Comments by "CuteCatFaith" (@CuteCatFaith) on "ReasonTV" channel.

  1. Be well. Remember, for most of the world, recreation is sitting staring into space. I learned that here in France & thought it was super zany at first. I find it really relaxing and didn't get online at home until '07. Everyone here has to use polite, formal address -- for example, if a cop bothers you at home at night, that is illegal, & if s/he addresses you informally, they are sanctioned. I like that your home is your castle here and even if they have a warrant there are hours to knock.
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  2. Hear hear. Greetings from Paris.
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  3. The USA is a gulag now.
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  4. Are you serious? Have you lived, worked, studied, even traveled or done a sabbatical abroad? I expatriated nearly 20 years ago & never bother going back "home." It isn't necessary. Not to me, not to most of the world. Do you mean to tell me it's worse in Iceland? Western Turkey? Vanuatu? France? France is worse than the USA? I must be tripping. Living here is a dream come true for me! I wouldn't "run to the USA" for a million USD -- especially since they're not much wanted anymore.
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  5. It wasn't "Islamic immigrants" who largely got destructive, but the events took place during Ramadan and a lot of people, such as Muslims, were out in that Indian Summer for the evening stroll after breaking the fast. Mostly the guilty were responding to copycat instigation using portable phones with screens. Muslims have been here for something like 700 years. You do know that Algeria is not a former colony, right? France is beautiful, I love it here. I hope you visit if you want to! xo
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  6. I'll agree wholeheartedly: I hear of people on benefits in the States and they have air conditioning, portable phones, TV, they go out to get their hair cut, there's EBT (there are no food stamps here in France), many have clothes dryers, heck, I'm jealous! I don't have those things! (Just joking, I am not jealous but you get the point.) The spy cameras, the Brits figured out how to get shut down & it's easy. There are a lot of clips on that. My best to you!
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  7. Yes, I watched some local firefighters purposely burn a few cars so they'd get overtime. They'd gone to the trouble to dress in black, complete with ski masks. Their coworkers were standing right near by with firetrucks, waiting & joking a few minutes while valuable property, such as small trucks for tiny businesses, was destroyed. Some of my neighbors' kids (all white) went downstairs and broke the windows in the Chinese restaurant & burned the interior. Insurance rates shot up here.
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  8. Half of the people on the planet have never used a telephone & never will. Do you think that's a huge problem for them, that that bothers them? The EU is a long project which we all knew would take decades & generations to make work. I thought in the '80s it was a good idea & I still do now. Now, let's focus on the environment, cuz that's serious! :)
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  9. It's not going to matter much to China if the US "doesn't pay them back." Most of the world has decoupled from the US -- it's fairly irrelevent at this point. That's not out of hate or anything like that, really -- the US is no longer First World, and if the USD fails, that does not mean other currencies would necessarily all fail. Americans are continuing to think in outmoded ways which were essentially delusional to begin with. Greetings from an American long time abroad.
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  10. Well, ya got me there. An old man here went to prison a few years ago for blasting a couple of unemployed tool shed and vegetable garden raiders in the rural dead of night. Grandpa's aim was true, one dead, the other perp needing new trousers I think ... The elderly man had a string and a bell set up to awaken him in his humble bedroom. Out he went into the night, BOOM! and got the book thrown at him at age 70. Now, that did suck. It did.
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  11. Chinese saying: "If you save a life, you are responsible for it."
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  12. Uprated, favorited and shared. I lived in NY from 1977 until 1994 and thanks to Koch, I more often had heat and hot water. The city was a mess. I must say, it was mostly ordinary citizens who took it back, but he was a great, though imperfect, leader. Human. I knew Anna Carroll, his photographer.
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  13. Oh, the Islam thing again. Not so, but Shariah banking without usury sounds okay by me. Hey, maybe that's what traditional banks are opposed to and that's why Muslims are, once again, boogeymen. Do you know why you are against Communism, BTW? Why you have been conditioned against that? It dates from '30 and our own govt did it to keep workers in the US from having rights. The original French connection! The Fast & Furious of its day! And ... our nation was flooded w heroin!
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