Comments by "" (@charlesvan13) on "The Majority Report w/ Sam Seder" channel.

  1. So the podcast was released. And Omer Aziz is the one who comes off as dishonest, rude, and with suspect motives. He had some good points, but those were overshadowed by his dishonest and slanderous tactics.
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  2. +Bryan Tianao It's funny that they assumed not publishing the podcast was due to some petty motive. Because that's how they operate.
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  3. +Bob Jones LOL Someone was complaining that people are downvoting this. People are attracted to the regressive attacks on Harris for the entertainment value, just like people are fascinated with all the cry-bully non-sense on college campuses.
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  4. +gabe rybicki It's strange the Omer pushed for this to be released. I think Omer Aziz was after publicity, ironically to get more crap articles published in Salon. By writing slanderous articles about Harris he was able to get Harris' attention.
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  5. Blaming the rise of Islamic terrorism on political oppression, particularly by the west and the US, is one of the hallmarks of the regressive left. Islamist movements are based on their own ideas and motivations. Their complaint with Saudi Arabia is that it is too secular, not that it's too oppressive.
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  6. +Rob McCune   "There is not fake bomb"?  We all know it wasn't a real bomb.  But it looks like it was made to look like a bomb, aka a fake bomb.The police aren't charging him with having a "hoax device" anyways.   So all the indignation at the school and the police is uncalled for anyways.
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  7. What's supposed to be the controversy over the Omer Aziz versus Sam Harris podcast? Omer embarrassed himself in the beginning by sticking with baseless accusations of Harris and Nawaz doing it just for the money. But then the rest is a rather dry discussion of religion. It only had a couple interesting moments, such as Omer asserting that the removal of Saddam was necessary and inevitable. But as this is a regressive channel, viewers will continue to assert that Harris is the neocon when he was opposed to the invasion of Iraq.
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  8. +Hobbes Tiger   What "outrageous horrible thing"?   This kid disrupted class with a suspicious repackaged LED clock in a case and got investigated and released.  It wasn't a science project or anything.  It was just a gutted Radio Shack clock that he put in a case as a prank or something.
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  9. Most broadly a regressive leftist is a leftist who hold some illiberal principles, usually in the pursuit of what they consider just ends. Islamophilia is just one of the more obvious examples.
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  10. +Austin Lagowski, Bramble A "new" Atheist is just an atheist who is open about their atheism. You guys don't like them because they're not beholden to your ideology, because they aren't to any ideology. That's why you guys instinctively don't like them.
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  11. +billywitchdoctor dotcom It's someone who's not a regressive, so they're bad. Same thing, to a feminist, another regressive ideology, everyone who dismisses their ideology is a men's right's activist. Like neocons, MRA's are a tiny group.
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  12. ***** The only way Sam Harris "embarrassed himself" in this exchange is by mistakenly thinking that he could have an open discussion, that moved the needle, with Noam Chomsky.  Chomsky is so dug in as an ideologue, that he gets petulant and angry at having his ideas questioned.   And I think Harris sincerely just wanted to understand where Chomsky was coming from ethically.  Chomsky resorts to obfuscation that's typical of lawyers.  Such as not making your premises and assumptions completely clear so you can later deflect any questions by slightly changing them.
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  13. Dario Colon That "thousands died" as a result of the bombing of al Shiffa is disputed.  People don't buy medicine from just one source.  Just because you live in Sudan, you don't have to buy medicine manufactured in Sudan.   The drugs you buy at a pharmacy likely come from Europe or China.
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  14. Why would someone expect ISIS recruits to know a lot about Islam? Their hallmark is that they've been brainwashed by religious dogma.
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  15. "Omer Aziz, a victim of Sam Harris's(sic) bizarre nonsense," LOL How pathetic. Omer is an ankle biter, who tried for publicity by going after someone more famous. And made a complete fool of himself.
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  16. +Webshooters1 I thought even regressive leftists thought safe spaces were stupid. Bloomberg is a mean rich man, who want to take away our play room with play dough, cookies, and funny cat videos.
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  17. It's not that. He's having fun with goofy things leftist (who have a prominent role in decision making in this WH) do. The HHS thought it would be a good idea to distribute drug paraphernalia for "racial equity".
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  18.  @portmantologist  Equity and critical race theory, for example, are concepts or doctrines of the left. You're probably thinking free benefits, eg health insurance, from the government. They barely got any of that in communist countries. China has zero social security. They keep stepping in it, because elements of the Democratic party keep pushing this leftist doctrine, which are unpopular, critical race theory, equity, defund the police. What's strange and awkward, is that they're always promoting them, and also distancing themselves from it at the same time.
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  19.  @portmantologist  Oct. 5, "Biden administration appoints critical race theory activist to Education Department" Jan. 21, "Executive Order On Advancing Racial Equity and Support for Underserved Communities Through the Federal Government" (ex. order putting CRT back in federal human resources training) In response to parents in VA: "In an official memo, Attorney General Merrick Garland has pledged to mobilize the FBI against parents protesting critical race theory in public schools, citing unspecified “threats of violence” against school officials." I don't know if you're playing dumb, or are really clueless about what's going on. The last incident was part of the reason Terry McAuliff dropped 20% in the polls and VA turned Republican.
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  20.  @portmantologist  You're repeating Democrat talking points. The objection is to the CRT indoctrination. No one is suggesting that they're teaching legal theory to children. In VA, we have the memos where then gov. McAliffe's department of Ed. directed teachers to include it in the curriculum. It's a deflection tactic that people have seen right through. You're also saying that excluding it is "white supremacist", while claiming that it's not in schools.
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  21.  @portmantologist  Consider how well that deflection worked in VA. McAliffe dropped 20% in the polls and lost. That talking point is the same if say a public school were telling children that they must believe Christ is their savior. And the politicians and school board told the parents "Religion isn't part of the curriculum Bible lit and comparative religion is college level."
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  22.  @portmantologist  "Just wow" LOL People were making the points I made long before it came up in any elections. "Critical race theory is not in K-12" is literally the deflection used the VA governor's race by the Democratic party. The problem is that it's a lie. We have the memos where it was included in the public school curriculum. People are offended that kids were being indoctrinated with race essentialism in schools. Thus the pushback to this nonsense. If you want to lose, that doesn't bother me. Go for it.
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  23.  @portmantologist  People don't care "what is real CRT". People care that kids are being indoctrinated with leftist and anti-liberal ideology. But, again, suit yourself. This is destroying the Democrats. VA flipped Republican from solid Democrat because of this "woke" garbage.
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  24.  @portmantologist  I never said race essentialism is interchangeable with CRT. Race essentialism is one of the tenets of CRT. And it's one of the regressive concepts people don't want kids indoctrinated with. Pushing this regressive crap is the best thing you could do for the Republican party.
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  25.  @portmantologist  " Race essentialism is not one of the tenets of CRT" Yes it is. I don't know if you're naive or if you're just giving the useful idiot version. I'm perfectly familiar with what critical race theory is. For one thing, it's a leftwing activist program. So it wears a liberal skin-suit for the useful idiots.
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  26.  @portmantologist  I can quote Kimberly Krenshaw one of the experts on CRT: "CRT is an attempt by neo-Marxists intellectuals, former new-left activists, and ex-counterculturalists who have moved beyond vulgar Marxism in order to oppose the classical liberal argument that race is irrelevant to public policy." In other words race and your race is essential to public policy. The other useful idiot talking point is that it's not Marxist. It was created by Marxist activists.
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  27.  @portmantologist  "if you can't provide any evidence that she actually said that, " Give me a break. That's right out of "Critical Race Theory. The Key Writings That Formed theMovement", Kimberlé Crenshaw, Neil Gotanda, Gary Peller, Kendall Thomas (eds.) You shouldn't get on your high horse about what CRT is, when you don't know. That's what makes it kind of a snake in the grass. As a left wing political movement it has 2 versions, one academic and one for useful idiots, eg msnbc.
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  28.  @portmantologist  Give it a rest. There's two versions of CRT, the "useful idiot" version for Democrats. And the academic theory. The basic qualities of it are that it's neo-Marxism, as it's from the critical theory school, and that it is for a race essentialism in politics. It's directly opposed to the classical liberal principle of race blindness. On forums like twitter you hear the useful idiot version, because it's a political movement.
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  29.  @portmantologist  But you didn't even no what's in the basic college college text on CRT. You have no business lecturing people. "Useful idiot" refers to fact that, like other Marxist ideology, it's a political activist program. It wears a liberal skin suit for the fools on MSNBC, and Democrat party.
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  30.  @portmantologist  If you just scan the papers in the text I mentioned, you'll see that it's a neo-Marxist radical political movement. And it's inappropriate to groom children with radical politics. An embrace of CRT in public institutions is how you'll get its mirror image white nationalism. CRT is an opposition to the modern civil rights movement liberal consensus that policy and laws should be race blind. They actually think that will lead to "black genocide". That's the same thinking as the white identitarians.
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  31.  @portmantologist  No reason to be triggered. CRT isn't this super difficult subject. Democrats are spinning because this backfired. But you should have had a better understanding of the ideology that you're pushing.
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  32.  @portmantologist  "For the last time: CRT IS a super difficult subject" It's not very difficult. It's critical theory, i.e. a Marxist analysis of race in America. Of course, it's black centric. It's black identity. One of the essays in the collection I referenced laments that racial integration puts the black race "at risk of genocide". It's the exact same argument that the white nationalists make. But that's read herring. No body is asserting that they're teaching the theory in school. People are offended that students were being indoctrinated by the ideology. Deflection is not working because the ideology is obvious. It originated to oppose the liberal view of the civil rights movement. --that the goal is a society where race is irrelevant. The first paper, by Derrick Bell, is about how problematic he considers Brown vs Board of Ed. and desegregation. He want separate black schools.
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  33.  @portmantologist  Critical theory is not that hard to understand. You can read what I referenced, a collection of papers edited by Kimeberle Crrenshaw. It's a Marxist analysis of race in the US from a black point of view. The Critical Race Theorists split off from Critical Legal Studies because they weren't black.
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  34. The FBI contacted Twitter. And the Biden administration also requested censorship, in many more cases than the Trump administration, because twitter was managed by leftists. The thing about the Twitter files, is that the left is insisting that it was totally acceptable. So you should be fine with getting the same treatment, now that a centrist (more libertarian) is in charge.
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  35.  @christheballmurf3691  Sam Seder is lying to you. The FBI had an operative working as a Twitter lawyer in charge of issues such as censoring the laptop, James Baker. As per New York Post report, Baker, who served as general counsel for the FBI from 2014 to 2018, also worked with Trump critics – Peter Strzok and Lisa Page – at the federal law enforcement agency. Seder is lying that the twitter management "wasn't political". They had an FBI Russiagater James Baker as one of their top lawyers, who told them to censor the NY Post Hunter Biden story.
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  36. And Sam Seder's usual "He's a theocrat." is either stupid or disingenuous. His arguments are all secular.
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  37.  @zacharymcleod460  The people on this show are so talentless that they repeat "theocrat, fundamentalist" like it's the 1980s. I wonder why people watch MR. They have no talent or charisma. People aren't making religious arguments against transing kids, or allowing biological men in women's sports. The arguments are all entirely secular. I suppose Sweden no longer gives puberty blockers to kids because of all those bible thumpers.
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  38. You love pedophiles?
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  39.  @dominicfucinari1942  It's funny that you like to make those obviously false arguments. Are Epstein and Anthony Wiener supposed to be "religious hierarchs? That's what Cenk Uygur does in all his videos, but he's a borderline ret3rd.
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  40.  @dominicfucinari1942  "As a Democrat" That weird non-binary guy had to get charged with stealing two women's suitcases to get fired from the DOJ. Because they recruited him as a weirdo. They protect their own. That's why Libs of Ticktok exists. That's why the Loundoun County VA school board members are being prosecuted for covering up a rape. That's a false narrative. They're ejected from the party when they become a political liability.
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  41.  @dominicfucinari1942  Where did you get that idea? "turned put ambiguously at best. " That's just flat out false. Sam Brinton is on video at two airports, Minneapolis and Los Vegas, stealing suitcases. In Minneapolis, he had no checked bag, so he knew he was stealing the suitcase. In Los Vegas the video shows him reading the name tag, then looking around to see if he's being seen, then putting the bag next to his to hide it. It's grand theft, because he took expensive bags, with thousands worth of items stolen. His fetish is to steal women's clothing. He gets off on wearing a strange woman's clothing.
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  42.  @dominicfucinari1942  He was in the news for a week or two. The authorities figured out is was him from the surveillance video at the Minneapolis airport. And from the news the Las Vegas airport identified hims stealing at the LV airport. He was fired after two felony theft charges. It's absurd because it was a 175k /year job. So he obviously had some fetish with stealing women's bags.
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  43.  @limen7679  You don't even have a simple majority. But you'd never get even a Dem majority senate to pack the court. It's similar to the lawfare. Only about 30% are lunatic shitlibs. The lawfare boosted Trump's support, because average, say union Democrats, just thought you guys were lunatics who wanted to burn the system down for their own personal gain. Because that's what it was.
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  44.  @limen7679  That proved how out of touch the Harris campaign was. The Cheney endorsement (of Harris) was a huge gift to the Trump campaign.
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  45. That's such a fantasy that Biden would get the votes to pack the SC. All through the campaign they were using a failed border bill as a talking point. It never left committee and had 6 Democrats vote against it.
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  46. Trump said in that very speech "Now I'm not talking about the white nationalists. They should be condemned completely.." Is it some requirement, if you're on the left, that you defend misinformation?
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  47.  @anderseckstrand7033  How would you know how white nationalist interpreted it? Richard Spencer endorsed Joe Biden. You guys are just making up BS. That's all you've done for 4 years.
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  48.  Trevor Sole  It also doesn't help your narrative that Trump specifically contradicted it with the statement I quoted. The left always thinks making up BS is a good strategy. How did that "Russia Collusion" thing work out? There's a video of Sam Seder yelling at someone like a total bitch because he was taken it by it. He could just admit that he was wrong like a man, but you guys all have mental problems.
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  49. LOL That's what Sam Seder wanted her to say, but she didn't. BTW. This is happening because the left couldn't take a reasonable moderate position on abortion. The Democrats' position is that it must be legal up until birth. That's caused moderate to move to the pro-life position. In particular, it's causing hispanics to leave the Democrats.
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  50.  @jp78191  Being illegal explains why it took 6 weeks after getting pregnant to go to a doctor, and another 3 weeks for the rapist to get arrested.
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