. You're listening to a grifter, who claims he's so far left, but then does things that benefits the far right most.
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  8456. Does that mean he has officially retired from politics?
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  8457. ​ @Nick-o-time  Except one is doing what every president has done, since 1948 ... and the other, who also supports Israel, tried to overthrow the democratic process domestically, is backed by Christo-fascists, wants to reinstate and expand his Muslim ban, and would be willing to let Russia do to Ukraine what Israel is doing to Palestine. But sure, risk having a dictator for an unrealistic shot at a third party candidate, who would be totally impotent, since congress could easily overrule them because there's so much Israel support in congress.
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  8458.  @user-zf3mb2rh9n  There are literally online pictures of her father, Jamaican family, and her grandmothers. They're all black. It would take you 2 min not to be willfully ignrnt.
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  8459.  @user-zf3mb2rh9n  Rofl. Google her dad, dingus. If you think he's wt, you need to see a doctor. He is not Indian.
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  8460. ​ @DemocratsAgentsOfCarnage Untrue, according to the governor (R), the mayor (R), the popo, the city manager, and the Ohio Department of Natural Resources (R state legislature). Also untrue that the Haitians aren't legal entrants, as Trump/Vance keep saying. They are legal TPS entrants. You lot used to pretend you weren't rcsts, by saying you were okay with legal entrants. Haitians have made your hoods show clearly.
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  8461.  @DemocratsAgentsOfCarnage  What kind of "fine people" show up to see David Duke and the like? There were no "fine people" on the one side. Mueller provided hundreds of pages of Rvssian cllsn. "Sckrs and lsrs" is he said (Kelly) vs he said (Trump). Why would anyone believe Trump?
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  8462.  @DemocratsAgentsOfCarnage  No "very fine people" show up to a David Duke rally. There were zero "very fine people" on the one side. He made out like there were.
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  8463.  @DemocratsAgentsOfCarnage    No "very fine people" show up to an event put on by Duke and the like. There were zero "very fine people" on the one side. He made out like there were.
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  8464.  @DemocratsAgentsOfCarnage  No "fine people" show up to an event put on by Duke and the like. There were zero "fine people" on the one side. He fabricated that there were.
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  8465.  @DemocratsAgentsOfCarnage  No "fine people" show up to an event put on by pack of rcsts. There were no "fine people" on the one side. He said there were.
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  8466.  @DemocratsAgentsOfCarnage  "Fine people" don't show up to an event put on by pack of Nzs. There were none of those on the one side. He said there were.
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  8467.  @jerryoshea3116  If they can take action against individual athletes, then they should be able to take some kind of action against a country, if they boycott the Olympics, or use it to make political statements, in some way? Make them pay a fine to re-enter, take away hosting privileges, ... They're saying only politicians, governments, can make political statements.
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  8468.  @jamesamick3298  Great movie. I really liked The Man From Laramie, as well, from that bunch. I like that those characters seem very human, rather than some superhero gunfighters. His, and everyone else's, performances in The Shootist were also moving. With everyone knowing Wayne had been waging a protracted losing war against cancer for a decade, the performances felt very real. Similar to his Vertigo performance, his Rear Window performance was well done. One of the great serious actors.
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  8469. If you drink too much water, become overhydrated, it can kill you.
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  8470.  @AaronOkeanos  And how much pot do you have to smoke straight, before it dehydrates you enough to kill you?
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  8471. Simply asking for money =/= grift. Jimmy is the one peddling the fraud that he actually cares if anyone else has healthcare. He doesn't actually give a crap.
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  8472. The default state would be "no knowledge", which is why I think Agnostic most adequately describes the default state. "A baby has no knowledge of Gods" is a better description than "A baby doesn't believe in Gods". And, from that state forward, only enough evidence (knowledge) to force a belief, will change that default state. Unfortunately, many Theists consider "knowledge", in that sense, to be the unverified beliefs of their parents, who they trust to tell them what is a "truth".
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  8473. If they keep equating being anti-colonialism with being anti-semitic, they make it almost impossible not to be.
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  8474. ​ @Truth...  Partition done against the will of the majority. The non-Jwsh majority ethnclly cleansed out of Israel. The occpied Pal territories not allowed to vote for the true authority over them. IL is about as democratic as Nzi Germany, after Htlr purged his political opponents and then held elections.
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  8475.  @shadowthehedgehog3113  Learn what "blackmail" means, Dore knob. Blackmail: give me X or I'll reveal you did Y Extortion: give me X or I'll do Y Threat: stop doing X or I'll do Y Statement: you've done X so I'm doing Y She simply made a statement about what she was going to do, which was talk about something Dore had already talked about on his own show, without naming her. Man you knobs are stupid.
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  8476.  @ozzie3963  Best get on it then. Why don't you try to get dummy Dore to actually do something, without sabotaging it.
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  8477.  @shadowthehedgehog3113  You're clearly not very bright. It is, objectively, not blackmail. At best, you could try and argue it was a threat but, even then, she didn't really include the option for her not to do it, if he stops doing what he's doing. "Drop your gun, or I'm going to shoot!" isn't f*cking blackmail, Dore knob. Also, you dimwits seem to think "gaslighting" simply means to mislead or lie. It's actually a specific kind of deception, that tries to make someone feel, or appear, insane. Dore making out like Trump filling multiple scotus seats was as likely as the moon falling into Lake Michigan, and that what Sam Seder was saying was delusional, falsely trying to make him seem crazy to the audience, is an example of gaslighting.
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  8478.  @kennethcadwell2124  Because it doesn't say "not doing anything to them"? You seem to be referring to the OT.
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  8479. Harris is an idiot. I have no clue how he got a philosophy degree. He doesn't seem to have a firm grasp on basics, like objectivity vs subjectivity. Religions don't exist without people. Portraying a religion as a singular horrible thing is saying every one of its practitioners is practicing that singular horrible thing. It's a nonsense way to talk about religion, and the people practicing it. Harris has often sounded like an ISIS leader, describing a one true way to practice Islam, and saying those who don't aren't "real" Muslims. He, at least once, even admitted he was wrong to talk about Islam that way, but he sure as hell didn't draw attention to the fact that that admission meant that many of his former critics were right.
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  8480.  @imakethesites3048  Ask the first Zionist congress where Palestine was, moron. They wrote that they wanted to create a Jewish home "in Palestine". See, you're an example of an actual racist, making out like a people and place didn't exist.
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  8481. Exit polls aren't any good, this year. They'll be skewed the same way election day voting was skewed.
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  8482. Bernie has raised almost double the money Biden has. So how's Biden going to beat Trump?
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  8483. How is helping to add more M4A yes votes to congress, the only way to ever possibly pass the bill, not delivering? That gets you closer to actually getting M4A than a 100% guaranteed to fail performance art vote does.
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  8484. How can a private company "censor" you on their private property? Me not letting an Armageddon preacher come in and scream at my customers, doesn't constitute "censorship". Just stop using Facebook, if you don't like it.
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  8485. They complain about stuff that isn't even relevant to asylum seekers anyway. Over 90% of the drugs come through points of entry. Over 80% of the traffickers are Americans. Cartels use people who are least likely to be stopped, not the people most likely to be stopped.
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  8486. ​ @Newsboydeposit  No, the bill did not say that. That is a lie.
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  8487. Scandinavian countries feel prepared for, and even welcome, automation. Why not prepare by going with the candidate whose platform is the most Scandinavian like, rather than Yang? https://www.boyden.com/media/automation-and-jobs-the-swedish-perspective-3770222/index.html
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  8488. Ummm, most modern countries have mixed economies. A mix of capitalism and socialism is working almost everywhere. We went through periods of little socialism, where only the rich were educated and got the best health care, while the poor were mostly uneducated, except for a very few that charity schools could handle, and they only had access to charity hospitals where you were more likely to die, or get sicker. The Western frontiers were basically ancap environments, before the law and government moved in. Private landowners hired private armies and settled disputes privately. It quickly devolved into feudalism. Cattle barons were a problem right into the 20th century, until the law and government moved in and stopped them. Feudalism may have worked for some time, but it ultimately failed. People got sick of private land owners, with monopolies, running their lives. Marx pointed at tribal socialism as the roots of socialism. Tribes didn't haggle over trading part of a deer for the use of a fire. That's just nonsense. People just had different roles, and they shared pretty much everything. That worked for tens of thousands of years, before people started settling and claiming property. Socialism/anarchism was also working in Spain. Their system didn't fail, it was conquered by fascists. People point at Venezuela, but they nationalized a single resource. That's not outright socialism. That's a mixed economy, like almost every other. Their problem was being too dependent on a single resource and then the price of oil dropping. Even Saudi had losses. They just had more savings and had already started diversifying their economy. Also, very authoritarian versions of anything are bad. Sure, authoritarian chrony communism sucks. So does authoritarian chrony capitalism (fascism). Authoritarian capitalism has failed its citizens. Anarcho-capitalism has failed, by devolving into feudalism. Randian Libertarian capitalism has failed, because the rich just aren't charitable enough. Authoritarian communism has failed its citizens. Mixed economies, democratic socialism, anarcho-socialism, are still up for debate, and the only positions that aren't proven failures.
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  8489. ​ @JoeyBFromScranton  Kids should be asking why so many Christians worship a sexless "god" spirit being, who identifies with masculine pronouns, who then transitioned into a human male for a time, but hate trans?
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  8490. Oh, most Democrats are right-conservative. Republicans are just right-psycho. https://www.politicalcompass.org/uselection2020
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  8491. If the US cut their per capita costs to UK levels, every American could be covered for the same amount that's currently being paid into their public healthcare. https://images.app.goo.gl/xhp3cs9Cx3ZHF4SJ6
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  8492.  @msgirly6827  You've never heard of recessive and dominant genes?
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  8493.  @mr.stargazer9835  Thinking off white congresswomen must come from other countries (3 out of 4 were born in US). Thinking off white congresswomen don't have as much of a right to call for change as him, and should "go back" to their countries and fix them first (all are US citizens, again 3 of 4 were born in US, and 1 of the 4 has Puerto Rican ancestry ... even her ancestors didn't come from another country).
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  8494.  @borealssb1384  What are you talking about? There's not a 50/50 chance a gene from each parent will be carried over. There's a 100% chance a gene from each parent will be carried over. The point is that one of those genes will be dominant. There's not a 50/50 chance one gene will be dominant over the other. There's a 100% chance the darker gene (hair, eyes, skin) will be dominant, which is what the poster is obviously referring to. Not a literal "battle" maybe, buy one gene's trait is overpowering the other gene's trait. Even two evenly mixed skin tone, hair colour, or eye colour, parents, each with a dominant gene and a recessive gene, won't give a child a 50% chance at having lighter skin, hair, or eyes. It'd be a 25% chance of getting a recessive gene from both parents, a 50% chance of getting 1 dominant gene from either parent, and a 25% chance at getting 2 dominant genes from both ... 75% chance of a darker skin tone, hair colour, or eye colour. You'd need one parent with 2 recessive genes, and a parent who has a dominant gene as well as a recessive gene, to get you a 50% chance of getting 2 recessive genes.
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  8495. ​ @ghostpiratelechuck2259  Is it smart to drive a country into fascism and eventual ruin, for money?
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  8496. Trump is inciting his 60m followers, over standard election procedures, but Pete being a bit of a hypocrite is a great headline, Jimmy.
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  8497. Nah, Canada will let those loons pay for it, just like Mexico was supposed to pay for the Southern wall.
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  8498.  @user-lb2oz8ns3j  2018: "A new report commissioned by members of the U.S. Senate intelligence committee expands upon another facet of Rvssia’s pro-Trump operation: an effort to divert √0t€s away from Hillary Clinton and toward Green Party candidate Jill Stein."
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  8499.  @Quonjack  Even if she magically won, there is so much bipartisan support for Isrl, in congress, that they could pass whatever aid they wanted and override any presidential vetoes. That's why these third parties, aiming for the top, with no presence in congress, are useless. Even if they won, they'd be the most useless president in US history.
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  8500.  @Quonjack  Even if she magically won, there is so much bipartisan support for Isrl, in congress, that they could pass whatever aid they wanted and override any presidential vetoes. That's why these third parties, aiming for the top, with no presence in congress, are completely pointless. Even if one won, they'd be the most impotent president in US history.
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  8501.  @Quonjack  Even if she magically won, there is so much bipartisan support for Isrl in congress, that they could pass whatever aid they wanted and override any presidential vetoes. That's why these third parties, going for the top, with no presence in congress, are completely pointless. Even if one won, they'd be the weakest president in US history.
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  8502.  @Quonjack  Even if fairies stepped in and helped her win, there is so much bipartisan support for Isrl in congress, that they could pass whatever aid they wanted and override any presidential vetoes. Third parties aiming straight for the top, with no presence in congress, are a joke.
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  8503.  @Quonjack  There is so much bipartisan support for Isrl in congress, that they could pass whatever aid they wanted and override any presidential vetoes. Third parties aiming straight for the top, with no presence in congress, are a joke.
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  8504.  @Quonjack  There is so much bipartisan support for Isrl in congress, that they could pass whatever pro Isrl bills they wanted and could overrule any presidential vetoes. Third parties aiming straight for the top, with no presence in congress, are 🤡s.
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  8505.  @aclg7087  What do you see as the big differences between pre Enabling Act Hitler and Trump?
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  8506. Ah, but they didn't make the definition nicer. They gave them a new term that sounded nicer "learning disability".
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  8507.  @crooked52h  The most popular third party hasn't won a single seat in going on 50 years, dumbass. At best, you split the progressive vote, hand the Dem party totally back to those corporate Dems, and let Republicans rule for decades. Dore is an idiot.
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  8508.  @crooked52h  Oh geezus, now you're not even talking about votes within congress? Outside of congress, progressives like Bernie and AOC have still done a ton for garnering M4A support. Far more than dipshit Dore. Their platforms are 40+x larger than his.
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  8509. They shouldn't be fucking around with the senate, atm, anyway. Wait and see what happens in Georgia, first.
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  8510.  @dorothypage77  You and Yang are lying, saying a VAT is a way to tax corporations. You seem to be clueless as to how a VAT actually works. Let's say Amazon currently buys a product from a manufacturer at $100, sells it for $200, and pockets $100. With a 10% VAT added, they'd pay $100 + $10 VAT, and the manufacturer would send $10 to the government. Amazon would still sell for $200 but with a $20 VAT added, so the final consumer pays $220. Amazon gets paid back $10, and sends $10 to the government. The government gets $20, but Amazon still pockets $100. So, explain how that's actually taxing them. Half the things you pointed at people spending UBI on (in a totally different UBI plan than Yang's) wouldn't pay into a VAT. That's actually not a good thing, for Yang's scheme. His scheme is totally dependent on increasing VAT revenues. His plan starts with massive deficit spending, no way to pay for a third of his UBI, and requires a ton more VAT revenue to be generated, than is currently generated. Food, housing, savings, debt ... will totally screw his plan. Also, what they bought doesn't say who they bought it from. Amazon is selling some groceries and household products. Amazon sells school books. Buying at WalMart would be no better. It would make giant corporations richer, and a VAT not a way to actually tax them.
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  8511.  @dorothypage77  You're still lying. Just to be clear, I'm Canadian. I've been paying a VAT for almost 30 years, and have operated a business with a VAT. Don't even bother trying to explain to me how it works. We also have staples exempt, here, but there's still a VAT on electricity, clothes, toys, phone service, internet service, cable service, all other forms of entertainment, snack foods and pop, alcohol, etc., etc., etc. If you don't think any of those things costing more will leave some people worse off, then you're pretty daft. To cover the full cost of the UBI, he is totally relying on the economy growing by trillions and generating hundreds of more billions from future VAT. At the outset, a third of his UBI won't be paid for, and will run a deficit.
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  8512.  @dorothypage77  And, again, you prove to be totally clueless as to how a VAT works. It's built in that it's passed along at each stage. There's no option to not pass it along. That's complete bullshit.
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  8513. You're proving yourself wrong. Grow up.
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  8514.  @pranays  Except Yang didn't argue to simply print money. He argued to add a 10% VAT. He claimed it would tax corporations that aren't currently paying taxes, which was a lie. A VAT is specifically designed to not taxes businesses, in order to avoid cascading taxes upon taxes.
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  8515. You called it, about Sam Harris. He has an episode out called "THE SIN OF MORAL EQUIVALENCE", supporting Israel.
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  8516.  @synchronium24  Well, he pretty much does. He puts the blame on Hamas for Palestinian civilians dying, and writes off collateral damage.
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  8517.  @1958PonyBoy  Does that change the fact that those profits aren't being passed along to workers? Does it change the fact that they obviously didn't need to raise prices so much, to maintain a profit? Does it change anything she said about the Fed hurting workers? What is it you think that changes?
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  8518. "Obiden/Bama" ~ Joe Obiden, or the other Biden
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  8519. Christians, with I heart Jesus bumper stickers, are clearly sad and depressed, and need a strong atheist in their lives. It makes no sense for Christians to have I heart Jesus stickers, unless they want to bang Jesus.
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  8520. Right wingers do also like themselves some Chinese gunpowder.
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  8521.  @piperdragon3200  Yes, but it could be a nail biter simply due to the order the votes were counted, and how lopsided in-person and mail in voting has been in a pandemic year.
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  8522. Likud was founded by Irgun and Lehi terrorists. Their platform has promised to completely colonize and ethnically cleanse all Palestine territories, since the 70s. It's not just Netanyahu.
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  8523. Why do you think dental and chiropractors, were ever covered by ohip? They never have been. Also, ophthalmologists are covered ... depending on what the problem is, and how old you are. Right. Doug Ford is an idiot for cutting public healthcare spending.
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  8524.  @jamesmcelroy5830  Like the fact that not voting, or casting a useless vote, only benefits Republicans? Like the fact that Dumpty did fill multiple scotus seats, and the moon didn't fall into Lake Michigan? Like the fact that there were dozens of inspections showing Syria used chemical weapons, and that 2 dissenting opinions on a single inspection doesn't even refute that inspection, let alone all those dozens of others (that didn't have dissenting opinions)? Like the fact that the entire progressive caucus doesn't have the majority needed to pick a different party speaker candidate, meaning the majority of house Democrats could have kept picking Pelosi over and over and over again? Like the fact that Dore actually promoted that 15 progressives abstain, rather than cast protest votes, which would have handed the house speakership to McCarthy? Like the fact that Dore promoted abandoning Nina Turner ... abandoning adding another M4A yes vote to congress, when getting enough yes votes in congress is the only possible way to ever pass the bill? Like the fact that he spewed a ton of garbage about COVID, vaccines, and "alternatives"? Like the fact that Rumble is funded by Peter Thiel (mega MAGA donor, who made his billions helping the government spy on its citizens), and they paid Tulsi, Greenwald, and Dore, to join their platform? Etc. Grifters claim they're selling you something beneficial, but are actually selling you something useless, or even harmful. The paths Dore proposes taking don't lead to where he claims they do. They lead to Republicans ruling for decades to come.
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  8525. I also enjoy debating the topic. No worries. :) Have you read Huxley's "Agnosticism" and "Agnosticism and Christianity"? They're online.
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  8526. ​ @lisapimentel7915  Almost every single Israeli is, was, or will be, a militant, trained to kill Palestinians, occupy them, and support colonizing them.
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  8527. ​ @dozia766  Israel blew up an Orthodox Church, dimwit. There are Christian Palestinians.
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  8528. ​ @galelhiani748  If it's okay to kill Palestinian civilians for their leadership, then it's okay to kill Israeli civilians for their leadership, right? Or are you the hypocrite?
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  8529. ​ @TheScotsalan  India ranks worse than Saudi, for the treatment of women. And, I'm not sure that the motivations of those at the top necessarily align with the motivations of the masses. Like all of Trump's poor cult followers, handing him money, and doing his bidding. Or, poor people handing money to those megachurch multi-millionaire pastors.
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  8530. Harris has never been objective about anything, as far as I've seen. I don't think he even has a clear understanding of what the term means, and often wonder how he was given a philosophy degree.
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  8531. Ben believes in a formless, sexless, penisless, being that is referred to as "he", "him", and even "father", and yet can't grasp the difference between sex and gender.
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  8532.  @sentientfetus3894  You can catch it over and over, dimwit.
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  8533.  @valeries5722  75% of US EV sales are made in America. As for the global market, it's exactly because US companies are slower to change (just like when they wouldn't change to more fuel efficient cars, fell behind, and needed a bailout), that they're behind China and Europe. Pushing them to catch up with the global reality, will only help them. Umm, Republicans were opposed to more charging stations, etc., dumb dumb.
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  8534. Doesn't seem to stop provinces from taxing cigarettes at higher rates. Sounds like a bullshit excuse.
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  8535.  @imbored6724  Because the taxes go into healthcare, dimwit. And, no, they weren't going to tax people that caught covid. They were going to tax the unvaccinated who had a higher risk of being hospitalized, just like taxing smokers who have a higher risk of being hospitalized.
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  8536.  @gnubbiersh647  He pretended there is an objective hierarchy of how we value conscious beings, dishonestly claiming we value those with closer intelligence to us (other primates) the most. In reality, we've had no problem with destroying their environments, tossing them in cages for entertainment, using them for experiments, etc., while we've valued pets, of all kinds, more.
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  8537.  @gnubbiersh647  He dishonestly stated we make no moral judgments, when it comes to rocks. Many people actually consider it immoral to destroy artistic rocks, architectural rocks, historical rocks, and protected environments (including the rocks within). Many people value shiny or sparkly rocks more than human lives.
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  8538.  @gnubbiersh647  He used to go around spewing results from a survey of the "Muslim World" (Muslim majority countries) in a vacuum, with nothing to compare it to, from the rest of the religious "worlds". He seems to be completely clueless as to what's going on in those "worlds". India represents almost the entirety of the "Hindu World", and ranks lower than Saudi, for the treatment of women. Sam will dismiss Christian extremism as limited to some attack on an abortion clinic, years ago. Meanwhile, in the "Christian World", churches ran propaganda campaigns against condom use, in Africa ... even outright lying, that condoms cause HIV ... as 30m people perished. He thought it was horrible, that a significant minority of the "Muslim World" thought terrorism was sometimes okay. Meanwhile, IL still celebrates the Irgun and Lehi as "heroes", indicating an outright majority of the "Jewish World" thinks terrorism is sometimes okay. 80% of Americans thought blowing up hundreds of thousands of Iraqis would be cool. 60% of Americans (including him) thought torture was sometimes okay. Etc. Etc. Etc. Just "Muslims bad" fear mongering into a vacuum.
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  8539. There will be a lot of nice Northern beachfront property in a few years.
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  8540. Oh, he's a right winger alright, from BlazeTV and Conservative Review.
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  8541. Likud was literally founded by Irgun and Lehi terrorists.
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  8542.  @royfrye2871  Likud was founded by Irgun and Lehi terrorists, they still have the same stated goals, and they still celebrate them as "heroes".
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  8543. I think the Biden supporters that pick Bernie second are mostly his older black supporters, which is why Bernie didn't pick up a lot of votes in the second round of mainly white Iowa. A problem, though, is that if Biden and Warren stay in for a long time and Bernie doesn't win the majority of delegates, corporate Dem candidates with delegates could drop out near the end and hand all their delegates to a single leading corporate Dem.
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  8544.  @seto749  You actually didn't provide any examples, just that you personally think his impressions sounded gay to you, and anecdotally think there has been a reduction in anti-gay comments. And, now you think Brooks was anti-Jewish, as well? Can you actually provide examples of such things?
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  8545.  @seto749  Brooks was himself Jewish. And, if you found the Shakira Law bit offensive, then I don't think you understand sarcasm.
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  8546.  ArchAingeal  Oi, just how many times did you repeat your moronic bullshit? "In many ways a contested concept, multiculturalism is used in at least three senses: to refer to a society that is characterized by ethnic or cultural heterogeneity; to refer to an ideal of equality and mutual respect among a population's ethnic or cultural groups; and to refer to policies implemented by the federal government in 1971 and subsequently by a number of provinces." https://www.thecanadianencyclopedia.ca/en/article/multiculturalism
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  8547.  ArchAingeal    Rofl. You're bad at editing, then, dumbass, because there's no longer a reply of yours here that starts "god what a nonsense reply", no longer a reply between my two definitions, no longer a reply to jump to from the partial notification. That's all that is left, a partial notification. Oxford: The presence of, or support for the presence of, several distinct cultural or ethnic groups within a society. https://www.lexico.com/en/definition/multiculturalism Stanford: "Yet multicultural claims include a wide range of claims involving religion, language, ethnicity, nationality, and race. Culture is a contested, open-ended concept, and all of these categories have been subsumed by or equated with the concept of culture." https://plato.stanford.edu/entries/multiculturalism/ Canadian Multiculturalism Act: recognize and promote the understanding that multiculturalism reflects the cultural and racial diversity of Canadian society and acknowledges the freedom of all members of Canadian society to preserve, enhance and share their cultural heritage; BC Multiculturalism Act: to recognize that the diversity of British Columbians as regards race, cultural heritage, religion, ethnicity, ancestry and place of origin is a fundamental characteristic of the society of British Columbia that enriches the lives of all British Columbians; http://www.immigrantwelcome.ca/resources/42-canadian-multiculturalism-act. I think you're just not recognizing that a "culture" is attached to some group of people, and those people could be grouped a variety of different ways, including by ethnicity. Can't all the words, you're moronicaly nitpicking about, also be used in a cultural sense? Scottish culture? English culture? Pakistani culture? Native American culture?
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  8548.  ArchAingeal  Nope. Not there. And clicking on the notification just takes me to the op, instead of the reply. Invisible on this end.
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  8549. ​ @ricardocabeza6006  Efficacy and duration is almost entirely based on the type of virus, not the type of vaccine. Some viruses trigger lifelong resistance, some decades, some years, and some only months, with antibody efficacy rates from 99% (polio) to 50% (flu) ... even using the old method of vaccine creation. Vaccines are simply triggering an antibody response, and will trigger the same kind of response the body would naturally trigger for the type of virus ... only you don't have to catch it first.
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  8550. So that means Republicans are also communists, for all the Clinton (Trump's political opponent) investigations, and calls to "lock her up", right?
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  8551. Weird how the US has supported Saudi, both economically and militarily, as they've spread their ultra conservative brand of Islam around the world. Weird how they trained and armed Muslim extremists, to combat more secular lefties in Muslim majority countries. And then they turn around and complain about it. It's nonsensical.
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  8552.  @factchecker1291  Then the capitalist right wingers should stop supporting them. Also, you should have said "Islamist ideology". "Islamic" would cover every Muslim on the planet.
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  8553. He wants an exact formula for privilege, but just told Qanon that they can believe whatever batshit crazy stuff they want.
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  8554. He might do okay with Quakers.
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  8555. ​ @Prometheus4096 No, dumb dumb. "Palestine" isn't defined as an ethno-state. "Israel" is.
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  8556. Agnostic is not a modifier. "Agnosticism is of the essence of science, whether ancient or modern. It simply means that a man shall not say he knows or believes that which he has no scientific grounds for professing to know or believe." ~ Huxley Do you have scientific grounds, to support your Theism?
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  8557.  @redrick8900  Dimwit, the rest of your examples were things everyone else later copied, and were also able to replicate, but some American inventor simply did first. There was no flailing. I reamed off some things the USSR did first. Are you moving the goalpost, and reducing your US "greatness" to simply landing a man on the moon? Unmanned rovers are how we're exploring Mars, dumb dumb, and how we'll be able to explore many more distant places, before sending someone there. That first object was a satellite, an invention massively more important than bringing home a moon rock sample. The only one flailing is you having no grasp on what freedom has to do with any of the things you mentioned.
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  8558.  @redrick8900  Rofl. You could apply a quote like that to things the USSR did first, as well, dimwit. You could apply it to all the inventions in history that happened under authoritarian monarchies. Nazi Germany led, and pushed the rest of the world, in military advancements. You don't even have an argument, to begin with. Inventions are completely irrelevant to freedom. You're simply blathering about irrelevant crap that doesn't, at all, indicate whether a country has more freedom than another.
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  8559.  @redrick8900  Rofl. You didn't actually make an argument, dumb dumb. You quoted me mentioning the freedom index, and then blathered on about things that are totally irrelevant to freedom. And, talk about flailing ... You gave examples of the US doing some things first. Then you argued against yourself, as if simply doing stuff first was irrelevant. Then you again argued as if simply doing stuff first was relevant. You don't seem to know which way is up.
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  8560. ​ @X2LR8  No thanks. Israel is objectively the aggressor by every relevant measure (modern history, law, and current events) ... Modern history: With the Balfour declaration, Zionsim converted from something like immigration to colonization. 100 years ago, in 1923, Ze'ev Jabotinsky fully acknowledged that Zionism is colonialism, and that, based on the entirety of history, the native Palestinians would fight it until the bitter end. He just didn't care what would happen to them, and promoted doing it anyway. Colonizers are never not the aggressors, when it comes to the native population. On top of the colonialist nature of Zionism, the Zionists also formed terrorist organizations, like the Irgun and Lehi. They bombed many Palestinian markets and other public places, murdering many civilians, including children, even including Palestinian Jews (who opposed colonialist Zionism). Israel merged those terrorists into the new nation's military and intelligence agencies. Israelis elected Menachem Begin, leader of the Irgun, child murderer, Jew murderer, and bomber of the King David Hotel, as PM. Israelis, to this day, celebrate those Irgun terrorists as "heroes". Zionists literally taught their neighbours that terrorism is a valid path to independence and statehood, and that terrorists are to be celebrated. In 1945, it is well documented that Zionists owned just 5% of the land and were a majority in zero districts. Israel was formed by going against the will of the majority population. Its foundation is completely undemocratic. Even then, Jews were still a minority, in "their" half. The only possible way to actually become a Jewish ethno-state, would be to ethnically cleanse away the actual majority. And, that's exactly what happened. Israel has never allowed those people to return. Law: Israel is considered an occupier by the International Court, the UN GA, and the UN SC. Occupiers are also never not the aggressors. Those occupied actually have a right to resist occupation. On the flip side, it is illegal for the occupier to settle occupied lands, and illegal to use collective punishment. Israel is a rogue nation, that doesn't abide by international law. What it has been doing, and is doing now, is illegal. Current events: This year, alone, prior to Oct 7 ... Israel held over 1200 Palestinian hostages without charges ... over 200 Palestinians had been killed by the IDF and settlers ... over 1000 Palestinians had been displaced by Israel's neverending colonization of the West Bank ... and, Israel continued to operate an open air WWII style fascist ghetto. Even ignoring modern history and law, in no reality did Hamas "start" anything.
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  8561. Mother doesn't like him getting over excited.
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  8562.  NoFreedoms  Sweden has 5-10x the covid deaths per capita of its neighbors, ffs. It has one of the worst rates in Europe. It was repeatedly the worst in Europe for weekly cases.
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  8563.  NoFreedoms  Rofl. The UK had a shit covid response. Boris barely took it seriously, until he got it, and then still half assed it. Sweden is worse than Germany, Norway, Denmark, Finland, Austria, Switzerland, Luxembourg, Russia, ... Why do dimwits aim to be like another top 40 worst countries in the world, instead of aiming to be amongst the best?
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  8564.  NoFreedoms  US suicides went down 20% in 2020, actually. Right wingers haven't given a crap about mental health, as suicides increased in previous years. Do you think the US should have the same kind of mental health services, and coverage, as Sweden?
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  8565.  NoFreedoms  Sure, it's only 5x more deadly than automobile accidents. We should also do away with street lights, speed limits, seatbelt laws, child seat laws, helmet laws, drinking and driving laws, vehicle safety standards, licensing, etc., so people can truly enjoy their freedumb.
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  8566.  NoFreedoms  Did you look up that there's an estimated 10m unreported automobile accidents a year, on top of the 6m reported automobile accidents? Apparently not. Also, 3x deadlier still means it's deadlier. So ... do away with all rules of the road, because automobile accidents aren't deadly enough?
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  8567.  NoFreedoms  What is the mortality rate for smoking a pack of cigarettes, or eating a big mac, exactly? Cancer mRNA vaccines were already being worked on before the covid vaccines. Should nobody take them, once they're developed? Yep. Not sure what you aren't grasping. If you want no masks, distancing, vaccine requirements, etc., because the virus isn't deadly enough for you, then why aren't you trying to get rid of all rules of the road, that infringe upon your freedoms? Funny you don't seem to grasp how question marks work.
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  8568. Same with Canada. They've got the BQ, which is a single province party, that takes mainly Liberal or NDP seats. That allowed Harper to be PM for years.
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  8569. Americans need to learn how a VAT actually works. Yang claiming it's a way to make corporations like Amazon "pay their fair share" is complete bullshit.
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  8570.  @jessicaal415  There will be a pocket of poor people already getting $1000 or more in assistance who will end up worse off with almost everything costing, at least, 10% more. If you're supposedly out to help the poor, but you hurt some of the poor, then your plan isn't a very good one.
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  8571. ​ user-rc9gy7fb3l  The majority of Florida Cubans came over in the first few waves of fascist Batista family, friends, government, military, and supporters. They've always been extreme right loons ... 113 bombings on US soil, Bay of Pigs.
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  8572. Socialism for corporations and the rich comes in many more forms. If Apple ships a million phones from China, using trade lanes protected by the navy, and I buy one of those phones, they have benefited from that protection a million times more than me. If Amazon sends out a transport truck full of goods, it is using the roads 3x as much, on average, than a car owner. Not only do they use the road more ... let's say that truck has moved 10000 items, and I buy one, they have benefited 10000x more than me from the road. And they pay no taxes. If my education makes me $100k a year, but it makes my employer $1m a year, then they have benefited 10x more than me from that education. If first responders are protecting a community of 10000 workers, they benefit 10000x more than each individual worker does. Etc. Etc. Etc.
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  8573.  @TheBighatter  You can't cut a hole in a wall with wire cutters? Walls don't, generally, provide hand and foot holes, making them easy to climb?
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  8574. It's not really that complicated. You've got thousands going to Canada or Mexico for cheaper drugs, tens of thousands dying due to lack of coverage, hundreds of thousands going bankrupt, and over a million going to developing or undeveloped countries for care they can afford. You've got the highest costs. And, what do you get? Lower life experiences, higher maternal mortality rates, and higher infant mortality rates ... plus, you've got your own wait time issues. The US system sucks ass. What many Americans don't seem to know is that our provinces each do things differently. So, just do things more like Ontario. https://www.saskatchewan.ca/~/media/images/news%20release%20images/2017/wait%20time%20chart.png?la=en&hash=605B603C05BCE810C2B90A3A5C2E3DA01C5CD551
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  8575. ​ @AntiFreezePeach  And what does science say about gender?
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  8576. The vast majority of MAGA morons have a worldview that's based on a fairytale. They never actually believed the "facts over feelings" slogan.
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  8577.  @AntiFreezePeach  So, you're equivalent to Drax, in intelligence, are ya?
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  8578.  @AntiFreezePeach  Here, dumb dumb, hope this helps ... say verb (GIVE INFORMATION) B1 [ T ] to give information in writing, numbers, or signs: My watch says three o'clock. Can you read what that sign says? [ + (that) ] It says in the paper (that) they've found the man who did it. [ + to infinitive ] It says on the bottle to take three tabletsa day.
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  8579.  @AntiFreezePeach  So, a dictionary definition didn't help, either? Geez, not sure what to do here. This is a very common thing, we humans do ... "He has the strength of Hercules!", "She's a Brainiac!", "He's quite the Romeo.", etc. Odd that you've never encountered it, before. But, considering how stupid you are, maybe you just didn't catch on.
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  8580.  @AntiFreezePeach  Please do quintuple down on showing you're a complete and utter moron. This is fun.
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  8581. Anything that helps poorer people more (extending benefits and unemployment), helps demographics with a larger percentage in poverty, more. Also, pretty sure there are a bunch of racist conservatives whining about assistance to black farmers. There has also been some movement on HR 40 ... https://www.hrw.org/news/2021/04/15/historic-progress-us-slavery-reparations-bill
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  8582. Warren supporters need to decide, before voting starts, if they can trust her to give her delegates to another progressive when she drops out, if she gets any.
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  8583. Blocking IPs from the state is the right thing for porn sites to do. Punish everyone in the state until they change their laws.
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  8584.  @whyamimrpink78  Rofl! The founders, literally, protested, rioted, and then went to war, over taxes that specifically funded the red coats (police/military) and a lack of representation (disenfranchisement). That's anti-authoritarian. Their opponents backed the red coats, and fought against democracy to keep an unelected ruler in power. That's authoritarian. Idiots like you, literally, only trusted the government (Trump) for 4 years. You have reality backwards.
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  8585.  @whyamimrpink78  They still protested extra taxes that specifically funded the police/military. He was a loser, who failed at almost everything he tried on his own, except being a reality show host. Inheriting daddy's business is the only reason anyone knows him. I care about policies, dumb dumb. Replace them all with people pushing policies I like, for all I care. Try saying the same about the cult leader who convinced tens of millions of people not to believe any media, any other politicians, any judges, any lawyers, any law enforcement, any scientists, any doctors, any nurses, any election officials ... anybody ... if they contradicted Supreme Leader Trumpty Dumpty. That makes you both stupid and ironic. Completely disconnected from reality.
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  8586.  @fredsanford1437  I actually asked a question, which you didn't answer.
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  8587.  @LogoLamont  Rofl, you're spouting bullshit.
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  8588.  Venraef  How the hell does the anti come first and the fa come after?
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  8589.  @danielvincent1153  How often do Antifa show up at an average politician's political rally?
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  8590.  Venraef  From the moron who thinks "reactionary" is solely about a reaction. Peasants, workers, the poor, rising up is a reaction to mistreatment by the rich and powerful. The right wing "reactionaries" are reacting to change, and fight to keep the same kind of fucks in power ... the ones who were there first.
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  8591.  @nancystowell4877  I think you need a 5th grader to help you reread what I wrote.
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  8592.  @danielvincent1153  What's your evidence there is widespread opposition to anyone else but fascists, amongst Antifa, if they aren't protesting against them?
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  8593.  @mareekeay8670  Hrrrm ... so is knowing the law but being dumb enough to get caught smarter or dumber than not getting caught because you're too dumb to know the law? Tough call.
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  8594.  @markbenjamin1703  You know that all the absolute monarchies in history have been a privately owned and operated countries, and that fascists are all right wingers, right?
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  8595.  @mirror452  Feudalism was a bunch of private property owners making rules for living on the property they claimed to own, and enforcing those rules with their privately owned armies. Slavery is exactly the opposite of workers owning the means of production. Both have existed into modern times, and both can clearly be seen as capitalistic.
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  8596. So, when you promoted Trump as the better option, in 2016, and predicted Republicans would fight against his agenda, this isn't what you were hoping for?
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  8597. ​ @goodbher9244  The "human shields" narrative comes from a nation that has its largest IDF base inside a shopping mall, a nation that has over 400k militants (reservists) hiding amongst the populace, and a nation whose mandatory service policy means almost every single Israeli is, was, or will be a militant.
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  8598.  @AR-yp8nh  Netanyahu is their biggest supporter. That would make him a terrorist. Netanyahu: Money to Hamas part of strategy to keep Palestinians divided By LAHAV HARKOV Published: MARCH 12, 2019 The symbiotic relationship between Netanyahu and Hamas BY JONATHAN D. STRUM, OPINION CONTRIBUTOR 10/22/23 For years, Netanyahu propped up Hamas. Now it’s blown up in our faces The premier's policy of treating the terror group as a partner, at the expense of Abbas and Palestinian statehood, has resulted in wounds that will take Israel years to heal from By TAL SCHNEIDER 8 October 2023 Why Israel Lets Qatar Give Millions To Hamas June 18, 2015
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  8599.  @Nitro1000  "The GST takes into account the cost of inputs – the factors used in manufacturing or production – at each stage of the process to avoid double taxation. Input tax credits enable partnerships, businesses and self-employed workers to recover all GST paid on goods and services purchased for business purposes by deducting them from their GST payments. Final consumers are not entitled to such credits, which means that they pay all the GST on every item purchased. The GST is thus a multi-stage tax on final consumption." https://publications.gc.ca/Collection-R/LoPBdP/BP/prb0003-e.htm "a consumption tax because it is borne ultimately by the final consumer. It is not a charge on businesses." "The VAT due on any sale is a percentage of the sale price but from this the taxable person is entitled to deduct all the tax already paid at the preceding stage. Therefore, double taxation is avoided and tax is paid only on the value added at each stage of production and distribution." https://ec.europa.eu/taxation_customs/business/vat/what-is-vat_en
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  8600.  @Nitro1000  Rofl. You're making up nonsense. You made it sound like "suppliers" aren't themselves companies that can deduct their input VAT from their output VAT. They are, and also end up paying no VAT. Only the final consumer can't reclaim their VAT. Most companies aren't illegally dodging taxes, by hiding huge numbers of sales. They're using a ridiculous number of write offs to legally cancel out their tax burden. A VAT won't change that. Nowhere did Yang claim that, although a VAT doesn't tax businesses directly, it'll force them into honest accounting, and indirectly force them to pay corporate taxes, or some such nonsense. He outright, incorrectly, claimed a VAT would tax giant corporations, directly. He singled out Amazon. Meanwhile, Amazon UK has their own tutorial page on how a VAT doesn't tax businesses. He also posted a link to a pass through rate study, that he didn't grasp, or lied about, claiming it showed businesses were paying a large portion of the VAT. It actually showed a near 100% pass through on standard rated goods and services. It was only by adding lesser rated and zero rated goods and services that the pass through rate dropped. It wasn't that businesses were paying a large portion of the VAT, it was that a large number of sales had less or no tax added (most sales are necessities, that are zero rated). Consumers were still paying the entire VAT. Yang argued himself that corporations should be paying for, or into, the UBI. He repeatedly compared his dividend to the Alaskan dividend, which is entirely paid for by corporations. But, his VAT/UBI combo plan wouldn't actually do that. If you don't have giant corporations paying into the UBI, then they only get the benefits of it being spent. That would make the likes of Amazon extra tens of billions a year, which would make Bezos extra billions a year. As a consumer, he could buy a brand new $500m yacht, every single year, pay $50m in VAT, and still be extra billions ahead. The vast majority of the money would trickle up to the very top and stay there. That's the entire problem with "trickle down", right now.
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  8601. ​ @yesyoucan5855  How could she possibly work with Republicans? One house member can't do much of anything, alone.
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  8602.  @enaethiolove5134  Even the most popular third party hasn't won a single seat in congress in its 50+ year existence. The last two house independents were elected as Republicans. Even they didn't win seats as independents. Justice Dems won 12 seats in just 6 years. There's clearly a better method for winning a seat.
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  8603.  @enaethiolove5134  The most popular third party hasn't won a single seat in its 50+ year existence. Green hasn't won a single seat in its 25+ year existence. A left leaning independent hasn't won a seat since Bernie was in the house, 17 years ago. Justice Dems won 12 seats in 6 years. You might want to reflect on what has been tried over and over, and not worked. Winning a seat is the basic first step.
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  8604.  @enaethiolove5134  Are you talking about 3rd parties not winning a single seat in congress, in over 50 years, but keep trying?
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  8605. @enaethiolove5134  No independent has been elected for a house seat in the 17 years since Bernie left for the senate. No Green has been elected in its 25+ years existence. No Libertarian has been elected in its 50+ years existence. 12 Justice Dems were elected in just 6 years. Why keep trying what lowers your odds of getting elected, over and over? You can't even attempt to do anything, if you don't get elected.
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  8606. @enaethiolove5134  No independent has been elected for a house seat in the 17 years since Bernie left for the senate. The top 2 third parties haven't been elected to seats in their 25+ and 50+ years existences. 12 Justice Dems were elected in just 6 years. Why keep trying what lowers your odds of getting elected, over and over? You can't even attempt to do anything, if you don't get elected.
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  8607. @enaethiolove5134  No independent has won a house seat in the 17 years since Bernie left. Grn and Lbrtrn haven't won a single seat in their 25+ and 50+ years existences. 12 Justice Dems won seats in just 6 years. Why keep trying what lowers your odds of winning a seat, over and over? You can't even attempt to do anything, if you don't get elected.
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  8608. @enaethiolove5134  When was the last time an independent, or any third party candidate, was elected to the house?
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  8609. So, you'd seriously consider this in line with today's Republicans, and not in line with AOC? “The fact is capitalism was built on the exploitation and suffering of black slaves and continues to thrive on the exploitation of the poor — both black and white, both here and abroad.” "There are certain things in our nation and in the world (about) which I am proud to be maladjusted… I say very honestly that I never intend to become adjusted to segregation and discrimination. I never intend to become adjusted to religious bigotry. I never intend to adjust myself to economic conditions that will take necessities from the many to give luxuries to the few. I never intend to adjust myself to the madness of militarism, to self-defeating effects of physical violence."
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  8610.  @nathanhansen1846  Like Cornel West.
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  8611.  @nathanhansen1846  Like AOC herself.
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  8612.  Neal Vasco  Well, you can go argue that fine point with MLK Jr. What does that have to do with whether he'd align politically with AOC or not?
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  8613.  Neal Vasco  Do you understand how quotes work?
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  8614.  Neal Vasco  I was quoting MLK Jr, so you go argue that with him, dumb dumb.
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  8615.  Neal Vasco  It seems to be an objective fact that you don't know how quotes work, and didn't grasp that he was referring to American capitalism. How does that not make it an objective fact that you're stupid?
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  8616. Well, Jimmy's dad probably locked up some black people. So, close.
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  8617. ​ @waldoparsnip1025  However unintelligent you try to make her out to be, Trump is very clearly less intelligent. He must be near 🧠💀, then.
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  8618. The Kansas Flu.
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  8619.  @nopenoudidnt  What are you talking about? His is a 4 year plan.
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  8620. ​ @erickdavid2412  Member how she never claimed to be in the Capitol building, and that you're an ignoramus?
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  8621. Something else nobody mentions: The border ❌ ings actually spiked in 2019. There were more that year than any year in the previous decade. They only dropped in 2020 due to COVID, but started going back up in the last half of 2020, not in 2021. Averaged out, Trump had more ❌ ings per year than Obama. He actually sucked at the one thing all the rcsts voted for him for.
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  8622.  @DBJ345  Sarcasm
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  8623.  @MikeAnn193  If she gets any delegates before dropping out, do you trust her to give those delegates to the leading progressive?
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  8624. I take it the right believes it was wrong for Colonialist Americans to burn loyalist houses, tar and feather loyalists, destroy businesses' private property by dumping tea into Boston Harbour, etc. And believe it was okay for the red coats, fearing for their lives, to shoot at protesters.
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  8625. ​ @Chris-x9s9f  Trudeau slapped tariffs right back, last time. Why do you think Conservatives will do anything but suck up to someone they want to be like?
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  8626.  Derek Hitt  Bullshit. Saudi is a 100% privately owned and operated country and government, and so has been every absolute monarchy in history. Absolute monarchies are the only remaining 100% purely capitalist countries. Similarly, oligarchs having the authorities helping to make them richer, is capitalism ... literally called crony capitalism, dumb dumb.
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  8627.  Derek Hitt  Yep, that makes as much sense as your privately owned and operated businesses not being capitalists argument.
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  8628.  Derek Hitt  So an ancap environment is the only true capitalism? Like when there was little to no government representation on western frontiers, when cattle barons hired private armies to settle disputes over fences and water access, in a totally private manner, destroyed fences, killed tens of thousands of sheep, killed sheep herders, etc. Sounds awesome.
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  8629.  Derek Hitt  Why would you want the government resolving property rights issues, in a capitalist society? Then you have a possibility corruptible agent of the government making economic decisions. You're incoherent.
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  8630.  Derek Hitt  Rofl. Owning and trading animals, for profit, is capitalism, isn't it? How is it suddenly not capitalism, just because you don't consider some people to be no better than animals? Being a landlord, making money off of those who live on your property, and making rules for living on your property, is a perfectly fine part of capitalism. Is there an objective limit to how much property a capitalist can own? You're making crap up. Nothing about privately owning and operating businesses and property, says zero aggression allowed.
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  8631. That's not an Irish accent. That's a Bob and Doug Canadian accent. Peterson is Canadian.
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  8632.  @BoostedS650  By your "logic", AIDS doesn't actually kill anybody.
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  8633.  @BoostedS650  Oh geezus. Well, thanks for proving yourself to be absolutely nuts, on top of being stupid. You're also obviously clueless as to how Huxley defined agnosticism.
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  8634. He's totally 6'3" and 215lbs!
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  8635.  @mp22893  Do that in the primaries. The 30 year old progressive caucus is about 15 seats away from becoming the majority of house Dems. The 6 year old Justice Dems have 11 seats. The most popular third party, Libertarian, hasn't won a single seat in its 50 year existence. Green hasn't won a single seat in its 20 year existence. Him, criticizing small steps, and making out like third party will be the faster route to your destination, is completely dishonest. Even if the entire progressive caucus was third party, that would hand the house, senate, and presidency, to Republicans. His path leads to Republican rule, for the foreseeable future.
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  8636.  @JimBob-jr5up  The hint might be in the fact that Rumble, funded by major MAGA donor Peter Thiel, paid the likes of Gabbard, Greenwald, and Dore, to join Rumble and provide content. Why would the far right pay them, if they weren't fine with what they say?
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  8637. Ummm, you're the one cherry picking. 26 is a reply to the question at 25. 25 When the disciples heard this, they were greatly astonished and asked, “Who then can be saved?” He clearly wanted people to give up all their shit ... 21 Jesus answered, “If you want to be perfect, go, sell your possessions and give to the poor, and you will have treasure in heaven. Then come, follow me.” 27 Peter answered him, “We have left everything to follow you! What then will there be for us?”
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  8638.  Mike C  Well, he wasn't only preaching charity. Acts 2:44-45 And all who believed were together and had all things in common. And they were selling their possessions and belongings and distributing the proceeds to all, as any had need. Acts 4:32-35 Now the full number of those who believed were of one heart and soul, and no one said that any of the things that belonged to him was his own, but they had everything in common. And with great power the apostles were giving their testimony to the resurrection of the Lord Jesus, and great grace was upon them all. There was not a needy person among them, for as many as were owners of lands or houses sold them and brought the proceeds of what was sold and laid it at the apostles' feet, and it was distributed to each as any had need.
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  8639.  Mike C  You consider the US to be founded on the same principles as Egypt, Greece, and the like, rather than capitalism?
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  8640.  @charles6724  Ummm, I had posted 25 in response to you posting 26. Did you need a refresher, to remember 26? I didn't. 26 is an answer to the question in 25, not an immediate continuation of 24, as you dishonestly implied. As an answer to 25, it says it is not impossible to be saved. It does not say it's possible for a rich man, who continues to be rich, to get into Heaven. All the surrounding passages say selling all your possessions and following Jesus is the way to God.
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  8641.  @charles6724  My bad. You have the same colour avatar as Mike. Didn't even look at the name. Doesn't really change anything. Same applies if you read what I was replying to.
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  8642.  Mike C  Socialism doesn't require a state. Much of the US, and the Americas in general, was built on slavery. Was the US capitalist, or not?
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  8643.  Mike C   Yeah, not sure why you added the "centralized" qualifier, since the first comment. So, what would you consider a small community sharing property and wealth equally, and to each according to their need? If we agree on that, then what makes the Roman Republic not a capîtalist society?
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  8644.  Mike C  Not seeing the major distinction between colonial US or early US, and the Roman Republic. You seem to be pretending there weren't any average Roman farmers, farming their land, selling their produce at market ... or paid artisans, entertainers, carpenters, masons, etc. ... and that absolutely everything was slave based. The RR had a limited democratic republic, had a mixed slave/non-slave economy, had strikes, ...
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  8645.  @dennisfischer7676  Do you think priests, or whatnot, who have allegedly molested children, should still be allowed to teach choir, or Sunday school, alone with children, until they receive a guilty verdict? Or, do you think it might be prudent to give a time out, until the verdict comes through?
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  8646. You know dimwit Dore outright promoted Trump as the better option in 2016, right?
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  8647. ​ @conordelaney76  Evolution doesn't demand we survive any more than it demanded endless amounts of now extinct species survive. The universe doesn't care if we live or die. And objectivity, by definition, doesn't care if humans suffer or don't. It will simply state the fact that you are, or you aren't, suffering. Sam himself makes arguments in favor of causing people to suffer, so he doesn't actually believe it's an objective fact that causing suffering is doing something wrong.
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  8648. ​ @pocket83squared  This was Sam's starting given, accepted as widely agreed upon, when he first talked about his Moral Landscape ... "Now, it's generally understood that questions of morality -- questions of good and evil and right and wrong -- are questions about which science officially has no opinion. It's thought that science can help us get what we value, but it can never tell us what we ought to value." Right. So, if I subjectively value going to the moon, there are then objectively better and worse ways for me to achieve that goal, and science can help. Likewise, if someone were to subjectively value earthly well being, there would then be objectively better and worse ways to achieve that goal, and science could help. That was Sam's agreed upon starting point. Did he ever get beyond that point? No. Can science itself tell us we ought to value going to the moon, or value Sam's definition of "well being"? No. Sam got no further than the starting point, and therefore gave us nothing. Most of the time he's just talking sociology. Sociology already exists, with all kinds of measures of the human condition.
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  8649. ​ @pocket83squared Rofl! You opened with much strawmanning. I do believe in pure objectivity, and do believe there can be a reasonable basis for values ("reasonable" isn't the same as objective). I'm pretty sure empiricism can handle providing objective evidence of a floor. What's the empirical, objective, evidence that I ought to value X? There is none. Valuing X entirely relies on caring (subjectivity) about X. So, everyone who eats meat, including Sam, is objectively immoral? Everyone who justifies war, including Sam, is objectively immoral? Everyone who justifies torture, including Sam, is objectively immoral? Then you go ranting about religious gobbledygook. Even a god's morality would be based on subjectivity, it's own subjective likes and dislikes. Absolutely nobody, including them, has a case for objective morality.
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  8650. ​ @pocket83squared ​ Oh man, you opened with much strawmanning. I do believe in pure objectivity, and do believe there can be a reasonable basis for values ("reasonable" isn't the same as objective). I'm pretty sure empiricism can handle providing objective evidence of a floor. What's the empirical, objective, evidence that I ought to value X? There is none. Valuing X entirely relies on caring (subjectivity) about X. So, everyone who eats meat, including Sam, is objectively immoral? Everyone who justifies war, including Sam, is objectively immoral? Everyone who justifies torture, including Sam, is objectively immoral? Then you go on about religious gobbledygook. Even a god's morality would be based on subjectivity, it's own subjective likes and dislikes. Absolutely nobody has ever made a valid case for objective morality.
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  8651.  @markmatson3468  What a dimwitted reply.
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  8652.  @LesterBrunt  So, you don't yammer on against those things, letting everyone know there's some thousandth of percent chance of dying from a car ride?
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  8653. They should actually be banned from congress, if they claim a god is on their side, is guiding them, or argues against policies based on religious grounds. They are violating that the government shouldn't be peddling one religion over others.
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  8654. He would actually make a great Shultz.
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  8655. The Nazis weren't "at war" with the Jewish underground and Warsaw ghetto. They had already won the war part, and were occupiers.
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  8656. Everyone forgetting that Trump also claimed the 2016 popular vote was stolen ... that he actually won the popular vote. He then set up his own election integrity commission, which found nothing and quietly ended.
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  8657. We've been expanding immigration, actually. So ...
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  8658. @@nf_100 Both moronic lies. How do you think "Israelites" became "Jews"? The kingdom of Israel was destroyed, by the Assyrians, 120 years before the Babylonians conquered the little kingdom of Judah. Israelite refugees, that fled to Judah, gave up even calling themselves "Israelites", and they all became Judahites ("Jew" being the Europeanized form). When they created their religion in Babylon, it became known as "Judaism", not "Israelism". Even the people of that kingdom of Israel stopped using it as their main identifier. No part of the region was called "Israel" ever again. Even when the Jews got semi-autonomy, under the Greeks, they called it "Judea", again not using "Israel" as an identifier. No "Israel", for thousands of years. Right beside the kingdom of Judah, was Philistia, which also lasted about 120 years longer than Israel, and all, or part, of the region has been called Peleset, Philistia, Philistine, Palestine, or Filastin, by the Egyptians, Assyrians, Babylonians, Persians, Greeks, Western Romans, Christian pilgrims, Eastern Romans, early Muslims, Christian crusaders, the Ottomans, the British, and even the first Zionist congress, who wrote that they wanted to create a Jewish home "in Palestine".
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  8659. As said, the problem is a lot bigger than just him. Likud's platform, has promised to completely colonize and ethnically cleanse all Palestine territories, as well as parts of Jordan, Syria, and Lebanon, since the 70s. Likud was founded by Irgun and Lehi terrorists, followers of Ze'ev Jabotinsky, whose goal was always to colonize it all. Israelis still celebrate them as "heroes". In its previous form, Herut, Einstein and other notbale Jews, likened the party to fascists and Nazis. Many Israelis , who dislike Netanyahu, think he's too soft. Israel has a Third Reich level societal problem.
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  8660.  @cunningman45  "Gaslighting" is a specific form of manipulation that attempts to make someone feel, or appear, insane. Simply lying, even if she is, isn't "gaslighting".
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  8661.  @Btdenn123  You have reading comprehension problems.
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  8662. Peru, where it was used most, is the worst in the world for covid deaths per million.
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  8663.  @peterjansen4826  India, Mexico, and Peru, are 3, 4, and 5, for total deaths. India has the most new cases a day. You're insane to think that's a "smashing success".
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  8664. ​ @bl4ckkn1g8t5  Are you brain-dead? The "why" is an answer to your bogus claim about bankrupting the system. It was Trumpty Dumpty, and Republicans, who cut taxes for the rich, and corporations, to try and bankrupt the system.
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  8665. ​​@@Ad_Blocker_For_YouTube 200 years of slavery, another 100 years of Jim Crow, fighting for racism until the bitter end. Guess it rubbed off on her. She went to a private prep school that was literally founded to avoid desegregation. Still basically doing segregation down there ... "By 2007, the Orangeburg public school system was 90 percent black, while Orangeburg Prep was still 95 percent white."
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  8666.  @DubhghlasMacDubhghlas  I think they are much more used to a lower standard of living, a lack of conveniences, and already had connections with neighbors who could supply them. And, yes, a lot of countries have less obesity than the US, and are in better shape, on average.
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  8667. Aren't you the ones bitching that leftists are ignoring law and order? Which is it? Do you wear a seatbelt?
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  8668. ​ @justsayn5255  He has been committing fraud, since he was a toddler. Doesn't know any other way. "In total, the president’s father and mother transferred over $1 billion to their children, according to the Times tally. That should have produced a tax bill of at least $550 million, based on a 55 percent tax on gifts and inheritance at the time. Instead, the children paid $52.2 million, or about 5 percent."
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  8669.  @d34dmantwoguns  It's dishonest to say it won't hurt anyone, at all. A disabled person with a child, as an example, would be getting over $1000 per month already. Opting in or out won't change the fact that a 10% tax on electricity, phone service, internet, cable, clothes, toys, non staple snack foods and pop, any other forms of entertainment, etc., will make them worse off and unable to buy, or do, as much as before.
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  8670.  @d34dmantwoguns  I'll tell you that I was once at a point in my life where $20 made a difference between getting through the month and not. Gangers don't seem to care that some of the poorest people will be worse off, as long as it benefits most of them. Might as well be Republicans.
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  8671.  @d34dmantwoguns  I'm talking about the poorest of the poor, who aren't on partial assistance, don't have low paying jobs. I'm talking about the ones on full assistance, for example a disabled parent with one child, who are already getting $1000+ in government assistance. Yang's plan isn't a supplement, for them. His plan doesn't stack with SSI. It either replaces, or they opt out. Either way, with numerous goods and services costing 10% more, they will be worse off. Even exempting some staples will still leave having to pay more for electricity, phone service, internet, cable, other forms of entertainment, clothes, toys, etc., with the same amount of money. Yang isn't anti-capitalist. For those who will benefit from the UBI, he's handing them more money to go shopping. His main tax proposal, the VAT, doesn't actually tax corporations. It taxes the consumers. Corporations, like Amazon, who he mentions the most, still won't be paying taxes, and will make more money off of all the people with extra money. That, in turn, will give Bezos more money to hoard and hoarded money isn't affected by a VAT.
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  8672.  Spastic Quadriplegic  Well, you're in luck. Most Germans and Japanese want a full, or partial, removal of US troops. So, Trump's dumb threats to pull out aren't really much of a threat.
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  8673. So, Hebrews are Mesopotamians, and at no point in history were ever native to the land, is what you're saying?
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  8674.  @neutrino78x  That was an incoherent mess. Mesopotamia is not Africa, and the Bible literally describes natives of Mesopotamia conquering other people, who were already there. Genociding the natives is pretty much the opposite of being a native.
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  8675.  @neutrino78x  I do not believe, for a second, that you have a high IQ, because all the evidence you're providing points towards you being a complete and utter moron. People were spread all over the world, well before a civilization developed in Mesopotamia. Pretty much every human civilization did not descend from it. Many pre civilization migrations not only didn't require pausing in Mesopotamia, they didn't even require stepping foot in Mesopotamia. Migration to Southern Asia, via the Southern route out of Africa, not only didn't require stopping in the Mediterranean, to count as "descending" from it, it didn't even require passing through it. There goes half of the global population, and the civilizations they created. Egypt clearly doesn't require leaving Africa. Neither does North Africa. People leaving Africa do not have to travel to Mesopotamia, to go back to Canaan. It's the first habitable place, leaving Africa along the coast. You just leave and stop. You do not need to wander over to Mesopotamia, to get to Turkey, where the Hittite civilization emerged. Just stick to the Mediterranean coast. Likewise, with getting to Europe, from Africa. Do you also believe we all talked the same language, almost built a tower to Heaven (which would place Heaven a few hundred feet above Iraq), and were then magically teleported around the world with different languages, less than 6000 years ago?
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  8676. Oh yeah, are they going to stab a cop in the eye and try to overthrow the government?
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  8677. ​ @mychannel5019  Israel is objectively the aggressor by every relevant measure, dumb dumb ... Modern history: 100 years ago, in 1923, Ze'ev Jabotinsky fully acknowledged that Zionism is colonialism, and that, based on the entirety of history, the natives would fight it until the bitter end. He just didn't care what would happen to them, and promoted doing it anyway. Colonizers are never not the aggressors. On top of the colonialist nature of Zionism, the Zionists also formed terrorist organizations, like the Irgun and Lehi. They bombed many Palestinian markets and other public places, murdering many civilians, including children, even including Palestinian Jews (who opposed Zionism). Israel merged those terrorists into the new nation's military and intelligence agencies. Israelis elected Menachem Begin, leader of the Irgun, child murderer, Jew murderer, and bomber of the King David Hotel, as PM. Israelis, to this day, celebrate those terrorists as "heroes". Zionists literally taught their neighbours that terrorism is a valid path to independence and statehood, and that terrorists are to be celebrated. In 1945, it is well documented that Zionists owned just 5% of the land and were a majority nowhere. Israel was formed by actually going against the majority population. It's foundation is completely undemocratic. Then, becoming a majority, in "their" new nation, by ethnic cleansing the actual majority, and then claiming to be democratic, is utter nonsense. Law: Israel is considered an occupier by the International Court, the UN GA, and the UN SC. Occupiers are also never not the aggressors. Those occupied actually have a right to resist occupation. On the flip side, it is illegal for the occupier to settle occupied lands, and illegal to use collective punishment. Israel is a rogue nation, that doesn't abide by international law. What it has been doing, and is doing now, is illegal. Current events: This year, alone, prior to Oct 7 ... Israel held over 1200 Palestinian hostages without charges ... over 200 Palestinians had been killed by the IDF and settlers ... over 1000 Palestinians had been displaced by Israel's neverending colonization of the West Bank ... and, Israel continued to operate an open air WWII style fascist ghetto, in Gaza. Even ignoring modern history and law, in no reality did Hamas "start" anything.
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  8678. ​ @elconquistador5469  The UN Office of Genocide Prevention considers ethnic cleansing in their wheelhouse. Because, if they don't move, they die. Likud's, "between the sea and the Jordan", platform ... 1977: "The Right of the Jewish People to the Land of Israel (Eretz Israel) a. The right of the Jewish people to the land of Israel is eternal and indisputable and is linked with the right to security and peace; therefore, Judea and Samaria will not be handed to any foreign administration; between the Sea and the Jordan there will only be Israeli sovereignty. b. A plan which relinquishes parts of western Eretz Israel, undermines our right to the country, unavoidably leads to the establishment of a "Palestinian State," jeopardizes the security of the Jewish population, endangers the existence of the State of Israel. and frustrates any prospect of peace." "Settlement Settlement. both urban and rural. in all parts of the Land of Israel is the focal point of the Zionist effort to redeem the country, to maintain vital security areas and serves as a reservoir of strength and inspiration for the renewal of the pioneering spirit. The Likud government will call on the younger generation in Israel and the dispersions to settle and help every group and individual in the task of inhabiting and cultivating the wasteland, while taking care not to dispossess anyone." 1999: "The Government of Israel flatly rejects the establishment of a Palestinian Arab state west of the Jordan river. The Palestinians can run their lives freely in the framework of self-rule, but not as an independent and sovereign state. Thus, for example, in matters of foreign affairs, security, immigration, and ecology, their activity shall be limited in accordance with imperatives of Israel's existence, security and national needs." "The Jewish communities in Judea, Samaria, and Gaza are the realization of Zionist values. Settlement of the land is a clear expression of the unassailable right of the Jewish people to the Land of Israel and constitutes an important asset in the defense of the vital interests of the State of Israel. The Likud will continue to strengthen and develop these communities and will prevent their uprooting."
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  8679. Wrestling has to be the worst sport to pick to get all upset about. a) it's a sport with a weight class, so it's never going to be some David vs Goliath scenario, no matter what; b) plenty of schools don't even have girls' teams, and the girls have had to wrestle boys anyway, to even have someone to compete against.
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  8680.  @biteme9869  Rofl. Nice strawman, dimwit.
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  8681. Nah, it's more a problem with folks like Pakman, and people scared to call certain things "socialism". "Social democracy" is a decent mix of both capitalism and socialism. If you want to socialize a sector of society, say have health insurance publicly owned and operated, or education publicly owned and operated, then those sectors of society are socialistic. If you did that with all sectors, you'd have 100% socialism. If you privatized everything, have all sectors privately owned and operated, then you'd have 100% capitalism. Nobody disagrees that privatizing something isn't capitalistic. A true centrism (not US centrism which is actually right of centre) would be about 50/50 capitalism/socialism. Denmark pays like 60% taxes, has 70+% unionization, and has 30% of its workforce in the public sector. It's a pretty even mix, and ranked one of the best places in the world to live. So, "social democracy" is more properly democratic centrism, which is both "capitalism" and "socialism". David, and others, are just being dodgy, implying it's not at all "socialism". Basically every country in the world, except for the few remaining absolute monarchies, is now running on some percentage of both capitalism and socialism. Bernie is committed to democracy, and is currently only pushing for that kind of centrism. If his actual ideal is well left of that centre, then he's a democratic socialist. If not, then maybe he should call himself a democratic centrist. Either way, he is committed to the democratic part, and will only go as far as democracy will allow.
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  8682.  @ssiipp7848  It's like you're saving the word "socialism" for 100% socialism, and calling anything short of that "capitalism", which makes no sense.
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  8683.  @ssiipp7848  Extreme capitalists would prefer seeing social safety nets fully privatized, run by charities and private donations ... privately owned and operated. A "social democracy" supports making many of those things publicly owned, operated, and funded. A "social democracy" supports a degree of socialism. It's centrism ... a mix of both ... but you're pretending it's not at all socialism, claiming it's "capitalism" plus something you're refusing to call "socialism". What do you think a mixed economy is a mix of?
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  8684.  @ssiipp7848  No, democratic socialism does not refer to a post capitalistic system. It refers to the path to achieve socialism ... through democracy rather than violent revolution. Your centrism is on that path, from where the US is now.
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  8685.  @ssiipp7848  I didn't change anything. You claimed it comes after ditching capitalism, which is bullshit. Democratic socialists founded the early labour party, in the UK. It's a democratic path to ditching capitalism, and "social democracy", centrism, is on that path away from all out capitalism. How the hell is centrism "capitalism"?
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  8686.  @ssiipp7848  It really shouldn't be too hard to understand that the "social democracy" Pakman supports is centrism, and to act like centrism is capitalistic and not socialistic, to act like a fairly evenly mixed economy isn't a fairly evenly mix of both, is nonsensical. It's in the centre of both. It's a mix of both. "Social democracy" doesn't think capitalism is the best way to run many sectors of society, and advocates for those sectors to be socialized. That's advocating for an amount of socialism, while also advocating to keep an amount of capitalism. It isn't only advocating for capitalism. It's like you're arguing for only half of what "social democracy" actually is. "Social democracy" used to mean exactly the same thing as "democratic socialism", and it's still taking socialism as far as centrism. It's flawed, if the centre aimed for isn't the actual centre between capitalism and socialism, and instead a false centre is aimed for. That gets you corporate Dems, sitting in the "centre" of an Overton window that's almost completely right of centre. https://www.britannica.com/biography/Eduard-Bernstein
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  8687. @franquil85conn  NYC was picked because the other proposals didn't include as many giveaways as NYC, giveaways AOC opposed. So, why not bash everyone who didn't offer as many giveaways?
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  8688. @franquil85conn  Rofl. She didn't singularly stop the deal, dingus. There were others against it. And, there were numerous other cities that didn't offer the giveaways NYC did. It's not "whataboutism" to point out that I've never heard a MAGA maroon criticize anyone but her. DeSantis started a war with Disney, Florida's (the US's) largest single site employer.
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  8689.  @franquil85conn  It is not whataboutism to bring up people directly involved in the process ... you know ... mayors and their city councils. AOC doesn't represent her district at the city, or state, level. She represents them at the federal level. Neither the federal government, nor her, were directly involved in the process. Sure 🙄. DeSantis picked a fight with the largest single site employer in the country, and you lot were fine with it.
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  8690. @franquil85conn  “A number of state and local politicians have made it clear that they oppose our presence and will not work with us to build the type of relationships that are required to go forward,” Amazon said in a statement. She is neither, dingus. Why lie?
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  8691.  @franquil85conn   “A number of state and local politicians have made it clear that they oppose our presence and will not work with us to build the type of relationships that are required to go forward,” Amazon said in a statement. She is neither of those. She is federal.
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  8692.  @franquil85conn  "Not only progressive activists took issue with the Amazon deal: Michael R. Bloomberg, who championed New York City as a technology hub while mayor, questioned the incentive package earlier this month." You going to say Bloomberg doesn't understand how things work, dingus?
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  8693.  @franquil85conn  Cities don't tax income, dingus.
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  8694.  @franquil85conn  You literally said "26,000 incomes taxed annually", dingus. Now you're just moving your goalpost.
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  8695.  @franquil85conn  It doesn't matter where in the US, for federal taxes. No clue why you're including them. If Amazon is in NYC or Juneau, it's all the same to their revenue, and they weren't officially involved. That would be the branch of government AOC was elected to, and she was also not officially involved. She had absolutely no vote on the matter. Cuomo blamed state senators, who were officially involved. AOC isn't one. Amazon blamed state and local officials, who were officially involved. AOC is neither of those. The mayor blamed Amazon. You clearly only mentioned annual income tax, which wouldn't pay back the city, at all, which was offering half of the $3b. Cities shouldn't be paying for stadiums, either. Let the billionaire owners pay for them. There was a proposed housing project, for that property. So, the city was throwing away property taxes, by a) offering for an already lower rate commercial use, and b) offering to cut that already lower rate in half. NYC already grows by around 25000 people a year, the vast majority of which find jobs, without throwing away over $1b to a billionaire. That amount of jobs is a blip, in a city of 8+ million people. Plus, beyond throwing money away ... one of the issues was that Amazon wouldn't commit to hiring locally. Bringing in thousands more people, while tossing out housing projects (including 1500 affordable housing units), would drive up demand on what's currently available, increasing rents, and not employing the locals. Pure downside for the locals. Stop talking about things that are irrelevant (federal government, federal representative, income taxes) to paying back the city, if you don't want to hear how they're irrelevant to paying back the city, and take a civics lesson or something.
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  8696.  @mattheww797  There are pictures of plenty of New Yorkers, in groups and crowds, not wearing masks on New Year's, outdoors. Cops weren't rounding them up. She didn't do anything in Florida that she couldn't have done in NYC.
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  8697.  @luchi.el.zorrito  You keep ignoring the part where her mother lives in Florida, dimwit. If some right winger went home to visit a parent in a blue state for the holidays, after criticizing their governor, that doesn't make them a hypocrite, dimwit. It's even possible to live right in a state, while criticizing the governor, ffs.
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  8698.  @Mniagmdmah  And Europe knows that a VAT doesn't tax corporations. Yang doesn't even know how his key tax actually works. https://ec.europa.eu/taxation_customs/business/vat/what-is-vat_en The top European countries have higher marginal tax rates, high unionization, higher wages, free college, universal healthcare, mandatory paid parental leave, more paid vacations, successful retraining programs, double the percentage of the population working public jobs ... and then they tax their better paid, higher standard of living, consumers with a VAT. All that is more of a Bernie platform.
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  8699.  @zambot264  I thought you guys liked math. It'd still be a full 1% of yearly income even if you bumped them up to $40k a year.
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  8700.  @TheMoBrother  You're a delusional moron, repeatedly spouting pure bullshit that you can cover 3x the people with zero extra public funding. Cutting down paperwork won't do it.
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  8701.  @gibblesbits8303  Nope. All someone has to do is get zero economic benefit from the UBI, like a single disabled parent on full SSI disability ($771) and SNAP for 2+ ($355+). Overall pass through rates include zero rated goods, which nobody is paying taxes in. Yang's own linked to pass through study outright says 100% pass through on standard rated goods and services. Yang just doesn't understand how a VAT works, or what the study actually says. Consumers are paying 100% of the tax on 50% of the goods and services, not consumers and businesses paying 50/50.
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  8702.  @lukedastoli9959  You guys keep pretending a UBI and VAT are the same. A VAT is regressive. Consumption taxes are regressive. You could have a UBI paid for by corporations, like Alaska's dividend. Yang likes to pretend his dividend is like that. Actually have it like that, and not have the regressive VAT.
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  8703.  @lukedastoli9959  Plus, since a VAT doesn't actually tax corporations like Amazon, they won't be paying into the dividend, which means they will only get the benefit of the dividend being spent. Amazon would make an extra $60b a year from $3t in extra consumer spending. That would make Bezos and extra $6+b a year. He could buy a new $1b yacht every single year, paying $100m in VAT, and still be in the plus $5.9b. Increasing inequality isn't progressive.
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  8704.  @mountainsky4279  A UBI needs to be paid for by corporations or you're only going to make their billionaire owners even more billions a year, funneling money from doctors, lawyers, smaller business owners, etc., down to you and then up to the .01%.
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  8705.  @agitch  Not necessarily, when it comes to people currently getting some kind of unstackable assistance. Currently, SSI disability and SNAP stack. Yang doesn't have his UBI stack with either. SSI disability is going up to $783 this year + $194 in SNAP = $977. They'd get a big benefit of $23 a month. People spend about 30% of their incomes on VATable goods and services, which would put them in the negative $7 a month. Meanwhile, someone making $300k a year would pay in $9k a year, and be in the plus $3k a year, $2700 in the plus even if they spent all of that $3k on VATable goods and services. At the very top are billionaires like Bezos, who will benefit a ton from the UBI being spent. A VAT doesn't actually tax businesses. Amazon's share of US consumer spending is 2.3%. If even 2% of $3t is spent on Amazon, they'd make an extra $60b a year. That would make Bezos, 12% owner, an extra $6+b a year. He could buy a brand new $1b yacht every single year, paying $100m in VAT, and still be up $5.9+b a year. Poor people buy cheaper stuff, do cheaper things, but still eat out, pay for entertainment, pay for utilities, and other VATable spending. https://images.app.goo.gl/QttkHU7sMJaCePvJ8
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  8706.  @Mniagmdmah  Why did you assume I assumed you were against those things? Did I say you were? We're talking the VAT. Europe doesn't falsely claim a VAT taxes corporations. They outright say it's designed to NOT tax businesses in order to avoid double taxation. Same with Canada ... "The GST takes into account the cost of inputs – the factors used in manufacturing or production – at each stage of the process to avoid double taxation. Input tax credits enable partnerships, businesses and self-employed workers to recover all GST paid on goods and services purchased for business purposes by deducting them from their GST payments. Final consumers are not entitled to such credits, which means that they pay all the GST on every item purchased. The GST is thus a multi-stage tax on final consumption." http://publications.gc.ca/Collection-R/LoPBdP/BP/prb0003-e.htm#A.%20Taxing%20Mechanism(txt)
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  8707.  @Mniagmdmah  How is it true for incomes taxes that tax a higher percentage of income the higher the income?
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  8708.  @Mniagmdmah  A GST is a VAT, ffs. You, apparently, don't even know the basics.
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  8709.  @Mniagmdmah  You're exempting staples for the rich, as well. What remains taxed affects poor people more. Their cheap "luxury" cell phone and cheap "luxury" cell phone plan, will still be 10% more. Since a VAT doesn't tax businesses, as Yang falsely claims, they won't be paying into the dividend, which means they'd only get the benefits of the dividend being spent. Amazon would make extra tens of billions a year. Bezos would make extra billions a year more than he'd ever personally pay into a VAT. The tax dodge isn't the tax. An increasing marginal tax rate isn't regressive.
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  8710.  @Edd1148.  His UBI doesn't stack with SSI disability, nor SNAP, which both currently do stack. There are a million disabled kids on both. Plus 4 million adults collecting both SNAP and either SSI or SSDI, with Yang only stacking the SSDI. The goal should also be to have corporations paying for it, as he falsely claims a VAT will do. If you're going to compare your dividend to the Alaskan dividend, which is paid for by corporations, then actually have corporations paying into yours. If they don't pay in, then you'll increase inequality when they, and their shareholders, benefit from $3t in extra consumer spending. I'm kinda sick of all the different taxes and ways they dodge them. I think if they want to do business in a country, benefit from that country's infrastructure, benefit from that country's military protecting shipping lanes and corporate interests abroad, etc., then that country should simply get shares of the business being done in that country.
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  8711.  @Mniagmdmah  You know what "or" means, right? How would M4A hurt some poor people and make the super rich even richer? You need to work on your analogies. My sources are paying a VAT for 30 years, operating a VAT registered business, and filling out VAT returns for years. You're talking nonsense. Paying back businesses for their input VAT is part of the design to avoid double taxation. Not paying them back would be worse, dumb dumb. You should get the money back for your supposed degree.
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  8712.  @Mniagmdmah  And the sources I provided you were from governments, which you somehow confused for YouTube channels.
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  8713.  @Mniagmdmah  Shove your bullshit strawmen, moron. Ironic, you telling me to learn to read.
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  8714.  @Mniagmdmah  Go back and get a refund for your "degree", for them not teaching you double taxation is a bad thing.
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  8715.  @Mniagmdmah  Moron. The manufacturer didn't sell to themselves. They sold to someone else who paid the $2.2. The manufacturer keeps the $2, and sends the 20¢ (apparently making zero profit). If that was a final consumer, then they've paid the full $2.20, dumbass fuck. You are dumber than a stump.
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  8716.  @Mniagmdmah  I am reading, and it's just sad.
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  8717.  @Mniagmdmah  You've outright proven your "degree" should be used as toilet paper.
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  8718.  @Mniagmdmah  Table 1, dumbass. If the final consumer paid $49 and the government collected $49, how much did each of the businesses pay in? http://publications.gc.ca/Collection-R/LoPBdP/BP/prb0003-e.htm#A.%20Taxing%20Mechanism(txt)
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  8719.  @Mniagmdmah  Which of these words confuse you, dumb dumb? "a consumption tax because it is borne ultimately by the final consumer. It is not a charge on businesses." "taxable persons (i.e., VAT-registered businesses) deduct from the VAT they have collected the amount of tax they have paid to other taxable persons on purchases for their business activities" "The VAT due on any sale is a percentage of the sale price but from this the taxable person is entitled to deduct all the tax already paid at the preceding stage. Therefore, double taxation is avoided and tax is paid only on the value added at each stage of production and distribution. In this way, as the final price of the product is equal to the sum of the values added at each preceding stage, the final VAT paid is made up of the sum of the VAT paid at each stage." https://ec.europa.eu/taxation_customs/business/vat/what-is-vat_en
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  8720.  @Mniagmdmah  I said the consumer pays the full $2.20 moron. I didn't say they get a credit, shit for brains. The manufacturer got their $2 back, and paid jack shit in taxes. The irony of you telling me to learn how to read is fucking incredible.
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  8721.  @Mniagmdmah  Moron. Yes, the final price is $22.20, $2.20 of which is collected output VAT, the business then keeps $2 for the input VAT they've spent, and sends 20¢ to the government. You don't have a degree in shit.
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  8722.  @Mniagmdmah  Since you couldn't grasp a table, with just words and numbers, and apparently couldn't do double digit math, here's one with pictures, single digit math, and the fucking answer on the right. See if you can grasp it. If the final consumer pays $2 and the government collects $2, how much did the businesses pay in? 2 - 2 = ? https://images.app.goo.gl/qEzTdzbJ7UeXoBMK6
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  8723.  @Mniagmdmah  This sentence seems pretty straightforward. Which word(s) didn't you understand? "It is not a charge on businesses." https://ec.europa.eu/taxation_customs/business/vat/what-is-vat_en
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  8724.  @Mniagmdmah  How many VAT countries would you like to argue against reality with? You're at about 30, now. "You can claim a credit for any GST included in the price of any goods and services you buy for your business." https://www.ato.gov.au/business/gst/claiming-gst-credits/ "If you’re GST registered, you can claim back the GST you pay on goods or services you buy for your business." https://www.business.govt.nz/tax-and-accounting/basic-tax-types/gst/
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  8725.  @Mniagmdmah  Fuck you are dumber than a stump. Yes, every picture contradicts what you're arguing. You apparently even couldn't grasp the single digit math picture. I don't believe you made it past grade 1 math.
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  8726.  @Mniagmdmah  Which of these words confuses you? "the taxable person is entitled to deduct all the tax already paid at the preceding stage. Therefore, double taxation is avoided" https://ec.europa.eu/taxation_customs/business/vat/what-is-vat_en
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  8727.  @Mniagmdmah  No, moron. I am literally calling you stupid. The rest of the world doesn't claim the VAT is a tax on businesses.
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  8728.  @Mniagmdmah  I understand that you're as dumb as a stump.
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  8729.  @Mniagmdmah  Holy fuck, you dumbass shit. You are the one arguing to not credit back corporations, leaving the tax as a cost, which would cause double taxation ... exactly what a VAT is designed to avoid, by paying them back their input VAT.
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  8730.  @Mniagmdmah  It clears up, that you are obviously clueless.
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  8731.  @Mniagmdmah  Fuck you're stupid. Final consumer pays $2. Government collects $2. How much did the businesses end up paying in? 2 - 2 = ? You can do this! https://images.app.goo.gl/gFTKZbmPqdAjyR1g8
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  8732.  @Mniagmdmah  You CLEARLY don't have a degree in economics.
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  8733.  @Mniagmdmah  $4.20 - $2 (credited back to the manufacturer) = $2.20 (which the final consumer paid) You are, objectively, a moron.
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  8734.  @starfireb.4098  Oh well. Trump is even hated in a place that had a Trump light, Boris Johnson. UK: "Meanwhile Donald Trump remains unpopular among the general public. Seven in ten (70%) are unfavourable towards him whilst 13% have a favourable opinion of the former President. 14% say they have neither a favourable nor unfavourable opinion of him. These findings are comparable to Trump’s ratings after he left office in January 2021 (13% favourable, 11% neither favourable nor unfavourable, 74% unfavourable)."
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  8735.  @starfireb.4098  Could be hidden (only able to see it if you sort comments by newest and refund thread). My last reply, to you, isn't showing.
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  8736.  @starfireb.4098  Mine didn't, and it's also gone or hidden. The YouTube algorithm is weird. That's why some comments say they have 12 replies, or something, but you can only see a handful, unless you sort by newest. Nobody worships Biden. That they didn't see Biden signs, or trucks, or boats, or mga rallies, is one of MAGA's own claims. Leader worship is a fascist MAGA thing.
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  8737.  @rickrobitaille5590  Trump's a loser. He even had the most border crossings in 2019, than any year since 2007. He averaged more border crossings per year than Obama. He sucked at the one thing all the racists voted for him for.
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  8738.  @licksta611  Do you think the corporate end of the Democratic party is the better end, rather than the progressive end?
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  8739.  Buttered Lumps  I said he was about as far left as politicians go, in the US. But, that doesn't actually get you further left than centre-left, at most. Outside the US? Some of our NDP members, here in Canada. Many people in Spain's United Left coalition. Probably some Labour Party members in the UK. There's still lots of room left of Bernie. There is no room right of Johnson, Paul Ryan, and others promoting Randian crap.
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  8740. They say the same thing.
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  8741.  @Alexa-Raine  Both "I can walk and chew gum" or " I can chew gum and walk", would have been fine, dimwit.
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  8742. Yeah, needing vaccines to go to public school, or needing to wear safety gear for some jobs ... totally samesies as the Holocaust. Grow up.
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  8743.  michael piro  If you cut your per capita healthcare costs in half, you could have 300m immigrants come in and still be paying what you are now, dumbass. Also, Canada already takes in more refugees per capita than the US. You send most of yours back.
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  8744. You're saying it's impossible for me to hold the belief that I can prove your belief is wrong. But, isn't that why we are having this merry go around argument, becaue we both believe we can?
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  8745. There is no such thing as free speech rights on someone else's private property. Never has been. They were always the gatekeepers of what was said on their property, from the start. Inciting insurrections, defamation, and the like, aren't even protected speech in actual public squares.
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  8746.  @smartass0124  Didn't you get your conspiracy "theory" mixed up? Wasn't the bogus claim supposed to be that an undercover fed, in red face, was handing out baseball bats? Or, did it change to Capitol police after it was found out that guy was a Trump loving Cardinals fan?
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  8747.  @smartass0124  Yep, he was found out to be a Trump supporter. Cardinal fan 'Rally Runner' wrapped up in Jan. 6 conspiracy: The Rally Runner, whose real name we don't know, posted in December of 2020 that he was using his stimulus check to travel to Washington D.C. to support Trump and his claims that the election was stolen from him. "It was flat out stolen and we know it," he posted in a video. "We don't have to be able to prove it." Hard to mistake in the crowd, the Rally Runner said he was able to force his way to the front of the crowd when Trump supporters attacked the Capitol. "I'm right of the front of it and got through those doors into the Capitol," he said in a Facebook video posted on Jan. 6. "And that's when reinforcement came, shooting rubber bullets, tear gas, and mace. My face felt like it was on fire.” Now, nearly a year later, the cable news conspiracy is that the Rally Runner was really a sophisticated secret agent sent to set up Trump supporters by provoking violence.
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  8748.  @elizabethstanley7137  Trump ended zero Ws, and dropped more 🧨 per year than Obama, weirdo. US forces aren't technically in any new Ws, under Biden, pulled out of Afghanistan, and 2022 was the first year, since 2001, with 0 US mltry cmbt losses.
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  8749.  @elizabethstanley7137  He didn't get out of any, last time, weirdo. 2022 was the first year, since 2001, with zero hstl actn losses.
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  8750.    Don't you Abrahamic religious people worship a trans god (a formless, sexless, penisless, being that goes by "he", "him", "Father", or whatnot)? Shouldn't you be part of the lgbt community, as trans worshippers?
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  8751. Progressives need to vote their asses off in 2022. The progressive caucus is possibly one election away from becoming the majority of house Dems. They could then pick the party speaker, and put progressive bills up for a vote as often as the want.
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  8752. That makes little sense. After losing to Eisenhower, Democrats moved a little further right. After losing to Nixon, Democrats moved a little further right. After losing to Reagan, Democrats moved a little further right. After losing to Bush, Democrats moved a little further right. After losing to Trump, Democrats pushed Biden over Bernie. Bernie actually did better in 2016, after a previous Democrat. And, Israel was ethnically cleansing Palestine that whole time. You need to pressure members or get more progressive members in congress, because with the amount of support Israel has in congress, they can pass whatever bills supporting Israel they want, and have the numbers to override any presidential veto. The president is of little relevance, in the big picture. And, you'll end up with someone who will support Israel even harder, will let Russia do to Ukraine what Israel is doing to Palestine, who has said he wants a pledge of allegiance to Israel to get in the country, who has said he wants to reinstate and expand his Muslim ban (and Republicans have even been talking trying to deport Palestine supporters that weren't born in the US, like Ilhan), who could f up the courts even worse, who has said he wants to go after leftists, etc., etc., etc.
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  8753. ​ @kingjoeblack5  You know the vast majority of the spike in incarcerations was due to the war on drugs, led mainly by Republicans, starting under Nixon, yeah?
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  8754.  @staticcouch135  They are trapped, and the OP is delusional. There is so much Israel support in congress that they can easily override any president. The president is irrelevant, for this issue. You'll end up with Trump, who is worse.
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  8755. Started by protesting taxes that specifically funded the red coats (military/police) and against being disenfranchised. They fought against those who wanted to keep an unelected ruler in power. Present Republicans are the exact opposite. Figures they'd like the British monarchy.
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  8756. "Nukes don't kill people, people kill people! Buy a Fallout Fat Man at your local Walmart, today!" ~ Jessie Watters, I guess
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  8757. What's "so far left" mean, to you?
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  8758. Very cowardly to slander people. Bush, Tlaib, AOC, and Pressley have all supported her.
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  8759.  @Gonken88  Israel is objectively the aggressor, by every relevant measure... Modern history: 100 years ago, in 1923, Ze'ev Jabotinsky fully acknowledged that Zionism is colonialism, and that, based on the entirety of history, the natives would fight it until the bitter end. He just didn't care what would happen to them, and promoted doing it anyway. Colonizers are never not the aggressors. On top of the colonialist nature of Zionism, the Zionists also formed terrorist organizations, like the Irgun and Lehi. They bombed many Palestinian markets and other public places, murdering many civilians, including children, even including Palestinian Jews (who opposed Zionism). Israel merged those terrorists into the new nation's military and intelligence agencies. Israelis elected Menachem Begin, leader of the Irgun, child murderer, Jew murderer, and bomber of the King David Hotel, as PM. Israelis, to this day, celebrate those terrorists as "heroes". Zionists literally taught their neighbours that terrorism is a valid path to independence and statehood, and that terrorists are to be celebrated. In 1945, it is well documented that Zionists owned just 5% of the land and were a majority nowhere. Israel was formed by actually going against the majority population. It's foundation is completely undemocratic. Then, becoming a majority, in "their" new nation, by ethnic cleansing the actual majority, and then claiming to be democratic, is utter nonsense. Law: Israel is considered an occupier by the International Court, the UN GA, and the UN SC. Occupiers are also never not the aggressors. Those occupied actually have a right to resist occupation. On the flip side, it is illegal for the occupier to settle occupied lands, and illegal to use collective punishment. Israel is a rogue nation, that doesn't abide by international law. What it has been doing, and is doing now, is illegal. Current events: This year, alone, prior to Oct 7 ... Israel held over 1200 Palestinian hostages without charges ... over 200 Palestinians had been killed by the IDF and settlers ... over 1000 Palestinians had been displaced by Israel's neverending colonization of the West Bank ... and, Israel continued to operate an open air WWII style fascist ghetto, in Gaza. Even ignoring modern history and law, in no reality did Hamas "start" anything.
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  8760.  @laqueefa8509  Dore is an idiot. The original "plan" he "organized" was to hand the speakership to McCarthy, because Dore's original wording, and numerous times after, never stated that the 15 progressives he picked need to cast protest votes. He kept repeating simply "withhold" or "don't vote for", which implies abstaining. It took others to fix the major hole in his "plan", because he's an idiot who doesn't know how the government works. Dore also "organized" helping Trump win in 2016, by arguing that Trump was a better option than Clinton, not caring if 10m of the poorest Americans were thrown of Medicaid expansion, and not caring to add 40m older Americans to Medicare expansion. He also "organized" supporting Tulsi and her "Medicare choice" over Bernie and M4A. He also "organized" an attack ad campaign against Trump's only remaining viable opponent in 2020, doing what he could to help him win again. He also "organized" support for the third party route that hasn't won the most popular third party a single seat in congress in its near 50 year existence. A route that would, at best peel away enough progressive votes from Dems to hand the party totally back to corporate Dems and let Republicans rule for decades. Dimwit Dore knobs don't grasp that "vote blue" works both ways, and that Dem voters who vote against progressives in the primaries vote for them in the general. If you simply split off progressives, elections would look like a two candidate Dem primary vs a single candidate Republican general, and Republicans would win in most places. Dore is a grifter, who doesn't actually care about getting anyone healthcare anytime soon.
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  8761.  @jaccl4539  By doing what, dimwit? What has he done, that supposedly risked more? One single example.
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  8762.  @sergeikhripun  Rofl! The bill needs numbers to actually pass, you dimwitted Dore knob. Forcing a 100% guaranteed to fail performance art vote gets you nothing. Even if you got that, what you'd then still have to do, is the work to get enough numbers in congress to be able to pass it. It's the only possible way to pass bills. Magic doesn't work. If you dimwits don't care about adding numbers, then you don't care about M4A, at all.
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  8763.  @sergeikhripun  No it doesn't. The Iron Dome is defensive, and Israel reacts disproportionately. If Palestinian rockets killed dozens of Israelis, instead of just a few, how much worse do you think Israel woukd react? She only has domestic issues, on her website. What do you claim she used to have on her website, about Palestine? Hard to believe you Dore knobs. Dore knobs have claimed she erased M4A from her website, when it's actually at the top of her issues list. Does not having something on her website change the fact that she has called out Israel multiple time, called it an apartheid state, co-signed a bill to put conditions on military aid to Israel, voted against the state department appropriation bill which gives military aid to Israel, co-signed a bill to get rid of anti-BDS laws, etc.?
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  8764.  @brentnoury7626  Why? The numbers of deaths was regularly higher in the early 2000s, before the Dome. If Israelis get hurt, or die, they respond terribly and disproportionately.
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  8765.  @brentnoury7626  Which is why the progressive bill to put conditions on the annual offensive military aid, and the progressive bill to strike down anti-BDS laws, so constant conditions and pressure can be placed on Israel. An irregular rearmament of the Iron Dome wouldn't affect a whole lot. It's still not a yes vote, which would have made it 421-9, and a no vote would have made it 420-10. It's not one of those bills where the progressive votes even mattered much. The entire progressive caucus could have voted no, and it still would have passed.
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  8766.  @brentnoury7626  I hear what you're saying, but, if they're workers voting Republican, truth isn't the "strength" they're looking for, and, if they're right wing Christians, they're probably on the side of Israel. Not sure progressives can vote on an Israel bill in a way that'll woo any right wingers over, without outright voting for it. This wouldn't even have been a seperate bill, where you could see how everyone voted on this specific issue, if progressives hadn't pressured Pelosi to remove it from the government spending bill and vote on it separately. The bigger news should actually be just how overwhelming the yes vote was, and that none of the actual yes voters seem to have to answer for their votes. There's zero questioning, by supposed "leftists", like Dore, zero calling out, zero attacking, of all those who outright supported Israel, but they'll mention every chance they get how AOC didn't vote for it.
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  8767. New congresses don't do much before committee week (first week of Feb).
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  8768. ​​ @adria89  Because they haven't actually passed a budget, yet? Barely being able to pass a temporary budget was done with the McCarthy faction. The Gaetz faction would have let everything burn. Now, the McCarthy faction is pissed. So, who will Dems work with?
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  8769.  @Frankie9553  Mistaking the "next day", after 9/11, for the next week, when Biden was actually there, and did what he said, is not even close to ... completely fabricating seeing Muslims dancing, or that you were at ground zero regularly helping to clear rubble, or that you put up people in need in one of your buildings ... all debunked ... never happened, at all.
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  8770.  @MyersTheShape1978  Biden forgets which week he went to ground zero. Trump totally fabricates seeing Muslims dancing, going down to help clear rubble often, and putting up needy people in one of his buildings. Not really samesies.
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  8771.  @High8Studio  Well, it's somewhat like religion. A whole lot of people have subjective beliefs that aren't based on any kind of reality, and some people take a more objective approach. For example, it's really just an objective fact that universal healthcare is doable (plenty of countries do it), is cheaper (as is the case in those countries and supported by numerous studies), doesn't lead to Venezuela or all out communism (most countries with universal healthcare aren't bankrupt or communist countries), and amongst developed countries gets better overall results (the US has the highest infant mortality rate, highest maternal mortality rate, and lowest life expectancy, in the developed world). So, yeah, anyone spouting any of that bullshit against it, is kind of mental. Likewise, it's just a fact there's scientific consensus on global warming, it's just a fact that the rich don't put their tax cuts back into the economy, etc, etc, etc.
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  8772. Yep, they've given a home to the most anti-socialist McCarthy like extremists, Southern racists, religious extremists, Tea Party nutters, the Trump cult, Qanoners, ...
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  8773. Supporters of Likud, founded by Irgun and Lehi terrorist enemies of Britain (still celebrated as "heroes" by Israelis), should be asked to leave.
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  8774.  @theciakilledjfk5973  Can you Dore knobs stop pretending like getting a guaranteed to fail show vote is the same thing as actually getting M4A? During a pandemic is a bad time to paralyze the house ... no new covid relief, no new unemployment extension, no new vaccine funding, etc. ... for a pointless show vote. The $15 did get a vote, and did pass the house ... you know, the branch of congress AOC and Pelosi belong to. Suddenly, Dore knobs don't value getting a vote on a bill, and don't value getting a list of no voters. They're a bunch of pathetic do nothings, that just keep bitching about those who voted for it, rather than take any action against those who voted against it. She just fought in the public sphere, using her platform and PAC to back 20 other pro-M4A progressives, helping to remove a few more corporate Dems, and helping to add a few more M4A yes votes to congress. It's the very thing that needs doing to ever pass the bill. It's the very thing you'd still need to do even after a pointless show vote. She has done more for M4A in 2 years than Dore has in his entire lifetime.
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  8775.  @theciakilledjfk5973  Isn't the new "real" progressive value to slander those who disagree with a dimwit comedian who benefits the far right?
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  8776. Dore knobs need to learn math. There are zero extra votes to be gained to the left of the squad, if you lose votes on the right end of the party. There is the entire Republican party to try and gain votes from, if you lose votes on the left end of the party. Bills can be passed without the squad by moving the bill to the right. Bills can't be passed without the likes of Manchin.
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  8777.  @theciakilledjfk5973  Biden could surpass anyone's expectations, if you expect him to be total shit, and he's slightly better than total shit. The question was without meaning, if you have no clue what the person's expectations were, to begin with. How the hell would having a handful of third party seats be any different, dumb dumb? "Vote blue" works both ways, and is how progressives win general elections. The vast majority of those who voted against them in the primaries vote for them in the general, against Republicans. Peeling away progressive votes to a third party would simply help Republicans most. But, that's the Dore knob way.
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  8778.  @theciakilledjfk5973  Rofl. I'll include "ad hominem" to the list of words and terms, dimwit Dore knobs don't understand. Pretty easy to respond to comments on channels I'm subscribed to, dumb dumb. Takes zero combing. But, hey, keep fantasizing about how important you are. Maybe one day you can be as narcissistic as your cult leader (cults are the ones pushing you to give up your friends and allies because they aren't pure enough, like Trumpists do).
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  8779.  @theciakilledjfk5973  I haven't disregarded anything. I completely get that you want Republicans to become the majority of the house in the midterms.
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  8780. Republicans used to dodge accusations of rcsm by saying they were only against the misdemeanor entrants. Well, Hatians are legal TPS entrants, but they still have a problem them. I wonder what it is? 🤔
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  8781. Israel =/= Jewish. You can be anti-nazi without being anti-German. Who's operating the open air WWII style fascist ghetto?
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  8782. Evidence is knowledge, and, yes, "skeptic" is the next closest label. And, prior to the 20th century, and the reason Huxley used this label for himself, was because the most common definition of Athe-ism was one who believed Gods do not exist. I define Agnosticism the way Huxley did, and you can find Atheists still redefining the word to mean A-theist, redefining the word Agnostic, and hijacking Huxley's position, in the 1970s.
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  8783. ​ @axlfoley7795  The UN needs half of whatever province/state you live in, to set up a Scientology nation, for Tom Cruise. The half you live in, and he'll need you, and enough of the current inhabitants to move out (at least enough so that the Scientologists are in the majority, so they can fake being democratic). Sweet deal, for you, right?
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  8784.  @GD-rd6ig  Yep. And?
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  8785.  @GD-rd6ig  What a load of bullshit, "turned over Gaza". It's an open air WWII style fascist ghetto. Israel controls the borders, airspace, ports, electricity, water, almost everything that goes in and out, plus Bibi even controls the flow of money from Qatar. Pulling out an illegal colony, doesn't mean it's still not occupied, dumb dumb ... which all Palestine territories are still considered to be, by the International Court, the UN GA, and the UN SC.
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  8786.  @GD-rd6ig  Man, you are so dishonest. Israel is objectively the aggressor, by every relevant measure ... Modern history: 100 years ago, in 1923, Ze'ev Jabotinsky fully acknowledged that Zionism is colonialism, and that, based on the entirety of history, the natives would fight it until the bitter end. He just didn't care what would happen to them, and promoted doing it anyway. Colonizers are never not the aggressors. On top of the colonialist nature of Zionism, the Zionists also formed terrorist organizations, like the Irgun and Lehi. They bombed many Palestinian markets and other public places, murdering many civilians, including children, even including Palestinian Jews (who opposed Zionism). Israel merged those terrorists into the new nation's military and intelligence agencies. Israelis elected Menachem Begin, leader of the Irgun, child murderer, Jew murderer, and bomber of the King David Hotel, as PM. Israelis, to this day, celebrate those terrorists as "heroes". Zionists literally taught their neighbours that terrorism is a valid path to independence and statehood, and that terrorists are to be celebrated. In 1945, it is well documented that Zionists owned just 5% of the land and were a majority nowhere. Israel was formed by actually going against the majority population. It's foundation is completely undemocratic. Then, becoming a majority, in "their" new nation, by ethnic cleansing the actual majority, and then claiming to be democratic, is utter nonsense. Law: Israel is considered an occupier by the International Court, the UN GA, and the UN SC. Occupiers are also never not the aggressors. Those occupied actually have a right to resist occupation. On the flip side, it is illegal for the occupier to settle occupied lands, and illegal to use collective punishment. Israel is a rogue nation, that doesn't abide by international law. What it has been doing, and is doing now, is illegal. Current events: This year, alone, prior to Oct 7 ... Israel held over 1200 Palestinian hostages without charges ... over 200 Palestinians had been killed by the IDF and settlers ... over 1000 Palestinians had been displaced by Israel's neverending colonization of the West Bank ... and, Israel continued to operate an open air WWII style fascist ghetto, in Gaza. Even ignoring modern history and law, in no reality did Hamas "start" anything.
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  8787. You shouldn't capitalize "libertarian". It makes your label incoherent. Capital L Libertarians are far right Ayn Rand types.
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  8788.  @Gilgaemesh  You only gave examples of the problems with right libertarianism. Yeah, they give up democracy and social contracts for individualism. The left is socialism. On the left, what would be the big difference between a representative democracy deciding we should have building standards or a direct democracy deciding we should have building standards?
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  8789.  @Gilgaemesh  You're still rambling on about right libertarianism. On the left ... A) You have a representative democratic socialism, and they vote to have building codes, and gives expert John Doe the job of making sure builders stick to the codes. B) You have a direct democracy that decides to have building codes, and gives expert John Doe the job of making sure builders stick to the codes. The only real difference is you're taking out the corruptible politician middle men.
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  8790.  @rajashashankgutta4334  What are you going to sue someone for, if there's no regulations or codes they've violated? Private individuals and businesses can't violate your rights.
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  8791. Rofl, ex-PM Ehud Barak just told Christiane Amanpour that Israel built the bunkers under the hospital, decades ago, dimwit.
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  8792. There is nothing wrong with showing that you've actually researched a topic. It actually does show that you've looked into it yourself, are thinking for yourself, and aren't just sticking to the latest Wiki page definition.
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  8793. Meant California, maybe?
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  8794. ​ @JimHubbard-j7o  Oh? Which Democrats have those?
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  8795. Great that he, and those around him, have such access to testing. New York an New Jersey have pathetic 2-3 tests per positive result rates.
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  8796.  @Fergieluna12  Fight like hell to add more progressives, or at least Dems willing to pass bills without Republicans and ditch the filibuster, so you can pass crap without Manchin and friends.
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  8797.  Alabama Man 2.0  What are you on about? More views doesn't equate to better quality, doesn't equate to more correct, doesn't equate to more informative ... it just means more meatheads like it. More meatheads like a lot of crap. So what?
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  8798.  Illhan Omar's Brother  Nope. You criticize him constantly, and have less views, therefore you must be jealous.
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  8799.  Illhan Omar's Brother  You just made multiple posts criticizing him for complaining. He gets more views than you. Therefore, you're jealous.
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  8800. Yeah, it's funny, because a NYC civil rights group did that same thing ... had black couples go in asking for apartments, get denied, and then had white couples go in and the Trumps suddenly had apartments available. Trump and Bernie are complete opposites.
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  8801.  @zoeherriot  😂
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  8802. ​ @tsumello06  Prior to about 25 weeks, a fetus also doesn't have the necessary parts for any level of consciousness, can't feel pain, and requires life support. If you agree that someone brain dead is no longer truly alive, and it's okay to pull the plug, then you should agree that an under 25 week fetus is not yet truly alive, and be okay with abortion.
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  8803. You think he's scared of a word, when he goes up against Theistic bull science, all the time. That's kinda lame, IMO. Huxley, the INVENTOR of the word, put them there. We've been through this. He was a big fan of Hume and Kant. And, Atheism meant Athe-ism, at the time. He didn't call himself Athe-ist, and then say "BTW, Athe-ist now means A-theists", like Smith, no. Why anyone would attach a label to themselves, that didn't apply, and then try to redefine it, I have no clue.
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  8804. ​ @joeblowe3180  Rofl! a) NATO doesn't cost that much, dingus. b) Americans are already paying for healthcare. They're just paying for profit system. You don't have to pull money being spent from outside healthcare, just redirect it, cut costs, and actually save Americans money.
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  8805. ​ @joeblowe3180  Lol. You don't know how NATO works, or its budget.
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  8806. I haven't looked at all the polls, but I know one of the latest SC polls, showing Biden with a big lead, polled 43% people over 65, down to 3% people 18-25. Get out there and vote young people, and blow the polls out of the water.
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  8807. Jessie basically admitted Trump was breaking the law.
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  8808.  @redchick11  Good. Wasn't interested enough to get that far.
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  8809.  Frank Boguszewski  It's a religion. And Muslims tended to treat people better, for centuries, than Christians tended to treat people. And, even though many Tanakh/OT events likely didn't happen, the history is jammed with the Israelites/Hebrews committing genocides.
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  8810.  Frank Boguszewski  Nope. Christians tended to offer conversion, death, or exile, for centuries. Muslims didn't tend to force convert for centuries. That's why most of Hispania was still Christian, when it was reconquered. The new Christian rulers then offered Muslims and Jews the conversion, death, or exile options. The vast majority of the Jews went to the Ottoman Empire, with the Muslims, where they could keep practicing their religion. The Ottoman Empire decriminalized homosexuality when many Christian majority countries still considered it a crime or mental disorder. European women traveling throughout the Empire also reported that they thought Muslim women were freer, could own property, could initiate divorce, ... You're thinking of ultra-conservative Wahhabism, which is newer, and which the US has supported financially and militarily, for decades, as it has spread. Turkey is the last remnants of the Ottoman Empire, not Saudi.
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  8811. Zionist terrorist groups, Irgun and Lehi, also targeted Palestinian Jews (who didn't support colonialist Zionsim) alongside their Palestinian brothers and sisters. They were themselves Jew murderers.
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  8812. Moron. The global death rate is currently 5.87. The US death rate is currently 3.52. A country like South Korea, which has largely gotten ahead of the virus, and where confirmed and total cases are close to the same number, it has a 1.96 death rate. A cruise ship provided us with a control group, where confirmed and total cases are the same number, and it had a 1.54 death rate. That's 10-60x deadlier than the flu, dumb dumb.
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  8813.  @sallyjackson8129  I gave multiple rates. Canada currently has a 2.3% death rate, dumb dumb. That's higher than 1.9%.
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  8814.  @kevinlocke4515  Facts don't care that you feel they're dramatic. Germany had a low mortality rate, but it's now up to 2.2%. Coronavirus is at least 10x deadlier than the flu. 12k deaths is a good flu year, in the US. 80k deaths is a bad flu year. Treating a single virus strain with 10x the mortality rate than the multiple flu virus strains combined, as if it were just like the flu would lead to hundreds of thousands dead. Even with all the containment measures, it's already killing more than a good flu year.
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  8815.  @kevinlocke4515  Yes, there's a global conspiracy, and the S Korean government is in on it, the German government is in on it, the Japanese government is in on it, scientists who have studied the cruise ship are in on it, ...
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  8816.  @kevinlocke4515  The Germans are the ones listing 2767 deaths and 122171 cases. That's, currently, a 2.3% mortality rate. They've jumped from their previous .4%, counting exactly the same way they were before.
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  8817. ​ @TimBitts649  Trump and MAGA have no clue how the NATO budget works. Every NATO member has been paying their assigned portion of the NATO budget, all along, without fail. Aside from the NATO budget, they set a goal for member states' national military budgets to be 2% of GDP. That is separate from the NATO budget. Canada has increased the military budget from .97%, under Harper, to 1.33%, currently, and is still working on increasing it further. The US is in third place for percentage of GDP. The US pays the same amount as Germany to the NATO budget, despite having a much larger population.
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  8818.  @victorperez2939  What war? 9/11 broke Hitchens and he went full on neo-liberal, supporting not just the Afghanistan invasion, but the totally bullshit war in Iraq. Bernie is centre-left in normal countries. Harris is right of centre, like most corporate Democrats.
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  8819.  @James-gq4tb  Nope. He very clearly crapped on people who were giving context, as to what Israel was doing, prior to Oct 7, to provoke an attack, not just those vocalizing support for Hamas. Then he proceeded to go on a bit of an anti-Muslim rant, while dishonestly claiming that a colonizing ethnic cleansing nation is "progressive", ignoring that those things aren't progressive, and ignoring that Netanyahu himself propped up, and funded, Hamas, to weaken the Palestinian Authority, and avoid possible peace. A Netanyahu Israel is a supporter of Hamas, on top of everything else it does. Then, after rejecting any explanation as to what Israel was up to, prior to the Hamas attack, he hypocritically immediately pivoted into explaining what Israel would do, in "response", and why it would be expected. He didn't want to hear about what Israel had done to make an attack by Palestinians expected, but then turned around and made like it was perfectly reasonable and expected for Israel to hit back ... but not letting anyone say they hit first.
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  8820.  @James-gq4tb  Ze'ev Jabotinsky, The Iron Wall, 1923 ... "There can be no voluntary agreement between ourselves and the Palestine Arabs. Not now, nor in the prospective future. I say this with such conviction, not because I want to hurt the moderate Zionists. I do not believe that they will be hurt. Except for those who were born blind, they realised long ago that it is utterly impossible to obtain the voluntary consent of the Palestine Arabs for converting "Palestine" from an Arab country into a country with a Jewish majority. My readers have a general idea of the history of colonisation in other countries. I suggest that they consider all the precedents with which they are acquainted, and see whether there is one solitary instance of any colonisation being carried on with the consent of the native population. There is no such precedent. The native populations, civilised or uncivilised, have always stubbornly resisted the colonists, irrespective of whether they were civilised or savage." It is apparently very expected, and always has been expected, that the natives would "respond" badly to colonialism, and yet Israel continues to do it. Colonialists are never not the aggressors, when it comes to the native population. If you don't want to hear about anything the colonialists did, prior to the Powhatan Confederacy's massacre of Jamestown civilians, and act like that is the first thing that happened, and then argue as if it's reasonable and expected that the colonialists would "respond ", then you're not getting an objective picture, at all. Native Americans got to the point where they wanted nothing more than to push the white man back into the sea, and it wasn't simply that he was white. Jews lived in Muslim nations for 1300 years. Muslims took them in, gave them refuge, when Christian nations offered conversion, death, or exile. The Ottomans even okayed very early Zionism, which was closer to simply immigration. Everything changed when Zionism turned colonialist, and they started talking about carving out a colonialist nation. Muslim nations didn't just magically turn anti-Semitic, for no reason one day.
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  8821.  @ryanpeterson9143  The inflation rate spike started before JB's ARP was even implemented. It was after DT's Dec 2020 $1t spending bill was implemented though. Plus, over 50% of the spike can be attributed to profit margin increases. DT and Reps just pretend that's not a thing (although cmmnst Texas is quietly taking Cal-Maine Foods to court for price g0ugiπg).
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  8822. Ben's worldview is centered on the worship of a formless, sexless, penisless, being that apparently likes to be called "he", "him", and even "father".
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  8823.  @upabittoolate  There has to be context, for something to be an ad hominem. Simply stating the facts of the matter, isn't one.
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  8824.  @upabittoolate  Rofl. You keep using that term for things that aren't that.
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  8825.  @rodolfo7441  No. Your only question was why they don't cover an intercept report, which I quoted, and which you're arguing against. You get that Fauci wasn't acting as an individual, right? He was acting as a representative of a US agency, and multiple other US agencies signed off on working with that lab. You're actually trying to prove the US is liable for the pandemic, not Fauci.
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  8826.  @rodolfo7441  Try rereading the quotes I provided from the intercept article. It said there's no evidence Fauci knew about some things ... so no evidence he lied. It said the grant did lay out that funds couldn't be used for gain of function, exactly like he said. And, it said that a research report from Wuhan was deemed not to be gain of function by NIH staffers.
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  8827.  @rodolfo7441  Rofl, I don't really give two craps about Fauci. There are doctors and scientists across the world sharing a general consensus about numerous things. Fauci is just one, in a country with one of the most inept covid responses. You're the dimwit who brought up the intercept findings, and the intercept article literally say there's no evidence he knew of any gain of function research, it literally says the grant says it's not to fund gain of function research, and it literally says that NIH staff didn't consider it gain of function research.
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  8828. "Indirect" insurrection to overthrow the democratic process, and directly had the majority of Republicans in congress try to overthrow the democratic process, directly asked Pence to overthrow the democratic process, and directly tried a fake electors scheme to overthrow the democratic process. Dumpty dropped more bombs per year than Obama, and more bombs on Yemen than Obama and Bush combined. He kept feeding money to Israel as they continued their ethnic cleansing of Palestine, recognized their illegal annexation of Golan Heights, recognized Jerusalem as their capital, and made a "peace" deal that ignored Palestinians and tried to normalize Israel's ethnic cleansing with some of their neighbors. Dumpty also let Iran have their nuclear weapons program back. He okayed Iraq paying its energy bill to Iran, multiple times, just like Biden. He let his dictator buddy in North Korea build up his nuclear arsenal, and continue to test missiles that can reach at least Alaska. Shared nuclear secrets (presidents have zero authority to declassify nuclear secrets) with a billionaire donor.
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  8829. Biden basically gave them what they wanted, except the 14 days paid leave. He tried to include 7 days paid leave, but Republicans took it out.
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  8830. It's only okay, when they are right wing Cubans.
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  8831. It is the opposite of what it should stand for, and also the opposite of what they're doing, you loon.
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  8832. This is one of the most uninformed comment sections I have ever seen. AOC and two fellow NY progressives back formal plea for ceasefire in Gaza Oct 16, 2023 18 House Democrats sign resolution for Mideast de-escalation, ceasefire Oct 23, 2023 — Cori Bush (D-Mo.). Bush's fellow “Squad” members Reps. Rashida Tlaib (D-Mich.), Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez (D-N.Y.) Democrats Like Rashida Tlaib, AOC Split With Biden Over Israel Ceasefire Calls Oct 31, 2023 AOC leads Democrats urging Biden to call for Gaza ceasefire over children's rights Nov 15, 2023 AOC calls Biden administration 'shameful' for blocking United Nations demand for a ... Dec 11, 2023 Aoc ceasefire | keeping it reel - NewsBreak Original Jan 17, 2024 Hour 1: AOC Calls for Ceasefire from Israel - The Marc Cox Morning Show Podcast Feb 8, 2024 AOC suggests cutting off aid to Israel after U.S. vetoes ceasefire resolution Feb 22, 2024 AOC and Other Democrats Urge Biden to Call for a Ceasefire at the State of the ... Mar 1, 2024
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  8833. How is repeatedly calling for a ceasefire, since Oct, "sitting on her hands"? This comment section doesn't seem very bright.
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  8834. Maybe doesn't want to be associated with Israel's leadership, atm. What's the problem?
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  8835. For example?
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  8836. Okay, I've quoted Huxley's evidence line twice now, proving the original intent, and what Agnosticism is opposed to.
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  8837.  Juanito G  Do those dishonest debates tend to start out with you pretending there is a significant "far left" in the US? How many people are actually calling for economic equality for all, equal ownership of property, resources, and production, and a complete end to capitalism?
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  8838.  Juanito G  Moron. You don't know what an "ad hominem" is. Don't use Latin terms you don't understand, in an attempt to sound smart. https://laurencetennant.com/bonds/adhominem.html
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  8839.  Juanito G  Rofl. You didn't make an argument, dumb dumb. You made a statement. I asked questions. You tried to sound smart.
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  8840.  Juanito G  Rofl, even outright saying "that's bullshit", "that's a lie", or anything of the sort, isn't an "ad hominem", dumbass. Here's an ad hominem: You're a moron, so you must be wrong. See? That's a fallacy, because someone as dumb as you could still possibly be right about something. Declaring, or implying, that something someone else said is a fabrication is not an ad hominem. Meaning you're a moron.
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  8841.  @spacedoohicky  Doesn't he go around publicly shaming people, and committing some of his own character assassinations?
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  8842.  @spacedoohicky  How does "cancelling" have anything to do with your "main point", that I supposedly ignored, if you never mentioned it? Sam trashes individuals, without much "critique". He broad brushes and uses strawmans to publicly shame groups of people. He publicly announced a boycotting of Salon. He has advocated discrimination against Muslims in refugee choices, profiling, has said we're at war with Islam (practiced by every Muslim on the planet), and promoted others who say we're at war with Islam and that there's no such thing as moderate Islam. More than just de-platforming "witch hunts", he has helped stoke fears, leading to actual "witch hunts", with armed people harassing Muslims going to mosques, even people shooting up mosques, or people shooting up Sikh temples because they're morons, on top of being bigots, who can't tell the difference between Muslims and Sikhs.
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  8843.  @spacedoohicky  Also ... that was the point I was getting at ... that there is no real "far left" of any relevance in the US. Those Americans accuse of being "far left" tend to range from right wing corporate Dems to centre-left progressives.
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  8844.  @spacedoohicky  That's a stupid definition. By that definition those labelling people "Un-American", accusing them of commiting "infanticide", spouting "Commie" at anything left of far right economics, who have tried to social engineer society with laws against gays, women, minorities, are "far left", and quiet communists not "far left".
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  8845.  @spacedoohicky  How you think, or speak, is irrelevant to defining "far left" in a way that would equally apply to their total opposites. I'm in a that's a nonsensical way to define things mindset.
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  8846.  @spacedoohicky  Are people self identifying and defining themselves with a nonsensical definition, or are you identifying and defining people with a nonsensical definition? If the former, who are the people self identifying as "far left", and define it in a way that can equally apply to man babies calling for boycotts and bitching about movies with too many women in them?
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  8847.  @spacedoohicky  The context is that you're defining "far left" in a way that would apply to anti-abortionists.
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  8848.  @spacedoohicky  "everyone that takes that term" Can you give an example of a single person self identifying as "far left", using your definition? How is harrassing people going into abortion clinics, standing around with big pictures of the latest term abortion they could find, promoting people as murderers, sending death threats, sometimes even killing people, etc., not psychological warfare? What is the pro-choice side doing, exactly?
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  8849.  @B.White70  You outright proposed looking for non evidenced based answers, elsewhere. Why? Why not just say "I don't know", suspend belief, and call it a day? Why look for answers in a fairy tale? You outright proposed looking at the Bible differently, simply due to finding a person or place. You seem to be the one not grasping the words your using. I'm agnostic about the existence of aliens, but I'm quite sure Star Trek is fiction. That it mentions our solar system, planets in it, some of our history, etc., is not evidence the events in Star Trek are real.
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  8850.  MidScream1  Why would anti-unionist, anti-socialist, anti-feminist, anti-democratic, ultra-nationalist, pro police expansion, pro military expansion, pro privatization, backed by big business, backed by religious leaders, bigoted, racist, fascists endorse Bernie, dumb dumb?
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  8851.  @aviandragon1390  Without a reason and without a crime, are two different things. https://www.crf-usa.org/impeachment/high-crimes-and-misdemeanors.html
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  8852.  @aviandragon1390  There is evidence of crimes in the Mueller report. Mueller said they were too stupid to know it was a crime to take the meeting.
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  8853.  @aviandragon1390  I'm paraphrasing, but it most definitely said they weren't charged because they were too ignorant of the law they were breaking. "On the facts here, the government would unlikely be able to prove beyond a reasonable doubt that the June 9 meeting participants had general knowledge that their conduct was unlawful. The investigation has not developed evidence that the participants in the meeting were familiar with the foreign-contribution ban or the application of federal law to the relevant factual context." What does "their conduct was unlawful" mean?
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  8854.  @aviandragon1390  I just quoted the statement I was referring to, which wasn't a paraphrase. Even your quote says "willfully", dummy. It's the same thing I just quoted. They were ignorant of the law they were breaking, is clearly what it says, and therefore couldn't "willfully" break it. It's ironic, because Republicans usually get upset if foreigners get off on that defense.
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  8855.  @aviandragon1390  You didn't answer my question. What does "their conduct was unlawful" mean?
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  8856.  @aviandragon1390  Moron. You didn't even read my whole reply, did you? I said I was paraphrasing, then provided a quote of exactly what I was referring to, followed by a question.
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  8857.  @noempathy8667  You're spouting bullshit. Total population is irrelevant. The costs are per capita. Per capita, the US spends more than the entire EU with a population of 500m. Per capita, the US is already paying twice as much as Canada. To make out like Canada's system is struggling with costs, while the US system isn't, is complete bullshit, and makes absolutely zero sense. We could invest 50% more per person and still spend thousands less per person than the US. The US is struggling more. You've got tens of thousands dying due to lack of coverage, hundreds of thousands going bankrupt, and over a million going to places like India, for care they can afford. Your system is shit. You don't come anywhere close to having the most beds per capita. https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/List_of_OECD_countries_by_hospital_beds You don't come anywhere close to having the most physicians per capita. https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/List_of_countries_and_dependencies_by_number_of_physicians You're spouting pure garbage.
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  8858.  @noempathy8667  Most Canadians getting healthcare in the US, are getting it while on trips, dumbass. Others are rich shits who don't like to wait. Canadians would not switch to your stupid sustem. https://www.healthcare-now.org/blog/new-poll-shows-canadians-overwhelmingly-support-public-health-care/ Even Americans with private insurance are the least happy with the system. VA recipients, the most socialized option, are the most happy. https://news.gallup.com/poll/186527/americans-government-health-plans-satisfied.aspx
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  8859. First, partition was forced on the majority population. Then, non-Jews (845k) still outnumbered Jews (714k) by over 100k, in the Zionist half, so they ethnically cleansed away about 700k of the actual majority, and never let them return. Plus, all Palestine territories are officially considered occupied, meaning millions of Palestinians have no say in the actual government ruling over them. Israel is about as democratic as Nazi Germany after Hitler purged his political opponents and then held elections.
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  8860. Because nobody is challenging him on his bullshit. He promotes a VAT as a way to make corporations like Amazon "pay their fair share". A VAT is absolutely not a tax on corporations. It is a tax on consumers. The corporations would simply collect the tax and pass it along to government. Add to that a UBI. Those who actually benefit from the UBI will spend some of that extra money on Amazon, making them even more money. That will, in turn, make Bezos more money. The more money he has, the more he'll hoard, and hoarded money isn't affected by a VAT. As long as Yang sticks to throwing his hands in the air to fixing tax loopholes, and not presenting alternative ways to truly tax giant corporations and the super rich, they'll actually benefit from his plan. Those who won't benefit, and will pay into the VAT the most, are the upper middle class and lower end rich who already spend a lot but don't hoard as much. The higher the percentage of their wealth someone hoards, the lower the percentage of their wealth they'll pay back into the economy and VAT.
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  8861.  @joehilner4830  The 30 year old progressive caucus is about 15 seats away from becoming the majority of the party. The 4 year old Justice Dems have replaced about a dozen corporate dems. The oldest third party hasn't won a single seat in its near 50 year existence. The Green party hasn't won a single seat in its 20 year existence. The third party route is definitely the slower route. Might be lucky to get one seat, in the next 100 years. The thing is that "vote blue" works both ways. If a progressive wins a primary, those who voted against them turn around and vote for them in the general. Any hope of Bernie ever becoming president relied totally on Clinton or Biden supporters to still "vote blue", if he made it through the primary.
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  8862. I am outright Athe-istic about the Christian bible's definition of God. I believe there are tons of arguments that prove it is false. I don't just simplying not believe it's true.
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  8863. Those GOP morons don't even grasp basics, like the fact that advising people not to drink more than 2 a week isn't the same as forcing people not to drink more than 2 a week. More context won't help them.
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  8864. ​ @Misterparodeez  Nazis didn't live inside the Warsaw ghetto, dimwit. There's a difference between actively being colonized and occupied. All Palestinian territories are still considered occupied, by the International Court of Justice, the UN GA, the UN SC, and even most of the individual governments allied to Israel. Gaza is occupied. The West Bank is both actively being colonized and occupied.
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  8865. ​ @sunsetsolutions4820  😂 What's better about him?
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  8866.  @uncomfortabletruth5915  And what could be the cost of doing nothing? "Failing to do so could cost the world some $1.7 trillion a year by the middle of this decade, escalating to about $30 trillion a year by 2075, according to estimations by the 738 economists from around the world surveyed by New York University’s Institute for Policy Integrity." "The effects of climate change can be expected to shave 11 percent to 14 percent off global economic output by 2050 compared with growth levels without climate change, according to a report from Swiss Re, one of the world’s largest providers of insurance to other insurance companies. That amounts to as much as $23 trillion in reduced annual global economic output worldwide as a result of climate change."
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  8867. ​ @Marss13z  Rofl, You need to roll it back a bit further, dumb dumb. With the Balfour declaration, Zionism converted from immigration to colonialism. Leading Zionists, of the times, fully acknowledged it as such.
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  8868. ​ @Marss13z  Also, people had been using the term "Palestinian", to describe inhabitants of "Palestine", for over 1000 years, dimwit.
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  8869.  @annychest718  Yeah, Israelites were loons. "Israelite child sacrifice encompassed a range of rituals that do not appear to have had as much in common as we might assume. Insofar as we can tell, there were at least three different rites that involved the sacrifice of children to Yahweh in Iron Age Israel, each having its own distinct purpose and history."
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  8870.  @Marss13z  Palestinians have Canaanite DNA dimwit. They're natives that simply converted and were Arabized (like natives in South/Central America are Hispanic Catholics).
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  8871.  @kenetickups6146  Did I say Dems, in general, dumb dumb? Are you claiming zero Dems are progressive?
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  8872.  @moestietabarnak  Manchin isn't in the house.
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  8873.  @kenetickups6146  Whatever. Can't wait to see the next perfectly perfect puritan progressive candidate, like Kyrsten Sinema, that a third party produces.
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  8874.  @lebowe6131  Oh are you an "enlightened centrist", that would welcome the US being more like centrist Denmark?
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  8875.  @moestietabarnak  Primaries are nothing like the general. If Bernie had made it through the primaries, you think corporate Dems would publicly supported Trump, instead? That's pretty much what you're saying they'd do with the house speakership.
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  8876.  @moestietabarnak  Yes, the democratic caucus vote for party speaker candidate is like a primary. The in house vote for speaker is like the general. Publicly siding to have a Republican speaker would be political suicide. The only extra option is to paralyze the house indefinitely, which would also have the public increasingly pissed off.
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  8877.  @moestietabarnak  That is also not an example of openly supporting a Republican.
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  8878.  @moestietabarnak  Your argument is kind of incoherent. If they don't care about optics, and don't care if the speaker is Republican, then why would they care if you don't cast a house vote for Pelosi? All they would have had to do was have 15 corporate Dems abstain, or have 7 vote for McCarthy, and he'd be speaker. So, what good would not voting Pelosi do?
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  8879.  @moestietabarnak  Not voting for Pelosi at the house vote wouldn't produce a progressive speaker, or even a different speaker candidate. It would simply paralyze the house. If they're as bad as you say, then all they'd have to do is have enough abstain on a vote, or vote Republican, and your not voting Pelosi was pointless. You'd have McCarthy as speaker. If they're as bad as you say, then you're advocating to have a Republican speaker, is what you're doing. Weird "lefty" thing to do.
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  8880.  @countmein33  What are you talking about? Archer was the other guy in the photo Trump and right wingers were spreading around. https://www.politifact.com/truth-o-meter/article/2019/oct/03/who-devon-archer-ukrainian-gas-executive-playing-g/
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  8881. ​ @tomiapple9848  The world didn't begin on Oct 7, dimwit. Israel is objectively the aggressor by every relevant measure ... Modern history: 100 years ago, in 1923, Ze'ev Jabotinsky fully acknowledged that Zionism is colonialism, and that, based on the entirety of history, the natives would fight it until the bitter end. He just didn't care what would happen to them, and promoted doing it anyway. Colonizers are never not the aggressors. On top of the colonialist nature of Zionism, the Zionists also formed terrorist organizations, like the Irgun and Lehi. They bombed many Palestinian markets and other public places, murdering many civilians, including children, even including Palestinian Jews (who opposed Zionism). Israel merged those terrorists into the new nation's military and intelligence agencies. Israelis elected Menachem Begin, leader of the Irgun, child murderer, Jew murderer, and bomber of the King David Hotel, as PM. Israelis, to this day, celebrate those terrorists as "heroes". Zionists literally taught their neighbours that terrorism is a valid path to independence and statehood, and that terrorists are to be celebrated. In 1945, it is well documented that Zionists owned just 5% of the land and were a majority nowhere. Israel was formed by actually going against the majority population. It's foundation is completely undemocratic. Then, becoming a majority, in "their" new nation, by ethnic cleansing the actual majority, and then claiming to be democratic, is utter nonsense. Law: Israel is considered an occupier by the International Court, the UN GA, and the UN SC. Occupiers are also never not the aggressors. Those occupied actually have a right to resist occupation. On the flip side, it is illegal for the occupier to settle occupied lands, and illegal to use collective punishment. Israel is a rogue nation, that doesn't abide by international law. What it has been doing, and is doing now, is illegal. Current events: This year, alone, prior to Oct 7 ... Israel held over 1200 Palestinian hostages without charges ... over 200 Palestinians had been killed by the IDF and settlers ... over 1000 Palestinians had been displaced by Israel's neverending colonization of the West Bank ... and, Israel continued to operate an open air WWII style fascist ghetto, in Gaza. Even ignoring modern history and law, in no reality did Hamas "start" anything.
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  8882.  @tomiapple9848  Oh, so weird how the indigenous people didn't simply agree to be colonized. That's never happened in all of history. Zionsits are complete and utter morons.
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  8883.  @tomiapple9848  Ze'ev Jabotinsky, The Iron Wall, 1923: "There can be no voluntary agreement between ourselves and the Palestine Arabs. Not now, nor in the prospective future. I say this with such conviction, not because I want to hurt the moderate Zionists. I do not believe that they will be hurt. Except for those who were born blind, they realised long ago that it is utterly impossible to obtain the voluntary consent of the Palestine Arabs for converting "Palestine" from an Arab country into a country with a Jewish majority. My readers have a general idea of the history of colonisation in other countries. I suggest that they consider all the precedents with which they are acquainted, and see whether there is one solitary instance of any colonisation being carried on with the consent of the native population. There is no such precedent. The native populations, civilised or uncivilised, have always stubbornly resisted the colonists, irrespective of whether they were civilised or savage."
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  8884.  @tomiapple9848  Yeah, because you're a Nazi, and apparently proud of it.
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  8885. ​ @iamdeathiamentropyiamdarks3517  Supporting a colonizing, ethnic cleansing, occupier, who operates an open air WWII style fascist ghetto, and flattens it after an uprising? No, they learned nothing.
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  8886.  @Lbdataz1469  Yeah, that's not true. 75-90% of people dying are unvaccinated. Jimmy just cited a Gallup article (before dishonestly comparing the wrong "death rate") that showed the unvaccinated were being hospitalized at 89x the rate of the vaccinated.
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  8887. ​ @hauz287 "Subhumans"? You racist Nazi.
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  8888. Likud, "between the sea and the Jordan there will only be Israeli sovereignty", platform ... 1977: "The Right of the Jewish People to the Land of Israel (Eretz Israel) a. The right of the Jewish people to the land of Israel is eternal and indisputable and is linked with the right to security and peace; therefore, Judea and Samaria will not be handed to any foreign administration; between the Sea and the Jordan there will only be Israeli sovereignty. b. A plan which relinquishes parts of western Eretz Israel, undermines our right to the country, unavoidably leads to the establishment of a "Palestinian State," jeopardizes the security of the Jewish population, endangers the existence of the State of Israel. and frustrates any prospect of peace." "Settlement Settlement. both urban and rural. in all parts of the Land of Israel is the focal point of the Zionist effort to redeem the country, to maintain vital security areas and serves as a reservoir of strength and inspiration for the renewal of the pioneering spirit. The Likud government will call on the younger generation in Israel and the dispersions to settle and help every group and individual in the task of inhabiting and cultivating the wasteland, while taking care not to dispossess anyone." 1999: "The Government of Israel flatly rejects the establishment of a Palestinian Arab state west of the Jordan river. The Palestinians can run their lives freely in the framework of self-rule, but not as an independent and sovereign state. Thus, for example, in matters of foreign affairs, security, immigration, and ecology, their activity shall be limited in accordance with imperatives of Israel's existence, security and national needs." "The Jewish communities in Judea, Samaria, and Gaza are the realization of Zionist values. Settlement of the land is a clear expression of the unassailable right of the Jewish people to the Land of Israel and constitutes an important asset in the defense of the vital interests of the State of Israel. The Likud will continue to strengthen and develop these communities and will prevent their uprooting."
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  8889. Huxley's Agnoticism and Christianity is online. Tell me how paragraph one doesn't describe you adequately? Don't worry, it's not a long one.
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  8890.  @pintojaluk7742  Well, "bilingual" isn't always 50/50. I went to French school, for many years, but all the home conversations were in English, and I definitely never learned as much French as English, even during that time. It probably depends on what his parents were speaking at home, what they were watching on TV, what they listened to, etc. "Biblical proportions" isn't even common conversation, let alone "biblical" without the "proportions".
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  8891. Yes, MAGA used to claim they weren't rcsts, and were only opposed to misdemeanor entry imm. But, there's something about Haitians they don't like. 🤔
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  8892. They still have to play to the 80% of Trump cultists who think something fishy is going on. https://lawandcrime.com/2020-election/profoundly-disturbing-nearly-80-percent-of-trump-supporters-believe-presidents-false-voter-fraud-claims/
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  8893. Nah, some progressives won in districts that leaned slightly Republican, as well. Meanwhile some of the centrists lost in districts that lean heavily Democrat.
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  8894. Because a 100% guaranteed to fail performance art vote doesn't actually get you any closer to passing M4A. Adding more M4A yes votes to congress, which Justice Dems have done, which AOC has done, does get you closer to being able to pass M4A. AOC was just trying to add another, in Nina Turner, who Dore abandoned.
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  8895.  @bwink23  How about you Dore knobs take a hike.
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  8896.  @bwink23  Rofl. Ironic.
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  8897. Israel is objectively the aggressor by every relevant measure, dumb dumb ... Modern history: 100 years ago, in 1923, Ze'ev Jabotinsky fully acknowledged that Zionism is colonialism, and that, based on the entirety of history, the natives would fight it until the bitter end. He just didn't care what would happen to them, and promoted doing it anyway. Colonizers are never not the aggressors. On top of the colonialist nature of Zionism, the Zionists also formed terrorist organizations, like the Irgun and Lehi. They bombed many Palestinian markets and other public places, murdering many civilians, including children, even including Palestinian Jews (who opposed Zionism). Israel merged those terrorists into the new nation's military and intelligence agencies. Israelis elected Menachem Begin, leader of the Irgun, child murderer, Jew murderer, and bomber of the King David Hotel, as PM. Israelis, to this day, celebrate those terrorists as "heroes". Zionists literally taught their neighbours that terrorism is a valid path to independence and statehood, and that terrorists are to be celebrated. In 1945, it is well documented that Zionists owned just 5% of the land and were a majority nowhere. Israel was formed by actually going against the majority population. It's foundation is completely undemocratic. Then, becoming a majority, in "their" new nation, by ethnic cleansing the actual majority, and then claiming to be democratic, is utter nonsense. Law: Israel is considered an occupier by the International Court, the UN GA, and the UN SC. Occupiers are also never not the aggressors. Those occupied actually have a right to resist occupation. On the flip side, it is illegal for the occupier to settle occupied lands, and illegal to use collective punishment. Israel is a rogue nation, that doesn't abide by international law. What it has been doing, and is doing now, is illegal. Current events: This year, alone, prior to Oct 7 ... Israel held over 1200 Palestinian hostages without charges ... over 200 Palestinians had been killed by the IDF and settlers ... over 1000 Palestinians had been displaced by Israel's neverending colonization of the West Bank ... and, Israel continued to operate an open air WWII style fascist ghetto, in Gaza. Even ignoring modern history and law, in no reality did Hamas "start" anything.
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  8898.  @johnsmith7140  👈🤪💩
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  8899. There were years of terrorist organizations, before declaring themselves a country. Begin was a leader of one of those terrorist groups. Early Zionosts openly admitted to being colonizers, and knew exactly how the native population would react. It's just like taking over N America. Do something to piss off the natives, the natives retaliate with violence, then you act like the poor victim, send in the military, and expand your borders or ethnically cleans them them from within your borders.
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  8900. ​ @smckc7077  If you don't care, and don't push to ban them, then you support abortions, according to your own "logic".
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  8901.  @zachariahyager3115  The most popular third party has been trying to win a seat for almost 50 years, expecting a different result each time, and failing each time. The most popular progressive third party has been trying for 20 years, and failing each time. There are actually something like 40 third parties, that keep failing over and over. Talk about insanity. "Vote blue" actually works both ways. Those who vote against progressives in the primaries turn around and vote for them in the general. The broader progressive caucus only needs about 15 more seats to become the majority of house Dems. Justice Dems have replaced about a dozen corporate Dems. AOC has helped replace a few more corporate Dems. It may not be as fast as you like, but taking over the party seems to be working. Progressives are actually getting seats. Would you rather them be part of a minority party, or a majority party? What do you think a supermajority is? There isn't one now.
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  8902. Bezalel Smotrich, who Netanyahu put in charge of the West Bank, made public a plan to segregate and subjugate (no federal representation), exile, or kill, any non Jews in all of Israel/Palestine. Even worse, he has a map of "Israel" on his wall that includes parts of Jordan, Syria, and Lebanon. He's a religious nut, who thinks all of "Israel" is their god given land, so probably wants the entire Tanakh/OT kingdom.
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  8903. Trump did nothing to end Russia's ongoing occupation in Ukraine. He did nothing about Russia's manning, supporting, and arming, resistance groups in multiple former SSR countries, since 1991. He kissed Putin's ass. He let Iraq pay its energy bill to Iran, just like Biden. He also let Iran return to its nuclear program. He also threatened to attack Iran directly, if they retaliated for the assassination, and then chickened out and did nothing, when they ignored the blowhard and retaliated. He collected millions of dollars from China, and it was Americans who paid for the trade war with China. He also leases to the Bank of China. His daughter sold her Trump Tower condo to a China lobbyist.
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  8904.  @susannehartl3067  Moron. I used "you" generically, so no you don't read and understand English very well. I'm not impressed.
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  8905.  @susannehartl3067  The context was fine. The first and second parts of the sentence would be totally disconnected, if it wasn't a generic "you". Keep working on your English.
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  8906. Does any of that change the fact that the US had numerous racist laws against black Americans, and other minorities, and targeted the black community for lifelong and multigenerational chattel slavery?
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  8907. @@SteveT900 Says the moron who thinks Sam will read his comment.
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  8908.  @GaryRine  Yeah, people like a Bezos, or Musk, only claiming $30k a year salaries, while making billions off untaxed stocks, is nonsensical. They make billions, yet provide next to nothing towards UI, or SS, for their employees.
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  8909. Even the most popular third party, Libertarian, hasn't won a single seat in congress in going on 50 years. Bernie, the Justice Democrats, the squad, have accomplished more than them in 5 years. AOC, alone, has accomplished more in 2 years than the Green Party has in 20. Your third party fantasies are a joke. At best, it'd be popular enough to split progressive voting, hand the Dem party totally back to corporate Dems, and let Republicans rule for decades. Weird how you promote ideas that would benefit Republicans most.
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  8910. ​ @TransKidsMafia  Fact is Israel is objectively the aggressor, by every relevant measure... Modern history: 100 years ago, in 1923, Ze'ev Jabotinsky fully acknowledged that Zionism is colonialism, and that, based on the entirety of history, the natives would fight it until the bitter end. He just didn't care what would happen to them, and promoted doing it anyway. Colonizers are never not the aggressors. On top of the colonialist nature of Zionism, the Zionists also formed terrorist organizations, like the Irgun and Lehi. They bombed many Palestinian markets and other public places, murdering many civilians, including children, even including Palestinian Jews (who opposed Zionism). Israel merged those terrorists into the new nation's military and intelligence agencies. Israelis elected Menachem Begin, leader of the Irgun, child murderer, Jew murderer, and bomber of the King David Hotel, as PM. Israelis, to this day, celebrate those terrorists as "heroes". Zionists literally taught their neighbours that terrorism is a valid path to independence and statehood, and that terrorists are to be celebrated. In 1945, it is well documented that Zionists owned just 5% of the land and were a majority nowhere. Israel was formed by actually going against the majority population. It's foundation is completely undemocratic. Then, becoming a majority, in "their" new nation, by ethnic cleansing the actual majority, and then claiming to be democratic, is utter nonsense. Law: Israel is considered an occupier by the International Court, the UN GA, and the UN SC. Occupiers are also never not the aggressors. Those occupied actually have a right to resist occupation. On the flip side, it is illegal for the occupier to settle occupied lands, and illegal to use collective punishment. Israel is a rogue nation, that doesn't abide by international law. What it has been doing, and is doing now, is illegal. Current events: This year, alone, prior to Oct 7 ... Israel held over 1200 Palestinian hostages without charges ... over 200 Palestinians had been killed by the IDF and settlers ... over 1000 Palestinians had been displaced by Israel's neverending colonization of the West Bank ... and, Israel continued to operate an open air WWII style fascist ghetto. Even ignoring modern history and law, in no reality did Hamas "start" anything.
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  8911. The moron has repeatedly "defended" himself by claiming he instead undervalued by over a billion dollars ... which would be MASSIVE tax fraud. Valuations are supposed to be accurate, neither over, or under.
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  8912. ​ @seswf1375  No. He defaulted. He seems to have had a mysterious backer step in and pay his debt. "The relationship has survived various scandals. In 2008, Trump sued the bank’s real estate division after he defaulted on a $40m repayment, used to fund the construction of the Trump International Hotel and Tower in Chicago. He accused Deutsche of co-causing the financial crisis and demanded $3bn in compensation. Instead of dumping him as a client, Deutsche’s private wealth division stepped in and loaned him more money to pay off the existing debt. Deutsche has resisted efforts by Democrats in the House and Senate to explain its relationship with Trump – and to clarify if Russian state banks or entities underwrote some of his debts."
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  8913. ​ @billpowell9527  Haven't you been paying attention? He has been over valuing for loans, and under valuing for taxes. In trying to "defend" himself on the bank fraud side of things, moron Trump has publicly admitted to tax fraud, by claiming the Mar-a-Lago is worth over $1b more than he has ever valued it on taxes. He's a complete and utter moron, and you cultists lap it up.
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  8914.  @christophersnyder-xi4zs  If you embezzle funds from an account, but somehow manage to put the money back, so that nobody notices for awhile, but then an audit of the account finds it ... did you still embezzle funds?
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  8915. Israel is objectively the aggressor by every relevant measure (modern history, law, and current events) ... Modern history: With the Balfour declaration, Zionsim converted from something like immigration to colonization. 100 years ago, in 1923, Ze'ev Jabotinsky fully acknowledged that Zionism is colonialism, and that, based on the entirety of history, the native Palestinians would fight it until the bitter end. He just didn't care what would happen to them, and promoted doing it anyway. Colonizers are never not the aggressors, when it comes to the native population. On top of the colonialist nature of Zionism, the Zionists also formed terrorist organizations, like the Irgun and Lehi. They bombed many Palestinian markets and other public places, murdering many civilians, including children, even including Palestinian Jews (who opposed colonialist Zionism). Israel merged those terrorists into the new nation's military and intelligence agencies. Israelis elected Menachem Begin, leader of the Irgun, child murderer, Jew murderer, and bomber of the King David Hotel, as PM. Israelis, to this day, celebrate those Irgun terrorists as "heroes". Zionists literally taught their neighbours that terrorism is a valid path to independence and statehood, and that terrorists are to be celebrated. In 1945, it is well documented that Zionists owned just 5% of the land and were a majority in zero districts. Israel was formed by going against the will of the majority population. Its foundation is completely undemocratic. Even then, Jews were still a minority, in "their" half. The only possible way to actually become a Jewish ethno-state, would be to ethnically cleanse away the actual majority. And, that's exactly what happened. Israel has never allowed those people to return. Law: Israel is considered an occupier by the International Court, the UN GA, and the UN SC. Occupiers are also never not the aggressors. Those occupied actually have a right to resist occupation. On the flip side, it is illegal for the occupier to settle occupied lands, and illegal to use collective punishment. Israel is a rogue nation, that doesn't abide by international law. What it has been doing, and is doing now, is illegal. Current events: This year, alone, prior to Oct 7 ... Israel held over 1200 Palestinian hostages without charges ... over 200 Palestinians had been killed by the IDF and settlers ... over 1000 Palestinians had been displaced by Israel's neverending colonization of the West Bank ... and, Israel continued to operate an open air WWII style fascist ghetto. Even ignoring modern history and law, in no reality did Hamas "start" anything.
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  8916. ​ @456012  Awww, you're so stupid that you can't tell the difference between promoting aggression and promoting an end to aggression. Yes, if you're promoting aggression, you should be ready to go fight.
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  8917. It's not "my" definition. I think Plato started it. Theists generally use "faith" based justifications (faith in parents, faith in preachers, faith in books, etc), as opposed to science based justifications.
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  8918.  @prodemocracyseth  Right wingers are morons, who don't grasp that simply electing representatives means you're a representative democracy. I'm still pretty sure that more than a few republics elect representatives, which would also make them representative democracies, by definition.
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  8919.  @helenevoyer5317  Some, but a republic is literally, not a monarchy. That's what "republic" means.
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  8920. How is equal in the eyes of the law, "just as dangerous" to not equal in the eyes of the law?
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  8921. He's a real conservative, not a fascist, Libertarian, or religious nut.
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  8922. Trump could use the fact that the senate didn't up it to $2000 as an excuse to not sign it, and let it run out before congress ends for the year (pocket veto).
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  8923. The "flu" is multiple virus strains. This is a single virus strain, that is twice as infectious, lasts twice as long, produces 10x the serious cases, and has a mortality rate over 10x that of the flu. Even with all these containment measures, it is going to kill as many as the flu.
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  8924. Every single dictionary I've seen, old and new, not matter what definition they use...they have all claimed the etymology is root word Atheos plus an -ist suffix. That contradicts most modern definitions, and yours.
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  8925. Since the US has about 10x our population, this would be equivalent to 75000-140000 Canadians going out of country for health care. So, on top of more Americans dying from lack of coverage, there are plenty of Americans who also go out of country for health care. "In 2007, it is estimated that 750,000 Americans traveled to other countries for health care.1In 2017, more than 1.4 million Americans sought health care in a variety of countries around the world." https://www.amjmed.com/article/S0002-9343(18)30620-X/fulltext
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  8926. ​ @deadname...  Thoughts on the Trump trade war? Sowell: "Oh my gosh, an utter disaster. I happen to believe that the Smoot-Hawley tariffs had more to do with setting off the Great Depression of the 1930s than the stock market crash. Unemployment never reached double digits in any of the 12 months that followed the crash of October 1929, but it hit double digits within six months of passage of Smoot-Hawley, and stayed there for a decade."
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  8927. Like religious conservative types have been doing for centuries? It's not "culture". It's human nature to want to eliminate things you have a strong dislike for, and it has been going on forever. It's making out like it's something new, and only being done by the left, that's fake.
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  8928. Lol, that's what he does most.
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  8929.  @biokido575  At least a decade of it, dumb dumb.
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  8930.  @biokido575  She showed no interest in boys, for decades. Were you upset when they "ruined" her with a boyfriend?
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  8931.  @gerri577  Is it "most"?
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  8932.  @aliamjon2550  *they're
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  8933.  @tomservo56954  How so?
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  8934.  @gnubbiersh647  Why would what I prefer matter, if something were objective? You're asking what I'd subjectively like. Again, Sam covered that in his opening, stating that was already a given. If he had simply said ... well here is what I think is a good measure of "well being", and think we should set that as our goal ... that would be a totally different thing. Not what he did. No, Sam is actually the one who routinely agrees with religious extremists, not me. A Sky Hitler is definitely not a good source for morality. I think morality is subjective. By definition, objectivity has no biases. It's straight facts, no feelings. It doesn't care about outcomes. By definition, morality has a bias in favor of some behaviors, and against others. I'm not even really sure how it became debatable. Even a god's morality would be based on its own subjective biases. It could hand down laws, and then you're objectively following the law, or not. But, the morality behind making the law would be subjective.
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  8935.  @gnubbiersh647  Sorry to hear about your reading comprehension problems.
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  8936.  @gnubbiersh647  I answered your questions, and you had problems reading them ... either too much for your tiny brain to read in one go, or too big of words for your tiny brain to comprehend properly. So, definitely your struggle.
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  8937.  @gnubbiersh647  Why would you say that? I think you've come to the wrong leftist channel, if you think this one is pro Sam Harris. Do you think pro gun, pro torture, Islamophobic, anti-blm, anti-antifa, white supremacist defender, feminist critic, leftist critic, Zionist ... Sam Harris is a leftist, or something?
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  8938.  @gnubbiersh647  But I do. Weird, I thought the thumbs up thingy meant someone agreed. No?
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  8939.  @ecospider5  A third of the homeless population are families. I wasn't considering splitting up families and giving kids and couples a home each, like you.
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  8940.  @ecospider5  That would literally still be throwing money (property of value) at it. You're incoherent.
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  8941.  @ecospider5  Except the department of housing and urban development says $20b could solve homelessness, in the US, since 65% of the homeless are already being sheltered. It's 35% that are on the streets. More money is what's needed. Also, money would solve world hunger. Musk was given a plan to end global deaths due to hunger, for $6b, which he didn't end up donating to.
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  8942.  @ecospider5  Again, you're incoherent. You first argued it is a political issue, and argued for the government assigning and paying for a percentage of all building as affordable housing. Now, you don't trust the government stating how much it would cost. The original argument was for all billionaires, not just one, to step up. $6b to get 42m people off the brink of starving to death, 9m of which do die every year, is a heck of a plan. How do you think the issue can be solved without money?
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  8943.  @ecospider5  "However, he said the data does not separate food that is sold to countries from that is donated as aid. "At the very least, food imports are not harmful, as some people have suggested," Jenkins said. "It may be that if we could separate the various forms of food imports we would find that food aid - food that is donated -- actually does help reduce hunger.""
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  8944.  @ecospider5  And yet the 30 year old data you cited couldn't conclude that direct food aid wouldn't help.
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  8945.  @janpeterson1206  *This guy is joking!
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  8946.  @janpeterson1206  No, but David Feldman is a comedy writer, including writing for The Daily Show. You know, the show that spawned satirical characters, like Colbert.
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  8947. Nah, the drugs knock you out, first.
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  8948.  @user-jy7yw5kw3w  You seem to have missed the point.
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  8949.  @tiffbeevachou108  Started well before the boomers. Some boomers still weren't old enough to vote, when Reagan swept the country.
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  8950. You're the one saying this stuff. The(os)-ist = a person who believes God exists Theos = God You claim that the new words equate to the old words. Therefore, everyone we call Theist = God.
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  8951.  King Charles ✔  *can't
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  8952.  @brothersandsistersofvalhalla  Rofl. I was both of those, and never once heard of anyone calling those people conspiracy theorists. The vast majority of the world was against the Iraq war, and was trusting UN inspectors, which found no evidence of WMDs. You're just making shit up.
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  8953.  @brothersandsistersofvalhalla  No, it didn't. You're making crap up.
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  8954.  @andym9571  It is a fact that the British planned to carve out a colonialist nation for the Zionists. They then hummed and hawed over multiple plans, and had numerous bureaucratic commissions looking into all aspects of the society, geography, etc., etc., trying to figure out exactly how to do it. Years went by (it was 30 years from the Balfour declaration to Israel's declaration of independence). It is then also a fact that the Zionists got impatient. After about 10 years in, they created terrorist groups, like the Irgun and Lehi, and started attacking the Brits. They also bombed Palestinian markets, killing many civilians, including children, even including Palestinian Jews (who didn't support Zionism). And, once WWII refugees started coming in, it somewhat overwhelmed the Brits, who weren't done doing their figuring out, and they tried to slow down refugees coming in, which intensified the Zionist resistance to them. So, it's somewhat along the lines of the British starting the colonies in North America, and then the Americans rebelling. It just happened over a shorter period of time, and resistance from the settlers started before the British had even finished their planning stage. But, they were definitely there to do colonialism, and a new nation, carved out of native territory, did emerge. As for those terrorists, the new nation of Israel merged them into their military and intelligence agencies. Israelis elected Menachem Begin, leader of the Irgun, terrorist, murderer, child killer, who bombed the King David Hotel, as PM. To this day, Israelis celebrate those terrorists as "heroes". Rivlin hosts 90th anniversary of founding Irgun Zvai Leumi (Etzel) By GREER FAY CASHMAN Published: MARCH 1, 2021 Israel literally taught their neighbours that terrorism is a valid path to independence and statehood, and that terrorists are to be celebrated.
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  8955. Moronic bullshit. An AI is still programmed. If it's not programmed to have biases in favour of this or that, then it won't. Objectivity makes zero decisions. It simply spouts facts. It is subjectivity that makes decisions. No computer has that naturally. No computer can develop that, on its own. Simply being exponentially smarter won't add subjectivity. The programmer adds the subjectivity. This also goes against his stupid, supposedly objective, morality hierarchy. If an AI is as beyond us, as we are to ants, then it should have a much higher value than us, according to Sam's own hierarchy argument.
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  8956.  @bravesirkevin  You seriously interpret that as everyone has the right to be on any TV channel they want, and the private owner of said TV channel has no right to say no, rather than interpreting it as the governments of member states shouldn't interfere with that privately owned TV station putting whoever they do, or don't, want on TV?
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  8957.  @bravesirkevin  I'm not allowed to warn a company that they could lose me as a consumer of their product, and why? I have to stick with them no matter what, without complaint, or leave without telling them how they could have kept me and give them a chance to keep me? What's a non extreme example of what you're referring to?
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  8958.  @bravesirkevin  No warping. You straight up seem to be restricting my human rights. So I can't ever threaten to stop using a company's services, if I don't like the service they're providing, or the environment they're allowing for? That sounds like you're the one demanding I either stay in an abusive relationship, or just leave quietly, with no middle ground of coming to a compromise for the relationship. Either that other guy is doing something inappropriate, or he's not, right? If he is, she might agree with my argument and ditch him. If he is, but she won't ditch him, you would rather me endure the inappropriate behavior, and just whine about it, without taking an actual stance? If he isn't, she might think my argument is nuts and ditch me. Or, maybe she'd tell me to stop being paranoid, or she'll leave me. Or, would you likewise have her either endure a paranoid boyfriend, or leave quietly, with no option of compromise? Banning the Dixie Chicks largely started at the top and went down. Right wing media corporations made a big deal about it, and the ones that also owned music stations stopped playing their music. It wasn't like they were coerced by the masses. That's back to private companies deciding for themselves. Can they, or can't they? Can they share their displeasure with the Dixie Chicks with the public? Not being able to make demands from a service you're paying for, or a service that's making money off you, sounds nonsensical. If an apocalypse preacher is shouting at people in a restaurant, does everyone simply have to endure it? You can't tell staff to make the preacher stop, or you'll take your business elsewhere?
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  8959.  @bravesirkevin  Rofl, so your analogy only allows for not liking the guy, for absolutely zero reason, and demanding she ditch him? How is that, at all, an actual analogy to what were talking about? Who the hell is saying "I don't much like Kevin. I have no apparent reason for disliking Kevin. But, ban him from your platform, or I'll leave instead."? That doesn't sound like an actual thing that's happening. Why should I have to either eat with an apocalypse preacher shouting in my ear, or quietly leave without complaint? Why can't I ask for the preacher to be removed, instead? Saying that asking for the preacher to be removed is "abuse" is nonsensical.
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  8960.  @bravesirkevin  Do you consider BDS abuse?
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  8961.  @bravesirkevin  Holy fuck, you're all over the place. Your original "analogy" didn't include any possible valid reason. I give an example, adding a possible valid reason. You didn't like me adding a possibly valid reason, and again made a zero valid reason "analogy". Then, I address that, and you say I'm going to extremes. Now, you say there could be many reasons. Right, and can any of those reasons be valid? Bad influence? If her friend is a junky or alcoholic, and is leading her down the same path, is having an intervention, and giving an ultimatum, "abuse"? If my kid falls in with the wrong croud, and they talk the kid into stealing something, is it "abuse" to say they can't hang around with that crowd anymore? That sounds like absolute nonsense. Your "analogy" only seems to work if the reasoning is based on absolutely nothing. But, again, when I point out that's not analogous to anything, you think I'm the one who's extreme. Plenty of people think Israel is doing no wrong. So it's okay to boycott, if you think they're doing wrong, or not? As someone else mentioned, you seem to be the one arguing against freedom of association, by not allowing people to say they don't want to associate with certain people. Why would the preacher be "not allowed" to preach in a restaurant? Are you saying businesses can set rules for behavior on their private property, and fully have the right to kick people out who violate those rules? And it doesn't count as abuse? What if they don't have a rule, yet, for a certain behavior? Is it "abuse" to ask management for a new rule, that gets someone kicked out? Who is doing anything analogous to going into a church and demanding a preacher stop preaching?
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  8962.  @bravesirkevin  I figured it out? So, you agree you could be violating the boyfriend's rights, by making a blanket "abuse" claim. And, there you go again. One second saying there could be valid reasons (if you agree with the reasons) and the next second making a blanket statement about "cancel culture". I'm pretty sure you're way wrong about the "always". You've already agreed that cancelling people for incitement is valid, and things like racism, bigotry, sexism, that themselves try to diminish others rights, etc. Are you saying none of that kind of cancelling is happening, or are you saying it doesn't count as "cancel culture", like right wingers claim it does? Plus, conservative types have been cancelling things they find offensive, for centuries. Sometimes opinions, but definitely not "always" opinions. For example, swearing and nudity aren't opinions. They're simply things they don't want to hear or see, on certain media, or at specific times of day. Burning, or trying to ban, Harry Potter books wasn't because religious nuts disagreed with the opinions in Harry Potter. It's because they think magic = evil. Does centuries of that kind of cancelling not count as "cancel culture"?
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  8963.  @bravesirkevin  Oh, I figured out that you make completely bullshit statements, just fine. What's an example of supposedly innocuous "ideas" that you think people on the left are wrongly trying to cancel? You know, something that's not all of the cancelling you've agreed is okay, but for some reason don't consider count as being part of "cancel culture".
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  8964. @Halon's Razor The company can do whatever the hell it wants. Most social media platforms have had tos regarding those things, from their beginnings, and plenty of bad still comes through.
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  8965. @Halon's Razor Pipelines don't generally own all the land they're built on. So, yeah, you kind of need the property owner's permission, which is the public's property, if it's on government land. Sure, just register your business as a private Christian cake club, or a religious organization. "Public accomodations" were designated so people couldn't go without food, shelter, water, etc. If you can't survive without FB, or Twitter, then you have an addiction problem. They are private clubs, albeit very large ones, with rules for membership.
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  8966.  @bravesirkevin  I actually gave the two options of either the boyfriend is justified, or he's not. Now you're just boldface lying. You were the one portraying it as only one possible option, that he wasn't. Then you agreed he could possibly have valid reasons. My counter examples made you contradict your bullshit blanket statements. It's called reducto absurdum, and is a method for showing fallacies, which your statements have been riddled with. Even now, you're making the ridiculous statement that the "abuser" could be justified, but still use "mistreat". That's like saying killing someone in self defense is justified but still call it "murder". It's nonsensical, contradictory, gibberish. I gave an example of a white nationalist posting something, and you agreed it would be okay to cancel them. I take it you've also never heard of the intolerance paradox, where you can't tolerate intolerance, if you want a tolerant society. Yes, I'm totally "bigoted" against bigotry, racism, and sexism. Who is cancelling Republicans, just for being Republican, or Christians, just for being Christian?
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  8967. @Halon's Razor Use of federal land can't be renegotiated with a new president? You can't go from no drilling to drilling on federal land, or vice versa? Weird that you were okay with all the eminent domain land seizures of private property, for the deal. Rofl, if they just make Christian wedding cakes, then be a private Christian wedding cake club. Costco is a private club. Social media are private clubs. Women's only gyms are private clubs.
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  8968. @Halon's Razor I didn't say decisions didn't have anything to do with native lands. I also didn't say they didn't have anything to do with the environment, if you try to deflect that route. I said it was weird you're okay with all the eminent domain claims, to make the property rights deals you said we're settled. Am I wrong? If your religious beliefs want to discriminate, then yeah, don't be a "public accomodation", which the category of bakeries are.
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  8969. @Halon's Razor It's a long pipeline, going over various lands, ffs. Some is disputed native land, or very near native land and the natives don't think their well being or cultural landmarks were considered. Much was private property, taken through eminent domain. All of the land, the federal government has treated as their own. You don't like eminent domain. Okay, and do you like Trump reversing Obama's Keystone decision, just 2 years later? You can renegotiate in favor of the pipeline, in just 2 years, but not against in 4? A cake shop is a kind of bakery, ffs. Laws don't tend to list all the possible sub categories. If you want to restrict your customers, have memberships. Even private clubs that open part of the club to the general public on some days, can get themselves considered "public accomodations". Don't do that.
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  8970. @Halon's Razor So, eminent domain land grabs were bad, okaying the deal was bad, but reverting back is also bad. So, if something is bad, or goes wrong, you don't allow for fixing it, because ... deal. Like, keep spending billions on faulty jets, because ... deal? Keep selling Saudi weapons, because ... deal? Don't renegotiate drug prices, because ... deal? Don't renegotiate international trade agreements, because ... deal? The supreme court, after Republicans blocked one appointment for almost a year, and then put in 2 new conservative judges, for one. For another, they didn't outright rule that the shop had the right to discriminate. They ruled that the state commission hadn't been neutral enough.
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  8971. @Halon's Razor I only think there's, broadly, maybe 100 half decent Democrats in congress, atm. More narrowly, only a dozen, or so, decent ones. And, that's up, from previous years, and decades. So, you can shove the strawman bullshit. Isn't it wrong to keep spending taxpayer dollars on garbage, keep giving weapons to a humanitarian crisis, keep infringing on native lands and keep battling eminent domain lawsuits (still happening), etc.?
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  8972. @Halon's Razor You know, odds are, if I already don't like what the corporate Dem lawmakers are doing, I'm not going to like what any Republican lawmakers are doing, right? It's not like they're going to be left of corporate Dems on much of anything. I'll find as much common cause with Republicans as a Libertarian would find with the CCP. They want to move things in the completely opposite direction than I'd like to see happen, for the most part. Corporate Dems, don't move any direction, much, which is somewhat better than the wrong way. Progressives want to move things in a direction I'd like to see. Or, with all the litigation going on (multiple federal suits, and dozens of eminent domain suits), you don't consider the deal cemented in stone, like you did.
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  8973.  @bravesirkevin  Did your ADD kick in half way through that quote? Hey, if you want to insist you're okay with a government agency cancelling naughty words and nipples, to protect people's delicate sensibilities (even though there's no evidence hearing or seeing those things would actually harm anyone), but want to die on a hill defending people's "right" to spew hate (even though the spreading of hate tends to go hand in hand with increased hate crimes, horrible immigration laws, discriminatory authoritarian practices, etc.), be my guest.
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  8974.  @bravesirkevin  What are you even talking about? Fascists weren't censored, and rational thought didn't win out. Intolerance was tolerated and rational thought wasn't gloriously victorious. Trump just got done convincing tens of millions of people not to believe any media, any courts, any election officials, any doctors, any nurses, any scientists, any other politicians, anybody, even to not believe their own lying eyes, if any of those contradicted Supreme Leader. He pulled off the most Big Brother like propaganda campaign in US history. He even convinced 28% of Republicans (still millions of people) to embrace overt fascism, saying they didn't want him to concede under any circumstances. They were okay with openly ending the democratic process and keeping an unelected ruler in power. Do you think all horrible ideas that have taken over countries just magically popped into the minds of the masses one day, or something? I don't think you know much about history, at all. Did women win the right to vote, simply by convincing everyone with rational argument? No. They had to protest, as well as make ultimatums, on top of rational debate. And then, after pushing the majority to their position, they forced it on the remaining irrational sexists. Did slavery end simply with rational argument? Did segregation end simply with rational argument? Just how long do you think we "need" to debate racism, exactly? Do you not consider the subject settled? Numerous countries have hate speech laws (which are simply similar to defamation and threat laws extended to groups of people, rather than just an individual) and those countries top the US, which doesn't have hate speech laws, on multiple freedom indexes. You slipped all the way down the slope to severely intolerant regimes, regimes that actually rose up by freely spreading their intolerant ideas.
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  8975.  @bravesirkevin  You also made a morality argument about family friendly censorship, btw. And it wasn't an "abuse" argument.
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  8976.  @bravesirkevin  Ironic, coming from someone who apparently didn't read, or didn't grasp, what I actually said about fascism. Hell, you didn't even seem read, or grasp, a quote you posted yourself, in its entirety. You seem to think fascists magically appeared in positions of power, one day, that their intolerant ideas just magically popped into the minds of the masses. Apparently, you would have been defending their "right" to promote the idea of having a single dictator make all the wrong decisions, promote the idea of ending democracy. You'd be someone claiming that them being able to spread their anti-democratic ideas, that would end people's most important form of speech, as a good thing, right up until they did attain positions of power. And then you'd be screwed. Debating exactly what form of democracy to have is different than debating whether zero democracy is bad, right? Aren't we done with that debate? Dictatorships are bad, aren't they? Debating solutions to rape or murder, is different than debating whether we want them happening in society, or not. What is the benefit of a Richard Spencer promoting the idea that a racist society, a single race society, would be good? To me, that's like someone promoting the idea that allowing people to rape and murder whoever they want, would be good. That person is insane, and is promoting things that would harm, and clearly violate the human rights of others. It appears, to me, to be an attempt at incitement, because if enough people bought the ideas being promoted, terrible things would happen to others. You said you were against incitement, but it seems like you would defend incitement, as it's happening. You also don't seem to grasp a little word, like "simply". Did I say there was zero rational argument behind any of those things? No. I asked if there was "simply" rational argument, which already implies there was some. You know, "simply", as in only, or just. And, I didn't even state exactly how complex I imagined anything to be. Saudi isn't even 100 years old. 19th century European women, travelling in the previous Ottoman Empire, thought women in the Empire had more freedoms than them. That same Empire had decriminalized homosexuality, while countries in Europe, and states in the US, were still considering it illegal, or a mental health issue, and locking people up. The freedom loving Brits were the ones who instead handed land to a theocratic monarchy, and the freedom loving US is the country who has rewarded that theocratic monarchy's behaviour the most. Both of those freedom loving countries have also overthrown democratically elected non religious fanatics, in the ME, just because their economics leaned a bit to the left. And, they've outright backed religious fanatics, as well. American colonies still had Puritans, 100 years in, who didn't allow women to do much. And, are you now promoting Britain using ultimatums, in business dealings, to cancel other countries' ideas of how to do things, as a good thing? That wasn't abusive boyfriend behaviour? You, basically, just argued that it's perfectly fine for the Dr Seuss folks to decide that racist images aren't really family friendly, or social media platforms to decide their TOS to appeal to whatever audience they want to attract. It's perfectly fine if a business guesses what its consumers want. Totally abuse if consumers tell a business what they want. I don't watch CNN, or FOX. So, my solution is to watch neither, rather than both. Seriously? You think it's possible that local Republican election officials, state level Republican officials, conservative judges (some even appointed by Trump himself), federal Republican election security officials, and even some right wing media, joined up to cover up widespread election fraud? You think it's possible that politicians worldwide, media worldwide, doctors worldwide, nurses worldwide, scientists worldwide, are perpetrating a covid hoax? Do you also think it's possible that the Democrat party are a bunch of devil worshippers that eat babies, or whatever?
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  8977.  @bravesirkevin   Fascism: Extreme anti-socialism, it's the number one thing Mussolini stated fascism was opposed to. Anti union, they destroyed unions and outlawed striking. Ultra nationalism, everyone work together to make the nation great, with an idea of what makes for an ideal nationalist, and those further from the ideal being considered un-. Authoritarian, building up policing, surveillance, and the military. They were backed by leading industrialists, large land owners, religious leaders, and even monarchists and nobility ... the rich and powerful. Propagandists, that created cults with cult leaders. And, anti democratic. The US already had a problematic democracy, with gerrymandering, voter suppression, the bullshit electoral college, the senate being able to block bills from the far more representative house. Overtly overthrowing the democratic process is really only the last nail in the coffin that Republicans need to hammer in, to go all out fascist. Even a bunch of corporate Dems only need to hammer in a few more nails, and are borderline. You know fascists were, and are, fascists before attaining complete control, right? Trump, and many Republican lawmakers proved themselves to be overt fascists, ready to hammer in that last nail. Over 70% of Republicans were going along with all that bullshit. And 28% of Republicans surveyed didn't want Trump to concede, under any circumstances. The Jan 6 storming of the capitol was closer to being a coup than Hitler's Beer Hall Putsch, and had more people participating. I'm pretty sure it's you that doesn't know what fascism actually is. "Fascism is the complete opposite of Marxian socialism", Mussolini. The Marxist ideal is a stateless non-authoritarian democratic socialism. The complete opposite is an ultra-nationalistic authoritarian crony capitalist dictatorship. By implying I want one party, because I don't think racism, sexism, and bigotry, need a platform, like you do, means you're arguing that the Republican party is all about racism, sexism, and bigotry, or that they somehow couldn't be a party without those "ideas". Well done. You're making that party sound great. In reality, I'd actually like to see no parties. Vote for individuals and their stated policy positions. Politics as a team sport is stupid and lazy. Mail in voting was up all over the country. I'm quite sure that, if you looked at the other states (that Trump didn't challenge), you'd find a similar breakdown, that more voters voting for the candidate who encouraged voting by mail, voted by mail, and more voters voting for the candidate who encouraged voting in person, voted in person. The only difference between the states that were challenged, and the rest of the country, was that their Republican state legislators didn't update their election system, to start counting mail in ballots early. So, unlike the rest of the states, you got to witness the day of voting count, and then the mail in voting count being added after. Trump used the imagery of that process as propaganda. With zero evidence, from his election night podium, he started spewing his voter fraud crap. He was perfectly fine with just beforehand saying he won states the AP had called for him, the night of. His daughter even congratulated him when the AP called Alaska for him, days after he had started spewing his voter fraud and anti AP bullshit. You know even after winning in 2016, he was also baselessly declaring widespread voter fraud, claiming that's why he didn't win the popular vote, right? He even set up an election integrity commission. It was finding nothing of the sort, so he quietly ended it. Trump just throws shit and hopes it sticks. This time it has gotten his friends, that threw shit with him, hit with billion dollar defamation lawsuits. I guess they'll get their day in court, like they wanted, lol. Do you think it's just a coincidence, that countries that rolled out testing quicker and tested at higher rates, rolled out masks quicker and had higher mask use, created apps for covid tracking, etc., faired better than countries that didn't do those things, only did some, and did what they did slower? The US and UK were testing at a rate of 5 people per confirmed case, for example, while Vietnam (shares a long border with China) and S Korea were testing 50+ people per confirmed case. Do you think it's just a coincidence that Sweden, for example, is in the top 25 for covid deaths per million, with a covid death rate 5-10x higher than its neighbouring Nordic countries? Quarantines have been a pretty standard response to epidemics, for centuries now. Doctors and nurses wearing even cloth masks, way before the newer disposable masks, was pretty standard stuff. You're worried governments want to keep powers, that they've actually always had, to make people stay indoors, generate less revenue, and have to pay out more in assistance? Why would they want that? To what ends? It makes zero sense. Do they all have shares in UberEats, or something? Remember when the British government wanted to keep on telling people to turn off their lights, to ration food, to enter shelters whenever they said, etc., after years of war? Me either. And, I'm quite sure, now, that you're the one that doesn't know what fascism is. Btw, I didn't say I was American. I'm Canadian. I also don't have a horse in the race. You, and the other guy, created a horse for me from pure imagination. US Corporate Dems, and maybe a very few less extreme Republicans, are almost like Canadian Conservatives (right). I wouldn't ever vote for, or show support for, them because I like their policies. It would only ever be to oppose something worse. I don't even tend to vote Liberal (centre-right, kind of like the broader US progressive caucus maybe), and only did once, to get rid of Harper. I tend to vote NDP (more centrist, like the Justice Dem style progressives and Bernie). To me, most US Republicans (far right) are batshit crazy. We had our Conservative party split, before, and some created an even further right party. It failed. Only 14% of Canadians surveyed said they'd vote Trump. That almost half of Americans voted for him is insane. We also have hate speech laws, haven't hit your slippery slope, and are still ranked higher than the US on freedom indexes. We had a not horrible, but still only mediocre, covid response. If the US had a similar, just mediocre response, they could have had 300k fewer covid deaths. The US response was horrible. Massive incompetence, at multiple levels. I was telling Cuomo lovers that he was as incompetent as Trump, from the start. We also put our asylum seekers up in hotels, not prisons. Plenty of Canadians stay in the US longer than they're supposed to, and don't get rounded up and tossed in those ICE prisons. You, literally, chastised me for adding options to justify ultimatums. Then, still used the words "abuse" and "mistreat", to describe justified ultimatums. Now you're justifying ultimatums, and more. You also, still seem to have zero clue what I asked, about women's suffrage, slavery, and forced segregation. You can blather on about rational arguments and "negotiations" all you want. Again, I never said that didn't happen, and outright implied it did. It still won't change the fact that that's not all it took. Slavery not standing up to old English law, the authority, in mainland England, is that authority forcing its will on those who wanted slaves. Declaring people pirates and chasing them down was force. Making trade ultimatums was force. The US having to go to war was force. Not having the option to not sell your slaves to be freed, and keep them, was force. The authority, backed by the will of the majority, forced that will on the irrational holdouts, that couldn't simply be reasoned with. Almost everything you've described was force. There are Scottish clubs, Irish clubs, Italian clubs, Greek clubs, Catholic schools, Muslim schools, Jewish schools, schools for people of various European descent, boys' clubs, girls' clubs, women's clubs, men's clubs, women's gyms, men's gyms, women's sports, men's sports, etc., etc., etc. What kind of segregation are you worried about, exactly, that's even remotely equivalent to Jim Crow style segregation? A busiiness guessing that doing X will lose them consumers, or doing Y will gain them consumers, or doing A would be good for public relations, or doing B wouldn't be good for public relations ... decisions businesses have been making for centuries ... are now "abuse", if they feel any kind of pressure (they always have, and always will, feel the pressure of possibly doing something that tanks business), or if their customer base or the public just comes out and tells them so they don't have to guess. But multiple ways of forcing the idea that black people aren't animals, the idea that they shouldn't be property, on people in your country, people in your colonies, and even people outside your country or empire ... all good. So, the finding that FB was giving right wing media, like Shapiro, more algorithm weight was them supporting Democrats? Odd support.
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  8978.  @bravesirkevin   @bravesirkevin  Holy crap, you are completely clueless. What I said was that fascism is the opposite of the Marxist ideal, which can also be called anarchism, or libertarian socialism. An authoritarian form of crony capitalism vs a non authoritarian democratic socialism. Socialism is abroad category, like capitalism, not a narrow position, like fascism. 100% privately owned and operated on one end and 100% publicly owned and operated on the other end, with various degrees of mixed economies in between ... not counting the military, justice system, and basic government, which even Ayn Rand fans, US Libertarians, and the like, argue are needed for a functioning full blown capitalist society. Don't even have those and you get ancap on one side and anarchism, ansoc, on the other. Have those, and go super authoritarian, and you've got fascism on one side and capital C Communist countries on the other. You're a complete joke. There were a number of socialist enclaves in Italy. They weren't created by the federal government. Mussolini and his fascists went after them even before gaining power. It's one of the reasons the King handed Mussolini power, to quash rising socialism ... from the bottom. Anarchists in Spain set up communities, as well, from the bottom. They didn't always get along with the more authoritarian Soviet style communists, but they sided with them against Franco and his fascists. Much like Libertarians and ancappers side with Republicans, when it comes to certain things. Saying socialism is opposed to liberty, when it comes in a libertarian flavour, is completely idiotic. Rofl! What a load of crap. If something lasts (for how long exactly?), then there was no force involved? There was zero force involved in the American Revolution? Zero force involved in taking the land from natives? Zero force involved in CCP takeover of China? Zero force involved in defeating fascists? Zero force in colonizing Australia with criminals? Zero force in adding Scotland and Wales to England, to become the UK? Northern Ireland? Zero force in adding Quebec to Canada? Seriously, history is jammed packed with successful uses of force, and people then accepting the results. That's pretty much the basis for how peace treaties work, after force is used. To pretend like the law isn't force is just as nonsensical. Laws are "enforced" by police "forces". If the law says you can't have a slave, but you really like the idea of having a slave, then you'll most likely get your ass tossed in jail, if you try for it. Did the South leave the union over slavery, enshrining slavery in their new constitution? After winning, did the North let them keep their slaves, if they wanted, or were they forced to give them up? You've gone from contradicting yourself to babbling complete and utter nonsense. Yeah, all the Chinatowns, in various North American cities, have been nothing but trouble. Sounds like a warzone every Chinese New Year. And the Scottish pipe bands are a bunch of hooligans. Please don't tell me you want everyone to be of one culture. You just don't want them gathering together, in the same spot, or what? You didn't use the right winger words, but you implied their "reverse racism" is going on. Where at? You've already argued that it wasn't "abuse", for say abolitionists to pressure and convince enough lawmakers to abolish slavery, and then enforce it on the rest of society. Yet, you're still going on as if someone pressuring a company is "abuse". Hell, you've just justified a whole ton of crap, with your acceptance = no force argument.
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  8979. We aren't anywhere close to AI developing their own subjectivity, if it's even possible.
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  8980. Like when the Romans put down the uppity Jewish rebels, who killed Roman civilians?
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  8981. I think we have plenty of evidence here, that none of us mind claiming a label and arguing against what we think are false definitions of it. Murchad, I, and possibly devious, agree on what Huxley's Agnostic principal is. The question as to whether Agnosticism is truly compatible with The-ism or Athe-ism seems to boil down to this question... Is it possible to both believe a proposition is true and doubt a proposition is true? If not, then Agnosticism represents the no belief position fine.
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  8982. Shouldn't you qualify that title? US establishment power, right? You're good with towing the line for Russian establishment power.
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  8983.  @dootdoot1867  There's a difference between having an ideal, and the best way to reach that ideal. Siding with far right fascists to bring down the current government, isn't the best way to reach anarchism. It's the best way to find yourself on the wrong side of a Night of the Long Knives. And if you haven't even convinced the majority to accept socialism, before completely eradicating the government, then you'll end up with an ancap environment, instead. Dore knobs are so impatient, and yet they promote taking the longest dumbest route to the destination.
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  8984.  @dootdoot1867  Piss off with your ancap psychos. An ancap environment gets you private property owners, with no authority above them, running around doing whatever the hell they want. It's how you get feudalism and absolute monarchies, both 100% privately owned and operated endeavours. You have to be insane to think they'd make good allies.
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  8985. Lol, keep making the "cult" accusations ​ @waltergrace565  👈 (totally in a cult).
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  8986. ​ @barbaraklein3944  Likud's bloody 100 year history ... In 1923, 100 years ago, Ze'ev Jabotinsky wrote, The Iron Wall, and a follow up, The Ethics of The Iron Wall (sooo racist towards Africans), in which he fully acknowledged that post Balfour Zionsim was colonialism, and that, based on the entirety of history, the native Palestinian population would resist being colonized until the bitter end. He directly compared it to the colonization of North America. He promoted doing it anyway, claiming Zionist colonialism was a "just" colonialism (he also thought North American colonialists were good guys, so not a great judge of morality), not caring what that meant for the native population. Ze'ev is important, because his Betar militant youth group helped found the Irgun terrorist group, along with other supporters of his, and the splinter Lehi terrorist group. The Irgun bombed numerous Palestinian markets and other public places, murdering many Palestinian civilians, including children, even including Palestinian Jews (who didn't support colonialist Zionsim). The Irgun are important, because they ended up being led by future Likud PM, Menachem Begin, who bombed the King David Hotel. The King David Hotel was bombed because the British had raided the Jewish Agency and seized numerous documents that may have shown that the terrorists were working with the JA and Haganah (JA liked to pretend that they didn't support the terrorism). The British then stored those documents at their base, in the hotel. That the Irgun terrorists responded to a JA raid, itself seems to prove the connection. That the thousands of Irgun (and Lehi) terrorists were also quickly merged into the new nation's military (IDF) and intelligence (Mossad) agencies, and are still celebrated as "heroes" by Israelis, to this day, also seems to support total collaboration between the groups. That other terrorist group mentioned, Lehi (also known as the Stern Gang), was considered even more extreme. They even tried to ally with the Nazis, against the British. Lehi ended up being led by Yitzhak Shamir, future Mossad agent, and another future Likud PM. In 1945, there was a major land and peoples survey done in Palestine. It showed that the Zionists only owned about 5% of the total land, 20% of the arable land, and owned a majority in zero districts. The partition was not only going to be forced on the native Palestinian majority, but Jews were still going to be a minority, in the part allocated to them. The only possible way to even become a "Jewish state" was going to require getting rid of the actual majority (at least enough so that there'd be a solid Jewish majority, so they could fake being democratic). This is also shown by the 1948, post Nakba, population of Israel. If there was 716,700 Jews, 156,000+ non-Jews, and approximately 700k non-Jews ethnically cleansed, that means the Jewish population, in the Zionist portion of partition, was originally over 100,000 less than the non-Jewish population. To believe that there was never any intent, by Zionists, to ethnically cleanse away the Palestinian majority would require believing that they never intended to create a "Jewish state". It's a nonsensical notion. Begin, and those terrorist groups, also opposed partition, but for the opposite reason Palestinians did. Palestinians didn't want to be colonized, at all. The terrorists wanted to colonize it all. "Moderate" Zionists were okay with colonizing half ... for now (what would happen in the future, after partition, was up to them, said Ben-Gurion). The Zionist terrorists were also involved in massacres, and assassinations, during the partition violence (colonialist war against the natives). Another notable future Likud PM, also started in the military, during the partition fighting. That was Ariel Sharon, war criminal, "Butcher of Beirut". Menachem Begin, and these other Zionist terrorists, are important because they also later founded Likud. Now, people get upset over the slogan "From the river to the sea!", but it's the second part that's most important, "Palestine will be free!". Because "Palestine" isn't defined as an ethno-state, a free Palestine can be a single state, free for all to live in, and return to, free of continuing colonization, free of occupation, free of oppression, etc. Just like a Germany free of Nazism, an Italy free of fascism, a South Africa free of apartheid, or an America free of slavery from sea to shiny sea. It doesn't necessitate purging all the Jews. It just necessitates them giving up on the idea of an ethno-state. On the other hand, because "Israel" has been defined as an ethno-state, Likud's, "between the sea and the Jordan there will only be Israeli sovereignty", has no possible good interpretation. It is a declaration of intent to completely colonize, and ethnically cleanse, all Palestine territories. Not only that, but it also claims that they have a "right" to all of the "Land of Israel" (biblical borders that don't mesh with archaeological reality), which is an open declaration of future wars, against Jordan, Syria, Lebanon, and possibly even Iraq. Likud platform ... 1977: "The Right of the Jewish People to the Land of Israel (Eretz Israel) a. The right of the Jewish people to the land of Israel is eternal and indisputable and is linked with the right to security and peace; therefore, Judea and Samaria will not be handed to any foreign administration; between the Sea and the Jordan there will only be Israeli sovereignty. b. A plan which relinquishes parts of western Eretz Israel, undermines our right to the country, unavoidably leads to the establishment of a "Palestinian State," jeopardizes the security of the Jewish population, endangers the existence of the State of Israel. and frustrates any prospect of peace." "Settlement Settlement. both urban and rural. in all parts of the Land of Israel is the focal point of the Zionist effort to redeem the country, to maintain vital security areas and serves as a reservoir of strength and inspiration for the renewal of the pioneering spirit. The Likud government will call on the younger generation in Israel and the dispersions to settle and help every group and individual in the task of inhabiting and cultivating the wasteland, while taking care not to dispossess anyone." 1999: "The Government of Israel flatly rejects the establishment of a Palestinian Arab state west of the Jordan river. The Palestinians can run their lives freely in the framework of self-rule, but not as an independent and sovereign state. Thus, for example, in matters of foreign affairs, security, immigration, and ecology, their activity shall be limited in accordance with imperatives of Israel's existence, security and national needs." "The Jewish communities in Judea, Samaria, and Gaza are the realization of Zionist values. Settlement of the land is a clear expression of the unassailable right of the Jewish people to the Land of Israel and constitutes an important asset in the defense of the vital interests of the State of Israel. The Likud will continue to strengthen and develop these communities and will prevent their uprooting." All Palestine territories are officially considered occupied, by the International Court of Justice, the UN GA, the UN SC, and even in official documents of Israel's own allies. Likud is still using the blueprint for colonizing North America, in the West Bank. Move settlements out into native territory, piss off the natives, the natives retaliate, cry about poor "innocent" colonizing settlers being the "victims" of violent "Savages!", call in the cavalry to put down the native uprising, and eventually expand the borders to include those settlements. Rinse and repeat. In Gaza, they are operating an open air WWII style fascist ghetto. Them claiming a "right to defend themselves" would be like the Nazis claiming a "right to defend themselves " from the Warsaw ghetto uprising. There's no "war". That they're the occupiers means the "war" part is long over. That partition was forced upon the Palestinian majority, against their will ... that the Zionist portion still had to be forcefully ethnically cleansed of its non-Jewish majority, against their will ... that the millions of occupied Palestinians don't have a say in the government that truly rules over them, Israel's ... means Israel is about as democratic as Nazi Germany after Hitler purged his political opponents and then held elections. Hamas is basically just a poor man's Likud, only fighting against colonialism, instead of for colonialism.
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  8987. ​@@win270fan The OP is talking about Trump, the narcissist, not normal people, dumb dumb.
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  8988. ​ HelloSnowflake2  Does that mean Republicans were scared of Hillary, with their 6 investigations, even while she was Trump's political opponent, and why Trump ran on "Lock her up!"? All found nothing to charge her with. Does that mean Trump, and Republicans, were scared of Biden, in 2020, when they started investigating him, while he was Trump's political opponent? And, they're still fishing, in 2024, while he's Trump's political opponent, and haven't found anything to charge him with. You lot are so stupid, and hypocritical.
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  8989. So Jimmy should stop calling those who simply disagree on methodology "fakes" and "shills"?
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  8990. The word, originated with the Greek word Atheos + -ism, not A- + theist. There is no need to call yourself an agnostic atheist, just agnostic is fine.
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  8991.  Derek Hitt  The state didn't have ownership ... wasn't getting some massive cut of the profits, that was redistributed to the public. The government has something like a 60% majority interest in the largest oil company in Norway, and redistributes money made from that into public social programs. That's socialistic. Some government just bossing you around is simply authoritarian. Government safety regulations, or whatnot, isn't socialistic. Pretty sure you're confusing two different things. Fascists were leaders in privatization. You can find multiple articles on it.
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  8992.  Derek Hitt  Rofl. Yeah, you are definitely confused, about a whole lot of things. The Chinese government having the authority to pull McDonald's license to operate in their country, whenever it wants, has zero to do with right-left economics. The government outlawing the alcohol industry has zero to do with left-right. The government legalizing the marijuana industry has zero to do with left-right. The government outlawing the prostitution industry has zero to do with left-right. The government legalizing the porn industry has zero to do with left-right. You're clearly one of those idiots who thinks government doing stuff = socialism.
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  8993.  Derek Hitt  What strawman? You're making out like simply having some authority to okay or end a business is somehow relevant. Having the authority to okay or end entire industries isn't even relevant. What difference does it matter, if it's in the interest of the state, or not in the interest of the state, if it's entirely privately owned and operated, and making people billionaires? If the US thinks an industry is detrimental to the state, society, they outlaw it. What the hell does that have to do with capitalism vs socialism?
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  8994.  Derek Hitt  And ... ? Saudi is a 100% privately owned and operated country. What does a dictatorship have to do with left-right?
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  8995.  Derek Hitt  Rofl! What a load of crap. Every absolute monarchy ever was a 100% privately owned and operated system. The "state" is privately owned by an individual.
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  8996.  Derek Hitt  Like I said. That's idiotic. Making out like a single private individual owning a country is socialism has to be one of the dumbest takes I've ever heard.
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  8997. ​ @ruaraidh74  Should we force people to keep their brain dead loved ones on life support, and force them to pay for it, because the meat sack shell is still "life"?
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  8998. ​ @Prometheus4096  Piss off. Pakman is equivalent to Piers Morgan.
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  8999. Like the Puritans, persecuted in their homelands, no longer had a home, travelled to the New World, only to turn around and persecute everyone and anyone around them, and within them.
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  9000.  @sstar202  Tulsi (as well as Greenwald and Dore) is literally collecting cheques from Peter Thiel, via Rumble, who made his money helping the government spy on everyone.
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  9001. Nazi
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  9002. ​ @bswear77 You mean the states, with Republican legislatures, that stupidly decided to not start counting early votes, until after day of votes?
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  9003. Sanders has pretty much stuck to his same message, and platform. He was just campaigning for Nina, trying to add another M4A yes vote to congress. Tulsi said who she was, back in 2016, “In short, when it comes to the war against terrorists, I’m a hawk. When it comes to counterproductive wars of regime change, I’m a dove.” She was never the anti-war candidate people made her out to be. For anyone who knows how a VAT actually works, knew Yang was on the side of making giant corporations and billionaires even more billions, from the get go. He has always been spewing bullshit.
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  9004. ​ @willhall640  You lot are the ones currently claiming a boxer, born with a vjj, is a man. So, according MAGA itself, vjj products are needed in men's rooms.
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  9005. ​ @crabbypattie  Likud's bloody 100 year history ... In 1923, 100 years ago, Ze'ev Jabotinsky wrote, The Iron Wall, and a follow up, The Ethics of The Iron Wall (sooo racist towards Africans), in which he fully acknowledged that post Balfour Zionsim was colonialism, and that, based on the entirety of history, the native Palestinian population would resist being colonized until the bitter end. He directly compared it to the colonization of North America. He promoted doing it anyway, claiming Zionist colonialism was a "just" colonialism (he also thought North American colonialists were good guys, so not a great judge of morality), not caring what that meant for the native population. Ze'ev is important, because his Betar militant youth group helped found the Irgun terrorist group, along with other supporters of his, and the splinter Lehi terrorist group. The Irgun bombed numerous Palestinian markets and other public places, murdering many Palestinian civilians, including children, even including Palestinian Jews (who didn't support colonialist Zionsim). The Irgun are important, because they ended up being led by future Likud PM, Menachem Begin, who bombed the King David Hotel. The King David Hotel was bombed because the British had raided the Jewish Agency and seized numerous documents that may have shown that the terrorists were working with the JA and Haganah (JA liked to pretend that they didn't support the terrorism). The British then stored those documents at their base, in the hotel. That the Irgun terrorists responded to a JA raid, itself seems to prove the connection. That the thousands of Irgun (and Lehi) terrorists were also quickly merged into the new nation's military (IDF) and intelligence (Mossad) agencies, and are still celebrated as "heroes" by Israelis, to this day, also seems to support total collaboration between the groups. That other terrorist group mentioned, Lehi (also known as the Stern Gang), was considered even more extreme. They even tried to ally with the Nazis, against the British. Lehi ended up being led by Yitzhak Shamir, future Mossad agent, and another future Likud PM. In 1945, there was a major land and peoples survey done in Palestine. It showed that the Zionists only owned about 5% of the total land, 20% of the arable land, and owned a majority in zero districts. The partition was not only going to be forced on the native Palestinian majority, but Jews were still going to be a minority, in the part allocated to them. The only possible way to even become a "Jewish state" was going to require getting rid of the actual majority (at least enough so that there'd be a solid Jewish majority, so they could fake being democratic). This is also shown by the 1948, post Nakba, population of Israel. If there was 716,700 Jews, 156,000+ non-Jews, and approximately 700k non-Jews ethnically cleansed, that means the Jewish population, in the Zionist portion of partition, was originally over 100,000 less than the non-Jewish population. To believe that there was never any intent, by Zionists, to ethnically cleanse away the Palestinian majority would require believing that they never intended to create a "Jewish state". It's a nonsensical notion. Begin, and those terrorist groups, also opposed partition, but for the opposite reason Palestinians did. Palestinians didn't want to be colonized, at all. The terrorists wanted to colonize it all. "Moderate" Zionists were okay with colonizing half ... for now (what would happen in the future, after partition, was up to them, said Ben-Gurion). The Zionist terrorists were also involved in massacres, and assassinations, during the partition violence (colonialist war against the natives). Another notable future Likud PM, also started in the military, during the partition fighting. That was Ariel Sharon, war criminal, "Butcher of Beirut". Menachem Begin, and these other Zionist terrorists, are important because they also later founded Likud. Now, people get upset over the slogan "From the river to the sea!", but it's the second part that's most important, "Palestine will be free!". Because "Palestine" isn't defined as an ethno-state, a free Palestine can be a single state, free for all to live in, and return to, free of continuing colonization, free of occupation, free of oppression, etc. Just like a Germany free of Nazism, an Italy free of fascism, a South Africa free of apartheid, or an America free of slavery from sea to shiny sea. It doesn't necessitate purging all the Jews. It just necessitates them giving up on the idea of an ethno-state. On the other hand, because "Israel" has been defined as an ethno-state, Likud's, "between the sea and the Jordan there will only be Israeli sovereignty", has no possible good interpretation. It is a declaration of intent to completely colonize, and ethnically cleanse, all Palestine territories. Not only that, but it also claims that they have a "right" to all of the "Land of Israel" (biblical borders that don't mesh with archaeological reality), which is an open declaration of future wars, against Jordan, Syria, Lebanon, and possibly even Iraq. Likud platform ... 1977: "The Right of the Jewish People to the Land of Israel (Eretz Israel) a. The right of the Jewish people to the land of Israel is eternal and indisputable and is linked with the right to security and peace; therefore, Judea and Samaria will not be handed to any foreign administration; between the Sea and the Jordan there will only be Israeli sovereignty. b. A plan which relinquishes parts of western Eretz Israel, undermines our right to the country, unavoidably leads to the establishment of a "Palestinian State," jeopardizes the security of the Jewish population, endangers the existence of the State of Israel. and frustrates any prospect of peace." "Settlement Settlement. both urban and rural. in all parts of the Land of Israel is the focal point of the Zionist effort to redeem the country, to maintain vital security areas and serves as a reservoir of strength and inspiration for the renewal of the pioneering spirit. The Likud government will call on the younger generation in Israel and the dispersions to settle and help every group and individual in the task of inhabiting and cultivating the wasteland, while taking care not to dispossess anyone." 1999: "The Government of Israel flatly rejects the establishment of a Palestinian Arab state west of the Jordan river. The Palestinians can run their lives freely in the framework of self-rule, but not as an independent and sovereign state. Thus, for example, in matters of foreign affairs, security, immigration, and ecology, their activity shall be limited in accordance with imperatives of Israel's existence, security and national needs." "The Jewish communities in Judea, Samaria, and Gaza are the realization of Zionist values. Settlement of the land is a clear expression of the unassailable right of the Jewish people to the Land of Israel and constitutes an important asset in the defense of the vital interests of the State of Israel. The Likud will continue to strengthen and develop these communities and will prevent their uprooting." All Palestine territories are officially considered occupied, by the International Court of Justice, the UN GA, the UN SC, and even in official documents of Israel's own allies. Likud is still using the blueprint for colonizing North America, in the West Bank. Move settlements out into native territory, piss off the natives, the natives retaliate, cry about poor "innocent" colonizing settlers being the "victims" of violent "Savages!", call in the cavalry to put down the native uprising, and eventually expand the borders to include those settlements. Rinse and repeat. In Gaza, they are operating an open air WWII style fascist ghetto. Them claiming a "right to defend themselves" would be like the Nazis claiming a "right to defend themselves " from the Warsaw ghetto uprising. There's no "war". That they're the occupiers means the "war" part is long over. That partition was forced upon the Palestinian majority, against their will ... that the Zionist portion still had to be forcefully ethnically cleansed of its non-Jewish majority, against their will ... that the millions of occupied Palestinians don't have a say in the government that truly rules over them, Israel's ... means Israel is about as democratic as Nazi Germany after Hitler purged his political opponents and then held elections.
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  9006. They wouldn't have seats if they totally caved to corporate Dems. AOC took out the next corporate Dem in line for speaker, and helped Bowman take out the corporate Dem head of the foreign affairs committee. Part of the voting block problem is that those at the right end, like Manchin, have an entire other party to try and pull in votes from, by moving legislation right. The left end of the party, has zero extra votes to bring in, to move legislation further left than the right end wants to go.
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  9007. Funny, though us Canadians do overstay at a higher rate than most other groups. Weird how Republicans don't freak out about us. Surely, it has nothing to do with most of us being white.
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  9008. What "investigations"?
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  9009. The irony: The perception of Chicago having high gun violence is due to Trump and the Republicans constantly saying so. They kiss the ass of the NRA, and constantly point at Chicago's totals, criticizing their gun control laws, instead of pointing at per capita rates of gun violence. Meanwhile, St Louis, in a low gun control state, has the worst rate of big city gun violence. So, even if there was any truth to his statement, it would be his own NRA ass kissing fault.
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  9010. ​ @daviddovnino7585  Pretty sure the Nzs were the anti-woke crowd, dingus.
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  9011.  @OPgamingstyle  You made a claim, as if you magically knew what "far more vets and active duty" were thinking and saying. I asked a question about them, not you. Apparently you don't magically know what they're thinking or saying.
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  9012.  @OPgamingstyle  No. You said it like it was an overall objective fact, and not just anecdotal personal observation. That's magical, because nobody has done a survey. "More than 1,000 veterans and military family members have signed an open letter saying they are "appalled at Donald Trump and JD Vance’s politically motivated attacks" on the military service of Democratic vice presidential nominee Tim Walz."
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  9013.  @OPgamingstyle  Maybe add a "from what I've seen" qualifier, if you don't want to be considered 🤪, in the future. Although, it still sounds a little 🤪, if you'd prefer young soldiers be called "sociopaths", have their taxes raised, have them get less of a vote, and have them be told they have no stake in the country ... over someone stating a rank they were, when they retired, and putting in for retirement, after 24 years, months before his unit was deployed.
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  9014.  @OPgamingstyle  "but I like Walz a lot less" Do you even read your own 💩? That's preferring one over another, dingus.
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  9015.  @OPgamingstyle  prefer: like (one thing or person) better than another
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  9016. A personal belief, or ethic, that I should withhold belief in Gods, without evidence of such, is not the same as a belief that a claim is untrue. Please.
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  9017.  kyle grant  Yeah, anarchism isn't anarchy, dumb dumb, and I assume you meant to say "over", not "under". Either way, you're wrong.
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  9018.  kyle grant  Plus, unless you're referring to ancappers, on the right, then you're referring to right wingers who want politicians running things, making you incoherent.
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  9019. ​ @garetroth5683  1. Russia wasn't going to invade Ukraine. 2. Even though Russia has been f*cking around in former SSR countries, since 1991, and Putin wrote an essay on how Russia should get them all back, the war in Ukraine is totally NATO's fault. 3. "Russiagate". Republican Mueller provided hundreds of pages of collusion (not a legal term), that didn't amount to criminal conspiracy. He stated that Jr and Kushner weren't indicted for criminal conspiracy, because it would be hard to prove they "willfully" broke the law, not because they didn't. Provided evidence of obstruction. And, indicted dozens of Russians and Russian companies for election interference, as well as a number of Trump cronies, for other crimes. 4. Dwelling on a single Syria gas attack investigation, that had a couple dissenting opinions, when there were numerous gas attacks, with double investigations, that unanimously found Syria to be guilty ... by the same agency that had no problem telling the US there weren't any WMDs in Iraq, so there's zero evidence of them being in the US' back pocket.
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  9020. ​ @garetroth5683  They're just anti-US, so the times the US does do wrong, is the times they're right. Otherwise, they're wrong.
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  9021. She goes around telling kids playing that they aren't mermaids, superheroes, or whatever? Weirdo.
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  9022.  @אדירנצח  Native Americans reached a point where they wanted to push all the Europeans back into the sea. Was it because they were wht? Because they were Christian? Or, because they were clnzers, dingus? Many countries also wanted to push all the Germans and Nzs back out of their countries. Was it simply because they were German? Or, was it because they were invaders, clnzers, occpiers, ethnc clnsrs, gncdrs? Also, I don't give a rat's a// about Ham, you Nzi.
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  9023.  @אדירנצח  You can find half the info at the Jwsh Virtual Library, ffs. Not hard to verify it all. Native Americans reached a point where they wanted to push all the Europeans back into the sea. Was it because they were wht? Because they were Christian? Or, because they were clnzers, dingus? Many countries also wanted to push all the Nzs back out of their countries. Was it simply because they were German? Or, was it because they were invaders, clnzers, occpiers, ethnc clnsrs, gncdrs?
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  9024.  @אדירנצח  You can find half the info at the Jwsh Virtual Library, ffs. Not hard to verify it all. Ntve Amrcans reached a point where they wanted to push all the Eurpns back into the sea. Was it because they were wht? Because they were Christian? Or, because they were clnzers? Many countries also wanted to push all the Nzs back out of their countries. Was it simply because they disliked Grmns? Or, was it because they were invaders, clnzers, occpiers, ethnc clnsrs, gncdrs?
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  9025.  @אדירנצח   You can find half the info at the Jwsh Virtual Library. Not hard to verify it all. Ntve Amrcans reached a point where they wanted to push all the Eurpns back into the sea. Was it because they were wht? Because they were Chrstn? Or, because they were clnzers? Many countries also wanted to push all the Nzs back out of their countries. Was it simply because they disliked Grmns? Or, was it because they were invders, clnzers, occprs, ethnc clnsrs, gncdrs?
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  9026.  @אדירנצח  Nice strawman.
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  9027. Remember that time when Loyalists wanted their communities to remain peaceful, under undemocratic authoritarian rule, but those uppity "Patriots" were protesting, rioting, and then even started a war? It's almost like protesting and fighting against authoritarianism was what the US was founded on, and was opposed to protesting and fighting to keep an unelected ruler in power. Oh how the turntables.
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  9028. Adjusted for inflation, the 50s top bracket would start at $2 million.
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  9029. ​ @alistairclark6814  You know that a referendum works by actual majority, not plurality right? The majority of Canadians aren't conservative, and even fewer are MAGA style loons.
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  9030. ​ @alistairclark6814  Because the "truckers" (over 95% of truckers were actually working) were nutbars, led by extremists, who laid siege to the country, ruining businesses. It was a fascist March on Rome.
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  9031.  @shlockofgod  I gave you the definition, as defined by its creator, Mussolini, which he wrote in the Italian Encyclopedia. "Fascism is the complete opposite of Marxian socialism" The Marxian ideal is a stateless, non authoritarian, socialism. The complete opposite of that would be an ultra-nationalistic authoritarian capitalism.
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  9032.  @runner6500  Because they want to bring about fascism? No, that'd be stupid to think. Because ... any protests ever, if violence sometimes breaks out = fascist brown shirts? No, that'd be stupid to think (the original antifa or iron front vs fascists had more instances of violence and the fascist brown shirts were clearly only on one side, and the original Civil Rights movement had more instances of violence than the BLM movement). Because ... you don't like them, therefore fascist brown shirts?
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  9033.  @runner6500  You know about all the riots in the 60s, right?
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  9034.  @runner6500  There were labour and race protests and riots, around decades before brown shirts. There were protests and riots against monarchs centuries before brown shirts? What's specifically a brown shirt "tactic"?
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  9035.  @runner6500  Oh, you put the lipstick on. You're just not recognizing how stupid it looks.
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  9036. ​ @MajorReynolds92  He's blatantly saying it. "Letitia 'peekaboo' James" ~ Trumpty Dumpty Urban Dictionary: peekaboo Racist term used in white-supremacist circles to refer to a person of color, usually black, of upper or upper-middle class social standing. That uppity peekaboo thinks she can golf here just because she has money. by WhoKnowsWhoItCouldBe September 21, 2022
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  9037.  @MetallicAddict15  No. Dore predicted a massive progressive wave (not simply Democrat victories) that would "for sure" take the house and senate in 2018, and lead to a progressive president in 2020. He minimized the risk, by predicting the Republicans would joind the left in blocking the Trump agenda (way off there, they instead hopped on the fascism train), and saying things like the moon would fall into Lake Michigan before he could fill multiple scotus seats. He also promoted the nonsense that Stein had a shot. If he convinced anyone in 2016 swing states to vote Stein, not vote, or even vote Trump, then he helped get a "maniacal fascist" elected. He no longer even considers the progressives in congress to be "real" progressives. If that's true, then his prediction was even further off.
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  9038. No matter how many times people try to claim that not voting Democrat equates to voting Republican, it's objectively just not true. It's like sports. Not scoring for your team doesn't equate to scoring for the other team. There's actually a 2 point shift, from voting Democrat, to not voting Democrat, to voting Republican. +1 to 0 to -1. Biden's going to rack up a bunch of 0s.
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  9039. Fun fact: Ivermectin is manufactured by the 5th largest pharma corporation in the world.
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  9040.  @u_cant_handle_the_truth  According to physics, neither is a color. According to light, black is not a color, since it is the complete absence of any color of light. According to pigment, white is not a color, since it is the complete absence of any pigmentation.
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  9041. ​@user-wt5lk7pj2nYeah, after FDR kicked their a//es 4 times straight, the first chance they got they made a law that you could only run twice. They're the party of not letting voters decide, and then whine about letting voters decide. There are more former presidents ineligible to run again, due to their term limits, 3, than should be intelligible due to supporting rebellion, 1.
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  9042. ​ @Randle29  Or ... consider this ... because he hasn't been charged with anything, dumb dumb.
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  9043.  @garyelder4610  You MAGA morons wanted someone to run the country like he does his businesses. He did. He has been committing fraud since he was in diapers. "March 06, 2015 WASHINGTON, DC – The Financial Crimes Enforcement Network (FinCEN) today imposed a $10 million civil money penalty against Trump Taj Mahal Casino Resort (Trump Taj Mahal), for willful and repeated violations of the Bank Secrecy Act (BSA). In addition to the civil money penalty, the casino is required to conduct periodic external audits to examine its anti-money laundering (AML) BSA compliance program and provide those audit reports to FinCEN and the casino’s Board of Directors. Trump Taj Mahal, a casino in Atlantic City, New Jersey, admitted to several willful BSA violations, including violations of AML program requirements, reporting obligations, and recordkeeping requirements. Trump Taj Mahal has a long history of prior, repeated BSA violations cited by examiners dating back to 2003. Additionally, in 1998, FinCEN assessed a $477,700 civil money penalty against Trump Taj Mahal for currency transaction reporting violations." "1991 The Trump Castle Casino Resort, admitting that a $3.5-million loan from Donald J. Trump’s father violated state gaming laws, has agreed to a $30,000 penalty, officials said Tuesday." "But The Times’s investigation, based on a vast trove of confidential tax returns and financial records, reveals that Mr. Trump received the equivalent today of at least $413 million from his father’s real estate empire, starting when he was a toddler and continuing to this day. Much of this money came to Mr. Trump because he helped his parents dodge taxes. He and his siblings set up a sham corporation to disguise millions of dollars in gifts from their parents, records and interviews show. Records indicate that Mr. Trump helped his father take improper tax deductions worth millions more. He also helped formulate a strategy to undervalue his parents’ real estate holdings by hundreds of millions of dollars on tax returns, sharply reducing the tax bill when those properties were transferred to him and his siblings."
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  9044. Yeah, nothing like a complete and utter maroon who thinks people voted more conservatively, at a time they couldn't vote, and criticizes LBJ (Civil Rights Act, Voting Rights Act).
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  9045.  @brigidmartin  "He", Trump. Learn to read. Over a dozen states have banned abortion, exactly as the Bible thumpers want.
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  9046. ​ @davidfarley1902  How did you manage to hold down a paralegal job, with such atrocious typing skills?
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  9047.  Optimus Prime  "leftist" Rofl, he's not.
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  9048. @Aaron Dickson Do you run a trolling business?
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  9049.  @stanleyclark923  Rofl. That's complete bullshit. A mix of capitalism, and what?
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  9050. Are you all out transitioning to an MPP propaganda channel? "The Congressional Budget Office is expected to soon release a report at the behest of Sen. Bernie Sanders that will make a persuasive fiscal case for hiking the federal minimum wage within President Joe Biden's pandemic aid package, according to a senior Democratic aide." https://www.politico.com/news/2021/02/02/minimum-wage-increase-bernie-sanders-465249 "Sen. Bernie Sanders on Sunday said a "room full of lawyers" is working to make the case that raising the minimum wage to $15 squares with Senate rules that threaten its inclusion in President Joe Biden's $1.9 trillion relief package." https://www.cnn.com/2021/02/07/politics/bernie-sanders-minimum-wage-cnntv/index.html
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  9051. So, ban them from deleting porn, child porn, copyright violations, etc.?
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  9052. ​ @dickdrapper5491  Do you think having a bomb dropped on your head would have a different result?
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  9053. ​ @susantang287  You worship what would be the leading abortionist in existence, if it existed, and claim it's pure goodness.
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  9054. Israel is objectively the aggressor by every relevant measure (modern history, law, and current events) ... Modern history: With the Balfour declaration, Zionsim converted from something like immigration to colonization. 100 years ago, in 1923, Ze'ev Jabotinsky fully acknowledged that Zionism is colonialism, and that, based on the entirety of history, the native Palestinians would fight it until the bitter end. He just didn't care what would happen to them, and promoted doing it anyway. Colonizers are never not the aggressors, when it comes to the native population. On top of the colonialist nature of Zionism, the Zionists also formed terrorist organizations, like the Irgun and Lehi. They bombed many Palestinian markets and other public places, murdering many civilians, including children, even including Palestinian Jews (who opposed colonialist Zionism). Israel merged those terrorists into the new nation's military and intelligence agencies. Israelis elected Menachem Begin, leader of the Irgun, child murderer, Jew murderer, and bomber of the King David Hotel, as PM. Israelis, to this day, celebrate those Irgun terrorists as "heroes". Zionists literally taught their neighbours that terrorism is a valid path to independence and statehood, and that terrorists are to be celebrated. In 1945, it is well documented that Zionists owned just 5% of the land and were a majority in zero districts. Israel was formed by going against the will of the majority population. Its foundation is completely undemocratic. Even then, Jews were still a minority, in "their" half. The only possible way to actually become a Jewish ethno-state, would be to ethnically cleanse away the actual majority. And, that's exactly what happened. Israel has never allowed those people to return. Law: Israel is considered an occupier by the International Court, the UN GA, and the UN SC. Occupiers are also never not the aggressors. Those occupied actually have a right to resist occupation. On the flip side, it is illegal for the occupier to settle occupied lands, and illegal to use collective punishment. Israel is a rogue nation, that doesn't abide by international law. What it has been doing, and is doing now, is illegal. Current events: This year, alone, prior to Oct 7 ... Israel held over 1200 Palestinian hostages without charges ... over 200 Palestinians had been killed by the IDF and settlers ... over 1000 Palestinians had been displaced by Israel's neverending colonization of the West Bank ... and, Israel continued to operate an open air WWII style fascist ghetto. Even ignoring modern history and law, in no reality did Hamas "start" anything.
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  9055. "Every sperm is sacred" ... ban all sex, and only allow masturbating into test tubes, to save every "child".
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  9056.  @honestamerican368  Weird how big tech companies (that right wingers have handed so much power to, along with all the other corporations) were banning people long before now. Have they been working with the Trump administration that past 4 years, or are you just pulling conspiracy bullshit out of your ass?
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  9057.  @bsadewitz  Except the US Overton window goes from centrism to the far right. So, calling US politicians "communists" isn't even in the right solar system. Rand is one of those who supported Trump, promoted the lie that the election was fraudulent, and encouraged the overthrow of the democratic process. What is it you think is missing, to make him a fascist? Being outright anti-democracy, rather than simply undemocratic, is pretty much the only box that needs checking for most Republicans.
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  9058.  @brothersinfarmsllc  Hate to break it to you, but you're insane.
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  9059.  @Xetan123  Think you're talking to the wrong person.
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  9060. Shove your garbage strawman, Dore. Pelosi introduced M4A last session, where it quietly died in committees, like 90% of bills do. The speaker, alone, can't force a bill through committees and onto the floor for a vote, even if they wanted to. AOC didn't endorse your bullshit FTV "plan". She also never campaigned on paralyzing the house, or threatening to paralyze the house. You're slandering someone who just helped add more M4A yes votes to congress, the very thing you need to do to ever pass the bill, the very thing you'd still have to do even if you got your failed vote. So what? So you can ditch having progressive seats in congress, start from scratch, and lead idiots down a third party route that hasn't won the most popular third party a single seat in congress in going on 50 years?
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  9061.  @imlikewhat860  Yeah, that's not really true, you lying twit. There are extra mini ceremonies. They aren't instead of the main ceremony. Everyone is invited to the main ceremony. Your anecdote doesn't debunk human nature. People don't like to wait in lines. The longer you make people wait, it'll increase the number who won't bother.
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  9062.  a pops  Do tell.
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  9063.  @imlikewhat860  What aren't you grasping about the main ceremony not being segregated, dumb dumb? Having extra ceremonies, for those who wish, isn't segregation, any more than Irish Americans having their own extra hall of fame, and awards, aside from the mainline hall of fames and awards, is.
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  9064.  @imlikewhat860  Adding hurdles, that affect minorities more, is racist. Whether the hurdles are surmountable, or not, is irrelevant. If you want to add classist hurdles, without them being racist, then balance the poverty rates. They'll still be classist, though. Poorer urban people are less likely to own vehicles and more reliant on public transportation, so less likely to have a driver's license. They are also less able to afford taking a day off work. You're now adding hurdles to them voting, that weren't there before, in terms of ID. Making certain communities wait in line, and not other communities, is likewise racist, and classist. That it's possible to endure and get through is completely irrelevant to the point. There are numerous ethnicity/nationality based clubs. There are numerous ethnicity/nationality based competitions and awards. There are numerous ethnicity/nationality based neighborhoods, or "towns". I don't think you quite have a grasp on exactly what racism is. A Scottish pipe band celebrating its Scottishness isn't racist.
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  9065.  @imlikewhat860  It's not the you need a license. It's that they don't already have a useable ID on hand. They're made to go out and get an extra ID, to vote. If you don't think taking a day off work is an issue, then you have zero clue what it's like to be poor. The poverty rate for black Americans went from near 60% down to 30% after the Civil Rights Act and the migration North. It was a North South divide, back then, not a Dem Rep divide. You're living in some delusion, where the parties are exactly the same as 150 years ago. I don't think you know how racists work. A racist has an ideal in mind, with characteristics. They can add religion to it, nationality to it, ethnicity to it ... whatever they want. Nazis managed to be racist towards Jews, Poles, Romani, etc., all of which were white. The KKK managed to also hate Jews and Catholics, because they added the Protestant characteristic to being the ideal white person. I also don't think you grasp that the vast majority of black Americans are descended from slaves. They were ripped away from their nations, ethnic groups, cultures, heritage, ancestry, and all thrown together into a singular slave culture. Africa is a massive continent, with dozens of countries and hundreds of different ethnic/cultural groupings. Black Americans don't tend to know which one they came from, and have developed their own cultural grouping. Black American is not simply a race. Much like descendants of black slaves in Jamaica, Haiti, etc., developed new cultures, in those countries. The only difference being they are the majority there.
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  9066.  @imlikewhat860  No, you're arguing for the "magical" opposite. The geography is still similar. You're arguing that states where the majority fought and died to keep slavery going, where the KKK thrived, where the majority supported Jim Crow laws, which now tend to vote red, have magically become majority non racist, magically become the least racist. And, that the states which fought and voted against those things, where black Americans of the great migration migrated to, which now tend to vote blue, the party black Americans migrated to, have magically became majority racist, magically become the most racist. The parties weren't unified and partisan, 60 years ago. Again, geography was a bigger factor than party. Why are you pretending like a Democratic president didn't push for the Civil Rights Act? Why are you pretending like the majority of Democratic representatives didn't vote for the Civil Rights Act?
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  9067.  @imlikewhat860  Rofl. So, against documented history, where there was a massive migration of black Americans, called "The Great Migration", to what are now predominantly blue states, you think it was instead a mass migration of white racists out of those states into what are now predominantly blue states? Are you joking? The Confederate and Nazi flag wavers show up at "Unite the Right" rallies, where people like Richard Spencer are invited to speak. The likes of Richard Spencer get punched in the face, if they show up near left wing protesters.
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  9068.  @imlikewhat860  Since the 50s, around the time of the second red scare, the Republican party started giving a home to extremists ... extreme anti-socialist McCarthy types after FDR, southern racists after Civil Rights, religious extremists, gun nuts, Neocons and Reaganomics, Tea Party nutters, the Trump cult, and now even Qanoners. It has become a party of lunatics.
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  9069.  @BittyVids  What are the gang of fascists armed with, if there's an assault weapons ban? What are they armed with, if there's no assault weapons ban? Your argument doesn't seem to make sense.
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  9070.  @BittyVids  Police should be demilitarized, and have most of their guns taken away, too. But, you're making the argument they make, claiming they need loads of weapons because criminals have loads of weapons. If they'll come out to protect the fascists you're fighting, then you're also up against body armor, armored vehicles with 50mm guns, and all kinds of shit. All you seem to be arguing for is eternal escalation.
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  9071. ​ @barbaramattson817  Then, since Zionists are the colonizers, terrorists (Irgun and Lehi), ethnic cleansers, and occupiers, operating a racist ethno-state and an open air WWII style fascist ghetto, anything done to them isn't a crime.
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  9072. ​ @waltergrace565  If they're cool with operating an open air WWII style fascist ghetto, and slaughtering civilians if there's an uprising, then yes they are.
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  9073.  @djchaiwallah  What's a fact you think Sanders supporters don't accept? Here's one Yang supporters have a tough time with ... A VAT is specifically designed to NOT tax businesses, in order to avoid double taxation. Businesses reclaim their input VAT. Meaning, it's a fact that anyone claiming a VAT will force corporations like Amazon to pay taxes, is clueless or lying. Meaning, it's a fact that anyone claiming a VAT will make corporations pay you for showing you ads or for your data, is clueless or lying. Meaning, it's a fact that anyone comparing a dividend that won't have corporations paying in to one that is paid for by corporations (Alaska's), is clueless or lying.
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  9074. Apparently you do, if you can't simply not look at it.
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  9075.  I only use this account when I get put in time out  I guess that answers the question. You're a hypocrite. You also just made the argument that Dore is a sellout, because ... millionaire.
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  9076.  I only use this account when I get put in time out  Didn't say you cared if they're millionaires, dumb dumb. You pointed at a couple million, as if its mere existence means Bernie got it from secret corporate bribes. The same "argument" should then apply Dore, unless you're even more of a hypocrite?
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  9077.  @christerry1773  The official UN definition says "all, or in part". So, yeah, intentionally unaliving part of a specific population is gncde. They also state that ethnc clnsing falls under the gncde convention (because, you know, if you don't move, they unalive you).
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  9078. Peru is top 5 for covid deaths per capita.
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  9079.  @mikecoffin9236  That's where it's being used the most.
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  9080. That sounds like a convenient way of putting the blame on anyone who is not a "real Christian". A common Christian tactic often seen when debating the likes of Hitler.
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  9081.  @justme-ti1rh  Make them make them then. More trouble than walking into a store and buying a ton.
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  9082.  @lestercrowley666  No. Saw-ce vs Or-rah. It's not Aw-rah. It's not Sow-ce.
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  9083.  @thefreestofspeech6951  But unborn aren't "children". And they sure as hell don't give a rats ass about them when they are children. They'd rather see poor children die of starvation, be uneducated, die of sickness, than provide them help. What the hell does "ability" have to do with ending abortions? Most young men would probably rather their girlfriends get abortions. Young women probably decide to have abortions less than young men would.
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  9084. Jesus is transgender and has a multiple personality disorder. He spontaneously aborts the majority of "babies", along with his father, who is one of Jesus's other personalities. The father personality is also a genocidal maniac with a gambling problem.
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  9085. ​ @jermainenisby3445  Yes, but it has been laid out that he inflates to get loans, and reduces for taxes. He is now literally walking around claiming Mara Logo is worth almost $2b. Either he's lying, or he's admitting to under valuing and committing massive tax fraud. Which is it?
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  9086. Pretty sure many AGs and DAs run on bringing down criminals. This one has settled, twice, for not renting to black Americans. He racked up $500k in fines, for improperly running his casinos. He, and daddy, were fined for gaming fraud. He settled for grifting his own Trump University fans. He has been found guilty of rape and defamation. He has cheated on 3 wives. And, he has already been found guilty in this trial. They're just working out how much he owes. His daddy even starting using him to dodge taxes, when he was a toddler. You lot are backing someone who has been a criminal, since he was in diapers.
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  9087.  @Angela-eh8yn  He should talk about Sinema. She was a Green third party candidate, and he's promoting some fantasy where just going third party will provide perfectly perfect incorruptible candidates that will only ever serve the people, never themselves, and always choose the perfect tactic.
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  9088.  @Angela-eh8yn  M4A is 100+ votes short in the house alone. It wasn't going to pass now. You were never going to actually get M4A "during a pandemic". Dore is slandering the most progressive members of congress, over not getting a 100% guaranteed to fail performance art vote. These people have done more for M4A in a few years than Dore has in his entire lifetime. They were just trying to add another M4A yes vote to congress, in Nina Turner. Increasing the yes vote count actually gets you closer to ever passing it. Dore turned against Nina. He doesn't give a crap about actually getting healthcare for anybody. He didn't care if 10m of the poorest Americans were thrown off Medicaid expansion. He didn't care to even try and add 40m older Americans to Medicare expansion. He doesn't f*cking care. He's selling you all complete bullshit.
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  9089.  @Angela-eh8yn  Every single Republican campaigns against M4A. None of them have signed onto the M4A bill. Republican voters elect them anyway. They'd likely vote for a moron who'd ban masks and vaccines over an M4A candidate. The ACA was actually popular amongst Republican voters, but they kept voting for candidates that wanted to repeal it, and a bunch of state level idiots who didn't sign onto Medicaid expansion. Republican voters are complete idiots, who would rather block a gay marriage than have better healthcare. The vast majority of Republican voters are completely irrelevant to ever getting M4A. They won't ever make it a condition for getting their vote. As for more conservative Dems, they have also campaigned against M4A. They also won't sign onto the M4A bill. It's not some big secret who's opposed to it. Pelosi actually introduced the bill to congress just last session. It died in committees where 90% of bills die. So, on top of a list of names that won't cosign the bill, and a list of those who have openly campaigned against M4A, there was a list of committee members who let the bill die. What did Dore do with any of these lists? Nothing. He keeps bitching about those who have promoted it, campaigned on it, and have consigned. AOC, on the other hand, helped replace a few of them. Pelosi has already reintroduced the bill to congress, this session, and it's in committees again. Instead of bitching at, and protesting, someone who has done more for M4A in 2 years than he has in his entire lifetime, maybe Dore should encourage protesting and pressuring committee members to take up the bill? FTVers have proven that ftv was all a grift, to try and peddle a third party. Progressives got the $15 to stay in for a round of voting. It even passed the house and got a round of voting in the senate. So, just getting a vote on an important progressive policy is a big deal ... getting a list of no voters from both chambers is a big deal ... right? Nope. Just keep bitching about those who got it to stay in for a round of voting and who voted for it.
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  9090.  @SacClass650  Rofl. What a load of crap. What's well documented is that fascists oppose socialism, and went after socialists first.
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  9091.  Lynette Agueda  I'm sure that will make all the difference.
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  9092. No such thing as "free speech" on someone else's private property, because you don't have a right to be on their property, in the first place. Push for public ownership, if you want free speech.
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  9093.  @codepython1022  Dumbass. South Korean stats have basically flatlined. Per million people tested doesn't reflect how they did their testing. They quickly got up to about 20k tests a day, tested beyond just those showing symptoms, got ahead of the virus and have largely contained it. There hasn't been any drastic shift in their states for weeks. There's zero evidence of twice as many infected people unaccounted for. And the cruise ship is over and done. Those stats aren't going to change. There's zero evidence that twice the number of people got infected.
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  9094.  @codepython1022  So sorry to confuse you. I didn't realize you'd have so much trouble understanding. *You're a dumbass.
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  9095. ​ @marylamb7707  He didn't try to overthrow the democratic process (the actual elected government), multiple ways (incitement, majority of Republicans in congress objecting, and the fake electors scheme), to install himself as an unelected dictator? He hasn't provided comfort, or promised aid, to people convicted of seditious conspiracy (rebellion, enemies of the state)?
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  9096.  @ah8129  Each religion says the others are false.
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  9097. If the federal court accepted that he committed insurrection, then it could be applied to all states, no?
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  9098. ​ @RaheemGostar  You are such a brainwashed ignoramus. Dumpty had a trust fund, getting money for free. Plus, his dad put him, and his siblings, down as owners of properties and companies, to avoid his own taxes, making them all millionaires before kindergarten, and collecting salaries. When his casinos were failing, daddy also purchased over $3m in chips, and didn't cash them in ... for which, Dumpty and daddy were fined for gaming fraud. And these little loans, indicate Dumpty was so incompetent, that he no longer had the tens of millions he had received from daddy, or that he was so much in debt, that it blew through his monthly salary and allowance. His daddy also needed to co-sign his bank loans, so those were actually loans to daddy, which he was loaning to his son. Not to mention the almost $200m he got when daddy died. If he robbed his siblings, even more. That he's possibly not even worth $1b, today, after being handed all that money, means he's incompetent (he was also fined $10.5m for improper bookkeeping at his casinos, so either incompetent or crooked). The idiot stands outside courtrooms and "defends" himself from bank fraud, for undervaluing, by openly claiming he instead committed MASSIVE tax fraud, for undervaluing by over $1b. He's a complete and utter moron.
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  9099.  @fredsanford1437  But isn't the left who they screwed over?
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  9100.  @fredsanford1437  You mean, overstimated leverage, for a guaranteed to fail vote, and not actually M4A (which Bernie campaigned on, with AOC campaigning for him, while Dore was backing Tulsi and her "Medicare choice", and AOC also backed 20 other pro-M4A progressives, helping to add a few more M4A yes votes to congress and helping to remove a few more corporate Dems). Dore knobs have since proved they would have done absolutely nothing with a failed vote, anyway. There was a vote on the $15, and they just continued to whine and complain about the people who voted for it, instead of those who voted against, and have done absolutely nothing with their treasured list of names of no voters. Just a bunch of lazy good for nothings, following a "real" leftist, who promoted Trump as a better option than Clinton, who didn't care if 10m of the poorest Americans were thrown off Medicaid expansion and didn't care to add 40m older Americans to Medicare expansion, and who failed in all his predictions. Gotta love "real" leftists that benefit the far right most. Go on Tucker, not to challenge right wing ideas, but to agree with them ... make friends with extreme right ancap Boogaloos who want the complete opposite economics to socialism ... such a "real" lefty Jimmy is. Repeating what CIA pro war talking points? Like speaking out against US support for Israeli policies? Speaking out against US support for the war in Yemen? Ignoring that they have voted against US intervention in a number of places, which "pro war" talking points are they repeating, exactly?
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  9101.  @GeistInTheMachine  We invite the North to rejoin with Canada.
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  9102. He "protects" them, by promoting ideas that will only make them more repulsive to modern women?
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  9103. It doesn't even make sense. Hispanics have a Spanish/European Catholic/Christian culture, with Native American and African American mixed in. How is that supposedly so different? Spain and Portugal don't count as European anymore, Catholics don't count as Christians again, or what?
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  9104. What are you idjits above on about? AOC and two fellow NY progressives back formal plea for ceasefire in Gaza Oct 16, 2023 18 House Democrats sign resolution for Mideast de-escalation, ceasefire Oct 23, 2023 — Cori Bush (D-Mo.). Bush's fellow “Squad” members Reps. Rashida Tlaib (D-Mich.), Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez (D-N.Y.) Democrats Like Rashida Tlaib, AOC Split With Biden Over Israel Ceasefire Calls Oct 31, 2023 AOC leads Democrats urging Biden to call for Gaza ceasefire over children's rights Nov 15, 2023 AOC calls Biden administration 'shameful' for blocking United Nations demand for a ... Dec 11, 2023 Aoc ceasefire | keeping it reel - NewsBreak Original Jan 17, 2024 Hour 1: AOC Calls for Ceasefire from Israel - The Marc Cox Morning Show Podcast Feb 8, 2024 AOC suggests cutting off aid to Israel after U.S. vetoes ceasefire resolution Feb 22, 2024 AOC and Other Democrats Urge Biden to Call for a Ceasefire at the State of the ... Mar 1, 2024
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  9105. This is one of the most uninformed comment sections I have ever seen. AOC and two fellow NY progressives back formal plea for ceasefire in Gaza Oct 16, 2023 18 House Democrats sign resolution for Mideast de-escalation, ceasefire Oct 23, 2023 — Cori Bush (D-Mo.). Bush's fellow “Squad” members Reps. Rashida Tlaib (D-Mich.), Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez (D-N.Y.) Democrats Like Rashida Tlaib, AOC Split With Biden Over Israel Ceasefire Calls Oct 31, 2023 AOC leads Democrats urging Biden to call for Gaza ceasefire over children's rights Nov 15, 2023 AOC calls Biden administration 'shameful' for blocking United Nations demand for a ... Dec 11, 2023 Aoc ceasefire | keeping it reel - NewsBreak Original Jan 17, 2024 Hour 1: AOC Calls for Ceasefire from Israel - The Marc Cox Morning Show Podcast Feb 8, 2024 AOC suggests cutting off aid to Israel after U.S. vetoes ceasefire resolution Feb 22, 2024 AOC and Other Democrats Urge Biden to Call for a Ceasefire at the State of the ... Mar 1, 2024
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  9106. You don't have to be anti-Semitic to believe there are proxy wars going on. A right wing Israeli "think" tank saying to not destroy ISIS. https://www.salon.com/test/2016/08/23/israeli-think-tank-dont-destroy-isis-its-a-useful-tool-against-iran-hezbollah-syria/ Israel defense minister saying he prefers ISIS over those friendly with Iran, like the Syrian government or Hezbollah. http://news.antiwar.com/2016/01/19/israeli-dm-prefers-isis-to-iran/ Saying Israel has collaborated with ISIS. https://www.richardsilverstein.com/2017/04/23/breaking-former-israeli-defense-minister-confirms-israeli-collaboration-isis-syria/ Saying Israel has attacked thousands of Iranian, anti-ISIS, targets. https://www.timesofisrael.com/idf-chief-acknowledges-long-claimed-weapons-supply-to-syrian-rebels/ The US fueling and allowing Al Qaeda in Iraq to grow into ISIL. https://www.theguardian.com/commentisfree/2015/jun/03/us-isis-syria-iraq The US arming Al Qaeda in Syria. https://www.foxnews.com/world/i-gave-the-us-trucks-and-ammunition-to-al-qaeda-the-chaotic-us-effort-to-arm-syrian-rebels Syrian Jihadists, armed by the CIA. https://www.latimes.com/world/middleeast/la-fg-cia-pentagon-isis-20160327-story.html US weapons to ISIS. https://www.newsweek.com/europe-limit-us-saudi-weapons-sales-went-isis-1215758 https://www.independent.co.uk/news/world/middle-east/isis-us-saudi-arabia-arms-fighters-jihadis-military-capability-enhanced-weapons-syria-terrorism-a8112076.html Thousands of Toyota trucks sold out of US controlled Iraq to ISIS. https://abcnews.go.com/International/us-officials-isis-toyota-trucks/story?id=34266539 Used US trucks ending up in the ME with ISIS. https://www.cnn.com/2015/12/14/us/terror-truck-lawsuit/index.html Etc.
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  9107.  @whyamimrpink78  If anything, including wait times, were causing any significant loss of life, it would affect a country's life expectancy. The US has the lowest life expectancy of developed countries. You appear to be the clueless one.
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  9108.    No, Bloomberg is saying that resources shouldn't be wasted on older people with life threatening issues. No shit the knee reconstruction surgeon isn't performing life saving surgery. That's why elective knee reconstruction gets less operating room time, fewer hospital beds, etc. Orthopedic surgeons do a lot more than knee and hip replacements, and plenty of life saving procedures. I know, first hand. In Canada, 75% get their elective hip replacements, or what not, within the benchmark time frame, so yes, it's only a little bit of an extra wait for a few. Canada could increase its healthcare funding 50%, fixing their wait times, and still be paying less per capita than the US. You should also know that Canada's overall wait times are thrown off by lower populated provinces and large provinces with towns and small cities far removed from high population centres. In highly populated SW Ontario, they generally hit their benchmarks.
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  9109.  @jeboteya5489  Aside from defamation, incitement, and such like, not being protected speech to beging with ... a private property owner's right to remove you from their private property has always trumped the non right to be on their private property saying stuff. If Trump had his golf club membership revoked for walking into the women's change room too many times, it wouldn't be some violation of his freedom of movement, it wouldn't be some violation of his free speech by limiting his ability to talk to people at the club. Blathering about having freedoms on someone else's private property is nonsense. If you want rights on property, argue for public ownership of that property.
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  9110. ​ @S1D3W1ND3R015  So, you think fully automatic weapons, missile launchers, and maybe even Fallout style Fat Boys (mini nuke launchers), should be sold at Walmart, if 99.9% of people don't use them improperly?
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  9111.  @S1D3W1ND3R015  Ah ... so you're dumber than a stump, or a Trump.
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  9112. Matt Walsh worships a penisless being referred to as "he", "him", and even "father", that transitioned into a human male for a time.
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  9113.  @BarbaPamino  Oh, bahaha, you said one of the biggest hospitals in Canada, before, so thought you were talking about the bigger St Joseph's, in Hamilton. This one is small, only 426 beds. A fifth of those are taken up by covid patients, ffs. Location St. Joseph's Intensive care units 9 Inpatient units 76 Total 85
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  9114.  @danialhillmann5374  People were literally handed land, at various points, dumb dumb. Town teachers were usually a town affair, paid with taxes or collections, with little school houses built on town land. What are you even talking about?
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  9115. ​ @peacefuljourney4994  It's "great again" ... "again", as in before Civil Rights, is when Republicans think things were "great".
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  9116. @Tucker Carlson You're a moron. Try per capita shootings. That gives your actual odds of getting shot, dumbass, not totals..You tend to have higher odds of getting shot or murdered in red states. https://www.cdc.gov/nchs/pressroom/sosmap/firearm_mortality/firearm.htm https://www.cdc.gov/nchs/pressroom/sosmap/homicide_mortality/homicide.htm The most violent city in the US is actually East St Louis, not Chicago or Baltimore. East St Louis, btw, has Republican, Mike Bost, as their congressman. And, FOX lied to you. There is no tariff calm. China just dropped more tariffs on the US. Trump is so stupid he put tariffs on his own stuff. https://www.inkstonenews.com/business/trumps-2020-campaign-materials-set-be-hit-his-china-tariffs/article/3024509
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  9117.  @alphatrion100  Just how dimwitted are you? Weird how I can both like the fact that insulin saves lives and dislike rich people price gauging and making a huge profit, and not paying their fair share of taxes, all at the same time. Sad, that you can only have one thought at a time.
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  9118.  @imaro2358  You don't know what you're talking about. Tesla made a stock option deal where, if the company reached certain benchmarks, Musk could then purchase x number of stock at $6.25. He acquired over 22 million shares, that way. So, last time he "paid taxes", he sold enough to pay his tax and purchase more stock at the lower price, which were immediately worth hundreds of times more, making him money while "paying taxes".
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  9119.  @imaro2358  Sorry, $6.24. "Musk has an option to buy 22.86 million shares at $6.24 each, which expires on Aug. 13 next year, according to a Tesla filing. Tesla's closing price was $1,222.09 on Friday."
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  9120.  @alphatrion100  So, you are extremely dimwitted, I see. Nothing you said has anything to do with an individual sitting on hundreds of billions in wealth. Again, I can both dislike the fossil fuel industry, like greener alternatives, and think centibillionaires should pay their fair share in taxes.
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  9121.  @riddlese  Oh, another brainiac. Why would I want to be able to do what I don't think should be a thing, dumb dumb? It's like if I commented about how a gang of thieves steals from others, and you told me to go start my own gang, so I can do the same thing, when I obviously don't want to be a thief.
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  9122.  @riddlese  I have a problem with not considering stocks to have current value. Banks consider them to have current value, without having to be sold, which allows billionaires to live off lines of credit. Real estate is considered to have current value, without having to be sold. They should be paying taxes on the current value of their stocks, every year. The bottom 50% owns about 1.5% of total wealth, but pays about 3% of total federal taxes (including payroll), a 1:2 ratio, while the top 1% owns about 30% of total wealth, but pays 30% of total federal taxes, a 1:1 ratio. Amongst that 1%, even the lower end rich, who live on high paying incomes subject to income tax, are paying a higher percentage of their wealth than centibillionaire welfare kings, who don't pay their share back into the system that helped make them so rich.
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  9123.  @imaro2358  So, we agree ... you were wrong, claiming he couldn't buy stocks at a fraction of the value?
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  9124.  @riddlese  Ummm, yeah, the housing market can crash, housing prices can plummet quickly, and even cause a major recession. Are you 10 years old, or something?
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  9125. Ze'ev Jabotinsky, a Zionist leader, fully acknowledged that Zionism is colonialism, 100 years ago, in 1923. Israelis are colonizers. It's just a fact.
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  9126.  @kathleenmorgan4331  Letting Trump win, who is even worse on the topic, won't hold anyone accountable. It's going to take continued public pressure, to change US policy. That doesn't work against someone who calls for deporting protesters, whose party makes laws saying it's okay to drive over protesters, who has previously called for categorizing protesters trrrsts, etc.
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  9127.  Ishmael Cato  Bullshit slander.
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  9128. @TheDrewSaga They ate regular Republican politicians, not their own Tea Party politicians. If you can't see a single progressive friendly Democrat, then you're likely a psycho puritan.
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  9129. Can someone please remind Trump supporting morons that Obama's last budget ran through 2017. The Trump tax cuts didn't come into play until the beginning of 2018, when taxes were done. Even looking at standard stock market measures, the stock market has almost flatlined, since early 2018 ... also when he started his stupid trade wars. Even all the stock buybacks, artificially inflating stock values, only managed to kept the market fairly flat. https://www.macrotrends.net/1358/dow-jones-industrial-average-last-10-years Also, making cuts to the food stamp program, and swapping to food boxes, and then saying there are fewer people on food stamps, is fucking stupid. Yeah, he's about to kick 3m more people off food stamps. Ain't that grand! And, while cutting the food stamp program by about $13b a year, he has been handing out over double that in aid to farmers he has fucked over.
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  9130.  @79pants  Rofl. What the ... ageism? You opened with saying the stupid stuff on the "left" comes from younger people. Holy hell you're dim.
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  9131. When making his "anti-mandate" videos, he overstates vaccine negatives, understates vaccine positives, lies about the severity of covid, lies about alternate treatments, etc., all of which is similar nonsense that anti-vaxxers and anti-maskers have been peddling. It feeds into fears about getting vaccinated. It feeds into thinking getting vaccinated is unnecessary. It feeds into thinking their are other alternatives to the vaccine. That's the opposite of being pro-vaccine. Also, the vaccine prices have been negotiated by the government, and then given out for free. It's like a tiny slice of universal healthcare. Making that out to be some big pharma cash grab also attacks how universal healthcare works. He, and Max, were trashing and lying about the completely socialized UK healthcare system, which is left of M4A, as well. Then he peddled more expensive, privately paid for, alternatives on Rogan. He is also no supporter of universal healthcare. Dore is a grifter, who says he's selling you one thing, but is actually selling you something completely different.
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  9132. Israel was itself founded on terrorism, by terrorist groups like the Irgun and Lehi. Israel itself elected terrorists, like Menachem Begin, who led the Irgun and blew up the King David Hotel. Israel still celebrates those terrorists. They literally taught their neighbours that terrorism is a path to independence and statehood. And, 100 years ago, in 1923, Ze'ev Jabotinsky wrote the Iron Wall, which fully acknowledged that Zionism is colonialism, and predicted, based on historical responses to colonialism, that the natives would fight it to the bitter end. In the West Bank, Israel is basically using the blueprint from the colonization of North America. Move settlements out into native lands, piss off the natives, the natives respond with violence, act all shocked and horrified by the "savage" attack, send in the cavalry to squash the natives, and then eventually expand the border to include the settlement. Rinse and repeat. Sure, Native Americans wanted to push the European settlers back into the sea, but it wasn't like they had no reason for wanting to do that. Like in the early years of Zionism, under the Ottomans, they largely welcomed the newcomers, until those newcomers proved themselves to be racists, bigots, and violent expansionists. In Gaza, Israel has disgustingly created its own open air "ghetto". They are, again, acting like the Puritans of America, who fled persecution for the New World ... only to turn around and persecute everyone else there. They fled from those trying to throw them in ghettos, only to end up creating their own.
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  9133.  @thedarkdot2977  Nope. It's just reality. Stein clearly doesn't have the following, or charisma, of even Ross Perot. How many years has she been running now, and she got less votes in 2020 than 2016. She's getting worse. You're living in a fantasy.
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  9134.  @KIDROCK-oq7um  Shouldn't you be off sh°°ting up some beer cans, or something, kid?
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  9135.  @KIDROCK-oq7um  Go back to fghtng beer cans.
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  9136.  @KIDROCK-oq7um  Aren't there some beer cans waiting to f!ght you somewhere?
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  9137.  @thedarkdot2977  She doesn't even have the following Nader had, and all he managed to be was a spoiler.
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  9138. ​ @retroboomer3197  To start ... Do you agree that Dumpty and Republicans are worse? Trump talking about making a pledge of allegiance to Israel, to get in the country. Republicans trying to censure people over talks of "cease fire". Haley talking about making anti-Israeli government equate to anti-Semitism, and punishable. More of them support Israel bills. Etc. If there's agreement there, then what's the other viable option? Even if, by some miracle, you convince every Dem voter to vote for some other presidential candidate, and they win, how do they stop pro-Israel bills, when over 90% of congress backs them, and can overrule a veto?
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  9139.  @retroboomer3197  You promote risking letting an outright fascist get back in power, for what? The vast majority of congress could still pass whatever bills they wanted, and overrule a veto.
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  9140. Not part time, and gets to be host regularly. I'm sure she's fine.
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  9141.  @meanderinoranges  He confused the woman he r-ped for his ex wife.
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  9142. ​ @TheRedStateBlue  Israelis have repeatedly elected policymakers who continue the Zionist colonialism, which is aggression. Natives are never the aggressors, in the face of colonialism. The colonialists are never "innocent", nor are they ever "defenders". On top of the colonialism, Israel was also founded on its own terrorism, by groups like the Irgun and Lehi, who bombed many Palestinian markets, killing many Palestinian civilians, including children, even including Palestinian Jews (who didn't support Zionism). Israelis elected Menachem Begin, leader of the Irgun, who bombed the King David Hotel. Israel merged those terrorist groups into their new nation's military and intelligence agencies. Israelis, to this day, celebrate those terrorists as "heroes". They literally taught their neighbours that terrorism is a valid path to independence and statehood. If all that isn't bad enough, they are f*cking operating an open air WWII style fascist ghetto. That should make it a no brainer, as to who is the aggressor. One is a colonialist occupier. One isn't. They've become the very thing they fled. The Warsaw ghetto uprising wasn't done by the aggressors. The ghetto was.
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  9143.  @Mariomario-gt4oy  Bah, it's just a delivery method ... walking it to the target instead of dropping it, remote flying it, shooting it, ... and plenty of societies, including the US, glorify the "suicide mission".
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  9144.  @Mariomario-gt4oy  Nonsense. Suicidal last stands have been glorified throughout history.
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  9145.  @seandoyle296  You're talking like Harris. "Islam" didn't have a relationship with slavery. "Islam" doesn't exist on its own. Certain Muslims have had a relationship with slavery. There's also wasn't particularly racist, as they also made non Africans slaves. And, like you said yourself, they couldn't keep any of them as slaves, if the slaves converted. Converting didn't help African slaves in the Americas, because their status as slaves was entirely race based. There's also a difference between temporarily enslaving people for a period of time (which was often done with prisoners of war and criminals, and even developed countries still do with criminals) and chattel slavery, where you get to own them as personal property for life, and own their children, and their children, ... You also seem to be conflating conquest with forced conversion. It actually benefited Muslim rulers to not force convert populations, because they could tax non Muslims a little bit extra. It benefited non Muslims, that they could pay a little extra to keep their ability to practice their own religion. The majority of the population in Hispania remained Christian, under Muslim rule, and Sephardic Jews remaiined Jewish. That's quite different than the Catholic conquerors giving Muslims and Jews the options of conversion, death, or exile. European Catholics also conquered more of the Orthodox Byzantine Empire than Muslims did, but it's not considered quite as big a deal. It's more acceptable for Christians to conquer other Christians. But, if Muslims happen to conquer a Christian area, it's portrayed as some kind of holy war, when it wasn't necessarily so. It was largely Christians who made things into holy wars, that comprised of both conquest and forced conversion. They had crusades against northern pagans, crusades to "reconquer" Hispania, and crusades against Muslims to the East.
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  9146.  @seandoyle296  Do you have reading comprehension problems, or does your mind only jump between two extremes, of all good and all bad? I didn't call anyone "noble", or argue anything was "utopic". I simply explained some differences. You were mentioning the spread of Islam, in other posts. Not sure where I lost you, while explaining the difference between simply conquering vs conquering with forced conversion. I used Catholics, as an example, because all of Europe was Catholic, at the time, and they force converted along with conquest. They had been force converting since the Roman Empire adopted Christianity and force converted its own populace. You can go on about Muslim conquests, but that doesn't change the fact that they didn't much practice forced conversion. Alexander conquered all the way to India, as well, but he didn't force convert the populations along the way to believe in the Greek gods. Pre-Christian Romans conquered large amounts of territory, but also didn't force convert populations along the way. There's a difference between spreading your borders by the sword, and spreading your religion by the sword. You get that, as a rate, 12m over 500 years is worse than 17m over 1300 years, right? You also failed to mention the millions of slaves being bread like livestock, over hundreds of years, in the Americas, on top of those traded from Africa. There were 4 million, in the US alone, in 1860, and millions more in the 200 years prior. Chattel slavery, like that, wasn't commonplace in Muslim nations, while manumission was common, even mandatory in places. There were black Moors accepted as rulers. There were also Sudanese Mamluks accepted at the elite levels of your slavery hierarchy, that also went on to be rulers in places. There was also a hierarchy in the chattel slavery of the Americas, where whites couldn't be chattel slaves, blacks were considered good chattel slaves, and natives were considered bad chattel slaves, so were wiped out, ethnically cleansed, or simply worked to death en masse. You have an uphill battle trying to argue other forms of slavery was as racist, or as bad, as it was.
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  9147.  @seandoyle296  It does seem to be a reading comprehension problem, because you don't seem to be grasping things I am saying, and make up things I haven't said. What I'm talking about is me simply pointing out the fact that Muslims didn't do X, and you then jumping to comparisons to "apologetics", "nobility", or "utopia", I haven't apologized for anything they actually did. I haven't called anyone "noble". I haven't painted anything as a "utopia". In what reality is having multiple forms of slavery some noble utopia? It's not. Pointing out the fact that they didn't really have race based chattel slavery is simply a fact. That chattel slavery itself wasn't common in Muslim nations is just a fact. Not sure how you're going to dig up millions of extra black slaves, that were bred into slavery, when that wasn't really much of a thing in Muslim nations. Them freeing slaves being more common doesn't change that they enslaved someone to begin with. It doesn't make them saints. It just means they practiced slightly less horrible forms of slavery, and were somewhat less racist. Muslims were only about 16% of the population in India, when the British started ruling, after centuries of Mughal rule. There's no evidence of an ongoing mass forced conversion effort of the populace. Hindu princes helped rule, and Hindus helped run the administration. The Sikh religion itself draws from both Hinduism and Islam, and was only in its infancy around when Mughals started ruling. It actually grew and spread, under Mughal rule. It was mainly just one ruler that tried to force convert people. I'm sure it had nothing to do with them forementing uprisings, and whatnot. You're the one desperately grasping at little anecdotes, to try and make out like two largely different spreads were the same. But, you don't actually have stories of widespread, ongoing, relentless, forced mass conversion, almost everywhere Muslims ruled ... like within the Roman Empire against pagans, like within new territories conquered by Christian Romans, like Northern Crusades against pagan rulers, like Eastern Crusades against Muslims, like the "reconquest" of Spain, like a Chinese Jesus waging one of the bloodiest wars in history, like enslaving or wiping out native Americans that wouldn't convert, Orthodox Russians force converting pagans and Muslims and Jews, etc. Force converting was almost everywhere Christians ruled, on an ongoing grand scale, for centuries. Grasping at what this one Muslim ruler did here, or that this happened to this single Christian there, isn't actually evidence that the overall spread was the same. That there aren't endless accounts from almost everywhere Muslims ruled, and that you have to grasp at little anecdotes, is actually evidence the overall spread wasn't the same. And, again, simply pointing out a fact, isn't arguing that tons of bloody conquests, or any brutal rulers, were some noble utopia, or apologize for anything they actually did do.
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  9148.  @seandoyle296   Are there lists with Europeans considered to be superior chattel slaves, in the Americas, or were they not at all on chattel slave lists? Is there an example of blacks being considered inferior, and used as chattel slaves, in just Spanish controlled Americas, or was it also in the British controlled Americas, the France controlled Americas, the Dutch controlled Americas, the Portuguese controlled Americas? Were natives considered inferior in one European empire's colony in Africa, the Americas, East Asia, the South Pacific, or in pretty much all of those colonies, for hundreds of years? Were there black Christian rulers ruling over major parts any Christian empires, like there were black Muslims ruling over major parts of Islamic empires? Were there Africans or natives even being made governors, or generals? The Zanj rebellion wasn't even a black slave only rebellion, and black slaves might not have even been the majority of rebels. It included Beduins and Bahrani, who were Muslim. It included Basra peasants, who were Muslim. It included previously, or partially, freed slaves, of various races, who were Muslim. They were led by a free Muslim man, who was largely Arab, with a grandmother that was a freed slave, who preached the extreme egalitarian philosophy of previous Kharijite rebels, the first Muslim sect, who had also operated out of Basra. The rebels were also, themselves, quite brutal, slaughtering and burning villages. Your rebellion totals are for both sides, dumb dumb, and the side you're claiming them all on wasn't all black, maybe not even a majority black. Not to mention, that said rebellion led to Islamic empires no longer using large concentrations of slave labour, which kind of f*cks up your bullshit samesies narrative. Even in that brutally authoritarian area of a single Muslim empire, the very fact that many of them were previously freed, or partially freed, slaves, indicates they weren't practicing endless chattel slavery. I'm doubting you even know what that term means, since you keep comparing things that weren't it, to it. It means someone being property for their entire lives. It means their children being property from birth, even if it's a white man's child, for their entire lives. And so on, and so on, generation after generation. Even within that same empire, there were also prominent black Moors in positions of power in parts of it. I have no clue where you're getting the idea that white Christian European nobility would be fine with black Christians ruling over them, or power sharing with black Christians, or even for it to be common to have black Christians amongst their governing administrations. And that's the only possible idea you could possibly have, to think the two were equally racist. Brutality doesn't debunk manumission. Spaniards eradicated entire islands of its people, brought in tons of slaves, cared less if they died as they were constantly bringing in more ... plus weren't commonly freeing them, on top of that. You don't think there were any land deaths, or camp deaths, prior to shipping slaves west? There were also millions shipped to Asian and African markets, by Atlantic slave traders. South Africa was largely uninhabited. They imported a ton of slaves. And European slave traders weren't, at all, capturing Europeans to be slaves, while Muslims like Barbary pirates did. Why? Because their chattel slavery was entirely race based, ffs, while the non chattel Muslim slavery, hierarchy or not, wasn't entirely race based, didn't have a chattel category for people of certain races you didn't even consider human. Christian nations also had non racist debt slavery, political slavery, and criminal slavery, on top of their purely race based chattel slavery. Many of them were treated very poorly, but were released if they made it through their time served. Australia was founded on that kind of non race based non chattel slavery of criminals ... while they were almost entirely eradicating the black natives, because they were racist as f*ck. But hey, some Muslim guy made a hierarchy list, so samesies. Oh geezus. Yeah, Christians also converted slaves ... on top of force converting all of Europe, Russia, people in numerous colonies ... samesies.
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  9149.  @seandoyle296  Rofl. Here are a couple easy questions ... In society A, if you are born outside its borders, you may get brought in as a slave, may even be considered inferior amongst slaves, but you are likely to be freed at some point, and if you are born within its borders, you will be free from the get go, and can attain positions of authority and be accepted as equals amongst the society's higher ups. In society B, whether you're born outside its borders and brought in, or within, you most likely will be a chattel slave your entire life, and if you're in the teenie tiny minority that are freed, you won't attain positions of authority, and likely won't be accepted as an equal. Which society would you prefer living in? In society A, if you are of a different religion, you can pay a bit more taxes, and keep practicing your religion. In society B, your religion is made illegal (maybe even your different denomination), and you are given the option of conversion, death, or exile. Which society would you prefer living in? If you answer B, to either of those, then I can only assume that you are completely delusional.
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  9150. Sorry, but Dawkins used bad faith, himself, there. It is most definitely a "doctrine of" Christianity, and Judaism, to kill non believers. Whether they're less apt to practice what's in their books, is a completely different thing.
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  9151.  @Jerry-tv4bg  What a maroon. There are videos of this from multiple angles. There is at least one video showing the hangar filling up.
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  9152.  @Jerry-tv4bg  Tilt a mirror 10° right or left and watch yourself magically disappear, dingus. You will be amazed! 🤯
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  9153.  @Jerry-tv4bg  Rofl! Okay, new magic trick ... Put a friend, with brains, beside you, the direction you are tilting. Then tilt the mirror. Magically, the mirror will show someone with no brains, and then someone with brains.
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  9154.  @Jerry-tv4bg  Do you MAGA maroons just not know how perspective works?
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  9155.  @Jerry-tv4bg  Rofl! Says the dingus arguing against dozens of videos and pictures. Even FOX had to admit Trump was lying, because they were there.
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  9156.  @Jerry-tv4bg  Lol, this is grade school art class perspective, dingus. If you actually look at a picture, where the stairs aren't blocking the front of the engine, you can see it's not a perfect side shot. The intake is pointed somewhat towards the picture, and the back end away. As is the nose of the plane, where you can see much of the front windshield. Also look at the front and back stairs, once they're in place, and you can see the outside of the railings on the left side and inside of the railings on the right side. The stairs aren't pointed directly towards camera. That means all those things are pointed some degrees towards the right of camera, and whatever it is reflecting would be off to the right.
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  9157.  @Jerry-tv4bg  It's an airport, dingus. They have multiple hangars. Hence my you and a friend analogy. There are pictures towards the crowd, showing there's a row of hangars. The plane was very clearly angled to the right of camera. Man you lot are sharp as spoons.
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  9158.  @mimked  If the topic is Trump inciting an insurrection, and an attempt to stop the democratic process, to install an unelected dictator, are we talking about the few people milling about looking at statues, in the first place? Seems like a dishonest deflection.
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  9159.  @CONEHEADDK  Sep 23, 2021: “You don’t see people hiding bombs, or using bayonets, or firing weapons trying to take over the country with an insurrection,” said Carlson. “You see people walking around and taking pictures. They don’t look like terrorists, they look like tourists.”
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  9160.  @CONEHEADDK  Rofl. If that's all you saw, then you've been actively avoiding seeing anything else.
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  9161.  @CONEHEADDK  Yep.
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  9162.  @CONEHEADDK  There are dozens of images of inside damages. There are videos of them fighting cops indoors. If you can't find them, then you're avoiding finding them. Whatabout all you want. Oath Keepers just got charged with seditious conspiracy.
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  9163.  @CONEHEADDK  Whatabout, whatabout, whatabout ... if you didn't even bother to look, to inform yourself about the thing you're talking about, isn't that actively avoiding looking?
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  9164.  @CONEHEADDK  If you're admittedly ignorant about the topic, why are you discussing the topic?
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  9165.  @CP-ir3ft  Saying Trump (who has now turned 28% of Republicans, and most Republican politicians into overt fascists who want to end the democratic process) would be better than Clinton?
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  9166. They outright explained that the victim of domestic violence wanted the video shared, dimwit.
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  9167. Those terms are redundant. Everyone who is a believer, is just that, unless they can prove their case. If they can prove the existence, or non existence, then we will no longer need labels. Some crazy, that says they've seen, or talked, to God, know him personally, is a Gnostic.
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  9168. ​ @AngusTCat  Palestinians have Canaanite DNA. They are the previous Christian majority. They were the Jewish majority, before that. They are Arab and Muslim the same way indigenous peoples of Central America are Hispanic and Catholic. Zionists are slaughtering the ancient Jews that never left. Zionist Irgun and Lehi terrorists even targeted the ones that remained Jews, alongside their Palestinian brothers and sisters, for not supporting colonialist Zionsim. You don't get to use people you murder as a 1700 year old place holder. Those terrorists, child murderers, Jew murderers, went on to form Likud.
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  9169. ​ @AngusTCat  If I round up millions of people from the Americas, whose ancestors left England hundreds of years ago, "go back", claim half of England, and cleanse "our" half of its current inhabitants ... we'd be colonizers and ethnic cleansers, dumb dumb. Europeans have ancient roots in Africa. They still colonized the hell out of it. You Zionists are either incredibly stupid, or incredibly dishonest.
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  9170. ​ @jilldent5514  Palestinians have Canaanite DNA, dimwit. They're Arab and Muslim the same way indigenous peoples of Central America are now Hispanic and Catholic. All, or part, of the region has been called a variation of Palestine, by the Egyptians, Assyrians, Babylonians, Persians, Greeks (Aristotle considered the Dead Sea to be "in Palestine"), Western Romans, Christian pilgrims, Eastern Romans, early Muslims, Christian crusaders, Ottomans, British, and even the first Zionist congress that wanted to create a home "in Palestine". You lot are just a bunch of liars.
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  9171. ​ @lebojay  The Zionists only owned about 5% of the land, prior to partition. Of course, they would agree to gain 50+% of the land. Would you give up half of your province/state, the half you live in, so Tom Cruise can start a Scientology nation? Great deal, for you, according to your "logic".
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  9172. ​ @AngusTCat  Nazis didn't live inside the Warsaw ghetto, dumb dumb. All Palestine territories are officially considered occupied, by the International Court of Justice, the UN GA, the UN SC, and even in official documents of Israel's own allies. You're Nazis, operating an open air WWII style fascist ghetto.
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  9173. ​ @davelarson6682  "Letitia 'peekaboo' James" ~ Trumpty Dumpty Urban Dictionary: peekaboo Racist term used in white-supremacist circles to refer to a person of color, usually black, of upper or upper-middle class social standing. That uppity peekaboo thinks she can golf here just because she has money. by WhoKnowsWhoItCouldBe September 21, 2022
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  9174. By every measure, Israel is objectively the aggressor ... Modern history: 100 years ago, in 1923, Ze'ev Jabotinsky fully acknowledged that Zionism is colonialism, and that, based on the entirety of history, the natives would fight it until the bitter end. He just didn't care what would happen to them, and promoted doing it anyway. Colonizers are never not the aggressors. On top of the colonialist nature of Zionism, the Zionists also formed terrorist organizations, like the Irgun and Lehi. They bombed many Palestinian markets and other public places, murdering many civilians, including children, even including Palestinian Jews (who opposed Zionism). Israel merged those terrorists into the new nation's military and intelligence agencies. Israelis elected Menachem Begin, leader of the Irgun, child murderer, Jew murderer, and bomber of the King David Hotel, as PM. Israelis, to this day, celebrate those terrorists as "heroes". Zionists literally taught their neighbours that terrorism is a valid path to independence and statehood, and that terrorists are to be celebrated. In 1945, it is well documented that Zionists owned just 5% of the land and were a majority nowhere. Israel was formed by actually going against the majority population. It's foundation is completely undemocratic. Then, becoming a majority, in "your" new nation, by ethnic cleansing the actual majority, and then claiming to be democratic, is utter nonsense. Law: Israel is considered an occupier by the International Court, the UN GA, and the UN SC. Occupiers are also never not the aggressors. Those occupied actually have a right to resist occupation. On the flip side, it is illegal for the occupier to settle occupied lands, and illegal to use collective punishment. Israel is a rogue nation, that doesn't abide by international law. What it has been doing, and is doing now, is illegal. Current events: This year, alone, prior to Oct 7 ... Israel held over 1200 Palestinian hostages without charges ... over 200 Palestinians had been killed by the IDF and settlers ... over 1000 Palestinians had been displaced by Israel's neverending colonization of the West Bank ... and, Israel continued to operate an open air WWII style fascist ghetto. Even ignoring modern history and law, in no reality did Hamas "start" anything. Actual Hamas supporter: Netanyahu promoted, and helped fund, Hamas, to weaken the Palestinian Authority, to avoid a potential peace, so he could continue his colonization project. This is very much like the US promoting and funding religious extremists in Afghanistan, and that ending up biting them in the ass. Plus, he was warned by Egypt and, instead of strengthening the Gaza border, he moved Gazan troops to the West Bank, to support his colonization. Almost like he wanted his pet terrorists to actually break through.
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  9175.  @FrancisFjordCupola  You're the kind of dimwit who thinks the Democratic Republic of North Korea is actually democratic. Hitler didn't even want the "socialism" in the name of the party. He was convinced, by others, that it would help bring over workers. Hitler was backed by leading industrialists of Germany, who had previously backed other far right parties. Hitler even tried an alliance with all the other far right parties, called the Harzburg Front. He made a private pamphlet, just for his backers, letting them know he wouldn't be redistributing wealth. Hitler briefly lost Emil Kirdorf as a backer (who jumped to another far right party), because he hadn't dealt with prominent left leaning members of the party. Hitler literally killed them off on the Night of the Long Knives. Socialists, communists, and anarchists, were his main political opponents, and the first to be tossed into camps, once he gained power. Tens of thousands of people were arrested for "illegal socialist activity". Then he went after Unionists. One of his arguments against Jews was blaming them for socialism, because Marx was Jewish. People like you are equivalent to Holocaust deniers, by denying who Hitler actually mistreated.
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  9176.  @toydigger  The OT/Tanakh is the worst of the trilogy.
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  9177.  @Quantris  Ford won with 40% of the vote. How about Kenney?
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  9178.  @MrIndiemusic101  Polls don't really care about voting districts, or urban vs rural. Double the national average, of Canadians who said they'd vote Trump over Biden. It has a lot more nutbars per capita.
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  9179.  @jasong7373  None of your arguments actually addressed deaths. 21 Jan 2022, PHMDC: COVID-19 hospitalization, death rates ~60x higher for unvaccinated vs. boosted If the risk of death is so much higher, being unvaccinated, how is it Joe Rogan couldn't be killing people?
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  9180.  @rodolfo7441  How is it that a $2000+, per dose, Rogan "kitchen sink", doesn't put more money in the pockets of big pharma, than an under $20, per dose, vaccine? How does weeks, to months, in the hospital, being pumped full of all kinds of drugs, not put more money in the pockets of big pharma?
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  9181.  @jasong7373  You blathered about not ending the pandemic, and didn't address differences in death rates, at all, in your first attempt to explain why Joe isn't helping to kill people. I didn't bother reading your other comments, after that, since that one wasn't a valid argument. So, if there's a significant difference in death rates, how is it Joe couldn't have killing anyone, if he suggested people didn't need to get vaccinated?
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  9182.  @jasong7373  Rofl. You said reaching a high vaccination rate (which 65% isn't) wouldn't end the pandemic, which it irrelevant to whether more unvaccinated are dying. You lied about what exactly the WHO actually said about boosters. They said diverting doses away from the unvaccinated would cause more variants ... because the unvaccinated cause more variants. Nobody is diverting away from the unvaccinated, if they aren't signing up to get vaccinated. So, you, and Joe, are the ones encouraging more variants. You lied about the vaccination rate approaching 80%, and then just asserted that none of the remaining unvaccinated was brought there by Joe, based on absolutely nothing. Potentially about 11m unvaccinated people could have been brought there by Joe. You lied about the vaccines not doing much for transmissions. You have to catch the virus to spread the virus and the booster was shown to have 80% efficacy against Omicron, and 90+% vs Delta and Alpha. No vaccine has been found to have 0% efficacy. Something like 6 out of 8 monoclonal antibodies treatments have been found to be 0% effective against Omicron, however, for those thinking a Rogan $2000+/dose "kitchen sink" is going to save them. Again, none of that addresses death rates, at all. You blathered a lot of nonsense and outright bullshit. PHMDC: COVID-19 hospitalization, death rates ~60x higher for unvaccinated vs. boosted
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  9183. ​ @barbaraklein3944  Likud's bloody 100 year history ... In 1923, 100 years ago, Ze'ev Jabotinsky wrote, The Iron Wall, and a follow up, The Ethics of The Iron Wall (sooo racist towards Africans), in which he fully acknowledged that post Balfour Zionsim was colonialism, and that, based on the entirety of history, the native Palestinian population would resist being colonized until the bitter end. He directly compared it to the colonization of North America. He promoted doing it anyway, claiming Zionist colonialism was a "just" colonialism (he also thought North American colonialists were good guys, so not a great judge of morality), not caring what that meant for the native population. Ze'ev is important, because his Betar militant youth group helped found the Irgun terrorist group, along with other supporters of his, and the splinter Lehi terrorist group. The Irgun bombed numerous Palestinian markets and other public places, murdering many Palestinian civilians, including children, even including Palestinian Jews (who didn't support colonialist Zionsim). The Irgun are important, because they ended up being led by future Likud PM, Menachem Begin, who bombed the King David Hotel. The King David Hotel was bombed because the British had raided the Jewish Agency and seized numerous documents that may have shown that the terrorists were working with the JA and Haganah (JA liked to pretend that they didn't support the terrorism). The British then stored those documents at their base, in the hotel. That the Irgun terrorists responded to a JA raid, itself seems to prove the connection. That the thousands of Irgun (and Lehi) terrorists were also quickly merged into the new nation's military (IDF) and intelligence (Mossad) agencies, and are still celebrated as "heroes" by Israelis, to this day, also seems to support total collaboration between the groups. That other terrorist group mentioned, Lehi (also known as the Stern Gang), was considered even more extreme. They even tried to ally with the Nazis, against the British. Lehi ended up being led by Yitzhak Shamir, future Mossad agent, and another future Likud PM. In 1945, there was a major land and peoples survey done in Palestine. It showed that the Zionists only owned about 5% of the total land, 20% of the arable land, and owned a majority in zero districts. The partition was not only going to be forced on the native Palestinian majority, but Jews were still going to be a minority, in the part allocated to them. The only possible way to even become a "Jewish state" was going to require getting rid of the actual majority (at least enough so that there'd be a solid Jewish majority, so they could fake being democratic). This is also shown by the 1948, post Nakba, population of Israel. If there was 716,700 Jews, 156,000+ non-Jews, and approximately 700k non-Jews ethnically cleansed, that means the Jewish population, in the Zionist portion of partition, was originally over 100,000 less than the non-Jewish population. To believe that there was never any intent, by Zionists, to ethnically cleanse away the Palestinian majority would require believing that they never intended to create a "Jewish state". It's a nonsensical notion. Begin, and those terrorist groups, also opposed partition, but for the opposite reason Palestinians did. Palestinians didn't want to be colonized, at all. The terrorists wanted to colonize it all. "Moderate" Zionists were okay with colonizing half ... for now (what would happen in the future, after partition, was up to them, said Ben-Gurion). The Zionist terrorists were also involved in massacres, and assassinations, during the partition violence (colonialist war against the natives). Another notable future Likud PM, also started in the military, during the partition fighting. That was Ariel Sharon, war criminal, "Butcher of Beirut". Menachem Begin, and these other Zionist terrorists, are important because they also later founded Likud. Now, people get upset over the slogan "From the river to the sea!", but it's the second part that's most important, "Palestine will be free!". Because "Palestine" isn't defined as an ethno-state, a free Palestine can be a single state, free for all to live in, and return to, free of continuing colonization, free of occupation, free of oppression, etc. Just like a Germany free of Nazism, an Italy free of fascism, a South Africa free of apartheid, or an America free of slavery from sea to shiny sea. It doesn't necessitate purging all the Jews. It just necessitates them giving up on the idea of an ethno-state. On the other hand, because "Israel" has been defined as an ethno-state, Likud's, "between the sea and the Jordan there will only be Israeli sovereignty", has no possible good interpretation. It is a declaration of intent to completely colonize, and ethnically cleanse, all Palestine territories. Not only that, but it also claims that they have a "right" to all of the "Land of Israel" (biblical borders that don't mesh with archaeological reality), which is an open declaration of future wars, against Jordan, Syria, Lebanon, and possibly even Iraq. Likud platform ... 1977: "The Right of the Jewish People to the Land of Israel (Eretz Israel) a. The right of the Jewish people to the land of Israel is eternal and indisputable and is linked with the right to security and peace; therefore, Judea and Samaria will not be handed to any foreign administration; between the Sea and the Jordan there will only be Israeli sovereignty. b. A plan which relinquishes parts of western Eretz Israel, undermines our right to the country, unavoidably leads to the establishment of a "Palestinian State," jeopardizes the security of the Jewish population, endangers the existence of the State of Israel. and frustrates any prospect of peace." "Settlement Settlement. both urban and rural. in all parts of the Land of Israel is the focal point of the Zionist effort to redeem the country, to maintain vital security areas and serves as a reservoir of strength and inspiration for the renewal of the pioneering spirit. The Likud government will call on the younger generation in Israel and the dispersions to settle and help every group and individual in the task of inhabiting and cultivating the wasteland, while taking care not to dispossess anyone." 1999: "The Government of Israel flatly rejects the establishment of a Palestinian Arab state west of the Jordan river. The Palestinians can run their lives freely in the framework of self-rule, but not as an independent and sovereign state. Thus, for example, in matters of foreign affairs, security, immigration, and ecology, their activity shall be limited in accordance with imperatives of Israel's existence, security and national needs." "The Jewish communities in Judea, Samaria, and Gaza are the realization of Zionist values. Settlement of the land is a clear expression of the unassailable right of the Jewish people to the Land of Israel and constitutes an important asset in the defense of the vital interests of the State of Israel. The Likud will continue to strengthen and develop these communities and will prevent their uprooting." All Palestine territories are officially considered occupied, by the International Court of Justice, the UN GA, the UN SC, and even in official documents of Israel's own allies. Likud is still using the blueprint for colonizing North America, in the West Bank. Move settlements out into native territory, piss off the natives, the natives retaliate, cry about poor "innocent" colonizing settlers being the "victims" of violent "Savages!", call in the cavalry to put down the native uprising, and eventually expand the borders to include those settlements. Rinse and repeat. In Gaza, they are operating an open air WWII style fascist ghetto. Them claiming a "right to defend themselves" would be like the Nazis claiming a "right to defend themselves " from the Warsaw ghetto uprising. There's no "war". That they're the occupiers means the "war" part is long over. That partition was forced upon the Palestinian majority, against their will ... that the Zionist portion still had to be forcefully ethnically cleansed of its non-Jewish majority, against their will ... that the millions of occupied Palestinians don't have a say in the government that truly rules over them, Israel's ... means Israel is about as democratic as Nazi Germany after Hitler purged his political opponents and then held elections. Hamas is basically just a poor man's Likud, only fighting against colonialism, instead of for colonialism.
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  9184. What nonsense. They paint every Democrat candidate as an evil socialist anyway.
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  9185.  @winnerxxl  That last fear game, that Trump won on, was against a very conservative Democrat. She spectacularly lost to one of the worst performing Republican candidates in US history. Americans want serious change. Many hoped Obama would give it to them. He didn't. Many hoped Trump would give it to them. He didn't. That's what Bernie needs to point out, that Trump isn't at all anti-establishment. It's the same old establishment Republican shenanigans ... tax cuts for the rich, increase military funding, support fossil fuels, deny climate change, cut government programs, anti-intellectual, anti-abortion, anti-lgbt, anti-immigrant, etc., etc., etc. Same old same old. Bernie is the one who actually wants to change things away from both establishments.
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  9186.  @mfflscotty2095  Do you believe there is an infinite amount of money printed every year? Is the pie infinite, or finite?
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  9187.  @mfflscotty2095  There are more regulations in the UK, regarding hiring, zoning, etc., and more spending on government social programs, like the fully socialized NHS. Plus, double the unionization rate, which increases regulations, within a contract. Where the US government mainly outspends, is with the military. 6x more, as a percent of federal spending. US businesses are also more subject to private law suits (which is a "freer" environment), sometimes exactly because they aren't better regulated. Curious as to why are you simply measuring economic freedom, as a sign of success? Wouldn't the happiness index be a better measure of success? Or, do you simply want to stay away from very happy countries with like 75% unionization rates, and even more government services?
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  9188. You got the "Latino" wrong. That's a geographical grouping. People from Latin America, including from Portuguese colonized countries (and technically French colonized countries should be included as well). "Hispanic" is the language/culture grouping.
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  9189. The house voted on it. And the senate voted on whether to include it, or not. You've got a list of names who voted against it from the entire congress. But, like the lazy pathetic hypocrites that Dore knobs are, they did absolutely nothing with an ever so important list of no voters, and just kept whining about those who voted for it.
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  9190. The first vaccine out of the gate was developed in Germany and didn't take any US funding. Other vaccines in the world, that didn't take US funding, came out around the same time as those that did. There's no evidence he sped up anything. CRT isn't taught in public schools. There was a border crossing spike in 2019, that right wingers ignored. Averaged out, Trump had more border crossings per year than Obama.
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  9191. So, violence suits Israel?
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  9192. Well, what you you believe? Do you believe that calling all Caucasian European Americans, African-Americans, would broaden and convolute the current definition of African-American?
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  9193. I don't see how, as I am only an Agnostic because I'm a non-believer. As soon as they believe, they become an -ist (a believer). Christians don't have to state they are Athe-ist or Agnostic about all the other religions. It's redundant. The same goes for for any Theist. If it is impossible to both believe a proposition is true, and doubt that same proposition is true, then Agnosticism is incompatible with Theism. If it's incompatible, then it's saying exactly what you want A-theism to say.
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  9194. Surprised that Kyle seems to be spouting bullshit. The public option, as well as free community college, was just mentioned in the American Families Plan, on April 29 ... "FREE COMMUNITY COLLEGE AND OTHER POSTSECONDARY INVESTMENTS" "President Biden has a plan to build on the Affordable Care Act and lower prescription drug costs for everyone by letting Medicare negotiate prices, reducing health insurance premiums and deductibles for those who buy coverage on their own, creating a public option and the option for people to enroll in Medicare at age 60, and closing the Medicaid coverage gap to help millions of Americans gain health insurance." https://www.whitehouse.gov/briefing-room/statements-releases/2021/04/29/fact-sheet-the-american-families-plan-will-support-children-teachers-and-working-families-in-rural-america/
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  9195.  @robinsss  Nope. We've already done the ancap and Libertarian nonsense. They sucked for the majority of the population. Poor kids simply didn't get an education.
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  9196.  @SPEKULATE  It was the bus parking lot, across the street from the prison, not the prison itself. Trying to disable some buses is still a far cry from say, running people over in a car, shooting up a black church, shooting up a Sikh temple, shooting up a synagogue, shooting up mosques, etc. Let me know when Antifa starts killing people, like right wing extremists.
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  9197. Harris is a moron who presents "analogies" that aren't analogous, and never actually makes it beyond what he says is a given to begin with.
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  9198.  @eemoogee160  Ummm, you might want to reread your op, Dore knob. You sided with the beef starters, and attacked the other side, stoking the fire under the beef.
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  9199.  @twistedwithmelancholy8436  Ummm, in this case it would have been a PC minority government, with proportional representation, dumb dumb.
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  9200. Someone outright presented two claims...cake believers vs pie believers...and you outright said there was only one claim being presented. You're living in a make believe world with blinders on, that can't see the pie in front of his face.
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  9201. Likud was created by Zionist terrorist, Menachem Begin, who bombed Palestinian markets and other public places, murdering many Palestinian civilians, including children, even including Palestinian Jews (who opposed Zionism), and bombed the King David Hotel. The other founder was Ariel Sharon, war criminal, who massacred Palestinian villages. Their initial platform stated that their goal was for Israel to rule from the sea to the Jordan (reverse of, from the river to the sea). Netanyahu has proven that that still seems to be the goal, with the endless colonization of the West Bank. Netanyahu also promoted, and helped fund, Hamas, to weaken the Palestinian Authority and avoid possible peace, so he could continue his colonization projects. The end of violence would mean that Israel might have to pull back, plus allow the right of return for Palestinian refugees. Peace is against Likud's interests. So, why not the exact same demand that Likud be removed?
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  9202. ​ @gizmo6746  But why won't you denounce Cochise? Why are you always going on about the colonizing and ethnic cleansing? 🙄
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  9203. ​ @gizmo6746  They were invaded and colonized. Colonizers are never not the aggressors.
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  9204. Well, for one, if you look into Gulf War I, you'll see that a PR company faked an account of Iraqis throwing babies on the floor at a hospital, and taking the incubators they were in. A "nurse" was brought before congress, as a "witness", and helped sell congress on the US getting involved. Turned out she was the Kuwaiti ambassador's daughter. Corrupt Netanyahu, or his fascist supporters, wouldn't be above doing something like that. Secondly, even the official IDF mouthpieces aren't verifying this is true.
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  9205.  @SpacenSpooks  ... but same outcome.
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  9206.  @SpacenSpooks  The outcome is that they're both dead.
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  9207.  @chucknasty1532  Regressive? Like fighting for the legal "right" to discriminate? Like fighting for religion in politics and schools? Like fighting for Gilded Age levels of inequality? Etc.
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  9208. ​ @kineahora8736  Even Einstein likened Likud's Irgun and Lehi trrrst founders to Fscsts and Nzs. What's wrong with that?
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  9209.  @kineahora8736  Einstein was invited to be the president of Isrl, ffs. Hannah Arendt also signed the letter. You think she didn't know what a Nz was? The Lehi literally tried to ally with the Nzs, Fscsts, and Vichy. Their leader became a Likud PM. You're fine with the Irgun bmbng the King David Hotel, Palestinian markets, the British embassy in Rome, trains in Egypt, etc., etc., etc.?
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  9210. It's also an election year, and a close one. She likely wants to inform people about what's going on (she did give the details, even though she didn't label it), without pushing more people away from voting Joe ... or else the country gets Trump, and is totally screwed.
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  9211. Ummm, no thanks, moron. I wouldn't want to constantly be pulled over, so they can search every white guy going by. They should be using some other lead, besides just "white". Same with "black".
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  9212.  @leganzar7831  So, while you were stupidly looking for a beard, some young guys bombed a marathon, or some woman shot up a place. You're not being any less lazy.
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  9213. Having an actual suspect isn't racial profiling ... which is what people call "racist". You seem to be moving away from your strawman op.
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  9214.  @andypate6056  Shouldn't everyone hate fascists and police brutality? Weird that you'd like things like that.
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  9215. So, just call them fascists?
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  9216.  @iamtheonewhocomments201  They're, literally, fighting the democratic process and trying to put a dictator in power, dumb dumb.
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  9217.  @iamtheonewhocomments201  Oh geez, you are quite dense, aren't you. Yes, they are part of the democracy, and just got to play their part in the democratic process during that thing called an "election", that just happened. Now, they're protesting that democratic process ... supporting overthrowing that democratic process. How effective they are, or what tactics they were personally involved with, is pretty much irrelevant to what they've chosen as their cause. They've chosen keeping an unelected leader in power as the cause they're fighting for.
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  9218.  @iamtheonewhocomments201  They are protesting the democratic process itself. They want to make their unelected leader a dictator. Those are just facts, dipshit.
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  9219. Most Atheists claim Agnostics, because they've come to believe the word is A-theist. The original term was actually derived from the Greek word Atheos (no god). The -ism (belief system) was added to that word, so it's original meaning was "no god - belief system", not "no - god belief system", or a belief that there are no gods. The more modern A-theism came from Atheists hijacking Huxley's burden of proof position. So, in fact, A-theists are Agnostics, not Athe-ists. and just don't know it.
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  9220.  @springbloom5940  There's some 200 pages of the Mueller report about information sharing (collision) that didn't amount to conspiracy. And the report said Jr and Kushner weren't charged with conspiracy because it would be hard to prove they "willfully" broke the law, not because they didn't break the law.
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  9221. ​ @deepblueseeds5563  You're a nutbar. Both Jews and Palestinians have Canaanite DNA. The region of Canaan was then dominated by Egyptians, Hittites, or both splitting it. Then, the Hittite Empire collapsed and Egypt was pushed out. The Kingdoms of Israel and Judea, plus Philistia, all emerged from that power vacuum, at about the same time. None ever controlled the entire region of Canaan. Israel was the first to be wiped out, by the Assyrians. Tiny Judea, and Philistia, were both conquered by the Babylonians, at about the same time. Neither Israel, nor Judea, existed for any significantly longer period of time, if at all, than Philistia. The Babylonians were conquered by the Persians. The Persians were conquered by the Greeks. And, the Greeks were conquered by the Romans. Here's where things get really interesting. Even though Rome brought advancements, creating a more developed society (What have the Romans ever done for us?), the Jews felt oppressed, and rose up on multiple occasions, and actually killed tens of thousands of non Jewish civilians. Rome, in turn, used excessive force, collective punishment, destroyed temples, and ethnically cleansed many Jews. And thus began their 1500+ year walkabout. Except, the entire population wasn't ethnically cleansed, nor genocided, nor is there a non fairy tale account of it ever being completely ethnically cleansed or completely genocided. Which means, part of the native population has always remained. Hence, the Canaanite DNA amongst Palestinians. What's not connected to DNA is religion. It would be pretty easy for a native population to convert to Christianity and then Islam. It would be completely moronic for someone to claim you can tell which group was there first by what religion they currently practice. Now, if you go on a 1500+ year walkabout, you're no longer coming back as a full fledged native, who never left. If you ethnically cleanse those who never left, off the lands they lived on, and claim those lands for yourself, you're coming back as a colonizer. Europeans have African DNA, if you go back far enough, but they still colonized the sh*t out of Africa. Colonizers are never not the aggressors, when it comes to the natives. In 1918, Ben-Gurion fully acknowledged that Zionism is colonialism. In 1923, Ze'ev Jabotinsky fully acknowledged that Zionism is colonialism, and predicted, based on the entirety of history, that the natives would react by resisting until the bitter end. He just didn't care what would happen to them. He thought their colonization was "good", and also wrote that they'd need outside help, to force the outcome they wanted. Everything is going according to plan. Respond to uprisings just like the Romans. Keep people in an open air WWII style ghetto just like the fascists. Colonize the West Bank just like in North America. Israelis have learned from all, as they've gone along, and become the very things they fled from.
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  9222. The US and UK conscripted, trained, and armed, every single fighting age KKK and BUF member, during WWII. There are still plenty of Nazi types in the US military. What's your point?
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  9223. This is one of the most uninformed comment sections I have ever seen. AOC and two fellow NY progressives back formal plea for ceasefire in Gaza Oct 16, 2023 18 House Democrats sign resolution for Mideast de-escalation, ceasefire Oct 23, 2023 — Cori Bush (D-Mo.). Bush's fellow “Squad” members Reps. Rashida Tlaib (D-Mich.), Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez (D-N.Y.) Democrats Like Rashida Tlaib, AOC Split With Biden Over Israel Ceasefire Calls Oct 31, 2023 AOC leads Democrats urging Biden to call for Gaza ceasefire over children's rights Nov 15, 2023 AOC calls Biden administration 'shameful' for blocking United Nations demand for a ... Dec 11, 2023 Aoc ceasefire | keeping it reel - NewsBreak Original Jan 17, 2024 Hour 1: AOC Calls for Ceasefire from Israel - The Marc Cox Morning Show Podcast Feb 8, 2024 AOC suggests cutting off aid to Israel after U.S. vetoes ceasefire resolution Feb 22, 2024 AOC and Other Democrats Urge Biden to Call for a Ceasefire at the State of the ... Mar 1, 2024
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  9224.  @bobbilder8793  They're running on Sharia and tribal laws. Even without a strong central government, how is that libertarian?
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  9225.  @bobbilder8793  Things usually do get better when a civil war dies down.
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  9226.  @bobbilder8793  Did I say "stop"? People not killing each other at quite the same frequency is dying down.
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  9227. Let me know when the rest of the world can sue the US for funding it. Bankrupt America to own the libs!!!
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  9228. Why would I ever feel emasculated by a child having tantrums on Twitter?
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  9229. ​ @ChaiCrimes  You're as ignorant as your mom. Early Zionists fully acknowledged that Zionism is colonialism. A colonialist is never not the aggressor, when it comes to the natives. On top of the colonialism, Zionists formed terrorist groups like the Irgun and Lehi, which bombed numerous Palestinian markets, amongst other civilian targets, killing many, including children, even including Palestinian Jews (who didn't support Zionism). Israel merged those terrorists into the new nation's military and intelligence agencies. Israelis elected Menachem Begin, leader of the Irgun, who bombed the King David Hote, as PM. To this day, Israelis celebrate those terrorists as heroes. They literally taught their neighbours that terrorism is a valid path to independence and statehood. In the West Bank, Israel is using the blueprint for the colonization of North America. Move settlements out into native territory, piss off the natives, the natives react violently, cry about being poor "innocent" colonizers who were attacked by "savages", call in the cavalry to put down the native uprising, and then extend the borders to include those settlements. Rinse and repeat. In Gaza, Israel is operating an open air WWII style fascist ghetto. Absolutely abhorrent that they, of all people, would do something so horrendous.
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  9230. If it was a fact, that minorities commit 95% of urban murders, then there must be an absolute per capita bloodbath going on in predominantly white rural areas and small towns, to get the national percentages.
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  9231. "Palestine" isn't defined as an ethno-state. Everyone could live in a free "Palestine". "Israel" has defined itself as an ethno-state. It can never have anything but a solid Jewish majority. Likud's platform, "between the sea and the Jordan there will only be Israeli sovereignty", not only promises to completely colonize and ethnically cleanse all Palestine territories it further claims a "right" to all the "Land of Israel" (fantasy biblical borders that don't mesh with archaeological reality), which is an open declaration of future wars, against Jordan, Syria, and Lebanon. They are a colonizing, ethnic cleansing, occupying, state. Why would it be controversial to say Nazi Germany has no right to exist?
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  9232.  @orlandosantiago6155  She had staffers drop a claim about Bernie ... someone who has been an ardent supporter of women's rights for decades, someone who wanted her to run in 2016, someone who endorsed and campaigned hard for Hillary ... to MSM, portraying him as some kind of misogynist. Bernie denied it, not at all calling her, or anyone else, a "liar" (there could have simply been a misunderstanding by Warren, or by her staffers). She came out and claimed it did happen, implying there was no possibility of misunderstanding, and that he was lying.
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  9233.  @orlandosantiago6155  Yes. They were the only two people in the room. At the point Bernie first denied it, Warren hadn't said anything publicly, only some anonymous staffers ... so she was the first to come out implying he was lying.
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  9234.  @orlandosantiago6155  We do know that she was the first to imply he was lying, though, so your original criticism is invalid.
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  9235. It was all indentured servitude, to begin with. Black people were then stripped of their rights, bit by bit, until almost all were chatel slaves. It had already begun, but the rebellion did hasten things along. Eventually, even most black freemen lost all their rights, too. Mixed marriages, leading to laws banning them, was another angle used to drive a wedge between the races. I think it was less to do with giving little advantages to one group, raising them up a tiny bit, and more to do with taking every little thing from the other group, dropping them down a lot lower.
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  9236.  @hakanpetersson2662  The "Arab areas" I'm talking about were inside the portion allotted to the Znists. This is also fully evidenced by the 1945 Village Statistics, done by the British. It showed that the Jewish population only owned 5% of the land, and weren't a majority, or even a plurality, in any districts. There was no possible way to become a Jewish majority state, just by drawing lines. People would need to be moved.
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  9237.  @hakanpetersson2662  I was still referring to land owners, but okay. Between Jews, non-Jews, and publicly owned, they were a majority, or plurality, nowhere. Haifa: 104k Jews, 120k non-Jews. But, you're right about Ramle/Lydda, a slight majority, but they only owned 14% of the property. Non-Jews owned 77%. 9% was public. So, the Jewish partition should have been just Lydda.
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  9238. Likely needed an emergency Sudafed prescription.
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  9239. Israel is objectively the aggressor by every relevant measure, dumb dumb ... Modern history: 100 years ago, in 1923, Ze'ev Jabotinsky fully acknowledged that Zionism is colonialism, and that, based on the entirety of history, the natives would fight it until the bitter end. He just didn't care what would happen to them, and promoted doing it anyway. Colonizers are never not the aggressors. On top of the colonialist nature of Zionism, the Zionists also formed terrorist organizations, like the Irgun and Lehi. They bombed many Palestinian markets and other public places, murdering many civilians, including children, even including Palestinian Jews (who opposed Zionism). Israel merged those terrorists into the new nation's military and intelligence agencies. Israelis elected Menachem Begin, leader of the Irgun, child murderer, Jew murderer, and bomber of the King David Hotel, as PM. Israelis, to this day, celebrate those terrorists as "heroes". Zionists literally taught their neighbours that terrorism is a valid path to independence and statehood, and that terrorists are to be celebrated. In 1945, it is well documented that Zionists owned just 5% of the land and were a majority nowhere. Israel was formed by actually going against the majority population. It's foundation is completely undemocratic. Then, becoming a majority, in "their" new nation, by ethnic cleansing the actual majority, and then claiming to be democratic, is utter nonsense. Law: Israel is considered an occupier by the International Court, the UN GA, and the UN SC. Occupiers are also never not the aggressors. Those occupied actually have a right to resist occupation. On the flip side, it is illegal for the occupier to settle occupied lands, and illegal to use collective punishment. Israel is a rogue nation, that doesn't abide by international law. What it has been doing, and is doing now, is illegal. Current events: This year, alone, prior to Oct 7 ... Israel held over 1200 Palestinian hostages without charges ... over 200 Palestinians had been killed by the IDF and settlers ... over 1000 Palestinians had been displaced by Israel's neverending colonization of the West Bank ... and, Israel continued to operate an open air WWII style fascist ghetto, in Gaza. Even ignoring modern history and law, in no reality did Hamas "start" anything.
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  9240. ​ @judeavision8807  Because the only thing he changed was spewing h@t€ and not accepting the results of an election. The rest was standard GOP fare.
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  9241.  @finflwr  Do you know how grifting works? The snake oil salesman claims to be selling you something beneficial, but they're actually selling something completely useless, or even dangerous. Jimmy claims to be for M4A, but every way he proposes to achieve that benefits the far right. Splitting standard Democrat and progressive votes would just hand Republicans a plurality, for decades to come. The oldest third party hasn't won a single seat in its near 50 year existence. He helped campaign against Bernie, the M4A candidate. He promoted allying with psycho anarcho capitalists, who would shoot you, if you proposed M4A after helping them overthrow the government. He has repeatedly lied about and bashed universal healthcare systems, during COVID. He promoted unproven privately paid for options, over a freely distributed vaccine. He publicly abandoned adding more M4A yes votes to congress ... the only thing that will ever get it passed. Etc. None of the roads he proposes taking actually leads to M4A. He's a grifter.
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  9242. Do progressives have the leverage? Pelosi could just let them paralyze the house, and then blame them for people not getting new covid relief, not getting a minimum wage increase, etc. Or, if Dore is right, that corporate Dems would rather work with Republicans than progressives, Pelosi could make a backroom deal with Republicans in exchange for enough of them to abstain, or be absent, lowering the threshold needed to win.
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  9243.  @comingviking  My wild fantasies? Dore and Kulinski say corporate Dems are more willing to work with Republicans than progressives and Pelosi is the queen of backroom deals. You can't have it both ways. Uh yeah, while there is no speaker, nothing else can happen, dumbass. There's nobody to bring up bills to vote on, nobody to count the votes, etc. Nothing can happen until a speaker is elected.
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  9244. So, you don't believe I am wrong, and that you can prove me wrong? Then why have you been debating so long? No, thank you, for proving my earlier point.
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  9245. The senate, with equal votes for states of all sizes, was their dumbest idea.
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  9246. You weren't wrong. You're just too dumb to recognize what's wise and what's not.
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  9247. ​ @crabbypattie  You're dumb. "Palestine" isn't defined as an ethno-state. A free Palestine, could be a single state, where everyone can live freely. "Israel", however, is defined as an ethno-state, which means there's no good way to interpret Likud's platform. "Between the sea and the Jordan there will only be Israeli sovereignty", promises to completely colonize and ethnically cleanse all Palestine territories. It further claims a "right" to all the "Land of Israel" (fictional biblical borders that don't mesh with archaeological reality), which is an open declaration of future wars, against Jordan, Syria, and Lebanon. Likud was founded by Irgun and Lehi terrorists. Israelis elected the leaders of both those terrorist groups as PMs. Israelis, to this day, celebrate those terrorists as "heroes". Hamas is a poor man's Likud, only opposed to colonialism instead of doing the colonialism.
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  9248. Since everything is an accusation, with DT, odds are he takes stimulants to get through speeches, interviews, etc., like he accused Biden of doing.
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  9249.  @adams4377  Yeah, sterilization sounds great.
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  9250.  @avenuePad  Right, and she wasn't being nuanced.
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  9251.  @avenuePad  The bigger problem, to me, than her initial wording, is her not listening to the others, who were trying to correct her in real time, and her remaining adamant that it wasn't about race, and arguing with them. Just like people here, online, continuing to adamantly argue that it wasn't about race. Not only were her initial words problematic, her unwillingness to listen was also problematic. I get the point she was trying to convey, but the point she was trying to convey isn't the issue.
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  9252. I think that gives Canada the right to bomb the US, because criminals who smuggle guns into Canada that kill Canadians, are hiding amongst US citizens.
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  9253. ​ @barryoconnor721  Why are you lying?
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  9254. @Deplorable Idiot. The economy has been trending upwards, and unemployment trending downwards, since 2009, and Trump's first year in office was still Obama's last budget. Trump is like ISIS, and claims credit for everything. http://www.msnbc.com/sites/msnbc/files/styles/embedded_image/public/5.8.18.png?itok=_-tO3c6P
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  9255. It depends on how you fund it, whether it's insane, or not. Corporations need to pay for it, not consumers.
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  9256.  @jameslatimer3600  States didn't have to individually approve previous apportionment acts. There used to be a new act after every census. The 1929 act made things permanent. The number of electorals matches the number of seats in the House. That's what the electoral college was originally about, assigning seats in the house. It was supposed to represent the population. The 1792 act was proportional to population ... "Be it enacted by the Senate and House of Representatives of the United States of America in Congress assembled, That from and after the third day of March one thousand seven hundred and ninety-three, the House of Representatives shall be composed of members elected agreeably to a ratio of one member for every thirty-three thousand persons in each state, computed according to the rule prescribed by the constitution"
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  9257.  @jfree2737  That was not the intention of the electoral college, at all. It was meant to be proportional.
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  9258.  @earllsimmins9373  A more parliamentary approach? The leader of the party with the most seats in the house gets to be PM (president)?
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  9259.  @jfree2737  The concerns you mentioned seemed to imply they were concerned about being proportional. The first apportionment was literally 1 electoral per 33k people, giving zero indication they were concerned about higher populated areas.
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  9260. They would moderate more, if they were liable for all user content, dumb dumb.
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  9261.  @lychee8328  Plenty? It passed 420-9. Even if the entire progressive caucus had voted no, it would have passed. She, and other progressives, have a bill that would condition the more general $3b in military aid to Israel.
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  9262.  Kira  It's over 100 votes short in the house alone. It's got even less support as a percentagr of the senate. It wouldn't be anywhere near close enough to passing, that maybe twisting a few arms could get it to pass. It would be purely performance, dimwit.
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  9263.  @AdultThirdCultureKid1971  The iron dome budget is smaller and seperate, from the $3b a year in military aid. If they don't use the iron dome for x number of years, then it's costing nothing those years. Which means, you're making up bullshit about what is actually bleeding taxpayers. It's not the purely defensive system. It's also not the purely defensive system that's killing Palestinians, and destroying their homes. Get a grip on reality and back progressives trying to put conditions on the $3b in military aid every year, rather than spew Dore knob nonsense.
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  9264.  Kira  Learn some basic math. It is absolutely impossible to pass any bill without Manchin. There are zero extra votes to be gained to the left of the party. On the other end, if Manchin can make enough concessions, and get enough Republicans on board, it is entirely possible to pass bills without progressives. In a stand off, a bill will more likely move right, rather than left. This might work only because Manchin himself has his precious "bipartisan" bill, that he wants to pass, at the same time. Manchin can screw any bill he wants. Progressives can only screw bills Manchin wants passed. If he doesn't care if a bill fails, then you've got zero leverage.
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  9265.  @bigdaddypapsmear  You're rewriting history dunglenuts. The tea party was backed by the Koch brothers, and was growing in numbers rapidly. Massive donors were pressuring Republicans to move further right, a direction they were already inclined to move. The only reason tea partiers could block a bill was because even the other Republicans were unwilling to work with Democrats to make the bills pass. That is not samesies, as the current situation, you dimwitted Dore knob. There are no major donors pressuring establishment Dems to move left. Moving left is not the inclined direction corporate Dems want to move. And, Dems like Manchin are obviously willing to work with Republicans and pass bills without needing progressive votes.
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  9266. So, how do you feel about a comical huckster, who unscientifically promotes spiritual experiences as the only way for people to break addiction? Or, promotes his comical hucketer daughter's meat only diet, claiming it had cured all of his own mental and physical ailments? Aren't they the ones not taking those things seriously, and using them to grift people? What's not funny, with all the irony involved?
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  9267.  @barbiquearea  Every single absolute monarchy in history has been a 100% privately owned and operated nation, dumb dumb. More people have not died under communist regimes than capitalist ones. Plus, most of the deaths you're talking about were due to badly planned agricultural reforms. So, you need to count the 15m Indians starved to death under the British. And the 6m starving to death every single year under largely capitalist countries. In just 10 years, that's 60m.
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  9268.  @asamanthinketh1937  Crazy, and still have government subsidized day care, paid parental leave for both parents, a top 20 Gini score, almost like nothing US capitalists say is true.
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  9269.  @BadassRaiden  But a society that doesn't treat a minority of the population horribly, would be overall more happy, no? If you asked 100 people if they were happy, 90 would be better than 75, and I'm sure feelings of equality would play into it. You're basically arguing it's impossible for the society to be happier, without having a minority of persecuted miserable people. That doesn't sound like trying to maximize happiness, at all. That sounds like giving up at a certain point.
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  9270.  @BadassRaiden  I stopped reading, because you were incoherent by the end of the first paragraph. You literally said you could increase happiness by making things more equal. That means a country that did that, would have a higher happiness rating than one that didn't. If the goal is not just to make a majority of people happy, but to maximize happiness, then you should always be looking to make unhappy people happier. You can increase equality in bad ways, like making 99% of the population equally slaves. Some of the countries with the best Gini scores aren't many people's top choices of where they'd like to live. If the equality has improved lives and made people happy, is the important part.
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  9271. The UN definition says "all or in part". They also say ethnc cleansing can be considered covered by the gncde statutes. What happens, when you tell people to move and they don't move? Their lives are ended. So, ethnc cleansing is a threat: leave or be gncided.
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  9272.  @StasCherkassky  Move, or we will unalive you, is ethnc cleansing, yeah. Leaving them no homes to return to is ethnc cleansing, yeah. 100+ years of declared revisionist intent to clnz all of Pal says it's ethnc cleansing, as well. Rofl ... Basically every adult IL citizen, is active mltry or a reserve mltry. Even Ham likely has a better mltry to civilian ratio than IL. Oh. So, at what percentage, exactly, were the Nzis officially doing gncd, in Poland, since you claim the first 30k of Poland's 3m Jws don't count? Do tell.
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  9273.  @StasCherkassky  Move, or we will off you, is ethnc cleansing, yeah. Leaving them no homes to return to is ethnc cleansing, yeah. 100+ years of declared revisionist intent to clnz all of Pal says it's ethnc cleansing, as well. Rofl ... Basically every adult IL citizen, is active mltry or a reserve mltry. Even Ham likely has a better mltry to civilian ratio than IL. Oh. So, at what percentage, exactly, were the Nzis officially doing gncd, in Poland, since you claim the first 30k of Poland's 3m Jws don't count? Do tell.
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  9274.  @StasCherkassky   Move, or be mrdrd, is ethnc clnsing, yeah. Leaving them no homes to return to is ethnc clnsing, yeah. 100+ years of declared revisionist intent to clnz all of Pal says it's ethnc clnsing, as well. Basically every adult IL citizen, is active mltry or a rsrv mltry. Even Ham likely has a better mltry to civilian ratio than IL. Oh. So, at what percentage, exactly, were the Nzis officially doing gncd, in Pol, since you claim the first 30k of Pol's 3m Jws don't count? Do tell.
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  9275.  @StasCherkassky   Move, or be mrdrd, is ethnc clnsing, yeah. Leaving no homes to return to is ethnc clnsing, yeah. 100+ years of declared revisionist intent to clnz all of Pal says it's ethnc clnsing, as well. Basically every adult IL citizen, is active duty or rsrvst. Even Ham likely has a better mlt to civilian ratio than IL. Oh. So, at what percentage, exactly, were the Nzs officially doing gncd, in Pol, since you claim the first 30k of Pol's 3m Jws don't count? Do tell.
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  9276.  @StasCherkassky  Telling people to move, or you will end them, is ethnc clnsing. Leaving no homes to return to is ethnc clnsing. 100+ years of declared revisionist intent to clnz all of Pal also says it's ethnc clnsing. Lol, basically every adult IL citizen, is active duty or rsrvst. Even Ham likely has a better mlt to civilian ratio than IL. Oh. So, at what percentage, exactly, were the Nzs officially doing gncd, in Pol, since you claim the first 30k of Pol's 3m Jws don't count? Do tell.
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  9277.  @StasCherkassky  Telling people to move, or you will end them, is ethnc clnsing. Leaving no homes to return to is ethnc clnsing. 100+ years of declared revisionist intent to clnz all of Pal also says it's ethnc clnsing.
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  9278.  @StasCherkassky  Lol, basically every adult IL citizen, is active duty or rsrvst. Even Ham likely has a better mlt to civilian ratio than IL.
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  9279.  @StasCherkassky  Oh. So, at what percentage, exactly, were the Grmns officially doing gncd, in Pol, since you claim the first 30k of Pol's 3m Jws don't count? Do tell.
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  9280.  @soren9833  That was a description of them, not a "debunking". Do you believe in one of those fairy tale gods?
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  9281.  @TheOldSchoolGamer93  The difference between Judaism, Christianity, and Islam, is that Muslims didn't simply stick a new new testament after the first two. It rewrote the whole thing, and left out many things they considered to have been inserted by man, into the first two, including a bunch of the worst laws from the OT/Tanakh. You have to get into the Hadiths, which aren't used by all (somewhat like Catholic catechisms), for it to get as nasty as the OT/Tanakh. It was actually the more tolerant, of the 3, for about 1300, of its 1600 years, until the Ottoman Empire was carved up, by Christian nations, and parts handed off to more extreme Muslims. Since then, part of the problem with being a more moderate Muslim, is that it also went with being somewhat more leftist. Christian nations, especially the UK and US, didn't like that. One, or both, supported ... a coup in Syria, when their democratically elected government voted against a pipeline ... a coup in Iran, when their democratically elected PM wanted to nationalize their oil ... a coup in Iraq, when their popular revolutionary leader, who had overthrown the Brit's puppet king, proposed nationalizing their oil ... religious extremists in Afghanistan, when Communist Muslims overthrew the Brit's puppet king, and wanted to do horrible things, like extend women's rights to all women, not just the rich. For 1300 years Jews lived amongst Muslim nations, in relative peace. They were given refuge when Christian nations offered conversion, death, or exile. The Ottomans even okayed the earliest form of Zionsim, which was closer to just immigration. Zionist fanatics returned the favor with colonialism, terrorism (Irgun and Lehi), and occupation. Similarly, to the US and UK above, Netanyahu promoted, and helped transfer money to, Hamas, to weaken the Palestinian Authority and avoid possible peace, so he could continue his colonization project, which is based on further religious nuttery. So, it's not exactly as straight forward as Islam includes the other two, so it is as bad as them, plus more. The earlier two are partly responsible for the current versions of Islam, and the nations ruled by it. Turkey is the last remnant of the Ottoman Empire, not Saudi. Women there fight to keep abortion rights, like in the US. Homosexuality there has never been illegal, because they carried over Ottoman law, which had decriminalized it before a lot of Christian nations did, or while some were still considering it a form of insanity. TL:DR ... Relationship Status: It's complicated.
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  9282.  @TheOldSchoolGamer93  I literally called the people the West helped prop up "extremists". I didn't blame them for creating extremists, but for propping up those extremists, and helping to remove their more moderate opposition.
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  9283. Likud was founded by Irgun (bombed Palestinian markets and other public places, and the King David Hotel) and Lehi (considered worse than the Irgun, also assassins, who tried to ally with the Nazis against Britain) terrorists. Not only does their, "between the sea and the Jordan there will only be Israeli sovereignty", platform promise to completely colonize and ethnically cleanse all Palestine territories ... it claims a "right" to all the "Land of Israel" (fictional biblical borders that don't mesh with archaeological reality), which is an open declaration of future wars, against Jordan, Syria, Lebanon, and possibly Iraq. Do you condemn Likud?
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  9284. Almost every president has had record high stock market peaks, during their presidencies, since the stock market began. This is kind of like bragging that no other year has been above 2020 before, except this one under Trump.
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  9285.  @JohnSmith-xq6cv  Fuck, moron. "Han Chinese" isn't a fucking colour. The proper comparison would be with Americans who are mostly of English descent, not "white". The Chinese are different from the Japanese, and the English are different from the Dutch. British Americans did not have the same experience as Irish Americans, who did not have the same experience as Italian Americans, who did not have the same experience as German Americans, who did not have the same experience as Spanish Americans, etc. Hell, you racist morons don't even consider people of Spanish decent "white" anymore. There has never been a unified "white American" culture. You're spouting bullshit. The only unifying aspects are agreeing to a democratic system, and gradually coming around to freedom from and freedom for religion, and everyone being equal under the law. White nationalists don't believe in any of that shit. Detail this supposed singular "white American" culture. Who best represents it, Californians or Texans?
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  9286.  @JohnSmith-xq6cv  Rofl. Bullshit.
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  9287.  @JohnSmith-xq6cv  What fucking "tribe"? Identify it.
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  9288. ​ @KingInternetEnjoyer  She was never scheduled, dmwt.
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  9289. No. Things would not be faster, if there were 40 extra cars on the road, per bus, driving kids to school.
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  9290. Yes. It allows for Jewish people to operate an open air WWII style fascist ghetto. They've become what they fled from.
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  9291. The Zionists were always the colonialists. They were the "hero" like the Puritans were the "hero", who fled their homelands, due to persecution, only to turn around and persecute everyone else in the New World, including colonizing and ethnically cleansing the natives.
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  9292. She literally attended the Orangeburg Preparatory Schools, which were founded for white kids only, to dodge desegregation. They didn't acknowledge admitting their first non-white student until 1989, the year she graduated ... meaning she had been considered white, the whole time. She was probably taught the fake "Lost Cause" history, at her racist schools.
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  9293. She literally attended the Orangeburg Preparatory Schools, which were founded for white kids only, to dodge desegregation. They didn't acknowledge admitting their first non-white student until 1989, the year she graduated ... meaning she had been considered white, the whole time. She was probably taught the fake "Lost Cause" history, at her r-cist schools.
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  9294. ​ @Cristian-g9v6x  Not sure if he has actually said that, more recently, but back in 2016, he promoted letting Trump win. He argued it would lead to a massive progressive wave, that would take over the house (nope), senate (nope), and presidency (nope). He also argued there was no real downside, that the moon would fall into Lake Michigan, before Trump even filled one SCOTUS seat, let alone multiple (nope). He was wrong about everything. That, and everything he has promoted since then, would benefit Republicans, more than anyone else.
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  9295. If you actually understood the first part, you should be able to understand the second part.
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  9296.  @jdelapaz14  "Russiagate" ... is that where Democrats, Republicans like Mueller and Romney, the FBI (which been run by Republicans for 6 of the last 10 presidential terms), and Australian officials, were all in cahoots to get Mike Pence made president? Lol. Russia having bot farms and sharing information with Dumpty's team is pretty straight forward. There have been hundreds of accounts of Syrian chemical weapons use since 2013. There have been dozens of no fault UN investigations, with zero dissenting opinions. There have been dozens of fault finding investigations, with zero dissenting opinions. There have been hundreds of victim witnesses. There have been dozens of healthcare worker witnesses. There have been multiple NGO witnesses, including Doctors Without Borders. There are multiple legal human rights groups investigating on behalf of victims. Two dissenting opinions on a single investigation doesn't even debunk that investigation, let alone all the others. That investigation wasn't even started until after Israel, the US, the UK, and others had already started bombing Syria. The final report didn't come out until almost a year later. Plus, it was an initial no fault investigation, that didn't even assign blame. The report wasn't used as a reason to bomb Syria. There was another chemical weapons attack just the month before, which had both a no fault investigation and a blame assigning investigation, with zero dissenting opinions, that blamed Syria. The US, and others, could just as easily use that one as some retroactive justification. Dore is the one spouting a nutty conspiracy, that all of the above are in cahoots to lie about Syrian chemical weapons use. Syria actually using chemical weapons is pretty straight forward.
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  9297.  @IAm7.O  Rofl! Who are Bush Sr and Bush Jr? And DT ended zero ME conflicts, and dropped more 🧨 on Mslms than BO.
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  9298.  @mina6959  DT ended zero conflicts. He dropped more 🧨 per year than BO. Pvtin didn't pull out of Ukrn. Pvtin didn't stop backing rbls. Pvtin continued backing Assad, whether anyone liked it, or not. He didn't care about DT. Bibi didn't stop his clnlsm and ethnc clnsng. In fact, DT supports that.
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  9299. ​ @JonathanB138  Why would progressives want Republicans in power, for the foreseeable future? Justice Dems have won 11 seats in just 7 years. Green haven't won a single seat in over 25 years. Getting progressives elected clearly works better within the Dem party.
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  9300. ​ @Frankie9553 Trump, the rapist, has been arrested 3 times. 😂
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  9301.  @Frankie9553  That you're a dimwit, rapist supporter?
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  9302.  @spaceman9599  That can be one of the larger Indian Wars, that happened now and then, and the British mandate can be colonial times under the British, and the bombing of the King David hotel, and other terrorist acts by the Irgun and Lehi, can be the war of independence from Britain.
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  9303.  @KnowledgeXYZYT  Yeah, but the Spanish and Portuguese didn't really act like poor victims of native aggression, and do the centuries long song and dance. They came in slaughtered, enslaved, and expanded fairly quickly. Europeans tended to conquer and ruled over other Europeans. Even the British in Africa and India were conquer and rule. Already made a comment about how all conquering isn't exactly the same.
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  9304. ​ @ryanhubbard1885  He wasn't in power, when he had the idea, maroon. Now that he has had the idea, why would you let him anywhere near the seat again? 2022: "A Massive Fraud of this type and magnitude allows for the termination of all rules, regulations, and articles, even those found in the Constitution,"
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  9305.  @theTeflonDon1  Lol, not even close? You Trumpets are delusional. You know it's winner gets all the state electorals, right? That's only 3 states, where he barely won. He's like 20 points behind both Biden and Bernie, this time around, in Michigan. The rust belt just barely gave him a chance to be different, and he ended up not giving a crap about the little guy, like every other Republican candidate.
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  9306.  @theTeflonDon1  Even FOX will tell you Trump is behind in Michigan. Michigan is worth 26 electoral votes. That state, alone, would be a 52 point swing. Trump desperately needs those formerly blue rust belt states, that he barely won, to stay red, or he's done. Just a few squeakers going back to blue, and it's all over.
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  9307.  @theTeflonDon1  Why do you leave off that there would be no insurance payments and no copayments, and it would cost less, overall?
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  9308.  @anthonytillman6363  Well, there's also the fact that the speaker can't even force a bill through committees, all on their own, to begin with. Pelosi introduced M4A last session, where it died in committees as 90% of bills do.
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  9309.  @anthonytillman6363  Oh, piss off. It's not a house members job to help anyone else in other districts win their seats. It's their job to represent their district. Most don't even have PACs that back other candidates. Being involved in every district nationwide, where a progressive is running isn't her job. She went beyond her job, and helped get 3 more progressives elected ... adding M4A yes votes to congress, and had also backed 17 others that lost in the primaries. Dore knobs and their ridiculous expectations from one person is the only failure. Ironic how many of you complain about people supposedly worshipping politician, while you're the ones who seem to be expecting godlike perfection, and trashing them if they don't live up.
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  9310. ​ @soultec11  The whole point of Netanyahu promoting, and helping to fund, Hamas, was to weaken the Palestinian Authority to avoid peace, so he could continue his colonization project. Hamas is giving him exactly what he wanted.
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  9311.  @soultec11  Times of Israel ... For years, Netanyahu propped up Hamas. Now it’s blown up in our faces The premier's policy of treating the terror group as a partner, at the expense of Abbas and Palestinian statehood, has resulted in wounds that will take Israel years to heal from Tal Schneider By TAL SCHNEIDER 8 October 2023, 3:58 pm "For years, the various governments led by Benjamin Netanyahu took an approach that divided power between the Gaza Strip and the West Bank — bringing Palestinian Authority President Mahmoud Abbas to his knees while making moves that propped up the Hamas terror group. The idea was to prevent Abbas — or anyone else in the Palestinian Authority’s West Bank government — from advancing toward the establishment of a Palestinian state."
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  9312.  @soultec11  Jerusalem Post ... Netanyahu: Money to Hamas part of strategy to keep Palestinians divided By LAHAV HARKOV Published: MARCH 12, 2019
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  9313.  @soultec11  WION ... Explained | How Netanyahu helped turn Hamas into his Frankenstein's monster
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  9314.  @soultec11  The Hill ... The symbiotic relationship between Netanyahu and Hamas
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  9315.  @soultec11  France 24 ... Netanyahu defends Qatari cash infusion to Gaza Jerusalem (AFP) – Issued on: 11/11/2018
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  9316.  @soultec11  NPR ... Why Israel Lets Qatar Give Millions To Hamas June 18, 2015
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  9317.  @soultec11  Maybe try googling to see if something has been widely reported, for years, before crying there's no evidence (including Bibi's own words).
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  9318.  @soultec11  I said he "helped fund" you dimwitted moron. Allowing the funds is helping.
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  9319.  @soultec11  If he didn't allow the transfer, how much money would Hamas get from Qatar, moron?
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  9320. They've been falling in line for decades. Thankfully progressives have come along who don't.
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  9321. How a virus got started is somewhat irrelevant to the response to a spreading virus. Americans died at a 3x higher rate than Canadians, because of one of the worst responses in the world, by Trump. Multiple studies have shown that that rate was higher in moronic red counties, where people opposed COVID protocols and vaccines, the most. Half the US is batshit crazy.
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  9322. @Dan Wruck The guy who had his ME embassador tell Kuwait they'd defend them, while telling Iraq they had no interest in an Iraq-Kuwait conflict? The guy who had a PR company use a Kuwaiti embassador's daughter pretend to be a nurse who witnessed Iraqis tossing babies out of incubators, to get the US into Gulf War I? Yeah, he was awesome.
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  9323. 64% of the military is childless, btw, along with the majority of everyone under 30, as well as 75% of same sex couples. Those are the people he thinks are s0ci0paths. Those are the people he thinks don't have a stake in the country. Those are the people he thinks should have less of a v0te. Etc.
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  9324. ​ @brotherlestat305  Rofl, a tiny minority of Ukraine. The political party they supported won zero seats. Meanwhile, the Donbass rebels and interim government were led by white nationalists, from Russia.
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  9325.  @Delusion_Conclusion  You seem to have incompetently "dumbed down" a non response, to the fact that, by definition, water is definitely not dry. It can't be free of moisture, when it is moisture.
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  9326.  @neon-kitty  The issue is human nature. People feel compelled to eliminate that which they have a strong dislike for. They've been doing it forever ... especially conservative religious types, who have been the majority for much of history.
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  9327.  @lonewolf115  Every country in the world, except the remaining absolute monarchies, are socialist to some degree. If sectors of your society are publicly owned and operated, then you've got some socialism in your capitalism. Everyone needs to get over the fear of a damn word, admit all our economies are mixed, and then just figure out what things we'd like to be publicly owned and operated, and what things we'd like to be privately owned and operated, without the nonsense fearmongering. David, and others, need to stop making out like using the word "socialist" is a big deal. It's just subtle fearmongering about a word, in itself.
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  9328. No, it has been a working human "hypothesis", for ten thousand plus years. You can say you don't believe the hypothesis. You can say you totally believe the hypothesis. And, you can say you believe the hypothesis is totally false.
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  9329.  @zions4785  It also affects the primaries. It would hand those primary electoral votes to his challenger. If it survives the legal challenge, and enough states did the same, Rump might not even be the Republican presidential candidate.
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  9330.  D. Nutsrtoasty  So, your "logic" is that it was because of the women? It wasn't that, because so many of the Russian men doing pushups died, that they were needed more?
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  9331.  @chrissorensen9511  How did Trump "dismantle" it, by ending zero conflicts, increasing mltry spending, and dropping more bmbs per year than Obama?
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  9332.  @chrissorensen9511  Read much? It has been in the news, that he was already pres. Why didn't he do it then?
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  9333.  @chrissorensen9511  Why deflect from DJT, who you brought up, and made a claim for? What did he do, as president, to indicate he is opposed to the MIC? He said he wanted the US mltry to be even bigger and stronger. That's literally the opposite of what you're claiming.
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  9334.  @viktormartinez1405  How the hell is not being discriminated against a "reward"? That should be the baseline.
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  9335.  @viktormartinez1405  What do you call still being able to fire someone, or deny rental property, or deny adoptions, being victims of hate crimes, being let go from the military, people pushing religious freedom to discriminate laws, etc. ... are you sure you've been out of the house?
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  9336. Exactly. Fascism/Nazism is grounded in mass hysteria. All of MAGA are insane. Completely disconnected from reality.
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  9337.  @fkboyStalin  MAGA is completely detached from reality. Fascism is based on mass hysteria.
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  9338. By "stand up to Pelosi", does that include using your platform and PAC to help get more pro-M4A progressives elected to congress, going against DCCC backed corporate Dems, exactly like AOC just did? And, exactly the same thing that will still need doing after a failed vote?
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  9339. A new non progressive replacement, that would possibly be the incumbent in 2028, isn't great for progressives.
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  9340. ​ @Carlos-xz3vi  Only Michelle Obama has numbers a lot higher than Biden. Don't think she'll run.
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  9341.  @Carlos-xz3vi  Only Michelle Obama has much better numbers than Biden. Don't think she'll run.
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  9342. ​ @CarlWheatley-wi2cl  You're blatantly lying. ALL Palestine territories are officially considered occupied by the International Court of Justice, the UN GA, the UN SC, and even in official documents of Israel's own allies.
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  9343. ...because definitions have become convoluted. Evolving doesn't always equate to better.
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  9344. China has a huge population. 20m is just under 3% of China's population at the time. About 2.5% of the US population died during the US Civil War.
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  9345. Crowder is an idiot, who thinks typos are voter fraud.
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  9346. It's not just super delegates that need to be worried about. When candidates with standard delegates drops out, they can back another candidate and hand them their delegates. Heading into the convention, corporate Dems with less delegates could drop out and hand them all to the leading corporate Dem. Bernie really needs to secure a majority to avoid multiple ways of getting screwed.
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  9347. Not voting to paralyze the house doesn't equate to voting against M4A, dimwit.
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  9348. ​ @danialhillmann5374  People not paying their workers enough are getting rich from taking their labor, dumb dumb. There is not an infinite pie. 10% of the people are taking 90% of the pie.
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  9349.  @danialhillmann5374  Inflating prices is how they get 90% of the pie, dumb dumb.
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  9350. Trump keeps bullshitting about NATO. There's a formula for how much each country pays, for purely NATO operations, and every country is paying what they're supposed to. What he keeps referring to is the percent of GDP spending those countries spend on their total military budget. Sure, the US spends 4% of their GDP on their total military budget, but a ton of that has absolutely nothing to do with NATO. Fucking about in the ME has nothing to do with NATO.
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  9351.  @A_Derpy_NINJA  You clearly don't know Dore's "argument" for promoting Trump as the better option than Clinton. He agreed Trump was worse, agreed he was a raving fascist, but claimed letting the psycho win would lead to a massive progressive backlash. He vastly overestimated the benefits, claiming it would result in progressives "for sure" taking the house in 2018 (wrong), taking the senate in 2018 (wrong), and the presidency in 2020 (wrong). He vastly underestimated the risks, claiming even Republican lawmakers would join the left in voting against a Trump agenda (wrong), and that Trump filling multiple scotus seats was as likely as the moon falling into Lake Michigan (wrong). To argue Clinton would have been worse is both completely moronic and not, at all, what Dore argued. And, Dore thinking to let him win, again, after all his predictions were wrong, and after Trump helped kill hundreds of thousands of Americans, is psychotic. Did you know there's a big world out there, beyond the US, and US government agents? Doctors across the world support the vaccine. Peru has had one of, if not the, highest uses of Ivermectin, in the world, and also has the highest covid deaths per capita rate, in the world. A large Ivermectin study was pulled from publications, when it was found to be fraudulent, with fabricated and faulty data. Why the need to fabricate results, if it works? Did you know Ivermectin is also owned by a giant pharma company? Dore goes on Tucker to rant and rave about Democrats and progressives, often agreeing with the far right arguments, and Tucker nods along. Dore has never really challenged Tucker, or his audience, about anything.
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  9352. There's no such thing as purely objective decision making. Only subjectivity makes decisions.
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  9353. 14th century? Except for a handful of localized incidents, Jews were living in Muslim nations, for 1300 years, in relative peace, while the Christians offered Jews, and Muslims, conversion, death, or exile.
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  9354. Are you idiots still blathering about a single investigation, that didn't even start before US and others bombed Syria ... and a final report, that didn't actually assign blame, and came out almost a year later ... meaning it had absolutely nothing to do with anyone's decision to bomb Syria?
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  9355.  @oliverpringle4309  And then Russia screwed around in Georgia, Moldova, and Chechnya, causing other former Soviet states to request joining NATO. Explain how NATO, expanding in 1999, provoked Russia in 1991-1998? No it doesn't. The ONHRC documents how the vast majority of deaths in Donbas occurred when Russian Nazis were taking over the region, how there have been very few deaths since, and decreasing each year. It also documents that the majority of deaths, since the occupation, have been by mines, and on the Donbas side of the minefields. So, are you good with the US meddling in Syria, and opposed to Russia giving Syria defensive assistance? Oh geezus, there have been dozens of inspections, and documentation of Assad using chemical weapons. 2 dissenting opinions, on a single inspection, doesn't even refute that inspection, let alone all the others, that had no dissenting opinions.
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  9356. On top of the colonialism, Israel was founded on Irgun and Lehi terrorism. Israel merged those terrorists into their military and intelligence agencies. Likud was founded by leaders of those terrorists. Israelis elected those terrorist leaders as PMs. Israelis , to this day, celebrate those terrorists as "heroes". They have always been a terrorist state.
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  9357.  @seanmccartney5177  Look up Irgun attacks. The Irgun leader, Menachem Begin, founded Likud.
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  9358. Republicans: It's cool, if female minors want a breast enlargement. It's not cool, if female minors want no breasts.
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  9359. Which ones don't have vaccine requirements? I'm sure they'll do a story on it.
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  9360.  @charlesandrews2360  Is that intentional irony?
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  9361. 12 deaths to 226 confirmed cases is one of the worst ratios in the world. It's a worse ratio than hundreds of people packed together on a cruise ship, with limited healthcare services. You've either got shit healthcare, or there are hundreds more Americans out in public that should be in hospitals, likely weighing costs instead of just heading to the nearest clinic or hospital at the first sign of symptoms.
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  9362. Then why the hell are Atheists here, caring if Tyson doesn't want to call himself an Atheist? Does not compute, moron. Obviously you do.
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  9363.  @helenmartin9150   You pay 10% input VAT on materials you buy, then collect output VAT on your sales. You reclaim your input VAT, right, before sending the difference to the government? The car company subtracts its input VAT on parts from its output VAT on sales, right? I'm Canadian, been paying a VAT for 30 years, operated a VAT registered business, filling out VAT returns for years. You seem to be glossing over reclaiming input VAT in your examples.
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  9364.  @helenmartin9150  "You can claim a credit for any GST included in the price you pay for things you use in your business. This is called an input tax credit, or a GST credit." https://www.ato.gov.au/business/gst/claiming-gst-credits/when-you-can-claim-a-gst-credit/
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  9365.  @NewNormalWorldOrder  Theft: 1a: the act of stealing specifically : the felonious taking and removing of personal property with intent to deprive the rightful owner of it b: an unlawful taking (as by embezzlement or burglary) of property Taxes are neither "felonious" nor "unlawful".
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  9366.  @NewNormalWorldOrder  Nothing you said changes the fact that taxes are not "felonious" or "unlawful". In fact, all you seemed to do was show you don't know what "kidnap" means, either. It actually takes a government, or enforceable social agreement, to have property rights, at all. Otherwise anyone can just claim anything they want. So ...
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  9367.  @NewNormalWorldOrder  Actually, I was just stating facts, and didn't give an opinion. Reading comprehension doesn't seem to be your strong suit. You don't seem to make much sense. You're anti-government, but you're also worried about property rights. Anarcho-capitalism doesn't have a government, but it also doesn't have a social agreement. People can claim whatever they want. Anarcho-socialism has a social agreement, but that agreement would be that everybody owns everything, meaning no individual owns any real property, outside personal items. Which only leaves governments to give you property rights, and protect those rights with laws.
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  9368. Stop bullshitting. You don't care about others having healthcare. In 2016, you promoted Trump as a better option, not caring if that might lead to the repeal of the ACA and millions losing their healthcare, including people with preexisting conditions. During the 2020 primaries, you promoted Tulsi ("Medicare choice" aka public option) instead of Bernie (M4A), not caring about getting the better healthcare plan, and not caring that you might peel away enough votes from the more viable progressive and let Biden win. You spent the general basically running an attack ad campaign against Trump's only viable opponent, again not caring if that would lead to the ACA being completely repealed, not caring if he killed thousands of more Americans, and no longer advocated for getting even a public option, or the Medicare age decrease that would put millions more on Medicare. Plus, you're promoting yet another third party that won't even get you a seat in congress in the next 50 years, let alone get you M4A, and could just split progressive voting enough to lose the gains they've made within the Dem party, handing it back to corporate Dems, and let Republicans rule for decades, possibly destroying the healthcare system even more. If anyone is a "fake", "shill", "sellout", or whatnot, it's clearly you, Jimmy. AOC backed Bernie over Biden, Biden over Trump, and just helped get more pro-M4A progressives elected to congress. Adding more yes votes to congress is the only thing that will ever get M4A passed, failed show vote or no failed show vote.
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  9369. ​ @X7Excalibur  You seriously want to use a "nobody wants them" argument, when Jewish people are involved in the equation, and make out like that's the fault of the unwanted? Jordan has 3m Palestinians, btw. There are hundreds of thousands more, in other neighboring countries. Turkey had over 3m Syrian refugees. How about maybe stop making ME refugees? How many people did the Irgun and Lehi assassinate? Likud's bloody 100 year history ... In 1923, 100 years ago, Ze'ev Jabotinsky wrote, The Iron Wall, and a follow up, The Ethics of The Iron Wall (sooo racist towards Africans), in which he fully acknowledged that post Balfour Zionsim was colonialism, and that, based on the entirety of history, the native Palestinian population would resist being colonized until the bitter end. He directly compared it to the colonization of North America. He promoted doing it anyway, claiming Zionist colonialism was a "just" colonialism (he also thought North American colonialists were good guys, so not a great judge of morality), not caring what that meant for the native population. Ze'ev is important, because his Betar militant youth group helped found the Irgun terrorist group, along with other supporters of his, and the splinter Lehi terrorist group. The Irgun bombed numerous Palestinian markets and other public places, murdering many Palestinian civilians, including children, even including Palestinian Jews (who didn't support colonialist Zionsim). The Irgun are important, because they ended up being led by future Likud PM, Menachem Begin, who bombed the King David Hotel. The King David Hotel was bombed because the British had raided the Jewish Agency and seized numerous documents that may have shown that the terrorists were working with the JA and Haganah (JA liked to pretend that they didn't support the terrorism). The British then stored those documents at their base, in the hotel. That the Irgun terrorists responded to a JA raid, itself seems to prove the connection. That the thousands of Irgun (and Lehi) terrorists were also quickly merged into the new nation's military (IDF) and intelligence (Mossad) agencies, and are still celebrated as "heroes" by Israelis, to this day, also seems to support total collaboration between the groups. That other terrorist group mentioned, Lehi (also known as the Stern Gang), was considered even more extreme. They even tried to ally with the Nazis, against the British. Lehi ended up being led by Yitzhak Shamir, future Mossad agent, and another future Likud PM. They assassinated Lord Moyne, and others. In 1945, there was a major land and peoples survey done in Palestine. It showed that the Zionists only owned about 5% of the total land, 20% of the arable land, and owned a majority in zero districts. The partition was not only going to be forced on the native Palestinian majority, but Jews were still going to be a minority, in the part allocated to them. The only possible way to even become a "Jewish state" was going to require getting rid of the actual majority (at least enough so that there'd be a solid Jewish majority, so they could fake being democratic). This is also shown by the 1948, post Nakba, population of Israel. If there was 716,700 Jews, 156,000+ non-Jews, and approximately 700k non-Jews ethnically cleansed, that means the Jewish population, in the Zionist portion of partition, was originally over 100,000 less than the non-Jewish population. To believe that there was never any intent, by Zionists, to ethnically cleanse away the Palestinian majority would require believing that they never intended to create a "Jewish state". It's a nonsensical notion. Begin, and those terrorist groups, also opposed partition, but for the opposite reason Palestinians did. Palestinians didn't want to be colonized, at all. The terrorists wanted to colonize it all. "Moderate" Zionists were okay with colonizing half ... for now (what would happen in the future, after partition, was up to them, said Ben-Gurion). The Zionist terrorists were also involved in massacres, and assassinations, during the partition violence (colonialist war against the natives). Another notable future Likud PM, also started in the military, during the partition fighting. That was Ariel Sharon, war criminal, "Butcher of Beirut". Menachem Begin, and these other Zionist terrorists, are important because they became involved in Israeli politics, first forming Herut. That was the party that Albert Einstein, and other prominent American Jews, opposed, having a letter printed in the NYT, in December of 1948, when Begin came to visit the US. The letter opened ... "Among the most disturbing political phenomena of our times is the emergence in the newly created state of Israel of the "Freedom Party" (Tnuat Haherut), a political party closely akin in its organization, methods, political philosophy and social appeal to the Nazi and Fascist parties. It was formed out of the membership and following of the former Irgun Zvai Leumi, a terrorist, right-wing, chauvinist organization in Palestine." Herut merged with other extremist parties, over the years, and eventually became Likud, in the 70s. Now, people get upset over the slogan "From the river to the sea!", but it's the second part that's most important, "Palestine will be free!". Because "Palestine" isn't defined as an ethno-state, a free Palestine can be a single state, free for all to live in, and return to, free of continuing colonization, free of occupation, free of oppression, etc. Just like a Germany free of Nazism, an Italy free of fascism, a South Africa free of apartheid, or an America free of slavery from sea to shiny sea. It doesn't necessitate purging all the Jews. It just necessitates them giving up on the idea of an ethno-state. On the other hand, because "Israel" has been defined as an ethno-state, Likud's, "between the sea and the Jordan there will only be Israeli sovereignty", has no possible good interpretation. It is a declaration of intent to completely colonize, and ethnically cleanse, all Palestine territories. Not only that, but it also claims that they have a "right" to all of the "Land of Israel" (biblical borders that don't mesh with archaeological reality), which is an open declaration of future wars, against Jordan, Syria, Lebanon, and possibly even Iraq. Likud platform ... 1977: "The Right of the Jewish People to the Land of Israel (Eretz Israel) a. The right of the Jewish people to the land of Israel is eternal and indisputable and is linked with the right to security and peace; therefore, Judea and Samaria will not be handed to any foreign administration; between the Sea and the Jordan there will only be Israeli sovereignty. b. A plan which relinquishes parts of western Eretz Israel, undermines our right to the country, unavoidably leads to the establishment of a "Palestinian State," jeopardizes the security of the Jewish population, endangers the existence of the State of Israel. and frustrates any prospect of peace." "Settlement Settlement. both urban and rural. in all parts of the Land of Israel is the focal point of the Zionist effort to redeem the country, to maintain vital security areas and serves as a reservoir of strength and inspiration for the renewal of the pioneering spirit. The Likud government will call on the younger generation in Israel and the dispersions to settle and help every group and individual in the task of inhabiting and cultivating the wasteland, while taking care not to dispossess anyone." 1999: "The Government of Israel flatly rejects the establishment of a Palestinian Arab state west of the Jordan river. The Palestinians can run their lives freely in the framework of self-rule, but not as an independent and sovereign state. Thus, for example, in matters of foreign affairs, security, immigration, and ecology, their activity shall be limited in accordance with imperatives of Israel's existence, security and national needs." "The Jewish communities in Judea, Samaria, and Gaza are the realization of Zionist values. Settlement of the land is a clear expression of the unassailable right of the Jewish people to the Land of Israel and constitutes an important asset in the defense of the vital interests of the State of Israel. The Likud will continue to strengthen and develop these communities and will prevent their uprooting." All Palestine territories are officially considered occupied, by the International Court of Justice, the UN GA, the UN SC, and even in official documents of Israel's own allies. Likud is still using the blueprint for colonizing North America, in the West Bank. Move settlements out into native territory, piss off the natives, the natives retaliate, cry about poor "innocent" colonizing settlers being the "victims" of violent "Savages!", call in the cavalry to put down the native uprising, and eventually expand the borders to include those settlements. Rinse and repeat. In Gaza, Israel is operating an open air WWII style fascist ghetto. Them claiming a "right to defend themselves" would be like the Nazis claiming a "right to defend themselves " from the Warsaw ghetto uprising. There's no "war". That they're the occupiers means the "war" part is long over. Those people are actually supposed to be under the occupier's protection. That partition was forced upon the Palestinian majority, against their will ... that the Zionist portion still had to be forcefully ethnically cleansed of its non-Jewish majority, against their will ... that the millions of occupied Palestinians don't have a say in the government that truly rules over them, Israel's ... means Israel is about as democratic as Nazi Germany after Hitler purged his political opponents and then held elections.
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  9370. Didn't FOX already quietly admit there was no evidence in those documents? https://www.foxnews.com/politics/hunter-biden-tony-bobulinski-joe-biden-unanswered-questions
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  9371. Terrible, that she'd be forced to wear an article of clothing in public. So oppressive.
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  9372.  @playertwo1516  Not calling it clothing won't change the fact that, it is indeed clothing.
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  9373. A Trump supporting black guy, who commentates on BlazeTV and Conservative Review.
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  9374.  @halfbrain3694  The 32k people that agree with him don't count?
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  9375. @Aaron Burr You go back to school and learn to read, as well, moron.
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  9376.  @halfbrain3694  I didn't pay attention, at all, so you, and the Twitter guy, must both be more libtard than me.
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  9377. Likud definitely is. It was founded by Menachem Begin, Irgun terrorist leader, who bombed the King David Hotel. Their "between the sea and the Jordan there will only be Israeli sovereignty" platform promises the complete colonization and ethnic cleansing of all Palestine territories. Hamas is just a poor man's Likud ... but on the opposite side of colonialism.
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  9378. Give it a rest, racist. Jews weren't to blame for what Nazis did to them. Africans weren't to blame for what European colonizers did to them. Native Americans weren't to blame for what European colonizers did to them. Eurasia wasn't to blame for what Mongols did to them. Etc. Etc. Etc. And, Palestinians aren't to blame for what Zionists are doing to them. Any people can become the oppressor or the oppressed. It's not just one people.
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  9379.  @methuselahbenyah6745  "Just asking questions."🙄
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  9380.  @methuselahbenyah6745  Ah, you're dumb, as well.
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  9381.  @methuselahbenyah6745  You ... "Just asking questions (also known as JAQing off, or as emojis: "🤔🤔🤔") is a way of attempting to make wild accusations acceptable (and hopefully not legally actionable) by framing them as questions rather than statements."
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  9382.  @methuselahbenyah6745  JAQing off - the act of spouting accusations while cowardly hiding behind the claim of "just asking questions."
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  9383.  @methuselahbenyah6745  There are decades of German, and other European, anti-Jewish rhetoric documented. Hitler wrote a f*cking book, full of his psychotic rantings. Nazi propaganda is well documented. It has all been well studied, and talked about. Your "question" is itself a lie, on top of being cowardly.
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  9384.  @darrenallen8215  No, they don't, dumb dumb. Motor vehicle traffic deaths Number of deaths: 45,404 Deaths per 100,000 population: 13.7 Source: National Vital Statistics System – Mortality Data (2021) via CDC WONDER All firearm deaths Number of deaths: 48,830 Deaths per 100,000 population: 14.7 Source: National Vital Statistics System – Mortality Data (2021) via CDC WONDER And, like I said, that's with tons of vehicles constantly being used, unlike guns. Guns are, by far, the more dangerous item, and yet less regulated.
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  9385.  @Aj-zr8dz  They aren't "well understood" by the "messenger". He has outright claimed it's impossible for McCarthy to win, calling anyone who says differently a "liar".
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  9386.  @Aj-zr8dz  Do you mean build coalitions by doing things like having your progressive PAC help get more progressives elected to congress, or do you mean build coalitions by calling other progressives "fakes", "sellouts", and "shills" over a tactics disagreement? Ideas from discussions? AOC reaches 10m people (40x more than Jimmy) with every tweet, not to mention other social media. Her enemies even help spread her ideas all the time. Jimmy "trending" one thing, that barely anyone outside progressive circles is talking about, that has mostly just caused infighting, doesn't even compare. His retweets are mostly in the hundreds, and not over 2k. She had a single M4A tweet retweeted 70 fucking thousand times. That's worth more than 35 of Jimmy's few most shared tweets. What the ... ? People Party pusher, Jimmy Dore, pitted himself against progressives in congress. In 2016, he also pushed the Green Party, even pushed Trump over Clinton. He obviously doesn't actually give a fuck about winning anytime soon. He's obviously fully prepared to start from scratch, and even willing to let a "maniacal fascist", and a psycho fascist cult, run the show, and let the Democrat party fail, for however many years it would take for a third party to even get one seat in congress, let alone enough seats to pass any of their own bills. And, yes, he pointed at how much popularity Bernie gained in a little amount of time, and tried arguing Stein could possibly do it too, and maybe even become president. https://amp.reddit.com/r/jillstein/comments/4vwr6p/jimmy_dore_president_jill_stein_its_more_possible/ Trump has dropped more bombs than Obama, and Dubya killed more people than both of them combined. Who are these worse neolibs you speak of? You say I'm misrepresenting him, etc., over and over, but don't really get into detailing how, exactly. It's funny, though, reading a Dore fan go on about "character assassination", while defending Dore. Yeah, so let's trash the most progressive politicians in congress!!! That'll show those oligarchs!!!
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  9387.  @Aj-zr8dz  You must not have made it through that short video. Do you have ADD or something? "Maybe Jill could win" "Maybe Jill will win" Hell, I'm not even sure you made it through the title. Rofl, I haven't eaten anything. How does that make them "worse" than the Republicans doing the same, dumb dumb? "Worse" indicates doing more damage, and it's generally the commander in chief deciding what damage to do. Which have been "worse"?
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  9388.  @Aj-zr8dz  The only thing he made fun of, in that video, was mocking people saying she didn't have a chance, dumbass.
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  9389.  @Aj-zr8dz  Which "way more" wars and refugee crises?
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  9390.  @Aj-zr8dz  Lol, my only tears are from laughing at your nonsense and how much you can twist yourself into a pretzel.
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  9391.  @Aj-zr8dz  Yeah, Trump and Bush aren't libs of any kind. US intervention, and the refugee crises started in Yemen, Somalia, Phillipines, Iraq, Afghanistan, and Pakistan, before Obama. And, although Obama was responsible for the deaths of far too many people, himself, there's no indication there would have been a Syrian civil war, for him to get involved with, or a rise of ISIS, which started under Bush, if the region hadn't been destabalized by Bush. https://watson.brown.edu/costsofwar/files/cow/imce/papers/2020/Displacement_Vine%20et%20al_Costs%20of%20War%202020%2009%2008.pdf
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  9392.  @Aj-zr8dz  And I, literally, listed Syria as starting under Obama. Don't know why you're rambling on about it. Seriously, you know that, even amongst fascists, one can be worse than another, right? Hitler was worse than Mussolini, by miles. They weren't samesies. Sure, the US has been dancing near the edge of lake fascism for decades, but you have to be fucking insane to think being at the water's edge, even dipping a toe in, isn't worse by far, than being a little further away on the beach. You didn't actually provide an example of neolibs getting away with more crimes against humanity, killing more people, or anything of the sort. A bunch of the stuff you listed for Obama started under Bush. You can't even show they're just as bad, or worse, when it comes to foreign policy, let alone national policy. I don't know why you're even trying. Jimmy, himself, called Trump a "maniacal fascist". That's what he argued would be better for progressives than a neolib ... exactly because the "maniacal fascist" is worse. The idiot thought it would be a great idea to put a "maniacal fascist" in charge, to drive people left. He thought even the less fascist Republicans would jump on board and join the left to work against the "maniacal fascist". No. Didn't happen. Jimmy's 2016 "plan", if anyone followed it, turned Republicans even more fascist, caused a rise in hate crimes, caused a rise in right wing terrorism, caused stupid trade wars, caused multiple scotus seats to be filled, caused an incompetent covid response killing tens of thousands of fellow Americans, etc. If Dore convinced absolutely anyone in a 2016 swing state to vote Trump, to vote Stein, or even to not vote, then he is partly responsible for all that ... plus, dropping more bombs abroad. For someone who did their best to help bring all that about, to act like they are the fucking King of progressives, and call anyone not agreeing with him "fakes", "sellouts", and "shills", is bullshit. He doesn't really know how politics works. As I said, he doesn't even grasp that corporate Dems being more willing to lose to Republicans than work with progressives, is actually an argument against his own plan. His plan partly hinges on corporate Dems rather working with progressives than losing to Republicans. It partly hinges on them not propagandizing a paralyzed house against progressives, and the whole thing turning out worse for progressives. It partly hinges on a totally unknown amount of outrage ... what if there is hardly any, except amongst progressives? And sustained outrage, 2 years from now ... what if it does off? He's doing his best to trash the credibility of progressive politicians, who have done far more than him, all over a tactics disagreement, and a plan that isn't a completely risk free slam dunk.
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  9393. Kyrsten Sinema used to be a Green party candidate. It's delusional to think they're going to be perfect, or that they'll win even a single seat in the next century.
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  9394. Not having a criminal record would be a win. Proving the election was stolen, with all your amazing evidence (if there actually was any) would be a win. Proving malicious prosecution, grounds for a major lawsuit, would be a win. She was simply guilty, ffs.
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  9395.  @kidxclusive  Yeah, all the Confederate flag wavers, all the Confederate monument "protectors", all the white supremacists, these days, are always out at unite the left, and Democrat rallies.
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  9396.  @wasdwasdedsf  Oh, do tell.
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  9397. Jimmy doesn't seem to have many actual progressive viewers. He "inspired" what, some 40k people to sign a FTV petition?
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  9398.  @TylerMcConnell  😂 Dumpty committed crimes for all to see. 60+ court cases tossed, because there wasn't even enough evidence to start a trial. But, MAGA all whine anyway, about not getting a day in court, but ... Every single insurrectionist court case, was a chance for an army of Republican lawyers to swoop in, provide evidence the election was rigged, and that those people were the ones trying to save democracy. Nothing but a bunch of guilty verdicts. Every single voting machine defamation case, a chance for an army of Republican lawyers to swoop in, provide the evidence the machines were rigged, and that those people weren't lying. Nothing, even FOX, with their own army of lawyers, simply coughed up hundreds of millions of dollars. Every single RICO defendant case, a chance for an army of Republican lawyers to swoop in, provide all the evidence that the election was rigged, and that all these people were the ones trying to save democracy. Nothing but people flipping, pleading guilty, or trying to dodge finally getting the big day in court, as long as possible.
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  9399.  @hairlessape5107  Hrrrm, don't see a country called East Germany listed as joining NATO. They did join West Germany, which was already a member.
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  9400.  @hairlessape5107  You do understand that united Germany holds the NATO and UN seats of what was West Germany, right? And, that Germany reunited before the official collapse of the USSR?
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  9401. There are 420k commercial freight trucks in Canada. The math says that these dimwits represent less than 1% of truckers.
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  9402. ​@velvet1865 Hindutva isn't Hinduism any more than Zionism is Judaism. The founder of Hindutva was a Nazi fan.
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  9403.  @DavidWilliams-by2ne  Hindu =/= Hindutva. Gandhi was Hindu, the Hindutva assassinated him.
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  9404. @President Houseplant Who is Wikipedia smearing, with their lergely sourced, and debated, content?
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  9405. I don't think anyone is really laughing at simply a man crying. It's specifically Peterson, who promotes traditional masculinity (which has always included that men shouldn't show certain emotions) as non toxic, crying. If it's not toxic, to expect a man not to cry, then what's the problem? If it is, then Peterson is wrong.
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  9406.  @chesterlestrange7725  "Masculinity isn't toxic" ~ Peterson Are you going to rewrite history, and try to claim traditional masculinity didn't promote that men should suppress certain emotions? Or, except the fact that traditional masculinity has been toxic?
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  9407.  @boredpotato2291  How the hell is being reliable and responsible, masculine?
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  9408.  @boredpotato2291  Provide for who? An unreliable and irresponsible wife?
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  9409.  @chesterlestrange7725  Explain the problem with men not seeking the help they need ... the stigma around men and mental health. There are numerous papers written about it, that ties it to a traditional masculinity issue. Peterson seems to be crying about the issue's existence, but then argues the cause of the issue doesn't exist.
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  9410.  @boredpotato2291  Right, so reliability and responsibility aren't masculine or feminine.
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  9411.  @boredpotato2291  Then don't use generic terms. Be specific. So, what is he saying, that it's masculine to have a job?
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  9412.  @chesterlestrange7725  The history of men not seeking mental and physical healthcare, is all women's fault? 🙄
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  9413. There's a difference between Dore's claimed positions and what he actually does. He promoted Trump as the better option in 2016, which could only benefit Trump. He clearly didn't care if 10m of the poorest Americans were thrown off Medicaid expansion, and didn't care to try and add 40m older Americans to Medicare expansion. He vastly overestimated the benefits, claiming it would leads to progressives "for sure" taking the house (wrong) and senate (wrong), in 2018, and the presidency (wrong), in 2020. He vastly underestimated the risks, claiming Republicans would join the left and vote against a Trump agenda rather than follow him into all out fascism (wrong), and he claimed Trump filling multiple scotus seats was as likely as the moon falling into Lake Michigan (wrong). All of that only benefited the far right. During the 2020 primaries, he backed Tulsi over Bernie, which didn't benefit the most progressive candidate and didn't benefit M4A. During the 2020 general, he ran a constant attack ad campaign against Trump's only remaining viable opponent, which could only benefit Trump, the far right. AOC, meanwhile, campaigned for Bernie, and backed 20 other pro-M4A progressives with her platform and PAC. She helped add a few more M4A yes votes to congress, as did the Justice Dems. Adding enough yes votes is the only possible way to ever pass the bill. Because they didn't support his half baked plan to get a 100% guaranteed to fail performance art vote, Dore slandered people who have done more for M4A in a few years than he has in his entire lifetime. That is of no benefit to progressives and benefits the far right. After spending weeks slandering people over a disagreement over a secondary tactic, making out like they aren't allies, he turns around and promotes far right ancap Boogaloos, who basically disagree on all economics, are the complete economic opposites to socialists, as potential allies, because they agree on a few anti-authoritarian issues. And, I have to say, for someone his age to be shocked and amazed that ancappers agree on some anti-authoritarian issues with ansocs, means he is a complete ignoramus. That only benefits the far right, and is how you wind up on the wrong end of a Night of the Long Knives. He doesn't simply go on Tucker. He largely agrees with Tucker, and doesn't challenge him. That only benefits Tucker and the far right. AOC and Bernie were just campaigning for Nina, promoting M4A, trying hard to add another M4A yes vote to congress. Dore abandoned Nina, abandoned adding another M4A yes vote to congress, and slandered AOC and Bernie with a video stating they both abandoned M4A. In fact, it was Dore and M4A marchers that abandoned Nina, who was having rallies with AOC, both promoting M4A, that same day. Abandoning Nina, and abandoning adding more votes to congress, is of no benefit to progressives. After weeks of making out like just getting a vote on an important progressive policy would be great, making out like getting a list of no voters on an important progressive policy would be great ... progressives got the $15 to stay in for a round of voting, it passed the house (M4A didn't have a chance in hell) and also got a senate vote ... Dore and his knobs turn around and make out like a vote and list of no voters is useless, and just keep bitchimg about, and slandering, those who got it to stay in for a round of voting, and who voted for it. He, and his knobs, proved they're nothing but a bunch of pathetic useless hypocrites, that are of no benefit to progressives. The 30 year old broader progressive caucus is about 10 seats away from becoming the majority of house Dems. The 4 year old Justice Dems have replaced about a dozen corporate Dems. AOC, who has been at it 2 years, helped replace a few more corporate Dems. Dore promotes a third party route that hasn't won the most popular third party a single seat in congress in its near 50 year existence, that hasn't won the most popular progressive third party a single seat in congress in its 20 year existence. Zero seats, zero bills introduced, zero amendments, and zero votes on even a single bill, for what? For some fantasy that a third party candidate, like Kyrsten Sinema was, is going to be perfectly perfect and incorruptible? And, there's more. Dore is a joke.
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  9414. Dore and Greenwald ... Them ranting about "free speech" is ridiculous. There's no such thing as "free speech" on someone else's private property. You don't have a right to be on their private property, to begin with, so you never had a right to be on their private property spewing whatever you want. Glenn whining about "free speech" and editors asking for editorial rewrites (literally part of the job of editors, since the dawn of publishing) is outright moronic. If Dore was an actual leftist, he should be using the absence of free speech on social media to promote public ownership, instead of just agreeing with Tucker over the poor treatment of Trump (incitement isn't even protected speech in a public forum, but Dore didn't argue Trump did anything wrong). Dlore and Mate ... Aaron is being an idiot. There have been hundreds of accounts of Syrian chemical weapons use since 2012. There have been dozens of UN investigations, that didn't assign blame, that had zero dissenting opinions. There have been dozens of follow up, blame assigning, investigations, that assigned blame to Syria, that had zero dissenting opinions. There have been hundreds of victim witnesses, dozens of healthcare worker witnesses, multiple NGO witnesses, independent investigations, legal human rights groups investigating on behalf of victims, etc. In 2018, alone, there was a chemical weapon attack, just the month before the one Aaron whines about. It had an investigation, that didn't assign blame, with zero dissenting opinions. It had a follow up, blame assigning investigation, that assigned blame to Syria, with zero dissenting opinions. Then there's the investigation Aaron is going on about ... Israel, the US, the UK, and France, had all started bombing before inspectors even made it to the sites. The final report, which didn't assign blame, wasn't released until almost a year later. The report had absolutely nothing to do with anyone's decision to bomb Syria, and 2 dissenting opinions doesn't even debunk that single investigation, let alone all the previous chemical weapons uses, including the one just the month before, that could have been used as grounds for war crimes violations. Aaron's Syrian "scandal" is much ado about nothing. They're all loons.
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  9415. Why do you think that's a reason to ban him? His method for paying for UBI, with a VAT, doesn't make corporations pay into the UBI.
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  9416.  @passyourielts  The formula for companies is ... X = output VAT (VAT you've collected) Y = input VAT (VAT you've paid) X - Y = Z If Z is greater than 0, you keep Y, paying yourself back, and send Z to the government. If Z is less than 0, you keep Y, and the government refunds you Z, paying you back. If I've bought $1000 in software for company use, and paid $100 input VAT, I still subtract that $100 from my collected output VAT.
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  9417.  @passyourielts  The issue with not having corporations pay into the UBI then becomes the fact that they only get the benefits of it being spent. $3t a year in extra spending would make a company like Amazon extra tens of billions a year, which would, in turn, make Bezos extra billions a year. Amazon would still pay nothing in taxes, and Bezos would happily pay a few million in VAT on personal items, if he's making extra billions. Money would actually be flowing to the richest of the rich faster than ever before.
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  9418.  @passyourielts  Well, Yang compares his plan to Alaska, but Alaska has the oil companies paying the people. If it goes back to those corporations, then it's just going back to where it came from. The VAT would have consumers paying other consumers, and then the money flowing to corporations that never paid in.
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  9419.  @passyourielts  Jeff's rockets are also paid for through a corporation, which would end up not paying VAT. He could buy a brand new $1b yacht, every single year, pay $100m in VAT, and still be billions ahead.
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  9420.  @rafaelzaaz5262  I think you misunderstood. He was talking about buying software for company use, not for resale, and the company being the final consumer for that item. They still get to pay themselves back for any input VAT they've paid on operation costs. You're watching no YouTube "how VAT works" that I've ever seen. The ones that come up, for me, clearly outline that businesses get to reclaim their input VAT. I'm Canadian. I've been paying a VAT for 30 years, and owned my own VAT registered business. If you're regularly paying more input VAT than you're collecting in output VAT, then your business is failing.
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  9421.  @rafaelzaaz5262  Or maybe your business is spending too much on non business related goods and services. Do you use the company bank account like it's your own? Spain: "A taxpayer may recover input tax, which is VAT charged on goods and services supplied for business purposes. A taxpayer generally recovers input tax by deducting it from output tax, which is VAT charged on supplies made. Input tax may be deducted in the accounting period in which the output VAT was charged or in any successive period, up to a period of four years from the time of supply." https://www.taxexpense.com/spain-taxes/spain-vat-gst-sales-tax/
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  9422. I'm sure plenty of fetuses would be eligible for SNAP, if they're considered people.
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  9423. ​ @FM-ln2sb  How would letting Trump/Reps win be the better option? Trump supports Israel, has called for a pledge of allegiance to Israel for immigrants, has stated he wants to reinstate and expand his Muslim ban, would let Russia do to Ukraine what Israel is doing to Palestine, Reps pass laws legalizing running over protesters, Trump has wanted to categorize protesters (BLM) as terrorists, etc. There's no election quick fix. Even if you magically elected a third party candidate, there's so much Israel support in congress, that they can pass whatever Israel aid they want, and have the numbers to override any presidential veto. It's going to take continued public pressure, to xhange things, and Dems are more responsive to public pressure.
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  9424. We have 3x fewer deaths per capita, ffs. The government helped businesses out so much, we had a 30 year low in bankruptcies. Conservatives are opposed to those things?
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  9425.  @jnagarya519  <- Wow, another moron who missed the point.
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  9426. ​ @SupremeCorine  There are Christian Palestinians. Israel blew up an Orthodox Church. There were also native Palestinian Jews, who also opposed Zionism. They were targeted, alongside their Palestinian brothers and sisters, by Zionist terrorist groups, like the Irgun and Lehi.
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  9427. ​ @nisa3695  Israel is objectively the aggressor, by every relevant measure... Modern history: 100 years ago, in 1923, Ze'ev Jabotinsky fully acknowledged that Zionism is colonialism, and that, based on the entirety of history, the natives would fight it until the bitter end. He just didn't care what would happen to them, and promoted doing it anyway. Colonizers are never not the aggressors. On top of the colonialist nature of Zionism, the Zionists also formed terrorist organizations, like the Irgun and Lehi. They bombed many Palestinian markets and other public places, murdering many civilians, including children, even including Palestinian Jews (who opposed Zionism). Israel merged those terrorists into the new nation's military and intelligence agencies. Israelis elected Menachem Begin, leader of the Irgun, child murderer, Jew murderer, and bomber of the King David Hotel, as PM. Israelis, to this day, celebrate those terrorists as "heroes". Zionists literally taught their neighbours that terrorism is a valid path to independence and statehood, and that terrorists are to be celebrated. In 1945, it is well documented that Zionists owned just 5% of the land and were a majority nowhere. Israel was formed by actually going against the majority population. It's foundation is completely undemocratic. Then, becoming a majority, in "their" new nation, by ethnic cleansing the actual majority, and then claiming to be democratic, is utter nonsense. Law: Israel is considered an occupier by the International Court, the UN GA, and the UN SC. Occupiers are also never not the aggressors. Those occupied actually have a right to resist occupation. On the flip side, it is illegal for the occupier to settle occupied lands, and illegal to use collective punishment. Israel is a rogue nation, that doesn't abide by international law. What it has been doing, and is doing now, is illegal. Current events: This year, alone, prior to Oct 7 ... Israel held over 1200 Palestinian hostages without charges ... over 200 Palestinians had been killed by the IDF and settlers ... over 1000 Palestinians had been displaced by Israel's neverending colonization of the West Bank ... and, Israel continued to operate an open air WWII style fascist ghetto. Even ignoring modern history and law, in no reality did Hamas "start" anything.
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  9428.  Dragon1717  "America"? As in North America, Central America, South America, the Americas? The Confederates declared themselves to be a new country, in the Americas. The US celebrates winning a war of independence from its former government. Why not celebrate winning a war of independence from the other side?
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  9429.  Dragon1717  The French Revolution, over its own people, is celebrated.
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  9430.  Dragon1717  They outright declared themselves to be the other side ... a separate nation. You're arguing against historical facts.
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  9431.  Dragon1717  P.S. Canada is big part of North America. You talked as if the US was North America.
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  9432.  @TheJackjack  Do you know that the earliest Christians didn't consider Jesus to be God? The Roman Catholics force converted, exiled, or killed them.
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  9433.  @republica13  Israel is bombing fish in a barrel, like the Nazis flattening the Warsaw ghetto. That's not a "war".
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  9434. ​​ @A-ds1mt  Allowing Israel to say they're at "war" only benefits them, and implies there is an enemy army. They are simply slaughtering people that are officially under their protection. Nazis didn't live inside the Warsaw ghetto.
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  9435.  @j0j0dartiste21  Yeah, both Hitler and early Zionists, like Ze'ev Jabotinsky, referenced the colonization of North America, giving their own manifest destiny arguments.
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  9436.  @conradveigt5995  I was explaining, which you didn't grasp, that there wasn't a contradiction where you claimed there was. If a country can be both diverse and have slavery, be both diverse and have segregation, then that's 200+ years of evidence that a country can be both diverse and racist. Which means you blathering about diversity is completely irrelevant to whether the country is racist, because the two aren't mutually exclusive.
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  9437.  @conradveigt5995  Rofl. The US isn't "the" country that ended slavery, and wasn't even the first. And, unlike in many other countries, it took a Civil War to end slavery, because of the large percentage of racists devoted to it. That was then followed by 100 years of segregation after, dumb dumb, 100 years of evidence that simply ending slavery didn't equate to ending racism. You still have zero clue what a "contradiction" is.
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  9438.  @conradveigt5995  Are you under some delusion that I mentioned Columbus? You blathered about a whole bunch of stuff that is completely irrelevant to anything I said. Amongst your irrelevant blathering, you seem to have ignored that it was Columbus himself that described island natives as welcoming, kind, peaceful, beautiful, etc. ... and then noted that they'd be easy to conquer. You also seem to ignore that there's no actual evidence of widespread cannibalism, and that genocide as a "remedy" for some ceremonial human sacrifices now and then is nonsensical.
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  9439.  @conradveigt5995  Nothing you're blathering about will fix your bullshit notion that diverse means no racism. Slavery didn't even survive English law in Britain proper. Slavery was banned in France proper, hundreds of years earlier. Those are actual countries. Georgia is not. The US was not a leader in abolition.
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  9440.  @conradveigt5995  You sure do like putting in extra effort, typing "His Fraudulency" in front of every "Biden", just to prove your stupid and insane.
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  9441.  @town_biznessman380  The senate is already a minority body that isn't very representative of Americans as a whole. Having a minority within a minority even having the ability to block bills, any which way, isn't ideal.
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  9442. Should be, but apparently they get to break international law for decades.
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  9443.  @geoffreypayne2866  Didn't you mean to say, whatabout?
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  9444.  @sondorp  You're talking peanuts. The main funding was current taxes, that Yang himself argued the super rich and giant corporations already don't pay, which was going to fund about 1/3. The VAT was going to fund about 1/3. And it was going to start with 1/3 in deficit. Shove the rest of your cult talking points, that don't address anything I said.
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  9445.  @sondorp  Nothing you're saying addresses what I said. The failure of right wing "trickle down" is that it actually trickles up, which is exactly what would end up happening, if giant corporations don't pay into the UBI. Even Yang's words say giant corporations should be paying for it. Everytime he compared his dividend to the Alaskan dividend, which is entirely paid for by corporations, he was saying giant corporations should be paying for it. You're arguing against Yang's own words. His problem was that a VAT doesn't do that. He even linked to a pass through rate on his VAT page, that he either didn't grasp or lied about, which actually showed that consumers were paying the entire VAT. Especially in his heavily automated future, you can't have ever increasing numbers of unemployed consumers paying for the UBI. It's the corporations with the robots that need to give money to the public, to buy crap back from them. If you just keep feeding money into automated corporations, that doesn't make it back to the public, that's unsustainable.
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  9446.  @kylequest  Do you have reading comprehension problems? I specifically said people making hundreds of thousands. Based on a basic household budget, people wouldn't start paying more in VAT than they receive in UBI, until about a $400k/yr income. It's you that clearly doesn't understand economics. If you funnel extra tens of billions to Amazon a year, then you increase Bezos' wealth by billions a year. He could buy a brand new $500m yacht, every single year, pay $50m in VAT, and still be billions ahead.
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  9447.  @kylequest  Yep, it is. You likely need to learn the difference between the lesser rich, who get paid high salaries, salaries that won't immediately jump with increased spending, who pay income tax, and whose wealth a VAT would eat into ... vs ... the super rich, who live on stocks and options, barely pay any income tax, whose wealth will immediately jump with increased spending, and who wouldn't ever pay more in VAT than they'd make from the UBI being spent.
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  9448. @Jash Shah They were insane enough to try and strip Democratoc voters of their votes and have an unelected dictator.
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  9449. @Jash Shah He (the head of government) fired, or threatened to fire, people who contradicted him. He does not believe in freedom of speech. He ignored the courts, and tried to overthrow the election anyway. He does not accept legal judgements.
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  9450. No, they just think their viewers are morons, and they are correct.
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  9451.  @TheHunter2199  This wave surpassed every month of 2017 and 2018, back in September. There was also a larger spike in border crossings in 2019, than this one.
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  9452.  @Palau_Legend  Why are you a fan? Do you have any examples of him saying something intelligent?
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  9453.  @Palau_Legend  In context, I'm looking for something intelligent enough to be worthy of fandom. Not that he was intelligent enough to point out that a blue ball was blue.
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  9454.  @Palau_Legend  Isn't he an ideologue to his religion, though? He's extremely religious. Adhering so strongly to those beliefs will put him on one side of an argument about a lot of things. Do you think he's actually open to having those beliefs challenged? He didn't seem up for it, here.
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  9455. Agnostic described the underlying shared concept quite nicely. Changing Athe-ism to A-theism has only blurred the definitions of both, took away the one word label for Athe-ists, changed the definition of Agnostic, and left no label for the lack of belief to the proposition "God does not exist".
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  9456.  @jdogdarkness  Again with the reading comprehension problems.
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  9457.  @jdogdarkness  Stop sighing, and learn to read.
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  9458.  @jdogdarkness  I addressed what you stated. If you think something was irrelevant, then why did YOU bring it up? Plus, I commented on the South China Sea, and YOU completely ignored it. You have severe comprehension problems.
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  9459. The math isn't the same, on the left end of the party. There are zero extra out of party votes in the neighborhood of the squad, and zero extra votes to the left of them. There are some 40 extra Republicans with ideology voting scores similar to the 20 most right wing Dems in the house, and then there is the entire rest of the Republican party to the right of them. There are more votes to be lost, or gained, to the right.
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  9460.  @kevinstfort  Not good at math?
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  9461.  @kevinstfort  Not if the bill is amended to the right, and picks up enough Republican votes to pass. That was the point, dimwit. There's no way to move a bill further left, if you lose the right wing party members, but there is a way to move a bill further right, and not need left wing members.
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  9462.  Juanito G  The US?
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  9463. 😂 You have things backwards, dumb dumb. Multiple studies have now shown lower death rates in counties with higher vaccination rates.
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  9464. The "business creators" often seem to forget where their money comes from ... consumers, the vast majority of which are workers.
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  9465. Trump wanted an election night call, not a December states certified call. He was looking for an AP call himself.
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  9466. ​ @Knight-Bishop  You can also let those people know that there were 8 Confederates, with no official charges or convictions, who challenged their ineligibility in court, and lost. There were also thousands of more intelligent Confederates, with no official charges or convictions, who clearly knew they were ineligible without going to court, that sent in letters petitioning for amnesty. Plenty of evidence against the moronic claim that being charged and convicted is required.
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  9467.  @Ivan-qf4mt  And the British don't do colonialism? If it's under the control of possibly the biggest colonialist nation in history, what they're doing is magically not colonialism?
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  9468. Freedom of religion is progressive. That opposes any of the ones who want to force their religious laws on others, while also saying they're free to practice their religion, which doesn't mean free to do anything that violates secular laws. Broad brushing, and demonizing, everyone of a particular religion isn't very progressive.
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  9469.  @X7Excalibur  Did I say a theocracy was progressive? Do they have freedom of religion? No and no. The West carved up a more moderate Muslim empire, and handed bits of it to religious extremists. They've backed coups against more moderate, and more democratic, Muslim governments and politicians, who happened to also lean a bit to the left economically (nationalizing oil, voting against a pipeline, or whatnot). They backed religious extremists to take over Afghanistan. They've backed theocratic Saudi as it has spread its ultra-conservative brand of Islam around the world. Then they turn around and bitch and whine about Muslims being too extreme or conservative, and go blow up hundreds of thousands of them. It's insane. And, someone like Harris is an apologist for US interventions, and blames it all on the religion. He's an idiot. He has sounded like an ISIS leader, claiming there is a one true version of Islam, and those who don't follow that aren't "real" Muslims. Turkey is the last remnant of the Ottoman Empire, not Saudi. Homosexuality has always been legal in Turkey, because it was made legal in the Ottoman Empire, at a time when many Western nations still considered it illegal, or considered it a mental disorder. European women travelling in the Ottoman Empire had reported that they thought women there had more rights than in Europe. Today, women in Turkey protest against similar stuff as American women, when conservatives are in power. Of all the Abrahamic religions, Islam allowed for freedom of religion, first. They also used to be leaders in math and science. The west has helped many Muslim nations go backwards, rather than forwards. In some cases, helped them become worse than ever before. That's partly why there are Muslims who aren't "normal" 2021 people. And, no, that's not blaming the west for creating extremists, from scratch. But, if you install extremists, support extremists, support the spread of extremism, remove moderates, suppress moderates, etc., then you've helped create a more extremist environment.
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  9470.  @X7Excalibur  Technically, Turkey is a secular state, like the US is technically a secular state. Doesn't stop religious conservatives from being elected in either. US Republicans would love a Christian Erdogan. Millions of them are still hoping for the democratic process to be overturned and for an unelected Dumpty to become ruler. Do they count as "normal" 2021 people?
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  9471.  @t-swizzle8102  The guy was an idiot. Drone strikes have dropped to almost nothing, and you Dore knobs are still whining. So contrarian, that you can't see any improvements. Everything is black and white, all or nothing.
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  9472. Those dates don't line up with anything remotely the same.
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  9473.  @bartjargengarblbargeler1980  No, you're a Dore knob.
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  9474.  @area51sea  Have you considered international travel rates? Have you considered that they're already dying younger, on average, so there's less older people (the median age is 18, compared to Europe's 42)? Have you considered that there's less obesity, diabetes, and cardiovascular disease? You should compare actually comparable countries, dumb dumb. The US had a 2.5x higher death rate than neighboring Canada (where people followed protocols better, and are vaccinated at higher rates). Or comparable counties ... moronic MAGA counties (where people were less likely to follow protocols or get vaccinated) had higher death rates than Biden counties.
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  9475. AOC "cozied up" by helping to replace a few more corporate Dems in the last election, and has just been "cozying up" on the ground trying to get Nina elected over a corporate Dem.
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  9476.  @bradleyjohnson6107  Pretty sure the corporate Dems were the ones putting everything they had into beating Nina, Dore knob.
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  9477. Republicans don't get that it doesn't matter how much domestic oil is produced. Their previous hero, Reagan, deregulated domestic oil back in 1981. It sells at the global market value. There has been no such thing as cheaper domestic oil, for decades. The global price dropped in 2015, before Dumpty, and dipped again in 2020, due to COVID. Had absolutely nothing to do with Trumpty Dumpty.
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  9478. ROFL. Stop believing you know me, because you're just proving yourself a fool. I don't give two craps about theist accusations. The world is not a neutral place. All words are not neutral. Creating a non-neutral word to mean something, is not against any freakin linguistic rules. Using original definitions of words, by the people who created them, is not "misinformed", unless that has been redefined. Yes, I'm an asshole. The new definition of asshole is someone who beat you in a debate, btw.
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  9479.  @Helltown66  That's not a burka, moron.
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  9480.  @franklopez2702  What kind of bullshit are you spouting? Christian Brazil is currently the most dangerous place on the planet to be gay. Christians and Animists in the same regions of Africa also practice FGM. And, it's hardly practiced anywhere outside of Africa. Kurds are the worst for it, outside Africa, but most right wingers seem to love them, for some reason. Right wingers are also the ones who have supported Saudi financially and militarily, as they've spread their ultra-conservative brand of Wahhabism around. They're also the ones who overthrew multiple more liberal Muslim governments, in favour of dictators and religious extremists. Shove your bullshit back up your ass and into your brain.
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  9481. ​ @onomatopoeia162003  Yeah, Nixon was bad. Nixon actually started gathering all the nuts into one basket, when he was running in California. He was using Red Scare tactics, calling his opponent "Pink Lady". He also somehow convinced Reagan, an FDR supporting Dem and union leader, to flip and stop supporting her, putting him on the road to insanity.
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  9482.  @theboss4359  Why lie? She started calling for ceasefire immediately, and hasn't stopped. AOC and two fellow NY progressives back formal plea for ceasefire in Gaza Oct 16, 2023 AOC leads Democrats urging Biden to call for Gaza ceasefire over ... Nov 15, 2023 AOC blasts Biden admin for blocking UN Gaza cease-fire resolution Dec 11, 2023 AOC says no one should be 'tossed out of public discourse' for accusing Israel ... Jan 29, 2024 AOC Urges Biden to Call for a Ceasefire at the State of the Union Feb 29, 2024 AOC decries 'unfolding genocide' in Gaza, urges halting weapons to Israel Mar 22, 2024 Historic Number of Democratic Reps Vote Against Unconditional Aid to ... Apr 20, 2024 Ocasio-Cortez Supports Doral Mayor's 'Very Important' Ceasefire Resolution May 15, 2024
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  9483.  @theboss4359  Why lie? She started calling for ceasefire immediately, and hasn't stopped. AOC and two fellow NY progressives back formal plea for ceasefire in Gaza Oct 16, 2023 AOC leads Democrats urging Biden to call for Gaza ceasefire over ... Nov 15, 2023 AOC blasts Biden admin for blocking UN Gaza cease-fire resolution Dec 11, 2023 AOC says no one should be 'tossed out of public discourse' for accusing Israel ... Jan 29, 2024 AOC Urges Biden to Call for a Ceasefire at the State of the Union Feb 29, 2024 AOC decries 'unfolding genocide' in Gaza, urges halting weapons to Israel Mar 22, 2024 Historic Number of Democratic Reps Vote Against Unconditional Aid to ... Apr 20, 2024 Ocasio-Cortez Supports Doral Mayor's 'Very Important' Ceasefire Resolution May 15, 2024
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  9484.  @theboss4359  Why lie? She started calling for ceasefire immediately, and hasn't stopped. AOC and two fellow NY progressives back formal plea for ceasefire in Gaza Oct 16, 2023 AOC leads Democrats urging Biden to call for Gaza ceasefire over ... Nov 15, 2023 AOC blasts Biden admin for blocking UN Gaza cease-fire resolution Dec 11, 2023 AOC says no one should be 'tossed out of public discourse' for accusing IL ... Jan 29, 2024 AOC Urges Biden to Call for a Ceasefire at the State of the Union Feb 29, 2024 AOC decries 'unfolding gncide' in Gaza, urges halting weapons to IL Mar 22, 2024 Historic Number of Democratic Reps Vote Against Unconditional Aid to ... Apr 20, 2024 Ocasio-Cortez Supports Doral Mayor's 'Very Important' Ceasefire Resolution May 15, 2024
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  9485.  @theboss4359   Why so dishonest? She started calling for ceasefire immediately, and hasn't stopped. AOC and two fellow NY progressives back formal plea for ceasefire in Gaza Oct 16, 2023 AOC leads Democrats urging Biden to call for Gaza ceasefire over ... Nov 15, 2023 AOC blasts Biden admin for blocking UN Gaza cease-fire resolution Dec 11, 2023 AOC says no one should be 'tossed out of public discourse' for accusing IL ... Jan 29, 2024 AOC Urges Biden to Call for a Ceasefire at the State of the Union Feb 29, 2024 AOC decries 'unfolding gncide' in Gaza, urges halting weapons to IL Mar 22, 2024 Historic Number of Democratic Reps Vote Against Unconditional Aid to ... Apr 20, 2024 Ocasio-Cortez Supports Doral Mayor's 'Very Important' Ceasefire Resolution May 15, 2024
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  9486.  @theboss4359  She started calling for ceasefire immediately, and hasn't stopped. AOC and two fellow NY progressives back formal plea for ceasefire in Gz Oct 16, 2023 AOC leads Democrats urging Biden to call for Gz ceasefire over ... Nov 15, 2023 AOC blasts Biden admin for blocking UN Gz cease-fire resolution Dec 11, 2023 AOC says no one should be 'tossed out of public discourse' for accusing IL ... Jan 29, 2024 AOC Urges Biden to Call for a Ceasefire at the State of the Union Feb 29, 2024 AOC decries 'unfolding gncide' in Gz, urges halting weapons to IL Mar 22, 2024 Historic Number of Democratic Reps Vote Against Unconditional Aid to ... Apr 20, 2024 Ocasio-Cortez Supports Doral Mayor's 'Very Important' Ceasefire Resolution May 15, 2024
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  9487.  @theboss4359  She started calling for ceasefire immediately, and hasn't stopped. AOC and two fellow NY progressives back formal plea for ceasefire in Gz Oct 16, 2023 AOC leads Democrats urging Biden to call for Gz ceasefire over ... Nov 15, 2023 AOC blsts Biden admin for blocking UN Gz cease-fire resolution Dec 11, 2023 AOC says no one should be 'tossed out of public discourse' for accusing IL ... Jan 29, 2024 AOC Urges Biden to Call for a Ceasefire at the State of the Union Feb 29, 2024 AOC decries 'unfolding gncide' in Gz, urges halting weapons to IL Mar 22, 2024 Historic Number of Democratic Reps Vote Against Unconditional Aid to ... Apr 20, 2024 Ocasio-Cortez Supports Doral Mayor's 'Very Important' Ceasefire Resolution May 15, 2024
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  9488.  @theboss4359    "rather than pushing for an end to g-word" Soooo, continuously calling for a ceasefire, for 7 months, isn't doing that? Her, and others, putting forward bills, and writing letters to the man, isn't doing that? Seems like you're expecting the impossible, or calling it nothing. If you think a third party can win, you're delusional. If you think Trump is better, you're insane.
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  9489.  @theboss4359  "rather than pushing for an end to g-word" Soooo, continuously calling for a ceasefire ... an end to the g-word ... for 7 months, isn't doing that? Her, and others, putting forward bills, and writing letters to the man, isn't doing that? Seems like you're expecting the impossible. If you think a third party can win, you're living in a fantasy. If you think Trump is better, likewise.
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  9490.  @kennybachman35  Ummm, that would be because those are the English words, not the Hebrew words, Ibhri and Yisrael. Old English Israel, "the Jewish people, the Hebrew nation," from Latin Israel, from Greek, from Hebrew yisra'el "he that striveth with God" late Old English, from Old French Ebreu, from Latin Hebraeus, from Greek Hebraios, from Aramaic (Semitic) 'ebhrai, corresponding to Hebrew 'ibhri "an Israelite."
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  9491.  @greenith  Rofl. The countries you're thinking of have higher minimum wages or higher unionization effectively raising minimum wages, higher marginal tax rates, and numerous other methods to make corporations and the rich pay in. Pretty sure it's not a regressive consumption tax that's the main cause of lowering inequality. I'm also pretty sure none have what I just said would cause the increased inequality, which wasn't the VAT. If you make Amazon an extra $60+b a year, by not having them pay into the dividend, then that would make Bezos an extra $6+b a year, as 10+% owner. He could buy a brand new $1b yacht, every single year, paying $100m in VAT, and still be in the plus $5.9+b a year ... on top of the ridiculous amounts he's already making. Meh, only extremely small businesses are exempt from requiring to register and charge a VAT. They also can't reclaim their input VAT, if they don't choose to register. If you're a dog walker, who doesn't have to buy supplies, you can keep your prices down. If you're selling crafts, and constantly buying supplies, you might be better off registering or including in your price anyway. Again, it's really not the businesses choosing to pass the tax along. That is what the VAT itself is designed to do. It is effectively a sales tax. Do you fully grasp that? You don't seem to.
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  9492.  @greenith  A wealth tax is irrelevant to the conversation. I didn't say Bezos would be buying stuff with Amazon funds. As a shareholder, his shares would increase in value along with sales, increasing his personal net worth. The super rich then live on lines of credit (that don't count as taxable income) taken out against their stocks. His net worth would increase billions extra a year, increasing inequality. Your comparison is nonsense. Income tax is a direct tax. A VAT is an indirect tax. An income tax is outright trying to tax you on your income. If the tax was eliminated, I wouldn't get paid less, and I personally would get to keep more money. A VAT isn't even attempting to tax the business. It's outright trying to tax the final consumer. If the VAT was eliminated, it wouldn't need to be added to the final price, and it would be the consumer who gets to keep more money, not the business.
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  9493.  @greenith  "paid to the revenue authorities by the seller of the goods, who is the "taxable person", but it is actually paid by the buyer to the seller as part of the price. It is thus an indirect tax." https://ec.europa.eu/taxation_customs/business/vat/what-is-vat_en
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  9494.  @greenith  Because it's not the VAT alone that I said would increase sales and inequality. It's the $3t dividend being spent, that a VAT wouldn't have businesses paying into. Giant corporations would get the benefit of the dividend being spent, without having to pay into it. Bezos would then make billions extra a year, far more than he'd ever personally pay into a VAT. You're arguing against the EU taxation and customs union, representing 28 countries, outright telling you that a VAT is an indirect tax, that it isn't a cost on businesses, exactly to avoid double taxation (Which would be fucking worse! It's not something to be arguing for.). A tax collector getting fined for not collecting and turning over taxes paid by someone else doesn't magically make them the tax payer. And, your attempt to try and turn a direct income tax into an indirect tax on the employer is nonsensical. You might as well argue the employer is indirectly paying for the employee's rent, groceries ... everything. Oh, but then consumers are paying the employer ... it's a double indirect tax on consumers! Oh, but then employers are paying the consumers ... it's a triple indirect tax on employers! That's an infinite regression argument. Who the tax is intending to tax is what makes it direct or indirect. An income tax is intending to tax the income holder. A VAT is intending to tax consumers, just as a sales tax intends to do.
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  9495.  @greenith  Holy shit. You have severe reading comprehension problems, there's no way you have experience with the business end of a VAT ... maybe not even basic math ... and you're arguing against reality like a cultist. Those are just facts. The evidence is above.
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  9496.  @greenith  Those are just facts. "Defending" by making up bullshit and arguing against reality isn't an actual defense.
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  9497.  @greenith  BS to me? No. BS, period ... objectively and factually false. Using the infinite loop of money circulation to make complete bullshit redefinitions of direct and indirect taxation ... the complete opposite of objective reality. Using bullshit math, to make it look like a business would pay taxes, even if you stuck to the VAT formula, when it was just you failing at basic math. Repeatedly implying a VAT is a cost on businesses being passed along, which is complete bullshit ... the complete opposite of objective reality. Making bullshit strawman arguments, due to reading comprehension problems (Seriously, I made a seperate point, in its own post, about the result of businesses not paying into the VAT, when combined with the dividend, leading to inequality and more than repaying the super rich for any of their personal VAT purchases. Not once, but twice after that, did I have to restate that it wasn't the VAT, alone, that I said would cause inequality). I've probably forgot some.
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  9498.  @greenith  God exists! Prove me wrong! Prove your own "facts". Good luck with that, because giant corporations are already operating in countries with a VAT, match any and all national or EU wide changes to the VAT, and continue increasing profits. As for your other bullshit ... already been debunked. You just can't read worth a shit.
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  9499.  @greenith  See, you even failed to comprehend me saying I already addressed your bs, as well as failing to comprehend the first time they were addressed, or even more than once.
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  9500.  @greenith  6 of my posts ago, dumbass ... re: a tax collector. Now you're a lying twat, as well.
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  9501.  @greenith  Lying twat. Learn to read.
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  9502.  @greenith  Or learn to write. A business doesn't pay their employee's income tax, dumbass.
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  9503.  @greenith  Objective fact: "It is not a charge on businesses." Objective fact: "It is thus an indirect tax." https://ec.europa.eu/taxation_customs/business/vat/what-is-vat_en Dance through all the ridiculous or irrelevant hoops you want. Those are the facts.
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  9504.  @greenith  Nope, already addressed your infinite regression bullshit argument, dumbass.
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  9505.  @greenith  Rofl, whether I'm for or against this tax or that tax is irrelevant to the facts, that you can't seem to grasp, or are going out of your way to dance around. It really cracked me up when you called reality "ideology", while arguing against it like a devout cultist. You don't simply have a different "opinion", dumbass, and this was never about "opinion". Yang is, objectively, bad at VAT math, just as you are. And yes, I will start calling people dumbasses, when they prove themselves to be dumbasses. You are, objectively, a dumbass. Objective facts (not subjective opinions) that haven't changed due to your irrelevant deflections or outright bullshit: by intentional design a VAT is not attempting to be a tax on businesses; a VAT is outright trying not to be a tax on businesses to avoid double taxation; a VAT is therefore not a cost on businesses being passed along; a VAT is instead a sales tax on the final consumer only collected in stages; by definition a VAT is an indirect tax; VAT pass through rate studies also show a 100% pass through on standard rated goods and services proving businesses aren't voluntarily eating the tax by keeping prices down; meaning anyone promoting a tax that's designed to NOT tax businesses as a way to tax businesses is completely clueless or completely dishonest (or a mixture, I guess, as you've proved to be both). Last fun fact, for you: All the government links I provided, that you can't grasp, and argued against reality with, were purely for your benefit. I've already had a ton of experience with a VAT, and learned all about it long ago. I'm Canadian. I was already an adult when the VAT/GST was introduced 30 years ago. I witnessed the effects of it being implemented. I also operated a VAT registered business and filled out VAT returns for years. You, ignoring links to educate yourself on the VAT, and pretending like you could educate me on it was priceless. Thanks for the laughs.
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  9506.  @greenith  This isn't "opinion", dumb dumb ... -$200 (input VAT paid) + $200 (VAT credited back) = $0 (total taxes business paid) You have a loose grasp on reality, when you're calling math "opinion".
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  9507.  @greenith  Rofl. Did your ADD kick in before reading that I wrote the websites were for you? I know what I'm talking about. Giant corporations are already matching every national or EU wide changes in VAT. Apple had record profits after EU wide VAT changes that raised their prices. They don't care. Plenty of sales tax studies show consumption goes up just before a sales tax is going to be implemented or raised, goes down just after, and then returns to normal within months. If consumption is normal and the pass through on standard rated goods is 100%, then you're spouting pure nonsense. Being required by law to charge and collect a tax from someone else, and turn it over to the government, is not at all the same as being required by law to pay a tax yourself. Stop being such a dishonest twat. Businesses collecting sales taxes aren't the ones actually paying the tax. I thought you were done?
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  9508.  @greenith  You haven't actually shown anything. I showed you that the ones in charge of EU VAT law telling you that it's NOT a cost on businesses. I showed you the ones in charge of EU VAT laws telling you it's an indirect tax. I showed you the ones in charge of Australian VAT laws telling you businesses get their input VAT credited back. I showed you the ones in charge of Canadian and Singapore VAT laws laying out the business VAT formula that ends up charging businesses zero in taxes. I'm against dishonest, clueless, idiots, spouting nonsense.
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  9509.  @greenith  Me: Giant corporations are matching any VAT changes and still increasing in profits. Sales tax studies show that, after an increase and decrease, consumption returns to normal, and pass through rate studies show 100% pass through on standard rated goods and services. You: You didn't address my point!!!!! You're such a lying twat.
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  9510.  @greenith  Because he doesn't simply say that. He claimed a VAT would force corporations to pay their fair share in taxes; claimed a VAT would have them paying you for your data, to show you ads, and for automating your job away; claimed businesses would carry most of the tax burden; and constantly compared his dividend to the Alaskan dividend (which is paid to Alaskans by corporations) ... all of which are pure bullshit. No, dumb dumb. All it would take is for someone who's already getting $1000+ a month in benefits he didn't have stacking with UBI to get zero benefit or even be worse off, with his plan. Also, somewhat irrelevant to businesses not paying VAT, and therefore not paying into the dividend, only getting the benefits of it being spent.
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  9511.  @greenith  If you're outright lying, it's simply a statement of fact. Do you know what "no better" means? And, while he does nothing to improve those people's lives, his douchebag billionaire buddy, Elon Musk, who only declares $1 a year in income, will make extra millions or billions. Rofl! In an effort to include an excuse for Yang, that he doesn't include on his VAT page himself, you're now arguing against what you were just arguing.
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  9512.  @greenith  If you combine it with a dividend their corporations don't pay into, then you're making them extra billions a year more than they'd ever personally pay into a VAT.
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  9513.  @greenith  I'm not against UBI, in general. Never said I was. I'm against a stupid way to pay for UBI, that doesn't have corporations paying into the dividend, resulting in them, and their owners, only getting the benefit of it being spent. The top 3000 US corporations are already hoarding $2.7t. If you're going to have a UBI, in the US, that's what should pay for it, getting the money circulating again, instead of speeding up the flow of money to the hoard. It's the millionaires and billionaires who get paid in stocks, who would still be gaming the system, if you don't have their businesses paying a large share of the dividend. I'm just using math. Amazon's share of consumer spending is 2.3% and growing. $3t in increased consumer spending would make them an extra $60+b a year. Walmart's share of US consumer spending is 2.8%. They'd make almost $85b extra a year. The stuff you mention would be in the other 95% of spending.
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  9514.  @greenith  A wealth tax doesn't tax corporations either. Personally, I think giant corporations have proven they'll do anything and everything to avoid paying taxes, and also proven they're good at it. I'd give them the win, ditch taxing them, and charge them shares to operate in the country. Make it progressive ... 35% shares for $100b+ corporations, 30% for $10b+, 25% for $1b+, 20% for $100m+, 15% for $10m+, 10% for $1m+.
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  9515. And yet, it was the Irgun and Lehi terrorist founders of Likud, that attacked British troops and assassinated British officials. Likud still celebrates those terrorist enemies of Britain as "heroes", to this day.
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  9516.  @turtlecat0262  That's what I was going to say. He has peeps working for him.
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  9517. ​ @peterroberts4415  Likud's platform not only claims a right to all of Palestine, it claims a right to parts of Jordan, Syria, and Lebanon. There will be no peace, even if you hand it all to the colonizing, ethnic cleansing, occupying, aggressor.
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  9518. There needs to be a belief, for knowledge. Someone who believes the proposition is false, and that they can prove it, is still 3. belief, knowledge.
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  9519.  @Angelalynx999  How does promoting letting Republicans win, promoting not voting for the most progressive candidates, fighting against the M4A candidate, fighting against socialised healthcare, etc., make you left of TYT?
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  9520.  @Angelalynx999  TYT and other progressives were actually trying to add another M4A yes vote to congress, in Nina Turner. Adding yes votes is the thing that actually moves you closer to ever being able to pass it. A 100% guaranteed to fail performance art vote doesn't get you any closer to passing it. Dore publicly abandoning Nina Turner, promoting not voting for her, or any other progressive Dem ever again, also doesn't get you any closer to passing it. You know that grifters claim to be selling you something beneficial, but are actually selling you something completely useless, or even harmful, right?
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  9521.  @Angelalynx999  Only morons don't know that a bill has to have a chance of passing, to expose fakers. If they know full well that it doesn't have a chance in hell of passing, they can vote for it. You pathetic good for nothing Dore knobs proved ftv was pure bullshit, with the $15. It got a vote, actually passed the house and also got a senate vote, but you lot just keep bitching about those who voted for it. Actually helping to add yes votes is what real progressives do. Fake ones sit on the sidelines in some irrelevant third party.
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  9522. ​ @garetroth5683  Rofl. Dore is a grifter. Why do you morons think it's deranged to be against grifters?
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  9523. Not quite the same. Jimmy's plan involves paralyzing the house, that could backfire, not simply blocking a single bill.
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  9524.  @stevenshumate3430  Didn't I just say that? How would that paralyze the senate, like blocking a speaker election would paralyze the house? The house wouldn't be able to function, at all, without a speaker elected.
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  9525.  @stevenshumate3430  Pelosi not giving you the vote, and you following through on your threat.
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  9526.  @stevenshumate3430  Bernie's threat only blocks a single bill.
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  9527.  @stevenshumate3430  McConnell blocking Democrat bills that come from the house, looks good in the eyes of Republicans. Corporate Dems could use progressives paralyzing the house to blame them for no new covid relief, and not being able to pass anything in the platform that other Democrats just voted for, making them look bad in the eyes of other Democrats, and Republicans. Jimmy has also argued that corporate Dems would rather work with Republicans than progressives. That's actually an argument against his own plan, not for it. If true, Pelosi could make a quiet deal with Republicans, in exchange for enough of them abstaining, or being absent, to lower the threshold needed to win, dodging the house being paralyzed, and making progressives look stupid.
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  9528. Yes, there are specifics, that are going to change, depending on who you're discussing religion with. But, there is a general "supernatural forces" theme that we can infer, when discussing overall whether we're Atheist, Agnostic, Theist, or whatever.
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  9529. Really, now you're denying strong Atheists even exist? There are plenty, just here on Youtube.
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  9530. ​ @bartdoo5757  Strange how the states with the least regulation tend to have the highest firearm mortality rates. Strange how the criminals in all the other developed countries, with tougher gun laws, can't seem to get guns as easily.
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  9531. @Ed17908 48% of Brazilians identify as white. Brazil is almost half the South American population. Might not be a majority, but it is definitely "a large percentage".
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  9532. @Ed17908 Again, I said "a large percentage", not the majority. A quarter of the population of South America (counting only one country) is "a large percentage".
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  9533. ​ @irepairofpc31familykartrac51  The world didn't begin on Oct 7, dumb dumb.
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  9534.  @ChrisJohnston-v3n  Nazis didn't live inside the Warsaw ghetto, dimwit. Colonized and occupied aren't exactly the same thing. Israel controls the borders, airspace, ports, electricity, water, almost everything that goes in and out, and Bibi even controls the flow of money from Qatar. ALL Palestine territories are considered occupied by every international body that's qualified to judge it so.
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  9535. Doesn't matter if they were confused, or not. If someone who doesn't know me calls me an "asshole", and throws me in with all other real "assholes", I don't then say, "Yes, I'm an asshole...btw, here is the new definition of asshole.", I say "I'm not that. I'm such and such, instead.", which is what Huxley did, and not what more modern A-theists did.
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  9536.  @tindobranic4791  Poorly run cities? What about poorly run states? Red states tend to have higher homicide and firearm mortality rates. https://www.cdc.gov/nchs/pressroom/sosmap/homicide_mortality/homicide.htm https://www.cdc.gov/nchs/pressroom/sosmap/firearm_mortality/firearm.htm They tend to have shittier education rankings. https://www.thebalance.com/state-ranking-by-education-4589755 They tend to have higher poverty rates and leech off of blue states. https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/List_of_U.S._states_and_territories_by_poverty_rate https://wallethub.com/edu/states-most-least-dependent-on-the-federal-government/2700/
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  9537.  @user-ii9kh4ux3o  Have any studies claiming ivermectin is effective against covid passed peer review?
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  9538. ​ @nickthompson1812  You identity as Nick, but what if everyone just calls you Prick?
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  9539.  @truthache8560  Blah, blah. Both parties, exact same rules. You're the one trying to dance around that fact. Also, Biden said she'd be his VP again, all the way back in Jan 2022. Anyone who didn't know they were voting for her as his backup, would have to be a maroon, like you. Over 500k preventable American dths, was better? That's a pretty disgusting thing to say. Ironic, considering the fact that DT's businesses have routinely failed, while she was actually quite successful as a prosecutor. Just being a friend of someone rich isn't the issue, dmwt. The issue was that they were laughing at the concept of Musk firing people for even thinking about striking or unionizing. That was a potential president, letting all the big business owners know he's on their side, and opposed to labor laws.
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  9540.  @jackaljade  Nope. I literally said they become unassigned and can vote for who they want. Seems you just have severe reading comprehension issues then.
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  9541.  @jackaljade  I didn't ask how they arrived at the convention, dingus. I asked how Ford became the nominee. Did they redo the primaries, so he could earn enough delegates by √0t€rs, or ... were enough delegates, that he didn't earn through primaries, simply convinced to switch to him? Again, JB announced that Kamala was his running mate before any primaries. Anyone who didn't know they were √0tiπg for both, was a maroon.
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  9542.  @jackaljade  If you don't know that a VP is the backup, then you're about as sharp as a spoon. It's literally in their job description, dingus. Nope. You still haven't answered how Ford got the nomination. You just can't bring yourself to acknowledge the fact that enough delegates (delegates that he didn't win in the primaries) were convinced to switch to him. That's how a contested convention works, when nobody has enough delegates to become the nominee, after the primaries. The delegates become free to back whoever they want. Both parties, same rules. JB dropped out, and his delegates were up for grabs. Marianne, and anyone else who wanted to jump in the race for that matter, had a chance to convince 300 delegates to back them, before the deadline. Marianne, and nobody else, did that. Kamala did.
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  9543.  @jackaljade   Whoever doesn't know that a VP is the backup, is about as sharp as a spoon. It's literally in the job description. Nope. You never answered how Ford got the nomination. You just can't bring yourself to acknowledge the fact that enough delegates (delegates that he didn't win in the primaries) were convinced to switch to him. That's how a contested convention works, when nobody has enough delegates to automatically become the nominee after the primaries. The delegates become free to back whoever they want. Both parties, same rules. JB dropped out, and his delegates were up for grabs. Marianne, and anyone else who wanted to jump in the race for that matter, had a chance to convince 300 delegates to back them, before the deadline. Marianne, and nobody else, did that. KH did.
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  9544.  @jackaljade   Whoever doesn't know that a VP is the P backup, is about as sharp as a spoon. It's literally in the job description. Nope. Never answered how Ford got the nomination. Just can't bring yourself to acknowledge the fact that enough delegates (delegates that he didn't win in the primaries) were convinced to switch to him. That's how a contested convention works, when nobody has enough delegates to automatically become the nominee after the primaries. The delegates become free to back whoever they want. They could have picked someone totally different than either of them, if they had wanted. Both parties, same rules. JB quit, and his delegates were up for grabs. MW, and anyone else who wanted to jump in the race for that matter, had a chance to convince 300 delegates to back them, before the deadline. Nobody else, did that. KH did.
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  9545. It was less about blood, and more to do with keeping money and property in the family.
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  9546.  MidScream1  Rofl. You're using "regressive" wrong, moron.
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  9547. Dunno about that. US loyalists came to redcoat Canada and Canada is more progressive than the US. The UK is also more progressive. You're founding fathers rebelled because they didn't want to pay a tax. Sounds right wing.
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  9548.  @Critical-Thinker895  Well, the topic was Obama, and the person I replied to seemed to be saying that he was responsible for the housing bubble and bailout that were handed to him by Bush. Did Jimmy Carter hand those things to him, and all the presidents in between?
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  9549. In 1923, Ze'ev Jabotinsky fully acknowledged that Zionism is colonialism. He also predicted, based on the entirety of history, that the natives would fight it until the bitter end. He just didn't care what would happen to them and thought it was a great idea, and "moral" colonialism. Colonizers are never not the aggressors when it comes to the native population. On top of the colonialism, the Zionists formed terrorist groups, like the Irgun and Lehi, who bombed many Palestinian markets, as well as other public places, killing many Palestinian civilians, including children, even including Palestinian Jews (who didn't support Zionism). Israel merged those terrorists into the new nation's military and intelligence agencies. Israelis elected Menachem Begin, leader of the Irgun, child murderer, Jew murderer, and bomber of the King David Hotel, as PM. To this day, Israelis still celebrate those terrorists as "heroes". They literally taught their neighbours that terrorism is a valid path to independence and statehood, and that terrorists are to be celebrated. Netanyahu also promoted, and helped fund, Hamas, to weaken the Palestinian Authority, to avoid a possible peace. Netanyahu wants this. He wants an excuse to keep killing and expanding.
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  9550. Kyle, Jimmy is horrible at strategy. He overestimates the benefits and underestimates the risks, of certain actions. Nobody supporting his "plan" seem to think there are any risks involved. Jimmy has lied about it being impossible for McCarthy to win. It's not. He ignores the possibility that corporate Dems might just let progressives paralyze the house, and then blame progressives for no new covid relief, no new unemployment extensions, no new vaccine funding, etc., during a pandemic. He claims Pelosi would rather work with Republicans than progressives, and you've called her the Queen of backroom deals, but neither of you are considering she could just make Republicans an offer, and give them something in exchange for enough of them to be absent or abstain that it lowers the threshold needed to win and avoids a house shutdown.
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  9551.  @Canvashed  So, you would both sides WWII? The clnztn of the Americas? The occptn of Ireland? South African aprthd? Etc.
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  9552. He's right on that, but the problem with Galloway is that he has become simply anti-USA/anti-NATO. Russia started f*cking around in former SSR countries, in 1991, and hasn't stopped. They are the Israel in Ukraine, and he wants to give them what they want.
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  9553.  @Lashkor  Yes, I did. It was garbage. Even in one of his own responses to criticisms, he touched on the possibility that morality could simply be very strong likes/dislikes, but then dropped it quickly. Chess is an analogy to laws, dumb dumb, not morality. It has rules to follow, but the rules were created based on the rulemaker's subjective wishes. Once you've created a law, it's pretty easy to tell, objectively, if you're breaking it, or not. No new insight, there. Morality is above lawmaking. Laws can be considered immoral. Rofl! Yeah, it's pretty simple to tell, since they don't do anything they aren't programmed to do, and there's zero indication they ever will.
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  9554. @Tidan888 Those other countries have corporations paying in other ways, like higher minimum wages, or high unionization ... then they tax those better paid consumers. Yang doesn't have corporations paying in to his UBI/VAT scheme, because corporations get credited back for input VAT in a VAT system. His plan will only makes the likes of Amazon tens of billions extra a year. That'll make Bezos billions extra a year ... more than he'd ever personally pay in through a VAT. If they'd get more out than they'd pay in, then that money is coming from elsewhere.
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  9555. ​ @Syzygy_Bliss  Oh geez, please don't bring up that moron Sam Harris.
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  9556. ​ @Benson_Bear  David ignores a lot of history, not making it clear that Zionism is colonialism (early Zionists fully acknowledged it as such), which allows for Israel to be the victim and be playing defense. Colonizers are never not the aggressors.
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  9557. ​ @alexb8878  There came a point when Native Americans wanted to push the white man back into the sea. It wasn't simply because he was white, dumb dumb. It was because they were colonizers and ethnic cleansers ... Ze'ev Jabotinsky, Iron Wall, 1923 ... "Voluntary Agreement Not Possible. There can be no voluntary agreement between ourselves and the Palestine Arabs. Not now, nor in the prospective future. I say this with such conviction, not because I want to hurt the moderate Zionists. I do not believe that they will be hurt. Except for those who were born blind, they realised long ago that it is utterly impossible to obtain the voluntary consent of the Palestine Arabs for converting "Palestine" from an Arab country into a country with a Jewish majority. My readers have a general idea of the history of colonisation in other countries. I suggest that they consider all the precedents with which they are acquainted, and see whether there is one solitary instance of any colonisation being carried on with the consent of the native population. There is no such precedent. The native populations, civilised or uncivilised, have always stubbornly resisted the colonists, irrespective of whether they were civilised or savage." "Arabs Not Fools This is equally true of the Arabs. Our Peace-mongers are trying to persuade us that the Arabs are either fools, whom we can deceive by masking our real aims, or that they are corrupt and can be bribed to abandon to us their claim to priority in Palestine , in return for cultural and economic advantages. I repudiate this conception of the Palestinian Arabs. Culturally they are five hundred years behind us, they have neither our endurance nor our determination; but they are just as good psychologists as we are, and their minds have been sharpened like ours by centuries of fine-spun logomachy. We may tell them whatever we like about the innocence of our aims, watering them down and sweetening them with honeyed words to make them palatable, but they know what we want, as well as we know what they do not want. They feel at least the same instinctive jealous love of Palestine, as the old Aztecs felt for ancient Mexico, and the Sioux for their rolling Prairies. To imagine, as our Arabophiles do, that they will voluntarily consent to the realisation of Zionism, in return for the moral and material conveniences which the Jewish colonist brings with him, is a childish notion, which has at bottom a kind of contempt for the Arab people; it means that they despise the Arab race, which they regard as a corrupt mob that can be bought and sold, and are willing to give up their fatherland for a good railway system. All Natives Resist Colonists There is no justification for such a belief. It may be that some individual Arabs take bribes. But that does not mean that the Arab people of Palestine as a whole will sell that fervent patriotism that they guard so jealously, and which even the Papuans will never sell. Every native population in the world resists colonists as long as it has the slightest hope of being able to rid itself of the danger of being colonised. That is what the Arabs in Palestine are doing, and what they will persist in doing as long as there remains a solitary spark of hope that they will be able to prevent the transformation of "Palestine" into the "Land of Israel."" "Colonisation carries its own explanation, the only possible explanation, unalterable and as clear as daylight to every ordinary Jew and every ordinary Arab. Colonisation can have only one aim, and Palestine Arabs cannot accept this aim. It lies in the very nature of things, and in this particular regard nature cannot be changed."
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  9558.  @Whoyouwishyouwere  Major oil exporters tend to keep gas prices low in their own countries, dimwit. In the US and Canada, they have citizens compete with the rest of the world, for their own resources.
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  9559.  @a.a9021  TheDipshitLord also contradicted himself, defending "bidding" prices up. Get as much as anyone, anywhere, is willing to pay. Match the global going price. Quite the opposite of lowering prices.
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  9560. Would you say that "logical satisfactory evidence" or "objective truth" and withholding belief without those things, is compatible with Theism?
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  9561.  @GX328382  He's hiding his taxes, and you just said ...
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  9562. ​ @Florida-Plant-Mom  He did the exact same things the Republican political machine always does ... give tax breaks to the rich. He didn't shake things up, in the least, aside from constantly spewing chaotic and divisive nonsense. He ended zero wars. He dropped more bombs per year than Obama. Averaged per year, he had more border crossings than Obama. He did the exact same thing, in 2016, baselessly claiming he actually won the popular vote, and that the election was rigged, but his own election integrity commission found nadda, so it quietly shut down. He, and Republicans, were fine with 6 investigations into his political opponent, in 2016, and running on "Lock her up!", and they would have, if they could have found anything to charge her with. Like the Republican political machine, before, he put profits over people, leaving the US with 3x the COVID deaths per capita than Canada, 10x the COVID deaths per capita than Australia's conservative party did. He didn't shake a thing, and brought in more swamp creatures, than ever before.
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  9563.  @ChefChevyTv  That makes no sense. This call said he was trying to steal mainly black votes.
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  9564. Aren't belief, theists, and athe-ists, addressed, two sentances later? It also addresses whether or not Huxley means "100% sure", when he uses the term "objective truth". "That which Agnostics deny and repudiate, as immoral, is the contrary doctrine, that there are propositions which men ought to believe, without logically satisfactory evidence; and that reprobation ought to attach to the profession of disbelief in such inadequately supported propositions." "logically satisfactory evidence"
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  9565.  @king123426  All they'd have to do is adjust the bill to the right, enough to pick up some Republican votes.
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  9566. Early 20th century Zionists described Zionism as colonialism. I'm anti-colonialism. So, are you saying Judaism itself is colonialism?
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  9567.  @meee9660  Yeah, but a 70 age cap would also have meant no Reagan, no Trump, mean no McConnell, no Pelosi, it would clear scotus seats, etc. Bernie could still lead a movement, and help find and bring in newcomers, to try and fill those seats that would open up.
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  9568. Literally the opposite. The DNA test showed no connection.
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  9569.  @thepolarphantasm2319  I'm saying Likud are trrrsts, and their trrrst founders would be proud.
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  9570.  @thepolarphantasm2319  YouTube won't let me buy vowels for some words, "bruh", or my reply gets hidden.
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  9571. "No belief due to lack of evidence", already had a label. And, "belief that Gods don't exist", already had a label. Tell me what the great 20th century need is, to make the "belief that Gods don't exist" label also apply to the "no belief due to lack of evidence".
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  9572. I agree with other commenters, David. I think the question was simply about Tulsi saying something that might lose Warren some support, not necessarily giving that support to her, or making her surge over Warren.
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  9573.  @jj-vu5ov  You two morons likely don't know how to read a donor list. AOC's shows all donations from individuals, a few non-profits, and a couple unions. That's not normal, at all.
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  9574.  @robertmatthews2009  Yes, many of them don't seem to grasp those insurance basics, either, but I said "towards someone who isn't paying".
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  9575. ​ @hunternedib1119  Depends on if he loses more elsewhere, and if it holds until November.
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  9576.  @hunternedib1119  Dropping 5 points with over 100m adult female voters isn't a good sign.
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  9577.  @hunternedib1119  And he has lost about 5% of the over 100m female voters.
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  9578. He's competing with Shapiro to be the new Little Napoleon. https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Jakub_Lejkin
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  9579. ​ @gregpost3320  "Fought and died all over the world" ... as Canadian soldiers, with the Canadian military, or as foreign soldiers, with a foreign military?
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  9580. Want criminals to be able to buy guns, but don't want them to be able to vote. US Republicans are so ass backwards.
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  9581.  @calvinmiguel4405  There's a line you have to dance in the primaries, to make yourself look like the better candidate, and your opponent a worse candidate, but you can't make the opponent look worse than the Republican candidate, in case the opponent wins the primaries. If you go the Dore knob route, making out like Biden is worse than Trump, and convince enough progressives not to vote for him in the general, then you're just handing Trump another win.
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  9582.  @gocuk925  He blew the last of his brain cells, when his editors asked for a rewrite (something editors have been doing since the dawn of newspapers).
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  9583. @President Houseplant Have an answer? Tim Pool also claims to be a lefty. Do you just take that idiot's word for it, too?
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  9584. @President Houseplant So, yeah, you just take the idiot's word for it, even though many things he promotes only benefit the right.
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  9585. @President Houseplant And how does he now propose achieving those things? Going the third party route, that hasn't won the most popular third party a single seat in congress in 50 years? At best, you what ... convince enough progressives to vote third party, that you totally hand the Dem party back to corporate Dems, and let Republicans rule for decades? How does having zero seats and zero votes on even a single bill benefit the left?
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  9586. @President Houseplant Nope. Nice strawmanning, and non answer. Try this one ... How did promoting Trump as the better option, not caring if 10m of the poorest Americans might lose their Medicaid expansion and not caring to add 40m older Americans to Medicare, while minimizing risks by claiming ridiculous things like Trump filling multiple scotus seats was as likely as the moon falling into Lake Michigan and that Republicans would join in stopping a Trump agenda, benefit anyone but Trump?
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  9587. @President Houseplant Rofl. You're the one dodging simple questions, that aren't about me. I don't need to know your specifics to talk about Dore, because I'm not talking about you. Idiot confirmed.
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  9588. She was doing her own rally that day, with AOC, both of whom were promoting M4A. Why didn't M4A rallies go support her, to try and help add another M4A yes vote to congress?
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  9589.  @J-C.Denton  How can you lot be so stupid? There are also a bunch of shit, cheap, cheesy, religious movies with high viewer ratings and low critic ratings. You know why? Because people who don't like that shit, don't watch it, or review it. Who the hell do you think watched a movie streamed by The Daily Wire, dimwit? Perhaps were 90% of the viewers Daily Wire members?
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  9590.  @J-C.Denton  Yeah, so Kirk Cameron in Fireproof, with a 38%/82% critic/viewer score, is totally evidence of biased critics and that the movie is awesomely awesome, and not at all evidence of a mainly Christian audience.
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  9591.  @J-C.Denton  Rofl. Regular people made Honey Boo Boo popular, ffs. Doesn't mean it's actually good. I didn't say his movie was a religious movie, dimwit. You have reading comprehension problems.
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  9592.  @J-C.Denton  How, exactly, is it baseless to say that a movie that was streamed on the Daily Wire website, the Daily Wire YouTube channel, and available to Daily Wire members on the movie's website, likely has mostly Daily Wire fans as viewers?
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  9593.  @J-C.Denton    No, dimwit. You're still having reading comprehension problems. The point was that movies with a narrow target audience, will mostly only be watched, and generally liked by that target audience. Whether they're actually good, or not, is another matter. Didn't say it was the only option, dumb dumb. Just how severe are your reading comprehension problems? Do you know what "likely" means? Just the views on the Daily Wire YouTube release are multiple times that of your torrent numbers. The Daily Wire website and movie site with a Daily Wire membership, would increase that multiple times more. Seriously, if you don't think the majority of its audience has been Daily Wire fans, then you're a complete and utter moron. And you don't even know who that torrent audience is. They could also be mostly Daily Wire fans, who don't want to pay for memberships. Do you work for Shapiro, or something?
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  9594.  @J-C.Denton  Rofl. You're reading comprehension problems kicked in with the Honey Boo Boo comment, as well, where I simply said people made it "popular", which they did. It was simply a comment on people's tastes, total crap that still gets high viewership ratings. You didn't debunk shit. You seem barely able to grasp simple statements. Guess who's going to watch a movie about a less popular comic character, like Venom? Probably mostly fans of that less popular comic character. And, viewers liked it, but critics didn't. Is there some political bias against Venom? Some critic agenda to bring down Tom Hardy? Or did a mediocre movie simply hit its niche market just right?
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  9595.  @J-C.Denton  No, dumbass. Religious movies were simply an example of hitting a target market. I never once said Shapiro's movie was a religious movie. You outright failed to comprehend the word "also". Honey Boo Boo was simply an example of the people having bad taste, and making absolute garbage "popular". You're an idiot.
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  9596.  @navinkumar6388  Make that make sense.
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  9597.  @mrscooterdave  Israel was founded by terrorists, Irgun and Lehi, Likud was founded by the Irgun terrorist leader, and Israelis still celebrate those terrorists as "heroes", to this day.
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  9598.  @kateturner1849  You mean like the Romans, with their aqueducts, sanitation, roads, etc.?
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  9599.  Simon Farre  Again, Sweden is 24th in covid deaths per million, while Germany is 66th. Sweden is currently breaking its first wave case numbers by 300%.
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  9600.  @joedementiakidsmell4902  Progressives have actually criticized Biden for reopening Trump detention facilities. Did any Republicans criticize Trump, when there was a larger border crossing spike in 2019? Did any criticize Trump when this wave surpassed all months of 2017 and 2018, back in September? Or are they selective in their criticisms?
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  9601.  @garyw9164  Already found guilty, dumb dumb. Just like he was already found guilty of rape and defamation. Just like he was guilty and had to settle for grifting his own Trump University fans. Just like he was guilty of improperly running his casinos, and racked up fines to the tune of $10.5m. Just like he and daddy were guilty of gaming fraud, for daddy buying $3m in chips and not cashing them in, to try and bail out incompetent son. Just like he and daddy were, twice, guilty of not renting to black Americans, and settled. He's a lifelong criminal. There's even evidence his daddy used the kids for tax fraud, meaning Dumpty has been committing fraud since he was in diapers.
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  9602.  @sealj  Rogan has a larger audience than a lot of network shows. He is also MSM, at this point.
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  9603.  @davidleitner3667  Joe is MSM. Dore and Greenwald go on the largest MSM.
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  9604. ​ @BillSinger-q3b  It's like you people are from 1850, and keep whining about Cochise, when people say stop colonizing and ethnic cleansing the Native Americans.
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  9605.  @QueenLadyQ  Yes, more racism would really help solve the problem of racism.
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  9606. Israel is objectively the aggressor by every relevant measure (modern history, law, and current events) ... Modern history: With the Balfour declaration, Zionsim converted from something like immigration to colonization. 100 years ago, in 1923, Ze'ev Jabotinsky fully acknowledged that Zionism is colonialism, and that, based on the entirety of history, the native Palestinians would fight it until the bitter end. He just didn't care what would happen to them, and promoted doing it anyway. Colonizers are never not the aggressors, when it comes to the native population. On top of the colonialist nature of Zionism, the Zionists also formed terrorist organizations, like the Irgun and Lehi. They bombed many Palestinian markets and other public places, murdering many civilians, including children, even including Palestinian Jews (who opposed colonialist Zionism). Israel merged those terrorists into the new nation's military and intelligence agencies. Israelis elected Menachem Begin, leader of the Irgun, child murderer, Jew murderer, and bomber of the King David Hotel, as PM. Israelis, to this day, celebrate those Irgun terrorists as "heroes". Zionists literally taught their neighbours that terrorism is a valid path to independence and statehood, and that terrorists are to be celebrated. In 1945, it is well documented that Zionists owned just 5% of the land and were a majority in zero districts. Israel was formed by going against the will of the majority population. Its foundation is completely undemocratic. Even then, Jews were still a minority, in "their" half. The only possible way to actually become a Jewish ethno-state, would be to ethnically cleanse away the actual majority. And, that's exactly what happened. Israel has never allowed those people to return. Law: Israel is considered an occupier by the International Court, the UN GA, and the UN SC. Occupiers are also never not the aggressors. Those occupied actually have a right to resist occupation. On the flip side, it is illegal for the occupier to settle occupied lands, and illegal to use collective punishment. Israel is a rogue nation, that doesn't abide by international law. What it has been doing, and is doing now, is illegal. Current events: This year, alone, prior to Oct 7 ... Israel held over 1200 Palestinian hostages without charges ... over 200 Palestinians had been killed by the IDF and settlers ... over 1000 Palestinians had been displaced by Israel's neverending colonization of the West Bank ... and, Israel continued to operate an open air WWII style fascist ghetto. Even ignoring modern history and law, in no reality did Hamas "start" anything.
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  9607. Are you going to apologize to those you smeared, if they disagreed with your lie that the house speaker vote required 218 to win? Pelosi just won with only 216, in case you hadn't heard. 8 more abstentions, absentees, or unfilled seats, and McCarthy could have won.
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  9608.  @Canuck-sw3fo  That's like saying the Nazis were at "war" with the Warsaw ghetto uprising.
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  9609.  @Canuck-sw3fo  Already posted it above, dumb dumb ... Also, UN Office of Genocide Prevention ... Ethnic cleansing: "The Commission of Experts added that these practices can “… constitute crimes against humanity and can be assimilated to specific war crimes. Furthermore, such acts could also fall within the meaning of the Genocide Convention.”"
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  9610. HR 40 has 196 D cosponsors. 0 Rs.
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  9611.  @smartass0124  You might want to look up Lügenpresse.
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  9612.  @klauskinski5969  So, Dore and Aaron have clearly explained the fact that the report they kept blathering about didn't actually assign blame, as per Russian UN demands on every first round investigation? They clearly explained that the investigation didn't even start until after the US, and others, had already bombed Syria? They clearly explained the fact that the no fault final report didn't even come out until almost a year after the bombings? Meaning, it's a blatantly obvious fact that the report was never used by anyone as grounds to bomb Syria. They've clearly explained the fact that there have been several of these no fault finding investigations, with zero dissenting opinions, since 2013? They've clearly explained the fact that there have also been several fault finding follow up investigations, with zero dissenting opinions, most finding fault with Syria, since 2013? They've clearly explained that, just the month before the incident they keep blathering about, there was another chemical weapons attack, which went through both rounds of investigations, with zero dissenting opinions, and found fault with Syria? You know it's possible to both not support the US, and others, unilaterally deciding to bomb whoever they want, as well as accept the fact that the Syrian government is complete shit, and has committed numerous human rights abuses, including using chemical weapons on its own citizens? Dore and Aaron seem to make out like it has to be one, or the other. If you don't agree with them, that Syria did no wrong, then you're a US government shill, or something.
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  9613.  @klauskinski5969  1. What's wrong? 2. "Honest" = reports you like, I take it. Dozens of reports, with zero dissenting opinions, have shown Syria to have been using chemical weapons, since 2013, including an attack just the month before the one Dore and Aaron keep blathering about. 3. Aaron wasn't on the ground, sniffing clothes, at the time. There were, however, other reporters who were on the ground, at the time, who did smell chlorine. Yes, I think inhumane dictators can do all kinds of "retarded" shit. Why do you have so much faith that inhumane dictators are very smart and sane? 4. You're dodging that, going on and on, raging, about a report that was completely irrelevant to the decision to bomb, is idiotic. And, like I said, you can both accept that Syria commits terrible human rights abuses, including using chemical weapons, and still be against the US unilaterally bombing other countries. 5. No, it's blatantly obvious that you have a bias against dozens of reports, that had zero dissenting opinions, judging them "honest" based on your desired outcome. I've addressed exactly what they have talked about. You're the one creating some strawman, that I didn't argue.
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  9614.  @klauskinski5969  1. That doesn't clarify what you're talking about. 2. No. UN inspectors never said Saddam had nuclear weapons, and I didn't say to take the US' word for anything. You're either ignorant, or dishonest ... quite possibly both. 3. It was 9 days after the incident, ffs. Just how long do you think chlorine sticks around in the air for? Non white doctors, and rescue crews, were in there before that. Rofl. History has shown plenty of dictators doing stupid or insane things, and plenty of things that get them bombed, or attacked. 4. You have severe reading comprehension problems, on top of being ignorant. I didn't take Dore and Mate's positions. They're the ones that keep rambling on about a specific report, as if it affected anyone's decision making. It didn't. It's a nothingburger they keep going on and on about. That was what I said from the start, so have no idea how it magically turns into a contradiction. 5. UN inspectors didn't support the US' claim that Saddam still had WMDs, dimwit. Dissenting opinions, in that case, would have said there were WMDs. You seem to know nothing about what happened, leading up to the war with Iraq. Look at who is funding? The UN was funding inspections. They do not have a history of supporting the US' other WMD claims, and Russia (Assad supporter) could veto whatever it wanted (and did veto a bunch of proposals). The multiple incidents that went through two rounds of investigations is because even Russia accepted the conclusions of the first round. "Risk publicly their life"?! Rofl!!! Who has been killed, or even harmed, for having a dissenting opinion, or endlessly blathering support for dissenting opinions? You're a loon.
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  9615.  @debbieward9732  Rofl! He was talking about their team of lawyers to fight against voter fraud, you stupid twit. Man you lot are crazy.
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  9616.  @vincedumitru1465  Oh, a genius, here. Ok, I'll bite. How does Trump being corrupt and bullshitting about voter fraud prove Biden is corrupt and committing voter fraud? (sounds contradictory)
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  9617.  @morgancody6752  Yeah, Ben did the same thing with a Synagogue shooting, by a white supremacist, and tried to spin it against Ilhan Omar.
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  9618.  @1985toyotacamry  Think they're talking to the op pastor.
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  9619. @Ottsel Chops Fascists promoted traditional roles, for men and women ... wanted women at home, pumping out babies.
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  9620. What are you blathering about?
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  9621.  @myemperor  No. That's what I call idiots on the internet. I thought that was pretty clear. You are terribly slow, aren't you.
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  9622. Give a prominent name that made fun of Barron, when he was underage. JD Vance is full grown, dingus.
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  9623. But the dumbass doesn't seem to know that Kurds are Sunnis too.
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  9624. Are you 10?
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  9625.  @EWrayB  I saw it. It's for 10 year olds. They should call it Big II: Shazam.
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  9626.  @EWrayB  Oh my! So is Dr Dolittle. The "adult" kids in Shazam are more childish than the actual kids. Shazam is supposed to have the wisdom of Solomon, not the goofiness of Goofy.
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  9627.  @EWrayB  I didn't avoid. I said so is Dr Dolittle. Non of my kids would watch something as goofy as Dr Dolittle by the time they hit 13. Its rating doesn't change the fact most 13 year olds would probably think it's too childish. 13 year olds are trying to get you to let them watch Saw or GoT, or something, and are assassinating half of Rome.
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  9628.  @GodsSon987  Well, that video of his, that Dore mentioned, which was being passed around, was called "Hillary Presidency Worse For Progressives & America Than Trump". He did promote Trump as the better option. He vastly overestimated the benefits, claiming progressives would "for sure" take the house (nope) and senate (nope), in 2018, and the presidency (nope), in 2020. He vastly underestimated the risks, claiming even Republicans would join the left and vote against a Trump agenda (nope) instead of following him into outright fascism (they did). In a follow up debate with Sam, on the topic, Dore also claimed that Trump filling multiple scotus seats was as likely as the moon falling into Lake Michigan (nope). Dore didn't get anything right.
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  9629. ​ @stanr8946  That's like calling the Warsaw ghetto uprising a "war", dimwit.
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  9630. There was a real world test in Peru. They have the most covid deaths per capita in the world.
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  9631.  @brothermine2292  That's why I gave Peru as an example. They've had one of the highest, if not the highest, uses of ivermectin.
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  9632.  @brothermine2292  You would have to believe that Peru found wildly amazing results, from its high ivermectin use, but then didn't expand its usage, and that they had to have extremely horrible results otherwise, to bring them down to being the worst in the world.
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  9633. Except Alex benefits the right, like he's supposed to. Jimmy also benefits the right, unlike he's supposed to.
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  9634.  @FilipinoHODL  You're making stuff up. He has nothing good to say about the "war on drugs", wants to end it, and promotes rehab over prison for users. He said he was against "pushing" hard drugs. Portugal didn't legalize making or distributing hard drugs. They didn't even legalize possessing large quantities. They didn't even outright legalize small possession. They lowered it from a felony to a civil infraction, and promoted rehab over prison.
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  9635. Dump and MAGA keep saying "energy independence", but Reagan deregulated domestic oil way back in 1981. It has sold at the same global market rate, ever since. It doesn't matter if you buy 100% foreign, 50% foreign, or 100% domestic, it's all the same price.
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  9636. ​ @krisniemczuk3452  He's not. Trump would allow R-ssia to do to Ukraine, what Israel is doing to Palestine, plus do more f-scism domestically. Trump has stated he'd reinstate and expand his Muslim ban. Trump has stated he wants a pledge of allegiance to Israel, to get in the US. The Christo f-scists would keep doing their thing against women, the LGBT, and schools. Republicans want to outright k-ll border crossers. Even M-ssolini wasn't "as f-scist as" H-tler. YouTube doesn't like me typing certain words.
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  9637. Only crazy ones. Just because you aren't at the top of a fascist Protestant Puritan hit list, doesn't mean you aren't on it. They will pull out their good old "Catholics aren't real Christians" talking points, after you help them get rid of people at the top of their list.
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  9638. ​ @tomkelly8827  😂
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  9639. They're the same morons who think there's plenty of room for hundreds of thousands of extra unwanted babies per year. Their arguments make zero sense. They're just plain racist.
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  9640.  @RealmCenter40  Why don't you idiots rail against seatbelt laws?
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  9641.  @RealmCenter40  Seriously, why don't you idiots cry about seatbelt regulations?
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  9642.  @RealmCenter40  I'm talking about laws/regulations, dummy. Why aren't you idiots crying about seatbelt laws?
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  9643.  @RealmCenter40  Why pick a battle with masks? You have less of a chance of flying through your windshield. What about speeding laws? Why not fight against tyranny for the freedom for everyone to drive as fast as they want?
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  9644.  @RealmCenter40  Still talking about laws/regulations. Why don't you cry about speeding laws?
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  9645.  @dave4deputyZX  We suck at sprinting, compared to other animals. We didn't invent bows until relatively recently. We had to run animals until one of them couldn't run anymore. There's like 1.6m years of evolving as runners, before even spears, and another 350k before bows. So, what's weird about pushing our own limits until one of them drops? We migrated from Africa to South America on foot, thousands of years before the first human settlements on the planet. We were on the move a lot, not sitting on a little island. Archaeologists had been assuming modern roles, and labeling remains with hunting tools as males. They've now tested many of those ancient remains from the Americas and found that almost 50% were actually female. In 15000 years we have changed a wolf into a chihuahua. In 10000 years European males have gone from an average of 5' 4" to 5' 9". What's the big hangup in accepting that things were somewhat different thousands of years ago?
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  9646.  @westonmeyer3110  But they do. And, they actually do even better at ultra marathon swimming, than running. "In 2014, Knechtle and his colleagues analyzed 30 years of finishing men and women’s times for the 46km Manhattan Island Marathon Swim (28.5 miles/45.9km). Once again, the ladies took the lead. The results demonstrated that the best women per year were 12-14% faster than the best men."
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  9647. If corporate Dems get enough Republicans on board, then that takes away any progressive leverage.
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  9648. I suppose he's going to put a VAT on robo calls, so consumers get to pay a tax to hear robo calls? Just like consumers getting to pay a tax to be shown ads, on their own data, and for every automated truck mile.
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  9649. He thinks Latinos are so superficial that they'd change their vote because someone said "Latinx"?
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  9650. Rofl, AOC has done more for M4A in 2 years than Dore has in 20. Follow Jimmy down the third party road to not winning a single seat in congress in the next 50 years. That'll show em!
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  9651. That actually sounds dangerous, not good. They seem to be leaving violence as the only option to ousting Democrats.
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  9652.  Derek Hitt  Your question asked what I was saying, dumb dumb, and what I was saying didn't mention Trump, so I clarified that I hadn't mentioned Trump. Apparently you're the one who doesn't understand how answers work.
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  9653.  Derek Hitt  Yep. If you simply wanted to know if I thought Trump was anti-Semitic, then you should have asked me that. Instead, you asked if I was claiming he was anti-Semitic, when I didn't even mention him. I answered the question you asked, and then you proved yourself to be a moron who didn't grasp that their question, as posed, was answered.
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  9654.  Derek Hitt  The nation was founded by people who protested and rioted against extra taxes that specifically funded the red coats (police/military), those who opposed them fought against democracy to keep an unelected ruler in power.
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  9655.  Derek Hitt  Were the Civil Rights protests and riots "trying to resolve things"? Protesting and even rioting against a tax just means you don't want to be taxed. That's why things calmed down a bit, between the Stamp Act repeal and the Townshend Act.
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  9656.  @bq4454  Aren't capitalistic corporations, right wing?
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  9657. A sexless spirit being, who identifies with masculine pronouns, and who transitioned into a human male, for a time, before transitioning back.
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  9658.  @KingDuumb  I guess. There's even a Catholic catechism stating that their god is sexless.
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  9659.  @KingDuumb  A lot of contradictions. That trans god would also be the leading abortionist in existence, if it existed, and yet they consider it pure goodness.
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  9660.  @KingDuumb  "The Catechism of the Catholic Church (CCC) #239 states, in reference to the Father: "God transcends the human distinction between the sexes. They are neither man nor woman: they are God." The CCC discusses the traditional imagery and language of God as Father."
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  9661.  @KingDuumb  Also, Islam ... "In Islam, God is neither male nor female. He has no gender. However, it is sometimes asked why the masculine pronoun is used for God and not the female pronoun. We must remember, however, that this question has less to do with religion and more to do with language." Judaism ... "Judaism has always maintained that God has both masculine and feminine qualities. God has, of course, no body; therefore, the very idea that God is male or female is patently absurd. We refer to God using masculine terms simply for convenience's sake, because Hebrew has no neutral gender; God is no more male than a table or chair (both "masculine" nouns in Hebrew)."
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  9662.  @ireland2657  That's the equivalent of laughing that someone driving the speed limit, wearing a seatbelt, and not drinking, still got in an accident. Yeah, it happens. That doesn't change the fact that vaccines reduce the odds of getting it, being hospitalized, and dying.
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  9663.  @da324  Where were you looking? In one of those red counties, with a higher per capita death rate?
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  9664. @United Corporations Make 'Merika Slaves Again She's not in congress.
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  9665. Texas already has 3x the firearm mortality rate of New York. This will likely increase that. Why would you want a higher firearm mortality rate? https://www.cdc.gov/nchs/pressroom/sosmap/firearm_mortality/firearm.htm
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  9666.  @wallaceahtone6149  Firstly, why don't you care about suicide? Especially male suicide? Women attempt suicide more, but tend to use less successful methods. Cutting and pills have very low success rates. Firearms have 80% success rates. The majority who attempt, but fail, suicide never try again. Secondly, the homicide rate trend isn't wildly different. States with lower gun control tend to have higher homicide rates. https://www.cdc.gov/nchs/pressroom/sosmap/homicide_mortality/homicide.htm
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  9667.  @Coonazz791  Riiight. The state stats meshing with developed country stats, is just a total coincidence. So, what's the problem with those mainly red states, then, with all the suicides and homicides? I keep hearing how wonderful they are.
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  9668.  @wallaceahtone6149  Yeah, well the same people that want all the guns on the streets also don't want anyone to have affordable healthcare (including mental health) and drugs. So, I don't tend to believe they actually care. Hanging is definitely the next most effective, but is still 20% less successful, at 60%. Easy access to a gun around is the most deadly.
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  9669. Nixon got a blanket pardon, without being officially charged with anything, or admitting to anything specific.
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  9670.  @CoolhandLukeSkywalkr  Jews are Iraqis, according to their book. They're Canaanites, themselves, according to archaeology, and never wiped out other Canaanites (Palestinians, Lebanese), as well as no evidence the vast majority of the population ever left (the majority stayed and converted to Islam). You should bone up on DNA tests done in the area. If tens of millions of Americans, with British ancestry, decided they wanted to move back, after 2000 years, should they be considered native, and given half of England?
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  9671. He is not genuine. It is dishonest to say a VAT is a way to make corporations like Amazon "pay their fair share". His plan will actually make them richer.
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  9672. Who the hell worships Biden?
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  9673.  @conradveigt5995  They literally mentioned that, dimwit, and she laughed at herself, because she has a sense of humor, unlike you.
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  9674. Nixon
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  9675.  @d33j4ybf  Being impeached isn't being charged. He wasn't charged by law enforcement. If he had been charged, that would mean there's a precedent for being able to charge a sitting president, rather than not.
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  9676.  @d33j4ybf  I said "being impeached", exactly like you. Trump absolutely was not charged with anything, before impeachment proceedings began, and part of the Mueller report was that they didn't think a sitting president could be charged. You just seem to be making things up on the fly.
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  9677.  @d33j4ybf  An impeachment isn't a court case. It's a job review. Articles of impeachment are not the same as being charged/indicted by legal authorities or a grand jury.
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  9678.  @d33j4ybf  You haven't made any "corrections". You're spouting misinformation.
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  9679.  @d33j4ybf  They outright didn't think they could officially charge/indict a sitting president, and weren't even sure what to do about a president that resigned. If he had already been charged/indicted, it wouldn't have been a question. https://www.archives.gov/education/lessons/watergate-constitution
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  9680.  @d33j4ybf  AoI aren't actual legal "charges", ffs. It's not a legal proceeding. It doesn't end up with a conviction.
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  9681.  @d33j4ybf  You're making zero sense. The only "charges" relevant to a pardon, are legal charges. Pardons can't even be used in the impeachment process, exactly because they aren't actual legal charges, and it isn't an actual trial. Plus, as soon as Nixon quit, he was no longer being impeached. There were NO pending charges against him, of any kind, when he was pardoned. "and he shall have power to grant reprieves and pardons for offenses against the United States, except in cases of impeachment." https://www.law.cornell.edu/constitution/articleii
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  9682.  @d33j4ybf  Reread the op we're replying to, dimwit.
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  9683. People who keep talking about the environment are the actual anti-environmentalists? People who keep talking about class and capitalism are the actual anti-socialists? Can you make your OP make sense?
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  9684.  @georgeglass3680  Shut up Jimmy.
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  9685. Likud's platform literally promises to completely colonize and ethnically cleanse all Palestine territories, as well being an open declaration of future wars, against Jordan, Syria, and Lebanon. In what reality would people with those states goals be trying to avoid fighting?
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  9686. Dore is an idiot. If some districts are in danger of flipping to Republican, is it better for progressives to be part of a majority party, or a minority party?
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  9687.  @theworldisnotcool9685  Both parties have the exact same rules, for if a candidate drops out before the primaries. Their delegates go to the convention unassigned, and members of the convention vote to assign them however they want. Both parties also have rules for if a candidate drops out after the convention. You lot might want to think about that. Democratic parliamentary systems simply have the party members vote for their leader and there's only a general election. Not sure it's a sick burn, to be as democratic as Canada or the UK, based on rules the Republican party also have.
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  9688.  @officialVertYT  The continued aprthd "deal" had already been rejected, dingus. Yeah, and praised NK's dcttr, then let them carry on with their nclr program. So? If Biden is responsible for global inflation, then Trump is responsible for COVID.
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  9689.  @officialVertYT  "Mississippi-based fresh egg producer Cal-Maine Foods has been accused of price gouging on social media. It was revealed that the company doubled its revenues and grew its profit by 718 percent in the last quarter, as egg prices skyrocketed across the U.S." Is Trump going to do anti-capitalism, and cap profits? Or, is he going to do a major recession or depression, which is the only way to achieve deflation?
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  9690.  @officialVertYT  The inflation rate is already down. There's not much for him to do there. If he's talking about getting prices to actually drop, the only way to get deflation, is a major recession or depression. How he plans to do it is the only important question. Him, just blabbering about doing something means nothing. Aren't his infrastructure and healthcare plans still due "in a couple weeks"?
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  9691.  @officialVertYT  Fix what, exactly? The inflation rate has been largely fixed. Wages have been outpacing the inflation rate since the first quarter of 2023. The jobless rate hit its lowest, since 1969, under Biden. By Trump's favorite measure, the stock market, it grown about as much as it did under Trump. Republicans are either wrong or contradictory regarding everything about the brdr. Ober 90% of dr ugs come through points of entry. Over 80% of traffic kers are Americans. The undocumented commit crimes at half the rate of natural born citizens. Republicans, including Vance, Johnson, Tuberville, and others, think there is plenty of room to increase the birth rate and end abrtns. They think there are plenty enough jobs to let minors compete for full-time jobs, for less pay. Johnson even lamented over the loss of 60m workers to abrtn, and claimed they were needed to keep SS and Medicare afloat. So, more people are needed they say, but when more people show up, they say not those kind of people.
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  9692.  @officialVertYT   Fix what, exactly? The inflation rate has been largely fixed. Wages have been outpacing the inflation rate since the first quarter of 2023. The jobless rate hit its lowest, since 1969, under Biden. By Trump's favorite measure, the stock market, it grew about as much as it did under Trump. Republicans are either wrong or contradictory regarding everything about the brdr. Over 90% of dr gs come through points of entry. Over 80% of traffic ers are Americans. The undocumented commit cr mes at half the rate of natural born citizens. Republicans, including Vance, Johnson, Tuberville, and others, think there is plenty of room to increase the birth rate and end ab rtions. They think there are plenty enough jobs to let children compete for full-time jobs, for less pay. Johnson even lamented over the loss of 60m workers to ab rtions, and claimed those workers were needed to keep SS and Medicare afloat. So, more people are needed they say, but when more people show up, they say not those kind of people.
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  9693.  @officialVertYT  Fix what, exactly? The inflation rate has been largely fixed. Wages have been outpacing the inflation rate since the first quarter of 2023. The jobless rate hit its lowest, since 1969, under Biden. By Trump's favorite measure, the stock market, it grew about as much as it did under Trump.
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  9694.  @officialVertYT  Republicans are either wrong or contradictory regarding everything about the bord r. Over 90% of dr gs come through points of entry. Over 80% of traffic ers are Americans. The undocumented commit cr mes at half the rate of natural born citizens. Republicans, including Vance, Johnson, Tuberville, and others, think there is plenty of room to increase the birth rate and end ab rtions. They think there are plenty enough jobs to let children compete for full-time jobs, for less pay. Johnson even lamented over the loss of 60m workers to ab rtions, and claimed those workers were needed to keep SS and Medicare afloat. So, more people are needed they say, but when more people show up, they say not those kind of people.
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  9695.  @officialVertYT  Republicans are either wrong or contradictory regarding everything about the Southern b. Over 90% of dr gs come through points of entry. Over 80% of traffic ers are Americans. The undoc mented commit cr mes at half the rate of natural born citizens. Republicans, including Vance, Johnson, Tuberville, and others, think there is plenty of room to increase the birth rate and end ab rtions. They think there are plenty enough jobs to let children compete for full-time jobs, for less pay. Johnson even lamented over the loss of 60m workers to ab rtions, and claimed those workers were needed to keep SS and Medicare afloat. So, more people are needed they say, but when more people show up, they say not those kind of people.
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  9696.  @officialVertYT  Republicans are either wrong or contradictory regarding everything about the Southern b. Over 90% of dr gs come through points of entry. Over 80% of traffic ers are Americans. The undoc mented commit cr mes at half the rate of nat brn cit. Republicans, including Vance, Johnson, Tuberville, and others, think there is plenty of room to increase the birth rate and end ab rtions. They think there are plenty enough jobs to let chldrn compete for full-time jobs, for less pay. Johnson even lamented over the loss of 60m workers to ab rtions, and claimed those workers were needed to keep SS and Medicare afloat. So, more people are needed they say, but when more people show up, they say not those kind of people.
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  9697.  @officialVertYT  Republicans are either wrong or contr dictory regarding everything about the Southern b. Over 90% of dr gs come through points of entry. Over 80% of traffic ers are Americans. The undoc mented commit cr mes at half the rate of nat brn cit. Republicans, including Vance, Johnson, Tuberville, and others, think there is plenty of room to increase the birth rate and end ab rtions. They think there are plenty enough jobs to let chldrn compete for full-time jobs, for less pay. Johnson even lamented over the loss of 60m workers to ab rtions, and claimed those workers were needed to keep SS and Medicare afloat. So, more people are needed they say, but when more people show up, they say not those kind of people.
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  9698.  @officialVertYT  😂 No he doesn't. He either deflects, projects, or lies. Kamala's senate bio, for instance, stated she was the 2nd African-American female and first Asian-American senator. His "turned black" schtick was already debunked, when they did it in 2020.
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  9699.  @officialVertYT  No inflation likely means your in a minor recession, btw. And if it drops into the negative, deflation, that's becoming a major recession or depression.
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  9700.  @officialVertYT  Lol, Trump either deflects, projects, or lies. He doesn't answer much of anything.
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  9701.  @officialVertYT  I understand. Do you understand that profit margins have soared? Only one of the two candidates has gone after price gauging corporate realtors. The other is one. And, only Dems support affordable housing initiatives.
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  9702.  @officialVertYT  How did Biden cause this? "Since the trough of the COVID-19 recession in the second quarter of 2020, overall prices in the NFC sector have risen at an annualized rate of 6.1%—a pronounced acceleration over the 1.8% price growth that characterized the pre-pandemic business cycle of 2007–2019. Strikingly, over half of this increase (53.9%) can be attributed to fatter profit margins, with labor costs contributing less than 8% of this increase. This is not normal. From 1979 to 2019, profits only contributed about 11% to price growth and labor costs over 60%"
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  9703.  @todd9391  Are you talking about the ones wearing them on their ears? Those cultists are also claiming a boxer born with a vjj, is a man ... meaning vjj products are needed in men's rooms, by their own claims.
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  9704. Urban Dictionary: peekaboo Racist term used in white-supremacist circles to refer to a person of color, usually black, of upper or upper-middle class social standing. That uppity peekaboo thinks she can golf here just because she has money. by WhoKnowsWhoItCouldBe September 21, 2022
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  9705. James Buchanan and John C. Breckinridge still rank pretty high. Trump hasn't quite caused a civil war. Getting close, but not yet.
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  9706.  @lad4944  Are you on crack? Most of the world thinks he, and anyone who votes for him, are morons.
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  9707.  @Johnnynomadic  He ended zero wars, and dropped more bombs per year than Obama. The economy's trajectory, was already heading in that direction, under Obama. There's zero evidence that Trump did anything to help it. In fact, his lovely stock market made most of its gains during his first year, under the continuing Obama budget, and largely flatlined after Trump released his first budget, handing out his tax breaks to corporations and billionaires. There was the increasing hate crimes. There was the trying to end the democratic process. There was the shit COVID response, that left Americans dying at 3x the rate of Canadians, 10x the rate of Australians.
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  9708.  @theprofessorjg  The 1% covid mortality rate is actually 2x higher than polio's paralysis rate and 20x higher than polio's mortality rate. Covid is both more infectious and deadlier.
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  9709.  @nishbrown  Fact: No vaccine is a "cure". Fact: All the covid vaccines went through phase I-III trials. Fact: They've passed safety standards of countries across the world. Fact: Pfizer has been fully approved by the FDA. Fact: Phase I subjects have now been vaccinated for over a year. Fact: The polio vaccine was being given to millions of children within 2 years of being developed.
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  9710. Yep. "Fscsm is the complete opposite of Marxian socialism." ~ Mussolini
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  9711. You know the Nazis were the ones operating the open air ghettos, not the ones living in them, right?
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  9712.  @Demon1800e  States have already proved, in the supreme court, that they can issue vaccine mandates. Local governments have already proved, in the supreme court, that they can issue vaccine mandates. The federal government has already proved it can issue vaccine mandates to federal employees, including the military, and can mandate immigrants be vaccinated. There's zero evidence mandatory vaccines violate an individual's constitutional rights. The only real issue is whether the federal government can override a state decision for the state's citizens that aren't federal employees.
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  9713.  @Demon1800e  Nonsense.
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  9714. Williamson does look great, for 69. Maybe I'll buy some crystals.
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  9715. ​ @jodyclancy5995  Republicans are incoherent. Johnson complains about there not being enough people to keep SS and Medicare afloat, due to abortion and 63m able bodied workers being lost. Able bodied workers cross the border. Republicans: "Not that kind!"
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  9716.  @tyronevaldez-kruger5313  Are you daft? Resistance groups led uprisings, and snuck in weapons, as well as themselves.
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  9717. Yeah, the won't win a seat in the house in 50 years route ... genius.
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  9718. ​ @BigMikePlays  Yeah, those Warsaw ghetto folks should have snuck in medicines and foods, instead of weapons.
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  9719.  @sl4983  Ivermectin succeeded in making Peru the worst country on the planet for covid deaths per million.
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  9720.  @chamuelolivier1594  No, you don't need religion, but it helps. Although not itself a religion, Nazis peddled and incorporated religion. They peddled the standard "for god and country" routine, and positive Christianity. Hitler wanted a United Church, under the Fuehrer, like England had a United Church, under the monarch, and tried incorporating Nazism into the Bible. He also turned Martin Luther's anti-Jewish words into action.
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  9721. Depends on what measure you're using for poverty. There's an international measure ($2 a day) and national measures. Developed countries have been ahead of international measures for decades.
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  9722.  @EditEverything  What the what? Dore is wrong most of the time, ffs.
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  9723. She tried to "de-escalate"? Her camp put this crap out there, she again claimed he said it, and then she went on a prepared attack against all the men (almost like she was given the question ahead of time).
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  9724. A rock can be a-theist.
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  9725.  @eelvis1674  People didn't have IDs with their birth dates on them, and used to be shit at keeping track of their ages. They considered puberty to be adulthood.
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  9726. The $15 got a vote, and passed the house. Dore knobs have proved they don't actually value getting a vote, and don't actually value getting a list of no voters. Dore knobs are pathetic do nothings, who just keep bitching about those who voted for what they supposedly wanted. Just tools for the far right.
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  9727.  @Noodles1771  Are you trying to be ironic? Being "righteous" is pushing puritanism, like Dore knobs. Veer off the righteous path, even a little, and you're no longer a "real" progressive.
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  9728.  @anthonyf616  So, are traditional masculinity standards toxic, or not? Peterson says no, praising the economic and political hierarchy it creates, but then cries about the social hierarchy it creates.
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  9729. ​ @Prometheus4096  "Palestine" isn't defined as an ethno-state, dimwit. Everyone could live free in a single "Palestine" state, and refugees could be free to return. "Israel", on the other hand, is defined as an ethno-state. It doesn't allow for anything to challenge the Jewish majority.
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  9730.  @carlosbraga2558  Not including energy, it's Canada that has a trade deficit with the US. We have more than enough energy for Canada alone. The US does not.
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  9731.  @rojobackape1669  Rofl! It only applied to cross border drivers, dingus, not in Canada drivers. It was 10% of the 120k border crossers.
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  9732.  @rojobackape1669  Jan 13, 2022 — The head of the Canadian Trucking Alliance says about 10 per cent of the 120,000 Canadian big-riggers who traverse the border have not been v-ed.
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  9733.  @rojobackape1669  The Canadian Trucking Alliance, dingus.
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  9734.  @rojobackape1669  The US ended up with a 2.5x higher CVD 💀 rate, per 100k. That's equivalent to about 500k preventable American lives lost. The little protesting trucking minority wanted more Canadians to 💀, like in the US. F them.
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  9735. Strange, South Korea seemed to react well, given the same information from China.
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  9736.  @dtsai  Europeans have DNA going back to Africa. They still colonized the sh*t out of Africa. If I gathered 6 million people from the Americas, who had ancestors that left England hundreds of years ago, took them "back", and forced them to give us half the country, and cleansed our half of any current residents (at least enough to make us the majority in our half), we'd be colonizers.
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  9737. It's actually set by the seller/renter. They have a choice not to raise prices/rent.
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  9738.  @Makingnewnamesisdumb  It's set based on what the average landlord in the area has chosen to raise their rent to.
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  9739. Rofl. Still waiting for the moon to fall into Lake Michigan. Dore is an idiot.
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  9740. The only other viable option is wanting to make a pledge of allegiance to Israel to get in the country, and his party is censuring people for anti-Zionism. Neutral is still better than reverse.
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  9741. I've always made an analogy between crypto coins and cheap 3am commercial collector coins. To increase the value of the worthless piece of trash, you just need to keep convincing more and more people that they want it, for a higher price than the last person. Don the Con is now peddling both.
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  9742. ​ @reader-mx9ss  You are objectively the aggressors, by every relevant measure ... Modern history: 100 years ago, in 1923, Ze'ev Jabotinsky fully acknowledged that Zionism is colonialism, and that, based on the entirety of history, the natives would fight it until the bitter end. He just didn't care what would happen to them, and promoted doing it anyway. Colonizers are never not the aggressors. On top of the colonialist nature of Zionism, the Zionists also formed terrorist organizations, like the Irgun and Lehi. They bombed many Palestinian markets and other public places, murdering many civilians, including children, even including Palestinian Jews (who opposed Zionism). Israel merged those terrorists into the new nation's military and intelligence agencies. Israelis elected Menachem Begin, leader of the Irgun, child murderer, Jew murderer, and bomber of the King David Hotel, as PM. Israelis, to this day, celebrate those terrorists as "heroes". Zionists literally taught their neighbours that terrorism is a valid path to independence and statehood, and that terrorists are to be celebrated. In 1945, it is well documented that Zionists owned just 5% of the land and were a majority nowhere. Israel was formed by actually going against the majority population. It's foundation is completely undemocratic. Then, becoming a majority, in "their" new nation, by ethnic cleansing the actual majority, and then claiming to be democratic, is utter nonsense. Law: Israel is considered an occupier by the International Court, the UN GA, and the UN SC. Occupiers are also never not the aggressors. Those occupied actually have a right to resist occupation. On the flip side, it is illegal for the occupier to settle occupied lands, and illegal to use collective punishment. Israel is a rogue nation, that doesn't abide by international law. What it has been doing, and is doing now, is illegal. Current events: This year, alone, prior to Oct 7 ... Israel held over 1200 Palestinian hostages without charges ... over 200 Palestinians had been killed by the IDF and settlers ... over 1000 Palestinians had been displaced by Israel's neverending colonization of the West Bank ... and, Israel continued to operate an open air WWII style fascist ghetto, in Gaza. Even ignoring modern history and law, in no reality did Hamas "start" anything.
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  9743. Urban Dictionary: peekaboo Racist term used in white-supremacist circles to refer to a person of color, usually black, of upper or upper-middle class social standing. That uppity peekaboo thinks she can golf here just because she has money. by WhoKnowsWhoItCouldBe September 21, 2022
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  9744.  @AhsimNreiziev  I've only heard of one definite person challenging him for the Republican nomination ... Bill Weld. If the California bill holds up in court, there are 17 other states doing the same thing. If Trump still didn't release his taxes, he'd be handing Weld 18 states worth of primary electoral votes. Mark Sanford may also possibly challenge Trump.
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  9745. Azov didn't exist, before Russia invaded in 2014. They're a tiny fraction of the entire military. The far right politicians, they're aligned with, got 2% of the vote, and no seats in parliament. The US is far more fascist, by those numbers, considering the support for Trump. The US and UK conscripted, trained, and armed, every single fighting age KKK and BUF member, to go fight invading fascists, during WWII. Russia is now the invading fascists.
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  9746. @Grand Inquisitor Nope. Any evidence of that happening?
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  9747. @Grand Inquisitor So ... no? Okay then.
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  9748. @Grand Inquisitor Everyone should have access to free college. So, whatever they're doing to try to make enrollment more representative (not exactly "arbitrary") shouldn't even be happening anyway.
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  9749.  @spectralthundr9525  People know that things aren't completely "free". "Free" health care is the same as "free" roads and bridges. Taxes pay for it, but it doesn't cost the individual at time of use. Taxes pay for firemen, but at the time of the fire, the individual doesn't have to pay for the firemen to save their house and family. Taxes pay for policemen, but at the time of a robbery the individual doesn't have to pay the cop. Etc. Corporations and the rich benefit most from infrastructure, educated workers, safe trade lanes, public security, etc., but don't want to pay what is effectively a consumption tax. If Apple ships a million phones over from China, and I buy one, they have benefited a million times more than me, from safe shipping lanes. If transport trucks are moving a million goods a day, and I buy 10 goods a day, they are benefiting 100k x more than me from the road. If a transport drives 5x more than the average car, they are also using the roads 5x more. If my education makes me 100k a year, but what I do earns them a million a year, then they're benefiting 10 x more from my education. Etc. Yet, some of those fuckers pay no taxes. They're the ones getting free stuff.
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  9750.  @spectralthundr9525  Initially, they're just going to pass along the cost to consumers, and see how it goes. They should only be allowed to pass along half tariff costs. Likewise, companies should also be paying half of sales tax costs, since they are also benefitting from the sale, instead of passing it entirely to the consumer. They're riding the backs of everyone else in so many ways.
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  9751.  @spectralthundr9525  Corruption definitely needs to be addressed, but there's still an inherent flaw in the consumers paying for the full cost of labourer wages, the consumers paying the full cost of materials, the consumers paying the full cost of rent, the consumer paying the full cost of taxes, etc. In the end, as long as they're making a profit, the producer has zero cost and pure benefit, while the consumer has all the cost and some benefit. Small businesses might be a bit different, where the producer is the labourer, and should maybe get full labour costs, and it might have been okay for when all businesses were relatively small. But, once you start getting more and more higher ups, that do less and less work, for more and more money, things get really out of whack. It's no different than a old douchebag nobility getting all kinds of income, just for owning property, and labourers working that property for them. Having super companies, giant corporations, monopolies, funneling most of the money to the top, isn't a whole lot different than the "good" ol' days of absolute monarchies holding a monopoly on land. The whole point of creating a government of the people, for the people, was supposed to be to put an end to that kind of thing.
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  9752.  @spectralthundr9525  We started with small government and little interference in economics, after ditching monarchies. Charity schools and hospitals left most of the poor uneducated and with little health care. Zero environmental regulations had companies polluting and poisoning the environment. No law or government, on the Western frontiers, quickly devolved into feudalism. No protection of rights led to persecution, discrimination, and worse. Deregulations, in the past decades, have led to greater monopolies. Things have gone backward, since deregulations and giant tax cuts, to wealth disparity levels on par with the Gilded Age. If that's the past "greatness", politicians are aiming for, it kinda sucked for the vast majority of the population, and ended with labour riots and a great depression. Anyone who thinks capitalism doesn't need any regulations is just clueless about history. As I said, the Western frontier, and an ancap environment, devolved into feudalism. Feudalism is private property owners, with private armies, resolving disputes privately, with no oversight above those private property owners. An absolute monarchy is one of those private property owners monopolizing all the land within certain borders. They set rules for living on their private property. They set rents for living on their private property. They use their private armies to enforce those rules and rents. Then they also settle disputes privately with neighbouring monopolizers. Zero oversight above the private property owners. The whole point of a government of the people, for the people, was to end monopolization. If it's not doing, at least that, then there's no real point to it. Cattle barons were a problem into the 20th century, and only the law and military moving in stopped them. If you want capitalism, it needs to be highly regulated to work. Or else, don't do capitalism. The current corporate model, of ever increasing profits, is unsustainable. It's just impossible to keep having most of the money funnel to the top. That is what will bankrupt countries, not their social programs. There weren't a ton of social programs in the early 1900s. The government even tried helping with union busting, and fought against spreading the wealth. Massive wealth disparity bankrupted the nation. If the consumers, at the bottom, have less and less to spend, it will eventually catch up with the producers, at the top. They'll only be able to cut costs for so long, before everything crashes. Seriously, the consumer should bear half the costs, the producer should bear half the costs, since they're both benefiting from the transaction, and things should be marked up about 50%. Stories of 1000%+ markups is crazy ridiculous price gauging. Things we deem necessary for society to function should be non-profit. The government taking public funds and turning it into private profits, for necessary but privatized services is also nonsense.
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  9753.  @spectralthundr9525  I addressed small government, as well. You either didn't read half of what I said, or have reading comprehension problems. And, you don't seem to have a clue what, exactly, has and hasn't worked.
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  9754.  @spectralthundr9525  No. You have zero clue. Authoritarian capitalism (fascism) has failed. Randian style Libertarianism has failed. Anarcho-capitalism has failed. Authoritarian communism has failed. Mixed capitalism-socialism countries are what most of the world is practicing, dimwit. The places ranked the top places to live on the planet have better social programs than the US and have less corrupt governments. I agreed there's corruption, but tossing out the baby with the bathwater is stupid. Adding a law against lobbying, is increasing government oversight, not reducing. Adding laws on campaign financing, is increasing government oversight, not reducing. So what are you actually arguing, to do nothing? To simply reduce the numbers of people lobbyists need to bribe, making things easier for them, while adding no extra oversight?
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  9755. ​ @bradadult2075  So, you think things like inciting, defaming, harassing, conspiring, don't actually exist? You don't seem to have a grasp on how hate speech laws actually work.
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  9756.  @bradadult2075  Those laws are also speech based, dumb dumb. If speech isn't harmful, as you implied, you should think those are "free speech". The reality is that there's no such thing as unlimited free speech, anywhere. The US has speech laws against harassing or threatening an individual, but they don't care if you constantly say things that amount to harassing or threatening an entire group of people. You know the law? So, you know there's a dwelling clause? You can basically say you hate whoever you want, inside a private dwelling, with people you know. There's only a possible issue, when you go public. So, what's the point of going public with your hate, if you're not intending to incite others, or harass others?
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  9757. Scared of what?
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  9758.  @ethanr2202  Scared to debate what? It was an interview, dumb dumb, not a debate.
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  9759.  @stevesmith5235  Then why was the Australian dollar worth more in 2021 than in 2019?
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  9760.  @newcoatresurfacing5477  Adding more M4A yes votes to congress is accomplishing something. It's the only way to ever pass a bill, ffs. It's the exact same thing you'd still need to do after a guaranteed to fail show vote. Saying that's not accomplishing anything is beyond moronic. It reduces ftv itself to have a vote and accomplish nothing after. Dore knobs keep mentioning things like Civil Rights and Women's Suffrage. You know those both included years of public protests, right? What was Dore going to do with his ever so precious list of no voters? BGJ mentioned protests. Well, do the same damn thing with the list of congress members who haven't co-signed the 2021 bill, instead of bitching about M4A's most ardent congressional supporters. Just getting a vote was supposed to be some huge deal. The $15 got a vote. What's Dore doing with that list of no voters? Oh right, he just bitches about those who voted for it. He's pathetic, lazy, and benefits the far right more than anything.
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  9761.  @jfuite  Bullshit. He promoted Trump as the better option, vastly overestimating the benefits, claiming it would lead to a massive progressive wave that would "for sure" take the house and senate in 2018 ... didn't happen ... and the presidency in 2020 ... didn't happen. He vastly underestimated the risks, claiming even Republicans would vote against a Trump agenda ... instead they followed him and his cult into overt fascism ... and that Trump filling multiple scotus seats was as likely as the moon falling into Lake Michigan ... he did, and it didn't. All the while not giving a crap if it also might lead to millions losing their healthcare coverage, and not giving a crap to try and get millions more healthcare coverage ... but now he pretends like he's the one true champion of healthcare. He's a joke.
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  9762.  @United_Corporations_of_America  It's about 100 votes short in the house alone, dimwit. Stop fantasizing that it would have passed, now. The broader progressive caucus, who have M4A on their platform, are about 10 seats away from becoming the majority of house Dems. Get progressives to the majority of the party and they can pick the party speaker, and bring progressive bills up for a vote.
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  9763.  @goonerboz6023  So, when a dimwit comedian in his garage argues for, and against, things, that counts as fighting, but if congress members argue for, or against, things, both in the media and on the floor, that doesn't count as fighting. Spreading progressive ideas to millions more people than that dimwit comedian doesn't count as fighting. Actually removing corporate Dems from their jobs doesn't count as fighting. Actually adding more progressives doesn't count as fighting. Only if they do the bidding of a loudmouth are they "real" progressives ... sounds like Trumpists.
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  9764.  @corsoconner  If the most progressive members of congress, and any other progressives that disagree with Jimmy Dore on tactics, are the "enemy", then you're going to end up with a tiny group of puritans that never win a single seat in congress. The most popular third party hasn't won a single seat in congress in its near 50 year existence. One of those Movement for a People's Puritan Party leaders even decided that they weren't puritan enough for him, and became a party of one, lol. Narrowing your political following to as few puritan progressives as possible, and right wingers who just love to hear you bash progressives but will never vote along with you, is pure stupidity, not a winning strategy.
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  9765.  @nicka731  Did Pelosi order the removal of other corporate Dems and replacing them with more progressives? Maybe she isn't so bad if she's doing that. Zero can never be part of a majority, and can never pass anything. It can't even cast a vote for, or against, even a single bill that you like, or dislike. But, hey, maybe you can peel off enough votes to hand the Dem party totally back to corporate Dems, and let Republicans rule for decades. Sounds like "real" progressiveness.
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  9766.  @nicka731  No, dimwit. Claiming she's ordering progressives, who just took out more corporate Dems, is the moronic take that would put her on the side of progressives. Or, maybe she didn't, and they don't take orders from her. That would be the less moronic take.
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  9767.  @nicka731  You have severe reading comprehension problems, at best.
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  9768.  @tessa63627  So, corporate Dems are lining up to be the next ones taken out by progressive candidates, their corporate backers want a progressive message spreading more and more, corporate leaders want to be made to look like lying idiots in committee hearings, corporate donors want more and more congress members who they can't control with donations, corporations want the ideas of socialism to become more and more acceptable, etc.?
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  9769.  @tessa63627  The capitol police aren't really a police force. They don't go wandering the streets enforcing the law. They're a force of security guards and bodyguards. The house actually passed large covid relief bills, geared more towards the people. Mitch didn't even bring them up for a vote in the senate. AOC just tried backing progressives in some of those conservative districts, in the 2020 primaries, and they got creamed. Now, she's trying to help Dems who trounced progressives, and beat Republicans, to hold their seats in the midterms. I get it. Dore knobs would prefer a Republican majority house. They seem to like doing things that benefit Republicans most.
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  9770.  @tessa63627  The capitol police aren't much like an actual police force. They don't wander the streets enforcing the law. That's just a fact. The capitol police weren't used in your example, exactly because they don't wander off the property of the capitol. That was the secret service and federal parks police. You're obviously clueless as to what was in the Heroes Act. That's just a fact. I said I got it. You Dore knobs want Republicans to win the house, and progressives to be part of a minority party. You lot have amazing political instincts, that benefit the far right most. That's just a fact.
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  9771.  @tessa63627  I get it. Throwing 10m of the poorest Americans off Medicaid expansion is totally samesies as not doing that and possibly expanding Medicare. Being shortchanged $600 in covid relief is totally samesies as zero new covid relief, zero new unemployment extension, zero new student loan freeze, zero new eviction freeze, etc. Corporate friendly socially conservative judges are totally samesies as corporate friendly socially liberal judges. And progressives being in the minority party is totally samesies as them being in the majority party. I get that Dore and his knobs don't actually care about anything. All or nothing, or even less than nothing and going completely backwards, for them, because they don't care. They've also proved they don't actually care about simply getting a vote on something important. Weeks of making out like just getting a vote on something important is a big deal ... making out like getting a list of no voters would be huge and lead to big things ... then the $15 minimum gets a vote aaaannnd ... they keep bitching about those who voted for it, and do absolutely nothing with a list of no voters. Just a bunch of pathetic do nothings, who want everything handed to them. I get it. Fighting in the media ... the only thing Dore does, btw ... doesn't count for shit. Spreading ideas to the masses doesn't count as fighting, or getting anywhere. Also, adding M4A yes votes to congress ... the only way to ever pass the bill, and the thing you'd still need to do after a guaranteed to fail show vote ... and removing more corporate Dems from congress, doesn't count as fighting. That reduces ftv down to having a guaranteed to fail show vote and then doing nothing. Entirely pointless, from the get go. No, dumb dumb. You claimed they didn't fight for covid relief for the people, and claimed no covid relief bills were geared towards the people. Either the Heroes Act has zero to do with covid relief, or you were spewing complete bullshit, as Dore knobs tend to do.
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  9772. Read Ze'ev Jabotinsky's Iron Wall. He very clearly acknowledged that Zionism is colonialism. He knew, even then (1923), exactly how the natives would respond. Israel has been following the colonial blueprint for North America. Move settlements out into native territory, the natives react violently, the calvary comes in and wipes out the natives, the border expands to include the settlements ... rinse and repeat.
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  9773. Firefox must not like dictionaries. 1580–90; < Greek áthe ( os ) godless + -ism
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  9774.  @machida58  Sure, Bernie was too nice, but his niceness, his caring for others, is also what makes him a great guy, and a remarkable politician. I wouldn't call that "weak". It's not Bernie's fault that so many Americans are ignorant, and don't give two shits about each other, even despise each other.
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  9775.  @galaxymilchstrae2736  Palestinians have Canaanite DNA, dumb dumb.
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  9776.  @nerighal2889  What was the Gaza airport like?
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  9777.  @nerighal2889  The argument being that they don't control their own borders, ports, airspace, who goes in and out, what goes in and out, electricity, water, ... ? Yes, that's my argument. Oh ... but they had shops ... so not a prison. You're an idiot. That's more of a prison than many minimum security prisons.
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  9778. @Broly 456 If you don't have corporations paying into the dividend then they will only get the benefit of the dividend being spent. Amazon's share of US consumer spending is 2.3%, and rising. If even 2% of $3t is spent on Amazon, they'll make an extra $60b a year. Extra billions they can hoard or invest into automation, putting people out of work even faster. Bezos, being a 12% owner of Amazon, would make an extra $6+b a year, increasing and speeding up inequality. If you won't have corporations paying into your dividend, you shouldn't compare it to one that is paid for by corporations, Alaska's. You shouldn't be claiming people will get paid for their data, get paid to be shown ads, or get paid for every automated truck mile. You, most definitely, shouldn't be promoting a tax designed to not tax businesses as a way to tax businesses. That's borderline gibberish.
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  9779. Quakers aren't too bad.
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  9780.  @evangelicalsnever-lie9792  Well, you can grab shit individuals from any grouping. In general, as a group, Quakers aren't too bad.
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  9781.  @jameshumphrey9939  No. Yang has a number of holes in his plan. A VAT is not a way to make corporations like Amazon "pay their fair share", as he claims. Because it doesn't, he'd make them tens of billions more a year, which would make Bezos billions more a year ... more than he'd ever pay in in a year. And, if money would flow even faster to the very top, then that money is coming from elsewhere.
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  9782.  @mattolivier1835  Marx's ideal was for a stateless, non-authoritarian, direct democracy, form of sclsm. The complete opposite is an ultra-nationalistic, authoritarian, anti-democratic, form of crony capitalism. Republicans have always been riding the line, but MAGA made a full blown attempt to overthrow the democratic process, crossing the line. So, any MAGA Lauras, Laurens, Laras, ... Lauren Southern, Lara Trump, Laura Chen.
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  9783.  @mattolivier1835   Marx's ideal was for a stateless, non-authoritarian, direct democracy form of sclsm. The complete opposite is an ultra-nationalistic, authoritarian, anti-democratic, form of crony capitalism. Republicans have always been riding the line, but MAGA made a full blown attempt to ovrthrw the democratic process, crossing the line. So, any MAGA Lauras, Laurens, Laras, ... Lauren Southern, Lara Trump, Laura Chen.
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  9784.  @mattolivier1835  Lauren Southern, Laura Chen, Lara Trump, Laura Loomer, Lauren Boebert, ...
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  9785.  @mattolivier1835  Yeah, I posted the definition above, straight from the horse's mouth, dingus. They all support MAGA having tried to completely ovrthrw the democratic process, to install Dump as an unelected dcttr.
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  9786.  @P1ranh4  Harris has been doing the same thing, since well before Trump came along. Yadda, yadda, yadda ... Republicans are bad ... yadda, yadda, yadda ... but they're right about X, and the "regressive left", or whatnot, are so horribly wrong about X.
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  9787.  JustMemes  Not my question.
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  9788.  @nassaubahamas8570  Not yet. Did you have a point?
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  9789.  @braytonlife  I did, and you literally mentioned a "debate". Grifters who paint vaccines in the worst possible light, peddle covid misinformation, and peddle bullshit alternative remedies, should be called out, and treated like the morons they are. They also fall into your harmful category.
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  9790.  @Tyler_Owen23  Rofl! Most regular people got vaccinated, and don't whine about it. Your minority conspiracy crowd is disconnected from reality.
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  9791.  @nassaubahamas8570  I'm as up to date as I'm eligible, dumb dumb. What are you, completely unvaxxed, like a moron?
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  9792. ​ @msbkaioken136  You're saying a lot of nothing. Here. Likud's bloody 100 year history ... The history of Likud is the history of Revisionist Zionism. In 1923, its founder, Ze'ev Jabotinsky, wrote The Iron Wall, and a follow up, The Ethics of The Iron Wall (sooo racist towards Africans), in which he fully acknowledged that Zionsim was colonialism, and that, based on the entirety of history, the native Palestinian population would resist being colonized until the bitter end. He directly compared it to the colonization of North America. He promoted doing it anyway, claiming Zionist colonialism was a "just" colonialism (he also thought North American colonialists were good guys, so not a great judge of morality), not caring what that meant for the native population. That same year, Ze'ev separated from the Haganah, and began training his own Betar militant youth group which, along with other Revisionists who broke from Haganah, formed the Irgun, and Lehi, terrorist groups. The Irgun bombed numerous Palestinian markets and other public places, murdering many Palestinian civilians, including children, even including Palestinian Jews (who didn't support colonialist Zionsim). The Irgun ended up being led by future Likud PM, Menachem Begin, who bombed the King David Hotel. The King David Hotel was bombed because the British had raided the Jewish Agency and seized numerous documents that may have shown that the terrorists were working with the JA and Haganah (JA liked to pretend that they didn't support the terrorism). The British then stored those documents at their base, in the hotel. That the Irgun terrorists responded to a JA raid, itself seems to prove the connection. That the thousands of Irgun (and Lehi) terrorists were also quickly merged into the new nation's military (IDF) and intelligence (Mossad) agencies, and are still celebrated as "heroes" by Israelis, to this day, also seems to support total collaboration between the groups. That other terrorist group mentioned, Lehi (also known as the Stern Gang), was considered even more extreme. They even tried to ally with the Nazis, Italian Fascists, and Vichy Lebanon, and continued fighting against the British, throughout WWII. Lehi ended up being led by Yitzhak Shamir, future Mossad agent, and another future Likud PM. They assassinated Lord Moyne, and others. In 1945, there was a major land and peoples survey done in Palestine. It showed that the Zionists only owned about 5% of the total land, 20% of the arable land, and owned a majority in zero districts. The partition was not only going to be forced on the non-Jewish majority of Palestine, but Jews were still going to be a minority, in the part allocated to them. The only possible way to become a "Jewish state" was going to require getting rid of the actual majority (at least enough so that there'd be a solid Jewish majority, so they could fake being democratic). This is also shown by the 1948, post Nakba, population of Israel. If there was 716,700 Jews, 156,000+ non-Jews, and there were at least 711,000 non-Jews ethnically cleansed, that means the Jewish population, in the Zionist portion of partition, was originally over 100,000 less than the non-Jewish population. To believe that there was never any intent, by Zionists, to ethnically cleanse away the non-Jewish majority would require believing that they never intended to create a "Jewish state". It's a nonsensical notion. Those terrorist groups also opposed partition, but for the opposite reason Palestinians did. Palestinians didn't want to be colonized, at all. The terrorists, on the other hand, wanted to colonize it all. "Moderate" Zionists were okay with colonizing half ... for now (what would happen in the future, after partition, was up to them, said Ben-Gurion). The Zionist terrorists were also involved in massacres, and assassinations, during the partition violence (colonialist war against the natives). Another notable future Likud PM, also started in the military, during the partition fighting. That was Ariel Sharon, war criminal, "Butcher of Beirut". Menachem Begin, and these other Zionist terrorists, then became involved in Israeli politics, first forming Herut. That was the party Albert Einstein, and other prominent American Jews, wrote about, in a letter printed in the NYT, in December of 1948, when Begin came to visit the US. The letter opened ... "Among the most disturbing political phenomena of our times is the emergence in the newly created state of Israel of the "Freedom Party" (Tnuat Haherut), a political party closely akin in its organization, methods, political philosophy and social appeal to the Nazi and Fascist parties. It was formed out of the membership and following of the former Irgun Zvai Leumi, a terrorist, right-wing, chauvinist organization in Palestine." Herut merged with other extremist parties, over the years, and eventually became Likud, in the 70s. Now, people get upset over the slogan "From the river to the sea!", but it's the second part that's most important, "Palestine will be free!". Because "Palestine" isn't defined as an ethno-state, a free Palestine can be a single state, free for all to live in, and return to, free of continuing colonization, free of occupation, free of oppression, etc. Just like a Germany free of Nazism, an Italy free of fascism, a South Africa free of apartheid, or an America free of slavery from sea to shiny sea. It doesn't necessitate purging all the Jews. It just necessitates them giving up on the idea of an ethno-state. On the other hand, because "Israel" has been defined as an ethno-state, Likud's, "between the sea and the Jordan there will only be Israeli sovereignty", has no possible good interpretation. It is a declaration of intent to completely colonize, and ethnically cleanse, all Palestine territories. Not only that, but it also claims they have a "right" to all of the "Land of Israel" (fictional biblical borders that don't mesh with archaeological reality), which is an open declaration of future wars, against Jordan, Syria, Lebanon, and possibly even Iraq. Likud platform ... 1977: "The Right of the Jewish People to the Land of Israel (Eretz Israel) a. The right of the Jewish people to the land of Israel is eternal and indisputable and is linked with the right to security and peace; therefore, Judea and Samaria will not be handed to any foreign administration; between the Sea and the Jordan there will only be Israeli sovereignty. b. A plan which relinquishes parts of western Eretz Israel, undermines our right to the country, unavoidably leads to the establishment of a "Palestinian State," jeopardizes the security of the Jewish population, endangers the existence of the State of Israel. and frustrates any prospect of peace." 1999: "The Government of Israel flatly rejects the establishment of a Palestinian Arab state west of the Jordan river. The Palestinians can run their lives freely in the framework of self-rule, but not as an independent and sovereign state. Thus, for example, in matters of foreign affairs, security, immigration, and ecology, their activity shall be limited in accordance with imperatives of Israel's existence, security and national needs." "The Jewish communities in Judea, Samaria, and Gaza are the realization of Zionist values. Settlement of the land is a clear expression of the unassailable right of the Jewish people to the Land of Israel and constitutes an important asset in the defense of the vital interests of the State of Israel. The Likud will continue to strengthen and develop these communities and will prevent their uprooting." All Palestine territories (OPT) are officially considered occupied, by the International Court of Justice, the UN GA, the UN SC, and even in official documents of Israel's own allies. Likud is still using the blueprint for colonizing North America, in the West Bank. Move settlements out into native territory, piss off the natives, the natives retaliate, cry about poor "innocent" colonizing settlers being the "victims" of violent "Savages!", call in the cavalry to put down the native uprising, and eventually expand the borders to include those settlements. Rinse and repeat. In Gaza, Israel is operating an open air WWII style fascist ghetto. Them claiming a "right to defend themselves" would be like the Nazis claiming a "right to defend themselves " from the Warsaw ghetto uprising. There's no "war". That they're the occupiers means the "war" part is long over. Those people are actually supposed to be under the occupier's protection. That partition was forced upon the Palestinian majority, against their will ... that the Zionist portion still had to be forcefully ethnically cleansed of its non-Jewish majority, against their will ... that the millions of occupied Palestinians don't have a say in the government that truly rules over them, Israel's ... that millions more Palestinian refugees, don't have a right of return, to vote ... means Israel is about as democratic as Nazi Germany after Hitler purged his political opponents and then held elections.
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  9793.  @ParentOne1  There is always a tiny percentage of voter fraud. It's usually dealt with behind the scenes, and after the election. Hundreds, even thousands, of cases around the country is insignificant, out of 150m votes. Dealing with that in public, before conceding, is just wasting people's time. There's no evidence of widespread voter or election fraud.
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  9794.  @ParentOne1  That there's widespread voter or election fraud, isn't a matter of opinion. If you make the claim, and then have to set up hotlines looking for evidence, have to offer rewards looking for evidence, have to put on a propaganda show instead of having a solid court case, then you made a baseless claim, and are wasting people's time.
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  9795. How is it an additive, if he's projecting massive job losses due to automation, and argues against retraining?
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  9796.  @TPerm-hj4sf  That will leave the million or more truckers he projects will be unemployed living on $12k a year. Sounds like a great plan.
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  9797.  @TPerm-hj4sf  Also, a VAT doesn't charge Amazon tax. No VAT: Amazon buys a product from a manufacturer for $100, Amazon sells it to a consumer for $200, Amazon pockets $100. VAT: Amazon buys a product from a manufacturer for $100 + $10 VAT, the manufacturer sends $10 to government, Amazon sells it to a consumer for $200 +$20 VAT, Amazon sends $10 to government, Amazon pockets $100. Explain how you think that is a tax on Amazon.
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  9798. ​ @barbaraibiel  Over, by letting Russia invade whoever they want. That's not exactly anti-war.
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  9799. Same with seatbelts and airbags. You can just use two cars for the analogy. One speeding, drunk, no seatbelts, no airbags, as the unvaccinated.
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  9800. ​ @UTubeHandlesSuck  But, you can blame "Tricky Dick", for helping to turn Reagan Republican. Nixon led a character assassination campaign against Helen "Pink Lady" Gahagan, in 1950. Reagan, who had been an FDR supporting Democrat, and supporter of Gahagan, bought into the Red Scare tactics (or maybe out of a cowardly fear of being cancelled), and switched support to Nixon. You can also blame Nixon for the Southern Strategy. He led the Republican party to be anti-socialist and racist, gathering all the worst people into one party. Plus, he started in on the privatization and lifting of regulations.
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  9801.  @Obama6464  It doesn't stack with standard SSI disability. It also doesn't stack with other forms of assistance that could have some people already getting $1000+ a month. The VAT/UBI combo will only be a negative for them.
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  9802.  @Obama6464  I said SSI disability. He absolutely does not have it stack with SSI. But, SSI can stack with SNAP, and put people over $1000 a month in assistance already. A VAT would only be a negative, for them, since they wouldn't benefit from the UBI. Even SNAP alone can put some people over $1000 a month, currently. SNAP also doesn't stack with UBI.
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  9803. ​@@user-ym7vi1jz8f I'm laughing , because he's lying. Both sides had a chance to provide their evidence, before the judgement, back in August. Whatever his team presented to the judge wasn't very persuasive. Like the Trump case, this trial was just to decide how much in damages. He was already found guilty, months ago.
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  9804.  @AllMustJump  The electoral college kind of makes it nonsensical that Democrats in guaranteed red states get to vote in the primaries, when they immediately become irrelevant in the general.
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  9805.  @BCEpedals  The point wasn't technology, dumb dumb, it wasn't HOW. The point was WHY the hell are you watching MR, while your wife is supposedly having pregnancy complications.
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  9806. Dore, literally, goes on Tucker's show just to largely agree with Tucker, ffs.
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  9807.  @lanceb7556  Did Dore tell Tucker that, if they want free speech on social media, then they should support public ownership, because there's no such thing as free speech on someone else's private property? Did Dore tell Tucker that incitement isn't protected speech anyway, so Trump was justifiably banned? Nope. He just agreed with Tucker about Trump being banned and tech companies.
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  9808. You've let Sam surpass you.
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  9809. You also forgot to mention the historical loss in the second quarter. 100 - 31% + 33% = a net loss.
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  9810.  @richardfrahm2701  Rofl!!!! Oh, you're outright crazy. Sorry, my bad, for replying to you. Bye.
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  9811.  @richardfrahm2701  Holy geezus, you're a complete moron, who can't even do basic math, on top of peddling insane conspiracies. 100 - 31% = 69. 69 + 33% = 91.77. For a net loss of 8.23.
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  9812.  @richardfrahm2701  Dummy, whatever the number was, before the drop, is the 100%. Then you have a 31% drop in Q2, then you have a 33% gain in Q3, and you're at 91.77% of the number you started with.
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  9813.  @richardfrahm2701  And that's totally ignoring the 5% drop in Q1.
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  9814.  @Chris4Liberty  The only one attacking democracy is the one trying to throw away legitimate votes. That his "lawyers" are trying to throw away legitimate votes was verified and criticized by Republican judges. How is killing people for minor offences, for not following orders, for running, for having toy guns, for having mental issues, etc., etc., etc., not "tyranny"? The colonialists thought shooting violent protesters was "tyranny".
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  9815.  @Chris4Liberty  Being lied to ... by my own eyes? I've seen videos of all those things.
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  9816.  @Chris4Liberty  All the cop stuff. Ohhh, rofl, you're delusional and think Trump is winning in court?
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  9817.  @Chris4Liberty  Thinking that women of color must have come from other countries (3 out of 4 didn't), and thinking you have more of a right to the country than them, is pretty racist.
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  9818.  @Chris4Liberty  I'm Canadian. Only 14% of our population are nutbars who like Trump.
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  9819. @Joaquin Pampliega Who's trying to have millions of valid votes tossed and put an end the democratic process?
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  9820. @Joaquin Pampliega Republican judges chastised the legal team for trying to get rid of millions of valid votes, dumb dumb.
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  9821. Aside from some of the other negatives I've seen mentioned (cruise ship labor practices and pollution), that price would be per person, wouldn't it? I think you'd lose much of the cost benefit as a couple.
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  9822.  @epix4300  Mason stated a fact. Assuming you watched the video, you apparently didn't grasp the meaning of all the words spoken, which did form an argument.
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  9823.  @epix4300  No need.
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  9824.  @epix4300  No clue what he's talking about. They laid out the argument that Kirk didn't understand the term he was using, leading to the conclusion he's an idiot. Either you grasped the words which formed the argument, and lead to the conclusion, or you didn't.
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  9825.  @kennethford3550  It's not about overusing a resource in commonly owned property, like overfishing in publicly owned waters?
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  9826.  @epix4300  I think you missed 75% of what Sam said.
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  9827. Iraq started the freaking tanker war, during the Iraq-Iran War, and Western countries were giving them the arms to do it. Dishonest scum, and morons who believe them.
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  9828.  EquinsuOchaTX  According to the Alabama supreme court, we're all female, since life begins at fertilization.
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  9829. 27% of Republicans don't want Trump to concede, no matter what. They're ready for all out fascism.
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  9830. Yes, US moderators and journalists need to inform themselves on how a VAT actually works, so they can challenge Yang's total cluelessness.
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  9831.  @peoples2296  There are words Carlin complained about, that are still cancelled by the FCC, which is a government agency that continues to protect the delicate sensibilities of conservatives, from naughty words and nipples, on a daily basis. Conservatives didn't seem to mind when the actual government (Trump) fired, or threatened to fire, federal employees that said things which contradicted him. They didn't mind when the actual government (Trump) argued for citizens to be fired for expressing themselves. Conservative religious types have been cancelling things and people for centuries, and still are a plenty.
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  9832. That's like feeling terrible that you can't freely punch someone in the face. What's lost by defamatory hate speech, specifically? Just defamatory hate speech. So? Are you sad you can't freely false advertise and freely defraud people? Are you sad you can't freely conspire or incite? Poor poor Charles Manson. You lot are complete and utter morons.
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  9833. As truckers, don't all the rules of the road interfere with their "freedumbs" more than a vaccine? Why aren't they protesting drinking and driving laws, or something?
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  9834.  @troywilliams9237  The fun thing to do with anecdotes is add them up all together, to get actual statistics.
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  9835.  @newbieprepper8451  Rofl. The FDA gave full approval, months ago, dimwit. Plus, Canada has their own medical agencies, ffs. Businesses can ask you for any relevant health information. If a construction company wants you to have an up to date tetanus shot, or no job, then you get a tetanus shot, or no job.
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  9836.  @troywilliams9237  It's called herd immunity, ffs.
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  9837.  @cmdrlucas6949  These ones aren't doing their jobs, dimwit.
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  9838.  @newbieprepper8451  Aug 23, 2021: Today, the U.S. Food and Drug Administration approved the first COVID-19 vaccine.
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  9839.  @newbieprepper8451  May 3 2021: Health Canada has approved all four COVID-19 vaccines and labelled them safe.
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  9840. Like replicatorz, do you also deny that there is such a thing as strong Atheists, who put forth a counter proposition, that God does not exist?
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  9841. He's also leading the charge to make the US liable for covid. Bankrupt America to own the libs!!!
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  9842.  @Canvashed  Check out your non answer.
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  9843.  @Canvashed  How is Isrl and Likud off topic, dingus?
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  9844. Huh? Aren't the poor people poor by choice? All they have to do is pull themselves up by the bootstraps, no?
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  9845. People supporting Puritan Nazis, need to be careful. When they keep weeding out who is acceptable, you'll be next. Just like the KKK didn't consider Catholics real Christians, they'll eventually get to Mormons.
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  9846. Most of your posts make little sense, so don't hold your breath.
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  9847.  @DonZHawthorneIII  Close. An end to their sort of democratic elections would seal the deal.
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  9848.  @DonZHawthorneIII  Yeah, it has fascists, but it's not quite a fascist state, as long as they still have a semblance of democracy. Not necessarily prepare to intervene, but we also don't want to become Poland 2.0, lol.
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  9849. The VAT/UBI combination will only make giant corporations and the super rich even richer. It will eat the upper middle class and lower end rich, who have large but fairly fixed salaries, spend a lot, but don't hoard ridiculous amounts like the super rich.
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  9850.  @IsabelArmstrong  I'm Canadian. I've been paying a VAT for almost 30 years and have operated a business with a VAT. We had healthcare and social programs before the VAT. A VAT is a way to generate federal revenue. It's not a way to tax corporations, as Yang falsely claims.
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  9851.  @rbda87  No, it's not. It is built right into a VAT system that they actually get paid back for anything they pay in, effectively paying nothing. Input VAT is subtracted from output VAT and they only send the difference to the government. The final consumer ends up paying all the VAT.
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  9852.  @johnnaliggett3625  It's going into consumers' hands, and since the VAT doesn't actually tax a corporation like Amazon, the VAT/UBI scheme will only make them richer. No. Someone already getting unstackable government assistance over $1000 a month wouldn't benefit from the UBI but would still pay in with the VAT.
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  9853.  @zammmerjammer  Thanks. Brain fart.
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  9854. ​ @taggah2000  Maybe remind them that Vance's childless comments apply to the majority of the military, only 36% of which have children. He says they're "sociopaths", says they don't have a stake in the country, and for policy proposed giving them less of a vote, as well as taxing them at a higher rate. And Vance's sugar daddy, Peter Thiel, has a lot of pull in MAGA.
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  9855. You people should Google: deGrasse + creationism ...before you speak.
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  9856. Look up the Zionist terrorist groups, Irgun and Lehi. Zionist crimes started before 1948.
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  9857.  @Riddlestar93  Oh, ffs, that wasn't a specific party problem. That was a national problem, and FDR took a step in the right direction with executive order 8802. A higher percentage of black people are poor, and work lower wage jobs. So you think it's better that the party joined Republicans, and moved towards corporate backing instead of union and worker backing, and left the poor people behind?
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  9858. ​ @Sebby6666  He, and his fascist cohorts, are working on changing the laws, so that a PM can't be charged. Also, to make it so the government can overrule the Supreme Court. He'll be able to do anything, if that is passed.
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  9859.  @petetsaggaris5163  Rofl. Directed at women who, all but one, come from the US. Meaning this ... "whose governments are a complete and total catastrophe, the worst, most corrupt and inept anywhere in the world" ... is referring to the US. Dumbp got something right.
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  9860. He's lying. The nervous system isn't developed until about 27 weeks, after which most places don't do abortions unless the mother is at risk, or something.
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  9861. ​ @leilanigreenwood5064  You need a supermajority, to get something through the senate, that no Republicans support.
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  9862. Most of the Canadians getting healthcare in the US are from the 500+k Snowbirds, who own winter homes in Florida. They aren't going to Florida for the healthcare. They're going for the sun. The healthcare is incidental.
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  9863. I don't give a crap about any other propositions they claim to be skeptical about. Agnosticism equates to religious skepticism only. You can not both believe God Exists and doubt God Exists. You either believe, or you don't. If you believe, you are no longer skeptical to that proposition, and no longer Agnostic.
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  9864. ​ @michaelw6222  The electoral college is not inherently unrepresentative. It was the Permanent Apportionment Act of 1929, which froze the number of seats in congress and, in turn, the number of electorals, which has made things increasingly unrepresentative. That, and the senate, with tiny red states getting just as many votes as large blue states, being able to block legislation. The senate was the stupid creation.
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  9865.  @cezarcatalin1406  It's just a fact. You never had a right to be on their private property (privately owned servers), which means you never had a right to be on their private property blathering whatever you want. It's a fact that there's no such thing as "free speech" on someone else's private property.
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  9866.  @shrimp8545  An apocalypse preacher can stand in the public street and spew whatever nonsense they want. If they tried it in a restaurant, they'd get tossed out, or the police would.come take them away. In publicly owned spaces, you actually have free speech rights. In privately owned spaces, you don't. So, yes, it would.
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  9867.  @ericthomas917  I didn't make it clear that I'd like the public to have control?
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  9868.  @fatherson5907  I wouldn't care if a kid saw Cher, or a guy dressed as Cher. Not only do religious nuts do these creepy balls, many also dress and make up their little girls like adults and parade them around in front of a room of strangers. That's grooming.
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  9869.  @ricardocabeza6006  Exactly this point, dumb dumb.
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  9870. ​ @PC160  Yeah, all the hair splitting, attempts to delay, attempts to move, are all really weird. I mean, they've got loads of evidence that the election was rigged, right? They should be eager to get into court. They've been whining about not getting into a court, for years.
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  9871. Isn't their answer to kids being shot in schools to lock the kids up in the schools, and hand the teachers guns? They don't actually want anything done, that might reduce the need for increased school security. But, locked up candy ... that's going too far!
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  9872.  @jonesy4546  There's nothing for a business to avoid, with a VAT. A VAT is specifically designed to credit back businesses' input VAT. It's just not a tax on businesses to begin with. It's a more complex sales tax, that's collected in stages, and all the business stages get paid back.
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  9873.  @jonesy4546  "The GST takes into account the cost of inputs – the factors used in manufacturing or production – at each stage of the process to avoid double taxation. Input tax credits enable partnerships, businesses and self-employed workers to recover all GST paid on goods and services purchased for business purposes by deducting them from their GST payments. Final consumers are not entitled to such credits, which means that they pay all the GST on every item purchased. The GST is thus a multi-stage tax on final consumption." http://publications.gc.ca/Collection-R/LoPBdP/BP/prb0003-e.htm#A.%20Taxing%20Mechanism(txt)
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  9874.  @jonesy4546  "It is not a charge on businesses." "collected fractionally, via a system of partial payments whereby taxable persons (i.e., VAT-registered businesses) deduct from the VAT they have collected the amount of tax they have paid to other taxable persons on purchases for their business activities" "The VAT due on any sale is a percentage of the sale price but from this the taxable person is entitled to deduct all the tax already paid at the preceding stage. Therefore, double taxation is avoided and tax is paid only on the value added at each stage of production and distribution. In this way, as the final price of the product is equal to the sum of the values added at each preceding stage, the final VAT paid is made up of the sum of the VAT paid at each stage." https://ec.europa.eu/taxation_customs/business/vat/what-is-vat_en
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  9875.  @jonesy4546  Seriously, Yang is clueless or lying. It's not a tax on businesses. "If a business is VAT registered they can reclaim the VAT they have paid on purchases. The difference between what they have charged on sales and what they have paid on purchases must be sent to HM Revenue & Customs. If this is a negative figure then it means they have more to reclaim than they have charged and HM Revenue & Customs will send the business the amount due." https://youtu.be/fmAbBu7VQjQ
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  9876.  @jonesy4546  It's not semantics. A VAT is designed to NOT tax businesses in order to avoid double taxation. There's doesn't end up being anything for them to avoid. I'm Canadian, been paying a VAT (GST) for 30 years, operated a VAT registered business, and filled out VAT returns for years. It's an objective fact that anyone promoting a tax designed to avoid taxing businesses, as a way to tax businesses, is completely clueless or completely dishonest. Since a corporation like Amazon won't pay into the dividend with a VAT, they'd only get the benefits of the dividend being spent. They'd make an extra $60b a year. Having the money end up flowing to hoards at the very top is the current problem. Speeding up the process will make things worse in the long run. Instead of pretending your dividend is like Alaska's, which is paid for by corporations, find ways to actually make it like Alaska's.. US corporations are hoarding $2.7t. That should be paying for a UBI. A UBI shouldn't be paying to increase the hoard.
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  9877.  @jonesy4546  Variables, like what standard rate a country sets, what they choose to zero rate, what they choose to exempt, etc., is all irrelevant to the core design, btw. A VAT is intentionally designed to not end up being a tax on businesses.
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  9878.  @dreamdiscounts  Bullshit. That includes zero rated goods. Nobody is paying a tax on 0% tax. When looking at standard rated goods it finds a 100% pass through.
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  9879.  @dreamdiscounts  Yang either didn't read it, didn't understand it, or is lying. "For changes in the standard rate, for instance, final pass through is about 100 percent;" " We look, for instance, not only at the central question of the pass through of standard changes, but also ..." With regard to the central question, the answer is 100%.
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  9880.  @dreamdiscounts  That only matters to overall CPI, cost of living, or inflation. With regard to who is paying the tax, only goods and services actually taxed are relevant. To look at a 100% pass through good or service and then look at a zero rated good or service, and say there's a 50% pass through is one thing. To use that to claim businesses paid 50% is pure bullshit. Nobody paid on the zero rated, and the consumer paid on the standard rated. Zero rated goods are irrelevant to the question of who is paying the VAT.
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  9881.  @dreamdiscounts  No, moron. I'm referring to the false claim that businesses will pay into the VAT, dumbass. Nice strawman though.
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  9882.  @johnb1567  If you get zero benefit from UBI (equal to or less than the assistance you're currently on), then you'd be in the negative with a 1¢ VAT on a 10¢ item. And are you just going to skim over that your candidate is clueless or lying? Just going to skim over that, if Amazon isn't paying into the dividend, then they'll make an extra $60b a year from Yang? Just going to skim over that that would make Bezos billions more a year than he'd ever personally pay into a VAT?
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  9883.  @dreamdiscounts  Moron. The topic was who would be paying for it, businesses or consumers, dumbass. Nobody is paying for zero rated goods and services, so no matter how much you feel it's relevant, the fact is that it isn't. 100% pass through on standard rated goods and services.
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  9884.  @johnb1567  I did answer the question. Do you have reading comprehension problems?
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  9885.  @johnb1567  It would all depend on their income and spending, dumbass. I already pointed out that all it would take for someone already getting $1000+ in assistance that doesn't stack with UBI is 10¢, and they're operating in the negative, dumb dumb. People spend about 30% of their incomes on VATable goods and services, so it's actually more like anyone currently getting $970+ in unstackable assistance, which is full SSI disability benefits and SNAP, will be worse off. But hey, as long as you're better off, and as long as people making hundreds of thousands a year are better off, and billionaires are better off, it's all good, right?
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  9886. But Trump knows people would think he's trying to fool them, so he'd state exactly who he'd rather run against, hoping people think he means the opposite. Either way, Bernie is immune to iocane powder. https://youtu.be/rMz7JBRbmNo
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  9887. The one that failed, when Bernie lost the primary, but they then pretended like Biden is exactly the same "radical left", or whatnot.
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  9888.  @hardyharr9377  And I'll just point out your stupidity, again.
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  9889.  King Charles ✔  Plenty of right wingers play at being "enlightened centrists", or "independents", while always seeming to defend the far right. Ironic, considering what passes for centrism, out in the real world, is called "far left", in the US.
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  9890.  Lincoln D  You're a right wing Trump cultist. You don't even want M4A or minimum wage. You're only consistency is using moronic talking points from both the right and "left" (Dore knob is the grifter). Almost all of Trump's economic gains happened during his first term, while Obama's last budget was still in effect. Things started going sour, when Trump's first budget kicked in, and he started his trade wars. Trump dropped more bombs than Obama, dumb dumb. Trump also didn't lower border crossings, overall. He just treated crossers even worse than they were already being treated.
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  9891.  @I_Go_Rogue  Ironic post. You proved you're the one that has no clue what a fascism is. In short ... "Fascism is the complete opposite of Marxian socialism." ~ Mussolini "Leftie" and "fascist" aren't compatible.
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  9892.  @oscartheamazing6745  The only thing separating Republicans from being outright fascist, has been the fact that they've only been undemocratic, rather than anti-democratic. All the other boxes were already checked. Even corporate Dems check a bunch of the boxes. The fact that the majority of Republican lawmakers, and their leader, wanted to overthrow the democratic process, to install Dumpty as an unelected dictator, crossed that line. It's a fascist party.
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  9893.  @michaelrandall7667  Did Trump want the election results overturned? Did he want the certification stopped? Were numerous Republican lawmakers trying to stop the certification, and overturn the election? Were the people who stormed the Capitol trying to stop the certification, and overturn the election? Regarding the Sutherland Springs church shooting, if Kelley had shot and killed the two guys (neither of whom actually saw him shoot anyone) who shot him and chased him at high speed, would those two deaths increase his murder count or be written off as "self defense". The citizen's arrest laws seem to conflict with Rittenhouse's last two shootings. Most sane people also think the law should be such that he was arrested just for wandering the streets with a gun.
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  9894.  @I_Go_Rogue  Pretty sure I mentioned corporate Dems, dumb dumb. When was it they tried to completely overthrow the democratic process and install an unelected dictator?
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  9895.  @I_Go_Rogue  Rofl. You're just like Ben.
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  9896.  @michaelrandall7667  I clearly made a comparison to another incident, where 2 people didn't see the shooter shoot anybody, ffs. You're rambling on about a bunch of irrelevant crap. Who cares if he was petting kittens all day, and nobody else could know what he was thinking, or planning to do. People heard shooting, come upon the scene of where someone was shot dead, someone is point towards Rittenhouse and saying he killed the guy, and they go after him. That puts those who then chase after someone they think is a murderer in the same position as the two who didn't actually see the church shooter shoot anybody. Yeah, a random riot, every how many years? So much worse than people constantly shooting each other. You seriously can't grasp how people can look at firearm mortality rates, and homicide mortality rates, see that red states, with looser guns, tend to have higher rates of both, and come to the conclusion it's a bad idea to let people run around with guns? You can't grasp how people can look at pretty much every other developed country, and come to the conclusion it's a bad idea to let people run around with guns? It's really not that hard, if you give it a try.
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  9897.  @michaelrandall7667  What he did earlier is irrelevant, because people chasing after someone they think is a murderer had no clue if he spent the day kicking dogs, or what. It's irrelevant. Stopped reading the second bit, when you started spewing bullshit (first couple sentences). You're either completely ignorant, or completely dishonest. Check the CDC firearm mortality rate by state, and homicide rate by state.
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  9898.  @michaelrandall7667  Actually, here, since you're a lying weasel ... Homicide, top 25 ... Louisiana 12.8 Maryland 10.4 Alabama 9.6 Mississippi 9 Arizona 9 Tennessee 8.3 Arkansas 8 South Carolina 7.9 New Mexico 7.9 Nevada 7.8 North Carolina 7.6 Missouri 7.3 Georgia 7.1 Michigan 6.9 California 6.9 Illinois 6.8 Delaware 6.6 Texas 6.5 Virginia 6.4 Pennsylvania 6.3 Oklahoma 6.1 Indiana 5.9 Florida 5.8 Ohio 5.6 West Virginia 5.4 Firearm mortality, top 25 ... Louisiana 18.5 Alaska 17.5 Montana 16.9 Nevada 16.1 Arizona 16.1 Tennessee 16 Mississippi 16 Alabama 16 Arkansas 15.7 Idaho 14.1 New Mexico 13.9 West Virginia 13.8 South Carolina 13.8 Wyoming 13.4 Oklahoma 13.2 Kentucky 13 Missouri 12.9 North Carolina 12.8 Georgia 12.1 Maryland 11.9 Colorado 11.6 Virginia 11.5 Indiana 11.2 Texas 11.1 Pennsylvania 10.8 You have zero credibility.
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  9899.  @blogintonblakley2708  Also, Dore knob dumb dumb, there has been no actual evidence that Ivermectin helps with covid. Peru, which possibly has the highest Ivermectin use in the world also has the highest covid deaths per capita rate in the world. Multiple countries tried, and then stopped, using it. A major Ivermectin "study" was pulled from publications, after it was proven to be fraudulent, with fabricated data. Weird thing, going out of your way to fabricate results, if it really works so well.
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  9900.  @blogintonblakley2708  The Mueller report didn't rely on the Steele dossier. Yes, not getting charged with a crime is totally the same as no crime being committed. You are one dim bulb.
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  9901.  @blogintonblakley2708  Learn the difference between being in an NIH database, that includes articles from journals around the world, many of which aren't peer reviewed, and being from the NIH itself. The NIH has its own webpage on ivermectin. Look it up, dimwit.
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  9902.  @blogintonblakley2708  It's plain ignorance to accept a "study", just because you like what it says. It's not even an actual study, ffs. It's an analysis of other "studies", which weren't peer reviewed. This one even included the data from the fraudulent paper I mentioned. "Other meta-analyses did use the Elgazzar paper. One was led by statistician Andrew Bryant at Newcastle University, UK, and published in the American Journal of Therapeutics. Their meta-analysis claimed ivermectin reduced the risk of dying of COVID-19 by 62%. One of the co-authors was Tess Lawrie, a doctor and founder of the British Ivermectin Recommendation Development Group (BIRD). While the authors of the meta-analysis claim they have no conflict of interest, Lawrie has a large online following of vaccine sceptics to whom she spruiks the dangers of vaccines while holding up ivermectin as an effective treatment. Indeed, she’s weaponised the meta-analysis as part of her pro-ivermectin, anti-vaccine campaign – views that are at odds with the impartiality expected of someone carrying out a meta-analysis. As Garner put it: “Cochrane has checks and balances to prevent using authors with a particular positionality.”"
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  9903.  @blogintonblakley2708  And I didn't bring up the Steele report, and don't really give two shits about it. Mueller indicted 19 Russians, 3 Russian companies, multiple Trump cronies, and ... again ... only didn't indict Jr and Kushner because it would be hard to prove they "willfully" broke the law, not because they didn't break the law.
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  9904.  @blogintonblakley2708  Let us remember that you opened with lying that your "study" was from the NIH themselves. Did you even take a moment to look to see what the NIH, themselves, actually say about ivermectin, and those "studies"?
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  9905.  @blogintonblakley2708  It is clearly not a study about studies, if they didn't find studies they were using were fraudulent. It's just data gathering.
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  9906.  @blogintonblakley2708  Rofl! Please tell me you're not under some delusion that "insufficient" ... not enough ... inadequate ... supports your position that it works against covid? It pretty clearly supports not advising people to take it as a covid remedy, which is why they decided not to advise people to take it as a covid remedy.
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  9907.  @blogintonblakley2708  You have severe reading comprehension problems.
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  9908.  @blogintonblakley2708  Quote the sentence in which I used the words "meta study", to prove you don't have severe reading comprehension problems.
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  9909.  @blogintonblakley2708  Those aren't my words. You invented them.
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  9910.  @blogintonblakley2708  You invented that I used the words to describe the article, because you're completely dishonest. Much like you invented that I stated your article, specifically, wasn't peer reviewed. I made a comment about the database, in general, pointing out the fact that simply being in it is not an endorsement 'from the NIH", which you also lied about. Problematic, biased, and even fraudulent studies, aren't actual evidence, ffs. I get that you think fraudulent studies are evidence, but you're wrong.
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  9911. So you're good with holding Americans hostage to get that amendment included? Why not just pass the bill to help Americans and introduce your own bill to get out of Afghanistan and cut spending elsewhere?
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  9912. ​ HelloSnowflake2  Trumpty Dumpty is sooo dumb, he makes public statements, "defending" himself, by claiming he didn't commit bank fraud, but instead committed massive tax fraud, by undervaluing a property by over a billion dollars. Yet, you dimwits think he's a stable genius.
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  9913.  @hylomorpher  Right, because Kyle shouldn't make stupid arguments. There's no such thing as "free speech" on someone else's property, because you don't have a right to be on their property, to begin with. The exact argument for leftists, is to point out that, if you want a public square, then it needs to be publicly owned. He wasn't making that argument. He was using the moronic right wing argument, expecting something that has never existed on private property. Again, totally not the same thing as media that creates its own content.
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  9914.  @hylomorpher  1. Privatized "public utilities" are not progressive. That's one of the ways you end up with taxpayers subsidizing for profit companies, and billionaires. 2. No leftist was f*cking "promoting it", as a good thing. It was pointing out the negative side of private ownership, to those that have been actually promoting it, for decades. Right wingers have been crying about all kinds of things corporations have been doing, lately, and it's pointing out that they're crying, like hypocrites, about the world they wanted.
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  9915. Why would you have people trained to patrol the border, sitting in, and overseeing, these camps? That wasn't even remotely a defense. That's just an admission of stupidity. Plus, many of those camps are privatized. How the hell are people working for a private company even trained to be border patrol? Just bullshit.
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  9916. Lol. They should automatically be ineligible to run, if god picks them, since there's supposed to be a separation of church and state.
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  9917. The idea being presented ... the case being made ... the position taken ... is that Trump is incoherent, which David supported with facts. David has plenty of videos, where he discusses topics other than Trump. Maybe you should focus on watching all his other videos, rather than spouting strawmen. Just a thought.
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  9918.  @alteredendeavor   How is that it was a coronavirus news conference, subjective? How is that he spent 10% of it rambling about something other than coronavirus, subjective? How is describing observable behaviour, subjective? How is going into Afghanistan having nothing to do with going into Iraq, subjective? How is pointing out an evidenced lie, subjective?
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  9919. If billionaire douchebag, Elon Musk, is endorsing you, you're probably not all that anti-establishment. Corporations don't pay squat with a VAT. It's a tax on consumers. If you don't have corporations paying into a UBI, then they only get the benefit of that UBI being spent, making them even more billions.
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  9920.  @jasonbrotherton3377  You idiots know he and his dad were found to be racist in court ... right?
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  9921.  @christianfascist7281  The rest of the developed world is communist? Sooo, communism has been pretty successful.
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  9922. Israel is akin to the persecuted Puritans going to the Americas and persecuting natives, and anyone with differing beliefs.
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  9923.  @TheRedStateBlue  There has been a region called Palestine for centuries, you racist.
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  9924.  calo10able  There's plenty of evidence that he's an idiot, so what's your point? He became famous for "successfully" separating siamese twins, and turning them into vegetables. He has also said he didn't study, at times, and that God simply gave him the answers. No thanks on having him do my operation. There are tens of thousands of foreign doctors living in the US that can't practice. You don't think there's a possibility even one might make a better doctor than Carson?
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  9925.  @fintan9218  Yeah, I'm not sure. It has something to do with the order and length. I've tried posting a version that opens with the Einstein letter, which then has Nzis and Fscists in the opening, but it gets deleted. I think the algorithm only reads so far and then gives up.
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  9926.  @lucasssw4590  Even if you simply allow for an organization like the JNF to only lease/sell land to Jws, how are you not similar to the Jim Crow South? What states around IL are doing something like that, then?
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  9927.  @666j1  Women choosing to wear whatever they want are empowered, dumb dumb. Don't force them to wear one. Don't force them to not wear one.
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  9928. Which one of them is peddling the idea of reparations for slave owners, rather than slaves?
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  9929. Not far off. Colonial Americans protested, rioted, tarred and feathered, destroyed private property, and eventually declared war, all because they didn't want to pay for a specific tax that funded the police/military. They got extra pissed, when the police/military, "fearing for their lives", shot violent protesters.
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  9930. No. Someone from Bernie's team told Krystal that he'd talk to her, on either of her shows.
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  9931.  @synchronium24  Yeah, she's Jimmy light.
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  9932. ​ @AverageJoe483  Weird how that happened, after 1300 years of living in Muslim countries, of Muslim countries providing refuge for Jews fleeing Christian nations, almost like something happened, other than simply being Jewish ... Also, don't leave out the part where Zionists were encouraging Jews to leave, and move to Israel.
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  9933. ​ @adamb.m4844  Was that when the Jews violently rebelled against their Roman oppressors, killing tens of thousands of non Jewish civilians, and the Romans reacted by using excessive force, collective punishment, destroyed their temple, and ethnically cleansed some of them? Don't think they were fond of the Roman reaction, back then. Now they're embracing it. Much like they've embraced operating an open air WWII style fascist ghetto, which they weren't fond of.
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  9934.  @OzonebxGaming  2016 polls ... IBD/TIPP 5/31 - 6/5 49 39 Sanders +10 Quinnipiac 5/24 - 5/30 48 39 Sanders +9 NBC/WSJ 5/15 - 5/19 54 39 Sanders +15 CBS/NYT 5/13 - 5/17 51 38 Sanders +13 FOX News 5/14 - 5/17 46 42 Sanders +4 PPP 5/6 - 5/9 50 39 Sanders +11 Double Hillary's margins, at that same time, and FOX and a couple others even had her losing.
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  9935.  @dreamingmusic3299  How is not broad brushing entire groups of people, stupid?
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  9936.  @dreamingmusic3299  Rofl. More like some millions to one. You might as well not drive, or have a shower. That's called an irrational fear ... phobia.
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  9937.  @dreamingmusic3299  No assumption. You have a phobia. That's a fact.
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  9938. That pic of "you" is being used by a laser clinic in Cape Town, someone else selling crochet dolls, and on a LinkedIn profile of someone who does teleperformance in Greece? Likely not you, and likely not black.
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  9939.  @Thelma-e6r  Go talk to Google.
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  9940. The guy literally got paid by Peter Thiel funded Rumble, to join their platform. He's basically collecting cheques from one of the largest MAGA donors who, ironically, made his billions helping the government spy on people, which Greenwald claimed to be opposed to.
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  9941.  @larshofler8298  Rofl! That was a lot of blathering, when I've never given you my opinion on what I'd like to see. I've simply stated the current objective reality of the situation. Apparently, you're a loon, who thinks they have mental telepathy. I'm asking you questions, for you to tell me what you'd like to see, but you vomit out a couple paragraphs, without actually answering me. Was that a "yes", you'd like it publicly owned and operated? I can't tell.
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  9942.  @larshofler8298  Rofl! You're absolutely hilarious. In what reality does FOX have a spine? They stand up for the rich corporate overlords you were complaining about before, at least economically. They want them to all have big tax breaks and become even richer.
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  9943. ​ @Dadson23 He was spewing bullshit, as usual. The US got Germany to stop building the pipeline. Russia just f*cking ignored him, and carried on. "In February 2020, starting in Nachodka in far-east Russia, it began its journey over the Cape of Good Hope to Sassnitz, the Baltic Sea where it arrived in June 2020.[7] In Sassnitz, the vessel underwent an extensive upgrade which would prepare the ship for the works at the Nord Stream II pipe-line.[8] In December 2020, it was announced that the vessel has been deployed to take up the work to complete Nord Stream II[9]" Putin didn't gaf.
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  9944. Israel is objectively the aggressor by every relevant measure (modern history, law, and current events) ... Modern history: With the Balfour declaration, Zionsim converted from something like immigration to colonization. 100 years ago, in 1923, Ze'ev Jabotinsky fully acknowledged that Zionism is colonialism, and that, based on the entirety of history, the native Palestinians would fight it until the bitter end. He just didn't care what would happen to them, and promoted doing it anyway. Colonizers are never not the aggressors, when it comes to the native population. On top of the colonialist nature of Zionism, the Zionists also formed terrorist organizations, like the Irgun and Lehi. They bombed many Palestinian markets and other public places, murdering many civilians, including children, even including Palestinian Jews (who opposed colonialist Zionism). Israel merged those terrorists into the new nation's military and intelligence agencies. Israelis elected Menachem Begin, leader of the Irgun, child murderer, Jew murderer, and bomber of the King David Hotel, as PM. Israelis, to this day, celebrate those Irgun terrorists as "heroes". Zionists literally taught their neighbours that terrorism is a valid path to independence and statehood, and that terrorists are to be celebrated. In 1945, it is well documented that Zionists owned just 5% of the land and were a majority in zero districts. Israel was formed by going against the will of the majority population. Its foundation is completely undemocratic. Even then, Jews were still a minority, in "their" half. The only possible way to actually become a Jewish ethno-state, would be to ethnically cleanse away the actual majority. And, that's exactly what happened. Israel has never allowed those people to return. Law: Israel is considered an occupier by the International Court, the UN GA, and the UN SC. Occupiers are also never not the aggressors. Those occupied actually have a right to resist occupation. On the flip side, it is illegal for the occupier to settle occupied lands, and illegal to use collective punishment. Israel is a rogue nation, that doesn't abide by international law. What it has been doing, and is doing now, is illegal. Current events: This year, alone, prior to Oct 7 ... Israel held over 1200 Palestinian hostages without charges ... over 200 Palestinians had been killed by the IDF and settlers ... over 1000 Palestinians had been displaced by Israel's neverending colonization of the West Bank ... and, Israel continued to operate an open air WWII style fascist ghetto. Even ignoring modern history and law, in no reality did Hamas "start" anything.
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  9945. Not quite. The Revisionists (led by Ze'ev Jabotinsky) had a different ideology. They wanted all of Palestine, and beyond (they did not recognize the partitioning of Jordan, and also wanted parts of Syria and Lebanon). They were not content with simply clnizing part of Palestine. The "moderate" Znists were willing to only clnize part. But, the Irgun decided to side with the British during WWII. Some didn't like that, so formed Lehi. They tried to ally with the Italians, Germans, and Vichy. They continued fighting the British during WWII. Likud was founded by those Revisionist trrrists, and they still have the same stated Revisionist goals. They still claim a "right" to all of ʾEreṣ Yīsraʾel (based on fictional biblical borders).
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  9946. ​ @punch180  Ended zero wars and dropped more bombs than Obama. Gas prices dropped in 2015. Had more border crossings in 2019 than any year since 2007, and averaged more border crossings per year than Obama. As for the inflation rate spike, over 50% can be attributed to corporate profit margin increases, and it's already back below the long term average. If you're actually expecting prices to go down, if Trump gets elected, deflation only happens during major recessions or depressions. He going to provide one of those?
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  9947. Kind of the point of delaying puberty, dumb dumb.
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  9948. ​ @vociferon-heraldofthewinte7763 He actually defaulted on his Deutsche Bank loan, and they got into a legal battle, until some anonymous backer stepped in to help Trump.
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  9949. Not "in donations", dumb dumb. Just "donations" ... 6.5 million donations. https://www.bostonherald.com/2020/02/06/bernie-sanders-raises-a-massive-25-million-in-one-month/
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  9950.  @XboxDefenseForce  Like the man she took out, to get her seat? Or the other men she just helped take out by backing other progressives with her platform and PAC?
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  9951. Out of the gate, owning more guns increases the odds of accidents, making them more dangerous than someone with no guns. A quarter of "illegal" guns are stolen, which means the ones with guns are increasing the odds of criminals having guns. Guns have an 80% suicide success rate, compared to under 1% for pills or cutting, increasing the odds of someone going through a bout of depression successfully killing themselves. And then there's the fact that the majority of people killing each other have relationships of some kind, and the guns they use are "legal" and more lethal than other weapons, increasing the odds of some dispute turning lethal.
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  9952. MLK Jr was a democratic socialist. If anyone think that's compatible with today's Republican party, like Candace does, then they must be on crack or opioids. MLK Jr would be supporting Bernie.
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  9953. ​ @kriscynical  And Hanks started into comedy movies after doing Bosom Buddies on TV.
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  9954. ​​ @robertsharp3238  There came a point when Native Americans wanted to push the white man back into the sea. It wasn't simply because they were white. Jews lived relatively peacefully with Muslims for 1300 years, until Zionist colonialism came along.
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  9955. *Natural born citizens Many immigrants are naturalized citizens. "Naturalized" means they were an immigrant who obtained their citizenship.
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  9956.  @nickjohnson1424  Right wingers and Chicago. Chicago isn't even top 10 for gun violence per capita. States where it's easier to get guns, including some of Illinois' neighboring states, tend to have higher firearm mortality rates, and homicide rates, than Illinois.
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  9957. The moron thinks he has destroyed the China economy.
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  9958. Max Miller considers this to be Judaism? In 1923, 100 years ago, Ze'ev Jabotinsky wrote, The Iron Wall, and a follow up, The Ethics of The Iron Wall (sooo racist towards Africans), in which he fully acknowledged that post Balfour Zionsim was colonialism, and that, based on the entirety of history, the native Palestinian population would resist being colonized until the bitter end. He directly compared it to the colonization of North America. He promoted doing it anyway, claiming Zionist colonialism was a "just" colonialism (he also thought North American colonialists were good guys, so not a great judge of morality), not caring what that meant for the native population. Ze'ev is important, because his Betar militant youth group helped found the Irgun terrorist group, along with other supporters of his, and the splinter Lehi terrorist group. The Irgun bombed numerous Palestinian markets and other public places, murdering many Palestinian civilians, including children, even including Palestinian Jews (who didn't support colonialist Zionsim). The Irgun are important, because they ended up being led by future Likud PM, Menachem Begin, who bombed the King David Hotel. The King David Hotel was bombed because the British had raided the Jewish Agency and seized numerous documents that may have shown that the terrorists were working with the JA and Haganah (JA liked to pretend that they didn't support the terrorism). The British then stored those documents at their base, in the hotel. That the Irgun terrorists responded to a JA raid, itself seems to prove the connection. That the thousands of Irgun (and Lehi) terrorists were also quickly merged into the new nation's military (IDF) and intelligence (Mossad) agencies, and are still celebrated as "heroes" by Israelis, to this day, also seems to support total collaboration between the groups. That other terrorist group mentioned, Lehi (also known as the Stern Gang), was considered even more extreme. They even tried to ally with the Nazis, against the British. Lehi ended up being led by Yitzhak Shamir, future Mossad agent, and another future Likud PM. In 1945, there was a major land and peoples survey done in Palestine. It showed that the Zionists only owned about 5% of the total land, 20% of the arable land, and owned a majority in zero districts. The partition was not only going to be forced on the native Palestinian majority, but Jews were still going to be a minority, in the part allocated to them. The only possible way to even become a "Jewish state" was going to require getting rid of the actual majority (at least enough so that there'd be a solid Jewish majority, so they could fake being democratic). This is also shown by the 1948, post Nakba, population of Israel. If there was 716,700 Jews, 156,000+ non-Jews, and approximately 700k non-Jews ethnically cleansed, that means the Jewish population, in the Zionist portion of partition, was originally over 100,000 less than the non-Jewish population. To believe that there was never any intent, by Zionists, to ethnically cleanse away the Palestinian majority would require believing that they never intended to create a "Jewish state". It's a nonsensical notion. Begin, and those terrorist groups, also opposed partition, but for the opposite reason Palestinians did. Palestinians didn't want to be colonized, at all. The terrorists wanted to colonize it all. "Moderate" Zionists were okay with colonizing half ... for now (what would happen in the future, after partition, was up to them, said Ben-Gurion). The Zionist terrorists were also involved in massacres, and assassinations, during the partition violence (colonialist war against the natives). Another notable future Likud PM, also started in the military, during the partition fighting. That was Ariel Sharon, war criminal, "Butcher of Beirut". Menachem Begin, and these other Zionist terrorists, are important because they also later founded Likud. Now, people get upset over the slogan "From the river to the sea!", but it's the second part that's most important, "Palestine will be free!". Because "Palestine" isn't defined as an ethno-state, a free Palestine can be a single state, free for all to live in, and return to, free of continuing colonization, free of occupation, free of oppression, etc. Just like a Germany free of Nazism, an Italy free of fascism, a South Africa free of apartheid, or an America free of slavery from sea to shiny sea. It doesn't necessitate purging all the Jews. It just necessitates them giving up on the idea of an ethno-state. On the other hand, because "Israel" has been defined as an ethno-state, Likud's, "between the sea and the Jordan there will only be Israeli sovereignty", has no possible good interpretation. It is a declaration of intent to completely colonize, and ethnically cleanse, all Palestine territories. Not only that, but it also claims that they have a "right" to all of the "Land of Israel" (biblical borders that don't mesh with archaeological reality), which is an open declaration of future wars, against Jordan, Syria, Lebanon, and possibly even Iraq. Likud platform ... 1977: "The Right of the Jewish People to the Land of Israel (Eretz Israel) a. The right of the Jewish people to the land of Israel is eternal and indisputable and is linked with the right to security and peace; therefore, Judea and Samaria will not be handed to any foreign administration; between the Sea and the Jordan there will only be Israeli sovereignty. b. A plan which relinquishes parts of western Eretz Israel, undermines our right to the country, unavoidably leads to the establishment of a "Palestinian State," jeopardizes the security of the Jewish population, endangers the existence of the State of Israel. and frustrates any prospect of peace." "Settlement Settlement. both urban and rural. in all parts of the Land of Israel is the focal point of the Zionist effort to redeem the country, to maintain vital security areas and serves as a reservoir of strength and inspiration for the renewal of the pioneering spirit. The Likud government will call on the younger generation in Israel and the dispersions to settle and help every group and individual in the task of inhabiting and cultivating the wasteland, while taking care not to dispossess anyone." 1999: "The Government of Israel flatly rejects the establishment of a Palestinian Arab state west of the Jordan river. The Palestinians can run their lives freely in the framework of self-rule, but not as an independent and sovereign state. Thus, for example, in matters of foreign affairs, security, immigration, and ecology, their activity shall be limited in accordance with imperatives of Israel's existence, security and national needs." "The Jewish communities in Judea, Samaria, and Gaza are the realization of Zionist values. Settlement of the land is a clear expression of the unassailable right of the Jewish people to the Land of Israel and constitutes an important asset in the defense of the vital interests of the State of Israel. The Likud will continue to strengthen and develop these communities and will prevent their uprooting." All Palestine territories are officially considered occupied, by the International Court of Justice, the UN GA, the UN SC, and even in official documents of Israel's own allies. Likud is still using the blueprint for colonizing North America, in the West Bank. Move settlements out into native territory, piss off the natives, the natives retaliate, cry about poor "innocent" colonizing settlers being the "victims" of violent "Savages!", call in the cavalry to put down the native uprising, and eventually expand the borders to include those settlements. Rinse and repeat. In Gaza, they are operating an open air WWII style fascist ghetto. Them claiming a "right to defend themselves" would be like the Nazis claiming a "right to defend themselves " from the Warsaw ghetto uprising. There's no "war". That they're the occupiers means the "war" part is long over. That partition was forced upon the Palestinian majority, against their will ... that the Zionist portion still had to be forcefully ethnically cleansed of its non-Jewish majority, against their will ... that the millions of occupied Palestinians don't have a say in the government that truly rules over them, Israel's ... means Israel is about as democratic as Nazi Germany after Hitler purged his political opponents and then held elections. Hamas is basically just a poor man's Likud, only fighting against colonialism, instead of for colonialism. All the Zionists, and their supporters, who are justifying slaughtering civilians, are the people who are truly justifying the Hamas attack, because they're wrong about who the actual aggressor is. Like Ben Shapiro, arguing it was okay for the Allies to intentionally target the most densely populated parts of Dresden, or drop bombs on Japanese cities ... If he insists, but Israel (colonizer, ethnic cleanser, occupier, ghetto operator, ethno-state) is actually Nazi Germany in the WWII analogy.
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  9959.  @zb3495  From my own docs. Point out a single thing incorrect.
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  9960.  Al3xh413  Math is not a social construct. We simply gave symbols and names to objectively existing amounts of things. Then we found we could create formulas just using the symbols and names. Can't get much more objective than math.
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  9961.  Al3xh413  Amounts of things will still exist, whether anyone is around to name them, or not. That nobody will be around to call a tree "tree" doesn't mean the trees will stop existing.
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  9962.  Al3xh413  Amounts of things exist. If we never came about to count what we call planets and give the existing amount the name "nine" and symbol "9", would there still be the same amount of planets?
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  9963.  @lotsofuwuenergy3983  You, clearly, tried to argue that someone else, using some other method of grouping things, would mean they're doing something other than math, when that's not at all the case. Whether someone describes changing amounts with modern Arabic mathematical notation, or describes changing amounts with the Babylonian sexagesimal number system, or some alien method, it's all still math. Whether they're measuring in km, or measuring in miles, or measuring in some alien method it's all still math. Whether you group things differently and count out 50 individual pennies, or count out 10 nickles, they represent the same amount. Whether you measure the speed of light by Earth year or Mars year, it's still traveling the same speed. So, I don't see how I could possibly be saying the same thing as you, when you think simply using different names, symbols, or grouping methods, is no longer math. Languages may be a social construct, and people can use all different kinds of languages and methods to communicate, but that doesn't make everything they're communicating a social construct. Saying a chemical reaction turns into a social construct, once we've discovered it, makes little, to no, sense. It's like saying that, if I've never seen snow, then discover it, snow is a social construct. And, the first person I replied to, clearly, tried to argue that because a "3" doesn't exist in reality, without humans, what that "3" represents doesn't exist in reality, which also isn't the case. Again, that's like saying since letters forming the word "tree" don't exist in reality without humans, or this 🌲 symbol doesn't exist in reality without humans, then trees don't really exist. It's nonsensical. A water molecule would still have the same amount of atoms, what we call "three" or "3", whether we ever counted them, or ever developed names and numbers, or not. Math is based on objectively existing amounts. Even if people weren't around to label atoms grouped together as objects, there'd still be some massive amount of atoms in the universe, there'd still be a (1) universe, and the big bang would still have equated to no universe (0) + a universe (1) = a universe (1), and there'd still be an ever growing amount of time passing. The two of you are basically arguing that absolutely everything in existence, that we know about, is a social construct, and supporting arguments you both used were nonsense. Maybe try explaining how absolutely everything is a social construct without the nonsensical arguments.
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  9964.  @BetterDaysIndustries  Ummm, the OT is still included in Christian texts, so you're just outright lying.
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  9965.  Anakin Skywalker  Sure, but one "scientist" working for the tobacco company, for example, spouting nonsense against a large consensus of scientists and doctors, isn't really honest questioning. What example are you thinking of?
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  9966.  @BetterDaysIndustries  The Bible (Christian text) contains the OT. Ditch it, or it's still part of "Christian texts", and plenty of Christians cite it.
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  9967.  The Futurist  Hitler didn't just spout Christian stuff in speeches. He also wrote about being a Christian in Mein Kampf, and there are numerous accounts of private statements, in which he expresses himself as a Christian. He believed Jesus was an Aryan, fighting against the Jews. He promoted Positive Christianity. He wanted more control and didn't want any divisions caused by Protestant vs Catholic and tried to create a United Church, like in England, only united under the Fuhrer rather than under a King. He had Positive Christianity Bibles made for those United Churches. Germans just didn't really go for it. They were set in their ways and their different beliefs. Hitler followed the playbook that Martin Luther wished for leaders to follow. https://www.jewishvirtuallibrary.org/martin-luther-quot-the-jews-and-their-lies-quot
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  9968. @Iron Weed Who do you loons consider "Christian", prior to there being a complete new testament, and sent out to all churches? Did Christians not exist until the 4th century?
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  9969. @Iron Weed What? So, there were no Christians for about 300 years, and anybody who doesn't follow every word of the NT perfectly, and cites Biblical laws from the OT, isn't a True Scotsman ... I mean Christian. So, Quakers, maybe, are the only real Christians?
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  9970. @Iron Weed You pretty clearly argued that, if someone didn't follow a line of the NT to the letter, then they weren't a real Christian.
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  9971.  @lotsofuwuenergy3983  You're the one that seems to have reading comprehension problems. I clearly stated that the other person I was replying to, when you jumped in, was the one arguing that what the "3" represents doesn't exist in reality, which is exactly what they did. As for you, you jumped in to defend them. Maybe you didn't comprehend them, either, and the line of argument you were defending. Then you brought up grouping things differently, as if that was somehow relevant. Communicating things in some other way isn't relevant to whether what's being communicated is a social construct, or not. You also clearly argued that not having discovered atoms, somehow makes discovering and identifying atoms a social construct, which would apply to discovering absolutely everything ... including seeing snow for the first time makes snow a social construct, or seeing an ocean for the first time makes oceans a social construct, or cracking open a skull and discovering a brain for the first time makes brains a social construct ... you're line of argument makes absolutely everything a social construct.
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  9972.  @lotsofuwuenergy3983  Look, they even said my logic would hold up if "three" existed in reality. But, the "tree" they agreed wasn't a social construct, doesn't exist in reality. The thing we've called "tree" is what exists in reality. So, if they agree a tree isn't a social construct, because the thing we've called "tree" actually exists, it's simply a matter of whether the amount we've called "three" actually exists. Do amounts of things actually exist, or not? The two of you also seem to be disagreeing on science. If they agree that, because the thing we call "tree" actually exists, then it's not a social construct, that would apply to the things we call "atoms", "molecules", etc. ... all the things science describes.
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  9973.  @frbe0101  Such a bullshit argument. Voting green isn't anymore a vote for republicans than voting libertarian is a vote for democrats, and not voting is exactly the opposite of voting.
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  9974.  @frbe0101  You seem to be indirectly making my argument for me. It was democrats losing that governor election, that led to them voting through ranked choice voting in the house, no? If they hadn't lost, do you think they would have had a reason to vote it through anyway?
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  9975. Thing is you need a working clock to tell when the 2 times a broken clock is right.
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  9976. Who are the other 60%?
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  9977. By that definition they're adopting, Einstein and Hannah Arendt were "antisemites", for likening Likud's Irgun and Lehi trrrst founders to Fscsts and Nzs. It would also make saying Isrl is an aprthd state "antisemitic". Promoting a single state solution (also Einstein) is also "antisemitic", by that definition.
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  9978. Overall per capita costs would go down, dumb dumb.
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  9979. No, he doesn't. "Therefore there must be right and wrong answers, to questions of ..." artistic, musical, literary, theatrical, culinary, etc., etc., etc., ... likes and dislikes. Just because subjectivity objectively exists, doesn't mean there are objectively right and wrong answers. His conclusion is idiotic. The only difference is we subjectively care more about moral issues.
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  9980.  The Creature  China even has a lady Jesus, last I heard. She stabbed someone in the eye with a fork, or something.
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  9981. They just claim the opposite of reality. They're the ones who tried to overthrow the democratic process, to install an unelected dictator/King.
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  9982.  @Disaletteritis  Last time Quebec was flipped, it went all NDP.
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  9983.  @Disaletteritis  Do tell me how you have reading comprehension problems.
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  9984.  @Disaletteritis  With what, dumb dumb?
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  9985.  @Disaletteritis  Please don't tell me you've been seething about this thread for a year, and dug it back up because you moronically think Conservatives are popular with the majority.
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  9986.  @davidliston4204  Should they be taking calls from impersonators, and making fake clickbait titles, based on fake conversations?
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  9987.  @davidliston4204  Weird. You're subscribed to who I'm referring to.
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  9988.  @davidliston4204  Weird. I didn't mention their name, but suddenly you know who has impersonators call, and then makes fake clickbait titles, based on fake conversations.
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  9989.  @davidliston4204  I simply assumed you like who you're subscribed to, and asked if TYT should do what someone you like does, instead.
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  9990. ​ @redspice3230  So, you so ignorant , you don't know the difference between immigration and invasion, colonization, and occupation? Really?
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  9991. ​ @9xXGameOverXx9  Likud was founded by Irgun (bombed numerous Palestinian markets and other public places, bombed the King David Hotel) and Lehi (considered worse than the Irgun, also assassins, also tried to ally with the Nazis against Britain) terrorists. Those terrists opposed partition for the opposite reason Palestinians did. Palestinians didn't want to be colonized, at all, while the Irgun and Lehi wanted to colonize all of Palestine. Those terrorists fought for colonialism, and committed massacres and assassinations, during the partition fighting. Israel merged those Irgun and Lehi terrorists into their military (IDF) and intelligence (Mossad) agencies, making them terrorist organizations. Israelis elected the leaders of the Irgun and Lehi as PMs. Israelis, to this day, celebrate those terrorists as "heroes". Their Likud platform, "between the sea and the Jordan there will only be Israeli sovereignty", promises to completely colonize and ethnically cleanse all Palestine territories. It further claims a "right" to all the "Land of Israel" (fictional biblical borders that don't mesh with archaeological reality), which is an open declaration of future wars, against Jordan, Syria, Lebanon, and possibly Iraq. There's zero indication that Netanyahu isn't still trying to fulfill those promises. Do you condemn Likud? Do you condemn Likud? Do you condemn Likud? Etc. Etc. Etc.
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  9992. ​ @jds614 Absolute bullshit. Zionists knew exactly how things would play out, and they did it anyway. Ze'ev Jabotinsky, The Iron Wall, 1923 ... "There can be no voluntary agreement between ourselves and the Palestine Arabs. Not now, nor in the prospective future. I say this with such conviction, not because I want to hurt the moderate Zionists. I do not believe that they will be hurt. Except for those who were born blind, they realised long ago that it is utterly impossible to obtain the voluntary consent of the Palestine Arabs for converting "Palestine" from an Arab country into a country with a Jewish majority. My readers have a general idea of the history of colonisation in other countries. I suggest that they consider all the precedents with which they are acquainted, and see whether there is one solitary instance of any colonisation being carried on with the consent of the native population. There is no such precedent. The native populations, civilised or uncivilised, have always stubbornly resisted the colonists, irrespective of whether they were civilised or savage." "This is equally true of the Arabs. Our Peace-mongers are trying to persuade us that the Arabs are either fools, whom we can deceive by masking our real aims, or that they are corrupt and can be bribed to abandon to us their claim to priority in Palestine , in return for cultural and economic advantages. I repudiate this conception of the Palestinian Arabs. Culturally they are five hundred years behind us, they have neither our endurance nor our determination; but they are just as good psychologists as we are, and their minds have been sharpened like ours by centuries of fine-spun logomachy. We may tell them whatever we like about the innocence of our aims, watering them down and sweetening them with honeyed words to make them palatable, but they know what we want, as well as we know what they do not want. They feel at least the same instinctive jealous love of Palestine, as the old Aztecs felt for ancient Mexico, and the Sioux for their rolling Prairies. To imagine, as our Arabophiles do, that they will voluntarily consent to the realisation of Zionism, in return for the moral and material conveniences which the Jewish colonist brings with him, is a childish notion, which has at bottom a kind of contempt for the Arab people; it means that they despise the Arab race, which they regard as a corrupt mob that can be bought and sold, and are willing to give up their fatherland for a good railway system." Likud was founded by Irgun terrorist Menachem Begin, child murderer, Palestinian Jew murderer (because they didn't support Zionism) ... and Ariel Sharon, war criminal who massacred Palestinian villages. Their platform ... "The Right of the Jewish People to the Land of Israel (Eretz Israel) a. The right of the Jewish people to the land of Israel is eternal and indisputable and is linked with the right to security and peace; therefore, Judea and Samaria will not be handed to any foreign administration; between the Sea and the Jordan there will only be Israeli sovereignty." All evidence points towards Netanyahu still aiming for that goal.
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  9993. ​ @jds614  Hitler had an election, after purging his political opponents, just like Israel purged itself of a Palestinian majority, never let them back, and held elections.
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  9994.  @tacitus6384  You keep lying to people, about Ben's "point". He started from, "Let's say it happens", the position that the houses were already underwater, dimwit. What he said would have nothing to do with the previous owner, and only the current owner.
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  9995.  @tacitus6384  Nope. He was starting from the point of okay, let's say it has already happened. It's you that has no valid point. You just keep spewing bullshit.
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  9996. How a UBI is paid for is important. A VAT doesn't actually tax corporations like Amazon. A VAT is specifically designed to NOT be a tax on registered businesses, and only the smallest of businesses aren't required to register. "a consumption tax because it is borne ultimately by the final consumer. It is not a charge on businesses." https://ec.europa.eu/taxation_customs/business/vat/what-is-vat_en "Input tax credits enable partnerships, businesses and self-employed workers to recover all GST paid on goods and services purchased for business purposes by deducting them from their GST payments. Final consumers are not entitled to such credits, which means that they pay all the GST on every item purchased. The GST is thus a multi-stage tax on final consumption." http://publications.gc.ca/Collection-R/LoPBdP/BP/prb0003-e.htm#A.%20Taxing%20Mechanism(txt) Yang, and this channel apparently, are either clueless or lying, when they claim it will tax corporations. Amazon won't pay in a dime, and will only benefit from $3t in consumer spending. Their 2% share of US consumer spending would make them $60b extra a year. That would, in turn, make Bezos something like an extra $6b a year ... far more than he'd ever personally pay into a VAT in a year. Yang would have money funneling to the top handful of people at an even faster rate than it is now. That's unsustainable. 30 years after Yanganomics will look worse than things do 30 years after Reaganomics. If there's going to be mass automation, an expanding economy doesn't guarantee more jobs for humans, and you're handing Amazon an extra $60b a year that they can invest in automating faster. Yang likes to dishonestly compare his dividend to the Alaskan dividend, which has corporations paying Alaskans a dividend for their resources. If Alaskans went out and spent every dime of their dividend on gasoline sold by those same oil companies, it would be a wash. The two would keep feeding each other. Not even close to the same thing Yang is proposing.
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  9997. Get a grip. Twitch is a streaming platform, not a doctorate.
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  9998.  @BoostedS650  Well, it's tough when you're saying somewhat contradictory things. So, voting for this kleptocrat, or that kleptocrat, is still a democracy? Or, does voting not really matter, meaning almost all votes are actually suppressed?
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  9999. Promoting Trump as the better option, in 2016.
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  10000.  @steveludington1876  Trump was running on repealing Medicaid expansion for 10m of the poorest Americans. Clinton was running on expanding Medicare to 40m older Americans. Isn't one of those further right? Plus, Dore's dumbass argument was entirely based on Trump being so much worse than Clinton. To make out like they're samesies defeats his own nonsense.
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  10001. The Quran doesn't actually give an age for her. Elsewhere, as in the Tanakh/OT, it equates puberty to being of age. People didn't have birth certificates back then. If you look at 19th century censuses, when they still didn't carry around birth certificates, and compare them to county birth records, or baptism records, they show that many people still couldn't keep track of their ages, or their kids ages, very well.
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  10002. ​ @lynnemorgan7100  Rofl. The US has one of the worst, if not the worst, life expectancies in the developed world, dumb dumb.
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  10003. The Crayzone is just anti-American. They're fine with Russia invading, occupying, ethnic cleansing, and genociding, other countries. So, they're only right a fraction of the time.
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  10004. So weird, that Trump, and all the Republicans who claimed the election was stolen, aren't jumping in to help him. These cases are the perfect opportunity to present all the evidence, that the election was stolen, and these people, and companies, sued for defamation, are innocent. Likewise weird that, in the RICO case, they also aren't lining up to present all their evidence, and instead people are pleading guilty, and flipping. Almost like they're all actually guilty, and have zero evidence.
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  10005.  @jacobwright6195  Rofl! You lost your shirt, calling idiots like Crowder and Pool "the brightest political minds". You must be dim as hell, to think they're, in the least bit bright.
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  10006.  @knockitoffhudson3470  Not surprising that so many Shapiro fans have such severe reading comprehension problems, or trouble with the truth, I guess. "be honest in your own bias" "admit you're on the left"
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  10007.  I'M A NOT-SEE  Yes, yes, I see how the number of government employees plummets everytime a Republican gets in office. Rofl https://www.politifact.com/truth-o-meter/article/2018/jan/22/taking-measure-federal-workforce/
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  10008.  @cmdrlucas6949  I'm not the one in a long line of morons, being herded towards the capital.
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  10009. Israel is objectively the aggressor by every measure ... Modern history: 100 years ago, in 1923, Ze'ev Jabotinsky fully acknowledged that Zionism is colonialism, and that, based on the entirety of history, that the natives would fight it until the bitter end. He just didn't care what would happen to them, and promoted doing it anyway. Colonizers are never not the aggressors. On top of the colonialist nature of Zionism, the Zionists also formed terrorist organizations, like the Irgun and Lehi. They bombed many Palestinian markets and other public places, murdering many civilians, including children, even including Palestinian Jews (who opposed Zionism). Israel merged those terrorists into the new nation's military and intelligence agencies. Israelis elected Menachem Begin, leader of the Irgun, child murderer, Jew murderer, and bomber of the King David Hotel, as PM. Israelis, to this day, celebrate those terrorists as "heroes". Zionists literally taught their neighbours that terrorism is a valid path to independence and statehood, and that terrorists are to be celebrated. In 1945, it is well documented that Zionists owned just 5% of the land and were a majority nowhere. Israel was formed by actually going against the majority population. It's foundation is completely undemocratic. Then, becoming a majority, in "your" new nation, by ethnic cleansing the actual majority, and then claiming to be democratic, is utter nonsense. Law: Israel is considered an occupier by the International Court, the UN GA, and the UN SC. Occupiers are also never not the aggressors. Those occupied actually have a right to resist occupation. On the flip side, it is illegal for the occupier to settle occupied lands, and illegal to use collective punishment. Israel is a rogue nation, that doesn't abide by international law. What it has been doing, and is doing now, is illegal. Current events: This year, alone, prior to Oct 7 ... Israel held over 1200 Palestinian hostages without charges ... over 200 Palestinians had been killed by the IDF and settlers ... over 1000 Palestinians had been displaced by Israel's neverending colonization of the West Bank ... and, Israel continued to operate an open air WWII style fascist ghetto. Even ignoring modern history and law, in no reality did Hamas "start" anything.
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  10010.  John G  God chose me is coherent?
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  10011.  John G  But that's not a quote. That is a theme. A theme that carried out throughout the interview, with him repeatedly saying something along those lines. And, it's his basis, his foundation, for wanting to be president.
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  10012.  @AmitArtz  Well, to start with ... If multiple different religious people claim God has chosen different Xs to be president, which one is right? How can you possibly know the difference between God choosing you to be president in the shower, from having some kind of hallucination, or mental episode?
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  10013.  @AmitArtz  Inconsistent and incoherent, don't mean the same thing, at all. Someone can be consistently incoherent. Having an experience that you can't possibly tell was real or imaginary, or can't actually tell if it was the devil conning you, or some ghost with a sense of humour playing a trick on you, or some advanced alien communicating with you telepathically, or whatever other unevidenced thing that might be doing it, is incoherent. The conclusion that it was definitely God who communicated with you, does not follow simply having the experience.
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  10014.  John G  But, ultimately, he'd be the one picking the "experts". If he's clueless, that's not a good sign. His cabinet of "experts" also have to pass Congress. What if, like Dubya (who didn't seem to know what he was doing half the time), he ends up surrounded by the same old kinds of "experts" past presidents have been surrounded by. It's his final decision whether to use the military. He should have some clue what he's doing.
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  10015.  @AmitArtz  Some intellectually weak strawmanning there, Mr Physicist. Either that, or severe reading comprehension problems. I made no argument about whether something exists, or doesn't exist, whether it's "true", or isn't "true". I mean, the clue to my position, on that front, is in my profile name. You even claimed to formerly be one, and yet you don't seem to grasp what that position is. And, the only one who seems "triggered", is you. It is you, who just argued that the word "god" can mean 8 billion different things, making it a gibberish word, not me. That makes you the one now arguing that simply using the word in a sentence makes the sentence incoherent. I, on the other hand, argued that claiming god is guiding him, wants him to do this, or wants him to do that, is incoherent. The word I used was "unevidenced", which makes no claim of whether something exists, or not. Being a physicist, you should know that supernatural things lie outside the bounds of science, exactly because they are unevidenced. If there was empirical evidence, they'd simply be natural. Whatever his experience was, how could he even prove to himself that it was indeed a god, and not a fairy pretending to be a god. How would he ever be able to tell the difference? His conclusion is incoherent. It doesn't follow that a "feeling", or whatnot, was a sign from a god. On top of that, as I originally said, throw in the fact that there are multiple people claiming this person, that person, or themselves, were chosen by a god. It's incoherent nonsense, when opposing football teams, or armies, or politicians, claim God wants them to win.
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  10016.  @AmitArtz  Hehe, nope, I don't get incensed over internet discussions/debates. I know a little, and that some aspects of it may have influenced Pyrrho. Whether he actually went East with Alexander, and whether he developed his philosophy before, or after, aren't certain though. Pyrrhonism is the line of philosophy that leads to Hume, to Huxley and agnosticism, and to Popper and demarcation. They all promote suspending judgement, without verifiable evidence.
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  10017.  Drake ICN  Kurds aren't a single cohesive group. Hundreds to thousands of Kurds joined ISIS. It had a Kurdish battalion. ISIS evolved from prior groups, like Ansar al-Islam, which started as a Kurdish group. There are still Kurdish Al-Qaeda groups.
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  10018. @UC4TrUqyhead23Jznh_hA84Q And does the US have any deaths while waiting for heart valve operations? https://www.annalsthoracicsurgery.org/#http://www.annalsthoracicsurgery.org/article/S0003-4975(14)01324-1/fulltext
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  10019.  @kennethmcneil3478  What the fuck are you talking about? I was posting against him.
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  10020.  @conradveigt5995  Have you been standing near windmills?
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  10021. ​ @thatboionyx6375  Rofl, you lot are so ignrnt. Reagan deregulated domestic oil prices, way back in 1981. Domestic has sold at the global market price, ever since. "Energy independence", as Trump keeps going on about, has nothing to do with oil prices, because domestic and foreign oil is the same price. Global oil prices dropped in 2014 (before Trump), and actually went back up under Trump. Oil companies have zero incentive to flood the global market, and cause prices to drop, just so they can lose money. That's why they're just sitting on thousands of already approved drilling sites.
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  10022. ​ @thatboionyx6375  You lot make little sense, when it comes to people entering the country. On one hand there's Johnson lamenting the loss of over 60m potential workers, due to women's choice, that he says were needed to keep Social Security and Medicare afloat. On the other hand, potential workers enter the country, and it's ... "Not that kind!"
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  10023. ​ @thatboionyx6375 😂 Reagan deregulated domestic oil prices way back in 1981. Domestic has sold at the global market price ever since. Being "energy independent" makes zero difference to the price. Global prices dropped in 2014, before Trump, and actually went up, under Trump.
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  10024. ​ @thatboionyx6375  Com/Soc Texas is currently suing Cal-Maine Foods for price gouging during COVID. Cal-Maine lost another price gouging lawsuit, last year, for doing it from 2004-2008. During the 21-22 inflation rate spike, and an avian flu outbreak, they again jacked prices and their profit margin jumped over 700%. And they weren't the only corporation. Yay capitalism!How can Trump fix a problem, when he doesn't even know what the problem is?
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  10025.  @thecoolestofthe834s2  How is that relevant? The majority of Republican lawmakers tried to overthrow the democratic process. They're an outright fascist party. Eliminating a fascist party is then not itself fascism.
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  10026. The opposite of God exists, is God does not exist.
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  10027. ​ @Rod-f6m  No. It's because she's a stooge. The event she can be seen pictured at, with Pvtin and Mike Flynn, was a 10th anniversary dinner for RT ... The same RT that was just paying Tim Pool and Dave Reuben for pro Rvssia content.
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  10028. His "peace" plans, between states that weren't fighting, and didn't include Palestinians, were apparently a failure. He pissed off Iran, and gave them back a nuke program. He threatened to strike Iran proper, if they retaliated for his assassination. They ignored him and retaliated. He did nothing. His dictator buddy in North Korea built 30-40 nukes, that can at least reach Alaska, while he was president, apparently having no fear of Dumpty. He had his tongue so far up Putin's ass, giving it a royal French kiss, that Putin didn't fear him. Gave Putin secrets. Gave a billionaire donor nuclear secrets. Wants to bow down to Netanyahu and make a pledge of allegiance to Israel a requirement to get in the country. In what reality would he have prevented anything?
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  10029. W refused to sign up for the ICC, during the Iraq War, for obvious reasons. Within the UN proper, the US gets a security council veto, regarding sending in peacekeepers, or resolutions against itself, or countries it likes.
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  10030. ​ @733jaguar  The alternative is Dumpty being even more supportive of Israel, talking even having a pledge of allegiance to Israel to get in the country, and also supportive of invader and colonizer Russia ... plus, a far worse domestic plan.
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  10031. ​ @Cheesesteakfreak  Sam is an idiot. Likud's bloody 100 year history ... In 1923, 100 years ago, Ze'ev Jabotinsky wrote, The Iron Wall, and a follow up, The Ethics of The Iron Wall (sooo racist towards Africans), in which he fully acknowledged that post Balfour Zionsim was colonialism, and that, based on the entirety of history, the native Palestinian population would resist being colonized until the bitter end. He directly compared it to the colonization of North America. He promoted doing it anyway, claiming Zionist colonialism was a "just" colonialism (he also thought North American colonialists were good guys, so not a great judge of morality), not caring what that meant for the native population. Ze'ev is important, because his Betar militant youth group helped found the Irgun terrorist group, along with other supporters of his, and the splinter Lehi terrorist group. The Irgun bombed numerous Palestinian markets and other public places, murdering many Palestinian civilians, including children, even including Palestinian Jews (who didn't support colonialist Zionsim). The Irgun are important, because they ended up being led by future Likud PM, Menachem Begin, who bombed the King David Hotel. The King David Hotel was bombed because the British had raided the Jewish Agency and seized numerous documents that may have shown that the terrorists were working with the JA and Haganah (JA liked to pretend that they didn't support the terrorism). The British then stored those documents at their base, in the hotel. That the Irgun terrorists responded to a JA raid, itself seems to prove the connection. That the thousands of Irgun (and Lehi) terrorists were also quickly merged into the new nation's military (IDF) and intelligence (Mossad) agencies, and are still celebrated as "heroes" by Israelis, to this day, also seems to support total collaboration between the groups. That other terrorist group mentioned, Lehi (also known as the Stern Gang), was considered even more extreme. They even tried to ally with the Nazis, against the British. Lehi ended up being led by Yitzhak Shamir, future Mossad agent, and another future Likud PM. They assassinated Lord Moyne, and others. In 1945, there was a major land and peoples survey done in Palestine. It showed that the Zionists only owned about 5% of the total land, 20% of the arable land, and owned a majority in zero districts. The partition was not only going to be forced on the native Palestinian majority, but Jews were still going to be a minority, in the part allocated to them. The only possible way to even become a "Jewish state" was going to require getting rid of the actual majority (at least enough so that there'd be a solid Jewish majority, so they could fake being democratic). This is also shown by the 1948, post Nakba, population of Israel. If there was 716,700 Jews, 156,000+ non-Jews, and approximately 700k non-Jews ethnically cleansed, that means the Jewish population, in the Zionist portion of partition, was originally over 100,000 less than the non-Jewish population. To believe that there was never any intent, by Zionists, to ethnically cleanse away the Palestinian majority would require believing that they never intended to create a "Jewish state". It's a nonsensical notion. Begin, and those terrorist groups, also opposed partition, but for the opposite reason Palestinians did. Palestinians didn't want to be colonized, at all. The terrorists wanted to colonize it all. "Moderate" Zionists were okay with colonizing half ... for now (what would happen in the future, after partition, was up to them, said Ben-Gurion). The Zionist terrorists were also involved in massacres, and assassinations, during the partition violence (colonialist war against the natives). Another notable future Likud PM, also started in the military, during the partition fighting. That was Ariel Sharon, war criminal, "Butcher of Beirut". Menachem Begin, and these other Zionist terrorists, are important because they became involved in Israeli politics, first forming Herut. That was the party that Albert Einstein, and other prominent American Jews, opposed, having a letter printed in the NYT, in December of 1948, when Begin came to visit the US. The letter opened ... "Among the most disturbing political phenomena of our times is the emergence in the newly created state of Israel of the "Freedom Party" (Tnuat Haherut), a political party closely akin in its organization, methods, political philosophy and social appeal to the Nazi and Fascist parties. It was formed out of the membership and following of the former Irgun Zvai Leumi, a terrorist, right-wing, chauvinist organization in Palestine." Herut merged with other extremist parties, over the years, and eventually became Likud, in the 70s. Now, people get upset over the slogan "From the river to the sea!", but it's the second part that's most important, "Palestine will be free!". Because "Palestine" isn't defined as an ethno-state, a free Palestine can be a single state, free for all to live in, and return to, free of continuing colonization, free of occupation, free of oppression, etc. Just like a Germany free of Nazism, an Italy free of fascism, a South Africa free of apartheid, or an America free of slavery from sea to shiny sea. It doesn't necessitate purging all the Jews. It just necessitates them giving up on the idea of an ethno-state. On the other hand, because "Israel" has been defined as an ethno-state, Likud's, "between the sea and the Jordan there will only be Israeli sovereignty", has no possible good interpretation. It is a declaration of intent to completely colonize, and ethnically cleanse, all Palestine territories. Not only that, but it also claims that they have a "right" to all of the "Land of Israel" (biblical borders that don't mesh with archaeological reality), which is an open declaration of future wars, against Jordan, Syria, Lebanon, and possibly even Iraq. Likud platform ... 1977: "The Right of the Jewish People to the Land of Israel (Eretz Israel) a. The right of the Jewish people to the land of Israel is eternal and indisputable and is linked with the right to security and peace; therefore, Judea and Samaria will not be handed to any foreign administration; between the Sea and the Jordan there will only be Israeli sovereignty. b. A plan which relinquishes parts of western Eretz Israel, undermines our right to the country, unavoidably leads to the establishment of a "Palestinian State," jeopardizes the security of the Jewish population, endangers the existence of the State of Israel. and frustrates any prospect of peace." "Settlement Settlement. both urban and rural. in all parts of the Land of Israel is the focal point of the Zionist effort to redeem the country, to maintain vital security areas and serves as a reservoir of strength and inspiration for the renewal of the pioneering spirit. The Likud government will call on the younger generation in Israel and the dispersions to settle and help every group and individual in the task of inhabiting and cultivating the wasteland, while taking care not to dispossess anyone." 1999: "The Government of Israel flatly rejects the establishment of a Palestinian Arab state west of the Jordan river. The Palestinians can run their lives freely in the framework of self-rule, but not as an independent and sovereign state. Thus, for example, in matters of foreign affairs, security, immigration, and ecology, their activity shall be limited in accordance with imperatives of Israel's existence, security and national needs." "The Jewish communities in Judea, Samaria, and Gaza are the realization of Zionist values. Settlement of the land is a clear expression of the unassailable right of the Jewish people to the Land of Israel and constitutes an important asset in the defense of the vital interests of the State of Israel. The Likud will continue to strengthen and develop these communities and will prevent their uprooting." All Palestine territories are officially considered occupied, by the International Court of Justice, the UN GA, the UN SC, and even in official documents of Israel's own allies. Likud is still using the blueprint for colonizing North America, in the West Bank. Move settlements out into native territory, piss off the natives, the natives retaliate, cry about poor "innocent" colonizing settlers being the "victims" of violent "Savages!", call in the cavalry to put down the native uprising, and eventually expand the borders to include those settlements. Rinse and repeat. In Gaza, Israel is operating an open air WWII style fascist ghetto. Them claiming a "right to defend themselves" would be like the Nazis claiming a "right to defend themselves " from the Warsaw ghetto uprising. There's no "war". That they're the occupiers means the "war" part is long over. Those people are actually supposed to be under the occupier's protection. That partition was forced upon the Palestinian majority, against their will ... that the Zionist portion still had to be forcefully ethnically cleansed of its non-Jewish majority, against their will ... that the millions of occupied Palestinians don't have a say in the government that truly rules over them, Israel's ... means Israel is about as democratic as Nazi Germany after Hitler purged his political opponents and then held elections.
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  10032. ​ @melrose762riser  You know the other side based their colonization on some thousands of years old "god gave it to us" fairytale claim, right?
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  10033. Conservatives are okay with a government agency cancelling foul language or nudity, but want to die on the hill of private companies cancelling racism ... but, they're definitely not racists.
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  10034.  @juliering6653  I see them quoting the Bloomberg spokesperson made the "incendiary" claim that there's no difference between the Sanders campaign and the Trump campaign. He's either lying, or a complete and utter moron. Instead of doing a 10 min segment on how that's total bullshit, they're quoting him.
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  10035. ​ @patrickvolk7031  Native Americans reached a point where they want to push all the white people back into the sea. Fun fact: It wasn't simply because they were white.
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  10036. Same hypocrites that worship a trans "god", which would also be the leading abortionist in existence, if it existed, while claiming they're against those things.
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  10037. She's Christian, dmwt.
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  10038.  @LancesArmorStriking  The USSR colonized all these former SSR countries before. Russia has been f*cking around in all these former SSR countries since the collapse in 1991. Putin has outright said he thinks Russia should get them all back. They're the colonialists.
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  10039.  @phiscz  They already did, as the USSR. They committed genocide and ethnically cleansed regions, and moved Russians in. Putin is coming back.
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  10040. We've already gone through points in history, where what Libertarians want existed. It didn't work the way they fantasize it would, at all. We've done fully privatized education. Only the rich were educated. We've done fully privatized healthcare. Only the rich got decent healthcare. We've done private landowners, with no laws above them, with their own private armies, doing whatever they want, settling property disputes privately, etc. It was feudalism.
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  10041.  @henryroman5415  Strange ... you seem to know how to reply to people. But, you can't recognize that I replied to someone?
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  10042.  @muddy1596  Moron alert!!!
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  10043. Israel is operating an open air WWII style fascist ghetto, that's why.
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  10044. Oh geezus, Trump threw every other Republican under the bus in 2016. Why make out like it's a Democrat only thing? Or a thing Republicans can survive but not Democrats?
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  10045. I unsubscribed, after they let Ben Gleib rant 3 different times. Just looking at this because it was in my home feed, not my subscribed feed.
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  10046. Yeah, enjoy paying a tax on your own data. Businesses get paid back for their input VAT. The final consumer doesn't. A VAT doesn't make those businesses actually pay anything. https://www.google.com/amp/s/www.hwca.com/accountants-hull/what-is-vat-input-and-vat-output/amp/
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  10047.  @speedtribejp  Do this math ... Company A sells your data to company B for $10 + $1 VAT. Company A sends the $1 to the government. Company B reclaims their $1 input VAT from the government. How much have company A and company B actually paid in taxes?
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  10048. ​ @O1OO1O1  How did she "sell out", exactly?
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  10049.  @ItsKDHN  Do you even know what you're arguing ivermectin is good for? All the crap studies say it helps people recover, which has nothing much to do with reducing the number of cases. It would only really have to do with reducing deaths and increasing recovery times.
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  10050.  @ItsKDHN  No. One Israel official said they should look at preparing for a 4th shot. No timeline on it, yet. That's irrelevant to the fact that even those arguing for ivermectin aren't arguing that it's a preventative, to reduce cases. If ivermectin was highly effective, what you should see is it not much affecting case load, but causing a drastic reduction in hospitalization rates, shortening of hospital stays, plus a significant reduction in serious cases and deaths. If the case load is dropping significantly, they're most likely taking other measures, say like being in lockdown. You think the people of Slovakia might be 2-3x unhealthier than Americans?
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  10051. So are some priests. Going around claiming every priest is a groomer, should get you at least a law suit. Pick one and provide the evidence. All depends on if you mean "to change" to, or "to change" from, dumb dumb. The Abrahamic God community are hypocrites, considering they worship a sexless spirit being, who identifies with masculine pronouns. The Christians even moreso, considering they believe that sexless spirit being transitioned into a human male for a time, and walked around in a dress, but have no problem with that.
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  10052. ​ @HonuManHi 👈 Whines about "orange man bad" then cries "old man bad". 😂
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  10053. ​ @HonuManHi  You're apparently too stupid to comprehend your own words.
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  10054. ​ @mattelvislindsay1326  You outright worship a sexless god, who identifies with masculine pronouns, and who transitioned into a human male for a time, before transitioning back to being a sexless god. Side note: That trans god you worship would also be the leading abortionist in existence, if it existed, and you likely claim its pure goodness.
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  10055.  @mohammadshami1718  Help yourself.
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  10056.  @flip.flap.  Nixon and Reagan Wiki bios, have basics. Helen Gahagan Douglas was Nixon's California senate opponent, who he nicknamed "The Pink Lady". She's the one who nicknamed him "Tricky Dick". She was awesome. A good Slate article ... "Actress, Opera Star, Congresswoman Helen Gahagan Douglas fought for liberty—and watched Richard Nixon end her political career. BY KARINA LONGWORTH APRIL 14, 2016" If you look up who voted for and against the 1964 and 1968 Civil Rights bills, you'll find it was divided mainly by geography, not party. The Southern Republicans were just as opposed, and voted against, as the Southern Democrats. It was the Northerners, of both parties, that passed the bills. If you look at the 1968 and 1972 election maps, you'll see 5 states were won by resegregationist, George Wallace, in 1968. Then they went Republican, in 1972.
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  10057.  @GOPexorcism-we4mp  I'd say Teddy wasn't too bad. He came around to workers, and introduced his Square Deal. Plus, when he saw the Republican party turning further right, he tried coming back to run for a third term, and ended up running against them with his Progressive party after they turned him down. Then they ran the economy into the Great Depression. But, after losing to FDR 4 times straight, they kinda reset a little, and Ike was the more moderate end of the party. But, they've been going hard right ever since.
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  10058. What are you idjits above on about? AOC and two fellow NY progressives back formal plea for ceasefire in Gaza Oct 16, 2023 18 House Democrats sign resolution for Mideast de-escalation, ceasefire Oct 23, 2023 — Cori Bush (D-Mo.). Bush's fellow “Squad” members Reps. Rashida Tlaib (D-Mich.), Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez (D-N.Y.) Democrats Like Rashida Tlaib, AOC Split With Biden Over Israel Ceasefire Calls Oct 31, 2023 AOC leads Democrats urging Biden to call for Gaza ceasefire over children's rights Nov 15, 2023 AOC calls Biden administration 'shameful' for blocking United Nations demand for a ... Dec 11, 2023 Aoc ceasefire | keeping it reel - NewsBreak Original Jan 17, 2024 Hour 1: AOC Calls for Ceasefire from Israel - The Marc Cox Morning Show Podcast Feb 8, 2024 AOC suggests cutting off aid to Israel after U.S. vetoes ceasefire resolution Feb 22, 2024 AOC and Other Democrats Urge Biden to Call for a Ceasefire at the State of the ... Mar 1, 2024
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  10059. This is one of the most uninformed comment sections I have ever seen. AOC and two fellow NY progressives back formal plea for ceasefire in Gaza Oct 16, 2023 18 House Democrats sign resolution for Mideast de-escalation, ceasefire Oct 23, 2023 — Cori Bush (D-Mo.). Bush's fellow “Squad” members Reps. Rashida Tlaib (D-Mich.), Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez (D-N.Y.) Democrats Like Rashida Tlaib, AOC Split With Biden Over Israel Ceasefire Calls Oct 31, 2023 AOC leads Democrats urging Biden to call for Gaza ceasefire over children's rights Nov 15, 2023 AOC calls Biden administration 'shameful' for blocking United Nations demand for a ... Dec 11, 2023 Aoc ceasefire | keeping it reel - NewsBreak Original Jan 17, 2024 Hour 1: AOC Calls for Ceasefire from Israel - The Marc Cox Morning Show Podcast Feb 8, 2024 AOC suggests cutting off aid to Israel after U.S. vetoes ceasefire resolution Feb 22, 2024 AOC and Other Democrats Urge Biden to Call for a Ceasefire at the State of the ... Mar 1, 2024
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  10060.  @mattfarhat4820  How did Trump actually go after the system? Are you referring to him trying to overthrow the democratic process to keep himself on as an unelected ruler?
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  10061.  @victorespino5650  There is decades of "doing the work". It's pretty much just willful ignorance, by this point. Nazis answered all these questions in their anti-Jewish propaganda.
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  10062.  @javy__air  They would not be of the Aryan "master race", and would therefore be stripped of their rights. You lot are looking at things backwards. The only thing that matters, as to whether Nazis were racist, is what Nazis considered "race". They did not consider non Aryans, of any color, to be of their "master race".
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  10063.  @Gromkiii  One of the things Hitler repeatedly blamed Jews for was Marxism, dimwit. "If, with the help of his Marxist creed, the Jew is victorious over the other peoples of the world, his crown will be the funeral wreath of humanity and this planet will, as it did thousands of years ago, move through the ether devoid of men." ~ Hitler "Fascism is the complete opposite of Marxian socialism." ~ Mussolini
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  10064.  @PotentialThall  What the f*ck does simply being able eyeball someone have to do with race? Using the eyeballing method, there should be dozens of races. Are you saying light skinned Japanese and dark skinned Indonesians, are different races? The more standard Indo-European Aryan race category, of the time period, had Indians and Swedes belonging to the same race. How does that fit your bullshit talking point, that it's all visual? Are Native Americans descended from Asians, or are they a different race? Or, are there even different races of Native Americans, due to some having paler skin, in the North, and some having darker skin, nearer the equator?
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  10065.  @ManiacMayhem7256  They did have their citizen rights stripped away, as they weren't Aryan/German, which included not being able to vote on referendums. They outlawed mixed marriages. Those hundreds of mixed race kids would belong to a black parent, and it's because they had a black parent they were sterilized. Kind of like the US, Germany mostly left dealing with the tiny black population to regional authorities, telling them it was up to them how to deal with black Germans. You can also look at the US federal government, around the same time, and say the federal government wasn't doing anything to black Americans. Jewish survivors of camps have reported seeing some black people go through. They just disappeared. When it came to POWs, the military segregated black colonial soldiers, treated them worse, and about 50% ended up dying.
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  10066. "God does not exist" is a proposition like any other. To prove it, requires the same steps as any other. 1. no belief, 2. true belief, 3. justified true belief. To reach the position that you claim to know God does not exist, you have to believe God does not exist. God: The Failed Hypothesis. How Science Shows That God Does Not Exist by Victor J. Stenger, now on Amazon
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  10067.  @jackprice1758  You think the most rcst colonies/states, for centuries, aren't still very rcst? Nikki Haley attended preparatory schools, specifically created to dodge desegregation, that didn't acknowledge admitting their first non-white student until 1989 (the year she graduated ... which means she had been considered white the whole time). She was likely taught the false "Lost Cause" narrative, which is why she had no clue how to properly answer CW questions.
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  10068.  @jackprice1758   You think the most rcst colonies/states, for centuries, aren't still very rcst? Nikki attended preparatory schools, specifically created to dodge desegregation, that didn't acknowledge admitting their first non-wht student until 1989 (the year she graduated ... which means she had been considered wht the whole time). She was likely taught the false "Lost Cause" narrative, which is why she had no clue how to properly answer CW questions.
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  10069.  @jackprice1758   You think the most rcst colonies/states, for centuries, aren't still very rcst? Nikki attended prep schools specifically created to dodge dsgrgtion, that didn't acknowledge admitting their first non-wt student until 1989 (the year she graduated ... which means she had been considered wt the whole time). She was likely taught the false "Lost Cause" narrative, which is why she had no clue how to properly answer CW questions.
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  10070.  @jackprice1758  What are you talking about? Trump, and Republicans, repeatedly questioned the 2020 results in predominantly black districts. They were still trying to do Jm Crw, and take away their votes.
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  10071.  @jackprice1758  What are you talking about? Trump, and Republicans, repeatedly questioned the 2020 results in predominantly blck districts. They are still trying to do Jm Crw, and take away their vts.
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  10072.  @jackprice1758   What are you talking about? Trump, and Republicans, repeatedly questioned the results in predominantly blck districts. They are still trying to do Jm Crw, and take away their vts.
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  10073.  @jackprice1758  Trump, and Republicans, repeatedly questioned the results in predominantly blck dstrcts. They are still trying to do Jm Crw, and take away their vts.
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  10074.  @jackprice1758   The time of 4 whole years? Trump, and Reps, repeatedly questioned the rslts in predominantly blck dstrcts. They are still trying to take away their vts.
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  10075.  @jackprice1758   The passage of 4 whole years? Trump, and Reps, repeatedly qstnd the rslts in predominantly blck dstrcts. They are still trying to take away their v o t e s.
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  10076.  @jackprice1758   The passage of 4 whole years? Trump/Reps tried to erase blck vts. They're still trying to do Jm Crw.
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  10077.  @felwinter7883  How were the weather underground Democrats, when they wanted to completely topple both parties?
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  10078.  @felwinter7883  Rofl. Where are these supposed small government conservatives? Do you mean Libertarians? You're sure not talking about Republicans.
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  10079.  @felwinter7883  You used them as a reply to someone saying no Democrats have stormed the capitol. How are they Democrats, when they wanted to end both parties?
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  10080. ... that have promoted taking care of any people, rather than corporations, that struggle economically, throughout the pandemic ... that promote better healthcare coverage for everybody. But hey, you enjoy your "caring" Republican leaders that want you to die to make a buck, or go bankrupt, if you get really sick, and would rather hand money to corporations than poor people. Yeah, those are the folks that are really in touch.
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  10081.  @mikeyb.3306  Umm, the rich will continue to profit as workers are hospitalized and die. Medical debt and death are pretty negative effects.
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  10082. @HuxtableTV  Where do you think Babylon would be, on a current map?
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  10083.  @paritoshthapliyal1520  Partition should have been left up to the majority in India, no? Or, did you like the occpyng British clnzr making the decision for you?
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  10084. ​ @zachdave2994   YouTube not liking some word here. No. The Germans had "democratically" elected Jud-nrats administer the gh-ttos, along with Jew-sh Gh-tto Police. And, the upris-ngs in gh-ttos were generally led by resist-nce groups, who had found ways to get in and out, and even smuggle in weap-ns. It's very much similar, just a different scale.
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  10085.  @zachdave2994   YouTube not liking some word here, or someone flagging me. No. The Germ-ns had "democratically" elected Jud-nrats administer the gh-ttos, along with Jew-sh Gh-tto Pol-ce. And, the upris-ngs in gh-ttos were generally led by resist-nce groups, who had found ways to get in and out, and even sm-ggle in weap-ns. It's very much similar, just a different scale.
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  10086.  @zachdave2994  Lol, someone here not liking my reply.
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  10087.  @zachdave2994  I already replied. Keeps getting hidden.
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  10088.  @zachdave2994  Who were the Judenrats?
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  10089.  @zachdave2994  Who were the Ju-den-rats?
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  10090.  @zachdave2994  Who were the Judenräte?
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  10091.  @zachdave2994  Carry on with your propaganda, I guess. My reply was hidden again.
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  10092.  @zachdave2994  Look up the Irgun and Lehi, as well as Einstein's letter to the NYT, about the founders of Likud.
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  10093.  @zachdave2994  Who were the J.u.d.e.n.r.a.t.s?
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  10094.  @zachdave2994  Man, YouTube, or someone here, really hates hearing about the Jvd3nr4t adminstration of ghettos.
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  10095.  @zachdave2994  I didn't downplay anything. That was you. You're just strawmanning and deflecting. And how did Einstein describe the founders of Likud (Herut)?
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  10096.  @zachdave2994  Nope. It's pure deflection. Absolutely nothing to do with what defines an open air ghetto. Who were the J-wish Councils, administering ghettos?
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  10097.  @zachdave2994  Lol, he was invited to be President of Israel. How did he describe the founders of Likud? As terr-rists? N-zis? F-scists? Yes. Yes. And yes.
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  10098.  @zachdave2994  Man, YouTube, or someone here, really hates hearing about the J-sh Council administrators of g-ttos.
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  10099.  @zachdave2994  Nope. Pure deflection. Absolutely nothing to do with what defines an open air g-tto.
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  10100.  @zachdave2994  Nope. Pure deflection, and YouTube, or someone here, won't let me elaborate.
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  10101.  @zachdave2994  Absolutely nothing to do with what defines an O.A.G., hence deflection.
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  10102.  @zachdave2994  And a helluva lot of strawmanning, as well.
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  10103.  @zachdave2994  Yet again, nothing you just rambled on about, has anything to do with what constitutes an open air ghto. You seem to have ignored me repeatedly stating my replies were being hidden. If you feel like sorting the comment section by newest, and refinding this thread, you can read them.
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  10104.  @zachdave2994  Not my words. I didn't mention any of that stuff. Are you arguing that ghettos without experimentation, weren't ghettos? Are you arguing ghettos weren't ghettos, for the months to years, before Operation Reinhard? Etc. What does anything you're going on about have to do with what is considered a ghetto?
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  10105.  @zachdave2994  I haven't changed my tune once. Nothing you've gone on about actually refutes anything I originally said. J-sh Councils administered ghettos, even held elections, just like IL let's Pals do. J-sh ghetto police, kept order, just like IL let's Pals do. Sometimes those councils and police forces worked with the N-zis, like the PA. Sometimes those councils and police forces worked with resistance groups, like Ham. N-zi soldiers didn't live in, nor constantly patrol, the ghettos. They covered the walls, from outside, and from towers, just like IL does. You've likewise said nothing to refute that Z-nists were colonizers (they weren't shy about admitting to it, originally), nor occupiers (OPT), like the N-zis. Sure, there are no death camps, but N-zis were N-zis, long before 1942. The absence of death camps doesn't mean one isn't a N-zi.
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  10106.  @zachdave2994  As I've repeatedly said, I have other replies, that have been either hidden by YouTube, or by someone flagging them. Another was just hidden.
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  10107.  @zachdave2994  YouTube is making this near impossible to discuss. I haven't changed my tune once. Nothing you've gone on about actually refutes anything I originally said. Jwsh Councils administered ghttos, even held elections, just like IL lets Pals do. Jwsh ghtto police, kept order, just like IL lets Pals do. Sometimes those councils and police forces worked with the Nzs, like the PA. Sometimes those councils and police forces worked with resistance groups, like Ham. Nz soldiers didn't live in, nor constantly patrol, the ghettos. They covered the walls, from outside, and from towers, just like IL does. You've likewise said nothing to refute that Znsts were clnizers (they weren't shy about admitting to it, originally), nor occpiers (OPT), like the Nzs. Sure, there are no exterm camps, but Nzs were Nzs, long before 1942. The absence of exterm camps doesn't mean one isn't a Nz. And, I've never conflated the two. That was you.
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  10108.  @zachdave2994   @zachdave2994  YouTube is making this near impossible to discuss. I haven't changed my tune once. Nothing you've gone on about actually refutes anything I originally said. Jwsh Councils administered ghttos, even held elections, just like IL lets Pals do. Jwsh ghtto police, kept order, just like IL lets Pals do. Sometimes those councils and police forces worked with the Nzs, like the PA. Sometimes those councils and police forces worked with rsstance groups, like Ham. Nz soldiers didn't live in, nor constantly patrol, the ghtos. They covered the walls, from outside, and from towers, just like IL does. You've likewise said nothing to refute that Znsts were clnizers (they weren't shy about admitting to it, originally), nor occpiers (OPT), like the Nzs. Sure, there are no exterm camps, but Nzs were Nzs, long before 1942. The absence of exterm camps doesn't mean one isn't a Nz. And, I've never conflated the two. That was you.
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  10109.  @zachdave2994  Better ghettos. Got it.
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  10110.  @zachdave2994  Lol, you're like someone arguing a medium, or minimum, security prison, isn't a prison. Likud's own platform states that the Pal territories are not, and never will be, independent. Likud's bloody 100 year history ... In 1923, 100 years ago, Ze'ev Jabotinsky wrote, The Iron Wall, and a follow up, The Ethics of The Iron Wall (sooo racist towards Africans), in which he fully acknowledged that post Balfour Zionsim was colonialism, and that, based on the entirety of history, the native Palestinian population would resist being colonized until the bitter end. He directly compared it to the colonization of North America. He promoted doing it anyway, claiming Zionist colonialism was a "just" colonialism (he also thought North American colonialists were good guys, so not a great judge of morality), not caring what that meant for the native population. Ze'ev is important, because his Betar militant youth group helped found the Irgun terrorist group, along with other supporters of his, and the splinter Lehi terrorist group. The Irgun bombed numerous Palestinian markets and other public places, murdering many Palestinian civilians, including children, even including Palestinian Jews (who didn't support colonialist Zionsim). The Irgun are important, because they ended up being led by future Likud PM, Menachem Begin, who bombed the King David Hotel. The King David Hotel was bombed because the British had raided the Jewish Agency and seized numerous documents that may have shown that the terrorists were working with the JA and Haganah (JA liked to pretend that they didn't support the terrorism). The British then stored those documents at their base, in the hotel. That the Irgun terrorists responded to a JA raid, itself seems to prove the connection. That the thousands of Irgun (and Lehi) terrorists were also quickly merged into the new nation's military (IDF) and intelligence (Mossad) agencies, and are still celebrated as "heroes" by Israelis, to this day, also seems to support total collaboration between the groups. That other terrorist group mentioned, Lehi (also known as the Stern Gang), was considered even more extreme. They even tried to ally with the Nazis, against the British. Lehi ended up being led by Yitzhak Shamir, future Mossad agent, and another future Likud PM. They assassinated Lord Moyne, and others. In 1945, there was a major land and peoples survey done in Palestine. It showed that the Zionists only owned about 5% of the total land, 20% of the arable land, and owned a majority in zero districts. The partition was not only going to be forced on the native Palestinian majority, but Jews were still going to be a minority, in the part allocated to them. The only possible way to even become a "Jewish state" was going to require getting rid of the actual majority (at least enough so that there'd be a solid Jewish majority, so they could fake being democratic). This is also shown by the 1948, post Nakba, population of Israel. If there was 716,700 Jews, 156,000+ non-Jews, and approximately 700k non-Jews ethnically cleansed, that means the Jewish population, in the Zionist portion of partition, was originally over 100,000 less than the non-Jewish population. To believe that there was never any intent, by Zionists, to ethnically cleanse away the Palestinian majority would require believing that they never intended to create a "Jewish state". It's a nonsensical notion. Begin, and those terrorist groups, also opposed partition, but for the opposite reason Palestinians did. Palestinians didn't want to be colonized, at all. The terrorists wanted to colonize it all. "Moderate" Zionists were okay with colonizing half ... for now (what would happen in the future, after partition, was up to them, said Ben-Gurion). The Zionist terrorists were also involved in massacres, and assassinations, during the partition violence (colonialist war against the natives). Another notable future Likud PM, also started in the military, during the partition fighting. That was Ariel Sharon, war criminal, "Butcher of Beirut". Menachem Begin, and these other Zionist terrorists, are important because they became involved in Israeli politics, first forming Herut. That was the party that Albert Einstein, and other prominent American Jews, opposed, having a letter printed in the NYT, in December of 1948, when Begin came to visit the US. The letter opened ... "Among the most disturbing political phenomena of our times is the emergence in the newly created state of Israel of the "Freedom Party" (Tnuat Haherut), a political party closely akin in its organization, methods, political philosophy and social appeal to the Nazi and Fascist parties. It was formed out of the membership and following of the former Irgun Zvai Leumi, a terrorist, right-wing, chauvinist organization in Palestine." Herut merged with other extremist parties, over the years, and eventually became Likud, in the 70s. Now, people get upset over the slogan "From the river to the sea!", but it's the second part that's most important, "Palestine will be free!". Because "Palestine" isn't defined as an ethno-state, a free Palestine can be a single state, free for all to live in, and return to, free of continuing colonization, free of occupation, free of oppression, etc. Just like a Germany free of Nazism, an Italy free of fascism, a South Africa free of apartheid, or an America free of slavery from sea to shiny sea. It doesn't necessitate purging all the Jews. It just necessitates them giving up on the idea of an ethno-state. On the other hand, because "Israel" has been defined as an ethno-state, Likud's, "between the sea and the Jordan there will only be Israeli sovereignty", has no possible good interpretation. It is a declaration of intent to completely colonize, and ethnically cleanse, all Palestine territories. Not only that, but it also claims that they have a "right" to all of the "Land of Israel" (biblical borders that don't mesh with archaeological reality), which is an open declaration of future wars, against Jordan, Syria, Lebanon, and possibly even Iraq. Likud platform ... 1977: "The Right of the Jewish People to the Land of Israel (Eretz Israel) a. The right of the Jewish people to the land of Israel is eternal and indisputable and is linked with the right to security and peace; therefore, Judea and Samaria will not be handed to any foreign administration; between the Sea and the Jordan there will only be Israeli sovereignty. b. A plan which relinquishes parts of western Eretz Israel, undermines our right to the country, unavoidably leads to the establishment of a "Palestinian State," jeopardizes the security of the Jewish population, endangers the existence of the State of Israel. and frustrates any prospect of peace." "Settlement Settlement. both urban and rural. in all parts of the Land of Israel is the focal point of the Zionist effort to redeem the country, to maintain vital security areas and serves as a reservoir of strength and inspiration for the renewal of the pioneering spirit. The Likud government will call on the younger generation in Israel and the dispersions to settle and help every group and individual in the task of inhabiting and cultivating the wasteland, while taking care not to dispossess anyone." 1999: "The Government of Israel flatly rejects the establishment of a Palestinian Arab state west of the Jordan river. The Palestinians can run their lives freely in the framework of self-rule, but not as an independent and sovereign state. Thus, for example, in matters of foreign affairs, security, immigration, and ecology, their activity shall be limited in accordance with imperatives of Israel's existence, security and national needs." "The Jewish communities in Judea, Samaria, and Gaza are the realization of Zionist values. Settlement of the land is a clear expression of the unassailable right of the Jewish people to the Land of Israel and constitutes an important asset in the defense of the vital interests of the State of Israel. The Likud will continue to strengthen and develop these communities and will prevent their uprooting." All Palestine territories are officially considered occupied, by the International Court of Justice, the UN GA, the UN SC, and even in official documents of Israel's own allies. Likud is still using the blueprint for colonizing North America, in the West Bank. Move settlements out into native territory, piss off the natives, the natives retaliate, cry about poor "innocent" colonizing settlers being the "victims" of violent "Savages!", call in the cavalry to put down the native uprising, and eventually expand the borders to include those settlements. Rinse and repeat. In Gaza, Israel is operating an open air WWII style fascist ghetto. Them claiming a "right to defend themselves" would be like the Nazis claiming a "right to defend themselves " from the Warsaw ghetto uprising. There's no "war". That they're the occupiers means the "war" part is long over. Those people are actually supposed to be under the occupier's protection. That partition was forced upon the Palestinian majority, against their will ... that the Zionist portion still had to be forcefully ethnically cleansed of its non-Jewish majority, against their will ... that the millions of occupied Palestinians don't have a say in the government that truly rules over them, Israel's ... means Israel is about as democratic as Nazi Germany after Hitler purged his political opponents and then held elections.
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  10111.  @zachdave2994  Nope. I said they were operating a ghetto. You're the one who started comparing that to other things, like a loon, who doesn't know what words mean.
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  10112.  @zachdave2994  Your comment was about who was worse, between the two sides fighting. My comment addressed that Znists making WWII analogies put Israel on the wrong side of the analogy. You rambling on about whether Nazis were worse than Znists is completely irrelevant to that point. Znists are the colonizers, the ethnic cleansers, the occupiers, and the ones operating a ghetto. It's completely irrelevant whether a Nzi ghetto was worse than a Znist ghetto. It doesn't affect my point, in the least. They're still the Nzis in the analogy. You were the one deflecting to irrelevance. Rofl. The history of Likud is the history of Revisionist Znism. They have never wanted peace. Likud's platform ... 1977: "The Right of the Jewish People to the Land of Israel (Eretz Israel) a. The right of the Jewish people to the land of Israel is eternal and indisputable and is linked with the right to security and peace; therefore, Judea and Samaria will not be handed to any foreign administration; between the Sea and the Jordan there will only be Israeli sovereignty. b. A plan which relinquishes parts of western Eretz Israel, undermines our right to the country, unavoidably leads to the establishment of a "Palestinian State," jeopardizes the security of the Jewish population, endangers the existence of the State of Israel. and frustrates any prospect of peace." 1999: "The Government of Israel flatly rejects the establishment of a Palestinian Arab state west of the Jordan river. The Palestinians can run their lives freely in the framework of self-rule, but not as an independent and sovereign state. Thus, for example, in matters of foreign affairs, security, immigration, and ecology, their activity shall be limited in accordance with imperatives of Israel's existence, security and national needs." "The Jewish communities in Judea, Samaria, and Gaza are the realization of Zionist values. Settlement of the land is a clear expression of the unassailable right of the Jewish people to the Land of Israel and constitutes an important asset in the defense of the vital interests of the State of Israel. The Likud will continue to strengthen and develop these communities and will prevent their uprooting."
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  10113.  @zachdave2994  I brought up that Znists making WWII analogies, tend to put IL on the wrong side (as you were seemingly doing, implying they're analogous to the Allies). I pointed out that they were the one operating a ghto, to clarify what side they're actually analogous to. You switching from who was worse, on each side of a conflict, to going on about who was worse, between Znists and Nzis, is completely irrelevant to my point, and completely irrelevant to your original argument about who was worse between the opposing sides. You deflected off into la la land. I posted Likud's history and platform, above. Explain how it offers peace.
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  10114.  @orion00  Then call Likud trrists, as well. They still celebrate their trrist founders as "heroes", and still share the same goals. "Rivlin hosts 90th anniversary of founding Irgun Zvai Leumi (Etzel)"
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  10115.  @zachdave2994  Why are you on about "a single year" again? Something is, or isn't, a ghtto, however long it lasts. You make no sense. I mentioned Znists ... as in you. Oslo wasn't done, before Rabin was ass-inated by Znist terrrists, Znist terrrists massacred a mosque in Hebron, IL continued settlements (against the agreement), and Netanyahu was elected. It was supposed to be finalized by 1999.
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  10116.  @orion00  "Then call Likud trrists as well"
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  10117.  @zachdave2994  Already posted Likud's history and platform, above. It's exactly the same Revisionist goals, from 100 years ago.
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  10118.  @zachdave2994  Holy hell. Do I really need to type out WWII style fscist ghttos, each time? Those that didn't have forced labour weren't actually Nzi ghttos. Got it.
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  10119.  @zachdave2994  You: "I'm not a Znist!", "I didn't compare IL to Allies!" Also you: When previous commenter was talking about IL klling children, you compare it to Allies klling children. And then defend both Likud and IL every chance you get.
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  10120.  @zachdave2994  No. Some were not forced slave labour based, and were instead work permit based (like IL work permits), that allowed some of the ghtto population to work for extra food and money. They actually wanted the permits. Some Jwish councils even asked for places for them to work be created. But, those don't count as Nzi ghttos, according to you.
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  10121.  @zachdave2994  Nope. I said that you don't count anything before 1942. You're the one boiling the ghtto history down to just the last couple years. Some started in 1939, and the populations weren't sent off to camps until 1944. But, pre 1942 ghttos don't qualify as ghttos, according to you.
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  10122.  @zachdave2994  I've never said anyone was "as bad as" anyone else. You have severe comprehension problems, as I've pointed out before. The US had Japanese concentration camps. Doesn't mean they were "as bad as" anyone else. It's just a fact they had them.
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  10123.  @zachdave2994  Rofl! I'm not the one conflating, you single brain cell. You are. You're the one claiming a ghtto has to have every single element you mention, or it's not a real ghtto. You're the one disqualifying a number of Nzi ghttos, not me. Congratulations.
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  10124.  @zachdave2994  As do I what? I've never once said something was "as bad as" something else. You're the one arguing a minimum, or medium, security prison isn't a real prison, because it doesn't have every single element of a maximum security prison.
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  10125.  @zachdave2994  Do you not grasp simple words, like "some"? You're single brain cell is failing you. Lodz wasn't liquidated until 1944, exactly like I said.
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  10126.  @zachdave2994  It's an analogy, single brain cell. I say they are operating a "prison" (ghtto), and you start ranting about how it doesn't have every single element of a max security "prison" (worst possible ghtto).
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  10127.  @zachdave2994  Blah blah blah. Nothing you're saying changes these facts ...  "Just a fact that IL controls Gz's borders, airspace, ports, electricity, water, imports/exports, who goes in and out, and even the money from Qtr, which Bibi has stopped and started multiple times. Just a fact that Likud's own platform states the Pal territories are not, and never will be, independent. Just a fact that all the relevant international bodies consider the Pal territories all occpied. Just a fact that it is an open air ghto."
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  10128.  @zachdave2994  You have severe and apparently irreparable comprehension problems. Every prison is a prison, not every prison "is as severe as" every other. That's your own insertion.
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  10129.  @zachdave2994  Your single cell has completely fried. That every prison is a prison, doesn't equate to every prison is "as severe as" every other prison. Let me know when you learn to read. Bye.
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  10130.  @zachdave2994  You're the one arguing that every prison must be as bad as the worst prison, or it doesn't count as a prison, not me.
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  10131.  @zachdave2994  I'm the one saying all levels of security prisons are prisons, that they come in different flavours, but they're all prisons. You can't grasp basic English. You're the one arguing they all have to be the same (the absolute worst), or they don't count as prisons. When someone was saying IL was klling children, you said children die in war, and referred to the Allies. And, you can't seem to grasp analogies. That IL are the clonizers, ethnic cleansers, occpiers, and operators of an open air ghto, makes them analogous (not to be confused with perfectly exactly pure samesies) to the Nzis, in a WWII analogy. Yeah, I'd have been on the same side as all my grandparents, granduncles, and grandaunts (who also all volunteered). I'd be on the side of my Danish resistance grandfather ... the Danish resistance got almost every Jew out of Denmark. So, I likewise don't support similar (not to be confused with perfectly exactly pure samesies) behaviour, by Revisionists, in Palestine.
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  10132.  @orion00  Because they were founded by trrists, still celebrate those trrists as "heroes" (indicating continued support for their tactics), and still have the same stated Revisionist goals in their platform?
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  10133.  @zachdave2994  Nope. I'm the one saying a thing is a ghtto (prison), and you're the one arguing it's not a ghtto (prison), because it's not the worst possible version of a ghtto (prison).
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  10134.  @zachdave2994  Here's the "moderate" Znist ... "Does the establishment of a Jewish state [in only part of Palestine] advance or retard the conversion of this country into a Jewish country? My assumption (which is why I am a fervent proponent of a state, even though it is now linked to partition) is that a Jewish state on only part of the land is not the end but the beginning.... This is because this increase in possession is of consequence not only in itself, but because through it we increase our strength, and every increase in strength helps in the possession of the land as a whole. The establishment of a state, even if only on a portion of the land, is the maximal reinforcement of our strength at the present time and a powerful boost to our historical endeavors to liberate the entire country." ~ Ben-Gurion ... explain how that's peaceful.
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  10135.  @zachdave2994  Ben Gurion was representative of the "moderate" Labour Znists, yeah. I'm literally quoting someone who led a different party than Likud, lol. The transition phase for Oslo was supposed to begin when IL pulled out of Gaza. They didn't, and actually increased settlements, before the 1999 deadline ended. What were these supposedly awesome offers of peace, you're referring to? "between the sea and the Jordan there will only be Israeli sovereignty" ~ Likud platform
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  10136.  @zachdave2994  This is like talking to Drax. You seem to have no grasp on how analogies work.
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  10137.  @zachdave2994  I see you didn't bother reading my history of Likud, comment. It literally discusses the difference between the two statements. Yeah, yeah, just the guy, and party, that dominated IL politica, from the beginning until 1965. How about Golda Meir, was she the great peace partner? “It was not as if there was a Palestinian people in Palestine and we came and threw them out and took their country away from them. They did not exist.” A n a l o g y ... look up what it means. No. I don't think all Germans were Nzis. However, it was still a Nzi state. Right? Same with IL. You don't seem to understand much of anything I say. Your original "argument" was bringing up the Allies, when someone else was talking about IL klling children. My point was that IL is DE in any WWII analogy. Then you went off ranting about irrelevant nonsense, that doesn't change that fact. IL are the clonizers, ethnic cleansers, occpiers, and operators of an open air fscist style ghtto. They are analogous (not to be confused with perfectly exactly pure samesies) to DE, not the Allies. Because the differences, between a ghtto and and an exterm camp, are irrelevant to whether IL is operating a fscist style ghtto. I never said they were operating an exterm camp. You can prattle on about exterm camps, all you want, but you're not talking about the ghttos themselves, or anything I said, the entire time you do.
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  10138.  @zachdave2994  You're the one who went from me saying "WWII style fascist ghtto" to exterm camps, single brain cell, not me. I was the one saying you were on an irrelevant deflection, going that route, but you kept ignoring me. When you went down that route, I was the one who very very clearly stated, to clarify your delusional take, that I didn't think a US Japanese concentration camp was "as bad as" a Nzi camp. But, you kept going on, and on, and on, and on, as if I ever once said two things were exactly perfectly 100% pure samesies. You have severe severe comprehension problems. A n a l o g y ... analogous to the different security levels of prisons, not that they specifically have a roof, ffs. C'mon Drax, keep up. Analogous to the levels of horribleness in Nzi ghttos. Just because one ghtto didn't have absolutely every element you rambled on and on and on and on about, doesn't mean it wasn't a ghtto. Yet again, you were the one who brought in NYC, not me. When you did, I very very clearly asked if I had to type out "fscist style ghtto" every single time, for you. I guess your single brain cell has answered my question.
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  10139.  @zachdave2994  I'm truly very sorry that you don't grasp something you brought into the conversation. I didn't grasp why you did either. So, that makes two of us.
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  10140.  @zachdave2994  I do care. Rambling on about irrelevant nonsense, is not caring. Trying to blame those who are being clonized and ethnically cleansed for not agreeing to some "deal" to be clonized and ethnically cleansed, is not caring. Trying to downplay the operating of an open air ghto, because it's not quite cruel enough, by your measure, to count as one, is not caring. Etc.
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  10141.  @zachdave2994  Drax! The "prison" was an analogy! The first thing you said was comparing IL klling children to Allies. The clonizing, ethnic cleansing, ghtto operating, occpiers, are not comparable to the Allies. They are more comparable to the other side.
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  10142.  @zachdave2994  I've never said "all" of anybody. In fact, I literally stated that not all Germans were Nazis, but that doesn't change that it was a Nzi state, to try and make that clear to you. Your severe severe comprehension problems didn't allow that to register.
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  10143.  @zachdave2994  🤣 Drax! analogous: comparable in certain respects, typically in a way which makes clearer the nature of the things compared "Certain respects", NOT all respects. Do you think someone who is "blind as a bat", literally has echolocation?
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  10144.  @zachdave2994  Someone: That person is "sly like a fox". Drax (You): But they don't have a fuzzy tail, or pointy ears!
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  10145.  @zachdave2994  Analogy: Apple is to fruit, as carrot is to vegetable. You: But an apple isn't long skinny and orange!
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  10146.  @zachdave2994  Lol, you just proved, yet again, that you have zero grasp on how analogies work. I'm not sure I've ever run across anyone so daft, before. You're hilarious.
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  10147.  @zachdave2994  Me: I very very clearly state that there are differences in prisons ... minimum, medium, and maximum security ... but that doesn't change the fact that they're all prisons. You: You said all prisons are exactly the same!!! 🤣
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  10148.  @zachdave2994  Rofl! See, you still can't grasp what the comparison I'm making actually is. It doesn't matter if there are 3 differences or 3 million differences, the point is that they're all still prisons (which isn't to say they're all exactly the same). You are so incredibly daft. It's unreal. And the point of me making that analogy, was because you kept prattling on about ghtto differences. Prattle on all you'd like, it still won't change the fact that IL is operating a fscist ghtto, with enough of the same properties to qualify as one.
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  10149.  @zachdave2994  Rofl! I've never called a prison "open air". I called a ghtto "open air". This is you, arguing the sly person doesn't have fox ears. Completely and utterly daft.
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  10150.  @zachdave2994  Only your strawmanning has compared things to things I never did. So daft.
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  10151.  @zachdave2994  Rofl! The brackets were to the analogy, daft one. An analogy doesn't mean exactly samesies. You are so hilariously dim it's hard to believe you're real. Are you a badly made AI, or something?
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  10152.  @zachdave2994  One last try ... The comparison: differences in levels of security/severity doesn't mean a prison isn't a prison ... likewise, differences in levels of security/severity doesn't mean a ghtto (still talking a walled militarized one ... not a fing daycare) isn't a ghtto. Whether a prison has a fing roof, or a fox has a fluffy tail, is completely irrelevant.
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  10153.  @zachdave2994  OMG!!! That the fox has big pointy ears, and a fluffy tail, and all the other differences between humans and foxes, are completely irrelevant to the comparison of being sly. You are so so fing daft. You might be the dmbest person on the internet.
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  10154.  @zachdave2994  All the differences between humans and foxes are completely irrelevant to the being sly analogy, Drax.
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  10155.  @zachdave2994  Rofl. You just keep multiplying down on not grasping analogies, Drax. I'm afraid there's apparently no hope, for how daft you are.
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  10156.  @zachdave2994  "A western prison = a NK prison" 🤣 Not at all what I said. You don't even grasp basic English, so don't try giving me tips, Drax.
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  10157.  @zachdave2994  Your original "argument" brought up the Allies, in response to IL klling children. I mentioned a few reasons why IL is more analogous to the Axis. The clonization, which you ignored. The occpation, which you ignored. And, that they're the one operating a WWII style fascist ghtto. That was the one thing you grasped upon, which isn't even necessary, to make the point that Znist invders, clonizers, and occpiers, are more analogous to the Axis than the Allies. Clonizers are never not the aggrssors. Znists are the aggrssors. Nzis were the aggrssors. As for Gza, it is walled, just the same. IL controls the borders, airspace, shores, electricity, water, what goes in and out (including food), and who goes in and out, just the same. The IL occpier has complete military dominance over the walled space, just the same. There actually were not Nzis "everywhere", inside ghttos, like you said. They didn't like interacting with Jws, and didn't want their troops doing so either. They tried to minimize contact with Jws. Hence the Jwish councils and Jwish ghtto police, who administered the interior of ghttos. The Nzis militrized, and guarded, the perimeter, just like IL. Not all Nzi ghttos had forced slve labour, like you said. Some had work permit based labour. Some Jwish councils even negotiated to create places for Jws to work, so they could earn extra food and money. Not all Nzi ghttos had experiments, and ghttos weren't the same as exterm camps, as you've tried to make out. Gza not being 100% on par with the worst possible Nzi ghtto, doesn't mean it isn't equivalent to any WWII style fscist ghtto. You would rule out a number of actual Nzi ghttos, with your standards. Gza has enough similarities, to qualify.
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  10158.  @Thedemotivator  The real fight is trying to change opponents minds, or replace them. AOC just helped replace some of them. She threw some punches. Her not getting on the committee was a punch back by those who didn't like her endorsing and funding progressives against them. She's scrapping. Jimmy's shouting from the sidelines, telling her she's a "fake", a "shill", a "wimp", when his plan ends with having to do exactly the same thing ... the vote fails, and then you have a new list of names of people whose minds you have to change or replace. There's already a list ... everyone and anyone who won't sign on to the M4A bills in the house and senate. Jimmy should be trying to rip those people down, one by one. He should have been ripping a hole in their asses through the primaries. He could have ripped a hole in a new name every day of the primaries. Instead he was worried about stupid shit, like Obama speeches. Fuck Obama. The guy isn't even a politician anymore. Where's M4A champion Jimmy Dore's PAC? He just bought a new $2m house ... how much did he donate to AOC's PAC? He's an armchair quarterback, with a bad track record.
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  10159. FTVers have proven they're a bunch of do nothings. There was a vote on the $15 minimum, and what did they do with it? Just kept whining about those who voted for it, instead of those who voted against.
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  10160.  @KingoftheJuice18  Yeah, the US is almost completely right of center and pretty authoritarian. I didn't say a single one of those things made someone a fascist. Which one of those doesn't describe Cruz? Does he have all of the boxes checked?
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  10161. I find it funny that you commented without even watching the first 30 seconds of the domestic abuse segment, where Ana explains the video was put out by the victim and that the victim wants people to see it.
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  10162.  @PissedOffKristov  That the victim posted it, and wanted people to see it, was relevant to their decision to show it, exactly like they said in the opening. It wasn't simply "for context".
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  10163.  @B88-h6n  Are you dumb? "Rafah border crossing" ... search.
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  10164. I agree, and I think that's why most Gods in that category are now considered part of mythology, rather than religion.
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  10165. The problem though, is that there are two aspects to vaccinations, personal protection and group protection. If you take the flu vaccine (50% efficacy), for example. If you come in direct contact with a carrier, you're 50% protected. But, if there is another vaccinated person between you and the carrier (in a chain of contact), then you're 75% protected. Another, and you're 87.5% protected. Etc. These anti-vax morons are increasing the odds of people around them getting seriously ill, having long term issues, and even dying.
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  10166. The country was born, and grown, on the government handing out free land to people.
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  10167.  @Gnolomweb  Oh, do tell. I'm on the edge of my seat.
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  10168. ​ @tonybanks1035  Palestinians have Canaanite DNA. They're Arab and Muslim the same way indigenous peoples of Central America are now Hispanic and Catholic. All the "Arab" countries weren't completely gncdd, or ethnclly clnsd, and entirely refilled with actual Arabians from a small desert nation. The region was simply cnqrd, and the people Arabized, and converted along the way. Palestinians were the previous Christian majority, the Jwsh majority before that, and the Canaanite mythology majority before that. The terminology for the region did indeed come from people the Egyptians called the Peleset (Philistines), much like the terminology for Scotland came from a small group of Irish Dal Riata Scots, that landed in the SW of Caledonia.
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  10169. My argument is that definitions are more convoluted now. If you don't give any weight to previous definitions, then there's no need to carry on.
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  10170.  @texajp1946  A majority of Russians don't think African or Chinese people should be given permanent residence. Russian neo-nazis were actually in total control of Donbas. The Russian Imperial Movement and The Base try to spread their violent racist crap around the world. One of Putin's besties operates Russian troll farms, spreading fascism, as well as The Wagner Group. But, hey, Azov, Azov, Azov.
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  10171. ​​ @torossia The region was called Philistia, Filastin, Palestine, or variations thereof, for thousands of years, dimwit.
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  10172. Your boy, Alex, is trying to incite a war. https://www.rt.com/usa/505812-alex-jones-maricopa-arizona-election/
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  10173. Ironic, considering the lawsuit was over them marketing a drug for unapproved uses, while you have marketed drugs for unapproved uses.
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  10174. She took out the #2 corporate Dem in the house, and just used her massive platform and PAC to help get more pro-M4A progressives elected to congress, going against more DCCC backed corporate Dems. But hey, keep up the Dore knob slander. Probably the same bunch of posers who followed Jimmy on the Tulsi ("Medicare choice" aka public option) train, rather than backing Bernie (M4A). Oh ya, AOC backed Bernie, as well.
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  10175.  @mohmoony3918  Are you sure it wasn't Tulsi using weasel words, like "Medicare choice" (aka public option), which Jimmy backed over Bernie's M4A, that pushed her out of politics?
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  10176.  @brianhooper8563  Yeah, taking out the #2 corporate Dem is exactly what the DNC wanted, and they wanted AOC to use her platform and PAC to help get more pro-M4A progressives elected to congress going against DCCC backed corporate Dems. You Dore knobs are geniuses.
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  10177. He's either clueless, and has no idea how a VAT actually works, or he does and is totally bullshitting. Businesses get paid back for any input VAT. They won't be paying you for your data. You, the consumer, will end up paying the tax on your data. https://www.hwca.com/accountants-hull/what-is-vat-input-and-vat-output/
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  10178. It's all good. The stupider Americans would be the ones staying, if Trump gets elected again.
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  10179. ​ @AlphadogFJB  The economy is doing fine, and Republicans are completely incoherent, when it comes to their border arguments.
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  10180. ​ @aaronwilson8403  Trump's actions do speak for themselves. On top of doubling down on the Central Park 5, he was sued and settled twice for not renting to black Americans, he thinks "fine people" show up to white nationalist rallies, he has continued to hang out with well known racists, he supports his party erasing black history and racism from history, and he has been calling a black woman "peekaboo". Urban Dictionary: "Racist term used in white-supremacist circles to refer to a person of color, usually black, of upper or upper-middle class social standing."
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  10181.  @bellfaith1065  60+ court cases ... nothing. 44 state investigations ... nothing. Every single insurrectionist court case, a chance to provide evidence the election was rigged and that the insurrectionists were the ones trying to save democracy ... nothing but a bunch of guilty verdicts. Every single voting defamation case, a chance to provide evidence they weren't lying ... nothing but settlements for hundreds of millions of dollars, so far. Every single RICO defendant case, a chance to prove the election was rigged and that they were the ones trying to save democracy ... nothing but flipping, guilty pleas, and attempts to delay, so far. Plus, you seem to have things backwards. You're the ones claiming a crime happened, and you can't even provide an ounce of evidence. You're the ones wanting innocent people charged, based on zero evidence. Dumpty has claimed the Emmys were rigged, claimed the first Ohio primary was rigged, claimed the 2016 election was rigged and that he actually won the popular vote (he even set up his own election integrity commission which found no such thing), and then claimed the 2020 election was rigged. There is evidence of a history of him lying, and being unable to take an L, like a man. He's just a spoiled little "billionaire" brat, who cries whenever he doesn't get his way.
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  10182.  @bellfaith1065   Hrrrm, YouTube not liking some word here .... 60+ court cases ... nothing. Multiple state investigations ... nothing (some even finding more votes for Joe). Every single insur. court case, a chance to provide evidence the election was rigged and that the insur. were the ones trying to save democracy ... nothing but a bunch of guilty verdicts. Every single defamation case, a chance to provide evidence they weren't lying ... nothing but settlements for hundreds of millions of dollars, so far. Every single RICO defendant case, a chance to prove the election was rigged and that they were the ones trying to save democracy ... nothing but flipping, guilty pleas, and attempts to delay, so far. Plus, you seem to have things backwards. You're the ones claiming a crime happened, and you can't even provide an ounce of evidence. You're the ones wanting innocent people charged, based on zero evidence. You can't even build a good enough fake case, to get a judge to look at it. Dumpty has claimed the Emmys were rigged, claimed the first Ohio primary was rigged, claimed the 2016 election was rigged and that he actually won the popular vote (he even set up his own election integrity commission which found no such thing), and then claimed the 2020 election was rigged. There is evidence of a history of him lying, and being unable to take an L, like a man. He's just a spoiled little "billionaire" brat, who cries whenever he doesn't get his way.
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  10183.  @bellfaith1065   Hrrrm, YouTube not liking some word here .... 60+ court cases ... nothing. Multiple state investigations ... nothing (some even finding more votes for Joe). Every single insurrectionist court case, a chance to provide evidence the election was rigged and that the insurrectionists were the ones trying to save democracy ... nothing but a bunch of guilty verdicts. Every single defamation case, a chance to provide evidence they weren't lying ... nothing but settlements for hundreds of millions of dollars, so far. Every single RICO defendant case, a chance to prove the election was rigged and that they were the ones trying to save democracy ... nothing but flipping, guilty pleas, and attempts to delay, so far. Plus, you seem to have things backwards. You're the ones claiming a crime happened, and you can't even provide an ounce of evidence. You're the ones wanting innocent people charged, based on zero evidence. You can't even build a good enough fake case, to get a judge to look at it. On the flip side ... Donnie boy has claimed the Emmys were rigged, claimed the first Ohio primary was rigged, claimed the 2016 election was rigged and that he actually won the popular vote (he even set up his own election integrity commission which found no such thing), and then claimed the 2020 election was rigged. There is a documented history of him lying, and being unable to take an L, like a man. He's just a spoiled little "billionaire" brat, who cries whenever he doesn't get his way.
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  10184.  @bellfaith1065  Don't you have things backwards? Aren't you the ones claiming some kind of crime happened, can't provide an ounce of evidence, but still want judges to find people guilty?
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  10185.  @robertjohnson1681  Oh, more fun fact, about Civil Rights: The Southern Republicans also voted against Civil Rights. It was only due to the Northern members, of both parties, that Civil Rights passed. Pissed off at the Northerners of both parties, the Southern racist majority abandoned both parties, in 1968, and voted for a third party resegregationist, winning 5 states. Nixon won that Southern racist majority over to the Republican party, in 1972. Trump thought that was the party for him, likely because the Trumps weren't fans of Civil Rights, either. They were sued once before Donnie began working, and twice after he was management, for not renting to black Americans. Settled, each time. Trump is still calling black Americans things like "peekaboo", thinks "fine people" show up to Klan rallies, and wanted BLM labeled "terrorists". Biden, on the other hand, just strengthened HUD's commitment towards integrated housing.
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  10186.  @bellfaith1065  It would be his fault, for not being able to ever admit a mistake. He's a whiny little spoiled "billionaire" brat, who can't ever take an L, like a man.
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  10187.  @bellfaith1065  It would be his fault, for never being able to ever admit he was wrong.
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  10188.  @bellfaith1065  No. Just an algorithm, looking for specific words. Already hid or deleted a few of mine.
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  10189.  @aaronwilson8403  Which whole article?
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  10190.  @aaronwilson8403  I don't give a hoot what Trump wrote, at the time. My entire point was that he doubled down, and refused to say calling for the death penalty was wrong, after they were exonerated. But he thinks everyone should be shot for shoplifting, so ...
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  10191.  @abcdefghijk3574  I think you are drunk.
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  10192.  @abcdefghijk3574  You're incoherent.
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  10193. Exactly. Like I said, some question whether anything is truly knowable. However, within the context of, this is the reality we're dealing with, whether it is a truth itself, or not, we can prove and disprove things.
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  10194. But, he didn't threaten to pull his money, if the development takes place. That was already voted on, and he didn't show up to stop it. This was all about allocating some of the land for affordable housing. It literally defaults back to the original no affordable housing plan, which he didn't made a threat against. His only problem seems to be affordable housing.
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  10195.  @House_Husband_Romeo  What does some hypothetical future price increase have to do with providing some affordable housing in the near future? How is zero affordable housing better?
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  10196.  @House_Husband_Romeo  You only got the white right. There are zero houses there now, and the nearest housing isn't a low income area. This has nothing to do with gentrification. The town has already annexed land from a neighboring county. They already approved a prior zoning plan, in November. All you're saying is that you see no point in selling/renting any housing at a lower price, which makes no sense.
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  10197.  @kft590  They were already approved for a first zoning plan, in Nov. All the developer has to do is comply with the code, and there's no grounds to stop them. “Oberer can submit a final plan as soon as they are ready, and that final plan goes to Planning Commission and to Council,” Swinger said. “Council cannot deny the plan unless they find that the plan is not in compliance with the zoning code.” Dave's threat doesn't stop development. It only stops the development allocating land to affordable housing, and having some multi family homes. He's fine with just having $300+k single family homes.
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  10198. You're an idiot. TV stations have been cutting bits out of movies for decades.
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  10199. The vast majority of civilians killed in Donbas, were killed when Russia and its own neo-nazis were taking control of the region, 2014-15. Less than 400, since Minsk II, and only 12 last year. Things were improving every year. Russia's "justification" is pure bullshit.
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  10200. This is one of the most uninformed comment sections I have ever seen. AOC and two fellow NY progressives back formal plea for ceasefire in Gaza Oct 16, 2023 18 House Democrats sign resolution for Mideast de-escalation, ceasefire Oct 23, 2023 — Cori Bush (D-Mo.). Bush's fellow “Squad” members Reps. Rashida Tlaib (D-Mich.), Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez (D-N.Y.) Democrats Like Rashida Tlaib, AOC Split With Biden Over Israel Ceasefire Calls Oct 31, 2023 AOC leads Democrats urging Biden to call for Gaza ceasefire over children's rights Nov 15, 2023 AOC calls Biden administration 'shameful' for blocking United Nations demand for a ... Dec 11, 2023 Aoc ceasefire | keeping it reel - NewsBreak Original Jan 17, 2024 Hour 1: AOC Calls for Ceasefire from Israel - The Marc Cox Morning Show Podcast Feb 8, 2024 AOC suggests cutting off aid to Israel after U.S. vetoes ceasefire resolution Feb 22, 2024 AOC and Other Democrats Urge Biden to Call for a Ceasefire at the State of the ... Mar 1, 2024
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  10201. What a moron. Iran is opposed to Wahhabi extremists, like ISIS, as are all Shia and even most other Sunni.
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  10202. ​ @JohnnyTheWolf-d3p  What blue president, or candidate, has stated they want a pledge of allegiance to Isrl for immigration? Or, that protesters should be deported? Or, made laws letting people run over protesters? Or, wants to reinstate and expand a Muslim ban? Or, ...
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  10203.  @janimay7564  Israel is objectively the aggressor, by every relevant measure ... Modern history: 100 years ago, in 1923, Ze'ev Jabotinsky fully acknowledged that Zionism is colonialism, and that, based on the entirety of history, the natives would fight it until the bitter end. He just didn't care what would happen to them, and promoted doing it anyway. Colonizers are never not the aggressors. On top of the colonialist nature of Zionism, the Zionists also formed terrorist organizations, like the Irgun and Lehi. They bombed many Palestinian markets and other public places, murdering many civilians, including children, even including Palestinian Jews (who opposed Zionism). Israel merged those terrorists into the new nation's military and intelligence agencies. Israelis elected Menachem Begin, leader of the Irgun, child murderer, Jew murderer, and bomber of the King David Hotel, as PM. Israelis, to this day, celebrate those terrorists as "heroes". Zionists literally taught their neighbours that terrorism is a valid path to independence and statehood, and that terrorists are to be celebrated. In 1945, it is well documented that Zionists owned just 5% of the land and were a majority nowhere. Israel was formed by actually going against the majority population. It's foundation is completely undemocratic. Then, becoming a majority, in "their" new nation, by ethnic cleansing the actual majority, and then claiming to be democratic, is utter nonsense. Law: Israel is considered an occupier by the International Court, the UN GA, and the UN SC. Occupiers are also never not the aggressors. Those occupied actually have a right to resist occupation. On the flip side, it is illegal for the occupier to settle occupied lands, and illegal to use collective punishment. Israel is a rogue nation, that doesn't abide by international law. What it has been doing, and is doing now, is illegal. Current events: This year, alone, prior to Oct 7 ... Israel held over 1200 Palestinian hostages without charges ... over 200 Palestinians had been killed by the IDF and settlers ... over 1000 Palestinians had been displaced by Israel's neverending colonization of the West Bank ... and, Israel continued to operate an open air WWII style fascist ghetto, in Gaza. Even ignoring modern history and law, in no reality did Hamas "start" anything.
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  10204.  @alandale2182  Trump, himself, thinks Puerto Rico is a different country.
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  10205. What makes you think he's left, and not simply a right wing libertarian, similar to Rubin, or a right wing neo-liberal?
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  10206.  @gregorsamsa1364  Based on what?
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  10207.  @gregorsamsa1364  But his expressed position is pro gun and anti factual firearm statistics; justified torture; anti-Muslim bigotry; Hillary (right wing in most other developed countries) over Bernie (centrist in most other developed countries); Ben Carson (a complete and utter right wing moron) over Noam Chomsky; justified US aggression abroad; Andy Ngo (Proud Boy lap dog and editor at Quillette, which grouped the American Nazi Party, as well as other white supremacist/nationalist groups and people as "conservative" victims of supposed liberal Twitter bias) over Antifa; etc. What makes him left?
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  10208. His delusion is in not equating Israel to Russia, in the comparison. Israel and Russia are the colonizers, ethnic cleansers, and occupiers.
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  10209. So Trump is your vice president?
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  10210.  @theciakilledjfk5973  What "journalism"? Aaron's Syrian "scandal" article could have been written by anyone from anywhere in the world with Wikipedia and a penchant for leaving out bits they don't like. And 2 part time "inspectors", working on a single investigation at a single site, doesn't debunk hundreds of accounts of Syrian chemical weapons use since 2013.
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  10211.  @theciakilledjfk5973   @theciakilledjfk5973  The UN has already gone over the "scandal", before. And it's still a "scandal" about a single investigation at a single site, about a report that didn't even assign blame, as per UN orders, a requirement Russia demanded to even have an investigation. The MIT professor, who wasn't an on site investigator, and whose paper didn't pass peer review?
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  10212.  @theciakilledjfk5973  The UN didn't back the war in Iraq, dimwit.
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  10213.  @theciakilledjfk5973  So you wanted the UN to maintain the decade long siege against Iraq, that the US refused to drop for years, that killed thousands of Iraqis? You wanted them to flip on what numerous countries had been trying to do for years, keep sanctioning Iraqis, not recognize the US as occupiers with responsibilities under international law, not help with humanitarian efforts, and to not be included as monitors of what the US was up to?
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  10214.  @theciakilledjfk5973  They don't "own" the UN. 5 of them have a stupid veto power, in the security council, including Russia. Russia could have vetoed any security council resolutions regarding Syria, whenever the hell they wanted, just like the US does with Israel. The US can block whatever security council resolutions they want, but they can't pass whatever security council resolutions they want, without the other 4 agreeing. To say they "own" the UN, is to say they "own" the UK, France, Russia, and China. That's idiotic. The UK maybe, but none of the other 3 are US puppets. Look, dumb dumb, you already moved your goalpost from the UN supporting the war, and buying Colin Powell's bullshit ... which was just an outright lie ... to supporting an occupation, which isn't quite the same as simply recognizing the reality that a country is being occupied. The UN doesn't support the Israeli occupation of Palestine. They recognize there is an occupation. Two different things, dumb dumb. The UN, and UN inspectors, did not support the war, nor provided the US any reason to invade. Then, the UN simply recognized the reality of an occupation. Not sure what else you expected them to do. The US would have been hauled in front of the ICC, if they were signed on. The UN had no power to evict the US, dumb dumb. So, the question isn't whether you want sanctions or US incompetence, it's whether you want both sanctions and incompetence or just incompetence.
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  10215. He co-sponsored HR 40. https://www.booker.senate.gov/?p=press_release&id=937 But, yeah, you go ahead and not vote for all these other things that will help black Americans, while you wait for that to get passed, wait for the study, and wait for the proposal to get passed. https://berniesanders.com/issues/racial-justice/
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  10216.  @SL-cl9gt  Yep, allies co-sponsor and support HR 40.
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  10217.  @SL-cl9gt  Other than HR 40?
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  10218. Because there are strong Atheists. They are out there.
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  10219.  @IAmTheTruCanadian  You're an absolute moron. Netanyahu wanted Hamas in power, to avoid peace. "For years, the various governments led by Benjamin Netanyahu took an approach that divided power between the Gaza Strip and the West Bank — bringing Palestinian Authority President Mahmoud Abbas to his knees while making moves that propped up the Hamas terror group. The idea was to prevent Abbas — or anyone else in the Palestinian Authority’s West Bank government — from advancing toward the establishment of a Palestinian state."
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  10220.  @joseescobar3703  Maybe don't elect someone who promoted, and helped fund, Hamas, in an effort to weaken the Palestinian Authority, because he wanted to avoid peace, so he could carry on colonizing the West Bank, and operating an open air WWII style fascist ghetto.
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  10221.  @si_quest  Ironic. I literally said that you don't have to know anything, to become Israeli, if you're Jewish, and you moronically think I don't get it. Yes, the "plight" of Nazis, when the Warsaw ghetto uprising happened.
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  10222. But it doesn't simply mean that, because there are strong Atheists, so it means both A-theist and Athe-ist. If you just say "I'm an Atheist", I now don't know which one. Labels are wretched, but they are supposed to help with communication. Broadening definitions of labels hinders communication. In George H Smith's ATHEISM: The Case Against God, 1970, you will find him admitting the common definition, stating it needs redefining, and gutting Agnosticism. Not as strong a history, no.
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  10223.  @2ndtonone1000  "Lefty" Japan has been "insane" for years, I guess.
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  10224.  @2ndtonone1000  You live in "lefty" Japan, with all those "insane" people? Must be horrible for you.
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  10225. ​ @thesauceman8457  #1 Progressives should be anti-fascist, right?
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  10226. Name another viable candidate. Look up the definition of "viable", first.
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  10227. Trump is talking outright making a pledge of allegiance to Israel, to get in the country. Neutral is better than reverse.
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  10228.  @veffiesdda965  Who?
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  10229.  @veffiesdda965  So, you have to somehow climb her up, and him down, over 30 points.
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  10230.  @veffiesdda965  More people are picking an unnamed "someone else", than they're picking her. You think she can beat Dumpty, if she gets by Biden? And then she'd still be faced with a congress that's over 90% pro Israel, that can override any veto she makes.
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  10231.  @ashwynnair6812  Google doesn't pay for the ads. Some secondary company would pay 10% more for the ads, Google would collect and pass it along. Zero extra taxes on Google. Those secondary companies would then either a) write it off ... VAT can be recouped on operating costs, both here in Canada, and in the UK; or b) they'd simply adjust their own prices to cover the rise in advertising costs, and their customers would pay for it. That's going to be the top 20 or 10 percenters. But, within that group, the top 1% will make so much more money, they'll have even more untaxable money to hoard away. The VAT will affect the high upper middle class, and the low end of the rich, the most, not the 1%.
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  10232.  @ashwynnair6812  Table 1 shows that on goods, like those sold through Amazon, it is the final consumer who ends up paying the full VAT (GST). Amazon would simply be passing along the tax to government. http://publications.gc.ca/Collection-R/LoPBdP/BP/prb0003-e.htm#A.%20Taxing%20Mechanism(txt) With B2B, the Canada and UK systems allow for VAT on operating costs to be redeemed. The Canada and UK systems also show that, even if that weren't allowed, costs that can't be written off are still passed on, with the same items having higher prices than in the US. Thinking businesses will simply eat a rise in costs is ridiculous.
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  10233. @In CogNito Cubans who supported fascist Batista and fled to Florida when he was overthrown, and their descendants, tend to vote Republican.
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  10234. *"Leftist"
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  10235.  @stephanielewis5595  You're the one comparing crashes to homicides, which is apples to oranges. Comparing overall mortality rates is apples to apples.
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  10236.  @stephanielewis5595  And you seem to be out of date. Vehicle mortality has dropped below 38k while firearm mortality is approaching 40k. https://www.cdc.gov/nchs/fastats/injury.htm Where'd you disappear to? If you think every suicide attempt is equally effective, then you're horribly mistaken. Firearms have over an 80% success rate, while pills and wrist cutting have under 2% success rates. Not sure what stupid nonsense you blathered about the UK.
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  10237. Even right of that. Canada's Liberal party is centre-right. Our Conservative party is right of them. US corporate Democrats can be right of our conservatives, and the conservatives in other countries, as well ... by not supporting universal healthcare, by supporting spending more of the budget on military, etc.
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  10238.  @mattbebe2555  The guy that made peace between countries that weren't even warring? That guy that is on the campaign trail backing Israel, even saying he wants a pledge of allegiance to Israel, to get in the US? The guy that ended zero wars, dropped more bombs per year than Obama, pissed off Iran and sent them back to having a nuke program? The guy that let his dictator buddy in North Korea build 30-40 nukes, that can reach at least Alaska? The guy who french kisses Putin's asshole, and told him secrets about Israel? The guy that shares nuclear secrets with billionaire donors? Lol
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  10239. Once I believe a thing is true, am I still skeptical about it?
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  10240. Paid to join Rumble, which is funded by Peter Thiel, who is also funding turning the Republican party even more Trumpist. Constantly goes on Tucker, just to largely agree with Tucker's right wing talking points. What's he doing that's leftist, exactly?
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  10241.  @AsifKhan-hf9zy  Rofl! A gasoline powered generator is still producing electricity, dumbo.
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  10242.  @AsifKhan-hf9zy  Man, Americans are stpd.
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  10243. Well, Eurasia is based on the authoritarian communism of the USSR and PRC. Eastasia is based on Japanese imperialism. Oceania is based on fascism.
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  10244.  @anticorncob6  Dean Browning
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  10245. Can you report on how he's either clueless or lying about how a VAT actually works ... who it actually taxes? "a consumption tax because it is borne ultimately by the final consumer. It is not a charge on businesses." https://ec.europa.eu/taxation_customs/business/vat/what-is-vat_en Because it matters who is paying into the UBI. If you don't really make a corporation like Amazon pay into the UBI, then they will only receive the benefits of $3t in increased consumer spending. Since their share of US consumer spending is 2%, that would be an extra $60b a year they'd make. That's nothing like the Alaskan dividend, which Yang likes to falsely compare his to. Alaskans get paid dividends from corporations.
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  10246. Outside the US Overton window, yes. The Overton window basically describes a country's subjective state, as opposed to a real world objective state. The Overton window is most useful to the extreme right, who get to portray real world centrists as "extreme left", and real world right wingers who portray themselves as the "centrists".
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  10247. ​@Uhnonimaus They argue against reality (that tougher gun laws, and fewer guns, reduce firearm deaths and homicides), promote doing the opposite (pushing more guns into the streets), and then use it to argue for even more of a police state (fascism).
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  10248. @Uhnonimaus They're directly related, and allow US cops to kill their citizens at 5x to hundreds of times higher rates than other developed countries ... because they were "fearing" for their lives, mistaking a cell phone for a gun.
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  10249. @No Thanks "Broaden" slightly from what it means, not how it's used.
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  10250.  @rawfoodphilosophy7061  Pretty sure estimates haven't changed much. You sure you're not one of those idiots who repeatedly uses estimates for doing absolutely nothing for their claims estimates were overblown?
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  10251.  @alilafont  He tested negative on debate day. Nothing is proven after having just a few days, dumb dumb.
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  10252.  @alilafont  Can you point to a single person who has claimed that anyone who gets is most likely going to die, or are you just spouting a moronic strawman? Who claims it has a 51%+ mortality rate, for any age or health category?
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  10253.  @remixtapes9308  Why isn't he smart enough to know a public option doesn't get you universal coverage anytime soon? https://www.theatlantic.com/politics/archive/2019/08/los-angeles-public-option-2020-democrats/597115/
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  10254.  @bluesrockfan36  You don't even know what an ad hominem actually is, slow poke. https://laurencetennant.com/bonds/adhominem.html The guy wants to cut government programs, yes. He originally wanted to cut them all, ffs. Someone had to fucking convince the idiot that throwing all the elderly off social security was a bad idea. Have fun, when you hit that great depression level of unemployment, and 25% of the population is trying to live on below poverty level "welfare", with no assistance programs to turn to. It's going to come faster than expected, of you make corporations like Amazon an extra $60b a year they can then invest into automating faster.
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  10255.  @bluesrockfan36  You seem to be conflating his end vision, where everyone is automatically covered, with his "burden shifting", transition, phase, which he describes exactly as a public option phase. LA had the same end vision, they attempted a public option transition phase, and 6 years in they aren't anywhere close to universal coverage.
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  10256.  Robert Hunt  Mothers aren't crying where people are killed at higher rates? That makes no sense.
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  10257.  Robert Hunt  Rofl. You don't think mothers, wives, daughters, are worried about the homicide rate in Alaska, when they're the ones getting killed at 3x the national average? https://www.alaskasnewssource.com/content/news/homicide-rate-against-women-in-Alaska-three-times-national-average-493758751.html
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  10258. 100 years ago, Ze'ev Jabotinsky fully acknowledged that Zionism is colonialism. You're basically never the good guy, after that point. He also predicted, based on history, exactly how the natives would react ... fight said colonialism until the bitter end. On top of its colonialist Zionist foundation, the state of Israel was founded on terrorism, by groups like the Irgun and Lehi. Israel elected terrorists, like Menachem Begin, who led the Irgun and bombed the King David Hotel. Israel, to this day, celebrates said terrorists, as "heroes". They literally taught their neighbours that terrorism is a valid path to independence and statehood. I take it you considered Geronimo a "villain", or resistance movements during WWII that spent money on "terrorism" instead of food?
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  10259.  v1cv3g4s  She just got done backing progressives in some of those conservative districts. They got creamed, but the Dem who won then managed to take out a Republican. So, with a midterm looming, that's in danger of flipping the house back to Republicans, she wants to try and keep progressives in the majority party. I get that Dore knobs would prefer to see the Republicans become the majority, because that's what "real" progressives want to see happen. Btw, wasn't Dore backing a non M4A candidate, during the 2020 primaries? By Dore knob "logic", shouldn't he be considered a "fake", "fraud", "sellout", or whatnot?
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  10260. @Aaron Dickson < max ignorance
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  10261.  van wray  What a load of horseshit. A poor attempt to defend racism. You must be a racist PoS, yourself. Trump has not told Bernie or Warren, white folks, to go "back" to "their" countries. And the moron didn't think the US was "their" country, just because they aren't white. He didn't actually check to see what country they're from ... 3 being from the US.
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  10262.  @dvrmte  Point one out.
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  10263. ​ @JohnDebasa  Nope. Already spelled out how every Republican argument against asylum seekers is bullshit, above.
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  10264.  @linbinnash  His plan doesn't stack with SSI disability, or SNAP, and could hurt many disabled people currently getting both. They might not benefit from UBI, but will still have to pay the VAT. His plan doesn't account for children. A single parent of 1+ kids gets half that of an adult couple with no kids. His plan doesn't account for cost of living. It will benefit people in less urban areas, and states with fewer taxes who do less for their citizens, more. That could almost be a Republican plan.
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  10265.  @linbinnash  You can't opt out of the VAT. If UBI doesn't benefit you, then the VAT makes you worse off. Some things not considered staples, and not exempt from Canada's VAT: electric bill, phone bill, internet bill, cable bill, games, toys, basically any entertainment with a cost, non staple snacks and pop, a lower but still present VAT on gasoline, personal hygiene products, household cleaning products, home maintenance and repairs, vehicle maintenance and repairs, ....
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  10266.  @linbinnash  You know how averages work, right? Some people get less. Some people get more. SSI disability is also stackable with SNAP, which Yang also doesn't have stack. Some people on SNAP, alone, get over $1000 a month.
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  10267.  @linbinnash  Also, the Alaska "analogy" isn't actually analogous to Yang's plan. Alaska, like Norway, basically partially nationalized their oil, making oil companies pay them for their resource, which they then give to, or spend on, their citizens. Yang's plan is more like taxing gasoline consumption and having the consumers pay for it, and not making the oil companies pay in at all.
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  10268.  @linbinnash  It matters where the money is coming from. A VAT doesn't make giant corporations like Amazon pay in, as Yang falsely claims. Alaska has the oil companies paying the people.
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  10269. Weren't you two also complaining about news agencies and private internet companies deciding for themselves what they wanted to publish, or allow on their sites?
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  10270.  @l.w.paradis2108  No. Messenger is like using the phone. Facebook doesn't give a crap what you say on messenger. Posting on their privately owned webpages and servers, is like posting things on a community bulletin board inside a privately owned shop. The shop owner shouldn't necessarily be responsible for what someone publishes and sticks up on the bulletin board (unless maybe if they're made aware of something dishonest or unethical that's being posted, and they keep allowing it, only then would they become somewhat of a party to it, but could still argue they're the ones allowing "free speech"). On the other hand, the shop owner still has every right to read and take down whatever they don't like being posted in their shop. It's being posted on their private property. Just get the hell off Facebook, if you don't like it.
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  10271.  @l.w.paradis2108  Glenn has been complaining about news agencies deciding for themselves if they want an editorial rewrite, or not.
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  10272.  @l.w.paradis2108  I said if Jimmy doesn't let me on his show, then he's "censoring" me. Not simply leaving my comment up, dumbass. That makes you the lying twit. You didn't have to tell me Glenn's story. He still cried "censorship", which is bullshit. And, obviously, whatever his contract actually said, it involved passing stories by editorial review, first, and not simply hand the story to print. Also, simply asking him not to print it elsewhere isn't much of an attempt to "prevent" him. Facebook isn't the entire internet, dimwit. It's one site on the entire internet, just like one shop in the entirety of all shops.
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  10273.  @l.w.paradis2108  Calling editors asking for rewrites "censorship" makes "censorship" just standard practice ... something that happens at newspapers, publishing companies, television and film companies, and has been happening for their entire histories. Okay then, you were "censored", like millions of other writers ... so what?
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  10274.  @l.w.paradis2108  They have a web address, dimwit. Don't use it. I don't use it.
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  10275.  @l.w.paradis2108  Walmart has slaughtered millions of shops in its existence. It is still just another shop. Don't fucking use it if you don't like it.
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  10276.  @l.w.paradis2108  No, Walmart isn't the government any more than Facebook is.
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  10277.  @l.w.paradis2108  Walmart just deemed itself essential, stayed open, and carried on its small business destroying ways. Plenty of small businesses actually operate through Facebook, Amazon, and other online markets. The internet being open helped numerous small shops, that found ways to have curbside pickup, or used third party delivery. So we're clear, I don't think corporations should have the right to exist, let alone have the rights of people. So, come up with a new angle, than your bullshit "shill" nonsense. I just think it's stupid to reduce cries of "censorship" to refer to meaningless standard everyday private practices. Oh my, your editor asked for a rewrite ... who fucking cares. Oh my, the NYT didn't pick up the Post's Bigfoot story ... who fucking cares. Don't like something Facebook, Twitter, or whatever are doing ... stop fucking using them, just like boycotting Chick-fil-A. I think people are just too addicted to their social media.
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  10278. Bernie lost because of MSM, and the DNC machine. Most older voters aren't on Twitter or YouTube, running into the supposedly mean Bernie supporters. They're watching CNN, MSNBC, etc. When people are polled on individual Bernie proposals, most of the country is in favour of them, so they are as "left" as Bernie. They've just been sold bullshit, about electability, M4A, Venezuela, etc., have nostalgia about the Obama years, haven't seen Biden challenged very much ...
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  10279.  @feleepe92  A mediocre response, like Canada's, would translate into hundreds of thousands fewer deaths in the US. Trump was completely incompetent.
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  10280. You're spouting nonsense. Countries with higher mask use tend to have slower spreads. Countries with higher rates of testing tend to flatten their curves faster. There are countries that have, effectively, contained it, for the most part. It's not the lockdowns that are failures. It's not doing the other stuff that ends up dragging out lockdowns and makes them more necessary.
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  10281.  @BenjaminBadbrother  Even a vaccine isn't a permanent solution, if it's more like the flu vaccine, than the polio vaccine. It would still, like mask use and testing, just lower the numbers per year. The US also doesn't take care of its citizens very well. I'd blame that stuff more on having a shitty safety net. Suicide rates have been on the rise for years and all these Republican political leaders didn't give a crap, until they could try using it as an excuse to not do anything about the virus. Nobody even knows if someone committed suicide, or oded, because of a lockdown, or because someone they knew died from covid. We do know there sure as hell haven't been 200k+ extra suicides this year.
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  10282. @Alexa M Spain had a shitty response. What's your point?
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  10283.  @BenjaminBadbrother  Lol, you just verified what I said. There haven't been more excess deaths due to all other reasons, compared to covid ... and that's with half ass measures and a pathetic testing rate. Wanting no measures would make it worse.
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  10284.  @BenjaminBadbrother  Homicide rates increasing might have less to do with the pandemic itself, and have more to do with the number of extra idiots who decided to buy guns to solve their problems. https://www.brookings.edu/blog/up-front/2020/07/13/three-million-more-guns-the-spring-2020-spike-in-firearm-sales/ Homicide rates tend to be higher in states where it's easier to get guns. https://www.cdc.gov/nchs/pressroom/sosmap/homicide_mortality/homicide.htm Guns also have over an 80% success rate for suicide attempts, compared to very low success rates for cutting or pill popping. That's why men have higher suicide rates even though women attempt suicide more. Republicans care more about their guns than suicides. Firearm mortality rates also tend to be higher in states where it's easier to get a gun. https://www.cdc.gov/nchs/pressroom/sosmap/firearm_mortality/firearm.htm https://www.cdc.gov/nchs/pressroom/sosmap/suicide-mortality/suicide.htm 3 million extra guns out there could account for the deaths Republicans are supposedly suddenly worried about.
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  10285.  @BenjaminBadbrother  Pretty sure 100k is less than 200k, making the "cure is worse than the disease" arguments nonsense, even if you attribute every on of those 100k to the "cure", which can't even been proven.
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  10286.  @MeChoonChannel  Their "idea" is to removed the rights of non whites, and toss them out of the country, dimwit. Their "idea" is violence.
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  10287. Disappointing David. Yes, you did go off track quickly, so I stopped watching. If his sociology specialty was religion, which it was, then part of that is studying the development (history) of religions. http://www.loonwatch.com/2013/07/30/robert-spencer-i-have-exactly-the-same-credentials-as-reza-aslan-oh-really/
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  10288.  @vgaportauthority9932  Pay in Bitcoin ... when next to no businesses in the world accept it as actual currency? On my $1.90 a day income, should I do all my Bitcoin mining and trading on my smartphone, or on my computer? Do I need to order the best home broadband, or mobile data, plan, or is just an average plan okay? I live in a world, where you sound like a complete idiot.
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  10289.  @vgaportauthority9932  Btw, do you know what "ATM" stands for?
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  10290.  @SLOSurfer11  Hehe
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  10291. Can the rest of the world to sue the pants of the US and China, yet?
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  10292.  @jstreets1983  No. Letting Republicans win, as you admitted to doing, is what leads to a more horrible Republican. Do you have any sense of responsibility on these things? Consider the primaries the main progressive battleground. If the progressive loses, still vote for corporate Dems being as far right as you want the country to go, and keep Republicans out of the majority and presidency, for good. You're sitting on the sidelines, with an irrelevant third party?
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  10293.  @bretbonner  Ah, so you're in favor of violent revolution, and anarchism?
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  10294.  @bretbonner  Thanks. Well, if you can't trust any other human beings to be your representative, then you must favor some form of anarcho system, and, if you can't trust any other human being to get you there, through a representative democracy, then you must favor violent revolution. No? Governments don't tend to give up and go away, peacefully.
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  10295.  @bretbonner  What powerful entity are progressives who don't take corporate funds under the thumb of? Kyrsten Sinema is a product of the Green Party. It's not like some third party is going to guarantee you perfectly perfect puritan progressives, or anything. And, the most popular third party hasn't won a single seat in congress in its near 50 year existence. Whether you like the current progressives, or not, running within the party, and taking out corporate stooges in the primaries, is clearly a much better tactic, that can actually win you a seat at the table.
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  10296. Wait though ... right wingers are also leading a charge to prove the US funded it. It's the rest of the world that will get to sue the pants off both the US and China. Bankrupt America to own the libs!!!
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  10297. Our arms sales to Israel says the have some right to bring their problems here.
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  10298.  @trafalgarla  Is that before, or after, stopping for munchies?
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  10299.  @runrafarunthebestintheworld  I'm referring to Cenk saying other committee seats aren't important.
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  10300.  @charlesljones2454  I don't think you watched the video, where Cenk said all committees aren't all that important, and weren't all that important for progressives either. I disagree. Even if you can't get a bill you want brought up, you can challenge the corporate narrative on other things.
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  10301.  @charlesljones2454  You didn't watch the video.
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  10302.  @charlesljones2454  So, you saw the part where the conservative joining the investigative committee was threatened by McCarthy with being removed from their other committee seats, said "So what?", and then you saw Cenk agreeing and saying committee seats aren't important if you can't push a bill you want through anyway, and that progressives also shouldn't care about committee seats? I'm referring to those regular committee seats, that have everything to do with bills, and you're blathering on about investigative committee seats. Assuming you didn't watch the video was being nice. The other alternative is you have some comprehension problems. You're not just disagreeing. You're "debating" a totally different thing.
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  10303.  @charlesljones2454  And I said I think they're important even if you can't pass what you want. So, you don't think hearing a different narrative than that being spewed by all the corporations and their shills, is important? Porter whipping out her white board and breaking down how some corporate asshole is spewing crap and screwing the public ... no ... you don't think it's at all important to have some dissenting voices challenging those in power to their faces?
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  10304.  @noel7777noel  From last year ... "New York Attorney General Letitia James leveled the accusations against Trump in a civil lawsuit filed in Manhattan Supreme Court on Wednesday. The alleged scheme, in part, was intended to boost Trump’s billionaire image and the value of his properties across the world in a bid to deceive banks into giving him favorable loan terms, James said."
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  10305. Moron. Name a single Dem proposal that would move the US left of Denmark (centrism).
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  10306.  @jayannakelley9051  I said they didn't start from scratch, but yeah, if they had a previous vaccine blueprint, that would be even less from scratch.
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  10307.  @Grassroots_Hegemon  Again ... "Fascism is the complete opposite of Marxian socialism." ~ Mussolini They aren't compatible. Fascists, who were backed by leading industrialists, large land owners, and major church figures, took out socialists first. It's the main f*cking reason the king made Mussolini PM, because his black shirts had been taking out socialist enclaves around the country. It's the main f*cking reason Hitler got funding from the richest people in Germany, and the other right wing parties allied with his.
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  10308. It's shut down now.
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  10309.  @MallyMall_DC  How is a collapsed bridge open?
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  10310.  @MallyMall_DC  I get that. Shutting down a bridge and shutting down a highway are two different things. The bridge is down.
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  10311.  @iggyboo  Trump expects other Republicans to work with him. He shits on anyone, or fires them if he can, who disagrees with him. He constantly blames Democrats for anything he possibly can. What are you even talking about?
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  10312.  @iggyboo  And? How did making out like the Georgia elections weren't trustworthy, and making out like the Georgia governor wasn't trustworthy, help with the senate elections?
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  10313. ​ @dougkenny6548  The Dixiecrats?Southern politicians from both parties voted against Civil Rights. The Republican politicians, in those racist majority states, were just as racist. It was Northerners, of both parties, that passed Civil Rights. The Southern racist majority, pissed at the Northerners of both parties, voted for a third party segregationist, in 1968, winning 5 states. Nixon then won that Southern racist majority to the Republican party, in 1972. So, the Dixiecrats have always loved Trump, since they were already Republicans, by the time he came along.
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  10314.  @dougkenny6548  You're lying. Going by percentage, Republicans were actually more racist. By party and region edit The House of Representatives:[3] Southern Democrats: 8–83 (9–91%) – four Representatives from Texas (Jack Brooks, Albert Thomas, J. J. Pickle, and Henry González), two from Tennessee (Richard Fulton and Ross Bass), Claude Pepper of Florida and Charles L. Weltner of Georgia voted in favor Southern Republicans: 0–11 (0–100%) Northern Democrats: 145–8 (95–5%) Northern Republicans: 136–24 (85–15%) Note that four Representatives voted Present while 13 did not vote. The Senate:[2] Southern Democrats: 1–20 (5–95%) – only Ralph Yarborough of Texas voted in favor Southern Republicans: 0–1 (0–100%) – John Tower of Texas, the only Southern Republican at the time, voted against Northern Democrats: 45–1 (98–2%) – only Robert Byrd of West Virginia voted against Northern Republicans: 27–5 (84–16%) – Norris Cotton (NH), Barry Goldwater (AZ), Bourke B. Hickenlooper (IA), Edwin L. Mechem (NM), and Milward Simpson (WY) voted against
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  10315. Hey Jimmy, are you going to explain how Pelosi won with only 216 votes? Explain how you didn't even know how house votes work?
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  10316.  @BeeN-fy2jh  Why did you leave out the 5 Northern R senators, who voted nay? You mean the first black justice, nominated by LBJ who Byron criticized?
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  10317.  @beautifully_scarred_lea  That's weird. Illinois had almost double the number of Republican governors, prior to LBJ's (who Donalds criticized) 1968 Fair Housing Act (which was again voted on mainly by geography ... the infamous Strom Thurmond, having been welcomed into the Republican party, was one of the R nays). They also had 11 R mayors. If, as the person above claimed, Rs didn't think Civil Rights were needed because they were already protected in the constitution, why didn't they stop the implementation of such things, on constitutional grounds, when they were in positions of power, prior to Civil Rights?
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  10318.  @BeeN-fy2jh  What's not factual about discussing things geographically, when that's the way the major divisions used to be? Arguing a specific party did something, back before the voters switched parties, promotes the fantasy that they're the same parties. The majority in states voting D, today, are basically in the same Northern states that abolished slvry in their states, elected Lincoln, and won the Civil W/r. The majority voting R, today, are basically the Confederate states + what were territories at the time, the JC states.The most rcst colonies/states, for centuries, didn't magically up and become the least rcst states. But they're voting R. So, what does that mean? It means the Rs of old aren't the Rs of today, and same with Ds. So, talking like they're the same parties makes little sense.
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  10319.  @BeeN-fy2jh  🤣 Yeah, Donald "very fine people show up to a wht sprmcst rally" Trump has really been awful to them. Telling them to "stand by", calling them "hostages" that he will pardon. Apparently, his Southern R allies didn't get the memo (that they supposedly aren't welcome), and are still trying gerrymander black votes away.
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  10320.  @BeeN-fy2jh  🤣 I hope that's a joke. Apparently the rcst Southern majority didn't get the memo, that they're out of the party, and are still trying to gerrymander the blck vote away.
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  10321.  @BeeN-fy2jh  🤣 I hope that's a joke. Apparently the rcst Southern majority didn't get the memo, that they're out of the party, and are still trying to grrymndr the blk vote away.
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  10322.  @BeeN-fy2jh  Well, I'm pretty sure the most rcst colonies/states, for centuries, whose majorities voted for slvry, against abolition, for sgrgtion, against desegregation, etc., haven't changed a whole lot. And, you admit blks being targeted, as a race, by Rs. Oh, the "very fine" extremists, that should "stand by", and who are "hostages" he says he'll pardon ... those ones?
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  10323.  @BeeN-fy2jh  The rally was literally organized by wht nationalists. David Duke was listed as a speaker. If you accidentally show up, see the Nz flags, David Duke, Tiki torch Nzs, etc., and decide to stick around ... you're likely a wht nationalist. Very fine people wouldn't stick around. Why would I have to go over each individual life? The Oath Keepers and Proud Boys were involved, and convicted of sed con. Has Trump excluded them? No. So, he's talking about wht sprmcst groups. What districts did Trump target with all his election nonsense? Heavily blk districts, trying to steal the votes of blk Americans. Constantly targeting the blk votes means Rs, and Trump, are the ones still trying to do Jm Crw, and remove them from the voting process. Things were more behind closed doors, until Trump made it okay to come back out of the closet. People whose parents voted against abolition, then voted for sgrgtion. We're now talking about the kids of the people who voted for sgrgtion. You think most were raised not to be rcst? Doubt it.
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  10324.  @BeeN-fy2jh  The rally was literally organized by wt ntnlists. David Duke was listed as a speaker. If you accidentally show up, see the Nz flags, David Duke, Tiki torch Nzs, etc., and decide to stick around ... you're likely a wht ntnlist. Very fine people wouldn't stick around. Why would I have to go over each individual life? The OKs and PBs were convicted of sed con. Has Trump excluded them? No. So, he's talking about wht sprmcst groups. What districts did Trump target with all his election nonsense? Heavily blk districts, trying to cancel the votes of blk Americans. Constantly targeting the blk votes means Rs, and Trump, are the ones still trying to do Jm Crw, and remove them from the voting process. Things were more behind closed doors, until Trump made it okay to come back out of the closet. People whose parents voted against abolition, then voted for sgrgtion. We're now talking about the kids of the people who voted for sgrgtion. You think most were raised not to be rcst? Doubt it.
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  10325.  @BeeN-fy2jh  The rally was literally organized by wt ntnlists. Dvd Dke was listed as a speaker. If you accidentally show up, see the Nz flags, Dvd Dke, Tiki torch Nzs, etc., and decide to stick around ... you're likely a wht ntnlist. Very fine people wouldn't stick around. OKs and PBs were convicted of sed con, for Jan 6. Has Trump excluded them? No. So, he's talking about wht sprmcst groups. What districts did Trump target with all his elctn nonsense? Heavily blk districts, trying to cancel blk votes. Constantly targeting blk votes means Rs, and Trump, are the ones still trying to do Jm Crw, and exclude them from the voting process. Things were more behind closed doors, until Trump made it okay to come back out of the closet. People whose parents voted against abltion, then voted for sgrgtion. We're now talking about the kids of the people who voted for sgrgtion. You think most were raised not to be rcst? Doubt it.
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  10326.  @BeeN-fy2jh  It was literally organized by wt sprmcsts. Dvd Dke was listed as a speaker. If you accidentally show up, see the Nz flags, Dvd Dke, Tiki torch Nzs, etc., and decide to stick around ... you're likely a wht sprmcst. Very fine people wouldn't stick around. OKs and PBs were convicted of sed con, for Jan 6. Has Trump excluded them? No. So, he's including wht sprmcsts as "hostages". What districts did Trump go after with all his elctn nonsense? Heavily blk districts, trying to cancel blk vts. Constantly targeting blk vts means Rs, and Trump, are the ones still trying to do Jm Crw, and exclude them from the vtng process. Things were more behind closed doors, until Trump made it okay to come back out of the closet. People whose parents voted against abltion, then voted for sgrgtion. We're now talking about the kids of the people who voted for sgrgtion. You think most were raised not to be rcst? Doubt it.
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  10327.  @BeeN-fy2jh  It was literally organized by wt sprmcsts. If someone accidentally shows up, sees the Nz flags, Dvd Dke, Tiki torch Nzs, etc., and decides to join in ... that someone is likely a wht sprmcst. OKs and PBs were convicted of sed con, for Jan 6. Has Trump excluded them? No. So, he's including wht sprmcsts as "hostages". What districts did DT go after with all his elctn nonsense? Heavily blk districts, trying to cancel blk vts. Constantly targeting blk vts means Rs, and DT, are the ones still trying to do Jm Cw, and exclude them from the vtng process. Things were more behind closed doors, until DT made it okay to come back out of the closet. People whose parents voted against abltn, then voted for sgrgtn. Were the kids of the people who voted for sgrgtn then raised not to be rcst? Doubt it.
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  10328.  @BeeN-fy2jh   It was literally organized by wt sprmcsts. If someone accidentally shows up, sees the Nz flags, Dvd Dke, Nzs with torches, etc., and decides to join in ... that someone is likely a wht sprmcst. OKs and PBs were convicted of sed con, for Jan 6. Has Trump excluded them? No. So, he's including wht sprmcsts as "hostages". What districts did DT go after with all his elctn nonsense? Heavily blk districts, trying to cancel blk vts. Constantly going after blk vts means Rs, and DT, are the ones still trying to do Jm Cw, and exclude their vts. Things were more behind closed doors, until DT made it okay to come back out of the closet. People whose parents voted against abltn, then voted for sgrgtn. Were the kids of the people who voted for sgrgtn then raised not to be rcst? Doubt it.
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  10329.  @BeeN-fy2jh  It was literally organized by wt spmcsts. If someone accidentally shows up, sees the Nz flags, Dvd Dke, Nzs with torches, etc., and decides to join in ... that someone is likely a wht spmcst. OKs and PBs were cnvcted of sed con, for Jan 6. Has DT excluded them? No. So, he's including wht sprmcsts as "hostages". What districts did DT trgt with all his elctn nonsense? Heavily blk districts, trying to cancel blk vts. Constantly trgting blk vts means Rs, and DT, are the ones still trying to do Jm Cw, and exclude their vts. Things were more behind closed doors, until DT made it okay to come back out of the closet. People whose parents voted against abltn, then voted for sgrgtn. Were the kids of the people who voted for sgrgtn then raised not to be rcst? Doubt it.
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  10330.  @BeeN-fy2jh  It was literally organized by wt spmcsts. If someone accidentally shows up, sees the Nz flags, Dvd Dke, Nzs with torches, etc., and decides to join in ... that someone is likely a wht spmcst.
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  10331.  @BeeN-fy2jh  OKs and PBs were cnvcted of sed con, for Jan 6. Has DT excluded them? No. So, he's including wht sprmcsts as "hostages". What districts did DT trgt with all his elctn nonsense? Heavily blk districts, trying to cancel blk vts. Constantly trgting blk vts means Rs, and DT, are the ones still trying to do Jm Cw, and exclude their vts.
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  10332.  @BeeN-fy2jh  YouTube has decided this conversation is over, unless you feel like sorting the comment section by Newest, and refind this thread, to see my repeatedly hidden reply, no matter how heavily edited.
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  10333.  @robertkleiman  I stopped reading after you seemingly didn't know Nixon won two elections, and apparently couldn't even read that I specifically said there were two, and that he won them over in the second, the 1972 election. You're a complete ignrmus.
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  10334.  @robertkleiman  Weird how you went on about "the" election, then ... the one that I wasn't referring to. Chalk it up to your reading comprehension, rather than ignrnce, then. I didn't say "every", I said there was a Southern rcst voting majority, since the very first elections, as is evidenced by their entire history, up to that point. I also said the Southern Republicans were equally rcst (as per their voting records on Civil Rights). I'm talking fully evidenced geographical rcsm, and you're talking magic. The most rcst colonies/states, for centuries, didn't up and magically become the least rcst states. The rcst voting majority of those states simply started voting for another party. Even if we say Strom Thurmond switched to R, due to conservative economics, he's still a rcst. That is still a wt sprmcst then voting R. A Southern wt rcst majority started voting R. Rs are the ones now trying to disenfranchise blk voters. Rs are the ones now protecting Confederate symbols. Rs are the ones with barely any blk representation. Rs are the ones having wt sprmcst rallies. Rs are the ones criticizing Civil Rights, and trying to strip away what they can. Etc.
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  10335.  @robertkleiman  What do you mean that's not true? Blk Americans had already started voting D, with FDR, who supported workers. But, Rs still maintained about 30% of the blk vote, until 1964, when it dropped to even lower levels than the 10% today. What happened in 1964? Who was voting R, if the rcst wt majority kept voting D? How did Rs win? The Southern wt population was so freaking rcist, that the rcst majority got a third party resegregationist to win 5 states, in 1968. The best third party run in a hundred years, and in the almost 60 years since. Where did that rcst majority go? Just magically poofed out of existence? Make actual sense, and it will be comprehensible.
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  10336.  @robertkleiman  Did I miss the part where you answered these ... That rcst Southern majority, that won 5 states for a third party resegregationist, in 1968, voted for who, in 1972? What happened, in 1964, to lose 2/3rds of the remaining 30% of the blk vote? Yeah, you have zero clue what you are talking about. Teddy Roosevelt had his Square Deal, which was fairly pro-worker, for the times. He had his trust busting. He had his environmentalism. After his second term, the R platform started taking such a hard right, he came back, and wanted to run again. They wouldn't let him run as an R, had already immediately disowned him, so he started his own Progressive Party. Rs turned even harder, and became even more anti-worker, instead pandering to big business, with the first Red Scare. Then they drove the economy into the Great Depression. And, if you think equally not helping poor people, of any race, isn't pandering to anyone (such as the wealthier wt majority), then equally helping poor people of any race, isn't pandering to anyone. If you think Civil Rights was "pandering", then so was emancipation. If you think the New Deal was "pandering", then so was the Square Deal. If you don't think handing big business whatever they want, or the wealthier wt majority, was "pandering" then you are dmbr than a stump, or a Trump.
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  10337.  @BeeN-fy2jh  Yeah, enough decided to give a fellow Southerner one shot, along with the vast majority of black voters, but have voted pretty solidly R. There were literally enough rcsts, for a rcst third party to win 5 states. Did those rcsts magically disappear, or what? Southern Baptists called themselves "Southern" for a reason, and it had everything to do with rcsm.
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  10338.  @BeeN-fy2jh  You need it explained to you why wt people like a Blk guy who says Jm Cw was cool?
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  10339.  @BeeN-fy2jh  Outliers are outliers. Explain why he was never elected, running as a D, but was elected as an R.
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  10340.  @BeeN-fy2jh  I paraphrased. He literally argued that blk voters voted conservatively, under Jm Cw, when they couldn't actually vote under JC. He then criticized following the path of LBJ (Civil Rights Act of 1964, Voting Rights Act, Civil Rights Act of 1968). He apparently thought having no rights, and fictional conservative voting, was cool. He wouldn't have even been allowed to marry his wife, under JC. But, that horrible LBJ went and did the Civil Rights things.
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  10341.  @BeeN-fy2jh  Was he a rcst and charlatan, like Bush said, or was he a born again non-rcst? Pick one.
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  10342.  @BeeN-fy2jh  He literally criticized going down the path of LBJ, and dishonestly claimed people were voting a certain way, when they couldn't vote.
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  10343. ​ @JoKo203  A true snake oil salesman will be telling you they are selling you something that benefits your health when, in fact, they are selling you something completely useless or harmful. Jimmy claims he's for universal healthcare, but then promotes taking the worst possible path to get it, or even a path that will lose what's currently covered. He's a right wing grifter.
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  10344.  @JoKo203  A snake oil salesman, says they're selling you something beneficial. Jimmy promotes taking paths that will never get you universal healthcare. He doesn't give a crap about universal healthcare.
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  10345.  @JoKo203  Nah. Jimmy promotes taking the path that is least likely to get you UH. He's a snake oil salesman, claiming to be selling you healthcare, but actually isn't.
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  10346. RR deregulated domestic oil prices way back in 1981. Domestic has sold at the exact same global market price as foreign, ever since. The global market price dropped in 2014, before DT. It was on its way back up, under DT. He just happened to be president before it returned to full pre-2014 prices. DT did absolutely nothing. Google: Cal-Maine Foods 700% profit margin
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  10347. Eternal illegal colonization of occupied territories, illegal indiscriminate collective punishment, and very suspect proportionality.
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  10348. You think killing hundreds of thousands of people in Iraq, that had nothing to do with 9/11 was still a good idea?
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  10349. ​ @masonsmith5726  That would be a long future, where Republicans would win, for decades to come. Even if the entire progressive caucus was third party, and all progressive voters voted third party, that would have led to Republicans winning the house, senate, and presidency. A third party would still be largely irrelevant, even if it ever managed to get that many seats in congress. In Canada, the Conservative party should never win outside of 2 provinces, where they have a majority of votes, and never at the federal level. The only reason they do, is because Liberal and NDP (BQ too) votes are split. It allows Conservatives to win the majority of seats with only 35-40% of the vote. Things would be even worse, in the US, because Republicans get 45-50% of the vote. A third party would never be relevant, in the US, until it could get all the current Dem votes, actually become the second main party, and be able to beat the Republican party. That's why it makes more sense just to keep trying to take over the party. The progressive caucus is like 15 seats away from becoming the majority of house Dems. The Justice Dems have won 11 seats. The most popular third party, Libertarian, hasn't won a single seat in its 50 year existence. The most popular progressive third party, Green, hasn't won a single seat in congress in its 20 year existence. You're looking at decades of Republican rule, before possibly even winning one seat.
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  10350. https://youtu.be/qTwAoFR4DuM
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  10351. Likud was created by Zionist terrorist, Menachem Begin, who bombed Palestinian markets and other public places, murdering many Palestinian civilians, including children, even including Palestinian Jews (who opposed Zionism), and bombed the King David Hotel. The other founder was Ariel Sharon, war criminal, who massacred Palestinian villages. Their initial platform stated that their goal was for Israel to rule from the sea to the Jordan (reverse of, from the river to the sea). Netanyahu has proven that that still seems to be the goal, with the endless colonization of the West Bank. Netanyahu also promoted, and helped fund, Hamas, to weaken the Palestinian Authority and avoid possible peace, so he could continue his colonization projects. The end of violence would mean that Israel might have to pull back, plus allow the right of return for Palestinian refugees. Peace is against Likud's interests. So, why not the exact same forceful demand that Likud be removed? Hamas has ceasefired before and Likud broke the agreement. Why dishonestly make out like Hamas is the only barrier to peace?
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  10352. Just to be clear ... Letting Thanos win a battle, eradicate half the universe's population, throwing all of existence into turmoil, throwing trillions upon trillions into grief and depression, very likely causing countless suicides by those who couldn't bear to live without their loved ones, etc., etc., ... all so you can win the final war (thanks to a rat), is a lesser of two evils, utilitarian, decision.
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  10353. Every miscarriage is a God sanctioned abortion, no?
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  10354. Anyone saying they are an Agnostic believer is using the term Agnostic wrong. It is impossible to be an Agnostic believer. "That which Agnostics deny and repudiate, as immoral, is the contrary doctrine, that there are propositions which men ought to believe, without logically satisfactory evidence" ~ Huxley ^Original, source material, for what it means to be Agnostic.
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  10355. Rofl, is offended by "barbaric" and "dark ages", because it implies "bad", but thinks "fascist" is simply "charged" and "robust" political speech. Is there some non "bad" version of fascism I'm unaware of?
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  10356.  President Joe Biden  Below the national average in both cases and deaths per million. Florida is in the top 10 for cases per million, is higher in deaths per million, and currently has over 2x the daily cases per 100k.
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  10357. Look up the Orangeburg Preparatory Schools. They were literally founded for white kids only, to avoid desegregation ... literally founded on racism. Those are the schools she went to. They acknowledged admitting their first non-white student in 1989, the year she graduated, meaning she had been considered white, the whole time. And, when she pulled the "had black friends growing up" card, it sure as hell wasn't from school. Orangeburg is still 95% white prep schools and 90% black public schools.
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  10358. The skewed mail in vs in person voting would have happened across the country. The only reason it was visible in certain states, was because their stupid Republican legislatures voted not to update their methods for counting mail in ballots. They're using the optics from those states as propaganda.
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  10359. "Nov 17, 2020 — President Donald Trump, with two months left in office, last week asked for options on attckng Iran's main nclr site, ..." He had to be talked out of it, before, dingus. Now he won't have anyone telling him not to.
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  10360. Oh yes. Strong Atheism could require it's own claim, but the positions in the stages would be the same.
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  10361.  @GlassesAndCoffeeMugs  Rofl. Should you reread your own comment, that I replied to?
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  10362.  @harryd1471  Wrong Huxley, dumb dumb. You're sleuthing skills are terrible. Besides, an "agnostic" wouldn't be "for" anything, even if it were the case.
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  10363.  @frankpalancio8471  To continuously make out like Ham "started" something, means you have to ignore everything that happened before. By Oct 6, in 2023 alone, the IDF and settlers had killed dozens of Palestinians, including minors; had kidnapped and imprisoned indefinitely, without charges, hundreds of Palestinians; and had displaced over 1000, to make room for new illegal settlements. You're distorting who is the actual aggressor. Colonialists are never not the aggressors. It would be impossible for natives to do anything to them, if they weren't there doing their aggressor colonizing, first.
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  10364.  @frankpalancio8471  To continuously make out like Ham "started" something, means you have to ignore everything that happened before. By Oct 6, in 2023 alone, the IDF and settlers had offed dozens of Palestinians, including minors; had kidnapped and imprisoned indefinitely, without charges, hundreds of Palestinians; and had displaced over 1000, to make room for new illegal settlements. You're distorting who is the actual aggressor. Clnizers are never not the aggressors. It would be impossible for natives to do anything to them, if they weren't there doing their aggressor clnizing, first.
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  10365. So, you helped Trump win.
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  10366. Rofl, ex-PM Ehud Barak just told Christiane Amanpour that Israel built the bunkers under the hospital, decades ago, dimwit.
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  10367.  @ballz4kidz  What you're saying doesn't mesh with reality. Voters have been letting Republicans win, over and over. They keep jumping further right and the "moderate" Dems keep meeting them in the new "middle". Letting Republicans win has been dragging the country right. Corporate Dems then think they need to move further right, to win. Take Republicans out of the equation, and force Dems left with strong primary challenges. The primaries are also where there's the most room to increase voter turnout.
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  10368.  @runrafarunthebestintheworld  Any hope of Bernie becoming president, if he had won the primaries, would have relied on those voting against him in the primaries voting for him in the general. "Vote blue" works both ways.
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  10369.  @fireandblood2919  Nah, this point has been reached by voters repeatedly giving up on Dems, and letting Republicans wins, like you're suggesting.
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  10370. There was no "belief system" attached to the original word "Atheos", the French added the -ism, and the word was applied to those that actively denied the Gods, or certain Gods. "insoluble"...to him, personally. "Are there Gods?" the question Huxley was answering. The(os)-ist: I believe there are gods. Athe(os)-ist: I believe we are without gods/I believe there are no gods/I believe we are godless. Whichever way you want to word it. Agnostic: I have no belief for that which I see no proof.
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  10371.  @MattWhalen87  Not really a seperate issue. Erasing student debt (that's debt with the government), would make it retroactively free, for those who still haven't paid it off. It's similar to trying to get prisoners released, who are in for marijuana possession, once it's decriminalized, even though they chose to commit a crime while it was a crime.
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  10372.  @AndrewFloeter12  That's some nifty circular logic. It's impossible to pass a bill singlehandedly. But, no credit if others also vote for the bill and criticism for not doing the impossible.
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  10373.  @jamespoon2656  AOC backed 20 other pro-M4A progressives, and helped add a few more M4A yes votes to congress, in the last election cycle. She was just campaigning for Nina, promoting M4A while doing it, trying to add another. Adding enough yes votes to congress is the only possible way to ever pass the bill. Jimmy took the opportunity to yet again slander her and say she abandoned M4A, meanwhile it was him who abandoned Nina and abandoned trying to add another yes vote to congress. Did the people "behind closed doors" want Nina elected? If so, then they don't sound too bad. If not, then you're spouting nonsense. Jimmy didn't care if 10m of the poorest Americans were thrown off Medicaid expansion, didn't care to try and add 40m older Americans to Medicare expansion, promoted Tulsi and her "Medicare choice" over Bernie and M4A ... for him to turn around and portray himself as the one true champion of healthcare, and slander anyone who disagrees with him on even a single secondary tactic, as "fakes", "frauds", "sellouts", "betrayers", etc., is the joke. It's a lousy "fighter" that punches those closest to his claimed position the most, and promotes those far removed from his position as allies, the better option, or just doesn't punch them at all.
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  10374.  @jamespoon2656  Well, one good thing is that the "vote blue" philosophy works both ways. If a progressive wins a primary, the vast majority of those who had voted against them will turn around and vote for them in the general.
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  10375.  @dabblerdeluxe775  Rofl. Dore is not rational, in the least. He is funny to laugh at though.
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  10376. His nickname needs to be "Little Napoleon". https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Jakub_Lejkin https://www.cjnews.com/perspectives/opinions/ben-shapiros-hateful-attack-on-his-fellow-jews
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  10377. What has Dore done? He slanders progressive politicians that back unions, and have even gone out on picket lines. He slanders progressive politicians who have done more for M4A in a few years than he has in his entire lifetime.
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  10378.  @B_Bodziak  Absolutely. Just saying that "politically correct" has nothing to do with it. TYT is both politically correct and calls out specific bad actors.
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  10379. You JUST basically called him a chicken shit. Claiming people are afraid and insecure, when you don't know two shits about them? No? That's not criticizing and bashing, in your world? Tyson at the Atheist Centre of India Tyson on The Atheist Perspective Tyson on the Ardent Atheist Tyson vs Intelligent Design Etc, etc, etc. Really? You really think he's some kind of chicken shit? You're clueless.
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  10380. ​ @armondtanz  "You people" ... As in half brained twatwaffles, who act like you're 7 years old, saying "Oh yeah?! Well, my dad could beat up your dad!" Who tf cares? Him beating up Sam wouldn't make him right. It would just make him stupid, if he'd throw away his life, beating someone up on the street, for hurting his feelings.
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  10381. The problem is that Pelosi already introduced M4A last session, Dore knob. It died in committees, where 90% of bills die. The speaker, alone, can't force a bill through committees.
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  10382. So, every "sovereign citizen" type, or dickhead that doesn't want to pay taxes, can "vote" to have themselves, and their property, secede from belonging to any country, or their laws?
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  10383. Vaccines are also mandatory for immigrants, and nobody has been crying about it.
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  10384.  @rtorres4132  Per NBC end of August poll ... Black and Hispanic Americans are now over 70% vaccinated. Party over Trump Republicans are just over 60%. Trump over party Republicans aren't even 50%. The lowest vaccination rates and highest current covid numbers are in red counties. Nobody is as vaccine hesitant as Trumpists, or even Republicans in general.
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  10385. Yeah, maybe get them to be as popular as the Libertarian party, that hasn't won a single seat in congress in its near 50 year existence.
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  10386.  @kennethmcneil3478  Cute, that you think things are similar to about 170 years ago.
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  10387.  @kennethmcneil3478  Gloriously? So you want Republicans to win, rather than see the progressive caucus become the majority of house Dems. You must be one of Dore's right wing chump fans.
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  10388.  mario mario  The operation had, at least, 8 objectives, going in, not just one. 8 were told to the public, including setting up a government, and tracking down terrorists, both of which took them a long time, and definitely weren't accomplished in a few weeks. Him trying to separate all the objectives, is just bullshit. https://www.af.mil/News/Article-Display/Article/139787/rumsfeld-lists-operation-iraqi-freedom-aims-objectives/
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  10389.  mario mario  Not sure where you're getting lost. Those were the goals of Operation Iraqi Freedom. He spouted bullshit about WMDs, for a year, in the build up to Operation Iraqi Freedom. He promoted and supported Operation Iraqi Freedom. Operation Iraqi Freedom included forming a government and tracking down terrorists, amongst its listed public objectives, from the get go. Trying to claim that forming a government and tracking down terrorists had nothing to do with what he supported, is pure bullshit.
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  10390.  mario mario  What aren't you getting? Forming a government "that is not a threat to its neighbors" wasn't a later decision. It was always part of the plan, going in.
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  10391. No, modern A-theists clouded the issue, because nobody knows what the hell is meant by the word Atheist anymore. It has become a useless word that requires and adjective, to describe your actual position.
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  10392. If you're only going to accept full blown socialism, before using that word, then you should only accept full blown capitalism before using that word. In that case, only countries with absolute monarchies, like Saudi, might represent full capitalism, as they are totally privately owned enterprises. If that ruler builds a road, he's building it on his own private property. Most countries run on a mix of both capitalism, privately owned enterprises, and socialism, publicly owned enterprises. There's nothing wrong with the term "socialized medicine", if it's publicly owned. And, if even one thing is publicly owned, then you've got a small percentage of socialism mixed with your capitalism. The only exceptions being things that someone like Ayn Rand made exceptions for, even under extreme capitalism ... military, legal system, etc., to protect private interests and private property. Those things are more a difference in levels of authoritarianism, and there are authoritarian and non-authoritarian versions of both capitalism and socialism.
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  10393.  @thewellhaspoison  Marx totally talked about having a transition, in which you'd still need a government. If that government does things that reduces the gap in classes (minimum wage, free education, free medical, etc.), then that is a partial move towards socialism and away from all out capitalism. If that government spreads out money according to need (disability, baby bonus, old age, unemployment), then it's a partial move towards socialism, and away from all out capitalism. If that government gives some power to the workers (legalizing unions and strikes, worker safety regulations, guaranteed days off, limited work day, minimum wages, etc.), then it's a partial move towards socialism, and away from all out capitalism. Etc. If a "mixed" economy isn't a mix of capitalism and socialism, then what's it a mix of? If centrism isn't in the centre of capitalism and socialism, then what's it in the centre of?
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  10394.  @thewellhaspoison  What is a "social democracy", in your opinion?
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  10395.  @coffeecomics3583  Subjectivity, which requires a subject by definition yes, is that subject's preferences, likes, dislikes, biases for or against, opinions, desires, caring, etc. Objectivity is facts, truth, logic, etc., which are supposed to be the case independent of any individual subject. Observations are, basically, objective in nature. It's just empirical evidence being sent to your brain. A computer with cameras, or other sensory input, can observe, record, and store empirical evidence. I'm referring to actions, making a decisions, judgements, things that only comes from a subject's subjectivity. Subjectivity is how you feel about what you observed, not a way to observe. Fact: the subject observes person A forcing person B to have sex So what? That only matters if the observing subject cares, one way or another. The subject will make no decision, make no judgement, without subjectivity. If you care, then you'll make a decision about whether you like or dislike such behaviour, make a judgment whether you feel it's right or wrong. Most people will be inclined towards the dislike/wrong. A robot observing that fact may record it, but it won't ever give a crap, make a decision/judgement, on its own. A programmer could program in their own subjective judgment, telling the robot how to react to such behaviour, but it won't ever actually care itself.
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  10396.  Jay McDanieL  Based on facts, isn't simply spouting facts. There is no decision making in just facts. They're facts, no matter what anyone decides. No, then you just subjectively value something more than your own interests. Subjectivity =/= selfish.
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  10397. Yang isn't ready. He doesn't even know how his key tax actually works. A VAT is specifically designed to NOT tax businesses. It's a sales tax collected in stages, with all the business stages getting to reclaim their input VAT. It won't force corporations like Amazon to pay their fair share in taxes. It won't pay you for your data. It won't pay you to show you ads. It won't pay you for every automated truck mile. It isn't comparable to Alaskans getting paid by corporations. Even his linked to pass through rate study debunks his own claims. It finds a 100% pass through on standard rated goods and services. The lower pass through rate is only when including zero rated goods and services, and such like ... which nobody pays on. A 100% pass through item and a 0% pass through item =/= businesses paid 50%. It = consumers paid 100% on 50% of their items. https://ec.europa.eu/taxation_customs/business/vat/what-is-vat_en
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  10398. He forgot his son was dead.
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  10399. Why? He'd strawman arguments against Christianity, not truly delve into Judaism and Hinduism, and flat out lied that the extreme version of Buddhism would be extreme peace ... until ethnic cleansing Buddhists took the stage, and then he dropped them for Jainism as his sole example.
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  10400. I think the FOX news desk already quietly admitted there was no evidence in the documents they obtained. Then Tucker "lost" them. The news desk and propaganda desk aren't communicating. https://www.foxnews.com/politics/hunter-biden-tony-bobulinski-joe-biden-unanswered-questions
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  10401. Ummm, you don't have to ask for privileges to get privileges. By being white, you have the privilege of not facing as much, if any, of the racism you're acknowledging exists. Not really a hard concept. Non-white, non-Christian, non-hetero, people should also enjoy the privilege of not being discriminated against. Sure, there is also class privilege, but that's a somewhat different angle. Because there is only so much pie, which the super rich are hoarding, they should have some privilege (wealth) taken away and used to give the poor some of those privileges (decent health care, decent education, affordable housing, etc.). It's really just a consumption tax, since they benefit the most from the society those taxes help create.
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  10402. Yes. Fascist: ultra-nationalistic, anti-union, anti-socialist, anti-communist, anti-feminist, anti-democratic, backed by big business (crony capitalism), backed by religious extremists, pro military expansion, pro police expansion ... Republicans have been dipping their toes into all out fascism with gerrymandering, disenfranchising, and voter suppression. This latest nonsense is overtly anti-democratic and fills in the last box.
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  10403.  @Chuck26814  Nah. When even the most progressive Dems haven't proposed policies that would move the US left of Denmark (real world centrism), but insn people call them Marxists, or whatnot, it's those insn people that are the hyper partisans.
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  10404. ​ @doogiebear139  Let me guess ... You're one of those morons who thinks a representative democracy isn't a form of democracy.
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  10405. ​ @seanking1775  So sensitive. Right wingers have been crapping on California for decades.
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  10406. ​ @Zzz-u8b2i  That's exactly what tariffs were originally designed to do ... deter people from buying the tariffed goods.
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  10407.  @Zzz-u8b2i  That's what tariffs are designed to do. Make people buy from other countries.
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  10408. Israel is objectively the aggressor by every relevant measure (modern history, law, and current events) ... Modern history: With the Balfour declaration, Zionsim converted from something like immigration to colonization. 100 years ago, in 1923, Ze'ev Jabotinsky fully acknowledged that Zionism is colonialism, and that, based on the entirety of history, the native Palestinians would fight it until the bitter end. He just didn't care what would happen to them, and promoted doing it anyway. Colonizers are never not the aggressors, when it comes to the native population. On top of the colonialist nature of Zionism, the Zionists also formed terrorist organizations, like the Irgun and Lehi. They bombed many Palestinian markets and other public places, murdering many civilians, including children, even including Palestinian Jews (who opposed colonialist Zionism). Israel merged those terrorists into the new nation's military and intelligence agencies. Israelis elected Menachem Begin, leader of the Irgun, child murderer, Jew murderer, and bomber of the King David Hotel, as PM. Israelis, to this day, celebrate those Irgun terrorists as "heroes". Zionists literally taught their neighbours that terrorism is a valid path to independence and statehood, and that terrorists are to be celebrated. In 1945, it is well documented that Zionists owned just 5% of the land and were a majority in zero districts. Israel was formed by going against the will of the majority population. Its foundation is completely undemocratic. Even then, Jews were still a minority, in "their" half. The only possible way to actually become a Jewish ethno-state, would be to ethnically cleanse away the actual majority. And, that's exactly what happened. Israel has never allowed those people to return. Law: Israel is considered an occupier by the International Court, the UN GA, and the UN SC. Occupiers are also never not the aggressors. Those occupied actually have a right to resist occupation. On the flip side, it is illegal for the occupier to settle occupied lands, and illegal to use collective punishment. Israel is a rogue nation, that doesn't abide by international law. What it has been doing, and is doing now, is illegal. Current events: This year, alone, prior to Oct 7 ... Israel held over 1200 Palestinian hostages without charges ... over 200 Palestinians had been killed by the IDF and settlers ... over 1000 Palestinians had been displaced by Israel's neverending colonization of the West Bank ... and, Israel continued to operate an open air WWII style fascist ghetto. Even ignoring modern history and law, in no reality did Hamas "start" anything.
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  10409.  @bananenbrot-pt7mo  I'm not in America, moron. The government sponsoring Israel is though, dimwit. The government vetoing a cease fire is, you ignorant twatwaffle.
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  10410.  @luchi.el.zorrito  Rofl, much of planet considers the US a joke. So, not a single example? Figured as much.
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  10411.  @luchi.el.zorrito  Lol. That's too bad, because you clearly need to visit a mental health expert, for your delusions.
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  10412. ​ @esw0y  So, after what was actually about 1300 years living together, what do you think happened?
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  10413. ​ @samuelross9884  Rofl. You sure typed out a lot, but were wrong, and no longer worth reading, in the first sentence. Palestinians have Canaanite DNA, dimwit. They're Arab and Muslim the same way indigenous peoples of Central America are Hispanic and Catholic. All these "Arab" countries weren't completely emptied of people and totally refilled by actual Arabians from a small desert country. You Zionists are complete and utter morons, if you actually believe that's what happened, or completely dishonest bullshit peddlers, all to try and justify colonizing and ethnic cleansing Palestinians. Canaan was a land of independent city states, which shared a similar culture, mythology, and language. Do you morons want to go back to that? No. The first nation to rule over Canaan was Egypt. Do you morons want to give it back to them? No. You want to pick a very specific 500 year period in time, and return to that ... nothing before, nothing after. When Egypt was pushed out of the region, right beside the kingdoms of Israel and Judah, emerged Philistia, at the same time. Since then, all, or part, of the region has been called Peleset, Philistia, Philistine, Palestine, or Filastin, by the Egyptians, Assyrians, Babylonians, Greeks (Aristotle wrote that the Dead Sea was "in Palestine"), Western Romans, Christian pilgrims, Eastern Romans, early Muslims, Christian crusaders, the Ottomans, the British, and even the first Zionist congress, that wanted to create a home "in Palestine". You know what the region wasn't called, all or in part, since about 700 BCE? Israel. Even Israelite refugees to Judah stopped calling themselves that, and started calling themselves Judahites. Then, when they later created their religion in Babylon, that's why it became known as "Judaism", not "Israelism". Even when they gained some semi-autonomy, under the Greeks, they called it "Judea", not "Israelea". But, even your garbage take on history wouldn't matter. Ancient history is irrelevant. I can't round up millions of people from the Americas, whose ancestors left England hundreds of years ago, "go back", claim half of England, and cleanse that half of its current inhabitants. If we did, we'd still be colonizers and ethnic cleansers. No part of the definition of "colonizer" says people "returning", after a long absence, can't be colonizers. All Europeans have ancient roots in Africa. They still colonized the f*ck out of it. If you're simply ignorant, fix that. If you're a dishonest person, that lies to try and justify colonialism and ethnic cleansing, you're disgusting.
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  10414. ​ @tracywatts1459  Palestinians have Canaanite DNA. They're the indigenous peoples that never left. They were simply Arabized and converted. Israel is the anti-Semitic murderer of ancient Israelites/Jews. If you go by the fairytale book, which has the larger borders, the Hebrews were conquerors from Mesopotamia, not natives. All irrelevant, anyway, as I just posted to someone else.
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  10415.  @jeremys6631  Nope. You're lying. That "fluctuation" ... The 151k population was in the 1500s. You don't need a massive influx of people to get from 151k to 276k in 300 years. That's such a low increase, it actually means people were leaving.
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  10416.  @jeremys6631  Nope. You're talking about numbers that represent less than 10% of the non-Jewish population, dumb dumb. The vast majority of their population increase was simply reproduction.
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  10417.  @esw0y  1300 years with a few localized incidents, is vastly different than from the time the Roman Empire became Christian and started force converting everyone (the Palestine population was already majority Christian, before Muslims came along to convert them to Islam) ... to the time of the Spanish reconquest offering conversion, death, or exile ... to the time of the Christian Orthodox Russian pogroms ... to the Christian Nazi Holocaust ... You don't flee Spain, to go to something the same or worse, right? That would be stupid. You don't flee Russia, to go to something the same or worse, right? That would be stupid. Etc.
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  10418.  @esw0y  You also might want to take a good hard look at Jewish history. Whenever they've had enough power to take over, or even put up a strong rebellion, they've genocided everyone around them. "Meanwhile the Jews in the region of Cyrene had put one Andreas at their head and were destroying both the Romans and the Greeks. They would cook their flesh, make belts for themselves of their entrails, anoint themselves with their blood, and wear their skins for clothing. Others they would give to wild beasts and force still others to fight as gladiators. In all, consequently, two hundred and twenty thousand perished. In Egypt, they also performed many similar deeds, and in Cyprus under the leadership of Artemio. There, likewise, two hundred and forty thousand perished. For this reason, no Jew may set foot in that land, but even if one of them is driven upon the island by the force of the wind, he is put to death. Various persons took part in subduing these Jews, one being Lusius, who was sent by Trajan." By Israel standards, Rome should have annihilated all Jews, to root out the resistance.
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  10419.  @sihotech  Nope. "A VAT makes it impossible for them to benefit from the American people and infrastructure without paying their fair share." https://www.yang2020.com/policies/value-added-tax/
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  10420. He didn't do too bad a job, if all of his stuff is read. Even if not, the heart of his position, the only thing that really mattered, according to him, was the position of not believing without sufficient evidence. It is not supposed to be compatible with believing yes, or believing no. It is a label that attached the burden of proof on The-ists and Athe-ists alike, and one that can basically be applied to everyone who doesn't believe. A-theists, like Smith, helped corrupt the definition.
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  10421. Putin is a fascist, disappears opponents, and Russia hosts white supremacist camps. It's exactly what they want to become.
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  10422. Before going on to dishonestly compare these numbers to the incorrect "death rate", Dore cited a Gallup article which calculated that the vaccinated population hospitalization rate was 0.01% and the unvaccinated population hospitalization rate was 0.89%. Of course, he completely ignored that he had just shown that the unvaccinated were being hospitalized at 89x the rate of the vaccinated.
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  10423. You're fallacy is thinking I'm suggesting what an atheist would do, or trying to describe them at all. I'm discussing the definition of a word, that started out as an -ism, and is being redifined as an a-, which is only confusing and convoluting the definition, when there is another label, Agnostic, that most adequately describes the default state.
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  10424.  @hstock3  Eh? Alberta is 3rd in share of the national gdp, and less than half of Ontario. And the populations of 5th to 10th place barely add up to the population of Alberta, all together. Nah, there's no win for Canada, there.
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  10425.  TheOpenSociety777  What's wrong with California, exactly? A bunch of states with higher crime rates ... New Mexico 6,462 Louisiana 6,408 Colorado 6,091 South Carolina 5,973 Arkansas 5,899 Oklahoma 5,870 Washington 5,759 Tennessee 5,658 Oregon 5,610 Missouri 5,605 Alaska 5,359 Utah 5,190 Hawaii 5,077 Arizona 4,940 Texas 4,937 North Carolina 4,872 Kansas 4,823 Alabama 4,727 California 4,720
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  10426.  TheOpenSociety777  You're incoherent. Spain is "in the West". Native Americans are "in the West". Descendants of slaves are "in the West". All the same kinds of folks as in the US, only with a much higher Native American percentage.
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  10427. The international poverty line is only two dollars a day, David. That's the measure you often hear when people are talking about the poverty rate in other countries.
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  10428. Southern border crossings jumped to pre Obama numbers in 2019, and Republicans didn't say a word.
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  10429. That makes no sense. She supports LGBTQ ... there's no way to make what you typed make sense.
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  10430. ​ @GR33TINGSEARTHL1NGS  He's an ignoramus. Likud's bloody 100 year history ... The history of Likud is the history of Revisionist Zionism. In 1923, its founder, Ze'ev Jabotinsky, wrote The Iron Wall, and a follow up, The Ethics of The Iron Wall (sooo racist towards Africans), in which he fully acknowledged that Zionsim was colonialism, and that, based on the entirety of history, the native Palestinian population would resist being colonized until the bitter end. He directly compared it to the colonization of North America. He promoted doing it anyway, claiming Zionist colonialism was a "just" colonialism (he also thought North American colonialists were good guys, so not a great judge of morality), not caring what that meant for the native population. That same year, Ze'ev separated from the Haganah, and began training his own Betar militant youth group which, along with other Revisionists who broke from Haganah, formed the Irgun, and Lehi, terrorist groups. The Irgun bombed numerous Palestinian markets and other public places, murdering many Palestinian civilians, including children, even including Palestinian Jews (who didn't support colonialist Zionsim). The Irgun ended up being led by future Likud PM, Menachem Begin, who bombed the King David Hotel. The King David Hotel was bombed because the British had raided the Jewish Agency and seized numerous documents that may have shown that the terrorists were working with the JA and Haganah (JA liked to pretend that they didn't support the terrorism). The British then stored those documents at their base, in the hotel. That the Irgun terrorists responded to a JA raid, itself seems to prove the connection. That the thousands of Irgun (and Lehi) terrorists were also quickly merged into the new nation's military (IDF) and intelligence (Mossad) agencies, and are still celebrated as "heroes" by Israelis, to this day, also seems to support total collaboration between the groups. That other terrorist group mentioned, Lehi (also known as the Stern Gang), was considered even more extreme. They even tried to ally with the Nazis, Italian Fascists, and Vichy Lebanon, and continued fighting against the British, throughout WWII. Lehi ended up being led by Yitzhak Shamir, future Mossad agent, and another future Likud PM. They assassinated Lord Moyne, and others. In 1945, there was a major land and peoples survey done in Palestine. It showed that the Zionists only owned about 5% of the total land, 20% of the arable land, and owned a majority in zero districts. The partition was not only going to be forced on the non-Jewish majority of Palestine, but Jews were still going to be a minority, in the part allocated to them. The only possible way to become a "Jewish state" was going to require getting rid of the actual majority (at least enough so that there'd be a solid Jewish majority, so they could fake being democratic). This is also shown by the 1948, post Nakba, population of Israel. If there was 716,700 Jews, 156,000+ non-Jews, and there were at least 711,000 non-Jews ethnically cleansed, that means the Jewish population, in the Zionist portion of partition, was originally over 100,000 less than the non-Jewish population. To believe that there was never any intent, by Zionists, to ethnically cleanse away the non-Jewish majority would require believing that they never intended to create a "Jewish state". It's a nonsensical notion. Those terrorist groups also opposed partition, but for the opposite reason Palestinians did. Palestinians didn't want to be colonized, at all. The terrorists, on the other hand, wanted to colonize it all. "Moderate" Zionists were okay with colonizing half ... for now (what would happen in the future, after partition, was up to them, said Ben-Gurion). The Zionist terrorists were also involved in massacres, and assassinations, during the partition violence (colonialist war against the natives). Another notable future Likud PM, also started in the military, during the partition fighting. That was Ariel Sharon, war criminal, "Butcher of Beirut". Menachem Begin, and these other Zionist terrorists, then became involved in Israeli politics, first forming Herut. That was the party Albert Einstein, and other prominent American Jews, wrote about, in a letter printed in the NYT, in December of 1948, when Begin came to visit the US. The letter opened ... "Among the most disturbing political phenomena of our times is the emergence in the newly created state of Israel of the "Freedom Party" (Tnuat Haherut), a political party closely akin in its organization, methods, political philosophy and social appeal to the Nazi and Fascist parties. It was formed out of the membership and following of the former Irgun Zvai Leumi, a terrorist, right-wing, chauvinist organization in Palestine." Herut merged with other extremist parties, over the years, and eventually became Likud, in the 70s. Now, people get upset over the slogan "From the river to the sea!", but it's the second part that's most important, "Palestine will be free!". Because "Palestine" isn't defined as an ethno-state, a free Palestine can be a single state, free for all to live in, and return to, free of continuing colonization, free of occupation, free of oppression, etc. Just like a Germany free of Nazism, an Italy free of fascism, a South Africa free of apartheid, or an America free of slavery from sea to shiny sea. It doesn't necessitate purging all the Jews. It just necessitates them giving up on the idea of an ethno-state. On the other hand, because "Israel" has been defined as an ethno-state, Likud's, "between the sea and the Jordan there will only be Israeli sovereignty", has no possible good interpretation. It is a declaration of intent to completely colonize, and ethnically cleanse, all Palestine territories. Not only that, but it also claims they have a "right" to all of the "Land of Israel" (fictional biblical borders that don't mesh with archaeological reality), which is an open declaration of future wars, against Jordan, Syria, Lebanon, and possibly even Iraq. Likud platform ... 1977: "The Right of the Jewish People to the Land of Israel (Eretz Israel) a. The right of the Jewish people to the land of Israel is eternal and indisputable and is linked with the right to security and peace; therefore, Judea and Samaria will not be handed to any foreign administration; between the Sea and the Jordan there will only be Israeli sovereignty. b. A plan which relinquishes parts of western Eretz Israel, undermines our right to the country, unavoidably leads to the establishment of a "Palestinian State," jeopardizes the security of the Jewish population, endangers the existence of the State of Israel. and frustrates any prospect of peace." 1999: "The Government of Israel flatly rejects the establishment of a Palestinian Arab state west of the Jordan river. The Palestinians can run their lives freely in the framework of self-rule, but not as an independent and sovereign state. Thus, for example, in matters of foreign affairs, security, immigration, and ecology, their activity shall be limited in accordance with imperatives of Israel's existence, security and national needs." "The Jewish communities in Judea, Samaria, and Gaza are the realization of Zionist values. Settlement of the land is a clear expression of the unassailable right of the Jewish people to the Land of Israel and constitutes an important asset in the defense of the vital interests of the State of Israel. The Likud will continue to strengthen and develop these communities and will prevent their uprooting." All Palestine territories (OPT) are officially considered occupied, by the International Court of Justice, the UN GA, the UN SC, and even in official documents of Israel's own allies. Likud is still using the blueprint for colonizing North America, in the West Bank. Move settlements out into native territory, piss off the natives, the natives retaliate, cry about poor "innocent" colonizing settlers being the "victims" of violent "Savages!", call in the cavalry to put down the native uprising, and eventually expand the borders to include those settlements. Rinse and repeat. In Gaza, Israel is operating an open air WWII style fascist ghetto. Them claiming a "right to defend themselves" would be like the Nazis claiming a "right to defend themselves " from the Warsaw ghetto uprising. There's no "war". That they're the occupiers means the "war" part is long over. Those people are actually supposed to be under the occupier's protection. That partition was forced upon the Palestinian majority, against their will ... that the Zionist portion still had to be forcefully ethnically cleansed of its non-Jewish majority, against their will ... that the millions of occupied Palestinians don't have a say in the government that truly rules over them, Israel's ... that millions more Palestinian refugees, don't have a right of return, to vote ... means Israel is about as democratic as Nazi Germany after Hitler purged his political opponents and then held elections.
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  10431. Maybe. It would still be hard to try and get Republicans to go along with making all private insurers offer a basic, universal, non-profit, package, and have all states cover anyone and everyone who can't afford a private package. But, states might be able to make those kinds of rules for insurers within their own states, and not have to wait for the feds. The foundation for a Canadian model is there. Their's is more like a Medicaid for all, with the federal government pitching in, but each province running their own. You could keep raising the max income level Medicaid covers. Individual states could also start this on their own, and not have to wait for the feds. The foundation is also there to keep lowering the age of Medicare, but very hard to get enough federal lawmakers on board.
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  10432. Yep, those ratios sure do expose that there are a lot of idiots buying Trump's bullshit.
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  10433.  @knukkaboom4491  You're a moron. It's right in the word, dummy. "Feudalism" comes from the old Germanic word "fihu", which means "cattle". "Fihu" is also where the word "fee" comes from. Sure, there was a variety of bartering, but there was a standard ... the cow. Just like ten dimes is worth the standard dollar, ten chickens might be worth the standard cow. Early feudal lords were, effectively, cattle barons of old. Like the dimwit you are, you jumped straight into nations, with laws, skipping over the earliest feudalism, with no minted coins, with no kings, without even a unified nation, well outside Rome, amongst Germanic tribes. A family would settle land, the family head would be owner, the family would grow, the settlement would grow, but still be considered to be the head's property, the head would pass it down to an eldest son, just like centuries of inheritance, and also perfectly okay in an ancap environment. The settlement might grow to attract other settlers, but they'd still be considered to be living on the head of the family's property. He could charge them rent, make them pledge loyalty, make rules, whatever he wanted, for the right to live on his property. All perfectly fine in an ancap environment. If they had a property dispute with a nearby clan, they'd settle it with their private armies. If you got sick of the other clan, maybe you'd just go outright conquer their settlement, and claim it as your own. There's no oversight, or legal system, saying there's anything wrong with that in an ancap environment. Now you privately own two settlements, so maybe you stick a close family member, or friend, in as manager of your other settlement. Then maybe you add another, and another, etc. All perfectly legal, because there is no law above you in an ancap environment. Etc. Etc. Etc. Until you've got a large enough group of settlements, to declare yourself a king of something ... the Angles, the Franks, ... whatever. Absolute monarchies are complete private ownership of an entire region. The private owner can make whatever rules (laws) they want, for living on their private property. The private owner can charge whatever price (rent, tax) they want, for living on their private property. The private owner can mint his own money, with his face on it, good inside his privately owned nation. The private owner can hire a private policing force, to enforce the rules for living on his private property. Etc. So you shut down the government, and turn the US ancap ... what's to stop giant corporations from hiring large private armies and throwing their weight around? What's to stop the rich from hiring small private armies, and throwing their weight around?
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  10434.  @matrixman8582  There are limits on what you can and can't own? Who's making and enforcing said rule?
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  10435.  @matrixman8582  You're sounding like an anarcho-socialist. So, I can't hire a bunch of people, and live off their labour, in an ancap environment?
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  10436.  @matrixman8582  "have to" "has to" Again ... who is making and enforcing these rules? What if I want to hire labourers, exactly because I don't want to labour, and want to go golfing, or boating? Is that against the imaginary rules?
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  10437.  @matrixman8582  I'll get a small loan from my parents, and then go party with some models. Or, is that against the imaginary ancap rules people "have to" abide by?
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  10438.  @matrixman8582  What difference does it make where my parents got it? You said I'd "have to" labour for my money. Nah, I paid some labourers to build me a casino that's sure to make me more money. Even if I go bankrupt, daddy can keep bailing me out until he dies, and I get tens of millions.
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  10439. ​ @MBarberfan4life  Countries like Switzerland also have the second highest cost per capita.
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  10440.  @akinbobolaz  Why do you think he's anti-immigration, when there's a labour shortage?
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  10441. Like the jury that found him guilty of rape and defamation? MAGA morons don't trust the jury rulings, either.
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  10442. @GamePurist No. That Virginia teacher was fired for outright refusing to say something, not for accidentally saying something. All kinds of employers have had all kinds of language and behaviour rules for work, for centuries. Outright defying your employer's policies is grounds for firing just about anywhere.
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  10443. @GamePurist Nope, that's after repeatedly regusing to an alternate pronoun, based on a religious belief in a formless penisless entity that is referred to as "he", "father", etc.
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  10444. The first injection knocks you out, just the same as people who choose assisted suicide.
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  10445. @Bet Your lunch An almost eradicated virus, thanks to a vaccine that was being given to millions of children within a year of development, and years of vaccine mandates. Btw, the polio paralysis rate is half the covid mortality rate, and the polio mortality rate is 40x lower than the covid mortality rate. We'd still have polio, if people were like they are now.
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  10446.  @eugenesant9015  Not a properly made Salk vaccine, which uses a killed virus. Only a batch that wasn't made properly, and used a live virus did.
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  10447.  @nostrum6410  Sad that you don't know how to Google.
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  10448.  @nostrum6410  Seems to just be a fact.
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  10449.  @nostrum6410  I'm quite sure that you convince most people all on your own, just like you convinced me.
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  10450. Just use the original defund the red coats slogan "Join or Die", or maybe "no taxation without equal representation" (in positions of power).
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  10451. A new myth being promoted by candidate Andrew Yang: "Amazon, Google, and other companies funnel hundreds of billions in earnings overseas. In fact, Amazon paid zero in taxes last year. A VAT makes it impossible for them to benefit from the American people, automation, and infrastructure without paying their fair share." In actuality, a VAT is specifically designed to NOT tax businesses in order to avoid double taxation. A VAT is a sales tax collected in stages with all the business stages getting their input VAT credited back to them. Anyone promoting a tax designed to not tax businesses as a way to tax businesses is speaking gibberish. Comparing his dividend, which won't have corporations paying into it, to the Alaskan dividend, which is paid into by corporations, is totally disingenuous ... Yang also seriously needs to stop pretending that every UBI is alike, because they aren't, and how they're funded is extremely important. His claim that a VAT/UBI combo will have corporations paying you for your data, paying you for every automated truck mile, or paying you to show you ads, is utter nonsense. Let's say I sell computers. Like any business, to make a profit, I have to first cover my costs. If a portion of my per computer costs are $100 in Facebook data, $100 in Google ads, and $100 in automated Amazon deliveries, that $300 will included in the price of my computers. Add a 10% VAT, and my business would initially pay $30 in input VAT on those costs, but then, when I sell, I will collect $30 in output VAT on that $300 portion of my price. The business gets to reclaim that $30, paying no taxes in the end. The government gets $30, and the customer pays $30 ... pays a tax on their own data, pays a tax to be shown ads, and pays a tax on the automation taking their job. Yang's own linked to pass through rate study debunks his claims. Regarding the "central question", the study found a 100% pass through on standard rated goods and services. It was only including zero rated goods, and other things that are only relevant to overall CPI or inflation, that lowered the pass through rate. A zero rated good or service is irrelevant to who pays the tax because nobody is paying on a zero rated item. Taking a standard rated 100% pass through item, and a zero rated 0% pass through item, will give you an average pass through of 50%, but you can't reverse engineer that, like Yang, and claim consumers and businesses paid 50/50. No. The consumer paid 100% on 50% of the items. The broader findings of the pass through study simply means consumers are paying about 100% of the tax on about 30% of the things they spend their money on. Since a VAT won't have corporations paying into the dividend, and since he already agrees current taxation won't have corporations paying into the dividend, then they will only get the benefits of the dividend being spent. Amazon's share of US consumer spending is 2.3%. If even 2% of $3t is spent on Amazon, they'll make an extra $60b a year. Instead of making them pay their fair share, Yang would make giant corporations extra billions a year. Americans should learn how a VAT works, and try to figure out if Yang is just clueless or if he's lying. If lying, remember he originally wanted to replace all government assistance programs, including SS, SSDI, and VA benefits, and originally wanted to have a VAT on everything, including food. The "humanity first" candidate had to hear negative feedback to be convinced those weren't great ideas. https://ec.europa.eu/taxation_customs/business/vat/what-is-vat_en http://publications.gc.ca/Collection-R/LoPBdP/BP/prb0003-e.htm#A.%20Taxing%20Mechanism(txt) Even Amazon knows a VAT doesn't end up taxing businesses. https://services.amazon.co.uk/services/vat-resources.html
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  10452.  @SlurMaster9000  What a load of shit. Right wingers have repeatedly argued that corporations are people, can have their own beliefs, and can discriminate based on those beliefs. They repeatedly try to deregulate corporations, and hand them more independence. Corporations have repeatedly had protesters removed from their properties, and police have repeatedly helped them. You're living in some alternate reality.
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  10453.  @SlurMaster9000  You can say it's bullshit, but that's what the majority of them have supported, that's what courts have upheld, and that's basically how the law is applied. You blathering about ancappers is what's bullshit, since that is reality. Who on the right has ever argued that a private property owner shouldn't be allowed to have others removed from their private property ... you know, before it came around to bite them in the ass?
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  10454. ​ @alymayz928  Instead of saying the word "tax", try saying the word "cost". Americans are already paying for health insurance. Just transfer that current cost to a universal insurer, and there's less administration costs, since it's all the same. Plus, a universal insurer can negotiate down drug and procedure costs, as well. It would end up costing you less, in the end. Yeah, your "tax" would go up, but your "cost" would go down.
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  10455. ​ @TS-qd2uj  What a load of nonsense.
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  10456.  @leeannemillard8263  Yes, pretty much all guns start out legal, dumb dumb. About a quarter are stolen from legal owners. An even larger amount are straw purchases, which is legal at the point of sale. And a ton are legal owners who up and decide to do something illegal. Both firearm mortality rates and homicide rates tend to be higher in red, less gun control, states.
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  10457.  @leeannemillard8263  Do you know what "rates" mean, dumb dumb?
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  10458.  @franklindelanoroosevelt9177  Why are you arguing with the guy apologizing in the video, himself?
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  10459. He was clueless during the primaries, as well. He shouldn't be in any major positions of power.
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  10460.  shyam dahal  Not a fan of Biden, dumb dumb. But, I think he at least knows basically how a tax works before wanting to apply it to the nation. Yang had zero clue how a VAT actually works, who it actually taxes. He even linked to a pass through rate study, that he totally failed to grasp, that actually debunked everything he was saying about a VAT.
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  10461.  @ubuu7  Nothing you said refuted the fact that he had zero clue how a VAT works. A VAT is specifically designed to NOT tax businesses in order to avoid double taxation. The pass through rate study outright showed consumers were paying the entire tax. If you don't have giant corporations paying into the dividend, then they only get the benefits of extra trillions being spent, funneling money to the very top faster than ever before. Try addressing what I actually say.
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  10462.  @ubuu7  Even Yang, with his words, and repeated comparisons to the Alaskan dividend, constantly stated that corporations should be the ones paying for it, or paying for most of it. The problem is that his complete lack of knowledge about the tax he'd add to fund half of it, wouldn't do what he was saying.
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  10463.  @ubuu7  Okay, but making the Bezoses of the world, who live on stocks, extra billions a year, because your not taxing their source of their increasing wealth, giant corporations, is a big problem. It's unsustainable, especially in a future with mass automation, and a largely unemployed consumer base. Tons of unemployed consumers can't be the ones funding their own UBI. As to other sources of funding, Yang already agreed giant corporations were dodging paying taxes through those methods. It's part of the basis of his argument to make them pay through a VAT. He just doesn't understand that they wouldn't pay through a VAT, either. The regressive topic is a different one. Unless everyone's income and wealth is equal, a consumption tax will always be regressive (a higher percent of poorer people's total wealth and income, including their UBI income, than a very rich person's). You can try and offset it, but it will still be regressive. And, no, some of the poorest people are already collecting benefits of a kind that Yang didn't have stack with his UBI, so his plan doesn't always benefit the poor most. Many could receive little, to no benefit, from the UBI, but still have to pay a VAT on many things. That could make some worse off. For example, Yang didn't have his UBI stack with SSI (not to be confused with SSDI) or SNAP, with do stack together now. Someone with a permanent disability could be collecting $993 a month. So, you give them $7 extra a month, but if they have to pay even $8 in VAT, on $80 worth of monthly purchases, or bills, then they're worse off. A "luxury" isn't a product in a certain price range, it's a category of product. A flip phone would have a tax just like an iPhone. A very basic flip phone service would have a tax just like a top of the line smart phone service. A movie would have a tax just like a Broadway show. McDonald's would have a tax just like a fancy restaurant. Etc. And, all the rich people also wouldn't have to pay taxes on their better quality, and larger amounts, of zero rated goods and services, staples, necessities. Sure, many people would be better off, but blanket statements about all the poor being better off, just aren't true. Meanwhile, many people who are pretty well off would get extra shopping spree money, or vacation money. Based on a basic household budget, and how much is spent on VATable goods and services, a single adult household wouldn't start paying more in than they get back until about a $400k income, $800k income if a two adult household. That's kind of nutty, if you're doing nothing to improve the lives of a bunch of the poorest citizens.
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  10464. AOC backed progressives who primaried against DCCC backed corporate Dems. She's not trying to be "friends", but does have to find a way to work with others, to get anything done.
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  10465.  @TahtahmesDiary  Well, she also backed Bernie against their guy in the primaries, and backed other progressives against their DCCC backed corporate Dems in the congressional primaries. She didn't, exactly, play nice. Taking the lesser of two evils route, in the general, isn't necessarily "being nice", either. It could just be being pragmatic. Another Trump term could have ended the ACA and millions getting healthcare coverage, could have killed thousands of more Americans from covid than should be, doesn't get you the small gains of lowering the Medicare age and single payer, getting millions more on government healthcare insurance. We already knew, from the history of Bernie campaigning for Clinton, that they quickly forget the general election support and remain bitter about the primary opposition. After all that, she still has to find a way to work with others, to accomplish anything in the next 2 years. That's harder to do if you go full scorched earth on the party. It could even backfire.
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  10466.  @RC-tn3xo  Not my type.
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  10467.  @ronaldmatthews7361  If you lower taxes, but don't lower spending, then you're going to run a deficit. Not always a bad thing, but still operating in the red. Can definitely just lead to increasing debt if not handled properly. If you lower taxes for the rich, it doesn't happen in a bubble. As a percentage of the yearly revenues, poorer people are then paying a higher percentage of the yearly total. He doesn't put Americans first. He lied to them about who will pay for his wall. They will He lied to them about who will pay tariffs. They will. He can't bring coal jobs back. He has brought in old school warhawks and wars are actually bad for soldiers. He has cut funds to the VA.
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  10468.  @ronaldmatthews7361  The rest is cool with you though? So, what's going on with Iran then? What's the point in pulling out of a deal that was working, and make up crap about Iran threatening the US? Either it's pointing to war or it's pointless. In the same breath as saying he didn't want war, he said "but" he couldn't let Iran threaten the US. Iran hasn't started a war in like 300 years. If he follows Bolton, a war will happen.
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  10469.  @ronaldmatthews7361  Rofl@"called out military industrial complex" ... as he adds tens of billions to defence spending and to their pockets.
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  10470.  @ronaldmatthews7361  Nothing you said changes that he lied about who'd pay for it, or that Americans will pay for it.
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  10471.  @ronaldmatthews7361  Rofl. He used the same "depleted" military. He didn't even get to introduce his first budget until his second year in office. And, all the planning was already in motion. He had nothing, at all, to do with defeating ISIS. https://www.newyorker.com/news/dispatch/how-trump-betrayed-the-general-who-defeated-isis
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  10472.  @ronaldmatthews7361  You like Americans paying better than Mexico paying? That makes zero sense, and doesn't change that he lied to your face. He blatantly lies to his followers, repeatedly, counting on them to be so stupid that they'll buy it, or so fanatic that they won't care.
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  10473.  @ronaldmatthews7361  Still him lying to your face and still Americans paying for it.
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  10474.  @ronaldmatthews7361  I heard you. Still doesn't change that he lied to your face, or that Americans are paying for it.
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  10475.  @ronaldmatthews7361  You don't know how tariffs work. Just like him.
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  10476.  @ronaldmatthews7361  Preferring to pay makes zero sense, btw. lol
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  10477.  @ronaldmatthews7361  You're giving reasons. You're not describing how they work. It is not Mexico and China that pays. It is Americans who pay. They pay the tariffs just like they pay for the wall.
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  10478.  @ronaldmatthews7361  Rofl. You don't seem to understand. Americans pay for Trump's tariffs, not China's tariffs. You're proving my point about his followers.
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  10479.  @ronaldmatthews7361  You just argued that Trump was going to get Mexico to pay for the wall with tariffs. If you do actually know how tariffs work, then you should know that was a blatantly moronic thing for him to say. Either a) he is dumber than a stump, b) he lies, counting on his supporters being dumber than stumps, c) all of the above.
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  10480.  @ronaldmatthews7361  Seriously, what aren't you getting here? Mexico wouldn't be paying the tariffs, even if he did that. Americans still would be. He was bullshitting you lot, any which way you slice it, and you love him for it.
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  10481.  @ronaldmatthews7361  So, exactly like I said, his supporters are either too stupid to know he's constantly lying to them or too fanatical to care that he's constantly lying to them. You must be the later.
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  10482. Negligent homicide.
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  10483. The stock market has only gone up about 4000 points, since Trump's first budget kicked in, and he started his trade wars, around the beginning of 2018. Even by his own favourite measure, he kinda sucks.
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  10484. ​ @ryanb7186  As long as Republicans stay fairly united, splitting the rest of the votes will always fail. The "third" party would need to get more votes than them, to ever be able to pass anything, which would make it a viable "first" party, not a "third" party. If you basically need every Dem vote anyway, why not keep trying to take over the party? Justice Dems have won 11 seats in just 7 years, while Green hasn't won a single seat in over 25 years. Within the party is objectively the better method.
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  10485. @annavarela5647  How would Bernie's policies magically only work for the white working class, and not all?
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  10486. @annavarela5647  How would Bernie's policies magically only work for the wt working class, and not all?
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  10487.  @cosmicpepe3973  So an ethnic group should leave to make way for another ethnic group, is what you're arguing for?
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  10488. They didn't know he was a Nazi, until after. Dimwit who invited him didn't do his research, and lost his job.
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  10489. ​ @camelopardalis84  Why not brag about taking 4 days to set up tents? Because it shouldn't take 4 days to set up tents?
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  10490.  @camelopardalis84  Setting up tents isn't exactly "building", either. Also not sure how it's the "largest hospital in the country".
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  10491.  @spaceman6821  But you think comparing what I stated to embryos and fetuses, is equivalent? Should they also ban IVF? A ton of embryos aren't used, or don't take, killing it. Scientists can also now create embryos from just sperm, making each sperm a living thing that can become a full fledged baby. Should we ban masturbating and contraception?
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  10492. You've connected moral decay to Atheism, because the majority of corrupt politicians and corporate heads, those doing the most damage to the people and world around them, are Atheists?
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  10493. When you repeatedly question the results of largely blck districts, to get their voices erased, then you're clearly the current Jm Crw party.
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  10494. Yeah, just as the progressive caucus is an election or two away from becoming the majority of house Dems, and can then pick the speaker, and then put progressive bills up for a vote as often as they want, THAT'S the time to "challenge the system" (slander the most progressive politicians going), go third party, not win a seat in 50 years, and possibly split progressive voting enough to kill those gains within the Dem party, handing the party completely back to corporate Dems, and let Republicans rule for decades. Awesome strategy to "challenge the system"!
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  10495.  @seanking1775  Nice strawman.
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  10496. And yet, Israel needed an emergency iron dome reload, under Trump. Weird.
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  10497. It goes to programs run by USAID and UNRWA. Letting Palestinians starve in refugee camps would make the PR problem even worse, I would think.
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  10498.  @LEP021085  Israel was founded on terrorism, ffs. They have no morally superior position, in that regard. The Irgun and Lehi were absorbed into the Israeli government and military, infecting their policies. PM Begin had been the leader of the Irgun when they blew up the King David Hotel. Didn't stop the US from backing them.
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  10499.  @LEP021085  Didn't Israel trying to ethnic cleanse families from East Jerusalem, Israel assaulting protesters and mosque goers, and Israel occupying the mosque, lead to this? I mean, Hamas warned them to leave the mosque area, or else, so I'm pretty sure that had something to do with it.
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  10500.  @LEP021085  Almost all adult Israelis under 40 are in the military, or are in the reserve. It's mandatory. Israeli militants, valid military targets, wandering around amongst civilians, is as much using civilians as human shields as claims that Hamas does. People use that to justify Israel bombing civilian buildings. Hamas also gave a warning. People defend Israel by claiming their warnings somehow absolve them of death and destruction. Which is it? Tough luck? That's like arguing that native Americans shouldn't have fought back against ethnic cleansing, and should have just accepted their fate. Those darn angry "savages" were flinging arrows at our poor innocent settlers, who were only colonizing native lands. Total justification for chasing them off, killing them, and trapping them on shrinking lands, until they ended up on tiny reserves. Oh, but the US government, laws, and courts, say it's okay! So, suck it up.
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  10501. ​ @Tetrahfy  ​5. There was an actual Democrat bill, put forward by Harris and Booker, to do real permanent reforms, out around the same time. Republicans didn't care for it. Trump didn't push for it.
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  10502. ​ @Tetrahfy  7. He used to spread misinformation about HIV (kissing and handshakes), vaccines (autism), Ebola, just like he did with COVID. Canada's per capita COVID dth rate is 2.5x lower than the US. That's equivalent to over 500k preventable American dths, many black. He has routinely insulted the CDC, has tried bypassing the CDC for statistics keeping, and Republicans have been trying to defund the program.
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  10503. OMG!! I've shown you twice that you're dropping the prefix a-.
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  10504. ​ @aidancoutts2341  Actual facts say that Israel is the aggressor, by every relevant measure ... Modern history: 100 years ago, in 1923, Ze'ev Jabotinsky fully acknowledged that Zionism is colonialism, and that, based on the entirety of history, that the natives would fight it until the bitter end. He just didn't care what would happen to them, and promoted doing it anyway. Colonizers are never not the aggressors. On top of the colonialist nature of Zionism, the Zionists also formed terrorist organizations, like the Irgun and Lehi. They bombed many Palestinian markets and other public places, murdering many civilians, including children, even including Palestinian Jews (who opposed Zionism). Israel merged those terrorists into the new nation's military and intelligence agencies. Israelis elected Menachem Begin, leader of the Irgun, child murderer, Jew murderer, and bomber of the King David Hotel, as PM. Israelis, to this day, celebrate those terrorists as "heroes". Zionists literally taught their neighbours that terrorism is a valid path to independence and statehood, and that terrorists are to be celebrated. In 1945, it is well documented that Zionists owned just 5% of the land and were a majority nowhere. Israel was formed by actually going against the majority population. It's foundation is completely undemocratic. Then, becoming a majority, in "your" new nation, by ethnic cleansing the actual majority, and then claiming to be democratic, is utter nonsense. Law: Israel is considered an occupier by the International Court, the UN GA, and the UN SC. Occupiers are also never not the aggressors. Those occupied actually have a right to resist occupation. On the flip side, it is illegal for the occupier to settle occupied lands, and illegal to use collective punishment. Israel is a rogue nation, that doesn't abide by international law. What it has been doing, and is doing now, is illegal. Current events: This year, alone, prior to Oct 7 ... Israel held over 1200 Palestinian hostages without charges ... over 200 Palestinians had been killed by the IDF and settlers ... over 1000 Palestinians had been displaced by Israel's neverending colonization of the West Bank ... and, Israel continued to operate an open air WWII style fascist ghetto. Even ignoring modern history and law, in no reality did Hamas "start" anything.
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  10505. If only.
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  10506. Ugh, not even going to watch. Put her on a shelf, and don't take her back off.
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  10507. The US has the second highest deaths to confirmed cases ratio in the world, indicating there are likely hundreds more carriers out there ... maybe not going in to get tested due to personal costs. You guys need to get testing covered for free, fast.
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  10508.  @secularsocialist  I'm perfectly fine "hun". I have the ability to both remain calm, and point out morons, all at the same time, so don't worry your little head, about me. Rofl. What are you blathering about? It was Dore who said he was trying to figure out what the covid death rate was, after pulling total population hospitalization rates out of a Gallup article. He was the one who chose the incorrect rate to compare. He was the one too stupid to be able to find the current incorrect rate to compare. He was the one too stupid to do the math to figure out the current incorrect rate to compare. He was the dimwit who then chose an out of date incorrect rate to compare. All along, the rate he should have been looking for was the crude mortality rate, which is also very very easy to find. Just take the very easy to find deaths per million rate and move the decimal point to the left 4 spaces, or very easy to find deaths per thousand rate a move the decimal point to the left 1 space, and you have deaths per hundred. It's also easy to do the math. There's nothing incompatible with a 0.9% total population covid hospitalization rate, and a 0.26% total population covid death rate.
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  10509. ​ @changedlife1904  Many are in Gaza, because Israel never let them return to Israel. All you're asking for is to let Israel ethnically cleanse them, and never let them return ... again.
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  10510.  @ryanhubbard1885  Yeah, it is how vaccines work. No vaccine is 100%. The measles and mumps vaccine has an efficacy of about 88%. There are dozens to thousands of measles and mumps breakthroughs every year, in the US. What keeps those outbreaks to low numbers is the fact that about 90% of the population get vaccinated against them, in large part due to public school mandates. Vaccines aren't supposed to be purely individualistic. Achieving herd immunity is part of the goal. For every added vaccinated person, that's an added line of defense that a virus needs to breakthrough. Unvaccinated people, on the other hand, provide a clear path for viruses to travel.
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  10511.  @ryanhubbard1885  Yes, we are. The vaccines don't have 0% efficacy rates, dimwit. Umm, a 1% infection fatality rate is 2x the polio paralysis rate, and 20x the polio infection fatality rate, and yet we still mandate vaccines for polio. Plus, covid is far more contagious, something you dimwits conveniently leave out of your math, when deducing how dangerous a virus is. That 1% is about 4x the fatality rate for motor vehicle accidents and ... again ... covid is far more widespread. We have an absolute ton of mandates for driving.
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  10512.  @ryanhubbard1885  You know that it's the virus, more than the vaccine, that determines the immune response, right? Some viruses produce responses that last a lifetime, some decades, some years, some months. Covid is in the later. The influenza vaccine is made the old fashioned way, but it's the flu that doesn't cause a long lasting immune response, and the number of variants reducing efficacy down to about 50%.
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  10513.  @VColossalV  Then you're bad at Googling. Podcast Transcript 5 MYTHS ABOUT ISRAEL AND THE WAR IN GAZA January 30, 2024 This is a transcript of a recorded podcast. * * * There are five myths about Israel and the war in Gaza that I would like to address.
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  10514.  @VColossalV  He dishonestly makes out like IL are the peaceful ones. They're not, at all, the colnzng, ethnic cleansing, occuprs, operating an open air ghto, like the Thrd Rch. They're the poor victims. It's the ones living in the open air ghto, that are equivalent to the Thrd Rch. "What is the alternative to violence for Israel in its current conflict with Hamas, given what Hamas did on October 7th, and given what it has vowed to do again at any opportunity? Pacifism? Pacifism only works against a morally sane adversary. It worked against the British in India. But pacifism would not have worked against the Nazis. Had the Allies decided that war is just too awful, and they just couldn’t stomach killing any more German children, we would all be living in the 1000-year Reich." Oh, and this all has absolutely nothing to do with some colnlsm policy ... and Hz and possibly Irn, will need to be dealt with similarly. "The first point is that the problem that Israel faces with Hamas, and eventually Hezbollah, and ultimately Iran, while it is existential for Israel, and dangerous and difficult in many specific ways, is a variant of a larger problem that has nothing, in principle, to do with Israel or Jews or American foreign policy."
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  10515.  @VColossalV  YouTube not liking some words here, so ditched some vowels ...  @VColossalV  He dishonestly makes out like IL are the peaceful ones. They're not, at all, the colnzng, ethnic cleansing, occuprs, operating an open air ghto, like the Thrd Rch. They're the poor victims. It's the ones living in the open air ghto, that are equivalent to the Thrd Rch. "What is the alternative to violence for Isrl in its current conflict with Hms, given what Hms did on October 7th, and given what it has vowed to do again at any opportunity? Pacifism? Pacifism only works against a morally sane adversary. It worked against the British in India. But pacifism would not have worked against the Nzs. Had the Allies decided that war is just too awful, and they just couldn’t stomach kllng any more Grmn children, we would all be living in the 1000-year Rch." Oh, and this all has absolutely nothing to do with some colnlsm policy ... and Hz and possibly Irn, will need to be dealt with similarly. "The first point is that the problem that Isrl faces with Hms, and eventually Hzbllh, and ultimately Irn, while it is existential for Isrl, and dangerous and difficult in many specific ways, is a variant of a larger problem that has nothing, in principle, to do with Isrl or Jws or American foreign policy."
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  10516.  @VColossalV  The OP was about Sam. Meh, Harris is often wrong. He's not very bright.
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  10517. Because they're the minority in the party?
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  10518. The 9/11 guys flew right into the US. None came from Canada.
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  10519.  @saikyk4822  Lol, is your goal to prove his method is moronic? Someone running around annoying people with a moronic method would fit the definition of douchebag.
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  10520.  @saikyk4822  douchebag: an obnoxious, offensive, or disgusting person That's not simply sharing his opinion, dumbass. That's trying to instigate a "debate", without giving any reasoning behind his own position, and trying to get his opposition to do most of the work. You just helped show that it's a nonsensical method, totally devoid of actual substance, that gets nowhere if both sides do it. It's most definitely obnoxious. All we need to know now, is if you know the definition of "or"? Pretty sure he has offended a number of people, as well, even getting demonitized here on YouTube, until he stopped selling homophobic merchandise.
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  10521.  @whyamimrpink78  Oh fuck, you're a complete moron. You stated, yourself, that you're on the right, dumbass. Rofl.
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  10522.  @whyispinkysoinsane7898  You're a moron who doesn't know what "our" means.
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  10523.  @whyispinkysoinsane7898  You're also a moron who doesn't know that US style Libertarianism, is far right, not moderate. https://upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/6/62/Political_Compass_yellow_LibRight.svg/1200px-Political_Compass_yellow_LibRight.svg.png
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  10524.  @gigiontube  Ummm, because they're benefiting most from all those things? If they want educated workers, that in turn make them more money than they pay the worker, then they're benefiting more from schools than the worker. If they want goods moved across the country, making them more money than the average Joe driving to work, then they're benefiting more from roads. If the US military is buying billions of dollars of their goods, then they're benefiting most from military expenses. If the US military is defending corporate interests around the globe, trade lanes, etc., then they are benefiting most from having a massive military. Etc. Etc. Etc.
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  10525.  @gigiontube  Apparently you, and many idiot corporate leaders, can't even do basic math, or only care about the short term gains vs long term sustainability. If all jobs went to $3 a day Mexicans or Haitians, or were automated, then nobody would have any money to buy anything from those stupid companies, and everything would collapse. Only a complete moron would think you could send all jobs to super cheap labour countries, and still survive. They need to sell in a market where people actually make enough money to buy their crap and make them a profit. So, no, they don't simply need workers. They also need people with money, who can afford their goods. They need a safe environment to sell their goods in. They need a decent infrastructure. Surely, if you used your brain, you'd see they aren't making their billions off of Haitian consumers. Some companies use $3 a day Haitians to cut costs, but do they sell all their goods to those Haitians? Of course not! It would be moronic to think that was feasible. No, they bring their product to the US to sell. So, even, those shit corporate leaders, like Trump, who outsource their labour, still bring the goods to the US to sell, and still benefit the most from doing business there. Oh Jesus, the economy has been trending for the better, since 2009. It was a global financial crisis, you dumb twit. Russia is trending better since 2009. The UK is trending better since 2009. Etc. Etc. Trump must be magic. He made things better around the world and before he was president. Amazing! Taxes aren't theft you stupid twatwaffle. That just shows you're a moron who doesn't know the definition of, at least, one of those words.
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  10526.  @gigiontube  What a load of crap. It is not "communist" countries. A country like Denmark (a centrist country) doesn't even need the government to interfere with minimum wage. It is 70-80% unionized. It has a higher freedom rating. It is regularly listed as one of the best places in the world to live. It has a higher life expectancy. It provides high quality public services, but capitalism still thrives just fine. Both the US government and corporate leaders have been fighting against union participation in the US. It has gone from 40% unionized in the early 50s, to only 10% unionized. The top marginal tax rate has gone from about 90% to about 35% over that same period. When you idiots want to make America great again, what time period are you looking at exactly? Definitely not the 50s middle class boom, because you're against everything going on then. As taxes for the wealthy have gone down, as union participation has gone down, as wages have stagnated, the income disparity has gone up. The money has been funneling more and more to the top. The US has Gilded Age level income disparity, now. The Gilded Age was followed by a massive depression. There is only so much pie. It is unsustainable and will also crash. Again, taxes aren't theft you dimwit. By definition, they aren't.
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  10527.  @gigiontube  BTW, I'm Canadian you daft twit. I'm already in a country with less income disparity and public health care, and where the moron who can lose hundreds of millions a year is not my president.
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  10528.  @mikeytobago  If you compare, what you'll see is that it was already trending up, pre-Trump ... since 2009. https://www.macrotrends.net/1319/dow-jones-100-year-historical-chart
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  10529. Which of those two are Alaskans?
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  10530. I know what Atheos means. Now get to adding the -ism to the root word, without deconstructing the root word.
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  10531. The problem there is of you need medical assistance outside the state you're in. If your state has negated many costs, negotiated down drug prices, etc., then the taxes will be set for coverage at those state prices. They won't want to cover you, if you're visiting a state that is still using private coverage, and still has much higher costs. Another problem is that poorer states will have poorer healthcare. Costs are split between federal and provincial, here in Canada, and it's poorer provinces that drag down some of our healthcare stats.
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  10532. His 2016 answer made no sense either. Over 90% of illegal substances come through points of entry, and over 80% of those transporting them are American. It has always just been rcst vomit.
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  10533. Putin wrote an essay, claiming Ukraine should belong to Russia, and put it online. Russia has been d*cking around in former SSRs since 1991. Who needs the state department, to know that?
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  10534. I don't think it's a bad word. But, I think it worked fine as an -ism, to define a group of believers (strong Atheists). And, since every other kind of A-theist, is a non-believer due to lack of enough evidence to force belief, I think the label Agnostic worked fine. Redefining the words has only led to more confusion, in my opinion. Plus, many A-theists tend to throw Agnostics under the bus, when they don''t even seem to know the real definition, for which there is primary source material.
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  10535.  @josephrobinetteobidenjr.2971  That's stupid. Did Reagan bring in immigrants to vote Democrat?
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  10536. You're the answer to your own question.
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  10537.  @sumerbc7409  You're probably just one of those nuts that has gone so far right that FOX and Reagan are too left for you now.
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  10538.  @clearwater3432  Bahaha, sorry, I didn't last even a minute, with all the ridiculous wording. You, clearly, watch some insane shit.
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  10539.  @clearwater3432  Derp. https://www.businessinsider.com/right-wing-extremists-kill-329-since-1994-antifa-killed-none-2020-7 https://www.theguardian.com/world/2020/oct/22/white-supremacists-rightwing-domestic-terror-2020
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  10540.  @clearwater3432  Rofl, so CSIS, run by a Republican, is spreading fake data about far right extremism?
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  10541.  @clearwater3432  Dimwit, Trump is the only one, of the two candidates, that has actual verified ties to China.
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  10542.  @clearwater3432  Lol, why do you trust a proven conman? Trump's trade war drives some auto jobs to China https://www.nbcnews.com/business/autos/trump-s-trade-war-drives-some-auto-jobs-china-n1237865 Donald Trump maintained a stake in Trump Tower when he became president, and with it, a financial connection to the Chinese government. https://www.forbes.com/sites/danalexander/2020/10/23/forbes-estimates-china-paid-trump-at-least-54-million-since-he-took-office-via-mysterious-trump-tower-lease/?sh=104444dced11 Woman With Chinese Government Connections Bought Jared And Ivanka’s Penthouse https://www.forbes.com/sites/chasewithorn/2019/01/17/woman-with-chinese-government-connections-bought-jared-and-ivankas-penthouse/ Trump Maintains Secret Bank Account In China, Withdrew $15 Million Mysteriously In 2017 https://www.msn.com/en-us/money/companies/trump-maintains-secret-bank-account-in-china-withdrew-dollar15-million-mysteriously-in-2017/ar-BB1agnK4
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  10543.  @clearwater3432  Geezus, you are batshit crazy. Rofl
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  10544.  @clearwater3432  Lol, Forbes is also run by Republicans, ya nutjob.
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  10545.  @clearwater3432  What are you even talking about? Trump hasn't advocated clearing out any Republicans from the House or Senate. They're all still there. And, he packed his administration with all kinds of old Republicans, and has one as his running mate. You are clearly deranged. You apparently buy whatever bullshit you're spoonfed, even when reality is staring you straight in the face.
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  10546.  @clearwater3432  Rofl. And yet you didn't notice that most of Trump's administration has been around for all of that 20 years. Your "superhero" didn't purge the Republican party, in the least. You're a sucker for a grifter.
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  10547.  @clearwater3432  He has dropped more bombs than Obama. He didn't end the endless wars. You clearly rambled, above, about "superhero" Trump cleaning out the Republican party, when he has done nothing of the sort. That, alone, makes you delusional.
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  10548.  @clearwater3432  Biden's son isn't going to have a place in the administration, unlike Trump's nepotism. Unlike Trump, 22 years of Biden tax returns show zero income from China, Ukraine, or anything sketchy. All irrelevant to the fact that you delusionally claimed "superhero" Trump was purging the Republican party, when he did nothing of the sort. He's got people in his administration that have been around since Reagan and Bush Sr, let alone been around the past 20 years.
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  10549.  @clearwater3432  Bannon was salivating over Biden releasing his tax returns. Nothing was found, by even your most extreme wingnuts, who now want to chop off people's heads. 34 people were charged, including multiple Russians, after the 2016 election, dumb dumb. You're the delusional one arguing with reality.
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  10550.  @clearwater3432  That was incoherent. A "mob" is, literally, taking action.
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  10551. Child labor doesn't exactly equate to teen labor. It is already legal for teens to work. If you're asking for child labor to be legalized, then you're asking for little kids to work. And them implying kids would get a better education from having a job than going to school, doesn't even compare to simply doing some community service.
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  10552. ​ @jds614  When the Powhatan Confederacy massacred colonists of Jamestown, in 1622, were they "terrorists" in a vacuum? What led up to that? Colonization, a previous massacre on the natives by the settlers of Jamestown, raids against the natives for resources, ... You might want to ask yourself what was happening prior to Oct 7.
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  10553.  @jlassonful  What a load of crap. Israel is objectively the aggressor, by every relevant measure ... Modern history: 100 years ago, in 1923, Ze'ev Jabotinsky fully acknowledged that Zionism is colonialism, and that, based on the entirety of history, the natives would fight it until the bitter end. He just didn't care what would happen to them, and promoted doing it anyway. Colonizers are never not the aggressors. On top of the colonialist nature of Zionism, the Zionists also formed terrorist organizations, like the Irgun and Lehi. They bombed many Palestinian markets and other public places, murdering many civilians, including children, even including Palestinian Jews (who opposed Zionism). Israel merged those terrorists into the new nation's military and intelligence agencies. Israelis elected Menachem Begin, leader of the Irgun, child murderer, Jew murderer, and bomber of the King David Hotel, as PM. Israelis, to this day, celebrate those terrorists as "heroes". Zionists literally taught their neighbours that terrorism is a valid path to independence and statehood, and that terrorists are to be celebrated. In 1945, it is well documented that Zionists owned just 5% of the land and were a majority nowhere. Israel was formed by actually going against the majority population. It's foundation is completely undemocratic. Then, becoming a majority, in "their" new nation, by ethnic cleansing the actual majority, and then claiming to be democratic, is utter nonsense. Law: Israel is considered an occupier by the International Court, the UN GA, and the UN SC. Occupiers are also never not the aggressors. Those occupied actually have a right to resist occupation. On the flip side, it is illegal for the occupier to settle occupied lands, and illegal to use collective punishment. Israel is a rogue nation, that doesn't abide by international law. What it has been doing, and is doing now, is illegal. Current events: This year, alone, prior to Oct 7 ... Israel held over 1200 Palestinian hostages without charges ... over 200 Palestinians had been killed by the IDF and settlers ... over 1000 Palestinians had been displaced by Israel's neverending colonization of the West Bank ... and, Israel continued to operate an open air WWII style fascist ghetto, in Gaza. Even ignoring modern history and law, in no reality did Hamas "start" anything.
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  10554. Gee, Brain, what do you want to do tonight? The same thing we do every night, Pinky - try to take over the world!
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  10555. Trump let Iraq pay its electric bill, to Iran, as well. The very thing they're crying about Biden doing. "US grants Iraq 90-day extension to Iran sanctions waiver: source Dec 20, 2018" "Trump grants Iraq a new 90-day sanctions waiver to buy Iranian energy: Source Mar 19, 2019" "US extends Iraq's sanctions waiver to import Iranian power for 120 days to help ... May 7, 2020"
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  10556.  @dylanbutts1628  Think you mistakenly tagged me.
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  10557. Television and radio have had to register, and have even had to have licenses, for decades. How is asking for major streamers to register somehow closer to Orwell? It was actually Zuck and Musk who banned Canadian news, because they refused to share profits from said content.
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  10558. Christians don't like James. He also said that Gentiles should initially be taught the basic Noahide laws (including dietary restrictions), and that they'd learn the rest of the laws from street preachers, and in temples, at a time when there was no book of the New Testament, so what they'd be learning is Jewish laws. Generations of Jewish Christian leaders in Jerusalem stuck to Jewish laws, until Roman Catholics came and ousted them. Early Jewish Christians also didn't seem to believe Jesus was God, and some even considered Paul a false prophet. Also, where you'd expect to find the earliest versions of Gentile Christianity (places like Antioch), they leaned more towards Arianism, which also didn't believe Jesus was God. Catholics gave them the standard options of conversion, death, or exile. Rome conquered Christianity, and transformed it into what it wanted, rather than the other way around. They started the arguments for "just" wars, as well as justifying private property ownership and wealth accumulation.
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  10559. She was born in NYC, moron.
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  10560. ​ @47_the_boss "Impersonating a public officer, forgery in the first degree, filing false documents and attempt to commit this, and false statements and writings in documents. These charges relate to fake electors purporting to be true electors and creating and distributing two false documents: the certificate of ascertainment and its cover letter. There is also one charge for a filing in the federal case Trump v. Kemp. Fake electors and the federal case filers were charged with the underlying crimes, while others were charged with conspiracy to commit them."
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  10561. ​ @47_the_boss  Fake electors, dumb dumb.
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  10562. "Fascism is the complete opposite of Marxian socialism." ~ Mussolini Make up your stupid MAGA minds. Pick one. Can't be both.
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  10563.  @NStarks007  Ironically, they seem to be very bad at math.
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  10564.  @nicholi8208  Moron. You're arguing against the EU Taxation and Customs Union, which I linked to, representing 28 countries. Want to argue with Canada, too? "The GST takes into account the cost of inputs – the factors used in manufacturing or production – at each stage of the process to avoid double taxation. Input tax credits enable partnerships, businesses and self-employed workers to recover all GST paid on goods and services purchased for business purposes by deducting them from their GST payments. Final consumers are not entitled to such credits, which means that they pay all the GST on every item purchased. The GST is thus a multi-stage tax on final consumption." http://publications.gc.ca/Collection-R/LoPBdP/BP/prb0003-e.htm#A.%20Taxing%20Mechanism(txt)
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  10565.  @nicholi8208  You realize that if someone is clueless or lying, it doesn't matter how many videos they put out, right? Yang's own linked pass through rate study debunks his bullshit. It finds a 100% pass through on standard rated goods and services. He either didn't read it, didn't understand it, or is a liar.
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  10566. He's talking to a bunch of morons, who are also clueless that the Southern racists left the Democrat party and instead voted third party, in 1968, for a racist segregationist, winning 5 states, before being won over by Nixon, in 1972. They instead think the most racist states in America, for centuries, magically became the least racist states. They're dumber than stumps, or Trumps.
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  10567. ​ @tallspicy  Critical reasoning should tell you that ethnic cleansing is genocide, if the natives don't move, because if they don't move, they get killed. Bezalel Smotrich, the guy Netanyahu put in charge of the West Bank, is a terrorist, homophobe, racist, and lunatic, who made public a plan to segregate and subjugate (no federal representation), exile, or kill, any non Jews in all Israel/Palestine.
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  10568.  @A_Derpy_NINJA  Canadian opinion of the US just went from 34% under Trump to 51% under Biden, but hey the "Butcher of Grozny" got upset at being called a "killer".
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  10569. Seriously, Facebook isn't a public square. It's also not a public accomodation. It's a private service. They can ban anyone they want for whatever reason they want.
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  10570. Rofl. Are you under the delusion that "hero" Manchin, or Republicans, want a more progressive nomination?
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  10571. But, Yang's VAT/UBI scheme won't have corporations paying into their communities. A VAT is specifically designed to NOT tax businesses in order to avoid double taxation. It's a sales tax collected in stages with all the business stages getting paid back their input VAT. A VAT won't have corporations "paying their fair share" in taxes. A VAT won't have corporations paying you for your data. A VAT won't have corporations paying you to show you ads. A VAT won't have corporations paying you for every automated truck mile. A VAT will do the opposite ... make consumers pay a tax on their own data, pay a tax to be shown ads, and pay a tax on the automation taking their jobs. A corporation like Amazon won't pay into the dividend and only get the benefit of the dividend being spent. Amazon would make an extra $60b a year from $3t in increased consumer spending. https://ec.europa.eu/taxation_customs/business/vat/what-is-vat_en
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  10572. That he does. He thinks all the Jews should go there, and that America should mimic their ethno-state, only for white Christians.
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  10573.  @myt1soo320  Boy, you sure spouted a bunch of bullshit. No, corporations don't pay taxes through a VAT. Canada had healthcare before we had a VAT, and a VAT is only about 10% of our federal revenue. Our federal and provincial governments also share healthcare costs, so it's not funding much of our healthcare. Also, a private option is different from a public option, dumb dumb. We definitely don't have a public option.
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  10574.  @myt1soo320  You idiots keep tossing around the word "luxury". A VAT is zero rated by the type of product not the cost of a product. If you buy a shitbox used car from a dealer you pay a VAT, just like someone buying a new Porsche. If your shitbox car breaks down you pay the mechanic a VAT, just like when the Porsche breaks down. If you buy a Big Mac you pay a VAT, just like someone eating at a fancy restaurant. If you buy a plastic watch you pay a VAT, just like someone buying a Rolex. If you buy a shit flip phone you pay a VAT, just like someone buying a top of the line iPhone. If you have a dinky little house you pay a VAT on utilities, just like someone living in a mansion. If you have plumbing issues you pay a VAT, just like someone living in a mansion. If you buy crappy fake Lego for your kid you pay a VAT, just like someone buying a giant real Lego set. If you go to cheap movie night you pay a VAT, just like someone going to a theatre production. Etc. Poor people would have to sit in the dark, without heat, without communication, counting stars for fun, to totally avoid a VAT.
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  10575.  @ravenmusic6392  High testing rates, high levels of compliance with masking and other covid measures, and high vaccination rates, are all connected to countries having lower hospitalization and death rates. If a large percentage of your population are morons, who refuse to wear masks or get vaccinated, then they're the ones leaving you with few other options. Morons shouldn't be the ones dictating how things are going to go. Singapore's decision, to make the unvaccinated pay for all their healthcare costs, might be worth a try.
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  10576.  @ravenmusic6392  The UK has about 70% of the population vaccinated. All the Nordic countries are higher, including do nothing Sweden. France, Italy, Ireland, Portugal, Germany, and Spain, are all higher. Plus, a third of the UK's vaccinations are AZ, which is only 70% effective at the start. That's significantly different than a country having almost everyone vaccinated with a 95% efficacy vaccine.
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  10577.  @ravenmusic6392  The US is at 62.7%, and the UK at 70.99%, according to John Hopkins and the Google tracker. If being 9 points ahead is "significant", then writing off a point as completely insignificant, is kinda bullshit. Sweden 71.76%, Norway 73.29%, Finland 74.96%, Denmark 78.78% ... Ummm, yeah, being 95% effective, vs 75% effective, against alpha, is significant. Being 88% effective, vs 68%, against delta, is significant. It means AZ has been having over 2x more breakthrough cases.
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  10578.  @ravenmusic6392  Pretty sure it was you who conceded that other European countries used "horrendous mandates" to effectively achieve a higher vaccination rate than the UK.
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  10579. Pressure the ones not signing onto the bill. Pressure the ones on committees not taking up the bill. "Pressuring" (slandering) the ones that are actively trying to increase the number of M4A yes votes in congress, is moronic.
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  10580.  @ajr993  The evidence is that Israel handed out tons and tons of abandoned Palestinian property, and there's no right of return law for them to reclaim their pre-1948 property. Jordan handed out a tiny amount of abandoned Jewish property, which is still in occupied territory (those neighborhoods don't even rightfully belong to Israel), but Israel made a racist Jewish citizens only right of return law, allowing them to reclaim property they owned pre-1948. Not only is it a racist law, it breaks international law by colonizing occupied territories. And, no, it's not about rent. It's about property ownership. The Israeli settlers don't want rent, and never did.
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  10581. What are you idjits above on about? AOC and two fellow NY progressives back formal plea for ceasefire in Gaza Oct 16, 2023 18 House Democrats sign resolution for Mideast de-escalation, ceasefire Oct 23, 2023 — Cori Bush (D-Mo.). Bush's fellow “Squad” members Reps. Rashida Tlaib (D-Mich.), Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez (D-N.Y.) Democrats Like Rashida Tlaib, AOC Split With Biden Over Israel Ceasefire Calls Oct 31, 2023 AOC leads Democrats urging Biden to call for Gaza ceasefire over children's rights Nov 15, 2023 AOC calls Biden administration 'shameful' for blocking United Nations demand for a ... Dec 11, 2023 Aoc ceasefire | keeping it reel - NewsBreak Original Jan 17, 2024 Hour 1: AOC Calls for Ceasefire from Israel - The Marc Cox Morning Show Podcast Feb 8, 2024 AOC suggests cutting off aid to Israel after U.S. vetoes ceasefire resolution Feb 22, 2024 AOC and Other Democrats Urge Biden to Call for a Ceasefire at the State of the ... Mar 1, 2024
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  10582. ​ @flerfsarementallyhandicap  You know that Bibi controls the flow of money from Qatar, right? He promoted Hamas over the Palestinian Authority, to weaken the PA, in Gaza, and avoid possible peace, so he could continue his colonization projects.
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  10583. ​ @christiankaitshepard7496  You don't know he has been charged with crimes, dumb dumb?
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  10584. What is it they're afraid is going to happen, if you admit your country went through a shameful period, or committed some shameful acts? Do they just not want to admit some things were wrong to leave open the option of doing them again?
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  10585.  @RAGINGXBULL2  You're the one arguing against reality. Customs and border protection numbers in link above.
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  10586. Rofl, the government telling a private company what to do, is freedom of speech? How so?
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  10587.  @MrClassicmetal  What are you talking about? A private company can't dump on free speech, dummy. That's impossible.
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  10588. How is an editor suggesting edits and verifying authenticity, "censorship"? Even if a news outlet decides not to cover a story, that's still not "censorship". Not covering the NY Post's numerous Bigfoot and UFO articles, doesn't equate to "censorship". Why are you spouting nonsense, Jimmy?
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  10589.  @yoxat1  Something is either "censorship", or not, and a news outlet picking which stories it wants to run, or not run, all on their own, isn't. If the authorities were making them not run a story, that would be.
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  10590.  @l.w.paradis2108  No clue what you're on about. Still not censorship, by the sounds of it.
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  10591.  @l.w.paradis2108  I don't have to read what's on your poster, to know that me not letting you stick it up in my store window isn't censorship. To call it such, is nonsense. I highly doubt a writer has a contract saying they can write whatever the hell they want, whenever they want, and it'll 100% be printed every time, without any editorial input. Even if such a thing existed, breach of contract also doesn't equate to censorship. If we had a contract for you to paint a mural on my wall, and I changed my mind, because I didn't like your sketches, it may be a breach of contract, but that's also not censorship. Not letting an Armageddon preacher come into my restaurant and scream at my customers isn't censorship.
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  10592.  @l.w.paradis2108  You're arguing for the word to be pretty much meaningless. Everytime someone decides not to tell their boss, or a customer, or a spouse, or a child, to f*ck off ... censorship! Ok, then so what? You've now argued that censorship can be a good thing in many situations. So, every single time a news agency decides not to run a story, that's "censorship", and it is "censorship" if actual news outlets don't pick up every tabloid article in existence. Then, so what? You seem to be trying to convince me not to give a crap about "censorship".
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  10593.  @l.w.paradis2108  Again, it doesn't matter what it says, the action of not running a story, which happens all the time, isn't "censorship".
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  10594.  @l.w.paradis2108  What did I lie about? You argued "censorship" was a broad concept, going beyond the authorities silencing you, and covers everything from "self-censorship" to "censorship in violation of a private contract", as well. So, everytime someone decides not to say something that might hurt someone else, that's "censorship". That makes it a good thing, in many cases. Ok, Greenwald was "censored", using a broad concept. So what? It's you that doesn't seem to have read what I said about even if a contract did say that, because you keep going on about the contract. Again, if I sign a contract with you, giving you full artistic license, to paint a mural on the side of my building, but then I decide I don't like your draft sketches and ask you to alter them in some way, that's not censorship. It may be a breach of contract, but me deciding what goes on the wall I own, or what doesn't, is my freedom.
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  10595.  @l.w.paradis2108  How is "artistic license" different from Greenwald claiming he had "editorial freedom"? Greenwald has called what happened "censorship", but where has he said the word is in his contract? Not in his explanation for quitting.
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  10596.  @l.w.paradis2108  Rofl, I can read just fine. You say that, but don't give specifics. You skipped pointing out exactly where I supposedly lied, too. Should we ditch all editors for spellcheck, then? Has every news article, since the dawn of printing news, that had an editor tell a writer to change something, been "censored"? That sounds nonsensical, and sounds like you don't seem to understand the role of editors. You're the one attacking the press for freely choosing not to run a story, as is.
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  10597.  @l.w.paradis2108  Hey, you don't have to tell me twice. In fact, I had accepted you were slow, long before you mentioned it the first time, so you didn't even have to tell me once. As Greenwald posts his story on the internet, for the whole world to see, while whining about being "censored", maybe the two of you can get together and cry about all the meanie editors, throughout history.
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  10598.  @l.w.paradis2108  Why would I use a different word than "meanie", when that describes your argument against editors, just perfectly?
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  10599.  @l.w.paradis2108  Rofl, I'm not a right winger, dumb dumb. Not even close. Do you have a multiple personality disorder, or something?
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  10600.  @l.w.paradis2108  Lol, it's funny that, no matter how many people are in that head of yours, they all have to be under a certain level of intelligence. I mean, for all of you to decide that it was good idea to fall back on not knowing that the word "snowflake" is generally used by people of a specific political leaning, is kind of self defeating.
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  10601.  @valkondarvalakev6377  Dore knobs aren't "leftists".
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  10602.  @valkondarvalakev6377  Anyone who is ftv is promoting a dimwitted Dore "plan". You're the kind of "leftists" who wind up on the wrong end of a Night of the Long Knives, after you help your right wing extremist "allies" topple the government.
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  10603. Yeah. They don't seem to get that, if they insist that Zionism = Judaism, then they're insisting that being anti-Judaism is a good thing, because being anti-Zionism is a good thing.
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  10604. ​ @hermanmunster714  Republicans make no sense. If there's no room for asylum seekers, then why aren't you opposed to all immigration, and why do you want hundreds of thousands of more babies per year?
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  10605. Trump ended zero wars, and dropped more bombs per year than Obama, dumb dumb. He almost started a war with Iran. He incited an insurrection. And, he's working on a new civil war in the US.
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  10606.  @XaiNYt  I'll say what I want. And why the hell would you suggest typing more f*cking words? That's stupid.
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  10607.  @XaiNYt  Did you reply again, dumb dumb? Got a notification but not seeing it.
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  10608. How UBI is implemented matters. Yang's previous UBI/VAT combo would have had money funneling to the very top faster than ever before. His new party doesn't even have UBI on their platform.
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  10609.  @Goddess_Worship  I wasn't talking about $1000, dumb dumb. A VAT doesn't actually tax corporations, as Yang dishonestly stated. They wouldn't pay into the ubi and would only gain the benefits of the ubi being spent. Based on market share, instead of paying taxes, Amazon would make extra tens of billions a year, which would make Bezos extra billions a year. Reaganomics 2.0.
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  10610. The host was wrong. It affects the primaries. Trump would be handing electoral votes to his primary challenger.
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  10611. ​ @ThePoliticalBulldog  Dimwit. Likud platform ... 1977: "The Right of the Jewish People to the Land of Israel (Eretz Israel) a. The right of the Jewish people to the land of Israel is eternal and indisputable and is linked with the right to security and peace; therefore, Judea and Samaria will not be handed to any foreign administration; between the Sea and the Jordan there will only be Israeli sovereignty. b. A plan which relinquishes parts of western Eretz Israel, undermines our right to the country, unavoidably leads to the establishment of a "Palestinian State," jeopardizes the security of the Jewish population, endangers the existence of the State of Israel. and frustrates any prospect of peace." "Settlement Settlement. both urban and rural. in all parts of the Land of Israel is the focal point of the Zionist effort to redeem the country, to maintain vital security areas and serves as a reservoir of strength and inspiration for the renewal of the pioneering spirit. The Likud government will call on the younger generation in Israel and the dispersions to settle and help every group and individual in the task of inhabiting and cultivating the wasteland, while taking care not to dispossess anyone." 1999: "The Government of Israel flatly rejects the establishment of a Palestinian Arab state west of the Jordan river. The Palestinians can run their lives freely in the framework of self-rule, but not as an independent and sovereign state. Thus, for example, in matters of foreign affairs, security, immigration, and ecology, their activity shall be limited in accordance with imperatives of Israel's existence, security and national needs." "The Jewish communities in Judea, Samaria, and Gaza are the realization of Zionist values. Settlement of the land is a clear expression of the unassailable right of the Jewish people to the Land of Israel and constitutes an important asset in the defense of the vital interests of the State of Israel. The Likud will continue to strengthen and develop these communities and will prevent their uprooting."
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  10612. ​ @c.f.okonta8815  Elections are just math. If Republicans don't ditch Trump, then everyone who ditches Biden will help Dumpty win.
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  10613.  @johntruxal432  Uh huh. And does that change the fact that the majority of Dems were for it, that the Democratic president was for it, or that some Republicans were against it? No. So, to make out like the Democratic party was 100% racist and the Republican party was 100% anti-racist, until the 1990s, is pure bullshit. The same racist voters were migrating to a different party. Just like millions of black Americans migrated both in geography and party. Overturned what? The majority of Democratic members in the senate also voted for it, just like the house, and some Republicans voted against it, just like the house.
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  10614.  @iamthatiam4496  You still seem to be thinking with a winner take all mentality. Every vote would count everywhere. If politicians totally ignored small states, and lost too many small state voters, then they could still lose. They'd have to fight for every vote everywhere. It's the electoral college that gives a dozen swing states the power to decide who the president is for everyone else, and allows politicians to ignore more solid states. Winner take all by state also doesn't just disenfranchise voters in larger states, it disenfranchises the losing voters in small states. Their votes for president don't end up counting. The electoral college also rewards complacency. More people voted in NH (744k, 72% voter turnout), in 2016, than in WV (714k, 50% voter turnout) but the electoral college rewarded them each their predetermined number of electoral votes, giving WV one more electoral college vote than NH. The extra smaller state voters were disenfranchised. The electoral college has only given a different result than the popular vote 5 times, only 2 times in the past 100 years. What horrors do you think will befall smaller states if it went to popular vote? What's a really good reason to disenfranchise millions of voters across the US, in both large and small states?
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  10615. ​ @deadgolfer6345  If you don't get it, because you're vaccinated, then you've stopped it spreading to you, and then people you come in contact with, dumb dumb.
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  10616.  @adotjon78  If you don't get it, you don't spread it, dumb dumb. You'd have to falsely believe the vaccines have a 0% efficacy to believe they don't reduce spread.
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  10617.  @hakanpetersson2662  No, it didn't, because the Bedouin were counted separately. Which means you lie. "The total Bedouin population was estimated at approximately 127,000; only 22,000 of them normally resident in the Arab state under the UNSCOP majority plan." "estimates must, however, be corrected in the light of the information furnished to the Sub-Committee by the representative of the United Kingdom regarding the Bedouin population. According to the statement, 22,000 Bedouins may be taken as normally residing in the areas allocated to the Arab State under the UNSCOP's majority plan, and the balance of 105,000 as resident in the proposed Jewish State. It will thus be seen that the proposed Jewish State will contain a total population of 1,008,800, consisting of 509,780 Arabs and 499,020 Jews. In other words, at the outset, the Arabs will have a majority in the proposed Jewish State."
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  10618. Was the question mountain lion, or lion? And how big was that one? I'm imagining the biggest, strongest, version of each animal for these cage fights. Female cougars are in the large dog size range. A large male SA lion can get up to almost 500 lbs. Nobody is going to beat a large male lion.
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  10619.  @routineforputin1720  You appear to have severe reading comprehension problems. Exactly the opposite, is what I implied. The lack of unions allows for low wages, dumb dumb.
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  10620. *The Kansas Flu
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  10621. ​ @LD86  Nazis didn't live inside the Warsaw ghetto, dimwit. There's a difference between being occupied and being colonized. Sure, Israel pulled out its Gaza colony, but they didn't stop occupying it. They control the borders, airspace, ports, electricity, water, etc.
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  10622. Except those idiots believe FOX.
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  10623.  @annalisemaya8464  For example?
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  10624.  @annalisemaya8464  What do Spaniards have to do with "the left", and how are they crazy?
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  10625. No, not really. You seem to have some comprehension problems.
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  10626. Trump, expecting it to be called on election night, rather than a December certified result, was looking for an AP call himself.
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  10627.  @bigdaddynero  Oh, you're not very bright.
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  10628.  @bigdaddynero  You've already objectively proved otherwise.
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  10629.  @bigdaddynero  But, I do.
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  10630.  Super JLK  I've seen the video of a dozen cops lining up like a firing squad and killing a kid with a knife who wasn't even swinging it around or anything.
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  10631.  Super JLK  You said it was ridiculous that UK cops held machete guy off, while more backup arrived, and then held him off for riot shields to arrive, and then took him in alive. How is that not saying it's ridiculous to put extra effort into bringing someone in alive?
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  10632.  Super JLK  A lot of UK cops just have batons and pepper spray. https://www.cnn.com/videos/world/2015/07/31/man-knife-attacks-cops-uk-orig.cnn
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  10633. And the wall Trump added to the White House, because even a fence wasn't enough?
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  10634. Republicans in the house can't even pass a budget.
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  10635. ​ @chriswilliamson806  Just a fact that he, and his pops, were taken to court multiple times for not renting to blk Americans. Just a fact that he used to pretend that he and MAGA weren't rcsts, and only opposed "illegal" entrants, but are now screaming about legal entrant blk Haitians. Just a fact that they repeatedly targeted predominantly blk districts, with their 2020 denial, trying to redo Jm Crw. Just a fact that he called for BLM (protesting to end popo vlnc) to be categorized as trrrsts, but thinks his predominantly wt J6ers (insrrctnsts) are martyrs.
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  10636. You know the US revolution was over representation, right? Lying to people, for over a month (years now), that their representation was stolen, is inciting rhetoric.
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  10637. 😂 You lot don't even know that Reagan deregulated domestic oil prices way back in 1981. Trump's "energy independence" is irrelevant to the price, since domestic sells at the same price as foreign. The global market price dropped in 2014, before Trump, and was on its way back up, under Trump, until COVID hit.
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  10638. You lot don't even seem to know the inflation rate is back below the 50 year average. If you want actual deflation, that only happens during a major recession or depression. Is that what Trump will bring?
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  10639.  @mattbebe2555  No, it has a 1% infection fatality rate, in developed countries. Including countries with a life expectancy of 55, to determine how deadly it will be to Americans, is moronic. That 1% is 2x the polio paralysis rate, 20x the polio infection fatality rate, plus it is far more contagious. That 1% is 4x the automobile accident fatality rate and, again, far more widespread. Making out like 1% is insignificant, especially with something so contagious, is also moronic.
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  10640.  @leviashanken2506  The report of Assistant Inspector-General Richard Catling of the British Palestinian Police Force. You're good with the rest they did ... bombing Palestinian public places ... murdering women, children, and Palestinian Jews?
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  10641. Every one of them, that supports Likud, should be censured. Likud was founded by Menachem Begin, leader of the Irgun terrorist group, murderer of civilian Palestinian men, women, and children, murderer of Palestinian Jews (who didn't support Zionism), and bomber of the King David Hotel. Israelis elected that terrorist as their PM. Israelis still celebrate those terrorists, as "heroes", to this day. Likud was also founded by Ariel Sharon, war criminal, who massacred Palestinian villages. Likud's original platform, "between the sea and the Jordan" ... "The Right of the Jewish People to the Land of Israel (Eretz Israel) a. The right of the Jewish people to the land of Israel is eternal and indisputable and is linked with the right to security and peace; therefore, Judea and Samaria will not be handed to any foreign administration; between the Sea and the Jordan there will only be Israeli sovereignty." There is zero indication that Likud, Netanyahu, isn't still working towards that goal, with the endless colonization of Palestine territories.
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  10642. Hrrrm, pretty sure movies play internationally, these days.
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  10643.  @ericw9702  The police were in sight of the first shooting, were they, and did nothing to either apprehend the shooter, or stop people from chasing him? That's news.
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  10644.  @andyjackson3414  The military, in general, doesn't like pulling out without a victory. It makes soldiers wonder what the point of it all was, what did some of them die for, what were they killing people for, etc. They don't want soldiers asking those kinds of questions.
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  10645.  @andyjackson3414  The US is in Afghanistan because of 9/11. There was a better reason to be there, than in Iraq. Rumsfeld included taking down the Taliban, and supporting other groups to fill in the power vacuum, when he first talked about the long term goals of OEF. My point was that, whoever a military leader may, or may not, vote for, is likely irrelevant. They don't like pulling out, in general. And, Trump hasn't pulled out. He is dropping more bombs than ever. Why does anyone still believe things he says?
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  10646.  @sodeiku  The UBI will be closer to $3t and Yang doesn't have a third of it paid for, out of the gate. It starts with about a $1t deficit. He's also wrong about a VAT taxing corporations. It's built right in that registered businesses get paid back for any of thei input VAT. These giant international tech companies are already operating in countries with a VAT, and their customers are the ones that pay it, not them.
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  10647.  @sodeiku  He hasn't really done all the math, because his projections for paying for it haven't changed with other changes he has made. One third is supposed to be paid with the VAT. His initial VAT revenue projection was based on the entire economy. Now he has moved to exempting staples, but hasn't amended what he'd have to tax at a higher rate than 10% to compensate, or lowered the projected amount. One third is supposed to be paid for by cutting other government services. His original projection, for this, was based on cutting all of them. Now he has the UBI stacking with SS, SSDI, and VA. Again, he hasn't amended his revenue projection. He also hasn't addressed how many government jobs he'd ironically be automating away, with an automated direct deposit for all. The last third is supposed to be paid for by an expanding economy. This third doesn't have initial funding. It totally depends on people using their UBI in ways that will increase federal revenues.
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  10648.  @donmab  There's a difference between passing costs along and having it built right in that they get paid back for any input VAT, dumbass. 10% corporate tax: company buys a product for $100; company sells a product for $200; company gets $90, government gets $10, consumer paid $200 10% VAT: company buys product for $100 + $10 VAT; company sells product for $200 + $20 VAT; company gets $100, government gets $20, consumer paid $220 Even if a company wanted to get $100, with a 10% corporate tax: company buys a product for $100; company sells the product for $211; company gets $100, government gets $11, and customer paid $211 A VAT taxes consumers more. Plus, many of the developed countries using a VAT do have corporations and the rich paying in in other ways, like with higher taxes on the rich, having higher wages, taxing stock trades, having companies pay for retraining, etc. ... and then they tax the better paid consumers, after. A VAT doesn't have corporations paying in, at all, as Yang pretends.
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  10649. Pretty sure a female "pickup artist" could use a much smaller "bag of tricks", to get men to sleep with her. Probably wouldn't even have to "trick" the majority of them into bed.
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  10650. Ironically, it would be the "god" she worships that would be the leading abortionist in existence, if it existed.
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  10651.  @dantheman669  There's a reason mainstream media, like Tucker, is called "mainstream".
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  10652. Well, Republicans get their history from statues, so ...
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  10653.  @TheIsraelProphetess  Palestinians have Canaanite DNA. They are Arab and Muslim the same way indigenous peoples of Central America are now Hispanic and Catholic. They were the previous Christian majority. They were the Jewish majority, before that, and the Canaanite majority, before that. Zionists have been ethnically cleansing and slaughtering the ancient Jews, that never left, simply because they converted and were Arabized along the way.
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  10654.  @Just-Human  Palestinians are reacting much like every colonized people in history. It's Zionism that's based on a fairytale "right" to this specific land.
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  10655. The main problem with those Pew "research" polls, is that they didn't seem to poll other religions. I had an issue with Harris always citing them, when there was nothing to compare them to. At the time, 80% of Americans supported invading Iraq and blowing up hundreds of thousands of civilians. Something like 60% supported torture. Including Harris himself. They're looking at those Muslim numbers in a vacuum.
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  10656. ​ @dr.g3860  Likely some gay Palestinians, no? Not very pro them, if they're blown to bits. Plus, the more liberal, and more populated, West Bank decriminalized it back in 1950. If there was actually a single united Palestine, those laws could be applied to the whole thing. Also, are you even talking about people that live in Gaza? If not, then it doesn't affect them, so doesn't really fit the analogy.
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  10657. I meant Logan.
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  10658. "Letitia 'peekaboo' James" ~ Trumpty Dumpty Urban Dictionary: peekaboo Racist term used in white-supremacist circles to refer to a person of color, usually black, of upper or upper-middle class social standing. That uppity peekaboo thinks she can golf here just because she has money. by WhoKnowsWhoItCouldBe September 21, 2022
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  10659.  @katiek2698  You missed Ben Shapiro failing at being interviewed?
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  10660.  @katiek2698  So you saw him being a dishonest little twerp, dodging that he, himself, titles videos, and books, with "DESTROY", instead acting like it's others, that he has no control over, doing it, and that he doesn't do that kind of thing?
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  10661.  @katiek2698  It's a fact that he does label his own videos and books like that. It's a fact he dodged the question by passing the buck onto those he has no control over. What's the opinion part?
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  10662.  @EricLeafericson  Okay. The Nazis were backed by leading German industrialists, who were not socialists, in fact were ardent opponents of socialists, communists, and unionists. Hitler promised those backers there wouldn't be a redistribution of wealth. They allied with other far right parties to form the Harzburg Front. They were European leaders in privatization, prior to an all out war economy. They went after communists, socialists, and unionists, for "illegal socialist activity". They killed off any prominent left leaning members of the party, on the Night of the Long Knives. One of the reasons they gave for hating Jews, is for creating socialism, because Marx was of the Jewish "race". Etc. The black shirts first went after socialist enclaves, across Italy. The King had enough troops to put down the Fascists, but instead decided to make Mussolini PM, exactly because they had been opposing socialists. The King, and the other large landowners, of Italy, who decided to back the Fascists, were the opposite of socialists.
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  10663.  @EricLeafericson  YouTube not liking some word all of a sudden ...  @EricLeafericson  Okay. The Nzis were backed by leading German industrialists, who were not scialists, in fact were ardent opponents of scialists, cmmunists, and unionists. Htler promised those backers there wouldn't be a redistribution of wealth. They allied with other far right parties to form the Harzburg Front. They were European leaders in privatization, prior to an all out war economy. They went after cmmunists, scialists, and unionists, for "illegal scialist activity". They klled off any prominent left leaning members of the party, on the Night of the Long Knives. One of the reasons they gave for hating Jws, is for creating scialism, because Marx was of the Jwish "race". Etc. The black shirts first went after scialist enclaves, across Italy. The King had enough troops to put down the Fscists, but instead decided to make Mssolini PM, exactly because they had been opposing scialists. The King, and the other large landowners, of Italy, who decided to back the Fscists, were the opposite of scialists. Etc.
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  10664.  @Historia.Magistra.Vitae.  You want to rehash your lies in another thread? The Harzburg Front weren't leftists. Emil Kirdorf, and other leading German industrialist backers, were not a leftist. Both owning a business and being a party member doesn't equate to the party owning the business. You think an absolute monarchy, where one person owns everything, is socialism. You effectively argued Republicans who own businesses, are leftists. You are certifiably insane.
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  10665.  @Historia.Magistra.Vitae.  You want to rehash your dishonesty in another thread? Ok. The Harzburg Front weren't leftists. Emil Kirdorf, and other leading German industrialist backers, were not leftists. Both owning a business and being a party member doesn't equate to the party owning the business. You think an absolute monarchy, where one person owns everything, is socialism. You effectively argued Republicans who own businesses, are leftists. You are certifiably insane.
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  10666.  @Historia.Magistra.Vitae.  You want to rehash your ignorance in a second thread? Ok. The Harzburg Front weren't leftists. Emil Kirdorf, and other leading German industrialist backers, weren't leftists. Both owning a business and being a party member doesn't equate to the party owning the business, let alone the government owning the business. You think an absolute monarchy, where one person owns everything, is socialism. You effectively argued Republicans who own businesses, are leftists. That's crazy talk.
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  10667.  @Historia.Magistra.Vitae.  Nope. Emil Kirdorf had pulled his backing, and threw it behind another right wing party, because they hadn't done anything about a few prominent members calling for the redistribution of wealth. Those members were taken care of and Emil returned his support.
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  10668.  @Historia.Magistra.Vitae.  "Fascism repudiates the conception of "economic" happiness, to be realized by Socialism and, as it were, at a given moment in economic evolution to assure to everyone the maximum of well-being. Fascism denies the materialist conception of happiness as a possibility, and abandons it to its inventors, the economists of the first half of the nineteenth century. That is to say, Fascism denies the validity of the equation, well-being = happiness, which would reduce men to the level of animals, caring for one thing only-to be fat and well-fed-and would thus degrade humanity to a purely physical existence. After Socialism, Fascism combats the whole complex system of democratic ideology, and repudiates it, whether in its theoretical premises or in its practical application." ~ Mussolini
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  10669.  @Historia.Magistra.Vitae.  "They certainly were." Absolutely insane. 🤪
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  10670.  @Historia.Magistra.Vitae.  Lol, what? If the workers are the owners, where's the hierarchy? If everyone owns everything equally, where's the hierarchy? You are an insane person, who thinks when one person owns everything, that's socialism! You have zero credibility.
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  10671.  @Historia.Magistra.Vitae.  Yeah, when everyone is equal owners, there's no class hierarchies. You think when one person owns everything, that's socialism, so you're not credible, in the least.
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  10672. If China was lying to the world, holding back information, and the entire world was operating blindly, that still doesn't explain why the US response was so much worse than much of the rest of the world.
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  10673. "Anti-Nazism is anti-German!" ~ 1930s you, I guess.
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  10674.  @X2LR8  "Groceries" doesn't mean specifically grocery stores, dingus. Texas is currently suing Cal-Maine for price gouging. Texas is also suing Shell for price gouging. Has Texas turned cmmnst, dingus? MAGA are sharp like spoons.
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  10675. ​ @bl4ckkn1g8t5  Nope. Obama had multiple years, when the crime rate was lower than Trump's lowest, and 2020 had a crime rate spike that brought the rate up higher than any level, since 2001. You're ignorant or dishonest. Pick one.
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  10676.  @DousedInPiss  She has been saying, since the appointment, that it's not someone progressives would pick, themselves, has pointed out the bullshit Tanden has spewed against progressives, but said she's better than a further right option. So, when further right Dems, like Manchin, and Republicans, are challenging the appointment, who do you think they'd like to see Tandem replaced with? Someone more progressive?
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  10677.  @DousedInPiss  So you think Biden would go more progressive? Weird you having that kind of faith in Biden (the establishment).
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  10678. Who are you talking about? The OT, which is the Tanakh, is the worst of the trilogy.
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  10679. Are those Hinkle's Republican Communists?
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  10680. @WeAreIt McConnell had an interview saying he might tie the covid bill to the omnibus bill, before it happened. And, voila, it happened.
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  10681.  @luna6093-d6c  All that other stuff is the government's yearly omnibus bill. McConnell attached the covid relief bill to it. It is actually multiple bills together. It isn't all the covid relief bill.
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  10682. ​ @remogatron1010  Native Americans reached a point where they wanted to push the white man back into the sea. Guess what, dumb dumb ... it wasn't simply because they were white. It was because they were asshole colonizers and ethnic cleansers.
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  10683. ​ @remogatron1010  If you're the native, in your country, then you're the Palestinians, dumb dumb.
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  10684. Oh, I've debated Theists, plenty, as well. You don't have to tell me. But, "Rational" doesn't equate to "logical" or "objective". If you wouldn't consider that Theist a skeptic/agnostic, that's fine with me. I was asking your personal opinion, on the paragraph. Based on what you consider "objective" and "logical" evidence, I'm hearing you wouldn't consider Theism compatible with skepticism/agnosticism. Did I understand that right?
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  10685. Plus it's Israel operating the open air WWII style fascist ghetto. Ben has things backwards.
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  10686.  @maristsp  So, you know what that was all about, right?
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  10687. Meh, they were always telling people who they really were. Just have to pay attention.
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  10688. The climate on Mars is wonderful.
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  10689. ​ @HelloSnowflake3  The guy has been committing fraud since he was in diapers, dumb dumb. "In total, the president’s father and mother transferred over $1 billion to their children, according to the Times tally. That should have produced a tax bill of at least $550 million, based on a 55 percent tax on gifts and inheritance at the time. Instead, the children paid $52.2 million, or about 5 percent."
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  10690. I'm not arguing about God. I'm arguing about the definition of a word. At the time, the default position was there were Gods. The word Athe-ist came into existence, before the word Theist (so no a- prefix was being attached to a non existent word), to refer to "one that beleeves there is no God" (1611). This was the most common definition at the time of Huxley, which is why he came up with his label, and his burden of proof position.
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  10691.  @thedarkenigma3834  But, they aren't actually worried about "culture". They'll welcome illegal right wing white Cubans, even outright fascists. They'll welcome different cultures from white Europe. It's not "culture" they're actually worried about.
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  10692.  @ManiacMayhem7256  No such thing as free speech on someone else's private property, to begin with. And right wingers (both Republicans and corporate Dems) have used the government to make anti-BDS laws. Right wingers have tried to make it harder, or more dangerous, to protest. The FCC is also still protecting delicate conservative sensibilities from naughty words and nipples. Right wingers are only against their own bullshit being flagged or their own bullshitters being given time outs or bans. They aren't actually in favor of unlimited free speech. And, they are completely opposed to public ownership, which would give you free speech rights on social media.
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  10693.  @ManiacMayhem7256  That's not whataboutism, dumb dumb. That's pointing out the fact that you're statement is false. The right, conservatives, aren't, and have never been, on the side of unfettered free speech. What they're against is that the corporate monsters of their own making have gone against them a handful of times. They never cared when media outlets used to be anti-gay. They never cared when media outlets used to be anti-feminist. They never cared when media outlets used to be anti-rock n roll. They've repeatedly, and still do, use the government to silence expression they don't like. You're last sentence is right and, like I said, something most right wingers are opposed to. They don't even like current utilities being public utilities.
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  10694. Let's pretend I've just made up the word "son", and defined it as "male child". Then I start calling all my children "son". It is not wrong for me to make up the word. It is not wrong for me to define my word. Calling all my children "son" is wrong. One of my daughters makes up the word "daughter", defines it as "female child", and calls herself that. My other 2 daughters then call themselves "son" and redefine "son" to mean "male and female children". Aren't my last 2 daughters wrong, as well?
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  10695.  @zoobrizz  Sorry, you're obviously not my type. Better luck next time.
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  10696. ​ @barbaraklein3944  Likud's bloody 100 year history ... In 1923, 100 years ago, Ze'ev Jabotinsky wrote, The Iron Wall, and a follow up, The Ethics of The Iron Wall (sooo racist towards Africans), in which he fully acknowledged that post Balfour Zionsim was colonialism, and that, based on the entirety of history, the native Palestinian population would resist being colonized until the bitter end. He directly compared it to the colonization of North America. He promoted doing it anyway, claiming Zionist colonialism was a "just" colonialism (he also thought North American colonialists were good guys, so not a great judge of morality), not caring what that meant for the native population. Ze'ev is important, because his Betar militant youth group helped found the Irgun terrorist group, along with other supporters of his, and the splinter Lehi terrorist group. The Irgun bombed numerous Palestinian markets and other public places, murdering many Palestinian civilians, including children, even including Palestinian Jews (who didn't support colonialist Zionsim). The Irgun are important, because they ended up being led by future Likud PM, Menachem Begin, who bombed the King David Hotel. The King David Hotel was bombed because the British had raided the Jewish Agency and seized numerous documents that may have shown that the terrorists were working with the JA and Haganah (JA liked to pretend that they didn't support the terrorism). The British then stored those documents at their base, in the hotel. That the Irgun terrorists responded to a JA raid, itself seems to prove the connection. That the thousands of Irgun (and Lehi) terrorists were also quickly merged into the new nation's military (IDF) and intelligence (Mossad) agencies, and are still celebrated as "heroes" by Israelis, to this day, also seems to support total collaboration between the groups. That other terrorist group mentioned, Lehi (also known as the Stern Gang), was considered even more extreme. They even tried to ally with the Nazis, against the British. Lehi ended up being led by Yitzhak Shamir, future Mossad agent, and another future Likud PM. In 1945, there was a major land and peoples survey done in Palestine. It showed that the Zionists only owned about 5% of the total land, 20% of the arable land, and owned a majority in zero districts. The partition was not only going to be forced on the native Palestinian majority, but Jews were still going to be a minority, in the part allocated to them. The only possible way to even become a "Jewish state" was going to require getting rid of the actual majority (at least enough so that there'd be a solid Jewish majority, so they could fake being democratic). This is also shown by the 1948, post Nakba, population of Israel. If there was 716,700 Jews, 156,000+ non-Jews, and approximately 700k non-Jews ethnically cleansed, that means the Jewish population, in the Zionist portion of partition, was originally over 100,000 less than the non-Jewish population. To believe that there was never any intent, by Zionists, to ethnically cleanse away the Palestinian majority would require believing that they never intended to create a "Jewish state". It's a nonsensical notion. Begin, and those terrorist groups, also opposed partition, but for the opposite reason Palestinians did. Palestinians didn't want to be colonized, at all. The terrorists wanted to colonize it all. "Moderate" Zionists were okay with colonizing half ... for now (what would happen in the future, after partition, was up to them, said Ben-Gurion). The Zionist terrorists were also involved in massacres, and assassinations, during the partition violence (colonialist war against the natives). Another notable future Likud PM, also started in the military, during the partition fighting. That was Ariel Sharon, war criminal, "Butcher of Beirut". Menachem Begin, and these other Zionist terrorists, are important because they also later founded Likud. Now, people get upset over the slogan "From the river to the sea!", but it's the second part that's most important, "Palestine will be free!". Because "Palestine" isn't defined as an ethno-state, a free Palestine can be a single state, free for all to live in, and return to, free of continuing colonization, free of occupation, free of oppression, etc. Just like a Germany free of Nazism, an Italy free of fascism, a South Africa free of apartheid, or an America free of slavery from sea to shiny sea. It doesn't necessitate purging all the Jews. It just necessitates them giving up on the idea of an ethno-state. On the other hand, because "Israel" has been defined as an ethno-state, Likud's, "between the sea and the Jordan there will only be Israeli sovereignty", has no possible good interpretation. It is a declaration of intent to completely colonize, and ethnically cleanse, all Palestine territories. Not only that, but it also claims that they have a "right" to all of the "Land of Israel" (biblical borders that don't mesh with archaeological reality), which is an open declaration of future wars, against Jordan, Syria, Lebanon, and possibly even Iraq. Likud platform ... 1977: "The Right of the Jewish People to the Land of Israel (Eretz Israel) a. The right of the Jewish people to the land of Israel is eternal and indisputable and is linked with the right to security and peace; therefore, Judea and Samaria will not be handed to any foreign administration; between the Sea and the Jordan there will only be Israeli sovereignty. b. A plan which relinquishes parts of western Eretz Israel, undermines our right to the country, unavoidably leads to the establishment of a "Palestinian State," jeopardizes the security of the Jewish population, endangers the existence of the State of Israel. and frustrates any prospect of peace." "Settlement Settlement. both urban and rural. in all parts of the Land of Israel is the focal point of the Zionist effort to redeem the country, to maintain vital security areas and serves as a reservoir of strength and inspiration for the renewal of the pioneering spirit. The Likud government will call on the younger generation in Israel and the dispersions to settle and help every group and individual in the task of inhabiting and cultivating the wasteland, while taking care not to dispossess anyone." 1999: "The Government of Israel flatly rejects the establishment of a Palestinian Arab state west of the Jordan river. The Palestinians can run their lives freely in the framework of self-rule, but not as an independent and sovereign state. Thus, for example, in matters of foreign affairs, security, immigration, and ecology, their activity shall be limited in accordance with imperatives of Israel's existence, security and national needs." "The Jewish communities in Judea, Samaria, and Gaza are the realization of Zionist values. Settlement of the land is a clear expression of the unassailable right of the Jewish people to the Land of Israel and constitutes an important asset in the defense of the vital interests of the State of Israel. The Likud will continue to strengthen and develop these communities and will prevent their uprooting." All Palestine territories are officially considered occupied, by the International Court of Justice, the UN GA, the UN SC, and even in official documents of Israel's own allies. Likud is still using the blueprint for colonizing North America, in the West Bank. Move settlements out into native territory, piss off the natives, the natives retaliate, cry about poor "innocent" colonizing settlers being the "victims" of violent "Savages!", call in the cavalry to put down the native uprising, and eventually expand the borders to include those settlements. Rinse and repeat. In Gaza, they are operating an open air WWII style fascist ghetto. Them claiming a "right to defend themselves" would be like the Nazis claiming a "right to defend themselves " from the Warsaw ghetto uprising. There's no "war". That they're the occupiers means the "war" part is long over. That partition was forced upon the Palestinian majority, against their will ... that the Zionist portion still had to be forcefully ethnically cleansed of its non-Jewish majority, against their will ... that the millions of occupied Palestinians don't have a say in the government that truly rules over them, Israel's ... means Israel is about as democratic as Nazi Germany after Hitler purged his political opponents and then held elections. Hamas is basically just a poor man's Likud, only fighting against colonialism, instead of for colonialism.
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  10697.  @RspbyLmn  The last election showed a right wing Democrat lost to a horrible Republican candidate, who did very poorly themselves ... losing millions of voters to the Libertarian party, and who won with one of the lowest percentages of the population in US history. She failed miserably.
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  10698. Proving it outright would be knowledge. Just scientific evidence to suggest the proposition, God exists, should be believed. Not only do you think there is enough scientific evidence to support believing God exists, but you think Theism has the edge? Can you give an example?
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  10699. Most polls don't even include RFK Jr, and Harris is still up. All you should take this video as is pure BS. The very poll that say RFK Jr had 9% in Nevada, has Harris over Trump, 54/46, when it's just the two of them.
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  10700. ​ @quintrankid8045  Do you ask Jews, if ethnic cleansing and genocide is within the rules of war as Judaism defines them? Because, the OT/Tanakh very clearly justifies, and orders, them to do it, for their "god given" land.
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  10701. ​ @joemcbride3426  How do you feel about the Irgun and Likud, Zionist terrorist groups that bombed Palestinian markets and other public places, murdered many Palestinian civilians, including children, even including Palestinian Jews (who didn't support colonial Zionism)? How do you feel about Israelis electing Menachem Begin, leader of the Irgun, child murderer, Jew murderer, who also bombed the King David Hotel, as PM? How do you feel about Israel merging those terrorists into the new nation's military and intelligence agencies? How do you feel about Israelis, to this day, celebrating those terrorists as "heroes"?
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  10702. ​ @tommytators9814  Don't worry, 64% of the military are childless, so Vance wants to give them less of a √0t€. Plus, Trump's P2025 wants to reduce their VA coverage. Plus, Republicans have zero low income housing policies. 👍
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  10703.  @scotthullinger9955  Well ... except for the shooting up of synagogues, mosques, Sikh temples, black churches, Hispanics shopping, the rise in hate crimes and domestic terrorism, the numerous police departments found to use racial profiling, white nationalist "free speech" rallies, etc. ... aside from all that ... non-existent.
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  10704. You've said nothing coherent, for 3 or more posts, and resorted to thinking you know anything about me, for 2. That's game over, in debateland. Have a nice day.
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  10705.  @Nawggy  He's a grifter, who promoted his daughter's all meat diet, claiming it got him off drugs, not long before having to be put into a coma, to get him off drugs. He has proven he's willing to lie, and possibly harm people, to make money.
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  10706. His hat says he's in favour of discrimination and intolerance. That makes him the bully. Bullying bullies isn't a thing.
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  10707.  @censorshipleadstothenwo1237  The Bible is about a sexless being, that goes by masculine gender pronouns, who then transitions into a human male. It justifies incest, genocide, and slavery, amongst other things. Why would you want it taught in schools?
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  10708. By "professional", you mean ... a disgruntled narcissist who has been debunked by his peers, numerous times.
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  10709.  @Celisar1  Also included 4 dictionary definitions for you, dmwt.
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  10710.  @NatTurnerswitBurnerz  That's backwards. Especially if your audience is increasingly right wing, like Jimmy's, should you be letting them know Republicans aren't working for them.
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  10711. And yet, he promoted Trump as the better option than Clinton, in 2016 ... for progressives. He also minimized the danger by claiming the moon would fall into Lake Michigan before Trump filled multiple scotus seats, and is now seemingly blaming Dems for Roe v Wade ruling.
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  10712.  @Analyst  He outright said that a Trump win would be better for progressives. He peddled a delusional fantasy, in which a Trump presidency would cause a massive progressive backlash. He vastly overestimated the benefits, claiming it would lead to progressives "for sure" taking the house (nope) and senate (nope), in 2018, and the presidency (nope), in 2020. He vastly underestimated the risks, claiming even Republicans would join the left in voting against a Trump agenda (nope), rather than follow him into outright fascism (nope). And, when the danger of scotus seats coming up for grabs was put to him by Sam Seder, he tried gaslighting Sam (actual gaslighting isn't simply being dishonest, as Dore uses the term, it's being dishonest in an attempt to make someone feel or sound insane) with that moon falling into Lake Michigan comment (nope). If he convinced even one person in a swing state to vote Trump, not vote and let Trump win, or vote Green (he also peddled another delusion that Stein had a shot), then he helped Trump win. Like a snake oil salesman, his words say he's selling you something beneficial, but what you're actually buying is something completely useless, or even harmful. Almost every action Dore peddles taking benefits the far right more than anyone else. He's the epitome of a grifter.
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  10713.  @Analyst  No, no, he didn't say any old Dems would win. He claimed progressive Dems would win the house and senate. It was a delusional fantasy. Nowhere close to being a reality. Whether you like current progressives, or not, running as a Dem is clearly the more effective way to win a seat in congress. The most popular third party hasn't won a single seat in its near 50 year existence. You could go a hundred years voting Green, finally win a single seat, and the person is another Kyrsten Sinema. And let Republicans rule for decades to come, because of vote splitting.
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  10714.  @Analyst  Civil rights, women's rights, gay rights, etc., weren't achieved by voting? The original New Deal wasn't achieved by voting? How were they achieved then?
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  10715.  @Analyst  No? Exactly how were the bills passed, without people willing to vote for them, and sign them into law, in office?
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  10716.  @Analyst  No shit people don't vote on bills, which means the only way they're passed is if enough politicians are converted or replaced. If you think you're going to convert Republicans, then you must be a complete and utter moron.
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  10717. Wasn't there only one race, prior to Babel, according to the story?
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  10718. It's not a war. It's an occupation. The Palestine territories have been considered occupied for decades. The occupied actually have a right to resist occupation. The occupier, on the other hand, doesn't have a right to use collective punishment. It's against international law. Israel is a rogue state.
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  10719.  @jasonsaenz8959  It's not an actual country. It's an occupied territory. What Israel is doing violates international law. They're a rogue state.
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  10720.  @Bluebelle51  The senate was going to change its mind? Which ones?
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  10721.  @viddrone  Learn what "gaslighting" actually means. Why, exactly, was trying to get a guaranteed to fail vote on M4A "needed"? You get a new list of names of those who won't cosign the bills every new session of congress. Run against all of them. If you had the 100+ more viable pro-M4A candidates needed to pass it, just laying around, why didn't you run them in the election cycle that just ended? The speaker, alone, can't even force a bill out of committees to a floor vote. It takes a petition signed by the majority of the house. How was that going to be accomplished, when it's some 100 votes short in the house?
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  10722.  @theciakilledjfk5973  I didn't mention public opinion so, no, my argument doesn't presuppose anything of the sort. Bills are passed within the halls of government. That's not "gaslighting". "Gaslighting" is a specific brand of manipulation designed to make someone feel, or appear, insane. Every single lie, piece of propaganda, manipulation of facts, or whatnot, isn't "gaslighting".
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  10723.  Demon Best  Joe Manchin, along with about 19 other corporate Dems, have similar voting records in the range of about 40 moderate Republicans. There are extra out of party votes that can be gained in their neighborhood. There is also the rest of the Republican party to the right of that group. There are no extra out of party votes to be gained in the same neighborhood as the squad. There are no votes to be gained to the left of them. If there's a standoff between the left end and the right end of the party, there are more votes to be gained by going right. The squad can only move things as left as the likes of Manchin will allow. You're imagining them having far more power than they actually have.
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  10724. Wasn't Pelosi supposed to be holding the impeachment until they were guaranteed a fair trial?
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  10725. OMG!! This is the guy saying that the definition of Atheist, as it was, didn't cover A-theists. If he was using the word rejection, the way you're using it, then he wouldn't have said that. He also wouldn't have followed up with saying the word needed to be redefinied A-theist. Geezus.
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  10726. Someone that anti-gay would vote for anti-gay policies, to ruin gay people's lives.
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  10727. His slander routine is moronic. If someone who just used her platform and PAC to help add more M4A yes votes to congress, the very thing that needs doing to ever pass it, the very thing you'd still need to do even if you get a vote guaranteed to fail ... if she isn't fighting for M4A, then Jimmy's own "plan" is to get a vote guaranteed to fail, and then not fight. His slander makes his own "plan" incoherent.
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  10728.  @davidackerman6837  You mean like Jimmy, who has his own healthcare, and didn't care if promoting Trump as better than Clinton would lead to the ACA being repealed and millions losing theirs, including those with preexisting conditions? Like Jimmy, who promoted Tulsi ("Medicare choice" aka public option) over Bernie, not supporting the better healthcare plan, and not caring if peeling away votes from Bernie could let Biden win? Like Jimmy, who spent the general running an attack ad campaign against Trump's only viable opponent, again not caring if that would lead to total ACA repeal, and suddenly not supporting a public option that also included lowering of the Medicare age, which would add millions more to Medicare? Like Jimmy, who's backing a third party route that won't even get you a seat in congress in the next 50 years, let alone get you M4A, and could just be popular enough to split progressive voting and hand the Dem party totally back to corporate Dems, and let Republicans rule for decades, possibly destroying the healthcare system even more? That guy doesn't give a flying fuck if anyone ever gets healthcare. Threatening to paralyze the house could just get you a paralyzed house, with corporate Dems blaming progressives for no new covid relief, no new unemployment extensions, no new vaccine funding, etc., during a pandemic. Slandering progressive politicians, who just help add more yes votes to congress, just as the progressive caucus is an election or two away from becoming the majority of house Dems, when they can actually have the majority to pick the speaker, and then bring up progressive bills for votes as often as they like, is moronic. Jimmy is a pro at overestimating the benefits and underestimating the risks.
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  10729.  @davidackerman6837  Have fun slandering progressives, going third party, and not getting a seat in congress in the next 50 years, following a dimwit with his own healthcare.
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  10730. He has a primary challenger. He'd lose California to his challenger, if even one person voted for the guy.
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  10731.  @peach495  18 states are doing the same thing. If it holds up in court, and he doesn't hand over his return, that would then be 18 states worth of electoral votes he'd be handing to his challenger. He could end up not being the Republican nominee.
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  10732. Oh ya? When has Omar supported killing other representatives?
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  10733. Rofl. The Russian Empire and USSR conducted the Russification of Ukraine. There was ethnic cleansing and genocide of Ukrainians and areas replaced with Russians. Russia then invaded Ukraine, in 2014. White supremacists, from Russia, then led the rebellion in Donbas, and were the interim government leaders. Russia is the Nazis coming for the "Sudentland", this time around.
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  10734. Okay. The -ist is the most important part, and it was not part of the ancient Greek root word. So the 16th century words and the ancient Greek words are not exactly the same thing. There shouldn't really even be a debate as to how the word was put together. The debate should be whether, or not, changing it to A-theist is better, and why.
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  10735.  @AbdulKhader-786  Who's committing all the crimes, especially murders, in say Russia? Their 0.5% black population?
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  10736.  @AQGOAT24   You seem to be confusing a national anthem (which both countries have, and which wasn't the topic) with a pledge of allegiance (which Canada doesn't have). We used to have a pledge to the Queen, but not a flag.
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  10737.  @AQGOAT24  To some degree. But an anthem isn't a pledge, and it's to a country, not to a flag.
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  10738. They got a vote on the $15. Weren't some people arguing that just getting a vote on a bill was a big deal, and they could do oh so many things with a list of no voters ... and then they just went on to whine about those who voted for it.
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  10739.  @heygirl6386  If you're talking book, the Tanakh/OT is the worst of the trilogy. There's more then a few spots.
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  10740.  @GoldSkye  Same way you'll be explaining to them how you let DT win.
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  10741.  @888strummer  You're lying.
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  10742.  @axelenock6503  The Tea Party wasn't a grassroots movement. It was backed by the Koch brothers, and the they didn't slander their own Tea Party friendly politicians in congress. The real fight is to get enough pro-M4A candidates in congress to actually pass M4A. Forcing the vote may, or may not, provide some ammo and help in that fight. It may, or may not, backfire and hinder that fight. But simply having a vote isn't the actual fight. The Civil Rights Act got the majority on board. It was a minority filibuster that ran out the 1963 session, and filibustered more in 1964. Almost a complete reverse of the M4A situation.
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  10743.  @edwardz.rosenthal9946  Stop pretending like Dore's "plan" actually gets you M4A now, or that he actually gives a crap if anyone gets healthcare. A failed vote won't get it now. It'll leave you still having to do exactly what AOC just did ... help get more pro-M4A progressives elected to congress going against DCCC backed corporate Dems. You need to replace almost 100 people in the house alone. Dore acts all impatient, but just as progressives are making gains, he doesn't mind trashing and slandering them, undermine their credibility as much as he can, and start from scratch with yet another third party, and maybe not even get a single house seat in 50 years (the Libertarian party will turn 50 in a couple years), let alone get M4A. He wouldn't mind possibly splitting progressive votes, reducing progressive gains in the Dem party, and letting Republicans and corporate Dems rule for decades. He just got done promoting Tulsi's "Medicare choice" (a public option) over Bernie's M4A. But then he spent the general basically campaigning against the guy offering a public option and a reduction in the Medicare age. Pretending like he desperately wants anyone to get healthcare anytime soon, is blatantly obvious nonsense. He's all over the place, and seems content with trashing everything, even small gains, or small improvements, and completely changing course every other year, effectively going nowhere.
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  10744.  @edwardz.rosenthal9946  Yes, the ACA provided millions more with healthcare, and covered people with preexisting conditions. Not awesome, but a step forward. Republicans went nuts trying to repeal it. It even took an Obama veto of their repeal attempts in the end. So, a person who actually cared about those millions having healthcare wouldn't promote a Republican president, who'd sign a repeal, as a better option for progressives than Clinton in 2016. Dore did what he could to help Trump get elected, even promoting Stein as having a shot. He didn't give a crap if that meant millions could lose their healthcare. During the 2020 primaries, he promoted Tulsi and her "Medicare choice" (public option) over Bernie and his M4A. He didn't give a crap if her plan wasn't as good as his. He didn't give a crap if he peeled off any progressive votes from the more viable candidate, and help Biden win. He didn't give a crap. During the general election, he basically ran an attack ad campaign against Trump's only viable opponent, Biden. Again he didn't care that Trump and Republicans were trying to gut the ACA, he didn't care about getting another small step forward with lowering the Medicare age and a public option (which he had just fucking supported with Tulsi). He didn't give a fuck. The only way to possibly ever pass M4A is to get more yes votes in congress, which AOC just helped do. She used her platform and PAC to fight DCCC backed corporate Dems. She threw punches. They just punched her back, by not giving her the committee seat she wanted. Dore, the armchair general slandering her over a fucking tactics disagreement, is a coward stabbing her in the back. Jimmy doesn't have the balls to get out of his garage and run himself. Go ahead, try to get the forcethevote movement going, but if it doesn't happen, all the slander will have done is convince some idiots that they should abandon congressional progressives. Again, that's not giving two shits about the small gains of getting more yes votes in congress, not giving a shit about moving forward. Plus, he's stupid, and doesn't even make a proper risk assessment, which could backfire and hurt progressives and M4A. On top of all that, he's ready to go with yet another third party, that likely won't even win a single seat in 50 years (the Libertarian party is turning 50 in a couple years), let alone get you M4A. He doesn't give a crap if that splits progressive voting, loses the gains made within the Democrat party, fully hands the party back to corporate Dems, and lets Republicans rule for decades, possibly destroying even the public healthcare insurance there is. He doesn't give a flying fuck. He's a fucking child, whose gets so impatient with small steps forward that he abandons them and changes directions, if that leads to small steps forward he again abandons them and changes directions, and so on ... in the end, Jimmy Dore will lead you nowhere. Maybe you could try to argue that he cares so much that he can't act rationally, but his actions indicate he doesn't give a fuck if anyone ever reaches destination healthcare. Colossus? If spreading ideas across social media counts as fighting, then AOC completely destroys Jimmy in the only arena he fights in. Total annihilation. Her platform is worth about 40 of his. A single M4A tweet of hers is worth about 70 of his. It's nonsensical the number of Dore knobs who consider Jimmy to be "fighting" but consider her using her much larger platform to spread progressive ideas, including M4A, to be doing nothing. We probably wouldn't be having this discussion without Bernie making M4A a mainstream talking point. Again, if spreading an idea counts as fighting, then Bernie is a champ. Disagree with his pragmatic lesser of two evils approach, but to also call him a "fake", "shill", "wimp", is just more bullshit slander. Dore doesn't actually give a fuck about getting anywhere. Remember when the Tea Party ate their own Tea Party friendly politicians, and fractionalize the Tea Party itself? Me either.
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  10745.  @edwardz.rosenthal9946  I'm plenty chillaxed. If you don't want to know what indicates he doesn't give a crap, don't ask. Threatening to paralyze the house doesn't necessarily get rid of Pelosi anyway. Jimmy's whole idea is she folds and gives you the vote, for your vote... and you still have Pelosi. So why pretend like that's even the goal? Even if she didn't give you the vote and you paralyze the house, corporate Dems in caucus can keep picking her over and over and over. How long do you keep paralyzing the house for, as they blame you for no new covid relief, no new unemployment extension, no new vaccine funding, etc.? Jimmy has also argued she'd rather work with Republicans rather than progressives, and Kyle has said she's the queen of backroom deals. She could just make a backroom deal with Republicans, and give them something in exchange for enough of them to be absent, or abstain, from the vote, lowering the threshold needed for her to win (Dore doesn't even know how the vote actually works, even when he reads it aloud). Also stop pretending like just adding more pro-M4A votes to congress is doing nothing. That would make Jimmy's plan ... have a vote and then do nothing. Dore knobs are incoherent.
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  10746.  @edwardz.rosenthal9946  The US healthcare system is disgusting. The lack of support for those in need is disgusting. But, unless you can somehow change the way government works, or overthrow the government, getting enough yes votes in congress is the only possible way to ever pass a bill. Getting more pro-M4A candidates elected, or converting enough candidates already elected, is the primary tactic, no matter what else is going on. Anyone working on that primary tactic isn't doing nothing, isn't a "shill", isn't a "sellout", isn't a "fake", and definitely isn't a "wimp", if they're in the swamp getting their hands dirty and trading punches in the actual political trenches. This is all a debate about a secondary tactic, and whether it would provide more ammo, to accomplish the primary tactic. It's not going to get you M4A now. It's almost 100 votes short in the house alone, let alone the senate. So, what would it get you? A list? You already get a new list of people in congress who won't sign onto the bill when it's reintroduced every new session, that need to be converted or replaced. You can already use that list to pressure them, protest them, or primary them. Why weren't the 100 extra Pro-M4A candidates Jimmy has lined up in the election that just happened? Why wasn't BJG organizing mass protests against anti-M4A candidates during the election that just happened? Why wasn't during the elections the time to act? Why isn't now the time to act, instead of after a failed vote? Catch a few fakers? Who cares about trying to ferret out a few fakes, when you have 100+ people to convert or replace in the house and senate, already? There's already a lot of names to work with, without worrying about whether there's a few fakers, who wouldn't even have to expose themselves knowing it won't even pass the house. Get a record of them outright opposing M4A to use against them? It took a single reporter's question to get Biden on public record saying he'd veto M4A. It didn't take threatening to paralyze the house. Plenty of these people have just campaigned and made public statements against M4A. So why isn't this being used against them already? What are Jimmy and his supporters waiting for? They could be doing whatever is supposed to spontaneously happen after a failed vote, right now. A debate on the floor? That's the best reason I've heard. It could be used to inform the public and garner more support (only 36% of Americans want outright M4A, 26% want some private/public mix like a public option, and the others want the status quo or are complete Libertarian morons). But, the corporate Dem and Republican majority would also be using their debate time to misinform. Likely the corporate media, as well. It might be more productive to run some kind of pro-M4A information campaign directly to the public, where they don't also hear 3 anti voices, and a bunch of bad MSM press, per 1 pro voice. So, I'm more unsure on this point, and don't see the big benefit of the others. So, for questionable gains, there are risks. If people desperately want M4A now, then they should already be doing most of those things already. The DSA has been having M4A rallies. Get out to them, promote them, start your own. The CBO (the government itself) just released a major study showing various types of single payer systems actually reduce overall costs. Spread the info. If your rep's name isn't signed onto the M4A bill, demand to know why. If they won't budge, make sure to support a pro-M4A candidate against them. If there isn't one, find one fast. What are all the impatient Dore fans waiting for? Do it right fucking now! Or are they just lazy armchair generals hoping a failed vote will spark others into rising up and doing it for them?
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  10747. Get a grip. Books have been going out of print since the beginning of books.
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  10748.  @mornique13  We should all try rubbing up against a wealthy person in hopes they will take you home and take care of you the rest of your life.
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  10749. ​​ @Drinkingyoursaltytearsallah Making a general statement that "the Jewish population" had been living in Jerusalem for centuries or millennia, is kind of dishonest. In 1882, Jews were 8% of the population, and in 1947, they were 32% of the population. So, in 1947, only 25% of "the Jewish population" could be considered native. It is also somewhat ridiculous to include the Palestinian Jews with the Zionist invaders. Palestinian Jews sided with the Palestinian Muslims and Christians. The Zionist terrorist groups, Irgun and Lehi, targeted them right alongside their Palestinian brothers and sisters.
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  10750. ​ @BamBamGT1  Blah, blah, blah. I can't believe all these moronic pro-colonialism arguments. Whatever you call the land, whatever you call the people, there were individuals living there. Ethnically cleansing them, to give the land to people from Europe and Russia, is colonialism. Colonialists are never not the aggressors. They are also racists and bigots. In 1945, there was a massive land and peoples survey. Palestinians owned 84% of the land in the Jerusalem district. 96% in Hebron. 87% in Nablus. 78% in Tulkarm. 84% in Jenin. 87% in Acre. 77% in Ramle. Smaller majorities in 4 other districts, and pluralities in another 4. Nowhere were Jews the majority. Land was handed to the minority of inhabitants, 75% of the Jewish ones being non-native, and the majority population was ethnically cleansed ... at least enough so that the Jews could be a majority in "their" half, so they could fake being democratic.
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  10751. Since 2013, there have been hundreds of victim witnesses, dozens of healthcare worker witnesses, multiple different NGO witnesses, independent investigations showing hundreds of chemical weapons uses, multiple legal human rights groups investigating on behalf of victims, as well as the dozens of UN inspections (who never backed the US in Iraq, didn't even assign blame in reports as per Russia's demand, and have also found hidden stockpiles of chemical weapons unlike in Iraq). Aaron's Syrian "scandal" article could have been written by anyone, from anywhere in the world, with Wikipedia and a penchant for leaving out bits they don't like. Two part time "inspectors" (one wasn't even an official inspector, and the other never left home base because he didn't finish training), working on a single investigation at a single site doesn't actually debunk all that.
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  10752.  @donaldbaker2080  Rofl. The uninformed are getting everything they know about it from Dore and Aaron.
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  10753.  Demon Best  But, I did. It didn't include anything that required being in Syria, and didn't include any breaking news. At least other reporters were actually at the site, at the right time.
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  10754.  @waynemorgan6153  Ummm, Jimmy actually brought up the issue, first, in an earlier video where he, and his wife, made fun of an unnamed former female co-worker that wore short skirts. Maybe he shouldn't have brought it up, if he didn't want said former female co-worker to state her side of events.
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  10755.  @jasonsaenz8959  Nope. They both agreed something happened, both agreed he said something to embarrass her, both agreed what he said went far enough over the line for him to issue an apology ... they disagree on whether what she was wearing was inappropriate, and whether anyone actually found him funny.
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  10756.  @jasonsaenz8959  She said he didn't say a thing she said she got an apology letter for?
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  10757.  @jasonsaenz8959  She sent him a DM saying you remember that thing you did. What video of her talking about it came before that?
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  10758.  @jasonsaenz8959  Oh geezus. You're blathering on that she said he made a different comment, not no comment whatsoever?
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  10759.  @jasonsaenz8959  Are you suggesting you can prove either detail? They both agreed he said something that embarrassed her, and both agreed it was enough for him to apologize for.
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  10760.  @alwaysseeking940  Truth to power? The guy literally built a fanbase by spewing pure bullshit about Canadian law.
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  10761.  @alwaysseeking940  I'm a f*cking Canadian who can read basic English, and knew Peterson was a bullshitter, from the get go. I'm a Canadian who knows Peterson had already been living, and working, under the law he gained celebrity status for opposing, for 4 years, at the provincial level ... and yet, he had zero examples of his slippery slope bullshit. I'm a Canadian who knows multiple other provinces also already had similar provincial level laws, and yet he had zero examples of his slippery slope bullshit from those provinces, either. I'm a Canadian who heard the numerous Canadian legal experts who debunked his slippery slope bullshit, many times over. He gained a following amongst ignorant American right wingers, who saw his bullshit videos and were completely clueless as to how the law actually works, in Canada. Peterson is a complete and utter moron, and apparently so are you.
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  10762.  @IDF_R_HEROES  WION... "Explained | How Netanyahu helped turn Hamas into his Frankenstein's monster"
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  10763.  @IDF_R_HEROES  Well documented, dumb dumb. He could turn the money tap on and off. Also articles of him turning it off a couple times.
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  10764.  @IDF_R_HEROES  If the Palestinian Authority had stayed in power, there might have been a peace deal, and an official nation of Palestine, that Israel would have to leave. As long as there's not a peace deal, he can continue the illegal colonization of Palestinian territories.
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  10765.  @meganalves9967  Then every death in Israel is likewise on its government. This year, alone, prior to Oct 7 ... Israel held over 1200 Palestinian hostages without charges ... over 200 Palestinians had been killed by the IDF and settlers ... over 1000 Palestinians had been displaced by Israel's neverending colonization of the West Bank ... and, Israel continued to operate an open air WWII style fascist ghetto.
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  10766. The guy could give each Amazon employee 60 Amazon shares, worth about $120k, and still be worth $80b himself. He's a douchebag of a superhero.
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  10767.  @grsshppr7659  No. You can thank their greed for not doing that anymore, because they could easily have done both. Only being able to do one or the other is a false dichotomy. The minimum wage hike benefited the vast majority of employees.
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  10768.  @grsshppr7659  Oh, well congrats on both of you being petty vindictive assholes, then. Still greedy. Anyone worth $160b is greedy. His stocks would be worth zip, if he just packed it in and closed up shop. You're stupid enough to think he'd do that?
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  10769.  @grsshppr7659  Blah, blah, blah. You already admitted you're a petty vindictive asshole. You argued he was a petty vindictive asshole. And, nothing you've said refutes that wanting that much wealth is greedy.
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  10770.  @gnubbiersh647  No. He's obviously not very bright. That he has people throwing money at his idiocy isn't evidence of anything other than people being dumb. The MAGA crowd does the same thing for Trump.
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  10771.  @paulg6274  😂 He wrote an entire book, and never got beyond what he stated was already a given, at the start, with his "objective" morality. It was pure garbage.
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  10772.  @gnubbiersh647  Then how is "multiple best sellers" relevant to the point, ignoramus?
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  10773.  @gnubbiersh647  Ah, so "multiple best sellers" was just completely irrelevant. You're bright.
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  10774.  @gnubbiersh647  You have some severe reading comprehension problems. No wonder you're a Harris fan.
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  10775.  @gnubbiersh647  Learn to read. You're providing evidence that Harris fans are low intelligence.
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  10776.  @gnubbiersh647  Well, good thing that's not what I said, dumb dumb.
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  10777.  @gnubbiersh647  Not what I said. Get a brain.
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  10778.  @gnubbiersh647  Problem is, that's not what I said. No wonder you think Sam is smart.
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  10779.  @gnubbiersh647  You, apparently, both misread what they said, and what I said. You make for a good Harris fan ... not very sharp.
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  10780.  @gnubbiersh647  Except, the person I replied to didn't make an argument that he's popular, 💩 for brains. He stated two things, and then solely made out like those were evidence of intelligence. Go on, and keep providing evidence for how slow Harris fans are.
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  10781.  @gnubbiersh647  Except, the comment I replied to made no argument, that he was popular. They listed two things, and then only argued he was intelligent, as if those two things were evidence of that.
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  10782. Biden is a moron. He obviously has zero clue how emergency wards work here in Canada, or other single payer countries.
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  10783.  @blackqueengenius7341  What conclusion? Every single person who votes Democrat is exactly the same?
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  10784. Why would Peter Thiel funded, right wing Rumble, offer to pay people like Glenn Greenwald, Tulsi, Jimmy Dore, or Joe Rogan, to move to their platform, if they didn't consider them right wing enough?
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  10785. Well, he is "Judeo-Christian values", when he's pandering to his Christian followers. 1/3rd Christian values.
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  10786.  @barkrussell4083  Nonsense. You're still talking as if a winner would take all in a state. If every vote counted everywhere, politicians would have to try and win votes everywhere. It's the electoral college that allows for politicians to mainly focus on a handful of states, and a handful of states getting to decide the election.
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  10787.  @mayavox  Rofl. No. That she failed at it, isn't evidence she needed to visit all states. It's evidence she didn't visit the handful (maybe 2) of states I was referring to, enough (or evidence she just sucked). She could have won California without ever having stepped foot in it. She would have lost Alabama no matter how many times she stepped foot in it. That's stupid. Remember, it's supposed to be a democratic republic, and you're spouting bullshit, because plenty of countries use representational systems, or two round systems.
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  10788.  @mayavox  Direct democracy and simply picking a leader by majority, aren't the same thing, dumb dumb. You don't even need leaders in a direct democracy. Also, campaigning presidential candidates tend to do exactly that, when they "visit" states. If you thought I just meant they should go spend a weekend in a motel, there, doing nothing, then you're especially stupid.
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  10789.  @barkrussell4083  Those rules haven't mattered for most of those 200 years, because the one who won the electoral also won the popular. Only a handful of elections have been electoral over popular, and 2 of those have come in just the past 20 years, after not happening for 112 years. If you can't grasp why people didn't complain, during the 112 years it wouldn't have made a difference, and can't grasp why people are complaining, now that it's more relevant and people are clearly feeling the effects of their votes being worth less, then you're not too bright.
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  10790.  @barkrussell4083  Good thing I didn't say it was because we disagreed, I said it was because you seemed baffled as to why people didn't complain during 100+ years where electoral wins and popular wins were the same.
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  10791.  @barkrussell4083  It didn't "work" any differently than the popular vote would have, in 40 out of 45 elections. If you think 60+% of Americans now wanting it abolished, is "working", then I don't know what to say. And, calling the fact that some votes count 7x more than others, "more equal", is nonsensical.
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  10792.  @barkrussell4083  Why is you think something that has only given a different result than the popular, 5 times, so damn important? When the founding fathers set it up, Virgina had 13x the population of Rhode Island. California now has 70x the population of Wyoming. When they set it up, you were talking disenfranchising tens of thousands of voters. Now, you're talking disenfranchising tens of millions.
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  10793.  @barkrussell4083   @Bark Russell  But you keep acting like those rules mattered in every election ever, when that's objectively just not the case. They've only mattered 5 times. The 2 times it happened in modern history, produced 2 of the dumbest presidents in US history. What was the upside? You also keep inserting your subjective opinion about people, and accusing them of just being sore losers, when they accepted multiple losses, before, when electoral and popular gave the same result. The popular still would have given you Reagan and Bush Sr. It's specifically the fact that the electoral has trumped the popular, twice in the past 20 years, that people have a problem with. You can't seem to grasp that that happening makes people feel disenfranchised. It puts a spotlight on just how many millions of their votes don't matter. If you think feeling that way is simply being a sore loser then, again, I have to say you're not too bright for continuing to repeat it, and that has nothing to do with simply disagreeing on the mechanics of it all. Also, the founding fathers weren't perfect. They disenfranchised over half the population (women and minorities, and even allowed for disenfranchising white men who didn't own property), and they didn't even require states to let the general population vote for president. Their rules allowed for state assemblies to just elect the president for everyone in the state, which happened in numerous states at the beginning. People in 1920 could have simply said that not letting women to vote has "worked" for 130 years, why change the rules now? Because the rules sucked.
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  10794.  @barkrussell4083  So, the 40 presidents that won the popular vote, didn't treat smaller states fairly and equally? How about this president, who lost the popular vote ... is he treating the larger states fairly and equally?
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  10795. Bible belters know. They worship a sexless, penisless, being that they refer to as "he", "him", and even "father". Plus, they believe that sexless being transitioned into a human male, for a time. They're simply hate filled hypocrites.
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  10796.  @AstroMortuum  That's still federal revenue. The Fed is collecting it, and then handing it out. Yang hasn't once said his VAT would different from all the other VATs he's pointing at.
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  10797.  @nickjohnson2968  Where does he say he'll double tax and not credit back business input VAT?
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  10798. Nikki "I had black friends growing up" Haley ... she went to the Orangeburg Preparatory Schools, which were literally founded for white kids only, to avoid desegregation. They acknowledged admitting their first non-white student in 1989, the year she graduated. She was considered white, the whole time, and zero chance of having any non-white school friends.
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  10799. You've done the astrology bit before. I countered with the Atheists who believe in spiritual beings (ghosts). Oh, I've heard lots of things from Theists. Agnosticism is about skepticism. Someone using the label incorrectly doesn't prove it's not.
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  10800.  @Horatio.Mantooth  "like yourself"? Axios: "Republicans were more likely to consider moving to red states (51%) than blue states (20%) or swing states (28%). Democrats were more likely to consider moving to blue states (48%) than red states (25%) or swing states (27%)." Pretty sure red states are mostly getting more like them. If not, they'll be turning blue, too.
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  10801. ​ @Bobsbusters  Might is right was the Nazi way, dumb dumb. That's you.
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  10802.  @uche007us  Saline water? I think everyone would die.
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  10803. When he stops promoting strategies that benefit the far right more than anybody?
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  10804. ​ @truthgiver8286  All the resistance groups, including Jewish ones, dumb dumb.
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  10805. "Trump 2024: Bring Back the 'Muslim Ban' — and Expand It ... May 5, 2023" "Trump vows to expand Muslim ban and bar Gaza refugees if he wins ... Oct 17, 2023" "Trump Says He'll Bring Back 'Travel Ban' ... Sep 19, 2024"
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  10806. ​ @adotjon78  Why do you think it's cool, if Russia keeps messing around in former Soviet states (something it has been doing since 1991)? Putin has made it pretty clear, that he thinks all of them should still belong to Russia. Is there any point at which you would help any of those states, if they asked for it? Or, just let Russia invade, and take, as much of them as they want?
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  10807.  @adotjon78  Probably shouldn't have had a cold war. That doesn't change the fact that those SSR states declared independence, Russia (on the surface) recognized their independence, the UN recognized their independence, and yet Russia (now fascist) has still chosen to f*ck around in them. I don't blame them for seeking help, or others for offering them help. Yep, toss Bush in a prison. I likewise wouldn't blame anyone for helping countries the US invades, or blame those countries for asking for help.
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  10808. She, literally, just helped take out a few more Sith in the last election.
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  10809. The FBI aren't uniformed cops. They have to do undercover sometimes. So, they don't want their names and faces plastered everywhere, so every criminal in the area knows them to see them.
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  10810. No, he's not a god. But, why would you suggest that the originator of the label, for himself, is wrong, compared to those who suggested later definitions of Agnostic?
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  10811. ​ @skint16  Then what were the crazy first Zionists talking about, when they stated they wanted to create a home "in Palestine"?
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  10812.  @edpachomovas3807  ​Israel is objectively the aggressor by every relevant measure, dumb dumb ... Modern history: 100 years ago, in 1923, Ze'ev Jabotinsky fully acknowledged that Zionism is colonialism, and that, based on the entirety of history, the natives would fight it until the bitter end. He just didn't care what would happen to them, and promoted doing it anyway. Colonizers are never not the aggressors. On top of the colonialist nature of Zionism, the Zionists also formed terrorist organizations, like the Irgun and Lehi. They bombed many Palestinian markets and other public places, murdering many civilians, including children, even including Palestinian Jews (who opposed Zionism). Israel merged those terrorists into the new nation's military and intelligence agencies. Israelis elected Menachem Begin, leader of the Irgun, child murderer, Jew murderer, and bomber of the King David Hotel, as PM. Israelis, to this day, celebrate those terrorists as "heroes". Zionists literally taught their neighbours that terrorism is a valid path to independence and statehood, and that terrorists are to be celebrated. In 1945, it is well documented that Zionists owned just 5% of the land and were a majority nowhere. Israel was formed by actually going against the majority population. It's foundation is completely undemocratic. Then, becoming a majority, in "their" new nation, by ethnic cleansing the actual majority, and then claiming to be democratic, is utter nonsense. Law: Israel is considered an occupier by the International Court, the UN GA, and the UN SC. Occupiers are also never not the aggressors. Those occupied actually have a right to resist occupation. On the flip side, it is illegal for the occupier to settle occupied lands, and illegal to use collective punishment. Israel is a rogue nation, that doesn't abide by international law. What it has been doing, and is doing now, is illegal. Current events: This year, alone, prior to Oct 7 ... Israel held over 1200 Palestinian hostages without charges ... over 200 Palestinians had been killed by the IDF and settlers ... over 1000 Palestinians had been displaced by Israel's neverending colonization of the West Bank ... and, Israel continued to operate an open air WWII style fascist ghetto, in Gaza. Even ignoring modern history and law, in no reality did Hamas "start" anything.
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  10813.  @MaryJohanna  They decided for themselves to stop publishing a few books. Publishers have been doing this since the dawn of publishing. It doesn't take the already existing printed copies out of circulation. Check libraries and used book stores. Do you want the government to force companies to print things they don't want to print anymore?
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  10814.  @1080-v4v  Still nope. Averaged out, Trump had more border crossings per year than Obama. 2019 had the largest spike in 11 years, over double the average Obama year.
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  10815. So, a couple percentage points lower unemployment, on an already downward trending line, is better than the right to vote (15th amendment) and an end to segregation (Civil Rights Act)? Just how dumb are you?
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  10816.  @malachiromero6077  Kyle Rittenhouse? The kid's own defense made zero sense. If it's self defense to shoot someone for pointing a gun at you, then surely it's self defense to grab at a gun someone is pointing at you. His own defense makes him a murderer, and it's actually within the law to chase down and attack fleeing murderers.
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  10817.  @malachiromero6077  You seem to have missed my point. If it's self defense for Kyle to shoot Gaige, when Gaige pointed a gun at him, then surely it's self defense for Rosenbaum to simply grab at Kyle's gun, when Kyle pointed a gun at him. Kyle's own self defense argument for Gaige, should make the shooting of Rosenbaum murder. If the shooting of Rosenbaum is murder, then the other 2 totally had the right to chase down Kyle and even use violence to stop him.
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  10818.  @malachiromero6077  No. Kyle outright testified that he pointed his gun at Rosenbaum, first.
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  10819.  @malachiromero6077  What do you mean no legal reason? If Kyle has a legal reason to shoot someone pointing a gun at him, then how is having a gun pointed at you not a legal reason to try and grab it? That makes zero sense.
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  10820.  @Foxy-vs6yj  So, moving towards someone is life threatening?
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  10821.  @Foxy-vs6yj  Ah, so everyone saying they were going to kill Mike Pence, Pelosi, and AOC, then attempted to force their way into where they thought those people were, should be charged with attempted murder, or something, yeah? Because words are now violence.
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  10822. Trump, and daddy, claimed they were Swdsh, for decades. Then, suddenly, they turned Grmn.
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  10823. @UC74CejnpNgdA5fNwtNIhA0w Show me you're not arguing against the reality of math. Table 1 If the final consumer paid $49 VAT, and the government collected $49 VAT, then how much did each of the businesses end up paying into it? http://publications.gc.ca/Collection-R/LoPBdP/BP/prb0003-e.htm#HOW%20THE%20GST%20WORKS(txt)
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  10824.  @SR-lh4rm  There's nothing for businesses to avoid, if it's specifically designed NOT to tax them. Do the math for me ... Final customer pays $49 (+49). Government collects $49 (-49). 49 - 49 = ? (How much businesses paid in)
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  10825.  @SR-lh4rm  Do you have severe reading comprehension problems? The issue isn't whether it generates revenue, or not. It's who pays it. Do the math, and tell me how much the businesses paid in.
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  10826.  @SR-lh4rm  M4A doesn't ban private insurance. It bans selling duplicate coverage, just like Medigap is already banned from doing. If Yang wants to allow companies to slip in charges for something that you're already covered for, then that's just stupid. There's no evidence that a public option would lead to M4A, which is the route Yang's plan takes.
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  10827.  @SR-lh4rm  The evidence is that it doesn't get you M4A anytime soon, if at all. https://www.theatlantic.com/politics/archive/2019/08/los-angeles-public-option-2020-democrats/597115/
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  10828.  @SR-lh4rm  The Singapore government has made a pretty graphic, for those of you who find numbers confusing. https://www.iras.gov.sg/irashome/uploadedImages/IRASHome/GST/IRAS-DB-GST%20Infographic-v3.1.png
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  10829. Let me guess, you're a Dore knob.
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  10830. Did you consider the larger 2019 surge a "crisis"?
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  10831.  @alexwalker5645  Then what was with the larger surge in 2019? Why did this surge start back before October?
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  10832.  @alexwalker5645  Why were his 2019 numbers worse? Why did this wave start before October? You say stuff, but the reality is that his tactics were no more effective.
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  10833.  @alexwalker5645  Rofl. What did Democrats do in 2019, with Republicans still holding the Senate and Presidency? What did Democrats do in the last half of 2020, with Republicans still holding the Senate and Presidency? You're pulling shit straight out of your ass.
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  10834.  @alexwalker5645  Rofl. Anyone who can count, should think that a jump from 76k to 103k, in 2019, is larger than a jump from 78k to 100k, in 2021, because it's just a fact. Anyone who can count, should think that border crossings have been increasing since April of 2020, and surpassed every month of 2018, starting in September, because that is also just a fact. Also just a fact is that, averaged out, there were as many, or more, border crossings per year under Trump than Obama. That's just reality.
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  10835. Texas has a few million less people than Canada, but is still at higher cases and deaths per day. Canada still has various levels of lockdown.
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  10836.  @PillCozbee  Whatever pill Cosby gave you left permanent damage.
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  10837.  @SR-lh4rm  Like what, other than drugs, which he's honest about? What services might I have to pay a copay on, in the future (because I haven't yet)?
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  10838.  @SR-lh4rm  I've never paid a copay for blood tests. You're referring to non routine specialized blood tests, and calling it "tons"?
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  10839.  @SR-lh4rm  Our "tons" of private expenditure on healthcare is a tiny fraction of US private expenditure per capita. https://www-tc.pbs.org/prod-media/newshour/photos/2012/10/02/US_spends_much_more_on_health_than_what_might_be_expected_1_blog_main_horizontal.jpg
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  10840.  @SR-lh4rm  If the US cut their per capita costs down to Canada levels, they could almost provide everyone with public healthcare for the same amount they're currently spending on public healthcare.
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  10841.  @SR-lh4rm  It has to do with him being closer to the truth than you pretending there are "tons". Yang is for a public option, which gets you universal coverage no time soon. https://www.theatlantic.com/politics/archive/2019/08/los-angeles-public-option-2020-democrats/597115/ It also turns paying for expansion from progressive taxation to a set premium, which is regressive.
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  10842. Originally, Egypt was the first nation to rule over Canaan.
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  10843.  @toomin2316  There's no power vacuum. Republicans simply win the election.
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  10844.  @kique4879  Are you arguing that no inanimate object is more dangerous, than another? Should we sell opioids on the shelf?
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  10845.  scott thomas  Rofl. You're sad.
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  10846.  @grantwithers  It was law, for his workplace, for years. He had zero examples to support his slippery slope bullshit. Hate speech laws, covering other protected peoples, had also been around for years, with zero examples to support his slippery slope bullshit. They've now been around for years longer, and still zero examples to support his slippery slope bullshit.
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  10847.  @MrBeardedgelfling  It's statistics, dimwit. India has a worse rating for women than Saudi.
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  10848.  @MrBeardedgelfling  7000+ dowry death cases, per year. 50000+ women/girls kidnapped for the sex slave industry, per year. A third of the world's child brides. How young are you talking?
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  10849.  @zachariahyager3115  Blackmail: give me X or I'll do Y. Threat: stop doing X or I'll do Y Statement: you've done X so I'm going to do Y Definitely wasn't Dore's bullshit "blackmail" claim. And I think it was worded more like the last.
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  10850. Dore and Aaron are spewing crap. Since 2012, there have been hundreds of victim witnesses, dozens of healthcare worker witnesses, multiple different NGO witnesses, multiple independent investigations, multiple UN investigations done by dozens of UN inspectors from around the world, etc., showing hundreds of uses of chemical weapons in Syria. Two part time "inspectors" working on a single investigation at a single site, who dispute results, doesn't debunk all that.
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  10851.  @zachariahyager3115  You have reading comprehension problems.
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  10852.  @Najakeeper  Here's Aaron hanging with a small group of Assad apologists, who think a country that was just horribly divided by a civil war overwhelmingly, 95%, voted for Assad in a "free and fair" election. https://washingtonbabylon.com/dipshit-does-damascus-grayzones-aaron-mate-sells-whats-left-of-soul-shilling-for-bashar-al-assads-sham-syrian-presidential-election/
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  10853.  Michel Hadad  It wouldn't matter who was suppressing the vote, dimwit. If anyone was doing it, it wouldn't be a "free and fair" election.
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  10854.  Michel Hadad  You just argued yourself that it wasn't a "free and fair" election, dumb dumb, only for different reasons. Having Assad's people watch over you and someone fill out your ballot for you, isn't how to do "free and fair" elections, ffs ... https://www.polygraph.info/a/fact-check-to-boost-its-ally-russia-trumpets-bogus-syria-vote/31278908.html
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  10855.  Michel Hadad  You sound like a complete idiot. Standard fare for Dore knobs.
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  10856.  Michel Hadad  Barely touch the stuff. Nothing you can say will change the fact that you're the moron, who argued himself that it wasn't a "free and fair" election. But, keep coming back for a reminder, if you want.
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  10857. ​ @premkumar7969  Nah, I'm a big New Vegas fan, and I don't get what they're on about. NPCs were a variety of races. You could play as whatever race you wanted. There were strong female NPCs. You could play as female and kick everyone's asses. Veronica was a lesbian Brotherhood follower. Cass indicates she's bisexual, at least when drunk. Corporal Betsy is lesbian. If you play as a female, you can have lesbian sex with Red Lucy, Sarah Weintraub, Joana, and one of her hooker coworkers. It was a huge load of "woke".
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  10858. Why not correct them? You can lead most Christians to the exact point where men decided Jesus = God. You can lead them to the exact spot where men decided predestination and original sin. You can lead them to the exact spot where men decided what was in the bible. But you can't make them drink, So, should we beat those children with sticks and stone them to death if they don't straighten up?
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  10859. Rofl. Do these guys not know that the much more populous states also have much larger national guard units, and even their own state guards, that the state governors can bring out? They'd get their heads blown off, if they tried to invade say California. And even if the percentage of gun owners is lower, California has about 4x as many gun owners as the entire population of Alaska?
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  10860. They make fortunes that size by not getting paid a taxable income, instead getting paid in stocks. Then, they take out loans, or lines of credit, neither of which count as taxable income, against those stocks, to live on. Even the "good" ones, like Gates or Buffett, who say "yes, tax me more" ... nobody is forcing them to use that tax dodge, but they do. They're leeches on society who avoid paying back into the society that helped make them wealthy, as best they can. They make fortunes that size by not paying the workers, who made them wealthy, more. They make fortunes that size by outsourcing to $2/hr workers in Chinese or Mexican sweat shops. They make fortunes that size by automating away as many jobs as possible. They make fortunes that size by not passing along any savings from stagnating wages, outsourcing, or automation, instead increasing their profit margins.
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  10861. Like Philando Castile.
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  10862.  @truegrit2060  Like Patrick Warren?
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  10863. Her mother lives in Florida, dimwit.
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  10864.  @shinra358  What are you blathering about?
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  10865.  @andrewwells6323  Exactly what I said before. You're arguing two shit paying jobs are better than one decent paying job, and you consider that a rise in the standard of living. For tens of thousands of people, it definitely was not. And, you're fucking stupid to try and blame it all on rising prices. If food costs stayed the same, but you were paid 1/6th what you were before, that's still a drastic reduction in standard of living. Food costs doubling just made something bad twice as bad. Food costs rising doesn't refute the fact that the power loom made things a lot worse for tens of thousands of people, or the fact that the jobs it did create were unskilled, poorly paid, with horrible conditions, and terrible hours. All things workers would then be forced to riot about in later years, because many greedy capitalist owners absolutely did not give a shit about paying workers decent wages, or even if they died on the job.
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  10866.  @user-wg7nw3mh2e  What are you even talking about? There's been inflation almost every year. There was only deflation with the recession.
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  10867.  @darthutah6649  Marxist principles considers a communist phase to be a temporary reorganization phase, that should then transition into direct democracy and anarcho-socialism. So, which countries are you referring to? Revolutionary Catalonia?
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  10868.  @darthutah6649  Well, they weren't "Marxist". They were Leninist, Stalinist, Maoist, etc. Can you point to a pure capitalist utopia success? Almost all countries in the world are currently mixed, to some degree.
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  10869.  @darthutah6649  Yes, and on that spectrum, countries with universal healthcare (every other developed country) have cheaper systems that get better results. Right? In fact, the more centrist developed countries tend to be ranked higher than the US in all kinds of categories. Right?
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  10870.  DINGY LINGY Fux awf mynz  You just admitted to not thinking reasonably.
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  10871. AOC has helped to add more M4A yes votes to congress, and was just campaigning with Nina, to help add one more. You know getting enough yes votes to ever pass bills is the actual fight, right? Getting enough yes votes is the only possible way to pass anything in congress.
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  10872.  @jasperjaguar5453  She was in Cleveland, campaigning for Nina, promoting M4A while doing it, and actively trying to add another M4A yes vote to congress, that day ... while at least one of your leaders was once again busy slandering her. You might want to look into different leadership.
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  10873.  @jasperjaguar5453  It's 100+ votes short in the house alone. What do you expect to get from a 100% guaranteed to fail performance art vote? There's already a new list of those who won't sign onto the bill. Were those 300+ house members who M4A marchers were marching against, and trying to pressure? Oh really? No blowhard blowing into a megaphone anywhere? Weird.
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  10874.  @jasperjaguar5453  Didn't answer my question. What do you expect to get from it? The $15 got a vote, got a list of no voters from both the house and senate (M4A wouldn't even pass the house), and it only led to continued bitching by certain people about those who got it to stay in for a round of voting, and who voted for it. I've seen Dore knobs mention the civil rights act, which was preceded by years of protests, had majority support in congress, but a minority filibustered to the end of session. It was immediately reintroduced, filibustered for 50 more days, and then passed by the majority that supported it all along, with nothing happening in the few weeks between sessions. I've seen them mention women's suffrage, which was preceded by even more years of protests, was already adopted in multiple states, and also had majority support in congress on its first vote. Problem was it was a constitutional amendment, that needed a super majority. They, literally, held it back the next session, because they didn't think they had a super majority yet, and saw no need to have a purely performance art vote. Are you thinking of those, or something else?
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  10875.  @jasperjaguar5453  How does those bills not having votes before having majority support prove your point? You're making no sense, since those contradict the notion of having a 100% guaranteed to fail performance art vote, that's about 100 votes short in the house alone. You still didn't answer my question. What did you hope to get from a failed show vote? There's only one possible way to ever pass a bill, and that is to get enough yes votes in congress, either by converting or replacing those who don't currently support M4A. Adding more yes votes to congress is the only that will ever get you M4A. So, protesting, "pressuring" (slandering), and bitching, about those who already support it, have already signed onto it, is a total waste of time. It gets you nowhere. Going third party, which hasn't won the most popular third party a single seat in congress in its near 50 year existence, is the longest route you can take to your destination. And, fantasizing that third party candidates are perfectly perfect incorruptible people, when you have examples like Sinema, former Green party candidate, is idiotic. If you don't want to keep adding yes votes to congress, I guess you could try storming the capitol, like Trump cultists.
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  10876. Yes, a belief that we shouldn't believe proposition without adequate evidence.
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  10877. AOC helped add a few more M4A yes votes to congress in the last election, she was just with Bush helping to extend the eviction moratorium, she also campaigned with Nina trying to help add another M4A yes vote to congress. Dore knobs are complete idiots.
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  10878. Nope. No particular love for Obama. You have the wrong channel.
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  10879.  @orionsshoe2424  Torture them for all eternity?
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  10880.  @orionsshoe2424  Doesn't Jesus = God, according to the majority of Christians?
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  10881.  @orionsshoe2424  Which are all one, like a multiple personality disorder. So, if Jesus/God/Spirit rules that it's harder for camel to pass through an eye of a needle, than for those greedy bastards to get into Heaven, then where is Jesus/God/Spirit sending them?
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  10882.  @orionsshoe2424  Lol, tough answering your question without those people's book or beliefs.
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  10883.  @Wilky2526  Providing fewer and fewer options, to indicate who you are, does make it more difficult.
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  10884.  @barbarasmith5353  You need a therapist.
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  10885.  @royelliott6412  Moron. Universal healthcare, free college, double the percentage of the population working in the public sector, is working just fine in a number of places. You idiots keep mentioning Venezuela, when it has a mixed economy. Venezuela's problem is an over dependence on a single resource, dumbass.
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  10886. @Movies Which European country are you hating your universal healthcare and tuition free college education in?
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  10887. @Movies Rofl, so you think Bernie = USSR, and USSR = socialism?
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  10888. His grandfather appears to have fled Cuba about the same time as Batista officials, Batista's military, and those who got rich under Batiata ... fascists.
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  10889.  @MELESAKUEHN  Which of the other developed countries is massacring their own people?
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  10890. @Ursus Americanus Ah, so when you go to a rally with white nationalists, in Portland, you're worried about your safety? Do you have an example of leftist cops using leftist force outside the law? You said you wouldn't be breaking the law.
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  10891.  @achinthmurali5207  Because it matters how you pay for it. He's outright lying that a VAT will force corporations like Amazon to pay taxes. It's built right into VAT systems that registered businesses get their input VAT credited back to them, and all but very small businesses are required to register. Since a VAT won't actually tax Amazon, and since their share of US consumer spending is 2%, handing consumers $3t will only make them an extra $60b a year, while still not paying in. That will, in turn, make Bezos way more extra money a year than he'd ever pay into a VAT. Do you think MLK Jr envisioned a plan that made giant corporations and the super rich even richer? It's dishonest for him to compare his plan to Alaska, where people are getting paid by corporations for their resources. Nationalizing US resources to pay for his UBI would be a better plan, and actually make corporations pay in.
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  10892. Christians outright worship a sexless being that goes by masculine gender terminology, who transitioned into a human male for a time. A being that would also be the leading abortionist in existence, if it existed. If they're anti trans and/or anti abortion, they're hypocrites.
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  10893. If Trump lost his gym membership for breaking the rules and walking into the ladies' dressing room all the time ... Republicans would be like ... "TYRANNY!!!"
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  10894. ​ @user-wl2xl5hm7k 😂
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  10895.  @edwardrosser938  He did it on Joe Rogan, dimwit. Ironic last sentence. Hard to tell Dore knobs from Trumpists.
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  10896.  @edwardrosser938  I completely understood him to say ivermectin was an effective remedy, and preventative, on the Joe Rogan show. You didn't even seem to know he said it. You keep saying shit like this, but who is "conforming without questioning"? I just get my questions answered by the vast majority of doctors and scientists, across the world. An ability to do math, that Dore seemingly lacks, and reading comprehension skills, that Dore seemingly lacks, also help. Oops, looks like a Freudian slip, there, "I'm beholden to Dore".
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  10897.  @edwardrosser938  You've shown zero evidence of thinking for yourself, or being objective. Someone actually "thinking" would get their answers from the vast majority of scientists and doctors, not fringe loons verifying their subjective feelings. And you've shown zero evidence you question what those fringe voices are telling you. I'm responding to what YouTube is notifying me about. I haven't been scrolling through the entire thread, everytime. I'm in favor of paying people, instead of giant corporations, during lockdowns. I have also been in favor of following safety measures better, so there would be fewer lockdowns. Unlike you, I also support not having thousands of business owners dying and never being able to run a business again. So, you're wrong.
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  10898.  @edwardrosser938  "October 30, 2020 -- A new study conducted by researchers at Imperial College London found the COVID-19 infection fatality ratio is about 1.15% of infected people in high-income nations and 0.23% in low-income nations." So, 1 in 100 people with covid die, in developed countries, and you're all worried about a 1 in 100000 syndrome ... that is also caused by the virus, as well?
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  10899.  @edwardrosser938  Those hospitalization numbers in the op, that Dore himself cited, shows that the unvaccinated are being hospitalized at 89x the rate of of the vaccinated (a fact he didn't seem interested in). All the overwhelmed hospitals and hospital staff, are primarily their fault. Why should we care about someone who doesn't care about spreading the virus more easily? Why should we care about someone who doesn't care about overwhelming hospitals, increasing deaths due to other reasons? Your friend could be killing other people, right now, by taking a hospital bed due to stupidity.
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  10900.  @edwardrosser938  I must be pretty lucky. I don't have any family and friends that need shaming. Are you related to, and friends with, a lot of stupid people?
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  10901.  @edwardrosser938  Their "different views" are stupid, which contradicts the "intelligent", and people with those views are, again, spreading a deadly virus the most and taking up hospital beds the most, helping to kill other people, which contradicts the "nice".
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  10902. ​ @georgeglass3680  Yeah, social media news, is just like the original Young Turks. 🙄 Operating an open air WWII style fascist ghetto, on the other hand ...
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  10903. It might be all well and good to let the Democrat party fail, if the other option is some generic old Republican, but Trump and his cult are dangerous. 27% of Republican nutters don't want him to concede under any circumstances. They're willing to check the last box for overt fascism. They don't care if tens of thousands of excess Americans die, and that's on top of over the regular number of excess deaths they don't care about. They're moving from the most right wing MSM news channel, and searching for absolutely batshit crazy extremist "news" to listen to. They want to declare decentralized movements, not organized groups, "terrorists".
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  10904. @Phosphor 555 All the other fascist boxes are checked. Wanting an end to democracy would be the nail in the coffin. Not even close to being the same as idiots calling people whose politics aren't even left of Denmark "communists".
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  10905. @Phosphor 555 No they aren't.
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  10906. ​ @AlexandrawOfficial_Lexi  You are absolutely correct. I have no clue what a "woamn" is. What is that?
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  10907. ​ @shadebleu  Trump not only won't stop aid, he has announced that he wants newcomers to be forced to pledge solidarity with Israel. Is there some other viable option?
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  10908.  @shadebleu  Because your comment would suggest voting for someone else, dimwit. Who would that be?
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  10909.  @shadebleu  Do you know the definition of "viable", dumb dumb?
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  10910.  @landon1626  Lol, yep, and Haley is talking making being anti-Zionist illegal. The free speech party.
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  10911.  @ABC-ej1sd  Yeah, but the terms used to refer to the exact same thing, a democratic transition from capitalism to socialism. So, if you're going to change your goal to stopping at centrism, then yeah, change your name.
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  10912. Because blocking her nomination would, for sure, get you a more progressive alternative? They don't need progressive votes to pass a nomination, if Republicans are okay with the nomination.
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  10913. Knowledge = a justified true belief How is it exactly you seperate belief and knowledge?
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  10914. Oh my gosh, he forgot something 30 years ago, when Bush was VP, and right before his Bush appointment. Big woop. Oi. Attorney Generals exonerate people all the time. You're spouting Republican bullshit.
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  10915. @Wallaby Ted The report fully said they would have exonerated. They couldn't because there is evidence of obstruction. There was also evidence of conspiracy, but they decided they couldn't prove Jr knew he was breaking any laws. His ignorance saved him.
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  10916. @Wallaby Ted Every investigation can decide there's no reason to suspect someone of a crime, and cross them off their suspect list.
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  10917. The US dropped the bombs to get Japan to surrender fast, before there was a chance of them surrendering to the USSR. The US knew the USSR was about to go to war with Japan.
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  10918. Less hands to grease with a smaller government. Smaller doesn't equate to less corrupt.
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  10919.  @narcissisticcapitalist443  You're a liar. JAG: "People often assume that military members give up many, if not all, of their Constitutional rights upon joining the military. In reality, military members enjoy the same rights that civilians do, if not better."
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  10920.  @narcissisticcapitalist443  Were you home schooled by morons, or something? Vaccines are mandated for kids attending public schools. Vaccines are mandated for immigrants. Vaccines are mandated for military members, who have constitutional rights. You know why having constitutional rights doesn't interfere with vaccine mandates? Because there's no right to cause sickness and death, dimwit.
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  10921.  @narcissisticcapitalist443  Tell it to JAG.
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  10922.  @narcissisticcapitalist443  Talk to JAG. They consider you a liar. There are public school vaccine mandates in every state, dimwit.
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  10923.  @narcissisticcapitalist443  Can't post link, but look up Reuters: "U.S. state vaccine mandates in schools". Every single state.
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  10924.  @brianm7278  What rights do you give up?
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  10925.  @brianm7278  So, military members don't have the right to be on here saying bullshit, like that the government strips them of their rights? What rights do they give up?
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  10926.  @abrahamali115  Fact: bigotry and hate crimes against Jewish people are largely perpetrated by right wing Christians, in the US. That's who they're being "targeted" by, mostly.
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  10927. You've already made your root words people. Theos (God) and Atheos (Without God) aren't people. The -ist makes them people. Equivelant root words should be... Berra (berries) Aberra (without berries)
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  10928. Increasing the number of loons viewing, commenting on, and liking, their anti-vax crap makes them money.
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  10929. ​ @adamgood13  Morons ... "There's no Texas, because there's no country called Texas!" "c. 1000: Suda encyclopedic lexicon: "Παλαιστίνη: ὄνομα χώρας. καὶ Παλαιστι̂νος, ὁ ἀπὸ Παλαιστίνης." / "Palestine: Name of a territory. Also [sc. attested is] Palestinian, a man from Palestine.[205]"
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  10930.  @NessaBear90  Oh shit, you are actually dumber than a stump.
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  10931.  @JustMe-ec2ph  Sure. 96% of doctors are vaccinated, so odds are ...
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  10932.  @JustMe-ec2ph  Rofl. You're like one of those idiots who pretends like there are two equal sides of doctors who think smoking increases your risk of cancer and those who don't.
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  10933.  @JustMe-ec2ph  Exceptions isn't "both sides", dimwit. They're exceptions. The other side of "both sides" would be doctors peddling that the vaccines are no good. Those are few and far between, and not an equal side.
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  10934.  @JustMe-ec2ph  No, you were the one trying to peddle exceptions, as if that was a "both sides" issue. I clearly understood the difference, which is why I called you out for it. I never said there weren't any. I said the sides aren't anywhere close to being equal. Oh, that's a convenient way to not trust the vast majority of doctors and nurses in the world. Enjoy your confirmation bias.
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  10935.  @patrickriarchy1976  You seem to have zero clue what you're talking about. UAE government: "Liability of VAT The liability of VAT is the difference between the output tax payable (VAT charged on supplies of goods and services) for a given tax period and the input tax (VAT incurred on purchases) recoverable for the same tax period. Where the output tax exceeds the input tax amount, the difference must be paid to FTA. Where the input tax exceeds the output tax, a taxable person will have the excess input tax recovered; he will be entitled to set this off against subsequent payment due to FTA." Do you grasp what that says? If my business has paid $1000 input VAT, and collected $2000 output VAT, it only needs to send the difference ($1000) to the government, recovering the $1000 it spent. Again ... if the government received $2000 ($1000 + $1000), and my customers paid $2000, how much tax did my business end up paying?
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  10936.  @patrickriarchy1976  So far, you're arguing with someone who actually filled out the vat returns, for years ... the Canadian government ... and the UAE government. From the EU, representing 27 countries: "a consumption tax because it is borne ultimately by the final consumer. It is not a charge on businesses." "The VAT due on any sale is a percentage of the sale price but from this the taxable person is entitled to deduct all the tax already paid at the preceding stage. Therefore, double taxation is avoided ..." How big a hole do you want to dig yourself into?
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  10937.  @patrickriarchy1976  Rofl. It's never the end customer. If I spend $1000 on an office computer, for my clothing business, and pay $100 VAT, I still get to deduct that from my output VAT, collected on clothing sales. All input VAT can be deducted from all output VAT. Just stop.
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  10938.  @patrickriarchy1976  If your business is big enough, that you need an accountant, then you're already going to need one to do your VAT returns, ffs. Now you're getting ridiculous.
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  10939. There's no evidence he had to go through the naturalization process, for his US citizenship. It was just handed to him, because of his mom.
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  10940. Not being able to see racism and bigotry is how Sam gets himself into shit. Who did Trump tell to "go back" to their "original" countries? All but 1 were US born women, but Trump assumed they all originally came from other countries, based solely on their ethnicities. That's some racism. Trump also obviously thinks it's okay for he and his white followers to constantly criticize and trash a black president, instead of packing up and leaving. His double standard is some more racism.
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  10941.  @sassyviking6003  What's your specific definition of "fascism"? "Fascism is the complete opposite of Marxian socialism." ~ Mussolini The Marxian ideal basically being anarchism ... a stateless, non-authoritarian, democratic, socialism. The complete opposite being an ultra-nationalistic, authoritarian, anti-democratic, capitalism. Musk has been in favor of anti-democratic authoritarianism, and is definitely big on capitalism. Is he just not nationalistic enough, to be full fascist?
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  10942.  @sassyviking6003  The main "other" for fascists were socialists, communists, and unionists. Socialism was the primary thing that Mussolini argued fascism was opposed to, in the doctrine of fascism. His black shirts went after socialist enclaves throughout Italy, before his march on Rome. It's the main reason the King accepted him instead of fighting them off with the military. Musk has proven he is anti-union and anti-socialist. Mussolini also argued fascism was opposed to democracy and that it wasn't pacifist. Musk has supported an anti-democratic coup by authoritarian military and police, that Morales, and many others, considered to be a fascist coup. Fascists are fascists even before they attain positions of power, to control the media, or whatnot. Being in power is not an actual requirement. Even so, most MSM promotes capitalism and criticizes socialism. It may not be personally controlled by Musk, but it is controlled by those like him. So, it's already promoting the broader message someone like him would want it to promote. Fascists were backed by large landowners, leading industrialists, and religious extremists. Musk being on multiple Trump task forces, and saying he was undecided who he would vote for in September, means he wasn't outright opposed to a cult leader that constantly trashed the media.
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  10943.  @coachduke9323  I literally said the partition wasn't democratic. Britain "owned" many places, all over the world, and colonized them, against the wishes of the natives. What's your point? You're literally not debunking anything I said.
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  10944. Two problems ... One is that there's no such thing as "free speech" on private property. Since you don't have a right to be on their property, to begin with, you don't have a right to be on their property saying whatever you want. Public ownership would make a social media platform an actual public square. The second is that there's no such thing as unlimited free speech. Inciting violence, or some such, isn't protected speech, to begin with, and rightly so. Inciting violence should be before nipples, when it comes to banning things
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  10945. Ironic headline. All I'm hearing is "Waaah, people are voting against me, stop counting them!!!"
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  10946.  @Will_Moffett  You two are complete dimwits. "Bills in the House can only be released from committee without a proper committee vote by a discharge petition signed by a majority of the House membership (218 members)." https://votesmart.org/education/how-a-bill-becomes-law#.YFASPzlE00M
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  10947. It's pronounced "scenario". Hope that helps.
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  10948. Do you, personally, think it would be okay, to treat all men as if they're potential rapists?
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  10949. IDF Israelis are terrorists. Or whatever.
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  10950.  @BigRed2  When did Obama's last budget run until?
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  10951.  @christophergreen6595  Yeah, he was an anarchist. He hated fascists, but also didn't much like authoritarian communists, promoting Soviet style communism.
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  10952. Yeah, yeah, the most popular third party hasn't won a single seat in congress in 50 years. That's a winning strategy.
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  10953.  @TanisC  Rofl. You think modern politics is exactly the same as in the 1860s? What 50 year takeover strategy? The broader progressive caucus is 30 years old, and is 10-15 seats away from becoming the majority of house Dems. Justice Democrats are 4 years old, and have already helped replaced a number of corporate Dems. AOC is has been around 2 years, and just helped replace a few corporate Dems. The Libertarian party? Haven't won a single seat in congress in 50 years. The Green Party? Haven't won a single seat in congress in 20 years. The 50 other third parties? Nada. Third parties won't be viable again without changing the system, and you can't change it from the outside.
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  10954.  @crescendyr8438  Amy isn't top 3 of her supporters' second choice, according to this ... https://morningconsult.com/2020-democratic-primary/
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  10955. The US has been pushing the line of all out fascism, for some time. Basically the only box that needed checking was to become outright anti-democratic, rather than being somewhat undemocratic. Trumpists checked that box, by trying to overthrow the democratic process to keep Dumpty on as an unelected dictator. Sure, Cheney has done a lot of terrible things, and helped push things to the line, but it's still a very important box, if not the most important box, to keep unchecked.
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  10956.  @michaelburkey1968  Both Islamophobes.
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  10957.  @michaelburkey1968  Ah yes, every Harris quote is taken out of context.
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  10958.  @michaelburkey1968  So, when it comes to Muslims, he doesn't think the Christian religious right, like Ted Cruz, or Ben Carson, or fascists, are the most sensible? Do let me know how this is out of context. "The dogma of multiculturalism has left a secular Europe very slow to address the looming problem of religious extremism among its immigrants. The people who speak most sensibly about the threat that Islam poses to Europe are actually fascists. To say that this does not bode well for liberalism is an understatement: It does not bode well for the future of civilization."
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  10959.  @michaelburkey1968  The "nuance" is bullshit, because there's no such thing as Islam, without Muslims. Religions don't exist on their own. A "Muslim" is someone who practices some form of Islam. "Islam" is a religion practiced by Muslims. So, when he makes out like Islam is a singular horrible thing, he's making out like that's what all Muslims practice. If you say Islam is dangerous, and all Muslims practice Islam, how haven't you said something about all Muslims? You have. You've portrayed them all as possible ticking time bombs. Yes , he promotes former Muslims, like Hirsi Ali, who says we're at war with Islam, that Islam needs to be defeated, even militarily, that there's no moderate Islam, etc. If every Muslim on the planet practices a form of Islam, what is that saying about all Muslims? He was for Ted Cruz's picking Christian refugees over Muslim ones. He thinks Ben Carson ... who also was against the Muslim ban, but has said a bunch of other shit things about Muslims, and is an utter moron ... knows more about what's going on with Muslims in the world than Chomsky. If you've got a reformed liberal Muslim, who still practices their form of Islam, and an ultra-conservative Wahhabi Muslim, who practices their form of Islam, and you say "Islam is the motherload of bad ideas", as if it's a singular unified thing, how does that not apply to both Muslims?
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  10960.  @michaelburkey1968  Scripture =\= religion. We seem to grasp that with other religions. Religious people interpret things differently, give weight to things differently, cherrypick differently, include extra writings differently ... and it is the final product that is their religion. To say there's only one true way to follow a religious book to the letter, a) goes against over two centuries of non-theists arguing religious books are contradictory; and b) sides with the extremists making out like other Muslims aren't true Muslims. It's, literally, helping the extremists make their Not a True Scotsman argument. If you're going to help promote a single interpretation, why not pick the one you like best, rather than the one you like least? It hasn't seemed to spook him about US foreign policy. Why, when Hezbollah or Bin Laden, list the US committing or complicity in ME atrocities, as reasons for their actions, doesn't Sam give a crap? He went on with Chomsky, defending US intent, and not seeming to grasp that the other side considers their intentions to be good, as well.
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  10961. Stop bullshitting. You don't care about others having healthcare. In 2016, you promoted Trump as a better option, not caring if that might lead to the repeal of the ACA and millions losing their healthcare, including people with preexisting conditions. During the 2020 primaries, you promoted Tulsi ("Medicare choice" aka public option) instead of Bernie (M4A), not caring about getting the better healthcare plan, and not caring that you might peel away enough votes from the more viable progressive and let Biden win. You spent the general basically running an attack ad campaign against Trump's only viable opponent, again not caring if that would lead to the ACA being completely repealed, not caring if he killed thousands of more Americans, and no longer advocated for getting even a public option, or the Medicare age decrease that would put millions more on Medicare. Plus, you're promoting yet another third party that won't even get you a seat in congress in the next 50 years, let alone get you M4A, and could just split progressive voting enough to lose the gains they've made within the Dem party, handing it back to corporate Dems, and let Republicans rule for decades, possibly destroying the healthcare system even more. If anyone is a "fake", "shill", "sellout", or whatnot, it's clearly you, Jimmy. AOC backed Bernie over Biden, Biden over Trump, and just helped get more pro-M4A progressives elected to congress. Adding more yes votes to congress is the only thing that will ever get M4A passed, failed show vote or no failed show vote.
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  10962. But it's not being prescribed for covid in the US, so people are literally buying the horse dewormer. Nothing dishonest about it.
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  10963. 75-90% of people dying are unvaccinated. According to the very Gallup article Jimmy cited recently, the hospitalization rate for the unvaccinated is 89x higher than the vaccinated (then he went on to dishonestly compare those rates to a "death rate" that's based on totally different math and also a year and a half old). So, yeah, people not getting vaxxed are morons. The UK has a totally socialized healthcare system, not just socialized health insurance. Their moron of a leader also didn't take it seriously, for some time, and they also had a shit result because of it. Some other countries with single payer health insurance, also had shit responses. They, and the US, all had pathetically low trace testing rates, testing fewer than 10 people per confirmed case, for months, allowing the virus to spread. Countries with high trace testing rates (50+ people per confirmed case), and a high percentage of the population following guidelines, like S Korea, Vietnam, Australia, New Zealand, and some others, had excellent responses. Their covid death rates would translate into 750+k fewer deaths, in the US. Even the death rates in countries with mediocre testing rates (15+ people per confirmed case) and somewhat better following of guidelines, like Canada, Germany, Denmark, Finland, Norway, and some others, would translate into hundreds of thousands fewer deaths, in the US. So, no, simply having universal healthcare didn't save a lot of lives, and yes, the go to covid measures can save hundreds of thousands of lives, if people follow them. People fighting and arguing against them are morons. Jimmy is also a moron.
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  10964.  @krook5158  Oh yeah, that's brilliant, comparing developed countries, with 20+ years higher life extectancies, to countries that have life expectancies as low as 55. Definitely a bright bunch, here. What "known issues and risks", do you think there are, exactly?
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  10965.  @krook5158  It's not "what I think of Africa", it's a fact that the life expectancy of all of Africa is 63. "October 30, 2020 -- A new study conducted by researchers at Imperial College London found the COVID-19 infection fatality ratio is about 1.15% of infected people in high-income nations and 0.23% in low-income nations." "The disparity between high and low-income nations is due largely to facts that high-income nations tend to have larger number of elderly in their populations whereas low-income nations’ population tend to skew youngers." Looking at the death rates in low income countries, with much lower life expectancies, is stupid and isn't an honest comparison to high income countries, with much higher life extectancies. But, I get that Dore knobs like being lied to. The main cause of myocarditis is viruses, dimwit, including covid. Covid causes myocarditis at a higher rate than the vaccines. Plus, it's not a serious condition. Specifically, the J&J and AZ vaccines, you mean. The mRNA vaccines have nothing to do with blood clots. There were 3 deaths definitely confirmed to be caused by the J&J vaccine, early on, in the US. Then, they figured out who it affects most and what to watch for. There haven't been any reported since.
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  10966.  @SmokeRingHalo  "The ideal I advocate is the creation of a White Ethno-State on the North American continent." ~ Richard Spencer
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  10967.  @ncwordman  Sounds like you're just cherry picking which parts you consider myth and which parts you don't. Why would you believe Paul spoke to undead Jesus, but not believe laws were handed down to Moses from God? Numbers 15:32 While the Israelites were in the wilderness, a man was found gathering wood on the Sabbath day. 33 Those who found him gathering wood brought him to Moses and Aaron and the whole assembly, 34 and they kept him in custody, because it was not clear what should be done to him. 35 Then the Lord said to Moses, “The man must die. The whole assembly must stone him outside the camp.” 36 So the assembly took him outside the camp and stoned him to death, as the Lord commanded Moses.
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  10968.  @hoodootheclown929  Doesn't matter, if Christians think things changed. Even the NT says James said Gentiles need to be told to follow Noahide laws, to start, and would learn the laws of Moses in church, before there ever was a new testament, and the only Bible was the Tanakh. If it's the same God, then it considered smashing people's brains out, with rocks, to be "good".
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  10969.  @hoodootheclown929  Lol. There are 613 laws in the OT, ffs.
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  10970.  @hoodootheclown929  Do you have reading comprehension problems? It doesn't f*cking matter if you think the laws have changed. The fact of the matter is that the book says those old laws were handed down by the same God, that Christians still claim is all good. They're still claiming ordering genocide was all good. Still claiming that ordering to bash someone's head in with a rock was all good. Etc.
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  10971.  @ncwordman  Then what have you been blathering about? You know people are actually still practicing Judaism and Christianity, yeah, and most peddle that their book is the truth, yeah? So, why are you comparing it to a defunct mythology?
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  10972.  @ncwordman  What are you dimwits failing to grasp? It's not that the ancient people did X. It's that modern Christians still claim the God who ordered all that OT violence is all good, and the vast majority do not claim the OT is a myth, or whatever game you're playing.
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  10973.  @ncwordman  Can't copy and paste in the phone app. How does the fact that it's actually fiction apply to people who don't believe it's actually fiction? They don't believe it's fiction, and they literally point at their book, to justify most of their claims. Christians do not claim the OT is fiction. They accept that it happened, accept that their God dictated those ancient laws, and still consider their God to be good. Nothing you've been blathering about is relevant to any of that.
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  10974.  @thexalon  It is a defense. That's the reason the Mueller report gave for not charging Jr and Jared. It would be difficult to prove they knew they were knowingly breaking the law.
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  10975. ​ @brianm7109  Take your meds Brian!
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  10976.  @nathandwyer7273  Dishonesty? The Capitol Hill police bill was heavily amended in the senate, and sent back to the house. What was AOC's actual final vote on the bill?
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  10977.  Michel Hadad  Dore knobs can't seem to separate simply reporting on human rights violations, or war crimes, and supporting unilateral intervention by the US, or a tiny coalition of the willing. It's possible to be in favor of the former and opposed to the later.
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  10978.  @anthonyagbojo1408  Ummm, not sure. Can you copy other comments in browser mode? Edit: Yes, you can.
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  10979.  @romya-f3965  Do tell. Ze'ev Jabotinsky, founder of Revisionist Zionsim, didn't write The Iron Wall? Why does the Jewish Virtual Library have his articles?
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  10980.  @DiverDan1000-3  You failed again. Check your reading comprehension, and try again.
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  10981. Harris is a nutter, himself.
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  10982.  @thefaustiananointed6166  And? What crime could he have been arrested for, once he landed in the US, dumb dumb?
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  10983.  @888strummer  What a bunch of crap. Gas prices dropped because of covid, dumbass, and now they're back up. You lot didn't bitch and complain when gas prices went from $1.75 to $3, under Trumpty Dumpty. Inflation also dropped in 2020, due to covid. Dropping down to almost 0%, then going up to 4%, isn't that big of a deal, averaged out. The yearly average is about 3%. Plenty of evidence that the ongoing covid problem is connected to morons in low vaccination rate red counties, and not asylum seekers.
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  10984.  @thefaustiananointed6166  Wrong.
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  10985.  @thefaustiananointed6166  Name a single country where capitalism has never failed.
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  10986.  @thefaustiananointed6166  You didn't answer my question. An absolute monarchy is a 100% privately owned and operated country ... purely capitalistic. Bringing down monarchs, taking their private property, and redistributing that property to the people, is what raised many people out of poverty. Overthrowing capitalists, who thought owning other human beings was fine, and ending that practice, brought millions out of slavery and abject poverty. Massive labor protests & riots against capitalist employers, leading to workers having more rights, and more of a say in what they're worth, brought millions out of abject poverty. Imperial capitalists have made numerous countries poorer than they originally were. If you wipe out millions of natives, and toss the remainder into abject poverty, that you've improved the lives of the people you've replaced the natives with, doesn't equate to a net positive. Capitalism has failed many times over, and fails people daily. Most of the people living in abject poverty, today, are living in countries that are right of center.
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  10987.  @thefaustiananointed6166  Rofl. Revisionist would be claiming an absolute monarchy is something other than a 100% privately owned and operated endeavour. Saudi is a country owned by the House of Saud. The Saudi "government" is the House of Saud. Absolute monarchs are landlords, just like medieval history and law depicted them to be. Face it. You're dumber than a stump, or a Trump.
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  10988.  @thefaustiananointed6166  I actually did describe events that were economic moves away from pure capitalism. Do you have severe reading comprehension problems? Taking someone's private property and redistributing it amongst the public, isn't a capitalistic action, dumb dumb.
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  10989.  @thefaustiananointed6166  Sorry, if I don't know the names of the millions of people who benefited from taking the property of a single person and redistributing it to the public. I'm sure one was named Charlie. If you think taking an individual's property and redistributing it, is a capitalistic action, then I don't know what to tell you. While an individual step away from all out capitalism won't land you at the opposite extreme, it is still an economically socialistic move. What do you think centrist countries are in the center of, capitalism and ... ? What are they a fairly even mix of, capitalism and ... ? You know, the happiest countries in the world, with high standards of living, lower poverty rates, better education outcomes, better healthcare outcomes, etc.
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  10990.  @thefaustiananointed6166  You definitely have reading comprehension problems.
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  10991.  @888strummer  Rofl. The Keystone pipeline expansion wasn't being used yet, ffs, because it wasn't even close to finished. He didn't reduce supply, dimwit.
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  10992.  @thefaustiananointed6166  Almost everyone who lived in an absolute monarchy, dimwit. Not sure how many times I have to say it, for you to comprehend. All those poor peasants were poor under "Lords", aka landlords. Going from a privately owned and operated country/"government" to a publicly owned and operated country/government, isn't a step towards all out capitalism, it's a step away from it.
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  10993.  @thefaustiananointed6166  Rofl. What part of me describing the UK, the US, France, and other developed countries, moving away from absolute monarchies don't you understand, dimwit? Taking the American colony away from its private owner, King George, and redistributing it to the masses, or to public ownership, isn't a step towards all out capitalism. It's a step away from all out capitalism. If you're arguing that is "moving from poverty to a mediocre minimum shared by everyone", then the "capitalism" you think pulled more people out of poverty (that they were in due to capitalism) doesn't exist.
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  10994.  @thefaustiananointed6166  No liberties with definitions, dimwit. At one end of the spectrum you've got 100% capitalism, at the other end you've got 100% socialism, and then you have a wide variety of mixes in between. Various actions will move you one direction, or another, making you more of one and less of the other. Taking a land owner's private property and redistributing it to the masses or holding it as publicly owned property, moving from private ownership over a nation to public ownership over a nation, isn't a capitalistic action. If you took some corporation away from its owner and redistributed ownership to the masses, or held some in public ownership, if you took away their control over their corporation and gave control to the public, in what f*cking reality is that a capitalistic move?
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  10995.  @thefaustiananointed6166  Rofl. You've avoided every question I've asked, from the start, ffs. In what reality is taking a landlord's private property, and giving it to the tenants, or making it publicly owned, a capitalistic move?
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  10996.  @thefaustiananointed6166  Saudi is an absolute monarchy. Saudi is a 100% pure capitalism country. 100% privately owned and operated. If you think N Korea is now an absolute monarchy, entirely privately owned and operated, then yes, it has also become a capitalist country. In what reality is a 100% privately owned operation not capitalist? No, you didn't answer my question. In what reality is taking a landlord's private property and redistributing to the tenants and to public ownership, a capitalistic action? N Korea would be the opposite of that, if it's now an absolute monarchy. In what reality is taking a republic's publicly owned land and handing it to a single private owner, a socialistic action?
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  10997. He was supposed to have started quarantine on the 2nd. Do these guys just not know what "quarantine" means?
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  10998. For what? Biden wasn't holding any office, in 2017.
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  10999.  @dwreal1717  No you can't.
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  11000.  Craft9841  With no altruism getting involved, we would have completely laid waste to nature, by now.
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  11001.  Craft9841  Nothing you said contradicts what I said.
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  11002. Rofl, ex-PM Ehud Barak just told Christiane Amanpour that Israel built the bunkers under the hospital, decades ago, dimwit.
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  11003.  @Fischer977  Most aid to Palestinians is controlled by non profits, who order the goods for them, from an approved list of goods by Israel, and which all come through Israel (only people are allowed to cross at Rafah normally). Then there is the money from Qatar, that is used to pay salaries, which Bibi has had full control over, having turned it off and on a number of times, and provided lists of people it's not allowed to go to.
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  11004.  @gilbertlam9398  Fact is that Hamas is just a poor man's Likud. Likud was founded by Menachem Begin, Irgun terrorist leader who bombed the King David Hotel. The Irgun also bombed numerous Palestinian markets and other public places, murdering many Palestinian civilians, including children, even including Palestinian Jews (who didn't support colonialist Zionsim). Israel merged those terrorists into the new nation's military and intelligence agencies. Israelis elected Begin ... terrorist, child murderer, Jew murderer ... as PM. Israelis, to this day, celebrate those Irgun terrorists as "heroes". Likud's, "between the sea and the Jordan there will only be Israeli sovereignty", platform, declares an intent to completely colonize and ethnically cleanse all Palestine territories ... 1977: "The Right of the Jewish People to the Land of Israel (Eretz Israel) a. The right of the Jewish people to the land of Israel is eternal and indisputable and is linked with the right to security and peace; therefore, Judea and Samaria will not be handed to any foreign administration; between the Sea and the Jordan there will only be Israeli sovereignty. b. A plan which relinquishes parts of western Eretz Israel, undermines our right to the country, unavoidably leads to the establishment of a "Palestinian State," jeopardizes the security of the Jewish population, endangers the existence of the State of Israel. and frustrates any prospect of peace." "Settlement Settlement. both urban and rural. in all parts of the Land of Israel is the focal point of the Zionist effort to redeem the country, to maintain vital security areas and serves as a reservoir of strength and inspiration for the renewal of the pioneering spirit. The Likud government will call on the younger generation in Israel and the dispersions to settle and help every group and individual in the task of inhabiting and cultivating the wasteland, while taking care not to dispossess anyone." 1999: "The Government of Israel flatly rejects the establishment of a Palestinian Arab state west of the Jordan river. The Palestinians can run their lives freely in the framework of self-rule, but not as an independent and sovereign state. Thus, for example, in matters of foreign affairs, security, immigration, and ecology, their activity shall be limited in accordance with imperatives of Israel's existence, security and national needs." "The Jewish communities in Judea, Samaria, and Gaza are the realization of Zionist values. Settlement of the land is a clear expression of the unassailable right of the Jewish people to the Land of Israel and constitutes an important asset in the defense of the vital interests of the State of Israel. The Likud will continue to strengthen and develop these communities and will prevent their uprooting."
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  11005.  @thenightingale7405  But, that's nonsense. Your "healthcare" is provided by your doctors, nurses, etc. You can keep those. It's just paid for by someone else.
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  11006.  @roblovely15  Could just be a rounding up issue.
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  11007. Knowledge: "facts, information, and skills acquired through experience or education", Oxford Evidence: "the available body of facts or information indicating whether a belief or proposition is true or valid", Oxford Both are facts and information. You aquire evidence and knowledge, you DO NOT form knowledge. Based on availaable evidence, or knowledge, you form a belief, or not. Ahe-ist = strong, explicit Agnostic = implicit, weak Redefining the word Atheist has only convoluded things.
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  11008.  @markjoseph8795  Nope. Pretty easy to look up rural vs urban statistics, dumb dumb. Unless rural is majority "bulack", you're wrong.
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  11009. The US was founded by people who rioted and rebelled over paying an extra tax specifically to fund the police/military. You're on the side of King George/King Dumpty.
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  11010.  Peak Weimar  What American flag?
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  11011. She was never anti-war. Brain dead idiots, like Dore, were pushing a self described "hawk". “In short, when it comes to the war against terrorists, I’m a hawk. When it comes to counterproductive wars of regime change, I’m a dove.” - Tulsi Gabbard, Hawaii Tribune-Herald, 2016
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  11012. Descendant of fascists, or fascist supporters, who preferred the Batista dictatorship and rampant crime bosses, just like the US government did.
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  11013. You can add an extra healthcare tax to some specific things, like cigarettes, alcohol, and junk food, if you want. Riding a motorcycle, or driving a vehicle, still has its own vehicle insurance, and it's usually the fault of the other driver, not the motorcycle driver.
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  11014. Not sure about this move from Dems. Who are they going to work with, now?
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  11015.  @martinpenwald9475  Yeah, but getting the bare minimum done was only possible through working with McCarthy's faction. If Gaetz's faction was in charge, there'd be nothing ... a complete shutdown. If McCarthy's faction is now pissed at Dems, and unwilling to work with them further, they may all just line up behind the Gaetz faction, and government won't be funded. I think having McCarthy on the ropes, was a perfect place to keep him.
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  11016.  @itsumademoheiwa  You don't know what fascism is, dumbass.
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  11017.  Steve Austin  You're a moron. Everyone, but you apparently, knows there was a 2009 global economic crisis, that had nothing to do with Obama. Things didn't gradually slide, under Obama. There was the crash, and then a steady rise, since 2009, which has continued on the same trajectory under Trump. Nothing spiked on an even greater upward path, after Trump was elected. Fuck you Trumpets are the biggest idiots.
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  11018.  Trump 2020  You're a moron. https://www.abc10.com/mobile/article/news/local/california/verify-do-undocumented-immigrants-pay-taxes/103-73a666a0-fe1d-4560-a886-2fc8b1972194
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  11019.  Trump 2020  Rofl. You said they pay $19b in taxes, claimed they use $20b in healthcare, and then called that double what they're paying in taxes. Plus, that's just federal. They also pay state and local taxes. Places that have done careful cost benefit analyses, have found an overall benefit. https://www.bizjournals.com/austin/news/2017/11/06/undocumented-immigrants-provide-texas-with-net.html
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  11020. You're dropping the a- again! The proposition is already "no Gods". Being Agnostic (using your definition) to that proposition would be "no knowledge" of "no Gods".
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  11021.  Aaron Dickson  So, you want more gun violence. Then what are you complaining about?
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  11022. What? -ist SUFFIX 1 a person who believes or practises something atheist Hehe, Oxford online even used aeth-ist as an example. Nice.
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  11023. 6:00 Yang is full of shit. He is either clueless or lying as to how a VAT actually works. A VAT is specifically designed to NOT tax businesses, in order to avoid double taxation. Since corporations won't pay into the dividend, they will only get the benefits of the dividend being spent. Amazon's share of US consumer spending is 2.3%. If even 2% of $3t is spent on Amazon, Amazon will make an extra $60b a year. That would, in turn, make Bezos billions a year more than he'd ever personally pay into the dividend. The same goes for Musk, and every other slimeball billionaire who gets paid in stocks and options to avoid paying back into the society that helped make them rich. Yang's VAT/UBI scheme would have money flowing to a handful of giant corporations, and their shareholders, even faster than it is now. https://ec.europa.eu/taxation_customs/business/vat/what-is-vat_en
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  11024. He described Rosen as a troll. Not feeding the trolls is pretty standard advice, but immediately also pointed out a double standard, before being interrupted. They called Rosen's actions as "whitesplaining", "racist", trolling, and mocked her lame apology. Not sure what else you're looking for.
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  11025.  Logically progressive  Trump, and his cronies, have proved trolling on TV, or just about anywhere, is a thing. He had Republican presidential candidates arguing dick sizes at a debate, instead of issues. Sam didn't say not to respond, at all, so that's just a strawman. He knows it's an interview show, where two guests are each going to give opinions on things, and what each other are saying. Not letting a troll push your buttons, to get the reaction they want, doesn't equate to not responding. Sam is simply not a Nina, or a Cenk, or an Ana, and doesn't get very riled up when he's a guest on MSM. Disagreeing with his approach isn't quite the same as making out like he's a racist who needs to "STFU", as in the above op.
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  11026.  Logically progressive  He didn't say not to respond, as I've already mentioned. Continuing to regurgitate your strawman, anyway, is pretty dishonest. Here, you're commenting on my reply to this op. Go back to your own thread, if you don't want this op referred to.
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  11027.  Logically progressive  Rofl, you're the obvious moron. I didn't even refer to your other conversation, dumbass, so have no clue why that guy even replied to me. That you do think I referred to your other conversation, and needed a correction, indicates you both have severe reading comprehension problems.
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  11028.  @DesignDungeon-nn6jn  No, moron. Objectively, if someone comments in a thread without tagging anyone, then they're replying to the op. Then, when someone tags me and replies to my comment, we're now in a conversation about my reply to the op. Then I tag a reply, and we're in a seperate conversation, dumbass. Done with me? You shouldn't have even started with me, idiot.
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  11029.  @DesignDungeon-nn6jn  Moron, I didn't tag Logically, in my first comment. I responded to the op, dumbass, then Logically started a conversation with me, that you've butted into. Good, fuck off.
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  11030.  @DesignDungeon-nn6jn  Learn how YouTube comment sections work, moron.
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  11031.  @DesignDungeon-nn6jn  Rofl! Hilarious! You read his reply to me, and did you then comment to him about that, and somehow automatically think that brought me along? You two seem to be under some weird delusion that I've read anything you've said to each other.
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  11032.  @DesignDungeon-nn6jn  Hurr Durr ... uh huh. I get notifications when tagged, and respond to being tagged. So, my conversation is limited only to my reply to the op, and replies to tags. So, try rereading my conversation, limited only to my tagging and being tagged, without your nonsensical assumption that I'm reading the entire thread, instead of just reading my notifications.
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  11033.  @DesignDungeon-nn6jn  Rofl, are you "done", or not, dumb dumb? "Done" would suggest you'd stop replying, but you don't.
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  11034.  @DesignDungeon-nn6jn  You seem to get a kick out of trolling yourself. Did we do this before, where you trolled yourself for endless links proving you're a clueless moron? done: completed; finished; through
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  11035.  @DesignDungeon-nn6jn  Hehe, yep the same dumb dumb.
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  11036. "Agnosticism is about not taking a definite position." Exactly. "God Exists" A) True (Theist) B) False (Atheist) C) None of the above (Agnostic)
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  11037. Do tell.
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  11038.  @ianalan4367  You grasp the concept of "fair share", right? And you grasp the concept of that payment covering a period of time where his net worth grew by about $150b, so is less than a 10% tax.
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  11039.  @ianalan4367  Which is a load of bullshit, because the banks consider those stocks to have current value.
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  11040.  @ianalan4367  I know how taxes work, ffs. That was a lot of blathering for nothing. The complaint is how they work. No. People whose wealth increases by income, pay taxes on that entire wealth increase every single year. His wealth increased about $150b since the last time he paid taxes. He sure as hell didn't pay $50+b in taxes. He's not anywhere close to paying as much in taxes as other people, based on percentage of wealth increase. The douchebag who jokes about converting an office to homeless shelter could single handedly end homelessness in the US, and still be a decabillionaire. Him donating $5b is like someone with $265 to their name donating $5. His lifestyle makes his horde of wealth even more pointless. A billionaire blowing their money on crap is putting some of their wealth back into the economy.
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  11041.  @thereisnonegoodbutgodjohn363  If your god knows the future, then free will is impossible. There's nothing just about torturing souls for eternity, for doing exactly what you designed them to do. Trinity Jesus? Trinity Jesus "died" (went back home) on the cross as a "sacrifice" to himself, to save us from himself, and defeated "death" (being home) by "rising" (returning) from "death" (being home) ... and then went back home again.
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  11042. The Palestinian territories are considered occupied by every international body with the authority to rule it an occupation. It's not a "war", dimwit. That's like saying the Warsaw ghetto uprising was "declaring war".
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  11043. The other side of the argument? That colonialism, ethnic cleansing, and occupation, are good things? That operating an open air WWII style fascist ghetto, and bombing it when there's an uprising, is a good thing?
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  11044. BLM started protesting years ago. They didn't start only after being fed bullshit by politicians. It's actual police actions that set them off, not politicians spouting baseless nonsense.
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  11045.  @jessea5044  You think "you are not protecting anyone else" is an accurate take on getting the vaccine?
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  11046.  @jessea5044  You didn't answer my question. Is that an accurate take on the vaccine, that "you are not protecting anyone else"?
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  11047.  @jessea5044  So, reducing the odds of me being a carrier, lowering the viral load and cutting the time I'm infected even if I do catch it, doesn't help protect anyone else, but me? That doesn't sound accurate. What makes you think having a lower chance of being infected, or having a weaker virus for a shorter time, doesn't also help protect others?
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  11048.  @jessea5044  Why is a simple answer so hard? I, literally, quoted Jimmy, from this clip. Do you think it's accurate to say, "You are not protecting anyone else, by getting vaccinated, you propagandist at The Hill."?
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  11049.  @jessea5044  Does reducing the odds of you being a carrier ... does reducing the viral load if you are a carrier ... does reducing the amount of time you're contagious if you catch the virus ... help protect others?
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  11050.  @jessea5044  Holy hell, I can see how you'd be a Dore fan. Those are simply facts, associated with being vaccinated. They are all included in the word "vaccinated". Being "vaccinated" means: having reduced odds of catching and carrying the virus (only breakthrough cases will possibly catch and carry the virus); having reduced viral load, even if you are a breakthrough case that catches the virus (the vaccine tends to make it a much milder case), and also a reduced time of being contagious (the vaccine speeds up recovery rates for breakthrough cases). So, is it accurate to say, "You are not protecting anyone else, by getting vaccinated, you propagandist at The Hill."? Is it not a fact that, all those things included with the word "vaccinated", does protect others, as well as yourself? If you are less likely to catch and carry the virus, aren't you less likely to pass it on to others? If you do have a breakthrough case, which is milder, with less of a viral load, aren't you less likely to pass on a severe case of the virus? If you do have a breakthrough case, but are contagious for a shorter period of time, aren't you less likely to spread it to as many people as an unvaccinated carrier? Isn't that statement, by Jimmy, completely inaccurate?
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  11051. A VAT doesn't tax the seller. It taxes the buyer. And, every buyer, except the last, gets paid back for their input VAT. Final consumers would end up paying for the tax on their own data, with a VAT. Yang is spouting trash. Americans should learn how a VAT actually works.
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  11052. ​ @Honkin_Chonker  How is not liking colonialism, ethnic cleansing, occupation, and operating an open air WWII style fascist ghetto, "extreme"? You know "enlightened centrists" are neither enlightened, nor centrist, yeah?
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  11053.  @RoyArrowood  Did you even read my whole reply, or do you have reading comprehension problems?
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  11054.  @hibidder2001  Don't you have to get insurance to drive, that non drivers don't have to get? Don't a number of high risk jobs have increased insurance costs? What world are you living in where this isn't a thing already?
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  11055.  @Zackattack94  Phase III trials were done long ago, dimwit. Pfizer got full FDA approval months ago. Plus, the US isn't the only damn country in the world. Vaccines have been approved by agencies in numerous countries.
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  11056.  @theobsidiansimp8626  Do you have reading comprehension problems? I said give them healthcare, but make them pay more, somehow ... to pay for extra beds and manpower. Just like some countries with universal healthcare do for cigarettes and junk food.
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  11057.  @theobsidiansimp8626  Well, from my perspective, I didn't know you replied to the wrong person, so the reply seemed to be a clear case of reading comprehension problems. Half of the price of cigarettes is tax, in Canada. The goal is to keep increasing the tax until smoking is down to 5%. The government is outright making smokers pay more into healthcare, and trying to deter smoking down to almost nothing, with those taxes, plus bans in public indoor places, etc. Why shouldn't the unvaccinated both pay more, somehow, and be banned from public indoor places? Not having a variety of vaccines is enough to boot kids out of school. These covid anti-vaxxers are just spoiled brats.
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  11058. Celebrate the British colonizers ... celebrate revolting against the British.
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  11059. Sounds more like a US health insurance problem. Canada has how many adverse effects are reported, and anyone can go get treated for any ailments, due to universal healthcare coverage. "Of the 57,436 individual reports (0.058% of all doses administered), 11,231 were considered serious (0.011% of all doses administered)."
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  11060.  @rtorres4132  I'm just saying I don't know if there's any way to avoid the right continuing to move to the extreme. They could have just as easily gone Bernie to avoid a Hillary or Biden. Instead they went Trump. Even if a president like Bill Clinton covers all the usual right wing bases ... turn deficit into surplus, pay down the debt, lower unemployment, increase police, lower crime, even "defend" straight marriage, etc. ... they just find new nuttier talking points, and elect an idiot like W, and his panel of neocon nuts. They've even been throwing their own under the bus, for not following the election insanity. Even FOX is now too tame for some of them. The Tea Party, before, did likewise. There's no other direction they seem willing to go.
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  11061.  @rtorres4132  Yeah, but there wouldn't have been any possible way to rig things enough, if massive amounts of Republicans jumped the party ship and voted Bernie. They didn't want to take things that direction either, most of them making out like Bernie was an outright authoritarian communist. However corrupt corporate Dems are, there's still no indication that most Republicans want to go any other direction than the direction they're going.
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  11062.  @rtorres4132  Like I said, there's no indication most right wingers want to go any other direction than that one. The percentage of the public that approved of him didn't change much, from beginning to end. More people voted in 2020, rather than shifted.
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  11063.  @mars353  They cannot go at any time. You're lying. A request to leave also has to go through the courts, and isn't immediate.
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  11064.  @jasonbrennan6240  Yeah, I said we sucked per capita.
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  11065.  @jasonbrennan6240  Well, the US does still have the more anti-science wingnuts. And, a bunch of them in political positions. https://www.theguardian.com/environment/2019/may/07/us-hotbed-climate-change-denial-international-poll
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  11066. I don't believe also means I don't know. You can't know without belief. Stating I don't believe and I don't know, is redundant. I don't believe says both. Stating I believe something is true, doesn't suggest I know something is true. Stating I believe but don't know, is redundant. Stating I know something is true, automatically means I also believe. Stating I know and I believe, is redundant. So many convoluted redundancies in this labelling system, trying to separate knowledge and belief.
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  11067.  @cmoney2400able  Paralyzing, or threatening to paralyze, the house during a pandemic isn't actually very bright. And, forcing a vote when it's 100+ votes short in the house alone, is pretty pointless. Pelosi introduced the M4A bill just last session. It died in committees, where 90% of bills die. She has already reintroduced it this session, and it has gone to committees again. Put some pressure on committee members, if you want them to take up the bill. Pressuring (slandering) someone who has done more for M4A in 2 years than Dore has in his entire lifetime, is moronic. Not her constituents money. Her PAC money. Oh no, she doesn't want progressives to be part of a minority party, with Republicans running the house. I get it. "Real" progressives prefer Republicans in charge (still waiting for the years late massive progressive wave that Dore said a Trump presidency would "for sure" lead to, and for the moon to fall into Lake Michigan).
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  11068.  @cmoney2400able  The party speaker candidate is chosen by simple majority. Even the broader progressive caucus doesn't yet have the majority needed to elect a progressive speaker candidate (they're about 10 seats away from becoming the majority of house Dems). So, you what ... paralyze the house, they keep picking Pelosi (or maybe someone worse), you keep paralyzing the house, for how long exactly?
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  11069. Before 24 weeks, a fetus is about as "alive" as someone who is brain dead, dumb dumb. Zero possibility of consciousness, due to lacking the parts.
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  11070.  @mysty0  Yeah, that's dumb. The licensing is due to the relative danger, dumb dumb. That vast, vast, majority of rakes, are simply used to rake leaves. So you're opposed to licensing for cars, boats, and planes, I take it? They're just tools.
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  11071.  @jonathanlubarsky2782  Wow, yeah, no possible way to set retirement accounts as special, like with a 401(k). What are you talking about? People pay money for the stocks. Corporations buy back stocks, using money that came from people. Increased earnings, from money spent by people, causes stocks to increase in value. Corporations are hoarding about $4t of that money. You know "trickle down" was a complete failure, right? No. If you give $4t to the masses, they'll spend it ... on corporations. Then you tax it back, again. Rinse and repeat.
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  11072.  @jonathanlubarsky2782  Why are you magically making all stocks worth less? Arguing we need the super rich, to create jobs, and shit, is the "trickle down" argument. There simply used to be more smaller businesses, and even more people (than the 2/3 now) working for smaller businesses, before giant corporations. There's no "need" for billionaires. The bottom 50% own about 1.5% of total wealth, and pays about 3% of total taxes. The top 1% owns about 30% of total wealth and pays about 30% of total taxes. The poor are actually paying twice as much in taxes, as a percentage of their wealth.
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  11073.  @jonathanlubarsky2782  You literally argued that we "need" those rich people. Explain exactly what you meant by that, without making a "trickle down" argument. People pay property tax, every year, without selling said property. "Property tax" actually used to tax all property owned, not just land and home. It used to be a kind of wealth tax. Where am I losing you? Retirement investments can be specifically protected. The only way they'd lose money is if the stock values dropped. How are you magically making the stock values drop? Which one of these people, or corporations, you're defending doesn't f*ck others over? Bezos is a union buster. Musk is a union buster. "Inflation" isn't a force of nature. It's businesses raising prices. They're doing it now, while making record profits. Headline: The wealthiest 1% has taken $50 trillion from working Americans and redistributed it, a new study finds.
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  11074. These super rich shits, living off stocks, aren't paying as much in taxes, as you make out. It is the lesser rich, with large taxable annual incomes, paying most of the 1%'s taxes. Nobody needs billionaires to continue existing, just to pay taxes. The rest of your argument was about them going to trickle down their wealth, by creating more businesses, jobs, and other bullshit, which they aren't really doing. Their wealth increased by $1.7t over the pandemic. Where's the $1.7t in new businesses, raised wages, expanding current businesses, charities, etc.? They need consumers with money, to exist. Plenty more taxes in other countries, and they keep their businesses there. Nothing you blathered changes the fact that property taxes tax property, annually, not on sale, when the value is realized. Nor did you change the fact that "property tax" used to tax all property, and was effectively a kind of wealth tax, which worked just fine, before income taxes. Why would it lower the value of the stock? It would put more stock up for sale, each year, and the value would depend on demand. It would be a way for others, including retirement plans, to buy more of the stock. Inflation doesn't simply magically rise with money supply, all on its own, dimwit. People with more money want to buy more stuff. Instead of keeping prices the same and increasing supply to meet the new demand, businesses raise the prices until demand drops to meet supply. The problem was, first, allowing for supply to drop so much, during the pandemic, and giving more money to businesses than consumers. If they had given the money to consumers, they would have kept demanding stuff from businesses, who would have then kept up supply. If you hand the money to businesses, then they get paid for not having to sell/supply anything, and they can let supply drop. You're basically arguing that people need to be paid shit, so they can't demand more.
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  11075.  @jonathanlubarsky2782  Btw, currency in circulation has gone from $1.8t to $2.3t, since the start of 2020. That's not even a 50% increase, let alone a 400% increase.
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  11076.  @jonathanlubarsky2782  You're clearly not very bright. If 20% was 100% of the money in circulation before 2020, and then 80% of the money in circulation was printed after, that's a 400% increase, dumb dumb. You're claiming 4/5ths of the money was printed after. If 1/5th was 100%, then 4/5ths more is 400% more. If you can't do very basic math, then nothing else you say is reliable. You're also completely ignorant, or completely dishonest, about Musk's stocks. It's not like he started with X amount of Telsa stock and that is what is now worth $200b. He has recieved multiple payments of stocks worth tens of billions. Tesla has just been taken to court over his last 4 year $56b compensation package. Tesla could just have easily handed that to its workers, who were the real people who reached the benchmarks. Other people have been f*cked over, to hand him hundreds of billions. I stopped reading your pure bullshit, after that.
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  11077.  @jonathanlubarsky2782  80 is 44.45% of 180, dimwit, not 80%. An 80% increase and 80% of the total, are two different things, dimwit. You're dumb as a stump, or a Trump.
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  11078.  @jonathanlubarsky2782  You are such a dishonest twit. The bonus was for Tesla valuation hitting certain benchmarks. If they didn't hit those marks there wouldn't be a bonus. If they did hit, or surpass, those marks, the stock would be worth what it's worth, now. Either no bonus, or current value bonus. Why don't the workers deserve the $50b? Why isn't $6b be enough for a single person?
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  11079.  @jonathanlubarsky2782  The point is that there was no bonus, that would have only been worth $50k per employee. The bonus was always going to be worth what it was worth. $50b divided by 110k employees, is a $450k bonus. I get that you don't grasp basic math, but do you grasp English? A "bonus" would be on top of anything else they made. It wouldn't be one or the other. There was $50b, that the company could have done with what they wanted. They did not give it to employees, so yes the employees missed out. They did not spread it amongst shareholders, so the shareholders missed out. They did not reduce their prices, so the consumers missed out. They did not invest it into expansion and hiring more people, as in your bullshit trickle down fantasy world, so hypothetical numbers of unemployed missed out. They did not donate it to charity, as in your bullshit trickle down fantasy, so hypothetical numbers of people suffering missed out. They did not cure world hunger, for a decade, so millions of starving people missed out. Nope. They handed it to one person. In what demented reality couldn't $50b have helped tons of other people? Those people all missed out, with the decision to hand that much wealth to one person. The majority of Tesla employees don't make $450k in 4 years, btw: "The median Tesla employee made $56,163 in 2018, the electric-car maker said in a proxy statement."
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  11080.  @jonathanlubarsky2782  No, you lying twit. You claimed 80% of the money in circulation was printed after 2019. "the Federal Reserve printed 80% of all US money IN EXISTENCE in the span of 2 YEARS " "The Fed printed 80% of all US money in existence in the span of 2 years" If there is currently 100 in circulation, that would mean "80% of all US money in existence" is 80, and that that 80 was printed in the last 2 years, dumb dumb. That would mean you started with 20 and added 80. 80 is 400% of 20, dumb dumb. Yeah, your "point" is to deflect to some irrelevant nonsense. The bonus was never going to be worth what you're claiming it was worth. Plus, you're an ignoramus, who apparently doesn't know that most Tesla workers only make $56k a year. Your deflection tries to make out like $50k is nothing, when it would almost double their annual salary.
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  11081.  @jonathanlubarsky2782  Dishonest twit. "The median Tesla employee made $56,163 in 2018, the electric-car maker said in a proxy statement. That figure includes salary or wages, performance bonuses, and stock awards for full-time, part-time, and temporary employees excluding CEO Elon Musk, the company said."
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  11082. Total tests is irrelevant. Tests per million is irrelevant. Tests per day is irrelevant. None of those numbers tell you the rate you're testing against the virus spread. Tests per positive result tells you how many people you're testing beyond the confirmed cases. S Korea, for example, managed to flatten their curve by testing at a rate of 56 people per positive result. The US, on the other hand, is testing at a rate of 5.8 people per positive result ... about 10x less than S Korea. New York is testing at an absolutely pathetic 2.8 people per positive result. Cuomo is as incompetent as Trump. New Jersey is even worse, at 2 people per positive result. Many "leaders" of the "developed" world have shown themselves to be incompetent, when it comes to containing this virus. Sweden isn't even trying to contain the virus, and they're testing 5 people per positive result. France is testing at 2.8 people per positive result. The UK is testing 4 people per positive result. How do leaders both claim to be trying and have testing rates lower than a country that's not even trying to contain the virus? Countries flattening or flattened: Norway, 20 per positive result; Iceland, 25 per positive result; S Korea, 56 per positive result; Australia, 68 per positive result; New Zealand, 91 per positive result
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  11083.  Marc Ruffalo  Italian food has become an American staple. There are Italian restaurants everywhere. Movies and TV shows about Italian mobsters are still a constant. Italian immigrants built hundreds of Catholic churches and still have celebrations to prominent Italian saints. Many actually celebrate Columbus on Columbus Day, instead of just taking the day off. They've influenced art, theatre, music, and fashion. Oh, but your grandparents didn't play soccer. Yeah, those Italians really turned British American (original culture) alright.
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  11084.  Marc Ruffalo  America was built on government handouts of free land to illiterate immigrants. Whatever you think "should" be, English isn't the official language. You're not making much sense. Is there a culture of freedom from and freedom for religious belief or non-belief, that allows for new people of various beliefs, or should America have stuck with the original Puritan culture of the earliest colonists? They didn't think even other forms of Christianity were compatible with their culture.
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  11085.  Marc Ruffalo  You're the one who was falsely claiming America had no free handouts. It always has, in some form, or another. Why would I want to go back? You're the moron who thinks there's been some singular "American culture" everyone should adhere to. If that were actually true, there would never have been an evolving melting pot. There would have been a stagnant, never changing, singular culture. Now you're getting into some honesty. You don't give any value to those kind of people. You don't give a crap about what maybe you can do for them. It's all about what they can do for you.
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  11086. He needs to find another way to pay for it, first. He's just wrong about how a VAT works, who it taxes.
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  11087.  @johns6177  It "works" in Europe as a way to generate revenue. It doesn't "work" as a way to tax businesses. It's actually specifically designed to NOT tax businesses in order to avoid double taxation. He's clearly, and objectively, wrong about how a VAT works, who it taxes. https://ec.europa.eu/taxation_customs/business/vat/what-is-vat_en
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  11088.  @Addamo  Dore bounces around more than a basketball, ffs. Within a year, he shifted from backing Tulsi "I'm a hawk" Gabbard (public option) over Bernie (M4A) ... to making out like a disagreement over a secondary tactic (having a pointless 100% guaranteed to fail performance art vote) was enough to slander and ditch other progressives as allies ... to promoting a nutbar right wing ancap extremist who doesn't agree on much of anything (aside from a handful of anti-authoritarian issues), including not agreeing on M4A, as a wonderful potential ally. Dore is a dishonest hypocritical grifter.
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  11089.  @qinby1182  Dore and Mate have been blathering on and on about a completely irrelevant report. Not only do 2 dissenting opinions not actually debunk the report, the investigation didn't start until after Syria was bombed, the report didn't assign blame, and it didn't come out until almost a year after the fact. The report had absolutely nothing to do with anyone's decision to bomb Syria. There have been dozens of investigations into chemical weapons attacks, including an attack just the month before the one they keep whining about, that went through two rounds (no fault finding, and fault finding) of investigations. Almost all found fault with Syria. None had dissenting opinions. You'd have to believe that UN inspectors (which didn't support the US' Iraq claims), numerous uninvolved countries (that opposed US interventions elsewhere), the Russian security Council member (who could have vetoed a ton more resolutions about Syrian inspections), numerous NGOs and human rights groups (that haven't supported US interventions), hundreds of Syrian victim witnesses, and dozens of Syrian healthcare worker witnesses, are all in cahoots to frame Syria, to think Syria hasn't been dropping chemical weapons on their own people, since 2013. That's beyond ridiculous.
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  11090.  @qinby1182  Those "consequences" weren't based on the report. Why do you think UN inspectors suddenly care if the US, or others, look bad? They did not care if the US, UK, and their little "coalition of the willing" looked bad in Iraq. In your fantasy, when did the US take over OPCW, exactly? What's the evidence ... just that you don't like their rulings against Syria? No. It was not "doctored". Leaving things you don't think are relevant, from the final report, isn't "doctoring" it. The final ruling of the supreme court doesn't have to include everything that was said, and done, in the courtroom. And, dissenting opinions on the ruling don't actually debunk the ruling. Oh geez. Doctors Without Borders have provided their own witnesses before, and regularly communicate with hospitals and healthcare workers, not ISIS, ffs. Other major NGOs (that have opposed US interventions) have communicated with people on the ground. There are human rights legal groups, working out of neutral countries, building cases for victims. Just how big is your fantasy conspiracy, of all these people working with ISIS? How many countries and organizations, exactly? Is it just anyone who disagrees with you must be working with ISIS? Is that how it works?
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  11091.  @qinby1182  I didn't ask why it was in the US', and others', interests, I asked about UN inspectors. UN inspectors did not support the US and UK, before, in Iraq. Why is it in their interests to flip and suddenly support them? If the dozens of UN inspections were all fake, why didn't Russia veto more resolutions? The US hadn't bombed Syria for each of the other dozens of chemical weapons attacks, including the one just the month before (which, again, went through two rounds of investigations, with zero dissenting opinions). Why would they think anything would be different? You bring up the point that it would still be a war crime for the US to unilaterally bomb Syria. That's the thing that Dore and Mate don't seem to get, that they're two seperate issues. Someone can both accept that Assad is a horrible dictator, that has committed numerous human rights abuses, including using chemical weapons, and also not support countries unilaterally deciding to bomb other countries. They seem to think that if anyone accepts the former, then they're automatically in favor of US bombing, some kind of CIA shill, or whatnot. What was the evidence that numerous NGOs, human rights groups, neutral countries, UN inspectors, dozens of Syrian healthcare workers, and hundreds of Syrian victims, have been working in cahoots with ISIS, to frame Syria, this whole time?
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  11092.  @qinby1182  Why is it, do you think, that Jimmy and Mate aren't constantly railing against Trump, for bombing, and instead are railing against the UN, over an irrelevant report?
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  11093.  @qinby1182  OPCW has a signed cooperation agreement with the UN, the UN has a hand in selecting the executive council, and everyone calls them UN inspectors. Any which way, you still haven't explained how it's in their interests to flip and become US stooges, when, or how, it happened. No. Dissenting opinions on a single investigation, doesn't actually discredit everything they've done.
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  11094. Pretty sure the bill didn't say to round black people up in disproportionate numbers, charge them in disproportionate numbers, convict them in disproportionate numbers, or sentence them to longer periods of time.
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  11095. That was the context of asking for emergency funds for a wall, for a crisis right at the border, that a $20b wall would fix ... not the context of asking for funds for beds, food, toothbrushes, etc., for a crisis inside the border, inside state run facilities. And, all you have to do is process them faster, and there'd be no crisis. Trump, on the other hand, is slowing down the process, and even going to court to try and hold people indefinitely, before any attempt to fix overcrowding. A wall wouldn't even be finished, likely not even started in most places. You'd have $20b set aside for a stupid wall, and be in the same situation.
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  11096.  @emp9413  Denmark is a centrist country. The NDP isn't pushing any policies that would move us left of Denmark, let alone the Liberals, and the Liberals are to the right of the NDP.
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  11097.  @fahimp3  Economically, I'd put most US Democrats to the right of Canadian Conservatives, but I think still in the same general "right" area, between centre-right and far right. Most US Democrats don't support universal healthcare, etc., which Canadian Conservatives do. Some are centre-right and a few centre (left of Canadian Conservatives).
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  11098.  @pizzacrust43  Nah. No NDP policies would move us left of Denmark, which is probably the closest country to centrist in the grand scheme of things.
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  11099.  @pizzacrust43  Ignoring police and military, which would be the authoritarian axis ... if furthest right is a 100% privately owned and operated economy, furthest left is a 100% publicly owned and operated economy, and the perfect centre is 50/50, even Denmark is right of the perfect centre. But, I think it's close enough, in the region of centrism, to use as a guideline.
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  11100.  @emp9413  How is factually being around the centre, between all out capitalism and all out socialism, an opinion? You must be using some other definition for "right" and "left".
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  11101. ​ @searedpanda  The same wife that is likely one of a few people who knew exactly where her husband was going to be.
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  11102. Except you lose the herd immunity side of vaccination, if not enough people are vaccinated.
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  11103. In Canada, the Conservative party only has a majority in 2 provinces, and yet they repeatedly win other provinces, as well as federal elections. They are able to do this, with just over a third of the votes, because the Liberal and NDP votes are split. They win by plurality. Splitting the vote 100% benefits conservatives the most. The Conservative party does not adjust. They keep pushing for Canada, or their provinces, to be more like the US. They keep pushing right.
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  11104. ​ @dannygarland6366 Exactly
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  11105.  osamabinladenssecondgirlfr4241  As soon as one became colonialist in nature, they became the aggressors. Colonialists are never not the aggressors, when it comes to natives.
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  11106. ​ @pickettmandi My comment keeps getting hidden. Whatever you think of the current progressives in congress, the 30 year old progressive caucus is about 15 seats away from becoming the majority of house Dems, and the 6 year old Justice Dems have 11 seats. Meanwhile, the most popular third party, Libertarian, hasn't won a single seat in congress in its 50 year existence, and Green hasn't won a single seat in congress in its 20 year existence. And, as long as the right is united, draining votes away from their opponents will just let them rule for decades (centuries?) to come, until you can grow your third party to their size, and become the second main party. Might as well just keep trying to take over a party that is already their size. Third party hasn't been the way to go, for over 150 years. FDR, Civil Rights, abortion, gay rights, changing the Democratic party's stance has worked multiple times.
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  11107.  @pickettmandi  Sure sure. The most popular third party hasn't won a single seat in congress in its 50 year existence, but 11 Justice Dems have won seats in 6 years, and it's the third party route that isn't the definition of insanity.
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  11108.  @matthewjames2565  Defend what positions exactly? How do you think 11 people can pass anything, in congress, without working with a majority (the thing needed to pass a bill)?
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  11109.  @matthewjames2565  The most popular third party hasn't won a single seat in congress in its 50+ year existence. In what reality is that the faster option? Plus, a third party would never be in a position to be able to pass anything, unless they were actually in the majority, which would mean they aren't a third party.
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  11110.  Cassandra Lewsey  As sad as your anecdote is, it's still just a fact that we have 3x fewer deaths per million than the US. We could be doing even better (better trace testing mostly), but we're definitely not doing as bad as they are.
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  11111.  @berniethekiwidragon4382  Dore knobs think 2 part time "inspectors", who worked on a single investigation at a single site, and debated results, debunks the hundreds of accounts of Syrian chemical weapons use, since 2012.
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  11112. Paralyzing the house ... holding up a bill ... totally samesies. Actually getting something ... getting a 100% guaranteed to fail show vote ... totally samesies. Just how stupid are you Dore knobs?
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  11113.  @basqueirishman8636  This has to do with a corrupt government and you, apparently, being a good little stooge, who'd rather see someone in stitches than have that corruption exposed. Did you work for Correa, or something?
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  11114. So?
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  11115. I have some Loyalist ancestors. I claim half of the US. So, start moving out. I'll take the homes and property of the half that has the most Israel supporters.
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  11116. The reality might be that the US has let things get so far out of hand that it's just no longer possible to get ahead of the virus and contain it. Going by a 1-2% mortality rate, you've likely actually got 4.5-9m people infected, with only about 800k accounted for. You'd quickly need some 20m tests, to get up to the testing rates of countries who have flattened their curves, through testing and containment. It's just too much. Maybe you guys should just go with the idiotic Swedish approach, at this point.
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  11117. Get rid of Ben Gleib. Likud's bloody 100 year history ... In 1923, 100 years ago, Ze'ev Jabotinsky wrote, The Iron Wall, and a follow up, The Ethics of The Iron Wall (sooo racist towards Africans), in which he fully acknowledged that post Balfour Zionsim was colonialism, and that, based on the entirety of history, the native Palestinian population would resist being colonized until the bitter end. He directly compared it to the colonization of North America. He promoted doing it anyway, claiming Zionist colonialism was a "just" colonialism (he also thought North American colonialists were good guys, so not a great judge of morality), not caring what that meant for the native population. Ze'ev is important, because his Betar militant youth group helped found the Irgun terrorist group, along with other supporters of his, and the splinter Lehi terrorist group. The Irgun bombed numerous Palestinian markets and other public places, murdering many Palestinian civilians, including children, even including Palestinian Jews (who didn't support colonialist Zionsim). The Irgun are important, because they ended up being led by future Likud PM, Menachem Begin, who bombed the King David Hotel. The King David Hotel was bombed because the British had raided the Jewish Agency and seized numerous documents that may have shown that the terrorists were working with the JA and Haganah (JA liked to pretend that they didn't support the terrorism). The British then stored those documents at their base, in the hotel. That the Irgun terrorists responded to a JA raid, itself seems to prove the connection. That the thousands of Irgun (and Lehi) terrorists were also quickly merged into the new nation's military (IDF) and intelligence (Mossad) agencies, and are still celebrated as "heroes" by Israelis, to this day, also seems to support total collaboration between the groups. That other terrorist group mentioned, Lehi (also known as the Stern Gang), was considered even more extreme. They even tried to ally with the Nazis, against the British. Lehi ended up being led by Yitzhak Shamir, future Mossad agent, and another future Likud PM. They assassinated Lord Moyne, and others. In 1945, there was a major land and peoples survey done in Palestine. It showed that the Zionists only owned about 5% of the total land, 20% of the arable land, and owned a majority in zero districts. The partition was not only going to be forced on the native Palestinian majority, but Jews were still going to be a minority, in the part allocated to them. The only possible way to even become a "Jewish state" was going to require getting rid of the actual majority (at least enough so that there'd be a solid Jewish majority, so they could fake being democratic). This is also shown by the 1948, post Nakba, population of Israel. If there was 716,700 Jews, 156,000+ non-Jews, and approximately 700k non-Jews ethnically cleansed, that means the Jewish population, in the Zionist portion of partition, was originally over 100,000 less than the non-Jewish population. To believe that there was never any intent, by Zionists, to ethnically cleanse away the Palestinian majority would require believing that they never intended to create a "Jewish state". It's a nonsensical notion. Begin, and those terrorist groups, also opposed partition, but for the opposite reason Palestinians did. Palestinians didn't want to be colonized, at all. The terrorists wanted to colonize it all. "Moderate" Zionists were okay with colonizing half ... for now (what would happen in the future, after partition, was up to them, said Ben-Gurion). The Zionist terrorists were also involved in massacres, and assassinations, during the partition violence (colonialist war against the natives). Another notable future Likud PM, also started in the military, during the partition fighting. That was Ariel Sharon, war criminal, "Butcher of Beirut". Menachem Begin, and these other Zionist terrorists, are important because they became involved in Israeli politics, first forming Herut. That was the party that Albert Einstein, and other prominent American Jews, opposed, having a letter printed in the NYT, in December of 1948, when Begin came to visit the US. The letter opened ... "Among the most disturbing political phenomena of our times is the emergence in the newly created state of Israel of the "Freedom Party" (Tnuat Haherut), a political party closely akin in its organization, methods, political philosophy and social appeal to the Nazi and Fascist parties. It was formed out of the membership and following of the former Irgun Zvai Leumi, a terrorist, right-wing, chauvinist organization in Palestine." Herut merged with other extremist parties, over the years, and eventually became Likud, in the 70s. Now, people get upset over the slogan "From the river to the sea!", but it's the second part that's most important, "Palestine will be free!". Because "Palestine" isn't defined as an ethno-state, a free Palestine can be a single state, free for all to live in, and return to, free of continuing colonization, free of occupation, free of oppression, etc. Just like a Germany free of Nazism, an Italy free of fascism, a South Africa free of apartheid, or an America free of slavery from sea to shiny sea. It doesn't necessitate purging all the Jews. It just necessitates them giving up on the idea of an ethno-state. On the other hand, because "Israel" has been defined as an ethno-state, Likud's, "between the sea and the Jordan there will only be Israeli sovereignty", has no possible good interpretation. It is a declaration of intent to completely colonize, and ethnically cleanse, all Palestine territories. Not only that, but it also claims that they have a "right" to all of the "Land of Israel" (biblical borders that don't mesh with archaeological reality), which is an open declaration of future wars, against Jordan, Syria, Lebanon, and possibly even Iraq. Likud platform ... 1977: "The Right of the Jewish People to the Land of Israel (Eretz Israel) a. The right of the Jewish people to the land of Israel is eternal and indisputable and is linked with the right to security and peace; therefore, Judea and Samaria will not be handed to any foreign administration; between the Sea and the Jordan there will only be Israeli sovereignty. b. A plan which relinquishes parts of western Eretz Israel, undermines our right to the country, unavoidably leads to the establishment of a "Palestinian State," jeopardizes the security of the Jewish population, endangers the existence of the State of Israel. and frustrates any prospect of peace." "Settlement Settlement. both urban and rural. in all parts of the Land of Israel is the focal point of the Zionist effort to redeem the country, to maintain vital security areas and serves as a reservoir of strength and inspiration for the renewal of the pioneering spirit. The Likud government will call on the younger generation in Israel and the dispersions to settle and help every group and individual in the task of inhabiting and cultivating the wasteland, while taking care not to dispossess anyone." 1999: "The Government of Israel flatly rejects the establishment of a Palestinian Arab state west of the Jordan river. The Palestinians can run their lives freely in the framework of self-rule, but not as an independent and sovereign state. Thus, for example, in matters of foreign affairs, security, immigration, and ecology, their activity shall be limited in accordance with imperatives of Israel's existence, security and national needs." "The Jewish communities in Judea, Samaria, and Gaza are the realization of Zionist values. Settlement of the land is a clear expression of the unassailable right of the Jewish people to the Land of Israel and constitutes an important asset in the defense of the vital interests of the State of Israel. The Likud will continue to strengthen and develop these communities and will prevent their uprooting." All Palestine territories are officially considered occupied, by the International Court of Justice, the UN GA, the UN SC, and even in official documents of Israel's own allies. Likud is still using the blueprint for colonizing North America, in the West Bank. Move settlements out into native territory, piss off the natives, the natives retaliate, cry about poor "innocent" colonizing settlers being the "victims" of violent "Savages!", call in the cavalry to put down the native uprising, and eventually expand the borders to include those settlements. Rinse and repeat. In Gaza, Israel is operating an open air WWII style fascist ghetto. Them claiming a "right to defend themselves" would be like the Nazis claiming a "right to defend themselves " from the Warsaw ghetto uprising. There's no "war". That they're the occupiers means the "war" part is long over. Those people are actually supposed to be under the occupier's protection. That partition was forced upon the Palestinian majority, against their will ... that the Zionist portion still had to be forcefully ethnically cleansed of its non-Jewish majority, against their will ... that the millions of occupied Palestinians don't have a say in the government that truly rules over them, Israel's ... means Israel is about as democratic as Nazi Germany after Hitler purged his political opponents and then held elections.
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  11118. Yeah, this guy's business is to electronically spy on Americans for the government, and the "anti-government" crowd is walking right into it.
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  11119.  @JonPais  Everything else aside, I have to agree that you don't seem to know what a "Karen" is.
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  11120.  @JonPais  Rofl. Oh wow, maybe you do know what it means, but just have piss poor judgement. I'm far from a Trumpty Dumpty fan.
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  11121.  @DumbAssSpeakingWithMansVoice  You're insane. There's no global conspiracy, nutbar. Peru has one of the highest covid death rates, and uses Ivermectin the most. Get a grip on reality, ffs.
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  11122. ​ @thesinaclwon  lol The Jesus was an ignorant carpenter, who believed in the global flood myth, and the "firmament" Act. The Jesus was trans Act ... transitioned from a sexless god, who identified with masculine gender terminology, into a human male. The God is the leading abortionist in existence, if it exists, Act.
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  11123. You might want to post this on Jimmy Dore's channel.
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  11124.  @CLlNT0N_BODYCOUNT_RESSURECTED  Russia has been warring with former SSR countries, since 1991, ffs.
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  11125.  @CLlNT0N_BODYCOUNT_RESSURECTED  No he didn't. Trump put North Korea back on the state sponsor of terrorism list, in 2017. That's not better relations. And, he did nothing as North Korea tested more missiles.
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  11126.  @CLlNT0N_BODYCOUNT_RESSURECTED  Trump dropped more bombs per year than Obama. That's not anti-war. Trump triggered an exchange of attacks with Iran. It only didn't become a full blown war because Trump chickened out from his threat (which Iran ignored), that if they retaliated in any way, he would strike Iran proper.
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  11127.  @CLlNT0N_BODYCOUNT_RESSURECTED  Anti-war guy 🙄 "Within days of taking office, President Donald Trump, who had campaigned on killing the families of alleged terrorists — and essentially doing the opposite of whatever President Barack Obama had done — ordered US commandos to carry out an early-morning raid in Yemen that had been vetoed by his predecessor. "Almost everything went wrong," one US official told NBC News. The attack, intended to take out a suspected group of al-Qaeda militants, began with a botched landing and ended with a Navy Seal dead. An eight-year-old girl, Nawar al-Awlaki, a US citizen and the daughter of an extremist preacher who was assassinated-by-drone in the Obama years, was also killed, as were more than a dozen others."
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  11128.  @chunkyMunky329  Ethnic cleansing is covered under the genocide convention. There was no pause. Israel continued ethnically cleansing Palestinians, and some 70k colonizer settlers moved in, under Trump. 300 Palestinians were also killed by the IDF and settlers, in 2019, higher than quite a few years, under others. You're just lying, is all you're doing.
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  11129. That would depend on what your expectations were. Some people made out like there was no difference between Biden and Trump. That's a pretty easy expectation to exceed.
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  11130.  @MyJanvic  Shut up Jimmy.
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  11131.  @tjstarr2960  You will never be able to control what's going on in all the other countries' labs, or animal industries. Whichever way it came about, it was many countries lack of preparedness and slow responses that allowed it to become a pandemic.
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  11132.  @tjstarr2960  Neighbours of China managed to keep the virus under control without initial travel bans. They were better prepared and had faster responses. Political leaders should be prepared for a new virus to appear in their own countries anyways, and not be overreliant on travel restrictions from other countries.
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  11133. Never been this bad? Apparently you missed the statistics on how many border crossings there were under Reagan, Clinton, and the Bushes. Did the statistics you looked at show the large 2019 spike, the highest since Bush, that Republicans didn't seem to criticize Trump for, for some strange reason? Or, did you actually not look at statistics, and just believed your cult leader?
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  11134. Israel is objectively the aggressor by every relevant measure (modern history, law, and current events) ... Modern history: With the Balfour declaration, Zionsim converted from something like immigration to colonization. 100 years ago, in 1923, Ze'ev Jabotinsky fully acknowledged that Zionism is colonialism, and that, based on the entirety of history, the native Palestinians would fight it until the bitter end. He just didn't care what would happen to them, and promoted doing it anyway. Colonizers are never not the aggressors, when it comes to the native population. On top of the colonialist nature of Zionism, the Zionists also formed terrorist organizations, like the Irgun and Lehi. They bombed many Palestinian markets and other public places, murdering many civilians, including children, even including Palestinian Jews (who opposed colonialist Zionism). Israel merged those terrorists into the new nation's military and intelligence agencies. Israelis elected Menachem Begin, leader of the Irgun, child murderer, Jew murderer, and bomber of the King David Hotel, as PM. Israelis, to this day, celebrate those Irgun terrorists as "heroes". Zionists literally taught their neighbours that terrorism is a valid path to independence and statehood, and that terrorists are to be celebrated. In 1945, it is well documented that Zionists owned just 5% of the land and were a majority in zero districts. Israel was formed by going against the will of the majority population. Its foundation is completely undemocratic. Even then, Jews were still a minority, in "their" half. The only possible way to actually become a Jewish ethno-state, would be to ethnically cleanse away the actual majority. And, that's exactly what happened. Israel has never allowed those people to return. Law: Israel is considered an occupier by the International Court, the UN GA, and the UN SC. Occupiers are also never not the aggressors. Those occupied actually have a right to resist occupation. On the flip side, it is illegal for the occupier to settle occupied lands, and illegal to use collective punishment. Israel is a rogue nation, that doesn't abide by international law. What it has been doing, and is doing now, is illegal. Current events: This year, alone, prior to Oct 7 ... Israel held over 1200 Palestinian hostages without charges ... over 200 Palestinians had been killed by the IDF and settlers ... over 1000 Palestinians had been displaced by Israel's neverending colonization of the West Bank ... and, Israel continued to operate an open air WWII style fascist ghetto. Even ignoring modern history and law, in no reality did Hamas "start" anything.
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  11135.  @glennjohn3824  Nothing you said is true.
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  11136.  @glennjohn3824  And yet here you are, hate watching channels you don't like, and crying about things that never happened.
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  11137.  @glennjohn3824  Just facts.
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  11138.  @glennjohn3824  Just facts.
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  11139.  @glennjohn3824  Nope. I just doubled down on claiming I was just stating facts. Only a complete and utter moron, would think I was agreeing with them. I take it, that's what you are.
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  11140.  @glennjohn3824  Awww, poor dumb dumb, doesn't know what my username refers to.
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  11141.  @glennjohn3824  Wrong Huxley, dunce. Wow, so many posts. You're really coming unhinged.
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  11142.  Mister Physics  Apparently, you are barely literate.
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  11143.  @tsstevensts  We're doing sarcasm, here. You're supposed to say something like "Bonnie Heather ... never happened."
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  11144.  Andrew McMillan  No, you lying twit, it was specifically about whether primaries should be postponed.
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  11145.  @sal2975  They kill 4-100+ times the number of people per capita than other developed countries.
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  11146.  @sal2975  Rofl. Cameras have been catching what would have been considered "justified", if there hadn't been a camera. Are you living in some fantasy where cameras are magically catching every single time a cop unjustifiably kills someone? I would imagine it's like cockroaches. If you see one, you know there are a bunch more.
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  11147.  @sal2975  Don't think anyone is arguing it's the majority, but it's likely a lot higher than what is known. There has been a bunch of cops beating the hell out of someone, and all their body cams just showed chaos, because they were shaking back and forth so much, and them all yelling "Stop resisting!", meanwhile a security cam showed the guy laying on the ground doing nothing as they were all kicking the crap out of him. There has been a body camera accidentally turned on instead of off and catching a cop framing a guy. There have been multiple, oops the camera wasn't on, got unplugged, or fell off dangling and not showing what's happening. Plus, even when a body cam catches a cop shooting someone in the back, juries often still buy the cop's bullshit story, if the cop is even prosecuted, which they often aren't, and their bullshit is deemed justified without even having a trial.
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  11148.  @sal2975  Do you have reading comprehension problems? I, literally, just said that I don't think anyone is arguing it's the majority.
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  11149.  @sal2975  Well, people are calling for police not to be the primary responders in some situations, like mental health checks, and direct funds towards better qualified responders. Direct funds away from militarizing them, when it doesn't seem to make them better cops. Direct funds towards social issues that can reduce crime and their need to respond. Etc. Pretty sure most also think they need better training. As well as justice reform.
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  11150.  @TubiTuesdays  Well, there are already Swyer syndrome people, so welcome to the world of fem products in men's rooms and men giving birth. Yeah, there's no evidence of her even being XY, either. The IBA provided nothing.
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  11151.  @TubiTuesdays  Congratulations, Swyer Syndrome is a thing, with or without her. Welcome to the world of fem products in men's rooms and men giving birth.
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  11152.  @TubiTuesdays  1. No evidence she even has XY chromosomes. The IBA provided zero evidence. 2. Congratulations, Swyer Syndrome exists, with or without her. You can already do that.
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  11153.  @TubiTuesdays  1. No evidence from the IBA either. 2. Congratulations, Swyer Syndrome is a thing, with or without her. You can already do that.
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  11154.  @jonm7888  No worries.
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  11155. Either true prophets can be wrong, which means the entire Bible could be wrong, or a wrong "prophet" is a fake one.
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  11156. @Halon's Razor Let me get this straight. Not collecting taxes to pay for schools, and having everyone pay for private schools on their own, would benefit the rich and poor equally? Pretty sure that's not correct.
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  11157. @Halon's Razor You said "Lower taxes helps everyone both rich and poor, the only people it harms is government". Taxes do, in fact, pay for public schools, so not sure how I strawmanned you.
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  11158. @Halon's Razor Either collecting zero taxes for education only hurts the government, or it doesn't. Which is it?
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  11159. @Halon's Razor That's lowering taxes as much as possible. It either only hurts the government, or it doesn't. Which is it?
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  11160. @Halon's Razor If you don't like lowering taxes 100%, for some strange reason, how about this ... Person A is below the poverty line, making $10k a year and paying 10% taxes ($1000). Person B is making $1m a year and paying 10% taxes ($100k). If you lower both of their taxes by 10%, person A gets to keep an extra $100, and person B gets to keep an extra $10k. But, that's $10100 no longer going towards things like education, Medicaid, affordable housing, SNAP, disability, etc. How does that only hurt the government, and benefit the one in poverty? Why do capitalists detest the poor, so much?
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  11161. @Halon's Razor Rofl. It's $10k a year per student for public school. That rich guy just stopped paying for the poor guy's kid to go to school. Or, Medicaid pays out about $6k per recipient. That rich guy just stopped covering his healthcare. Etc. But he gets $100. Woop!
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  11162. @Halon's Razor Do you actually know what a strawman is? You claimed lowering taxes only hurts the government. Zero taxes is simply lowering taxes 100%, dumb dumb. Obviously, that was a bullshit statement that you couldn't stand by and then used a strawman claim as an ad hominem.
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  11163. @Halon's Razor Except, you made the claim, not me. I didn't make the claim for you, as you just did for me. And, I'm pretty sure anyone who does like high taxes, likes them so wealth can be redistributed in some way, making sure everyone is fed, so your argument doesn't even make sense. Unless the person also likes the idea of simply hoarding all the money, or something.
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  11164. @Halon's Razor Also, you've once again shown that you don't understand fallacies. "The fallacy is in the argument that could be reduced to absurdity -- so in essence, reductio ad absurdum is a technique to expose the fallacy." https://www.logicallyfallacious.com/logicalfallacies/Reductio-ad-Absurdum
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  11165.  @collins48lc  Rofl. Pakman is an elitist, but billionaire Ruport Murdoch isn't?
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  11166. "Taiwan", actually the Republic of China, hasn't even officially declared its own independence, dumbass. It's officially still an alternate Chinese government that hasn't dropped its claim on the mainland. How can you recognize two governments of China?
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  11167. Oh? Was there a tie breaker, in the senate?
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  11168.  @CaptainSnackbeard  So, "no".
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  11169. Didn't Bernie say his would likely be a minority woman, ages ago?
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  11170. Especially the Adam West and Burt Ward versions.
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  11171. ​ @melissak358  Just another MAGA racist, like racist Trump. "Letitia 'peekaboo' James" ~ Trump Urban Dictionary: peekaboo Racist term used in white-supremacist circles to refer to a person of color, usually black, of upper or upper-middle class social standing. That uppity peekaboo thinks she can golf here just because she has money. by WhoKnowsWhoItCouldBe September 21, 2022
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  11172.  @TheTinyTimmyTimTim  What's unrealistic about: The vaccines save lives, so get vaccinated?
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  11173.  @elnegrobembon  Okay, but negotiating down prices can fix the problem of an 1800% markup. The UK is the only entirely socialized system in the OECD, but every other OECD country has lower, per capita costs, than the US ... many significantly lower, and some even lower than the UK. M4A could solve the problem by saying "we aren't paying for more than a 100% markup", and then you're paying $2 per $1 cost, instead of $18.
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  11174. Jakub Lejkin, aka "Little Napoleon", was who Ben Shapiro would have been, in Nazi Germany.
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  11175. ​ @bikeman78  Israel is objectively the aggressor by every relevant measure ... Modern history: 100 years ago, in 1923, Ze'ev Jabotinsky fully acknowledged that Zionism is colonialism, and that, based on the entirety of history, the natives would fight it until the bitter end. He just didn't care what would happen to them, and promoted doing it anyway. Colonizers are never not the aggressors. On top of the colonialist nature of Zionism, the Zionists also formed terrorist organizations, like the Irgun and Lehi. They bombed many Palestinian markets and other public places, murdering many civilians, including children, even including Palestinian Jews (who opposed Zionism). Israel merged those terrorists into the new nation's military and intelligence agencies. Israelis elected Menachem Begin, leader of the Irgun, child murderer, Jew murderer, and bomber of the King David Hotel, as PM. Israelis, to this day, celebrate those terrorists as "heroes". Zionists literally taught their neighbours that terrorism is a valid path to independence and statehood, and that terrorists are to be celebrated. In 1945, it is well documented that Zionists owned just 5% of the land and were a majority nowhere. Israel was formed by actually going against the majority population. It's foundation is completely undemocratic. Then, becoming a majority, in "their" new nation, by ethnic cleansing the actual majority, and then claiming to be democratic, is utter nonsense. Law: Israel is considered an occupier by the International Court, the UN GA, and the UN SC. Occupiers are also never not the aggressors. Those occupied actually have a right to resist occupation. On the flip side, it is illegal for the occupier to settle occupied lands, and illegal to use collective punishment. Israel is a rogue nation, that doesn't abide by international law. What it has been doing, and is doing now, is illegal. Current events: This year, alone, prior to Oct 7 ... Israel held over 1200 Palestinian hostages without charges ... over 200 Palestinians had been killed by the IDF and settlers ... over 1000 Palestinians had been displaced by Israel's neverending colonization of the West Bank ... and, Israel continued to operate an open air WWII style fascist ghetto, in Gaza. Even ignoring modern history and law, in no reality did Hamas "start" anything.
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  11176. And a nuke.
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  11177. ​ @ItsukaShimotsuki  What protesters have Dems deported?
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  11178.  @wheatandtares9764  They don't actually police the streets, dumb dumb. They're more of a security guard, bodyguard, detail.
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  11179.  @fluffynut1283  Since almost every adult Israeli is a soldier, or has been a soldier, they have valid military targets wandering around amongst civilians all the time, using them as human shields.
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  11180. ​ @leighvaughton2740  Why would they unalive her? They could just impeach her, when she illegally withholds Isrl funding they've approved.
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  11181.  @supernatural42  Those are somewhat contradictory things to whine about. House progressives got the $15 minimum to stay in the bill for a vote. It was voted on, and you now have it on record who voted against it. Shouldn't that have lead to a massive uprising, and protests, against those who voted no, pressuring them to vote yes if an independent $15 minimum bill is introduced, or be used to replace the no voters?
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  11182.  @Connected100  Being against having a vote guaranteed to fail (a tactical difference) doesn't equate to being against M4A. That's purely strawman bullshit.
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  11183. Trump pulled off the most Big Brother like propaganda campaign in US history, from convincing people not to believe their own lying eyes on his inauguration day, to convincing tens of millions of people not to believe any media, any courts, any election officials, any politicians (even Republicans) ... absolutely anybody who says something different than Big Brother.
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  11184. They have all kinds of bills, including other kinds of anti-corruption bills.
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  11185. Israel was founded on terrorism. Menachem Begin led the Irgun terrorist group, who bombed the King David Hotel. They literally taught their neighbours that terrorism was a path to statehood.
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  11186.  @aliamjon2550  Zionism is based on the Tanakh, dumb dumb.
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  11187.  @hugogarcia9797  He attacked the bus parking lot, bottom right. You can see the white gas tank in the lot. https://i0.wp.com/www.americanpartisan.org/wp-content/uploads/2019/07/tacoma.jpeg?resize=1140%2C640&ssl=1
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  11188.  @hugogarcia9797  Parking lot. https://i2.wp.com/www.independentsentinel.com/wp-content/uploads/2019/07/propane-tank-ice-tacoma.jpg?resize=400%2C261
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  11189.  @jantimmerby  So did poor white people, in the South. Fighting for the dream that someday, maybe they too could be a rich slave owner. Same as today.
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  11190.  @KidFreshie  The first was that he thinks David show sucks. It was itself an assertion, and wasn't a counter to anything. Just a straight up insult. I think he's wrong, but it's not a fallacy.
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  11191.  @eattherich9215  Even a moron could likely tell you the colour of the sky.
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  11192. It's just so they don't look racist, when they put troops along the Mexican border.
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  11193.  @jessejgay1  No vaccine is 100%, dimwit.
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  11194.  @jessejgay1  Nah, Biden literally gave numbers showing that a small percentage of those who died were vaccinated, immediately before talking in a virtual manner. You'd have to be dumber than a stump to take the words following the numbers literally.
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  11195.  @jessejgay1  Pure bullshit.
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  11196.  @jessejgay1  I'm glad we can agree you're spouting bullshit. Not many people will admit to doing so. Good on you.
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  11197.  @jessejgay1  I thought we agreed that was bullshit? You're incoherent.
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  11198. So...before I put forth the claim...the default position is "no knowledge", not "no belief"?
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  11199. Hasn't anyone told Rudy that Russia isn't communist anymore?
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  11200. Israel was hiding its militant reservists amongst its civilians, cowardly using them as human shields, and they elected Likud. It's all their own fault.
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  11201. They did come closer than getting stuck in a beer hall.
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  11202.  @BelowMeGoggle  No, dimwit. The context was, that AOC said voting "present" on an extremely important, or historical, item was a dodge. What extremely important, or historical, item did she vote "present" on, dingleberry?
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  11203.  @BelowMeGoggle  The squad would be his allies, ready to vote yes on Civil Rights, helping to add more Civil Rights yes votes to congress, and he wouldn't be stupid enough to slander his only allies in congress. You're a loon.
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  11204. What are you idjits above on about? AOC and two fellow NY progressives back formal plea for ceasefire in Gaza Oct 16, 2023 18 House Democrats sign resolution for Mideast de-escalation, ceasefire Oct 23, 2023 — Cori Bush (D-Mo.). Bush's fellow “Squad” members Reps. Rashida Tlaib (D-Mich.), Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez (D-N.Y.) Democrats Like Rashida Tlaib, AOC Split With Biden Over Israel Ceasefire Calls Oct 31, 2023 AOC leads Democrats urging Biden to call for Gaza ceasefire over children's rights Nov 15, 2023 AOC calls Biden administration 'shameful' for blocking United Nations demand for a ... Dec 11, 2023 Aoc ceasefire | keeping it reel - NewsBreak Original Jan 17, 2024 Hour 1: AOC Calls for Ceasefire from Israel - The Marc Cox Morning Show Podcast Feb 8, 2024 AOC suggests cutting off aid to Israel after U.S. vetoes ceasefire resolution Feb 22, 2024 AOC and Other Democrats Urge Biden to Call for a Ceasefire at the State of the ... Mar 1, 2024
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  11205. This is one of the most uninformed comment sections I have ever seen. AOC and two fellow NY progressives back formal plea for ceasefire in Gaza Oct 16, 2023 18 House Democrats sign resolution for Mideast de-escalation, ceasefire Oct 23, 2023 — Cori Bush (D-Mo.). Bush's fellow “Squad” members Reps. Rashida Tlaib (D-Mich.), Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez (D-N.Y.) Democrats Like Rashida Tlaib, AOC Split With Biden Over Israel Ceasefire Calls Oct 31, 2023 AOC leads Democrats urging Biden to call for Gaza ceasefire over children's rights Nov 15, 2023 AOC calls Biden administration 'shameful' for blocking United Nations demand for a ... Dec 11, 2023 Aoc ceasefire | keeping it reel - NewsBreak Original Jan 17, 2024 Hour 1: AOC Calls for Ceasefire from Israel - The Marc Cox Morning Show Podcast Feb 8, 2024 AOC suggests cutting off aid to Israel after U.S. vetoes ceasefire resolution Feb 22, 2024 AOC and Other Democrats Urge Biden to Call for a Ceasefire at the State of the ... Mar 1, 2024
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  11206. ​ @NessaBear90  That's like blaming Geronimo, for leaving the tiny reserve his tribe was forced onto, and going on the warpath, a few times. Ultimately, it's actually the colonialists' fault. Natives would never be able to attack them, if they weren't doing their colonialism, first. Colonialists are never not the aggressors.
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  11207. ​​ @obediahtucker7456  MAGA can't even research basics, like the fact that vlnt crm rates went up in 2020, under Trump, and have been going down, under Biden.
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  11208.  @bleachbit6734  History says "concentration camp" isn't exclusive to the Jewish experience.
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  11209. Likud was created by Zionist terrorist, Menachem Begin, who bombed Palestinian markets and other public places, murdering many Palestinian civilians, including children, even including Palestinian Jews (who opposed Zionism), and bombed the King David Hotel. The other founder was Ariel Sharon, war criminal, who massacred Palestinian villages. Their initial platform stated that their goal was for Israel to rule from the sea to the Jordan (reverse of, from the river to the sea). Netanyahu has proven that that still seems to be the goal, with the endless colonization of the West Bank. Netanyahu also promoted, and helped fund, Hamas, to weaken the Palestinian Authority and avoid possible peace, so he could continue his colonization projects. The end of violence would mean that Israel might have to pull back, plus allow the right of return for Palestinian refugees. Peace is against Likud's interests. So, why not the exact same demand that Likud be removed?
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  11210. He accepted he won, but he did claim the 2016 result was fraudulent, as well, and that he had actually won the popular vote. He set up an Election Integrity Commission, which found nothing. More evidence, that he tends to just blurts out "fraud", with no evidence, and then tries to find it after.
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  11211. ​ @skippylippy547  I'm sure the little girl, on her mother's lap, behind him, found it hilarious.
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  11212.  @biggieb8900  Lol, it does not correlate that, if I'm in favour of taking in refugees, then I'm pro-rape, or indifferent to rape. It's possible to be both in favour of taking in refugees and be opposed to rape.
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  11213. ​ @georgyboi4487  You mean like Republicans investigating Hillary, 6 times ... during her presidential run, and Trump literally running on "Lock her up"? Plus, someone trying to overthrow the democratic process, to install themselves as an unelected ruler, is literally an attempt at dictatorship.
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  11214. It doesn't even make sense. It would mean Republican senators aren't doing their jobs, when a Democrat, who they openly dislike, is president.
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  11215. ​ @JohnnyTheWolf-d3p  I'm sure you have a great strategy, to let Trump win, who adores Palestinians. 🙄
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  11216. These Trump morons don't seem to grasp how anything works. Valuations shouldn't be over, OR under. They should be accurate. They keep "defending" themselves from bank fraud, by insisting they are instead committing massive tax fraud, by undervaluing, by over a billion dollars.
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  11217. ​ @garmound3531  No it's not. Read Ze'ev Jabotinsky's The Iron Wall, 1923. It's colnlsm. His followers became the Irgun and Lehi trrrists, which became Likud, which has the same stated goal to take all of Pal, and beyond.
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  11218. ​ @danielbaroni4166  If you justify killing Palestinian civilians, for the actions of Hamas, then you've likewise justified killing Israeli civilians, for the actions of Netanyahu. Congratulations. Israel is objectively the aggressor by every relevant measure... Modern history: 100 years ago, in 1923, Ze'ev Jabotinsky fully acknowledged that Zionism is colonialism, and that, based on the entirety of history, the natives would fight it until the bitter end. He just didn't care what would happen to them, and promoted doing it anyway. Colonizers are never not the aggressors. On top of the colonialist nature of Zionism, the Zionists also formed terrorist organizations, like the Irgun and Lehi. They bombed many Palestinian markets and other public places, murdering many civilians, including children, even including Palestinian Jews (who opposed Zionism). Israel merged those terrorists into the new nation's military and intelligence agencies. Israelis elected Menachem Begin, leader of the Irgun, child murderer, Jew murderer, and bomber of the King David Hotel, as PM. Israelis, to this day, celebrate those terrorists as "heroes". Zionists literally taught their neighbours that terrorism is a valid path to independence and statehood, and that terrorists are to be celebrated. In 1945, it is well documented that Zionists owned just 5% of the land and were a majority nowhere. Israel was formed by actually going against the majority population. It's foundation is completely undemocratic. Then, becoming a majority, in "their" new nation, by ethnic cleansing the actual majority, and then claiming to be democratic, is utter nonsense. Law: Israel is considered an occupier by the International Court, the UN GA, and the UN SC. Occupiers are also never not the aggressors. Those occupied actually have a right to resist occupation. On the flip side, it is illegal for the occupier to settle occupied lands, and illegal to use collective punishment. Israel is a rogue nation, that doesn't abide by international law. What it has been doing, and is doing now, is illegal. Current events: This year, alone, prior to Oct 7 ... Israel held over 1200 Palestinian hostages without charges ... over 200 Palestinians had been killed by the IDF and settlers ... over 1000 Palestinians had been displaced by Israel's neverending colonization of the West Bank ... and, Israel continued to operate an open air WWII style fascist ghetto. Even ignoring modern history and law, in no reality did Hamas "start" anything.
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  11219. If they actually challenge FOX's own biases and bullshit, while they're on, then yes. If they're only going to let FOX use them to push their own anti-Democrat and anti-other MSM agenda, and give FOX a pass, then no.
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  11220. Much of the developed world failed at containing the virus. Not as bad as the US, but they also didn't take it seriously enough, early on. It's the tests per confirmed cases rate, which tells you how much trace testing is going on. When I first looked at those numbers, countries, like S Korea, New Zealand, and Australia, that flattened their curves quickly, were testing 50+ people per confirmed case. The US was testing 5 people per confirmed case ... a 10x slower rate of testing. NY and NJ were testing 4 and 3 people per confirmed case, below the already pathetic US national average, so I don't get why some people praise Quomo. He's as incompetent as Trump. That 5 per confirmed case rate was on par with Sweden, who wasn't even trying. The UK and France were also testing at 4 and 3 rates. Italy and Spain were both testing under 10. Germany and Canada were testing about 15. Other Scandinavian countries were testing about 20. The US has always been testing too few people per confirmed case, to be able to get ahead of the virus. Trump brags about total tests, or tests per million, but those numbers are completely disconnected from case numbers. I'm pissed at our Canadian leaders. Americans should be irate, and storming the capital.
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  11221.  @wiltedlamp5016  Fascists were still fascists before they managed to assume full control, dumbass.
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  11222. Ok, so you've got one pos running on tossing 10m of the poorest Americans off of Medicaid expansion, and another pos running on adding 40m older Americans to Medicare expansion, why is the first pos the better option?
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  11223. So, every president is a ruthless dictator, considering all the security around them?
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  11224. Bernie moved to #1 in New Hampshire. https://www.politico.com/news/2019/10/29/bernie-sanders-joe-biden-new-hampshire-poll-061068
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  11225. Eh?
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  11226.  @dimitrythomas4158  Nice strawmen, while also a being an argument that right wingers have been cancelling things for decades, and are complete hypocrites.
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  11227.  @dimitrythomas4158  A strawman would be saying I "agreed" with something I didn't say I agreed with. Argue for public ownership, but arguing "free speech" on private property (which is the current reality) is both moronic and hypocritical, for them. And, acknowledging the simple fact that there's no such thing as "free speech" on private property doesn't equate to agreeing with anyone's reasons for doing things, dimwit.
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  11228. Yeah, so impatient, but then promote going the third party route that hasn't won the most popular third party a single seat in congress in 50 years.
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  11229.  @Alexdorio-kc9yf  Rofl! What a joke. They investigated themselves, asking terrorists if they committed crimes, which they denied, and found themselves innocent. Independent accounts tell a different story, of massacre, rape, torture, and murder.
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  11230. Two walls then, with a moat down the middle. Maybe some Komodo dragons and cougars for the desert and mountain areas.
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  11231. If you notice the date, when the US housing prices went down, it's because we didn't have that 2008 housing market crash, or banking crisis, here in Canada. Our recession wasn't quite as bad. So, there's both bad, and good, that goes with that. A lot of Americans lost their homes, due to foreclosure, which didn't happen here. We definitely need to provide more affordable housing, though. This is unsustainable.
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  11232.  @zippydodahquirk9039  Operation Warpseed has nothing really to do with using a new method for creating a vaccine, which is much faster, other than funding it.
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  11233.  @9751matt  So... Protesting, rioting, tarring and feathering, and destroying private property, because you don't want to pay extra taxes specifically to fund the police/military (red coats) ... anti-authoritarianism. And ... Fighting against democracy to keep an unelected dictator (King George Trumpty Dumpty) in power ... authoritarianism. Those are samesies?
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  11234. Yeah, she has also tried to defend Musk, by claiming he supports UBI. Problem is, he supported a UBI that was largely funded by a VAT, which actually doesn't tax businesses, giant corporations like his, as was advertised. A VAT is specifically designed to NOT tax businesses in order to avoid double taxation.
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  11235. This is one of the most uninformed comment sections I have ever seen. AOC and two fellow NY progressives back formal plea for ceasefire in Gaza Oct 16, 2023 18 House Democrats sign resolution for Mideast de-escalation, ceasefire Oct 23, 2023 — Cori Bush (D-Mo.). Bush's fellow “Squad” members Reps. Rashida Tlaib (D-Mich.), Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez (D-N.Y.) Democrats Like Rashida Tlaib, AOC Split With Biden Over Israel Ceasefire Calls Oct 31, 2023 AOC leads Democrats urging Biden to call for Gaza ceasefire over children's rights Nov 15, 2023 AOC calls Biden administration 'shameful' for blocking United Nations demand for a ... Dec 11, 2023 Aoc ceasefire | keeping it reel - NewsBreak Original Jan 17, 2024 Hour 1: AOC Calls for Ceasefire from Israel - The Marc Cox Morning Show Podcast Feb 8, 2024 AOC suggests cutting off aid to Israel after U.S. vetoes ceasefire resolution Feb 22, 2024 AOC and Other Democrats Urge Biden to Call for a Ceasefire at the State of the ... Mar 1, 2024
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  11236.  @tonystark4292  Let me know when Nazi leaders are praising Kyle for leading people in their direction, and I'll get back to you. Agreeing with people who are already alt-right on a single issue isn't the same as leading new people to them, which is what the Nazis are praising Sargon for. Sargon actually complains about and is opposed to those opposed to Nazis ... the big bad SJWs and the left ... far more than he does them. He also argues they should get a platform and even gives them a platform. Hell, he joined UKIP, with them, and managed to help make it more bigoted and extreme. Being active in politics, on their side, is far beyond Kyle simply agreeing on one issue, but good try.
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  11237.  @tonystark4292  EDL members, like Tommy Robinson.
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  11238.  @tonystark4292  Did you say anything that actually contradicts what I said? If so, I missed it. He has given them a platform, like I said. He has worked with some in UKIP, like I said. He constantly bashes those most opposed to Nazis, like I said. Nazi leaders have praised him as a gateway to them, consider him to be helping them, like I said. Calling yourself a "Zionist" doesn't change any of those facts.
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  11239.  @tonystark4292  I already linked to him having a white supremacist on his show. What's the use in replying to you, dickwad, when you're not even paying attention?
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  11240.  @tonystark4292  Far from a Nazi because he's bigoted towards this religious group and not that religious group? Yeah, sounds like a big difference.
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  11241.  @fernandohood5657  The Brexit "party" isn't like UKIP, or any other political party. It's a one trick pony. It doesn't even have a political platform, just a single agenda. Even people within the "party" have called Farage a racist. They all just agree on one thing ... exiting. Galloway said he'd vote for them once, because the country had voted to exit, and should get what they voted for. There won't be a need for a Brexit "party" after they actually exit, and Farage will likely go back to UKIP, which Galloway considers to be an extremist shit party, yet again. People get called anti-Semitic for complaining about the Israel lobby, meanwhile Farage outright complains about the "Jewish lobby". He's a xenophobe who blames foreigners for everything, and he's another person who gets endorsements from the likes of David Duke.
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  11242. Ironically a beta black man arguing whites are alphas. Sadly, he probably learned it growing up with his grandparents, who worked the same plantation their ancestors were slaves on.
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  11243. Drop corporate taxes and make them pay shares instead.
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  11244. Which came first, Irgun/Lehi/Likud or Hamas? Likud was founded by Irgun and Lehi terrorists. Israel merged those terrorists into their military and intelligence agencies. Israelis elected the leaders of both those terrorist groups as PMs. Israelis, to this day, celebrate those terrorists as "heroes". Likud's platform (1977), "between the sea and the Jordan there will only be Israeli sovereignty", promises to completely colonize and ethnically cleanse all Palestine territories. It further claims a "right" to all the "Land of Israel" (fictional biblical borders that don't mesh with archaeological reality), which is an open declaration of future wars, against Jordan, Syria, Lebanon, and possibly Iraq. But, do go on, about how colonizing, ethnic cleansing, occupying, warmonger, terrorists, who operate an open air WWII style fascist ghetto, "has to protect themselves". Those Nazis sure "had to protect themselves" against ghetto uprisings and resistance groups.
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  11245.  @bernhardriemann2700  He, basically, thought one side of the Cambodia story was being exaggerated, and another side of the story was being minimized. https://chomsky.info/20090327/
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  11246. Because the centre of US politics is right of centre. Bernie's the actual centrist.
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  11247.  @alejandrojuarez5640  So, you're saying the electability argument was pure bullshit then. Why vote someone, and a party, that repeatedly lied about you?
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  11248.  @brothermine2292  I'm not the one promoting it, before it has proven to be effective. Those would be your misinformation spreaders.
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  11249.  @brothermine2292  I didn't say you personally. Why isn't it fine to ridicule people taking animal medicine, or even unproven human medicine? They're going against the neutral position and encouraging others to do it.
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  11250. Try Googling "I believe there are no gods".
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  11251.  Porky P Iggy  Telephone lines are akin to the internet, not the websites on the internet, and both of those (internet and phone lines) have been at least partly funded by the government. Every private number you call, though, has the right to hang up on you. Also like how you can use the public roads to get to others' private property, but you still don't have the right to go on their private property. Why do you have the right to be on someone else's privately owned servers? They could start charging membership fees tomorrow if they wanted. They could decide they've made enough money and pull the plugs on their servers.
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  11252.  Porky P Iggy  The invitation came with rules for membership. Break the rules, lose your membership. Pretty simple concept. If Trump has his gym membership revoked for walking into the women's change room too many times, so what? People have been having memberships revoked since the dawn of memberships. If you want a public square, argue public ownership.
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  11253.  Porky P Iggy  Sure, and it's the owner's interpretation that decides. These social media sites don't generally have these moments, like with Trump cultists, where a bunch of staff is actively looking for something specific to delete or block. They, generally, just let the program handle some things, and depend on other users reporting on other things. Sometimes it takes just one asshole to report a specific video, that separates it from other similar videos.
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  11254. This is still Trumpty Dumpty's wall, dumb dumb.
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  11255.  @barbiquearea  "that is their choice" That's all that's being asked for. A "baby" is actually one that's born. You're "having a baby", you don't "already have a baby". Hey, scientists can create artificial eggs, now. Every single sperm is a living organism, with individual DNA, that has the potential to become a living baby. Maybe we should ban sex, and only allow for masturbating into test tubes, so we can catch every single "baby".
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  11256.  @dexterriley  If you don't think Assad is one, then you're a nutbar. If you think they all are, then what's your point?
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  11257. The progressive caucus is still 15 seats away from becoming the majority of the house Democratic caucus. Who was it you thought the corporate Dem majority would pick for party speaker candidate, instead?
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  11258.  @raptorleafMedication  Figures. Dore knobs seem to benefit Republicans most. Zero Republicans voted for another round of covid relief. The $15 minimum passed the house. She may not move forward fast enough, but she's not driving in reverse, ffs.
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  11259.  @raptorleafMedication  Yeah, trying to toss millions of the poorest Americans off of Medicaid expansion is totally samesies as not doing that. Dimwitted Dore knobs are as dumb as Trumpists.
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  11260. It got a vote. Weren't you Dore knob types going to do something with an ever so important list of no voters? Or all you all bitch and no action?
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  11261.  @FrankCastle-tq9bz  If the house and senate can agree, it goes to house-senate negotiations. Joe Manchin has the possibility of bringing in Republicans that have their own $10 minimum wage bill, agreeing to their $10, and possibly some other things they want shaved down, if they vote for the bill. They could then pass it without the squad's votes. How many extra out of party votes to the left of progressives? That's right. None. So, you could end up with a watered down covid relief and the majority of congress considering the minimum wage to be settled for years to come, at $10. If no agreement can be made, the bill fails. With all the things you're currently seeing Manchin willing to sabotage, what makes you think he wouldn't have been willing to sabotage covid relief?
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  11262. Dore is working on that. He has done what he could to help Trump the last two elections, while making out like he's a lefty.
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  11263.  @carlmclemore6104  He presented it to a joint session of congress. It is the third part of his overall Build Back Better agenda.
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  11264.  @lucboy13  Thanks for the strawman, but I've never cared if there was a vaccine passport. My grandmother needed a vaccine passport to be able to immigrate after WWII ... so what? Kids need a vaccine passport to go to public schools ... so what? You're just making out like something is a big deal, when it really isn't. What's the problem? Are you afraid you won't be able to go anywhere, because you're one of the idiots who isn't going to get vaccinated?
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  11265.  @lucboy13  Oh geezus. That is still conspiracy nuttery. Do you think those in power all have shares in UberEats, or something?
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  11266.  @joshualocicero6799  Umm, I'm not wrong. It's in the Nazi propaganda, dummy. You can argue they were wrong, but that won't change the fact that it is one of the reasons they gave for hating them. Ummm, Mussolini was booted from socialists groups and outright defined fascism as the complete opposite of Marxian socialism, dimwit.
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  11267.  @joshualocicero6799  Feudalism started up outside the boundaries of a state. With no government of the people above them, private individuals, with their private armies, claiming private property, went around doing whatever the hell they liked. You do know that monarchies are private enterprises, right? It happened again in the US, on the Western frontier. Beyond the rule of law and government, some nice little settlements popped up, but so did cattle barons. They hired their private armies of cowboys, and threw their weight around. They got into wars with farmers and sheep herders. It only came to an end with the law and military moving in. Some places it went on into the 20th century. Without that intervention, it would have just continued.
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  11268.  @joshualocicero6799  Me: explains how capitalist communities without law and order also devolved into feudalism on the Western frontier. You: you didn't explain how ancap devolves into feudalism. An absolute monarchy is not really a government. It is a form of governance not much different than a private corporation. The owner of the company claims property and resources. They can make rules for living on their private property. They can charge whatever rent they want on their private property. They can hire private security to enforce the rules and collect the rent on their private property. They can hire private militaries to protect their private property and interests. Etc. There are zero rules against any of that in ancap. It's like owning a very large apartment building without government interference. To say none of that is okay under ancap is to say people can't own apartment buildings, set rent, make rules, and protect said apartment, under ancap. Now, if two of these folks have differences, there is no legal body they have to answer to, to settle the dispute. They can settle it anyway they want. If they can't come to a private agreement, then they may pit their private armies against each other. If one apartment owner claims the neighbouring apartment is also theirs, what governing legal body will settle the dispute? None. If the US switched to ancap tomorrow, is there any rule saying Amazon, and other corporations, can't buy up as much of the US military as they can afford? No. What is wrong with a direct democracy? How would you ever decide to go ancap without at least one vote? Lol
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  11269.  @joshualocicero6799  Well, these corporations already exist, and already own tons of property and resources. What would you do, force them to disband, before going ancap? And, they're either paying billions a year in taxes, which they could divert to security without a tax system in place, or they're already dodging taxes and accumulating billions a year, which they could divert to security. They wouldn't have to pay employee health care, and could divert that, as well. They wouldn't be required to follow safety or environmental regulations, and could cut costs by using cheaper less safe materials, or methods, and dump waste in the nearest river, or whatnot, and divert that money, as well. It's also giant corporations making the vast majority of weapons and military equipment. Why wouldn't those corporations team up with other corporations to keep the elite in power, even without a government? It seems, to me, that they'd likely form alliances, and wouldn't go down without a fight, including fighting alternative markets and small competitors. Would this also happen in a bubble, on a global scale, or would there be foreign governments they could also team up with, to help throw their weight around? Would it be somehow illegal, and somehow enforced, to team up with foreign militaries?
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  11270.  @gbangerlove  I proved exactly what I said about Nazi propaganda was not wrong, with a factual quote, you daft twatwaffle. Joshua proved he has no clue what an ad hom is, proved he has reading comprehension problems, proved he doesn't actually know how Musollini defined fascism ... which I also provided factual quotes for, proving what I said ... proved he doesn't know how fascism played out in action, proved he doesn't know Spencer's position on everything relevant to economics, etc. Not sure what you're reading. Lol If you think all the other developed countries in the world, which have public health care ... if you think all their conservative parties, which also support said public health care ... which Bernie wants to emulate, are far left, then you're dumber than a fucking stump. Spain has communist politicians in its Left United coalition, that outright want to work towards ending capitalism outright. That's far left you twit. Bernie has never said anything even remotely close. Those are the facts. You must just be so far right that you can't see beyond centre and think that's far left.
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  11271.  @gbangerlove  What the fuck? We're discussing Richard Spencer, you dumb fuck. How the hell does simply stating exactly what he, the racist, wants to achieve, in turn perpetuate racism?
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  11272.  @gbangerlove  Your first reply to me outright lies about me, then calls me ignorant, and now you're whining about having civil discourse? Are you Ben Shapiro, or something? Repeatedly saying "you're wrong" isn't an argument Brainiac. I backed up my arguments, as I've already pointed out.
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  11273.  @phazon100  The qualifier being extra money, right? "Oct 31, 2023 — As of September, 62% of adults said they are living paycheck to paycheck, according to a new LendingClub report."
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  11274.  @drunkensailor3736  Well, I hope that descendants of fascist Batista supporters, or other Central/South American fascists the US has supported over the years, don't get "more conservative". They're all pretty nuts, to begin with. "Latino" and "Hispanic" are cultural and geographic groupings, not racial or ethnic groupings. They come in white, black, native, and mixes there of. There are only so many Ted Cruzes to be found amongst them, before Republicans will hit their problems dealing with minorites.
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  11275.  fa q  Entirely true. Jimmy is almost always wrong.
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  11276.  fa q  Not voting Biden would let Trump win. If you don't think Trump is further right, then you're dumber than a stump.
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  11277.  fa q  Yeah, I read that you're clueless, just fine.
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  11278.  fa q  Dore's own argument for Trump being better for progressives than Clinton, was based on Trump being far worse. The worse the president, the bigger the progressive backlash, was Dore's "thinking". Except, people were so desperate to get rid of Trump, they fell for the "more electable" nonsense. The progressive movement behind Bernie came after Obama. There's no evidence that a worse president is required, and all Dore's predictions were false. Trump cared about profits over people, leading to hundreds of thousands of Americans dying. Trump wanted to toss millions off of Medicaid expansion. Trump had major tax cuts for corporations and the rich. Trump put in further right wing judges all over the country, and in the supreme court. Trump wanted to overthrow the democratic process and install himself as a fascist dictator. How is he not?
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  11279.  fa q  Just how dense are you? People being desperate to oppose and get rid of Trump, was part of Jimmy's own argument, dimwit, except he falsely predicted it would lead to a progressive wave. Rofl, so you think people just really really loved Joe Biden, do you? His numbers had nothing to do with people wanting to get rid of Trump?
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  11280.  fa q  Rofl, Bernie has always said he'd support whatever Dem candidate won. If you didn't know that, then you weren't listening. He's a harm reductionist, like Chomsky, and you're plain ignorant. So, after Dore's 2018 house and senate predictions failed , you think it's entirely the fault of covid, that his presidency prediction also failed? Rofl. Apt, you talking about Jimmy like that other cult leader.
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  11281.  fa q  So, Biden is also trying to toss over 10m Americans off of Medicaid expansion? Biden's tax plan is cutting more taxes for the rich and corporations, or keeping them the same? Biden hasn't introduced an infrastructure bill, and instead just keeps saying it's coming in a couple weeks? Weird. Rofl, I never watch either of those, dimit.
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  11282.  fa q  And whether, or not, Bernie and Chomsky are wrong, that doesn't change the fact that they've been following and promoting that philosophy, for some time, and you must be a complete and utter moron for thinking Bernie was lying when he said he'd support whichever Dem candidate won.
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  11283.  @jackaljade  BBC: Making babies without eggs may be possible, say scientists "They have succeeded in creating healthy baby mice by tricking sperm into believing they were fertilising normal eggs." They are also close to being able to create an embryo without sperm or an egg, using skin cells. Should every skin cell be considered a potential baby?
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  11284. We tend to use "indigenous" nowadays, in Canada. Technically, though, the Americas are continents and all the pre-colonial peoples are Native Americans.
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  11285. Jimmy Dore isn't "left".
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  11286. ​ @liesel16  Reagan was a freedom fighter, once upon a time. He was an FDR voting Dem, and a union leader. You can thank Nixon for starting his transition. Nixon is the start of Republicans collecting all the nuts into one basket.
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  11287. ​ @rs72098  Israel is objectively the aggressor by every relevant measure ... Modern history: 100 years ago, in 1923, Ze'ev Jabotinsky fully acknowledged that Zionism is colonialism, and that, based on the entirety of history, the natives would fight it until the bitter end. He just didn't care what would happen to them, and promoted doing it anyway. Colonizers are never not the aggressors. On top of the colonialist nature of Zionism, the Zionists also formed terrorist organizations, like the Irgun and Lehi. They bombed many Palestinian markets and other public places, murdering many civilians, including children, even including Palestinian Jews (who opposed Zionism). Israel merged those terrorists into the new nation's military and intelligence agencies. Israelis elected Menachem Begin, leader of the Irgun, child murderer, Jew murderer, and bomber of the King David Hotel, as PM. Israelis, to this day, celebrate those terrorists as "heroes". Zionists literally taught their neighbours that terrorism is a valid path to independence and statehood, and that terrorists are to be celebrated. In 1945, it is well documented that Zionists owned just 5% of the land and were a majority nowhere. Israel was formed by actually going against the majority population. It's foundation is completely undemocratic. Then, becoming a majority, in "their" new nation, by ethnic cleansing the actual majority, and then claiming to be democratic, is utter nonsense. Law: Israel is considered an occupier by the International Court, the UN GA, and the UN SC. Occupiers are also never not the aggressors. Those occupied actually have a right to resist occupation. On the flip side, it is illegal for the occupier to settle occupied lands, and illegal to use collective punishment. Israel is a rogue nation, that doesn't abide by international law. What it has been doing, and is doing now, is illegal. Current events: This year, alone, prior to Oct 7 ... Israel held over 1200 Palestinian hostages without charges ... over 200 Palestinians had been killed by the IDF and settlers ... over 1000 Palestinians had been displaced by Israel's neverending colonization of the West Bank ... and, Israel continued to operate an open air WWII style fascist ghetto, in Gaza. Even ignoring modern history and law, in no reality did Hamas "start" anything.
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  11288.  @robertbaur3145  Comparing some websites to air is itself a little insane. Plenty of people still don't use social media, don't us one or the other, get sick of one or the other and stop using them, etc. People don't tend to not use, or stop using, air. Sure, they are big. Sure, they are popular. Sure, they have worldwide reach. But, social media are not only private property, they're actually private social clubs, with memberships, and you have to agree to tos to get a membership. They truly aren't even as public as a mall, that you can freely walk in and out of without having to sign an agreement, let alone a public square. Private clubs have been revoking memberships their entire existence. Getting banned from the most popular private club down the street isn't even close to being banned from every single club, or being banned from the street, and not even in the same universe as being banned from air. Nobody would bat an eye, if Trump lost his golf club membership, for wandering into the women's change room one too many times. Like I said, I'm all for public ownership, but if the right wing private property capitalists aren't, then they should quit f*cking whining about the world they created. Rand Paul's ideal right-libertarian world would hand corporations unlimited freedom and power to do the very thing they're doing. For him to keep a membership at one private club, for the sole purpose of coming back to it, to whine about it, and to promote the new private club he belongs to, is pretty sad. If this were my club, I'd perma ban him, for publicly announcing that's all he was going to use my club for.
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  11289.  @robertbaur3145  No. I clearly laid out how it's not analogous. There are more than one search engines and web browsers, as well. Pretty much nothing is analogous to air, except food and water. Taking away your Twitter isn't going to kill you.
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  11290.  @robertbaur3145  "Air you breathe" isn't at all the same thing as airspace, and private property owners do own a certain amount of airspace above their property. That's why you don't have paparazzi with drones constantly hovering over the backyards of celebs.
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  11291.  @robertbaur3145  No. One company doesn't own the entire internet, ffs. They own their own servers.
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  11292.  @robertbaur3145  Pick one, free speech or civil discourse. You can't have both. Sure, you can ask for things, as a consumer, as can all the other consumers. A lot of people don't like the spread of bullshit that leads to people dying.
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  11293.  @will4us  No, he's trying to cast doubt on rape claims, based on "reasoning" pulled directly out of his ass.
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  11294. At minimum, they've won seats, which is something the most popular third party hasn't done in 50 years.
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  11295.  @EB-du3vh  Do you think the slave holding states came to the right conclusions, for themselves, about slavery? All the Northern states had decided to abolish it.
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  11296.  @Arcexey  Bush, AOC, and others have also been raising money to help renters in need, working with charities and state officials to help renters in their districts and states. They're actually doing shit, dimwit. Trump sat on his ass most of the time. Progressives have tweeted about corporations, corporate donors, and shit like that, dozens of times over. Nobody can bring it all down with a single tweet, ffs. You're a nutbar.
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  11297.  Kid Dracula  Capitol police don't roam the streets enforcing laws, dimwit. They're basically a security guard and bodyguard force.
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  11298.  Kid Dracula  What they said was nuts, and apparently you're nuts too.
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  11299.  Kid Dracula  "Ran past" = drove her car through a secret service barrier at the white house, hit a secret service agent, hit another secret service agent, was persude by secret service and DC police as she raced through traffic and red lights to the capitol, where they surrounded her, she then backed into a secret service vehicle, hit another secret service agent, and carried on until she came to a capitol police barrier, where a secret service agent and capitol police officer shot at her. She went to the capitol grounds, dumb dumb. They weren't wandering the streets.
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  11300.  @Arcexey  Sorry to waste all your effort, but I stopped reading, after your first three bullshit "points". She, and other progressives, f*cking run on not having corporate donors, and that their opponents do. They've talked about it constantly, repeatedly, push bills trying to end it. She outright said what was happening at the border was still barbaric. Idiots don't seem to have listened to more than a 1 min soundbite. She campaigned for Bernie, trying to actually have an M4A president. She used her platform and PAC to back 20 other pro-M4A progressives, helped add a few more M4A yes votes to congress, and helped remove a few more corporate Dems. She was just campaigning for Nina, still promoting M4A, trying to add another M4A yes vote to congress. You know that getting enough yes votes is the thing that needs doing to ever pass the bill, right? Where were these supposed Republican M4A candidates, that Trump was promoting and backing? I can just imagine that the rest was just a lot more bullshit.
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  11301.  @Arcexey  What don't you get, dimwit ... actually increasing yes votes for an existing bill is different than not adding yes votes to a non existent bill. She was, literally, just trying to add another yes vote, which would move you closer to the goal. Where's Trump's healthcare plan, again? Do you have reading comprehension problems? "Still barbaric". Do you know what "still" means?
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  11302.  @Arcexey  What are you trying to peddle with you're nonsense "Samesies!" argument, anyway? Apathy, and non voting? A violent revolution? A fantasy that some third party candidate, like Kyrsten Sinema was, is going to be perfectly perfect and incorruptible?
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  11303.  @Arcexey  Rofl!!!
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  11304.  @Arcexey  Progressives actually have an M4A bill, not an imaginary, non existent, healthcare plan, dumb dumb. Plus, members that have signed onto it, rather than completely non existent support for it amongst Republicans. Go peddle your schtick on the MAGA crowd, and tell them to vote progressive.
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  11305. It's funny. I'm in Canada, and only hearing about the 2 drinks a week advisory, from whiny American Republicans. Tons of Canadians are about to get trashed, this Labour Day weekend.
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  11306. ​ @Noamchomsky1917  Change your handle then. You're just FA.
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  11307. "Join or die" was the motto, for those who wanted to defund the red coats (police/military).
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  11308. ​ @AdamtheRed-  You √0tiπg for your favorite pet? It's just as effective as third party.
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  11309. “In short, when it comes to the war against terrorists, I’m a hawk. When it comes to counterproductive wars of regime change, I’m a dove.” - Tulsi Gabbard, Hawaii Tribune-Herald, 2016 The war on terror has been used as grounds for almost every intervention since 9/11. And calling M4A, that bans duplicate coverage, "not a very American thing in my opinion", 2019. She was telling people who she was, all along.
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  11310.  @knowsomething9384  Ummm, no.
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  11311.  @aliamjon2550  Hur dur, do nukes go off by themselves, or is it people shooting the nukes? Nukes all around, for everyone!!!!
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  11312. Max Miller considers this to be Judaism? In 1923, 100 years ago, Ze'ev Jabotinsky wrote, The Iron Wall, and a follow up, The Ethics of The Iron Wall (sooo racist towards Africans), in which he fully acknowledged that post Balfour Zionsim was colonialism, and that, based on the entirety of history, the native Palestinian population would resist being colonized until the bitter end. He directly compared it to the colonization of North America. He promoted doing it anyway, claiming Zionist colonialism was a "just" colonialism (he also thought North American colonialists were good guys, so not a great judge of morality), not caring what that meant for the native population. Ze'ev is important, because his Betar militant youth group helped found the Irgun terrorist group, along with other supporters of his, and the splinter Lehi terrorist group. The Irgun bombed numerous Palestinian markets and other public places, murdering many Palestinian civilians, including children, even including Palestinian Jews (who didn't support colonialist Zionsim). The Irgun are important, because they ended up being led by future Likud PM, Menachem Begin, who bombed the King David Hotel. The King David Hotel was bombed because the British had raided the Jewish Agency and seized numerous documents that may have shown that the terrorists were working with the JA and Haganah (JA liked to pretend that they didn't support the terrorism). The British then stored those documents at their base, in the hotel. That the Irgun terrorists responded to a JA raid, itself seems to prove the connection. That the thousands of Irgun (and Lehi) terrorists were also quickly merged into the new nation's military (IDF) and intelligence (Mossad) agencies, and are still celebrated as "heroes" by Israelis, to this day, also seems to support total collaboration between the groups. That other terrorist group mentioned, Lehi (also known as the Stern Gang), was considered even more extreme. They even tried to ally with the Nazis, against the British. Lehi ended up being led by Yitzhak Shamir, future Mossad agent, and another future Likud PM. In 1945, there was a major land and peoples survey done in Palestine. It showed that the Zionists only owned about 5% of the total land, 20% of the arable land, and owned a majority in zero districts. The partition was not only going to be forced on the native Palestinian majority, but Jews were still going to be a minority, in the part allocated to them. The only possible way to even become a "Jewish state" was going to require getting rid of the actual majority (at least enough so that there'd be a solid Jewish majority, so they could fake being democratic). This is also shown by the 1948, post Nakba, population of Israel. If there was 716,700 Jews, 156,000+ non-Jews, and approximately 700k non-Jews ethnically cleansed, that means the Jewish population, in the Zionist portion of partition, was originally over 100,000 less than the non-Jewish population. To believe that there was never any intent, by Zionists, to ethnically cleanse away the Palestinian majority would require believing that they never intended to create a "Jewish state". It's a nonsensical notion. Begin, and those terrorist groups, also opposed partition, but for the opposite reason Palestinians did. Palestinians didn't want to be colonized, at all. The terrorists wanted to colonize it all. "Moderate" Zionists were okay with colonizing half ... for now (what would happen in the future, after partition, was up to them, said Ben-Gurion). The Zionist terrorists were also involved in massacres, and assassinations, during the partition violence (colonialist war against the natives). Another notable future Likud PM, also started in the military, during the partition fighting. That was Ariel Sharon, war criminal, "Butcher of Beirut". Menachem Begin, and these other Zionist terrorists, are important because they also later founded Likud. Now, people get upset over the slogan "From the river to the sea!", but it's the second part that's most important, "Palestine will be free!". Because "Palestine" isn't defined as an ethno-state, a free Palestine can be a single state, free for all to live in, and return to, free of continuing colonization, free of occupation, free of oppression, etc. Just like a Germany free of Nazism, an Italy free of fascism, a South Africa free of apartheid, or an America free of slavery from sea to shiny sea. It doesn't necessitate purging all the Jews. It just necessitates them giving up on the idea of an ethno-state. On the other hand, because "Israel" has been defined as an ethno-state, Likud's, "between the sea and the Jordan there will only be Israeli sovereignty", has no possible good interpretation. It is a declaration of intent to completely colonize, and ethnically cleanse, all Palestine territories. Not only that, but it also claims that they have a "right" to all of the "Land of Israel" (biblical borders that don't mesh with archaeological reality), which is an open declaration of future wars, against Jordan, Syria, Lebanon, and possibly even Iraq. Likud platform ... 1977: "The Right of the Jewish People to the Land of Israel (Eretz Israel) a. The right of the Jewish people to the land of Israel is eternal and indisputable and is linked with the right to security and peace; therefore, Judea and Samaria will not be handed to any foreign administration; between the Sea and the Jordan there will only be Israeli sovereignty. b. A plan which relinquishes parts of western Eretz Israel, undermines our right to the country, unavoidably leads to the establishment of a "Palestinian State," jeopardizes the security of the Jewish population, endangers the existence of the State of Israel. and frustrates any prospect of peace." "Settlement Settlement. both urban and rural. in all parts of the Land of Israel is the focal point of the Zionist effort to redeem the country, to maintain vital security areas and serves as a reservoir of strength and inspiration for the renewal of the pioneering spirit. The Likud government will call on the younger generation in Israel and the dispersions to settle and help every group and individual in the task of inhabiting and cultivating the wasteland, while taking care not to dispossess anyone." 1999: "The Government of Israel flatly rejects the establishment of a Palestinian Arab state west of the Jordan river. The Palestinians can run their lives freely in the framework of self-rule, but not as an independent and sovereign state. Thus, for example, in matters of foreign affairs, security, immigration, and ecology, their activity shall be limited in accordance with imperatives of Israel's existence, security and national needs." "The Jewish communities in Judea, Samaria, and Gaza are the realization of Zionist values. Settlement of the land is a clear expression of the unassailable right of the Jewish people to the Land of Israel and constitutes an important asset in the defense of the vital interests of the State of Israel. The Likud will continue to strengthen and develop these communities and will prevent their uprooting." All Palestine territories are officially considered occupied, by the International Court of Justice, the UN GA, the UN SC, and even in official documents of Israel's own allies. Likud is still using the blueprint for colonizing North America, in the West Bank. Move settlements out into native territory, piss off the natives, the natives retaliate, cry about poor "innocent" colonizing settlers being the "victims" of violent "Savages!", call in the cavalry to put down the native uprising, and eventually expand the borders to include those settlements. Rinse and repeat. In Gaza, they are operating an open air WWII style fascist ghetto. Them claiming a "right to defend themselves" would be like the Nazis claiming a "right to defend themselves " from the Warsaw ghetto uprising. There's no "war". That they're the occupiers means the "war" part is long over. That partition was forced upon the Palestinian majority, against their will ... that the Zionist portion still had to be forcefully ethnically cleansed of its non-Jewish majority, against their will ... that the millions of occupied Palestinians don't have a say in the government that truly rules over them, Israel's ... means Israel is about as democratic as Nazi Germany after Hitler purged his political opponents and then held elections. Hamas is basically just a poor man's Likud, only fighting against colonialism, instead of for colonialism. All the Zionists, and their supporters, who are justifying slaughtering civilians, are the people who are truly justifying the Hamas attack, because they're wrong about who the actual aggressor is. Like Ben Shapiro, arguing it was okay for the Allies to intentionally target the most densely populated parts of Dresden, or drop bombs on Japanese cities ... If he insists, but Israel (colonizer, ethnic cleanser, occupier, ghetto operator, ethno-state) is actually Nazi Germany in the WWII analogy.
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  11313.  @bullgator  Couldn't you have said the same thing about Zionist terrorist groups, like the Irgun and Lehi, which simply got absorbed into the newly formed Israeli government and military?
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  11314. What an idiot. The "pandemic" label simply refers to an "epidemic" that has hit numerous countries. Even if you somehow don't believe it has hit enough countries to qualify as a "pandemic", within your own national border, it would still be an "epidemic".
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  11315.  @maluminse6013  You know Mueller (Republican) didn't use the Steele dossier, right? He still provided some 300 pages of collusion, that didn't amount to criminal conspiracy. The report said Jr and Kushner weren't charged with criminal conspiracy because it would be hard to prove they "willfully" broke the law, not because they didn't break the law. And, he indicted 34 individuals and 3 companies. So, what's the "hoax"?
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  11316.  @zaidabraham7310   No, no, he said spiritual, or supernatural, experiences are required to end an addiction ... while stupidly trying to argue that magic mushroom hallucinations are evidence of the supernatural ... not that they can be important to some people.
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  11317.  @jollyroger9286  How do you suspect the diet worked, at all, if he was still taking drugs for his anxiety and depression? This should be evidence that he, and she, are full of shit.
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  11318.  @jollyroger9286  Where am I losing you? He, and his daughter, claimed a diet cured their anxiety. Now, he is in a Russian hospital to get off drugs for anxiety. If the diet claim were true, he wouldn't have been on drugs for anxiety, and wouldn't be in the hospital. The diet claim was, obviously, false.
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  11319.  @jollyroger9286  My own assumption? Holy hell, you're a complete moron.
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  11320. Nope. She never once campaigned on paralyzing, or threatening to paralyze, the house. She gave Biden an A on meeting expectations. You have no idea what her expectations were. If she expected shit, then even slightly better than shit is exceeding expectations. Anyone paying attention knows that Dore knobs are just a bunch of lazy pathetic whiny hypocrites, who did absolutely nothing with getting a vote on the $15. They did absolutely nothing with a list of no voters. Just continued whining about those who voted for it. Evidence they would have done absolutely nothing with a list of M4A no voters.
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  11321. If you need to setup hotlines and offer rewards, for evidence of widespread voter or election fraud, then it's just a fact that you've got no evidence of widespread voter or election fraud.
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  11322. Also a major CBO report out showing, unshockingly, that various types of single payer systems actually save money overall. https://www.good.is/cbo-shows-medicare-for-all-could-cover-everyone-for-650-billion-less-per-year
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  11323. Kyle. A lot of it has to do with trace testing rates (tests per confirmed case). The US has had a pathetically low trace testing rate. Total tests, and tests per million, are irrelevant numbers that are totally disconnected from the virus numbers. https://ourworldindata.org/grapher/number-of-covid-19-tests-per-confirmed-case?tab=chart&stackMode=absolute&time=2020-11-12&country=AUS~CAN~DNK~DEU~ITA~JPN~NZL~NOR~KOR~TWN~GBR~USA~VNM®ion=World
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  11324. ​ @SuperCaliforniaBarbi  The moron publicly "defends" himself from bank fraud, by claiming he instead committed massive tax fraud, by undervaluing properties by over a billion dollars.
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  11325. Clipped ears. Some ahole probably wanted a fighter, but she lacked the disposition.
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  11326. He's the one who promoted Trump (platform: toss 10m+ of the poorest Americans off of Medicaid expansion) as the better option than Clinton (platform: add 40m older Americans to Medicare expansion). If he convinced even one person in a swing state to let Trump win, then he benefited Republicans. He peddled Tulsi "I'm a hawk" Gabbard (public option) over Bernie (M4A). If he convinced anyone to not vote Bernie, then he helped Bernie lose. After spending months outright promoting a non M4A candidate over an M4A candidate, he then slandered progressives, that have done more for M4A in a few years than he has in his entire lifetime, as "fakes", "frauds", "sellouts", if they didn't support his "plan" to get a 100% guaranteed to fail performance art vote on M4A. Slandering progressives only benefits corporate Dems and Republicans. Then, after making out like disagreeing over a single, largely pointless, secondary tactic was enough to declare other progressives weren't allies, he peddled a far right ancap Boogaloo, who agrees on next to nothing, outside a handful of anti-authoritarian issues, as a potential ally. The only benefits a psycho right wing extremist group that wants to start a civil war. Dimwit Dore just doesn't seem to grasp who they'd be shooting in their fantasy civil war. Now he's peddling vaccine misinformation, pandering to Trump cultists. What does he actually do, that benefits the left?
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  11327.  @turkishdelight7197  Yeah, wowsers @ how anyone can be dumb enough to buy his bullshit.
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  11328.  @SR-lh4rm  Rofl. You think that, exactly because you're as clueless as Yang. Moreso. So clueless, in fact, that you can't even tell you're making arguments that are totally irrelevant. It doesn't matter if a VAT is flexible, and different countries can have different rates, have different lesser rated goods and services, have different zero rated goods and services, and different exempt goods and services. All of that is totally irrelevant. Part of the core design of a VAT (so when someone says "VAT", this is part of what makes it that very thing) is that it's specifically designed to NOT tax businesses in order to avoid double taxation (double taxation would be worse, dumb dumb, and arguing for some other tax, that's not a VAT, that you're calling a VAT, that would allow for double taxation, would be moronic).
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  11329.  @SR-lh4rm  And, I'm living in one of those countries, have paid a VAT for 30 years, and owned a VAT registered business. I filled out VAT returns for years. Are you the idiot who kept thinking they knew better than 40 countries' web pages, explaining how a VAT works, and kept denying reality?
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  11330.  @SR-lh4rm  You have reading comprehension problems, dimwit, and are rambling on about irrelevant things, again. I didn't argue to do away with the VAT. I said it doesn't tax businesses. Yang's own linked to pass through rate study showed it didn't tax businesses, but he failed to grasp it.
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  11331.  @SR-lh4rm  Holy shit, dimwit. I'm also a consumer. I didn't say I was paying through the business.
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  11332.  @SR-lh4rm  Do you "win" all your arguments with severe reading comprehension problems, strawmen, and irrelevance?
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  11333.  @SR-lh4rm  Rofl! You are so far beyond stupid it's ridiculous. A VAT is basically a sales tax, collected in stages, with all the business stages getting paid back. The businesses collect output VAT from consumers. They pay themselves back for any input VAT they've paid on any goods and services. Then they send the difference to the government. Yes, the government likes paperwork, showing it has all been done properly. No, that doesn't mean my business has ended up paying anything, if it was totally paid back for its input VAT. The entire VAT ends up being paid by the final consumer, just like a sales tax. A 10% VAT and a 10% sales tax both bring in the same revenue for the government, and are both ultimately paid by the final consumer. Both also have businesses collecting tax for the government, and sending that money to the government, and neither counts as the damn businesses paying the taxes. Stop flinging shit and hoping it sticks, and just accept you're completely clueless about the entire process.
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  11334.  @SR-lh4rm  Making up like I argued to not have a VAT, and then arguing against the argument you invented for me, is a perfect strawman. You're dumb.
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  11335.  @SR-lh4rm  Again ... you're spouting crap that's irrelevant to the fact that a VAT doesn't tax businesses, Yang wrongly claims it does, and even posted a pass through study proving most of his VAT page to be complete bullshit. Can the Yang Gang actually math? X = output VAT (collected from consumers) Y = input VAT (paid to other businesses) X - Y = Z If Z > 0, the business keeps Y, paying themselves back, before sending Z to the government. If Z < 0, the business keeps X, and the government refunds Z, paying the business back. How much in taxes does the business end up paying, in the end, either way?
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  11336.  @SR-lh4rm  What a lying twat you are. I didn't say they were "interchangeable" terms. Yes, it is basically a sales tax, for the reasons I mentioned, that you didn't address, in favour of another strawman, implying I said they were exactly the same thing. And, another lie. I'm arguing it doesn't tax businesses, like Yang claimed. He's outright clueless, or lying. Not sure why your tiny brain equates that to getting rid of it. If giant corporations don't pay into the UBI, through the VAT (as he claims, and as is what happens in Alaska, which he constantly compared his dividend to), then they only get the benefit of trillions being spent, making them, and their owners, extra tens of billions a year, funneling money to the very top faster than ever before. Rofl!!! No, a VAT can't strictly be B2B, dimwit. Then it wouldn't be a "VAT". You're inventing something new and stupid, that would allow for double taxation, which would be worse, and calling it a "VAT". You're pulling shit straight out of your ass.
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  11337.  @SR-lh4rm  Take a moment, and learn to read, and learn to address exactly what you read, before responding. You're acting like an outright cultist nut, as is.
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  11338. @eddieisfiction What extra assumptions? The Boog said he was for an extreme free market, just like other Libertarian and ancap types. You know that doesn't support M4A, right? You know that's the complete economic opposite to socialism, right?
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  11339. @eddieisfiction Is Jimmy the one you were implying was on a different side, or his guest?
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  11340. @eddieisfiction You asked questions, dumb dumb.
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  11341. @Crimean Tiger You can't wait to track people down and ... ?
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  11342. @Crimean Tiger And? What did your imagination fill it in with?
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  11343. @Crimean Tiger You're not my type.
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  11344. @eddieisfiction Rofl. You're making no sense. You ask me questions about people on the other side. I assume you're referring to the right wing guest, not Jimmy. I answer the questions. You then ask me what it has to do with Jimmy Dore. Are you saying Jimmy is the one on the other side then?
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  11345. @Crimean Tiger bawk, bawk, bawk, bawk
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  11346. @eddieisfiction And I asked what assumptions, dumb dumb, which you didn't answer. Thinking you might have been referring to a thing I said about the Boog, being the person on the other side, I answered about that.
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  11347. @eddieisfiction My previous comment to your questions, I stated exactly what Jimmy had been doing, exactly who benefits, and exactly the economic position the Boog said he held. So, again, what "extra assumptions"?
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  11348. @eddieisfiction Rofl. He hasn't just spent weeks bashing other progressives and using FTV as a purity test?
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  11349. @eddieisfiction Lol. So, if a guy with social media promotes the idea to his audience, that Trump is the better option than Clinton, you think there is someone else, besides Trump, that could benefit from that? Who?
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  11350. @eddieisfiction That was not at all, all he said (and Trump has dropped more bombs than Obama, btw). He claimed Trump beating Clinton would be better for the progressive movement. He claimed it would lead to Dems "for sure" taking both the house and senate in 2018 (and not just any Dems, but progressive Dems who would advance the "progressive agenda"), and to a progressive president in 2020. Aside from vastly overestimating the benefits, he vastly underestimated the risks, claiming many Republican lawmakers would side with the left, and block Trump's agenda, and that Trump filling multiple scotus seats was as likely as the moon falling into Lake Michigan. He also didn't show an ounce of caring that a Trump (running on complete ACA repeal) presidency could possibly toss 10m of the poorest Americans off Medicaid expansion, or caring to add 40m Americans to Medicare (Clinton ran on lowering the age to 55), but has now crowned himself the one true champion of healthcare.
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  11351. @eddieisfiction Do you have reading comprehension problems? I said he benefits Republicans.
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  11352. Sure, the general public will respect your decision to not get vaccinated, not to wear a mask, or whatever, if you respect that the general public then doesn't want you mingling with them.
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  11353.  @DumbAssSpeakingWithMansVoice  Out of a hundred million vaccinated, ffs. Serious adverse effects are in the range of 6 per million, not 600. Even if it were 600, if a hundred million caught covid, that would be about a million deaths, for crying out loud, plus all the people who survive but suffer long term effects. Give your head a shake. You're diving in the shallow end. Science isn't "magical thinking". That would be that praying you're doing.
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  11354.  @bastardferret869  If you ignore the entire argument, before that sentence, like a dimwit.
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  11355. He's just a little horse. https://youtu.be/SmfglOvNhMk
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  11356. Yeah, you could order the horses from Amazon, who still wouldn't pay a dime in tax because it's the consumers who pay the VAT not the corporations, and make Bezos even more money to hoard, that also won't be taxed by a VAT, because it's not being spent.
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  11357. The math isn't the same. There are zero out of party votes to be gained to the left of progressives. It is impossible to pass a bill without Manchin's vote. There is the entire Republican party to the right of Manchin, who he can try and bring in votes from. A bill can be passed without progressive votes.
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  11358. Because Stein is lying. There is so much bipartisan support for Isrl in congress, that they can pass whatever Isrl bills they want, and override any presidential vetoes. Plus, the DoJ doesn't have to prosecute whatever case the president says. They are supposed to not do that, and operate independently. A V for Stein is a V to let DJT win.
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  11359.  @shylanambiar4316  Right. Right. So horrible that they had what was considered a "Golden Age", under Muslim rule. The dreaded tax ... that sent none of them fleeing in trrr, for over 1200 years, and led to the First Znst congress wanting to create a home for Jws ... in a Muslim Empire. Yes, the RU pgrms and the Nz Hlcaust, both done by Christians, was horrible. My grandfather was in the Danish resistance, that helped get almost all the Jws out of Denmark. They, like other resistance groups across Europe, were considered trrrists, by the Nzs. History has no record of the majority of the population in Pal ever leaving. And yet, it became majority Christian, and then majority Muslim. How did that happen, I wonder? Pals have Canaanite DNA. They are Arab and Muslim the same way indigenous peoples of Central America are now Hispanic and Catholic. They are the Hebrews that never left. And the few that neither left, nor converted, were targeted right alongside their Pal brothers and sisters by the Irgun and Lehi trrrists. Those would be the same trrrist founders of Likud, that Einstein considered to be on par with Fscsts and Nzs.
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  11360. Surely they'd also be in favor of ditching the corporate shield, and make the individuals liable for their mistakes, as well.
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  11361. Oh, they see what he's saying ... Urban Dictionary: peekaboo Racist term used in white-supremacist circles to refer to a person of color, usually black, of upper or upper-middle class social standing. That uppity peekaboo thinks she can golf here just because she has money. by WhoKnowsWhoItCouldBe September 21, 2022
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  11362.  @AOLAmericaOnline  What comes first, dumb dumb? The colonizing and oppression, or the native response to said colonization and oppression? Maybe stop the colonizing and oppression, to stop the response to it?
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  11363. They still celebrate the Irgun and Lehi terrorists as "heroes". It's an extremist nation, much like Nazi Germany.
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  11364. Yes, and this can happen even before the convention, if the DNC can convince corporate Dem candidates with fewer delegates to drop out and give their delegates to the corporate Dem with the most delegates. Pete and Amy, for example, could effectively hand big Iowa and New Hampshire wins to another corporate Dem candidate who does better than them in the rest of the states.
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  11365.  @killroy23  Justice Dems and AOC have helped add more M4A yes votes to congress. Getting enough M4A yes votes in congress is the only possible way to ever pass the bill. So, adding more gets you closer. A 100% guaranteed to fail performance art vote doesn't get you any closer. Adding another M4A yes vote in Nina Turner, would have moved you closer, as well. Dore abandoned her, and slanders people who have done more for M4A in a few years than he has in his entire lifetime.
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  11366. ​ @williammitchell6748  Rofl, you anti-capitalist capitalists, whining about the record profits, is hilarious. Did you want Biden to step in and do some socialism, profit controls, or something? What exactly?
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  11367. Colonizers are never not the aggressors.
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  11368. @Bill Brasky I said, "fertilized eggs", dumb dumb. You're using your poor reading comprehension skills to form a reply.
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  11369. ​ @Ra8drs1  Regina King
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  11370.  @xstatic-ow5mz  What are you blathering about? You've basically just called all progressives fascists, even if they encourage lesser evil voting, caucus with Democrats, or run as Democrats.
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  11371. ​​ @dwightschrute47  Do you use the original definitions of all words? Like "girl"?
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  11372.  @kcolonelx6181  Right, to determine whether the thing they're doing is illegal, like I said. If the thing they're doing isn't ruled war crimes/genocide, then they won't be asked to stop.
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  11373.  @kcolonelx6181  No, I'm not. Until you determine what a country is doing is illegal, what's the basis for telling them to stop doing what they're doing?
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  11374. What is it you expect her to do, exactly, beyond using her massive platform to speak out against him?
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  11375.  @brittaniblackfyre5670  I'm just going by all the things people have been saying to this. Some are complaining about them because of the young age of Twitch users. Then age verify their content, if they aren't already. You, and others are complaining about pressure on other female users. If guys are pressuring them to do similar stuff, enforce sexual harrassment, on the guys. Not seeing the big complicated deal TYT supposedly missed.
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  11376. ​ @gligarguy4010  Nobody was talking about trans rights because nobody was constantly attacking trans people, day in, day out. Right wing loons have made it a big issue.
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  11377. If you're one of those Dore knobs who didn't like the US being involved with the offense against Syria, but were okay with Russia being involved with the defense, but are now opposed to helping with defense in Ukraine, and help justify the offense by Russia, then you're actually the hypocrite who has changed positions.
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  11378.  @amacuro  One of the reasons that he's a fraud is that he was promoting his daughter's meat only diet, claiming it cured him of all his mental and physical ailments. It's hilarious that that is now outright proven to be bullshit, and that she's the one that made the public announcement.
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  11379. ​ @osrsnerd8661  Did they factually admit that Likud was founded by Irgun and Lehi terrorists, and that Likud's platform has always been, "between the sea and the Jordan there will only be Israeli sovereignty", promising to completely colonize and ethnically cleanse all Palestine territories, since the 70s?
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  11380. ​ @JulianH-co7qg  Well, colonies like Canada, and Australia, that simply waited it out, didn't turn out so bad. Plus, US independence might have led to numerous extra wars, or extended the length of some wars.
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  11381. ​ @michaelknight2897  "Lastly, but by no means least, Herron finished nearly 30 minutes in front of the fastest male athlete, Arlen Glick. He placed second in 13:10:25.This may seem surprising – after all, there are very few examples in mainstream sports where a female athlete has overcome a male opponent. But, in the world of ultra-endurance sport, women beat men on a relatively regular basis.Back in January 2019, British ultra-runner Jasmin Paris became the first woman to win the 268-mile Montane Spine Race in the UK.She finished the course in 83:12:23, obliterating the course record by 12 hours. She was still breastfeeding her daughter at the time, and even stopped off mid-race to express milk.Paris’s nearest opponent, a male athlete, finished 15 hours behind her.Five months later, British junior doctor Katie Wright won the Riverhead Backyard ReLaps Ultra-marathon in New Zealand. She ran almost nonstop for 30 hours, beating 40 men and six other women."
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  11382.  @AclockworkPurple  You're not very bright. Jews lived relatively peacefully with Muslims for 1300 years. Muslim nations took them in, when Christian nations offered conversion, death, or exile. All the tension started with Zionist colonialism. It's the Zionist colonialism that's based on religious nonsense, and some fairy tale "god given" right to the land. Palestinians are reacting like every single other native population in history, reacted to colonialism. Ze'ev Jabotinsky, in 1923, fully acknowledged that Zionism is colonialism, and predicted, based on the entirety of history, that the natives would fight it until the bitter end. He just didn't care about them.
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  11383.  @AclockworkPurple  On top of the colonialism, Zionists also formed terrorist groups, like the Irgun and Lehi, who bombed many Palestinian markets, killing civilians, including children, even including Palestinian Jews (who opposed Zionism). Israel merged those terrorists into the new nation's military and intelligence agencies. Israelis elected Menachem Begin, leader of the Irgun, who bombed the King David Hotel, as PM. Israelis, to this day, celebrate those terrorists as "heroes". They literally taught their neighbours that terrorism is a valid path to independence and statehood, and that terrorists are to be celebrated. Israel has over 400k militants (reservists) hiding amongst their civilians, using them as human shields. Due to mandatory service, almost every single Israeli is, was, or will be, a militant. Israel has been used to fight the US' proxy wars. They don't ratify any international law, and are a rogue state, that can do things the US can't.
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  11384.  @AclockworkPurple  Talk about the continuing colonization of the West Bank. Talk about the 1200+ Palestinians being held without charges (hostages), prior to Oct 7. Talk about the 200+ Palestinians killed by the IDF or settlers, almost one a day, prior to Oct 7. Why does Israel get to claim they're the ones on "defense", that they're the ones "responding"? Why don't Palestinians get to say they're defending and responding?
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  11385.  @AclockworkPurple  What historical perspective is skewed? That's factually what happened. Israel created the religious extremists. The PLO was secular. Netanyahu himself propped up Hamas, and sent money to Hamas. End Israel's operating an open air WWII style fascist ghetto, and there's no drive for Palestinians to get behind what some see as a resistance group. Merge the Gazan Palestinians with the more secular, and more populated, West Bank, and its more secular laws. And, again, when it comes to the conflict, Palestinians are simply reacting the way all natives react to colonialism, or all people react to severe oppression. Religious extremism has little to do with that. In what reality were a bunch of Zionists from Russia and Germany, whose ancestors left 1700 years earlier, fighting for "their" land? That's like saying I can round up 6 million people from the Americas, whose ancestors left England hundreds of years ago, and go "fight for my land", claim half or more of the country, and boot off the current inhabitants. It's a nonsensical notion. The only support Zionism had for this nonsensical notion, is a fairy tale.
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  11386.  @MrGolov-te5eb  Wtf does 2024 have to do with anything I said, dimwit?
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  11387.  @fatbachelors3922  Pay close attention to his words ... not just any Democrats would "for sure" take the house and senate, but ones who would push a progressive agenda. https://youtu.be/pJc4pogUu1o Dore claims Trump filling multiple scotus seats is as likely as the moon falling into Lake Michigan. https://youtu.be/SH_pgiRdm7U
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  11388.  @peterbruno657  Do you actually do the math on VAERS reporting? Even if you accepted every report as causation, rather than correlation, it would still show the vaccines to be far less dangerous than covid itself.
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  11389.  @number1grandma1  You seem to be talking about a British colony, not the country known as the USA.
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  11390. ​ @froglady7491  You can stop trying to argue like he's an honest actor. He has been outed as a longtime Trumpist. He's a plant. A dishonest fake.
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  11391. Pretty sure a putsch, to try and overthrow the democratic process and install an unelected dictator does.
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  11392.  @avinashreji60  Right, but they can't help win an electoral district, if they get swamped by a majority √0tiπg Kamala. Which means they're no help to winning the state. Not sure where you're getting lost.
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  11393. But how is it anti-Semitic, or slander, to say that "Israel" (not Jews) has deep pockets and has been largely controlling the media narrative, up until now?
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  11394.  @oliver5479  Learn what "blackmail" actually means, you dimwitted Dore knob.
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  11395.  @Gio-sx7kt  You too. F*ck Dore knobs are stupid.
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  11396.  @oliver5479  Rofl, says the moron altering the meanings of words, to desperately support his cult leader.
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  11397. Every country in NATO is aligned with Turkey.
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  11398.  @BABAYAGA-82  Rofl. Right wingers let one guy convince tens of millions of them not to believe any media, any judges, any lawyers, any law enforcement, any intelligence agencies, any scientists, any doctors, any nurses ... anybody ... even to not believe their own lying eyes, if they contradict him, Supreme Shepherd Trumpty Dumpty. Here, amongst progressives, the vast majority simply voted Biden to get rid of that nutjob, not because they particularly like Biden all that much.
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  11399. 2 years ago ... so the FBI and justice system, under Trump, was after him?
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  11400. Everyone supporting Likud should be censured. Likud was founded by Menachem Begin, leader of the Irgun terrorist group, murderer of civilian Palestinian men, women, and children, murderer of Palestinian Jews (who didn't support Zionism), and bomber of the King David Hotel. Israelis elected that terrorist as their PM. Israelis still celebrate those terrorists, as "heroes", to this day. Likud was also founded by Ariel Sharon, war criminal, who massacred Palestinian villages. Likud's original platform, "between the sea and the Jordan" ... "The Right of the Jewish People to the Land of Israel (Eretz Israel) a. The right of the Jewish people to the land of Israel is eternal and indisputable and is linked with the right to security and peace; therefore, Judea and Samaria will not be handed to any foreign administration; between the Sea and the Jordan there will only be Israeli sovereignty." There is zero indication that Likud, Netanyahu, isn't still working towards that goal, with the endless colonization of Palestine territories.
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  11401. This isn't the MSM.
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  11402.  @tomservo5007  Please tell me that you're not a MAGA. Do you grasp what that slogan means?
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  11403.  @tomservo5007  Weird, she seems to have been elected by Democratic voters.
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  11404.  @scottbaxendale323  Yang doesn't even know how his key own tax proposal, a VAT, actually works. Plus he's not on board with M4A, or many of Bernie's other proposals. Not a good pick for VP.
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  11405. There are gag orders all the time, dimwit.
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  11406.  @edgizinski5528  People have testified under oath that he commits tax fraud. It came out in his lawsuit against Tim O'Brien that he also makes fraudulent loan applications. That's plenty of justification to see his actual financial statements. If someone testified under oath that they saw you chopping up bodies through a basement window, that'd be justification for a search warrant of your house.
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  11407. Everyone who simply doesn't belive in any gods, does so because not enough evidence (knowledge) has forced them to believe, or enough evidence (knowledge) has led them to no longer believe.
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  11408.    Seems pretty straight forward. The Fed is the government bank. The Fed sells US debt. France, Canada, and the UK, all own US debt. Therefore 'owe'.
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  11409.    It is the central bank of the United States. It sells US debt. You can redeem that debt at a Federal Reserve Bank. The bank owes whoever owns that debt. Treasury Bills and Bonds say right on them that they can be redeemed at any Federal Reserve Bank. The bank owes the bearer of US debt. It ends up being a non-profit organization, because it hands any profit it does make, to the US Treasury. "Primary" and majority are two different things. The US is a 16% shareholder. That's not owning anyone muffin.
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  11410.    Moron. They still work the same way, whether paper or digital. Treasury bill ... "or to any federal reserve bank" "this treasury bill is issued by a federal reserve bank" https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/United_States_Treasury_security#/media/File%3A1969_%24100K_Treasury_Bill_(front).jpg Treasury bond ... "or at any federal reserve bank or branch" https://1ea36881-a-62cb3a1a-s-sites.googlegroups.com/site/financialportfoliowg/treasury-bond/1977TreasuryBond.jpg Treasury note ... "or at any federal reserve bank or branch" https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/United_States_Treasury_security#/media/File%3A1976_%245000_8%25_Treasury_Note.jpg Moron. They say they're not a for profit organization, themselves. Go argue with them, dumbass. Ask them where they're getting their shit from, idiot. "It is not "owned" by anyone and is not a private, profit-making institution." "The Reserve Banks are not operated for profit, and ownership of a certain amount of stock is, by law, a condition of membership in the System." "The holding of this stock, however, does not carry with it the control and financial interest conveyed to holders of common stock in for-profit organizations." https://www.richmondfed.org/faqs/frs?cc_view=mobile
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  11411. Yeah, Republicans used to dodge accusations of rcsm, by claiming they were only opposed to the misdemeanor entrants. The Haitians are legal entrants. But, there's something about them, they still don't like. I wonder what it is? 🤔
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  11412. Religious loons ... outright worshipping what would be the leading abortionist in existence, if it existed, and claiming it's pure goodness.
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  11413.  @nfzeta128  Nope. Literally math. You have no mathematical shot at winning, unless you basically get all of the current D votes, which would relegate them to third party status.
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  11414.  @conradveigt5995  Sure Q.
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  11415.  @conradveigt5995  You're a nutbar.
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  11416.  @conradveigt5995  You're literally insane. The military confirmed him as commander in chief, and called the psycho assault on the capitol "sedition" and "insurrection".
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  11417.  @conradveigt5995  A cult is when one guy convinces tens of millions of people not to believe any media, any other politicians, any judges, any lawyers, any election officials, any law enforcement, any scientists, any doctors, any nurses ... anybody ... even to not believe their own lying eyes, if they contradict that guy. It's not unanswered, nutbar.
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  11418.  @conradveigt5995  He was the head of government, dumb dumb, handed tax breaks to his corporate buddies, and you lot were his pathetic little sheep. You brain dead sheep pretend like he wasn't the government, much like you pretend FOX isn't MSM, with one of the largest MSM producers in the world. Pretty sure Trump's highest unemployment since the 1940s, at 14.8%, is worse than 6%. Pretty sure letting hundreds of thousands of Americans die is worse than simply mean tweets.
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  11419.  @conradveigt5995  Rofl, so much bullshit, so much Q nonsense. Sad.
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  11420.  @conradveigt5995  Rofl! You lot were perfectly fine with the head of government himself firing, or threatening to fire, people who said things that contradicted him. You just whine when private entities make choices for themselves, that go against you. You're insane.
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  11421.  @conradveigt5995  Riiight. So, Krebs, for example, wasn't fired? He wasn't punished by the government, Trump, for saying something that contradicted the Supreme Leader?
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  11422.  @pizdanpula223  There's no such thing as "extremist leftist shit" in US politics, nutbar.
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  11423.  @pizdanpula223  Oh geezus. CRT is only taught in colleges or universities, ffs, and has been for decades now. Most black voters voted for Biden, not Bernie. The majority aren't even US "left", let alone actual left, and sure as hell aren't "extreme leftists". Being anti-police brutality is neither left nor right. It's simply anti-authoritarian. The US was founded by people who protested, rioted, and even went to war, over extra taxes that specifically funded the police/military and a lack of representation. Used to be that authoritarianism was considered extreme and fighting against it wasn't.
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  11424.  @pizdanpula223  But they're fine with US cops killing 10-100x more people per capita than European cops? Why are you fine with that?
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  11425. So, Likud are Nazis, is what you're saying. Likud platform "between the sea and the Jordan there will only be Israeli sovereignty".
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  11426.  @whobilly1  Nope. She had on her senate page: first South Asian and second African American female senator. The media, focusing on firsts, didn't focus on her being the second black woman. On her VP page: she has 3 firsts. The media reported the three firsts. What's so hard for all you maroons to grasp with being biracial?
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  11427. ​ @JoeyBFromScranton  You're not grasping the argument, dumb dumb. AFTER, the first impeachment inquiry into Trump, Dumpty's own OLC declared that inquiries were invalid, unless a majority vote was held. Republicans made a rule they're now ignoring. They're hypocrites. Anything that happened before that rule isn't relevant.
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  11428.  @Locito845  "CIA!" ~ Dimwit Dore
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  11429.  @donnadicasa  "pseudo progressive"
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  11430. Isn't that exactly what the amnesty process is? People blather about how many cross the border, but ignore that less than 5% are actually granted asylum. The rest are deported.
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  11431. Authoritarian left? Yeah, Pol Potism, Stalinism, or some such.
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  11432.  @Hoopla10  Ironic, considering his first reply to me. lol
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  11433.  @roberttelford745  Btw, the M4A bill has now been reintroduced in this session, and there's a new list of those who haven't signed onto it. Is Jimmy going after the non signers, or is he still bitching about the signers?
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  11434.  @roberttelford745  Manchin has more power because of math, btw. There are zero extra votes to be gained moving left, because there's nobody to the left of the most progressive members. There is the entire Republican party on the right. If push comes to shove, the right side wins. For example, if the $15 min went into house-senate negotiations, with Manchin pushing $11, and a number of Republicans willing to sign on for $10, guess which way negotiations would go? And, if $11 or $10 were passed, then minimum wage would likely be considered dealt with, until 2025. As is, now people should be pressuring Manchin, and the other 7 conservative senators. Then, reintroduce a stand alone minimum wage bill, if you can push them left, rather than let them take negotiations right. I wouldn't hold your breath, while you're waiting for Jimmy.
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  11435. For example? You know that the FBI has been built under 6 Republican presidential terms vs 4 Democrat presidential terms, in the last 40 years, and currently has a Republican director, right?
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  11436. Nothing makes me squeel. I've seen 3 other people using the Athe-ism definition, in the past couple days, here, not just me. Using a freakin - is easier than typing "strong atheist", every freakin time. And, you've just provided no reason as to why changing the definitions, is beneficial, and less convoluted. I think we're done.
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  11437.  @aarondickson9573  A ton of low wage workers worked through shutdowns. So, the ones getting high and enjoying shutdowns are middle class and upper class bums?
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  11438. Every rich person should be a different kind of rich person. The "prior plans" is the same development project, sans affordable housing.
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  11439. Matt also showed that there was a second smaller regional Italy wifi network used by both accounts.
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  11440.  @nebraskacovington3615  Canadians don't look at places like Sweden, and think they're doing great, because Sweden has 2x more covid deaths per capita than Canada. They have 5-10x more covid deaths per capita than their neighbors. Only idiots in worse countries think Sweden had a swell covid response.
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  11441.  @nebraskacovington3615  Both that Israel study and a Nebraska study showed that those who had covid previously but didn't get vaccinated were twice as likely to reinfected than those who had covid previously and also got the vaccine. Vaccine is better than no vaccine, either way.
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  11442. Getting yourself inside the country is actually part of the asylum process. You can only ask for asylum once you're in. If you actually wanted to make it safer, you'd have points of entry allow any asylum seekers in, and process them that way. Blocking them from coming in, will just send many of them across somewhere else.
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  11443. ​ @waltergrace565  You think he needs to include the basics of how a bill is passed, with every policy proposal discussion? Weird.
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  11444.  @DUDEBroHey  Russia has been mucking about in former SSR countries, since 1991. Putin wrote an essay stating he thinks they should all belong to Russia. What peace is there, with that? There's only deterrence, which is why those SSR countries ask to join NATO.
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  11445. He was right in his assessment of the government, but wrong in thinking it's okay to spread the virus and kill other Americans, in response. Plus, he's rebelling against the state government, when it's the federal government who can afford to, but doesn't, pay people $20k to stay home.
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  11446.  @optioningthabears861  Tucker is a socialist - Glenn Greenwald
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  11447. "Enlightened centrism" is biased, if it goes against objective reality. Israel is objectively the aggressor by every relevant measure ... Modern history: 100 years ago, in 1923, Ze'ev Jabotinsky fully acknowledged that Zionism is colonialism, and that, based on the entirety of history, the natives would fight it until the bitter end. He just didn't care what would happen to them, and promoted doing it anyway. Colonizers are never not the aggressors. On top of the colonialist nature of Zionism, the Zionists also formed terrorist organizations, like the Irgun and Lehi. They bombed many Palestinian markets and other public places, murdering many civilians, including children, even including Palestinian Jews (who opposed Zionism). Israel merged those terrorists into the new nation's military and intelligence agencies. Israelis elected Menachem Begin, leader of the Irgun, child murderer, Jew murderer, and bomber of the King David Hotel, as PM. Israelis, to this day, celebrate those terrorists as "heroes". Zionists literally taught their neighbours that terrorism is a valid path to independence and statehood, and that terrorists are to be celebrated. In 1945, it is well documented that Zionists owned just 5% of the land and were a majority nowhere. Israel was formed by actually going against the majority population. It's foundation is completely undemocratic. Then, becoming a majority, in "their" new nation, by ethnic cleansing the actual majority, and then claiming to be democratic, is utter nonsense. Law: Israel is considered an occupier by the International Court, the UN GA, and the UN SC. Occupiers are also never not the aggressors. Those occupied actually have a right to resist occupation. On the flip side, it is illegal for the occupier to settle occupied lands, and illegal to use collective punishment. Israel is a rogue nation, that doesn't abide by international law. What it has been doing, and is doing now, is illegal. Current events: This year, alone, prior to Oct 7 ... Israel held over 1200 Palestinian hostages without charges ... over 200 Palestinians had been killed by the IDF and settlers ... over 1000 Palestinians had been displaced by Israel's neverending colonization of the West Bank ... and, Israel continued to operate an open air WWII style fascist ghetto, in Gaza. Even ignoring modern history and law, in no reality did Hamas "start" anything.
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  11448. You're destroying your own argument Jimmy. If they'd rather lose to Republicans than progressives, then why wouldn't they rather have a Republican speaker than vote on a progressive bill and give progressives some kind of win? Then, they and the media, could blame progressives for losing control of the House to a Republican speaker, for years.
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  11449. In those hours, did he mention that a VAT was a way to tax giant corporations, like Amazon? A VAT is actually specifically designed to NOT tax businesses in order to avoid cascading taxes upon taxes. Businesses get to reclaim their input VAT from their output VAT. Only the final consumer can't do that and ends up paying the entire VAT. In those hours, did he compare his dividend to the Alaskan dividend, which is entirely paid for by corporations? Yang already admits that giant corporations aren't paying taxes through standard taxation, and he proposes a different tax that also won't tax them, so giant corporations wouldn't be paying for, or even into, his dividend, at all. They'd only get the benefits of extra trillions a year being spent, funneling money to them, and their big shareholders, faster than ever before.
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  11450. Because the Republicans will have their own speaker candidate, and then you'd have a Republican speaker?
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  11451.  @Scepticalasfuk  It's whoever gets the absolute majority of votes cast. If they abstain, the Republicans would win. They'd have to cast a vote for someone else to force a revote. Who gets to put the big target on their back?
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  11452.  @LG123ABC  The speaker election doesn't need the majority of the house to win, it needs the majority of votes cast. If you've convinced enough progressives to abstain and not give Pelosi a win, then you've either orchestrated a perfect tie with the Republican candidate, or Pelosi loses to the Republican candidate. Someone would have to volunteer to receive votes cast that don't go to Pelosi for her to lose but not lose by the majority of votes cast.
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  11453.  @squidsquiddly5970  Yeah, her progressive PAC just helped get more progressives elected to congress. Kick her out for disagreeing on tactics with Jimmy Dore! Dore knob.
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  11454.  @faerykat  Less idiotic than blowing up people who lived under a dictatorship, and couldn't vote for their leadership. "A Gallup poll made on behalf of CNN and USA Today concluded that 79% of Americans thought the Iraq War was justified, with or without conclusive evidence of illegal weapons." If 79% of Americans had instead been protesting in the streets, with the anti-war minority, leadership might have made a different decision, no?
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  11455.  @michaellovullo7363  Because Iran has free speech?
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  11456.  @michaellovullo7363  Sorry, dumb dumb, but my question was itself rhetorical sarcasm.
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  11457.  @searose6192  Your idiot in charge didn't even have a test prepared. Couldn't just use the WHO test. Had to be an American made test. Military facilities? You mean use a socialized, government run, approach?
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  11458.  @searose6192  Moron. I'm Canadian. He's your idiot in charge, not mine.
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  11459.  @searose6192  And I was referring to what medical treatment they'd get ... military doctors, nurses ... CDC workers ... or would they bring in private doctors and nurses covered by their individual private insurers, who'd charge for the visits and care?
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  11460. If health insurance stocks are rising or falling based on the democratic primaries, then investors must think both will beat Trump, and Biden will keep things the same. Or, they could also think Biden will lose to Trump and things will stay the same.
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  11461. You should do a segment on how many video games promote ancap nuttery. "Oh please, hero, save our village! You need a magic sword? That'll be 10000000 gp."
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  11462. You lot know there were a bunch of studies, when doctors first started using cloth masks, right? I guess, you'd all be cool, if your surgeon didn't wear mask and gloves. And new studies ... "Surgical masks reduce COVID-19 spread, large-scale study shows" "Unmasking the mask studies: why the effectiveness of surgical masks in preventing respiratory infections has been underestimated" "Consistent use of a face mask or respirator in indoor public settings was associated with lower odds of a positive SARS-CoV-2 test result (adjusted odds ratio = 0.44). Use of respirators with higher filtration capacity was associated with the most protection, compared with no mask use."
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  11463. ​ @johnpaulzagami52 "The study was misinterpreted and, when you give it a very quick glance, you see how that would happen," Dr. Jessica Justman, an associate professor of medicine in epidemiology at Columbia Mailman School of Public Health, told ABC News. "It's looking at interventions that tried to promote the use of different kinds of protective equipment, such as masks, and the outcomes are all going to depend on how well people actually adhere to the particular type of protective equipment." She continued, "So, it's not as much a study of the mask but a study of the intervention to get people to wear a mask." "We already have information from other studies that show almost a dose-response relationship between wearing no mask at all, wearing a cloth mask, wearing a surgical mask and wearing an N95," Justman said. "As you go up the ladder, so to speak, with each step of a better-quality mask, you see more protection." One example is a study published in February 2022 by the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention examining those who said they wore masks all the time in indoor public settings. Researchers found cloth masks were associated with a 56% decrease in testing positive for COVID-19, surgical masks by 66% and N95/KN95 masks by 83% compared to those who didn't wear masks or face coverings.
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  11464. Who are you talking about? She was a DNC fav, for years, and was winning over 70% of the vote, in her district.
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  11465. Jimmy is attacking the left most progressive politicians, who have been arguing for M4A for years, baselessly calling them fakes and shills. He's the one stoking infighting amongst progressives. It's one thing to say you think AOC should do X. It's totally another to say that, if AOC doesn't do X, she's a shill. That's just stupidly undermining the politicians closest to your own position.
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  11466.  @thepicatrix3150  Nobody is talking about the benefits of M4A, and convincing more voters to support it, and convincing more politicians to vote for it. They're simply arguing about methodology, and he's trashing M4A's biggest politician supporters in the process. He's the one stoking infighting.
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  11467.  @thepicatrix3150  Lol, the only people basically talking about it are progressives, and all they're talking about is political methodology. There's zero benefit to "being gruff", by trashing the most progressive politicians you've got.
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  11468.  @thepicatrix3150  Why the hell good is progressives talking about it amongst themselves? They already agree M4A is a good thing. What is our back and forth accomplishing? We aren't even really discussing M4A. We're discussing Jimmy Dore. How is there value in "fakes" and "shills"? Jimmy is trashing the most progressive politians, and declaring them valueless. He's an idiot.
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  11469.  @thepicatrix3150  Stunt tactic? By his comment section, he has convinced numerous morons that the person who took out the #2 corporate Dem is a shill, and has found common ground in trashing progressives with Trump cultists that have joined his fanbase. He's willing to try and destroy the small group of progressives in congress, if they don't do exactly as he says. He's an idiot.
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  11470.  Eric Burkheimer  You're an idiot. You want people to be party zealots, and stick to the party no matter who the candidate or their platform, but don't want people to stick with a candidate, whose platform they actually want, no matter what? If the party doesn't shift more progressive, include things to the platform that progressive voters want, then they're going to lose support. Pretty simple. That would be the stubborn party's fault if Republicans win.
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  11471.  @clintholmes2061  If a house speaker isn't elected, the house is paralyzed. The clerk can only hold the house speaker election. No bills would be brought up to vote on. Corporate Dems could just keep putting up Pelosi as their candidate for speaker, and if you keep making protest votes for someone else, the house will stay paralyzed. No bills being voted on is not samesies with one bill not being voted on, dumb dumb. That's what would bring more media attention and magnify the intensity of the propaganda, so not samesies on that front, either. It's majority of votes cast, not majority of the house. You don't need any Dems to vote for McCarthy. You just need enough no shows, or abstentions, to lower the threshold needed to win. Have 9 corporate Dems play sick. Have 3 threatening to abstain. If all Dems present don't vote Pelosi, McCarthy could win. If those 3 think you'll fold and end up voting Pelosi, and you do, then they vote Pelosi too, and she wins. If they think you'll stick to your guns, and you do, they abstain, and McCarthy wins (assuming he gets all Republican votes). Not sure someone who doesn't know how the government works can swat away anything on the topic.
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  11472. They've been giving a home to extremists for decades: extreme anti-socialist McCarthy types; southern racists; religious extremists; gun nuts; warmongering neocons; Reaganomics; Tea Partiers; and then the Trump cult, who are now bringing in qanon. It has become a party of lunatics.
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  11473.  @greengeezer5069  Not being able to tell the difference between a corporate Dem and a fascist, or a corporate Dem and a progressive in a tough spot, is a pretty bad flaw.
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  11474.  @greengeezer5069  Trump, who's trying to end the democratic process, has over a hundred Republicans in Congress on board, and 28% of Republican voters on board, isn't a fascist? That seems pretty fascisty to me.
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  11475.  @greengeezer5069  No, Jimmy not being able to tell the difference between those things is a huge flaw.
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  11476. ​@southwestmystic No. Choice is not the answer to vaccines. I don't believe you're a nurse. There are two aspects to vaccines ... personal protection and herd immunity. Those who don't vaccinate break down the herd immunity.
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  11477. @southwestmystic Choice is not the answer to vaxs. They are both personal protection and to reach a level of herd immunity. Not vaxing doesn't just affect you. It breaks down the herd immunity.
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  11478. Not what it said, dumb dumb.
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  11479. Just heard he got $5.6m from China, while President!!! Oh wait ... No ... That was Trump. My bad.
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  11480.  @d3fec767  Aside from his rise to fame, based on complete bullshit, proving he was a grifter, from the get go ... He also proved he was a grifter, by peddling his daughter's all meat diet as a cure for anxiety and depression, on Rogan's show, claiming he no longer needed drugs, and hadn't taken any for 6 months. That was a few months before being sent to Russia, to be forced into a coma, to break his addiction to the very drugs he claimed he no longer needed. His drug addiction, and mental health problems, also proved he was a grifter, that didn't believe in his own rules, about putting your own house in order, before telling others what to do. He is, objectively, a con artist, proven numerous times.
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  11481.  @user-nc9pc3gr4c  Rofl. If all the other "gods" are also "God", then why tell your followers to kill people of other religions? Thanks, for helping make religious texts even more incoherent.
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  11482.  Mandatory-Idiocracy  They haven't cared about his political views, for almost a decade now, dimwit. It's professionalism. If he wants to claim to be a psychologist, then he has to behave like one, or lose his license.
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  11483.  @user-nc9pc3gr4c  Humans have only been around for about 200k years, ffs. Or, 6000 years according some religious texts, lol.
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  11484.  @user-nc9pc3gr4c  Lol, yes, that's what religions have been, Mickey Mouse. It was "ingrained in us"? We used it to explain that the sun was being pulled across the sky by a "god", that rain was product by a "god", that the Earth was created from the body of a dragon by a "god", etc., etc., etc. That we did a stupid thing, for millennia, isn't evidence it's right. Who knows, what came before, if anything, or if things have been cycling in an eternal collapse and regrowth. Your own belief, that a being can exist from nothing, or eternally, without being created, supports the argument that something can exist from nothing, or eternally, without being created.
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  11485. ​ @NessaBear90  History: In 1918, Ben-Gurion fully acknowledged that Zionism is colonialism. In 1923, Ze'ev Jabotinsky fully acknowledged that Zionism is colonialism, and also predicted, based on the entirety of history, that the native response to said colonialism would be to fight it until the bitter end. On top of the colonialist foundation, another building block was Zionist terrorism, by groups like the Irgun and Lehi. They bombed many Palestinian markets, amongst other things, killing many Palestinians, including children, even including Palestinian Jews (who didn't support Zionism). Israel merged those terrorists into their new nation's military and intelligence agencies. Israelis elected Menachem Begin, leader of the Irgun, who bombed the King David Hotel, as PM. To this day, Israelis celebrate those terrorists as heroes. They literally taught their neighbours that terrorism is a valid path to independence and statehood. In the West Bank, colonialism continues, using the blueprint for the colonization of North America. Move settlements out into native territory, piss off the natives, the natives react violently, cry about being poor "innocent" colonizers attacked by "savages", call in the cavalry to squash the native uprising, and eventually expand the borders to include those settlements. Rinse and repeat. In Gaza, Israel operates an open air WWII style fascist ghetto, and then cries when there's a Warsaw style ghetto uprising. It really is a sickening country.
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  11486. Ironically, their religious belief is that a formless, sexless, penisless, being exists, that they refer to as "he", "him", and even "father".
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  11487. ​ @reggiewallace260  It takes just two minutes not to be willfully ignrnt, dingus. "Nov 16, 2023 — A ProPublica investigation last year about RealPage's rent-setting software led to federal lawsuits asserting inflated apartment prices." "RealPage Has Been Accused of Price-Fixing Rents. Now It's on the Offensive Jul 17, 2024 — The state of Arizona sued RealPage and nine landlords in February" "U.S. Justice Department sues RealPage, alleging it enabled price-fixing on rents Aug 23, 2024" "First settlements reached in RealPage rental price-fixing lawsuits Feb 5, 2024 — Two companies that own and operate multifamily residential properties have agreed to settle claims that they artificially inflated rental ..."
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  11488. ​ @reggiewallace260  The DOJ, multiple states, and numerous tenants, do have lawsuits, dingus.
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  11489. ​ @j.m.9703  You know judges don't need a legal degree, right? It's actually an "unskilled" job. Anyone can be made a judge.
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  11490. The "war" was over decades ago. They are considered an occupying power, by the International Court, the UN GA, and the UN SC. It's only in Israel's best interests, to provoke more violence, so they can keep pretending like it isn't over, so they can keep doing what they're doing. If there was peace, they'd be pressured even more to give refugees the right of return.
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  11491. ​Israel is objectively the aggressor, by every relevant measure, dumb dumb ... Modern history: 100 years ago, in 1923, Ze'ev Jabotinsky fully acknowledged that Zionism is colonialism, and that, based on the entirety of history, the natives would fight it until the bitter end. He just didn't care what would happen to them, and promoted doing it anyway. Colonizers are never not the aggressors. On top of the colonialist nature of Zionism, the Zionists also formed terrorist organizations, like the Irgun and Lehi. They bombed many Palestinian markets and other public places, murdering many civilians, including children, even including Palestinian Jews (who opposed Zionism). Israel merged those terrorists into the new nation's military and intelligence agencies. Israelis elected Menachem Begin, leader of the Irgun, child murderer, Jew murderer, and bomber of the King David Hotel, as PM. Israelis, to this day, celebrate those terrorists as "heroes". Zionists literally taught their neighbours that terrorism is a valid path to independence and statehood, and that terrorists are to be celebrated. In 1945, it is well documented that Zionists owned just 5% of the land and were a majority nowhere. Israel was formed by actually going against the majority population. It's foundation is completely undemocratic. Then, becoming a majority, in "their" new nation, by ethnic cleansing the actual majority, and then claiming to be democratic, is utter nonsense. Law: Israel is considered an occupier by the International Court, the UN GA, and the UN SC. Occupiers are also never not the aggressors. Those occupied actually have a right to resist occupation. On the flip side, it is illegal for the occupier to settle occupied lands, and illegal to use collective punishment. Israel is a rogue nation, that doesn't abide by international law. What it has been doing, and is doing now, is illegal. Current events: This year, alone, prior to Oct 7 ... Israel held over 1200 Palestinian hostages without charges ... over 200 Palestinians had been killed by the IDF and settlers ... over 1000 Palestinians had been displaced by Israel's neverending colonization of the West Bank ... and, Israel continued to operate an open air WWII style fascist ghetto, in Gaza. Even ignoring modern history and law, in no reality did Hamas "start" anything.
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  11492.  @deej20007  Spending months supporting Tulsi (public option) over Bernie (M4A), and then quickly turning around and making out like even just not supporting a secondary tactic for a performance art vote on M4A makes someone a "fake", "fraud", "sellout", etc., slandering people who have done more for M4A in a few years than he has in his entire lifetime. Then, after slandering anyone who didn't support his secondary tactic, making out like that single thing meant they were no longer allies, turned around and promoted allying with psychotic extreme right ancap Boogaloos, who want to start a civil war, and who agree on next to nothing when it comes to the economy and social programs, including being completely against M4A. Pretending AOC ever ran on paralyzing, or threatening to paralyze, the house. She never did. Slandering AOC and Bernie, claiming they had abandoned M4A, while they were campaigning for Nina Turner, promoting M4A, and trying hard to add another M4A advocate to congress. Meanwhile, it was Dore who abandoned Nina Turner, on air ... abandoned adding another M4A advocate to congress. Claiming the vaccine doesn't protect anyone else but the person vaccinated. If you're much less likely to get infected, or even if you carry a smaller viral load and are contagious for a shorter period of time, if infected, those all help protect people around you better. Dishonestly misrepresenting an article showing how more contagious viruses can be deadlier to a population, even though they might not be deadlier on an individual level. The dishonesty that Shaun pointed out, that can't all be blamed on a producer making a stupid mistake. Completely changing the meaning of an article, and skipping over all the bits that go against your narrative, isn't a mistake. That's the kind of thing you do, when you know that's what your boss is looking for. Dore is a f*cking grifter, who benefits the far right, more than the left.
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  11493.  @deej20007  There have been hundreds of accounts of Syrian chemical weapons use, since 2013. There have been numerous no fault investigations, with zero dissenting opinions. There have been numerous fault finding investigations, with zero dissenting opinions. Two dissenting opinions, on a single investigation, doesn't actually debunk that single investigation, let alone all the others. That investigation that he, and Aaron, keep blathering about, wasn't even started until after Syria was bombed, it was an initial no fault investigation and didn't even assign blame on Syria, and the final report wasn't finished until almost a year after the US bombed Syria. The report had absolutely nothing to do with anyone's decision to bomb Syria, but they keep blathering on and on about it, as if it played a roll.
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  11494.  @deej20007  You're the one following a grifting loudmouth, who makes out like anyone who doesn't agree with him 100% is a "fake", "fraud", "sellout", or whatnot. Dore knobs are like Trumpists.
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  11495. Independent isn't third party.
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  11496. *and
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  11497. George H Smith does NOT have a better understanding. He is a clueless butcher of definitions. Strong Atheists (Athe-ists) DO have a belief that there are no Gods. People try to, and do, prove negatives, all the time.
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  11498.  @AwesomeBlackDude  When did Biden pledge a pandemic UBI? He pledged one check. He outright said he'd veto M4A, so not sure why you mentioned it. He repeatedly said no to defunding the police. He has supported HR1. There's a bill to decriminalize marijuana. There has been some student debt forgiveness, and more being worked on. Saying there has been none is just bullshit. Voting rights is still being worked on. Etc. No clue where you're getting the idea that he has supported some of the things you mentioned, or that others aren't currently in the works and been completely abandoned.
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  11499.  @AwesomeBlackDude  Who's promoting the idea that bombing Somalia completely ended, that Trump completely ended US intervention there, and that Biden has started it up anew? Is that more Dore knob bullshit, or someone else?
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  11500.  @tonywilson4713  Peterson is a loon, who came to prominence by misrepresenting a law, a law that he had been living and working under for years at the provincial level, fearmongering about a slippery slope that he had zero evidence of, even though the law was already in place for years in multiple provinces. And his slippery slope has still yet to manifest years later. He was spewing nonsense. He was recently fearmongering about Australia's covid measures. Australia's covid deaths per capita would translate into under 20k total covid deaths, in the US, rather than 620+k. They've done an amazing job of saving lives. What's your evidence that Wuhan was working on covid-19, or something that could have developed into covid-19? He probably knows they were studying coronaviruses, in general, and was being specific.
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  11501.  @AwesomeBlackDude  You're moving the goalpost. You were talking about bombing. That Military Times article was inauguration day. Trump had been bombing Somalia all along, and he never withdrew all troops. He didn't end a thing. Biden didn't start a thing. Biden, on the other hand, did pull all troops out of Afghanistan, and Dore still bitched about him. Biden has always supported HR1, which benefits third parties with matching funds, if they have the minor support requirement. Why would you expect him to veto something he has supported all along, ffs? That's moronic. The bill to decriminalize marijuana has been introduced. Is your complaint that Biden hasn't got congress to operate faster? A one time $2000 pledge isn't a UBI, dimwit. Again you're moving the goalpost. Yeah, he was $600 short. Too bad McConnell and Dumpty hadn't voted and signed the HEROES Act through. Biden has forgiven $10b in student loans, ffs. It's not yet what he pledged, but it's also not "no student debt forgiveness". Please stop pretending like he pledged to do things he didn't, and isn't working on some of the others. Also, stop moving your goalposts. You're obviously lying about a number of things, and moving the goalpost won't save you.
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  11502.  @patmahinie5728  Mueller laid out some 200 pages of information sharing (collusion), that didn't amount to criminal conspiracy. The report said they didn't charge Jr and Kushner with criminal conspiracy because it would be hard to prove they "willfully" broke the law, not because they didn't break the law. Were the DNC, the FBI (headed by Republican picks for 6 of the last 10 presidential terms), Republicans like Mueller and Romney, and Australian officials, all in cahoots to make elected VP, Mike Pence, president? That seems a bit different than saying "Oooo numbers changed ... Fraud!!!!", never conceding, and trying to prevent the election from being certified to keep an unelected dictator in power.
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  11503.  @tonywilson4713  What "tribe"? If the US was funding research, that leaked, then the entire US would be liable. You didn't actually answer my question. The epidemiologist on Pakman sounded like he was being more specific. Is there some actual evidence covid-19 was being researched in that lab, or evidence a specific bat virus they were researching could be turned into covid-19?
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  11504.  @tonywilson4713  Rofl. Peterson was spewing nonsense, debunked by numerous legal experts. He had zero examples of what he was fearmongering about, despite the law being around for years, at the provincial level, in multiple provinces. There have been zero examples since. He was equivalent to a Trump nut baselessly screaming about a fraudulent election. He's a loon. Ummm, just divide the US deaths per million by the Australian deaths per million and then divide the US total deaths by that = 14,333.494382022, which is under 20k, exactly like I said. The US could have had 650+k fewer deaths.
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  11505.  @yourerightdawg  Led by a Republican investigator, over a dozen Russians and 3 Russian companies were indicted for interfering in the 2016 US election. The FBI under Trump said they were interfering again in 2020. On the flip side, Trump baselessly cried election fraud in 2016, and his own election integrity commission found nothing of the sort. He baselessly cried election fraud again in 2020, and nobody has found anything of the sort. Sooo, the later is less believable.
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  11506.  @yourerightdawg  You think Republican Mueller, an FBI run by Republicans for 6 out of 10 presidential terms, the DNC, Mitt Romney, and Australian officials, were all in cahoots to make Mike Pence president? Rofl.
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  11507.  @dalesims  😆 He has thought about invading neighbouring countries, and starting WWIII, his whole life? So, he's insane, is what you're saying. What do ears have to do with the fact that Canada is still a Commonwealth country and wouldn't be alone?
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  11508.  @Majestros  What makes you say that? You asked the op a dumb question about a thing that didn't happen (the vaccines aren't "gene therapy"). I asked you a dumb question about something I'm assuming didn't actually happen, but would explain your stupidity.
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  11509. Trump was allowed to blather his bullshit for months, until an insurrection broke out. What was "arbitrary" about his ban?
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  11510.  @matthewfusaro2590  The level of violence, or how successful it was, is not what defines whether something is an insurrection attempt, or not. Intent is. They wanted to stop the democratic process, to keep an unelected ruler in power. "in DC"? Did you mean to say "in the Capitol building, in an effort to stop the democratic process"? Actually, private property owners almost always have the right to pick and choose who they want on their private property, and businesses with memberships always have the right to pick and choose who to give memberships to, or which memberships to revoke.
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  11511. Yang doesn't know how his key tax, a VAT, actually works. A VAT is specifically designed to NOT tax businesses in order to avoid double taxation. It's a sales tax, collected in stages, with the business stages all getting paid back their input VAT. Because a VAT won't have corporations like Amazon paying into the dividend, they will only get the benefit of the dividend being spent. Amazon would make an extra $60b a year from $3t in added consumer spending. Ironically, that's billions more they could invest into speeding up their automation timeline, putting people out of work even faster. That would also make the likes of Bezos extra billions a year more than he'd ever personally pay into a VAT, speeding up inequality. "a consumption tax because it is borne ultimately by the final consumer. It is not a charge on businesses." "taxable persons (i.e., VAT-registered businesses) deduct from the VAT they have collected the amount of tax they have paid to other taxable persons on purchases for their business activities" "the taxable person is entitled to deduct all the tax already paid at the preceding stage. Therefore, double taxation is avoided" https://ec.europa.eu/taxation_customs/business/vat/what-is-vat_en "The GST takes into account the cost of inputs – the factors used in manufacturing or production – at each stage of the process to avoid double taxation. Input tax credits enable partnerships, businesses and self-employed workers to recover all GST paid on goods and services purchased for business purposes by deducting them from their GST payments. Final consumers are not entitled to such credits, which means that they pay all the GST on every item purchased. The GST is thus a multi-stage tax on final consumption." http://publications.gc.ca/Collection-R/LoPBdP/BP/prb0003-e.htm#A.%20Taxing%20Mechanism(txt)
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  11512.  @bluesrockfan36  No, moron. I specifically just said a VAT is designed to avoid cascading taxes, dumb dumb.
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  11513.  @bluesrockfan36  Yes, you're the moron who couldn't tell I, literally, stated the VAT design was to avoid cascading taxes. Yes, you're the moron spouting a strawman, because I never argued a VAT wasn't successful at generating revenue. Yes, you're the moron who couldn't grasp that I argued a VAT isn't successful at taxing corporations, because it's designed to NOT tax corporations. You can't debunk shit with bullshit, dumbass. Take a reading comprehension course and come back later.
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  11514. The problem is if the candidates who have won delegates drop out and coalesce around another candidate, taking their delegates with them. If Pete and Amy find they get no more delegates moving forward, they could drop out and join say Bloomberg, effectively handing Bloomberg sizeable wins in Iowa and New Hampshire, even though he got next to no votes in either state.
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  11515. They worship a sexless being that goes by masculine gender terminology. The Trinitarians even believe that sexless being transitioned into a human male. If it existed, that being would also be the leading abortionist in existence, because miscarriage = spontaneous abortion. Plus, their Bibles say to outright quarantine those who are potentially carrying an infectious illness. They're nothing but endless hypocrisy.
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  11516. So, no "arms" should be regulated? Bazookas and ammo, missile launchers and ammo, grenade launchers and ammo, machine guns and ammo, etc ... ? All should be for sale at the local store?
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  11517. Canada's unemployment rate has been about the same for over 25 years. Canada is fine.
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  11518.  @donnicholson3170  ? We're below our long term average of 7.5% unemployment. We've been this way for a very long time, under all parties.
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  11519.  @donnicholson3170  Rofl. You're the one apparently believing something, without evidence, maroon.
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  11520.  @donnicholson3170  Remember when Harper took credit for Canada's housing market not collapsing, like it did in the US, and then did absolutely nothing as housing prices continued rising for 6 more years of his term? Now Conservatives are crying about housing prices, but are also opposed to funding affordable housing projects.
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  11521.  @donnicholson3170  Just an objective fact, maroon, based on all available evidence. A Canadian wanting to become the 51st state has no foundation to talk about intellect.
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  11522.  @donnicholson3170  Just an objective fact, based on all available evidence. That you didn't even make a point, and just whined, is more evidence.
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  11523.  @donnicholson3170  How did you manage to stay an agnostic, if you'd accept an anecdote, like someone saying they heard a voice, as actual evidence?
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  11524.  @donnicholson3170  You're the one claiming statistics suddenly became corrupted, since you were a kid. Prove it. I guess that goes for annual EI claims, which have dropped back down to normal, after COVID spike. Prove those are fake, as well.
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  11525.  @nicholi8208  Yang is clueless about a number of things, and can't actually do math.
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  11526. Lol, why would anyone believe Trump?
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  11527. Manson went down with those he incited.
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  11528. That article, which Tlaib was commenting on, was about Trump's Muslim ban. A response to him basically saying he doesn't want certain types of people coming into the US, by her saying she doesn't want him in the US. I think it's more similar to the Ilhan comment, than to Trump's comment.
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  11529. ​ @JanSolo555  Ze'ev Jabotinsky, in 1923, fully acknowledged that Zionism is colonialism. He also predicted, based on the entirety of history, that the native reaction to said colonization would be to fight it until the bitter end. Zionists knew this would happen, when they did their colonialism. They're perpetually the aggressors.
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  11530.  @daftwod  Have you read the OT? The Tanakh/OT is the worst of the trilogy.
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  11531.  @daftwod  And has that student stoned someone?
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  11532. ​ @tonywilson4713  How many times have you spammed this shit? Already replied once.
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  11533. Well, it hasn't come. Yet, anyway. Public option, negotiating down prices, expanding Medicaid and Medicare, free community college, and more, are in his plan ... https://www.whitehouse.gov/briefing-room/statements-releases/2021/04/29/fact-sheet-the-american-families-plan-will-support-children-teachers-and-working-families-in-rural-america/
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  11534. Likud's foundations, and actions, go back about 100 years, to Ze'ev Jabotinsky. In his 1923 The Iron Wall, he fully acknowledged that Zionism was colonialism, and that, based on the entirety of history, the native population would fight it until the bitter end. He encouraged doing it anyway. His militant youth group, Betar, and other followers of his, from the Haganah, formed the Zionist terrorist group, Irgun. The Irgun bombed numerous Palestinian markets and other public places, murdering many Palestinian civilians, including children, even including Palestinian Jews, who didn't support colonialist Zionsim. Another Zionist terrorist group, Lehi (Stern Gang), splintered off from the Irgun. Lehi was considered worse than Irgun, were assassins on top of being terrorists, and even tried to ally with the Nazis against Britain. The Irgun ended up being led by Menachem Begin, who had them bomb the King David Hotel. Lehi ended up being led by Yitzhak Shamir. Both terrorist groups opposed partition, for the opposite reason Palestinians did. Palestinians didn't want to be colonized, at all, while the Zionist terrorists wanted to colonize it all. Those terrorist groups were involved in many of the massacres that sparked the Nakba, the ethnic cleansing of 700k Palestinians. After the Nakba, the Israel population was 715k Jewish and 156k non-Jewish. That means the Jews were a minority, even in the Zionist half of partition, prior to the Nakba. To believe the Zionists had zero intention to ethnically cleanse the non-Jewish majority would require believing they had zero intention to create a Jewish state ... which is a ridiculous proposition. Begin founded Likud. Shamir joined. War criminal, Ariel Sharon, also joined. Their platform, "between the sea and the Jordan there will only be Israeli sovereignty", promises to completely colonize and ethnically cleanse all Palestine territories. It further claims a "right" to all the "Land of Israel" (fictional biblical borders that don't mesh with archaeological reality), which is an open declaration of future wars, against Jordan, Syria, Lebanon, and possibly Iraq. Likud has a long bloody past, and promises a long bloody future.
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  11535.  @danyalkazmi1400  I just quoted and linked it. He exactly said that.
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  11536.  @CausalityLoop  I didn't say "on everything" moron. You're dishonestly misrepresenting what I said.
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  11537.  @mariev3821  Already linked and quoted, above.
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  11538. Since he was a scientist, I think Huxley was asking for a more objective form of logical evidence. But, I'll play subjective, with you. I don't find Theist arguments logical, therfore I don't believe them. Do you think their arguments are logical? If I did accept their "logic", and believed their proposition was true, would I still be considered a skeptic, with regards to the proposition in question? Or, would I now be a Theist, a believer that the proposition is true?
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  11539.  @shadebleu  You obviously missed the point of hypocrisy, dumb dumb.
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  11540. Canada's covid deaths per capita rate would translate into hundreds of thousands fewer deaths, in the US. Australia's covid deaths per capita rate would translate into about 20k total covid deaths, in the US. But ... but ... Ma Freedumb!!!
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  11541.  @nassaubahamas8570  Whatabout that other thing that isn't about Joe Rogan?
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  11542.  @jetter820  Do you think all censorship is objectively wrong? Should porn be allowed anywhere and everywhere?
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  11543.  @jetter820  There'd still be access to Rogan, somewhere else. It has been a matter of a few days since one Neil Young started doing something about it, that sent them scrambling for a fix. Ummm, the "legal" and "illegal" is the censorship difference. Including those words doesn't make a point. If porn wasn't censored, it wouldn't be "illegal".
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  11544.  @nassaubahamas8570  Less than 100% is less than 100% immune. The original Salk vaccine had a lower efficacy rate. Was it not a vaccine? Smallpox is 95% efficacy, btw.
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  11545.  @nassaubahamas8570  Because polio is not even remotely as contagious, for one (the biggest polio outbreak in the US was about 50k people). Because covid mutates more, and there are already more variants, which affects the efficacy rate, for another (the original polio vaccine was only about 65% against one of the 3 polio strains). Because some viruses produce a long lasting immune response, some don't, and unfortunately covid is one of the later (polio seems to last your life, tetanus wears off in about 10 years, smallpox in 3-5 years, the flu in a matter of months). Because we're starting from the point of the virus being widespread ... polio doesn't get eradicated from a population in a matter of months. And, because Gibraltar being 100% vaccinated is misinformation. Some have tallied their vaccination rate simply by dividing the doses given out by the population. Thing is, they've been vaccinating workers from Spain, as well. They only started vaccinating 15+ last month, and hadn't even started vaccinating younger kids yet.
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  11546.  @michaelknight2897  Funny, that you think yours was.
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  11547. Pelosi may not be that bad, if she told them to campaign for Bernie, to back 20 other pro-M4A progressives, to help replace a few more corporate Dems and add a few more M4A yes votes to congress. Or, maybe you're just spewing nonsense.
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  11548. @A  There's no equality with zero involvement in economics. There is no freedom with zero involvement in economics. You're making zero sense. Winstanley argued for redistribution of property, not favouring the rich over the poor, and set up a community where everyone owned the property equally, and all got equal rewards. That's the equality he argued for. They were free from rich masters and free to believe what they want. That's the freedom he argued for. Whatever their background, or beliefs, they worked together. That's the brotherhood aspect. You're trying to equate socialism to simply the brotherhood aspect. That's wrong.
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  11549.  @gagaplex  Nope, I was the one who looked that part up. Must have read the wrong section. Oh, wonderful, even worse, viral pneumonia is contagious until it's cured.
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  11550.  @mikevi1629  We had about 15% say they'd vote Trump over Biden ... about a third the size of the US' per capita problem. And, I think every province is under that 15%, actually, except Alberta.
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  11551.  @shuffman8094  Do you think young earth "theory" should be taught in schools, like a bunch of morons would like, because reality is up for debate? Present kids a fairy tale, as if it's equally valid to all the science, and let them sort it out for themselves?
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  11552. That's nonsense. Nazis won by elections, and the legal process.
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  11553. ​ @marshalLannes1769  Look up the One Million Plan. It was the Znsts that wanted that to happen.
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  11554.  @Music-vr7sz  Learn what an ad hominem actually is, instead of just pretending like you do. And then you follow up by not providing an actual example of Sam being anti-science, instead implying that if he has repeated something Joy Reid has also said, then it must be anti-science ... which is more like an actual ad hominem.
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  11555. ​ @stephanielewis5595  Umm, Dumpty, and the majority of Republicans in congress, literally tried to overthrow the democratic process and install him as an unelected dictator, dumb dumb. They got closer than Hitler's attempt at a coup, which stalled in a beer Hall in a different city than the capital.
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  11556. ​ @RoamingUndertheStars Did you have a valid argument to respond to, or just a strawman?
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  11557.  @RoamingUndertheStars  Who supports harassing people for simply being Jewish all day long?
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  11558. ​​ @eilenetoomey-balas3479  There was an avian flu outbreak, and the largest producer, Cal-Maine, jacked their prices, and recorded a profit margin jump of over 700%. MAGA blames Biden, of course.
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  11559.  @eilenetoomey-balas3479  There was an avian flu outbreak. The largest US producer, Cal-Maine, jacked their prices and recorded a 700+% profit margin increase.
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  11560. Modern Greek has added the -ism, attached by the French in the 1600s, back into their modern definition. There was no -ism attached to the original definition. The word Athe-ism originated before the word The-ism. It is impossible to a- to a word that doesn't exist.
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  11561. As a percentage of income it would still be regressive. Yang doesn't even know how a VAT works. A VAT is specifically designed to NOT tax businesses in order to avoid double taxation. Anyone promoting a tax designed to not tax businesses as a way to tax businesses is talking gibberish, really.
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  11562. Undercutting other workers does affect them. Would you want unlimited work visas for all those employers could get to work for $6/hr?
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  11563. They also didn't report that he has no clue how a VAT works. So, good and bad.
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  11564.  @shpluk  It's really pretty simple. Cowardly pro colonialists, trying to mask their colonialism, want it to be confusing. All the ancient history stuff is actually irrelevant. There was a well documented exodus, and living in Europe and Russia, for 1700 years. The Zionists were not inhabitants of Palestine, and hadn't been for generations. The Empire that kicked them out, due to their own terrorist acts, no longer exists. If I rounded up 6 million people from the Americas whose ancestors left England or Spain hundreds of years ago, do they have any right to claim half of those countries for themselves, and force the current population off? If they went back, took half by force, and ethnically cleansed enough of the current inhabitants, at least enough until the newcomers were the majority (so they can pretend to be democratic), they would be colonialists. Europeans have DNA roots back to Africa. They still colonized the shit out of Africa.
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  11565.  @prettypurplepicklez  Nope. There were not waves of any significant Arab immigration. Almost all of the non Jewish population growth can be attributed to reproduction rates. Between 1918 and 1947, the non Jewish population increased by 2.2x. The Jewish population increased by 10.5x. No. Jewish rebels killed hundreds of thousands of non Jewish civilians, including children, genociding entire cities, raped, pillaged, and even accounts of them parading around wearing the skins of their victims. And the rebels, not even close to the entire population, were taken as slaves. That Palestinians have Canaanite DNA would suggest that most of those who stayed simply converted along the way. Religion isn't tied to your DNA. Yeah, the Palestinian Jews opposed Zionism, and were targeted by Zionist terrorists, like the Irgun and Lehi, alongside their Palestinian brothers. Zionists don't get to claim people they murdered, to act as some 1700 year place holder, for them all to return. Unless you want to put the entire world back the way it was, at the very specific time that you like (Egypt was the first nation to rule over Canaan, but you don't want that, right?), the only relevant colonialism is ongoing colonialism.
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  11566.  @Triussk61  Palestinians are simply reacting like any other colonized people. But, yeah, colonialist Zionsim is based on a fairytale "right" to the land.
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  11567.  @Triussk61  If the partition went against the will of the majority, and then Israel further had to cleanse "its" half of most of the actual majority, and never let them return, then Israel is about as democratic as Nazi Germany, after Hitler purged his political opponents then held an election.
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  11568.  @Triussk61  Zionist terrorist groups, Irgun and Lehi, targeted Palestinian Jews alongside their Palestinian brothers and sisters, because they didn't support colonialist Zionsim. People you murder aren't placeholders, for a 1700 year later "return".
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  11569.  @GPBKM  Palestinians have Canaanite DNA, dimwit. They're "Arab" and Muslims, like indigenous peoples of Central America are "Hispanic" and Catholic, dumb dumb.
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  11570.  @GPBKM  Seriously, how are there so many morons under the delusion that numerous nations were completely genocided and totally refilled with actual Arabians from a little desert nation?
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  11571. I'd say even David's description is a bit off. Anyone describing social democracy as just a form of capitalism, also doesn't seem to be describing it properly. It's more like real world (not US Overton world) centrism, which is a fairly even mix, of both capitalism and socialism.
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  11572.  @maryanneslater9675  If you socialize a sector of the economy, then you have a partially socialist economy. A pretty evenly mixed economy, a more centrist economy, is a mix of capitalism and socialism, it's in the center of all out capitalism and all out socialism. Making out like it's just a form of capitalism, isn't quite right.
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  11573.  @HavokBWR  Ok, so they aren't equivalent to the previous racists running the country, the white supremacist/nationalist types, is what you just argued. And, what is it you think "prejudice" means? Are you trying to argue that every action that attempts to balance any unbalanced scales, is somehow similar to the actions that caused the existing imbalance? Was reducing the male vote from 100% to 50%, similar to not letting women vote, at all, for example?
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  11574.  @HavokBWR  Just making sure you're not using some lesser definition, that doesn't even show up in multiple dictionaries, dumb dumb, or you'll get pissy about there not being a single definition. Prejudice: an unfair and unreasonable opinion or feeling, especially when formed without enough thought or knowledge. What's unfair or unreasonable, and without enough thought or knowledge, about trying to make things more balanced? That doesn't seem to make sense, since balance tends to go hand in hand with fairness. Who is calling for perfectly equal outcomes (please don't be a complete idiot who says Kamala, because she didn't)? And, if they are, how is that hate, exactly? It's strange to have an economic system that requires ever increasing numbers of consumers, that then punishes the consumer makers for taking some time off. Other countries have narrowed the wage gap even more, and have parental leave for both parents. Do those countries hate men even more? Yes, I know I brought up the example of rebalancing. You, however, found the something to gripe about, all on your own. So, should undocumented men have the right to vote, since that's the big risk and responsibility, in your eyes, even though nobody has been conscripted in almost 50 years, and there's zero indication of a war big enough to require it, in the known future?
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  11575. I get that Biden isn't great, but why are you and Krystal outright lying about this? It wasn't dropped. The public option, as well as free community college, was just mentioned in the American Families Plan, on April 29 ... "FREE COMMUNITY COLLEGE AND OTHER POSTSECONDARY INVESTMENTS" "President Biden has a plan to build on the Affordable Care Act and lower prescription drug costs for everyone by letting Medicare negotiate prices, reducing health insurance premiums and deductibles for those who buy coverage on their own, creating a public option and the option for people to enroll in Medicare at age 60, and closing the Medicaid coverage gap to help millions of Americans gain health insurance." https://www.whitehouse.gov/briefing-room/statements-releases/2021/04/29/fact-sheet-the-american-families-plan-will-support-children-teachers-and-working-families-in-rural-america/
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  11576. @Steve kombolis All the polls showed that, if she was chosen, it would be a tighter race, than if Bernie was chosen. Hillary, or bust, primary voters, voted her in anyway ... and it busted.
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  11577. @I've seen the Twinkie and the damage done Nope. You must be, however. Riiight, scientists and doctors all over the world are being censored by different governments, that all have trouble agreeing on much of anything together, but are all working together, along with what appears to be the vast majority of scientists and doctors across the world, on a secret agenda to vaccinate everyone. Sounds possible (it doesn't).
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  11578. No, it doesn't mean something completely different. They may not mean exactly the same thing, but they are both Agnostic. You're right, explicit needs to be broken down further, with only those that believe God does not exist as Athe-ists, and the rest also Agnostics. Implicit, weak, and some in the explicit category are ALL based on not enough knowledge to force or form a belief.
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  11579. What? Votes "magically" appeared? Trump must want those thrown out, yeah?
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  11580. Taking an "enlightened centrist", both sides-ing, position, doesn't equate to informative or level headed. Israel is objectively the aggressor, by every relevant measure ... Modern history: 100 years ago, in 1923, Ze'ev Jabotinsky fully acknowledged that Zionism is colonialism, and that, based on the entirety of history, the natives would fight it until the bitter end. He just didn't care what would happen to them, and promoted doing it anyway. Colonizers are never not the aggressors. On top of the colonialist nature of Zionism, the Zionists also formed terrorist organizations, like the Irgun and Lehi. They bombed many Palestinian markets and other public places, murdering many civilians, including children, even including Palestinian Jews (who opposed Zionism). Israel merged those terrorists into the new nation's military and intelligence agencies. Israelis elected Menachem Begin, leader of the Irgun, child murderer, Jew murderer, and bomber of the King David Hotel, as PM. Israelis, to this day, celebrate those terrorists as "heroes". Zionists literally taught their neighbours that terrorism is a valid path to independence and statehood, and that terrorists are to be celebrated. In 1945, it is well documented that Zionists owned just 5% of the land and were a majority nowhere. Israel was formed by actually going against the majority population. It's foundation is completely undemocratic. Then, becoming a majority, in "their" new nation, by ethnic cleansing the actual majority, and then claiming to be democratic, is utter nonsense. Law: Israel is considered an occupier by the International Court, the UN GA, and the UN SC. Occupiers are also never not the aggressors. Those occupied actually have a right to resist occupation. On the flip side, it is illegal for the occupier to settle occupied lands, and illegal to use collective punishment. Israel is a rogue nation, that doesn't abide by international law. What it has been doing, and is doing now, is illegal. Current events: This year, alone, prior to Oct 7 ... Israel held over 1200 Palestinian hostages without charges ... over 200 Palestinians had been killed by the IDF and settlers ... over 1000 Palestinians had been displaced by Israel's neverending colonization of the West Bank ... and, Israel continued to operate an open air WWII style fascist ghetto, in Gaza. Even ignoring modern history and law, in no reality did Hamas "start" anything.
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  11581. Just math. Trump would not only support Israel, but he'd also support Russia. Both are invaders, ethnic cleansers, colonizers, and occupiers. He'd be worse, and risking a vote for a third presidential option, that congress can easily override, considering the level of support for Israel in congress, is pointless.
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  11582.  @chuletaization  Elections are math. If you don't know that, I don't know how to help you.
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  11583.  @gianelogan9841  If the borders were "open", people would be walking through points of entry, not risking their lives to cross rivers and deserts. MAGA aren't very bright.
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  11584.  @JohnDoe-ne1ni  Don't say you think people breaking into a building, assaulting police, or those standing by with weapons caches and plotted to overthrow the government, are "protesters". Conservative protesters, who did none of that, have been treated just fine.
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  11585. Trump convinced tens of millions of people not to believe any media, any judges, any lawyers, any politicians, any election officials, any doctors, any nurses, any scientists, any police, any military, any intelligence agency, any women ... anybody ... even not to believe their own lying eyes, if any of them contradicted Supreme Leader Trumpty Dumpty. I don't know if any other president has ever pulled off that fanatic level of "loyalty", and it's not a level of "loyalty" anyone should want a politician to have.
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  11586. Get the broader progressive caucus, who have M4A on their platform, the 10-15 more seats they need to become the majority of house Dems, and then they can actually pick the next speaker candidate, when Pelosi doesn't run again.
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  11587.  @Milanvaneijk  You didn't mention a vote. Progressives just went through all the power struggle, during the election cycle, and managed to replace a few more corporate Dems, adding a few more pro-M4A yes votes to congress. When was the forced guaranteed to fail Civil Rights vote?
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  11588.  @Dan0TheMano  It didn't get a vote, in 1963, due to a minority filibuster running out the session of congress. It got the vote in early 1964, after the filibuster ran out, with majority support ... the same majority support it had at the end of 1963, just weeks earlier.
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  11589.  @Dan0TheMano  It didn't fail, dumb dumb. It had majority support.
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  11590. Russia is the equivalent to Israel, in Ukraine.
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  11591. He's dragging the politicians closest to his own position, that are most likely to help, instead of those least likely to help. It's his methods being criticized, not his wanting M4A or more assistance.
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  11592. Rofl, ex-PM Ehud Barak just told Christiane Amanpour that Israel built the bunkers under the hospital, decades ago, dimwit.
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  11593. Immigrants needing vaccines ... kids in public schools needing vaccines ... so people don't get sick ... totally samesies as treating another race as inferior.
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  11594. These are the same people that believe in a formless penisless being and call it "he", "him", "father". They're probably okay with calling vaginaless cars and boats "she", too.
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  11595. ​ @X7Excalibur  “The line I’ve always used is, I would be a Republican if they would. Which means that I like the Barry Goldwater Republican Party, even the Reagan Republican Party. I want a mean old man to watch my money… government is a sieve that takes as much money as it can and gives it away, usually needlessly,” ~ Maher A Reagan Republican is pretty right wing.
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  11596.  @josephmassaro  Isn't that the way things were supposed to be set up, in the US, so that if the government turns corrupt, the people could remove it, and start over, just like the founding fathers had? Americans kind of screwed the pooch on that one, though, by having a massive standing army, a military armed police force, and no militias, except for racist psychos.
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  11597.  @sushibois2103  And like Vietnam, which has one of the longest borders with China?
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  11598.  @sushibois2103  Plenty of countries, that aren't islands, had better responses than the US. And the island of Britain, led by Boris, managed to have a shitty response to the pandemic, as well. Just being an island, or not being an island, doesn't mean shit.
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  11599. The 30 year old broader progressive caucus is about 15 seats away from becoming the majority of house Dems. The Justice Dems have replaced about a dozen corporate Dems in 4 years. AOC helped replace a few more in just 2 years. Dore knob: The most rational thing to do, right now, is to start from scratch, with zero seats, zero bills submitted, zero amendments added, zero votes on even a single bill, and zero relevance, because the third party route is oh so viable. I mean, the most popular third party hasn't won a single seat in congress in its near 50 year existence, but this totally isn't a delusional fantasy.
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  11600. You can say if they win without you, then you don't have any leverage to change things, but how does providing them undying support, and them winning, give you any leverage to change things? If they have your support, no matter what, then there's no incentive for them to change. And, no, them losing once isn't evidence it doesn't work. They may have to lose a few times, to clue in ... assuming they care about winning. If the party is so far gone, so close to being Republican themselves, that they don't really care about winning, then why bother voting for them, at all?
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  11601.  Bruno Sousa  Well, except for the guy above you.
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  11602.  @RockyMillsfatal  They aren't live vaccines, moron.
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  11603.  @MichaelWilliams85  Bullshit.
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  11604.  @mike-gv2ol  Not mild for the higher percentage who are hospitalized and die.
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  11605.  @kimallred7696  There are dozens to thousands of measles and mumps breakthroughs every year, in the US. No vaccine is 100%. The influenza vaccine, made the old fashioned way, has a 50% efficacy. They do significantly reduce your odds of getting the virus and, if you don't have the virus, you can't spread it to others. All vaccines have to do with others' health. One of the main goals is achieving herd immunity. If you're unvaccinated, you're providing the virus the easiest path for it to travel to others. If you're vaccinated, you provide an extra line of defense between the virus and others. So, the point was that not trying to slow down spread, hospitalization, and death, is moronic, and that a 10x more contagious flu would kill hundreds of thousands of people a year, instead of tens of thousands ... and a flu that's not specifically seasonal, probably 20x more people a year.
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  11606.  @pcuimac  And yet she just helped replace a few more corporate Dems with pro-M4A progressives in congress. Dore knobs have proved themselves to be the pathetic do nothings. There's a new list of names of those who won't co-sign the M4A bills. Do something with it. There's a list of names of those who voted against the $15. Do something with it. Get off your asses and do something instead of bitching about those promoting, and voting for, the things you supposedly want.
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  11607. Read this ... Rolling Stone: "RFK Jr. Claims ‘Vaccine Research’ Likely Responsible for HIV and the Spanish Flu" ... it gives a basic breakdown of his lunacy, and the lunatic friends he hangs with.
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  11608. And he was crazy before COVID. ABC, 2019: "Anti-vaccine leaders targeting minority becomes growing concern at NYC forum"
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  11609. Is he trying to prove his god isn't all powerful?
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  11610.  @yc0995  He explains his resting "I want to kill you" face to Graham Norton.
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  11611.  @minhocho5487  He never made it beyond what he stated was a given, from the outset. His chess "analogy" confuses law for morality. His fearmongering about AI contradicts his own supposedly objective hierarchy. Saying every version of morality going concerns "well being" means there are multiple ideas of "well being", but he goes on as if there's a singular idea ... his own. His health "analogy" ignores that "healthy" and "unhealthy" don't include oughts, while "moral" and "immoral" do. His poison vs food "analogy" just doesn't grasp what "poison" is. People can get water poisoning, ffs, as well as from various foods. Most poisonings are overdoses of medicine, that are supposed to help you. It's total trash. He's an idiot.
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  11612.  Jack Schitt  Yep.
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  11613. Is that the same "religious argument" that has the entire human race descend from Adam and Eve's children? Lot's descendants from he and his daughters?
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  11614. ​ @BryanM86 Rofl! You're one of those morons who thinks the most racist states in America magically became the least racist states, rather than simply started voting for a different party? You know the Southern Republicans were just as, if not more, racist, right? A higher percentage of Southern Republicans voted against Civil Rights bills, than Southern Democrats.
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  11615. ​ @BryanM86  Yeah, 2 settlements for not renting to black Americans, Trump, is totally not a racist ... "Letitia 'peekaboo' James" Urban Dictionary: peekaboo Racist term used in white-supremacist circles to refer to a person of color, usually black, of upper or upper-middle class social standing. That uppity peekaboo thinks she can golf here just because she has money. by WhoKnowsWhoItCouldBe September 21, 2022
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  11616. Yeah, that third number, on the paper said "with covid", not necessarily that covid contributed to the death, like the Dr of nursing practice stated. The second number is the deaths due to covid that the government and media use. That just means some 20k people died "with covid", and not due to covid. No real contradiction in the numbers. As for the first number, like Sam said, you'd have to look at all the hundreds of other things people die of. If you find about a 30k reduction than average, then there's no contradiction between the first and second number. If they're isn't a 30k reduction there, then maybe covid deaths were slightly overreported. The doctor of nursing is also wrong, about being able to use UK excess mortality for other countries. Each country is different. The US' excess mortality was higher than reported covid deaths. Unlike the UK, that means people were either dying of other things in higher than average numbers, or that covid deaths were underreported.
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  11617.  @jondiebe2985  She's already left. A different tactic to achieve the same outcome isn't more left, ffs.
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  11618. ​ @AaryanGambhir-m4x  Wouldn't ending handing billions a year to Israel, help?
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  11619. Yeah, a two state solution has totally failed over and over. They need a single state solution, with a proportioned government, like Lebanon.
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  11620. What a moron. What are they going to do about drones? They just shot down a drone.
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  11621. More centrist countries are almost as socialist as they are capitalist, and amongst the happiest countries on the planet, with high standards of living.
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  11622.  @NoBody-tz4fb  Rofl. Things can be measured per capita, dumbass.
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  11623. ​ @mitchelltakacs7806  That's contradictory.
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  11624. There have been plenty of real and evil guys claiming to speak for a God, which has nothing to do with whether a God actually exists.
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  11625.  Obito Uchiha  Did you say something that contradicted that "there were some very rich people in the USSR", dumb dumb?
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  11626. ​ @alexlifeson1321  Rofl! European DNA goes back to Africa. They still colonized the shit out of Africa. If I rounded up 6 million people from the Americas, with ancestry dating back to England hundreds of years ago, we'd have a right to demand half of England, for us to rule over? No. That's absurd. We'd be colonizers, if we forced the people living there off their lands. Palestinians also have Canaanite DNA. They're natives ... that stayed.
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  11627.  @mycosys  Are you not following the conversation? OP: "criticizing Zionism isn't anti-Semitic", other guy: "it kinda is", then me responding to that.
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  11628.  @mycosys  Not an assumption. It's the only thing that makes grammatical sense.
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  11629.  @mycosys  David doesn't seem to cover events, unless something has happened to Israel, or unless there's some news about Hamas doing something bad. Prior to the Hamas attack, there had been almost one Palestinian a day, killed by the IDF or settlers (who are rarely punished). I don't know if I'd say he's an outright Zionist, but I do think he has a bias. "Zionist" also has a definition. It's not simply name calling. Leaving out details, like that, and the entirety of the history, has David, like most, framing things in a way that makes Israel out to be the one responding to Hamas' violence. After hundreds of Palestinians were killed, this year alone, why isn't Hamas instead framed as the one responding to Israel's violence? People are more understanding as to why say Geronimo left the reserve his tribe had been forced onto, multiple times, to go on a warpath. Not framing Israel as the colonialist power that it is, allows for propaganda like "The savages have attacked poor innocent settlers!", rather than "Natives have left the dirt patch they were forced onto, and have attacked people that have been colonizing and ethnically cleansing them, for a century." Maybe unintentional bias, but considering how he criticized AOC for an "uninformed" comment about Israel/Palestine, I would expect him to be more precise. As I said, above, Ze'ev fully acknowledged that Zionism is colonialism. After that point, the colonialists can never really be the "victim". Natives would never be attacking them, if they hadn't done the colonialism, in the first place. On top of the colonialism, Israel was founded on terrorism, by groups like the Irgun and Lehi. They killed a bunch of Palestinian civilians, including children, even including Palestinian Jews (who didn't support Zionism). Israelis elected a terrorist, Menachem Begin, who led the Irgun and bombed the King David Hotel. Israel merged those terrorist groups into their new national military/intelligence. Israelis, to this day, celebrate those terrorists as "heroes". Israel literally taught their neighbours that terrorism is a valid path to independence and statehood, and that terrorists are heroes. Making out like Hamas is "pure evil", without ever mentioning that Israel was founded on similarly "pure evil", and had a "pure evil" PM, is a bias. Even now, Netanyahu has a terrorist in charge of the West Bank. He was previously arrested on his way to bomb a highway out of Gaza, to block the withdrawal of settlers there. He's a racist, who has said that "Palestinian" people don't exist. He's an ultra Orthodox nutjob, who equates homosexuality with bestiality. Plus, he's a genocidal maniac, who made public a plan to segregate and subjugate (no federal representation), exile, or kill, any non Jews, in all Israel/Palestine. Casually mentioning , now and then, that Israel is an "apartheid state", doesn't get to the true depths of how horrible it is. These are Jewish people that are running an open air WWII style fascist ghetto. It is insanely ghastly, that they've become the thing they fled from. Again, not sure if I'd go as far as saying David is himself a Zionist, but he does show an abnormal bias, when it comes to Israel. Not very objective.
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  11630. Founders: protest, riot, and even go to war, over extra taxes that specifically funded the police/military and disenfranchisement. Newsmax: Nazis! Loyalists: back the police/military and fight against democracy to keep an unelected ruler in power. Newsmax: Patriots!
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  11631. Try again, moron.
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  11632.  @Nackdad  Dore peddled some delusional fantasy, that a Trump presidency would lead to a massive progressive backlash that would lead to progressives "for sure" taking the house (nope) and senate (nope), in 2018, and the presidency (nope), in 2020. His grift included claiming that even Republicans would join the left to vote against a Trump agenda (nope), instead of following him into all out fascism (nope), plus claiming that Trump filling multiple scotus seats was as likely as the moon falling into Lake Michigan (nope). Nothing he predicted came true. There ended up being zero benefit to letting Trump win, while the risks came true. His entire bullshit was based on faulty reasoning. You don't have to go outright f*cking backwards, to get a progressive movement. Bernie's movement came right after Obama. In fact, everyone was so freaked out by another Trump presidency, that they went screaming into Biden's "more electable" arms. It hurt the progressive movement.
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  11633.  @Nackdad  Rofl. Vote blue works both ways, you dimwitted Dore knob. Those who vote against a progressive in the primaries will turn around and vote for them in the general. Any hope in hell of Bernie becoming president, if he made it through the primaries, would have relied on Clinton or Biden voters turning around and voting for him. That's why it's a better strategy for progressives who actually want to win a seat, instead of sitting on the sidelines in some irrelevant third party.
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  11634.  @Nackdad  When he abandoned Nina Turner ... abandoned adding another M4A yes vote to congress ... he started peddling to never vote for anyone running as a Democrat ever again. If he convinces even one moron, in a swing district, to let the Republican win, then he will have helped the Republican win.
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  11635.  @Nackdad  I said "he will have helped". That's not saying entirely to blame. You seem to be having comprehension problems, with that part.
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  11636.  @Nackdad  You still seem to have comprehension problems. Again, I haven't laid all the blame for anyone's loss on Dore. Who he helps, indicates which side he's actually on. When he promoted Trump over Clinton, if he convinced even one person in a swing state to let Trump win, then he helped Trump win. When he promoted Tulsi over Bernie, if he convinced even one person not to vote Bernie, then he helped Bernie lose. When he ran a constant attack ad campaign against Trump's only remaining viable opponent, Biden, if he convinced even one person in a swing state to let Trump win, then he again helped Trump. When he promoted abandoning Nina, if he convinced even one person to abandon Nina, then he helped the corporate Dem win. If he convinces even one person to let Republicans win, indefinitely, then he is helping Republicans. In what reality does that sound like a leftist?
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  11637.  @Nackdad  You are a dimwitted Dore knob, following someone who claims to be left wing, but helps the far right ... who claims to be for M4A, but leads people in a different, even opposite, direction ... who claims to be in favor of vaccines, but then spreads all kinds of covid and vaccine misinformation, spreading doubts and pandering to anti-vax ... who claims to be anti-war, but can't seem to bring himself to heavily criticize Trump for bombing Syria, instead blathering on and on about an irrelevant UN inspector report that had absolutely nothing to do with anyone's decision to bomb Syria; and whined and complained about Biden's withdrawal from Afghanistan; and peddled Tulsi "I'm a hawk" (2016) Gabbard; and said he doesn't care about India and if a presidential candidate is friendly with Hindutva nutters even though India has tensions with Pakistan and the US gives military aid to Pakistan ... Dore is a grifter.
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  11638.  @Nackdad  Rofl. Why wait? Dore is already helping Republicans, by telling people not to vote Democrat. The evidence as to who he's helping is already there. Even if the current progressives aren't perfectly perfect puritan enough for you, running as blue is clearly the far better way to ever win a seat in congress. Dore doesn't want progressives to win a seat, and doesn't want any other Democrat to win a seat ... by process of elimination, who does he want to win a seat, then?
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  11639. Israel is really supporting forced Gazan abortions, right now. Not so much the LGBTQ and women, who they're also killing.
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  11640.  @ArcheonW  You've got reading comprehension problems, moron.
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  11641.  @ArcheonW  Glad to help. An English class, or two, and you'll be right on track.
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  11642.  @ArcheonW  I'm referring to literacy, not grammar.
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  11643.  @ArcheonW   Nope. Pretty clear that you can't read, dumb dumb. The basis of my statement was to give them an overload of exactly what they want, so that it ruins their lives, and you went off about attention being what they want, claiming a lack of understanding. No lack of understanding, if giving them too much of what they want is the basis of my statement, dumbass.
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  11644.  @thedebatemechannel4746  100 days of protests. https://www.oregonlive.com/portland/2020/09/100-days-of-protests-in-portland.html
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  11645.  @thedebatemechannel4746  You're rambling. 100 days of protests, a quarter saw riots. https://www.newsweek.com/portland-protests-100-days-saturday-riots-1529633 Where's this 100 days of riots celebration?
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  11646. No. All beliefs originated with some form of emperical knowledge. You observe something happen, then form a belief as to why it happened.
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  11647. ​ @HelloJamesBond  You are the one doing the reversal of who is the aggressor. Everyone going on about Oct 7, is like freaking out that Native American "Savages!" had attacked some colonizers. Sure, not productive and morally questionable, but the natives weren't the aggressors. Or like claiming the resistance groups behind the Warsaw ghetto uprising were the aggressors, against the Nazis. Zionism is colonialism, as the early 20th century Zionists weren't shy to admit. They simply argued their colonialism was "good". One of those being Ze'ev Jabotinsky who, in his 1923 The Iron Wall, fully acknowledged that Zionism is colonialism and that, based on the entirety of history, the Palestinian natives would fight it until the bitter end. Followers of Ze'ev formed the Irgun and Lehi terrorist groups. The Irgun bombed numerous Palestinian markets and other public places, murdering Palestinian men, women, and children, even Palestinian Jews, who didn't support colonialist Zionsim. The Lehi were considered even more extreme, tried to ally with the Nazis against Britain, continued fighting the British during WWII, assassinated British diplomats, etc. Israel merged those terrorists into their military and intelligence agencies. The leaders of those terrorist groups founded Likud. Both those terrorist leaders were elected as PMs, by Israelis. Israelis, to this day, celebrate those terrorist groups as "heroes". Likud's platform, "between the sea and the Jordan there will only be Israeli sovereignty", promises to completely colonize and ethnically cleanse all Palestine territories. It further claims a "right" to all the "Lands of Israel" (fictional biblical borders that don't mesh with archaeological reality), which is an open declaration of future wars, against Jordan, Syria, and Lebanon. Palestinians have Canaanite DNA. They're Arab and Muslim the same way indigenous peoples of Central America are now Hispanic and Catholic. They are indigenous, and have basically just been reacting like any people being colonized, for the last 100 years. It is Zionism that is based on absolute batshit crazy religious nuttery. Plus, the fact that partition was forced on the actual majority (1.3m non-Jews vs 630k Jews), against their will ... That non-Jews were still a majority in the Zionist portion of partition (856k non-Jews vs 715k Jews), until 700k were ethnically cleansed and never allowed to return ... And that, all Palestine territories are officially considered occupied, and the millions of Palestinians have no vote for the actual authority over them, Israel ... Means Israel is about as democratic as Nazi Germany after Hitler purged his political opponents and then held elections. They're operating an open air WWII style fascist ghetto, ffs. They're, objectively, the aggressors, the bad guys.
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  11648. You Dore knob. You missed a possibility between Pelosi getting enough votes and nobody getting enough votes. That possibility being that Pelosi doesn't get enough votes, but the threshold needed to win is lowered enough for McCarthy to get enough votes. If your 15 progressives simply abstained, that 15 plus the 1 unfilled seat, would lower the threshold needed to win down to 210. Pelosi could only get 209 of the 224 Dem votes, even if every other Dem voted for her. McCarthy would get 212, if every Rep voted for him. McCarthy would win.
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  11649. Don't go all Jimmy Dore stupid. "But progressives are pushing for the wage increase to remain, and the Congressional Progressive Caucus (CPC) has already ensured that it will be included in the House Democrats' version of the legislation." https://www.msn.com/en-us/news/politics/progressives-hold-biden-to-account-on-15-minimum-wage-as-he-suggests-it-be-dealt-with-later/ar-BB1dxEOV?li=BBnbcA1
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  11650. The thing I take issue with is calling what private companies do on their own private property, "censorship". If I owned a newspaper and magazine shop, and didn't want to stock the NY Post, that's not "censorship". If my store had a community bulletin board and someone pinned up something I didn't want associated with my store, me taking it down isn't "censorship". It's not like you can't go buy the NY Post elsewhere, or go advertise your thing elsewhere. Only if some government authority told me that I couldn't stock something, or couldn't let people post something, would it be censorship. I get that Facebook and Twitter have large monopolies, and going elsewhere isn't as effective at spreading information, but it's still possible. Twitter got popular because some people liked it better than Facebook. Instagram got popular because some people liked it better than Twitter. Many young people like Snapchat better than all of the above. Now TikTok has become popular. There's also Reddit. And, there's 4chan and 8chan for the more fringe stuff. It's like some people think they have a right to post whatever they want wherever they want, when that's absolutely not the case. The owner of a restaurant doesn't have to let some Armageddon preacher come in and scream at the customers, and booting them out isn't "censorship". If Facebook is skewing information to the right, maybe people who lean left should just stop using it. If Twitter is skewing to the left, maybe people who lean right should just stop using it. If either want to keep as many consumers as possible, they should probably try to be as objective in their algorithms and fact checking, as possible.
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  11651.  @billw6954  What's hypocritical about going to where your mother lives, over the holidays?
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  11652.  @billw6954  She didn't randomly go to Florida. Her mother lives there. She wasn't indoors. NYC isn't mandating outdoor masks, either. What's the hypocrisy, dumb dumb?
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  11653. You taking advice from the idiot who didn't care if millions of poor people lost their Medicaid expansion or preexisting condition coverage, and didn't care to add millions more added to Medicare, but still pretends like he's King of the progressives, and the one true champion of healthcare?
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  11654.  Kyle Kyle  The Puritan Party should do fabulously. Maybe tens of "real" progressives per rally.
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  11655.  Kyle Kyle  Because? Just a fact that the most popular third party hasn't won a single seat in congress in going on 50 years. Just a fact that Dore doesn't actually give a shit if anyone else gets healthcare.
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  11656.  @JavierRamirez-lx4ev  ok dumbass
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  11657. Lol, you seem to believe all the gossip columns. Any recent Bigfoot sightings?
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  11658.  @knightoftheonedotcom  Aww, did your feewings get hurt?
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  11659. ​ @Jordblitz  You know that Israel was founded on terrorism, by groups like the Irgun and Lehi, right? They elected terrorists, like Menachem Begin, who was leader of the Irgun and bombed the King David Hotel. They still celebrate those terrorists. Even now, Netanyahu has a terrorist in charge of the West Bank. An Orthodox extremist bigot, who compares homosexuality to bestiality. A racist, who says "Palestinian" people don't exist. And a genocidal maniac, who made public a plan to segregate and subjugate (no federal representation), exile, or kill, all non Jews in all Israel/Palestine. There isn't just a single side with extremists. And, most people wouldn't consider the Warsaw ghetto uprising to be an act of extremists. They'd consider it normal. Not sure why Gaza's open air WWII style fascist style ghetto is supposed to be considered different.
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  11660. Show me a statistic indicating "95%" of murders are committed by minorities.
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  11661.  @jeffreylebowski4927  I'm talking about what Bloomberg stated, "95%".
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  11662. So, it's not possible to teach things to others, without conquering them, ethnic cleansing them, oppressing them, etc.? Weird. You're probably one of those morons who thinks slavery was good for the slaves, too.
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  11663. Not contradictions.
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  11664.  @peterkrug4124  Have you heard his Bohemian Rhapsody cover?
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  11665. ​ @neverettebrakensiek8771  Trump ended zero wars, dropped more bombs per year than Obama, let Iran go back to a nuke program, let N Korea develop 30-40 nukes while he was in office, and shares top secret info with randos and Putin.
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  11666. ​ @123123lad  The tiers are rich and poor, dmwt. Anyone else, would have been in prison long ago. Trump is getting the royal treatment.
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  11667.  @powerhouseinco9664  Bloomberg and Biden, themselves, spew lies about Bernie, on stage, and the MSM doesn't do a 10 min segment on it. Where are all the 10 min segments against numerous other candidates, politicians, or their aides, chastising them for spouting "incendiary" nonsense about all out communism and an end to capitalism? "Heart attacks" range from being barely noticeable discomfort to killing you on the spot. Something sent Bloomberg to the doctor and to get stents. It's only people's severe reactions to the word "heart attack" that's making it at all relevant.
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  11668.  @powerhouseinco9664  You brought up if Bloomberg or Biden did it, moron. I responded.
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  11669.  @powerhouseinco9664  *moron *can't You also might want to stick an "I'd" at the start, as well, to actually make it a valid sentence.
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  11670.  @powerhouseinco9664  You know you're quoting yourself, right? Moron.
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  11671. So, you would have believed a Nazi apologist, who had been to Germany, if they said the Nazis were great, and right, just because they had been there?
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  11672. That it's "immoral" to "believe" in something, for which there is no "logically satisfactory evidence", is not compatible with Theism, to me. Even if he was talking 100% truth, saying to withhold belief, unless God pops up and talks to you personally. only leaves positions of no belief (lack of knowledge) and full knowledge, with nothing in between. This is also not compatible with Theism, or strong Atheism. The "reprobation" on those professing "disbelief" is also about strong Atheists.
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  11673. McCarthyism, the Big Red Scare, the Cold War, ... US politics moved totally right of centre. So many have been brainwashed into thinking anything socialized leads to Stalinism, or something similar. Especially the ones who also believe the US is of purely moral intentions, that it's the best country, need to keep believing this, or it makes many things the US has done in the world immoral.
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  11674. Rofl. You're sounding like a Dore knob.
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  11675.  @We-will-defeat-them  Refuse to serve. A few do.
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  11676. When you frame your rant as they'd rather do an impeachment, then Republican viewers hear you ripping on Democrats only.
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  11677. Nazi ghetto.
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  11678. Bernie up +1 (inside margin of error, but still) over Warren in latest poll out of Massachusetts. She's going to end up losing her own state to Bernie. https://www.realclearpolitics.com/epolls/latest_polls/democratic_nomination_polls/
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  11679.  @steellady1164  No. He's just a moron.
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  11680. If you're referring to Boko Haram, like most Islamic extremists, they've killed more Muslims than anyone else. Christians just don't care when Muslims are killed, don't count them, and then claim it's a war against just them, and they're being persecuted. Unlike in Palestine, the world is against Boko Haram.
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  11681. ​ @galyien  Iran received none of that money, their own money, dumb dumb. Maybe ask Dumpty what Israeli secrets he told Putin.
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  11682. And the Nazi platform.
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  11683.  @tblaze8346  Rofl, globalism has a world view with regards to economics and politics. Globalism, politically and economically, is along the lines of the EU, UN, multinational trade deals that remove trade barriers at borders, etc.That is not the same as wanting your single nation to dominate the world. Wanting your single nation to dominate the world is still freaking nationalism. You're as stupid as she is.
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  11684.  @chris20874  I'll just have to assume your lot have zero clue about the reasons Hitler gave for expansion, as well as not grasping the meanings of the words.
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  11685.  @chris20874  Lebensraum: additional territory considered by a nation, especially Nazi Germany, to be necessary for national survival or for the expansion of trade. That is worrying about your own nation, your own people, and your own economy. Wanting your nation to be "pure", in a number of ways, is all about preserving some idea you have for a national identity. Seriously, where does the supposed globalism come in?
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  11686. ​ @ChA0s_AgeNt  "Well" being the key word. They always lie. Mostly only morons buy it.
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  11687.  make america great again  Dumbass. US politics is almost entirely right of centre. Your "so far left" is someone who wants to emulate countries like Denmark (a centrist country), and has never called for complete economic equality and a total end of capitalism (the actual far left). You're apparently so far right, you don't even believe that a guy who has described himself as right wing is actually right wing. "I’m a libertarian. The line I’ve always used is, I would be a Republican if they would. Which means that I like the Barry Gold-water Republican Party, even the Reagan Republican Party." ~ Maher https://www.rollingstone.com/culture/culture-news/checking-in-with-bill-maher-in-1999-69781/
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  11688. ​ @darrellvalentine7316  Nothing you said refutes that colonialists are aggressors, dumb dumb. There were even times, throughout history, where less developed peoples conquered and colonized more developed civilizations. On top of the Zionist colonialism, Israel was also founded on its own terrorism, by groups like the Irgun and Lehi. They bombed Palestinian markets, killing many civilians, including children, even killing Palestinian Jews (who didn't support Zionism). Those terrorist groups were merged into the new nation's military and intelligence agencies. Israelis elected Menachem Begin, leader of the Irgun, who bombed the King David Hotel. Israelis, to this day, celebrate those terrorists as heroes. They literally taught their neighbours that terrorism is a valid path to independence and statehood. Even the Jews under Roman rule rebelled, and killed tens of thousands of non Jewish civilians. Even with how violent they were, they didn't take kindly to the Roman use of excessive force, the destruction of their temple, or being ethnically cleansed. If the Roman reaction was justified, then that completely eradicates the only justification they had to support their Zionist colonialism ... that they were forced out, and didn't leave willingly. You should also maybe consider whether a bomb dropping on a baby might blow its body apart.
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  11689.  @antidote4870  Ummm, the planning for a Zionist state started in like 1918. Ben-Gurion declared they wanted it all. And, no, the Zionists always demanded to be a majority in their own state. One of the first plans included force moving a third of the native population, over 200k Palestinians. On top of being colonialist, Jewish terrorist groups, like the Irgun and Lehi, helped force the final solution. It's literally a colonialist terrorist nation. How will a 2 state solution work, in 2023, when Israel has continued colonizing Palestinian lands the whole time? You think Palestinians will agree to having jack shit left over? Only if you squash their spirit, or ethnically cleanse or kill the ones who don't accept, like native Americans. Being stuck on reserves isn't exactly a "two state" solution. And, there's zero indication that Israel would willingly return to any former borders. Other nations, that can pressure an outcome, need to step in, and demand one, like with South Africa. That would take them growing some balls, and finally declaring Israel a racist/colonialist/terrorist/fascist state. And, they can also pressure towards an outcome that would actually work.
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  11690. A VAT would have you paying a tax on your own data. If a business buys $100 of your data from Facebook, they'd initially pay $10 input VAT on top of that. Facebook would send the $10 to the government. That business would include the $100 data cost in the price of their good or service. You, the consumer, would then pay $10 on that $100 portion of their sale price. The business then gets to keep that $10, reclaiming its input VAT. Government gets $10 VAT. You pay $10 VAT. The business ends up paying jack shit. A VAT pays businesses back for their input VAT to avoid double taxation. It's part of the design.
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  11691. Did you even listen to the guy? His promise to his wife is to never be alone with a woman, throughout their marriage. That's not saying just in my truck. Aside from this reporter, it's basically saying he can't ever have any meetings with a lone woman, for his job. Requiring it be male colleague, rather than any colleague, is saying he can't even have meetings with multiple women. Doesn't sound like he should be a public servant, if he can't even deal with half the public.
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  11692.  Robert Smith  What would you personally think, if a woman treated all men as rapists?
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  11693. He, literally, makes no sense. Bernie has raised about double what Biden has raised. By his pure money equation, Bernie should beat Biden, and Biden should have even less of a chance vs Trump.
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  11694.  @kdemetter  Objectivists are equivalent to capital L Libertarians, when it comes to the government they want. Both want a minimalist government. The "libertarians" Rand was opposed to, at the time of her writing, referred to ancap types.
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  11695.  @johnkosowski3321  Would the owner be required to have insurance?
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  11696.  @johnkosowski3321  And if the building owner simply rents the units, owns an office building and leases out office space, a giant corporation runs their business out of the building and the hundreds using it are simply employees, etc.? When there used to be fewer building codes, etc., I don't recall banks and insurance companies requiring strict standards and inspections. Isn't that why the government stepped in, in the first place?
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  11697.  @johnkosowski3321  If you need, and get, a loan (which I never included, but you keep including, because it's the only way your system works it seems), you're still on the hook for paying off the loan, whether your venture is successful, or not. Banks don't require inspections for mortgages. They don't care if your new venture is risky, if you give them collateral, and already have the income to pay them back. There have also been numerous collapses during building itself. If there's no set standard, showing the builder cut corners, if no way is an outright wrong way to do things, then there's no real grounds to sue them for damages.
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  11698.  @johnkosowski3321  Rofl. Do you just ignore everything your argument can't cover? You're arguing against a history, a reality, in which people managed to get insurance when building standards were lower. You're arguing against a reality where buildings are still being built in countries where building standards are lower. There's zero evidence that capitalism is good at self regulation, hence the introduction of standards.
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  11699.  @johnkosowski3321  A barely existent Florida system failed, while banks and insurance companies didn't give a crap that there's a barely existent system in place. There's not even a 40 year required inspection in most Florida counties. Your banks and insurance companies haven't cared. You're pulling shit out of your ass.
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  11700. @@darthquantum5141 The rules are usually relative to who is the colonizer and who is the colonized, who is the occupier and who is the occupied, who is the ethnic cleanser and who is being ethnically cleansed, who is the actual aggressor and who is the defender, ... no? The Nazis and resistance groups weren't samesies, right?
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  11701. Depends on what you mean by "semitism". By "semitism", do you mean colonizing, ethnic cleansing, and occupying other people, and keeping them in an open air WWII style fascist ghetto? If so, then there's no longer anything wrong with anti-semitism.
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  11702.  @sondorp  As a European observer, why don't you recognize the flaw in how Yang wants to pay for the UBI? He falsely claims a VAT will tax giant tech corporations to help fund it, when the reality is that businesses get their input VAT credited back to them. He's either clueless or lying. "a consumption tax because it is borne ultimately by the final consumer. It is not a charge on businesses." "whereby taxable persons (i.e., VAT-registered businesses) deduct from the VAT they have collected the amount of tax they have paid to other taxable persons on purchases for their business activities" "paid to the revenue authorities by the seller of the goods, who is the "taxable person", but it is actually paid by the buyer" "The VAT due on any sale is a percentage of the sale price but from this the taxable person is entitled to deduct all the tax already paid at the preceding stage. Therefore, double taxation is avoided and tax is paid only on the value added at each stage of production and distribution. In this way, as the final price of the product is equal to the sum of the values added at each preceding stage, the final VAT paid is made up of the sum of the VAT paid at each stage." https://ec.europa.eu/taxation_customs/business/vat/what-is-vat_en Since he doesn't actually force giant corporations to pay in, handing consumers trillions will only make those giant corporations even richer.
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  11703.  @vallano8970  Here's Yang's "proven" public option idea. It has proven to get you next to nowhere fast. https://www.theatlantic.com/politics/archive/2019/08/los-angeles-public-option-2020-democrats/597115/
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  11704.  @vallano8970  A VAT is "proven" to not be a good way tax corporations, as Yang falsely claims it is. In fact, a VAT is specifically designed to not make them pay taxes. http://publications.gc.ca/Collection-R/LoPBdP/BP/prb0003-e.htm#A.%20Taxing%20Mechanism(txt)
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  11705.  @jerrydesu  Yang is for public option, which is not M4A. It's M4 ... all who opt in and pay the premium.
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  11706.  @jerrydesu  Medicare already bans identical coverage. Medicare plus plans are not allowed to offer identical coverage to people on Medicare. Bernie's M4A plan does not have premiums, deductables, or co-pays. A public option doesn't get you M4A anytime soon. It might get you M4A in a few decades. https://www.theatlantic.com/politics/archive/2019/08/los-angeles-public-option-2020-democrats/597115/
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  11707.  @vallano8970  "Literally" nothing to do with Yang literally saying he's a "public option" guy, and literally describing how he thinks a "public option" would put private insurers out of business, while the evidence in LA proves otherwise? https://youtu.be/kpC9tTudcsk
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  11708.  @jerrydesu  "Increased taxes", but Medicare costs less than private premiums, deductables, and co-pays do ... Bernie also proposes to drive down costs ... he has it paid with progressive taxation rather than a set regressive premium for all ... and he wants to make companies turn their current healthcare payments into wage increases. The last could put $10k a year (70% of 15k) more, on average, into many people's pockets. https://www.industryweek.com/talent/article/22026157/employers-revise-plans-as-health-benefits-to-cost-15000-per-employee
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  11709.  @kd6613  No, you're misinformed or lying. He has it stack with SSDI, not SSI.
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  11710.  @akroide  Uh huh. “It is not up to the president to determine who is or is not a journalist,” Sanders declared. “The actions of the Trump administration represent a disturbing attack on the First Amendment and threaten to undermine the important work that investigative reporters conduct every day.” https://shadowproof.com/2019/09/12/the-prosecution-against-julian-assange-where-presidential-candidates-stand/ "Sen. Bernie Sanders vowed, if elected president in 2020, to break with both the Trump and Obama administrations by refusing to use the repressive, century-old Espionage Act to prosecute whistleblowers, a stance that was applauded by press freedom advocates and former NSA contractor Edward Snowden." https://www.truthdig.com/articles/bernie-sanders-issues-unprecedented-pledge-to-u-s-whistleblowers/ It seems pretty straight forward that espionage charges would be dropped, under Bernie. What makes Assange's case somewhat more complicated is that he's charged with other things, like a state charge of computer hacking. A governor pardons state charges, not a president.
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  11711.  @kd6613  How you pay for UBI is important. Yang likes to mention Alaska, but Alaska has corporations paying dividends to Alaskans, for their resources. A VAT skips making corporations pay anything. A VAT is designed for them not to pay anything. It's not a "half-truth" to claim a VAT makes it "impossible" for Amazon to not pay taxes. It's outright bullshit. Since it doesn't actually tax Amazon, and since their share of US consumer spending is 2%, handing consumers $3t will only make Amazon $60b extra a year. That's totally the opposite of them "paying their fair share". Ironically, they could invest that into automating faster. That would also, in turn, make Bezos some $6b extra a year. Way more than he'd ever personally pay into a VAT in a year. Walmart's share of US consumer spending is 2.8%. They'd make $84b extra a year. That would make the Waltons billions more a year. Etc. Yang's VAT/UBI scheme will only make giant corporations and the super rich even richer, while still not having to pay taxes.
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  11712.  @jerrydesu  Free college helps students, to the tune of $10k on average for public college tuition. Extended unemployment and retraining is better than trying to live on $12k a year. If you're a single unemployed caregiver of 1+ children, you get to try and live on $12k a year, while 2 childless adults who already have decent jobs get an extra $12k a year to vacation with. If you're a single unemployed caregiver of a disabled child, Yang may be offering you less than full SSI disability and SNAP for 2 ($771 + $355), while making you pay 10% more for utilities, phone service, home maintenance, etc.
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  11713.  @jerrydesu  Nothing you posted refutes what I stated. He does not have UBI stack with SSI disability, which currently does stack with SNAP. Means tested, or not, someone could already be getting $1000+ a month, won't benefit economically from Yang's UBI, and won't be able to opt out of the VAT, so they will be worse off with him. While some very poor people will be worse off with Yang, Amazon will get an extra $60b a year, Bezos will get an extra $6b a year, people who are currently comfortable will get extra vacation and shopping spree money. That's nonsensical.
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  11714.  @ferrets4yang159  If they made you show you're not making $1000/month to get free healthcare, and Yang wants to hand you $1000/month, why do you think you'll still be eligible for free healthcare?
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  11715.  @jerrydesu  You absolutely did not. You're referring to other people and other topics. You've repeatedly dodged and changed the topic. There are some very poor people, currently getting full benefits over $1000 a month, of a variety Yang doesn't have stacking with UBI, who will get zero economic benefit from the UBI but can't opt out of paying a VAT. Those people will be economically worse off with Yang. Whether he has some future plan to fix his initially faulty plan that will leave some poor people worse off while making giant corporations and the super rich even richer, doesn't change that those are the initial facts of the matter.
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  11716.  @jerrydesu  Rofl, having 50% of the population living on $12k a year and making giant corporations significantly richer isn't a "plan". It's idiocy. High unionization, higher wages, higher taxes on the rich, almost twice the percentage of the population working government jobs, and an 85% retraining success rate is a "plan". https://www.nytimes.com/2017/12/27/business/the-robots-are-coming-and-sweden-is-fine.html
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  11717.  @jerrydesu  Lol, you seriously have an issue recognizing topic variations. Must be why you have trouble focusing on just one.
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  11718.  @vallano8970  No, you're a moron for pretending you know how a VAT works. It was you who proved my point, dumbass. It wouldn't tax Amazon, as Yang falsely claims. It was the final consumer, in your example, that paid the full $2, and didn't get paid back, idiot. $2 was sent to the government and the final consumer paid $2 on a $20 purchase, and every other step was paid back. Yang is completely ignorant or lying, when he says a VAT will force Amazon to pay taxes. It's also just a fact that Amazon's share of US consumer spending is 2%. So, if you don't actually tax them and hand consumers $3t, you're only making them money, in the region of $60b a year extra. Argue with math all you want.
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  11719.  @ferrets4yang159  Well, it does some federal benefits, but Medicaid for low income is run by the state, so that's besides the point. The states would be the ones who decide. If your state decides UBI counts towards the $1000/month cut off, then you could be cut off.
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  11720.  @amil509  They can be sued for malpractice. It just ends up being the government who pays, if they lose. What difference do you think that has on the healthcare provided?
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  11721. Even for a professional political commentator, it's few and far between, that you change someone's mind. David will get someone calling and saying he converted them, every now and then. Spreading information is itself actually doing something. Might not accomplish a whole lot, but it's not nothing.
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  11722. ​ @michaelscalzo6716  Even if the entire progressive caucus was third party, that would give Republicans the house, senate, and presidency. Voting third party is voting for Republican rule, for the foreseeable future. The only change you'll get is backwards.
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  11723. When will Israelis start condemning terrorism? They still celebrate the Irgun and Lehi terrorists, who founded Likud, as "heroes".
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  11724.  @MikeHanson  Ummm, pretty sure India and Pakistan have had some cross boarder issues. The USSR fell apart, with a number of provinces rising up. Israel keeps claiming they're being attacked. The US both claims NK has nukes, and threatens them. Republicans keep claiming the US is being invaded already. Not sure your claim is entirely accurate.
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  11725.  @MikeHanson  So, if there are militant forces inside your country, and they want to take over a part of your country and join it to another country, that's nothing like an invasion? Strange.
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  11726.  @MikeHanson  Kashmir has had militants wanting to separate from India and join Pakistan, for 70 years. Becoming nuclear powers hasn't led to them giving up their goals.
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  11727.  @MikeHanson  Okay, so when India retaliates against Pakistan, India is totally in the wrong then?
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  11728.  @MikeHanson  India has bombed Pakistan for supposedly backing the militants. Either India is totally in the wrong, or the militants are proxies for Pakistan.
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  11729.  @MikeHanson  You're basically relying on semantics. Militant forces, backed by a foreign state, are fighting to conquer an amount of land in India, and then want to join said land to that foreign state. After which, the foreign state could move in its official military. The outcome would be exactly the same as if that foreign state conquered the land themselves. India is retaliating against that foreign state, as if they are to blame, bombing sites inside Pakistan they consider bases of operations for those forces, much like the US bombed sites inside Pakistan, where they claimed bases were, for militants fighting in Afghanistan. If India is to be believed, it's not simply an internal uprising. But no, official uniformed Pakistan forces haven't entered India, if that's all you're willing to accept.
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  11730.  @MikeHanson  Ummm, taking over the entire country and toppling the government is not a required goal for an "invasion". "invasion of Pakistani area" "invaders at Kargil" https://www.theguardian.com/world/1999/jun/16/kashmir.india
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  11731.  @MikeHanson  "On Thursday, he said Pakistan had betrayed India by planning the guerrilla invasion around Kargil" https://www.washingtonpost.com/archive/politics/1999/07/17/border-conflict-ebbs-as-fighters-leave-kashmir/3864ea5a-6e04-4a03-9a07-2029ae526090/?utm_term=.cbfdf1e56338
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  11732. ​ @The_S_Soldier  Why lie? AOC and two fellow NY progressives back formal plea for ceasefire in Gaza Oct 16, 2023 18 House Democrats sign resolution for Mideast de-escalation, ceasefire Oct 23, 2023 — Cori Bush (D-Mo.). Bush's fellow “Squad” members Reps. Rashida Tlaib (D-Mich.), Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez (D-N.Y.) Democrats Like Rashida Tlaib, AOC Split With Biden Over Israel Ceasefire Calls Oct 31, 2023 AOC leads Democrats urging Biden to call for Gaza ceasefire over children's rights Nov 15, 2023 AOC calls Biden administration 'shameful' for blocking United Nations demand for a ... Dec 11, 2023 Aoc ceasefire | keeping it reel - NewsBreak Original Jan 17, 2024 Hour 1: AOC Calls for Ceasefire from Israel - The Marc Cox Morning Show Podcast Feb 8, 2024 AOC suggests cutting off aid to Israel after U.S. vetoes ceasefire resolution Feb 22, 2024 AOC and Other Democrats Urge Biden to Call for a Ceasefire at the State of the ... Mar 1, 2024
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  11733. This is one of the most uninformed comment sections I have ever seen. AOC and two fellow NY progressives back formal plea for ceasefire in Gaza Oct 16, 2023 18 House Democrats sign resolution for Mideast de-escalation, ceasefire Oct 23, 2023 — Cori Bush (D-Mo.). Bush's fellow “Squad” members Reps. Rashida Tlaib (D-Mich.), Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez (D-N.Y.) Democrats Like Rashida Tlaib, AOC Split With Biden Over Israel Ceasefire Calls Oct 31, 2023 AOC leads Democrats urging Biden to call for Gaza ceasefire over children's rights Nov 15, 2023 AOC calls Biden administration 'shameful' for blocking United Nations demand for a ... Dec 11, 2023 Aoc ceasefire | keeping it reel - NewsBreak Original Jan 17, 2024 Hour 1: AOC Calls for Ceasefire from Israel - The Marc Cox Morning Show Podcast Feb 8, 2024 AOC suggests cutting off aid to Israel after U.S. vetoes ceasefire resolution Feb 22, 2024 AOC and Other Democrats Urge Biden to Call for a Ceasefire at the State of the ... Mar 1, 2024
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  11734. Nope. AOC and two fellow NY progressives back formal plea for ceasefire in Gaza Oct 16, 2023 18 House Democrats sign resolution for Mideast de-escalation, ceasefire Oct 23, 2023 — Cori Bush (D-Mo.). Bush's fellow “Squad” members Reps. Rashida Tlaib (D-Mich.), Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez (D-N.Y.) Democrats Like Rashida Tlaib, AOC Split With Biden Over Israel Ceasefire Calls Oct 31, 2023 AOC leads Democrats urging Biden to call for Gaza ceasefire over children's rights Nov 15, 2023 AOC calls Biden administration 'shameful' for blocking United Nations demand for a ... Dec 11, 2023 Aoc ceasefire | keeping it reel - NewsBreak Original Jan 17, 2024 Hour 1: AOC Calls for Ceasefire from Israel - The Marc Cox Morning Show Podcast Feb 8, 2024 AOC suggests cutting off aid to Israel after U.S. vetoes ceasefire resolution Feb 22, 2024 AOC and Other Democrats Urge Biden to Call for a Ceasefire at the State of the ... Mar 1, 2024
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  11735. What's this? AOC and two fellow NY progressives back formal plea for ceasefire in Gaza Oct 16, 2023 18 House Democrats sign resolution for Mideast de-escalation, ceasefire Oct 23, 2023 — Cori Bush (D-Mo.). Bush's fellow “Squad” members Reps. Rashida Tlaib (D-Mich.), Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez (D-N.Y.) Democrats Like Rashida Tlaib, AOC Split With Biden Over Israel Ceasefire Calls Oct 31, 2023 AOC leads Democrats urging Biden to call for Gaza ceasefire over children's rights Nov 15, 2023 AOC calls Biden administration 'shameful' for blocking United Nations demand for a ... Dec 11, 2023 Aoc ceasefire | keeping it reel - NewsBreak Original Jan 17, 2024 Hour 1: AOC Calls for Ceasefire from Israel - The Marc Cox Morning Show Podcast Feb 8, 2024 AOC suggests cutting off aid to Israel after U.S. vetoes ceasefire resolution Feb 22, 2024 AOC and Other Democrats Urge Biden to Call for a Ceasefire at the State of the ... Mar 1, 2024
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  11736.  @theaconite1400  So what. She has been calling IL an apartheid state, for years. She has called to end funding to IL for years. She votes against the State Department (which sends IL it's annual military aid) appropriation bill every year. Since Oct, she has been calling for a ceasefire, has defended those using the g word, has herself called it: "war crimes", "ongoing occupation and oppression", "indiscriminate loss of life", "inhumanity", "collective punishment", etc. You lot need to get a grip on reality.
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  11737. They didn't mock the expenses part. They mocked some of the sillier complaints, like finding things, or people.
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  11738. FACT: Israel is objectively the aggressor, by every relevant measure ... Modern history: 100 years ago, in 1923, Ze'ev Jabotinsky fully acknowledged that Zionism is colonialism, and that, based on the entirety of history, the natives would fight it until the bitter end. He just didn't care what would happen to them, and promoted doing it anyway. Colonizers are never not the aggressors. On top of the colonialist nature of Zionism, the Zionists also formed terrorist organizations, like the Irgun and Lehi. They bombed many Palestinian markets and other public places, murdering many civilians, including children, even including Palestinian Jews (who opposed Zionism). Israel merged those terrorists into the new nation's military and intelligence agencies. Israelis elected Menachem Begin, leader of the Irgun, child murderer, Jew murderer, and bomber of the King David Hotel, as PM. Israelis, to this day, celebrate those terrorists as "heroes". Zionists literally taught their neighbours that terrorism is a valid path to independence and statehood, and that terrorists are to be celebrated. In 1945, it is well documented that Zionists owned just 5% of the land and were a majority nowhere. Israel was formed by actually going against the majority population. It's foundation is completely undemocratic. Then, becoming a majority, in "their" new nation, by ethnic cleansing the actual majority, and then claiming to be democratic, is utter nonsense. Law: Israel is considered an occupier by the International Court, the UN GA, and the UN SC. Occupiers are also never not the aggressors. Those occupied actually have a right to resist occupation. On the flip side, it is illegal for the occupier to settle occupied lands, and illegal to use collective punishment. Israel is a rogue nation, that doesn't abide by international law. What it has been doing, and is doing now, is illegal. Current events: This year, alone, prior to Oct 7 ... Israel held over 1200 Palestinian hostages without charges ... over 200 Palestinians had been killed by the IDF and settlers ... over 1000 Palestinians had been displaced by Israel's neverending colonization of the West Bank ... and, Israel continued to operate an open air WWII style fascist ghetto, in Gaza. Even ignoring modern history and law, in no reality did Hamas "start" anything.
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  11739.  @jasontaverner391  What you quoted is what's "not wrong".
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  11740.  @888strummer  You're inventing something she didn't, at all, say.
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  11741. ​ @gcro9206texanforever  Not really. It just requires an honest SCOTUS. This SCOTUS completely inverted the intent of the 14th amendment. Former Confederates weren't allowed to run, unless congress said no (which is effectively what this SCOTUS ruled). They were considered automatically ineligible, unless congress gave them an exemption (the complete opposite of the ruling).
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  11742. If you aren't a word, don't call yourself that word. it's really very easy. Athe-ism is the ACTUAL word.
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  11743.  @dondumitru7093  Yes or No, to statehood was just voted on. Statehood won. Whatever other options the Nos are in favour of, they're in the minority.
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  11744. Nope. For one, a President can't declassify anything, just by thinking about it. He has to tell people to declassify it. For another, a President can't declassify nuclear secrets, at all.
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  11745. Using the Agnostic principal, exactly as you describe, what is the further need to add another label to yourself, other than Agnostic?
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  11746. ​ @bl4ckkn1g8t5  Trumpty Dumpty has been talking about having a pledge of allegiance to Israel, to get in the country, dumb dumb. He would be french kiss Netanyahu's asshole, as he bombed Gaza. Plus, he'd hand Ukraine to Russia, another invader and occupier.
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  11747. ​ @gilgameshruler7746  Read Ze'ev Jabotinsky's The Iron Wall, 1923. There is a direct line of succession from him, to Zionist terrorists (Irgun and Lehi), to Likud (founded by the leaders of those terrorist groups). Palestinians have Canaanite DNA. They're Arab and Muslim the same way indigenous peoples of Central America are now Hispanic and Catholic. Zionists are the colonizers.
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  11748. ​ @bl4ckkn1g8t5  Multiple studies have now shown COVID deaths were higher in Trump counties, dumb dumb. And you ignored the exponential spread of the virus. The rate at which it spread, to double the number of people, slowed under Biden.
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  11749. The riots in the 60s were a lot worse. Did BLM actually organize riots, telling people to come out and commit violence and arson, or just protests? These "truckers" are organizing to block trade, put people out of work, possibly cause price increases, drive people crazy with their horns, etc.
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  11750.  @PMickeyDee  Exactly. And that's what they concluded made him eligible. If he had been eligible simply by being a citizen, of any kind, then the trial would have been over as soon as he showed his citizenship, of any kind. They wouldn't have had to get to the mom.
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  11751. @Tobias Chobotuck You don't get healthcare with Jimmy's plan now anyway. You get a vote guaranteed to fail and then hopefully enough voters will still be angry two years from now and elect enough progressives, in both the house and senate, to try again and maybe get it to pass. You know he thought letting Trump win in 2016 would bring about a massive progressive wave of voters, too, right?
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  11752. They are. All have Canaanite DNA. Difference being that Palestinians didn't leave for 1500 years.
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  11753. Tulsi included Turkey as an "Islamist" nation. She's clearly using a very broad brush.
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  11754. Rofl, Crowder? The moron posted a video with simple address errors, as evidence of widespread voter fraud.
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  11755. The problem with BGJ's argument, is that nothing is more incremental than going third party. To ever reach a point where they could actually pass legislation, they would need every Dem vote. That could literally take centuries.
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  11756. Skepticism IS the main element of Agnosticism. It IS religious skepticism.
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  11757. Yes, you should be divided from anti-vaxxers and anti-maskers.
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  11758. Getting yourself inside the country, any which way, is part of the process. Asylum can only be asked for once you're in.
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  11759. ​ @ThePoliticalBulldog Dimwit. Likud platform ... 1977: "The Right of the Jewish People to the Land of Israel (Eretz Israel) a. The right of the Jewish people to the land of Israel is eternal and indisputable and is linked with the right to security and peace; therefore, Judea and Samaria will not be handed to any foreign administration; between the Sea and the Jordan there will only be Israeli sovereignty. b. A plan which relinquishes parts of western Eretz Israel, undermines our right to the country, unavoidably leads to the establishment of a "Palestinian State," jeopardizes the security of the Jewish population, endangers the existence of the State of Israel. and frustrates any prospect of peace." "Settlement Settlement. both urban and rural. in all parts of the Land of Israel is the focal point of the Zionist effort to redeem the country, to maintain vital security areas and serves as a reservoir of strength and inspiration for the renewal of the pioneering spirit. The Likud government will call on the younger generation in Israel and the dispersions to settle and help every group and individual in the task of inhabiting and cultivating the wasteland, while taking care not to dispossess anyone." 1999: "The Government of Israel flatly rejects the establishment of a Palestinian Arab state west of the Jordan river. The Palestinians can run their lives freely in the framework of self-rule, but not as an independent and sovereign state. Thus, for example, in matters of foreign affairs, security, immigration, and ecology, their activity shall be limited in accordance with imperatives of Israel's existence, security and national needs." "The Jewish communities in Judea, Samaria, and Gaza are the realization of Zionist values. Settlement of the land is a clear expression of the unassailable right of the Jewish people to the Land of Israel and constitutes an important asset in the defense of the vital interests of the State of Israel. The Likud will continue to strengthen and develop these communities and will prevent their uprooting."
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  11760. I'm not talking about the rational minority. I'm talking about the dominant Christian majority, that created the word, and burned Atheists alive. You be realistic. If the Christian majority was so rational, there'd be no argument against their horrible historical dominance. There wouldn't have been so much mass migration, to the new world, at the time. If you think Creationists are rational philosophers, then you're as crazy as them. At the time, the majority conclusion was that God existed.
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  11761.  @ubuu7  Yang initially didn't have his UBI stacking with anything. On his own, he thought it would be a great idea to have it even replace social security. It took input from others to have it stack with some things. And, if he's saying the funding for such and such program will end up partly paying for the UBI, then how will the program continue without funding? Either he will abolish the program, or he's lying about how his UBI will be paid for (maybe the later, since he was already lying about the VAT). Even if he let people currently on a program choose, I didn't hear him say new people could get on those programs. Not adding any new people would have the program die off. Kind of ironic, that one of the first things he would have done was automate away numerous government jobs, with an automatic monthly deposit.
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  11762.  @ubuu7  Taking feedback is fine. That doesn't change the fact that Yang, himself, wanted to replace absolutely everything ... he wanted to completely abolish all those government programs. If he didn't argue it, then you're dishonestly inventing an argument for him. He constantly argued how to fund things, which means he wasn't simply not arguing that "secret" ... he was outright arguing something completely different from that. Either you're a blatant liar, or he is ... which is it? Yang repeatedly compared his dividend to the Alaskan dividend, which is entirely paid for by corporations. So, if Alaskans spent all of their dividend back on those corporations, the money will simply have circulated. Yang acknowledged giant corporations weren't paying their fair share of taxes through current methods, and then falsely argued they would through a VAT. So they wouldn't be paying for his dividend, either way. If corporations aren't paying for it, then the money is simply flowing from consumers to the corporations faster than ever before, where it gets hoarded. Instead of taxing Amazon, Yang would have made Amazon extra tens of billions a year, and Bezos extra billions a year. You're the dimwit cultists who can't even do basic math, like you claim.
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  11763.  @estherc.5559  If he planned for the entire budget of certain programs to end up partly funding UBI then, yes, he planned to end those programs. You can't pay employees to run those programs with zero funding. Or was he lying about how much of the current funding would end up paying for UBI, like he was lying about who a VAT actually taxes?
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  11764. The UBI is below the national poverty line, and a VAT doesn't tax automation.
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  11765. Americans have been going by the AP since 1948, dumb dumb. Trump went by the AP call in 2016, when they called it on the 8th, Clinton conceded on the 9th, and Obama had Trump to the White House to discuss the transition on the 10th. No complaints from hypocrite Donny, then. Hypocrite Trump even touted the states the AP called for him on election night, this year. Hypocrite Ivanka even congratulated he daddy when the AP called Alaska for him, just a couple days ago. No complaints, if they call it for him. They're just pathetic sore losers, if the call goes the other way.
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  11766. ​ @tonkajahari3010 😂
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  11767. You tell them that they don't know what either of those words mean. They aren't mutually exclusive.
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  11768.  @dggamer2761  Do you like pictures, moron? https://www.iras.gov.sg/irashome/uploadedImages/IRASHome/GST/IRAS-DB-GST%20Infographic-v3.1.png
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  11769.  @clintholmes2061  Pelosi can't even guarantee a floor vote on bills that go through committees first, dimwit. Pelosi introduced M4A last session, and it died in committees, where 90% of bills die. Where was your uprising? An impeachment doesn't need to go through committees, hence why they could do it before finishing setting up committees and having committee week. But go ahead and keep making out like two different scenarios are samesies.
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  11770.  @anthonytillman6363  She just used her platform and PAC to help add more M4A yes votes to congress, ffs. The very thing you need to do to ever pass the bill, the very thing you'd still need to do after a failed vote, even if you got it.
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  11771. The Libertarian party is turning 50, with never having won a seat in congress. Backing progressives trying to take over the party is by far the shorter route.
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  11772.  @chloekravatz84  *realism
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  11773.  @OliverCaesar  You're lying. Absolutely nobody ran on paralyzing the house. Do any of you Dore knobs grasp basic math? It is absolutely impossible to pass a bill without Manchin. There are zero extra votes to be gained to the left of the party, if you lose his vote. On the flip side, there is the entire Republican party to the right of the party, to draw votes from. You can pass a bill, without the squad, by pushing the bill right and bringing enough Republicans on board. It's delusional, and moronic, to pretend that's an equal amount of power and leverage. "I don't have time to wait, so I'm going to vote third party, even though it hasn't won the most popular third party a single seat in congress in 50 years!" ~ some Dore knob
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  11774.  @OliverCaesar  You do know Boogaloos want a civil war, right? What fantasy are you living in where they don't shoot leftists?
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  11775.  @OliverCaesar  If adding more M4A yes votes to congress ... exactly what you'd still need to do even after a failed show vote ... is "inaction", then you've reduced ftv to simply having a failed show vote followed by inaction. It's a moronic argument that makes ftv even more pointless and moronic than it already was. You think this guy Jimmy interviewed, who has praised shooting antifa, and blm, protesters won't praise people shooting you? "In fact, a Michigan anti-fascist group had followed this Boogaloo member for months and had previously revealed that Dore’s interviewee had publicly defended fascist Kyle Rittenhouse. The Boogaloo member said that other people should “learn how to do that,” referencing Rittenhouse’s murder of two anti-police violence demonstrators in Kenosha, Wisconsin in August 2020. The individual also praised fascist militia gun range sessions, called “Rittenhouse drills,” and defended Steve Baca, the fascist who shot anti-police violence protesters in New Mexico in June 2020." https://www.wsws.org/en/articles/2021/01/29/dore-j29.html
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  11776.  @OliverCaesar  Seriously? So then why did Dore have White on his show?
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  11777.  @OliverCaesar  You Dore knobs get that, while extreme free market capitalists might oppose racist and bigoted laws or regulations, they also oppose laws against discrimination, etc., yeah? They want businesses to have the freedom to discriminate against whoever they want.
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  11778. Yep, just another centrist, that backed Bernie (M4A) and helped get more pro-M4A progressives elected to congress going against DCCC backed corporate Dems, while M4A champion Jimmy was backing Tulsi ("Medicare choice" aka public option) and bitching about Obama.
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  11779.  @rogerfontenot2610  Nope. They provide a wide variety of options to prove who you are, and don't require a photo ID, dimwit.
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  11780.  @rogerfontenot2610  Do you have reading comprehension problems?
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  11781. ​ @AlexandruHerman  All Palestine territories are officially considered occupied. They don't get to vote for who truly has authority over them, anyway ... Israel. Not to mention that the Zionists ethnically cleansed the non-Jewish majority, and never let them return. Israel is as democratic as Nazi Germany after Hitler purged his political opponents and then held elections.
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  11782.  @chrislambert9435  That's so nice, for colonialists to offer to only take part of Palestine.
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  11783.  @erickdavid2412  Why have the majority of red states put a much earlier ban in place, if the majority are only opposed to late stage abortion?
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  11784. There seem to be zero angles of Trump, showing his face as he attacked McMahon or as he takes a hit from Austin. Seems like a tv body double maneuver.
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  11785.  @sergeikhripun  You're following a grifter who promoted Trump (let's toss 10m of the poorest Americans off of Medicaid expansion) over Clinton (let's add 40m older Americans to Medicare expansion), who promoted Tulsi (public option) over Bernie (M4A), who ran a constant attack ad campaign against Trump's (still wanting to toss millions off of Medicaid expansion) only remaining viable opponent Biden (public option and Medicare expansion), and who just abandoned Nina Turner ... abandoned adding another M4A yes vote to congress. He regularly doesn't back the better healthcare plan, but passes himself off as the one true champion of healthcare.
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  11786.  fa q  Dore wanted to let Trump win, and move outright backwards, dumb dumb. That's not better than Biden. That's not being left of Biden. That's being a far right grifter. Even Chomsky has repeatedly argued to vote for harm avoidance. You Dore knobs have disowned yourselves from basically everyone on the left.
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  11787.  @nfb4027  And? Did Reagan turn out to be a better option than another Carter Term? Did Dubya turn out to be the better option than Gore? Did Trump turn out to be the better option than Clinton? What's your point? Treat the Dem primaries as the important elections, put whoever wins in office, and keep Republicans out of office.
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  11788. For example?
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  11789. ​ @Robodog69  Rofl. What do you think US taxpayers are giving Canada? Canadian, and other NATO nations', taxpayers paid to support the US in Afghanistan. You lot should have paid us, for our help.
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  11790.  @oiseau_libre  "And btw, if you're mentioning "flattening the curve" you should also know the earlier you start the lockdown the loooooonger it will have to last, if no cure is invented. Do educate yourself on the subject." ^A fucking cure is irrelevant to flattening the curve, moron.
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  11791. ​ @MARSTVCHANNEL  Bullshit. Taiwan mass produced masks and handed them out to the public, used virus tracking on cell gps, and threatened to fine anyone who goes out that was ordered to isolate.
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  11792. @The Hierophant In an election that came down to one state, and only hundreds of votes. That isn't this.
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  11793. @The Hierophant Recounts have changed things by a few hundred votes beefore. Going to court over a very close race, that a recount might have changed, is completely different than taking all kinds of baseless bullshit to court, the vast majority of which won't even change the outcome.
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  11794.  Who_dey Gotwins  Rofl. Reality is that the medical examiner classified it as a homicide.
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  11795. Might be "land of the home, and freedom, brave". Supposed to be "land of the free, home of the brave".
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  11796. Lol, they're terrible at math.
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  11797. Most likely. Just saying.
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  11798.  @tonyz4292  So, you didn't actually debunk anything. I'm even wondering if you know what "debunk" means.
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  11799.  @justaguy9496  If that were even true ... Why do you think killing off more people per capita to gain natural herd immunity, before artificial herd immunity is developed, is something to brag about?
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  11800. There have been hundreds of accounts of Syrian chemical weapons use since 2013. There have been hundreds of victim witnesses, dozens of healthcare worker witnesses, multiple NGO witnesses, dozens of different UN inspectors from around the world, independent investigations, and multiple human rights groups building legal cases for victims against Syria. Aaron seems to think that 2 "inspectors" (one wasn't actually an official inspector, and the other never left home base because they didn't finish their training), on a single investigation into a single site, neither of whom were part of the last 7 months of the investigation, debunks all of that. His Syrian "scandal" article could have been written by anyone anywhere in the world with Wikipedia and a penchant for leaving out the bits you don't like.
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  11801. Yes, nothing happened prior to Oct 7. 🙄
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  11802.  @ikindaloveetsy5348  Rofl! Not as a percentage of their wealth. The bottom 50% owns about 1.5% of total wealth and pays about 3% of total federal taxes, a 1:2 ratio. The top 1% owns about 30% of total wealth and pays about 30% of total federal taxes, a 1:1 ratio. The top 0.01% amongst that top 1% owns about 10% of total wealth, and pays about 5% of the total federal taxes, a 2:1 ratio. The bottom 50% are effectively paying 4x more in taxes, as a percentage of their wealth.
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  11803.  @ikindaloveetsy5348  At least 4x more of his wealth, like poor people? The douchebag jokes about making an office housing for homeless people, when he could buy every homeless person a 450k home and still be worth $20b.
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  11804.  @ikindaloveetsy5348  And every year, not once a decade.
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  11805.  @ikindaloveetsy5348  Who said anything was illegal? Doesn't change that he's a centibillionaire douchebag, who could single handedly end homelessness in the US.
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  11806. Shouldn't they be more pissed, that a penisless potato is using male pronouns, to begin with?
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  11807.  @michaelpeyton5730  Sounds like you don't know how C-16 actually works. You probably got your info from lying Peterson. In the US, you can get charged, or sued, for threatening, defaming, verbally harrassing, etc., an individual. However, you can basically say whatever you want about an entire group of people, like promoting that all gays should be killed. That's crazy. All of those laws protecting individuals, plus things like conspiracy to commit, and incitement, are anti-speech laws, even in the US. No country has unlimited free speech. There's no such thing in existence. Never has been. Hate speech laws, in Canada, basically treat that kind of speech, against groups, the same as it applies to individuals. C-16 basically makes it clear, that trans are protected, under those laws. You can't get charged, for accidentally using the wrong pronoun, or anything like that. But, repeatedly using the wrong pronoun, intentionally, can be considered rising to a level of harassment, much like your boss, or teacher, calling you "dickhead" everyday. People can more easily understand that "dickhead" is harassment, but less so that intentionally using the wrong pronoun is. The law clarifies things. That same law, btw, was already in place, at the provincial level, in multiple provinces, for years, including the province JP worked and lived in. And yet, he had zero examples, to support his bullsh*t slippery slope argument. There are still zero examples to support his bullsh*t slippery slope argument. He had been working under that law, for years, so when he made his "alpha" claim, that he'd use whatever pronouns he wanted ... that seemed to coincide with the law, for all those years.
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  11808.  @michaelpeyton5730  That he was so f*cked up also proved that he clearly didn't follow his own rule, about cleaning your own house, before trying to change the outside world. He proved he doesn't actually believe what he's writing. But, you still think he's "genuine".
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  11809. 100. Read Ze'ev Jabotinsky's The Iron Wall, 1923. His followers then formed the Irgun and Lehi terrorist groups, the leaders of which founded Likud, and were both elected PMs of Israel. Israelis, to this day, celebrate those terrorists as "heroes".
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  11810.  @klebiii  Stop peddling crap, before proper testing has been done. Peru has one of the highest rates of Ivermectin use, and also one of the highest covid death rates.
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  11811. What do you consider him calling them butchers, rapists, cowards, etc., dumb dumb?
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  11812.  @kuryamtl  Yeah, we get tax credits for those below a certain income in Ontario, too. That's not built into a VAT system, though. We added that to income tax returns. It is built right into VAT systems that businesses get paid back. Yang hasn't talked about tax credits for the poor. It would be better, if he added it.
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  11813. Rofl, what kind of "threat" is she? She is not in any position of power. She is not involved in policy making. She's not a hard hitting journalist who backs up their assertions with well sourced in depth articles. She's just another right wing opinion piece.
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  11814.  Derek Hitt  That's exactly what I said, greedy businesses, paying as little as they possibly can. Labor strikes aren't good, if owners are free to simply fire everyone, hire strike breakers, or whatnot.
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  11815.  Derek Hitt  Rofl. The Gilded Age had the largest wealth inequality, until now. It is totally about greed. Hoarding money is greed.
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  11816.  Derek Hitt  There are plenty of more mixed economies that are better than all out capitalism. What do you think mixed economies are a mix of, Mr economics expert? Capitalism and what?
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  11817.  Derek Hitt  Yes, it does mean you are comparing people to goods. You are also comparing consumers to goods, because those employees are consumers. If everyone paid all the consumers as little as possible, then they could only buy as little as possible.
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  11818.  @oliverseiler2871  Native Americans reached a point where they wanted to push the white man back into the sea. It wasn't simply because they were white. Colonists, on the other hand, wanted to get rid of the natives, simply because they were native, and in their way.
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  11819. ​ @SebastianMorrow  Likud was founded by Menachem Begin, Irgun terrorist, Palestinian child murderer, Palestinian Jew murderer (because they didn't support Zionism), and bomber of the King David Hotel. The other founder was Ariel Sharon, war criminal, who massacred Palestinian villages. Their Likud platform was completely unambiguous ... "The Right of the Jewish People to the Land of Israel (Eretz Israel) a. The right of the Jewish people to the land of Israel is eternal and indisputable and is linked with the right to security and peace; therefore, Judea and Samaria will not be handed to any foreign administration; between the Sea and the Jordan there will only be Israeli sovereignty." between the sea and the Jordan = from the river to the sea All evidence indicates it's just a fact that Netanyahu is still aiming for that goal.
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  11820.  @Selindro  The Brits broke a deal when they adopted the Balfour declaration and Sykes-Picot agreement, and planned to colonize Palestine with people from Europe and Russia. Israel has broken multiple ceasefire deals. Israel has torpedoed multiple peace "deals" by making the offers unpalatable.
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  11821. If you want to use the words "with" and "without", the The-ist holds the belief that we are with Gods, and the Athe-ist holds the belief that we are without Gods. It's all about the -ist man.
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  11822.  LudVan 2 77  Seriously, if you really want to get all nitpicky ... Knowledge is a justified true belief, so yes, it's perfectly fine to say you believe in evolution, without it being a religion, or without you adhering to it like a religion. If you've accepted something as true, then you must, in fact, believe it's true. If you think you know something, then you must, in fact, believe that something is true, and that you're justified in believing that something is true. To show something is, in fact, knowledge, you should be able to show that justification to others. Knowledge is beyond just a belief, but you can't attain knowledge without belief. Aside from that, I don't think that "subscribe" properly describes the average religious mindset. Believers in creation don't simply not subscribe to evolution ... they outright believe it is false ... believe that evolution is the fairy tale, and that the truth comes from old stories passed down by hundreds of years old desert wanderers that lived thousands of years ago. You are giving them too much credit, as if they've seriously investigated it, studied the science, simply don't think the science backs the claims, so made a perfectly rational decision not to subscribe to the theory.
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  11823.  @TheTommybarker62  Read it. I've read a bunch of different mythologies and fairy tales. You'd probably like the Sumerian/Babylonian myths. They have a garden of the gods, a god making man from clay, a flood story, a king who was floated down the river as a baby, a tower that connected earth to the heavens, etc. Weird how Hebrews taken to Babylon included a bunch of the same stuff in their own book, that they wrote while there.
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  11824. Saying Israel is "defending" itself, is like saying the Nazis were "defending" themselves from the Warsaw ghetto uprising. Israel is a colonialist occupier. Colonialists are never not the aggressors. International law actually gives those occupied the right to resist occupation. On the flip side, it is illegal for the occupier to use collective punishment and to colonize occupied territories.
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  11825.  @LD86  Nope. All Palestinian territories are considered occupied by the International Court, the UN GA, and the UN SC. Nazis didn't live inside the Warsaw ghetto, but they sure as hell occupied it. Israel controls the borders, the airspace, the ports, the water, the electricity, etc. They pulled out their colony, but never stopped occupation.
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  11826. Israelis celebrate Irgun terrorists as "heroes", to this day.
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  11827.  @Caroline-nh2xl  Ironic.
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  11828. Rofl. Aaron's Syrian "scandal" article could have been written by anyone anywhere in the world, with Wikipedia and a penchant for leaving out all the bits that don't fit your narrative. Since 2013, there have been hundreds of accounts of Syrian chemical weapons use, hundreds of victim witnesses, dozens of healthcare worker witnesses, multiple NGO witnesses, human rights legal groups, independent investigations, etc. 2 "inspectors" (one of which wasn't an actual inspector and the other which never left home base because he didn't finish training) involved in a single investigation at a single site, and neither of which were involved for the last 7 months of it, doesn't debunk all of that.
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  11829.  @halo091  Well, all the other unintelligent 1st world countries, which have adopted more left leaning ideas, are rated better than the US in happiness, personal freedom, press freedom, wealth distribution, healthcare, etc., etc. Oh, and appeal to tradition is a fallacy. There used to be a tradition of slavery, no rights for women, uneducated poor, ... so if you think "tradition" = better, smarter, then you have some problems.
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  11830.  Dauda András  And yet more people with a high school education or less vote Republican.
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  11831. Women being at least 20, is pretty standard on censuses back through the 1800s. Even before censuses, marrying off teenage girls was more of a nobility, upper class, thing to do. Using girls to forge alliances, or to increase property and wealth. Poor people had less incentive to marry off their children to other poor people.
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  11832. Likud's bloody 100 year history ... In 1923, 100 years ago, Ze'ev Jabotinsky wrote, The Iron Wall, and a follow up, The Ethics of The Iron Wall (sooo racist towards Africans), in which he fully acknowledged that post Balfour Zionsim was colonialism, and that, based on the entirety of history, the native Palestinian population would resist being colonized until the bitter end. He directly compared it to the colonization of North America. He promoted doing it anyway, claiming Zionist colonialism was a "just" colonialism (he also thought North American colonialists were good guys, so not a great judge of morality), not caring what that meant for the native population. Ze'ev is important, because his Betar militant youth group helped found the Irgun terrorist group, along with other supporters of his, and the splinter Lehi terrorist group. The Irgun bombed numerous Palestinian markets and other public places, murdering many Palestinian civilians, including children, even including Palestinian Jews (who didn't support colonialist Zionsim). The Irgun are important, because they ended up being led by future Likud PM, Menachem Begin, who bombed the King David Hotel. The King David Hotel was bombed because the British had raided the Jewish Agency and seized numerous documents that may have shown that the terrorists were working with the JA and Haganah (JA liked to pretend that they didn't support the terrorism). The British then stored those documents at their base, in the hotel. That the Irgun terrorists responded to a JA raid, itself seems to prove the connection. That the thousands of Irgun (and Lehi) terrorists were also quickly merged into the new nation's military (IDF) and intelligence (Mossad) agencies, and are still celebrated as "heroes" by Israelis, to this day, also seems to support total collaboration between the groups. That other terrorist group mentioned, Lehi (also known as the Stern Gang), was considered even more extreme. They even tried to ally with the Nazis, against the British. Lehi ended up being led by Yitzhak Shamir, future Mossad agent, and another future Likud PM. They assassinated Lord Moyne, and others. In 1945, there was a major land and peoples survey done in Palestine. It showed that the Zionists only owned about 5% of the total land, 20% of the arable land, and owned a majority in zero districts. The partition was not only going to be forced on the native Palestinian majority, but Jews were still going to be a minority, in the part allocated to them. The only possible way to even become a "Jewish state" was going to require getting rid of the actual majority (at least enough so that there'd be a solid Jewish majority, so they could fake being democratic). This is also shown by the 1948, post Nakba, population of Israel. If there was 716,700 Jews, 156,000+ non-Jews, and approximately 700k non-Jews ethnically cleansed, that means the Jewish population, in the Zionist portion of partition, was originally over 100,000 less than the non-Jewish population. To believe that there was never any intent, by Zionists, to ethnically cleanse away the Palestinian majority would require believing that they never intended to create a "Jewish state". It's a nonsensical notion. Begin, and those terrorist groups, also opposed partition, but for the opposite reason Palestinians did. Palestinians didn't want to be colonized, at all. The terrorists wanted to colonize it all. "Moderate" Zionists were okay with colonizing half ... for now (what would happen in the future, after partition, was up to them, said Ben-Gurion). The Zionist terrorists were also involved in massacres, and assassinations, during the partition violence (colonialist war against the natives). Another notable future Likud PM, also started in the military, during the partition fighting. That was Ariel Sharon, war criminal, "Butcher of Beirut". Menachem Begin, and these other Zionist terrorists, are important because they became involved in Israeli politics, first forming Herut. That was the party that Albert Einstein, and other prominent American Jews, opposed, having a letter printed in the NYT, in December of 1948, when Begin came to visit the US. The letter opened ... "Among the most disturbing political phenomena of our times is the emergence in the newly created state of Israel of the "Freedom Party" (Tnuat Haherut), a political party closely akin in its organization, methods, political philosophy and social appeal to the Nazi and Fascist parties. It was formed out of the membership and following of the former Irgun Zvai Leumi, a terrorist, right-wing, chauvinist organization in Palestine." Herut merged with other extremist parties, over the years, and eventually became Likud, in the 70s. Now, people get upset over the slogan "From the river to the sea!", but it's the second part that's most important, "Palestine will be free!". Because "Palestine" isn't defined as an ethno-state, a free Palestine can be a single state, free for all to live in, and return to, free of continuing colonization, free of occupation, free of oppression, etc. Just like a Germany free of Nazism, an Italy free of fascism, a South Africa free of apartheid, or an America free of slavery from sea to shiny sea. It doesn't necessitate purging all the Jews. It just necessitates them giving up on the idea of an ethno-state. On the other hand, because "Israel" has been defined as an ethno-state, Likud's, "between the sea and the Jordan there will only be Israeli sovereignty", has no possible good interpretation. It is a declaration of intent to completely colonize, and ethnically cleanse, all Palestine territories. Not only that, but it also claims that they have a "right" to all of the "Land of Israel" (biblical borders that don't mesh with archaeological reality), which is an open declaration of future wars, against Jordan, Syria, Lebanon, and possibly even Iraq. Likud platform ... 1977: "The Right of the Jewish People to the Land of Israel (Eretz Israel) a. The right of the Jewish people to the land of Israel is eternal and indisputable and is linked with the right to security and peace; therefore, Judea and Samaria will not be handed to any foreign administration; between the Sea and the Jordan there will only be Israeli sovereignty. b. A plan which relinquishes parts of western Eretz Israel, undermines our right to the country, unavoidably leads to the establishment of a "Palestinian State," jeopardizes the security of the Jewish population, endangers the existence of the State of Israel. and frustrates any prospect of peace." "Settlement Settlement. both urban and rural. in all parts of the Land of Israel is the focal point of the Zionist effort to redeem the country, to maintain vital security areas and serves as a reservoir of strength and inspiration for the renewal of the pioneering spirit. The Likud government will call on the younger generation in Israel and the dispersions to settle and help every group and individual in the task of inhabiting and cultivating the wasteland, while taking care not to dispossess anyone." 1999: "The Government of Israel flatly rejects the establishment of a Palestinian Arab state west of the Jordan river. The Palestinians can run their lives freely in the framework of self-rule, but not as an independent and sovereign state. Thus, for example, in matters of foreign affairs, security, immigration, and ecology, their activity shall be limited in accordance with imperatives of Israel's existence, security and national needs." "The Jewish communities in Judea, Samaria, and Gaza are the realization of Zionist values. Settlement of the land is a clear expression of the unassailable right of the Jewish people to the Land of Israel and constitutes an important asset in the defense of the vital interests of the State of Israel. The Likud will continue to strengthen and develop these communities and will prevent their uprooting." All Palestine territories are officially considered occupied, by the International Court of Justice, the UN GA, the UN SC, and even in official documents of Israel's own allies. Likud is still using the blueprint for colonizing North America, in the West Bank. Move settlements out into native territory, piss off the natives, the natives retaliate, cry about poor "innocent" colonizing settlers being the "victims" of violent "Savages!", call in the cavalry to put down the native uprising, and eventually expand the borders to include those settlements. Rinse and repeat. In Gaza, Israel is operating an open air WWII style fascist ghetto. Them claiming a "right to defend themselves" would be like the Nazis claiming a "right to defend themselves " from the Warsaw ghetto uprising. There's no "war". That they're the occupiers means the "war" part is long over. Those people are actually supposed to be under the occupier's protection. That partition was forced upon the Palestinian majority, against their will ... that the Zionist portion still had to be forcefully ethnically cleansed of its non-Jewish majority, against their will ... that the millions of occupied Palestinians don't have a say in the government that truly rules over them, Israel's ... means Israel is about as democratic as Nazi Germany after Hitler purged his political opponents and then held elections.
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  11833. Well, for one, the US is already facing a doctor shortage, dumb dumb. For another, the majority of the latest hospital closures have been in states that didn't accept Medicaid expansion and federal funding, indicating government funding helps find and keep doctors, helps keep rural hospitals alive. As for costs, the US has huge administrative costs due to multiple providers doing things multiple different ways. Single payer would cut that immediately. Negotiating drug prices would cut costs even more. Returning hospitals to pre-Nixon non-profits would cut costs even more. You could save thousands per capita without even touching doctor pay.
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  11834.  @arielbenjamin3253  They handed out trillions, last year, as well, dimwit. Still the inflation rate dropped, along with the economy, because they didn't give the money to the consumers, so demand and supply dropped.
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  11835.  @arielbenjamin3253  Damn you're stupid. It wasn't a delay. The whole point is that there wasn't more dollars being spent, last year, because they didn't give enough money to the consumers, which caused demand and supply to drop, and the economy to slow down. They should have given more money to the consumers, instead of giving it to corporations, so that people could keep buying things and so the demand and supply wouldn't drop. Then, there wouldn't be the current supply shortage.
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  11836.  @arielbenjamin3253  And the administration, last year, was Republican, dimwit. You think TYT are now Republicans? They got rid of Jimmy Dore and Dave Rubin.
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  11837.  @arielbenjamin3253  Rofl. The most popular third party hasn't won a single seat in its near 50 year existence. The most popular "progressive" third party, that produced the likes of Kyrsten Sinema, hasn't won a single seat in its 20 year existence. The broader progressive caucus is 30 years old and is about 15 seats away from becoming the majority of house Dems. The Justice Dems have replaced about a dozen corporate Dems in just 4 years. AOC helped replace a few more in just 2 years. I assume you're a dumbass Dore knob, or something.
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  11838. ​ @donnicholson3170  The majority of Canadians aren't Conservatives, dingus.
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  11839. ​ @johnyare8576  They went ahead with colonialist Zionism, against the wishes of the majority. They ethnically cleansed the majority out of "their" new country, and have refused to let them return. Israel knows about as much as the Nazis about democracy.
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  11840.  @DeborahSch  Anyone who thinks an ethnic cleansing colonialist occupier is democratic, has a warped sense of what democracy is. Israel is objectively the aggressor, by every relevant measure... Modern history: 100 years ago, in 1923, Ze'ev Jabotinsky fully acknowledged that Zionism is colonialism, and that, based on the entirety of history, the natives would fight it until the bitter end. He just didn't care what would happen to them, and promoted doing it anyway. Colonizers are never not the aggressors. On top of the colonialist nature of Zionism, the Zionists also formed terrorist organizations, like the Irgun and Lehi. They bombed many Palestinian markets and other public places, murdering many civilians, including children, even including Palestinian Jews (who opposed Zionism). Israel merged those terrorists into the new nation's military and intelligence agencies. Israelis elected Menachem Begin, leader of the Irgun, child murderer, Jew murderer, and bomber of the King David Hotel, as PM. Israelis, to this day, celebrate those terrorists as "heroes". Zionists literally taught their neighbours that terrorism is a valid path to independence and statehood, and that terrorists are to be celebrated. In 1945, it is well documented that Zionists owned just 5% of the land and were a majority nowhere. Israel was formed by actually going against the majority population. It's foundation is completely undemocratic. Then, becoming a majority, in "your" new nation, by ethnic cleansing the actual majority, and then claiming to be democratic, is utter nonsense. Law: Israel is considered an occupier by the International Court, the UN GA, and the UN SC. Occupiers are also never not the aggressors. Those occupied actually have a right to resist occupation. On the flip side, it is illegal for the occupier to settle occupied lands, and illegal to use collective punishment. Israel is a rogue nation, that doesn't abide by international law. What it has been doing, and is doing now, is illegal. Current events: This year, alone, prior to Oct 7 ... Israel held over 1200 Palestinian hostages without charges ... over 200 Palestinians had been killed by the IDF and settlers ... over 1000 Palestinians had been displaced by Israel's neverending colonization of the West Bank ... and, Israel continued to operate an open air WWII style fascist ghetto. Even ignoring modern history and law, in no reality did Hamas "start" anything.
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  11841.  @SeanPat1001  So? Why waste everyone's time, and let someone you know can't hold office, run? Zero Confederates had to be charged and convicted, to be considered ineligible, btw.
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  11842.  @danielarcadia7243  A number of geneticists, microbiologists, epidemiologists, have said it didn't qualify as banned research. But, hey, I'm sure a dipshit on YouTube, and malpractice opthalmologist, know better.
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  11843.  @danielarcadia7243  Rofl. You think you know better than experts. That's funny.
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  11844.  @brutus6574  Nope, you're spouting bullshit, Karen.
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  11845. C'mon Cenk. Ted Cruz didn't have to naturalize, because he was considered American by birth. His mother had not given up her American citizenship. This has been to court multiple times, and Cruz won. He won, because the courts ruled he was American, by birth, due to his mother being an American citizen. He did not win by the courts saying it doesn't matter, just as long as he's a citizen, of any kind.
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  11846.  @In.New.York.I.Milly.Rock.  Progressives got the $15 to stay in for the first round of house voting, and it passed. You wanted them to somehow get it back in, and sent back to the senate for a second vote, because the senate was going to change its mind? And all the people who were bitching about the stimulus not being passed in a timely fashion would have just loved waiting even longer? AOC used her platform and PAC to back 20 pro-M4A candidates, and helped add more M4A yes votes to congress. Exactly the thing you need to do to ever pass the bill. Exactly the thing you'd still need to do, even if there was a guaranteed to fail vote. Stop pretending like a guaranteed to fail vote is itself M4A. It's just not.
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  11847. ​ @scotchbarrel4429  ​Israel is objectively the aggressor, by every relevant measure, dumb dumb ... Modern history: 100 years ago, in 1923, Ze'ev Jabotinsky fully acknowledged that Zionism is colonialism, and that, based on the entirety of history, the natives would fight it until the bitter end. He just didn't care what would happen to them, and promoted doing it anyway. Colonizers are never not the aggressors. On top of the colonialist nature of Zionism, the Zionists also formed terrorist organizations, like the Irgun and Lehi. They bombed many Palestinian markets and other public places, murdering many civilians, including children, even including Palestinian Jews (who opposed Zionism). Israel merged those terrorists into the new nation's military and intelligence agencies. Israelis elected Menachem Begin, leader of the Irgun, child murderer, Jew murderer, and bomber of the King David Hotel, as PM. Israelis, to this day, celebrate those terrorists as "heroes". Zionists literally taught their neighbours that terrorism is a valid path to independence and statehood, and that terrorists are to be celebrated. In 1945, it is well documented that Zionists owned just 5% of the land and were a majority nowhere. Israel was formed by actually going against the majority population. It's foundation is completely undemocratic. Then, becoming a majority, in "their" new nation, by ethnic cleansing the actual majority, and then claiming to be democratic, is utter nonsense. Law: Israel is considered an occupier by the International Court, the UN GA, and the UN SC. Occupiers are also never not the aggressors. Those occupied actually have a right to resist occupation. On the flip side, it is illegal for the occupier to settle occupied lands, and illegal to use collective punishment. Israel is a rogue nation, that doesn't abide by international law. What it has been doing, and is doing now, is illegal. Current events: This year, alone, prior to Oct 7 ... Israel held over 1200 Palestinian hostages without charges ... over 200 Palestinians had been killed by the IDF and settlers ... over 1000 Palestinians had been displaced by Israel's neverending colonization of the West Bank ... and, Israel continued to operate an open air WWII style fascist ghetto, in Gaza. Even ignoring modern history and law, in no reality did Hamas "start" anything.
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  11848. ​ @monicack523  I can tell you are completely clueless as to the history, by your response.
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  11849. ​ @garfieldGG  No, dumb dumb. Occupied =/= colonized. Nazis didn't live inside the Warsaw ghetto, but it sure the f*ck was occupied.
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  11850.  @garfieldGG  Gaza is the ghetto, moron. They didn't live in the ghetto.
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  11851. ​@RuckFussia Israel is objectively the aggressor, by every relevant measure ... Modern history: 100 years ago, in 1923, Ze'ev Jabotinsky fully acknowledged that Zionism is colonialism, and that, based on the entirety of history, the natives would fight it until the bitter end. He just didn't care what would happen to them, and promoted doing it anyway. Colonizers are never not the aggressors. On top of the colonialist nature of Zionism, the Zionists also formed terrorist organizations, like the Irgun and Lehi. They bombed many Palestinian markets and other public places, murdering many civilians, including children, even including Palestinian Jews (who opposed Zionism). Israel merged those terrorists into the new nation's military and intelligence agencies. Israelis elected Menachem Begin, leader of the Irgun, child murderer, Jew murderer, and bomber of the King David Hotel, as PM. Israelis, to this day, celebrate those terrorists as "heroes". Zionists literally taught their neighbours that terrorism is a valid path to independence and statehood, and that terrorists are to be celebrated. In 1945, it is well documented that Zionists owned just 5% of the land and were a majority nowhere. Israel was formed by actually going against the majority population. It's foundation is completely undemocratic. Then, becoming a majority, in "their" new nation, by ethnic cleansing the actual majority, and then claiming to be democratic, is utter nonsense. Law: Israel is considered an occupier by the International Court, the UN GA, and the UN SC. Occupiers are also never not the aggressors. Those occupied actually have a right to resist occupation. On the flip side, it is illegal for the occupier to settle occupied lands, and illegal to use collective punishment. Israel is a rogue nation, that doesn't abide by international law. What it has been doing, and is doing now, is illegal. Current events: This year, alone, prior to Oct 7 ... Israel held over 1200 Palestinian hostages without charges ... over 200 Palestinians had been killed by the IDF and settlers ... over 1000 Palestinians had been displaced by Israel's neverending colonization of the West Bank ... and, Israel continued to operate an open air WWII style fascist ghetto, in Gaza. Even ignoring modern history and law, in no reality did Hamas "start" anything.
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  11852. @RuckFussia Posted the history. Go ahead and refute it, dimwit.
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  11853.  @suzanneporterfield8726  Justifying killing Palestinian civilians due to Hamas, justifies killing Israeli civilians due to Likud. Should all Israeli civilians be considered guilty, for not ousting Likud? Palestinians are reacting like any other colonized people in history. The religious nonsense involved, is the foundation of Zionism, using a fairytale "right" to this specific land.
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  11854.  @MK-hw2ir  "Masculinity isn't toxic" ~ JP Either suck it up, or admit it can be toxic. You're the ones wanting it both ways.
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  11855.  @AdamAZ76  Nope. You might not like them, but both of those are viable options. Third parties are about as viable as my cat getting elected.
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  11856.  @EspenAleksLarsen  Am I right?
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  11857. Piss off Dore knob. It's Jimmy that doesn't give two shits about you. He didn't give a crap if a Trump presidency might lose millions their healthcare, including those with preexisting conditions. He promoted it as the better option. He also promotes going third party, when the reality is that going third party won't even win you a single seat in congress in the next 50 years (the Libertarian party is almost 50), let alone get you healthcare.
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  11858.  @joshmccaw2777  Only if you're using lower case "l" libertarian, and referring to left libertarian. Capital "l" American Libertarians, on the other hand, are right wing Ayn Randian types. They're just not as authoritarian as fascists, but both are right wing.
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  11859.  Ian Miles  Get the nation together for what though? Fascists were backed by leading industrialists, large land owners, and most religious leaders. They were leaders in privatization, turning public tax dollars into private profits. They destroyed unions, and argued against the class struggle, telling workers to just accept their lot in life and work hard to try and better themselves and the country, rather than trying to fight the rich. So, they were also capitalists, just crony capitalists ... corporatists ... designing the system to make the rich richer. Ayn Randian Libertarians readily ally themselves with authoritarian crony capitalists, all the time. Hardly mortal enemies. And, Nazi style exterminations aren't a requirement for fascism. Nazis took the nationalism and national identity to the extreme, and got rid of those who didn't fit that identity. Wasn't quite the same in Italy or Spain.
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  11860.  Ian Miles  Some? They were backed by most of the leading industrialists in their countries. Yes, they were definitely isolationist, "Germany first!" types, but that doesn't make them anti-capitalist, any more than current "America first!" Republicans, who have more than a few Ayn Rand spouters in their party, could be called anti-capitalist. They're simply crony capitalists.
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  11861.  @timothyo718  I know who Roger Waters is. I know who the idiot Jimmy Dore is. Who the hell is Rodger?
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  11862. So, you actually believe that the UN, dozens of UN inspectors from around the world, hundreds of victim witnesses, dozens of healthcare worker witnesses, doctors without borders, hrw, amnesty, legal human rights groups investigating on behalf of victims, other independent investigators, and dozens of countries that aren't involved and have been anti US wars before, are all in cahoots to frame Syria for dozens of chemical weapons uses since 2013? Because two part time "inspectors", working on a single investigation at a single site disagreed with on the findings from that single site?
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  11863.  @accountowner214  The only real problem with the analogy is that cloth, and standard disposable, masks are to protect others from the wearer, and have been shown to be effective in doing so. There are studies going back decades, to when surgeons first started using cloth masks, that show the masks reduce the spread of germs from the surgeon to the patient.
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  11864. They're going to have to ban all sex, soon, and only allow for masturbating into test tubes. Every single sperm "baby" will be saved! "Hayashi and his team cultivated the DNA in the skin to create stem cells, and then stimulated the stem cells to become egg cells. The eggs were then fertilized with mouse sperm in the Petri dish. Fertilized eggs were implanted in mice to mature. About one out of 100 of these completely artificial eggs produced a healthy baby mouse."
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  11865. ​ @TheInfographicsShow  You literally quoted Huxley ... "Agnosticism is of the essence of science, whether ancient or modern. It simply means that a man shall not say he knows or believes that which he has no scientific grounds for professing to know or believe." ... and then proceeded to ignore that he defined the agnostic position as covering belief. He was a scientist. His agnosticism is the basis of demarcation. No verifiable/falsifiable evidence = suspension of belief. He outright called it "immoral" to believe a claim without evidence. Huxley defined agnosticism, when the definition of "atheism" was athe-ism, the belief gods don't exist. It was 20th century "philosophers" who, while completely admitting they were doing so, pushed for the a-theism redefinition. One of them, George H Smith (not an actual philosopher), was actually an athe-ist (and a cowardly one) who seems to have just wanted to steal agnosticism's no burden of proof. And, to create a distinction between the new a-theism and agnosticism, he also pushed redefining the latter. He did what you did, in this video, quoted Huxley, and then totally butchered what Huxley actually defined. You also seem to have left out a position, at the start ... that of the a-theist who believes no gods exists, but doesn't claim to know. The redefinition of athe-ism to a-theism, has a-theism covering 3 positions, not 2. The a-theism redefinition creates this convoluted mess ... Gnostic theist Agnostic theist Agnostic weak/negative a-theist Agnostic strong/positive a-theist Gnostic strong/positive a-theist A "gnostic" is a knower, and an "ist" is a believer. The "ist" is actually redundant, if you're calling someone a "gnostic". You can replace the suffix. The former athe-ism definition makes things a lot less convoluted ... Theo-gnostic The-ist Agnost-ic Athe-ist Atheo-gnostic If we have a Schrodinger cat experiment, the agnostics would suspend belief, until the box is open. Some other people might believe the cat is alive, alive-ists. Some others may also believe the cat is dead, dead-ists. To group the agnostics together with the dead-ists, as non-aliveists, is nonsensical, since they are also non-deadists.
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  11866. The Nazi leaders were the ones operating the open air ghettos, dumb dumb, not the ones living in them.
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  11867.  @onealjones9039  You realize that the first "good guy with a gun" (cop) was killed by the "bad guy", and the second "good guy" was killed by the third "good guy". Why not make it harder for the bad guy to get guns?
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  11868. Okay ixus.
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  11869. ​ @lbar9720  Yeah. Pretty sure the "artificial line" was due to them rebelling against the crown. Let's roll that back.
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  11870. Israelis still celebrate the Irgun and Lehi as heroes. They elected Menachem Begin, leader of the Irgun, who bombed the King David Hotel, as PM. Those terrorist groups bombed Palestinian markets, killing many civilians, including children, even including Palestinian Jews (who opposed Zionism). Bezalel Smotrich, who Israelis elected and who Netanyahu put in charge of the West Bank, had previously been arrested on his way to commit a terrorist attack, with 700 gallons of fuel. He's a religious nut homophobe, a racist who thinks "Palestinian" people don't exist, and made public a plan to segregate and subjugate (no federal representation), exile, or kill, any non Jew in all of Israel/Palestine, taking it all for Israel.
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  11871. That's bullshit. The 90% marginal tax rate in the 50s may have applied to $200k and above, but that's about $2 million and above, today.
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  11872. @Joseph Geiger They didn't pay less, and there are still deductions.
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  11873. @Joseph Geiger Nope. They had similar dodges as they do today, and the effective tax rate, for the 1%, was 40+%, higher than today's 25+% effective tax rate, for the 1%. One of the dodges, then, was to reinvest in other corporate ventures, because the risk was only 10¢ on the dollar, instead of simply taking an under 30% hit, and hoarding the rest, like they do today. Many also just didn't bother asking for enough to bump them up into that top tax bracket, so there weren't anywhere close to the same amount of people in that upper tax bracket, as there would be today. Companies spent the money elsewhere ... like more on their 40% unionized workforce, who had more bargaining power than the 10% unionized workforce of today. Capital gains was another dodge, which is still around.
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  11874. @Joseph Geiger Yes, and getting "paid" in capital gains, is an income dodge. No. It only gets over 30%, including all taxes, not just income taxes. https://www.pgpf.org/sites/default/files/0102_tax-rates-full.gif
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  11875. @Joseph Geiger Then there's all the corporate welfare.
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  11876. @Joseph Geiger Amazon using roads and highways to transport goods all over, but paying no taxes, for example.
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  11877. Fun fact: His dad did it too ... https://nypost.com/2013/09/02/elder-bush-announces-death-of-nelson-mandela-except-mandela-isnt-dead/
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  11878.  The Ghey Mantis  I think the two axis model works quite well.
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  11879. ​ @HelloSnowflake3  By that "logic", Republicans were terrified of Hillary. The 6 Republican investigations of her, while she was Trump's political opponent, actually found nothing they could charge her with, let alone convict her with. They were proved to be complete bullshit fishing expeditions. Trump literally ran on "Lock her up!". He was terrified too. Your boy, on the other hand, has been found guilty of numerous things, in his life, in court. A proven fraud, grifter, con, and racist. Most recently, rape, defamation, and more fraud. He literally stands outside a courtroom and tries to "defend" himself, by claiming he's under valuing property, which would also be a crime, tax fraud. He's a complete moron, who doesn't seem to know the law, or doesn't think they apply to him.
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  11880.  Lola Lola  Do you call jaywalkers "illegal walkers"?
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  11881.  @christopherweingart9757  People aren't usually so adamant about branding people breaking civil infractions "illegal".
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  11882.  @christopherweingart9757  Nah. The majority of "illegal immigrants" are overstays. That's only a civil infraction. Improper Entry is a misdemeanor, but should be voided once they apply for asylum. No matter how you get in the country, you've legally got a year to apply for asylum.
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  11883.  @christopherweingart9757  How did he get in? If he's an overstay, it's ripping a family apart over a civil infraction.
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  11884. ​ @zammmerjammer  And what?
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  11885.  @zammmerjammer  What more are you looking for, than Pierre inventing details? Guy didn't go to shipping yard. Public police tried to help, but could only go so far without warrants. They didn't fine him. Private "police" were the ones who didn't respond in a timely fashion, allowing for the vehicle to be shipped. They also didn't fine him, both because they never showed up that night, and because the guy wasn't there.
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  11886.  @ryanhubbard1885  Selling/buying at the supposedly "correct" time would be "smart", no? Unless you're making the nonsensical argument, that it would be smart to buy/sell at the incorrect time, I think my statement is fine. It dropped more as recently as between 5/2021 and 9/2022. Plus, Alito sold after it had dropped. It's now worth more than what he sold at. He sold at almost the lowest dip. Wouldn't that be the incorrect/dumb time to sell?
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  11887.  @ryanhubbard1885  Rofl. So you are arguing that it was correct to do the dumb thing? 😆
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  11888.  @ryanhubbard1885  I can read just fine. You: "The AB stock tanked" (it actually didn't "tank" ... relative to previous years, it was a minor dip) "selling it was the correct move" Then your panties in a bunch about "correct" not meaning "smart", which is nonsensical when it comes to buying/selling stocks. The smart thing to do, is to buy/sell at the correct time, or you will lose all your money. And now you're making all kinds of "if" statements, which means you had zero clue, if it was the "correct" thing to do. So, why make a baseless "correct" assertion, when you have no clue, in the first place? Seems like a pointless, baseless, attempt to defend him.
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  11889.  @ryanhubbard1885  Rofl. So, a pointless, baseless, "correct" statement, from you. Glad we cleared that up.
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  11890.  @ryanhubbard1885  You just admitted to having no clue, if he was correct, dingus.
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  11891.  @ryanhubbard1885  You wouldn't have to ask me anything, for us to make a better determination, if you already knew. Again, you just admitted you are clueless, as to whether he was "correct" (your original statement), or not, dingus.
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  11892.  @ryanhubbard1885  Rofl! Again, why would you need to ask, if you already know? That you don't know means you have no clue if he was "correct", or not. You've like quadrupled down on admitting you're clueless.
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  11893.  @ryanhubbard1885  Sooo, once again, you're saying you had no clue, if he did the "correct" thing. Just baselessly trying to defend his actions. Okay, got it, you don't have to sextuple down on letting everyone know. 🤣
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  11894.  @ryanhubbard1885  "real adults" ... "correct move" ... Okay, dingus. 🙄
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  11895.  @ryanhubbard1885  You've already admitted you don't know what he bought it at, dingus. How could you possibly know he would lose 30%?
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  11896.  @ryanhubbard1885  Didn't notice a difference, dingus. Made as much sense as your other incoherent nonsense.
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  11897. It was her punishment for using her platform and PAC to go against DCCC backed corporate Dems and help get more pro-M4A progressives elected to congress. Adding more yes votes to congress is exactly what needs doing, failed vote or no failed vote. Threatening to paralyze the house might just get you them letting you, and then blaming you for no new covid relief, no new unemployment extensions, no new vaccine funding, etc., during a pandemic.
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  11898.  @acharris  Just freeze the government, have people pissed they aren't getting money to survive, and that will bring tons of people over to progressivism? Just how delusional are Dore fans?
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  11899.  @nuclearcatbaby1131  Yeah, my ancestors came over for the government's free land handouts too. Commies!
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  11900.  @RobCipher  You're ignoring herd immunity. Let's say there's a vaccine for a virus that has 50% efficacy. I'm vaccinated and I run across someone with the virus. The vaccine reduces my chances of catching the virus by 50%. If you stick another person between me and the carrier, I'm now protected 75%. Another, and I'm protected 87.5%. Another and I'm protected 93.75%. Even if everyone in between a high risk person and a carrier was themselves low risk, them being vaccinated still helps the high risk person. Making out like vaccines only benefit the individuals vaccinated, is pure bullshit.
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  11901.  @RobCipher  You're again pretending like you're only affecting you. You are providing zero increased protection, in the equation. You're the weak link in the chain. How are you going to know you've got it, if you're asymptomatic? What was wrong with a vaccine or test mandate?
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  11902.  @RobCipher  People are stupid. Nothing was really rushed. The process for creating them is simply faster. The FDA usually approves, or doesn't, drugs within 6 months after trials. The vaccines went through phase I through III trials, just like anything else. They were fully approved in a standard amount of time. Waiting for full approval might have been a quasi valid excuse, once upon a time. Now, it's just stupidity. Are they all qualified doctors and scientists, who know the proper amount of time, to wait? Oh, wait, nope. Doctors are like 99% vaccinated. Just how much time should people wait, exactly, in their "expert" opinions?
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  11903.  @malachiromero6077  Ben can't even survive his own slogan, "facts don't care about your feelings". His entire worldview is based on a fairy tale.
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  11904.  @malachiromero6077  If you're strawmanning vaccines, to support your anti-mandate position, then you're spreading vaccine misinformation, which panders to anti-vaxxers.
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  11905.  @malachiromero6077  What are you blathering about? You're talking percentages that represent millions of people, dimwit.
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  11906.  @malachiromero6077  Now what are you talking about?
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  11907. Peru has one of the highest Ivermectin use rates, and also one of the highest covid death rates.
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  11908. Did she get an agreement about hearing witnesses, and an assurance of a fair trial? If not, then her timing should be talked about, because that's what she was supposed to be holding out for.
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  11909.  @dggamer2761  Considering how stupid you are, what you think "makes sense" doesn't likely mesh with reality.
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  11910.  @dggamer2761  Yep, you're not even close to reality, yet again, moron.
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  11911.  @JagoFett  I don't understand how people don't understand that I'm referring to the core design of a VAT ... what makes a VAT a VAT. Variables, like what rate you use, what you decide to tax, or don't tax, partially tax, etc., are all irrelevant to the core design. A VAT is specifically designed to NOT tax businesses in order to avoid double taxation. That's a VAT, and Yang is clueless or lying.
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  11912.  @JagoFett  I'm talking about the absolute fucking fact that businesses in the chain reclaim their input VAT, and that you, and Yang, have no clue what you're talking about. It's specifically designed that way to avoid double taxation. https://youtu.be/fmAbBu7VQjQ
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  11913.  @JagoFett  Table 1 shows you a supply chain. Final consumer pays $49 in VAT (GST), government collects $49 in VAT, and all the businesses in the chain get their input VAT credited back to them. http://publications.gc.ca/Collection-R/LoPBdP/BP/prb0003-e.htm#A.%20Taxing%20Mechanism(txt)
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  11914.  @JagoFett  Singapore shows how it works with a pretty picture, if that's helpful ... https://www.iras.gov.sg/irashome/uploadedImages/IRASHome/GST/IRAS-DB-GST%20Infographic-v3.1.png
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  11915.  @JohnSSuh  Well, you're wrong, for one. Secondly, I was referring to the fact that Yang is bullshitting, whenever he claims a VAT will force corporations to pay their fair share in taxes. I'm referring to him bullshitting, when he claims a VAT will have corporations paying you to show you ads or pay you for your data. I'm referring to him bullshitting, everytime he compares his dividend to Alaska's dividend, which is paid for by corporations. Since Yang won't actually have corporations paying into his dividend, they will only benefit from the spending of that dividend. Amazon's share of US consumer spending is 2%. Yang will make them an extra $60b a year. That will, in turn, make Bezos billions extra a year, more than he'd ever personally pay into a VAT.
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  11916.  @vict1435  "Works" to generate revenue. Other countries, one of which I live in and have operated a VAT registered business, aren't claiming it "works" to tax corporations. They clearly say it's not at all designed to tax corporations, so as to avoid double taxation, which would be even worse. "The VAT due on any sale is a percentage of the sale price but from this the taxable person is entitled to deduct all the tax already paid at the preceding stage. Therefore, double taxation is avoided and tax is paid only on the value added at each stage of production and distribution. In this way, as the final price of the product is equal to the sum of the values added at each preceding stage, the final VAT paid is made up of the sum of the VAT paid at each stage." https://ec.europa.eu/taxation_customs/business/vat/what-is-vat_en
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  11917.  @chasthanhburns123  The thing about the unvaccinated is still that the vast majority are Republicans.
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  11918.  @chasthanhburns123  No. You're lying. They have a lower vaccination rate, but represent only 12% of the population. The vast majority of unvaccinated are Republicans.
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  11919. How is she "afraid"? Their little squad are the only ones speaking out against Israel, and have AIPAC campaigning against them. She just doesn't want a batshit crazy loon in office.
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  11920. Trump lost the popular vote, twice.
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  11921. You're talking nonsense. A VAT is specifically designed to NOT tax businesses in order to avoid double taxation. There's nothing for them to avoid paying.
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  11922.  @taskforceandy2830  You're clueless. It's built in that businesses can reclaim their input VAT, in order to avoid cascading taxes upon taxes, which would be worse. A VAT is a sales tax collected in stages with all the business stages getting paid back. Table 1: if the final consumer pays $49 and the government collects $49, then how much did each of the businesses end up paying? http://publications.gc.ca/Collection-R/LoPBdP/BP/prb0003-e.htm#A.%20Taxing%20Mechanism(txt)
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  11923.  @taskforceandy2830  It is cool that the 160 countries already using a VAT honestly state it's not meant to tax businesses. "a consumption tax because it is borne ultimately by the final consumer. It is not a charge on businesses." "taxable persons (i.e., VAT-registered businesses) deduct from the VAT they have collected the amount of tax they have paid to other taxable persons on purchases for their business activities" "the taxable person is entitled to deduct all the tax already paid at the preceding stage. Therefore, double taxation is avoided" https://ec.europa.eu/taxation_customs/business/vat/what-is-vat_en Not so cool that Yang and his gang have been spreading nonsense for over a year.
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  11924.  @taskforceandy2830  What is also cool is that the IMF put out a VAT pass through rate study, that Yang actually links to. With regard to the "central question", it found a 100% pass through on standard rated goods and services. What's not cool is that Yang completely misunderstood that expanding to include zero rated goods and services is only relevant to overall CPI, cost of living, or inflation. Zero rated goods are irrelevant to who pays the tax, because nobody is paying the 0% on zero rated items. You can't take a 100% pass through standard rated item, a 0% pass through zero rated item, get a 50% average pass through, and reverse engineer that to claim businesses paid 50%. Consumers paid 100% on 50% of the items is what it means.
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  11925.  @taskforceandy2830  There are also cool images, with single digit math, for slow people. If the final consumer pays $2 and the government collects $2, then how much did the businesses pay? (Hint: they even give you the answer, on the right) https://images.app.goo.gl/75sQzYrBpAaNp46K9
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  11926.  @taskforceandy2830  There are even under a min videos, for those with ADD. "But there is also good news, most businesses can recover the VAT they paid. But, not all businesses, however, realise is that quite a few countries also allow VAT recovery to foreign businesses. Money that was thought to be a cost is actually refundable." https://youtu.be/WsRuTPXdH_Y
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  11927.  @taskforceandy2830  This only takes seconds. If you want a long thread proving you were spouting pure shit, just say so. No skin off my back. Singapore made the business VAT formula into a pretty picture, without pesky numbers, for simpletons ... https://images.app.goo.gl/YNbXK4k4cJWk9y3M9
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  11928.  @taskforceandy2830  Seriously, not a problem. Only takes seconds to prove you're clueless. "Input credit means at the time of paying tax on output, you can reduce the tax you have already paid on inputs. Say, you are a manufacturer – tax payable on output (FINAL PRODUCT) is Rs 450 tax paid on input (PURCHASES) is Rs 300 You can claim INPUT CREDIT of Rs 300 and you only need to deposit Rs 150 in taxes. See here: Understanding Input tax credit under GST Input Credit in GST Input Credit Mechanism is available to you when you are covered under the GST Act. Which means if you are a manufacturer, supplier, agent, e-commerce operator, aggregator or any of the persons mentioned here, registered under GST, You are eligible to claim INPUT CREDIT for tax paid by you on your PURCHASES." https://cleartax.in/s/what-is-input-credit-and-how-to-claim-it
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  11929.  @taskforceandy2830  No problem. "If a business is VAT registered they can reclaim the VAT they have paid on purchases. The difference between what they have charged on sales and what they have paid on purchases must be sent to HM Revenue & Customs. If this is a negative figure then it means they have more to reclaim than they have charged and HM Revenue & Customs will send the business the amount due." https://youtu.be/fmAbBu7VQjQ
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  11930.  @taskforceandy2830  Glad to help. "You can claim a credit for any GST included in the price of any goods and services you buy for your business. This is called a GST credit (or an input tax credit – a credit for the tax included in the price of your business inputs)." https://www.ato.gov.au/Business/GST/Claiming-GST-credits/
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  11931.  @taskforceandy2830  I do say. "If you’re GST registered, you can claim back the GST you pay on goods or services you buy for your business." https://www.business.govt.nz/tax-and-accounting/basic-tax-types/gst/
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  11932. How is having no actual plan, other than to plan to sit down at tables to talk about formulating an actual plan, going to get things done "NOW, not gradually"?
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  11933.  @alexe7924  Opposed to government censorship? He fires people for telling the truth, and they're for it,. They are opposed to private companies revoking memberships to their private property, though.
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  11934.  @dashx1103  I haven't read his books in awhile, probably 30 years. I was thinking of having a reread after watching the new series, to refresh my brain as to how accurate to the source material they were. I'm actually a fan of his grandpa. Great scientist, defender of science, and an underrated philosopher (well, more forgotten than underrated).
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  11935. A bit Conanesque.
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  11936. And the pr firm that invented Iraqis tossing babies out of incubators, to get into Iraq round 1.
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  11937. You left out Proud Boy lap dog, whose right wing rag even complained about Twitter bias against the American Nazi Party, and other white supremacists and groups.
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  11938. @sabbracadabra So they are anti-unionists, anti-socialists, anti-communists, who are backed by business leaders, religious leaders, and big landowners? Are you sure about that? You're the one who can't seem to use Google. https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Anti-fascism
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  11939.  Levi Kohen  So Trump is personally responsible for things like the economy (which was already on the same upward trajectory since 2009), or saving the US from poor Mexicans (when there was already a negative migration rate), but he has absolutely nothing to do with increasing right wing hate crimes, terrorism, and murders (even though they're all praising him, have been coming out in the open since he was elected, hate the same things he fearmongers about, etc.)?
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  11940.  Levi Kohen  Oh, you sure showed me. I don't know how I'll ever recover.
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  11941. Oh, I'm outright Athe-ist about many definitions of God(s), or aspects of those definitions. Agnostic for the rest. If you say Agnostic is not a satisfactory no belief default position, and then redefine A-theist to be the no belief default position for the Theist proposition "God exists", then what is the label for the no belief default position for the strong Athe-ist proposition "God does not exist"? Aren't we currently 1 label short, with this new labelling system?
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  11942. Quomo is about as incompetent as Trump. He's just a better bullshitter.
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  11943. ​ @jimbond  Israel's own foundation lies in colonialism and terrorism. Palestinians have been ethnically cleansed. How are they not also "defending" themselves? Colonialists are always the invader.
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  11944. AOC's PAC just helped get more pro-M4A progressives elected to congress. How much did you donate to it, Jimmy?
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  11945.  @lastfirst5154  Spreading ideas on your platform counts as fighting when Jimmy does it, but not when she does it? A single M4A tweet of hers has an audience 40x larger than Jimmy's. One was shared about 70x more than Jimmy's, even as he's "trending" (not actually on any top trending lists). She totally destroys Dore at the only way he fights, if that counts as fighting. Getting more pro-M4A voters in congress is the actual fight, isn't it? That's the only way it's ever going to pass. Is Jimmy putting his money where his mouth is, or is he just a "fake" and a "wimp"?
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  11946.  @lastfirst5154  Shove the delusional bullshit. Her M4A tweet with 70k retweets was before Jimmy's showboating, and reached her millions of followers even without retweets. Even now, while he's "trending" (not actually on any top trending lists), Jimmy can't break 2k retweets. She absolutely annihilates him at the only thing he does. If that's considered fighting, then she's laying waste to the social media battlefield. He's an armchair general, shitting on someone fighting in the trenches, someone who actually moved the M4A agenda ahead by helping get more pro-M4A progressives elected, while Jimmy was whining about Colbert crying, and shit Obama (no longer an actual politician) said. Jimmy doesn't give a crap if anyone has healthcare. He has his. He knew the only thing between the small gains the ACA provided, and the repeated attempts to have it repealed, had been Obama vetoes. He knew conservative judges could be bad for women's health. He still promoted Trump as a better option than Clinton, or Stein (which only helped Trump win). He didn't give a crap if millions of previously uninsured, including those with preexisting conditions lost their healthcare. Again, in 2020, he spent the general election basically running attack ads against Trump's only viable opponent. Jimmy didn't care if the fascist fuck who helped kill thousands of Americans won again, and he fought against the Medicare age being dropped and a public option, with no alternative on the Republican side. He's also ready to start from scratch with another third party, and not get M4A for decades, if ever. He's a poser.
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  11947.  @lastfirst5154  If anyone is a "shill", Dore is a Republican shill.
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  11948.  @lastfirst5154  You just made out like using your platform counted as doing something, now you don't give a crap how big a platform someone has. You're incoherent.
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  11949.  @lastfirst5154  She just used her platform and PAC to get more pro-M4A progressives elected to congress. That's what what you'll still have to do, even if you get a vote that's guaranteed to fail. She used her platform to do exactly what needed doing. I doubt Jimmy even has 100 new pro-M4A candidates lined up, to replace the ones who will need replacing in the house and senate. When he does, go to her to actually do what needs doing. Dore? Rofl. He peddled the shit that Trump would be better for progressives than Clinton, claimed the moon would fall into Lake Michigan before Trump could fill multiple scotus seats, claimed it would bring about a massive wave of progressives and flip the house, senate, and bring about a 2020 Warren presidency. He peddled the shit that Stein had a chance. Now he's using his platform to peddle the shit that he actually cares if anyone gets healthcare coverage. He did what he could to get Trump elected in 2016. He didn't care that could lead to the repeal of the ACA and millions losing their healthcare coverage. Jimmy, basically, spent the 2020 general election running an anti-Biden campaign, Trump's only viable opponent. During a pandemic, he didn't care if Trump stayed in power and killed more Americans, he didn't care that millions more would get coverage by lowering the social security age to 60. Jimmy is also, once again, promoting a third party. He's willing to start from scratch and maybe win a house seat in a few decades, while Republicans run the show because you've split the vote. Anyone who believes that that guy gives a shit about getting you healthcare coverage anytime soon, is overflowing with the amount of shit they've been shovelled.
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  11950.  scott thomas  You prove yourself wrong by spewing barely coherent sentences.
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  11951. Who has done almost everything Republican politicians wanted to do, but his cult somehow still thinks he's different.
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  11952.  Andrew Ruiz  Yeah, "Sleepy Joe", has been slammed most by his 74 year old opponent, and his supporters, not young people.
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  11953. ​ @graymattermedia5046  Trump has never apologized for anything. Plus, his things were against the law, and things he's still doing. Over a ten million dollar fine, for cooking casino books, and he's still at it.
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  11954.  @WiseWeeabo  In practice, businesses get their input VAT credited back to them, including on advertising. Yang doesn't know how a VAT actually works, or is totally bullshitting people. One or the other. https://www.burtonbeavan.co.uk/reclaim-vat-google-adwords/
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  11955.  @WiseWeeabo  Lol, I've been paying a VAT for almost 30 years, and operated a VAT registered business. You can reclaim the full input VAT, unless it's partially used for private. Then, you can still reclaim the full percentage used for business. You need to read up some more, before you keep trying to pretend you know what you're talking about.
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  11956.  @AstroMortuum  Here's what's not considered "staples", in Canada: electricity, phone, phone service, computers, internet service, personal hygiene products, household cleaning products, home maintenance, vehicle maintenance, and all kinds of things poor people will have to pay extra for. Sure, if you sit in the dark and watch stars for fun, you won't be at all affected by a VAT. Yang's revenue projection was also originally based on the entire economy. The more he exempts, the larger the shortfall he'll have, and his plan already starts with almost a trillion dollar deficit.
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  11957.  @WiseWeeabo  Who the hell is telling you "half"? They're lying to you. Look at table 1. Everyone gets paid back, except the final consumer, who ends up paying the entire $49 collected by the government. http://publications.gc.ca/Collection-R/LoPBdP/BP/prb0003-e.htm#A.%20Taxing%20Mechanism(txt)
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  11958.  @WiseWeeabo  It's not about total government revenue generated, because a 10% federal sales tax would do about the same thing. A VAT only keeps track of the exchanges along the way better, so it's harder to dodge the final step, but likewise ends up being a tax on the final consumer. If you're handing consumers $3t, who paid the VAT is what matters. If Amazon still paid no taxes, but has a 2% share of US consumer spending, then you've made them $60b extra dollars a year, and they're still not paying in. I get that many gangers fantasize that the VAT will only tax yachts and stuff, but non-staples include phones, phone service, computers (even cheap ones), internet service, TVs, cable, games, toys, basically any entertainment with a cost, personal hygiene products, household cleaning products, home maintenance, vehicle maintenance ... all kinds of crap. A lot of countries exempt staples. Corporations still aren't the ones paying the tax. Consumers are.
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  11959.  @mircogam  1) There's nothing to avoid, if you're a VAT registered business. It's built right in that you get your input VAT refunded. It's harder than a sales tax for the final consumer to avoid, because it has been kept track of every step of the way. You're changing the topic away from the absolute fact that Amazon won't pay shit, but will benefit by about $60b a year from increased consumer spending. They even have their own tutorial page on how businesses get their input VAT credited back to them. https://services.amazon.co.uk/services/vat-resources.html As to your off point, there are other poor people, who will get zero economic benefit from Yang's UBI. SSI disability currently stacks with SNAP. Yang doesn't have his UBI stack with either. Some very poor people, already getting $1000+ in government assistance, will only be worse off, with having to pay a 10% VAT on many things.
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  11960.  @mircogam  There's something wrong in a plan that will make Amazon and Bezos extra tens of billions, but will hurt say a single non working disabled parent, collecting full SSI disability and SNAP for two.
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  11961.  @mircogam  That is reality. There's such a thing as single non working disabled parents. There's such a thing as single non working parents of disabled kids. There's such a thing as people who are already getting $1000+ in government assistance of a type that Yang doesn't have stack with UBI. They will be worse off. It's also a reality that VAT registered businesses get their input VAT credited back to them. Even his bullshit claims about Facebook and Google ads. Businesses get credited back their input VAT on advertising. https://www.burtonbeavan.co.uk/reclaim-vat-google-adwords/
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  11962.  @mircogam   Now you're making up fake crap for what he supposedly really means, but never said. No, almost no gangers I've come across know how a VAT actually works, let alone most Americans. No, he outright claims on his VAT page, and in multiple interviews and rallies, that a VAT is a way to make corporations "pay their fair share", not their owners. He had an absolutely ridiculous rally, where he both claimed Google was moving money to its EU headquarters in Ireland to avoid paying taxes, and that a VAT wouldn't let them get away without paying taxes. Ireland has a freaking 23% VAT rate. They obviously don't give a shit about the VAT, because they don't pay it. They're there for Ireland's low corporate tax rate. Plus, what you, a supposed account, aren't seeming to grasp is that, if you make Amazon an extra $60b a year, then you're making Bezos something like an extra $6b a year. He'd have to personally blow through over $60b on goods and services with a VAT to pay in more than you're making him, which would never happen. He could by a new $1b yacht every year, pay $100m in VAT, and still be in the plus $5.9b, from Yang's plan. Meanwhile, yes, there will be some poor people who will get zero economic benefit from the UBI but will still have to pay the VAT on many things. And, it doesn't matter if someone already getting $1000+ in assistance opts in or out. They can't opt out of paying the VAT. They'd be worse off, having to pay 10% more on numerous things. No, a business doesn't need to absorb part of the VAT, if it doesn't want to. Only the smallest of businesses aren't required to register for the VAT, which aren't competition. Or, the business is in a VAT exempt or zero rated sector, and also isn't competition. These giant tech companies are already operating in countries with a VAT. They don't absorb shit. When the EU switched from seller's VAT rate to buyer's VAT rate, they started charging the buyer's full VAT rate. Yang is skipping many of the things other countries do to make corporations and the rich pay in. The UK has higher marginal income tax rates, a higher minimum wage, double the union participation to negotiate better wages for workers, a stamp tax, etc. Scandinavian countries have ridiculously high union participation, so high they don't even need the government involved in setting minimum wages, higher marginal tax rates than the UK, paid parental leave, more paid vacation days, Norway owns a 60+% share in their oil production, Sweden has businesses pay into a retraining program with an 80+% success rate, etc. They also have about double the percentage of the population working decently paid government jobs, than the US doea. Then those countries tax their better paid, higher standard of living, consumers with a VAT. A VAT doesn't make corporations pay in. If you think Bezos only being able to recover half the VAT on his cell phone, because he uses it half the time for personal calls, is him "paying his fair share", then you're an idiot.
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  11963.  @mircogam  Me? You're the moron who feels the need to say shit like "not (entirely) paid for by companies" ... like not even close to "entirely" paid for by companies ... not even in the realm of "entirely" paid for by companies ... by design it's supposed to "entirely" be paid for by the final non VAT registered buyer. But, if you agree, then I'm glad we agree that Yang is completely ignorant as to how a VAT actually works, or does and is intentionally lying.
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  11964.  @mircogam  If you lose your decent paying job, trying to live on $1k a month would likely lead to foreclosure and bankruptcy. It's below the poverty line. A decent paying federal job would be better security. Extended unemployment payments and free retraining would be better security. Affordable housing would be better security. You're going to move to some low cost of living dying town, that also has no jobs, and live on $12k a year? Meanwhile, as your video clearly states, it's the final consumer who ends up paying the entire VAT, which makes Yang a bullshitter, and makes Amazon and Bezos tens of billions more a year, while you're pinching pennies to get by.
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  11965.  @Tsudico  You appear to have made up that they've paid £18 and then can't figure out who else would have paid it but them. Pretty neat. In your made up extra payment, who did Google pay £96 and an £18 VAT to, and why? If they've paid that to some company, for some goods or services for their business, then they can reclaim it. Who is this mysterious ghost collecting £96 from Google?
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  11966.  @Tsudico  Man, you have zero clue what you're talking about. It was a £24 VAT on top of a £120 charge (24 is 20% of 120). The ad buyer paid £144. Google collected the £24 and sent it to the government. The remaining £120 goes into Google's pocket. The business who initially paid the £24 then gets it credited back from the government, along with any other VAT they've paid on business expenses. You're completely fabricating some other VAT payment, not able to figure out who pays it, and then deciding Google must have. There's no magical other £18 VAT payment Google has made to nobody, paying £96 for nothing. If Google does have some business expense they paid input VAT on, during the same VAT collection period, they would reclaim that amount, just like the business paying for the ad. Say Google bought a $12 computer chord, and paid £2.40 in VAT on top of that. Then, instead of sending the government the full £24, they'd keep £2.40 and send the government £21.60. Fun fact: Even of a business pays more input VAT than they collect in output VAT, they will still get their input VAT credited back to them. Meaning, a company having a bad sales period will be credited back their input VAT by the consumers of businesses that had a good sales period.
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  11967.  @Tsudico  So all business expenses, including advertising costs, are considered part of what adds value to the final good or service. The company who bought the ad, would want to recoup their £120 advertising cost, as well. So, they'd make the price of what they're selling inclide the £120. That means whoever is buying their good or service, will then pay £24 on that extra £120 added to the price. So, yeah, it's the final consumer who ends up paying for it.
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  11968.  @danzwku  And this is talking about 2024, and what if he gets back in ... not sure where we're losing you.
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  11969.  Senior Billy Bull  You're a lunatic.
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  11970.  @bastardferret869  What a nonsense argument. All kinds of professionals, and companies, try to avoid being legally libel for any possible damages their actions, or their product, might cause ... no matter how safe it might be. Shampoo companies put warning labels, to give themselves legal protection from idiots.
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  11971. ​ @teresaamanfu7408  It is not just Netanyahu. Likud has a 100 year history back to Irgun and Lehi terrorists, and Ze'ev Jabotinsky. Israelis, to this day, celebrate those terrorists as "heroes". Israel is equivalent to the Third Reich. The oroblem goes well beyond one person.
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  11972. ​ FreePalestineFromPalestinians  Palestinians have reacted like pretty much every colonized people in history, dumb dumb. It is the colonizing Zionist beliefs about some god given "right" to this particular land that started the aggression. Colonizers are never not the aggressors, when it comes to the native population.
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  11973.  FreePalestineFromPalestinians  Likud's bloody 100 year history ... In 1923, 100 years ago, Ze'ev Jabotinsky wrote, The Iron Wall, and a follow up, The Ethics of The Iron Wall (sooo racist towards Africans), in which he fully acknowledged that post Balfour Zionsim was colonialism, and that, based on the entirety of history, the native Palestinian population would resist being colonized until the bitter end. He directly compared it to the colonization of North America. He promoted doing it anyway, claiming Zionist colonialism was a "just" colonialism (he also thought North American colonialists were good guys, so not a great judge of morality), not caring what that meant for the native population. Ze'ev is important, because his Betar militant youth group helped found the Irgun terrorist group, along with other supporters of his, and the splinter Lehi terrorist group. The Irgun bombed numerous Palestinian markets and other public places, murdering many Palestinian civilians, including children, even including Palestinian Jews (who didn't support colonialist Zionsim). The Irgun are important, because they ended up being led by future Likud PM, Menachem Begin, who bombed the King David Hotel. The King David Hotel was bombed because the British had raided the Jewish Agency and seized numerous documents that may have shown that the terrorists were working with the JA and Haganah (JA liked to pretend that they didn't support the terrorism). The British then stored those documents at their base, in the hotel. That the Irgun terrorists responded to a JA raid, itself seems to prove the connection. That the thousands of Irgun (and Lehi) terrorists were also quickly merged into the new nation's military (IDF) and intelligence (Mossad) agencies, and are still celebrated as "heroes" by Israelis, to this day, also seems to support total collaboration between the groups. That other terrorist group mentioned, Lehi (also known as the Stern Gang), was considered even more extreme. They even tried to ally with the Nazis, against the British. Lehi ended up being led by Yitzhak Shamir, future Mossad agent, and another future Likud PM. They assassinated Lord Moyne, and others. In 1945, there was a major land and peoples survey done in Palestine. It showed that the Zionists only owned about 5% of the total land, 20% of the arable land, and owned a majority in zero districts. The partition was not only going to be forced on the native Palestinian majority, but Jews were still going to be a minority, in the part allocated to them. The only possible way to even become a "Jewish state" was going to require getting rid of the actual majority (at least enough so that there'd be a solid Jewish majority, so they could fake being democratic). This is also shown by the 1948, post Nakba, population of Israel. If there was 716,700 Jews, 156,000+ non-Jews, and approximately 700k non-Jews ethnically cleansed, that means the Jewish population, in the Zionist portion of partition, was originally over 100,000 less than the non-Jewish population. To believe that there was never any intent, by Zionists, to ethnically cleanse away the Palestinian majority would require believing that they never intended to create a "Jewish state". It's a nonsensical notion. Begin, and those terrorist groups, also opposed partition, but for the opposite reason Palestinians did. Palestinians didn't want to be colonized, at all. The terrorists wanted to colonize it all. "Moderate" Zionists were okay with colonizing half ... for now (what would happen in the future, after partition, was up to them, said Ben-Gurion). The Zionist terrorists were also involved in massacres, and assassinations, during the partition violence (colonialist war against the natives). Another notable future Likud PM, also started in the military, during the partition fighting. That was Ariel Sharon, war criminal, "Butcher of Beirut". Menachem Begin, and these other Zionist terrorists, are important because they became involved in Israeli politics, first forming Herut. That was the party that Albert Einstein, and other prominent American Jews, opposed, having a letter printed in the NYT, in December of 1948, when Begin came to visit the US. The letter opened ... "Among the most disturbing political phenomena of our times is the emergence in the newly created state of Israel of the "Freedom Party" (Tnuat Haherut), a political party closely akin in its organization, methods, political philosophy and social appeal to the Nazi and Fascist parties. It was formed out of the membership and following of the former Irgun Zvai Leumi, a terrorist, right-wing, chauvinist organization in Palestine." Herut merged with other extremist parties, over the years, and eventually became Likud, in the 70s. Now, people get upset over the slogan "From the river to the sea!", but it's the second part that's most important, "Palestine will be free!". Because "Palestine" isn't defined as an ethno-state, a free Palestine can be a single state, free for all to live in, and return to, free of continuing colonization, free of occupation, free of oppression, etc. Just like a Germany free of Nazism, an Italy free of fascism, a South Africa free of apartheid, or an America free of slavery from sea to shiny sea. It doesn't necessitate purging all the Jews. It just necessitates them giving up on the idea of an ethno-state. On the other hand, because "Israel" has been defined as an ethno-state, Likud's, "between the sea and the Jordan there will only be Israeli sovereignty", has no possible good interpretation. It is a declaration of intent to completely colonize, and ethnically cleanse, all Palestine territories. Not only that, but it also claims that they have a "right" to all of the "Land of Israel" (biblical borders that don't mesh with archaeological reality), which is an open declaration of future wars, against Jordan, Syria, Lebanon, and possibly even Iraq. Likud platform ... 1977: "The Right of the Jewish People to the Land of Israel (Eretz Israel) a. The right of the Jewish people to the land of Israel is eternal and indisputable and is linked with the right to security and peace; therefore, Judea and Samaria will not be handed to any foreign administration; between the Sea and the Jordan there will only be Israeli sovereignty. b. A plan which relinquishes parts of western Eretz Israel, undermines our right to the country, unavoidably leads to the establishment of a "Palestinian State," jeopardizes the security of the Jewish population, endangers the existence of the State of Israel. and frustrates any prospect of peace." "Settlement Settlement. both urban and rural. in all parts of the Land of Israel is the focal point of the Zionist effort to redeem the country, to maintain vital security areas and serves as a reservoir of strength and inspiration for the renewal of the pioneering spirit. The Likud government will call on the younger generation in Israel and the dispersions to settle and help every group and individual in the task of inhabiting and cultivating the wasteland, while taking care not to dispossess anyone." 1999: "The Government of Israel flatly rejects the establishment of a Palestinian Arab state west of the Jordan river. The Palestinians can run their lives freely in the framework of self-rule, but not as an independent and sovereign state. Thus, for example, in matters of foreign affairs, security, immigration, and ecology, their activity shall be limited in accordance with imperatives of Israel's existence, security and national needs." "The Jewish communities in Judea, Samaria, and Gaza are the realization of Zionist values. Settlement of the land is a clear expression of the unassailable right of the Jewish people to the Land of Israel and constitutes an important asset in the defense of the vital interests of the State of Israel. The Likud will continue to strengthen and develop these communities and will prevent their uprooting." All Palestine territories are officially considered occupied, by the International Court of Justice, the UN GA, the UN SC, and even in official documents of Israel's own allies. Likud is still using the blueprint for colonizing North America, in the West Bank. Move settlements out into native territory, piss off the natives, the natives retaliate, cry about poor "innocent" colonizing settlers being the "victims" of violent "Savages!", call in the cavalry to put down the native uprising, and eventually expand the borders to include those settlements. Rinse and repeat. In Gaza, Israel is operating an open air WWII style fascist ghetto. Them claiming a "right to defend themselves" would be like the Nazis claiming a "right to defend themselves " from the Warsaw ghetto uprising. There's no "war". That they're the occupiers means the "war" part is long over. Those people are actually supposed to be under the occupier's protection. That partition was forced upon the Palestinian majority, against their will ... that the Zionist portion still had to be forcefully ethnically cleansed of its non-Jewish majority, against their will ... that the millions of occupied Palestinians don't have a say in the government that truly rules over them, Israel's ... means Israel is about as democratic as Nazi Germany after Hitler purged his political opponents and then held elections.
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  11974. Who is the actual aggressor is uncomplicated. It's the colonialist power. Colonialists are never not the aggressors, when it comes to the natives.
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  11975.  @LisaRichards_123  Dishonest crap. She didn't say anything about Jews in that comment. A foreign lobby group is lobbying for all kinds of people to show allegiance to that foreign country. That's its job.
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  11976.  @LisaRichards_123  Nope, you're lying. "It's all about the Benjamins baby" Was referring to AIPAC, which is, literally, a lobby group, and lobby groups use money to influence politicians. What she said works for almost all lobby groups.
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  11977.  @LisaRichards_123  You can find multiple racists and bigots, on the other side of the aisles, who have said things about her, though.
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  11978.  @LisaRichards_123  She apologized for using what they considered a trope, while outright repeating that she considered the role of lobbyists to be problematic. But, nice try.
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  11979.  @LisaRichards_123  Well, the first hint should be that she hasn't actually made any racist comments similar to the ones directed at her. So, if you're imagining her feeling that way, it's all in your own head.
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  11980. Give me your vote, but I'll veto your M4A if it crosses my desk.
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  11981.  @AlexJaneson  So, like Menachem Begin, leader of the Irgun terrorists, who blew up the King David Hotel?
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  11982.  @Nackdad  The most popular third party hasn't won a single seat in going on 50 f-cking years. Do you fantasize that a third party actually has a shot, and that they'd be some perfectly perfect puritan progressives, and would never produce a Kyrsten Sinema? Just get out and vote for progressives in the primaries, ffs.
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  11983. ​ @peacefuljourney4994  Deutsche Bank wasn't actually paid on time, by Trump. "The relationship has survived various scandals. In 2008, Trump sued the bank’s real estate division after he defaulted on a $40m repayment, used to fund the construction of the Trump International Hotel and Tower in Chicago. He accused Deutsche of co-causing the financial crisis and demanded $3bn in compensation. Instead of dumping him as a client, Deutsche’s private wealth division stepped in and loaned him more money to pay off the existing debt. Deutsche has resisted efforts by Democrats in the House and Senate to explain its relationship with Trump – and to clarify if Russian state banks or entities underwrote some of his debts."
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  11984. ​ @afreezaphorogiancossack2194  How he does business is getting hit with $10.5m in fines for improperly running his casinos, including a fine for gaming fraud, when daddy purchased $3m in chips, and didn't cash them in, to try and bail out his son's failure.
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  11985. David, total tests, and tests per million, are numbers that are totally disconnected from the virus numbers. It's tests per confirmed case that you want to look at. The US has been testing at a pathetically low rate. More testing only finds a lot more cases when you're testing rate is slower than the virus spread, and the virus is out of control. If you're testing rate is faster than the virus spread, you can test hundreds of extra people and not find new cases. The US needs to test even more people, faster, to find contagious people and tell them to quarantine, before they spread it around. https://ourworldindata.org/grapher/number-of-covid-19-tests-per-confirmed-case
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  11986. Inflation decreases the most during recessions, dimwit. You don't want the president who has decreased inflation the most.
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  11987.  @mroctober3583  I replied to your question to me, not some other comment you made. Don't like the answer, don't ask the question. Holding her accountable? She just helped get more pro-M4A progressives elected to congress than a People's Party will get elected in decades. You and Jimmy need to try and be coherent. If Pelosi and the corporate Dems would rather work with Republicans than progressives, that would mean progressives have even less leverage than Jimmy imagines, not more. Seriously, how long should they paralyze the House, as the rest of the Dems propagandize it, and blame progressives for not being able to vote on anything Biden ran on?
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  11988.  @Ill_drink_to_that  The actual fight is changing opponents minds or replacing them, exactly what AOC just helped do. When the vote fails, you still have to do that. It might give you some extra ammo, but it could also give them ammo, if you paralyze the house, and they start blaming you for not being able to vote on minimum wage, and stuff.
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  11989.  @Ill_drink_to_that  Let me get this straight ... the "fake" is the one whose progressive PAC just helped get more pro-M4A progressives elected to congress, who endorsed them and help fund them as they primaried against corporate Dems, and the "real" progressive is the guy who promoted Trump as better than Clinton? If he convinced even one person, in a 2016 swing state, to vote Trump, Stein, or to not vote at all, then he helped kill thousands of people. That's ass backwards.
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  11990.  Mr Discostu2u  Blamed allies for all kinds of bullshit, made a mockery out of a pandemic affecting much of the world, called countries "shit holes", called people from various countries all kinds of things, legitimized Israeli ethnic cleansing, pulled out of an agreement that allowed nuclear inspectors inside Iran, blamed other countries for his failures, ... So?
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  11991. ​ @TenChairman  Trump averaged more crossings per year than Obama. 2019 had the most crossings than any year in the previous decade. He was bad at the one thing all the rcsts who voted for him wanted. Trump ended zero wars and dropped more bmbs per year than Obama. There was no peace. Oil prices dropped in 2014/15, before Trump. They actually went up under Trump. He almost doubled the annual deficit, before 2020. His 2020 COVID deficit was higher than Biden's 2021 COVID deficit. So, why isn't Trump (as well as the greedy corporations who jacked their profit margins ... Yay capitalism!) more responsible for the inflation?
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  11992.  @TenChairman  Thought we were talking about your lying. Trump ended zero wrs and dropped more bmbs per year than Obama. No lying peace. Trump averaged more crossings per year than Obama, and 2019 had more crossings than any year in the previous decade. Plus, over 90% of the drgs come through points of entry, and over 80% of drg trffckrs are Americans. Dmwt Dump is crying about the wrong people. Oil prices dropped in 2014, and went up under Trump, until COVID. He almost doubled the deficit, by 2019, even before COVID. Trump's 2020 COVID deficit was higher than Biden's 2021 COVID deficit, so if you're going to blame government spending for inflation (instead of blaming the corporations that jacked their profit margins) then it's even more Trump's fault.
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  11993.  @TenChairman   Thought we were talking about your dishonesty. Trump ended zero wrs and dropped more bmbs per year than Obama. No peace. Trump averaged more Xings per year than Obama, and 2019 had more Xings than any year in the previous decade. Plus, over 90% of the drgs come through points of entry, and over 80% of drg trffckrs are Americans. Dmwt Dump is crying about the wrong people. Oil prices dropped in 2014, and went up under Trump, until COVID. He almost doubled the deficit, by 2019, even before COVID. Trump's 2020 COVID deficit was higher than Biden's 2021 COVID deficit, so if you're going to blame government spending for inflation (instead of blaming the corporations that jacked their profit margins) then it's even more Trump's fault.
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  11994.  @TenChairman  Thought we were talking about your dishonesty. Trump ended zero wrs and dropped more bmbs per year than Obama. No peace.
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  11995.  @TenChairman   Trump averaged more brdr Xings per year than Obama, and 2019 had more brdr Xings than any year in the previous decade. Plus, over 90% of the drgs come through points of entry, and over 80% of drg trffckrs are Americans. Dmbss Dump keeps crying about the wrong people, and made the brdrs no more secure.
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  11996.  @TenChairman   Dump averaged more undocumented immigrants per year than Obama, and 2019 had more than any year in the previous decade. Plus, over 90% of the drgs come through points of entry, and over 80% of drg trffckrs are Americans. Dump keeps crying about the wrong people, and made nothing more secure.
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  11997.  @TenChairman  Oil prices dropped in 2014, and went up under Trump, until COVID. He almost doubled the deficit, by 2019, even before COVID. Trump's 2020 COVID deficit was higher than Biden's 2021 COVID deficit, so if you're going to blame government spending for inflation (instead of blaming the corporations that jacked their profit margins) then it's even more Trump's fault.
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  11998.  @TenChairman  Dump averaged more undocumented xings per year than Obama, and 2019 had more than any year in the previous decade. Plus, over 90% of the drgs come through points of entry, and over 80% of drg trffckrs are Americans. Dump keeps crying about the wrong people, and made nothing more secure.
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  11999.  @TenChairman  Trump averaged more brdr crssngs per year than Obama, and 2019 had more than any year in the previous decade. Plus, over 90% of the dr ugs come through points of entry, and over 80% of dr ug trffckrs are Americans. Trump keeps crying about the wrong people, and made nothing more secure.
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  12000.  @TenChairman   Trump averaged more Southern crssngs per year than Obama, and 2019 had more than any year in the previous decade. Plus, over 90% of the dr ugs come through points of entry, and over 80% of dr ug trffckrs are Americans. Trump keeps crying about the wrong people, and made nothing more secure.
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  12001.  @TenChairman   Trump averaged more Southern cross ings per year than Obama, and 2019 had more than any year in the previous decade. Plus, over 90% of the dr ugs come through points of entry, and over 80% of dr ug traffic kers are Americans. Trump keeps going on about the wrong people, and made nothing more secure.
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  12002.  @TenChairman   Trump averaged more Southern cross ings per year than Obama, and 2019 had more than any year in the previous decade. Plus, over 90% of the dr ugs come through points of entry, and over 80% of dr ug traffic kers are Americans. Trump keeps going on about the wrong people. No more secure.
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  12003.  @TenChairman  DT averaged more Southern ❌ ings per year than BO, and 2019 had more than any year in the previous decade. Plus, over 90% of the dr. ugs come through PoE, and over 80% of dr. ug traffic kers are Americans. Trump keeps complaining about the wrong people. Nothing was more secure.
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  12004. Only Kyle won't call out Rogan. Or Jimmy Dore, but he's a right wing grifter, himself.
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  12005.  @freefreepalestine360  Says the abortionist worshipper.
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  12006.  @goji059  Is that why our approval rating of the US, just went from 34% to 51%? Are you one of our little 14% of Canadians, that are loons who would have voted Trump?
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  12007. @Manic Misanthrope Rofl. Wasn't done, or put out, by the government, dumb dumb. Are you also one of those cultists who hung on every word of the head of state for 4 years, believing them and only them?
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  12008.  @desperatelyseekingrealnews  Usually pretty accurate, yep.
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  12009. Rofl, did he organize the trips? He probably just told each of them that it cost more than it actually did.
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  12010. The public sector has a higher unionization rate than the private sector. Why do you think they'd care if truckers unionized?
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  12011.  @mmjahink  Well, it's not the US. There aren't politicians making right to work laws, or shit like that, to try and absolutely destroy unions ... not that some conservatives haven't proposed them.
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  12012. And to note, about Trump's China claims ... China only sends education scores from key large cities, not all their small towns or rural scores.
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  12013. You know Israel has killed about 20x more children, than Palestinians have, right? You're justifying the Palestinian response then?
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  12014.  @hughwardjackson4776  The first thing the doctor of nursing got wrong was that excess deaths in one country can tell you much of anything about another country. In the US, excess deaths were higher than total covid deaths, so something entirely different is going on there. If you want to add up all the UK's death pluses and minuses, and see if what remains is the covid count, go ahead. If you're hoping anything you're saying would equally apply to the US, it wouldn't.
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  12015. So weird how a black president and now a black SCOTUS pick, "divide America", just by being black.
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  12016.  @jocksharerock7318  Wait ... the thing Jimmy said the moon falling into Lake Michigan was more likely than, actually happened.
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  12017. ​Israel is objectively the aggressor, by every relevant measure, dumb dumb ... Modern history: 100 years ago, in 1923, Ze'ev Jabotinsky fully acknowledged that Zionism is colonialism, and that, based on the entirety of history, the natives would fight it until the bitter end. He just didn't care what would happen to them, and promoted doing it anyway. Colonizers are never not the aggressors. On top of the colonialist nature of Zionism, the Zionists also formed terrorist organizations, like the Irgun and Lehi. They bombed many Palestinian markets and other public places, murdering many civilians, including children, even including Palestinian Jews (who opposed Zionism). Israel merged those terrorists into the new nation's military and intelligence agencies. Israelis elected Menachem Begin, leader of the Irgun, child murderer, Jew murderer, and bomber of the King David Hotel, as PM. Israelis, to this day, celebrate those terrorists as "heroes". Zionists literally taught their neighbours that terrorism is a valid path to independence and statehood, and that terrorists are to be celebrated. In 1945, it is well documented that Zionists owned just 5% of the land and were a majority nowhere. Israel was formed by actually going against the majority population. It's foundation is completely undemocratic. Then, becoming a majority, in "their" new nation, by ethnic cleansing the actual majority, and then claiming to be democratic, is utter nonsense. Law: Israel is considered an occupier by the International Court, the UN GA, and the UN SC. Occupiers are also never not the aggressors. Those occupied actually have a right to resist occupation. On the flip side, it is illegal for the occupier to settle occupied lands, and illegal to use collective punishment. Israel is a rogue nation, that doesn't abide by international law. What it has been doing, and is doing now, is illegal. Current events: This year, alone, prior to Oct 7 ... Israel held over 1200 Palestinian hostages without charges ... over 200 Palestinians had been killed by the IDF and settlers ... over 1000 Palestinians had been displaced by Israel's neverending colonization of the West Bank ... and, Israel continued to operate an open air WWII style fascist ghetto, in Gaza. Even ignoring modern history and law, in no reality did Hamas "start" anything.
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  12018.  @1Hogman1zz  Someone whose an agnostic, as Huxley described, and not some new redefinition.
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  12019.  @1Hogman1zz  Thomas Huxley, Darwin's Bulldog, the one who introduced the terms "agnostic" and "agnosticism".
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  12020.  @1Hogman1zz  You also believe a $15 min wage will make a fillet o fish cost over $20. Just saying.
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  12021. ​ @momoneyinvesting  Right about what? Trump had more border crossings in 2019, than any year in over a decade before. Averaged out, he had more border crossings per year than Obama. He sucks at the one thing racists voted for him to do. 90% of drugs come through points of entry. 80% of drug traffickers are Americans. Cartels aren't as dumb as MAGA. They use people who are least likely to be stopped, not the most likely to be stopped. They don't want their product swept downriver, lying in a desert, or tossed in detention. Undocumented immigrants commit crimes at half the rate of natural born citizens. They try to stay out of trouble, so they aren't tossed out. Florida just decided there are plenty enough jobs for children to compete with adults for full time jobs, at 85% of minimum wage. Johnson not only claims there's plenty enough jobs and space for hundreds of thousands of extra unwanted babies per year, but they're actually needed to keep SS and Medicare afloat. Absolutely nothing MAGA says about immigrants is "right".
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  12022. Nu is the primordeal waters, father of the Egyptian Gods, and the earliest creation story. This is the God you think has been scientifically proven by the big bang theory? Based on all the proveably false aspects of the earliest creation stories, what makes you sure these stories were based on science?
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  12023.  @vlada  "Russiagate", that indicated 26 Russians and 3 Russian companies, and only didn't indict Jr and Kushner because it would be hard to prove they "willfully" broke the law, not because they didn't break the law ... that "Russiagate"? Bernie calling the ousting of Morales a "coup" ... https://thehill.com/policy/international/americas/471180-sanders-doubles-down-on-bolivia-coup-few-follow-suit Bernie praising the people of Bolivia for restoring democracy against the coup ... https://www.sanders.senate.gov/in-the-news/bernie-sanders-applauds-people-of-bolivia-for-year-long-fight-to-restore-democracy-in-wake-of-military-coup/ Bernie, who refused to recognize Guaido as Venezuela's president and who, along with AOC, has been trying to get sanctions, which he didn't agree with in the first place, loosened? You seem to be pulling shit out of your ass.
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  12024.  @residentgrey  A public option isn't better. Any kind of insurance is better with a larger risk pool, for one. For another, having a set premium to opt into, means it's harder to make paying for it progressive, by allowing the rich to opt out of paying into it.
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  12025. Obligations on those who work in the justice system, and on juries of citizens, are directly in the constitution. And, yes, the population increasing would increase the manpower needed to adhere to some of those obligations. Not sure how increasing the population would change a healthcare mandate. Likewise, it would just increase the manpower needed. According to the World Bank: The US is 52nd in doctors per capita. The US is 26th in nurses and midwives per capita. The US is 82nd in hospital beds per capita. Plenty of single payer countries beat them in supply.
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  12026. Since Israel has killed magnitudes more civilians, including children, then what does that count as?
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  12027.  @bubasmollett8610  Rofl, it's not a record "high", dumb dumb.
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  12028.  @007kingifrit  Nice strawman. I asked about Trump. Where is he, when it comes time to take credit for historic drops?
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  12029.  @bubasmollett8610  Almost every president has record highs, during their presidencies. It's not even something worth bragging about. It's kind of like bragging about having the highest population during your presidency.
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  12030.  @fm-nz2vl  The first vaccine out of the gate had absolutely nothing to do with ows, and other vaccines around the world came out around the same time as ones that did. Ows did absolutely nothing to speed up the development process. It was mainly about acquisition and distribution, and dimwit Dumpty didn't acquire enough and started distributing it at a snails pace considering he had months to prepare.
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  12031. Yeah, every drunk person carrying a gun sounds like a great idea.
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  12032.  @pforce9  In other words, you don't give two shits about anyone but you. How would you "outshoot" a stray bullet?
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  12033.  @margaretcooke9298  Truth is you're a hypocrite, if you aren't also anti IVF, and don't consider every sperm sacred, living cells that can become a child.
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  12034.  @margaretcooke9298  Hypocrite
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  12035. Knowledge = a justified true BELIEF
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  12036.  @migarsormrapophis2755  My "bizarre political ideology" is socialist. It's one of the very reason private property rights suck. You absolutely, 100%, don't have a right to be on someone else's private property, therefore you don't have a right to be on their private property spewing whatever you want. If you want free speech rights, like you get in an actual public square, then push for public ownership. I'm just stating the facts of private property rights. You have to be completely ignorant, to think you have a right to be on someone else's private property (privately owned servers). Absolutely no right wing private property pushers believe you have a right to be on their private property. That is completely antithetical to private property. Without a right to be on the property, you don't actually have any other rights, on that property. They can kick you off it, whenever they want, for whatever reason they want, including if you say something they don't like. You have some strange notion of right wingers, if you think they're fine with people coming on their property, whenever they want, and blather about whatever they want to.
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  12037.  @migarsormrapophis2755  I'm really still baffled by how ignorant you have to be, to think ancappers, who think protecting their property is up to them, and often promote wanting the right to shoot people for trespassing on their property, believe you have a right to be on their property saying whatever you want.
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  12038.  @migarsormrapophis2755  You're a strawman spewwing dunce, who can't tell the difference between someone simply stating the facts about private property ownership and them supporting private property ownership. I, literally, stated those facts are why private property ownership sucks. Learn to read.
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  12039.  @migarsormrapophis2755  There's no such thing as free speech rights on someone else's private property, dimwit. That it's private property already negated having any rights on their property. Man you're slow.
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  12040.  @mikebanks2176  Are you a hypocrite who worships a penisless "god" being, that uses masculine gender terminology, and transitioned into a human male for a time? Or, are you simply a dimwit, who doesn't know the difference between sex and gender? Gender represents a persona, that often does, but doesn't have to, match a person's biology. The definition of a "woman" is for English class, or social studies, not science class. There are multiple dictionary definitions for "woman", including some you probably wouldn't like. Check out the various definitions given by the Cambridge dictionary. Even the definition of the scientific term, "female", needs a revamping, because it would exclude people with xx chromosomes, that can't produce eggs. Likewise, "male" would exclude people with xy chromosomes, that can't produce sperm.
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  12041. You're spouting nonsense. States with less gun control tend to have higher firearm mortality rates and homicide rates.
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  12042.  @MsBhappy  Yang's version is also flawed in his primary funding method. A VAT is specifically designed to not tax businesses in order to avoid double taxation. If you don't have giant corporations paying into the dividend, they only get the benefits of the dividend being spent, making them even richer, and having money end up flowing to the top even faster than it already is. Not all UBIs are the same, as he pretends they are.
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  12043.  @loisfolk5492  If the US got its costs down to the OECD average, or even to levels for any country below Canada, the same taxes you're already paying into public healthcare, could cover everybody. The extra $5000-$6000 per person, you're spending, could go back in your pockets. https://www.oecd.org/media/oecdorg/directorates/directorateforemploymentlabourandsocialaffairs/health/Health-expenditure-per-capita-2015.JPG
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  12044. Yes, that is the Agnostic position. I don't believe, because I see no evidence (knowledge).
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  12045.  @expendable4h002  Oh my, why would that be?
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  12046.  @expendable4h002  And there are all kinds of mandates, in life, to try and minimize those risks. I think you ignored the one to wear a hard hat on a construction site.
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  12047. Yeah, giant cities should be in less fertile areas. We keep growing into, and destroying, land that can be used to grow food.
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  12048.  @chrisd_man2156  Nope. That would be you, ignrms. The Haitians were actually invited. You lot used to pretend you weren't rcsts, by saying you were fine with legal entry imm. Now you've all shown the truth.
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  12049.  calo10able  63% of FOX viewers think Trump has done an excellent job in response to the coronavirus. Proof the majority of FOX viewers are morons.
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  12050. ​ @79EBHS  AI generating fake black supporters is weirder.
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  12051.  @79EBHS  Weird is having to use AI to create fake black friends.
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  12052. You will magically beat Trump, then free Gaza ... but let Russia occupy Ukraine ... with a congress that can easily send whatever aid it wants to Israel, and override whatever presidential veto it wants, due to the amount of congressional support?
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  12053. Ironically, slavery didn't survive British common law, in England proper. British colonies were worse than their parent country, including the American colonies, and, later, the independent US. It's stupid to only start counting at independence. Canada could say it had zero years of slavery and no war about it, after independence. Turkey could say it abolished slavery in under 80 years, with no civil war over it, after independence. Both of those sound better, and there are plenty more young countries.
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  12054. If helping to remove corporate Dems from office is what the Democratic party wants, then maybe they aren't so bad.
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  12055.  @jasonrollins8217  Help yourself.
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  12056. And yet TYT have continued to support the likes of Bernie, Nina, AOC, and other progressives. Contrast that with Peter Thiel funding Rumble and the push to make the Republican party even more Trumpist. Rumble, in turn, paid Glenn Greenwald and Tulsi to join their platform, and I would bet Jimmy Dore, as well ... people who have abandoned progressives.
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  12057. Yeah, not how it works. States with less gun control tend to have higher firearm mortality rates. https://www.cdc.gov/nchs/pressroom/sosmap/firearm_mortality/firearm.htm
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  12058.  @MrDaniell1234  Do you have reading comprehension problems?
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  12059.  @MrDaniell1234  Not sure how to make it more clear. Is there a specific word you're having troubles with?
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  12060. Lol, so many insane people here.
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  12061. ​ @ranzilberman Rofl. The "Palestinian people" were not invited back. They were going to allow like 10%, from split families, back.
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  12062.  @ranzilberman  What a load of sh*t. There was a province/political district there, with hundreds of thousands of people living in it. Even though California isn't a country, you can sure as hell go colonize half of California and cleanse the land of Californians, taking their land. You've just erased almost the entirety of colonialism, everywhere, because natives hadn't filed the proper paperwork, with the proper authorities.
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  12063.  @ranzilberman  I'm not the one arguing a people didn't exist, racist. We're all homo sapiens, from Africa ... therefore it's okay to "go back" to Africa and take it all, that it's impossible to colonize Africa? That's equivalent to what a moronic 1700 year old "right of return" is based on. Oh, but you don't want it belonging to the Romans, so it's actually a "return" to some 3000 year old nation, that only existed for 500 years out of thousands of years of history. Are we going to "return" everyone to thay specific ancient 500 year span of time? I, in no way, argued that it would be reasonable for me to round up 6 million people from the Americas, whose ancestors left England hundreds of years ago, "go back", claim half of England, and cleanse "our" half of its current inhabitants. I think that's an absolutely ridiculous notion. Canaan was a collection of city states, and not a nation. Egypt was the first nation to rule over Canaan. If you want to moronically return to some kind of "origin" nation, why not let the actual original ruling nation have it? Here's your history lesson, racist ...  c. 450 BCE, Herodotus: "From there they marched against Egypt: and when they were in the part of Syria called Palestine, Psammetichus king of Egypt met them and persuaded them with gifts and prayers to come no further." "But I myself saw them in the Palestine district of Syria, with the aforesaid writing and the women's private parts on them." "in this province was all Phoenicia, and the part of Syria called Palestine, and Cyprus." "These Phoenicians formerly dwelt, as they themselves say, by the Red Sea; they crossed from there and now inhabit the seacoast of Syria. This part of Syria as far as Egypt is all called Palestine." c. 340 BCE, Aristotle: "Again if, as is fabled, there is a lake in Palestine, such that if you bind a man or beast and throw it in it floats and does not sink, this would bear out what we have said." Both well before the Romans.
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  12064.  @ranzilberman  The ancient history argument is nonsensical and irrelevant. Returning the world to 3000 BCE is insane. By every relevant measure, Israel is objectively the aggressor ... Modern history: 100 years ago, in 1923, Ze'ev Jabotinsky fully acknowledged that Zionism is colonialism, and that, based on the entirety of history, that the natives would fight it until the bitter end. He just didn't care what would happen to them, and promoted doing it anyway. Colonizers are never not the aggressors. On top of the colonialist nature of Zionism, the Zionists also formed terrorist organizations, like the Irgun and Lehi. They bombed many Palestinian markets and other public places, murdering many civilians, including children, even including Palestinian Jews (who opposed Zionism). Israel merged those terrorists into the new nation's military and intelligence agencies. Israelis elected Menachem Begin, leader of the Irgun, child murderer, Jew murderer, and bomber of the King David Hotel, as PM. Israelis, to this day, celebrate those terrorists as "heroes". Zionists literally taught their neighbours that terrorism is a valid path to independence and statehood, and that terrorists are to be celebrated. In 1945, it is well documented that Zionists owned just 5% of the land and were a majority nowhere. Israel was formed by actually going against the majority population. It's foundation is completely undemocratic. Then, becoming a majority, in "your" new nation, by ethnic cleansing the actual majority, and then claiming to be democratic, is utter nonsense. Law: Israel is considered an occupier by the International Court, the UN GA, and the UN SC. Occupiers are also never not the aggressors. Those occupied actually have a right to resist occupation. On the flip side, it is illegal for the occupier to settle occupied lands, and illegal to use collective punishment. Israel is a rogue nation, that doesn't abide by international law. What it has been doing, and is doing now, is illegal. Current events: This year, alone, prior to Oct 7 ... Israel held over 1200 Palestinian hostages without charges ... over 200 Palestinians had been killed by the IDF and settlers ... over 1000 Palestinians had been displaced by Israel's neverending colonization of the West Bank ... and, Israel continued to operate an open air WWII style fascist ghetto. Even ignoring modern history and law, in no reality did Hamas "start" anything.
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  12065.  @brunoantony9257  Firstly, I didn't state what solution I support, so you're an idiot for assuming one. Secondly, you're an idiot for not knowing the difference between immigration and colonization.
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  12066.  @ranzilberman  The British were the backers for having people from Europe and Russia colonize Palestine. Then they revolted, like American colonialists, but instead used terrorism against the British, and Palestinians.
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  12067.  @erickdavid2412  Oh, please do explain how. 😂
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  12068. ​ @apoc5000  Being anti-Nazi doesn't equate to being anti-German, dumb dumb. Kanye is straight up anti "German".
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  12069.  @ace9resistance  Corrupted crony capitalism is still capitalism.
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  12070. It's not a Bible, dumb dumb. It can be amended, and amendments can be further amended. You obviously don't want an amendment free constitution, right?
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  12071. "TIHM also holds direct ownership of the THC China Development company which, in 2017, experienced an "unusually large spike" of $17.5 million in revenue for "management fees and other contract payments." The millions were more income than the company had made during the last five years combined. Also in 2017, Trump reportedly withdrew $15.1 million from the company's capital account." https://www.newsweek.com/obama-blasts-trump-over-secret-chinese-bank-account-theyd-call-me-beijing-barry-1541165 Eric Branstad https://theintercept.com/2020/10/15/eric-branstad-trump-china-ambassador/ Woman With Chinese Government Connections Bought Jared And Ivanka’s Penthouse https://www.forbes.com/sites/chasewithorn/2019/01/17/woman-with-chinese-government-connections-bought-jared-and-ivankas-penthouse/ Ivanka https://www.forbes.com/sites/tommybeer/2020/09/22/ivankas-trademark-requests-were-fast-tracked-in-china-after-trump-was-elected/ The following isn't corruption, but does go against his America first, and anti-China, branding ... Trump-owned properties in the US have imported more than 8 tons of Chinese goods since September https://www.businessinsider.com/trump-owned-properties-imported-more-than-8-tons-of-chinese-goods-2020-7
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  12072. ​ @Miapetdragon69 But the M&Ms complaint was that they were desexualizing, by wearing runners instead of heels. These morons can't make up their minds.
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  12073.  @bruggeman672  How is trans representation "illegal race based discrimination"? Did you even watch the video?
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  12074.  @pmstff700  If they had ruled it unconstitutional, they wouldn't have let the government require anyone to be vaccinated. They ruled the OSHA part was stretching its jurisdiction. Oh no, myocarditis! Except, the rate of myocarditis was 7-11x higher after catching COVID, than after getting the vaccine.
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  12075.  @judobongobuck  Why are you tagging me, with that question?
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  12076. ​ @memyselfandi8544  Not many channels are better than this one, for covering the thousands of deaths, dumb dumb.
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  12077. ​ @sk8fyshbyk923  Is that the same "other side" that believes centrism equates to all out communism/socialism? Dumpty, and the majority of congressional Republicans, tried to overthrow the democratic process, proving they're fascists. That "other side" is objectively disconnected from reality.
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  12078. She went to Orangeburg Preparatory Schools, which were literally founded for white kids to avoid desegregation. She had no black friends.
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  12079. Any guesses on what that might be?
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  12080.  @gw3981  How is threatening people with eternity in hell, if you don't do as they say, not worse than threatening some jail time?
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  12081.  Crissi Loves Horses  Yeah, no ... they're just obviously a cult of assholes, led by an asshole. Don't see any evidence of anti-Christs.
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  12082.  @gw3981  "Again I tell you, it is easier for a camel to go through the eye of a needle than for someone who is rich to enter the kingdom of God."
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  12083.  @gw3981  "So also faith by itself, if it does not have works, is dead."
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  12084.  Jo Bill  Yeah, I'm not sure how many Americans know what a mixed economy is a mix of, or what centrism is supposed to be in the centre of. A country like Saudi might still count as 100% capitalist, since the entire country is privately owned.
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  12085. A kid who has heard from friends that Santa doesn't exist, believes them, he then actively sneaks down to try and catch his parents and tries to prove the non-exitence of Santa Claus. No? Claim from friends: Santa doesn't exist Belief stage: Believes friends, believes Santa doesn't exist. Knowledge stage: Catches parents in the act. Proves the non-existence of Santa Claus. Do we really need to do the Tooth Fairy next?
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  12086.  @masaitheguy  AOC just finished campaigning for Bernie with his M4A, and backing 20 other pro-M4A candidates, helping to add a few more M4A yes votes to congress. Meanwhile, Dore was backing Tulsi with her "Medicare choice" and didn't care if 10m of the poorest Americans might lose their Medicaid expansion or care to add 40m older Americans to Medicare. But, yeah, he's the one true champion of healthcare. lol
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  12087.  @masaitheguy  Dore flapped his gums from his garage. Either using social media to push progressive ideas and to challenge people doesn't count as fighting, or it does ... which is it? Haven't Dore knobs been claiming AOC using social media doesn't count as fighting? Even the broader progressive caucus isn't the majority of house Dems. The Dem caucus gets to pick their speaker candidate by simple majority. Who else was going to be speaker? There are zero extra outside party votes in the neighborhood of the most progressive members, and none to the left of them. There are some 40 Republicans with ideology voting scores similar to the 20 most right wing Dems, and the entire rest of the Republican party to the right of them. If push comes to shove, there are more votes to be lost, or gained, on the right. Progressives can only push things as far left as the right of the party is willing to go. In a standoff, the right side has more power. You Dore knobs are the ones making out like a dipshit comedian is the one true champion of healthcare. He doesn't actually give a crap.
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  12088.  @InfactBased  Not a thing I said. Did you take strawmanning 101 from Dore?
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  12089. ​ @ericw2229  Anti-Nazi isn't anti-German, dumb dumb.
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  12090.  @alabamaman1684  I did miss it. And I'm not Pelosi. You lied about me and drank your own wad about it. That has been established. All the weapons on videos and in images, are clearly established, and undebatabely present. Pipe bombs and a working gallows, that require a lot of preparation, are clearly established. And, you've now helped establish that, Trump is a lying twit, who spent months inciting people with zero evidence.
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  12091.  @alabamaman1684  ... aside from the pictures and videos of weapons being there, including ones that took considerable prep time. Yep. You lied about me. But, you've made clear that your statement applies to Trump, and yourself.
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  12092.  @alabamaman1684  You're still lying about me, by including me with "y'all". You keep proving, again and again, that your own words apply to yourself. And you've clearly established they apply to Trump. Well done. Right. Right. Can't believe our own eyes.
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  12093.  @allprogressivesarechildgro7761  Racism? I do not think it means what you think it means.
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  12094.  @smartass0124  Mussolini was officially booted from the socialist party, and then created a fascist party which he clearly stated was the opposite of socialism. Are you arguing people can't change? Trump was a Democrat. Is he still a Democrat, no matter what he says? Capitalism is being privately owned and operated. It, literally, doesn't ensure equal opportunity.
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  12095. Agnosticism is skepicism towards theological matters. I don't think it is possible to both believe that a proposition is true, and doubt (be skeptical) that proposition is true. Therefore, once you've commited to belief, you are no longer Agnostic, making Agnosticism describe the default position of no belief, no knowledge, quite adequately.
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  12096. Her parents sent her to a prep school that was literally founded for white kids to avoid desegregation. Her family likely are amongst those racist Indians.
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  12097. Realistically, Yang is either completely ignorant, or completely dishonest, about how a VAT actually works, and would have had money flowing to the very top faster than ever before. He's either a major grifter, or an ignoramus.
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  12098.  @wilsonlincoln280  What are you prattling on about? Reps do the same thing, vote red no matter who.
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  12099.  @MrClassicmetal  Just how dmwtd are you lot? If all blue votes were green, it would have turned out the same.
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  12100. Reading what the average is, and knowing you're getting above average?
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  12101. Ask him if he has learned that a VAT doesn't tax businesses, a tax he was completely clueless about but still ready to lay on the entire nation.
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  12102.  @newbieprepper8451  Yeah, it's hard to count all the refugee boats flowing out of Denmark.
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  12103.  @whatareyoulookingat908  Their God is a sexless being that uses masculine gender terminology, who transitioned into a human male for a bit.
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  12104.  @jackdawcaw4514  The "knowing" an experience would be objectivity. Subjectivity would be the feelings, opinions, and decisions, said experience might generate. Sure, there may be some species, somewhere, that are all connected and share the exact same feelings and opinions about every single thing, but not us humans. Even then, that species would be acting as a single collective ... a single "self". A computer could record, and "know" an experience, but it wouldn't have its own feelings, or opinions, on the matter ... something Sam also doesn't seem to grasp, judging by his AI will take over the world fear mongering. His self is filled with all kinds of subjective fears, that he expresses in a calm, monotone, manner, giving the false appearance that his self is acting rationally.
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  12105.  @brutussmithers3777  You're insane.
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  12106.  @dirkdiggler7277  Conservative religious types have been cancelling things and people for centuries, and have never been hesitant to use the law to do it. There is still an FCC protecting delicate conservative sensibilities from naughty words and nipples. Right wingers have made anti-bds laws. They try to make it harder, or more dangerous, to protest. They're making laws to cancel local mask mandates. They're making laws to cancel voters. And that's on top of them also attempting to use public pressure to get people fired, boycott businesses, etc.
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  12107.  @dabblerdeluxe775  Pretty sure the planning and zoning administrator is a voice out of Yellow Springs, and one that knows exactly how the process works.
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  12108. Cancelling used to get enshrined into laws, more, and usually by the more right wing misogynistic racist Christian fundamentalist types. All kinds of laws cancelling what women were allowed to do and wear. All kinds of laws cancelling what minorities were allowed to do. All kinds of laws cancelling not following sexuality and gender norms. The government behind multiple Red Scares, blacklisting socialists, etc., etc.
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  12109. Joe Rogan fans are really ignorant and not open to educating themselves.
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  12110.  @llatew7126  But it's the Jewish people that suffered oppression, then turned around and became resistance "terrorists" (Irgun & Lehi) and colonialists, ethnic cleansers and occupiers, fascists running open air ghettos, etc. They have become very much what they ran from. There came a point when Native American "savages" wanted to push the Europeans back into the sea, but they had pretty good reasons to feel that way. Not all resistance "extremists" will become themselves Hitler. Israel may be causing a cycle, but they're currently in the Hitler position. Palestinians are ironically in the Jewish position.
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  12111. ​ @freemanpense2782  "Joseph Eustice, a 32-year veteran of the guard who led the same battalion as Walz, said the governor fulfilled his duty. "He was a great soldier," Eustice said. "When he chose to leave, he had every right to leave." Eustice said claims to the contrary are ill-informed and possibly sour grapes by a soldier who was passed over for the promotion to command sergeant major that went to Walz. … Like Walz, Eustice said that he also left in the middle of a six-year re-enrollment because members are free to leave at any time after their initial six-year stint. "If you choose to re-up, you can walk in any day and be done," Eustice said."
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  12112.  @kinghassy334  You left off savings, and other non VATable spending. Also, not enough into healthcare and housing (32% = $48k). Food at home: mostly non VATable Food at restaurants: VATable (5.4%) Housing: non VATable Utilities: VATable (4.8%) Clothes and shoes: non VATable? (is Yang exempting shoes?) Transportation & gasoline: Has he said? Not VATable in many countries. Healthcare: non VATable Entertainment: VATable (5.7%) Education: non VATable Retirement: non VATable So about 16% of their income ($24k) will be VATable, and get you $2.4k. They get back $12k, leaving them $9.6k in the plus. Even if we about double that, to 30% of income being VATable, a household wouldn't start paying in more than they get back until they hit $400k+. And, that's without a spouse. A two adult household wouldn't start paying in more until they hit $800k+. A single adult household wouldn't pay in enough for themselves and one other person until $800k. A two adult household wouldn't pay in enough for themselves and two other people until $1.6m. https://www.npr.org/sections/money/2012/08/01/157664524/how-the-poor-the-middle-class-and-the-rich-spend-their-money
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  12113. ​ @MrSilvertech  "Fascism is the complete opposite of Marxian socialism." ~ Mussolini Trump, and the majority of Republicans in congress, tried to overthrow the democratic process to install an unelected dictator. How are they not fascists?
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  12114. ​ @m6a1u57  What are you blathering about? Almost the entire Republican party, at all levels of government, have gone MAGA, as well as the largest mainstream media corporation on the planet.
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  12115.  @Emjaemidd  If I round up 6 million people from the Americas, whose ancestors left England hundreds of years ago, and we go back and demand half the country, and force half the population off those lands, we'd be colonialists.
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  12116.  @Emjaemidd  They are also still colonizing, using the blueprint for colonizing North America. Move settlements out into native territory, piss off the natives, the natives react violently, cry that poor "innocent" settlers have been attacked by "Savages!", calling the cavalry to squash the native uprising, and expand the border to include the settlements. Rinse and repeat. They should feel guilty.
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  12117.  @andrewtaynton3402  The two state was imposed on Palestinians. They never agreed to it, and clearly haven't been fond of it.
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  12118.  @Emjaemidd  Palestinians have Canaanite DNA, ffs, and have a close genetic relationship to Jews. There was most definitely a land of Philistia, comprising 5 city states, around the same time as the Kingdoms of Israel and Judea. Israel was wiped out by the Assyrians, and Judea and Philistia were conquered by the Babylonians. Even the more modern version of the word has been around for centuries. "c. 450 BCE: Herodotus, The Histories[57], First historical reference clearly denoting a wider region than biblical Philistia, referring to a "district of Syria, called Palaistinê"[58][11][59]" Doesn't matter if there's a country. Someone from Michigan is a Michigander. Someone from Detroit is a Detroiter. Was there a Palestine political district? Yes. People from that would be Palestinians. "c. 1000: Suda encyclopedic lexicon: "Παλαιστίνη: ὄνομα χώρας. καὶ Παλαιστι̂νος, ὁ ἀπὸ Παλαιστίνης." / "Palestine: Name of a territory. Also [sc. attested is] Palestinian, a man from Palestine.[205]" "1177: John Phocas, A Brief Description of the Castles and Cities, from the City of Antioch even unto Jerusalem; also of Syria and Phoenicia, and of the Holy Places in Palestine[213][214]" "c. 1350: Guidebook to Palestine (a manuscript primarily based on the 1285–1291 account of Christian pilgrim Philippus Brusserius Savonensis): "It [Jerusalem] is built on a high mountain, with hills on every side, in that part of Syria which is called Judaea and Palestine, flowing with milk and honey, abounding in corn, wine, and oil, and all temporal goods"[221]" "1560: Geneva Bible, the first mass-produced English-language Bible, translates the Hebrew פלשת Pleshet as "Palestina" (e.g. Ex. 15:14; Isa. 14:29, 31) and "Palestina"[233]" "1563: Josse van Lom, physician of Philip II of Spain: A treatise of continual fevers: "Therefore the Scots, English, Livonians, Danes, Poles, Dutch and Germans, ought to take less blood away in winter than in summer; on the contrary, the Portuguese, Moors, Egyptians, Palestinians, Arabians, and Persians, more in the winter than in summer"[236]" "1779: George Sale, Ancient Part of Universal History: "How Judæa came to be called also Phœnice, or Phœnicia, we have already shewn in the history of that nation. At present, the name of Palestine is that which has most prevailed among the Christian doctors, Mahommedan and other writers. (See Reland Palestin. illustrat.)"[305]" "1841: John Kitto, Palestine: the Physical Geography and Natural History of the Holy Land, Illustrated with Woodcuts.[351][352]" "1897: First Zionist Congress: the Basel program sets out the goals of the Zionist movement: "Zionism aims at establishing for the Jewish people a publicly and legally assured home in Palestine"" "1902: Salim Qub‘ayn and Najib Nassar, "A Palestinian describes Palestinian towns."[390][398]" "1915: VIII Corps (Ottoman Empire), Filastin Risalesi ("Palestine Document"), an Ottoman army country survey which formally identified Palestine as including the sanjaqs of Akka (the Galilee), the Sanjaq of Nablus, and the Sanjaq of Jerusalem (Kudus Sherif).[407][408]" "1918: House of Commons of the United Kingdom: Minutes: "Major Earl Winterton asked the Secretary of State for Foreign Affairs what facilities have been given to the Palestinian and Syrian political leaders now in Egypt to visit Palestine?"[410] An early use of the word Palestinian in British politics, which was used often in following years in the British government[411]" You'd have to be a complete and utter moron, to actually believe that Palestine or Palestinians didn't exist.
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  12119.  @Emjaemidd  The ones they had been living in for about 1500 years, that gave them refuge from Christian extremists, before Zionist colonialism came along? That was a nice thank you. It happened to piss people off. You're also leaving out the part where the new nation of Israel went looking to move them to Israel. "After independence, the government presented the Knesset with a plan to double the Jewish population within four years. This meant bringing in 600,000 immigrants in a four-year period. or 150,000 per year. Absorbing 150,000 newcomers annually under the trying conditions facing the new state was a heavy burden indeed. Opponents in the Jewish Agency and the government of mass immigration argued that there was no justification for organizing large-scale emigration among Jews whose lives were not in danger, particularly when the desire and motivation were not their own."
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  12120.  @dustinsindledecker154  She doesn't think "Palestinians" exist.
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  12121.  @Emjaemidd  Lying racist.
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  12122.  @jstout333  80 years includes all the post internet years, btw, dumb dumb. Third parties still aren't winning any seats.
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  12123.  @whyamimrpink78  At minimum, there's the multiple times Proud Boys have been arrested, charged, and convicted, for violent crimes. But, they're just a small group in a larger movement, that includes extreme right wingers, and white supremacists, who are shooting up mosques, shooting up synagogues, shooting up black churches, who are responsible for the rise in hate crimes, etc. Surely you'd want the whole lot labeled terrorists.
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  12124.  @ThatOpalGuy  Did you read what I was replying to, dumb dumb?
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  12125.  @Jcewazhere  It's almost 100 votes short of even passing the house. Yeah, there's no risk in those saying they're for it, voting for it, even if they're fakers. And there will already be a new list of people who don't sign onto M4A when the bill is reintroduced in the new session. Not sure what trying to ferret out a few fakers would even accomplish, when you already have almost 100 people that need replacing.
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  12126.  @aretwodeetoo1181  It's already known that almost 100 need replacing. If Dore has 100 new pro-M4A candidates in his back pocket, he should have pulled them out for the elections that just happened. I'm sure AOC would have used her platform and PAC to help get them elected, as she just did with other pro-M4A candidates. You don't have to force a vote to get someone on record saying they're opposed to M4A. It took a single reporter's question to get Biden to say he'd veto M4A.
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  12127.  @weneedcriticalthinking  Yes, just backing Bernie (M4A) and helping to add more M4A yes votes to congress, going against the DCCC ... total betrayal. Meanwhile, the champion of M4A was backing Tulsi (public option), but then ran attack ads against Biden (public option + Medicare age decrease) which could only benefit Trump (complete ACA repeal). You Dore knobs are backwards as fuck.
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  12128. ​ @DaveRidgway-b9n 🤮
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  12129. You lost me. If they stopped supporting racist politicians, why would they still be considered racist? To continue is just evidence the label is correct. Just stop.
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  12130.  @bonlouis8808  So, no answer. Have a nice day.
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  12131.  @bonlouis8808  Nice strawman. You appear to be an idiot.
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  12132.  @bonlouis8808  Hello? Can you point out where I stated what you claim is "my" definition and premise? You appear to have made those up for me in your head, and argued against what you made up ... textbook strawman.
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  12133. That argument didn't age well ... for Harris. Sorry fanboys. "MN took some time to convince me — But through this keyhold aperture he finally led me to see that there is no true Islam." ~ Sam Harris
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  12134. Can the rest of the world sue the pants off of the US, yet? Gotta love the right wing charge to bankrupt the US, to own the libs.
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  12135.  John Farson  Rofl. You prefer Trump's "record high" nonsense? Almost every president in the history of the stock market has overseen "record high" numbers. It's kind of like bragging that the population hit "record high" numbers during your presidency. So, you're using a different poll, that has 78% saying he should concede, at least when his bullshit court cases don't pan out, and over a quarter of Republicans wanting all out fascism?
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  12136.  John Farson  Yes, that's why I said "Trump's", dimwit. Ironic about the reading comprehension statement. 27% not wanting him to concede under any circumstances, going against the election, would be fascism (which doesn't ban commerce).
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  12137. The thing about democracies is that policies are the result of what the majority voted for, or against. Did the majority of slave holding states repeatedly vote for racist pro slavery candidates? Did they vote against any abolitionists? Did they vote for secessionists? Did they vote against unionists? Did they later vote for segregationists? Did they vote against desegregationists? They were pretty clearly racist majority states, for some 200 years (and that's not counting colonial times), and it's highly unlikely that a centuries old racist majority, that didn't voluntarily change, up and stopped being racist in just 50 years. There seems to be a lot of crossover with the same areas voting to protect billionaires from being taxed. It's like they have the mentality that one day they could be a billionaire and wouldn't want all their billions taken. Similarly, the past voters were likely dreaming about the day they would also be rich slave owners. Also, one thing the US did was stop importing slaves. So, they bread most of their own, like cattle. Who was selling what, to whom, over in Africa, became irrelevant to the fact that black Americans, almost exclusively, were targeted for lifelong multigenerational chattel slavery, in the US.
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  12138. @Mr Veep Doesn't much matter how many Republicans say they approve of Manchin. They won't vote for him, come election time. How is his favorability with Democratic voters, in his district?
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  12139. You mean like helping to add more M4A yes votes to congress? Good.
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  12140.  @ruby_fox  Yeah, like a "party soldier" that just helped replace some corporate Dems with pro-M4A progressives. Good.
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  12141.  @ruby_fox  I'm referring to your "progressives" and "party soldier". If she turns out like someone who just backed 20 other pro-M4A progressives, helped take out a few more corporate Dems, and helped add a few more M4A yes votes to congress, then what's the big problem?
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  12142. To me, that's like saying all American's should mark themselves as African-Americans on any documents, because everyone actually comes from Africa...even though they may have been incorrectly labelled European somewhere along the line.
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  12143.  @dogsenseforu301  Tulsi included Turkey as an "Islamist" nation, ffs. She's clearly using a very broad brush.
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  12144. This "smart person" believes in a formless sexless being referred to as "he", "him", or "father", but still doesn't grasp the difference between sex and gender.
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  12145.  @Poeticfloetic  “If Hitler just wanted to make Germany great and have things run well — OK, fine. The problem is he had dreams outside of Germany. He wanted to globalize." ~ Candace Owens That was "the problem" with Hitler? Attempted coup ... cool. Murder ... cool. Ending democracy ... cool. Tossing people in camps ... cool. Etc. Etc. All good ... until he started expanding his borders, which she ignorantly calls "globalization", that was "the problem" with Hitler.
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  12146.  @angryinky  Mine gets hidden too.
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  12147.  @AdamtheRed-  She won't win, without enough votes, and Trump cost hundreds of thousands of preventable dths, last time around.
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  12148.  @AdamtheRed-  Are you sure? Letting Trump win, last time, led to hundreds of thousands of preventable d e a t h s.
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  12149.  @AdamtheRed-  Are you sure? Letting Trump win, last time, led to hundreds of thousands of preventable d . . t h s.
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  12150.  @AdamtheRed-  Are you sure? Letting Dumpty win, last time, led to hundreds of thousands of preventable d . . . . s.
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  12151.  @AdamtheRed-  For sure? Letting Dumpty win, last time, led to hundreds of thousands of preventable d . . . . s.
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  12152.  @AdamtheRed-  Really? Letting Diaper Don win, last time, led to hundreds of thousands of preventable .......
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  12153.  @AdamtheRed-   For sure? Letting the fcst win, last time, led to hndrds of thsnds of preventable d . . . . s.
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  12154. It is manufactured by not speeding up the process at the point of entry. It is manufactured by not speeding up the process at non point of entry. It is manufactured by, instead slowing down the process and even going to court to fight to detain them indefinitely, which would make matters even worse. It is manufactured by treating them as criminals, rather than people in need.
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  12155. Who are the champions of private property rights? Who gave giants corporations so much power? Who decided corporations are people, could have their own beliefs, and could discriminate based on those beliefs? Stop crying if your creation is biting you in the ass.
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  12156. MAGA = go back to where you came from, because you don't think America is great now 8 years of whining about Obama = go back to where you came from Hypocritical morons.
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  12157. What are you even talking about? No such thing as a white culture. Europe was always full of different ethnicities and cultures, even when it was almost all white. The Irish and English fought over ethnicity and culture for centuries. As did the French and English. Etc. Hispanic Catholics have a culture imported from Europe, even if they aren't the same color. Making out like there's a white culture would be like making out as if those Chinese and Japanese have the same Asian culture.
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  12158. Freedom =/= good. Do you want to ditch all laws, and give people the freedom to do whatever they want? Which democratic leader promoted completely overthrowing the democratic process? Don't recall that happening.
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  12159.  @mak88119  You clearly don't know the definition of "murder". Both parties have supported vaccine mandates, for decades, both at the federal level, for immigrants, and at the state level, for public school kids. Abortions aren't contagious viruses that you can spread to others.
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  12160. By "Canada", you mean a German guy in Canada, who was repeatedly denied full citizenship, who the Canadian justice system charged multiple times, for spreading hate, who fled to the US, to get away from the Canadian justice system, who was deported by the US back to Canada, who deported him back to Germany.
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  12161.  @KaiCross  "Arab" doesn't literally mean an Arabian, dimwit. "Arab" is like "Hispanic". Palestinians have Canaanite DNA. They've been there since the land of Canaan. They aren't Iraqis, Turks, Egyptians, or anything else. There's no valid reason to ethnically cleanse them. There was a well documented 1700 year tour of Russia and Europe, dumb dumb. I can't round up 6 million people from the Americas whose ancestors left England hundreds of years ago, and go claim half of England. That's moronic. Zionist terrorists, like the Irgun and Lehi, actually targeted Palestinian Jews, who opposed Zionism. You don't get to claim people that opposed you, and that you killed, as a placeholder.
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  12162.  @marinacroy1338  Yeah, they are basically using the blueprint for the colonization of North America, in the West Bank. Move settlements out into native territory, piss off the natives, the natives react violently against the colonialism, then the colonizers act like the poor "innocent" victims of "Savages!", call in the cavalry to put down the native uprising, then expand the borders to include those settlements. Rinse and repeat.
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  12163. Trying to overthrow the democratic process crosses the line from being somewhat undemocratic to anti-democratic, which is the final box to be checked for all out fascism. But, yeah, proposing policies that would bring the US more in line with almost every other developed country is "too far left".
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  12164. Most sting operations are based solely on intent. Trump, FOX, and Republican politicians, are counting on their followers to be morons, and those followers are giving them what they want.
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  12165.  @scottsbarbarossalogic3665  Yes, but that basically covers everything that's not officially a monarchy. There have been, and are some, non democratic single party countries, that are "republics", where the party considers itself, or passes itself of as, a people's party.
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  12166. No bats to be seen.
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  12167. Yeah, helping to add more M4A yes votes to congress, the only way to ever pass the bill, is such a disappointment.
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  12168.  @WanderingIdiot81  Kyrsten Sinema was a fantasy perfectly perfect incorruptible third party candidate once. What's your point?
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  12169.  @WanderingIdiot81  Helping to increase the number of M4A yes votes in congress is action. It's exactly the kind of action that would still need doing even if there was a 100% guaranteed to fail performance art vote. Pretending it's inaction is dishonest. The $15 got a vote, actually passed the house (M4A didn't have a chance in hell), that Pelosi and the squad are members of, and also got a senate vote. Suddenly, just getting a vote on an important progressive policy, and getting a list of no voters, is completely useless ... just keep bitching about, and slandering, those who voted for it. FTVers have proven FTV was a sham, and that they're pathetic useless hypocrites. The capitol police don't actually patrol the streets enforcing the law. It's more of a security guard and bodyguard force. Pretending they're totally equivalent to a standard police force is dishonest. Piss off with the Israel bullshit. The squad have repeatedly voted against individual bills to send money to Israel, have introduced bills to put conditions on aid to Israel, have introduced bills against anti-BDS laws. They split votes on an annual foreign aid bill, of which Israel was a small percentage. It wasn't a straight up, Israel only, bill. The bill also included aid to Palestinians, as well as almost $60b in aid elsewhere.
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  12170.  @WanderingIdiot81  Man, you're dishonest. AOC used her platform and PAC to back 20 other pro-M4A progressives. She has always been friends with, and supported, Cori. The issue with that primary was politics, and the fact that Clay had signed onto the Green New Deal, so she didn't give her official endorsement and donation to Cori until the general. I get that Dore knobs don't care about burning bridges, but if Clay had won, AOC would still want that GND vote. In what reality do you think Manchin, and the other dipshit senators, would change their minds? If the senate and house disagree, then the bill goes to house-senate negotiation. Manchin could have offered concessions, and lowered the minimum to $10 (as some Republicans had proposed), to pick up enough Republican votes to ignore the squad. Where can the squad get extra votes from, if they lose Manchin's vote? There is the entire Republican party for Manchin to try and draw extra votes from, to the right of the party. There are zero extra votes to the left of the party. They don't have anywhere close to the same amount of power and leverage. Because corporate Dems outright running against M4A isn't enough? Them not signing onto the bill isn't enough? Again, FTVers proved they're pathetic useless hypocrites. They've already shown that they don't actually value getting a vote and getting a list of no voters. FTV was a complete sham. Progressives got the $15 to stay in for a round of voting. Not sure what other squad members asked for, but Pelosi did give AOC a shot at that committee seat she wanted. Those who voted, stabbed her in the front exactly because she had fought them and backed progressives against them in the primaries. Dore knobs then stab her in the back, falsely claiming she isn't fighting, even lying that she didn't back progressives in the primaries. She, and Bernie, were just backing Nina, campaigning for her, promoting M4A while they were at it, and trying to add another M4A yes vote to congress. Meanwhile, Dore abandoned Nina and abandoned adding another M4A yes vote to congress, and then slandered AOC and Bernie, claiming they were the ones who abandoned M4A. He's a dishonest grifter.
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  12171. ​​ @thefreestofspeech6951  One video of the cat woman, from Canton, that was a lifelong resident. Not Haitian. One picture of a guy with 2 geese, from Columbus, was removing them after they were hit by a car. No evidence he was Haitian. Springfield police say no credible reports of Haitians going after pets. Ohio Wildlife received 2 calls about Haitians and ducks/geese, in Springfield, but found no evidence. You know, Republicans used to pretend they weren't rcsts, by saying they were okay with legal entrants. Well, the Haitians are legal entrants. I wonder what it is, they don't like about them? 🤔
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  12172.  @nassaubahamas8570  Oops, got me. Must have had the early 2006 release date in my head. Still wasn't about cancer, dimwit. Let me get this straight, you don't, and never will, use a product by a company that has lost a lawsuit?
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  12173.  @nassaubahamas8570  Okay, so basically you take no name brand drugs, and you don't use any of the other products those companies make. A prescribed Rogan "kitchen sink", and most other prescribed drugs, plus Rogan supplements, would also be off the table. Have you gone back to the blood letting, hemlock, and wormwood, method, that kept everyone alive for a "long and healthy" 55 years? Do you also walk everywhere, or have you found an automobile manufacturer that hasn't lost a lawsuit?
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  12174.  @nassaubahamas8570  They've shown their results to drug agencies across the world. How can you trust anything?! You're claiming there was a 15 year cover up. Johnson's baby powder is 129 years old, ffs. If you can't trust the drug approval processes from countries around the world, and you can't trust the companies, and things can take years, even maybe over a century, to be discovered to be harmful, the "logical" conclusion should be to take none. Did you answer that you walk everywhere? Auto manufacturers have been sued a lot, recalled all kinds of things, and they're constantly adding new things to vehicles. The only "logical" conclusion should be that you're walking everywhere.
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  12175.  @nassaubahamas8570  You're moving the goalpost all over the place, and making exceptions for yourself. Stick to your principles, ffs. You're a hypocrite.
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  12176.  @nassaubahamas8570  You blathered on about lawsuits, and now say lawsuits are irrelevant, as long as your fee fees tell you that it's okay to take one of their drugs.
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  12177.  @mehrshadvr4  You have severe reading comprehension problems.
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  12178.  @mehrshadvr4  No, I'm just someone who knows how a VAT actually works. A VAT is specifically designed to NOT tax businesses in order to avoid double taxation (which would be worse anyway). Yang even linked to a pass through rate study that he didn't grasp, which showed consumers were paying the entire VAT. If you don't have giant corporations paying into the dividend, like Yang falsely kept claiming they would, then they only get the benefits of it being spent, funneling trillions more a year to the very top.
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  12179. ​ @steveleeart  Canada will, just like last time.
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  12180.  @douglashyslop2209  BLM has been around since Trayvon Martin was killed, and you have zero clue why they're upset? Really?
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  12181. ​ @Bobsbusters  Israel is the Nazis, dumb dumb. Israel is objectively the aggressor by every relevant measure (modern history, law, and current events) ... Modern history: With the Balfour declaration, Zionsim converted from something like immigration to colonization. 100 years ago, in 1923, Ze'ev Jabotinsky fully acknowledged that Zionism is colonialism, and that, based on the entirety of history, the native Palestinians would fight it until the bitter end. He just didn't care what would happen to them, and promoted doing it anyway. Colonizers are never not the aggressors, when it comes to the native population. On top of the colonialist nature of Zionism, the Zionists also formed terrorist organizations, like the Irgun and Lehi. They bombed many Palestinian markets and other public places, murdering many civilians, including children, even including Palestinian Jews (who opposed colonialist Zionism). Israel merged those terrorists into the new nation's military and intelligence agencies. Israelis elected Menachem Begin, leader of the Irgun, child murderer, Jew murderer, and bomber of the King David Hotel, as PM. Israelis, to this day, celebrate those Irgun terrorists as "heroes". Zionists literally taught their neighbours that terrorism is a valid path to independence and statehood, and that terrorists are to be celebrated. In 1945, it is well documented that Zionists owned just 5% of the land and were a majority in zero districts. Israel was formed by going against the will of the majority population. Its foundation is completely undemocratic. Even then, Jews were still a minority, in "their" half. The only possible way to actually become a Jewish ethno-state, would be to ethnically cleanse away the actual majority. And, that's exactly what happened. Israel has never allowed those people to return. Law: Israel is considered an occupier by the International Court, the UN GA, and the UN SC. Occupiers are also never not the aggressors. Those occupied actually have a right to resist occupation. On the flip side, it is illegal for the occupier to settle occupied lands, and illegal to use collective punishment. Israel is a rogue nation, that doesn't abide by international law. What it has been doing, and is doing now, is illegal. Current events: This year, alone, prior to Oct 7 ... Israel held over 1200 Palestinian hostages without charges ... over 200 Palestinians had been killed by the IDF and settlers ... over 1000 Palestinians had been displaced by Israel's neverending colonization of the West Bank ... and, Israel continued to operate an open air WWII style fascist ghetto. Even ignoring modern history and law, in no reality did Hamas "start" anything.
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  12182.  @Warrenmitchum  Trump didn't actually end any wars, and dropped more bombs than Obama.
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  12183.  @Warrenmitchum  Pretty easy to look up. Are you a cultist, that doesn't verify anything? He bombed Iraq less. He made up for it in Syria, Afghanistan, Yemen, and Somalia.
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  12184.  zyzz  So, a minority is descended from the first few invaders, and only the majority are descended from immigrants?
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  12185.  zyzz  Now you're changing the context, dumbass. The op said "were the" and I said "descended from".
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  12186. @@lefersan Nope. You're just a moron. I don't give a shit what benefits either superpower. I'm for the Ukrainian people, against colonialism and occupation. I'm for the Palestinian people, against colonialism and occupation.
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  12187. @@lefersan Here, try this, dumb dumb ... Stalin helps Hitler invade Poland. Stalin helps defeat Hitler. In your moronic delusional reality, are both good, both bad, or one bad and one good?
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  12188.  @greenith  Delegates still matter, when it comes to how many seats at the table to decide party platform and rules. That's how he got some rule changes last time.
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  12189. Yeah, no, his tweet told them they should leave, and go back to "their" countries. Pointing out the fact that a lobby group, working for the interests of a foreign country, is donating money to politicians, to get their support, is somehow anti-Semitic and somehow implies all Jews are Israelis, and not Americans. But, openly telling people to go back to "their" countries somehow isn't racist.
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  12190. How has OAN managed to call states that haven't been certified? Weird. It's almost as if they use the AP calls they like and not the AP calls they don't like.
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  12191. There's actually widespread agreement that a single individual's reasoning shouldn't be taken as objective knowledge, or truth. That's why we now use empirical justification, and consensus. Reasoning "your own truth" isn't necessarily scientific, nor reality, at all. While I agree that "self" preservation is the basis for morality, those with a very narrow sense of "self", that literally only covers themselves, and don't care about anyone else, aren't all that moral. Being more moral comes from extending that sense of "self" to others, caring about others as you care about yourself. Rand's is a narcissistic philosophy, that even many animals get beyond. Human reality is that we aren't all the same, and we can adapt, learn, change. There is no "natural", across the board, human greed. Many of us want to work together, and look out for each other, and it is possible to teach that to others. That's how our societies evolved to even being a place where a woman's philosophy was taken seriously, where she could make her own money, where she could vote, etc. Or, a poor immigrant. If enough people had considered immigrants a threat to themselves, she could have been sent packing. She totally benefited from a society that had evolved beyond everyone only looking out for themselves.
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  12192.  @j___9594  That's nonsensical. You'd have to accept every claim of knowledge as true, and nobody could prove another person's knowledge, or truth, claim is false. All those people claiming to know something exists that they can't provide a drop of justification for. Knowledge is a justified true belief. Without justification that you can show to anyone and everyone, there's no reason to consider it knowledge. Didn't say it was the numbers that made something true. Empirical consensus, not simply mass belief. Testing the evidence, justification, over and over and over, and it holding up.
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  12193.  @j___9594  Thinking you know, and knowing, are two different things. If actual knowledge doesn't have to be demonstrable, then anyone can claim to "know" anything, and you'd have to accept that they "know" it. By trying to leave out the subjectivity. Reasoning "your own truth", as that guy said, encourages subjectivity in "truth".
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  12194.  @j___9594  Empirical evidence is objective, and we go through day to day life trusting our senses, but senses can be flawed, tricked from the wrong perspective, or some sich. That's why we rely on consensus. Not because number of believers equates to truth, but because numbers making the same objective empirical observations decreases the chance of error. If I observe an item on a table to be a flower, and dozens of other people observe it to be a stone, then odds are I'm hallucinating, the light is reflecting in a weird way from my perspective, or something of the sort, and the truth is that there's a rock on the table. Allowing every individual to have their own truth, their own knowledge, would mean it's true the item is both a rock and a flower, which makes no sense. You'd have to accept every individual claim of a religious experience, seeing a ghost, or being abducted by aliens, as "knowing" gods, ghosts, or aliens, exist, it being "true" they exist, if justification is not required for actual "knowledge" or "truth". Not only would you allow for an individual's flawed observations to be "truth" or "knowledge", but you'd also have to allow for unjustified subjective beliefs to be, as well. Someone could declare they "know" anything, claim anything to be "true", and you're not requiring them to show any justification. Numerous people are simply taught to accept unjustified subjective beliefs as being "true". They don't even necessarily have a claimed personal experience, but still declare they "know", still declare what they believe is "true". Now all the religious people's conflicting claims can't all be true, if there's a single truth, but if you allow that each individual can have their own truth, then they can all be true. That's not logical. Reasoning should tell us that there isn't "my truth" and "your truth", that there's only "the truth".
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  12195. ​ @TY9941_  You listed sexes, not genders.
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  12196.  @Hunter_Brandon  What was so "behind closed doors" about it? https://www.politico.com/news/2021/02/09/progressive-covid-minimum-wage-468061
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  12197.  @graywalkerjoin3rdparty74  Even if every progressive voted third party, each district general election would then look like a Dem primary, with seperate Dem and progressive candidates, running against a single Republican, with Republicans winning most everything, due to first past the post.
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  12198.  @klauskinski5969  AOC never once promoted paralyzing the house, or even threatening to paralyze the house. That's Dore knob slander. Dore's was a "plan" to get a performance art vote, that doesn't get you anywhere closer to ever passing M4A. Actually adding M4A yes votes to congress, as Justice Dems and AOC have helped do, actually gets you closer to ever being able to pass the bill. He used that performance art "plan" to slander anyone who didn't go along with him. He lied to everyone, that his unamended wouldn't have handed the speakership to McCarthy. It would have. He slandered anyone who pointed it out. Dore's unamended "plan" was to have 15 progressives simply "withhold" their votes, to "not vote for" Pelosi. His original wording, repeated numerous times, before others amended it, implied simply abstaining. He never mentioned a need to cast protest votes. For every 2 empty seats, absentees, or abstentions, the threshold needed to win is lowered by 1. 2 empty seats, plus 15 abstentions, would lower the threshold to 210. Even if every other Dem voted Pelosi, she could only get 207. If every Rep voted McCarthy, he'd have gotten 211, and won. Dore is a complete and utter moron. A "good lefite" that has repeatedly promoted handing power to Republicans.
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  12199.  @klauskinski5969  No. Dore shows her saying one thing, claims she said something else, and morons lap it up. Show me a single speech, or video, where AOC ever ran on paralyzing, or threatening to paralyze, the house. Votes on bills are not samesies as impeachment votes, ffs. Every new session of congress, you already get a new list of names of members of congress who won't sign on to the M4A bill. There was already a list of names of those who wouldn't sign onto the bill, during a pandemic. Pelosi actually introduced the M4A bill, last session. The parliamentarian sent it to committees. You also have a list of names of committee members who let the bill die, during a pandemic. The bill has been reintroduced, this session, and is again sitting in committees. You've got a list of names of committee members who are currently sitting on the bill, that you could be harrassing to take the bill up. Instead, you lot just keep slandering M4A's most ardent congressional supporters. How has letting Republicans win, again, and again, instead of keeping them out of power, benefitted anyone who isn't rich? Now you're slandering this, and other channels. The idea is stick to trying to take over the party. The 30 year old broader progressive caucus is about 15 seats away from becoming the majority of house Dems. The Justice Dems have replaced about a dozen corporate Dems, in just 4 years. AOC used her platform and PAC to back 20 other pro-M4A progressives, and helped add a few more to congress, in just 2 years. Dore promotes a route that hasn't won the most popular third party a single seat in congress in its near 50 year existence, hasn't won the most popular progressive third party a single seat in congress in its 20 year existence. He promotes a fantasy, that the third party route would be quicker, and also promotes the fantasy that some third party will only ever produce perfectly perfect incorruptible puritan progressives, when we have former Green candidate, Kyrsten Sinema, as evidence that's not true. The cycle has been to give up on Dems and let Republicans win, over and over. It's moronic. Treat the primaries as the major progressive battlefield, but still vote in the general to never have Republicans in power again, even if you lose the primaries. You would have wanted Clinton or Biden voters to turn around and vote Bernie, vote blue no matter who, if he had won the primaries, right? Or would you have wanted to see Bernie lose in the generals, and see Trump win, like a "true" progressive?
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  12200.  Michael Thomas  Are you brain dead? Caring about your health, factually having the most expensive health care system is in the world, factually not having the best results in the world, factually having millions uninsured, is all rational stuff to address. Worrying about scary people at the boarder, when you're having a negative migration rate across that border, is irrational. Trump is the demagogue, dumbass.
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  12201.  Michael Thomas  Government bureaucracy? Rofl. No, your increased administrative costs, are caused by having so many different private insurers, different kinds of plans, and different ways of filling out forms. Every other developed country has lower administrative costs. You seem to be clueless about this topic. Bullshit. Everyone knows it's not completely "free", just that it's free at point of use. Just like an infrastructure bill is paid for with taxes, but you don't pay to drive down the road or across a bridge. Your health care system is bankrupting people. Your system is sending over a million people a year to get surgeries in super cheap places, like India. You get subpar results for extremely high costs. That is a completely moronic system. Straight up dumb. It is quite reasonable to come up with a new way of doing things, and it's not demagoguery to do so. That's stupid. Not sure what you're not understanding. You were having negative migration flow, with Mexico. That means more Mexicans were going back than were coming in, stupid. There was no crisis. Plus, Texas found that undocumented immigrants added more to state revenue than they cost. You realize they pay property taxes, where they live ... they pay sales taxes, where they shop ... and that the majority fill out yearly income tax. They are paying into services, like Medicare and social security, which they can't benefit from. A wall will not fix that bigots are clueless and stupid ... and, yes, your moron president promised Mexico would pay for it. That is really promising something free, if another country is going to pay for it ... which it didn't ... and won't. That is your actual demagogue and chief.
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  12202.  @atlasto9052  Are you seriously too dumb to know the difference between someone moving in next door, and that someone kicking you off your land and taking for themselves? In what delusional reality is asylum seeking equivalent to colonialism?
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  12203. ​ @barbaraklein3944  Likud's bloody 100 year history ... In 1923, 100 years ago, Ze'ev Jabotinsky wrote, The Iron Wall, and a follow up, The Ethics of The Iron Wall (sooo racist towards Africans), in which he fully acknowledged that post Balfour Zionsim was colonialism, and that, based on the entirety of history, the native Palestinian population would resist being colonized until the bitter end. He directly compared it to the colonization of North America. He promoted doing it anyway, claiming Zionist colonialism was a "just" colonialism (he also thought North American colonialists were good guys, so not a great judge of morality), not caring what that meant for the native population. Ze'ev is important, because his Betar militant youth group helped found the Irgun terrorist group, along with other supporters of his, and the splinter Lehi terrorist group. The Irgun bombed numerous Palestinian markets and other public places, murdering many Palestinian civilians, including children, even including Palestinian Jews (who didn't support colonialist Zionsim). The Irgun are important, because they ended up being led by future Likud PM, Menachem Begin, who bombed the King David Hotel. The King David Hotel was bombed because the British had raided the Jewish Agency and seized numerous documents that may have shown that the terrorists were working with the JA and Haganah (JA liked to pretend that they didn't support the terrorism). The British then stored those documents at their base, in the hotel. That the Irgun terrorists responded to a JA raid, itself seems to prove the connection. That the thousands of Irgun (and Lehi) terrorists were also quickly merged into the new nation's military (IDF) and intelligence (Mossad) agencies, and are still celebrated as "heroes" by Israelis, to this day, also seems to support total collaboration between the groups. That other terrorist group mentioned, Lehi (also known as the Stern Gang), was considered even more extreme. They even tried to ally with the Nazis, against the British. Lehi ended up being led by Yitzhak Shamir, future Mossad agent, and another future Likud PM. In 1945, there was a major land and peoples survey done in Palestine. It showed that the Zionists only owned about 5% of the total land, 20% of the arable land, and owned a majority in zero districts. The partition was not only going to be forced on the native Palestinian majority, but Jews were still going to be a minority, in the part allocated to them. The only possible way to even become a "Jewish state" was going to require getting rid of the actual majority (at least enough so that there'd be a solid Jewish majority, so they could fake being democratic). This is also shown by the 1948, post Nakba, population of Israel. If there was 716,700 Jews, 156,000+ non-Jews, and approximately 700k non-Jews ethnically cleansed, that means the Jewish population, in the Zionist portion of partition, was originally over 100,000 less than the non-Jewish population. To believe that there was never any intent, by Zionists, to ethnically cleanse away the Palestinian majority would require believing that they never intended to create a "Jewish state". It's a nonsensical notion. Begin, and those terrorist groups, also opposed partition, but for the opposite reason Palestinians did. Palestinians didn't want to be colonized, at all. The terrorists wanted to colonize it all. "Moderate" Zionists were okay with colonizing half ... for now (what would happen in the future, after partition, was up to them, said Ben-Gurion). The Zionist terrorists were also involved in massacres, and assassinations, during the partition violence (colonialist war against the natives). Another notable future Likud PM, also started in the military, during the partition fighting. That was Ariel Sharon, war criminal, "Butcher of Beirut". Menachem Begin, and these other Zionist terrorists, are important because they also later founded Likud. Now, people get upset over the slogan "From the river to the sea!", but it's the second part that's most important, "Palestine will be free!". Because "Palestine" isn't defined as an ethno-state, a free Palestine can be a single state, free for all to live in, and return to, free of continuing colonization, free of occupation, free of oppression, etc. Just like a Germany free of Nazism, an Italy free of fascism, a South Africa free of apartheid, or an America free of slavery from sea to shiny sea. It doesn't necessitate purging all the Jews. It just necessitates them giving up on the idea of an ethno-state. On the other hand, because "Israel" has been defined as an ethno-state, Likud's, "between the sea and the Jordan there will only be Israeli sovereignty", has no possible good interpretation. It is a declaration of intent to completely colonize, and ethnically cleanse, all Palestine territories. Not only that, but it also claims that they have a "right" to all of the "Land of Israel" (biblical borders that don't mesh with archaeological reality), which is an open declaration of future wars, against Jordan, Syria, Lebanon, and possibly even Iraq. Likud platform ... 1977: "The Right of the Jewish People to the Land of Israel (Eretz Israel) a. The right of the Jewish people to the land of Israel is eternal and indisputable and is linked with the right to security and peace; therefore, Judea and Samaria will not be handed to any foreign administration; between the Sea and the Jordan there will only be Israeli sovereignty. b. A plan which relinquishes parts of western Eretz Israel, undermines our right to the country, unavoidably leads to the establishment of a "Palestinian State," jeopardizes the security of the Jewish population, endangers the existence of the State of Israel. and frustrates any prospect of peace." "Settlement Settlement. both urban and rural. in all parts of the Land of Israel is the focal point of the Zionist effort to redeem the country, to maintain vital security areas and serves as a reservoir of strength and inspiration for the renewal of the pioneering spirit. The Likud government will call on the younger generation in Israel and the dispersions to settle and help every group and individual in the task of inhabiting and cultivating the wasteland, while taking care not to dispossess anyone." 1999: "The Government of Israel flatly rejects the establishment of a Palestinian Arab state west of the Jordan river. The Palestinians can run their lives freely in the framework of self-rule, but not as an independent and sovereign state. Thus, for example, in matters of foreign affairs, security, immigration, and ecology, their activity shall be limited in accordance with imperatives of Israel's existence, security and national needs." "The Jewish communities in Judea, Samaria, and Gaza are the realization of Zionist values. Settlement of the land is a clear expression of the unassailable right of the Jewish people to the Land of Israel and constitutes an important asset in the defense of the vital interests of the State of Israel. The Likud will continue to strengthen and develop these communities and will prevent their uprooting." All Palestine territories are officially considered occupied, by the International Court of Justice, the UN GA, the UN SC, and even in official documents of Israel's own allies. Likud is still using the blueprint for colonizing North America, in the West Bank. Move settlements out into native territory, piss off the natives, the natives retaliate, cry about poor "innocent" colonizing settlers being the "victims" of violent "Savages!", call in the cavalry to put down the native uprising, and eventually expand the borders to include those settlements. Rinse and repeat. In Gaza, they are operating an open air WWII style fascist ghetto. Them claiming a "right to defend themselves" would be like the Nazis claiming a "right to defend themselves " from the Warsaw ghetto uprising. There's no "war". That they're the occupiers means the "war" part is long over. That partition was forced upon the Palestinian majority, against their will ... that the Zionist portion still had to be forcefully ethnically cleansed of its non-Jewish majority, against their will ... that the millions of occupied Palestinians don't have a say in the government that truly rules over them, Israel's ... means Israel is about as democratic as Nazi Germany after Hitler purged his political opponents and then held elections. Hamas is basically just a poor man's Likud, only fighting against colonialism, instead of for colonialism.
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  12204. At minimum, Republicans are. They used to pretend they were only against the misdemeanor entrants. Well, the Haitians are legal TPS entrants, but there's still something they don't quite like about them. 🤔
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  12205.  @captainkelley2339  You're the one bringing the large brush, making out like it needs to be everyone. You just need enough rcsts in power, for it to be a rcst country. The justice system is still messed up. There is a wt ntnlst Republican majority in the house. There is a Znst majority in congress.
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  12206. Who is "pro abortion" and promoting aborting all babies?
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  12207. ​ @franciscoarroyo9402  You're lying. 2019 had the most border crossings since 2005, at the time. Averaged out, Trump had more border crossings per year than Obama. He sucked at the one thing the racists voted for him for. As for 2020, the world was shut down, dumb dumb.
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  12208.  @anthonyhiggins7409  Ben absolutely has. He's disgusting. And, I don't want to hear f*cking opinions. By every measure, Israel is objectively the aggressor, unless you dishonestly start measuring on Oct 7. I can hear bullshit from the IDF.
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  12209. ​ @ThatApeBigMad488  No, it wouldn't. It would be for not being objective.
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  12210. Stop pretending like you care if people have healthcare. You didn't in 2016. You didn't this election cycle. Slandering progressives who just added more yes votes to congress and going third party won't even win you a seat in congress in 50 years, let alone get anyone healthcare, but could split progressive voting enough to hand the Dem party back to corporate Dems, and let Republicans rule for decades. The progressive caucus is maybe only another election away from becoming the majority of house Dems. Then they can actually pick the speaker in caucus, and bring M4A up for a vote as often as they want. All they can do now is paralyze the house. Corporate Dems can just let them, and then blame progressives for people not getting new covid relief, not getting more unemployment extions, not getting more vaccine funding, not getting a minimum wage increase etc., during a pandemic. If anyone is a "fake", "shill", or "sellout", it's Jimmy Dore, who keeps encouraging progressives to take the dumbest road possible.
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  12211. Athletes get paid salaries, actual money, which is taxed annually. Musk gets paid in stocks, which are not.
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  12212. ​ @SilverSergeant  That's like saying the Jewish resistance "started" a "war" against the Nazis, during the Warsaw ghetto uprising.
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  12213. ​ @joeshmoe4671  You're right, a lot of the world are morons, and/or complicit. Israel is objectively the aggressor by every relevant measure ... Modern history: 100 years ago, in 1923, Ze'ev Jabotinsky fully acknowledged that Zionism is colonialism, and that, based on the entirety of history, the natives would fight it until the bitter end. He just didn't care what would happen to them, and promoted doing it anyway. Colonizers are never not the aggressors. On top of the colonialist nature of Zionism, the Zionists also formed terrorist organizations, like the Irgun and Lehi. They bombed many Palestinian markets and other public places, murdering many civilians, including children, even including Palestinian Jews (who opposed Zionism). Israel merged those terrorists into the new nation's military and intelligence agencies. Israelis elected Menachem Begin, leader of the Irgun, child murderer, Jew murderer, and bomber of the King David Hotel, as PM. Israelis, to this day, celebrate those terrorists as "heroes". Zionists literally taught their neighbours that terrorism is a valid path to independence and statehood, and that terrorists are to be celebrated. In 1945, it is well documented that Zionists owned just 5% of the land and were a majority nowhere. Israel was formed by actually going against the majority population. It's foundation is completely undemocratic. Then, becoming a majority, in "your" new nation, by ethnic cleansing the actual majority, and then claiming to be democratic, is utter nonsense. Law: Israel is considered an occupier by the International Court, the UN GA, and the UN SC. Occupiers are also never not the aggressors. Those occupied actually have a right to resist occupation. On the flip side, it is illegal for the occupier to settle occupied lands, and illegal to use collective punishment. Israel is a rogue nation, that doesn't abide by international law. What it has been doing, and is doing now, is illegal. Current events: This year, alone, prior to Oct 7 ... Israel held over 1200 Palestinian hostages without charges ... over 200 Palestinians had been killed by the IDF and settlers ... over 1000 Palestinians had been displaced by Israel's neverending colonization of the West Bank ... and, Israel continued to operate an open air WWII style fascist ghetto. Even ignoring modern history and law, in no reality did Hamas "start" anything.
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  12214. Red states tend to have higher homicide rates, higher firearm mortality rates, higher poverty rates, lower education rankings, lower healthcare rankings, lower life expectancies, ... why would you want that?
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  12215.  @modicool  It takes congress to approve your SCOTUS nomination, as well. Someone like Bernie wouldn't be able to accomplish much, as president, if they're in an all out war with both parties. There's only so much you can do with executive orders.
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  12216. Rofl, you idiots know FOX is MSM, right? And, The Hill is owned by a close personal friend of Trump and Giuliani. You might as well be someone on NowThis bragging about the like/dislike ratios and laughing at FOX.
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  12217.  Rell Cee  Pretty sure the OP mentioned "MSM", dumb dumb.
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  12218. ​ @NotYourBusiness-bp2qn  Everyone is a "woman", if you equate "woman" to "female" and the beginning of our lives to conception.
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  12219.  @caseypdx503  But, he is. As soon as he colours one side as "defending" themselves and "responding", he's already saying that the others were the aggressors and starting things. It's natural to think people have a right to defend themselves. Who was the defender ... Nazis or the Jews of the Warsaw ghetto uprising? Who was "responding" in 1622 ... the Powhatan Confederacy or Jamestown? It's an objective fact that both groups have Canaanite DNA. It's an objective fact that one group went on a 1500 year tour of Russia and Europe. It's an objective fact that those who went on the tour wanted to come back and force those who stayed (and likely simply converted along the way) off the land and take it for themselves. Europeans have DNA roots in Africa. They still colonized the sh*t out of it. Let me know which of those deserves the quotations.
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  12220.  @nebwachamp  What are you blathering about? The largest mainstream media in the world, backed him, as did almost the entire Republican party. You're not very bright.
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  12221.  @impossiblewhopper539  Not really. His Syrian "scandal" article could have been written by anyone in the world with Wikipedia and a penchant for leaving out all the bits you don't like.
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  12222.  @jeffbell5125  Depends. Some anthropologists use broader definitions, which include ancestor spirit worship, even if you don't believe in gods. Some even use very broad definitions, and include extreme, very ritualistic sports fans, with their lucky this, or lucky that, fanatic devotion to their teams, adjusting their lives around it, hating others over it, etc.
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  12223. ​ @mananimal3644 * for Donald Trump Is what you said.
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  12224.  @mananimal3644  Useless.
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  12225.  @ZeanIkLaurie  There's no reality where she wins so, yeah, you'd be voting to let Trump win.
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  12226. ​ @KimThomas-vp4vm Trump absolutely was not, in 2016, when the guy √0t€d for him. Vivek and Nikki absolutely are not. Tulsi, and her supporters (like Jimmy Dore) have proved they were never really leftists, just grifters.
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  12227.  @kevinchristensen7510  No, she said it about A Wrinkle in Time, and idiots like Rubin, Pool, Shapiro, got all upset, and made a lame attempt to cancel her from Marvel.
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  12228. Moron. She didn't cause anyone to treat people like crap, as if you have no other choice but to treat them like crap.
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  12229.  @whyamimrpink78  I know how they get the unemployment rate, dumb dumb. You're just deflecting. The participation rate isn't the unemployment rate. Again, you didn't argue David used insufficient data. You were asking for sources, you were apparently too stupid to be able to find yourself, and implied FOX might be using different rates. Aren't Republicans aiming for a near 50% participation rate, wanting the vast majority of women back to being barefoot and pregnant in the kitchen?
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  12230.  @sps000111  The vast majority of religious people have been brainwashed since birth, and taught that that is reality. When forced to choose, many often choose exile or death over conversion, or simply just fake it. There's a reason it's included with unchangeable things like race, sex, or sexual orientation, when it comes to discrimination. Do you think anti-vax types have been that severely brainwashed?
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  12231.  @johnkslee82   Greg Mankiw is an idiot who promoted a flat 20% income tax/UBI combo, which is an even dumber idea than Yang's. It's based on ancient thinking, and doesn't work with today's billionaires getting paid in stocks instead of money. Zuckerberg takes something like a $1 paycheck. He'd pay 20¢ into Mankiw's plan and get back $12k, while someone making $12k would pay in $2400 and get back $12k. That's some dumbass shit. Today's Mr Frugal is sitting on a hundred billion dollars, while Mr Spendthrift is pouring his money back into the economy. Mr Frugal is exactly who you want to tax, as well as the top 3000 US corporations who are just sitting on $2.7t.
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  12232.  @SarthakKamat  A VAT doesn't actually tax businesses. It's specifically designed to NOT tax businesses in order to avoid double taxation. If a corporation like Amazon isn't paying into the dividend then they only get the benefit of the dividend being spent. Amazon would make an extra $60b a year from $3t in increased consumer spending. That would make Bezos extra billions a year more than he'd ever personally pay into a VAT. Having money end up flowing to those at the very top even faster than it is now isn't progressive. Plus, there are millions of people on government assistance that he doesn't have stacking with UBI who would get less benefit than some well off people. That's also not progressive.
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  12233.  @curtishancock432  You should really look into whether something was fully repealed, partially repealed, or whether assets are simply being taxed under some other method. Denmark, for example, has a higher property tax rate for property of higher value. That is, effectively, taxing real estate wealth at a higher rate, as a wealth tax would.
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  12234. "That which Agnostics deny and repudiate, as immoral, is the contrary doctrine, that there are propositions which men ought to believe, without logically satisfactory evidence" Agnosticism is all about being against belief without evidence (knowledge), and only believing with logical evidence (knowledge). You can't take the belief out of the equation.
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  12235. ​ @EpicAlcatraz99  You know that Israel has hundreds of thousands of militants (reservists), valid military targets, hiding amongst their civilians, right?
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  12236.  @augustin1999  Well, one dipshit, like a Manchin, or a Lieberman, can easily screw up a zero room for error senate. Plus, Manchin isn't alone. Do I really need to also name Sinema and the 6 other dipshits who voted against the $15, for you to grasp the fact the problem isn't just one guy? Are you really so clueless, that you need me to inform you of that?
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  12237.  @augustin1999  Learn math, dimwit. 8 people in a 100 person senate is 8% of the body. 15 out of 435 isn't even half that.
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  12238.  @micbear9334  Actually, that's exactly why I mentioned Lieberman. When a supermajority vote was needed, all it took was one guy to fall short by one vote, and screw up having a public option.
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  12239.  @augustin1999  You're critical thinking skills are sound? You said you're cool with white supremacists. Dore knobs are like the idiots who got themselves killed on the Night of the Long Knives.
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  12240. If you let more people vote, it's anti-democratic!!!
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  12241. At least 10x deadlier than the flu would equate to hundreds of thousands of dead Americans, if nothing was done.
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  12242. Keanu's a nice guy, but he's quiet and it's like pulling teeth in interviews. Couldn't see him doing an hour or more podcast.  @yatoyoboku  He's an agnostic.
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  12243. Pvtin bootlicker. Might as well write in the name of your favorite pet. It'll help Trump and Pvtin just as much.
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  12244.  @callyyeadon2653  She wasn't at an RT 10th anniversary celebration, seated with Pvtin and Mike Flynn? The same RT that was just caught paying far right content creators, like Pool and Reuben, for pro Rvssia content. Rvssian bot farms weren't caught promoting her campaign, to help DT win? She wasn't just on Mehdi Hasan's show, and couldn't bring herself to call him a wr-crmnl?
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  12245.  @callyyeadon2653  She wasn't at an RT 10th anniversary celebration, seated with Pvtin and Mike Flynn? The same RT that was just caught paying far right content creators, like Pool and Reuben, for pro Rvssia content. Rvssian bots weren't caught promoting her campaign, to help DT win? She wasn't just on Mehdi Hasan's show, and unable to call Pvtin a wr-crmnl?
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  12246. Yang's primary policy wasn't sane, if you actually know how a VAT works. It was complete bullshit.
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  12247. Yeah, fascist crowd, cheating the March on Rome.
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  12248. ​ @bl4ckkn1g8t5  Are you one of those hypocrite anti-abortion morons, who outright worships what would be the leading abortionist in existence, if it existed?
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  12249. He has been a liar, from the get go. He was lying to Americans about how a VAT works, claiming it was a way to make giant corporations, like Amazon, "pay their fair share". The reality is that a VAT is specifically designed to NOT tax businesses, in order to avoid cascading taxes upon taxes. He even posted a link to a pass through rate study, claiming it showed businesses paying about half the tax. But, if you actually read it, it showed that consumers were paying the entire tax. Half the sales were simply zero rated (no tax) or lesser rated, bringing the pass through percentage down.
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  12250.  @twoshedsjohnson8540  No. It's actually the removal of a government protection that would make them partly responsible for information being spread on their platforms. If I owned a newspaper and magazine shop, and some magazine snuck child porn into the pages, then I wouldn't be protected from helping spread child porn, especially if I've been notified of the situation and keep allowing it. That's different from right wingers, who are pissed because they're not spreading information that they want them to spread, and want to somehow make them spread the information they want them to spread. If I owned a newspaper and magazine shop, but didn't want to stock tabloids, that's up to me. It's not "censorship", if I choose not to. But, that's exactly what Republicans, like Cruz, are pretending it is. Facebook's algorithm was just found to be leaning right wing, and Zuckerberg donates more to Republicans, btw.
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  12251.  @twoshedsjohnson8540  Once again, removing your protection from defamation lawsuits, or whatnot, isn't censorship. Plotting to commit an act of terrorism is already illegal. If there's a regulation protecting me from being considered an accomplice, I could let people plot terrorism in my garage without a care. Removing that protection, leaving me unprotected, and having to care who uses my garage, isn't censorship. Again, it's already illegal. It's just a matter of whether I can be considered complicit, or not. Getting pissed because I'm not letting someone use my garage, that you want me to, and trying to find a way to force me to, is a whole other ballgame.
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  12252.  @Farvadude  Pretty bad analogy, dumb dumb. That's pretty much the whole point specifically about "public accommodations", which a website isn't. If you allow it, then all the food places, lodgings, gas stations, in an area could put up "no gays allowed" or "no blacks allowed" signs, then people could be left stranded, hungry, with no place to stay, and depending on where they were, no, there may not be another one for dozens and dozens of miles.
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  12253.  @Farvadude  Rofl, if you think I failed to take apart your, can't they just go elsewhere, basis, then you have reading comprehension problems. Some places are designated "public accomodations" for that exact reason. If you don't want to make cakes for gay people, then just don't register your business as open to the public. Register as a private club, like Costco, or gyms, only with a religious requirement, or outright register as a religious organization. Nobody is forcing them to register as what's considered a "public accommodation". Online platforms are clubs, with registration, and agreements to terms of service. They aren't "public accomodations".
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  12254.  @leviashanken2506  Sooo, what ... because some of the "good kind" of Native Americans were allowed to mingle with North American colonizers, they magically weren't ethnic cleansers and colonizers? Because Nazis had some Jewish collaborators, they magically weren't genocidal racists? Because there were some Stephens, during slavery, helping the slave owners, the slave owners magically weren't racist slave owners? You're making a "black friend" argument. They ethnically cleansed away about 700k of the non-Jewish majority, leaving only 156k, to create their "Jewish state". They've literally opposed any right of return, exactly because it poses a numbers problem for them.
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  12255. ​ @Trump2024_American_Patriot  Where do you want to start? He, and daddy, falsely claimed they were Swedish, instead of German, for decades (it's even in Art of the Deal). There's no such thing as Drumpfsson.
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  12256. Nonsense. Scandinavian countries are prepared for, and even embrace, automation, and Bernie's platform is the most Scandinavian like. https://www.boyden.com/media/automation-and-jobs-the-swedish-perspective-3770222/index.html Meanwhile, Yang is either clueless, or lying, as to how a VAT actually works. He'd have money flowing to the very top even faster than it is now.
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  12257.  Julie Wilson  Lol, completely wrong about what? Higher unionization, higher wages, universal healthcare (which a public option won't get you anytime soon), about double the percentage of the population working public jobs, retraining programs, free college, etc. https://www.technologyreview.com/f/609857/while-us-workers-fear-automation-swedish-employees-welcome-it/
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  12258.  @RayCromwell  Yang's own pass through rate study found a 100% pass through on standard rated goods and services. Zero rated and other things they looked at are irrelevant to who pays it, because nobody is paying for 0%. So, you're wrong. No, not "anyone", because there are people already getting $1000+ in assistance he doesn't have stacking. They'll be no better off, or worse off, meanwhile people making hundreds of thousands of dollars will be getting extra shopping spree money, and billionaires will be making extra billions. 1000 - 1000 = 0 benefit. You're right, it is high school mathematics. Better retake it.
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  12259.  @RayCromwell  More high school math, for you ... Since a VAT doesn't actually tax corporations like Amazon, meaning they won't be paying into the dividend, and since Amazon's share of US consumer spending is 2.3%, how much extra will they make from $3t in consumer spending? Since Bezos owns 12% of Amazon, how much extra will he make?
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  12260. Christians ... the literal witch hunters, where the "witch hunt" term comes from.
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  12261. @andresrojas7924 There wasn't much of a mess, under the Ottomans, in Palestine. The mess came with planning to carve out a colonialist state, for people from Russia and Europe.
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  12262.  @myrnaa7107  I guess they had a right to "return" and conquer the region then, lol. They were just Zionists too, and the Jewish natives shouldn't have complained.
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  12263. @@user-jj5mp7ib1f No. The vast majority of wars were conquer and rule, even then. When it happened, it was quite notable.
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  12264. @@user-jj5mp7ib1f Nope. Most were conquer and rule, even simply subjugating leaders of those other cities/nations. Plenty of Egyptian, Assyrian, and Babylonian, documentation, in their dealings with subject "kings". Even the OT/Tanakh fairytale genocides aren't supported by archaeology.
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  12265.  @McKae00  Ah, so the rise of illiteracy shouldn't be counted as going backwards. Got it. The constant warring within, to fill the power vacuum, followed by waves of invasions from without, was an improvement ... for who exactly? The loss of any commoner legal citizenship rights, property rights, any voices in government, and the serfdom that came with feudalism, was an improvement for who exactly? Even the first steps towards something like a parliament wouldn't come around for many centuries. Trade routes collapsing, hygiene and sanitation decline, sickness rising, was an improvement for who exactly? Populations dropped. Was everyone so happy, they were just dropping dead with glee? Roads falling into disrepair, or ripped up to use the stones for something else, because there was no infrastructure to simply make more stones, was an improvement for who exactly? What were these grand improvements, between 500 and 800 CE?
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  12266.  @riheg  Rofl. Now you're arguing that Pelosi isn't so bad, and wanted AOC to help take out a few more corporate Dems, and increase the number of M4A yes votes in congress?
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  12267.  @weseeucommies8402  Well you sure skipped a lot of history classes.
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  12268. Yang's plan, as is, will eat the upper middle class and lower end rich, but will benefit giant corporations and the super rich. A VAT is not a way to tax corporations. People with a UBI will spend more on those corporations. Those corporations will, in turn, make the super rich richer. The higher the percentage of income/wealth someone hoards, the higher the percentage of their income/wealth that will never be affected by a VAT.
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  12269.  @ronaldwalton6690  Peru is so bad that, even if you didn't count the 30k Lima deaths, it would still have the highest covid deaths per capita in the world.
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  12270.  @ronaldwalton6690  Nope. Lima represents less than a 6th of Peru's total covid deaths. Shave off a 6th of the covid deaths per capita and they're still #1.
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  12271. @Kansas Geoff Haha, it's funny that you think that's what you did.
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  12272. Working in a coffee shop, or something similar, and having a cool loft apartment didn't reflect reality?
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  12273. What do you mean by "left"? AOC just used her platform and PAC to help get more pro-M4A progressives elected to congress, the very thing needed to ever pass a bill, the very thing you'd still have to do even if you got a failed vote. Third party shill, Jimmy Dore, has still taken the opportunity to stab his slander stick in her back.
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  12274.  @ShineDawg  Bullshit slander. Adding yes votes to congress, which she just helped do, is the only solution to passing bills in congress, dumbass.
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  12275. Ah, but there in lies the problem. It is not just Theists that lack belief in the statement, "God does not exist". There is actually no label for that position, with the current labelling system.
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  12276.  @omarlocke9446  Replacing corporate Dems ... removing people from their seats and committees ... is, literally, more than words. You don't seem to have a grasp on reality.
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  12277.  @omarlocke9446  I was talking AOC, and progressives. So you're not delusional, you just have reading comprehension problems?
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  12278.  @omarlocke9446  You're the oneaking excuses for being an idiot. I literally talked about her backing other progressives to primary corporate Dems, which is action, and you went and lumped all Dems together to build a strawman argument against progressives, to support your inaction nonsense.
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  12279.  @omarlocke9446  Rofl. What kind of moronic gibberish, is that? Are you going to join the Trumpists in their next coup, since you don't like the democratic process?
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  12280.  @biokido575  Whatever insurance company you switch to, for anything, that's still how insurance companies work, dumb dumb.
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  12281.  @biokido575  Bullshit. Hospitals are closing down in the US faster than anywhere else in the developed world. Bullshit. They're standard global measures.
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  12282. Lol, seriously giving him too much credit. He has an audience of about 1m, and half of them are right wingers (probably Qanoners amongst them).
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  12283.  SamoaVsEverybody_814  Definitely.
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  12284. ​ @63rambler66  You know about 1 in 20 Israelis is a militant (valid military target), right? Hundreds of thousands of them (reservists) cowardly hiding amongst the populace, using them as human shields. Hamas probably has a better militant to civilian ratio than the IDF.
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  12285.  @63rambler66  So grandpa went from fighting Nazis to living with Nazis? Zionists are colonizers, ethnic cleansers, and occupiers, operating an open air WWII style fascist ghetto. They are Nazis. Those Zionists definitely did "cry like babies" about what Russia and Germany did to them, and used it as grounds to do those same things to Palestinians. They also did resort to terrorism, massacres, assassinations, and rape. Likud was founded by the leaders of the Irgun (bombed Palestinian markets, murdering men, women, and children, also bombed the King David Hotel) and Lehi (considered worse than Irgun, even tried to ally with the Nazis against Britain). Those terrorists were merged into Israel's military and intelligence agencies. Israelis elected those terrorist leaders as PMs. Israelis, to this day, celebrate those terrorists as "heroes". Palestinians have Canaanite DNA dimwit. They're Arab and Muslim the same way indigenous peoples of Central America are now Hispanic and Catholic. All, or part, of the region has been called some variation of Palestine by the Egyptians, Assyrians, Babylonians, Persians, Greeks (Aristotle considered the Dead Sea to be "in Palestine"), Western Romans, Christian pilgrims, Eastern Romans, early Muslims, Christian crusaders, Ottomans, British, and even the first Zionist congress, who wanted to create a home "in Palestine". And, there was a handful of documentation of the people being called Palestinians, during those previous times, as well (I don't use my provincial identifier as much as my national one, but for someone to claim I don't have one, would be moronic). What else would you call an inhabitant of Palestine? That's what the British were calling them, during the mandate. You're a complete and utter moron.
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  12286.  @nadiamordvinkin6310  The Nazis didn't actually live inside the Warsaw ghetto, dumb dumb. All Palestine territories are officially considered occupied.
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  12287.  @63rambler66  You're an Irgun and Lehi terrorist and rapist supporter. You condemned yourself, with your Hamas rant.
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  12288. Absolutely not. "Do you believe in God?" is not a proposition or claim, neither is "yes" or "no". If you want to get to the root question, the claim is trying to answer, then it's something like "How do we exist?" or "How does the universe exist?", and Theists put forth the claim that "Gods exist" and created all things. Rejecting their claim as outright false (different from not believing it's true), creates a counter claim "No Gods exist". Not believing either claim is the no belief position.
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  12289. He's going on about a debunked social media post. After all the recounting, Georgia ditched their digital images. They still have all the paper ballots.
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  12290. It goes even deeper than that. Say Apple ships 1m phones from China to the US, along protected shipping lanes, and 1m American customers buy those phones. Apple has benefited from that protection a million times more than each of those American customers. They should be paying a million times more for that protection. Or, take Amazon. If they move a million goods, across US roads, to a million customers, same deal ... they have benefited a million times more from the roads, than each of those million customers. But, they somehow pay no taxes. It goes on and on, with them paying no taxes, or their customers paying all their taxes for them, while they get most of the benefit. There are so many ways corporations don't pay their share.
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  12291.  @rack9458  Oh? Do tell.
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  12292.  @paulnejtek6588   YouTube not liking some words, so had to remove some vowels ... When I first posted this, 6 months ago, I tried including links, but YouTube didn't like and deleted. You can find a bunch of the info on the Jwish Virtual Library: Ze'ev Jabotinsky's Iron Wall, population of mandate and first 1948 population of IL, Likud's 77 platform. Google: Einstein letter NYT 1948, IL celebrates Irgun. Wiki (like with any Wiki, just double check it's sourced properly): 1945 Village Statistics (has actual scans), Irgun, Lehi, Irgun attcks, revisionist Znism, Likud (1999 platform), etc. The JVL and The Balfour Project also have earlier British reports, and other mandate info. You can search British Hansard for mandate era parliament debates, as well.
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  12293.  @rack9458  Man, you really do have reading comprehension issues. Keep practicing.
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  12294.  @rack9458  That was the question posed to you, daft one. Reading comprehension is your friend.
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  12295.  @rack9458    That was the question posed to you, dingus. Reading comprehension is your friend.
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  12296.  @rack9458  Not how comment sections work, dingus. You've been asked 3 times now. Can you name a thing that's wrong?
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  12297.  @rack9458  If someone lists a series of events, and you're only familiar with "most" of them, then you can only say you know "most" are true, dingus. Let me know when you're out of grade 3.
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  12298. Russia is the Israel, in Ukraine.
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  12299. ​ @taylorhession1905  He started as a millionaire, dingus. A failed businessman is one who would have made more money with his inherited millions by simply investing in a mutual fund.
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  12300. Germany is being stupid. "Flatter" doesn't equate to flattened. A 1 to 1 infection rate is similar to the flu, during flu season, but the virus still has about 10x the mortality rate.
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  12301. I don't know why anyone thinks he's been good for the economy. Obama's last budget ran through 2017. If you look at 10 year DOW, then look at 3 years, the DOW has basically flatlined since Trump's first budget. https://www.macrotrends.net/1358/dow-jones-industrial-average-last-10-years
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  12302. S&P 500 only a little better since his first budget ... https://www.macrotrends.net/2488/sp500-10-year-daily-chart
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  12303. Nasdaq not much better ... https://www.macrotrends.net/2489/nasdaq-composite-index-10-year-daily-chart
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  12304. You don't understand that broadening a definition makes it less effective, I know.
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  12305. ​ @k.ferguson2982  Fitting. Worst flavor.
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  12306. ​ @barbaraklein3944  Likud's bloody 100 year history ... In 1923, 100 years ago, Ze'ev Jabotinsky wrote, The Iron Wall, and a follow up, The Ethics of The Iron Wall (sooo racist towards Africans), in which he fully acknowledged that post Balfour Zionsim was colonialism, and that, based on the entirety of history, the native Palestinian population would resist being colonized until the bitter end. He directly compared it to the colonization of North America. He promoted doing it anyway, claiming Zionist colonialism was a "just" colonialism (he also thought North American colonialists were good guys, so not a great judge of morality), not caring what that meant for the native population. Ze'ev is important, because his Betar militant youth group helped found the Irgun terrorist group, along with other supporters of his, and the splinter Lehi terrorist group. The Irgun bombed numerous Palestinian markets and other public places, murdering many Palestinian civilians, including children, even including Palestinian Jews (who didn't support colonialist Zionsim). The Irgun are important, because they ended up being led by future Likud PM, Menachem Begin, who bombed the King David Hotel. The King David Hotel was bombed because the British had raided the Jewish Agency and seized numerous documents that may have shown that the terrorists were working with the JA and Haganah (JA liked to pretend that they didn't support the terrorism). The British then stored those documents at their base, in the hotel. That the Irgun terrorists responded to a JA raid, itself seems to prove the connection. That the thousands of Irgun (and Lehi) terrorists were also quickly merged into the new nation's military (IDF) and intelligence (Mossad) agencies, and are still celebrated as "heroes" by Israelis, to this day, also seems to support total collaboration between the groups. That other terrorist group mentioned, Lehi (also known as the Stern Gang), was considered even more extreme. They even tried to ally with the Nazis, against the British. Lehi ended up being led by Yitzhak Shamir, future Mossad agent, and another future Likud PM. In 1945, there was a major land and peoples survey done in Palestine. It showed that the Zionists only owned about 5% of the total land, 20% of the arable land, and owned a majority in zero districts. The partition was not only going to be forced on the native Palestinian majority, but Jews were still going to be a minority, in the part allocated to them. The only possible way to even become a "Jewish state" was going to require getting rid of the actual majority (at least enough so that there'd be a solid Jewish majority, so they could fake being democratic). This is also shown by the 1948, post Nakba, population of Israel. If there was 716,700 Jews, 156,000+ non-Jews, and approximately 700k non-Jews ethnically cleansed, that means the Jewish population, in the Zionist portion of partition, was originally over 100,000 less than the non-Jewish population. To believe that there was never any intent, by Zionists, to ethnically cleanse away the Palestinian majority would require believing that they never intended to create a "Jewish state". It's a nonsensical notion. Begin, and those terrorist groups, also opposed partition, but for the opposite reason Palestinians did. Palestinians didn't want to be colonized, at all. The terrorists wanted to colonize it all. "Moderate" Zionists were okay with colonizing half ... for now (what would happen in the future, after partition, was up to them, said Ben-Gurion). The Zionist terrorists were also involved in massacres, and assassinations, during the partition violence (colonialist war against the natives). Another notable future Likud PM, also started in the military, during the partition fighting. That was Ariel Sharon, war criminal, "Butcher of Beirut". Menachem Begin, and these other Zionist terrorists, are important because they also later founded Likud. Now, people get upset over the slogan "From the river to the sea!", but it's the second part that's most important, "Palestine will be free!". Because "Palestine" isn't defined as an ethno-state, a free Palestine can be a single state, free for all to live in, and return to, free of continuing colonization, free of occupation, free of oppression, etc. Just like a Germany free of Nazism, an Italy free of fascism, a South Africa free of apartheid, or an America free of slavery from sea to shiny sea. It doesn't necessitate purging all the Jews. It just necessitates them giving up on the idea of an ethno-state. On the other hand, because "Israel" has been defined as an ethno-state, Likud's, "between the sea and the Jordan there will only be Israeli sovereignty", has no possible good interpretation. It is a declaration of intent to completely colonize, and ethnically cleanse, all Palestine territories. Not only that, but it also claims that they have a "right" to all of the "Land of Israel" (biblical borders that don't mesh with archaeological reality), which is an open declaration of future wars, against Jordan, Syria, Lebanon, and possibly even Iraq. Likud platform ... 1977: "The Right of the Jewish People to the Land of Israel (Eretz Israel) a. The right of the Jewish people to the land of Israel is eternal and indisputable and is linked with the right to security and peace; therefore, Judea and Samaria will not be handed to any foreign administration; between the Sea and the Jordan there will only be Israeli sovereignty. b. A plan which relinquishes parts of western Eretz Israel, undermines our right to the country, unavoidably leads to the establishment of a "Palestinian State," jeopardizes the security of the Jewish population, endangers the existence of the State of Israel. and frustrates any prospect of peace." "Settlement Settlement. both urban and rural. in all parts of the Land of Israel is the focal point of the Zionist effort to redeem the country, to maintain vital security areas and serves as a reservoir of strength and inspiration for the renewal of the pioneering spirit. The Likud government will call on the younger generation in Israel and the dispersions to settle and help every group and individual in the task of inhabiting and cultivating the wasteland, while taking care not to dispossess anyone." 1999: "The Government of Israel flatly rejects the establishment of a Palestinian Arab state west of the Jordan river. The Palestinians can run their lives freely in the framework of self-rule, but not as an independent and sovereign state. Thus, for example, in matters of foreign affairs, security, immigration, and ecology, their activity shall be limited in accordance with imperatives of Israel's existence, security and national needs." "The Jewish communities in Judea, Samaria, and Gaza are the realization of Zionist values. Settlement of the land is a clear expression of the unassailable right of the Jewish people to the Land of Israel and constitutes an important asset in the defense of the vital interests of the State of Israel. The Likud will continue to strengthen and develop these communities and will prevent their uprooting." All Palestine territories are officially considered occupied, by the International Court of Justice, the UN GA, the UN SC, and even in official documents of Israel's own allies. Likud is still using the blueprint for colonizing North America, in the West Bank. Move settlements out into native territory, piss off the natives, the natives retaliate, cry about poor "innocent" colonizing settlers being the "victims" of violent "Savages!", call in the cavalry to put down the native uprising, and eventually expand the borders to include those settlements. Rinse and repeat. In Gaza, they are operating an open air WWII style fascist ghetto. Them claiming a "right to defend themselves" would be like the Nazis claiming a "right to defend themselves " from the Warsaw ghetto uprising. There's no "war". That they're the occupiers means the "war" part is long over. That partition was forced upon the Palestinian majority, against their will ... that the Zionist portion still had to be forcefully ethnically cleansed of its non-Jewish majority, against their will ... that the millions of occupied Palestinians don't have a say in the government that truly rules over them, Israel's ... means Israel is about as democratic as Nazi Germany after Hitler purged his political opponents and then held elections. Hamas is basically just a poor man's Likud, only fighting against colonialism, instead of for colonialism.
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  12307. ​ @danialhillmann5374  Name a single Dem policy, by even one of their most progressive, that would move the US left of Denmark (centrism). People have to be complete morons, or completely insane, to consider Biden a communist, socialist, or Marxist.
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  12308.  @keithporteous9281  Quit lying for Dore. He and his wife said Chomsky had become what he used to debate against, which implies selling out. He said Chomsky's idea of voting harm reduction was "wrong", "f*cking wrong", while peddling the idiotic notion that Biden was worse than Trump. If every progressive listened to Dore, Trump would be president again. Most of the actions Dore promotes benefit the far right.
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  12309.  @truthwarrior1489  Then get the J&J vaccine, dumb dumb.
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  12310.  @patriciaanndemello4652  Enjoy your fantasy, dumb dumb.
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  12311.  @truthwarrior1489  You're not the dimwit Trump supporter? So, you're just a dimwit?
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  12312.  @truthwarrior1489  You outright stated that vaccines are untrialed, and made out like RNA vaccines are the only ones out there. That's, objectively, dumb. I was just stating a fact. All vaccines have been through phase III trials, and there are alternatives, if you're afraid of the RNA variety. Operation Warp Speed did jack shit, except provide some funding, which all kinds of pharma R&D get. The first vaccine out of the gate didn't even get that. Trump supporters have the higher percentage of anti-vaxxers, dumb dumb. That's the crowd you're with, not me.
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  12313.  @truthwarrior1489  Not on this topic.
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  12314.  @eeegrow2744  He's an idiot. If a country is letting asymptomatic people wander around, spreading the virus, waiting for people with symptoms to come in and get a test, then they're going to find more and more positive results as more and more people get infected and come in to get tested, because the virus is spreading, and they'll never get ahead of the virus. Countries with very high trace testing rates, that get as many people as possible who may have come into contact with an infected person to get tested, then they can find and isolate any asymptomatic carriers, and get ahead of the virus. The fact that a country can test hundreds of people per confirmed case, is absolute proof that simply testing more people doesn't equate to finding more cases. All countries would have similar tests per confirmed case rates, if your bullshit was true.
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  12315.  @eeegrow2744  Already provided data. It would be impossible to have trace testing rates of hundreds of people per confirmed case if simply testing more people equated to significant increases in cases.
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  12316.  @eeegrow2744  It's math, ffs. It doesn't require a doctor's degree.
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  12317.  @Lisa-pl6gv  Zionism = colonialism, dumb dumb.
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  12318.  @Lisa-pl6gv  Israel is objectively the aggressor, by every relevant measure ... Modern history: 100 years ago, in 1923, Ze'ev Jabotinsky fully acknowledged that Zionism is colonialism, and that, based on the entirety of history, the natives would fight it until the bitter end. He just didn't care what would happen to them, and promoted doing it anyway. Colonizers are never not the aggressors. On top of the colonialist nature of Zionism, the Zionists also formed terrorist organizations, like the Irgun and Lehi. They bombed many Palestinian markets and other public places, murdering many civilians, including children, even including Palestinian Jews (who opposed Zionism). Israel merged those terrorists into the new nation's military and intelligence agencies. Israelis elected Menachem Begin, leader of the Irgun, child murderer, Jew murderer, and bomber of the King David Hotel, as PM. Israelis, to this day, celebrate those terrorists as "heroes". Zionists literally taught their neighbours that terrorism is a valid path to independence and statehood, and that terrorists are to be celebrated. In 1945, it is well documented that Zionists owned just 5% of the land and were a majority nowhere. Israel was formed by actually going against the majority population. It's foundation is completely undemocratic. Then, becoming a majority, in "their" new nation, by ethnic cleansing the actual majority, and then claiming to be democratic, is utter nonsense. Law: Israel is considered an occupier by the International Court, the UN GA, and the UN SC. Occupiers are also never not the aggressors. Those occupied actually have a right to resist occupation. On the flip side, it is illegal for the occupier to settle occupied lands, and illegal to use collective punishment. Israel is a rogue nation, that doesn't abide by international law. What it has been doing, and is doing now, is illegal. Current events: This year, alone, prior to Oct 7 ... Israel held over 1200 Palestinian hostages without charges ... over 200 Palestinians had been killed by the IDF and settlers ... over 1000 Palestinians had been displaced by Israel's neverending colonization of the West Bank ... and, Israel continued to operate an open air WWII style fascist ghetto, in Gaza. Even ignoring modern history and law, in no reality did Hamas "start" anything.
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  12319.  @MedicineMan510  Like I said, Russia started f*cking around in former USSR nations, almost immediately. Georgia 1991, on. Why wouldn't former Soviet states ask for outside help?
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  12320.  @MichaelAChristian1  Do you know the difference between cities and states, dumb dumb?
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  12321.  @kylel6860  She's not a 1percenter, like the people who actually bought tickets. Her salary puts her over middle class, in upper middle class, but members of congress also have to maintain two households. It's not like she's rolling in a bed of cash.
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  12322. What is progressive about making giant corporations and the super rich even richer?
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  12323. ​ @fatespiker  He's only on something like 20% of the states' ballots. He's not in the election.
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  12324. He's only on 20% of the states' ballots. He's not realistically in the election.
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  12325. Not literally "burn it down", moron.
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  12326.  @MosesPlays  Moron. There's no serious call for a violent mass revolution. They're simply willing to let the current Democratic party go down in flames, dumbass.
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  12327.  @MosesPlays  Rofl. No it doesn't you stupid shit. Me pointing our the objective fact that you're an idiot, has zero effect on whether there's a call for a violent revolution, or not.
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  12328. Trying to achieve knowledge (justified true belief), at the true belief stage, I don't see how it's possible to both believe a thing is true, and doubt whether it's true. If I have some doubt, do I truly believe? 9pm: I fully believe my son will be home safe. 12am: I start wondering why he's so late. Some doubt creeps in. Now all I can truly say is I hope he'll be home safe.
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  12329. "REAL" progressives, like Jimmy, who promoted Trump, even after calling him a fascist himself, as the better option, in 2016. Now, making buds with far right ancap Boogaloos who want no government to infringe on their "right" to shoot people that want to tax them, or try to take even a penny of their property.
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  12330.  @ThatGuy_HiM85  Dore is an idiot. He made the same "case" for Trump over Clinton. He vastly overestimated the benefits, claiming it would lead to a progressive wave that would "for sure" take the house and senate in 2018, and the presidency in 2020. Wrong on all counts. He vastly underestimated the risks, claiming even Republicans would join the left to vote against a Trump agenda, and that Trump filling multiple scotus seats was as likely as the moon falling into Lake Michigan. Wrong on all counts. Bernie, and progressives, came out swinging right after Obama. Dore is spewing bullshit. Promoting letting Republicans win, like a "real" progressive ... Republican shill.
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  12331.  @ThatGuy_HiM85  At the same time, also not giving a shit if 10m of the poorest Americans would be tossed off Medicaid expansion and not caring to add 40m older Americans to Medicare expansion. And "real" progressives think he's the one true champion of healthcare? Rofl!
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  12332. The US doesn't actually have a political "far left". Zero US politicians are calling for perfect economic equality and an end to capitalism. What you hate is the far right (plenty of politicians do promote extreme right Ayn Rand views) and centre-left (Bernie, AOC, and other progressives point at centrist European countries to emulate)?
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  12333. She just got done backing 20 progressive candidates, and fighting some of them. In some districts, progressives aren't viable, and the question becomes do you want to remain part of a majority party, or let some districts flip to Republican and become part of a minority party.
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  12334.  @squidsquiddly5970  She complained about Biden reopening youth detention centers, as soon as he did. She just got done criticizing conditions at the border, but idiots only seemed to listen to one minute of a thirteen minute video. Including, criticizing US foreign policies that help create the problem. She also just recently endorsed Nina Turner, praising her for things like being pro-M4A, in very clear English. She's also clearly still one of the cosigners of the M4A bill that was just reintroduced. Seeing as how there isn't M4A, and won't be anytime soon, do you not want any COBRA coverage either? She has voted against every defense appropriation bill, and against funding proxy wars. Most of what you said was crap.
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  12335.  @ericgrigorof1509  Why? Bernie found a progressive following after Obama. How did Trump make things better?
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  12336. You're, literally, insane Dore. Advocating for M4A, which they've been doing with M4A rallies all along, doesn't equate to advocating for your poorly thought out tactic that could backfire, nor does it equate to advocating for slandering any progressive that don't back your poorly thought out tactic. AOC advocating for a floor vote and advocating for Pelosi to be replaced also doesn't include advocating threatening to paralyze the house. You keep making out like people once supported your tactic, when nobody has ever said anything of the sort.
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  12337.  @christianfascist7281  Trump, who made millions in China, sold his daughter's Trump Tower condo to a Chinese lobbyist, and has made millions off of renting space to the Bank of China, did nothing that actually hurt China. Mitch McConnell, whose sister in law runs a Chinese shipping company, that buys ships from the Chinese government, and gets loans from the Bank of China, where another sister in law sits on the board of directors, also has no interest in doing anything to hurt China. The only people Trump's "trade war" actually hurt were Americans.
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  12338.  @christianfascist7281  The topic is one person winning over another, dumb dumb, and you claimed it as a win for China.
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  12339. Who's arguing to stop M4A? Pretty sure the argument is over tactics. Having a vote guaranteed to fail will, itself, stop M4A. Why put possibly handing the House to a Republican speaker on the line?
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  12340.  @GrungeMaster92  Jimmy just argued, himself, that they'd rather lose to Republicans than progressives, dumbass. He's killing his own argument.
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  12341.  Uncomfortable Truth  Oh, it has gained zero support over the past 5 years, thanks to the guy Jimmy is calling a "sellout"?
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  12342. If going after Trump is "communist", wouldn't that also make Trump and Republicans "communists", for going after Clinton, during the 2016 election?
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  12343. Again...Christians created the word, as an opposite to their God exists position, which hadn't yet been labelled a "theist" position, just Christian. You were right, as a theist.
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  12344.  @abdul-rahimdahman3300  The thing is that simply being fascist doesn't necessarily include being an ethno-nationalist. It's authoritarian capitalism, on the side of big business, etc. Nazism adds ethnic warfare to their specific brand of fascism.
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  12345.  @shamitoson  True. But, in this case, I think the pan was lying, that it was ever teflon. Trump made out like nothing ever stuck to him, but he had been successfully sued, or charged and fined, numerous times.
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  12346.    What country in Europe has UBI for all?
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  12347. I get the feeling that Dominion's threat extended to on air personalities and not just the company. That host wanted nothing to do with that conversation.
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  12348. Jews lived amongst Muslims for 1300 years. They were given refuge when Christian nations offered conversion, death, or exile. The Ottomans okayed the earliest form of Zionsim, which was closer to immigration. This has only been going on since the Balfour declaration, and Zionism's conversion to colonialism. Zionist thought they had some "right" to the land, based on a fairy tale. Palestinians have just been reacting like pretty much all natives react to colonialism.
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  12349. Apology 46 doesn't say that. Ante-Nicene Fathers, vol. 3, p. 51 The Christian does no harm even to his enemy. [a.d. 197] Not very many Christians in the world, by that measure.
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  12350.  @ralphpetterson5689  Why are they letting you ramble on?
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  12351.  @ralphpetterson5689  You're talking gibberish. Does YouTube hate and silence Christians, or do they respect free speech? Make up your mind.
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  12352. ​ @oddjobgintoki6264  If you're referring to the civil war, do you know how that started?
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  12353.  @wjumeau  Israel is objectively the aggressor by every relevant measure (modern history, law, and current events), dumb dumb ... Modern history: With the Balfour declaration, Zionsim converted from something like immigration to colonization. 100 years ago, in 1923, Ze'ev Jabotinsky fully acknowledged that Zionism is colonialism, and that, based on the entirety of history, the native Palestinians would fight it until the bitter end. He just didn't care what would happen to them, and promoted doing it anyway. Colonizers are never not the aggressors, when it comes to the native population. On top of the colonialist nature of Zionism, the Zionists also formed terrorist organizations, like the Irgun and Lehi. They bombed many Palestinian markets and other public places, murdering many civilians, including children, even including Palestinian Jews (who opposed colonialist Zionism). Israel merged those terrorists into the new nation's military and intelligence agencies. Israelis elected Menachem Begin, leader of the Irgun, child murderer, Jew murderer, and bomber of the King David Hotel, as PM. Israelis, to this day, celebrate those Irgun terrorists as "heroes". Zionists literally taught their neighbours that terrorism is a valid path to independence and statehood, and that terrorists are to be celebrated. In 1945, it is well documented that Zionists owned just 5% of the land and were a majority in zero districts. Israel was formed by going against the will of the majority population. Its foundation is completely undemocratic. Even then, Jews were still a minority, in "their" half. The only possible way to actually become a Jewish ethno-state, would be to ethnically cleanse away the actual majority. And, that's exactly what happened. Israel has never allowed those people to return. Law: Israel is considered an occupier by the International Court, the UN GA, and the UN SC. Occupiers are also never not the aggressors. Those occupied actually have a right to resist occupation. On the flip side, it is illegal for the occupier to settle occupied lands, and illegal to use collective punishment. Israel is a rogue nation, that doesn't abide by international law. What it has been doing, and is doing now, is illegal. Current events: This year, alone, prior to Oct 7 ... Israel held over 1200 Palestinian hostages without charges ... over 200 Palestinians had been killed by the IDF and settlers ... over 1000 Palestinians had been displaced by Israel's neverending colonization of the West Bank ... and, Israel continued to operate an open air WWII style fascist ghetto. Even ignoring modern history and law, in no reality did Hamas "start" anything.
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  12354. ​ @EpsilonZed  What's that got to do with anything? He's not a "natural born citizen". Article II, Section 1, Clause 5 of the Constitution sets only three qualifications for holding the presidency. To serve as president, one must: be a natural-born U.S. citizen of the United States; be at least 35 years old; be a resident in the United States for at least 14 years.
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  12355.  @silversurfer4441  Rofl. If all the progressives are on board with Jimmy, then there are only hundreds of progressives.
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  12356.  @pcwcol  Currently 4th, at 36/100k, after Louisiana 47, Arkansas 43, and Missouri 41. They're 3-4x worse than California, 12, and 6-8x worse than NY or NJ, both 6.
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  12357. Rofl! The most popular third party hasn't won a single seat in congress in its 50 year existence. Green hasn't won a single seat in congress in its 20 year existence. Even if the entire progressive caucus was third party, that would hand Republicans the house, senate, and presidency. It could take centuries, for a third party to get the numbers to actually pass anything. There's nothing more incremental than voting third party. On the flip side, the 30 year old progressive caucus is about 15 seats away from becoming the majority of house Dems, when they'd have the ability to set the party agenda, and pick the party speaker. The 6 year old Justice Dems have 11 seats. Whatever you think of those progressives, it clearly shows that the method, of running within the party, is the faster way to take them out. That's because, if a progressive can make it through a primary, then they get the benefit of vote blue no matter who, when it comes to defeating the Republican, in the general.
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  12358.  @clownworld7763  They aren't the party threatening legal action, and don't have any actual power to stop legal action. It was just a proposed gamble. Offering protection from a completely different party isn't extortion. That's, literally, what bodyguards and security companies are paid to do.
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  12359. ​ @CR33SIVE  "The idea that Jews would’ve out of hand rejected any state that had Arabs on it or always had a plan of expulsion, it’s just betrayed by the acceptance of the 47 partition plan." ~ Bonnell "I see in the realisation of this plan practically the decisive stage in the beginning of full redemption and the most wonderful lever for the gradual conquest of all of Palestine." ~ Ben Gurion ∆ Accepting a plan is, in no way, evidence that those accepting considered the borders permanent, nor evidence of them accepting the current demographics within those borders. The 1948 post Nakba population of Israel was 716700 Jews and 156000+ non-Jews. If 711000+ non-Jews were Nakba refugees, that means the pre-Nakba population of what became Israel, had 150000+ more non-Jews than Jews. To believe they had zero intention to cleanse the non-Jewish majority requires believing they had zero intention to create a Jewish majority state. This demographic reality was also evidenced in a 1945 Village Statistics survey, done by the British. It showed that the Zionists owned just 5% of the land, and weren't a majority in any districts. There was no possibility of becoming a Jewish majority state, just by adding border lines. It was going to require moving people. Ben Gurion was a "moderate", btw. The Revisionists, who would found the Irgun, Lehi, and Likud, were always open about wanting it all, and opposed partial deals.
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  12360.  @LividImp  What does scale have to do with per capita rates? Overall, firearm mortality rates tend to be higher in low regulation states. Alaska definitely doesn't have the most people and it's the worst. New York State, with a high population, is one of the best. https://www.cdc.gov/nchs/pressroom/sosmap/firearm_mortality/firearm.htm
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  12361.  @LividImp  What do you mean it has nothing to do with rates? Rates give your actual odds of getting shot. Alaska clearly doesn't have a larger and more diverse populous than New York.
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  12362.  @masterfushi730  "tend" =\= all Of the top twenty states with the highest homicide rates, the vast majority are low regulation states. Which includes Nevada, btw. You're more than twice as likely to get murdered in Nevada than New York. https://www.cdc.gov/nchs/pressroom/sosmap/homicide_mortality/homicide.htm
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  12363.  @masterfushi730  If there are 14 Fs in the upper half, and 8 Fs in the lower half, do Fs tend to have higher homicide rates? If there is 1 A in the upper half, and 6 As in the lower half, do As tend to have lower homicide rates? Louisiana F Alabama F Mississippi F Missouri F Alaska F Maryland A- Arkansas F South Carolina F Illinois B+ Tennessee D- Oklahoma F New Mexico F Georgia F Nevada D Ohio D Kentucky F Indiana D- North Carolina D Delaware B Pennsylvania C+ Arizona F West Virginia F Kansas F Florida C- Michigan C Texas F Virginia D California A Colorado C Montana F South Dakota F New Jersey A Wisconsin C- Washington B+ Iowa C Connecticut A- Oregon C+ New York A- Idaho F Nebraska C- Utah D- Massachusetts A- Hawaii A- Minnesota C+ Wyoming F Vermont D+ Rhode Island B+ North Dakota F New Hampshire F Maine F
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  12364.  @greggerypeccary88  Oh geez, you're a loon.
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  12365. What record? Total in a month, or something? Because it still hasn't surpassed Trump's 2019 year total, and definitely hasn't surpassed years under Reagan, Clinton, and both Bushes.
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  12366.  @axetune  Did that answer what record was broken? There were nearly a million crossings in 2019. Even more under Reagan, Clinton, and the Bushes.
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  12367.  @axetune  Also, "this year to date" ... border patrol starts the year in Oct
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  12368.  @axetune  Sooo, because Reagan's 1.6m year followed a 1.2m year, and 2 1m years, and wasn't as big a jump, this is worse? The 2018 to 2019 jump was also huge, but I don't recall right wingers getting so upset with Trump.
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  12369.  @axetune  I simply asked what "record", and you can't seem to come up with an answer.
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  12370.  @axetune  Ohhh, an unaccompanied youth record. So, what should be done with unaccompanied youth, to keep the numbers down?
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  12371.  @axetune  Depends on how you're measuring whether something is "better", or not, I guess. Maybe he cares less about numbers, and more about even small improvements on processing time, which means less time imprisoned, and stuff like that.
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  12372.  @axetune  According to border patrol, about 80% of that comes through ports of entry. Cartels tend to shove drugs up the ass of people that are legal crossers, and likely won't get apprehended, not poor people trudging across rivers and deserts and will likely get apprehended.
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  12373.  @mr.rickochet4794  Does Jimmy Dore work for CNN? He's the one who cited the hospitalization numbers from a Gallup article. Of course, he then went on to dishonestly compare them to an incorrect "death rate", because he's a grifter.
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  12374.  @mr.rickochet4794  Yeah, not what they said. You're an ignoramus who thinks an old man with arthritis who can't dodge an oncoming truck, died from old age and arthritis. They still died from getting hit by a truck. The old age and arthritis just made it harder to avoid the truck.
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  12375.  @mr.rickochet4794  You're trying to "help" me ignore basic math, and the vast majority of doctors and scientists in the world? No thanks. I'm good, living in reality.
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  12376.  @reav3rtm  How can someone be more, or less, competent at irrelevancy?
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  12377. @J A "Centrist", in the US, is right of centre, in most other developed countries, and not all that enlightened.
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  12378. It's manufactured by the 5th largest pharma corporation in the world. Even they don't recommend it as a safe and effective covid remedy, even though it could make them billions.
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  12379. To actually get Pelosi out, or prevent someone worse being picked, you'd need the majority of votes in the Dem caucus. Blocking her at the house vote just paralyzes the house. It then goes back to Dem caucus, where they can keep picking Pelosi as their speaker choice over and over and over, or someone worse. How long do progressives paralyze the house as they get blamed for no new covid relief, no minimum wage hike, no Medicare age reduction, no student debt relief, or whatever else they can use to make progressives look bad in the eyes of the people? If Dore is right, that corporate Dems would rather work with Republicans than progressives, that's actually an argument against his tactic, not for it. Corporate Dems could work a deal with Republicans to dodge paralyzing the house. Pelosi could quietly agree to a Republican request in exchange for having enough Republicans play sick, or abstain, lowering the threshold needed for her to win. None of the movements you mentioned included threatening to paralyze the house. AOC just did exactly what needs doing, used her platform and PAC to help get more pro-M4A progressives elected to congress, going against DCCC backed corporate Dems. Exactly the thing that would still need doing after the vote fails by almost 100 votes (it only has 124 people signed on, and would need 218 to pass a full house vote, so not sure where you're getting 30 from). If you, or Jimmy, have 100 (or even 30) new pro-M4A candidates in your back pockets, why didn't you run them in the election that just happened? I'm sure AOC would have done what she could to help them get elected too. Or are these 100 new candidates going to magically appear after a failed vote? It only took a single question, to get Biden to say he'd veto M4A. It doesn't seem that hard to get a politician to publicly say they're opposed to M4A without having to threaten to paralyze the house.
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  12380.  @jeffgojail  Good for you. I didn't mention you. I mentioned that your comment seems to be criticizing the wrong wing.
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  12381.  @whyamimrpink78  Again, dumb dumb ... Trump was the government, the head of government, and he (the government) convinced tens of millions of you sheep not to believe any media, any other politicians, any judges, any lawyers, any law enforcement, any election officials, any scientists, any doctors, any nurses ... anybody ... even to not believe your own lying eyes, if any of them contradicted him (the government). Hearing from numerous different governments that often can't agree on much, different media outlets, different scientists, and different medical professionals, from all over the world, and accepting reality, is the opposite of being herded around by a single government shepherd. Wearing a seatbelt while driving, just seems reasonable. Wearing a hardhat on a construction site just seems reasonable. Wearing a hazmat suit when working with dangerous chemicals just seems reasonable. Wearing a mask during a pandemic just seems reasonable. I think you ignore warning labels, or prescribed doses, on medication, to prove you can think for yourself, and have taken something that has caused brain damage.
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  12382. The top 1% pays about 30% of taxes. They also own about 30% of wealth. The bottom 50% pyas about 3% of taxes, but they only own about 1.5% of wealth. So, the bottom 50% are paying 2:1, while the top 1% is paying 1:1. Of the top 1%, most of the tax payers are also the lesser wealthy, that have high taxable incomes. The Elon Musk, who only claims a $1 Tesla income, or the Bezos, who only claims an $80k Amazon income, and who live off of the value of their stocks, pay hardly any taxes relative to their wealth owned. They are paying far lower than even 1:1.
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  12383. ​@lefersanStill moronic.
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  12384.  @catkin-z8g  No it's not. She's polling worse than Nader, and all he did was help Bush win. Republicans love her. That's why they donate to her campaign.
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  12385.  @101RadioheadCovers  Yeah, Netanyahu had to form a political alliance, to stay in power, and he allied with some of the worst extremists. The guy he put in charge of the West Bank had previously been arrested for planned terrorism, he's a religious nut bigot who compares homosexuality to bestiality, he's a racist who says "Palestinian" people don't exist, and he made public a psychotic plan to segregate and subjugate (no federal representation), exile, or kill, any non Jews in all of Israel/Palestine. He wants all of what he thinks was the God given land of Israel, and the map of "Israel" that he has on his wall, includes parts of Jordan, Syria, and Lebanon.
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  12386. I understand the stages. But, what you were just proposing was that at the belief stage you could both believe that your neighbour's car is outside, and doubt (be skeptical) that your neighbour's car is outside. I don't think that is possible. I think once you truly believe a proposition, you are no longer a skeptic to the proposition. Whether or not, some later evidence may make you a skeptic again doesn't really matter. Meaning Agnostic is not compatable with The-ism or Athe-ism.
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  12387. ​ @justme-ti1rh  MAGA repeatedly challenged predominantly blk districts, with their 2020 denialism. They were trying to do Jm Crw. The country they care about, when they thought it was previously great, was back before the Civil Rights movement.
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  12388.  @chop54321  Learn what "rate" means, dumb dumb. Using totals is moronic.
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  12389.  @chop54321  You're ignoring how many people live there, dumb dumb. There are more people, but they are killing each other at a lower rate, dumb dumb.
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  12390.  @chop54321  You're dumb. https://www.cdc.gov/nchs/pressroom/sosmap/firearm_mortality/firearm.htm https://www.cdc.gov/nchs/pressroom/sosmap/homicide_mortality/homicide.htm
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  12391.  @chop54321  That you're dumb is obviously just a statement of fact. You want to compare all US totals to Canada, a population about 10x smaller? The US is a crime infested cesspool, by totals. The US had the worst covid response in the world, by totals. Compared to Canada, the US has terribly high numbers of deaths due to disease, based on totals. It's a petri bowl of infectious diseases, by totals, in comparison to Canada. You're dumb.
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  12392.  @chop54321  Dumb dumb, the US has about 16k homicides a year. Canada has about 600. Going by totals, the US is an utter shit hole in comparison.
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  12393.  @chop54321  You're the one spouting the dumbest crap, here. The point is that if you agree on regulating some "arms", then you're agreeing the regulating "arms" can work. Then it's a matter of where to draw the line, if any, and why. Vehicle related deaths are now lower than firearm deaths, in the US. You can thank regulations and safety standards like licensing, safety inspections, insurance, speed limits, seatbelt laws, drinking and driving laws, no driving zones, airbags, etc. Plus, like a knife, a vehicle has other purposes, and fulfills those purposes the vast majority of the time without incident. A gun has no other purpose, and when you pull it out to use it, it generally shoots shit.
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  12394. They are morons.
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  12395.  @brentmeg922  Bullshit.
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  12396.  @winterburden  You know even lowering the Medicare age would add millions more to Medicare, right?
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  12397. ​ @YourChessMatey  You know that the Donbas interim government were leaders of white supremacist groups from Russia, yeah?
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  12398.  @adaminfinity1733  Absolutely nobody said vaccines were 100%. No vaccine is 100%. In a highly vaccinated population: There are dozens to thousands of measles and mumps breakthroughs a year, in the US alone. The mumps vaccine is about 88% effective, and about 90% of kids get vaccinated, due to public school mandates. So, here's how a breakout works ... In a population of say 1000 kids, 100 have zero protection, and 900 have 88% protection. That means 100 unvaccinated kids, and about 108 vaccinated kids, have the potential of catching the mumps, if it is introduced into the community. That would be 52% of the cases having been vaccinated. The more you lower the vaccination rate, the more people would end up catching the virus, and the more unvaccinated cases you'd see. If only 65% of the kids were vaccinated (the US covid vaccination rate), that would be 350 unvaccinated kids, and about 78 vaccinated kids, with the potential to catch mumps. So that's about 18% of those with mumps being vaccinated, but more actual cases of mumps. A higher percentage of vaccinated people in the hospital is what you want to see, in a highly vaccinated population. Without the vaccine, there would be the potential for all 1000 kids to catch the mumps, and even though that's 0% vaccinated infections, that's what you wouldn't want to see, and which is what you seem to be ignoring.
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  12399. ​ @danielarista1352  There are over 400k Israeli militants (reservists and off duty personnel), valid military targets, hiding amongst its populace, cowardly using civilians as human shields. So, you're justifying the Hamas attack?
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  12400. ​ @danielarista1352  Israel is objectively the aggressor, btw, by every relevant measure... Modern history: 100 years ago, in 1923, Ze'ev Jabotinsky fully acknowledged that Zionism is colonialism, and that, based on the entirety of history, the natives would fight it until the bitter end. He just didn't care what would happen to them, and promoted doing it anyway. Colonizers are never not the aggressors. On top of the colonialist nature of Zionism, the Zionists also formed terrorist organizations, like the Irgun and Lehi. They bombed many Palestinian markets and other public places, murdering many civilians, including children, even including Palestinian Jews (who opposed Zionism). Israel merged those terrorists into the new nation's military and intelligence agencies. Israelis elected Menachem Begin, leader of the Irgun, child murderer, Jew murderer, and bomber of the King David Hotel, as PM. Israelis, to this day, celebrate those terrorists as "heroes". Zionists literally taught their neighbours that terrorism is a valid path to independence and statehood, and that terrorists are to be celebrated. In 1945, it is well documented that Zionists owned just 5% of the land and were a majority nowhere. Israel was formed by actually going against the majority population. It's foundation is completely undemocratic. Then, becoming a majority, in "their" new nation, by ethnic cleansing the actual majority, and then claiming to be democratic, is utter nonsense. Law: Israel is considered an occupier by the International Court, the UN GA, and the UN SC. Occupiers are also never not the aggressors. Those occupied actually have a right to resist occupation. On the flip side, it is illegal for the occupier to settle occupied lands, and illegal to use collective punishment. Israel is a rogue nation, that doesn't abide by international law. What it has been doing, and is doing now, is illegal. Current events: This year, alone, prior to Oct 7 ... Israel held over 1200 Palestinian hostages without charges ... over 200 Palestinians had been killed by the IDF and settlers ... over 1000 Palestinians had been displaced by Israel's neverending colonization of the West Bank ... and, Israel continued to operate an open air WWII style fascist ghetto, in Gaza. Even ignoring modern history and law, in no reality did Hamas "start" anything.
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  12401. I'm finding Yang gangers are a lot like Trump cultists. They will argue and argue with me, a Canadian who has been paying a VAT for 30 years and operated a VAT registered business, when I simply point out the objective fact that a VAT is specifically designed to NOT be a tax on corporations, which makes it an objective fact that Yang is clueless or lying about his main tax plan. http://publications.gc.ca/Collection-R/LoPBdP/BP/prb0003-e.htm#A.%20Taxing%20Mechanism(txt) Then the supposed math lovers will argue against what that means for the math of his plan. If you don't actually have Amazon pay into the UBI, and their share of US consumer spending is 2%, then handing consumers $3t is only going to make them an extra $60b a year. It means it's also dishonest of him to pretend his dividend would be anything like the Alaskan dividend, which has corporations paying dividends to Alaskans for their resources. They just can't seem to accept the objective fact that he's either ignorant or lying.
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  12402.  @MrBeetsGaming  Republicans invented term limits, first chance they got, after FDR kicked their asses 4 times in a row. How is a bunch of people (not a law) asking someone not to run, anti-democratic? He can still do whatever he wants.
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  12403. Which China, PRoC or RoC? Are you the dog of the other one?
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  12404. ​@Thatsnotgonnawork Nope. She votes against the State Department appropriation bill, which contains the annual offensive aid to IL, every single year. If you're trashing her for voting for the entire budget (including SNAP, SSDI, SSI, housing, Medicaid, Medicare, education, etc., etc., etc.), then you're a complete and utter maroon.
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  12405. @Thatsnotgonnawork Pelosi wanted her to vote "present"? Doubt it.
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  12406. @Thatsnotgonnawork Why would Pelosi want her to vote "present"?
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  12407. Agnostic
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  12408. ​ @whiteymcwhiterson3974  I'm not the one claiming there's a massively broad definition, dumb dumb. The Latin word could describe a bundle of sticks, ffs. So then Mussolini denying the class struggle, telling people to accept their lot in life, and simply just work to make the country better, isn't left wing.
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  12409.  @whiteymcwhiterson3974  You have severe reading comprehension problems.
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  12410.  @fillevandefoor6587  Or a goose.
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  12411.  @kylea1436  How is a couple people sitting in his garage, a "big show"?
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  12412.  @kylea1436  No, they don't, and you didn't even attempt to answer my question. How is a couple people sitting in his garage "a big show"?
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  12413. Yep. His supporters are completely detached from reality. Crazy.
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  12414. @la_belle_heaulmiere  I stopped reading when you agreed Canada belongs to King Charles.
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  12415.  @la_belle_heaulmiere  No. If you declare war on the king of Canada, then you're declaring war on the king of England, as well. We only got our parliament independent of the British parliament. The monarch residing over both, is the same person. We aren't independent of the British crown.
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  12416. So ironic, that all these right wingers want the government dictating what a private company does on its private property.
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  12417. ​ @crystallinebonsai680 Einstein compared Likud's founders to Fscsts and Nzs, way back in 1947. Richard Spencer is pro Isrl, because he wants all Jewish people to go there, and wants to emulate their ethno state, only for Anglos. You didn't make an actual point.
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  12418.  @Chimponaut  It's a rock. It has severe mental handicaps (rock for brains), so cut it a bit of slack.
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  12419. No, the media just needs to stop helping Republicans and corporate Democrats fearmonger about "socialism". Almost every country in the world has a mixed, capitalist-socialist, economy ... including Venezuela. If a sector of your economy is socialized, then that sector is running socialism. And, while Bernie has shown no indication that he wants to completely end capitalism, even the in between phase of democratically voting in socialist ideas, is called democratic socialism.
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  12420.  @Dpac1000  You're the one defending a Trumpist's take. Biden having something to do with high gas prices, the only issue the rich kid in the video talked about, is not a real issue. It's a fake issue.
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  12421.  @Dpac1000  Either you didn't watch the video, or you missed the part where they mentioned having covered gas prices, before, which they have. Who is a moron, that spews bullshit, denigrates news they don't like as fake news, and defends other morons? That's right, Trump, just like you.
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  12422.  @dayvinnyil8232  Why? Because a Dore knob said so?
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  12423.  @dayvinnyil8232  And they've spent money to expand and have something like 40 employees. They aren't an idiot and a couple friends sitting in his garage.
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  12424.  @dayvinnyil8232  I'm not rich. And, if you're not rich, just don't get a paid subscription. I see commercials, billboards, internet ads, junk mail ... all kinds of things trying to get me to spend money, every single day. I just don't buy whatever I don't feel like buying. Not a hard concept.
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  12425. Lol, Ben is dishonest out of the gate. Chicago's "rate" of firearm related deaths is actually lower than big cities with less gun control laws. It's just a bigger city. Also, he compares a state to a city. Illinois' "rate" of gun related deaths is lower than the majority of states. Bullshit about US vs UK crime. Victim surveys put the US higher. Bullshit about it necessarily being a big city problem. Alaska, Wyoming, and Montana, are amongst the 5 worst states, and they've all got a whole lot of countryside, and not the biggest cities.
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  12426. Not necessarily true. David seems to be citing an article from April 28th, meanwhile the White House had it all included in their April 29th post ... https://www.whitehouse.gov/briefing-room/statements-releases/2021/04/29/fact-sheet-the-american-families-plan-will-support-children-teachers-and-working-families-in-rural-america/
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  12427.  @spacetoast7783  "President Biden has a plan to build on the Affordable Care Act and lower prescription drug costs for everyone by letting Medicare negotiate prices, reducing health insurance premiums and deductibles for those who buy coverage on their own, creating a public option and the option for people to enroll in Medicare at age 60, and closing the Medicaid coverage gap to help millions of Americans gain health insurance."
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  12428.  @spacetoast7783  "creating a public option"
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  12429.  @spacetoast7783  Ironic post.
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  12430.  @spacetoast7783  I meant your last post was ironic, dumb dumb. I don't know what your superior reading skills read in the op, but I read the "if true" as a response to the title question, "Is Biden abandoning the Public Option?" I also don't know what your superior reading skills read in the press release, but I read that the clear answer to the title question is "not true", because of the very fact that they're still promoting that Biden has a public option plan. David simply speculating that he hasn't abandon it, saying there's no evidence he has, instead of pointing to evidence he hasn't, doesn't really clearly answer his own title question, allowing for "if true" to be an option. What I quoted seems to provide the op the answer "not true". Do carry on with your irrelevant gibberish, though.
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  12431. It shouldn't be eliminated, but it should revert to having to actually filibuster.
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  12432.  @JaysSavvy  But I have been treated in the US, while there (didn't go there to be treated), have seen others treated, and heard first hand accounts of how others were treated. I was with an organization for people with disabilities, for over 20 years. You're mental telepathy appears to not work. You haven't guessed one thing right about me. You mean like Insulin? HAART? Medium 199 and "Toronto method"? T-cell receptor gene? Cystic fibrosis gene? ... Canada has had plenty of medical breakthroughs. Canada, and many other developed countries, put out more scientific publications per capita than the US does. Specifically biomed, the US comes in 11 and Canada 13, per capita. Canada has slightly more hospital beds and doctors per capita, for half the cost. Canada has a higher life expectancy, and lower infant and maternal mortality. You're spewing bullshit.
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  12433. Works pretty well, at doing what, other than generate revenue? Sales taxes work pretty well at generating revenue, which has nothing to do with regressiveness. A VAT sure doesn't work pretty well at taxing businesses, because it's not designed to tax businesses.
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  12434. "Additionally, based on the participants with available viral sequencing data (approximately 40% of participants), molnupiravir demonstrated consistent efficacy across viral variants Gamma, Delta, and Mu."
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  12435.  @bigwill-gc7su  Ummm ... https://www.forbes.com/sites/brucelee/2021/04/22/did-so-called-stanford-nih-study-really-show-face-masks-are-ineffective-against-covid-19/
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  12436.  @sighwestberry5079  What? How the hell are they fearmongering people into getting sick? That's moronic.
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  12437. Yeah, the choice in a "public option" is to not opt to pay in. You couldn't find it with a progressive tax, and if you tried to make progressive optional premiums, the rich would simply opt out.
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  12438.  Gay and Proud  People from TO are then moving to other cities and paying ridiculous prices for houses, driving prices up there. But, to them, it's much cheaper.
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  12439. ​ @juniorgod321  So, only if I agree that a Nazi ethno-state has a right to exist, am I woke? And, if I prefer a non ethno-state Germany, I'm anti-German?
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  12440. Hand in hand grifters. He should have been charged with malpractice, for peddling her all meat diet as a cure for anxiety and depression, claiming he hadn't needed meds for 6 months. Talking with an heir of authority, being a psychologist, he could have caused serious harm to some of Rogan's 5m+ listeners. And, that was shortly before he needed to be put in a coma, to break his drug addiction to the drugs he claimed he no longer needed. Total bullshit.
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  12441. Before you wrote that, you were stupid. After you wrote that, you were still stupid. Both Palestinians and Jews have Canaanite DNA, dumb dumb. The difference being that one group didn't piss off for 1500 years. They stayed, and likely converted to Christianity and then Islam. "c. 1000: Suda encyclopedic lexicon: "Παλαιστίνη: ὄνομα χώρας. καὶ Παλαιστι̂νος, ὁ ἀπὸ Παλαιστίνης." / "Palestine: Name of a territory. Also [sc. attested is] Palestinian, a man from Palestine.[205]"
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  12442. Is the obvious point, that Harris is just as dumb as he was years ago?
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  12443. ​ @OolTube02  Lol, Zionsim turned fascist about 100 years ago.
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  12444. ​ @boondog8504  Ironically, in the US, most of the asylum seekers have Native American ancestry, and the racists with European ancestry are crying about being "replaced".
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  12445. ​ @X2LR8  Hamas is just a poor man's Likud, only on the opposite side of colonialism. Likud was founded by Irgun and Lehi terrorists. Likud's platform, "between the sea and the Jordan there will only be Israeli sovereignty", promises to completely colonize, and ethnically cleanse or subjugate, all Palestinians.
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  12446. *13th worst 37th, if ranking best first.
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  12447. Yang makes it clear not all Asians are good at math. Table 1: If the final consumer pays $49 in VAT (GST) and the government receives $49 in VAT, then how much did each of the businesses end up paying? 49 (to government) - 49 (from consumer) = ? (businesses) http://publications.gc.ca/Collection-R/LoPBdP/BP/prb0003-e.htm#A.%20Taxing%20Mechanism(txt)
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  12448.  @passyourielts  A) If some company did decide to eat some of their profit, that would be purely voluntary, and still makes it pure bullshit when Yang claims a VAT makes it "impossible" for corporations to avoid paying taxes. All they have to do is not do that, and follow the design. B) These giant tech corporations are already operating in countries with a VAT, and they aren't eating jack shit. When the EU has made VAT adjustments, they have passed along the full change in VAT. C) The VAT pass through studies that say there's only a 50% pass through are ones looking at the whole economy ... including partially rated, zero rated, exempt, etc. Even Yang's own link to a pass through study states that when looking at just standard rated goods and services, they found a 100% pass through, which matches other studies. Most companies even "prepared" for VAT increases, uping their prices months ahead of time and simply pocketing the extra until the VAT increase kicked in.
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  12449. The idiot fearmongered his followers into voting in person, rather than by mail, during a pandemic. On the other side, voters were encouraged to vote by mail. There's absolutely zero surprise to election day votes skewing towards Trump and absentee ballots skewing towards Biden. You're arguing he's entitled to be too stupid to realize that, which he may well be.
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  12450. Don't be dumbasses and go by exit polls, this year. More of the Trump cult voted in person. More Biden supporters voted by mail. This year's exit polls will be skewed Republican.
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  12451.  @fionafiona1146  I didn't include China, originally, because they didn't know what they were dealing with, out of the gate, and Germany hasn't really flattened their curve, yet, so who knows.
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  12452.  @fionafiona1146  Rofl, over 1k cases in a day is still significant. They may be heading toward flattening, but that's not flattened. If China flattening their curve by about 80k cases is unprepared, then how unprepared then how unprepared do you have to be to have 500k cases?
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  12453.  @fionafiona1146  You seem to be having a different conversation. Have fun with that.
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  12454.  @brettany_renee_blatchley  Nope. No AI has its own subjectivity, and likely never will. No AI will ever pick the scenic route, to see the scenery, because it doesn't care about scenery, and never really will. It may learn the objectively best way to get from A to B, but the programmer gave it the subjective goal, to get from A to B, in the first place. They also don't set their own goals.
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  12455.  @brynawaldman5790  The programmers set the goal, and the parameters. The AI didn't choose to play go, and didn't care if it won or lost. It's all pure, what's objectively the best move, once the goal and parameters are set. Absolutely nothing to do with subjectivity.
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  12456.  @justanotherguy1794  I don't consider corporate Dems, neoliberals, Reps, neocons, or whatever you want to call any of them, to be "left". So, Jimmy is joining with idiots who erroneously call right wingers, like Biden, "left", to argue it's not a right vs left thing? If Dore could convince the working class, the poor, to vote for someone, wouldn't it be for someone on the left? His PPM buddies are all a bunch of lefties. Or, would Jimmy get them to vote for an anti-M4A, anti social safety net, anti public education, etc., Libertarian, just because the candidate totally isn't a racist, but would like the government to not interfere with businesses' "right" to discriminate? Republicans are outright working against workers and the poor. Corporate Dems aren't doing all they can for workers and the poor, and a bunch are also actively working against them. Who, on the right, is fighting the class war .. on the side of workers and the poor?
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  12457.  @justanotherguy1794  I think Jimmy also vastly overestimates just how much power progressives have. He singled out 15 house members who he considered the most progressive. There are zero extra out of party votes in their neighborhood. There are zero extra votes to the left of them. On the right side of the party, there are 20 corporate Dems with idiological voting scores in the same range as 40 Reps. That's 40 extra possible votes in the same neighborhood. Then there is the entire rest of the Republican party to the right of them. The most progressive Dems can only push things as far left as the most right wing party members will allow, because if push comes to shove, there are more votes to be gained, or lost, on the right.
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  12458.  @justanotherguy1794  What "outrage" at you?
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  12459. ​ @MunkyGumm  Ooo, what's the breaking news?
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  12460.  @bjornjorgenbjorgenhoogenbo2954  "pushing busing in a way in which it goes beyond the constitutional mandates is like throwing a rock through the civil rights window. I think it has repercussions that are extensive in terms of the ultimate objective of seeing that we get integrated neighborhoods, of seeing that we eventually eliminate job discrimination, of seeing that we change housing patterns, of seeing alteration of tax structure." ~ Joe Biden Biden argued for integrating neighborhoods, with affordable housing, rather than simply busing kids to different neighborhoods.
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  12461. Worthless political stunt, like her holding the articles of impeachment supposedly to get a guarantee of a fair trial, and then putting it through without any guarantees.
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  12462. The difference being that Jones benefits the side he claims to be on, the far right, while Dore claims to be on the far left, but also benefits the far right.
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  12463.  @SethAndrews111  Israel was founded on terrorism, and elected terrorists, dumb dumb. Look up the Irgun, Lehi, and Menachem Begin. They still celebrate those terrorists as "heroes". They taught their neighbours everything. Rivlin hosts 90th anniversary of founding Irgun Zvai Leumi (Etzel) By GREER FAY CASHMAN Published: MARCH 1, 2021 "Etzel is most famously known for the bombing of the King David Hotel on July 22, 1946" They also bombed many Palestinian markets, killing civilians, including children, even including Palestinian Jews (who didn't support Zionism). Prior to Oct 7, Israel had 1200+ Palestinian hostages, held without charges, the IDF and settlers had killed 200+ Palestinians, Israel continued its unending colonization of the West Bank, and its continued operation of an open air WWII style fascist ghetto.
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  12464.  @UltimateUnknown  They would have to move to a Lebanon style government, I would think. But, you hit the nail on the head, as to why Israel has never wanted peace, to avoid a right of return for refugees, because it would threaten their majority.
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  12465. What kind of Christian are you? Catholic? Protestant? Something else?
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  12466.  @Matt-mt2vi  How do you know what I know about history, when I didn't mention anything about history? Do you think you have mental telepathy? lol It's 700k people in DC that don't have representation.
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  12467.  samford hikes  It's no easier. It's a signed bill, either way. What does your "hostage" strawman have to do with them not having representation in DC?
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  12468.  @michealgraham6836  They don't have representation in congress.
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  12469.  samford hikes  She can't vote, dumb dumb.
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  12470.  samford hikes  That's as much representation as Jefferson in London.
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  12471.  Tony Mario  Lol, so a sitting president can go shoot random people, and they're not guilty, because a sitting president can't be charged?
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  12472.  Tony Mario  Moron ... you said exactly what some lemmings have said. Sorry I didn't somehow "read" your sarcastic tone.
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  12473. Pvtin is the equivalent to Bibi, in Ukraine.
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  12474.  @sherryharris5989  Rvssia has been mucking about in former USSR regions, that declared independence, since 1991. If you're actively trying to re-expand your border, to meet the NATO border, as it had been for decades, then this not wanting NATO on its border nonsense, is complete BS. Rvssia simply doesn't want NATO in countries it wants to reaquire. If you think Rvssia hasn't also been mucking about around the globe, then you're a complete and utter maroon.
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  12475.  @AndrewsMobs  Yep
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  12476.  @AndrewsMobs  Things are just happening in different orders, dingus. Rvssia has already been in Ukraine before. They did their gncd (Hldmr). They did their ethnc clnsing (Tartars). They did their Rvssiafication and already clnzd areas where they depleted the population themselves. Like Htlr, Pvtin used the mere pretext of Rvssian speakers in Ukraine (that they originally put there, or forced to speak Rvssian) as giving him some right to invd. Keep laughing at your own ignrnce. If you think one of the world's superpowers is always in the right and another always in the wrong, then you're a complete and utter maroon. Sometimes they are. Sometimes they aren't. A good way to tell which is to look at who is doing the invding.
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  12477. That math doesn't even seem to make sense. If a slave counted as less, then that would be insensitive to increase the slave population, not lower it, to try and increase voting power.
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  12478. The US government officially dissed Bell, as being the inventor. The Canadian government, on the other hand, stood by him. https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/United_States_HRes._269_on_Antonio_Meucci
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  12479.  @libertyfive7241  Moron. Capitalists have also killed tens of millions, have fucked tons of shit up, have forced their shit on tons of people, and have repeatedly failed. Other than the few remaining absolute monarchies, no country is running on pure capitalism anymore. Almost every country is running a mixed economy, with some sectors socialized and some sectors privatized, including freakin Venezuela that moron right wingers keep crying about.
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  12480.  @nikikramerfreeman1803  Owning people as property is most definitely capitalism. Breeding enough people like cattle, so you don't need to import new stock doesn't actually make you better than other countries. Other countries also didn't have to fight civil wars over ending the practice. And if you're trying to find imply that the indentured servitude or prisoner workforces of Europeans was on par with chattel slavery, then your an absolute moron. Only Native Americans were also sometimes chattel slaves, other than black people, in the Americas.
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  12481.  @somas7293  What the ... ? War and tyranny aren't reasons for doing things. They're how some people go about doing things, including both authoritarian capitalists and communists. Authoritarian capitalists have killed plenty, for resources, for property, for free labour, for opposing philosophies, ...
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  12482.  @somas7293  No, dumb dumb. An authoritarian brand of communism, like Stalinism, is the reason, the philosophy, behind reworking the agriculture system. That reworking of the agriculture system caused the deaths of millions. Capitalism, making profits, was the reason, the philosophy, behind the British Empire exporting food out of India. That exporting of food caused the deaths of millions. Both of those could be considered "tyranny", dumbass. Just like both, the lower class rebelling against and overthrowing the upper class, or invading another country to profit from their resources, can each be considered "war".
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  12483.  LᗩᑎDO LᗩᑎD  The natural state of affairs is nobody owns anything. Claiming you own the river and people need to pay you to drink the water is what's immoral.
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  12484.  @sensible1163  There's some 200 pages worth of "colluding", but information sharing isn't itself illegal. It's "conspiracy" that's illegal, and the Mueller report says they didn't charge Jr and Kushner for conspiracy, because it would be hard to prove they "willfully" broke the law, not because they didn't break the law.
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  12485. This is one of the most uninformed comment sections I have ever seen. AOC and two fellow NY progressives back formal plea for ceasefire in Gaza Oct 16, 2023 18 House Democrats sign resolution for Mideast de-escalation, ceasefire Oct 23, 2023 — Cori Bush (D-Mo.). Bush's fellow “Squad” members Reps. Rashida Tlaib (D-Mich.), Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez (D-N.Y.) Democrats Like Rashida Tlaib, AOC Split With Biden Over Israel Ceasefire Calls Oct 31, 2023 AOC leads Democrats urging Biden to call for Gaza ceasefire over children's rights Nov 15, 2023 AOC calls Biden administration 'shameful' for blocking United Nations demand for a ... Dec 11, 2023 Aoc ceasefire | keeping it reel - NewsBreak Original Jan 17, 2024 Hour 1: AOC Calls for Ceasefire from Israel - The Marc Cox Morning Show Podcast Feb 8, 2024 AOC suggests cutting off aid to Israel after U.S. vetoes ceasefire resolution Feb 22, 2024 AOC and Other Democrats Urge Biden to Call for a Ceasefire at the State of the ... Mar 1, 2024
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  12486.  тαρ мє αи∂ ѕєχ ωιтн мє Abigai  Isn't he the one who supported the Mussolini trying to overthrow the democratic process and install himself as an unelected dictator?
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  12487. @★ Froggie Animation ★ Yeah, they picked a horse to back, and did whatever they could to pull that horse through the primaries, and she lost to one of the lowest percentages of the vote to ever win. She had an unfavorability rating over 50%. She was only slightly less unliked than Trump, and those who liked her a bit more than him were in the wrong states.
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  12488. @★ Froggie Animation ★ It went to court, dimwit. The judge accepted that the DNC worked against Sanders, but that impartiality isn't enforceable by the courts. If you think wanting to be more like Denmark is all out socialism, then you've got the brain the size of a pea. It's actual, real world, centrism.
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  12489. @☯ Yo, it's a Froggieee Onimations ☯ ✓ Try making some sense.
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  12490.  @SpiralSine6  A plurality of Biden supporters pick Bernie as their second. The sooner he drops out the better. The more delegates he gathers, the more he can hand off to whoever he personally wants. https://morningconsult.com/2020-democratic-primary/
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  12491.  @Kroll-2  Moron. There are still Texans, even though there's no country called Texas. There was a political region called Palestine, and people from there were being called Palestinians for quite some time.
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  12492.  @Kroll-2  Jews were only 10% of the Population, when the British mandate started, dimwit. Both Jews and Palestinians have Canaanite DNA. The natives that never left mostly converted to Christianity, and then Islam.
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  12493. There is no need for all the weak, strong, soft, hard, and multitude of other useless adjectives, and the asanine mixed definitions, the most idiotic being the Gnostic Agnostic, if people just used the original meanings.
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  12494.  @matthewlake182  This is a pretty simple math problem ... No VAT: Amazon buys a product from a manufacturer for $100; the manufacturer pockets $100; Amazon sells the product to a consumer for $200; Amazon pockets $100 VAT: Amazon buys a product from a manufacturer for $100 + $10 VAT; the manufacturer sends $10 to the government and pockets $100; Amazon sells the product to a consumer for $200 + $20 VAT; Amazon sends $10 to the government and pockets $100 With the VAT, who actually ended up paying the $20 to the government?
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  12495.  @MrPhilsterable  Hoping and praying some company might lower its prices isn't actually taxing them directly. The giant tech companies Yang keeps referring to are international. They're already operating in countries with VAT systems, and they aren't eating their profit margins. Amazon and Apple aren't afraid to pass along full VAT increases. https://www.theguardian.com/money/2011/jan/04/vat-rise-increase-households I don't even know where you gangers are getting this 50% pass through rate from. Studies have shown complete pass through, within months of VAT increases. https://thesis.eur.nl/pub/14962/Dijkstra-J.pdf
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  12496.  @MrPhilsterable  No, not everyone. There are some number of people already getting over $1000 a month in government assistance, that Yang doesn't have stack with UBI. They won't benefit from the UBI, but will still have to pay the VAT on many things. They'll be worse off, while people already getting by just fine will get $1000 a month to blow on extras.
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  12497. @Dank Memes I'm not going to vote either, dumbass, because I'm Canadian. A Canadian who has been paying a VAT for almost 30 yrs and operated a VAT registered business. Yang is spouting pure bullshit, claiming a VAT is a way to make giant corporations like Amazon "pay their fair share".
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  12498.  @curtishancock432  Don't know. There are about 42 million people who get SNAP, about 5 million are seniors, and there are about 9 million people who get SSI. 28% of non-senior SNAP recipients are disabled, with 3/5th of those collecting SSI or SSDI. So, there are some 6 million people collecting both SNAP and either SSI or SSDI. The UBI only doesn't stack with SSI. It could easily be more than the 550k homeless people.
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  12499.  @izzylandyt  I take it you're a moron.
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  12500. Oh, it's racist alright ... Urban Dictionary: peekaboo Racist term used in white-supremacist circles to refer to a person of color, usually black, of upper or upper-middle class social standing. That uppity peekaboo thinks she can golf here just because she has money. by WhoKnowsWhoItCouldBe September 21, 2022
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  12501.  @JohnDavies-cn3ro  Urban Dictionary: peekaboo Racist term used in white-supremacist circles to refer to a person of color, usually black, of upper or upper-middle class social standing. That uppity peekaboo thinks she can golf here just because she has money. by WhoKnowsWhoItCouldBe September 21, 2022
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  12502.  @gordondwyer3641  How many times ... Urban Dictionary: peekaboo Racist term used in white-supremacist circles to refer to a person of color, usually black, of upper or upper-middle class social standing. That uppity peekaboo thinks she can golf here just because she has money. by WhoKnowsWhoItCouldBe September 21, 2022
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  12503.  @stefanvukovic1815  Groups like these came before Marx ... https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Diggers
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  12504.  @stefanvukovic1815  Pretty sure the Bible has him speaking out against greed more than any other sin, and has him always on the side of the poor, disabled, sick, etc.
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  12505.  @luciferkotsutempchannel  A "grifter", like a snake oil salesman, says they're selling you one thing, but what you actually get is something completely useless, or even harmful. Dore sells himself to idiots as the one true champion of healthcare. But, in reality, he promoted Trump (platform: toss 10m of the poorest Americans off of Medicaid expansion) as the better option than Clinton (platform: add 40m older Americans to Medicare expansion); peddled Tulsi (public option ... no not the Australian model, which was a lie) over Bernie (M4A); he used a pointless performance art vote to slander progressives that have done more for M4A in a few years than he has in his entire lifetime; he publicly abandoned Nina Turner ... abandoned adding another M4A advocate and yes vote to congress; and, he peddles yet another third party, when the third party route hasn't won the most popular third party a single seat in congress in its near 50 year existence. What grifter Dore has actually been selling is the less benefitial healthcare option, the slowest possible way to ever get M4A, and even going completely backwards on healthcare. He sells himself as pro vaccine. But, in reality, he peddles vaccine misinformation, leaving out every single positive vaccine sentence in multiple articles; he outright lies that a vaccine doesn't protect anyone else, and slanders those who say otherwise; he outright lies about what articles say; he peddles unproven covid remedies, like ivermectin, even peddling the most extreme misinformation, that ivermectin is an effective preventative. What grifter Dore actually promotes is vaccine hesitancy and not needing a vaccine. Dore sells himself as anti-war. But, he peddled Tulsi "I'm a hawk" Gabbard; after Trump dropped more bombs than Obama, Dore didn't seem to care, and spent the general running constant attack ads against Trump's only remaining viable opponent, Biden; he whined like right wing bitches about Biden's withdrawal from Afghanistan; he has no interest in Biden reducing drone strikes; and he constantly bitches and whines about a UN report that had absolutely nothing to do with anyone's decision to bomb Syria, instead of constantly attacking the person who bombed Syria, Trump. What grifter Dore is actually selling is more bombing, criticism of ending war, and indifference to less bombing. Dore portrays continuing to support Dems as the definition of insanity. But, in reality voters haven't continued to support Dems and kept Republicans out of power. What voters have done is repeatedly given up on Dems, let Republicans who repeatedly move further right win, and then the corporate Dems meet the Republicans in the new "middle", because that's where they think more votes lie. It is actually Dore that has repeatedly proposed giving up on Dems and letting Republicans win, which is the exact cycle the country has been in, for decades. He is the insane one, by the very definition of doing the same thing over and over expecting a different result. Dore sells himself as a supporter of free speech. But, he peddles the right wing narrative that private "leftist" corporations are taking away your free speech rights, when the fact is you don't have free speech rights on someone else's private property, and never did; he doesn't point this out and doesn't promote public ownership, which would give you free speech rights; he has censored his own guest, for saying Sam Sender's name; and he didn't point out to his good buddy, white nationalist, Tucker Carlson, that incitement and defamation aren't even protected speech, nope he just agreed with Tucker's right wing takes. All of this increasing his right wing audience and makes him more money.
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  12506.  Greg Piskos  Japan has high concentrations of white people? The US is more like 75% white. Many Hispanics, you know ... descended from Spaniards, identify as "white", and pass as "white". Canada has a 20% visible minority population. New Zealand is 74% European heritage. Oh, there's a genetic problem with Africans? Do tell.
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  12507.  Islam is cancer  You're point was economics, moron.
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  12508. Drug cartels don't want their product lost by people dying in rivers, or deserts, or by being rounded up by border patrol. They mostly send their product over short legal routes.
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  12509.  @timg185  How the hell is poor farm kids almost guaranteed to also be a poor farmer achieving more? That makes no sense. We've done that before, in the West. That's regressive. Why are so many Americans backwards, and fantasize about being a developing country rather than a developed country?
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  12510. Because everyone doesn't know how everyone else is going to vote, and if only half the people ditch Trudeau for the NDP, then you get a Conservative government, which is even worse. Need an NDP leader that really brings in the masses. Layton was getting there. His death was a huge blow to the NDP's progress.
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  12511.  @processlayer1212  Conservatives wanting to privatize healthcare and education more and more, isn't exactly the same status quo Liberals.
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  12512. Oh my, he didn't say the exact word "fraud" but did say something "bad happened", did say there was "dishonesty", did baselessly claim he won Georgia, did baselessly claim signatures wouldn't match pressuring her to compare them to years old signatures, did baselessly accuse Stacey Abrams of wrongdoing, did say the investigator would be praised if she found the "right answer" ... What's so "MASSIVE" about the correction?
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  12513. I don't think attacking Iran would remain just another Middle East war. I think it would end up being a global war.
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  12514. You're a Dore knob. Dore knobs don't fact check anything.
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  12515.  @michaelmullins3396  Maybe, if he wasn't so busy looking up coworkers skirts, he could research how the government works.
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  12516. What lefty promotes Trump as a better option than Clinton, or Tulsi as a better option than Bernie?
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  12517. Israel is objectively the aggressor, by every relevant measure ... Modern history: 100 years ago, in 1923, Ze'ev Jabotinsky fully acknowledged that Zionism is colonialism, and that, based on the entirety of history, the natives would fight it until the bitter end. He just didn't care what would happen to them, and promoted doing it anyway. Colonizers are never not the aggressors. On top of the colonialist nature of Zionism, the Zionists also formed terrorist organizations, like the Irgun and Lehi. They bombed many Palestinian markets and other public places, murdering many civilians, including children, even including Palestinian Jews (who opposed Zionism). Israel merged those terrorists into the new nation's military and intelligence agencies. Israelis elected Menachem Begin, leader of the Irgun, child murderer, Jew murderer, and bomber of the King David Hotel, as PM. Israelis, to this day, celebrate those terrorists as "heroes". Zionists literally taught their neighbours that terrorism is a valid path to independence and statehood, and that terrorists are to be celebrated. In 1945, it is well documented that Zionists owned just 5% of the land and were a majority nowhere. Israel was formed by actually going against the majority population. It's foundation is completely undemocratic. Then, becoming a majority, in "their" new nation, by ethnic cleansing the actual majority, and then claiming to be democratic, is utter nonsense. Law: Israel is considered an occupier by the International Court, the UN GA, and the UN SC. Occupiers are also never not the aggressors. Those occupied actually have a right to resist occupation. On the flip side, it is illegal for the occupier to settle occupied lands, and illegal to use collective punishment. Israel is a rogue nation, that doesn't abide by international law. What it has been doing, and is doing now, is illegal. Current events: This year, alone, prior to Oct 7 ... Israel held over 1200 Palestinian hostages without charges ... over 200 Palestinians had been killed by the IDF and settlers ... over 1000 Palestinians had been displaced by Israel's neverending colonization of the West Bank ... and, Israel continued to operate an open air WWII style fascist ghetto, in Gaza. Even ignoring modern history and law, in no reality did Hamas "start" anything.
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  12518. Almost every president, in the history of the stock market, has presided over record high stock market numbers, at the time of their presidencies. Bragging about it is almost as pointless as bragging that you've presided over record high population numbers.
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  12519. Persecuted people have turned around and persecuted others plenty of times in history.
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  12520.  @Tocqueville69  The guy guy literally shared multiple articles from a white supremacist website, in emails to a Breitbart writer. But more than "just creepy".
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  12521.  @J77225  AOC and Bernie just finished campaigning for Nina, while promoting M4A, trying their best to add another M4A yes vote to congress. Dore abandoned Nina, and abandoned adding another M4A yes vote to congress. He promotes the third party route that hasn't won the most popular third party a single seat in congress in its near 50 year existence. At "best", you peel away enough progressive votes to hand the Dem party totally back to corporate Dems and let Republicans rule for decades to come. You're talking about Jimmy himself, as the bigger danger.
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  12522.  @khazaddum6599  Progressives got the $15 to stay in for a round of voting. It actually passed the house (M4A didn't have a chance in hell) and also got a senate vote. Just getting a vote on an important progressive policy is a huge deal, right? Getting a list of no voters from both chambers is a huge deal, right? Nope. Not anymore. Pathetic useless hypocritical Dore knobs just keep bitching about those who got it to stay in for a round of voting and who voted for it. And you're fantasizing over how house-senate negotiations would go. Manchin didn't want to go over $11. Instead of negotiating with the squad, he'd approach Republicans, who have their own $10 minimum bills, and try to work out some kind of bipartisan agreement, just like he did with infrastructure. If he got enough Republicans on board, then you don't even need squad votes.
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  12523. Trump is proving a president can do whatever the fuck they want. Divert money from the military for a wall ... divert money from the military for free college.
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  12524.  @billrivers6566  Scientists are close to being able to create embryos from sperm, without needing an egg. You should stop having sex, only ejaculate into test tubes, and freeze all your sperm, so you can save the life of every potential child.
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  12525.  @stevemarchando4132  A decent paying government job would be better than trying to live below the poverty line. Double the percentage of the populations in Scandinavian countries are working public jobs. If the US did that, that's 15% unemployment you could absorb.
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  12526.  @hwajuhwarang    I'd suggest this because it's exactly not who the candidate is claiming will pay the tax, meaning they're either clueless or lying, neither of which is a good attribute for running a country. If lying, it's the same "humanity first" candidate who originally didn't have UBI stack with anything. On his own, he thought it was a good idea to toss the elderly off social security, veterans off VA benefits, and disabled people off SSDI, until he got negative feedback. Even now, he still thinks it's a good idea to make disabled people on SSI have to choose. I'd suggest this, because massive inequality and automation are huge problems, so why would speeding up either, and likely both, be a good thing? The top 3000 US corporations are already hoarding $2.7t. If you're going to have a UBI, that should be what pays for it. You shouldn't be increasing the hoard at an even faster rate. While the plan makes Bezos extra billions a year, there are millions of disabled people collecting SSI and SNAP who will get zero economic benefit from the UBI. Even if they do opt out of the UBI, they can't opt out of the VAT, and will be worse off. That's fucked up. Where are you getting free counseling from? While his end healthcare goal might be universal coverage, his transition to that is a public option, which isn't taxpayer funded, at all. A public option creates a public insurance that then competes with private insurance, paid for with a premium, and you have the option of not signing up, and not paying, for it. LA tried that, in hopes it would lead to universal coverage, and 6 years in they're nowhere close. Everyone with marriage problems will be long divorced before universal coverage happens, if it ever does, using that method. Odd headline? His VAT page, what he says about his key tax, is mostly bullshit.
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  12527.  @stevemarchando4132  It's ironic that you find math complicated.
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  12528.  @stevemarchando4132  Was it the double digits that you found complicated? Maybe single digits ... -$2 (customer) +$2 (government) = ? (businesses) Hint: the answer is on the right https://images.app.goo.gl/3QU6nbNtDsG24Zw49
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  12529.  @stevemarchando4132  You'd pay yourself back the $1, and send the government the $9 the customer paid. Zero tax on the business.
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  12530.  @stevemarchando4132  You have zero clue what you're talking about. You either didn't even look at the table or image, or did and spectacularly failed at grasping it. All the businesses, in both cases, collected more output VAT than they paid in input VAT, paid themselves back the input VAT, and sent the difference to the government. It was only the final consumer (paying $49 or $2) that couldn't reclaim the VAT they paid in, leaving them paying the full amount collected by the government. Even if a business has a slow sales, or high costs, VAT period and pays more input VAT than they collect in output VAT, they can get a refund from the government. Zero tax on the business.
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  12531.  @stevemarchando4132  Your business has $10 costs, on which it pays $1 in input VAT, which is sent to the government. You sell for $100, collecting $10 in output VAT. You reclaim your $1 and send $9 to the government. You -$1 + $1 = 0 Government $1 + $9 = $10 Consumer -$10 Who paid the VAT?
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  12532.  @stevemarchando4132  You get that the design is to avoid double taxation, which would be even worse, right? Businesses would consider the tax a cost and pass it along in their price causing cascading taxes upon taxes upon taxes.
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  12533.  @stevemarchando4132  If my business has purchased $100 in Facebook data, $100 in Google ads, and $100 in automated truck delivery miles from Amazon, those costs will be included in the price of my own good and service. Add a 10% VAT, and I've paid $30 input VAT on that $300. I charge my customer that $300 + $200 profit. They pay me $50 in ouput VAT. I reclaim my $30, paying myself back. I send $20 to the government, who got $50 total. And, the consumer paid $50. The consumers end up paying a tax on their own data, a tax to be shown ads, and a tax on the automation taking their jobs. If you argue to ditch the VAT reclaim, then it can get even worse, with businesses passing their tax along as a cost, and the final consumer could end up paying their tax, multiple businesses' taxes, and taxes upon taxes. Not only are actual exempt services the less common "specialized" cases, the vast majority are final consumer services, and would be found in the middle of a chain extremely rarely. A business doesn't go to a doctor. An individual goes to a doctor. So, if a doctor has $50 in VATable costs, paying $5, it actually saves the final consumer money if the doctor simply slips in the $5 cost to their $100 price ($105 vs $110). Since it's usually at the end of the chain, it would very rarely lead to stacking.
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  12534.  @stevemarchando4132  Umm, your example had the business slip the $10 cost into their price, like I said. The "tax" didn't cost them a penny. And it was shifted along to the final consumer who paid that business' $10 tax, paid their own $30 tax, plus paid a $1 tax on the $10 tax. That's what a VAT is normally designed to avoid. Your example was worse for the consumer and still no business actually paid.
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  12535.  @stevemarchando4132  Supply 2 "Price consists of $10 of VAT ..."
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  12536.  @stevemarchando4132  But, you're not harvesting their gains with a VAT, as even your own example showed. You're harvesting the consumer's income being spent. If you don't have corporations paying into the dividend then they will make even more money, when that dividend is spent. Walmart's share of consumer spending is about 3%. They'd make $90b extra a year from $3t in consumer spending. Amazon's share is about 2%. They'd make $60b extra a year. Instead of taxing giant corporations, the VAT/UBI combo would make them extra tens of billions a year.
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  12537.  The Jack!  I think he's looking for fight club.
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  12538.  @jaccl4539  See my comment, above yours. Math is involved in the amount of leverage Manchin has vs what progressives have. Plus, his not caring if bills completely tank. You need him to think a bill is "must pass", to have leverage over him.
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  12539.  @jaccl4539  The math, tells you the amount of people you need for a war, ffs. Manchin doesn't need anyone else, in a 50/50 senate. If Dems had 51 seats, he'd have no power. 52 seats, and he and Sinema would have no power. They could be completely ignored. You'd never hear about them, because they couldn't then be a cog in anyone's wheel. They'd have no power to wage war. Sure, the entire progressive caucus could have held up infrastructure, but just AOC, and just the squad, couldn't. 13 Republicans voted for it. That takes away the ability to wage war, unless you have 17 people on board to wage war. Numbers are everything.
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  12540.  @jaccl4539  No. You're the one apparently looking for success, because they vote against crap all the f*cking time, and you're not counting it. You have things completely backwards. You bring up Manchin, but the only reason anyone is talking about him, is because he can block votes. Like I said if it was a 51/49 senate, nobody would be talking about him. He could have all the red lines he wanted, and nobody would give a f*ck, because his vote wouldn't be needed.
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  12541.  @jaccl4539  Wtf? How do you go around Manchin, by going further right, dimwit? That's the other side of Manchin, and the side he wants to work with. You're making absolutely no sense. You go right to not need votes from progressives. You can't go left to not need Manchin's vote. There are no extra votes to the left of progressives. Progressives draw lines and don't vote for crap all the f*cking time. You're not counting those, because they weren't successful. Squad members just drew a line and didn't vote for the infrastructure bill. They called out Dems who did vote for it. What are you expecting, exactly? You're blathering nonsense. What "risk" is Manchin taking, aside from simply saying he won't vote for stuff he doesn't like? He's not doing anything squad members haven't done. He simply has more power, due to math.
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  12542.  @SMP1993  So you're expanding the issue from not just one person, and not even the original 4 person squad, or the new 7 person squad, but beyond the squad to some 14 persons. That the progressive caucus could have done something, or 14 of them could do something, is a different argument than the squad, or AOC, being able to do much of anything. The progressive caucus definitely screwed up, and the squad called out those who voted for the bill. Just so we're clear ... some Dems actually do want to pass some things, including Biden? It's not like they don't care if nothing passes? Because, calling bills "must pass" entirely rests on the premise they actually want to accomplish something, unlike the majority of Republicans who just want to tank everything. Dore knobs often then turn around and make out like corporate Dems and Republicans are samesies, which makes the "must pass" argument incoherent. So, you think that if there was a 14 person squad, and they could threaten to block the bill, then Biden would get involved and pressure Manchin? So, does Manchin care if the bill tanks, or no? If not, why would he care what Biden says? If yes, what makes you think he'd move left, instead of simply making some other concessions to Republicans, to get a few more of them on board, for "bipartisanship"? His entire argument was that he didn't want a bill that had only Democrat support. Why would he suddenly move in a direction that would lose him his Republican friends' votes? Then you'd have to increase your squad numbers even more, and I still don't understand why you think Manchin wouldn't just amend the bill even further right. If Pelosi, or the DNC, are getting AOC to campaign for Nina, and getting her to help get Cori, Bowman, and Mondaire, get elected, then maybe they aren't so bad. Or, maybe, just maybe, she isn't doing their bidding, and they are pretty bad.
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  12543.  @SMP1993  I stopped reading, after your first few sentences. The stripped down, and pushed right, infrastructure bill was just passed, with Republicans on board, ffs. Not sure what reality you're living in, but it's not this one.
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  12544.  @alabamaman5994  The guy is a nutter, like you.
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  12545. Pretty sure he has posted multiple videos on Canadian issues, in the past few weeks. Knock yourself out.
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  12546.  @greeneyeddevil1  Complete bullshit. They owned about 6% of the land, in 1948.
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  12547.  @greeneyeddevil1  You're arguing with a leading Zionist, of the time period, clearly acknowledging that they're colonizers, and clearly stating how the natives would react, and have reacted. He was a founder of the Irgun terrorist group, which was later led by Begin, when they bombed the King David Hotel.
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  12548. Like Jimmy Dore, Glenn Greenwald, and Tulsi Gabbard, getting paid to join Rumble, which is funded by Peter Thiel, mega MAGA donor, and government spy software guy?
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  12549. ​ @drstone3418  Moron
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  12550. ​ @tedbell4416  That's like blaming Geronimo for Native Americans being ethnically cleansed and colonized, dumb dumb.
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  12551.  @Kori114  Nazis were still Nazis, before they had the power to do whatever they wanted. Multiple gun range owners put up "Muslim free" signs, and then ran for office as Republicans? Campaigning, Trump called for a complete Muslim ban. He talked about monitoring Muslims. Just because the constitution doesn't allow them to do what they want, doesn't change the fact that that's the kind of stuff they'd like to do.
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  12552. @Zion Thomas-Harmon The Nazis loosened gun laws, for German citizens. They just didn't consider Jews to be citizens anymore.
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  12553. It's also just a slow as hell approach to trying to achieve M4A. 6 years in and LA isn't anywhere close to M4A. https://www.theatlantic.com/politics/archive/2019/08/los-angeles-public-option-2020-democrats/597115/
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  12554. Some people are weird, like that. Dave Grohl went closer to large forest fires to hand out barbeque to fire fighters.
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  12555. Then they're Nazi apologists. Likud's bloody 100 year history ... In 1923, 100 years ago, Ze'ev Jabotinsky wrote, The Iron Wall, and a follow up, The Ethics of The Iron Wall (sooo racist towards Africans), in which he fully acknowledged that post Balfour Zionsim was colonialism, and that, based on the entirety of history, the native Palestinian population would resist being colonized until the bitter end. He directly compared it to the colonization of North America. He promoted doing it anyway, claiming Zionist colonialism was a "just" colonialism (he also thought North American colonialists were good guys, so not a great judge of morality), not caring what that meant for the native population. Ze'ev is important, because his Betar militant youth group helped found the Irgun terrorist group, along with other supporters of his, and the splinter Lehi terrorist group. The Irgun bombed numerous Palestinian markets and other public places, murdering many Palestinian civilians, including children, even including Palestinian Jews (who didn't support colonialist Zionsim). The Irgun are important, because they ended up being led by future Likud PM, Menachem Begin, who bombed the King David Hotel. The King David Hotel was bombed because the British had raided the Jewish Agency and seized numerous documents that may have shown that the terrorists were working with the JA and Haganah (JA liked to pretend that they didn't support the terrorism). The British then stored those documents at their base, in the hotel. That the Irgun terrorists responded to a JA raid, itself seems to prove the connection. That the thousands of Irgun (and Lehi) terrorists were also quickly merged into the new nation's military (IDF) and intelligence (Mossad) agencies, and are still celebrated as "heroes" by Israelis, to this day, also seems to support total collaboration between the groups. That other terrorist group mentioned, Lehi (also known as the Stern Gang), was considered even more extreme. They even tried to ally with the Nazis, against the British. Lehi ended up being led by Yitzhak Shamir, future Mossad agent, and another future Likud PM. In 1945, there was a major land and peoples survey done in Palestine. It showed that the Zionists only owned about 5% of the total land, 20% of the arable land, and owned a majority in zero districts. The partition was not only going to be forced on the native Palestinian majority, but Jews were still going to be a minority, in the part allocated to them. The only possible way to even become a "Jewish state" was going to require getting rid of the actual majority (at least enough so that there'd be a solid Jewish majority, so they could fake being democratic). This is also shown by the 1948, post Nakba, population of Israel. If there was 716,700 Jews, 156,000+ non-Jews, and approximately 700k non-Jews ethnically cleansed, that means the Jewish population, in the Zionist portion of partition, was originally over 100,000 less than the non-Jewish population. To believe that there was never any intent, by Zionists, to ethnically cleanse away the Palestinian majority would require believing that they never intended to create a "Jewish state". It's a nonsensical notion. Begin, and those terrorist groups, also opposed partition, but for the opposite reason Palestinians did. Palestinians didn't want to be colonized, at all. The terrorists wanted to colonize it all. "Moderate" Zionists were okay with colonizing half ... for now (what would happen in the future, after partition, was up to them, said Ben-Gurion). The Zionist terrorists were also involved in massacres, and assassinations, during the partition violence (colonialist war against the natives). Another notable future Likud PM, also started in the military, during the partition fighting. That was Ariel Sharon, war criminal, "Butcher of Beirut". Menachem Begin, and these other Zionist terrorists, are important because they also later founded Likud. Now, people get upset over the slogan "From the river to the sea!", but it's the second part that's most important, "Palestine will be free!". Because "Palestine" isn't defined as an ethno-state, a free Palestine can be a single state, free for all to live in, and return to, free of continuing colonization, free of occupation, free of oppression, etc. Just like a Germany free of Nazism, an Italy free of fascism, a South Africa free of apartheid, or an America free of slavery from sea to shiny sea. It doesn't necessitate purging all the Jews. It just necessitates them giving up on the idea of an ethno-state. On the other hand, because "Israel" has been defined as an ethno-state, Likud's, "between the sea and the Jordan there will only be Israeli sovereignty", has no possible good interpretation. It is a declaration of intent to completely colonize, and ethnically cleanse, all Palestine territories. Not only that, but it also claims that they have a "right" to all of the "Land of Israel" (biblical borders that don't mesh with archaeological reality), which is an open declaration of future wars, against Jordan, Syria, Lebanon, and possibly even Iraq. Likud platform ... 1977: "The Right of the Jewish People to the Land of Israel (Eretz Israel) a. The right of the Jewish people to the land of Israel is eternal and indisputable and is linked with the right to security and peace; therefore, Judea and Samaria will not be handed to any foreign administration; between the Sea and the Jordan there will only be Israeli sovereignty. b. A plan which relinquishes parts of western Eretz Israel, undermines our right to the country, unavoidably leads to the establishment of a "Palestinian State," jeopardizes the security of the Jewish population, endangers the existence of the State of Israel. and frustrates any prospect of peace." "Settlement Settlement. both urban and rural. in all parts of the Land of Israel is the focal point of the Zionist effort to redeem the country, to maintain vital security areas and serves as a reservoir of strength and inspiration for the renewal of the pioneering spirit. The Likud government will call on the younger generation in Israel and the dispersions to settle and help every group and individual in the task of inhabiting and cultivating the wasteland, while taking care not to dispossess anyone." 1999: "The Government of Israel flatly rejects the establishment of a Palestinian Arab state west of the Jordan river. The Palestinians can run their lives freely in the framework of self-rule, but not as an independent and sovereign state. Thus, for example, in matters of foreign affairs, security, immigration, and ecology, their activity shall be limited in accordance with imperatives of Israel's existence, security and national needs." "The Jewish communities in Judea, Samaria, and Gaza are the realization of Zionist values. Settlement of the land is a clear expression of the unassailable right of the Jewish people to the Land of Israel and constitutes an important asset in the defense of the vital interests of the State of Israel. The Likud will continue to strengthen and develop these communities and will prevent their uprooting." All Palestine territories are officially considered occupied, by the International Court of Justice, the UN GA, the UN SC, and even in official documents of Israel's own allies. Likud is still using the blueprint for colonizing North America, in the West Bank. Move settlements out into native territory, piss off the natives, the natives retaliate, cry about poor "innocent" colonizing settlers being the "victims" of violent "Savages!", call in the cavalry to put down the native uprising, and eventually expand the borders to include those settlements. Rinse and repeat. In Gaza, they are operating an open air WWII style fascist ghetto. Them claiming a "right to defend themselves" would be like the Nazis claiming a "right to defend themselves " from the Warsaw ghetto uprising. There's no "war". That they're the occupiers means the "war" part is long over. That partition was forced upon the Palestinian majority, against their will ... that the Zionist portion still had to be forcefully ethnically cleansed of its non-Jewish majority, against their will ... that the millions of occupied Palestinians don't have a say in the government that truly rules over them, Israel's ... means Israel is about as democratic as Nazi Germany after Hitler purged his political opponents and then held elections.
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  12556. ​ @masambeni  But it does. Likud are colonizers, terrorists, ethnic cleansers, and occupiers, who are operating an open air WWII style fascist ghetto, and bombing it when there's an uprising. Being anti-Nazi, and anti-Third Reich, didn't equate to being anti-German. Who cares what Zionist Nazi apologists say?
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  12557. That "diet coup" got further than Hitler's 1923 Beer Hall Putsch, which didn't even make it to the government buildings.
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  12558.  @crowwick7652  She only chose where she stopped her vehicle, dumb dumb, not where the cops stopped theirs.
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  12559.  @Dnmac69420  Just keep "right left" to economics, and it works fine.
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  12560. @Bet Your lunch What does a stupid CNN reporter have to do with the fact that the report Dore and Aaron keep blathering about, as if it's incredibly important, had absolutely nothing to do with anyone's decision to bomb Syria?
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  12561.  @integratedboxingsystem8827  Truth? A vaccine reduces your odds of catching the virus. Even if you have a breakthrough case, it reduces the viral load and reduces the time you're contagious. All those things make it less likely you'll infect others. So, how is saying that being vaccinated doesn't protect anyone else, at all the truth?
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  12562. @Bet Your lunch You're the one that still can't grasp what year Dore and Aaron keep blathering about. They keep blathering about a 2018 investigation of chemical weapons use, the report that came from it (that had absolutely nothing to do with anyone's decision to bomb Syria), and 2018 Trump bombing. Clinton wasn't around, in 2018. There are no dissenting opinions about 2013. Even Russia didn't veto resolutions against Syria, over 2013. There were numerous witnesses in 2013, other than White Helmets, including Doctors Without Borders. You seem clueless as to what Dore and Mate have been going on and on about, and are also clueless about 2013.
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  12563. @Bet Your lunch Is it "very rare" with the J&J vaccine, which has a 66% efficacy rate, and which they all took? 1 in 3 is "very rare", to you?
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  12564. @Bet Your lunch I literally said there have been dozens of attacks and investigations, since 2013, dimwit. Give me an exact date for a pre-2018 Douma chemical weapons attack. Eva Bartlett is a debunked loon.
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  12565.  @claybrown1258  His "point" is bullshit, because Trump hasn't proposed permanent M4A to cover everything, Bernie proposed the same temporary covid measures, and Bernie sure as hell hasn't "backed off" medicare for all, moron.
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  12566.  @foxbodyblues6709  It only covers covid-19 costs, dumbass. What the hell would permanent covid-19 coverage do for anyone, once it's under control?
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  12567. ​ @claybrown1258  Moron. How the fuck does the right have both Ayn Rand spouting right libertarian types and authoritarian crony capitalist fascist types? How the fuck is calling for gays to be killed, or pushing conversion "therapy", or the "right" to discriminate, "inclusive"? How the fuck is regularly calling a penisless, sexless, imaginary friend "him" or "father", but not seeming to understand the difference between sex and gender when it comes to humans, compatible? How the fuck is calling for throwing people who do get abortions in jail, "inclusive"? How the fuck is most of them thinking you, a supposed atheist, to be the least trustworthy group in the country, at all accepting? Just sounds like they're being two faced. How the fuck is both claiming to be for democracy and supporting every fascist dictator on the planet, compatible? Etc. The right has boatloads of contradictions and non acceptance, you dumb shit.
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  12568.  @claybrown1258  You're a walking contradiction, yourself, saying that having both atheists and theists on the left doesn't mesh, and then praising right wing theists for supposedly accepting atheists. You are, objectively, stupid.
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  12569.  @claybrown1258  You gave a bunch of "examples", plural, fucktard. Nice try at moving the goalpost though.
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  12570.  @ggarton11  Uh huh, and then the Roman Catholics that persecuted pagans and other early Christian denominations. Then Catholics persecuting Protestants, and other religions and denominations. Then Protestants persecuting Catholics, and other religions and denominations. Christians persecuting gays, persecuting scientists, persecuting non religious people ... Etc. Etc. Etc.
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  12571. Exactly. He left his regular comfort zone, trying to be someone he isn't.
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  12572. Charlie Kirk and Ben Shapiro actually benefit the far right. Dore and his knobs also benefit the far right, rather than the left.
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  12573. No. We relaxed rules and lockdowns, then numbers started going up, and now we keep reacting too slow, exactly because they have tried to keep as much open as possible.
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  12574.  @ToxicAudri  Ah, so you don't have much of a conscience, after all.
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  12575. Even if it was, the entire rest of the world was in the same starting position. The US, and Trump, still had one of the most pathetic responses, in comparison to many other countries. Even more pathetic, if he failed at protecting Americans from a bioweapon.
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  12576. Nah. While they had started their Red Scare nonsense earlier, there was a Southern Strategy, 55 years ago, collecting the Southern racist nuts (no, the most racist states in the country didn't magically become the least racist ... they simply started voting for a different party, whose Southern candidates were just as racist, and also voted against Civil Rights). Then they started collecting the religious nuts, about 45 years ago, like Falwell's Moral Majority. Then started integrating in some really far right economics, from Libertarian/Objectivist types, wanting full deregulation (economically, the party had become almost the complete opposite of the Teddy Roosevelt party, and his Square Deal, by the time of Reagan). But, even Reagan handed out amnesty for 3 million undocumented immigrants. MAGA morons are clearly even more racist and extreme, on that point. While Republicans are still using the Red Scare tactics, they have become further and further removed from reality, as to what communism even is. Biden is no progressive, and even progressives aren't proposing anything that would move the US left of Denmark. The US is nowhere near the 50% unionization rate, and over 70% top tax rate, just before the mid 20th century. Republicans took things way right, and Democrats followed, "meeting them in the middle", as the middle moved further and further right. Biden is just a tiny step back to the left, nowhere near even FDR, let alone communism.
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  12577. It's not having fewer rights to get fired from a job for behaving badly. What dumbasses.
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  12578.  Alabama Man dunks on progressives again  They haven't gotten anything they originally stated they were after, dimwit. "Ahead of the convoy’s arrival in the capital, Canada Unity directed a “Memorandum of Understanding” (MOU) to the Senate and the Governor General, demanding an end to vaccine mandates and the reinstatement of those who lost jobs over COVID-19 vaccinations, or else “RESIGN their lawful positions of authority Immediately” (sic). "
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  12579. ​ @michaelf6705  I'm sure the Nazis were just doing "study", incorporating their nationalism into Bibles.
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  12580. ​ @michaelf6705  Look up Positive Christianity.
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  12581. ​ @larryc1616  #1
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  12582. At minimum, they likely back up that he's not actually a billionaire, since he would have devalued as much as possible for tax purposes.
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  12583.  @corpgov  And what do you call promoting Trump as a better option than Clinton? Or, promoting psycho far right anti-socialists as allies? Or, promoting a psycho right wing drive (march) to (on) Ottawa (Rome)? I call that being a fascist.
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  12584.  Josh Edmonds  Oh, this is school all right.
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  12585. ​ @dennis3351  Israel is objectively the aggressor by every relevant measure (modern history, law, and current events) ... Modern history: With the Balfour declaration, Zionsim converted from something like immigration to colonization. 100 years ago, in 1923, Ze'ev Jabotinsky fully acknowledged that Zionism is colonialism, and that, based on the entirety of history, the native Palestinians would fight it until the bitter end. He just didn't care what would happen to them, and promoted doing it anyway. Colonizers are never not the aggressors, when it comes to the native population. On top of the colonialist nature of Zionism, the Zionists also formed terrorist organizations, like the Irgun and Lehi. They bombed many Palestinian markets and other public places, murdering many civilians, including children, even including Palestinian Jews (who opposed colonialist Zionism). Israel merged those terrorists into the new nation's military and intelligence agencies. Israelis elected Menachem Begin, leader of the Irgun, child murderer, Jew murderer, and bomber of the King David Hotel, as PM. Israelis, to this day, celebrate those Irgun terrorists as "heroes". Zionists literally taught their neighbours that terrorism is a valid path to independence and statehood, and that terrorists are to be celebrated. In 1945, it is well documented that Zionists owned just 5% of the land and were a majority in zero districts. Israel was formed by going against the will of the majority population. Its foundation is completely undemocratic. Even then, Jews were still a minority, in "their" half. The only possible way to actually become a Jewish ethno-state, would be to ethnically cleanse away the actual majority. And, that's exactly what happened. Israel has never allowed those people to return. Law: Israel is considered an occupier by the International Court, the UN GA, and the UN SC. Occupiers are also never not the aggressors. Those occupied actually have a right to resist occupation. On the flip side, it is illegal for the occupier to settle occupied lands, and illegal to use collective punishment. Israel is a rogue nation, that doesn't abide by international law. What it has been doing, and is doing now, is illegal. Current events: This year, alone, prior to Oct 7 ... Israel held over 1200 Palestinian hostages without charges ... over 200 Palestinians had been killed by the IDF and settlers ... over 1000 Palestinians had been displaced by Israel's neverending colonization of the West Bank ... and, Israel continued to operate an open air WWII style fascist ghetto. Even ignoring modern history and law, in no reality did Hamas "start" anything.
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  12586.  @cegesh1459  *petty?
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  12587. ​ @vdoc2760  People all over America eat geese, ffs. That's a hunting season violation, if it's even happening. The one picture of a guy with a goose was from Columbus. In Springfield: "There have been two reports this year of people believed to be Haitian grabbing geese and ducks from Snyder Park in Springfield, according to the Ohio Department of Natural Resources. “Upon follow-up, no supporting evidence was found of wildlife being illegally removed from the park in either case,” according to a statement from ODNR."
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  12588. ​ @vdoc2760  2 ... 2 reports, and the Ohio Department of Natural Resources investigated both and found no evidence, in either case. People all over America eat geese. That's a hntng license issue, not a protect your pets issue.
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  12589. ​ @vdoc2760 2 reports, both investigated, and no evidence for either.
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  12590. Do you believe the statement "God does not exist" is true? If you do, you're a strong Atheist. If you don't, does that make you a weak Theist?
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  12591. Love it or leave it has to be the dumbest slogan to pick up by people who ran on MAGA.
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  12592. ​ @mucephi1  She tells women it's their fault, if a man cheats. That's devaluing them to sex objects, and telling them to put out, no matter how they're feeling. But then also chastises women for putting out before marriage. So, she wants women to lock themselves into a marriage, first, and then be a sex slave for life.
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  12593.  @TomFranklinX  Are Colbert or Sanders going around making out like they're pro debaters, and claiming the right won't debate them, while dodging right wingers willing to debate them?
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  12594.  @TomFranklinX  He didn't include your nonsense qualifiers, no. Who's he looking to debate? Chomsky? Has he asked him?
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  12595.  @TomFranklinX  Rofl. Aside from him not being a comedian, when was the last great comedian vs comedian debate? You keep moving the goalpost to non existent things. And, Sam is on Peacock, so there you go.
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  12596.  @angusdog22  Well, you can argue that people providing a service are producing labour itself. And, if that service has nothing to do with the authoritarian axis, that only leaves the economic axis.
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  12597. Trump is a fucking moron. Canada has more 3M plants per capita than the US, and 3M Canada exports almost 75% of its products to the US. Canadians are probably making masks for them.
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  12598. Was there a crisis, in 2019, when there were more crossings under Trump, than any year under Obama? Was there a crisis under Reagan, when he simply offered amnesty to anyone who crossed before his bill?
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  12599.  Gary Busey  Go back to rehab. You're obviously smoking crack again.
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  12600.  Jasper Jaguar  100m people voted early or by mail. Exit polls of the 50m election day voters isn't representative. Especially if you've got a moron telling his cult to vote in person, and the other side telling people to vote by mail, during a pandemic. Election day exit polls would be as skewed as election day voting results.
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  12601.  @hollyrae1101  For profit healthcare is bankrupting hundreds of thousands of Americans a year, and killing tens of thousands. You don't actually care to end that, because you're a selfish twit, trying to blame something that actually slowed down rising healthcare costs a little. What you really want is for things to be even worse, for tens of millions more people, because you're a heartless b*tch.
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  12602. I should say, most every child accepts their parents' "truths", as fact. Some, just never grow out of it, or really investigate and research what it is they've been led to believe.
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  12603.  @Leon-qe2bf  Nope. So why is it good if everyone is bribing them? Get money out of politics.
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  12604.  @InvertedInsideout  How is giving money to someone to influence them not bribery? Don't know how I could be thinking about it wrong, when that's the textbook definition of bribery. Shouldn't the goal be to get money out of politics?
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  12605.  @Boswd  Ummm, a "candidate" would be a government official, or potential one?
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  12606.  @DJBenjoyer  Let's say I'm quite sure a Repub would win my district, so I dump all my democracy dollars to the Repub candidate in the next district over. Why not get money right out of politics?
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  12607.  @caseyfergus6614  Aside from being bribery, why isn't this like food stamps? Yang argues against food stamps, because that's the government making people spend X amount of what they're getting on food. Why doesn't he simply hand people $200 more dollars, and let them decide if they want to put it towards a politician's campaign, or spend it on Christmas presents?
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  12608.  @waveygravey9347  Lol, okay ... what do you mean by "radical"? You're not saying anything.
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  12609.  @zombiesoul-eater741  Don't know where you learned your history, but even the Jewish Virtual Library says: "Stern decided to try to convince the Germans to allow Jews to go to Palestine. He sent Naftali Lubinchik to Beirut for a meeting with a German Foreign Ministry representative. Lubinchik told the Germans the “Jewish problem” could be solved by sending the Jews to Palestine, where they would create a Jewish military force to help conquer the land from the British."
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  12610.  @zombiesoul-eater741  Even the Jewish Virtual Library will tell you Stern tried to ally with them, Revi. Try peddling your Revisionist garbage elsewhere. If you never stop colonizing, then you're never not a colonizer, Revi. 700k in the West Bank now?
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  12611.  @reforest4fertility  And that's not, at all, what the Republicans are proposing.
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  12612.  @Tell-me-more-75225  She voted yes on the $15 minimum wage. It even passed the house and got a vote in the senate. Remember that time when Dore knobs pretended just getting a vote on an important progressive policy would be a big deal, and getting a list of no voters would be a big deal. Surprise... turns out Dore knobs are pathetic useless hypocrites.
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  12613. Nothing was banned.
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  12614. I was using unture in this sense... un·true (n-tr) adj. un·tru·er, un·tru·est 1. Contrary to fact; false. So, I guess we agree.
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  12615. ​ @wilcee238  Iran is weird, in that it offers state sponsored sex changes. It doesn't want people to be gay, but are fine with them becoming heterosexuals of the opposite sex. US MAGA Christians hate both.
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  12616.  @aicram62  Didn't the Green Party give us Kyrsten Sinema?
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  12617.  @keithporteous9281  Tulsi ran on a public option. Dore did promote Trump (wanted to kick 10m of the poorest Americans off of Medicaid expansion) as the better option than Clinton (wanted to add 40m older Americans to Medicare expansion). And, Dore recently abandoned Nina ... abandoned adding another M4A yes vote to congress, while continuing to slander those who helped to add more M4A yes votes to congress, in the last election, and who were campaigning for Nina, trying to add another. You Dore knobs know that adding yes votes into congress gets you closer to being able to pass M4A, while a 100% guaranteed to fail performance art vote doesn't, right?
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  12618. You seem to be pretending there is no claim. There is a claim, put forth by Theists, that being that Gods exist. It is possible to believe that claim is untrue.
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  12619. ​ @alexbowman7582 Holy hell, dimwit, don't you right wing numbskulls even follow the results of your own investigations? They found no serious violations by Clinton, nothing with a classified header. Not even comparable, dumb dumb.
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  12620. ​ @kassygendron3022  Racist, fact. "Letitia Peekaboo James." ~ Trumpty Dumpty Urban Dictionary: peekaboo Racist term used in white-supremacist circles to refer to a person of color, usually black, of upper or upper-middle class social standing. That uppity peekaboo thinks she can golf here just because she has money. by WhoKnowsWhoItCouldBe September 21, 2022
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  12621. It is the question addressed by all 3 definitions. One believes yes, one believes no, and one does not believe.
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  12622.  @tripandroctonus7787  Nazis actually expanded gun rights for citizens. They simply reduced who counted as a citizen.
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  12623. @Joseph Gutierrez What's an example of a group of oppressed people you think would have faired better if their country had gun rights?
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  12624.  @tripandroctonus7787  You think it would work out swell for them, if black Americans pulled out guns to fight the authorities they feel are still oppressing them? Based on ... ?
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  12625.  @tripandroctonus7787  The Haitian slaves had gun rights, and started out armed? I've also seen videos of multiple armed (thanks to the 2A) white militias showing up to BLM protests, ready to back the authorities. Do you think it would go well for them, if they actually tried fighting the authorities with guns?
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  12626.  @nihilistnick5094  If you're referring to the op, yes. If not, name the year there was a forced vote on the Civil Rights Act, that failed.
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  12627.  @josephvargas7806  It did not lead to civil unrest. You're inventing "history". There was only a few weeks between one session ending and it being reintroduced at the beginning of the next session. There was no civil unrest in those few weeks. Civil unrest was during the summer before, and the summer after. Women's suffrage had 3 votes in congress. Maybe you're thinking of some state level voting, because a number of states had already included women's voting rights, because it had become so popular, by the time it got to congress, after decades of women's activism. Some failed vote didn't spark activism, activism led to the voting. It was also a constitutional amendment, requiring a super majority, and 3/4 of states to ratify it, at a time when voting didn't go down party lines (like during the Civil Rights Act, a higher percentage of the Republican party voted in favor, than the Democratic party, because politics wasn't samesies as today). The first was a vote to see who did and didn't support it. You already know which Democrats sign onto M4A, and with today's party partisanship know that no Republicans will magically up and vote for it. The nineteenth was, literally, held back for a second vote, until they thought they did have the numbers. They, literally, saw no point in having a guaranteed to fail vote. When they thought they had the numbers, they brought it up for the second vote. It won a supermajority in the house, and only lost the supermajority in the senate by 2 votes. Not quite the same as a bill that is 100+ votes short in the house, alone, and won't even see a senate vote.
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  12628.  @josephvargas7806  We're talking about congress voting on bills. Yes, the Civil Rights Act bill had majority support, when it came up for a vote. All the activism came before that, dimwit. There was no guaranteed to fail vote that sparked any civil unrest. The civil unrest sparked a vote. You Dore knobs want to do things backwards and, yes, you're the one rewriting history. Pretty much the same with women's suffrage. There was decades of protesting, before it ever came up for a vote. Dying in committees for years, prior to that, where 90% of bills die, doesn't equate to a floor vote. Pelosi introduced M4A just last session, where it quietly died in committees, sparking zero civil unrest. Does that count, or not? Make up your minds.
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  12629.  @josephvargas7806  Yeah, the $15 minimum got a vote, and the FTV mouthpiece is still bitching about those who voted for it, rather than those who voted against it, like the true idiot he is.
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  12630.  @josephvargas7806  Dore is where the idea comes from that a failed vote will cause a spark. Because it sure didn't come from history, where widespread movements were what sparked votes. What benefits? Does it look like Manchin will change his mind, or be replaced, because he voted no? Where's the civil unrest in his district? Same for the others.
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  12631.  @josephvargas7806  There's a clear list of those who won't even sign onto the bill. It's 100+ votes short in the house alone. Trying to ferret out a few fakers is pointless, if you don't even have an extra 100+ viable pro-M4A candidates laying around to replace enough of the ones that are openly opposed to it. Any fakers could simply vote for it, knowing full well it wasn't going to pass. You need to get the bill to the point of having the potential to pass, to ferret out fakers. The left end of the party doesn't have the same power to play hardball, as the right side of the party. There are zero extra out of party votes in the neighborhood of, or to the left of, the most progressive Dems. There is the entire Republican party, with members who vote similarly to Manchin, or are to the right of him. If progressives had say refused to revote on the $15 minimum, the bill would have gone to house-senate negotiations. If Manchin could bring enough Republicans on board to pass a $10 or $11 minimum wage, without progressives, then he'd win the negotiations, and minimum wage likely wouldn't be dealt with again until 2025. Even the broader progressive caucus is still 10-15 seats away from becoming the majority of house Dems. They still don't have the numbers to pick a different party speaker candidate. If they blocked the party's pick at the house speaker vote, the party could keep picking the same candidate over and over and over. There's no real power to replace Pelosi with someone more progressive, while the right side of the party does have the numbers to replace her with someone even worse. There's some serious overestimating as to how much power progressives actually have in congress.
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  12632.  @josephvargas7806  Yes, the number of cosigners tells you that you're already about 100 votes shy of the bill even passing the house. Trying to ferret out a few fakers, so you can increase the number to 105, or 110, is ridiculous. Get to work on converting or replacing the damn 100, first. If you had 100 viable pro-M4A candidates laying around, you should have pulled them out for the elections that just happened. When the house was stalled over a house speaker vote, twice before the house simply adopted a temporary plurality wins vote. Paralyzing the house over a speaker vote is not the big power position some have made it out to be. Even with hindsight, knowing full well that people were complaining about covid relief not being done fast enough, you still think it would have been good to paralyze the house ... not to actually deliver healthcare, but simply to get a guaranteed to fail vote ... and that the masses would have loved progressives for delaying things longer? You didn't make sense, saying the right side of the party wouldn't pick someone even worse than Pelosi, followed by saying they want corporate donors. That's an argument for picking someone who's an even worse corporate asskisser than her, not against.
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  12633.  @josephvargas7806  But "inactivity" is just bullshit. AOC and Justice Dems, literally, just got done helping to add more M4A yes votes to congress. If that's "inactivity", then the whole FTV "plan" itself was to have a failed vote followed by "inactivity". The broader progressive caucus needs 10-15 more seats to become the majority within the party. That seems to be about the most ridiculous time to go third party, a path that hasn't won the most popular third party a single seat in congress in 50 years.
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  12634. ​ @bshaff72  Trump dropped more bombs, per year, than Obama, and didn't end a single war.
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  12635.  @IAmisMaster  Ah, you're one of those morons who doesn't know the definition of "regressive".
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  12636.  @whyamimrpink78   Some have no minimum wage, because they're 70-80% unionized, and don't need the government to step in. The US has gone from 40% unionized, in the early 50s, to 10% unionized. And they're working on destroying the biggest union left ... the teacher's union ... with privatized schools nonsense. If you're going to destroy workers' non-government bargaining power, then people are going to start asking the government to step in and do it for them. I stopped watching your lying video, pretty quickly. Bernie has said, multiple times, that everyone would pay higher taxes, for healthcare, but that they wouldn't pay insurance premiums, or deductibles. So, it would save them money, in the end.
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  12637. @infiniteozzyfan You're the delusional one. There are zero US politicians calling for total economic equality and an end to capitalism. That's the actual far left. Sanders points to centrist countries to emulate. He's centre-left, at most. On the other hand, there are numerous US politicians who spout Ayn Rand style economics, which is about as far right as you can go. US politicians range from extreme right to centre-left, with the vast majority being right of centre, including most Democratic politicians.
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  12638.  @bherber  I can compare any two people I want. You just compared them, yourself, and came to the conclusion that they're different. Aside from being a male, with more personality, what are the actual political platform differences, between Clinton and Biden? Your anecdotal independent opinion is noted, but irrelevant to the fact that Bernie is popular with independents, overall. Bernie has swing support. Again, some 20% of Bernie supporters say they'll go Trump, if Bernie isn't the nominee. He's also popular with young voters, who are the least reliable to get out to the voting booth. If the Democrats don't pick a candidate that will draw more independents and get young people out to vote, it'll be the same as last time. Apathy with the status quo didn't get enough people out to vote in 2016.
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  12639.  @bherber  This is from a poll just before Biden officially entered. "If South Bend Mayor Pete Buttigieg won the primary, 21 percent of Sanders’ supporters would vote for Trump whereas 26 percent said they would do the same if Elizabeth Warren wins, 18 percent if Beto O’Rourke wins, and 17 percent said the same would happen if Kamala Harris wins the primary." https://www.telesurenglish.net/news/20-Bernie-Supporters-Wont-Vote-for-Dems-If-He-Loses-Primary-20190422-0016.html This is from a head to head poll with Biden included. Popularity polls have been up and down, but if about 20% of Democrats are Bernie first supporters, and 20% of those supporters switch to Trump, that's the 4% more Democrats that will vote Trump, in a Biden-Trump matchup vs a Bernie-Trump matchup. Also more people will just stay home, and not vote. Even more people will just stay home, with other matchups. https://www.ipsos.com/sites/default/files/ct/news/documents/2019-06/daily-beast-gender-topline-2019-06-17-v2.pdf
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  12640.  @rayerickson7614  Rofl. You just argued, again, that you're the "real racist".
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  12641.  @rayerickson7614  Nobody is arguing black Americans are too incompetent, you dishonest twit. Poorer people are less likely to already have a driver's license, therefore it's forcing them to get a new, acceptable ID, that they don't already have, to vote. Poorer people have less access to resources, and can least afford to take a day off to go get a new ID. Higher percentages of minorities are poor. Therefore, the laws are both classist and racist.
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  12642.  @rayerickson7614  You already argued, yourself, that you're a racist. You're not very bright.
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  12643. @Nick Broomhall Eh?
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  12644. Force =\= fascism. That's nonsense. That would make most of history "fascist". Fascism: ultra-nationalistic, ultra-militaristic, authoritarian, anti-union, anti-socialism, anti-communism, backed by big business, backed by large landowners, backed by religious leaders, leaders in privatization, ... Andy Ngo ... Proud Boy lap dog ... centre-right? lol
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  12645. ​ @fredflintstone6729  Israel is objectively the aggressor by every relevant measure (modern history, law, and current events), dumb dumb ... Modern history: With the Balfour declaration, Zionsim converted from something like immigration to colonization. 100 years ago, in 1923, Ze'ev Jabotinsky fully acknowledged that Zionism is colonialism, and that, based on the entirety of history, the native Palestinians would fight it until the bitter end. He just didn't care what would happen to them, and promoted doing it anyway. Colonizers are never not the aggressors, when it comes to the native population. On top of the colonialist nature of Zionism, the Zionists also formed terrorist organizations, like the Irgun and Lehi. They bombed many Palestinian markets and other public places, murdering many civilians, including children, even including Palestinian Jews (who opposed colonialist Zionism). Israel merged those terrorists into the new nation's military and intelligence agencies. Israelis elected Menachem Begin, leader of the Irgun, child murderer, Jew murderer, and bomber of the King David Hotel, as PM. Israelis, to this day, celebrate those Irgun terrorists as "heroes". Zionists literally taught their neighbours that terrorism is a valid path to independence and statehood, and that terrorists are to be celebrated. In 1945, it is well documented that Zionists owned just 5% of the land and were a majority in zero districts. Israel was formed by going against the will of the majority population. Its foundation is completely undemocratic. Even then, Jews were still a minority, in "their" half. The only possible way to actually become a Jewish ethno-state, would be to ethnically cleanse away the actual majority. And, that's exactly what happened. Israel has never allowed those people to return. Law: Israel is considered an occupier by the International Court, the UN GA, and the UN SC. Occupiers are also never not the aggressors. Those occupied actually have a right to resist occupation. On the flip side, it is illegal for the occupier to settle occupied lands, and illegal to use collective punishment. Israel is a rogue nation, that doesn't abide by international law. What it has been doing, and is doing now, is illegal. Current events: This year, alone, prior to Oct 7 ... Israel held over 1200 Palestinian hostages without charges ... over 200 Palestinians had been killed by the IDF and settlers ... over 1000 Palestinians had been displaced by Israel's neverending colonization of the West Bank ... and, Israel continued to operate an open air WWII style fascist ghetto. Even ignoring modern history and law, in no reality did Hamas "start" anything.
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  12646.  @UncleRicoOSU  No pro ivermectin study has passed peer review. Peru, which used ivermectin a lot, has the highest covid deaths per capita in the world. Ivermectin is manufactured by the 5th largest pharma corporation in the world ... they could make billions off of it, if it actually worked ... and even they don't recommend it as a safe covid remedy.
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  12647.  @leadbreastplate7496  "Mormon" says nothing about someone's position on economics or authoritarianism. That's like asking about carpenters.
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  12648.  @leadbreastplate7496  A nonsensical misdirection, just like Mormons.
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  12649.  @justingaines207  The anti-socialist, anti-communist, anti-union, backed by rich capitalists, leaders in privatization, parts put them on the right, which isn't to say everyone on the right is a fascist. Most, if not all, seem to apply to the Trump cult, or at least most of the politicians they vote for.
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  12650.  @justingaines207  Rofl. Why do you think they'll confuse anybody?
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  12651.  @justingaines207  A bunch of anti-democratic dimwits, that don't have a very good grasp on history.
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  12652.  @justingaines207  They seem to have completely failed history, falsely believing that democracy goes against freedom, has brought about the most war, and such like. Thousands of years of history disagrees with their take.
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  12653.  @justingaines207  They just sound like fascists promising more freedom ... when they're in total control. Soon you'd be having a big brother convincing you that slavery is freedom.
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  12654.  @justingaines207  Rofl. They want to install a dictator/monarch, ffs. Did you not catch the "Big Brother" reference? Doublespeak: war is peace, ignorance is strength, and freedom is slavery. They've already started with the backwards bullshit propaganda, making out democracy is anti-freedom and a dictatorship is freedom.
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  12655.  @justingaines207  The US is one of the least democratic developed nations. Why use it to represent democracy?
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  12656.  @justingaines207  To come to the conclusion that democracy is anti-freedom, based solely on the current US system, is kind of moronic. Countries ranked higher on the democracy index, also seem to be ranked higher on freedom indexes, happiness indexes, etc. You'd think the conclusion would be that the US isn't democratic enough, not that it needs a "benevolent" dictator.
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  12657.  @justingaines207  What the f does "proven status" mean? Monarchies were shit, for the majority of people.
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  12658.  @justingaines207  Oh, a single anecdote would disagree. Do tell how Edward III made life grand for the majority.
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  12659.  @justingaines207  I know about Edward, just fine. I want to hear what you think was so awesome. Do tell.
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  12660.  @justingaines207  Oh, rofl! Just saw that second comment. Washington warred against a monarchy to install a democracy, dumb dumb. He's, literally, the opposite of what you're arguing for. To compare the two is ridiculous. Awesome Edward III warred against Scots trying to keep their independence, he started a war that lasted 116 years, drove the country into debt, nobility started rebelling under the strain until he granted parliament the right to tax, which led to even more taxes on peasants, the strain of which led to a massive peasant revolt early in Richard's reign, .... awesomely awesome stuff!!
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  12661. Rofl. That's not a solution.
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  12662. The Murdochs should be getting sick of being sued, trying to defend Trump's bullshit.
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  12663. Right wingers lead the charge to prove the US is liable for funding a possible lab leak, which might allow for the entire world to sue them ... bankrupt the US to own the libs. Hilarious.
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  12664. FOX pretends like it's not MSM, and the GOP pretends like it's not the government.
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  12665. That's not true. The UK, which has a socialized healthcare system, not just a socialized health insurance system, also had a terrible covid response. Dimwitted Boris didn't take the virus seriously enough, either.
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  12666.  @backyardbuck6362  Because the majority of Cubans in Florida came over in the waves of Batista family and friends, Batista's adminstration and military, and people who got rich under Batista, or are descended from them ... you know, fascists and fascist supporters.
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  12667.  @backyardbuck6362  I see you failed history.
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  12668. There is very good change, on both sides of the climate.
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  12669. ​ @geoffwilliams4478 You're for sure a lesbian now!
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  12670.  @ssir5927  That's a straight up lie. An absolute monarch privately owns and operates an entire nation. There is no one above the owner. And, you arrive at an absolute monarchy, starting with a bunch of smaller private property owners, with no authority above them, fighting and conquering each other, claiming the losers' lands, and growing into said monarchy.
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  12671.  @vytalman  But I do.
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  12672.  @vytalman  No. It would be one thing, if all the governments magically signed onto it, and some central global government, like the UN, organized global distribution. And, all the governments using their power to enforce it, within their regions. It would be completely another, to suggest you could ditch elected officials to run and enforce it. That would require almost everyone, at an individual level, voluntarily be onboard. Who is going to stop a group of people who don't care about resources, and think they have some god given right to a piece of land, from taking it? Who is going to stop Puritan loons from trying to spread their "purification", like the Puritans of old? Who is going to make all the people who don't want to do things that way, comply (you'd have about half of Americans ready to fight to not share)?
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  12673.  @ssir5927  Nope. The one at the top owned all the property under them, dinglenut. Everything was 100% privately owned and operated.
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  12674.  @ssir5927  I know just fine. I (King) own 5 apartment buildings. I put a building managers (duke) in charge of each building. They put a floor manager (count) in charge of each floor. They put a couple wing managers (barons) in charge of each wing. Everyone gets a cut of the rents and whatever is produced by the apartment renters, to enforce the rules I make for living on my property. They are all my tenants, even the dukes. In what reality isn't that a 100% privately owned and operated system, with me as the owner?
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  12675.  @vytalman  YouTube hid a reply. Short answer: No, I compared ditching elected officials, to being unable to operate and enforce such a thing, and it leading to feudalism.
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  12676. ​ @ssir5927  YouTube not liking something I'm saying ... You think kings couldn't trade property with other kings, cede property to other kings, or take property from other kings? I don't think you've read an ounce of history. That's not how your so called "unions" worked. The king would try to make sure their most loyal people were the most powerful, and if any others got uppity, they could definitely be taken out, and replaced. It happened all the time. Who do you think was controlling the rent? Kings added new fees for people living on their property, all the time ... for this w-r, for that w-r, for ransoms, etc. You think kings couldn't evict people from their property, unless they tried to k-ll him? People could be hauled off, tossed in prisons, or k-lled, for all kinds of reasons. The king made the rules, laws, for living on his property.
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  12677.  @ssir5927  I literally said they were all tenants to the one on top, that the one on top owned everything. Whatever pressures you think there were on them, they did what they thought was best for them, and they made the laws. That the tenants of my buildings could rise up and k-ll me, if they wanted, doesn't change the absolute fact that I own the buildings. And, in the vast majority of cases, if I'm taken out, or pass away, my property will go to my heir, just like with any other property ownership. Nothing you're going on about refutes that fact.
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  12678.  @MundaneDave  Chickenpox is endemic. That's not an argument against herd immunity and vaccinating as many people as possible.
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  12679.  @MundaneDave  Did you miss the part where the chickenpox vaccine is mandated in all 50 states, to provide herd immunity, to help protect others, and not just yourself?
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  12680.  @MundaneDave  Your argument was that it's "endemic", as if that's some argument against herd immunity, and vaccinating as many people as possible, so "protect yourself". What you're doing now is a basic moving the goalpost, is what this is. It would also be better if everyone got the flu vaccine, as well. You still don't have a f*cking actual point.
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  12681.  @MundaneDave  No vaccine is 100%, dimwit, but every vaccinated person between you and a carrier is an added layer of protection. There is no argument against vaccinating as many people as possible. What "massive negative impact it's had on kids"? What are you blathering about?
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  12682.  @Chadofchicago  You should be bothering the half of the world who identifies their sexless god with masculine pronouns. They seem to be under the "delusion" that gender terminology doesn't have to match sex.
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  12683.  @Chadofchicago  It's the same Abrahamic sexless god, dumb dumb.
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  12684.  @clintonflynn815  Sure, but this plan isn't going to get M4A now. If you get the vote, which is guaranteed to fail, you get a list of names that'll be pretty much the same as the list of names you'll get when the bill is reintroduced in the new session anyway. And then you have to replace them, just like AOC just helped do. Or, you don't get the vote, and corporate Dems let progressives paralyze the house and blame them for no new covid relief, no new unemployment extensions, no new vaccine funding, etc., during a pandemic. Jimmy is exaggerating the potential gains and ignoring any potential risks. The idiot doesn't even grasp how the speaker vote actually works, as he's reading it aloud.
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  12685.  @Galadriel333  She was for "Medicare choice", dipshit, and wanted to let people who liked their private healthcare keep it. That would make opting into Medicare an option, dumbass. No he doesn't. It's the majority of votes cast that wins. He even brought up a webpage and read that aloud, but still didn't clue in that abstentions don't count as votes, absentees don't count as votes, unfilled seats don't count as votes. For every 2 of those, the threshold needed to win is reduced by 1. Although unlikely, it is possible for McCarthy to win. Jimmy dishonestly, or moronically, claims it's impossible.
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  12686. @michael pugliese If you've actually resorted to paralyzing the house it wouldn't be hard to sell that you've paralyzed the house, making it impossible to get anything passed.
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  12687.  @andrefasset3266  Someone who just used their platform and PAC to help add more pro-M4A votes to congress isn't a fucking "fake", "shill", "sellout", or whatever other bullshit. It's the very thing that needs doing to ever pass a bill, it's the very thing you'd still need to do after a failed vote. Saying it's not fighting, not doing anything, means Jimmy's plan is to get a failed vote and then not fight and not do anything. Show me the video where she ever advocated threatening to paralyze the house, and then flipped. She was obviously talking about getting a vote through normal means, you morons. Threatening to paralyze the house doesn't even guarantee you get a vote, you dumb shits. It could just get you a paralyzed house, during a pandemic, with corporate Dems blaming progressives for no new covid relief, no new unemployment extensions, no new vaccine funding, etc. You morons grow up and stop slandering other progressives over a secondary tactics disagreement.
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  12688. 6 investigations into Hillary, while she was running as his political opponent. He ran on "lock her up". But, now, when when investigations produce actual evidence, showing someone is a criminal, it's communism ... or fascism (can't make up his mind).
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  12689.  @tonyelliott7734  Biden had a physical, when he was done school, and was deemed ineligible. Trump passed a physical, but deferred for school. Then, 2 years later, when he was done school, a podiatrist claimed he had asymptomatic bone spurs.
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  12690. The fence went up before Biden was sworn in, dumb dumb. It's a Trump achievement.
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  12691. There's UBI and then there's how to pay for UBI. Alaskans have partial ownership of their resource, and get paid for it. Yang isn't proposing everyone get a share of Amazon, and their profits. He's proposing taxing Amazon's consumers with a VAT. Amazon would still pay zero taxes. They'd simply collect it and pass it along to the government. Toss in the UBI and even more people will spend money on Amazon making them and Bezos even richer.
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  12692.  @deep-n-yo-mind5061  You keep strawmanning me. I didn't automatically dismiss UBI. I opened by saying there's UBI and then there's how to pay for UBI, and that Yang's plan is just bad. He's the one throwing his hands in the air about tax loopholes for corporations and the rich. He's the one promoting a VAT that doesn't actually tax corporations, and will make them and their owners richer. He's the one not accounting for some poor people who will end up worse off. Other studies will say nothing about his plan, unless they're designed exactly like his plan, and he's the only one with a UBI plan.
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  12693. ​ @JSon-yl1ty  So, what were the original crazy Zionists talking about, when they wrote a declaration about wanting to create a home for Jews "in Palestine"?
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  12694.  @alizakessler  What's your point? Floridians exist, in Florida, and live on the land, even though it's not a nation.
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  12695.  @gaulishrealist  It's actually 105 years, since the Balfour declaration of an intent to colonize Palestine.
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  12696.  @e.i.8561  Basel Program, 1897: "Zionism seeks to establish a home in Palestine for the Jewish people, secured under public law.[6] To achieve this goal, the Congress envisages the following means: 1. The expedient promotion of the settlement of Jewish agriculturists, artisans, and businessmen in Palestine." What were those crazy Zionists talking about, "in Palestine"?
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  12697.  @federicokspitz7879  What are you on about? Many European countries have hate speech laws, and there's an EU article on it.
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  12698.  @crazyeight9  You don't think Manson should have been charged?
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  12699. Wealthy corporations easily avoid a VAT because it doesn't actually tax them. Wealthy people avoid a VAT by hoarding wealth, getting paid in stocks, buying property. The higher the percentage of income/wealth someone hoards, the lower the percentage of their income/wealth they'll be paying into a VAT.
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  12700. Wtf ... right wingers have been handing corporations power for decades. This is their creation.
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  12701.  Robert Clawson  Right, Republican Democrats need to get on board with change, or they'll lose.
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  12702.  Robert Clawson  So, hopefully, the "moderate" (right wing Republican lights) won't make the same mistake, again, and get with the program. Bernie is the actual centrist, outside the totally right skewed US.
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  12703.  @Mic-healDay  Your point was that polio is 20x less deadly, but there was still a vaccine mandate? No vaccine mandate has been found unconstitutional. No vaccine is 100%, meathead.
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  12704.  @mojojojo560  Exactly the truth. Covid has about a 1% mortality rate, which is 1 in 100. 1 in 200 polio cases results in paralysis, which is a 0.5% rate (1% is 2x 0.5%). Polio paralysis results in death 5-10% of the time (I even used the high end), which is a 0.05% rate (1% is 20x 0.05%). Let me know if you need help with any other math problems.
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  12705.  @YoungPiK1  All you told me is that you, and your likers, failed grade school math. The covid mortality rate is about 1%, which is 1 in 100. Can you work the rest of the math out yourself, or do you need help?
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  12706.  @YoungPiK1  I'm talking about the infection fatality rate, just like with polio. The unvaccinated covid rate has been estimated at about 1%, pretty much from the start. Studies have supported about a 1% infection fatality rate in developed countries. You don't have to make guesses based on case fatality rates which are constantly changing and will go down in countries with higher vaccination rates. It's about 1%. You: If we don't count these people I don't give a crap about, then the rate is much lower. Australia's covid death rate would translate into 26k total US covid deaths. That's over 700k people you don't give a crap if they die. There are also now 120k orphaned kids, in the US. But, hey, I'm sure that doesn't affect kids, at all.
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  12707.  @BKDBut  Right. Washington was mandating smallpox inoculations 20 years before there even was a vaccine.
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  12708.  @BKDBut  Do you not know the difference between the words "mandate" and "passport"?
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  12709.  @BKDBut  All you said was that you don't give two shits about the hundreds of thousands of people it has killed. I'd already figured that out about pretty much every against covid measures, "homie".
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  12710.  @YoungPiK1  Sorry, stopped reading when you pretended like covid measures have killed millions of people.
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  12711.  @joeschofield6971  You get 4 polio shots, ffs, you loon. The vast majority of hospitalizations and deaths have been unvaccinated. Trump counties have been hit hardest, by their own stupidity. You're spouting nothing but nonsense.
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  12712.  @docvaliant721  I suspect you just have reading comprehension problems. What were the major advancements in modern living, between 1950 and 1960, when the polio rate plummeted in the US, which is coincidentally when the vaccine came out? How does it also seem to happen in developing and undeveloped countries, coincidentally with increasing vaccinations?
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  12713.  @docvaliant721  Rofl. I know about polio, just fine, thanks. You didn't answer my questions. Refigeration and plumbing had been around for over a century, by 1950. What were the specitic major advances, between 1950 and 1960, that coincidentally happened at the exact same time as the vaccine rollout, which caused polio rates to plummet? How did the same thing coincidentally happen, at the exact same time as polio vaccine rollouts, across the world? This has to be one of the most amazing chain of coincidences ever recorded. The main Salk vaccine worked just fine. There was an incident where a manufacturer made an error, but that wasn't something inherently wrong with the vaccine. The Salk vaccine doesn't use live virus samples, it uses dead ones, so can't give you polio. It is absolutely impossible for it to give you polio. How did you become so "well informed" and totally miss that major fact? Yeah, nah, mRNA vaccines don't change your dna.
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  12714.  Aaron Dickson  Give the faux concern a rest. You lot haven't cared about hundreds of thousands of people dying, haven't cared about creating over a hundred thousand orphans, haven't cared about the millions with long covid ...
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  12715.  @unifiedtheoryoflife9922  Bill Maher has called himself as a Goldwater, or even a Reagan, Republican. What's your point?
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  12716. Countries with higher tests per confirmed case rates then tend to have lower cases and deaths. The US had a pretty pathetic rate during much of the pandemic, as well as did the European countries that have had similar results to the US. And countries like S Korea, New Zealand, Australia, had incredibly high rates, testing hundreds of people per confirmed case. It's a pretty simple concept that, the broader your net, the better, and faster, you can find and isolate those who need to be isolated, and vastly reduce the spread.
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  12717.  @Guitarisforgrins  Sure, but Alberta is the only province with a conservative majority.
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  12718.  @Guitarisforgrins  You seem to be confusing pluralities for majorities. Alberta is the only province where conservatives get 50+% of the vote. The majority in other provinces vote liberal and ndp (and block for Quebec).
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  12719.  @Guitarisforgrins  In Ontario, Conservatives got 34.9% of the vote in the 2021 federal election. In 2018, Ford won 31.25% of the vote. In what reality is either of those a majority?
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  12720. So, you think Trump and Republicans likely also supporting Russia's colonialism, occupation, and ethnic cleansing, on top of Israel's ... plus their attempts to completely end the democratic process ... plus their hate towards fellow citizens and asylum seekers ... plus their always wanting more tax breaks and to make massive cuts to things they don't like ... is totally samesies? You know even Mussolini and Hitler weren't samesies, right?
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  12721.  @quedizzle7378  You're making the claim. Which party officials has Bernie been buying?
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  12722. ​ @jaygee5874  But tried to give them most of what they wanted. Republicans took out the 7 day paid sick leave, that Biden had in.
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  12723. Name one that campaigned on threatening to paralyze the house.
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  12724. Truth: AOC just used her platform and PAC to help get more pro-M4A progressives elected to congress, the very thing that needs doing to ever pass it. She backed Bernie (M4A), rather than Tulsi ("Medicare choice" aka public option). When Bernie dropped out, she supported Biden (public option + lower Medicare age) over Trump (ACA repeal). Jimmy, on the other hand, backed Tulsi over Bernie, and then spent the general running an attack ad campaign against Trump's only viable opponent. He also promotes going third party, that realistically won't win a seat in congress in 50 years, let alone get anyone healthcare anytime soon. The truth is that Dore doesn't give a flying fuck if anyone gets healthcare.
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  12725.  @srhodes6963  He still obstructed justice, and lied to the investigator. Aside from that, there doesn't even need to be a crime, to be impeached. They could impeach for behaviour unbecoming, for which there's mountains of evidence.
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  12726. @Halon's Razor Seriously? REP. VAL DEMINGS (D-FL): Director Mueller, isn't it fair to say that the President's written answers were not only inadequate and incomplete because he didn't answer many of your questions, but where he did, his answers showed that he wasn't always being truthful? MUELLER: I would say generally.
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  12727. @Halon's Razor Lol, what do you think "generally" means, then, if not generally correct?
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  12728. @Halon's Razor Sure, could have been stronger. Still appears to reflect generally correct, in that context. Also generally correct that Trump ordered others to lie and fabricate evidence ... https://www.independent.co.uk/news/world/americas/us-politics/mueller-testimony-trump-don-mcgahn-lie-karen-bass-a9018956.html
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  12729. So, you've got kids, and want them to grow up in a country where they're 4-40x more likely to be shot by cops, than other developed countries ... could possibly die due to lack of healthcare coverage one day ... could possibly go bankrupt due to medical debt one day ... could end up severely in debt, if something happens to you or your money, just to get a college education ... where environmental damage is promoted ... Etc. Awesome, so responsible of you.
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  12730.  @susanaltman5134   Yeah, he was even offered the presidency of IL. He was a proponent of a single state immigration Znsm. All irrelevant to the fact that the definition of antisemitism that they've adopted says it's antisemitic to compare IL policy to Nzs, it's Likud creating the policy, and Einstein considered them comparable to Nzs. Therefore, he's antisemitic.
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  12731.  @jamesweaver6212  Yeah, a white one though. FOX fans are okay with that, I guess.
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  12732. ​ @adampike3834  The Jewish population wasn't the majority anywhere in Palestine, in 1945. They ethnically cleansed the actual majority of "their" land, and won't let them come back. They're faking at being democratic.
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  12733. I think the single state solution would actually be easiest. Since Israel has proven, over the decades, that it wants to control all of Israel/Palestine, I think Palestinians should just surrender, and accept the Israeli government as their own. Then, demand equal rights and, since the conflict would be over, a right of return for all Palestinian refugees.
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  12734.  @felixmaxime9539  That's not what Peterson meant. He was talking about just having sex and getting women, not specifically marriage, and not even about having more than one woman at a time. He was referring to guys who got more than one woman, total.
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  12735. This concept should be so easy to grasp for people who love and worship a transgender god, a formless, sexless, penisless being, that they refer to as "he", "him", and even "father".
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  12736. ​ @TheRedStateBlue  That's the Zionist argument, dumb dumb. They want all their land back from thousands of years ago. The argument for Palestinians is that it is happening, now, dumb dumb, and you are pro committing ethnic cleansing and colonialism.
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  12737. ​ @TheRedStateBlue  Israel is objectively the aggressor, by every measure ... Modern history: 100 years ago, in 1923, Ze'ev Jabotinsky fully acknowledged that Zionism is colonialism, and that, based on the entirety of history, that the natives would fight it until the bitter end. He just didn't care what would happen to them, and promoted doing it anyway. Colonizers are never not the aggressors. On top of the colonialist nature of Zionism, the Zionists also formed terrorist organizations, like the Irgun and Lehi. They bombed many Palestinian markets and other public places, murdering many civilians, including children, even including Palestinian Jews (who opposed Zionism). Israel merged those terrorists into the new nation's military and intelligence agencies. Israelis elected Menachem Begin, leader of the Irgun, child murderer, Jew murderer, and bomber of the King David Hotel, as PM. Israelis, to this day, celebrate those terrorists as "heroes". Zionists literally taught their neighbours that terrorism is a valid path to independence and statehood, and that terrorists are to be celebrated. In 1945, it is well documented that Zionists owned just 5% of the land and were a majority nowhere. Israel was formed by actually going against the majority population. It's foundation is completely undemocratic. Then, becoming a majority, in "your" new nation, by ethnic cleansing the actual majority, and then claiming to be democratic, is utter nonsense. Law: Israel is considered an occupier by the International Court, the UN GA, and the UN SC. Occupiers are also never not the aggressors. Those occupied actually have a right to resist occupation. On the flip side, it is illegal for the occupier to settle occupied lands, and illegal to use collective punishment. Israel is a rogue nation, that doesn't abide by international law. What it has been doing, and is doing now, is illegal. Current events: This year, alone, prior to Oct 7 ... Israel held over 1200 Palestinian hostages without charges ... over 200 Palestinians had been killed by the IDF and settlers ... over 1000 Palestinians had been displaced by Israel's neverending colonization of the West Bank ... and, Israel continued to operate an open air WWII style fascist ghetto. Even ignoring modern history and law, in no reality did Hamas "start" anything.
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  12738. ​ @Whitesquall123  Rofl, who's buying all the FJB merch?
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  12739. Jimmy was floored? Has he never heard of Libertarians, Ancappers, Objectivists, or the like? Sure, they're anti-authoritarian, but economically, they're still far right, and don't want any of the things progressives want. Economically, the complete opposite of the socialism Jimmy pretends to like. Dore is a moron.
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  12740. The point is having Caucasian Europeans (Agnostics who don't know it) call themselves African-Americans (Athe-ists) and then broaden the definition of the term African-American (Atheist) to suit them (A-theist), as well, is the absurdity.
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  12741. They also don't take into account how many of those years Republicans were the majority in the house or senate, and blocked passing things. They can't even currently pass a simple budget, ffs.
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  12742. What are you idjits above on about? AOC and two fellow NY progressives back formal plea for ceasefire in Gaza Oct 16, 2023 18 House Democrats sign resolution for Mideast de-escalation, ceasefire Oct 23, 2023 — Cori Bush (D-Mo.). Bush's fellow “Squad” members Reps. Rashida Tlaib (D-Mich.), Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez (D-N.Y.) Democrats Like Rashida Tlaib, AOC Split With Biden Over Israel Ceasefire Calls Oct 31, 2023 AOC leads Democrats urging Biden to call for Gaza ceasefire over children's rights Nov 15, 2023 AOC calls Biden administration 'shameful' for blocking United Nations demand for a ... Dec 11, 2023 Aoc ceasefire | keeping it reel - NewsBreak Original Jan 17, 2024 Hour 1: AOC Calls for Ceasefire from Israel - The Marc Cox Morning Show Podcast Feb 8, 2024 AOC suggests cutting off aid to Israel after U.S. vetoes ceasefire resolution Feb 22, 2024 AOC and Other Democrats Urge Biden to Call for a Ceasefire at the State of the ... Mar 1, 2024
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  12743.  @handofgod9386  Nobody in this video said his numbers were better than Trump's.
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  12744. Go back to school.
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  12745. ​ @ProudPatriot-t8x  Israel is objectively the aggressor by every relevant measure... Modern history: 100 years ago, in 1923, Ze'ev Jabotinsky fully acknowledged that Zionism is colonialism, and that, based on the entirety of history, the natives would fight it until the bitter end. He just didn't care what would happen to them, and promoted doing it anyway. Colonizers are never not the aggressors. On top of the colonialist nature of Zionism, the Zionists also formed terrorist organizations, like the Irgun and Lehi. They bombed many Palestinian markets and other public places, murdering many civilians, including children, even including Palestinian Jews (who opposed Zionism). Israel merged those terrorists into the new nation's military and intelligence agencies. Israelis elected Menachem Begin, leader of the Irgun, child murderer, Jew murderer, and bomber of the King David Hotel, as PM. Israelis, to this day, celebrate those terrorists as "heroes". Zionists literally taught their neighbours that terrorism is a valid path to independence and statehood, and that terrorists are to be celebrated. In 1945, it is well documented that Zionists owned just 5% of the land and were a majority nowhere. Israel was formed by actually going against the majority population. It's foundation is completely undemocratic. Then, becoming a majority, in "their" new nation, by ethnic cleansing the actual majority, and then claiming to be democratic, is utter nonsense. Law: Israel is considered an occupier by the International Court, the UN GA, and the UN SC. Occupiers are also never not the aggressors. Those occupied actually have a right to resist occupation. On the flip side, it is illegal for the occupier to settle occupied lands, and illegal to use collective punishment. Israel is a rogue nation, that doesn't abide by international law. What it has been doing, and is doing now, is illegal. Current events: This year, alone, prior to Oct 7 ... Israel held over 1200 Palestinian hostages without charges ... over 200 Palestinians had been killed by the IDF and settlers ... over 1000 Palestinians had been displaced by Israel's neverending colonization of the West Bank ... and, Israel continued to operate an open air WWII style fascist ghetto, in Gaza. Even ignoring modern history and law, in no reality did Hamas "start" anything.
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  12746. ​ @Shane-zl9ry  Go read the Likud platform, dimwit. "Between the sea and the Jordan there will only be Israeli sovereignty".
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  12747. The main issue I see, is that if she doesn't actually have a plan going in ... if her only plan is to sit down with people and start formulating an actual plan once she's in office, then she'd be well behind Bernie for a M4A rollout timeline.
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  12748. Who were the "fine people" who showed up to watch (not protest) a white supremacist rally in Charlottesville?
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  12749.  @brianchoo298  Umm, if the US had even a mediocre response, like Canada, Germany, Norway, Denmark, the deaths per million would translate into 300k+ fewer deaths. If the US actually had an amazing response, like S Korea, Vietnam, New Zealand, Australia, the deaths per million would translate into 400k+ fewer deaths. Thinking US numbers were "just science" is just stupidity. Yes, goals matter. The US was founded by people who protested and rioted. Their opponents fought against democracy to keep an unelected ruler in power. The Civil Rights movement protested and rioted. Are the Asian haters in positions of authority? Do you know how protests work?
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  12750. ​​ @stephj9378  Everyone following "self help gurus" thinks their guru is awesome. Most of them are spewing bullshit. The proof that JP is spewing bullshit is that he clearly doesn't believe in, or follow, his own rules. The proof that he's a grifter is him going on Rogan, peddling his daughter's all meat diet, claiming it cured his depression and anxiety, and that he hadn't needed meds in 6 months ... just a few months before needing to be forced into a coma, to break his addiction to the very meds he claimed he no longer needed. He has been bullshitting, mostly ignorant Americans, since his 2016 anti-trans nonsense.
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  12751.  @mitchellwharry2922  He's grifter and a Quack, who doesn't deserve a license. Get over it.
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  12752. ​ @aliamjon4423 "I'm more center" ... but hate everything on the left ... 😂 Buddy, you've proven yourself an extreme right wing nutjob, many times over.
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  12753.  @nevetstrevel4711  If I gather up people from the Americas, whose ancestors left England hundreds of years ago, "went back", claimed half the country as "ours", and cleansed "our" half of its current inhabitants (at least enough so that us "returnees" were in a solid majority, so we could fake being democratic), we'd be colonizers.
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  12754.  @marseillesvieux2987  Ummm, questioning someone on their position is exactly how to try and become knowledgable about their position. If you dodge the question, then you're not sharing the knowledge I want to know, at all. If I asked your opinion on deep dish vs thin crust, and you went off about spaghetti, then you're not having a knowledgeable conversation, at all. You're basically having a conversation with yourself.
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  12755.  @marseillesvieux2987  There's plenty of room for a conversation to start, if you actually have a conversation with the other person, instead of yourself.
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  12756.  @arnoldlueders7500  Just as long as you understand the proper order of things, and understand that calling people bigots for being intolerant of bigotry is kind of moronic. If you've ever called a car or boat "she", if you've ever called a formless penisless god "he", then you've now learned the difference between sex and gender.
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  12757.  @arnoldlueders7500  If it's so weak, prove it. Why is it okay to use gender pronouns however we want with inanimate objects, or formless god beings, but not human beings?
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  12758.  @zenbear9952  Definitely. Handing someone a dictatorship likely won't go the way you want.
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  12759.  @zenbear9952  Well, we call something owned by the state "socialized".
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  12760. Yes, we do. I'm not talking about them making rules for how things should run. I'm talking about when they own public schools, own the NHS or the primary form of health insurance, nationalize and own resources, or whatnot. Real world centrism is in the center, between all out capitalism and all out socialism. An evenly mixed economy, is a mix of half capitalism and half socialism. Yes, I already said they were corrupted, and didn't give up their dictatorship, but a dictatorship is part of the revolutionary path. You know right libertarians also argue fascism isn't true capitalism, yeah?
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  12761. ​ @ramonserna8089  That's not much to run on, if the media actually did its job. By his favorite measure, the stock market, he got nearly all of his gains in the first year, under Obama's last budget. Once his first budget kicked in, it basically flatlined. He almost doubled the deficit by 2019. His "energy independence" is a load of hooey, since Reagan deregulated domestic oil prices back in 1981, and it has been selling for the same as foreign ever since. Global oil prices actually dropped in 2014, and went up under Trump.
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  12762. Revisionist Zionsim, which Likud follows, has always claimed a "right" to Jordan, as well. If you don't stop them, they'll be coming for you too.
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  12763.  @ThirdCydonian  Iran also has double the population and size of Iraq, and has an up to date military that won't be lined up on a road out of Kuwait for easy bombing and hasn't been weakened by a decade of severe sanctions.
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  12764. So, if it wasn't so easy to get a gun in the US, there might be less US guns used in Canadian crimes?
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  12765.  @rubecube2745  Umm, like criminals in Canada, cartels in Mexico are getting their guns from the US. The US is the largest supplier of guns for criminals in North and Central America.
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  12766.  @rubecube2745  Because it's not "criminals" selling guns to other criminals. It's "legal" gun buyers. https://www.businessinsider.com/guns-sold-legally-in-us-used-in-crimes-in-mexico-2021-4
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  12767.  @rubecube2745  States with less gun control tend to have higher firearm mortality rates and higher homicide rates. https://www.cdc.gov/nchs/pressroom/sosmap/firearm_mortality/firearm.htm https://www.cdc.gov/nchs/pressroom/sosmap/homicide_mortality/homicide.htm
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  12768. Netanyahu wanted them, to avoid ending his colonialism project. "For years, the various governments led by Benjamin Netanyahu took an approach that divided power between the Gaza Strip and the West Bank — bringing Palestinian Authority President Mahmoud Abbas to his knees while making moves that propped up the Hamas terror group. The idea was to prevent Abbas — or anyone else in the Palestinian Authority’s West Bank government — from advancing toward the establishment of a Palestinian state."
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  12769. Rand is a dimwit, that doesn't seem to grasp that an NIH grant wouldn't make Fauci personally liable, it would make the US liable.
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  12770.  @dot1482  Nonsense.
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  12771.  @victormeidan1062  I covered "moving on", moron, with current law and current events. Plus, there hasn't been a "moving on" from the colonization. It's still happening.
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  12772. ​ @michaelfisher1537  No. You are. Likud was founded by Menachem Begin, terrorist leader of the Irgun, who bombed the King David Hotel. The Irgun targeted Palestinian Jews, alongside their Palestinian brothers and sisters, for not supporting colonialist Zionsim. Israel merged those Irgun terrorists ... child murderers, Jew murderers ... into the new nation's military and intelligence agencies. Israelis elected Menachem Begin, Jew murderer, as PM. His Likud platform, "between the sea and the Jordan there will only be Israeli sovereignty", declaring continued colonization and ethnic cleansing of all Palestine territories, putting Israel's Jews at constant threat from the native population fighting said colonialism. Israelis have also put themselves in the same boat as the Irgun and Likud, not just by electing them, but by continuing to celebrate the Irgun terrorists, Jew murderers, as "heroes", to this day.
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  12773.  @Danielle-zq7kb  I don't, sorry. Just a variety of sources. You can find Ze'ev Jabotinsky's articles, Likud's 1977 platform, the changing population of Israel-Palestine, and some other old mandate era documents, at the Jewish Virtual Library (their transcribed primary source stuff is fine, but their own writings get biased). The Balfour Project has transcribed mandate era documents. The British Hansard has mandate era parliament discussions (just set the dates you want and search for keywords: Palestine or Irgun or whatever you're looking for). Google: NYT Einstein letter. The 1945 Village Statistics is scanned onto Wiki, which also has a bunch of info (like with any Wiki articles, just make sure the section your reading is sourced).
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  12774. ​ @Danielle-zq7kb  YouTube hid my reply, for some reason. If you sort the comment section by newest, and refind this thread, you should be able to see it.
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  12775.  @liamoconlocha3264  I have been. Help yourself to it, if you want to as well.
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  12776.  @goliatdepalestein3898  Yeah, some of Jabotinsky's Betar militants even trained with the fascists in Italy.
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  12777.  @ComradeCatpurrnicus  Pew (2002): 83% believed they helped with 9/11; 77% believed they had WMDs or Nclr wpns; 75% believed they were harboring trrrists. So, you don't believe it's possible to change anyone's mind, and instead of battling BS, we should just do nothing, and wait it out, for what? Another 20 years, or so?
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  12778.  @janetwebster5099  I'm also Canadian, and gma was a Webster. 👍🇨🇦
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  12779. ☝️Why can't you be tagged? Bot? Coward? You seem to have left out the part where Weizmann told Faisal that Znsts didn't want to create their own state. Which means, what Faisal was agreeing to was a single state solution. It was the Znsts who didn't stick to that agreement. You also left out that Al Qibla was run by Faisal's dad, Sharif Hussein. He was also likely lied to. But, you have helped prove that the Arabs/Muslims, were willing to open their arms and accept Jws, and that this isn't all about hting Jws. You also left out how there were already Commodore, Tandy, and Apple, as well as Japanese companies, making personal computers. The world would have been just fine, without an already existing IBM chip being modified in IL.
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  12780. @IfYourAnusHadAFace States with fewer gun control laws tend to have higher firearm mortality rates and higher homicide rates, dumb dumb. Pointing at an individual anecdotal event, as if it proves anything, is stupid.
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  12781. ​ @SavageHenry777  This year alone, prior to Oct 7 ... 1200+ Palestinian hostages, held indefinitely without charges, over 100 minors ... 200+ Palestinians killed by the IDF and settlers, 40+ minors ... the ongoing endless colonization of the West Bank ... the ongoing operation of an open air WWII style fascist ghetto. Who "started" what?
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  12782. Trump is being charged with trying to steal the vote away from largely black Georgian voters. Totally samesies as MLK Jr.
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  12783.  @drsgme69  It's an exact analogy, dumb dumb. People from Europe and Russia offered to take half their land, and needed enough current inhabitants to move off it, so the newcomers could at least be the majority on that land, to fake being democratic.
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  12784.  @KaiCross  And, Native Americans reached a point where they wanted to push the colonizing white man back into the sea. What's your point? It wasn't already there. Before the emergence of Israel, Judah, and Philistia, the region was controlled by Egypt. It was the first nation to control the region. The kingdom of Israel emerged at about the same time as Philistia, and was wiped out before it. The refugees from Israel fled to the little kingdom of Judah. That's how they all became Judahites instead of Israelites. Whatever area "Peleset", or "Philistia" first described, the term was then used to describe a larger area, throughout history, by the Greeks, Persians, Romans, Christians, Muslims, and even Jews.
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  12785.  @KaiCross  There was no "Israel", after the Assyrians wiped it out. You're lying. Why do you think they're all called "Jews", dumb dumb? Because that's the Europeanized version of "Judahites". Even the Jews stopped calling themselves "Israelites", because Israel was wiped out, 120 years before Judah and Philistia.
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  12786.  @KaiCross  You're a loon. Europeans have DNA roots going BACK to Africa. They still sure as shit colonized the crap out of it.
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  12787.  @KaiCross  Did you know that the Zionist terrorist groups, Irgun and Lehi, also targeted Palestinian Jews, because the actual Jews that never left, and never converted, also didn't support the Zionist colonization?
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  12788.  @adampower9757  Give it a rest. Jews lived amongst Muslims for 1300 years. Many were taken in when Christian nations offered force conversion, death, or exile. The OT/Tanakh says to stone to death absolutely anyone who promotes another religion.
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  12789.  @woobiefuntime  Nonsense. All the ones in Muslim nations, could have moved there whenever they wanted, over the course of 1300 years. Barely any did, until after Israel. There could have been lineups for hundreds of miles, for foreign Jews, to join up when Zionism first started. There wasn't. There was no indication of any massive desire to "return" to their "homeland", until the Russian pogroms and Nazis came along. Even then, many tried going to other countries first, and those countries loaded them up, and sent them on their way, to get rid of them. Even if there was some great desire, that doesn't change the fact of what it was, colonialism. If I have some great desire to go "back" to England, round up about 6 million other people from the Americas, whose ancestors left England hundreds of years ago, and we go "back" to England, claim half of the country, and force any current residents off of our half, we'd be colonizers and cleansers.
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  12790.  @browtf3313  Did not notice that, at all. Maybe you're just not very bright.
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  12791.  @jennys5924  He literally spelled out that the natives would fight the colonialism until the bitter end, then promoted still doing the colonialism, dimwit. How do you promote colonizing and ethnic cleansing, and still care what happens to them?
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  12792.  @jennys5924  Do you grasp what "no voluntary agreement" means? "Voluntary Agreement Not Possible. There can be no voluntary agreement between ourselves and the Palestine Arabs. Not now, nor in the prospective future. I say this with such conviction, not because I want to hurt the moderate Zionists. I do not believe that they will be hurt. Except for those who were born blind, they realised long ago that it is utterly impossible to obtain the voluntary consent of the Palestine Arabs for converting "Palestine" from an Arab country into a country with a Jewish majority. My readers have a general idea of the history of colonisation in other countries. I suggest that they consider all the precedents with which they are acquainted, and see whether there is one solitary instance of any colonisation being carried on with the consent of the native population. There is no such precedent. The native populations, civilised or uncivilised, have always stubbornly resisted the colonists, irrespective of whether they were civilised or savage."
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  12793.  @ultimosoneto674  Israel is objectively the aggressor, by every relevant measure ... Modern history: 100 years ago, in 1923, Ze'ev Jabotinsky fully acknowledged that Zionism is colonialism, and that, based on the entirety of history, the natives would fight it until the bitter end. He just didn't care what would happen to them, and promoted doing it anyway. Colonizers are never not the aggressors. On top of the colonialist nature of Zionism, the Zionists also formed terrorist organizations, like the Irgun and Lehi. They bombed many Palestinian markets and other public places, murdering many civilians, including children, even including Palestinian Jews (who opposed Zionism). Israel merged those terrorists into the new nation's military and intelligence agencies. Israelis elected Menachem Begin, leader of the Irgun, child murderer, Jew murderer, and bomber of the King David Hotel, as PM. Israelis, to this day, celebrate those terrorists as "heroes". Zionists literally taught their neighbours that terrorism is a valid path to independence and statehood, and that terrorists are to be celebrated. In 1945, it is well documented that Zionists owned just 5% of the land and were a majority nowhere. Israel was formed by actually going against the majority population. It's foundation is completely undemocratic. Then, becoming a majority, in "their" new nation, by ethnic cleansing the actual majority, and then claiming to be democratic, is utter nonsense. Law: Israel is considered an occupier by the International Court, the UN GA, and the UN SC. Occupiers are also never not the aggressors. Those occupied actually have a right to resist occupation. On the flip side, it is illegal for the occupier to settle occupied lands, and illegal to use collective punishment. Israel is a rogue nation, that doesn't abide by international law. What it has been doing, and is doing now, is illegal. Current events: This year, alone, prior to Oct 7 ... Israel held over 1200 Palestinian hostages without charges ... over 200 Palestinians had been killed by the IDF and settlers ... over 1000 Palestinians had been displaced by Israel's neverending colonization of the West Bank ... and, Israel continued to operate an open air WWII style fascist ghetto, in Gaza. Even ignoring modern history and law, in no reality did Hamas "start" anything.
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  12794.  @Power2Think  Been done, multiple times.
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  12795.  @thehawkguy  Nope. All, or part, was called Philistia, Philistine, Palestine, of Filistin, by the Egyptians, Assyrians, Babylonians, Persians, and Greeks, before the Romans. You're just lying.
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  12796.  @duarteleonardo8352  He didn't mean it. There was so much wrong, in just the first 5 min, I emailed him actual facts, and his reply was "Go to Syria". He's a typical bullshitting racist Zionist, who probably only dislikes the current government because they aren't extreme enough.
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  12797.  @gmeister3022  It is pretty much only a religious conflict, from the Zionist side. There was absolutely no basis, for sticking people from Europe and Russia, there, except some fairytale claim of "god given" land. Palestinians are reacting like pretty much all natives react to colonialism. Zionist terrorist groups, Irgun and Lehi, targeted Palestinian Jews alongside their Palestinian brothers and sisters, because they didn't support colonialist Zionsim. You don't get to use people you murdered, as some ridiculous 1709 year old place holder. Plus, Palestinians have Canaanite DNA, dumb dumb. They are also likely the Jews of old, who simply converted and were Arabized (like Hispanic Native Americans). Me rounding up people from the Americas, whose ancestors left England hundreds of years ago, "going back", claiming half the country, and cleansing "our" half of its current inhabitants, would be a ridiculous notion. It would still be colonialism, if we had a superpower backer, to help force it on the current inhabitants. And, me, having some distant cousin living there, doesn't make it any less ridiculous. Jews lived amongst Muslims for 1300 years, with few incidents. They had a Jewish "Golden Age". They were given refuge, when Christian nations offered conversion, death, or exile. The Ottomans even okayed the earliest form of Zionsim, which was closer to immigration than colonization. This whole thing is about the Balfour declaration, and Zionsim converting to colonialism. Native Americans reached a point where they wanted to push the white man back into the sea. It wasn't simply because they were white, dimwit.
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  12798.  @gmeister3022  "between the sea and the Jordan", original Likud platform ... "The Right of the Jewish People to the Land of Israel (Eretz Israel) a. The right of the Jewish people to the land of Israel is eternal and indisputable and is linked with the right to security and peace; therefore, Judea and Samaria will not be handed to any foreign administration; between the Sea and the Jordan there will only be Israeli sovereignty."
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  12799. Rofl! As if the dimwits this is targeted towards listen to scientists and doctors.
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  12800.  @skippyrx21  The medical examiner classified it a homicide, dimwit.
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  12801.  @ryanhubbard1885  They, literally, classified it as a homicide. You think a DA is sooo stupid, that they're heading to court with a medical examiner's ruling that it was a drug overdose, and not at all the cops fault? No, that's you being stupid.
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  12802.  @ryanhubbard1885  No, I'm not, dimwit. You're reading it as a synonym for murder, which proves the fact that you're a dimwit. Homicide =/= drug overdose.
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  12803.  @ryanhubbard1885  Rofl. Your mental telepathy is as accurate as your reading comprehension. I'm not taking this so personally. It's just a fact that the medical examiner classified it as a "homicide". It's just a fact that a "homicide" isn't a drug overdose. That you're arguing with reality makes it a fact that you're a dimwit.
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  12804.  @ryanhubbard1885  Rofl, recap: someone said he died of an overdose, I said it was classified a homicide, and you jumped in. Absolutely nothing you have said makes what I initially replied to right, or my initial reply wrong. You're just blabbering.
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  12805.  @ryanhubbard1885  Rofl. The only "idiot" between us is the one who thinks it takes "super feels" to simply consider someone stupid. Also the one now going full irony with their comments. Everything you said was either a complete failure at trying to argue they didn't classify it a homicide, or completely irrelevant to the fact that they did classify it a homicide. Which do you want to go with?
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  12806.  @fuelmotive8716  You don't have a fantastic grasp of what the word "traitor" means.
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  12807.  @ryanhubbard1885  You have serious reading comprehension problems. I never even talked about the case going one way, or the other. I made the simple objective statement that the medical examiner classified it as a homicide. That's a straight up fact, making it about as objective as you can possibly get.
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  12808.  @ryanhubbard1885  Rofl. We've already been over the fact that culpability and intent are irrelevant to whether it's a "homicide", or not, and that you were reading things in my words that I didn't write. The medical examiner, knowing full well everything you mentioned, having been the one that did the autopsy, classified his death as a homicide (one person killing another person). The court can decide if the cop intended to kill him. The court can decide if the cops actions were justified, or unjustified. All still irrelevant to the fact that the medical examiner classified it as a homicide. Maybe some jurors will be like you, pretend they have medical degrees, and/or pretend they know better than the medical examiner who did the actual autopsy, by reading a paragraph that same medical examiner wrote. The only one that seems to be having emotional problems, is you. You're desperate to strawman me, and pretend like I'm saying something I'm not saying. Desperate to assign a motive to what I'm saying. Do you agree that the medical examiner classified it as a homicide, or do you want to argue with reality?
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  12809.  @ryanhubbard1885  Rofl. That you're clearly not bright also just seems to be a statement of fact. And you just keep providing evidence.
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  12810.  @ryanhubbard1885  Rofl, just because I'm not, like you, pretending to be more of a medical expert than the medical examiner, who wrote everything you've cited and still classified it as a homicide?
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  12811.  @ryanhubbard1885  Are you also one of those genius online medical experts, that reads a doctor's report stating a patient died of covid complications, listing diabetes as an underlying condition, and thinks they found "evidence" the patient actually died from diabetes?
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  12812.  @ryanhubbard1885  Rofl. It's not the words, dimwit. It's examining the body, looking at all the medical information, and coming to a medical conclusion. The medical examiner came to the conclusion that it was a homicide, and you think you know better, because you can read some English ... English that very same medical examiner wrote, and factored into their conclusion. Oh, but a complete and utter moron on the interwebs knows better.
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  12813.  @ryanhubbard1885  Holy crap, you are unbelievably stupid.
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  12814.  @ryanhubbard1885  *medical examiner's conclusions
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  12815.  @ryanhubbard1885  Rofl, which we've already gone over twice. How many times does it take your awesome English reading skills for something to sink in?
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  12816.  @ryanhubbard1885  You're the dimwit coward latching onto a specific thing in an entire autopsy, and not accepting the medical examiner's conclusions, which takes that specific thing into account, because it's not the conclusion you want.
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  12817.  @ryanhubbard1885  You get that, right? That the conclusion takes the entirety of the autopsy into account. Or are you too stupid to grasp that?
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  12818.  @ryanhubbard1885  Once again, dumb dumb, I haven't made an argument, one way, or the other, regarding the outcome of the case. You're totally inventing strawmen and arguing with yourself, on that count, like an idiot. Did the medical examiner, after taking the entirety of the autopsy into account, classify it as a homicide, yes or no?
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  12819.  @ryanhubbard1885  Your claimed ability to be able to grasp the English language is seriously in question.
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  12820.  @ryanhubbard1885  You're a right lunatic. Once again, dumb dumb ... some other dumb dumb claimed he died from a drug overdose. I pointed out the fact that medical examiner classified it a homicide, which is not dying from a drug overdose. Why are you so bothered by that being the entirety of my argument? How is it wrong? Once again, dumb dumb, the medical examiner's decision to classify it as a homicide, takes the entirety of the ACTUAL autopsy, that they themselves performed and wrote, into account. Why are you so bothered by them coming to that conclusion? Does your medical expertise tell you they made a mistake?
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  12821.  @ryanhubbard1885  To help with the English language reading skills you're so awesome at ... right adjective (COMPLETE) used for emphasizing when something is bad: He's a right idiot. His house is a right mess.
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  12822.  @ryanhubbard1885  Again, dumb dumb, you're the one reading the part you like, and not accepting a conclusion that's based on the entirety of the autopsy. You're exactly like one of those climate change denying nutbars, who reads that the earth has always gone through warming and cooling cycles, and thinks they now know better than climate scientists, moronically thinking the scientists haven't already factored that into the equation. If you want to play doctor, find someone else. You're not my type.
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  12823.  @ryanhubbard1885  Dumb dumb, even if you stopped reading at "right", then "You're a right". Enjoy being a right, whatever you're dimwit brain thinks that is.
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  12824.  @ryanhubbard1885  I fully accepted that you're "a right". Whatever your little lunatic mind wants to be. Enjoy. Again, dumb dumb, I'm reading the medical examiner's conclusion, based on the entirety of the autopsy. You're the ironic lunatic that wants to stop at one passage of the autopsy.
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  12825.  @ryanhubbard1885  I fully accepted you're "a right". I fully accepted everything in the autopsy, which led to the medical examiner classifying it a homicide. You were so lying, when you claimed you had at least a grade 3 level of reading comprehension.
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  12826.  @ryanhubbard1885  Doctor: covid pneumonia death You: Waaaah, but I read "diabetes" in underlying conditions. Scientists: humans are causing climate change You: Waaaah, but I read the earth goes through warming and cooling cycles Medical examiner: homicide You: Waaaah, but I read "drugs" in underlying conditions You're welcome, for agreeing you're "a right". Thanks for agreeing you're a lunatic.
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  12827.  @ryanhubbard1885  Rofl. Your mental telepathy is just the worst. I think you're unintentionally hilarious, with your insane levels of irony and stupidity. You seem to be an endless supply of entertainment. A bit repetitive though. Maybe include what your friend's sister's third cousin thinks, and see if that will change the fact that the medical examiner, after taking all of the autopsy into account, classified it a homicide.
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  12828.  @ryanhubbard1885  Lol, not sure where you went off to, but I've never left that ground, as you've prattled on and on and on about nothing that will ever change the fact that the medical examiner (who performed the autopsy, wrote the report, and took into account all the things you pretend are being ignored in your insane ass backwards fantasy world) classified it a homicide. Not much I can do, but laugh, when someone is sooooo ass backwards crazy, that they think a medical expert taking all the information into account and reaching a conclusion isn't taking all the information into account, but them repeatedly focusing on a single piece of information is taking all the information into account. Laugh, as they repeatedly let everyone know they've got everything ass backwards. Laugh, as they Ironically insult themselves, because they do have everything ass backwards. Laugh, as they think their grade 3 reading comprehension level makes them more of a medical expert than the medical expert who wrote what they're reading. Laugh, as they prove they don't have a grade 3 reading comprehension level. Laugh, as they repeatedly let everyone know they failed at reading comprehension. Just endless laughs.
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  12829. It's total bullshit because this isn't even the trial phase, which happens when it goes to the senate. This is just a public investigation phase. Out in the real world, the police and DA don't even have to let you know you're being investigated. There's no due process, until you're formally charged and it goes to trial.
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  12830. Agnostic would have been fine, with earlier definitions. What makes having two labels better than one? And why is having a label people might mistake for Athe-ist better?
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  12831. People think she is smart? Most violent crimes surround personal relationships, and surprise, surprise, most personal relationships are same race relationships. Hard to stop friendships/relationships going bad. Who should we protest about that ... just protest against relationships in general? Sure, there are also stranger on stranger crimes. But, these are already considered crimes. Police are out looking for a suspect to arrest. Police probably won't hesitate to shoot that suspect if they resist. So, where and what are you supposed to protest? The local gang hideout? Shout at them to behave themselves? If criminals would just listen to reason and quit, we wouldn't have any crime. It is beyond stupid to suggest protesting criminals. Do police tend to go to whatever lengths it takes to bring their own to justice? No. They tend to protect their own, and so do the courts. The rate at which they're charged and convicted of similar crimes to other members of society is far less. Plenty of police departments have been found to use racial profiling, and excessive force. Now, a broken justice system is something you can protest. People whose salaries the public pays with taxes, to protect them, who then mistreat innocent members of the public .... that's something tax payers have every right to protest. If people you're paying are misbehaving, it's your duty and responsibility to get them to behave themselves, or get them out. Numerous agencies, across the world, have been recording increases in far right extremism, hate crimes, and terrorism. Ridiculing facts doesn't make them go away. That you don't care is quite obvious.
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  12832. Well Agnosticism isn't supposed to be compatible with Theism or strong Atheism, so it did answer all non belief. I don't think it's possible to both doubt (be skeptical) something is true and believe something is true.
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  12833. @Christopher Hoch 1. You're dumb. It's the US state of Georgia. 2. You're lying. Ben agrees with the law, which is why he got all bent out of shape about it being called "barbaric".
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  12834. @Tyranitar Series Brazil: Right wing religious nut in power. Mixed economy that's nowhere close to outright socialism. Venezuela: Left of centre, but still mixed economy. Also nowhere close to outright socialism. They nationalized a single resource and the US lost its mind, instigating strikes, plotting coups, freezing assets, implementing sanctions, formenting dissent, funding opposition, etc., etc., etc.
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  12835.  @thehappyclam3942  Lol, fascism is a form of capitalism. Capitalism has a huge death toll, dumb dumb. If you're counting famines, and people starving, capitalism is still letting 9 million people starve to death, each year. That's 90 million a decade. That's 6.3 billion, since WWII. Plus, Mussolini promoted pulling yourself up by your bootstraps. Asking people to work together for the country, isn't very collectivist, if the country's economy is designed to make rich people richer. JFK told people to ask not what the country could do for them, but what they could do for the country. The first part is clearly not socialistic.
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  12836. ​ @standforhumanitariancauses4756  Would you be tolerating people saying it's okay to bomb your neighborhood, to root out some domestic terrorist?
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  12837.  @standforhumanitariancauses4756  There is violence happening. Did you answer my question? No.
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  12838.  @standforhumanitariancauses4756  You know Israel ethnically cleansed the majority population, right? Then never let them return. They're as democratic as Nazi Germany, after Hitler purged his political opponents, then had elections.
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  12839. ​ @tonywilson4713  I suggest you instead see his first video on Israel-Palestine, after Oct 7, in which he threw anyone wanting to provide context under the bus with people outright cheering the attack. He didn't want anyone explaining anything Israel had done, prior to Oct 7, but then went on to explain what Israel would do, in turn, as if they were the defender, just like Piers Morgan. The only things I've really seen him criticize is turning off electricity, and bombing one refugee camp. His peace plan is very adamant about needing to remove Hamas, but not nearly as adamant about needing to remove Likud. Likud's "between the sea and the Jordan" platform ... 1977: "The Right of the Jewish People to the Land of Israel (Eretz Israel) a. The right of the Jewish people to the land of Israel is eternal and indisputable and is linked with the right to security and peace; therefore, Judea and Samaria will not be handed to any foreign administration; between the Sea and the Jordan there will only be Israeli sovereignty. b. A plan which relinquishes parts of western Eretz Israel, undermines our right to the country, unavoidably leads to the establishment of a "Palestinian State," jeopardizes the security of the Jewish population, endangers the existence of the State of Israel. and frustrates any prospect of peace." "Settlement Settlement. both urban and rural. in all parts of the Land of Israel is the focal point of the Zionist effort to redeem the country, to maintain vital security areas and serves as a reservoir of strength and inspiration for the renewal of the pioneering spirit. The Likud government will call on the younger generation in Israel and the dispersions to settle and help every group and individual in the task of inhabiting and cultivating the wasteland, while taking care not to dispossess anyone." 1999: "The Government of Israel flatly rejects the establishment of a Palestinian Arab state west of the Jordan river. The Palestinians can run their lives freely in the framework of self-rule, but not as an independent and sovereign state. Thus, for example, in matters of foreign affairs, security, immigration, and ecology, their activity shall be limited in accordance with imperatives of Israel's existence, security and national needs." "The Jewish communities in Judea, Samaria, and Gaza are the realization of Zionist values. Settlement of the land is a clear expression of the unassailable right of the Jewish people to the Land of Israel and constitutes an important asset in the defense of the vital interests of the State of Israel. The Likud will continue to strengthen and develop these communities and will prevent their uprooting."
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  12840. Ngo's Quillette defends these people as "victims" of Twitter bias ... Richard Spencer David Duke George Zimmerman Alex Jones Info Wars Tommy Robinson American Nazi Party League of the South Proud Boys ... But, well done on doing zero research Joe, and letting him present himself as a poor centrist, rather than a far right Proud Boy lap dog.
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  12841.  @gerardflynn7382  "(d) The Conference may waive the provisions of this rule at any time by majority vote." Considering how hypocritical they are, they could also just ignore their own rule. Being the majority of the house, it's not like they'll start an ethics inquiry on Dumpty.
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  12842. Do you both sides Nazis vs resistance/Allies, or Colonizers vs Native Americans, as well?
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  12843.  @haywoodjablowme4945  We pull the plug on brain dead patients, all the time, dumb dumb.
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  12844. Basically, if it's publicly owned and operated, then it's socialistic. If it's privately owned and operated, then it's capitalistic. If everything was publicly owned and operated, you'd have complete socialism. If everything was privately owned and operated, you'd have complete capitalism. Most countries in the world have some kind of mix of the two. Whether it's authoritarian or not is another matter.
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  12845. You're not making much sense. Communists take out the rich, first. Can you name the policies promoted by any Democrats, or even the Green Party, that would move the US left of Denmark (a centrist country), let alone make it an all out communist state?
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  12846.  @arbogash1852  Rofl, Biden did not run on any of that free stuff, and representing the rich is, exactly, not "communism". That's crony capitalism. Reagan gave millions of undocumented immigrants amnesty and a path to citizenship. And, the US was built on handing free land to poor illiterate immigrants. If you think that's "communism", then you're an idiot.
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  12847.  @alber1523  Ummm, them leaving Muslim countries came after Israel, and was promoted and supported by Israel, to give them a larger population. https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/One_Million_Plan
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  12848. ​ @renerafaeljimenez2877  Pretty sure a lot of Biden voters just think he's a better candidate than the only other viable alternative.
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  12849. If Taiwan has done the best job in the world, and that's what top of the line leadership looks like, then how are 500+K cases and 25+k deaths not Trump's doing? Officially, it's the Republic of China, not "Taiwan", run by a Chinese government in exile that still hasn't renounced their claim to the mainland, or made an official declaration of independence. Why do people expect them to be treated like an independent country?
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  12850.  @robertreese1275  The main comment, that's here, rather than on a mainstream media channel?
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  12851. Her mother lives in Florida, dimwit.
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  12852.  @hockeydad6211  Rofl! I doubt you can even play checkers.
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  12853.  @hockeydad6211  Ironic, considering you're the idiot who first made a board game quip, snowflake.
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  12854.  @hockeydad6211  More irony. You're desperately making an issue out of someone visiting family in Florida, and not wearing a mask outdoors, just like it's okay to not wear a mask outdoors in NYC, dumb dumb.
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  12855.  @StrangerHappened  The "they" is the CIA, working with Alphabet, exactly as he stated in previous couple of sentences, you dimwitted Dore knob. The "they" couldn't apply to anyone else.
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  12856.  @afridgetoofar1818  Dore represents a fringe "progressive" position of less than 400k Tulsi and Green voters. The only thing he's destroying is any doubt he has become a grifter for the far right. His base clearly isn't a bunch of lefties.
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  12857.  @Feedmeakitten  Want me to walk you through them, moron? Dore video: "Hillary Presidency Worse For Progressives & America Than Trump". That's the same thing as Trump is better than Clinton, so he did, in fact, promote Trump as the better option than Clinton. In the video he vastly overestimated the benefits, claiming a Trump presidency would cause a massive progressive backlash that would "for sure" lead to progressives taking the house (nope), and senate (nope), in 2018, and the presidency (nope), in 2020. He vastly underestimated the risks, claiming even Republicans would vote against a Trump agenda (nope), instead of following him into all out fascism (nope). In his follow up debate, with Sam Seder, Jimmy also argued that Trump filling multiple scotus seats was as likely as the moon falling into Lake Michigan (nope). On top of peddling going completely backwards on healthcare, as the better option, all his predictions, to justify doing so, were completely wrong.
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  12858.  @Feedmeakitten  Oh man, you really told me. Video: "Jimmy Dore: Why I support Tulsi over Bernie" In it, Dore lies that Tulsi is the only candidate talking about spending too much on the military, as if Bernie hasn't said that, dozens of times over. Dore peddled her grift, for her, that she was anti-war. “In short, when it comes to the war against terrorists, I’m a hawk. When it comes to counterproductive wars of regime change, I’m a dove.” - Tulsi Gabbard, Hawaii Tribune-Herald, 2016 The war on terror was used as grounds for almost every US intervention since 9/11. She was never anti-war. Dore was just an idiot, who didn't do his homework, and he was willing to abandon M4A, because of it.
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  12859. By your "logic", Jimmy, you've "censored" the president, by not airing his entire speech.
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  12860.  @isaiahdryg5010  Rofl! This North Korea? Trump is letting Kim Jong Un do almost anything he wants https://www.vox.com/2019/7/26/8931670/trump-north-korea-misisle-submarine-pompeo North Korea just revealed one of its most potentially dangerous weapons yet https://www.vox.com/2019/7/23/20707177/north-korea-submarine-nuclear-weapon-trump North Korea says launch was a 'warning' to South Korea https://www.cnn.com/2019/07/25/asia/north-korea-statement-missile-launch-intl/index.html
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  12861.  @isaiahdryg5010  Nope. Trickle down is a proven failure. You're spouting bullshit. Oh, I see, fabricated nuclear sub and fabricated missile launches. Got it. Dumbass.
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  12862. ​ @dennis3351  Zionism and Israel is based on returning things the way they were thousands of years ago, dumb dumb. Even though Palestinians have Canaanite DNA, and the Zionists are actually ethnically cleansing their own ancient peoples, that didn't go on a tour of Europe and Russia for 1700 years.
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  12863. The "deep state" has been overseen by Republican presidents, for 6 terms, vs 4 Democrat terms, in the past 40 years.
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  12864. Is Kyle promoting further colonization and ethnic cleansing, like Likud's platform has been, since 1977? And their goal since their colonialist and Irgun and Lehi terrorist origins, 100 years ago?
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  12865. Rofl! Get literate.
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  12866. And if Pelosi, and the corporate Dems, just go ahead and let progressives paralyze the house, and then blame progressives for no new covid relief, no minimum wage increase, etc., while people suffer through the pandemic, what then? How long do you paralyze the house for?
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  12867. Everyone, except psychos that would like to see a Fat Man sold in Walmart, believes in arms control, including the courts. The debate should be where, and why, to draw the line.
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  12868. @Kevin the Duck Wrong what, dumbass? You think sane people would like to see a mini nuke launcher sold at Walmart? Pretty sure that makes you wrong. Less gun deaths overall has little to do with the fact that states with better gun control laws tend to have lower firearm mortality rates. And the US has the highest rate compared to other developed countries with better gun control laws. https://www.cdc.gov/nchs/pressroom/sosmap/firearm_mortality/firearm.htm
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  12869. @Kevin the Duck Oh geezus, you're dumber than a stump. The CDC is biased, and the sources you didn't produce at all aren't? Rofl
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  12870. @Kevin the Duck Households with guns have actually gone down some, moron. Gun purchases going up means there are a bunch of other morons, probably like you, that are buying multiple guns. https://news.gallup.com/poll/1645/Guns.aspx
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  12871. A VAT can generate a lot of federal revenue, but Yang supporters should know that he's outright lying, when he says it's a way to tax corporations like Amazon. Table 1 shows how it works here in Canada. The final consumer pays the entire tax, not the businesses, who would simply collect it and pass it along to the government. http://publications.gc.ca/Collection-R/LoPBdP/BP/prb0003-e.htm#A.%20Taxing%20Mechanism(txt)
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  12872. You let the kid play you Sam, making out like he hasn't been indoctrinated against hate speech, and that your claim is wrong. He's playing a semantics game. Commie kindergarten teachers are, for sure, indoctrinating kids against "mean" speech. They also force kids to be good sharers!
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  12873. They're idiots.
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  12874.  @ceceliawight7059  Yeah, Dore and his knobs proved they're all lazy useless pathetic whiners. They ranted about getting a guaranteed to fail vote for weeks, making out like getting a list of no voters would be ever so useful, and they'd do so much with it ... then the $15 minimum gets a vote that fails, and they just keep whining about those that voted for it.
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  12875.  @MichaelAChristian1  Are you stupid in real life, or do you just play stupid on the interwebs? The evidence is that states with a majority racist white population switched parties, is that they clearly started voting for a different party. And yet there's zero evidence to support claiming they went from being the most racist voting block to being the least racist voting block. 1964 Civil Rights Act: House Republicans in Florida all voted nay, in Kentucky they all voted nay, in Missouri they were split, in N Carolina they all voted nay, in Tennessee they all voted nay, in Texas they all voted nay, in Virginia they all voted nay, ... 1968 Civil Rights Act: House Republicans in Alabama all voted nay, in Arizona they all voted nay, the one in Arkansas voted nay, in Florida they all voted nay, in Georgia they all voted nay, every nay vote in California was Republican, every nay vote in Indiana was Republican, every nay vote in Iowa was Republican, in Idaho they all voted nay, in Missouri they all voted nay, in N Carolina they all voted nay, in Ohio every nay vote was Republican, in S Carolina the Republican voted nay, in Tennessee they all voted nay, in Virginia they all voted nay, ... There's zero evidence the Republicans they started voting for, in more racist places, were less racist. There's tons of evidence they simply voted for a racist in a different party. There's tons of evidence that party tried to appeal to those voters (not try and get Democrat politicians to switch sides). There's tons of evidence that millions of black Americans migrated to less racist states and black Americans across the nation switched to voting for Democrats. You probably worship a being who, if they existed, "murders" the majority of "babies". You probably don't give a crap that tons of fertilized eggs are destroyed, used for science, or don't take, during the IVF process. You probably don't give a crap that scientists can now create an embryo from a sperm, without an egg, making every living sperm a potential human life. You probably also don't give a crap what happens to actual birthed babies. You anti-abortionists are some of the biggest bullshitting hypocrites going.
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  12876. @Bobby Brown Can you make that make sense? If some KKK were running as Republicans, then they were Republicans. Which party do 90% of black Americans vote for, and which has the most minority candidates, today?
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  12877. Exactly.
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  12878. The ones stealing food from the homeless, pissing on war memorials, and defiling Terry Fox?
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  12879.  @noThanks-p6k  You just defined it as colonialism, dumb dumb. Carving out a state where people already live, is colonialism. You are also a revisionist. The revision was from the Zionism accepted by the Ottoman Empire, which was basically just immigration, to the Zionism of the Balfour declaration, which was colonialism.
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  12880. ​ @keithedwards  Something more about oil prices. Reagan deregulated domestic oil, way back in 1981. It has sold at the global market price, ever since. Trump talking as if "energy independence" affects prices, means he has no clue what affects prices. The global market price dropped in 2014, before Trump, and was on its way back up, under Trump. He just happened to be president, before it got back up to pre drop prices.
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  12881.  @dinobotpwnz  No. But they did say they were surprised. No real reason to be surprised, that they'd hire a batshit crazy loon, if you know they're not a progressive station, and owned by Trump's buddy.
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  12882. Because they have a US gun trafficking problem. Most of Canada's illegal guns are from the US, as well.
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  12883.  @DeepPackChopra  Lol, I'm fine with what we're doing here in Canada, shit for brains. Whatever we're doing is working a lot better than your bullshit. It's working better in all developed countries. Even US states with tighter gun laws tend to do better than states without. And, you know there are tons of successfully well regulated goods, and banned goods, right?
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  12884.  @DeepPackChopra  Red states tend to have the highest firearm mortality rates. https://www.cdc.gov/nchs/pressroom/sosmap/firearm_mortality/firearm.htm Red states even tend to have higher homicide rates. https://www.cdc.gov/nchs/pressroom/sosmap/homicide_mortality/homicide.htm Hrrrm, there seems to be a correlation between being poorly educated and being dumbasses about gun control ... https://www.insider.com/us-states-public-education-system-ranked-us-news-world-report-2019-4
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  12885.  @DeepPackChopra  Most of the top 10 used rifles or a rifle/pistol combo. If the point is to reduce the numbers per shooting, the numbers seem to go down without rifles involved. When pistol wielding cops call in SWAT, they don't get more pistol wielding cops. They get rifle wielding cops. Rifles are considered more deadly weapons.
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  12886.  @DeepPackChopra  And, the example is for arms control. We know arms control works for many types of arms. If someone wanted to kill as many people as possible, and grenades were as easy to get as guns, there'd be a lot more grenades used. Gangs getting their hands on a cache of old Balkan war grenades, isn't as easy as walking into Walmart, and isn't an endless supply. Do you think that any incident involving a banned weapon proves the ban is a failure? Or do you accept the fact that well regulated, or banned, weapons being used less indicates the regulation or ban is successful?
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  12887. ​ @coosoorlog  Do Xs tweet?
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  12888. ​ @Meattemple  Crimea isn't some different country. Russia invaded Ukraine, in 2014, occupied Crimea, and provided money, arms, and manpower, to a violent rebellion in Donbas. They didn't stop occupying Crimea, and didn't stop backing a violent rebellion in Donbas, under Trump. They also didn't stop backing a violent rebellion in Georgia, under Trump. They also continued trading with Iran, after Trump put sanctions on Iran. They also supplied Syria with arms and mercenaries, to fight against Americans and Syrian rebels, under Trump. Putin doesn't give a rat's ass about Trump. He just likes Republicans, because they're obstructionists and incompetent.
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  12889.  @MorganRisch  You're not addressing what I said. Do all the Yang Gang have reading comprehension problems, as well as not being able to do math? I said he didn't grasp who it taxed. A VAT is specifically designed to NOT tax businesses in order to avoid double taxation. He even linked to a pass through rate study which showed consumers were paying the entire VAT. He simply failed to grasp it. If corporations don't actually pay into the dividend, like he stated they should, then they only get the benefit of extra trillions being spent, funneling money to the very top faster than ever before.
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  12890.  @Kattan19929  Even Einstein compared Likud's revisionist founder's to fashs and nazs. He was antisemitic?
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  12891. "Those aren't pillows!!!"
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  12892.  @kylequest  Nobody is hiding the basic fact that I'm pointing out. "a consumption tax because it is borne ultimately by the final consumer. It is not a charge on businesses." https://ec.europa.eu/taxation_customs/business/vat/what-is-vat_en
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  12893.  @BamBamGT1  There are multiple ways to prove who you are. Strict ID laws only go towards disenfranchising more of certain voters. Fascism is anti-democratic. Immigrants have had to have vaccine passports, for decades. My war bride grandmother had one. There are vaccine passports for kids in public schools. Trying to avoid hundreds of thousands of needless deaths, isn't fascist.
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  12894. Dishonest number and it wasn't Trump who did it, dingus.
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  12895. @craiggeessports1677  Two men claim "strength" = surrender. One man wants his whole country. The only one who "wants" war is the one who invaded and won't leave.
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  12896.  @craiggeessports1677  Then tax people sitting on piles of wealth. Increase revenue. Reducing the budget won't do anything, if you reduce potential revenue by even more.
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  12897. @craiggeessports1677  There wouldn't be one, if Pvtin just left Ukraine. He's the only one who wants to w@r.
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  12898.  @craiggeessports1677  Pvtin just needs to leave and it's over.
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  12899.  @SAS-wm2gm  You're a moron. Canvassing is not soliciting, and gated communities are actually not allowed to ban canvassers.
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  12900. Because you want Nina to be part of a minority party, and Republicans the majority, if those like AOC don't help to keep conservative districts from flipping to Republicans?
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  12901.  @laleau92  If donations don't do anything, then what are you lot whining about? You seem to have missed the point that they're districts where being more progressive loses, by a lot. AOC just tried backing a progressive in at least one of those districts, in the primaries that just passed, and they got trounced. So, yes, you'd rather see Republicans become the majority?
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  12902.  @SR-lh4rm  That's absolutely ridiculous. Chomsky uses "libertarian" in its original left wing socialist sense. When people say Yang is a "libertarian", they're using it in the right wing capitalist sense. Yang is either clueless, or is counting on you being clueless, as to how a VAT actually works. It doesn't tax corporations like Amazon. It's built right into a VAT system that businesses get paid back for any input VAT. It's a tax on consumers. Since it wouldn't actually tax Amazon, and since their share of US consumer spending is 2%, handing consumers $3t will make them an extra $60b a year, and they still won't pay jack shit in taxes. If you think Chomsky would be in favour of that, then you're definitely clueless. Yang is also using the 'public option" wording for Medicare. That's having Medicare compete in the market against private insurers. That's not coverage for all. That's coverage for all who opt in to pay the premiums ... premiums instead of a M4A that's paid for with progressive taxation and everyone automatically gets. Something else Chomsky wouldn't be in favour of. Chomsky would be in the far left bottom corner, on here. Yang is well right of centre. https://www.politicalcompass.org/uselection2020
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  12903.  @SR-lh4rm  Dumbass, I didn't claim a VAT doesn't generate revenue. I pointed out that Yang is either ignorant or lying, when he claims it's a way to make Amazon pay taxes. Businesses get paid back for their input VAT. Scandinavian countries have businesses pay in other ways ... higher wages, paid vacations, paid parental leave, etc. ... and then they tax the better paid, higher standard of living, consumers with a VAT. Yang is skipping the part that actually makes corporations pay in. I've been paying a VAT for almost 30 years and operated a VAT registered business. Yang is clueless or lying.
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  12904.  @SR-lh4rm  He has spoken, and he's a anarcho socialist, dumbass. Trying to paint him the same as Yang is idiotic.
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  12905.  @unropednope4644  Oh, did Israel stop doing colonialism, at some point? Seems like they're using the blueprint for colonizing North America, in the West Bank. Move settlements out into native territory, piss off the natives, the natives respond violently, cry that your poor "innocent" colonizers were attacked by "savages", call in the cavalry to put down the native uprising, and expand your borders to include those settlements. Rinse and repeat. Did they also stop running an open air WWII style fascist ghetto, at some point?
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  12906.  @MultiClassof2010  Not that it was okay, but it's an expected reaction. Even the Jews, in Roman times, violently rebelled against their oppressors, and killed a shit ton of civilians. Do they think their ancestors were in the wrong? Do they think the Romans did the right thing, by putting them down with excessive force, destroying their temple, and ethnically cleansing them from Jerusalem? If they were justifiably booted out of the region, they've got zero argument for even coming back.
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  12907.  @michaelarmijo2752  How far back? We're talking about an ongoing situation, dumb dumb. In the West Bank, Israel is still using the blueprint for the colonization of North America. Move settlements out into native territory, piss off the natives, the natives respond violently, cry about poor "innocent" colonizers being attacked by "savages", have the cavalry come and put down the native uprising, then expand the borders to include the settlements. Rinse and repeat. Israel is also disgustingly currently operating an open air WWII style fascist ghetto, ffs. Don't have to go backwards, at all, to see it's an aggressor country.
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  12908. @@gayperson1one Colonialism? Weird that everyone seems to rebel against it, even the Jews. Why "mostly good"? Because of the roads and aqueducts?
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  12909. @@gayperson1one So, yeah? You're one of those morons who claims enslaving people improved their lives, therefore slavery is good?
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  12910.  @paradoxexpress6976  One team colonialists, one team not.
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  12911. Trying to end police brutality, and create a more just justice system ... anti-authoritarianism. Trying to overthrow the democratic process to install Dumpty as an unelected dictator ... authoritarianism. Right wing: Samesies!!!!
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  12912.  @SethPlato01  Yes. I do know. They're moronic lunatics that would like to see Canada have 3x more hospitalizations and deaths, like in the US.
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  12913. The border crossings nonsense is also a lie because there was a spike in 2019 that Republicans never cared, or talked about, and this current wave started back before September, under Trump. Averaged out, Trump had more crossings a year than Obama.
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  12914. ​ @AverageJoe483  Opinion? There are objective facts involved. It is an objective fact that Zionism is colonialism. Even a Zionist leader, Ze'ev Jabotinsky, acknowledged it as such, 100 years ago. He also predicted, based on the entirety of history, that the natives would fight said colonialism until the bitter end. He didn't care, and promoted doing it anyway. If you are objectively a colonizer, you're the original aggressor, and at no point after that can you really be the victim. Everything happening is a response to your original colonizing and aggression. If that had never happened, the natives would never have fought against it. It is also an objective fact that Israel was founded on terrorism. Terrorist groups, like the Irgun and Lehi, bombed many Palestinian markets, killing many Palestinian civilians, including children, even including Palestinian Jews (who opposed Zionism). Israel elected the leader of the Irgun, Menachem Begin, responsible for the bombing of the King David Hotel, as PM. Israel, to this day, celebrates those terrorists as "heroes". Israel literally taught their neighbours that terrorism is a valid path to independence and statehood.
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  12915. And yet the Puritans hung Quakers, the most progressive of Christians.
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  12916. Revisionist Znsts have always had the goal of taking all of Palestine, and even lands beyond.
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  12917.  @shaft5  Harris quietly modified his Islam argument, without letting his fanboys know that his previous critics had valid criticisms. "Masjid Nawaz took some time to convince me — But through this keyhold aperture he finally led me to see that there is no true Islam. Islam does not have a pope, etc. …. Such and such a rule or understanding doesn’t apply to all Muslims throughout all time."
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  12918.  @TheMisterGuy  You don't have to convince me that Sam isn't very bright. I have no clue how he even managed to get a philosophy degree. No. Book =\= religion. Religious people all cherry pick differently, interpret things differently, give weight to things differently, include or exclude other writings differently, work around contradictions differently, and a "religion" is what people practice, not what's written in a book.
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  12919.  @dcort9010  a) If nobody ever took a vaccine, because they were waiting to know about long term side effects, we'd still have polio. b) The Salk vaccine wasn't like previous polio vaccines, and was distributed to hundreds of thousands, within a few years of development.
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  12920.  @dcort9010  Not sure where I'm losing you. If absolutely nobody was willing to take the vaccine, because they wanted to know the long term side effects, first, then you would have had no volunteers for trials, and we'd still have polio. Even if you got trials subjects, but the majority of people wanted to wait 50 years to see what happened to those trials subjects, we'd still have polio (it took about 25 years for the US to basically eradicate polio). What's the arbitrary line people are drawing, in numbers of years, for the vaccines to be deemed safe, in their "expert" opinions? All of the vaccines went through phase III trials. You can read about them on the producers' websites, and on the FDA's website.
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  12921.  @thedukeofdukers  Ummm, no. The process of law isn't to prove myself innocent, it's for you to prove I'm guilty. Prove it wasn't an accident.
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  12922.  @thedukeofdukers  "in the event that you are charged" No shit. That's exactly what we're talking about. Exactly why I was saying you'd have to prove it. If I wasn't charged, I'd simply be heading home. Innocent until proven guilty. The court system is all about "prove otherwise".
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  12923. Why are you making payments, when they, and interest, were frozen for 8 months? One of the first things he did.
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  12924.  @keilafleischbein59  Rofl. You don't seem very self aware. You are most definitely a right wing loon.
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  12925. You can stop campaigning for Trump now, Jimmy. He lost.
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  12926.  @jaquen1977  How do you know it's real? How do you know if a voice in your head is a god, a devil, a fairy, a telepathic alien, a ghost possessing you, or if you're having some kind of weird seizure?
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  12927. "Faith" in the known, and "believing" in empirical experimentation is a belief system...an -ism. That is Agnosticism. "Agnosticism is of the essence of science, whether ancient or modern. It simply means that a man shall not say he knows or believes that which he has no scientific grounds for professing to know or believe." ~ Thomas H Huxley (inventer of the label)
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  12928. ​​ @X2LR8  Yeah, and those ones mostly converted to Islam, and were Arabized. They're talking about the ones from Russia and Germany.
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  12929.  @X2LR8  If you think ethn-c cleansing, g-nocide, and slav-ry, are "accomplishments", then you must think the Germans were very "accomplished". My ancient history is great. Only a minority were ever removed, and you should read up on why they were. If you like what Z-nists are currently doing, then you should side with the Romans.
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  12930.  @X2LR8   If you think ethn-c cleansing, g-nocide, occ-pation, and slav-ry, are "accomplishments", then you must think the Germans were very "accomplished". My ancient history is great.
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  12931.  @aheroictaxidriver3180  So? If you don't agree with something, it doesn't magically make it "mystical". You appear to be dmbr than a stump, or a Trump.
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  12932.  @aheroictaxidriver3180  Our brains, and the thoughts they produce, objectively exist. A "problem" may be subjective (based on personal feelings, biases, likes/dislikes, etc.), but our subjective thoughts objectively exist. You know we have instruments, that can map where objectively existing thoughts and feelings are produced in the brain, don't you? There's no magic, or spirits ... no "mystical" gobbledygook ... needed. Everything that's subjectivity based isn't "mystical". People's values objectively exist ... what they value is subjective ... and, if they aren't appealing to magic and spirits, or whatnot, then there's nothing "mystical" about it. But, I get how you might think that that brain of yours having a thought is pure magic.
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  12933.  @aheroictaxidriver3180  You are literally pulling definitions out of your a55 and flinging them around like a monkey.
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  12934.  @aheroictaxidriver3180  You are literally just pulling definitions out of your ___hole, and flinging them around, like a monkey.
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  12935. The Abrahamic values of believing in a formless, sexless, penisless, being, and calling it "he", "him", and even "Father". On top of that, trinity Christians believe that sexless being transitioned into a male human.
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  12936. I think every country should end corporate taxes (which corporations do anything possible to dodge), and make corporations pay shares instead, to be able to operate in the country.
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  12937. ​ @andrewhill1251  You're saying Judaism = colonialism? Because Zionism does.
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  12938.  @andrewhill1251  Palestinians have Canaanite DNA, dumb dumb. They're Arab and Muslim the same way indigenous peoples of Central America are now Hispanic and Catholic. The Zionists clearly came from Russia and Germany. It was very well documented, dimwit. The Zionist Irgun and Lehi terrorists targeted Palestinian Jews, who didn't support colonialist Zionsim, alongside their Palestinian brothers and sisters. You modern Zionists are so dishonest. Go read Ze'ev Jabotinsky's The Iron Wall, 1923. He was horrible, for promoting colonization, but at least he was honest.
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  12939.  @andrewhill1251  Go back to pretending Likud was ever peaceful, while their platform says, "between the sea and the Jordan there will only be Israeli sovereignty", promising to completely colonize and ethnically cleanse all Palestine territories. It further claims a "right" to all the "Land of Israel" (fictional biblical borders that don't mesh with archaeological reality), which is an open declaration of future wars, against Jordan, Syria, and Lebanon.
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  12940. Rofl, they could still sensor whatever they want, with or without 230. They'd choose to sensor even more, if they were liable, not less.
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  12941. They want Israel to take the temple mount, destroy the mosque, build the third temple, bring about the second coming, and the end of times. Ironically, in their little Armageddon myth, Israel, who they "support", gets wiped out first.
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  12942. ​ @manniefresh3425  The Native Americans reached a point where they wanted to push the white man back into the sea. It wasn't simply because they were white. It was because they were racist asshole colonizers and ethnic cleansers. Jews lived amongst Muslims for 1300 years. Zionism converting from immigration to colonization, with the Balfour declaration, was the beginning of things changing. Are you pretending like Israel isn't a declared ethno-state, where they have to maintain a solid Jewish majority, to fake being democratic? How does that mesh with Likud's intent to completely colonize all Palestine territories, "between the sea and the Jordan there will only be Israeli sovereignty"?
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  12943. ​ @ChathurkaMadhushan Rofl@"russiagate". The Mueller Report, plus SSCI reports, provided hundreds of pages of collision, that didn't amount to criminal conspiracy, and the Mueller report stated that Jr and Kushner only weren't charged with criminal conspiracy because it would be hard to prove they "intentionally" violated the law, not that they didn't.
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  12944. ​ @andrewsnyder9262  Rofl. If you remove the energy sector, the US has the trade surplus with Canada. It is cheaper for the US to send its Alaskan oil directly across the Pacific to China, its Texas oil directly to Mexico, and then Albertan oil to the NW US. Especially considering Canada gives the US a 15% discount. Overall, counting all the countries, the US ends up being a net oil exporter. All you're asking for is higher oil prices, to get Texas or Alaskan oil to the NW US, and no discount. Even Canadians don't get discounted oil. It's the US that has been ripping Canadians off. We'll sell to China, if you'd rather send the Alaskan oil to the NW states.
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  12945. ​ @andrewsnyder9262 If you remove the energy sector, the US has the trade surplus with Canada, dingus. The US benefits more. Then you might want to look at how the NA oil trade works, and how the US ends up being a net oil exporter.
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  12946. ​ @andrewsnyder9262 Canada has 95% of the global potash supply. Go ahead and do without it.
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  12947.  @andrewsnyder9262  Where did I lose you? On almost all consumer trade, that affects the most Canadians, we are the ones with the trade deficit. Then we hand you 15% discounted oil, so you can sell yours to China and Mexico.
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  12948.  @klauskinski5969  Because?
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  12949.  @klauskinski5969  Isn't revoking someone's membership how a company expresses that they don't want you in their private club anymore?
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  12950.  @klauskinski5969  Nonsense. 230 was based on previous supreme court rulings, going back to a bookstore ruling. A bookstore isn't responsible for what's in a book, and picking and choosing what books it puts on its shelves also doesn't make it a publisher. Even if you found some way to make them liable, that would simply force them to censor their pages even more. They would get rid of any and all content that could possibly land them in court. Trump would have been booted long ago. Incitement isn't protected speech. Defamation isn't protected speech. Dumpty would have been booted the first time he potentially slandered someone.
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  12951.  @klauskinski5969  Do you have reading comprehension problems? 230 is based on previous settled law, dating back to a bookstore being sued for the content of books. The same website owners who are deciding other potentially illegal things to censor. You want them to stop deciding what is, and isn't, child porn, so you can watch it freely?
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  12952.  @klauskinski5969  Incitement is likewise illegal, dumb dumb. But, you're right, we don't need courts whenever people get their memberships revoked.
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  12953. I think you're all delusional as to just how much leverage progressives actually have. You all know Pelosi can just let progressives paralyze the house, and then blame them for no new covid relief, no minimum wage increase, no Medicare age decrease, etc., etc., etc., right?
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  12954.  @Aj-zr8dz  Remaining few? Corporate Dems are still the majority of Democrats. The majority of the Dem caucus picked Pelosi. Progressives can keep sending it back to caucus, but have no actual way of voting her out there, or someone worse, because they don't have a majority. Even the majority of Dem voters just picked Biden over Bernie. Progressive numbers are growing, but they don't yet have the power some people seem to think, and corporate Dems aren't rolling over dead quite yet.
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  12955.  @Aj-zr8dz  Yeah, you do need to convince the majority to get rid of her, or they can just keep picking her over and over, let you paralyze the house, and blame you when people are desperate for more covid relief.
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  12956.  @Aj-zr8dz  Other than getting more progressives elected to Congress, exactly like AOC just helped do, until you get the majority, you can't force the majority to do anything in caucus. You can paralyze the house and keep sending it back to caucus, but there you have no power again. They can just let you paralyze the house and blame you when people start asking for more covid relief. Dore and Kyle also argue that Pelosi would rather work with Republicans than progressives, and is the queen of backroom deals, but then don't seem to consider the possibility of Pelosi simply making a backroom deal with Republicans. She could give them something in exchange for 20 Republicans playing sick, reducing the threshold needed to win, and easily dodge the progressive threat.
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  12957.  @Aj-zr8dz  A Tim Ryan isn't exactly "less established". Parties generally pick amongst senior members to be speaker.
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  12958. @WeAreIt Yeah, finally M4A is an established part of mainstream political conversation, and progressives are adding multiple seats to their numbers each election, THAT'S the time to bail and start yet another third party that won't even get a single seat in 50 years. Jimmy Dore: I'm so impatient, I'm going to take the longest fucking road possible to reach my destination!!! That'll show em!!!
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  12959. @WeAreIt Adding multiple new yes votes in a single election is a full slice of bread, compared to starting from scratch.
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  12960.  @Aj-zr8dz  What do you mean wouldn't last as long? Pelosi says this is her last ride as speaker. Swapping Tim Ryan in now would likely give him more of a chance to stay in longer than her 2 years left.
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  12961.  @Scepticalasfuk  You work for a third party that just wants to slander progressive politicians, destroy confidence in them, start from scratch, and not even win a seat in the house in 50 years, let alone get M4A?
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  12962.  @anmolt3840051  Do you have reading comprehension problems?
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  12963.  @michaelknight2897  You know the difference between lifting weights and cardio, right? You can lift all the weights you want, all day long, won't make you a good runner. Might even hinder it. People were walking from home to work, or within the boundary of their farms. People hardly had to run anywhere anymore, for anything.
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  12964. There was already news about them bombing a previous church, and there has also been a video of an Orthodox Church leader saying he would make the call to prayer 5 times a day, if the mosques couldn't.
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  12965. Yeah, his plan is to make the likes of Amazon and Bezos a lot richer.
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  12966.  @Freakarmy   Where does this copy paste bullshit come from? Non-staples: electric bill, phone bill, internet bill, cable bill, toys, games, any entertainment with a cost, snacks and pop, and all kinds of things that would still affect poor people. Some of those poor people are already collecting $1000+ in government assistance of a kind Yang doesn't have stack with UBI. Those people will get zero economic benefit from the UBI but will still have to pay the VAT. He should have UBI stack with SSI and have a half UBI for children. That price sensitivity nonsense is bullshit under normal circumstances. Basically every business would have a VAT added. They would all be sitting in the exact same competitive position they were in pre-VAT. There would be no reason to lower their prices and start eating their profit margins. Add in that consumers are being handed $3t to go shopping, and price increases won't even reduce consumption. Yang is bullshitting, when he claims a VAT will make corporations like Amazon "pay their fair share". They'll still pay nothing with a VAT. Businesses get credited back for their input VAT in a VAT system. So, if even 20% of that $3t is spent on retail, and Amazon owns 5% of retail, Yang's VAT/UBI scheme will only make them an extra $30b a year. That'd make Bezos an extra $3.6b a year. He'd have to blow over $36b a year on goods and services with a VAT to pay in more than he'll get out.
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  12967. You want to "both sides" with a clearly disgruntled scientist who started out pro-vaccine then switched to anti-vaccine, that represents 1 in 100 doctors/scientists?
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  12968.  @adrianwoodlock8433  You seem to have reading comprehension problems. Did I say those things proved him wrong? You know a strawman is a fallacious argument, right? It's dishonest to "both sides" with a tiny minority of scientists/doctors, as if their voices are equal. The was done with smoking. That was done with climate change. If you're going to have one of him on, then you should have 99 of the others on, as well. It's odd to have someone on that is clearly personally disgruntled, and has flip flopped. They obviously have a personal bias, and are inconsistent. Wouldn't a guest that doesn't display personal bias be better?
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  12969.  @adrianwoodlock8433  You clearly stated my points are fallacious and that none of what I said means his points are wrong, as if I had. Now you're just lying.
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  12970.  @josephmayfield945  Problem?
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  12971.  @Evirthewarrior  Lol, you're just pulling fractions out of your ass. Even by the end of the war, the Italian government didn't own that much. Their major holdings were in shipbuilding, iron, and the railway (all important to the war and to the authoritarian axis). Their other holdings were largely shares in businesses the government had rescued from failure (subsidized). Government "control" included setting high tariffs in an attempt to prioritize Italian companies. You might as well call Trump a socialist.
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  12972. No clue why people keep looking at Israel, as some kind of well vaccinated population. They may have gotten out to a quick start, and got almost all of the older population vaccinated, but overall they only have 65% of the population vaccinated. Obviously, the virus will keep spreading, fairly quickly, at that rate.
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  12973. Long standing Likud platform, "between the sea and the Jordan there will only be Israeli sovereignty". Likud was founded by Irgun terrorist leader, Menachem Begin. They are everything they claim Hamas is.
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  12974.  Memento Mori  You're right. The "more" language would likely use that. I used general percentages, where 100% and 100% were the same rates.
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  12975. He described Rosen as a troll, intentionally trying to provoke. From the perspective of dealing with trolls, not feeding them what they want is pretty standard advice. He immediately also described it as a double standard, though, before being interrupted.
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  12976.  @Ass_of_Amalek  Israel was founded on terrorism. Menachem Begin was a leader of the Irgun terrorists, who bombed the King David Hotel, amongst other things. Hard to condemn what Israel, themselves, taught them is a valid path to statehood.
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  12977. You think not believing is an action you can control? You can not force yourself to not believe in something, if the evidence is strong enough. Being skeptical, and not seeing enough evidence, defaults you to not believe. Seeing enough evidence, either way, will make you believe automatically.
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  12978.  @tradwitchmorgana6933  So tell Chris there's no false equivalence, then.
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  12979.  @smartass0124  That's what I said ... not some giant state wide software conspiracy.
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  12980.  @smartass0124  Michigan differentiates between official observers, called "challengers" and self proclaimed "poll watchers". All parties could have, and did have, challengers in the room. Poll watchers only get access to the public space and are not supposed to be using recording devices, which they were, hence the covering of the windows.
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  12981. Could be. They are long friend time friends.
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  12982.  @michaeljoyner2052  What's so heavenly about a place where people can still commit evil?
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  12983. ​ @TrueHitch  Who are you talking about? Likud was founded by Irgun and Lehi terrorists. Einstein's opinion of the founders of Likud ... "Among the most disturbing political phenomena of our times is the emergence in the newly created state of Israel of the "Freedom Party" (Tnuat Haherut), a political party closely akin in its organization, methods, political philosophy and social appeal to the Nazi and Fascist parties. It was formed out of the membership and following of the former Irgun Zvai Leumi, a terrorist, right-wing, chauvinist organization in Palestine."
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  12984. ​ @Shachar50  Palestinians have Canaanite DNA, meaning they were the previous Christian majority, and the Jewish majority before that. They're Arab and Muslim the same way indigenous peoples of Central America are now Hispanic and Catholic. The few that both stayed and never converted were targeted by colonialist Zionist terrorists alongside their Palestinian brothers and sisters, for not supporting colonialist Zionsim. You don't get to use people who didn't want you there, and that you murder, as some 1700 year old place holders.
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  12985. ​ @TrueHitch  Fun fact: Nazis didn't live inside the Warsaw ghetto. Israel controls the border, ports, airspace, electricity, water, who goes in and out, what goes in and out, and Bibi even has control over the money from Qatar, having stopped and started it multiple times. All Palestine territories are officially considered occupied, by the UN GA, UN SC, the ICJ, the Red Cross, and even in official documents of Israel's own allies.
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  12986. ​ @gombally  There's zero account of all Jews being forced out of Palestine. There's also zero account of all the current "Arab" countries being ethnically cleansed or genocided, and completely refilled by actual Arabians from a tiny desert country. Like in Europe, people converted, and people started practicing new cultures. All the people in the British Isles aren't genetically Anglos. They're Britons, Saxons, Normans, Danish, Pict, Celt, Scot, Irish, ... and, fun fact, they weren't always Christians. So, take a guess as to what happened to the majority of Jews, who remained in Palestine.
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  12987. ​ @rachelh7886  Yeah, all the resistance movements, during WWII, were just horrible. Should have just given up, and recognized defeat, right? Totally their faults, when the Germans punished populations for things the resistance did, and not the Germans' faults.
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  12988. ​ @dpeatebc7265  Read Ze'ev Jabotinsky's The Iron Wall and educate yourself. His Revisionist Zionsim was the foundation for the Irgun and Lehi terrorists, who in turn founded Likud. Their goal has always been to completely colonize and ethnically cleanse all Palestine territories. They also claim a "right" to all the "Land of Israel" (based on fictional biblical borders that don't mesh with archaeological reality), which is also an open declaration of future wars, against Jordan, Syria, and Lebanon.
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  12989. ​ @avi10000  The Bible doesn't mesh with archaeological or historical reality.
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  12990. Peter Thiel funded Rumble paid her, Greenwald, and Dore, to join their platform.
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  12991. Backed by every US adminstration, since it began, decades ago.
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  12992.  @moshebuchachevsky5650  You're not very bright. Likud platform ... 1977: "The Right of the Jewish People to the Land of Israel (Eretz Israel) a. The right of the Jewish people to the land of Israel is eternal and indisputable and is linked with the right to security and peace; therefore, Judea and Samaria will not be handed to any foreign administration; between the Sea and the Jordan there will only be Israeli sovereignty. b. A plan which relinquishes parts of western Eretz Israel, undermines our right to the country, unavoidably leads to the establishment of a "Palestinian State," jeopardizes the security of the Jewish population, endangers the existence of the State of Israel. and frustrates any prospect of peace." "Settlement Settlement. both urban and rural. in all parts of the Land of Israel is the focal point of the Zionist effort to redeem the country, to maintain vital security areas and serves as a reservoir of strength and inspiration for the renewal of the pioneering spirit. The Likud government will call on the younger generation in Israel and the dispersions to settle and help every group and individual in the task of inhabiting and cultivating the wasteland, while taking care not to dispossess anyone." 1999: "The Government of Israel flatly rejects the establishment of a Palestinian Arab state west of the Jordan river. The Palestinians can run their lives freely in the framework of self-rule, but not as an independent and sovereign state. Thus, for example, in matters of foreign affairs, security, immigration, and ecology, their activity shall be limited in accordance with imperatives of Israel's existence, security and national needs." "The Jewish communities in Judea, Samaria, and Gaza are the realization of Zionist values. Settlement of the land is a clear expression of the unassailable right of the Jewish people to the Land of Israel and constitutes an important asset in the defense of the vital interests of the State of Israel. The Likud will continue to strengthen and develop these communities and will prevent their uprooting."
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  12993. Maybe increase testing rates, at least to our Canadian levels, and not mock safety guidelines. Are you one of our 14% idiot Trump supporters?
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  12994. Australia's covid death rate would translate into about 26k total US covid deaths, instead of approaching 800k. They're doing fantastic.
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  12995. These guys aren't honest about anything. Even Venezuela isn't outright socialism. It's a mixed economy, like almost every economy on the planet. They simply nationalized their oil ... like Norway ... like Alaska, ffs.
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  12996. Israel is objectively the aggressor by every relevant measure (modern history, law, and current events) ... Modern history: With the Balfour declaration, Zionsim converted from something like immigration to colonization. 100 years ago, in 1923, Ze'ev Jabotinsky fully acknowledged that Zionism is colonialism, and that, based on the entirety of history, the native Palestinians would fight it until the bitter end. He just didn't care what would happen to them, and promoted doing it anyway. Colonizers are never not the aggressors, when it comes to the native population. On top of the colonialist nature of Zionism, the Zionists also formed terrorist organizations, like the Irgun and Lehi. They bombed many Palestinian markets and other public places, murdering many civilians, including children, even including Palestinian Jews (who opposed colonialist Zionism). Israel merged those terrorists into the new nation's military and intelligence agencies. Israelis elected Menachem Begin, leader of the Irgun, child murderer, Jew murderer, and bomber of the King David Hotel, as PM. Israelis, to this day, celebrate those Irgun terrorists as "heroes". Zionists literally taught their neighbours that terrorism is a valid path to independence and statehood, and that terrorists are to be celebrated. In 1945, it is well documented that Zionists owned just 5% of the land and were a majority in zero districts. Israel was formed by going against the will of the majority population. Its foundation is completely undemocratic. Even then, Jews were still a minority, in "their" half. The only possible way to actually become a Jewish ethno-state, would be to ethnically cleanse away the actual majority. And, that's exactly what happened. Israel has never allowed those people to return. Law: Israel is considered an occupier by the International Court, the UN GA, and the UN SC. Occupiers are also never not the aggressors. Those occupied actually have a right to resist occupation. On the flip side, it is illegal for the occupier to settle occupied lands, and illegal to use collective punishment. Israel is a rogue nation, that doesn't abide by international law. What it has been doing, and is doing now, is illegal. Current events: This year, alone, prior to Oct 7 ... Israel held over 1200 Palestinian hostages without charges ... over 200 Palestinians had been killed by the IDF and settlers ... over 1000 Palestinians had been displaced by Israel's neverending colonization of the West Bank ... and, Israel continued to operate an open air WWII style fascist ghetto. Even ignoring modern history and law, in no reality did Hamas "start" anything.
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  12997. So you've kept up to date on Brazil becoming the most dangerous country in the world to be gay?
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  12998. The default position, when the term Athe-ist was first used, was the there is a God.
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  12999. Right. Their "end goal" is basically the same as the colonization of North America. Move settlements out into Native territory, piss off the Natives, the Natives react violently, act like the poor "innocent" settlements were attacked by "savages", send in the cavalry to squash the Native uprising, and expand your borders to include the settlements. Rinse and repeat. On top of being a colonialist state, Israel was founded on terrorism, by groups like the Irgun and Lehi. They elected terrorists, like Menachem Begin, who led the Irgun and blew up the King David Hotel. They still celebrate those terrorists. Israel literally taught their neighbours that terrorism is a valid path to independence and statehood.
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  13000.  @devinwalker7740  So you oppose Trump trying to overthrow the democratic process to install himself as an unelected dictator?
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  13001.  @devinwalker7740  He, literally, wanted Pence to not accept the election results, dumbass.
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  13002.  @devinwalker7740  No hate, simply stating a fact. Unless, of course, you're just dishonest.
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  13003. There was a vote on the $15, and a list of names of who voted against it. Aaaand ... Dore knobs keep bitching about those who voted for it. Hypocrites.
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  13004. He was also proposing a plan that would have money flowing to the very top faster than ever before, because he doesn't know how a VAT actually works.
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  13005. Bullshit. Progressives got the $15 minimum to remain in the house bill.
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  13006.  @gabrielarcari72  The progressive caucaus got the $15 minimum to stay in the house bill. Justice Dems and AOC just helped add more M4A yes votes to congress.
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  13007.  @gabrielarcari72  The broader progressive caucus, which include M4A on their platform, is about 10-15 seats away from becoming the majority of house Dems. They could then pick the party speaker candidate at the party caucus. That could happen next election, if that many viable progressive caucus candidates can replace non progressive caucus candidates. On the other hand, the most popular third party hasn't won a single seat in congress in its near 50 year existence. The second most popular hasn't won a single seat in its 20 year existence. Having a broader group of about a hundred progressives, and even a smaller group of 15, or so, completely corporate free progressives, in congress, are both more than any third party has accomplished. Third parties don't get to put forward even a single bill, don't get to cast even a single vote for, or against, even a single bill. It's a fantasy, thinking a third party would be the faster route. That system needs to change, to make third parties more viable, but you can't really change it from the outside.
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  13008.  @gabrielarcari72  Because first past the post works against them. Even if you peeled off all progressive voters, from the Dem party, that would just end up letting Republicans win in most places. It would be like Dem primaries vs Republicans in the general.
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  13009.  @graywalkerjoin3rdparty74  Progressives don't have the numbers to pick a different party speaker candidate in caucus. The corporate Dem majority could have kept picking Pelosi over and over and over, or someone worse. And if you go all out war within the party, how do you think things will go when the progressive caucus gets the 10-15 more seats it needs to become the majority of house Dems, and they pick the party speaker candidate?
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  13010.  @gabrielarcari72  Uh huh. That's why you need to take over one of those parties, instead.
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  13011.  @gabrielarcari72  That's a lie. AOC, and others, vote against the seperate military budget, every year.
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  13012.  @graywalkerjoin3rdparty74  Pelosi introduced M4A just last session. It died in committees, where 90% of bills die. The speaker, alone, can't even force a bill through committees.
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  13013.  @graywalkerjoin3rdparty74  How do you scare the crap out of people who many say would prefer losing to Republicans than progressives, when Republicans would be who benefits most from a popular progressive third party?
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  13014.  @graywalkerjoin3rdparty74  The election that just happened would suggest you're exaggerating. Libertarians and Greens did worse than in 2016. Bernie didn't get overwhelming support.
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  13015.  @gabrielarcari72  So, you don't want them to just vote against the stand alone defense appropriation bill, you want them to vote against the entire budget? Vote against the budget that includes funding for Medicare, Medicaid, SNAP, public housing, etc.?
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  13016. His plan would have had money funneling to giant corporations, and their major shareholders, faster than ever before, because he was clueless as to how a VAT actually works. A VAT is specifically designed to NOT tax businesses in order to avoid double taxation. Meaning, they wouldn't pay into the UBI, but would get all the benefits of trillions extra a year being spent.
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  13017.  @mrwz626  No, he clearly doesn't know how a VAT is designed to work. His VAT page was largely nonsense. He also didn't grasp the pass through rate study he linked to, which actually showed a 100% pass through. Not sure if you have reading comprehension problems, but I said a UBI, that corporations don't pay into, would have money funneling to the very top faster than ever, not simply a VAT itself.
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  13018.  @iandrackert7838  Ironically, they could have invested those extra billions into automating even faster. Also ironically, Yang himself would have automated away many government jobs by ditching programs for an automated direct deposit.
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  13019.  @mrwz626  I'm not misconstruing anything. No clue where I'm losing you. A VAT is specifically designed to NOT tax businesses in order to avoid double taxation (Which would be f-ing worse!). If they don't pay into the UBI, then they only get the benefit of it being spent. By their market share, Amazon would make extra tens of billions a year. By his ownership share, Bezos would make extra billions a year. Amazon would still pay nothing in taxes, and Bezos could personally buy a brand new billion dollar yacht every single year, pay $100m in VAT, and still be billions ahead. Money would funnel to the very top faster than ever before, and it wouldn't be sustainable.
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  13020.  @iandrackert7838  Nope. Yang even linked to a pass through rate study he didn't understand. It showed a near 100% pass through. Businesses weren't eating any of the tax themselves. The lesser rated category even had higher prices than they should have. Those businesses not only passed along the entire VAT, as designed, but they even bumped their prices a bit more.
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  13021.  @mrwz626  You're making crap up. He thought a VAT would tax corporations, even as they automate. If they automated transportation, for example, there'd be a VAT on every automated mile, or something, that corporations would pay. He was wrong. As he was claiming a VAT would be a way to get Amazon to "pay their fair share" in taxes, Amazon UK has its own VAT tutorials on how a VAT doesn't tax businesses. As he compared his VAT/UBI combo to the Alaskan dividend, which is paid for by corporations, all the countries that use the VAT say it's not a tax on businesses. As he was spouting nonsense about a pass through rate study he didn't understand, the study itself was saying that consumers were paying the entire VAT. Yang was saying the right things, that corporations need to pay, but was totally clueless as to how a VAT actually works. If they paid for the UBI, and the money ended up funneling back to them, that's just money circulating. If they don't pay into the UBI, at all, then that's just more money flowing into their hands, where they tend to hoard it.
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  13022.  @mrwz626  The point was you're deviating from what Yang actually said. Go ahead and invent your own system, but that wasn't the topic. He said it would be a VAT that would tax value added by automation. But, again, a VAT doesn't tax businesses. And, allowing for cascading taxes upon taxes would be worse, not better. I owned a business, as well, and filled out VAT returns, for years. Anyone claiming a VAT is a tax on businesses, is spouting pure nonsense.
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  13023.  @mrwz626  Keep arguing for something worse, dumb dumb.
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  13024.  @mrwz626  Proof of what? Paying back businesses for their input VAT is based on the very basic principle that, if you don't, they will treat it like a cost and pass it on to customers anyway. Every step in the chain would then be partially taxing a tax. Just how severe are your reading comprehension problems? Canada: "The GST takes into account the cost of inputs – the factors used in manufacturing or production – at each stage of the process to avoid double taxation." EU: "the taxable person is entitled to deduct all the tax already paid at the preceding stage. Therefore, double taxation is avoided"
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  13025.  @mrwz626  I've given examples, representing 28 countries. Try providing a single example to support your nonsense.
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  13026.  @mrwz626  Holy bageezus!! That is irrelevant to the core design. Rofl, you ar so out of your depth. The countries in the EU use different standard rates, different partial rates, zero rate different things ... and all that has absolutely nothing to do with the fact that a VAT doesn't tax businesses.
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  13027.  @mrwz626  Try finding a single example, of the nonsense you're making up.
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  13028.  @mrwz626  Except he didn't say that. He said a VAT would tax corporations that are automating, and he was completely wrong. Stop inventing crap.
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  13029.  @mrwz626  He thought a VAT on ads, would tax corporations, ffs. He was wrong. I just told you that different VAT rates are irrelevant to the core design, and who it actually taxes. You have very severe reading comprehension problems, and have no clue what you're talking about. He obviously has zero clue how a VAT actually works. He linked to a pass through rate study, and totally misconstrued what it actually said. None of your fantasies can ever change that fact. It outright said there was a near 100% pass through on standard rated goods and services. It outright showed that only by including lesser rated, and zero rated, goods and services, did the pass through rate drop. Yang mistakenly took that to mean that corporations would pay half the tax, when it actually means that there isn't a tax, or there's a lower tax (also 100% paid by consumers), on about half the goods and services. If he grasped what it said, but he was going to invent a totally different "VAT", that taxes businesses, and allows for double taxation, then he shouldn't have linked to that study.
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  13030.  @mrwz626  You're a demented cultist, spewing nonsense.
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  13031.  @mrwz626  No, you're spouting off irrelevant crap, exactly like I said. What don't you grasp about the term "core design"? My point was exactly that, even though they all rate things differently, the entirety of the EU still says it doesn't tax businesses in order to avoid double taxation. And you think once again pointing out that they have different rates, is still relevant, because you're absolutely clueless. Here's the input output VAT formula: X = output VAT Y = input VAT X - Y = Z If Z > 0, send Z to government, repaying you for Y If Z < 0, get a refund for Z from the government, repaying you for Y It doesn't freaking matter if Y is $5 on $100, or $20 on $100, you still get paid back for Y. It doesn't matter what items are standard rated, lesser rated, or zero rated, you still get paid back for Y. Nothing you're babbling about is relevant.
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  13032.  @mrwz626  Our interpretations are obviously different. He's as clueless as you. Nothing you can say will ever change the fact that he looked at a pass through rate study and totally failed to understand it.
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  13033.  @mrwz626  It's like you're asking why a motorcycle can't be considered a "car". Again, a VAT is designed that way to avoid double taxation, something you're apparently in favour of. Cascading taxes upon taxes isn't a VAT, because it doesn't only tax value added, it also taxes taxes. Not sure why you can't grasp that paying taxes on taxes would be worse. You're basically "defending" Yang by arguing that, not only does he not grasp who a VAT taxes (again, nothing you can ever say will change the fact that he utterly failed to grasp a pass through rate study), but he's also an idiot for even linking to a VAT example that would be nothing like his "VAT", and an idiot for wanting to allow for cascading taxes upon taxes. Different governments do things differently. Why don't they all have the same income tax rates? Why don't they all have the same property tax rates? Why don't they all have the same sales tax rates? What kind of question is that?
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  13034.  @mrwz626  You have very severe reading comprehension problems. I clearly just said they do things differently. I clearly said they do things differently, before. You can't seem to wrap your head around double taxation being worse. You can't seem to wrap your head around taxing taxes isn't taxing value added. You can't seem to wrap your head around the unchangeable fact that Yang utterly failed to grasp a pass through rate study, proving beyond a doubt that he doesn't know what he's talking about. You're the one arguing that, not only is he clueless (just a fact), but that he's a complete idiot, who would post a study about a VAT that's nothing like the "VAT" you've invented for him, and a complete idiot who wants double taxation. Let me know when you've found a single example of a country doing things your made up way.
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  13035.  @mrwz626  You're arguing for a sales tax, is what you're arguing for, and making out like a sales tax is a kind of VAT. While they have similarities, it's not built into a sales tax that businesses get to reclaim any sales tax they've paid. Businesses then treat sales tax they've paid as part of their cost, and include it in their price. If there's then a sales tax on their sale, then part of what's being taxed is a tax. It is built into a VAT that businesses get to reclaim any input VAT they've paid, to ensure there's only tax on the value added, and not taxes upon taxes. You can keep pretending like a sales tax is a VAT, but it won't make it so.
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  13036.  @lucboy13  He knows less than the multiple current Pfizer scientists who actually worked on the vaccine, who penned a letter to him saying he's spewing nonsense, considering he was let go almost a decade ago.
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  13037. Tack the same period of mortgage payments to the end of the mortgage.
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  13038. Yeah, he does it all the time. His "defense" against bank fraud, is claiming Mar-a-Lago is worth over $1b more than he has ever reported, meaning he has been dodging a sh*t ton of taxes, if true. And his moron followers think he made a great point.
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  13039. ​ @barbaraklein3944  Likud's bloody 100 year history ... In 1923, 100 years ago, Ze'ev Jabotinsky wrote, The Iron Wall, and a follow up, The Ethics of The Iron Wall (sooo racist towards Africans), in which he fully acknowledged that post Balfour Zionsim was colonialism, and that, based on the entirety of history, the native Palestinian population would resist being colonized until the bitter end. He directly compared it to the colonization of North America. He promoted doing it anyway, claiming Zionist colonialism was a "just" colonialism (he also thought North American colonialists were good guys, so not a great judge of morality), not caring what that meant for the native population. Ze'ev is important, because his Betar militant youth group helped found the Irgun terrorist group, along with other supporters of his, and the splinter Lehi terrorist group. The Irgun bombed numerous Palestinian markets and other public places, murdering many Palestinian civilians, including children, even including Palestinian Jews (who didn't support colonialist Zionsim). The Irgun are important, because they ended up being led by future Likud PM, Menachem Begin, who bombed the King David Hotel. The King David Hotel was bombed because the British had raided the Jewish Agency and seized numerous documents that may have shown that the terrorists were working with the JA and Haganah (JA liked to pretend that they didn't support the terrorism). The British then stored those documents at their base, in the hotel. That the Irgun terrorists responded to a JA raid, itself seems to prove the connection. That the thousands of Irgun (and Lehi) terrorists were also quickly merged into the new nation's military (IDF) and intelligence (Mossad) agencies, and are still celebrated as "heroes" by Israelis, to this day, also seems to support total collaboration between the groups. That other terrorist group mentioned, Lehi (also known as the Stern Gang), was considered even more extreme. They even tried to ally with the Nazis, against the British. Lehi ended up being led by Yitzhak Shamir, future Mossad agent, and another future Likud PM. In 1945, there was a major land and peoples survey done in Palestine. It showed that the Zionists only owned about 5% of the total land, 20% of the arable land, and owned a majority in zero districts. The partition was not only going to be forced on the native Palestinian majority, but Jews were still going to be a minority, in the part allocated to them. The only possible way to even become a "Jewish state" was going to require getting rid of the actual majority (at least enough so that there'd be a solid Jewish majority, so they could fake being democratic). This is also shown by the 1948, post Nakba, population of Israel. If there was 716,700 Jews, 156,000+ non-Jews, and approximately 700k non-Jews ethnically cleansed, that means the Jewish population, in the Zionist portion of partition, was originally over 100,000 less than the non-Jewish population. To believe that there was never any intent, by Zionists, to ethnically cleanse away the Palestinian majority would require believing that they never intended to create a "Jewish state". It's a nonsensical notion. Begin, and those terrorist groups, also opposed partition, but for the opposite reason Palestinians did. Palestinians didn't want to be colonized, at all. The terrorists wanted to colonize it all. "Moderate" Zionists were okay with colonizing half ... for now (what would happen in the future, after partition, was up to them, said Ben-Gurion). The Zionist terrorists were also involved in massacres, and assassinations, during the partition violence (colonialist war against the natives). Another notable future Likud PM, also started in the military, during the partition fighting. That was Ariel Sharon, war criminal, "Butcher of Beirut". Menachem Begin, and these other Zionist terrorists, are important because they also later founded Likud. Now, people get upset over the slogan "From the river to the sea!", but it's the second part that's most important, "Palestine will be free!". Because "Palestine" isn't defined as an ethno-state, a free Palestine can be a single state, free for all to live in, and return to, free of continuing colonization, free of occupation, free of oppression, etc. Just like a Germany free of Nazism, an Italy free of fascism, a South Africa free of apartheid, or an America free of slavery from sea to shiny sea. It doesn't necessitate purging all the Jews. It just necessitates them giving up on the idea of an ethno-state. On the other hand, because "Israel" has been defined as an ethno-state, Likud's, "between the sea and the Jordan there will only be Israeli sovereignty", has no possible good interpretation. It is a declaration of intent to completely colonize, and ethnically cleanse, all Palestine territories. Not only that, but it also claims that they have a "right" to all of the "Land of Israel" (biblical borders that don't mesh with archaeological reality), which is an open declaration of future wars, against Jordan, Syria, Lebanon, and possibly even Iraq. Likud platform ... 1977: "The Right of the Jewish People to the Land of Israel (Eretz Israel) a. The right of the Jewish people to the land of Israel is eternal and indisputable and is linked with the right to security and peace; therefore, Judea and Samaria will not be handed to any foreign administration; between the Sea and the Jordan there will only be Israeli sovereignty. b. A plan which relinquishes parts of western Eretz Israel, undermines our right to the country, unavoidably leads to the establishment of a "Palestinian State," jeopardizes the security of the Jewish population, endangers the existence of the State of Israel. and frustrates any prospect of peace." "Settlement Settlement. both urban and rural. in all parts of the Land of Israel is the focal point of the Zionist effort to redeem the country, to maintain vital security areas and serves as a reservoir of strength and inspiration for the renewal of the pioneering spirit. The Likud government will call on the younger generation in Israel and the dispersions to settle and help every group and individual in the task of inhabiting and cultivating the wasteland, while taking care not to dispossess anyone." 1999: "The Government of Israel flatly rejects the establishment of a Palestinian Arab state west of the Jordan river. The Palestinians can run their lives freely in the framework of self-rule, but not as an independent and sovereign state. Thus, for example, in matters of foreign affairs, security, immigration, and ecology, their activity shall be limited in accordance with imperatives of Israel's existence, security and national needs." "The Jewish communities in Judea, Samaria, and Gaza are the realization of Zionist values. Settlement of the land is a clear expression of the unassailable right of the Jewish people to the Land of Israel and constitutes an important asset in the defense of the vital interests of the State of Israel. The Likud will continue to strengthen and develop these communities and will prevent their uprooting." All Palestine territories are officially considered occupied, by the International Court of Justice, the UN GA, the UN SC, and even in official documents of Israel's own allies. Likud is still using the blueprint for colonizing North America, in the West Bank. Move settlements out into native territory, piss off the natives, the natives retaliate, cry about poor "innocent" colonizing settlers being the "victims" of violent "Savages!", call in the cavalry to put down the native uprising, and eventually expand the borders to include those settlements. Rinse and repeat. In Gaza, they are operating an open air WWII style fascist ghetto. Them claiming a "right to defend themselves" would be like the Nazis claiming a "right to defend themselves " from the Warsaw ghetto uprising. There's no "war". That they're the occupiers means the "war" part is long over. That partition was forced upon the Palestinian majority, against their will ... that the Zionist portion still had to be forcefully ethnically cleansed of its non-Jewish majority, against their will ... that the millions of occupied Palestinians don't have a say in the government that truly rules over them, Israel's ... means Israel is about as democratic as Nazi Germany after Hitler purged his political opponents and then held elections. Hamas is basically just a poor man's Likud, only fighting against colonialism, instead of for colonialism.
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  13040.  @kcolonelx6181  I think the two state solution has failed. A single state solution, maybe with a Lebanon style government. But, it would take world pressure on Israel.
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  13041.  @kcolonelx6181  There's no Palestinian state left. The idea of two states has failed for 100 years. Plus, it's literally in the Likud platform that not only do they want to colonize all of Palestine, but they also claim a "right" to parts of Jordan, Syria, and Lebanon. They aren't going to agree to anything willingly.
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  13042.  @adamronengorlovitzki3350  Zionists colonized Palestine. Zionist terrorists, Irgun and Lehi, massacred Palestinian civilians. Partition was forced on the Palestinian majority, against their will. Even after partition, the non-Jewish population, of the colonialist Zionist portion, was over 100k more than the Jewish population. Zionists ethnically cleansed about 700k of them, and never let them return. To believe that Zionists had zero intention to ethnically cleanse them would require believing that they had zero intention to create a Jewish state, which is ridiculous. Those terrorists were merged into Israel's military and intelligence agencies, when Zionists did declare their ethno-state. The leaders of those terrorist groups founded Likud. Israelis elected those terrorist leaders as PMs. Israelis, to this day, celebrate those terrorists as "heroes". Likud's platform, "between the sea and the Jordan there will only be Israeli sovereignty", promises to completely colonize and ethnically cleanse all Palestine territories. It further claims a "right" to all the "Land of Israel" (fictional biblical borders that don't mesh with archaeological reality), which is an open declaration of future wars, against Jordan, Syria, Lebanon, and possibly Iraq. Netanyahu has proven he intends to keep that promise. All Palestine territories are officially considered occupied, by every relevant international body. Likud continues to use the blueprint for colonizing North America, in the West Bank ... Move settlers into native territories, piss off the natives, the natives retaliate, the poor "innocent" colonialist settlers cry about being attacked by "Savages!", call in the cavalry to put down the native uprising, and eventually expand the borders to include those settlements. Rinse and repeat. In Gaza, Israel operates an open air WWII style fascist ghetto, then bombs the hell out of it, when there's an uprising. With partition forced on the majority, ethnic cleansing of Israel's actual non-Jewish majority, and the fact that Israel, the occupier, has actual authority over all Palestine territories and the Palestinians within, but doesn't let them vote for their occupying party ... Israel is actually about as democratic as Nazi Germany after Hitler purged his political opponents and then held elections. Yes, Israel is a fascist state.
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  13043. Asman's anecdotal story: https://www.foxnews.com/story/an-up-close-and-personal-taste-of-socialized-medicine While the UK does have higher MRSA rates than other European countries, the US rates are even higher: https://cddep.org/tool/mrsa_infection_rates_country/ The UK has 4 of the most technologically advanced hospitals in the world. The US has 16, but also 5x the population. Per capita, the UK has more. https://www.topmastersinhealthcare.com/30-most-technologically-advanced-hospitals-in-the-world/ The UK puts out more medical research papers, per capita, than the US, with more citations per paper (and fewer of those being self-citation). https://www.scimagojr.com/countryrank.php?area=1300&year=2018 Since the UK VAT doesn't apply to staples, and rents are lower than New York City, judging the cost of living to be double, based on eating at restaurants for a month, is moronic. He raved about the UK's EMTs. He raved about the UK's public doctors and nurses. He found that money could still help dodge wait times for non urgent procedures, in the UK. His only complaints seem to be based on ignorance.
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  13044. ​ @JoeyBFromScranton  Majority voted against him, before he became president, dumb dumb.
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  13045.  @oddvardmyrnes9040  He tried to overthrow the democratic process to keep himself on as an unelected dictator, ffs.
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  13046.  @oddvardmyrnes9040  Rofl. People have been charged with seditious conspiracy. Who incited them with complete bullshit about the election being stolen? Who was asking everyone and anyone to find votes, or block certification? What "all falsehood" are you referring to?
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  13047.    So, Elon is going to accomodate other countries' hate speech laws?
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  13048. ​ @Journeyman2585  No. Nazis and fascists are the reason nobody can have a real conversation anymore. Their reality is based on complete bullshit, and they repeatedly just deny reality.
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  13049. ​ @Veritas.0  Who is the one flattening the open air WWII style fascist ghetto, after an uprising, dumb dumb?
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  13050. And he could hire about 10k more, for the price of wall maintenance.
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  13051. The change is mainly due to, as your supporting history page mentions, the writings of George H Smith, The whole basis for his argument, to redefine Atheism, rested on his absolute lack of understanding, and butchery of the definition of Agnosticism.
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  13052.  @diegoharo7943  After 100 years of colonialism and ethnic cleansing, if Native Americans attacked a homestead or settlement, would you have argued that the colonists were the "victims"? The colonists were the "victims", the times Geronimo left the reserve his tribe was forced onto after their land was taken, and attacked said colonists?
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  13053. Israel is objectively the aggressor by every relevant measure (modern history, law, and current events) ... Modern history: With the Balfour declaration, Zionsim converted from something like immigration to colonization. 100 years ago, in 1923, Ze'ev Jabotinsky fully acknowledged that Zionism is colonialism, and that, based on the entirety of history, the native Palestinians would fight it until the bitter end. He just didn't care what would happen to them, and promoted doing it anyway. Colonizers are never not the aggressors, when it comes to the native population. On top of the colonialist nature of Zionism, the Zionists also formed terrorist organizations, like the Irgun and Lehi. They bombed many Palestinian markets and other public places, murdering many civilians, including children, even including Palestinian Jews (who opposed colonialist Zionism). Israel merged those terrorists into the new nation's military and intelligence agencies. Israelis elected Menachem Begin, leader of the Irgun, child murderer, Jew murderer, and bomber of the King David Hotel, as PM. Israelis, to this day, celebrate those Irgun terrorists as "heroes". Zionists literally taught their neighbours that terrorism is a valid path to independence and statehood, and that terrorists are to be celebrated. In 1945, it is well documented that Zionists owned just 5% of the land and were a majority in zero districts. Israel was formed by going against the will of the majority population. Its foundation is completely undemocratic. Even then, Jews were still a minority, in "their" half. The only possible way to actually become a Jewish ethno-state, would be to ethnically cleanse away the actual majority. And, that's exactly what happened. Israel has never allowed those people to return. Law: Israel is considered an occupier by the International Court, the UN GA, and the UN SC. Occupiers are also never not the aggressors. Those occupied actually have a right to resist occupation. On the flip side, it is illegal for the occupier to settle occupied lands, and illegal to use collective punishment. Israel is a rogue nation, that doesn't abide by international law. What it has been doing, and is doing now, is illegal. Current events: This year, alone, prior to Oct 7 ... Israel held over 1200 Palestinian hostages without charges ... over 200 Palestinians had been killed by the IDF and settlers ... over 1000 Palestinians had been displaced by Israel's neverending colonization of the West Bank ... and, Israel continued to operate an open air WWII style fascist ghetto. Even ignoring modern history and law, in no reality did Hamas "start" anything.
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  13054.  @vertigo0331  Nonsense. Feudalism, and private property owners gaining monopolies over entire countries happened with zero oversight above them. With next to no oversight, on the US Western frontier, cattle barons pretty much did the same thing, hiring private armies of cowboys, and throwing their weight around ... slaughtering tens of thousands of sheep, tearing down fences, killing shepherds. The US had feudalism right into the 20th century. Little to no government oversight over private property owners has allowed for countless monopolies. Labor, health, safety, environmental, and other assorted regulations have come about exactly because giant businesses, and their owners, didn't self regulate. We've already done the less involved government schtick, and it sucked for most people. Giant corporations keep lobbying for exactly that, less regulation, but you're under some delusion that will hurt them. They, clearly, don't seem to think so. You'd be just handing them what they want, for free. Continuing to expand democracy is still the way to protect the people from those who want to lord over them.
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  13055.  @vertigo0331  Medieval feudalism was a bunch of rich private property owners, with private armies, with no oversight above them, running around doing whatever they wanted. That led to 100% privately owned and operated "governments". Their "governments" were more equivalent to landlords, not governments of the people who have some oversight over private property owners. Just like modern Saudi is a 100% privately owned and operated, purely capitalist, country. "Government" = House of Saud. And, I already gave a more modern example of how it starts, like on the US Western frontier, as a purely private property, purely capitalist, endeavor.
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  13056.  @vertigo0331  You get that handing down privately owned property is a capitalistic property rights thing, yes? Just because it's a "government" and an entire country, doesn't change that. They aren't publicly owned and operated "governments" and countries.
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  13057.  @vertigo0331  Exactly my point. A complete absence of any governmental laws and regulations lets a private property owner do whatever the hell they want. Monopolies have happened with a complete, or near, absence of government. Government is not required to create a monopoly. You can blather about voluntarism, but there's no enforcement of voluntarism with little to no government of the people. If you want to build a building, what's wrong with having the builder voluntarily agree to meet certain public safety standards? You'd rather wait for a collapse, and sue them after?
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  13058.  @vertigo0331  You just argued in favor of a democratic government taking away the property of a private property owner (monarch) and redistributing it, and then argued against a democratic government. Nothing about private property ownership says you can't set the fees for living on your private property, can't make your own rules for living on your private property, or that you can't hire your own security to enforce said rules and collect said fees, which is what absolute monarchs did, and still do.
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  13059.  @vertigo0331  You're either an anarcho-capitalist, or you do actually believe in a representative democracy of some sort, or you are a fascist of some sort.
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  13060.  @robinsss  Right. Government should be more democratic and less of an oligarchy.
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  13061.  @robinsss  Meh, the senate is not, at all, a very democratic body. Freezing the number of house seats, which froze the number of electorals, has also made the house and presidency increasingly less democratic. Having to rely on some massive nationwide protest, or whatnot, just to get something accomplished, isn't very practical.
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  13062.  @vertigo0331  You get that giving nobility more of a say, instead of just dictates from a king (a private property landlord with a monopoly), is a more democratic process ... giving merchants and yeomen more of a say, instead of just the king and nobility, is a more democratic process ... giving landowning white men more of say, instead of just the king, nobility, merchants and yeomen, is a more democratic process ... and so on, with women, minorities, non landowners, etc. How representative it is also makes it more, or less, democratic. Just like with a company ... if things are entirely dictated by a single owner, then it's equivalent to an absolute dictatorship ... if it has a board of directors, with an elected CEO, that's more democratic ... if it's unionized, with workers having more of a say and more power, then that's more democratic ... if it becomes a worker co-op, then that's the business equivalent of an all out direct democracy. So, yeah, you did argue in favor of a more democratic system, and then turned around and argued against a more democratic system. Where's your cutoff? You actually want democracy limited to rich yeomen and merchants, and the poor not be allowed to vote again?
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  13063.  @rentfree1438  Nope. Not what he said. He was talking violent crime across the board, not about any individual ethnic or racial groups. It seems to be your own racist brain that made them all black.
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  13064.  @danlucky9839  I promote the US getting universal health care, including mental, all the time. I promote cutting profit from big pharma too. The entire health industry should be non-profit. If there was no monetary benefit to them pushing as many drugs as possible, then we'd only have to pump out what we need. Americans have whined about every wave of immigration. You're still whining about the Mexican wave, when it has actually been negative migration for years. More people have been going back to Mexico than are coming in ... before Dump came along. Your border "crisis" is bullshit. Nice strawman, btw.
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  13065.  @danlucky9839  You're a moron. No, I'm not brainwashed. I'm Canadian, with a better health care system than you. From the beginning ... A lower infant mortality rate. A lower maternal mortality rate. To the end ... A longer life expectancy. And, our costs are lower than yours you dumb fuck. You have the most expensive system in the world, with not the greatest health care, you idiot. You must be lucky, because you're dumber than a stump.
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  13066. Canada is testing at twice the rate of the US, and Canada's covid deaths per million rate would translate into 500+k fewer deaths in the US. Canada may not be New Zealand or Australia, but they're in the better half of covid responses.
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  13067.  @Germoney2000  He called it "benign", and admitted to not caring about deaths. He'd have his lights on, eating his food hoard, yelling the government is out of line trying to tell him what to do, as the bomb dropped on him.
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  13068. The world didn't start on Oct 7, dumb dumb.
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  13069.  @BGMofo  That Israel was founded by terrorists.
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  13070.  @johammy  Oh, well you're still wrong ... https://www.realclearpolitics.com/epolls/other/trump_favorableunfavorable-5493.html
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  13071. Yes, for a couple thousand years they've been discriminated against. Things were a little different before Abrahamic religions started taking hold in places, but yeah that's a dumb question.
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  13072.  @rs72098  If you want to believe that, go ahead, but that would then just make the discrimination longer, and your question dumber.
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  13073. ​ @jamescooke7243 Rumble is funded by Peter Thiel, the biggest MAGA (fascist) donor around. They don't pay any "lefties", that are a threat to MAGA, to join their platform. They pay "lefties" that constantly attack their viable opponents far more than them, sometimes even say nice things about them, and who push "left" voters towards apathy (all parties samesies!) or towards non viable alternatives (Green!), that will still help MAGA win. You can tell from their fanbase, who they appeal to most. If your main appeal is found on the right, then you're likely saying things they like, more than things they don't. You know that grifters claim to be selling you one thing, but are actually selling you something else, right? They can claim to be selling you on universal healthcare, but pointing you in the worst possible direction to getting there ... like Jimmy Dore does (also paid by Rumble, as were Tulsi and Glenn Greenwald). If you're helping very overt fascists, who literally tried to overthrow the democratic process, to install an unelected dictator, win, I don't know how you can claim to be a "lefty" anymore.
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  13074. What history have you been reading, David? There were tons of huge labour and race riots during the "Progressive Era". There were tons of race riots during the "Civil Rights era". They were more "burn it down" revolutionaries than Sanders supporters simply willing to let a political party fail without them.
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  13075. Yeah, just a few tweaks ... https://www.pbs.org/wgbh/americanexperience/features/theminewars-labor-wars-us/ https://www.npr.org/sections/codeswitch/2019/07/27/744130358/red-summer-in-chicago-100-years-after-the-race-riots https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/List_of_incidents_of_civil_unrest_in_the_United_States#1890%E2%80%931899
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  13076. There were also mass riots during the Civil Rights movement. It wasn't all just sit ins. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Watts_riots https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Long,_hot_summer_of_1967 This is what was going on in the days before the Civil Rights Act of 1968 was passed. https://www.smithsonianmag.com/history/martin-luther-king-jrs-assassination-sparked-uprisings-cities-across-america-180968665/
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  13077.  @harveymanfredsenjenson5417  So you don't know what "median" means?
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  13078.  @harveymanfredsenjenson5417  Yep. So to drive up the "median", they'd have to be in the bottom 50%. You think 50% make more than them? You're making it sound like an awesome degree to get, if that's the case.
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  13079.  @loverainthunder  Ah, so you do have severe reading comprehension problems. I guess that about wraps it up, then.
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  13080.  @loverainthunder  You said a lot of nothing, just like a troll.
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  13081.  @loverainthunder  No. She got the exact same thing, from Pelosi, as the other woman ... a shot at the seat. The behavior that lost her the seat was backing progressives against some of the committee voters. You don't want her backing progressives against corporate Dems? Who is submitting to authority? Is that what you call accepting the broad consensus of doctors and scientists across the world? Being so distrustful, or pandering to those who are so distrustful, that you lie and spread misinformation, yourself, isn't a good thing. It's dishonest grifting. How do you know what he peddles, if you don't watch him?
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  13082. ​ @jaegerpaul  There was a massive land and peoples survey done, in 1945. The Jewish population owned about 5% of the land, and were a majority in no district. The partition was done against the will of the majority, so its very foundation was anti-democratic. They were still a minority, in "their" half. They then ethnically cleansed away most of the actual majority, and have never let them return. Hitler had an election, after purging most of his political opponents. How democratic was that?
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  13083. ​ @bachhongtran  That's like blaming Native Americans for their own ethnic cleansing, dimwit, because they fought back.
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  13084. ​ @Silence_Duder_Gooder Except Israel is Russia, in that analogy ... also not much of a democracy.
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  13085. ​ @JJ-qc6lh  The fact that they were attempting to create a "Jewish state", which would require that Jews be the majority, in a place where Jews were the majority in zero districts, would require ethnically cleansing much of the Palestinian population, to achieve that goal. But, you want people to believe that wasn't the case.
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  13086.  @bachhongtran  It shouldn't be that confusing. Colonizers are never not the aggressors, when it comes to the native population, and Zionism is colonialism.
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  13087.  @DrMonty-yr1kc  Biden closing in in every state, and just pulled ahead in Georgia. I guess those red states are in on the conspiracy.
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  13088. Pregnancies and abortions aren't contagious, dumb dumb. Making the choice to freely spread the virus around isn't a choice about your own body.
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  13089. ​ @beethovenstrance5042  Because it's largely sourced, and you can double check what's on it. Why wouldn't you trust sourced material?
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  13090. ​ @honeyho9890  A god who says you're a superior race of "chosen people" and orders you to gncde everyone around you, has the morals of Htlr.
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  13091. The sliver is gone, when it comes to Republicans. Fscsts were fscsts before they gained full control. The only real difference used to be that the Republican party backed a democratic system. Now that they've made clear that they're willing to not just use undemocratic measures, but completely overthrow the democratic system, they've checked the last box.
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  13092. His philosophy degree should have been revoked, based on that book. He never got beyond what he stated was already a given.
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  13093.  @scoogsy  No, it's you that's wrong out of the gate. He agrees that science can help us get what we value. Whether I subjectively value going to the moon or subjectively value building a world destroying bomb, science can help me get what I value. That's a given. Unless someone can prove otherwise (which he doesn't), science will never tell me whether, or not, I ought to, or ought not to, do either of those things. That's because science doesn't give a crap, either way. Science has helped us do all kinds of absolutely awful things, as well as the good things. He does not have all conscious creatures equally balanced. He has a supposedly objective hierarchy, that's pure nonsense, with humans on top. He proves it's nonsense, himself, when he still puts humans on top of an AI that's supposed to be as superior to is as we are to ants. It's a purely subjective hierarchy, with him always valuing humans most. Yes, you've misunderstood. I'm saying he's a clueless idiot to claim there's a black and white distinction between "poison" and what is okay to ingest, which he did. The fact that we can get water poisoning, which we can't survive without, is the clearest evidence of this.
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  13094. That massive cruise ship has a better deaths to confirmed cases ratio than mainland US. It's them that maybe shouldn't want to come off the ship.
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  13095. ​ @DesertRascal  You think the Zionist colonizers, terrorists (Irgun and Lehi), ethnic cleansers, and occupiers (according to the International Court of Justice, the UN GA, the UN SC, and even Israel's own allies), operating an open air WWII style fascist ghetto, backed by the most powerful countries on the planet, are the "underdogs"? I don't think you know the meaning of the term.
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  13096. ​ @DarkPuppy9  Jewish liberals, to be specific, who he himself said aren't "real" Jews.
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  13097.  @molodezhnaja  Yes, I have been through that with friends and family, multiple times. It is awful seeing them suffer. I don't have an issue with the terminal illness angle. The topics, at the time, were welfare and healthcare. Every country has some far right nutters, no? Maybe not as many as the US, but some.
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  13098. They're like the Puritans, who fled persecution in their homelands, only to turn around and persecute everyone else in the New World.
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  13099. Progressive party? Are you thinking of the Green party, which has failed to win even a single seat in congress in 20 years?
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  13100. Israel is objectively the aggressor by every relevant measure (modern history, law, and current events) ... Modern history: With the Balfour declaration, Zionsim converted from something like immigration to colonization. 100 years ago, in 1923, Ze'ev Jabotinsky fully acknowledged that Zionism is colonialism, and that, based on the entirety of history, the native Palestinians would fight it until the bitter end. He just didn't care what would happen to them, and promoted doing it anyway. Colonizers are never not the aggressors, when it comes to the native population. On top of the colonialist nature of Zionism, the Zionists also formed terrorist organizations, like the Irgun and Lehi. They bombed many Palestinian markets and other public places, murdering many civilians, including children, even including Palestinian Jews (who opposed colonialist Zionism). Israel merged those terrorists into the new nation's military and intelligence agencies. Israelis elected Menachem Begin, leader of the Irgun, child murderer, Jew murderer, and bomber of the King David Hotel, as PM. Israelis, to this day, celebrate those Irgun terrorists as "heroes". Zionists literally taught their neighbours that terrorism is a valid path to independence and statehood, and that terrorists are to be celebrated. In 1945, it is well documented that Zionists owned just 5% of the land and were a majority in zero districts. Israel was formed by going against the will of the majority population. Its foundation is completely undemocratic. Even then, Jews were still a minority, in "their" half. The only possible way to actually become a Jewish ethno-state, would be to ethnically cleanse away the actual majority. And, that's exactly what happened. Israel has never allowed those people to return. Law: Israel is considered an occupier by the International Court, the UN GA, and the UN SC. Occupiers are also never not the aggressors. Those occupied actually have a right to resist occupation. On the flip side, it is illegal for the occupier to settle occupied lands, and illegal to use collective punishment. Israel is a rogue nation, that doesn't abide by international law. What it has been doing, and is doing now, is illegal. Current events: This year, alone, prior to Oct 7 ... Israel held over 1200 Palestinian hostages without charges ... over 200 Palestinians had been killed by the IDF and settlers ... over 1000 Palestinians had been displaced by Israel's neverending colonization of the West Bank ... and, Israel continued to operate an open air WWII style fascist ghetto. Even ignoring modern history and law, in no reality did Hamas "start" anything.
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  13101. You didn't actually defend a single thing, dmwt. If you get invited to the White House, and take pictures and video where you're not legally supposed to, and shove an employee trying to tell you you're not allowed, that you were invited is irrelevant.
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  13102. Well, anyone who thinks they're justified in calling someone on the left a "Nazi", doesn't know what a "Nazi" is. And, anyone calling politicians who want to be more like Denmark "extreme left", "commies", are, objectively, clueless. Denmark is a centrist country, making US politicians wanting to be more like Denmark, the actual centrists. Zero relevant US politicians are calling for a 100% publicly owned and operated economy, complete economic equality for all, and an end to capitalism. Objectively, there is no actual extreme left. On the other hand, a number of Republicans, and a whole Libertarian party, promote privatizing as much as possible, promote Ayn Rand, are anti-union, and are about as extreme righ as is possible. Add to that, how authoritarian and militant the US is, add the crony capitalism, add the ultra nationalism, add the religious nuttery, and you're, objectively, dancing on the border with fascism (not all fascists are Nazis). Ending democracy is about the last box that needs checking, to make it official, and Dumpty is trying his best. If a sane person can't see the difference between considering Ayn Rand extreme right and considering Denmark extreme left, then, although they might be sane, they're likely not too bright.
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  13103. @Cole Reed I used Libertarians as an indication of US politics hitting the extreme right, economically. Then I used the word "add", repeatedly, to get to pushing fascism. So, I'm not sure how you arrived at your thinking I needed some education on Libertarianism.
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  13104.  @neutrino78x  Israel has clearly fired on militants that were near civilians. It's not "collateral" damage, if you know they're going to die, before you drop the bomb. It's intentionally killing them. Again, Israel has hundreds of thousands of militants hiding amongst civilians, using them as "human shields".
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  13105.  @RC-tn3xo  And you seem to carry yours in your head.
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  13106.  @texajp1946  The WWE is more popular than real wrestling.
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  13107.  @iammclovin1672  Rofl, Hinkle?! The guy had no clue what he was talking about. AOC voted against the individual State Department appropriation bill. She voted against the individual Defense Department appropriation bill. What he was actually whining about, was her voting for the entire f*cking budget, which includes Medicare, Medicaid, SNAP, housing, etc., etc. And, like most Dore knobs, Hinkle doesn't seem to know what was in the final version of the Capitol Hill bill, after it was sent back to the house from the senate, or who voted how on that final version of the bill. AOC actually voted no. Hinkle's whole "debate" was whining about complete bullshit.
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  13108.  @kylea1436  "Smear" JD? Telling the truth isn't a "smear". JD is an obvious grifter. If you're so dumb, that you haven't grasped that, yet, then you shouldn't be advising shows, for anyone.
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  13109.  @texajp1946  Because Greenwald and Dore are paid by Peter Thiel funded Rumble? They're grifters.
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  13110.  @jamesnation9889  Progressives oppose defending people against fascist invasions? That's a new one. Since when? The entire progressive caucus is still about 15 seats away from becoming the majority of house Dems. They don't have the party majority needed to pick a different speaker. All they could have done is paralyze the house ... during a pandemic ... no new COVID cheques, no new vaccine funding, etc. ... all for what?
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  13111.  @spettit2011  Socialism and capitalism are economics. What you seem to be complaining about, regarding "socialism" is authoritarian versions. Centrist Nordic countries are perfectly fine examples. They are approximately as socialist as they are capitalist. No, less bureaucracy doesn't equate to more capitalist. Is there an issue with the socialized sectors of their economy? How does say nationalizing oil lead to the Khmer Rouge?
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  13112.  @adotjon78  What has Jimmy been right about? He's a hypocrite on war. His 2016 predictions were all wrong. He has spouted tons of bullshit about COVID, vaccines, and alternatives. He abandoned adding more M4A yes votes to congress, which is the only way to ever pass the bill. He either can't do basic math, or is completely dishonest. A complete moron, or a lying grifter.
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  13113.  @carlosmarx2178  You care that AOC voted for the entire budget, including healthcare, snap, housing, etc.? You wanted her to vote against funding those things? She actually voted against the individual appropriations bills, for the things Hinkle was whining about.
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  13114. Well that doesn't sound very convoluted, at all. Im an Agnostic, as per original meaning. Period.
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  13115.  @Matt92Machine  The right loves him, because all he does is bash Democrats and now progressives.
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  13116.  @LordJesus-23  Yeah, people forget that voting blue works both ways. Those who vote against progressives, in the primaries, will turn around and vote for them, in the general. It's how progressives have a chance in more purple districts. Any hope in hell of Bernie becoming president would have completely relied on Clinton or Biden voters turning around and voting for him in the general, if he made it past the primaries. If you lose the primaries, still vote to say the corporate Dem is as far right as you want the country to go, rather than letting it go complete looney toons Republican.
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  13117.  @ericselectrons  So nothing racist about assuming that minority people "originally" came from other countries?
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  13118.  @bastardferret869  How many people is that, exactly?
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  13119.  @bastardferret869  Holy hell, you're even more insane. The exact company that made those stones is known.
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  13120.  @strike3959  Oh well then, I'm sure being experts, they have provided supporting evidence. What is it? Oh wait, that the Pfizer vaccine would cause infertility was a totally baseless claim, spouted by a nutbar who you believe, for some reason. Anything else?
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  13121.  @strike3959  You brought up the ex Pfizer vp, who said that, with zero supporting evidence. He also did a 180, from saying the virus wouldn't end until herd immunity was achieved, naturally or artificially through vaccination, to saying the virus would quickly fizzle out and not kill more than 40k Britons. He also turned into an anti-masker. Your "expert" is a nutbar. Oh good, so where's the actual evidence?
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  13122. Because he didn't say anything of substance, didn't present any policies, all he has is his appearance.
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  13123. No such thing as free speech on someone else's private property.
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  13124.  @Chicken_Little_Syndrome  I call people who, objectively, prove themselves to be morons, "moron". A cruise ship even provided us with a control group, proving about a 1% mortality rate, moron. That's 10x the mortality rate of the flu, moron. If you did nothing, and just let it spread like the flu, it could kill hundreds of thousands of people, in the US alone ... millions worldwide ... moron.
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  13125.  @3kojimbles895  How does paying Chinese workers in sweatshops under $2 an hour increase the number of people who can afford your $1000 iPhone? It decreases the potential number of people who can afford your phone by however many employees you have. And they also can't afford to buy another company's new car, they can't afford to buy another company's new house, etc., etc., etc. And then all those companies do the same thing. They don't move an automobile factory to Mexico to reduce the price of the vehicle, to make it more affordable to more people. They do it to increase the profit margin, and pay their workers $10/hr less. In the countries they actually plan on making the most sales, they aren't providing jobs, relying on others to do that for them. With more and more companies doing the same thing, there's fewer other companies to rely on to provide the good paying jobs, so people can keep buying your stuff.
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  13126.  @3kojimbles895  Yeah, shifted to people who aren't paid as much, so can't afford to buy as much stuff ... shifted to robots that don't buy any stuff. The median income in Detroit grew from the 60s to the mid 90s. Then it basically flatlined, even went backwards for some demographics. Meanwhile, prices of things continue to rise. In what reality can they collectively, as a market, buy as much stuff, with the same or less money, for higher prices?
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  13127.  @3kojimbles895  What assumption? You can see companies not marking things down. Instead they sell you less for the same amount, or do whatever the hell they can to cut costs, to increase their profit margins. Why wouldn't they simply raise the price enough to generate the same profit margin, if people can easily afford to buy what they're selling? Tons of people only have cell phones, today, and don't even have landlines. A phone really isn't a luxury.
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  13128.  @3kojimbles895  Why? Because people, including their sweatshop workers, can't afford theirs, right?
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  13129.  @3kojimbles895  You know the difference between giving a brand as an example vs arguing it's the only brand, right?
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  13130.  @3kojimbles895  Because they don't make you money. If cheaper, lower quality, products have become "competition", isn't it because people, including your own sweatshop workers, can't afford your product?
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  13131.  @3kojimbles895  If corporations were getting the entire market share they want, giving them all the profits they want, then why would they attempt to cut costs, by paying employees less, automating, selling less for the same price, etc.? We wouldn't even be having this conversation, if corporations that are doing that were selling as much of their product as they wanted.
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  13132.  @3kojimbles895  Who's arguing to sell at a loss? I don't think you've taken even basic English. You're relying on others to pay people enough to buy your stuff, if you, yourself, aren't paying people enough to buy your stuff. You haven't actually said anything that contradicts that. If every business in your target sales area followed suit, and automated as much as possible, or paid all their workers only a few dollars an hour, who is going to buy your stuff?
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  13133. She pled guilty because she's guilty, and has zero evidence of the election being stolen.
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  13134.  @britishrocklovingyank3491  Who do you consider "left", with power?
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  13135.  @britishrocklovingyank3491  How can you complain about the left ignoring its power, if there's no left with power?
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  13136.  @britishrocklovingyank3491  Progressives have bills introduced to both block the latest military aid to Israel, and to put conditions on any and all military aid to Israel. They haven't forgotten the US's position of power. What is it you expect them to do to suddenly become the majority of congress?
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  13137.  @britishrocklovingyank3491  How the hell does any of that get you in a position to be able to wield the US' power? You both encouraged publicity and criticized publicity.
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  13138.  @britishrocklovingyank3491  You put down social media use, which is publicity. Social media use that was just used to help add a few more progressives to congress, and remove a few more corporate Dems. Social media use that was used widely to try and get Bernie elected. They seem to be doing things you're claiming they aren't doing.
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  13139.  @britishrocklovingyank3491  Like door to door campaigns which Bernie was also doing? Like publicized rallies which Bernie was also doing? Like MSM debates and commercials which Bernie was also doing?
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  13140.  @britishrocklovingyank3491  And plenty of right wingers seek out their social media to argue, and have tons of counter arguments thrown back at them.
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  13141.  @britishrocklovingyank3491  Well, I give up. I have no clue what you expect the left to do, that they haven't been doing, or whose minds you expect them to change, if not the right.
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  13142.  @britishrocklovingyank3491  I said "right", not specifically Trumpists. That could include anyone voting for corporate Dems, to moderate Republicans, to independents that lean in one of those two directions, to Libertarians, to the outright fascists. The younger voters, who vote the least, have been specifically targeted by progressives, to try and get them out, a ton. Independents have been specifically targeted, before, as well. M4A is consistently gaining support. More pro-M4A candidates were just added to congress. It was barely even being talked about, in mainstream conversation, pre 2016.
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  13143.  @britishrocklovingyank3491  Well, technically, I think Bernie and progressives are centrists, in the real world, which does make anyone right of them, centre-right, right, or far right. I don't think there's an actual left in US politics. Denmark is a centrist country. Who is proposing anything that would move the US to the left of Denmark? You think there's some massive non political faction, other than young people? Have you run across many people claiming to be independents? A lot of them are very political.
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  13144. ​ @stanr8946  The ex-PM of Israel told Christiane Amanpour that they knew the bunkers were there, because they were the ones who built them, dimwit.
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  13145. There's some other Praxis Political page ... coming soon. Does have a contact. https://www.praxispolitical.com/
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  13146. ​ @mcford69  1) Unlimited free speech isn't a thing. Never has been. You were planning to harass children online were you, and had that "freedom" taken away? 2) Those "truckers" (over 95% of Canadian truckers were working) blockaded the country's points of entry (an act of war, if another country did it), and were protesting to have Canadians lose their lives at the same rate as the US (2.5x higher rate per 100k, which translates into 500k needless American lives lost). I think they got off light. How did affect the freedoms of 99.99999% of Canadians? 3) Canada ranks higher in press freedom than the US. It also ranks higher in most freedom indexes. Becoming part of the US, would make things worse. PP can't be trusted to oppose DT.
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  13147. An editor telling you to edit, or do further investigation, or even if they scrap your story, that's not "censorship". A news agency picks and chooses stories to print, and not print, all the time. Nobody considers it censorship, if nobody else covers the NY Post's numerous Bigfoot and UFO stories. Censorship would be if authorities made them edit, or scrap, a story.
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  13148. Unfortunately, you can't even pay for a cure for stupid, so you're forever out of luck.
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  13149.  Luis Alejandro  Success gained from educated and healthy employees, roads that transport trucks use 3x more than the average car, military protected shipping lanes, etc., etc., etc. Corporations and the super rich are "succeeding" on the backs of everyone else.
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  13150.  Luis Alejandro  A fan of corporate welfare, are ya?
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  13151.  Luis Alejandro  Moron. If Apple ships a million iPhones from China, through protected shipping lanes, and a million individuals buy those phones, they have benefited from that protection a million times more than each of those individuals. If Amazon sends a million units of goods via delivery trucks, to a million individuals, then they benefited from the road a million times more. If they're dodging paying for it, that's welfare.
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  13152.  @siedlape1  You know what "rate" means, right? American police kill over 3x as many people, per capita, than the nearest developed countries, Canada and Australia. They kill about 30x more people, per capita, than Germany, 60x more people than the UK, 150x more than Japan, and an immeasurable times more (because their rate is statistically zero) than Norway. Some of those countries don't even arm standard cops, with guns, and yet they still manage to take down knife wielders, and such. That you think not listening to a cop deserves a death sentence, is psychotic.
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  13153.  @siedlape1  American citizens are killing each other at 5x the rate of Japan, but American cops are killing citizens at 150x the rate of Japanese cops. They're like the worst gang on the streets.
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  13154. I think he's talking of a postive rejection...to repudiate (To reject emphatically as unfounded, untrue, or unjust). Which is in line with the definition of Athe-ism (strong Atheism), also what I think he was talking about. Stating he's no Athe-ist, The-ist, just Agnostic. I agree with his definitions.
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  13155.  @aalvarez2914  Rofl. Get a grip on reality. Conservative religious types have been cancelling things and people for centuries, all over the world, and still are, while preaching their god's love for people. There's still a government agency, the FCC, dedicated to protecting conservatives' delicate sensibilities from naughty words and nipples.
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  13156.  @ThePoliticalBulldog  Have you researched Ze'ev Jabotinsky, who wrote The Iron Wall in 1923? Because there's a direct line from him to Irgun and Lehi terrorists, to Likud, and its promise to completely colonize and ethnically cleanse all Palestine territories.
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  13157. ​ @NRobbi42  They can, at least, make it to the house, in the Dem party (Omar). Putting aside Palestine, Kamala co-signed the senate version of HR40, and stated just last month she supports reparations, and she's vying for the presidency. Where's a Republican version of either of those? Republicans focused their 2020 denialism on predominantly black districts, to steal black voices, still trying to do Jm Crw.
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  13158. ​ @NRobbi42  Well, Omar made it to the house. If you put aside Palestine, Kamala (who co-signed the senate version of HR40 and just last month said she supported reparations) is a presidential candidate. What's the Republican equivalent, if they're samesies?
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  13159.  @geoffp7290  I don't care if you're on board. When does it kick in?
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  13160.  @spaceman6821  Conservative religious types have been cancelling things and people, and ruining lives, for centuries. Branding people, so they'd be shunned for life, for behaving improperly. Executing people for not believing in a god. Banning women's ankles, then knees, then thighs, women in pants, ... and there's still an FCC protecting their delicate sensibilities from naughty words and nipples. So, piss off with the bullshit that this is something new, and only done by the left.
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  13161.  @geekylove3603  Jimmy is just anti-US government, which makes him wrong anytime the US gets something right, like Ukraine. Russia is the equivalent to Zionists, in that conflict. They're the invaders, trying to reclaim past colonialism, ethnic cleansing, and genocide, done as the Empire and USSR. They're the ones that started f*cking around in former SSR countries, almost immediately, in 1991, and haven't stopped. He's an idiot.
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  13162. She just used her massive platform and PAC to help get more pro-M4A progressives elected to congress, going against DCCC backed corporate Dems. Adding enough yes votes to congress is the very thing you need to do to ever pass a bill, it's the very thing you'd still need to do after a failed vote. Pretending she's not fighting turns Jimmy's own "plan" into have a failed vote and then not fight.
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  13163. ​ @jamiejohn1382  Do you think there should be a ban of pulling the plug on brain dead people (and force the family to pay for their ongoing life support, of course)?
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  13164.  @jamiejohn1382  So, ban plug pulling, unless the family produces written consent. Got it. No reach. A sperm is a living organism, with a unique DNA, and the potential to become an actual living baby. Maybe we should ban all sex acts, except for masturbating into test tubes. Then we can have forced stem cell harvesting, to create enough synthetic eggs. The trillions of sperm babies dying every year can be saved!
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  13165.  @jamiejohn1382  So, ban plug pulling, unless the family produces written consent. Got it. No reach. A sperm is a living organism, with a unique DNA, and the potential to become an actual living baby. Maybe we should ban all s-x acts, except for m-sturbating into test tubes. Then we can have forced stem cell harvesting, to create enough synthetic eggs. The trillions of sperm babies dy-ng every year can be saved!
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  13166.  @jamiejohn1382  So, ban plug pulling, unless the family produces written consent. Got it.
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  13167.  @jamiejohn1382   No reach. Even a sperm is a living organism, with a unique DNA, and the potential to become an actual living baby. Maybe we should ban all sex acts, except for masturbating into test tubes. Then we can have forced stem cell harvesting, to create enough synthetic eggs. The trillions of sperm babies dying every year can be saved!
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  13168.  @jamiejohn1382  YouTube keeps hiding the other part of my reply. Done trying. In short ... no reach.
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  13169. They're still up, because there's nothing to hide. No AI.
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  13170.  @Treetopflyer777  Did you delete comments?
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  13171.  TheGreatCornholio  The person I tagged, and was replying to?
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  13172.  TheGreatCornholio  No worries :)
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  13173.  @brandon3494  Oh, then Israel is ready to give right of return to refugees, and Zionist Israelis are ready to happily accept becoming a minority?
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  13174.  @brandon3494  Geez. Not, literally, the exact same dollar going back. If someone pays off part of your military budget, then you don't have to, and can redirect the money you would have had to spend on the military towards something else, like lobbying.
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  13175.  @brandon3494  Ugh. You didn't comprehend. I have a budget. Say 10% of my budget is for the military. Without aid, I'll have to pay for that. If someone comes along and pays half of my military budget, then I don't have to pay for it, and can redirect my own money elsewhere. Comprehend?
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  13176.  @brandon3494  Lol, you're showing yourself to be the racist, here. There has been a land called Palestine, and people called Palestinians, for thousands of years.
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  13177.  @brandon3494  Lebanon? Turkey? Israel disenfranchises millions of refugees, they don't allow to return. Saving money on the military, they can instead put it into online propaganda, agents abroad, and lobby groups. https://www.sant.ox.ac.uk/events/tbc-1 a
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  13178.  @brandon3494  1.5 million is a third of total registered Palestinian refugees, making you the lying twatwaffle. Can you do math? 3 x 1.5m = ? https://www.unrwa.org/palestine-refugees
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  13179.  @brandon3494  How about, next time, you don't whataboutism and strawman me, you dishonest twit. They should have the right of return, as well.
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  13180.  @brandon3494  Trinidad and Tobago have a population of about 1.5m, now, and had a population of about 700k in 1960. How does it happen? Do you need a human anatomy, and birds and the bees, lesson?
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  13181.  @brandon3494  Clear whataboutism, dumb dumb. Any other refugees anywhere, should also have the right of return. You're just deviating from the refugees that should have a right to return to Israeli lands. What do you consider to be the biggest missed opportunity? What was an absolutely fantastic peace offer?
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  13182.  @buildinit6523  How the fuck do you move your birth zip code, dumbass?
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  13183. AOC just used her platform and PAC to help get more pro-M4A progressives elected to congress, going against DCCC backed corporate Dems. It makes no sense to claim that's doing nothing, when that's still what you'll need to do after a failed vote. That would mean Jimmy's plan is to have a vote and then "do nothing".
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  13184. The minimum wage, high union wage, paid parental leave, more paid vacations, etc., is important because that's how other developed countries get corporations to pay in ... and then they tax their better paid, higher standard of living, consumers with a VAT. A VAT, alone, doesn't make corporations like Amazon pay taxes, as Yang falsely claims. It's built into VAT systems that businesses get their input VAT credited back to them. Yang's approach will only make Amazon richer. By not actually taxing them, and since their share of US consumer spending is 2%, handing consumers $3t would make Amazon an extra $60b a year. That would make Bezos about $6b extra a year. He'd have to personally blow through over $60b on goods and services with a VAT to pay in more than he'd make from Yang. The irony being that that would allow them to invest more in automating faster, on top of the irony that Yang could automate away thousands of social worker jobs with an automated monthly deposit for all.
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  13185.  @mikejohnson9606  You're already paying twice as much per capita than other developed countries. You're just scared of the word "tax" but not scared of the words "premium", "deductable", or "copay", even though the later are costing you more. Medicare is cheaper overall.
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  13186.  @mikejohnson9606  I say they got benefits instead of higher wages and are already paying for it. Workers should get their healthcare benefit equivalent in wages, if Medicare for all is implemented.
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  13187.  @mikejohnson9606  You're either uninformed, misinformed, or lying. "A fair transition to Medicare for All: Bernie will require that resulting healthcare savings from union-negotiated plans result in wage increases and additional benefits for workers during the transition to Medicare for All. When Medicare for All is signed into law, companies with union negotiated health care plans would be required to enter into new contract negotiations overseen by the National Labor Relations Board. Under this plan, all company savings that result from reduced health care contributions from Medicare for All will accrue equitably to workers in the form of increased wages or other benefits. Furthermore, the plan will ensure that union-sponsored clinics and other providers are integrated within the Medicare for All system, and kept available for members. Unions will still be able to negotiate for and provide wrap-around services and other coverage not duplicative of the benefits established under Medicare for All." https://berniesanders.com/en/issues/workplace-democracy/
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  13188.  @patrec7638  The US spent hundreds of millions creating the Taliban, in the first place.
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  13189. If social media is hypocritical, haven't they been largely hypocritical in favor of the US, for not banning a lot of politicians who have supported regime changes in numerous countries? They only didn't like the idea of the US itself becoming a dictatorship, and didn't like the idea of an all out war with N Korea, which would lead to massive death and destruction in the Korean Peninsula, and possibly start a world war with China.
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  13190. ​ @AOLAmericaOnline  You know that, on top of a colonialist foundation, terrorism, by groups like the Irgun and Lehi, was the next building block in forming Israel, yeah? They bombed Palestinian markets, killing plenty of civilians, including children, and even Palestinian Jews (who didn't support Zionism). Israel merged those terrorist groups into their new nation's military and intelligence agencies. Israelis elected Menachem Begin, leader of the Irgun, who also bombed the King David Hotel. Israelis, to this day, celebrate those terrorists as "heroes". They literally taught their neighbours that terrorism is a valid path to independence and statehood. But, when used against them, they cry foul.
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  13191. He has made America a laughing stock.
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  13192. Atheos is the root word.
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  13193.  @peterwilliamson8721  Weird how she fits in with collecting cheques from Peter Thiel funded Rumble.
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  13194.  @peterwilliamson8721  Lol. And, all you did was spew flattering remarks, without providing supporting examples, just like a politician. Why are you demanding examples from those who dislike her, when you provided zero, yourself? Honest? So, you think her praising Bernie, in 2016, was completely genuine, and had absolutely nothing to do with simply trying to fend off a more progressive challenger? Where did her progressiveness disappear to, if it was completely genuine?
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  13195. Hell, they label Biden a "communist".
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  13196. 👍
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  13197. Twitter can't shit down anyone's "free speech". There's no such thing as "free speech" on someone else's private property. Public ownership is how you get "free speech".
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  13198. Even more nuts, considering it was the White House that didn't send out pictures for almost 2 years. https://news.yahoo.com/trump-wont-hang-portrait-embassy-ukraine-yovanovitch-184613339.html
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  13199. Do you think he's informed about Hitler sterilizing black Germans?
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  13200.  @mickelcsaszar3244  God was running the countries he then claimed were "evil" and ordered genocided?
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  13201.  @mickelcsaszar3244  The OT god is not much different than a sky Hitler.
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  13202.  @mickelcsaszar3244  The book says he literally did just that, to Egypt, dumb dumb. Have you even read the book?
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  13203.  @deez3913  I asked if you would be fine with it, Dumb F*ck. Would you? Why should hostile work, or school, environments, be a thing? So, "Don't say gay" bills, banning books, and the like, by state governments, is definitely an infringement, yes?
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  13204.  @HenriFaust  Then stop talking about gender language. Talk sex. You should be ashamed, making out like they're the same.
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  13205.  @deez3913  I've been both an employee and an employer. Why should I be allowed to call you Dumb F*ck? Simply saying, "Freedumb!", is lame. Every law in existence stops you from being "free" to do something. Are you opposed to all laws? Singling someone out, to call them what they don't want to be called, is literally "discrimination".
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  13206.  @HenriFaust  Look up the etymology of "woman". Every single female isn't a wiffman. Every male married to a male is. "Woman" isn't scientific wording, dumb dumb.
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  13207. Who? https://amp.scmp.com/news/world/united-states-canada/article/2135590/donald-trump-praises-china-president-xi-extending
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  13208. The US isn't?
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  13209.  @hamletrp  Didn't really answer my question. Doesn't the US terrorize and destabilize countries around the world?
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  13210. New one ... "We cannot get re-elect, we cannot win this re-election, excuse me. We can only re-elect Donald Trump." ~ Joe Obiden Bama
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  13211.  @donnapug  Yeah, the Ford brothers are/were gorgeous. Be honest ... there are at least enough aholes in Toronto to make those Trump lights into political figures.
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  13212. Ignoring whether it's safe, or not, nuclear has about the same carbon footprint as wind, but then also has nuclear waste to deal with. If hydro is done well, it can even be carbon negative. Problem being many aren't done well.
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  13213. If Pelosi told her to campaign for Nina, Bernie, and back 20 other progressives with her platform and PAC, helping to add a few more progressives to congress, then maybe Pelosi isn't so bad. Or, maybe you're clueless.
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  13214.  @francolegacyspanishmiracle4798  Her, and other progressives, submitted a bill to protect Americans from anti-BDS laws, and a bill to put stricter conditions and add transparency on the annual military aid to Israel. Oh no, an airport?!!!
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  13215. We're talking the world is flat, lock up scientists, Spanish Inquisition times. Do you believe the majority, at the time, and the Christians who came up with the term, and labelled people Atheists, practiced those things?
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  13216. ​ @marca7542  ​Israel is objectively the aggressor, by every relevant measure ... Modern history: 100 years ago, in 1923, Ze'ev Jabotinsky fully acknowledged that Zionism is colonialism, and that, based on the entirety of history, the natives would fight it until the bitter end. He just didn't care what would happen to them, and promoted doing it anyway. Colonizers are never not the aggressors. On top of the colonialist nature of Zionism, the Zionists also formed terrorist organizations, like the Irgun and Lehi. They bombed many Palestinian markets and other public places, murdering many civilians, including children, even including Palestinian Jews (who opposed Zionism). Israel merged those terrorists into the new nation's military and intelligence agencies. Israelis elected Menachem Begin, leader of the Irgun, child murderer, Jew murderer, and bomber of the King David Hotel, as PM. Israelis, to this day, celebrate those terrorists as "heroes". Zionists literally taught their neighbours that terrorism is a valid path to independence and statehood, and that terrorists are to be celebrated. In 1945, it is well documented that Zionists owned just 5% of the land and were a majority nowhere. Israel was formed by actually going against the majority population. It's foundation is completely undemocratic. Then, becoming a majority, in "their" new nation, by ethnic cleansing the actual majority, and then claiming to be democratic, is utter nonsense. Law: Israel is considered an occupier by the International Court, the UN GA, and the UN SC. Occupiers are also never not the aggressors. Those occupied actually have a right to resist occupation. On the flip side, it is illegal for the occupier to settle occupied lands, and illegal to use collective punishment. Israel is a rogue nation, that doesn't abide by international law. What it has been doing, and is doing now, is illegal. Current events: This year, alone, prior to Oct 7 ... Israel held over 1200 Palestinian hostages without charges ... over 200 Palestinians had been killed by the IDF and settlers ... over 1000 Palestinians had been displaced by Israel's neverending colonization of the West Bank ... and, Israel continued to operate an open air WWII style fascist ghetto, in Gaza. Even ignoring modern history and law, in no reality did Hamas "start" anything.
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  13217. He clearly isn't informed enough about Hitler, and the sterilization of black Germans, but still opens his trap.
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  13218. She used her platform and PAC to back 20 other pro-M4A progressives, helped add a few more M4A yes votes to congress, and helped remove a few more corporate Dems from office. That's accomplishing more than a guaranteed to fail vote accomplishes. Adding more yes votes to congress is the very thing you need to do to ever pass a bill. It's the very thing you'd still need to do after a failed vote. FTVers have proved they would have done nothing with a list of no voters, anyway. The $15 got a vote and all they do is just keep bitching about those who voted for it. They aren't going after the no voters.
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  13219.  @mycatsaliberal3848  That doesn't debunk what I said. Making limited edition Grogu coins your national currency, doesn't change what they are. Those countries have zero control over the value of them, which depends solely upon what buyers consider the value. Could be worth nothing, tomorrow.
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  13220.  @mycatsaliberal3848  I guess. Want to buy some paint splattered on a canvas, as well? Could be worth millions, one day. Sure, a man can get pregnant. Males can't. Do you take financial advice from people who believe in fairy tales?
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  13221.  @mycatsaliberal3848  Clearly. My deck is full. Yours, however...
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  13222.  @Thezuule1  Roger that.
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  13223. ​ @bobthekobb  Who are you talking bout? Bibi was warned by Egypt and, instead of beefing up security at the Gaza border, moved troops to the West Bank, for his pet colonialism project. That's not caring about your people. Constantly throwing settlers out into native territory isn't caring about your people. Israel has over 400k militants (reservists), valid military targets, hiding amongst their civilians, using them as human shields. That's not caring about your people. Constantly harassing and oppressing the native population, until they finally crack, and attack your people, isn't caring about your people.
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  13224. "unless he can produce evidence which logically justifies that certainty" How do you produce evidence to logically justify an objective truth without being objective? That makes no sense.
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  13225.  @freepalestine2434  They voted against the anti-bds bill, and put forward their own right to boycott bill. They've also put forward bills to put conditions on aid to Israel, and they were the first to try and block rearming Israel, just recently. The fact that they can't get the majority on board seems to indicate they're different.
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  13226. You're a proven cultist who can't accept 29 countries saying that businesses get to recoup their input VAT, and it being a tax on the final consumer. Here's 30 ... "When calculating their GST liability, the entities will offset the tax paid on their inputs (such as purchases of raw materials and machinery). This offset is referred to as an input tax credit. In this way, tax will be collected only on the value added by each business in the production and distribution chain, with the tax being ultimately paid by the final consumer." https://treasury.gov.au/publication/the-report-of-the-tax-consultative-committee/chapter-3-the-gst
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  13227.  @SR-lh4rm  31 ... "The difference between the amounts of output tax attributable to a tax period, and the deductible input tax not previously claimed by a vendor, represents the tax payable to or refundable by SARS. To the extent that the output tax exceeds the allowable input tax deductions, a VAT payment will be due to SARS. Where a vendor's permissible input tax deductions, exceeds the amount of output tax for a tax period, a VAT refund may be claimed from SARS." https://www.saica.co.za/integritax/2012/2119._Basic_concepts.htm
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  13228. Wouldn't that be admitting the stock market thinks Bernie will beat Trump?
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  13229.  @stephanielewis5595  What's that got to do with the US being liable? I'm Canadian. Can't wait to sue your pants off.
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  13230.  @justinbeauchamp4365  Yeah, Deutsche Bank forgave a $200m loan, or something like that, which Trump should have, but didn't, declare as income. That would more than cancel out those write offs, plus add more owed. Pretty sure he's screwed, but just dragging out the process.
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  13231.  @BulliezInc  Well, she did add an amendment that has covered over a billion dollars worth of covid death funeral costs. The anti-vax morons should be thanking her, as they die off at over 3x the rate.
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  13232.  @hassanakabrownfabiopiker4914  Like the Republican ex-marine, who barricaded his door, pulled his sword off the wall, and planned exit strategies? You don't do any of those things, unless you're scared for your life.
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  13233.  @hassanakabrownfabiopiker4914  Mike Gallagher wrote an article about it. It starts ... "The Marine Corps makes you buy the sword. That always bothered me. Eight hundred dollars for a fancy-looking but dull blade that I only used once for a sword arch at a buddy’s wedding. But, on Jan. 6, 2021, as I took my sword from its display case on the wall of my congressional office, it seemed like the most practical weapon with which I could defend myself, if it came to that." There was also Bruce Westerman, hiding in McCarthy's bathroom ... "Rep. Bruce Westerman (R-Ark.) told The New York Times in an interview published Monday that he was with House Minority Leader Kevin McCarthy (Calif.) in the GOP leader's office after the riot began. The lawmakers had reportedly gone to McCarthy's office after the House chamber was evacuated. However, Westerman said he was left in McCarthy's inner work area after the GOP leader's security team took McCarthy to a more secure location. Westerman said he took a Civil War-era sword that was on display in the office and barricaded himself inside McCarthy's private bathroom, crouching on the toilet and waiting for the riot to be over, the Times reported."
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  13234.  @hassanakabrownfabiopiker4914  His office is in the Longworth building. The building considered safest. The Cannon building, that AOC's office is in, was evacuated, and everyone taken to Longworth. So, if you're going to keep going on about her being afraid, for years to come, in a building that even security decided should be evacuated, then don't forget to call out the Republicans, including an ex marine, who were scared inside a building that security decided was safe enough to evacuate everyone to.
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  13235.  @hassanakabrownfabiopiker4914  Who the f*ck barricades their door, and gets a weapon, if they're not scared?
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  13236.  @BulliezInc  It's just an example, that contradicts the "nothing" claim. She has also used her platform and PAC to back 20 other pro-M4A progressives, and helped to add a few more to congress. Adding enough yes votes to congress is the only possible way to ever pass a bill, because math. What is it you expect with the current congressional math?
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  13237.  @BulliezInc  Like I said, math. There are zero extra votes to the left of progessives. It is absolutely impossible to pass a bill without Manchin. On the flip side, there is the entire Republican party, to try and draw votes from, to the right of Manchin. It is entirely possible to pass a bill, without AOC, or even the entire squad, if you bring enough Republicans on board. In a standoff, a bill would likely be pushed right, not left, to try and get Republicans on board. If you think they have remotely the same amount of leverage, then you're dumber than a stump.
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  13238.  @BulliezInc  She, and 5 others, voted against the infrastructure bill. It didn't matter, because enough Republicans voted for it. Plenty of progressives vote against the annual defense appropriation bill, but it keeps passing, because almost all Republicans vote for it. Who's the "they", that have "plenty of leverage", on which bills?
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  13239.  @BulliezInc  Also, the parliamentarians send most bills through committees, where 90% of bills die. How do "they" not only get a committee to take up a bill (M4A is currently sitting in multiple committees) and debate it, but also get them to pass it, so it then gets a floor vote?
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  13240.  @leahs.1480  How is being quarantined, a millennias old, and effective, response to contagious illnesses, "abuse", exactly?
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  13241. ​ @JB-js4ir  It is, dumb dumb, because whether it's easily provided by healthcare professionals, or not, people will still try abortions. "Each year, 4.7–13.2% of maternal deaths can be attributed to unsafe abortion (3). In developed regions, it is estimated that 30 women die for every 100 000 unsafe abortions. In developing regions, that number rises to 220 deaths per 100 000 unsafe abortions (2). Estimates from 2012 indicate that in developing countries alone, 7 million women per year were treated in hospital facilities for complications of unsafe abortion (4)."
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  13242. ​ @Banana_Split_Cream_Buns Lol, COVID had Dore criticizing socialized healthcare, and promoting for profit "alternatives" (that didn't work). He sided with the fascist Drive to Ottawa (March on Rome). He promoted allying with psycho ancappers, who will just turn around and shoot you, once you help them bring down the government. Dore is a grifter and a loon.
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  13243. ​ user-tl3ru1lk9e  Irrelevant, MAGA moron. The topic is Trump's ego.
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  13244.  @howardmctroy3303  You picked NYC to gripe about? St Louis has a violent crime rate 4x that of NYC, 2x that of Chicago, and their poverty rate is double that of NYC. If NYC is "unlivable", what does that make St Louis? You didn't answer why you don't measure at the state level. Also, fun fact: colonial Americans protested, rioted, destroyed private property, etc., all because they didn't want to pay an extra tax to fund the police/military protecting them. They got extra pissed when the police/military, "fearing for their lives", shot and killed violent protesters. Are you sure being anti-authoritarian is strictly a "left wing" policy?
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  13245.  @howardmctroy3303  So, what "left wing policies" made St Louis so bad? I mean, it's in a red state. Missouri has easy access to guns, like any good red state should, so people in St Louis should be able to defend themselves, scare off criminals, and lower the crime rate, right? Easy access to guns obviously has nothing to do with Missouri having the 4th highest firearm mortality rate of any state, or the 4th highest homicide rate of any state. There must be some "left wing policies" causing those things. Either those colonialists were left wingers and the US was founded by left wingers, by your argument that anti-authoritarian = left wing, or your argument is wrong, and being anti-authoritarian isn't necessarily a right or left wing policy. Can you clarify which it is, without deflecting?
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  13246.  @howardmctroy3303  Yeah, no, today's American conservatives are closer to fascists. So, we now agree you were spouting bullshit before, claiming being anti-authoritarian is a "left wing policy"? Being anti-authoritarian is a different axis, and can be left or right. You're just an authoritarian right winger, apparently. Didn't answer my question, again. What "left wing policies" ruined St Louis? St Louis must be one of the most "left wing" cities in America, to be that bad. There must be tons of policies you can cite. Amazing, how weak red states are, that they can be totally ruined by a pocket of blue. Why don't their weakling governors send in the national guard? Is that also the problem with Mississippi (#1 homicide, #1 firearm mortality)? Louisiana (#2 homicide, #5 firearm mortality), Alabama (#3 homicide, #2 firearm mortality)? Etc. Etc.
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  13247. Because it's so unbelievably stupid. Almost every president has overseen record high stock markets, at the time of their presidencies, since the beginning of the stock market. Maybe mention growth now and then, but the "record high" nonsense is completely moronic.
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  13248. By every measure, Israel is objectively the aggressor ... Modern history: 100 years ago, in 1923, Ze'ev Jabotinsky fully acknowledged that Zionism is colonialism, and that, based on the entirety of history, the natives would fight it until the bitter end. He just didn't care what would happen to them, and promoted doing it anyway. Colonizers are never not the aggressors. On top of the colonialist nature of Zionism, the Zionists also formed terrorist organizations, like the Irgun and Lehi. They bombed many Palestinian markets and other public places, murdering many civilians, including children, even including Palestinian Jews (who opposed Zionism). Israel merged those terrorists into the new nation's military and intelligence agencies. Israelis elected Menachem Begin, leader of the Irgun, child murderer, Jew murderer, and bomber of the King David Hotel, as PM. Israelis, to this day, celebrate those terrorists as "heroes". Zionists literally taught their neighbours that terrorism is a valid path to independence and statehood, and that terrorists are to be celebrated. In 1945, it is well documented that Zionists owned just 5% of the land and were a majority nowhere. Israel was formed by actually going against the majority population. It's foundation is completely undemocratic. Then, becoming a majority, in "your" new nation, by ethnic cleansing the actual majority, and then claiming to be democratic, is utter nonsense. Law: Israel is considered an occupier by the International Court, the UN GA, and the UN SC. Occupiers are also never not the aggressors. Those occupied actually have a right to resist occupation. On the flip side, it is illegal for the occupier to settle occupied lands, and illegal to use collective punishment. Israel is a rogue nation, that doesn't abide by international law. What it has been doing, and is doing now, is illegal. Current events: This year, alone, prior to Oct 7 ... Israel held over 1200 Palestinian hostages without charges ... over 200 Palestinians had been killed by the IDF and settlers ... over 1000 Palestinians had been displaced by Israel's neverending colonization of the West Bank ... and, Israel continued to operate an open air WWII style fascist ghetto. Even ignoring modern history and law, in no reality did Hamas "start" anything. Actual Hamas supporter: Netanyahu promoted, and helped fund, Hamas, to weaken the Palestinian Authority, to avoid a potential peace, so he could continue his colonization project. This is very much like the US promoting and funding religious extremists in Afghanistan, and that ending up biting them in the ass. Plus, he was warned by Egypt and, instead of strengthening the Gaza border, he moved Gazan troops to the West Bank, to support his colonization. Almost like he wanted his pet terrorists to actually break through.
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  13249.  @MTx485  All, or part, of the region has been called some variation of Palestine, by the Egyptians (Peleset), Assyrians, Babylonians, Persians, Greeks (Aristotle considered the Dead Sea to be "in Palestine"), Western Romans, Christian pilgrims, Eastern Romans, early Muslims (Filastin), Christian crusaders, Ottomans, British, and even the first Znst conference (wanted to create a home "in Palestine"). You know what the region wasn't called, for the majority of its existence? Isrl.
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  13250. What don't you get? This is a leader of the A-theist redefinition movement, claiming that the common definition of Atheist didn't apply. He's talking a positive rejection, i.e. stating the claim is false, not a passive rejection. If that is not what he meant, there'd be no need for him to write pages and pages on how the definition needed to be changed.
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  13251. Republicans made out like Obama was a communist. Taking ownership of a word, "socialist", and explaining to people what that means, to you, and how it would benefit them, is taking away the ammunition. It de-weaponizes the word.
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  13252.  @thedebatemechannel4746  The "MAIN" use is on animals, not humans. You can buy animal dewormer and heartworm medication over the counter and they're used often. No trials, indicating ivermectin is effective against covid, have passed peer review. Merck doesn't recommend it as a covid remedy. The WHO doesn't recommend it as a covid remedy. The NIH doesn't recommend it as a covid remedy. The EMA doesn't recommend it as a covid remedy. Peru, where it has been highly used, has the highest covid deaths per capita in the world, and has dropped it from their advised treatments. The Indian Health Ministry has dropped it from their advised treatments. Ignoring all the left, right, or whatever, what sense does it make to take a drug that hasn't been shown to be effective in the least?
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  13253.  Gregor Heisenhorn  What are you blathering about?
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  13254. Sorry ... where was the part where she made a campaign promise to paralyze the house, during a pandemic, freezing any new covid relief, new unemployment extensions, new vaccine funding, etc.? Hey, Dore knob, how did Pelosi win with only 216 votes? You claimed winning with anything less than 218 was impossible. Please don't tell me that a political mastermind, with a well thought out plan, that totally depended on how house voting works, didn't actually know how house voting works.
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  13255.  @cg1906  Oh, so you're amazed someone you already know is a Canadian is covering Canadian issues? That's an odd thing to be amazed about.
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  13256.  @cg1906  Oh, so you're used to watching Canadian Youtubers doing their nails, or some shit? I'm pretty sure you can be amazed multiple times over, if you check out the last couple weeks of David's videos.
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  13257. They know. The US was founded on rbllng over representation, after all. They know it's something people will vlntly fght over.
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  13258. Total tests, and even tests per million, are actually irrelevant numbers that are totally detached from the number of covid cases. It's the tests per confirmed case rate that everyone should be looking at. The US was only testing at a rate of 5 people per confirmed case, for months, and has only recently brought that up to over 10 people per confirmed case, which is still a pretty pathetic rate. Countries, like S Korea, New Zealand, Australia, that flattened their curves fast, quickly tested at rates of 50+ people per confirmed case. The US hasn't been testing fast enough to get ahead of the virus spread, finding the people that person has infected, and getting them quarantined, before they spread it to even more people.
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  13259.  @KingSosa365  Rofl. You don't like adding more M4A yes votes to congress, and removing more corporate Dems?
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  13260.  @olliefoxx7165  He actually loosened gun "rights" for Germans. What he did was decrease who counted as a German, just like Republicans want to decrease who counts as American, and is deserving of rights. Republicans are banning books and forcing local school boards to abide by state orders. Republicans tried to completely overthrow the democratic process, to end others' political beliefs. Pre-war economy fascists were leaders in privatization and backed by leading industrialists and large land owners. All governments took more control of production and distribution, during war.
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  13261.  @terrysmith5168  I'm Canadian. We didn't join the "coalition of the willing".
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  13262.  @terrysmith5168  NDP
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  13263.  @David-zw7te  Yep.
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  13264.  @desmondpowell68  Nope.
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  13265. I might be sorry I asked, but ... What are some examples of truths?
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  13266.  @DextInTheWorld  The guy has been endlessly crying about a UN report that had absolutely nothing to do with anyone's decision to bomb Syria. Putting aside the fact that 2 dissenting opinions on a single investigation doesn't actually debunk that single investigation, let alone the dozens of others since 2013 ... the investigation didn't even start until after Syria was bombed, the report didn't assign fault, as per Russia's UN requirements for first round investigations, and the final report didn't come out until almost a year after Syria was bombed. It's a big nothingburger.
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  13267.  @andersenparker2297  1929
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  13268.  @andersenparker2297  It's just a fact that the imbalance you're defending is actually due to a permanent 1929 change. You should be fine with ditching that, if you actually want to go back to how things were calculated 200 years ago.
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  13269.  @andersenparker2297  No clue what the next few years will be like.
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  13270.  @andersenparker2297  Exactly what I said. The way it's set up now is from 1929, not 200 years ago.
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  13271.  @andersenparker2297  Not sure where I lost you. Many people voted Biden not because they loved him, but because they hated Trump more. Both have shit popularity, which means there are a bunch of people saying they disapprove of both. So an election would come down to who those people dislike more than the other.
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  13272.  @andersenparker2297  I didn't say Biden didn't have anyone who likes him. They both have similar popularity ratings. Their approval ratings, combined, don't amount to 100%. There about 20% of the population who dislike both. People also really really hated Trump. They voted for someone they didn't particularly like, to get rid of him. What that 20% does depends on how much more they dislike one, over the other.
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  13273.  @andersenparker2297  I did. Biden's approval rate is currently about the same as Dumpty's. That seems to represent the core supporters, for both. How is hating someone who was asking everyone and anyone to support a coup, to overthrow the democratic process to keep him on as an unelected dictator, a "mental complex"? Pretty sure the "mental complex" is supporting that insanity. Yeah, Biden has proved to be a standard right wing corporate Dem, and not a moderate, or at least not one who actually puts up a fight for moderate policies, instead bending the knee to the most conservative of Dems. But, still, why would that make a voter want to vote for someone even further right, who has already proven to be the most divisive president, who criticizes any Republicans voting bipartisan, and who has already proved to be totally incompetent?
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  13274. Denying there is no such thing as strong Atheists, or Athe-ists, is a cop out. Punch it in google search, punch it in youtube search, there are plenty. Denying reality is not a serious conversation.
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  13275.  @luperamos7307  You seem to have left out a qualifier, "it was recommending vaccination for children age 5 to 11 with preexisting conditions or who are in close contact with vulnerable people". Regarding the rest the kids, the wording "do not advise" kind of implies they are advising not to, which isn't the case, either.
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  13276.  @luperamos7307  In a country with less than 10m kids that age and over 20m people 60+, the "contact with vulnerable people" likely applies to most of the kids.
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  13277.  @luperamos7307  Again, most kids would be recommended to get it, because they likely want to be around their grandparents, and such.
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  13278.  make america great again  Unless you're an ancapper, then you believe you're "entitled" to someone's labour, if that's how you're describing getting paid by the government. A lot of what you're describing sounds like things Nordic countries are doing. You know ... countries amongst the happiest on the planet.
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  13279. He'd likely ride the left train to Scandinavian style centrism, before getting off. That's pretty "left", for an American.
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  13280.  @rafaelschnabel4323  Rofl. The most popular third party hasn't won a single seat in congress in its near 50 year existence. Casting pointless votes benefits the far right most. All for some fantasy that a third party candidate, like Kyrsten Sinema was, will be some perfectly perfect incorruptible left wing puritan?
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  13281.  @rafaelschnabel4323  Rofl. The guy promoted Trump as the better option than Clinton, in 2016, which only benefits Trump. He ran a constant attack ad campaign against Trump's only remaining viable opponent, in 2020, which only benefits Trump. What's left wing about benefiting the far right most? I know what the People's Puritan Party is. It's one of some 50 third parties. It's not anywhere close to being as popular as Green or the Libertarians. It's already lost leadership that decided even it wasn't puritan enough for them. It's a shit show, is what it is.
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  13282.  @jbird3051  Bernie and AOC were just promoting M4A while campaigning to try and add another M4A yes vote to congress, in Nina Turner. Dore turned his back on Nina, turned his back on increasing the yes vote count, and slandered them both as abandoning M4A in the same week they were promoting it. Dore is fighting against those actually trying to make progress, and promoting starting from scratch with zero seats.
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  13283.  @brosedaleog7392  That's bullshit. Some idiots were trying to pass off her plan as similar to Australia's but, unlike Australia, she was telling everyone and anyone that they could opt out, which is simply a public option. Australia has a first level of healthcare tax that nobody can opt out of. Their healthcare fund has a shortfall that is supplemented by the general fund, paid for with taxes nobody can opt out of. Plus, they have a second healthcare tax for higher income earners ... this is the only one that can be opted out of, if they buy private insurance. Not, at all, what she was peddling.
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  13284.  @jbird3051  That's all contradictory gibberish. She was running as a progressive in the democratic party.
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  13285.    You're confusing a couple things, dumb dumb. Crime and poverty are linked together. In the US, Blacks and Hispanics suffer higher rates of poverty, so they disproportionately find alternative ways of making money. Richer people are more likely to have larger amounts of money, nicer cars, nicer phones, nicer tvs, collections of value, etc., and are disproportionately white. Normal crimes don't necessarily indicate racism, just because people with less stuff are commiting crimes against people with more stuff, at a higher rate. Poor people still commit more crimes in predominantly white countries. The gangs in Russia are white. It's not a racial thing. On the other hand, Blacks and Hispanics disproportionately being poor might be a sign of racism. And, racial hate crimes, attacking people solely for racial reasons, are definitely racist. White people are disproportionately in positions of power, affecting the former, and disproportionately commit hate crimes at higher rates.
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  13286. ​ @Frankie9553  That the "russiagate" that led to dozens of indictments? A better comparison would be the multiple fruitless investigations into Trump's political opponent, Clinton ... also done by Republicans.
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  13287. ​ @Bob_Jones123  The crime wasn't simply paying someone off, dingus. It was paying them off illegally, by falsifying records, and such. Clinton did his the legal way.
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  13288. ​ @chuckwagon7354  Nobody argued Floyd shouldn't go to jail, if he committed a crime, or that he should be in public office. They protested against him being mrdrd by a cop. How is that samesies, in MAGAland?
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  13289.  Illhan Omars brother's wife is Illhan Omar  Rofl. Are you pretending there's no "RINO" cancelling going on?
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  13290.  Illhan Omars brother's wife is Illhan Omar  I'm doing your math, for you genius.
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  13291. ​ @dennis3351  There was a massive land and peoples survey done in 1945, dumb dumb. They had purchased all of 5% of the land, and were a majority in zero districts. To become a "Jewish state" would require ethnically cleansing the actual majority out of "their" portion of the partition, and that's what happened.
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  13292.  @jennifercockfield3218  Byron claimed black Americans voted more conservatively under Jim Crow (meanwhile they couldn't vote), and he criticized going down the path of LBJ (Civil Rights Act and Voting Rights Act). He's an ignrmus.
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  13293.  @kd888  Republicans weren't entirely conservative, back then. Wanting to expand rights is progressive. Teddy Roosevelt's Square Deal was fairly progressive, and an improvement for workers, at the time. As was his trust busting, breaking up large companies with monopolies. Republicans took a hard right, after his second term. He literally decided to run against them, with his Progressive Party, because he hated their changes so much. Republicans turned even harder with the first Red Scare, and then drove the economy into the Great Depression. Meanwhile, Dems started turning more towards workers, leading to FDR (who created the Fair Employment Practice Committee). That's around when Northern black Americans, whose population was increasing with The Great Migration, and who were largely becoming industrial workers, also started turning towards Dems.
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  13294.  @kd888  Republicans weren't entirely conservative, back then. Wanting to expand rights is progressive. Teddy Roosevelt's Square Deal was fairly progressive, and an improvement for workers, at the time. As was his anti-trust actions against some large companies with monopolies. Republicans took a hard right, after his second term. He literally decided to run against them, with his Progressive Party, because he disliked their changes so much. Republicans turned even harder with the first Red Scare, and then drove the economy into the Great Depression. Meanwhile, Dems started turning more towards workers, leading to FDR (who created the Fair Employment Practice Committee). That's around when Northern black Americans, whose population was increasing with The Great Migration, and who were largely becoming industrial workers, also started turning towards Dems.
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  13295.  @kd888   Rs weren't entirely conservative, back then. Wanting to expand rights is progressive. Teddy Roosevelt's Square Deal was fairly progressive, and an improvement for workers, at the time. As was his anti-trust actions against some large companies with monopolies. Rs took a right turn, after his second term. He literally decided to run against them, with his Progressive Party, because he wasn't fond of their changes. Rs turned even harder with the first Red Scare, and then drove the economy into the Great Depression. Meanwhile, Ds started turning more towards workers, leading to FDR (who created the Fair Employment Practice Committee). That's around when Northern black Americans, whose population was increasing with The Great Migration, and who were largely becoming industrial workers, also started turning towards Ds.
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  13296.  @jennifercockfield3218  The guy claimed black Americans were voting more conservatively under JC, when they couldn't vote.
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  13297.  @scray00  Oh, do tell me how people were voting any which way, at a time they couldn't vote, under JC. Educate me.
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  13298. The US COVID dth rate is 2.5x higher than neighbor Canada. Canada tended to follow guidelines better, and more were vaccinated. That's equivalent to over 500k preventable US dths. Multiple studies have now shown that MAGA counties, where people didn't follow guidelines as well and were less vaccinated, tended to have the highest US rates. That Zuck now thinks it was wrong, to crack down on misinformation that led to hundreds of thousands of needless dths, is disgusting.
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  13299. Is this the other FOX News report she's referring to? https://youtu.be/PN1mSUE9MF8
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  13300. ​@@CC-yq8nyDeutsche Bank literally reported that Trump overestimated his net worth to $3b, while they pegged him at under $1b, dumb dumb. Where do you think they're getting some of their evidence from?
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  13301.  @orionsghost9511  Non profits try to get popular people to share their message, even act as their spokespeople, for a reason. They've been doing it for decades. But, I'm sure they have no idea what they're doing. Yes, I'm sure the corporate establishment has loved having a number of their top politicians taken out by progressives. The next in line for speaker? Nope, don't want him anymore. The chair for the house foreign affairs committee? Nope, don't want him anymore. Even though the DNC and DCCC spent a ton campaigning to keep those seats, or regain a seat, they really didn't want them. Sounds like some nutjob crap.
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  13302.  @orionsghost9511  Man, you're a complete moron. Her backstory is public knowledge. She has done multiple interviews about it, including about her dad. Money spent doesn't equate to establishment help. She didn't get money from the establishment, or corporations. Not only did she raise money for herself, she raised money and used it to back 20 other progressives. Stop pretending that a guaranteed to fail vote, being about 100 votes short in the house alone, equates to actual M4A. Pelosi even introduced the M4A bill last session, where it died in committees, where 90% of bills die. The speaker, alone, can't even force a bill through committees to the floor. And morons, like Dore and his knobs, don't think committees are that important.
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  13303. ​ @Adam-wi5bh  Like I said ... Israel is objectively the aggressor by every relevant measure... Modern history: 100 years ago, in 1923, Ze'ev Jabotinsky fully acknowledged that Zionism is colonialism, and that, based on the entirety of history, the natives would fight it until the bitter end. He just didn't care what would happen to them, and promoted doing it anyway. Colonizers are never not the aggressors. On top of the colonialist nature of Zionism, the Zionists also formed terrorist organizations, like the Irgun and Lehi. They bombed many Palestinian markets and other public places, murdering many civilians, including children, even including Palestinian Jews (who opposed Zionism). Israel merged those terrorists into the new nation's military and intelligence agencies. Israelis elected Menachem Begin, leader of the Irgun, child murderer, Jew murderer, and bomber of the King David Hotel, as PM. Israelis, to this day, celebrate those terrorists as "heroes". Zionists literally taught their neighbours that terrorism is a valid path to independence and statehood, and that terrorists are to be celebrated. In 1945, it is well documented that Zionists owned just 5% of the land and were a majority nowhere. Israel was formed by actually going against the majority population. It's foundation is completely undemocratic. Then, becoming a majority, in "their" new nation, by ethnic cleansing the actual majority, and then claiming to be democratic, is utter nonsense. Law: Israel is considered an occupier by the International Court, the UN GA, and the UN SC. Occupiers are also never not the aggressors. Those occupied actually have a right to resist occupation. On the flip side, it is illegal for the occupier to settle occupied lands, and illegal to use collective punishment. Israel is a rogue nation, that doesn't abide by international law. What it has been doing, and is doing now, is illegal. Current events: This year, alone, prior to Oct 7 ... Israel held over 1200 Palestinian hostages without charges ... over 200 Palestinians had been killed by the IDF and settlers ... over 1000 Palestinians had been displaced by Israel's neverending colonization of the West Bank ... and, Israel continued to operate an open air WWII style fascist ghetto, in Gaza. Even ignoring modern history and law, in no reality did Hamas "start" anything.
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  13304.  garyallen8824  Rofl, says the complete and utter moron, who makes a completely irrational argument. Palestinians have Canaanite DNA. They're native to Palestine. "Arab" is like "Hispanic". A tiny desert country didn't literally wipe out and replace entire populations, dimwit. They conquered and Arabized the populations that were there. A Palestinian isn't from any of those other places, and shouldn't have to move, just to carve out some colonialist nation for people from Europe and Russia. I laid out the objective facts, about modern history, law, and current events, this year. Refute any of them, if you can.
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  13305.  garyallen8824  Be careful, racist. If you justify killing Palestinian civilians for their leadership, then you justify killing Israeli civilians for their leadership.
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  13306. "O'Biden - Bama" ... stutter?
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  13307. They are "Russian speaking", because the Russian Empire, and the USSR, colonized them. Donbas was particularly hard hit by the Holodomor. The USSR loaded Crimean natives into cattle cars and shipped them across the country. The spaces were refilled by Russians. Now, Israel, on the other hand, who is operating an open air WWII style ghetto ...
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  13308.  @jimcrelm9478  That's not a thing.
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  13309. ​ @JonathanRootD  By every measure, Israel is objectively the aggressor ... Modern history: 100 years ago, in 1923, Ze'ev Jabotinsky fully acknowledged that Zionism is colonialism, and that, based on the entirety of history, the natives would fight it until the bitter end. He just didn't care what would happen to them, and promoted doing it anyway. Colonizers are never not the aggressors. On top of the colonialist nature of Zionism, the Zionists also formed terrorist organizations, like the Irgun and Lehi. They bombed many Palestinian markets and other public places, murdering many civilians, including children, even including Palestinian Jews (who opposed Zionism). Israel merged those terrorists into the new nation's military and intelligence agencies. Israelis elected Menachem Begin, leader of the Irgun, child murderer, Jew murderer, and bomber of the King David Hotel, as PM. Israelis, to this day, celebrate those terrorists as "heroes". Zionists literally taught their neighbours that terrorism is a valid path to independence and statehood, and that terrorists are to be celebrated. In 1945, it is well documented that Zionists owned just 5% of the land and were a majority nowhere. Israel was formed by actually going against the majority population. It's foundation is completely undemocratic. Then, becoming a majority, in "your" new nation, by ethnic cleansing the actual majority, and then claiming to be democratic, is utter nonsense. Law: Israel is considered an occupier by the International Court, the UN GA, and the UN SC. Occupiers are also never not the aggressors. Those occupied actually have a right to resist occupation. On the flip side, it is illegal for the occupier to settle occupied lands, and illegal to use collective punishment. Israel is a rogue nation, that doesn't abide by international law. What it has been doing, and is doing now, is illegal. Current events: This year, alone, prior to Oct 7 ... Israel held over 1200 Palestinian hostages without charges ... over 200 Palestinians had been killed by the IDF and settlers ... over 1000 Palestinians had been displaced by Israel's neverending colonization of the West Bank ... and, Israel continued to operate an open air WWII style fascist ghetto. Even ignoring modern history and law, in no reality did Hamas "start" anything.
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  13310. ​ @damnedseagull6194  I know. Likud's bloody 100 year history ... In 1923, 100 years ago, Ze'ev Jabotinsky wrote, The Iron Wall, and a follow up, The Ethics of The Iron Wall (sooo racist towards Africans), in which he fully acknowledged that post Balfour Zionsim was colonialism, and that, based on the entirety of history, the native Palestinian population would resist being colonized until the bitter end. He directly compared it to the colonization of North America. He promoted doing it anyway, claiming Zionist colonialism was a "just" colonialism (he also thought North American colonialists were good guys, so not a great judge of morality), not caring what that meant for the native population. Ze'ev is important, because his Betar militant youth group helped found the Irgun terrorist group, along with other supporters of his, and the splinter Lehi terrorist group. The Irgun bombed numerous Palestinian markets and other public places, murdering many Palestinian civilians, including children, even including Palestinian Jews (who didn't support colonialist Zionsim). The Irgun are important, because they ended up being led by future Likud PM, Menachem Begin, who bombed the King David Hotel. The King David Hotel was bombed because the British had raided the Jewish Agency and seized numerous documents that may have shown that the terrorists were working with the JA and Haganah (JA liked to pretend that they didn't support the terrorism). The British then stored those documents at their base, in the hotel. That the Irgun terrorists responded to a JA raid, itself seems to prove the connection. That the thousands of Irgun (and Lehi) terrorists were also quickly merged into the new nation's military (IDF) and intelligence (Mossad) agencies, and are still celebrated as "heroes" by Israelis, to this day, also seems to support total collaboration between the groups. That other terrorist group mentioned, Lehi (also known as the Stern Gang), was considered even more extreme. They even tried to ally with the Nazis, against the British. Lehi ended up being led by Yitzhak Shamir, future Mossad agent, and another future Likud PM. They assassinated Lord Moyne, and others. In 1945, there was a major land and peoples survey done in Palestine. It showed that the Zionists only owned about 5% of the total land, 20% of the arable land, and owned a majority in zero districts. The partition was not only going to be forced on the native Palestinian majority, but Jews were still going to be a minority, in the part allocated to them. The only possible way to even become a "Jewish state" was going to require getting rid of the actual majority (at least enough so that there'd be a solid Jewish majority, so they could fake being democratic). This is also shown by the 1948, post Nakba, population of Israel. If there was 716,700 Jews, 156,000+ non-Jews, and approximately 700k non-Jews ethnically cleansed, that means the Jewish population, in the Zionist portion of partition, was originally over 100,000 less than the non-Jewish population. To believe that there was never any intent, by Zionists, to ethnically cleanse away the Palestinian majority would require believing that they never intended to create a "Jewish state". It's a nonsensical notion. Begin, and those terrorist groups, also opposed partition, but for the opposite reason Palestinians did. Palestinians didn't want to be colonized, at all. The terrorists wanted to colonize it all. "Moderate" Zionists were okay with colonizing half ... for now (what would happen in the future, after partition, was up to them, said Ben-Gurion). The Zionist terrorists were also involved in massacres, and assassinations, during the partition violence (colonialist war against the natives). Another notable future Likud PM, also started in the military, during the partition fighting. That was Ariel Sharon, war criminal, "Butcher of Beirut". Menachem Begin, and these other Zionist terrorists, are important because they became involved in Israeli politics, first forming Herut. That was the party that Albert Einstein, and other prominent American Jews, opposed, having a letter printed in the NYT, in December of 1948, when Begin came to visit the US. The letter opened ... "Among the most disturbing political phenomena of our times is the emergence in the newly created state of Israel of the "Freedom Party" (Tnuat Haherut), a political party closely akin in its organization, methods, political philosophy and social appeal to the Nazi and Fascist parties. It was formed out of the membership and following of the former Irgun Zvai Leumi, a terrorist, right-wing, chauvinist organization in Palestine." Herut merged with other extremist parties, over the years, and eventually became Likud, in the 70s. Now, people get upset over the slogan "From the river to the sea!", but it's the second part that's most important, "Palestine will be free!". Because "Palestine" isn't defined as an ethno-state, a free Palestine can be a single state, free for all to live in, and return to, free of continuing colonization, free of occupation, free of oppression, etc. Just like a Germany free of Nazism, an Italy free of fascism, a South Africa free of apartheid, or an America free of slavery from sea to shiny sea. It doesn't necessitate purging all the Jews. It just necessitates them giving up on the idea of an ethno-state. On the other hand, because "Israel" has been defined as an ethno-state, Likud's, "between the sea and the Jordan there will only be Israeli sovereignty", has no possible good interpretation. It is a declaration of intent to completely colonize, and ethnically cleanse, all Palestine territories. Not only that, but it also claims that they have a "right" to all of the "Land of Israel" (biblical borders that don't mesh with archaeological reality), which is an open declaration of future wars, against Jordan, Syria, Lebanon, and possibly even Iraq. Likud platform ... 1977: "The Right of the Jewish People to the Land of Israel (Eretz Israel) a. The right of the Jewish people to the land of Israel is eternal and indisputable and is linked with the right to security and peace; therefore, Judea and Samaria will not be handed to any foreign administration; between the Sea and the Jordan there will only be Israeli sovereignty. b. A plan which relinquishes parts of western Eretz Israel, undermines our right to the country, unavoidably leads to the establishment of a "Palestinian State," jeopardizes the security of the Jewish population, endangers the existence of the State of Israel. and frustrates any prospect of peace." "Settlement Settlement. both urban and rural. in all parts of the Land of Israel is the focal point of the Zionist effort to redeem the country, to maintain vital security areas and serves as a reservoir of strength and inspiration for the renewal of the pioneering spirit. The Likud government will call on the younger generation in Israel and the dispersions to settle and help every group and individual in the task of inhabiting and cultivating the wasteland, while taking care not to dispossess anyone." 1999: "The Government of Israel flatly rejects the establishment of a Palestinian Arab state west of the Jordan river. The Palestinians can run their lives freely in the framework of self-rule, but not as an independent and sovereign state. Thus, for example, in matters of foreign affairs, security, immigration, and ecology, their activity shall be limited in accordance with imperatives of Israel's existence, security and national needs." "The Jewish communities in Judea, Samaria, and Gaza are the realization of Zionist values. Settlement of the land is a clear expression of the unassailable right of the Jewish people to the Land of Israel and constitutes an important asset in the defense of the vital interests of the State of Israel. The Likud will continue to strengthen and develop these communities and will prevent their uprooting." All Palestine territories are officially considered occupied, by the International Court of Justice, the UN GA, the UN SC, and even in official documents of Israel's own allies. Likud is still using the blueprint for colonizing North America, in the West Bank. Move settlements out into native territory, piss off the natives, the natives retaliate, cry about poor "innocent" colonizing settlers being the "victims" of violent "Savages!", call in the cavalry to put down the native uprising, and eventually expand the borders to include those settlements. Rinse and repeat. In Gaza, Israel is operating an open air WWII style fascist ghetto. Them claiming a "right to defend themselves" would be like the Nazis claiming a "right to defend themselves " from the Warsaw ghetto uprising. There's no "war". That they're the occupiers means the "war" part is long over. Those people are actually supposed to be under the occupier's protection. That partition was forced upon the Palestinian majority, against their will ... that the Zionist portion still had to be forcefully ethnically cleansed of its non-Jewish majority, against their will ... that the millions of occupied Palestinians don't have a say in the government that truly rules over them, Israel's ... means Israel is about as democratic as Nazi Germany after Hitler purged his political opponents and then held elections.
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  13311. So weird ... that when there is no evidence of a crime, someone isn't charged, and when there is evidence of a crime, someone is charged. On top of the 60+ times Dumpty's election stolen claims were tossed out ... Every single defamation case, against Trump supporters, has been an opportunity to prove that the election was rigged, and there was no defamation. Instead, zero evidence of election fraud is being presented, and they're either settling, or losing. Every single insurrection case has been an opportunity to prove the election was stolen, and that the insurrectionists were the ones in the right, fighting for democracy. Instead, zero evidence of voter fraud has been presented, and insurrectionists have been tossed in jail. Every single election fraud charge, against Trump and his cronies, is an amazing opportunity to prove the election was stolen, and they were in the right. Instead of rushing, to finally prove his claim, Dumpty is trying to delay, as much as possible. Instead of his cronies providing evidence of widespread voter fraud, they're flipping and/or pleading guilty. How much will it take, for all you dimwits to realize you've been duped by a conman?
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  13312. ​ @AnjaliD-nb7cr  Israel is objectively the aggressor by every relevant measure ... Modern history: 100 years ago, in 1923, Ze'ev Jabotinsky fully acknowledged that Zionism is colonialism, and that, based on the entirety of history, the natives would fight it until the bitter end. He just didn't care what would happen to them, and promoted doing it anyway. Colonizers are never not the aggressors. On top of the colonialist nature of Zionism, the Zionists also formed terrorist organizations, like the Irgun and Lehi. They bombed many Palestinian markets and other public places, murdering many civilians, including children, even including Palestinian Jews (who opposed Zionism). Israel merged those terrorists into the new nation's military and intelligence agencies. Israelis elected Menachem Begin, leader of the Irgun, child murderer, Jew murderer, and bomber of the King David Hotel, as PM. Israelis, to this day, celebrate those terrorists as "heroes". Zionists literally taught their neighbours that terrorism is a valid path to independence and statehood, and that terrorists are to be celebrated. In 1945, it is well documented that Zionists owned just 5% of the land and were a majority nowhere. Israel was formed by actually going against the majority population. It's foundation is completely undemocratic. Then, becoming a majority, in "their" new nation, by ethnic cleansing the actual majority, and then claiming to be democratic, is utter nonsense. Law: Israel is considered an occupier by the International Court, the UN GA, and the UN SC. Occupiers are also never not the aggressors. Those occupied actually have a right to resist occupation. On the flip side, it is illegal for the occupier to settle occupied lands, and illegal to use collective punishment. Israel is a rogue nation, that doesn't abide by international law. What it has been doing, and is doing now, is illegal. Current events: This year, alone, prior to Oct 7 ... Israel held over 1200 Palestinian hostages without charges ... over 200 Palestinians had been killed by the IDF and settlers ... over 1000 Palestinians had been displaced by Israel's neverending colonization of the West Bank ... and, Israel continued to operate an open air WWII style fascist ghetto, in Gaza. Even ignoring modern history and law, in no reality did Hamas "start" anything.
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  13313. ​ @JoeyBFromScranton Rofl! "My billionaire cult leader isn't one of the elite!" ~ Some moron
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  13314. Bernie has raised almost double what Biden has raised, dumb dumb. That would mean less idealistic Biden has even less of a chance.
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  13315.  Raymond flores  You're clueless. Texas and Florida are also in the top 5 for outflows, and California is third for inflow, including hundreds of thousands from the south. There's no "flooding". I'm sure that people moving out of the NE, both west and south, totally has nothing to do with people simply moving to warmer states.
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  13316. @Justin Bradburn Rofl. Red states tend to have higher poverty rates, lower income rates, higher homicide rates, poorer education outcomes, poorer healthcare outcomes, etc.
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  13317. Dumpty lost the presidency after one term. Dubya was popular enough to get reelected for a second term and had to leave due to term limits. Psychopath Sarah Palin helped McCain lose the presidency, and now they've gone crazier.
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  13318. Trump and Republicans support Israel even more, would let Russia do to Ukraine what Israel is doing to Palestine, have horrid domestic policies, plus are less receptive to public pressure (especially from opponents).
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  13319.  StrnFn9099  Ben's god, called "he", "him", and "father", doesn't have a penis. Explain that. Cars and boats, called "she" or "her", don't have vaginas. Explain that. My explanation is that sex and gender aren't the same thing. What's yours?
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  13320.  StrnFn9099  Are you making my argument for me?
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  13321.  @MrChristyCree  What are you even talking about? The trade deficit got worse, under Trump. https://tradingeconomics.com/united-states/balance-of-trade
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  13322.  @MrChristyCree  He may be pro-America, but he's a moron who thinks other countries pay for the tariffs he adds, and has hurt Americans with his trade wars. He has just announced a third round of aid to farmers to offset his trade war bungling. And, on the non farm side of things, Trump has created fewer jobs than Obama, and Trump said Obama sucked, which means Trump must suck worse.
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  13323.  @MrChristyCree  Rofl, nice strawman, moron. How have I been hyperbolic? I stated facts. Trump was the hyperbolic one about how horrible Obama job creation was. It's just a fact he's doing worse than what he claimed was awful.
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  13324.  @nappel6496  Still just a fact, that Trump's economic and job growth numbers are worse than what Trump, himself, portrayed as terrible. So, blame his hyperbolic lying ass, for making himself worse than terrible.
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  13325.  @bnbmike4731  Moron, the video was only posted 2 days ago.
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  13326.  @Packet37  That was 4 months ago.
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  13327.  @KaiCross  How about I explain, that that's long over, and this is happening now, dimwit.
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  13328. I'm pretty sure it's strong atheism. "disbelief", in an old Websters: "Unbelief is a mere failure to admit; disbelief is a positive rejection. One may be an unbeliever in Christianity from ignorance or want of inquiry; a disbeliever has the proofs before him, and incurs the guilt of setting them aside. Unbelief is usually open to conviction; disbelief is already convinced as to the falsity of that which it rejects." Faith Made Easy by James Henry Potts has a good bit on it. pg 524 it's online.
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  13329.  @raymondblackpatriotcarter9299  Trump only banned foreigners, so it was a xenophobic ban, as if Americans couldn't just as easily be infected, and Biden wasn't in charge of anything at the time. He may have done something differently, with a pandemic response team that hadn't been fired under him. How effective was the Trump travel ban? Some countries that didn't ban travel immediately, but took other precautions, turned out better than the US.
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  13330.  @raymondblackpatriotcarter9299  Rofl. Yeah, I'm not spending time reading "evidence" from someone who thinks evolution isn't scientific and runs a sky fairy church.
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  13331.  @christopherdonahue1066  Vietnam showed it was good at stopping the virus, S Korea showed it was good at stopping the virus, Japan showed it was good at stopping the virus, Australia showed it was good at stopping the virus, New Zealand showed it was good at stopping the virus ... and how many countries followed them, and did exactly what they were doing? Are you under the delusion that the US, and others, would have responded better, if only they had known of a better way? All evidence suggests otherwise. Hell, with all the evidence of different countries' response effectiveness, morons were still wanting to be like Sweden (top 25 for covid deaths per capita, 5-10x more deaths per capita than its neighbours), because they wanted to do as little as possible, not as much as possible. By the time the first case was confirmed in the US, and other countries, it had already been confirmed to be a SARS strain, which WHO officials said meant it could be transmitted from human to human. https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC7378494/
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  13332. Yang should be attacked, and shouldn't have his political career supported, but it should still be because he would have had money funneling up to giant corporations and the super rich, faster than ever before, with his VAT/UBI combo. A VAT is specifically designed to NOT tax businesses in order to avoid double taxation (which would be worse, even if it did). Not having giant corporations pay into the UBI means they would only get the benefit of trillions extra being spent. He's either a politician who can be completely backwards ignorant about a major policy he wants to enact, or one who is completely backwards dishonest about it.
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  13333. It's the same thing. The aquisition of, stacking of, endless regression of (if you're going backwards), muliple justified beliefs (knowledge, facts, information), in an attempt to justify some greater belief. If you start at the bottom, as you should when discussing a formative being, as a human devlops with age, the aquisition of justified beliefs, forces a belief, or not, in the greater belief. You can not form a belief, without some prior knowledge, directing you.
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  13334. The broader progressive caucus is 30 years old and is about 10 seats away from becoming the majority of house Dems. The Justice Dems are 4 years old and have replaced about a dozen corporate Dems. AOC has been at 2 years and helped replace a few corporate Dems. The most popular third party hasn't won a single seat in congress in its near 50 year existence. Third party is not the way to go.
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  13335. ​ @131313jim  The US couldn't even get full control over countries with half the population and where the enemy dressed differently. 😂 Plus, war with Canada = war with King Charles.
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  13336.  @jKLa  I never said anyone didn't have a heritage or culture, dumbass. I said there was no "white" culture or heritage, moron. My heritage is Irish-Scottish-English, not fucking "white", and they all had different experiences in North America. Irish Catholics were treated like shit in many places. English Puritans treated people like shit. My Scottish remained distinctly Scottish, coming from a town that still has weekly pipe band parades and a piper play down the sun at sunset from.a lighthouse. And those 3 had different experiences than the Germans, or the Dutch, or the Italians, etc. You lot are the fucking morons trying to take away specific heritages/cultures, and lump them into a bullshit singular heritage/culture.
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  13337.  @jKLa  Are you one of those morons who thinks any insult is an ad hominem? If so, then you being a moron would appear to be an objective fact. https://laurencetennant.com/bonds/adhominem.html Every "white American" isn't an "Anglo", dumbass. I know you don't like descendants of Spaniards, but now you're ditching the Irish, Scottish, Franks, Italians, Scandinavians, Germans, etc., too? Why the fuck use the term "white"?
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  13338.  @jKLa  English = Angl-ish. England = Angl-land.
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  13339.  @jKLa  Unless you want to go back to raiding and pillaging, English culture is the Anglo culture of today.
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  13340. ​ @marcoszavala8435  They also bombed an Orthodox Church. They're colonizing and killing Palestinian Christians, alongside the Palestinian Muslims.
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  13341. No. Einstein considered Likud's Irgun and Lehi trrrist founders to be comparable to Fscsts and Nzs. They are the clnzers, ethnc clnsrs, occpiers, and the ones operating an open air WWII style Nzi ghtto. So, this is like people trying to talk about those Nzs (Likud), and other people constantly bringing up something morally questionable that some resistance group did.
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  13342.  @3745green  What additional insurance is "required" with Medicare?
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  13343.  @3745green  Learn the definition of "required", dumbass. And a M4A plan, like Bernie's, rolls Medicare up with Medicaid, and fills in those supposed "gaps".
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  13344.  @Jaydem2805  Hrrrm, let me think ... that the Republican leader encouraged trying to overthrow the democratic process ... that the majority of Republican lawmakers tried to overthrow the democratic process ... that Republican wingnuts stormed the Capitol to try and overthrow the democratic process, and are defended by pretty much all other Republicans ...
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  13345.  @Jaydem2805  Did you research that the Russia investigation didn't use the Steele dossier making it irrelevant, that Mueller is a Republican, that Romney (and others like him) are Republican, that the FBI has been mostly run by Republicans in the last 40 years, and that Australian officials aren't Democrats? Did you research that the Mueller report included some 200 pages of information sharing (collusion) that didn't amount to criminal conspiracy, and that Jr and Kushner weren't charged with criminal conspiracy because it would be hard to prove they "willfully" broke the law, not because they didn't break the law? Did you research that Republican Mueller indicted 19 Russians, and 3 Russian companies, and that Trump's own FBI said Russia was interfering again, in 2020? What is it you believe ... that Democrats, Republicans like Romney, the Republican lead investigator, the FBI which has largely been run by Republicans, and Australian officials, were all in cahoots to frame Trump so they could make Republican Mike Pence president?
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  13346.  @Jaydem2805  Ironic, coming from someone crying about who's president with every single post.
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  13347.  @Jaydem2805  Have you read your username, dumbo? You're crying with every single post.
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  13348.  @Jaydem2805  = Waaah, Biden is president!
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  13349.  @Jaydem2805  You seem to have severe reading comprehension problems, to go with your crying every single post.
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  13350.  @Jaydem2805  = Waaah, Biden is president!
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  13351. ​ @kenbone7315  Hamas is a poor man's Likud. Likud was founded by Menachem Begin, leader of the Irgun terrorist group, who bombed the King David Hotel. The Irgun also bombed numerous Palestinian markets and other public places, murdering Palestinian civilians, including children, even including Palestinian Jews (who didn't support colonialist Zionsim). Israelis elected Begin, terrorist, child murderer, Jew murderer, as PM. Israelis, to this day, celebrate those Irgun terrorists as "heroes". The Likud platform, "between the sea and the Jordan there will only be Israeli sovereignty", promises the complete colonization and ethnic cleansing of all Palestine territories. The Likud platform also claims a Jewish "right" to all the "Land of Israel" (fictional biblical borders that don't mesh with archaeological reality), which is also a declaration of future wars, against Jordan, Syria, and Lebanon. The only real difference between Hamas and Likud is that Hamas is fighting against colonialism, while Irgun/Likud is fighting for it.
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  13352. Likud was created by Zionist terrorist, Menachem Begin, who bombed Palestinian markets and other public places, murdering many Palestinian civilians, including children, even including Palestinian Jews (who opposed Zionism), and bombed the King David Hotel. The other founder was Ariel Sharon, war criminal, who massacred Palestinian villages. Their initial platform stated that their goal was for Israel to rule from the sea to the Jordan (reverse of, from the river to the sea). Netanyahu has proven that that still seems to be the goal, with the endless colonization of the West Bank. Netanyahu also promoted, and helped fund, Hamas, to weaken the Palestinian Authority and avoid possible peace, so he could continue his colonization projects. The end of violence would mean that Israel might have to pull back, plus allow the right of return for Palestinian refugees. Peace is against Likud's interests. So, why not the exact same demand that Likud be removed?
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  13353. There are two propositions about the existence of God. I don't believe, because I lack evidence, covers the no belief position, for both propositions. Using A-theist at the no belief position for the proposition, "God exists", instead of Agnosticism, leaves no label for the no belief position of the opposing proposition, "God does not exist". A-theism should stick to being Athe-ism (strong Atheism), and nothing more.
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  13354.  @aFoxyFox.  It wasn't a crowd of children. It was a crowd of policymakers and large donors. They've heard it all before, and try to squash unions every chance they get.
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  13355.  @xoxonaotchan_7902  Gun owners are the ones fighting against common sense the most. The US is the main supplier of guns to criminals across North and Central America, making gun owners defenders of a ton of mass murders, even if they're not committing them.
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  13356. That's a level of stupidity that's hard to copy.
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  13357.  @jimbledsoe9083  You mean the very VAT systems Yang keeps pointing at? Why yes it is a guide for those VAT systems. Can you show me a VAT system that doesn't credit back input VAT? "The GST takes into account the cost of inputs – the factors used in manufacturing or production – at each stage of the process to avoid double taxation. Input tax credits enable partnerships, businesses and self-employed workers to recover all GST paid on goods and services purchased for business purposes by deducting them from their GST payments. Final consumers are not entitled to such credits, which means that they pay all the GST on every item purchased. The GST is thus a multi-stage tax on final consumption." http://publications.gc.ca/Collection-R/LoPBdP/BP/prb0003-e.htm#A.%20Taxing%20Mechanism(txt) "When you buy supplies for your business, you'll be charged 10% in GST which you can claim back as a credit. At the end of each GST period – usually quarterly but occasionally monthly - you need to account for the GST you've collected on your sales minus any that you've paid (the credits) on your purchases. The difference is the amount payable (or refundable if credits on purchases exceed debits on sales)." https://www.hrblock.com.au/tax-tips/beginners-guide-to-gst "But the amount of Consumption tax paid will be compensated with the amount of the Consumption tax collected. Companies collecting Consumption tax in their business activities must file returns and pay only the difference between the amount received and the amount paid during the taxable period." https://www.eu-japan.eu/taxes-accounting/consumption-taxes
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  13358.  @stephanjones8424  I've been paying a VAT for almost 30 years and have operated a business with a VAT. Don't bother trying to explain it to me. Here are some "non-essential" "luxury goods" ... electricity, phone, internet, cable, toys, games, snacks and pop, gas ... Companies like Google and Facebook sell the data. They wouldn't pay the VAT on that sale, as Yang dishonestly implies. They would add the VAT to their sale price and the buyer would initially pay it. That buyer would then count that as input VAT and subtract it from their own output VAT, paid for by their customers. A VAT generates federal revenue, but it doesn't make corporations "pay their fair share", as Yang is claiming.
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  13359.  @CGoffgrid  You started out arguing against charging those who benefit the most from usage, at all. If you're not completely ancap, then you're also in favour of what you're claiming is "stealing". So what's the exact proper amount of "stealing" and for what things, exactly? You want all roads to be toll roads? Really? Like a toll gate at the end of every driveway?
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  13360.  @albertfj  How does it solve poverty, when the poverty rate is double what he's handing out? How does it solve poverty, when some poor people won't benefit from the UBI but will still pay into the VAT on many goods and services? How does it solve poverty, when he'll ironically be automating away a large number of administrators of government services, putting them out of work? If he has money funneling to the very top at an even faster rate, that money is coming from somewhere.
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  13361.  @albertfj  Because the main tax he's pushing doesn't actually tax corporations. Handing consumers trillions, will make a company like Amazon tens of billions extra a year, which will make Bezos billions extra a year. He'll get more out of the Yang plan than he'll pay in. Other developed countries with a VAT have corporations pay in with higher wages, through higher minimum wages or high unionization, and through other methods, first. Then the VAT taxes the better paid consumers. Yang doesn't really have them paying in. He complains about tax loopholes, but doesn't have a plan to even attempt to fix loopholes. If those at the very top get more out of the Yang plan than they pay in, then that money is coming from somewhere. That will be some poor people, who won't get more than they're currently getting so the VAT will just be a negative ... they'll pay in more than they get out. It will be the upper middle class and lower end rich, with high but fairly fixed salaries that won't jump with sales or stocks increasing, like doctors or lawyers ... they'll pay in more than they get out. It will be the many administrators of current government services, who Yang will ironically automate out of their jobs ... they'll pay in more than they get out. Sure, in a vacuum they'd be worse off without $12k a year. But, in an alternate plan, someone automated out could get 5 years salary and free college to learn something new, and/or a guaranteed new job. If you're automated out with Yang, you've got 26 weeks of unemployment plus $1000 a month. Then it's just the $1000 a month, if you haven't found a new job.
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  13362.  @Prague3203  Each level also gets credited back for their input VAT, except the last ... in the EU, in Canada, in Australia, in Japan ... the places Yang is pointing to. No VAT I know of is a way to make corporations "pay their fair share". Any examples of a VAT that doesn't credit back input VAT?
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  13363.  @Prague3203  You've just argued the radiologist and truck driver are going to live on $12k a year. Sounds great.
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  13364.  @terencekwong3033  I'm Canadian. I was around when prices jumped when the VAT was introduced, and I've operated a VAT registered business. Businesses get credited back for input VAT (GST). The game is built right into the VAT system. The government, claiming to not want to double tax, pays back every step, except the last, which is the consumer of whatever good or service. http://publications.gc.ca/Collection-R/LoPBdP/BP/prb0003-e.htm#A.%20Taxing%20Mechanism(txt) So, are you going to tell these Americans that the electric bill, phone bill, internet bill, cable bill, basically any entertainment with a cost, will have a VAT? They've got people already collecting over $1000 in government assistance that Yang doesn't have stacking with UBI. They won't benefit from UBI, but will still have to pay VAT on things.
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  13365.  @terencekwong3033  Are you including any other household bills with the "rent"? There's a VAT on electricity, phone, and internet, in Canada. $20 is a lot for some people. If a plan will hurt some of the poorest people, requiring maximum assistance, say SSI disability + SNAP, but will make Amazon tens of billions and Bezos billions, I'd say there's a problem with the plan. Why do any poor people come out even a little worse off? Why not stack with SSI? Why not have a half UBI for children?
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  13366.  @thenumbersss  And? Businesses still get credited back input VAT on operating costs.
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  13367.  @Gotwired  Insulin is a bad example, since medicine is often exempted from VAT. How about advertising on Amazon? Who do you think would bear the VAT? Amazon? The smaller business advertising on Amazon? Or the customer of that smaller business? Lol, why do you think a jeweler would pay the entire VAT, when it's built right in that they can recoup input VAT?
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  13368. I think you're looking for the morons who are both anti-Israel and anti-Ukraine, because they're simply anti-USA. This is a both anti-Russian colonialism, and anti-Israeli colonialism channel. Israel is objectively the aggressor by every relevant measure ... Modern history: 100 years ago, in 1923, Ze'ev Jabotinsky fully acknowledged that Zionism is colonialism, and that, based on the entirety of history, the natives would fight it until the bitter end. He just didn't care what would happen to them, and promoted doing it anyway. Colonizers are never not the aggressors. On top of the colonialist nature of Zionism, the Zionists also formed terrorist organizations, like the Irgun and Lehi. They bombed many Palestinian markets and other public places, murdering many civilians, including children, even including Palestinian Jews (who opposed Zionism). Israel merged those terrorists into the new nation's military and intelligence agencies. Israelis elected Menachem Begin, leader of the Irgun, child murderer, Jew murderer, and bomber of the King David Hotel, as PM. Israelis, to this day, celebrate those terrorists as "heroes". Zionists literally taught their neighbours that terrorism is a valid path to independence and statehood, and that terrorists are to be celebrated. In 1945, it is well documented that Zionists owned just 5% of the land and were a majority nowhere. Israel was formed by actually going against the majority population. It's foundation is completely undemocratic. Then, becoming a majority, in "their" new nation, by ethnic cleansing the actual majority, and then claiming to be democratic, is utter nonsense. Law: Israel is considered an occupier by the International Court, the UN GA, and the UN SC. Occupiers are also never not the aggressors. Those occupied actually have a right to resist occupation. On the flip side, it is illegal for the occupier to settle occupied lands, and illegal to use collective punishment. Israel is a rogue nation, that doesn't abide by international law. What it has been doing, and is doing now, is illegal. Current events: This year, alone, prior to Oct 7 ... Israel held over 1200 Palestinian hostages without charges ... over 200 Palestinians had been killed by the IDF and settlers ... over 1000 Palestinians had been displaced by Israel's neverending colonization of the West Bank ... and, Israel continued to operate an open air WWII style fascist ghetto, in Gaza. Even ignoring modern history and law, in no reality did Hamas "start" anything.
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  13369.  @Pradeep_889  1 2 3
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  13370. Being against the Nazis doesn't equate to being anti-German. Being against Italian fascists doesn't equate to being anti-Italian. Take a good look at who is operating an open air WWII style fascist ghetto, today. Zionists have become almost everything they fled from.
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  13371.    Weird strawman. Enjoy your ... straw, or whatever.
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  13372. Well, especially when you can't block something already passed under Dumpty.
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  13373.  @JohnsolomonH  You want a standoff though, right? That would most likely push a bill further right, and passed without them, rather than get them what they want.
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  13374. You forgot the option of repeatedly going on a show like Tucker's, and agreeing with him on most everything. How effective is that, do you think?
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  13375. ​ @90AlmostFamous  DT ended zero conflicts, and the Abraham accords had nothing to do with Plstnns. He completely ignored them. It was only a plan to get Saudi, and others, to accept what Isrl was doing.
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  13376.  @halbaloney4593  Women actually attempt suicide more than men. Men use more violent methods, and have a higher success rate.
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  13377.  @louiscyfear878  A "rebuttal" to what, moron?
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  13378. People need to stop being afraid of the word "socialism", including you, David. A "social democracy" is a very mixed (capitalism/socialism) economy. If 100% of the economic sectors were publicly owned and operated, that would be 100% socialism. If 100% of the economic sectors were privately owned and operated, that would be 100% capitalism. Centrist countries are a fairly even mix of the two. If you're going to pretend they aren't, at all, socialist, simply because it's not 100% socialism, then you shouldn't be pretending they're capitalist, either. The public owning a 60% share in Norway's oil company means it's 60% socialized, a more socialist than capitalist company. Many countries have a mostly socialized health insurance industry, making that industry almost completely socialist. The UK has an even more socialized healthcare sector, much like the VA, which is even more socialist than capitalist. Yes, the public owning, operating, and maintaining roads, is socialistic. The public owning and operating schools is socialistic. The public owning and operating emergency services is socialistic. Some sectors, however, are tied to whether a country is more, or less, authoritarian, more so than they are tied to whether it's capitalist or socialist. While the VA's medical care can be considered socialist, the authority side of the military isn't. Even extreme right Ayn Rand types, would keep the military, law enforcement, and the courts. They just want those things to protect their self interests, though. Authoritarian capitalists (fascists) use those things to make themselves even more money, and expand their interests. And they are no longer truly publicly owned and operated if they're serving an oligarchy, rather than the actual public at large ... sometimes even working against the public at large. The only purely capitalist countries left in the world are the ones still owned and operated by absolute monarchs, like Saudi.
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  13379.  @web-angel  The house has simply adopted plurality wins rules to bypass a paralyzed speaker vote, twice before.
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  13380.  @calebarmstrong5621  You think 27 Republican senators, and 138 Republican house members, passed the Civil Rights Act, all on their own, do you? Not only don't you have a firm grasp on history, but you don't have a grasp on grade school level math.
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  13381.  @calebarmstrong5621  How is southern Republicans also voting against Civil Rights, the southern strategy to win over the racist voters in southern states, and actually achieving that, not a more damning history? It leads to Republicans being the more racist party, currently.
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  13382.  @calebarmstrong5621  No, dumb dumb, it makes all the politicians, Democrat and Republican, from primarily the former Confederate states, racists. And then the Republicans went after all the racist voters, and got them. Do you think the most racist states in the country, that fought against change every step of the way, just magically up and became the least racist states, and started voting for the least racist party? You get the math, right? A majority of Democrats, primarily from former Union states, voted for Civil Rights, as well. The numbers of Republicans I mentioned couldn't possibly pass it alone.
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  13383.  @calebarmstrong5621  Clearly you have severe reading comprehension problems, on top of being dumb, and have no actual clue as to how the bill passed. I just let you know that it was passed by the majority of Dems, and you still make a false claim about it being a minority. It was Kennedy's bill, dimwit.
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  13384.  @calebarmstrong5621  Rofl. You'd have to believe that the vast majority of minority voters, and the vast majority of minority politicians, are complete and utter morons, that have zero clue which is the more racist party. You clearly don't think the vast majority of minorities can discern which is the more racist party. That's pretty racist. Hint: there are red states still celebrating Confederate memorial days; there are red states still flying symbols of a willingness to kill and be killed for the "right" to own and abuse other human beings; one party is fighting to be able to worship their favorite racists at their memorial statues; Confederates and Nazis hold "unite the right" rallies, not unite the left rallies; one party still fights to let businesses to discriminate against whomever they want; even though it takes 5-6 generations, on average, to change economic classes in America, and it has only been a few generations since segregation and an almost 60% poverty rate for black Americans, Republicans still want to do as little as possible to try and help lift people out of poverty; slavery ended with leaving millions of black Americans completely destitute, with zero compensation for centuries of labor, and Republicans won't even sign on to simply explore the possibility of reparations; Republicans keep backing a clearly unjust justice system and abusive police; Republicans have hardly any minority representatives; Republicans are trying to downplay racism in history; Republicans are going on a tirade against a university law course, banning it from public schools, when it isn't even taught in public schools ... Seriously, the list goes on. What kind of crack are you smoking, to think that list represents the less racist party?
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  13385. ​ @aggressiveattitudeera887  Ugh ... *since before Nixon. He was responsible for a lot of this mess. He used the Red Scare tactics during his California run, to garner the extreme capitalists' votes, and he used the Southern Strategy during his presidential run, to garner the racists' votes. He's the one who started collecting all the nuts into one basket.
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  13386.  @Trevoroxx  What? The "freedom" to have people losing their lives at the 2.5x higher US rate (which translates into over 500k preventable American lives lost)?
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  13387. Russia is the oppressor and tyrant, in Ukraine.
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  13388. Gaetz would be worse.
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  13389. @Ethan Rosenberger A mixed economy is a mix a capitalism and socialism. If a sector is publicly owned and operated, that sector is running on socialist ideals. If a sector is privately owned and operated, that sector is running on capitalist ideals.
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  13390.  @TropicalPriest  Okay, but he blathered about tinnitus, for example, as if it was some huge deal. Even if you accepted every VAERS correlation report as causation, tinnitus is about 0.003%, meanwhile some 14% of people who get covid report tinnitus ... a thousands of times higher rate. Dore doesn't mention that. He also doesn't make clear that it's only the J&J vaccine, which has been linked to tinnitus, and falsely makes out like "THAT" is what you're being mandated. No. The J&J isn't the only option. Then, he and Max went on spreading bullshit about myocarditis and the UK's healthcare system ... a completely socialized healthcare system, that's even left of M4A, the very thing Jimmy is supposed to be in favor of. It just ends up being a bunch of bullshit, when Dore is all done, and not, at all, informative.
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  13391. Lol, I don't see a need for fairies. There's a word: fairies. There's a definition for that word. I believe the creature defined doesn't exist, or I believe the creature defined does exist, or I have no belief as to the existence of fairies. Can you honestly say you have no belief as to the existence of fairies? "I do believe in fairies! I do! I do!"
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  13392.  @Sunnydftw1  China and South Korea are ahead of the curve, and have tested beyond just those showing symptoms. In those countries, there's zero evidence that there are 99 infected people unaccounted for, per 1 accounted for, like there is with the flu. Confirmed cases and total cases are close to the same. A cruise ship has also provided us with a control group. The mortality rate should be around 1%. Italy likely has 10x more infected people than it has accounted for.
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  13393. Anyone spreading covid misinformation should shut up ... about that. Not even close to being the same thing as telling a black man he should shut up about racial injustice and his political opinions.
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  13394. ​ @retroboomer3197  As opposed to ... ? “They don’t want to fund Israel. They want to take away foreign aid to Israel. They want to do a lot of bad things to Israel. In my opinion, you vote for a Democrat, you’re being very disloyal to Jewish people and very disloyal to Israel." ~ Trumpty Dumpty
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  13395. ​ @jaybeemhardscrote7466  Pal will not, and cannot, be solved by a single voting cycle. It will take continued public pressure. Trump and Republicans have called for designating previous protests (BLM) as trrrsm. Republicans make laws allowing people to drive through protesters. Trump has called for deporting protesters. Trump has suggested having a pledge of allegiance to Isrl, for immigrants. They are not the ones you want to try and use public pressure against. Trump entirely left Pals out of his last "peace" plan. He doesn't care about them.
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  13396. ​ @OAlem  Well, your friend isn't very bright, because they're literally still claiming he can organize massive voter fraud, multiple "fake" indictments, etc.
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  13397. ​ @2IC-hn1hz  He didn't say "to come to". He said it can take 10 years to get citizenship. 10 years of living there, renewing expensive visas, adding to the system while still being no more eligible to receive some services than someone who's undocumented, etc. The US and Canada have the same, on paper, timeframe.
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  13398.  @2IC-hn1hz  How did pointing out that you misrepresented what was said, help make your point? You can toss your anecdotes. Not interested in the crypto bot stories.
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  13399. Even if you accept her stupid analogy, aren't there widespread quarantines for smokers? Want to smoke? Step outside. Don't want to be vaccinated, or wear a mask? Step outside.
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  13400. Huxley was against the Athe-ist position as well as the Theist. "That which Agnostics deny and repudiate, as immoral, is the contrary doctrine, that there are propositions which men ought to believe, without logically satisfactory evidence; and that reprobation ought to attach to the profession of disbelief in such inadequately supported propositions."
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  13401. ​ @bl4ckkn1g8t5  Weird how the anti-trans rights people never used to complain about underage teen girls getting breast enhancements. They only care when young girls delay breast development, or have them removed. Seems to indicate that they're the pervs, who like gawking at young girls' breasts.
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  13402.  @jean-luceyesofyoureyes5502  Repeal the existing bill, and write a new one. You wouldn't need the 2/3 vote in both the House and Senate, that a constitutional amendment would.
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  13403.  @talyahr3302  Yeah. The act also affected gerrymandering. "The Act also did away with any mention of districts at all. This allowed political parties in control of a state legislature to draw district boundaries at will and to elect some or all representatives at large."
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  13404. If either Gnostic actually has some proof they can show people, then there will be no need for any of those labels anymore.
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  13405.  @jorgevasquezjr391  Yes. If you can't see that Republicans are worse, then you're pretty stupid, at this point. 30% of Republican voters have openly embraced overt fascism, along with over 100 Republican politicians. They haven't cared as thousands of Americans have died due to covid. They still want to completely repeal the ACA and kick millions off their healthcare, including those with preexisting conditions. They wanted $0 in covid assistance for people. Seriously, just how stupid are you?
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  13406.  @robinmaclay2661   Yeah, Thiel is behind a lot of these people. May 2021: "Peter Thiel, J.D. Vance Invest in Rumble Video Platform Popular on Political Right" Aug 2021: "Conservative YouTube Competitor Rumble Seals 6-Figure Content Deals With Tulsi Gabbard, Glenn Greenwald"
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  13407.  @robinmaclay2661  A lot of Thiel connections, out there ... May 2021: "Peter Thiel, J.D. Vance Invest in Rumble Video Platform Popular on Political Right" Aug 2021: "Conservative YouTube Competitor Rumble Seals 6-Figure Content Deals With Tulsi Gabbard, Glenn Greenwald"
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  13408.  @dvdv8197  Rofl. It's called reality, dumb dumb. You think any party mildly progressive is going to win over idiots who think progressives are commies, care more about stopping abortion than their own best interests, or whatnot?
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  13409.  @chioma3100  And? How does anything you said refute what I said?
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  13410.  @chioma3100  Learn what "gaslighting" actually means, dimwit. No, it's idiots, like Dore, who promote letting Trump win, fantasizing that it will cause a massive progressive backlash, that never materializes, that achieve the same thing. The progressive movement behind Bernie came after Obama.
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  13411.  @annon3485  Women, overall, vote Democrat. What else is someone supposed to gather, if you think that's the cause of the problem?
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  13412.  @eddyvideostar  "Letitia Peekaboo James." ~ Trumpty Dumpty Urban Dictionary: peekaboo Racist term used in white-supremacist circles to refer to a person of color, usually black, of upper or upper-middle class social standing. That uppity peekaboo thinks she can golf here just because she has money. by WhoKnowsWhoItCouldBe September 21, 2022
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  13413. Aaron is an idiot, who ignored dozens of investigations, and hundreds of witnesses, into Syria, at hundreds of sites since 2013, in favor of 2 individuals that weren't even involved in the entire investigation of a single site.
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  13414.  @conradveigt5995  Oh, shut up Tim Apple.
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  13415.  @dro_dozer  What are you blathering about? Both CNN and FOX have had similar spikes and dips in ratings. All dipped back down after the 2012 elections year. All dipped back down after the 2016 election year. All are dipping back down again. Aside from you being wrong about mainstream corporate media, nobody is even talking about mainstream corporate media.
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  13416. ​ @bobbun4369  People are ineligible for all kinds of reasons, dumb dumb. FDR kicked Republicans asses 4 times in a row, so they created term limits. There are 3 ex-presidents who are currently ineligible, due to that. That you're ineligible for being involved in a rebellion, isn't a newly created law by Democrats, like that. It's an old one.
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  13417.  @bobbun4369  Make sense, dumb dumb.
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  13418.  @tommyboym6563  Except you religious loons actually mean "freedom of religion" to impose their beliefs into law, and to discriminate against others.
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  13419.  @tommyboym6563  Because they're backing Trump, dumb dumb.
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  13420. You don't believe that, except for maybe those of Asian origins, all Americans likely originated in Africa?
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  13421.  @99tonnes  The YouTube "AI" hasn't like me saying some words, for about a year now.
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  13422. Yeah, can't wait until the rest of the world can sue the pants off of the US and China for restitution.
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  13423. I've been to all but 4 states (Hawaii, Louisiana, Alaska, and Washington state). Kansas is the most boring state, as far as scenery goes. I can't criticize anyone from Kansas thinking the earth is flat.
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  13424.  @nathanschmidt5026  Claiming he used to be for universal healthcare, but now doesn't want the government handling it. Attacked the GND for including public healthcare. Lyied, that Bernie's M4A would abolish all private insurance, when it would only abolish duplicate coverage, so people wouldn't be paying twice for the same thing. Claiming Trump's policies (right wing) have been vindicated. Claiming Trump (a right wing fascist who tried to completely overthrow the democratic process) is the greatest president in his lifetime (Trump didn't even end up having "better" border crossing stats than Obama). Supporting Andrew Yang, whose VAT/UBI combo would have had money funneling to the very top faster than ever before. Supporting Tulsi Gabbard, who is now being paid by major MAGA donor, Peter Thiel, to be on Rumble, along with Greenwald and Dore. Promoted the hoax that Mueller had raped someone, to try and help the right discredit Mueller. Promotes the idea that Democrats, especially progressives, are "far left" (that makes him an "enlightened centrist", if he considers himself right of them). Calling Hitler "a certain WWII era hero". Defending Crowder. Siding with right wingers on the COVID response. Almost all of his talking points are from a right wing perspective, same as on openly right wing channels. In what reality isn't he a right winger?
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  13425. Definitely not a "sincere" Christian.
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  13426.  @wenlisman  No. Some places let people living there (Luxembourg, New Zealand), who don't have citizenship, vote. Voting doesn't have to be defined by nationality, or depend on it, at all. That's a decision by nationalists, who don't want to give others living there the right to vote on things that affect them. Aren't the Sami the only indigenous people? Didn't the Finns come from Russia and push them North? Aren't they now spread across multiple different nations and have no nation of their own? Weren't parts of what is now Finland at times part of the nations of Sweden and Russia, making the current borders arbitrary? The EU isn't a nation, and you really didn't answer any of my questions.
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  13427. Israel is objectively the aggressor by every relevant measure ... Modern history: 100 years ago, in 1923, Ze'ev Jabotinsky fully acknowledged that Zionism is colonialism, and that, based on the entirety of history, the natives would fight it until the bitter end. He just didn't care what would happen to them, and promoted doing it anyway. Colonizers are never not the aggressors. On top of the colonialist nature of Zionism, the Zionists also formed terrorist organizations, like the Irgun and Lehi. They bombed many Palestinian markets and other public places, murdering many civilians, including children, even including Palestinian Jews (who opposed Zionism). Israel merged those terrorists into the new nation's military and intelligence agencies. Israelis elected Menachem Begin, leader of the Irgun, child murderer, Jew murderer, and bomber of the King David Hotel, as PM. Israelis, to this day, celebrate those terrorists as "heroes". Zionists literally taught their neighbours that terrorism is a valid path to independence and statehood, and that terrorists are to be celebrated. In 1945, it is well documented that Zionists owned just 5% of the land and were a majority nowhere. Israel was formed by actually going against the majority population. It's foundation is completely undemocratic. Then, becoming a majority, in "their" new nation, by ethnic cleansing the actual majority, and then claiming to be democratic, is utter nonsense. Law: Israel is considered an occupier by the International Court, the UN GA, and the UN SC. Occupiers are also never not the aggressors. Those occupied actually have a right to resist occupation. On the flip side, it is illegal for the occupier to settle occupied lands, and illegal to use collective punishment. Israel is a rogue nation, that doesn't abide by international law. What it has been doing, and is doing now, is illegal. Current events: This year, alone, prior to Oct 7 ... Israel held over 1200 Palestinian hostages without charges ... over 200 Palestinians had been killed by the IDF and settlers ... over 1000 Palestinians had been displaced by Israel's neverending colonization of the West Bank ... and, Israel continued to operate an open air WWII style fascist ghetto, in Gaza. Even ignoring modern history and law, in no reality did Hamas "start" anything.
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  13428.  @aarondickson9573  I'll leave it. You're nuts.
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  13429.  @TopherBHC  Doesn't take a monarchy to limit people's representation.
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  13430.  @TheBiggestSqueeze  The only clowns are the morons who don't seem to know that people have been "cancelling" things and people they don't like, since the dawn of history.
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  13431.  @sandydl2  Businesses get to reclaim any input VAT they've paid. It's a pretty simple formula for businesses. output VAT - input VAT = x if x is positive, reclaim the input VAT and send the government x (business gets paid back) if x is negative, keep all the output VAT and the government refunds x (business gets paid back) A VAT is a sales tax, collected in stages, with all the business stages getting paid back. Hope this helps. As for the 30%, poor people still eat out, pay for entertainment, pay utilities, etc. They just eat at cheaper places, do cheaper things, have smaller places to heat, etc. https://images.app.goo.gl/gHnLBowbuMTqf6696 Also, I was mainly referring to the fact that wealthier people won't start paying in, until fairly high incomes, so you'll have people making hundreds of thousands a year getting a few thousand extra dollars to blow, while some poor people currently on assistance will get little to no benefit from the UBI.
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  13432. Can't wait until the whole world can sue the US and China into the dust.
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  13433. Learn to farm. Canada will be gaining arable land with global warming.
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  13434. Corporate Dems aren't "left", dumb dumb.
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  13435. ​ @dr.zoidberg8666  The takeaway wasn't that voting for sitting in neutral would have been better than letting going in reverse win?
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  13436.  @Uncanny_Mountain  The OT/Tanakh literally calls them two different things. The Egyptians called them two different things.
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  13437.  @spaceman9599  Tried including links, when I first tried posting it, a few months back. YouTube deleted it.
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  13438.  @Netem1  Wrote it. All the info is out there. Jewish Virtual Library (Ze'ev Jabotinsky's articles, original Likud platform, Israel/Palestine populations over time, other mandate info), the Balfour Project (mandate era documents), British Hansard (mandate era parliament discussions), Google (NYT Einstein letter), Wiki (1945 Village Statistics scans, plus a bunch of other stuff ... just make sure whatever is sourced, like any other Wiki).
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  13439.  @BryanM86  🙄
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  13440.  @BryanM86  Never thought I was, dingleberry.
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  13441.  @calogero100  Sorry, did I miss you presenting evidence of something, dumb dumb?
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  13442. ​ @palermo777  The world didn't start on Oct 7, dimwit. That's like saying the US was "defending" itself from Native Americans.
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  13443. ​ @JJ-qc6lh  He was wrong. Even early 20th century Zionists acknowledged that Zionism is colonialism. Being anti-colonialism isn't anti-Semitic.
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  13444.  @LinkRocks  Yes, only in the youngest category of black voters did he beat Biden.
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  13445. Well, firstly I'd take it with a grain of salt, what people working for CNN and Bloomberg say about how progressives feel. I'm pretty sure Ilhan and AOC are still amongst progressive favorites. They've been on the frontline of opposition to Israel. As for Fetterman ... supporting Likud (who even Einstein called fascists and Nazis in its previous form), that was founded by Irgun and Lehi terrorists (who are still celebrated as "heroes"), and has their own, older, "between the sea and the Jordan there will only be Israeli sovereignty" platform, promising to completely colonize and ethnically cleanse all Palestine territories ... that's not pragmatism, that's sociopathic and dishonest. Anyone outright blindly supporting Likud is either ignorant as hell, or a lunatic. It's equivalent to supporting Nazis. Bernie has been critical, but isn't pushing hard enough. I'd also take what David says about the progressive left, with a grain of salt. He has been crusty about people calling him out for his Israel bias.
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  13446. ​ @WoJackMan  And even his UBI, funded by a VAT, was bullshit. A VAT is specifically designed to NOT tax businesses. All input VAT is paid back at the next stage of output VAT collected, and the final consumer ends up paying the entire VAT. Yang kept lying, claiming a VAT would make corporations, like Amazon, pay their fair share of taxes. He even posted a link to a pass through rate study, which showed that the final consumer paid the entire tax. "Math guy" just didn't grasp what the study actually said.
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  13447.  @Matthew-cw3gn  Books have been going out of print, since the dawn of publishing. Christian nuts have banned books like Harry Potter in places, because ... magic. Right wingers are suddenly up in arms to defend a few racist pictures ... but they're definitely not racists.
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  13448. @AmericanPatriot-og1zf CRT isn't even taught in K-12, dumb dumb. You lot are loons.
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  13449.  @Dawt_Calm  Hrrrm, the difference is that she advocates for and promotes M4A. The difference is that she's a member of the Democratic Socialists of America, which has been holding M4A rallies, that Jimmy hasn't promoted. The difference is that she uses her campaigning and fundraising power to primary progressives around the country. Trying to convince more people to get on board, getting more politicians on board, is how you end up getting it passed, not by having a pointless vote to get a list of names of people you already know need to be primaried out. Helping to destroy confidence in the few progressives in congress, just as they're making small gains in numbers, is moronic. The DNC will sure as hell be primarying corporate Dems against them. You're more likely to get another corporate Dem, instead of a more aggressive progressive, if you convince people not to vote for her, or those like her, again.
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  13450. Israel is objectively the aggressor, by every relevant measure ... Modern history: 100 years ago, in 1923, Ze'ev Jabotinsky fully acknowledged that Zionism is colonialism, and that, based on the entirety of history, the natives would fight it until the bitter end. He just didn't care what would happen to them, and promoted doing it anyway. Colonizers are never not the aggressors. On top of the colonialist nature of Zionism, the Zionists also formed terrorist organizations, like the Irgun and Lehi. They bombed many Palestinian markets and other public places, murdering many civilians, including children, even including Palestinian Jews (who opposed Zionism). Israel merged those terrorists into the new nation's military and intelligence agencies. Israelis elected Menachem Begin, leader of the Irgun, child murderer, Jew murderer, and bomber of the King David Hotel, as PM. Israelis, to this day, celebrate those terrorists as "heroes". Zionists literally taught their neighbours that terrorism is a valid path to independence and statehood, and that terrorists are to be celebrated. In 1945, it is well documented that Zionists owned just 5% of the land and were a majority nowhere. Israel was formed by actually going against the majority population. It's foundation is completely undemocratic. Then, becoming a majority, in "their" new nation, by ethnic cleansing the actual majority, and then claiming to be democratic, is utter nonsense. Law: Israel is considered an occupier by the International Court, the UN GA, and the UN SC. Occupiers are also never not the aggressors. Those occupied actually have a right to resist occupation. On the flip side, it is illegal for the occupier to settle occupied lands, and illegal to use collective punishment. Israel is a rogue nation, that doesn't abide by international law. What it has been doing, and is doing now, is illegal. Current events: This year, alone, prior to Oct 7 ... Israel held over 1200 Palestinian hostages without charges ... over 200 Palestinians had been killed by the IDF and settlers ... over 1000 Palestinians had been displaced by Israel's neverending colonization of the West Bank ... and, Israel continued to operate an open air WWII style fascist ghetto, in Gaza. Even ignoring modern history and law, in no reality did Hamas "start" anything.
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  13451. ​ @starkraven1148  Earlier. Zionism converted from immigration to colonialism, about 1918. Followed by Zionist terrorist groups, like the Irgun and Lehi.
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  13452.  @0redbishop0  To make sure they don't get sued, they'll cut everyone off saying x, y, and z, rather than not cut off the original person saying x.
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  13453. Started 30 years before that even, with the Balfour declaration and early Zionists fully acknowledging that Zionism is colonialism. On top of that, Zionist terrorist groups like the Irgun and Lehi.
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  13454.  @dragonbutt1218  Justice Dems and AOC with her PAC, just helped add a few more progressives to congress. Winning even one seat is more than any third party has accomplished. Bernie, running within the Dem party, was also a potential presidential candidate in every state. Third party presidential candidates only have the potential to be on the ballot in about a dozen states, even after 20 years for Greens, and almost 50 years for Libertarians. There's no real contest as to which is the better approach.
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  13455. ​ @pieterotten3848  Wasn't it the Lehi (terrorist founders of Likud) that tried to ally with Italian fascists and German Nazis?
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  13456.  @tannerweinheimer7839  How tf is it "random", after nearly a century of terrorism (Irgun and Lehi terrorist founders of Likud), colonialism, ethnic cleansing, occupation, and being contained in a ghetto? Almost 1 in 20 Israelis is a militant. Over 400k reservists cowardly hiding amongst their civilians, using them as human shields. Hamas may have a better militant to civilian ratio than the IDF.
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  13457. ​ @ryanshostack1144  64% of Cubans identity as white. Spaniards are white. Nothing much whiter than Ted Cruz.
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  13458.  @christopherchilton-smith6482  Ugh. Businesses get to reclaim their input VAT. A tax designed to not tax businesses isn't a way to tax businesses. https://ec.europa.eu/taxation_customs/business/vat/what-is-vat_en
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  13459.  @BeeN-fy2jh  Not sure where I lost you. Biden didn't sign his COVID relief bill until the middle of March. It couldn't possibly have been the cause of inflation rising, before it existed, or even before people had their checks in hand. Trump signed a COVID relief bill at the end of December, 2020. Wouldn't that be the more likely culprit, of inflation rising before Biden even passed anything major?
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  13460.  @BeeN-fy2jh    Not sure where you got lost. Biden didn't sign his relief bill until the middle of March. So, it couldn't possibly have been the cause of inflation rising, before it existed, or even before people had their checks in hand. Trump, on the other hand, signed a relief bill at the end of December 2020. Wouldn't that be the more likely culprit of inflation rising before Biden even passed anything major?
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  13461.  @BeeN-fy2jh  Biden didn't sign his relief bill until the middle of March. So, it couldn't possibly cause an inflation increase, before it even existed, or even before people had their checks in hand. Trump, on the other hand, signed a relief bill at the end of December 2020. Wouldn't that be the more likely cause of inflation rising before Biden even passed anything major?
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  13462.  @BeeN-fy2jh  Joe didn't sign his COVID bill until the middle of March. So, it couldn't possibly cause an inflation increase, before it even existed, or even before people had their checks in hand. Don the Con, on the other hand, signed a COVID bill at the end of December 2020. Wouldn't the latter more likely be the cause of inflation rising before Joe even passed anything major?
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  13463.  @BeeN-fy2jh  You were claiming it wasn't on the rise under DT, but left out that JB didn't really pass anything until Mar. I said one caused the start of the rise and one literally couldn't have caused the start of the rise because the second one hadn't been passed and paid out yet. 1.7% to 2.6% in a month was the start of things, right? So, it was basically still DT's economy, and the rate started rising under his economy, since JB's bill wouldn't really take effect until Apr, right? And, since they're blending into each other, there's no real clear cut line, where you can say the effects of DT's $1t relief stops and Biden's $1t relief starts. A 2022 Fed Res study estimated relief bills may have caused 3% of the 2021 inflation rate spike. But, you lot don't want to hear about the profit margin side of the rest of the spike. Maybe talk to cmmnst Texas, who is taking some companies to court, for price gouging.
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  13464.  @BeeN-fy2jh  1.4 or 1.7 (pre rise) + 3 (fed estimate relief rise) = not over 5, dingus. Which means that the profit margins put the rate over the line you just drew, not government spending. And, MAGA doesn't want to do anything about that. Do you have reading cmprhnsn problems? The 2.6% was the start of a rise. Since one blended into another, you have absolutely zero clue if that's the max it would have gone on DT's bill alone. Combined, they were responsible only for a 3% rise. Yeah, the rate is back down. So, what's MAGA running on exactly? You only get deflation with a major recession or depression. Is that what DT is bringing? That's what his dmwtd tariffs will bring, just like the 1930 tariff act made things worse.
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  13465.  @BeeN-fy2jh  1.7 + 3 is still less than 5. No matter how much you prattle on about it, the math won't change. You implied that since the current rate is similar to the Mar 2021 rate, that it wasn't a big deal, as if that was definitively all DT was responsible for. You don't know. Nobody knows. Because they blended together. The thing that put it over 5 ... "Since the trough of the COVID-19 recession in the second quarter of 2020, overall prices in the NFC sector have risen at an annualized rate of 6.1%—a pronounced acceleration over the 1.8% price growth that characterized the pre-pandemic business cycle of 2007–2019. Strikingly, over half of this increase (53.9%) can be attributed to fatter profit margins, with labor costs contributing less than 8% of this increase. This is not normal. From 1979 to 2019, profits only contributed about 11% to price growth and labor costs over 60%"
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  13466.  @BeeN-fy2jh  1.7 + 3 is still less than 5. Whatever you say, the math won't change. You implied that since the current rate is similar to the Mar 2021 rate, that it wasn't a big deal, as if that was definitively all DT was responsible for. Nobody knows that, because they blended together. The only thing definitive is that it was on the rise before JB's bill was implemented. The thing that put it over 5 ... "Since the trough of the COVID-19 recession in the second quarter of 2020, overall prices in the NFC sector have risen at an annualized rate of 6.1%—a pronounced acceleration over the 1.8% price growth that characterized the pre-pandemic business cycle of 2007–2019. Strikingly, over half of this increase (53.9%) can be attributed to fatter profit margins, with labor costs contributing less than 8% of this increase. This is not normal. From 1979 to 2019, profits only contributed about 11% to price growth and labor costs over 60%"
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  13467.  @BeeN-fy2jh  Like I said, profit margins. Companies like Cal-Maine, the largest egg producer, which recorded a 700+% profit margin increase.
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  13468.  @BeeN-fy2jh  Blah, blah. Whether the rate is still bad is irrelevant to the cause. If your "logic" is sound, and government spending was the main cause, then the rate would have shot up again, with another $0.7t bill, right? If a $1t bill signed in Mar of 2021 caused such a massive impact, that it lasted for over a year, only to reach its peak in mid 2022 ... Then surely IRA would have caused it to rise more, wouldn't it? ... Assuming your "logic" is sound, of course. It's just a fact, that government spending wasn't the main driver of the spike. Cmmnst Texas is taking Cal-Maine and Shell to court, for their price go uging. Even if you think corporate prices were fine, you still need to come up with a different main driver of the spike.
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  13469.  @BeeN-fy2jh  FYI: Parts of the plan extended over a decade. "The American Rescue Plan Act’s estimated 2021 $1.2 trillion outlay is equivalent to 18% of the record $6.6 trillion the federal government spent in fiscal year 2020 (and 27% of the $4.5 trillion spent in fiscal year 2019)." $1.2t spent in 2021.
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  13470.  @BeeN-fy2jh  I'm not the one whose feelings are making them vomit misinformation. "American Rescue Plan Act of · 2021 (H.R. 1319) 4. 1,822,736. 1,797,918 ... 1.2 trillion will be spent within 2021 (see Figure 1)." You have yet to give an alternate explanation, as to why the IRA didn't cause rates to spike again, as you falsely implied.
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  13471.  @BeeN-fy2jh  You're not making sense. You claimed that adding the JB's ARPA onto DT's bill massively multiplied the rate. Now, you're arguing that DT's bill, alone, may have caused the massive spike, and that the ARPA may have just extended it?
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  13472.  @BeeN-fy2jh  Yes, you're now dancing around why the IRA didn't multiple the rate. That should apply to the ARPA, as well. By, your current argument, DT's 2020 $3.13t deficit spending likely caused the spike, simply delayed ... JB's 2021 $2.78 deficit spending, extended the spike into 2022 ... And, JB's 2022 $1.38 deficit spending (less than half DT's 2020), is why the rate dropped by about half, in 2023.
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  13473. ​ @MikeEWard  Other tax payers get stuck with the bill, if you're not paying your share. Just like splitting a bill at a restaurant. He's stiffing every other tax payer.
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  13474. ​ @galwhite7011 I'd say Hamas is morally, and strategically, in the wrong. It is, however, the most common response to colonialism, ethnic cleansing, and oppression. It shouldn't be a surprise. Ze'ev Jabotinsky, fully admitting that Zionism is colonialism, spelled out that this is exactly how everything would play out, in 1923. Palestinians should be taking a more Ghandi, or Mandela, like approach. Israel has been, basically, using the same tactics as American colonialists. Move some settlements out into native territory, the natives react violently, the calvary comes in and squashes the natives, the colonies expand the border to include the settlements, rinse and repeat. Palestinians responding with violence is exactly what extremists in Israel want, so they can keep having an excuse to occupy and expand. The one guy, Bezalel Smotrich, that Netanyahu put in charge of the West Bank, published a plan to either subjugate (no federal representation), exile, or kill, all non Jews, in all Israel/Palestine.
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  13475. Isn't using a condom more effective against HIV than the flu vaccine is against the flu?
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  13476. ​ @ezioauditore3128  You're just ignorant, is the issue.
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  13477. Well, Ontario is 40% of the population, and constantly at 20% of our testing goals. We won't be flattening the curve anytime soon.
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  13478. Well, it's narcissistic "truth". He wasn't mixing up vaccines in a lab, and isn't really responsible for doing much. The first vaccine out of the gate, that he's taking credit for, wasn't even developed in the US, or even took US funding.
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  13479.  @jveebklyn1644  The employees are both a PR issue themselves, and also part of the public at large, indicating how some portions of the public might react.
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  13480. Didn't he write his rules, while devolving into drug addiction, while lying that his daughter's all meat diet got him off drugs, because he's a grifter?
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  13481. ba dum tss
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  13482. It's not like DiGenova owes Trump for pardoning his wife's client, Libby, or anything.
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  13483. ​ @nodi1217  Here's the difference, dumb dumb ... A vaccine isn't simply personal protection. Vaccines work even better when more people have them. If you look at a chain of contact, with the 50% efficacy flu vaccine ... If you're a flu carrier, and I have the vaccine, I'm 50% protected. If, however, I come in contact with another vaccinated person, who came in contact with you, I'm 75% protected. If there was another vaccinated person in the chain, I'd be 87.5% protected. Another, and I'd be 93.75% protected. Etc. So, when it comes to vaccinations, you are making a decision that can affect others' health. On the other hand, we all agree that a mindless (brain dead) meat sack of living cells, requiring life support, is no longer actually "alive". We pull plugs every day. Nobody forces people to keep their brain dead loved ones on life support, and force them to pay for it. But, the moronic "pro-life" crowd considers a mindless meat sack of living cells, requiring a woman's life support system, to actually be "alive". It doesn't even begin to develop the parts needed for consciousness, until 25-28 weeks. It's not yet "alive", and it should be totally up to the woman, if she wants to act as a life support system, because there's not another actual living being affected.
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  13484.  @TripleDDDD  No, she isn't. That's a lie.
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  13485.  @MK-oz2lf  Learn some basic math. There are zero extra votes to be gained to the left of Bernie Sanders. Pushing a bill left enough to lose Manchin's vote makes it absolutely impossible to pass. On the flip side, there is the entire Republican party, to try and gain votes from, to the right of Manchin. All it takes is pushing a bill far enough right to get a single Republican on board to completely ignore Bernie's vote. Thinking that is exactly the same leverage is beyond moronic.
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  13486.  @kevin6293  Being "smart" is relative. So, pretty easily, when looking at the US population.
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  13487. I'm not paying your dumbass toll.
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  13488. Part of the problem, which seems to be more of a US thing, is American right wingers portraying fascism as leftist. So, if you just follow the capitalists, you won't ever get an oppressive government ... and people blindly follow them into an oppressive government. It goes hand in hand with things like FOX pretending they don't belong to one of the largest MSM corporations in the world, and their viewers thinking they're anti-MSM. Then they rail against the majority of MSM sources, while listening to a single MSM source, and claim their opponents are brainwashed by MSM. Or, like Trump pretending like he wasn't the government, while holding the most powerful position in government, and his cultists being fine with him, the government, firing, or threatening to fire, federal employees that said things he didn't like. That's the government punishing people for what they say. Meanwhile, they complain about private companies making their own choices, and screaming like it's a violation of free speech. Or, like when they make out that they're the ones who are most like the founders, and defending freedom. But, the founders protested, rioted, and even went to war, over taxes that specifically funded the police/military and a lack of representation ... which is anti-authoritarianism ... while their opponents fought against democracy to keep an unelected ruler in power ... which is authoritarianism. It's BLM that's more like the founders, and Capitol insurrectionists who are more like the Loyalists. They believe the complete opposite of reality, and head directly into what they think they're moving away from.
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  13489. How would letting Trump win "piss off the establishment"? MAGA is part of the establishment, and supports IL even harder. She has zero chance of winning.
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  13490. It depends on what the MRI is for. My son just had one same day, when the doctor suspected a blood clot.
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  13491.  @Emjaemidd  What are you blathering about, dumb dumb?
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  13492.  @SmileskingSoto  Public option turns expanding Medicare into a premium, not a tax, one that competes with private insurance, one that you can opt in or out of. Hence the word "option".
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  13493.  @SmileskingSoto  They will still need administrative people to work for an expanded Medicare, so your job loss estimate is likely way off. What Medicare wouldn't need is a profit margin, excessively paid execs, etc. While Yang is crying about job automation, how many jobs will he automate away with an automatic bank deposit taking over for government programs?
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  13494.  @SmileskingSoto  And how do you have "access", if you don't opt in? Yang isn't proposing universal government funding, nor is he making private non-profit healthcare mandatory for all, like in Germany, who also make it mandatory for municipalities to cover anyone who doesn't have private insurance.
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  13495.  @SmileskingSoto  Oh geez. I'm referring to not having to see caseworkers and such ... you know, the people administrating government assistance programs. Instead, you get an automated cheque, and they lose their job.
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  13496. They keep using VAERS, which is correlation reporting, not causation reporting. Then she ignores how many people have been vaccinated. Even if every VAERS death was caused by the vaccine, it would still be a death rate 100x lower than the virus. Something like 170m Americans have received at least 1 dose. If 170m Americans got covid, that would be about 17m deaths.
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  13497. That's the earliest you could replace people after a failed vote, as well, dimwit.
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  13498. *Batista (Trujillo was the Dominican fascist) The majority of Cubans in Florida are former Batista officials, military, supporters, those who got rich under fascism, or their descendants. They haven't forgot. They simply liked the fascists, like him and Trujillo.
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  13499.  @schiffelers3944  In the beginning ... hence why I said, if you miss the train going 100mph to your destination. The Bernie train was missed.
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  13500.  @schiffelers3944  Whatever, that train left the station, and there were only two viable options left.
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  13501.  @schiffelers3944  What are you blathering about? Do you want to take the third party route, that hasn't won the most popular third party a single seat in congress in its near 50 year existence? Let's say you somehow make a progressive party that's so popular, you peel away all the progressive votes from the Dems. Then you've got votes split between Dems and progressives, and let Republicans rule for decades. You know "vote blue" works both ways, right ... that Dems who vote against progressives in the primaries vote for them in the general, allowing them to beat Republicans? Without that, elections would look like Dem primaries vs Republican generals.
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  13502.  @schiffelers3944  What don't you get? Third parties aren't viable in the current system, and you can't change the system from the outside. No amount of told you sos is going to change that.
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  13503.  @schiffelers3944  The questions are, until you get enough progressives in congress to make changes, do you want them to be part of a minority party, and do you want to avoid going outright backwards under Republicans?
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  13504.  @schiffelers3944  What don't you get about the absolute fact that the red will keep voting red no matter who, and all you will have done is split the blue vote in two, let them win almost everywhere, and for decades to come? The system needs to be changed, first. It is beyond moronic to promote the left splitting off from Democrats, while there's a unified right. And, your wrong. There is next to no momentum. Third parties got fewer votes in 2020 than in 2016.
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  13505.  @schiffelers3944  Rofl. You sound like the dumbass comedian who promoted Trump, whom he acknowledged was a fascist, as the better option than Clinton, because it would lead to a progressive wave backlash that would "for sure" take the house and senate by 2018 and the presidency in 2020. And that there was little risk, because he was so bad that even Republicans would join the left to vote against a Trump agenda, and Trump filling multiple scotus seats was as likely as the moon falling into Lake Michigan. None of that happened. Progressives aren't running any branch of government. Republicans joined him in overt fascism. He filled multiple scotus seats, as well as hundreds of judicial seats across the country. Your broken eggs are people. Republicans still want to throw 10m of the poorest Americans off of Medicaid expansion. They all voted against more covid relief.
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  13506.  @uncomfortabletruth5915  It's more like the virus is the one trying to murder, or harm, people, and the anti-maskers/anti-vaxxers are people against laws to try and stop the murderer, fighting against precautions to try and stop the murderer, etc. So, accomplices to the murderer.
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  13507.  @uncomfortabletruth5915  Oh geezus. You know analogies aren't literal, right? No, it succeeds by replicating, and can do so by spreading to new hosts.
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  13508.  @uncomfortabletruth5915  You're the dimwit that doesn't seem to grasp a simple analogy about: X is killing and harming people, and Y doesn't want to take measures to stop X.
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  13509.  discorperted  Nonsense. It's based on the freedom paradox. If there were no laws, and everyone was free to do whatever they wanted, you'd end up with a less free society. Likewise, if you tolerate intolerance, you end up with a less tolerant society.
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  13510. Palestinians have Canaanite DNA, dumb dumb. They're natives. "Arab" is much like "Hispanic". Arabians didn't literally genocide all populations and replace them with people from a tiny desert nation. The bulk of the populations were simply Arabized. Religion, on the other hand, is not tied to DNA. The natives simply converted to Christianity and then Islam, somewhere along the way. Those natives, however, didn't go on a tour of Europe and Russia for 1700 years.
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  13511.  @seanhovan7426  I don't watch "liberal" media. Oh, I can't wait until right wingers prove there was a lab leak, and that the US funded it, so the rest of the world can sue their pants off. Bankrupt America to own the libs!!!
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  13512. Likud was created by Zionist terrorist, Menachem Begin, who bombed Palestinian markets and other public places, murdering many Palestinian civilians, including children, even including Palestinian Jews (who opposed Zionism), and bombed the King David Hotel. The other founder was Ariel Sharon, war criminal, who massacred Palestinian villages. Their initial platform stated that their goal was for Israel to rule from the sea to the Jordan (reverse of, from the river to the sea). Netanyahu has proven that that still seems to be the goal, with the endless colonization of the West Bank. Netanyahu also promoted, and helped fund, Hamas, to weaken the Palestinian Authority and avoid possible peace, so he could continue his colonization projects. The end of violence would mean that Israel might have to pull back, plus allow the right of return for Palestinian refugees. Peace is against Likud's interests. So, why not the exact same demand that Likud be removed?
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  13513. Maybe he's secretly a Canadian from the Maritimes. Very first girl. https://youtu.be/nXkamp46eZI
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  13514.  @smileydavis73  Nope. I know what the word means. And I know the word doesn't describe what the channel promotes. That only leaves the possibility of you not knowing what the word means, dumb dumb.
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  13515.  @jakeroper1096  Israel is objectively the aggressor by every relevant measure, dumb dumb ... Modern history: 100 years ago, in 1923, Ze'ev Jabotinsky fully acknowledged that Zionism is colonialism, and that, based on the entirety of history, the natives would fight it until the bitter end. He just didn't care what would happen to them, and promoted doing it anyway. Colonizers are never not the aggressors. On top of the colonialist nature of Zionism, the Zionists also formed terrorist organizations, like the Irgun and Lehi. They bombed many Palestinian markets and other public places, murdering many civilians, including children, even including Palestinian Jews (who opposed Zionism). Israel merged those terrorists into the new nation's military and intelligence agencies. Israelis elected Menachem Begin, leader of the Irgun, child murderer, Jew murderer, and bomber of the King David Hotel, as PM. Israelis, to this day, celebrate those terrorists as "heroes". Zionists literally taught their neighbours that terrorism is a valid path to independence and statehood, and that terrorists are to be celebrated. In 1945, it is well documented that Zionists owned just 5% of the land and were a majority nowhere. Israel was formed by actually going against the majority population. It's foundation is completely undemocratic. Then, becoming a majority, in "their" new nation, by ethnic cleansing the actual majority, and then claiming to be democratic, is utter nonsense. Law: Israel is considered an occupier by the International Court, the UN GA, and the UN SC. Occupiers are also never not the aggressors. Those occupied actually have a right to resist occupation. On the flip side, it is illegal for the occupier to settle occupied lands, and illegal to use collective punishment. Israel is a rogue nation, that doesn't abide by international law. What it has been doing, and is doing now, is illegal. Current events: This year, alone, prior to Oct 7 ... Israel held over 1200 Palestinian hostages without charges ... over 200 Palestinians had been killed by the IDF and settlers ... over 1000 Palestinians had been displaced by Israel's neverending colonization of the West Bank ... and, Israel continued to operate an open air WWII style fascist ghetto, in Gaza. Even ignoring modern history and law, in no reality did Hamas "start" anything.
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  13516.  jetpowercom  You really only have to compromise your values, if your the aggressor, which is the colonialist occupier, Israel. Btw, they ethnically cleansed most of the majority Palestinians from within Israel proper, have never let them return, and don't allow those in occupied territories to vote for the actual authority over them. They're as democratic as Nazi Germany after Hitler purged his political opponents and then held elections.
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  13517.  @shermansmith9408  The moron stands outside courtrooms and "defends" himself from bank fraud, for overvaluing, by instead insisting he committed massive tax fraud, by undervaluing by over a billion dollars.
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  13518. ​ @Bobsbusters  Nazis are the ones operating the open air WWII style fascist ghetto, dumb dumb, not the ones living in it.
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  13519. Shame on you for not blaming the one creating the refugees.
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  13520. What a lying bitch. First the Comfort had to be converted, so wasn't accepting any patients. Then they, and the Central Park field hospital, weren't supplied with medication, so they only accepted limited numbers of patients and required they be sent from hospitals with medicine. NYC hospitals are hitting capacity, and have been trying to send more patients to both, with most transfers being denied. https://nypost.com/2020/04/09/usns-comfort-and-javits-center-mostly-empty-amid-coronavirus/
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  13521. Wtf? Fascism and Nazism are political ideologies, not cultures. The only thing keeping the US, especially Republicans, from being all out fascist, has been keeping things on the undemocratic side of the line from being anti-democratic. Republicans have crossed that line, and wanted to overthrow the democratic process. Nazism is fascism on steroids, with added white Christian supremacy.
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  13522.  @jumpinjohnnyruss  In your "expert" skeptical opinion, how many decades should everyone have waited, as hundreds of thousands of people died every year or developed long term health issues, to see what happened to the trials subjects?
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  13523.  @sawyerrice3244  And? Morphine is also FDA approved. The FDA didn't approve popping oxy like candy, or shooting up morphine for kicks.
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  13524.  @jumpinjohnnyruss  Surely you're not encouraging completely ignorant skepticism, simply for the sake of it.
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  13525.  @NewNormalWorldOrder  Yeah.
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  13526.  @NewNormalWorldOrder  No, nutbar. As in his grandfather, Darwin's bulldog, who didn't believe unevidenced bullshit, and followed the science.
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  13527.  @LadyMistborn  I was talking about when it first came out. Do you have reading comprehension problems?
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  13528. Agnosticism basically is a one word description for more modern religious skepticism (no room for the gods of past skeptics).
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  13529.  The Greater Good  Dimwit. It was Trump's DoJ that said Epstein killed himself. The AP is non profit, and has been calling elections since 1948, with certification simply being a formality. And, scientists, doctors, and governments, across the world, have been saying the virus is deadly, and if you think they're all in league together then, yes, you're a nutbar.
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  13530.  Bernie Family  How much crack are you smoking?
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  13531.  Bernie Family  You know the first idiot was being sarcastic, and thinks all that stuff is fake news, right?
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  13532. Trump will withhold aid to Israel, until the corruption is investigated, right?
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  13533.  @repolarrepolar9833  "Woman" comes from "wifman", wife of man. That would mean all the single ladies aren't "women" and all the men married to men are.
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  13534.  @repolarrepolar9833  You lot seem to be pervs. You've been perfectly fine with the thousands of underage breast enhancement surgeries, for years. You lot apparently like underage girls getting bigger boobs, but just don't like them getting no boobs.
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  13535.  @repolarrepolar9833  Weird, right wingers never mention those surgeries, and haven't had a problem with them, for 20+ years. How many times do you post on social media about underage breast enhancement?
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  13536.  @repolarrepolar9833  Because, I expected you already knew the first usage, dumb dumb, that's why. Right, and there's no context to simply asking the definition of a woman, dumb dumb. There are multiple definitions.
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  13537.  @repolarrepolar9833  Pretty sure biologists tends to use sex, rather than gender, dumb dumb.
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  13538.  @repolarrepolar9833  Right, and some of those billions of women, don't match with their biological sex, but are still women, dumb dumb. Just like a vehicle can have multiple wheels or no wheels.
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  13539.  @jamesgreene6207  Aside from the over a million circumcisions, per year, in the US, there are close to 90 thousand minors getting plastic surgery, of some kind. It's been going on for decades, now. Right wing loons haven't made a peep about it.
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  13540.  @Squeedow  Yep. Glad you're cool with some of the newer dictionary and legal definitions.
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  13541.  @repolarrepolar9833  Already did, dumb dumb.
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  13542.  @repolarrepolar9833  You feel that gender and sex should be the same thing, dumb dumb. Objectively, gender terminology hasn't had to match biological sex, for millennia. The vast majority of Abrahamic believers worship a sexless, penisless, god that uses masculine gender terminology. People have used feminine gender terminology to describe sexless, vaginaless, ships, cars, etc., since they've existed. Gender represents a persona, that often matches biological sex, but doesn't have to.
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  13543.  @sugadagud3093  If a third party can't get the support of 25k people, in 20 states, and get a $1 donation out of each of them, then they aren't really viable. Thinking they are is just a fantasy. If they can get past that bar, the bill actually gives them more money to help get themselves elected than they'd have without the bill's matching funds.
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  13544. You thought Biden, not Bernie, was going to be the next FDR? Who did you think Bernie was like, then?
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  13545.  @grabman1927  Rofl, oh the MSM. So, likely no progressives, here, nor someone like CW. Bernie has never hid that he caucuses with Democrats, and never hid the fact that he's a harm reductionist, who considers Republicans the most harmful. He did exactly what he said he was going to do, if he lost the primary, both times. Only idiots expected him to not do what he said he'd do.
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  13546.  @aramaswa4  There have been hundreds of accounts of Syrian chemical weapons use since 2012. There have been dozens of UN first round investigations, that don't assign blame, with zero dissenting opinions. There have been dozens of follow up investigations assigning blame to Syria. There have been hundreds of victim witnesses. There have been dozens of healthcare worker witnesses. There have been multiple NGO witnesses, including Doctors Without Borders. There have been independent investigations. There are multiple legal human rights groups investigating and building cases for victims. In 2018 alone, there was another chemical weapons attack just the month before. Its investigation had zero dissenting opinions. It had a follow up investigation assigning blame on Syria, with zero dissenting opinions. 2 dissenting opinions on a single investigation doesn't debunk that investigation, let alone all the others. Plus, the bombing started before inspectors even made it to the sites to be investigated, the final report didn't assign blame as per Russian security council demands, and it didn't come out until almost a year later. The UN investigation had absolutely nothing to do with the decision to bomb Syria. Dore and Mate are making much ado about nothing. Aaron's Syrian "scandal" article could have been written by anyone from anywhere in the world, with Wikipedia and a penchant for leaving out bits they don't like. Dore knobs are as dumb as a bag of doorknobs.
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  13547.  @sergeikhripun  So, ditch all laws, all rules of the road, all safety regulations, all warning labels, all recommended dosages, etc., etc., etc.?
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  13548.  @adaminfinity1733  At dosages much higher than those humans can take, ffs. You can probably pour some bleach in a petri dish and stop replication, as well. Peru has one of the, if not the, highest uses of Ivermectin in the world, and also has the highest covid death rate in the world. India gave Ivermectin a go, and stopped, because they found it provided no benefit. Many medical agencies, around the world, advise against using it as a covid treatment. Manufacturers advise against using it as a covid treatment. Ivermectin "studies" have been found to be outright fraudulent, and pulled from publications. There are also other studies showing it does nothing, or even makes things worse. Doesn't the fact that a number of medical agencies, and the media, have stated that Fluvoxamine looks promising, defeat the narrative that they've been working against Ivermectin, and increase their reliability in saying Ivermectin is useless, or at least unproven?
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  13549.  @adaminfinity1733  Campbell is outright wrong, that one country's excess mortality rate can be used to relfect what's going on in other countries. The US' excess mortality rate, for example, is actually higher than their covid deaths. Something completely different is going on. That's a very silly mistake, if that's what it was. He was seemingly wrong to say that covid "contributed" to deaths, in that third number. It literally said "with covid", on the paper. The number the government, and media, uses is the second number, for dying due to covid. The third number means some 20k people died "with covid" but not due to covid. And making some big fuss about comorbidity numbers that have been out, all along, and deaths with comorbidities widely talked about, all along, was ridiculous. This was a bullshit video, pandering to certain types of morons, exactly like Jimmy.
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  13550.  @adaminfinity1733  Well, isn't that nice. He has one video covid minimizers can pass around, and one that clarifies things. I'm sure the clarification will be just as viral. Vaccines still lower your chances of even catching covid, in the first place, by 7x. Fluvoxamine does not. And, the hospitalizations for vaccinated breakthroughs are 17x lower, rather than Fluvoxamine's 3x lower. Fluvoxamine shouldn't be considered a replacement for vaccines, just an additional treatment.
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  13551.  @adaminfinity1733  Are you assuming they wouldn't be massively higher, if nobody was vaccinated, dimwit? Plus, Puerto Rico isn't another country, ffs. You sound like Dumpty, always forgetting Puerto Rico is part of the US.
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  13552.  @jgmediting7770  Which such information?
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  13553.  @tn2378  Campbell was wrong to state that UK numbers could indicate what was going on in other countries. The US excess mortality is higher than the covid deaths. If you're going to take it at face value, like that, then the US is undercounting covid deaths. But, you can't really take excess mortality at face value. You have to calculate all the pluses and minuses for other causes of death, to find out if the covid deaths are over, or under, counted. All the mask wearing, etc., could have reduced deaths, due to other viruses. The lockdowns could have reduced deaths due to work related accidents. That second number, is the official number, used by the government and media. It's deaths with covid listed as the cause. Unless, you go through and do the excess mortality calculations, nothing really refutes this number. There's nothing incompatible with the first and second numbers, unless you really breakdown the excess mortality and show that they are. Campbell also misrepresented the third number. It said, on the paper, "with covid", not that covid "contributed" to the death. The other video, that Matt mentions, shows how a cause of death report is filled out. Putting covid in the bottom section doesn't mean covid "contributed" to the death, just that they had covid. Putting covid in the top section means covid was considered to have contributed to the death (which is the second number). The difference between the second and third number means some 20k people, that had covid, died of other things, and the covid wasn't listed as contributing to the death. There's nothing incompatible with the second and third numbers. And, Campbell making out like the government and media haven't been reporting that comorbidities increase your odds of dying, all along, was pure bullshit.
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  13554. "Forcing the vote" doesn't actually guarantee you a vote. Pelosi, and corporate Dems, could let progressives go ahead and paralyze the house and then blame progressives for no new covid relief, no minimum wage increase, no Medicare age decrease, and whatever else that would make progressives look bad in the eyes of the people. Or, if Dore is right, in that corporate Dems would rather work with Republicans than progressives, that actually goes against his plan, because it reduces the leverage. Pelosi, and corporate Dems, could make a quiet deal with Republicans, in exchange for enough of them abstaining or being absent, to reduce the threshold needed to win, simply dodging the progressive threat and pushing corporate Dems and Republicans closer together.
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  13555.  Julius Rosenberg  Are you saying all Jews are like Levin? That's weird. I thought most were liberals.
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  13556.  Julius Rosenberg  "Host country"? You mean the country they were born and raised in, and are citizens of? Levin isn't even liberal, in that sense.
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  13557. ​ @skontheroad  Would being in Israel, somehow change the fact that the Balfour declaration converted immigration Zionism into colonialist Zionsim? Change the fact that Ze'ev Jabotinsky fully acknowledged that Zionism is colonialism, in his 1923 The Iron Wall? Change the fact that followers of Ze'ev formed the Irgun and Lehi terrorist groups? Change that they bombed numerous Palestinian markets and other public places, murdering many Palestinian civilians, including children, including Palestinian Jews who didn't support colonialist Zionsim? Change that the Lehi tried to ally with the Nazis against Britain? Change that they fought against the British all through WWII? Change that they assassinated British diplomats and bombed the King David Hotel? Change that they were involved in multiple massacres, during the Nakba? Change that Israel merged those terrorists into their military and intelligence agencies? Change that the leaders of those terrorist groups founded Likud, or that Israelis elected both terrorist leaders as PMs? Change that Israelis, to this day, celebrate those terrorists as "heroes"? Change that Likud's platform, "between the sea and the Jordan there will only be Israeli sovereignty", promises to completely colonize and ethnically cleanse all Palestine territories? Change that all Palestine territories are officially considered occupied, by the International Court of Justice, the UN GA, and the UN SC, making them responsible for all occupied territories, as the actual authority over those places and people? Change the fact that they've been illegally colonizing the West Bank for decades? Change the fact that they're operating an open air WWII style fascist ghetto, in Gaza? Change that they have as much "right to defend themselves" as Nazis had a "right to defend themselves" from the Warsaw ghetto uprising? How would being in Israel, change any of that?
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  13558. ​ @semsemeini7905  Israel is objectively the aggressor by every relevant measure. You just support their aggression. Stop being a coward, and just say you're cool with colonizing, ethnic cleansing, and occupying, Palestinians.
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  13559. ​ @pjmonglover6207  The Romans put a lot of work into Palestine, they had even okayed the rebuilding of the second temple, brought roads, aqueducts, sanitation, etc. Some Jews still rebelled, raping, pillaging, murdering, even genociding entire towns, and accounts of them parading around wearing the skins of their victims, using entrails as belts. Were those Jews just anti-Italian?
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  13560. ​ @pjmonglover6207  All or part of the region has been called Palestine, since the Egyptians, dumb dumb.
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  13561. Hahaha, funny link! thefreedictionary Atheos + -ist [1565–75; < Greek áthe(os) godless (a- a-6 + -theos, adj. derivative of theós god) + -ist] dictionary.reference Atheos + -ist 1565–75; < Greek áthe ( os ) godless + -ist Cambridge online dictionary Atheos + -ist "someone who believes that God does not exist"
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  13562.  @Arnez109  There can still be differences between two politicians in a similar political vicinity. Mussolini was better than Hitler. They weren't samesies.
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  13563. ​ @II-wu7mx  Well ... the US, capital L, Libertarians, or Any Rand style Objectivists, are in favor of keeping the justice system and military to protect their property and class. Things would be similar to the early conflicts with workers, where they'd call in the cops, national guard, or hire private strike breakers, because there'd be no laws protecting a workers, only laws protecting the owners' private properties. Not exactly "antistatist". And, anarcho-capitalism devolves into feudalism. Without any authority above them, large private property owners, or corporations, would resolve disputes privately, with their own private armies. They'd make rules for living on their property. They'd set whatever fees they want for living on their property. Etc. And, they'd effectively become their own privately owned and operated state. Also not exactly "antistatist".
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  13564. Why did you drop the a- in agnostic? The proposition would be "no Gods" = no knowledge of "no gods".
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  13565. Maher is skipping some history. https://www.jewishvirtuallibrary.org/quot-the-iron-wall-quot
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  13566. Morons. Sanders has an average net worth for people over 55, and wants to tax even himself. He's not a hypocrite. Bezos is a billionaire leech on society, who only claims 80k a year in income, so that he doesn't have to pay for the infrastructure that helped make him rich, doesn't have to pay for the military that protects shipping lanes and corporate interests abroad, and doesn't have to pay for healthcare or social security for the elderly. As do most billionaires. The rest of society gets to pay for those things for them.
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  13567. ​ @raaid85  What a load of nonsense. Ukraine was looking to join the EU. Then, Rvssia implemented an Eastern trade blockade against them, until their President flipped and decided not to sign. The people, who voted to join the EU, the parliament who voted to join the EU, then protested. Why would the US plan a protest, when it looked like Ukraine was going to join the EU? When he didn't sign, how did the US pay for massive protests, within a day?
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  13568. ​ @raaid85  Rofl! The leaders of the Donbass rebels were Rvssians, and they received arms, manpower, and funding from Rvssia.
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  13569. Do you even know what you replied to? Tojo was replying to cake believers vs pie believers, asking about a middle ground.
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  13570.  @SarfrazKhan-r4i  Help yourself.
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  13571.  @alexcampbell4297  You can find Jabotinsky's writings, Likud's 1970s platform, the changing demographics of Israel-Palestine, and some early mandate documents, on the Jewish Virtual Library. There are also mandate documents on The Balfour Project. You can search the British Hansard for mandate era parliament discussions. Google (NYT Einstein letter). Wiki (1945 village statistics scans, plus a bunch more ... like with any Wiki stuff, make sure they're sourced properly).
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  13572. ​ @UnknownHumanOnline  You can copy comments if you load YouTube through a browser, instead of the app.
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  13573. Overriding a presidential veto.
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  13574. You're talking about the Merck pill, Kyle, not the Pfizer pill. Don't go down the lying and misinformation path that Dore is going down.
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  13575. What?
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  13576. @Brbpeanuts1  Rofl. You think an invaded country will only use their standing military? 😆 You haven't paid much attention to the past 20 years.
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  13577. ​ @KrazyManuel  The world wasn't created on Oct 7. Israel is objectively the aggressor, by every relevant measure... Modern history: 100 years ago, in 1923, Ze'ev Jabotinsky fully acknowledged that Zionism is colonialism, and that, based on the entirety of history, the natives would fight it until the bitter end. He just didn't care what would happen to them, and promoted doing it anyway. Colonizers are never not the aggressors. On top of the colonialist nature of Zionism, the Zionists also formed terrorist organizations, like the Irgun and Lehi. They bombed many Palestinian markets and other public places, murdering many civilians, including children, even including Palestinian Jews (who opposed Zionism). Israel merged those terrorists into the new nation's military and intelligence agencies. Israelis elected Menachem Begin, leader of the Irgun, child murderer, Jew murderer, and bomber of the King David Hotel, as PM. Israelis, to this day, celebrate those terrorists as "heroes". Zionists literally taught their neighbours that terrorism is a valid path to independence and statehood, and that terrorists are to be celebrated. In 1945, it is well documented that Zionists owned just 5% of the land and were a majority nowhere. Israel was formed by actually going against the majority population. It's foundation is completely undemocratic. Then, becoming a majority, in "their" new nation, by ethnic cleansing the actual majority, and then claiming to be democratic, is utter nonsense. Law: Israel is considered an occupier by the International Court, the UN GA, and the UN SC. Occupiers are also never not the aggressors. Those occupied actually have a right to resist occupation. On the flip side, it is illegal for the occupier to settle occupied lands, and illegal to use collective punishment. Israel is a rogue nation, that doesn't abide by international law. What it has been doing, and is doing now, is illegal. Current events: This year, alone, prior to Oct 7 ... Israel held over 1200 Palestinian hostages without charges ... over 200 Palestinians had been killed by the IDF and settlers ... over 1000 Palestinians had been displaced by Israel's neverending colonization of the West Bank ... and, Israel continued to operate an open air WWII style fascist ghetto, in Gaza. Even ignoring modern history and law, in no reality did Hamas "start" anything.
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  13578.  @youtube.censor.not.reacting  Point out where ... Modern history: 100 years ago, in 1923, Ze'ev Jabotinsky fully acknowledged that Zionism is colonialism, and that, based on the entirety of history, that the natives would fight it until the bitter end. He just didn't care what would happen to them, and promoted doing it anyway. Colonizers are never not the aggressors. On top of the colonialist nature of Zionism, the Zionists also formed terrorist organizations, like the Irgun and Lehi. They bombed many Palestinian markets and other public places, murdering many civilians, including children, even including Palestinian Jews (who opposed Zionism). Israel merged those terrorists into the new nation's military and intelligence agencies. Israelis elected Menachem Begin, leader of the Irgun, child murderer, Jew murderer, and bomber of the King David Hotel, as PM. Israelis, to this day, celebrate those terrorists as "heroes". Zionists literally taught their neighbours that terrorism is a valid path to independence and statehood, and that terrorists are to be celebrated. In 1945, it is well documented that Zionists owned just 5% of the land and were a majority nowhere. Israel was formed by actually going against the majority population. It's foundation is completely undemocratic. Then, becoming a majority, in "their" new nation, by ethnic cleansing the actual majority, and then claiming to be democratic, is utter nonsense. Law: Israel is considered an occupier by the International Court, the UN GA, and the UN SC. Occupiers are also never not the aggressors. Those occupied actually have a right to resist occupation. On the flip side, it is illegal for the occupier to settle occupied lands, and illegal to use collective punishment. Israel is a rogue nation, that doesn't abide by international law. What it has been doing, and is doing now, is illegal. Current events: This year, alone, prior to Oct 7 ... Israel held over 1200 Palestinian hostages without charges ... over 200 Palestinians had been killed by the IDF and settlers ... over 1000 Palestinians had been displaced by Israel's neverending colonization of the West Bank ... and, Israel continued to operate an open air WWII style fascist ghetto. Even ignoring modern history and law, in no reality did Hamas "start" anything.
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  13579.  @srsmopar3808  Who is operating an open air WWII style fascist ghetto, dumb dumb? All Palestinian territories are considered occupied by the International Court, the UN GA, and the UN SC. Israel controls the borders, airspace, ports, electricity, water, almost everything that goes in and out, and Bibi even controls the funding from Qatar.
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  13580. ​ @youtube.censor.not.reacting  Due to mandatory service, almost every single Israeli is, was, or will be, a militant, trained to kill, occupy, and help colonize, Palestinians. Be careful what you justify, racist.
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  13581. ​ @youtube.censor.not.reacting  Do you not know the difference between immigration and colonialism? Are you really that dumb?
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  13582.  @MBEG89  Stop using the native Palestinian Jews, that Zionist terrorists murdered alongside other Palestinians, as place holders. They opposed Zionism.
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  13583.  @youtube.censor.not.reacting  Umm, Israel is the Germany, colonizer and occupier, operator of an open air WWII style fascist ghetto.
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  13584.  @66gtb  Both the Sykes-Picot agreement, and the Balfour declaration, were not accepted by Hussein, because he felt they violated the war agreement, between Britain and those who rose up against the Ottomans. None of the other countries, you're referring to, were created for a colonialist enterprise.
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  13585.  @misterknee  The right of fighting against the Ottomans for what you said, in writing, that you'd give them?
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  13586.  @bernadettesullivan6036  What are you blathering about?
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  13587.  @MBEG89  They don't have a right of return, like Jews.
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  13588.  @Sardarji-bq6oj  Jews had been living with them for 1300 years, dimwit.
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  13589.  @igorl46  Blah blah blah, same moronic bullshit , over and over ... both Palestinians and Jews have Canaanite DNA. Religion, language, and culture, isn't tied to genetics. Palestinians are natives that never left. They simply converted, and were Arabized, along the way. If you go wandering off for 1700 years, and "come back", you're "coming back" as colonizers, and murdering and ethnic cleansing your own people. Plus, you idiots pick a very specific 500 year period. Egypt was the first nation to rule over the land of Canaan. Why not give it back to Egypt, if you want to reset the world back thousands of years?
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  13590.  G B  Rofl. Crowder was peddling election fraud lies, supporting attempts to overthrow the democratic process and install an unelected dictator. He is a fascist. Denazification isn't itself fascism, ffs.
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  13591.  G B  An impeachment still leads to an elected VP becoming president. That's a false equivalency to trying to completely overthrow the democratic process and install an unelected dictator.
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  13592. When did he supposedly come up with a new American Families Plan? He just presented it to the joint congress on April 28 and a public option, negotiating down prices, free community college, were all listed as parts of it, on the 29th ... https://www.whitehouse.gov/briefing-room/statements-releases/2021/04/29/fact-sheet-the-american-families-plan-will-support-children-teachers-and-working-families-in-rural-america/
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  13593. English/Norman Christians conquer, occupy, colonize, oppress, ethnically cleanse, and genocide, the Irish. 15 million people starve to death (genocide), under Christian British rule in India (occupation, colonization, ethnic cleansing, oppression). Christian British colonies enslave, ethnically cleanse, and genocide, people. The Christian British also created this ethnic cleansing, colonizing, occupying, Zionist nation, that is causing global tensions. Etc. UK granny says Muslims bad.
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  13594. Meh. If you're rich, and don't want to be in jail, just pay the $50 from your pocket change. If you're too poor to pay $50, then you have to try for doubles, or spend 3 turns in jail. Monopoly is kinda like real life.
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  13595. How is stating the fact that he's for a public option rather than M4A a "smear"? How about if I point out the absolute fact that businesses get their input VAT credited back to them in VAT systems, meaning it's also a fact that his claim a VAT will force Amazon to "pay their fair share" is completely false? Is that a "smear"? How about the absolute fact that, if you don't actually tax Amazon, whose share of US consumer spending is 2%, and then hand US consumers $3t, then you'll only make Amazon an extra $60b a year? Is that a "smear"? How about the absolute fact that some very poor people are already getting $1000+ in government assistance, of a type that Yang doesn't have stack with UBI, so them having to pay 10% more for phones, phone service, internet service, any entertainment with a cost, personal hygiene products, household cleaning products, home maintenance, vehicle maintenance, and all kinds of things not considered staples, will leave them worse off with Yang? Is that a "smear"?
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  13596. The definition of God is it's own long debate. lol
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  13597. Well, it is based on the end times, and the second coming, story. Ironically, the first people that get destroyed, in the end times story, are the people of Israel. So, evangelical "support" is actually them trying to hurry up events that lead to the destruction of Israel.
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  13598. ​@@everyisnaadisfabricated3784Anti-Nazi did not mean anti-German. Anti-Fascist did not mean anti-Italian. Once they dropped their fascism and Nazism, most people were generally fine with them.
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  13599.  @m0ckingB1rd42  Lol, yes, I do believe they were true colonizers, dimwit. Hell, everyone traces back to Africa, so Africa can't possibly be colonized, by anyone? If I rounded up 6 million people from the Americas whose ancestors left England hundreds of years ago, "went back", claimed half of England, and cleansed "our" half of its current inhabitants (at least enough so that us "returnees" would be in a solid majority, so we can fake being democratic), we'd be colonizers. How has Liberia turned out? It is now a majority native (never left) African. Would Israel be cool with that? Peace, and full right of return, for all Palestinians?
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  13600. @trollnerd When It comes to solutions, I never said to kick the Jews out. I'm for a single state solution, with a split Lebanon style government, and a right of return for Palestinian refugees. Nobody gets any ethnic cleansing dreams, like that Bezalel Smotrich loon, that Netanyahu put in charge of the West Bank. The guy made public a plan to segregate and subjugate (no federal representation), exile, or kill, any non Jews in all of Israel/Palestine. Even worse, being a religious nut, he thinks Israel is actually "god given" land and he has a Biblical based fairy tale map of "Israel", that includes parts of Jordan, Syria, and Lebanon.
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  13601.  @kristian1115  Only Israel has the power to actually accomplish a genocide. Bezalel Smotrich, who Netanyahu put in charge of the West Bank, made public a plan to segregate and subjugate (no federal representation), exile, or kill, any non Jews in all of Israel/Palestine. Plus, he's a religious nut whose map of "Israel" is Bible based, or something, and includes parts of Jordan, Syria, and Lebanon. 100 years of ethnic cleansing ... but Hamas is the main problem. 🙄
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  13602. Anyone supporting Likud should be censured. Likud was founded by Menachem Begin, Irgun terrorist leader ... murderer of Palestinian men, women, and children ... murderer of Palestinian Jews who didn't support Zionism ... who bombed the King David Hotel. The other founder was Ariel Sharon, war criminal, who massacred Palestinian villages. Their original platform ... "The Right of the Jewish People to the Land of Israel (Eretz Israel) a. The right of the Jewish people to the land of Israel is eternal and indisputable and is linked with the right to security and peace; therefore, Judea and Samaria will not be handed to any foreign administration; between the Sea and the Jordan there will only be Israeli sovereignty." ... and there's no indication that Netanyahu has deviated from that goal. Anyone supporting Netanyahu and Likud, should be asked about the original platform.
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  13603.  @spikesmth  The guy was promoting that daughter's all meat diet, claiming it had cured all his mental and physical ailments. They are jokes, and dangerous ones.
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  13604. ​ @adee1626  Canada isn't Israel. The US doesn't give Canada military aid.
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  13605. ​ @mahealanihawaii9830  Our Commander in Chief is King Charles, dingus. Canada won't be alone.
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  13606. I already pointed out that Agnosticism isn't compatible with believing in Gods. If you believe, at all, you're a Theist. Agnosticism may very well be Skepticism, with regards to discussions about belief. The word Agnostic is rarely used in any other kinds of discussions. And, Huxley specifically assigned his label to the realm of belief. So, to now say Agnosticism has nothing to do with belief, is ridiculous.
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  13607. This is a Canadian conservative, btw.
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  13608.  @YisraeliTiger-ez7dy  yep
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  13609.  @YisraeliTiger-ez7dy  What what?
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  13610. Remember that this election's exit polls would be skewed towards more Republicans voting in person, which could give the appearance of more day of minorities voting Republican. Pew had a survey out in Oct 2020, and it showed relatively no gains with black or Hispanic Americans, for Republicans. They had made about a 5 point gain with "other", though.
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  13611. ​ @benb6527  The Irgun and Lehi terrorists targeted Palestinian Jews, alongside their Palestinian brothers and sisters, for not supporting colonialist Zionsim. You don't get to use people who didn't want you there, and that you murdered, as 1700 year old place holders. And, the Palestinians have Canaanite DNA. They're also the ancient Jews. Zionists have been slaughtering their own people, who never left and simply converted and were Arabized.
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  13612. How do you go about complimenting someone so badly?
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  13613. @UCQFsBtGMdRUVkP1neRbNCIA Firstly, 230 is based on previous supreme court rulings, dealing with bookstores, and other businesses. The bookstore wasn't liable for what was in books. A bookstore is also free to pick and choose what books it puts on its shelves, without making them editors or publishers. Just removing 230 wouldn't automatically make them liable, it would just make them sueable. You still likely wouldn't win the lawsuit. Secondly, even if you found some way to make them liable, then they'd remove any little thing they think could get them in legal trouble. It would increase their monitoring and removal of content, not decrease it.
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  13614.  @FleurPillager  Can one of you answer the question as to what's "morally wrong" with removing someone from your private property that you don't like?
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  13615. @Vann Siggi Did you bother reading my reply, that they replied to, and what the person I replied to, was arguing?
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  13616.  @portalarizona  What are you even talking about? Right wing conservative religious types have been cancelling things and people since forever. They have actually had the government do their cancelling, for them. They are the ones who have handed corporations so much power, and fight public ownership (which would give everyone free speech rights). The shoe is already on the other foot, and now they're crying about what they've created.
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  13617.  I only use this account when I get put in time out  Rofl. You must have a very limited knowledge of history. Millions were killed trying to cancel each other's religions, even each other's denominations. People were imprisoned, even executed, for being gay, being non religious, thinking the sun was the center of the galaxy, being "witches", for pre marital sex, for PDA, women wearing pants, for being unionists, for being socialists, etc., etc., etc. They still have a federal agency protecting their delicate sensibilities from naughty words and nipples. You idiots seriously think losing social media memberships, on platforms run by a giant corporations the right handed so much power to and billionaires who sure as hell aren't leftists, is even comparable?
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  13618.  @FleurPillager  Nobody is blocked from the airwaves, dimwit.
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  13619. What did he say? That he would date or marry her?
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  13620.  @keithdoherty9155  Get a grip. When groups of people in wheelchairs get together, they literally identify themselves and others as "walkies" and "wheelies". He is literally on wheels. The only "insult" was the "hot mess".
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  13621. Splitting the vote too much could lead to the greater "evil" ruling for decades, if not centuries, to come. How is that good?
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  13622. @Steven Prime The court did not rule on whether PP broke any laws. The only ones who have been charged with crimes, so far, are the ones who took the videos, which have been considered garbage in numerous other courts.
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  13623. @Steven Prime An HHS mission statement isn't science, medicine, or law, and the HHS is currently run by a pharma lobbyist. The mission statement immediately fails, by implying a fetus is an "American". Citizenship is something you get at birth, not before.
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  13624.  @texanbalaban6777  Well, even the dumbest of anti-immigrant asses, rants about pregnant foreign women having babies in the US. Why? Because they know citizenship is handed out at birth. My definition of "idiot" would include people even dumber than them. Likewise, if a pregnant American woman is travelling in Canada and gives birth, the baby will immediately get Canadian citizenship. If foreigners conceive while on US soil, and then head back to their home country, is the fetus American? Of course not.
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  13625. ​ @theywouldnthavetocensormei9231  Who is Vance, to determine whether someone is, or isn't, enjoying their life? He, and all of MAGA for that matter, seem miserable. Maybe they should all get less of a √°t€.
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  13626.  @theywouldnthavetocensormei9231 Less of a ... V ... O ... T ... E, dmwt.
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  13627. ​ @charisma-hornum-fries  Rofl, what "unicorn babies"? "Jun 7, 2023 — On Monday, a Toddler, Mohammed Tamimi, Died of Injuries He Suffered When an Israeli Soldier Shot Him in the Head, in Front of His Father."
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  13628.  @HelloSnowflake3  How is being found guilty of defamation, rape, and fraud, and getting booted out the Forbes billionaires' club he faked so hard to be in, "winning"?
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  13629.  @jds614  Oh, so because Native Americans hadn't filed the proper paperwork, with the proper authorities, they weren't actually colonized? Just how stupid are you?
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  13630. ​ @TheRedStateBlue  Native Americans assimilated? Not after 100 years, dimwit. It took 300 odd years, and practically annihilating them. That's what you're good with, here, because Palestinians have Canaanite DNA. They're native.
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  13631. He's lying. Amazon would only be collecting the tax on sales, then passing it along to the government. It's the consumers who pay the tax.
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  13632.  @l.l.-kz7mn  Spontaneous abrtns, aka miscarriages, show the hypocrisy of the "pro-life" crowd. Apparently, it's cool to outright worship what would be the leading abrtnst in existed, if it existed.
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  13633.  @Dan-ry8xg  And? Clinton conceded the same night. The majority of Democratic lawmakers didn't try to overthrow the democratic process. A mob of Democratic voters didn't storm the Capitol to try and overthrow the democratic process. No stream of defamation lawsuits. A year after, Democratic voters weren't waiting around for a resurrected Reagan to come reinstate Hillary. Yeah, totally samesies.
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  13634. Meh, that's kind of like saying you are "part" of your house, because you live in it, and then assigning your feelings to your house. Your house doesn't give a crap about you. Have a nice day.
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  13635.  @INHIAF  Also check tests per confirmed case rates. The US, itself, has had very low testing rates throughout the pandemic.
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  13636. ​ @nyc21282 Yes, it is.
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  13637. He's talking to the "socialist is in the name" crowd, and is likely one too. They don't even know they're Nazis. They're complete and utter morons, living in an alternate reality.
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  13638.  kissmyaxe531  Putin didn't pull out of Ukraine. Putin didn't stop providing funds, arms, and manpower, to violent groups in former SSR countries. Putin kept backing the Syrian government, and Russian mercenaries, against US forces and rebels it backed. Putin ignored Trump's sanctions on Iran (when he also handed Iran back its nuclear weapons program). Putin didn't give two sh*ts about Trump.
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  13639. Only a moron would think temporary measures are an actual move left.
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  13640.  @seto_kaiba_  Well, one side are complete and utter morons. Biden isn't a progressive, and even progressives haven't pushed policies that would move the US left of Denmark (centrism), and morons call him a "communist". On the other hand, Dumpty and the majority of Republicans in congress tried to overthrow the democratic process and install him as an unelected dictator, so ... yeah, fascist. Are you making out like "enlightened centrist" is rational? It's not, if it's denying objective reality. Hint: Israel is a colonizer, occupier, and also happens to be operating an open air WWII style fascist ghetto. Palestinians are reacting the way pretty much every colonized people in history have reacted. Both sides-ing the colonization of North America wouldn't be objective, dumb dumb.
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  13641.  @lopezjose476  No, it means I'm a Canadian who has been paying a VAT for 30 years, and owned a VAT registered business. A VAT is specifically designed to NOT tax businesses in order to avoid double taxation. Yang's VAT page was almost complete bullshit, including him not grasping a pass through rate study he linked to himself, which actually proved everything he was saying was bullshit.
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  13642.  @AcolyteOfLucifer  Nope. A VAT is specifically designed to NOT tax businesses in order to avoid double taxation ... which would be worse. The study Yang linked to outright showed a near 100% pass through on standard rated (20%) goods and services. It was only by including lesser rated (8%) and zero rated (0%) goods and services that the pass through rate dropped. Yang mistook that, or lied, to mean that businesses were paying a bunch of the VAT, when it actually meant that there was less tax, or no tax, on many things. Any other taxes you're referring to were peanuts. He had current taxes, which he argued himself that corporations were dodging, paying for about a third. He had a VAT, which corporations wouldn't pay, paying for about a third. And, he had a third starting in deficit.
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  13643.  @RealestUrbanism  So, we're agreed that Yang was clueless, or lying, when he said a VAT taxes corporations directly, and that he was clueless, or lying, when he said that pass through rate study showed corporations were paying for part of it. Now, you're making an argument, which Yang never made, that a VAT will reduce sales, reducing profits, and indirectly "tax" them? So, you're going to hand consumers $1000 a month, and you think it's going to reduce sales? That's sounds like a pretty dumb take.
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  13644.  @RealestUrbanism  Obviously a VAT generates revenue ... by taxing consumers, and not who Yang claimed it taxed. You've agreed he's clueless, or lying, which was my main argument. Then you pulled a new argument, that wasn't his, out of your ass. That's $10k/mo on VATable goods and services specifically, not simply $10k/mo. The people who spend that much on VATable goods and services are large savers. They won't reduce their spending, and change their lifestyles. They'll reduce how much they save a little. And the super rich would be making money of Yang's "plan", so they definitely wouldn't have to reduce their spending.
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  13645. If human beings wanted to be in a free universe, rather than a perfect universe, then why are so many trying to get into a perfect heaven, where they'll be stuck for the rest of eternity? There is no such thing as unlimited free speech, anywhere. Defamation is a speech crime. Threats are a speech crime. Conspiring to commit a crime, is a speech crime. Verbal harassment is a speech crime. Incitement is a speech crime. The weird thing about the US is that you can face legal consequences for harassing, threatening, defaming, an individual, but you can effectively harass, threaten, or defame, an entire group of people, all you want. Plus, spew an incredible amount of hate, publicly, guaranteed to incite someone. Hate speech tends to have to rise to a level of harrassment, threat, or incitement, for the law to get involved.
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  13646. The average net worth of people over 55 is $1+ million, moron.
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  13647.  @tamolamo4698  They likely thought you were a Trump supporter because you opened with a stupid simple to remember chant started by Trump cultists, dumb dumb.
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  13648. "When I reached intellectual maturity and began to ask myself whether I was an atheist, a theist, or a pantheist; a materialist or an idealist; Christian or a freethinker; I found that the more I learned and reflected, the less ready was the answer; until, at last, I came to the conclusion that I had neither art nor part with any of these denominations, except the last." ~ Huxley That sounds like he's ceating an exclusive stance, to me.
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  13649. Urban Dictionary: peekaboo Racist term used in white-supremacist circles to refer to a person of color, usually black, of upper or upper-middle class social standing. That uppity peekaboo thinks she can golf here just because she has money. by WhoKnowsWhoItCouldBe September 21, 2022
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  13650.  @allgoo1990  Yes, he was there to agree with Tucker. There's no policy debate to be had. It's a tactics debate, and spending all your time slandering the most progressive members of congress, is a bad tactic. Yes, making out like those who are fighting to add more M4A yes votes to congress, the very thing needed to ever pass the bill, are fakes, frauds, sellouts, or whatever crazy nonsense, is slander. Threatening to paralyze the house for a 100% guaranteed to fail performance art vote, had what value exactly, that was worth slandering anyone who didn't agree on the tactic? Why didn't getting a vote, and getting a list of no voters, on the $15, have value?
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  13651.  @allgoo1990  Just go look at the full segment that ended about Assange. Dore agreed with Tucker about Trump being removed from social media. No challenge, stating the fact that there's no such thing as free speech on someone else's private property, and that if they want free speech they should promote public ownership. No challenge, stating the fact that incitement isn't protected speech anyway. Then, and this is immediately before the second impeachment, Dore throws Tucker and his audience the off topic bone that he agrees with them that the first impeachment was "Russiagate". Then, he finally gets to Assange, and there's no disagreement there. They don't really give two craps about Assange, one way or the other, so all Dore was there to do was support some right wing bullshit.
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  13652. A "kraken" is a fictional thing. Them spouting fictional bullshit is the "kraken".
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  13653. Cuomo is as incompetent as Trump. New York is testing at a rate of 2 extra people per positive result. That's below the already pathetic US rate of testing 5 extra people per positive result. Countries that quickly contained the virus with mass testing, like S Korea, Australia, and New Zealand, have been testing at a rate of 50+ extra people per positive result. Countries that seem to be flattening, but not as quickly, like Norway and Iceland, are testing at a rate of 20+ extra people per positive result. Canada is testing at about 15 per, Germany 13 per, Italy 7 per, Spain 5 per, UK 4 per, France 3 per ... much of the developed world, and world leading countries, have failed miserably at virus containment. New York state has one of the worst testing rates in the world. The US is so far behind the virus, I don't think they can catch up to it.
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  13654. Per capita, China is putting out lower CO2 emissions than 40+ other countries. All the countries above them, when combined, have a similar population and far more total emissions. China is not the biggest problem country on the planet. Plus, they have created a carbon neutrality plan, and I believe are ahead of target.
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  13655.  @typhoon320i  A wealth tax worked for years. "Property tax" used to be a tax on all property owned, not just the value of land and buildings.
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  13656.  @typhoon320i  Moron, I explained it already. "Property tax" used to include taxes on every slave, every head of cattle, and other assets. Some states even taxed intangible assets.
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  13657.  @typhoon320i  The UK, and other countries, also have financial transaction taxes (stamp duty in the UK) on trading stocks, which has worked just fine for centuries now.
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  13658.  @typhoon320i  Yeah, it would be so hard to value stocks. Nobody can do it.
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  13659.  @typhoon320i  Oh yeah, let's close all the loopholes, so we can tax Musk's $1 Tesla income. That will solve everything.
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  13660.  @typhoon320i  Musk made about $140b, just last year. So, you're happy with him paying about 10% on what he makes in just one year, every ten years?
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  13661.  @typhoon320i  Yes he did. Banks consider those stocks to have value, without being cashed in. He can take out loans, lines of credit, against their current value. Why shouldn't everyone else consider them to have value, including the government, without being cashed in?
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  13662.  @typhoon320i  I didn't suggest he did. I said he could. Banks consider stocks to have current value, and will provide loans, lines of credit, against that current value. It's nonsensical for you, or the government, to pretend they don't have current value. Real estate is taxed at current market value. It is considered to have current value, without having to be sold. Like stocks, you can take out mortgages, lines of credit, against that current value. If real estate prices dropped, next year, or something happened to devalue your property, so be it. It doesn't change what you had to pay, this year. What are you even talking about? They're hoarding hundreds of billions. And, not just the large shareholders, the top 500 US corporations are simply hoarding some $4t dollars. Rofl, I would show that kind of commitment if, when I "paid taxes", I had the option to buy more $1000 stocks, at $6.24 a share, and actually increase my wealth, as I'm "paying taxes".
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  13663. ALL Theists believe and don't truly know. Calling them Agnostic Theists is redundant, is what I said. And, I didn't attach the skepticism personally. I've posted you the Huxley quote twice.
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  13664. Her mother lives in Florida, dimwit.
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  13665.  @kurkmalmala7056  Against MSM narrative? You mean against the consensus of doctors and scientists across the world, and against covid measures that have worked effectively in numerous other countries. Around 90% of doctors are vaccinated, in numerous countries. Australia's covid deaths per million would translate into about 30k total US covid deaths, instead of 850k. Canada's covid deaths per million would translate into about 250k total US covid deaths. Some 600-800k US deaths are due to incompetence and fighting covid measures that have worked well elsewhere. "Let" her mother live there? She lived there already. So you think people should move, if they don't like what the state leadership is doing? Does that apply to federal leadership, as well? Will you be leaving the country soon?
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  13666. ​ @melanieahrens6739  That, plus they pretty much always give the right wingers the last word. They say something ignrnt and pretend like they defeated her, hoping the even more ignrnt audience buys it.
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  13667.  @WraithWriter  Think you should have tagged the other guy, for that.
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  13668. What are you blathering about? Jordan has the largest Palestinian population, outside of Palestine territories. Over 2m Palestinian refugees. Also, Kuwait and Palestine made up. Countries are reluctant to take them, because they're never given their legal right of return, by Israel. They're forever refugees.
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  13669. The US's biggest issue is cost per capita. Top ranking healthcare, in countries whose total per capita costs are lower than what the US is currently spending on public healthcare: Australia, Japan, and Israel. Top ranking healthcare, in countries whose universal healthcare coverage public spending is lower than the US's current public spending: Canada, Switzerland, and Ireland. If the US could drastically cut costs, there wouldn't need to be any new taxes on anyone.
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  13670. Likud are a bunch of N-zis, but letting Trump win doesn't make sense. Then you'd have N-zis doing their thing in Palestine, Ukraine, and at home.
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  13671. Technically, it's only the vote counts that are 100% reported. The SDE count is still 99.55%, with 8 precincts to go, and Bernie only down 2 SDE. Most of the errors being looked at should go Bernie's way, too. They shouldn't even be tabulating national delegates yet. https://www.vox.com/2020/2/4/21123008/iowa-caucus-live-results-2020
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  13672. And let me try and fix what Yang is actually proposing ... A VAT is a tax on consumers, not the corporations. The corporations simply collect the tax and pass it along to government. Without a VAT: Amazon pockets $100 on a sale. With a VAT: Amazon collects $110, passes $10 to the government, and still pockets $100 on the sale.
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  13673.  @Shooting_Star-v2e  Robert Malone is a disgruntled narcissist.
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  13674.  @valkondarvalakev6377  Rofl! There was about 20 people who showed up for the ftv rally, dumb dumb. Trying to get Nina elected, to add another M4A yes vote to congress, the thing that actually gets you closer to ever passing the bill. Dore, on the other hand, abandoned her ... abandoned adding another M4A yes vote to congress. He's a pathetic good for nothing.
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  13675. Most of the older voters, who aren't voting for Bernie, aren't even in YouTube or Twitter comment sections, interacting with Bernie supporters. They're getting their info from MSM, which has been spouting endless bullshit.
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  13676.  @Atmost11  Most seniors aren't even on YouTube or Twitter, at all, let alone political forums. Maybe Facebook, interacting with their family, but likely not joining political groups there either, for the most part. The internet is mostly irrelevant to who is voting Biden over Bernie. When it comes to younger voters, more of whom are on the internet, a majority are voting Bernie over Biden. Most older voters will just hear this bullshit outrage spouted on MSM, probably never have actually interacted with online Bernie supporters themselves, and have no clue what it's actually like.
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  13677. Morons. How the hell do conservatives (Rep or Dem) think they'll ever get elected if their elderly herds are thinned out by 10%?
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  13678. A "peace deal" to let Pvtin keep parts of illegally acquired Ukraine? If Pvtin wants peace, he can leave whenever he wants.
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  13679. The electoral college is designed to not count votes in more populous areas, and more populous areas tend to vote Democrat. Your hypothetical is a fantasy.
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  13680.  @MaelPlaguecrow6942  Electoral districts, not counties. So Clinton got more votes than Trump. Millions of votes didn't count for shit. Where is it you think most of those worthless votes came from, if not urban areas?
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  13681.  @mgm7908  It's human nature, and has been going on since forever. What needs to stop is pretending it's new, and making it an issue in itself.
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  13682. Read Ze'ev Jabotinsky's, The Iron Wall, 1923. It tells you everything about his. Followers of Ze'ev formed the Irgun and Lehi terrorist groups, and founded Likud.
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  13683. Lol, I don't have to with anyone except A-theists, for the most part. Most average Joes actually still use Athe-ist (most of the world is Theist). Most average Joes think Agnostic is akin to fence sitter, in the middle.
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  13684.  @alhazed  Sorry, didn't realize you had comprehension problems. Have a good one.
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  13685.  @alhazed  Lol. You get that my comment is saying I now realize you have comprehension problems, and you're telling me I didn't realize incorrectly?
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  13686.  @alhazed  Yep.
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  13687.  @alhazed  Are you trying to say I "didn't realize" correctly?
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  13688.  @alhazed  Ok, I give up on you comprehending English.
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  13689.  @itsmeagain1828  Name the Biden policies that would move the US even an inch left of Denmark, let alone make it all out communist.
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  13690.  @itsmeagain1828  What a load of rubbish. Your last sentence is pure irony. Health & safety isn't right or left. Seatbelt laws, speeding laws, drinking and driving laws, don't equate to "communism", any more than distancing and mask wearing do. You're arguing incompetence is right wing. The WHO never argued it wasn't deadly. They argued travel bans wouldn't do as much as preparedness would do. They were obviously right. Trump didn't prepare and the US ended up being one of the worst hit countries in the world. And, again, health & safety has little to do with right and left. China produces 28% of the world's carbon emissions, and their emissions are lower than the US per capita. And the aid for reducing emissions, under the Paris accord, wasn't based on who produces the most. It was based on developed vs developing vs undeveloped countries. All the developed countries paid more than developing or undeveloped countries. Being in the Paris accord doesn't push the US left of any other country in the Paris accord. Reagan gave amnesty, and a path to citizenship, to millions of undocumented immigrants. Are you so far psycho right wing that you think Reagan was a commie? Clearly, like Trump, you have no clue how tariffs work. Copenhagen is on track to become the first carbon neutral major city. Denmark is on track to cut emissions 70% by 2030, and be totally carbon neutral by 2050. Nothing you've said puts the US even in the same neighborhood as Denmark, let alone an inch to the left, which is still a long long way from all out communism.
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  13691. ​ @aceboogisback9946  Dimwit, Israel is objectively the aggressor, by every measure. Don't talk about rose-colored glasses, when you've got a bucket over your head. One of measures being that Israel is considered an occupier, by the International Court, the UN GA, and the UN SC, so this is not a "war". This is an occupier dishing out collective punishment, which is illegal. It is also illegal for an occupier to colonize occupied territories. On the other hand, the occupied actually have a right to resist occupation. Israel is operating an open air WWII style fascist ghetto, here. Saying they're at "war" with Gaza, is like saying the Nazis were at "war" with the Warsaw ghetto.
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  13692. ​ @LD86  Tired of hearing this bullshit line. The IDF has its largest base in a shopping mall, cowardly using civilians as human shields. The IDF has over 400k militants (reservists) hiding amongst civilians, cowardly using them as human shields. Be careful what argument you use, or you might accidentally justify Oct 7.
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  13693. ​ @emoonie  No vaccine is 100%, dimwit. The flu vaccine has a 50% efficacy, and needs to be taken yearly. How effective a vaccine is, and how long it lasts, depends mainly on the type of virus, not the vaccine. Different viruses trigger different types of antibodies. The same reason that you're not immune to the flu, after getting it once. The protection, with even the 50% efficacy flu vaccine, is exponential though. The first vaccinated person in contact with a virus carrier is 50% protected, which means a second vaccinated person coming in contact with the first vaccinated person is 75% protected, the third contacting the second is 87.5% protected, the fourth contacting the third is 93.75% protected, etc. You, not being vaccinated, having 0% protection, and possibly being an asymptotic carrier, are far more likely to reset the vaccination chain percentage back down to 50%.
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  13694. Like everyone at FOX.
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  13695. Do right wingers want to stop mandatory vaccines for immigrants?
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  13696. It's even more basic than bailouts and subsidies, Kyle. Basic taxes for roads, defense, education, etc., are a consumption tax, which they aren't paying their share of, but are reaping the most benefit from. If say Apple ships a million phones from China, via safe, defended, shipping lanes, and I buy a phone, they have benefited from that protection a million times more than me. Transport trucks drive 3x more than the average car owner. On top of using roads 3x more, they are also transporting goods. If a truck is transporting 10000 goods, and I buy a good, they have benefited 10000x more than me from that road. If my education makes me 100k a year, but they make a million off of me, then they are benefiting 10x more than me from my education. Even though we're both benefiting from the single sale, it's me, the consumer, paying any sales tax. If they have property taxes, taxes on their other bills, etc., guess what ... they're going to pass that cost onto the consumer, as well. These guys really pay for no tax, along the way, but reap most of the rewards. Then a place like Amazon doesn't even get taxed on all that reward? Ridiculous.
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  13697.  @wordsmithington8270  It's kinda the topic, dumbass.
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  13698.  @Saint1531  Rofl. I made a point, plus an insult, moron. That you lot are stupid appears to be a statement of fact.
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  13699. The whole fact that there's even debate about what the term Atheist means, not just with me, proves my point about convoluted terms perfectly. Stating language evolves, is a non arguement arguement against etymology and history. Evolution doesn't equate to better. No one has presented a case that the definiton A-theist is better. The original Athe-ist and Agnostic definitions covered the positions fairly well, and I've seen nothing to suggest otherwise.
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  13700.  @eloyomedallas4802  Asking a question isn't a fallacy dimwit. So zero examples of them pushing new oppressive laws, leaving it in the hands of current laws. If an individual Muslim breaks the law, then arrest them. Plenty of other guys out there breaking the law, and forcing women to do things they don't want, as well.
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  13701. There's no need for you to think them a neccessity. There is a word that exists. You can't deny the word exists. The word has a definition. You can't deny the word has a definition. Think of it like an hypothesis. You can believe an idea is false, and try and prove it's false. You can believe an idea is true, and try to prove it's true. Or, you can have no belief, as to whether it's true, or not. Trying to claim the idea itself doesn't exist, is just illogical.
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  13702.  @sandersGG  What? Why was that directed at me?
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  13703.  @j_ll7  You're just lying.
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  13704.  @j_ll7  Nope. You're a lying moron.
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  13705. ​@@MirglipEA Likud was founded by the Irgun terrorist leader, Menachem Begin ... child murderer, Jew murderer, bomber of the King David Hotel ... and their platform is "between the sea and the Jordan there will only be Israeli sovereignty". Hamas is no different than Irgun/Likud.
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  13706. You're embarassing yourself.
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  13707. India, representing almost the entirety of the "Hindu world", ranks worse than Saudi for the treatment of women.
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  13708.  @mjchakos1  Airsoft are literally sold by toy stores, dimwit.
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  13709.  @mjchakos1  Glad we agree he was shot over a toy. Maybe take a second to use words, instead of shooting before the car stops rolling.
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  13710.  @mjchakos1  Glad we agree, it was a 12 year old with a toy.
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  13711.  @mjchakos1  Sure. As irrelevant as thinking someone with a cell phone in their hand has a "weapon" is irrelevant, and shooting them.
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  13712.  @thenumbersss  Rofl, you think many European countries have scrapped capitalism? That's hilarious.
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  13713.  @dogeinhd1175  It's the VAT that's the negative, if you're already getting $1000 a month. You can't opt out of the VAT.
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  13714.  @thenumbersss   And thank you, for the contradictions and nonsense.
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  13715.  @bluesrockfan36  Sounds like you're referring to his end vision, as was LA's end vision. His "burden shifting", transition, phase he outright describes as a public option, which hasn't worked as a transition phase for LA.
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  13716.  @lindawolfe2885  If it's easy to get an ivermectin prescription for covid, them why have morons been buying horse pills?
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  13717.  @lindawolfe2885  Why do even the FLCCC grifters acknowledge ... "Until ivermectin’s use as both a preventive and treatment agent are more widely accepted or recommended, many physicians will be reluctant to prescribe." Why did Rogan need so many other expensive drugs, if ivermectin is so effective? Weird.
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  13718.  @lindawolfe2885  Your answers are astounding, because you didn't manage to answer a single question I actually asked. Do you have severe reading comprehension problems? Ivermectin has zero history of being an effective treatment for covid. Blathering on about how many years it has been a safe and effective treatment for worms is totally irrelevant ... and moronic. Umm, you're just lying about S Africa. Hospitalizations are up hundreds of percent. You also don't seem to grasp exactly how viruses work. A varient that is half as deadly, at an individual level, but 10x more contagious, will end up killing more people. You get that, right?
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  13719.  @lindawolfe2885  It is perfectly logical to expect someone to answer the actual questions asked, instead of inventing their own strawmen questions, and answering those instead. It is perfectly logical to expect someone to not tell blatant lies about S Africa. It is perfectly logical to expect someone to not blather about irrelevant Ivermectin history. It is perfectly logical to expect someone to not ignore contagion rate, when peddle that varients will become less deadly (which isn't even true, at an individual level, as delta is both more contagious and more deadly than the original strain). India stopped using Ivermectin because they found it to be ineffective. Peru, which possibly has the highest rate of Ivermectin use on the planet, also has the highest covid death rate on the planet. A leading Ivermectin "study" was pulled from publications, due to it being outright fraudulent (weird having to lie and falsify data, if it really works). You're the loon encouraging people to die. You're an absolute nut.
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  13720.  @lindawolfe2885  Good.Let the last part sink in, really well. You are a bit that is encouraging people to die.
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  13721.  @curiosityl.6261  "MAGA" implies the US currently sucks ass.
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  13722.  @curiosityl.6261  Your comment about conservatives. They've been saying the US sucks, for years, on their hats.
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  13723.  @frankpentangeli8104  Meh, it's more like using the fascist propaganda playbook. Nazis used Marx being of Jewish heritage to blame all Jews for socialism. Mussolini portrayed liberalism as a gateway to socialism.
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  13724. Sam, "my non-gun owning friends are stupid, let me spout some NRA talking points as I'm criticizing them, and spout how it's rational for me to ignore factual firearm ownership studies", Harris https://samharris.org/the-riddle-of-the-gun/
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  13725. It's hilarious that some people, in a country built on handing people free land, are so opposed to government hand outs.
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  13726. Gag orders have been challenged, on the grounds of first amendment, before. They have lost due to a competing constitutional right to a fair trial. You're not even allowed to bias your own trial.
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  13727. Rofl, Japan has under half the US population and over half of US video game sales, and one of the lowest rates of gun violence. What a moron.
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  13728.  @alabamaman9476  Not in the top 10 per capita. Fact.
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  13729.  @LEP021085  70% of firearms are being traced to the US, dumb dumb.
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  13730.  @LEP021085  Rofl. I like how you have to compare the US to developing, rather than developed, countries, in some lame attempt to argue the US doesn't have a gun problem. Yeah, developing countries have other problems that make the issue more nuanced. Oh, and of course you pull out Switzerland, which doesn't have anywhere close to the same level of gun ownership as the US, and has a higher firearm mortality rate than many other developed countries with lower gun ownership than them. Switzerland doesn't help your case. They have up to 2x the gun ownership rate of Sweden, and about 2x the firearm mortality rate. They have 10-20x the gun ownership rate of the UK, and 10x the firearm mortality rate. The US has about 60x the gun ownership rate of the UK and 60x the firearm mortality rate, 6x the gun ownership rate of Sweden and 12x the firearm mortality rate, 3-5x the gun ownership rate of Switzerland and about 4x the firearm mortality rate.
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  13731.  @LEP021085  No, it doesn't help your case, because if you remove the US, Switzerland is one of 4 developed countries with a firearm mortality rate over 2 per 100k. 2 of the others have firearm ownership rates similar to Switzerland. Switzerland is only great relative to the US.
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  13732.  @LEP021085  I'm saying it has one of the highest firearm mortality rates, of developed countries, dingbat. Where am I losing you?
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  13733.  @LEP021085  Guns end up shooting their owners all the time, when cleaning, when one of their kids gets ahold of one, when there's a family dispute, when someone has a bad day. But, I'm glad to hear you think they're no more dangerous than a spoon. That means they're useless, and you don't need one. That means there doesn't need to be a right to have something completely useless.
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  13734.  @LEP021085  While you're waiting, why don't you call some lawmakers, and try to get opioids sold on the shelf, for anyone of any age ... you know, because they're no more dangerous than candy. Why don't you put one of your harmless gun out where some kids can play with it, while you're at it ... you know, because it's no more dangerous than a nerf gun.
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  13735.  @LEP021085  I completely get your "point". I clearly stated that was your "point". You're the one who didn't seem to get my point, that you can consider one inanimate object to be more dangerous than another. Why can't kids play with your "perfectly safe" inanimate objects? Is it more dangerous than a nerf gun?
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  13736.  @LEP021085  Why aren't they for children? Say it.
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  13737.  @LEP021085  Why aren't those things for them, dimwit?
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  13738.  @LEP021085  Surely, if a gun is no more dangerous than a nerf ball, then kids should be able to play with it.
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  13739.  @LEP021085  That was my point, that you can single out inanimate objects as being more dangerous than others. Making out like a gun is no more dangerous than a qtip, is f*cking moronic.
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  13740.  @LEP021085  It's not dangerous to play with a nerf ball, because a nerf ball isn't dangerous, dimwit. It's the gun that's the dangerous part of the equation.
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  13741. Why the hell wouldn't they boo someone who claims to be progressive, but didn't endorse Bernie in the 2016 primaries? You expect them to be happy about it?
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  13742. You just argued in a video that Pelosi and corporate Dems would rather lose to Republicans than progressives. That could have your "plan" end with Pelosi not giving in to progressive threats, not holding a M4A vote, progressives then abstaining electing her speaker, and a Republican speaker of the House getting elected.
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  13743.  @l.w.paradis2108  The speaker election doesn't require a majority of the house, it requires a majority of votes cast. "Present" isn't casting a vote.
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  13744.  @l.w.paradis2108  Absolute majority of votes cast, not absolute majority of the house. So the plan can't be to simply vote "present". That counts as abstaining, not casting a vote.
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  13745.  @l.w.paradis2108  They'd have to find someone to volunteer to not just be unsupportive, but openly opposed to the rest of the party. Then enough of them would also have to be openly opposed and vote for that someone, instead of Pelosi. That way they'd have cast votes, and Pelosi could lose without giving Republicans the majority of votes cast. Then you'd have a paralyzed house, and all the corporate Dems, Republicans, and the corporate media, would likely point at those progressives and blame them for the house not being able to accomplish anything. Jimmy's plan isn't completely risk free.
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  13746.  @l.w.paradis2108  Right, you have to vote for someone, for the Republican to only win a plurality of votes cast. Then there'd be a revote. If you abstain, then the Republican wins the majority of votes cast, and is speaker. Yeah, I think it's a voice vote anyway.
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  13747.  @l.w.paradis2108  Another complication is figuring out if any Republicans won't be voting for their guy, McCarthy. He has had a bunch of Republicans abstain, before. If you don't know that, then you don't know how many people you need to get on board to make Pelosi lose.
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  13748.  @l.w.paradis2108  The whole point of my post is what if Pelosi treats the threat as a bluff, and you go through with not voting for her. Either a) you abstain and she loses to a Republican, or b) you vote for someone else and she loses by a plurality not a majority, forcing a revote.
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  13749.  @l.w.paradis2108  So you make your protest votes, Pelosi doesn't get elected speaker, it returns to caucus. How do you then get a progressive elected while you're in the minority? Corporate Dems can keep picking Pelosi, or even someone more right wing, and keep going back to the house. How long do you paralyze the house, while they, and the corporate media, propagandize it and blame you for not being able to vote on anything, like minimum wage, or whatever? AOC just used her progressive PAC to help get more pro-M4A progressives elected to congress, she actually made a little progress, while Jimmy the armchair quarterback was whining about shit Obama was saying. Corporate Dems openly stated that's why she didn't get the committee seat she wanted. She threw some punches, by endorsing and helping fund progressives primarying corporate Dems, and they punched back. And now she's also getting stabbed in the back for her efforts. Progressives should be crying foul at Pelosi, atm, not crying "fake", "shill", and "wimp", at AOC. Primaries are part of the democratic process. There shouldn't be a penalty for it. That's anti-democratic. Have her back, instead of a knife in it, over a tactics disagreement.
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  13750.  @l.w.paradis2108  There's no disagreement on M4A. It's a debate on tactics, both Jimmy's proposed force the vote tactic ... what it would accomplish exactly, whether there's any risk ... and also his own tactic on how to "pressure" (slander) progressives in congress.
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  13751. Cool quote from Nazi zionist "news".
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  13752.  Alabama Man Special Edition  Oh my, which very important historical vote are you talking about?
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  13753. ​ @lakeliving2013  You didn't actually say anything about the US having "the most technically powerful military on the planet". You simply said "greatest". The Third Reich once held that title. Didn't change the fact that they were a**holes. Genghis Khan once held that title, and killed off the highest percentage of the planet's population, than anyone else in history. Weird flex of "greatness", that you can kill a lot of people. Kind of sociopathic.
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  13754. Promoting Nina Turner, and campaigning with her, at her rally that day, promoting M4A at the rally, and trying to add another M4A yes vote to congress. Why weren't the M4A marches out supporting Nina, to help actually add numbers to congress?
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  13755.  @jdelapaz14  Dore promoted Trump (wanted to kick 10m of the poorest Americans off of Medicaid expansion) over Clinton (wanted to add 40m older Americans to Medicare expansion). He argued that Trump was so bad that it would cause a massive progressive backlash. He vastly overestimated the benefits, claiming it would lead to progressives "for sure taking the house (wrong) and senate (wrong), in 2018, and the presidency (wrong), in 2020. He vastly underestimated the risks, claiming even Republicans would join the left and vote against a Trump agenda (wrong), and that Trump filling multiple scotus seats was as likely as the moon falling into Lake Michigan (wrong). He wasn't right about anything. The Obama presidency also gave us Bernie and a progressive movement. It didn't need letting a psycho fascist rule for 4 years to get a progressive movement. In fact, everyone was so scared of another Trump term, they went running they fell for the "more electable" propaganda, and went running to Biden. If he's going to blame Obama for giving us Trump, then we can blame Trump, and Jimmy for encouraging it, for giving us Biden. Dore isn't right about much, at all, when it comes to strategy.
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  13756.  @jdelapaz14  Rofl, Trump isn't as corrupt?!!! You're a loon.
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  13757.  @jdelapaz14  Rofl. He made himself money everytime he vacationed, which was every weekend. He made himself money putting up foreign dignitaries. He made himself money sending Pence places. His complete incompetence had a hand in hundreds of thousands of deaths, because he wanted to keep things open to make money and for his economy to appear good. He was grifting his cult to the end, and still is. You're spewing nonsense.
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  13758. Adding more M4A yes votes to congress is pretty straight forward. It's what you have to do to ever pass a bill. Keeping the $15 minimum wage in the house bill, is also pretty straight forward. And yet you still seem confused.
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  13759.  @kennethmcneil3478  Oh, do explain how you can ever pass a bill without enough yes votes, dumb dumb.
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  13760.  @griffmustard  And how many votes are third parties getting on any bill in congress, dimwit? Zero. 10 is immeasurable times better than 0. You seem to be ignoring the 100, or so, cosigners. It's more like half way there. What's your other option to adding enough votes to get it to pass?
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  13761.  @floatyseagull9472  A moron law graduate who doesn't know the legal definition of "infant" is birth to 18 years old, doesn't know the medical definition of "infant" is birth to 1 year old, and calls aborting fetuses "infanticide".
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  13762. What's ironic is that Notre Dame's role in the French Revolution, and Western democracies, was to be stripped of its religious finery and converted into the Temple of Reason by the Cult of Reason, an atheistic, violently anti-religous, branch of the revolution. Ben, a religious nutbar, loving this "important" point in history, is hilarious.
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  13763.  @tman229  You contradicted the op's stupid claim.
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  13764.  @tman229  Did you two not even make it through the first few seconds of the video?
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  13765. Likud was founded by Irgun and Lehi terrorists. Israel celebrates those terrorists as "heroes", to this day.
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  13766. ​ @BrownTrout1238  The guy whined and complained about winning, ffs, claiming the 2016 election was rigged, and that he had actually won the popular vote. Do you MAGA morons forget that he set up an election integrity commission, that found nothing of the sort, zero evidence, and quietly shut down?
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  13767. An investigation into the origins should be less important to Americans than an investigation into why the response was so pathetic, and the death rate so high. Whether the next virus is a lab leak or natural, there needs to be a better plan for responding to it.
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  13768. David, please cover tests per confirmed case. That's how you get the trace testing rate. Total tests, tests per million, tests per day, are numbers that are totally disconnected from the virus numbers. The US has had a pathetically low trace testing rate. https://ourworldindata.org/grapher/number-of-covid-19-tests-per-confirmed-case?time=2020-11-12&country=AUS~CAN~DNK~DEU~ITA~JPN~NZL~NOR~KOR~TWN~GBR~USA~VNM
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  13769.  @baguazhang2  Sooo, never, because Steven keeps running away.
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  13770. Saw one of them, maybe Mike Johnson, in a video arguing against abortion for economic reasons ... that we should want the extra babies, so they can pay into Social Security and Medicare, to keep it going. That means, not only do they think there is plenty of room for hundreds of thousands of extra unwanted babies per year, but they're actually needed. The same could be achieved through immigration ... Republicans: "No! Not that way!"
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  13771.  @decanuck  Fuck moron, there is one degree of separation between Kevin and his brother, but there are zero degrees of separation, between Kevin and the Bacon Brothers band. If I own a bar, there is one degree of separation between me and my employees, but there are zero degrees of separation between me and my bar. If the bar pays the Bacon Brothers, that's one degree of separation, from me to Kevin, not fucking 3. I am a part of the bar. Kevin is a part of the band. Really not that hard.
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  13772. Well, if you want to get technical, Agnosticism is religious skepticism only, otherwise it would just be skepticism, so it doesn't apply to astrology. And, technically, Atheism only applies to a supreme spiritual being. So, I guess neither of us is going anywhere. Believing we have spirits that can live on, after we're dead, is pretty freaking close to being a Theist Atheist though.
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  13773. ultra-nationalism ... check anti-communism ... check anti-socialism ... check anti-unionism ... check anti-democratic ... check anti-feminism ... check anti-free press ... check anti-intellectual ... check pro excessive policing ... check pro excessive military ... check backed by business leaders ... check backed by religious leaders ... check leaders in privatization ... check The US has been heading down this road since McCarthyism. Unionization in the US went backwards, and has dropped from around 40%, in the early 50s, to around 10%, today. Both parties moved right of centre, the Democrat party ditching mass union backing in favour of corporate backing. The Republican party would be a far right fringe party, in many countries. More and more has been privatized. Many Americans can't seem to be able to tell the difference between Stalinism and socializing a single sector or nationalizing a single resource, in a mixed economy. Etc.
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  13774.  @JuliaB1955  You know that fascists were still fascists, even before they consolidated complete power, right? They were even fascists before getting any power. It's possible to be a fascist that is constrained by a current system.
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  13775.  Blue -eyed  "core of america" = 30% of the population
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  13776.  Blue -eyed  You're inventing your own bullshit, by splitting them evenly. They didn't vote. You have zero clue how they would have voted if made to. They don't count. He was elected by 30% of the population.
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  13777.  Blue -eyed  You're also multiplying the undocumented population by 3, like a paranoid whack job.
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  13778.  Blue -eyed  You're a nut. https://www.pewresearch.org/fact-tank/2019/06/12/5-facts-about-illegal-immigration-in-the-u-s/
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  13779.  Blue -eyed  There are 44 million immigrants, period, not illegal ones, dumbass. https://www.pewhispanic.org/2019/06/03/facts-on-u-s-immigrants/
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  13780.  Blue -eyed  Moron. Pew is reporting findings. They aren't the source. They cited their source ... the Census Bureau's American Community Survey.
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  13781.  Blue -eyed  Oh, and Judicial Watch unbiased .................. BAHAHAHAHahahaha!!!! You're definitely nuts.
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  13782.  Blue -eyed  They outright state a bias in their about ... "Judicial Watch, Inc., a conservative," https://www.judicialwatch.org/about/ The little numbers, at the end of sentences, are the actual sources, here ... https://www.sourcewatch.org/index.php/Judicial_Watch
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  13783.  @hellenicboi14  Distinctions between media you have consumed, and decide which ones to trust? You're incoherent, at this point.
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  13784. ​ @jaredrosenberg4965  Yeah, those resistance groups, and ghetto uprisings, taking on the Nazi superpower ... Those Native Americans, fighting colonialism and ethnic cleansing, against a superpower ... So stupid.
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  13785. Israel is objectively the aggressor by every relevant measure (modern history, law, and current events) ... Modern history: With the Balfour declaration, Zionsim converted from something like immigration to colonization. 100 years ago, in 1923, Ze'ev Jabotinsky fully acknowledged that Zionism is colonialism, and that, based on the entirety of history, the native Palestinians would fight it until the bitter end. He just didn't care what would happen to them, and promoted doing it anyway. Colonizers are never not the aggressors, when it comes to the native population. On top of the colonialist nature of Zionism, the Zionists also formed terrorist organizations, like the Irgun and Lehi. They bombed many Palestinian markets and other public places, murdering many civilians, including children, even including Palestinian Jews (who opposed colonialist Zionism). Israel merged those terrorists into the new nation's military and intelligence agencies. Israelis elected Menachem Begin, leader of the Irgun, child murderer, Jew murderer, and bomber of the King David Hotel, as PM. Israelis, to this day, celebrate those Irgun terrorists as "heroes". Zionists literally taught their neighbours that terrorism is a valid path to independence and statehood, and that terrorists are to be celebrated. In 1945, it is well documented that Zionists owned just 5% of the land and were a majority in zero districts. Israel was formed by going against the will of the majority population. Its foundation is completely undemocratic. Even then, Jews were still a minority, in "their" half. The only possible way to actually become a Jewish ethno-state, would be to ethnically cleanse away the actual majority. And, that's exactly what happened. Israel has never allowed those people to return. Law: Israel is considered an occupier by the International Court, the UN GA, and the UN SC. Occupiers are also never not the aggressors. Those occupied actually have a right to resist occupation. On the flip side, it is illegal for the occupier to settle occupied lands, and illegal to use collective punishment. Israel is a rogue nation, that doesn't abide by international law. What it has been doing, and is doing now, is illegal. Current events: This year, alone, prior to Oct 7 ... Israel held over 1200 Palestinian hostages without charges ... over 200 Palestinians had been killed by the IDF and settlers ... over 1000 Palestinians had been displaced by Israel's neverending colonization of the West Bank ... and, Israel continued to operate an open air WWII style fascist ghetto. Even ignoring modern history and law, in no reality did Hamas "start" anything.
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  13786.  @petercraigg1  You opened with arguing for people who want the "right" to spread disease and death. Those are already fighting words. And, get a vaccine or go elsewhere, or to some other section, that doesn't require a vaccine, is the same as get a vaccine or go to some other country, or some private or home school, that doesn't require them.
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  13787. There was a word for them...Athe-ists. A-theist is a modern definition, that has made most of its headway over the past 40 years, or so, making things a lot more convoluted than they need to be.
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  13788. The US is paying 2% of GDP on their total military budget, not the NATO budget. Every country is paying, and always has been paying, their calculated share of the NATO budget. Trump is trying to strong arm the other NATO countries to have a total military budget of 2%, like the US. As a Canadian, I don't want a 2% of GDP military budget. 1% was fine. The US could do with cutting back to 1%, instead of everyone upping to 2%.
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  13789.  @SomePython  40s: Syria has an democratic government, they vote against an oil pipeline, the US backs a coup. 50s: Iran has a democratically elected PM who is taking power from the Shah and wants to nationalize Iran's oil, the US backs a coup. 60s: A popular revolutionary leader in Iraq takes out the puppet monarch and wants to nationalize Iraq's oil, the US backs a coup. 70s: communists take out the monarch in Afghanistan and promote things like education and women's rights, the US backs religious fanatics. The US has been the number one bad actor in the ME.
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  13790.  @seanmichaels8060  Iraq had the highest standard of living in the ME, even after the Iraq-Iran war.
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  13791. Are you stupid? There is all that same kind of stuff on YouTube, the same platform TYT is on.
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  13792.  @readbetweenthelineslll1635  So, a rebel would paralyze the house, freezing any chance at new covid relief, new unemployment extensions, new vaccine funding, etc., during a pandemic? And, if the Dem caucus, where progressives aren't the majority yet, keeps picking Pelosi, or someone worse ... how long do you think people will support progressives, if they can't afford to buy food and pay bills?
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  13793. Hamas has ceasefired before, and it was Israel that broke the agreement. So, the issue is that Bernie, and David, should be saying the same thing about Likud, who has shown zero desire for peace, for decades. Likud was created by Zionist terrorist, Menachem Begin, who bombed Palestinian markets and other public places, murdering many Palestinian civilians, including children, even including Palestinian Jews (who opposed Zionism), and bombed the King David Hotel. The other founder was Ariel Sharon, war criminal, who massacred Palestinian villages. Their initial platform stated that their goal was for Israel to rule from the sea to the Jordan (reverse of, from the river to the sea). Netanyahu has proven that that still seems to be the goal, with the endless colonization of the West Bank. Netanyahu also promoted, and helped fund, Hamas, to weaken the Palestinian Authority and avoid possible peace, so he could continue his colonization projects. The end of violence would mean that Israel might have to pull back, plus allow the right of return for Palestinian refugees. Peace is against Likud's interests. So, why not the exact same forceful demand that Likud be removed?
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  13794. We were just talking about belief, not lack of belief.
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  13795.  @esotericsolitaire  Hey, you can copy and paste. Bravo!
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  13796.  @esotericsolitaire  They question was posed to the op, and your copy and paste didn't provide their personal beliefs. They're just numbers. You could make the same claim about any numbers you wanted.
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  13797.  @theresaurus9820  You disagree with what? Your second sentence is irrelevant to the first.
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  13798. Welp, there goes his young earth religious nut support.
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  13799. ​ @jamessilver6429  He's an idiot. Likud's bloody 100 year history ... In 1923, 100 years ago, Ze'ev Jabotinsky wrote, The Iron Wall, and a follow up, The Ethics of The Iron Wall (sooo racist towards Africans), in which he fully acknowledged that post Balfour Zionsim was colonialism, and that, based on the entirety of history, the native Palestinian population would resist being colonized until the bitter end. He directly compared it to the colonization of North America. He promoted doing it anyway, claiming Zionist colonialism was a "just" colonialism (he also thought North American colonialists were good guys, so not a great judge of morality), not caring what that meant for the native population. Ze'ev is important, because his Betar militant youth group helped found the Irgun terrorist group, along with other supporters of his, and the splinter Lehi terrorist group. The Irgun bombed numerous Palestinian markets and other public places, murdering many Palestinian civilians, including children, even including Palestinian Jews (who didn't support colonialist Zionsim). The Irgun are important, because they ended up being led by future Likud PM, Menachem Begin, who bombed the King David Hotel. The King David Hotel was bombed because the British had raided the Jewish Agency and seized numerous documents that may have shown that the terrorists were working with the JA and Haganah (JA liked to pretend that they didn't support the terrorism). The British then stored those documents at their base, in the hotel. That the Irgun terrorists responded to a JA raid, itself seems to prove the connection. That the thousands of Irgun (and Lehi) terrorists were also quickly merged into the new nation's military (IDF) and intelligence (Mossad) agencies, and are still celebrated as "heroes" by Israelis, to this day, also seems to support total collaboration between the groups. That other terrorist group mentioned, Lehi (also known as the Stern Gang), was considered even more extreme. They even tried to ally with the Nazis, against the British. Lehi ended up being led by Yitzhak Shamir, future Mossad agent, and another future Likud PM. In 1945, there was a major land and peoples survey done in Palestine. It showed that the Zionists only owned about 5% of the total land, 20% of the arable land, and owned a majority in zero districts. The partition was not only going to be forced on the native Palestinian majority, but Jews were still going to be a minority, in the part allocated to them. The only possible way to even become a "Jewish state" was going to require getting rid of the actual majority (at least enough so that there'd be a solid Jewish majority, so they could fake being democratic). This is also shown by the 1948, post Nakba, population of Israel. If there was 716,700 Jews, 156,000+ non-Jews, and approximately 700k non-Jews ethnically cleansed, that means the Jewish population, in the Zionist portion of partition, was originally over 100,000 less than the non-Jewish population. To believe that there was never any intent, by Zionists, to ethnically cleanse away the Palestinian majority would require believing that they never intended to create a "Jewish state". It's a nonsensical notion. Begin, and those terrorist groups, also opposed partition, but for the opposite reason Palestinians did. Palestinians didn't want to be colonized, at all. The terrorists wanted to colonize it all. "Moderate" Zionists were okay with colonizing half ... for now (what would happen in the future, after partition, was up to them, said Ben-Gurion). The Zionist terrorists were also involved in massacres, and assassinations, during the partition violence (colonialist war against the natives). Another notable future Likud PM, also started in the military, during the partition fighting. That was Ariel Sharon, war criminal, "Butcher of Beirut". Menachem Begin, and these other Zionist terrorists, are important because they also later founded Likud. Now, people get upset over the slogan "From the river to the sea!", but it's the second part that's most important, "Palestine will be free!". Because "Palestine" isn't defined as an ethno-state, a free Palestine can be a single state, free for all to live in, and return to, free of continuing colonization, free of occupation, free of oppression, etc. Just like a Germany free of Nazism, an Italy free of fascism, a South Africa free of apartheid, or an America free of slavery from sea to shiny sea. It doesn't necessitate purging all the Jews. It just necessitates them giving up on the idea of an ethno-state. On the other hand, because "Israel" has been defined as an ethno-state, Likud's, "between the sea and the Jordan there will only be Israeli sovereignty", has no possible good interpretation. It is a declaration of intent to completely colonize, and ethnically cleanse, all Palestine territories. Not only that, but it also claims that they have a "right" to all of the "Land of Israel" (biblical borders that don't mesh with archaeological reality), which is an open declaration of future wars, against Jordan, Syria, Lebanon, and possibly even Iraq. Likud platform ... 1977: "The Right of the Jewish People to the Land of Israel (Eretz Israel) a. The right of the Jewish people to the land of Israel is eternal and indisputable and is linked with the right to security and peace; therefore, Judea and Samaria will not be handed to any foreign administration; between the Sea and the Jordan there will only be Israeli sovereignty. b. A plan which relinquishes parts of western Eretz Israel, undermines our right to the country, unavoidably leads to the establishment of a "Palestinian State," jeopardizes the security of the Jewish population, endangers the existence of the State of Israel. and frustrates any prospect of peace." "Settlement Settlement. both urban and rural. in all parts of the Land of Israel is the focal point of the Zionist effort to redeem the country, to maintain vital security areas and serves as a reservoir of strength and inspiration for the renewal of the pioneering spirit. The Likud government will call on the younger generation in Israel and the dispersions to settle and help every group and individual in the task of inhabiting and cultivating the wasteland, while taking care not to dispossess anyone." 1999: "The Government of Israel flatly rejects the establishment of a Palestinian Arab state west of the Jordan river. The Palestinians can run their lives freely in the framework of self-rule, but not as an independent and sovereign state. Thus, for example, in matters of foreign affairs, security, immigration, and ecology, their activity shall be limited in accordance with imperatives of Israel's existence, security and national needs." "The Jewish communities in Judea, Samaria, and Gaza are the realization of Zionist values. Settlement of the land is a clear expression of the unassailable right of the Jewish people to the Land of Israel and constitutes an important asset in the defense of the vital interests of the State of Israel. The Likud will continue to strengthen and develop these communities and will prevent their uprooting." All Palestine territories are officially considered occupied, by the International Court of Justice, the UN GA, the UN SC, and even in official documents of Israel's own allies. Likud is still using the blueprint for colonizing North America, in the West Bank. Move settlements out into native territory, piss off the natives, the natives retaliate, cry about poor "innocent" colonizing settlers being the "victims" of violent "Savages!", call in the cavalry to put down the native uprising, and eventually expand the borders to include those settlements. Rinse and repeat. In Gaza, they are operating an open air WWII style fascist ghetto. Them claiming a "right to defend themselves" would be like the Nazis claiming a "right to defend themselves " from the Warsaw ghetto uprising. There's no "war". That they're the occupiers means the "war" part is long over. That partition was forced upon the Palestinian majority, against their will ... that the Zionist portion still had to be forcefully ethnically cleansed of its non-Jewish majority, against their will ... that the millions of occupied Palestinians don't have a say in the government that truly rules over them, Israel's ... means Israel is about as democratic as Nazi Germany after Hitler purged his political opponents and then held elections.
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  13800.  @jonesfactor9  Not according to them.
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  13801.  @dhache1195  Nope. The provinces have been asking for more. Even the MAGA nut in Alberta. "Alberta's economy, premier says in letter ... Mar 27, 2024 — Alberta Premier Danielle Smith says federal immigration limits are undercutting her province's ability to fill jobs, grow the economy and aid those fleeing ..."
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  13802.  @therussiantrollnetwork7464  Who's "we"? Hypocritical religious loons, that outright worship what would be the leading abortionist in existence, if it existed?
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  13803.  @markzuckergecko621  Scientists are close to being able to create an embryo from a sperm, without needing an egg. You should promote banning sex, and only allow for ejaculating into test tubes, to save every single potential baby.
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  13804. Almost as good as thinking Nazis were globalists, and would have been fine if they weren't.
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  13805. Not to mention that the crime he's being charged with, is trying to steal votes away from black voters.
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  13806.  @silencedogood5101  Rofl, funny that you think colonialists, who protested, rioted, tarred and feathered, destroyed private property, and rebelled against their own government, all because they didn't want to pay an extra tax specifically to fund the police/military ... are "patriots" .. but think the loyalists putting down people currently doing the same are now the "patriots". You're now on the side of King George (Dumpty), dumb dumb.
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  13807. They came prepared, because he, and others, had been inciting them for over a month, with bullshit about the election being stolen. It wasn't the single day of speech, ffs.
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  13808.  @daftwod  Like stoning anyone working weekends (Jewish - Saturday, Christian - Sunday)?
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  13809.  @daftwod  Oh? https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Jewish_Israeli_stone-throwing
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  13810.  @daftwod  Oh ... also don't forget to broad brush the Hindus. https://www.business-standard.com/article/current-affairs/femicide-rapes-culture-of-violence-make-india-the-worst-country-for-women-118062700112_1.html
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  13811. Well, it also has to do with the type of virus. Some viruses trigger lifelong immunity, some decades, some years, and some only months. COVID seems to be like the flu, in that regard, and only triggers antibodies for months.
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  13812.  @populuxe1  It was very clearly argued that they had no legitimacy to exist, as they were. A single state solution, with all having equal rights, a right of return for Palestinian refugees, would end Israel, as a "Jewish state". It wouldn't end all Jews in Israel/Palestine. We likewise wanted to end ethno-state Germany, not all Germans. There is no legitimacy to Israel existing, as is.
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  13813.  @SamNMman505  Is there a deed?
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  13814. Is it when a guy says the Earth isn't the center of the universe, and he's put under house arrest for the rest of his life, and they attempt to destroy all his writings?
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  13815.  @wteverisgud  So something conservative religious types have been doing since forever. More human nature than "culture", isn't it?
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  13816.  @adulthumanfemale265  A worldwide, never ending, "culture"?
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  13817.  @adulthumanfemale265  No deflection. It's just a fact that it has been a constant throughout history, that there's no signs of it ending, and that it's worldwide. I asked a question about a fact. A natural human tendancy to want to eradicate that which they have a strong dislike for, isn't culture. What your specific group of people have a strong dislike for and wants to eradicate, maybe, but not simply the urge to do so.
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  13818.  @adulthumanfemale265  Ahh, I see the problem. You have reading comprehension problems.
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  13819.  @adulthumanfemale265  You: "are the two are distinctly different?" Me: "A natural human tendancy ... isn't culture." Learn to read, dimwit.
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  13820.  @adulthumanfemale265  Actually, there other mammals that try to "cancel" competition, as well as having a variety of other natural tendencies, which would also become "culture" if natural tendency = culture. X not existing without Y doesn't mean X = Y. "What your specific group of people have a strong dislike for and wants to eradicate" might be culture "but not simply the urge to do so."
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  13821.  @adulthumanfemale265  It seems you don't know what "distinctly different" and "not distinctly different" mean, dimwit.
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  13822.  @adulthumanfemale265  Yeah, my basic urge to eat is distinctly different from what I like, and dislike, eating, which could have been totally different, if I had been raised in a different environment, different culture. Are you this stupid in real life, or do you just play stupid on the interwebs?
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  13823.  @adulthumanfemale265  Animals do try to get rid of things they have a strong dislike for. Is that culture, or isn't it? Does some hermit living on his own, trying to eliminate everything he doesn't like from his life, have his own individual "culture"?
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  13824.  @adulthumanfemale265  You seem to be working backwards from the conclusion that humans have cultures, therefore if humans do it, it's culture. But, if animals do it, then it's not, because you've also already concluded that they don't have cultures. Either having the urge to get rid of, or eradicate, that which you dislike is culture, or it's not. A hermit is, literally, not part of a group, ffs. He's anti-group. What the hell kind of definition are you using for "culture"?
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  13825.  @adulthumanfemale265  You missed the first point. Wooosh. No, it's definitely you, who has a weird definition, if you think there can be a hermit culture.
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  13826.  @limitisillusion7  Both stop funding Israel's colonization and occupation, but allow Russia to colonize and occupy Ukraine?
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  13827.  @RedPillCosby-012  What happens in heaven, the supposed perfect place? Does everyone lose agency for the rest of eternity?
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  13828.  @skaye19  You're the one arguing people can wait and suffer while congress has a standoff. You also seem to be the one arguing a third party route, that hasn't won the most popular third party a single seat in congress in going on 50 years. I guess you don't need 2k or healthcare.
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  13829.  @feili805  Actually adding seats to congress is a different result than adding zero seats to congress. Keep adding more seats by taking out corporate Dems and Republicans.
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  13830. Oh, do tell ... who should we watch instead?
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  13831.  @darrenbutler9819  Not who I'm betting the op would suggest.
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  13832.  @elgatofelix8917  Did I?
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  13833.  Derek Hitt  Weird. I think people are still driving fossil fuel cars, as well.
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  13834.  Derek Hitt  The GND doesn't outright ban fossil fuels, it just moves things in a different direction. Every new safety standard upgrade in vehicles moves things in a different direction and cancels producing more of the lea safe vehicles. You grasped that trying to slow global warming is a false equivalence to not liking women in pants, right? No clue why you're still going on about a false equivalence.
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  13835.  Derek Hitt  Rofl. ... on federally owned land. Again, trying to fix a problem that is evidenced by science isn't samesies to not liking to see people kissing, dumb dumb. But keep on reaching.
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  13836. No. Our hospitals in Ontario aren't owned by the government. They are owned and operated by non-profit corporations, though. Hospitals, in the US, are still classified as public accommodations, even though they're privately owned.
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  13837. How about colonial Americans, who protested, rioted, tarred and feathered loyalists, destroyed private property, all because they didn't want to pay an extra tax to fund the police/military? They got extra pissed when the police/military, "fearing for their lives", shot violent protesters. They were terrorists?
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  13838. @UCPfH0kNzaZNVUCPBh_KbFSA Rofl. Please describe how antifa are the fascists.
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  13839.  @childishumehara9890  So, all those keeping the law, in history and around the world, were/are heroes?
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  13840.  @childishumehara9890  So, they were terrorists. What is a "justifiable reason"?
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  13841.  @NewNormalWorldOrder  Mandating masks is as "totalitarian" and "tyrannical" as having seatbelt laws, dummy.
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  13842.  Mark Dice  You're a moron, blaming someone for inheriting Bush's recession. Obama's last budget ran through to Oct 2017. The stock market has flatlined since Trump's first budget, and the start of his trade wars. https://www.macrotrends.net/1358/dow-jones-industrial-average-last-10-years
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  13843. Are you still listening to grifter Jimmy Dore?
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  13844. This is more like the colonization of North America, with the colonialists crying about "Savages!" attacking poor "innocent" colonizers, every time the Natives rise up against their colonialism.
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  13845.  @freewaylee  How is you pointing out they have a nothingburger of a story "shinning light into darkness", but them pointing out FOX had a nothingburger of a story, not?
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  13846. Trying to take over the Democratic party is still the best method. 11 Justice Dem seats won in 5 years. The most popular third party hasn't won a single seat in congress in its 50 year existence. Green hasn't won a single seat in its 20 year existence.
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  13847.  @415riderss  Republicans aren't for either of those things.
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  13848.  @patricialove4651  Are you talking to the wrong person? I was talking against the one calling it racist, and stuff.
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  13849.  @TheHOruS55  Rofl. How do you think a bunch of refugees from Russia and Europe were "more advanced", dimwit? They were simply handed it. Yeah, not many natives would agree to give away half their land. Israel was was formed without majority consent, and then, since they were still the minority, in "their" half, Israelis had to ethnically cleanse the majority. Then they pretended being democratic. You seem to have left out the part where Israel is breaking those international laws. You agreed it's a colonialist state, and the aggressor, thank you, but left out that they're a rogue criminal nation.
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  13850.  @TheHOruS55  There are millions of Palestinian refugees in Jordan, Syria, and Lebanon. Also hundreds of thousands Iraqi refugees. Also Turkey has millions of Syrian refugees. How about stop creating refugees, dimwit? The cowardly IDF has their largest base in a shopping mall, using civilians as human shields. The cowardly IDF has over 400k militants (reservists) hiding amongst the populace, using them as human shields. You just justified the attack on a festival. Well done. No need to respond then, if it was justified.
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  13851. Make an infomercial, telling them that the regular price to become Muslim is $99.95, but today only, you can become Muslim for $19.95. I'm sure some of them would buy it.
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  13852.  @blarglemantheskeptic  It's the American way.
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  13853.  @Lord_technofascist_nepobaby  AOC just used her platform and PAC to help get more pro-M4A progressives elected to congress, the very thing that will still need doing even if you got a vote that's guaranteed to fail. More "AOC types" is exactly what is needed if you ever want it to pass. The bill is reintroduced every session. You'll already get a new list of names of people who won't sign on to it. You already have to convert or replace almost 100 people in the house alone. If Jimmy has 100 new pro-M4A candidates in his back pocket, he should have pulled them out for the election that just happened. Trying to force a vote so you can ferret out a few extra fakers won't change the situation much. They wouldn't even have to expose themselves, knowing it was guaranteed to fail.
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  13854.  @Lord_technofascist_nepobaby  Well, there's a list of names of people in congress, and there's a list of names of people who have signed onto the 2 M4A bills. When the next session starts, you'll get new lists. Just strike the people on the M4A list off the congress list, and try to replace the rest. It's not the vote that comes with risks. It's the forcing that comes with risks.
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  13855.  @Lord_technofascist_nepobaby  Maybe they don't bend over, and call you. Then you have to either cave, looking stupid, or paralyze the house. If you paralyze the house, during a pandemic, they can blame you for no new covid relief, blame you for no minimum wage hike, and whatever other harm a paralyzed house would cause to people. Or, if Jimmy is right, and they'd rather work with Republicans than with progressives, then they could coordinate something with Republicans to counter progressive protest votes.
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  13856. Treating Republicans "badly"? So, you don't think they deserve to be treated this way?
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  13857.  @bergydermeister5616  It's a representative democracy, dimwit, as are most republics. The US's electoral college simply adds a middleman step in elections, where majorities in states elect representatives (electors) to represent them in voting for the president. The majority of electors, in turn, elect the representative (president) for the country.
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  13858.  @dru70292  Don't any of you idiots know what a representative democracy is?
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  13859.  @bergydermeister5616  Rofl. Neither of those words are incompatible with being a representative democracy, dimwit, which the US is.
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  13860. "a right wing conspiracy theorist" What conspiracies?
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  13861.  @rBennich  Yes, it does matter. What are you peddling that gets you labeled?
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  13862.  @rBennich  Yeah, that's not a thing. The vast majority of loonie conspiracy theories tend to stay loonie conspiracy theories.
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  13863.  @rBennich  What bait? You obviously think something you've been peddling is now true. Like what?
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  13864.  @rBennich  I haven't said you're wrong, because you haven't told me what you're talking about. You want people to unite with you, but don't want to tell them what kinds of things we're uniting around.
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  13865.  @rBennich  Well, you're clearly delusional, since the right elects zero anti-corporation candidates, while the left clearly does vote for anti-corporation candidates. What "official narratives" are lies the right supposedly knows, that the left doesn't?
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  13866.  @rBennich  You clearly made a delusional comment. It is a fact that the right doesn't elect any anti-corporation candidates. There's zero evidence they're opposed to the government and corporations working together against the people.
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  13867.  @rBennich  Stop being dodgy. What "official narratives" are lies the right supposedly knows, that the left doesn't?
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  13868.  @rBennich  If Ivermectin works, then why does Peru have the highest covid death rate in the world? They've had one of, if not the, highest uses of Ivermectin. If Ivermectin works, then why did Joe Rogan throw thousands of dollars of other medications into his body? If Ivermectin works, then why did India stop using it? Is their national healthcare advisory, that found it to be ineffective, also in on the conspiracy? If Ivermectin is effective, then why did a leading Ivermectin "study", claiming it's effective, get pulled from publications for being outright fraudulent? Why would you have to make up data, and lie, if it actually worked? The CDC, and pretty much every other country's healthcare advisory, across the world, don't consider there to be any reliable evidence Ivermectin is effective. I take it they're all in on this grand conspiracy? Yeah, you're a kook.
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  13869.  @rBennich  And the same for pretty much every other country in the world? Rofl! You're a nut.
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  13870.  @rBennich  Riiiight. A global conspiracy, involving governments (from left to right), scientists, and doctors, for across the world, with zero whistleblowers, or any other actual evidence of said global conspiracy. They are really awesome at covering their tracks!
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  13871.  @connerpittman  Alaska is a false equivalence. Alaska is like Norway, where the oil is effectively nationalized, and the oil company is paying the citizens for their oil. A VAT totally skips making businesses pay in, and has the consumers paying themselves.
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  13872. Colonialism is not civilized. Neither is operating an open air WWII style fascist ghetto.
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  13873.  Aaron Dickson  The Confederates were the majority racist white southern voters, who voted for pro slavery politicians. The majority racist white southern voters also voted in politicians that implemented Jim Crow laws. Two options ... either those majority racist white populations in the south magically up and became the least racist populations, or they simply started voting for a different party that pandered to their racism. Hint: check out how southern Republicans voted on civil rights acts.
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  13874.  @michaels8620  Calling something "performance art" isn't the same as calling it "stupid". It's just a factual description of what it would have been. In no reality would it have passed. There's already a historical record of those who won't cosign, plus a historical record of committee members who sat on the bill, after Pelosi introduced it, all last session. Likewise, for this session. So, it would have been purely for show, right? "Performance art" is exactly not a hill worth dying on. If you do it, cool. If you don't, whatever. As soon as a certain someone (that you don't want to mention, on a video about a guy spewing that someone's talking points) turned it into a purity test, slandering anyone who didn't immediately jump on board a "fake", "fraud", "sellout", "betrayer", etc., he turned a lot of people off. Part of any good plan is the ability to sell that plan to others, especially those you want to implement the plan. He who shall not be named was a horrible salesman, and his sales team was equally horrible. I think it's less about staying on someone's good side, and more about not feeling it's worth slandering them over it. The party speaker candidate is chosen by simple majority of the Dem caucus. The entire progressive caucus doesn't have the majority needed to be able to pick the party speaker candidate. The corporate Dem majority could keep picking Pelosi over and over and over, or someone worse. All you'd be doing is paralyzing the house, for an indefinite period of time, until a speaker was elected. For what, exactly? What happens when the progressive caucus does get the 15, or so, more seats needed to become the majority of the Dem caucus? You've started an all out intra party war, and they do the same thing, to you. Then what? The only way to actually pass the bill is to get enough yes votes in congress to be able to pass the bill. While he who shall not be named was slandering AOC and Bernie for abandoning M4A, as he himself abandoned Nina Turner, they were on the ground campaigning for Nina Turner, promoting M4A, and fighting to add another M4A yes vote to congress. Bernie, Justice Dems, and AOC, have done more for M4A in a few years, than he has in his entire lifetime.
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  13875.  @michaels8620  Most definitely. FDR would have kept doing what he was doing, even if some loudmouth was calling him a "sellout", for making friends with Charles Murphy, who he had previously called a "noxious weed", and telling people to vote for Norman Thomas instead. AOC has outright backed progressives in other districts, campaigning on the ground, fighting to increase numbers, when getting enough numbers is the only way to ever be able to pass anything. The bare minimum is simply working for your own district, and not giving a fuck what goes on in other districts. They never had the numbers to outright remove Pelosi. Already explained that. They could have paralyzed the house, is what they could have done ... no new covid relief, no new unemployment extension, no new child tax credit, no new vaccine funding, etc. ... during a pandemic. Twice before, when the speakership vote was stalemated for a couple months, the house simply adopted a temporary plurality wins rule. So, you might be able to oust her for McCarthy.
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  13876.  Ruh Roh!  In fairness, Belgium's per capita healthcare costs are less than half what the US pays. So, don't pretend you're paying more.
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  13877. ​ @bobbyszabo8983  Not counting energy, it's the US that has the trade surplus, dingus. As for the oil, we give the US a 15% discount, that Canadians don't get. That allows for the US to trade directly from Alaska to China and from Texas to Mexico, for an overall oil net export surplus. Stop listening to the dimwit in the oval office.
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  13878.  @bobbyszabo8983  ​Not counting energy, it's the US that has the trade surplus. As for the oil, we give the US a 15% discount, that Canadians don't get. That allows for the US to trade directly from Alaska to China and from Texas to Mexico, for an overall oil net export surplus. Stop listening to the know nothing in the oval office.
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  13879. Tons of people using it in Peru, and they've got even higher covid deaths per capita than the US.
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  13880. Just because multiple groups have practiced rituals to attain a oneness with God, or knowledge of God, doesn't mean that someone else who attains the same thing, shouldn't also be called a Gnostic. There are all kinds of Theists. How you have a stance, without beliefs, I'm not sure. That may be the first "practicing worship" definition I've ever seen. I like commas, what can I say.
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  13881. @Lucid Dreamer I'm a Canadian. Why are you now changing the subject and dodging questions? Who appoints the judges you want to fight for your rights? Are you opposed to the President vetoing anything?
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  13882.  @newtagwhodis4535  How do you fight with a vote, if the fight stops there, and who you're voting for doesn't fight for anything?
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  13883. That makes no sense. "Left" is a series of socio economic policies. You don't need a "right" to achieve those policies. They hinder achieving those policies.
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  13884. ​ @meghnac78  @findingkelly said "territories", not "Israel" ... as in the Palestine territory should be liberated, and not partitioned.
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  13885.  @DaDansinBear  Good job. That was a bit more coherent.
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  13886.  @drv137ab8  Yeah, heard him sing Queen. He's awesome. 🙄
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  13887. What Josh said. Emma was who they finally decided on to replace Michael. Jamie got some extra time, after he passed, but wasn't the permanent choice to fill his spot.
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  13888. Ooo, a circle jerk. That'll be productive. Can you have the balls to do your slander routine in front of Cornel West this time? I'd like to see his reaction, as he praises progressives and you call them "fakes", "shills", "wimps", or whatnot.
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  13889.  @gerwin07  Last time, Jimmy used words like he was "pressuring". Have him do his actual "pressuring" routine in front of Cornel, who was saying nice things about progressives, and Jimmy didn't have the balls to contradict him.
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  13890. Paid by Peter Thiel funded Rumble, to join their platform (like Greenwald and Dore).
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  13891.  @sparkledragon6216  BBC: Making babies without eggs may be possible, say scientists
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  13892.  @sparkledragon6216  There's also ... CORDIS - British scientists create human embryos without sperm They're also working on not needing men, at all. So maybe just ban all sex and masturbation, to make sure not a single precious seed is spilled.
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  13893. Basically ... private ownership vs public ownership. He advocated giving up your private property and sharing with the public. They ran their ministry on equal ownership, according to the Bible. Marx retroactively called equal ownership and sharing of everything in the past tribal socialism.
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  13894. Maybe. But cops shoot black kids with toy guns, before their vehicle even stops rolling. They shoot black guys who let them know they have a gun, and then reach for their wallet. It could just lead to more deaths of people who actually need to protect themselves most from cops.
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  13895. Peru has had one of the, if not the, highest uses of ivermectin. They also have the highest covid deaths per capita in the world.
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  13896. ​ @jamez2918 Israel is objectively the aggressor, by every relevant measure ... Modern history: 100 years ago, in 1923, Ze'ev Jabotinsky fully acknowledged that Zionism is colonialism, and that, based on the entirety of history, the natives would fight it until the bitter end. He just didn't care what would happen to them, and promoted doing it anyway. Colonizers are never not the aggressors. On top of the colonialist nature of Zionism, the Zionists also formed terrorist organizations, like the Irgun and Lehi. They bombed many Palestinian markets and other public places, murdering many civilians, including children, even including Palestinian Jews (who opposed Zionism). Israel merged those terrorists into the new nation's military and intelligence agencies. Israelis elected Menachem Begin, leader of the Irgun, child murderer, Jew murderer, and bomber of the King David Hotel, as PM. Israelis, to this day, celebrate those terrorists as "heroes". Zionists literally taught their neighbours that terrorism is a valid path to independence and statehood, and that terrorists are to be celebrated. In 1945, it is well documented that Zionists owned just 5% of the land and were a majority nowhere. Israel was formed by actually going against the majority population. It's foundation is completely undemocratic. Then, becoming a majority, in "their" new nation, by ethnic cleansing the actual majority, and then claiming to be democratic, is utter nonsense. Law: Israel is considered an occupier by the International Court, the UN GA, and the UN SC. Occupiers are also never not the aggressors. Those occupied actually have a right to resist occupation. On the flip side, it is illegal for the occupier to settle occupied lands, and illegal to use collective punishment. Israel is a rogue nation, that doesn't abide by international law. What it has been doing, and is doing now, is illegal. Current events: This year, alone, prior to Oct 7 ... Israel held over 1200 Palestinian hostages without charges ... over 200 Palestinians had been killed by the IDF and settlers ... over 1000 Palestinians had been displaced by Israel's neverending colonization of the West Bank ... and, Israel continued to operate an open air WWII style fascist ghetto, in Gaza. Even ignoring modern history and law, in no reality did Hamas "start" anything.
    1
  13897. The US has one of the worst deaths to confirmed cases ratios in the world, indicating there are likely hundreds more Americans who should be tested and in the hospital, but likely aren't due to costs.
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  13898. ​ @RoamingUndertheStars  Both Russia and Israel are the colonizers, the aggressors, dumb dumb.
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  13899. How is voting Biden going to get you universal health care?
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  13900. ​ @phillippac.7469  My same answer, above, to you, dingus.
    1
  13901.  @tonyelliott7734  "Both state law and party rules govern how a delegate must vote at the national convention, including whether a delegate remains bound to a withdrawn candidate and for how many rounds a delegate remains bound to a candidate." Each state has their own rules, and each party has rules, for this exact scenario. There are also rules for if you maroons want to now ditch Trump. "Replacing a nominee between the national convention and the election Rule 9 of The Rules of the Republican Party provides guidance on how to fill presidential and vice presidential vacancies."
    1
  13902.  @capttrips1523  The Mueller investigation charged 34 people. You must be thinking of the 10 Benghazi investigations, and the Biden investigation.
    1
  13903.  @bobsmith4226  Do you not know how insurance works? You already are, plus profit, through private insurance.
    1
  13904.  @bobsmith4226  Just put extra taxes on junk foods, like they do with cigarettes. Some countries are already doing this to supplement their healthcare costs. The baseline being taxed by income/wealth, is so that all income levels can get the same coverage. You don't just want unhealthy people to pay more, you want poorer people to pay more, as a percentage of their income/wealth.
    1
  13905. Just tack the same period of mortgage payments to the end of the loan.
    1
  13906.  @tookie36  True. The last New Deal had tons of labour riots, and such, before it came about. You'd think the DNC might want to skip that part, this time around.
    1
  13907.  @exiledfrommyself  For how long? Obama didn't prove to be as progressive as he made out. Then Hillary gave Trump a win. That's 12 years.
    1
  13908.  @exiledfrommyself  It has to do with time period. Just how long are progressives supposed to be patient for, exactly?
    1
  13909.  @exiledfrommyself  Because they have a shit party platform, including complete fabrications, like how Obamacare supposedly gives every American access to healthcare (still tens of millions uninsured) and how it makes healthcare affordable so Americans don't have to go bankrupt (still 500k+ a year going bankrupt) ... because they've been caught before coordinating with who they want to win (likely still doing it) ... because they represent the party (if you'd rather me say Democratic Party, fine)? How long should progressives stick with, and reward, a party that doesn't listen to them? If Biden gets nominated, does he have any policies for progressives? If not, why should they support someone who isn't going to represent them, at all?
    1
  13910.  @exiledfrommyself  Like I said, it works both ways. If the democratic party won't budge at all progressive and puts forth the same old shit, I have zero clue why you think alienating progressives is okay. Democrats likewise need progressives to win, and should be giving them some reason to keep voting Democrat. You don't seem consistent.
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  13911.  @exiledfrommyself  Uh huh, keep "sensibly" offering up a Republican light. You realize that, combined, the progressives have a higher percentage of voter support, from registered Democrats, right? That's the direction the voters in the party are leaning. If the party leaders and a minority of non-progressive party voters, "sensibly" offer up the status quo to the majority, they'll be the ones "sensibly" alienating people.
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  13912. ​ @selvamthiagarajan8152  You don't agree with reality? Israel is objectively the aggressor by every relevant measure ... Modern history: 100 years ago, in 1923, Ze'ev Jabotinsky fully acknowledged that Zionism is colonialism, and that, based on the entirety of history, the natives would fight it until the bitter end. He just didn't care what would happen to them, and promoted doing it anyway. Colonizers are never not the aggressors. On top of the colonialist nature of Zionism, the Zionists also formed terrorist organizations, like the Irgun and Lehi. They bombed many Palestinian markets and other public places, murdering many civilians, including children, even including Palestinian Jews (who opposed Zionism). Israel merged those terrorists into the new nation's military and intelligence agencies. Israelis elected Menachem Begin, leader of the Irgun, child murderer, Jew murderer, and bomber of the King David Hotel, as PM. Israelis, to this day, celebrate those terrorists as "heroes". Zionists literally taught their neighbours that terrorism is a valid path to independence and statehood, and that terrorists are to be celebrated. In 1945, it is well documented that Zionists owned just 5% of the land and were a majority nowhere. Israel was formed by actually going against the majority population. It's foundation is completely undemocratic. Then, becoming a majority, in "their" new nation, by ethnic cleansing the actual majority, and then claiming to be democratic, is utter nonsense. Law: Israel is considered an occupier by the International Court, the UN GA, and the UN SC. Occupiers are also never not the aggressors. Those occupied actually have a right to resist occupation. On the flip side, it is illegal for the occupier to settle occupied lands, and illegal to use collective punishment. Israel is a rogue nation, that doesn't abide by international law. What it has been doing, and is doing now, is illegal. Current events: This year, alone, prior to Oct 7 ... Israel held over 1200 Palestinian hostages without charges ... over 200 Palestinians had been killed by the IDF and settlers ... over 1000 Palestinians had been displaced by Israel's neverending colonization of the West Bank ... and, Israel continued to operate an open air WWII style fascist ghetto, in Gaza. Even ignoring modern history and law, in no reality did Hamas "start" anything.
    1
  13913.  @Dronax  And? What's your point? Get rid of all vaccinations, medicines, laws, rules of the road, health and safety standards, etc., etc., etc.? Because there's no point in trying to reduce the number?
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  13914.  @Thezuule1  No vaccine is 100%, dimwit. No vaccine totally "prevents" infection. Yes, they can still be used for herd immunity. You're just not very bright.
    1
  13915.  @Thezuule1  You're an ignoramus. "A recent study found that vaccinated people infected with the delta variant are 63 per cent less likely to infect people who are unvaccinated. This is only slightly lower than with the alpha variant, says Brechje de Gier at the National Institute for Public Health and the Environment in the Netherlands, who led the study. Her team had previously found that vaccinated people infected with alpha were 73 per cent less likely to infect unvaccinated people. What is important to realise, de Gier says, is that the full effect of vaccines on reducing transmission is even higher than 63 per cent, because most vaccinated people don’t become infected in the first place." "De Gier says they cannot calculate the full reduction in transmission due to vaccination, because they don’t know exactly how much vaccination reduces the risk of infection. But even assuming vaccination only halves the risk of infection, this would still imply that vaccines reduce transmission by more than 80 per cent overall."
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  13916. If you ask the person with no knowledge of Gods, if they believe in Gods. They will more likely answer you that they don't know what a God is, than answer you that no, they don't believ in Gods.
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  13917.  @aliamjon2550  Uh huh, that was my point.
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  13918. By every relevant measure, Israel is objectively the aggressor ... Modern history: 100 years ago, in 1923, Ze'ev Jabotinsky fully acknowledged that Zionism is colonialism, and that, based on the entirety of history, that the natives would fight it until the bitter end. He just didn't care what would happen to them, and promoted doing it anyway. Colonizers are never not the aggressors. On top of the colonialist nature of Zionism, the Zionists also formed terrorist organizations, like the Irgun and Lehi. They bombed many Palestinian markets and other public places, murdering many civilians, including children, even including Palestinian Jews (who opposed Zionism). Israel merged those terrorists into the new nation's military and intelligence agencies. Israelis elected Menachem Begin, leader of the Irgun, child murderer, Jew murderer, and bomber of the King David Hotel, as PM. Israelis, to this day, celebrate those terrorists as "heroes". Zionists literally taught their neighbours that terrorism is a valid path to independence and statehood, and that terrorists are to be celebrated. In 1945, it is well documented that Zionists owned just 5% of the land and were a majority nowhere. Israel was formed by actually going against the majority population. It's foundation is completely undemocratic. Then, becoming a majority, in "your" new nation, by ethnic cleansing the actual majority, and then claiming to be democratic, is utter nonsense. Law: Israel is considered an occupier by the International Court, the UN GA, and the UN SC. Occupiers are also never not the aggressors. Those occupied actually have a right to resist occupation. On the flip side, it is illegal for the occupier to settle occupied lands, and illegal to use collective punishment. Israel is a rogue nation, that doesn't abide by international law. What it has been doing, and is doing now, is illegal. Current events: This year, alone, prior to Oct 7 ... Israel held over 1200 Palestinian hostages without charges ... over 200 Palestinians had been killed by the IDF and settlers ... over 1000 Palestinians had been displaced by Israel's neverending colonization of the West Bank ... and, Israel continued to operate an open air WWII style fascist ghetto. Even ignoring modern history and law, in no reality did Hamas "start" anything.
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  13919. ​ @LPAFilm  If Bernie has won a primary, he would have needed all the Dems who didn't vote for him in the primaries, to vote blue no matter who, in the general, to have beaten Trump. It's a method that works both ways. It's the proven best method for getting progressives elected. The 30 year old progressive caucus is about 15 seats away from becoming the majority of house Dems. The 6 year old Justice Dems have 11 seats. The Green party hasn't won a single seat in its 20 year existence.
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  13920. Especially polling/voting stations and caucuses.
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  13921.  @anuragchakraborty8766  Pretty sure the king has some nks, as well, dingus.
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  13922.  @leonardzein5056  Right. Even worse ... he'd likely try to make money off them, by selling them bullshit.
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  13923. Which ones are more neoliberal/neoconservative, than any US president? Aren't a fair number the leaders of countries Bernie wanted to be more like?
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  13924.  @dawaj3715  Bernie would have been the good choice, but Biden is a better choice than Trump, which is also what Bernie thought, and you're criticizing him for. If you don't agree Biden is a better choice, and don't consider Biden and Trump the same, then do you consider Biden worse?
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  13925.  @dawaj3715  Soooo ... samesies.
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  13926.  @dawaj3715  In a general sense, you don't prefer one more than the other, you don't think there'd be even a slightly better overall outcome with one or the other, sooo ... what's a better word?
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  13927.  Sebastian Thor  Go read a history book.
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  13928.  @markzuckergecko621  Counting all taxes, the top 1% pay about 30% of taxes. They also own about 30% of the wealth. The bottom 50% pays about 3% of the taxes but only owns about 1.5% of the wealth. As a percentage of wealth, the 1% are paying less taxes. Even amongst the 1%, a higher percentage of wealth is being paid by the lesser rich with high taxable incomes. Those at the top, claiming $1 incomes from Tesla, or $80k incomes from Amazon, and living off the value of their stocks, are paying next to nothing. The super rich are even screwing the lesser rich.
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  13929.  @markzuckergecko621  Yeah, you're just counting income taxes, dumb dumb, and not payroll taxes.
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  13930. ​ andresrojas7924 Likud was created by Menachem Begin, a Zionist terrorist leader of the Irgun, who bombed Palestinian markets, full of Palestinian women and children, and even Palestinian Jews (who opposed Zionism), and blew up the King David Hotel. The other founder was Ariel Sharon, who committed numerous crimes of war, massacring Palestinian villages. Their original platform, left no room for Palestinians ... "The Right of the Jewish People to the Land of Israel (Eretz Israel) a. The right of the Jewish people to the land of Israel is eternal and indisputable and is linked with the right to security and peace; therefore, Judea and Samaria will not be handed to any foreign administration; between the Sea and the Jordan there will only be Israeli sovereignty." "between the Sea and the Jordan" = from the river to the sea Israel doesn't recognize Palestine, dimwit. They keep claiming, like cowards, that they aren't colonizers, because "Palestine" doesn't exist, which is an absolutely moronic argument, that would negate much of the colonizing in history.
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  13931. ​ andresrojas7924  Still not following. Wasn't it the elected Muslim leader of the country that the coup was against, perpetrated by Christians? The entire African Union is backing the ousted government.
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  13932. He doesn't seem believe there is such a thing as strong Atheists...Athe-ists.
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  13933.  @aldinlee8528  Considering they were European clnzers, that sounds more than fair. Shouldn't have gotten any. Anything else?
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  13934. Aaron is an idiot. Israel, the US, France, all bombed Syria before inspectors even made it to the sites they investigated. The final report, which didn't assign blame, didn't even come out until almost a year later. It had absolutely nothing to do with anyone's decision to bomb. Plus, 2 dissenting opinions on a single investigation doesn't even debunk that single investigation, let alone the hundreds of accounts of Syrian chemical weapons use since 2012. One of which was the month before, in 2018, which had an investigation with zero dissenting opinions, and a follow up investigation which did assign blame to Syria. Dore knobs are as dumb as a sack of doorknobs.
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  13935.  @chwest31  The US shouldn't be intervening unilaterally, or with little coalitions of the willing. That doesn't change the fact that Aaron is an idiot. It can be both true that Syria has been gassing it's people, and that the US shouldn't be unilaterally bombing other countries. Aaron and Dore going on and on about some bullshit "scandal", is idiotic. Simply reporting on, and investigating, human rights abuses, or war crimes, doesn't give any country an automatic green light to bomb the country being investigated. As usual, Dore is bitching about a lot of the wrong people.
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  13936. Are you a slow Dore knob, or something? Try to think, real hard (don't hurt yourself though), as to why a video posted at like 1am EST, might have less views and comments than videos they posted only a few hours earlier.
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  13937.  @chrisfontaine6221  Yeah, like the ones hours earlier that I mentioned, dumb dumb.
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  13938.  @chrisfontaine6221  Just stating what appears to be a fact, that you're not very bright. Whether I point out that earlier videos had tens of thousands of views, or I don't, it won't change that that's simply a fact, or make you any smarter.
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  13939.  @chrisfontaine6221  So, you're tripling down on simply not looking at the viewership on earlier videos the same day, and dying on the hill of an anecdotal video? Are you right wing stupid, or Dore knob stupid ... oh wait, same thing.
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  13940.  @chrisfontaine6221  Didn't mention Russians. So, you're Lone Wolf stupid? My bad.
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  13941. Israel officially occupies all Palestine territories. That's 5 million people they don't let vote for the government that has actual authority over them. How is that "freedom"?
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  13942.  @anitad5935  What? That 1.3m was from around 1991, and after living amongst Muslims for some 1300 years. The largely Christian US then came along and bombed the hell out of Iraq, then laid siege to the country, for a decade, and then came back to bomb the hell out of the country, again. The population had already been estimated to have dropped by about 500k, to 800k, by 2003. The US then allowed extremists to grow, out from the very place people blamed Saddam for gassing, and spread throughout the North, amongst the Kurds, many of whom joined ISIL. It was under the US' watch that IS started killing and persecuting everyone, including mostly Muslims. And, it was mostly Muslims (Kurds are 99% Muslims) who stopped them. Over 2 million people fled Iraq, not just Christians. So, who was genociding who, exactly? The foreign Christian invaders bombing and laying siege, killing hundreds of thousands of Iraqis, including Christian Iraqis? IS killing anyone who wouldn't join them? Most of the world were against both of those. Who's still genociding? Some estimates say there actually could still be almost 500k Christians in Iraq, but they keep delaying taking a census, to be able to verify any numbers. A couple hundred thousand took refuge with the Muslim majority Kurds, who protected them from IS. There have been the same ethnic groups on opposite sides, and different ethnic groups teaming up. There have been the same religions on opposite sides, and different religions teaming up. The US turned Iraq into a big clusterf*ck.
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  13943.  @bunnychowmuncher  Jordan expelled the PLO to Lebanon, and kept Palestinian refugees, still having over 2m, today. You reached back 50 years to pull out nothing like a genocide. Then you call a closed border a genocide ... huh? A Christian US proxy war, you mean. The US backed a coup against the democratically elected PM of Iran, who had been taking powers away from their puppet Shah and wanted to nationalize Iran's oil. With his full powers returned, the dictator Shah killed and persecuted thousands. When a popular revolutionary leader, in Iraq, overthrew its puppet British monarch, and talked about nationalizing oil, the US supported a Ba'ath coup. When Saddam then nationalized Iraq's oil, the US and Israel backed a Kurdish rebellion against Saddam. Then, when their puppet Shah was overthrown, the US ditched the Kurds, let their rebellion be squashed, turned to Saddam again, and backed him against Iran. And, now the US is using their buddy, Saudi.
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  13944.  @Thezuule1  He said the numbers for kids. Although that might skew the total covid hospitalization rate, a little, that doesn't affect the fact that tons of beds are filling with adults due to covid.
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  13945.  @Thezuule1  Well there's going to be a reflection in kid hospitalizations, per adult hospitalizations, for covid, depending on the variant, so it's not like every kid has gone in with covid rather than because of covid. He said "some", however many that is, and didn't really say how skewed. If there are a lot more adults filling beds, due to covid, then there are likely a lot more kids filling beds, as well.
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  13946.  @Thezuule1  As was pointed out ... that was one doctor, in one hospital, in one state, that wasn't one of the top 5, from 2 weeks ago. Update: More than 580,000 US pediatric Covid-19 cases were reported last week alone, far exceeding past peaks, the American Academy of Pediatrics and the Children's Hospital Association said Wednesday. That's a 78% increase over the 325,000 new cases reported the prior week. And the last two weeks alone have accounted for 11% of the country's total for pediatric cases, the groups said. "Of the children who have been hospitalized or go to the intensive care unit or die, about a third of them have no comorbidities. Therefore, it can occur in anyone," Offit said Tuesday. "This is not a virus to fool around with. This is not influenza or parainfluenza or other typical respiratory viruses. This virus can cause you to make an immune response to your own blood vessels, which means that you can have heart disease, brain disease, kidney disease, lung disease as well as liver disease," he said.
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  13947. ​ @IAmTheTruCanadian  Israel exists because of a) Zionist colonialism. Colonialists are never not the aggressors, when it comes to the natives. In 1923, Ze'ev Jabotinsky fully acknowledged that Zionism is colonialism, and predicted, based on the entirety of history, that the native population would fight it until the bitter end. He just didn't care about the native population, and thought colonialism was a fine idea. Israel exists because of b) Zionist terrorism. Zionists created terrorist groups, like the Irgun and Lehi. They bombed many Palestinian markets, and other public places, killing many Palestinian civilians, including children, even including Palestinian Jews (who didn't support Zionism). Israel merged those terrorists into the new nation's military and intelligence agencies. Israelis elected Menachem Begin, leader of the Irgun, child murderer, Jew murderer, who bombed the King David Hotel, to be their PM. Israelis, to this day, celebrate those terrorists as "heroes". They literally taught their neighbours that terrorism is a valid path to independence and statehood, and that terrorists are to be celebrated.
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  13948. I was mocking your nonsensical "point". Someone's voice or shirt has nothing at all to do with race or racism.
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  13949.  @thesupremechickenhed  If things are really getting out of hand, governors can call in their state military, and/or their state's National guard.
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  13950. RCMP are federal. We've also got provincial police and city police. Also, Canada's population is about 10x less then the US. Both the cop killings and cop deaths should be adjusted for population, for a proper comparison. Being a cop is safer than being a garbage man, in the US. Guns, or not, there's no real justification for the amount of force US cops use. If they're that afraid, then they shouldn't be cops.
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  13951. ​ @MarkMayhew  First wrap your brain around who the actual aggressor is. Israel is objectively the aggressor by every relevant measure ... Modern history: 100 years ago, in 1923, Ze'ev Jabotinsky fully acknowledged that Zionism is colonialism, and that, based on the entirety of history, the natives would fight it until the bitter end. He just didn't care what would happen to them, and promoted doing it anyway. Colonizers are never not the aggressors. On top of the colonialist nature of Zionism, the Zionists also formed terrorist organizations, like the Irgun and Lehi. They bombed many Palestinian markets and other public places, murdering many civilians, including children, even including Palestinian Jews (who opposed Zionism). Israel merged those terrorists into the new nation's military and intelligence agencies. Israelis elected Menachem Begin, leader of the Irgun, child murderer, Jew murderer, and bomber of the King David Hotel, as PM. Israelis, to this day, celebrate those terrorists as "heroes". Zionists literally taught their neighbours that terrorism is a valid path to independence and statehood, and that terrorists are to be celebrated. In 1945, it is well documented that Zionists owned just 5% of the land and were a majority nowhere. Israel was formed by actually going against the majority population. It's foundation is completely undemocratic. Then, becoming a majority, in "their" new nation, by ethnic cleansing the actual majority, and then claiming to be democratic, is utter nonsense. Law: Israel is considered an occupier by the International Court, the UN GA, and the UN SC. Occupiers are also never not the aggressors. Those occupied actually have a right to resist occupation. On the flip side, it is illegal for the occupier to settle occupied lands, and illegal to use collective punishment. Israel is a rogue nation, that doesn't abide by international law. What it has been doing, and is doing now, is illegal. Current events: This year, alone, prior to Oct 7 ... Israel held over 1200 Palestinian hostages without charges ... over 200 Palestinians had been killed by the IDF and settlers ... over 1000 Palestinians had been displaced by Israel's neverending colonization of the West Bank ... and, Israel continued to operate an open air WWII style fascist ghetto, in Gaza. Even ignoring modern history and law, in no reality did Hamas "start" anything.
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  13952. ​ @serzMaga  Russia is the one who invaded another country. If Russia doesn't like war, just leave.
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  13953.  @be2the4out  The April mltry aid, for Isrl only, bill passed 366 to 58 in the house.
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  13954.  @karenmurphy9111  You can't use an executive order to stop a congress approved bill. What conflict did Reagan end with a phone call? Releasing hostages, with an arms bribe?
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  13955.  @KC-jr6zs  What actually happened? It's illegal to withhold congress approved funding. Congress could easily impeach her over it, since she doesn't have a defensive wall in the senate, like DT did.
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  13956.  @griffinsmithish  1. The reality is that there are only two viable candidates. √0tiπg Green isn't a √0t€ against DT any more than tossing a √0t€ in the garbage is. 2. Yeah, it really is, because if KH doesn't win, then DT will. That's reality. Stein doesn't care if Rvssia does to Ukrn what Isrl is doing to Plstn. The only perfect integrity candidate would be opposed to both Isrl and Rvssia, and that's not her. 3. But, you wouldn't be. The √0t€ would be as worthless as writing in: Betsy the cow.
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  13957.  @cupajoy8498  Neither does Kamala what?
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  13958.  @cupajoy8498  The only thing that will change US policy, is ongoing public pressure. If you let the party who makes laws allowing people to drive through prtstrs, win ... if you let the guy who says he wants to d€p0rt prtstrs, win ... if you let the guy who wants to round up leftists, win ... etc. ... Then you're against the only chance of changing US policy.
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  13959.  @TheScotsalan  You blathered a bunch of stuff, but didn't answer my question. They have a ten year shorter lifespan than their neighbour, directly on the other side of the wall. The US has a shorter lifespan, at least in part due to more violence and shittier healthcare. Do you think something like Israel delaying permission for an 18 month old to travel to a hospital, and her dying, might contribute to a shorter life expectancy? Do you think bombs on your head might contribute to a shorter life expectancy?
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  13960. The BQ, a single province issued party, being allowed to run at the federal level and taking seats that would go Liberal or NDP, let the Conservatives rule for years. Third parties don't always make things better, especially if the right is fairly solidly united, like Republicans.
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  13961.  @jackjonnez6000  I sure can, and "all of it" isn't very specific. Do you know what "specific" means?
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  13962.  @jackjonnez6000  I sure do. You haven't pointed out any specific thing Ana said which was false, dumb dumb.
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  13963. @Aaron Dickson No, it didn't.
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  13964. You prefer Likud, which was founded by Irgun and Lehi terrorists, who are colonizers, ethnic cleansers, and occupiers, and have been operating an open air WWII style fascist ghetto?
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  13965. What, exactly, are "Judeo-Christian" values? Jews don't believe in Christianity, and Christians don't follow the Jewish laws.
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  13966.  @110000116699  Because running progressives against DCCC backed corporate Dems, taking out some corporate Dems, is kneeling to corporate Dems? Weird.
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  13967. Ummmmm, nuclear deterrence is based on mutually assured destruction. In the few minutes it takes for the first strike to hit, they have time to launch their nuclear weapons. Likewise, if they launch, you can still get yours off, before the "sacrifice" of any cities. If they don't have nukes, then there shouldn't be a need for a first strike.
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  13968. Why are you MAGA morons so obsessed with Hunter's dick?
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  13969. I'm the one saying lack of belief doesn't equal belief there is no god. I think they deserve two seperate terms. Defining Atheism to mean both A-theism (weak) and Athe-ism (strong) convolutes and does equate them (in some peoples' minds). An Agnostic, doesn't form a belief, either way, without evidence, right.
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  13970. Ummm, all the different countries, with universal healthcare, or paid college, etc., have different cultures, ffs. Deciding how to pay for something doesn't equate to culture.
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  13971.  @jaccl4539  There you go again, not grasping math.
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  13972.  Alabama Man Special Edition  Rofl. Millions of people die of hunger, yearly, and most are in capitalist countries. WWI was all a bunch of capitalist countries killing each other. The Holocaust was actually about 15m people. Japan also killed 3-14 million civilians and POWs. Millions died due to famine, in British India, as they exported food. Japan, Italy, Germany, were all right wing, and started another world war, that killed tens of millions. Millions were killed in the Congo, the most deadly conflict since WWII. You're in denial.
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  13973.  @sergeikhripun  There's already a record of who won't cosign the bill, during a pandemic. There's already a record of committee members who sat on the bill, after Pelosi introduced it last session, during a pandemic. There's new lists of both those things, this session. Why aren't you morons pressuring all the committee members, to take up the bill, instead of blathering about a year old missed opportunity for performance art?
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  13974.  @jaccl4539  It is math, dimwit. We've been over this. They draw lines, and don't vote for crap all the time. They talk to the press. There is absolutely nothing Manchin does, that they haven't done. The only reason anyone is talking about Manchin is because he actually has the ability to kill a bill on his own. Nobody would give a crap about him, nobody would be talking about him, if the senate was 51 Dems. You blather about sword nonsense. Name a single apecific thing that you think Manchin has done, that they haven't.
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  13975. Rofl, the guy called Harris first. He proved he was willing to sell himself to whoever would take him. You lot are fans of the most pathetic people.
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  13976. The skewed mail in vs election day voting pattern likely happened in every single state. It's only because of stupid Republican legislatures, that stuck with counting all mail in ballots after election day ballots, that we got to witness the skewed pattern, in some states. If more mail in voting going for Joe was actual evidence of fraud, they should be challenging in every single state. They know it's not evidence. They're just using the optics as propaganda.
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  13977. The Trump cult only trusted the federal government, for 4 years. They just pretended like their cult leader wasn't the federal government. Kind of like how they pretend FOX News isn't part of one of the biggest MSM outlets in the world, and trust it, while claiming not to trust MSM.
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  13978. Thanks for posting that you're a moron, before leaving.
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  13979.  @eidorm.7953  Even Native Americans reached a point where they wanted to shove all the wt people back into the sea. It wasn't because they were wt, or because they were Christians. It was because they were a holes. People don't like being clnzd. What's so hard to understand?
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  13980.  @eidorm.7953    Even Native Americans reached a point where they wanted to shove all the clnzrs back into the sea. It wasn't because they were wt, or because they were Christians. It was because they were a h0|€s. People don't like being clnzd. What's so hard to understand?
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  13981.  @eidorm.7953   Even Native Americans reached a point where they wanted to send all the clnzrs back where they came from. It wasn't because they were wt, or because they were Chrstns. It was because they were clnzrs. People don't like being clnzd.
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  13982.  @eidorm.7953  Native Americans reached a point where they wanted to send all the clnzrs back. It wasn't because they were wt. It wasn't because they were Chrstns. It was because clnzrs are a§§h0|€§.
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  13983.  @eidorm.7953  American natives also reached a point where they wanted to send all the clnzrs back. It wasn't because the clnzrs were wt. It wasn't because the clnzrs were Chrstns. It was because they were clnzrs.
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  13984.  @robinalexander5558  Nah. You can not pretend all Znsm is samesies, and innocuous. The Revisionists, who became the Irgun and Lehi trrrsts (people even Einstein likened to Fscsts and Nzs), who then became Likud, which is ruling Isrl ... have always promoted ethnc clnsng and clnztn, always claimed "right" to vlntly take all of Plstn, plus all or parts of Jordan, Syria, and Lebanon. That is the dominant Znsm, and that is equivalent to Nzsm.
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  13985.  @robinalexander5558  Were all you Znsts dropped on your heads, as babies, or something? Much of the clnzd world wasn't "nations", prior to being clnzd. The native majority of the mandate were offered to be clnzd, and they said "no thanks" ... Just like most people say "no thanks" to being clnzd.
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  13986.  @robinalexander5558  And ... No, it was also not the "original" partition plan. There had been early plans. "Moderate" Znst, Ben-Gurion, wrote his son a letter about accepting an earlier plan (one that included ethnclly clnsng over 200k Plstnns). He argued the Znsts would accept it, for now, grow their strength, and then expand later. Even he was a duplicitous, ethnc clnsng supporting, vlnt wrmngr.
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  13987.  @robinalexander5558  And no ... Plstnns have Canaanite DNA. They're Arab and Mslm the same way indigenous peoples of Central America are now Hispanic and Catholic. Plstnns were the previous Chrstn majority. They were the Jwsh majority before that, and the Canaanite mythology majority before that. They were simply Arabized and converted along the way. That Plstnns were native is also something both the Brtsh, and the early Znsts, said themselves.
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  13988.  @robinalexander5558  No actual evidence of Canaanites doing that. The OT/Tanakh writers were simply people like Trump, who made things up.
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  13989. Harris is a moron. "It's thought that science can help us get what we value, but it can never tell us what we ought to value." So, if you subjectively value a specific form of "well being", then science can help you achieve that. The end. The rest is all a waste of breath. Sam never gets beyond what he said was already an accepted given.
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  13990.  @robinsss  So, the freedom to be able to kill whoever you want, whenever you want, is "good"? All laws limit "freedom". You want zero laws then.
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  13991. His net worth is about $100b. Who the hell is promoting a near 100% wealth tax?
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  13992. Are you an Agnostic, with regards to the existence of Gods? Agnostic being: "I see no logical evidence, therefore I don't believe."
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  13993. Are you saying those things were okay, and should continue? Because Israel is currently still colonizing and ethnic cleansing.
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  13994. ​ @Santirata  Weird how the Jws kept seeking refuge in Muslim nations, if that is true. Which Muslim nation offered conversion, dth, or exile, like Spain?
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  13995. ​ @Santirata  You realize all those "peace proposals" were offers to be clnized, right? Native populations literally can't "start" anything against clnzers. If the clnzers weren't there, doing their clnzing first, there'd be nobody for them to do anything to.
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  13996. ​​ @Santirata 1898: Khalil Beidas, his preface to his translation of Akim Olesnitsky's A Description of the Holy Land: "the people of Palestine were in need of a geography book about their country... the Palestinian peasant waits impatiently for winter to come, for the season’s rain to moisten his fossilized fields." What else would you call someone, who lived in Palestine? You ignore things at an individual level. The Palestinian individuals, living in what would be given to Jwsh clnzers, would 100% be clnzed. So what, if someone living in Jordan wasn't? That's like arguing the first 20% of clnzing and ethnclly cleansing North America was perfectly fine, since Native Americans still had 80% of North America. At what percent, exactly, does clnzing and ethnclly cleansing become wrong?
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  13997.  @VinZZ97  You don't want to alienate a huckster, who promoted his daughter's meat only diet, claiming it cured all his mental and physical ailments? Or, the huckster's huckster daughter? Or, the followers who buy their huckster bullshit?
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  13998. Pretty much everyone people call "pundit" isn't one. A "pundit" is supposed an expert, or at least very knowledgeable, in the topic they're discussing.
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  13999.  @johnmc6293  Independent isn't third party. Technically, it's no party. He lost while running as a third party candidate.
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  14000.  @johnmc6293  He lost as a third party, Liberty Union, candidate. He didn't get out of the primaries to actually run in the general as a Democrat. Do you think he would have lost to Dumpty?
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  14001.  @reaganoames6787  So, everything I said was a fact? Rudy let a congressional hearing go by, and just sat on verifiable evidence.
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  14002. @77kirkwood So, you have "Free" taxpayer provided healthcare?
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  14003. @Jacket off Gym Jordan More Republicans voted Libertarian than Democrats voted Green, in 2016, dumb dumb. Hillary was so bad, she lost to a Republican who, himself, had a pathetic campaign and lost millions of right wing voters.
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  14004. @77kirkwood I quoted you. Still nice of taxpayers to give you a job and benefits.
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  14005. @77kirkwood Aren't grants paid for by taxpayers?
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  14006.  @jeremystone8394  Shove the strawman. All of zero people claim medicare for all "will save everyone". Unless you mean, save everyone from individually being charged for their healthcare, or being rejected healthcare. Sure, it'll do those things.
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  14007.  @jeremystone8394  I didn't say it was "free", moron. You do enjoy a good strawman, while apparently not knowing what one is. Also, I'm Canadian. I'm already looking at another country's response, daily.
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  14008.  @jeremystone8394  Rofl, you really think multiple strawmen makes for a winning argument? You are, objectively, stupid. That's simply a statement of fact. It's hilarious how you also seem to think saying "unintelligent people" and "don't expect you to be smart enough" is somehow different from saying "moron" or "dumbass". They're synonyms, dumb dumb. You've argued that you're an idiot, yourself.
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  14009. Maybe they had Rudy getting James Taylor for them.
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  14010.  @Ilay321  Man you lot are morons. It started 30 years before the day Israel declared independence, ffs.
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  14011.  @briandfox16  Very frequently it is only the US vetoing resolutions against Israel. Yeah, Christian nuts "support" Israel, because they think it will bring about the second coming and Armageddon ... where Israel is the first nation wiped out. Great friends, wanting another global war, possibly nuclear, and for them to die first. Death cult.
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  14012.  @KaiCross  They took an extremely well documented 1500 year tour of Russia and Europe. If I round up 6 million people from the Americas whose ancestors left England hundreds of years ago, can we go claim half of England and boot out the current inhabitants?
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  14013.  @KaiCross  You also might want to look into why those Jews were booted out by the Romans. They killed hundreds of thousands of non Jewish civilians. Were the Romans justified in using excessive force, collective punishment, destroying their temple, and ethnically cleansing some of them?
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  14014.  @spocktheripper  What do you think happened? It's well documented that Zionists owned just over 5% of the land, in 1945.
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  14015.  @shadebleu  Do you mean the Mongols ... who also conquered and colonized China?
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  14016.  @shadebleu  "Mongolia" isn't "China" moron. "Mongolia" is literally outside "China". "Mongols" invaded "China". Maybe make sense, and you'll be easier to understand. Did you have a point about the Mongols? People weren't too fond of them.
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  14017.  @Ilay321  The simple fact is that you're lying. The Jewish population was only 10% of the population, when the mandate began, and even by 1945, after bringing in many Zionist colonizers, they only owned about 5% of the land, and were a majority nowhere. To reach owning 50% of the land, and becoming a majority on that land, so it could be a "Jewish state", requires theft and ethnic cleansing.
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  14018.  @shadebleu  Were you going somewhere with your stupid Mongol reference, dumb dumb? How many nations are currently being ruled by Mongolian colonialists?
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  14019.  @shadebleu  Do you, or someone else, keep flagging history? "Meanwhile the Jews in the region of Cyrene had put one Andreas at their head and were destroying both the Romans and the Greeks. They would cook their flesh, make belts for themselves of their entrails, anoint themselves with their blood, and wear their skins for clothing. Others they would give to wild beasts and force still others to fight as gladiators. In all, consequently, two hundred and twenty thousand perished. In Egypt, they also performed many similar deeds, and in Cyprus under the leadership of Artemio. There, likewise, two hundred and forty thousand perished. For this reason, no Jew may set foot in that land, but even if one of them is driven upon the island by the force of the wind, he is put to death. Various persons took part in subduing these Jews, one being Lusius, who was sent by Trajan.[9]" https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Kitos_War
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  14020. Splitting Dem votes allows for the Republican extreme to have power. They're a psycho party.
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  14021. From the makers of ivermectin.
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  14022.  @nick-kd2yx  India is the largest vaccine manufacturer.
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  14023. ​ @danyelnicholas  Zionists were the ones from other countries, that came colonized, occupied, ethnically cleansed, and are operating an open air WWII style fascist ghetto, dimwit.
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  14024. He cultivated himself a right wing anti-trans fanbase, and these are the same people.
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  14025.  @kylequest  A public option is not as good as M4A. Also, Bernie did not propose a total ban on private insurance. Just no duplicate coverage, exactly how Medigap isn't allowed to offer and charge people for things their Medicare already covers. Let's say someone is already collecting full SSI disability benefits, plus SNAP, which are currently stackable. They could easily already be getting $1000+ a month in assistance. Okay, so Yang doesn't have UBI stack with SSI, only SSDI, and they opt out of getting UBI, but they can't opt out of paying a VAT. Unless you expect them to live a life with no phone service, no internet, no electricity, no transportation, and numerous other things that don't get counted as basic necessities, then their cost of living will increase. You will have made someone already living in poverty effectively poorer, while handing upper middle class and lower end rich people more per year than they'll pay into a VAT (someone would have to be spending $120k a year on VATable goods and services to be even, $240k for a couple). That makes little sense. Plus, he never made it sound like new people could opt in to the old programs (which he wants phased out), so new disabled people might just be stuck with the $1000 a month. And, no, getting people off programs with jobs, but keeping the programs for safety, isn't the same as wanting to totally phase out programs. I mean, on his own, the guy originally thought it was a great ideas to not have UBI stack with anything and get rid of everything, including social security. It took a bunch of negative feedback for him to change his plan. He's not really as caring or smart as people think he is. And, again, he doesn't seem to have a clue how a VAT actually works. He will make giant corporations extra tens of billions a year, making their owners and large shareholders extra billions a year. They'll be more than happy to pay whatever thousands a year extra on personal products, for that exchange. Yang would have money flowing to the very top faster than ever before. He needs a different method to pay for the UBI, one that will have those at the top paying in more than they'll make back, and won't be a burden on some of the poorest people.
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  14026.  @kylequest  You just ignored that SSI stacks with SNAP, and the UBI stacks with neither. Banning duplicate coverage isn't "banning private insurance", or we could say there's already a ban on private insurance. And, you're lying about Yang not wanting to end programs, because when asked how to pay for UBI, he includes a program's entire budget that would instead go to UBI. You know that a sizeable chunk of a program's budget pays employees to run said program, right? How do you actually still have a program, if there's nobody being paid to run it?
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  14027.  @kylequest  As for saying that companies wouldn't make more money, you're being a complete idiot. The whole point is that, if you hand people money, they will spend it. You'd have to be braindead not to think companies will benefit. Part of Yang's stated method for paying for his almost $1t starting deficit is that the economy will expand, and pay for it, ffs. If you hand Americans $3t, and they spend a third of their money on retail, and Amazon's share of US retail is 4%, the UBI just made Amazon an extra $40b a year. That would, in turn, make Bezos extra billions a year. He could buy a brand new $1b yacht, every single year, pay the $100m in VAT, and still come out way ahead.
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  14028.  @kylequest  Rofl, nice strawman. You're a dishonest twit.
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  14029.  Random L3vel  Dinesh D'Souza sells books. He's a moron. Ann Coulter sells books. She's a moron. Bill O'Reilly sells books. He's a moron. That there are many other morons that buy their shit isn't evidence what they're saying is intelligent. Book sales is only evidence of book sales, dumbass.
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  14030.  @UltimateBreakfast  You gather wrong, moron. And, to be clear, it's specifically you thinking you can read minds that makes you a moron, not any differing opinions you might have.
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  14031. Honestly, the "public option" sucks. 6 years in LA and not anywhere close to all of the public opting in.
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  14032.  @nfzeta128  Some small poor rural hospitals, in the US, must have been scraping by on Medicaid recipients. I don't know if I could find it now, but I remember an article about red states that didn't take the ACA Medicaid expansion, and small rural hospitals closed down at higher rates in those states.
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  14033.  Patrick Skywalker  You have some serious reading comprehension problems.
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  14034.  @rubbercable  Rand Paul was trying to make the case that Fauci was funding research in Wuhan, but Fauci represents the NIH, which represents the US. They're going after Fauci, not seeming to realize that it would implicate the US government, and make them liable.
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  14035.  @rafidifrancesco7956  Zionism converted from something more like immigration to colonialism, with the Balfour declaration. Ze'ev Jabotinsky, The Iron Wall, 1923: "There can be no voluntary agreement between ourselves and the Palestine Arabs. Not now, nor in the prospective future. I say this with such conviction, not because I want to hurt the moderate Zionists. I do not believe that they will be hurt. Except for those who were born blind, they realised long ago that it is utterly impossible to obtain the voluntary consent of the Palestine Arabs for converting "Palestine" from an Arab country into a country with a Jewish majority. My readers have a general idea of the history of colonisation in other countries. I suggest that they consider all the precedents with which they are acquainted, and see whether there is one solitary instance of any colonisation being carried on with the consent of the native population. There is no such precedent. The native populations, civilised or uncivilised, have always stubbornly resisted the colonists, irrespective of whether they were civilised or savage." "Our Peace-mongers are trying to persuade us that the Arabs are either fools, whom we can deceive by masking our real aims, or that they are corrupt and can be bribed to abandon to us their claim to priority in Palestine , in return for cultural and economic advantages. I repudiate this conception of the Palestinian Arabs. Culturally they are five hundred years behind us, they have neither our endurance nor our determination; but they are just as good psychologists as we are, and their minds have been sharpened like ours by centuries of fine-spun logomachy. We may tell them whatever we like about the innocence of our aims, watering them down and sweetening them with honeyed words to make them palatable, but they know what we want, as well as we know what they do not want. They feel at least the same instinctive jealous love of Palestine, as the old Aztecs felt for ancient Mexico, and the Sioux for their rolling Prairies. To imagine, as our Arabophiles do, that they will voluntarily consent to the realisation of Zionism, in return for the moral and material conveniences which the Jewish colonist brings with him, is a childish notion, which has at bottom a kind of contempt for the Arab people; it means that they despise the Arab race, which they regard as a corrupt mob that can be bought and sold, and are willing to give up their fatherland for a good railway system. All Natives Resist Colonists There is no justification for such a belief. It may be that some individual Arabs take bribes. But that does not mean that the Arab people of Palestine as a whole will sell that fervent patriotism that they guard so jealously, and which even the Papuans will never sell. Every native population in the world resists colonists as long as it has the slightest hope of being able to rid itself of the danger of being colonised. That is what the Arabs in Palestine are doing, and what they will persist in doing as long as there remains a solitary spark of hope that they will be able to prevent the transformation of "Palestine" into the "Land of Israel."" "This statement of the position by the Arab editor is so logical, so obvious, so indisputable, that everyone ought to know it by heart, and it should be made the basis of all our future discussions on the Arab question. It does not matter at all which phraseology we employ in explaining our colonising aims, Herzl's or Sir Herbert Samuel's. Colonisation carries its own explanation, the only possible explanation, unalterable and as clear as daylight to every ordinary Jew and every ordinary Arab. Colonisation can have only one aim, and Palestine Arabs cannot accept this aim. It lies in the very nature of things, and in this particular regard nature cannot be changed."
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  14036.  @rafidifrancesco7956  So, one that hasn't really existed, in practice, since before the Balfour declaration, and is only supported by 19% of Israeli Jews.
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  14037. @@MirglipEA This money? "Since April 2021, the United States has provided over half a billion dollars in assistance for the Palestinians, including more than $417 million in humanitarian assistance for Palestinian refugees through UNRWA, $75 million in support through USAID, and $20.5 million in COVID and Gaza recovery assistance." So, you think that Gaza is getting its weapon money through UN aid? Not the billions it gets from Qatar? And, again, appropriation bills is where you vote against separated items, dumb dumb.
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  14038.  @shakenbacon3655  Completely skipping over every single pro vax part of an article isn't some stupid accident. That's something your boss (if there actually is a producer) wants you to do. Turning a largely pro vaccine article into a negative commentary on vaccines, is anti-vax. Slandering Grimm, and lying that being vaccinated doesn't protect anyone else, is anti-vax. Misrepresenting an article on vaccinating kids ... which explains that although the flu might be more harmful to an individual child, the higher contagiousness of covid makes it harmful to more children ... where Jimmy didn't even explain what the article was saying, clipped a couple sentences where the article acknowledges that covid isn't more harmful to individual children, and then made out like they debunked themselves, is anti-vax. He's a grifter. Grifters sell themselves as one thing, but what they actually sell you is something completely different.
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  14039. Jordan has over 2 million Palestinian refugees. The others have tens to hundreds of thousands. Countries in the region have also taken in a shit ton of Syrian refugees. Turkey has the most refugees in the world. How about stop blowing up the ME and making more refugees, you dimwit?
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  14040. She's a Christian, Catholic denomination.
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  14041. If they're censoring "anti-establishment", then how did Bernie have one of the largest online movements? How is the current president "anti-establishment"? Doesn't a good percentage of the right spread a lot of conspiracy theories, and hate speech? Is your "data" similar to the Quillete article that claimed the same thing ... which counted even the American Nazi party, and other white supremacists, as poor suppressed right wingers?
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  14042.  @HooyahPeacock  Where was all the "anti-establishment" censorship?
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  14043. Night.
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  14044.  @djchaiwallah  Yes, he plummeted to 47-40 vs Trump in today's Ipsos poll, from 43-40 vs Trump on the Feb 19 Ipsos poll.
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  14045. He should say the same about Likud. Likud platform ... 1977: "The Right of the Jewish People to the Land of Israel (Eretz Israel) a. The right of the Jewish people to the land of Israel is eternal and indisputable and is linked with the right to security and peace; therefore, Judea and Samaria will not be handed to any foreign administration; between the Sea and the Jordan there will only be Israeli sovereignty. b. A plan which relinquishes parts of western Eretz Israel, undermines our right to the country, unavoidably leads to the establishment of a "Palestinian State," jeopardizes the security of the Jewish population, endangers the existence of the State of Israel. and frustrates any prospect of peace." "Settlement Settlement. both urban and rural. in all parts of the Land of Israel is the focal point of the Zionist effort to redeem the country, to maintain vital security areas and serves as a reservoir of strength and inspiration for the renewal of the pioneering spirit. The Likud government will call on the younger generation in Israel and the dispersions to settle and help every group and individual in the task of inhabiting and cultivating the wasteland, while taking care not to dispossess anyone." 1999: "The Government of Israel flatly rejects the establishment of a Palestinian Arab state west of the Jordan river. The Palestinians can run their lives freely in the framework of self-rule, but not as an independent and sovereign state. Thus, for example, in matters of foreign affairs, security, immigration, and ecology, their activity shall be limited in accordance with imperatives of Israel's existence, security and national needs." "The Jewish communities in Judea, Samaria, and Gaza are the realization of Zionist values. Settlement of the land is a clear expression of the unassailable right of the Jewish people to the Land of Israel and constitutes an important asset in the defense of the vital interests of the State of Israel. The Likud will continue to strengthen and develop these communities and will prevent their uprooting."
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  14046. What country did you grow up in? Canada has had mandated vaccines for public schools, for decades.
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  14047.  Uncomfortable Truth  People and things have been cancelled for centuries. People will continue to boycott, protest, and complain, about things they don't like. The left might not like someone getting cancelled, and might argue the reasons for it aren't valid, but they aren't the ones whining about cancelling, in general. That's why it's hypocritical for the right to do it.
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  14048. ​ @ElizabethMcCormick-s2n There is none.
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  14049. @Yo Momma Rofl! That's it?! That's what was worth slandering someone who has done more for M4A in 2 years, than Dore has in his entire lifetime?! Pathetic.
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  14050. ​ @SneakyCaleb  Or, because those are the two viable options.
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  14051. A VAT doesn't actually make corporations "pay their fair share". Yang's plan will actually make the likes of Amazon and Bezos billions more a year. Other countries using the VAT have other ways, similar to Bernie's (higher minimum wages or unionization, higher income taxes on the rich, taxing stocks, etc.), to make giant corporations and the super rich pay in.
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  14052.  @thomasterrell2936  Like I said, they have other ways of making corporations and the super rich pay in. Just a VAT won't do it. If even 20% of the $3t UBI is spent on retail, and Amazon owns 5% of US retail, his plan will make them some $30b extra a year, rather than make them "pay their fair share". That'd make Bezos some $3.6b extra a year. He'd have to personally blow over $36b a year on goods and services with a VAT to pay in more than he'd get out. We had healthcare and welfare before a VAT in Canada.
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  14053.  @FernandoDiaz-fu6pd  I've been paying a VAT for almost 30 years and operated a business with a VAT. That it's a way to make corporations "pay their fair share" is what's a misrepresentation of a VAT. By that logic, countries with higher wages should be the most automated. That doesn't seem to mesh with reality.
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  14054. On the history ... aside from not being able to vote for the head of state, the British parliament was a flawed democracy (male landowners) before the US. And that parliament had shown the head of state who actually held the power, when they chopped of Charles I's head, and briefly became a republic. They started moving towards a constitutional monarchy, instead of an absolute monarchy, 100+ years before the American Revolution.
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  14055.  @noimmigrantswelcome9251  The people going to court for the "right" to discriminate against gays. States that still allow people to be fired or evicted for being gay. A president firing trans people.
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  14056. @Ursus Americanus Which of those things worked?
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  14057.  @soyusmaximus7176  Well, it's slowly bending away from one person owning everything, one person making all the rules, nobody but that one person having rights, etc. ... with a few steps backwards here and there.
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  14058.  @avinashreji60  That's simply the nationalistic nature of its economics. Just like Republicans claim to be against "globalism", and for "America first", and claim "foreigners are coming for our jobs", etc. They want to be the chief beneficiaries of capitalism, not others.
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  14059. Not if the complete definition of Agnosticism is used, it does not. The "Agnostic Theist" is all a product of George H Smith, who has left us with an incomplete labelling system.
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  14060.  @Philbert-s2c  Dore is the kind of dimwit "leftist" who winds up on the wrong side of a Night of the Long Knives, after allying with Nazis, just so he can own the libs with them.
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  14061. Are all 22 of those states in top half for firearm mortality rates, or only the majority of them? https://www.cdc.gov/nchs/pressroom/sosmap/firearm_mortality/firearm.htm
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  14062.  @Coonazz791  My bad. Forgot you lot don't give two shits about mostly men blowing their brains out. https://www.cdc.gov/nchs/pressroom/sosmap/homicide_mortality/homicide.htm
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  14063.  @mohammadzumas7224  Rofl. I knew Yang was full of shit the first time I heard him. I didn't turn on anyone, dimwit.
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  14064.  @Mike2digital  You're uninformed. A public opinion gets you universal coverage no time soon. https://www.theatlantic.com/politics/archive/2019/08/los-angeles-public-option-2020-democrats/597115/
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  14065.  @debrajohnson382  This year's exit poll demographics are barely any different than 2016, and they'll be as skewed as this year's voting in person vs voting by mail was skewed. Because more Democrats voted by mail, it'll just look like Trump made gains with demographics based on in person exit polls.
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  14066. ​ @drstone3418  Do tell.
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  14067. I guess that's why they think it was okay for their god to genocide every baby on the planet, according to their storybook.
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  14068. Yeah, they either wouldn't need your help scaring off a mere bear, or wouldn't bother getting up to go chase a bear in the first place.
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  14069.  @DanA-nl5uo  That absolutely isn't a vote against it, because it either gets you Trump, who is even more extremely pro-Israel, plus would okay Russia to do as Israel in Ukraine ... or it gets you someone that congress can easily overrule, due to the numbers Israel has in congress. And the odds would heavily favor the first outcome. But, keep pretending.
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  14070.  @10tothebigguy25  Rofl. Giant corporations, owned by billionaires, aren't progessives, for one thing. For another, they let him blather whatever he wanted about the election, for months, right up until it incited an insurrection.
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  14071. ​@@dannytimms9011 Rofl. Anyone who's actually good at debate, shouldn't need to use this lame Crowder tactic. This is the age old religious tactic of making a completely baseless assertion, and then expecting anyone who doesn't believe you, to prove you wrong, putting the burden of proof on them, while not having to actually prove your claim, at all. Charlie Kirk sucks dog balls, prove me wrong.
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  14072.  @pamelastoesz733  Is infrastructure 100+ votes short in the house alone, and have no chance in hell of passing the senate, like M4A? Or is that a false equivalence?
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  14073. What kind of "true lefty" promotes Trump as the better option than Clinton? That's saying tossing 10m of the poorest Americans off of Medicaid expansion (which Trump was running on) is better than not doing that and possibly adding 40m older Americans to Medicare expansion (which Clinton was running on). What kind of "true lefty" promotes Tulsi and her "medicare choice" (public option) over Bernie and M4A? What kind of "true lefty" slanders people who have helped to add more M4A yes votes to congress? Getting enough yes votes is the only way to ever pass the bill. Adding more votes is the very thing that needs doing. It's what you'd still need to do, even if you had your 100% guaranteed to fail performance art vote.
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  14074.  @suzydixon4930  What Trump budget has included cutting military spending?
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  14075. ​ @tonywilson4713  Piss off with your spam.
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  14076. It's a helluva lot easier to remove a PM in Canada than a US president. The US didn't used to have term limits. Right wingers didn't like FDR's string of victories. It's not necessarily a good thing.
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  14077.  @agarthastudio6005  You fail to mention that ivermectin isn't being prescribed for covid by American doctors, and that moron Republicans are, in fact, taking over the counter horse medicine, like the op said. It's also manufactured by the 5th largest pharma corporation in the world, so all the arguments about big pharma being against it, are complete bullshit. And even they don't recommend it as an effective covid remedy.
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  14078.  @agarthastudio6005  You're an absolute loon.
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  14079.  sharon brown  Luckily we have a much lower percentage. Only 14% of us would have voted Trump.
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  14080. ​ @NooNoo0  Bullshit. Young people polled have lost interest in both, which hurts Biden more, because a higher percentage voted for him. Percentages can change without switching to voting for Trump.
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  14081. She was right. His plan doesn't stack with SSI. People on SSI can also get SNAP and state supplemental benefits that could put some of them over $1000 a month in benefits. The UBI wouldn't benefit them and they'd have to pay a VAT on things like the electric bill, the phone bill, the internet bill, other entertainment, toys, non staple snack foods and pop, etc.
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  14082.  @grammary69  Nope. Just facts.
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  14083. All Israelis are IDF (valid military targets) then.
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  14084. No clue how that guy got a philosophy degree. He doesn't seem to grasp basics like objectivity vs subjectivity, laws vs morals ...
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  14085.  @baroneleve1196  Well, aside from the numerous people paying memberships to get their opinions, which you don't seem to know exist, "solicited" could also include actively seeking out their videos, to hear their opinions, just so you can whine and bitch about them. They, obviously, didn't come looking for you, to give you their opinions. "Redundant" could include ranting like a nutbar, using multiple different words that essentially mean the same thing. Happy to help.
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  14086. Linguistically, you are not supposed to be able to break down root words. Therefore the word is Athe(os)-ist. To get the word A-theist, you have to start with Theos, add the -ism first, then add an A-. Nowhere says the root word is Theos.
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  14087. Israel is objectively the aggressor, by every relevant measure ... Modern history: 100 years ago, in 1923, Ze'ev Jabotinsky fully acknowledged that Zionism is colonialism, and that, based on the entirety of history, the natives would fight it until the bitter end. He just didn't care what would happen to them, and promoted doing it anyway. Colonizers are never not the aggressors. On top of the colonialist nature of Zionism, the Zionists also formed terrorist organizations, like the Irgun and Lehi. They bombed many Palestinian markets and other public places, murdering many civilians, including children, even including Palestinian Jews (who opposed Zionism). Israel merged those terrorists into the new nation's military and intelligence agencies. Israelis elected Menachem Begin, leader of the Irgun, child murderer, Jew murderer, and bomber of the King David Hotel, as PM. Israelis, to this day, celebrate those terrorists as "heroes". Zionists literally taught their neighbours that terrorism is a valid path to independence and statehood, and that terrorists are to be celebrated. In 1945, it is well documented that Zionists owned just 5% of the land and were a majority nowhere. Israel was formed by actually going against the majority population. It's foundation is completely undemocratic. Then, becoming a majority, in "their" new nation, by ethnic cleansing the actual majority, and then claiming to be democratic, is utter nonsense. Law: Israel is considered an occupier by the International Court, the UN GA, and the UN SC. Occupiers are also never not the aggressors. Those occupied actually have a right to resist occupation. On the flip side, it is illegal for the occupier to settle occupied lands, and illegal to use collective punishment. Israel is a rogue nation, that doesn't abide by international law. What it has been doing, and is doing now, is illegal. Current events: This year, alone, prior to Oct 7 ... Israel held over 1200 Palestinian hostages without charges ... over 200 Palestinians had been killed by the IDF and settlers ... over 1000 Palestinians had been displaced by Israel's neverending colonization of the West Bank ... and, Israel continued to operate an open air WWII style fascist ghetto, in Gaza. Even ignoring modern history and law, in no reality did Hamas "start" anything.
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  14088. ​ @eddiecalderone  Nothing you blathered negates the fact that there were people living on those lands. If the Palestinian majority didn't agree to partition, agree to be colonized, that means partition, colonization, was forced on the majority, against their will. Furthermore, even within the Zionist portion of partition, there were about 150k more non-Jews than Jews, which is why they needed to be ethnically cleansed. To believe Zionist terrorists, like the Irgun and Lehi, had zero intention to ethnically cleanse the actual majority, would require believing they had zero intention to create a Jewish state. That's a nonsensical notion. There are fewer Christians in Jerusalem, now, than pre-Nakba.
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  14089. ​ @iii___iii By no objective measure did Hamas "start" this. That's like saying the Jewish underground "started" a fight with Nazis, during the Warsaw ghetto uprising.
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  14090. That's the whole definition of Theist! Why the hell do you need to call Theists Agnostic Theists? It's redundant. "feels they know" is the same as "believing they know"...they don't freakin know.
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  14091.  @GeLowBrando  And what equally stpd thing do you think that's evidence of?
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  14092.  @GeLowBrando  Lol, you've proved you're a complete and utter maroon, who thinks Nikki was running in the fall of 2021.
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  14093. Nah. They're generally just anti-US. So, they're right, when the US does bad (Israel) and wrong when the US does good (Ukraine).
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  14094.  @Illumirage  I think you should give up half of whatever province/state you live in, to the Scientologists, so they can have their own nation. Tom Cruise can rule over them.
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  14095.  @laturista1000  Lol, gangers don't know how to math.
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  14096.  @laturista1000  Sure they do. They just like to playfully use math as a verb, sometimes. Yang, and his gangers, on the other hand, actually think this is how to make Amazon "pay their fair share"... No VAT: Amazon buys a product from a manufacturer for $100; Amazon sells the product to a consumer for $200; Amazon pockets $100 VAT: Amazon buys a product from a manufacturer for $100 + $10 VAT; the manufacturer sends $10 to the government; Amazon sells the product to a consumer for $200 + $20 VAT; Amazon sends $10 to the government; Amazon still pockets $100. But, since a VAT isn't actually a way to make corporations "pay their fair share", Yang's VAT/UBI scheme will only make the likes of Amazon and Bezos even richer.
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  14097. ​ @donald2665  Did she mention the part where she took a paycheck from Rumble, which is funded by mega MAGA donor Peter Thiel, who spies on US citizens for a living?
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  14098. ​ @donald2665  Did she mention the part where she was paid to join Rumble, which is funded MAGA donor by Peter Thiel, who spies on citizens for a living?
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  14099. Confederates started the war. Who do those worshipping Confederate monuments, waving Confederate flags, and marching at "Unite the Right" rallies with their Nazi and white supremacist brothers, vote for these days?
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  14100.  @jackm6307  Sorry to hear about your reading comprehension issues.
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  14101. So, when Trump loses, that means God isn't all powerful.
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  14102. And will insist that the most racist states in America, for hundreds of years, magically became the least racist states, rather than acknowledged that its racist majority simply started voting for a different party.
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  14103. Considering the fact that AOC hasn't proposed any policies that would move the US left of Denmark (real world centrism), anyone playing "centrist", in the US, is actually right wing.
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  14104. Really? You're bringing in someone who has peddled 9/11 and covid conspiracies as your "debunker"?
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  14105. @Kevin Tewey Go ahead, if you want to prove yourself to be a complete idiot. Simply reporting on the hundreds of accounts of Syrian chemical weapons use since 2013 isn't the same thing as saying the US should start a war with them. Should everyone stop reporting on human rights abuses in every country, in case the US uses it as grounds to start a war?
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  14106. @Kevin Tewey Which ones were supported by the UN, UN inspectors, Germany, France, Switzerland, Nordic countries, multiple NGOs like doctors without borders, multiple legal human rights groups representing victims, hundreds of on the ground victims, dozens of on the ground hospitals, and multiple independent investigations?
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  14107.  @jimv803  You left out the part about them finding undeclared chemical weapons in 2015, and that chlorine wasn't on the list of banned substances because it also has standard uses. Oh geez, NGOs all work for the CIA now? You lot are nutty.
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  14108.  @jimv803  They're responsible for maybe 2% of chemical weapons uses. Keep pretending like disagreements about a single investigation at a single site debunks hundreds of accounts of chemical weapons use by the Syrian government, and a few accounts of uses by extremists means all uses were by extremists. https://www.npr.org/2019/02/17/695545252/more-than-300-chemical-attacks-launched-during-syrian-civil-war-study-says
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  14109.  @jimv803  The US deciding how it was going to independently react is actually a seperate issue from the UN investigating accounts of chemical weapons use. As per Russian orders, that single investigation, which you think debunks all the rest, didn't even assign blame. The US deciding who to blame, and how to react (Obama didn't drop bombs after the first major use of chemical weapons, instead negotiating the destruction of chemical weapons), was totally the US' decision. It's a method for killing people. There's not really a dispute that he was still dropping bombs on his own people, killing them, in a war he's already winning. Russia was vetoing over a dozen UN resolutions against Syria, like the US does with Israel. Russia is, likewise, a terrorist nation, that invades places it feels like, has massacred seperatists in the name of fighting terrorism, is involved in proxy wars, etc. The fact that there were hundreds of reports of chemical weapons use and they were still winning, and still being protected as best Russia could, wouldn't deter them from continuing use, even if all those reports were true. Making out like doctors without borders, who had their own bases of operations for awhile, and then also had contacts in hospitals across the country, is some CIA front group, is nonsensical. Making out like legal human rights organizations, and courts in countries like the Netherlands, which also took the US to court and ruled the war in Iraq illegal, are now CIA front groups, is nonsensical. Etc. The answer can be both that Syria is using chemical weapons and that the US shouldn't be bombing or invading countries unilaterally, or with tiny coalitions of the willing.
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  14110.  @palsyr4307  The UN, most NGOs, and most left leaning media, didn't support the war in Iraq, dumb dumb. Even simply reporting on chemical weapons use doesn't even mean you support bombing Syria. Just reporting on human rights violations around the world, isn't an invitation for the US to go blow up countries. And, the NPR is simply reporting on a report. They aren't the actual source. Are ad hominems the best you lot have? NPR bad, therefore they must be wrong, isn't an argument, ffs.
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  14111. But, at the same time, made the politician villain appear to be a progressive.
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  14112. The government would have to focus on building them settlements. And, maybe have a Lebanon style government.
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  14113.  @sandboxaccountz.zy.7012  I literally just said. Build the returning Palestinians settlements, and have a Lebanon style government. Where am I losing you?
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  14114. The US is not ranked the freest. It is not ranked the most generous, per capita. And, it is not the most prosperous, in all of history. Those are lies. Disliking your government's policies is not disliking your country. Not a one has said they hate their country. That is a lie. Wanting to change policies, even economic policies, is not hating your country. Lincoln didn't hate his country, by moving away from a slave based economy. Plus, none of them has even remotely suggested all out socialism. That is a lie. Yes, general insults are much more acceptable than overt racism. That is false equivalency. Making out like they're the same is a lie. This guy is a lying twat.
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  14115. They are wrong, as well.
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  14116.  @fullyfb3847  I understand perfectly well that you're a loon, right now.
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  14117.  @robertnewby4798  Nope. You're clueless.
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  14118.  @kevin6293  Did you just change the topic from you arguing as if only white people can be "fascists"?
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  14119.  Progressives for Trump  Hardly any of that slight majority actually lived under communism. All those fascists fled almost right away.
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  14120.  @kevin6293  Older Dems, and black Dems, voted Biden over Bernie, dumb dumb.
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  14121. A suffix -ist (believer) was attached to a Greek root word. You cannot both be a believer and a non-believer, which the more modern definition of Atheist is trying to cover. That's the confusion.
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  14122.  @jasonhammond4301  One is still a response, and one isn't. The US wouldn't have bombed Japan, if Japan had never officially brought them into the war, right?
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  14123.  waynebanks6515  The difference, here, is that Jews had been living with Muslims for 1200+ years. Muslims weren't force converting, like Christians. When Christians reconquered Spain, the vast majority of the population was still Christian. The Christian conquerors then gave Jews and Muslims an ultimatum ... conversion, death, or exile. The Sephardic Jews left with the Muslims, and most settled in the Ottoman Empire, which welcomed them. Early Zionism also started under the Ottoman Empire. Basically all major tensions stem from the British screwing Palestinians out of self rule over their lands, with the Balfour declaration, which led to the creation of Israel. That, not religion, was the initial core of the problem, on the Arab world side of things. On the Zionist side of things, there was definitely a religious aspect to thinking they had any right to their supposed "god given land".
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  14124. What are you idjits above on about? AOC and two fellow NY progressives back formal plea for ceasefire in Gaza Oct 16, 2023 18 House Democrats sign resolution for Mideast de-escalation, ceasefire Oct 23, 2023 — Cori Bush (D-Mo.). Bush's fellow “Squad” members Reps. Rashida Tlaib (D-Mich.), Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez (D-N.Y.) Democrats Like Rashida Tlaib, AOC Split With Biden Over Israel Ceasefire Calls Oct 31, 2023 AOC leads Democrats urging Biden to call for Gaza ceasefire over children's rights Nov 15, 2023 AOC calls Biden administration 'shameful' for blocking United Nations demand for a ... Dec 11, 2023 Aoc ceasefire | keeping it reel - NewsBreak Original Jan 17, 2024 Hour 1: AOC Calls for Ceasefire from Israel - The Marc Cox Morning Show Podcast Feb 8, 2024 AOC suggests cutting off aid to Israel after U.S. vetoes ceasefire resolution Feb 22, 2024 AOC and Other Democrats Urge Biden to Call for a Ceasefire at the State of the ... Mar 1, 2024
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  14125. This is one of the most uninformed comment sections I have ever seen. AOC and two fellow NY progressives back formal plea for ceasefire in Gaza Oct 16, 2023 18 House Democrats sign resolution for Mideast de-escalation, ceasefire Oct 23, 2023 — Cori Bush (D-Mo.). Bush's fellow “Squad” members Reps. Rashida Tlaib (D-Mich.), Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez (D-N.Y.) Democrats Like Rashida Tlaib, AOC Split With Biden Over Israel Ceasefire Calls Oct 31, 2023 AOC leads Democrats urging Biden to call for Gaza ceasefire over children's rights Nov 15, 2023 AOC calls Biden administration 'shameful' for blocking United Nations demand for a ... Dec 11, 2023 Aoc ceasefire | keeping it reel - NewsBreak Original Jan 17, 2024 Hour 1: AOC Calls for Ceasefire from Israel - The Marc Cox Morning Show Podcast Feb 8, 2024 AOC suggests cutting off aid to Israel after U.S. vetoes ceasefire resolution Feb 22, 2024 AOC and Other Democrats Urge Biden to Call for a Ceasefire at the State of the ... Mar 1, 2024
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  14126. That's only inconsistent if you leave out the "racist" part. From the perspective of racism, it is totally consistent.
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  14127. I have heard, for years, that the non-progressive Dems would rather lose to Reps, than to progressives. That would mean progressives have next to no leverage. They'd only have leverage if n-p Dems actually wouldn't prefer losing to Reps. Which is it?
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  14128.  @jockost.maritz1096  And Doctors Without Borders? UOSSM? SAMS?
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  14129. Lol, well I'm happy for you. Good luck with using that website to support your arguments.
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  14130. She is ... on TMJ anyway. Not sure what's happening with The Michael Brooks Show.
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  14131. ​ @clarity7531 No. He just lies about being untouchable. He was fined $10.5m for improperly running his casinos. He and daddy were also fined for gaming fraud, when daddy bought over $3m in chips, and didn't cash them in, to try and bail out his incompetent son. He settled for defrauding his own Trump University fans. He and daddy settled, twice, for not renting to black Americans. He was found guilty of defamation and rape, by one of those juries that he so desperately wants, but didn't ask for. Plus, the guy is an utter moron. He stands outside the court and "defends" himself by claiming he didn't commit bank fraud, by overvaluing properties, but instead committed massive tax fraud, by undervaluing properties by billions of dollars. The IRS could be watching his antics very carefully.
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  14132. "Moderate", who went to the Orangeburg Preparatory Schools, which were specifically founded for white kids only, to avoid desegregation. She went to white supremacist school.
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  14133.  @straightwhitemale966  What's so hard to grasp? Poorer people are less likely to already have an acceptable photo ID. Poorer people can least afford to take a day off, or pay for additional transportation, to go get an acceptable ID. A higher percentage of black and Hispanic voters are lower income. Therefore, directly classist and indirectly racist. Of course, knowing full well ahead of time that you'll be affecting a higher percentage of black and Hispanic voters, means you know it's racist.
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  14134.  @newbeginning9112  Go pester Christians, who worship a trans god.
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  14135.  @DaveG60134  In the house, they would still be stuck at the same number of seats, and the same broken way of deciding how many seats each state gets. The Permanent Reappointment Act fixed the number of seats, permanently, and is why the house has become increasingly unrepresentative.
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  14136. Rofl, Trump is a dunce.
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  14137.  @mananimal3644  Same old 2000 BS. The woman was at an RT celebration, with Pvtin and Mike Flynn. The same RT that was just caught paying grifters like Tim Pool and Dave Reuben for pro Rvssia content. Plus, she has received an endorsement from Ron Paul (who supported Rvssia's 2014 invsn) before. He promoted not just handing abrtn to the states, but also handing them same §€× marriage, and §€×ual behavior.
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  14138.  @mananimal3644  Same old 2000 BS, lol. All you did was agree with me. You want Trump. Btw, the event she was at, with Pvtin and Mike Flynn, was the anniversary of RT ... The same RT that was just caught paying grifters for pro Rvssia content. She was also endorsed by Ron Paul last time around, who is an absolute turd of a human being (who approved of Rvssia's 2014 invsn of Ukrn). She has no moral high ground.
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  14139.  @mananimal3644   Same old 2000 nonsense, lol. All you did was agree with me. Yes to Trump. Btw, the event she was at, with Pvtin and Flynn, was the anniversary of RT ... The same RT that was just caught paying stooges for pro Rvssia content. She was also endorsed by Ron Paul last time around, who is a piece of garbage (who approved of Rvssia's 2014 invsn of Ukrn). She has no moral high ground.
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  14140.  @mananimal3644   Btw, the event she was at, with Pvtin and Flynn, was the anniversary of RT ... The same RT that was just caught paying stooges for pro Rvssia content. She was also endorsed by Ron Paul last time around, who is human waste (who also approved of Rvssia's 2014 invsn of Ukrn). She has no moral high ground.
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  14141.  @mananimal3644  Btw, the event she was at, with Pvtin and Flynn, was the anniversary of RT ... The same RT that was just caught paying stooges for pro Rvssia content. She was also endorsed by Ron Paul last time around, who is 🗑️ (who also approved of Rvssia's 2014 invsn of Ukrn). She has no moral high ground.
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  14142.  @mananimal3644  Btw, the event she was at, with Pvtin and Flynn, was the anniversary of RT ... The same RT that was just caught paying Tim Pool and Dave Reuben for pro Rvssia content. She was also endorsed by Ron Paul last time around, who is 🗑️ (who also approved of Rvssia's 2014 invsn of Ukrn). She has no moral high ground.
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  14143. @President Houseplant Because they highly edit their videos, which has been proven in multiple courts. A deleted link doesn't tell me exactly what was said, that was supposedly slander. What, exactly, was said?
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  14144. Aaron is spewing crap. 2 part time inspectors working on a single investigation at a single site, don't debunk hundreds of accounts of Syrian chemical weapons use since 2012.
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  14145. ​ @GC-EZ  Prior to about 25 weeks, a fetus is about as alive as someone who is brain dead and on life support.
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  14146.  @Robbie-tt6oc  No. They literally don't.
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  14147. I thought she already had that down pat.
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  14148.  @bluebottle1988  Likud's bloody 100 year history ... In 1923, 100 years ago, Ze'ev Jabotinsky wrote, The Iron Wall, and a follow up, The Ethics of The Iron Wall (sooo racist towards Africans), in which he fully acknowledged that post Balfour Zionsim was colonialism, and that, based on the entirety of history, the native Palestinian population would resist being colonized until the bitter end. He directly compared it to the colonization of North America. He promoted doing it anyway, claiming Zionist colonialism was a "just" colonialism (he also thought North American colonialists were good guys, so not a great judge of morality), not caring what that meant for the native population. Ze'ev is important, because his Betar militant youth group helped found the Irgun terrorist group, along with other supporters of his, and the splinter Lehi terrorist group. The Irgun bombed numerous Palestinian markets and other public places, murdering many Palestinian civilians, including children, even including Palestinian Jews (who didn't support colonialist Zionsim). The Irgun are important, because they ended up being led by future Likud PM, Menachem Begin, who bombed the King David Hotel. The King David Hotel was bombed because the British had raided the Jewish Agency and seized numerous documents that may have shown that the terrorists were working with the JA and Haganah (JA liked to pretend that they didn't support the terrorism). The British then stored those documents at their base, in the hotel. That the Irgun terrorists responded to a JA raid, itself seems to prove the connection. That the thousands of Irgun (and Lehi) terrorists were also quickly merged into the new nation's military (IDF) and intelligence (Mossad) agencies, and are still celebrated as "heroes" by Israelis, to this day, also seems to support total collaboration between the groups. That other terrorist group mentioned, Lehi (also known as the Stern Gang), was considered even more extreme. They even tried to ally with the Nazis, against the British. Lehi ended up being led by Yitzhak Shamir, future Mossad agent, and another future Likud PM. They assassinated Lord Moyne, and others. In 1945, there was a major land and peoples survey done in Palestine. It showed that the Zionists only owned about 5% of the total land, 20% of the arable land, and owned a majority in zero districts. The partition was not only going to be forced on the native Palestinian majority, but Jews were still going to be a minority, in the part allocated to them. The only possible way to even become a "Jewish state" was going to require getting rid of the actual majority (at least enough so that there'd be a solid Jewish majority, so they could fake being democratic). This is also shown by the 1948, post Nakba, population of Israel. If there was 716,700 Jews, 156,000+ non-Jews, and approximately 700k non-Jews ethnically cleansed, that means the Jewish population, in the Zionist portion of partition, was originally over 100,000 less than the non-Jewish population. To believe that there was never any intent, by Zionists, to ethnically cleanse away the Palestinian majority would require believing that they never intended to create a "Jewish state". It's a nonsensical notion. Begin, and those terrorist groups, also opposed partition, but for the opposite reason Palestinians did. Palestinians didn't want to be colonized, at all. The terrorists wanted to colonize it all. "Moderate" Zionists were okay with colonizing half ... for now (what would happen in the future, after partition, was up to them, said Ben-Gurion). The Zionist terrorists were also involved in massacres, and assassinations, during the partition violence (colonialist war against the natives). Another notable future Likud PM, also started in the military, during the partition fighting. That was Ariel Sharon, war criminal, "Butcher of Beirut". Menachem Begin, and these other Zionist terrorists, are important because they became involved in Israeli politics, first forming Herut. That was the party that Albert Einstein, and other prominent American Jews, opposed, having a letter printed in the NYT, in December of 1948, when Begin came to visit the US. The letter opened ... "Among the most disturbing political phenomena of our times is the emergence in the newly created state of Israel of the "Freedom Party" (Tnuat Haherut), a political party closely akin in its organization, methods, political philosophy and social appeal to the Nazi and Fascist parties. It was formed out of the membership and following of the former Irgun Zvai Leumi, a terrorist, right-wing, chauvinist organization in Palestine." Herut merged with other extremist parties, over the years, and eventually became Likud, in the 70s. Now, people get upset over the slogan "From the river to the sea!", but it's the second part that's most important, "Palestine will be free!". Because "Palestine" isn't defined as an ethno-state, a free Palestine can be a single state, free for all to live in, and return to, free of continuing colonization, free of occupation, free of oppression, etc. Just like a Germany free of Nazism, an Italy free of fascism, a South Africa free of apartheid, or an America free of slavery from sea to shiny sea. It doesn't necessitate purging all the Jews. It just necessitates them giving up on the idea of an ethno-state. On the other hand, because "Israel" has been defined as an ethno-state, Likud's, "between the sea and the Jordan there will only be Israeli sovereignty", has no possible good interpretation. It is a declaration of intent to completely colonize, and ethnically cleanse, all Palestine territories. Not only that, but it also claims that they have a "right" to all of the "Land of Israel" (biblical borders that don't mesh with archaeological reality), which is an open declaration of future wars, against Jordan, Syria, Lebanon, and possibly even Iraq. Likud platform ... 1977: "The Right of the Jewish People to the Land of Israel (Eretz Israel) a. The right of the Jewish people to the land of Israel is eternal and indisputable and is linked with the right to security and peace; therefore, Judea and Samaria will not be handed to any foreign administration; between the Sea and the Jordan there will only be Israeli sovereignty. b. A plan which relinquishes parts of western Eretz Israel, undermines our right to the country, unavoidably leads to the establishment of a "Palestinian State," jeopardizes the security of the Jewish population, endangers the existence of the State of Israel. and frustrates any prospect of peace." "Settlement Settlement. both urban and rural. in all parts of the Land of Israel is the focal point of the Zionist effort to redeem the country, to maintain vital security areas and serves as a reservoir of strength and inspiration for the renewal of the pioneering spirit. The Likud government will call on the younger generation in Israel and the dispersions to settle and help every group and individual in the task of inhabiting and cultivating the wasteland, while taking care not to dispossess anyone." 1999: "The Government of Israel flatly rejects the establishment of a Palestinian Arab state west of the Jordan river. The Palestinians can run their lives freely in the framework of self-rule, but not as an independent and sovereign state. Thus, for example, in matters of foreign affairs, security, immigration, and ecology, their activity shall be limited in accordance with imperatives of Israel's existence, security and national needs." "The Jewish communities in Judea, Samaria, and Gaza are the realization of Zionist values. Settlement of the land is a clear expression of the unassailable right of the Jewish people to the Land of Israel and constitutes an important asset in the defense of the vital interests of the State of Israel. The Likud will continue to strengthen and develop these communities and will prevent their uprooting." All Palestine territories are officially considered occupied, by the International Court of Justice, the UN GA, the UN SC, and even in official documents of Israel's own allies. Likud is still using the blueprint for colonizing North America, in the West Bank. Move settlements out into native territory, piss off the natives, the natives retaliate, cry about poor "innocent" colonizing settlers being the "victims" of violent "Savages!", call in the cavalry to put down the native uprising, and eventually expand the borders to include those settlements. Rinse and repeat. In Gaza, Israel is operating an open air WWII style fascist ghetto. Them claiming a "right to defend themselves" would be like the Nazis claiming a "right to defend themselves " from the Warsaw ghetto uprising. There's no "war". That they're the occupiers means the "war" part is long over. Those people are actually supposed to be under the occupier's protection. That partition was forced upon the Palestinian majority, against their will ... that the Zionist portion still had to be forcefully ethnically cleansed of its non-Jewish majority, against their will ... that the millions of occupied Palestinians don't have a say in the government that truly rules over them, Israel's ... means Israel is about as democratic as Nazi Germany after Hitler purged his political opponents and then held elections.
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  14149.  @kenlompart9905  Likud's platform: "between the sea and the Jordan there will only be Israeli sovereignty"
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  14150.  @kenlompart9905  How many white people living on Native American reserves? Or, how many Nazis lived inside Jewish ghettos? "Palestine" isn't defined as an ethno-state, "Israel" is. Everyone could live in a free Palestine. "Israel" needs to maintain its Jewish majority, to maintain the ethno-state, hence why it has never allowed a right of return. If they aren't ethnic cleansing, then let the descendants of the 700k Nakba refugees return. If they aren't ethnic cleansing, then let Palestinians in the West Bank return to where there are now 700k Israelis living.
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  14151.  @ReadyMillionaire  You skipped over how people from Europe became a majority, against the will of the majority, to "maintaining" it.
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  14152.  @ReadyMillionaire  Maybe go read up on Ze'ev Jabotinsky, and the Irgun and Lehi terrorists, who founded Likud, and get back to me.
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  14153.  @itsumademoheiwa  His campaign director required it to be a male colleague.
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  14154.  @AZWallbreaker  What are you talking about? He doesn't have a rule against being alone with men.
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  14155.  @addajjalsonofallah6217  What rock have you been living under? Kevin Spacey ring any bells?
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  14156.  @addajjalsonofallah6217  Yeah, not like a bunch of male priests haven't been accused of raping other males, or tons of stories of males raping other males in prison. Almost unheard of. lol
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  14157.  @AZWallbreaker  If he applied that equally to both sexes, then he really can't be around anyone but his wife, or they'll be infinite regression.
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  14158.  @blkcatzette  What what? The infinite regression? He said two women was no better than one. If another woman makes no difference, then this keeps going ... 3 isn't better than 2 ... 4 isn't better than 3 ... Etc. He could never be alone with any number of women. Wallbreaker claimed it is equally applied to men, which would mean he couldn't be with any number of people, either way, and would have to stick with his wife.
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  14159. ​ @tonywilson4713  Quit spamming piss.
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  14160.  @jontukagam3888  Gibberish
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  14161. ​ @julianbluefeather8491  But, it's not smart. It comes down to math. If you take 5% of the vote (Nader got 4%), mostly from Dems, then Republicans will win. And, they'd keep winning, for the foreseeable future, with any higher percentage. Even if the entire progressive caucus was third party, that would hand the house, senate, and presidency, to Republicans. You would never get a chance to pass anything, until you got all of the Dem votes, anyway, so why not just leave the Dem votes where they are, and try and change the party?
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  14162. Rofl. How can you both have no real clue and know there's no real accuracy? South Korea mass tested quickly, tested beyond those showing symptoms, and got ahead of the virus. They've flattened their curve, with total cases and confirmed cases now being about the same. They show a 1.9% mortality rate. A cruise ship also provided us with a control group, where there's no reason to believe total and confirmed cases aren't the same. They show a 1.5% mortality rate. So, this single virus strain has about 10x the mortality rate of the flu's .1-.2% mortality rate ... which is actually multiple virus strains.
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  14163.  @eavesdropper0  Israel is operating an open air WWII style fascist ghetto, so ...
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  14164. ​ @vivalaleta  How could casting a ballot, for someone who can't possibly win, stop a gncd?
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  14165. ​ @johnhenry4844 Infinitely better, for who, dumb dumb?
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  14166.  @YouConnolly  You made a stupid "argument", that the "truth" doesn't respond with such a reaction. There was a strong reaction to fascism. Your "argument" would put those opposed to fascism on the opposite side of "truth", dimwit. These dimwit truckers are having a strong reaction to something. Wouldn't that put them on the opposite side of the truth? My point was you're "argument" was dumb. Basically, any time someone strongly opposes something, they're wrong?
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  14167. No, really, they aren't. Believing in something is an automatic uncontrolable response, to the weight of the evidence (knowledge) presented. Belief is based on knowledge. They are not seperate, as you would have people believe. Separating them would make anyone who hasn't seen God, or didn't witness the big bang, an Agnostic.
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  14168.  @uhhbaseddepartment2914  Pretty simple, moron ... most people vote against parties that are bigoted, or racist, towards them. Right wing parties stupidly alienate voters that would otherwise align with them on numerous issues.
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  14169.  Doc Wonder  You're a moron, too. Only complete idiots point at big city totals. Red states tend to have higher firearm mortality rates, higher homicide rates, lower education ratings, lower healthcare ratings, leech off of blue states, etc. Anchorage, Alaska, has a higher violent crime rate than Chicago. St Louis, Missouri, has a higher violent crime rate than Baltimore. Tons of red state cities have a higher violent crime rate than San Francisco, don't even know why you included it.
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  14170. @300bpm You're spouting bullshit. Plenty of leftists have argued to stop supporting Saudi. Capitalists are the ones with their noses up Saudi ass, and have been supporting them economically and militarily, as they've spread their ultra-conservative brand of Wahhabism around.
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  14171.  @uhhbaseddepartment2914  You're spouting bullshit. They mostly vote labour. Yeah, no right wing bigots here, telling them to go home ... https://www.standard.co.uk/news/politics/britishasian-labour-mep-told-to-go-home-by-brexit-party-supporters-during-acceptance-speech-a4152196.html
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  14172. ​ @brianpowell6058 Zionism is also anti-Semitic, because the native Palestinian Jews sided with the rest of the Palestinians, and opposed Zionism. Zionist terrorist groups, like the Irgun and Lehi, targeted them, alongside other Palestinian civilians
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  14173. Since Zionists are the invaders, colonizers, and are the occupiers operating an open air WWII style fascist ghetto, they are actually the Nazis in a WWII analogy, so the "Rabbi" is actually unwittingly justifying the Hamas attack, by justifying slaughtering civilians, for the actions of their leaders.
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  14174. What are you idjits above on about? AOC and two fellow NY progressives back formal plea for ceasefire in Gaza Oct 16, 2023 18 House Democrats sign resolution for Mideast de-escalation, ceasefire Oct 23, 2023 — Cori Bush (D-Mo.). Bush's fellow “Squad” members Reps. Rashida Tlaib (D-Mich.), Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez (D-N.Y.) Democrats Like Rashida Tlaib, AOC Split With Biden Over Israel Ceasefire Calls Oct 31, 2023 AOC leads Democrats urging Biden to call for Gaza ceasefire over children's rights Nov 15, 2023 AOC calls Biden administration 'shameful' for blocking United Nations demand for a ... Dec 11, 2023 Aoc ceasefire | keeping it reel - NewsBreak Original Jan 17, 2024 Hour 1: AOC Calls for Ceasefire from Israel - The Marc Cox Morning Show Podcast Feb 8, 2024 AOC suggests cutting off aid to Israel after U.S. vetoes ceasefire resolution Feb 22, 2024 AOC and Other Democrats Urge Biden to Call for a Ceasefire at the State of the ... Mar 1, 2024
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  14175.  @kennyl3033  If someone is elected, and the unelected guy is claiming to have won, who's the one attempting the coup?
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  14176.  @ericrenz6074  Q?
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  14177.  @ericrenz6074  Vowels cost you.
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  14178.  @ericrenz6074  Well, I hope Pandora consented, and you didn't just grab her by the box without asking.
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  14179. If Bernie polls at 50+% of young voters, but gets 75+% of young votes, it's more the non Bernie young voters that aren't showing up. If Biden can't even get non Bernie young voters out, he's going to be screwed come the general election.
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  14180. You can only attach suffixes and prefixes to the root word. The root word and the meaning of the root word have to stay whole. "Without God" (keeping it whole) plus a suffix "believer", gets you to someone who believes we are without gods. You can't do what you are doing, to a root word. Your word needs to use the root word Theos.
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  14181. A private property owners right to remove you from their private property has always trumped the non right to be on their private property saying stuff. People have been having their memberships revoked, or been removed from private property, since always. Argue for public ownership. Arguing free speech rights on someone else's private property is nonsense.
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  14182. It's not that Zionists are extraordinarily ruthless, wicked, evil, or whatnot ... it's that colonialism is an old shit philosophy, that shouldn't be around anymore. You said in another recent video that you'd have more respect for Trump supporters, if they'd just be honest. I have more respect for early Zionists who were quite honest. The Iron Wall is very honest in describing Zionism's colonial intentions ... https://www.jewishvirtuallibrary.org/quot-the-iron-wall-quot Just like American colonialism ... move some settlers into Native territories, the Natives get angry and attack, pretend the Natives are the bad guys, the military moves in and eradicates or pushes off the Natives, the border expands ... rinse and repeat. The two state solution is a failure because it's based on colonialism. Native Americans didn't give up for hundreds of years, and not until there was almost nothing left of them. You're a bright guy. There needs to be a single state solution, a right of return, government sharing like in Lebanon, and an end to what will be endless bullshit, the way things are going. There's not a huge difference between Manifest Destiny and Zionism.
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  14183. She's clueless ... "when he left office" ... Ummm, the pandemic reduced demand and reduced inflation. Things almost went into a deflationary recession. You only really get across the board deflation with a major recession or depression. Is that his plan?
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  14184.  @cerieti  "when he left office the first time" ... Funny how he wants credit for any good metric lower demand, due to COVID, caused. I guess his plan is to have another global catastrophe drive down demand?
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  14185. There are Republican majority states, including Florida, that have a Confederate Memorial Day, which memorializes traitors who fought against US soldiers, and were willing to kill and die for the "right" to enslave, torture, rape, beat, and even kill, fellow Americans. They deserve to have their fake patriotism pranked.
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  14186.  @cleric4049  Nonsense. The majority of voters elected the leaders who separated mainly so they could enshrine slavery into their new constitution. The majority of voters continued to elect leaders who created Jim Crow laws and fought desegregation, for another 100 years. And having a special Confederate Memorial Day to remember them as Confederates isn't remembering them as being loyal to the US.
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  14187.  William Webber  Did you even address what I said? No. So, why did Rudy withhold evidence from an investigation he repeatedly promoted for months?
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  14188.  @marypritchett115  What the hell does that have to do with Rudy not handing it over to the congressional investigation he was, himself, promoting?
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  14189.  William Webber  So much irony. Ah, so there's a digital forensic verification? Where's that then?
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  14190.  William Webber  How did he "assure himself of their validity"? When will he release how he managed to authenticate them? So, Hunter Biden, who has been living in California since 2018, travelled to Delaware with 3 old laptops that needed repairs in 2019, just happened to pick a Trump supporter's repair shop, and then just happened to forget about them. That shop owner then called him (and can provide us with a verifiable Hunter Biden phone number?) but got no response, then at some point rifled through 4 years of emails, found the "smoking gun", called the police or FBI (he couldn't seem to decide), the FBI sent a subpoena, he made a copy of what was then federal evidence, that evidence made its way to Rudy in early 2020, Rudy then took months to verify it himself, rather than handing it to an investigation he was personally promoting so they could do it, it took him months and months to verify the hard drives were authentic, totally missing the congressional hearing he was also promoting, and then once authenticated handed the information to a tabloid instead of his buddies at FOX, but didn't hand over how they were authenticated. Have I got all that right?
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  14191.  William Webber  As soon as you get the subpoena, it's basically theirs, under penalty of law. You can't just not give it to them, trying to claim it doesn't belong to them unless they get their hands on it. And you're just lying about the "Biden camp". Days ago, they put out a statement saying Biden's official schedule of the time, shows no such meeting with any such person. As well as Biden's Ukraine advisor of the time denying any such meeting took place. You also seem to be dumber than a stump. The Mueller investigation led to charges against 34 people. Plenty of evidence was found. And, they only didn't charge Jr and Kushner, because they couldn't prove they "knowingly" broke the law. In other words, the two could have used the defense that they were too stupid to know they were breaking the law, and Mueller wouldn't be able to prove otherwise. There's plenty of evidence that they are very very stupid, so I get how it would be difficult to prove they aren't. There was also evidence of obstruction laid out against Trump, but he didn't think a sitting president could be charged. Doesn't mean there was no evidence, or that he can't be once he's not a sitting president. You just seem to be projecting. I mean, even with a majority of the Senate, the Republican investigation didn't find anything criminal. Kind of like their billion Benghazi investigations.
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  14192.  William Webber  Who the hell is playing lawyer? It's just a fact that you can't withhold stuff that's been subpoenaed. "Subpoena", literally, means "under penalty". Don't hand it over and you're going to get charged. Is that the same Ratcliffe who thinks a process that's laid out in the constitution is unconstitutional, if it's used against his buddy Trump? I'll wait for the FBI take on it, thanks. Even though Wray is a Republican, he doesn't seem to be french kissing Trump's asshole every chance he gets. Oh hey, the exact guy Trump's own administration sanctioned as being a Russian stooge, but Trump and Giulliani kept sharing things from anyway, has supposedly found another laptop in the Ukraine. Hunter was leaving laptops everywhere. If someone isn't ruling out the possibility of Giulliani being played, then that seems pretty weird. Unlike Trump, Biden released 22 years of tax returns. You can be sure that Bannon (another Trump criminal sidekick, charged with fraud over border wall fundraiser) had people go through them, because he had wanted to see them for over a year. Nobody has found any income from China. The Ukrainian Biden helped get fired, the EU also wanted fired, as did Republicans like Ron Johnson and Rob Portman. It wasn't all that controversial. I don't even know what you think there really is on Joe, even if the laptops pan out. Who gives a crap about Hunter? Is Joe planning on having his idiot of a kid working in the White House, like Trump?
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  14193.  William Webber  Nah ... if someone blatantly lies, and calls a process that's, literally, spelled out in the constitution, "unconstitutional", just to curry favour, that's some deep french ass kissing. Biden's prepping for a debate? Trump might want to give it a try, so he can actually answer questions. You seem to be rambling, now.
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  14194. ​ @shanewilson8728  If life begins at fertilization, then everyone is female. Only the mother's X (female) chromosome expresses for the first 5-7 weeks, and the mere existence of a Y chromosome doesn't guarantee maleness (Swyer syndrome).
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  14195. Dude, I asked you to google "root word" before arguing.
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  14196. Lol, the US Overton window is almost totally right of centre. Sanders and AOC are centre-left, outside the US.
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  14197.  @CaBdosdos  Does, "pretty much want a socialist party", mean something different in the US?
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  14198.  @CaBdosdos  So, your words are gibberish.
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  14199. AOC just used her platform and PAC to help get more pro-M4A progressives elected to congress. You know, that thing you'll still have to do once the vote fails. The only "fake", "shill", and "wimp", would be the guy stabbing her in the back, while she's doing the actual real fighting against DCCC backed corporate Dems, by helping to primary progressives against them and increasing M4A support in congress. Here's a brilliant idea ... mislead people into thinking that even progressives aren't on their side, then promote another third party, start from scratch, and then not even win a seat in congress over the next few decades let alone M4A. You might as well be shilling for the Republican party, Jimmy.
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  14200.  @zacg_  Like I said, the same racist majority that continued to vote for racism for another 100 years. The same racist majority that left the Democrat party in 1968, and voted for racist Wallace, who won 5 Southern states, before they switched to Nixon in 72. Almost 2 centuries of blatantly voting to oppress black Americans.
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  14201. Well, to be fair, that's pretty much what the original Ancient Greek "democracy" was like. "Democracies" come in a spectrum of how democratic they actually are.
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  14202. ​ @ironiclargesse2162  Everyone in a primary is blue, so that doesn't split the vote. But, convincing enough people to not vote blue, to make Biden worry, and then trying to convince those people to turn around and vote blue, would be tough. West can't guarantee what his followers would do, so doesn't really have much to leverage. Biden can't personally do anything, that can't be done through executive order, so doesn't have much to give. Splitting the vote is dumb.
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  14203.  @willywood6508  My use of language is as a Canadian. What Texas is going through, right now, is a f-ing "cold spell", to me, moron. Texas and Louisiana were hit with a big snow storm in 2007, that caused power outages. I'm assuming they make their wind turbines, and other sources of power, to last more than 15 years. They should have been winterized. And, nothing else you said makes up for the stupid decision to have a grid that's completely independent from surrounding states.
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  14204. Since when is the FBI "left"?
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  14205. Whatever happens, Bernie should stay in, in case Joe's brain has a serious malfunction before the convention.
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  14206.  @Thezuule1  Yes, but something more serious, that forces him to drop due to health issues, or something.
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  14207.  @merbst  Now you've got 14 deaths, and your deaths to confirmed cases rate is double the global average.
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  14208.  @suzannereiser4720  Less dead per capita was more the point, but whatever you say.
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  14209.  @jeffbguarino  Maclean's was just reporting on a poll, dumb dumb. Here's another poll ... https://www.prpeak.com/strong-dislike-of-donald-trump-triples-in-canada-over-past-year-poll-1.24186510
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  14210.  @jeffbguarino  Rofl, you're a nutjob, is what you are.
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  14211.  @jeffbguarino  Rofl, I read your "everyone I know", just fine, dimwit. And, since you consider any survey, that doesn't ask every single person in the country the question, to be invalid, your opinion is limited to your little circle of friends. Ironic, considering your opening criticism. You're, clearly, a nutjob.
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  14212.  @jeffbguarino  How can you even look at the comment section of this video, see all the Canadian replies, see your the odd one out, and still think you don't represent a small minority of the country?
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  14213. The US was founded by people who protested and rioted against extra taxes that specifically funded the red coats (police/military). They had messaging like "Join or Die". Weird that the Republicans became the loyalists to authority and even tried to fight to keep an unelected ruler in power, when they preach like they're anti-government.
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  14214.  @jramir2  Didn't you watch the video? It was all about race and racism.
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  14215. Still just what it is. Even a miscarriage is called a spontaneous abortion, and all the religious nuts are hypocritically worshipping what would be the leading abortionist in existence, if it existed.
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  14216. ​ @KamillGran-ch5sb  Lol, all you keep repeating is that you're a racist bigot.
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  14217.  @ojo1979  Atm, that's like arguing to "try" and push a house over. Keep "trying" all you want but, in the end, you're going to need to convince a lot more people, or get a lot more people elected, in congress that support it, which people like AOC are already working on.
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  14218.  @ojo1979  "forcing the vote is one solution" Solution to what? It fails, then you have to do exactly what AOC is currently doing, and get more pro M4A candidates in congress. If Jimmy has 100 pro M4A candidates laying around, why didn't he pull them out and run them in the election that just happened? If Briahna wants to coordinate protests groups to have M4A protests, why hasn't she been doing that all along? The Democratic Socialists of America, of which AOC is a member, have been having M4A rallies. Where were Jimmy and his posse? The things he wants to happen, after forcing a vote that fails, are already happening. They just haven't been a part of it. Get out there and put pressure on your district's anti-M4A candidate, if you have one. Protest them, if you need to. Find someone to run against them, if you need to. You don't need a failed vote to do what needs to be done once it fails, anyway.
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  14219.  @ryanhubbard1885  Then they lose their case and get sent back.
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  14220.  @ryanhubbard1885  Then speed up the process. Make it easier and quicker, not harder.
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  14221.  @ryanhubbard1885  Trump didn't speed up anything. He tried to make the process harder. In 2019, he had the most border crossings in a year than since 2006. The new migration spike started under him. It only dropped back down in 2020 because the world shut down. Overall, he averaged more border crossings per year than Obama. He sucked at the one thing all the racists voted for him for. Yes, I say racists, because almost all of the anti-immigrant arguments are bullshit. Undocumented immigrants commit crimes at half the rate of natural born citizens. Over 90% of drugs come through points of entry. Over 80% of drug traffickers are Americans (Cartels aren't stupid. They use the people least likely to be stopped, not the most likely, and don't want their product swept downriver, lying in a desert, or tossed in detention.). Plus, Republicans argue there is plenty of room for hundreds of thousands of extra unwanted babies per year. Johnson even argued they're needed, to keep SS and Medicare afloat. You don't actually need the babies ... just make immigration easier, and get them paying into the system as fast as possible. And, the "replacement" nonsense is outright insane. Most of those people have native ancestry. Europeans crying about being "replaced" by natives ... give me a break. 😂
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  14222. Hehe, yeah, gathering with a whackload of family never involves conflict.
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  14223.  @LVArturs  The League of Nations became the UN. This did not start "way before" the League of Nations. It basically started with the Balfour declaration. Early Zionists, like Ben-Gurion and Ze'ev Jabotinsky, fully acknowledged that Zionism is colonialism. There's no real ifs about it. Colonialists are never not the aggressors. Nobody "started" a war against Israel. The colonialism started the war. It's impossible for natives to attack you, if you aren't already there doing your colonialist aggression, first. That's like saying Native Americans "started" wars against colonialists, and the poor "innocent" colonialists were just "defending" themselves. Native Americans initially welcomed settlers, until those settlers started claiming everything as their own, and started their ethnic cleansing. Then the natives reached a point that they wanted to send the white man back into the sea. It wasn't simply because he was white. Jews had been living amongst Muslims for 1300 years. Muslim nations gave them refuge, when Christian nations were force converting, exiting, or killing, non Christians. The Ottomans initially welcomed Zionists, when it was somewhat more like immigration (PICA was okay, JNF was racist), before the British took it over. Everything turned to shit, due to colonialism.
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  14224. Her mother lives in Florida, morons. What "hypocrisy" is there in visiting your mother over the holidays, and not wearing a mask while outside, and while drinking and eating?
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  14225. "Mexican" is a nationality. What a dumbass.
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  14226.  @gogeta667  Trying to put an end to the democratic process and keep himself on as an unelected ruler?
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  14227.  @gogeta667  Rofl. You're a nutter.
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  14228.  @gogeta667  It's the proper response to nuttery. Courts, election officials, plenty of Republican politicians, defamation lawsuits, already made the argument the election was fine, meaning it was Trump trying to overthrow democracy. You're a nut.
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  14229.  @gogeta667  False equivalence, dimwit. How many Democrats objected to the election in congress? How many court cases? How many calls asking governors to dig up extra votes? If Trump was impeached and removed, Pence, the democratically elected VP would become president. And, all the people complaining about the electoral college want a more democratic result, not less. You, apparently, don't know what "logic" means, on top of being a nutter.
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  14230.  Silencedfixer  Republicans: "We need more kids!" Kids come across the border. Republicans: "No! Not like that!" Is there space and jobs for hundreds of thousands of extra unwanted babies per year, or not? The same should apply to immigration.
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  14231.  Silencedfixer  That is a lie.
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  14232.  Silencedfixer  Nope. Lie.
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  14233. ​ Silencedfixer  Nope. 46% of the undocumented population is female. You would need next to no younger, or older, males, for "military age" males to be the majority.
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  14234.  Silencedfixer  ​Nope. 46% of the undocumented population is female. You would need next to no younger, or older, males, for "mil age" males to be the majority.
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  14235.  Silencedfixer  ​ Nope. 46% of the undocumented population is female. There would need to be next to no younger, or older, males, for you to be right.
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  14236.  Silencedfixer  Nope. Lie.
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  14237.  Silencedfixer  Nope. Barely a majority are male, of all ages.
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  14238.  Silencedfixer  You stated a specific age of males, dingleberry.
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  14239.  Silencedfixer  You lie.
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  14240.  Silencedfixer  You stated a specific age range, dufus.
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  14241.  Silencedfixer  You stated a specific age range, twatwaffle.
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  14242.  Silencedfixer  Nope. You're making the age range up.
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  14243.  @lawrencemckeon6802  Disagree with what? That Western support for Zionist colonialism has been the status quo for 100 years? I think they'd totally agree with that.
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  14244. Promoting Tulsi over Bernie.
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  14245.  @TheRantingRooster  The Tea Party was backed by the Koch brothers, who also applied their own pressure and funded Tea Party friendly candidates. If anything, it had more similarities to the Justice Dems trying to take over the Dem party, than it did any third party.
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  14246.  @gnubbiersh647  The only one not grasping a concept, is you not grasping the contradiction between people both claiming they don't care, while clearly caring. Why do you keep showing up, just to prove you have severe comprehension problems?
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  14247.  @redrick8900  You also have reading problems.
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  14248.  @gnubbiersh647  Rofl. Video premise: Man who claims not to care about women's sports, cares so much he constantly make videos about it OP premise: multiple men who claim not to care about women's sports, care so much they make a whole movie about it @yungmuney5903 premise: they are concern trolling (they truly don't care, but pretend to for attention) You: (apparently having no clue what the video premise is, no clue what the OP premise is, no clue what yung's reply meant) asks what's so hard to understand ... about a completely different premise, where someone does care but doesn't watch Me: I point out you've introduced a completely different premise, and are effectively strawmanning people, by implying they don't understand a completely different premise than they were talking about The only pointless thing above, is you rambling on about what nobody was talking about.
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  14249.  @redrick8900  You failed at comprehension.
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  14250.  @redrick8900  Rofl. You two are dumber than stumps, or Trumps.
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  14251.  @redrick8900  Rofl. Do tell. Since I never once stated that your addle brained friend had ever said they didn't care, as you dishonestly stated I did (I was referring to the topic being discussed). What was I wrong about?
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  14252.  @redrick8900  Rofl. Do tell. Since I never once stated that your addled friend had ever said they didn't care, as you incorrectly stated I did (I was referring to the topic being discussed). What was I wrong about?
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  14253.  @redrick8900  Wrong about ... ?
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  14254.  @gnubbiersh647  And I see you got distracted by going off the topic of the thread, again. Maybe, someday, you'll actually address what people are saying.
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  14255.  @gnubbiersh647  Sure. Say whatever you want, but don't be surprised when people then show you're talking about something nobody else is talking about, and effectively strawmanning people, by implying they don't understand a totally different thing than what they were talking about. Hey look, someone quoted the movie, and them openly admitting to being concern trolls. Do you accept that as a fact?
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  14256.  @gnubbiersh647  I literally slow walked you through the premise of the video title, the op, the concern trolling comment, and you still don't know what the premise is?
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  14257.  @gnubbiersh647  What's wrong with ... I don't care about X, but I'll make endless videos about X? That's a contradiction, which is only resolved by the admitted concern trolling. They truly don't care, but they go on about it just for attention. What did I get wrong about you? Video: guy who says they don't care ... OP: guys who say they don't care ... Reply: concern trolls (those guys don't care, and just do it for clicks). You: What's so hard to understand about me caring but not watching? Nobody was talking about you, or anyone else who claims to care. The movie quote is an admission of being concern trolls. You don't believe the movie makers either?
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  14258.  @gnubbiersh647  Because there's no moral issue, if nobody cares. We no longer consider women wearing pants to be a moral issue, because people no longer care if women wear pants. Who cares, if they actually care, and why, is relevant. Matt Walsh is a Catholic. There's literally a Catholic catechism stating that the god he worships is sexless, but it's apparently perfectly fine to use masculine gender terminology, to identify it. Catholics also believe that sexless god transitioned into a human male for a time. They outright worship a trans god. In fact, the vast majority of Christians do. That makes them all hypocrites, when they whine about trans people. The mere existence of a Y chromosome doesn't guarantee maleness (Swyer syndrome). The gene needs to express, to create maleness. For the first 5-7 weeks, only the mother's X (female) chromosome expresses. Anyone (including Matt and Ben) arguing life begins at fertilization, is arguing we're all female (or, at minimum, all sexless), which makes them trans. They ignore the fact that there are also trans men out there, beating birth certificate certified males, in sports. Lia Thomas was beaten by a trans man, Iszac Henig, before Henig transitioned. The two effectively swapped leagues. Would anyone have cared, if Henig hadn't transitioned, and continued beating women? Thomas has broken no national or international records. She simply swam during some slow years in the women's division, in her categories. Kate Douglass broke 18 national records, but people preferred to blather on endlessly about Lia. Those people are the ones detracting from the accomplishments of a birth certificate certified female, by focusing on nonsense. The makers of the movie admittedly refused to go through the transitioning process that would actually allow them to qualify as women. It's a completely dishonest movie. Nobody is transitioning, just to beat women. Hardly anyone is doing it. So, what's your big issue with it?
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  14259.  @gnubbiersh647   Because there's no moral debate, if the person you're debating doesn't actually care. We no longer consider women wearing pants to be a moral issue, because people no longer care if women wear pants. Who cares, if they actually care, and why, is relevant. Matt Walsh is a Catholic. There's literally a Catholic catechism stating that the god he worships is sexless, but it's apparently perfectly fine to use masculine gender terminology, to identify it. Catholics also believe that sexless god transitioned into a human male for a time. They outright worship a trans god. In fact, the vast majority of Christians do. That makes them all hypocrites, when they whine about trans people. The mere existence of a Y chromosome doesn't guarantee maleness (Swyer syndrome). The gene needs to express, to create maleness. For the first 5-7 weeks, only the mother's X (female) chromosome expresses. Anyone (including Matt and Ben) arguing life begins at fertilization, is arguing we're all female (or, at minimum, all sexless), which makes them trans. They ignore the fact that there are also trans men out there, beating birth certificate certified males, in sports. Lia Thomas was beaten by a trans man, Iszac Henig, before Henig transitioned. The two effectively swapped leagues. Would anyone have cared, if Henig hadn't transitioned, and continued beating women? Thomas has broken no national or international records. She simply swam during some slow years in the women's division, in her categories. Kate Douglass broke 18 national records, but people preferred to blather on endlessly about Lia. Those people are the ones detracting from the accomplishments of a birth certificate certified female, by focusing on nonsense. The makers of the movie admittedly refused to go through the transitioning process that would actually allow them to qualify as women. It's a completely dishonest movie. Nobody is transitioning, just to beat women. Hardly anyone is doing it. So, what's your big issue with it?
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  14260.  @gnubbiersh647  Yes, my reply is gone. Guess YouTube didn't like something. You can likely find it if you sort the comment section by newest, and refind this thread.
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  14261.  @gnubbiersh647  Sorry to hear about the difficulty you have in reading and comprehending more than a couple sentences.
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  14262.  @gnubbiersh647  The YouTube algorithm has been hounding me for the past 6 months, because it didn't like what I was saying about IL, dingus. Nothing to do with you.
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  14263.  @gnubbiersh647  Matt Walsh: "I don't care about women's sports" Why do you keep inventing a different argument?
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  14264.  @gnubbiersh647  The "opinion" in the movie this OP is about? ... And that Matt helped create? ... Is that there are people who pretend to be women, just to win at sports. Meanwhile, the people in the movie admittedly refused to go through enough of the transitioning process necessary to actually qualify to compete in women's sports. The "opinion" portrayed in the movie is just a big lie. That one?
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  14265.  @gnubbiersh647  Why ignore the fact that there are also trans men out there, beating birth certificate certified males, in sports? Lia Thomas was beaten by a trans man, Iszac Henig, before Henig transitioned. The two effectively swapped leagues. Would anyone have cared, if Henig hadn't transitioned, and continued beating women? Thomas has broken no national or international records. She simply swam during some slow years in the women's division, in her categories. Meanwhile, Kate Douglass broke 18 national records, has won 11 world golds, but people preferred to prattling on endlessly about Lia. It's people like Matt, detracting from the accomplishments of birth certificate certified females, by focusing on nonsense.
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  14266.  @gnubbiersh647  Why ignore the fact that there are also trans men out there, beating birth certificate certified males, in sports? Lia Thomas was beaten by a trans man, Iszac Henig, before Henig transitioned. The two effectively swapped leagues. Would anyone have cared, if Henig hadn't transitioned, and continued winning against women? Thomas has broken no national or international records. She simply swam during some slow years in the women's division, in her categories. Meanwhile, Kate Douglass broke 18 national records, won 11 world golds, but people preferred to go on endlessly about Lia. It's people like Matt, detracting from the accomplishments of birth certificate certified females, by focusing on nonsense.
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  14267.  @gnubbiersh647  Lia Thomas was beaten by a trans man, Iszac Henig, before Henig transitioned. The two effectively swapped leagues. Thomas has broken no national or international records. She simply swam during some slow years in the women's division, in those categories. Meanwhile, Kate Douglass broke 18 national records, won 11 world golds, but people like Matt preferred to go on endlessly about Lia. I think it's people like Matt, detracting from the accomplishments of birth certificate certified females, by focusing on something irrelevant.
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  14268.  @gnubbiersh647  Rofl. So, you don't want to address the original topic, Matt "I don't care about women's sports" Walsh and friends just being trolls. You don't want to address Matt and friends being liars. And now you have a problem with using an example Matt has talked about repeatedly, and couldn't even muster up an actual response to the point. Ah well ...
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  14269.  @gnubbiersh647  What did my final point, that you failed to address, have to do with the movie?
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  14270.  @gnubbiersh647  Ironic, since it has been you that has been unwilling to address anything other than a very specific point. And now you won't even address what I said about that specific point, instead just whining about me mentioning a swimmer ... a swimmer Matt has made over a dozen videos/interviews/posts about.
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  14271.  @gnubbiersh647  Have you never heard of using an example? An example the guy we're talking about repeatedly used. The guy whose position you asked me about. Just how daft are you? Matt's favorite example is largely irrelevant. In the finals she got one first, a fifth, and an eighth. So what? It is the people who spent all their time rambling on about her, that ignored and detracted from one of the US' best female swimmers ever. Now you don't even want to talk about Matt's opinions, at all. Carry on moving the goalposts.
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  14272.  @gnubbiersh647  And then you failed to address the fact that Matt's favorite example is largely irrelevant ... 32nd in the 2021-22 NCAA rankings. And yet, Matt still kept ranting about her, even over a year after she was done competing. Likely still is. So, I've covered that he's contradictory ("I don't care", but I'll do constant videos, interviews, posts, and even a movie on the topic), that he's a concern troll, that he's a liar (you can't just dress up and compete in women's sports on a whim), and that he rants about largely irrelevant nonsense. My take is basically that ... that contradictory, dishonest, hypocrites, are making a big todo over nothing. Have you actually made a point about anything, yourself, Mr Contradictory, who doesn't want to limit the conversation, but wants to limit the conversation? Oh, yes ... that there are men's and women's categories. How observant.
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  14273.  @gnubbiersh647  And then you failed to address the fact that Matt's favorite example is largely irrelevant ... 32nd in the 2021-22 NCAA rankings. And yet, Matt still kept ranting about her, even over a year after she was done competing. Likely still is. So, I've covered that he's contradictory ("I don't care", but I'll do constant videos, interviews, posts, and even a movie on the topic), that he's a concern troll, that he's a liar (you can't just dress up and compete in women's sports on a whim), and that he rants about largely irrelevant nonsense. And yet, you keep saying I'm the one having a limited conversation. Meanwhile, you've provided zero actual rebuttals, to any of those, and have just whined about me talking about them. My take is basically that ... that contradictory, dishonest, hypocrites, are making a big todo over nothing. Have you actually made a point about anything, yourself, Mr Contradictory, who doesn't want to limit the conversation, but wants to limit the conversation? Oh, yes ... that there are both men's and women's categories. How observant. And that there's a reason. There's also a reason why you actually have to begin the transition process, to compete as a woman.
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  14274.  @gnubbiersh647  What issue did you raise? "Reasons" isn't much of an argument. Like I said, there are also "reasons" why you can't just throw on a wig and compete in women's sports. Why do you think "reasons" is a valid argument for one thing, but not another? Try not being a hypocrite. I didn't dance around anything. You're just whining about my answer. Where were all the complaints, when Chris Mosier took the possible spot of a birth certificate male, on Team USA? A birth certificate female, who transitioned to a man, was the one who changed Olympic gender policy. And, what's the big problem?
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  14275.  @gnubbiersh647  And the reason you can't just throw on a wig, and go compete against women.
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  14276.  @gnubbiersh647  Because, as I already stated before, you have to be actually going through the transition, and have been taking female hormones for some time, first. Remember? When I pointed out Matt and friends were admittedly dishonest about their movie? You just ignored it, and whined about me talking about it.
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  14277.  @gnubbiersh647  How doesn't it? Thomas lost about 15 seconds from transitioning. The difference between men's records and women's records are often smaller than that.
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  14278.  @gnubbiersh647  How are recorded times "opinion"? Thomas had dropped in 2019-20, when forced to keep swimming in the men's, after having started HRT.
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  14279.  @gnubbiersh647  What if they do? Do you think there will magically be no difference, after years of HRT, just because it wasn't recorded? Again, your memory is as poor as your processing.
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  14280.  @gnubbiersh647  Why not? Since it's obviously clear that even obsessed, hate filled, dishonest, maroons, won't go through HRT, just to win ... what's the big deal?
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  14281.  @gnubbiersh647  Why not? Since it's obviously clear that even obsessed, hate filled, dishonest, pea brains, won't go through HRT, just to win ... what's the big deal?
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  14282.  @gnubbiersh647  Since Matt and friends helped prove that even obsessed, hate filled, dishonest, grifters, won't go through HRT, just to win ... what's the big deal?
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  14283.  @gnubbiersh647  Sad, that you don't grasp the use of examples very well.
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  14284.  @gnubbiersh647  I'll take your whining as a no.
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  14285.  @gnubbiersh647  You know they originally wanted to do a documentary, but they couldn't get any guys to go through HRT, just so they could beat women at sports, right? Then, they did their dishonest fiction.
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  14286.  @gnubbiersh647  Ben Shapiro: "I originally suggested to the Crain boys that they do this as a doc. I originally went to them and said 'You guys should go try out for a bunch of ladies leagues', and that became not possible because, as it turns out, most ladies leagues don't allow in actual men. And, they weren't willing to go the full distance, of what it would require ... you know the actual hormone treatments required to play in the ladies leagues." The reason it was a dishonest fiction, was because the guys were unwilling to go through HRT, just to beat women at sports. Again ... do you have any examples of men who have gone through HRT, for the sole purpose of winning at sports?
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  14287. Yes, people doing things wrong don't tend to tell, and yet many still manage to be exposed. Weird, that you've never heard of that happening. There are some on the news every day. None taking hormones just to win a trophy, I guess. It's a fine argument, since they had much more to gain, than an athlete in some low earnings sport. Well, that's because you're not very bright. The point is that the likelihood someone would take hormones, grow breasts, gain ED, etc., just to win a trophy, is pretty low. Meaning, what we're talking about is trans women, who genuinely want to be women, who just happen to play a sport, and who will remain a woman long after they're done competing. A tiny minority of a tiny minority. Not some massive wave of men in wigs, that are coming to take over women's sports. You: "Waaaah, waaaah, I came to a video about Matt Walsh, and to a thread about Lady Ballers, and someone has the gaul to mention them!!! Waaaah! Waaaah!" That would be one example more than you, correct? And, it's a fine example. The entire point was to pick the one all the transphobes have been going on about. Their "strongest" example. She happened to win in a slow year. She wouldn't have won a couple years earlier. She would have been absolutely annihilated, by 9 seconds, a few years before that. She broke no NCAA, national, or international records. How many examples would you like to talk about, from the zero trans Olympic medalists in 20 years? From any of the other trans athletes, that even the transphobes didn't think helped their case, so didn't talk about? You've provided zero examples of what we're supposed to be so terrified of, and zero examples anyone doing it simply to game the system.
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  14288.  @gnubbiersh647  Yes, people doing things wrong don't tend to tell, and yet many still manage to be exposed. Weird, that you've never heard of that happening. There are some on the news every day. None taking hormones just to win a trophy, I guess. It's a fine argument, since they had much more to gain, than an athlete in some low earnings sport. Well, that's because you're a little slow. The point is that the likelihood someone would take hormones, grow breasts, gain ED, etc., just to win a trophy, is pretty low. Meaning, what we're talking about is trans women, who genuinely want to be women, who just happen to play a sport, and who will remain a woman long after they're done competing. A tiny minority of a tiny minority. Not some massive wave of men in wigs, that are coming to take over women's sports. You: "Waaaah, waaaah, I came to a video about Matt Walsh, and to a thread about Lady Ballers, and someone has the gaul to mention them!!! Waaaah! Waaaah!" That would be one example more than you, correct? And, it's a fine example. The entire point was to pick the one all the transphobes have been going on about. Their "strongest" example. She happened to win in a slow year. She wouldn't have won a couple years earlier. She would have been absolutely annihilated, by 9 seconds, a few years before that. She broke no NCAA, national, or international records. How many examples would you like to talk about, from the zero trans Olympic medalists in 20 years? From any of the other trans athletes, that even the transphobes didn't think helped their case, so didn't talk about? You've provided zero examples of what we're supposed to be so terrified of, and zero examples anyone doing it simply to game the system.
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  14289.  @gnubbiersh647   Take 3 ... @gnubbiersh647  Yes, people doing things wrong don't tend to tell, and yet many still manage to be exposed. Weird, that you've never heard of such a thing happening. There are some on the news every day. None taking hormones just to win a trophy, I guess. It's a fine argument, since they had much more to gain, than an athlete in some low earnings sport. Well, that's because you're working with one brain cell. The point is that the likelihood someone would take hormones, grow breasts, gain ED, etc., just to win a trophy, is pretty low. Meaning, what we're talking about is trans women, who genuinely want to be women, who just happen to play a sport, and who will remain a woman long after they're done competing. A tiny minority of a tiny minority. Not some massive wave of men in wigs, that are coming to take over women's sports. You: "Waaaah, waaaah, I came to a video about Matt Walsh, and to a thread about Lady Ballers, and someone has the gaul to mention them!!! Waaaah! Waaaah!" That would be one example more than you, correct? And, it's a fine example. The entire point was to pick the one all the transphobes have been going on about. Their "strongest" example. She happened to win in a slow year. She wouldn't have won a couple years earlier. She would have been absolutely annihilated, by 9 seconds, a few years before that. She broke no NCAA, national, or international records. How many examples would you like to talk about, from the zero trans Olympic medalists in 20 years? From any of the other trans athletes, that even the transphobes didn't think helped their case, so didn't talk about? You've provided zero examples of what we're supposed to be so terrified of, and zero examples anyone doing it simply to game the system.
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  14290.  @gnubbiersh647  Take 4 ... @gnubbiersh647  Yes, people doing things wrong don't tend to tell, and yet many still manage to be exposed. Weird, that you've never heard of such a thing happening. There are some on the news every day. None taking hormones just to win a trophy, I guess. It's a fine argument, since they had much more to gain, than an athlete in some low earnings sport. Well, that's because you're working with the single processor. The point is that the likelihood someone would take hormones, grow breasts, gain ED, etc., just to win a trophy, is pretty low. Meaning, what we're talking about is trans women, who genuinely want to be women, who just happen to play a sport, and who will remain a woman long after they're done competing. A tiny minority of a tiny minority. Not some massive wave of men in wigs, that are coming to take over women's sports. You: "Waaaah, waaaah, I came to a video about Matt Walsh, and to a thread about Lady Ballers, and someone has the gaul to mention them!!! Waaaah! Waaaah!" That would be one example more than you, correct? And, it's a fine example. The entire point was to pick the one all the transphobes have been going on about. Their "strongest" example. She happened to win in a slow year. She wouldn't have won a couple years earlier. She would have been absolutely annihilated, by 9 seconds, a few years before that. She broke no NCAA, national, or international records. How many examples would you like to talk about, from the zero trans Olympic medalists in 20 years? From any of the other trans athletes, that even the transphobes didn't think helped their case, so didn't talk about? You've provided zero examples of what we're supposed to be so terrified of, and zero examples anyone doing it simply to game the system.
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  14291.  @gnubbiersh647  Take 5 ... @gnubbiersh647  Yes, people doing things wrong don't tend to tell, and yet many still manage to be exposed. Weird, that you've never heard of such a thing happening. There are some on the news every day. None taking hormones just to win a trophy, I guess. It's a fine argument, since they had much more to gain, than an athlete in some low earnings sport. Well, that's because you're working with the single processor. The point is that the likelihood someone would take hormones, go through the physical changes, ED, etc., just to win a trophy, is pretty low. Meaning, what we're talking about is trans women, who genuinely want to be women, who just happen to play a sport, and who will remain a woman long after they're done competing. A tiny minority of a tiny minority. Not some massive wave of men in wigs, that are coming to take over women's sports. "Waaaah, waaaah, I came to a video about Matt Walsh, and a thread about Lady Ballers, and someone has the gaul to mention them!!! Waaaah! Waaaah!" That would be one example more than you, correct? And, it's a fine example. The entire point was to pick the one all the transphobes have been going on about. Their "strongest" example. She happened to win in a slow year. She wouldn't have won a couple years earlier. She would have been absolutely annihilated, by 9 seconds, a few years before that. She broke no NCAA, national, or international records. How many examples would you like to talk about, from the zero individual trans Olympic medalists in the 20 years they've been allowed? Or, from any of the other trans athletes, that even the transphobes didn't think helped their case? You've provided zero examples of what we're supposed to be so terrified of, and zero examples anyone doing it simply to game the system.
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  14292.  @gnubbiersh647  Yes, people doing things wrong don't tend to tell, and yet many still manage to be exposed. Weird, that you've never heard of such a thing happening. There are some on the news every day. None taking hormones just to win a trophy, I guess. It's a fine argument, since they had much more to gain, than an athlete in some low earnings sport. Well, that's because you're working with the single processor. The point is that the likelihood someone would take hormones, go through the physical changes, ED, etc., just to win a trophy, is pretty low. Meaning, what we're talking about is trans women, who genuinely want to be women, who just happen to play a sport, and who will remain a woman long after they're done competing. A tiny minority of a tiny minority. Not some massive wave of men in wigs, that are coming to take over women's sports. "Waaaah, waaaah, I came to a video about Matt Walsh, and a thread about Lady Ballers, and someone has the gaul to mention them!!! Waaaah! Waaaah!" That would be one example more than you, correct? And, it's a fine example. The entire point was to pick the one all the transphobes have been going on about. Their "strongest" example. She happened to win in a slow year. She wouldn't have won a couple years earlier. She would have been absolutely annihilated, by 9 seconds, a few years before that. She broke no NCAA, national, or international records. How many other examples would you like to talk about, from the zero individual trans Olympic medalists in the 20 years they've been allowed? Or, from any of the other trans athletes, that haven't won anything? You've provided zero examples of what we're supposed to be so terrified of, and zero examples anyone doing it simply to game the system.
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  14293.  @gnubbiersh647  Rofl! You need a source for people getting caught doing bad things, they were trying to hide? Like say getting caught paying off a porn star? Or the over 250 suspensions for performance enhancing drugs, since 2001, in the NFL alone? Just how dim are you, exactly? What are you talking about? That would be the ultimate proof for them. It would make them a crap ton of money, and destroy trans athletes in sports, just like they want, if they could actually beat high end women athletes after a year of HRT. I didn't watch it either. What does Ben's admission have to do with the movie plot? Just how dim are you? Learn to read. Examples of there being an actual problem, dim one. Someone who has gone through at least a year of HRT isn't the same as a man who hasn't, so you can't just compare men to women. Compare trans women to women, and provide some examples of this horrible situation.
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  14294.  @gnubbiersh647  Rofl! You need a source for people getting caught doing bad things, they were trying to hide? Like say getting caught paying off Stormy? Or the over 250 suspensions for performance enhancing drugs, since 2001, in the NFL alone? Just how slow are you, exactly? What are you talking about? That would be the ultimate proof for them. It would make them a crap ton of money, and destroy trans athletes in sports, just like they want ... if they could actually beat high end women athletes after a year of HRT. I didn't watch it either. What does Ben's admission in an interview have to do with needing to watch the movie? Just how slow are you? Learn to read. Examples of there being an actual problem, slow one. Someone who has gone through at least a year of HRT isn't the same as a man who hasn't, so you can't just compare men to women. Compare trans women to women, and provide some examples of this horrible situation.
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  14295.  @gnubbiersh647  You need a source for people getting caught doing bad things, they were trying to hide? Like say getting caught paying off Stormy? Or the over 250 suspensions for performance enhancing drugs, since 2001, in the NFL alone? Just how slow is that single processor of yours? What are you talking about? That would be the ultimate proof for them. It would make them a ton of money, and destroy trans athletes in sports, just like they want ... if they could actually beat high end women athletes after a year of HRT, that is. I didn't watch it either. What does Ben's admission in an interview have to do with needing to watch the movie? A very slow processor. But, do keep whining. Learn to read. Examples of there being an actual problem, slow one. Someone who has gone through at least a year of HRT isn't the same as a man who hasn't, so you can't just compare men to women. Compare trans women to women, and provide some examples of this horrible situation.
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  14296.  @gnubbiersh647   You need a source for people getting caught doing things they were trying to hide? Like say getting caught paying off Stormy? Or the over 250 suspensions for performance enhancing, since 2001, in the NFL alone? Just how slow is that single processor of yours? What are you talking about? That would be the ultimate proof for them. It would make them a ton of money, and destroy trans athletes in sports, just like they want ... if they could actually beat high end women athletes after a year of HRT, that is. I didn't watch it either. What does Ben's admission in an interview have to do with needing to watch the movie? A very slow processor. But, do keep whining. Learn to read. Examples of there being an actual problem, slow one. Someone who has gone through at least a year of HRT isn't the same as a man who hasn't, so you can't just compare men to women. Compare trans women to women, and provide some examples of this horrible situation.
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  14297.  @gnubbiersh647  You need a source for people getting caught doing things they were trying to hide? Like say getting caught paying off Stormy? Or the over 250 suspensions for performance enhancing, since 2001, in the NFL alone? The lights are not on. Is anyone home in there? What are you talking about? That would be the ultimate proof for them. It would make them a ton of money, and destroy trans athletes in sports, just like they want ... if they could actually win against high end women athletes after a year of HRT, that is. I didn't watch it either. What does Ben's admission in an interview have to do with needing to watch the movie? Do keep whining. Reading comprehension is your friend. Examples of there being an actual problem. Someone who has gone through at least a year of HRT isn't the same as a man who hasn't, so you can't just compare men to women. Compare trans women to women, and provide some examples of this horrible situation.
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  14298.  @gnubbiersh647  You need a source for people getting caught doing things they were trying to hide? Like say getting caught paying off Daniels? Or the over 250 suspensions for performance enhancing, since 2001, in the NFL alone? Derp. What are you talking about? That would be the ultimate proof for them. It would make them a ton of money, and destroy trans athletes in sports, just like they want ... if they could actually win against high end women athletes after a year of HRT, that is. I didn't watch it either. What does Ben's admission in an interview have to do with needing to watch the movie? Whine away. Did I say "you said"? Or are you now strawmanning me? Examples of there being an actual issue. Someone who has gone through at least a year of HRT isn't the same as a man who hasn't, so you can't just compare men to women. Compare trans women to women, and provide some examples of what we need to worry about.
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  14299.  @gnubbiersh647  You need a source for people getting caught doing things they were trying to hide? Like say getting caught paying hush money? Or the over 250 suspensions for performance enhancing, since 2001, in the NFL alone? Just how uninformed are you, exactly? What are you talking about? That would be the ultimate proof for them. It would make them a ton of money, and destroy trans athletes in sports, just like they want ... if they could actually win against high end women athletes after a year of HRT, that is. I didn't watch it either. What does Ben's admission in an interview have to do with needing to watch the movie? I've never said anything about it, that would require actually watching it. Ironic. Did I say "you said"? No. Examples of there being an actual issue. Someone who has gone through at least a year of HRT isn't the same as a man who hasn't, so provide some examples of what we need to worry about.
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  14300.  @gnubbiersh647   You need a source for people getting caught doing things they were trying to hide? Like say getting caught paying "legal fees"? Or the over 250 suspensions for performance enhancing, since 2001, in the NFL alone? What are you talking about? That would be the ultimate proof for them. It would make them a ton of money, and destroy trans athletes in sports, just like they want ... if they could actually win against high end women athletes after a year of HRT, that is. I didn't watch it either. What does Ben's admission in an interview have to do with needing to watch the movie? I've never said anything about it, that would require actually watching it. Ironic. Did I say "you said"? No. Examples of there being an actual issue. Someone who has gone through at least a year of HRT isn't the same as someone who hasn't, so provide some examples of what we need to worry about.
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  14301.  @gnubbiersh647   You need a source for people getting caught doing things they were trying to hide? Like say getting caught paying "legal fees"? Or the over 250 suspensions for performance enhancing, since 2001, in the NFL alone? What are you talking about? That would be the ultimate proof for them. It would make them a ton of money, and end trans athletes in sports, just like they want ... if they could actually win against high end women athletes after a year of HRT, that is. I didn't watch it either. What does Ben's admission in an interview have to do with needing to watch the movie? I've never said anything about it, that would require actually watching it. Ironic. Did I say "you said"? No. Examples of there being an actual issue. Someone who has gone through at least a year of HRT isn't the same as someone who hasn't, so provide some examples of what we need to worry about.
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  14302.  @gnubbiersh647  YouTube is being annoying. Not sure what word the algorithm is having a problem with. 1/2: You need a source for people getting caught doing things they were trying to hide? Like say getting caught paying "legal fees"? Or the over 250 suspensions for performance enhancing, since 2001, in the NFL alone? What are you talking about? That would be the ultimate proof for them. It would make them a ton of money, and finish trans athletes in sports, just like they want ... if they could actually win against high end women athletes after a year of HRT, that is. I didn't watch it. What does Ben's admission outside the movie have to do with needing to watch the movie? I've never said anything about it, that would require actually watching it. But do keep whining. Ironic. Did I say "you said"? No.
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  14303.  @gnubbiersh647  YouTube is forcing me to break my reply apart. You need a source for people getting caught doing things they were trying to hide? Like say getting caught paying "legal fees"? Or the over 250 suspensions for performance enhancing, since 2001, in the NFL alone?
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  14304.  @gnubbiersh647  What are you talking about? That would be the ultimate proof for them. It would make them a ton of money, and finish trans athletes in sports, just like they want ... if they could actually win against high end women athletes after a year of HRT, that is. I didn't watch it. What does Ben's admission outside the movie have to do with needing to watch the movie? I've never said anything about it, that would require actually watching it. But do keep whining.
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  14305.  @gnubbiersh647  Ironic. Did I say "you said"? No. Examples of there being an actual issue. Someone who has gone through at least a year of HRT isn't the same as someone who hasn't, so provide some examples of what we need to worry about. Would that be the same Ted Cruz who doesn't understand that there isn't much difference between "little boys" and "little girls"? A complete maroon, who doesn't know that the differences occur with puberty, and that there would actually be no real problem with having prepubescent boys and girls compete against each other. Oh my, a video of 3 girls getting hurt, playing sports. Such a thing has never happened before, in the entire history of women's sports! The horror!
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  14306.  @gnubbiersh647  Ironic. Did I say "you said"? No.
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  14307.  @gnubbiersh647  Examples of there being an actual issue. Someone who has gone through at least a year of HRT isn't the same as someone who hasn't, so provide some examples of what we need to worry about.
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  14308.  @gnubbiersh647  Would that be the same Ted Cruz who doesn't understand that there isn't much difference between "little boys" and "little girls"? A complete maroon, who doesn't know that the differences occur with puberty, and that there would actually be no real problem with having prepubescent boys and girls compete against each other. Oh my, a video of 3 girls getting hurt, playing sports. Such a thing has never happened before, in the entire history of women's sports! The horror!
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  14309.  @gnubbiersh647  Would that be the same Ted Cruz who doesn't understand that there isn't much difference between "little boys" and "little girls"? A complete maroon, who doesn't know that the differences occur with puberty, and that there would actually be no real problem with having prepubescent boys and girls compete against each other.
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  14310.  @gnubbiersh647  Would that be the same Ted Cruz who doesn't understand that there isn't much difference between "little boys" and "little girls"? A complete dingus, who doesn't know that the differences occur with puberty, and that there would actually be no real problem with having prepubescent boys and girls compete against each other.
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  14311.  @gnubbiersh647  Oh my, a video of 3 girls getting hurt, playing sports. Such a thing has never happened before, in the entire history of women's sports! The horror!
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  14312.  @gnubbiersh647  You address the other stuff I wrote.
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  14313.  @gnubbiersh647  What? Are your reading comprehension problems surfacing again?
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  14314.  @gnubbiersh647  Go tell YouTube to be normal. It kept hiding my reply, until I broke it up. I did address what you said, point by point.
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  14315.  @gnubbiersh647  What part? You dishonestly pretending that no anti-trans people are arguing that trans women are doing it just to win? Idiotic politicians have even argued that kids' coaches will start encouraging boys to transition, just to win.
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  14316.  @underworld7148  If an old man with arthritis can't dodge an oncoming truck, due to his preconditions, and gets plastered all over the street, he still died from getting hit by a truck, dumb dumb.
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  14317.  @Wiffernubbin  That's nice. And their leader still became a Likud PM. Who were the tens of thousands of fghtrs they were promising the actual Grmn Nzs they tried to ally with? The Irgun, who you ignored?
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  14318. The party pandered to the racists, then religious extremists, then the greedy, then anti-science nuts, then Tea Party loons, then MAGA loons ... it's now just a party of lunatics. They have to keep pandering to far right extremists and lunatics, because it's the only way to differentiate themselves from corporate Dems.
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  14319. ​ @stevereed8786  Only one guy trying to keep the divide alive, so he can run on immigration, and ordering all his beta cuck followers not to work on a solution.
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  14320. Ummm, no I've never said that. No knowledge, or not enough knowledge to force a belief = no belief.
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  14321.  chris Barnett  The virus was under control? Way to prove you're a complete and utter moron. The US has one of the most pathetic testing rates in the world, and has never gotten ahead of the virus.
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  14322.  @ynotttt  She does? Should be easy to provide multiple examples then.
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  14323.  @tymcfadden8496  That helps with blocking things they might try, but it doesn't help with passing anything. They, likewise, can block anything they want, and Gaetz's faction wants to block the budget.
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  14324. ​ @Ghastlyteaparty  How is owning all the land, and everything on it, or in it, not owning the means of production? And you literally just said, "produced what they were required", to describe what the peasants had to do. The monarch owned the "required" part, not the peasant. The monarch could increase the "required" part whenever they wanted. And a monarch could evict the peasant, if they didn't pay what the monarch demanded, and assign some other worker to work their property for them.
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  14325. ​ @kpcook305  Private ownership over the means of production. The workers are left with barely enough to live on, while the owner gets all the surplus, from which they personally profit to fund their lavish lifestyle. A hierarchy of power, with the workers on the bottom. Etc. A large privately owned company is even modeled the same way. It has an owner (monarch), who owns all the company's property and everything it produces. The company can be inherited. The owner has their upper management (nobles) and lower management (sheriffs, rent/tax collectors, etc.), who all benefit from the surplus goods produced by the workers. The actual workers get paid as little as possible (whether they're paid in money or goods is irrelevant). An absolute monarchy goes even further, like the more exploitative businesses that ran their own company towns. So, they also owned, and made profits from, the property the workers lived on, and made profits from the shops the workers shopped at. The main difference is that most businesses have an authority above them, which wouldn't be the case in an anarcho environment. The company owners could then claim ownership of whatever they wanted, and use their profits to fund private armies to enforce those claims, and enforce whatever rules (laws) they want for their private property.
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  14326. ​ @Ghastlyteaparty  ​I think you are very much underestimating just how organized they were. Maybe look into things like the Domesday Book, pipe rolls, close rolls, patent rolls, Inquisitions post mortem, etc. Like the owner of a large private company, a monarch did delegate. They had their upper management (nobles) who, in turn, had their own lower management (sheriffs, tax collectors, game wardens, etc.). The monarch kept very very close track of who was running their lands for them, the upper management. Each level of the hierarchy only had to keep track of the level just below them, so the monarch didn't have to keep track of the peasantry. Each level would keep track of the level below, and it would be the lowest level of local Lord, or their henchmen, who would know all the peasants under their charge. The nobles basically leased the land, from the monarch, for X amount per year. They, in turn, assigned the lower management to extract that amount from the peasantry, plus whatever profits they wanted for themselves. Serfs were not living some lovely communal life, with all kinds of time off. They were basically indentured servants, tied to the land, and each had their own individual annual debts to pay. The ownership hierarchy made profits from the labor of the masses. They made profits off of sales by the much smaller merchant class in their lands. They made profits off of people traveling through their lands (tolls). Seeing as they were also the justice system, they also made profits from fining people. The ownership hierarchy had their hands in everything, and the working masses owned nothing.
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  14327. ​​ @Ghastlyteaparty  Literally told you where you can look, primary sources, but go ahead and ignore it.
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  14328. @nish Nope.
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  14329. @nish Nope. India dowry deaths per year: 2020 6,966 2019 7,141 2018 7,167 2017 7,466 2016 7,621 2015 7,634 2014 8,455 2013 8,083 2012 8,233 2011 8,618 2010 8,391 2005 6,787 Women Peace and Security Index: Saudi 102/170 India 148/170 UNICEF India: "Estimates suggest that each year, at least 1.5 million girls under 18 get married in India, which makes it home to the largest number of child brides in the world - accounting for a third of the global total." United Nations: "India accounts for 45.8 million of the world's 142.6 million "missing females" over the past 50 years, a report by the United Nations said on Tuesday, noting that the country along with China form the majority of such women globally."
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  14330. C'mon Jimmy. They're private companies and their servers are their private property. It's not censorship, if my newspaper and magazine store doesn't stock the NY Post. It's my f*cking store, and I'll stock what I want. Likewise, they have every right to pick and choose what they allow on their private property. "Censorship" is when the authorities do it. Let me on your show, or you're censoring me. Lol
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  14331. They are people claiming to being The-ists (strong Atheists), yet you refuse to believe there is such a person? Oh well.
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  14332. And? Did he convince them to support having a guaranteed to fail M4A vote? Because that's been your purity test for who is an ally, for weeks. You now seem to have broadened that to outright anti-M4A far right libertarian Boogaloo Bois, who completely disagree on the economics front.
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  14333.  @whyamimrpink78  COVID measures didn't violate rights. There's no right to spread sickness and death. Businesses succeeded for decades, with poor treatment of workers, the environment, and customers. If there are limited employment options, people will do shit they don't want to do. If there is little competition, people will buy from a company they don't necessarily like. The MAGA crowd literally supported overthrowing the democratic process, to install an unelected dictator.
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  14334. YouTube has absoluyely nothing to do with first amendment rights, unless the government is interfering. You clearly have no clue what the first amendment says. Update: Russia isn't communist anymore. It hasn't been for a long time. There's nothing "red" about it, except their flag. They're now another borderline fascist country ... exactly what leftists should be against. Dore does not support M4A. He peddled Tulsi over Bernie, for months. Then, he flipped and starting slandering progressives that have done more for M4A in a few years than he has in his entire lifetime, solely because they didn't jump onboard some pointless performance art vote. Then, after making out like a disagreement over that single pointless secondary tactic was enough to slander other progressives as "fakes", "frauds", "sellouts", etc. ... making out like that one disagreement was enough to write them off as no longer allies ... he flipped again, and peddled some "extreme free market" nutbars, that want to start a civil war, and don't agree on much of anything, including not agreeing with M4A, as potential allies. He slandered AOC and Bernie some more, claiming they had abandoned M4A, at the exact time they were on the ground campaigning for Nina Turner, promoting M4A, and trying to add another M4A advocate to congress ... one that Dore publicly abandoned, he abandoned adding another M4A yes vote to congress. Adding enough yes votes to congress is actually the very thing that moves you closer to being able to pass the bill. Getting enough yes votes is the only possible way to pass a bill. Plus, he promotes the third party route that hasn't won the most popular third party a single seat in congress in its near 50 year existence. Better on foreign issues? Another reminder that he promoted Tulsi, who has been saying she's a "hawk" on the war on terrorism, at least since 2016. Pretty much every US intervention, since 9/11, has used the war on terrorism as grounds. He, and Mate, blathered for what seems like forever over an irrelevant report that had absolutely nothing to do with anyone's decision to bomb Syria. It was a no fault investigation, it didn't start until after the US, and others, had already bombed Syria, and the final report didn't come out until almost a year after the fact. Why weren't they constantly attacking, by name, the president who actually did the bombing, Trump? Actually, I don't recall Jimmy complaining about Trump dropping more bombs than Obama, for 4 years. Weird. Jimmy also whined about Biden's withdrawal from Afghanistan, along with all the other right wing media, crying about how a war ended instead of praising the fact that it had ended. The thing about a grifter is that they claim to be selling you one thing, when they're actually selling you another. Dore sells himself as being for M4A, but the directions he actually tells people to go won't get anyone M4A in the next century, and possibly even head you in the opposite direction (promoting letting Republicans win, who want to go in the completely opposite direction than M4A). He claims to be anti-war, but hasn't much attacked the biggest warmonger in the last 4 years, supports a self described "hawk", and whines when a war ends. Now, he's claiming he's pro vax, but keeps peddling covid and vaccine information. There are, at least, two videos by others describing his dishonesty. Plus, he was just dishonest in two more covid videos. He's actively trying to kill people for money, now. He has also claimed to be for free speech, but he censors his own guests, he goes on white nationalist tv just to agree with right wing framing about poor president Trump being banned, he doesn't point out that there's no such thing as free speech rights on someone else's private property and that, if you actually want free speech rights, you should push for public ownership.
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  14335. Pretty sure the statue needed a base, before it was erected. Kind of a package deal.
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  14336. Sunni and Shia aren't ethnicities, they're denominations, like Catholic and Protestant. Iran has worked with a number of Sunnis, including arming Kurds, who are Sunnis, to fight ISIS. Iran just doesn't like extremist Sunnis that want to destroy them. Who does?
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  14337. Right wing dictators are fine. Sure, they're dictators ... but they're capitalist dictators! Perfectly okay to not only praise some things they do, but also okay to arm them and do business with them.
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  14338.  @jennyanydots2389  That's when the fat in your brain can no longer register ls.
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  14339. He could personally pay those 1k employees $100k a year, and still get $100m bonus.
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  14340.  @TomFranklinX  Try looking up "Crowder Confronts". He has ambushed and harassed someone at their workplace, and refused to leave when the person's employer asked them to. He has gone on Rogan, making out like he's some kind of pro debater that the left is afraid to debate, all while dodging debates himself. He has had multiple people on his show with under a million subs. The debate still would have been on the H3 channel, with the same number of H3 subs and viewers. All the excuses to run away were pure bullshit.
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  14341. ​ @stefansollberger5658  Israel is objectively the aggressor by every relevant measure, dumb dumb. They're the colonizers. Colonizers are never not the aggressors.
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  14342. ​ @DC-js3ro  Trump has gushed over Israel, even more than Biden. Recognized Jerusalem as their capital. Recognized their illegal annexation of the Golan Heights. His "peace deal" totally ignored Palestinians, and simply wants to normalize the unending colonization and ethnic cleansing, with Arab countries. He has said he wants to have a pledge of allegiance to Israel to get in the country. He has said he wants to reinstate and expand his Muslim ban. Republicans are talking about trying to deport Palestine supporters who weren't born in the US, like Ilhan. Republicans want to let Russia do to Ukraine what Israel is doing to Palestine. The only people, in congress, speaking out against what's happening, are Democrats. They're having a tough enough time already, getting people to listen. A Republican president and congress won't even give them the time of day. They make laws allowing people to run over protesters, and call protesters "terrorists". Plus, there's all the other domestic policies they would screw up. Those are the only truly viable options. Even if some third party presidential candidate magically won, there's so much support for Israel in congress that they could send as much aid to Israel as they want, and override any presidential veto.
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  14343.  @joekopsick1540  Oh geezus. Are you really so dumb, you think it's all or nothing? 100% free or 0% free?
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  14344.  @joekopsick1540  Libertarianism has been done, before, dumb dumb. It didn't benefit most people. Only the rich got to go to school, unless the area had some kind of charity school. People needed a sponsor to get healthcare. Kids were working and climbing inside heavy machinery. Companies didn't care what they did to the environment. Companies used union busters and didn't give a crap about their employees. Poor old people had nothing to fall back on. Etc. Etc. Etc. Government regulations came about exactly because right libertarianism sucked ass. Ancap has been done, as well. It devolves into feudalism.
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  14345.  @elconquistador5469  Uh huh. "In the past, corporate profit growth accounted for maybe a third of inflation. But a report from the Kansas City Fed found that nearly 60% of inflation in 2021 was because of corporate profits."
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  14346.  @generationofswine-ge5rw  Yeah, Republicans are whining about egg prices, meanwhile the largest supplier had a 700% profit increase, and literally lost a court case over their price gauging.
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  14347.  @robinsss  Rofl, you could have just stuck that quote into Google.
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  14348.  @elconquistador5469  What are you blathering about? The inflation rate is back below the long term average. If you're expecting prices to actually go down, then you're a complete and utter moron. That only happens during a major recession or depression. Is that what Trumpty Dumpty is going to provide?
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  14349.  @DUDEBroHey  No what's not, dumb dumb?
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  14350.  @DUDEBroHey  This? "US Inflation Rate is at 3.14%, compared to 3.24% last month and 7.11% last year. This is lower than the long term average of 3.28%."
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  14351. ​ @josephversleys  I highly doubt that a story about two male penguins, or whatever, describes any sex acts, dimwit.
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  14352. ​ @maxxwellbeing9449  You are incoherent. You say they cross the line, then you say they're fine as long as they don't cross the line ... but you already admitted they do cross the line. Anyone non-religious, or even a different religion (conservative Jew or Muslims), or even denomination (conservative Mormons or Catholics), than the people leading a push for a Puritan theocracy, and supports them, is objectively stupid. Once you help them achieve their goal, you're also screwed.
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  14353. Why would the average non-Atheist majority be Wiki-ing Atheism, especially if they didn't already know there were multiple definitions to learn? They're just as likely to be Wiki-ing quilt making, or something.
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  14354.  @X2LR8  US History 101: Protesting, and even rioting, against extra taxes that specifically funded the red coats (police/military) = anti-authoritarian. Fighting against democracy to keep an unelected ruler in power (King George Trumpty Dumpty) = authoritarian. The only people who incited protests against police, were the police themselves, by killing people.
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  14355.  @-Thunder  Oh geezus.
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  14356.  @TomTomdog  Out in public is exactly where you don't need anyone's consent to film them. It happens every day. Some people are filmed every minute they're out in public.
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  14357.  @bobso453  https://m.youtube.com/watch?v=O8UzmLsXGRU
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  14358.  Yer Ma  But Obamacare is just a band aid. If he could have pulled off universal healthcare, and caught the US up with the rest of the developed world, maybe. FDR gave US workers protections, like wage floors and time ceilings, that still exist today. He gave the elderly social security, that still exists today. He passed Glass-Steagell, the repeal of which many think led to the great recession. He had an absolutely massive infrastructure program, for the time. The creation of the UN. And more. Sure, he wasn't perfect, but what he accomplished during his presidency was extraordinary. Obama is a great orator, but even there he's ranked below JFK and FDR (with his weekly fireside chats). JFK was a great speaker, but he didn't accomplish nearly as much as FDR. He did push to put man on the moon, though (how much of benefit to society that was, maybe some scientific advancements, but it was quite the feat). He would have been the one signing the Civil Rights Act, if he hadn't been shot. He dealt with the Cuban missile crisis, which could have turned into a global disaster. Whether Obama is better than JFK might depend on how much you value putting a man on the moon, and how much credit you give JFK for the Civil Rights Act. Obama probably could have accomplished a lot more, but his, and the DNC's, biggest failure was not filling Ted Kennedy's Senate seat with another Democrat.
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  14359.  @lgroots8691  He's zero in the billboard charts, just like Billy Joel. 😆
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  14360.  @lgroots8691  🤣 Facts don't care about your feelings, my dude.
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  14361.  @lgroots8691  🤪 You didn't know what you were talking about, the first time, and still don't know what you're talking about.
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  14362.  @lgroots8691  No clue what you're talking about. Can't find him at #1 on any Billboard charts. You don't seem to have a clue what you're talking about, either.
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  14363.  @CrudeBeach  *"slandering" Reading comprehension problems, dumb dumb?
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  14364.  @amandamcgovern5744  Yeah, sure, just words slandering her as a traitor, or just a funny "joke" meme depicting killing her, right?
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  14365. You get that Gaetz has to first have looming legal troubles, for someone to extort him to make the legal troubles go away, right?
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  14366.  @b.t.1632  You're the one that sounds crazy.
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  14367. ​ @matthewjames2565  Who do you think she was talking about, when she was talking about prominent establishment members mobilizing against her, when things looked too close for their liking?
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  14368. The Christian end of days scenario has them taking the mount and building a new temple, first. Then the second coming and Armageddon happens. Ironically, Israel is the first nation destroyed, in their fairy tale ending. Israel's Christian "supporters" are actually trying to hurry it to its destruction.
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  14369.  @Christiangjf  *"pure blooded" Weird how they benefit the far right more than the left.
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  14370.  @kc8605  It is accurate, for Ontario anyway. Vaccination or suspension.
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  14371.  chairmanxijinpooh8392  It has survived a few postings. :)
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  14372. The FBI aren't uniformed cops, and do go undercover sometimes. Why would they want their names and faces plastered everywhere, so that every criminal in the area knows them to see them?
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  14373. ​ @GigiDuruDuru  Over 75% of homicides are with firearms. Less regulated red states tend to have higher firearm morality and homicide rates. Neighbor Canada has a 3x lower homicide rate. France and Germany have 6x lower homicide rates. Australia has a 12x lower homicide rate. Japan has 24x lower homicide rate. Republicans are costing lives.
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  14374.  @GigiDuruDuru  Rofl. You maroons might as well argue that since drinking and driving laws don't stop all accidents, there might as well not be drinking and driving laws. All firearms start out legal, dingus. Where do you think the crmnls are getting theirs from? They don't grow them on trees, or pull them out of their a holes. They aren't importing them (the US is the exporter, to crmnls in both Canada and Mexico). Winnipeg (Canada's highest rate major city) has a 5.04 homicide rate, lower than the entire US average, and almost 14x lower than St Louis's 69.4 homicide rate (which is almost 3x the Chicago rate). That you wouldn't want to try and lower the rate by 14x, or even 3x, is disgusting. Top 10 firearm morality rates ... Mississippi 32.61 Louisiana 28.40 New Mexico 27.30 Wyoming 26.74 Alabama 26.04 Montana 25.31 Alaska 24.76 Arkansas 23.05 Missouri 22.92 Tennessee 22.53 Top 10 homicide rates ... Mississippi 23.7 Louisiana 21.3 Alabama 15.9 New Mexico 15.3 South Carolina 13.4 Missouri 12.4 Illinois 12.3 Maryland 12.2 Tennessee 12.2 Arkansas 11.7
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  14375.  @GigiDuruDuru  Don't give me evidence you're a maroon, and I won't call you one. Duhhhh, since helmets don't stop every single construction injury, might as well not have helmets, duhhhh.
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  14376.  @GigiDuruDuru  I literally just gave the top 10 state homicide rates, dingus. You're lying.
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  14377.  @GigiDuruDuru  Prior to about 25 weeks, a fetus is about as alive as someone who is 🧠💀. It doesn't even have the parts needed for consciousness or feeling pain. If one is no longer truly "alive", then the other is not yet truly "alive". All the "late term" abrtns are for medical reasons. Why would you want to punish people with medical issues?
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  14378.  @GigiDuruDuru  How is it a "punishment"? We already don't let citizens trade in all kinds of dangerous things. You want to sell Fallout style mini-nuke launchers, and ammo, in Walmart?
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  14379.  @GigiDuruDuru  Still not yet truly "alive". Do you want to criminalize 🔌 pulling on the no longer truly "alive"?
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  14380.  @GigiDuruDuru  Where do you think crmnls get their firearms, dingus? All firearms start out legal. You're the ones supplying them. Firearms fanatics, and manufacturers, should be locked up as accomplices. It wasn't a "punishment" to ban lawn darts. It was a safety measure ... After only a handful of children were unalived.
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  14381.  @GigiDuruDuru  Why do you think I drop vowels in multiple words, and say Maroon, like Bugs Bunny, dingus? YouTube isn't out to get just you. Get a grip on reality.
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  14382.  @GigiDuruDuru   Again ... the evidence, making my words just statements of fact, came from you. I can't even say w€@p0n. I also keep saying "firearm", because I can't say the g word. Why "see how that works"? Because, there are so many firearm fanatics, that are accessories to providing firearms to crmnls, who care more about their toys than lives, in red states? Blue state laws are clearly working better than red state laws.
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  14383.  @GigiDuruDuru  Again ... the evidence, making my words simply statements of fact, came from your posts. I can't even say A W, like you just did. Why "see how that works"? Because, there are too many fanatics, that are accessories to arm ing crmnls, and care more about their toys than lives, in red states? Blue state laws are clearly working better than red state laws.
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  14384.  @GigiDuruDuru  Again ... the evidence, making my words simply statements of fact, came from your posts. I can't even say A W, like you just did. Why "see how that works"? Because, there are too many firearm lovers, that are accessories to arm/ing crmnls, and care more about having their toys than saving lives, in red states? Whatever blue states are doing seems to be working better than what red states are doing.
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  14385.  @GigiDuruDuru  Again ... my words are simply statements of fact, based on your posts. I can't even say A W, like that. Why "see how that works"? Because, there are too many firearm lovers, that are acc€$$0ri€$ to arm ... ing crmnls, and care more about having their toys than saving lives, in red states? Whatever blue states are doing seems to be working better than what red states are doing.
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  14386.  @GigiDuruDuru  Again ... my words are simply statements of fact, based on your posts. I can't even say A W, like that.
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  14387.  @GigiDuruDuru  So, since banning alcohol sales to minors doesn't stop 100% of underage drinking, there shouldn't be a law against it?
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  14388.  @GigiDuruDuru  There was an AW ban, dingus. There still is in multiple states, with much lower firearm morality and homicide rates than red states.
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  14389.  @GigiDuruDuru  Nope. Should bring back the federal, dingus.
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  14390.  @GigiDuruDuru  And yet, minors still get their hands on those too. So, ditch the law, according to your "logic".
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  14391.  @GigiDuruDuru  Rofl. You literally have to ignore comparisons to all other developed countries, and ignore the state comparisons, so why lie? You don't care whether it lowers rates, at all. Rofl. Pretty sure other countries are more worried about the massive mltry, and nks, rather than the beer bellied couch potatoes. You are sharp, like a spoon. No firearm control!!! Because ... Manure!
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  14392.  @GigiDuruDuru  YouTube gave me a full 24hr timeout. Stop whining.
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  14393. Also Bonobos.
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  14394. "Fscsm is the complete opposite of Marxian sclsm." ~ Mussolini Marx's ideal was for a stateless, non-authoritarian, direct democracy, form of socialism. The complete opposite is an ultra-nationalistic, authoritarian, anti-democratic, form of crony capitalism. Republicans have been riding the line, for decades, but in 2020 they turned from somewhat undemocratic to all out anti-democratic.
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  14395. ​ @ericw2229  Likud was founded by Irgun (bombed the King David Hotel) and Lehi (tried to ally with Nazis against Britain) terrorists. Tens of thousands of those terrorists were also merged into Israel's military (IDF) and intelligence (Mossad) agencies, making them terrorist organizations. Israelis elected leaders of those terrorists as PMs. Israelis, to this day, celebrate those terrorists as "heroes". The IDF supports colonization and ethnic cleansing. They help operate an open air WWII style fascist ghetto. They blow up the ghetto, if there's an uprising. They're as moral and professional as the Nazis.
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  14396. ​ @ericw2229  Eh? Do you have reading comprehension problems?
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  14397. Ze'ev Jabotinsky outright compared the colonialist Zionsim, which he supported, to the colonization of the Americas. They knew what they would do to the natives, all along. "Our Peace-mongers are trying to persuade us that the Arabs are either fools, whom we can deceive by masking our real aims, or that they are corrupt and can be bribed to abandon to us their claim to priority in Palestine , in return for cultural and economic advantages. I repudiate this conception of the Palestinian Arabs. Culturally they are five hundred years behind us, they have neither our endurance nor our determination; but they are just as good psychologists as we are, and their minds have been sharpened like ours by centuries of fine-spun logomachy. We may tell them whatever we like about the innocence of our aims, watering them down and sweetening them with honeyed words to make them palatable, but they know what we want, as well as we know what they do not want. They feel at least the same instinctive jealous love of Palestine, as the old Aztecs felt for ancient Mexico, and the Sioux for their rolling Prairies." Followers of Ze'ev formed the Irgun and Lehi terrorist groups. The leaders of those two terrorist groups formed Likud, and were each elected as PMs. Israelis, to this day, celebrate those terrorists as "heroes".
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  14398. Still never saw any US commentators call him out about how a VAT doesn't tax businesses. In fact, a VAT is specifically designed to not tax businesses, in order to avoid double taxation. He was either completely clueless as to how his key tax plan actually works, or completely full of shit.
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  14399. No such thing as "white culture", dumb dumb.
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  14400. ​ @James-j9s  Changed what rules?
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  14401. Should mention that Trump, and his stooges, are complaining about a Canadian tariff that only comes into effect if US dairy imports are over a certain limit, and that no US dairy imports have hit that limit. US milk isn't even at half the tariff free limit. Nobody is paying the tariffs they're complaining about. And, the US has their own limits on certain products, when a massive tariff is added.
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  14402. It doesn't even make sense. Wouldn't whoever wins be the one their god wanted to win, or can their all powerful god lose?
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  14403.  @TheAtemiles  Can they debate about how someone could be so stupid as to think soccer is unamerican, simply because there aren't enough Americans good enough to play at high levels?
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  14404. So ... Let Trump win, him support IL harder, him let Rvssia do to Ukraine what IL is doing to Palestine, him possibly fill 2 more SCOTUS spots, and all the other horrible domestic policies. There's no presidential quick fix, here. There's enough support in congress to override any presidential veto. It's going to take public pressure, and Republicans pass laws to legalize driving over protesters, and calls to categorize protesters (BLM) as terrorists.
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  14405. Nobody learned anything from the first Iraq war, when a PR firm made up a story ... to sell intervention to congress ... about Iraqis dumping babies out of incubators, and taking the incubators. The star witness, claiming to be a nurse who was at the scene, turned out to be the daughter of the Kuwait ambassador to the US. There ended up being no evidence that actually ever happened. Nor did they learn from the second Iraq war, and the WMD story.
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  14406.  @Honkin_Chonker  Garbage disposals were banned in NYC for awhile, so they're rare there, dumb dumb.
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  14407.  @silencedogood5766  87915 50-64 year olds. https://www.statista.com/statistics/1191568/reported-deaths-from-covid-by-age-us/
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  14408.  @silencedogood5766  If the US had responded as well as Vietnam, S Korea, New Zealand, or Australia, their death rates would translate to under 12k US deaths total.
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  14409. Well, he has definitely broken the stereotype, that Asians are good at math. My business's output VAT - my business's input VAT = my business pays jack shit in VAT. "It is not a charge on businesses." https://ec.europa.eu/taxation_customs/business/vat/what-is-vat_en
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  14410.  @jamescooke7243  He's an established psychologist, who completely bullshitted the public about a law he had actually been living and working under, at the provincial level, for years. An established psychologist who lied to the public about his grifting daughter's all meat diet getting him off drugs ... not long before having to be put in a coma, to get him off drugs. An established psychologist, running his own grift about rules for life, while not following the rules himself. He's a joke.
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  14411.  @SnakeWasRight  Apple seeds contain cyanide. Apples contain "poison". So, you'd agree that traditional masculinity is indeed toxic?
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  14412.  @SnakeWasRight  It is traditional masculinity which has promoted that men shouldn't show certain emotions. Again, you seem to be calling that "toxic". You're disagreeing with Peterson, while apparently not grasping why people are mocking him. You're so close to getting it.
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  14413.  @JohnBender1313  Traditional masculinity had men suppressing emotions. Is that toxic, or not? Peterson fans can't seem to make up their minds. If not, quit whining.
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  14414.  @JohnBender1313  What a load of bullshit. There has been a large problem with men not seeking physical or mental health services, regularly and promptly, exactly because they were conditioned to suppress that they might feel weak, in some way. You're rewriting history.
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  14415.  @mina319  You dimwits don't seem to grasp that it's directed at a specific individual, who promotes traditional masculinity, which has included expecting men to suppress certain emotions. Is it toxic, or not? Make up your minds.
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  14416.  @mina319  "Masculinity isn't toxic" Why do men tend to seek mental and physical healthcare less than women? Traditional masculinity conditioned men to avoid looking "weak", by suppressing sharing certain emotions, and ignoring aches and pains. Either that's toxic, Peterson is wrong, and is deserving of mockery, or it's not, and you should just suck up the mocking. Take your pick.
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  14417.  @DaVizzle_Bro  Yeah, not like there are numerous papers, written about the stigma surrounding men and mental health.
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  14418.  @mina319  Traditional masculinity has conditioned men to suppress certain emotions, and not seek help. It's all well documented. It's the very thing Peterson is apparently crying about. What's the cause?
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  14419.  @goshdang2114  What is the cause of the very thing Peterson is apparently crying about? What is the cause of men resorting to suicide, drink, or drugs, rather than seek mental healthcare?
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  14420.  @goshdang2114  What the ...? Slavery, and all kinds of shitty stuff, deserving of zero respect, lasted thousands of years. That's a dumb reason to show something respect. It's largely social, because women tend to have less money than men, and yet still seek help more. And that "social" aspect is traditional standards of masculinity. It's all well and good if you want to redefine masculinity, but then you're basically admitting the previous definition was bad. But, then Peterson is telling modern men that women would be happier at home, having babies, filling their heads with the same old misogynistic bullshit that's not going to fly with most modern women. Telling them workplace sexual harassment is basically the woman's fault, for wearing makeup and high heels ... victim blaming. Etc. Giving them this shit view about women, and then basically blaming women for not picking them. Or, blaming the pill for women picking less masculine men. What's a less masculine man, if blubbering in interviews is masculine? He's incoherent.
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  14421.  @DaVizzle_Bro  "American men are subjected to a culture where the standards of masculinity are literally killing them. One of the factors that contributes to the underuse of seeking professional help is masculinity norms. Masculine norms are the social rules and expected behavior associated with men and manhood within a given culture (Milner et al., 2018)."
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  14422.  @mina319  Rofl. He promotes traditional masculinity, ffs. Does traditional masculinity include conditioning men to suppress their emotions, or not? Plenty of evidence it does.
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  14423.  @goshdang2114  Yes, they're traditional. As far back as the Civil War, there were American doctors writing about those suffering "nostalgia" (PTSD), claiming it affected only those of weak minds, and that public ridicule was the cure. During WWI, many men suffering "shell shock" (PTSD) were tossed back on the front lines within days. They aren't only hurting men now. Those norms have always hurt men. Suicide spiked during the Great Depression, when many men had a hard time providing for their families, or lost everything they had. With society changing, and women becoming more independent, there are now more ways men can lose everything, or never get what they actually want. They need help adapting to the modern world, help evolving with the times, not "advice" from some nimrod stuck in the 1950s, who thinks the changes in the 60s were awful.
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  14424.  @MrLooktotheeast  Ironic.
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  14425.  @mina319  Zero dodge. Men not dealing with certain emotions, not dealing with physical and mental health issues in a timely fashion, is fairly well documented. That's how men were conditioned. They were taught that's what it means to be a man, to be masculine. Either that's toxic, or it's not. Pick one.
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  14426.  @martthesling  He actually killed someone in public, ffs.
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  14427.  @martthesling  And? It means your analogy sucks ass. There was a dead body, someone yelling that he killed them, and him with a gun, when they started chasing him. That's more like there being an unconscious woman lying there with her clothes ripped off, someone else yelling she had been raped by a guy, and that guy running around with his dick still out. Don't kill someone in the streets, and people won't chase you down, thinking you're a murderer.
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  14428. What do you think of the Schengen Area?
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  14429. "The major problem—one of the major problems, for there are several—one of the many major problems with governing people is that of whom you get to do it; or rather of who manages to get people to let them do it to them. To summarize: it is a well-known fact that those people who most want to rule people are, ipso facto, those least suited to do it. To summarize the summary: anyone who is capable of getting themselves made President should on no account be allowed to do the job." ~ Douglas Adams
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  14430. Trump did build a wall around the White House. So ...
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  14431. "She copied Biden's plan", "she's going to my philosophy", "she's a Marxist" ... What?
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  14432. Anti-Nazi didn't equate to anti-German, dumb dumb. Israel is objectively the aggressor, by every relevant measure... Modern history: 100 years ago, in 1923, Ze'ev Jabotinsky fully acknowledged that Zionism is colonialism, and that, based on the entirety of history, the natives would fight it until the bitter end. He just didn't care what would happen to them, and promoted doing it anyway. Colonizers are never not the aggressors. On top of the colonialist nature of Zionism, the Zionists also formed terrorist organizations, like the Irgun and Lehi. They bombed many Palestinian markets and other public places, murdering many civilians, including children, even including Palestinian Jews (who opposed Zionism). Israel merged those terrorists into the new nation's military and intelligence agencies. Israelis elected Menachem Begin, leader of the Irgun, child murderer, Jew murderer, and bomber of the King David Hotel, as PM. Israelis, to this day, celebrate those terrorists as "heroes". Zionists literally taught their neighbours that terrorism is a valid path to independence and statehood, and that terrorists are to be celebrated. In 1945, it is well documented that Zionists owned just 5% of the land and were a majority nowhere. Israel was formed by actually going against the majority population. It's foundation is completely undemocratic. Then, becoming a majority, in "their" new nation, by ethnic cleansing the actual majority, and then claiming to be democratic, is utter nonsense. Law: Israel is considered an occupier by the International Court, the UN GA, and the UN SC. Occupiers are also never not the aggressors. Those occupied actually have a right to resist occupation. On the flip side, it is illegal for the occupier to settle occupied lands, and illegal to use collective punishment. Israel is a rogue nation, that doesn't abide by international law. What it has been doing, and is doing now, is illegal. Current events: This year, alone, prior to Oct 7 ... Israel held over 1200 Palestinian hostages without charges ... over 200 Palestinians had been killed by the IDF and settlers ... over 1000 Palestinians had been displaced by Israel's neverending colonization of the West Bank ... and, Israel continued to operate an open air WWII style fascist ghetto, in Gaza. Even ignoring modern history and law, in no reality did Hamas "start" anything.
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  14433.  @michaelarmijo4112  She helped add a few more progressive yes votes to congress, which is what actually moves you closer to being able to pass a progressive bill. She was just trying again, with Nina Turner. That, alone, is doing something. Wait ... do you think going the third party route, which hasn't won the most popular third party a single seat in congress in its near 50 year existence ... that puts you on the sidelines, with zero seats, zero votes, zero bills, zero amendments, zero committee time, zero floor time, etc. ... counts as doing something? Rofl!
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  14434.  @michaelarmijo4112  You didn't, in fact, ask anything, dimwit. Questions have question marks at the end of them. You're the one who needs to research how the party speaker candidate is picked. Even the entire progressive caucus isn't enough votes to pick a different party speaker candidate, which is picked by simple majority of the Dem caucus. No, I'm talking to a complete and utter moron. The Hill's Rising had to do a retraction, when they claimed AOC voted for it. Their correction said she voted no. When AOC criticized some other members of congress for voting for it, they could have simply said "same to you", if she had voted for it, but they didn't ... indicating she hadn't. AOC's corporate Dem primary opponent, ran attack ads against her for voting against it. There's zero evidence she voted for it. Bernie has never hid the fact that he has always caucused with the Democrats. Bernie has never hid that he's a harm reductionist. He always said he'd support whoever won the Democratic party primary. If you expected him to do otherwise, then you were never listening to what he was saying, and are a complete and utter moron. Especially when the opponent was the incompetent fascist, Trump, why would you be upset that he encouraged voting against Trump ... unless you're a Trump supporter, of course?
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  14435.  @michaelarmijo4112  Not one example ... like calling to overthrow the democratic process, convincing the majority of Republican lawmakers to try and overthrow the democratic process, and convincing tens of millions of cultists to believe the lies that led to hundreds of them trying to violently overthrow the democratic process? He wanted to install himself as an unelected dictator, ffs. Just how stupid are you? Are you waiting for a resurrected Kennedy in a bush somewhere? Rofl. How did Bernie know what was a lie? The FBI (which has been run by Republicans much longer than Democrats, over the last 40 years) was investigating Trump. Republican Mueller ended up indicting 19 Russians and 3 Russian companies. They presented 200 pages of information sharing (collusion) that didn't amount to criminal conspiracy. They only didn't indict Jr and Kushner for criminal conspiracy because it said it would be hard to prove they "willfully" broke the law, not because they didn't break the law.
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  14436.  @MrDeanmfitz  Is that how it works? Any Republicans that use roads, public schools, Medicaid, Medicare, etc., don't actually believe in a free market?
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  14437.  @MrDeanmfitz  Yeah, infrastructure is largely publicly owned and operated ... the opposite of privately owned and operated ... and shouldn't be used by true free market capitalists, or else they aren't true free market capitalists.
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  14438.  @MrDeanmfitz  And my thought is that, if you apply your "logic" (that someone not living in a system they want should still act as if that system exists) to everyone's positions, then everyone espousing to be in favor of free market capitalism, who isn't living off grid somewhere, is also a hypocrite.
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  14439. The first bunch were all born British subjects.
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  14440.  @wukongwest9093  Oh, Manchin and Sinema would have magically listened to Yang, and vote to get rid of it?
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  14441.  @wukongwest9093  Riiiight.
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  14442. Israelis elected Likud. What's your point, that it's okay to kill civilians, because of who they elected? That works both ways.
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  14443. He's been bringing in the most money of all Democrats. So, how is a less idealistic Democrat, with less money, going to beat Trump?
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  14444.  @decimustv4257  Even with billionaires and super PACs, Biden has raised about half what Bernie has raised. Using a pure money metric for odds of winning, Bernie should easily beat Biden, and Biden should have an even harder time beating Trump.
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  14445. Too many people don't seem to grasp how an immune system works, or what being "immune" means. It's not like a force field, and the virus bounces off of you. You actually have to get the virus, for your immune system to fight it off, and you can still transmit it to others, before your immune system does that.
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  14446. Florida's case numbers are rising, dimwit. They're hitting over 10k a day again. You must be smoking some good Florida crack.
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  14447. Rofl. She wouldn't be able to do anything she said. There is so much bipartisan support for Isrl in congress that they can pass whatever they want and override any presidential vetoes. The DoJ doesn't have to pursue cases dictated by the president.
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  14448.  Benjamin David Lurie  Grateful that "cops like this one" shoot people eating burgers?
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  14449.  @shogreene9215  It's math. That's the way it works. It's fine if you have no shame about helping Trump. Just own it.
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  14450.  @shogreene9215  So, let Trump both let Israel do what it's doing to Palestine and let Russia do to Ukraine what Israel is doing to Palestine. Plus, all of his horrid domestic policies, including saying he wants to reinstate and expand his Muslim ban. There's no quick Presidential election fix to Israel. There's so much support for them in congress, that congress could easily pass whatever aid they want, and overrule any Presidential vetoes. Republicans are the least receptive to public pressure, especially from opponents. They instead make it legal to run protesters over. Sleep tight.
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  14451.  @shogreene9215  And Trump wouldn't stop them, plus would let Rvssia do to Ukraine what IL is doing to Pal. Plus, all the horrid Trump/Rep domestic policies. And, with the amount of IL support in congress, not even magically electing West (RFK is a Znist, so you're incoherent, mentioning him), can stop them passing whatever aid they want, and overriding any presidential veto.
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  14452.  @shogreene9215  Lol, ironic statement, since the most popular third party hasn't won a single seat in its 50 year existence. Plus, you're just dishonest, including RFK Jr as an option, when he's a rabid IL supporter.
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  14453.  @shogreene9215  Ironic, considering the most popular third party hasn't won a single seat, in its 50 year existence.
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  14454.  @shogreene9215  Already plenty of delusional people.
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  14455.  @johnqpublic2718  There are bills to spread the nuclear decision amongst more people. There are bills to make it policy to never nuke first. Congress can set limits on presidential powers. Limiting a single power isn't a coup. No "explanation" can make that fit the definition of a "coup".
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  14456.  @johnqpublic2718  Do you have reading comprehension problems? I pretty clearly made the argument that that doesn't constitute a "coup" attempt. Congress can change the constitution, ffs. They can totally strip a president of all kinds of powers, if enough agree. Do you just not know how the government works? There have been bills about limiting presidential nuclear options. For example ... https://www.congress.gov/bill/116th-congress/house-bill/669
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  14457.  @johnqpublic2718  They assured her there were measures in place, and they wouldn't follow a rogue president. If they didn't do exactly as he asked, would that be a "coup"? No.
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  14458. ​ @captainwonton  Palestinians are reacting like pretty much every colonized people ever. Zionism, however, is based on a fairytale claim on that specific land.
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  14459. Canada doesn't use them for federal elections, dumb dumb.
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  14460.  @sagresnaw  Lol, are you one of our 14% nutbar Canadian Trump supporters?
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  14461. You're lying.
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  14462. ​ @stretch2success  Look again. Israel is objectively the aggressor by every relevant measure (modern history, law, and current events) ... Modern history: With the Balfour declaration, Zionsim converted from something like immigration to colonization. 100 years ago, in 1923, Ze'ev Jabotinsky fully acknowledged that Zionism is colonialism, and that, based on the entirety of history, the native Palestinians would fight it until the bitter end. He just didn't care what would happen to them, and promoted doing it anyway. Colonizers are never not the aggressors, when it comes to the native population. On top of the colonialist nature of Zionism, the Zionists also formed terrorist organizations, like the Irgun and Lehi. They bombed many Palestinian markets and other public places, murdering many civilians, including children, even including Palestinian Jews (who opposed colonialist Zionism). Israel merged those terrorists into the new nation's military and intelligence agencies. Israelis elected Menachem Begin, leader of the Irgun, child murderer, Jew murderer, and bomber of the King David Hotel, as PM. Israelis, to this day, celebrate those Irgun terrorists as "heroes". Zionists literally taught their neighbours that terrorism is a valid path to independence and statehood, and that terrorists are to be celebrated. In 1945, it is well documented that Zionists owned just 5% of the land and were a majority in zero districts. Israel was formed by going against the will of the majority population. Its foundation is completely undemocratic. Even then, Jews were still a minority, in "their" half. The only possible way to actually become a Jewish ethno-state, would be to ethnically cleanse away the actual majority. And, that's exactly what happened. Israel has never allowed those people to return. Law: Israel is considered an occupier by the International Court, the UN GA, and the UN SC. Occupiers are also never not the aggressors. Those occupied actually have a right to resist occupation. On the flip side, it is illegal for the occupier to settle occupied lands, and illegal to use collective punishment. Israel is a rogue nation, that doesn't abide by international law. What it has been doing, and is doing now, is illegal. Current events: This year, alone, prior to Oct 7 ... Israel held over 1200 Palestinian hostages without charges ... over 200 Palestinians had been killed by the IDF and settlers ... over 1000 Palestinians had been displaced by Israel's neverending colonization of the West Bank ... and, Israel continued to operate an open air WWII style fascist ghetto. Even ignoring modern history and law, in no reality did Hamas "start" anything.
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  14463. ​ @pauldh62  How is colonialism a "just claim"?
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  14464. ​ @alexandreparent9472  How can you not tell who is the colonizer and who is the colonized, who is the occupier and who is the occupied?
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  14465. ​ @dixonpinfold2582  You dimwits don't grasp analogies.
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  14466. Strong Atheism = Athe-ism "misinterpreting it to something no person is" Now you're just fucking lying. You just said no person is.
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  14467. It doesn't take "balls" to compare hospitalization rates per total population, to death rates per total confirmed cases. It takes pure stupidity, or dishonesty.
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  14468.  @egobrain6826  If he knows full well that the hospitalization rates are based on total population ... because he 100% totally read the article, and he 100% isn't a lying grifter, or a moron ... then the number he would be comparing is the 800k deaths in a 330m total population, which is a population mortality rate of 0.24%. There's nothing incompatible with a 0.24% population mortality rate a 0.9% population hospitalization rate. It means about a quarter of those hospitalized die. The hospitalization rate for those with covid has been estimated up to 5%. Nothing incompatible with that and the current US case fatality rate of 1.5%, or the covid infection fatality rate, which has been estimated at about 1% all along. The infection fatality rate would suggest that 800k deaths means that there have actually been about 80m infected Americans (many of those missed are probably because the US testing rate - tests per confirmed case - has been pathetically low). A 0.9% hospitalization rate for the total population, is about 3m hospitalizations, which is a 3.75% hospitalization rate based on total estimated infected, and a 5.63% hospitalization rate based on confirmed cases. The 1% infection fatality rate is close to a quarter of the 3.75% infection hospitalization rate. The 1.5% case fatality rate is close to a quarter of the 5.63% case hospitalization rate. All the numbers are quite compatible. If anything, Dore's Gallup numbers help confirm all the others are fairly accurate. He's just stupid, or dishonest, as are you.
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  14469.  @egobrain6826  No. If the hospitalizations rates, you're going to go dig up "death rates" to compare to, are based on total population, then the only honest comparison is the overall population mortality rate. They very clearly started with the Gallup article. To compare infection fatality rates to population hospitalization rates would be equally stupid, or dishonest. Ahh, no, the infection fatality rate is about 1%, for developed countries. If you want to compare them to countries with a life expectancy of 55, then that's also dishonest, or stupid.
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  14470.  @egobrain6826  No. He was obviously starting with the hospitalization rates in a newer Gallup article, then went searching for the covid "death rate", and somehow couldn't find any from the past year and a half. If you're starting with hospitalization rates of the total population, then the comparable "death rate" is the overall population mortality rate. "October 30, 2020 -- A new study conducted by researchers at Imperial College London found the COVID-19 infection fatality ratio is about 1.15% of infected people in high-income nations and 0.23% in low-income nations." "The disparity between high and low-income nations is due largely to facts that high-income nations tend to have larger number of elderly in their populations whereas low-income nations’ population tend to skew youngers." Averaging developed countries with countries that have a life expectancies of 55, is nonsensical.
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  14471. Likud was founded by Irgun and Lehi colonialist terrorists. You stand with Nazis.
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  14472. ​ @JohnBrinkman-v3h  Rofl. Are you one of those ignoramuses who thinks the most racist states/colonies, for centuries, magically became the least racist states, rather than swapping parties? 😂
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  14473. Bullshit. Many of his viewers/commenters seem to be right wingers that enjoy listening to him bash even the most progressive Democrats.
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  14474.  @Manageode  "Many" =/= "average".
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  14475.  @Manageode  I, literally, just provided a link with dozens of them commenting that they like Jimmy, and hundreds of likes indicating there are hundreds more.
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  14476.  @Manageode  *has (not "is") Shove your strawmen.
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  14477.  @Manageode  This took all of 2 min to find on his last video ... Nick Savage Exactly! The "squad" are a bunch of show boat Twitter dishrags. Snd Bernie just cares about one thing....his bank account. Jimmy speaks for me, and I'm a Trumper Bobby Alan @Nick Savage same here, I’d vote for Trump a 3rd time if I could. But Jimmy speaks 100% for me.
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  14478.  @gunz300  The point is he's not moving the Overton window by constantly trashing those closest to his own position. He's just bringing in Trump fascists that enjoy listening to him spend most of his time trashing progressives and Democrats.
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  14479. Mate's Syrian "scandal" article could have been written by anyone from anywhere in the world, with Wikipedia and a penchant for leaving out bits they don't like.
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  14480. At the federal level ... Pelosi introduced the M4A bill in the house, last session. It was sent to committees, and they sat on it the whole session. It has been reintroduced, this session, and they are sitting on it, again.
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  14481.  @CARBONHAWK1  Having to wait until you're 16, having to go through a beginner license period, having to have insurance, wear seatbelts, follow speed limits, not drive on no car zones like sidewalks, etc., isn't anti-car.
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  14482.  @CARBONHAWK1  Did you forget the part where multiple forms of safety measures doesn't equate to being anti the thing in question?
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  14483. @11Broomstick A truck full of cow shit has done more damage to the government than someone with a gun. "Workers" support all the gun violence, do they?
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  14484.  @Evirthewarrior  If it was the establishment that wanted AOC and Bernie campaigning to try and get Nina Turner (who Dore abandoned) elected, then maybe the establishment isn't so bad. Pretty sure the establishment was supporting Nina's opponent though, which puts AOC and Bernie opposed to the establishment.
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  14485.  @josephpeeler5434  If the federal government is involving itself in the economy, to some degree, then that's a degree of central planning. Is there a specific percentage of involvement that makes it fascism? Fascists "central planned" to make rich people richer. They "central planned" to destroy unions. They "central planned" to be leaders in privatization. Do you think the direction of wealth flow matters, to make it fascism?
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  14486. Hold on! Only the first creation gets credit, So, an Egyptian creation story, showing the predicted a starting event, is evidence for Nu?
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  14487. Exactly. It's the Zionism that was based on a fairy tale "right to the land". The natives are just resisting colonialism, as all natives have, throughout history.
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  14488. Or they, and the entire progressive caucus, got the $15 minimum wage to stay in the house bill. https://www.newsweek.com/progressives-hold-biden-account-15-minimum-wage-he-suggests-it-dealt-later-1568050
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  14489. ​ @archaicsage4803  Name one.
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  14490.  @Hoobyj  A VAT doesn't actually tax businesses. Since it won't truly tax Amazon, and since Amazon's share of US consumer spending is 2%, handing US consumers $3t will only make Amazon an extra $60b a year. That would, in turn, make Bezos something like $6b extra a year. He could buy a new billion dollar yacht every year, pay $100m in VAT, and still be in the plus $5.9b from Yang's VAT/UBI scheme. Walmart's share of US consumer spending is 2.8%. That'd make them an extra $80+b a year. That'd make the Waltons extra billions a year more than they'd pay into a VAT. Etc. The companies could invest those extra tens of billions a year into automating faster, and leaving you trying to live on $12k a year even sooner. If the plan doesn't make corporations pay in, you'll be shooting your own dumbass self in the foot.
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  14491. ​ @TheRedStateBlue Israel is objectively the aggressor by every relevant measure ... Modern history: 100 years ago, in 1923, Ze'ev Jabotinsky fully acknowledged that Zionism is colonialism, and that, based on the entirety of history, the natives would fight it until the bitter end. He just didn't care what would happen to them, and promoted doing it anyway. Colonizers are never not the aggressors. On top of the colonialist nature of Zionism, the Zionists also formed terrorist organizations, like the Irgun and Lehi. They bombed many Palestinian markets and other public places, murdering many civilians, including children, even including Palestinian Jews (who opposed Zionism). Israel merged those terrorists into the new nation's military and intelligence agencies. Israelis elected Menachem Begin, leader of the Irgun, child murderer, Jew murderer, and bomber of the King David Hotel, as PM. Israelis, to this day, celebrate those terrorists as "heroes". Zionists literally taught their neighbours that terrorism is a valid path to independence and statehood, and that terrorists are to be celebrated. In 1945, it is well documented that Zionists owned just 5% of the land and were a majority nowhere. Israel was formed by actually going against the majority population. It's foundation is completely undemocratic. Then, becoming a majority, in "your" new nation, by ethnic cleansing the actual majority, and then claiming to be democratic, is utter nonsense. Law: Israel is considered an occupier by the International Court, the UN GA, and the UN SC. Occupiers are also never not the aggressors. Those occupied actually have a right to resist occupation. On the flip side, it is illegal for the occupier to settle occupied lands, and illegal to use collective punishment. Israel is a rogue nation, that doesn't abide by international law. What it has been doing, and is doing now, is illegal. Current events: This year, alone, prior to Oct 7 ... Israel held over 1200 Palestinian hostages without charges ... over 200 Palestinians had been killed by the IDF and settlers ... over 1000 Palestinians had been displaced by Israel's neverending colonization of the West Bank ... and, Israel continued to operate an open air WWII style fascist ghetto. Even ignoring modern history and law, in no reality did Hamas "start" anything.
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  14492. And if Pelosi just lets progressives paralyze the house, and uses it to blame them for no new covid relief, no new unemployment extensions, no new vaccine funding, etc., during a pandemic?
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  14493.  @289cobra9  Learn math, dumb dumb.
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  14494. She was already dumb, not squashing Saagar's hot takes at every turn, or pointing out he was a Trump ass kisser at his other gig.
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  14495. Might be working from home, after baby.
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  14496. People can't fight for seperate issues separately? How to run things economically will be a debate for a long time to come. Even if you got the US to a more global centrist position, there'd still be a debate whether to move a little more left or move a little more right, just like there is in current centrist countries. A number of social issues, however, shouldn't even be a debate anymore. Is there some reason that racism, sexism, bigotry, and the like, need any further debate?
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  14497. You don't want a third party, unless Republicans also have a major split. That's just a recipe for decades, or more, of Republican rule. Conservatives, in Canada, shouldn't win anywhere outside of 2 provinces. But, they do, with only 34-40% of the vote, due to Liberal and NDP (or BQ in Quebec) vote splitting. It would be even worse, in the US, because Republicans get 43-48% of the vote.
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  14498. ​@MrGriff305 The American "culture" is absorbing Dutch colonies, absorbing Spanish colonies, having other immigrants speaking a wide variety of languages, and having Native Americans who speak a variety of languages. It is a very mixed bag of cultures. Italian restaurants don't come from Essex. Cajun doesn't originate in Cornwall. Why do you have to take away other people's cultures to have your own culture?
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  14499. Israel and Russia are the colonizers. Shouldn't you be pro-Russia?
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  14500.  TrackinDaMeta  Palestinians have Canaanite DNA, dimwit. They're Arab and Muslim the same way indigenous peoples of Central America are now Hispanic and Catholic.
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  14501. I don't think you're getting just how stupid he is, David. I think he's going by how high the number is, and declaring "record breaking" because it's the highest number ever. I mean, I don't think moron grasps that almost every president has had "record breaking" high numbers, at the time of their presidency, since the stock market began. This is also a "record breaking" high year. No other year has been above 2019 AD, before this one.
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  14502. Scientists can now trick sperm into becoming embryos, without needing and egg. Sperm are living things, with the potential to become fully developed babies, all on their own. We should ban sex, and only allow for masturbating into test tubes, so we can save every single one of those potential babies. Every sperm is sacred!
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  14503. Well, the "easier" bit has had a catch. Take the power loom. It turned skilled, fairly well paid, labour, into a job that almost anyone could do, with little training, that paid peanuts. It led to riots, over 200 years ago. And, it didn't shorten the work day. They just produced more of a cheaper product.
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  14504. ​ @barbaraklein3944  Likud's bloody 100 year history ... In 1923, 100 years ago, Ze'ev Jabotinsky wrote, The Iron Wall, and a follow up, The Ethics of The Iron Wall (sooo racist towards Africans), in which he fully acknowledged that post Balfour Zionsim was colonialism, and that, based on the entirety of history, the native Palestinian population would resist being colonized until the bitter end. He directly compared it to the colonization of North America. He promoted doing it anyway, claiming Zionist colonialism was a "just" colonialism (he also thought North American colonialists were good guys, so not a great judge of morality), not caring what that meant for the native population. Ze'ev is important, because his Betar militant youth group helped found the Irgun terrorist group, along with other supporters of his, and the splinter Lehi terrorist group. The Irgun bombed numerous Palestinian markets and other public places, murdering many Palestinian civilians, including children, even including Palestinian Jews (who didn't support colonialist Zionsim). The Irgun are important, because they ended up being led by future Likud PM, Menachem Begin, who bombed the King David Hotel. The King David Hotel was bombed because the British had raided the Jewish Agency and seized numerous documents that may have shown that the terrorists were working with the JA and Haganah (JA liked to pretend that they didn't support the terrorism). The British then stored those documents at their base, in the hotel. That the Irgun terrorists responded to a JA raid, itself seems to prove the connection. That the thousands of Irgun (and Lehi) terrorists were also quickly merged into the new nation's military (IDF) and intelligence (Mossad) agencies, and are still celebrated as "heroes" by Israelis, to this day, also seems to support total collaboration between the groups. That other terrorist group mentioned, Lehi (also known as the Stern Gang), was considered even more extreme. They even tried to ally with the Nazis, against the British. Lehi ended up being led by Yitzhak Shamir, future Mossad agent, and another future Likud PM. In 1945, there was a major land and peoples survey done in Palestine. It showed that the Zionists only owned about 5% of the total land, 20% of the arable land, and owned a majority in zero districts. The partition was not only going to be forced on the native Palestinian majority, but Jews were still going to be a minority, in the part allocated to them. The only possible way to even become a "Jewish state" was going to require getting rid of the actual majority (at least enough so that there'd be a solid Jewish majority, so they could fake being democratic). This is also shown by the 1948, post Nakba, population of Israel. If there was 716,700 Jews, 156,000+ non-Jews, and approximately 700k non-Jews ethnically cleansed, that means the Jewish population, in the Zionist portion of partition, was originally over 100,000 less than the non-Jewish population. To believe that there was never any intent, by Zionists, to ethnically cleanse away the Palestinian majority would require believing that they never intended to create a "Jewish state". It's a nonsensical notion. Begin, and those terrorist groups, also opposed partition, but for the opposite reason Palestinians did. Palestinians didn't want to be colonized, at all. The terrorists wanted to colonize it all. "Moderate" Zionists were okay with colonizing half ... for now (what would happen in the future, after partition, was up to them, said Ben-Gurion). The Zionist terrorists were also involved in massacres, and assassinations, during the partition violence (colonialist war against the natives). Another notable future Likud PM, also started in the military, during the partition fighting. That was Ariel Sharon, war criminal, "Butcher of Beirut". Menachem Begin, and these other Zionist terrorists, are important because they also later founded Likud. Now, people get upset over the slogan "From the river to the sea!", but it's the second part that's most important, "Palestine will be free!". Because "Palestine" isn't defined as an ethno-state, a free Palestine can be a single state, free for all to live in, and return to, free of continuing colonization, free of occupation, free of oppression, etc. Just like a Germany free of Nazism, an Italy free of fascism, a South Africa free of apartheid, or an America free of slavery from sea to shiny sea. It doesn't necessitate purging all the Jews. It just necessitates them giving up on the idea of an ethno-state. On the other hand, because "Israel" has been defined as an ethno-state, Likud's, "between the sea and the Jordan there will only be Israeli sovereignty", has no possible good interpretation. It is a declaration of intent to completely colonize, and ethnically cleanse, all Palestine territories. Not only that, but it also claims that they have a "right" to all of the "Land of Israel" (biblical borders that don't mesh with archaeological reality), which is an open declaration of future wars, against Jordan, Syria, Lebanon, and possibly even Iraq. Likud platform ... 1977: "The Right of the Jewish People to the Land of Israel (Eretz Israel) a. The right of the Jewish people to the land of Israel is eternal and indisputable and is linked with the right to security and peace; therefore, Judea and Samaria will not be handed to any foreign administration; between the Sea and the Jordan there will only be Israeli sovereignty. b. A plan which relinquishes parts of western Eretz Israel, undermines our right to the country, unavoidably leads to the establishment of a "Palestinian State," jeopardizes the security of the Jewish population, endangers the existence of the State of Israel. and frustrates any prospect of peace." "Settlement Settlement. both urban and rural. in all parts of the Land of Israel is the focal point of the Zionist effort to redeem the country, to maintain vital security areas and serves as a reservoir of strength and inspiration for the renewal of the pioneering spirit. The Likud government will call on the younger generation in Israel and the dispersions to settle and help every group and individual in the task of inhabiting and cultivating the wasteland, while taking care not to dispossess anyone." 1999: "The Government of Israel flatly rejects the establishment of a Palestinian Arab state west of the Jordan river. The Palestinians can run their lives freely in the framework of self-rule, but not as an independent and sovereign state. Thus, for example, in matters of foreign affairs, security, immigration, and ecology, their activity shall be limited in accordance with imperatives of Israel's existence, security and national needs." "The Jewish communities in Judea, Samaria, and Gaza are the realization of Zionist values. Settlement of the land is a clear expression of the unassailable right of the Jewish people to the Land of Israel and constitutes an important asset in the defense of the vital interests of the State of Israel. The Likud will continue to strengthen and develop these communities and will prevent their uprooting." All Palestine territories are officially considered occupied, by the International Court of Justice, the UN GA, the UN SC, and even in official documents of Israel's own allies. Likud is still using the blueprint for colonizing North America, in the West Bank. Move settlements out into native territory, piss off the natives, the natives retaliate, cry about poor "innocent" colonizing settlers being the "victims" of violent "Savages!", call in the cavalry to put down the native uprising, and eventually expand the borders to include those settlements. Rinse and repeat. In Gaza, they are operating an open air WWII style fascist ghetto. Them claiming a "right to defend themselves" would be like the Nazis claiming a "right to defend themselves " from the Warsaw ghetto uprising. There's no "war". That they're the occupiers means the "war" part is long over. That partition was forced upon the Palestinian majority, against their will ... that the Zionist portion still had to be forcefully ethnically cleansed of its non-Jewish majority, against their will ... that the millions of occupied Palestinians don't have a say in the government that truly rules over them, Israel's ... means Israel is about as democratic as Nazi Germany after Hitler purged his political opponents and then held elections. Hamas is basically just a poor man's Likud, only fighting against colonialism, instead of for colonialism.
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  14505. ​ @theywouldnthavetocensormei9231  You know the Southern Republicans also voted against Civil Rights, right, dumb dumb? The most racist states in America, for centuries, didn't magically become the least racist states.
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  14506. I totally get the neutral start point. I understand. However, when the word was initially being used, it was not being used from a neutral start point, by neutral people. The common definition, by the 19th century, was still pretty much the same, which is why Huxley berated both the Theist and Atheist positions, and felt no current label fit him. It has mainly been since the 20th century that the word is being redefined.
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  14507. In George H Smith's, Atheism: The Case Against God, you can find him pushing the broad definition of Atheism, though admits the "common" and "frequent" definition is Athe-ist. You can also find him quoting Huxley, then totally contradicting the quote, while he redefines Agnosticism.
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  14508. The American right wing propaganda also teaches that Nazis were socialists (It's in the name!), so everything bad is left ... as they march headlong into fascism.
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  14509.  @andrewl4814  And? Aren't the Dore knobs who are doing nothing with a list of no voters part of the populace, and doing nothing to rally the rest of the populace against the no voters, instead preferring to continue bitching about yes voters?
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  14510. Try reading The Iron Wall, by Ze'ev Jabotinsky, 1923.
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  14511.  @CyberDandy  The only actual "revision" was from pre-mandate immigration Zionism, to post-mandate colonialist Zionism. Labor Zionists ended up embracing colonialism, and further, promoted the colonization of occupied territories.
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  14512.  @jcm028  Republicans tend to believe in a formless sexless "god", but still call it "he" or "father". But, when it comes to people, can't seem to grasp the difference between sex and gender.
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  14513.  @megadeuce-b7c  Lol, what makes antifa the fascists, exactly?
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  14514.  @megadeuce-b7c  So, the US has been a fascist country for most of its existence, with laws against false advertising, libel, slander, swearing on tv, etc.?
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  14515.  @tunasubvb  Nope.
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  14516. Also, his argument about being treated "equally" is sometimes exactly what systemic racism is. For example, NYC was stopping and frisking blacks and whites in equal numbers. That means that they were actually stopping and frisking blacks at almost double the rate of whites. The vast majority of charges were for marijuana possession, something blacks and whites do equally. That means that blacks were being charged at almost double the rate of whites, for the same crime. And, that is in a 3 strike state. So, the system was stopping and frisking, charging, and incarcerating, blacks at almost double the rate of whites, for the same crime. The system is stripping them of voter rights, at double the rate. The system might be breaking up families, destroying futures, etc., at double the rate.
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  14517. Pretty standard for student visas to limit the number of hours you can work a week. Part of what makes them different than work visas. Same in the UK and many other countries. It's nothing new. A cop was being a stickler is the big news there.
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  14518. You can label yourself whatever you like, personally, when you're alone. But, when you come out of your shell, into the world, then you'll get an outside label. Thinking/believing you know isn't knowing. Just feeling it, doesn't make it true. Knowledge must be true and justified.
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  14519.  @alexanderl9985  This is YouTube.
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  14520. Cenk was born in Turkey, not to US citizens. Ted Cruz's eligibility has been challenged in court, before. The judges did not rule that he was eligible, just by showing his citizenship. They ruled he was eligible due gaining his citizenship by birth, due to his mom. Also ... https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/List_of_denaturalized_former_citizens_of_the_United_States ... naturalized is not the same. A citizen by birth can't be denaturalized.
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  14521. ​ @DustyFieldz  A crack house is where the crack heads live and do their crack, m@r@n. It's not where the stuff is manufactured.
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  14522.  @AnonemesisRecords  Is that the same Jimmy Dore that promoted Trump (running on tossing 10m of the poorest Americans off of Medicaid expansion) as the better option than Clinton (running on adding 40m older Americans to Medicare expansion)? That promoted Tulsi (public option) over Bernie (M4A)? That slanders progressives who have increased the number of M4A yes votes in congress, actually getting you closer to ever being able to pass the bill, which a 100% guaranteed to fail performance art vote doesn't actually do? That abandoned Nina Turner ... abandoned adding another M4A yes vote to congress? He's a complete and utter moron.
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  14523.  league of draven  What's a "soul"? Where's a "soul"?
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  14524. How is archiving politicians' Trump supporting tweets a bad thing, if it's something they're proud of, and stand by?
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  14525.  Machine Algorithm Alpha  Well, she didn't say anything about going anywhere near them, did she?
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  14526.  Machine Algorithm Alpha  Just like pulling out an old video of Lindsey and showing he's a hypocrite.
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  14527.  Machine Algorithm Alpha  Tweets, Facebook posts, etc., can be deleted, is exactly what AOC was talking about. News agencies, or C-SPAN aren't keeping an archive of those.
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  14528.  Machine Algorithm Alpha  "Is anyone archiving these Trump sycophants for when they try to downplay or deny their complicity in the future? I foresee decent probability of many deleted Tweets, writings, photos in the future"
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  14529.  @siviweslara1023  Also, Rvssia was the one who bl0ckad€d Ukrn, until Yanukovych folded, and opted out of joining the EU (nothing to do with NATO, or the US). Pvtin is the one who caused the pr0t€sts, not the US.
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  14530.  @siviweslara1023  Wait ... What?! Did you justify the US's treatment of neighbors, like Cuba, above? I think both the US and Rvssia should stay out of their neighbors' business. Only being opposed to one, or the other, is hypocritical.
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  14531.  @doreencloutier1066  They also have their noses in distant countries, like the US does. Not sure what you might be thinking of.
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  14532.  @PlayStationSegaSaturn  You seriously think you can wander wherever you want on publicly owned property (police stations, fire stations, court houses, military installations, public schools, the White House, and other government property)? lol
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  14533. These butt hurt man babies, who Brie Larson hurt the feelings of, promoted the alternate "Captain Marvel", Shazam, while promoting boycotting her Captain Marvel ... which failed. Shazam 2 also had the worst ever DCEU box office. Soooo, their choice for an "anti-woke" alternative has also failed, killing his point.
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  14534. ​ @MH-bw9zt  How? Trump is even worse, re Israel, plus would support the Russian aggressors in Ukraine.
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  14535.  @IDF_R_HEROES  So, are Israeli civilians responsible for their leadership? Be careful what you justify.
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  14536. Has JFK Jr showed up yet?
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  14537.  @Snooka-rd8cx  Say what?
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  14538. @kejsipsjsmn451  Yep
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  14539.  @kejsipsjsmn451  Nope. You're wrong, dingus. Multiple studies have now shown that COVID dth rates were higher in red counties, where people were less likely to follow protocols or get vaccinated.
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  14540.  @RedPillCosby-012  The autopsy didn't find he died of an overdose, you lying twat.
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  14541.  @riheg  You're making the establishment sound not so bad, by arguing the establishment wanted her to help replace a few of them with other pro-M4A progressives.
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  14542.  @kyllam.6901  They also don't seem to have any interest in checking mail in ballots in states he won, or even states that processed their mail in ballots early. Just these stupid slow states, where Republicans didn't update the mail in process.
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  14543. Yeah, need context. Just saw her being interviewed and defending Emma Watson ... "Citing a report by Human Rights Watch claiming Israel is committing the crimes of apartheid and persecution, the artists, including Watson’s Harry Potter co-stars Miriam Margolyes and Julie Christie, continued: “We recognise the underlying power imbalance between Israel, the occupying power, and the Palestinians, the people under a system of military occupation and apartheid. “We stand against ongoing Israeli attempts to forcibly displace Palestinian families from their homes in the East Jerusalem neighbourhoods of Sheikh Jarrah, Silwan and elsewhere in the occupied Palestinian territory.”"
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  14544.  @conradveigt5995  Nope. You're lying.
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  14545. ​ @thesegreydays  Focusing on Oct 7 is like focusing on a single Native American attack on a colonialist settlement, and wanting to both sides the colonization and ethnic cleansing of North America. Sure, attacks on colonist civilians was terrible, but why did they happen? Native Americans reached a point where they wanted to push the white man back into the sea. Do you think it was simply because they were white?
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  14546.  @NessaBear90  That is clearly not Russian, in my second reply, dumb dumb.
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  14547.  @CC-xn5xi  Then how tf can you even create a home for the Zionists, "in Palestine", if there's no such thing as "Palestine"?
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  14548.  @CC-xn5xi  Where tf are these crazy Zionists talking about? "1. The expedient promotion of the settlement of Jewish agriculturists, artisans, and businessmen in Palestine." https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Basel_Program
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  14549.  @CC-xn5xi  What a crazy f*cking name for Ottoman Arabs to call their newspaper, when there's no such place and no such people. https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Falastin
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  14550. ​ @wrpatton8900  Yes
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  14551. And abolish the state taxing people to protect property and resource claims? If people want to build on that property, or use those resources, they're free to do so?
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  14552.  @Evirthewarrior  Learn some basic math. There are zero extra votes to be gained to the left of the party, should you start losing votes on the right end of the party. On the other end, there is the entire Republican party to try and draw votes from, should you start losing votes on the left end of the party. It is entirely impossible to pass a bill without Manchin. It is entirely possible to pass a bill without needing progressive votes, by moving a bill far enough right to bring on Republicans. It's magical thinking to believe a handful of progressive have some.massive power and leverage. A protest could just push a bill further right, rather than further left.
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  14553.  @N2264J  Hearings and major debate happen in committees, not on the floor. On the floor, everyone gets a little few minute speech, and then it's voted on. M4A was introduced and died in committees, where 90% of bills die, last session. Pelosi has already reintroduced M4A, and it is sitting in committees again. Committee members is who the pressure should be on to take up the bill. Also, momentum for other things happened for years, even decades, before they were ever voted on. It wasn't a failed performance art vote that created momentum. You have things backwards.
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  14554. Does he really not grasp that almost all white supremacists/nationalists include Christianity as part of their "culture"? Also, these eco-terrorists aren't trolls ... https://www.newstatesman.com/science-tech/social-media/2018/09/eco-fascism-ideology-marrying-environmentalism-and-white-supremacy
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  14555. No you wouldn't. You'd just have to be collecting full SSI disability ($771) and SNAP for 2+ ($355+), and the UBI would be zero economic benefit to you, and you can't opt out of paying into the VAT. Also, "regressive" refers to what percentage of someone's income is paid into it, not their ability to pay it. A VAT still affects people with lower incomes more than people with higher incomes. A Bezos makes $150k a minute. Paying for a $120k car and paying $12k in VAT is peanuts, a tiny fraction of a percent of his yearly earnings. For someone making $120k a year, that's their entire yearly income and their entire UBI. That's regressive. Consumption taxes are regressive, period.
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  14556.  @evananderson2297  I said SSI not SSDI. SSI isn't stackable. Bezos' rocket company is its own corporation. It can reclaim its input VAT like any other corporation, and not pay a dime in VAT. Since a VAT doesn't actually tax corporations like Amazon, and since Amazon's share of US consumer spending is 2%, they will only make an extra $60b a year. That would make Bezos an extra $6+b a year. He could buy himself a new $1b yacht, paying in $100m, every single year, and still be up $5.9b ... and that's on top of the ridiculous amounts they're already making, and hoarding.
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  14557.  @capitolphoenix4197  Not sure where I lost you. If a person gets zero economic benefit from the UBI, then it only takes spending 10¢ and paying 1¢ in VAT to start being a negative for them, not $120k.
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  14558.  @madmax041  Many countries exempt staples, including mine. Doesn't make it non regressive, it just makes it less so.
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  14559.  @madmax041  Fuck moron. I didn't say it was taken out of their income like an income tax, you stupid shit. You have severe reading comprehension problems. It is measured against income, though, to get a percentage, dumbass. $2 on a $20 movie night spend, is a higher percentage of someone who makes $20k a year's income, compared to someone who makes $200k. That's why consumption taxes are considered regressive, period. They charge the poorest and the richest the same thing. Exempting both rich and poor people's staples doesn't change that it's regressive, it just makes it less so, by not having a regressive tax on necessities, but it's still on everything else.
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  14560.  @killroy23  You get that "blue no matter who" works both ways right? That those who vote against progressives in primaries will generally vote for them in the general. That's how progressives tend to beat Republicans. Even if you managed to split every progressive vote off to a third party, that would likely just lead to Republicans winning in most places.
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  14561.  @killroy23  They literally just helped add more M4A yes votes to congress. You know you need to get enough yes votes to ever pass a bill, right? Sorry, to burst your fantasy bubble.
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  14562.  @RecMike  Bullshit. The civil rights act was preceded by years of protests. The bill had majority support. The bill was introduced late in the session and a minority filibustered until the end of session. The bill was immediately reintroduced the next session, they filibustered about 50 more days, and then the majority passed it. It didn't fail a vote. Women's suffrage was also preceded by years of protests and activism. Multiple states had already given women voting rights. The first vote was not purely for show, but to find out how everyone would vote. The parties weren't as partisan as they are now. It was brought up for a vote by the majority who supported it, not some minority of congress threatening to paralyze the house if it wasn't. It also got a majority of the vote but, being a constitutional amendment, it needed a super majority, which it didn't get. The bill was literally held back the next session, because they didn't think they had enough votes, and saw absolutely no reason to have a purely performance art vote. They thought they had enough votes the next session, but it failed by 2 votes. It passed the following session. And, in neither of those cases did the movements constantly attack and slander its biggest congressional supporters. Those examples are totally false equivalencies. Dore knobs have endless false equivalencies, bullshit strawmen, and slander. The current parties are quite partisan. You know absolutely no Republicans will vote for M4A. And, most of corporate Dems have also openly campaigned against it, and refuse to cosponsor the bill. There's no big mystery as to how everyone will vote. No chance it might pass. You've got a list of members who won't cosponsor the bills. Convert or replace them. Where were the extra 100+ viable progressive candidates Dore has laying around, that he could have run in the election that just happened? You've also got a list of committee members, who are currently sitting on the bill (Pelosi has already reintroduced the bill to congress ... she introduced it to congress last session, as well, where it died in those committees). Pressure and protest them, until they take up the bill, instead of slandering and protesting M4A's most ardent congressional supporters, people who have done more for M4A in a few years than Dore has in his entire lifetime. Do something constructive instead of destructive.
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  14563.  @killroy23  If adding yes votes, which you'd still need to do after a failed performance art vote, is doing "nothing", then "nothing" is what needs doing to ever pass a bill.
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  14564.  @RecMike  Don't really expect to convert any Dore knobs, just like I don't expect to convert any hardcore Trumpists. Both can enjoy the psychotic ramblings of their loudmouth cult leaders.
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  14565.  @killroy23  A vote needs to have a chance to pass, to force people to reveal if they're fakers, or not. It's 100+ votes short in the house alone, ffs. If there are any fakers, they could vote for it, knowing full well it wasn't going to pass. That's a stupid reason to have a vote. Pelosi introduced the bill last session, where it died in committees. She has already reintroduced the bill this session. Do something actually constructive, like pressure and march on committee members to take up the bill, instead of slandering and marching against those who have been actively helping to add more yes votes to congress. If enough morons don't vote, then you're right.
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  14566.  @killroy23  Ironic. A reactionary, peddling third parties that don't have a chance in hell of winning a single seat in congress in decades, because a handful of progressives didn't get them a performance art vote, talking about nearsightedness. The broader progressive caucus is about 10 f*cking seats away from becoming the majority of house Dems ... Hey! Let's start from scratch, with zero seats, zero bills submitted, zero amendments, and zero votes on even a single bill, and let Republicans roll things backwards for a couple decades, until we win a seat!!
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  14567. The most common path to citizenship is to be law abiding permanent resident for 5 years, first. That would pretty much up it to 25 years for most.
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  14568. That's how it's always "called", unless you want to wait until December.
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  14569. So you're not manufacturing consent for going third party, by portraying progressives who just increased the M4A yes vote count in congress, as evil doers, "fakes", "shills", "sellouts", or whatnot? You haven't manufactured consent for an idea, by misinforming people about potential risks, by slandering those who do mention potential risks, by overexaggerating support, overexaggerating benefits, etc.? You've both convinced people to be impatient, and to take a third party path that likely won't even win a seat in congress in the next 50 years (the Libertarian party turns 50 in a couple years), let alone get you M4A anytime soon. You've convinced people that progressive politicians doing their thing to increase the M4A yes vote count is considered doing nothing, but that your idea to increase the M4A yes vote count is considered doing something. You've convinced people that spreading progressive ideas, including M4A, on social media platforms a ton larger than yours doesn't count as fighting, but you spreading your ideas on your much smaller platform counts as you fighting.
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  14570.  @timberdoodle6924  At this point, we're 1-0, because you didn't post a single one. Make this 2-0. https://www.medrxiv.org/content/10.1101/2020.07.31.20166116v1
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  14571. Not samesies, dumb dumb.
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  14572. Rofl, you want black Americans pulling guns on cops? That'll go well.
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  14573. Blah, blah ... Why does nobody denounce resistance groups who attacked the Nazis? Why does nobody denounce the Native Americans for attacking the colonizing and ethnic cleansing Europeans?
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  14574. Rofl. What a moron. Anyone who watched this and thought "That's a good point", try real hard to understand you're a moron, too.
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  14575.  @DumbAssSpeakingWithMansVoice  Rofl. There's no "right" to spread sickness and death, to give up, and I'm pretty sure an 18th century rebel army didn't have a lengthy contract, where you sign your life away. That's why public school vaccine mandates haven't been found unconstitutional.
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  14576.  @DumbAssSpeakingWithMansVoice  Yes, because there's a huge TB outbreak. Totally samesies. Rofl Deadly vaccine? Oh geezus, you're a total loon.
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  14577. ​ @noyopacific  Johnson argued that not only would the extra hundreds of thousands unwanted babies per year benefit the economy, but they're actually needed, to keep SS and Medicare afloat. Moron Republicans just don't seem to grasp that the same argument should apply to immigration.
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  14578.  @avinashtyagi2  Isn't that exactly why they changed their minds? Because "long leading indicators" changed over the past few months?
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  14579.  @avinashtyagi2  Sure, except they were forecasting up to a year. Also ... "Economist Behind Popular Recession Gauge Worries She Created a ‘Monster’ Claudia Sahm thinks her eponymous rule may fail this time, meaning the US may dodge a downturn even if unemployment goes up modestly."
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  14580. And, there are A-theists who don't believe in a supreme spiritual being, but believe in ghosts (minor spiritual beings). There are confused people in all groups. I've already showed you the the skepticism was there from the start. There's an attempt to take it out, not put it in.
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  14581. ​ @mikemyers7539  MAGA maroons are currently claiming a boxer, born with a vjj, is a man. You're arguing, yourselves, that vjj products are needed in men's rooms. As well as arguing men can give birth.
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  14582. Well, as long as a Theist believes in at least one God, they get to be Theist. I would suppose that, as long as I'm Agnostic about at least one defined version of God, I get to stay overall Agnostic. Whatever specific, or general, proposition any Strong Atheist puts forward, there is no label that says "I don't believe that"...if Agnostic is relegated to a process only, or knowledge only. If it isn't, it could be used as the default no belief position for both The-ist and Athe-ist propositions.
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  14583.  utewbing  Who wants to invade Scandinavia?
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  14584.  utewbing  They aren't, dumbass. There's a formula for how much every NATO country is supposed to pay for NATO specific things, and every country has been paying what they're supposed to. National military budgets are separate from that, and your moron in chief wants everyone to be spending ridiculous amounts, like them. Refugees aren't invaders, moron. And, all those refugees were caused by that extra US national military spending outside of NATO.
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  14585. lol@the Gnostic Agnostic A-theist at the no belief position labelling: 3: belief, knowledge = Gnostic Atheist 2: belief, no knowledge = Agnostic Strong Atheist 1: no belief, no knowledge = Agnostic (no label for belief) 1: no belief, no knowledge = Agnostic Weak Atheist 2: belief, no knowledge = Agnostic Theist 3: belief, knowledge = Gnostic Theist
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  14586.  @robinsss  Say what? "Libertarian" only equates to the federal level? State and local governments can tax as much as they want and/or be as restrictive as they want? Puritans, that made PDA illegal, burned witches, etc., were "libertarians", simply because they weren't federal? Slave owners were "libertarians" right up until the federal government okayed slavery? That makes zero sense. Look up the headright system, look up William Penn handing out free land in Pennsylvania, look up the US recognizing Spanish land grants after acquiring Florida, as a few examples.
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  14587.  @robinsss  Many were also leaders and representatives of their states, cities, and towns. Those were taxes they didn't revolt over. They didn't create federal laws banning any and all taxes. How is it not representative of what they were and weren't okay with? Did you even try Googling "headright system"?
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  14588.  @murraymadness4674  He has been saying it since his first presidential run, at least. “Under Bernie’s plan, Americans will benefit from the freedom and security that comes with finally separating health insurance from employment. That freedom would not only help the American people live happier, healthier and more fulfilling lives, but it would also promote innovation and entrepreneurship in every sector of the economy,” Sanders explains on his website. 2017
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  14589.  @treeman5274  Is California controlled by progressive Democrats, or are you pretending all Democrats are samesies? If the later, then it seems like you have the uninformed opinion. I wouldn't suggest that any corporate Dems need to be replaced, if I expected them to pass M4A. If you think I've said corporate Dems don't need replacing, then you have serious reading comprehension problems. The most popular third party hasn't won a single seat in congress in its near 50 year existence. If you think the third party route is the quickest route to getting M4A, then you're clearly delusional. The 30 year old broader progressive caucus, with M4A on their platform, is about 10 seats away from becoming the majority of house Dems. The 4 year old Justice Dems have replaced about a dozen corporate Dems. AOC has been at it 2 years and helped replace a few more corporate Dems. The M4A bill has the most cosponsors it has ever had. Aaaannnd ... Dore and his knobs want to start from scratch with zero seats, zero bills submitted, zero amendments added, and zero votes on even a single bill. Such genius level political moves are hard to comprehend. Did Pelosi get AOC to use her platform and PAC to back 20 other pro-M4A progressives, did she get AOC to back Nina Turner? If so, maybe Pelosi isn't so bad. If not, then maybe making out like AOC is in her pocket is complete bullshit. Ah, so "real" progressives don't want to fund the Global Fund to fight AIDS, TB, and Malaria, that has helped save an estimated 38m lives. Got it. Didn't AOC, Omar, Khanna, and other Dems, join Rand Paul, and other Reps, in urging Dumpty to follow through with his pledge to pull out of Syria and Afghanistan? Biden finally pulled out of Afghanistan, and Dore was bitching about it.
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  14590.  @treeman5274  The house ... you know that the squad Dore knobs keep bitching about belong to ... didn't fail to pass it. The senate did. And, yes, what Dore knobs did with the result clearly shows they're pathetic useless hypocrites.
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  14591. You know the only way to ever actually pass M4A is to get enough votes in congress, right? Getting more pro-M4A candidates elected to congress, which she just helped do, is pretty much the most important thing you can do. Even if you have a failed vote, that would still be the main thing that would need doing.
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  14592.  @abelgonzalez158  Yeah, I just said that, vote or no vote, replacing corporate Dems, which she just helped do, is still the main thing that needs doing. The bill will be reintroduced in the next session, and you'll get a new list of people who won't sign onto it, during a pandemic, already. Almost 100 more people need replacing in the house alone. Finding 100 new pro-M4A candidates to run, and backing them, is more important than trying to ferret out a few fakes. All it took was one reporter's question to get Biden on the public record saying he'd veto M4A. It didn't take threatening to paralyze the house, and possibly having to go through with that.
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  14593.  @abelgonzalez158  That's what I said, threaten to paralyze the house for a vote. No, that wouldn't necessarily lose her the speakership. It would go back to the Dem caucus, where corporate Dems have the majority, and progressives have no power to block the majority, and they can keep picking her over and over and over, while letting you paralyze the house over and over and over, and then blame you for no new covid relief, no minimum wage increase, etc., to help ease people's suffering during a pandemic ... you know they, and the corporate media, would propagandize the shit out of it, making progressives look bad in many people's eyes. Dore and Kyle have even argued Pelosi would rather work with Republicans than progressives and that she's the queen of backroom deals. She could just cut a backroom deal with Republicans, in exchange for enough of them to say home, or abstain, to lower the threshold needed to win. It isn't risk free and the only possible outcomes pluses.
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  14594. Republicans: We need more kids! Kids come across the border. Republicans: No! Not those kind!
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  14595. ​ @OtherBarak  Likud's bloody 100 year history ... In 1923, 100 years ago, Ze'ev Jabotinsky wrote, The Iron Wall, and a follow up, The Ethics of The Iron Wall (sooo racist towards Africans), in which he fully acknowledged that post Balfour Zionsim was colonialism, and that, based on the entirety of history, the native Palestinian population would resist being colonized until the bitter end. He directly compared it to the colonization of North America. He promoted doing it anyway, claiming Zionist colonialism was a "just" colonialism (he also thought North American colonialists were good guys, so not a great judge of morality), not caring what that meant for the native population. Ze'ev is important, because his Betar militant youth group helped found the Irgun terrorist group, along with other supporters of his, and the splinter Lehi terrorist group. The Irgun bombed numerous Palestinian markets and other public places, murdering many Palestinian civilians, including children, even including Palestinian Jews (who didn't support colonialist Zionsim). The Irgun are important, because they ended up being led by future Likud PM, Menachem Begin, who bombed the King David Hotel. The King David Hotel was bombed because the British had raided the Jewish Agency and seized numerous documents that may have shown that the terrorists were working with the JA and Haganah (JA liked to pretend that they didn't support the terrorism). The British then stored those documents at their base, in the hotel. That the Irgun terrorists responded to a JA raid, itself seems to prove the connection. That the thousands of Irgun (and Lehi) terrorists were also quickly merged into the new nation's military (IDF) and intelligence (Mossad) agencies, and are still celebrated as "heroes" by Israelis, to this day, also seems to support total collaboration between the groups. That other terrorist group mentioned, Lehi (also known as the Stern Gang), was considered even more extreme. They even tried to ally with the Nazis, against the British. Lehi ended up being led by Yitzhak Shamir, future Mossad agent, and another future Likud PM. In 1945, there was a major land and peoples survey done in Palestine. It showed that the Zionists only owned about 5% of the total land, 20% of the arable land, and owned a majority in zero districts. The partition was not only going to be forced on the native Palestinian majority, but Jews were still going to be a minority, in the part allocated to them. The only possible way to even become a "Jewish state" was going to require getting rid of the actual majority (at least enough so that there'd be a solid Jewish majority, so they could fake being democratic). This is also shown by the 1948, post Nakba, population of Israel. If there was 716,700 Jews, 156,000+ non-Jews, and approximately 700k non-Jews ethnically cleansed, that means the Jewish population, in the Zionist portion of partition, was originally over 100,000 less than the non-Jewish population. To believe that there was never any intent, by Zionists, to ethnically cleanse away the Palestinian majority would require believing that they never intended to create a "Jewish state". It's a nonsensical notion. Begin, and those terrorist groups, also opposed partition, but for the opposite reason Palestinians did. Palestinians didn't want to be colonized, at all. The terrorists wanted to colonize it all. "Moderate" Zionists were okay with colonizing half ... for now (what would happen in the future, after partition, was up to them, said Ben-Gurion). The Zionist terrorists were also involved in massacres, and assassinations, during the partition violence (colonialist war against the natives). Another notable future Likud PM, also started in the military, during the partition fighting. That was Ariel Sharon, war criminal, "Butcher of Beirut". Menachem Begin, and these other Zionist terrorists, are important because they also later founded Likud. Now, people get upset over the slogan "From the river to the sea!", but it's the second part that's most important, "Palestine will be free!". Because "Palestine" isn't defined as an ethno-state, a free Palestine can be a single state, free for all to live in, and return to, free of continuing colonization, free of occupation, free of oppression, etc. Just like a Germany free of Nazism, an Italy free of fascism, a South Africa free of apartheid, or an America free of slavery from sea to shiny sea. It doesn't necessitate purging all the Jews. It just necessitates them giving up on the idea of an ethno-state. On the other hand, because "Israel" has been defined as an ethno-state, Likud's, "between the sea and the Jordan there will only be Israeli sovereignty", has no possible good interpretation. It is a declaration of intent to completely colonize, and ethnically cleanse, all Palestine territories. Not only that, but it also claims that they have a "right" to all of the "Land of Israel" (biblical borders that don't mesh with archaeological reality), which is an open declaration of future wars, against Jordan, Syria, Lebanon, and possibly even Iraq. Likud platform ... 1977: "The Right of the Jewish People to the Land of Israel (Eretz Israel) a. The right of the Jewish people to the land of Israel is eternal and indisputable and is linked with the right to security and peace; therefore, Judea and Samaria will not be handed to any foreign administration; between the Sea and the Jordan there will only be Israeli sovereignty. b. A plan which relinquishes parts of western Eretz Israel, undermines our right to the country, unavoidably leads to the establishment of a "Palestinian State," jeopardizes the security of the Jewish population, endangers the existence of the State of Israel. and frustrates any prospect of peace." "Settlement Settlement. both urban and rural. in all parts of the Land of Israel is the focal point of the Zionist effort to redeem the country, to maintain vital security areas and serves as a reservoir of strength and inspiration for the renewal of the pioneering spirit. The Likud government will call on the younger generation in Israel and the dispersions to settle and help every group and individual in the task of inhabiting and cultivating the wasteland, while taking care not to dispossess anyone." 1999: "The Government of Israel flatly rejects the establishment of a Palestinian Arab state west of the Jordan river. The Palestinians can run their lives freely in the framework of self-rule, but not as an independent and sovereign state. Thus, for example, in matters of foreign affairs, security, immigration, and ecology, their activity shall be limited in accordance with imperatives of Israel's existence, security and national needs." "The Jewish communities in Judea, Samaria, and Gaza are the realization of Zionist values. Settlement of the land is a clear expression of the unassailable right of the Jewish people to the Land of Israel and constitutes an important asset in the defense of the vital interests of the State of Israel. The Likud will continue to strengthen and develop these communities and will prevent their uprooting." All Palestine territories are officially considered occupied, by the International Court of Justice, the UN GA, the UN SC, and even in official documents of Israel's own allies. Likud is still using the blueprint for colonizing North America, in the West Bank. Move settlements out into native territory, piss off the natives, the natives retaliate, cry about poor "innocent" colonizing settlers being the "victims" of violent "Savages!", call in the cavalry to put down the native uprising, and eventually expand the borders to include those settlements. Rinse and repeat. In Gaza, they are operating an open air WWII style fascist ghetto. Them claiming a "right to defend themselves" would be like the Nazis claiming a "right to defend themselves " from the Warsaw ghetto uprising. There's no "war". That they're the occupiers means the "war" part is long over. That partition was forced upon the Palestinian majority, against their will ... that the Zionist portion still had to be forcefully ethnically cleansed of its non-Jewish majority, against their will ... that the millions of occupied Palestinians don't have a say in the government that truly rules over them, Israel's ... means Israel is about as democratic as Nazi Germany after Hitler purged his political opponents and then held elections.
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  14596. David, you should let Americans know that tough guy negotiator Trump lost a tariff battle to Trudeau. Some US news covered Trump imposing tariffs, but doesn't seem to be covering the backing down in the face of retaliation. https://www.ctvnews.ca/politics/canada-celebrates-u-s-abandoning-of-aluminum-tariffs-drops-plans-to-retaliate-1.5105292
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  14597.  @ynemey1243  Dore literally promoted Trump as the better option over Clinton, exactly because he was so much worse.
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  14598.  @ynemey1243  No. You're pulling crap out of your ass. What do you mean my problem? This was Dore's argument, and he absolutely did not argue Trump was better at anything, as part of it. He argued Trump was much worse than Clinton and, because he was, that was supposed to cause a massive progressive backlash. Dore vastly overestimated the benefits, claiming a Trump presidency would lead to progressives "for sure" taking the house (wrong) and senate (wrong), in 2018, and the presidency (wrong), in 2020. He vastly underestimated the risks, claiming even Republicans would join the left to vote against a Trump presidency (wrong) rather than follow him into outright fascism (wrong), and that Trump filling multiple scotus seats was as likely as the moon falling into Lake Michigan (wrong). He was wrong about it all. He lives in a delusional fantasy world.
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  14599.  @ynemey1243  Rofl, that was no strawman they said. Aside from Dore actually promoting someone he called a deranged fascist as the better option, basic math says Dore knobs prefer fascists. The most popular third party hasn't won a single seat in congress in its near 50 year existence. Dore, and his knobs, want progressives to throw away their votes. At best, you peel away enough votes that you let Republicans rule for decades to come. Almost every course of action Dore takes, or promotes, benefits the far right most.
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  14600.  @ynemey1243  He, literally, said that Trump was the better option, ffs, exactly because he was worse. You're making up bullshit that his argument had anything to do with Trump being better at some things. Dore does not admit he's wrong. He promoted the candidate that wanted to toss 10m of the poorest Americans off of Medicaid expansion as the better option. He promoted Tulsi (public option) over Bernie (M4A). He promotes going third party, never winning a seat in congress, and letting Republicans rule, for decades. He abandoned Nina Turner ... abandoned adding another M4A yes vote to congress. He slanders progressives that have done more for M4A in a few years than he has in his entire lifetime. He promoted allying with far right Boogaloos that will shoot leftists once they start their civil war. And yet he acts like he's the one true champion of healthcare. Nothing he does gets anyone closer to having healthcare, and much gets you further away. What is Biden worse at? Eating cheeseburgers?
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  14601.  @ynemey1243  He didn't make a video supporting Nina in the 6 months leading to the election, he and his wife let everyone know they had stopped donating to Nina, and he encouraged people to never vote for someone running as a Democrat ever again. How the hell does that not equate to abandoning her? Justice Democrats have replaced about a dozen corporate Dems with progressives. That increases the number of M4A yes votes in congress. AOC helped add a few more M4A yes votes to congress and helped remove a few more corporate Dems. Getting enough yes votes in congress is the only possible way to ever pass the bill. And, if you were wondering where AOC was on M4A march day, she was campaigning for Nina, promoting M4A, and trying to add another M4A yes vote to congress. The M4A marchers could have gone to Nina rallies, to also support adding another M4A yes vote to congress, but they also abandoned her. And then Dore slandered AOC, saying she and Bernie had abandoned M4A. Bernie also campaigned for Nina, trying to add another M4A yes vote to congress. It's just a fact that they've all done more for M4A in a few years than Dore has in his entire lifetime. It's just a fact that he slanders them. It's simple math, that a third party is a losing strategy, and would benefit Republican most. Let's say you got everyone currently in the progressive caucus to run for your progressive third party and they managed to win the same number of seats. That'd be 94 seats in the house and 1 (Bernie) seat in the senate. Trump would have won the presidency, with Dem and progressive votes split between Biden and Bernie in the general instead of the primary. Republicans would control the senate with Pence as the tie breaker. In the house, Republicans would hold a plurality and only need a handful of the most conservative Dems to work with them to pass whatever they wanted and completely ignore the progressive third party. Even a successful progressive third party would benefit Republicans most. It's just math. And, the actual reality is that the most popular third party hasn't won a single seat in congress in its near 50 year existence. You could be talking a century to even win one seat. It's a delusional fantasy. Progressives would gain more power by simply getting the 15 more seats the progressive caucus needs to become the majority of house Dems, than they would getting 100 seats as a third party. I don't think you know what a "strawman" is.
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  14602.  @ynemey1243  Again, he and his wife openly stated they stopped donating to her. That, in itself, is abandoning her. And you're once again making up bullshit. He said to never vote for anyone running as a Democrat. He abandoned her. Ironically, the problem may be that you're twisting what I'm actually saying in your mind into a strawman, which makes your claims of me strawmanning are actually you strawmanning. Nothing you said refutes the fact that math says progressives voting third party benefits Republicans most. Many things Dore promotes doing benefits Republicans, most ... which was the original point.
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  14603. Any anti-abortionist that isn't anti-IVF (because many of their fertilized eggs aren't used, or fail), is a hypocrite. Any theistic anti-abortionist actually worships a being that "murders" the majority of "babies", and is a hypocrite.
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  14604.  @stratocasterblue  Oh wait, are you calling the entire Democratic party, "the left"? Rofl
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  14605.  @stratocasterblue  "I voted against the Patriot Act in 2001, 2006, 2011 and 2015. I strongly oppose its reauthorization next month. I believe that in a democratic and constitutional form of government, we cannot sacrifice the civil liberties that make us a free country." - Bernie Sanders, Feb 11 2020 Who are you calling "the left"?
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  14606. @UCy-71sbJvVusj6x6icqZmlw "Ever since the Bush Admin, Patriot Act, & creation of Dept. Homeland Security, the dangerous erosion of American civil liberties has worsened. We’re melting away our Constitutional rights - all for the excuse of hating immigrants. We’re shredding what it means to be American." - AOC, May 25 2019 Who are you calling "the left"?
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  14607.  @stratocasterblue  Who are you calling "the left"?
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  14608.  @stratocasterblue  What are you blathering about? Why can't you answer a simple question? Who are you calling "the left"?
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  14609. Really? If you've never heard of terms before, you should try Googling them. And, doing it before you start arguing against them, doesn't make you look so....^That.
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  14610.  @bluecollarmusic  That should be "of" the English language, and "yourself", rather than "your self".
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  14611.  @bluecollarmusic  Were you discussing philosophy?
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  14612. Which schools still teach that the colonizers, ethnic cleansers, and occupiers, are the victims? Do you have to go back to 1850, to enroll?
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  14613.  @allprogressivesarechildgro5284  Exactly his point.
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  14614.  @nuclearcatbaby1131  Rofl, because he's pro vaccines?
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  14615. ​ @monicack523  Ironic. Israel is objectively the aggressor, by every relevant measure, dumb dumb ... Modern history: 100 years ago, in 1923, Ze'ev Jabotinsky fully acknowledged that Zionism is colonialism, and that, based on the entirety of history, the natives would fight it until the bitter end. He just didn't care what would happen to them, and promoted doing it anyway. Colonizers are never not the aggressors. On top of the colonialist nature of Zionism, the Zionists also formed terrorist organizations, like the Irgun and Lehi. They bombed many Palestinian markets and other public places, murdering many civilians, including children, even including Palestinian Jews (who opposed Zionism). Israel merged those terrorists into the new nation's military and intelligence agencies. Israelis elected Menachem Begin, leader of the Irgun, child murderer, Jew murderer, and bomber of the King David Hotel, as PM. Israelis, to this day, celebrate those terrorists as "heroes". Zionists literally taught their neighbours that terrorism is a valid path to independence and statehood, and that terrorists are to be celebrated. In 1945, it is well documented that Zionists owned just 5% of the land and were a majority nowhere. Israel was formed by actually going against the majority population. It's foundation is completely undemocratic. Then, becoming a majority, in "their" new nation, by ethnic cleansing the actual majority, and then claiming to be democratic, is utter nonsense. Law: Israel is considered an occupier by the International Court, the UN GA, and the UN SC. Occupiers are also never not the aggressors. Those occupied actually have a right to resist occupation. On the flip side, it is illegal for the occupier to settle occupied lands, and illegal to use collective punishment. Israel is a rogue nation, that doesn't abide by international law. What it has been doing, and is doing now, is illegal. Current events: This year, alone, prior to Oct 7 ... Israel held over 1200 Palestinian hostages without charges ... over 200 Palestinians had been killed by the IDF and settlers ... over 1000 Palestinians had been displaced by Israel's neverending colonization of the West Bank ... and, Israel continued to operate an open air WWII style fascist ghetto, in Gaza. Even ignoring modern history and law, in no reality did Hamas "start" anything.
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  14616. ​ @skontheroad  Fact is, Israel is objectively the aggressor by every relevant measure (modern history, law, and current events) ... Modern history: With the Balfour declaration, Zionsim converted from something like immigration to colonization. 100 years ago, in 1923, Ze'ev Jabotinsky fully acknowledged that Zionism is colonialism, and that, based on the entirety of history, the native Palestinians would fight it until the bitter end. He just didn't care what would happen to them, and promoted doing it anyway. Colonizers are never not the aggressors, when it comes to the native population. On top of the colonialist nature of Zionism, the Zionists also formed terrorist organizations, like the Irgun and Lehi. They bombed many Palestinian markets and other public places, murdering many civilians, including children, even including Palestinian Jews (who opposed colonialist Zionism). Israel merged those terrorists into the new nation's military and intelligence agencies. Israelis elected Menachem Begin, leader of the Irgun, child murderer, Jew murderer, and bomber of the King David Hotel, as PM. Israelis, to this day, celebrate those Irgun terrorists as "heroes". Zionists literally taught their neighbours that terrorism is a valid path to independence and statehood, and that terrorists are to be celebrated. In 1945, it is well documented that Zionists owned just 5% of the land and were a majority in zero districts. Israel was formed by going against the will of the majority population. Its foundation is completely undemocratic. Even then, Jews were still a minority, in "their" half. The only possible way to actually become a Jewish ethno-state, would be to ethnically cleanse away the actual majority. And, that's exactly what happened. Israel has never allowed those people to return. Law: Israel is considered an occupier by the International Court, the UN GA, and the UN SC. Occupiers are also never not the aggressors. Those occupied actually have a right to resist occupation. On the flip side, it is illegal for the occupier to settle occupied lands, and illegal to use collective punishment. Israel is a rogue nation, that doesn't abide by international law. What it has been doing, and is doing now, is illegal. Current events: This year, alone, prior to Oct 7 ... Israel held over 1200 Palestinian hostages without charges ... over 200 Palestinians had been killed by the IDF and settlers ... over 1000 Palestinians had been displaced by Israel's neverending colonization of the West Bank ... and, Israel continued to operate an open air WWII style fascist ghetto. Even ignoring modern history and law, in no reality did Hamas "start" anything.
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  14617. ​ @1984isnotamanual  Hamas is just a poor man's Likud. Likud was founded by Irgun and Lehi terrorists. Israel merged those terrorists into their military and intelligence agencies. Israelis elected those terrorists as PMs. Israelis celebrate those terrorists as "heroes", to this day. Likud's platform, "between the sea and the Jordan there will only be Israeli sovereignty", promises to completely colonize and ethnically cleanse all Palestine territories. It even promises future wars, against Jordan, Syria, and Lebanon.
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  14618. And? AOC helped add a few more M4A yes votes to congress. Enough yes votes is the only possible way of ever passing the bill, so adding yes votes moves you closer to actually getting M4A. Having a 100% guaranteed to fail performance art vote, doesn't actually get you closer. AOC and Bernie were just trying to add another M4A yes vote to congress, in Nina Turner, but Dore turned against her. He's a grifter.
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  14619.  @danumd87  Rofl. Anyone who follows Dore isn't "far left".
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  14620.  @Unfamous_Buddha  Where am I losing you? Tea party pressure also can from giant corporate donors, pushing the party further right. Are corporate Dems' corporate donors pressuring them to be more progressive? No. I'm not talking about amounts. I'm talking about what their donors are pressuring them to do. The Tea Party had become the majority of the Republican caucus by the time they had another party speaker vote. It wasn't some tiny minority taking over the party. And, again, if old school Republicans really wanted to get around the tea partiers, all they had to do was work with democrats to pass bills without needing tea party votes. I get it. You morons don't actually care that Democrats are in danger of losing the house in 2022. You'd prefer to see progressives in a minority party, and see Republicans become the majority. Learn some basic math. It is impossible to pass a bill without Manchin, because there are zero extra votes to the left of the party, if you lose his vote. On the other end, there is the entire Republican party to try and get extra votes from, if you lose a progressive vote. It is possible to pass bills without the squad by moving a bill to the right and picking up Republican votes. The squad refusing to sign bills could actually push legislation to the right. Unlike the old school Republicans, corporate Dems are willing to work with Republicans, as the likes of Manchin keeps saying. The $15 got a vote. It passed the house (M4A didn't have a chance in hell) and also got a senate vote. Wasn't just getting a vote on an important progressive policy supposed to be a big deal? Wasn't getting a list of no voters on an important progressive policy supposed to be a big deal? Apparently not. Dore knobs are pathetic useless hypocrites and have proved that ftv was a sham. Instead of going after the no voters, they just keep bitching about those who voted for it. Pelosi introduced the M4A bill last session. It died in committees, where 90% of bills die. She has already reintroduced the bill this session. It's sitting in committees. Instead of slandering and bitching about people who have done more for M4A in a few years than Dore has in his entire lifetime, why not try pressuring committee members to take up the bill?
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  14621. Morons think the founders were anti taxes, period, and leave off the "without representation". They kept all kinds of taxes, and implemented new ones.
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  14622. If you think international corporations are Marxist, then you're not very bright.
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  14623. There's really no such thing as "pro-abortion". Nobody is trying to push abortions on everyone. It's "pro-choice". On the flip side, it is "anti-abortion" and not "pro-life". They don't actually give two shits what kind of life they have, or even whether they continue to live after they leave the delivery room.
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  14624. It would appear that the older people are less knowledgeable, or are simply more inclined to support colonialism, and the terrorist groups, like the Irgun and Lehi, that are the foundation for Israel.
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  14625. You claim the guy as one of your own, then criticize and bash the shit out of him, for not thinking like you, yet claim you all think for yourselves. Tyson has no fucking fear of Theists, or likely anyone thinks of him. He probably just doesn't want to associate himself with a bunch of assholes, who are acting no better than hypocritical, self-righteous Theists. Proof is in the comments here.
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  14626.  @osmosisjones4912  What deregulations affected development or production speeds? Speeding FDA approval only affects when it can be distributed.
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  14627.  @quatreraberbawinner2628  He's either ignorant or dishonest. A VAT won't make corporations "pay their fair share".
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  14628.  @quatreraberbawinner2628  How would a wealth tax tax you and make them richer? A VAT would tax consumers and make them richer.
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  14629.  @TheGUDL716  A VAT won't actually tax giant corporations. If they, and their super rich owners, get more out of the VAT/UBI scheme than they put in, then someone else is putting in more than they get out. It's impossible to redistribute money and all get more out of it than they put in.
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  14630.  @ozzie3963  What's the big issue with making something public he admits is the truth. Better than his bullshit slander tactics.
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  14631. ​ @vivalaleta  Rofl! She's not even as popular as Nader. There's no path to 5%.
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  14632.  @vivalaleta  Oh ya, anecdotal evidence is the best!
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  14633.  @vivalaleta  I'm using her current polling, not anecdotes. She's polling lower than Nader.
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  14634. It says to be objective, not subjective.
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  14635. ​ @toomuchbacon8969  I'm sure all the gay Palestinians, getting blown up by Israel, sitting in their closets, are elated to be "liberated". How dumb are you, exactly?
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  14636. And Manson wasn't at the scene, during the murders. What's your point? The insurrectionists came prepared. It was the over a month of bullshit, peddled by Trump and cronies, that incited them.
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  14637. Based on what? So weird how these supposed Democrat master criminals didn't "magically" make more senate and house votes appear.
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  14638. Wasn't that the leading racist's reason for Brexitting?
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  14639. What's there to do, if the US was funding the research? It's the rest of the world that could sue the pants off both countries.
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  14640. ​ @henrywestbrook9773  Yeah, douchebags, like Bezos (claimed an $80k income from Amazon), Zuckerberg ($1 income from Meta), and Musk ($0 income from Tesla), whose "incomes" are almost entirely stocks and options, don't help pay for their employees' Medicare, unemployment, SSI, infrastructure that benefits them more than us, etc. They're the actual Welfare Kings.
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  14641. ​ @adammockler  You even left out that he claimed the 2016 election was rigged, and that he claimed to have won the popular vote. As president, he even set up his own election integrity commission, which quietly shut down after finding nothing.
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  14642.  @EmperorDxD  What is the US problem?
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  14643.  @EmperorDxD  Had a feeling.
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  14644.  @TimeBandit2007  A massive army made it around the Great Wall. People used boats to get around Hadrian's Wall. Israel has walled in Gaza like an open air WWII style fascist ghetto, but their wall just failed, and it wasn't the first time. Russia had a kill zone, between East and West Germany, that was fairly effective ... You want to start killing asylum seekers, for the misdemeanor of not crossing at a point of entry?
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  14645.  @JosephReviewsFilm  What's the big "crisis"? All the Republican arguments are bogus. Drugs go through points of entry. Undocumented immigrants commit crimes at half the rate of natural born citizens. They believe there's enough room for hundreds of thousands of extra unwanted babies per year, Johnson even argued they're needed to help keep SS and Medicare afloat. All their arguments are trash. They, ironically, just don't want more people of Native American ancestry coming in, to "replace" them (white people).
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  14646.  @michaelarmijo2752  Oh, do tell. Please tell me you're not a moron who thinks a relatively small completely enclosed space is anywhere close to the same thing.
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  14647. Libertarians are nuts.
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  14648. Should get one of those old infomercial vacuum attachments to cut hair in space.
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  14649.  @killroy23  How does slandering the most progressive members of congress, get you any of those things? How does casting a useless vote for a third party get you any of those things? Adding yes votes to congress, for those things, like Justice Dems and AOC have done, actually moves you closer to them ever passing.
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  14650.  @killroy23  Didn't say anyone doesn't have the right to vote however they want. Denying reality is for idiots. It's just a fact that it's a useless vote, based on a fantasy, or maybe just spite.
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  14651. I suggest you gather as many like minded individuals together as possible. Hold up together in bunker for a couple weeks, while you make your revolution plans. Give each other lots of high fives, and other physical contact, as encouragement. Call yourselves the Darwin Brigade.
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  14652.  @TheLaceWeaver  I didn't do any of that. There are Israelis still alive who did, and Israelis that are still doing that. So, I should stop supporting the natives? You think the current "two state solution" in Israel/Palestine is working better than Lebanon?! Are you demented?
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  14653.  @TheLaceWeaver  Ummm, do you know how that civil war began?
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  14654. No, he isn't. Russia has been f*cking around in former Soviet states, since 1991. Putin is on record stating he'd like to restore all those nations to Russia. Letting Putin do whatever he wants is, in no way, anti-war.
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  14655.  @stoniblue3569  Trial run, for what? You think the pandemic was planned?
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  14656.  @stoniblue3569  Nope. I'm not reading that anti-vax lion's book.
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  14657.  @chilkat_river  Alaska has the highest firearm mortality rate, and one of the highest homicide rates. https://www.cdc.gov/nchs/pressroom/sosmap/firearm_mortality/firearm.htm https://www.cdc.gov/nchs/pressroom/sosmap/homicide_mortality/homicide.htm
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  14658. Oh man...Google "root word"! You can't do that to it!
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  14659. Maybe make a bunch of statues, of him raping a woman, that you can put in front of all your churches.
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  14660. Same. The algorithm has been hiding many of my posts, the past 6 months (can only be seen if the comment section is sorted by newest). And a few times, after posting to pro-Israel channels, I haven't been able to post anything for a couple's days. Instant deleting. Some of them must have reported, or something, because they didn't like facts.
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  14661.  Jack Schitt  Harris doesn't even grasp that mutual deterrence is based on mutually assured destruction. Because he doesn't, he's the psycho in his "thought" experiment. He makes out like he can take out the first country, with no return fire, and only have to deal with other countries getting mad about it after the fact. The reality of mutual deterrence is that, as soon as you send your missiles towards them, they send their missiles towards you. Harris is the suicidal one. He also conflates "Muslim" into "Islamist" into "Jihadist", opening by saying we have to worry about all Muslims. Pakistan has nukes. They seem to grasp mutual deterrence just fine, and aren't anywhere close to being as psychotic as Harris, himself. He doesn't even seem to grasp Jihadists. Although they may influence some individuals to make suicide attacks, they're not suicidal, en mass. They have goals that require the majority to remain alive. The same goes for non-Muslim extremists, like the Tamil Tigers, who invented suicide vests. The end goal requires most of them be alive.
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  14662.  @infinitemonkey917  They aren't essentially the same end product. Horseshoe theory is superficial, and only looks at the similarities that make them both authoritarian, then declares them the same. You could also take authoritarian capitalism, fascism, and anarcho-capitalism, and only look at the similarities that make them both forms of capitalism. You could take anarcho-capitalism and anarcho-socialism and only look at the similarities that make them both anarcho. You could take anarcho-socialism and authoritarian socialism, capital C Communism, and only look at the similarities that make them both forms of socialism. Now you've actually got a box, and the points in between are different, as well. Nazis were leaders in privatization. US Libertarians would like to privatize everything. Same? https://images.app.goo.gl/WvmNfFPDK45caatdA
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  14663.  @infinitemonkey917  So, let's say Person A wants the freedom to spout hateful, racist, bigoted speech, but is opposed to "unpatriotic", anti-capitalist, anti-religious speech. And, Person B wants the freedom to criticize their nation, capitalism, and religions, but is opposed to hateful, racist, bigoted speech. Basically totally opposite goals. But, just because they both oppose some kind of speech, you want to say "Samesies!"?
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  14664.  @infinitemonkey917  What the fuck does that have to do with right and left? Religious extremists don't have different end goals, they have different gods. They both want a theocratic state. The opposites would be theist extremists and atheist extremists, like the USSR's League of Militant Atheists. To say the later's goal was a theocratic state, when they wanted the complete opposite, would be moronic. So, both anarcho-capitalists and anarcho-socialists don't want a government. Is that the same end game, even though they're complete opposites after that point?
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  14665.  @DumbAssSpeakingWithMansVoice  Yeah, and there has always been an exemption, with every mandate I've heard of. Sounds like a bullshit story.
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  14666.  @markzuckergecko621  Slavery was capitalistic, dimwit. That's not leftist. Absolute monarchies are 100% privately owned and operated nations. That's not leftist. "Fascism is the complete opposite of Marxian socialism" ~ Mussolini. That's not leftist.
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  14667.  @DumbAssSpeakingWithMansVoice  How can I be wrong about what "I''ve heard of", dimwit?
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  14668.  @markzuckergecko621  Nope. Capitalism and private property.
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  14669. Well, for one, Atheists are still only about 2% of the global population, so I'm not sure it's true that "most people" use Smith's definitions. Most people I run into still seem to consider an Agnostic as a "fence sitter", so to speak, middle position. Most modern Atheists maybe. Secondly, it is inaccurate to say a definition is inaccurate. It may have been used on the wrong people, but a definition, on its own, is not innacurate. If a label doesn't fit, don't wear it, then have to redefine it.
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  14670. It's backwards day ... decade?
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  14671.  @texajp1946  The Russian government has been peddling "white genocide" both internally and externally. But, hey, let's talk about some group of 2k Ukrainians who back a party that got all of 2% of the Ukrainian vote. The Sydney Morning Herald: The high price of 'white genocide' politics for Australia
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  14672.  @jackrasmussen4467  I'd let my guard down.
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  14673. Someone can't. It was just a joke. Believing in spirits with no religious holding for them (heaven/hell) means there must be billions of them, everywhere!
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  14674. Sounds like a Santa reindeer reject.
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  14675.  @DiannaGrable-fm8jd  Because both of those things are true, dingus. Also first Indian and first female VP.
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  14676. ​ @harryfarber6435  Alabama ruled we're all female, since life begins at fertilization. Only the X (female) chromosome expresses for the first 5-7 weeks, and the mere existence of a Y chromosome doesn't guarantee maleness (Swyer syndrome).
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  14677. That's like condemning the Warsaw ghetto uprising.
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  14678.  @tacottogetherness7604  Nobody knows how much the affordable housing would have sold, or rented, for. It was simply a plan to allocate some of the property towards affordable housing. The only prices given were for the non affordable housing.
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  14679.  @thomasjr8318  They've been going on about those grants, for a year, including Dumpty. Nobody has argued there weren't grants. Some 10% went to Wuhan to gather and analyze samples. The bulk of the research (part of the larger USAID Predict research program, which includes researchers from the Smithsonian and other US institutions and companies, which has received some $6b in research grants, who all work with on the ground scientific groups in countries all over the world, that are fully approved by the State Department first) is done inside the US. Big woop, there's a money trail, fully approved by congress (if they actually read what funding is being spent on), with full participation from other government departments, fully renewed under Trump, yada, yada, yada ... So? Is there any actual evidence of a lab leak? Who gives a crap about a money trail leading to nothing?
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  14680.  @thomasjr8318  No. He said not at the Wuhan facility. The project is paying them about 10% of the funding to gather and analyze samples. Most of the research is being done in the US, like Fauci said.
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  14681.  @thomasjr8318  Tsk, tsk. Your time stamp is literally right after Fauci's "Or, if it is ..." it is done in the US, comment. For someone who "hates" agreeing with Rand, you sure are going out of your way to agree with him. Nope. How much was being spent in Wuhan was all gone over about a year ago, when Dumpty froze funding. About 10% was being spent in Wuhan. And, yet again, who the hell cares about a money trail, if it doesn't actually lead to anything? Where is the actual evidence of a lab leak?
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  14682.  @thomasjr8318  And, I'll say again, Fauci doesn't fund things as an individual. The NIH is a US government organization. If Rand leads the charge into proving that the rest of the world might be able to sue the US and China, for damages, that will be hilarious. Bankrupt them both.
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  14683.  @thomasjr8318  Your timestamp is right after this "if", at 1:30
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  14684.  @thomasjr8318  No, dumb dumb. Do you not grasp the words "before" and "after"? David has the "if it is" at 1:30 and the Hill has it at 2:20, and is the question and answer right before the question and answer you're linking to. Are you just playing dumb, or is this real?
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  14685.  @thomasjr8318  David talks in between, and has your q&a following at 4:00.
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  14686.  @thomasjr8318  How does a qualifier, saying "if it is, it's being done in North Carolina" (referring to gain of function research) have nothing to do with what you're saying? You're claiming he said there was none, when he had just stated that qualifier seconds before. What part of Wuhan is North Carolina in? Right, they haven't yet found covid 19 in an animal, or a variant that could have become covid 19. Which means they also haven't found a natural variant that could have been turned into covid 19 in a lab. But, hey, if they do, I hope the US is sued to hell, so they can't afford all their war toys anymore. I hope they're paying reparations for the next century.
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  14687.  @thomasjr8318  Weasley, or not, he made that "earlier" (literally seconds before) qualifier. Nothing in that states RaTG13 could possibly be modified into covid 19. It could possibly be one of the many other viruses exactly because they haven't identified the exact earlier variant, exactly like I said.
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  14688.  @thomasjr8318  It appears that a bunch agree with Fauci. https://www.factcheck.org/2021/05/the-wuhan-lab-and-the-gain-of-function-disagreement/ Hey, just let me know when the rest of the world can sue the pants off of the US. It'll be hilarious if Republicans lead the charge to destroy the US economy, to own the libs.
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  14689. @Dee Bone Because a US funded lab leak has been proven? Good. When does the US start paying reparations to the rest of the world?
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  14690. @Dee Bone Well, I care about being able to sue the pants off the US. So, no evidence for those? What was your point then?
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  14691. @Dee Bone So it has been proven? When do the reparations for the rest of the world start? Bankrupt America to own the libs!!!
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  14692. @Dee Bone Rofl. Aren't you special.
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  14693.  @jimohara  You're incoherent.
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  14694.  NNA S  How about this example, then ... people used to (some still do) use the Bible to help argue against mixed race couples, and they were also denied many services, until the civil rights movement. If mixed race marriages were against your beliefs, should you be allowed to not bake them a cake, not give them a marriage license, or deny them service in some other way? Should that be turned back, or was protecting them from discrimination the right thing to do?
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  14695.  NNA S  What do you mean "conflation of scenarios"? It's the same scenario as baking a cake for a gay couple. Some moron says it's against their religious beliefs, and refuses to serve people. All kinds of racists have cited cursing Ham and his descendants as a pretence for being against mixed marriages. The KKK considers itself a Christian organization. Christian Identity definitely does, as well.
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  14696.  NNA S  The Baker makes fucking wedding cakes, moron. They were simply asked to make something they already make, only for a gay couple. They weren't asked to "depict" gay sex or anything. If you don't make penis or vagina cakes for anyone, then you don't have to depict any penis or vagina cakes for anyone who asks. Asking for something they don't make, or depict, for anyone, is stupid. But, there's nothing wrong with asking for something they already make for others. They should be served, and not discriminated against.
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  14697.  NNA S  I stopped at your first lie. He didn't even look at design ideas. He makes wedding cakes. He refused to make a wedding cake for a gay couple.
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  14698. You are correct. Ze'ev Jabotinsky, in 1923, acknowledged that Zionism is colonialism, and predicted the natives would fight said colonialism until the bitter end. But, they went ahead with their colonialism anyway. And, Palestinians have been fighting to the bitter end. So, keep providing military aid, and verbal support, to the colonialism?
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  14699. Except she hit her target.
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  14700.  Juan Mendoza  Caaptial L Libertarian isn't a spectrum, dimwit. "I am a proud Libertarian"
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  14701.  Juan Mendoza  Rofl. Those aren't capital L Libertarian, dimwit.
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  14702.  Juan Mendoza  Oh, were you confused by them capitalizing the word at the start of sentences? lol
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  14703.  Juan Mendoza  Dimwit, it is an absolute fact that capital L Libertarian isn't a spectrum. You said, "I am a proud Libertarian". If you didn't mean to capitalize, just say so. As is, you're making an ass off yourself, because it's you, not me, that doesn't seem to grasp the difference.
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  14704.  Juan Mendoza  Seriously? You actually think others, and not just you, need help learning how to capitalize? Pretty much everyone else likely graduated from public school. libertarian vs Libertarian ... https://ca.lp.org/introduction-to-the-libertarian-party/ Capitalizing the L indicates you're using "Libertarian" as a proper noun, i.e. a Libertarian party member, which is a narrow spectrum far right laissez-faire economics party.
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  14705.  Juan Mendoza  Just to recap: You're ignorant as to what an ad hominem actually is, ignorant about capitalization use, and ignorant about Cruz being a lying twit who doesn't need to be dealt with seriously, especially by comedians.
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  14706.  Juan Mendoza  This is the first time you've heard about using capitals for proper names, in awhile? Again, it's you not grasping the distinction, by repeatedly using a capital L. You think it means the same thing. It doesn't. More liberal doesn't equate to more left. It equates to less authoritarian. More fiscally conservative equates to being further right. You can't even grasp what you're citing.
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  14707.  Juan Mendoza  Rofl. Incorrectly claims I've used a strawman, and then uses a strawman. Apparently, you're also ignorant as to what a strawman is. Cruz didn't go on about homelessness. He blathered bullshit about lower taxes, which is a blatant lie. A blatant lie that you are apparently ignorant about. I didn't make any of the arguments you fantasized I did. I pointed out he's lying about taxes. Insult =/= ad hominem.
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  14708.  Juan Mendoza  Rofl. I haven't defined the left, as anything more than economics, dimwit. The irony is strong with you. What does a more liberal and free society have to do with right and left? You're arguing there's no such thing as right wing libertarianism? Isn't that arguing against your own spectrum argument?
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  14709.  Juan Mendoza  What caused the confusion was your use of a proper name. A capital C Communist is likewise a member of some Communist party, which could be very authoritarian, in a country like N Korea, and vastly different from a lowercase communist, who could be a libertarian communist, anarcho-communist, etc.
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  14710.  Juan Mendoza  Rofl. But I never said everything right of communism is far right, dimwit. Those who spout the philosophy of someone like Ayn Rand, are most definitely far right. Aside from a very basic government, justice system, and military, they want a 100% privately owned and operated economy. That's as far right as you can get. The complete opposite of a 100% publicly owned and operated economy. I've never called a centrist country, like Denmark, far right. I call them centrist. They're not capital L Libertarians, in the least. Damn you're stupid.
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  14711.  Juan Mendoza  But you don't understand the distinction. You are still using a capital L, as if it's the same thing, dumb dumb.
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  14712.  Juan Mendoza  Bernie is a self proclaimed democratic socialist. AOC is a Democratic Socialist. Do you actually grasp the difference?
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  14713. ​ @cosimodirondo972  Racist bullshit. There have been variations of the words Pelest, Philistine, Palestinian, etc., since ancient Egypt. Even in more modern history, the British parliament records, from during the mandate, have shitloads of mentions of "Palestinians", referring to the native population, not the Zionists.
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  14714.  @darkbags39  He's fine.
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  14715. Rofl. That was a long winded way of saying you're an ignoramus who didn't listen to what Sam said in the seconds after that time stamp.
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  14716.  @biokido575  You started with bullshitting that it's not happening, at all ... not a single reported case of it happening. Multiple Mississippi news outlets report 2? cases. Whether it's a good metric, or not, poison control reporting multiple cases of people calling in and saying they've taken it counts as multiple people reporting to poison control that they've taken it. Your starting point has already been proved wrong, and you've already been proved to be the dishonest one. So, where are you planting your goalpost next? You seem to have picked it up and moved it.
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  14717.  @biokido575  The Mississippi State Department of Health put out a warning against using it as a covid treatment, because people were calling in saying they'd used it as a covid treatment, ffs. There are multiple articles on it. Do you even bother Googling a few articles, to inform yourself even a little, before making a negative claim about a subject, ffs? This thread should actually be you proving your claim, to us.
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  14718.  @misfitmolly8308  No.
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  14719.  @beedee9534  What are you yammering about?
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  14720.  @beedee9534  What does whether he walks, have to do with how much more psycho Trump and Trumpists are than previous psycho Republicans?
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  14721. But, although it was the majority who originally took away the rights of black people, it was also the majority that gave them back. If your constitution or bill of rights has something bad in it, or omits something, you don't want it protected forever. Who should decide on the original constitution and rights, or amendments, if not the majority?
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  14722. ​ FreePalestineFromPalestinians  Likud's bloody 100 year history ... In 1923, 100 years ago, Ze'ev Jabotinsky wrote, The Iron Wall, and a follow up, The Ethics of The Iron Wall (sooo racist towards Africans), in which he fully acknowledged that post Balfour Zionsim was colonialism, and that, based on the entirety of history, the native Palestinian population would resist being colonized until the bitter end. He directly compared it to the colonization of North America. He promoted doing it anyway, claiming Zionist colonialism was a "just" colonialism (he also thought North American colonialists were good guys, so not a great judge of morality), not caring what that meant for the native population. Ze'ev is important, because his Betar militant youth group helped found the Irgun terrorist group, along with other supporters of his, and the splinter Lehi terrorist group. The Irgun bombed numerous Palestinian markets and other public places, murdering many Palestinian civilians, including children, even including Palestinian Jews (who didn't support colonialist Zionsim). The Irgun are important, because they ended up being led by future Likud PM, Menachem Begin, who bombed the King David Hotel. The King David Hotel was bombed because the British had raided the Jewish Agency and seized numerous documents that may have shown that the terrorists were working with the JA and Haganah (JA liked to pretend that they didn't support the terrorism). The British then stored those documents at their base, in the hotel. That the Irgun terrorists responded to a JA raid, itself seems to prove the connection. That the thousands of Irgun (and Lehi) terrorists were also quickly merged into the new nation's military (IDF) and intelligence (Mossad) agencies, and are still celebrated as "heroes" by Israelis, to this day, also seems to support total collaboration between the groups. That other terrorist group mentioned, Lehi (also known as the Stern Gang), was considered even more extreme. They even tried to ally with the Nazis, against the British. Lehi ended up being led by Yitzhak Shamir, future Mossad agent, and another future Likud PM. In 1945, there was a major land and peoples survey done in Palestine. It showed that the Zionists only owned about 5% of the total land, 20% of the arable land, and owned a majority in zero districts. The partition was not only going to be forced on the native Palestinian majority, but Jews were still going to be a minority, in the part allocated to them. The only possible way to even become a "Jewish state" was going to require getting rid of the actual majority (at least enough so that there'd be a solid Jewish majority, so they could fake being democratic). This is also shown by the 1948, post Nakba, population of Israel. If there was 716,700 Jews, 156,000+ non-Jews, and approximately 700k non-Jews ethnically cleansed, that means the Jewish population, in the Zionist portion of partition, was originally over 100,000 less than the non-Jewish population. To believe that there was never any intent, by Zionists, to ethnically cleanse away the Palestinian majority would require believing that they never intended to create a "Jewish state". It's a nonsensical notion. Begin, and those terrorist groups, also opposed partition, but for the opposite reason Palestinians did. Palestinians didn't want to be colonized, at all. The terrorists wanted to colonize it all. "Moderate" Zionists were okay with colonizing half ... for now (what would happen in the future, after partition, was up to them, said Ben-Gurion). The Zionist terrorists were also involved in massacres, and assassinations, during the partition violence (colonialist war against the natives). Another notable future Likud PM, also started in the military, during the partition fighting. That was Ariel Sharon, war criminal, "Butcher of Beirut". Menachem Begin, and these other Zionist terrorists, are important because they became involved in Israeli politics, first forming Herut. That was the party that Albert Einstein, and other prominent American Jews, opposed, having a letter printed in the NYT, in December of 1948, when Begin came to visit the US. The letter opened ... "Among the most disturbing political phenomena of our times is the emergence in the newly created state of Israel of the "Freedom Party" (Tnuat Haherut), a political party closely akin in its organization, methods, political philosophy and social appeal to the Nazi and Fascist parties. It was formed out of the membership and following of the former Irgun Zvai Leumi, a terrorist, right-wing, chauvinist organization in Palestine." Herut merged with other extremist parties, over the years, and eventually became Likud, in the 70s. Now, people get upset over the slogan "From the river to the sea!", but it's the second part that's most important, "Palestine will be free!". Because "Palestine" isn't defined as an ethno-state, a free Palestine can be a single state, free for all to live in, and return to, free of continuing colonization, free of occupation, free of oppression, etc. Just like a Germany free of Nazism, an Italy free of fascism, a South Africa free of apartheid, or an America free of slavery from sea to shiny sea. It doesn't necessitate purging all the Jews. It just necessitates them giving up on the idea of an ethno-state. On the other hand, because "Israel" has been defined as an ethno-state, Likud's, "between the sea and the Jordan there will only be Israeli sovereignty", has no possible good interpretation. It is a declaration of intent to completely colonize, and ethnically cleanse, all Palestine territories. Not only that, but it also claims that they have a "right" to all of the "Land of Israel" (biblical borders that don't mesh with archaeological reality), which is an open declaration of future wars, against Jordan, Syria, Lebanon, and possibly even Iraq. Likud platform ... 1977: "The Right of the Jewish People to the Land of Israel (Eretz Israel) a. The right of the Jewish people to the land of Israel is eternal and indisputable and is linked with the right to security and peace; therefore, Judea and Samaria will not be handed to any foreign administration; between the Sea and the Jordan there will only be Israeli sovereignty. b. A plan which relinquishes parts of western Eretz Israel, undermines our right to the country, unavoidably leads to the establishment of a "Palestinian State," jeopardizes the security of the Jewish population, endangers the existence of the State of Israel. and frustrates any prospect of peace." "Settlement Settlement. both urban and rural. in all parts of the Land of Israel is the focal point of the Zionist effort to redeem the country, to maintain vital security areas and serves as a reservoir of strength and inspiration for the renewal of the pioneering spirit. The Likud government will call on the younger generation in Israel and the dispersions to settle and help every group and individual in the task of inhabiting and cultivating the wasteland, while taking care not to dispossess anyone." 1999: "The Government of Israel flatly rejects the establishment of a Palestinian Arab state west of the Jordan river. The Palestinians can run their lives freely in the framework of self-rule, but not as an independent and sovereign state. Thus, for example, in matters of foreign affairs, security, immigration, and ecology, their activity shall be limited in accordance with imperatives of Israel's existence, security and national needs." "The Jewish communities in Judea, Samaria, and Gaza are the realization of Zionist values. Settlement of the land is a clear expression of the unassailable right of the Jewish people to the Land of Israel and constitutes an important asset in the defense of the vital interests of the State of Israel. The Likud will continue to strengthen and develop these communities and will prevent their uprooting." All Palestine territories are officially considered occupied, by the International Court of Justice, the UN GA, the UN SC, and even in official documents of Israel's own allies. Likud is still using the blueprint for colonizing North America, in the West Bank. Move settlements out into native territory, piss off the natives, the natives retaliate, cry about poor "innocent" colonizing settlers being the "victims" of violent "Savages!", call in the cavalry to put down the native uprising, and eventually expand the borders to include those settlements. Rinse and repeat. In Gaza, Israel is operating an open air WWII style fascist ghetto. Them claiming a "right to defend themselves" would be like the Nazis claiming a "right to defend themselves " from the Warsaw ghetto uprising. There's no "war". That they're the occupiers means the "war" part is long over. Those people are actually supposed to be under the occupier's protection. That partition was forced upon the Palestinian majority, against their will ... that the Zionist portion still had to be forcefully ethnically cleansed of its non-Jewish majority, against their will ... that the millions of occupied Palestinians don't have a say in the government that truly rules over them, Israel's ... means Israel is about as democratic as Nazi Germany after Hitler purged his political opponents and then held elections.
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  14723. @Kiflaam It was to pay for the French and Indian War, which was in the Americas. Colonialists didn't want to pay for troops to police or defend them. Napoleonic wars came decades later. But, my point was more about just how much the US went on to pay for policing and the military. Americans would be spending about half as much on the military, now, as they currently are, if they were spending at UK levels.
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  14724. ​ @shaft5  Who here thinks Israel should have a wall, dumb dumb?
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  14725. Many Israelis, opposed to Netanyahu, don't think he's tough enough. They actually do want Palestinians wiped out.
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  14726.  @susanaltman5134  Surely the ones attacking aid trucks weren't for peace.
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  14727.  @susanaltman5134  "On Israel's Independence Day, a rally calls for Jewish settlements in Gaza MAY 15, 2024"
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  14728.  @Mullet-ZubazPants  So, anti-war FOX is regularly reporting on Trump dropping more bombs than Obama?
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  14729. Colonial Americans were pissed at having to pay a new tax that was specifically to fund the police/military. They protested, rioted, tarred and feathered, destroyed private property, and got extra pissed when the police/military, "fearing for their lives", shot violent protesters. You're the ones on the side of King George (King Dumpty), dimwit.
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  14730.  @risknotdonot  Peru has the most covid deaths per capita on the planet, ffs.
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  14731. Knowledge is a proveable truth. No matter what you, or I, believe, it's not actual knowledge, unless it's proven truth. There's nothing subjective about it. Something is, or isn't true. Some question whether anything is truly knowable. I actually gave not thought, as to what you were personally. Me, I'm an Agnostic. A-theists want me to conform and be a Weak Explicit Agnostic A-theist Weak, borderline Apethetic, Agnostic. And, they want Tyson to conform, as well.
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  14732.  Silencedfixer  If you want it to actually be a public square, that's the only way to do it. If not, then don't, and don't whine about free speech.
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  14733. Aaron Mate ... is that the guy who claims 2 "inspectors" (one wasn't even an actual inspector, and the other never left home base because he didn't finish training), who were part of a single investigation at a single site, but who weren't involved in the last 7 months of the investigation, debunk dozens of inspectors, hundreds of accounts of Syrian chemical weapons use, hundreds of victim witnesses, dozens of healthcare worker witnesses, multiple NGO witnesses, legal human rights groups investigating on behalf of victims, and independent investigations, since 2013? The guy whose Syrian "scandal" article could have been written by anyone anywhere in the world, with Wikipedia and a penchant for leaving out the bits that don't support your narrative?
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  14734. Those are party rules. As the majority, they can ignore their own rule, and then just not start an ethics investigation. Or, they can ditch the rule, by majority vote in the Republican conference.
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  14735.  @Jonscify  You have reading comprehension problems.
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  14736. You guys know you're the biggest mainstream news media outlet in the US, and part of a giant global mainstream news media corporation, right?
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  14737. Truthfully? 😂 In the US, what Democrat policies would move the US left of Denmark (real world centrism)? In the UK? In what other Western countries? Doesn't matter what Venezuela's government called itself, Venezuela's economy was something like 75% privately owned and operated, when the economy collapsed. It collapsed because they were too dependent on one product, oil, and the price of oil dropped in 2015. Even Saudi (a 100% privately owned and operated nation) had some trouble, but they had more savings to weather through. Nationalizing one resource isn't all out socialism. Tiny Cuba has managed to survive decades of US meddling and sanctions. Having much more centrist, more evenly mixed, economies has made Nordic countries the happiest places on the planet. Capitalism has failed repeatedly, especially all out capitalism, and authoritarian capitalism (fascism, the capitalist equivalent to authoritarian attempts at socialism). Just because idiots kept going back to it, after a fail, doesn't mean it was successful. 6 million people per year are dying of starvation, alone, in capitalist countries. Multiply that by the 75 year run of the USSR and that's some 480m people. That's not even counting capitalist colonialism's genocides, mass starvations (15m in British India), wars, etc.
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  14738. The one where he okays calling his daughter a "piece of ass"?
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  14739. The lying politicians count on their followers being idiots, who won't double check..
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  14740. ​ @sergeant_salty  Hitler increased gun rights ... for those he considered German. There's the right to freedom of movement. Doesn't mean you can use whatever vehicle you want, on public roads. Also doesn't mean you can't have a gas tax. Almost every guy who murders his family and then commits suicide, is a "good guy with a gun" (legal gun owner). Every guy who has his legally owned gun stolen, putting it into the hands of criminals, is a "good guy with a gun". Every guy who strawman purchases a gun, and hands it to a criminal, is a "good guy with a gun". Most of the gals who has a baby/kid grab a gun out of her purse is a "good gal with a gun". Etc. Etc. "Good guys with guns" are responsible for almost all firearm deaths, because almost every gun starts out legal.
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  14741. ​ @sergeant_salty  Weird how other developed countries have basically solved the problem, by going the opposite way. It's too much for Republicans, is what I see. I guess they're too stupid. The top firearm mortality rate states tend to be red. The top homicide rate states tend to be red. By almost every measure, Republicans are the morons, who don't give a crap if people die.
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  14742. Part of the problem, here, is that ... even though BLM may get more support from non-black "leftists", on the ground and in congress ... BLM itself doesn't necessarily equate to a "leftist" movement. Many black voters voted Biden over Bernie. Plus, there is plenty of evidence that black Americans, on average, are charged more often, indicted more often, and given harsher sentences, for the same crimes. Poor white criminals can still benefit from white privilege. There could very well be black store owners being given harsher treatment, for the same thing his mom did, which would mean she still benefited from white privilege.
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  14743.  @seanking1775  Rofl. Right wingers make out like those who don't agree with them are literally demons.
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  14744.  @user-cg1qq2er8x  Both sides-ing colonialism is crazy, even if the natives fighting it sometimes do morally questionable things.
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  14745.  @cspdx11  I heard, from reality, that ivermectin is manufactured by the 5th largest pharma corporation in the world, and even they don't suggest using ivermectin as a treatment for covid.
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  14746. @Fritz Feuer Not being able to tell that Dore started using it to slander the most progressive members of congress, people who have done more for M4A in a few years than he has in his entire lifetime, is the problem. You know "notoriety" is a bad thing, right?
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  14747.  @carpentryfirst3048  Just so you know ... you're insane. And, no, having comorbidities doesn't equate to not dying due to covid. An arthritic old man, not being able to dodge a car hitting and killing him, didn't die from old age and arthritis.
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  14748.  @carpentryfirst3048  Being old, and having arthritis hinders your odds of dodging an incoming vehicle, dumb dumb. Having diabetes hinders your odds of overcoming covid, dumb dumb. That doesn't mean they didn't die from being hit by a car, or catching covid.
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  14749.  @carpentryfirst3048  You even got your incorrect info incorrect. https://www.health.com/condition/infectious-diseases/coronavirus/cdc-6-percent-covid-deaths
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  14750. Helps when the gang members are on the jury, when you're prosecuting the gang leader.
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  14751.  @marcelmoreau2733  Why does Ben's formless, sexless, god get to be called "he", "him", and "father", without a penis?
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  14752.  @marcelmoreau2733  The English language has the word "it". If you don't like Ben's god, how do you feel about people calling vaginaless cars and boats "she", or "her"? Or, do you think the fact that people grasp the difference between sex and gender in one instance, but not in another, is a pointless discussion across the board?
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  14753.  @marcelmoreau2733  The Jewish god is formless.
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  14754.  @marcelmoreau2733  Oh, they've already decided what they're going to call themselves. The problem, here, is you not wanting other people to separate sex and gender. That should apply to all people doing it.
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  14755.  @halocemagnum8351  A VAT doesn't target companies. A VAT is specifically designed to NOT tax businesses in order to avoid double taxation. They get their input VAT credited back to them.
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  14756.  @UltraCasualPenguin  What are you on about? I'm the one who said the previous stage gets paid back, and never mentioned a 50% vat.
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  14757.  @UltraCasualPenguin  $50 on $500 is 10%, not 50%, exactly like it says.
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  14758.  @UltraCasualPenguin  Oh geez, a typo. Yep, better go back to school. Pretty clearly intended to compare same amounts of the two taxes.
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  14759.  @realUlfricStormcloak  If you're being sentenced, then you've been found guilty, dumb dumb.
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  14760.  @realUlfricStormcloak  His lawyers' "defense" was that it wasn't an impeachable offense, not that he didn't do it, dumb dumb.
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  14761.  @realUlfricStormcloak  What does your deflection have to do with Stone, dumb dumb?
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  14762.  @StrangerHappened  Fascists were leaders in privatization, and partnered with leading induatrialists/corporations. Isn't that what the president is doing?
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  14763. Editors asking for a rewrite isn't "censorship". The Times not covering the Post's many UFO and Bigfoot stories, isn't "censorship". Me not stocking the Post in my store, isn't "censorship". Get a grip.
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  14764. That's not the argument, ffs. Lower income voters are less likely to have driver's licenses. A higher percentage of minorities are lower income, and therefore a higher percentage of blacks and Hispanics don't already have acceptable ID under strict voter ID laws. So, you're forcing them to get something they don't already have, just to vote. Poorer people can also least afford to take a day off or pay for transportation, to go get an ID, even if you make the ID itself free. It also affects a higher percentage of younger voters. It is directly classist and indirectly racist and agist.
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  14765.  @DaytimeNitemare  Less likely to own cars and need a license, dimwit. Because a higher percentage of Hispanic voters also don't have a license, dimwit.
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  14766.  @DaytimeNitemare  Because vehicles cost money. Just how stupid are you?
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  14767. Israel has hundreds of thousands of militants (reservists), valid military targets, hiding behind their own people. Also, colonialists are never the defenders. There'd be nothing to "defend" themselves from, if they weren't there doing their colonial aggression, first.
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  14768.  Anthony Perez  Not the assassins, who set things off?
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  14769.  Anthony Perez  It was irrelevant, like 9/11 was irrelevant to the US invading Afghanistan.
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  14770. They've effectively made it so that any party, with a majority in the house or over a third of the senate, can do as much insurrection as they want.
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  14771. Cruz comes from an earlier fascist Batista loving line.
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  14772. ​ @theforbiddenknowledge1897  As the majority, they can simply ignore their rules and then not start an ethics investigation. Or, they can ditch the rule by majority Republican conference vote.
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  14773. Since this video ... Jimmy has put out a video dishonestly comparing hospitalization and death rates, based on completely different math (total population hospitalization vs case fatality rate), lying that covid deaths are being "WILDLY inflated". He just put out another video downplaying covid deaths, by not counting people with comorbidities, just like Trumpists were doing in 2020. Someone else put out a video, showing how Jimmy lied about an article on covid and vaccines, with regard to children. Shaun barely scratched the surface about Jimmy's tinnitus video, where he also lies that you'd be mandated to get the J&J vaccine, and where he and Max also lie about myocarditis and the UK healthcare system (a completely socialized system, that a "real" leftist shouldn't defame). Dore and Glenn have also signed on with far right Rumble, to get themselves some of that Peter Thiel CIA money. Dore is almost completely out of the closet, at this point.
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  14774.  @user-bj1mx2ip1c  🤣
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  14775.  @510tuber  No. Thumbs don't use much energy.
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  14776. ​ @shockhouser3171  Waking up to what? "Letitia 'peekaboo' James" ~ Trumpty Dumpty Urban Dictionary: peekaboo Racist term used in white-supremacist circles to refer to a person of color, usually black, of upper or upper-middle class social standing. That uppity peekaboo thinks she can golf here just because she has money. by WhoKnowsWhoItCouldBe September 21, 2022
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  14777. Don't go to the place your mother lives, for the holidays? You lot are dumber than stumps, or Trumps.
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  14778.  @888strummer  No, that's not what her tweet says.
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  14779.  delonix regia  What are you rambling about?
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  14780.  delonix regia  No. Ramble away.
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  14781. @megatron6393  Rofl. If you don't count energy, it's the US that has the trade surplus, dingus. It's cheaper for you to ship your Alaskan oil to Asia, and Texas oil to Mexico, and then pipe in oil from Alberta to the NW. Overall, you then have an oil export surplus. All you MAGA maroons are asking for is higher oil prices.
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  14782.  @megatron6393  That's where the surplus is, dingus, the energy sector.
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  14783. Who's the one man?
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  14784. Why hasn't he wiped out all diseases and sicknesses, in the US?
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  14785.  @jaw-knee771  The guy promoted Trump (end Medicaid expansion) as the better option than Clinton (Medicare expansion), and Biden (Medicare expansion and public option), ffs. He promotes going third party, when the most popular third party hasn't won a single seat in congress in its near 50 year existence ... a route that might not even win you a single seat in the next century, let alone get you M4A. Even if a progressive third party magically became popular enough to get every progressive vote, you'd have average Dems and progressives splitting their votes and have Republicans rule for decades to come. Democrats may be slow to move forward, but Republicans literally want to go backwards. Dore benefits the far right more than the left.
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  14786. Natives initially welcomed the newcomers. Pretty sure it was the being conquered by capitalist religious zealots, that they weren't fond of. Who's trying to conquer Alabama? Red states tend to have higher homicide, firearm mortality, and poverty rates ... as well as poorer education and healthcare outcomes. What's the problem with California?
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  14787.  @jovanleon7  You're lying.
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  14788.  @jovanleon7  Nope. Anton Lazzaro, arrested last week on multiple counts of underage sex trafficking, actually provided zero verifiable evidence.
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  14789.  @jovanleon7  Weren't you Q nutter types supposed to be against child sex trafficking? Funny how you're now being led by them.
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  14790.  @jovanleon7  Okay, I'll play along. Step 1: show me how to verify he got dna from where he claimed.
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  14791.  @jovanleon7  You dumbos know that all 6 of her siblings have been named, have been photographed, that they were all also refugees to the US, and that she has shown their immigration records, right? You know that siblings can sponsor each other for immigration, so there's no actual motive to fake a marriage, right?
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  14792.  @jovanleon7  We have to take the word of one person that the dna came from where they claim, and can't verify it ourselves? Then that's not verifiable evidence. Oh, a picture, Keira Knightley and Natalie Portman must actually be sisters!
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  14793.  @jovanleon7  That qualifies as a totally different test, and doesn't make your current supposed test verifiable. You're simply taking the word of someone who, by all appearances, is a scammer and trafficker, according to the local FOX station themselves. Ever consider that nobody is taking her to court, because there's no actual evidence that her parents had an 8th child, that they didn't claim at the refugee camp, that didn't come to the US along with their documented 7 kids, and was instead sent to the UK for some odd reason ... because there's no actual motive to fake a marriage, since siblings can sponsor each other already ... because there's no actual evidence the guy even wanted US citizenship, since he up and went back to the UK? No, they aren't identical, qbert. They're only similar, just like the example I gave.
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  14794. Pretty much every gun and magazine starts out as legal. 28% of illegal firearms were stolen from legal owners. Even more were straw purchases by legal buyers. And a bunch of murderers were legal owners until they pulled the trigger.
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  14795.  @CaptainTuttle-4077  Duh. It's likely almost entirely Shapiro fans watching it to begin with.
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  14796. I love Chomsky, but Germany had numerous parties, at the time. You could blame the Centre Party for not forming a coalition, or the German National People's Party, or the Bavarian People's Party, etc. Numerous combinations of parties could have formed a coalition with more seats than the Nazis. You could also blame the Social Democrat Party, itself, for breaking with its roots, leading to members breaking off and forming the Communist Party, in the first place. "Social democrat" and "democratic socialist" meant the same thing, originally. But, even though the Social Democrat Party didn't drop Marxism from their platform until the 50s, they started moving towards the right during WWI. During WWI, they tossed out any anti-war members of the party, which led to a split and two Social Democrat parties, MSPD and USPD. Then came the German Revolution and the overthrow of the monarchists. The SPD leadership sided with centrists, conservatives, and former Imperial Officers in the military, against workers wanting production nationalized and overseen by direct democracy ... exactly what "social democrat" was supposed to be, at the time ... and a democratic military, with officers elected by their men. SPD betrayed their base, just like Democrats did, long ago. You can't do that, and keep expecting those you're betraying to blindly follow. The clearest blame, is that it was the fault of all the morons or assholes, who actually voted for the Nazis. Seriously, you're still going to have a country with a large population of fascist morons and assholes. Why? And how do you get rid of them, rather than continuously just choosing a lesser of two evils to try and win a few more seats than them for a few years?
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  14797.  @kyoakland  2016: Dore promotes Trump (running on tossing 10m of the poorest Americans off of Medicaid expansion) as the better option to Clinton (running on adding 40m older Americans to Medicare expansion). 2020 primaries: Dore promotes Tulsi (public option) over Bernie (M4A). 2020 general: Dore runs a constant attack add campaign against Trump's (still trying to boot 10m of the poorest Americans off of Medicaid expansion, plus having a hand in killing hundreds of thousands of Americans) only remaining viable opponent, Biden (running on a public option and Medicare expansion). 2021: Dore is the one true champion of healthcare, and anyone who doesn't do as he says is a "fake", "fraud", "sellout", etc., including progressives who have done more for M4A in a few years than he has in his entire lifetime. He promotes a nearly nonexistent third party, when even the most popular third party hasn't won a single seat in congress in its near 50 year existence, and even if you got a third party popular enough to split off every progressive vote, that would just lead to Republican rule for decades to come. Promotes making friends with far right Boogaloos, who will be shooting leftists once they start the civil war they want (Jimmy is like the dipshit "leftists" who got themselves killed off on The Night of the Long Knives.). Repeatedly goes on far right television, largely just to agree with them. Abandons Nina Turner ... abandons adding another M4A yes vote to congress. What does this guy do that benefits the left, in any way? All of the above seems to mostly benefit the far right.
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  14798. ​ @dallasburgess5329  Political "deals" are called bipartisanship. You, literally, need it, unless you're the majority at every level of bill passing, whatever country you're in. Nobody ever wins the majority of votes, in Canada, at the federal level, only the majority of seats. Liberals and NDP are like Standard Dems and progressives, who work together against Republicans. Making out like they shouldn't be working together is nonsensical.
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  14799.  @ilikebells  Rofl. How long are you Dore knobs going to milk that investment for? It's going on 5 years, divided by dozens of employees, maintaining a large studio, and multiple shows. Plus, Dore remained affiliated with TYT for 2 of those years, and has now, along with his grifter buddy Glenn, signed on with right wing Rumble to get some Peter Thiel CIA money.
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  14800.  @DesignerDave  Covid's 1% infection fatality rate is about 10x the influenza infection fatality rate, plus more contagious. It's 2x the polio paralysis rate, 20x the polio infection fatality rate, and again more contagious. It's 4x the automobile accident fatality rate, and again far more widespread. Should we ditch polio vaccine mandates, and all rules of the road, because those things aren't deadly enough to put effort into reducing them? Should we ditch smoking laws, extra taxes, increased insurance rates, and a near universal ban on smoking indoors, or is it dangerous enough?
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  14801.  @DesignerDave  Can people choose to smoke around others in public indoors? No. Why should someone who has a higher chance of spread sickness and death be allowed to be around others in public indoors? Isn't that why smokers are banned? Want to smoke? Step outside. Want to be unmasked and/or unvaccinated? Step outside.
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  14802. How a UBI is paid for matters. A VAT is specifically designed to NOT tax businesses in order to avoid double taxation. It's a sales tax collected in stages with all of the business stages getting to reclaim their input VAT. Every time Yang claims a VAT will make corporations like Amazon pay their fair share in taxes, that's nonsense. Every time Yang claims a VAT/UBI combo will have corporations paying you for your data, paying you to show you ads, or paying you for every automated truck mile, that's nonsense. Every time Yang compares his dividend, which won't have corporations paying into it, to the Alaskan dividend, which is paid for by corporations, that's nonsense. Since Yang won't have corporations like Amazon paying into the dividend, that means they will only get the benefits of the dividend being spent. Amazon would make an extra $60b a year. That would make Bezos extra billions a year more than he'd ever personally pay into a VAT. That's money flowing to the very top even faster than it is now. That's more money they can hoard, money they can invest into taking out smaller businesses, or money they can invest into speeding up automation and putting people out of work even faster. https://ec.europa.eu/taxation_customs/business/vat/what-is-vat_en
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  14803. ​ @PeterPotnoodle  Rofl. They represented less than 5% of commercial trucks on Canadian roads. Per 100k, Canada's COVID dth rate is 2.5x lower than the US. That's equivalent to 500k preventable American dths. The government should have squashed those "truckers" even sooner.
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  14804. ​ @rolandantoniogeldres8960  He was raised by his grandparents, who were still working on the same plantation their parents were slaves on. Definitely got some kind of love the white master brain washing growing up.
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  14805.  Capo Di capo  Except Sam released the audio of Politicon saying it, dumb dumb.
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  14806. Because she's not talking about specific groups, like AIPAC, or Likud, which would be analogous to her gangs analogy. She's talking "Jewish".
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  14807.  @dayzdnconfuz3d  She stated that the only problem with Hitler was his desire to expand our of Germany, before walking it back. Kanye, who she defended, was talking like that Black Hebrew Israelites cult. They're beyond rational, or honest, actors.
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  14808.  Mike W  Oh geezus. You're a nutter.
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  14809. ​ @chazmcgooski83  Republicans clearly don't actually care about children, so yeah, it's about controlling women. And, it also shows they clearly think there's plenty of room for hundreds of thousands of new people per year, so their anti-immigrants stance is purely racist.
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  14810. No. It's the history of books going out of print, when a publisher decides to stop publishing more of them.
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  14811.  @ph6794  What what?
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  14812.  @constantineblyuz5786  She's a nurse, dimwit. She was asked about her time spent as a nurse.
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  14813.  @ph6794  You're cheering on the aggressor? Israel is objectively the aggressor by every relevant measure ... Modern history: 100 years ago, in 1923, Ze'ev Jabotinsky fully acknowledged that Zionism is colonialism, and that, based on the entirety of history, the natives would fight it until the bitter end. He just didn't care what would happen to them, and promoted doing it anyway. Colonizers are never not the aggressors. On top of the colonialist nature of Zionism, the Zionists also formed terrorist organizations, like the Irgun and Lehi. They bombed many Palestinian markets and other public places, murdering many civilians, including children, even including Palestinian Jews (who opposed Zionism). Israel merged those terrorists into the new nation's military and intelligence agencies. Israelis elected Menachem Begin, leader of the Irgun, child murderer, Jew murderer, and bomber of the King David Hotel, as PM. Israelis, to this day, celebrate those terrorists as "heroes". Zionists literally taught their neighbours that terrorism is a valid path to independence and statehood, and that terrorists are to be celebrated. In 1945, it is well documented that Zionists owned just 5% of the land and were a majority nowhere. Israel was formed by actually going against the majority population. It's foundation is completely undemocratic. Then, becoming a majority, in "their" new nation, by ethnic cleansing the actual majority, and then claiming to be democratic, is utter nonsense. Law: Israel is considered an occupier by the International Court, the UN GA, and the UN SC. Occupiers are also never not the aggressors. Those occupied actually have a right to resist occupation. On the flip side, it is illegal for the occupier to settle occupied lands, and illegal to use collective punishment. Israel is a rogue nation, that doesn't abide by international law. What it has been doing, and is doing now, is illegal. Current events: This year, alone, prior to Oct 7 ... Israel held over 1200 Palestinian hostages without charges ... over 200 Palestinians had been killed by the IDF and settlers ... over 1000 Palestinians had been displaced by Israel's neverending colonization of the West Bank ... and, Israel continued to operate an open air WWII style fascist ghetto, in Gaza. Even ignoring modern history and law, in no reality did Hamas "start" anything.
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  14814. What a moronic assessment. If you drop a bomb, knowing full well it is going to hit civilians, then you're intentionally killing civilians. It wasn't an "accident" that you dropped the bomb. It wasn't an "accident" that it blew up the exact place you wanted to blow up. Israel hides over 400k militants (reservists), valid military targets, amongst its civilians, using them as human shields. Odds are at least one Israeli Hamas killed was an out of uniform militant. Israel hides its largest IDF base, a valid military target, inside a shopping mall, using civilians as human shields. Due to mandatory service, almost every single Israeli is, was, or will be, a militant. This year, prior to Oct 7... over 1200 Palestinian hostages held without charges by Israel ... over 200 Palestinians killed by the IDF and settlers ... over 1000 Palestinians displaced by never ending illegal colonialism of the West Bank ... and the continued operation of an open air WWII style fascist ghetto in Gaza. Why not say Hamas was responding? Would you blame the ZOB and ZZW for the Warsaw ghetto uprising? You're justifying the Hamas attack, with your own moronic argument to justify Israel's use of collective punishment.
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  14815.  @StephenZ827  Umm, with FDR and the New Deal unemployment started dropping quickly, many farms were saved, suicide rates went down with SS and savings protection and SS is still widely popular, unemployment insurance helped millions and is also still widely popular, ... what kind of crack are you smoking?
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  14816.  @StephenZ827  Lol, that wasn't the only reasoning for cutting back production. During WWI farmers had been encouraged to take out loans, expand their farms, and pump out as much wheat, corn, etc., as possible, to meet the demands of the war. Prices were also artificially inflated by the war. When the war ended, and European farms started getting back on track, prices started dropping. US farmers then tried to pump out even more to make up for their losses in price, to pay off their loans, which made matters even worse. Not only did it make matters worse on the price front, but all that farming exacerbated the effects of the drought that came along, creating the Dust Bowl. Hundreds of thousands of farms failed, and led to the greatest internal migration in US history. Excessive farming didn't simply drive prices down, it helped cause and perpetuate an ecological disaster. It was the farmers who needed prices higher, to survive on less farming. The introduction of new farming methods, ways to protect farmland, and higher prices, saved countless more farms from going under. He also saved countless more banks from failing, by introducing savings protection, and getting people to put their money back into banks. Not sure how saving banks is hobbling them. He also introduced Glass-Steagall, and ditching it was one of the causes of the great recession. You can blather about the "theft" of gold, but the New Deal saved countless lives, farms, banks, businesses, the environment, etc.
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  14817. It's not. Tyson just outright stated in that quote that he's talking about -isms, as in movements. Agnostics are obviously not a movement, as evidenced by the multitude (3?) of websites, devoted to Agnosticism. Some people just have comprehension problems.
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  14818. Learn basic math. There are zero extra votes to be gained to the left of the party. It is absolutely impossible to pass a bill, if you lose too many votes from the right end of the party. At the other end, there is the entire Republican party to try and draw extra votes from to the right of the party. If you push a bill far enough right, so that you pick up enough Republican votes, then you can pass bills without needing the squad's votes. The amount of leverage is not samesies, dumb dumb.
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  14819. ​ @Peethemayan4516  "Palestinians" describes people in a region. Just like Scots aren't literally all descended from Dal Riata Scots, the term spread from a small SW group to cover a larger region. The vast majority of Scots are genetically Northern Britons and Picts. The Sea Peoples came through and liberated the Canaan region from Hittite and Egyptian domination. Some of those Sea Peoples, who the Egyptians called Peleset, settled in the SW corner of Canaan. Archaeology indicates they didn't gncide the local Canaanites, didn't ethnically cleanse the local Canaanites, but simply immigrated and merged with the local Canaanites. That region became Philistia. All, or part, of the region has been called some variation of Palestine, ever since. Aristotle considered the Dead Sea to be "in Palestine", so the term had spread to describe a larger region, by then. Palestinians have Canaanite DNA. They are Arab and Muslim the same way indigenous peoples of Central America are now Hispanic and Catholic. They were the previous Christian majority. They were the Jewish majority, before that. The Canaanite mythology region had been made Jewish, similarly ... conversion, and the spreading of a culture (archaeology doesn't support the mass gncides bible myth). So, the Znists "returned" to clnize the ancient Jws, that never left.
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  14820. These people are psychotic. Iran is Shiite. They've been fighting against Sunni extremists, who think Shiites are heretics.
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  14821. Total tests, or tests per million, are totally irrelevant numbers that are completely disconnected from the number of confirmed cases. Countries like S Korea, New Zealand, and Australia, flattened their curves quickly by testing at rates of 50+ people per confirmed case. The US has been testing at a rate of about 5 people per confirmed case ... one of the lowest rates in the world. If what Trump said was even remotely true, those countries should have found far more confirmed cases than they did. Instead, they were testing at rates far beyond the rate of virus spread. You can't contain the virus testing only twice the virus spread rate. If each confirmed case came in contact with say 25 people, on average, testing just 5 other people only gives you a 20% chance of finding the right 2.5 people they passed it on to. THAT'S why the US has more cases. They aren't getting ahead of the virus, and the numbers are now so high it's probably impossible for them to ever get ahead.
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  14822. Muslims believe in Jesus. It's Jews that don't. Also, Turkey is what's left of the last caliphate, not Saudi. Homosexuality has always been legal in Turkey, because that was the law of the Ottoman Empire. The west took that more moderate empire, carved it up into little bits, and handed parts of it to religious extremists. In numerous Muslim majority countries, there have also been more secular movements and political leaders. Problem was they also leaned a bit more left, economically, than countries like the US and UK preferred, and were overthrown. Meanwhile, countries like Saudi have been supported financially and militarily, as they've spread their more conservative brand of Islam around the world. Religious nuts in Afghanistan were supported with hundreds of millions of dollars, to overthrow more secular communist Muslims. It's kind of moronic for the west to complain about the current state of Muslim countries, when they had a hand in making them the way they are.
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  14823. Rofl. Those two idiots have a growing right wing, and shrinking left wing, audience, for a reason.
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  14824. He's a complete and utter maroon.
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  14825. Well, I wouldn't completely trust people working for CNN and Bloomberg, to give an accurate description of what progressives think.
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  14826. ​ @chalkandcheese1868  The 95% Christian Congo is a bastion of peace.
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  14827.  @Koyasi78  Andrew Jackson was from Tennessee. There are most definitely areas with higher levels of racism and lower levels of racism, no?
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  14828.  @Koyasi78  Mississippi only got around to officially abolishing slavery a few years ago, ffs. They have a Confederate heritage month and a Confederate Memorial Day holiday. The majority would need to have racism ingrained pretty deeply to not be able to recognize those things as racist.
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  14829.  @Koyasi78  By every definition it includes considering one race is superior to another, which the Confederacy enshrined into their constitution, and which multiple Southern states still memorialize and celebrate. The same belief that produced Jim Crow laws, that the majority in many Southern states voted for, and fought against having removed. Why do you want to nitpick over a definition?
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  14830.  @Koyasi78  Uh huh. But you seem to be ignoring that the majority of northerners then elected anti-abolitionist politicians, and then elected pro civil rights politicians, etc. How were anti slavery and pro civil rights majorities equally as racist as pro slavery and anti civil rights majorities?
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  14831.  @Koyasi78  Is not singling out a specific race for slavery and not singling out a specific race for discrimination or segregation, racism?
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  14832. ​ @shis1988  Give it a rest. There was a higher eligible voter turnout than when Reagan and each Bush were first elected. It was on par with Bill Clinton first getting elected. And, Dumpty lost the popular vote by more than Dubya. She won the popular vote by 13 points more than her husband first did, and 6 points more than Reagan first did. She simply lost in the wrong places, and that was her fault for thinking some places were solidly blue, that weren't.
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  14833.  @armandodelossantos736  Which one don't you like? https://www.hrw.org/reports/2003/usa1203/11.htm
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  14834. Should we ban all businesses that have memberships, if they ever revoke someone's membership? Shut down a business if they escort an apocalypse preacher that's yelling at their customers off their property? Etc.
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  14835.  @partyjerk  To be clear, inciting violence isn't even protected speech on actual public property, in the US, neither is spreading hate in many countries. So, if a giant international book seller decides it doesn't want to offer a book for sale, should they be forced to, or banned?
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  14836.  @allprogressivesarechildgro7761  The US and UK conscripted, trained, and armed, every single fighting age KKK and BUF member, to fight against fascist invaders. What's your point? Should Ukraine kick people out of the military, while they're being invaded by fascists?
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  14837.  @tadrobinson7709  If Hitler was a socialist, then why was he backed by leading industrialists and large land owners,? Why did he ally with the other right wing parties? Why did they go after the socialists, communists, and unionists, first? Why was their pre war economy one of privatization?
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  14838. To be clear, Venezuela nationalized one freakin resource. It's not an outright socialist government. It is a mixed economy, just like almost every other country on the planet is. They were simply too dependent on that one resource, weren't building savings, and oil prices dropped. Saudi also had some problems when prices dropped, but they had more savings and had started diversifying their economy already, so weathered the storm better. Then outside forces have made things worse for Venezuela.
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  14839.  @clenke0  Lol, yes, John is very subtle.
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  14840.  @victorlloyd5271  Yes.
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  14841.  Real Progressives Allowed  What question? It was in her defense team's court filings, not an interview.
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  14842. I love the subtitle names, "Mary Matace" and "do me Dore". You should stick with them.
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  14843. ​ @ribbrascal Bullsh*t.
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  14844.  @raulepure9840  They had been there 300 years? Yes, it's fucking stupid to tell people to go back, at that point. That's the country they were born and raised in. Would you support Native Americans telling everyone to go back, now? Palestinians telling Israelis to go back, now? Aboriginal Australians telling everyone to go back, now? Etc. Etc. Etc. AOC is from fucking Puerto Rico. If she went back to Puerto Rico, she'd still be in the US, dipshit. Trump is a moron who can't grasp that Puerto Rico is part of the US. Where do you want her to go? Spain?
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  14845.  @davidmeadows5627  Reducing the hate spread by nazi/fascist/kkk types to "an opinion that you disagree with", is beyond moronic. That kind of hate not only ruins people's lives, it even takes people's lives. Strict voter ID laws are firstly classist. Yeah, poorer people do have more of an excuse to be able to afford taking a day off to go to the DMV, and more of an excuse to be able to afford extra transportation, to go fetch a new ID. Secondly, certain demographics being poorer than others, they're racist. It's knowingly targetting a higher percentage of those demographics, and making them jump through new hoops, just to vote.
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  14846.  @davidmeadows5627  You don't need a picture ID, to get a job, dimwit. Yes, Mussolini and Hitler being free to spew their bullshit, were totally shot down by mere words from the opposition. Desegregation of the south was accomplished totally with words. You're living in some alternate reality.
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  14847.  @davidmeadows5627  How the hell are hate crimes not actions, dumb dumb?
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  14848.  @davidmeadows5627  You're the one who brought up "other countries", dimwit, but you don't want to hear from one of those "other countries"? Birth certificate counts as a List B ID, which can be coupled with a List C ID, like Social Security (SSN, SIN, same thing). Do you really think people that commit hate crimes haven't been fueled by others spewing hate? They were just born racist, or something?
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  14849.  @davidmeadows5627  Them ending up with a photo ID for voting is the whole point, dimwit. What would be the point of handing them a non photo voter ID? The Georgia voter ID has a photo. The Texas voting certificate has a photo. Alabama voter ID has a photo.
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  14850.  @Elrog3  "That would, in turn, make Bezos something like an extra $6b a year ... a ton more than he'd ever personally pay into a VAT." Bezos could buy a billion dollar yacht every year, pay $100m in VAT, and he'd still be $5.9b in the plus. Handing consumers $3t, while not making corporations pay into it, will only make shareholders more money than they'd ever pay into a VAT in a year. Bernie wants to expand all kinds of programs. So, you're strawman doesn't hold up.
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  14851.  @Elrog3   Bezos doesn't get paid that much in taxable income. He mostly gets paid in shares. That's the tax dodge for the rich. Then he can take out loans or lines of credit, which don't count as taxable income, to make purchases. You're nit picking. If he paid $200m in VAT, he'd be $5.8b in the plus. If he paid $1b in VAT, he'd be $5b in the plus. He won't pay in more than he gets out. That means someone else is. I'm "fixating" on the part where Yang is clueless or lying about who a VAT will actually tax, and who will "pay their fair share". If the corporations, and their large shareholders, who will benefit from consumer spending aren't paying into the UBI, more than they get out, then someone else is. Money can't go to them and not come from somewhere. Continuing to funnel money to the top in vast quantities will speed up inequality. It will speed up automation. And you'll just end up with great depression levels of unemployed people trying to live on $12k a year. Bernie wants to expand social security. How does that not help elderly retired people? He wants to expand affordable housing. How does that not help low income people trying to make ends meet? You don't seem very familiar with his plans.
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  14852.  @joep9219  All suspects need a full medical now, I guess, to rule out that a brain aneurysm didn't get cause you to rob a bank, or something.
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  14853.  @frankie8387  No. Jimmy's imagination.
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  14854.  @Sloimer  So go start threads criticizing him for a miriad of other things then. Why are you wasting your time on this thread, if you don't like the topic.
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  14855.  @Sloimer  The topic is how he became popular, dimwit. It's a centerpiece to the topic.
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  14856.  @Sloimer  You're not my type. Find another guy.
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  14857. Native Americans reached a point where they wanted to push all the white people back into the sea. It wasn't simply because they were white. It was because they were colonizing, ethnic cleansing, assholes. Hamas are just a poor man's Likud, only opposed to colonialism, instead of doing the colonialism. Likud was founded by Irgun and Lehi terrorists. Terrorist groups that were merged into Israel's military and intelligence agencies. Israelis elected the leaders of both those terrorist groups as PMs. Israelis celebrate those terrorists as "heroes", to this day. Their Likud platform (over a decade older than the founding of Hamas), "between the sea and the Jordan there will only be Israeli sovereignty", promises to completely colonize and ethnically cleanse all Palestine territories. It further claims a "right" to all the "Land of Israel" (fictional biblical borders that don't mesh with archaeological reality), which is an open declaration of future wars, against Jordan, Syria, and Lebanon. Everyone blathering about Hamas is like going on about Cochise, in the 1850s, when people are trying to tell you that Native Americans are being ethnically cleansed and colonized.
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  14858. That makes no sense. Fascists were backed by the rich.
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  14859. Both the US and Canada have a backyard problem in their histories. As do countries further South.
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  14860. ​ @knivesmillions2913  What's "the space"? Is that some kind of man baby safe space?
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  14861. A recent Pew survey showed similar support as in 2016. This means that more black and Latino Democrats didn't vote compared to black and Latino Republicans. It doesn't mean Trump has won over any significant amount of them.
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  14862.  @AG-xc5ni  I get it. Stop donating to people like Nina, who would have added another M4A yes vote to congress, moving you a small step closer to ever being able to pass the bill, like "real" progressives Jimmy Dore and wife did. "Real" progressives don't just prefer Republicans winning, they also prefer corporate Dems winning.
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  14863.  @AG-xc5ni  Oh no! They didn't get a 100% guaranteed to fail performance art vote! The horror! You Dore knobs are Jimmy's best joke.
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  14864.  @AG-xc5ni  Rofl, from the dimwit following a loudmouth who claims anyone who doesn't do exactly like he says is a "fake", "fraud", "sellout", PINO, etc., just like Trump. They've, literally, fought to add more M4A yes votes to congress. You know that getting enough yes votes in congress is the only possible way to ever pass a bill, right?
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  14865.  @leqaf  By increasing the number of supporters, until you have a majority, or at least a majority of supporters in committees, then it'll get a floor vote. Only complete idiots care so much about getting a vote, when it's still 100+ votes short in the house alone. Pelosi introduced the M4A bill last session. It died in committees. She has already reintroduced the bill, this session. If Dore knobs actually cared about getting a vote so much, they'd be endlessly pressuring committee members to take up the bill. Instead, they just bitch and whine about, and slander, M4A's most ardent congressional supporters, who have been doing the work of increasing the yes vote count ... the only thing that will ever get the bill passed.
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  14866.  @AG-xc5ni  Oh no! She wants to remain in majority party! The horror! She just tried backing a progressive, in at least one of those conservative districts, and they got creamed, while the more conservative Dem not only easily won the primary, getting the majority, not plurality, of votes, but also beat the Republican in office. I get it, "real" progressives want the Republicans to win, and for progressives to have absolutely zero say, and zero leverage, in a minority.
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  14867.  @AG-xc5ni  I didn't. I made the point that, with a midterm coming up, and the chance to lose the majority, she wants to keep the majority. Again, I get it, Dore knobs want a Republican majority. Just come out of the closet already, and admit it. Who was she just campaigning for, Turner or Brown? Hint: It's the one Dore abandoned.
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  14868.  @AG-xc5ni  You're making no sense. Dore abandoned adding another M4A and free college yes vote to congress. Dore has been bitching about Biden's end to the Afghanistan war. The same guy that promoted Tulsi and her public option over Bernie and M4A. The same guy who promoted tossing 10m of the poorest Americans off of Medicaid expansion over adding 40m older Americans to Medicare expansion. Isn't he who you lot claim is an "actual" leftist/progressive? "Actual" leftists/progressives prefer seeing Republicans rule, so don't actually want any of the things you said. You appear to have severe reading comprehension problems, Dore knob. What did I blame him for? I simply pointed out he's an idiot, a slanderer, and a grifter.
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  14869.  @AG-xc5ni  Rofl. Did he back Tulsi over Bernie, or not, Dore knob? The answer is YES. Whatever he said to her, he went ahead and backed the public option candidate over the M4A candidate. You're the dishonest piece of crap, trying to imply otherwise. Once again you're displaying severe reading comprehension problems. I didn't say Dore "caused" anything. I said that the supposed one true champion of healthcare abandoned adding another M4A yes vote to congress. That's just a fact. Go learn to read. Not only are you obviously slow, but you also obviously lack a grade school level reading ability.
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  14870. I'm not requiring "no God". Yes, they used it against each other, because their own DEFAULT position was that such and such God existed. Anyone who denied the existance of that God, got the label.
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  14871. Someone getting paid big bucks to be on a giant platform, complaining about "cancel culture"? Either he's very woke, or he's full of shit.
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  14872.  @seasonedhumidor4213  It's contradictory, you two dumb shits. A straight white male getting paid $100m to share his opinions on a giant platform is the complete opposite of what he's claiming.
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  14873.  @seasonedhumidor4213  You have severe reading comprehension problems.
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  14874. ​ @AOLAmericaOnline  Likud's, "between the sea and the Jordan", platform ... 1977: "The Right of the Jewish People to the Land of Israel (Eretz Israel) a. The right of the Jewish people to the land of Israel is eternal and indisputable and is linked with the right to security and peace; therefore, Judea and Samaria will not be handed to any foreign administration; between the Sea and the Jordan there will only be Israeli sovereignty. b. A plan which relinquishes parts of western Eretz Israel, undermines our right to the country, unavoidably leads to the establishment of a "Palestinian State," jeopardizes the security of the Jewish population, endangers the existence of the State of Israel. and frustrates any prospect of peace." "Settlement Settlement. both urban and rural. in all parts of the Land of Israel is the focal point of the Zionist effort to redeem the country, to maintain vital security areas and serves as a reservoir of strength and inspiration for the renewal of the pioneering spirit. The Likud government will call on the younger generation in Israel and the dispersions to settle and help every group and individual in the task of inhabiting and cultivating the wasteland, while taking care not to dispossess anyone." 1999: "The Government of Israel flatly rejects the establishment of a Palestinian Arab state west of the Jordan river. The Palestinians can run their lives freely in the framework of self-rule, but not as an independent and sovereign state. Thus, for example, in matters of foreign affairs, security, immigration, and ecology, their activity shall be limited in accordance with imperatives of Israel's existence, security and national needs." "The Jewish communities in Judea, Samaria, and Gaza are the realization of Zionist values. Settlement of the land is a clear expression of the unassailable right of the Jewish people to the Land of Israel and constitutes an important asset in the defense of the vital interests of the State of Israel. The Likud will continue to strengthen and develop these communities and will prevent their uprooting."
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  14875. John did, on Damage Report.
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  14876.  @brenden4915  Nope. Literally ranked freer than the US, dumb dumb.
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  14877.  @andyj845  Just how daft are you trying to prove you are? My initial evidence was the objective fact that the paradox of freedom is mentioned in the OP (which is still there, clear as day, and unedited, for all to see), and yet you moronically claimed I didn't understand something I had already clearly mentioned.
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  14878.  @disorderandregression9278  Similar to the speech laws that protect individuals, and protects the same groups covered by civil rights laws and hate crimes. In the US, you can constantly defame an entire race, but can get sued if you defame an individual ... you can say all X should be killed, but get charged for threatening an individual ... etc. And, it applies to public places, so you can still be racist, or whatever, at home.
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  14879.  @disorderandregression9278  Also, pretty sure the US is already having a democratic backsliding, giving racists, bigots, etc., their "free speech".
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  14880. I think you need to meet some strong Atheists. In fact, I already stated I'm Athe-istic (a strong Atheist) with regards to certain definitions of God. I sure as hell don't try proving all of science, to prove my disbelief. I attack their lame definition and prove it wrong. I outright believe it is false!
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  14881.  @mjchakos1  If they keep the filibuster, they should at least revert it back to something you actually have to do, like read phonebooks for days, or whatever. As is, it's not even a real filibuster.
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  14882.  @mjchakos1  It's not really fair to the public. Requiring a supermajority for every single bill wasn't supposed to be how things worked.
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  14883.  @mjchakos1  It let's the minority dictate exactly what it wants in a bill to let it pass, or to just not let any bill it doesn't like pass. The senate is already not a very democratic institution, with tens of millions of people represented by the same number of representatives as a few hundred thousand people.
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  14884.  @mjchakos1  Rofl. The senate is nowhere near being a direct democracy. They're barely in the same universe.
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  14885.  @mjchakos1  That's the "tyranny of the majority" they were referring to. They weren't referring to a simple majority of the senate, or the house. They outright designed both so that bills could be passed by simple majority.
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  14886.  @mjchakos1  Lol, the majority having to concede to the minority, doesn't mean the bill was "really popular".
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  14887.  @bruno.6610  5. Sales taxes. They are also benefitting from the sale but having the consumer pay the whole sales tax. They should pay half. 6. Same goes for tariffs. They should only be able to pass on half the cost to consumers.
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  14888.  @1robotchamp  Who the hell is calling for direct democracy?
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  14889.  @1robotchamp  He said to ditch having political representative and have citizens vote on everything themselves?
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  14890.  @anti-corporatecapture3844  No. I said mandates hadn't been deemed unconstitutional, and they still didn't deem mandates, in general, unconstitutional. In fact, they outright ruled mandates weren't unconstitutional, in general, by passing one, and implying congress could do it. You weren't arguing that the OSHA lacked authority. You argued federal mandates, in general, were unconstitutional. You were wrong.
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  14891.  @anti-corporatecapture3844  No. You're rewriting history.
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  14892.  @anti-corporatecapture3844  Rofl. You're spouting that already debunked bullshit about not counting comorbidities?! You are a complete loon.
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  14893.  @anti-corporatecapture3844  1. There was just a federal mandate for healthcare workers. 2. You're wrong twice over.
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  14894.  @anti-corporatecapture3844  Nope. I said mandates hadn't been deemed unconstitutional, going back to the beginning.
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  14895.  @anti-corporatecapture3844  Nope. You're rewriting history. I said mandates hadn't been deemed unconstitutional, back to then. Yeah, you were talking federal mandates, in general. So, the healthcare ruling bungs that up, on top of the federal military mandate, on top of the federal immigration mandates. And, Scotus implying congress can make mandates, also bungs up the basis of your argument about individual constitutional rights. Your argument wasn't about OSHA overreach specifically.
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  14896.  @anti-corporatecapture3844  To catch you up to date, Dore knob ... Jimmy's doctor of nursing practice (not an actual MD), friend, from across the pond has been debunked already. 1. What's going on in one country can't just easily be applied to another. The US excess mortality rate was higher than its covid death count, not lower, like the UK. Something completely different is going on. It was stupid of the doctor of nursing to suggest this. 2. An excess mortality rate, that is higher or lower than the covid death count, doesn't automatically mean something is off with the covid death count. You have to count up all the pluses and minuses from all other things people died of. Only if all those other deaths don't match the difference, then there's something off with the covid count. If you straight up take it at face value, and claim the UK is overcounting, that would mean the US is undercounting. 3. The second number is the official number used for deaths due to covid by the government, and the media. No other. 4. The third number, if you read the paper, says "with covid". It does not say covid "contributed" to the death, as the dishonest doctor of nursing stated. That simply means there were some 20k people, on top of the second number, who died of other things, but had covid. Not the government, nor the media, use that number as the covid death count. 5. Not counting people listed as dying due to covid, simply because they had comorbidities, is disgusting. People with asthma tend to live about as long as anyone else. Not counting them as a human being, because they had a precondition, is disgusting. You and Dore are as bad as private for profit insurance companies. Someone with type I diabetes, doesn't count as a human being? You're writing them off as the walking dead, like complete loons.
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  14897.  @anti-corporatecapture3844  I argued a vaccine mandate hadn't been ruled unconstitutional, since the beginning. You were the one who had posted something about mandates being against individual constitutional rights, which I replied to. I was arguing mandates didn't violate your rights. You were the one proven wrong, by the ruling. No individual constitutional rights for healthcare workers. Implication that congress can mandate against anyone.
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  14898. @C M Hahaha! Build a house! I want to see it!
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  14899.  @anti-corporatecapture3844  Now you're moving the goalpost to whether it's good, or not, rather than whether a federal mandate violates an individual's constitutional rights? Rofl, politicians don't do all kinds of things that would benefit the public, dimwit. Isn't that Dore knob 101. You should have your Dore knob fan club card revoked. Oh, wait, being hypocrites is Dore knob 102 ... you can keep it.
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  14900. Might depend on whether Jesus is God, because that God dude is a dick.
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  14901. ​ @imagex8000  The people making these laws are the same loons that teach abstinence instead of protection, don't like sex ed taught in schools, don't like protection given to teens, etc. They also, ironically, worship what would be the leading abortionist in existence.
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  14902. Even antibodies in your system don't act as a force field, with the virus bouncing off you. They fight the virus off quickly, with likely no symptoms, should you actually get reinfected and it's in your system, where they fight it off. You could still briefly carry and spread the virus to others. Until everyone is vaccinated, and the vaccination is proven to work on all variants, people should wear masks. But, Republicans don't care if they're spread viruses to others, as long as they're safe.
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  14903. Only one side is constantly whining about "cancel culture", as if it's a new thing. Conservative religious types have been cancelling things forever. The Earth isn't the center of the universe?!!! You're cancelled!!!
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  14904.  @theimperialist2686  But there's a difference between criticizing a specific cancelling, and making out like there's some brand new "cancel culture" and constantly whining about it, while also continuing to cancel crap. No hypocrisy in the former.
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  14905.  @TheBayFoto  Maybe it's a clip from a show they did back then. They might be taking xmas eve off.
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  14906.  @barbiquearea  So, you're saying you're about as clueless as Marge?
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  14907.  @brotharapha7254  You mean like how they have one climate change denier debate one climate change expert, to make it seem like there are equal numbers of for and against, instead of having one climate change denier debate 99 climate change experts? You're argument is basically that the majority of scientists and doctors, around the world, want people dying, which is moronic. Accepting a broad consensus isn't being a sheep. Listening to that 1 in 10 dentists, and none of the others, is being a sheep.
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  14908.  @brotharapha7254  No, there wasn't. It fell out of use because opiod drugs became more popular. And the legality of a drug has little to do with whether it has medicinal benefits, or not. Opium used to be a medicine, then a common street drug, and is now illegal, but opiod drugs are still used as medicine.
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  14909.  @brotharapha7254  How many conspiracy theories do you adhere to, exactly?
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  14910.  @finflwr  No vaccine is 100%. Even with a 50% efficacy flu vaccine, if you're 50% less likely to catch it, then you're less likely to transmit it. You can't transmit it, if you don't have it, ffs.
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  14911. If that's the message he was trying to put out, then shouldn't his message have indicated he wanted everyone to get vaccinated, for both covid and the flu (the majority of annual flu deaths are also unvaccinated, and still far more than annual cold deaths)?
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  14912. Facts: Followers of Ze'ev Jabotinsky formed the Irgun and Lehi Zionist terrorist groups. The Irgun bombed numerous Palestinian markets and other public places, murdering Palestinian men, women, children, and even Palestinian Jews, who didn't support colonialist Zionsim. The Lehi were considered even more extreme, tried to ally with the Nazis against Britain, continued fighting the British during WWII, and assassinated British diplomats. Those terrorist groups opposed partition for the opposite reason Palestinians did. Palestinians didn't want to be colonized at all, while the terrorists wanted to colonize it all. Those terrorists committed massacres, rape, and torture, during partition violence. The Irgun bombed the King David Hotel, to cover up that the terrorists were working with the JA and Haganah. Those terrorist groups were merged into Israel's military and intelligence agencies. The leaders of those terrorist groups formed Likud, and both leaders were elected as PMs. Israelis, to this day, celebrate those terrorists as "heroes". Likud's platform, "between the sea and the Jordan there will only be Israeli sovereignty", promised to completely colonize and ethnically cleanse all Palestine territories. It further claims a "right" to all the "Land of Israel" (fictional biblical borders that don't mesh with archaeological reality), which is an open declaration of future wars, against Jordan, Syria, and Lebanon. Zionism = colonialism, terrorism, ethnic cleansing, rape, torture, an ethno-state, occupation, and operating an open air WWII style fascist ghetto. Or, in other words, Nazism.
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  14913.  @Subzearo  The answer is for both of us to depopulate the food source, just so we can both hoard rotting fish? Are you sure?
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  14914.  @Subzearo  Yes, it would be stupid.
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  14915.  @paxaeterna3709  What does that have to do with anything? Whether you're slow, or fast, there's a point where you're taking more than you need ... more than you can eat ... and any more will just rot.
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  14916. Funny, one parent saying that adults believing in what's not real is a mental illness, and another then saying it's against their religious beliefs.
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  14917. ​ @emindustrialinc.7525 Yeah, she was paid to check a box, to get a jury trial, and failed. That's why Dumpty has already been found guilty, by summary judgement. They keep acting like that part isn't over. James can call Dumpty a fraud, because he has already been found guilty of fraud.
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  14918. Nowadays, anyone who has seen Scott Pilgrim knows it has nothing to do with a surname, and that it was originally Puck Man.
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  14919. ​ @drsuperhero  They support Isl, because they want all the Jws to go there, and then emulate Isl, only with wt Christians.
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  14920. Why are you so proud of being a moron? No vaccine is 100% effective. A tiny percentage of vaccinated people do still get polio. A larger percentage of vaccinated still get measles and mumps, and the mumps vaccine doesn't last for life. About 50% of vaccinated still get the flu, and is the vaccine is only good for one flu season. And they're all made the old fashioned way. How effective a vaccine is, and how oong it lasts, depends more on the type of virus. Anyone who expects a COVID vaccine to work the same as a polio vaccine, is a complete and utter moron.
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  14921.  @mauricionunez6389  So Sondra overstated the amount thrown at corporate corruption? It should be ... corporate corruption ... Give people $200 Instead of getting money out of politics, have people compete with corporate lobby groups, to see who can bribe their candidate with the most money.
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  14922.  @bluesrockfan36  I said he wants people to compete with lobbyists to bribe politicians, like you just did. That's actually more money in politics, not less. Where does the getting money out of politics part come in?
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  14923.  @naturalaquatreasures  If telling your hundreds of thousands of followers that Trump is the better option, isn't "promoting", then what is?
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  14924.  @hansonwinx7843  Rofl, you still agree with what he said, when most of it was wrong? He claimed there'd be a progressive wave that would "for sure" take both the house and senate in 2018. Wrong. That it would result in a progressive president in 2020. Wrong. That many Republicans would join with left and vote against a Trump agenda. Wrong. That Trump filling multiple scotus seats was as likely as the moon falling into Lake Michigan. Wrong.
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  14925.  @nula14  You think Trump has neurological issues?
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  14926.  @nula14  Then he's okay to make fun of, being a narcissist "with all kinds of issues", who claims to be the perfect specimen of health. Then you're making fun of his bullshit.
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  14927.  @Jessica_Roth  Do you guys just not grasp how budgets work? If some other country is spending $3.8b on your military budget (whether it's cash or goods), then that's $3.8b you can spend elsewhere. If someone came along and gave you $500 in monthly groceries, that's $500 a month you can put towards something else.
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  14928.  Nota Bene  Going back to 1948, when only 50% of the population had coverage and Israel was still getting help from Russia and Czechoslovakia, and then they got aid from France, and then the US started food aid long before military aid ... is hardly relevant. It's simple budgetary math. If someone is adding $3.8b in this column, for you, then that frees up $3.8b you can spend elsewhere.
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  14929.  Nota Bene  Oh geez, you're daft as fuck. https://blogs.timesofisrael.com/the-wingmen-a-story-of-czechoslovak-pilots-and-air-force-technicians-in-the-service-of-israel/ https://www.meforum.org/7263/the-birth-of-israel-prague-crucial-role https://www.haaretz.com/1.4904990 http://www.czechcentres.cz/en/program/detail-akce/role-ceskoslovenska-pri-vzniku-izraele-v-roce1948/
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  14930.  @Jessica_Roth  Then why has Israel needed emergency reloads of ammo, at various times? If Israel is just playing along with a big corruption racket, then they're equally corrupt ... the flip side is the US budget, and that's $3.8b that could be paying for something else, and Israel is happily taking billions that could go towards housing America's homeless, or what not.
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  14931. Wasn't Nancy Pelosi supposed to have been holding back the impeachment until Republicans agreed to a fair trial, witnesses, and such? Strange that she'd start the process without those things ... right as primary voting is about to begin.
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  14932. Well, when you have people making laws, that BDS, which has nothing to do with all Jewish businesses everywhere, only Israeli ones, is anti-semitic ... Or, you have people saying anti-Israeli government or anti-zionism, which are political and have nothing to do with all Jews everywhere, are anti-semitic ... Coming from people like Ben Shapiro, sorry, I don't buy his definition.
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  14933. If you can't tell the difference, then you have a small mind.
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  14934.  @lexiecove7203  And here you are attacking anyone who disagrees with you. Having your staff attack a man who has supported women's rights for decades, portraying him as a sexist to MSM, isn't progressive. Recognizing right wing coup leaders isn't progressive. Backing right wing military actions isn't progressive. Backing off all out M4A isn't as progressive.
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  14935.  @lexiecove7203  What a load of moronic nonsense. Bernie supported Clinton. Most of his supporters voted Clinton. You've got zero evidence of a higher risk of losing the house. The house was lost under a moderate. You're clearly insane.
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  14936.  David  Why wasn't large Trump leads in those states election night "evidence" of cheating?
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  14937.  @richardgoldman  Didn't answer my questions. What about third parties?
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  14938. What is that moron talking about? Lincoln was the most popular candidate. And, yes, it was a racist election, when the vast majority of black people couldn't vote, even if he wasn't personally racist. The electoral college has only mattered in 5 elections, and that wasn't one of them. Now, politicians don't have to campaign very hard in states they're guaranteed to win, or in states they're guaranteed to lose. The electoral college lets a handful of swing states decide who gets to be the president for everybody else.
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  14939. Denmark is pretty darn centrist (an even mix of capitalism and socialism).
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  14940. The Steele Dossier is somewhat irrelevant, anyway. The FBI stated it wasn't what triggered their investigation. They were the ones who determined it questionable, and didn't use it. Republican Mueller didn't use it, but still provided hundreds of pages of collusion, that didn't amount to criminal conspiracy. Plus evidence that criminal conspiracy occurred, but stated Jr and Kushner weren't charged with criminal conspiracy, because it would be hard to prove they "willfully" broke the law, not because they didn't break the law. He indicted numerous Russians and Russian businesses, for interfering in the election.
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  14941. "There are sooo many other Native Americans, and we poor Puritans are without a land, having fled persecution in our homelands, so it's totally okay to colonize, and ethnically cleanse, these first few tribes." ~ You
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  14942. Just takes a right click to search Google images.
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  14943.  @timothymiddleton6651  So, you think Sweden letting 5-10x more people die, per million, than their neighbors, is acceptable? Their neighbors will have to be hit by 5-10 more waves before Sweden is hit by another wave ... just to be even. It's plausible that, before that happens, a vaccine will be found and those neighbors will be able to quickly create an artificial herd immunity equivalent to Sweden's, and Sweden will be proven to have needlessly let people die.
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  14944.  @timothymiddleton6651  Who's pretending? It would be nonsensical to think that Sweden would have still had the same number of deaths, even if it had taken similar steps as its neighbours. More than likely, similar steps would have led to a 5-10x lower death rate. Why anyone would promote another country in the top 20 worst deaths per million rates, rather than promote countries with much lower deaths per million rates, is beyond me.
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  14945.  @timothymiddleton6651  How'd you enjoy what looked like the worst Presidential debate ever?
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  14946.  @themadmattster9647  Katz isn't a pandemic expert. He's also a proven grifter, writing positive reviews, under his actual name, for a sci-fi book he wrote under a pseudonym.
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  14947.  @HaHaroni  Yep. Do you know that underlined light blue text is clickable, and leads to links?
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  14948.  @themadmattster9647  "Dissenters" are the ones making the debunking attempt. If they aren't specialists in the field, and aren't presenting actual peer reviewed studies, it's them that hasn't provided anything that needs debunking.
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  14949.  @themadmattster9647  If all he's presenting is opinions, then here are 6 of his peers disagreeing with his 1 opinion. https://www.nytimes.com/2020/03/23/opinion/letters/coronavirus-quarantine.html
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  14950.  @themadmattster9647  Lol, why did you put "quacks" in quotes, as if I used the word, and why did you change the subject from Katz, again? I responded to your Katz comment. I did use the word "grifter", and Katz is a proven one, so that's just a fact. Are you dropping him as a decent source, for others? Those 2 are indeed specialists, but I'm not sure what study they cited, or are involved with, that's mentioned in the article. They answered a bunch of different questions, giving their opinions. Maybe I missed something specific you were trying point to. They referred to Sweden, without noting that Sweden has had 5-10x more deaths per capita than their neighbours ... without noting that, although Sweden has finally got its numbers down, it took them 4 months longer than their neighbours ... without noting that Sweden is amongst the top 20 covid deaths per capita in the world. They mention Florida using a similar age targeted method to Sweden, comparing it to the New York method, without mentioning that Florida is amongst the 17 states whose covid death per capita rates are higher than the US national average ... a national average that's already one of the worst in the world. Comparing US states is kind of like comparing bullshit to horseshit. They're both still shit.
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  14951.  @themadmattster9647  Strange, how the US didn't know so much.
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  14952.  @Will_Moffett  We've been witness to the fact that massive amounts of misinformation, comes with access to massive amounts of information. In the case of Israel, that misinformation has been the predominant media spin on things, for decades. To think that the majority of people in Western countries, support what they themselves consider to be genocide, rather than them being ignorant, seems like a stretch. Plus, if that many people outright know Israel is the aggressor, and fully support their aggression, what is it you think a BDS movement will do? The powers that be will simply keep it surviving, if they have that much fully informed support.
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  14953. How is there a two state solution, with Likud? Likud's bloody 100 year history ... In 1923, 100 years ago, Ze'ev Jabotinsky wrote, The Iron Wall, and a follow up, The Ethics of The Iron Wall (sooo racist towards Africans), in which he fully acknowledged that post Balfour Zionsim was colonialism, and that, based on the entirety of history, the native Palestinian population would resist being colonized until the bitter end. He directly compared it to the colonization of North America. He promoted doing it anyway, claiming Zionist colonialism was a "just" colonialism (he also thought North American colonialists were good guys, so not a great judge of morality), not caring what that meant for the native population. Ze'ev is important, because his Betar militant youth group helped found the Irgun terrorist group, along with other supporters of his, and the splinter Lehi terrorist group. The Irgun bombed numerous Palestinian markets and other public places, murdering many Palestinian civilians, including children, even including Palestinian Jews (who didn't support colonialist Zionsim). The Irgun are important, because they ended up being led by future Likud PM, Menachem Begin, who bombed the King David Hotel. The King David Hotel was bombed because the British had raided the Jewish Agency and seized numerous documents that may have shown that the terrorists were working with the JA and Haganah (JA liked to pretend that they didn't support the terrorism). The British then stored those documents at their base, in the hotel. That the Irgun terrorists responded to a JA raid, itself seems to prove the connection. That the thousands of Irgun (and Lehi) terrorists were also quickly merged into the new nation's military (IDF) and intelligence (Mossad) agencies, and are still celebrated as "heroes" by Israelis, to this day, also seems to support total collaboration between the groups. That other terrorist group mentioned, Lehi (also known as the Stern Gang), was considered even more extreme. They even tried to ally with the Nazis, against the British. Lehi ended up being led by Yitzhak Shamir, future Mossad agent, and another future Likud PM. They assassinated Lord Moyne, and others. In 1945, there was a major land and peoples survey done in Palestine. It showed that the Zionists only owned about 5% of the total land, 20% of the arable land, and owned a majority in zero districts. The partition was not only going to be forced on the native Palestinian majority, but Jews were still going to be a minority, in the part allocated to them. The only possible way to even become a "Jewish state" was going to require getting rid of the actual majority (at least enough so that there'd be a solid Jewish majority, so they could fake being democratic). This is also shown by the 1948, post Nakba, population of Israel. If there was 716,700 Jews, 156,000+ non-Jews, and approximately 700k non-Jews ethnically cleansed, that means the Jewish population, in the Zionist portion of partition, was originally over 100,000 less than the non-Jewish population. To believe that there was never any intent, by Zionists, to ethnically cleanse away the Palestinian majority would require believing that they never intended to create a "Jewish state". It's a nonsensical notion. Begin, and those terrorist groups, also opposed partition, but for the opposite reason Palestinians did. Palestinians didn't want to be colonized, at all. The terrorists wanted to colonize it all. "Moderate" Zionists were okay with colonizing half ... for now (what would happen in the future, after partition, was up to them, said Ben-Gurion). The Zionist terrorists were also involved in massacres, and assassinations, during the partition violence (colonialist war against the natives). Another notable future Likud PM, also started in the military, during the partition fighting. That was Ariel Sharon, war criminal, "Butcher of Beirut". Menachem Begin, and these other Zionist terrorists, are important because they became involved in Israeli politics, first forming Herut. That was the party that Albert Einstein, and other prominent American Jews, opposed, having a letter printed in the NYT, in December of 1948, when Begin came to visit the US. The letter opened ... "Among the most disturbing political phenomena of our times is the emergence in the newly created state of Israel of the "Freedom Party" (Tnuat Haherut), a political party closely akin in its organization, methods, political philosophy and social appeal to the Nazi and Fascist parties. It was formed out of the membership and following of the former Irgun Zvai Leumi, a terrorist, right-wing, chauvinist organization in Palestine." Herut merged with other extremist parties, over the years, and eventually became Likud, in the 70s. Now, people get upset over the slogan "From the river to the sea!", but it's the second part that's most important, "Palestine will be free!". Because "Palestine" isn't defined as an ethno-state, a free Palestine can be a single state, free for all to live in, and return to, free of continuing colonization, free of occupation, free of oppression, etc. Just like a Germany free of Nazism, an Italy free of fascism, a South Africa free of apartheid, or an America free of slavery from sea to shiny sea. It doesn't necessitate purging all the Jews. It just necessitates them giving up on the idea of an ethno-state. On the other hand, because "Israel" has been defined as an ethno-state, Likud's, "between the sea and the Jordan there will only be Israeli sovereignty", has no possible good interpretation. It is a declaration of intent to completely colonize, and ethnically cleanse, all Palestine territories. Not only that, but it also claims that they have a "right" to all of the "Land of Israel" (biblical borders that don't mesh with archaeological reality), which is an open declaration of future wars, against Jordan, Syria, Lebanon, and possibly even Iraq. Likud platform ... 1977: "The Right of the Jewish People to the Land of Israel (Eretz Israel) a. The right of the Jewish people to the land of Israel is eternal and indisputable and is linked with the right to security and peace; therefore, Judea and Samaria will not be handed to any foreign administration; between the Sea and the Jordan there will only be Israeli sovereignty. b. A plan which relinquishes parts of western Eretz Israel, undermines our right to the country, unavoidably leads to the establishment of a "Palestinian State," jeopardizes the security of the Jewish population, endangers the existence of the State of Israel. and frustrates any prospect of peace." "Settlement Settlement. both urban and rural. in all parts of the Land of Israel is the focal point of the Zionist effort to redeem the country, to maintain vital security areas and serves as a reservoir of strength and inspiration for the renewal of the pioneering spirit. The Likud government will call on the younger generation in Israel and the dispersions to settle and help every group and individual in the task of inhabiting and cultivating the wasteland, while taking care not to dispossess anyone." 1999: "The Government of Israel flatly rejects the establishment of a Palestinian Arab state west of the Jordan river. The Palestinians can run their lives freely in the framework of self-rule, but not as an independent and sovereign state. Thus, for example, in matters of foreign affairs, security, immigration, and ecology, their activity shall be limited in accordance with imperatives of Israel's existence, security and national needs." "The Jewish communities in Judea, Samaria, and Gaza are the realization of Zionist values. Settlement of the land is a clear expression of the unassailable right of the Jewish people to the Land of Israel and constitutes an important asset in the defense of the vital interests of the State of Israel. The Likud will continue to strengthen and develop these communities and will prevent their uprooting." All Palestine territories are officially considered occupied, by the International Court of Justice, the UN GA, the UN SC, and even in official documents of Israel's own allies. Likud is still using the blueprint for colonizing North America, in the West Bank. Move settlements out into native territory, piss off the natives, the natives retaliate, cry about poor "innocent" colonizing settlers being the "victims" of violent "Savages!", call in the cavalry to put down the native uprising, and eventually expand the borders to include those settlements. Rinse and repeat. In Gaza, Israel is operating an open air WWII style fascist ghetto. Them claiming a "right to defend themselves" would be like the Nazis claiming a "right to defend themselves " from the Warsaw ghetto uprising. There's no "war". That they're the occupiers means the "war" part is long over. Those people are actually supposed to be under the occupier's protection. That partition was forced upon the Palestinian majority, against their will ... that the Zionist portion still had to be forcefully ethnically cleansed of its non-Jewish majority, against their will ... that the millions of occupied Palestinians don't have a say in the government that truly rules over them, Israel's ... means Israel is about as democratic as Nazi Germany after Hitler purged his political opponents and then held elections.
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  14954.  @TeaPartyActivist  So, not in touch with the construction workers. Where does the in touch with workers come into play?
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  14955.  @GnomesRox  Denmark has twice the percentage of the population working public jobs. What's ridiculous about that? LA tried a public option, hoping it would lead to universal coverage, and it doesn't get you universal coverage anytime soon, if at all. https://www.theatlantic.com/politics/archive/2019/08/los-angeles-public-option-2020-democrats/597115/
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  14956.  @neweraboss5728  What? How can you say that with Trump in office backed by cult like supporters?
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  14957.  @GnomesRox  They have a full 15% more of the population working "soul sucking" public jobs, double the US percentage, and they're the happiest country. You gangers seriously need to learn the difference between a private option and a public option. And, you trust the government to pay you every month, but don't trust them to pay your medical bill? That makes zero sense.
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  14958.  @GnomesRox  It's disingenuous to compare a public option in action to a public option proposal? Weird. The point was that the US could absorb 15% unemployment into government jobs, and be no more dystopian than the happiest country on the planet.
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  14959.  @GnomesRox  I'm comparing his fucking public option proposal to any existing public option in action, dumbass.
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  14960.  @GnomesRox  What country do you think has a successful public option (not the same as a private option)? My bad, I thought you were replying to a previous comment. So, your problem is comparing trusting the government to pay to trusting the government to pay?
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  14961.  @ricksimon9867  He found, and documented, multiple instances of information sharing.
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  14962.  @ricksimon9867  They were sharing information because they weren't working towards a common goal?
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  14963.  @TheMorriganAensland  They read the OT more than you, I think, which is the worst of the trilogy.
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  14964.  @t.a.b.8376  You made a lame attempt to argue how "generous" the US safety nets are, using total number of people covered, dumbass, comparing the US to countries with nowhere near the same population, but have much better per capita coverage. Also, I'm Canadian. Anytime you'd like to learn how you're a complete moron, with regard to M4A, just let me know.
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  14965.  @AwesomeBlackDude  The most popular third party hasn't won a single seat in congress in its near 50 year existence. Sounds like a winning strategy, based on a bullshit reason.
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  14966. Who's operating the open air WWII style fascist ghetto, dumb dumb? Israel. Your stupid sayings can be applied to any invader ... 1941: You, "Nazis are so awesome, and you're just mad because they keep winning! If Nazis lost the war in France, they'd be tossed out of France! Oh no! Poor Nazis! Those French keep losing, but they're still around. French resistance terrorists!" 1923: Ze'ev Jabotinsky fully acknowledged that Zionism is colonialism. He also predicted, based on the entirety of history, that the natives would react by resisting until the bitter end. But, like all colonialists, he didn't really care what would happen to the natives.
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  14967.  @nappel6496  There isn't a possible reality where Americans don't have any healthcare, and don't pay for any healthcare. Swapping to M4A would reduce overall costs. There is a possible reality where you just don't build a wall, don't pay to build a wall, and don't pay for maintenance of that wall.
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  14968.  @nappel6496  It's like we're talking about not being able to afford a non necessity, like going to the movies, and you comparing it to paying for a necessity, like rent or mortgage.
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  14969.  @nappel6496  You wrote a bunch arguing for tax payer funded post secondary schooling/experience for you, your child, and/or your wife. Have you thanked all the people struggling to pay off their own school debts for helping to pay for yours? Trade "schools" would also be "post secondary schooling", and I think should also be covered.
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  14970.  @nappel6496  I take it you also got to enjoy fully socialized, tax payer funded, healthcare, that you also don't want anyone else to have.
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  14971.  @nappel6496  The military is a job, with a salary. Most people don't get a salary and taxpayer funded post secondary for them and the family, and taxpayer funded healthcare for them and the family. You're the most entitled sounding person I think I've ever come across. Maybe those extras should be ditched, if they aren't actually appreciated ... especially if they're so crap. Oh wow. My bad. Who was it ... Iraq, Afghanistan, or Syria, that was about to invade and take away people's rights?
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  14972.  @nappel6496  Rofl. You know that WWII (an actual threat) was won by average citizens, right? The careerist military counted for under 2% of the forces. The overwhelming majority were new volunteers and those drafted. Pretty much every single person, who passed a physical, in the age range they wanted was "man enough". Hell, even my grandmother and 17 year old granduncle, were as "manly" as you. All those average citizens, that you seem to look down upon, act superior to, and don't feel are equally deserving of things they've provided you, are the kinds of people that fought to give your entitled self centered ass the freedom to not give a shit about them and to not actually fight to make their lives better.
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  14973.  @nappel6496  Nope. You're showing zero respect for the average young people they actually were, before feeling the need to sign up, or legally having to sign up, something almost all of them never would have done if there wasn't a world war going on. If you were a careerist, back then, you probably would have been criticizing any of them who supported FDR's new subsidized housing program, telling them to be a man, join the military, and earn your housing, or criticizing them for something else, right up until the US became involved in the war.
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  14974. And Musk types are claiming $0 income, and being compensated totally in stocks and options.
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  14975. Strong disbelief equates to believing something is false.
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  14976. Nope. There are bloggers and some Atheist websites that push the "God does not exist" proposition. Some think you guys are the pussies, for weakening the definition of Atheist...ironic.
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  14977. ​ @notamurderer6226  You seem sharp, like a spoon. You might as well be saying ... Why complain about hmcd rates, since complaining doesn't do any good? Why have laws against hmcd, since laws won't completely end it?
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  14978. Would a murderous cop deserve to lose his badge, or would just a demotion be good?
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  14979. Likely the same lot that think rioting against police brutality, which is anti-authoritarianism, and storming the Capitol to keep an unelected ruler in power, which is authoritarianism, are totally samesies ... or even argue the first is worse.
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  14980.  @carlauclair8748  So, Trump is incompetent and hasn't kept up, leading to kids dying?
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  14981.  @carlauclair8748  Ummm, if there were "open borders", there wouldn't be such a thing as people being tossed in camps for crossing an imaginary line. Right? Trump is vowing to veto humanitarian aid, as we speak. ICE obviously does have a large budget. Isn't it more about allocation of what funding there is, rather than no funding?
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  14982.  @carlauclair8748  You brought up politicians advocating for "open borders". Don't know why you think it's relevant to people being in camps. If open borders were a thing, nobody would be in camps.
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  14983. "Letitia 'peekaboo' James" ~ Trumpty Dumpty Urban Dictionary: peekaboo Racist term used in white-supremacist circles to refer to a person of color, usually black, of upper or upper-middle class social standing. That uppity peekaboo thinks she can golf here just because she has money. by WhoKnowsWhoItCouldBe September 21, 2022
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  14984. ​ @luciousgainous6543  Settled twice for not renting to black Americans. Doubled down on the Central Park 5, even after they were exonerated. "Letitia 'peekaboo' James" Urban Dictionary: peekaboo Racist term used in white-supremacist circles to refer to a person of color, usually black, of upper or upper-middle class social standing. That uppity peekaboo thinks she can golf here just because she has money. by WhoKnowsWhoItCouldBe September 21, 2022
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  14985.  @jrmontoya4739  No.
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  14986.  @alabamaman5994  You have a multiple personality disorder.
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  14987. "Fascism is the complete opposite of Marxian socialism." ~ Mussolini The Marxian ideal is a stateless, democratic, non authoritarian, socialism. The complete opposite is an ultra-nationalistic, anti-democratic, authoritarian, crony capitalism (corporatism). One party has at least some anti-corporatists, and the other party just crossed the line from being undemocratic to being anti-democratic. One is pretty clearly the more fascist.
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  14988. The only other viable option is worse. He's now talking including loyalty to Israel as a requirement to getting in the country.
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  14989.  @sadiaafrin2700  So, let Trump win and make loyalty to Israel a requirement for entry to the US? Even you magically got the numbers to elect some third presidential option, congress still gets to pass things, and can overrule a veto.
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  14990.  @toomuch8232  I didn't prove your bogus "point". If a "god" popped up in front of me, I'd tell it that it's a stupid design. If one existed, why would I have to accept the dumbass was smarter, when there's no evidence it's smarter?
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  14991. Trump did that? The guy you promoted as the better option for progressiveness in 2016? Weird.
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  14992.  @cadec1086  Seriously, even the right wing Cato Institute couldn't find evidence of higher crime rates. In fact, they found lower crime rates. You seem to be fond of spouting bullshit ... kid. https://www.cato.org/blog/illegal-immigrants-crime-assessing-evidence
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  14993. If Pete endorses another candidate, his delegates are expected to vote for that candidate.
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  14994. Biden before Bernie is pressured to drop out would be better.
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  14995. Fact: most of "Trump's" economic accomplishments occurred during his first year, while Obama's last budget was still in effect. Fact: Since Trump's first budget kicked in, when the corporations and the rich could cash in on their tax breaks, which was also about the time Trump started his trade wars, even his own favourite measure, the stock market, says he sucks. Fact: He mocked safety guidelines encouraging his cult to ignore them, he fought and undermined governors instead of trying to help them, he has bullshitted about US testing rates (the US consistently has a pathetically low trace testing rate), and his incompetence has allowed tens of thousands of excess Americans to die. Fact: He directly caused the deaths of 700+ Americans, by gathering them together at rallies. Fact: He has dropped more bombs than Obama, has greatly increased the US's already bloated military budget, and hasn't ended the endless warring. What do you think his great accomplishments are?
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  14996. What are you idjits above on about? AOC and two fellow NY progressives back formal plea for ceasefire in Gaza Oct 16, 2023 18 House Democrats sign resolution for Mideast de-escalation, ceasefire Oct 23, 2023 — Cori Bush (D-Mo.). Bush's fellow “Squad” members Reps. Rashida Tlaib (D-Mich.), Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez (D-N.Y.) Democrats Like Rashida Tlaib, AOC Split With Biden Over Israel Ceasefire Calls Oct 31, 2023 AOC leads Democrats urging Biden to call for Gaza ceasefire over children's rights Nov 15, 2023 AOC calls Biden administration 'shameful' for blocking United Nations demand for a ... Dec 11, 2023 Aoc ceasefire | keeping it reel - NewsBreak Original Jan 17, 2024 Hour 1: AOC Calls for Ceasefire from Israel - The Marc Cox Morning Show Podcast Feb 8, 2024 AOC suggests cutting off aid to Israel after U.S. vetoes ceasefire resolution Feb 22, 2024 AOC and Other Democrats Urge Biden to Call for a Ceasefire at the State of the ... Mar 1, 2024
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  14997. This is one of the most uninformed comment sections I have ever seen. AOC and two fellow NY progressives back formal plea for ceasefire in Gaza Oct 16, 2023 18 House Democrats sign resolution for Mideast de-escalation, ceasefire Oct 23, 2023 — Cori Bush (D-Mo.). Bush's fellow “Squad” members Reps. Rashida Tlaib (D-Mich.), Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez (D-N.Y.) Democrats Like Rashida Tlaib, AOC Split With Biden Over Israel Ceasefire Calls Oct 31, 2023 AOC leads Democrats urging Biden to call for Gaza ceasefire over children's rights Nov 15, 2023 AOC calls Biden administration 'shameful' for blocking United Nations demand for a ... Dec 11, 2023 Aoc ceasefire | keeping it reel - NewsBreak Original Jan 17, 2024 Hour 1: AOC Calls for Ceasefire from Israel - The Marc Cox Morning Show Podcast Feb 8, 2024 AOC suggests cutting off aid to Israel after U.S. vetoes ceasefire resolution Feb 22, 2024 AOC and Other Democrats Urge Biden to Call for a Ceasefire at the State of the ... Mar 1, 2024
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  14998. Republicans are incoherent, when it comes to immigration. Johnson was lamenting that 60m workers were lost to women's choice, that were needed to keep Social Security and Medicare afloat. When potential workers come into the country, it's ... "Not those kind!"
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  14999.  @tanakax25  Republicans are already changing laws to let children compete for full-time jobs, for less pay.
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  15000. What a fucking asshat. He has zero clue how emergency care works here, in Canada, or other single payer countries. He also doesn't seem to give a crap that over a million Americans are traveling to countries like India for care they can afford, including chemo. How would he have liked it if his cancer ridden son had to fly to India, get chemo, and fly back in an also chemo ridden state, just to afford it?
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  15001. "I know nothing!" https://youtu.be/UmzsWxPLIOo
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  15002. Provide the irrefutable data showing minorities commit 95% of murders.
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  15003. Sooo ... what? Terrorist groups should be allowed to say whatever they want on whatever platform they want, allowed to convince more and more idiots to their way of thinking? White supremacists should be allowed to do the same? People that promote molesting minors, or other criminal behavior? Con artists targetting seniors? Any and all speech should be welcome on any and all platforms, to show we're "brave" (or stupid)?
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  15004.  @WERob-to5sp  That's like saying capitalism is fascism, and doesn't come in more libertarian, or anarcho, varieties.
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  15005. @Dustin Stich I, literally, posted how. Employers are required to negotiate in good faith. If the labor board oversight determines the employer isn't, the employer can be taken to court, and forced back to the table. There are also labor laws, if they're being assholes, and employees could sue them for the equivalent of what they already bargained for. Why do you think employers would put up a big fight, amass huge legal fees, just to avoid paying amounts they're already paying?
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  15006. @Dustin Stich "The bill says it" means, if that bill is passed, then it's a law. Do you no know how bills work?
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  15007.  @joecasey93  You mentioned one thing that would be affected, operating costs, by this. Private healthcare costs are rising at almost 4x the rate of inflation. It would still save them money to drop healthcare as a cost, even if they converted the current cost into wages.
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  15008.  @joecasey93  Rofl, how is having them pay what they're paying now, only to employees instead of insurance companies, untenable and economically illiterate? Why do you think employers would fight paying one hand over another hand, especially if the second hand saves money in the long run?
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  15009. @Dustin Stich You can try and challenge a law in the supreme court, once it is a law. The supreme court isn't involved with bills becoming laws, dumb dumb.
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  15010. @Dustin Stich That's why the house and senate are called the "legislative" branch. Do you know what "legislative" means?
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  15011. @Dustin Stich If there was a supreme court challenge, what would be getting challenged is a law. If it passes the house and senate, it's a law. Law first, then challenge. And, again, you seem to have simply ignored the labor board supervised negotiations, just so you can travel down a road of stupidity, showing everyone you don't know how the government works.
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  15012.  @joecasey93  From the employer's side, they aren't paying out any more per employee, so nice bullshit false equivalence to a 4 hr work day. Again ... it's a labor negotiation. Bye.
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  15013. @Dustin Stich Hello? Is this thing on? Labor negotiation, with labor board oversight, which labor laws already require employers to negotiate in good faith.
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  15014.  @jonbeatty5979  1 drunk guy fed leading questions =/= "campaigners"
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  15015. @Steve T You've replied to the perfect op.
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  15016. Don't forget the 27% of Republicans who don't want him to concede, under any circumstances. https://www.newsweek.com/more-quarter-republicans-dont-think-trump-should-ever-concede-poll-1548222
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  15017. Considering that Dore is far less than 1% of their material ... yes?
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  15018. @CasualsWorstNightmare Do you have reading comprehension problems? True centrism is when your mix of socialism and capitalism is closer to even, more like Denmark. The US "center" isn't anywhere close to that. You're ironically posting, if you're a moron who thinks US progressives are "far left".
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  15019.  @AARon-fe1mo  No. The UK system is completely socialized. Just a socialized insurance isn't anywhere close to being the most socialized system. It's also cheaper. It actually costs less, if you take out all the levels of profit margins. Denmark goes beyond standard health coverage: "If you are under the age of 18, you get free dental care including orthodontic treatment (if the treatment is recommended by the specialist)."
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  15020.  @jabrokneetoeknee6448  Denmark also has free college, even subsidizes other student expenses. Has a 30% public sector workforce, about double the US and UK. Has a 70% unionization rate, on top of that, giving workers more say in what their worth, and how they're treated. I'd put it as having closer to an even mix than the UK.
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  15021.  @AARon-fe1mo  Nope. He wanted to ban duplicate coverage ... people selling you something you're already covered for. It is already done with Medicare plus policies.
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  15022.  @inquisitive.lurker  How does Switzerland have a public option, if there is no option to opt out of basic coverage? There is optional supplemental coverage. Like I said, a public option and a private option aren't the same thing.
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  15023.  @inquisitive.lurker  Eh? A public option is government coverage. It's just optional to sign up for it and pay into it. The NHS is pretty comprehensive.
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  15024. So, you'd prefer fascism at home too, and even more fanatical support for Israel? Trump is talking making a pledge of allegiance to Israel to get in the country. Haley is talking making anti-Zionism illegal. Republicans are censuring anti-Zionism.
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  15025. You're the one smearing. US doctors aren't prescribing human ivermectin for covid. Dumbasses have, literally, been buying, and taking, the over the counter horse dewormer. You criticize David for appealing to authorities, which is actually perfectly fine if they're experts on the topic at hand, and then you appeal to authorities (doctors). Isn't that who David is appealing to? Is the 5th largest pharma corporation in the world, which manufactures ivermectin, and doesn't recommend it as a safe covid remedy, an expert on their own product?
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  15026. A lifetime of being taught not to use critical thinking in Sunday school.
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  15027.  @fatbachelors3922  In what reality can you pass it, without the magic number of votes? Even if you had a 100% guaranteed to fail performance art vote, you'd then still have to do the hard work of converting or replacing enough members of congress to actually pass it. Hard work that AOC and Justice Dems have been doing. AOC was just on the ground fighting to add one more M4A yes vote to congress, while Dore was slandering her, and Nina, from his garage. House Dems were thinking of taking out the $15 before even one vote. Progressives got it to stay in for a round of voting. It passed the house (M4A didn't have a chance in hell) and also got a senate vote. Absolutely awesome to just get a vote on an important progressive policy, right?! Plus, getting ever so important lists of no voters, from both chambers ... f*cking amazing, right?! Nope. Dore, and his knobs, just keep bitching about those who got it to stay in for a round of voting, and who voted for it, rather than go after those who voted against it. Pathetic.
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  15028.  @timi3020  Ummm, you didn't seem to learn what "ad hominem" means, yourself. insult =/= ad hominem
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  15029.  @jasperjaguar5453  Because she was in Cleveland, where she and Nina were working to get Nina elected, promoting M4A themselves, to add another M4A yes vote to congress ... you know, that thing you need to do to ever actually pass a bill. Instead of knocking on her door, why aren't they knocking on the doors of the 300+ house members who won't sign onto the bill?
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  15030.  @jasperjaguar5453  Again, you might want to change the leadership, or who you're inviting to speak. At least one rally had a speaker who regularly slanders progressives. Another rally was cancelled because they invited a well known white supremacist as a speaker. Get your shit together.
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  15031. ​ @olympian3  What are you blathering about? Palestinians were sitting in Palestine, minding their own business, and the Zionists came to them. How the hell can they be the colonizers, ethnic cleansers, and occupiers?
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  15032. AOC voted against the CARES act and Jimmy still calls her a sellout and a shill. She's a member of the DSA, which has been holding M4A rallies. Her progressive PAC just helped get more progressives elected to congress. Jimmy simply runs off his mouth and somehow thinks he has more progressive cred than her. He's a moron. He thinks holding a vote guaranteed to fail will lead to some progressive wave of voting in 2022, enough to get a majority in both the house and senate, and then pass M4A? He thought letting Trump win would bring about a massive wave of progressive voting, as well. If bitch Pelosi considers the threat a bluff, then what? Abstain and let a Republican speaker win? Vote for someone else (who?) and paralyze the House (with corporate Dems, Republicans, and the corporate media, blaming progressives for the House not being able to accomplish anything)?
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  15033. Why? Harris is an idiot. "Therefore there must be right and wrong answers, to questions of ..." artistic, musical, literary, theatrical, culinary, etc., etc., etc., ... likes and dislikes. What a maroon. Just because subjectivity objectively exists, doesn't mean there are objectively right and wrong answers.
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  15034. ​@@Dukiehouse Why would they keep going on about something that doesn't get them likes, views, positive responses, etc.?
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  15035. @@Dukiehouse How do you make money if nobody is watching, liking, or giving positive feedback?
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  15036. @@Dukiehouse Are you playing ignorant, or are you actually? How tf do they make money, from constantly going on about Swift, if no conservatives are watching, liking, or giving positive feedback?
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  15037. ​@@Dukiehouse By you claiming it's not conservatives, and me asking why they keep going on about it then, if it's not for their conservative fans. Not that complicated, wingnut.
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  15038. Israel is objectively the aggressor by every relevant measure (modern history, law, and current events) ... Modern history: With the Balfour declaration, Zionsim converted from something like immigration to colonization. 100 years ago, in 1923, Ze'ev Jabotinsky fully acknowledged that Zionism is colonialism, and that, based on the entirety of history, the native Palestinians would fight it until the bitter end. He just didn't care what would happen to them, and promoted doing it anyway. Colonizers are never not the aggressors, when it comes to the native population. On top of the colonialist nature of Zionism, the Zionists also formed terrorist organizations, like the Irgun and Lehi. They bombed many Palestinian markets and other public places, murdering many civilians, including children, even including Palestinian Jews (who opposed colonialist Zionism). Israel merged those terrorists into the new nation's military and intelligence agencies. Israelis elected Menachem Begin, leader of the Irgun, child murderer, Jew murderer, and bomber of the King David Hotel, as PM. Israelis, to this day, celebrate those Irgun terrorists as "heroes". Zionists literally taught their neighbours that terrorism is a valid path to independence and statehood, and that terrorists are to be celebrated. In 1945, it is well documented that Zionists owned just 5% of the land and were a majority in zero districts. Israel was formed by going against the will of the majority population. Its foundation is completely undemocratic. Even then, Jews were still a minority, in "their" half. The only possible way to actually become a Jewish ethno-state, would be to ethnically cleanse away the actual majority. And, that's exactly what happened. Israel has never allowed those people to return. Law: Israel is considered an occupier by the International Court, the UN GA, and the UN SC. Occupiers are also never not the aggressors. Those occupied actually have a right to resist occupation. On the flip side, it is illegal for the occupier to settle occupied lands, and illegal to use collective punishment. Israel is a rogue nation, that doesn't abide by international law. What it has been doing, and is doing now, is illegal. Current events: This year, alone, prior to Oct 7 ... Israel held over 1200 Palestinian hostages without charges ... over 200 Palestinians had been killed by the IDF and settlers ... over 1000 Palestinians had been displaced by Israel's neverending colonization of the West Bank ... and, Israel continued to operate an open air WWII style fascist ghetto. Even ignoring modern history and law, in no reality did Hamas "start" anything.
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  15039. ​ @mattbebe2555  Splitting the vote is just stupid. Even if every progressive voter, and the entire progressive caucus was a third party, you'd be handing Republicans the house, senate, and presidency. And getting that many voters to go third party is delusional. At best, you'll get enough to hand everything to Republicans, and not get a single third party seat (even the most popular third party, Libertarian, hasn't won a single seat in its 50 year existence). The progressive caucus is about 15 seats away from becoming the majority of house Dems. Just keep plugging away at reforming the party. Literally the worst time to give up.
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  15040. Don't you think all Americans claiming to be African-Americans would convolute the definition of African-American?
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  15041. ​ @Kain9407  By what measure? Christians, campaigning against condom use in Africa, have had a hand in 30m people perishing.
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  15042.  @Kain9407  By what measure? 30m lives lost, in Africa, as Chrstians campaigned against using rubbers.
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  15043.  @Kain9407  So Christians complicit in tens of millions of deaths, is cool with you? Christian nations dominate the top of the list of femicide rates by country.
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  15044.  @Kain9407  The goal was for them not to be protected. They even outright lied, stating rubbers caused HIV. But, that's cool with you. Okay, so how about the top of the femicide rates list being dominated by Christian countries?
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  15045.  @Kain9407  YouTube not liking this convo. 4th try ... What is the goal, behind dishonestly telling people that cndms cause HIV?
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  15046.  @Kain9407  What's the goal of Chrstn nations dominating the top of the fem-cide rates list?
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  15047.  @meceffeukada3767  Or hidden (only viewable if comment section is sorted by newest).
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  15048. What a moron. This virus has at least 10x the mortality rate of the flu, and is twice as infectious. If nothing were done, it would likely kill about 20x more than the flu.
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  15049. Those folks that bought Trump condos cheap are going to make a killing, once the building is sold off, and his name removed.
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  15050. ​ @edwsc3  Israel is objectively the aggressor by every relevant measure, dumb dumb ... Modern history: 100 years ago, in 1923, Ze'ev Jabotinsky fully acknowledged that Zionism is colonialism, and that, based on the entirety of history, the natives would fight it until the bitter end. He just didn't care what would happen to them, and promoted doing it anyway. Colonizers are never not the aggressors. On top of the colonialist nature of Zionism, the Zionists also formed terrorist organizations, like the Irgun and Lehi. They bombed many Palestinian markets and other public places, murdering many civilians, including children, even including Palestinian Jews (who opposed Zionism). Israel merged those terrorists into the new nation's military and intelligence agencies. Israelis elected Menachem Begin, leader of the Irgun, child murderer, Jew murderer, and bomber of the King David Hotel, as PM. Israelis, to this day, celebrate those terrorists as "heroes". Zionists literally taught their neighbours that terrorism is a valid path to independence and statehood, and that terrorists are to be celebrated. In 1945, it is well documented that Zionists owned just 5% of the land and were a majority nowhere. Israel was formed by actually going against the majority population. It's foundation is completely undemocratic. Then, becoming a majority, in "their" new nation, by ethnic cleansing the actual majority, and then claiming to be democratic, is utter nonsense. Law: Israel is considered an occupier by the International Court, the UN GA, and the UN SC. Occupiers are also never not the aggressors. Those occupied actually have a right to resist occupation. On the flip side, it is illegal for the occupier to settle occupied lands, and illegal to use collective punishment. Israel is a rogue nation, that doesn't abide by international law. What it has been doing, and is doing now, is illegal. Current events: This year, alone, prior to Oct 7 ... Israel held over 1200 Palestinian hostages without charges ... over 200 Palestinians had been killed by the IDF and settlers ... over 1000 Palestinians had been displaced by Israel's neverending colonization of the West Bank ... and, Israel continued to operate an open air WWII style fascist ghetto, in Gaza. Even ignoring modern history and law, in no reality did Hamas "start" anything.
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  15051. The Native Americans reached a point where they wanted to push all the white men back into the sea. Why do you think they felt that way, David? Was it just black and white, they were racist?
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  15052.  @PunkShockRock  Rofl. What was he "correct" about?
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  15053.  @cqtaylor  Well, if you're picking sides in a war, someone's going to dislike you, either way. Why would you expect otherwise? WWI didn't really have a clear bad guy. I think the US was on the right path staying out of that one. Not sure whose opinion you care about, on the pro overthrowing democratically elected leaders, and pro committing or supporting war crimes side of things.
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  15054. But, what at all does that have to do with Trump's motives, which had nothing to do with ending tensions? Whether there needs to be a NATO, or not, anymore is a totally different topic. Right now, there is a NATO, it has a specific purpose, and Congress allocated funds to support Ukraine in support of that same purpose. Just sounds like Tucker deflecting, to me.
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  15055.  @Zentron  Carol Danvers was never black, in the comics. Wrong character.
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  15056.  @dustypatten  Plenty of countries exempt staples. It doesn't make it non regressive, just somewhat less so. A VAT is still considered a regressive tax, as are basically all consumption taxes.
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  15057.  @00justsayin00  Not every poor person will benefit economically from the UBI, and they can't opt out of paying the VAT. So, there's that. For the rest, it's still regressive, just less so. "Regressive" refers to the percentage of your income it would affect. Bezos makes $2500 a second. Paying $400 in VAT on a $4000 stay in a luxury suite at a hotel is a teenie tiny fraction of a percent of his yearly earnings. Even if a UBI bumped you up from $28k a year to $40k a year, a $400 VAT on a $4000 used car would be a full 1% of your yearly earnings.
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  15058.  @Canvashed  Similar reasons to supporting resistance groups, across Europe, during WWII.
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  15059. If the Republicans who spouted the same bullshit as Trump admit that kind of language incited a coup attempt, then they'd implicate themselves, as well. They shouldn't even be aloud to vote, due to conflict of interest.
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  15060.  @Understandingways  Do you wash your hands, after pulling all this shit directly out of your ass?
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  15061.  @crogers4912  Man you are dim. The trend is still migration from higher poverty rural areas to urban areas. It doesn't much matter which state they're moving to, if the trend is moving to blue cities in red states.
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  15062.  @albertobenevenuto77  Yeah, they're Puritans. And it's no misinterpretation. List, directly from the Students for Life (major anti-abortion lobby group) web page: Abortifacient Oral contraceptives (birth control pills) Intra-uterine devices (IUDs), both copper & hormonal Hormonal patches Hormonal shots Hormonal implants Hormonal vaginal rings Plan B (emergency contraceptive) and off-brand equivalents From the Heritage Foundation: “conservatives have to lead the way in restoring sex to its true purpose, and ending recreational sex and senseless use of birth control pills.” Chris Rufo, CRT fear mongerer: “The pill causes health problems for many women. ‘Recreational sex’ is a large part of the reason we have so many single-mother households, which drives poverty, crime, and dysfunction. The point of sex is to create children—this is natural, normal, and good.” Rolling Stone: "House Speaker Mike Johnson’s Long Crusade Against Birth Control" Candace Owens: “The birth control pharmaceutical propaganda has been so successful that women think their only options are to dose themselves with cancer-causing hormones, or have 50 babies or have multiple abortions,”
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  15063. ​ @no.6243  Trump had nothing to do with the first vaccine out of the gate, not even funding, dimwit. Plus, simply tossing funding at something doesn't make it his.
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  15064. ​ @no.6243  It did weed out the easily manipulated. That's why COVID death rates have been found to be higher in Trump counties, where morons were more easily manipulated by misinformation, and died because of it.
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  15065. That argument didn't age well ... for Harris. "MN took some time to convince me — But through this keyhold aperture he finally led me to see that there is no true Islam." ~ Sam Harris
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  15066. A UBI would be great, but Yang's method of paying for it sucks ass. He doesn't know how a VAT actually works, who it actually taxes. It's specifically designed to NOT end up taxing businesses, to avoid double taxation. It's a sales tax, collected in stages, with every stage getting paid back, except the final consumer. It also wouldn't generate as much revenue in a lockdown scenario and already has a $1t deficit starting point, until the economy expands enough. It would also take a fair bit to figure out all his different stacking vs not stacking options, how they coordinate with state programs, who qualifies for what, etc. A jobs program would be easier to implement (simply create infrastructure jobs) but the timing (heading into winter and during a pandemic) might not be great. It, too, would start with a large deficit, until income taxes, and the economic benefits of better infrastructure, kicked in.
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  15067. Things Taiwan and South Korea were doing a month or two ago. We won't flatten the curve until we can test beyond those showing more serious symptoms. We need the capacity to test people confirmed cases have come in contact with, even before they show symptoms.
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  15068. David. To fight misinformation, do a bit on trace testing rates (tests per confirmed case). Those, like Trump, spouting total test numbers, or even tests per million numbers, are spouting numbers that are totally disconnected from the covid numbers. The US has had a pathetically low trace testing rate ... https://ourworldindata.org/grapher/number-of-covid-19-tests-per-confirmed-case?time=2020-11-12&country=AUS~CAN~DNK~DEU~ITA~JPN~NZL~NOR~KOR~TWN~GBR~USA~VNM
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  15069. What federal investigation?
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  15070.  @christopherclanton1986  Not possible. Don't be shy. Own your inner princess. Work it.
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  15071.  @christopherclanton1986  Nope. Are you a bigoted princess too?
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  15072.  @andrewdeschamps4926  The bubonic plague has a mortality rate of about 1% in modern developed countries, so ... about the same. Without modern medicine, and modern counter measures, covid may have killed off many many more, much quicker than the plague.
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  15073.  @andrewdeschamps4926  A lot of people have had serious conditions, that required hospitalization from covid. Many many more likely would have died hundreds of years ago, without modern medicine ... including a lot more middle aged and younger people. Plus, there are already new variants that are sending more younger people than old, to the hospital, right now. Covid would have trashed a medieval world.
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  15074.  @jring383  How is arguing there's going to be mass unemployment, due to coming automation, so here's $12000 to try and live on, progressive? Why wouldn't a job, with a living wage, be better?
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  15075.  @SteveV1960  If everything is going to be automated, then it would simply increase the need for more robots, unless the automation scare is complete nonsense.
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  15076.  @SteveV1960  Oh, well just as long as you come out alright ...
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  15077.  @jring383  How would demand create anything but a demand for more robots, if he's projection mass automation and depression levels of unemployment? A FJG would avoid that problem. How can you both save your $12k for unemployment time and spend it to fuel the economy? Once you're unemployed, what new job are you talking about? His whole schtick is that there won't be jobs, due to automation. You're going to have to live off your $12k a year. A FJG would avoid that problem. Yang is dishonest. A VAT taxes consumers, not corporations. People will spend their UBI on Amazon, making them richer. That will make Bezos richer. And, the more he has, the more he'll hoard, and hoarded money isn't affected by a VAT. His plan benefits giant corporations and the super rich.
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  15078.  @jring383  I said he's dishonest about who pays the VAT. He is absolutely lying that a VAT is a way to make giant corporations and the super rich "pay their fair share". It isn't. I also didn't deny automation. Do you have reading comprehension problems? You're the one arguing out of both sides of your ass. You've argued to save your $12k, but also argued to spend it to fuel the economy, to create new jobs. If simply stimulating the economy will create new jobs for people, then that contradicts that there is necessarily going to be depression level unemployment. If there is definitely going to be depression level unemployment, then that's 25% of the population expected to live on $12000 a year, and there will be no new job for you to find.
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  15079.  @jring383  I'm Canadian. I've been paying a VAT for almost 30 years. I've run a business with a VAT. It is absolute bullshit, that a VAT is a way to tax corporations like Amazon. They will simply collect the tax and pass it along to the government. Mixed with the UBI, more people will spend money on Amazon, making them even richer. That'll make Bezos richer.
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  15080.  @jring383  It will be the upper middle class and lower end rich ... people who already spend that much a month, but aren't hoarding massive amounts ... who will pay the highest percentage of their wealth into the VAT. The richer you go, the higher the percentage they'll be hoarding, and hoarded money isn't affected by a VAT. The super rich will be less affected, and will become richer.
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  15081. They are mostly Athe-ist, but do believe in at least one God, so are Theists. I am mostly Athe-ist, as well, but overal have to say I'm Agnostic, because some definitions can't be refuted with evidence.
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  15082.    Plenty of people vote for the lesser of two evils. Plagiarism isn't on par with being fined for fraud, or losing a lawsuit for running a fraudulent university, is it? And, to try and make out like anyone lies more than Trump, is a tough road to take.
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  15083.  @philipfavata7469  Moron. The economy was on the same upward trajectory since 2009 ... after the global economic crisis. It was also going up in countries around the world. Trump did not fix something, both before he was elected, and in countries he wasn't elected in. It was a global recovery.
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  15084. Pretty much every gun starts out legal. About a quarter of illegal guns are then stolen from legal owners. If the legal owner has to jump through more hoops, and there are fewer legal owners, then there'd be fewer guns to steal. About another quarter illegal guns are strawman purchases, where a legal buyer buys a gun and hands it off to someone who isn't supposed to have a gun. If the straw purchaser has to jump through hoops, then it makes it harder for the person they're buying for. Almost half of guns were legal right up until the point they were used to do something illegal. Most homicides are people who know each other. Alaska has the highest firearm mortality rate, and one of the highest homicide rates. It's not gangs, with illegal guns, shooting people. So, yeah, "legal" gun owners should jump through some hoops. Should have mental competence screening.
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  15085.  @MyName-cw4yr  What's weird? Jordan has over 2m Palestinian refugees. That's equivalent to the US taking in over 60m. Plus, they all know Israel is insane, and would use any excuse to go after them. Likud's platform claims a "right" to parts of Jordan, Syria, and Lebanon. They just need an excuse.
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  15086.  @MyName-cw4yr  It was a size comparison, dim one. There are hundreds of thousands, in other neighboring countries. There are millions of Syrian refugees in multiple countries, as well. How about stop making ME refugees?
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  15087.  @MyName-cw4yr  Riiiiight. Because already having 3.2m refugees, like Turkey, would have zero bearing on wanting to take in more. Just how dim are you?
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  15088.  @bernman23  No. Even the Nunes memo stated the origins was the Australian government telling the FBI about the Papadopoulos meeting. And, Republican Mueller's report stated they didn't charge Jr and Kushner because it would be hard to prove they "willfully" broke the law, not because they didn't break the law. Creating thousands and thousands of propaganda bots is a bit more than social media ads.
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  15089.  @ericthomas917  Oh, right, Republican Mueller invented Russians, because ... ?
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  15090.  @jimbobjimjim6500  Ummm, it actually laid out plenty of evidence of "collusion", but sharing information just isn't a crime, on its own. "Conspiracy" is the crime, and it also laid out evidence of that, but stated it would be hard to prove those who met with the Russians "willfully" broke the law.
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  15091.  @Leelee-u4m2t  Oh, so they're insane. Sorry to hear it.
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  15092. ​ @Woobieeee Israel is objectively the aggressor by every relevant measure (modern history, law, and current events), dumb dumb ... Modern history: With the Balfour declaration, Zionsim converted from something like immigration to colonization. 100 years ago, in 1923, Ze'ev Jabotinsky fully acknowledged that Zionism is colonialism, and that, based on the entirety of history, the native Palestinians would fight it until the bitter end. He just didn't care what would happen to them, and promoted doing it anyway. Colonizers are never not the aggressors, when it comes to the native population. On top of the colonialist nature of Zionism, the Zionists also formed terrorist organizations, like the Irgun and Lehi. They bombed many Palestinian markets and other public places, murdering many civilians, including children, even including Palestinian Jews (who opposed colonialist Zionism). Israel merged those terrorists into the new nation's military and intelligence agencies. Israelis elected Menachem Begin, leader of the Irgun, child murderer, Jew murderer, and bomber of the King David Hotel, as PM. Israelis, to this day, celebrate those Irgun terrorists as "heroes". Zionists literally taught their neighbours that terrorism is a valid path to independence and statehood, and that terrorists are to be celebrated. In 1945, it is well documented that Zionists owned just 5% of the land and were a majority in zero districts. Israel was formed by going against the will of the majority population. Its foundation is completely undemocratic. Even then, Jews were still a minority, in "their" half. The only possible way to actually become a Jewish ethno-state, would be to ethnically cleanse away the actual majority. And, that's exactly what happened. Israel has never allowed those people to return. Law: Israel is considered an occupier by the International Court, the UN GA, and the UN SC. Occupiers are also never not the aggressors. Those occupied actually have a right to resist occupation. On the flip side, it is illegal for the occupier to settle occupied lands, and illegal to use collective punishment. Israel is a rogue nation, that doesn't abide by international law. What it has been doing, and is doing now, is illegal. Current events: This year, alone, prior to Oct 7 ... Israel held over 1200 Palestinian hostages without charges ... over 200 Palestinians had been killed by the IDF and settlers ... over 1000 Palestinians had been displaced by Israel's neverending colonization of the West Bank ... and, Israel continued to operate an open air WWII style fascist ghetto. Even ignoring modern history and law, in no reality did Hamas "start" anything.
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  15093. I'm not having a hard time. I understand that you think Atheism should be diefined A-theism. I think Atheism should stay defined as Athe-ism, because redifining it only convolutes the definition. I think everyone who is an A-theist, is so because they haven't seen enough evidence to force a belief, making them also Agnostic, so why convolute the definition of Athe-ism. You deny the existance of strong Atheists, so don't think it convolutes the definition.
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  15094.  @Q3020Q  Nazis didn't live inside the Warsaw ghetto, dumb dumb. Gaza is officially considered occupied. Israel controls the borders, airspace, ports, electricity, water, imports and exports (only people can go through Rafah, not stuff), and Bibi even controls the flow of money from Qatar, having turned it off and on multiple times. Likud was founded by Irgun (bombed numerous Palestinian markets and other public places, as well as the King David Hotel) and Lehi (considered worse than Irgun, and tried to ally with Nazis against Britain) terrorists. Their platform (over a decade older than Hamas), "between the sea and the Jordan there will only be Israeli sovereignty", promises to completely colonize and ethnically cleanse all Palestine territories. It further claims a "right" to all the "Land of Israel" (fictional biblical borders that don't mesh with archaeological reality), which is an open declaration of future wars, against Jordan, Syria, Lebanon, and possibly Iraq. It's abhorrent that Zionists became the very thing they fled from.
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  15095. ​​ @ThePoliticalBulldog  That is the dumbest shit I've read so far, in the past few days. Both have Canaanite DNA, making them both native. The Egyptian and Hittite empires dominated the Canaanite region; then, for a brief time, there were the kingdoms of Israel, Judea, and Philistia; then the Assyrians wiped out Israel; then the Babylonians conquered Judea and Philistia; then the Persians conquered the Babylonians; then the Greeks conquered the Persians; then the Romans conquered the Greeks ... Romans didn't conquer "group A", and the ones that did, Babylonians, also conquered "group B", and took some of both populations hostage to Babylon. "Group A" decided to rebel against their Roman oppressors, multiple times, killing tens of thousands of Roman civilians, so the Romans responded with excessive force, destroyed their temple, and ethnically cleansing them out of Jerusalem. Sound familiar? Group B simply didn't go anywhere. Still sitting there, with their Canaanite DNA. After a 1500 year walkabout, group A decided to return, not as neighbours, but to take half the land and ethnically cleanse those who had remained off the land. On top of being Colonialists, they also formed terrorist groups (Irgun and Lehi), and killed many group B civilians, including children, even killed group B Jews (who didn't support Zionism). That colonialism and terrorism was rewarded with statehood. And, anytime group B rebels against their group A oppressors, group A uses excessive force, and does more ethnic cleansing, just like the Romans. Group A also decided to set up an open air WWII style fascist ghetto, for group B. They've become the very thing they fled Europe and Russia from.
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  15096. ​ @Iamrightyouarewrong  The native side isn't claiming an imaginary friend gave it to them. They're just claiming they're natives. The Zionist colonialism is based on the fairy tale.
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  15097. ​ @irvingcortez1399  “So you’re supporting Kamala Harris in this election, I understand?” Behar asked Usher. “Yes!” Usher replied, enthusiastically.
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  15098.  @irvingcortez1399  Learn to read.
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  15099. They've criticized all kinds of MSM, dumb dumb.
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  15100.  @gadoatl5133  So, you think CNN is either 100% wrong or 100% right, 100% of the time?
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  15101.  @gadoatl5133  So Bernie didn't say nice things about Joe, and that he'd work with him?
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  15102.  @gadoatl5133  Let's be honest. Bernie did say nice things about Joe, did say he'd work with him, and CNN is needlessly trashing him. Warren also hasn't "officially" endorsed Biden. Where's the trashing of her?
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  15103.  @normster1000  And, which one of those "biological genders" does a car have? If a guy asks you, "Isn't she a beaut?", about a car, do you let him know your "truth"?
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  15104. Those in not bad shape aren't taking up a hospital bed.
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  15105.  @robinlillian9471  Rofl, idiot. Nice strawman you created to attack. Who said "no one could possibly prefer Buttigieg"? That's a far cry from no majority or plurality showing a preference for Buttigieg.
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  15106.  @DonorFan  They screwed Iowa. They've got rule makers and superdelegates working for a billionaire, who they're changing rules for. Some are even plotting to try and reverse the superdelegate rules. They're the divisive ones working against a candidate. Saying they're working against that candidate is simply stating a fact. You focus on who is truly divisive. https://www.politico.com/news/2020/01/31/dnc-superdelegates-110083
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  15107. What Anthony said. They basically had Krystal there to attack the Democratic party from the left, which got even worse when she joined in regularly attacking even progressives and promoted going third party, which is a losing strategy that would benefit Republicans most.
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  15108.  @AdamtheRed-  You just moved the goalpost.
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  15109. Over 90% of drugs are seized at points of entry, not on people crossing rivers and deserts. Cartels don't want their drugs dying with someone in a river somewhere. Over 80% of drug traffickers are also Americans, not even foreign. Undocumented immigrants commit crimes at half the rate of natural born citizens. Plus, these same people are anti-abortion, so obviously think there's plenty of room for hundreds of thousands of extra people a year, that will compete for jobs, etc. None of their anti-migrant arguments make any sense. They're just racists.
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  15110.  @VIDEOgameDROME  Oops, dropped my s. "After Socialism, Fascism attacks the whole complex of democratic ideologies and rejects them both in their theoretical premises and in their applications or practical manifestations." ~ Doctrine of Fascism
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  15111. ​ @SeymourBalz  Except they aren't telling the truth. Canada's dairy tariffs on the US only come into effect after a set limit of non tariff imports. No US dairy imports to Canada hit those limits, so nobody is paying anything. US milk imports aren't even at half the set limit. Plus, those limits were all part of the Trump negotiated trade deal that he called the best trade deal ever. You MAGA will buy anything he says.
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  15112. @Gantzephon  Also important to note that no US dairy products are surpassing the limit. US milk isn't even at half the limit. So, nobody is actually paying those tariffs Trump is whining about.
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  15113.  @disenfranchisedamerican6804  A representative simply winning by popular vote isn't even a "true democracy". It's how most elections are won, in the US. A "true democracy" is a direct democracy, which doesn't even require representatives.
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  15114. @Dawaza If he railed against wearing seatbelts, speed limits, and drinking and driving laws, encouraged people to ignore them, fought against them in court, etc., then, yes, the excess deaths would be his fault.
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  15115.  @MH-oh8rn  Not caring if people get sick and die, or not caring if people are abused by police, seems pretty hateful. You're, literally, supporting excess deaths.
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  15116.  Mike C  Because you're psycho?
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  15117.  @LittleMissLeared  Psycho children that will have a violent tantrum if you try to take their toys away.
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  15118.  @LittleMissLeared  Yeah, you're like kids threatening to throw their lawn darts at anyone who tries to take them away. Psychos.
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  15119. Stop using this year's exit polls, dumb dumbs. They'll be as skewed as in person vs mail in voting was skewed.
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  15120. Without making Atheists people, it also leaves open the word to describe non-people. Science itself could be claimed to be A-theistic.
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  15121.  @Irishhound  No they weren't, dimwit. But, it requires reading more than their party name to know that.
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  15122.  @charliem6467  Government's have been telling people to wear articles of clothing since forever.
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  15123.  @Irishhound  Losing special privileges, or status, doesn't equate to being persecuted. How do you think you're being persecuted? The government made slavery possible. The government made segregation possible. The government promised reparations to slaves. The government took reparations away from slaves and paid reparations to the slave owners. Whether your ancestors were around, or not, white guys were running the government, back then, and the government still owes a debt.
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  15124. Yeah, warning about what?
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  15125.  @buckiesmalls  Sure, but that's a different subject.
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  15126.  @leahwhiteley5164  A Republican is going to win the California Republican primary, and it'll be Trump if he's on the primary ballot. Why would a "RINO" mind if Trump is kicked off the ballot?
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  15127.  Susan Wojcicki Is Asshoe  "Sam Seder!!!!!" ~ Steven Crowder
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  15128.  Susan Wojcicki Is Asshoe  So we're agreed that he fled, after clearly recognizing who Sam was.
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  15129.  @devo2  Yeah, causes would be part of the crisis, dumb dumb.
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  15130. No. It's a ton of testing, to identify who has it and isolate them. It's a bunch of medical equipment and medicines, to keep serious cases alive.
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  15131. Total testing is irrelevant. Even testing per capita is irrelevant. Neither tell you how you're testing against the virus spread. Number of tests per positive result tells you how you're testing vs the virus. The US is testing about 6 people per positive result. New York and New Jersey are testing at pathetic rates of 2-3 people per positive result. Most of our world leading countries are failing. France is also testing at a pathetic rate of 2-3 people per positive result. The UK is testing 4-5 people per positive result. Spain is testing 5 people per positive result. Italy is testing 7-8 people per positive result. Germany is testing 13 people per positive result. Canada is testing about 15 people per positive result, which still isn't enough. Countries, like S Korea, New Zealand, and Australia, that quickly contained the virus and flattened their curves, are testing 50+ people per positive result. Sweden isn't even trying to contain the virus, and they're testing at a rate of 5-6 people per positive result. How countries can claim to be trying to contain the virus, while testing at a similar rate, or worse, than a country that isn't even trying, is beyond me. They really don't seem to be trying all that hard.
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  15132.  @xocoyotl4  You proved that wrong out of the gate.
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  15133. You forgot to divide it over the next 40 years of their life, until they can collect social security.
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  15134. If Cawthorn's God existed, it would be the leading abortionist in existence (miscarriage = spontaneous abortion). He worships an abortionist.
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  15135. Cops just freaked out on BLM protesters on fucking MLK Jr Day.
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  15136. ​ HelloSnowflake2  Guilty of rape, defamation, and bank fraud, so far, dumb dumb.
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  15137. Quillette "hippy", and editor, Andy Ngo, likes to embed with the Proud Boys and endlessly hate on Antifa over the white nationalists they're scrapping with. One Quillette "hippy" wrote an article about supposed liberal bias at Twitter, and these are some they grouped as "conservative" victims of that supposed bias ... American Nazi Party Richard Spencer David Duke National Policy Institute League of the South Mike Enoch Paul Nehlen Radix Journal and more ...
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  15138. ​ @John-gi6yh  Try making an emotionless case as to why not let them in, dumb dumb.
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  15139. Stop bullshitting. You don't care about others having healthcare. In 2016, you promoted Trump as a better option, not caring if that might lead to the repeal of the ACA and millions losing their healthcare, including people with preexisting conditions. During the 2020 primaries, you promoted Tulsi ("Medicare choice" aka public option) instead of Bernie (M4A), not caring about getting the better healthcare plan, and not caring that you might peel away enough votes from the more viable progressive and let Biden win. You spent the general basically running an attack ad campaign against Trump's only viable opponent, again not caring if that would lead to the ACA being completely repealed, not caring if he killed thousands of more Americans, and no longer advocated for getting even a public option, or the Medicare age decrease that would put millions more on Medicare. Plus, you're promoting yet another third party that won't even get you a seat in congress in the next 50 years, let alone get you M4A, and could just split progressive voting enough to lose the gains they've made within the Dem party, handing it back to corporate Dems, and let Republicans rule for decades, possibly destroying the healthcare system even more. If anyone is a "fake", "shill", "sellout", or whatnot, it's clearly you, Jimmy. AOC backed Bernie over Biden, Biden over Trump, and just helped get more pro-M4A progressives elected to congress. Adding more yes votes to congress is the only thing that will ever get M4A passed, failed show vote or no failed show vote.
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  15140.  @resistapathy  You're against the "status quo" of adding more yes votes to congress ... exactly the same thing you'd have to do after a failed show vote anyway? You're incoherent.
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  15141. ​ @davidbybee9930  So, Trump is ignrnt then? "Folks, folks, folks, she shouldn't be allowed to run," he said at the time. "If she were to win this election, it would create an unprecedented constitutional crisis. In that situation, we could very well have a sitting president under felony indictment and, ultimately, a criminal trial. It would grind government to a halt." He continued: "Her current scandals and controversies will continue throughout her presidency and will make it virtually impossible for her to govern and lead our country."
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  15142. ​ @Newton-Reuther  There are Biden cultists? And they watch this channel? She has been involved in public rallies against IL's actions, trying to get rid of anti-bds laws to help with boycotting, a house members boycott of President of IL visit, ... And squad members are getting ready to have to defend themselves against AIPAC candidates, shortly, on top of their day jobs. Not sure what you're expecting.
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  15143.  @Newton-Reuther  And he was calling for a ceasefire? When was that?
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  15144.  @Newton-Reuther  So, Fetterman went to a ceasefire rally (a rally calling for a ceasefire), was one of the speakers at said rally, but didn't call for a ceasefire? Sooo ... not samesies then? You're the one who seems to be shifting the goalpost. You asked about her involvement in protesting, didn't like my answer, and are now moving the goalpost to her stance on Biden.
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  15145. Huxley didn't define Atheist, the Theists did! Geez.
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  15146.  @descendantofjudah5386  Descendants of Judah are.
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  15147.  Alabama Man Special Edition  What sanctions are you talking about? Biden was adding sanctions, by the start of March. Do you mean the lifting of some sanctions in May, 4 months, after being in office? Those sanctions were clearly not stopping it from being finished, and the whole thing was also straining relations with Germany, and others. Germany has been closing down nuclear reactors, and needs more energy.
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  15148.  Alabama Man Special Edition  May, dimwit, and they were already completing it.
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  15149. What? How does "God" mean the same thing as "person who believes in God"? You've just proved all Theists are Gods!!!!
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  15150.  @alanparedes2427  What is "white culture"?
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  15151. It's actually the electoral college which negates the need to campaign everywhere. If I'm pretty much guaranteed a win, or loss, in a state, then there's less incentive to spend much time campaigning there, with a winner take all system. A lot of the campaigning is then directed at swing states. If every percentage point counted, in every single state, that's an incentivize to campaign for every possible vote in every single state.
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  15152. Tell me how many definitions you can find, that claim the root word is Theos, instead of Atheos. The only way to attach the -ism, before the a-, is to use the root word Theos. And, google "root word" before arguing again.
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  15153. ​ @ThinkingCap_  Israel is objectively the aggressor by every relevant measure ... Modern history: 100 years ago, in 1923, Ze'ev Jabotinsky fully acknowledged that Zionism is colonialism, and that, based on the entirety of history, the natives would fight it until the bitter end. He just didn't care what would happen to them, and promoted doing it anyway. Colonizers are never not the aggressors. On top of the colonialist nature of Zionism, the Zionists also formed terrorist organizations, like the Irgun and Lehi. They bombed many Palestinian markets and other public places, murdering many civilians, including children, even including Palestinian Jews (who opposed Zionism). Israel merged those terrorists into the new nation's military and intelligence agencies. Israelis elected Menachem Begin, leader of the Irgun, child murderer, Jew murderer, and bomber of the King David Hotel, as PM. Israelis, to this day, celebrate those terrorists as "heroes". Zionists literally taught their neighbours that terrorism is a valid path to independence and statehood, and that terrorists are to be celebrated. In 1945, it is well documented that Zionists owned just 5% of the land and were a majority nowhere. Israel was formed by actually going against the majority population. It's foundation is completely undemocratic. Then, becoming a majority, in "their" new nation, by ethnic cleansing the actual majority, and then claiming to be democratic, is utter nonsense. Law: Israel is considered an occupier by the International Court, the UN GA, and the UN SC. Occupiers are also never not the aggressors. Those occupied actually have a right to resist occupation. On the flip side, it is illegal for the occupier to settle occupied lands, and illegal to use collective punishment. Israel is a rogue nation, that doesn't abide by international law. What it has been doing, and is doing now, is illegal. Current events: This year, alone, prior to Oct 7 ... Israel held over 1200 Palestinian hostages without charges ... over 200 Palestinians had been killed by the IDF and settlers ... over 1000 Palestinians had been displaced by Israel's neverending colonization of the West Bank ... and, Israel continued to operate an open air WWII style fascist ghetto, in Gaza. Even ignoring modern history and law, in no reality did Hamas "start" anything.
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  15154.  @deafgwipps  Or even just getting the mainstream narrative, for decades.
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  15155.  @michaelarmijo4112  What's the point of having a vote, when it's still 100+ votes short in the house alone? The broader progressive caucus, with M4A on their platform, is about 10 seats away from becoming the majority of house Dems, and could then pick the party speaker candidate, and if the majority party could hold the speakership, fill committee seats, etc. Justice Dems have helped add about a dozen seats in the past couple election cycles. AOC helped add a few seats in the only election cycle since she has been elected. She was just campaigning, trying to add Nina, as well. Getting enough yes votes is, literally, the only possible way to pass a bill. Making out like adding yes votes is doing nothing, is moronic.
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  15156. Conservative/capitalist types have cancelled, or attempted to cancel, things for centuries ... women's ankles, women's knees, women's thighs, women in pants, women's votes, black rights, black votes, native rights, Asian rights, naughty words, PDA, sex, gay sex, unions, socialists, Harry Potter, Captain Marvel, etc., etc., etc. And, while they cry about private companies making decisions, which has nothing to do with free speech, they were perfectly fine with Trump firing, or threatening to fire, people who said things he didn't like ... the actual government punishing people for their speech. They're nothing but a bunch of hypocrites.
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  15157. Oh c'mon, that's so last weekend. Step it up.
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  15158.  Michael Atkins  KAG: Kill American "Geniuses".
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  15159. "He does not believe in a god, so he is not a theist. He does not reject the existence of a god, so, according to this meaning which is commonly attached to atheism, he is not an atheist. Nor does this person state that the existence of a supernatural being is unknown or unknowable, so he is not an agnostic." ~ George H Smith's basis for redefining Atheist to mean A-theist in 1970, after pulling a hatchet job on the definition of Agnostic. Your definition originates, with an illiterate.
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  15160. Like doctors without borders, who have reported multiple uses of chemical weapons? https://msf.org.nz/article/statements-opinion/chemical-attacks-just-one-element-suffering-syrian-people
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  15161. Like amnesty, who have reported multiple uses of chemical weapons? https://www.amnesty.org/en/latest/news/2018/02/syria-witness-testimony-reveals-details-of-illegal-chemical-attack-on-saraqeb/
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  15162. @Doctor Drywell  Are you sure you didn't dream a degree? I mean ... you're so ignorant, that you didn't recognize a church as producing something. A ministry that sells hope, faith, charity, or whatever people think they get from it, people who donate to that church to keep getting it, is producing something people value. If all the members of that ministry then equally share what they took in, that would most definitely be a socialist ministry. Shame on Oxford for, supposedly, giving you a degree.
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  15163. @Doctor Drywell Holy crap. You're the complete moron, with apparent reading comprehension problems. Samsara said the "broad definition" was "sharing the wealth", and that your narrow, textbook, definition is included within that "broad definition". Seriously, if everyone had equal ownership in everything, how would the wealth be distributed?
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  15164. @Doctor Drywell If you think feudal lords split all the earnings equally, and shared their property equally, then you're dumber than a stump.
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  15165. @Doctor Drywell You don't seem smart enough to have a high school diploma.
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  15166. @Doctor Drywell Rofl. I wasn't the moron who presented money taken in and split equally with money taken in and split completely unequally as being the same. That's your dumbass strawman. Not only do you seem to be completely ignorant of Jewish tithes, which are mentioned numerous times in the OT, but you again show reading comprehension problems. I didn't say "tithes". I was referring to donations to their ministry. You know, the mention of people selling all their property and donating all their wealth to the group, to be shared equally. It fucking says they split things equally in the book, moron.
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  15167. @Doctor Drywell Fucking Dinesh D'Souza gets money and sells books. He's still dumber than a stump. Just like you.
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  15168. @Doctor Drywell Free handouts is government "welfare", moron. Man you have some serious reading comprehension problems. I'm starting to be shocked you made it passed elementary school.
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  15169. How does he both, think Democrats wouldn't be able to accomplish much of anything if Republicans went "scorched earth", and think Republicans would be able to accomplish anything they wanted, if the roles were reversed? He makes zero sense.
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  15170. Where do you think they're getting some of their evidence from, dumb dumb? Banks ... "He also reportedly inflated his net worth to $3bn in order to secure loans, which continued to be approved by the bank even after it discovered Trump was worth closer to $788m." "After Trump won the 2016 US presidential election, however, the bank’s executives braced themselves for a public outcry regarding their close ties with the US’ polarising president. Employees at Deutsche’s Wall Street branch were even told not to “publicly utter the word ‘Trump’”, the report stated." "Next month, Deutsche is expected to begin handing over a wealth of internal documents to both committees, according to people briefed on the matter." "The report also called Trump’s status as a “self-made man” into question, after finding that he had received at least $413m from his father, Frederick."
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  15171.  @ATMyles  Books go out of print all the time.
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  15172.  @ATMyles  And the supposed Virginia school district banning is a complete fabrication, btw. You're spreading lies.
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  15173.  @ATMyles  If someone lies, and you share their lie around, you're spreading a lie. Just a fact. Apparently, part of the problem with The Hill comment section is people who can't do a quick Google search before spreading complete bullshit. Seuss, himself, wasn't proud of some of his earlier racist stuff, and whoever owns the rights can do whatever they want, for whatever reason they want. It's not like people are holding books burnings, or actual bannings, like with Harry Potter books.
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  15174. ​ @sixmillionaccountssilenced6721 Yeah, Hitler literally blamed the Jews for socialism, because Marx was a Jew.
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  15175.  @cf6713  As far as the Objectivist ideas for government go, they are exactly minimalist government uppercase L Libertarians. No difference whatsoever, on that front. The "libertarians" Rand was opposed to, at the time, were lowercase l ancap types.
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  15176. ​ @beng2729  Doesn't matter if Ashkenazi had ancient roots in Palestine. They're still colonizers. If I round up millions of people from the Americas, whose ancestors left England hundreds of years ago, "go back", claim half of England, and force the current inhabitants off of "our" half, we'd be colonizers and ethnic cleansers. Europeans have ancient roots in Africa. They still colonized the f*ck out of it.
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  15177. ​ @beng2729  You're talking about numbers that were a small percent of the total non-Jewish population, dumb dumb. The vast majority of the non-Jewish population increase can simply be attributed to reproduction. The Jewish population, on the other hand, expanded by 26 times, through the massive, well documented, migration of colonizers.
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  15178.  @beng2729  The non-Jewish population doubling, from 1800 to 1890 (90 f*cking years) is basically normal reproduction, dumb dumb, possibly even too low, indicating non-Jews were leaving. The Jewish population rose by 6 times, during the same time period. That's not normal. From 1890 to 1947, the non-Jewish population again doubled, which can also mostly be attributed to high birth rates. The Jewish population increased 14 times, during that time period.
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  15179.  @beng2729  "2000" people ... "6000" people ... That's a small percent of the non-Jewish population, dumb dumb. 6000 wasn't even 1% in 1943.
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  15180.  @beng2729  I stated facts. 6000 people, in 1943, is less than 1%, and you're presenting like some big deal. You're an ignoramus.
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  15181.  @waterbottles4744  Palestinians have Canaanite DNA, dimwit. They're natives. The Zionists are like the Europeans who "returned" to Africa, and colonized the shit out of it.
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  15182.  @beng2729  Do you not know the definition of "after", and "since then", dimwit?
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  15183.  @beng2729  Plus, you don't get to use Jews that never left as a 1700 year old place holder, when the Zionist Irgun terrorists murdered them, alongside their Palestinian brothers and sisters, for not supporting colonialist Zionsim.
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  15184.  @imperialmotoring3789  Trump ended zero wars; he dropped more bombs per year than Obama; he pretended he made a peace deal about this very thing, but left out the Palestinians, and instead wasted time making a "peace deal" between countries that weren't in conflict; he pissed off Iran and let them go back to a nuke program; he let his dictator buddy in North Korea build 30-40 nukes; he french kissed Putin's asshole and gave him classified information (he would have done nothing to stop Putin); he gave classified nuclear secrets to a billionaire donor; he french kissed Netanyahu asshole, gave them a capital switch that everyone said would raise tensions, and is talking about having a pledge of allegiance to Israel to get in the country (he would do nothing to stop Israel);
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  15185.  @waterbottles4744  Rofl@"bought a lot of the land" ... they owned 5% in 1945. That's a far cry from 50+%.
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  15186.  @beng2729  You don't seem to know the definition of “colonize”. The Normans can most definitely colonize the Anglo-Saxons. Again, Palestinians have Canaanite DNA, dimwit. They're Arab and Muslim the same way indigenous peoples of Central America are Hispanic and Catholic. There's zero account of actual Arabians, from Arabia, completely genociding Palestine and then completely refilling it with people from a small desert nation. They simply conquered and ruled, like all the others before them. The majority of the population had already converted to Christianity, by the time they arrived, and then simply converted again, to Islam. After going on a tour for hundreds of years, if you “come back” to claim the land, you’re coming back as a colonizer. Everyone is African, if you go back far enough. People still colonized the crap out of Africa. What does it matter what “Palestine” describes? I have a city identifier, a provincial identifier, a national identifier, a region identifier, … You're simply a racist, trying to make out like a people doesn't exist. Native Americans, Africans, indigenous Australians, hadn't submitted the proper nation creation paperwork with the proper authorities, and only lived in regions … they were still colonized, genocided, and ethnically cleansed. Palestinians were the ancient Jews, dumb dumb. Most converted to Christianity, then most converted to Islam. Not that difficult to understand. The Irish are largely still quite Celtic in ethnicity, but they aren't still largely practicing ancient religions. Barely anyone in all of Europe is practicing ancient religions. They weren't all completely genocided and replaced with people practicing Christianity. They simply all converted, dimwit. A new religion isn't any kind of evidence of an entirely new people. I seriously can't grasp just how stupid someone needs to be, to think that's the case. You also don't seem to know what “influx” means. There were about 7k Jews in Palestine, in 1800. Even if they all arrived in the 18th century, that's not an “influx”. Again, the non Jewish population doubling twice, in 147 years, can almost entirely be explained by reproduction rates. You're exaggerating the numbers of Jewish immigrants, prior to 1800 and exaggerating the number non-Jewish immigrants after 1800. Nope. More lying. Uh huh, and? That's how it's still being used. There are Christian Palestinians. There were Jewish Palestinians. Irgun and Lehi terrorists targeted those Palestinian Jews alongside their Palestinian brothers and sisters, for not supporting colonialist Zionsim. Do you even know what “Arab” means? It's not mutually exclusive from being Christian or Jewish. What were the Arabic speaking Palestinian Jews? Nope. Lying again. Romans renamed it Palestine, as it had been named before. Aristotle considered the Dead Sea to be “in Palestine”. The Jewish population only owned about 5 percent of the land, prior to partition, and were the majority in zero districts. To become a “Jewish state” would require ethnic cleansing, and that's exactly what happened. Zionism is colonialism. And, the more Zionists talk, they indicate it's even Nazism, making out like human beings don't exist, and justifying killing, ethnically cleansing them, keeping them in open air WWII style fascist ghettos.
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  15187.  @waterbottles4744  If your goal is to show you're a complete and utter moron, you're doing a great job! 👍😂
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  15188.  4 Fake  Those who have seen his financial statements, like Deutsche Bank, say he's not a billionaire, which makes him a failure. You'd make more money investing in a general S&P 500 index fund than you would investing in Trump. He would have made billions, if he had simply invested his daddy's money. He's sub par at both business and golf.
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  15189. ​ @Zenith118  Fact ... UN Office of Genocide Prevention on Ethnic cleansing: "The Commission of Experts added that these practices can “… constitute crimes against humanity and can be assimilated to specific war crimes. Furthermore, such acts could also fall within the meaning of the Genocide Convention.”"
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  15190. ​ @Zenith118  Fact ... According to Ze'ev Jabotinsky, Zionism is colonialism.
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  15191.  @Zenith118  Ze'ev Jabotinsky's Iron Wall is from 1923, moron.
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  15192.  @Zenith118  If I gather millions of people from the Americas, whose ancestors left England hundreds of years ago, "go back", claim half of England, and force its current inhabitants out of "our" half, we'd be colonizers, dimwit. Nothing in the definition says people coming "back" years later can't be colonizers.
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  15193.  @Zenith118  Palestinians have Canaanite DNA, dimwit. They're indigenous. Religion and culture aren't tied to DNA. Just like indigenous South/Central Americans are Hispanic Catholics.
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  15194.  @Zenith118  "There can be no voluntary agreement between ourselves and the Palestine Arabs. Not now, nor in the prospective future. I say this with such conviction, not because I want to hurt the moderate Zionists. I do not believe that they will be hurt. Except for those who were born blind, they realised long ago that it is utterly impossible to obtain the voluntary consent of the Palestine Arabs for converting "Palestine" from an Arab country into a country with a Jewish majority. My readers have a general idea of the history of colonisation in other countries. I suggest that they consider all the precedents with which they are acquainted, and see whether there is one solitary instance of any colonisation being carried on with the consent of the native population. There is no such precedent. The native populations, civilised or uncivilised, have always stubbornly resisted the colonists, irrespective of whether they were civilised or savage." "Our Peace-mongers are trying to persuade us that the Arabs are either fools, whom we can deceive by masking our real aims, or that they are corrupt and can be bribed to abandon to us their claim to priority in Palestine , in return for cultural and economic advantages. I repudiate this conception of the Palestinian Arabs. Culturally they are five hundred years behind us, they have neither our endurance nor our determination; but they are just as good psychologists as we are, and their minds have been sharpened like ours by centuries of fine-spun logomachy. We may tell them whatever we like about the innocence of our aims, watering them down and sweetening them with honeyed words to make them palatable, but they know what we want, as well as we know what they do not want. They feel at least the same instinctive jealous love of Palestine, as the old Aztecs felt for ancient Mexico, and the Sioux for their rolling Prairies. To imagine, as our Arabophiles do, that they will voluntarily consent to the realisation of Zionism, in return for the moral and material conveniences which the Jewish colonist brings with him, is a childish notion, which has at bottom a kind of contempt for the Arab people; it means that they despise the Arab race, which they regard as a corrupt mob that can be bought and sold, and are willing to give up their fatherland for a good railway system. There is no justification for such a belief. It may be that some individual Arabs take bribes. But that does not mean that the Arab people of Palestine as a whole will sell that fervent patriotism that they guard so jealously, and which even the Papuans will never sell. Every native population in the world resists colonists as long as it has the slightest hope of being able to rid itself of the danger of being colonised. That is what the Arabs in Palestine are doing, and what they will persist in doing as long as there remains a solitary spark of hope that they will be able to prevent the transformation of "Palestine" into the "Land of Israel.""
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  15195.  @Zenith118  Just how stupid are you? I literally made an analogy to descendants of people from England. I literally said people "going back" after hundreds of years. Do you have severe comprehension problems?
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  15196.  @Zenith118  Do you not know that the Zionists were descendants of people who left Palestine 1700 years earlier?
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  15197.  @Zenith118  You haven't provided a single actual refutation, btw, moron. "Moron" just being another well evidenced fact, as well.
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  15198.  @conservos2349  Apparently you don't.
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  15199.  @damebesos8497  I did provide sources, dimwit.
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  15200.  @johntharp4588  Except gun control does work. States where it's easier to get guns tend to have higher firearm mortality rates and homicide rates. Other developed countries, where it's harder to get guns, have lower firearm mortality rates and homicide rates. You're spewing nonsense.
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  15201. No worries. :)
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  15202.  @mrsbenn1  And they just donated tons of supplies back, moron. Go back to sleep.
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  15203.  @Diogenes2036  Pretty sure I implied he's doing the later, "intentionally misrepresenting its meaning", with my second sentence. So, we agree?
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  15204. Yang is an idiot, who doesn't even know how a VAT works, yet made it central to his presidential platform.
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  15205.  @marvinnickel7913  You're moving the goalpost, you dishonest twat. You started by claiming previous governments funded selling baby parts for profit. I already linked to the Senate and House investigation finding that the government isn't funding the abortion side of Planned Parenthood, that Planned Parenthood wasn't found to be profiting from selling tissue, and that the "company" senators like L Graham cited to ask for a criminal investigation were the ones found to be criminals. And now you're also adding an extra step, bringing in private, for profit, companies (also not funded by the government) who sold tissue they legally aquired from Planned Parenthood, to then illegally make a profit? You're an absolute moron. Try to prove your initial claim. https://www.plannedparenthood.org/about-us/newsroom/press-releases/planned-parenthood-celebrates-verdict-against-discredited-anti-abortion-group
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  15206. Lots of women with fake lips, breasts, and butts, these days.
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  15207.  @ransom182  But still need a UBI?
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  15208.  @alexanderjulian554  I like grandpa Huxley, Darwin's Bulldog.
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  15209. Ummm, the average net worth of the 1% is over $26m. Pretty sure that's not Bernie. https://images.app.goo.gl/15K3s64dGSFh7cyy7
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  15210. ​ @ProudPatriot-t8x  So, you're justifying punishing Israelis, for who they elected?
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  15211. Israel is objectively the aggressor by every relevant measure... Modern history: 100 years ago, in 1923, Ze'ev Jabotinsky fully acknowledged that Zionism is colonialism, and that, based on the entirety of history, the natives would fight it until the bitter end. He just didn't care what would happen to them, and promoted doing it anyway. Colonizers are never not the aggressors. On top of the colonialist nature of Zionism, the Zionists also formed terrorist organizations, like the Irgun and Lehi. They bombed many Palestinian markets and other public places, murdering many civilians, including children, even including Palestinian Jews (who opposed Zionism). Israel merged those terrorists into the new nation's military and intelligence agencies. Israelis elected Menachem Begin, leader of the Irgun, child murderer, Jew murderer, and bomber of the King David Hotel, as PM. Israelis, to this day, celebrate those terrorists as "heroes". Zionists literally taught their neighbours that terrorism is a valid path to independence and statehood, and that terrorists are to be celebrated. In 1945, it is well documented that Zionists owned just 5% of the land and were a majority nowhere. Israel was formed by actually going against the majority population. It's foundation is completely undemocratic. Then, becoming a majority, in "their" new nation, by ethnic cleansing the actual majority, and then claiming to be democratic, is utter nonsense. Law: Israel is considered an occupier by the International Court, the UN GA, and the UN SC. Occupiers are also never not the aggressors. Those occupied actually have a right to resist occupation. On the flip side, it is illegal for the occupier to settle occupied lands, and illegal to use collective punishment. Israel is a rogue nation, that doesn't abide by international law. What it has been doing, and is doing now, is illegal. Current events: This year, alone, prior to Oct 7 ... Israel held over 1200 Palestinian hostages without charges ... over 200 Palestinians had been killed by the IDF and settlers ... over 1000 Palestinians had been displaced by Israel's neverending colonization of the West Bank ... and, Israel continued to operate an open air WWII style fascist ghetto, in Gaza. Even ignoring modern history and law, in no reality did Hamas "start" anything.
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  15212.  @afkav3m3  It would be tough constantly having to find good progressive replacements, for all seats. Having a retirement age would help get rid of the old ones who don't seem to care about the future, though (with a few exceptions).
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  15213.  @wvu05  How would adding a maximum age be any more "anti-democratic" than having a minimum age? Most jobs have a retirement age. It doesn't much matter how good of a campaign you run in some areas. Voters are likely going to vote a certain way. There are complete morons winning elections, in places.
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  15214.  @wvu05  Most states have a mandatory retirement for judges. Kind of odd to retire those who interpret the law, but not those who create the laws. There are a number of other government jobs with mandatory retirement. Also odd to force retire generals, but not the ones telling generals what to do. Odd to force retire older intelligence agents, but not the ones telling them what to do. Out in the private sector, the majority of people over 50 feel like they were forced out of jobs they wouldn't have retired from, and are now in jobs they didn't particularly want, for less money. There are plenty of contracts that conveniently run out at a certain age. Businesses all over find ways to get people to retire, if they really want them to. And most people do get the hell out by the time they're 65. The original "democracy", in Ancient Greece, much like the US' original "democracy", only included only landowning males, not women, not non landowners, not slaves ... various restrictions might make a democratic system more, or less, democratic, but it doesn't completely abandon it. The US already isn't a direct democracy. That doesn't make it completely "anti-democratic". Most democracies aren't. The US is less democratic than a number of countries, due to gerrymandering, the senate, the electoral college, disenfranchisement, and voter suppression. Doesn't make them completely "anti-democratic". Completely "anti-democratic" is trying to overthrow the democratic process, to keep an unelected ruler in power, like what Republicans tried to do. An age limit is more democratic than a term limit. You could have as many terms as you want, up until a certain age. There's a minimum age for both running and voting. Automobile accidents increasing again at higher age categories, and it's not because they're careless, like many teenage drivers. It's because cognitive decline starts setting in. At 65, 15-20% of people are experiencing some kind of mild cognitive decline. By 70, average cognitive scores are dropping below those of 25 year olds, who aren't allowed to run for many positions. Do you think Bernie's hospital visit, and heart stents, put a bit of a damper on his campaign and gave the opposition some ammo? Would have been nice if he started running for president, become a household name, and have his policies part of mainstream conversations, decades ago. Maybe he would have, if he had known he wouldn't be able to later. And, for every Bernie, who still seems to have his wits about him, how many Trumps or Bidens, who seem to have, at least, some mild cognitive impairments ... how many Dianne Feinsteins or Reagans, who had more ... how many congress members taking Alzheimers medication? Or, how many that simply want to return to the 1950s, that they thought it was awesome? Bernie just happened to be on the right side of most things, all along. Many have been on the wrong side of things all along, and are entrenched. An age limit might not get you something much better out of McConnell's district, but it might get you something more progressive out of Pelosi's, or Feinstein's, once the seat is freed up.
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  15215.  @beeforeal5497  Yes, the left is totally against the workers regulating the production of buildings, rather than the corporate owners.
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  15216.  @beeforeal5497  Politicians, or the big government, making regulations were already out of the equation, in the op. Who's going to make them, then, if not the government, or an association of workers?
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  15217.  @beeforeal5497  Yeah, that worked out well, in this case.
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  15218.  @beeforeal5497  Because many politicians are corporate ass kissers? Are you this dumb in real life, or do you just play dumb on the internet?
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  15219.  @beeforeal5497  Are you thinking of the same people that also want to get money out of politics, and who don't take corporate donations?
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  15220. Yes, we went through this. I've always stated the root word is Atheos, to which an -ist was attached. Your new definition would have us believe the root word is Theist, to which an A- prefix was attached. So, yes, the word Athe(os)-ist, has been redefined to A-theist.
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  15221.  @DarkManSonian  Iraq isn't in Africa, man. Egypt is, and also developed writing early. They were also obviously quite mathematic. There just hasn't been earlier evidence found, there, than that found in Iraq.
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  15222.  @DarkManSonian  Well, except for the fact that it's not part of the continent of Africa, at all, and is in the middle of Eurasia.
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  15223. And, THAT is exactly why the Agnostic "I don't know" label filled the no belief spot to both propositions, and was considered the third alternative to both questions. Now, there is nothing.
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  15224.  @bodhisattva3774  The final bill passed 418-11, and it only paid back the capitol police budget for the extra $70m it used. It paid back the national guard $521m. $300m went for security upgrades. $42.1m went to added covid protocols. And over $1b went for Afghan refugees. Both the capitol police and national guard had budget shortages, because of Jan 6, and the added security weeks after. There was going to be a bill passed, to fill those budget shortages. If the original bill hadn't passed the house, to be amended by the senate, the senate would simply have come up with their own bill. So, her first vote didn't really matter, because the senate would have introduced a bill anyway, and her no vote on the final bill didn't really matter, because it passed by a longshot. You're a total ignoramus, for repeatedly saying it's $2b for the capitol police. And, again, they aren't even like real cops. They aren't going to pull someone over for a taillight and then shoot them. They aren't going to choke someone out for selling smokes. They aren't going to be called to a swimming pool and toss young black girls around. Etc. They're more like the secret service, which has field offices around the country that still don't make them anything like normal cops.
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  15225.  @bodhisattva3774  It's USCP, dumb dumb, and no they aren't, at all, like the CIA or FBI, either ... which aren't even the same. They're like the secret service, for congress.
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  15226. ​ @misterlyle.  The guy in the video fudges with history. Philistia, inhabited by Philistines, emerged at about the same time as the Kingdoms of Israel and Judah, and survived longer than Israel. Israel was wiped out first by the Assyrians. Israelite refugees fled to Judah. That's how they all became Judahites. It was the terms "Israel" and "Israelites" that fell out of use, even amongst Jews (Europeanized form of "Judahites"). The terms "Philistia", "Palestine", "Filistin", and variations there of, have been in use throughout history. And, if inhabitants of the region were being called "Palestinian" numerous times before the 18th century, just because someone didn't specifically write about them in the 18th century, but then they were still being called that in the 19th century, he has no real point. It just means there was an absence of describing the inhabitants. And, what does it even matter, if you went by one term one day, and another term the next ... you still lived on the land, and existed. Palestinians have Canaanite DNA, which dates back before there ever was an Israel, Judah, or Philistia. The Canaanites built Jerusalem. If he'd rather use his fairy tale book, instead of science, then the book says the Israelites were invaders, who originated in Mesopotamia, and took Jerusalem from the native Canaanites.
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  15227.  @misterlyle.  "Peleset", "Philistia", "Philistine", "Palestine", "Filastin", used throughout history, by Egyptians, Assyrians, Persians, Greeks, Romans, Muslims, Christians, and even Jews ... used by big names, like Horodotus, Aristotle, Shakespeare ... plus a few uses of "Palestinian", prior to the 18th century ... https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Timeline_of_the_name_Palestine "Palestine" often being a province, or other smaller political division under a larger one, it leaves the use of "Palestinian" at a disadvantage, compared to the use of "Jew", because "Jew" is used to describe a religious group, an ancient national group, an ethnic/cultural group, ... I rarely ever use my provincial label, most times using my national label, but if someone came along and claimed people of my province didn't exist, or that they can take half my province's land and boot us off, because we weren't a country ... F*ck them! These colonizer arguments, to try and mask their colonialism, are pure bullshit. North American natives didn't have a national border, hadn't filed whatever proper paperwork they were supposed to with whoever they were supposed to have, the names of their tribes weren't in books, and that still doesn't change the absolute fact that they existed, lived on regions of land, and were colonized. Palestinians are native, with Canaanite DNA, who likely simply converted religions along the way. https://pubmed.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/11543891/
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  15228. Every other state would have had similar uneven day of vs mail voting, by party. The only reason it was visible, in the only states that were questioned, was because Republican state legislators didn't update their mail in voting procedures, and counted them after day of votes. Republicans created an illusion, and then freaked out about the illusion.
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  15229.  @prabesh8277  Australia's covid death rate would translate into 26k total covid deaths in the US, instead of pushing 800k. It's pretty moronic to call saving lives "tyranny". Dumbest use of the word I've ever heard. Again, they are not rounding people up off the streets and putting them in "camps". They're for travellers, to quarantine, before re-entering the general public.
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  15230. Rofl, this does happen to anyone there is a search warrant against.
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  15231.  @daveadam435  There's not much else to say. You're incoherent.
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  15232. Urban Dictionary: peekaboo Racist term used in white-supremacist circles to refer to a person of color, usually black, of upper or upper-middle class social standing. That uppity peekaboo thinks she can golf here just because she has money. by WhoKnowsWhoItCouldBe September 21, 2022
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  15233. ​ @rogerout8875  So Trump is sexually harassing her then?
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  15234. Literally starts with "Some Israeli hard-liners", dimwit.
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  15235.  @pmarsh3700  All Palestinian territories are officially considered occupied by the International Court of Justice, the UN GA, and the UN SC, you lying Zionist Nazi. That means millions of Palestinians that don't get to vote for the actual government ruling over them, Israel's. Israel is about as democratic as Nazi Germany after Hitler purged his political opponents and then held elections.
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  15236.  @michaelernest7224  Yeah, Likud (founded by Irgun and Lehi terrorists) seems like it has totally been on board with Palestinian independence ... 1977: "The Right of the Jewish People to the Land of Israel (Eretz Israel) a. The right of the Jewish people to the land of Israel is eternal and indisputable and is linked with the right to security and peace; therefore, Judea and Samaria will not be handed to any foreign administration; between the Sea and the Jordan there will only be Israeli sovereignty. b. A plan which relinquishes parts of western Eretz Israel, undermines our right to the country, unavoidably leads to the establishment of a "Palestinian State," jeopardizes the security of the Jewish population, endangers the existence of the State of Israel. and frustrates any prospect of peace." "Settlement Settlement. both urban and rural. in all parts of the Land of Israel is the focal point of the Zionist effort to redeem the country, to maintain vital security areas and serves as a reservoir of strength and inspiration for the renewal of the pioneering spirit. The Likud government will call on the younger generation in Israel and the dispersions to settle and help every group and individual in the task of inhabiting and cultivating the wasteland, while taking care not to dispossess anyone." 1999: "The Government of Israel flatly rejects the establishment of a Palestinian Arab state west of the Jordan river. The Palestinians can run their lives freely in the framework of self-rule, but not as an independent and sovereign state. Thus, for example, in matters of foreign affairs, security, immigration, and ecology, their activity shall be limited in accordance with imperatives of Israel's existence, security and national needs." "The Jewish communities in Judea, Samaria, and Gaza are the realization of Zionist values. Settlement of the land is a clear expression of the unassailable right of the Jewish people to the Land of Israel and constitutes an important asset in the defense of the vital interests of the State of Israel. The Likud will continue to strengthen and develop these communities and will prevent their uprooting."
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  15237.  @pmarsh3700  No, dumb dumb. Nazis didn't live inside the Warsaw ghetto. They still occupied it, controlled it.
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  15238.  @aarondickson1898  Rewrite what? Democrats, objectively, didn't remove the Supreme Court filibuster, dumb dumb. Republicans did it, in 2017.
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  15239. Public option, negotiating down drug prices, Medicaid and Medicare expansion, free community college, and more, are all included in the American Families Plan ... https://www.whitehouse.gov/briefing-room/statements-releases/2021/04/29/fact-sheet-the-american-families-plan-will-support-children-teachers-and-working-families-in-rural-america/
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  15240.  @idaayers9120  Derpy.
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  15241.  @cogen651  If you separate authoritarian and non-authoritarian from capitalism (right) and socialism/communism (left), and use a two axes model, it's better than a straight line. So, while Ayn Rand types might be more "liberal", in tolerance for different people and behaviour in society ... are less authoritarian ... they are still as far right as one can be. There's nothing to the right of Ayn Rand. There are multiple US politicians that espouse her writings. There are basically no US politicians left of Bernie, and he's only a centrist, pointing to centrist European countries to emulate. Zero politicians are calling for an end to capitalism, equal ownership of everything, and economic equality for all ... zero politicians that are as far left as possible. Most Democrat politicians are right of centre, and somewhat authoritarian. Republicans are even more right, and even more authoritarian. US politics ranges from far right to centre. Where does Peterson fall in that? While he may not be in the more authoritarian groups, he's still pretty far to the right.
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  15242. ​ @gavrielmusheyev141  It isn't just Netanyahu. Likud was founded by Irgun and Lehi terrorists. Einstein, and others, called their first party, Herut, equivalent to fascists and Nazis. Their platform, "between the sea and the Jordan there will only be Israeli sovereignty", has promised to completely colonize and ethnically cleanse all Palestine territories, since the 70s (and exactly what they wanted as Herut, Irgun, and Lehi). Colonizing everything has been their goal for over a century. The Irgun and Lehi were followers of Ze'ev Jabotinsky. Read his, The Iron Wall, 1923. Israel is equivalent to the Third Reich. Hamas is just a poor man's Likud.
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  15243.  @skontheroad  No they don't. They don't have a right of return. And they don't have that right, because it would challenge the Jewish numbers, and their ability to be both a Jewish ethno-state and fake being democratic.
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  15244.  @user-cg1qq2er8x  You make no sense. Likud was founded by Irgun and Lehi terrorists, that Einstein and others compared to fascists and Nazis. They are the authoritarians. They're operating an open air WWII style fascist ghetto, ffs.
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  15245.  @suzanteman6376  You're lying. The Arabs who were ethnically cleansed from within the Zionist borders do not have an equal right of return. Even Jews, around the world, that have never set foot in Israel, have more of a right of "return" than those ethnically cleansed during the Nakba.
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  15246.  @larinarozevich4869  Likud's platform, "between the sea and the Jordan there will only be Israeli sovereignty", promises to completely colonize and ethnically cleanse all Palestine territories. It further claims a "right" to all the "Land of Israel" (fictional biblical borders that don't mesh with archaeological reality), which is an open declaration of future wars, against Jordan, Syria, and Lebanon. Who are Palestinians supposed to make peace with?
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  15247.  @steveflorida5849  2007 survey of Palestinians: "Support or opposition to a one-state solution in historic Palestine where Muslims, Christians and Jews have equal rights and responsibilities" 70.4/29.6
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  15248.  @steveflorida5849  Ah, who cares about the people ... just like with partition. Try ... NYT: "As a 2-State Solution Loses Steam, a 1-State Plan Gains Traction"
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  15249.  @deborahrainabotvinik3894  Likud's bloody 100 year history ... In 1923, 100 years ago, Ze'ev Jabotinsky wrote, The Iron Wall, and a follow up, The Ethics of The Iron Wall (sooo racist towards Africans), in which he fully acknowledged that post Balfour Zionsim was colonialism, and that, based on the entirety of history, the native Palestinian population would resist being colonized until the bitter end. He directly compared it to the colonization of North America. He promoted doing it anyway, claiming Zionist colonialism was a "just" colonialism (he also thought North American colonialists were good guys, so not a great judge of morality), not caring what that meant for the native population. Ze'ev is important, because his Betar militant youth group helped found the Irgun terrorist group, along with other supporters of his, and the splinter Lehi terrorist group. The Irgun bombed numerous Palestinian markets and other public places, murdering many Palestinian civilians, including children, even including Palestinian Jews (who didn't support colonialist Zionsim). The Irgun are important, because they ended up being led by future Likud PM, Menachem Begin, who bombed the King David Hotel. The King David Hotel was bombed because the British had raided the Jewish Agency and seized numerous documents that may have shown that the terrorists were working with the JA and Haganah (JA liked to pretend that they didn't support the terrorism). The British then stored those documents at their base, in the hotel. That the Irgun terrorists responded to a JA raid, itself seems to prove the connection. That the thousands of Irgun (and Lehi) terrorists were also quickly merged into the new nation's military (IDF) and intelligence (Mossad) agencies, and are still celebrated as "heroes" by Israelis, to this day, also seems to support total collaboration between the groups. That other terrorist group mentioned, Lehi (also known as the Stern Gang), was considered even more extreme. They even tried to ally with the Nazis, against the British. Lehi ended up being led by Yitzhak Shamir, future Mossad agent, and another future Likud PM. They assassinated Lord Moyne, and others. In 1945, there was a major land and peoples survey done in Palestine. It showed that the Zionists only owned about 5% of the total land, 20% of the arable land, and owned a majority in zero districts. The partition was not only going to be forced on the native Palestinian majority, but Jews were still going to be a minority, in the part allocated to them. The only possible way to even become a "Jewish state" was going to require getting rid of the actual majority (at least enough so that there'd be a solid Jewish majority, so they could fake being democratic). This is also shown by the 1948, post Nakba, population of Israel. If there was 716,700 Jews, 156,000+ non-Jews, and approximately 700k non-Jews ethnically cleansed, that means the Jewish population, in the Zionist portion of partition, was originally over 100,000 less than the non-Jewish population. To believe that there was never any intent, by Zionists, to ethnically cleanse away the Palestinian majority would require believing that they never intended to create a "Jewish state". It's a nonsensical notion. Begin, and those terrorist groups, also opposed partition, but for the opposite reason Palestinians did. Palestinians didn't want to be colonized, at all. The terrorists wanted to colonize it all. "Moderate" Zionists were okay with colonizing half ... for now (what would happen in the future, after partition, was up to them, said Ben-Gurion). The Zionist terrorists were also involved in massacres, and assassinations, during the partition violence (colonialist war against the natives). Another notable future Likud PM, also started in the military, during the partition fighting. That was Ariel Sharon, war criminal, "Butcher of Beirut". Menachem Begin, and these other Zionist terrorists, are important because they became involved in Israeli politics, first forming Herut. That was the party that Albert Einstein, and other prominent American Jews, opposed, having a letter printed in the NYT, in December of 1948, when Begin came to visit the US. The letter opened ... "Among the most disturbing political phenomena of our times is the emergence in the newly created state of Israel of the "Freedom Party" (Tnuat Haherut), a political party closely akin in its organization, methods, political philosophy and social appeal to the Nazi and Fascist parties. It was formed out of the membership and following of the former Irgun Zvai Leumi, a terrorist, right-wing, chauvinist organization in Palestine." Herut merged with other extremist parties, over the years, and eventually became Likud, in the 70s. Now, people get upset over the slogan "From the river to the sea!", but it's the second part that's most important, "Palestine will be free!". Because "Palestine" isn't defined as an ethno-state, a free Palestine can be a single state, free for all to live in, and return to, free of continuing colonization, free of occupation, free of oppression, etc. Just like a Germany free of Nazism, an Italy free of fascism, a South Africa free of apartheid, or an America free of slavery from sea to shiny sea. It doesn't necessitate purging all the Jews. It just necessitates them giving up on the idea of an ethno-state. On the other hand, because "Israel" has been defined as an ethno-state, Likud's, "between the sea and the Jordan there will only be Israeli sovereignty", has no possible good interpretation. It is a declaration of intent to completely colonize, and ethnically cleanse, all Palestine territories. Not only that, but it also claims that they have a "right" to all of the "Land of Israel" (biblical borders that don't mesh with archaeological reality), which is an open declaration of future wars, against Jordan, Syria, Lebanon, and possibly even Iraq. Likud platform ... 1977: "The Right of the Jewish People to the Land of Israel (Eretz Israel) a. The right of the Jewish people to the land of Israel is eternal and indisputable and is linked with the right to security and peace; therefore, Judea and Samaria will not be handed to any foreign administration; between the Sea and the Jordan there will only be Israeli sovereignty. b. A plan which relinquishes parts of western Eretz Israel, undermines our right to the country, unavoidably leads to the establishment of a "Palestinian State," jeopardizes the security of the Jewish population, endangers the existence of the State of Israel. and frustrates any prospect of peace." "Settlement Settlement. both urban and rural. in all parts of the Land of Israel is the focal point of the Zionist effort to redeem the country, to maintain vital security areas and serves as a reservoir of strength and inspiration for the renewal of the pioneering spirit. The Likud government will call on the younger generation in Israel and the dispersions to settle and help every group and individual in the task of inhabiting and cultivating the wasteland, while taking care not to dispossess anyone." 1999: "The Government of Israel flatly rejects the establishment of a Palestinian Arab state west of the Jordan river. The Palestinians can run their lives freely in the framework of self-rule, but not as an independent and sovereign state. Thus, for example, in matters of foreign affairs, security, immigration, and ecology, their activity shall be limited in accordance with imperatives of Israel's existence, security and national needs." "The Jewish communities in Judea, Samaria, and Gaza are the realization of Zionist values. Settlement of the land is a clear expression of the unassailable right of the Jewish people to the Land of Israel and constitutes an important asset in the defense of the vital interests of the State of Israel. The Likud will continue to strengthen and develop these communities and will prevent their uprooting." All Palestine territories are officially considered occupied, by the International Court of Justice, the UN GA, the UN SC, and even in official documents of Israel's own allies. Likud is still using the blueprint for colonizing North America, in the West Bank. Move settlements out into native territory, piss off the natives, the natives retaliate, cry about poor "innocent" colonizing settlers being the "victims" of violent "Savages!", call in the cavalry to put down the native uprising, and eventually expand the borders to include those settlements. Rinse and repeat. In Gaza, Israel is operating an open air WWII style fascist ghetto. Them claiming a "right to defend themselves" would be like the Nazis claiming a "right to defend themselves " from the Warsaw ghetto uprising. There's no "war". That they're the occupiers means the "war" part is long over. Those people are actually supposed to be under the occupier's protection. That partition was forced upon the Palestinian majority, against their will ... that the Zionist portion still had to be forcefully ethnically cleansed of its non-Jewish majority, against their will ... that the millions of occupied Palestinians don't have a say in the government that truly rules over them, Israel's ... means Israel is about as democratic as Nazi Germany after Hitler purged his political opponents and then held elections.
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  15250.  @sherribarry7143  Yep
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  15251.  @shimonepstein7338  Yes, pro colonialists were also "tormented" by the actions of Geronimo, against innocent colonialist settlers. Fun fact: It would be impossible for natives to harm colonizers, if the colonizers weren't there doing their aggressor colonizing, first.
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  15252.  Total Water  Dore is clearly a grifter, who benefits the far right more than the left. Bill Maher: “The line I’ve always used is, I would be a Republican if they would. Which means that I like the Barry Goldwater Republican Party, even the Reagan Republican Party. I want a mean old man to watch my money… government is a sieve that takes as much money as it can and gives it away, usually needlessly,”
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  15253. ​ @Froward_Thinker  The same way Israel claims their civilians are "innocent", even though they elect people that continue to colonize the West Bank, run an open air WWII style fascist ghetto, and are apparently okay with the IDF and settlers regularly killing Palestinians.
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  15254.  @_B.C_  He was warned by Egypt, and instead of putting extra troops on the border, he moved some from the Gaza border to the West Bank, to support his colonization project there.
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  15255.  @_B.C_  Colonizers are never not the aggressors.
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  15256.  @_B.C_  Who the f*ck cares? What does religion have to do with whether you're a native, or not. It's a well known, very publicized fact, that one group of people went wandering off for 1500 years. People whose ancestors left England hundreds of years ago, have zero right to go back and claim half of England, create a new country, and cleanse their half of people who never left.
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  15257.  @_B.C_  Both Palestinians and Jews have Canaanite DNA. Philistia emerged at the same time as the Kingdoms of Israel and Judea, in the land of Canaan, after Egypt was pushed out. Do you have some moronic notion that religion is encoded in the DNA, or something, and that the ones who stayed couldn't have simply converted to Christianity, and then converted to Islam?
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  15258.  @Froward_Thinker  The fact that they came from elsewhere, took native land, and settled on it? The fact that Ben-Gurion, in 1918, fully acknowledged that Zionism is colonialism? The fact that, in 1923, Ze'ev Jabotinsky fully acknowledged that Zionism is colonialism and predicted, based on the entirety of history, that the natives would fight said colonialism until the bitter end, but just didn't care about what would happen to them?
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  15259.  @_B.C_  Because of the very well documented fact that one group left for 1500 years? Europeans have ancient African DNA. Europe still colonized the f*ck out of Africa. If I gathered 6 million people from the Americas whose ancestors left England hundreds of years ago, took them back to England, claimed half the land for ourselves, cleansed our half of the land at least until we newcomers were in the majority, and declared ours a new country ... we'd be f*cking colonizers. Just how stupid are you, exactly?
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  15260.  @_B.C_  That you and the fam out for a walk?
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  15261.  @_B.C_  I answered your question, dumb dumb.
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  15262. It's not simply testing per capita that's important, David. How fast that testing is rolled out is more important. If you quickly jump to 20k tests a day, get ahead of the virus quickly by testing beyond those showing symptoms, and largely contain the virus, like S Korea did, then you don't really have to increase the testing rate. You could even lower testing significantly, and not end up with a high tests per million. If you allow the virus to spread to hundreds of thousands of people, you need to multiply the tests needed significantly, and just doing more tests per million, than S Korea, might not be enough. Italy, Spain, and Germany have almost double the test per million that S Korea does, and it's still not enough, because they rolled out mass testing too slowly. The US should probably be at 100k tests per million, rather than 10k.
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  15263. Dumpty is still worse on this topic, and Republicans are less responsive to public pressure (laws allowing people to run over protesters, calling for protesters to be categorized as terrorists, etc.). Plus, they would let Russia do to Ukraine what Israel is doing to Palestine. Not to mention all the horrible domestic policies, they want to enact.
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  15264.  @zippydodahquirk9039  The first vaccine out of the gate didn't even go through "ows". Trump did jack shit to actually speed things along. All vaccines went through phase III trials. It has now been over a year, since phase I trials. They've met the safety standards of countries across the world. The polio vaccine was being given to millions of kids within a couple years. We would still have polio, if everyone was like you.
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  15265. Why do think undocumented aliens would be any more eligible for any of those things, except emergency healthcare, than they are now? We used to get all kinds of Americans coming for free healthcare, so we made picture ID health cards. No big deal.
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  15266.  @hillarybm92  Well, what you mentioned is mashing a bunch of different candidates' platforms together. Americans are already paying twice the OECD average on healthcare per capita. If you could cut the costs in half, you could have 300m undocumented immigrants and it would still be cheaper than it is now. Mexico has universal healthcare. Canada has universal healthcare. It's not like people will go specifically to get universal healthcare. The easiest thing would be to just document them, and have them pay into all the taxes. They already pay sales taxes and property taxes, just living there. Many already do pay state and federal income tax and payroll tax, pay into Medicare and social security they aren't eligible for, etc.
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  15267.  @jacksonwillbert1352  Like Amazon's free use of roads and highways to deliver their shit to everyone, making billions off the infrastructure, and paying nothing into it? Like farmers getting a handout? Etc.?
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  15268.  @hillarybm92  Sanders has a UBI now? Citation? It's math. If you have over 300 million citizens and are currently paying twice the OECD average per capita, cut costs in half, then you could add 300 more million and still be under the original cost per capita. I was referring specifically to the whining about a tiny fraction of that number of people possibly getting free healthcare.
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  15269.  @hillarybm92  That's a false dilemma.
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  15270.  @hillarybm92  You have reading comprehension problems.
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  15271.  @rocklobster2929  Right. Because helping to add M4A yes votes to congress, and helping to remove corporate Dems, isn't progressive.
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  15272.  @Breadbored.   I'm nitpicking because I want to be clear about what's what, for anyone reading. You referred to the "Canada" system, not your provincial system. You said that Canada system had "fundamental" problems. Then you gave government negotiated doctor salaries as an example, while leaving out that that's a provincial government negotiation, not a federal (Canada) government negotiation, and that it's not a problem across the whole system. Anti M4A folks love to pick up on any negative anecdotes about the Canadian system, so I just want to be clear. To be clear, the US already has hospital shutdown problems in less populated areas. Those hospital shutdown problems are even worse in areas that didn't accept federal assistance to expand Medicaid. You don't know if your hospital might have already shutdown if it wasn't for public funding. Keeping hospitals afloat in less populated areas is a fundamental problem for any system, and possibly a worse problem without public funding. So, your example was neither a "Canada" problem, nor a "fundamental" problem with our system specifically, nor even solely a single payer problem. Our system evolved over decades, so it's also not a problem with any hasty implementation. And, yes, universal coverage is inherently better than not having it, even if there are still issues. If we agree on all that, then we agree your initial post was kinda bullshit, just like I said, as well as some of the other language you used, all of which I didn't misread, at all. If you're reading that I'm arguing against anything other than specific statements you made, then you're the illiterate one.
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  15273.  @Breadbored.  Rofl, obviously your English teacher was.
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  15274. I understand that Likud have been terrorists, since they were the Irgun and Lehi. Likud platform, "between the sea and the Jordan there will only be Israeli sovereignty".
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  15275. An expanded Medicare for all would include needing more people to run it. Not as many as multiple private insurers requires, but still more than it currently requires.
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  15276.  @chiefsfan1533  But you equated an unfeeling, unthinking, "fetus" to a "baby". Scientists are working on making embryos from sperm without an egg, and from eggs without a sperm. Plenty of living organisms have the potential to become a "baby". Is a "fetus" equivalent to a "baby", or was Crowder wrong?
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  15277.  @chiefsfan1533  Yes, you keep equivocating, and not answering the actual question. Might as well start banning sex, and only allow for ejaculating into test tubes, to save every "baby".
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  15278.  @masonmcgahey7  Ummm, each sperm carries a unique mix of DNA. How is it you think that fertilized egg got its unique DNA, dumb dumb?
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  15279.  @masonmcgahey7  Rofl. You keep repeating the same stupidity. Sperm does carry a unique mix of DNA. Add to that, that scientists are working on being able to create embryos from sperm without needing an egg, means that every sperm is a potential unique human life. You should be advocating for the end of sex, and having men regularly milked into test tubes, so all the trillions of "babies" that die every year, can live. On the flip side, they're also working on creating an embryo from an egg without sperm. You should also advocate for every woman regularly having her eggs harvested, instead of letting the "baby" die off.
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  15280. ​ @asnark7115  🤪
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  15281.  @novaui4014  Well, these ones could have left for vacation without even getting the 8 weeks, like the rest of them did, but they didn't. Cori, AOC, Bowman, and others, have also been raising money, working with charities, and working with state officials, to try and resolve the problem for those in their districts and states. Go bitch about the ones who left for vacation on Fri, and aren't doing anything for the people in their districts or states.
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  15282.  @novaui4014  Yes, an adult who grasps math, dimwit. How do you expect a few progressives to pass bills all on their own? They have been telling people this needs to be resolved for months, ffs.
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  15283. Looks like videos the MSM showed of Venezuelan grocery stores.
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  15284.    Dore espouses a fringe "leftist" position shared by under 400k voters, who voted Tulsi and Green. Not sure why you're impressed with him drawing a right wing crowd.
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  15285. ​ @williaml.baptiste3597  They sold out as soon as the one and only actual pair, was sold. The rest of the people paid for something that doesn't exist.
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  15286.  @Artak091  That's immigration, not asylum, dumb dumb.
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  15287.  @vicfontaine5130  Maybe let them work, so they can rent their own places, and pay taxes for more shelters. Maybe put less money into border security, let them come through points of entry, and put that money into speeding up the asylum process.
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  15288.  @ELTEAESS  Literally nobody respected a Nazi "right to self-defense", dumb dumb.
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  15289. Here's an alternate definition: ""Agnosticism is of the essence of science, whether ancient or modern. It simply means that a man shall not say he knows or believes that which he has no scientific grounds for professing to know or believe." ~ Thomas H Huxley You don't need two definitions for Atheist, with that definition of Agnosticism.
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  15290. ​@@John__Bristol It's the government that doesn't have the right to violate his rights. The students have a right to their own freedom of expression, dumb dumb.
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  15291. Accepting an Agnostic Theist is accepting that they've found some logical evidence for believing in Gods. Something doesn't sound right in that statement.
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  15292. ​ @KaiserMattTygore927  "It's just math" It's worse in the US, since Republicans get close to 50% of the vote. Splitting the vote would equal decades of Republican rule. No two ways about it. If Republicans get 47% of the vote, and you split Dem and progressive votes 25% each, who wins?
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  15293. ​ @joefleck8581  Fight about that in the primaries.
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  15294.  @1massboy  What are you blathering about, dinglenuts? I literally provided a real world example of how it has worked, for decades, if the vote is split too much. Gore lost New Hampshire by 2%, while Nader got 4% of the New Hampshire vote. How is that also not an example, of even a little vote splitting f*cking things up?
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  15295.  @1massboy  Weird, how your name is in Russian, in my notifications, btw.
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  15296.  @Jennifer-fg2bd  Studies took into account those who would have stayed home. "In the VNS exit poll, approximately half (47 percent) of the Nader voters said they would choose Gore in a two-man race, a fifth (21 percent) would choose Bush, and a third (32 percent) would not vote. Applying these figures to the actual vote, Gore would have achieved a net gain of 26,000 votes in Florida, far more than needed to carry the state easily"
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  15297. The Republicans think there is plenty of room, for hundreds of thousands of extra unwanted babies per year. They're simply racist, dumb dumb. You wake up to that reality. Trump had more border crossings per year than Obama and they said jack shit about it. They're racist hypocrites.
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  15298.  Dogs are Fun  You're a nutjob who thinks doctors, nurses, scientists, politicians, and media, from local to national, all over the world, are all in on the biggest conspiracy of all time. You are completely insane.
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  15299.  @bradrichards8122  They made a psycho comment in another thread, which is likely why it got deleted. A complete nutjob cultist giving people advice on how to think for themselves, is relevant to their comment, here.
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  15300.  @dripshameless5605  They went on about there supposedly being zero evidence of a single covid death, the vaccine being a bioweapon, and other psycho nonsense. So, when they say "propaganda machine", they don't simply mean a few mainstream media outlets. They mean all levels of media, all levels of government, doctors, nurses, scientists, all over the world, and even claimed regular people who say they know someone who died of covid, are propagandists. When they say "think for themselves", they mean believe outright nonsense posted by other online nutjobs.
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  15301. Not only does the office have increased interaction, we're talking sharing space with others for 8 hrs a day, 5 days a week, rather than 1 hr of shopping, once a week, once every two weeks. Not understanding how the former is more dangerous than the later indicates a severe level of stupidity ... or dishonesty and counting on your viewers to have a severe level of stupidity.
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  15302. Dore benefits the far right more than progressives.
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  15303.  @lornadoell  Nonsense. He's going to have leftists line up to be on the wrong end of a Night of the Long Knives. His Boogaloo guest had praised the killings of antifa and blm members. They will shoot leftists first, once they get the civil war they want going.
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  15304. ​ @cnault3244  Because those kids are the future of the country you're living in, and will be paying for all the social security, and elderly people's more frequent and costly healthcare, while they're young and don't need it.
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  15305.  @fpsharing  Do tell. What's this supposed big picture?
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  15306.  @cnault3244  Why are you so hung up on daycare? The OP also said "free medicine". Absolutely nobody thinks, or claims, that there is zero total cost for medicine, or only a $10 total cost for daycare ... Just that it's a zero, or $10, individual out of pocket cost. Does it cost the individual $10 a day, or not?
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  15307. @cnault3244  Ontario has free medicine, for everyone under 25, and $2 prescription refills for low income seniors. Why aren't you prattling on about how it's not really "free"? "Bill the government"? You mean BILL OTHER TAXPAYERS!!!! You're just being pedantic. Nobody thinks, or claims, it costs $10 total. It costs $10 for the individual.
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  15308.  @cnault3244  Factually, it costs $10 for the individual, dingus.
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  15309. Rofl. By "he", do you mean a US government agency, which would make the US liable, if they did fund research that leaked? When can the world sue the pants off of the US, for reparations?
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  15310.  @needparalegal  Because Trump is an idiot. It doesn't matter if it was natural or leaked, the US response was still pathetic. All the other countries in the world had the same information. A bunch had excellent responses, whose covid death rates would translate to under 12k deaths total in the US. Even the mediocre response countries had death rates that would translate to 400k fewer total US deaths.
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  15311.  @needparalegal  Ironic.
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  15312.  @mikec4670  The constitution that only includes one crime, treason?
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  15313.  @valkondarvalakev6377  It's almost like this isn't forcing a vote, dimwit Dore knob. This is trying to force actually passing a bill. There was absolutely no way that ftv would actually pass M4A. Dore knobs wanted a 100% guaranteed to fail performance art vote, while being the first ones to slander AOC as being only performative. They're pathetic hypocrites that benefit the far right more than the left.
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  15314. Well, obviously it's Joe Biden's fault for inviting all the aliens in. 😌
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  15315. Sure, he only peddles letting hundreds of thousands of people, kids, get sick and die. "In a 2021 podcast he urged people to “resist” CDC guidelines on when kids should get vaccines. “I see somebody on a hiking trail carrying a little baby and I say to him, better not get them vaccinated,” Kennedy said."
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  15316.  @tgood4839  Right wingers have a weird definition of "fascist".
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  15317.  @vedantpatel6379  Conservative religious types have been cancelling things and people for centuries, ffs. You still have a government agency protecting delicate conservative sensibilities from naughty words and nipples. You lot are insane.
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  15318.  @matusjansta  Haha, yeah, the Poles are going to other countries to commit terrorism, but none in country! "Three Poles from far-right radical groups are facing terrorism charges in Poland over an arson attack on a Hungarian Cultural Centre in Ukraine." http://khpg.org/en/index.php?id=1547000188#close
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  15319.  @johnbeal8395  Empiricism isn't anti-scientific. It's what scientists use. What's unscientific is wandering down a street, see no crime, and acting like that represents the whole country. Anecdotal is too small a sample. Science also uses peer review, in case a single scientist got/did something wrong. Anecdotal doesn't include peer review. Stefan is an idiot. For one, he and other white supremacist types have suddenly forgotten that most Hispanics are descendants of white European Spaniards, and that some of the most violent places in the world are in Central/South America. He also ignores that a number of Muslim majority countries, with extreme punishments, have lower crime than Poland. When is he going to start promoting Sharia law as superior?
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  15320. Haven't Republican leaders used the word "genocide" in relation to having white supremacist traitor flags and monuments taken down? But, yeah, using the word "concentration" to describe people being concentrated is over the top.
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  15321.  @montanamountainmen6104  Because they aren't authorized, dingleberry. There are already official observers.
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  15322.  @bootywarrior4127  "Poll watchers" are unauthorized wingnuts. Republicans have been allowed official observers the entire time.
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  15323. Nah. The polls showed she wouldn't do as well against Trump as Bernie, yet Hillary or busters picked her anyway ... and they went bust.
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  15324. Fill a library? There have been about 1200 voter fraud convictions, over 30 years, from billions of votes. Unless you want every word of every case, you could fit the summaries and rulings on a shelf.
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  15325. Simply being anti-cop doesn't equate to "far left". There were ancappers at some BLM rallies. Some even tried to frame BLM for terrorism. Jimmy Dore had one on his show and tried to convince his viewers to work with people like him, even though, after the authorities and government were overthrown, they'd shoot you as soon as you'd suggest taxing everyone for universal healthcare, or something.
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  15326. Being anti-authoritarian, alone, doesn't equate to "far left". Looney far right ancap Boogaloos were at BLM protests. They just wanted to start a civil war.
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  15327. Far right ancap Boogaloos were at BLM protests. Just being at one =\= "far left".
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  15328. Progressives are already behind M4A. The only matter is whether holding a vote guaranteed to fail will accomplish anything. Jimmy thinks it might lead to a progressive wave of voting, come 2022, and if you win enough seats in both the House and Senate, you could try again. Jimmy also thought letting Trump win in 2016 would bring about a massive progressive wave of voters, so he's not the best strategist, or forecaster. AOC's progressive PAC just helped get more progressives elected to congress. Jimmy calling her a shill, for disagreeing on tactics, isn't helpful and just straight up bullshit. That's exactly what he wants his own "plan" to end up doing. I don't recall Jimmy promoting progressive candidates as much as he possibly could, leading into the election. He was busy whining about Colbert crying, shit Obama (no longer an actual politician) said, and bashing Trump's only viable opponent, basically doing attack ads for the Trump campaign.
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  15329.  @cpj75010  And now he's calling her a "shill", which is pure bullshit. The Tea Party attacked mainstream Republicans, they didn't attack their own Tea Party friendly politicians. Jimmy is doing his best to destroy the credibility of the most progressive politians in congress. He doesn't give a crap. He proved in 2016 that he doesn't really give a crap who's in charge. He stupidly thinks fascists and neolibs are samesies. He, basically, ran an attack ad campaign, for Trump against Biden, leading into the 2020 election, as well. He could have been organizing M4A protests all along. He could have promoted DSA M4A rallies all along. You know, before the elections that just happened. The Civil Rights Act was held up by a minority filibuster, back when that was an actual thing. It didn't lose to a majority vote. The majority could quickly reintroduce it, and then held out through another minority filibuster. If you have to threaten the speaker election for a vote, then it likely won't be reintroduced until the next time you can threaten the speaker election. There's already plenty of agitation in the streets. Republicans, especially, don't care, and they control the senate, atm. Things would have to escalate a lot more for them to act.
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  15330. Atheists didn't label themselves originally! What don't you get about that? Christians labelled them. The Christian default was God exists. They created the word, from a Greek root, Athe(os), plus a suffix, -ist (believer). More modern Atheists, like Smith, have been redefining the word, as meaning both believer and non-believer, which is contradictory. I am going by original definitions, and still the most common definition, when the word is used by non A-theists.
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  15331. Who's Benie?
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  15332.  @bleedingred-white-blue8749  The compromise is, if you're making billions a year from a society, instead of only claiming $1 in income, and paying nothing back into that society, you actually pay some taxes. If you're a corporation who gets a million times the benefit from shipping a million products around the country on roads and highways, to a million customers, then you pay a million times more for those roads and highways, than each customer. Etc.
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  15333.  @RobertMJohnson  How is that relevant to Tulsi being marginally more intelligent than Palin, dumb dumb?
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  15334. Everyone is going to react a little different. The mRNA shots have higher efficacy rates. Me and a couple handfuls of family members got mRNA shots with nothing but sore arms.
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  15335. God complexes.
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  15336.  @hailandfire1822  Ooooh, you've got telepathic powers?!
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  15337. Can I have half of your state/province (the half you're on), so I can create a Scientology nation for Tom Cruise? I'll need you, and enough of the other current inhabitants, to move out ... at least enough so that the Scientologists are in a solid majority, so they can fake being democratic.
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  15338. ​ @Frankie9553 "Collusion" isn't a legal term you can be charged with, dumb dumb. Republican Mueller provided a few hundred pages of evidence of collusion, that didn't amount to criminal conspiracy. Plus, he said that Jr and Kushner weren't indicted for criminal conspiracy because it would be hard to prove they "willfully" broke the law, not because they didn't break the law.
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  15339. ​ @Frankie9553  I think you must be thinking of the 6 investigations into Hillary Clinton, while she was Trump's political opponent, while he ran on "Lock her up!", while all the right wing media was crying that it should disqualify her ... only to find absolutely nothing to charge her with.
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  15340. Yes, I know of Gettier. And, I'd still call the crazy guy, who thinks he actually saw God, a Gnostic. It's still the basic steps, plus whatever fix for the problem you want to add.
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  15341.  @kise_ryota  How could you have possibly chosen to do anything else, if it was known you'd do it, before you were created. As the actual creation, you have zero ability to choose to do anything differently than what was already known, before you were created.
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  15342.  @kise_ryota  For there to be a point of creation, that requires there to be a point of no creation, right? If not, then the thing they're claiming was created always existed, and no god is needed. Ok, so if that god knows everything that will happen, prior to creation, then once created, the creations can't do anything differently. And, yes, the god would also not be able to interact any differently than how it already knows it will interact. Take Adam. Adam hasn't been created, yet. The god knows that the Adam he is about to create will have insufficient willpower, will succumb to temptation, and will eat the fruit. The god then creates that Adam, with the insufficient willpower. Does the now created Adam actually have the option, the ability, to choose not to eat the fruit?
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  15343.  @kise_ryota  I really don't care where the god is. For there to be a point of creation, that requires there be a point of no creation. That's just a logical necessity, because if there was never a point of no creation, then it always existed and didn't need creating. There's no possible way to maintain a creation narrative and dodge that. If the god knows what his non-existent creations will do, then once they're created they can't deviate from what he knows. Doesn't matter if he zaps the entire timeline into existence and sits outside it, or not. Prior to creating them, he would also know if any of them will ever interact with him. Still talking about the same subject. Creation + foreknowledge. You seem to keep trying to dodge the creation part, and only refer to the foreknowledge. The god hasn't created anything, yet, including Adam. He knows the Adam 1.0 design will fail his entrapment test. He knows the Adam 2.0 design will pass his entrapment test. He creates Adam 1.0 anyway. Can Adam 1.0 pass the test?
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  15344.  @PathtoYahawah  Then it's true that people who claim both that they have free will, and that their creator knows the future, have a problem, loco!
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  15345.  @PathtoYahawah  So, then absolutely nobody is denying g0d, or rbllng against g0d, etc., etc., since g0d programmed them that way. Why would the Bible use words like those then? Plus, you're acknowledging your g0d intentionally does "evil". Why worship "evil"?
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  15346.  @emgtexas  You're leaving off that your g0d is a creator, not just an observer. IF a creator knows what its creation will do, before creating it ... THEN the creation can't possibly choose to do anything differently, once created.
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  15347.  @emgtexas  "In our minds", "in our eyes", would be irrelevant to the truth. If, before day 6, g0d already knew Adam and Eve would eat the fruit, then once created, on day 6, they wouldn't have the ability to choose not to eat the fruit, or g0d would be wrong, and didn't actually know. Think of it like a willpower skill level. G0d could have created an Adam with an indomitable will, but instead knowingly created an Adam that he knew would fold like a cheap suit.
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  15348.  @emgtexas  Yes, without free will, the whole thing makes no sense. But, it's just a fact, that if a creator knows his creation will do X, prior to creating it ... then, once created, the creation can't possibly not do X, or the creator would have been wrong, and didn't actually know.
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  15349.  @emgtexas  And, I've heard that limiting himself argument before, but that also makes no sense. Prior to the point of deciding to limit himself, didn't he already know what would happen? It would create an infinite regression.
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  15350.  @emgtexas  There is only a slight difference between "making us do it" and not giving us the ability to do otherwise. Like I said, if he knew the Adam he was about to create would fail, would be weak willed, that means he knowingly created an Adam that wouldn't have enough willpower to resist temptation. Once presented the choice, that Adam didn't have the willpower to resist temptation, and couldn't possibly do otherwise. He could have created an Adam with the willpower of Job, if he wanted, right? And, that Adam would then have lacked the ability to fail the temptation test, and couldn't have done otherwise.
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  15351.  @emgtexas  Because you basically just keep asserting the premise I originally took issue with, without actually resolving the problem, putting us back to square 1. What we can know ... For there to be a point of creation, that means, by definition, there needs to be a point when the creation didn't exist, or it wouldn't need to be created in the first place. It is impossible for a thing that doesn't exist to make choices. If it is known what a creation will do, prior to it being created, then once created, the creation can't possibly do anything differently than what was known. For a casual observer of the future, that might not be an issue, but for the creator, that means they knowingly created an Adam and Eve that would fail ... that wouldn't have enough willpower to pass the test. Same would go for Satan. Point A: Satan doesn't exist, so can't have made any choices. G0d knows what Satan will be, and do. Point B: G0d still creates Satan. Satan can't possibly choose to be, or do, anything differently. G0d intentionally created Satan to do exactly what he wanted did. And, knew he would succeed at tempting Adam and Eve, because he also intentionally created them to be weak willed failures.
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  15352.  @emgtexas  That is contradictory. Think of it like a game character creation. You can create a character and assign however many points you want (because you have a g0d mode cheat) to strength, dexterity, constitution, intelligence, willpower, etc. You know what challenges the character will face, in game, because you also created the game. Then, you knowingly don't assign enough willpower points to your character to pass the first in game willpower test. Then you start playing. Will the character be able to pass the test?
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  15353.  @emgtexas  There's nothing flawed about it. I didn't say he was controlling your moves, like a game. I said he created the character. You believe in creation, right? You aren't now denying he does the character creation, are you? If Adam possessed enough willpower to pass the test, then he would have passed the test. G0d created a character he knew would fail, which means the character had no possible chance to succeed. It was an illusion of a choice. There's no possible way Adam could have passed the test, if it was known, before he was created, that he would fail the test.
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  15354.  @emgtexas  What? Following the rules takes willpower (the ability to control one's own actions, emotions, urges). What? If other things can exist without a creator, besides the creator, then why can't we? You argued deception has nothing to do with us controlling our actions, and then argued it does. You've gone entirely inchrnt.
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  15355.  @emgtexas  You claimed being deceived has nothing to do with willpower (self control), and then claimed deception led to sin (a violation of what g0d considers proper self control). G0d didn't have to create a tree with a forbidden fruit, and then stick it exactly in the only place, in the entire universe, where the only two humans existed. It was a test (entrapment), like leaving a bowl of candy in front of little kids, telling them not to eat any, or they'll be grounded, and leaving the room. It is entirely a test of willpower. Then have some stranger come along and tell the kids they don't have to listen to their parents, that they won't be grounded, to make it's even more challenging. It's a horrible setup, even leaving off that he created them, knowing they didn't have the ability to pass the test beforehand. Even if you want to make the odd argument that there could possibly be all kinds of other beings, maybe even other g0ds, that don't require being created ... The biblical g0d created Eden, and Adam and Eve, knowing full well that the snake (if that's what you're calling Satan) would show up. He didn't prevent it. He apparently didn't even warn them not to listen to talking snakes. He created the scenario, knowing exactly how it would play out. It couldn't have possibly played out any differently, than how he knew it would.
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  15356.  @emgtexas  And I have tried to be respectful as all you've basically argued is that your g0d has incomprehensible magical thinking. Zero logical thought to actually solving the problem. According to Genesis 2, it took the dmwt g0d creating all the animals and birds in existence, before figuring out Adam might like another human being to help him. The dmwt g0d, knowing full well that Earth 1.0, starting with Adam was doomed to fail, and that he'd have to start over with Earth 2.0 and Noah, still went ahead with Earth 1.0. He could have just started with Noah, and Earth 2.0, in the first place. Etc. The biblical g0d isn't described as exceptionally bright, or good. Pretty much just a ruthless dcttr. If other beings can exist without requiring that g0d creating them, then what's your basis for claiming other g0ds can't also exist? "Middle aged"? He had just created them. There's no indication they had lived in the garden very long, at all. Plus, they were totally innocent, not knowing good or evil. They were child-like. Their father, never even warned them to avoid talking snakes. Rofl! You believe your all powerful g0d let things go down a road he didn't intend? Again, if he knew the Adam and Eve he was about to create, would get hoodwinked, then he could have chosen to make the smarter, chosen to give them some kind of innate sense that talking snakes are bad, chosen to give them unshakable wills, ... The possibilities are limitless, aren't they? You're turning your g0d into a lame duck ... Just had no ability to do things any other way. And yet, you haven't given a single realistic scenario that disproves it. I know the version Adam I am about to create will fail. I have the ability to create an infinite number of other versions, some amount of which would never fail. I have the power to toss the snake across the universe. I have the power to hide the tree across the universe. I still create the scenario, and version of Adam, that I know will fail. How is there any possibility of Adam not failing, once created? If there's no possibility for Adam to do otherwise, once created, then he never had an actual choice.
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  15357.  @emgtexas  You said there could possibly be other powerful beings in existence that didn't require a g0d to create them. How can you then claim there can't possibly be other g0ds? If you've thrown away the core ... this one g0d created everything argument ... while still including the existence of magical beings, then you've opened things up to infinite possibilities. Adam and Eve had just been created. There's zero indication they were "middle aged", especially mentally. They were completely mentally innocent, not knowing good and evil, like little children. And yet, you've given zero realistic scenarios, that actually get around the problem. Your main argument is the good old, "g0d works in mysterious ways", you can't know how a g0d thinks, garbage. His thinking process is described, multiple times, in the Bible, and he's not described as being exceptionally bright. Scenario: A and B are planning to prank C, by A jumping out and startling C, while B videos it. Not long before the planned prank, B receives a text, from himself, from the future. It's the video of what happens. It shows C severely overreacting, tripping, falling down a flight of stairs, landing badly, and no longer living. If B does nothing, and remains an observer/recorder, things will go exactly the same way. A will never not startle C, and C will never react differently. If B truly does not want C to be unalived, they have the power to change the scenario. It's absolutely ridiculous, to claim g0d wanted any other outcome than the one he got. An all powerful being could have changed the scenario in any number of ways. Now, let's say B is actually a g0d, who created C. That means C didn't get traits through genetics or upbringing. C was created, by B, to be high strung and to overreact. Unless B changes their created tendencies, C will always react the way they reacted in the video. Even if B didn't want to change the scenario, B could design C differently, so that they don't overreact. If B changes nothing, C can't possibly do anything other than what was shown in the video from the future. In a debate about free WILL, you've argued WILLpower has nothing to do with it, which makes no sense. It has everything to do with it. If Adam never possessed enough will to resist temptation, then he never had the option to react differently. G0d both could have created a stronger Adam, and could have created a different scenario.
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  15358.  @emgtexas  If you're claiming there could be other magical beings that exist, that don't require a g0d to create them, then you don't have grounds to claim other g0ds don't exist. Not that hard. How are days old creations, so innocent of thought that they don't need clothes, and don't know good and evil, at all like middle aged adults? I'm starting to wonder if you've even read the book. And yet you've given zero realistic scenarios that would allow for Adam to make a different choice, once created. In a debate about free WILL, you've argued WILLpower has nothing to do with it, indicating you don't even know what we're talking about.
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  15359.  @emgtexas  Rofl. I didn't say that, at all. I was comparing g0d to the adult parent, who left the children alone with candy, myself. Why would I care if you compared a g0d to an adult? It's comparing newly created, completely innocent, people, to "middle aged" adults, that's nonsensical. Rofl. You used claiming it's possible g0d didn't create Satan, to dodge my previous point. Now you're claiming you do believe he created Satan. And, now you've resorted to claiming your g0d doesn't know the future of some beings, so isn't all powerful and all knowing. Yes, because it takes WILLpower to make a proper free WILL choice. If someone doesn't have the WILLpower, to override a potentially negative desire, to make a different choice, then they won't. What does it take to resist temptation, if not WILLpower? It's literally the definition.
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  15360.  @Asiyah2000  DNA does not prove that, at all. Yes, no coherent theist arguments still holds. You say your creator g0d gave free will. If your g0d can see the future, then that's impossible. If your g0d can't see the future, then there should be no g0d given prophecies.
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  15361. @emgtexas  First option: Again ... For there to be a point B of creation, that requires there being a point A of no creation. You're inventing a state of being that makes no sense. To get from point A to point B, one thing has to follow the other, meaning time already needs to be passing to create anything, which means it doesn't require being created itself. Genesis debunks the notion that God sits in some impossible place outside time. He creates things one "Day" after another. Second option: You just ignored the creation side of things. Point A, Adam doesn't exist. I jump in a time machine, and travel to point B, where I see the Adam I'm thinking about creating eating the fruit. I then travel back to point A, where Adam doesn't exist, so he can't possibly have been faced with a choice yet. IF I now create Adam, using the exact same weak willed design that I know will eat the fruit ... THEN, once created, Adam won't be able to choose not to eat the fruit, once he's actually faced with a choice.
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  15362. @emgtexas  If time is something that needs creating, then your God hasn't existed for an eternity. Eternity is the infinite passage of time. So, when did your God start existing? You can keep asserting "free will", all you want, but it would just be a fact that it would be impossible for Adam to make a different choice, once he was actually created, and actually faced with the choice. If it's impossible for him to make a different choice, then he has no "free will". You think every single person has the exact same amount of willpower as everyone else?
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  15363. @emgtexas Your words are meaningless. If time is not passing "eternal" means nothing. No end and no beginning would be us currently at point 0, and there's an infinite backwards, -1, -2, -3, ... And, infinite forwards, 1, 2, 3, ... You're the one creating a beginning of time, which would make God existing prior to that have no meaning. He would have existed for no amount of time, prior to time. God was also the parent of Adam and Eve. You just argued he was a failure of a parent, knew he was going to be a failure of a parent, and parented them the exact same way, anyway. If you understand my point of view, then why do you just keep making impossible assertions? It is impossible for an uncreated Adam to make a choice. You keep claiming he can. He doesn't exist, to do so. Once created, it would be impossible for Adam to make a different choice, or God would be wrong. If you can't possibly make a different choice, then you don't have free will. Stop just asserting you do, and explain how Adam could possibly choose differently AFTER he is created.
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  15364. @emgtexas  Rofl! You think you're the one being patient? Again, you just asserted "free will", without giving an actual explanation as to how Adam could possibly choose to do anything differently than what is already known he'd do. A: G knows Adam will choose X, at point C. B: G creates Adam. C: Adam is now faced with a choice, X or ~X. At point C, explain thoroughly, without just asserting "free will", exactly how Adam could possibly choose ~X, when God already knows he will choose X. If he did choose ~X, then God would be wrong. Is it possible for God to be wrong?
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  15365. @emgtexas  Blah, blah, again you failed to explain how Adam could possibly choose ~X, when God already knows he'll choose X. At point C, if Adam chose ~X, that would make God wrong. Can your God possibly be wrong? If God can't possibly be wrong, then Adam can't possibly pick ~X.
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  15366. @emgtexas  How can you make a decision, if you don't exist? Make sense.
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  15367. @emgtexas  I didn't ask how he knows. I asked how someone who doesn't exist can make a decision. You seem about as sharp as a spoon.
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  15368. @emgtexas  This debate is already based on the notion that God can magically see the future. Reiterating that God can magically see the future is an entirely redundant statement. Day 5: Adam doesn't actually exist. Someone who doesn't exist can't make decisions. God magically sees the future, beyond Day 6, and sees that the Adam he's about to create will eat the fruit. Day 6: God creates Adam, with the same level of inner strength, and provides Adam with the same parental guidance, that he knows are doomed to fail. Beyond Day 6: The now existing, weak willed, poorly parented, Adam reaches the point of being faced with a choice. Adam can't possibly choose not to eat the fruit or God will have been wrong. ___ You keep talking as if the entire future, the entire timeline, actually exists already. If that were the case, then nothing would need creating. Also, if God had created everything, including the entirety of time, in an instant, then Genesis makes zero sense. And, if every point in time, including every "decision", had been instantly created, by God, that would also negate free will. The entirety of time would be exactly how he wanted it to be.
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  15369. @emgtexas  Rofl. If he exists, then he doesn't need to be created, dingus.
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  15370. @emgtexas  Again, you're just stating a redundancy, that he can see the future. That's already a given, in the debate. He sees the future, before Adam is created. Adam is then created. How can the now created Adam possibly choose to do anything differently, than what God has seen? If he does, God will have been wrong.
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  15371. @emgtexas  That he can see the future was a given, from the start, dingus! That's not what's being debated.
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  15372. @emgtexas  You seem to have lost the entire plot, and don't even know what the debate is.
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  15373. @emgtexas  You can make up whatever magical nonsense you want, for how God can see the future. That's irrelevant. That he can, some way, some how, is already a given. The question is ... once created, once he's actually brought into existence, once he's actually truly facing a choice in reality, how could Adam possibly choose to do anything differently than what God already knows?
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  15374. @emgtexas  He doesn't actually exist yet, dmwt!
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  15375. @emgtexas  How he sees the future is irrelevant! If Adam requires being created, then Adam doesn't truly exist yet. How can someone who doesn't exist make a decision? If the future Adam actually exists, then he doesn't require being created.
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  15376. @emgtexas  You have already argued that your God is a failure of a teacher. You briefly argued that other powerful magical beings might exist that don't require a creator, which could include other gods, before back peddling. You're the one not grasping what it means to be created. For there to be a point of creation (Day 6 for Adam), that means there needs to be a previous point (Day 5 and before) when the creation didn't yet exist. How can someone who doesn't exist make a decision? That's what you keep claiming. Explain how.
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  15377. @emgtexas  How many times ... Looking forward in time is already in a given dingus! But what God "sees" doesn't actually exist yet, or it wouldn't need to be created. Once created ... Once he actually comes into existence ... Once he's actually truly faced with the choice ... How can Adam possibly choose to things differently?
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  15378. @emgtexas  Try this: Prior to creating anything, your god sees that Adam will fail. Does your god then have the power to create things differently? Can he choose not to create the tree, not create the snake, not create Satan, choose a different Adam and Eve design, choose to be a better teacher (you claimed willpower is all in the teaching, that there's nothing inherent about it, which would mean there was nothing inherently wrong with Adam, only with how he was taught)? Or, is your god's power limited? If your god's power is unlimited, then the future he saw, where Adam fails, was only one of an unlimited potential futures, that would only happen if God chose to create/teach Adam and Eve to be weak willed, chose to create the tree, chose to create the snake, chose to create Satan ... And then he went ahead and created things exactly that way anyway. Your god didn't see an actual existing person make a choice.
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  15379. @emgtexas  Why are you prattling on about irrelevant nonsense? Doesn't matter what Satan started as, your all knowing god would know what he'd turn into, before creating him, right dingus? Yes, you said willpower was all teacher. Right, god would be responsible, either way, since he's both creator and parent. "A range of willpower" ... And he knew that "range" would be inadequate, before creating Adam. They don't f-ing exist, dingus! If they did, then they wouldn't need creating. And, if that's the actual, only possible future, and your god can't make any changes, prior to creating things, then you're now also arguing your god isn't omnipotent, on top of being incompetent.
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  15380. @emgtexas  Rofl. Ironic opening, considering the fact that Satan "chosing" is irrelevant to the point I made, dingus. The point was that your god could have chosen not to create him, if he really wanted Adam to succeed, and if he was all powerful enough to change the vision of the future he saw. Apparently you're arguing your god is not all powerful, and apparently you are too daft to grasp any points being made. That takes willpower, dingus, which he didn't have enough of. The entire premise of the story was that they didn't know good from evil, right from wrong, dingus. He chose to leave two innocent, ignrnt, mental and emotional children, that he knew would fail, that he knew he hadn't given the proper skills to, alone with Satan and a tree that would curse them and their descendants for all eternity. Yeah, the circle is because you haven't solved the problem, dmwt. How can someone who doesn't exist make an actual choice? Or, how can someone who now exists chose to do something differently than what God saw, prior to creating them? Constantly repeating that God can see the future, when that's already a given, means you're as sharp as a spoon. Even a god's morality would be based on their own subjective likes and dislikes. Your god wasn't required to create pigs, make them tasty, and then declare it immoral to eat them. He felt like it.
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  15381.  @emgtexas  Rofl. Ironic opening, considering the fact that Satan "choosing" is irrelevant to the point I made, dingus. The point was that your god could have chosen not to create him, if he really wanted Adam to succeed, and if he was all powerful enough to change the vision of the future he saw. Apparently you're arguing your god is not all powerful, and apparently you are too thick to grasp any points being made. Yeah, that takes willpower, dingus, which he didn't have enough of. The entire premise of the story was that they didn't know good from evil, right from wrong. He chose to leave two innocent, ignrnt, effectively children, that he knew would fail, that he knew he hadn't given the proper skills to, alone with Satan and a tree that would curse them and their descendants for all eternity. But, apparently you're now arguing your God didn't have a choice. That he's not all powerful. That the future he sees is set in stone, and he can't deviate from it. Yeah, the circle is because you haven't solved the problem, dingus. How can someone who doesn't exist make an actual choice? Or, how can someone who now exists chose to do something differently than what God saw, prior to creating them? Constantly repeating that God can see the future, when that's already a given, means you're as sharp as a spoon. Even a god's morality would be based on their own subjective likes and dislikes. Your god wasn't required to create pigs, make them tasty, and then declare it immoral to eat them. He felt like it.
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  15382. @emgtexas  So, just to recap: You've argued there could possibly be other powerful uncreated beings in existence. You've argued your god is an incompetent parent. You've now argued your god isn't omnipotent. You've argued a future Adam both exists and doesn't exist. 🤣
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  15383. @emgtexas  That you're as sharp as a spoon, is simply an objective fact, at this point. You don't even seem to grasp how fractions/percentages work. A few choice words, here and there is not half. Either you don't grasp them or you're the one lying. Only two options. Pick one. What do you think I lied about? If God sees a future where Adam eats the fruit, and you claim that's the actual, unchangeable, future ... That means your god has limits. If he hasn't actually created anything yet, there should be an infinite number of possible futures, all depending on what he decides to do. Only if that future is a possibility, but not fixed, can your god have the ability to change things. You've clearly chosen to give your god limitations. You made out like point C is an already existing future, which would mean it doesn't need creating. Then, you backtracked and said it doesn't exist. But, then you again claimed that someone who doesn't exist can make a decision. Totally inchrnt. You very clearly openly stated that other powerful beings, besides your god, might not need creating, before backtracking.
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  15384. @emgtexas  Glad we agree that you just made stuff up, while trying to dodge that your God created Satan and evil, and then back peddled. How did I dodge anything, when I said even a god's morality would be subjectivity based? All morality is. Absolutely nobody has ever provided a valid argument for objective morality. Even your own god provided a subjectivity based measure of morality ... Love (subjectivity) your neighbor as yourself ... Do unto others as you would like (subjectivity) done to you. Yes, you repeatedly made out like your god was standing outside the timeline, watching it happen, as if it all existed already. But then when I pointed out that would mean it wouldn't need creating, you stated the timeline doesn't exist. But then you again say your god is watching a future that exists. Totally inchrnt. And, if that's the only possible, unchangeable, future, you've also now provided limits to your god's abilities. To be clear, I'm agnostic about the existence of gods the same way I'm agnostic about the existence of aliens. However, I'm quite certain that Star Trek, Spock, the Bible, and its God, are works of fiction.
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  15385. @emgtexas  People who don't exist yet, can't make actual decisions. If a future them already exists, making decisions, then they don't need creating. You're arguing for the impossible, or for non creation. Uh huh, so your god thought it would be "good" to knowingly unleash evil (tree), and Satan, onto the world. And, your god lacks the ability to make a different decision, once he sees the future. It's not simply a potential future, according to you. Do you think Greek mythology is fact, or fiction? Again, you're arguing that your god is limited. Either your god can subjectively pick and choose whatever he feels is moral, or immoral ... or your god is himself limited by some outside force. Yeah, I know what kind of ice cream I like. Doesn't change the fact that what I like is subjective. Nobody argues that subjectivity doesn't exist. Our subjectivity (likes, dislikes, biases, desires, etc.) objectively exists.
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  15386.  @emgtexas  The point at issue, is prior to the creation's existence and any actual decisions it could make. It doesn't exist. If you say there's an existing future Adam, making actual decisions, then Adam doesn't need creating. If you say an uncreated, non existent, Adam can make decisions, then you're arguing for the logically impossible. No creation or the logically impossible ... which is it? And yet, you keep arguing your god does have limits, by claiming the future he sees is a fixed actual future, and not simply a possible future. If Satan sits down and bets God that he can make Job deny him ... then God looks into the future, if Satan's suggestion is accepted, and sees that Job would pass the tests (abuse, suffering, and mrdr) ... Could your god have chosen not to pointlessly trtr Job? Was the future seen only one possibility, or was it the one and only fixed future and your god incapable of choosing to do otherwise? In the end, your god chose to allow for the pointless suffering, just so he could win a bet. Do you think there's some big difference between Thor and Spock? Now you're arguing your god has limits, again. If your god isn't subjectively picking and choosing whatever he thinks is moral or immoral, then what ... is some outside influence making him? Does he not have the ability to choose whatever he likes? Love is subjectivity. Like is subjectivity. Yes, I know I like pizza. It being an objective fact that I subjectively think pizza is good, doesn't magically make it an objective fact that pizza is good.
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  15387. @emgtexas  Rofl. You can't defy being created, dingus. For a thing to be created, it means there was a point when it didn't exist. A non existent thing can't make decisions. No creation needed, if you think a future Adam exists already. "Objective in your mind" ... Apparently you also don't know the definition of "objective". 🤣
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  15388. @emgtexas  You've argued non existent beings can do things. So, it's fair to say a god isn't even needed for creation, if it can both not exist and create.
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  15389. @emgtexas  Nah. It's just repeated evidence that you'll completely invent a nonsensical argument, to try and support your nonsensical position.
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  15390. @emgtexas  I've listened to you just fine. You've effectively argued that a being that doesn't exist can do things. Therefore, no need for gods, since they can create things without existing. I repeat the same thing, because you repeatedly just reiterate the starting given, and think you've solved the problem. That the creator can see the future causes the problem. Repeatedly stating they can see the future doesn't solve it, dingus.
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  15391. @emgtexas  Admitting that you invented what was effectively a gibberish argument, doesn't change the fact you did. Try informing yourself, before making an argument. If you walk into an ice cream shop, do they have to offer you 💩 flavor, for you to have free will?
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  15392. @emgtexas  Ah ha! A potential future is what I said, and what you repeatedly argued against. That means god chose to create that specific outcome, out of all the potential outcomes. Thanks for playing.
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  15393. @emgtexas  I'm asking ... if the creator of the ice cream, and the creator of the ice cream shop scenario, doesn't offer you 💩 flavor, have they removed your ability to choose?
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  15394. @emgtexas  You don't exist yet, dingus!
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  15395. @emgtexas  🤣 Unless you're arguing your god doesn't know which one you'll pick, prior to creating you, in which case he's not all knowing.
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  15396. @emgtexas  And yet you haven't provided a single coherent one. "Through his knowledge of our decision" ... Something that doesn't exist can't make an actual decision. You keep arguing we don't need creating, since we're already existing, and making decisions, in the future. "we can go"? That's not the same as knowing which way we will go. If there are an infinite possible future outcomes, because your god is infinitely powerful and can create, or not create, whatever he wants ... Then, either your god doesn't know exactly which outcome will happen, prior to creating things, or he has picked a single outcome and created that, in which case there's no possible way for a different outcome to happen.
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  15397. @emgtexas   And I've repeatedly explained that him having the ability to see the future is already a given, and actually part of the problem. But there you go, yet again, just reiterating that he can see the future, of someone that doesn't exist yet, someone who can't actually make real live decisions. You repeatedly talk as if he's sitting outside the timeline, that the timeline already exists, that the decision maker already exists in that future timeline, which would mean he doesn't need to be created. Also, an all knowing god should know exactly what will happen, before even creating the timeline, since you also claim time needs creating. Even your future Adam couldn't exist, before the timeline exists. Everything you've said is completely incoherent. What are you talking about? He created the devil. Was there no purpose to doing that? What's "good" about allowing "evil"? That's like saying we shouldn't cover electrical sockets, so toddlers can have free choice. Or, like saying an ice cream shop should offer 💩 flavor, and we don't have free will if they don't.
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  15398. @emgtexas  Rofl! You don't need to offer me 💩 flavor ice cream, for me to have free will. Offering only good flavors works just fine. That argument, that you have to offer "evil" for there to be free will, is complete nonsense. What do you find so hard to understand about the words "prior to creation"? How can it "continue by its decisions" prior to it existing, dingus? If the place exists to be in, prior to creating it, then it doesn't need creating. Got it.
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  15399. @emgtexas  I don't think you've even read the fairytale you're defending. God created the tree (ice cream shop) and the flavors (good and evil). I want the ability to teleport myself around. Why has god limited my free will? If having free will requires having unlimited options available, then we should have superpowers. If it doesn't require having unlimited options, then there's no good reason to create evil, and offer it as an option.
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  15400. @emgtexas  Right. Our disagreement is that everything you're saying is nonsensical.
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  15401. @emgtexas  I'm not the one saying non existent people, in a non existent future, can make decisions. That's gibberish.
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  15402. @emgtexas  But he gave us limits, denied us options. That's denying free will, according to you. You don't even seem to grasp the premise, that Adam and Eve were entirely clueless to the fact that eating the fruit was a sin (evil) because they had no knowledge of good and evil until they ate.
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  15403. @emgtexas  I'm not the one claiming people who don't exist can make decisions, dingus. That's all you.
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  15404. @emgtexas Uh huh, and you've gotten no closer to making any sense. The only kind of decisions that can be made by people who don't exist, on a timeline that doesn't exist, are decisions that don't exist. All you keep arguing is that your god isn't needed, because the people and timeline already exist.
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  15405. @emgtexas  It literally says they were running around wearing nothing, feeling no shame, just like little kids do. Your god created the tree of knowledge of evil ... created evil ... and they had no knowledge of evil (sin) prior to eating the fruit.
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  15406. @emgtexas  Rofl. If you had actually grasped what you read, you would have grasped that she had already eaten, so already gained knowledge of good and evil, before saying that, dingus. Knowing what someone said, and understanding the ramifications of disobeying them, are two different things. God stated they now know good and evil, "like us" (whoever "is" is), and there's zero indication they knew anything of the sort, prior to eating the fruit. If your god had actually wanted them to live forever, he would have just snapped his fingers and made them immortal. Instead, he borrowed an ambrosia tree, from other mythologies, and created one for himself. If the snake was the devil, which it says nowhere and is entirely invented by apologists, then why did your God punish snakes? But, I'm glad you've now reread that your god created the tree, so therefore created evil, and will stop lying about it.
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  15407. @emgtexas  Your video literally says that only god has free will, so narrator won't use those words for the rest of the video. Once again, we already have choices, when only offered good flavors, and don't need to be offered 💩 flavors. God chose to offer the 💩 flavors, knowing full well Adam and Eve would choose to eat them, before ever creating them. They were predestined to fail. Also, Jesus was an ignrnt carpenter, turn apclps preacher, who believed in a domed flat earth and a fictional global flood.
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  15408. @emgtexas  So now you've agreed that people don't have free will, or will you back peddle yet again?
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  15409. @emgtexas  If it's possible to have both limits and free will, then you don't need to have limits to evil removed, to have free will, exactly like I said. Already been over this, but you argued against it. Now you're arguing for it. Then you'll argue against it. Then for, then against. You are just about the most inchrnt theist I've ever run across. It also refers to snakes as just snakes many times in the Bible. You haven't got there? You didn't even manage to finish only 2 pages about the tree and eating the fruit? He cursed snakes to forever slither on the ground and get under the heel of women. Rofl. "Ambrosia" is an immortality giving food or drink, in Greek mythology. Does the tree of life produce fruit that grants immortality? Yes. Then, it's an ambrosia tree. An all powerful god could just make them immortal, or remove that immortality, by thought. The tree is completely pointless. Just something borrowed from other mythologies, like much of the OT. He had absolutely no reason to punish them. Your all knowing god would have actually known that Earth 1.0, starting with Adam, would completely fail, and that he'd begin all over with Earth 2.0, starting with Noah. There was absolutely no good reason for anything, no point to anything, prior to Noah, in that fairytale. Being all powerful, he could have seen his failure of a creation, changed his mind, and started with Noah instead. He chose failure. Rofl. God is depicted as not being very intelligent, in the Bible, and also mad. Did you read how he kept trying to create companions for Adam, and then finally decided on creating Eve for him? If your god knew all that, before actually creating them, why didn't he just create Eve for Adam from the get go?
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  15410. @emgtexas  Rofl. Genesis 1 and 2 have contradicting orders. You can't use Genesis 1 to claim he already created them. In Genesis 2, the one where the trees and rule come into play, it literally says he made Adam before animals. Then proceeded to make animals, so Adam wouldn't be alone. “It is not good for the man to be alone. I will make a helper suitable for him.” Only then does your god proceed to make animals, looking for a suitable companion, but none are suitable. "But for Adam no suitable helper was found." Only then does your god decide to make Eve for him. You sent me to a video, which literally says only your god has free will. You already lost the debate, so no clue what position you're even arguing now. You've repeatedly pulled complete nonsense out of ... I don't know where, only to back peddle. Your arguments defy logic, and the meaning of words like "created". I've listened, but haven't heard any actual sense. You can't even make it through the 2 whole relevant pages in your own fairytale book, and don't even seem to understand the parts you are reading. You've twice now not understood the order of what it literally says (Eve's words after her gaining knowledge, not before, and animals after Adam). You don't even know that "Allah" is just Arabic for "God". Even Arabic Christians say "Allah". It's the exact same Abrahamic god, not a different god. The same god as the Jewish "Elohim". Sorry to say ... that you're about as sharp as a spoon is just a statement of fact. What's to respect?
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  15411. @emgtexas  "Ambrosia" isn't a specifically well defined thing. Just a food or drink that provides immortality. That is what the tree of life produces. Don't know what you're arguing about. The argument is to not create the bad options. It's not to not create Adam, dingus. It's you that doesn't listen. You've now managed to make it through the one whole page where it says your god created the evil tree, right? You are yourself now arguing that all options aren't required to have "free will", right? So, there's nothing good about creating evil, knowing Adam will eat it. It's not required for "free will". He created it, because that's actually what he wanted to happen. There's no other reason for doing it, even according to you now.
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  15412. @emgtexas   Rofl. Even if you fantasize there is no contradiction in the creation order, it would still be pointless to go through all the animals, searching for a companion, knowing full well none would be found and that he'd end up needing to create Eve. He could have just skipped the whole process, and jumped straight to creating Eve. Either your god is as sharp as a spoon, or he doesn't actually know the future (which would help your failed "free will" argument). Lol, now you're pretending you know "how Mohammed put him"? You couldn't even make it through 2 whole pages of your own book. 🤣
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  15413. @emgtexas  You left off your foreknowledge, dingus. If you know full well, before handing your kid the knife, that they will cut themselves, and you still hand it to them, then ... YES, that's exactly what you wanted to happen. Only your inability to know the future, would allow for it to be an accident, and not something you wanted to happen. Dingus, why give them the ability to do evil, in the first place? Why include it in "what you have"? Your god clearly didn't want us to teleport around, so didn't give us the ability to do it. Then why give us the ability to do evil, if he didn't want us to use that ability? You're now arguing that "free will" is both unaffected by limitations and affected by limitations. Not letting me teleport around, is limiting me only to options according to his will, dingus. You are a great source of endless logical contradictions. 🤣 Rofl. You think they were smarter than that? There's zero evidence of the OT existing prior to the exile in Babylon. Guess what ... The Mesopotamians had a flood myth, a garden myth, a tower of Babel myth, a man made of clay myth, ... No, I don't think they were any smarter than those around them, who all borrowed and shared myths with each other. Again ... Jesus believed in the domed flat earth OT model, and in the totally fictional global flood. He was an ignrnt carpenter, turned apclps preacher. Do you believe you could see all the nations on earth, from the highest mountain, on a sphere? Or, see the tallest tree from everywhere on earth, on a sphere? Those would only be possible on a flat earth. Do you believe all the stars can fall to earth? That would only be possible if they were tiny little lights within the firmament (dome). Do you believe the moon is itself a light? It's not. Do you believe the Earth is only about 6000 years old? It's not. Do you believe that all of mankind, and all animals, rebooted from one tiny starting point, within the last 6000 years? They didn't.
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  15414. @emgtexas You left off your foreknowledge, dingus. If you know full well, before handing your kid a sharp object, that they will harm themselves, and you still hand it to them, then ... YES, that's exactly what you wanted to happen. Only an inability to know the future, would allow for it to be an accident, and not something you wanted to happen. Dingus, why give them the ability to do evil, in the first place? Why include it in "what you have"? Your god clearly didn't want us to teleport around, so didn't give us the ability to do it. Then why give us the ability to do evil, if he didn't want us to use that ability? You're now arguing that "free will" is both unaffected by limitations and affected by limitations. Not letting me teleport around, is limiting me only to options according to his will, dingus. You are a great source of endless logical contradictions. 🤣 Rofl. You think they were smarter than that? There's zero evidence of the OT existing prior to the exile in Babylon. Guess what ... The Mesopotamians had a flood myth, a garden myth, a tower of Babel myth, a man made of clay myth, ... No, I don't think they were any smarter than those around them, who all borrowed and shared myths with each other. Again ... Jesus believed in the domed flat earth OT model, and in the totally fictional global flood. He was an ignrnt carpenter, turned apclps preacher. Do you believe you could see all the nations on earth, from the highest mountain, on a sphere? Or, see the tallest tree from everywhere on earth, on a sphere? Those would only be possible on a flat earth. Do you believe all the stars can fall to earth? That would only be possible if they were tiny little lights within the firmament (dome). Do you believe the moon is itself a light? It's not. Do you believe the Earth is only about 6000 years old? It's not. Do you believe that all of mankind, and all animals, rebooted from one tiny starting point, within the last 6000 years? They didn't.
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  15415. @emgtexas   You left off your foreknowledge, dingus. If you know full well, before handing your kid a sharp object, that they will harm themselves, and you still hand it to them, then ... YES, that's exactly what you wanted to happen. Only an inability to know the future, would allow for it to be an accident, and not something you wanted to happen. Dingus, why include the ability to do evil in "what you have"? Your god clearly didn't want us to teleport around, so didn't give us the ability to do it. Then why give us the ability to do evil, if he didn't want us to use that ability? You're now arguing that "free will" is both unaffected by limitations and affected by limitations. Not letting me teleport around, is limiting me only to options according to his will, dingus. You are a great source of endless logical contradictions. 🤣 Rofl. There's zero evidence of the OT existing prior to the exile in Babylon. Guess what ... The Mesopotamians had a flood myth, a garden myth, a tower of Babel myth, a man made of clay myth, ... No, I don't think they were any brighter than those around them, who all borrowed and shared myths with each other. Again ... Jesus believed in the domed flat earth OT model, and in the totally fictional global flood. He was an ignrnt carpenter, turned apclps preacher. Do you truly believe that all the stars in the sky could fall to Earth? That would only be possible if they were tiny little lights, within the firmament (dome), as described in Genesis. In actuality, stars are distant suns, and if one got close enough, it would be the Earth that would fall into it, and it would only take one.
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  15416. @emgtexas You conveniently left off your foreknowledge. If you know full well, before handing a kid a sharp object, that they will definitely harm themselves, and you still hand it to them, then ... YES, that's exactly what you wanted to happen. Only an inability to know the future, would allow for it to be an accident, and not something you wanted to happen. Why include the ability to do evil in "what you have"? Your god clearly didn't want us to teleport around, so didn't give us the ability to do it, didn't include it in "what you have". Then why give us the ability to do evil, if he didn't want us to use that ability? You're now arguing that "free will" is both unaffected by limitations and affected by limitations. Not letting me teleport around, is limiting me only to options according to his will. Zero sense, coming from that end. Rofl. There's zero evidence of the OT existing prior to the exile in Babylon. Guess what ... The Mesopotamians had a flood myth, a garden myth, a tower of Babel myth, a man made of clay myth, ... No, I don't think they were any different than those around them, who all borrowed and shared myths with each other. Again ... Jesus believed in the domed flat earth OT model, and in the totally fictional global flood. He was an ignrnt carpenter, turned apclps preacher. Do you believe you could see all the nations on earth, from one spot, on a sphere?
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  15417. @emgtexas  It literally says they went through all the animals, looking for a companion. I already quoted it for you. I also just stated it was still a waste of time, looking for a companion amongst animals, even if you want to ignore the creation part. And, you come back prattling on about creation. You can't even understand words, when you do read them. Ignore the creation, and it was still a waste of time, looking for a helper amongst the animals, knowing full well he'd have to create Eve anyway. I stopped reading. I'm starting to think you have an actual disability. Please let me know if you do.
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  15418. @emgtexas  I didn't read the rest because the first part was such a failure. There's clearly some lack of ability going on. "15The Lord God placed the man in the Garden of Eden to tend and watch over it." "18Then the Lord God said, “It is not good for the man to be alone. I will make a helper who is just right for him.” 19So the Lord God formed from the ground all the wild animals and all the birds of the sky." Do you know what the word "then" means? Do you know what the word "so" means? They indicate an order of things happening. That you couldn't see a contradiction to Genesis 1, suggests you don't even know what those little words mean. Do you know what "all" means? That you proposed that he had made some animals in Genesis 1, and then some more for the garden, means you also don't know what "all" means. "20He gave names to all the livestock, all the birds of the sky, and all the wild animals. But still there was no helper just right for him." Do you know what the word "but" means? It means they were trying to accomplish a thing, something other than naming the animals, BUT didn't succeed ... didn't find a "helper just right for him". "23“At last!” the man exclaimed." Do you know what those words mean? They mean "Finally!" ... they finally succeeded. They could have succeeded by simply doing that first. What grade level do we need to drop down to, exactly?
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  15419. @emgtexas  Rofl. What version, dingus? You know there are multiple versions, right? You: There's no contradiction! Everything was created in Genesis 1! Genesis 2 totally isn't retelling the story in a different order! Genesis 2: "5 Now no shrub of the field was yet on the earth, and no plant of the field had yet sprouted, for the Lord God had not sent rain upon the earth, and there was no man to cultivate the ground." You: Hur. Dur. I S. M. R. T. Smart!
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  15420. @emgtexas  Even after completely failing at the original free will debate, you keep insisting on proving, over, and over, that there are some serious problems going on, on that end. I mean seriously, my reply opens, "Rofl. Genesis 1 and 2 have contradicting orders.". You didn't even have to open up any replies and read through them, to find it. Now you've just argued that "mankind" was created in Genesis 1, so the Adam created in Genesis 2 wasn't the first man created, and everyone doesn't descend from him and Eve, since the "mankind" in Genesis 1 was told to multiply. Pretty sure that now contradicts other passages. So, why did all the other humans, who were created in Genesis 1, and aren't descendants of Adam ... according to you ... get cursed for Adam being a failure? Your "genius" is truly unrivaled.
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  15421. @emgtexas  Rofl, you brought up Genesis 1, not me. I was talking about the stuff in Genesis 2, the tree and whatnot, until you did. Rofl. Genesis 2: "5 ... and there was no man to cultivate the ground." ... " 7 Then the Lord God formed the man of dust from the ground, and breathed into his nostrils the breath of life; and the man became a living person." If "mankind" in Genesis 1 was already created, then Adam isn't included in "mankind", because he's being created in Genesis 2. If Genesis 2 is a retelling, and "mankind" and "Adam" are the same, then Genesis 2 is in a contradictory order. Pick one.
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  15422. @emgtexas  No matter how many times I tell you that god's perspective is irrelevant, you keep bringing it up. That he can see the future, some way, some how, is exactly what causes the problem. The problem then lies with Adam. Point A: I am Adam, but I don't yet exist. If I exist in the future, then I don't need to be created. Not yet existing means I can't make any real world choices. However, my creator knows I will choose to do X, at Point B. Point B: I have now been created, and am faced with a real world choice. If I choose to do ~X, my creator will be wrong. My creator can't be wrong, so I can't possibly choose ~X.
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  15423. @emgtexas  We're off topic, because the free will topic was done. You outright sent me to a video that literally said only god has free will. You lost. Then you started backtracking, yet again, and making out like "mankind" had some predefined definition, with preset limitations, once again taking agency and ability away from your own god. Your god could have made us with any number of limitations, or without any, and still called us "mankind". You were just arbitrarily declaring some necessary (taking power from your own god's ability) and arguing limitations are both acceptable and unacceptable.
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  15424. @emgtexas You literally sent me to a video, that said exactly that ... that only god has free will. I stopped reading, at that point. I advise seeking a MH professional. There are some serious problems going on, there.
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  15425. @emgtexas  Because he was a maroon. He thought stars could fall to Earth.
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  15426. @emgtexas  You opened with contradicting a video that you, yourself, told me to watch "bro", so I stopped reading. You can debate yourself, at this point, you've contradicted yourself so much. What's to answer? If there's no creator, then it wasn't a creation. Pretty simple.
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  15427. @emgtexas  Also, it isn't a metaphor. It's what's described in Genesis 1. Jesus was an ignrnt carpenter who believed "stars" were tiny little lights within the firmament (dome), so could fall to Earth, and that the moon has its own light.
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  15428. @emgtexas  Why would I need to read past you contradicting yourself, yet again? Don't open with such a horrible failure. Do better, dingus. You're just asserting everything has a creation. Prove it.
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  15429.  @emgtexas  You inserted the "nothing" and the "created". Again you're arguing with yourself. I literally said not a creation. Is English not your first language? You also don't seem to understand "infinitely", if you think it has a start or end. Are you saying your god hasn't existed for eternity? When was his starting point, and who was his creator?
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  15430.  @emgtexas  The Big Bang doesn't say there was absolutely nothing prior to it. In fact, the Law of Conservation of Mass states that matter can't be created or destroyed. It may have just had a different previous form. If everything needs creating, then why does Genesis 1 state that water already existed? Like many mythologies, god then forms things out of the already existing primordial waters.
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  15431. @emgtexas  How do contradictory passages, hundreds of years later, "clear that up"? Biblical contradictions don't clear anything up. They're evidence it's all nonsense. You've basically got two options for Genesis 1:1 ... First, he actually creates earth and heaven at 1:1. In that case, you can try and claim that includes the waters, but it makes Day 2 senseless, when he creates heaven again. Second, 1:1 is like a headline, and everything that follows is how he created earth and heaven. In that case, the primordial waters already exist (like in numerous other mythologies), since the first thing it says he creates is light. It says, "beginning of what we know". There are multiple hypothesis about before the Big Bang. And, even if you claim that was when time came into existence, that would mean nothing existed "before", not even a creator. To get from point A, no creation, to point B, creation, would require time already existing. It would be impossible for time to be created.
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  15432. @emgtexas  I'll mark down "if you" as more little words you don't seem to know the definitions of. You are arguing that nothing existed, for any amount of time, prior to creation. That means your god didn't exist for any amount of time, prior to time existing. So, who created your god, since he has a starting point? Only eternity (infinite time) has no starting, or ending, points. I remember when theists used to claim their god was eternal. Now they're claiming he too has a starting point. Weird stuff. Is he like the Egyptian god Ptah, who nonsensicallly created himself? Water is mentioned before he creates light, and the days start to pass. Before you were arguing there was "THE" Bible. Now you're arguing that, not only are there other versions, but "THE" Bible isn't even translated properly. You can't seem to keep anything straight. The "primordial waters", or "cosmic ocean", represent chaos, from which the creator god (in multiple mythologies) creates order. Calling it a "void" doesn't debunk my argument. Egyptian mythology: "The void itself was described as a primordial body of water out of which rose up a mound shaped like a pyramid—a benben." Only 2 original apostles, and supposed NT writers, claimed to have seen undead Jesus, Matthew and John. The only other supposed writer, to make the claim, was Paul. Absolutely nobody else wrote down their testimony. That's just 3 people, not hundreds. I take it you believe in aliens, since you think alien abduction claims are valid evidence.
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  15433. @emgtexas  Ironic opening, dingus, considering the fact that I said it already "existed", not that it was already "created". I totally agree. It wasn't "created". You seem to be arguing with yourself, yet again. No. You stated you had read "the" Bible, and then accused me of not being able to read, because those passages weren't in "the" Bible. You have one of the absolutely worst memories that I have ever run across, in my entire life. Eternal = infinite time. You just claimed time had a starting point. Arguing with yourself, yet again. Pick one. Can't be both.
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  15434. @emgtexas  You also seem to have confused the word "separated" for "created". At no point does your god create any waters, which you yourself just agreed represented water, on Day 2. He separates the waters above (fresh) from the waters below (salt) with a dome.
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  15435. @emgtexas  You: "I am reading THE Bible and those NUMBERS are not THE passages at all." You now: I didn't say THE Bible and you didn't number the passages!
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  15436. @emgtexas  You: Eternity (infinite time) doesn't exist! Also you: God is eternal!
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  15437. @emgtexas  Again ... Later contradictory passages is just evidence the book is nonsense. In Genesis 1, it literally doesn't say the waters are created. They're there before it says God creates a single thing. There's absolutely nothing you can say to change that fact.
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  15438. ​ @barbaraklein3944  The 100 year bloody history of Likud ... In 1923, 100 years ago, Ze'ev Jabotinsky wrote, The Iron Wall, and a follow up, The Ethics of The Iron Wall (sooo racist towards Africans), in which he fully acknowledged that post Balfour Zionsim was colonialism, and that, based on the entirety of history, the native Palestinian population would resist being colonized until the bitter end. He directly compared it to the colonization of North America. He promoted doing it anyway, claiming Zionist colonialism was a "just" colonialism (he also thought North American colonialists were good guys, so not a great judge of morality), not caring what that meant for the native population. Ze'ev is important, because his Betar militant youth group helped found the Irgun terrorist group, along with other supporters of his, and the splinter Lehi terrorist group. The Irgun bombed numerous Palestinian markets and other public places, murdering many Palestinian civilians, including children, even including Palestinian Jews (who didn't support colonialist Zionsim). The Irgun are important, because they ended up being led by future Likud PM, Menachem Begin, who bombed the King David Hotel. The King David Hotel was bombed because the British had raided the Jewish Agency and seized numerous documents that may have shown that the terrorists were working with the JA and Haganah (JA liked to pretend that they didn't support the terrorism). The British then stored those documents at their base, in the hotel. That the Irgun terrorists responded to a JA raid, itself seems to prove the connection. That the thousands of Irgun (and Lehi) terrorists were also quickly merged into the new nation's military (IDF) and intelligence (Mossad) agencies, and are still celebrated as "heroes" by Israelis, to this day, also seems to support total collaboration between the groups. That other terrorist group mentioned, Lehi (also known as the Stern Gang), was considered even more extreme. They even tried to ally with the Nazis, against the British. Lehi ended up being led by Yitzhak Shamir, future Mossad agent, and another future Likud PM. In 1945, there was a major land and peoples survey done in Palestine. It showed that the Zionists only owned about 5% of the total land, 20% of the arable land, and owned a majority in zero districts. The partition was not only going to be forced on the native Palestinian majority, but Jews were still going to be a minority, in the part allocated to them. The only possible way to even become a "Jewish state" was going to require getting rid of the actual majority (at least enough so that there'd be a solid Jewish majority, so they could fake being democratic). This is also shown by the 1948, post Nakba, population of Israel. If there was 716,700 Jews, 156,000+ non-Jews, and approximately 700k non-Jews ethnically cleansed, that means the Jewish population, in the Zionist portion of partition, was originally over 100,000 less than the non-Jewish population. To believe that there was never any intent, by Zionists, to ethnically cleanse away the Palestinian majority would require believing that they never intended to create a "Jewish state". It's a nonsensical notion. Begin, and those terrorist groups, also opposed partition, but for the opposite reason Palestinians did. Palestinians didn't want to be colonized, at all. The terrorists wanted to colonize it all. "Moderate" Zionists were okay with colonizing half ... for now (what would happen in the future, after partition, was up to them, said Ben-Gurion). The Zionist terrorists were also involved in massacres, and assassinations, during the partition violence (colonialist war against the natives). Another notable future Likud PM, also started in the military, during the partition fighting. That was Ariel Sharon, war criminal, "Butcher of Beirut". Menachem Begin, and these other Zionist terrorists, are important because they also later founded Likud. Now, people get upset over the slogan "From the river to the sea!", but it's the second part that's most important, "Palestine will be free!". Because "Palestine" isn't defined as an ethno-state, a free Palestine can be a single state, free for all to live in, and return to, free of continuing colonization, free of occupation, free of oppression, etc. Just like a Germany free of Nazism, an Italy free of fascism, a South Africa free of apartheid, or an America free of slavery from sea to shiny sea. It doesn't necessitate purging all the Jews. It just necessitates them giving up on the idea of an ethno-state. On the other hand, because "Israel" has been defined as an ethno-state, Likud's, "between the sea and the Jordan there will only be Israeli sovereignty", has no possible good interpretation. It is a declaration of intent to completely colonize, and ethnically cleanse, all Palestine territories. Not only that, but it also claims that they have a "right" to all of the "Land of Israel" (biblical borders that don't mesh with archaeological reality), which is an open declaration of future wars, against Jordan, Syria, Lebanon, and possibly even Iraq. Likud platform ... 1977: "The Right of the Jewish People to the Land of Israel (Eretz Israel) a. The right of the Jewish people to the land of Israel is eternal and indisputable and is linked with the right to security and peace; therefore, Judea and Samaria will not be handed to any foreign administration; between the Sea and the Jordan there will only be Israeli sovereignty. b. A plan which relinquishes parts of western Eretz Israel, undermines our right to the country, unavoidably leads to the establishment of a "Palestinian State," jeopardizes the security of the Jewish population, endangers the existence of the State of Israel. and frustrates any prospect of peace." "Settlement Settlement. both urban and rural. in all parts of the Land of Israel is the focal point of the Zionist effort to redeem the country, to maintain vital security areas and serves as a reservoir of strength and inspiration for the renewal of the pioneering spirit. The Likud government will call on the younger generation in Israel and the dispersions to settle and help every group and individual in the task of inhabiting and cultivating the wasteland, while taking care not to dispossess anyone." 1999: "The Government of Israel flatly rejects the establishment of a Palestinian Arab state west of the Jordan river. The Palestinians can run their lives freely in the framework of self-rule, but not as an independent and sovereign state. Thus, for example, in matters of foreign affairs, security, immigration, and ecology, their activity shall be limited in accordance with imperatives of Israel's existence, security and national needs." "The Jewish communities in Judea, Samaria, and Gaza are the realization of Zionist values. Settlement of the land is a clear expression of the unassailable right of the Jewish people to the Land of Israel and constitutes an important asset in the defense of the vital interests of the State of Israel. The Likud will continue to strengthen and develop these communities and will prevent their uprooting." All Palestine territories are officially considered occupied, by the International Court of Justice, the UN GA, the UN SC, and even in official documents of Israel's own allies. Likud is still using the blueprint for colonizing North America, in the West Bank. Move settlements out into native territory, piss off the natives, the natives retaliate, cry about poor "innocent" colonizing settlers being the "victims" of violent "Savages!", call in the cavalry to put down the native uprising, and eventually expand the borders to include those settlements. Rinse and repeat. In Gaza, they are operating an open air WWII style fascist ghetto. Them claiming a "right to defend themselves" would be like the Nazis claiming a "right to defend themselves " from the Warsaw ghetto uprising. There's no "war". That they're the occupiers means the "war" part is long over. That partition was forced upon the Palestinian majority, against their will ... that the Zionist portion still had to be forcefully ethnically cleansed of its non-Jewish majority, against their will ... that the millions of occupied Palestinians don't have a say in the government that truly rules over them, Israel's ... means Israel is about as democratic as Nazi Germany after Hitler purged his political opponents and then held elections. Hamas is basically just a poor man's Likud, only fighting against colonialism, instead of for colonialism.
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  15439.  @bobearly3653  Jews, and Christians, lived in Muslim nations for 1300 years. They gave Jews refuge when Christian nations offered conversion, death, or exile. The Ottomans even okayed the earliest form of Zionsim, when it was closer to immigration. Everything changed when Zionsim converted to outright colonialism. How about stop doing colonialism?
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  15440. ​ @Steve-sg3uz  "Fascism is the complete opposite of Marxian socialism." ~ Mussolini He was far right.
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  15441. ​ @AngusTCat  If Palestinians had a right of return, they wouldn't be refugees in any of those other countries, dumb dumb.
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  15442. I don't think what Hamas did was morally good, or even strategically good, but it's basically impossible to say it wasn't expected. Violence is the most common response to colonialism, and ethnic cleansing. A Ghandi or Mandela response is far less common, but probably the better strategic response, so that there's no doubt who the aggressor is. A violent response allows Israel to act like the innocent victim, and respond harshly. Ze'ev Jabotinsky acknowledged that Zionism is colonialism, and predicted the native response, 100 years ago, in 1923. The native response is generally to fight, until the bitter end. Israel was also founded on terrorism, elected terrorists, like Menachem Begin, and celebrate terrorists. They were the ones who taught their neighbours that terrorism can win you a state. Israel is basically using the blueprint for colonizing North America. Send out settlers into native territory, piss off the natives, the natives react violently, the cavalry comes in and squashes the "savage" uprising, the border is eventually expanded to include the settlement, then rinse and repeat. And Gaza is basically an open air prison, similar to the ghettos of WWII. There was the Warsaw ghetto uprising. Jewish prisoners sometimes violently fought back, too. Not quite on par with a lack of proper healthcare.
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  15443. The same TYT that promotes Nina Turner, and numerous other brown politicians and commentators? You sure the issue isn't just that Vivek is a douchebag?
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  15444.  @Kenneybrock  Dore knobs are the morons encouraging people not to vote for them. Just admit you prefer Republicans to win.
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  15445.  @Kenneybrock  I didn't misspell Dore, dimwit.
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  15446. Israel is the one operating an open air WWII style fascist ghetto, dumb dumb.
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  15447. The opposite of "God exists" is not "prove it".
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  15448. It's fascinating that he isn't eager to get into the courtroom, and present all his evidence of a rigged election, after crying for years that the 60+ cases never made it to court. Also fascinating that his co-defendants are pleading guilty, instead of presenting all that evidence.
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  15449. Right beside Philistia. Until Israel was wiped out by the Assyrians, 120 years before Philistia and Judah. Do you want to put everything back to the way it was 3000 years ago?
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  15450. ​ @mdubs1986  So you consider denazification to itself be fscsm?
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  15451.  @mdubs1986  Didn't say he was. Just going by your stated measure of fscsm, that would make denazification itself fscsm.
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  15452.  @mdubs1986  I don't need to look up anything, dingus. Silencing people, alone, isn't fscsm. "Fscsm is the complete opposite of Marxian sclsm." ~ Mussolini
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  15453.  @mdubs1986  Rofl. "Dingus" is just an objective conclusion, based on all available evidence. I don't need to look up brown shirts, because I already know about brown shirts, dingus. That you think someone commenting on YouTube is on par with brown shirts, is just more evidence supporting the objective conclusion.
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  15454.  @mdubs1986  Didn't say you were talking about me, dingus. You stated the OP was a fscst, dingus. You keep providing evidence.
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  15455.  @mdubs1986  Just a fact that simply talking over someone isn't fscsm, dingus. That would make Piers, himself, a fscst. Even calling for people to stop saying certain things isn't fscst (like Piers telling people they shouldn't call DT mean names). Even outright silencing certain speech (false advertising, naughty words), or banning certain politics (like denazification, or Civil Rights, did), isn't fscsm. Just a fact that your measure of fscsm makes you a dingus.
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  15456.  @mdubs1986  Rofl. Goes around calling people fscsts, then whines like a little baby about objectively being a dingus. You didn't even understand the word "alone", dingus.
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  15457.  @mdubs1986  Rofl. Goes around calling people fscsts, then whines like a little baby about being called a dingus. The latter is just an objective fact. You didn't even grasp the word "alone".
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  15458. "when manipulated" is the key part, because no AI sets its own primary subjective goals, and likely never will. The danger will always lie with the programmers, and their goals. No AI will do what absolutely nobody wants, like Sam suggested, because AI doesn't actually care, itself, about the outcomes. Someone has to program their desired outcome into the AI.
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  15459.  @logicbomb8977  Dore, and his doctor of nursing practice, actually just showed you. The second number is the number being used by the government and media as people dying due to covid. The third number, on paper says "with covid". The doctor of nursing practice was wrong to say covid contributed to their deaths. That means some 20k people died "with covid" and weren't counted as dying due to covid.
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  15460.  @robbinburns6329  It's called exponential growth, ffs. 1 - 400k deaths is an increase of 400000%. 400k - 900k deaths is an increase of 125%. More people died in 2021, because the virus had already spread far and wide in 2020. It is no argument that the unvaccinated are still being infected, hospitalized, and dying, at higher rates, even with Omicron. You're uninformed. All the other mandated vaccines also have a very low risk of severe adverse reaction, and even death. It's still much much much lower odds than the odds of severe reaction, or death, due to catching the viruses. Sure, increase the insurance rates for the obese, or something ... plus have vaccines. It's not an either or scenario.
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  15461. Not with party politics in the mix.
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  15462.  @zerocool5395  If Americans' response to covid was similar to Canadians' it would translate into about 400k fewer deaths in the US, so ... And, how many unvaccinated morons are still running around?
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  15463.  @zerocool5395  Rofl. Canada is higher on multiple freedom indexes, than the US, dumb dumb. And, you shouldn't want to compare US incarceration rates with any other country.
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  15464. @Saketh Kodavanti Exactly.
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  15465.  @MichaelAChristian1  Loon.
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  15466.  @Anthropomorphic  Now it's angry comedians bitching from their garages, that want lefties to make friends with fascists.
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  15467. I think the two state solution has been a complete failure, and they should try for a single state solution, with balanced power sharing government like Lebanon.
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  15468.  aadarsh  You mean being anti-Israel invasions is a uniting force. A united Israel-Palestine shouldn't be a unifying threat to Lebanon anymore, either.
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  15469.  @shawnmurray9964  Isn't thinking this two state solution will work one day, optimistic?
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  15470.  DINGY LINGY Fux awf mynz  Why didn't Jesus simply make Trump win the election?
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  15471. Exactly. So, how is faith compatible with this... "Agnosticism is of the essence of science, whether ancient or modern. It simply means that a man shall not say he knows or believes that which he has no scientific grounds for professing to know or believe." ~ Thomas Huxley
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  15472. Latest general election polling, however ... Sienna has him losing to Biden by 7 (with West and RFK Jr) or 9 (without). Suffolk has them dead even. And, Biden approval up to 53.4%.
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  15473.  @eavesdropper0  Israel is objectively the aggressor by every relevant measure (modern history, law, and current events), dumb dumb ... Modern history: With the Balfour declaration, Zionsim converted from something like immigration to colonization. 100 years ago, in 1923, Ze'ev Jabotinsky fully acknowledged that Zionism is colonialism, and that, based on the entirety of history, the native Palestinians would fight it until the bitter end. He just didn't care what would happen to them, and promoted doing it anyway. Colonizers are never not the aggressors, when it comes to the native population. On top of the colonialist nature of Zionism, the Zionists also formed terrorist organizations, like the Irgun and Lehi. They bombed many Palestinian markets and other public places, murdering many civilians, including children, even including Palestinian Jews (who opposed colonialist Zionism). Israel merged those terrorists into the new nation's military and intelligence agencies. Israelis elected Menachem Begin, leader of the Irgun, child murderer, Jew murderer, and bomber of the King David Hotel, as PM. Israelis, to this day, celebrate those Irgun terrorists as "heroes". Zionists literally taught their neighbours that terrorism is a valid path to independence and statehood, and that terrorists are to be celebrated. In 1945, it is well documented that Zionists owned just 5% of the land and were a majority in zero districts. Israel was formed by going against the will of the majority population. Its foundation is completely undemocratic. Even then, Jews were still a minority, in "their" half. The only possible way to actually become a Jewish ethno-state, would be to ethnically cleanse away the actual majority. And, that's exactly what happened. Israel has never allowed those people to return. Law: Israel is considered an occupier by the International Court, the UN GA, and the UN SC. Occupiers are also never not the aggressors. Those occupied actually have a right to resist occupation. On the flip side, it is illegal for the occupier to settle occupied lands, and illegal to use collective punishment. Israel is a rogue nation, that doesn't abide by international law. What it has been doing, and is doing now, is illegal. Current events: This year, alone, prior to Oct 7 ... Israel held over 1200 Palestinian hostages without charges ... over 200 Palestinians had been killed by the IDF and settlers ... over 1000 Palestinians had been displaced by Israel's neverending colonization of the West Bank ... and, Israel continued to operate an open air WWII style fascist ghetto. Even ignoring modern history and law, in no reality did Hamas "start" anything.
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  15474. Vietnam? Vietnam didn't do anything to the US, and the US started a war with them. That's wildly disproportionate.
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  15475.  @Snihawk  What a load of horse shit. The IDF has its largest base in a shopping mall, cowardly hiding behind civilian human shields. The IDF has over 400k militants (reservists), amongst its populace, cowardly hiding behind civilian human shields. Israel is objectively the aggressor, by every relevant measure ... Modern history: 100 years ago, in 1923, Ze'ev Jabotinsky fully acknowledged that Zionism is colonialism, and that, based on the entirety of history, the natives would fight it until the bitter end. He just didn't care what would happen to them, and promoted doing it anyway. Colonizers are never not the aggressors. On top of the colonialist nature of Zionism, the Zionists also formed terrorist organizations, like the Irgun and Lehi. They bombed many Palestinian markets and other public places, murdering many civilians, including children, even including Palestinian Jews (who opposed Zionism). Israel merged those terrorists into the new nation's military and intelligence agencies. Israelis elected Menachem Begin, leader of the Irgun, child murderer, Jew murderer, and bomber of the King David Hotel, as PM. Israelis, to this day, celebrate those terrorists as "heroes". Zionists literally taught their neighbours that terrorism is a valid path to independence and statehood, and that terrorists are to be celebrated. In 1945, it is well documented that Zionists owned just 5% of the land and were a majority nowhere. Israel was formed by actually going against the majority population. It's foundation is completely undemocratic. Then, becoming a majority, in "their" new nation, by ethnic cleansing the actual majority, and then claiming to be democratic, is utter nonsense. Law: Israel is considered an occupier by the International Court, the UN GA, and the UN SC. Occupiers are also never not the aggressors. Those occupied actually have a right to resist occupation. On the flip side, it is illegal for the occupier to settle occupied lands, and illegal to use collective punishment. Israel is a rogue nation, that doesn't abide by international law. What it has been doing, and is doing now, is illegal. Current events: This year, alone, prior to Oct 7 ... Israel held over 1200 Palestinian hostages without charges ... over 200 Palestinians had been killed by the IDF and settlers ... over 1000 Palestinians had been displaced by Israel's neverending colonization of the West Bank ... and, Israel continued to operate an open air WWII style fascist ghetto, in Gaza. Even ignoring modern history and law, in no reality did Hamas "start" anything.
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  15476.  @stephj9378  That's not what a "sin" is, dumbass. A "sin" is a transgression against divine law. There needs to be a god, for there to be a "sin". So, if you've got zero evidence of a god, and go around accusing people of committing a "sin", then you're doing exactly what you're complaining about.
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  15477.  @stephj9378  Take stock of yourself. You're a hypocritical moron, who doesn't know the meaning of the words she's throwing around, and has reading comprehension problems (In the context of the op, "I think" is equivalent to "I believe" and is only a statement of fact about oneself, not about the belief, dumb dumb).
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  15478. ​ @celebrityrog  Palestinians have Canaanite DNA. They're Arab and Muslim the same way indigenous peoples of Central America are now Hispanic and Catholic. Early 20th century Zionists weren't shy about acknowledging they were the colonizers and the Palestinians were the natives. That's how the British also described things. Modern Zionists are just cowards and dishonest about who they are.
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  15479. Trump pulled off the most Big Brother like propaganda campaign in US history, from convincing people not to believe their own lying eyes on his inauguration day, to convincing tens of millions of people not to believe any media, any judges, any election officials, any politicians (even Republicans), absolutely anybody who disagrees with Big Brother.
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  15480. ​ @williamhager7136  That depends. Did they have children? 64% of those serving don't. According to Vance, the childless don't matter. Has Trump been attending the anniversaries of the 65 HA losses under his watch, or was he just doing a one time photo op, ignoring Arlington rules, and treating Arlington staff like 💩?
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  15481. ​ @williamhager7136  That depends. Did they have children? 64% of those serving don't. According to Vance, that 64% don't matter. Has Trump been attending the anniversaries of the 65 HA losses under his watch, or was he just doing a one time photo op?
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  15482. ​ @williamhager7136  That depends. Did they have children? 64% of those in the mltry don't. According to Vance, that 64% doesn't matter. Has Dumpty been attending the anniversaries of the 65 HA ☠️ under his watch, or was he just faking caring this one time?
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  15483. ​ @williamhager7136  Has Trump been showing up for the anniversaries of the 65 lost under his watch, or is he using these 13 for politics?
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  15484. ​ @williamhager7136  Drumpf ... 2017: 21 HA losses, 2018: 14 HA losses, 2019: 21 HA losses, 2020: 9 HA losses. Why has he skipped all these anniversaries? Biden ... 2021: 13 HA losses, 2022: 0 (first 0, since 2000).
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  15485. ​ @williamhager7136  Of what? That's the total HA losses for 2017, 2018, 2019, and 2020. A president is responsible for every single one, right? 2022 was the first 0 HA losses, since 2000, btw.
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  15486. ​ @TransKidsMafia  Floridians exist, and live in Florida, dimwit, even though it's not a nation. What a moronic argument. You justified the colonization of tribes all over the world, throughout history, who what ... hadn't filed the proper paperwork with the proper authorities? Can I have half of your state/province (the half you live on) to create a Scientology nation, for Tom Cruise? You, and the current inhabitants will have to move ... at least enough so that the Scientologists are the majority, so they can fake being democratic.
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  15487.  @TransKidsMafia  Weird, it has lines around the border, and the "Palestine" lettering is exactly the same as the "Syria" and "Trans-Jordan" lettering. Hey, what did the first Zionist congress, in 1897, mean, when they declared that they wanted to create a home for Jews "in Palestine"?
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  15488.  @itscarlM  Teddy was born to an American mother, who happened to be in Canada. He was given full US citizenship based on birth. He didn't have to naturalize to get citizenship.
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  15489.  @bradleym.mcelroy139  Did I say you didn't know this?
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  15490.  @bradleym.mcelroy139  Errr, okay then, weird convo.
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  15491.  @bradleym.mcelroy139  Sure bub. I'll switch my likes to a dislikes, on a number of your comments to this video, to reflect "my" confusion.
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  15492.  @bradleym.mcelroy139  Lol, I don't care if you're upset, dimwit. The point was that I had liked the comment you seem to have thought I was arguing with, and that you're not very bright.
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  15493.  @harrydehnhardt5092  Canada isn't planning to reopen next week, so that's an irrelevant deflection. The US has a majority of morons, and is led by a moron. "Flattening" =/= "flattened". Getting the infection rate down to normal flu season flu levels, doesn't change the fact that it has 10x the mortality rate.
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  15494.  @benoitbeauchamp8584  No, we haven't tested fast enough or flattened our curve, either, but we're also not talking about reopening the economy without a flattened curve, ffs. Talking about reopoening the economy before flattening the curve is stupid.
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  15495.  söder bröder  Sweden's response to a pandemic seems a bit insane, as well. No mass masks approach. No mass testing and containment approach. No lockdown approach. Pretty sure Trump would have loved responding by not doing much of anything.
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  15496.  söder bröder  What's the "common sense" reason to just let people catch it and die?
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  15497.  söder bröder  Not even remotely close to being true. Where's China's post lockdown explosion of infections? Where's S Korea's post flattening explosion of infections? You're talking nonsense, and your country is just letting people die, for no good reason.
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  15498.  söder bröder  Once it is largely contain, and testing is ahead of the infection rate, it's possible to keep it largely contained. That's what countries should be aiming for. Sweden is being stupid. There are multiple strains already, and countries are already reporting cases of reinfection. Just letting everyone get it, is about the dumbest approach possible.
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  15499.  söder bröder  Save more what? Money or people? Sweden seems to be opting for money.
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  15500.  @thorby8583  Germany has tested about 11 people per confirmed case. That's better than Italy, about 7 per confirmed. That's better than Spain, UK, US, Sweden, which are about 5 per confirmed, or lower. Canada, is at 15 per confirmed. Norway, which has just about flattened is at 20 per confirmed. Australia, S Korea, New Zealand, Iceland, all of which have flattened, are testing at 50+ per confirmed case. Germany isn't the best place to start.
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  15501.  @mimked  The downsides are that, if they are allowed to be sold, then that means straw purchases can also be made, getting AR-15s into the hands of criminals and, since 25% of guns used in crimes are stolen, that means the more AR-15s there out in the public = the more AR-15s there are for criminals and, since most violence, including shootings, happens between people who know each other, that means the more AR-15s there are handy, when someone blows their top.
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  15502.  @bigbaldmikey3601  Semitic is an ethno-linguistic grouping, dimwit, not a religious grouping. And, even amongst that religious grouping, there are non hypocrites, who aren't railing against trans people or abortions. You're not very bright.
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  15503.  @bigbaldmikey3601  What a load of crap.
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  15504.  @bigbaldmikey3601  Nope. You're still not very bright.
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  15505.  @calogero100  Yeah, everyone take the private healthcare route, and throw a "kitchen sink", that costs hundreds to thousands of dollars, out of pocket, at your covid, instead of a vaccine that has had its price negotiated, to under $20, with the government and is being given out for free ... you know ... like how universal healthcare is supposed to work.
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  15506.  @calogero100  Monoclonal antibodies are about $2000 a dose, and the government only covers people in certain conditions. They don't just hand it out willy nilly to everyone who tests positive. Unless Joe is hiding that he's in a high risk group, or that his doctor lied and said he was, then Joe paid for them.
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  15507.  @darrellshoop3312  Born to an American mother. Considered American, by birth, and didn't need to naturalize. There's no sending him back.
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  15508. ​ @koleso1v  Pretty sure he's up against Biden, again, not Clinton. The MAGA cult kept claiming he'd win in 2020.
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  15509. Shouldn't they be going after Microsoft, again, for having Bing as default? Or both Microsoft and Apple for having default browsers? Pretty sure most people have to ditch their default browsers, to get Chrome, and most Microsoft users have to ditch Bing to get Google as default.
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  15510.  @2727rogers  The system needs to change, but you can't change it from the outside. The broader progressive caucus is about 15 seats away from becoming the majority of house Dems. The most popular third party hasn't won a single seat in congress in its near 50 year existence. The shortest path to progressives getting some power, is to take over the Democratic party. At 15 seats away, that's sound about the dumbest time to start from scratch. What major progressive federal policies have the NDP implemented (don't say Medicare)? Didn't vote splitting, between Liberal, NDP, and the BQ, give Canada 9 years of Stephen Harper? Isn't progressives being part of the same party as more conservative Dems, like having a coalition party, which is entirely a thing in parliamentary politics? Isn't that the smarter thing to do, against a united fascist party, rather than split votes, and hand the country to them?
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  15511.  @Fuwuzworsh  You're the one who replied to me, first, and opened with saying I was strawmanning. How can I strawman you, before ever responding to you? You're incoherent. Nader changed the Democratic party? The only change I saw was that in 2000, they had a presidential candidate running on climate change as the centerpiece of his platform. Obama and Biden have both been to the right of Gore, on that subject. Gore losing pushed them further right. Likewise, instead of bringing about a progressive wave, as Dore claimed a Trump presidency would bring about, everyone went screaming into Biden's arms. It was an Obama presidency, that ended with a progressive movement forming behind Bernie. Sure, Biden is a right winger, and letting Trump win, led to Biden. So, the answer is to let Trump, or DeSantis, win again ... let outright fascists who wanted to overthrow the democratic process win again ... because that'll do what, exactly? There's zero evidence letting Republicans win moves Democrats left. There is decades of evidence showing that, when Republicans move things further right, corporate Dems then meet them in the new "middle". There's evidence that a progressive movement can come after a fairly ineffective Dem presidency, and that repeatedly going outright backwards, with Republicans, isn't necessary. You're both arguing to not vote blue, and then pointing to polls, showing that not voting blue will lead to Republicans winning. Biden simply being ineffective isn't telling people not to vote Dem. You are. You're promoting having a Republican majority, because that'll be sooooo much better.
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  15512.  @Fuwuzworsh  Oh geez. Basically, every economic measure was already trending in the direction it was heading, under Obama. The economy's biggest economic gains came during Trump's first year ... which was still Obama's final budget. Even by Trump's own favorite economic metric, the stock market, it almost flatlined in 2018, when his first budget, and tax cuts, came into play. Then, he had one of the most incompetent covid responses, in the world, tanking the economy more than it should have, and leading to hundreds of thousands of unnecessary deaths. Australia's covid death rate would translate into about 20k total covid deaths in the US, instead of going on 800k. It was handing tons of money to corporations, instead of more money to consumers, under Trump, that allowed demand, and supply, to drop, which is why demand is now higher than supply. But, sure, "objectively" better. F*ck off.
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  15513.  @Fuwuzworsh  It is absolutely not a strawman, to point out the math, or the fact that repeatedly letting Republicans win has accomplished nothing but moving the country further right. Sorry, that you find math and facts "hysterical". Voting Obama, kept McCain and Palin out of office, and led to a progressive movement under Bernie. What did letting Trump win lead to? Where's the massive progressive wave, Dore claimed would "for sure" materialize and take the house, senate, and presidency? Oh right, that was a fantasy. That Dore fantasy, btw, was based on the argument that Trump was so much worse than Clinton, it would cause a bigger backlash (it did) ... that was suppose to be majority progressive (it wasn't). Now, your Dore knob argument is that they're tots samesies. So, you're arguing Dore was an idiot, for thinking Trump was far worse? Either way, it seems he was an idiot. You also seem to be sticking to arguing he's an idiot for saying Dems would rather lose to Republicans, than progressives. Voting Gore would have kept Dubya out of power, and put a president with climate change as their priority, in the white house. Gore and Dubya ... tots samesies. Sticking with Carter would have kept Reagan out of the white house. Carter and Reagan ... tots samesies. Voting blue works both ways, for progressives. Those who vote against progressives in the primaries still tend to vote for them in the general. It helps them win general elections. You want to split that voting, which would mostly help Republicans win generals, based on some fantasy that letting Republicans win is what will make corporate Dems change, when there's zero evidence that is the case. You want progressives to have fewer seats, be in a minority party, or be in an insignificant party with zero seats. Yeah, sounds awesome. Consider the primaries the major battle. It's also the election where there's the most room to increase voter turnout, progressive turnout. If progressives happen to lose, then still vote to keep Republicans out, vote to say you don't want the country moving any further right than a corporate Dem. Rofl, no. Profanity often comes out, when I hear something unbelievably stupid. And, I'm perfectly calm. Your mental telepathy has failed you. Labor force participation isn't the lowest in history. It isn't even lower than the lowest point, last year. Consumer confidence isn't the lowest in history. It also isn't even lower than the lowest point, last year. You're hysterically making up nonsense. Weird how a "socialist" would actually lie, to try and make Trump look better. Weird how you Dore "socialists" promote things that would benefit Republicans most.
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  15514.  @Fuwuzworsh  You get that the topic is Jimmy Dore, right, and that he doesn't promote only voting third party in solidly red or blue states, that don't matter? A strawman would be pretending that's his position when, in fact, he promotes abandoning voting blue, everywhere and anywhere.
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  15515.  @Fuwuzworsh  Rofl. I don't even like Biden, you dimwitted Dore knob. Trashing him doesn't affect my argument. How is letting Republicans win, a strategy? It's a failed "strategy", that has been repeated, for decades, and has only moved the country further right. Like I said, vote for progressives in the primaries, try to increase progressive voter participation in primaries, when more corporate Dem voters don't come out to vote. It's the best place for progressives to win, not in generals, running as third party candidates. But then, whatever the outcome, vote in the general, to say a corporate Dem is as far right as you're willing to go, to say neutral is better than reverse, to keep whatever progressives there are in the majority party rather than a minority party, and then focus on getting more progressive seats in the next primary. All the evidence points against letting Republicans win being a good "strategy", and shows it causing a Dem shift to the right, not left. All the evidence points towards a progressive movement coming about without needing a Republican in power. All the evidence points towards going third party as being a decades long endeavor, to even win a single seat in congress. The simple math of congress is that a progressive third party would need a majority, to ever be able to pass anything, and that Republicans and corporate Dems could completely ignore them, and pass anything they wanted, otherwise. Dore cites the definition of insanity, but then proposes doing the same thing, that has been happening for decades. Stop letting Republicans win, even if the current Dems kinda suck. Focus on getting corporate Dems out in the next primaries, rather than just letting them lose to Republicans, which has done absolutely nothing but repeatedly moved the country backwards. What projection? I, in no way, ever promoted Trump as being better for progressives than Clinton. I, in no way, promoted going on a far right white nationalist's propaganda show, just to largely agree with a bunch of far right talking points. I, in no way, promoted allying with psycho ancap Boogaloos that want to start a civil war, and would likely be shooting lefties, if that civil war ever came about. I, in no way, promoted abandoning Nina Turner, an ardent supporter of M4A, just because she was running as a Dem. I, in no way, promoted Tulsi (public option) over Bernie (M4A). I promote progressives get out and vote during the primaries, getting more progressives in congress, but never letting the country move further right than a corporate Dem. That's called harm avoidance, and I'll take a Chomsky, or Bernie, over a BGJ, any day of the week.
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  15516.  @Fuwuzworsh  Rofl, talk about strawmanning. Or, do you just have severe reading comprehension problems? I pointed out the fact that letting Republicans win has only moved Democrats to the right. There's zero evidence to support any fantasy that letting Republicans win will move Dems left, or cause a massive progressive backlash. The numbers argument was about ever being able to pass a progressive policy, as a third party. I made different points, and you're just not addressing that one. Are you simply agreeing, yes, a progressive third party wouldn't be able to accomplish much, even if it magically became popular enough to win a seat in our lifetime? No, letting Republicans win, and jump further right, has had corporate Dems repeatedly meet them in the new "middle", which is then further right, for decades. It's what you're proposing, that has been done over, and over. I'm proposing never letting Republicans be president, or have a majority in congress. You're proposing doing the same thing, that hasn't moved Dems left, that has moved Dems right, again.
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  15517.  @Fuwuzworsh  Bernie has always said he'd support whoever won the primaries, and that's exactly what we would have wanted, if Bernie had won. Would you have wanted Clinton and Biden saying to vote Trump, or not at all? Would you have wanted everyone who voted against Bernie in the primaries, to stay home for the general? If your answer is "yes", to any of those, then you're dumber than a stump, a Dore, or a Trump.
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  15518.  @Fuwuzworsh  Be honest, you would have wanted all the Biden and Clinton voters to keep voting blue, and stick with Bernie in the general, right?
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  15519.  @Fuwuzworsh  Carter didn't deregulate the country. That was Reagan. Clinton wasn't involved in major unilateral wars. That was Dubya. The ACA was definitely not great, but it did add some 10m of the poorest Americans to Medicaid expansion. Republicans, and Trump, have tried to scrap that, with no other healthcare plan to take its place, ever since. Your samesies argument is nonsensical.
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  15520.  @Fuwuzworsh  Republicans have gone so extreme, that they just tried to completely overthrow the democratic process, ffs. You: Samesies!
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  15521.  @Fuwuzworsh  So, Tulsi being "anti-war" (complete bullshit), wasn't the end all and be all? It's the whole bullshit reason why Dore gave her a pass on her public option healthcare, and still supported her. War topped healthcare, for him, at that point. But, Clinton having no major unilateral wars, isn't good enough. I see. Nor his economy. He wasn't perfectly perfect. I guess we can expect perfectly perfect candidates, like say Kyrsten Sinema, in third parties, right? How does being disgruntled, not getting out to vote, letting Republicans win, and having them try to toss 10m poor people off of Medicaid expansion, help prove your point? It proves they aren't samesies, and proves letting Republicans win is stupid. The ACA could actually be turned into a German like system. Private =/= bad. Unregulated private = bad. The government would just have to enforce a low price on basic coverage, make all the basic coverage the same, etc.
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  15522. If the majority of Republican lawmakers are trying to overthrow the democratic process, ditch any of their members that accept the results, and try to protect themselves by not having an investigation, how is that not a Republican policy? When they still seem to have Trump as their leader, even though he's still spewing that the election was stolen, and others of them have rallies, continuing to spread that nonsense, how is that not Republican policy? If Republican lawmakers, across the country, try to curtail voting, using the same nonsense as grounds, how is that not Republican policy? A perfect illustration of your point is that, since the Dems in the house passed the $15, and since most of the Dems in the senate voted for it, that because it didn't ultimately pass, that's a good reason to let Republicans take the house, senate, and presidency, because ... that'll really show those corporate Dems, that voted against it, what's what? Why didn't letting Trump win show them what's what, after Obama? Why didn't letting Bush win, after Clinton, show them what's what? Why didn't letting Reagan win, after Carter, show them what's what? You seem to having some serious delusion, that doesn't match the reality of the last 50 years, or more. There's absolutely zero evidence, suggesting letting Republicans win, moves corporate Dems to the left. The very fact that a Manchin doesn't give a crap, if he tanks Biden's entire platform, is evidence he doesn't give a crap. He'd probably love losing the progressive wing of the party so he, and his Republican buddies, can pass all the "bipartisan" bills they want, without having to deal with progressives in his party. You say sticking with blue, has gotten the country where it is, but that's not, at all, reality. The majority of voters have not gone out and voted blue, no matter what. Enough voters have stayed home, or voted third party, to let Republicans win over, and over. It is exactly what you're proposing, letting Republicans win again, that has gotten the country where it is. Nothing you've fantasized coming about, by letting Republicans win, has actually come about, any of those times, but you want to let them win again, because maybe this time things will be different. The majority getting out and voting, and sticking with blue, is exactly what hasn't happened. That's actual history. Let me be more clear, I'd pick a Chomsky over a dozen BGJs and Chris Hedges. Neither are anywhere close to his weight class and, quite obviously, the vast majority off progressive voters, don't agree with them, or Dore. I'm blinded? You're the one proposing doing the same thing over, and over, but thinks you're going to get a different result. You're the one following a loudmouth contrarian, who makes out like everyone who disagrees with him is a fake, fraud, or sellout, just like Dumpty. You're the one defending a jagoff who has repeatedly backed the worst healthcare policies, has abandoned adding M4A advocates to congress, but passes himself off as some champion of healthcare, who's leading you down a road to never even winning a seat in congress. The same jagoff who had some grand fantasy about letting Trump win, and absolutely none of his predictions came true, and yet you entertain his new fantasies. The Puritan People's Party is a joke, with one of its main leaders already leaving the "party", because even they weren't puritan enough for him. The Green Party has produced the likes of Kyrsten Sinema. The reality is that you can't possibly get a third party, of any significance, as puritan as you like, or even guarantee a third party won't have corruptible members. Actual history shows that corporate Dems have repeatedly moved right, after letting Republicans win, not left, even after 3 terms (12 years) of Republicans. Just how many years do you have to let Republicans rule, to get corporate Dems to move left, exactly, in your fantasy scenario? The reality of math says that a progressive third party couldn't accomplish much. As long as there are a handful of corporate Dems, like Manchin, willing to work with Republicans, they coukd pass whatever they wanted, without needing a single progressive third party vote. You seem to have more faith in corporate Dems, than I do. I don't think they're very moveable. I think you need to replace them, and I don't see how going third party will ever accomplish that. Justive Dems have replaced more corporate Dems, in just 4 years, than all third parties combined have, in 50 years.
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  15523.  @Fuwuzworsh  What aren't you grasping? Splitting off progressive votes, will allow Republicans to win. That's just math. It is absolutely a historical fact that Republicans have been allowed to win repeatedly, and it hasn't moved the Dems left, in the least. They have been moving right, along with Republicans. What don't you get about them moving more towards the position of those who beat them, not further away from it? Even just talking elections with left leaning challengers, the Green Party is now 20 years old. They have run against them multiple times. They even possibly spoiled two elections. In what way did those election losses move corporate Dems left? They didn't. There's no evidence to support anything you're arguing, and plenty of evidence against it. You're the one spewing falsehoods and fantasy. Oh right, they're all in cahoots, and no politicians, no appointed officials, nor any of their aids, have exposed that they're all in cahoots. One of the tightest lipped conspiracies in history. And, your "evidence" is that, since something you wanted didn't get passed, that they must be in cahoots? I never once argued Biden could be pushed left. You're the idiot arguing corporate Dems can be pushed left. I've argued to replace them. I already stated this, but you either have severe reading comprehension problems, or are completely dishonest, leading to you ironically spewing strawmen, which you erroneously opened complaining about, when I hadn't even addressed you. I'll have to assume the completely dishonest part, at this point. I also haven't budged, to the right. I propose suffering through a corporate Dem majority, until they can be taken out in the primaries. You propose suffering through a Republican majority, and no way of getting rid of them, because voting third party won't get rid of them. You outeight propose entrenching a fascist Republican majority, for some undetermined amount of time, until your fantasy comes to fruition, and then unironically claim I'm the fascist supporter? You're hilarious. Trump was blamed for the current (2020) state of the country, and people went screaming into Biden's "more electable" arms, desperate to be rid of him, so desperate they didn't want to risk voting Bernie. Letting Trump win, having Stein possibly spoil the election, is what Dore promoted, what you are promoting. None of his fantasies came true. There's zero indication yours woukd, either. Your answer would have been to let Trump win, yet again? Because, next time it'll work, for sure. Stop pretending that a Republican, like Reagan, couldn't change all kinds of economic policies, and absolutely destroy the country for working people. It doesn't take a Democrat to pass things. You're making up more fiction, implying it does. You're the one proposing letting "to the right we go" happen, ffs. I'm proposing voters get out and vote not to let that happen. Maybe you do have comprehension problems.
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  15524.  @Fuwuzworsh  I, literally, stated "suffering through corporate Dems". More horrible? Such as? (Weird, how you Dore "socialists" keep making out like Republicans are better. Are you sure you're not one of his far right fans, pretending to be a lefty? Hard to tell with Dore knobs.) Right wing Dems voting for another round of covid relief is better than every single Republican voting against it. Having a pro vaccine, and pro other covid regulations, leadership, is better than a completely incompetent, anti- everything, encouraging uprisings against governors, "it is what it is", "leadership". Even simply having leadership not trying to toss 10m+ poor people off of Medicaid expansion, is better than leadership trying to. Restoring some environmental protections is better than removing them. Restoring funding to clinics that simply refer women to abortion clinics is better than stripping their funding. Etc. Etc. (There's a bunch of Trump bullshit that Biden quickly reversed, that's better.)
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  15525.  @Fuwuzworsh  Never watch msnbc. Do you also fantasize you have mental telepathy? It doesn't seem to work. I care enough about change to promote the most realistic way of achieving change, which is to keep replacing corporate Dems, and try to take over the party. You're the one promoting a fantasy that will never come to fruition. Hell, letting Trump win freaked people out so much they voted third party far less, in 2020, than they did in 2016. Your own concept of letting fascists win, hurts your own third party notions. It's nonsensical.
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  15526.  @Fuwuzworsh  Yes, it is possible, hence the fact that there are progressives in congress. DNC shenanigans can't overcome overwhelming numbers. Nina's campaign team, for example, didn't do any canvassing, to get people out to vote. There were hundreds of thousands more potential voters in that district. Barely 70k came out for the primary, and she lost by only 4k. Yes, the corporate Dems, and their allies, threw everything they had, at her, but she had twice as much money, and could have stomped her opponent. Her team blew her money on media ads, and barely spent a dime on canvassing. That's how AOC won her district ... canvassing, canvassing, canvassing ... and barely spent a dime on media ads. Not that it matters to you Dore knobs, since King Jimmy abandoned her ... abandoned adding another M4A advocate to congress ... because that's what "real" M4A supporters do. Hate to tell you, but the "liberal" brand was destroyed, already. And, they didn't do it on their own. Islamophobes started bashing the hell out of "liberals" after 9/11. Republicans always try to convert normal words into insults. Even Dore is using the word like an insult. Why do you still want to use "liberal", for branding? That sounds dumb. Stop pretending like Republicans couldn't get NAFTA done. Reagan had already signed a deal with Canada. Bush Sr was headed for a seperate deal with Mexico. Canadian conservatives then came in late and wanted in, to merge the deals into a 3 way deal. Bush Sr simply ran out of time. The deal was passed by a Republican majority. The majority of Dems voted against it. Stop your fiction. Republicans would have passed it, just fine, without a Dem president. You seriously think NAFTA and Glass-Steagall were worse than the Reaganomics' trickle down myth, and the massive amount of deregulation Reagan pulled off? Reagan had a big hand in destroying the healthcare system, making it so unaffordable, but now healthcare isn't the end all and be all, for you lot. The messaging from Dore, and his knobs, is incoherent. One second anti-war is the end all and be all, and passes are given for shittier healthcare policies, as long as the candidate lies about being anti-war. The next second, healthcare is the end all and be all, and no passes are given, not even for simple strategy disagreement ... anyone who disagrees on strategy is a "fake", "fraud", "sellout", "betrayer", blah blah. Now, you're telling me that neither of those is of primary importance. Now, it's a foreign trade deal, and one specific deregulation that are far worse than the tons of deregulation in the 12 years before, far worse than making healthcare unaffordable, far worse than warmongering. Get your priorities in some coherent order. And, maybe add climate change, as a priority. Republicans have repeatedly rolled back environmental protections, and many still pretend like it's not a thing. Republicans wouldn't have even tried to change the healthcare system, at all. The ACA not only flattened the rate prices were increasing yearly, a little, it also added 10m poor Americans to Medicaid expansion. Numerous Republican states opted out of Medicaid expansion, for their citizens. The ACA, in no f*cking way, is more conservative than what there was before, and red states turning down more Medicaid for their poor, sure isn't samesies, let alone anywhere close to being better. I'm pretty sure you're one of Dore's far right fans, at this point. Again, vote blue works both ways. Those who vote against progressives in the primaries, tend to vote for them in the generals. It's exactly what every progressive would have wanted, if Bernie had won the primaries. It's how progressives can beat Republicans, in some tighter districts. I get it, "real" progressives don't actually want any progressives in congress, and want Republicans to rule, for decades to come. So very brave of you, to offer up poor people to be thrown of healthcare, and other, benefits. So very brave of you to offer up going completely backwards on climate change. So very brave of you to offer up those targetted by racist and bigoted policies. All for some misplaced faith you have in corporate Dems, changing their ways. If only a leftist third party can spoil an election for them (already possibly happened, twice), then they will see the light (they didn't).
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  15527.  @Fuwuzworsh  The 30 year old broader progressive caucus is about 15 seats away from becoming the majority of house Dems. The Justice Dems have been at it 4 years, and have replaced about a dozen corporate Dems. AOC has been at it 2 years and has already helped replace a few more corporate Dems. The most popular third party hasn't won a single seat in congress in its near 50 year existence. The most popular progressive third party hasn't won a single seat in congress in its 20 year existence. Yeah, the former is going much better.
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  15528.  @Fuwuzworsh  No. The fact is that Reagan had already signed a trade deal, with Canada, which was the starting point. The fact is that Bush was working on a seperate trade deal with Mexico. The fact is that it was Canada who then came in and wanted to merge the deals into a three way deal, which pushed negotiations passed the end of Bush's first term. If Bush had a second term, there's zero evidence negotiations would have magically failed and the three way deal wouldn't have gone through as planned. Everything was already in the works, and supported by the majority of Republican lawmakers. There's zero evidence it required a Democrat to finalize the deal. That's totally fiction, on your part. In 1980, US healthcare costs were rising on par with other developed nations. They started spiking before the end of Reagan's time in office. If US healthcare costs were half what they are now, that would be less incentive for businesses to move elsewhere. If US healthcare costs were half what they are now, people could better afford to weather a drop in property prices. You know Canada also lost some factories to Mexico, right? However, they don't have hundreds of thousands of people going bankrupt over healthcare costs. They don't have tens of thousands of people dying due to a lack of healthcare coverage. They don't have over a million people, like cancer victims traveling to India for chemo, for affordable healthcare. Etc. But hey, no, healthcare is suddenly now way down the list of importance, for Dore knobs. Neutering Glass-Steagall was not directly responsible for the 2008 crash. It was responsible for banks becoming "too big to fail", but had little to do with the housing market. The Gramm-Leach-Bliley Act, was a Republican bill. Almost every single Republican lawmaker voted for it. Why the hell would a Republican president have been unable to sign it into law? Would his hand have magically dropped off, or something, if he tried to sign it? You make zero sense, claiming a Dem president was required, to do this or that. If Republicans wanted to pass it, but somehow couldn't, what was the obstacle? Have you looked at John McCain's voting record, who he picked as a VP, etc.? You clearly don't know what an "ad hominem" actually is. You should refrain from using the term. Nina has been on multiple progressive channels, since her loss. There's zero evidence she still "loves" Jimmy, since he publicly abandoned her. Some video of Jimmy's wife, talking to her sometime before they publicly abandoned her, isn't evidence she still does. Most people aren't fond of being publicly abandoned. She seems to be on the "fake", "fraud", "sellout", progressive channels, rather than his. Seems to indicate she loves those who supported her to the end, more. Again, I'm the one who wants to replace M4A no votes with M4A yes votes. Your the one that doesn't want even a single M4A yes vote in congress, and wants to let Republicans rule for decades to come. You're the one supporting an idiot who promoted tossing 10m of the poorest Americans off of Medicaid expansion, as the better option. Republicans are not the party of workers. Their healthcare plan will be out in a couple weeks (repeat this for years). Every single one voted against a national $15 minimum, or it would have passed. You're making up nonsense. Sounding even more like a far right fan, with every post. I know exactly who corporate Democrats are. I'm the one who wants to keep replacing them with more progressives ... force them out ... toss them in a ditch. You're the one actually proposing a fantasy that you can move them left, by letting them lose, even though there's zero evidence of their previous losses moving them left. Again ... blue, no matter who, works both ways, and is how some progressives manage to win their seats. It's the only possible way Bernie could have won a general election. I can only assume you never wanted Bernie to win.
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  15529.  @Fuwuzworsh  Even if the broader progressive caucus isn't puritan enough, for you, the Justice Dems, who don't take any corporate donations, have won more seats in 4 years, than the most popular third party has in 50. AOC, alone, won more seats, in her first year, than the most popular third party has in 50. Even just 1 seat is immeasurably times better than zero seats, zero bills, zero amendments, zero votes, zero influence, ... They didn't know shit. They were brainwashed by lying scum Republican leadership, that the election had been stolen. Their cult leader tried to overthrow the democratic process and install himself as an unelected dictator, and you're lumping the other guy amongst the worst authoritarians in history, because of what? Masks, vaccines, or some stupid nonsensical bullshit? You're a right wing loon, faking being progressive.
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  15530.  @Fuwuzworsh  Rofl. You say I don't grasp things, but I'm the one, literally, calling them "corporate Dems", and I'm the one who doesn't think corporate Dems are changeable. They need to be replaced. You're the one promoting some fantasy, where they suddenly see the light, and change their ways, after losing an election (which has never happened anytime they've previously lost elections). A cult is when one loudmouth convinces tens of millions of people not to believe any other politicians, any election officials, any judges, any lawyers, any scientists, any doctors, any media ... even to not believe their own lying eyes, if they contradict the words of their supreme leader. Yeah, the Trump cult is a cult. You're definitely one of Dore's far right fans. There are already vaccine mandates for public school kids. There are already vaccine mandates for immigrants. You have to show ID to drink, drive, smoke, gamble, hunt, fish, carry a gun, etc., etc. The law makes you cover your junk in public. Businesses can require shirts, shoes, suits, ties, or whatever dress code. They can require their own ID, membership. Schools can have dress codes. You're clearly deranged and making a mountain out of a molehill. Did you know that Australia's covid death rate would translate into about 20k total US covid deaths? Instead, it's pushing 800k ... over 700k unnecessary deaths and you're crying about things that have already been going on for decades and decades. Listening to a broad, worldwide, consensus of the vast majority of scientists and doctors, is exactly not like a cult, that hangs on the word of a single, or very few, uninformed dufus. Seems like you're a fan of two cult leaders.
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  15531.  @mike58greenberg  Why is he lying, then?
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  15532.  @Fuwuzworsh  Which Republicans aren't "professional elites"? What are some pro worker Republican policies? Yeah, fascists tend to draw in disgruntled members of society, by blaming others for all their woes. Guess what, they don't end up doing anything for them. Dore is the kind of "leftist" that ends up on the wrong side of a Night of the Long Knives, dabbling with extremist ancap Boogaloos, that want to start a civil war, and white nationalists, like Tucker. They'd be shooting a lot of leftists, and minorities, if they ever got their civil war. Republicans voted against a public option. Republicans all voted against the $15. Oh sure, they'll end listening to doctors and scientists, just like they've done with climate change. Freedumb!!
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  15533.  @Fuwuzworsh  Over 140000 kids have lost a parent, or guardian, to covid. But, oh my, the "atrocity" of making someone get a needle and showing a piece of paper!!!
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  15534.  @Fuwuzworsh  Again, like I said, even if the broader progressive caucus isn't puritan enough, for you, a dozen Justice Dems, that don't take any corporate donations, is still an immeasurably better start, than starting from scratch, with a fantasy scenario. As for the broader progressive caucus, a minority doesn't have the power to pass anything they want, they don't have the power to block bipartisan bills that don't need their votes to pass. They can block some highly partisan bills, but that's it. So, if a Manchin doesn't care if that highly partisan bill gets passed, you want to see progressives take an all, or nothing, stance, and likely get absolutely nothing. You want to see mainstream media (mainstream = the media the majority of Americans consume) blaming progressives, over, and over, and over, for nothing getting passed, and think that will benefit progressives? Once again, you show your "bravery", your willingness to sacrifice those without clean drinking water getting clean drinking water; your willingness to sacrifice those without broadband getting broadband; your willingness to sacrifice making even small improvements for the environment and stick to the do absolutely nothing about climate change status quo; your willingness to sacrifice poor families having a hard time paying for childcare getting free childcare; your willingness to sacrifice the elderly, and disabled, getting home care benefits; your willingness to sacrifice the homeless, and those struggling with housing, getting more affordable housing; your willingness to sacrifice hungry children getting food; your willingness to sacrifice those who need hearing aids getting free hearing aids; etc; etc; etc. Your "I'm taking my ball and going home, because I didn't get exactly what I wanted" attitude, is so incredibly "brave". So much better, for the poor, hungry, homeless, elderly, and disabled, to get absolutely nothing, at all, than to get small improvements. Wait ... what? You harped on me about mentioning the mathematical reality of needing a majority, and now your fantasy is to completely replaced the Democratic party with some perfectly perfect puritan progressive party ... which would mean replacing the current majority. You repeatedly argued that you wouldn't need a majority, that you'd just have to make them lose enough, to force them to change (that decades of history doesn't support). Now your fantasy is to not only magically get all progressive votes, but all Democratic party votes? That's pretty ambitious, I must say. Incredibly unrealistic, and you're seeming incoherent, but ambitious nine the less. Yes, they have been challenged by the left, in primaries (when the majority of progressives do their voting), and lost to a number of progressives. Whether you accept there's 100, a dozen, 8, or even 1, progressives in congress, all those numbers are better than zero. If you don't accept there are any, then you're likely too puritan, and unlikely to work with the vast majority of other progressives, to ever accomplish anything. The constitutionality of vaccine mandates have been challenged before. None were found to be unconstitutional. You don't get a vaccine, you can't go to public school, but can go to private school = you don't get a vaccine, you can't go to work, but can start a business from home. The polio vaccine was given to millions of kids within a couple years of it being developed. Phase I testing of current vaccines started over a year ago. In your "expert" opinion, how long does it take, exactly, to deem a vaccine safe? And, actually, the covid mortality rate is about 1%, while the polio paralysis rate is about 0.5%, and the polio mortality rate is about 0.05%. Plus, the polio vaccine is also multiple shots, not just one, and they do keep track of whether your due for a new dose. There are absolutely tons of rules for the road, as well as licensing, safety standards, and insurance requirements, while the automobile accident mortality rate is only 0.25%. Not being allowed to just hop in an uninsured, unsafetied, vehicle, without a license, and go drinking and driving, without a seatbelt, driving at any speed you want, and ignoring whatever lights or signs you want, is so authoritarian, when the mortality rate is so low, am I right? The military are required to get vaccines, and take shots for this, or that, when traveling abroad. All kinds of businesses require you to wear protective gear, for your job and a bunch are mandated by OSHA (no, they didn't pull out, they're awaiting a court decision and, no, a common stay doesn't mean anything has been decided about constitutionality). Seriously, there are a crap ton of rules and laws, in society. The vast majority are no big deal, but have to be followed daily. Also, if you're eating hot dogs, eating fast food (any restaurant food, for that matter, where you're just trusting what's being handed to you), drinking pop or even tap water, taking whatever drugs your doctor prescribes, etc., etc., but then make a big fuss about not knowing exactly what's in a vaccine (that has an ingredients list) that has passed safety standards across the world, then I think you're just a big baby, and babies can't make decisions for themselves, or the community. Only some extreme health nut, who watches everything that goes into their body, and knows what every little thing is, has some unhypocritical grounds for wanting to know exactly what's in a vaccine, that has passed global safety standards. Grow the f*ck up, already. Over 700k unnecessary deaths, over 140k orphans, and you're crying about nonsense. Again, Republicans just voted against a national $15. They, and conservative Dems, just negotiated a public option out of the BBB. Keep dreaming.
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  15535. So, Israel is the 12th most important country, and the US is 15th, going by Nobel prizes per capita, and the Faroe Islands and Saint Lucia are the two most important countries?
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  15536. ​ @JohnBarnhart-m7y  Can you give coherency a try?
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  15537. Anyone who doesn't believe, doesn't because no evidence has convinced them, or evidence has convinced them to stop. Agnosticism, as per Huxley, covers that position.
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  15538. Green hasn't won a single federal seat in their 24 year existence. She did worse in 2020 than 2016. She's not even as popular as Nader, and all he managed to do was make Bush president. Even if she magically won, there is enough Isrl support in congress to override any presidential vetoes of assistance bills. She'd be useless. Get a grip on reality.
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  15539.  @waddsworth  Tons of conversations include talking about best half vs worst half, fastest half vs slowest half, etc. Not sure who you've been talking to. But, do tell ... where should the objective line be drawn, exactly? Where are all these conversations going wrong?
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  15540.  @waddsworth  So, by one calculation, they fit within your unspoken top 15% "convention", but speaking in terms of top third, top 33%, by another calculation, which doesn't follow your unspoken "convention", makes them less credible than the morons on "The View"?
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  15541.  @waddsworth  I thought the top 10-15% was okay by your logic. Are you moving the goalpost, now? What's the new goalpost? 5%? 1%? Don't US gun lovers have a fondness for pointing at Switzerland's gun ownership? I've run across it a ton.
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  15542.  @waddsworth  The US is like the top 1% in your income analogy. Simply "the most" is a different conversation than "one of the most". In the same grouping doesn't equate to equal.
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  15543.  @waddsworth  Do you have reading comprehension problems?
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  15544. Yeah, not like that "beneficial" Jimmy Dore guy, who whines about Colbert crying or whines about Colbert (a talk show host, not a reporter) asking Obama (no longer a politician) softball questions, calls the man who brought M4A into mainstream discussion a sellout, calls the woman whose progressive PAC just helped elect more progressives in congress a shill, etc.
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  15545. @Ivan Snyder Rofl! Common sense? Here's common sense ... red states, where it's easier to get guns, tend to have both higher firearm mortality rates and higher homicide rates. Other developed countries, with stricter gun control, have lower firearm mortality rates and homicide rates. All the guns on US streets make US cops paranoid, or actually put them face to face with more dangerous criminals, so US police end up killing five to hundreds of times more people per capita than police in other developed countries. Since all the guns are legal, I guess the gun addiction is more like the opioid addiction, than meth. Oh lookie, opioid manufacturers are getting sued.
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  15546. ​ @LoseTheWorld-KeepYourSoul  The Bible is a load of hogwash.
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  15547.  @LoseTheWorld-KeepYourSoul  So, God is a liar, and doesn't allow free will. Got it.
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  15548.  @LoseTheWorld-KeepYourSoul  You literally just said that he blinded Jewish people, eliminating their ability to make an informed choice (weird how, sometimes, Jews do convert, btw ... which doesn't seem to mesh with your narrative).
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  15549.  @LoseTheWorld-KeepYourSoul  I would consider committing genocide, ordering genocide, committing mass murder (including children and babies), ordering mass murder (including children and babies), okaying slavery (including sex slaves), torturing followers, etc., to be immoral. Christians think that's pure goodness.
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  15550.  @mayman4255  Not liking someone doing it is different from saying "no" to "most conservative" (in another country) and then basically turning around and arguing yourself that they were, in fact, right. No sense, and useless. Btw, there were fucking communists, and a communist party, in Germany. They had a huge window to both extremes. Trump would have been one of the rich dudes who backed and joined the Nazi party.
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  15551.  @ferox965  I'm also Canadian. Our conservatives made an attempt at having a Republican like party (Reform/Alliance), and it failed miserably. They had to pull back to the current Conservative party. If the party didn't support our national healthcare system, they'd also fail miserably. Nobody can say whether Joe would change his position under different circumstances, but his current healthcare platform would be right of the Conservatives. His military funding levels would be right of the Conservatives. He has been, at least, as much of a warhawk as our Conservatives. The new Conservative leader was just pandering to unions not long ago, while Joe feels comfortable railing against socialism and possibly losing votes, and prefers pandering to the US right for more votes. Etc.
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  15552.  @KenS1267  With US deduction levels and dodges, it won't be as progressive as it might look on paper. After years of the Conservative party controlling the government, we still have a minimum tax. A Trump likely wouldn't get away with paying only $750 in income tax.
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  15553.  @atanon  You and Joe sure are great at encouraging them to vote for him.
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  15554.  @atanon  Didn't say you were talking to the op. Yep, you're still doing awesome.
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  15555.  @arleneirvine1526  Basically, you leave off any political positions that aren't really viable in that specific country, and judge "right" and "left" based solely on what remains. So, if the US doesn't have any viable parties, or politicians, left of an actual 50/50 centrist position, then that centrist position becomes "far left". It's kind of nonsensical, and allows for actual Ayn Rand spouting extremists to call true centrists extremists.
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  15556.  @ferox965  Yeah, the Fords are/were looney. I think there's something in the TO water, and out in Alberta they're drunk on oil. But, 80+% of Canadians still hate Trump, so that's a good sign.
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  15557.  @atanon  Oh great, that's exactly what I was aiming for!
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  15558.  @ferox965  You too. :)
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  15559. ​ @MuffinEnjoyer  There was a massive land and peoples survey, done in Palestine, in 1945. The Jewish population were majority landowners, nowhere, in no district. That means, even after partition, they would be the minority in their part. They needed to rid themselves of the actual majority, to become a Jewish state. They did, and have never let them return. Hitler also held elections, after purging his political opponents. Didn't make Nazi Germany actually democratic. All Palestine territories are considered occupied, by the International Court of Justice, the UN GA, the UN SC, and even by the governments of Israel's allied nations. They control the Gaza border, airspace, ports, electricity, water, imports and exports (only people can go through Rafah), and Bibi even controls the flow of money from Qatar, having turned it off and on, multiple times. Israel is operating an open air WWII style fascist ghetto. People living in those occupied territories don't actually get to vote for the real authority over them, Israel, which is also anti-democratic. The entire partition was done against the wishes of the majority population, which was also anti-democratic. Israel has been a fake democracy, from the start.
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  15560. Dumpty has been talking about making a pledge of allegiance to Israel a requirement to get in the country, ffs. He, and the Republicans, are even further up Netanyahu's ass.
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  15561. How can that be assumed? It may not actually be possible to create artificial subjectivity. "AI" has whatever values, biases, goals, it has been programmed to have.
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  15562. @D2 E2 What "receipts" has he produced for evidence someone is a "fake progressive" or a shill? Just disagreeing with him on procedural issues isn't evidence of anything, moron. Rep. Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez, D-N.Y. NO https://theintercept.com/2020/04/09/coronavirus-stimulus-package-congress-vote/
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  15563.  @mroctober3583  Arguing Trump (who now has 28% of Republicans, and most Republican politicians, in favor of overt fascism and an end to the democratic process) would be better than Clinton, was a moronic right wing talking point. Cowards shoot their own (progressive politicians) in the back, over a tactics disagreement.
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  15564.  @mroctober3583  "Put pressure" = calling them fake progressives, calling them shills, paid opposition, etc.? That sounds like attacking their credibility, aka stabbing them in the back, all over a difference of opinion on tactics.
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  15565.  @mroctober3583  btw ... Do you really think Cornel West has been reading Jimmy's tweets and watching Jimmy's show? Jimmy misleadingly used wording similar to yours when asking West questions. West calls opponents "brother". You really think he's pro attacking the most progressive politicians in congress as "fakes", "shills", etc.? He was still pro Bernie, and pro bringing in more progressives, in an interview just a couple weeks ago.
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  15566.  @mroctober3583  Her PAC just helped more progressives get elected against DNC backed corporate Dems, while Jimmy was basically campaigning against Trump's only valid opponent, yet again. The organization she is a member of, the Democratic Socialists of America, have been having M4A rallies, that M4A champion Jimmy Dore hasn't been covering because he's too worried about Colbert crying or kissing Obama's (who isn't a fucking politician anymore) ass. So, you think lying, by calling her a "fake" or a "shill", undermining the credibility of the few actual progressives in congress, is great motivation is it? And what if asshole Pelosi considers it a bluff? Do AOC, and 10 others go through with abstaining and let a Republican become speaker of the house? Or do they vote for her and look like idiots? I get Jimmy doesn't give a crap if Republicans win (he has his nice new $2m house and has healthcare either way), but do all his fans agree? If Pelosi takes the threat seriously, holds the vote, it loses, then you've got yourself a list of names looking very much like the list of names you've already got, and then you campaign against those people, run progressives against them, which AOC is already doing ... you hold rallies, which the DSA is already doing ... until you get enough support to pass M4A? Why not just promote the rallies already happening, instead of stupidly worrying about Buttigieg's transportation qualifications, and spending time trashing the most progressive politians going instead of the least progressive? Why not promote those progressive candidates, instead of whining about Obama speeches (again, not a politician anymore)?
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  15567.  @mroctober3583  Shove your strawman. Exactly the opposite. I think West is very smart, and likely doesn't spend his time watching Jimmy Dore.
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  15568.  @madminorcan7510  Tens of millions of you cultists let a single politician convince you not to believe any media, any other politicians, any judges, any lawyers, any election officials, any scientists, any doctors, any nurses ... anybody ... even to not believe your own lying eyes, if any of them contradicted Supreme Leader Trumpty Dumpty.
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  15569.  @madminorcan7510  You all, literally, only listened to Big Brother. You're the opposite of what you think you are.
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  15570.  @jeffvonbergen291  Yeah, I do. I spelled it out. Do you have severe reading comprehension problems? The other dimwit was making out like Republicans and corporate Dems are samesies. They aren't. Corporate Dems suck, but they aren't samesies. How does sitting in an irrelevant third party do anything about Manchin? Even if you magically got enough people on board so that all the progressive caucus seats were actually some perfectly perfect puritan progressive third party, the PPPP party, here's what you'd have ... Trump as president, due to vote splitting in the general, between Bernie and Biden. One seat in the senate, and Pence as the tie breaking vote. In the house, you'd have a Republican plurality, which would only have to work with a handful of corporate Dems, to pass whatever they want. The PPPP would be completely irrelevant. They'd need to become the majority of the house and senate, to be able to pass anything. So far, the most popular third party hasn't won even a single seat in congress in its near 50 year existence. Within the party, the progressive caucus is about 15 seats away from becoming the majority of house Dems. They could then pick the party speaker candidate, and set the party agenda for the house. If Dems are the majority of the house, that also means that speaker can assign committee seats, introduce whatever bills they want, and sideline whatever bills they want. There's more power in 15 more seats, within the party, than 100 seats outside the party. Whatever you think of current progressives, running as a Dem is very clearly the more effective way to win a seat in congress, and taking over the party is the shorter path to getting any power.
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  15571.  @msawyer110  You appear not to know what a "snowflake" refers to. It's someone who melts easily. Their likes, dislikes, and activities, are irrelevant, dumb dumb. Maybe you should change your name to Dj Jason Mendoza.
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  15572. I love right wingers, like Rand Paul trying to implicate Fauci, which would implicate the US, and let the world possibly sue the pants off the US. Wanting to bankrupt America, to own the libs.
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  15573.  @elizas3249  Rofl! Why? She's not polling any higher than she did in 2016, and all she managed to do was help DT win. She's not even close to being as popular as Nader, and all he managed to do was help Bush win.
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  15574.  @elizas3249  What a fantasy. She's polling at 1%, just like in 2016. Even Nader, who got 2.74%, only managed to help Bush win.
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  15575. @President Houseplant Piss off. Content creators aren't protected, dimwit. If there was an actual defamation case to be had against TYT, PV would have gone for the money and the pr it would have generated.
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  15576. @President Houseplant You haven't even given a single example to actually refute. It's just a fact, that content creators aren't protected. You're spewing nonsense, on that point. Look at how FOX, and others, backtracked on their Dominion bullshit.
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  15577.  @jearbear4327  Right, which makes their nonsense even worse.
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  15578. *An open air WWII style fascist ghetto. Nobody but fascists tend to think the Warsaw ghetto uprising was "extreme". Nobody but fascists tend to think all the resistance groups of WWII were "terrorists" (who did sometimes target civilian "collaborators"). They all wanted to push Nazis back into Germany, where they came from. Native Americans decided they weren't fond of colonialism and being ethnically cleansed, and wanted to push the Europeans back into the sea. They had some brutal "savage" responses, but they were "responses". Hundreds of Palestinians have been killed over the past couple years. Dozens and dozens of children. How are they supposed to respond?
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  15579.  @Overonator  Yes. The Nazis and Russians clearly created an incubator, that developed Zionist fascists. Like the Puritans, fleeing persecution in their homelands, only to turn around and persecute everyone else in the New World. Only the current Israeli fascists in power can dismantle the incubator.
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  15580. Man you guys are dishonest twits. You make it sound like the report was made by the inquiry. It was a report presented to the inquiry, by a debunked charlatan.
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  15581. Can't wait until right wingers prove this, so the rest of the world can sue the pants off of China and the US.
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  15582. NY, literally, didn't say they didn't want a vaccine, so he's making up shit, as usual.
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  15583. I bet this is coming from the disgruntled ex husband, who'd be one of the only people she'd be texting about something like that. Probably shopped around for a bombshell pay day.
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  15584.  @alizakessler  Name one.
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  15585.  @juchou2983  If progressives, alone, were enough to elect a president, then Bernie would be president now. The thing about "vote blue" is that it works both ways. The vast majority of those who vote against you in the primary, will turn around and vote for you in the general. That means you only have to win over about a quarter of the voting population, in the primary, to have a shot at being president, rather than 50% of voters. There's absolutely no possibility of her winning over every Democrat voter, and getting them to vote independent. All you'd do is split the vote and almost guarantee a Republican presidency.
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  15586.  @juchou2983  Wouldn't matter if the establishment was against him, if he got all the votes.
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  15587.  @juchou2983  How will a shadow app fix the problem of 3 Trump appointed judges willing to flip on Roe v Wade?
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  15588.  @juchou2983  I never once said Hillary had a better chance of beating Trump. Your mental telepathy is broken.
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  15589.  @juchou2983  Saying to vote for her anyway, in the general, isn't the same as saying she had a better chance, in the primary, dumb dumb. If he had made it through the primary, any hope in hell of Bernie becoming president would have completely depended on Hillary voters turning around and voting for him in the general. You're equally arguing it would have been reasonable for Hillary voters to not vote blue, and letting Trump win, if the primary didn't go their way.
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  15590.  Aaron Dickson  Firstly, those are private places, open to the public, not actual publicly owned places. You have zero right to be on someone else's private property. Secondly, you can exist with a mask on, dimwit. Thirdly, smoking indoors was banned pretty much everywhere, because it has the potential to harm others. There was no mass smoker uprising, over their freedumbs and "right" to exist indoors. No, smokers accepted that they're doing something that's potentially harmful to others. Anti-maskers and anti-vaxxers are self centered babies, who don't give a crap about anyone but themselves.
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  15591.  Aaron Dickson  Nothing you said was relevant to what I said. At this rate, there should be about 300k fewer Republican voters, by 2022, and about a million fewer, by 2024.
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  15592. Scandinavian countries can have less government involvement in labour, because they have huge unionization rates. In Sweden, those unions negotiated a highly successful retraining program, paid for by employers. Denmark has 30% of the population working public sector jobs ... double the US percentage. In Norway, their main oil company is majority publicly owned and operated. Those unions have also negotiated higher wages. Having employers pay employees, and then taxing the employees, taxing better paid consumers, has the employers paying into the circulation of money. Trying to tax a business, with a corporate tax they can then find ways to dodge, doesn't have them paying into the circulation. The top 3000 US corporations are hoarding $2.7t. Unions also reduce the disparity between worker and exec compensation, and Scandinavian countries are all below the OECD average for income inequality. They also have lower male-female inequality. Just how much wealth the billionaires have is also relevant. Those countries all have lower wealth inequality. Denmark has the highest wealth inequality amongst the Scandinavian countries, but their 1% only owns 6% of Denmark's wealth, compared to 20% in the US.
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  15593.  @MarcelNKemet  “For centuries, America’s economic rise relied on treating millions of Black people as literal property. We have still not come to terms with the horrors of legalized slavery and its continuing impacts on our society. I am proud to co-sponsor the H.R. 40 Commission to Study and Develop Reparation Proposals for African-Americans Act to finally bring the truth about slavery into the open,” said Senator Sanders. https://www.booker.senate.gov/?p=press_release&id=937
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  15594.  @bgfarm857  Lol, you seem to forget that Obama's last budget ran through most of 2017. Trump hasn't even had 2 full years of budgets, yet. The stock market has basically flatlined since Trump's first budget and trade wars started. Only a small, less than 1%, reduction in the unemployment rate, for anyone, has come under Trump's budget. His main economic accomplishments have been increasing the deficit with tax cuts for corporations and the rich ... cuts which were used to buyback stocks that still only managed to keep the stock market level ... because Trump repeatedly shocked the stock market down with tariffs, or tariff threats. China isn't just waiting around. They're setting up shop, and trade deals, with Russia and Brazil. The longer Trump's stupid trade war drags out, the less chance farmers will ever get that business back. He has kicked poor people off welfare, and put farmers on welfare.
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  15595.  @bgfarm857  Also, nobody is denying science about sex. They're saying sex and gender are different. For the same reason a religious person might call a formless, penisless, being "he" or "father", we think it's okay to use gender pronouns however one wishes.
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  15596. Works in Russian winters, every time. But, what I thought was lacking is undead animals. If all humans retreated, they should still be able to pick up thousands of undead animals, as they move forward. Mastodons, worgs, wolves, bears, horses, cows, cats, dogs, all kinds of rodents, crazy undead chickens, etc. If they included that, then you'd want to confront them as soon as possible, so their army doesn't get larger as it goes.
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  15597. Your opinion on the Proud Boys? Thanks.
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  15598.  @michaelshannon9169  They've been at fault for starting violence, and planning violence. Their leader keeps praising violence. They band with the KKK and other white supremacists. One of their top members organized that racist filled unite the right rally, that ended in murder. Andy promoted them, called them patriots, and stood with them. Why stand with a group that actively looks for violence, and then whine about finding violence?
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  15599.  @scotaloo77g73  So Obama would have released his birth certificate sooner, and Bernie would have won the Democrat primaries. Not seeing the downside.
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  15600.  @scotaloo77g73  Not a Hillary fan. What is it you think she did, exactly?
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  15601.  @happyprogressivepoop1422  Even if you think that, that's not how winning seats works. They're splitting votes on election days.
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  15602. Yang is bullshitting. Businesses get paid back for any input VAT. Consumers would end up being the ones paying the tax on their own data. https://www.hwca.com/accountants-hull/what-is-vat-input-and-vat-output/
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  15603. ​ @themonsterwithin6495  defraud: illegally obtain money from
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  15604. Guards work in jails. Perfectly legal. A shift spends the day with him, a shot spends the night with him.
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  15605.  @luchi.el.zorrito  If demand didn't drop, and people spent just as much money, buying just as much stuff, then what caused the economy to tank? If there was simply a shift, but the exact same amount was bought and sold, that shouldn't affect the entire economy. And, as with most recessions, the inflation rate dropped to near zero (not a good thing in a capitalist system), because businesses were trying to get people to buy stuff, so didn't increase prices. If supply didn't drop, and kept nice and steady, then why isn't supply meeting demand?
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  15606.  @TheBighatter  Subsidizing farming, and a number of the other things I mentioned, help keep everyone's costs down, and aren't just targeted at the poor. If Americans can't keep costs down, like other countries do, then maybe there's an intelligence problem that needs accounting for. Americans with public healthcare are the happiest with it. https://news.gallup.com/poll/186527/americans-government-health-plans-satisfied.aspx
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  15607. The electoral college isn't inherently unrepresentative. It's the Permanent Apportionment Act of 1929, that froze the number of seats in the house, and in turn the number of electorals, that made the electoral college increasingly unrepresentative. It would be easier to repeal that act, and redo the house, assigning seats per capita, than to change the constitution. Changing the constitution needs 2/3rds of the house and congress. Changing apportionment, would only need a simple majority.
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  15608. You've pointed out the fact that life is generally regressive for poor people, not that the VAT isn't regressive. A VAT return is a fairly simple one page form. Filled them out for years.
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  15609. Her mother lives in Florida, dimwit. She has supported striking workers multiple times.
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  15610.  @seanmccartney5177  Idiocy. The Bible belt has the highest rates of teen births. They don't teach them to use contraception, and then they force them to have babies, due to their own failures as parents.
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  15611.  @Nanofuture87  Yes, it does mean that some people had zero rights in the societies that didn't recognize them as having rights. That's exactly why they had to fight to get rights. They did not come naturally, and society did not act as if they believed in some centuries old philosophy that those people had natural rights. You were originally talking about societies based on centuries of believing in such a philosophy, and now you're denying societies can have philosophies. Again, without a society deciding what is a right, and what isn't, all you have is a bunch of individuals with freedoms. Claiming land, which Libertarians believe in, violates other people's ability to freely access said land. Claiming resources, which Libertarians believe in, violates other people's ability to freely access said resources. Even Libertarians don't believe that freedoms equate to rights, cherypick which freedoms they think is a right, which they don't, and who is deserving of them. Societies have done Libertarianism, and it sucked. Only kids with money were educated. Only poor people who could find a rich sponsor could get healthcare. Landlords could charge whatever the hell they wanted. Employers could pay whatever the hell they wanted. People could claim lands that natives used to freely travel and live upon. Businesses were free to discriminate, pollute, destroy the environment, smash unions. Etc. Etc. Etc. And, no, the market didn't self police itself. There was zero indication of any widespread belief in natural rights, unless greed, making money, and shitting on the poor, is some keystone to natural rights. In an environment where property is privately owned, and almost all property is already claimed, how is being forced to abide by the rules of all the property owners, and business owners, to make a living to survive, complete ownership over yourself? Sure, you have the "right" to not deal with them, and go off and die somewhere. Big woop.
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  15612.  @Nanofuture87  I am distinguishing. That there are no rights without the recognition of rights, is evidenced by thousands of years of history. You could blather all day long about about slavery violating your rights, as you toiled in the cotton fields, but you clearly wouldn't have any rights, until they were recognized by society. Even you are requiring a group of like minded people to recognize "natural rights", to have a society based on them. Sucked, according to the natives. Sucked, according to the poor and uneducated. Sucked, according to the poor and unhealthy. Sucked, according to massive labor movements and rioting. Sucked, according to massive protests by minorities and women against discrimination. I did not mention simply that it sucked, but that there was no indication of a belief in natural rights, other than the "right" to screw people over. Are you arguing for anarcho-capitalism, or Libertarianism? The later could still have a government that sides with business owners, land owners, corporations, etc. Still have a justice system that sides with their "right" to bust unions, sides with their "right" to use children as labor, sides with their property "rights", etc. Yes, Libertarians do pick and choose which freedoms they consider rights, and which they don't. Can't you claim the property the entire apple tree is on, and deny everyone else an apple, not just your singular apple, and force them to pay for an apple if they want it? Can't you claim a water source, and force everyone else in the area to pay for water?
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  15613.  @darkdan3379  How does lying to complete and utter morons, and getting them to vote far right, equate to outwitting the left? That's outwitting complete and utter morons.
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  15614. Fact: Numerous reports find that many police departments are guilty of racial profiling. https://www.vanityfair.com/news/2016/07/data-police-racial-bias/amp These two idiots know that there are 5x more white people than black people, in the US, right? It's the rate at which different people are shot, which determines if there's a bias, not totals.
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  15615. Trump, and the majority of Republicans in congress, tried to overthrow the democratic process and install him as an unelected dictator, and you think you and he are "moderate", and it's weird to consider him a fascist? Yeah, that makes you crazy.
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  15616.  @jknowstheway1462  You know the colonization of North America took centuries, right? Likud's bloody 100 year history ... In 1923, 100 years ago, Ze'ev Jabotinsky wrote, The Iron Wall, and a follow up, The Ethics of The Iron Wall (sooo racist towards Africans), in which he fully acknowledged that post Balfour Zionsim was colonialism, and that, based on the entirety of history, the native Palestinian population would resist being colonized until the bitter end. He directly compared it to the colonization of North America. He promoted doing it anyway, claiming Zionist colonialism was a "just" colonialism (he also thought North American colonialists were good guys, so not a great judge of morality), not caring what that meant for the native population. Ze'ev is important, because his Betar militant youth group helped found the Irgun terrorist group, along with other supporters of his, and the splinter Lehi terrorist group. The Irgun bombed numerous Palestinian markets and other public places, murdering many Palestinian civilians, including children, even including Palestinian Jews (who didn't support colonialist Zionsim). The Irgun are important, because they ended up being led by future Likud PM, Menachem Begin, who bombed the King David Hotel. The King David Hotel was bombed because the British had raided the Jewish Agency and seized numerous documents that may have shown that the terrorists were working with the JA and Haganah (JA liked to pretend that they didn't support the terrorism). The British then stored those documents at their base, in the hotel. That the Irgun terrorists responded to a JA raid, itself seems to prove the connection. That the thousands of Irgun (and Lehi) terrorists were also quickly merged into the new nation's military (IDF) and intelligence (Mossad) agencies, and are still celebrated as "heroes" by Israelis, to this day, also seems to support total collaboration between the groups. That other terrorist group mentioned, Lehi (also known as the Stern Gang), was considered even more extreme. They even tried to ally with the Nazis, against the British. Lehi ended up being led by Yitzhak Shamir, future Mossad agent, and another future Likud PM. They assassinated Lord Moyne, and others. In 1945, there was a major land and peoples survey done in Palestine. It showed that the Zionists only owned about 5% of the total land, 20% of the arable land, and owned a majority in zero districts. The partition was not only going to be forced on the native Palestinian majority, but Jews were still going to be a minority, in the part allocated to them. The only possible way to even become a "Jewish state" was going to require getting rid of the actual majority (at least enough so that there'd be a solid Jewish majority, so they could fake being democratic). This is also shown by the 1948, post Nakba, population of Israel. If there was 716,700 Jews, 156,000+ non-Jews, and approximately 700k non-Jews ethnically cleansed, that means the Jewish population, in the Zionist portion of partition, was originally over 100,000 less than the non-Jewish population. To believe that there was never any intent, by Zionists, to ethnically cleanse away the Palestinian majority would require believing that they never intended to create a "Jewish state". It's a nonsensical notion. Begin, and those terrorist groups, also opposed partition, but for the opposite reason Palestinians did. Palestinians didn't want to be colonized, at all. The terrorists wanted to colonize it all. "Moderate" Zionists were okay with colonizing half ... for now (what would happen in the future, after partition, was up to them, said Ben-Gurion). The Zionist terrorists were also involved in massacres, and assassinations, during the partition violence (colonialist war against the natives). Another notable future Likud PM, also started in the military, during the partition fighting. That was Ariel Sharon, war criminal, "Butcher of Beirut". Menachem Begin, and these other Zionist terrorists, are important because they became involved in Israeli politics, first forming Herut. That was the party that Albert Einstein, and other prominent American Jews, opposed, having a letter printed in the NYT, in December of 1948, when Begin came to visit the US. The letter opened ... "Among the most disturbing political phenomena of our times is the emergence in the newly created state of Israel of the "Freedom Party" (Tnuat Haherut), a political party closely akin in its organization, methods, political philosophy and social appeal to the Nazi and Fascist parties. It was formed out of the membership and following of the former Irgun Zvai Leumi, a terrorist, right-wing, chauvinist organization in Palestine." Herut merged with other extremist parties, over the years, and eventually became Likud, in the 70s. Now, people get upset over the slogan "From the river to the sea!", but it's the second part that's most important, "Palestine will be free!". Because "Palestine" isn't defined as an ethno-state, a free Palestine can be a single state, free for all to live in, and return to, free of continuing colonization, free of occupation, free of oppression, etc. Just like a Germany free of Nazism, an Italy free of fascism, a South Africa free of apartheid, or an America free of slavery from sea to shiny sea. It doesn't necessitate purging all the Jews. It just necessitates them giving up on the idea of an ethno-state. On the other hand, because "Israel" has been defined as an ethno-state, Likud's, "between the sea and the Jordan there will only be Israeli sovereignty", has no possible good interpretation. It is a declaration of intent to completely colonize, and ethnically cleanse, all Palestine territories. Not only that, but it also claims that they have a "right" to all of the "Land of Israel" (biblical borders that don't mesh with archaeological reality), which is an open declaration of future wars, against Jordan, Syria, Lebanon, and possibly even Iraq. Likud platform ... 1977: "The Right of the Jewish People to the Land of Israel (Eretz Israel) a. The right of the Jewish people to the land of Israel is eternal and indisputable and is linked with the right to security and peace; therefore, Judea and Samaria will not be handed to any foreign administration; between the Sea and the Jordan there will only be Israeli sovereignty. b. A plan which relinquishes parts of western Eretz Israel, undermines our right to the country, unavoidably leads to the establishment of a "Palestinian State," jeopardizes the security of the Jewish population, endangers the existence of the State of Israel. and frustrates any prospect of peace." "Settlement Settlement. both urban and rural. in all parts of the Land of Israel is the focal point of the Zionist effort to redeem the country, to maintain vital security areas and serves as a reservoir of strength and inspiration for the renewal of the pioneering spirit. The Likud government will call on the younger generation in Israel and the dispersions to settle and help every group and individual in the task of inhabiting and cultivating the wasteland, while taking care not to dispossess anyone." 1999: "The Government of Israel flatly rejects the establishment of a Palestinian Arab state west of the Jordan river. The Palestinians can run their lives freely in the framework of self-rule, but not as an independent and sovereign state. Thus, for example, in matters of foreign affairs, security, immigration, and ecology, their activity shall be limited in accordance with imperatives of Israel's existence, security and national needs." "The Jewish communities in Judea, Samaria, and Gaza are the realization of Zionist values. Settlement of the land is a clear expression of the unassailable right of the Jewish people to the Land of Israel and constitutes an important asset in the defense of the vital interests of the State of Israel. The Likud will continue to strengthen and develop these communities and will prevent their uprooting." All Palestine territories are officially considered occupied, by the International Court of Justice, the UN GA, the UN SC, and even in official documents of Israel's own allies. Likud is still using the blueprint for colonizing North America, in the West Bank. Move settlements out into native territory, piss off the natives, the natives retaliate, cry about poor "innocent" colonizing settlers being the "victims" of violent "Savages!", call in the cavalry to put down the native uprising, and eventually expand the borders to include those settlements. Rinse and repeat. In Gaza, Israel is operating an open air WWII style fascist ghetto. Them claiming a "right to defend themselves" would be like the Nazis claiming a "right to defend themselves " from the Warsaw ghetto uprising. There's no "war". That they're the occupiers means the "war" part is long over. Those people are actually supposed to be under the occupier's protection. That partition was forced upon the Palestinian majority, against their will ... that the Zionist portion still had to be forcefully ethnically cleansed of its non-Jewish majority, against their will ... that the millions of occupied Palestinians don't have a say in the government that truly rules over them, Israel's ... means Israel is about as democratic as Nazi Germany after Hitler purged his political opponents and then held elections.
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  15617.  @freddiemercury4evr  A VAT won't do that. If my business spent $10k a year on buying and maintaining robots, it's would initially pay $1k input VAT on that. But, that $10k cost would be included in my pricing. My customers would pay me $1k in VAT on that $10k portion of my price. My business gets to reclaim that $1k. Government gets $1k in VAT. Business ends up paying jack shit in VAT. Consumer paid $1k in VAT, and they're the one who paid the tax on automation.
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  15618.  @LDuke-pc7kq  You can't even seem to do basic math, on top of being totally ignorant about Charlottesville. You're not a good judge of who needs to read more.
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  15619. @Halon's Razor Moron. There were no such thing as "Ashkenazi Jews", when Jesus is claimed to have existed.
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  15620. @jon petcoff You asked. lol
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  15621.  @itsokaytobeclownpilled5937  Rofl. Legal investigations into ACORN found no criminal activity. They found that O'Keefe lied about dressing up as a pimp. He was actually dressed in shirt and tie, pretending to be a young law student. They found he highly edited his video, and misrepresented ACORN employees. Plus, he lost a defamation lawsuit over it. And that's considered one of his successful investigations! Rofl!
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